The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 16. The Acadia, steamer, commanded by Captain Eyrie, reached the Mersey this morning, with her :Majesty's mails from Halifax an 4 Boston; she also brought twenty-three prssengers. In the face of ex tremely boisterous weather, she has made the voyage from Boston in 13i days and 5 hours. The papers which she brings include dates from New York to the 30th ultimo ; Boston to the 2d, and Halifax to the 4th instant. Their contents are not very interesting. A destructive storm was experienced at Boston on the night of the 30th of November, accompanied by snow and rain ; many signs were blown down, and the roofs and chimneys of a number of buildings were injured; but the most important part of the damage took place among the shipping and the wharves in the harbour. Colonel Webb, as was expected, had been pardoned. The following are extracts : Mumniv.—The New Orleans Picayune of the 17th inst. has the following :—lt will be recollected that the late English papers spoke of a party of one hun dred and sixty-eight English Mormons being on their way out to this country, with the design of colonizing with Joe Smith, at Nauvoo. A letter from Captain Taylor, the hoarding officer at the Belize, gives us the next notice of their whereabouts. Captain Taylor, in one of his cruises, on the 14th inst., at the bar of the N.E. Pass, was hailed by Captain Pierce, of the ship Henry, on board of which the Mormons were. Captain Taylor hoarded the ship, when he was in formed by Captain Pierce that the passengers were then, and had been, in a state of mutiny, from the tirje they were three days out from Liverpool. At the reqUeq of Captain 'Pierce, and on his affidavit. Captain' Taylor made prisoners of the Rev. John Sny der and two others, whom Pierce pointed out as the ringleaders. Captain Taylor took the prisoners ashore with him. They have been since brought up to the city by-the tow-boat Swan. POLITICAL ABOLITION.—The number of Abolition votes polled in the recent election in the State of Abolition. Total votes. New York Was i'vlasaachus:4ts 6 , -7 P 114,339 Michigan, about. 1,500... say 45,000 Ohio Vermout 5,403 260,088 53,426 22, , 137 874,272 In these five State:_:, which are the strongholds of the Abolitionist:, their votes ,-amount to about 2A per cent: - of the whole number of votes. In the country at large not more than one per cent. This Is the result of some eight or ten years' hard work. And what is more, the labourers appear to be greatly encouraged by their success. NEW YORK SALE OF STOCKS, Nov. 29. $3,000 New York Sevens, '49 924 1,000 New York Sixr2, '62 6,000 Ohio Sias, 1860 .. 7li 2,000 Kentucky Sixes . cash 77 60 Shares Bank of Commerce . .full. 82c 23 Ditto Mohawk R. R 23 Ditto liarlAn 150 Ditto d ) s. 3 16 100 Ditto Paterson R. R. SECOND BOARD. 25 Shares Mohawk R. R. 3O ds. 332. _ _ . THE MARKE I', Nov. 29-2 O'CLOCK, P.M. Genesee Flonr is 5 dol., with small sales. Ohio is worth just about as much. Georgetown is 4 dol. 871 c. with some sales. 1000 bu. Rye sold to go East at 65 or 66 cents. No sale of Corn. Oats are worth 39c. 2,500 bu. Barley sold at 49c. Sterling hills are 61 to 61, and sometimes 7 prem. Francs have been drawn freely at 5,42 i per dollar. Mobile funds are 13 to 14 dis. P.S.—EVENING.—The sales of Cotton are 400 bales. The advance in freightsembarrasses the sales. The price demanded for Liverpool to-day is 1 1 -,d. lb. The stock of Cotton here is but 5,000 bales, and would have been soon cleared off, but for the charge in freights. There are some sales of Ashes at 5,37 dollars — for Pots and 5,75 to 31 dollar 3 for Pearls. EXCHANGES INCLUDING CERTIFICATES AND CHEI Boston par to parYnilxdelphia to Baltimore • par to —÷ Washiugton,D.C. disct. Richt:loml • .. i to Raleigh Wilmington Charlestoa Augusta Macon 3 . 1- to Columbus' ;CKS. • Savannah llto • Mobile 14 to N. Orleans St. Louis 9l to 3 Louisville Cincinnati Nashville Apalachicola Treasury Notes par tol-3 dis. Bills on London ... 6+ to 7 Do. on France...3f. 421- dol. HAXOVER, DEC. 10.—His Majesty the King set out this morning to spend some days at his hunting seat, the Gohrde ; it may be• that his Majesty, on this journey, will open the new Court of •the Special Tribunal of Appeal at Celle. It is known to he the custom of our King never to intimate his intention even to the persons immediately about him. When he takes a journey, he never mentions the time till half an hour before he sets out, and then only that he intends to take a journey, but not in what direction, which is not known till after he has set out ; the object of the journey is nevi rotated BETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—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, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distirignishing fea ture is their va s t i n f er i or i ty t o the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers agailist 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-bars, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Shllings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. rIE 'NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY -2- DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED an d GUARANTEED MHIS MAJESTY th o ENIPEROR o f A USTRI A, contains ONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, El5O, £.200, £4OO, £6OO, £t. , 00, £l,OOO, ,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. IT a EINE BROTHERS having remitted during very short time very largo a mounts of Money Divi dends to their Correspondents in Grez.t Britain a n d I re l and • Dividends of 25,000/., 18,00/'l., 9,000/., 5,000/., a n d 3,6 001 : to London ; 3,6007., 8001., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,6 00/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,200/ . to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 700/., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire ; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire; 6001. to Cork ; and 6001. to Bradford, ac.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBEGK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offeis the possibility of obtaining more than 25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 1/. and upwards. One Share, IL; two Shares, 21. ; three Shares, 34; four Shares, 4/. ; five Shares, Si. ; six Shares, 61.; seven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, St. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 10/. 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. 17, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SENIIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; 'drew:), Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :Is. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price :Is. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Boa-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. 17, Will be performed Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699. Sir Wilfull Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; Marwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwell, Mr. Strick!and; Alil lanaant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. After which, the Comedietta: of A CURE FOIL 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 Bitterton, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude w i t h M r. Buckstone ' s last New Farce, called A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Buckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe • Alarv, Miss Mattley ; The Unknow n Female, Miss Connor; ' Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATr --- ------------ ' ' :11 '.. ; • qtIIS EVEN IN G, , LPHI. E ROYAL ADE 13411T-belreratUe new Bur DEC. 17 ta etitled' THE MER CHANT A D CLERKS , Tdipueaprcipal characters by Messrs. Lyon, o.‘Smith, Paul Wright, Maynard, , and; B edfo r d . P. Grattan. Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks After which , a NeW Drama, i n prpal Cli Two KNOW WHA T. The araci,., ip4Mcralled YOU Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Mks Faucit, anlAii;sc. ac e, entaled ~.....,` To be followed .tiy a Grand Burletta z , pe 1 1 Murray. , and Madame Proehe ' ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford 4Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan Gjubilei. To conclude with a Comic Barletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Ni s Murray. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-put six, commence at seven o'clock. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., COLLEGE LIFE, By J. HEWLETT, M.A. Late of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of `Peter Priggins," " The Parish Clerk," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., CHARLES HAR C OUR T, Or, the ADVENTURES of a LEGATEE. A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. MAP OF CHINA, THE NEW CHINA SuNT IS NoW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NIN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Orders received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Stra nd., and of all News-Agents. THE WEATHER.—SUN °MCA ) DEC. 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.16.—W1ND, S.W. ATER AT LONDO .l orning ..... .10 minute s a ft er 1 BRIDGE THIS DAY. ; Evening 2l TMritites after 1. An excellent address appears in another part of our journal from the National Anti-Corn-law League to the inhabitants of the metropolis, who, we have good reason to,believe, will respond to the call. Never -since-the days of the Common- wealth till now was London backward in the cause of freedom. She did, with a glorious pri vilege, for many years, both shield the oppressed r and head the onset against oppression. To her even is due the first serious attempt to establish free trade, and the words used by her princely merchants in 1820, are appropriately quoted by the League to excite the men of the present day worthily to follow the course then adopted. We trust that the League will be listened to, that the metropolis will be organised, as we believe it will, into districts and sections, and by adding its weight to that of the other large towns, give an overwhelming force to public opinion. We must openly state, for the information of our fellow-citizens, that the cause advocated by the League, so irresistible is the power of jus tice, when once it has seized hold of the heart of man, must be successful. The Corn-laws must. be and will be abolished. It would be for ever discreditable to the metropolis, were it int to take an active part in such a great national movement. The success of the League will hereafter designate art epoch in the history of • our country, similar to the 'Reformation or the Revolution of 1688. It is the establishment of the great principle, that honest industry is to be perfectly free. It will be more than that—it will be all that ; but it will be, in addition, the triumphant assertion of that right, in spite of banded monopolists in possession of the Legis lature. It will be at once the triumph of ind us l i - try, of the people, and of justice. It will con- secrate for ever that individual freedom which was slowly and gradually asserted many eim tunics ago by the conversion of feudal slaves into free arid chartered citizens. Though London have been backward, it is not dead. Twice has the Common Council spoken out nobly. All the districts round about have had their meetings, and have declared. for free trade. But that greet, wealthy, influential, and powerful body, the merchants and bankers of London, have been silent. They are as dead men to this question, which is vital to their greatness. Their interests are bound up with the welfare of trade, and not a little manufitc ture of worsted caps in a remote town ofScotland can - fall to decay, but some of them will feel it. As men of sense and men of busi ness it is impossible that they can allow an intriguing, Tory electioneering clique, or their own Tory partialities, to keep them from making a strong declaration in favour of the freedom of that commerce by which they live and thrive. For them to sit still, when all around them demands freedom, is to betray a consciousness of not deserving it. For them to stretch forth their hands to the landlords' fet ters, is humbly to solicit Parliament to become their guardian, as if they were insane or under age, and unable to manage their own affairs. For them not sturdily to demand the abolition of legislative restrictions on the great limbs of trade, is to acknowledge that Parliament knows their business better than they do themstives. Such a spirit did not establish the commercial greatness of London, and if her merchants now en tertain such grovelling opinions of themselves and their calling, they will soon be surpassed by other merchants in all the markets of the world. They must remember that the United States supply free men as competitors, over whoa► they cannot triumph as they have triumphed over the slow and hampered slaves of the Continent. But they will not, we are sure, submi t.to be surpassed; they will rouse themselves, and at once declare that for commerce to flourish, commerce must be free. They will begin to carry that great principle into practice, by supporting the abolition of the Corn-laws, the largest and most intolerable restriction that ever the avarice of monopolists placcd on the healthy industry of it great nation. et , A Correspondent on Thursday called our atten tion to the system of extortion adopted by the Income-tax Commissioners in some of the Lon don districts; and another complains with equal justice against the loss which he and many others sustain from the amount of light gold still in cir culation. It appears that in turning over 300/. a week, there is a loss of nearly twenty shillings, making a loss of 501. a year. It may be said, why take light gold? and in reply we say, why allow it to continue in circulation? It is well known that, in these hard times, many trades men are glad to receive payment in any shape, and will sacrifice their usual profits rather than refuse a customer ; but does this fur nish any excuse for the butzgling policy of Mr. GOULBURN ? When distress was at its height, without any previous notice, he issued a pro clamation, somewhat in the ELLENBOROUGII style, which created a panic throughout the country, and robbed thousands of poor people of considerable sums. Thus, while the hard working classes pay enormous duties on every article of life for the benefit of the State and class interests—while they pay a tax on sugar to the West India planters, another on corn and malt to the landowners, and a third on tea amounting tq a hundred per cent., :and in purchazing all these articles are robbed to art unknown extent by false weights and measures, by adulteration, and a hundred other nefarious practices, the Chancellor of the Exchequer comes in among the other plun derers, and makes the victims pay for the wear and tear of the QUEEN'S coin during the last twenty years. Justice and common sense, which unfortunately have little share in financial regu lations, would throw the loss on the Treasury or the community at large, and not on the lower and middle classes. When it was ascertained that nearly one-half of the gold in circulation was light, and it had been the practice of former Governments to call that in at the public ex pense, equally levied on all, there is no justifica tion whatever tbr thin sudden and harsh mode of proceeding, or allowing a great portion of it yet to circulate. A humane Government would say, Whoever may suffer, let us take care that the suffering shall not fall on one class, and least of all on those who have barely the means of sub sistence. But in everything relating to the cur rency, the present Prime Minister has been sin gularly unfortunate. By the Bill of 1819 he created a complete revolution in the value of pro perty, and caused the ruin of thousands ; and he cannot propose a plan even for renovating the coin without exciting complaints of partiality and gross injustice. With the long experience he has had in such matters, and honourable and merciful commit somremallji ss a uu s he such hpr wantonsi i s n allowed g th injury ui rn3t publicobne i t n h pri vate oisi hete ;e least ss life, it de to bear it. ' The great Whig I r once the Vett a . ' Whig party, f or we feat the Troja full, or p as t t ense; must be power s :.nd influence of thVt Whigs, wh o appear we.. 11 nigh Imtfitil 'dl) and scattered t o t h e four NVintiAtt Heaven—this once dominant party, a f ter rsat y r o rather what was aoHi. e tt 1:6 the months in a Statt.4 tif Mi.sx pended . hibit symptoms Of VII pity. "lilalnin a g nim fb a r tio s n o , m i e s at tea h binning to ex m by his po , giveOnntWo ]him last, Il at u a a tira f t r r i ct e Ltt s bli a . c t c i . dinner'.