The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-18 00:00:00

MORNING SUN _ . SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS' ..FROAt THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTRIWAY., GLOBE. —The constant express or tacit as sumption of the Starve-all Interest is, that if they deprive us of foreign customers, it is all for the benefit of the Home Market, and that, the Home Market being incomparably the most important of all markets, and being dependent on the gen try ofB,oool. a year (see Lord Stanley) we can't go wrong in legislating to secure that their rents shall never be less, and that the nation never shall have to mourn a reduction in their number of domestic servants. That a Minister of State could utter such stuff as this is something me morable ; and that even a rustic audience could swallow it, somewhat incredible. The facts stated at the Leeds Meeting, and the facts notori ous even in the rural districts, dispose of all this vaunting about our happy dependence on squire archal .demand and genteel consumption, and our happy security of a home-market. The most direct and demonstrable effect of the Corn laws is the ruin of the home-market l—the most important portion of the demand in that market is the demand of the middle and lower classes•--impoverished by the Corn-laws! Let not the spoiled children of opulence imagine that their demand for luxuries, and domestic attendance, are the items of most importance in home-consumption. If Lord Stanley is ig norant enough to suppose it (and we believe him extremely ignorant of those realities of the work-day world which a statesman ought chiefly to know), the present state of things should un deceive him, or the state of the revenue soon will. .The gentlemen of 8,0001. a year get their rents paid punctually, out of famine prices. We dare say they are liberal and considerate in their expenditure. But what is it after all more than a drop in the bucket towards national .well being ? What becomes of the boast that the great majority of the nation are dependent upon them? If so, we may well feel it a sorry de pendence. STAN DARD.—The Morning Chronicle is this morning kind enough to bestow a very long article of advice upon the Conservative journals as to the line which they ought to take. The gist of this advice is to persuade us to resign the consideration of things we know, in order to occupy ourselves with mat ters of which we are necessarily ignorant ; that is to say, we are to give rest to the mischiefs and dangers from which Sir Robert Peel's Government has rescued the --empire, , and enter at once upon the measures which the Right Hon. Baronet may have deter mined upon bringing forward some two months hence. There can be no doubt that such a course on our part would be extremely conve nient to our adversaries, but it would be the re verse of convenient to ourselves and our friend, were it even possible, which happens not to be the case. It was but yesterday the Morning Chronicle told of Sir Robert Peel's agents running all over the Continent in search of information upon which to frame, or at least toperfect, his financial and commercial arrangements—proof that the measures to be proposed are not yet in a finished state, or, in fact, im a state such as that they can be advan tageously or justly canvassed. What, then, is there for us to do, but to treat of the principles upon winch the Government is pledged to act; and how can we better trey of those principles than by exposing tit Tallaciousness of their contradictories, as illustrated in the practice of the late Oovernment : " Insuevit pater optimus hoc me, fugerum exemplis vitiorum qtmque notando." "We have pretty good assurance that upon financial and commercial matters the present Government will pursue a line exactly opposite to that attempted by its predecessors, and we are therefore doing our best to make way for the new measures in exposing the impolicy of the late attempt and the dishonesty of its authors. If we succeed, we may not do what is most agree able to the authors of that attempt, but what will certainly be for the public good. COURIER.—We have just learned that in the matter of the Scotch Church question, Govern ment has at length come to something like a definite measure to be proposed to Parliament. The nature of the measure, which; on the same authority, has been explained to us, leads us to pause before we yield our belief to the other wise pleasing intelligence, that peace and order are about to be restored in the Kirk. To one of its provisions we have no doubt that the good feeling and loyalty of Scotland will at once .respond, namely, the re poning •of -the ministers of Strathbogie in their ecclesiastical status. The rescinding, of all the iniquitous proceedings adopted against these worthy and excellent men, is a tribute due at once to the authority of the law of time land, and the peace and piety of the country; and it is only characteristic of the sterling good sense of Scotehrnen, that' uninfluenced by the clamours of a wild fanaticism, this tribute should be paid. But, that a legislative sanction is hencetbrth to be given to what is called the liberum arhitrium, or power to the Church Courts to act in the settlement of vacant benefices, and, of course, in all other matters resulting from it, according to any rules which they may choose to adopt, however much even civil interests may be involved, we neither can nor will believe. At the same time, the chan nels by which our information has been conveyed, that this is really the intention of Sir R. Peel, are such as to render us far from easy under the ru mours that are abroad. If Government has been led to believe, that such a boon to the Church of Scotland will be acceptable to any por tion of thatybody, worthy of its consideration in a merely political point of view, we can only say that Government has been grossly deceived. The moderate and Constitutional party in the Church muster above four hundred clergy men, and all of them, with the exception perhaps Of half a dozen, endowed Ministers of the Establishment; and this body, to a man, is opposed to the liherum arbitrium, to which, it is reported, Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham have consented to accede. And by whom has this consent been obtained? Not by Dr. Candlish and Mr. Cunningham, or Mr. Dun lop, the acknowledged leaders of the other great party in the Kirk; for to this abso lute pOwer of the Church Courts, alike over the people as over the patrons, they are as much opposed as Dr. Cook and his friends. But it has been conceded, if conceded at all, to a small, uninfluential, and—just because they can not grapple, one way or another, with the great principles now contended for—a lightly esteemed section of the clergy and elders of the Kirk. That there are athong these, and at their head, most excellent and pious men, no man doubts ; but our fear is that these men have, by some means or another, found tile opportunity of satisfying Sir Robert Peel that they possess an influence in the councils of the Kirk and over the minds of her members, scattered in all parts of the country, which does not belong Ito them, and that in demanding the liberum arbitrimm, whi c h i t is said to be granted, they have " all the mouths of Rome to second them. Sir Robert pert will be put right on the po int b y e-and- by and will l earn , that if he is to m ake such a c oncession of abso lute power to meCohfulas i C as is r eporte d , the great principle intended healin g mea sure, he will raise a g reater storm tha n ever over the Kirk and country. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. prohibitiv e TIM ES.—T he questiorliti t i t the whetherStpate o are " bills of credit," y clause of the Constitution, referred to yesterday, is again revived in the American journals, and legal authorities are cited on the subject, from which a result may be gathered not unfavourable o the holders, though we would still warn them, as we did yesterday, to look on the very exist ence of the question as a sign that their position is- - not perfectly secure. The decisions of the Supreme Court tend to show, that those only are the bills of credit designated in the clause re ferred to, which are issued by the State Govern- Merits on the credit of the Government, and de signed to circulate as money. These decisions would preclude the notion that the Stocks are " bills of credit," but it Would always be as well to look into the exact Wording of the instruments, and distinctly to as certain whether there be or not anything to bring them within the meaning of the clause. It appears'that though the benefits of the im proved communications with India arc tolerably Complete as regards the three presidencies, much yet remains to be done for other places, a nd especially for Singapore, Ceylon, and China, to enable them to share that advantage. A cor respondent, who directs our attention to the subject, states that there is no certain and direct post from those places for England, and thae even ,though se nt by ship to Bombay, and marked in the usual vvay by "Overland mail via Marseilles," they will be fol-wdrded by ship, unless the party has some agent or friend at Bombay to pay the overland postage for him. This may not often be practicable, and hence the appointment of Post-office agents at those places out of the re gular course of the India mail would appear to be called for by the merchants; and as the rates are nigh by this mode of conveyance, there can I be little doubt of its being wo rt hy o f the atten -don of the Post-office, even in a pecuniary point o f view, though that ought to be a secondary consideration in all new arrangements, the utility of which is clearly established. