The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-31 00:00:00

ROBERT HEMINGWAY, joiner, Dewsbury, York , shire. •+ . NORMAN. innkeeper, Neston, Cheshire. WILLIAM WALKER, shopkeeper, Almondbury, Yorlr,;hire. Rf CHARD EDWARDS, plumber, Liverpool. JOHN DOUGLAS, hosier, Manchester. JAMES HUNTER LANE, doctor of medicine, Lan easter. 'WILLIAM COOK, shopkeeper, Nottinghamshire. JOHN PAXTON, labourer, Middlesex. HENRY JONES, tailor, Carnarvon. THOMAS GRUNWELL, butcher, Yorkshire. WILLIAM TUCKER, draper's assistant, Middlesex. WILLIAM TERRY, blacksmith, Cbobham, Surrey. JAMES JENKS, accountant, Holland-street,Brixton road, Lambeth. JOHN NEWTON, beer retailer, Leeds. CHARLES RIVERS, wood broker, Spencer-glace, Br:xtoa-road, Lambeth. SECOND NOTICES. THOMAS PORTER, jun., cork-cutter, Windsor terrace, City-road, Jan. s, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall street. Green, official assignee. RICHARD STOCKLEY, attorney's clerk, Fountain place, City-road, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court ()I Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Edwards, official as signee, Old Jewry. JOSEPH THOMAS LOCKWOOD, chemist, Field- gate-street, Whiteehapel, Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane. JAME 3. JOHN HOPPER, schoolmaster, Upper Kennington-place, Lambeth, Jan. 5, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Tur quand, official assignee. THOMAS HINDES, attorney's clerk, Southampton place, Camberwell, Jan. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bas-0( en ntey, Pasinghall-street.. Turquand, official assignee. JONATHAN WOOD, carpenter, Portland-road, Portland-place, Jan.:,, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruetey, Basinghall-street. Graham, official assignee. JOHN MURRAY, tailor, Liverpool, Jan. 7, at half past eleven, at the Liverpool District Court of Bank ruptcy. Bird, official assignee. RICHARD 'RILEY, commission agent, Orchard street, Oxford-street, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane. HENRY ADAMS WADE, clerk in the Genera] -Post-office, IVynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Alsager. official assignee, Birehin-lane. • THOMAS BUNDY, carpenter, Cross-street, Hat ton-garden, Jan.2s, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing ball-street. JOHN SANDOM, attorney-at-law, St. Thsmas's street East, ...outhwark, Jan. 20, at half-past one, at the CoUrt of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street. CHARLES CARTER, clerk in the Admiralty-office, Islington, Jan. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinglsall-street ; Belcher, official assignee. CAROLINE BOOTH and EMMA BOOTH, Ches terton, Cambridgeshire, Jan. 5, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street ; Pennell, offi cial assignee. SOPHIA DOERY, schoolmistress, St. John's-terrace, Regent's-park, Jan. 5, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Graham, official assignee. WILLIAM CHUMBLEY, watchmaker, Sheffield, Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Young, official assignee, Leeds. THOMAS REYNOLDS, bricklayer, Sheffield, Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds. SAMUEL WILLIAM TURNER, attorney, Shef field, Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Young, official assignee, Leeds. . JO3EPH JOWETT, worsted-stuff manufacturer, - Clayton, Yorkshire, Jan. 20, at one, at the Leeds Dis trict Court of Bankruptcy. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds, JOHN BOULDING, file hardener, Sheffield, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds. JOSEPH BRYANT, victualler, Southampton, Jan. 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London. Gibson, official assignee. JOSEPH READ, baker, Nottingham, Jan. 6, at two, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Valpy, official assignee. FRANCIS CLAYTON STAVELEY, New Ferry, Cheshire, Jan. 14, at one, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Turner, official assignee. NOAH HARRISON, hatter, Nottingham, Jan. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. Bittleston, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-stroet. W. Manning, F. Manning, and J. L. Auderdon, West India merchants, New Bank-buildings, City, Jan. 24, at half-past one—E. Lees, tea dealer, Leather-lane, Holborn, Jan. 20, at twelve—J. Henderson, carpenter, Poland street, Oxford -street, Jan. 24, at half-past eleven—J. Coats, draper, St. John-street, Jan. 27, at one—E. . Massey and It. Lambert, warehouseinek: ,• Watling-street, City, Jan. 27, at twelve—R. StockdaleAerchant, Crosby . square, City, Jan. 20, at one—J. JonkstPationer, New . road, Whitechapel-road. 24- 7 - In the Country. F. Britten, woollen draper, Bristol, T .. 30. at eleven, at the Manchester District Court of'. ankruptcy—M. Atkinson and j.Laidman, sen., b an k ers , , pie Sowerby, Wtatmorland, Jan. 21, at el even , at th e - castle-upon- Tyne' District Court of Bankruptcy--S ;,fAshworth, v 8 Usersted_ manufacturer, Lancashire, Jan. 23 s dr t4llan ehester District Court of Bankruptcy' s -It Craig.; inn - keeper, Manchester, at . the Manchester Diltrict Court o 1 Bankruptcy. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown . to the contrary, on the clay herein mentioned. D. Smith, merchant, Bucklersbury, 'City, Jan. 27 B. Barlow, wine and spirit merchant,Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Jan. 26—G. S. Harvey, .irc,nrnonger, Melcombe Regis, Jan. 26—R. Lindok corn factor, &lapel, Devonshire, Jan. 26-I'. Will mo tt, li nen d raper , Blackifiars-road, Jan. 25—J. N. Chapman, licensed vic• tualler, Upper Holloway, Jan. 20—J. Coats, draper, St. John-street, Jan. 25—A. Lines, hay salesman, Irongate wharf, Paddington, Jan. 20:-1-1. Rickett, dealer in wine and b' er, Henry-street, Pen tonville, Jan. 25—J. Spandon, cheescmonger, Bermondsey-street, Jan. 20-11. Howard, looking glass manufacturer, London-wall, Jan. 20—S. Magnus, slopseller, Dover, Jan. 21—S. Younger, merchant, Great Tower-street, Jan. 24—W. Gorsuch. dealer, Liverpool, Jan. 23—J. Clay, draper, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Jan. 24—J. Hayward and R.. H. Moore, booksellers, Paternoster-row, Jan. 24—P. Little, currier, Blackburn, Jan. 24—E. P. West, grocer, Stamford ; Jan. 25—H. Scampton, provision dealer, Coventry, Feb. 18— C. W. Davies, mercer, Bishops Castle, Salop, Jan. 25 G. Carey, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Jan. 31—J. Topham, money scrivener, Liverpool, Jan. 23—R. Craig, innkeeper, Manchester, Jan. 24—J. Fitton, small ware dealer, Bolton-le-Moors, Jan. 20—H. Hardie, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 20—F. J. Osbaldiston, dealer in horses, St. Alban' s , J an . 2 0 —A . Wyse, N. Baker, and W. S. _ Bentall, bankers, Newton Abb: tt, Devonshire, Jan. 20— A. Duncan and C. Duncan, merchants, Tokenhouse-yard, A k in. 20—E. J. Treughton, S. Michael's-alley, Corithill, Jan. 20—B. ll:Atne3, boot maker, Birmingham, Jan. 20— B. Moses, jeweller, Hallway- street, Oxford -street, Jan. 20—J. Bedford, ironmongt r, Westminster-road, Jan. 20 i J. A. Smith, linen draper. Oxford -street, Jan. 20—T. • Scott, commission ag nt. Bow Church-yard, Jan. 20— T. llifumfry, jun., bricklayer, Great Stanmore, Middle sex, 'Jan. 20—A. Bouglinval an IJ. Farrington, manufac • twins; chemists, Stratforl, Essex, Jan. 20—. T. Metcalfe and T. Metcalfe, upholste:ers, Cambridge, J an. 20 ___ J. - Dover, merchant. Thrcersanes-wharf, City, Jan. 20, PARTNERSdIPS DISSOLVED. J: Crellifiesnd J. Holt, plumbsrs, Liverpool—H. Good /Wan and' I. H. Treppass, coal merchants, Mortlake, Survey—C.