(t iester, Mr. WitititAttA . ta ; ( a let s a t i a l, unch on W t h h i e g, s 6 p u o h k ie n et ent ot. 4o t rci ttia ly %. . en th t Administration ) t , -XWAtkit L neir flagrant inconsistenries *hit bit rite acuteness, and doing justite to attth good qualities as the.v pr. , ,1, ih a commendable spirit of likt'ailty: W . 'e iibre the example of this ptittelliall \Vitt be fo 1 11071?:c.i by others of his party, atuit that tat 'Tories will not be permitted longee to boast that they haVe silenced the voice of opposition 1 8,,y 'WI' tkga cions and liberal meas'ar'et ) kku4 that the country is generally ftiViniliblt to their policy. Mr. Wit, UitlitckAt diOtitletly showed that for almost every thing that was good in their remedial propositions Ministers were indebted to their predecessors; that their free trade tendencies were decidedly borrowed from the Whigs ; and that even in their foreign policy—with the single exception of the ASHBURTON aflllir—they were little better than servile plagiarists from the men whom they had so long denounced for that very policy I With equal force and adroitness, the speaker pointed out the fallacy of the assertion that I the Tories had. b een more successful than the Whigs in tranquillising the country. During the MELBOURNE Administration, he justly remarked, a riot took place at Birmingham which lasted four hours; but one of the first fruits of the i PEEL system of Government wasan insurrection in.the North of England, when the manufac turing districts were in the occupation of the mob, not for four hours, but for four teen days; and nothing but the modera tion of the misguided rioters themselves prevented a convulsion that would have shaken the fabric of social order to its foundations, and deluged time country with blood. Reverting to the question of his own political principles, Mr. WILJRAHAM generously observed that he was not so much of a party man as to reject good measures, merely because" they happened to be proposed by a Tory Government. He would take them, and cheerfully too, no matter who might propound them. As respects the franchise, he was decidedly favourable to a " material" ex tension of it, convinced, as he now was, that the Reform Bill had failed,.in more than one signal instance, to answer public expectation. We wish that other influential Whigs would act as Mr. WILBRAHAM has done, and speak out boldly on this important question of the franchise. They cannot have a better opportunity than the present, when there are BO longer foreign broils to distract the public attention. Besides, it is but just that they should not lose a moment in dispelling the notion—a delusive one, we be lieve, but nevertheless very generally entertained among the people—that, as a body, they are far too much wedded to the " Finality " doctrine. This was the fatal rock on which the Whig vessel split, and went to pieces. Had it not been for this, the MELBOURNE Ministry would have been in office at the present moment, and Chartism— which is nothing more than a type of popular despair—would never have gained the strength which it now Unquestionably possesses. In reference to the momentous question of the Corn-laws, Mr. :ILBR AH AM etnpha -tically stated :—" These laws will be re pealed in all their obnoxious prinjples, and by Sir ROBERT PEEL ; and he, as on other occa sions, will. have, the support of the Liberals, who have always shown, with respect to great prin ciples, that theydo not mind the man, so that they can get the measures.' And Sir R. PEEL, in re pealing the Corn-laws, %I'M have the support of the great body of those country gentle men, who swore on the husings never to allow any Minister to touch these laws, whether Whig or Tory." We believe that Mr. WIL. BRAHMA is perfectly correct in his prediction, arid that the Tories, notwithstanding the declara tions they have made a thousand times on the hustings and in Parliament, will of their own accord assist their chosen Premier to repeal the Corn-laws, and thereby add one more to the numerous reasons we already have for respect ing- their consistency, and that stern, Spartan. like integrity of which they have always made such a boast. The intelligence from Constantinople, brought by the -.Levant mail, is to the 27th, and from Alexandria to the 26th. The mortality among the cattle, it appeared, still prevailed ; and ME HEMED ALL had been obliged to quit Mansourah, as the plague bad broken out at that place. The accounts from Syria arc not favourable. Some of the Albanian soldiers had revolted against the Turks for want of pay, and the country altoge ther was in a very unsettled state. The Court of St. Petershurgi► has, it is reported, refused its assent to the ►measures of the Porte with regard to Servia, and is said to have signified through its Ambassador, that if it were persisted in M. DE BOUTENIEFF would demand his passports. No facts of importance bad occurred, however, since the last accounts. The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th. On that day an ext raor di nar y Gazette an nounce d that Barcelona had su rrendered, and the empi re continued tranquil, of th e l aws had been restored. The capital still 'araendtheaccounts received front h provinces anqu equally satisfactory. Th e latest int e lli gence from B arc elon a w ill b e found among the French news. The Three per Cents. were done at '2l 16-16, at GO days, the Five per Cents• at 26 3-16 fur cash, and 26 9-16 1, at 60 days. The Paris papers show no symptoms yet of returning reason and honesty, in regard to the revolt at Barcelona. The Presse, which repre sents Queen CHRISTINA and her party, and per hapi also the French Court, is furious at the punishm en t i n - Aw - are that th e flfaiioltuorde on n f lure by a s p n , d i it ch E e n j o u .s t l amentable e events in Catalonia on the F renc h s id e o f the p writer in th at j ournal tr i es to poedn ue cs and :t disastrous agents cast the blame on other parties, and chiefly on the English and the existing G o v e r innem of Spain, both so cordially hated by the Cilinrini , no falsehood, no a spared. Fort M ont j u i c h was supplied with ammunition f rom t h e R o d ney , English officers pointed the ming against the city calumny is is No invention English commerce. But the truth will of Barcelona, and English ship s were rea d y to open their guns to batter it t o pi eces , a ll to en courage yet come out; falsehood cannot long prevail I and judging' n'orti the wrath of this journal, and also that of the cautious and moderate Debats, independent of other circumstances, we feel the strongest conviction that tune will bring to light the real instigators of this wicked insurrection s and that those Who aPe now so loud in their de nunciations of England will turn out to be the guilty parties. The following summary of the late events sufficiently shows the spirit which animates the conservatie patty in letances. It contain neatly as many lies as paragraphs : _ - - " The number of persons already arnasted," says the Journal des Debats, "is more than 400. These unfortunate persons are draggsd to the citadel, where a Military- Gottunistlinti is tionstatiq sittifi f lj ittftl tiletY they ate shot, after a sort of trial of the most sum mary description. It is even said, in a letter from Perpignan, that Van Haden, on his entrance into Barcelona, had four persons se.