The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

1 - 11tirt A'rEit AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning SS minutes after 10 7 Evening minutes after II Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., CIHARLES HARCOURT, kJ Or, the ADVENTURES of a LEGATEE. A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, Nov; Burlington-street. BETT'S PATENT BRAND .—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, has been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement of envy In every branch of the• Spirit trade. Hence, each suc ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, ander fallaciews pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ism is their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, avid for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eight'en Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. /111-1 E NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY 1 DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS :11AJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, Zl5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £doo, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to .x:72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH. OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a very short time very large amounts of Money Divi dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland; Dividends of 25,0001., 18,000/., 9,000/., 5,000/., and 3,600 i. is London; 3,6001., 8001., and 700/. to Edinburgh; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,600/. to Halifax ; 1,200/. Se Perthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 700/., and 6001. to Liver -1031; 9 001 . to Hull ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and 600!. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham. shin • ; 7001. to Caine, Lancashire; 600/. to Cork ; and 6001. to Bradford, &e.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to cbtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua rautecd by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more thin 25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Moaey Dividends of 1/. and upwards. One Share, 1/. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 31.; four Sliare, 4/. ; five Shares, 5/. ; six Shares, 61.; seven Shares, 7L ; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; ten Shares, 101. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers. • THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. DEC. 14, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alonio, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoff; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Calihan, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff; Ariel, Miss Ra in fart h. To conclude with Anber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison Alphoino, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; Fenella, Miss Bailin. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at 6even.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price :Is. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 14, Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove, Esq., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymond ; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitter top, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame 'Vestris. To which will be added, the Petite Drima of SUZANNE. Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne, (an Orphan), Madame Celeste. To he followed by Mr. T. H. Bayly's Burletta of ONE HOUR ; or, A CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly, (his original character), Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Dalton (hor original character), Madame Vestris, who will sing '• Love is the Theme." To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Malone Raymond. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 14, Will be produced a new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW W HAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Redford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche G iubilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss M u rr ay. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past ix, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVII FREE TRADE PORTS OF CAN TON, AMOY, FOO-C HOW-FOO, NINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL TII E LATEST NEWS. Orders received at the SUN OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. .13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 30.1.-WIND, S.W. • • THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1842. LONDON : WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1842. We sae with much satisfaction that the metro polis is stirring in behalf of free trade. To be prepared for St. Thomas's day when the Com mon Council is renewed, an excellent address has been issued by an elector of the ward of Tarring don Within, calling on his brother electors to make the question of free trade or monopoly, di vested of all mere party considerations, the turn ing point of the elections. In this address mono poly and free trade are thus ably contrasted :--- Monopoly.—Dean Tucker states " The precise idea of monopoly is this—that it is a privilege, or exclu sive charter, granted to serve a few, at the expense, and to the detriment of the many." And in order to preserve for a few short months longer that most abominable, cruel, unjust monopoly of staff of life —bread, and the important, valuAle, and necessary article of sugar, the whole country is saddled with an Income-tax—inquisitorial—hardly bearable in a time of war --now boldly proposed after twenty-five years of Peace—rather than abolish the corn and sugar mo nopolies, w hi c h would benefit the people a thou san d fold more than all the paltry modifications of the tariff put together. Free trade is trade divested of all public injustice : it would avert the downfal of our commerce, set free the springs of industry, and mitigate the sufferings and privations of th e poor; " and surely no class of men caniong be permitted in this country to build up for themselves a permanent prosperity upon a sys tem which is ruinous to the nation of which they form a part." Pursuing the same. course, the Committee of The Young Men's Metropolitan Anti-Monopoly Association have published an excellent address :o the young men of London, signed PETER A. FALLon, juu., Chairman. We are well convinced hat they will not allow this opportunity to dis inguish themselves in the sacred cause of huma iity, of justice, and of their country, to escape .vithout profiting by it. The time and the ex iense which many of them devote to and vorthicss pursuits, calculated to leave behind hem a wasted body and a scathed mind, if ap died to further the cause of Corn-law repeal, night gain for them great renown, while it might ..airy many individuals to honour and dignity• .n the olden times the London apprentices were •i powerful political body, and we know no rea ,On why their successors, the present young men 4 . London, thou g h the name be changed, should ie degenerated.or : . consider themselves of less m pOrtance. The_yoUth of France have contri mted to the.safeY a. 4 4 l ol9uourOf their country. The students of Ulasgow,4ll .very young men, most of them mere lads, by a judicious exercise )f their power, have added to the eminence and Honour even of such men as Mr. BURKE and Sir R. PEEL. Why, then, should not the young men of the metropolis share in a similar generous and glorious ambition, and seek to achieve renown for themselves, while they confer benefit on the country. The Committee appeal to them : Young men of London ! the Committee feel with satisfaction that they have, to the extent of their abilities, done their duty : they therefore feel they have the right to call upon you to do yours—they waste not time in urging upon you the necessity— the ever-increasing necessity, of a strong, united, and they trust, successful effort. They hope nothing from those who yet need to be convinced of this. If de serted factories, with gaols and union-houses over flowing—if a sinking revenue which an Income-tax has as