The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

MORNING SUN CHEAP AND ELEGANT CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Each complete in One Pocket Volume. I. BECKFORD'S ITALY; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, and an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha, embel ished with a fine Portrait of Mr. Beckford, from the original painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Price 6s. 2. WASHINGTON IRVING'S ASTORIA, with Por trait of the Author. Price 6s. 3. GLEIG'S TRADITIONS of CHELSEA HOSPI TAL, with Portrait of the Author. Price 6s. 4. Mrs. TROLLOPE'S DOMESTIC MANNERS of the AMERICANS, with 15 Engravings, including a Portrait of 'Mrs. Trollope. Price 6s. 5. Captain CHAMIER'S LIFE of a SAILOR, with Engravings. Price 6s. 6. MAXWELL'S WILD SPORTS of the WEST, with 15 Engravings. Price 61. 7. HOWITT'S BOOK of the SEASONS, new and im proved Edition, with 13 Engravings. Price 79. 6d. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also of all Booksellers. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain :ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, A..-e now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DlS rftißurioNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions nay re?eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO 6PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains D VIDENDS of £25,000 5,000 1,500 1,000 800 £6OO 400 200 150 120 £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 800/., and 700/. to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to B ever l e y ; 3,60b1. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001. and 600/. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. and 6001. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 6001. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, Kithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. U \IDEA the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTA'S, THIS EVENING, DEC. 14, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Aliss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Giant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (he: Nineteenth appear. ance upon t he English Stage). _____ After which, the New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn. Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to to 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. 2%.; 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 uron application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre As, bookseller, Iti7. New Bond-street. To-morrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with United Service, and \Vooden Leg. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully cast— Mr. Gs sham, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta lent of the Company. THIS EVENING, DEC. 14. Will be acted Shakspere'; Tragedy of CIESA R.— Marcus Brutus. Mr. Graham ; Caius Cassius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Anthon, Mr. H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Another week of continuous success has added frees laurels to the brilliant career of this 'now magnificent and favourite establishment. Third week of " The Locksmiths." THIS EVENING, DEC. 14, The T WO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or,the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Tom Lively, Mr. Gardner ; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. After which, THE WONDER.—Don Felix, Mr. Osbal diston ; Violante, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE FLOATING BEACON,—Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Angerstoff, Mr. Date ; Mariette, Mr. Lee; Christine, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, The Locksmiths, Woman's Love, and Duke of Shoreditch. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.—The RAILWAY SUN, being out of print, will be RE-PUBLISHED THIS DAY. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIX.PENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 14, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot use Mr. Ilinton's and a Rational Chartist's eommunication. THE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 13.1 ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE.STREET. Thermometer... 47 Highest 5O Lowest 37 Barometer 29.43.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M riling 14 minutes after 2 I Evening 52 minutes after 2. _S• un4 LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1 8 41. If the Corn-law repeaters, and the strenuous advocates of emigration on the WAKEFIELD prin ciple, have come a little into collision, the fault does not lie with the Corn-law repealers. If some of the latter are also advocates of this sys tem of emigration, while others are opposed to it, the inconsistency, we think, belongs to the advocates of emigration, and not to the repealers. As there is such a collision, and as the advocates of emigration do not spare sharp censure and bitter abuse, we must explain why we think that they are inconsistent and in error. o Th e contest now goingn relativ e t o t ra d e , rests on the principle, that every man is the best I judge how he shall em p lo y hi s own capital or his own industry. This principle, recognised by every writer of the least authorit y si nce the days of ADAM SMITH, and obviously founded in the moral nature of man and on the equal rights of individuals, carries wi th it the denial of th e right or influence, of the State to interfere with, indivi dual, in order to direct them how they shall em ploy their capital or industry. The State, Whi c h means either the whole community or a few men acting for the whole community, cannot possibly know, as well as individuals, how they can direct their exertions to most advantage. Its duty, therefore, is to abstain from all interference with trade, foreign or domestic. Such a principle is strictly coincident with the theoretical idea.of Government, namely, that it is established to protect individuals in the pos session and exercise of their rights, and espe cially to protect their right of property. It may on this ground interfere to restrain one man who is injuring another, but when no injury is done and no complaint made the Government is not to meddle. It is to protect, not direct, individuals. In truth, when an individual is not left by the Govern-me:it at perfect liberty to use his capital or industry as be pleases—short of inflicting in jury on others—his riglirtof property is interfered with, curtailed, or absolutely abrogated. Let it be remarked, too, that all such interference or restraint is so much unmitigated wrong and evil. The restrai n t i s a mischief, the men who impose , it are not benefited by it, the community is injured by the injury inflicted on the individual as much as if the injury was done by a foreigner, and the whole nation rose in arms to demand re dress. Of this extensive system of free trade— deduced from the natural rights of individuals, the principles on which Governments are esta blished, and much experienCe of evil resulting from acting on a differ , env _,:'S r, ystem—the repeal of the Corn-laws is only a part. Mankind. are now struggling to wring f rom Goverments and monopolists a freedom to buy and sell when and where they like, as they have ' 1 as v ,„ , ._... , , t e. ? A„,,,:- _ 0-T ..,..4 ,:".:?.., 41 - - i.- 77\ <N.> '2, q41 ' ..-4 4 --.. ' if k- 7 4 - ?'- ' ,AW I" -W4iiiilik ,4..14).,tis - lc' ' already wrung from Governments the freedom to worship GOD after their own hearts. The solemn principle for which the free trade party now contend is, that there must be no more re straints on trade than on conscience. Unfortunately, however, there arises every now and then from amongst the mass of free traders, or professed free traders, some man who, with a smattering of worldly knowledge, reasonable assurance, and great ignorance of principles, has formed some scheme of his own ; or has adopted the scheme of some stronger.: headed and cunninger man than himself to im prove the condition of the Society. For this one particular love of his, the hoarded experience of ages, the wisdom of the wise, and the knowledge of the learned, are all to be set aside. The ge neral principles of free trade, which can never be enough admired ou the hustings, are of no avail against such a •pet project. Though Cot- BERT and Pm, though Parliaments and Kings, have in all cases most egregiously failed when they have undertaken to direct the employment of capital and industry, the professed free traders, who advocate the WAKEFIELD system of emigration, think they are sure to succeed; and that, if they can only get the Legislature to direct a large stream of capital and labour to the mountains of New Zealand, the sheep pastures of New South Wales, or the estates of the British Land Company in Canada, the community will be prosperous and happy. The advantages or disadvantages of their scheme we are not about to discuss ; we only wish to make our readers aware that in opposing it we are consistent, and that its advocates, who at the same time call themselves free traders, and ask for a repeal of the Corn-laws, are inconsistent, or do not under stand, and therefore betray, that system of free trade which they pretend to advocate. Thus a writer in the Weekly Chronicle on Saturday, with a kind of holy fervour, in favour of trans porting his countrymen, exclaimed— Are we to advocate the "Let-alone" system, until the whole fabric of society is broken up, because we cannot carry our own peculiar views ? Or, must we not rather ask, whether the object proposed to us be good, so far as it goes ?