The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-08 00:00:00

EVENING SUN ATODEL of NIAGARA.—MR. CATLIN L has just placed in his INDIAN.MUSEUM, Egyp tian Hall, Piccadilly, for a few weeks, his MODEL of NIA- G A RA, which hos been made on a perfect scale of proportion, and from accurate survey, showing, in relief and colour, every house, tree, rock, bridge, &c., in the vicinity of that sublime scene.—Open Day and Eveniug.—Admission, One Shilling. Both are to leave London in a short time. MR AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. OLD SAINT ' PAUL'S: A TALE of the MAMIE and the FIRE. ith Twenty large Illuitrations , on Steel, by7Franklin. IS NO Y READY AT ALL THE Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-p'ace, Trafalgar-square. Nbw ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., T HE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENS= LAND. AN AMERICAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington. street, Publisher in:Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW WORK by the AUTHORof " THE SUBALTERN." r i ll HE VETERANS of CHELSEA HOSPITAL _ By the Rev. G. R. GLEIG, Author of " The _ Subaltern," &c. In 3 vol.. post Bvo., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES , Ilichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. In 1 vol., eleg.ntiv Found, price 123., with 37 Illustrations by the Author and Mr. Leech, MR. HOOD'S •COMIC ANNIU4I MR 'FOR 1842. THE SECOND IMPRESSION IS NOW READY FO] DELIVER ' Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great llarlborough-?treet. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL, " FATHERS AND SONS," IR 3 yob. post Svo., with a Portrait and Memoir of ths' Author ; IS NOW READY AT ALL TIIE LIBRARIES. . 'Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. M•` IMPORTANT NEW HISTORICAL WORK'. On Saturday flex*, in 2 vols. Bvo., price 285., MEMORIALS OF THE REAT VIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND, FROM 1646 TO 1652. ve tr: / .. _ _ Edited from Original Letters, in the Bodleian_ Library, of Charles the First, Charles the Second, Queen Henrietta, Prince Rupert, Prince Maurice, Prince Charles Lodovic, Duke of York, Hyde Earl of Clarendon, ArAbishop Sancrofc, Marquis of Worcester, Earl of DerbA, Oliver Cromwell, S,r Thomas Fairfax, Major-General Monk, Major-General Skip pon, Colonel Ireton, Admiral Blake, and of numerous other eadoeut persons. By the Rev. HENRY CARY, M.A. Fleury Colburn, Publi,her, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. U siDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, DEC. 8, Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURN AND orry.—Captain Dangerfie7d, Mr. W. Lacy; Sir Paladin Sertiti!e, Mr. W. Parton; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hee!or Rumbush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning tort, Mr. Cooper ; Humphrey Rumbush, Mr. Harley ; Lady Whiffle, Madame Vestr s ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett; Lady Dirtgerfeld, Mrs. W. West ; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs. W. Lecy. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Chara,ters by Mr. Gilbert anti Miss Bailin, Master and Miss ha4i, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss JaAson, &c. To conclude with the Farce of FREE AND EASY.—Sir Joim Freeman, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Charles Courtley, 14. Bartley ; Michael, 3a. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Urger. Doors to he evened at half-past. Six--the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First •and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2,..; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the • Box-office, from Ten till ' , nut, where S2ason. Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of. Mr. Andre es, bookseller, 1/1.7. New Bond-atrcot. To-morrow, Norma, and Charles the Twelfth. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Graham, Mr. Phelpg i and the must po►serful Company supporting Shakspere's Tragedies. THIS EVENTING, DEC. S. Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of KING LEAR.-- King Lear, Mr. Phelps ; Edgar, Mr. H. Hughes; Cordelia, Mrs IL Viniag. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense, interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND • CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Heights, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON Great and powerful attraction, Mr. Osbaldiston and Miss Vin. cent in " The Wonder," and only appearance of Mr. An dregs and his celebrated Dog, Victor. THIS EYENING, DEC. 8 FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. SEAMAN, 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. Atter which, THE WONDER : A WOMAN KEEPS A K:CRET.—Don Felix, Mr. thbaldiston ; Colonel Briton, Mr. Seaman ; Lissardo, Mr. Gardner ; Gibby, Mr. Paul ; Violaote, 111I'ss Vincent. Teeoaclude with EAGLE EYE OF THE LONG RIFLE, OR THE BACKWOODSMAN AND HIS DOG.—lnwhich Mr. Andrews and his Dog will appear, conjointly with th .trangth of the Company. Berms, 2s.—l4it, I s.— Crallery, 6d.- - galf-price to the Boxes ocy, at Half-past Eight. To-Morrow, Two Locksmiths, The Honeymoon, and Popo lino, being for the Benefit of Mr. Newham. THE RAILWAY SUN. ArOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. TV E CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAIVIENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 8, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " John Stones."—The paragraph was copied from an evening paper, which is sometimes generous towards a political enemy. WHE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 8. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Zhermometer... 40 I Highest 49 I Lowest 35 Barometer 29.49.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO bEo ming,.....47 minutes after 10 1 Evening 21 minutes after 11. rkiv Rubileation of the Evening Edition of Tuz SUN corn- meneed at 10 minutes after Three. Ns - .0::,1t2_,,.:: ,, 7- ~ , ,-,... 06,,, ) 4 LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841. English landlords are renowned all over the world, according to their flatterers, for their cleverness and generosity, and English farmers are, on the same authority, equally renowned for theft skill. An English clergyman, however, the Rev. C. CLARK, s peaking at the Ilarleston Farmers' Club, on the 2Gth ult., and speaking apparently with knowli:dge on the subject, asserts that the agricultural " improvements are, beyond comparison , greater in Scotla n d t h an in this country," and' h e assigns as a reason that in Scotland long leases are , given o n corn rents. " The farmer there, for the first ten year s , ,, as he pleases, and d uring says, " cultivates ()Ines under the rotat i on the last four years he c system prescribed by the lease." " He is bound by his covenants," says a Mr. HARVEY, the Se cretary to the Club, " to leave, the laud in as good a condition as he found it." The Scotch farmers are, by this testimony, superior to the • English ; and now the English farmers shall, in their turn, testify to the .eleverncss and genero sity of our English landowners. According to the Harleston Farmers' Club the " COMPULSORY PLOUGHING are by which tenant s bound hi their leases is injudicious and unneces sary." Compfilsory ploughing ! Whati are farmers bound to plough their ground when it is injudicious and unnecessary? Yes, says the Secretary to that Club, speaking of Norfolk, one of the best cultivated parts of England ; " the leases are constructed on pretty much the same form as those of two centuries ago, and what were considered good covenants in those days are not so considered (by the farmers) "'v." A JOHN GEDNEY, Esq., at the same me eting, bore similar testimony. "It was the cyst-mil," he said, " of his part of the country, that farmers were compelled to ploughs four times a yeur." lie was ready to prove that it would he advantageous to both farmer and landlord that the latter " should not be compelled to plough up hid land." The farmers of England, then, are compelled, at this day, by their clever and generous landlords, to cultivate the soil under certain covenants in their leases, according to the custom of the couutv, as it was cultivated, according to Mr. HarivEy, two centuries ago. Well might the Rev. C. CLARK say— Why should a farmer be told whether he shall grow wheat or whether he shall grow turnips ; where he shall lay his manure, or when he shall lay it on, whether the land requires it or not ? I believe there is no other body in England, manufacturers or others, who are dictated to in that manner. Manufacturers, like every other class but farmers, are left to the exercise of their own judgment. This, however, is mot quite all. According to the same Reverend anthority, farmers, lest they should frighten the game, are "restricted from cutting their fences . under a certain number of years," and, " when the fences are allowed to grow, a considerable quantity of land is lost, and the farmer loses one-third of his crop." The farmers of England, therefore, are at this time the slaves of an antiquated and ignorant system, and 'arg Fompelled, in many respects, to cultivate the soil'as it was cultivated two centuries ago. At present this is a very serious consideration for the community, which is obliged, by a bread tax, to pay the expense of the cultivation. In what condition would our manufactures be were they conducted according to the knowledge- of tne year 1640? They would be nearly the last instead of the first of the world. Our agriculture is not the last, because the improvements which our manufactures have introduced—(and it will be recollected that those improvements have mainly sprung up in the cotton manufacture, which owed no allegiance *to the ancient guilds and apprentice lawt of Europe)— have extended their beneficial effects to agriculture. Nevertheless, though not the last, owing to such restrictions our agriculture is much behind. Money and labour, according to the testimony of the Harleston Club, are wasted on injudicious and unnecessary, but compulsory ploughing. Money and laud are wasted, ac cording to the Rev. Mr. CLARK, by compelling the farmers to allow their hedges to grow for a certain number of years. Money and labour, therefore, are wasted in providing the neces sary supply of food fur the community. The cost of the production of corn in England is much }creased; we cannot grow it—how should we with such management?