-iised and shot, because he' fancied that he had seen thetn tahhid part hi the collision of the 14th df &od d . yid pfi t ii§hifie r il of death decreed against every person retaining arms of any kind, and the premium of 10,000 reals pro mised to denunciators, produc e an enormous mass of objects of high value. The terrified inhabitants deliver up in haste .110 t only muskets ; but fowiinglieds3 plsz tots, richly-nionted.swOrds, oriental poilififas, fii tildft, all those objects of luxury, which are rather curiosities than .really offensive weapons. The disarming has thus become a considerable solute of booty ; it is a confiscation, the produce of which is not controlled ' by any person in the interest of the public Treasury: As to the rigout With WhiOil It 16 Carried on, it is ears ried to sttch ,171 excess, that a seizure was even made , at the theatre of the innocent pikes and swords used in the performance: The Aegetit intends, it is said, t t i e li t:ist i tti o t ti li t o it O ti ti ti t ti ire Ot e . O f ii dr i r ti e j: i Arid to he I:irepared l "by hen the tv aLy, 4 thad6 public at Catalonia. It is now estimated that more than 1,000 projectiles, shells, &c., were fired upon Barcelona, without reckoning those,. projectiles which sevire kiiteiidßi id AA lit3dse4 Orel I Theft t 1 3 l; o l r f to ;l, :a .e .. re , Atihir.otw; nail ftesh tit 11 % montjuich a store of` I,doO shells ; of which h ai a:e hn b x e l e t ri sh byshoiilpshto4,„ set ready stating dy to furnt furnish letters war I, a , g e r r e e e NtOliait, OTi firs 11137 W" 1*b 4 4.1!a; IA coat ride , And ad t.iaL arrangements had been made, chi oartl fdt thiS pur pose. 'Phis t,„rt,16, 1 furidiig 1.6'- acgOn-=ta;f4, Int!it'7,V iikfit i ons Were unnecessary; ihOwn,thzit stick frightful measures were the' ddit-1,4 Bare6lona graiihail3ri PZiatiai fdlig4l-IPit Many Spaniards say that the inoiTeinent Barceldild "NOand do ired by t.l a itegkiii: ;it 'as §l3oa W k i in t c .:PAN p'AiOnsig it ‘ approaching event. The autliOrieeS of Bareeleina al ,- ' lowed the turbulence Of the Nandiial etiatdA in Nit 0 free courset i;vag ii et ilft)Sedtiteci, netWithstutailng its daily programnie Of revolution: When the d!t%' conibitt ti the streets rifritoed the Generalsi n!fig aftei fesistafieg duly three hours ; and fan Haled would have evacuated the city as well as the 6tidet oven if he had not been compelled to do Sti by Aired. All this *as ; as is said, concerted in the interest of foreign manufacture& It was even remarked that the bombardment had been only delayed in order to wait for the English ships, and that it began almost as soon as they had made their appearanc e in the roads." The followino, telegra p hi c communication was received by t 4 French Government during Tuesday : " EERPIGNAN, DEC. 12. " Yesterday three' regiments left' Barcelona for Girona. Orders had be wi given for 1,000 men to be employed daily in t' rAnonstruction of the citadel. " 11 - '41 4 \512 v."l' , !"- ‘ l.7L t 2 gin Ark 4 1 170 LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 17, 1842. ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL ANTI CORN-LAW LEAGUE TO THE INHABI• TANTS OF THE METROPOLIS. ' FELLOW-CourcricymEN, —The Anti-Com•law League has awakened the practical attention of the Nation to the un happy condition of the middle and working classes engaged in manufactures, commerce, and agriculture. The League has declared the remedy to be THE ABOLITION OF THE CORN LAWS AND ALL OTHER MONOPOLIES. The League gratefully appreciates the past exertions of the Inhabitants of the Metropolis in aid of the common cause. Your fellow-Citizens of the Common Council of London, al most unanimously, and in language too emphatic and impressive to be misunderstood, have denounced the Corn-laws in the fol lowing resolution : " HIIMPHERY, Mayon. " A Common Council holden in the chamber of the Guild • hall of the City of London, on Thursday, the Bth day of De cember,lB42: •' Rosolved,—That the continued and increasing depression of the manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests of this country, and the wide-spreading distress of the working classes, are most alarming;—manufacturers without a warkct, and shipping without freight; capital without investment, trade without profit; anti farmers struggling under a system of high rents, with prices falling as the means of consumption by the people fail ; a working population rapidly increasing, and a daily decreasing demand for its labour ; union houses over flowing as workshops are deserted; Corn •laws to restrain im portation, and inducing a starving people to regard the laws of their country with a deep sense of their injustice. These facts call for the immediate application of adequate remedies. " That this Court anxiously appeals to the first Minister of the Crown to give practical effect to his declarations in favour of Free-trade, by bringing forward at the earliest possible period in the ensuing Session of Parliament, such measures for secur ing the unrestricted supply of food, and the employment of the people, as may effectually remove a condition of depression and distress too widely prevailing, and too rapidly increasing, to consist with the safety of the community, and the preservation of our social and political institutions. " MEREWETIIER." The Council of the National Anti-Corn-law League con curs in this faithful and humiliating description of the state of our beloved country, and it also cordially and fully approves the rightful course suggested for the restoration of oar national prosperity. The League earnestly seeks to became imme diately and ardently united with you in the NAriot:AL contest for the Repeal Lf the Bread-tax. The League congratulates you on the adoption of the above Metropolitan resolution, and recognises the same enlightened object so forcibly advocated in a memorable petition of your Citizens upon a like occasion in the year 1820. A quarter of a century since, it was the proud distinction of the Merchant Ci• tizecs of London to lead the way in the path of FREE-TRADE. We recal to your minds the following imperishable principles of that Petition—the goodly seed which has since yielded in valuab!e fruit : " That Foreign Commerce is eminently conducive to the wealth and prosperity of a country, by enabling it to import the commodities for the production of which the soil, climate, capital, and industry of other countries are best calculated, and to export in payment those articles for which its own situation is better adapted. " That the maxim of BUYING IN THE CHEAPEST MARKET AND SELLING IN THE DEAREST, which regulates every mer chant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the whole nation. _ _ _ " That, unfortunately, a policy the very reverse of this, has been, arid is more or less adopted and acted upon by the Govern ment of this and of every other country, each trying to exclude the productions rif other countries, with the specious and well. meant design of encouraging its own productions ; thus inflict ing on the bulk of its subjects, who are consumers, the neces sity of submitting to privations in the quantity or quality of commodities, and thus rendering- what ought to be the source of mutual benefit and of harmony amongst States, a constantly recurcing occasion of jealousy and hostility. " That au investigation of the effects of the restrictive system at this time is peculiarly called for, as it may, in the opinion of the petitioners, lead to a strong presumption that the distress which now so generally prevails is considerably aggravated by that system. " I hat in declaring, as your petitioners do, their conviction of the impolicy and injustice of the restrictive system, and in desiring every practicable relaxation of it, they have in view only such parts of it as are not connected, or are only subordinately so, with the public revenue. It is against every restrictive regulation of trade not essential to the revenue ; against all duties merely protective from foreign competition; and against the excess of Such duties as are partly for the purpose of re venue, and partly for that of protection, that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of Parliament." Fellow-Countrymen!