The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-22 00:00:00

Just ready, with characteristic Illustrations by Leech, THE WA..SSAIL BOWL. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq. . Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c. Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., TII E JACK O'L ANTERN (LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea, By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. " The characters are various, including Nelson himself. The Admiral is capitally sketched. With same limitations, we think The Jack n'Lantern' is one cf Mr. Cooper ' s best no vels. The personages are drawn with discrimination, and the dialogue is conducted with a dramatic ease andlife. Every part 01 the work, toot bears the stamp of reality. Of familiarity with seamanship it is unnecessary to speak in the case of the origi nater of the modern nautical novel."—Spectator. Raoul Yvard, the hero, is the clever dashing rellow. whom. C; per loves to put on board a craft."—Athenaeum. - " Rapidity of action, striking and continuous interest, faith ful delineation of life at sea, variety of incident, and bold s..A7 , tclies of character, are the admitted characteristics of Mr. Cooper's fictions. ' The Jack o'Lantern' will probably.take place as the best of all his sea novels."—Salopian Journal. " This romance will add to the well-earned reputation of s accomplished writer. The chase and the battle, the board in.; and the burning, and all the peculiarities of naval strife, are depicted in such vivid terms, that even landsmen, like our selves, kindle with the dauntless enthusiasm of the gallant tars." —Caledonian Mercury. One of Mr. Cooper's best novels."—Hampshire Adver tiser. " The first place among living writers of fiction belongs, without dispute, to Mr. Fenimore Cooper. He has conceived and delineated, better than any other man, the poetry which adorns the life of the forest and the sea. ' The Jack o'Lan tern' is worthy to rank with his former celebrated productions." .--Sunday Times. Riehard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. ETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, 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, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is their vast inferiolity to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, and 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-1)41 - s, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. MHE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDEND'S of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, Zl5O, £2OO, 1:,400, £6OO, ZBOO, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to Z 72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS - with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. TT EINE 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/., 9,0001., 5,0001., and 3,6004 to London ; 3,6001., 800/., an 1 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,200/. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 900/. to , Hull ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and 600!. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire; 7001. to Hyde, Isle of Wight; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bideford ; and 600/. to Bradford, &c.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large .11oney Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Dish ibution offers the possibility of obtaining more than 25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 1/. and upwards. Price of One Share, 1 1. ; wo Shares, 21. ; three Shares, 3/.; four Shares, 41. ; five Stiates, Si. ; six Shares, 61. ; seven Shares, 71 ; eight Shares, 81. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 101. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS •t 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. 22, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand t" ! , ^ra of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide b - , lliss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from I.:, principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Waiter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Tdr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, :Yrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Ooors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 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 Mali. THEATRE ROYAL. HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 22, Will he performed Congreve's Curoydy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699. Mir Wilful) Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; lll.rwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witt•oud, Mr. Charles Mathews; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwe7l, Mr. Strickland; Mil- Ir-nant, Madame Vestris; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. After which, a new Drama, called THE BA STILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. H. Hull; Fricandeau, 11r. Webster; the Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma same Celeste. To be followed by Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's original Farce of THE LUSH LION. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 22, Will be repeated the 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 WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, and Mi=s Faucit. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; I \, erma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 21. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 56 : Noon, 55. BAROMETER, N.W. - - - - WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M ,ruing 45 minutes after 4 I Evening 9 minutes after 5. • LONDON : THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 22, 1842. It is said that the Royal Agricultural Society . has employed persons to w a tch the meetings of the League, and report accurately all statements - which may be thought to affect the agricultural interest. It is further said, that the various statements there made, the obvious condition of the public mind, and the increasing repugnance which is shown to the principle of protection, have wrought a general conversion amongst the farmers' friends. We see proofs of this great change in their speeches at agricultural meet ings. It is further rumoured, though we do not guarantee the authenticity of the rumour, and quite agree with a Contemporary, that whatever may be the presumed change of opinion in the landlords, the best exertions of the League and the bread-taxed people will still be required; but it is rumoured that some leading member of the agricultural interest —Mr. PUSEY, it is surmised —will, on the first day the Parliament meets, give notice of his intention to move for a Com mittee on an early day on the Corn-laws, with a view to their total and immediate repeal. Such a rumour, - even if well-founded, ought not, we repeat, to relax the exertions of the League, to which the alteration of the opinion of the farmers' friends is owing, till the Repeal Bill has received the Royal assent; but we also repeat that we can not and do not guarantee the authenticity of time rumour, though the bare possibility of such a course of conduct has suggested to us several arguments in its favour. Our known opinion on the utility of totally and immediately repealing the Corn-law renders it unnecessary to say a word on that poinc ; our remarks will be confined to consider the immense advantages which would ensue to the landlords themselves from proposing and carrying tilat repeal into effect. To the honest manufacturcr, to the trader, to the labourer, it is of no conse quence whatever who puts an end to the law; but to the landlords and, to the Government it is of almost infinite importance whether the law be abolished by a voluntary movement of the landlords, or be forced on the Legislature by a society banded together —aye, a n d honestly and rightfully• banded together --to put down the unrighteous law. Who will answer for the pur poses to which such an organisation as that of