—as cheap as other countries; and Corn-laws are maintained, because the farmers must preserve game, and lose a third of their crops, and because they are compelled to plough, injudiciously and unneces sarily, four times a year, according to tire custom two centuries ago. So the people are plundered and starved, because the stupid or wilful land owners are unwilling to promote, or desirous to prevent, improvements in agriculture. We are bound, on this occasion, to tell the public emphatically, that such conduct on the part of the landowners of England is nothing new. We learn from the celebrated work, "Political Arithmetic," written about 1670, by Sir WILLIAM PETTY, the founder of the LANSDOWNE family, and first published by the first Lord SHELBURNE, that the landowners of his time were afflicted at the great abundance of provisions which then prevailed, and complained of the cultivation of clovers and other green crops, and sought to check ft.*, In truth, the landlords, as such, have never been the actual cultivators of the soil, and they have always looked with as much envy on the fbrtunes made by their serf or middle class tg'nauts," as on the fortunes made by citizens or manufacturers. Every farthin6r gained from cul tivating the soil they have regarded as their property, and they have always tried, by binding down the farmers, to prevent them from making improvements and gaining all that they possibly could from the soil. We rejoice to see the Norfolk farmers are be coming sensible of the vile slavery to which their landlords subject them. The Harleston Farmers' Club unanimously agreed to two resolu tions, declaring in substance that Many of the clauses in the existing system of leases compelling a fixed mode of cultivation, are unnecessary and injudicious; they tend to render skill and science of less value, because any deviation from the lease is effected at the risk of a heavy penalty; and that these compulsory directions, given at the commencement of a lease, and ex tending through a term of y ears , over a var i ety of soils, and still greater variety of seasons, cannot be so efficacious in promoting the best system of husbandry, as leaving the details of each operation to the skill any judgment of the occupier. We believe not, indeed; and as the farmers are becoming somewhat enamoured, and justly, of the principle of freedom in cultivating the soil, we hope they will extend their liking to other branches of industry, and adopt the opi nion that compulsory directions, extending through a long term of years over an immense variety of occupations, prohibiting buying here, and selling there, cannot be so efficacious in pro. moting the public welfare as leaving every man at full liberty to buy and sell where he likes according to his own skill and judgment. Our extracts, we must state in conclusion, are made from the Norwich Mercury. * The passage alluded to occurs in Chapter IV. of "Political Arithmetic," and is as follows :—" Now, if we consider that England, having but three acres to a head as aforesaid, doth so abound in victuals as that it maketh law.? against the importation of cattle,fle.sh, and fish from abroad ; and that the draining of fens, improving of forests, enclosing of commons, sowing of St. Foyno and clover grass be grumbled against by landlords, as the way to depress the price of victuals : then it plainly follows," &c. Our readers will find, in another part of The Sun, an article from our Correspondent in Paris, to which we particularly direct their attention. The writer has access to the best sources of in formation, as to the state of public opinion and public feeling in France, and quite confirms all that has been so often said of both in the lead ing columns of this Journal. The Madrid papers received are of the 20th ult. French agents there were busily spreading rumours to the effect that England had demanded the liberation of all slaves imported into Cuba since 1820, and that this demand was but the prelude to the seizure of Cuba by Great Britain. These rumours excited general alarm, and of course operated very mischievously against this country. We are rather surprised that the Spanish Government does not promptly contradict such falsehoods through the columns of the Madrid Gazette. The Madrid Papers announce the death of the Duke DEL INFANTADO. The Duke of OSSUNA will inherit his immense estates. Madrid Bourte of the 29th-331 for cash ; 341 at 60 days. The French Liberal Papers of Monday are filled with comments upon the examination of M. DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du Potpie, for being an accomplice in the conspiracy of QUENISSET and his associates. Never was a charge more disgracefully preferred against a prisoner, or more triumphantly rebutted. The examination of the accused by Baron PASQIIIRR, President of the Court of Peers, would have ror ousting dis graced the notorious Judge JEFFItIES himself. Some twenty Members of the Left Centre met at M. rr ...ittErts' Friday M . o G n ulzol,. . night T to Hi ERs organize has apl madeati Overtur es to Count MOI.E, offering to vote with any Minist ry of which h e - shall be the head, pro vided M. Gun° be excluded. For himself he affects to despise office, for life, if the Couratina contented to rem • and the any appointment and declares he will be pass a similar sentence 1 1 7 i n i his successful and ti the Chambers will only thosejealousies of public more competent ';,rival. bye astage, of rival beau men are hardly surpassed all hands for tile two tics at a ball, or actresses 01 A Toulon letter states that the works on the vessels Montebello, Algesiras, esotithat buildinc, in that port are suspended, e r 8 boardlarge T: h r a e n s s a e t: t a o n r t , i e c o ii steamers, ron ne and a s n a d re sent on the' repairs of which are ordered to be forwarde; they may be ready early in the Spring for any lion required. I s ha . The Univers states that the Prince of Monaco has for bidden the admission of t he Gazette de Fra nce withi n his States. It is rumoured that Government is about to reduce two companies in each regiment of infantry. It is also said that a new experimental battalion is forming at Vincennes. According to the Vienna correspondence of the Ga zette of Upper Germany, some parties have been de tected in that capital carrying on contraband operations upon a large scale. They are said to be connected with respectable houses of commerce, and securities to the amount of 40,000 f. have been demanded of the persons most implicated in the affair. The Dusseldorf] Gazette says that the Prussian Mi nister of War has just given orders for disbanding part of the army. The Cassel Gazette says that more than half of the elections for the Second Chamber of the Hanoverian States are already known, and that the Governmant hitherto has get a large majority. On the other hand, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841. the Gazette of Upper Germany says it is very doubtful whether the definitive majority of• the Second Chamber will be ministerial. BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 6. First Highest Lowest last Price Price. Friel, Prier. French 5 per Cents ll6 50 ... 116 50 ... 116 30 ... 116 20 4% per Cents ......... 106 ... 106 ... 106 ... 106 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 144 50 ... 101 50.... 101 5'1 . , 3 per Cents... „ 8.1 20 „80 20 ... 79 94 ... 79 95 Loan Sank of ranee Laffitte Bank 5,000 f. SI? arcs 15045 ...SOO ...5045 ...5015 eelgian Bank 1841 Belgian 5 per Cents. lb per Cents., 1840 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 192% Spanish Active ......... Passive s'4 ••• 5 % ... 55 4 ... 5% - Old Deferred Neapolitan Roman, ex. div lO3 ... 103 ... 102% ... 103 ... , RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 747 50 ... 750 ... 747 50 ... 750 Versailles, R. 13 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 312 50 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 Orleans .. ___ 4OB ... 480 ... 480 ... 4FO ••• Mulhauscn to Thann ..... 310 ... 890 ... 390 ... 390 Str3,bury to Bale.shares red- 218 '75 ..QlB 75 ... 