The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. minutes attar 4 1 Evening ......I2 minutes after 5. , ..ltrip . \)) .... • ' .r. 'oh 4.4 u ~ ..0 1 4 • i ii ,.. ; . .. 1 5":„ , . - . °1.1' f - ci.a i A.N.,,lll 1" 11 •11 k 0 ,, . v; . , , , e ,: • ... ~ ' .. S ~ o,,s',Ott.iii- - 0 .. !, : •-',.• -Nl'A go c ~ • .7.' i . ; 0 1 . -.:: MORNING SUN THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN." UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 3, Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURT AND ClTY.—Captain Danger fi eld, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. W. Farrell ; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hector Rumbush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning ton, Mr. Cooper; Humphrey Rumbush, Mr. Harley; Lady Whiffle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett; Lady Dangerfield, Mrs. W. West ; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which the Farce of FREE AND EASY.—Sir John Freeman, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Charles Courtley, Mr. Bartley ; Michael, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Orger. To 'conclude with ( Third Time) the Ballet Divertissement of the WOODEN LEG. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, and Charles the Twelfth. ROYAL. SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Extraordinary Novelty. First Week of the New French Drama. THIS EVENING, DEC. It, Will be acted an entirely New Drama from the French, re.. piece with situations of ingenuity, intensity of interest, and stronddrawn character, entitled THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. After which Sheridan Khowles' Play of WILLIAM TELL. William Tell, Mr. Graham ; Emma, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with Dibdin's popu'ar Farce of MY SPOUSE AND I.—Dick, Mr. Walton. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Immense success, and astounding popularity of this, now the most triumphant Theatre of the Metropolis. First Week of " The Two London Locksmiths," Mr. Osbaldiston and Miss Vincent, in " Damon and Pythias," and Second Week of the Successful Drama of " Casper the Doomed." THIS EVENING, DEC. 3, 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. After which, NATURE AND "ART.—Gabbleten, Mr. Gardner; Eliza Proscenia Ardent, Miss Vincent. To conclude with CASPER THE DOOMED; or, the VICTIM of the VAULT.—Casper Hauser, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Schwartz, Mr. Dale; Ernest Vorline, Mr. Seaman ; Count Hernan, Mr. Cullen ; Eva, Ilfrs. Howard. To-morrow, London Locksmiths, Nature and Art, and Cas per the Doomed. THE RAILWAY SUN. .NOTICE.--A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOTV PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLXPENCE EACH. Suh Offic., Dec. 2, 1841. EXCHEQUER BILL FRAUD. A FULL REPORT OF THE TRIALS OF SMITH AND RAPALLO WILL BE GIVEN 1N THE SUN OF TO-MORROW THE WEATHER—NOON, DECEMBER 2. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 50 Highest 5l i Lowest 43 Barometer 29.49.—Wind S.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. rtt LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1841. That the people are in great distress is very generally allowed. The Journal of the Work ing Classes, for example, a publication intended to bring the people more completely, than they now are, under the control of the landowners and clergy, states that " there is great increase of mendicancy in this country." " The scenes of dirt," it says, " indecency, immora lity, destitution, fraud, libertinism, profligacy, sensuality, and crime, now daily and hourly participated in, on the part of the travelling poor or begging population of our highways or bye-ways, can only be imagined or de scribed by those who, like ourselves, have examined into their deplorable and awful condition." In short, as we have already said, the land is becoming overrun with an Italian beggary ; and it is not a little remarkable that the land is at the same time, like Italy, also overrun with a great body of opulent, contentious, and ambitious priests. While every other class is plunged into difficulties and distress, their number and their opulence go on increasing. They never feel any of the difficulties which oppress other classes ; and therefore we find them, as the rule, one and all, supporting those bad laws by which the people are driven to the extremity of destitution. The monopoly which crushes the people is forcibly upheld by the Ministers of the Estab lished Church. They are closely allied with the landlords, and the latter, like the clergy, suffer nothing at pre sent from the general calamity. On the contrary, sundry statements have lately appeared in the newspapers, that the value of land is increasing. In a pamphlet recently published by the Rev. THOMAS FARR, " On the Difficulties of the Sliding Scale," an instance is given of four lots of land which let separately in 1833 for a sum in all of 64/. 155., and which were let on the 15th of Sep tember last by auction, and on the same condi tions as before, for 124/. 55., "showing an increase of more than 99 per cent. in eight years above the rent of 1833." This is a well authenticated and unexceptionable instance, which may be taken as an index to the fact that the rental of the whole body of the landowners has in creased in the midst of great national suffering. But these two classes, who thus riot in opu lence while the industrious classes are ground to the earth, constitute the real law-makers ; they have no sympathy, and c a n h ave none, winch touches them so re with a distress in truth, an motely ; they have, isto the welfare of the people, immediate facie rea son in terest in opposition a good prima and therefore there for distrusting all the laws which they mak e . . The source of legislation, as long as it . fl ows only, or chiefly, fro m them, must be pa l lid ; and the laws they make, and have made,require a double portion of evidence to prove them of national advantage, before they can command the heartfelt obedience of the people. Now, while the sources of o ur legislation are thus open to strong suspicion, it also happens that the public are quite at sixes and sevens as to the causes and cure of our distress. Her MA JESTY'S Ministers, we wilt be bold to say, are no more in accordance with the majority of the na tion on these two important points, than are the Birmingham advocates for an increase of paper money. If they were thoroughly acquainted with the causes of our deplorable condition, and had they any means, or any hope even, of reme dying it, they would be most culpable if they did not immediately announce their plans, and im mediately begin to carry them into execution. In fact, they have no plans to remedy the dis tress, and their peculiar bias as landowners, or as the servants of landowners, shuts their eyes to the causes of the distress, and steels their hearts against all supplications to apply a judicious remedy. Amongst the multitude there is also acorn plete division of opinion. The community ap pears to be all at sea. A large body are for wholly upsetting the present Constitution, and even re-dividing, the land. Another body de mand the atiolitien of the Corn-laws and a per fect ,free, trade.. The currency doctors think that all the evils of society may be remedied by an issue of irredeemable clergy and their friendS call out for more churches, and a stricter observance of the Sab bath. Sonic person s look to an increase of the * Published by R►dgway. army, and some foolishly think that poverty and I hunger will be cured by bridling the Press. A great confusion of opinion obviously pre vails, and none of those great and master minds, which at remote intervals arise and gather the diverging rays of knowledge into one focus, and combine crossing and conflicting obscurity into one steady light, now exist in the world. Po litical science needs its NEWTON, its BACON, or its LUTHER, and he is not yet found. When we look for any steady guide to those Monthly and Quarterly productions which were wont to influence the public sentiments and bring before the nation the wisdom of some great men, we find nothing but the most drivelling party mediocrity ; one set advocating Tory quackery, and the other set recommending Whig abortions, with all the one-sidedness of those who, like our selves, are hurried on, day after day, by the rapid current of events. The present want of the nation is that of some master-mind to con dense, by superior knowledge and genius, not coerce, the public sentiments, all the lately gathered political truths, into one clear, compre hensive, and guiding system. Such a man, were he found, should occupY the place which is held by Sir ROBERT PEEL. If we could for one moment conceive that he was at all likely to become such a man, he should have our steady and best support. We care not who gives the public good measures, provided they be given ; and were Sir ROBERT to offer them, he would be followed by all free traders, all