the League, stamped with eminent success, which will be sure to raise up leaders with great ulterior objects in view, may be applied? Allow it to be the means of carrying the repeal of the Corn-law, as it undoubtedly will, should the landlords not now gracefully and volunt :rily give the law up, and most likely it will become the means, in the hands of some dangerous men, of attempting a great revolution. There are abundant materials in the community, properly piled together and kindled, to produce a devouring conflagration. Then there will be no question whether the landlords shall divide amongst them a few paltry millions a year, more or less, having, at the same time, to pay great additional charges on account of pauperism and crime ; but the question will be, whether they shall have any property at all, and whether their lives can be protected. A law which directs the hunger of the populace against the State is at all times pregnant with danger ; and much it be hoves those who chiefly profit by our political arrangements, to put an end to such a law. For the safety of the State, with which the welfare of the landlords is closely connected, they should take the lead in abolishing their own enactment. At present they are as much abused as any class of men that ever existed, and because they are palpably in the wrong they . are obliged pa tiently to bear with what is said against their political conduct. For the sake of a few paltry millions a year distributed amongst them, they are becoming discredited with the community, and losing their hold of the public respect, which is the basis of all political power. All the censure and vituperation now daily heaped on them they may at once stifle for ever,—all that discredit they may in stantly cast off, and regain the esteem of all ho nest men, comprising the bulk of the nation, by gracefully acting as the rumour states they in tend to act. All the attacks made on them last session, which, going forth from the Houses of Parliament unanswered and unrefuted, had a powerful effect on the public mind, will be re newed next session, enforced by many additional facts, many additional arguments, and much con demnation of their own principles by the GonINGs, DICKINSONS, and other members of their own party. Such attacks, repeated session after session, will destroy their character, and their political power will disappear. They will, in the end, after suffering in public opinion, have their so-called protection snatched from them, while they can only be impoverished and de graded by continuing laws which injure them and the community at large. The further loss of character, and further loss of power, with which they are threatened, will be at once arrested by Mr. PUSEY, or some other leading farmers' friend, proposing the repeal, and at once they will ac quire the renewed respect and the confidence of the public. The tongues of their enemies will be immediately tied. Those who assemble toblame will be loud in their praise. The torrent that might wash them away will but clear out the channels of public prosperity, and fix the struc ture of their greatness on a surer basis. The wonderful change that would take place in time public sentiments by the landlords pursuing the graceful and generous course which the rumour indicates, would require several columns to de scribe, and we content ourselves with merely al luding to the suppression at once, and for ever, of all discussion in Parliament, and out of Parlia ment, on this question, and to the sudden con version of the loud and deep curses of the nation into warm and heart-cheering applause. If they take this lead they may be entitled to say to the public, " the law was the act of your organised and recognised authorities, and the whole nation is responsible for its consequences. Do not, therefore, make us suffer exclusively by the change. Give us compensation for all the damage that may accrue to us from the repeal. Stand betwixt us and our creditors, should the value of our properties fall, and we be unable to meet our engagements." But by alone resisting, the change, they make the law exclusively their own. They might. now have a capitulation; but if they force the rest of the community to storm their stronghold, they will then be entirely at the mercy of the conqueror. Let them take the lead in proposing the abolition of all Corn-laws, and they may almost dictate the terms of the compensation. Another consideration is, that our whole sys tem of criminal jurisprudence, that many of the laws concerning property, particularly the laws concerning the tenure of land in Ireland, the laws concerning the currency and banking, the election laws, including the whole system of registration,—that the fiscal system of the coun try and the extension or reformation of the Church, urgently demand the attention of the Legislature. But as long as this bread question is a subject of agitation—the subsistence of the community is of such primary importance, that it must and will absorb every other. Till that be put at rest it will be impossible either for the public or the Parliament to attend to any other great question; and as it can in no way be so certainly and wisely settled as by the landlords taking the lead in abolishing the law, we are not surprised that men should say that they mean to adopt that course. We are almost ashamed to support views that concern the whole empire by mere party consi derations ; but at present there is a great proba bility that this will be made a party question, and then it might be fatal to the Administration. Were the landlords to take the lead, and propose the abolition of the law, it would be instantly stripped of all party character. Mr. PUSEY would at once annihilate Mr. VILLIERS as a Repealer. There would be nothing for the Whigs to glorify them selves about, and nothing for the Tories to be ashamed of. Sir ROBERT PEEL would be in stantly relieved from all his present embarrass ments on this question; the mere contests of political parties in a fair and open field might be renewed; and lie, as the cleverest administrator, as the most influential man in the House of Corn am quarteronsnigohftapossiblycentury. r e m A a s i n a p P a r r i m t y e n A l l o ivnei,s we t er c f a b n r conceive nothing so extremely a d vantageous to Sir R. PEEL and the Conservatives generally, as for Mr. PUSEY to give the notice we have alluded to on the v very i first night of th e session. The union be tiixttle Premier and the lando wners would be as sure ly cemented as the reconcili a ti on between the landed aristocracy and the bulk of the peo ple. Puttingparty considerations, however, out of view, and looking only at the character and poli tical power of tha landowners; looking at what they will suffer by allowing the agitation of this question to be continued—and only by the abolition of the law can it be put an end to ; and looking at what they will gain in reputation by proposing a repeal of all the Corn and Provision laws, which are intended to promote their advan tage, without effecting any such object, we are decidedly and clearly of opinion that they could adopt no more manly nor wiser course than that indicated by the rumour which has given rise to our reflections. We called attention ,on Tuesday to the connec tion which exists between agrarian outrages in Ireland and the want of employment in Eng land. We pointed out that so long as there wai an active demand in Scotland and England for large bodies of emigrants from Ireland, the competition for land there was diminished, and outrages decreased. That circumstance affords the explanation, we believe, of the diminution of those outrages during a portion of the time the Whigs were in office, and not any great dif ference between their mode of administering the Government of Ireland, and that of the Tories. The country Magistracy was much the same under both Administrations; the lawswere the same; the protection given to land lords, and to the people, was about the same ; the notice was the same; the tenure of land was the same; and, therefore, wo ascribe the compa rative freedom from agrarian outrages, which took place between 183Gand 1340, tothe brisk demand during the greater portion of that period for la bour in England and Scotl an d. I t i s o f some imp oL tance to repeat this view, because politi clans wi:.l not sufficiently c ons id er t h e natura l circumstanc, which determin e t h e we lf are of so ciety, and low. chiefly to the s t atute -b oo k and to parties to exp 'lainits varying c on di t i on. I t i s of especial importa. nee, in regard t o th e present state of Ireland ; fbr a number of Irish no bl emen and gentlemen are pre2,,i t i n g,ACcordingto the Du b • ,✓ * 4 g, • AO.' it,',:t4l" . 