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Just ready, with characteristic Illustrations by Leech, THE WASSAIL BOWL. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Just ready, in 3 vols. Sao, with Portraits, MEMOIRS of the COLTRT of ENGLAND, from the REVOLUTION in 1688 to the DEATH of GEORGE 11. -- --- By JOHN HENEAGE JESSE, Eq., uthor of" Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). THE NEW NOVEL. New read at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., rea COLLEGE LIFE, By J. HEWLETT, M.A. Late of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of " Peter Priggins," " The Parish Clerk," &e. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MASTERMAN READY-COMPLETE. Putiinlied this Day, Part 3, foolscap Bvo., 7s. 6d. cloth, 7VIA.gTERM..A.N READY ;. or, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC. Written for Young Pcople. By Captain lIARRYAT, C.B. With numerous Wood Engravings. *.a This Third Volume completes the work. Vols. 1 and 2 separately, 75. 6d. each, cloth. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman& BETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, Las been attended by its natural consequenee—the excitement of envy in every branch of the *frit trade. Hence, each sue gelding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge ups the public notieelirticles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is ilea vast infesiotity to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Ce. 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 Dig/aeon Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £4OO, £l,OOO, JE-1 ,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to 272,170 Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. TT - EINE BROTHERS having remitted during a very short time very large amounts of Money Divi dpnds to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland. Dividends of 25,0001., 18,000/., 9,0001., 5,000/., and 3,600/. to London ; 3,6001., 8001., and 700/. to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001 ., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 7001. to Coln°. Lancashire; 7001. to Ryde, Isle of Wight; 600/: to Cork ; 600/. to Bideford ; and 6001. to Bradford, ice.. &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 Mosley Dividends of 1/. and upwards. Price of One Share, 11. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 3/. ; four Shares, 4/. ; five Shares, 5/. ; six Shares, 6/. ; seven Shares, 7/. ; eight Shares, 81. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; ten Shares, 101. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS at Lubeek. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 26, Will be presented Shakspeare's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley; Master Slender, Mr. Harley ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Mrs. Page, Miss Rainforth ; Anne Page, Miss Poole; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Orger. After which, a New Historical Comicality, called PUNC H'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 ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com lames at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. .id. ; First and Second Circlos 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low. at the Box-effice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An dims, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 26, Will be repeated the New Drama, called GRAND FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farrell; Drayton, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury ; Langley, (a Retired Trader), Mr. Stuart ; Driver, (a Lawyer), Mr. Strickland ; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster ; Snap, Mr. Clark; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son), Master George Webster ; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Susan, (Servant to Langley), Mrs. Stanley. After which Mr. C. Mathews' Barletta of PATTER versus CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. H. Holl ; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster ; the Duchess do Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. After which will be produced a Grand Comical Burlesque Barlotta, called RiQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince Diquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles; The Princeis Emeralda, Madame Vestris. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This New and Elegant Theatre, fitted up in a style of splendour hitherto unequalled in this country, Will OPEN on MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, With an ADDRESS, to be delivered by Mr. J. H. Wallack. After which, LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr. W. H. Weiss ; Alessio, Mr. Walton ; Liza, Mrs. T. H. Se vern ; Amine, Madame Eugenia Garcia (her first appearance on the English stage); Elvino, Mr. Templeton. 