yet failed to support—if provisions cheap, with thousands perishing of want convince you not, then not from the young men of London can assistance in a noble cause be expected : but it cannot, it shall not be so. Let it not even be said that you were last in the field—that even a time-serving squirearchy left you in the rear. Young men of London ! we call for—we entreat —we demand your assistance. We call upon you to take that position which the narrowest selfism, as well as the broadest philanthropy, would dictate—which your interests as young men, dependent upon com mercial prosperity, and the sympathy for your op pressed and starving countrymen, which, as young men, none should feel more thrillingly than you, alike demand. They cannot be deaf to this call, but will hasten to enrol themselves members of the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association. The rooms of the Society are at Hart's Hotel, Alders gate-street, and the Committee will be happy to see the young men of the metropolis—the more numerous the better—every evening between seven and nine o'clock. The Post of yesterday morning contains a singular illustration of the influence of habit on thought, or rather on the expression of thought. It is .accustomed, if not to think of the landed aristocracy, at least to speak of them as actuated by none of the motives of ordinary men. According to its language they never consider themselves or their own interests, but always the good of others and what will promote the public good. That journal always writes as if the aristocracy had cast aside all the feelings, de sires, and passions of individuals, had mastered all the phenomena of social existence, and !;uided all their actions by nothing but a clear comprehension of the national welfare. What a strange hallucination to speak of them as not swayed by the same motives as other men! Be cause we will not 'give in to that delusion, and refuse to believe the professions of the aristocracy and of their flatterers, when they are continually contradicted by their own actions, and not un frequently by their own unpremeditated avowals; ,because we assert, confirmed by the authority of Lord BYRON, that their whole pro ceedings have been dictated by a sordid desire to keep up rent, the Post says we treat the aristocracy with an acerbity which seems to be insane. What a misfortune it is for such a writer to have been brought up in the belief that the aristocracy are exempt from the laws which rule the minds of other human beings, and are not men endowed only with faculties and power to promote, and that imperfectly, their own welfare, but angels endowed with faculties and powers to promote the welfare of mankind at large ! We cannot adopt that belief, and we say that the landlords, like other men, look mainly to their own advantage. When we find them, there fore, all of a sudden, speaking the language of confidence in the power of our agriculturists to compete with those of other nations ; when we find them, who have hitherto taught the Farmers to look to the law to secure high prices instead of relying on their own skill and indus try, all at once reproaching the farmers for their backwardness, trying to stimulate them to greatereaertions, telling them that they must no longer rely on protection, because they have at length discovered that the law cannot give what it pretends to give; when we observe that this new teaching comes on the heels of a great fall in prices, and a general demand for the reduc tion of rent; when we hear of farmers throwing up their farms, and of landlords offering farms to tenants, who will not take them unless the said landlords will guarantee the price of wheat; when we know that, for the sake of high rents, the landlords have for years set at defiance all the principles of honesty and virtue—we can only conclude that their new tone, their sudden con viction that the soil is yet capable, with im proved management, of yielding a great deal more, and their attempt to ins Dire the farmers wi•h this conviction, and encourage them to go on cultivating the ground, tar less for their own advantage, than for the advantage of the land owners—fir the tenantry of England is impo verished much below their exert ions, their capi tal, and their deserts—wecan only conclude that this new zeal of the landlords is dictated by the old motive—a desire for high rent. To obtain that, they are now striving to make the farmers place the same confidence in their own skill, and promise high rents, as they before endeavoured—and much too success fully for the welfare of the farmers—to make them place in .protecting laws, and enter into engagements which the farmers have only kept to their own injury and their ruin. What is the good of a free Press if such observations be not spoken out in time, so that the farmers may be warned against the new delusion which the owners of rent are endeavouring to fasten on them ? England can compete with all the world, but high rents must result from success, and if imposed before success be achieved, will strangle it in its birth. We have said all this before, and we repeat it to show the grounds of our conviction, from which we cannot swerve, because the lan guage which the Post is accustomed to use pre vents that journal, while it admits the power of our remarks, from recognising their truth. While the Post is engaging our attention, we will venture to correct another remark of our sincere and well-meaning, but most ill-informed Contemporary. If its assertion that persons of great wealth, power, and influence, have changed their opinions, when there has been no change of circumstances, be meant to include Sir Ro- BERT PEEL, we can assert that his opinions have not changed. He knew as well ten years ago that what is called , protection is inoperative and cannot be maintained, as he knows at this hour. He knew as well in 1836 that the pro s aeri ty of the fanners, who cultivate the soil to sell its produce, depends on the prosperity of their customers, the manufitcturing and commercial part of the community, as he knows it in 1842. But he was at these former periods seeking power and place by the help of the owners of rent, who did not see the matter in the same light; and, thereflme, he concealed or Oozed over his opinions to obtain their support. The only circumstance which is changed is, that he is now in office, and then he was out of office ; and he cannot now take upon himself the responsibility of giving ef fect to a system which does not accord with his own opinions, and which is attended by the me lancholy results now witnessed throughout the empire. We insert a brief notice of an Anti-Corn-law meeting at Lincoln, which is extremely valuable as an index to the progress of free trade opinions in a part of the country which is exclusively ag ricultural, and in a city where the Bishop and .the clergy must have great influence. But their influence and the influence of the landowners is as nothing compared to the influence of facts and the general distress in the country, combined with the diminished profit or the tradesmen in Lincoln ; and the increase of want in that neigh bourhood completely outweighs all deference to the clergy and the landowners. The facts brought before the meeting by Mr. MORTON we regard as extremely valuable, and we would re commend other gentlemen to follow his example, and make the public acquainted with the pecu liar facts concerning poor-rates, &c., which throw a light on the condition of the people in their own localities. Another meeting of the, Noblemen, Gentle-_ men, and Magistrates of l he•eountY, of Renfrew was held on Friday last, at which: more alarm ing facts were brought to li4ht relative to the state of that country than have as yet fallen under our notice. A correspondence was read between the Chairman and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who, while he condoled with the dis tress of the country, recommended as the remedy increased local contributions, and positively de clined, on the score of the Government having no funds, to give any relief. If it were for any purposes of coercion, Government would find funds enough; for purposes ofbenevolence, which are not