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE SOCIETY.—ROBERT CURREY, Esq., in the Chair. The Members and Friends of this Society will Dine to gether at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on MONDAY, 27th December, at Six o'Clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea, At the Bar of the London Coffee-house, and at the Office of the Society, Arthur-street West, London-bridge. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Illustrations, PILGRIMMAGE TO AUVERGNE, FROM PICARDY TO LE VELAY. By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines,"&c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. HIS MAJESATUYSTRthIeA, EMPEROR of His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain 'rig LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, &re now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS !MIMI TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Neat Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains D VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001. and 6001. to Li verpool; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 900/. to Hull; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 6001. to Bideford ; 6001. 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, icithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, DEC. Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes the Twelfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; Eudiga, Madame Vestris. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, 53. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickers and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, frem Ten till Four, where Season Tickets nay be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre Ars, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. _ _ _ . On Monday, Norma, with The Wooden Leg, and Free and Easy. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shalopere's Tragedies, powerfully cast— Mr. Co sham, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta lent of the Company. THIS EVENING. DEC. IS. Will be acted Shakspere'; Tragedy of JULIUS CiESA Marcus Brutus, Mr. Graam ; Caius Cassius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Anthon, Mr. H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. 11. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Another week of continuous success has added fresh laurels to the brilliant career of this now magniffcent and favourite establishment. Third week of " The Locksmiths." THIS EVENING, DEC. 18. The TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or,the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Murray, Mr. Dale ; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Tom Lively, Mr. Gardner ; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. Aster which, SIMON LEE.—Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Grace, Msss Vincent. To conclude with THE FLOATING BEACON,—Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Angerstoff, Mr. Date ; Nlariette, Mr. Lee; Christine, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, I a.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACII. Sun Office, Dec. 18, 1841. THE WEATHER.—Noon, DECEMBER 17. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 36 Highest 43 Lowest 3( Barometer 29.51.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point .22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning be rnlnutes after S. I Evening ll minutes after 5. LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1841. The news recently arrived from America of the probable repudiation of the State Bonds by the State of Mississippi, naturally excites distrust in the paper securities of all the American States. Just, and loud complaints, are properly made against this meditated injustice. Of course, the Tory Journals have not neglected the opportu nity of sneering at Republicanism, and have al ready spoken of the conduct of the inhabitants of Mississippi as a proof of how little reliance can be placed on the decisions of popular assemblies and on the principles of the multitude, whenever their interest is concerned. It is hardly neces sary, however, to remind our readers, when diatribes are daily poured forth on the utter want of honesty in the Governments of Spain and Por tugal, that dishonesty in loan transactions is by • no means peculiar to Republics. Indeed, it may be safely said, as the Republic in such transactions has come after several Monarchies, that it has learned its dishonesty from them. That single remark might suffice for a compa rative defence of the Republic ; let us, however, add, to avoid cavils, that the Bank Restriction Act was, in truth, a repudiation of pecuniary obli gations, which led to the gradual extension of the currency, and the robbery of all creditors to the extent of 30 per cent. Nor is there a single Go vernment of Europe which has not been guilty of similar frauds. The financial history of the Mo narchical Government of France, from the time of La.w, was one unbroken succession of dis honest financial expedients, till they were finally crowned by the wholesale confiscation of the as signat system, during the Revolution. In like manner the Governments of Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, &c., &C., subse quently to th e genera l i n t ro duction of paper money —prior to which they continually debased metallic coin, and so continually cheated their creditors--seized hold of the management of banks, or established them, and issued a spurious paper in their own name, which was depreciated 30 per cent. "In 1810," in . value from 1 ,000 to quote an example of a says 31. SToncll, to preux Monarchy, the depreciation of the forced issue(money) in A ustr i a, was such, that of a papersi florin exchanged h.e r for twelve or t hi r t e en paper florins." The most fraud u l ent l y managed hank in the United States supplies no instance of greater fraud than was committed by the Government of the empire of Austria, Moreover, when its creditors asked for p ayment it repulsed them at the point of the b ayonet. These eirculustances prove that whatever frauds may have been comm it t e d under Republican in stitutions, with State Stocks and State-pap er tched by what pal been they may be fully ma been done under the most pure Monarchical Governments of Europe. Such statements, let us add, are some of the proofs—many more of which could be adduced — that those who possess political power, whether in Republics or Monarchies, should not also be intrusted with the power of issuing paper money. In fact, that is a branch of commerce which ought to be left, like every branch of commerce — like growing food, or making cloth—exclusively in the hands of private individuals. At the same time, the publicity which all transactions re ceive in a Republic, necessarily prevents the THE SUN, LON State there from suddenly and secretly inflicting injury on public creditors either at home or abroad, as very frequently has been done in Mo narchies by the despotic decrees of their rulers. In truth the very action we are now discussing is a proof of the superior advantages possessed by the Republic. When the Monarchical Go vernments of Spain and Portugal resolved to postpone the payment of the interest of their debts, and to render them nearly valueless in the market, they did so at once by a decree, and there was no redress. The intention to do some thing of the same kind in the United States is first made known, next it becomes the subject of discussion in the public press, and influences the election of the members of the State Legis lature who will have to decide on the question; and finally the whole proceedings in that Legis lature are open to investigation before the deci sion is come to. Thus, the parties interested in the decision, though they live in Europe, have an opportunity to bring the force of public opinion to bear on the State and inhabitants of Mississippi, and induce them to come to an honest decision. Moreover, the whole of the original transactions were subject to repeated discussions, and the transgression of the Consti tutional law, in the course of those transactions, on which the repudiation of the bonds is now founded, might have been known to those who lent their money, and should have excited their suspicion. Nothing of the kind could be known in despotic States, where the conditions offered