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, who will make their first appearance in this •enntry in the incidental ballet. Places and Private Bosse to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.... VI minutes after 5 f Evening 55 minutes after 5. LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER g 4, 1842. Some of our Contemporarie s are extremely unreasonable in requiring day after day that Sir ROBERT PEEL should give some formal intima tion of his intentions with regard to the Corn-law. He can have no other intention than to maintain the law of last session if he can. His character as a statesman, his honour as a gentle man, legislative decorum, respect for the Parlia ment, all the fudges and fictions which serve at all times as pretexts for not promoting the public welfare, imperatively command him to preserve intact the law of last session. The real question is, not will he preserve it, but can he ? Is he master of his own actions on that point ? Is he as free to take his own course, to consult his own character, to study his own honour, to hearken to what decorum recommends, as he is to walk or ride in Tamworth Park as he chooses ? He is not. What he may be obliged to do depends on the progress of opinion, which is very rapid, and the success of the League, which is unex ampled. It is quite impossible for him to comply with the wishes of his admirers, or the demands . of his opponents, by any declaration at present of what he means to do. Suppose he were to inform the public by an official triple leaded communication in the Post, that he is resolved firmly to adhere to the law of last session, can any man believe that agita tio,n would immediately cease? Such a declaration would only inform the League that it must • matew redoubled exertions to overcome the ob stinacy of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in opposition to his own better judgment of what is for the national good. Would such a declaration make one fanner satisfied with present prices, or make one landlord more determined, in spite of the ruin which the law is bringing on himself, by ruining the towns, to maintain it ? What, then, would be its utility ? None whatever; and we can save Sir ROBERT *** PEEL the trouble of making any such declara .t , ' on, by assuring the public that he will stand by his foolish law of last session if he can. i • Suppose he were to state that he means to Propose a moderate fixed duty, would that ap- ' • pease the League, and preserve his own charac ter? It woulnot. The League would continue their exertions for the total repeal. A great number of farmers and landlords would rather have perfectly free trade at .once than a fixed duty. To make such a declaration, therefore, would only exhibit vacillation and weakness; it would betray himself, and separate him from • a 'great number of his present supporters, with out gaining the confidence of the Whig advocates of a fixed duty. The public may be assured that Sir ROBERT PEEL has no information to • give on this subject;and will give none till the Parliament assembles. Till within a few days of that period, he will not have made up his own i mind to any other point than to keep on trial PEEL'S Corn-law for a session or two longer. Revolutionists will not be displeased should ' Sir ROBERT PEEL be successful. The public distress, the want of trade, and the want of em ployment—the consequences of the existing Corn-law--are placing all the errors of our system in bold relief. They have made the ne cessity for a Poor-law for Scotland apparent. They have, at the same time, demonstrated that the Poor-law of England is inadequate, and cannot be fully carried out. They have done the same for the New Poor-law in Ireland. They have made the tenure of land there the subject of public discussion, and have brought the most powerful of the journals to be the ad vocates of the people and opponents of the landlords. They have doubled the atrocities of our system of summary convictions, and of our Game-laws, and have made them odious to the public. The longer the famine-laws are con tinued, the more salient become all the enor mities of our political system; and all revolution ists, we believe, pray that Sir R. PEEL may, for his own character and honour, obstinately adhere to his own law. The hopes of the Conservatives are at present based, it appears, on the fact that our country men are a religious people. For our parts, we are not aware that an irreligious people ever existed. Men may mistake the objects of' wor ship, but worship has, and ever will have, a fast footing in the human mind. Such a general fact as that men are religious, is an equally solid foun dation for the hopes and systems of every other politician as those of the Conservatives. But the Conservatives assert that people in heriting old traditionary ideas of devotional reve rence, can never sink into servile abasement, or be dissolved in helpless anarchy. In what countries are such ideas more cherished than Italy and Spain ? Yet one of those countries is completely and servilely abased, and the other has only escaped from such abasement to plunge into revolution, and has not yet extricated itself from anarchy. That country of Europe in which old traditionary ideas of devotional reverence seem to have least hold of men's minds, and where, at the same time, the Church is one of the poorest of Christendom, is Germany, which flourishes in peace, and her people have, in a great measure, maintained their independence. It is eminently Conservative, without being en thralled by old traditionary ideas of devotional reverence. From such facts we see nothing in the respect entertained amongst us for traditionary ideas, similar to that entertained in Spain and Italy to justify any hopes that we