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Thermometer...3s 1 Highest 36 1 Lowest Barometer 20.48.—Wind S.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. - - HIGH wATEn AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M rning 13 minutes after 3. I Evening .... 37 minutes after 5. LONDON : FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1841. One of the reasons on which the Pro-Corn-law men resist the abi , iition of the Corn-law is, that it would lower wages. If we are to believe t h e Herald, Standard, and Post, there never was in the world such a feeling and humane race as the landlords. Their whole souls are filled with an enthusiastic desire to protect the labour ers from the g rindin g t y ra nny of the cott on regardless of unp opu l arity —regard lords, and, less of the abus e of a bold a n d w i cked press— they uphold t h e Corn-laws to keep up th e wages of spinners and w eavers. The mi lbowners, it is said, only insist on demanding the rep ea l o f the Corn-laws to beat down the wages of th e i r workmen, which the kind-hearted landlords will on no account allow . The Tory press is unani mous' in describing the mill-owners as grinding tyrants, whose sole it is to beat down object wages, and, for the sake of their own workmen, the disinterested and humane l an dlords maintain the Corn-laws. The master manufacturers, the Anti-Corn -law law Press, League, and the Anti-Corn- are by no means behind their opponents in vilifying the landowners and their pseudo humanity. They do not pretend, indeed, to care much for the icp• eal of the la bourers, though they state that the Corn-laws would greatly benefit them • , they avow that their object in asking for the repeal (and a leoitimate one it is), is to enlarge their own trade and incr e a s e their own profits. At the same time they accuse the landlords of be ing actuated by the most sordid motives, of wishin g to keep the labourers in poverty and dependence, of being resolute to deteriorate their condition —as witnes the conduct of his Grace of RUTLAN D in the Grantham Union, of being wholly unmoved by the most severe distress, and of actually starving the people to death for the gratification of avarice, both parties ac cusing each other of grinding down the labour ers; the only difference between them is, that the manufacturer s do not pretend to study the interest of the labourers, while the landlords as sert that their sole object is to increase the sum of employment and benefit the working classes. Without saying, at present, whether the master manufacturers or the landlords are most justly accused of grinding down the labourers--though we may remark, that the landlords are guaran teed in possession of the soil to protect the com munity, while on the manufacturers no exclu sive privileges are conferred, but they are left to struggle like all other men for what they can get,—without pretending to decide between the accusations of these rivals in gathering wealth, the fact unhappily, most unhappily, is, that the wages of the labouring classes are in many cases reduced to the very lowest pittance which can support existence, and their food is of the most common and `scanty description. Thousands of the people are living on 9- 4 . a day each, and if we could penetrate into the cabins of Ireland, we should probably there find that many thou sands have not so much. Day after day do we read accounts of mothers studying how they shall lay out a penny to most advantage for a family, for a single penny is all that they have to buy a meal with. Whose especial fault is it that the population of this great country, abounding in all the ele ments of prosperity and wealth, are in this con dition, we do not now say. We content our selves with reminding our readers that the le• gislative power has, for a long period, been al most wholly in the hands of the landlords and the clergy, and that they are chiefly responsible for this sorry condition of the labouring classes. If they allege, retreating behind a false theory, that they cannot help extreme poverty, that it is the consequence of a too rapid increase in po pulation, and a too slow increase of subsistence, and that things have been so ordained by Divine Providence, the retort is, that, by undertaking to rule and govern society, interfering with every part of it, particularly with its subsist ence, they virtually undertake to shield the people from poverty and misery ; and must, there fore, be either most contemptible charlatans or most guilty law-makers, whenever poverty and misery exist. It is their duty, in order to pro vide for the security of property and the safety of individuals, to take care that the bulk of the people be well and sufficiently fed. When men are exposed to severe hunger, as happens in cases of shipwreck, they are known to turn cannibals,—the stronger kill the weaker, or they cast lots who shall die, and they drink their comrades' blood, and feed on their quiver ing limbs. An approximation to that most hor rible and appalling condition is brought about in every society by deficiency of food. Against ex treme poverty and hunger, neither life nor pro perty can be safe, and the surest way to render both insecure, and make a people retrograde from civilisation into barbarism, is to approxi mate them to the condition of mariners forced by hunger to become cannibals. Without insisting on this extreme case, which the wisdom of those who devised humane poor laws endeavoured to make impossible, though now, we are afraid, very far from being so, let us place before our readers some of the disadvan tages to the whole community of that low rate of wages which at present prevails in many em ployments, and which the landlords and the 1n:11-owners accuse 'each other of causing, and of desiring to cause. " If the condition of the labourer," says Mr. M'CULLOCTI, in his "Essay on the Circumstances which Determine the Rate of Wages,*" be de pressed— " The prosperity of the other classes can rest on no solid or secure foundation. The labourers always form the great bulk of the society ; and wherever their wages are re duced to the lowest limits, they must, of necessity, lire on the coarsest and scantiest fare. Men placed under such circumstances are without any sufficient motive to be industrious, and, instead of activity and enterprise, we have sloth, barbarism, and ignorance. The example of such individuals, or bodies of individuals, as submit quietly to have their wages reduced, and who are content if they get only the mere necessaries of life, ought never to be held up for public imitation. On the contrary, every thing should be done to make such apathy be es teemed disgraceful. The essential interests of society require that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible—that a taste for the comforts, luxuries, and enjoyments of human life, should be widely diffused, and, if possible, interwoven with the national habits and pre judices. A low rate of wages, by rendering it impossible for increased exertions to obtain any considerable increase of comforts and enjoyments, effectually hinders any such exertions from ever being made, and is, of all others, the most powerful cause of that idleness and apathy that contents itself with what can barely continue animal existence. __________ " The state of the peasantry of Ireland furnishes a striking example of the disastrous effects resulting from the denressed_e.2n4;tian: - U t ua l ges is *there determined by the lowest possible standard. Having no taste for conveniences or luxuries, the labourers of Ireland are satisfied if they obtain a sufficient supply of potatoes. But as the potato is raised at less expense than any other species of food hitherto cultivated ix Europe, and as the wages of labour must, in a country where it forms nearly the sole subsistence of the labourers, be chiefly determined - by the cost of its production, it is easy to see that they must be reduced to a state of extreme, and almost irremediable distress, whenever the root happens to be deficient. When the standard of natural or