honest politicians, and all true pa triots. His power is great, but his knowledge is not equal to it, and his will is enslaved. Instead of being the enlightened.servant of truth, the honest Minister of a great nation, he degrades himself into being the tool of a faction. He gives up to party what might place him at the head of the nation. A few years—not half a century hence, for the character of statesmen and heroes no longer waits for the judgment of a remote posterity; it is duly appreciated before they are well cold in their graves—a few years hence Sir ROBERT PEEL will be impartially judged; and as he continues the servant of a greedy faction, bent only on enriching them selves though they ruin the public, or throws off their degrading trammels, and shows himself as wise as he is powerful, so will he be said to have lost or embraced one of the finest opportunities ever offered to mortal man, to achieve undying greatness. He may be the political LUTHER of the age—let him take care that he be not the TETZEL. By the Dutch mail, received last night, we learn that on the 23d of November the Supreme Court at Copenhagen sentenced a number of Baptists to various fines and costs for holding illegal religious meetings, and administering the Sacrament. The following is from the St.Peters burgh Journnl of the 20th of November:— " On the 14th there was no communication between Cron stadt and Oranienbaum. Ton ards the evening three barks arrived from the latter place, and one left Cronstadt, although the channel was covered with ice. On the 15th, the ships which attempted to put to sea were at first hin dered, but a fresh wind springing up cleared the chan nel, and they were able to depart. Up to the 15th, 1,360 ships had arrived at Cronstadt." The Morning Post has taken a fair advantage of a hasty and incomplete expression of our thoughts in Wednesday's Sun, to represent our argument as confused and perplexed. We will now reprint the sentence quoted by the Post, as it ought to have been written, and we trust the completion of it will take from the Post all pre text for misunderstanding us. We mark in italics the additions we make to the sentence : "The Corn-law avowedly compels the whole body of the consumers to give more labour for their corn than they would have to give if there were no Corn-law. The abolition of the law would therefore lessen the quantity of labour required to be given for corn, or lower the natural price of corn, and at the same time, by feeding mere persons, increase the sum of labour in the com munity, or means of paying for corn and all other things." The Post denies, for the Pro-Corn-law men, " that the law compels the consumers to give more labour for their corn." What then do they mean when they assert " that the abolition of the law would lower the price of corn, and drive large quantities of land out of cultiva tion?" That could not be the case were the foreign corn to be imported with the produce of less labour. Their whole case, all their ar guments, imply an avowal, and, therefore, we used the word " avowedly" that the Corn , law compels the consumers to give more labour for their corn than they would have to give were there no Corn-law. The men of Manchester, for example, would then purchase the flour of Ame rica for about one-third less labour than they are now obliged to give for English flow. The Post admits that " the Corn-law makes corn dearer," but it asserts that " it makes labour dearer." We cannot understand this proposi tion. Corn and labour are exchanged for each other, and both cannot be made dearer. "La bour," to use the language of ADAM SMITH, is the " first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things." " What is bought with money or with goods," he says, "is purchased by labour as much as what we acquire with the toil of our own bodies." Labour was not only the first and original purchase money; it continues now to be the only pur chase-money of all the wealth of the world. It alone purchases and pays for corn, and to us, therefore, it appears nonsense to say the Corn , law makes both corn dearer and labour dearer. One is the measure of the other. " Dearer" ex presses a relation between them, and nothing else ; and it is an impossibility that both can be made dearer. These few observations appear to us to prove that the Corn-law, on the admission of our op ponents, enhances the price of corn to the con sumers, or increases the quantity of labour re quired to obtain the necessary supply of corn; that it consequently diminishes in pre cisely the same ratio their means of pay ment; and that the abolition of the law would reduce the quantity of labour required to obtain corn, increase its quantity, and augment the means of payment. If we have established that point, we call on the Post to surrender, for it admits if it were proved that the abolition of the Corn-law would increase the means of payment for corn, the case of the Pro- Corn-law party must fall to the ground. The Madrid Papers received are of the 23d ult. On that day ESPARTERO entered the `caPital in triumph, having effectually crushed every germ of the Christino rebellion in the Northern provinces. Though pressed for space, we cannot omit quoting the following graphic description of his entry into Madrid, from the pen of an eye-witness. The letter is dated the 23d ult., and was penned immediately after the occurrence it records : feeling 1 The . Duke de la Viet t ; •is • i set ; stopped there for the of night, the capital. He reached Guadalajara ag . am quietly lodged in and entered Madrid to day,Jara last night by sun .atEsph:rtfe-rpoa.s t Theone by the Gate d his approach o'clock. Only one h ere the Spaniards now v know,er h eh ll hung windows and balconies of the housesin the direc tion of the intended and filled with spectators. The ofconcou rse ngwith tapestries, was immense. The handsome arch persons abroad skeleton of wood, covered with ever gr ' ee c n o s oned o f a at the top of the street of Alcala, received its? flowers, of embellishment only a few minutes before theas t , touches commenced. On a tablet above the arch, supported two allegorical figures, was the . simple insc ription rted „ by Pacificador de Espana—La Villa de Madrid." To Al the English reader understand this, I hare only to makere re mark, that " villa" in the Spanish language means, as used here, the "corporation." In the open spaces between the columns forming the wings of the main arch, wer e a l so placed statues of an emblematic character, the whole form ing a fine termination of the vista presented by the great street of Alcala, filled with mas ses of the people, mingled with their fellow-townsmen in uniform. At the particular suggestion of her Majesty the young Queen Isabel, one of the fine state carriages of the Palace and six horses were ordered out to convey his Highness into town. I say at the special instance of the Queen, because I have reason to know the compliment originated entirely with her self. Otherwise, it was Espartero's wish and intention to have entered on horseback. At one o'clock a long line of carriages, proceeding towards the gate of Alcala, announced the progress of the corporation of Madrid going to meet the Regent, and officially welcome him to the . .capital on reaching the gates of the city. By this time be had arrived at the Espiritu Santo, and entered alone in the open carriage appointed for THE SUN, LONDON', FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1841. him, amidst the cordial greetings of the National Guards and numerous spectators who went out in the morning to meet him. At the Gate of Alcala he was addressed by the Corporation in a congratulatory and complimentary speech. From this point to the Palaco his reception by guards, troops of the line, and the people, was one continued succession of cheers and rejoicings, acknowledged in his usual admirable manner. Though suffering from a cold, he appeared in excellent spirits, and much pleased with the hearty welcome of the people. To the spectators in the balconies of the British Embassy opposite, his acknowledgments were particularly marked. Preceded by the Corporation, and followed by a nume rous escort of general officers, cavalry of the line, and of the National Guard, he proceeded direct to the Palace, without stopping at the Town-hall, the battalion of Na tional Guards, who went out to meet him in the morning, bringing up the rear of the procession. On arriving there the carriage drove up to the foot of the grand staircase, the scene of the terrible events of the memo rable night of the 7th, and was received by her Majesty in the Throne-room. The meeting, I am told, by one present, was truly affecting. The ambition of the Duke to serve the interests, and resign unimpaired into the hands of her Majesty, on coming of age, the trust reposed in him by her and her subjects, has become in him a feeling of paternal affection. Young as is the Queen, I have every reason to believe that she fully appreciates his services and dispositions