shall escape either abasement or anarchy if our seculae legislation do not assume a new character. As well as a religious people, the English are unquestionably a money and rank-loving people, and it happens somewhat curiously that their tradi tionary ideas of devotional reverence are con tinually and strongly fortified by the great wealth and princely rank of the hierarchy. How much of the vast respect which the people profess for the Church is due to its endowments, and how much to its Christian character, would puzzle the best algebraist of the age to calculate. No metaphy sician could analyse the compound motives. We at least would not undertake to say, unless we knew all possible ramifications of family in terest and family hopes, how much of certain re cent exhibitions of exuberant zeal might spring from a reverence for religion, and how much from the homage which the bulk of men pay to such an immense reservoir of emoluments. Of one thing we are quite certain, that our people have neither respect nor reverence for poverty; and were the Church to be poor, like the Apostles, and the Apostles' divine Master, they must change their character entirely, or all reverence for the Church would disappear. Fortunately for its dignity, and for the preservation amongst us of old tradition ary ideas of devotional reverence, not only has it managed to keep together large revenues, but, with laudable diligence, it has continually in creased them. Duly sensible of the source of their power, the clergy cultivate the growth of their wealth with commendable zeal, being sure that as long as they hold some six or eight mil lions of the annual produce of industry, they may command the homage of a people who possess, with many virtues, an unbounded admiration for wealth and rank. We drew attention about a month ago to the nature of the offences for which country gentle men, arbitrarily and summarily, send the un happy and degraded peasantry—once, possibly, but not in ourrecollection, their country's pride— for two or three months to Houses of Correc tion. The Wiltshire Independent, of Thursday, supplies us with another list of the persons com mitted to the Devizes House of Correction. In it we find these, with other cases : Edward Hillier and Isaac Long, the younger, for two months each, for maliciously breaking twenty two panes of. glass in the windows of the Melksham Union Workhouse; Isaac Long, the elder, for two months, for having assaulted and beat Samuel Rutty, of Steeple Ashton ; Jacob Thursh and Alfred Davis, both of Brinkworth, and Edward Walker, of Somerford Parva, for two months each, for destroying game in the respective parishes • Jonah Merchant, for three weeks, for a breach of the game laws at West Ashton; John owell and Solomon Parfit, for two months each, for destroying game at Maiden Bradley ; George Cousins, for two months, for destroying game at Highway. To us, writing with all due respect to field sports, it seems a shocking perversion to rate the liberty of a human being at no higher value than the liberty of a partridge. For snaring a hare an immortal being is shut up in gaol. Gentlemen kill partridges and hares by the score, and the same thing which they practise as a savage amusement, is punished as a great crime in the poor, when done by them to sus tain life. There is rivalry, apparently, betwixt them. The poor desire to live, the gentry to sport; and as the latter make the laws they punish the former for sustaining life at the chance of diminishing their amusement. Yet England is described as the land of liberty, in which justice is equally meted out to all. The Jaws, too, are said to be the same for the rich and the poor , thou g h one man is honoured for killing scores of wild birds, and anot h er man is n, sent to the treatnliialnldfocrankniollt, however , a pair. Th e gentlemen of E , escape the penalties of such conduct, and they find them in being surrounded by men, of which this is one of the newest descriptions: -- I can assure the members and friends of both the Church and the aristocracy, in all earnestness and sorrow, that among the labouring population there is a deep hatred, daily growing stronger, a bitter anti pathy, expressed as often as they dare express it, against the gentry. Let no one treat this assurance lightly. A personal investigation of the cottages, the furniture, and the food of the rural labourers throughout several counties, and conversations with the families at their firesides, or in many cases at the place of the cottage where a fireside should have been, but was not, has given me sure and sorrowful proof of this hostility. * A Member of the present House of Commons hear ing that I was pursuing my inquiries into the state of agriculture, and the condition of the labourers in the south, sent an invitation to me to call on him at his country seat. I called ; went over part of the estate, and conversed with him on various matters relating to the objects I had in view. " Here," said he, " those men you see at work, are all of them as ignorant and debased as can be. They seem to have lost their self-respect, if ever they had any. In fact, we have four times more people in this and the next parish than the landowners can find em ployment for and they are starving—literally starving—many of them don't do more than two or three days' work a week, at an average through the year, and all of them are poachers and thieves. Look at this man who works with the hatchet—do you observe him, the next to the ash tree ? That n lan was, about this time last year, in a very low con dition; he had no work, and he is no hand at working —none of them are ; they have never been used to steady woPlc ; they were the nursings of the old poor-law, ansl being a surplus population, they never will be any better. That man I met again when I c.i.rne down from London this season, and he was looking much better than I had ever seen him ; there was a marked change for the better in all his appearance, and I said, 4R— how have you been getting on ? You seem improved since I saw you last.' And how do you think he accounted for it ? 