neces sary wages is high—when wheat and beef, for example, form the principal part of the food of the labourer, and porter and beer the principal part of his drink—he can bear to retrench in a period of scarcity. Such a man has room to fall ; he can resort to a cheaper species of food—to barley, oats, rice, and potatoes. But he who is habitually and constantly fed on the very cheapest spe cies of food, has plainly nothing to resort to when de prived of it. Labourers placed in this situation are ab solutely cut off from every resource. You may take from an Englishman, but you cannot take from an Irishman. The latter is already so low, he can fall no lower : He is placed on the very verge of existence : His wages, being regulated by the price of potatoes, will not buy him wheat, or barley, or oats ; whenever, therefore, the supply of potatoes fails, it is next to impossible he can escape falling a sacrifice to famine !" To the condition when nothing can be taken from an Englishman who lives on 2d. a day, our people are rapidly sinking. Whatever may be the cause, it is the duty of the Legislature to remove it, lest the peace of society and the se curity of property be seriously compromised. To show to what extent other classes are in terested in the well-being of labourers, now re duced to live on the scantiest portion of the worst fare, we will quote two other passages from the same Essay, and leave them to make their own impression on the reader : " It is of equal importance to the peace and good order of society, as to the comfort and happiness of indviduals, that the standard of natural wages should be maintained at as high an elevation as possible. The higher the notions the labouring classes entertain of what is neces sary for their comfortable subsistence, and the greater the number of their artificial wants, the more secure is their condition. When a revulsion takes place in any of the great departments of industry, or when the crops fail, the labourer who has been in the enjoyment of a con siderable amount of luxuries, can, by parting with them, still obtain a sufficient supply of necessaries. But he who is divested of all artificial wants, who is never seen in an alehouse nor a tobacconist's, who cares neither for comfortable clothes nor comfortable lodging, and who is satisfied if he has as many potatoes as will enable him to subsist and continue his race, can make no retrench ment. Such a man cannot part with what is convenient to obtain what is necessary. His subsistence having been reduced to a minimum, famine must unavoidably fol loweitizebn any reduction of its quantity. But if such must be the fate of those who are placed so very near the verge of existence, what must be the fate of the richer class of Lord B as,ppifentshetrebe any such amongst them, when the crop be deficient ? It is a just observation of dreadful a c j it aeon, l tilt 6 Of all rebellions those of the belly are peaceable, and to eu r ina such t.' possible for human beings, placed under be supposed, ci r cumstances to be quiet, orderly, and that esect the rights of others ? Is it to mit to be starvedthose who have no property will sub on that of others ?W i thout .ti previously attempting to seize be respected idle r to suppose that the right of property should ever incompetent to al ; themselves utterly destitute of fspected by those who are property, and whose persons will te e rather disposed to them the means of acquiring are totally it. such Pt e secure the interests regard it as a bulwark, thrown u oeniotributing of a few favourites of fortune, than countries only mass i of essen tially to the public welfare. It is in those where labour is well rewarded, and the people are placed in a situation to accumula e te i N n vea th, that they acquire a stake in the hedge, and are, con sequence, made to feel a direct perso na l i nterest in the support of all those great fund amental principles essen tial to the existence of society, which they otherwise regard either with indifference or aversion, and which the slightest provocation is sufficient to induce them to attack." " Nothing, therefore, we repeat it again, can be so sig nally disadvantageous, so overwhelmingly disastrous to any people, as a permenent depression in the rate of wines, or a decline in th e o p inions of the labourin g class, respecting what is necessary for their comfortable and decent subsistence. No country can be flourishing where the rate of real wages is low ; and none can be long depressed where that rate is high. The labourers are the sinews of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce. Their numbers are not estimated like those of the other classes, by hundreds, by thousands , or even by hundreds of thousands, but by millions ! It is by their labour that our machinery is constructed and kept in motion ; and it is by their industry and ingenuity that we are enabled easily to support burdens that could hardly be supported by any, other people. Everything , then, that ma y h ave t h e slightest tendency ,to depress their condition, or to sink them in the scale of society, * Published at Edinburgh, 1826. THE SUN, LON ought to be most particularly guarded against. Those who feed and clothe all the rest, ought themselves to be well fed and well clothed. They are the foundation of the social pyramid ; and so long as the standard of natu ral or necessary wages continue high, this foundation will be solid and secure ; for, so long will the labourers be industrious and orderly. But if this standard be per manently reduced, if the labourers be once brought to place their principal dependence on the cheapest food, and to rest satisfied with mere necessaries, the want of sufficient motives to exertion will infallibly render them idle and dissipated. The spirit of industry, by which they are now so eminently distinguished, will evaporate; and with it the morals, prosperity, and tranquillity of Britain 1" We are reminded by a Correspondent, whose significant signature " No Jobber," suggests a host of unpleasant suspicions as to the motives of those who are so eager to get our population transported to the colonies at the public ex pense, of the great sums of money which Colonel GAWLER and other Governors of South Australia have expended in that colony. Its fictitious prosperity has been supported by drafts on the Exchequer. The other model colony, on the WAKEFIELD principle, which a Company has begun in New Zealand, has been too short a time established to enable us to form an opinion of its results. To the New Zealand Company, indeed, which a few days ago declared a dividend of ten per cent., it seems eminently profitable ; and when such large interest can be made on capital invested in London, by selling land in the Southern Ocean, we cannot be sur prised that there should be a great multitude of persons ready to recommend emigration. It is certainly suspicious, however, that few or none of the advocates of emigration try it themselves; they prefer reaping the harvest at home tolireak mg up the ground at the antipodes. Our Cor respondent, who writes from the City, and who knows, we presume, something of the jobbers in that quarter, has made us look on the emigration scheme in a worse light than before. We should like its advocates to inform us what classes are to be transported. The present system is intended to give a stimulus to agricul ture at home, the Legislature must expect it probably to want all the hands now engaged in it, and few of the agricultural population can be spared. The population which must be sent abroad to relieve distress are the manufacturing artisans, whom the landlords will not allow to have work and food at home. What spinners and hand-loom weavers can do in agricultural colonies we are not aware ; and we should con sider it the height of cruelty to send such men to grub for a living to the untenanted wilderness. Let us also observe that the condition of Ca nada may serve to typify the condition of most of the colonies which may now be formed by England. There the dissensions between dif ferent parties are