towards her. Having stopped about half an hour with the Queen and Infanta, and appeared with the former at the principal balcony of the Palace, to the great gratification of the people, who were assembled in large numbers below in the Court-yard, he proceeded to his own house in the street of Alcala by the same route he entered, and still accompanied by the Cor poration and escort stated above. If importance were now attached to omens, a favourable one might be formed of the Duke's visit to the Palace of Queen Isabel. While engaged with the Queen in the Throne-room, I observed three magnificent eagles wheeling exactly over the Palace for nearly a quarter of an hour, to the no small annoyance of the innume rable pigeons that inhabit the exterior " attics" of that noble building, and which were kept in a sort of pro nuneiamento all the time by the presence of their serial sovereigns. There is but little political news in the Paris Journals. The rumours in the poli- tical circles were, that a dissolution of the Cham bers was solved upon ; that the Ministers would be defeated at the elections; and that a modification of the Cabinet would take place. The last is the only rumour to which we attach any degree of credit. The Chambers are about to enter upon their last session, and the KING is sensible that he could not hope to gain anything by their dissolution. As a majority of the members would readily support a Cabinet in which M. TIMERS, M. MONTALIVET, or M. MOLE had a seat, provided the first-named little gentleman did not figure again as Minister of Foreign Af fair, it is very likely that some changes in the Ministry will take place. The mercantile world has but little confidence in M. HUMANN, the Mi- nister of Finance, and at Court he is anything but a favourite. His, therefore, will be the first dismissal. No Minister ever was more popular abroad than M. GUIZOT, but at home he is re garded with the utmost suspicion. We there fore consider his retirement from office as ex ceedingly probable. Europe will regret this, but a day is not distant when France will lament it still more. The French Government appears to think that the Turkish expedition menaces Tunis more than Greece. Should such be the case—which we do not believe—France will be placed in a position of considerable difficulty. She has pledged herself to support the Bey of Tunis; but, were a naval force sent against him, she could not do this without countenancing the rebellion of a vassal, and thus justifying the joint interference of England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, who are bound by the Treaty of the 13th July, to maintain the integrity of the Turkish empire. The Courrier Francais has, with astonish ing naivete discovered that Mr. BANKHEAD, our Ambassador at Constantinople, is the author of the correspondence published in the London papers, attributing to France the attempt to em broil Turkey in a quarrel with Greece. The au thor of this ingenious discovery will be telling us next, we suppose, that Mr. BANKHEAD was the author of Madame DE SEVIGNE'S Letters, and that Count DE PONTOIS assisted PASCAL in the composition of his thoughts ! It is affirmed that the Council of Ministers has been engaged during several sittings in discussing a law on the Regency. This very important question is, in fact, not decided by the charter. The Journal de la Vendee of the 27th of this month says the Magistrates have opposed the intended marriage of the Abbe Guicheteau to a young woman of Pouille. The marriage, which was to have been solemnised 42n Tuesday last, did not take place. The Barcelona Journals which we have received are to the 23d ult. It was said that the state of Leige would be continued till after the re-organisation of the National Guard. M. Valdes, formerly Chief Magistrate of Bar celona, and M. Gisherge, Deputy of the ex-Junta, having been summoned to appear before the Military Commis sion, have refused to answer, not acknowledging the authority of that tribunal. The Sabine and Dunori French ships of war sailed from Pensacola on the 14th of October. They had lost ten men of their crews by the yellow fever, which raged there. Arnow , them was M. Michael, the surgeon of the Sabine, who i died in the United States' Hospital after six days' illness.—Le Commerce. A woman at Duysburg, in Belgium, aged 39, and who had never had any children, is mentioned by the Inde pendant of Brussels as having just been brought to bed of three children, a boy and two girls. The Phare of Bayonne states that on the night of the 19th inst., during a violent storm, a shock of earthquake was felt at Biarrita, and along the coast from Boucau to Hendaye. It appears that it was the roadway planking of the suspension-bridge at Blagnac, in the Dordogne, which gave way the other day, and not the suspending chains. The waggon which was going over at the time was laden with several heavy pieces of iron machinery. The waggoner hung on by the bars of the bridge, and was not thrown into the water ; and only one person out of five (not eight, as was stated), who were precipitated into the water, was drowned. All the horses, except the one in the shafts, perished. The trial of Messrs. Arzac, Gasc, and Roaldes, late Mayor and Deputy Mayors of Toulouse, for unduly exercising ther functions as such after the Prefect had sent to them the Royal Ordonnance for their dismissal (the full particulars of which we gave at the time of the disturbances in that city), has been pending before the Correctional Tribunal of Pau for several days. The sentence was given on Saturday, when the accused per sons were condemned to the penalty of 100 f. each and costs. The defence set up was that the Royal Ordon nance contained a legal informality by not stating the day for the re-election of the Municipal Councillors ; but this was over-ruled. Messrs. Arzac, Gasc, and Roal des immediately gave notice of their intention to appeal against the sentence. N. de Rubelles, editor of the Journal du Bourbonnais, has been fined 50 francs by the Correctional Tribunal of Moulins, for wearing a foreign order without special permissifm. The Co: rier de la Gironde of Bordeaux states that M. Loste has been named Juge-Commissaire in the bank ruptcy of Messrs. Balguerie. " This nomination," it adds, " premiseg an active and conscientious liquida tion." The Globe says that several stoppages of firms have occurred at Bordeaux simultaneously with that of Messrs. Balguerie. The prosecution by :lie family of the late M. Laffarge against the Indicateur of Tulle, for the libel we have already more than once noticed, was brought to trial on the 18th inst., before the Correctional Tribunal of that place. The case was argued with great warmth and ability by the advocates of both parties ; but the Tri bunal decided against the accused, and condemned the responsible editor to pay a fine of 300 E, and damages of 600 f., and to the insertion of the judgment, at his own expense, in the Gazette des Tribuuaux, the Album de la Corr eze, the Progres, and the Indic a teur. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, NOV. 30. Pint Highest Lowest Last Price Price, Price. PriCf French 5 per Cents ...... •••• • 11d 25 ... 116 25 ... 116 20 ... 116 211 4 per Cents ..N ••» 101 50 lel 50 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cants..., :......» 60 20 80 20 ... 80 15 ... 80 15 Loan F... .............. 80 93 ... 80 99 ... 81 ... Si .5415 Bank of France 3410 ...3415 ...3410 3411 Lattitte Bank 5,000 f. shares 5065 ...50i5 ...5065 ...5065 ',elven Bank ... 775 775 ... 775 ... 775 Belgians per Cents. . ... 101% 101% 101% .. 101% S per Cents., 1840... 102% 11)24 102% 19n 1 Spanish Active ..... ••••••••••••• 24 34 ••• 9 4 % ••• 24 ,16 ••• 2 ; i y‘ t Paisive•••• .• ..... ... ... • , 79 ••• Jim Old Defer re d " ...... '54 .., 54 51,1, ... Ro ma apolttan lO6 00 ... ifiti 75 ... 108 60 le6 75 Ron, ex. div .•••• 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARER.St. Germain 745 715 745 ... 745 315 315 ... 312 50 ... 315 Ver.mile. ilt t B 2Ol 25 200 201 25 •••*" 200 L Rouen ..... 455 457 50 ... 455 ... 45 7 50 Orleans . 4BO ... 480 ... ••• 4 8 ° Str2sburg to.Bale.shares recif 225 225 220 • .. 222 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—A.mirrituriam, Mon Nov. 29. ey. Bills. Actual Exehan De ge b o t i , ll.o 2% a p o e n r ; Cent •••••••••• ...... 51% 51% Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. . ....... ..... ..... 99% % Mn., t Syndic 4% per cent...... ............ 91% 91 . % Ditto. ditto, '3% per cent ........... '76 70% Commercial Company, 4% ;er cent .......... 1554 15 :i% Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. .... ..... 101% 2 Loan 1637, 5 percent Tw One o m m o o n n t t h h . s ...... : Haraburgh, One month 35 75 35 50 Two months Dutch Papers, Nov. 39. BELGIAN NUNDS—Baussati. Nov. 30. Actual Debt 254 en per t .... . Rothschild's Loan, 5 per u . ent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions , 4 pe r Cent 2 3 per Cent ..... • 72% —'1640) ..... Loan of City,1932,4 per ‘Cent..