in truth its business, it has none. This refusal of the Government was met by a resolu tion, unanimously agreed to, expressing sym pathy with the suffering people, provid ing. something for their immediate relief, sending a deputation to London to insure that their representations shall not be further neglected, and throwing on the Government the responsibility, should the people continue to want food and employment. The remarks of the Glasgow Saturday Post are apposite, and I ought to be laid before the public:— The great leading feature in these repeated meet ings (it says), is the increasing and unmanageable nature of the distress ; the means of preserving the lives of the starving thousands, and the peace of the country. The single consideration is merely how life can be preserved, and whether or not all law, and all order, are to be thrown a.side, and the people left to shift as they best may for themselves. Such a state of things has not existed for the last three centuries. From the statements of many of the speakers, as well as from several memorials of the unemployed laid on the table of the meeting—even in the resolu tions moved by Colonel Mure, and unanimously agreed to—but one spirit is breathed forth through out, and that spirit is, that the county of Renfrew is on the verge of anarchy; that if the starving people are not helped by others, they will put forth their hands and help themselves, throwing aside all law, order, and the right of property, which has hitherto been so religiously preserved. The resolutions of Colonel Mure, adopted by the meeting, unhesitatingly declare that things have now arrived at such a pitch that the Government must step forward, and, with the national revenue, miti gate the distress of the working population in this great manufacturing district. And, in the most plain and forcible language which it is possible to use, the resolutions and the meeting have also declared, that if the Government do not step forward, after this due and formal intimation, the landed proprietors and the magistracy of the county have nothing to look forward to but unlicensed plunder—the people (as some of the memorialists stated), "applying to their natural resources ;" that is to say, the strongest helping themselves ; and the county magistracy for mally, unanimously, and decidedly declare that, after this last intimation given to the Ministers of State, they will " disclaim all legal responsibility for the consequences." Anarchy naturally follows on the heels of starvation, and it seems just approaching in every part of the empire. What with agragrian mur ders in Ireland, incendiarism and beggary in England, and "men applying to " their natural resources" in Scotland, we may well say with the Glasgow Post, such a state of things has not existed for the last three centuries. At the meeting the Provost of Greenock said that on Wednesday last the number receiving relief amounted to 032 families with 4,017 de pendents. This number did not exhibit the full amount of destitution. He said in the census that had been taken they included none of the ordinary poor at all. He had ascertained from proprietors of foundries and ship-building yards, that in thirteen establishments 1,020 men had been discharged out of 3,288 workmen. Nearly two-thirdsofthe workmenwere out ofemployment and their funds exhausted ! What can become of the poor wretches ? Provost HENDERSON, of Paisley, stated what is feared would ensue : He might mention one case of a woman and eight children who had applied to him for relief, who stated that for twenty-four hours she had tasted no food. No later than last night a deputation of the unem ployed applied to him in the street—they were accom panied by hundreds of the population, and he believed, if it had not been for the hope afforded them by this meeting, and to which he had directed them to look, an instantaneous breach of the peace would have been the consequence. Such was the urgency of the case, that if an immediate vote was not come to at this meeting, the unemployed weavers and others of this vast population would be out of bread by,to-morrow ; and the consequence would be that they would either require peaceably to starve for want, or have recourse to public begging and taking by force what they could not otherwise obtain. That was the reason the Relief Committee were alarmed, and the Presbytery were alarmed, along with other public bodies. The Provost of Paisley and the Baillies, in a memorial dated Dec. 5, tell Sir J. GRAHA one of her MAJESTY'iI Principal Secretaries of State —but whether he holds that office for his own personal advantage or the benefit of the public we will not decide—that After Friday first, the day when the provisions served out for the week, beginning on Wednesday next, will be exhausted, the destitute people here, amounting to nearly 10,000 persons, will have no al ternative but either to commence public begging en masse.—to take food where they can find it, or to die quietly of starvation in their houses. If they remain peaceably in their houses they must of necessity perish from want—if they go out soliciting food, either by begging or otherwise, then they commit a direct breach of the law. What a condition for the people, who must either starve or set the law and their neighbours at defiance ! What a conclusion to fine spun theories about reduced tariffs and altered Corn laws:! What a comment'on the opulent gentle men of England haggling for an additional shilling duty on a quarter of corn and head of cattle ! What apregnant illustration of the value and wisdom of the six months' speechifying, which ended in August last ! The sum of all is, that thousands of the people already reduced to want, and des titute of employment, must starve or break the law. That is the hard condition, the dreadful alternative, to which they have been reduced by a year's administration of Sir R. PEEL. Well may the Magistrates of Renfrewshire, and well may all men in authority, seek to throw back on him the awful responsibility of such a vast ca lamity. We trust that he, too, is preparing to shake it off him by abolishing the laws which make the State responsible for the subsistenc of the people. Each man must be told to pro vide for himself, but he must be free to do so. A Morning Contemporary, speaking of the Income-tax appeals in the City of London, says : " Yesterday there was a very full attendance, and many were the remarks against this tax. A notice was put up, that it having been represented to the Board that one of the appellants had ill conducted himself by making insolent observa tions, the Commissioners would not hear his case until the close of the Commission, and that the same rule will be enforced towards all others who may thus misconduct themselves. The conse quence is, that respectable citizens and house keepers of the free City of London, who con sider themselve su s n e ju h s o t o l l y_ b o o3 7 s, r-a m s , s h e e s : d p , re m se u n s t t . keep as quiet as ing themselves at the Property and Income tax office, 30, Basinghall-street, if within the hearing of the worthy Commissioners, or their underlings." It would appear from the above passage that the Income-tax is not at all likely to lose any of its tyrannical and vexatious character, in consequence of the temperate and conciliatory demeanour of those who have to ad judicate upon it. On the contrary, these Jacks in office seem resolved, by their arbitrary bear ing, to render this detestable impost as unbear. able as possible. What can be more insolent than their official declaration that an appellant is guilty of " misconduct," if he happens to ex press a natural sense of dissatisfaction at his being over-assessed? Is he first to he treated with gross injustice, and then to be bullied because he resents such injustice ? %Ve are, however, by no means sorry that the City of London Commis sioners are acting in this domineering fashion and earnestly hope that their example may be contagious, and that the epidemic of official in solence may be general among their fraternity throughout the kingdom. It is the last load that breaks the camel's back, and the blustering be haviour of the Income-tax Commissioners, is