notorious ; the quarrel between the aristocracy and democracy led to a rebellion in Upper Canada, and now con tinually threatens its peace. So, or worse; will it be with every colony now esta blished by England. It will carry with it the seeds of a contest, which, sooner or later, will involve it in confusion. Those who, however, go to the United States, become absorbed in its po pulation ; they must conform to democratic usages : and dissensions would be avoided, while the public funds would be spared, by giving us free trade, and allowing the stream of emigration to set in strongly, if the people were that way inclined, to the United States. Instead of ex tending enmities and multiplying points of col lision, as would be the case with emigration to Canada, emigration to the United States would extend our friendships, and multiply the bonds of amity and peace. as. The Morning Post says : " Instead of attempting to show how the Corn-law is injurious to the interests of the productive industry of the people, the bold bad writers against the law as sume and assert that it is a wicked and tyrannous law, and come to the conclusion that it is a law which ought not to be obeyed, but resisted I Such opposition to the law as this ought to be punished." The impudence and arrogance of this para graph are on a par. If one point has been better proved than another by facts and theo ries—by arguments repeated to satiety—it is that the Corn-law is injurious to he ,r ,, - ___...... - ..a,.."..7‘5 . y tix ULU - people. It blows out the furnace in wales; it arrests the motion of the shuttle in Manchester ; it stops the hammer at Sheffield; it keeps ships rotting at anchor at Liverpool ; and while it thus puts an end to a whole multitude of occupations, it actually starves those who are engaged in them. Such facts have been proved, over and over again, years ago ; but the Post, not having entered into the controversy till the case against the landed aristocracy had been made overwhelming, and being ignorant of all that had previously been done, assumes that its own ignorance is common to all the community. To arguments its patrons have replied by asserting that they " will have it so ;" facts they answer by threats; and now those who show that their mo tives are as sordid and base as the results of their conduct are mischievous, ought, it is said, to be punished. The Tories are sustained in power only by terror; they are the authors and patrons of penalties and punishments, and no man can be surprised that they are ready to have recourse to them to bolster up their falling cause. We anticipated, in The Sun of yesterday, the reports of the trial of QUENISSET, in the Paris Journals of Tuesday. Other news they contain none of much interest, save that the impression gains ground that Louis PHILIPPE seriously meditates the overthrow of the Spanish Govern ment. In this nefarious design his MAJESTY, to the disgrace of the British press, is encouraged to the utmost by that tool of Royalty the Morning Post. It is, however, some conso lation to the people of England to know that the Post stands alone as the abettor of the trea sonable designs of the King of the FRENCH. None of the leading organs of Toryism espouse the side of the Post. Neither the Times nor the Herald can be brought to mount the tricolor in a crusade against the liberties of Spain. We in vite attention to the gross insult offered to the Spanish Government and nation in the following extract from the Post's first leading article of this morning : Let us suppose that the time-honoured Earl, who pre sides over a certain scientific society should, under the influence of some new theory of animal government, throw down the barriers which confine the tenants of the Zoological Gardens, and leave it to the rhinoceros to keep in order his companions the bears and monkeys ? Under such circumstances would anybody be astonished if a certain Noble Marquis, the nearest neighbour, should send back their old keepers to control the beasts in their saturnalia, and draw up a cordon protecteur of armed servants to keep the danger at bay—shrewdly opining that if the gifted Earl lived in the Regent's Park instead of at Knowsley, he would have post poned the experiment. This suppositious apologue, however homely, exem plifies what Lord Palmerston much more elaborately effected in Spain when he severed the last link of established hereditary Government, and let loose upon society the desperadoes of every extreme opinion to be guided by the brute force of Espartero—and no less truly illustrates the measures which Louis Philippe had recourse to in his owu defenee. And still the latter is the course which has so violently moved the wrath of our Radical Contemporary who has vented his spite in accusations of family ambition on the part of Louis Philippe. We really know not which most to be sur prised at, the falsehood or the insolence of this illustration. But if the name Louis PHILIPPE be inserted in the place of the word of ESPAR TERO it will be passably correct. Had ESPAR TERO received CHARLES X., flying from the ven geance of the French people, with open arms, and provided for him apartments in the Palace of the Escurial—had lie allowed the Royal exile to hold a Court there of Carlist refugees to plot the downfal of the Government of July—had he supplied the lead er o f a b ody of French i nsurgen t s with 40,0001., and arms and stores, to raise the standard of revolt at Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and Toulouse —and had he, in the event of the failure of this infamous scheme, marched 50,000 men to the French frontier to establish a cordon sani taire preparatory to an invasion of France, then, indeed, what the Post calls a " supposititious apologue," would not be ill applied to him. But to whom does it really apply ? Have we not suf- DON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER l9, 1841. ficiently indicated ? Hear what the Tory Herald says in its first leader upon the subject : For ten years Europe believed the King of the French to be a profound and benevolent statesman; a conviction is now rapidly, though unwillingly, spreading that he is only a cunning and a selfish politician. The laurels which he won in preserving peace whilst his subjects were bellowing for war his Spanish intrigues are rapidly rotting from his brow. The line of conduct lately pursued by Louis Philippe towards Spain is as disastrous towards his own power as it is to a good understanding between France and Eng land—if not to the peace of Europe. The present im mersion of the French Court in Spanish intrigues — hateful to the people of the Peninsula—in dynastic po licy and in family compacts, finds little response in the feelings of the French nation ; and if on the approach ing meeting of the French Chambers M. Guizot is ob liged to bend before the wrath of French Liberalism, the whirlwind will have been unloosened by his Monarch. But after all, the condemnation of the CITIZEN KING might have been left to the blundering writer in the Post. Take another extract : And first we will ask why was Christina driven from Spain, and her two children—girls, at the age most need ing maternal protection, given in pledge to her enemies— made over as passive political instruments to such gentle governesses as the " divine Arguelles," and the still more sublime Espartero—to be taught, perhaps, that to despise and hate a mother is the first study of those whose duty is to represent God's power on earth ? Was Christina banished because she deluged Spain with blood by abusing her power over her bigot husband in his dotage—when, at the approach of his last agonies, she procured the vain sentence of abro gation of a fundamental law of the kingdom ? Or was it because she degraded the hallowed precincts of • the Escurial by making " the funeral bake-meats serve forth the orgies of a degrading union ?" No ! our Contemporaries apparently cordially approved these abominations, and the price of their com placency was radical concessions in the consti tution of the Government, which the degraded Queen conceded freely, in her first absorption by her unhallowed passions. But, as in the monkish chronicles, we are told that he who sells his soul for a temporary vantage to the evil one, will, at no distant day, have both body and soul, and even life, claimed as the penalty of unhallowed good fortune-.'