0 • . *Os- ,§nrc. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMTIFIR 22, 1842. lin Evening Mail, to combine in London in order to resist all further relaxation of our re strictive laws on trade. Should they be success ful, they will narrow the drain which a brisk trade in England opens to carry off their surplus population, or stop it altogether, and multiply outrages, by increasing the competition for land, in their own country. We offer no defence for the condnct of Irish landlords; we do not dream of vindicating the law relative to the tenure of land in Ireland as it stands; but neither the law nor the landlords could be so prejudicial to the welfare of the Irish as at present, had the people other means to subsist than that of cultivating the soil. Compared to an easy means of gaining a living o►► one hand, and a keen competition amongst hungry cutters for every fragment of an acre on the other, the influence of all laws and of all insti tutions, of whatever nature, over the welfare of society, must be trifling. To make men in opulent and easy circumstances rioters and murderers, would be a most difficult task ; but not so difficult as to make men who are a prey to hunger and wretchedness peaceable and orderly. In Ireland profitable employment for the people is wanted. There seems at present not much prospect of establishing manufactures on an extensive scale in that country. A de ficiency of coal, and a deficiency of a population educated to the work—for the manufacturing population of England, its hosts of millwrights carpenters, smiths, and engineers, did not grow up in a day—will for some time prevent Ireland being the seat of extensive manufactures. But the readiest way to promote that, is to draw off as much as possible of its surplus popu lation into the manufacturing districts of Eng land, which will gradually extend peaceful habits and produce security in Ireland. As its popula tion get partly taught in England, some of them will return, and, aided by the English and Scotch, ►manufactures may gradually grow up there. According to this view, it is for the in terest of the Irish landlords to promote the ex tension of manufactures and trade in England, and they can do themselves and their country no greater injury, than by opposing measures which would set the mills of England in full work, and give freights to every one of her ships. Though the Prime Minister has not yet ac quired much fame as a doctor, he surpasses all others of the present day as a conjuror. The miracles of Prince Hon ENLOE, and the conver sions made by Father MATHEW, all sink into the shade when compared with those of Sir ROBERT PEEL. But twelve months ago, landlords, farm ers, and clodhoppers shouted, with one voice, " Protection to agriculture," " Support the Farmers' Friend," "No surrender." These sounds have died away, or if any wreck is left behind, it is heard only in the domains of BUCK INGHAM, who stands alone in his glory, and mo nopolises the title of Farmers' Friend. Now the cry is changed, and at all the agricultural meetings from John O'Groat's to the Land's End, the same parties as lustily exclaim " No protection," " Improve your land," " Help yourselves," and " Trust neither to PEEL nor Parliament." Any man who last year had fore told such a change would have been regarded as an idle dreamer, a visionary anti-monopolist, or a fit subject for Bedlam. PEEL has done it all; for though the seasons and the enormous fail ures in the corn-trade have conspired to aid the cause, he still has the sole merit of originating this great system of conversion. But it is only in progress, and if we are to believe his Tory sup. porters, next session will produce still greater won ders. The Minister, with praiseworthy caution, keeps his secret well, to the great annoyance of his friends, but a feather shows how the wind blows. Lord CLIVE, a candidate for the ultra-Tory county of Salop, saw more changes coming; and Mr. ACLAND, the Member for another county of the same stamp, is aware that things cannot re main as they are. In a speech, quoted by Earl FORTESCUE, at the Devon agricultural meeting, lie said," They must not rely too much upon the Legislature for what was called protection against foreign competition ; for the time was come when the best security for all interests was in increased intelligence and perseverance; so that they might produce the best articles at the lowest rates," and added, " whatever changes have taken place, or might take place, they would, looking to the balance of interests work for the good of all." Earl FORTESCUE, also, who is no mean authority in political mat ters, bears similar testimony, and calls upon the landlords and farmers of Devonshire, as wise and prudent men, to hold themselves ready for further regulations for the admission of foreign corn. "I, ask," said his Lordship, " those who are in the habit ofwatching the poli tical horizon, whether they are not themselves prepared fbr further changes ?" These are all good omens; and with the spirit now abroad in the country, and the calm reason displayed by tens of thousands, who, only six months 'ago, saw no hopes of safety but in monopoly, the predictions must be fulfilled. The enemies of free trade are in complete rout; their general led them into dangerous ground, and they must rally under a new banner. But the landlords are not the only parties on whom the great conjuror is to operate. The people want cheap sugar as well as cheap bread. If one monopoly is put down, all the rest must follow. The West India planters, aware of this, are putting their house in orde r ; they will in good time follow the example of the agriculturists, and call upon one another to trust to themselves, and not to selfish and ruinous re strictions. For these changes, so full of promise, and so necessary to the welfare of all classes, Sir ROBERT PEEL deserves the praise and the thanks of the country. We have long entertained a notion that Ma gistrates in general, and Police Magistrates in particular, are by no means prodigies of wisdom, and seldom does a week pass without some cir cumstance or other occurring, as if for the ex press purpose of corroborating our theory. For instance, a day or two since three young men,. named FLACK, GREAVES, and PZESCOTT, were honoured with a special introduction to Mr. GREENWOOD, the Magistrate, by a consi derate and attentive policeman, who charged them " with loitering about the streets, N imt V aw l k l aeesnepser prove dieneddn window, then with th e ' i n t en ti on t o comm i t a f e l ony ." they w asheng o Na n v, a e llok i oe i k i d t e o d o a inn : a a i t n a s na t dw t a h tth e c them, n walked back again." This fact, it will be at once admitted, was suspicious ; but how much more suspicious—how much blacker in its dye, is the following!