- Holland a id W Rostron, commission agents Rio Grande, loath America—S. Hoare and H. Shaw, schoolinistresseoSanford-place, Stoke Newington—J. KrshaW. .J. Laess, jun., J. Sidebottom, and N. Barr, -Manchester (so far as regards N. Barr)— R. Hervey and W. Ovens, drvsalters, Manchester—R. Harrison, A. Harrison, 11. harriSnn, W. Harrison, R. Latham, J. Buchanan, and J. J. Stickson, merch ants , Ri o d e J ane i ro and Bahia, Brazil (so WI as regards R. Harrison and W. Harrisan)—S. Smith and S. Foster, tailors, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham—P. S. Milroy and G. S. Lee, auctioneers, Plymouth—V(. P. Clifton and G. Plowes, Australind, Western Australia—R. Lewis and J. Dutton, cloth manufacturers, Wotton- under-Edge, Gloucester shire—M. R. Langdale, A. Langdale, and W. Rodwell, stock brokers, Angel -court, Throgmorton-street—J. Lott and W. B. Lott. hatters, Tooley-street, Surrey —H. Davis and .T. C. Hughes, Haymarket—J. Thompson, W. Brunt, and J. Eardley, proprietors of coal mines, Wooden Box, Derby—R. W. Wood and Thomas Wood, jun., hosiers, Leicester—H. Knight and Michael M'Divitt, general merchants, Liverpool —R. Spencer and F. Thornley, saddlers. Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire—S. Nelson and J. Dent, bonnet makers, Preston—H. Smith and W. Booth, mercers, Leeds—A. Haldane and H. Horrell, brewers, Devonport—J. Brownridge and J. Marriott, corn millers, Holbeck, Yorkshire—W. Read and T. Hatton, copper plate printers, King-street, Covent-garden—T. Cox and C. Cox, wine and spirit dealers, Salford, Lan cashire—J. Sharp and D. T. Sharp, butchers, Padding ton-street, Marylebone—C. Cooke, J. Hart, and J.Lowe, seal wafer manufacturers, Birmingham—G. F. Bunter and W. M. Byrne, grocers, Edmondesley, Durham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. AMBROSE GRIMSHAW, hotel keeper, 'Glasgow Jan. 3 and 24, at the Star Hotel, Glasgow. . ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, merchant, Glasgow ; Jan. 3 and 24, at one, at the Waterloo Inn, Glasgow. JAMES KING, merchant, Greenock, Jan. 6, and Feb. 2, at two, at the Tontine Hotel, Graenoek. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Dec. 27, 1842, is 3:35. 104 d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. Av INFERENCE .—A schoolmistress was advocating temprance, when a little hoy inquired, " Did you ever get drunk and fall into the river ?" "Why, no, my child," she replied, with some astonishment, "how came you to think of such a thing?" dt "Because my granather,did, an d that was. what mad e him a cold water man.' NEW DlSFOVERTE3. — Discoveries an d sys t ems w hi c h oppose existing habits, prejudices, and interests, must undergo the test of almost uni versa l oppos i t i on before their value be admitted. Nothing hi t sterling mer it, +ried and approved , . can procure their general adop or render their letters patent productive to the " whether In pence or pr a i se. B ut a dis system may be n advanc e of the age ; ilv they may, and sometimes are; but they have a little patience, will Ake them.—.3ledical Gazette. 1 1; 0e Now ready, price One Shilling, with characteristic Elmira tiom by Leech. Part IX. of THE FORTUNES OF HECTOR O'HALLORAN. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq., Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " The Bivouac," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also ot all Booksellers. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION o f MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED Sy HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of .£5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £llOO, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to 272,179 sterling. Direct for PRO SPECTUS" with full. particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. ITEINE 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., 18,0001., 9,0001., 5,0001., and 3,6001. to London; 3,6001., 8001., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001., and 6004 to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 6001. to Manchester; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire; 700/. to Ryde, Isle of Wight; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bideford ; and 6001. to Bradford, &c.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than 25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of IL and upwards. Price of One Share, I/. ;!wo Shares, 2/. ' • three Shares. N.; four Shares, 4/. ; fi ve Snares, Si. ; six Shares, 61. ; seven Shares, 71.; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; 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. 31, Will be repeated Dr. Arne's Opera of ARTAXERXES. Artaxerxes, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Arbaces, Mr. Manvers ; Ar , tabanes, Mr.'W.'Harrison ; Mandane, Miss Rainforth; Semira, Miss Poole. After which, DEAF AS A POST. Tristram Sappy, Mir. Harley ; Sally Maggs, Mrs. Orger. To conclude with a New Comicality, called PUNCH'S PANTOMIME ; or, HARLEQUIN KING JOHN, and MAGNA CHARTA. By the Writers of " Punch." King John, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan taloon, Mr. Garden ; Columbin e , M rs . J. Rid gway ; Cl own, Mr. T. Ridgway. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles bs., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New B on d- s t ree t ; M r . Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Man. 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. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be repeated 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. Strickland; Mil lamant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. H. Holl; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster ; the Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. To conclude with a Grand Comical Burlesque Ber etta, called REQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince Riquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles ; The Princess Emeralda, Madame Vestris. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be repeated an English Version of Bellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. H. ' Weiss • Alessi°, Mr. Walto n ; Liza, Mrs. T. H. Se vern; Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia ; Elvino, Mr. Tem pleton. - To conclude with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr. Oxberry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval, and M. Deneze. Places and Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. " Yankee Notes" a decided hit—Best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, 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, 1 Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which, a New Farce, called YANKEE NOTES FOR ENGLISH CIRCULATION. Principal Characte h r a s r b ac y t Mr. Rice (the celebrated representative of Negro c Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynard, Mesdames H. P. Grat tan, H. Beverley, and Chaplin. To conclude with a New Christmas Pantomime, called THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD ; or, HARLEQUIN AND NOBODY. Harlequin, Mr. Frampton; Anti .Clown (No body), Mr Wieland; Clown, Mr. H. Beverly; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders ; Columbine, Miss &Min. Boxes,4; . ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past itz, commence at seven o'clock. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the most magnificent Pantomime in London—A ter rific hit ! Acknowledged by audiences crammed to the ceiling —Superb Dresses—Splendid Scenery—Unequalled Appoint ents. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled RICHARD SAVAGE, in which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, J. Webster, Neville, Smith, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. H. Vining, Miss Terrey, &c., &c., will perform. After which, a New Grand Fairy Pantomime, with splendid Scenery, Dresses, Tricks, Mechanical Changes, and Appoint ments, to be called HARLEQUIN PUCK; or, THE EN CHANTED STATUE OF THE CHRYSTAL FOUN TAIN. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey ; Clown, Mr. C. Montgo mery; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Columbine, Miss M. R. Fair brother. The effects will exceed everything hitherto attempted. Alessrs. Sams, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, are Agents for Private Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. LLOYD'S SHIPPING, LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this day at noon, light westerly airs and cloudy. DEAL, DEC. 29.