-so did Christina find that her unnatural allies ultimately claimed from her the whole of that power by which she could effectually uphold the infant Queen and her kingdom. In a word, it was after flying from Madrid to the coast, and there refusing the last concession, one which would have placed her at the mercy of each desperate party as it triumphed in its turn, that Christina was torn from her children, and forced to embark for another land. What enormity was it; then, that Louis Philippe should give her an asylum ? How could he fail to reprobate, with his utmost energy, a state of things in Spain, which, if imitated in France, might bring him from the throne to the block ; and, feeling thus, how could lie otherwise than give fair chance of success to those who, in the name of Christina, would restore the last semblance of constituted authority and of legitimate power in the Bourbonic name ? So then, because the Spaniards rid their coun try of a woman whom the Post represents as a monster of depravity, they are to be denounced as objects of regal distrust and abhorrence ! But then what becomes of the morality of the King of the FRENCH, who took to his bosom and con fidence, a woman so notoriously infamous ? Could Europe regard as other than an enemy of morals and social order the Prince who would not scruple to replace such a woman at the Lead of the Government of a nation, whom the Post tells us she scandalized by the flagitiousness of her crimes? The Post asks why she was not banished for her first and most flagrant offences? The Post is an indiscreet organ of the aristocracy, or it would never ask such a question, even by implication. Were the people to assume the right ofbanishing Sovereigns for theirprivate vices, GEORGE IV. would never have reigned in Eng land, Louts XVIII. would never have reigned in France, nor would FERDINAND VII. have figured as the crowned dupe of MARIA CHRISTINA. So long as the Ex-Regent's crimes were of a pri vate nature the nation tolerated them ; but when she turned the Palace into a Royal brothel —when her bastard offspring crowded the apart ments of the Infant Sovereign—and when it was discovered that she had formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution purchased by the blood of Spaniards, then, and not till then, did the Spanish people compel her to descend from a station which she dis graced, and to relinquish a power which she abused. And this is the woman whom the Post lauds Louis PIIILIPPE for attempting, by " des picable intrigues and marriage huxterings," as the Herald well phrases it, to replace at the head of the Spanish Government! Alas! poor, blind, misguiding Post 1 „ v - ...vat wig,” 1.--nea sant, Captain Burton, from Sunderland for Rouen, was driven ashore off Havre, at the Point des Neiges, on Sunday night, and" totally wrecked. A boy was lost, but the rest of the crew remained in the rigging till the morning, when a boat put off and fetched them, five in number, ashore. One was so much injured that he died soon after. During the storm on the same night, as a Correspondent of Calais informs us, a French brig, from Cronstadt to Nantes, with a cargo of hides and tallow, was wrecked to the north-east of Calais, and every soul on board p er i s h e d. " The conferences," says the Ministerial evening journal, " have been resumed at the Ministry of Foreign affairs between the French Commissioners and the Bel gian Commissioners. The French Government has ap pointed as its Commissioners the Baron Deffaudis, Mi nister Plenipotentiary, formerly Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and M. Magnier de Maisonneuve, Councillor of State, Member of the Chamber of De puties, and Director at the Ministry of Commerce. The Belgian Government is represented by Count Lehon, its Minister Plenipotentiary. The different statements on this subject which have been given by several journals are incorrect." The Gazette de France publishes the following extra vagant assertion :—" We can affirm that Admiral Stop ford declared while at Malta that if the French fleet had been stationed on the coast of Syria he should have been obliged to abstain entirely from taking an active part, as he was not authorised to fire a single shot in the pre sence of the French ships. ' They make me,' added he, a second Nelson ; they talk in the papers of giving me the title of Duke of St. Jean d'Acre ; but all my glory comes from the retreat of the French fleet.' " Such a tissue of absurdity has rarely appeared, even in the Gazette. The Arnhemsche Courant gives the following, as the principal points of the Constitution intended for the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. " There is," says this Journal, " to be a Chamber of Deputies elected by per sons duly qualified, but the sittings are not to be public. The members are to be repaid their travelling expenses from their homes, according to the distance. The Ses sions are to be opened by the King Grand Duke, and are to last a fortnight. The King is to have the power of dissolving the Chamber, and convening a new one, and may be represented for the Duchy by a delegate, to be chosen from the Royal Family, and who is to reside in Luxemburg." An immense quantity of Roman coins have just been found at Rennes, where some excavations are making in the bed of the river for new quays. One hole that was made produced upwards of a bushel of copper coins. There are many of the reign of Tiberius. M. de Briqueville has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Cherbourg. lie had 275 votes, and the Ministerial candidate, M. Quenault, 246. The Bishop of Beatvais, whose death we have an nounced, was the Abbe Colbret, formerly editor of the Gazette de France. A letter from Brignolles, in the Semaphore of Mar seilles, mentions an accident, which might have been fatal to a magistrate in that part of the country, not long since. Ho was going in a cabriolet to Artignocs, and had to pass over a bridge, which was only 10 feet wido without parapets, and was thrown over a ravine nearly 30 feet deep, with a torrent, at the bottom. His horse shyed at the glittering of some water while going over the bridge, and fell with the cabriolet and his master into the stream below. The animal was killed on the spot, but the gentleman contrived to get out of the water, and to hold on by so me rocks. Fortunately, another person, wh o was c oming along the same road, heard the noise of the fall, became aware of the accident, and, having summoned tho neighbouring peasants, suc ceeded in rescuing the magistrate from his dangerous position. The Augsburg Gazette still endeavours to alarm France respecting the health of Henry of Bourbon, and the frequenters of the Palace every where repeat this pre tended news. We know in the most positive manner that the Prince has not met with any accident, and the repose to which he is condemned is only a measure of prudence. Two armies aro marching to the North and to the South, to overturn or to protect the two revolutions which have been produced by ours. Leopold will be aided by our troops ; P —sPartero will be threatened. It seems that the warlike impulse is given this time by the Napoleon of Peace. The dread of a republic on one hand, and the desire of obtaining for the Duke of Aumale the three hundred millions of Christina on the other, are the two movin g powers of the policy of the moment.