the very thing most wanting to render this impost perfectly unendurable by John Bull, and to in duce him, by one vigorous effort, to fling off the burden. The French papers, falsely called Liberal, abound almost daily with abuse of England. If they have no facts to which they can hang their calumnies and vituperations, they publish reports and fictions in order to place thjs country, and her Government in the most odious light, and if all the French nation were animated by the tio,me spirit, the peace of Europe could not be pre served for six months. War evidently is the ob ject of these men. Justice, honour, the good of their country, and the progress of civilization . they cast to the winds in a paroxysm of rage .at the late successes and growing power of England. But before they stir up their countrymen to war they ought to reckon the cost, and ascertain whether the gain would he equal to the loss. Do they imagine, isolated as France is, that they could accomplish what NAPOLEON, in the zenith of his power, with all his skilful Marshals and the most powerful army in the world, had not the courage to attempt? Steam has abolished the use of flat-bottomed boats, and were any such mad project as an invasion of England tried, we could cover the Channel with a hundred men-of-war and a thousand steam-ships. Have they any force to meet such a gigantic power? Our steamers could blockade every port of France, make ruinous inroads upon their fleets in harbour, destroy their mer chant ships, and with them the supply of men fbr their navy. And what would become of Algeria, with an English fleet on the coast, and Arabs in the rear; the one cutting off all supplies from France, and the other avenging the razzias and ravages of the French army ? These very journals tell us they have not an ally in Europe, and unless America assists them, they must fight single-handed. But America, even if she had a quarrel with this country, which, thanks to the late treaty, is not probable, has few ships of war, and less money, and, we believe, still less inclination to attack her best customer to please the French. These plain truths have been forced from us by the wild and the ungrate ful conduct of a party which England sup . ported in opposition to all the monarchies of Europe. Let us hope that the good sense of.the - French nation twill judge of these firebrands according to their merits, and not follow leaders who, without any cause or any certain object but mischief, would plunge the two most civilized nations of the world.into all the horrors of war. The accounts from Barcelona are to the sth inst. The bombardment had done considerable damage to the city, and fires had broken out in several places. On entering the place General VAN HALEN issued a proclamation, in which he declared Barcelona in a state of siege as long as circumstances shall require, dissolved the Na tional Guard, and announced that the perpetra tors of crimes shall be prosecuted by the consti tuted authorities. It was thought that the General would in addition to this punish the inhabitants by levying a war contribution of 2,000,000 of piasters (400,0001.). The REGENT still remained outside the walls. The following account Of the bombardment, and the damage done to the city, is given by a Correspondent of the Post, dated Barcelona, Dec. 6 : I send you a few hurried lines by the first steamer leaving for France, to give you a few details of the bombardment of Barcelona. The town can no longer be recognised, it is destroyed in several parts, and the buildings are still burning. The French sailors are rendering every assistance with their engines to put out the fire, and assist the inhabitants, who have undergone a frightful bombardment of twelve hours. The Captain-General of Catalonia commenced the fire from the fort of Montjuich yesterday, at half-past eleven, until past midnight. The firing ceased this morning, and a parlimentaire again summoned the town to surrender at discretion, or in the event of re fusal, the bombardment was to recommence at four o'clock. The hard terms were accepted, and the dis armament of the corpos franeos has begun. A white flag is waving on all the buildings to demand an arrangement. The troops, with the Captain-General Van Halen and his staff have just entered. The house of the French Consul received three shells and la cannon-ball, as the artillerymen from the fort of Montjuich aimed at the dismantling of the tri• coloured flag which waved over the house. I have just been going over the town to witness the extent of the disasters it has experienced from the bombardment. The damage done is immense, and nearly all the houses have more or less suffered. A great many buildings are destroyed, amongst which is that of a deputy of the Cortes, Senor Velosegut, valued at 2,0001. 'Some notion may he formed of the extent of the damage done by the shelling, when I mention that 817 bombs were thrown from the fort of INlontjuich. The Barcelonese will have it that the engineers and artillerymen of the English, as well as their ammunition, did all the mischief, although the crews of the ships of war remained on board specta tors of the work of devastation. The Captain-General, b y a d ecree d ated yester day, has dissolved the National Guards, and every in dividual who does not give up his arms will be pu nished with death. A forced contribution of 400,0001. is imposed upon the population of Barcelona, and the state of seige is maintained. The Regent has not yet entered here, but the Captain -General and Zurbano are seen in the streets. It is impossible to describe the melancholy aspect of the population. The English ships of war saluted this morning, and the Queen's troops replied from the fort of the Atarazanas. The Paris papers contain little news of in terest. The KING, after presiding at a Cabinet Council on Saturday, went to Fontainebleau, and was expected to return on Monday. The affairs of Barcelona still form topics of discussion in these journals, and the letter of the English Consul is commented on with no little bitterness. The Paris Tribunal, which, as we stated yester day, bad nonsuited the sufferers from the acci dent on the Versailles railroad, have awarded rio costs against the Compa:iy, so that the plaintiffs must pay all the expenses. The President (M. PERROT DE CII EZELLESI), in the midst ofpro found silence, pronounced judgment as follows: According to the indictment it would appear that the castastrophe was owing to the following facts and circumstances—the getting off the rails and breaking of the right axletree, and one of the springs of the Matthew Murray engine ; the insufficiency . of the number of engines of the Company; the un fitness and bad state of the Matthew Murray ; the placing it with another locomotive of unequal force ; and, finally, the excessive velocity of the convoy, all which facts and circumstances are to be imputed to the accused. In respect to the getting off the rails and the breaking of the right axletree and spsings, it appears that neither the judge-arbitrators (experts) nor the engineers, or the other witnesses, in their depositions have been able to determine, in a positive manner, the order in which these various accidents took place ; that even on this point, upon which scientific men were divided, only co n j ec t u ral opinions have been given ; from whence it follows that the tribunal re mains in doubt in that respect, and cannot draw any inference against the accused ; when it is, moreover, established by the unanimous evidence of the engi neers and judge-arbitrators, that the spring and axle tree were made of good iron, well wrought, and are s till susceptible o f a l ong serv i ce . In respect to the sufficiency of the material :—See ing that this has not been proved, that even the engi seer charged b y of the railroads, the Government with the inspection gives favourable testimony as to the number of eng i nes, and the fitness and good state of the Matthe w M urray mac hi ne . Seeing th a t , accor di ng to th e o pinions of science, at the moment of the catastrophe the fitness of this en gine 'cannot be impugned, and that, in considering the particular construction of the Matthew Murray, the Tribu