—A.M. Wind S.W., fresh.—P.M. S.W. moderate.—Arrd. llinda, Bowrn...an, Jamaica Clyde, St. John' s; A re th usa, H u ll for Boston. Arrd. from the River Devonshire, f or B a t av i a; S tag, Ma dras; Lancashire Witch, Bahia; William Forster, Nassau ; Switzerland, New York. CORK, DEC. 27.—Arrd. New City of Cork, Barnet, Barbadoes ; Wakefield, Quebec ; Sarah, Quebec. CowEs, DEc. 29 .—Arrd. Helena, Altona for Bahia ; Jane, Lockhart, London for Dominica. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Julia, blelhuish, and Eliza Ann, Gosling, N ew f oun dl an d. BRISTOL, DEC. 29:—Arrd. Champlin, New Orleans. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 28 .—Arrd. Dromohair, Payne, St. John's, N.B. ; Alice Haviland, Miramichi. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind W.N.W., strong and squally.—Arrd. Ocean, London for Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—Wind W. fresh breezes.— Arrd. Catharina Dorothea, Boghatin, Buenos Ayres and sailed for Antwerp. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH. THE JANUARY NUMBER FOR 1843 OF COLBURN'S NEW MOINTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains the following interesting Articles:— PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE •Of the late LADY HESTER STANHOPE. ETCHINGS MORALIZED, and THE DEFAULTER, By the EDITOR, THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. .4 Farewell to December. By The Recantation, a Poem. By Barry Cornwall. Horace Smith, Esq. The Widow's Alms Houses. All Sorts of Little Attentions. By the Author of " Peter By Laman Blanchard, Esq. V MY GRANDFATHER'S DREAM, A Tale founded on Fact. By JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES, ESQ. Extracts (rummy Indian Diary. Granada. A Poem. By the By the Old Forest Ranger. Medical Student. Obituary Remarks on the late A very So-So Character. Mr. 1842—deceased. The Barnabys in America. By The Advertisement Literature Mrs. Trollope. Illustrated of tile Age. by Leech. ELLISTONIANA ; Or, Original Anecdotes of the late R. W. Elliston, Esq. By W. T. Moncrieff. Esq. No. 1. Conjuror and No Conjuror 2. The Genius of the Lamp-3. Measure for Measure-4. The Sanguinary Public-5. Fallen Hero-6. Humbug. * The New Year being a favourable opportunity for com mencing a periodical, those who may desire to take in THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE are requested to give their orders without delay to their respective Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, _DECEMBER 31, 1842 TO CORRESPONDENTS An " Old Subscriber" is informed, that we never in sert marriages or deaths on anonymous authority. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 80. MERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 56 : Noon, 55 BAROMETER, 30.25.—W1ND, W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. HlOl - 1 W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 18 minutes after 1 !Evening 40 minutes after 1. LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 31, 1842 , Before our next impression the new year will have commenced, and we may therefore now briefly run over the leading events of 1842, as they recur to our memory. In the beginning of 1842, the public were eagerly anticipating Sir ROBERT PEEL'S pro mised measures of relief, and hoping much from his great reputation. The close of 1842 wit nesses the country more deeply plunged in dis tress and misery than at the commencement. After a whole year of additional suffering, there is tar less hope of relief from him than when the year began. His eagerly expected measures have ended in universal disappointment. He has unsettled everything, and destroyed all the sanctity of prescription, without satisfying one clamorous or discontented party. The bulk of the laws now restricting trade, which inflict so much misery on the community, can boast of only a few months' existence. To the unmitigated distress of the manufacturing classes is now added the almost equal distress of the agricul tural classes; and all which they can rely on to protect them against the ever increasing dis content of their opponents, and against that free trade which many of them dread, are he ill-concocted enactments of last session. Pau perism is increasing ; there is no demand for money indicating an increase of trade; bank ruptcy is extensive ; crimes are numerous; the Minister has been tried and found wanting; there is, at the end of the year, increased distress and increased difficulties, and no longer any con fidence in a single public man. There was much discontent among the people when 1842 began, and it is not lessened at its close. Sir ROBERT has not soothed the Chart ists, nor gained the middle-class manufacturers; and he has alienated the farmers, and many of the landlords. His increased taxation, particu larly his odious Income-tax, has offended and disgusted a great multitude of the warmest sup porters •of every Government. The recent Con ference at Birmingham, however divided and unsuccessful, shows that there is no abatement in the hostility of the bulk of the people to our present institutions, while their fearful outbreak in the autumn has'taught the Government and the upper classes that they have at least the power, and may not want the will, if their present feelings continue, to do an im mense deal of mischief. There has been no pro gress in the year 1842 to reconcile the bulk of the people to the Government; and 1843 begins with a still heavy, lowering aspect of contention between the mass of the population and the in stitutions which are patronised by the ruling classes. Nor has that other great combination which is opposed to the leading principles of the party at present in possession of the Government, been weakened or dissipated in 1842. The Anti-Corn law League is stronger, bolder, more confi dent, and nearer success now, than at end of last year. Its numbers and its funds haVe increased. Its principles have been consecrated by the chosen Minister of the monopolists, who has been unwillingly obliged to praise those whom he was placed in power to condemn and subdue. Though the League cannot yet boast of having obtained any practical relief; it has made a most rapid progress in gaining public opinion over to its cause. Aided by the distress of the agriculturists, and by the continued distress of the manufacturers, on whom the Legislature has conferred no advantages whatever, it is fast becoming completely master of th e public mind. The farmers begin to listen with respect and friendship to its admonitions; the landlords show, by their abuse and their vacillation, that they dread its power. Though its progress to a triumph has been dearly obtained by a long continuance of sufferings, which hearkening to its advice would have avoided, there is no longer any .doubt of its ultimate and com plete success. So far as argument is con cerned, the total abolition of the Corn law is settled, and we have the gratification of believing, at the close of our labours•for the year, that no power in the land can long with hold a legislative sanction from the opinions and plans as to the Corn-laws, which The Sun has steadily and zealously advocated. The success of this cause, however, will be a triumph ob tained, by the force of truth and facts, over the monopolists and over the Government, which was constructed to he their instrument, and that success will give additional power to its other opponents to effect, in spite of its opposition, still greater changes. Though we deeply deplore the suflerings which delay has caused, we find for them some compensation in believing that in the end, and probably before the close of 1843, the destruction of the monopoly will be thereby the more complete. If our home affairs offer us no other consola tion at the close of 1842 than the hope that mo. nopoly, after having done its bravest and its worst, totters to its full, affairs abroad present themselves to us in a more cheerful light. At the beginning of 1842, we were