—Guzette de France. We have the following letter from Toulon of the 11 th November : " For some days Past there is a degree of activity in our road, whi c h under the present circumstances sur prises us. . " We have a nnounced the sudden departure o f severa l vessels, two:of them ships of the line. Yesterday the Medea frigate also left the port, and it is said that the Trident and Marengo of the line have received orders to prepare to put to sea. The Marengo has landed its 36-pounders, in order to be able to take more men on board, which clearly shows that it is going to receive troops, but it is only to Africa that it can go to fetch them. It is then intended to reduce our army of occupation, in order to increase the army of observation, which is to be formed on the frontiers of th e P yrenees? P.S. We are thi s moment informe d that the Diademe of the line, Capt a i n T ronde, an d th e Andromede and Minerve, which are under quarantine, have just received orders to be ready to put to sea. AU th© resources of , ,'': ..etf" '' ..-, • .p. '...' "e'r ; (-- 4g-4----'-)`, 1.--..* ‘ - ' 6 '"- - "k ~ ;.- 4 0..,'..' • ' ......, .. , , • - ~,,. , „.‘,.. r _..-n.,, , ,, Ai, 11111&,' , • ..„...... i 1 ' - ,- 1,1 0-- ..-' • ' ,-- 6 . den''' . ••111311137- ;11.'1.- ...„- St.. '',,;.,,-... - et!',„,.-7,,,;,-:.-e-.L.77.-- ~ F t.:,. -.,,:., „.,,,,... -,5.p -7... • ~,,, ,qtg ~§Aut, the port are placed at the disposal of these three ships, which are in great haste.—Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 16. First Highest Lowest Lest Price Price. Price.. Prier. Freud 5 per ..... . 116 35 ... 116 35 ... 116 25 ... 110 30 4 per Cents lOl ... 101 ... 101 ... 101 3 per Cents... Bank of France .. . ..« 1370 ....:3375 ...3370 —3375 White nank.l.oot. Sares 1040 ...IC4O ...1037 50 ...1037 50 5,000 f. Shares 5080 ...5080 —.5080 ...5080 Selean flank,lB4l ..... '767 50 ... 767 50 ... '767 50 ... 767 50 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% ipanish Active ......... 1'214 22 2 1 % 2% Passive 4% ... ... ... Neapolitan lO6 55 ..1.56 55 10, 55 ... IC6 55 Roman, ex. 41v 102% 1(3% ... 102% ... 10354 RAILWAY SHARES. _ _ _ _ _ St. Germain' 745 I ... 70 ... 74 : 50 ... 742 50 Vets/idles. 2t,0 sm. 200 ..• 20 0 •.• 200 it.'13•••••• ......... ••• 320 320 ... 317 50 ... 317 50 Orleans' • • 48/ 50 ... 482 50 ... 462 50 ... 48 50 9:raeburt to Bale,shares red. 23125 .. 231 25 ... 230 ... 230 DISTRESS IN LONDON, AND MORE PARTICULARLY Ilv SPITALFIE LDS. The distress which has recently afflicted several parts of the metropolis, and more especially the large and populous district of Spitalfields, is, we are concerned to learn, on the increase ; so much so, indeed, as to call generally for public sym pathy and relief. Deeply alive to the suffering of their fellow men, we understand that several Members in the City, who so generously assisted the poor and expatriated Poles, have now turned their atten tion to the necessities of their own countrymen, whose distress was not so apparent before. The City of London has long been famed for its liberality—but far more for its bene volence and charity—the hand-maids of virtue. Acting on this noble impulse, what can be more honourable to the Citizens of London than to take advantage of the present ornamental and attractive state of Guildhall, by giving a grand Metropolitan Ball in aid of the poor—the destitute—and it may be, the dying of starvation and want ? Sure we are that the Loan MAYOR, whose meritorious career has taught him to feel " for others' woe" (and relieve it too), will be happy, if appealed to by his fellow-citizens, to give his high sanction and countenance to so praiseworthy a manifestation of public feeling. The Court of Aldermen, too, will lend their power ful aid; and no one who knows the public spirit and kindness of the Sheriffs can doubt for a moment their cordial co-operation in so good a work. Alderman MAGNAY is esteemed by the poor in his own Ward; and we know that the liberality of Mr. Sheriff ROGERS is only surpassed by his modesty in bestowing it. Nor will the bankers and merchants of London be appealed to in vain when the minister of charity supplicates for their bounty. Of all nations in the world it is alone the boast of Englishmen that they never ask for the charity of strangers ; on the contrary, their generosity is ever ready to afford relief; their spontaneous liberality asks not his kindred or his nation, be he foreigner or otherwise—" He is a fellow-man, and his distress is a passport to our benevolence !" It has been so hitherto—and will always be so while Englishmen delight in freedom and virtue. Our SAVIOUR said, "Teed the poor;" and now the hand of kindness, which has been outstretched to thp stranger, is asked to come nearer " home !" The poor are famishing in the streets, or pining in their cheerless habitations ;—the superfluity of some, and the bounty of others, would relieve thousands whose very extremity of sufferance prevents their manly pride from asking for that assistance which their gratitude would weep in accepting 1 And these are the hearts whom Englishmen should relieve ! As the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, so is not our condition to-day an assurance for that of to-morrow. " The mercy we to others show. That, mercy show to should be the leading motive of the Christian. And where has that Divine principle been more generally acted on than in this great metropolis, where people of all opinions are even proud to sink worldly differences, and shake hands on the altar of benevolence ? This is the true exem plification of charity ; and it is in this Christian spirit we hope to witness it manifested for the re lief of those whom pinching hunger and the darkening inclemency of the season doom to misery and death. It were useless here to suggest any course of proceeding—a good cause needs no prompter but the heart. Great as is the distress in several parts of the metropolis, it is not beyond the power of mitigation, perhaps of relief, for " where there's a will there's a way," and the united energy of a few has often saved many. On this principle we think that stirring Commit tees in certain districts would, by their combined activity, do wonders, by stimulating their fellow men to go and do likewise. No man is too low to do good ; and no man, however exalted, should be above following a good example. The Press of London, always alive to the wants of the poor, will, we are confident, step forward with its powerful advocacy in the cause of suffer ing humanity. The lady of rank or wealth cannot sit comfortable in her silken attire, and reflect that the hand which fashioned her gor geous dress is pining in want, with a famishing family around crying for bread. No, no !—the very impulse of our nature prompts to kindness, and deeds of mercy !—the heart that feels opens the hand to relieve, and the con sciousness of good acts returns in after days, when our own privations may be soothed by the re flection that, when opportunity offered, we were not unmindful of those of others. What we have humbly but sincerely submitted to the good feeling of the metropolis, is equally applicable to other places throughout the country, where large communities are suffering. Lamentation is of no avail without endeavour ; people must work as well as pray; and the benefit eventu ally will be in proportion to the energy of the one, and the sincerity of the other. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The only Derby bets laid yesterday were 12 to 1 agst M. G. Clark's lot ; 100 to 1 agst colt out of Hatfield's dam ; and 500 even between Nessus and Ballinkeel. COURSING. FLEETWOOD MEETING, Nov. 16.—The Fleetwood Cup of 241. was won by Mr. Fisher's Fly, beating, in the course, Mr. Bourne's Beeswing. The Rossall Puppy Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Bourne's Holdfast, beating in the deciding course, Mr. Pattison's Primrose. The Burn Hall Puppy Stakes (4 dogs) were won by Mr. Simpson's Sligo, beating Mr. Kempt's Flora COCKERMOUTII, Nov. lo AND 11.—The Sweepstakes (12 dogs) were won by Mr. Bragg's Sweep, beating in the deciding course, Mr. Paisley's Neptune. CALDERBRIDGE, Nov. B.—The first Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Kimbley's Brush; the second Puppy Stakes, by Mr. Fo x ' s F ran k ; the first All, aged Stakes, by Sir Henry Jefferson's Mary; and the second All-aged Stakes, by Mr. 11. Jefferson's Midshipman. ANIMAL MAGNETISM .