—"Policeman watched them very nar rowly, and when they noticed him, they went into the King's Arms public-house. In a few minutes afterwards he saw them going towards Clerkenwell." Going towards Clerkenwell ! Can there be more conclusive evidence than this ? " What could they," as our Con temporary, the Times, justly asks, " what could they want at Clerkenwell ?" Un happy Clerkenwell, whose locality is so . tainted, that even to " go towards" you , is proof posirive that the individual thus " going," is no better than he should be ! It was our lot, some few months since, to see no less distinguished a per sonage than the Right Hon. HENRY GOULB URN, Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer, " go ing" towards Clerkenwell, and we will now frankly confess that we bitterly regret not hav ing given him into the custody of a policeman, for it is manifest that he could have been " go ing" into that contraband locality for no good; and a discreet Magistrate would at once have com mitted him for the act. But though " going to Clerkenwell" stamps a man as a rogue and a vagabond, yet it is still more to his dis credit when he is proved to have " looked in at a watchmaker's window!" Hear the sapient GREENWOOD on this point :—" There is no doubt that you were all three out for the purpose of committing a felony. For what other purpose could you be looking in at watchmakers' windows?" Well may the Magistrate have put this acute interrogatory ! The prisoners could have peeped into the watchmaker's window for no earthly good. There was burglary in the very act of gazing. When a magpie peeps into a marrow-hone, every man with two ideas in his head knows right well that the bird is not merely gratifying his cariosity, but has a shrewd eye to the dainty, unctuous matter that ma happen to be within that bone ; so when a man peeps into a watchmaker's window, it is equally manifest that it is to gratify no mere optical pre dilections, but to give free scope to the develop ment of his burglarious capabilities. He peeps with a view to prig. So argues the logical GREENWOOD, and far be it from us to in sinuate that magisterial logic is not the perfection of reasoning, We conclude with a word of advice to all London peripatetics, which we append by way of moral to our remarks— Never be seen "going towards Clerkenwell," or looking in at " watchmakerS' windows !" If, however, like the Chancellor of the Exchequer, necessity forces you in that discreditable direc tion, hide your blushes in a cab ; and if your curiosity cannot be controlled, and you must needs "look in at a watchmaker's window," take care that Policeman 344 N is not standing "in plain clothes" close behind you! Madrid journals of the 12th have been re ceived, and are chiefly occupied with the state of affairs in Catalonia, and the conduct of the REGENT; the one party describing it as heartless and cruel, and the other justifying it as the only mantis of putting down the rebellion. The house of BARING and Co. are said to have advanced to the Minister of Finance the sum of forty millions of reals on the security of quick silver, and that agents from some other English capitalists were expected at Madrid to make ar rangements fo ithe ocher• part of the loan of 600 millions o Ire& The tranquillity of the capital has not been disturbed. The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid Bourse of the 12th inst. at 21 9-16 cash, and 22 at 60 days. The Fives at 26 cash, and 26i at 60 days. Certificates of the debt without interest at 5-a, at 60 days. The Paris papers contain farther accounts of attempts at insurrection in Spain, but they are always put down at once, showing that the peo ple take no part in them. The latest is contained in the following dispatch, addressed to the French Government from Seville, but without a date: —" Two battalions of the National Guards spon taneously got under arms in the night of the Bth instant, and demanded that the troops of the gar rison should be withdrawn. Martial law was proclaimed, and on the following day order was restored." This appeared in a Government paper, and the Presse, the organ of the ex- Regent, also states that a rising at Girona, in Catalonia, was anticipated. That journal, no doubt, is well informed on subjects of this kind ; but, unfortunately-, for its party, these risings only injure their cause. The writer is aware of the fact, and thus, with the usual hatred of Eng land, mourns over the results: — Is not then England yet satisfied ? Has she not yet caused blood enough to be shed in Spain ? It is announced that Zurbano has been ordered to march on Girona, where some agitation has manifested itself, and it is well known that it was the presence of this man that brought about the insurrection at Barcelona. Must then all the manufacturing towns of Catalonia be submitted to the same flute, which has just de stroyed the prosperity of their capital ? Is not the terror sufficient in Spain for the treaty of commerce to be consummated ? The Constitutionnel blames tl►e English and Spanish journals for attacking the French Consul, and for the view which they have taken of the proceedings at Barcelona. We simply ask, who began tl►e attack i► Before a word against either the Consul or the French Government appeared in any English journal, strong denunciations were made in the Paris papers against the British Consul for has inhumanity towards the Spanish refugees, and stories were published, announcing that the English► ships were sent to that quarter for the purpose of supplying VAN TIALEN with ammunition, and battering down Barcelona. The French cannot expect us to be silent under such grievous accusations. That journal in a grave mood thus defends itself and the French press : We compel ourselves to observe the most mode rate and just language in our observation's on the late events at .Barcelona, and this has not been an easy task in the midst of the just indignation which has been raised in France. at the bombardment of that h o wever, of our sympathies for the city. In spite, Spanish Government, and our sincere desire to see a firm hand re-establish order in the Peninsula, we cannot, without an energetic protest, read the attacks which the Madrid journals make on the French Con sul—a man whose conduct has been, throughout the whole affair, dictated by the noblest feelings of huma nity. We are not astonished at the attitude assumed B by are t el he on l a :ng h l a i s . this advant age , t o su pp ress ansh press, for whom th e ca t as t rop h e o f obstacle to the conclusion of the treaty of commerce. But if we can understand the inhuman joy of the English, we cannot permit them to falsify the truth, and to take a text from the disastrous events of Cata lonia to calumniate France. In the eyes of civilised Europe, it is not to them, but to us that the best cha racter belongs in that deplorable affair.. The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from Perpignan, announcing that TERRADAS is at the head of from 500 to 600 men in the mountains,and that Colonel PRIM, a deputy of the Cortes, was endeavouring to raise the district called Campo de Tarragona. "Although the details are want ing," it adds, "we are inclined to believe that there is some foundation for these rumours, as we find that ESPARTERO is prolonging his resi dence at Sarria, where he continued on the 13th instant. He no doubt does not wish to quit Cata lonia until he shall have extinguished all traces of revolt. As soon as the troops which have been dispatched from tile interior of Spain shall have arrived, be will commence his operations in the provinces." BOURSE—PARIS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 19. First Highest ...oviest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 5... 191 25:.. 119 5... 119 10 Four per Cents. 100 95... 100 9 5... 100 95... 100 9E , Threes . 78 90... 78 95... 78 90.. 78 95 Bank of France 3340 —.3340 —.3320 ...3330 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1 050 ..105() ...1050 —.1050 5,000 L — 5OBO •..5080 —.5080 _5OBO Belgian Bank, 1841 ..,1075 ...1075 ...1075 ...1075 Belgian Fives ..... 103 k ... 103 k ... 103 i 103 i 1840 1 0 41 ... 104 ... 104 104 Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24 Passive 4 4 4 4 Portuguese Fives 34 321 321 321 Neapolitan 106 40... 106 40... 106 40... 106 40 Roman lO4l 1041 ... 104 i ... 104 k • RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L.B l2O ... 120 ... 110 ... 1 12 50 R. B 280 . 280 ... 275 ... 275 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 75 HOW TO MAKE THE PEOPLE VIRTUOUS.