The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

EVENING SUN 1•11112 MRIAINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE OLD SAINT PAUL'S: A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE. With Twenty large Illustrations on Steel, by Franklin. IS NO READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Hugh Cunningham, St. Marttn's-p'ace, Trafalgar-square._ 4 - Is MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, Ris 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 ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now §ELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBUnoNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions way receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SP.RCTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains D !IDENDS of 6E25)900 £6OO • 5,000 400 1,50 Q 200 1,000 150 800 120 lIEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/.. 18,0004, 9,0004 5,000/., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to 'London 3,600/., 800/, and 7001., to Edi n burgh ; 3,60 01. to 3,600/. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/.10 Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 7001. and 600/. to Li ver Pool; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6004 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, without delay, either Ht.INE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG!' or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 103 60 90 , 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.' UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, DEC. 7, Will be repeated Beilini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Oroveso, Mr. Letler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her sixteenth:appear ance upon the English Stage). After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes do Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; Eudiga, Mar!ame Vestris. Dsors t, to opened at Lalf-past Six—the performances to eammence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Secona Circics, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Secon.4 Price. 2s. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for th e Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Boa-office, frem Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had ere° application. Private Boxes to be hid so!ely of Mr. Andre ifs, booksellv., 7. New Bond-street. Tfi-marrow, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with Wooden Leg, and Free and Easy ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND Mit WILLIS TONES. Mr. Graham, Mr. Phelps, and the most powerful Company supporting Shakspere's Tragedies. THIS EVENING. DEC. 7 Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET —Hamlet Er. Graham; Ghost, Mr. H. Hughes; Ophelia, Miss Wa- T 4 r l Y ; Queen, Mrs. IL Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivettirg situations andittense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, Oil POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Sughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. *.INDER TIM DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. The extraordinary success of this favoured and fortunate Theatre still e - mtinues unabated. THIS EVENING, DEC. 7, The TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or,the BANKER, tko THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ' • Murray, Mr. Dale ; B ur l, M r . S eaman ; T om Li vely, Mr. Gardner; Barny Cl}, Mr. Paul; Emily, Mrs. Lee. After which, WOMAN'S LOVE; or, IHE WIVES OF CLITHEAOE.—WiIford Clitheroe, Mr. E F. Saville; Old Wynsley, Mr. James ; Hollyhock, Mr. Gardner ; Kate Wyn *ley, Miss V:neent ; Lady Adeline, Mrs. G. L ee. To conclude with THE PALACE OF GENEVA; or, THE SPIRIT OF THE VAULT.—Frank Layton, Mr. Sea man ; Grantly, kir. James ; 0:d John, Mr. Gardner ; Selina, .Mrs,. Howard. Boxes, 29—Pit, Is. gallery, 6d.— dalf-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-Morrow, Two Locksmiths, The Wonder, and Eagle Eye. TWE RAILWAY SUN. IVOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sure Mee, Dec. 7, 1841. • . THE WEATHER.—NOON, WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 7. ItOYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. 'hermometer... 45) Highest 49 Lowest 36 Barometer 29.74.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO MORROW ning......29 minutes after b I Evening II minutes after IP. The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tfix SUN corn• menced at 10 minutes after Three. ! fti4 4 1 ,? A' t* - 10 7.4.1 k -0,4. # 4 . • • s r ( at ts ' 141 !IT = •••• • " 1 "04 ' • • Ult. LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1841. The late Ministers appeared to have com pletely given up the public cause the instant they were removed from office. In no one case did they attempt to impede the re-election of the members of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Ministry, though they might, and they ought, in several places, with a view of keeping up the spirits of their friends, to have made, at least, a show of opposition. No sooner was the Parliament at an end, or even before, than they all dispersed and disbanded, leaving their party without leaders, guides, or counsel. There was no longer any head-quarters, no place to go to for orders, and no commander ; but the whole army of Opposition was left to act, each man for himself, to fight, to retreat, or to j iin the enemy, as he thought best. We believe that the members of the great party which his heretofore defeated the whole united power of the Tories when they were in the full vigour of manhood, and mean again to defeat them, but with a more signal destruction, now that they are in the d:crepi- Ode of age, and are obliged to hide their wolf like propensities under the sheepish guise of Conservatism,—we believe that the members of that great Liberal party felt no inconsiderable displeasure at the desertion, and began, in de tached and broken squadrons, t o l ook out for new leaders. After being lost, however, for nearly three months, some of the Whig leaders have again appeared in the field, an d seek, we pre snug", to collect their scattered forces. Lord Jolls RUSSELL was the first to inform us of his existence and of his determination to take tip a position in opposition to th e monopolists. which in a reply to- the inhabitants of Ply mouth, 4•B published more than a week ago, and which has excited many angry comments in the Tory Journals, Lord JOIIN went much furthe r in hi s Panguage than ever lie went in his deeds, and probably wrote the following passages rather from contemplating the future than troublin g. . himself accurately to recollect the past The late Administration endeavoured to relieve the country from those taxes which are paid to the land owners, to the West India planters, and other favoured classes, at the expense of the community at large. They attempted, above all, to subject the admission of foreign ewn at a known and moderate duty, in place of a scale so curiously adjusted, that it, baulks the farmer at one mo ment and starves the people at another, while it defrauds the revenue at all times. The whole strength of monopoly, however, joined with the compact forces of an adverse party, defeated our *eons, and have placed a new Ministry in power. _ Still, if the people are un it e d, p ro hibi t i ons an d prohi bitory duties will .stare the fate of civil disabilities on religious grounds, thu slavery of our negro fellow-sub jects, and other works of darkness. Nor is it necessary f ur this purpose that the late Ministry should be restored to power ; the men who surrendered what they deemed the essential bulwarks of the Church and the Constitu tion to the menaces of the Roman Catholic Association of Ireland, will be sure to yield the fortress of commer• cial restriction when they shall be summoned to do so by the peaceful but powerful voice of the people of England and Scotland. The late Administration proposed a very li mited modification of the taxes paid to the land owners and Alr c st India planters, and, in pro posing the modification, actually recognised the justice of the principle of taxing the community t ) enrich the landowners and West India planters, strengthening their opponents, and ensuring their own defeat. If we are to understand that Lord JOHN RUSSEL L and his friends now adopt the principle, that it is right " to relieve the coun try from those taxes which are paid to the land owners and the West India planters;" that what h e proposed as Minister h e w i ll not adhere to in opposition; that he means, on the subject of corn, sugar, and timber, to act on those principles of honesty and justice by which, in the case of the Dissenters and the Negroes, his party achieved their noblest triumphs, we can assure him very extensive support, and complete success at no distant day. The people do not understand paltering with the subject; the Bread-tax is looked on as a moral question, and is regarded with a religious feeling, on which no half measures will satisfy them, and no half measures will they support. To