—whether the means suggested for its attain ment be adequate ? and whether, if attained, it will af ford relief ? The " let-alone system" which is here sneered at, is the system of free trade, which this writer, for the sake of his crotchet, would trample under foot. Is he then ignorant that the ‘‘ let alone system" wherever it has been acted on— as in the supply of the markets with food—as in the bulk of our internal trade— as in the growth and extension of our vast system of combined labour, commonly, but inaccurately, called division of labour—has been productive of im mense good, and that it is acting on the meddling system advocated by him, as exemplified in Sugar Duties, Corn-laws, &c., &c., that society is overwhelmed with difficulties? He does a mot glaring injustice, therefore, when he implies that the " let-alone system," if followed, will cause the whole fabric of society to be broken up. The meddling system is bringing it to ruin. if it be proper for the Parliament to direct capital to wards New Zealand, may it not direct it to culti vate our waste heaths? May it not, also, direct it to improve the cultivation of the land already cultivated? To admit that the " let-alone sys tem" will cause the breaking up ofsociety is to en courage the meddling of knaves and fools with the production and distribution of wealth, of which they are more ignorant, while they are selfishly interested, than of the laws of planetary motion. The writer in the Weekly Chronicle, in his eagerness to justify the interference of the Le gislature with emigration, gives up the whole case of the Corn-law repealers. We may command, he says, no doubt, unlimited sup plies of food, but the extension of our markets must be the result of more extended cultivation, and of a change in the policy of many of the Continental States : and it is upon the increased demand for goods that the increased comforts of our manufacturing population will depend. Besides, it is not to the manufacturer alone that we have to look ; and a man must be blind, indeed, not to see that however beneficial the change of system may be ultimately (and no one can be more intimately convinced of it than ourselves), it must cause, in the first instance, a great disturbance in the existing relations of society, and above all in the distribution of agricultural labour, for which it will be as necessary to provide a vent, as it is to ajbrd relief to Stockport, or Paisley, now. This is what the pro-Corn-law men say; and if the repeal of the Corn-laws is to cause as much distress to the agriculturists as is now suffered at Paisley and Stockport, they should be maintain ed. But it is false to say that the extension of our markets requires a change of policy in many Continental States. Though not a single alteration were made by them, our trade with them would be enlarged by the abolition of our own restrictions; while America offers us a boundless market for our produce, would we only accept it. It is false to say that a vent must then be found for agricultural labour. There is not the slightest reason to believe that any land would be thrown out of cultivation by the repeal of the Corn-laws. Such an increased demand for food would take place in the manu facturing districts that our own agriculturists would not be able to supply it, let them exert themselves to the utmost. This advocate of emigration, therefore, sacrifices the cause of Corn-law repeal, which he pretends to support, and he sneers, either from ignorance or silly conceit, at that great system of " Let-alone" in the employment of capital and labour, for which men have been struggling since the days of SMITH and FRANKLIN. The passages we have quoted, appear in the Weekly Chronicle, and that Journal is said to be edited by Mr. WARD, M.P. for Sheffield. If he have written the article, as we believe he has, or he have sanctioned its publication, we must plainly tell the honest free traders of Sheffield that their confidence in him is misplaced. He is unworthy to represent them. The writer of that article neither comprehends nor heartily supports the only system on which they can con sistently demand the abolition of the Corn-laws. A letter which we insert from " A Metho dist," states that the Sunday Schools of the Society are deserted by many pupils, their parents being able to provide only a scanty supply of the coarsest food, but not to clothe their children decently. The same fact has long ago been stated of the hand-loom weavers, which brings before us an alarming cause, so far as school education can improve man, of the future dete rioration of our people. Those who want food cannot think of education, and to grind the work ing classes d own b y ex t reme poverty is to de grade an d brutalise the nextgeneration. They will me chanical opearapstiofnosr to performingp e rhaps a those mere wish si to take at the same time it will be neces sarycare lest such a population should at any time br ea k loose, for having restraints of re ason bein terror, whenever that shag kept shallof . ,n at subjection bjeenc none end, even by for a moment—their furious passions will project them like an avalanche on their masters, and they will destroy all before them. , The Church of England may find its ad van t age do not their in this state o f thin g s. We say re that the w ith the landlords i n order to thin c o l l e e rg s •y side with of the Dissenters, and lessen the on a more incomes of their m inisters ; but if suc h we design, they could not have fallen certain method of accomplishing it. The Dis senters chiefly inhabit towns, and by starving or impoverishing the townspeople, the incom e of dissent must be extinguished. The incom e of the Church, however, and of its schools, being mainly provided at the public charge, will not be diminished, and so the clergy will tower higher and higher above the Dissenters, and their schools will continue to flourish, though the Dissenters' schools decay. The Corn-law may serve the double purpose, therefore, of making the next generation orthodox, while it starves the present race into poverty and submission. We saw it stated a few days ago in a Man chester Paper, that the Anti- Corn-law League had completely ruined itself by entering into an alliance witlythe Conventicle; which would in • - 7HE SUN; 1A) dicate that the design is actually entertained of extinguishing dissent, as well as checking the growth of manufactures, by the Corn-law. The Madrid Journals of the 4th inst. an nounce that the Government had made another remittance of 15,000/. sterling to London, to de fray the outstanding claims of the British Auxi liary Legion. The Castellant publishes the following despatch of the Minister of Poreign Affairs, dated Dec. 2d : " His Highness the Regent of the kingdom has been in formed that divers Portuguese intend coming to Spain for the execution ofperfidious plans combined in certain crimi nal clubs. His Highness orders the Ministers of Foreign Af fairs and of the Home Department to instruct the authori ties on the Portuguese frontier, and those of Cadiz and of Vigo, where the steamers from Lisbon arrive, to pay the greatest attention in taking down the names, description of persons, and circumstances of all Portuguese subjects entering Spain, and to keep a watchful eye on their movements and conduct, and to report the same to Go vernment without delay or omission." Madrid Bourse, Dec. 4.