217 50 ... 217 50 Montpellier to Cette......... £4O ... 240 ... 240 ... 240 CORN-LAWS IN oun . CoLoNlEs.—We remarked in The Sun more than a twelvemonth ago , t h at Mr. .Wakefitld's system of demanding a high price for land in our Colonies and forcing culti vation, carried with it the germ of a Corn-law. Here is a justification of our opinion :—A peti tion on the subject of Corn-laws for New South Wales had been presented to the Legislature by the Chief Justice of the Colony, who remarked, that ". thousands of acres in Australia had been cleared at a vast expense, and if they are thrown out of cultivation, itAvill be so much dead loss. to the Colony, and the advance which Australi has made must be destroyed." CR EATION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, &c. (From the London Gazette of last Evening.) The Queen has been pleased to order letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, for creating his Royal Highness the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony, Duke of Cornwall and Roth say, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland), Prince of Wales and'Earl of Chester. STOPPAGE of the TWEED BANK. The following notice was posted on the door of the Tweed Banking-house, on Monday morning:— " Messrs. Batson, Berry, and Co. beg to in form the public, that, owinc , to unavoidable cir cumstances, they are obliged to suspend payment. " Berwick, Dec. 6, 1841." (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BERWICK, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 6, 1841. The Bank did not open to-day, and the above bill was issued about eleven o'clock. The public had the utmost confidence in their stability, and there is hardly an individual in business but has suffered in consequence. Many have lost their all, and the circumstance has caused a very great sensation. I have not heard any reason assigned for their failure ; but there are many heavy individual losses, and it will be a long time before the town recover, from the shock. XCHEQUER BILL- FORGERY. MR. ItAPALLO. (mom 'A CORRESPONDENT.) In consequence of Mr. Smith pleading Guilty, the prosecutors did not go bef ore th e G ran d Jury to prefer a bill against Ernest Rapallo, who stood indicted for a like offence, and in consequence he was discharged last night. Ile had not left Newgate half an hour before au Inspector of Police arrived to intercept his egress, or to lodge a detainer, upon a new charge of uttering similar Government documents, but the bird had flown. A good deal of surprize was expressed that the bill was not submitted to the consideration of the Grand Jury, as there were forty-nine witnesses indorsed on the back of it awaiting an examination. There appears to have been a great deal• of mis management (to say the least) in this affair, from be ginning to end, and the public will not be satisfied until truth is more fully disclosed, • LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. B.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W. DEAL, DEC. _7.—Wind N.W. by W.—Arrd. Provi dence, Singapore ; Heroine, T ra ill, Ri o J ane i ro; S op hi a, Pocock, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Royal Consort, Westram, Calcutta ; Prince George, Foster, llalifax ; Persian, Sunderland for Constantinople. Arrd. from the River—Ophelia and Ann, Singapore ; John Bremer, for Hobart Town ; Sheppard, Swan River ; Valleyfield, Columbia River. Sid. Dovecot, China ; Dartmouth, Bombay Tomatin, Sydney. TORBAY, DEC. 6.—Arrd. John, ,Sligo for London, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Wind W.N.W. Arrd. William Shand, Bombay ; James, White, Sydney, New South Wales, sailed 19th July, Pernambuco 23d O c t. ; M ary Worrall, Gardner, Lima; sailed Bth Aug. Pernambuco 27th Oct. ; Janet, Valparaiso, sa il e d 27th Aug.; James Ray, Rorison, Buenos Ayres ; Nonantam, King, and Tremont, New Orleans ; Rhode Island, Savannah ; Cosmo, New York ; Scotland, Quebec; Diamond, Fayal; St. Mark, Alexander, Savannah. IN THE CHANNEL.—Arrd. Marmion,Calcutta. WHITEHAVEN, DEC. 6.—Arrd. St. George, Quebec. CORK, DEC. s.—Arrd. Maxim, Mackie, and Navigator, Monte Video ; Regina,St. Domingo ; Galata, Odessa. LEITH, DEC. s.—Sld. Oceanus, Messina. KINSALE, DEC. s.—Arrd. Dykes, Restigouche. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Dewdrop, Newfound land. Put back, Maria Theresa steamer, for Marseilles. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Racer, Malta. Sailed Mangles, London. FALMOUTH, DEC': W.S.W. to W.N.W., strong gales, with violent squalls.—Sld. Braganza steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off, Phoenix, Boyson, Buenos Ayres, and proceeded for Rotterdam. BRISTOL, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Recovery, Bowman, and Sir F. B. Head, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Baron, Hall, Miramichi. MILFORD, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Emerald, Irons, Quebec ; Greenshaw, Bristol, for Sierra Le one . Th e Lady Grey, for London, which ran ashore on the mud at Pembroke Dock, on Friday night, is discharging. The stern of a vessel has been washed ashore outside the harbour, marked Ann, of Newcastle. LARNE.—Arrd. Chas. Arran, Liverpool, for New York MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS; CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 7.—The sales to day are 2,500 bales, without any change in the market.'. LrvEnrooL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 7.—The business reported in this market was, Glasgow, Paisley, and Urcenock, 228 ; Grand Junction, 198 ; London and 13iriniugham, 32/. shares, 54-3- ; ditto new, 251 ; North Union, 751. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.—There continue 3 to be a very good demand for Manchester and Leeds, and Manchester and Birmingham Shares. - Man :thester and Leeds, 60 ; Ditto, Halves, 25 ; Ditto, Quar ters, 33- ; Manchester and Birmingham 24 ; Manches ter and Liverpool Halves, 92 ; Northern and Central Bank, 41. Bs. 6d.; Union Bank, 61 ; Manchester and Sal ford Bank, 9fr. with to cover themselves; but then it cannot be expected that these benevolent persons should also give the money necessary to pay for the making of these pieces of cloth into articles of wearing apparel." TILE FUNDS. The British Mark e t 'opened steady, with but little doing. Consols for the Account are 884 4 ex. div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 8841; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 981-; Bank Stock, 165 166; Exchequer Bills 10 12 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock has slightly improved upon the closing quotations of yester day, being now 24 4 : 1 2 - ; Passive, 54 4 ; Deferred, 124 ; Portuguese Five per Cents, 334 ; Ditt o , Th ree per C ents„ 19i 20 ; Brazilian Stock advanced yesterday 2 per cent., and a good deal of business was done ; they opened this morning 61 to 63. PRICES OA SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per- Share: Cheltenham and Great Western. 724 lil to Great Western ... ... 65 Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O ...... 3644.. to 36 London and Birmingham . Ditto New Manchester and Leeds ...... 7O ..... Ditto 4 Shares Northern.and Eastern — 35 220 ... to North Midland Ditto Thirds COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 74iGibraltar ... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa Antwerp l2 7 Milan Hamburgh M. B. 13 134 Venice Altona 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... 1504 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Uts ... 374 Buenos Ayres Berlin-- ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days si g ht 464 Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 953 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid .. Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville HALF-PAST ONE. There has been scarcely any business doing in the English Securities this morning; prices remain steady without any alteration. Consols for the Account are 881 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 881 1 ; Three-and-a llalf per Cents. Reduced, 981 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 to 12 premium. A few transactions have been effected in Consols, and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. for Money, the for mer a t 89,a 4-, and the latter 99i. In the Foreign Market the.business has been princi pally in Spanish Active Stock, which has, however, not been to any extent, the quotations have been throughout the morning buyers and sellers alternately ; Defer red 121 ; in Portuguese Stock there has not been a bar gain done ; the Five per Cents. are now nominally at has been done at 261, at which price they are firm ; in the other Securitie s we do not notice any variation from d p 3 0 3 r e n : 162, and are norninantl' ley of f h exhibits t per rl6 a c2 n e n; tlimprovementNorthhaving iiMidland been n in dd Lon don previous o ne uadssn hdqßautirhroer net quotations. per Cents , 191 20 • Mexican Stock London and Brighton 361. 