— ... "" society of Commerce, 4},' per Cent — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent,.....„, '74; NationalSeciety.. ...... Exchange on Loden (short) Payers, Nov. 30. Thirty.seven. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmxii, Nov. 23. /limper Coats. Metalliques • 1053 Four per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 000000 ••••• 0000000000 es 99 SG Three poi' Cents. Bank Shares ........... .......... - .......... ... ..... ...- —Allgemeine Zeit:mg. Nov. 27. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Nor. 27. Bills. Mciney Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6lO 1605 AN/to-Russian Loan lOB% 168% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series l oi3e Russian 5 per Cent. Hopis and Co. 3d and 4th Series ........... " ....... .....• •••••••••••••• 9814 98 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cant. (1840) 66% 86 % Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50% Ditto 5 per Cent -- Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 76 76% Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent."... ...... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15% Lord Brougham has added his name to the distinguished list of subscribers to the forthcom ing " Addresses to Youth." the most ready and permanent influence on the minds of those who attend them—are irrelevant. We are not astonished at his Lordship's declaration ' that he under stands not the object of such opposition' when he thinks fit to dispose of all doctrinal differences, embracing opi nions even the most schismatical or heterodox, under a general category of these or those special theological tenets,' which ought never to disqualify for the chair of Poetry at a Protestant University ! Of all the liberalism we have yet heard preached—that liberalism which, in matters of religion, is distinguished by an almost imper ceptible gradation of characteristics from latitudinarian ism,—we never remember to have heard any proposition suggested so mischievous or indefinite." MONEY—TRADE — CONZIKERCE. The Editor of the New York Herald boasts that the Federal Government of the United States, with the ex ception of a trifling loan, is the only one in the world out of debt, and added, by way of postscript, " Perhaps the Chinese Government may be out of debt, but we don't know certainly." Brother Jonathan has the can dour, alas, to admit that though the Federal Govern ment is out of debt the State Governments owe the trifling sum of two hundred million dollars (40,000,0000 NAVAL AND MILITARY. During the heavy gale on the 24th ult., the schooner James Cook, of Limerick, bound from Sligo to Glasgow, struck on the Galshedy Rock, and immediately went to pieces. The master and nine of the crew were unfortu nately drowned, and only one man saved. A numerous meeting of the Surgeons of the Royal Navy, was held on Wednesday at the Thatched House Ta vern, to vote some testimonial to Sir Wm. Burnett, Phy sician-General of the Navy, in token of the high respect and esteem in which he is held by the medical officers of the service. It was stated at the meeting that 9511. had already been subscribed, and, agreeably to the wishes of the Physician-General, it was resolved to have his por trait painted by Sir Martin Shee, and an engraving pre sented to each subscriber ; the residue to be expended in purchasing a service of plate for Sir William. LAW AND POLICE. _ _ At Marlborough. street yesterday, a young fashionable g entleman, said to belong to a noble family, but who assumed ie vulgar name of Smith, was charged with at tempting to wrench off .two door knockers in Piccadilly this morning, about two o'clock, and having one in his possession, supposed to be stolen. He was accompanied by several respectable looking gentlemen, and when asked what he had to say for himself, the usual question put by Magistrates to thieves, his reply was " I think I had taken too much wine." Upon which Mr. Maltby said "I shall fine you 31, and in default of payment commit you to the House of Correction for fourteen days." Having pulled out a well filled purse and smiled at the idea of a man with plenty of money being sent to the treadmill, he handed over the amount to the gaoler and walked off. FINE ARTS. The Wellington statue, the commission for which was in the hands of the late Sir Francis Chantrey, will be completed by Mr. Weeks, who has for some time had the entire execution of the models brought under the superintendence of the late lamented artist. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Prince George of Cambridge, accompanied by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, changed horses, on Tuesday, at the George Hotel, on his way to the seat of the Earl of Cardigan, and was welcomed with cheers by the inhabi tants of the town of Northampton. The Marquis of Titchfield has returned to Harcourt house, Conduit-square. The Earl and Countess of Fortescue left Grosvenor square yesterday, for Castle Hill, Devon. The Dowager Countess of Mansfield is on her return from Italy. The accounts of the state of Viscount Beresford's health still continue favourable. Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley left town last week on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Lauderdale, in Scotland. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Lord Melbourne and Lord and Lady Leveson are ex pected to join the party. The Hon. H. Law, brother of Lord Ellenborough, has arrived at Southam Hall, which it is understood he will occupy with his family, during the absence of his noble brother in India. _ _ _ Prince Nicholas Estarhaay, while hunting with Mr. Drake's hounds in the neighbourhood of Middleton Park, the seat of Lord Jersey, met with an unfortunate acci dent which caused the death of a valuable horse, but the Prince escaped unhurt. MISCELLANEOUS. A very fatal disorder, described as the black fever, has recently made fearful ravages among the rural popula tion of the village of Akendale, in Yorkshire. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TIIURSDAY EVENING. There was less business doing in the Funds to-day, but this had a favourable effect upon prices, owing to the absence of sellers. We shall have a dull time till Christmas, as most of the principal Stocks are closed to public investment, unless for special transfers, pre paratory to the payment of the dividends. For immedi ate transfer Consols realised 89 to 89+, and for the open ing 89+ to 89g. Exchequer'Bills were steady at Bs. to 10s. premium, and India Bonds par to 2s. premium. Bank Stock rallied to 164 and 164 L. India Stock was not dealt in. New Three-and-a-half per Cents. were 98t to 99i. The re-action in the Foreign Market has already com menced, Spanish Bonds taking the lead, as many parties are disposed to realise their profits on the late advance. The variation in the Active Spanish Bonds was from 24+ to 23k, and PassiveS were dull at 54. The Treasury Bonds were quoted 29+. The South American Stocks gave way a little. Colombian were at 208 to 201, and Mexican at 251 to 25+. Chilian was an exception, being at a slight improvement, to 72. Brazilian got up to 584 and 59. French Five per Cent. Rentes were worth 115 f. 75c., and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 to 521. We have to notice again a comparatively dull market for the Railway Shares. Great Western 15, Birming ham 68, York and North Midland'37, and South West ern 17+ premium. Brighton were 15 to 141-, North Midland 35, Manchester and Leeds 10, the New 5, and Northern and Eastern 12+ discount. Australasian Bank Shares were 12+ to 13 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. I.—The sales to day are 4,000 bales, without any distinguishing feature in the Market. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. I.—The transac tions reported at the Stock Exchange are in Eastern Counties at 71 ; Grand Junctions, 191 ; London and Birmingham New Shares, 248 ; London and Brighton, 36; London and South Western, 56; Paris and Rouen, 10*. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. I.—We have had a flat market to-day. Midland Counties Quarters, 201 ; London and Birmingham, 158 ; Ditto, ditto, Quarters, 22 ; London and South Western, 551 to 56. The Goverement broker was again in the Market yes terday, and effected sales of Money Stock to the extent of 50,0001., and Consols at one period were done at 88 : 1, they however rallied, and finally closed at 89 to 89i for Money, and 891 to 894, an improvement of t- per cent., and opened this morning firm at those quotations. There is but little business doing. Three per Cents. Reduced are 88 to 88*- New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 98'1 i; Three-and-a -Half per Cents. Reduced, 971 ; Bank Stock,l64 to 165. In the Foreign Market there is but a limited business doing. Spanish Stock have declined kl being now heavy at 24* 1' • Passive, 51 j ; Deferred; 2.