defeat the mo nopolists the peaceful and powerful voice of the people of England and Scotland must not be raised for a fixed duty on corn to protect the land lords, nor fora large discriminating duty on sugar, because both those duties give a solemn sanction to those principles of dishonesty and injustice which the religious and honest people of Eng land and Scotland are determined to exclude from our legislation. They will again take Lord J. RUSSELL for their leader, if he emblazon these principles on his flag; and if he do not, they will look out for another. But we hope well of the Whigs after their rus tication. Lord PALMERSTON has also again ap peared in the field, and the Noble Lord who has long been distinguished for his fearless advocacy of free trade principles, thus boldly avows his present sentiments, in his answer to the address from the borough of Bridgnorth : It has always been the study of the late Government to carry into practical application those principles of civil and religious liberty which are founded upon natural justice, and which are eminently conducive to tlit happiness and well-being of mankind, and we trust that our endeavours in this respect have not been freltless. We attempted to apply to the commercial legjsiation of the country those principles of trade, the soundness and truth of which have long been demonstrated in reasoning, and which all enlightened men have for many years ac knowledged as the only sure foundation for the permanent prosperity of nations. But a combination of monopolists prevailed, and private interests triumphed over public good. The victory so achieved will, however, be short lived. Reason will, in the end, prove stronger than pre judice, and the great interests of the community must finally overrule the resistance of the few. Even the mo. nopolists will find that they delude themselves as to the advantages which they fancy they derive from the pre sent system of commercial restriction ; for no class of men can build up permanent prosperity for themselves upon a system which is ruinous to the nation of which they form a part. All this is good, and we find no fault with the Noble Lord, while he avows a deference to natural justice, that his application of the prin ciple, when he was obliged in office to defer to so many selfish interests, did not agree exactly with our own. He places the combination of monopolists in opposition to certain principles—. we conclude, those of free trade ; he asserts that the public good was sacrificed to private inte rests; and he looks to reason proving in the end stronger than prejudice. We have no doubt whatever that the great interests of the com munity must finally overrule the resistance of the few; and it is of great public advantage to have it clearly stated by a leading politician that the public interest has been, and is now, sacrificed by that combination of monopolists who have, for a short period, got hold of the Government. Under that banner, England and Scotland will rally and eject the Tories. We look back, with Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to the defeats Which the Tories have formerly sustained; we see them conquered when their power was un scathed; we now see them feeble, disjointed, quar relling amongst themselves—the Church, their great prop, crumbling into repelling particles ; we see them again, as before, taking the side of wrong against right, of prejudice against reason, and we look forward to their certain defeat. But their next defeat will be more disastrous than any they ever suffered. Peers and Commoners, Clergy and Laity, Land-lords and Money-lords, have all united to form one overwhelming Parliamentary majority in support of mono poly and barefaced injustice. They unite to resist the laws of nature, and in opposition to their own desires. They are greedy of wealth, greedy of a large revenue, and they unite to up hold a monopoly which is cutting asunder the sinews of the national greatness. They must fail, and will exhibit to the world a large Parlia mentary majority defeated by a principle. The Tories fancy they are securing a monopoly, but they are in truth destroying the Government, and substituting another power for the power of a Parliamentary majority. The spirit which prevails among the clergy of almost every denomination in this country, forms a striking and alarming feature of the age. While the people of Spain and Portugal, for merly the most bigoted and most submissive to the will of the priesthood, have thrown off the yoke, and in most other States the influence of the Church is on the decline, here the reverse is the case. The Catholic priests in Ireland, if we take Mr. O'CONNELL as authority, are furious against ESPARTERO, and friendly to the cause of the RX-QUEEN REGENT, simply because the for mer has stript the clergy of their usurped power and enormous wealth, while the latter would bring back the glorious days of ignorance, super stition, and slavery. In England the rage for the doctrines of Popery is spreading among the clergy of the Established Church to a fright ful extent; the Bible, and the Prayer-book are looked upon as old almanacs, and the traditions and fictions of the men who paved the way for the dominion of the Romish hierarchy, and the thraldom of the dark ages, are, in their eyes, the only sure guides. In Scotland a system of priestly dominion, unequalled during the worst period of the, Inquisition, already prevails. Under the pretence of giving the people the free choice of their clergymen, and of honouring- the ALMIGHTY by the most scrupulous observance of the Jewish Sabbath, the Non-Intrusionist clergy have committed acts of oppression, which, if perpetrated by the civil power, would have raised a rebellion. In the course of a few days in the month of May last they deposed ten clergymen, and threaten to punish in a similar way some two hundred more, because their tyrannical edicts are not im plicitly obeyed ; they are interfering incessantly with the rights of private property, endeavour ing to shut up railroads on Sunday, imprisoning respectable shopkeepers for refusing to observe the Jewish Sabbath, and withholding the rites of the Church from others whom they cannot bring within the grasp of some obsolete or local Act. The scene which occurred at Arbroath the other day, reported at length in The Sun, exhi bits these arch-hypocrites in a light which can not be mistaken. A farm labourer, long a member of the Established Church, had buried his child on a Sunday, a practice hitherto common in Scotland, and, for:performing this sacred work of necessity, he was excommunicated by the clergyman, stig matised as a criminal, and forced to appeal to the Presbytery for redress. This body contained a majority of spiritual tyrants of the same stamp'; they of course sympathised with the oppressor, attempted to exclude the public from the Guild hall where they met, and finding the people dis obedient, one of the fathers of the Inquisition held up the terrors of the Church, and threatened to deal with them for resisting his spiritual au thority. All attempts, however, were vain, the audience kept their seats, and laughed him to scorn, and the Presbytery having finished the sit ting by prayer (in the true styl e o f the Spanish In quisition), marched off in a bo4y to a secrethotel where another prayer was said,vev an d er, T dn e ec m lin o e c a k eineveeesiatifea.tionTlisl'aes petitioner, r, about etiti e n t e o commence ho their authority, and appealedtthoroaohis one rCourt. In thisdisgraceful transaction circum stance which affords matter for heiaislt. T yscoinlgerpactouphito lation. It was all the work of the pre unanimously took part we have h theiritlie doubt oepprtesisveildl fellow-parishioner, and we lur T ii i c l a ey tio i n ) egisintestaild re moved by er h t i h m e C h until u r e t h h e d e e s x e c r o t e n d m . only more power for the clergy, see that that the cry for Non-Intthrautsizoten f m a t e l e n r s of a family would be allowed to vote who buried e ieda r relative on a Sunday, or travelled by r ailroad, tasted spirits,' or sold " lollipop," or refused in any way to obey the command of a spiritual ty rant, and that th e only way to save them selves from this frightful thraldom is to read THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1841. the Scriptures, and judge for themselves. We trust this scene will not be without use in Parliament when the Non•intrusionists claim protection for the members of the Scottish Church. Should Sir ROBERT PEEL, or the Earl of ABERDEEN, or any Minister of the Crown, in any way, by favouring the dominant party, con tribute to their success, and consequently the de struction of public liberty in the north, he would richly deserve iMpeachment. At the public meeting held in Southwark yesterday, Mr. A. PELLATT, a Liberal Dis senter, but remarkable for his moderation, was constrained, by his sense of what is due to the suffering people, to consent to a me morial to her MAJESTY, a part of which prays that the People's Charter may be , come the law of the land. But, far as this went, it scarcely satisfied the