—The Times yesterday took a perfectly original view on the subject of the Corn-laws. The advocates of those laws contend that without them our agriculturists cannot compete with foreigners; to which it is replied, you may compete with them by improving cultivation, granting leases, and making the land produce more. Whereupon our as tute Contempor ary sets f or th that the landlord has something else to do with his land besides making the most of it. He is not to grant leases lest he might lose social conduct . of ' t"histhat a guiding 0 1l r i id hisi g land influenceand certain e ta iover bene ficial the social who people his estate." He is " determin e d . lines of public morality. shall never be outraged, (nor) conduct shall be pursued, that Contemporary . mad speculations repeatedly entered on." Our their wholly forgets that the whole question of protection turns on land producing wealth ; but theory, he sneers at those who so regard under the influence of his new it, and sets . up the landlords as requir ing protection to preserve the morality of happy. Though we do not see how . the repeal the people on of the Corn-laws estates, and make them would interfere with the ma nagement of their property, it is something like a mockery of th e public. forbearance towards continued. in consistencies, while our ears are yet ringing with Our Contemporary's remarks on our Hertfords, Hun t i nztowers, and Chesterfields, to have it gravely insinuated that the people are to be taxed or starved to enable such mirrors of idea of to keep th em i n o rder. The whole of the Times is f oun d e d on the anvent relation of ser&hip, and regards the landowners as the masters of the people. Other men will not now recognise their dominion, and the attempt to restore it must be fatal to themselves. His Serene Highness the Prince of Me cklenbur g Strelitz, and suit e , em b ar k e d e arly on Tuesday on board the General St eam N av i ga tion Company's mail packet, Countess of Lonsdale, Captain R. S. Stranack, for Hamburgh, The General Steam Navigation Company's power ful steam ship, James Watt, Captain 11. W. Gibbs, arrived off the Tow er yesterday, after a fine passage of 22 hours from Havre. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The depression in the English Funds, though not so great as that which has occurred in the French Rentes, is still more serious than would result from any minor cause, and indicates the anxiety with which all parties regard the future. There has not been such a promising hitch fur the war-fever, or Thiers, party in France since the much agitated Eastern ques tion. Consols closed at 93 for the opening, without the dividend. Exchequer Bills were 495. to 51s. pre mium ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 100 i to 101 ; and the Three per Cents., 94 to 94i. Canada Debentures remained as in the morning. Business in the Foreign Market was checked by the heaviness of our own Stocks. Spanish Actives were 181 to 1 ; and the Three per Cents., 23i to 24 ; Portuguese Converted remained at 321 ; Mexican Stock, after touching 311, receded to 311 ; Venezuela Bonds were at 28+; Brazil Stock realised 69 ; Peru vian, 171 ; and Old Portuguese, 63 ; Dutch T wo-and a-Half per Cents. closed at 521. The Railway Shares were rather more animated, but prices were not so high. Brighton, 14+ to 141 discount ; Midland Counties, Quarter, par; Northern and Eastern, Scrip, 5 premium ; Paris and Rouen, 41 to 4 premium ; South Eastern, 28 discount ; Great Western, 24 premium; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 21 discount; and Bristol and Exeter, 22 discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 3k premium, and British North American Bank, 6 discount. At the public sales of Tea to-day, about 10,900 packages were offered, of which but 2,000 were sold, and of this 400 packages were taken by speculators. On Congou and Twankay there was a decline of Id. per lb. The trade will not buy, at least till after Christmas, and there are sales declared for the 10th of next month. (From The Sun of Last Night.) In the Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday a fair business was done. Sales 4,000 bales ;of which 500 were American, and 400 Surat, on speculation. Railway Shares were dull, and the market was heavy. Eastern Counties, 8i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 481; Liverpool and Manchester, 190 ; Brighton, 36 ; Birmingham, Quarter, 49 ; Paris and Rouen, '25. We are looking for the West India mail, due yes terday, and expect some early intimation of its arrival from Southampton. The chief news of interest will probably be from Mexico. Everything in the City gives notice of the close of the year, and business, except in special departments, that are generally animated about Christmas, such as the Fruit market, is b ing gradually narrowed. Prices, as may be expected, are now in favour of the buyers for other articles, as well as Tea, the holders being compelled to offer some inducement to parties before they will add to their present stocks. After January next a brisker demand is expected. We have so often before discussed the rights of the Mexican bondholders that we feel it to be almost needless to re-enter the lists, although a few words must be said in reference to a decree that has been received by their agents, after their having issued more than the stipulated amount of bonds, instructing them to take that course. How this is to be recon ciled, unless by some previous instructions, remains to be seen ; and at all events the agents should have made such known to the bondholders, whose interest was so materially affected. This is a new feature in the affair. With regard to the further pro visions made by the Government for the payment of the interest, by setting aside more of the Customs' duties, this cannot but be satisfactory, and if acted up to will repair, to the full extent, the actual injury (lone by the over-issue, though it may not wipe away the odium attaching to the private issue. The bond holders will take it as a sort of conscience money, and thank their lucky stars a South American Go vernment will act so honourably as to do them justice after a fault committed. The disutssion at the India House to-day upon the subject of the Affghan war, promises to be of interest in a pecuniary paint of view ; but the question of em ploying natives in the civil administration of India is one of far greater importance, and involves serious considerations of justice and policy. The position of affairs in FraAce is not considered to have improved, as regards S?ain, and the apprehen sion of some unfortunate misunlerstanding between the Great Powers gains strength to such an extent as to depress the funds more than usual of late, there having been a decline of -Ito per cent. on yesterday's value. Consols have been done for the opening as low as 931. to 931. Reduced Three-and a-Ilaleper Cents. have realised 100 k to 101, and the Three per Cents. 94 to 94a. Exchequer Bills have been marked 495. to .51s. premium. The Savings' Bank broker bought Reduced at 941. The Canada Guaranteed Debentures are steady at lf premium. Foreign Stocks opened rather buoyantly, but have since declined. Spanish Actives are 184 to 181, the Three per Cents. 23k, Mexican 311 to 31, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52i to 4. Railway Shares are barely supported. Edinburgh and Glasgow are 2, Brighton 14, and Midland Coun ties 40 discount. Great Western 25 to 241 prem. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.—There is very little business doing in Shares, and prices are affected accordingly. South East ?rn Scrip, 17 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 20 to 24; South Westet n, 611 to 62 ; London and Birmingham, 188 to 190. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock 'Ditto Bonds .... pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... flank Stock 3 per Cent:. Red. 3 per Cent; Cons: — 3i per Cent. Red... 101 New 3i per Cent — New 5 per Cen', Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ... 123 _ _ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 trn Ditto 5001...... 51 p Ditto Small 5l pm Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... Consols for ON . . 