na l has had no proo f th a t th e l ocom otive had the reputati on of be i ng b a d, an d presented signs of danger, nor that it had been remarked by the com pany, or th at i t had excee d e d or eve n attained on the Bth of M ay the bounds of the ordinary service of an engine ; that finally, it had been purchased from a skilful and ex many othe rs of precise l y t h e same kind, against complaintswhich no perienced manufacturer , who had made nor protests had been raised , and the use of whi c h is still allowed both in France and , abroad. Seeing, in respect to the manner of placing the AT Matthew -4urrav, that it was in strict accordance with " s tem, and that no blame can be imput e d for this to th e accused, inasmuch as scientific men are even now divided on this point. In respect to the excessive speed :—Seeing that, on this Point, th e evidence i s con t ra dictory; that no suf. ficient pro o f results thereo f th a t the convoy went at a speed to c ause or aggrava t e the accident; and that, for the re s t, in this resp ect, supposing even this last point proved, the fault must b e b roug h t h ome t o the accused; and that, the accusation had not been borne out. In resp ec t to the c l a i ms p u t in fur damages, as the Courts of Correctional Police have not the power of deciding civil actions but accessorily for the public action, a n d as no offence has been established, the demands fo r d amages cou ld not be decided. The Tribunal, for the above reasons, dismisses all the accused from the consequences of the indictment, and condemns the civil parties (demanding damages) in the costs ! Sir Robe r t P ee l l e ft Wi n dsor Castle on Sunday, and proceeded t o j o i n L a d y P ee l and family at his seat i n Staffordshire. A numerous and distinguished party have been invited by the Premier to spend the Christ mas holidays at Drayton Manor. - Lwly Graham we are happy to state is convales= cent, ' The fever has entirely subsided. • • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The market for the English Stocks left off firmly this afternoon, in the absence of any increased business. The jobbers regret much the smallness of the first instalment of the Canada Loan, as it pre cludes them from any participation, it being ru moured that the Alliance Insurance-office, or some other rich corporation, will take the whole amount. Consols for the opening brought 938 to 94. Money continues abundant, not being worth more than 2 per cent. in the Stock Exchange, while in the discount market it has been only 24 to 24 per cent. Exchequer Bills support the premium of 51s. to 535. ; and India Bonds were firm at 475. Bank Stock was at 1721 to 1734 ; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents, were 100,i to 101. We are glad to perceive that the Committee of the Stock Exchange has published its report respecting the conversion of Mexican Bonds, the material points of which, however, have already appeared, and we regret to observe that the Committee being unable to procure the numbers of the bonds actually in circu lation from Messrs. Lizardi and Co., are prevented from taking any further proceedings in the matter. The bonds were a shade better to-day, being 314 to 311. From Spain there is nothing more against the Bonds, the capitulation being unconditional. The Actives touched 18 to 18 4 , and the Three per Cents. 234 to 23i. Colombian were steady at 21!, ; Chilian Active at 92, and Deferred at 23 ; Peruvian at 17 and Brazilian at 69. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were steady at .524 to 524. Shares were dull, the only additional bargains since the morning being ;these :-Eastern Counties at 14 ; Brighton, 144; and Bristol and Exeter, 244 discount. South Western at 204 ; and Paris and Rouen 54- to 6 premium. In the rates for Bills of Exchange upon one or two Continental cities, there was a slight improvement, and all were firm, being as follows :-Paris, 25f. 871 c. to 924 ; Hamburgh, 13 114 to 12 ; Frankfort, 1514 to 1514 ; Amsterdam, 12 5i ; Trieste, 9 584 to 59 ; and Antwerp, 12 54 4. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was fiat, prices being somewhat in favour of the buyers, though only a moderate business was done. Sales 3,500 bales, of-which 500 were Surat, at 31d. to 44d; 200 Maranham, at 54d. to 64d. ; 60 Egyptian, at 6(1. ; and 2,740 American, at 44d. to 7d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was also less active. Eastern Counties were 84; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48 ; Grand Junction, 191 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 454; Birmingham, New, 334 ; Midland Counties, 63 ; Paris and Rouen, 264. Accounts from Adelaide, South Australia, of June 2, give an account of the proceedings of the natives at Port Lincoln, which certainly does not impress one with a very favourable idea of the measures taken to protect the settlers against a horde of natives ; 15 soldiers were sent by the Governor from Adelaide, and this "army," as a local paper facetiously terms it, was immediately routed. The inhabitants of Port Lincoln are described as. being afraid to move out of their houses, and were anxiously demanding the more efficient protection of an armed patrol or police. The culture of the vine was about to be in troduced from the Cape of Good Hope, and an Agri cultural Society had been formed for the improve merit of the resources of the people. Provisions seem rather dear. Flour 201. per ton • Mutton 4d. to sd. per lb.; Veal and Pork Bd. to 10d. per lb.; and Bread Is. 2d. per 41bs. The Canada loan is the talk of the eitimni blessed with more money than they can provide suitable em ployment for ; and judging from the present rate of the 34 per Cent. Annuities, it is calculated that 106 or 107 will be tendered for the debentures which bear 4 per cent. interest. Scarcely any business has been transacted in the English Securities to-day, which, however, have been very firm. Money is very abundant in the Stock Exchange, and does not command more than two per cent., while in Lombard-street it meets less employment than was anticipated, the merchants ex hibiting most praiseworthy caution in not over doing the new trade to China, which for some time to come, will be much of a speculative one. Consols for the opening have realised 94 ex dividend, and Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1004 to 101 ; Exchequer Bills are 51 to 53 premium, being held very steady. Bank Stock is kept up to 1724 and 173 i. The broker acting for the Commissioners of the Savings' Banks has taken 5,3001. in the Re duced Three per Cents at a slight advance, viz., 94/. The Foreign Bonds are more elastic. Spanish Stock gets up gradually to the position it stood in-be fore the outbreak at Barcelona. The Actives are 18 to 4, and the Three per Cents. 231 to 231. The Passive Stock is at 4. For Mexican Bonds there is also rather a better sale, and the price is 314 to 314 ; Columbian are worth 214 ; Brazilian,69; and Chilian, 92 ; all being steady. Dutch Two. and-a-Halt per Cents. are at 52! to 527 4 .. Shares are rather dull. Great Western, New, are 144 ; Birmingham, 99 ; the Quarter 24/ ; the Thirds, 314; and the Northern and Eastern, Scrip, 51 prem. ; Brighton, 144; and South Eastern 27 discount. - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 12.-We continue to have a demand for Manchester and Leeds, South Westerns, Liverpool and Manchester, Bristol and Exeter, and most of the leading Railway Stocks. Our sales were-Bristol and Exeter, 464; Hull and Selby, 354 ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 101 1 ; Union Bank, 7 9-16. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94g Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C0n5..... — Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent. Red... 101 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....9d 5l pm N.l VT 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ......... Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 Consols for Opg. ...... 94 N FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 6 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... .. Spanish, 5 per cent lBi Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 per cent. —f. --e. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. --e. Dutch, 4 per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100 i .tob * • - - „.• , 4 ,„, 4 rio !N ,1 • ?;----`,.+4,l\lthr • • • ~k k rY 4 0 - • o _ OR 0% • , ght iftn, SUMEARV riEvis? AND ipttbite otittoit. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. A letter from Barcelona, of the 4th instant, states that much damage has been done to the city by the bombardment. A contribution of 2,000,090 piastres was to be levied on the city. The Regent had spot yet entered Barcelona. Full particulars will be found under the proper head. The Madrid journals, of the 4th, are entirely with out interest. The French Court left the Tuileries on Friday, for Fontainebleau, where it will remain for some days. The streets where his Majesty and family passed were croWded with police agents and municipal guards. The Royal family occupied three carriages ; that of the King being escorted by a strong detachment of Lancers and National Guards. M. Rothschild is said to have declared that he would not embark one franc in railroad enterprises, till the action against the Versailles Railroad Company was over ; for if damages were given in proportion to such disasters, the most colossal fortune might be awarded away by a jury. The Crown Prince of Hanover. accompanied by Aide-de-camp Major Von Stolzenberg, and his phy sician, Dr. Spangenberg, set out on the sth for Alien burgh, on a visit to the Princess Mary. The King's health is now as good as can be wished, and has not at all suffered by his journey to Celle. His Majesty is recommende' to go to rest early, and as he seems to take more pleasure than formerly in visiting the theatre, the performances now begin an hour earlier than they used to do. It is reported that the Prussian Government se riously contemplates to free all publications, without regard to their extent, &c., from the censorship, with the exception, however, of the journals, and that ne gotiations for this purpose have already been com menced with the German Diet. PUBLIC OPINION. The Herald has the following remarks on the meet ting at Brill. It is cruel to turn round thus upon the " Farmer's Friend" :—" The spirit which animated the speakers at the agricultural meetings recently holden at Yeovil, Clevedon, and Leicester, is cer tainly preferable to the feeling which pervaded the Brill festival, if it were only because at the former there was a fine display of ener6y, hope, and deter mination, while at the latter a reiteration of personal opinions and of unavailing regrets was the ' be all and the end all' of post-prandial eloquence. To repine at what is past never to return is waste of time ; in preparation for the future alone is there safety for agriculture. The present Corn-law is the utmost pro tection land will in these days receive, and no time ought to be lost in making ready for greater compe tition by increased industry and skill. The Duke of Buckingham stands alone in his expectation that the county gentlemen in the House of Commons will come back and again support him in the principles 'which he advocated.' Even Mr. Miles of Somerset shire has abandoned all such anticipations—' improve ment in agriculture' he assured his' constituents the other day was ' the only means, of meeting the altered state of the times.' A perfect revolution in hus bandry is now the recommendation of those agricul tural leaders who formerly relied solely on high duties. That revolution consists in firstly having all the soil of Britain as highly cultivated as that of Norfolk, North Northumberland, and the Lothians, and then not resting ratisfied that productiveness has reached its utmost limit." The Chronicle thus replies to the violent article in the Quarterly Review on the Anti-Corn-law League : —" The foulest selfishness ; sedition, hypocrisy, and blasphemy; and polluting and perverting the most sacred topics into incentives to pillage and bloodshed, are the charges made in direct terms by the Quarterly Review against the Anti-Corn-law League. It is superfluous to say that this is not the language of civi lity or courtesy, of philosophic calmness, or of Chris tian meekness. Imputations of this sort are not tole rated in the intercourse which is carried on orally; nor are they more excusable in that which is sustained through the press. In fact, the press is only, as it were, a huge speaking trumpet, through which people may be spoken to by scores of thousands, and at the remotest distances. Its language, is under the same laws. of civility as that of direct personal communication be tween man and man. And those laws are observed by all but base minds.as faithfully as if there were no such screen from responsibility as,, that ' of anony mous authorship. The ,sin of their violation offends. not only against manners but morals. What .can the •• Tory reviewers , plead in .its defence ? They may say that they believe all this ; that they speak the language of sincere conviction ; that .they have proofs, which they adduce or offer to adduce, which satisfy their own minds of all that they affirm. We allow,:so far as it is true, the validity of this excuse, and we claim it in turn for the i violent lan guage' imputed to the adherents of the League:, Their convictions are as sincere, their. belief as firm, and their proofs as satisfactory to their own minds as those of any Quarterly Reviewer. To them, the base selfishness of landowning legislators, who take advantage of their position to enact laws for enhancing the price of food, is most demonstrable. To them, the hypocrisy and blasphemy of praying to the Deity for daily bread, and levying a tax which often de prives the poor man of his daily bread; is manifest. To their perceptions, the impost which raises rents at the risk of starvation, is pillage in itself - and blood shed in its consequences. Why, then, should they not speak out ? Why should they be more mealy mouthed than the Quarterly Reviewer ? Is free speech and sincere writing a monopoly, as well as corn ? They only do that which the Reviewer does • and he, doing as they do, yet dares to threaten them with criminal prosecutions:" The Times has the following remarks on the Bar celona insurrection :—" The outbreak of an insurrec tion in Catalonia, or, to speak more correctly with reference to the ate disturbances, in Barcelona, is an incident which has unhappily been of far too frequent occurrence to occasion much surprise. Nor has this Catalan spirit of revolt been more conspicuous amidst the modern vicissitudes of the Spanish monarchy than in the days of its most absolute power. Of the four teen or fifteen sieges which the city of Barcelona has at various times sustained, by far the greater number have been occasioned by the rebellious resistance of the population to the Generals of the Royal armies; ,and the severity of the language which Espartero or his Ministers are reported to have used is readily accounted for, if it be not wholly justified, by their knowledge of the incorrigible temper of the people arrayed in arms against the Queen's Government. As a political movement, it is impossible to conceive a more ill regulated and incomprehensible demonstration of a desire to do mischief, without either a scheme or a leader to give effect to the brutal passions of as igno rant multitude. But the combustible elements which are so well known to exist in the city and the pro vince doubtless attracted the machinations of those foreign incendiaries, whose cause is irrecoverably lost if, in spite of their predictions and conspiracies, Spain remains tranquil, and the Government of the Regent unassailed by weapons more formidable than those of constitutional debate. As we do not possess at present any complete account of the real origin or extent of the insurrection, it would be premature to speculate on its causes or its ultimate consequences. But our attention has been excited by the very sin gular tone in which the leading organ of the French Government, or more especially of the French King, has from the first spoken of these events. There has been an obvious endeavour to give them the utmost importance ; and although it was im possible for a journal (professing, before all things, to uphold the principles of monarchical power and public order to avow an open sympathy or to afford direct encouragement to a mob of revolutionary enthusiasts, led on by a few Republican desperadoes, yet it is evident that the enemies of Espartero, be they who they may, were not viewed with much horror or repugnance by the Court of France." • The 'Post forgetting old friendships, tells the Tory landlords that they have not made a proper use of their brains. " There are a great many very respect able persons (says this journal) who, from want of use, find it very irksome to harbour two leading . ideas at one and the same time, and to act upon their impulse. To this we attribute a good deal of the very strange abandonment of formerly avowed opinions, which of late it has been our unpleasant duty t o criticise. Certain gentlemen who, from the easy circumstances that have surrounded them from their birth, have not had occasion to make very active us e of their brains, are very apt to fall into mistakes t h rou gh the habit of throwing aside one leading idea, as soon as. the events of the day, or the accidents of their position, cause them to take up another. 