4. Consols, Account, 88 TWO O'CLOCK. Spanish, 24 1 ,ex div. ; M ex i can , 26i ; i S MARV OF NEWS AND public Optatoit. " Who runs nary read." . I'OREIGN. - • The Bank of France has issued a notice that it will adyairce four-fifths of the - "value of stock deposited in' its hands, according to its usual terms of transacting busi ness, to effectUate the payments of the three next instal ments of the NeWThree per Cent. Loan by persons who arc holders of it.. - „ • . . The Hon. Mr. Fox Strangways, British Minister Ple nipotentiary to the' Germanic Confederation, gave •a grand full dress, ball on ,the 2d inst., --ati9. , i•ntnkfort, in honour of. the. birth of •the•:Duke of GornArrill... All the Corps Diplomatique, the local authorities, and most of the persons of distinction ..at Frankfort, were present. The number of guests were,49o. At supper the Barons .and FritSch, the Prussian and Saxe-Coburg MiniSters, proposed toasts to the health of. the Queen, the Duke of Cornwall, and Prince Albert, expressing, at. the same time, their wish that the good lintlerstanding which has so long existed between Great Britain and the Germanic Confederation might be long continued. The British Minister acknowledged the compliment in Suitable terms. . It is rumoured that M. Guizot, having been strongly urged by the Belgian. Government to conclude , the pro posed commercial•treaty with Belgium in time to submit it to the Chambers at the commencement of the Session, appointed a Commmission, with M. Rossi, Peer of France, at its head, for the purpose of accelerating the progress of negotiations, but that the fact having come to the knowledge of the parties interested in preventing the conclusion of the treaty, they exerted themselves with such effect, that the subject was brought before the Council of Ministers ; and that, after .a..sbarp discussion, it was decided that the treaty should pot be concluded before the. opening of the Session. . The Mayors of Paris have just ..piblished the pro gramme of the gratuitous course of instruction in sing ing given by the city in the municiparseliOols. struction now takes plade in fifty mutual 'schools, and ten classes of adults ; upwards of 4,000 1- children and 800 adults profit by it in its full extent, and more than 12,000 children are receiving preliminary instruction of the same kind. The Presse says that the changes of temperature which have occurred during the past monthliave had a very prejudicial effect on the health of the capital, and the number of deaths during November have exceeded by nearly one-half the average of any of the three previous months. M. Olozaga, the Spanish ArnbaSsador, is preparing to set out for Madrid, to be present at the opening of the Cortes, fixed for the 26th inst. Several of the att ac h es o f the embassy are already en route for Spain. The Sentinelle of Toulon, 2d inst., states that orders have just been recei ve d i n th a t port for four sail of the line, several light vessels, and the steamer Brandon, to put to sea immediately. The ships of the line' 'are the Friedland, 120, Jemmapes, 100, Ville de Marseille, 80, and Genereux, 80. Victuals and stores were sending on board these ships with rapidity, and it was rumoured that they were destined for the Levant. Lord Stuart de Rothesay hack an audience of the Em peror of Russia on the 20th. nit., at . Which he presented his credentials. The annual Session of the Transylvanian Diet was opened, on. the 15th ult., with the usual ceremonial. PIJIMIC OPINION, The Morning Herald,. referring. to the, Exchequer bill affair, says The course pursued by. Beaumont Smith in pleading ' Guilty'—(by the bye, this plea appears to have been recorded without the usual precautionary monitions which the Judge is accustomed to make in such cases, or any pointing out to the prisoner the inevit able consequences of his determination)—this course effectually precluded the .necessity for calling Rapallo into the witness-box, and the, public from learning the revelations he had to niche—if any. And were there none to be made—of unusual interest 7 -of unusual importance —unusually redolent of.criminations involving some.of those parties; darkly. hinted at, the significant .and memorable address of the prisoner, as invested with a plausibility, 'p ower , an d talent whichhe could not resist ?' If there were such revelations to be made the defrauded public have some right to question the soundness of the legal adviCe, if upon such advice he acted, tendered to Beaumont Smith, inasmuch as whilst it may be said to have entombed him in an oubliette of legal and civic ex tinction, it 'opened a - Toopliole',t'or the sate escape of' more, crafty, less pitiable, a n d nicheairy criminals. If there were not, it is. inconceivable why, up to Thursday last, Rapallo should have been the .91 . 1,1ect of a strong a nd successful appeal to the. ciyig irOagiSterial authorities, and made to undergo rigorous examinations and imprison ment." The Chron,'cle' makes the fallowing observations on the peculiar position of Sir Robert Peel :—" There is one circumstance in the behaviour of every organ of Toryism in the press which would shake any faith less strong than that which we have in the truth of its con stant assertion, that the present Ministry is the most everlasting, united, and trusted Ministry that ever met at Cabinet dinners. There is one circumstance that would, if we had not the word of the Times, the Herald, and Standard, to the contrary, make us think that there is a screw loose somewhere, and a split apprehended ; and that is, that every organ of the Tory party has carefully provided, and is perpetu ally looking to its own particular means' of retreating from its present connection with Sir Robert Peel. Oastler has distinctly stated that he and Sir James Graham cannot be connected with the same Govern ment. Peel must make his election ; and of course, as the Papists said in Titus . Oates' time, "to pot James must go." The Times has its 'owe casus belli with Sir Robert ; if he does not .repeal the Poor-law he is a doomed man ; he must go the way of Tyler."— There are two parties among the Tories who, though they may use him as their tool, have an innate distrust of Sir Robert Peel. The one is the high aristocratic squad, who are all for the old Castlereagh system of dragoon ing' the people into passive obedience ; and the other is composed of the drivelling bigots of Toryism, who resent anything like Reform or innovation as an impeachment of their own foresight and sagacity. The one would fain insist on their Premier carrying matters with a lofty and stern air of authority ; and the other would have him not stir at all, but just stand stock-still, staring stupidly about him, as they themselves have been in the habit of doing ever since they could count ten on their fingers. Between these two, and the opposition of the Reformers, Sir Robert is like to have a troublesome time of it. The Post thus holds forth on the text furnished by Lord Palmerston at Bridgnortli :—" While Lord Pal merston proclaims to the illustrious burgesses of Bridg north that the victory of his political opponents will be ' short-lived,' and while some of his friends, in a poetic rapture, exclaim that the,glow of hope is upon them,' we find the leading journal Of 'Whig-Radicalism incul cating a very different lesson. Whether this argues a 'rent difference of intention s , hopes, and actions, on the part of the' ex - Ministerialists, we need not stop to inquire. No 'one Who is . aequainted with them can doubt that 'they will get back to office as soon as they can, and some of them have of late been giving rather ridiculous indicationS that they intend to get back spilt very soon. Of this the Spectator has taken advantage, in order to show • that these Whig patriots, while they speak so confidently of. their probable return to office, do not take any pains to show how the mea sures are to be carried to which they have pledged them selves. Their hope seems to be to get their places again owing to internal dissension which they look for in the Conservative party."—lt will not be •by the dis sensions among the Minister's, but by the bold and ge neral declaration of the people ih favour of anti-mono poly principles, . that the Liberal party will again get into power. And unless the Tories change very mate rially their present course of policy, it will not be long ere their • places are supplied by the Liberals. Things cannot possibly continue much longer in their present state. The contagion of distress is now affecting not one, but every branch of trade. It is not the manu facturing districts only that are suffering, but every town and district where any thing like a trade is carried on. The - south chimes in with the north, and the east with _the west, in one loud, heart-felt complaint of distress and bitter.disappointment. And are we to be told that there is no remedy for this condition of affairs—and to be • told so, by a set of men who are paid expressly for doing their duty to us ? Are, we to have mockery added to injury ? Sir Robert Peel little knows how thoroughly undermined is the ground he stands on, or he would not take matters-with such ineffable sang froid. _The following is from th e Times :--" Lord Palmer ston's lot, in spite of its present discouraging aspect, is not devoid of sundry little cheering passages, after all. Although his Lordship is understood to suffer more men tal depression from the up : break of the late Cabinet than any of its other members, his superior sensitiveness is equally active in indemnifying itself with small and shadowy consolations. . Amidst -the universal desertion which the Whigs have' recently experienced, the smiles of a Shropshire Town-Council are hailed by the susceptible Viscount as the pledge of a happier future. The wonderful scantiness of addresses complimentary to the discarded Ministry, naturally tempts his Lordship to, consider the Bridgnorth eulogy as a very singular dis tinction ; and if the fervid terms in which the noble re spondent returns thanks to the authors of that document afford any just criterion of the sanguine hopes it has inspired, we should certainly infer that Lord Palmer ston is holding himself in readiness to kiss hands as soon as her Majesty and Parliament may deem fit."