'Why,' says he, smiling in my face, as if he was the happiest man in the county, your Honour, I've had three months— I've just come out of gaol." " Now," continued the gentleman, "that is just a specimen of the whole of those villagers ; some may be more discreet in their conduct ; some may live better than others ; but I am sorry to say I can see no difference. What are we to think of their condition, when the dietary of the gaol improves them ? What of their moral character, when they speak of the gaol with an air of satisfaction ?" That paragraph we borrow from " Notes from the Farming Districts," published by the Morn ing Chronicle. After reading it, we must beg pardon of the country gentlemen for our stric tures. Such it appears is the condition of their " bold peasantry—the country's pride "—that to send them to prison is to improve both their moral and physical condition. The Magistates, therefore, commit so many of her Majesty's sub jects summarily to prison every year out of mercy and kindness. At the same time it must for them be a sad thing to be surrounded by men in so deplorable a condition that -solitary impri sonment and the tread-mill, with a fair share o food, is a beneficial change. DUTCH AND HAMBURGH MAIL. HANOVER, DEC. 11.—After the marriage of the Crown Prince, his Majesty intends to visit England, as was talked of some tine ago. The only purpose of this journey is said to be to consult the celebrated physician Sir Henry Halford on his Majesty's health. He having been formerly the King's physician, and enjoying the entire confidence of his Majesty, whereas, since the death of Stieglitz, the King has no confi dence in the German physicians, and it is difficult to induce him to follow their prescriptions. The King, as is well known, would not even see Schinlein, whom the King of Prussia sent to him when he was at Dus seldorf. CASSEL, DEC. 15.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, or Regent, opened the Assembly of the Estates in a very gracious speech, in which he congratulated them on the state of the country. HAMBURGH, D Ec.lB.—Our city sustained yesterday a severe loss by the death of Dr. Aberstruth, after many years' illness. He was made Senator in 1808, land Burgomaster in 1831. His name is too closely connected with our city, and the happy effects of his public conduct are too deeply impressed in the hearts of his fellow-citizens, to forget what they owe to him. ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 11.—Count Alexander Watewsky, formerly a land proprietor in the king dom of Poland, is prohibited from ever again setting his foot in the kingdom, or in the Russian empire. In the year 1834, he obtained the Emperor's pardon and permission to return to his country. He did not, however, take advantage of the pardon granted to him, but settled in France, entered into the French service, and now thinks of returning to Russia as a French subject. Exchanges on London, Dec. 9, 371.--Journal de St. Petersbourg, Dec.:lo. HANOVER, DEC. 18.—IIis Majesty returned yes terday afternoon from the Gochorde.—Humburgh Papers, Dec. 20. C.IIE HAGUE, DEC. 17.—His Majesty King Frede rick William, Count of Nassau, arrived here yester day from Berlin. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 17.—1 t appears from the state ments that have been presented respecting the East India finances, that the surplus of the revenue for 1842, is estimated at about 3,900,000 florins. That the value of the produce sold in the Netherlands, ac cording to the latest prices, was nearly 30,80C,000 florins, that among them were sold nearly one million picols of coffee, 800,000 picols of sugar, to the amount of 500,000 florins of Java tea, and 140,000 florins tobacco ; the indigo is reckoned at nearly two millions of pounds. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 20 Money. Bills. Actual Dcht, 234 per Cent ..«.».«.»U«« 5234 524 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen t Syndic, 4% per cent 9l 94% P.tto, ditto. 254 per cent Commercial Company, 4'4 per cent... 124)6 130 Loun 1t37, 5 per cent. .. 99% 99% Exchangeon London, One m0nth......... 12 20 Two months ........ 12 15 Hamburgh, One month 35 8754 Two months ..... 35 68)6 Dutch Papers, Dec. 21. BELGIAN FUN_a—BßussELs, Dec. 21. Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per ..... 102 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ....... 