by the Governments on contracting the loan, and the decrees repudiating them at pleasure, are all which the plundered creditors have to console them for their loss. The course which the people of Mississippi, it is said, mean to take in respect to the debt they have already contracted, seems indefensible. At the same time, when we see the name of NICHOLAS BIDDLE and the United States Bank mixed up with the transaction,—when we recol lect the manner in which sundry loans have been brought out on various stock exchanges, the contractors knowing, perhaps, as was probably known in this case, that there was something disingenuous in the concoction of the loan, which they nevertheless puffed off to the skies, and having sold all the scrip, operated to reduce its value in the hands of their dupes,—we must say, when we know and recollect these and similar circumstances, that the people of several States have come to a wise resolution not to allow the States in future to contract any such obligations. National and State debts, even when contracted, as many of them have been in America, to pro mote internal improvement, are a heavy yoke and bondage to all succeeding generations. The Madrid Journals of the Bth inst. have been received. That day being observed as a religious festival, the House was closed. The Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the Decree for the dissolution of the Royal Guard, which we omit, as the substance of it appear. ed in The Sun of yesterday. Spain is tranquil, except in the matter of jobbers, which the Go vernment will soon suppress. The Augsburgh Gazette of the 11th has Trieste letters of the 4th, announcing the receipt in that port of advices from Athens up to the 27th of November. On the 25th a general meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank took place under the Presidency of the Ministers of King Otho, and in the presence of the Bishop of Attica and of the holy Synod. M. Pe trales, the Minister, addressed the Assembly, pointing. out the advantages which would accrue for the pros perity of Greece owing to the establishment of thi s b an k. A provisional Board of Directors was then named, and business was to commence on January 13, 1842, before which period the shares were to he paid up. Two transactions took place on the 7th in the Three per Cents. at 22 for cash, and 231 at 60 days. The operations in the Five per Cents., 21 in number, amounted to 17,299,000 reals, and were done for cash at 347 and at 34H- at 60 days. The disgracefully, or rather infamously con ducted trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices, is beginning to excite considerable interest in Paris. This arises, according to the re ports in the Paris Journals of Wednes day, frona a disgraceful incident that took place in the Chamber of Peers on the pre ceding day. The evidence for the prosecution had been over for some days; several members of the bar had been heard in defence of one or other of the accused. M. CREMIEUX, the cele brated Jewish advocao, was addressing the Court in defence of the prisoner DurAun, when the Procureur-General HERBERT rose and said that he had more evidence to bring forward which he had kept back for this stage of the trial. At this unprecedented proceeding the French Jeffries PASQUIER chuckled with delight, and at once al lowed the evidence to be brought forward. No thing could exceed the astonishment and indigna tion of the Counsel for the accused. They saw at a glance that the Court was determined to find the prisoners guilty. The Correspondent of the Post, who has attended carefully to the trial, arid particularly to the case of DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du Peuple, against whom the Court is labouring to establish a charge of con structive treason, thus refers to the scandalous proceedings of that tribunal : The fate of Dupoty is a most important affair. As for Quenisset and the ruffians associated with him in the at tempted assassination of the Royal Princes, they sink into perfect insignificance, compared with the decision of the Peers as to the editor of the Journal du Peuple. The ques tion of his guilt or innocence is not discussed, for it is pre tended that the conviction of a member of the revolu- ionary press has become one of imperative necessity. The Procureur-General will to-day or to-morrow, in his summing up, consecrate all his energies to en, sure a verdict against Dupoty, and my belief is that he will be found guilty of the conspiracy to over turn the Government. Count Mole has already de clared for his conviction, and the immediate partisans of the King have been most active in their exertion; to convince the Peers of the absolute urgency of find ing Dupoty guilty. M. Barthe, ex-Minister of Jus tice, has been particularly active. Some Peer said to Barthe, " How can you urge this affair so strenuously —you who were implicated in so many conspiracies, and it is known that the minutes of a proclamation in the affair of General Berton, in your own handwriting, are in existence ?" Barthe replied with great sang froid, " The more fools were the Bourbons to have left my head on my shoulders, but we, at all events, will not make these mistakes." The we of course applies to the existing dynasty. In short the mo me:it so long expected has arrived, and the war between the press and existing Government will become one of life and death to one or the other. This is the ruling idea of the King, and he is supported powerfully by the Peers. Royer Collard predicted that the Upper Chamber, at the time when the September laws were under dis cussion, would become the Cour Prevotale, and it is but the other day that a Peer exclaimed in the Council. saloon, " This must be our Star Chamber."—Con seil Etoile. If Dupoty be condemned, and the ma jority for his conviction is declared to be certain, he will be sentenced to at least ten years' imprison ment, and a very large minority will even vote for his deportation or transportation, which is confinement, for life in a fortress, as France has no colonies for cri minals. The vigour of the Government will be success- ful, for the present race of Liberals, whether they be De puties or I?edacteurs, will not dare to resist the sentence. It will be Saturday before the verdict of the Peers can be made known, and the Government is looking for the result with intense anxiety, as the conviction of Dupoty will be followed by other press prosecutions. While M. CREMIEUX was addressing the Court on Tuesday in defence of DUFAUR, he was vio lently interrupted by QUENISSET. The PRE SIDENT was silent, but the distinguished ad vocate, turning round upon QUENISSET with a look of indignation, exclaimed, Self convicted assassin ! Do you dare to inter rupt the defence of one you have denounced?" The wretch crouched down, and even the PRE SIDENT looked abashed at the rebuke thus indi rectly given to,liim. An unfortunate accident occurred, a few days ago, at Diekirch, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. A pub lic dinner was given there in celebration of the birth-day of the King of Holland, and during the repast a warm discussion was entered into by the guests on the proposed adjunction of the Grand Duchy to the German Customs Union. O ne o f t h e persons present , a f unct i onar y hi g h in th e a d m i nistration of the Grand Ducal doma i ns, be came so excited against a medical man, sitting next him, that he plunged his knife into his opponent's heart, and killed him on the spot. He was immediately arrested. This is the account given by the Observateur of Brussels, but the Eche de Luxembourg gives a very different ver sion ; it states that it was the result of an accident in opening a bottle of champagne. The celebrated German sculptor, Danneker, died at Suttgardt on the Bth inst. A letter from Bordeaux, in the Debats, states that the failure of the house of Balguerie and Co. will scarcely cause a loss of 900,000 f. to that town. The writer adds : --" The colossal house of Balguerie Stuttemberg, which h a s rendered such immense services to Bordeaux and the whole commerce of France, never, until within the few last years, met among money -dealers any one who was not under obligation to it. Were these men at • Thirty.seven. DON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1841 liberty to refuse it ,their support, when their confidence would have been limited to an extent, which could only 4 .in a 'minor degree have effected their fortunes, and in no degree their credit ?" Several Councils-General, such as those of the Vosges, Meurthe, Moselle, Meuse, and Marne, have just been convoked for an extraordinary Session, on the 22d inst., to deliberate on the construction of the Paris and Stras• burg railroad ; that of the Yonne, on the Paris and Lyons road; and that of Vaucluse, on the Marseilles and Rhone line. The Council General of the Bouches du Rhone is convoked for the 20th, to deliberate on the es tablishment of a School of Arts and Trades at Aix. "M. de Salvandy," says the Moniteur Parisien, " passed through Burgos on the lOth inst., and must have arriVed,at Madrid on the 12th. Everywhere he has been received with extraordinary honours. The autho rities have waited on him, and the people have given him the readiest welcome." The Moniteur publishes a Royal Ordonnance, coun tersigned by Marshal Souk, for maintaining Lieutenant- General Heimes, the King's Aide-de-Camp, in the first, or active service, section of the General Staff. • The Municipal Council of Troyes has just voted a sum of 500,000 francs, to be appli e d t o thca construction of the railway from Paris to Lyons, or from Paris to Stras burg, which shall pass through its territory. The Get:o ral Couneil of the Aube had already voted, in its session of 1841, the SUM of a million of francs for the some pur pose.