— The political influence of Lords J. Russell and Palmer ston is clearly proved by the sensation that their move ments create among the Tory Journals.. Neither of the Noble Lords can stir an inch, or speak so much as a sen tence at a public meeting, but they instantly throw the whole squad into hysterics. The Times is specially agi tated on the subject —an involuntary homage to the in fluence Of two ex-Ministers, which it would dispense with paying—if it could. The Advertiser thus expresses itself on the subject of a proposed collection at Manchester for the relief of the destitute operatives':—"'We are happy to be able to state that i a committee 11;s been formed in Manchester for the purpose of recerving immediate contributions, however small, in money ; which will be applied the moment they are received to the relief of those whose ne2essities are most urgent. This is as it should be ; it is what the extremity of the case demands. And, we trust, that the announcement of the committee, that they are ready to receive subsCriptiOns, and to incur all the personal trouble consequent on seeking out the fittest objects of charity, and administering to their wants, will not be made in vain. tinder judicious management a comparatively small sum may be made productive of incalculable good. For example, we can state, from pri vate sources of information, that many of the more ex tensive manufacturers are willing to give large pieces of cloth to be made into garments for those who, at this in clement season of the year, have scarcely a rag where- IVIONEY-TIZA.DE-COMMETWE. At a meeting of the journeymen printers, held last Thursdayjn Edinburgh, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best method for alleviating the distress of the unemployed letter-press printers in London, it was finally resolved—" That a committee be appointed to draw up an appeal to the nobility, gentry, and the public generally, in behalf of their unemployed brethren in the metropolis, and be empowered to receive subscrip tiers fur their behoof." - At an Anti-Corn-law lecture, delivered last evening by Mr. Sydney Smith, in Marylebone-lane, he stated • that the poorer the locality the richer were the public houses, and thu more magnificent the gin-palaces. It Was literally a true saying, that sorrow was dry.' Tbe poor unemployed labouring man poured liquid tire down his throat, to drown for a time his pain and sorrow." AGRICULTURAL,. At the show of the Horticultural Society in Regent street, yesterday, there was a dish of rare but fine fruit, called the purple guava, from the gardens of Lord SOndes, at Swaffham, Norfolk. Also some oranges and a shaddock, grown out of doors, by Mr. Wigels worth, of Clitheroe. . LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Martin Von Wagner left Rome last month .to resume his functions as Secretary to the Ac&demy of Fine Arts in. Munich. • The celebrated sculptor Thorwaidsen is• suffering at Rome under catarrhal - complaint. He employs himself in making designs, said to be of extraordinary beauty, more especially one series, in which the seven days of the week are represented by Genii. The brother of Stothard, the artist, some years sinco recovered in Normandy the lost effigies of several of our deceased_English monarchs. Stothard now pro poses that they should be deposited in the Abbey of Westminster. A high mass was lately performed before forty luna ticS at the church of Bicetre, by order •of Dr. Lewret, who considers that nothing is -better capable than music, along iyitti the cultivation of the mind, to procure a return towards sanity. The Papal Government by decree has placed several new works in the In:dex;.‘ Among otherS thus honoured are " Ranke's History of the Popes," and the novels of Babzac. No English bOok figures in the list. MAW AND POLICE. At Guildhall yesterday three men, named Griffin, Steptoe, 'and Sharman, were c h arge d w ith stealing a bale of silk, value 1201., from the Chipping Norton wag gon on the Ist of December. The waggoner, who was also a prisoner, had turned evidence against his accom plices. As further evidence was required, the prisoners were remanded till Friday. A summons was issued yesterday at Bow-street, at the instance of a.common informer, against Mr. Yates, proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, for allowing spiri tuouS liquors to be sold .on the premises without a license. At the Woolwich Police-office, Mr. Clark, the respect able proprietor of the Three Danis public-house, ap peared on an information laid against him by the police authorities, for suffering drunken and disorderly persons to assemble to his house.. The clearest evidence was adduced that a number of drunken soldiers and women 'from a neighbouring house rushed into the tap-room, and that the landlord had made every exertion to prevent them entering, but without effect, and had refused to serve a drop of liquor. The case was dismissed on pay ment of 2s. c)sts. The case of Snasse v. Di c k (the M em b er f or W a ld on ) Was struck Off the list on Saturday, because the plaintiff's attorney, had riot re-sealed his record. The action, how ever, will come on shortly, as Mr. Quiutin Dick rejects any thing like compromise, and is resolvedto defend. Four men attached to a no t or i ous gang of poachers in Lancashire, known by the name of the "Long Company," have been taken taken into custody on sus picion of' being the murderers of Mr. Grayson ; the farmer, at St. Helens. Ernest Rapallo was liberated yesterday, on the appli cation of counsel. SPORTING. Frederick Vane, kiri. VvliiSii.itTiiting with th e O a kl ey hounds, seriously broke'his ancle last week. He is now doing well at Lord St. John's, Melchbowin Park. COURT—rAgIIZONABLE. Thp Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have left • their marine residence, near Edinburgh, for Dupplin Castle. The Earl of Cadogan will give a dinner to the Fo reign Ministers on Saturday next, in Piccadilly. The Earl of " Tankerville gave a dinner-party in Mansfield-street, on Sunday. The Earl of Aberdeen will give a grand dinner to the French Ambassador and a distinguished party to morrow, at Argyle louse. Lord Lyndhurst will give a grand dinner-party on the 14th instant. MISCELLANEOUS. The monuments erected in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, at the public expense, from the year 1750 to the present time, to the number of about 54, have cost the natiou 82,17 U Commissioner Lin and his favourite wife, attired in the splendour of the Celestial Court, have been added, we perCeive, to Madame Tussaud's collection. Government, it is understood, have determined on of. fering a reward for the discovery of th e p ersons w h o set fire to the premises at Chitton, Berkshire, on the 22d of November last. The old oak teoerplabledi . 360 years ago, by Bishop Ridley, in Pembiotee College Garden,. was blown down by the hurricane 'of last Monday. A warm contest is expected at Woolwich for the office of organist. The election is to take place this day, and is expected to make as great a noise in that, place as the election of music-master at Oxford. We have not heard which of the candidates is supported .by the Puseyites. Yesterday was the anniversary of the execution on Tower Hill of Algernon Sydney, the famous English Republican, in 1683. Ho was the second son of Robert, Earl of Leicester, tried by Judge Jeffries, along with Lord William Russell and others, for the Rye-house plot. One of the first acts of the Revolution was to re verse his attainder. All who maintain the principles of free Government honour his name. A meeting was held last evening at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, Dr. Bedford in the chair, to propose ad dresses -of congratulation to: the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent; on the birth of the Prince of Wales. The meeting was not well attended. The loyal addreSs to her Majesty was agreed to with an amend ment, praying for an inquiry into the complaints of the people, pardon to all political offenders, and for the Charter to become the law of the land. Addresses were then: moved to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, and amendments, in both'instances, to consider them that day nine months were carried by great majorities. HUMOURS Or THE DAT. Mr. Williams, the Pnseyite candidate for the Profes sorship of Music in the University of Oxford, will bo elected. He has a majority of three to one among the residents, a circumstance which, it is thought, will have a great moral effect upon the country masters. The new Popery mania has made great progress within the last few Weeks, attributed by some to the remarkable de ranOment of the magnetic instruments, and Mr. Mur phy calculates that if the strange phenomena should again manifest themselveS, the University of Oxford, in less than six months, will be more Catholic than Maynooth. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There have been few arrivals of Corn since Monday. Wheat firm at last prices, with some demand for foreign. In other grain no alteration, and very little doing. Flour met a rather better sale. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices were firm, and a fair amount of business was transacted . by the home trade, but the shippers were cautious in their proceedings. The imports were fair. • Flaw Sugar in good request, and stiff rates were paid. The deliveries large, and arrivals small. TEA MARKET. There was a fair business transacted in Free Trade, and prices were firm. Company's Congou, I 5..9 id. per lb. cash, and the lowest rate of Free Trade common Congou, cash, was Is. pid. TALLOW MARKET. A.good demand, and prices fitm, - at 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 48s. for delivery up to the end of the year. For spring months 495. was asked. SPIRIT MARKET. The demand for Rum was good, and a fair business was done at Is. 91d. to Is. 10d. for proof Leewards. Brandy firm, and wanted. FRUIT MARKET. The grocers were eager purchasers of New Fruit. Valencia Raisins at 365., and Currants 565. to 61s. per cwt. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) WATERLOO PICTURE COURSING . MEETING. In consequence of the flooded state of the Altear mea dows, this interesting meeting is postponed till Monday next, the 13th inst., at a quarter before ten. The subscri bers meet at the Waterloo Hotel, Livepool, on Saturday, the 11th, at four o'clock ; the entry of the dogs (64 in number) to close at six, and the drawing to take place immediately after dinner. There are subscribers from most of the coursing districts in England, and two from Scotland, viz., Sir W. A. Maxwell, two nominations, and Mr. A. Graham four. BIGGAR OR UPPER WARD OF LANARKSHIRE COURSING MEETING, DEc. 2 AND 3. lord Douglas's Cup was won by Marquis of Douglas's Cequett, boating Mr. A. Graham's Molly Loo. The Nonination Stakes were won by Lord Douglas's Kers° and Negro, beating, in the third tics, Mr. Bor ron's Barmaid; and Mr. A. Graham's Princess Royal. The Douglas Water Stakes were won by Lord Doug las's Barefoot, beating Mr. Dickson's Tam O'Shanter. Bet. -letvveen twelve and one o'clock this morning, a ,oung man, n amed. Charles Lovell, living at No. 2, New street, Kensington Gravel Pitts, was in the act of climb ing over the pailings of the Green Park into Piccadilly, when, through being intoxicated, he slipped, and one of the spikes perforated the inside of his left thigh to the depth of between four and five inches, and tore the flesh, by his whole weight hanging on the pike, into a frightful wound of eight inches in length. He was conveyed in a state of dreadful suffering to St. George's Hospital. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The annual performances of the Illessial4 at Exeter Hall are an nounced for the 10th and 17th instant, a fortnight before the usual time. Our weather has been fearful ; rain, rain, rain, such as we have not seen in this town for twelve years. The consequence has been a very great deal of sickness ; especially in the shape of scarlet fever. Several children have fallen victims to it. Yesterday a north wind, searching and bitter, brought dryness on its wings. It is to be hoped, as the glass has been gradually rising since Thursday, that it is the commencement of a change for the better, as regards the elements and the general health of the conamunity.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday. . • FRANCE. FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.) The topics that most occupy public attention in Paris and in France, at the present moment, are the political trials going. on in the capital, at Paris, and at Aix, in Savoy, to which a fourth series, that of the rioters at Clermont, will shortly have to be added. Several per sons begin to ask of themselves, with no small justice, what can be the cause of the simultaneous hostility to the Government, evidenced by this extraordinary display of legal. measures of repression ; whether it be not in some. deeply seated, and widely spread disgust of the whole system under which the country is at present managed, and whether the hatred of the public will not one day or other—at no remote period, perhaps—end by overthrowing the obnoxious authorities. We confess, that we believe the people with their broad and plain common sense to be right : that nine men out of ten are disgusted'with the hypocrisy of a Government calling it self liberal, and being thoroughly despotic in heart ; and that they would do any thing to get rid of of this kind. The people, perhaps, make little • distinction be tween the various Cabinets, and they are right. The differences of political opiniOns between the public men of France are nothing compared to what exists in other nations. •The fault lies with, and the blame comes direct home, to the real head and director of the Government himself, to the King, the author and inventor of the present dishonest and deceitful system, the deceiver of his country, and, at the present moment, its oppressor. By far the majority of French statesmen have only one principle—that of getting into place, keeping in it as long as possihle, and getting,as much money for them selves, and favours for their relations or friends, as they can. Thiers or Guizot, Soult or Mol4, it is all the same—they will all .profess and promise, and lie 'and cheat, and intrigue one as hard, as the other; and there is no man in France with a grain of common sense . in his head who would take th e wor d o f an y one among them for a - ten-sous-piece. As for the King his cha racier is known, and devised as it deserves. By an able act of political legerdemain he shifted his amiable but weak cousins out of their posses sions, wheedled himself,in, and is now stopping at no measures, the - most unconstitutional, - or the most dishonest; to retain his ill-gotten wealth and power. One of his ablest stratagems has been to involve so many of the leading men of the country in the same treachery towards the nation with himself ; he has damaged so many men's political characters, by in veigling them into his toils ; he has so skilfully played with their ambition, or other passions, that he is as yet able to make a stand, and to .force his obnoxious measures down the throats of the people. But this cannot - go on for ever, and the whole superstructure of political fraud and deceit which he has built up with so much pains, will come clattering down about the ears of his successor, and will bury the " beloved dynasty," or the " illustrious race "in its ruins. The trials above mentioned are an ad mirable illustration of the mannerin which things are now conducted in France, and afford an excellent measure of the degree of judicial justice and administrative honesty which exist here. The conspiracy of Quenisset, an obscure pot-house plot, was .soon found to be en tirely an "apire mangue," that is to say, the law- officers of the Crown soon perceived that they had only a set of poor devils to deal with, whose hunger, much more than whose republi can i sm , h a d urged them to make the mad attmpt against the Princes at the head of a large body of troops. The evidence, as far as it has hitherto gone, has shown that the idea of Quenisset, perhaps of the others, was, that they were going to attack the whole regiment, not the Princes alone ! The absurdity of ten or twelve men attacking a corps d'elite, just returned from an active campaign, shows the degree of intelligence which directed their :proceedings. Government soon perceived that it had Made a mistake in giving cognizance to the Court of Peers of such a trumpery event, and therefore it was determined at all hazards to bring somebody of more importance into it. The Editor of the ropulaire, a Republican paper, was therefore arrested—why ? be cause his paper, though the law'offiCers of the Crown had never found a line in it which they had considered liable 'to prosecution, was taken in at the wine-shop . where Quenisset and his companions met, and was as sumed to be the journal that had put their republican ideas into their heads. One of the prisoners, too, after his arrest, had written a letter to the Editor of the paper to complain of some arbitrary treatment in prison. M. Dupoty, the Editor, was therefore, some weeks after the attempt, taken out of his bed one morning to the Con ciergerie, and is' now on the prisoners' bench before the Court of Peers. A more arbitrary and unconstitutional proceeding was never perpetrated in the worst days of Louis NV. Not one of the conspirators had ever seen M. Dupoty : he, too, was totally ignorant of the exis tence of any among them until he read their names amongst the list of persons td be placed on their trial, and he had no more to do with the plot than the man in the moon. The Popullirc is a journal professing very ultra opinions, no doubt; but if