-32 for cash, 324 sellers at 60 days. The French Journals of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were received yesterday morning. On Saturday the Advocates of QUENISSET and his accomplices addressed the Court on behalf of their respective clients. M. PAILLET, who de fended QUENISSET, contended that he was but the dupe of others, and that his repent ance and revelations entitled him to the merciful consideration of the Court. We are quite of a contrary opinion. We have watched the proceedings carefully, and are war ranted from the evidence in denouncing QUE NISSET as one of the greatest villains before the Court. The intelligence displayed by him during the trial; the tact with which he assisted the Procureur-General in examining the witnesses; the facility with which he adopted that judicial hack, Baron PASQUIER'S infamous method of brow-beating the accused, show that QUENISSET is a person incapable of being made the dupe of any party. If there was a conspiracy, there cannot be the shadow of a doubt that QUENISSET was at the bottom of it. A Telegraphic despatch from Bayonne states that M. DE SALVANDY, the French Minister to the Court of Spain, entered the Spanish territory on Wednesday. The REGENT had given orders that he should he treated with marked respect in all the towns through which he passed. To all external appearances Louis PHILIPPE and ESPARTERO are excellent friends. This, however, is merely superficial. M. Faramond, late French Consul at Campeachy, is now at Havre, waiting to embark for Sydney, where lie is to fill the same office. The Phare des Pyrenees states that Dona Carlota, the wife of Don Francis de Paula, passed the French fron tier on the sth instant, and was received on the Spanish territory by General Iturbe and an escort of lancers, who were to accompany her Royal Highness to Tolosa. A letter from Geneva, 7th instant, in the Debats, says—" With the exception of a few transitory alarms, our town has been quiet ever since the evening of the 22d ult. Several strangers of obscure character, pointed out to the authorities by the neighbouring States, have been expelled. A strict watch is kept upon an associa tion of Mutualists, most of them foreigners, who have formej themselves here. Whence the funds for paying them, aid for meeting other expenses are drawn, is the subject of vo•rious conjectures." " A few weeks since, (says the Courrier du Bat Rhin), a farmei of the arrondissement of Altkirch, in the Bas Rhin, agreed to sell his daughter to another farmer of a neighbouring village for I,ooof. and received sf. to bind the bargain. The seller, however, repented next day, and went to reclaim his child, whom he had delivered over to the purchaser. The buyer, on the con trary, was content with his bargain, and has refused to give her up. The farmer has commenced an action for the recovery of his child." Last week the' neighbours of Mainbert, a quarryman, at Cambronne, in the Oise, having observed that his house remained closed for ten days, without the appear ance of either himself or his wife, or their son, gave in formation to the authorities, who came and opened the doors. The whole place was in disorder, and an odour of putrefaction filled the house. The boy was found dead on his bed, the wife in the same state on her own bed, and her husband by her side, with half his skull carried away by the discharge of a pistol, which lay near him. On investigation it was evident that Mainbert, who had previously shown symptoms of mental alienation, had first strangled his wife and child, and then shot himself. Count Mole, observes the Courrier Francais, was born in 1780, so that he is now 61. M. Thiers was born in 1797, and is therefore 44. The Semaphore of Marseilles has the following :—" As several Paris Journals have stated that the Bill for the railroad between Marseilles and the Rhone could not be presented during the ensuing Session, the Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles requested the Prefect to ascer tain the degree of confidence which ought to be placed in this report. The Prefect hastened to comply, and has received in answer a telegraphic dispatch, announcing that the Bill for this railroad will be presented during the Session, as well as that for the railroad between Paris and.the Belgian frontier." The town of Nancy has offered 500,000 f. towards the formation of the Paris and Strasburg Railroad ; and Chalons-sur-Marne has voted 200,000 f. for the same pur pose, provided the road is carried along the Valley of the itarne. A Toulon letter states that the French frigate Uranie, on coming back from Bourbon, saved the crew of an English vessel, the name of which is given as the Vibelia, wrecked on the island of Magotta. The crew consisted of 20 men. An English sloop, Industry, of Barmouth, 48 tons, was found, on the 19th ult., abandoned off Torbay, by a French fishing-vessel of Fecamp, and has since been towed into Boulogne by three fishing-boats. The Levrette, Government schooner, has returned to l'Orient for repairs. Whilst on her voyage to Marti nique she was caught in a storm, and broke her main mast, and was therefore compelled to return to port, which, in her disabled state, she accomplished with great difficulty, but without losing a man of her crew. General Negrier, Governor of Constantina, has ad dressed a letter, dated 22d ult., to the Minister of War, giving an account of the manner in which the festival of El Aid Seguir, or the Lesser Festival, had been cele brated there. The General conceived it to be a good occasion for giving the Arabs an opportunity of dis-_ playing their attachment to France, and accordingly he went in solemn procession, attended by a great number of officers and troops, and nearly the whole population, on the morning of the 15th, to the heights of Coudiat Aty, above the town. Salvos of cannon announced the march of the cortege. A tent had been raised for himself and the superior officers at a spot called Remsalla, or the Prayer ; and detachments of the garrison kept a square open space of about 1,000 feet on every side. Here the Arabs commenced their usual equestrian evolutions, and all the spectators declared that the festival was more brilliant than in the days of the Turks. The Caid Ali, chief of the Haractas, opened the evolutions, and among the Arabs present were the Ammers-Cheragas, the Ouled Abd-el-Nour, the Telegmas, the Seraouya, and some from near Philippeville, all under their chiefs. The Ge neral says that the whole of the Coudiat Aty was quite white, with the Arabs assembled on it in their burnous, After the evolutions, the Arab horsemen all filed oft be fore the Governor, and it was evident that they took a pleasure in showing their attachThent to the French cause. The General is of opinion that this method of showing that the French understand and sympathise with the national sentiments of the Arabs will be pro ductive of great good. A correspondent of the Toulounais at Algiers states that an English Colonel is with Abd-el-Kader, and is aiding him with his advice. We give the following extract of a letter from Bey rout, which we find in the Semaphore of Marseilles, pro testing, at the same time, against the absurdities in the first paragraph :—" We, who are on the spot, have the most convincing proofs of all the British intrigues ; let France be perfectly assured that it is the English who have excited the Druses to arm, and have been the cause of all the evils with which Syria has been afflicted for nearly twelve months. Encouraged by the victory of their brethren at Zahle, and indignant at the cruelties of the Druses and the hypocrisy of the English, the in habitants of Castravan, Fetou, Geobeil, Batroun, and Bacharre, have risen en masse. A corps of 16,000 men has encamped on the borders of the Dog river, ready to cross it, and at the same time a reinforcement of 10,000 men has entered Zahle. The evils already incurred are immense, but those about to be created will be still more disastrous, for this sanguinary conflict, according to those who are acquainted with the feelings of the oppo nent parties, is only at its commencement." Lord Burghersh has arrived at Berlin. La Presse publishes a notice explaining M. de Lamar tine's motives for allowing himself to be proposed as a candidate for the President's chair of the Chamber of Deputies in these words : " The followin g is the truth relative to the personal situation of M. de Lamartine with respect to the Presi dency of the Chamber of Deputies. M. de Lamartine did not aspire to the honours of the Chamber. The just sentiment of his inexperience, the fear of serving as an excuse for creating the slightest dissension amongst the majority, of which he forms part, his affectionate esteem for M. Sauzet, would have pre vented him from thinking of it. M. de Lamartine received, fifteen days since, letters from some of his political friends, who proposed to him to place him self as a candidate at the opening of the Session, and who informed him of the favourable disposition of many h e e e s s s o o n u g of h t of his c o ll eagues towards him. He repl i ed b y return of post, th at he - did not wish to solicit the Presidency, whichh e cons id ere d an elevat i on, an d not an ac s renth, influence that and not in h personal Parliamentary dignity, thought no m ore a b out it. A few days afterwards h i s politicalser ve , a s sfer friends, without in wh i h e i h s favour o uwro would d pp not wolem iuitthh perhaps oui:er name eg forward, dnbyenhzisagreed full p s of h talent ave ene a o n u d r a ged h kindness, ut which he could not but acknowledge Some Conservative with thanks. Conservative journals declared themselves in honourable but significant terms, opposed to M. de Lamartine's ap pointment. The controversy became more animated. In this state M. de Lamartine found the question on his `~ DON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER i 4, 1841 arrival in Paris There were then but three courses for I him to pursue. To disavow his personal and political friends ' who were engaged in this matter, which they made their