—Moniteur. The indicate/A:. of Bourdeaux states that the Central Committee of wine-growers of the Department of the Gironde, have just had a general meeting at Bordeaux, for the purpose of coming to resolutions as to the course to be adopted, in concert with the Deputies of the De partment, to obtain from the Chambers and the Govern ment, a serious and extensive reform in the system of customs and indirect taxes. The Indicateur states that the members of the Committee and the Deputies who were present, viz., Messrs. Roul, Wurstenburg, Ducos, Billadel, and Galos, were unanimous as to the measures to be adopted, and adds, that the Deputies having been informed that the Minister of Public Works does not in tend to include the line from Paris to Bordeaux in the railways which he has to propose in the approaching session, and that the Government would wait for fresh plans, have written to M. Teste in strong terms, re• quiring that there should be no delay. A letter from Agram of the 27th of November, says " The journal of this town says, unler the head of Braila, the 6th of this month, A Russian man-of-war passed this town last week ; it was going to Silistria to survey and make a topographical plan of the bed of the Danube.' " BOURSE—Pants, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15. First Highest Lowest - - Price Price. Pric.. French 5 nor 116 40 116 40 1 qi 25 ... 116 35 4 1 4 per. Cents ...... 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 108 4 par Cents lOO 85 ... 1 , 0 85 .. 100 85 ... 10! 3 per Cent 4. ex dlr 74 15 . 18 •.e0 .. 7 8 10 ... 78 20 Loan lank of francc .. 3410 .3419 —3149 _3441 Laffltte 8 I 5,00.11. Spares 5065 -.5065 -.506) ...5069 ................792 50 ... 79 ... 792 50 795 Belgian 5 per cent,., 1819... 10.,% ... 103 ... 102; Active... ... 21% ... 94% ... Passive 554 ... ... .. Vespolitan, ex div. Itnisian Portuguese 3 per Cents. . _ RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles. L. 8...„ .......... It. B . 315 ... 315 ... 3 5 ... 315 Orleans .. CAI ... 180 ... 480 ... 4 , 0 Mulhausen to Thann ..... ... 341 ... 385 ... 385 ... 385 itrasuure to Bat..shares red 218 75 . 218 75 ... 218 75 ••• 218 75 DUTCti FUN Ds.—AmoTenuais, DEC. 14. Money. Rin Actual Debt, 2y4 per Cent Jai°, ditto 5 per ce:st. Arnett Syndic e l4 per cent 90% 9114 Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 75% 76 S 4 Commercial Company, 4 1 ,4 per cent 15514 :55% Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cant. 9 74 9,% Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 50 Dutch Papers, Dec. 15. et:I,6IAN NUNDS—nauseu.s. Dec. 15. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 3 per Cent. — --- ... 711,‘ .(1.i40) IOI Loan of City, 1y32. 4 per Cent .......... Society of Cornmsrce, 414 per Cent ..... Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .......... NationalSeciety. Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Dee. 15. AUSTRIAN FUN DS.—VIeNNA, Dec. 7. I ive per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 994 Three per Cents. ....•.....•••• ....... —.... ...... .•••••.....•. 71% Bank Shares ... Zeirune. Dec. 11. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1625 1020 .„..., Anglo-Russian Loan 10834 i os% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartificate Inscription, Ist Serivs 10'44 Rus:ian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. ad and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 214 per Cent billy. 50% Ditto 5 per Cent — - Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7'7% 77 N.nwegian L+an, 1834, 4 per OW.. II 34 102! 4 Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ls 18 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The firmness of the Stock Market continues, although in the aggregate the transactions to-day were not of magnitude. Consols for the Account were at.B9* to 898, closing at 891 sellers ; Exchequer Bills were 10s. to 12s. prem. ; and East India Bonds Is. prem. Bank Stock was supported at 166 to 1651 ; South Sea Old An nuities were at 87 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 981 to 99i ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities, 89+ to 891. In the Foreign Securities the bargains were neither numerous nor important. Active Spanish Bonds were flat at 231 to 24 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. at 32i ; the Three per Cents. at 191, which is a slight im provement ; Mexican Bonds at 261, also a partial rally; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511. Railway Shares again bore a higher value compared to that of the last week or so. London and Birmingham were at 74 ; Do., Quarter, 181 ; York and North Dal land, 40 to 41 • North Midland Thi r d s , 2 ; G reat Western, 20 ; New, 10+ ; South Western, 181 prem. ; Brighton, 114 ; Blackwall, 14 ; Birmingham and Glou cester, 35 ; Bristol and Exeter, 32 ; Eastern Counties, 141 ; Manchester and Leeds, 44 ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 101 ; Midland Counties, 15 ; and North Mid land at 28 dis. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were 17 prem. ; and National do., par. ; Australasia Bank Shares were 13; and Colonial Bank New Shares, 2 prem. In the Foreign Exchanges there was no important variation this afternoon. The rates were as follows : Amsterdam, 12 141 : 4 1 ; Frankfort, 1491 to 150 ; Paris, 25E 72ic. to 771 c. ; Hamburgh, 13 101 to 4 ; Trieste, 9 51 to 52 ; and Antwerp, 12 31 (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON 'MARKET, DEC. 16.—The sales to-day are 3,000 bales, all to the trade. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 16.—There has been less inclination for business to-day, but without any material alteration in prices. Our quotations are as follows:—London and Birmingham new 321. Shares, 251; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 ; Manches ter and Leeds, 64 to 66 ; ditto, Half Shares, 27 to 27* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 to 281. The steam-ship Caledonia has arrived at Liverpool from Boston and Halifax. The papers from New York reach to the Ist, and Boston 2d instant. The New York Commercial Advertiser of the 30th ult. contains the following :—" Sales of State Securities to a considerable amount were made to-day. In other de scriptions of stock the transactions have not been large. " THE CURRENT MONE Y.—There is a little better feel ing in the street we think to-day than there was yester day. The brokers are now purchasing all of the safety fund notes, except those of institutions previously an nounced as having failed. The rate to-day for New York State Money not redeemed at special rates in this city is 1 per cent. dis. Exchange—There is but little doing in bills on London, the quotation is still 91 10 per cent. premium." The English Stock' Market continues firm, Consols being still quoted at 891 1 for the Account. Three per Cents. reduced are 89+ ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 231 24 ; Por tuguese Fives, 321 33 ; Do. Threes, 191 20. Very little business doing. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange ; and with the exception of a further advance in Consols at 8 per cent. there is no alteration to notice. Consols are now 891 1 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 1 ; Three-and-a-Half ditto, 99/ ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 23/ 24 ; Mexican Bonds, 261 ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents., 511 52; Ditto, Fives, 991 1 There has been a fair business doing in the Share Market, and prices have improved. Great Western are 85 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 65 ; Great Western Fifths, 91 i ; Loudon and Brighton, 381 ; Manchester and Leeds, 651 ; North Midland, 74; South Eastern and Dover, 191. Consols, Account, 891 1 ; Mexican, 26+ 1 ; Spanish, 231 to 24/. The further accounts received to-day from New York do not add much to the effect of the previous advices. Trading afttirs in Ame rica are thought to wear rather a favourable appearance, and parties here would be heartily glad to find the whole matter of State securities decided at once, by some action on the part of President Tyler, if indeed he has the power of controlling the dishonest States. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ............ India Stock ..... 