'These gentlemen to whom we refer were fora long time told by those to whose guidance they chiefly looked in public affairs, that the securing to the c ultivator of the land a remu nerating price for his produce (so. far as the regulation and restraint of foreign competition could do it) was their duty as members of the landed proprietary and friends of the agric ultural population. Upon this idea they constantly acted, in which we think they were very right ; but (for the most part) they acted upon it exclusively,•in which we venture to think that they were wrong.. Giving their chief, and almost their whole attention, as guardians of the landed togai terest, to agricultural protection, they neglected, very blameable degree, that agricultural improvement which always ought to have been aleading object of their care. But how stands the case now ? They to whose guidance these gentlemen chiefly look in pub lic matters; do not now inculcate the policy of protec tion, but say a great deal upon the policy of improv ing the - :process - of agriculture, and obtaining better crops. The idea of improvement -has, therefore, be- - come the leading idea of certain. rural senators. But it seems that, in .order to keep hold cf this idea, they are ri obliged to let go the other idea abou t p rotectior ! : heir new zeal for improvement is great, and:we think it is not at all greater than it should be ; bat their old zeal about protection is utterly fOrgotten;,:or, looked upon as something obsolete, and no longer use, which we take leave to say is quite a-mistalre,!!• -The Advertiser thus comments on the forme and present litical opinions of Sir James Graham : " A few weeks ago a paragraph appeared in the Ob server, stating that Government had emp lo y ed some person i n their confidence to collect all the more vio lent passages he could ferret • out in the speeches of the members and abettors of the Anti-Corn -law League. What the object was in mak in g these ele gant extracts,' as our Contemporary characterisehd them, the Observer did not preteri - to. k n ow. Te murder is. now out—the secret ha s transpired —the collection has been made for the pages o f the Quarterly Review, in the current number of whlch there are many scores of such extracts. n lh. e article into into which these quotatio ns from Zorn-law speeches are interwoven i s evidently rt forth as a feeler, with the view of ascertaining whether or not it would be advisable, ond twtnhe part of Government, to attempt to o ut e. theAnti-Corn-law League, on the ground Of itsbeteg anillegal association. There can be no doubt that the parentage of this idea belongs to Sir Jsn e ' Graham. It i 3 just of a pieca with his " constitu tional " instructions to policemen to prevent or.this: perse all meetings at which these p olice s p ies ungni fancy they heard, or might think it probable thef , would hear, seditious matter uttered b y the speilker!" The Home Secretary was once an Anti C e d o ing law orator and pamphleteer himself. I t might sab the cause an essential service, were some one the requisite leisure for the .task, to mali , e s °lll 3 " elegant extracts " from his Anti-Corn - la w th er e and pamphlets. If we remember rightly the . m. was no lack of the quality of violence, 4. 1 ,A; Indeed, violence is a characteristic or orl,...tPn n g t , the Cumberland Baronet says or does —no InAtw.,h what side of the House of Commons he sits, or eri he be a Member of the Cabinet of the 14 1 ;51 1 ,. who s pech% Grey or of the Tory Sir Robert Peel. The yurf an atone time could.carry his Reform notions to silo .n extent as to lose himself in the revolutionary , fi: s ' under the inspiration of opinions of could coolly talk of the gratification it woulisd:s4sed hun to see the heads of those monarch. 1 01° Pr t g t _ the progress of Liberal principles rolling in the Era the man who could give utterance to *uch. the latter.. cL o , • as this; is just the man` to be capable of anYt_';', That he should, therefore, now that he has beenT e to rank apostate to all his former' principles, Pirs°P7o'ng put down the Anti-Corn-law League h.Yr the s arm of the law, does not at all surprise us. Ao „ e d . The leading outlines of a plan have` been der Cur in the first number of a series of Goern.men_bec. as rency Pamphlets, which, if acted upon, great a-revolution in our banking and monetary tern as Railways and Penny-post have our, of travelling, and in giving facilities to corms' pondence. The Times of the 7th instant s 'l - w ith " The main principle of the scheme is the .sa ul ., have ett Lso. that which many sound thinkers on the ourre% ot tld lately advocated, namely, that the Governrne n : b ;t . the be the sole issuer of a paper currency, .an 4 : fl ieent different banking institutions which enjoY the right of issuing notes paya ble on "` The should be deprived of that pr ivilege. Pe yea rs Government is to issue the amount °OOl varying revenue derivable from taxes in notes, vacrng t ' oer 11. to 1001., which are, of course, to be a leg! throughout the British dominions." PUBLIC IMPBOVSPIIar rg p r i s on for It has been proposed to take the Fleetivo the Law-courts; it is otherwise thought that n twe ea advisable situation would be the .sPacr bFthin $ Picket-street and Carey-street, 'whichls V tilts of quarter of an hour's access from the four. ond London, and close to the offices, to the barn Lincoln's Inn. PINE ARTS. An extensive and valuable collection of erl favin p g r l the property of the late Mr. Binmer, formerly s 1 % chant of eminence in the City, has been sold ra n h ! past week by Mr. Sotheby. c . iefly of fine antique prints of .the seventeenth bt eighteenth centuries, and brought f from four to eig guineas a lot. u t' 10 The X • anthian marbles from Lycia, - Weig,;'" be tops, have arrived by the Cambridge, an mill The lots consisona speedily deposited in the British Museum. , LITERARY ANB SCIENTO- sc h o ol this The cast of the Adelphi at Westminster old year. is spoken of very creditably ; the prologued t he epilogue will not be spoken till to-m last op ow, Sl' performance will take place on Monday . the 2 6th t ,in ~ .. son Thnpanteininies will be brought-out 00 i s to 'TheCovent Garden (viewi.. pantomime at Prig)" I:'sne to be Ha 14 ' 1 4 77 1. r . in 1 win 7 ' .11, the iniisie IV 1,10; founded on the t r 4, l . ) T all ....ee ' Hughes, leadei','"f7thue-vbta°7l6:::gsdrt°llbl9;• jjiih:"."7-7'ln- : - s i tse c b3r , The New lieatre "Agioyal, -MietrikAl!aitrziondor Chur , ch-.__ ,_ street, : ispii,..rgit,,,, ~,,,-dpento, los. ,inst. TheTREATEICA.y. night 4111T1-1.4 f lesseesl4 of MieT .10"RD9ligeol• I. Miss Vineent, and Afessrs. Oshaldistoni T. li e , e '• pie theatreins, and. Cobham, have promised thg? 's ld ' is capable of contaii - . 0 . 30 0 1 1 0 8°t1: &c., for stakes , ig 4., . i.. , ,, nominations, SPoier 0 . 51 . SuncisP The Ist of January fillingliiext year on . , . i .e will be received on Monday the 2d, as allowed q resolution of the Jockey- Club. 01. 