numerous meeting. The memorial was indeed unanimously assented to ; but after that, the National Petition was offered for acceptance, and, having been supported by more than one speaker, who urged the division of the land, was almost una nimously adopted. Will such facts not awaken the aristocracy ? Govern this nation by force, in opposition to justice, they cannot ; and if they will not allow the people to have bread, the people will insist on sharing their estates. Between an at tempt to establish despotism, an agrarian revolu tion, or granting free trade, they have to choose. Reason, Justice, Nature, and Gon command the last, and if they decide for the first, no power on earth can ward off unspeakable calamities from England. The French Journals of Sunday have duly reached us. The Court of Peers sat till six o'clock on Saturday, again occupied with the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices, but no important fact was elicited. From Avignon the Government had received a telegraphic despatch, dated the 4th instant, stating that the Rhone had overflowed its banks, and inundated a large portion of that ancient city. The suffer ings of the inhabitants were in consequence very great. The Journal des Debats ridicules the pre tensions of M. THIERS to effect a change in the Ministry. From several articles in the Court organs it is clear that the Court is doing all in its power to produce a coldness between the people of Great Britain and Spain. As a means to effect this they are endeavouring to alarm the Spaniards for the safety of their Colonies. (From the !french Papers of Sunday.) The bulletein of the laws contains a royal ordinance, which fixes the revenue of the Legion of Honour for the year 1842 at 7,856,998 francs. • It is announced that General Rumigny is going to set out for Africa, where he has already :had the command, and that he is to act as Governor-General, ad interim, in the room of General Borgeaud, who has permission to come to France to remain there during the session. Ge neral de Rumigny, it is added, will be accompanied by M. August Martineau Deschenez, Auditor in the Council of State.— Temps. A journal announces that M. Thiers had a long con ference with the Duke of Orleans, yesterday. The Journal of Angers and of Rennes announces that the rivers have overflowed their banks. At Rennes the Velaine had risen to a greater height than in the most considerable inundations of the last forty years. The proceedings against M. Dupotz may be consi dered as an important fact. The sitting of the Court of Peers yesterday disclosed the really political part of the affair of Quenisset. People did not comprehend why M. Dupotz was accused, though there was nothing in that report which materially implicated him. Yesterday, when after the declaration of that writer, that he did not know any of the accused, the Attorney- General instead of abandoning the accusation, took files of the Journal du Peopl e , an d rea d extracts from them, in order to find some connection between the facts of the process and the theories of the writer, people under stand that the real object was to attack the political press, and that the frequenters of public houses and con trivers of plots were brought before the Peers only to lead tO an attack on the most vital of our liberties. We must only be astonished that M. Hebert did not manage more dexterously the transition from an assassi nation to a misdemeanour of the press. M. Dupotz nobly represented the press. His exami nation lasted throe hours and a half.— Gazette de France, DR. BIRKBECK.—The funeral of Dr. Birkbeck will take place, we are informed, at Kensall green, on Monday next. A meeting of the Mechanics' Institute will be held on Thursday, to settle in what manner the respect of the In stitute shall be shown to the venerable Gentle man's memory. Similar meetings are in con templation at the other Metropolitan Institutions. The warrant creating the infant prince Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, received the Royal sign manual y es t er d ay, and the creation, we have every reason to believe, will be an nounced in this evening's Gazette. Besides being Prince of Wales, the infant Prince is the Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, and Duke of Saxony. We have authority to contradict a paragraph which has appeared in several of the public jour nals, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus sex is about to resign the Grand Mastership of the ancient order of Freemasons. That his Royal Highness has no such intention is evident when we state that he was unanimously proposed at a meeting of the Grand Lodge on Wednesday last to fill the distinguished office for the ensuing year. WHICH IS THE TRUE CHURCH.--A Puseyite correspondent of the Post asserts that the Pu seyites are much more faithful followers of the Rubrick than their opponents, whom he stigma. tises as Calvinists, and contends that the Pusey ites follow the true orthodox Church of England. He quotes as one proof that the Rubrick com mands fasting on the Sundays, and he avers that the Calvinists, or low Church party, far from fasting on that sacred day, make a point of feast ing. We are of opinion, after much contempla tion on this important subject, that he makes out a case against himself. The Church of England, or rather the Clergy of that Church, have long repudiated and set aside fasting as entirely heterodox and uncanonical. If the Rubrick order the clergy to fast, it must be wrong; they leave that altogether to the starving laity. It is a mon strous contradiction to give them great masses of wealth and then prescribe fasting to them. The Puseyites must, by mistake, have adopted the Gospel of the Essenes, which the feasting Church of England has long ago rejected. It holds fast ing by the priesthood in abhorrence. , LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 7.—Wind this day at noon S. W. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 6.—Mary Bannatyne, Pick ' ering, Calcutta,- Australia, St. John's, New Brunswick. RAMSGATE, DEC. 6.—A rr d. British Queen, London, for Cape Coast Castle ; Racer, ditto, for Terc e i ra . DEAL, DEC 6.—Wind SW.—Arrd. Marianna, South Seas ; Thomas Rowell, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Dartmouth, for Bombay. ' LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Creamore, Shapley, Pa raiba, sailed 11th ult. ; Eliza Kellick, St. Domingo ; Fanny, Crowell, New Orleans; Chicora, Rogers, Charles ton; Elizabeth Rowell, Wake, St. John's,New Brunswick Eliza Keith, St. Andrew's, .Newßrunswi c k ; Gl engarry, Prince Edwards' Island ; Sovereign, St. John's, New Brunswick. Put back, Capricorn, for Barbadoes, with damage, having been in contact with the Catharina, for Rotterdam ; Washington, Mobile, leaky ; Harriet Scott, for Bombay ; Thunderer, Rio ; Salima, Demerara ; Princess Victoria, Mobile. The Catharine, bound to Rotterdam, was towed into the Mersey last evening dis masted, having been in contact with the Capricorn for Barbadoes, off Port Lymas, 3d instant. The Morning Star, supposed from Richebucto, to this port, with loss of rudder, 18 inches water in her hold, and abandoned, was fallen in with, 16th ult., in lat. 45, lon. 51, by the Sovereign, arrived here. The Broad Oak, hence to Bahia, has put into Shedwell Reads, with boats stove and loss of bulwarks, caboose, &c. The Sarah, from Odessa to Cork, totally dismasted, was towed into Toulon, 21st ult., by a French corvette. Arrd. off, Janet, Valparaiso; William Shand. DOVER, DEC. s.—Arrd. Picciola, Hamburgh, for Barbadoes. COWES, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Regalia, Quebec ; Louisa Amelia, llamburgh, for Vera Cruz. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind W. to W.N.W., strong. —Arrd. Wellington, London, for New York. PLYMOUTH, DEC.:2.—Wind S.W.; 3, W.N.W.—Arrd. Pere, Smyrna, for St. Petersburgh, with loss of bul warks ; Jacob, Shields, for Rio. FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind W. to S., fresh breezes. —Arrd. Acastus, Hayes, Buenos Ayres, sailed 26th Sep tember; Racehorse, Punchard. Ancona, with the cargo shifted; Charles, Jersey for Teneriffe. Sailed the Alert packet, West Indies. The Orient, from Madras to Lon don, notwithstanding both pumps are kept at work, the water has increased 18 inches during the last 24 hours; , she has conmenced unloading. BRISTOL, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Emanuel, Pearson, Quebec. SWANSEA, DEC. s.—Arrd. Portland, Moore ; and Magnet, Watson, Cuba. Maria co taGrace, DEC. Barbadoes.et._ rrd. I3 EAUMARIS, D EC . 6.—A rr d . Dykes, Harrison, Quebec. CLYDE, DEC. 4 . - -Sld. Kirk man , Fi n l ay, Bom b ay ; S Sir Ed war d Borougha , m ß ue a l Abbott, rtha Guard, sbee been selected e Cuba i ecte . d from the Judges' list as High Sheriff of the City of Dub lin by his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. This is the first appointment under the new Municipal Corporation l nominated s in those the ose same manner , heretoforeand under I similar e iire r s Act. The Sheriffs for boroughs will henceforward be of counties.