3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds lpm 3 per Cent Cons ,Ditto Old Annuities ... 87 3i per Cent Red 99h Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent ' Ditto 5001........ 10 pin Long Annuities toexpi re I Ditto Small. 11 pm Jan 1860 ....... ... 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FO REIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 'Portuguese ' 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per c en t Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian ...... fPrussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 pe r cei Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent... „ Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent., Spanish, 5 per cent 231 Ditto, 1824. ...... ..... Ditto, Deferred ... 12 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent, 'Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... "French, 3 percent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 ;Dutch, 2b per cent 5ll Feruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. i Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. BirminkhaM and Gloucester Railssav (100 p) 65 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . 28 Cheltenhatri a n d'G r e a t.W es tern (72i paid) 24 Ea3iliv, COUTirte 3 , Railway (23 pal) R4' Great Vattern -Railway( (i 5 paid) DitttiNew Sharea4so_ tiaid) Ditto fifth, (4 OW London and Brighton (50 paid) - , 38,4 a 44# , AIP, 0 4 4 q 1 , 440,„ Alfr 9 ortk ‘,41,11; 4tjt .patio London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) 11 London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... 164 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 6 paid) 23% London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) Ditto Scrip. (61 paid) London and South Western Manchesterand Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ... 27% Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... .. 29% Midland'Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (35 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid) 2O York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 90 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7% Gibraltar ... ...... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa 25 90 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13% Venice Altona ' . 13 14 Naples Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150% Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37% Buenos Ayres Berlin... 7 New York, 21 days sight 46% Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 953 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER. 07.. Madrid ... Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... 0 4 Ili COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Excellencies Baron Ra• venshaw the Danish Minister, and the Spanish Minister, arrived to-day at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Prince Castelcicala, and his Excellency Edward Everett, Minister Plenipotentiary, from the United States, took their leave to -day for town. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, walked on the terrace of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also walked there this forenoon attended by Lady Fanny Howard. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, and the Hon C. A. Murray, rode to Ascot to meet the Stag hounds. A deer was unearted. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, walked through the grand entrance to the'new made grounds of the Home Park and to Adelaide Cottage. In attendance were the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, the Earl of War wick, and General the Hon. Sir William Lumley. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wernyss, will have the honour ofjoining theßoyalllinner Circle at the Castle this evening. The Earl of Gainsborough is expected to arrive to morrow on a visit to her Majestv. A Committee of the Lords or nor ,Lajesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday after noon, at the Council-office, to consider the manner in which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales should bear his Arms. The Lords present were the Lord Pre sident, Sir Robert Peel, and Si! J. Graham. York Herald, and Deputy Garter from the Herald's College, were in attendance on their Lordships. The meeting broke up soon after five o'clock. An Address from the Inhabitant Householders of Westminster was yesterday presented to her Most Gra cious Majesty, through the Home•office, very nume rously and respectably signed, praying for the extin guishment, by reasonable compromise with the Proprie tors, of the burdensome Tolls on Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall-bridges. Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, Governor of Sierra, Leone, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary, on a Special Mission, arrived in town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Mr. G. Nicholls had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Gorge Arthur, Mr. W. Holmes, M.P., and Mr. Irving, had interviews yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Wellington has left town for his scat, Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Mr. Henry Cope, jun., Honorary Secretary of the Metropolitan Anti-Bridge Toll Association, had the honour of an interview yesterday with Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, on the subject of the abo lition, for the benefit of the public, of the tolls on the Metropolis Bridges. Despatches from Sir W. Colebrook, Governor of New Brunswick, and from Sir John Harvey, Governor of Newfoundland, were received at the Colonial-office yes terday afternoon. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. There were present the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir Edward East sat as Privy Councillors. _ _ Mr. Lloyd, for the respondent, was heard at great length on an appeal from Bengal, which had been part heard at a former sitting, " Maharajah Mutterjeet Singh v. Heirs of Jeserunt Singh." Mr. Pembttton, Q.C., replied for the appellant. The Court then rose. Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester left Parraree's Hotel, Belgrave-square, yesterday, for' Malta. S UliiikflAßY OF NEWS AND public Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOIZEIGAT, Lord Morpeth was magnificently entertained by the citizens or Boston, United States, on the 30th ult. The guests numbered 140, including some of the most influ ential men in that part of the United States. The whole tenour of the proceedings evinced a cordial wish to tnaintain the most kindly relations between England and the United States. Lord Morpeth divides with the Prince de Joinvi,lle the, general admiration of the ,Yankees. Yucatan has declared itself an independent republic, on the model of that of Texas. English is, the lan guage of the new State, and the Anglo-Saxon race is invited to settle there, to assist in repelling the invasions of Mexico. We look forward to a time when the Eng lish language will be the language of every Government in the New World. She is doomed, at no distant day, to become a Texan province. The Gazette of the Rhine and Moselle of the 10th inst. says :—" There is still a rumour that Austria will join the German Union. This accession alone would enable Germany to compete with foreign commerce, and more effectually if Lombardy and Venice come into the combination. It would be a mortal blow to the French silk trade. The accession of Hungary would enable the German Union to contend with its rivals in American tobaccos, French wines, dyes, skins, and other articles. It is Hungary, and particularly her aristocracy, who raise obstacles by refusing to pay duties, and at the same time imposing charges on exports. If Galicia could be connected with the Baltic, all would as sume new life and vigour. In a word, the Danube, the Rhine, and the Oder would afford an immense extension to commerce. The Free Towns would not then hesitate to enter the Union, and Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland would find it to their advantage to be incorporated in it."