these opinions are cul pable, why not prosecute it for them : otherwise, if the law can find no fault with them, why arrest its Editor for publishing them ? and why implicate him in a plot of which he was totally ignorant ? The Commerce and the National were taken in by the con spirators, as well as the Popatire. Why then not arrest their Editors also ? Merely because Government was afraid ; this would have made rather too much noise ; it would have been too absurd : and besides, one Editor was as good as a hundred for what Government wanted ; so M. liupoty was selected. Hitherto the trial has gore no further than the public interrogation of the prisoners— in itself a most unconstitutional and arbitrary one, but justified by the atrocious principle of French criminal law, that a prisoner should be made to inculpate him self as much as possible, and that every one is assumed to be a malefactor until he can be proved innocent (an honour able cOmpliment,this, by the way,A7 the..opinion which Frenchmen entertain of their own-characters). This in terrogation, however, as applied to M. Dupoty, has un veiled the most arbitrary and atrocious disposition on the part of the Crown lawyers--that is, of the King. Many of the articles publi s h e d i n the Populaire have been read in court, and declared as seditious and inflam matory in the highest degree ; several articles found in the Editor's basket, where he had thrown them after re jection from various correspondents, and which, of course, had never been published, were also read, and urged as crimes against M. Dupoty ! And even some verses, which he wrote a long time ago—a sort of para phrase of one of Beranger's songs—written, we believe, during the rumours of war last year, and which, if a war had taken place, would have been lauded up to the skies these very verses are alleged as a crime against poor M. Dupoty ! Ile has defended himself' with great presence of mind and abi lity ; hairing, by the way, one of the most easily defensible positions that any one can well be ima gined to have; and has protested against this a posteriori incrimination of articles which in the eye of the law were perfectly innocuous. But what, it may be asked, have all these documents to do with the showing that ho vas concerned in the plot ? Nothing at all : but what does that matter to the Crown lawyers ? M. Dupoty has been 'arrested : some charge or other must for decency sake be brought against him ; and if no constitutional matter can be found, why something unconstitutional must be resorted to. There is only one opinion in Paris as to the illegality of this proceeding : but Government will carry this point. M. Dupoty will be found guilty, not of what he is tried for, the having encouraged Quenis set to make his attempt, but of something else lie is not tried for, and that something happens in itself not to be illegal. This is the way in which justice is administered wide!: the " best of Republics." The speeches of old Pasquier, the President of the Court, are disgusting as usual. He keeps lecturing the prisoners an the extreme sinfulness of conspiring against Government ; the old perjurer who has cursed himself fifty times over by all his gods—if indeed any of the inhabitants of Olympus would own such a weathercock—if ever he would forsake Napoleon, if ever he would abandon Charles X., and, no.v, if ever he will cease to lick the dust before Louis Phiippe— cujusque addictus jurare in verba mayistri. The trial before the Court of Peers presents a melancholy spec tacle. . First, that there should be found such misguided wretched men as Quenisset and his accomplices, to make so absurd or so dastardly an attempt ;- and next that the Government should have so little regard to Constitutional morality, as to violate for its own pur poses all the principles of common equity—to say no thing of law. Thus France is constituted : such is its political condition, and the occurrence of this affair just before the opening of the Legislative session is, no doubt, considered as a God-send by the King, upon the strength of which he can continue to demand of the Chamber of Deputies a good round sum of secret service money. The prosecution at Pau shows the unconstitutional Proceedings of the Government i n another point of view—in the actions of its subordinate agents in the de partments. The rioters at Toulouse .have been trans ferred from the scene of events—where all the respect able inhabitants are hostile to the Government—to a quiet country-town where there is a Royal chateau with a cer tain number of persons in direct dependence on the Crown for their salaries ; and where the Jury is known to be generally tolerably subservient to the wishes of the authorities. Here, however, the forms of law are observed more or less ; nearly all the persons arrested are tinkers and tailors, caught jlagrante &lido breaking lamps or windows ; and there can be no hesitation in condemning them for a breach of the peace. But among them there is the Chief Police Commissioner of Toulouse, a man named Lenormant, whom the Government have been forced, by the turn of events, to arrest, and who is proved to have been the main instigator of the riots. It was he who sent men into the streets to cry out against the Prefect and the Procureur du Roi, and it was by his orders that lamps were broken and the troops opposed. The Procureur du Roi, and the Prefect, who both ran away from their posts, and the Lieutenant-General who commanded, and has been also dismissed, all these functionaries have made their depositions, and they do nothing but accuse each other and the Government. On the whole it is a most dis gusting affair. The trial at Aix in Provence is less so: it concerns some more pot-house conspirators, arrested at Marseilles, and other towns in the South of France ; and the evidence hitherto adduced has shown that seve ral Secret Societies for the spread of Republican 'opinions exist in that part of France, though few, if any, overt acts of rebellion can be proved against them. We repeat that all those judicial proceedings are considered, by re flecting p eo pl e , as unanswerable indications of th e Un settledand unhealthy condition of France. We understand that there is not much likelihood of the Ministers being weakened 'by the result of the Session : and that, contrary to the universal rule since the revo lution of 1830, Marshal Soult's Cabinet is likely to con tinue in office throughout a second Session. Th e f act is, that the King dares not take Thiers into office again ; and that Count Mole, without Thiers, is not strong enough to oust.. M. Guizot, from what he is dying to obtain again. Between the poli c y o f t h e pre sent Cabinet and that of one under Count Mole, there is no t a shadow of a difference, h p ine e i o rt p hl l ia e nte t t l ho la af n teEo G nn u gd i lu z a o c i d d wa o on e u s d:dE b bl u ie! the only thing is that M o le would job for other ts irnopfeoraeriegnmpoostliicnty,eraensdteidti identical, to wrig he would old desp bring up desperate pieces in is very p ! _ than be d and we ct Prime . Munster. -eneral Bugeaud is coming homelftril Africa ; this is the principal news of the day ; possible that he may not return. If the Deputie" s4 a all loud about th e e x p enses of the war, w hich 1 5 511cr within the last t we l ve mon th s to have exceeded all f° limits, the King will no t h es itate a mom °a ficing the General, any more than he woul d any in other of his friends. It is not a sign of strength on the P o of the Cabinet, but yet there does not seem to be our well-founded ground. of apprehension, that most ( 0 , to foreign Ministers who are d e p u ties should be ordere" .. , return from their post to giv e their votes on t he a ddre lo It looks as if Government w er e likely to be hard W oo the occasion ; and yet there i s nothing c ommon itn to justify the expectation. , e Are • 'Fite National has made an assertion . wide", .. td in' surprised none of the Court papers have thire";; - i i the swer : it declares that one of the persons engilg e ,r,; l) o administration of the propertyof the late Duke de o° ',,dig now belonging to the Duke d'Autnale has been det e f;ii • peculation to a considerable amount ; stances of the case have been laid before the keo that orders have been given that to notice shall b e of the affair, and that the guilty person' shall he none' tanned in his post. This the National hints is hear by the circumstances of the party in question 13 been the confidential agent of the Duke de lioureolbe Intendant, and that if any offence.were given him; could disclose secrets as to the transmission of the " o il property, which are of a rather startling n aturef eo f would affect not the least inconsiderable pets the kingdom. that the ca r athe r The Council of Ministers have agreed, after 11 ,i tietl sharp discussion, to postpone any further neg%japtil fol. the Belgian Treaty of Commerce with Frlll'e; after the opening of the Session. The Treat Joiale• amount to nothing, even if it should ever be a a a ;i; French manufacturers are by no means inclin ed V i „ ja as any thing like a system of reciprocity, and the 1, 0 0 are not such fools as to give free admission t°uro're, goods for nothing. It is of much importanc e t 'Aepeir that Belgium