engaged in two contests, and were alarmed lest they might not be the only ones. A glorious peace has - put an end to the war with China, and a great success in Affghanistan has obtained fur us all we wanted —the recovery of our friends, and a safe retreat from that country. How much of the merit of the final conclusion of these two contests belongs to the Whigs, who say, that they made the preparations which led to success, and how much to the Tories, under whose guidance they were actually concluded, we pretend not to de cide. In our eyes, both of them have deserved so little at the hand s o f th e commun i ty, that we are willing to leave them both with a shar e o f the merit, to hide their otherwise great naked ness. To Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tory Ca binet belongs exclusively the merit of settling the boundary dispute with the United States, and putting an end to all apprehensions of war on that account. From them, too, we must not withhold the praise of : having, to a consi- derable extent, quieted France and Europe, disturbed, at the beginning of the year, by the somewhat restless policy of their predecessors. At the same time the close of 1842 sees the flame of disturbance kindled in Spain and rising in the East, and the opponents of the Ministers declare that in both quarters they have sacrificed the honour of the country. On the whole, the fo- reign policy of the Tories has, during the year, been more successful than their home policy, apparently because there they have not con travened any known law of Nature, while here they have struggled, and struggled in vain, to regulate prices, and have in doing it violated the first princlples of all Government. On the whole, we conclude that at the end of 184;2 the: Government is much weaker, the people _ . more discontented and in greater difticultie9, than at its •commencement; and we infer that if the same - policy and progress be continued in the year which is now to commence, it will not close without witnessing some great change, or some greater disturbance than the outbreak of 1842. It i another place we publish an extract from the Chelmsford Chronicle, giving an account of the poor in the,Chelmsford Union Workhouse in 1841 and. 1842, which is worth notice as a spe cimen of what is at present going on in the.agricul tural districts. It is well known that the amount of pauperism was much greater in 1841 than in the years immediately previous, and the whole din crease in the ielmsford U n i on b etween 1841 i and 1842 is 20 o 211, or ,one-thirteenth. Cun sidering t'utt 1841 was favourable to pauperism, that increase is great. But the able-bodied men have increased from 15 to 27 ; the able-bodied women from 28 to 38 ; the able-bodied lads, between 7 and 15, many of whom should be able to get their own living, from 30 to 46; and girls of the same ages from 29 to 41 ; showing, on the whole an increase of paupers amongst that popu lation, which in a prosperous condition of society would find employment, of no less than 50 per sons out of 297, or an increase of pauperism to the amount of nineteen per cent. in the working population since 1841. If that may be taken, as we believe it may, as an index to the condition of the agricultural districts generally, it shows a state of society which may appal the heart of any statesman. The account presents one or two other features of interest. There are of infants and children under seven years of age 17 less than in 1841, indicating, we think, that the number of children born is, and has been for two or three years back, diminishing ; otherwise, with such an in crease of able-bodied paupers the increase of children should have been considerable instead of there being a decrease. It may gratify the rate-payers to see in that fact the prospect of an ultimate diminution of pauperism, but it will afflict the statesman and philanthropist, who know that there is no surer sign of misery than a decay of population or a diminished rate of in crease. When that sign is exhibited, it is cer tain that many of the population are exposed to extreme hunger, and are subject to extreme distress. One of the leading features of the Blandford Agricultural, and of similar meetings, is, the rewards which the noblemen and gentlemen there assembled bestow on well behaved agri cultural labourers. They are summoned before their masters, like little children at the school breaking-up, and one receives a new coat, another a couple of sovereigns, and a third something else ; and a handsomely framed cer tificate is given to each to attest how much his masters are pleased with his patient, toiling, obe dient conduct. After dinner the Chairman has them intro duced to the company, in whose august presence he compliments them, as worthy and deserving persons; talks of the labourers being the foundation of society ; assures them that happiness is very generally diffused over all classes ; and that if they only do their duty they will be sure to be happy in their own station. Proceedings of that nature may be very gratifying to the self-love of the noble men and gentlemen ; but we submit that they are not calculated to improve either them or the people. It is, on their part, an assump. tion of moral and mental superiority, which by no means belongs to them, and serves to nourish in them a windy arrogance and conceit. The very act implies a consciousness, •on their part, of being much wiser and better than the labour ers and cottagers, and is a claim to direct the conduct of other men, who have their own duties to perform, in their own station. On the part of the labourers and cottagers, it implies, and it nourishes, a sense of self-degradation. They are told that they are not as good as those other men. who advise and direct them. The well-meant patronage helps to destroy their sense of . inde pendence, the soul of all greatness and goodness, and if it refines—which we doubt—it emascu lates their mental powers. What would the noblemen and gentlemen of England think if the cottagers and labourers were:: o form societies for the -encouragement of goo , . tmlact in the landlords, and to rewar d i t? y should they not form such societies, as exen and gentlemen fbrni them to improve the cottagers ? They are equally men. Their in terest and their welfare are closely bound up with the good behaviour of the landlords ; and were wreaths or ribbons, or stars of honour conferred .on landlords by societies of farmers arid labourers for putfing an end to game preserves—for living in London and never troubling the tenants and cottagers—for being content with the rent they could willingly pay—for carefully abstaining from asking for a vote at an election—for respect ing their independence —were rewards bestowed for such good conduct, that might stimulate some landlords to be equitable and respectful to wards their fellow men, albeit they are only tenants and cottagers. The public did not need certain recent events to convince them that the BANtESES, the ASHLEYS, the STURTS, et hoc genus, really require as much moral guidance and control as the meanest of the cottagers who were patronised at the Blandford meeting. There is a great deal too much care taken of the lower classes by their so-called superiors. Those who 'claim to take care of them, claim, in fact, to be their masters. They treat the pea santry- more like slaves or children than inde pendent men; and they make them childish in their dependence. The Liberals are no more exempt from the assumption of superiority than the Tories, and are equally prone to treat the labouring classes like children. This is an erro neous mode of proceeding. The first step to wards amendment is for the gentry to trust the people, and distrust themselves more. The two have totally different duties to perform; they are placed in totally different situations; and it is quite impossible that either one can be a rule for the other. Let the gentlemen of England, then, treat the labourers like free men, and they will soon be rewarded