own. To accept the position of candidate, which they made for him, and to solicit an office for which he had no am bition, or in fine to submit in silence to the judgment of the Chamber, and to execute its commands. To dis avow his friends who compromised themselves for him, and to deprive them of the ground on which they stood by an anticipated refusal, would be worse than cowardice —it 4ould amount to ingratitude. He was incapable of it. To solicit the Presidency would be to repudiate his own declaration that he did not desire it, and would be, perhaps, to take upon himself the responsibility of a par tial and momentary breaking up of the majority. There only remained, therefore, a third course, and that is what M. de Lamartine has adopted. To remain silent, to wait the will of the Chamber, and to obey it." The King, went to Versailles yesterday at two o'clock. The Council of Ministers sat yesterday at Marshal Soult's. _ _ We have announced that the Mayor of Pouille (in La Vendee) has been suspended from his office for having published the announcement of the marriage of a Roman Catholic priest. The fact is confirmed by the documents before us, but this priest has ceased to exercise the func tions of the priesthood ever since 1829; since 1830 he has publicly professed a form of worship in which the law fulness of a marriage by its ministers is allowed as in the Protestant churches. The Bishop of Lucon, by an act of 1832, published and posted up in all the churches of his diocese, cut himself off from the Roman Catholic com munion. It is certain that it is not, by an abuse of con fession, or of the sacerdotal functions that he has obtained the hand of the young woman whom he desires to marry; there remains, therefore, only the question of the per petuity of religious vows which the Constitutional Assem bly abolished by a law of 10th February, 1790, in the following terms.—Art. 1. " The constitutional law of the kingdom will no longer recognise, solemn monastic vows of persons of either sex, in consequence of which the regular orders and congregations in which such vows are made, are and shall continue to be suppressed in France, nor shall any such be established in future."-- No law has since abolished this solemn declaration ; on the contrary, the ordinance approving the statutes of religious communities, contain the following clause : " Seeing that the said statutes contain no perpetual vows, tor any clauses contrary to the laws of the kingdom, yet the Keeper of the Seal has ordered the King's At torney at Fontenay formally to oppose the intended marriage, which he did, in a letter to the Mayor, in which he says that all the precedents and the jurispru dence of the Court of Cessation lays it down that the engagements in holy orders are an obstacle to marriage, and that it is most important, for the sake of public morality, that this rule' hould be rigorously observed."— The Prefect on his side has been suspended from the ex ercise of his functions.—Constitutionnet BOURSE—Pew, SATURDAY, DEC. 11. ilrst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. 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St. Germain 750 ... 755 750 ... 755 Ver.ailles. 193 75 ... /97_ 50 ... 14 75 ... 197 50 Rouen ::::: 4''•s ... 455 ... 455 455 Urleans, 477 50 ... 478 75 ... 477 50 ... 47d 75 Montpellier to C,ette ..... 240 :., 241.1 ... 240 ... 240 itralburgtoßale,shares red 217 50 .. 217 50 ... 217 50 217 50 MUNIFICENT GIFT.—We did Mr. Fisk, Bap tist minister at Norwich, injustice in attributing the liberal donation of 2001. to a clergyman of the Established Church. It certainly did not occur to us as possible that one of the Dissenting clergy, considering the small incomes they ge nerally possess, could afford to give such a sum for the relief of the poor in only one district; and we, therefore, put it down to the account of some rosy-gilled pluralist, resolved to set an example to his brethren, and give the whole of one year's income to relieve the distresses of a starving population. STIPENDINRY MAGISTRATES.—A very nume rously-attended public meeting was held on Wednesday evening last at the Town-hall, at Devonport, according to a respectably-signed re quisition, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of memorialising her Majesty's Govern ment on the contemplated appointment of new Borough Magistrates, and praying the Legisla ture to take Into consideration the whole present system of magisterial appointments, with the view of substituting for them Stipendiary Magis trates, to be paid by the State. Mr. Little, after animadverting with severity on the strange man ner in which justice is administered by the un paid, moved a petition to the House of Commons for an inquiry and with a view to the appoint ment of Stipendiary Magistrates to be paid by the State. An amendment was moved repu diating the proposal on account of the expense, and carried by an overwhelming majority.—De vonport Independent. We have copied from the Globe a paragraph setting forth the plan of Sir Robert Peel re specting the alterations which he intends to pro pose at the meeting of Parliament in the Corn laws. We place little confidence in the state ment, and regard it as an idle rumour in the City, put forth by the Tories or by certain Whigs who are all but Tories. A miserable scheme of this kind, without any reference to other great na tional interests, is a mockery. Any plan which includes a sliding scale can only be put forth to deceive the public, and till we have some better authority on the subject we shall refrain from making any observations on it. MR. SERGEANT ARABIN.—It was announced last night that this Learned Gentleman yet re mains in a very debilitated state, at his villa, at High Beach. For some time past he has been attended by Dr. Copeland, Dr. Hume, and other eminent professional persons. On Saturday last they performed an operatio n upon the patient, and extracted a stone of considerable magnitude. Some time will elapse before the Learned Ser geant will be able to resume his judicial duties, but sanguine hopes are entertained of his re covery. THE CORN-LAWS AND THE ME- THODISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—The universal cry of the labouring classes for food at rational and natural prices having led to much public discussion, has effected a complete and disgusting expose of the mean selfishness of our landed aristocrats. Forgetting that their Creator " has made of one blood all nations of men, to dwell on the face of the earth ;" and that (humanely speaking) the accident has elevated them above the rest of their fellow creatures, these lords of the earth trample upon the industrious, and grind the faces of the poor ; surely for getting their own responsibility to God for the use or abuse of their privileges and their wealth. These are trite and stale truths, but still truths of the disgrace of our rulers, and the condemnation of our country befure God. Condemnation ? Yes I We are nominally Christian people ; and the wealthy and great among us are gene rally the best educated in all moral and religious truths. But does their conduct, or their profession only, recom mend the doctrines of Christianity to the ignorant and poor ? Aie they indeed exalted by their rank, and, as cities set on a hill, doubly conspicuous to their inferiors by their virtues, or by their vibes, as a class ? Do they set an example of piety towards God and man ? The answer is on every man's lips—No. " You tell us," say the poor, " that God is good ;" but you impiously place yourselves between us and the bounties of His providence, securing for yourselves luxurious profusion, and consigning us and our children to hunger and despair. You tell us, that " Man's heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:" Your own conduct is a daily commentary upon the truth of the Sacred text. You say that Christ's mission was primarily to the poor and wretched, and that from among the labour ing class he chose the first preachers of his Gospel : also that Christ declared the poor should always be with you; but you increase their numbers, and aggravate their misery. You lift up folded hands to Heaven, and piously exhort us to endure our lot, as the appointment of God. What is this but blasphemy, while yourselves are the sole au thors of our misery ; while you add chains to our toil, and contempt to privation ? Yet " lle that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker." Much has been said, justly and severely said, respect. ing the co'iduct of the Wesleyan preachers, in reference to the taxes on food. We have recently had a Conference here, and I have had many opportunities of conversing with the preachers as guests; and I am compelled with sorrow and shame to avow, that the junior parishes are the tools of their su perintendents, and that the latter are but the locomotive engines of the Conservative laymen; and in their fre quent and extensive peregrinations, so influence the ma jority of the Society as to neutralize the labours of the few who would, upon religious grounds, petition the Sovereign and her advisers to give the poor their daily bread. I placed before my Reverend teachers and guests the example of Christ himself, his compassionate regard for the poor, and inflexible requirements from the rich and powerful. The preachers spoke of various conflicting interests, contradictory opinions, and perplexing argu ments; and, abo ve a ll , t h e i r own i na bility t o study the question. I said, " the workman is worthy of his hire." They thought " VESTED INTEILESTS" might suffer, I said that my foreign trade was so diminished during the last three or f our years, t h a t I was less able to contri bute to the endles s ca ll s o f t h e S oc i e ty for pecuniary aid. They did not see how my export trade would be bene fitted by the repeal of the Corn-laws. Our Sunday schools are deserted by many pupils, their parents being able only to provide a scanty supply of the coarsest food, but not to clothe their children decently. The preacher sp o k e of the d ru nkenness andimprovi dence of the operati ves. I i nqu i re d how they should learn the best motives to so b r i ety an d e conomy, if excluded by their destitution f rom a place o f w orship? The men of God answered "Let us pray," and took their leave.