- ; Portuguese Stock no alteration, the Five per Cents. being last quoted at 3311 341 ; and the Three per Cents. at 201 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52A; and Five per Cents. 99k. The English market continues firm, with an upward tendency. Consols, for Money, are now 89 i lt-, 1, and for the Account 89u ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 881 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 97* ; New Three and-a-Half per Cents., 99 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 to 10 premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock have fluctuated 1 and k per cent. during the morning, hav ing been done as high as 248, and as low as 23 4 , they may be now quoted at 238 24 ; Passive, 51. The other securities remain without alteration. Portu guese Five per Cents. 33 3 341, and the Three per Cents. 20} ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521 ; ditto, Five per Cents. 99* ; Columbian, 201. The transactions in the Share Market have been upon a very limited scale. London and Brighton are flat, 351 ; London and South Western were last done at 561. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 29. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97A 'Grand Catial 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced .... . . • Ditto Deis. 6 per cent... 85 Ditto New 1830......... 971 • Ditto 4per cent. ...... 3i per Cent. Debs. 9O Royil Canal Stock Consols, Money, 89* 1; ditto Account, 891 sellers ; Spanish, 24*, CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 164% f India Stock -.....'........ -- 3 per Cent Red BB% Ditto Bonds 2pm 3 per Cent Cons 89% Ditto Old Annuities ... 3% per Cent Red 974 Ditte New Annuities... 864 New 3% per Cent 98% Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2%d 10 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 lO pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. . Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct. 1859 — India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — 'Consols for Acct 894 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian 80nd5.... 59 Buenos Ayres, 6 per cot Chilian 6 per cent 72 Colombian, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 1824. 2O; Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. S II A Great Western Railway London and Brighton (I London and South West Manchester and Leeds I Ditto New Shares (3( York and North Midlam Portuguese, 5 per cent 5l Ditto, New Ditto 333 Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent 231 Ditto, Deferred ... 11 . 1 French, 5 per cent.llsf. 75c. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 2i per cent 523 Ditto, 5 per cent. RES. ( 65 paid) BO 50 paid) . 35a tern (70 paid) ... .. 60 0 paid) d Railway (50 paid) 87 GROSS SUPERSTITION.—On Saturday se'n• night, one of those remedies, founded on the grossest superstition, which the intelligence of the present age has not been able entirely to explode, was tried by an old woman residing near this town, on a girl trou bled with fits. The means she adopted to effect the cure was causing the patient to descend into a grave dug for a corpse about to be buried. Since the remedy has been tried, the girl's fits have been quite as frequent and violent as before, but no doubt the cause of failure will be attributed by many to any but the true one, as the fools will not believe it impossible for such absurdities to have influence over physical causes. Worcester Chronicle. The Rev. Dr. Warneford has given 1,000/. to promote the education of the poor in the diocese of Gloucester. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND (4: pinton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The long delayed ratification by the Ottoman Porte of the treaty of July 13, 1841, for the closing of the Dardanelles, has arrived at Paris. It was delayed by the intrigues of Russia. A change, or rather modification, of the French Ca binet, is now generally looked for in Paris. M. Guizot, it is thought, will retire to make room for Mole, Monta livet, or Thiers. The fortifications of Paris are suspended; the con tractors are nearly all ruined, the Engineering Depart ment having enforced the exeeution of their engagements with the utmost severity. A large body of workmen are consequently thrown out of employment, and they will doubtless augment the difficulties of the Ministers. Another source of embarrassment is the apprehension that a Turkish squadron will be sent against Tunis. The Cabinet knows not what step to take. The Presse is for a declaration in favour of the Tunisians. This would be but a preparatory step to the seizure of Tunis by France, which England must oppose. Here, then, is a peck of troubles for France. The wife of Don Carlos—the late Princess de Beira — is seriously indisposed. This occurrence is likely to be made a pretext for insisting on the liberation of her hus band. Despatches to Berlin and Vienna on the subject have already been transmitted by the Prussian and Aus trian Ministers from hence. Prussia, it is added, will peremptorily insist on the early termination of Don Carlos captivity. A letter from Toulon of the 25th ult. has the follow ing :—" The number of sick in Africa is very great. The five sail of the line engaged in transporting troops to the various points of that country are each to bring back 200 of these invalids, and every preparation for their comfort on board is made. The officers of these ships are discontented at seeing them converted into hospitals, but as the other vessels are insufficient for the purpose, this appropriation is indispensable. The Ma rengo, Alger, Diademe, Genereux, and Ville de Mar seille, will bring home the 23d of the line from Oran, the 62d of the line, it is believed, from Constantine, and such of the soldiers as are discharged from service. By these changes the army will gain between 4,000 and 5,000 effective men ; but the aggregate number will be the same as at the opening of the campaign in the spring —viz., 80,000 men." The Cologne Gazette says :—" The contraband is ac tive on the confines of Russia and Prussia. The peasants have formed a kind of armed corps to carry on the traffic. The penalties are severe. The Russian smug glers are sent to Siberia. The Prussian smugglers are kept till they pay double duty, which is so severe that they are seldom ransomed. A pound of cotton pays 70 roubles duty."—There is an easy remedy for this demo ralising evil. Reduce the duties and there will be no smugglers. The Regent of Spain has returned to the capital, which he entered in triumph on the 23d ult., amid the acclamations of the people and the National Guard. " The Regent," says a Spanish Correspondent of the Moniteur Parisien, " before returning to Madrid, re fteived from all parts petitions for amnesty and clemency. At .every station as lie passed along the people thronged to great him. On the Queen's birthday he gave a grand reception at Saragossa, and his saloons were crowded. The inhabitants of Bilbao presented him an address, de manding justice on the truly culpable, but at the same time calling to his notice those heroes with whom he had been united in affection at the bivouac, and in the hour of danger, and concluding with this appeal—' Clemency —clemency for Bilbao !' " The Regent will cast a deep stain upon his name if the clemency so generally im plored be refused. The Correo Nacional announces that the publisher of the Cangrejo has been condemned by the jury to six years' imprisonment for an article in that paper, and that all the persons in prison in Madrid under sentence for offences of the press have been removed to the prisons of Las Penas de San Pedro, where they are to undergo their sentence. One of them is said to be upwards of seventy years of age, and in a bad state of health. The Spanish Government is very much to blame in authorising these prosecutions for political offences. Espartero ought to signalise his return to the capital by setting all this class of offenders at liberty. The number of letters which have passed through the French Post-office have more than doubled within the last twenty years. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times, alluding to the question of the relations existing between the Porte and some of its former Chris aft"' provinces, remarks :—" It has been pretty generally agreed by all the Powers and the statesmen who have app li e d themselves, with more or less disinterested anxiety, to cure the disorders and to invigorate the frame of the Turkish Empire, that repose was the condition most essential to the recovery of its health and vigour. But, unfortunately for the theory of those who hold that since the signature of the collective note of July, 1839, all Europe has acknowledged a common interest and a common policy in Eastern affairs, the Porte has conti nued to be agitated, not only by internal intrigues, but by a series of occurrences which perpetually exhibit its own embarrassments, and to invoke the interference of its allies. The note sent by the Turkish Government on the 28th of October to the representatives of Eng land, France, and Russia, is an unequivocal symptom of the fresh perturbation in the relations existing between the Sultan and his former Christian provinces." — Whether existing in a state of peace or war, the days of Turkey, as an influential and independent Power, are, we fear, numbered. She is a doomed kingdom, though possibly for a few years, a variety of accidental causes may occur to protract her fall. The old fanaticism, wh . ich was her great strength in war, is gone and the reforms, substituted in its stead, have not yet acquired sufficient vje - our and stability efficiently to supply its pl ace . At p r oent, the pacific dispositions of the, peat European States nointain Turkey in a state of compara tive integrity ; but let hese dispositions be but once dis turbed, and the Powers be own i n t e rests, and from thatwholly Moment taken Turkey's fate is sealed, and she becomes a Russian up with their p:•ovin ce. The Chronicle thus alludes to Lora John Russell's answer to the Plymouth. Address, and the romments made on it by the Tory Journals :—" The first sourZke of annoyance appears to be the confidence expressed in, and accepted by, Lord John Russell, as the champion of free trade, in opposition to the Tory monopolist confederation. Having a Premier of their own, whom nobody trusts, and who has been baptised " Judas" by every section of his followers in turn, they naturally wish the antagonist force to be in the same predicament. They know what their own feelings would be in case of discomfiture. The thought of defeat makes the eye of Sir Robert Peel himself glance furtively at the picture of Actmon. They are startled at the closer drawing together of the bonds of union and confidence ~ under circumstances of discouragement ; so they have re course to the theory of quackery and credulity for a solution. Generally speaking, an expert and un scrupulous quack is the last person whom the more cre dulous class of patients will be content to distrust.' Lord John Russell unscrupulous l' We should like to hear of a public man who has alienated more followers by the very fact of his unyielding scrupulosity, even while re taining their high respect for his integrity and courage." —Were not the Tories in fear of. Lord John Russell, they would not, through their organ, attack him as they have lately done. It is his high moral influence over a large portion of the more reflecting classes of the com munity, that makes them dread every sound political opinion that falls from his lips, as if it were fraught with ruin to their own prospects. In a word, his Lordship is a thorn in the side of Toryism, and long may it rankle there ! The Post is still disquieted in spirit about the stern truth-tellings of the Liberal press, as is evident from the following passage :—" Whatever may be the opinion of ' Liberal Members of Parliament on either side of the House of Commons, we adhere to the judgment which we have on more than one occasion expressed, that good order, and the liberty which depends upon good order, cannot be expected to exist in this or in any other coun try, where the outrageous falsehoods of the press are per mitted, as in this country they now are. We affirm that free discussion is one thing, and the freedom to publish, without any sort of let or hindrance, whatever violent or inflammatory falsehood may happen to occur to the heated mind of a party writer, is quite another. That the one thing i s a good, and the other a n evil. That the one ought t o b e en couraged as an aid to i ntelli g ence and freedom, and that the other ought to be p unished as a gross off ence aga i ns t good morals, good m anners, and the peace of society." —The real meaning of all this farrago of words is, that the Liberal j ournals should not be permitt e d t o wr it e any thing but wh at is p leasing to the Tories. Th e y s hould drop no suggestions but such RS are in acco r d an ce with the best interests of Sir R. Peel and C o . If t h e y act °therwise' and insist on telling the truth, careless how that truth may offend the delicate ears of Tory ism th e n they should instantl y be p ut down as a nuisance, and proscribed as heartless, unprincipled fire-brands. This is good Tory logic enough ; but every unbiassed reader's common sense will at once supply an answer to it. The Herald thus comments on Lord Dangannon's letter respecting the Oxford Professorship of Poetry :—‘, Hi s Lordship who is an M.A. of Oxford—but of Christ Church (Dr. Pusey's own college)—is exceedingly dis tressed on account of the opposition to Mr. Williams' pretensions to the chair of Poetry being founded on grounds so irrelevant' as these or those special theo logical tenets.' Now it is because we, too, can say with his Lordship, that we are attached to that noble University and deeply interested in its welfare,'—that we protest against the assumption that the grounds of objection to Mr. Williams, for one of its professors, in a chair—the lee . tures of which are, of all others, calculated to exercise COURT CIRCULAR . Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda arrived in town in a carriage and four, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from her residence at Blackheath, and visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highneis afterwards paid visits to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, and to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from her residence at Kew, and visited his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal at Marlborough House, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir Edward East sat as Privy Councillors. Mr, Pemberton, Q.C., and Mr. Purton Cooper, Q.C., were heard for the appellants, and Mr. Turner, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd, for the respondents, in an appeal of " Ranidass v. Davidass," from the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay. The case lasted the whole day. ADELAIDE GALLERY. MESMERISM. Last evening Mr.lEfse,&lecturer. on Animal Magnetism, was permitted, by the Proprietor of the Adelaide Gallery, to subject one of his patients to a se ries of electrical experiments, from the powerful three feet plate machine, made by E. M. Clarke, of the Strand, who superintended the discharge, of a Leyden battery of six jars, constituting one of the most power ful batteries in the kingdom. Mr. Halse stated that his object in bringing his patient there was to convince the public that the exhibition of her insensibility to the electric power during the magnetic sleep was not assumed or collusive. Ile said, that there could be no suspicion of collusion when the experiment was to be conducted by the most skilful elec tro-magnetician in the kingdom,who was, at the same time a disbeliever in the existence of mesmeric influence, and a declared opponent of those who profess that mystery as a science. Whatever credit for wisdom a reporter might gain by affected scepticism, it is impossible for any honest observer to say other than this : The young lady sus tained, without the least manifestation of sensibility, re peated shocks, any one of which would, in the lan guage of those present, knock down a bullock. Every one of those gentlemen who assist Mr. Clarke in his arrangement of the electrical apparatus, openly declared that they would not for any pecuniary consideration con sent to be subjected to a similar experiment. The loud plaudits of nearly 500 persons who attended the gallery, without any previous intimation of the wonder they were about to witness, must console Mr. Halse for the rash and unfounded calumnies with which he has been elsewhere assailed. Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Sedgwick delightfully relieved the intervals between the divine performance of the Infant Harpist by concerti upon the piano and concertina. Mr. Booth delivered a lecture upon the various kinds of gas, and gave the numerous and respectable company almost delirious pleasure by his exceedingly funny illus trations of the ef&cts of the laughing gas. EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn—ln The Sun of last night, you have reported the procedings of a public meeting, held at the London Ta vern on the 30th November, to take into consideration a national scheme of emigration. Whilst I sympathise, as much as any gentleman at the meeting, with the suf fering thousands in Paisley and other places in the United Kingdom, I am unwilling to allow erroneous statements, made at that meeting, to go abroad without contradiction, as such errors will only add to the misery and wetchedness which millions of my fellow-countrymen have now to contend with. - It is V not only laudable, but it is incumbent on every man in the country to stand forward and afford relief to his fellow-men, if he be able, by any act or any advice, to give assistance ; but, to do so efficiently, he must make himself acquainted with the causes of those suf ferings. If a man be sick, and a physician be called in to pre scribe for and to relieve him, it is necessary