by finding that the la bourers, instead of being, as at present, terribly degraded, have acquired the virtues of their new station. We had the pleasure of meeting on Thursday a body of men by whose active exertions the pulse of our commercial greatness is kept in being—men who embody in themselves the very spirit of enterprise. Agriculture may have done much for this country, but commerce has done more. Without commerce England wopld only be a land of cabbages! It is her com merce that has 'raised her to the proud eminence which she holds—the first nation for arts, for arms, for freedom—and the parent of all, is commerce ! Why ,do people say, "He is a very promising boy, but be should see the world ;"—if they did not imply in that sentence that " seeing the world," is learning the principles of commerce ? England is essentially a commercial country, and it gives us especial pleasure in baring our testimony to the meritorious exertions of gentlemen travellers who have associated themselves, for the support of their mutual independence, by founding a Society which will benefit them selves, and be a protection to their families. Such Societies arc well worthy imitation—and deserve the best support of the public. The part taken by the French Consul during the insurrection at Barcelona is still involved in much mystery. Two Morning Contemporaries, who appear to derive their information from offi cial sources, publish statements on the subject directly at variance with one another—the Tory journal describing M. LESSEPS as blameless, while the Whig paper asserts that but for the countenance he gave to the insurgents, there would have been no necessity to bombard the town. When two such judges disagree, we will not pretend to decide; but we may observe that one of the Barcelona jour nals still adheres to its first accusation against the Consul, and asserts that his con nivance (co-operation) with the insurgents has been proved beyond a doubt, and adds, " Can there be a more ignominious recompense than that derived from the provocation of disorders, and shedding the blood of faithful soldiers and misled patriots?" This important charge cannot rest without further investigation, and it is the duty, therefore, of the French Government, as well as that of Spain, to institute the most rigid inquiry. There can be no great difficulty in ascertaining the truth. Were a commission, consisting of French men and Spaniards, appointed to repair to the spot and examine witnesses, M. LESSEPS could clear his character at at once, if he is innocent. For his own sake he should demand such a course, and convince not only the French Government but the other Powers of Europe, that the Representative of his - Sovereign did not in any way contribute to such an atrocious and inexplicable revolt as that which has disgraced Barcelona. We should re joice to see such a result, but in the meantime must entertain suspicions, that there was a party or parties in France, privy to the conspiracy. The false telegraphic dispatches, the exaggera tions given in French Government papers, the lying accounts of the great numbers put to death by ESPARTERO, and the bitter animosity displayed by newspapers in the interest of high personages, excite doubts which cannot be re moved by mere assertion and angry recrimination. Madrid journals of the 21st have been received. No day had been fixed tin* the return of the REGENT. The Patriota, a Ministerial journal, contradicts in positive terms the reports re specting a disunion in the Cabinet, and declares that, as regards the decree for the dissolution of the Cortes, and on all the main principles of Government, the Ministers are perfectly agreed. ' The accounts from Barcelona are without in terest, for we attach little credit to the following statement, which comes from Perpignan—a place now celebrated for the manufacture of lying dispatches. It appears in a Bayonne paper:— A deputation from the principal inhabitants of Bar celona went on the 19th instant to the Captain-Ge neral to remonstrate against the war contribution of 12,000,000 reals, which was allotted on the 18th. General Van Halen replied that those who refused to pay would be sent to the galleys. The richest men and merchants, among whom were a great number who left the town at the commencement of the rebellion, and whose houses have been destroyed by the bombardment, have had most exorbitant sums imposed upon them. M. Xifre, who was in France, is put down for 10,000 duros (52,5000 No one has yet submitted, and every one seems to be determined to resist, and even undergo imprisonment rather than pay. This resolution is encouraged by the unanimous voice of the Madrid journals against the measures taken at Barcelona as acts of military despotism. The municipality has had the weakness to obey the orders given to it by making the allotment of the 12,000,000 reals, and this want of energy has filled the whole population with discontent. The Gazette contains a number of loyal ad dresses, fbrwarded to the REGENT by the pro vincial deputation of Majorca, the municipality of Pampeluna, the National Guards of Almaden, Benimodo, La Ronda, &c., on the occasion of the events of Barcelona. The Three poi. Cents. were done on the 21st a 21i at 45 days, and the Five per Cents. at 26i 7-16 for cash, and 26 11-16 at 60 days. 'he French Government have finally come to the resolution of suppressing the manufacture of beet-root sugar in France. The Illoniteur and Globe (Ministerial journals) have announced the fact. The latter adds a report that the plan in cludes, besides an indemnity to the beet-root growers, a diminution of the duties on foreign sugar. The memorial of the delegates for the colonies, which we stated yesterday had been presented to the Council of Ministers, is signed by Baron C. DUPIN and M. JOLLIVET for Mar tinique; Dount DE CI-lAZELLES and DESMIRAIL for Guadaloupe ; Admiral BAUDIN and M. DE LA BATIE for Bourbon; and M. FAVARD for Guiana; and concludes thus: The council of the delegates of the colonies demand expressly in their name the suppression of the beet root manufacture, on paying an indemnity, as the most suitable means of reconciling in a spirit of justice the interests of the colonies and the mother country. But if it be impossible to carry into effect the condi tions of the exceptional state thus demanded, in that case the colonies claim equality of conditions between the two national manufactures, that is, the applica tion of the rules of general legislation with respect to trade and produce. The Debats gives the French Government the credit of having produced the late favourable ar rangement in Syria. Possibly the other Powers had also some influence, for we cannot help thinking that England has as much authority in Turkish Councils as France ; hut a good act has been accomplished, and we do not quarrel with the French for claiming their share of the merit. " While the Opposition journals," it says, " were reproaching the Government with abandoning the Christians of Syria, and allowing our influ ence in the East to dwindle away at Constanti nople, the Government was acting with efficacy. The Porte has at length yielded to wise counsels, and has seers what are its veritable interests; it has adopted the only means of putting an end to anarchy and bloodshed, by permitting the Ma ronites and the Druses to have chiefs of their own nation. Syria, we tryst, will at last have repose, and the inhabitants of this unfortunate province will have occasion to bless the peace bearing intervention of the King of FRANCE. This is another mission of humanity that we have fulfilled. We know well, however, that the Op position will not change into compliments and eulogiums the unjust reproaches which it ad dressed to the Government a short time back. The Ministry has been successful; our repre sentative, M. DE BOURQUENEY, has attained the object of his mission. His clever efforts have triumphed over the prejudices and the pride of the Porte. He has obtained for the Maronites and Druses what