—l A METHODIST am, Sir, your ' o bliged and constant reader, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public Optittost. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. M. de Lainartine, the poet and deputy, has declared himself a candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies in opposition to his old friend M. Sauzet. But in politics, as in business, there is no real friendship. The National has the following remarks on the ap proaching dissolution of the French Cabinet :—"Alarmed for its existence, shaken on all sides, undermined by Count Mole, menaced by M. Thiers, kept in check by M. Passy, the Ministry, through the medium of M. Hebert, has called to its aid its last resource, fear, and its only means of governing —reaction. But everybody now knows that comedy by heart ; M. Guizot is seen through, and we doubt his being able to make any more dupes. Besides, his mission is at an end, in the eyes even of those who had judged him to be the only man capable of accepting and signing the shameful Treaty of the 15th of July. The Ministry of foreigners is now out of date, but its passage through office will have been marked by the debasement of our nationality abroad, and the greatest possible confusion at home. In retiring, it will carry with it, on the one hand, that miserable Treaty of the 15th of July ; and, on the other, all the requisitories, all the prosecutions of the Press, now trying before the Courts of Pau, Marseilles, and Paris ; and all those innumerable prosecutions out of which the Press got off triumphantly." The creation of a batch of Peers by the present Mi nistry is the subject of much grave ridicule in the Oppo sition Journals. The National sarcastically recommends various candidates, possessing special claims on the sym pathy of the present order of things, and observes that "if Marshal Gerard becomes Duke for having bom barded and taken the citadel of that city, with the leave of an English Commissary, there was no reason why M. Hebert, the Attorney-General, should not assume, with as much right, the name and armorial bearings of " Prince of the Press," General Bugeaud those of " Baron of Transnonain," and M. Guizot of " Count of Ghent ? " The trial of Quenisset and his accomplices occupied the Court of Peers the whole of last week. It is po sitively asserted that M. Dupoty, the editor of the Journal du Peuple, against whom a tittle of evidence has not been brought, is to be found guilty because the con spirators read his paper at their meetings Of all the Criminal Courts in France the Court of Peers is the least regardless of justice, and the least worthy of public respect. The Peers only think they perform their func tions when they condemn all who are brought before them, without regard either to guilt or innocence. They are right so far. The only function for which the King summons them is to send heads to the guillotine, and bodies to dungeons. In a Paris letter dated Friday, and addressed to the Times, the writer states that the following facts were officially communicated to the Regent of Spain by the English Ambassador at Madrid. " 1. Tliat Great Britain not only would not suffer an armed intervention in Spain, but that she would not even permit any con siderable military force to be concentrated along the Pyrenean frontier. 2. That'she would not oppose any arrangement for the marriage of Queen Isabella 11., pro vided her intended husband should not be a French Prince. 3. That Great Britain was determined to take no part in any European Congress convoked for the ad justment of the Spanish question, and that if such an assembly should be held without her co-operation she would oppose the enforcement of all coercive measures, and of all other resolutions of such Congress which should tend directly or indirectly to interfere with the rights and dignity of Spain as a free and independent nation." We are glad to learn that a spirit of enterprise is abroad in Spain. Undertakings of every sort are formed, forming, or about being entered into. Roads are making in every direction, bridges are being constructed, so that every inducement will be held out for people to travel about, communications will thus be rendered easy, safe, and economical. A copper mine in the neighbourhood of Colmenar Viego, eighteen miles from Madrid, is being worked by the company Constancia, recently formed here with a nominal capital of about 17,0001. sterling. Rice is being cultivated in various parts of northern Spain, amongst others in the north of Arragon ; it is likewise being done on some waste lands in the province of Oreuse, with every probability of success. M. de Salvandy, the new French Ambassador, was expected in the Spanish capital on the 11th. M. Pageot, the French Charge d'Affaires, had sent Count Daure mont, the only Attache of the Legation in Madrid, to Bayonne, to meet M. Salvandy, and conduct his Excel lency to the capital. Vienna letters of the 4th continue to afford the most satisfactory assurances of the mutual goad understand ing existing between' the Courts of Vienna, Paris, and London on all foreign questions, but more particularly in respect to the course of action to be pursued in the dispute between Turkey and Greece. Prince Metter nich, Sir Stratford Canning, and Count Flahaut, the French Ambassador, have had several conferences at Vienna, and the result of their deliberations has afforded the highest satisfaction to the French Cabinet. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser, after commenting at some length on the present distressed state of the country, and showing that just in proportion to the spread of luxury among the higher classes, has been that of privation and destitution among the working classes, goes on to say that this state of things arises out of no necessity, but is " the work of man—it is the result of class legislation— of aristocratic rule—of a national debt created to arrest the march of liberty—of overwhelming taxation, imposed to support the poorer branches of the aristocracy—and of accursed Corn-laws, enacted to augment their rent rolls and to multiply their luxuries. When a country is thus bestridden by an oligarchy —selfish and voracious as that of Great Britain is —distress, poverty, and wretched ness, must be the inevitable result. The higher classes throw the burthen from their own shoulders, by clutching portions of the public revenue, in some shape or other, and by artificially raised rents. The middle classes struggle on, and are all but crushed. But it is the working classes—the lowest sacks in the pile—upon which the weight principally falls. How long it may still be attempted to uphold a system which produces such deplorable results, we cannot pretend to say. The aris tocracy is blinded, but the people can discern the causes which produce the poverty and suffering they now endure." —The evils to which the Advertiser here alludes, will ere long work their own remedy, and class-legislation be numbered among the nuisances that once were. Sir Peel and his aristocratic colleagues are perhaps the only thinking men in the country who cannot foresee the ine vitable results of the suicidal policy they are now pur suing. It is not their emigration scheme that will save them from overthrow ; they must just as soon expect to triumph over all obstacles by means of their Fine Arts Committee, and their House-of-Commons ventilation project - Times says:—" Amidst the proverbial mutability of all human affairs, the present vicissitudes of Liberal ism are touching in the extreme. Within thelast six months the Whig party, whose obstinate perseverance in a lon g course of degeneracy had br oug h t t h em i nto a state of helpless decrepitude, may truly be said to have become defunct. Formerly their club coteries, notwithstanding occasional reverses, were disposed to be somewhat chatty and cheerful ; but latterly they have fallen into a moping, melancholy, and desponding turn. Indeed, by their own confession, the Whigs, as a political party, are now reduced to a condition of absolute inanity—a condition from which, unless the existing Government be so infa tuated as to imitate their career and thus dispose the nation to give them another trial, nothing on earth can rescue them. A disregard of public opinion, on a few cardinal questions deeply interesting to the feelings and habitudes of Englishmen, was the chief cause of the pre sent adversity of the Whigs."