that the phy sician should firstinquire - into the nature and duration of the disease, and satisfy himself as to what he considers to be the causes before he can prescribe the proper remedy to remove the disorder. On the same principle the dele gates from Paisley, and the other gentlemen who at tended the meeting, ought to have inquired into the nature of the distress, its duration and true causes, before they call on the British public, by resolutions at a meeting in the London Tavern, to promote wholesale emigration as the remedy. It is evident from the language of the speakers that they have not adopted that course, and that they spoke of measures to be adopted which would not only aggra vate the distress of the present sufferers, but be the means of bringing others in the community, now ex empt and struggling to avoid it, into the same unhappy condition. I admit, with them, that there are many thousands in great distress, and the picture they have drawn of eight or ten of our industrious population being obliged to oc cupy one small room, twelve feet square, perhaps with out tire, and with little covering and less food, even of the coarsest kind, to satisfy the cravings of nature ; and I will further add, which I know to be the case, that low typhus fevers, brought on by want of food, want of cleanlinepsoKant of comfortable lodging, and good air, are daily ,s,weeping off numbers of our fellow-country men, and are fast thinning the ranks of the miserable, by hurrying them to the grave, the only home where hey are free from their oppressors. Mr. Crawford, the advocate for Paisley, knows very well that the distress has been coming on for the last two years, and that failure 9f the manufacturers there, and the want of work, and want of a ages, are the proxi mate causes of that distress. He ought also to know that there are causes to which all the thinking and honest part of the community attribute that distress; namely, the maintenance of impolitic and unjust restrictions on the industry and trade of the country, to the support of a wicked monopoly of food, which, by preventing our taking the corn, cattle, and food that America and other countries have in abundance, and are anxious to give to our starving people in exchange for the produce of their labour; that the unjust class legislation of the aristo cracy is the real cause of the.present distress. Mr. Craw ford and others who attended that meeting, must know that the aristocracy, by supporting the enormous taxation of five millions sterling yearly, and by unequal and un just laws laying the greater part of that amount, by in direct taxation, on the sugar, beer, and necessaries of the working and middle classes, are the cause of the present almost unexampled distress; and . I greatly fear that the men who are thus encouraging a wholesale national emi gration, are put forward by the aristocracy and Tories to divert the attention of the nation from the corn and provision -laws, which are the immediate cause of this distress ; a want of repreSeritation, or of extended suf frage to the people, being the true cause of all the mis rule, class-legislation, and consequent misery which we now see around us. I shall, in another letter, examine the arguments used at the public meeting on Wednesday at the London Tavern, and prove how fallacious they are. But I con sider it necessary to undeceive the public as to one of the gross and exaggerated statements made at that meet ing. A Mr. Rogers (I hope not Mr. Sheriff Rogers) warmly expressed his approbation of the plan of a great national scheme of emigration, and he concluded by stating that " Her Majesty's provinces of Upper and Lower Canada would take two millions of emigrants with great and lasting advantage to themselves." By the Britannia steamer, files of New York Papers have been received, by which it appears that the emigrants from Scotland are in a state of starvation there, and that there are no means of relief but " the cold charities of an unfeeling world." Let the people recollect, tjiat here they have a claim on the poor-rates against starvation, and that, although such a claim is at best a very poor dependence, yet it is better than no claim, and perhaps no relief, in the Canadas. I shall resume the subject, but urge the publication of the following extract from the Canada Times of the 15th of October last. IL DESTITUTE IMMIGRANTS.—We have repeatedly taken occasion to censure the conduct of those who have been inducing the poor of the Mother country to emigrate to British North America, at a time when there are no public works in course of prosecution, nor any means at the disposal of the Government, or private benevolent institutions, to aid the destitute, or to give them employ ment. And we have expressed the opinion, that many of the poor immigrants would be left destitute of the common comforts of life at the approach of that season when' they would become in dispensable. In proof of the correctness of this opinion, we refer to the fact, that at the present time there are at St. Francis, Lower Canada, two hundred immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland, in a most wretched and destitute situation, and actually on the point of starving! Relief has been asked from the Montreal St. Andrew's Society, but in vain; and the poor creatures are thrown upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world, for the bare means of subsistence failing in which to fa mish, to sicken, and die, in a land of strangers, far from the silver streams, the green valleys, and wild mountains of their fatherland. Who can contemp l a te a situation more deplorable ! EMIGRATION FROM CAxADA.--While Dr. Rolph and other equally patriotic individuals are using all their little strength in endeavouring to entice the poor of the mother country into this province, to beg, steal, or starve, many of the oldest inhabitants, those who have been the pioneers in the s ettlement of the country, who have composed the hardy yeomanry of Upper Canada for twenty, thirty, and even forty years, have reared large families, and k-now no other spot as Home, are selling out their all, and going to seek an asylum in the deep foresti, or upon the wild prairies of the Western States. No doubt a change of Ministers at home, with an anticipa tion of a change o f p olic y here, is the actual cause of so many very respectable and intelligent individ ua l s as are mentione d below, leaving their fine, comfortable hom e s to be occupied b y stran g ers, and flying from amongst us (to use the language of Sir Francis Head) as from a land of pestilence. Itis much to be regretted ; but, really, can they be worse off than here, under the domi nation of a Tory Government ?--.Kingston Herald. ERRATUM. —It was Dr. Clutterbuck who pre sided at the Mechanics' Institution on Wednesday even i n g. Another name was mentioned in our Journal. SOUTHAMPTON ) DEC. I.—The Great Liver pool steamer sailed hence thi s morn i ng w i t h eve ry berth occ upied, having 110 passengers on board. A great in crease of passengers seems to have occurred on this voyage in consequence of the communication by . steam being now opened throughout. The steamer India will await the arrival of the Great Liverpool, and convey F?s sengers on from Suez to the various appointed Indian stations. MO NING SIJN THE NEW LORD MAYOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV• SIR,—In the columns of your liberal paperant' noticed recently with pleasure the spirited praiseworthy manner you spoke o f the benevc" lent character of Mr. Pirie, w h en called u pon to , exercise his publ i c functions as Lord M a yor, O a ' hope, therefore, you will insert the following' case, which deserves some public notice/ showing at once his capacity as a Avail of business, and liberal and genertnis disposition as Chief Magistrate, `willing ta e tend his protection to all classes of ra de I!) though they may not legally have a claim to IL! as in the case of aliens, whom the law does 1 3 °' license to trade as sworn brokers without beisigi freemen of the city. The following cas e 1/1 1 . show the present state of the laws :—A- br oke, in the wool trade lodged an inform ation throllo the city solicitor against another, for allowing* 0t • foreigner to acv: under his name. The Court, I)3l ,tiy '' Aldermen proceeded against the offending who let the action go by default , consequel incurred the penalty and forfeiture of bis The informer thought by these means, P 3 .` as they were, to get rid of an active COnaPet!ti°o,l.' who,from his industrious and business -like a,e;rd no doubt excited his jealousy; Mayor, having inquired more fully into all f , circumstances of the case, and finding the foret; gentleman, who has resided upwards of 16 2, e bie, in this country, to bear an unimpeae",an honest character, admitted him at once as alien broker, having the privilege t,.