93 Three pe r Cent .......... Thirty seven Millions, tt() (1541) 10.2 Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 97 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Bel g ium, Five per Cent 77 National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Lee 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 13. Five per Cents. Metalhquee 119% Four per Cent 5............. ........ ......... 100% Three per Cents Bank Shares .. . ..... •••••••••.•••••••••••••••• •••••• 1613 Augemeine - Zitung,bec. 17. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Dec. 20. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. ............ ........ 110 Bank Shares 1620 An g lo-Russian Loan lOB% 108% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certifieate lO2 X] Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 9th Series Ditto in Certificates os -- New 4 per Cent. (1840) 5714 57 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 51% 51 Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 3234 82 Spanish, New 5 per Cents. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BinDT, Dec. 19. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per cent. 102)6 112 Exchan g e on London . 8 24% Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 20 • •••,. . , k pvo v , t‘,l ~ c ~~e THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24 7 _ 1842. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Lordinges, Christmas loves good drinking Wines of Gascoigne, France, Anjou, English ale that drives out thinking, Prince of liquors old or new : In this mansion as they tell us, Christmas wassail keeps to-day ; And, az king of all good fellows, Reigns with uncontrolled sway. Anglo-Norman Carol, 15th Century. The custom of singing carols at Christmas time, which, at the time that the Roman Catholic religion held sway in this country, prevailed in every county and hamlet, has since the demolition of the monas teries in Henry the Eighth's time, gradually grown into disuse, till the few relics of the custom which at present exist, are but as stray waifs or fragments of an old and obsolete minstrelsy. The voice of chil dren which once made musical the air of Christmas, the sound of lyres, triangles, or horns, which accom panied them—the fresh and lively enjoyment which it drew forth, throwing a glow and hearty pleasantness over the associations of the time—catch the ear but seldom now, or awaken it to gratification. To what a shadow of its former self this custom has drawn, and how rarely noticed h its old observance, the following memoranda will show. Elsewhere, than in these few instances, do we nowhere find mention of this faded practice. Mr. Brand, in his popular Antiquities, says, " Lit tle boys and girls go about at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places in the North of England, some few nights before, and on the night of the eve of Christmas day, and on that day itself, knocking at the doors, and singing their Christmas Carols." Mr. Ellis, in his edition of Brand, also describing the manner in which the inhabitants of the North Riding of Yorkshire celebrate Christmas, says— " About six o'clock on Christmas-day I was awakened by a sweet singing under my window. Surprised at a visit so early and unexpected, I arose, and looking out of the window, I beheld six young women, and four young men, welcoming with sweet music the blessed morn." If, however, any one has more specially noticed this solitary example of the " lingerings of the holy day customs of former times," which " exercised a delightful spell over his imagination," it is "Washington Irving, who has thus given us his impressions of this remaining accompaniment of that season of festival. It appears in his "Sketch Book," and the scene of the narrative is in Yorkshire : " I had scarcely got into bed," he says, " when a strain of music seemed to break forth in the air just below the window. I listened, and found it proceeded from a band, which I concluded to be the waits from some neighbouring village. They went round the house, playing at one of the windows. The sounds, as receded, became more soft and aerial, and seemed to accord with quiet and moonlight. I listened and listened ; they became more and more tender and re mote ; and as they gradually died away, my head sunk upon my pillow, and I fell asleep." And on the following morning, " while I lay musing on my pillow, I heard the sound of little feet pattering out side the door, and a whispering consultation. Pre -3,3,nt1y a choir of small voices chaun:ed forth an old Christlnas carol, the burden of which was— ' Rejoice, our Saviour he was born, On Christmas-day in the morning.'" That they may be also heard sometimes in the me tropolis, and in some of the southern, counties we believe. Many of these performances, however, com mence at midnight, when the day is ushered in by the ringing of the church bells, and the performers being, in the majority of cases, the church singers. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The Senate at its sitting on the 21st inst. conferred the following Degrees : BACHELOR OF LAWS. FIRST DIVISION. Charles James Foster, il.A.