—This exte ns i on o f t h e German Custom's Union which threatens to exclude England from all Continental markets is all the result of the pernicious operation of our Corn-laws. A letter from Constantinople of the 24th ult. states, that the Porte has received a most penitential note from the Greek Government. King Otho took fright when he learned that 45,000 Turks were about to pay him a visit, and at once made the apology dictated to him. This is so far well. In the same letter from Constantinople we find the following :--" The Divan is stated to have held a Council in which it was resolved to send a commission to the Lebanon, and to try the effect of mildness and concilia tion there with the revolted subjects of the Porte, but in the event of failure in these means to resort to vigor ous measures of repression. It is added that the Turkish Government has received a report from the Go vernor of Damascus, which has created great anxiety. According to this report the Mussulman population of Damascus are in a state of great excitement against the Christians, and have demanded their expulsion, as also that of the European Consuls by whom they are pro tected." The C•arrier Francais of Wednesday denounces as impolitic the reduction of the French Army. The Courrier, however, abstains from suggesting in what wuy the Government could find money to support an army exceeding 344,000 men. By a Royal Ordonnance just issued, the annual en dowment of the sinking Fund will, from January 1, be increased by 1,910,220 f., to be specially applied in re purchasing the 5,730,6591. Three per Cent. Rent e s, ad judged on October 18, for the realisation of a loan of 150,000,000 f. This sum of • 1,910,220 francs is to be paid to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund by suc cessive ordonnances of the Minister of Finance, accord ing to the mode used with the other parts of the same Fund, for which purpose a credit to the amount is opened to the Minister of Finance out of the grant for the Sink ing Fund for 1842. A letter from Prague, in the Nuremberg Correspon— dent, states that it has been resolved t make a railroad. between Vienna and Dresden, passing through 'the valley of the Elbe. The musical soiree given by the Duke. and Duchess of Orleans on Tuesday evening was very brilliant—about ; 150 persons were present. Their Majesties and the Princesses, except Madame Adelaide, who is indis posed, arrived at a quarter-past nine, and the con cert commenced soon atte;. The King retired after the first part, but the Queen and the PriNcessas remaaled till the end, and retired at eleven) iA duo; from Doni zetti's Bourguemestre de Saardam,by,Matlaine de Mon tenegro and Lablache ; 'a solo from the ldomenee of Mozart, by Madlle.- Nau ; a romance from Bellini's, Beatrice di Tenda, by Baroilhet; and a tarantella, with some Neapolitan songs, by Lablache, excited warm ap-. probation. The Spani•h Government has forwarded a sum of 200,0001. 0,0000 to Bordeaux, to defray the expen,,es of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula during his resi dence in that city. runlac OPINION. The Times gives the following sy hit at the rapacity of some of the hungry Tory jackals :—" One of the culties that most embarrass political leaders, whether in larger or in smaller spheres, is that of satisfying their friends in the seasowofsuccess. It is not so hard a task, by Many degreesi.ti) , keep the party together while aim ing at power,tttlw:maintain its union when power has been achieved.ras.hetore the issue each man's hope is elastic, so, after the victory, his diSappointment and con sequent displeasure are apt to be inordinate. It always turns out that the conqueror has not lands enough to reward his knights in any sort of proportion to their real merits, much less in proportion to each man's own opinion of them ; and thereupon arises a cry for extensive confiscations to augment thedistribut.able bounty. This has been remarkably the case in some of the provincial town councils since the reaction in favour of those now in power." —Tory ravenousness must indeed be great, when the Times —the favourite journal of the faction—feels it its duty to reprobate it. How significant the remark that the conqueror (Sir R. Peel of course) has not lands enough to reward his knights, in proportion to each man's opi nion of his own merits ! Nothwithstanding the huge amount of loaves and fishes these hungry Tory subal terns have already received at his hands, they are still clamouring for more. They have a wolf in their belly, and to satisfy them—as the Times candidly states—is a sheer impossibility. The Post, speaking of the approaching struggle for the Poetry Professorship of Oxford, says—" We are, on every ground, heart and mind, with Mr. Williams. Not that we have anything to say against his opponent, but we have a great deal to say for him which cannot be said for his opponent. And though we have nothing to say against his opponent, we have a great deal to say against the party which supports his opponent. It is a coarse, presumptuous, self-idolising party, with all the old de testable leaven of Puritanism in its composition. It com bines mock humility with real arrogance ; it questions authority, and adores itself; it grossly misrepresents the opinions of others, while in the very act of asserting the superior holiness of its own. It is very unfortunate for Mr. Garbett that he should be supported by so odious a party—a party which carries the heart of the proud Pha risee, while it assumes the language of the humble and devout Publican."—Mr. Williams is the Puseyite candi date, with which party the Post, it seems, is hence forth determined to identify itself. If it brings no more knowledge or spirit to its advocacy of Puseyism, than it has already brought to its at tasks on the principles of Free Trade, it will be no very formidable enemy to the antagonist party in the Church. As regards Mr. Williams, he, we suppose, is to be considered the Poet Laureate of Puseyisrn, as Mr. Newman is its Doctor Sacchavarel„ They are a con genial couple, and worthy, the one to sing, and the other to preach, his associate's praises, :;:lout notwithstanding the poetic warblings of Mr. Williams, and the prose Tracts of Mr. Newman, neither will- be able to make a deep or lasting impression. on the public mind, for the days of imposing ceremonial pomp and high church bigotry are already with the years beyond the flood. The following is from the Herald :—" When the happy event occurred which gratified the nation by the birth of an heir male to the British throne, we took an early opportunity of adverting to it, as offering an occa don for the concession of a boon which had long been ear neatly desired by a large, and certainly not an unim portant class of her Majesty's subjects. We allude to the creation of . an order of knighthood, the object of which should .be to reward the services of civilians as well as military men; on the principle of desert, as it exists in other countries, and,as it did exist in this prior to the necessary transfer of the Guelphic order to the kingdom of Hanover. The wish which we then ex pressed found a ready echo in various parts of the coun try, and many were the communications which we re ceived on the subject. Since that period the question has, we perceive, been agitated in Liverpool, where a nu merous meeting was held last week of the Welsh inha bitants of that great and important commercial town, for the purpose of drawing up a petition -to her Majesty, praying for the establishment of the desiderated order of knighthood, and the establishment of two Welsh professorships al the English Universities."—The best petition, or address, that could be presented to the Queen on such an auspicious occasion as the birth of a Prince of Wales, would be, not a petition for the crea tion of an Order of Knighthood, which of course would be confined to the Tories, but for the removal of the pre sent party in power, as being either insolently indiffer ent, or directly inimical, to the best interests of the country. This is a petition which, whether granted us or not, would still be of public utility, and no doubt meet with the most respectful consideration of her Ma jesty ; whereas a petition for a new Order of Knight hood would be a boon confined merely to the few, and consequently of no earthly value to the community at large. We want no more aristocratic or semi-aristocratic creations ; God knows we have quite enough of them already. In reference to the late Leeds Meeting the Advertiser says:--" The advice which we have so often given to the marble-hearted monopolists, to take care lest they carry their experiment on the powers of human endurance too far, was repeated at the great Leeds meeting with pecu liar eafnestness and force. They may still persist in dis regarding this solemn warning. They will not always do so; they will not do it long. If not before, they will learn to heed it when what we have predicted as the ne cessary consequence of their scornful disregard of the claims of justice and the cries of the perishing popu lace has actually taken place. Lord Bacon said, and all history verifies the justice of the remark, that of all rebellions the rebellion of the belly is most to be dreaded. We tremble to think of the probable results of any outbreak on the part of the masses in the manufactur ing districts in the existingcireumstances of the country." —We greatly fear that the Tories will only be brought to their senses by some such awful outbreak as the Adver tiser here alludes to. They are deaf to supplication— deaf to remonstrance—callous to a sense of justice—and dead to all the more generous feelings of nature. Nothing can rouse them but an appeal to their appre hension--an attack on their self-interests. When they find the storm blackening above their heads. and the hand-writing coming forth on the wall against them, then possibly they may concede to fear what they never would hake conceded to justice. The Chronicle says, in reference to the vacillating character of the Tory Ministry, and their constant