has been so often refused; the success is complete." The France gives the following statement re specting the parties to be elected into the Privy Council, and the amount of their salaries:— We know, from good authority, that the Council of Ministers, under the presidency of the King, was engaged yesterday and the day before in deciding upon the number to be contained in the list of Minis ters of State. It is fixed at present that it should be confined to ten—[the Constitutionnel states twenty]— and the selection is partly made. The ordonnances of their nomination will probably appear in to-morrow's Moniteur. Count Mole will stand at the head of the elect. He will be followed by Messrs. Thiers, Dupin, Pasquier, Barthe, Portalis, and Marshal Sebastiani. The Cabinet is said to be decided in its choice of the other candidates. It is much regretted in high quar ters that his holding the office of Intendant of the Civil List of the House of Orleans excludes the Comte de Montalivet from being one of the ten. We are further told that the salary of each - Minister of State is to be 15,000 E, and that a credit of 300,000 f. will be required from the Chambers for the expenses of the installation, and the services of the current year." The same journal states that M. PIA U, the Editor of the Commerce, made his appearance on Wednesday before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to answer the charge laid against him of having violated the laws of the Press, by pub lishing a distinct afternoon journal, called Feuille Commercial, Supplement au Journal le Com therce. He was defended by M. PHILIPPE DUPIN, but the arguments of M. GOUIN, the King's Advocate, maintaining that they were two distinct journals, inasmuch that each could be subscribed for separately, and there* liable to separate deposits of caution money,lind subject to all the other pro Visions of the law, prevailed, and the Tribunal condemned M. PIAU to a month's imprisonment and a fine,of 200 f. General BUGEAUD, offended at the doubts cast upon his successes in Africa by the Corre spondent of the National, has addressed the sub joined letter to the Editor : --- - Your Correspondent denies the results of this campaign ; he might as well deny that the sun shines at Algiers in the summer, and that it rains there in the winter. It is notorious that never was there a result more complete and decisive, or obtained at a cheaper rate. Two little combats sufficed to bring under subjection the Government of Ben Salem, with the exception of two or three Kabyle tribes in the mountains of the Jinjura. I have appointed Mahhi el-Mu in the place of Ben Salem, and the whole country has accepted the Tryv chief without hesitation. Tell your Correspondent, if you please, that if he is in the least desirous of being made acquainted with the truth on this subject, he has only to consult the thousand inhabitants of parts who daily frequent the market of Algiers. Is your veracious Correspondent ignorant that almost all the principal men of the east, to the number of sixty, came to Algiers escorted by 150 horsemen ; that they there received investiture at the Government palace in the presence of all the civil and military authorities, and as many other per sons as the room would contain; that since that time there has not been the slightest commotion in the Re gency, and that an active and daily trade is going on with it ? In another letter addressed to the Editor of the Siecle, be states that it is not just to express e . 4 i ... . . 4' A s , .. vf CLU/ , !AO ~ L t: .. A 10 .-e:' -.4 " ~ .. t r,,, , ,' , 4, , ~' ,400 - 1 10 7 ' •.. u ttor --:, ' ‘ c... .'"4 ,,,, . , ;.,' •c, t 4..: * A.; , ' ';'. .' l, '. ' .14i, tsirke axe surprise at a paragraph in his pamphlet, an nouncing that for the subjugation of Algeria, a force of from 90,000 to 100,000 men would be re quired, fbr he had made the very same statement in the Chamber of Deputies. BOURSE—PARIS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. First Highest sowest Last Prie. Price P 11. French Five pe r Cents. 119 c 119 50... 35... ce 119 35... 9 rice 45 Threes 79 ... 79 ... 78 95.. 78 95 Bank of France, ex div. 3315 ...3315 ...3305 ...3305 Laffitte Bank 1,000f...1025 ..1025 ...1025 ...1025 Belgian Bank.. . ...—..... 810 ... 810 ... 810 ... 810 Belgian Fives ........... 1034 ... 1034 .. 1034 ... 1034 1840.... 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044 Three 5......... 73 ... 73 "' 73 ... 73 Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24h ... 24 ... 24 Passive ...... 3/ ... 3/ ... 3/ ... 3/ Portuguese Fives 33 ... 334 ... 33 ... 334 Neapolitan Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 103/ ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES. . St. Germain B4O ... 840 ... 540 ... 840 Versailles, L.B ll2 50... 115 ... 112 50... 115 R. B 295 ... 306 25... V. 95 3C6 25 Rouen Orleans. 633 75... 633 75... 632 50... 632 50 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 7 5... 202 50... 202 50 MONEY and COMM E RCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. Stocksi closed extremely firm, and appearances, judging from their scarcity, were rather in favour of an advance. Consols left off at 94 to 948; and Ex chequer Bills at 60s. to 625. premium ; India Bonds touched 51s. to 535. premium ; the Reduced Three per Cents advanced to 948 ; Canada Debentures got up to 2 and 21 premium; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 101- to 101 e : and Bank Stock realized 1721. "The Foreign market was quiet this afternoon. Spanish Actives were 188 to 184, and the Three per Cents. 241 to 249. There was an improvement from 64 and 65 to 70 in the Portuguese Bonds of 1836, on account of:the new proposal of the Government. The Converted were 344; Colombian rose to 229 and 228; Mexican were 314 to 32 ; and Brazilian 71; Belgian Bonds were steady at 1014 ; and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. at 538. More activity prevailed in the Share Market, and the holders were firmer at the subjoined quotations : Bristol and Exeter were 21 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 21 ; the New ditto, 8 ; Brighton, 13* ; and South Eastern Scrip, 24 discount ; Great Western were 2,51; Brighton Loan Notes, ; South Western, 208; Nor thern and Eastern Scrip, 5 to 58 ; and Newcastle and Darlington Junction, premium; Colonial Bank Shares were 5 ; London Joint Stock, 3i ; and National Provincial of England, 4 premium. In the Foreign Exchanges there was no particular alteration this afternoon. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Liverpool Cotton-market was good yesterday, the sales having been 6,000 bales, at former prices, including 500 bales of American on speculation. The Share Market was firm. Eastern Counties New, 101. 3s. 9d.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 478; Grand Junction, 190; Great Western, DO ; Brighton, 369 and Paris and Rouen, 268. There does not appear to he much news in the let ters from the United States brought by the Columbia. Monetary and commercial affairs were not in an encou raging state, and languor pervaded most departments. The finances of Virginia appear now to be in an unsatis factory state, but Ohio was improving. The Legisla tive Session of Illinois having commenced, it was hoped some provision would be made for the interest on the debt. We are sorry to hear bad accounts of the state of trade in Canada, partly owing to the panic produced by the alteration in the timber laws, and also from the general depression in the Mother country. No doubt matters will improve next year. It is stated in a communication from Kingston, dated Dec. 2, that a general want of money is the prevailing sensation. The necessaries and luxiiries of life are cieap and plentiful, but the means to purchase them are lament ably deficient. The farmers have their barns and granaries filled to repletion, while they can h ar dly command sufficient ready cas h to buy their wives a new gown. Wheat is selling in country places at three shillings per bushel, while