—This was your declaration in 1820. WE have only followed in the wake of your own prophetic Memorial ;we are acting on its instruction. Aid us in our labours to give full effect to its indisputable truths. If in 1820 the pressure on our population was deemed grievous, is it not - .low almost intolerable ? The Council of the League de sires union with you. The League has already enlisted in the common cause the great majority of their fellow-countrymen, in almost every town, village, and hamlet of Great Britain. The Provinces of England, Wales, and Scotland, have re sponded to our call ; they have united with the League for the Abolition of the Corn-laws, and for the concurrent Abolition of all Monopolies. The immediate efforts of the whole com munity are needed to rescue the People, our Institutions, and our Country from impending calamities. You will necessarily inquire of us, how is our great object to b accomplished ? Our answer is, by an appeal to the rea son of our fellow-countrymen, and by enlightening their minds on their right to the privileges claimed in your own Petition of P:120. The National Anti-Corn-law League has undertaken to ob tam justice for the people. The League deemed it a necessary duty to instruct their fellow-countryrnen, by lectures and by other means, and to place in the hands of every Parliamentary Elector in the kingdom a library of knowledge on this vital subject. This preliminary action on public opinion was indis pensable; and to effect our ultimate success the sum of 50,0001. is proposed to be raised, which is now in course of contribution. The merchants and manufacturers of Manchester have given effect to our appeal; they have not only placed in our hands munificent donations, but have also promised to increase their subscriptions, if necessary. Liverpool, Bolton, Preston, Black burn, Rochdale, Bury, Stockport, Oldham, and all the large communities of Lancashire ; the Midland Counties, the boroughs of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and the ether towns of Yorkshire, have supplied large contributions. The cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow hate already made ar rangements to promote, by public meetings, our righteous Alliance. Inhabitants and Citizens of London, and Fellow-countrymen : We address you collectively and individually. We are daily gaining the co-operation of men of wealth, intelligence, and influence, who are fast swelling our ranks ; men who have only lately known the peril of their country and the justice of our cause To the Alwraorous of Great Britain the country now looks. Place yourself at the head of this movement. Union is power Organise ; assemble in public meetings ; subscribe, and aid us. (Signed) G. WILSON, Chairman of the Council of the National Anti-Corn-Law League. 13th De:... 1842. THE WAR IN INDIA. On Saturday Next, Dec. 24th, will be published, small Bvo., with Map. A. PERSONAL NARRATIVE of the CAM PAIGNS in AFFGHANISTAN, SINDE, BE LOOCHISTAN, Sze. Detailed in a series of Letters of the late Colonel W. H. Dennie, C. 8., Junior Lieut.-Colonel of her Maje3ty's 13th Light Infantry ; Aide-de•Camp to the Queen. London : Longman, Brown, and Co. Dublin : Curry and Co. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1842. The Rodney has sailed for Malta, leaving the English frigate the Inconstant. The Etna, which left Barce lona yesterday at three o'clock, arrived atPort Vendres this morning, with forty passengers. She will return to Barcelona to-morrow." BOURSE—PARIS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. First Highest ..owest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 191 60... 119 55... 119 60 Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 191 50... 101 50 Threes, ex div. 79 25... 79 25... 79 25.. 79 25 Laffitte Bank 1,000f...1055 ..1055 ...1052 50...1052 50 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 ...5080 . . 5080 Belgian Bank, 1841 1070 ...1070 ...1070 ...1070 Belgian Fives 1033 ... 1033 ... 1033 ... 1033 1840 1043 ... 1043 ... 1043 ... 1043 Spanish Active. . 234 ... 234 ... 234 ... 234 Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32 ... 32 ... 32 Neapolitan Roman lo4h ... 104 h ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES . _ _ Versaille's, L.B ll O... 122 5n...- 110 ... 'lO 11.13 263 75... 270 ... 261 75... 270 Rouen Orleans.... Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 75 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Stock Market was very dull this after noon, and we have not the slightest alteration to re port in the; quotations. Consols remained precisely the same as yesterday-95 for Money, and 938 to 94 for the Account and cx dividend. Only the smaller Exchequer Bills were dealt in, and these realised 50s. to 523. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 101 to 101 ; and Bank Stock was rather neglected at 1721. Speculators confined their attention chiefly to Spa nish Stock, which, judging by the prices paid, seems decidedly the favourite, and this more especially in reference to the Three per Cents. The Five per Cents. brought 19 to 19i, and the Three per Cents, 241 to 244 for the Account. Portuguese Bonds re main dull, but are a 'little firmer. The Old Fives at 63 ; the Converted at 321 to 324; and tl:e Three per Cents. at 23 to 23i. Mexican Stock has obtained 31 to 31* ; and Buenos Ayres 231, being full prices. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 524- to 52k. _ _ The Share Market was very dull, but there was no depression in prices. Great Western, N ew , were 141, and Manchester and Leeds, 4 to 3i premium. Brightens were 14f discount. Australasia Bank Shares were 14, and London and Westminster, 2 premium. Nothing transpired in the City this afternoon re lative to tho small loan for Canada, for which tenders were received at the Treasury, though it was under stool public intimation of it will be given in the course of to-morrow. The Foreign Exchanges were generally- without any material alteration. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet, and not much variation occurred in the prices. The new crop of American was a point lower than en Friday last. Sales 4,000 bales, 200 Maranham, at 54d. to 64d; 140 Pernams at bad. to 74d. ; 600 Surat, at 34-d. to 44d.,, and 3,000 American. In the Share market Brightons were in request, and business was done in the other lines at the following rates : Eastern Counties, 8i ; Grand Junction were 189; Great Western, Fifth,_ B'- s ; Brighton, 364 ; Manches ter and Leeds, Quarter, 611 ; North Midland, 62. The Exchange comes over the same from Ham burgh, viz., 13 7/, and the price of gold 431. The Russians seem resolved to continue their sys tem of exclusion against anything likely to promote liberality of sentiment in political matters, and which they are especially apprehensive may penetrate by way of the German frontier, so, to obviate this, they make the Customs establishment subservient to their views, and in their rigorous search of travellers, they have an eye to State manifestoes, as well as to smuggled manufactures. New Customs offices have been opened on the Austrian frontier, as well as in the Cracow districts, and such trammels will ere long be imposed as to have the effect desired, that of cutting off all intercourse between the remote Russian provinces and the frontier kingdoms. The progress of manufacturing industry in Ger many is solid and promising. The conference of the leading manufacturers, proposed to be held early next year at Cologne, or elsewhere, excite s muc h in terest, and great results. are anticipated from it. We have no news yet of the steamer from Halifax. The corn trade abroad is in a very languid condi tion, and it is uncertain what may be the prospects of the trade for the ensuing year. In the meantime the dealers .here have received such a severe blow as to in dispose them entirely from speculations of magnitude, and if foreigners want our custom they will be com pelled to submit to very low rates. The Telemaque business has turned out as it was expected. It does not answer the purpose of the contractors and the engineer, who will profit greatly by the sale of the shares to act with energy or straightforwardness, and whereas, with the beautiful weather at Quillebouef, and the ad vanced state of the works, three days would have suf ficed to bring up the whole of the wreck, it will now be deferred till April next. As to what Mr. Adam chooses to say about the treasurer, it would be sheer folly to take his ipse dixit, given, as it is, with out a single explanatory remark. Probably a prompt search of the vessel would spoil the sale of the. shares. The funds are very quiet, and not a feature can be noticed in them. Consols for special transfer are 95 with the dividend, and for the opening 934 to 94. Exchequer Bills, the Five Hundred Pounds, have been 50s. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 94} to 944-, and at the latter quotation the Go • vernment have taken the same amount as for some time past. Bank Stock is rather dull at 1721. The Foreign Bonds are less animated. Spanish riVe per Cents, bring 19, and the Three per Cents. 