at tacks on their Whig predecessors -----" We do nut mean to say that the consistency of the late Ministers is a point of no interest, to thetnselves or others. Am. honourable character is dear to them, and they have a right to it. But the fact of their inconsistency, were it proved, would not feed the famishing, nor avert the decline of com merce, nor find work for the unemployed, nor close the disruptions of the social fabric. It would not make Peel an honest man, nor the Duke of Buckingham a wise Mi nister, nor moderate the heat of a Stanley, nor restore the maturity of a Wellington. Whig inconsistency, were it ever so lucidly demonstrated, would not be a Tory principle or a Tory policy, or a Tory system of go vernment. The Tories have not been exalted i;o power and office merely to lecture the public on Whig inconsistency." —And yet theTeries seem to imagine that they have been exalted to power, for no other purpose than to deliver public lectures on Whig delinquency. While they are as blind as moles to their own defects, they are as sharp as lynxes in detecting the defects of their predecessors. Not a word do we hear from them of Reform, or of schemes for ameliorating the present distresses of the people ; but they are wonderfully loquacious on the sub ' ject of Whig inconsisteney, just as if they themselves had no glaring sins of this sort to answer for. In an article suggested by the present state of the country, the Plymouth Journal, makes the following re marks:—" Sir R. Peel cannot be blind to the existence of deAp manufacturing distress, when he may himself witness heartrending exhibitions of it within a short ride from the scat of his own representation, nor can he be deaf to the cry of the poor, when uttered by thousands of the destitute. He knows, and he feels too, politically at least, that something must be done ; the Government must act. But he is a Conservative, and as such he is pledged to a protective policy, and is sure not to adopt any enlarged measures of Commercial Reform." Alluding to the late great Wiltshire Meeting, the Wilts independent remarks as follows :—We have alluded to " bullies attached to the Tory party" hating been present. This is a fact. It is also a fact that these bullies received money afterwards from leaders of the Tory party. What their presence was desired for, whe ther on the pretence of " keeping the peace" they were sent there to exhibit their " yelling" powers, or whether it was expected their services would be required in a different line, we cannot tell. To the eternal disgrace of the party who sent them they were there. The Dublin Pilot observes, in reference to the con duet of the Irish Tories :—" The Irish Tories are still that obstacle to Peel which he anticipated. It is said there •is a stagger in • the insolent career of dismissals from office, and that even the attempt upon public liberty, in the person of Mr. Conner, has not found favour at the other side. Peel is wise in attending to the suggestions of the Liberal rather than the Tory press." 1 ONEY-TILADE-001VIDIERCE. • 'On the Ist of February, 1841, the fare on the• Ca nterbury and 'Whitstable Railway was reduced from lid. to 6d., alike to the benefit of the public and the proprie tors, as will be seen from the following returns :—From the 10th of February to the 30th of November, 1840, when the fare was 9d., the number of passengers was 9,388, and the receipts 3521. Is. 3d., and in the corres ponding period for 1841, when the fare was 6d., the pas sengers amounted to 23,619, and the receipts to 5921. 19s. 6d., being an increase of 150 per cent. on the former 'and on the latter 68 per cent. Between the Bth and 14th of December 134,8500 z. of silver, and 2150 z. of gold were shipped at Dover for the Continent. We learn that trade in Liverpool ha.', within the last few weeks, exhibited visible signs of improvement, espe cially in the West India branch. The population of Tewkesbury is about 6,000, of which we understand one-half stand in need of relief, being in a state of the greatest distress. NAVAL AND IVIIIATATLY. Intelligence was received on Thursday from G uernsey at Lloyd's of the wreck of the American ship Sherwood, with a valuable cargo of cotton and tobacco. She struck on a sunken rock in the Channel on Tuesday night, and is supposed to have become a total wreck. All hands (14 in number) were saved, and the vessel is reported to be insured. General Phipps, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, died on Thursday morning at his residence, Woolwich Common. He was 81 years of age, and had been a commissioned officer for the long period of sixty OffOryeam 74.0.371 AND P OLICE, - -- - At Union-ball, Frederick Spiers, a man of r es p ec t a bl e appearance was ordered t o find bail, himself in 1001., and s two ! , uroties in sa. each , fu r talon ;improper fiberte on Wednesday night with Elizabeth Stout , chambermaid at 'the Hero of 'Waterloo Tavern, in the waterloo-road. robbery Two powerful men, named Roache and Sullivan,Su were eighty years fully committed to take their trial for a highway his own stiek,andaghee. in Tooley-street, attended with violence,efOn a,gentleman w I a to ach e Hospital. When i t: f n th e oei ,e d name him of d 0 1- 11 i n tc ,w h i c t ( h )c Hitchcock, nine Police years Courtet age, car ried in a state of insensibility to Guy's he recovered he missed three soveregns. yesterday three the Marlborough-street oldest onl ywere charged bo3 A rs t , with attempting to steal from the shop •of Mr. Stacey, haberdasher, Pulteney-street, a One of them, screened by the valua ble other two, piece of silk. pushed in a i corner of one of the squarrattling past, and was in the e s of glass while a cab was net of carrying off the plunder, when - a ii - po ceman, who had watched - their M.ORNING SUN movements, captured the whole party. - TheY ' ,i t: 7 w manded till inquiry should be made respecting - rl ie ,4 ' latives. In the Prerogative Court, on Thursday, 'Arr. J. 11 . ."T.P1 claimed to be administrator to his brother, w ho die 1 1806, and left all his property (12,2811. Three pert; Consols, and 640/ in money) to the Rev. Henry li r e. n . • ley. The will of the deceased, in his own handwilti ran thus :—" In the name of God, amen.—T, E d 4 Hope, give and bequeath everything I possess under t_i? sun to Henry Wellesley, who is the younger s on of Pioef Marquis of Wellesley, who is the brother of the Duke Herb Wellington." This was executed in 182 2 . Sir Ilerlr,r;, Jenner pronounced for the paper, and direc ted the- SR. ministration to be delivered to the Rev. Henry Weit a l In the Court of Excise, Edward Stebbing, pr . o l 3 li e ! tt; of billiard-rooms in Cannon-street, was donvicted.ona three separate informations, of selling whiskey with a license. The solicitor for the defence urged, in li t gation, the extreme propriety with which the defend had conducted the establishment for many years , arld :1 1 was fined 51. for each offence. / ri4 4 At Guildhall, yesterday, two men in the ernP-ni a . of Messrs. J. Croft and Roper, the extensive tob(cvb manufacturers in Bartholomew-close, were comm p 1 take their trial for robbing their employers of a qu a " of tobacco, which was found on their persons as were leaving the premises on Thursday. , COURT—FAISEIONABLIEL ,rutirs• The Duke of Wellington left Apsley Hou se on •""- day afternoon, for Strathfieldsaye. Parr Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at B e wood for on Tuesday last, and left on Wednesday morn °I),o, Belgrave- square. They proceed this day to NV Abbey. t path Ashburton arrrived early in the week 5- House, from the Grange, Hants. b heY " The Dowager Lady Holland left 'Woburn A Monday for town. The Earl of Lonsdale arrived at Cottes rn ore, nil tialgi. shire, on Tuesday, from Lowther Castle. , gi ll at Lord Fitzroy Somerset has been visiting Lord Hardwicke Grange, near Shrewsbury. from Lord and Lady Howick came to town on Mo nde.v Earl Grey's seat in Northumberland. ;, healt h The Duke of Cleveland is gradually impro vin g --; 00 Lord and Lady Palmerston, who have been ' ( 1 1 1 , for some days, leave Carlton House-terrace tins „,Iparil Broadlards, Hants, where they purpose seeing c(h during the Christmas week. ted at The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr, is e I P ec Brighton shortly on an official visit to the Palac c ' e ven' Vicount Jocelyn arrived in town on WechiestleY ing from Dublin.' ZYZISCELMANZOT7S. ll'ore P 5- " Early on Friday morning last," observes a " win ter Journal, "as the Bailiff of C. Randall, ', l t ir in walking in the grounds, he heard an uncon lll 2 °ll o - Ali i t the hen -roost, and saw perched up among theta o f th e bird of prey making very free with the ocenPan, of $ roost."—This bird of prey presents a lively inP' - esurY Tory Premier sacking the hen-roost of the I t f e e nev er When once such a ravenous biped gets in there, he fails to make free with everything hecanlav hish a , , has , An eminent M.P. (late of the Surrey Theat.ryei'doods, we-understand, gone down to the Scottish 04' for a month's broivzing on the thistles there. h.opanil), We are informed that the will of the late i the bill' has been proved in Doctors' Commons, and that est s o.