no other kind of grain can be sold for cash at any price. A country cannot be called badly off; when it has sufficient to live upon and to spare ; but it cannot be termed prosperous, while the farmers suffer, and every kind of trade and commerce is at a stand still. It is also mentioned in our advices that the capital of Prince Edward's Island bids fair to become in time a place of some note. The situation is beautiful, and having a rich and well cultivated country around it, we can see nothing to retard its growth. The pro gress of the island generally depends upon circum stances. No country ever thrived equal to its re sources that had; a large body of absent landowners withdrawing from it a yearly portion in the shape of rent. The Colonial Herald says, that no less than 88 buildings of various classes and dimensions, ex clusive of stables, have been erected during the pre sent year. Several of those buildings are said to be commodious and elegant, and would do credit to places of far loftier pretensions than Charlottetown. The trade of the port is stated to be rapidly on the increase. Nearly 200 vessels entered during the last quarter, including the dullost portion of the business season. The Government at Lisbon, in consequence of the refusal of the holders of the Portuguese-Brazil Bonds to accede to the terms offered them some time since, has come to the resolution to make a new proposition, but it will be time to comment thereon when the feeling of the Bondholders upon the subject shall have been more clearly ascertained. It is at least some sa tisfaction that an offer should have been made, since it evinces a desire on the part of the Government to come to some settlement. The English Securities remain very firm, and the Bull party gains strength. The Commissioners for the Savings' Banks were compelled to make their usual purchase in the Reduced Annuities at 4 per cent. advance this morning, viz. 948. The Unfunded Debt is rising still, from the abundance of money, and the scarcity of this investment. The premium has been 58s. to 625. East India Bonds participate in the rise, having been done at 51s. premium. Re duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 104 to 101+, and Long Annuities 12 9-16. Bank Stock is steady at 172 k. The Canada Guaranteed Debentures have touched 2 premium. The settlement in the Foreign Market has made Spanish Stock worse, the Actives being down to 18* and 18*, and thewee per Cents. to 248 and 24 Portuguese Converted Bonds have been marked 34+, which is about the same. Mexican have been sup ported at 31* to 32; C o l um bi an at 22 2 _ to 22f ; the Dutch Five Far Cents. have realised 101 to 101+. Railway Shares are rather firmer. Edinburgh and Glasgow realise 28 ; Bristol and Exeter, 21+ ; Brigh ton 13f ; Midland Counties, 384; and South Eastern Scrip, 2f discount. Great Western New, are 14 ; Birmingham, quarte r , 24* ; Manchester and Leeds, ; Rouen and Havre, I; and York and North Mid land, New, 18+ premium. London and 'Westminster Bank were 4 premium. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 29.—The market continues firm, and without any material alte ration in prices:—; South Eastern Scrip, 17*; North Midland, 624 to 63f ; Manchester and Birmingham, 20 to 204 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 314 to 32 ; South Western, 62 to 62} ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10 15-16. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .174 India Stock 3 per Cent. R e d. .. ...... 94i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. C on . D itto Old Annuities 3i per Cent. Red... 1018 Ditto New Annuities - New 3i i per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 5B f,m N 9 IV 5 per Cen' — Ditto 500/...... 62 om Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 62 pm Jan. 1860 Dd. 1859 ...... Ipg... an. 1860 . rOREIG. IConsols for Opg. ... 94 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ — ,Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent. lBi Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 p er cent. --f. —c. Exchange f. —c French, 3 per cent —f. --c. Dutch, 21 per cent....... 53h Ditto, 5 per cent. 1011 ustrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian4.s per cent lOl3 Brazilian Bonds... 7l Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. —. Chilian 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 22i Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Danish, 3 per tent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent -- Mexican, 5 per cent 313 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. 193 I SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. 49 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 473 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 4l Great Western, (65 p a id) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... ...... 103 London and Birminghar '9o' .....irminghard (: ) . . .. Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49 London and South West ern (4116 s 10d pd) 62* Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip (20 naid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ... ........ COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar ~. ... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 96 Genoa . 26 21 Antwerp l2 9 Milan ... .................. 31 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice ................. ... 47 Alton Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Lisbon ..................... 52 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro 25 Frankfort en Maine —1526 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 36 Buenos Ayres Berlin... Vienna, efloc. fl. 3 M lO 3 , Philadelphia 4l Trieste, ditto lO 4 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz 36 Portugal Gold C0m...3 17 5 Bilbao ' 36 New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 111 S hit F e; a t • t A ND Ottbltc Optitten. " Who runs may r FOREIGN. A Council of Ministers was held at the Tuileri on Wednesday, at one o'clock, at which the King pi sided. A numerous meeting of the Members of the Char ber of Peers was held on the same cay, at one &doe in the apartment of the Grand Referendary. The administration of Customs' duties has just pui lished a return of the principal merchandise import' into France duringvthe first eleven months of the Pr' sent year, by which it appears that the duties prl duced 90,000,000 f. . , The Moniteur Parisien states, that the tenders supply the French Government with 4,800,0001b5. Virginian leaf tobacco, 7,000,0001b5. of Kentucky lea 4,400,0001b5. of Maryland leaf, and 80,0001bs. o f 111 vannah leaf, to be delivered at Paris or at Havre, wet opened before the Minister of Finande on Tuesda last, when Mr. Brown, a Liverpool merchant, w 2 declared the lowest bidder for the three first article. and M. J. P. Peccator for the Havannah leaf. Terradas, who was so deeply implicated in the /3 1 insurrection in Catalonia, arrived last week at Perpig nan, from which pl ace h e w ill b e sent, by orders c the French Governm en t t o Clermont. Amongst t, ll other fugitive s w h o h ave arr i ve d at Perpignan is til Alcade of Figueras. A grand banquet of the old scholars of the LYc e ' Napoleon and the College Henri IV. was held 0 ! Monday at the Restaurant Douix, in the Palais-Roy al M. Odillon Barrot was unanimously called to the chair. Among the guests were M.dePontois, Nies s l Salvandy, Larabit, F er di nan d B arrot, Barillon, Etienne, Deputies, and many other distinguisbedlo" of the bar, in literature, and the arts. The health of the French Consul at Barcelona was the great toast o f .th e even i ng. Hi s brother retorned thanks. PUBLIC OPINION. 