should not degenerate into a W ere' deney of France. r o ut s ad The Toulon papers state that a squadron 0 ` 'r e v of the line and other vessels is ordered to the " - hp i - 'rye We doubt the accuracy of this assertion ; w ; r ;idil that the ships in question are intended mere l y ' o n ce d ad in the further interchange . of troops between Vra- Algiers. eeit ic4)l The last accounts from Syria and Greece ar e , ti pacific. As for Spain, Ma foi ! on 1' a (Jubilee - CENTRAL AMERICA ' (1 0 , ARREST OF FIVE BRITISH SUBJrjanialeil The following statement we extract from t" Despatch, of Oct.' 28. The fact of the arrest ll l e P ee prisonment of our countrymen is confirmed b Y t Oh° received by the Great Western. Ming P We content ourselves at present with e a, attention to the following statement : *7l -e ' " r. Bell, from the Mosquito shore, on„ o ar from Belize, both 'the bearers of despatefiest')',, yestef:. vernor, had long 'audiences with his Exeel l h en t es caviog day, and we understand the matter thus-- hat e giaribt the superintendent of Belize having visited L i ' brOlq the Mosquito territory in July last, the despate" 011 ej o ; by the above gentlemen were connected with ( loci ty r , As far as we can gain information, we u nder - r0 f.1,,, Cu]. M'Donald went there in the Tweed s.,„l ° „l t i to deliver it.ine.ssage to the King f rom the l'' vernmcnt, and while there at North Bluefiel us ' .01 0 ! the King in proclaiming the freedom of all slai.`o-roedr!:, 11:Iosquito, territory, and, at the same tittle' alliance.with him, after which he and the fag, ;01 seeded in the. Tweed for Saint Juan de Niea ll ' o ris Creek, and Boco del Toro, to claim their vicinity, as Mosquito territory from th e o lsole Tian, or Central American Statce—they havi"g the 1 tiken possession, and enforced tares , fro h n oo d t o: bitants. The Commandant at St. Juan wlt be d id id act, and said he would use force. Fro:n desist until he saw the British sailors, at the guns on the beach, at the sight of which ' l- : roa tio a submitted ; but having declared publicly tb i/ u r ik t ilh Tweed's departure he would murder the ''':; v aal' o e other inhabitants there, who were " t , Colonel M‘Donald was requested to take ~n- i ; %- e . This he did, we believe, and carried him to - I .) e ',.,dotb; those Piitoti;i all this was going on, some British merchant...4%ov, l; t o acting for an association of merchants 4 , l ° , n eire t . e itr concocting an expedition u the Bindle"' j o g r oe ( the Spanish territory, for the of ° P eti t and ,° e itel l ), purpose mercial communication with the Commandan,- 05 01 1 o f Spaniards of note on the border, who had ott, e bitsl e t direct commerce in British goods from the in n e tt i r to"oe Bluefields, and who all speak English as th • ec ts• tongue and consider themselves as British 5 ,11 % t heip Company intending to colonize the lands 'win'" o va "y;i; purchased at Bluefields, sent a Director of their spf to along with a surveyor and other gentlem en ' y e ah di' l the land and search for commerce and as we baAref, p V hinted, they went up the Segovia or Bluefields arrived at Acuyapa, where they bad h e q e o oV days in friendly communication with the „7 O A P, when, unfortunately, the news of the acts - 00 M'l)onald, reached there, and in consequence °:4 trymen, five British merchants, were arre,,S Cj , marched off into the interior under a file of threats of being_ shot on arrival at the e eeta l , -11 tte': quarters. The despatches are relative to the and may lead to important results, as the s tort il 'e'ri c ": fusion, and political absurdity of the central f s - t tr e l States may lead them to acts which n 3 31 "'Toed dearly before finished with, as the iraPri s r - ots ° t ' British subjects in the performance of log.n r i bt , of 00 laudable commerce is an aggression on th e , I.ll T o e r~ l ' countrymen, which will not be subraitr, , isb the proper satisfaction is rendered to the o r i ; i jared ment, and indemnification paid to th °s , e as b° waste of time, and the arrest of the ye r c", c a , :e s -„ bat " We cannot believe these Spanish ; ',i, s'abi e io v mad enough to inflict death on any Bri":i c 'r ' Oar s ' we fear the consequences' of confinenten" ;,, li ply e' soar=`' son, a hot climate, a wet season, and 3 51 '7 fl je , provisions, may occasion death to soni c d) , in P•' - oan The imprisonment of one man (Mr. 111` 1 • 1 ,! ° „fore w e , ar e has raised a storm bordering on war ; tl e h ^ - s ubic c ," s ose: see what will be done when five Brit' s- a " Il og" found to be consigned to a Spanish donge°,t, thr ° 4 o,e , Colonel of, the acts of the British Governtidice,t at 1 : 3 `; 3 00+ Colonel M`Donald, the British superint en J ut) " We understand that, for the last BO °I. yerne l. " Col. M'Dontddifaeblig d to act under 0011° vrt COURT CIRCULA r i n e° WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and , o r; walked this morning in the Home Perl e ann q,, t 10 4 0 The Earl of Warwick has succeeded vise () - - And• den as the Lord in Waitin g 0n her Majes‘v , gP the Hon. Sir William Lumley has su cceed ad ill Ormsby Gore as the Groom in Waiting. # tca t wo Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Nent, 11 ' 0 1 ' , L ,c a l d o y ek F t l i t i t i l s ny afte H rn o o w o a n r . d, arrived at th e Ca ' tli° Cir cle • Her . Majesty will join the Royal Dinne r c ot. jo r evening, for the first time since her accouchloce Her Majesty's private band will be in attcll OP • ing the evening at the Castle. vast °;6O The Hon. C. A. Murray arrived at the vas *t or -r ' Her Royal Highness the Duchess of liar, a ci , 0 0 ; H Lady Fanny Howard, left her residence, Cia°l r 1- el l e ne'" ,, ° St. James's, at eleven o'clock yesterday nlll $ Ed' visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. , A , of 'fcl' Their Serene Highnesses ' the Duchess - , -"p r iac e op Weimar, the . Duke of Saxe 3.leiningen, in Ce lli Q # ward of Saxe Weimar, after their arrival +° h 114 , Monday evening, received a visit at Marlboregnihiti'sl f i ty h m eir h s e e r r l e l n o e y H al ig t Inigesh:eless,sacteloiempDaniucehdesbs, of -$ S rtic o l i o i f el y t, es a s t e c r la h l i .e li n p c i e )st i lia , l l , tse a , ft s e t r . w j ar am ds e gite d t A licjj ' 4)1 Du chess fe bi' o)a ighnesses the Duke an t heir C . a,a by dime at KeTV. l 'i b le r i i r dg ß e, :. arrivedll in town yesterday fro -I:lllcilecile°oi. Pe te Baron Bruriow, the Russian Minister, tr itij in ie ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. 10 f ti' d Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had iin po , 0 with the Earl of Ripon- yesterday at i'll e 44- Col e ' Board of Trade. ~.,„ t th e 1 Mr. Tillett transacted business yesterw•V it n o.' o' 4 ' ,ef nial-offiee. lavu L tiwy o tt r ide d yi l n lT l 11,totaiiirv,nn Yorkshire.e l o i n ffe A , Lord President evening iolnorava e .i f s.ll;o,... . e ; 4,av e e, . r e e ht s i ot a .l. , tr at Attorney-GeneralT th h e e nome.oflicT. transacted busioe s d * s:/ e6 - Lteor i rdd ' a h y e n Judicial Committee Lords Com .. cat; tf ricla Elide ' the Admiralty * sat m a r s . P r r e i l v n y ber Court. Sir A. Johnston an P mpriettseeentOfwtehre, PtrbievyCortil- I,ft.tTdcoosi .. 4 1 oil ho t Councillors.on, s l l Queen's l a i p ei p r e s al o f f r j om ese l r k e n n g t al, " Maharajah Milterjee t ° ' ll.r d °II The case was adjourned f if h • i a ring 1 same side. tll o or t urt et xe day next. 1 11° Ilg.iji.uti 4 Mcei,.o.usynae : kls, Erskine, a n La thy' ifir it , , «iitiOn ei,, HUMOURED chanreperted of Sir the Geore M it is probable t e he 1---mheeLliotoridfi office Fitzroy.of General geinCHANGE.—III aticlittiie app r'o - coo- i, u ll rr o a r y se a G s uLaorrdds,jibrir, . , :b .c i t c, 11 , 1 ;0 1 C Ch ef ' ''' ed t ced in 77, s . Commanding -in. !„forle lac e ' noti • the . nr\_v Seeretaryuft mg changes 3,1 a . 0 1 4 collo' int' on Somersetl o ol t w r. to n b d e a y a p , p w o ' e i il ta.cirdie, ; so ta:ncroper vi o l Chi , 4 in Mas Ireland ; Sir Henry Hardinge to be . .`''i e s to Master-General of the Ordnance ; and 111 r. ile' l " w ho ag e ' I , ' A few d - a) s ago a youth of 17 years ° , iic iert,,,,l l was employed 'in a nail manufactory at Vei c- onk was killed by a blow of a wheel of the ruachincrL;te, ,ir refiner lsimilar'asr eyvao:ctl accident ii C tl i n o ta g it t i l at e h e rate CONVICTION 1 1 " s , iust onpea r .EB occurred petvlii inAnen. D t o i a 30 ):: ,iii 0 it 0 dr ': C of 600 times in a : co l' : s a i i, co notorious villain, of whom our readers I)%i ve i o rCil ° read, has been tried for " bigamy" at the SuPeri3, t o of Rockingham county, N. e.,and found g l3 'oo re was sentenced to be branded with the later t berptl left cheek - (which was carried into execution. 0 1 ,0 0, il i. sence or the Court), to be imprisoned three 3, 11 , 4 ; assigned at io n of tteh him ternii n t . i n t i n i p d receive 39 lashes at three several times befor h as V, lO N s abode . " 0 0:1 1 00 have branded in legible characters the word "IL • A , er his forehead.—Amcrican Paper. It wouldhb:vecoed:_all'oe cot -0 ; v , We understand that Governrn mined upon offering a reward for the discoverip, oar persons who set fire to the premis es at ChUN shire, on the 22d of November last. ~I I h