- of his African estates has been left to his near oat bar of viving relative, a certain Hon. and Gallant g Parliament. Con' " The spirit of discovery," observes a 1 % 1° , 1 11 , 1 is e n .. temporary, " is at present very actively at wn' ' t wort; --- s tralia."—The same spirit is also very actively 3 ere d ti la England, where the people have already disco s ' lea der $ the Tories are a set of humbugs, and their mere Quack-doctor ! ; the Orb: The Times says, " it is rumoured that . 11 „ ii i vii. .. of the ensuing Session of Parliament, applina ti ,i i rce n e ,i . made for the establishment of no less than ' &1 0" Water Companies."—These Companies, ,w e nd ; the l 'ee. are to be got up for the purpose of supPlih' " re totallers with water for their tea-kettles. t here . 11. e, According to a calculation recently m ade, 82 o de 180 canals in Great Britain, extending 2,6 • formed at an expense of thirty millions sterling:: coot It is not generally known that the riern L e , t oved , ie cross" originated from the fond epithets u e ' w hoel - Edward the First on his beloved Queen, to be pre °. less than 15 crosses were erected, arid front t col lence of the French language at that time ; ~ O s being no more than a corruption of cher e Ildb - ea° applied by Edward to his Queen, of coarse, gave the name to the spot. —...---.. CRAIG VERSUS FENN.,3I e _ TO THE EDITOR OF THE S u4 "o fe li ' SlR—Any one reading the report of this causyndot4 paper of this evening would think that the e n e t'l af ter never intimated any objection to the contract u-,,-theree' the death of the life assured, whereas the leading h ' s o f ter teristic of the case was, that, within three We f ts pre; the policy was granted, the office tendered becil.'„,rotio mium received and refused all others on the /Veil,' of continuous continuous intemperance. This was dit c . w eed ), verted to by the Attorney-General in his oP" : " A n ,, n ee ; l ir ' cied a cnoci n eon d lehkul t .a,sysstel, the I if nta i e,n distinctlyitie botho.falstll p , iitil r ,hl it i o ieoc v so • ul proved 1 although the. t b ieen y s(a) stlsd havingar rm c oe u vd m ,e ada e ci, n e.t a ::, r osit i ouyr e t rVbledyl decide ' t ' h aca 1 a b b i y e l , o l rt:b l i 0 ; firm this correct the omissionGEolw GEORGE your next paper.—l am you e r r o v e g die th n e present itit _ts . e e r x v p a i t a i n t, f;ocin i: b i beopt we 7o b , Cornhill, Dec. 17. • , q. --appy to give every [ll e r g e t a o re as a l l t w ro ' w h it is that an extra c harge •it 3 made for the life at the time of insuring ?" -} /.F . '56 ..,.. statement, I'l,Aicnaßsn inlotE.t; doubt but t:l e l p i a ) : ° : r't: t ur e: i ' ll MARYLEBONE REGlSTitit4l°Pi On Thursday adjourned Special' General ey A en S ing S , O pu C rs l u A an T t I ON . nt, s n Meetin s g to d : the "Borough of Marylehone Reform and s r - -. 0 . s treet , of the rre tbe state Association" took place at their Rooms , i n /11 : a ., ffk . I . lr A s G t s if H t A h w e , A la ss te r P ic il i r i a P . t p o io s . n e ,and Fitzroy-square, for the u• of considering: ,„ o f re solvin ' ' „,,„5 sleight egh g on its immediate dissolution. Mr. J. "11 ersf for a c d, o'clock, ' unanimously appointed to the - L . --air ' )050°' served that, in his capacity of President °' that wo oer! ion, he had had the good fortune to Mee t its d pris" when they were at the summit of eeritY a l !. g oal presr Aissen , the prop V the Although latter position, he felt assured that Present mots sal spirit enough left among the Reformer:oth' ere bo I , loe, h . o f fle . e f a r), gt or not to let so admirable and useful an institution tiott el' want of funds. To the efforts of that Asse ell he 1111° ianucnei so the n b affectedn Adssleo Association a t ' tthiheoeinra them aaanspkpatit, rteahnnetly t 1, c:slr. e eh r a r o tl t i ls o e t :, ot i ur: ra s oa tbe e r h:tr.i ° elr n ; mainly attributable the triumphant rest' ~,ngh heir election in that Borough—(Hear) — a nd ttid by t. ; - e It of t tbeY were now at rather a low ebb, and were taunt' they ".,- . 1. political opponents and the public press, that , t . ve d t„" - . he belle the pe: fa the last throes and agonie - s of death, the Reformers would come forward and reseuestitetil rough from the disgrace of allowing such : 11 ; Ge nell o s to die.—(Hear.) It was for the present Sp fate They ASsembly of the . Association to - decide its iti te l ;.iped 12 0 were l left with a debt of 200/, and if that veer e d to 'go% t 'ere was no doubt but they should be enab le , i n to 4C „ir a efficiently. It might be asked how had they g, ° " it D elta or dilemma. He could assert that there had L' t heY „T ° ,l economy, but it must. be borne in mind th, at a ac t of o f no regular collector, and gentlemen Wh° had such in their various districts, had, in e° l ' l ,le j te d v e - 3 r being occupied in the late election, been an 3 '; ‘ ,. - ht 01 he ir so much time' as during previous years. It i 'ed fr lei strange, that out of 50:000. electors w ho ree °r o° ll l. votes for the Reform candidates, that atq ns ;p ti n tu sel/ r that Association should not receive sun' e g t eoa t ; e l p r t The same reasons, however, that kept enmltc'ions ' fi s formers from recording their votes at s tetacee:oo them also from giving publicity t o their ) 'J r _ by joining the Association.— (Hear, betitr./Pc'rtidr, taunts cast upon the Association by th e 'i6o q i , i . of the public press of the opposite side of P,, ° o3 3 oll' e ;c l during the past,week, been of the most ye n " • tel w . A on ly 110 racter, but the defamatory languge used ha°•,, - -,biteu,4o 1 proceedings i e v t, ti aino to rouse the spirit of Reformers, as h 7disct l 'e, ) , it evening. —(Hear, hear.) He hoped in tu g , from th e that gentlemen would steer a different couraj-d, t ha. ' pa opponents, and that whilst they felt as he u h t e . y , he a he el cause of Reform was a sacred one, die t t---.ob° gel cause a right to indulge in vituperation against o thers tbe sial he adverse opinions.—(Cheers.) To revert i t ° rt of the ton of the Association, the most essen tia ' c P9 rll °tit 1- busiiess of that evening was the needful to, 3 r.) rt ° o 'f objects. They were full of life yet.— (LattPtetio;eer pects had brightened—(Hear)—alreadY a 1 1 , ril e 19 1 , - 0 gentlemen had come forward in the most han"'" to e t" nor for the purpose of securing to the Reforal c:titetiolle' continuance of so excellent and useful an l i lt hira (the continuance _.,.., ve and the promises from other sources cheer' ibe Chairman) that their's was not a lost hope.---- ( also 111. he hoped the appeal which had been made wou ld be fore l ", made in vain to gentlemen present, and tha t i d be 1. ,:l ..t. of liabilities. fi e pOl" o f the Managing Secret ary, . , the po s . n. t he (, • ,e :1 the . ..jet' tting e•rre the Association, as also several letters, absence of the writersand ' • bscripto" set ' inclosing sel - , N ee . e Mr. Cox begged to,p res ent • frog) g. jll a l etter present:stioe I whose • illness alone agiitiE:'Ngrteteacrtt:bimeienxmattieetntdeteftrleol ex 1 its k ss ( p )c r i e t s i t e i n o n t a jofili,ead 1t I 0 tp. prevented his Lin, letter, pI a nhi.ettroebr):l*-. 0. • , after r. greeting the position of the Asi:eloorPt. aiul offering to contribute what was deemed t!. t oce '' t called the attention of the meeting to the exi t d t he another Reform there was an implied contract between tht-rn, 'that A ee' d ed a° ae the late 1 • e ection they should both be dissolv iii.. „„ . Association in the 13eroug..h3lint Aftevr one form e d, which would be open to all Refor elioaef,,. which latter course the writer trusted svetild be tt" , t his t° et' °P" the rjje '' The CHAIRMAN ' was surprised at the ten sor ° eve rf letter. The Association was not only Reformer in the borough, but he could assure contriteta, ing that he, as President. knew of no " intglied ode whatever between that and any other Society. ,sseeir he believed that there was now no other Reform P• f Lion in that borough in existence.—(Hear.) .orill of Mr. KAR o knowß wished tai if the great Tailobers 0 Vice-Presidents of the Ass ociation were not 3t e ~.s e ota Parliament ; and why they , as Reform ers , had au . 17 0 ' forward to assist it ? !lament, but the "fortune of war" has res'e, r , be for e , In the I' s ' ell' order of things; they are not so now. Ge° -t The CHAIRMAN-71,10A of them were Members:ea tb_ me I find unseated our friend Rowland Alston, og, the rest, our friend Joseph Hume.—(Laughter./31400,3, Evans, Messrs. Grote, Duckworth, Pattison, and Litt . isrlie P I ask them to assist our Association, the ,saY'dieee el why don't you assist me in my borougn• ' • ' ht to seta laughter.)bette r 0 r e Mr. KARR considered they ou g well itora et 3 ample, as Reformers.—Hear, hear.) He wa s but that si. was not to be( picked up every daY,ilto coul d ' were hundreds of gentlemen i n that b or ough v X4l ' se (;, ,(11, a rc