—Mr. W. H. Halse, of Brent, has, w e are i n f ormed, been astonishing the inhabitants of Devonport, by throwing persons into what he terms a magnetic sleep, and then making them to walk, speak, sing, and dance, and even eat and drink, whilst. in this sleep. We understand he has been invited to deliver a course of lectures on the subject in London, by a party of gentlemen, and intends starting for the metropolis in a few days. He professes to explain the principles of this science (if it may be so termed) on strictly phil oso phi ca l grounds ; if he succeeds in doing this, he will ac com pli s h w h at all others have failed in. — Somerset County Gazette. The Queen of England has sent to M. Dumont, Captain in the Austrian army, a splendid pair of pis tols, adorned with her cipher, as a testimony of her Ma jesty's approbation of the services he had rendered dur ing the Syrian campaign, as Aide-de-Camp to General Smith. SUVAMARY OF NEY4S AND Public Optiiton. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. The King of Hanover has issued a Royal Ordinance, convoking the States of the Kingdom in conformity with the provisions of what he calls the Constitution of the 6th of August. As, however, the popular representa tives still decline to acknowledge this mock Constitution, Von Schele and his Majesty have concocted between them the following form of declaration, which every Deputy is henceforth to be compelled to accept and strictly adhere to :—Having been named Deputy of the Second Chamber of the Assembly General of the States of the Kingdom of Hanover, conformably to the funda mental law of August 6, 1840, I accept that election, and declare on my honour and my conscience that I consider as alone obligatory, with regard to the accomplishment of my election as Deputy. the Constitution of the 6th of August, 1840, according to which the General Assembly of the States has been convoked. I therefore consider as un constitutional any attempt to embarrass or arrest the ac tion of either one or other of the two Chambers, as re gulated by the said Constitution of August 6, 1840, and I will never give my assistance to any attempt of the kind." The noble stand which the Hanoverians have made against King Ernest's tyranny, authorises the indulgence of a hope that their representatives will spurn with con tempt and indignation this new device of the oppressor. But the Deputies of Hanover are not the only persons whom the King means to gag. The Swabian Mercury tells us " that the Hanoverian Cabinet has addressed a circular to all public functionaries, desiring them to ab stain from all political conversation in society, and to in form the Government of any of their colleagues who do so. This (it says) is to prevent any opposition from being got up during the elections." So the King wishes to degrade all the Magistrates of the kingdom to the servile condition of tools and spies of the Court I To prevent them talking politics, why does he not at once propose to reduce them to the condition of the mutes who guard the antichambers of the Sultan's palace I Letters from Constantinople of the 27th ult. state, that the Viceroy of Egypt had remitted 50,000 dollars as another installment of the tribute to the Porte. This speaks well for the pacific intentions of Mehemet Al The Echo de Wrient, the Ottoman organ, of the 29th, has the following curious article, which affords some explanation of certain statements current as to the want of attention paid to the French Ambassador on taking his leave of the Sultan :—" When his Excellency, the French Ambassador, had his audience of absence, his Highness showed him the most gra cious attention, which highly pleased the Ambassador. Nevertheless, before his introduction to the Sultan, the customary ceremony not having been scrupulously ac complished, in consequence of the empressement shown on his reception, his Highness, desirous to avoid all that might cool the friendly relations since so long existing between France and the Porte, and wishing to prove to M. de Pontois the consideration he felt for him, sent to the French Embassy the First Interpreter of the Divan, his Excellency Sapfeti Effendi, to assure the French Am bassador that the omission took place through mere inad vertence."—The omission here complained of, was that of not presenting pipes to M. de Pontois, as had been done to Lord Ponsonby. Diplomatic people are never so great as when discussing trifles. Great activity again prevails in the French dock yards, and several ships of the line are being fitted out fur sea. We have little doubt that they are intended for the coast of Spain, and therefore we cannot too strongly impress upon the Admiralty the importance of sending some stout vessels to observe their movements. The Madrid mail of the 9th reached Paris at a late hour on Tuesday afternoon. We regret to state that Lieutenants Boria and Gobernado were shot in the capi tal on that day, and that Captain Fulgosio was to be the next victim for the Christino attempt of the 7th of Oct. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle observes, in answer to a leading article that appeared in the Times of Wednesday—" Hypocrisy and cant have been systematically employed by Toryism as instruments of political warfare, Hence so much of the alleged progress of false moral principles' as may actually have been made in the country. People are in no real danger of being misled by tale or drama into deeds which bring their necks a ithin peril of the halter. They are much more likely to be corrupted by the unimpeachable vice that is hailed with plaudits by a party, and wins its prosperous way in the world. If the substitution of one pamphlet for another makes a hit in Parliamentary debate, is loudly cheered by honourable gentlemen, and con tinues to be praised and echoed even after the de tection, that tends to promote false moral principles.' If electors are cajoled out of their votes by deceitful professions, and their integrity broken down by bribes, and their suffrages commanded as a property; and the triumphant doers of all this wrong : are extolled for their successes—this tends to promote false moral prin ciples.' "—This is justly and forcibly put by the Chro nicle. The triumph of Toryism is, indeed, the triumph of cant—the triumph of conventional respectability — that is to say, of the show rather than the substance— of the appearance of respectability, rather than the thing itself. It is not the Reformers who inculcate " false moral principles," but their sworn opponents, the Tories. Thvea ore the orlon who trade on cant and trickery, and thrive by appealing to the weaknesses and the prejudices of the people. The Post says—" The great object of the civil gover nors of a populous kingdom should be to . encourage, and theretbre to protect, profitable industry—not industry in this or that department, for which it may be supposed the country affords the greatest amount of natural faci lity, but all branches of industry. If any profitable branch can be introduced over and above those branches for which the country affords natural facilities, great is the merit of the introducer. If any nation be dependent upon foreign countries for any commodity of general use, and tending to general comfort, the Government which, by judicious encouragement and protections, enables that nation to produce for itself the commodity which for merly it had to obtain from abroad, deserves the praise of a wise, an able, and a patriotic • Government."