—Dublin Evening regu lations, SUMMARY OF S AND utnitt pinton. " ino runs may read." POREIGN. The Great Western steamer. which arrived at Bristol oa Tuesday, in 13 days from New York, brings no poli tical news of interest. She has brought, however, 500,000 dollars in specie, and thirty passengers. St. John's, New Brunswick, appears doomed to de struction by fire. On the 15th ult. a dreadful conflagra tion broke out there, which dest ro y e d 75 b u ildi ngs, in cluding the new market-house, 40 vessels from Market street Wharf to Whitney's Wharf, and an immense quantity of merchandise. The fire was not extinguished when the latest account left St. John's. Another dreadful fire destroyed a great deal of pro perty at Vicksburg on the 9th ult. Two entire squares of the town were burned down before it was extinguished. The American Papers contain a long account of the late revolution in Mexico. Santa Anna was at the head of 9,000 veterans, when, on the sth of October, he pro posed an amicable settlement with Bustamente. Peace was concluded on the 9th. Whether Santa Anna will observe good faith towards Bustamente, now that he has him in his power, we know not, nor can we help recol lecting the fable of the wolf and the crane. The Paris Journals of Monday publish a telegraphic dsspatch from Avignon, dated the 4th inst., announcing that a great part of that town was inundated by the overflowing of the Rhone. The Hanover Gazette denies that the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge have protested-against any of the public acts of the King of Hanover. It is so much the fashion of the Hanover Gazette to discredit whatever exposes the tyranny of King Ernest, that we care not a straw for its denia'. The Duke of Sussex's whole public lift has been one continuous protest - . against the tyrannical proceedings o the ex-Duke of Cumberlsnd. PUBLIC OPINION. In a leading article suggested by Lord John Russell's answer to the Plymouth Address, the Morning Chronic'e introduces the following incidental observations on Sir Robert Peel :—" When Peel introduced the Emancipa tion Bill, he grossly violated the principles of his whole public life. His political existence and importance were the creation of his No-Popery professions. They had given him a name in a House where the Tories had a Canning for a leader. They had exalted his mediocrity into a sort of rivalry with genius. He had used the power they gave him to thwart the policy and enhance the difficulties of that great man. They had made him Member for the University of Oxford ; a position for which, otherwise, he had about as much valid pretension as the Reverend Messrs. Garbett and Williams have to the Professorship of Poetry in that same learned establishment. With him, No-Popery was law, and constitution, and monarchy, and religion, and what not. And so, under the Duke's orders, he got up one night and proclaimed that all religious denomina tions should be equal in the eye of the law. We shook be glad to learn what there is like this in Lord Johr Russell's proposition to lighten the burden of class taxa. tion upon the necessaries of life?"—The worst fault o which Lord John Russell has been guilty, has been hi: occasional tardiness in promoting the work of substantia reform; an apparent apathy has been at times too visi ble in his conduct, and this hasyery naturally given rise to distrust ; but his Lordship has never, from motives of expediency, and to maintain himself in power, apos tatized from the one great principle, the perse vering support of which bad alone enabled him, to acquire political distinction. He never stated em year in the House of Commons that he did not think the time would ever come when he would grant Catholic Emancipation ; and then, scarcely six months afterwards. when the position of affairs was not in the slightest de gree altered, turn suddenly round on his betrayed sup porters, and carry the measure without reserve. Though we approved at the time of his changed policy, and still approve it, yet we never did, and never shall, think for an instant that Sir Robert Peel was influenced by honest conviction, or leaped from intolerance to liberalism from disinterested or conscientious motives. The reasons for his change—beneficial as that has proved —were purely selfish. The Post says :—" Lord Palmerston says that the Parliamentary decision of 1841 was produced by a com bination of monopolists, making private interests triumph over public good. Does he mean to say that the very same decision which was come to upon the same subject in 1840, and to which decision he and his colleagues contributed, was produced by a, combination of mono polists, or was a triumph of private interests over public good ? The fact is, that the assertions of Lords John Russell and Palmerston, relative to their conviction o: the excellence of the principles of trade brought forware by them this year for the first time, is the most enor mous impudence that ever was uttered, and totally un worthy of the credence of any one professing sanity. I they believed these principles to be sound, why did they not bring them forward whop they had great power ant influence ? If they did not believe them to be sound, why did they bring them forward at all ?" We fear, no good answer can be given to these home truths; but it is not for the Tories to taunt the Whig., with their supineness in bringing forward good measures. it is not for the men who, wielding all the powers of the State, and exercising all but unlimited authority, re fused to give the slightest Law Reform for years ; for years, too, though the nece ss it y was ma d e apparent to them, refused to strike oil even one link of the heavy chain that galled the Dissenters, and drove the Catholic, well nigh to desperation—it is not, we say, for men like these, to presume to object to others that they were tardy in doing what they had the power to do. The Times, returning to its yesterday's theme, re marks as follows :—" Lord John Russell and Lord Pal merston are, in their own way, expert political cam paigners ; and accordingly, dreading lest a cessation from party warfare during so long a period as the recess might have the effect of hurrying them into a premature oblivion, they seem to have formed a somewhat sudden conspiracy for reminding the public that th ey are st il l alive, and for astonishing their suecessors with a smart concerted peppering. The angry little effort of Lord John at Plymouth we have already disposed of. Lord Palmerston, as a humble imitator, dischar ges hi s harm less decoction at Bridgnorth ; and as the former emitted his spleen in a highly concentrated form, the latter, doing homage to the superior d exter i ty of his original, it, contentedby adding a himselflittle a with weakeninggiving us a mere dil u ti on of of his own ."—L or d John Russell's answer to the Plymouth address seems to sit like an incubus on the Ti.ntes, which it would fain, but cannot, shake off ; we do not wonder at our Con temporary's wincing under it, for it has administered a severe shock to self-complacent Toryism. We quote the following from the Morning Herald : " The outcry of monopoly' from the Noble Lords is a mere springs to catch woodcocks ;' the late Ministry was not ejected from office on account of the budget pro pcsitions, monstrous as they were. Those propositions were brought forward to stimulate that popular support, which five years' maladministration had lost them. The then Opposition refused to debate their proposals—they replied to them by a vote of non - confidence, which was carried. The country was appealed to from that vote ; the result of the appeal was its confirmation, and the new Parliament repeated the vote. What was the com plaint of the late Ministers, from the budget night down to the last hour of their disastrous official existence ? That their opponents would not debate their plans, and that they were condemned without having their measures s the victims o f a f ree - tra d e considered.to represent policy. Their f a te a s an Ad m i n i stration was sealed long before their b u d ge t was th oug h t of."---The fate of the themselves eles late Administration was not sealed until the Monopolists, one and all, took the alarm ; in every sense of the word, therefore, the Melbourne Government was, really and truly, the victim of its free-trade policy. MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. - The mines of Cornwall maintain a direct population of 100,000. About 18,000 are strictly miners, adult men, for the most part employed under ground : of the rest, 6,000 are boys under 18, and as many females. Not less than three-quarters of the total number are engaged in the mining districts west of Truro. The General Annuity Society held their annual meet ing in the Poultry, yesterday. From the Report it ap peared that the balance in hand amounted to 1911. 