24k I. Portuguese Three per Cents. are 234, and Mexican Deferred 81. Buenos Ayres Bonds keep steady at 23i ; Dutch Five per Cents. are 101. Shares are firm, but scarcely any business is doing. Great Western Railway, 254-; Ditto, New, 141; Ditto, Fifths, 5 ; and _Manchester and Leeds, 3i pre mium. Brighton, 14 to 144- ; Croydon, 4i. South Eastern Scrip are 24- discount. Colonial Bank shares i are down to 6 discount. The tea offered to-day found no bidders, and is therefore withdrawn. The few lots taken were at hi. to lid. per lb. tleclitie on Congou, and lid. to 2d. on other sorts. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.—The Share Market is still inactive, but prices generally continue firm ;—Eastern Counties, New, 104 ; Man eliedM‘ and nirminghtun, 20 to 201; Manchester and Leeds, 731 to f4l ; ditto s Quarter Shares, 51 to si; Lancaster and Preston, 281 to 2gl; ditto Three- Quarter Shares, 19 to 191. CLOSING BRITISH Banic stock PRICES. FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Red. 94i 3 per Cent. Con. 95 3i par Cent. Red... 101 New 3i per Cent Nqw 5 per Cen: Afttzttiti€s to expire Jan. 180 19 9 166 Oct. 1859 Jar. 1860 India Stock ... —pm 'Ditto Bonds — pm Ditto old— ,Ditto New Annuities lEx. Bills, 1,000/....2d. pot Ditto 500/ 50 pm Ditto Small ..... 52 pm 'Bank Stock for Acct. 172 Mat Stack for Org... 261 Comoli for Opg. ...... 94 .1 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent 63 Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic . Spanish, 5 per cent., l9 Ditto, Deferred.... . 101 French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, per cent....... 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 i FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent I:ideal - lib per cent Ritenos Ayres° pd tett. Chilian, 6 per cent,. Colombian, 6 per cent... Ditto 1824 - Cub;Ronde, 6 per cent 80i Danish, 3 per :ent — Greek ; 1825, 5 per cent — Mezigan, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent. 115.37 Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. 1 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 BifGibraltar .. ... 46 12 6i Leghorn .... ........ ...... 30 85 Ditto, At sight Rotteden ...2 U. 12 9 Genoa , ... 26 15 ntifeffi.i,., , . ,, .:. ,, .... 12 8b Milan 1-1 7 '"' 4,4 041 •••.,M ,14, 13 14i Venice ................. .i.,....... Altona -.at NI Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 io ' gram, per az, 120 Ditto, 3 months 26 0 'Lisbon .... (I la. ,,,,, 52 5109111ce w .. .26 5 Oporto , ~. 52 BoitrdetilE.::.‘,,,,,:tiii 944 b Rio Janeiri. 2O Fratikf e tift 4#l ithij#6 ....la d im ,„,, .... 25 "Ctfiej*Pl d VOI ::. 37 tato 4 yref .., II I. ..... .... i i Berlin .. ......... .. ...:It Vienna, effee. 11. 3 M 10 i Trieste, ditto lO o 51 t►#i! •• • 36 Cadiz • • •- wiwiril nki al 21 clays sight 4 A.+Jeitliiii • • • • • • PRICES OF Itlittilo44 6i, Foreign Gold, bars X 3 I Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 .... ... .... .. ..... L E . 'few Doubloons 0 0 0 Bat'Cpio*d • -• • 'l6 Sevi/18 • ' ••• 36 *kligii#ii« 4g 1 14e#7 Dollars.... 0 4 91 in Ears— 0 0 0 EXTRAORDINARY OatiiiiiE*o4.=- -- an Thursday, as some workmen were digging up the fotindations of mti workhouse in Blisset-street, Greenwich, they disCoi -- C•feti Movral p 14411.9 and bones of human beings. A few' days pretioully one skull had been found, but a 6 it *ds extensively decomposed, little notice was taken of it. Thane last discovered were in a much lielief state of preservation, the teeth of one being fiddect ; and the hair on another also in good condition. It is quite a mystery how the bodies came to be placed there, for it never was a burial-ground, nor is thore on accord any account of any other building exiting on the spot before the erection of the work ' house. A good many people seem to think they are the. bodies of persons who died in the workhouse and were dissected, but not afterwards interred in conse crated ground. A CHINESE TEA-MAN'S SHOE BILL.—The following is a copy, letter for letter, of an announcement by a Chinese tea-man to English consumers :—" Chong thie Loongkee—Most humbly. beg leave to acqu: aint the Gentlemen trading to this Mort that the above mention :ed chop has been long established and is much esteemed for its Black and young Hyson Tea but fearing the foreigners might be cheated by tho : se shumeless persons who forged this chop he therefore take the liberty to pallish these few lines for its remark and trust." tiviltßY OF itriVi AND bitet Optitton. " Who runs may read.' POREIGN. A Council of Ministers was held on Tuesday at the Tuilleries, at which the King presided. On Monday evening their Majesties received the Austrian Ambassador, Count d'Appony, the Ministers of Bavaria, Holland, the Hanseatic Towns, and Saxe Weimar, and the Charges d'Affaires of Russia and Switzerland. Accounts have been received from Algiers dated the (:th inst. They state that the expedition, Which was on its march against Abd-el-K a d er , was favoured with very fine weather, and the troops were, accord ing to the letters received at Algiers, full of health and spirits. A letter from Rome, Nov. 28, says :—"A commu nication has been made by the Russian Embassy of the nomination of several Bishops by the Emperor of Russia. Up to the present time the Pope has refused to confirm them. The Journal de Frankfort states, from Breslau, that the convention between Russia and Prussia for the reciprocal giving up of deserters has been extended indefinitely, and is now, contrary to the statement of several German journals, in full force. Advices from Athens, of the 30th ult., state that the Howe ship-of-the-line, and the Scout brig-of-war, Nvere anchored at the Pincus. Naples is now in its full gaiety, by the arrival of strangers, who intend sojourning for the winter. All the best houses in Chiaia are already occupied by English families of distinction, and the season is ex pected to he very brilliant. The Barone:3s de Roths child has announced her first ball for next week. The Accademia balls began on the 28th ult., with their usual splendour. The Leipsic Gazette states that, next year, the Jews in Poland are to be subject to military service, with out being allowed, as hitherto, to provide substitutes. The Smyrna journals of the 29th ult. announces the arrival there, on the 27th, from Bey rout, of the Devastation British steamer. According to the news brought by that vessel, the Druses, having vainly de• manded the liberation of their Sheiks, had risen in arms against the Turks. According to rumours at Constantinople the affair of Servia had assumed a serious aspect, as the Russian Envoy, it is stated, insists on the Porte retrograding, and causing the abdication of the newly-elected Prince and the reinstatement of Prince Michael. On the 23d ult. a conference was held at Pera ot the representatives of the Five Powers on the Syrian question. An ultimatum was to follow, insisting that the Maronites should have a Christian as ruler, in stead of an Ottoman governor. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post has the following remarks on the present Condition of Spain :—" It is strictly true that from 1812 to 1842 we have seen in Spain the acts of one continuous revolutionary drama. We overlook the alternations of success, now leaning towards the ex treme supporters of all things as they were, and now setting in with the tide of liberalising innovations, for the chief point of importance is the result of the long-protracted struggle. Antiquated prejudice, regal and aristocratic privilege, have been trodden under foot—Reform has triumphed—the favourite military leader of the ultra-Liberals has been placed in the position of virtual sovereignty. The mark of destruction has been put on every thing not new, the very name of antiquity being looked on as a death-warrant. Spain has her Parliament she has realised the glories of popular representation Her philosophers and reformers asked for consti tutional Government. They have it. What fur ther can the most forward of them seek for ? At how huge an expense of the bone and sinew of national power have all these fine things been brought to pass ? What woeful and wide-spread de solation and bloodshed—what unimagined desecration of all that Spanish Christianity regarded as holy— what miserable breaches of public and private faith— what squandering of her treasure—what river-like