° t i ich twelve alien brokers to the city, and tor - jot' but the , 1 0 .0 office I believe as much as 1,000/. had been g the i r before the Jews were • allowed to take "P„ Mr. freedom. This reflects much credit a,lOl Pirie, and if he goes on in this liberal and t itle, some manner will justly merit a ilig her dior3 r which Providence, under rather extra(); d ised and happy auspices, appears to have "e -for him. .uirY l The brokers' laws form a fit subject 13r`,-n,'.'lne& and,l am rather surprised the common jaw sot do not more frequently catch hold of the.i n de . oo l o I cannot see why foreigners who are r es i l d i not be the country paying rent and taxes shil l CitY; permitted to take up the freedom b ro kers e for purposes of trading either as T .or to" merchants, and what would the Chiae' e * in t ile principle which the first commercial City)regot world will not recognise, when we arc,atoi 14110 compelling them to adopt it by forc "Live and let live" , , ra des 1 11 is a good motto, 'and let all men of fib b-hoor and nations reap the fruits of their honest la-- Industry. . a nt, I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient sevr‘giNP' A FRIEND TO ALL Al fl- ` ..- Dec. 1, 1841. City, mades urinated sent trio, oYeinc P l ,jnsit cintae o rdetE.raaeo. adp: S vaiffip.nii T EenenßaNehs - rhiutede o iAdAes‘ FFJ CE DE LIN Q un•rectorryi;„ here iovriatt:esltsGia,Nnbsettgtort thooveerwtug: _ _ V 4l goke3ehellti.vi—baitenouliotnrßhcerueoetsarspittioojedgds:ityemteifo:::_te;irtitrtairitoehascitiobAvb itastehrt.: 3"' Post-officep prosecutor, s acsrcroe or ci°e for by (;;Ile51::. Peacock, the solicitor to the General ost -° .i s otle)fall R. and J. B. Winterbotham defended the ri st gr..„, to Mr. Peacock said, that the charges egainbelorrfr were for embezzling several sums of rio n tsein t e_V l ' the Government revenue, and for making s ted s' f d vt ee u nm l h e b n ue t nir. fo returns ri ,thoew General f ed t ne h el e irvael n r u Py m oos b n :r tohifi o e f c s e e ht t ,a t letters e 5 r th 0 : 01 , 00 ; 0 0 ; uo et 1 . 5 hie co e knowing the amount received for those le, o t te bo c sse se te 6l the returns made by the postmaster. )-irbicheriP under the 2d of William IV., cap. 4, sec. 1, ‘ ity of ...n i e n iiii , that persons so acting should be deemed g u N i c a ll tr A There were other carges against Mr . s py' 0 5 through September, October, Bcc., but he ist t bere b, 5 5, proceed on those three at present. On den thelleg 2s. 6d. deficient ; on the 2d, 9s. 6d. ; an, cour i deficient. He was certain that if Mr• l' it wool; himself, and account for these mistakes, ell him great pleasure, but if not, then it O s take it to another Court. post-ooce,:obe‘ Joseph Fowler, the chief clerk in the - 1 - ° t t he frf r ool called, from whose evidence it appeared th3a,,lie o f ig of town letters was daily noted on a post,„" o ler s vel l which Mr. Wall copied them at night, , t ea 0) A V the number in a private book he was instr u n s ooll, ef r , for that purpose. These returns were se e d, ° the sth of every month; on the days -w a ll's or° another return had been made in 5 11 ters t0, 1/ e rei'l writing accounting for a less number of if!' d a y, 'PI)", actually copied from the postage slip of ° e d. o ° 4 defrauding the revenues of the sums naln e i l e tters master had to charge himself for all the ' e for 0 1 00; those sent to the three penny post-offleesholehe4 lages of I'restbury, Charlton, and Wi ll ,, c- st ed t t, circularsi;ic an d p l mtc ‘ ie - al e ieri r vai e oeßesdflo t l o ins.efolele. b ,oso: e ., mcfdoleol d errnrmp, e a d oatitrocsn u h. es.h c ose ci A lave l ce r rcri . 3o, : } r ' d ( n i t i i v ca l to e hu r et on a t2 l s idf o no, srto r , joicividet joy were hideout.d to theicilceh number O ta r p l li.eerd, of a letters D h s e l?e c a l be: c ° c rii eP t i :° , three days named, 'w tter' „ t o - I with t postmaster should have accounted for. t deo° The COURT adjourned at six o'clock W. eleven this morning, when the evidence of 31,1'11, ch was taken, and as it contains the pater,' ° we give it at length. th ves se o tinr teli 10 Mr. Rideout was- examined at n • , number of paid letters unaccounted, t °l ; 3 o l' st tb" belief that the money unaccount ed 0 0t t session of the prisoner, and Ou t be ern lll ' returns made to be correct. taft the t oo "°11 The CHAIRMAN announced te- t i it e•- - t° lid put on his trial, but they would t' u n l tesch.. „ er , afr h e self in 5001 . and two sureties in 25 " e t he pr' s° l• - t i I' 3 o Mr. Winterbotham, on behalf ° 1 cus tody °) 1 0 11 0 5 nu th ecn a ti t els h sta e or-y ea m i so g arerr h o t ti b ive e ,sw c ; o ial n ise ti no n ,h u ot e h d saht i o n uthi t d h e e be e'l i a re te p a ui r e e raio i restored to taken from the prisoner, might be which applications were granted. The Coillyr then adjoun .... -- te e° l ROYAL ARTILLERY 15 - 0. 1 1 0 WO 0 L The MI it as ter- e n eots cos' ie; 0' .—; „p leased to make the following aPP°ir;titegin,eli t upon the promotions in the Bort, tillery t A Cille r,' 1 10 ' Colonel Monro, to command the -- s t elec t C v ° o . r oiP ip f Captain Palliser, Secretary to th e • st ant Ilk Second Captainssi Ito} at Plymouth ; Second Captain Pick e ring , ove Repository. t° The under-mentioned officers are O vi , Artillery and to battalions, as followsj omi el v p. To the Royal Horse Artillery..--ic pO , 01 vice Pym ; Col. Whynyates,vice ojer' he ro i ' Lieutenant-Colonel C. Blackley,llP° ll '" C" d l e e Wylde, advanced to Lieut.-Colonels IT'onet,',oo, e Whynyates ; Captain Ward , vice -IV 1.);11' v ie Ingilby, vice Blackley ; Second CelotaWooo' tice Morgan ; First Lieutenant Cator, vie eattl'Aes, To Battalions.----Col. Wallace , to 77 3. OW' s, Cleaveland ; Colonel Trelawney, t° e lo L ' O r ' Whynyates. Cole ll • e ; Upon Lieut.-Cblonel's wi t iP, c i A ch'" Gordon, to the 9th battalion, vic e A .. 1 0 -13, Walker, to sth battalion, vice Jones; 1;000 1 4 1 / 5 ,;0e sth battalion, vice J. B. Jones; te ts hol l 'del i battalion, vice Brandreth; H. G. Jae.'" - 9t h . bis t rfr el , lion, vice Hutcheson; E. Sabine, w r ice - pe Mitchell; E. Cruttenden to 3d battslion, cop J. Sinclair, to 6th battalion, vice 1-1101:_sjellt;:,0, Ove Lieut.-Colonels upon Major's Pal - j, gib," J. Grey to Bth battalion, vice Gordenltinot o ha to o r , battalion, vice Walker; lion. W. Ashy to 9J v ice talion, vice Maclachlan• H. Blaeltlei_,,talion, pel•-„e. vice Blaekley; J. Chaimer, to 3d ktu_. , f ice t ,,11‘ ) ‘40 donald ; F. Macbean, to 6th battallocuttbioe; ) 0, to W. H. Stopford, to sth battalion, ViCe Pels v , to 7th battalion, vice Cruttenden; G• j o y •o r a r cof battalion, vice Sinclair. vice a Burn, o in 3Cdupbpaattgaellotioi,9vthiebeatitnalgionnb,..ys,;: vsierriotooo.ol:o,l: Young, to Ist battalion, vice Dupla t i- derso ( n s , ig to ne 2 d d ) bautt.aplio.niwviscse, perity cor s c rew d l 4 Cator. A ajtitat te c te mp' s ty' NAVAL I N TELLIGENCE. — T he 51",, i t h the 000 fr t u , Commander M. A. Slater (actin g ) w' olwi eb 'cid et3 ! l ": Lightning, arrived on Monday at - % t o se to jar land, and is to be paid off. Am e of the 5 . iri'.er r place shortly after her arrival, one o arid c h t e eco ing fallen down when at w° rl4 t yet yit,' l ' o r r taueously ; from what cause has n° tio. rf h e r o , l orl e tained, but it was evidentlyaeeidenvith CA,ool,j'f; is ordered to be commissioned ti e 0 0 , 0 le s men. The Devastation steton-f tsails j 5 pie gO, Hastings Reginald Henry, was d elaY te a w e° t he iti ot i o a) ; rious causes, and it was fully exP e . on o f tn t '.,ilf ; Woolwich on Monday. In anticintlh feecoelf., ; case, the Bishop of Jerusalem, wi b t ers of '` cc oli i ,r f ol, great number of friends and mew 1 ,0 1,11 , v o o" , ; interested in the mission to the lioly e ti o ilY him on board, purposing to leave, th bec v ow v 0 1 :1 4 : ej end. Commander Henry havinv nit i o de l Vv . sr` J 'o ol o the sailing of the Devastation was a,' do cni 0 11 1,4 6 turn Bishop ' sto town.end s acnodmptua rdatnyidaleacrnodnuesdec ug a rtl t ye.; : sc, Jo e °, e S unabated yesterdey, an a iIH sa ft i e le r d noo fo n r , t t h h e e co A m le m di a t as he can bear the fatigue of the jo nerd r o a r n i e n a t n en a d h i l i t .rt_ t o " e s , r e l e ;i e l, to join her at ---CLAND 1 9, 1 oTali — O GREAT N F . N o v. 3 ......... mp Traffic uesr cseh r n e agi t ei u d ir r s n z .e s . 0 .. ............ ending. ........................ O'Bltgo, Darlington, Dec. 1. , ~f W p b j b ec s , COLONIAL S O the afeltciellpfi was held e Special SocietysGt eerndeanryanld oefe morningi nthgeactti;ivee Colonialool 00 7 , I f et c o p,:i o ,: t;fer t v 4 4 , 1 44 R C o o A l o o ni n api St. James's-street, to ref ton t e tiel fcri s the Committee of Managetnew,raj 01:. and Rules submitted at the last ger con to „f Provisional Committee appointed V o dies; .n ' t ,ted .o t on the amalgamation of the tiv? soo jga.cdou Committee of Management of tn e io the r 4 5 1 to choose new trustees and lessees lot e present • and on other business. lied for i_istion, One of our reporters a pp formed that the proceedings were privy ^ ~;r J t,. ~~~ a. ~A ' ~1 f i ~~