93i I FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent 63 Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, Deferred.... 10i French, 5 per cent. —f. Exchange —f. —c French, 3 per cent —f. Dutch, 2i per cent. s2} Ditto, 5 per cent. 1001 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 — FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian,s per cent Brazilian Buenos Ayres 6 per cent 24 Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — , Ditto 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO4 Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3l Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. 174 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... Eastern Counties (23 paid)... Ditto,New ( paid) lOl Edinburgh and Glasg ow (50 paid) ... 47 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 614 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) l5 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) lO North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) 2Ol Paris and Rouen (20 paid) . . . 244- . . "•• South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22 Ditto Scrip (90 *mid) DEATH OP VICE-ADMIRAL EVANS.—On Tuesday, the 13th instant, at his residence at Oldtown, in this county, died Henry Evans, Esq., Vice-Admiral of the Red. Deservedly esteemed and respected through life, the death of Admiral Evans is deeply regretted by his family and friends.—Cork Conservative. BROCRET HALL.—Viscount Melbourne continues to improve in health, and is daily to be seen either walking or taking carriage drives in the park. The Dowager Lady Holland, who had been visiting the Noble Viscount for some days, left on Saturday last for town. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston de parted the same clay also for the metropolis.. Lord and Lady Beauvale, Mr. George Lamb, and Mr. Milbank, are still staying with his Lordship. THE IUICE OP BOURDEAUX.—A letter from Dres den, of the 12th instant, given by the Quotidienne iii announcing the arrival there of the Duke d e Bor deaux, which we have already mentioned, on a visit to the King of Saxony upon his Majesty's invitation, states that the Prince had visited the field of battle at Culm, in company with General Latour Foissac, where, in 1813, the General effected his retreat from superior forces, by cutting his way through the Rus sian columns, and bringing the remnant of his regi ment back to the French army. The letter adds, that his Royal Highness was received with every mark of affection by the Royal Family of Saxony, and that before he returns to Prague he will visit Leipsic.— Galignani. ST. PAUL'S ScHoor,.—The distribution of the prizes took place on Tuesday. That for Latin lyrics was gained by Mr. Brien, and that for the best Latin prose translation, the subject being Lord Strafford's defence, from Hume, was claimed equally by Messrs. Vincent and Clay. After the prizes had been awarded the usual winter speeches were delivered, and most of the young gentlemen distinguished themselves in a manner that was highly creditable both to themselves and their tutors. CI-m . lEBl'mAs Box.—Bell's Life in London, two sheets for Fivepence, Sunday, Dec. 25. Gratuitous Supplement, important Chronologies for 1842, of Racing, Aquatic, Pedestrian, Fistic, and other events; the Grand Aquatic Excursion ; Fights in the Week ; the Giant and the Slasher; Bungaree and APGinty; two great fights. The Giant Fight brought to a con clusion ; the Steam being up, "Father Thames" sheered off at eight A.M. from London-bridge yes terday, with about 400 sporting coves, to the scene of action ; the hope Point, below Gravesend. As usual, Bell's Life in London of Christmas-day will be the faithful oracle of both contests—namely, Freeman and Perry, Bungaree and M'Ginty. Bell's Life of December 25 will publish a gratuitous Sup plement of twenty folio columns, with blank space for marginal notes, invaluable as a table of reference. Copies of Bell's Life of the 11th and 18th of Decem ber can he had at i7O, Strand, till the Ist of January. Price of the whole Fivepence only.—Office, 170, Strand. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubite Optittait. " Who runs nine read.' FOREIGN. Our private letters from Paris announce that M. Casimir Perier has been appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary to Hanover. The Moniteur publishes a table of the production and consumption of home-made sugar since the com mencement of the season 1842.3, showing the situa tion of the manufactures at the end of the month of November, 1842, and the duties levied on the article during that year. The former amount to 400 ; the quantity of sugar manufactured to 2,266,000 kilo grammes, and the duties to 1,889,000 f. The Regent of Spain has issued a decree, pro viding that none of the inhabitants of Catalonia who had repaired to France, no matter for what motivo, since the 15th ult., shall be permitted to return to Spain without a judiciary investigation of the cause of their emigration. It is reported, says the Frankfort Journal, that the King of Hanover intends to visit England after the marriage of the Prince Royal, for the purpose of con sulting his former physician Sir Henry Halford, his confidence in German physicians having diminished considerably since the death of Stieglitz. We learn from Coburg, Dec. 13, that the Heredi tary Princess has been attacked by scarlet fever, but that hopes were entertained of a prompt cure. Rifaat Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of Austria, arrived at Vienna on the 11th instant, and had a conference with Prince Metternich the fol lowing day. The postal convention, between Austria and Saxony, for an uniform rate of postage, will come into opera tion, says a letter from Dresden, on the Ist of April next. The Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt has con ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of Philip the Generous on Baron C. M. Rothschild, son of Baron Charles de Rothschild. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, in reference to the honour conferred on the French Consul at Barcelona, says—" We are acquainted with the secret of M. Lcsseps' hasty pro motion to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour. This was the special and personal act of the King ; an act which his Ministers durst not gainsay, though they thought it rash. And we could designate a house and a society of French Ministerialists, where this coup de tete of Louis Philippe was stigmatised as rash and un constitutional. The fact is, that the whole affair of Barcelona, and of the general movement intended in Catalonia, was known to the French Court, and un known to M. Guizot. It was managed by the French Home-office and its alients, unknown to the French Foreign-office. The } reuch frontier police played a notable part in the business. The French telegraph sufficiently spoke the hopes and mortification of Gene ral Castellane. M. Lesseps did his bidding with zeal, and he was rewarded for it. Having here touched upon a subject which we do not often permit ourselves to do, viz., the personal interference of King Louis Phi lippe in politics —we cannot quit it without expressing regret, profound regret, to find a monarch, so pacific in the early days of his reign, now abandon himself; towards its close, to a succession of schemes, any one of which is enough to set Europe on fire. One of these schemes is the absorption of Belgium by France, first, in a commercial sense ; but this merely is a prelude to political absorption. Whilst all French statesmen stand aghast at such hardihood and at its consequences, the King, and the King alone, pressed it, careless and defiant of risk. The same restless and quarrelsome spirit actuates Louis Philippe towards Spain. He has a personal hatred for Espartero, a hatred which he is determined to indulge by every means and at every hazard. And if the Liberals are fools enough, and influenced enough to fan French jealousy of Spain, and to aid him in his design, Louis Philippe will go