0 . • ' t which close-on. plt. 0.71, COURT-r.as usooft d s pell His Royal Highness the Duke of-Canibri ge ~.v ni Ili* 1 ". yesterday in shooting in Coombe 1 117 °° 1•1 * Hi 4 - i - 1„ ness afterwards came to town. ; 2 . the O W" The Marquis of Queensbery is pas s • n o at Kinmont Hall, Dumfriess hire. returned to h e r The Countess of Huntingdon has villa, in the Regenes-park, from a tour. . tow n °t The Earl and Countess Grosvenor leave. i p i to the eild of the week to pass the Christi -0:w 6 ,. West , Hall, with the Marquis and Marchioness. or minster.• t fes ter, The Earl ~ i he Earl 01 . Yarborough left Arlington-50e , day for Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight. ' o i l ed " The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam.ne -nolo- Wilton House, near Salisbury, the seat dal ger Countess of Pembroke, on Tuesday,: lost. rived lot The Dowager Countess of Liverpool s r c as tle. week at Norbito Viscountesse from over th e 1 - 11 Viscount andis Acheson, O w , the P r Francis and Mrs. Howard, are on a Visit 7 t and Countess of Wicklow . - ' hue • t rived $ The Dowager Viscountess . Anson ;9 Cannon Hall, Yorkshire. •• • svio ter ...oui the Lord and Lady Montagu intend 0 r" — ; at Ditton Park, near Windsor. - -' the Ter to Lady Charles Somerset has returned • race, Piccadilly, from a tour. • - ...eh ittleb tiri vr" Lord and Lady Southampton are A Lodge, Northamptonshire. I" vuswaxasaorsoll*,, A 13 0,1 ,' A large bonfire was made last wee'ttinger' 11; macarret, in Ireland, 'near to Moun re e tit opic, e honour of Sir Henry Pottinger, under Vi l ' s jog vlc the British army have achieved their e r • 4 , piec e ' his tistr, tories in China. i Mount Pottinger is *a/ iSt and receives its name from the faltillP the Soei, o f Harmony Hall, the head-quarters of masts, Community , in Hampshire, was ereet,eci lof 1 " 30,040/. It is not yet half-furnished,' ifo4.ualts i!re ..habi on' rooms are handsomely fitted uP; 'the .--- ai on . clean, and the workmen en industrious. •• The 20, At A no vi• 1 , 0 0 of land is 1,000 acres, held on lease ef "'" WAD a 9 J rent of 15s. an acre, and is considere well worth 3/. an acre under cultivation. ..-----...--.. gi 11 10 rl l5 WILLIAM . KENNEDY, Q', A7°, rCCelltlY sir ADVERTISFR."---Wiliam Ke nnedy, (I.'et GalYestofo; pointed her Britannic 3.la.jesty's c on sul 1 ° in the Republic of Texas, sailed fr°r c. ThursdAP Texas, edY, on Mr , accompanied by Mrs. li--enn„„•ai d u ties , ''.,,,, the 24th u1t.,.t0 enter upon his officia l art n ot pr Kennedy was for many years e ditor an d pr y' prietor Of this journal ; and to his un‘ve3rli.,e t he hig rare talents, and undoubted genius, is u" t he rr, °- position which the Advertiser holds ainong,cessor oe' vincial Press of this country. "Upon h i's su 'gr. roe ' valves the painful task of announcing. that.. and is nedy has withdrawn from the proprietorsn Acker' no longer in any way connected with the 1111° to 01 11 Y riser. As few men are so rarely g ifted as ii fe jt bi his place, his loss will be long and painftlo:ecilli our readers in the East Riding, and more es!tiie---' - in the metropolis; but his successor trusts tb 3 !',_ t heill the worker of so many miracles—will reconci,lor-ndon to a change which undoubtedly implies no a u h i tt is.e ll meat of Liberal principles. He cannot flatter , cam e, that he has the "ability" to serve the Libel's' io 5 0; but he is not less sure that he has the Lib' o and that the honour of succeeding the wish se scholar, so eminent a poet, and so able a po liti $ 1 isoys Mr. Kennedy, will pro ve an unceasing, as it csi r of must a most generous , incentive to a caree usefulness.—Ha A dvertiser. rth' Wisin.—One of the cattle waggons at the ~L 01' allerton station of the Great North of EfiglanLecoll3 way, was shifted, a fewdays ago, by some misci d i t he ' person, from the side rails to the main way. a r !l, 3 wind blowing tremendously from the n orth, 1 " , e o f forced forward init southerly direction at the re 0 ', 6 ,3 twelve or fourteen miles an hour, and was not st P_K o . until it reached the Alne station, a distance.of tWeV, miles from its starting point.— Great Norther's " vertiser. r r lA' Pie ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.--",- -° pos tures, one of Ghuznee, the other of the Bolen be d to t from Atkinson's sketches have just been Ode _ OOO dissolving views at this place, and the new inicrost; r was yesterday used for the first time publicly. 3for, WOOD PAVEMENT—The street fronting t' r „ en t, tin's Church is now being laid with vvood 01'171-tole There seems to be little doubt that. nearly tlr i enjoy of the great thoroughfares pf the metropolis vo l ` 1 the same advantage withiwth*neiLt Ax 1119nt115' FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent — 3razilian Bonds... 69 Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent. 92 Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 2li Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Boh Danish, 3 per 2ent Greek, 11325, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3li Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 peret. 171 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ~ . ... .. 461 Eastern Counties (23 paid) 9 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto Nee Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) .. ... 1894 Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 494 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 62 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar .. .. 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 64 Genoa . ... 26 10 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 144 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 5 Rio Janeiro 25 Frankfort on Maine ...152 Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 Berlin... Vienna, effec. A. 3 M lO 1 Trieste, shit° lO 2 Madrid Cadiz 36* Bilbao Barcelona Seville Bahia Buenos Ayres ..... New York, 21 days sight 46i Philadelphia 4€ !PRICES OF BULLION, PIM OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 New Doubloons ......0 0 0 New D011ar5............® 4 9a Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 Ili LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 13.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.W., fresh breezes and fine clear weather. DEAt, DEc. 12.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Finis (brig), westward. A large ship (supposed the Swit zerland), from America to London. FALMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Wind S.E. to S.W., fresh gales and squally.—Arrd. Montrose packet, for Vigo. DOVER, DEc. 11.—Arrd. Louce, Westerwick, for Gibraltar, after being ashore at Dungeness, and assisted off. Put back, Liberty, for Stockton, having been ashore on the bar. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. off, Heinrich, White, New York. CowEs, DEC. 12.—Arrd. Comet, Rabe, Havannah; Kore, Bremen; Bordeaux, Dunkirk, with four feet water in her hold, and has come into the harbour. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Wind, S.W.—Arrd. Tyne, Morris, Quebec; Lydia, Cadiz, for Hull, with loss of sails, boats, bulwarks, &c.; Duchess of Gloucester, Isle of Wight for Gloucester, leaky in topsides. Arrd. off—Mungo Park, Richardson, Monte Video ; Harriet Rockwell, Jackson, Charleston for Hull. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 12.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W.— Arrd. Swanton, Devonport ; Eliza Warwick, Davies, Charleston ; F. Depau and Caledonia, Savannah , Robert Benn, Ritchie, Bombay; Reliance, Dunley, Ceara; Isabella, Thorpe, Demerara ; Zeno, Jamaica ; Deucalion, Allen, United States ; Seaton, Hope, Soule, and Gossipium, New Orleans. WATERFORD, DEC. 9.—Sld. Terpsichore, New foundland. WHITBY, DEC. 12.—The Newcastle Trader, Lord, from Shields, got ashore yesterday, in Robin Hood Bay, but was assisted off, and towed in here last night leaky, and with rudder unshipped. BAURAWALD, NORTH UIST, DEC. 7.—The Helen, Scott, from the Clyde to Limerick, was totally wrecked at Girinish, on the night of the 4th inst., crew saved. I3LYTH, DEC. 11.—The Crowley, of South Shields, got, on Myth rocks this morning, but was assisted off with dainagc-, and pros ded for Shields in OW of a steamer. -