17s. 3d. The Lord Mayor was elected one of the Vice-Presidents for the year ensuing. The railroad about to be constructed in the Brazils will embrace a length of sea-coast, north and south, of 2,100 miles. The ',provinces and districts through which it, will pass, commencing from the capital Rio de Janeiro, contain 300,000 people. The cost of construction will amount to million. meeting of the Metropol Youn Mens' Anti- Monopoly A ssoc i at i on was held last night at Finsbury. Among the resolutions passed was, " that the meeting most strenuously deprecated the system of emigration now proposed as a remedy for the existing distresses, as being totally inefficient for promoting the general good, and only advocated for the purpose of sending Britons to distant lands in search of that food which was not per mitted to be imported into their own."—We were sorry to hear it stated that there was a want of funds, but aro confident that every member will come forward in its support. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The magnificient pier at Whitby, Rants, has shrunk from its foundation to a considerable extent on its west side, about a dozen yards south of the lighthouse. LAW AND POLICE. At Marylebone police court yesterday, n ivolicc con stable of the E division charged a man with Veing drunk and making use of unseen language. As a:tribute of respect to S CIENCE A.Nr ART. +: ite memory o f Si r Francis Chantrey, the member s rmined thatthe t . of the Royal A ca d emy h ave de te . ..tennial dist r ibution o f go ld me d a l s, ' nts of th a t i nst i tut i on on l y. shall t a k e p l ace i n t h e presence of the thec)n membersTlOh 10th in ada students y TU ZATRICAL. the Woburn Abbe was a th eatr i ca l di vert i ssement i n Hon. Abbey Theatre, u n d er th e patronage o f t h e General Grosvenor, commencing at nine o'clock. The piece selected was Who's the Dupe? the different characters being sustained as follows :—Dorley, Lieute nant-Colonel Keppel • Gradus, Lord Henry Russell Granger, Lord C aar i cs Fitzroy ; Mrs. Sanford, Lady Charles Fitzroy; Elizabeth, the Hon. Miss Foley; Char lotte, Miss Wilbraham. The several parts were ably discharged by the above distinguished persons. The party broke up on Saturday. An alarm of fire was given yesterday at the Surrey Theatre, a few minutes after the peformance of Brutus; a scene caught fire, and occasioned a general panic among the audience, but luckily the fire was soon got under. A batch of strolling players, in order to disarm the scrupulous, wrote the following singular words at the bottom of thei r bill s of fare, circulated about Ampthill phis last week Strict Attention to morality !" SPORTING. The Duke of Sussex, during his stay at Holkham, has enjoyed several days' shooting. Lord Coke, during the same time, killed upwards of 1,400 head of game, including 22 woodcocks ; and on Thursday, to decide a wager, bagged 28 couple of snipes in Holkham marshes. COUNT-FASHIONABLE. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter left Woburn Abbey on Thursday last for Burleigh House. The Marquis of Tavistock arrived in Belgrave-Equare on Saturday from Woburn Abbey. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon left Grosvenor crescent yesterday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Craven, at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. Lord and Lady Sondes have been entertaining visitors during the past week at Elmhall, Norfolk. Lord W. V. Powlett has returned to Downham Hall, from Lowther Castle. Lord Seymour arrived yesterday in Arlington-street, from Melton Mowbray. Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday from Netherby, near Carlisle. The Hon. Ann Lucy Fortescue, aged 78, sister to the late and aunt to the present Earl Fortescue, died at Brighton on Friday last, from injuries received by her clothes taking fire. MISCELLANEOUS. Buta few months since the Duchess di Canizzaro died, leaving every relic of her princely fortune to the Duke, who, on this accession, returned to Italy. He had hardly arrived there before he perished by a most unforeseen accident. According to the Italian official inquiry, he died from taking three pills at once, ordered to be taken singly, and which contained arsenic. A luminous and electric ball was seen in the sky over Windermere on the 25th ult. In the course of three minutes, it assumed the shapes of a pyramid, a flame, a spiral serpent, the figure of the letter Z very brilliant at its angles, and, lastly, of a compressed crescent, when it disappeared. _ _ _ The Lord Mayor of Dublin, out of 100 claimants, ad mitted 90 to the freedom of the city on Saturday. When asked why they did not apply for their freedom before, the general answers were, "Because I was a Roman Catholic." " Because I knew there was no use in ap plying," &c. It appears the exclusion of Roman Catho lics was undeviatingly observed by the old corporation. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 6.—The business done in the Cotton Market to-day is to a fair extent, the dales amounting to 5,000 bales, of which exporters have taken 400 American. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 6.—The transac tions reported in this market are, in London and Bir mingham New Shares at 254 ; Midland Cuunties, 81 ; Liverpool and Manchester Half Shares, 92i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 6.—Not much doing in Shares to-day. Manchester and Leeds, And Manchester and Birmingham, continue in demand at improved prices ; London and South Western, 56 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 31. 10s. to 31. l ls. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42f to 42 4 3 - ; London and Bir mingham, 158 to 160 ; Ditto, 321. Old, 53i to 534. The Great Western arrived at Bristol late last even ing, having made the passage in 13 days. She has brought 500,000 dollars in specie, and a fair cargo ; her dates from New York are of the 23d ult. Exchange on London had declined to 9f ; and United States Bank Shares were quoted at Philadelphia, 4 i. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning 88f f for the Account with but little doing. Three per Cents. Reduced, 88f f Three-and-a Half per Cents. Reduced, 98 + ; Bank Stock, 165 166. Exchequer Bills continue firm, at 10 to 12 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock improved towards the latter part of yesterday, closing at 23 24, after having been done at 23A; they opened this morning at 24f +, at which price they aro now, there is, however, but little business doing. Passive Stock is quoted at 31 i, and Deferred 12+. In Portuguese Stock there is no alteration, the Five per Cents. are 331, and the Th ree per Cents. 19 4 20 ; D u t c h T wo -and-a-Half per Cents. 521 ; Ditto Five per Cents. 99i ; Colombian, 20+ f ; Mexican 254 261. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western ... 65 Ditto Fifths . 4 London and Brighton 5O ...... 35i to 36i 6 London and Birmingham Ditto New North Midland York and North Midland... 5O Ditto New Shares l5 - JOINT STOCK lIA NKS. National of Ireland - _l7l to HALL'-PAST ONE. The transactions in the English Funds have been very limited during the morning. Three per Cents. Reduced nave improved, and were last done at 881. Consols for ,he opening are 88i ex. div. ; Exchequer. Bills, 10 to 12. Business has again been done in Consols and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. for Money, the former at 39i, and the latter 99 k. In the Foreign Market there has also been little busi ness done. Spanish Active Stock have receded a trifle, the quotation being now 231 24 ; Deferred is 121 ; Por :,uguese 33 a 33 ; and the Three per Cents. 19i 244 ; Colombian, 20,1 ; Mexican, 26i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52.; ditto Five per Cents. 991 In the Share Market London and Brighton have im proved, being 36 to 361 ; London and Birmingham 160 ; Ditto New Shares, 25i ; Great Western Fifths, 8 y ; North Midland 663. The operations, however, have been very limited. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, 88i i ex. div. Mexican, 261 f ; Spanish 23i 24. QUARTER TO THREE. A few observations upon the ratio in which the im portation of articles has been proceeding during the last eleven months may not be altogether unin teresting. In the consumption of West India Sugar there has been a falling off, but in that of Mauritius an increase. The arrival of the former has been smaller, and the stock is only 14,066 hhds. 1,724 trcs. against 17,788 hhds. 1,780 trcs. at this time last year. The stock of Bengal is 89,000 bags against 29,000 only on the Ist of December, 1840. The consumption of Rum has rather in creased, but the stock is not quite so high as at the corresponding date of last year. The supplies are nearly on a par with those of 1840. Coffee, in some qualities, has not been consumed to such an extent as last year. East India in bags, and British Plantation being the ex ceptions. The supplies have ranged lower this year. The stocks of West India are smaller, and also of Fo reign, but of East India generally they are larger. THE 11 ARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done, the home trade being the principal operators. The Raw Sugar Market was -irm, with a steady demand ; fine qualities being scarce command 68s. to 735. per cwt. In Coffee the transac dons were limited, and the tendency of prices was down ward. The prick: of Rice was barely supported, and few or no purchasers could bo found. Some small parcels of Pepper were taken off at former prices, 2d. per lb. TEA MARKET, The transactions were upon a very small scale, and no change can be quoted in prices, Company's Congou, Is. Sid. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm, with a steady demand; parcels on the spot, 48s. 3d. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply of Hay and Clover was middling ; of Straw plentiful ; the demand heavy, at lower prices. Clover, 31. to 51. 13s. ; Meadow Hay, 2L to 4/. Bs. ; Straw, 11. 6s. to 1/. 10s. SURREY THEATRE, Mr. Phelps commenced an engagement here for a limited number of nights last evening, and chose the character of Lucius Junius Brutus, in How ar d P ayne ' s tragedy of Brutus, for his debut before a Surrey audience. This character was written expressly for the late Edmund Kean, then in the zenith of his fame, and in the full enjoyment of all his energies, and Kean at once made it his own. Since his death the tragedy has sel dom been produced, the stage possessing no actor qua lified to represent the arduous character of Brutus. This reason, however, no longer exists. Mr. Phelps is an ex cellent representative of Brutus ; since the days of Kean there has been no Brutus at all approaching Mr. Phelps. his oration over the dead body of Lucretia was beautifully given ; his warm and natural style of eloquence contrasting most favourably with the monotonous syllabic declamation to which of late we have been too much accustomed. The whole of the two last acts was magnificent, from the first expression of horrible suspicion that his son may be a criminal in the fourth act, to the fearful condemnation of that guilty son, at the conclusion of the fifth ) when the stern duty of the patriot has been fulfilled to the letter, the Roman be comes humane, and the Consul softens into the man and the father—all was given with a truthfulness to nature which stamps Mr. Phelps as an actor of high geniu... We hope frequently to see, hint in imgassioned charac ters such as Otis, Which eve full scope for the exhibition of the play of the feelings. He was called for at the fall of the curtain, and loudly applauded. The drama of the Two Locksmiths followed. Dttrhift . its prcieess persons in the gallery rftiged a cry of" Fire, Fire! " and the Whole house was in commotion. The pit was cleared ' in a few seconds ; the boxes were empty id alitiost as short a space of time ; and the rush to the gallery doors was terrific. All the actors came forward to the front of the stage, calling out " Iteep yotit places, there is no cause for alarm: The door-keepers also assured the flying audience that it was a false alarm and prevailed on the greater part of thetri to fetiirti grid fiirait the eon elusion of the piece. now the cry originated it is im possible to say. It is, however, exceedingly probable, that some persons in the gallery may have perceived a light in the painting room over the theatre, where pre parations are going on for the pantomime, and not knowing that there was a work-room in that situation, may have imagined that the ceiling wag on fire. The alarm spread outside with great rapidity, and in less than five minutes an engine was at the door, which, however, drove away when the firemen had ascertained how matters really stood. The neighbourhood of the house continued crowded during the whole evening. ISTRESS AT LEIGH. —Leigh, of which Pen nington forms part, where the present dreadful case of Betty Thompson and her infant daughter , has just oc curred, i s ment i oned by the Manchester Guardian, as being in a state collectively of very great suffering, ,` We understand," it says, " that great distress prevails amongst the labouring population of that district ; and it is stated, that, in the parish of Leigh, there are many thousand persons unemployed, and that the distress is greater than it has ever been since the year 1626." AAIERICA_N NEWS ARRIVAL of the GREAT WESTERN , BRISTOL, TUESDAY MORNING. This splendid vessel arrived at Bristol at half- past ten o'clock last night, after a remarkably fine passage (considering the season of the year) of a little over 13 days. She brings 30 passen gers and 500,000 dollars. By this arrival we have received our usual files of North and South American- papers, the date being from New York to the 23d ult. There is no political news of importance. Such extracts as are of interest we subjoin. We copy the following letter, which is of later date than any of the papers received per Great Western, dated Hale's News- room, New York, 1 P.M., Nov. 23, the authenticity of which may be fully relied on : " DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION AT ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK. "By the Boston boat just in, I learn that a destruc, tive conflagration took place on the evening of the 15th inst., at St. John's, New Brunswick. It swept away all the buildings on Market-street Wharf, and down to Whitney's Wharf, and from Prince William-street to the water, the new Matket-house, &c. Large quantities of goods were placed in the Market-house for safety, but were afterwards destroyed. 40 vessels are stated to have been burnt, amongst them 5 ships. The fire was still raging when the mail left, so that you cannot hare more particulars by the Great Western. "We hear that 75 buildings were destroyed, and as the wind was blowing a gale from W.S.W., it is feared that the destruction of property will be much greater than above reported ; as your folks the other side have much interest in St. John's, I have been at some pains to collect all the particulars I could get. A dreadful fire had also occurred at Vicksburg on the 10th of November, of which the Vicksburg Whig says:— "DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION. TWO SQUARES BURNED, AND ABOUT THIRTY HOUSES DESTROYED. " We stop the press to announce the most destructive fire that has ever occurred in this city. It was disco vered about 12 o'clock last night in the kitchen of N. Droz, Esq., in Main-street, from which the flames spread with frightful rapidity, destroying in their course two entire squares, one on each side of Main-street, from Cherry -street to Locust -street. The wind was blowing a perfect gale, and the noble exertions of our gallant firemen were of but little avail, *till all was done that strong arms and stout hearts could do to stay the pro gress of the destroying element. " At this late hour, wearied and worn down as we are, we connot pretend to state the amount of the loss, but it must be immense. We are unable to give the names of all the sufferers. The principal losers, however, must be W. H. Hunt and Co., furniture dealers, and the Messrs. Vough, Of the Union Hotel." Lord Morpeth was at New York, and had been invited by the British residents and a number of influential citizens to a public dinner, to take place on Monday, the 28th ult., which, it was expected, would prove a grand affair, as the Governor of the State of New York and several other distinguished personages had expressed their intention of being present on the occasion. The celebrated Mr. Fenimore Cooper had been figuring in the Law Courts, in two actions for libel against the New York Morning Courier and Enquirer, for a review of his work, entitled Home as bound. One of these causes was tried on the 20th, but had ended in the Jury's being discharged without agreeing to any verdict, after being locked up from three in the after noon until half-past nine o'clock in the morning. Upon the second indictment the editor of the Enquirer had written a letter of apology to the attorney, upon which proceedings were stopped. The New York Journal of Commerce of the 20th of November says, " The Government of the United States has filed a bill in equity in the United States Circuit Court against the Bank of the United States, the object of which is to annul all the assignments made by the Bank as fraudulent, and to obtain the appointment of a receiver to take into his possession the funds of the in stitution." CANADA. The Canadian papers do not possess much interest. There was considerable anxiety expressed for the arrival of the new Governor-General, Sir Charles Bagot, and the papers were occupied with a variety of speculations as to his future policy and measures, the loyal party auguring the best from his appointment; while, on the other hand, the organ of the French party, the Aurore des Canadas, was indulging in a series of violent arti cles against Sir Robert Peel's Government, and endea vouring to stir up the Canadians against them. The Mon treal Messenger, of the 19th ult., states that rumours of Pa triot movements were growing rife, and that meetings of men, who were known to be disaffected, were said to be held in the country parishes. Fears had consequently arisen of a new series of troubles during the winter, but it was hoped that the lessons taught the insurgents, in 1837 and 1838, would deter them from any fresh outbreak. Much satisfaction was felt in the United Province that Mr. Murdoch, the Secretary to the late Lord Sydenham, and