1 The Post contains the following remark as article on the subj ec t o f f ree trade :—" The industr'°-,, people of this nati on , as ' a il con f ess, never were in - worse condition than they are in now ; is it not, there" fore, the next thi ng t o idi ocy to go on believing "; unutterably impudent a s s um pti ons of the free-trad. doctors, which experience has so completely contra" dieted ? They say the free -trade measures which hav e passed were only half measures. They did not gad so when they passed them. Mr. Huski sson prorn i r with the most ferv en t plausibility that the adruiss',° - r, of foreign manuf ac t ure d s ilk at the duty he propose"' should stop smuggling.. Twenty years after Mr. 1 111 ,: kisson's plans were adopted, .Mr. Po r t er s t a t e d in his evidence before the I m p o rt D ut i es Committee that half the foreign manu f ac t ure d silk now intro d u ces into this country is smuggled. Mr. Porter saY5 th e duties were not made low enough. Mr. Huskissl then deceived the country, or was himself deceived, and misled the country. They may now call then measures half measures ' if they please, but fru ° these half measures they promised the country an inci e proved state of tr a d e , an d now t h ey tell us that t r a is worse than ever it was. And to what purpose ,1 ° they tell us this ? Not that we should consider wh„ . . e " ther we have not g one t oo f ar, b ut that we ma y be induced to go farth er ! Wh y not go back Why, 11° . at all events, pau se an d reflect upon our actual Po l. tion and the nature of the legislation which hasPre" ceded that condition, and has led to it ?" The Herald thus speaks of the Poor-law Comm" i sioners :—" By f ar th e greater share of the opposi tion to the New Poor-law has been provoked by the O rl i duct of the Commissioners, Sub-Commissioners, an Secretary to whom its administration' has been en" trusted. These personages have endangered the very existence of the man y exce ll ent provisions con t a ined in Lord Althorp's Act by their determination to en: force uniformity in parochial government, regardles:f of the insurmountable obstacles thereto arising out s ever-varying local differences, by their to monstron., affectation of scientific ph raseo l ogy in their c or r e s pond" ence and orders, by th e i r utter imperviousness he public opinion, by th e i r general disregard of t wishes, requests, and suggest i ons of the rate -poYerea by their excessi ve o b s ti nacy i n their once- d ec lar opinions, and above a ll b y t h e i r persisting in a re s°hy tion to treat .pauperis m as a crime and paupe rs as . 1 criminals. The Act itself as passed was defective enough; but the power it gave these Commissioners of making orders and rules in accordance with what they might construe to be its spirit, and the mann er in which they have misused that power, have so X e creased the defects of the Act, have so shoeked ti a , feelings of the people of England, and have aet e , ha t injuriously on the minds of the working classes , by far the :most popular amend men t w h ich SIT Jam, e Graham could make in the l aw wou l d be a completec change in the personn e l o f the Comniission cretariat." The following is from the Times :—" nell's recent letter to the Poor .law Guardians of th e , county of Cork, which will be found in another part o' our impression, is ostensibly and primarily a dissertiv Mr. Ma' tion, first, upon Poor-laws in general; and, secondly, upon the Irish Poor-law in particular. He has, ho"' ever, as perhaps might have been anticipated, o n ; trived to drag into his composition by the head an; shoulders as many extraneous inflammatory elaPt r l n as were necessary for the purpose which he seem s re have had in vie w i n p enn i ng h i s epistle, viz., to Secure if possible, the benefit of the Anti-Poor-law cry' which is obviously rising, and which everybody cex pected to rise in Irela n d, f or hi s own repeal party ; and to direct it against all w h o see through the facti nt ,s insanity of that a b or ti ve movement, be they T e f . r .'' Whig, or Radical. Th ere i s a great deal o f very t° l ; cibly spoken truth in Mr. O'Connell's obseryatioll upon the principles and practice of the Irish Pn c f s . - law ; there is, in that p ar t o f t h e letter wh i c h direct treats of the profes se d su bj ect o f the ep i st l e , mu of powerful exposure of the monstrosity and craeltt, the principles upon w hi c h th e modern Poor-lavi :r b ls, y tern is based ; and it i s s h own t h at i n Ireland, " infatuation, these principles have been carried out ore, an exaggerated form, an d w i t h a d d i tional and 111,1°„-- vexatious circumstances.- And, in admitting "":'' which we gladly d o , we would also take the °Pll,4°l,r -tunitv of doing hon our , an d we d o i t most un f e ignedly' to tie expression by a political 0pP 0 9 611 5 ., of the very Ch r i s ti a n sent i ment, that private aa a giving is the first great duty—paramount to, never to be superseded by, the fulfilment of secondary obligation (an obligation enhanced by t h l necessary deficiency and fluctuation of indivi dll ,, charity) of making a public provision for the poor' ns The Chronicle says—" In our advertising cni um d will be found a list of the names of the noblemen l e gentlemen who h ave a l rea d y b ecome members °J . t i n general committee f or th e metropolitan borough s, order to promote f ree t ra d e by the abolition of t it Corn and Provision-laws, and all other monopolies. is announced that a further list of names will be Pub lished forthwith. In the mean time, the public sv! l see with satisfacti on th a t many of the first namesfol,' the country, in point of rank, respectability, and P . t i t y perty have pla ce d th emse l ves i n the front of t h e bat in. which is n ow a b ou t t o b e waged in good earnest ft the metropolis against the partizans of mmopolY„ cannot be too often r e p ea t e d, t h at the meeop°,"s though reeling und er th e bl ows they have rece l ,7 l , o will not give way w ith ou t an obstinate struggle. h pir people must b ear cons t an tl y i n mi nd the adage —e yourself and God will help you.' Even shoe' 1 ,15, Government be disposed to yield to their just iceman. this pressure from without would not be the 105 , 11 ; r dispensable, to ena ble Ministers to g i ve e ff ec t to wishes. But it would appear that the favourable al', position of the Government has been too lightly ° sumed." MONEY - TRADE--COMMEZCZ. The forty-third anniversary of the C om merci al Travellers' Society was ce l e b rate d on Thursda),r, the London C o ff ee -h ouse . R o b ert Currie, 'r)siii; presided, and upward s o f 100 gent l emen sat d o wn dinner. Afr. The Anti-Corn-law League p ar t y h ave , on Cobden's authority, their promised 50,000/. alln °st h l . l hand. The sam e gen tl eman s t ates t h at i f h e a nd I - fellow-agitators, could divide and subdivide them" selves," or be in fifty places at; once, " they mi ht re ceive 200,0001. or 300,000/., as well as 50,0001." PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. f St• At a vestry meeting of th e rate - payers 0- 4 , 3 Mary, Lambeth, held on Th urs d ay i n Ch urc h-sweet, was unanimously decided th a t port i ons o f e i g ht roa or places in that parish, eac h aver aging about 80 " feet in length, should b e d e di ca t e d to the use of the public. A self-loading cart, for sweeping the streets °I Manchester, Invented by Mr. Whitworth, an t'; gineer, has now 'bee n in efficient operation 1 0 town for the last ten months, altogether doing away with the necessity of sweepers and scavengers. .O.ND POLICE. The Jury have found a verdict of " Wilful Mur der" against Michael Meaghan, for the murder 0 ' Thomas Leary in Whitecros's-street. An adjourned inquest was held on Wednesdar before Mr. Carttar, at D e ptf or d, on th e v i e w of tl e body of Elizabeth Ki ng , a marr i e d woman , w'llo t was alleged had lost her life through the inattention of Mr. Arthur, the parish surgeon. The Coroller considered the case to have a ssume d so se rious a for m as to demand a post )nortent examination. ]LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. o f The late ArchdeacOn.W rang h am was the ecliO r an edition of Plutarch, and an elegant poet, both 1 0 his own and the Latin languages. 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