libations of her best blood—has the world been wit nessing in the course of her progress to freedom. And bow much the better is she now for that freedom ? The revenues of ecclesiastical establishments have been distributed amongst her soldiers and political adventurers—debt has been heaped on debt, till her appearance in the loan market would be the signal for a burst of mingled indignation and derision. By her own representations, she has left herself without the means of paying even a fractional interest on what she owes. Her name has become a bye-word for swindling insolvency; and, in point of national pres tige, her standing is less respectable than that of the meanest limits of the State beyond the Peninsula." "The responsibility," says the Chronicle, " that really belongs to England, in connexion with the late events at Barcelona, is !ight enough. The ab s u r dity of charging us with having run a line of battle ship aground, that we might distribute her materiel to the authorities of Barcelona, is too gross to advert to for any other purpose than to show the lengths to which the defamers of England, in the French press, are disposed to push their hostility. Such an accusation is simply ludicrous—incredible even if Lord Hadding ton had been at the helm of the Formidable instead of at the head of the Admiralty. But the facts, at least, upon which other charges rest are true. It is true that the protection of the British flag was refused to the rebels of Barcelona, and that our Consul declared that he could not consent, by granting such protection, to levy war upon the Sovereign to whom he was accredited. This conduct, it appears, is approved of by the British Government, as it undoubtedly is by all parties of the British people. Now if the English Consul at Barcelona was right, 2S he undoubtedly was, in stating that t o gran t th e protection sought by the rebels would be an act of hostility' against the Spanish Government, what option is left to the Regent but to demand the recal of the French Consul, who avowedly has been guilty of that act of hostility ?' It is true the French Go • vernment, by adopting the act of its agent, may place the Regent in a difficulty similar to that in which he was placed by the departure of M. de Salvandy from Madrid. But, upon the other hand, the French Go vernment must be contented to avow itself the abettor of this insurrection, and to accept all the responsibility of an act of hostility' against the Spanish Govern ment. Is the French Government prepared to excuse the conduct of its agent in having, by false representa tions of the state of Catalonia, Arragon, and Valencia, induced the military in the Atarazanas to capitulate ? In the general outcry raised against Espartero in Paris we can understand the motives of the Republicans and the Carlists. The latter denounce him as Robespierre on horseback,' and, strangely enough, for having put down a demo cratic insurrection. The National denounces the ' inhumanity' of the bombardment, but without con descending to point out in what other way the autho rity of the Government could have been asserted. What we cannot understand, however, is the tender ness of French Conservatives for Republicans on the soil of Spain and Portugal. We know how the Louis Phi!ippist Conservatives treat Republicanism at home : but Republicans at Barcelona and Lisbon are quite favourites with French officials, journalists, and con suls. This is very strange." The Herald thus describes the wicked inventions and calumnies of the Paris journals against this country : " Just in proportion as there is not the shadow of a cause does the violence and rancour of the French press against England become more phrenzied. Our Paris contemporaries seem during the last few days to have pressed some of the most exalted residents of the Bicetre and Salpetriere into their Anglo-maniac service ; for it is charitable to assume that nothing short of insanity could pour forth such commingling fury and nonsense as have degraded those journals since it became apparent to their unwilling vision that the insurrection at Barcelona was fruitless to disturb the Regetey of Espartero, and would ter minate in the signal and righteous punishment of that city. The wickedneas and folly of the at tacks on England because Espartero is able to sup press revolt in Catalonia would be contemptible were they not indicative of future clanger to the peaee of 1 4:,;:ope, of a condition of the public mind of France 'sw i m -0 10 , 1 ; to note, and of an obstinate determination to indulge in teLf-deceit ; they would be . ' vvefethgv not mischieseus, and might be safely lets to the refutation their absurdity contains were they not eagerly swallowed ity millions of French subjects. The second city oF Spain was for three weeks in the possession of an ignorant mob who had expelled the constituted authorities and the garrison after dreadful slaughter. The English caused the o utrage, cry the French journals una voce; the ches to put down the outbreak have R e egent of Spain mar t sirnninpunishtthed the criminal ness they unanimouslyl u engaged therein — the English;. Es )ar tero, in the deplora ble but obvious exercise s o ' f o hs duty,i bombards the town —the English have an inducedhimto fire, they contem poraneously roar; is English ship of war runs ashore in the port and obliged, to enable her to get off, to unload her stores—the English are supplying the Queen of Spain's troops w ith a mmunition, they madly vociferate; the English Consul declines to protect rebellious subjects of his Sovereigns ally—what de testable cruelty, they e xclaim. Were the Barcelo nese to walk for the ne xt six weeks on their heads— the English have d o ne it, would be the outcry of these public instructors e of France. Nothing is too puerile, inconsistent, outrageous, or detestable for their malice to leave unrecorded against England. It is in vain to correct the falsehoods propagated by their telegraph, to rectify the misintelligence of their journals, to show the folly of their gobemoucherze , to, disprove their inferences, and to pick out the speck of truth from the mountains of lies they pile thereon —ais l e French, if truly pourtrayed by their journals, have made up their minds that England has excited disturbances at Barcelona, in order. that Espar'Lero may find an excuse to sign a treaty of commerce with this country to punish the Catalonian manufac turers—or rather. the Catalonian smugglers, who are by far the more important and influential body. Either we or they. must be human 'fiends; for the people who could project and attempt so dia bolical a design, or they who could invent such a scheme and ascribe it to another nation, are out of the ordinary run of humanity." VIONEY—TRADE—COIVIIKEX CB. The ten towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Notting ham, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradfor d, Holin forth, Blackburn, and Rochdale, have already fur nished 12,7521. towards the Great League Ftuid— which is above one-fourth of the sum required. The expected trade with China, in serges inn ker seys, has given a stimulus to that department of trade in Devonshire. An Anti-Corn-law meeting of the inhabitants of West Hackney and Stoke Newington was held on Thursday evening, when Mr. Sydney Smith, and the son of Col. Thompson, addresFel the company , among whom were many ladies. PUBLIC INEPILOVEYIENT S. In reference to the fires and loss of life Ivhich are of weekly occurrence in this large city, it is consid ered that there ought immediately to be orgr:nised argu lar " brigade for the protection of life from fire. NAVAL AND IVIILIT.A.B I r . The operations upon the wreck of the Telemaque have been discontinued, the winter having The engineer expresses himself confidan t that the vessel contains articles of gold. set in. LAW 11.1", TD POLICE. The House of Correction contains at the preFen time, 1,137 prisoners ; the New Pris on, 96. The consumption of bread in the first is 4,223 cwt. per annum; on which, by the system of contract, 35. at d. is saved upon every cwt. more than formerly, gre benefit accruing to the county. LITEIZARY AND ECIENTIFIC• The epilogue and prologue to Terence were by the alumni of Westminster School on Thiirs t he evening. The principal subject of the former wys _ hits at the Dotheboys' Hall system, with passing Income-tax and Corn-laws. spodken counT—rilsrzoN lll3l6s. The Prince de Broglie arrived at Manchester House on Sunday last, with disP aches from Par is. • tett Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone ar e es P ec from Longford Castle, Wiltshire, at GorhamburY• Lord Lovaine and Lady Susan Percy are now On a visit to Lord and Lady Prudhoe, at Stan wick Park. Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby a nd Miss Willoughby still remain on the Terrace , Piccadill the , The Dowager Countess of Charleville will pass winter at Brighton. The Earl of Charleville ha.s ar rived in Dublin, from Charleville Castle, Tallamore. Sir Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Vceu x are ex.: pected to remai n a t Tunbridge Wells until the close of the month. miscza.z.iiiVE ol73 - There are now upwards of 300 streets in the western parts of London without names affixed. , Among the species of birds now being forwarded the Zoologi ca l S oc i e ty, is one from Western Afrie !'t e , 1 called pulih, a kind o f mocking-bird. So exquisite is its note, that to ca ll an orator or poet by it s nam considered the highest compliment. The Messiah w ill be repeated at Exeter Ball 00 Friday, the 23d instant. REVOLT AT BARCELONA . The following extracts from private letters, we a' inclined to think, give a tolerably fair acc ount of th e injury done by the bombardment : 4, than ISARCELONA DEC. 6.—The bombardment, tha God, is at an end ; and of the 50,000 to 60,00 0 pe r sons who fled from the city on the 2d instant, wor it was known that the firing would commence on tue following day, two-thirds have returned. The eiT presented a melancholy appearance on the 3€ l , w it ex‘ the shops shut up, and the streets deserted, , • cept by the resisting rabble. Some of the ecriee houses however, were open during the O4 wither in the evening, and they were crowded. P nothingsons, q sons, who were sitting as tranquilly as ifd that extraordinary had been going on. It is sai about 1,000 shells and shots were fired ; bu t if f l s ,: they must have been purposely ill-directed, for damage, except in a few places, is very trLqing . n such a quantity of projectiles, and very few jives in such have been lost. You may suppose was, no serious intention on the 3d of doing much ~)0L !nage, when I tell you that the gas lamps werelight as b 1; as usual in the evening, and not a lamplighter l i . v iv ;,! injured. In the course of the night, indeed, IL ' e lamps were broken, but that was all. I had rather!!! awkward visitor myself in a cannon-ball which te-Re down my chimney, bnt it rolled in the most bro'L lic) a t s that their manner near my feet. The greatest damage 'm, ' the Hotel de Ville, a portion of the inside of Iv. `" . -11 was burnt. I saw four houses 'burning at the fire was soon put out: There is not so gre? t h fi t ,;•oll feeling of irritation hereagainst the Regent FS have been expected. The truth is that the resPectt, able inhabitants were as anxious as himself to P ti down mob rule." once, but /14,i (Extract of a letter from a British naval officer.)_ e " D EC . 4.—At 11 yesterday .the citadel at th top of Montjuich, which commands the - city, and has been in possession of the Regent's troops, commenezil the bombardment by firing shells and shot, upon the town in all directions, and appeared t° cl od much destruction. Some of the houses scc rn . , qi to have taken fire in three or four different one being the principal head-quarters of the in ris sL et gents. There was a cessation of firing at on, for about half an hour, when it again w ell ' , w h e n and continued slowly until about midnight, lv beg which do it ceased. In the afternoon a message came off to nise . the English to mediate with the Regent Vent quence of which Captain Grey, of the Belvidera, a rt ashore to Montjuich, and succeeded in saving the 1 3 ,, a n. of the town called Barcelonetta from being fired yr en ' as well as the shipping. To-day everything has 01V ins tranquil ;we observe the inhabitan ts a g ain tru ce 0 about on the outskirts of the tow n ; flags or taarts flying; and troops are marching in from differ Sod, to take possession. From reports we have rec the loss of life has not been great, which, lOveescied would have been the case had the troops P r e l• ve d to attack the town with musketry , which it is be' i• der was the intention, but for the timely sorr e " the city." • -- , . , -- ----- LORD GILLIES. — His Lor dshi p is still at Learning; ton, and we regret to learn that his complaints h t° assumed an appearance which causes gr eat anxiety his friends.—Scotsman. THE COURT.—WINDSOR, THURSDAY* P-- - :, Will v r O.' . It is now finally determined that her ' Mai e r su Z - e l.. not visit Claremont until after Christmas. I t o u t a pected that the Court will leave Windsor for a b for week or ten days in the early, part of January', p ro Claremont, returning to the Ca stle thence, a o v ceeding to Buckingham Palace f or a lengthened sta., t the last Monday or Tuesday in that m onth. : a are reason, passion, and superstition. The three great things that govern 1 - nan kin rn s a few; -the two last share the bulk of mankind, an possess them in turn; but superstition is most powe The firs t V ve ...,1 ful, and produces the greatest xnischiefs. THE LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND, S T C e IN THROGMORTON-STREET. A favourable change took place on Thursday in the condition of the .u _ . —Luke. vs fortunate Elizabeth .Magnus, barmaid at th c Po tion Mart on Tuesday morning last, and great hopes ar,_ : ail ,. entertained of her ultimate recovery, although 57, 1 the ''',;'' not yet be pronounced out of danger. • C ir. 1 1 : lewith a • ""- potman, still remains at St. Thomas's 1-105.1)-.3 1 g not Yet '' ll3 A police-officer . constantly in attendance. f as his '' 4fi. sufficiently well to undergo' an examination, . so ~,,31, peoteoonir agitated state a mind prevents the wounds healing , , i , i - : ei soon as they might do under other The Dowager Countess' of Chichester, the Alarq :1 ~;!). of Bristol, the Right Hon. H. La the le n : , Sandon, Lord A. Hervey, Lady E. Balfour, the I t. Mrs. Hanbury Tracy, Lady Pitzwygram, Mr,; t he. circumstances. John Mildrnay, the Hon. G. M. Fortescue, area ~ clergy and leading . gentry of Brighton, haYe e° l "i forward with subscriptions to commemorate the sig n success of the British arms in China and Affghanistai; by raising it fund to alleviate the suffering's et. the poor during the approaching winter. Thursday week a fight took place between Free man, the American giant, and Perry, alias the Tipto n Slasher, for 1001. aside ; which, owing to the fog--; after fighting nearly an hour and a half after pu t on 1 : - .111 Thursday. Freeman and his party, after being" movefl :-wice by the Magistrates, pitched at Me l ' bourne Common, near Royston, where the an Me fight between Owen Swift and Brighton Bill t oo k place, the latter of whom was kill hour f o r ed. The American and his frie nds, after waiting an the other party, who did not show, left the ground. ...- Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, of Wellington-street, i 5 preparing for the press a "a History of Early Printed Books;" a work for which his father has been It for wil up -1 wards of 30 years collecting the materials. be extensively illustrated. COLLEGE LIFE.—The " Life" led by the students of our English Universities was almost a sealed book to half the world until the publication ofd o f it. " Peter Priggins's" admir able sketches of one grade Th e same writer's n ew work, just p et u es b the picture , lished, und er the title of " Colle g e Life," compl by furnishing all its other phases, and with a breadth of humour, a fund of anecdote, an original view of character, and a graphic force of style, that leave - .: us less to regret in the premature loss of of ou is r great k h umo rist, Theodo re Hook. The value th wor is greatly enhanced by the circumstance of its author , Mr. Hewlet t, late of Worcester College, Oford, having laid a side his mask, and thus proved (w up was , however , felt to be the case, from his first ,- of p e aranee in the literar y world), that his pictures ' College L ife" , (strange as they are) are draWu 1 from actual Observation and experience.