who had been to New Y or k on hi s way to E ng l an d , had been re-appointed Secretary to the new Governor- General. Mr. Murdoch had consequently returned to Quebec, where he was awaiting the arrival of his Excel lency. - (From the Montreal Transit, Nov. 8 . .) MR. M'LEOD. To the great gratification of his numerous friends, Mr. M'Leod arrived here on Sunday last, looking none the worse for his long captivity among the Yankees. On Tuesday he returned to Toronto, and after settling his affairs in this province, he will in December leave for England, where, no doubt, he will receive, in the wards of the London Times, a " personal solatium for his twelve months' unjust imprisonment, as an indemnification for such a protracted term of cruel and arbitrary oppression." The Times, like the Canadian Journals, is of opinion that compensation should be demanded from the United States, the Government thereof having already clearly admitted that the imprisonment of Mr. M'Leed was un just. —Niagara Chronicle. By the latest arrivals from Mexico, we learn that the aspect of affairs there had taken a decidedly pacific turn, Santa Anna having been confirmed in his authority, and the Convention which had been drawn up by the Junta having been agreed to by Bustamente. The Siamese, who are at war within Cochin China, had, by advices received at New York, gained a very considerable victory, a large force of the enemy having surrendered to them. (From the New York Express of Nov. 23.) MONEY MARKET. Since the sailing of the last steamer for Liverpool, there has been a considerable sensation in the Money and Stock Markets. The rate of Sterling Bills has con tinued so high, that there has been a constant drain for specie. With the exception of a limited amount of bills on Paris and London, received from the South, there have been but few legitimate bills offering. Most of the Ex change has been drawn against specie shipped to meet it. This has been the case until a few days since, when five of our principal banks appeared in the market, and offered any supply that might be wanted, at 110 on London, and 522 on France. The consequence has been, that private bills are plenty in the market at 1091 on London—and 525 on Paris. This will effectually check any further exports of specie. Indeed, since the banks appeared in the market as bill drawers, there has been no demand for specie. For three months past, the rate of Exchange has been so steadily against this country, that about five millions of dollars have been exported from this port alone, since the Ist of August last. Of this sum, the greater portion has gone to France, and mostly in silver. For a considerable time this export was not felt by the banks, their supply being most abundant ; but within the last month, there has been a considerable demand on the banks, which has been the principal cause of their ap pearing in the market as sellers of Exchange, and which has had the effect to check the export of specie. The banks, can with great saf e ty come to t h e re li e f o f the bill market, as the bills from the South drawn against cotton shipped, will soon become abundant here. The coarse of shipments, of this great staple, cotton, has, so far as funds are concerned, continued in this city. Ship pers at the principal southern ports, draw on New York, and the agents here draw on London, to meet their accep tances. Formerly, when the Southern banks were in good credit, all regulations with England were made through them, now the endorsement of a Southern bank is not in as high favour as formerly. Within the last two days, but particularly within the last three days, there has been a serious fall in Indiana and Illinois Stocks, and all other State Stocks have felt the influence of this depression. The two Stocks men tioned have fallen to thirty-five cents on a dollar, and this too when the latter State has always paid its interest regularly, and the former State has passed but one half year. The depression of these Stocks, will seriously embarrass the States, in paying the!r interest inJan.next. The election in the State of Mississippi, has turned on repudiating the disputed bonds of the State, which are said to be fraudulently issued to the Union Bank, and the result, although not fully known, is considered to have gone in favour of repudiating the bonds. That the sub ject should be made a question, under any circum stances, has created quite a sensation with capitalists, and is undoubtedly one cause of the decline in Stocks. The fall trade is now very nearly over, and the result has been favourable. A large number of merchants have visited the City, and have likewise selected a larger than of goods. The sales for cash have been than usual. period Th fo The internalrtheclosing of u tradeofourbStratge nearly r i e s a tWestern Canal closed, nearly at hand. The amount of produce, theparticudleamrlyanodf Flour, has been larger this year than usual, for our t astern market and for export having increased. The stock risen a dollaronhandfortheseason Flour a barrel within thantbe last common. ftm four correspondingweelcs , being n p o 1 %4 e fu 75, Coarsean d Grain, Wheat as Corn, o than iiy a , e being m w Barley, and Oats, also have adanced v h e i r e y h m h a a t a e a ri e a u ll u y : The high price of Flour particularly , trolling influencehirsdonall ot in other Grai n, forGralian,iso which market degree m a great ket degree to 1 price • 4.1 50, The provision mar purchases were made un to op all former precedent. ket continues depressed beyoe, , - inntedly low Both Beef and Pork are selling at unpree.„,._ prices, and without any prospect of speedy amendment. The Cotton crop, it is believed, will far exceed that of last year. The ruling prices are from to IQ cents, Although there has been no recent decline, yet the sent rate is full as low as it has stood at any period dAring F re i g h ts continue very much depthreersswedii the past year. h tlilie4sietesss but little Cotton has in nt severalthe Sou South h t a h v u e l s c e e a pt p s b. o r l ts o , w , , tb to a t reached the market. Ships consequently lay idlq want of freight. for qh e banks in the whole country south and west ofti* , EVENIN6LSTN - -- • L-7---------- cites if t continue to do business without redeeming their n sor specie, and there is really as little prospect of 3 r i f cos tion as there was two years ago. Exchauges on 3 . I ns south of this range from three to ten per cent. di 6 ,` is. and on Florida and Mississippi much more than tu 30 , Congress will assemble in two weeks. The g reat e i,v. tion that ag it a t es th e coun t * , is the state of t he currirees,, The Presideses Message is looked to with great inteented His hostility to a n a ti ona l b a nk hitherto ba s P re ! n , the establishm en t o f an i ns tit u tion of that deaortptione of The condition of the old United States Ban k Is, 00,.... complete ruin. Th e capital of the Bank is 31i 1. the the there is not a doll ar l e ft for all the stockho lders, a? bills are selling at 40 per cent. discount. r asyr The Mutual Insurance C o mpany declared on Satt',oa, a dividend of six per cent. on the renewed c apital s payable after December 1. ILLINOIS BONDS.—We learn from the Sangarail'grk: nal that the State Bond s belonging t o our State ,133.11 i, which were deposited with Messrs. Nevins a nd l'9" do end, of New York, have been returned and place d sl o ts Bank at Springfield. The most erroneous statelloca with regard to these bonds have been made by the 0 Fee° papers.—Chicago American. The depositors in the Commercial Bank of Buffs°l.l,lc received pretty nearly all the assets of the Ba nk food l ii deposits. The injunction on the Bank was serv bo ' Albany and New Y or k on the same day (gondaY) id owing to the absen c e o f Mr. Starr, who had Viloetin. Jamestown, the injunction was not served at puii. til Wednesday—two days afterwarde. tha t tho The Buffalo paper contr a di c ts all the rumours t ,„. Chatauque County Bank had suspended • 3 1 'd ' RoCIIC' i cheater Democrat denies the story that the 13 ,4 City Bank had stopped. The Democrat says th e s old is doing its accustomed business, and i 3 In t‘ f condition. arts ° There is more demand for Exchange on some P the South to-day, but the rate has not changed' 40 .45 Y ., There is a good deal doing in sterling bills ' poi at 109. to 1091-, and the Banks draw at 110. On, , p o the rate is 525, and bills abundant. At these rat es more specie will go. deor btr The weather is so stormy to-da tl at all out -37 I siness is suspended. *- a I, ' 1 15 The Great Western will take a large amount to-morrow. the iter LAW IN TEL LIGE S C __....____. , D AYY CHANCERY COURT.—(THI° -- of NEILSON V. lIARFORD. ~ r e"- This case came before the Court upon motion "" vice an injunction which had been granted by t he c o tter/ Chancellor of England, but dissolved by L ord ant AO ham, for the purpos e of res t ra i n i ng the defendaloioift infringing a patent that had been granted to the P h , 111 5 The patent in question had been taken out on ! 