the length of a military invasion of the Peninsula. Two or three times has he been on the point of dis missing M. Guizot for interposing, like Talleyrand of old, his grave and dissuasive counsel in this matter. If Louis Philippe was the personage five years back to be most depended on for keeping peace, there is on the contrary, now no potentate more likely to break it. The loss of the Duke of Orleans, instead of ren dering him more circumspect, more careful of the prospects of his dynasty, has infused a kind of des perate current into his thoughts, which his oldest friends are puzzled to account for. Of recent Spanish news the French Ministerial papers assure us, that the Republican Terradas keeps up his band in the Lampourdan, and that Colonel Prim is endeavouring to raise the Campo de Tarragona. It is, perhaps, for the purpose of intercepting the daughters and family of Captain-General Van Haien that the French Consul despatched them to so safe a place of refuge." The Herald says, in an article on prison discipline : —" While the Magistrates of Middlesex are congratu lating each other upon the prospect of a considerable reduction in the cost of prosecuting and punishing crime, the Magistrates of other counties are bewailing its rapid increase, and casting about for devices to arrest it. This proves, if such a maxim of every. day life requires proof, that the best management is always the cheapest. In the House of Correction for Middlesex, the prisoners enjoy comparative plenty, but they also, in a still greater degree, enjoy good health. In the same prison an able practitioner, whose liberal salary ensures his constant attention, keeps dis ease at bay by being everpresent to grapple with it, while in Gloucestershire the periodical visits of a medical officer at ten pounds a year—and ' surpassing rich' at twenty—cannot prevent it from running riot ; and the miserable savings which accrue from the fre quency of deaths do not compensate for an ever crowded sick-list. It is the same in diet, in disci pline, in everything connected with the economy of a prison ; for parsimony is not always economy in a prison, any more than it is elsewhere, to say nothing of the penny wisdom and pound folly of first convert ing a casual pauper into a criminal, and then render ing him, by the emaciating regimen of a prison, a help less pauper for life. The present penny is saved to the county rate, and the pound ultimately paid out of the poor-rate." We take the following from the Post :—" The re • presentatives of the deceased faction which, under the name of Whig was, during its lifetime, so long a nuisance to the country, feel a moody, melancholy satisfaction in witnessing what their disturbed ima ginations take for symptoms of dissolution' amongst the triumphant Tories. Because Conservative journalists assert and exercise the right of thinking and speaking for themselves on questions affecting the political vitality of the empire, it is coolly alleged that Government must be on the brink of ruin—that its supporters are disorganised—disaffected —on the eve of ' open rebellion' against Ministers. Sheer imper tinence all this. Conservative journalists cannot rebel against a Minister to whom they have never owed any allegiance, except that which was demanded by the principles to which they believed him friendly. Their remonstrances against such portions of his po licy as do not meet their approbation are more ho nourable to him, and to them, than could be any mere servile indiscriminate adulation, that should look to what was to be, instead of to what ought to be. The independent tone of the Ministerial press proves, on the one hand, that the Government of the, day, if mistaken in some of its measures, is honest and con scientious in its adoption of them—else why maintain the ' even tenor of its way,' malgre the not unfre quent expressions of dissatisfaction that proceed from its sincere friends; and, again, there can be no more telling testimony to the general character of the Ad ministration than the frank and manly support of those, who, by the strong and emphatic manner in which they condemn whatever appears to them to be ob jectionable, must clearly evince that soul-felt con viction is the actuating rule by which alone they are influenced." The Times contains the following observations : " There is something not at all unamusing in the enormous variety of suggestion, abuse, menace, and sarcasm, of advice, economical, legal, agricultural, and scientific, with which the brains of the unhappy farmers are at present being bombarded. People who know about as much of farming as the agricul turists do about spherical trigonometry are discharging nostrum after nostrum in stunning succession upon the heads of these devoted classes. Poor men ! they have quite enough to do in speculating on that great revolution which has already taken place, and the greater one which is rolling down upon them to sweep off those restrictive laws on which they rely for protection to their industry. Long leases, large farms, new manures, two-horse ploughs, fresh enclosures, wholesale drainings, and a host of other specifics, are shot forth at random by any writer or speaker who has education enough to read the leading article of a Scotch newspaper, or the title 'draining' in a penny cyclopmdia. A lite rary gentleman who has never realised sixpence from an acre of his own, or, it may be, has never been far enough from Mile-end to have seen with his own eyes the piece of machinery commonly called a plough, thinks himself quite competent to lecture the whole host of practical agriculturists of England upon the muddiness of their brains, the clumsiness of their ex pedients, their lack of enterprise, and misdirection of capital. Lcing leases are one great specific by which the English farmer is suddenly to be inspired with all the sharpness and energy of a Manchest er manufac turer—which are to make him feed up hi s h orses, lighten his ploughs, and import bone-dust." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. A numerous meeting of the advocates of free trade was held on Tuesday at the Marquis of Granby tavern, Grosvenor-square, when it was resolved to form a branch association to be called " The South Audley-street Anti-Corn -law Association." maw AND POSICE. The Admiralty Court awarded 1,2001. and cost yesterday to the crew of three fishing smacks, for salving the Louisa a French vessel, which was found abandoned in the North Sea, with a cargo and pro perty to the amount of 4,0001. The sum of 851. which had been awarded as pre- , portion to the captain and crew, out of t he sum at 5001., and the rest to the owners, for salvage services done by the Copeland steam-tug to the Beulah, off Dover, was adjudged, upon a reapplication, to be divided rateably among the first parties, according to the amount of wages received. FINE ARTS. A meeting of the members of the Living Model Academy took place on Monday evening, among whom were W. Collett, M.P., W. Etty, 8.A., eze• The Report of the state of the Society's funds was highly favourable, and votes were passed to employ sum of money towards making a variety of improve ments for the future comfort of the models. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The annual Christmas speeches were delivered on Tuesday at St. Paul's school, by the senior pupils. Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., and several persons of distinc tion, were present. The Latin lyrics by , Mr. Brien , and a Latin prose translation from Hume s History of England, by Mr. Vincent, gained the prizes. THEATRICAL. Miss Murray, whose decease was stated in The Suit of Tuesday, first appeared at the Olympic during the management of Madame Vestris. During the s easons of 1833-4, she joined the Covent•garden and Drury lane theatres, then under the direction of Mr. Bunn, and subsequently the Queen's Theatre, in the lessee - ship of Mrs. Nisbett. Miss Murray then retired, and did not again appear .in public till the last season at Covent-garden. courvr—rAsssomenx.E. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds left the Clarendon Hotel, on Tuesday, for Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn Are expected at Dudley House, Park-lane , b efore the end of the next month, for her Ladyship's accouchement, from Baron's Court, Strabane. for The Marquis of Northampton has left town Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire. The Earl of Charleville has returned to Charleville Forest from Dublin. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrived Pisa at Genoa from Paris, whence they pr oceed ' Nv i n ter. , via and Lucca, to Rome, where they inten d Earl and Countess Cadogan and the Lady Aug'. r l-t , a Cadogan have arrived at Rome, and, a ft e r the c,arnrai, purpose going to Naples. The Earl of Yarborough intends residing at APP u to dercombe during the Christmas holidays. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerst on left Carltc.m.- e : house2terrace, yesterday, for Broadland ith s, ththe e Noble Lion of passing the holidays there. from Baroness North and family have come to town Col. North's villa at Putney, and will rem ain in Ar lington-street until after Christmas, wh en they go Wroxton Abey . Sir J. Copl b ey, Bart., has arrived in town from AP: puldercombe, the seat of the Earl of Yarborough at the Isle of Wight. 211D3CELLANZO 4S. A meeting was held at Glasgow on Wednesday, at tended by a number of influential noblemen 11 . 0 u_ gentlemen, for the purpose of taking steps towarditu_t : n erectio of a marble statue to the memory of the ,in Mr. Kirkman Finlay. A committee w as formed furtherance of the object. that Accounts from all parts of the country state th the crops of wheat promise to be muc h earlier ~a ti , usual next year, and productive of a ver y harvest. plentit LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, D EC . 21.—Wind N.W., light and hazy.. DEAL, DEc. 20.—Wind S.W. modera te ......put back Stratheden, for Sydney. „r 1 8 B ell, BRISTOL, D EC . 20.A.rrd. LoodCollingwow, -- and Ganges, Corkan, Quebec ; Surprise, Hill, N ew. foundland ; Mayflower, Fa al. SHIELDS, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Adelina , Chamber°, Quebec. Sid. Bella Lucia, Rio Grande; Louise Sophie, Brazil. RAMSGATE, DEC. 20.—The True Lo re, from Mau; ritius to Amsterdam, has been surveyed, and°us discharge. krr Gods' PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.- -- - - I A for froy, Hamburgh for Monte Video ; Rapid, Lonu °ll Jamaica; George Stewart, ditto,. for New Orleas. a .. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Arrd. Amity Ferris, all Vulture, Gilbert, Newfoundland. Arra' PLYMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.N.VC ----- Emelie, Fleusberg, for St. Thomas. FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W. , fresh bre d eye One of the West India steamers, homeward offun port. Sld. Royal Tar packet, Gibraltar. OFF HOLYHEAD, DEC. 19.—Hannah, of Working' ton, Quebec, with loss of boat, bulwarks, S.:c. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20.—Wind N.W., moderate.' Arrd. Star, Clernentson, Macao, sld. Ist ult. ; 31 ,, 11 Hawkins, Demerara ; Wanderer, Dixon, Maraeoul sld. Oct. 24; Scotland, Merryman, New Orleaos t1.:1 Savannah ; John Jardine, Horton, Richebucto, 01'1 as hore part of cargo thrown overboard, having been on the bar; Aberdeen, Duffy, and Auckland, Atkins, Quebec—sailed 23d ult. ; Indian Chief, Montreal. KINGSTON, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Cleveland, AlanTlie,Y' Cape of Good Hope. Sld. Harmony, Monkey, 1-1-- rald, Mexican ac, and Plata. . CORK, DEO. p 18.— ket Arrd. Caledonia, Robinson, ./8. maica; Bravo, Brown, Mirarnichi; Welco me, Tack soT Newfoundland ; Ocean Queen, London for 3111Uritle WHITEHAVEN, Dlic. 19.—Arrd. Alexander, Bermuda and St. John's, N.B. Sld. British Queer' Kenned y, Antigua. bf, ASCENSION, Om 22.—Arrd. Hindostan, Mores Southampton. bit jgco OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, DEC• 17.-- Marrina, Vanderwoord, Surinam for Amsterdam ; Glasgow, Somerville, Quebec. • Peare Nassau . PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Agnes, SPORTING INTELLIGENC.E. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuouII• st DERBY.-8 to 1 agst British Yeoma n, 20 to . 1 sour9g Murat, 25 to 1 agst Aristides (t), 30 to 1 op W t inl in (offered), 30 to 1 apt Progress colt, 40 to 1 a g st rino (t), 40 to 1 agst Sirikol, 40 to 1 agst Black Palen (t), 50 to 1 agst Chesterfield (t), 50 to 1 agst St. / i i t , ( e t ), tine, 50 to 1 agst Evertor, 50 to 1 agst Oxygen e%n r ig 50 to 1 agst Languish colt, 50 to 1 ogst D LI T , 1 0. (offered), 5 - to 1 agst Scott's lot, 15 to 1 agst Pir lleathcote's lot. ted ei er t CHESTER RACES.-Mr. T. Topham is ap, .t of the Course in the room of Mr. Jackson, who o f so a fatal accident on Friday last. The appointment - 11 , e competent a man, in all respects, does the Comno _ e „ great credit, and will have a very beneficial influence on the races. MR. GREENWOOD, THE MA GIBg TRATk.:. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN t h e SIR—As I have always found you foremost in pi cause of the oppressed, you would do me (and, I sure many others) a favour by informing me pas could forward my mite to the widow whose 5 0 A 1 , so cruelly and unjustly imprisoned by gr•nreen wood, for endeavouring to obtain a livelihood I n d ° honest way. Can there not be some means adopteof by which the public can express their indigVby this " man dressed in a little brief authority ?' to does not he fly at Ligher game, and not COlldeSCen visit with his magisterial vengeance a poor .1:,",„,1°r; child, the only son of his mother, and she a Manchester, Dec. 20, 1842. ANTI-TYR- 411 " 2 ' the [Send it to Clerkenwell Police-office. A s 1 1,- mother now has not the sup Port of her so n, tri gistrate probably would be h a ppy to recei ve con butions to keep her out of the workhouse.] __-•=•••••1 ------ . CON-LAWS. PROTECT TIIE R AN MUFACTVREV 1 / morel ° I en . TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sth'' . c ies SIR—" In defiance of the "long •winded rt,! the "against a free-trade in corn," and still short-sighted views of the monopolists, I w ili d ity, deavour to put a case, parallel at least in loury Even' S to that stated" by a " ' Corn-grower," Edition of the 19th instant : ,„,k o f I am a manufacturer, and have a large sw- e t he goods on hand unsold, owing to the operation 0 the French tariff, which led to a glut of linen PrAlitll.o, our home markets. Prices of - course cleel T ine : - in mendously in cloths as well as yarns, and t.:,. ente consequence, suffering a loss of twenty-five IP:: 4 c lea t on every sale of my goods. Therefore it is bf " protected as mud that I have a right to be so oil' bso 0_ Acts of Parliament, that I may obtain from the ' to sume te same price for my gods noW, 95 l ib years r h or h t n ears ao ; and the loss of on e -feu part of my property g be prevented. I am, your Constan t Reader, 0 Manchester, Dec.2o, 1842. MANCIJNO . _ THE II . INDOSTAN STEAM• SHIP.--LetterS frODI I;ig commander ste and some of the passengers of ' O2 fr amer, have been received in town, dated Oct.;01 t o i the Island of Ascension, advising their aroog, her stock of fuel there by taking n board a quay 1 ,1 of patent fuel from ' the Gois"-lelinlent s tore, d o pe, i proceed to her next stage, the Cape of Go" - fil' and thence to the Mauritius, Ceylon, Di o " - 0 Calcutta, steaming the distancewhole - from she to India via the Cape of Good Hope. She ; 5 ' petted at Suez from Calcutta, Bte , on Feb. At the late Isle of Thanet Ag.ricultural ti vs ito meeting, an opinklott was expressed by 31r. -o ° ; 7 . or several ho practickagriculturists against the use °: Ilse of one ploy in the Isle of Thanet, where the „j r , o____ horse might generally be dispensed with. ac vs ( 7i t 2T - 9nan said, he had been over 50,000 or GOiN ° 7; 0 0 a ppot- 0 , D o lan lately, in his en a ts in the ggemen fear uf e° 1 4 spent of tithes, and he could sa, ,without.o wet . tradiction, that this county might produce t" .otell extra per acre ' if the land were snore highly all° —Kent Paper. I.Societl