—lf the Whigs as a body are defunct, why is it that the Times is so incessantly wasting its powder and shot on them? Why not reserve its ammunition for enemies who exhibit a more formidable vitality? To be perpetually popping at de funct Whiggism, seems to us to be a very superfluous proceeding. But the truth is, the Whigs are not dead; they are alive and active, far too active ; hence the Times' attacks on their leaderss, Lord J. Russell and Palmerst on . The Post strives hard to neutralize by shallow logic the effect produced on the public mind by the late Derby Conference. "We learn from the leading Whig Radical journal," says our pert Contemporary, " that a considerable meeting of manufacturers (nicknamed a ' conference') took place on Thursday last in the town. of Derby. We are sorry to say that these manufac turers do not appear to have come together for any use ful or rational purposes, but to add to the public excite ment on the subject of the Corn-laws by a great many violent statements regarding them, which statements were not supported by one tittle of evidence. A great deal was said to show that in one part of England the manufacture of woollen stockings and gloves had con siderably fallen off, and that what trade remained was no longer so profitable as it used to be. But the additional statement that the decline of business and of prices was altogether to be attributed to the Corn-laws was a mere assumption, apparently taken up without consideration, as it was proclaimed without caution or modesty."— Had the north -country manufacturers met at Derby for the purpose of supporting Toryism, instead of showing its ruinous effects alike on our home trade and on our foreign commerce, the Post would have pronounced the meeting "useful and rational" in the highest degree. Not a speech but would then have been well worth reading •, not a speaker but would have manifested an exalted patriotism. As it is, the Post can see nothing but mis chief in such meetings as that at Derby ; and our Con temporary is right, for the meeting in question—and we thank God for it—will have a most mischievous effect on Toryism. It is a broadside launched against the Monopolist Government, that has given itjust the sort of rude shock it deserves. The Chronicle observes, with reference to the recent Wiltshire meeting :—" Amongst the speakers was a Mr. Clark, who described himself as a working man, and who spoke with point and spirit. He and his fellow-workmen wanted justice, not charity. 'Let the aristocracy repeal, and cease from passing, those lass that deprived them of work and of the full fruits of their honest lftbout, and he would assure them there would be no, need of holding meetings to dole out charity.' Yet this man, who ut tered this manly sentiment, and who spoke, as Lord Rad nor said,with ability, had the greatest difficulty in obtaining leave to address the meeting. Lords Lansdowne and Rad nor had to interfere in his favour ; and during his second speech, in reference to the distress in Bradford, amongst other unseemly interruptions, he was greeted with the following choice specimen of squireen brutality—' LAY A WHIP ACROSS HIS SHOULDERS!' "—This brutal conduct is very characteristic of Toryism. It smacks of the Castle reagh and Sidmouth times, when Manchester massacres were the sole answers to the people's cry for bread. "Lay a whip across his shoulders !" Aye, so the Tories I would, if they dared ; for they are still the same despots that they ever were—still fond of replying to argume n t ! by the dungeon, the yeoman's sword, or the squire's whip! The Herald is evidently endeavouring to get up a feeling of sympathy for the poverty of Mother Church, as will be seen by the following passage :—" The means of the Church, it is alleged, have increased as the people have multiplied. Again, we der:) , the fact ; the means of the Church have not increased. The value of livings has of course increased with the value of land, but the cost of maintenance and support has proportionably been augmented ; and the present incumbents are merely in that position relatively to landowners, that their prede cessors were in by-gone times. Nay, they are, tempo rally speaking, not in so good a position, because the in crease of population compels them to have resource to paid assistance in the performance of their sacred duties." —lf the Church really desires to make herself an efficient establishment, she has abundant means for doing so, as we have more than once o b serve d. B u t s h e prefers, it seems, to draw money from the State and the laity, in the shape of voluntary contributions, rather than to spend her own. Verily, she is wise in her generation ! The Aberdeen Herald, in allusion to the persecutions of the Sabbath worshippers, gives the following advice : —" The prayer at the end of the Relation of the Cir cumcision of E. Curll, 9 might be used with reference to Sir Andrew Agnew and the rest of his Judaizing breth ren—' Keep us, we beseech thee, from the hands of such barbarous and cruel Jews.' And then, again, the prayer that concludes the Story of Peter the Savage, might be offered up in behalf of the wild party in the Church, for truly we have much need, looking to the proceed ings of the Commission and at Culsamond, to ask, with Dean Swift, that such as profess to be Christians, ' may lay aside their savage and rapacious nature, and return to the meekness of the Gospel.' " We quote the following from the Leeds Times :—" The aristocracy have never failed to put in a claim for com pensation when their class interests suffered. They claimed compensation for the slaves whom the British Govern ment compelled them to .liberate ; and they got it. How many thousands and millions of the labour ing poor are now toiling and slaving for the benefit of the landlord-class, and though starving and pining themselves, are nevertheless taxed to their last crust, to keep up in all its pomp the gilded tyranny which rolls over them ! Why, then, hesitate for a mo ment in putting in a ,claim of compensation for the people ? They, the sufferers, in justice are entitled to compensation." The IJuhiin - Evening Post contains the following re marks in an article on the state of the country : " The only interest that flourishes in the Queen's Eu ropean dominions, is the Agricultural—in other words, the Landed Interest. The only people who are well off, and, as far as money can confer happiness, who are happy, are the Lords of the Soil. But, be tween these Lord-monopolists and the consumers, there has been, for some time, a fierce strife in progress. Every hour sharpens the animosity of the contending parties ; and whim the parties come—as come they must —in the early part of the next Session of Parliament, to close quarters, the fundholders then, it is probable, will become alarmed, and the public securities may recede seriously in price." Speaking of Puseyism the Cambrian says :—" What ever argument Puseyism alleges against the actual Church might be urged against itself, if it had been esta blished for a hundred years. Does the man live who, at the present moment, can subscribe the confessions of Church of Englandism, Presbyterianism, Catholicism, Methodism, or any other ism, with absolute faith, with out a single reservation, as a true plan of the universe and God's law, upon which he would stake his life and death ? Subscribe them he may, but as a matter of form, which the spirit of society well understands." The Liverpool Chronicle says—" The Tories have been continually railing against the Whigs for the last two or three years for not paring down the expenses of the country so as to bring them within the operation of this salutary maxim, and, lo and behold, the very moment they themselves obtain power, they fly to their old tricks of jobbing. and spending, and wast ing, as if the Exchequer were not only full to the brim, with surplus gold, but actually overflowing. Let Sir Robert Peel remember that the people cannot do with out food, but that they could have done very well with out the job perpetrated by Master Scarlett." In an article on Military Despotism, the Somerset Gazette observes :—" The sabre and the musket are to awe the freemen of England into the surrender of their liberties to the allied powers of Toryism and Church Popery, and the ball and the bayonet are to be the sub stitutes for bread. Sir Robert should have quitted office rather than