— We agree with the Post that the great object of Minis ters should be to encourage and protect profitable in dustry; but do they so? Assuredly not; on the contrary they throw every obstacle in the way of industry; they hamper it with vexatious restrictions; they manacle its legs, and then say " walk;" they tie its arms behind its back, and then say " work!" Indeed it seems the chief object of their policy to make industry as little profitable as possible. Trade—commerce—industry, in its every form and shape—ail are ruthlessly sacrificed to mono poly, because the monopolists happen to have power on their side, while their opponents have nothing but jus tice and common-sense to recommend their cause. The Herald remarks, in allusion to the character and tendency of the Puseyite doctrines—" Puseyism, like the Papal policy, concedes all things to all men to meet the exigencies of a present purpose. It abandons not an iota of its propositions, in subsequently carrying out the extensive scheme of its organic innovations. There is little resulting difference between the infallibility boldly challenged for itself by the Romish Church, and the in herent fallibility imputed, almost contemptuously' as a Protestant divine has well observed, by Puseyism to the established Protestant Church of this country. Either pretension,—the claim of the one, or the demur rer of the other—if well founded, is equally fatal to the purity of the creed, the antiquity of the discipline, the legitimacy of the episcopal succession, the prescription of the rights,—or the constitutional and national cha racter of the true, existing, ANGLICAN Church."— The besetting defect of Toryism is, that it denies the claims of man to the character of a thinking being. Its main object is to keep his mind in leading-strings ; to treat him at though he were a child ; to build up a wall around him, beyond which he shall not presume to pass. It is the legitimate offspring—fashioned, however, accord ing to the altered tone of the times—of that spirit of bigotry which instituted the Inquisition, and kept Catho lic Europe in darkness for centuries. Dissent is of a far nobler character. Whither right or wrong in some of its tenets, it is at least a struggle for freedom of thought, an attempt to rescue the human mind from the galling chains flung round it by bigoted and intolerant High- Churchmen. We quote the following from the Times :—"Although we cannot wonder that Mr. Sharman Crawford, and other respectable Irishmen, well-wishers to their coun try, should feel indignation when they see the Chief Magistrate of Dublin coquetting with treason in the Corn-Exchange, and boasting of the American succours whom he can at a fortnight's notice import into Ireland, we think the patriotism of these honest men greatly mag nifies the mischief which they expose. Upon this side of the Channel the performances of Daniel O'Connell and his dupes have become merely ridiculous, and fail to command public attention, even when they are Most magniloquent, and when there is the greatest dearth of ordinary topics of interest. .As for their raising appre hension in the mind of any well-informed Englishman, we should as soon expect to hear of the Duke of Welling ton and Sir Robert Peel quaking before the exterminating edicts of the Emperor of China." The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to Sir Robert Peel's Irish policy :—" We all know the real value of Orange support in Ireland. Sir Robert Pcel well knows that the vagabonds' once destroyed his Administra tion; and Sir Henry Hardinge has avowed, that he would sooner lose his only arm, than attempt to govern this country through a faction so overbearing, yet so power less. But it is the policy . of the Tory Government, to proceed to extremes against the popular party, and, therefore, the Orange faction, hateful and puerile as it - is, are adopted as the most fitting in struments of the Executive." Speaking of the birth of the Prince of Wales, the Cheltenham Examiner remarks :—" Our congratulation is not without its measure of alloy. We are sorry her Ma jesty has been so ill-timed in her favours ; the party which now surround her is not the one to which we would confide the education of a Prince, destined perhaps some fifty years hence to preside over our councils. If the Tories are lagging behind the spirit of the present day, how can they legislate for the succeeding generation." The York Courant observes, in reference to the alarm ing increase of incendiary fires :—" But there is a quarter to which these beacon fires ought to speak with a voice of solemn warning. What must be the thought of the continuance of the tranquillity of that country where such things as these are matters of daily occur rence ! Does it not indicate that some deep and secret discontent is brooding, of which, like the fitful flashing of the volcano, these are but the forerunners of the overwhelming eruption which is about to follow ? Yet still with all these serious portents, supineness and pro crastination is the established principle of policy acted upon by our new governors." MONEY—TRADE—COMMER,CE. Jaya Tea is now selling in Rolland at - 1 - 1 . 1; -- "sa - mo price MORNING- SUN as Chinese tea, which is expected to be wholly super' seded by it in the market. Another adjourned meeting of the masons and del'?" gates of the Trades' Societies of the metropolis ivas held Wednesday at the Craven Head, Drury -lane• was asserted that Grissell and Pete were backed by se party, and that was believed to be the Gov ernmnt. There were now 230 men on strike, receiving twelve shillings per week, who were for the most part Sup ported by the 4,000 masons in work. The accounts from the manufacturing districts are of a most gloomy description, without any prospect of ii3l- provement for the winter. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The three superior planets—Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn , are now to be seen any clear evening in the west. NAVAL AND SITLITARY. The 98th Regiment, Lieut.-Col. C. Campbell, Col' wander, embarks for China at the end of this month. LAW AND POLICE. H. Geale, Esq., and J. A. Russell, Esq., o f Gray's i nn, were on Wednesday called to the bar. At Bow-street on Wednesday, the three persons charged with having caused the death of a Sheriff's officer were again brought up, when Kennot was admit ted to bail on finding security, himself in 100/., and two others in 504 each. The two Paccards not having been able to pro cure bail, were sent to Newgate. • SPORTING. A large flight of dotterels, accompanied b y a flock of golden plover, were on Monday last observ ed upon th° downs near Amesbury. The farmers of the n ei g hbout ; hood say that when these rare birds are seen in the, sheep-walks at this season of the year, a n early see rigorous wintr is certain. t tot The angler e s (says the Kelso Mail) dur in g „ eight days have assailed the Tweed in fine order. 111,i Duke of Roxburghe has fished the Kelso w ater, eri_, taken from 12 to 17 salmon daily. Sir C. Palbiac hi"; had good sport in the Sprou:Aon water. The Birgba of water was fished by Captain Hudson, the D u e Leeds, Lord John Scott, &c. Lord Bentin ck, the E of Hardwicke, Lord Ossulston, General Cafra tc; have all been engaged in this excellent sport, which now finished for the season. • COURT—FASHIONABLE . The Duke of Rutland left town yes terday on a tour. The Marquis of Northampton and family are ex i le to the winter at Rome. The Earl and Countess Brownlow intend to leave d i v g grave-square on Monday next, for Torquay, in ter/ to remain there until April next. Viscount Alford is expected to arrive in town , the Continent, on the first of next month. Par is ' Lord Bowden arrived in Hereford-street , front and, after a short stay, left town for Griraston Pars inspect the improvements now in progress there. MISCELLANEOUS. into St. Alban's Abbey, which is about to be converttios, a cathedral, was founded by Olfa, King of the inns, about A.D. 900. At the Abbey Grammar Scho esent joining, the Rev. Dr. Aubrey Spencer, the troll Bishop of Newfoundland, and his brother , the of Madras were educated. tie At York, a public meeting Was. held on M al d the move addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert, eaeider. Duchess of Kent, on the birth of a Prince. the able opposition was made by the Chartists , but e addresses were ultimately agreed to. i% Y es° A Mr. John Liavesley, a young man, twenty-5_O6R of age, has been committed to Chester Castle froother setting fire to some farm buildings leased by hls at Castle Northwick. MONEY and COMMERCIAL °W°' . r .lO. slightwlner e i t n h e thSet improvement,o Stock r morning. in Marketg.pri Consolscetsl CITY, is - "11 - 88/ -2-, and for the Account at 88f to i i , ; ,, I ffi c 0 8 closinginlfou afternoonrß s fi m p r A n o : n e e t t: ll et rh i e e t i eo 9 : b ff s t 1 e a f it: Bills continued heavy, and left o ff at 7s. Pre m.