0 - in 0 of September, 1828, and it would therefore eqt r o jar few months. The nature of the patent was f °r t diseo provement in the smelting of iron, and the gre l ! ff 0 5 very that had been made by the Plain° i° O da applying air that was used in blast furnse i e e s l eo" heated state. Before this discovery ties it l of smelting iron had been to put Y„ ‘l ptrov,t 4 c and fuel into the melting furnace, and theull to " blast, to blow cold air into the furnace. At ih f lg ir 0 ,e i r sl ' 36 was the general opinion of the manufacturers o • r o ci e*" . cold air was preferable to hot. Mr. Neilson hi l lit f o rit' covered the rise of the hot blast, obtained a rteable 01i the invention had turned out to be a most inv il ' i ; eat, h ;t, and a great number of manufacturers had ta ice- r ed ceases fur using it. It having been disco ° bill 1 the defendant was infringing the patent, 4 od e ; filed in December, 1840, and an application W6s ft to i" the Vice• Chancellor of Engl a nd, for an injuncti inju i3V strain the infringement. Th e C our t g ranted t r i c e i c o tte r tion. Upon an appeal being brought before Lo d the n in ; ham against that decision, his Lordship ordor e der taltr? l junction to be dissolved, upon the defendant to n 00,4 to keep an account, and the plaintiff bringinV o dial, at law to try the validity of the patent- 'which '',.c an action was brought against the defendant, veal ' 1 dA tried in the Court of Exchequer, and a iss ° given in favour of the plaintiff in all the niateritabiish In this state of things, the plaintiff having es no . 1 1 the validity of his patent in a Court of Law , :ion, lilt plied to the Court for the renewal of the injun ti e ",,phtn The Solicitor-General, Mr. Bothell, Mr•,`"' h : Attl r ; and Mr. Butt appeared for the plaintiff, and " aie "- 1 ney-General and Mr. Richards were Counsel I br ' fondant. re P "'' The arguments on behalf of the defendant 'cc ceeding when we went to press. irl A. 11 1) 1, ROLL'S COURT—(THIS x-- - 0 0 ° ' The Master of the Rolls was occupied 0 the of littler! in hearing consent petitions and short cause' ' ' general interest. et 4 BARTON V. WIIITEHOUSE. 0 $ This was a suit' to administer the estate of tht.oolll George Barton, who by his will, of which the de li d pe o ti: was the surviving executor, devised all his ro nt : fl eio . , n ' j sonal estates to trustees on trust, subject to an 8- ,,,c15,'",.,. 2401. to his widow, to receive the rents and Prt' e ` - „er ' ° :l employ so much of them as they should think POr 0 1 the maintenance and education of his four chit re they should have attained the age of twenty . ° lle t o thl and then to stand possessed of the same, subjee, , it bou said annuity, for the benefit of his four children 0, 8 1 .000' naming them) their heirs, executors, adminisi 00' and assigns. The testator died, leaving fo il !, 01 : dren, and his widow having died also, 'B a ste' now prayed that it might be referr e d to the ijdr e , A 4 to inquire whether the plaintiffs wer e the c";11' referred to in the will of the testator ; wh e th e r it :03e 5 be proper for the surviving executor to renew the • w er° of some leasehold estates, the terms of whie b ralii nearly expired ; and that the estate might be ben administered. i iet I°' The MASTER of the ROLLS directed a prelio -a quiry, respecting the children of the testator. DAY V. CROFT. r ejec ttlie k ° In this suit it was prayed that an action °. d - pro°, -5 ' might be continued against a tenant nai ne b y the fi t "; who was in possession of a farm let to hi ni „ o fithl ta ,iso tator, and which he refused to deliver up, ti l t ; an`;.,,ja ing that he had received proper notice to q a 3l aster 0., ro, praying that it might be referred to th e tft ke 50 Y„ P t of quire whether it would be expedient t 0 ; - b e alOchea ceedings against the tenant for recovering, "t„,stator,, rug a valuation agreed upon between him at t ' t of ' c' Xiag he entered upon the farm; and also the apt hie hol,'l rent that had become due, in consequence ol• ' oven—Order granted. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THI S _ u r..r. DNA7.) (Before the VICE-CmicEott Of ILsal" - OAKES V. HARVEY AND ORDllO°Ptu.. to c g Mr. RICHARDS applied to dissolve an 0 17 ...stra w - 0 Lion granted by the Court in January, 1831 ' the defendants from negotiating three bills of e 5 . - 000 10 for the sum of 1,2501. each, drawn by resentlalie favour of John Whittle Harvey. Th e p _ h a pi to Lion was made on behalf of the defendant Grit:lll'N' whose possession one of the bills had come. f leg ; It appeared that Mr. Harvey had set up a 13611-.llyoon,„' g h e o n ri t i le in ma th n e r y e e si a d r in l g B3 in l rta a l n y d , atthethpelatiinnateiff, ,apOpaiteeds't-ofiisoooii the month of September of that year for a loan ! r ots ')( Harvey gave him a draft for that sum on t' i n eon receiving, in compensation, three bills of Esela . tu" 1,2501. each; payable after five years' date, bereitor amount of the bill, and of a bonus upon it of 5 001 w oit tal terest upon the entire sum. It was alleged, however, bank of Harvey was not a bona fide co ncern. Sep hsP ; for 2,5001. was made payable at Rolfe's, in Le_ A ti to , street ; but it was found, when it was atten 3 P t n pie the bill cashed, that there was then no firm of to7 tic y,' Rolfe having previously absconded. The dr - 0P Grimwood, for whom this application was tnau e ; coach-builder and a horse-dealer in Italy. Somm e actions had taken place between him and Ilar l f e fo l'oo<' whom he had deposited certain bills and sums °" - bio) to the amount of 8501., and who was indebted to 1 85 1 ' the price of a coach. Towards the end of the fe i a r bo il Grimwood heard that Harvey, who was thus ind,i sob; him, was fitting up a yacht, and that he was suPPn.ft ° ' upon the point of effecting his escape on board of i ! ,3 oat' Leghorn with any property he might possess. ° se M o D , therefore to claim the money due to him froto who invited him on board the yacht, where 11 b 7she: should be paid. Grimwood refused to go, , 11I ntiof h ;' received one of the bills of exchange accepted PI :•P't fendant Oakes, in payment of the sum due to bilf o rl l° reason assigned by the applicant in his afficia/ having sooner moved that the injunction show or JV solved was, that he had been in Italy since the Y e ,tir until the month of September last. faciltoirsylith the th e p e r • t the P had originally been granted. In that bou t g iving ohxaonun the a u i dffitdhaayti to o u t p h o tg w e °build be more . 11ri n Wol li tiff merely stated that lie believed, with" t ci til ti+ ground for that belief, that GrimwooLl had act e d 00 ,9 ,4 fusion with Harvey. The affidavit of Orin3"l°,ll, on the other hand, that he had come fai rl : / to t a ", exchange ;I. and in the absence of any e 0 7, 0 contrary, his Honour was bound to credit lt• b u hl therefore, of opinion that the injunction 5 ° dissolved. DA Y.) QUEEN'S BENCH.-07 14 - 0, ~I~ga• IV PRICE AND OTHERS V. SEWARD 1 .1 01 .,1, - rf ote% to (tswaitnhdlivmhpoomrtewrsasofMtra:,..T ..- A , s co.t ''„ e „a extensivec case. T T u h m e Es e i p r G e la E h i ß a n n tiffs, Sir Charles Pri le a n ' nt ioe , " - ho ture - ii ,l t o i other matters, carrying on business at poplar , i ; Cav e , defendants were steam•engine•manufactur Os a t ~3 oT o f Iron Works, near Mill-wall, and the quc. .' tion 'rboe"be ther a piece of ground in the immediate ue4, rtli/° t ! o yed t ot , the plaintiffs' premises, and which they had nt ,li; or f 1,9 •4 use of for nearly 30 years, was a public i s ITjge c ;"o l In 1801, the Corporation of London ma,rie 'by Loe P - 0 1 to the Isle of Dogs, and they having pure.hase d , TO: i 0 than was necessary for the purpose of tLie .- 1,, .0 ';iot , canal, which was called the City Canal, they, s q ues'ot portions to different Cottres, and the ground in li s a i ple was sold to Price and ln 1812 an Act of Pal t he yi e was passed to make a road, called the Ferry- road,i°,.. . 1 i be of Dogs, and in that Act power was given to Sr; '-' :0 ~,, to stop up the public pathway which went a or ° (1 0 ,0 ground they had purchased ; but they did ju it. i e, Po. Now it would be shown that from 1812 the plaii t 1 '.. 0 tk;,. constantly used that piece of ground for deposit! PfriKft barrels of tar and turpentine upon, still leaving I,iat i o way down to the Mill-wall. The right of the Editil, was never disputed till July, 1840, when the del !, w ll° . o came with a large body of nearly two hundred me L :,, es er, o a scuffle took place, and the plaintiffs, in order to I ', 0 0_, 1 .+ween neighbours until the right of the . :pro h m a r t t oL,l:aslev, barrelssuna cirwtetaeedtre.edplititawe n a ct :, Lis : Ll : l c.ra l v, ;_ l;, licreu that 1 . 1 :' t ill d scr le peace p i t ' i wY m t ): 3 , P d Ly e e w a I:di'aoediulfet,dnawdinbenadeenbbntstsh-h' the-otl.itv atbh distinctly a e r y re t Is ao _. i 1 1 (, a,:erwrecid , a a: 5 . ,. : i; s o il itilt)r, The pia miffs admit.ttield ), i4447o:fetdfo,e ni a nd n ta d enr b tese e contendedrteows: show t 1 1 that a theyt itv IT °hut; tha t. on,,:thet), , €O I P ' Am* that the ground in question was li W u t h e thep 9 1 a i u n b t l ef fs , oai: b"i,_r::06534: ' s' 13 1.%