have submitted to the dictation of the monopolists and ultra-Tories in this their design for military despotism." The Bolton Free Press thus speaks of the Government emigration scheme:—" The proposed transportation of the poor from the soil of Britain, has been very properly de scribed as a traffic in human flesh. It is, primarily, a Minis terial manoeuvre for propping up a rotten Cabinet; and it is promoted, from motives of interest, by a host of selfish stock-jobbers. As a partial and temporary relief from the horrible pressure of, population against the limits of subsistence, its obvious tendency is to assist the bread taxers to 'rub on.'" MONEY - TRADE-COMMERCE. The shipments of sugar from Bengal, this season, have been smaller than last year, by 4,600 tons. Cheese of an extremely fine quality is manufactured from potatoes in Thuringia, and part of Saxony. The large white kind are boiled, mixed with milk and salt, kneaded, and dried in the shade for fifteen days. These cheese? keep for many years. This being the winter-fair at Bradford, there is a great influx of people, but much change ha; not yet taken place. Of the Huddersfield Market, also, the same may be said. At Leeds the cloth-halls have been dull, and the warehouses especially so; their winter-trade being now over. COMMERCIAL REFORM. A preliminary meeting of Dissenters was held at Edinburgh, to make arrangements for a great Anti- Corn-law Conference to be held there on the 11th and 12th of January, 1842. The invitations extend only to Dissenters, but laymen as well as clergymen are included. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Non-Intrusion elders of Marnoch, the men who began the Strathbogie rebellion, were served last week with a legal notice to attend their duty at a Kirk Session held yesterday, on pain of being cited before the Court of Session for contempt. ELECTXONEERING. The electors of Southampton are now preparing for a contest. Mr. Hutchins has issued an Address to the electors. SCXENCE AND ART. Dr. Graafe is in great hopes of restoring the Crown Prince of Hanover to the full blessing of sight. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Edinburgh students, it is said, are zealously pre paring a petition to the patrons of the University for the election of the celebrated Thomas Carlyle, author of the " French Revolution," " Heroes and Hero Worship," to the chair of Universal History, vacant by the resignation Mr. Skene. THEATRICAL. " When Madam Aimz," says the Boston Post, " re quested Dr. —'s opinion of the Ellsler, he replied, 'Madam, she exhibits the ne—plus ultra in dancing.'" The forthcoming pantomime at Covent Garden is en titled Guy Earl of Warwick; or, Harlequin and the Dun Cow, and is founded upon the real and burlesque exploits of the famous Earl warrior. SPORTING. Last Thursday the Quorn hounds made one of the most magnificent runs that has been seen in Leicester shire, for the last ten years. The fox was started at Great Daulby, and killed near Rolleston. The pace of the last four miles was tremendous ; every hound was in at the death, and during the whole of this splendid run the pack might have been covered with a table-cloth. No horse could keep up within a quarter of a mile of these superb dogs. The Earl of Harewood, it is said, does not intend to keep up the fine pack of hounds that afforded the late Earl so many days' sport and healthful exercise. COVRT-WASUIONA.BLE. Lord Melbourne spends his Christmas at Castle loward, the Earl of Carlisle's residence. Lord and Lady Carrington arrived at Whitehall, on Saturday, from Gayhurst Park. The Earl and Countess of Wilton left Grosvenor square, on Saturday, for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. _ Lord Manley is expected to leave Knowsley early in the present week for town. The Duchess of Buckingham returned to Stowe last week from Wotton. Lord and Lady John Russell leave Endsleigh, the de lightful villa of the Duke of Bedford, near Tavistock, early in the present week for town, The Earl and Countess of Harrington, who are still in town, go to Elvaston. Hall, Derbyshire, next week, for the Christmas holidays. Viscount Melbourne has left Melbourne Hall, Derby shire, for Castle Howard, Yorkshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, who are entertaining a select circle. The Duke of Rutland goes to Haddon Hall, Derby. shire, from Belvoir Castle. The young Earl of Durham and his sisters have arrived at Rome, from Genoa, accompanied by Lady W. Ben tinck. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset purpose passing the approaching Christmas at Stover House, near Chud- Leigh. . . Earl and Countess of Craven are entertaining a select family circle at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. MISCELLANEOUS. A great deal of paper is at the present moment being manufactured, which is impressed with the water-mark for the ensuing year, " 1842." As legal documents, &c., executed in the latter part of the year would be invali• dated by it, care should be observed against its adoption. The Yorhshireman says :—" On Thursday Viscount Melbourne was entertained at llishopthorpe Palace, by his. Grace the Archbishop of York." We take, for granted, that the Noble Viscount inflicted " a heavy blow and a great discouragement" on his Grac e ' s wine cellar. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of D r . John son in 1784. Criticism and philology, biography and ethics, were each indebted to his pen. His vigour of thought, and majesty of style, have gained him admirers i among all. t is said, h as b een appointed SLITMOUNIS 5/31 THE DAY. Chief Justice of Ben g al. Mr. Lawrence Peel, i NEw ROMNEL- 7 „ ne weather bas been so ex tremely boisterous, with continued rain, that all agricul tural pursuits are at a stand, and ranch of the seed got in is completely wasted . away, m and the land mus t be re sown.—Dover Chro n icle. COURT CIRCULAR. thert WINDSOR, MONDAY. —The Queen and Prince A- to , took walking exercise on the Terrace of the Castlei,d day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; t at 11 - by Lady Fanny Howard, also walked for some time.; The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, lion and Rev. E. S. Keppell left the Castle thisnforni';', Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt St. Leonard, will hav e • p e honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle this eveol at the Castle. forArDrievpiluegtaetsi, attended t nde Hon. Secretary, had an interview yesterday wit h Sir 01 from the Committee Brown, wn , o Esqf the i Zr r o lne. g c ts jo, i bert Peel at his official residence in Downing-street, 0,0 placed in his hands, for the information of her M a k& Representation, embodying the conclusions wh ich been arrived at in respect to the revival o f the which have engaged the attention of the Order since S‘''j The Ministers of the Five Powers had a nieeting,oso( transacted business yesterday afternoon at th e her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Fore l ° , Affairs. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister ; Baron tie ,- Sie , ll ; man, the Austrian Minister, on a Special Mission Dir`j Schleinitz. the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, a nd Fell Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, were presen t ' ,qb Mr. Bodkin, M.P. fur Rochester, an interview s" Sir James Graham at the Foreign-office. on Satu rday i , The Chevalier Bunsen, his Prussian MajosiP, 'lister Plenipotentiary on a special mission, had an '""le, view with Sir Robert Peel yesterday in Downi n g - , s 8 y The Bishop of London had an interview yesie— with Sir Roliert Peel. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Fur% Council sat yesterday. There were present: — T he d t he President, Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke' a ll lo os Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Hon. lir. Ba"' was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. n n 0 (1,0 An appeal from Upper Canada, " Tyler v. 6 0 0 was disposed of. Mr. Jackson was heard on rn ° oo l to revive appeals from Madras. The Solicitor-Gen for and Mr. Sergeant Spankie were heard on a peti ti ;d r sh leave to appeal from Bombay, " The Collector of h _tor, v. Modeo Pestonjee Khorsedjee." Mr. hind s Q.C., and Mr. Burge, Q C., were heard f or spective parties, on an appeal from Lower Canada, "Fraser and Lagueux v. Murr a y and Fraser." NE WS. MONEY and COMMERCIAL ~ CI TY , MONDAY •- t hat i ll! The operations in the Engli s h Market were limited character to-day as to a ff or d but little sf a or e ve rt general remark. The range of prices was, in nerYilasfer instance, the same as on Saturday. For speei 3 ' and to-morrow, Consols have b een done at 89i tfi dn d' Jr . 