- in . p othenStocks were much the same as in the me r l l- a s isl is No notice appeared at the Bank of Ertl ° ' of expected in some quarters. . h o° se - heFor a e n ig d n in S ß ec a u i r h i v ti a e y s s w h e a r r e es h t e h a e v r y e .rupasto t he doing' business, rl (From The Sun of Last LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, NOV. 17. ---° ; ti lo t to' business has been transacted in the cotton nig_ tr iiet day, the sales comprising 3,500 bales wholly to u a a fee and consisting of Orleans, Surats, E YPt ians ' all , g :Nigh trAtle ode." Sea Island. 'lie ....._tit- LIVERPOOL SNARE MARKET, No 17. _at t he In; actions at the Stock Exchange are q uoteo a. G ov fowing rates :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 43 , :ie tb Junction, Quarter Shares, 251 ; Londo a nd La udo n oa B lN i ' r e m s Western, a s m 3 , ; 15 C 6 h ; e n st o e , r and Crewe, 47 North on, 75. MANcIIEsTER STOCK EXCHANCIE,SN3IW.I7. TJT-liaiivihai been rather more business doing, and prices of '-' The Stocks keep fine. Bank Stock is rather he avy 371 ; following are the sales—London and Br i g lioo,.,fities, Manchester and Birmingham 23 ; Midland c°' Quarter Shares, 21 ; Bank of Manchester, 4i• We are sorry to state that the accounts frOnl t_ 11° ., 113 0 11 s: nufacturing districts continue to be of a very thei r ture, nor is there at present any prospect of relieved. The export of specie from New York from the r, s and 27th of October, was 1,135,052 dollars in sli ce 134,129 in gold. l iesr The present state of the Money Market, and the we lt approach of the settling-day in the En g lish „t te, Market, continue to operate very much agu"fiti the British Securities ; 5 to 6 per cent. was Ve la -- Stock Exchange yesterday. 15 aga in A further decline has taken place in Case - m o ot and 881 i for the present Account ; this morning ; they are now quoted at 881 a fo r - Bit' gloole,seti: Spanish Active Stock is flat at 21 are also flat, at 9 11 prem. fl,i; Pas • De fe- . red, log i ; Portuguese F ive uts 314 ' per en " „ Threes, 181. ID , PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN , N OS' . •--- 3 per Cent. Consols .„. Three and Half Stock 97k 'Grand Canal Stock ..... t .,. _,.., Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto New 1830......... 1830.........98 . Ditto 4 per ceat;_"' „el 3i per Cent. Debs. go i l Royal Canal Stoci.• .. 1 ',;;ow, Sales of Stock for Money, in. Consols, to th e , h icb li rl , of 64,0001., have been e ff ected this morning, !, ar e os , also tended to depress the market. Conse P u ,itoc c ". 8811 for Money, and 881; for the Account; Broil:, 1631 164 163 ; Three per Cents. Reduc e lois Il a n , Three-and-a-Half ditto, 97111; Exchequer uotioo further declined. The following have been ti le q i 1 b during the morning-8 10 7 prem. Fore 1 ::: , e rheqssuievre, 4,10.; Very . little business has been transacted 1017,1.100e/0T Securities. Colombian Bonds are 18-k 1 9 ; 1 StA lli l 27-11 ; Mexican, 24,1 ; Portuguese Fives, 3 0 g 1 J .,. fla Active, very 1 2 it 1 t i le ; z d D oi e n fe g rr in ec s l, ha l r o e l s ; Dutch Two -00" per Cents., 518. lovve r ' ; Pri ces °I T r ß a i t r h lu e L n e g a h r s t il : London and Brighton, 37* ,• Ditto lta l " t ies 156 ; Ditto Thirds, 521 ; Midland C (7E ' Acco unt' Shares, 4 203 . Consols have improved to 88, buyers for the AC 1 ditto 88 ; - ; Spanish Active Stock to 21i m int 4=3 January, i B ti 9 o l n Consols, Money, 881 i- • ditto Ivey" - ' NI , hi e a re h : a td c et t : i i i i s P i ni: i il l 43 ; t I S I p e a ' o n t i l i s e l l. ; c 2 a l u l ls the Money Market, such as the dullness o f tr se _ yed fo al parties to fall back upon their private or 1:1; 0.t r r ate the want of confidence, and the ' ' the ta r t i o discounts, another circumstance is oil Had° i , We a steer' calculated to tighten it still more. the reports current in Mincing-/one, ea rl he Direct OS Exchange, of its being the intention of t ._, e wa° . _, the Bank of England to take some proteett!,o coop?: against the demand made upon them bye tl5 for not . e_ s . . bankers and others, for bullion in the _ ; .,,,,00 011 , There is one thing certain, namely, that the. troop, of the Corporation must be diminished, if ti' l9 cl l a teli things continues for of all the specie rea l sco red from North and 'South America, and other parts, any seems to be left in the London market. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. ...• _, Bank Stock .. 163 India Stock .• ..•••• r 3 per Cent Red. Ditto ii i tt t tt t eo o O B N o led n w d s Ann.A..fi. . n u artier ; :. ..,:: .....; ip 0 33ippererCcenent Cent Red........ ...... 9 8 8 7 81 ‘,,0 • ..21 6 nal New 3i per Cent 9Bi iEz. Bills, I,ovv.- ' 7r, New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 500 1 -- ..... 81' 1 " Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small' ". -- Jan 1860 l2l Bank Stock for A ect •• . ..... Oct 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... 10'4 ,41 Jan, 1860. -iConsols for Acc t ....... FOREIGN FUNDS. cent. ..-- kustrian, 5 per cent ' ... Portuguese 5 per ..- Bel inn, 5 er cent Ditto, New Ditto ......... ..... g p Brazilian Bonds. — ,Prussian, 5 per cent - •" ...- Buenos Ayres, 6 per ces. Russian, 5 per cent ........ .....1 Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallic..- ...... ' 91 i Colomian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent ..... jo Ditto, 1824. ...... ... - - ,, e h , 5- .r cent. _ ~ , 2 1. . ......e. Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 pel Greek, 1825, 5 per pent — Exchange ............ Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent. bll Ditto, 6 per cent, 1525 Dutch, 2i per cent. ...... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto; 5-percent, •• SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway(lo°P) b Ditto New Shares (7i paid) .......•• 37i 37 i London and Brighton (50 paid)..........' • 156 London and Birmingham (90) ......... ..• •• 5 21 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ....................... London and South Western ......... . ........ Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... 20f Ditto Quarter Shares (15 p0:1) . • ...... : 1*; ...- York and North Midland Railway (5 0 Pal" ' 28h Ditto New Shares (15 paid) .. ... • ........ During the (laFtaeoebltecAtioCnOßatßEALlaofabEuq? N ------------- -LAW DISCUSSION. Mr. Bre vin 4:o l Wareham, aided the Liberal cause whilstdelivering some lectures on the existing Corn-laws, Mr. Br ° to was thus engaged, Dr. Sleigh, of London, came clwil•s. Shaftesbury, and challenged Mr. Brown to a public (.04,r. cu r ssion, which took place in the Sessions llall. :P i , B Tvn, in return, has subsequently challenged Dr. Sieli c i . which the Doctor has accepted ; both parties have 7,, cided on holding the discussion at Bristol, at the lat ti L o , end of this month, and have agreed to the terms of s bate. Mr. Brqwn intends to take up the question as, matter of moral and religious principle. Ilis posorls: " That the existing Corn-laws are repugnant the on e . vealed character, will, and precePts of God rare care demned by the tenor and spirit of Christianity ...d fraught with injustice to the labouring classes ; 3 .. ". pregnant with injury to the national welfare and sperity." Whether Mr. Brown may manage his ment convincingly, we know not; but of this we are r:,; that the position he has taken, is, if ably defended, 1), munition of rocks." Since the first agreement was Deets an alteration has been suggested by Dr. Sleig h, reference to the mode of admission, as it respects the the audience. The disputants are to meet at Bristol on i t, 22d inst., finally - to arrange preliniinaries. Should on lei.i however, arise to induce Dr. Sleigh to decline reee.: • his opponent, Mr. Brown has engaged to deliver his tures notwithstanding.