4 for the opening at 888 to 1, without the divi deni • vre againchequer Bills have been marked 1 03 . to 12';;,35. miutn, and East India Bones to-day h ave touched land cad premium. Bank Stock was dull at 165. Th. rt itien' Three-and a-Half per Cents. were without Il ite s a tot' being 988 to *, and the Three pe r C en t. A nnuities 0t04.0i, There was a little activity in Spanish St ock Acti f6 and the price was rather better supported. Th e to ter, Bonds have been marked 231 to 23i for presen t ttl. pot' and 231 to 24 for the settling day, Thursday nee tuguese Old Five per Cents, were at 531 e? 7,', 64i t: Brazil Stock was lower, the reduction being tr,r°—.o-sat to r 63. Russian Bonds were worth 113 i ; Dit ch - 99,4 a-Half per Cents. 51i ; and the Five per Cents d ke pt Shares were rather brisker than Stocks; t t'y Share,.9 at Saturday's range. Great Western Rair' a nii 1 7; were 181 to 20, the New 9 to 10, the Lona, °ll , he mingham 71 to 72, the Thirds 22*,_ "„ "' AI - Western 18f to 17f premium. The Bright e ",d Lee, Blackwell 15, the Croydon 24-, the Manchester vote," 4 to 5, the. Midland Counties 16, and the Soup „renlitzl* 25 discount. Australasi an B an k Sh ares were 1 " r and London Joint Stock 2* premium. (From The Sun of Last Night) „ here is n ° LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 11. -- 1, - t to• o3 y , material change to notice in the Cotton Ma i rt' h e ,,,,, e bee" The sales comprised 3,000 bales, all of which '- taken by the trade, . 03pr e LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 11.—T he 1 04 ment we noticed lately in the Grand Juncti °ll te d at l °l ,l Shares has given way, and they are now (1 0 °` nr p)11 11 : 13 , 1 Half ditto, 98 ; Great Western Fifths, 9i ; 'f7 - 1.; Brighton, 364- ; London and South Western, NficllP" land Counties Quarter Shares, 201 ; N°rth ell Thirds, 14-i. Th er e MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. + )0.- a good demand for Manchester and Birmingb3ll3o; chester and Leeds, and London and South was t e 57 t, ; way Shares. London and South Western, 514 31 Manchester and Leeds, 66 to 68 ; Ditto Quar t ' r ro s 'ooll''' ' 31. 16s, and 31. 16s. 6d ; Manchester and Lt v ''' Cali , trict Bank, 10 ; Union B an k, 61 to 6i. m The Undaunted h a s arr i ve d at Liverpool f ro ov st, bas raiso, which place sh e l e ft on t h e 27th of - I ‘2 l ° s brote r does not bring any news of importance. Sh e 1 oetab e t ' over on freight 75,000 dollars. On the 6th e Lnd, lat. 41, ion, 38, experienc e d a ga l e , and lost m rjeif water, bulwarks, S The Kinnear has ze. arrived at Deal from SY cli rt'vgn s4 , South Wales. The papers reac h to the 1 811 ' ° ,„d by to t , " but the news they contain has been anticipa%chea advices received by the Overland Mail, which re the 24th of August. t of three Continental arrivals to-day cons's- a d, leer Frei.ch, three Flanders, and one Hanaburg h ,r, ing one Dutch, and the Mediterranean mail at sSg4l: Consols for the Account opened this morninizgobetre Three per Cents. Reduced are 884 e ; Old Bills, 10 12 premium. Spanish Active Stock remains steady, at 2 3 i sive, 54 ; Deferred, 11-1,- 12* • Portuguese"pa t° Cents. are 331 • ditto Threes, 19,i 20 ; Mexicall pre' 264-. Very Rae business has been don e up to sent time. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, 3 per Cent. Consols Stock... ..... ••• ..... Three and Half Stock 97i 'Grand Canal Stock.- "i' . Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Dabs. 6 P er cel' Ditto New 1830 ss a Di tto 4 per cent ...... 3i per Cent. Debs. The transactions in the English F Can tin a d l st cvl o i js ee ; lo; limited ; the market is, however, firm. C° T e d ' ° be'. Account are 88,1 ; Three per Cents. Bea Nx c i,eqn Three-and-Half per Cents. Reduced, 981 ; has be en Bills, 10 12 prem. huhsines Stucl‘, In the Foreign m ar ket w h at little i ked° 010:31 : 0 done has been entirely co n fi ne d t o SP 3ll ';: t of th e which are not so good as i n th e ea rly P 3 ' done w as ;as ing ; the last price at w hi c h b us i ne ss wn s 2 4. The and the highest price they have reached 1 , 2 i . r e i , sive Stock is quoted 51 1 ; Deferred, 11 , 8 „ ot ber ' Se cu - Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51 1 .. In t"' tions• t au ties we notice no variation from former quo ta ,es We S " O - 4; But little doing in the Share Market. t'l r F iftbS, were last done at 84 ; Ditto New, 60 London and Brighton, 364 ; Midland, ; b, 2 31 24 0 ' 5 t Consols, 88 84 ,• Mexican, 26 26 1 ! SP k an r ' s , Recent advices from Batavia state the n th e Sou 00 0- a famine in what at Molucca are termed th 237 Pe of Islands. In one small locality no less than d seat tie f, died of want. The Governor of Molucca ha be i r re „ ; iti shipments to the amount of 30,000 livres for t ,s f roreu,.. It is said that the Prussian Government ha the eso;s mediation between France and Belgiurn , f t) not of This is blishment of a commercial treaty, likely, however, unless Prussia has interested its own. . Ditto CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ~ ~ ~. • ep• Bank Stock 163 India Stock. ..... ...••• or 3i per Cent Red 9889 881 3 per Cent Red. 3 per Cent Cons ....ni ..2 io New 31 per Cent DDDiiittatoteo B(Edism.nn...nu.tuit.ire_::l:..a:.: :;:, Pp: Ex. Bills, I,u 9 v"' .. 'Ol New 5 per Cent Ditto 500 1 .... ..... 1 4 F Long Annuities to expire Ditto Stasi! . t,. . -, Jan 1860 ..... ..... 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Ac e •'' Oct 1859 — Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. ce nt: --Austrian, 5 p er cent.... Portuguese , 5 P er - Belgitin, 5 per cent lc olnd ing oa iSstfoocrkAfcocrtA..c.c: ... 6, 0 4 1 Ditto,NewDitto .. • .. ".. .11 Brazilian 80nd5... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cex - - Russian , 1 5 per cen ...... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ............ 2 3 Colombian, 6 per cent.. S pan i s h, S pe r colt ...... ii e Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, D e ferred ... - cent .. ' .....f. "" ca .1. ~ Danish, 3 per cent ... French, 5 per Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange ..... ... . Mexican, 5 per cent.... F re nch, 3 per .... - Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625 Dutch, 21 per cen - ...... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. SHARES. 1000 51i Birmingham and Gloucester Railway . Ditto New Shares (71 1 paid) .......... Eastern Counties Railway (23 pai) ...... •. .. ... 9 1 17' 9.0 Ditto Debentures (—paid) .. •• Great Western Railway( - 65 paid) .......... Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ............ Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ....................... London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... • 10 London and Blackwall Railway (25 Pa id). " 16') London arid Birmingham (90) ......... Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ............ 54,1 Ditto Thirds (32 paid ) ....................... `2?, 1 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid ......... . ....... bbJ, London and South Western ................. London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ••'•' . 6 5 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) . .•••••.. 54 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... ••••• North Midland Railway (100) ............... Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ..................... 18 South Eastern and D over (43 paid)... ...... ANTIQUITY OF THE CHIN •-• , h Scotch, and I t ir h e e ls a h o , ti m q E .,—..-- 5E...... The ii ;4l 4 in S regard es whea, i pared with the Ch . tial Empire mese, who in the history 0 v ie • have the following remarkablo . or aer "Aboutthis • time the world c reated !" Be d, re' mandarin in the clouds looking was d, r ep to illustrate the uartygoofhtihdoeirthpeoidir.gdriemin,fisthheecttiPe; coo,i senting a fact, an engraving is introduce ~„,b 00 th o " of Jul y . very shocking mu rder a named Jame m m i r t . te s d . a F t Beard Plains, New England, at then il l ew 5 0 0 01 i the ee:b . ra .l te t o S tave n t G o o jernment men, Mann, of George-street, Sydney, on t 00, Scone to be put James _one, a native of Devonshire (al' o f Ow appears that tiVhfar.t Meettunnnt:),otloTorkse,ooo:ol ilo:etie.: ndasmheedd for some b e elo m n he had h -cell guilty, and some time after his f e s jett Moles entered the hut in which Stone was, with a i ° ll)* musket in his hand, and instantly shot him dead..oo of murderer was immediately secured. The commissi tb ig this diabolical act has created a great sensation i° ~ ,,cll neighbourhood, as the unfortunate man, Stone, wa s tio •- iist i respected, and bore a most exemplary character. 1.-nicie, ct a wife and large family in England.—Australian Ch ra d tO igscinogrjulle; Sabo tt :; 0 11 A NICE. DISTINCTION --IL 01ICC haPPene 03 me to be present in a school where the pedag 4 l s via l addressed a rebellious pupil—" At your age, a ll O ther your abilities, you ought to be a pattern to the lio le boys, instead which lam obliged tom ake an esa it of you ;" a nd thereupon he thrashed him sounq ra te , T H E LEAD CoFFrys....—The NolhecK tisg, payers intend marching up to the Church -rate we e T o( on Friday next, in a body. We understand they ar e ; SO getting a black flag prepared, with the motto, Church-rate—mind the lead coffins I"--.Leeds Tioes' MORNING =SUN N\