—University College. SECOND DIVISION. Joseph Houston Browne--Royal Belfast Academical Institution. B. L. EXAMINATION FOIL HONOURS. Charles James Foster, M.A. (University Law Scho larship)—University College. BACHELOR OF MEDICINE. FIRST DIVISION. The Names are arranged alphabetically. Dunn, John Travis—Guy's Hospital. Ellison, James—St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Garrod, Alfred Baring—University College. Hudson, John—Leeds and University Coll. Inman, Thomas—King's College. Jenner, William, University College. Johnson, George, King's College. Langmore, John Charles —London Hospital. Letheby, Henry_Aldersgate. Pennell, John Wilson Croker—Guy's Hospital. Raper, William Augustus--University College. Russell, James—Kings College. Swayne, Joseph Griffiths — Bristol and Guy's Hospital. Williams, William Henry—University College. SECOND DIVISION. Crutch, John ,Geo Hawden, Arthur — Un iver sity College. Randall, John—Aldersgata , and 13 Hall —University College. 's Hospital. D St. artholomew's. Spackman, Frederic R o bert — Mildlesex hospital. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. The names are arrang e d in the order of proficiency. George —StUI George's . PHYSIOLOGY AND CO MPARATIVE ANATOMY. Johnson, George (Scholarship and Gold Medal) — King's College. Dunn, John Travis (Gold Medal)—Guy's Hospital. Pennell, John Wilson Croker—Guy's Hospital. University College. Willi ams , William Henry--- SURGERY. Pennell, John W. C. (Golaeclal)--Guy's Hospital. Russell, James—King's College. Swayne, Joseph Griffiths—Guy's Hospital. 5 Dunn, John Travis—Guy's Hospital. Inman, Thomas—King's College. MEDICINE. Garrod, A. B. (Gold Medal)—University College. Swayne, J. G. (Gold Medal)—Guy's Hospital. Johnson, George—King's C o ll ege . Dunn, John Travis—Guy's Hospital. Inman Thomas—King's College. Fennel , John Wilson Croker—Guy's Hospital. MIDWIFERY. - Swayne, J. G. (Gold Medal)—Guy's Hospital. DOCTOR OF MEDICINE. FIRST DIVISION. The names are arranged alphabetically. *Miller, William Allen—King's College. Paley, William—London Hospital. tQuain, Richard—University College. Unwin, David—University College. SECOND DIVISION. Purvis, Prior—St. Thomas's Hospital. EXAMINATION FOR HONOUR& MEDICINE. Quain, Richard (Gold Medal)—University College. * A certificate of Special P r ofi c iency in Medicine was awarded to Dr. Miller. t A certificate of Special Proficiency in Medicine, and a gold medal of the value of 51. for a Commentary on a a case in Medicine, were awarded to Dr. Quain. GOOD NEWS for the SWELL MOB. - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sita,---TAs Chairman of our " Free and Easy," I am directed to inform you, that our Society have this evening drank the health of Mr. Rawlinson, the Police Magistrate of Marylebone, with three times three and one cheer more, and to state that we are grateful to him for having released a principal of our body, be cause " Lady Malcolm was of advanced age, and the contents of the bag were found uninjured." I beg to inform you, we have now determined to be on the sharp look-out for old ladies with bags, and we mean to get clear off with them as often as we can ; but we are fully resolved, that should we not be sharp enough to do so, " the contents of the bag shall be found uninjured," as it will then be " all right." How much mo re lib era l i s the conduct of Mr. Raw linson than that of a county Magistrate whom I could name, who, when one of our fraternity was before him charged with felony, and a material link in the evidence bein g wanted (the party was, from sickness , unable to appe ar b e f ore him), said to the constable, ‘ the prisoner to the House of ( ‘ th re ew m it a n nd witness required), where I will attend and take the . evidence." And he did so, at considerable incon venience to hi mse lf , and committed our respected brother for trial, and now he has left his native coun try for life! Oh, Sir, if he had but been taken be fore Mr. Ra w li nson, he m i g ht n ow have been joining in our merry -making. If Mr. R. had said , in the present case, "A s L a d y M a l co lm is not well enough to attend before me , after office hours, I will proceed to her reside nce and I remand the prisoner to be brought before me at such place," who knows but that very shortly after the next sessions at the Criminal Court, our swell brother might be proceeding on his voyage to join our t rans ported pal ? But as it is, we fully anticipate he will be enabled, by industry, to continue to dress "in the extreme of fashion." When Sergeant Williams said our brother was " well known as being a principal among the swell mob for the last three years," we did not think Mr. R awlinson would have let him o ff so ea sily, especially when it was stated that Lady M a l co lm was able to travel by the railway, and also ride in a " Brougham." Major Malcolm must' think Mr. Rawlinson as easy to get over as a Chinaman in battle. When our brother heard Major Malcolm's name, he thoughthefr had caught a Tartar.—Yours, &c., From Head-quarters, Dec. " I live in Julia's eyes," said an affected dandy in Colman's hearing. " I don't wonder at it," replied George, " since I observed she had a sty in them when I last saw her." Three men were lately residing at Coate, near De vizes, who, amongst them, had been married no less than eleven times. Devizes Gazette. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out in the Home Park this afternoon. The Hon. Misses Lister and Liddell have succeeded the Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Frances Devereux as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. Lord Glenlyon arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. _ _ The Hon. C. A. Murray has returned from his visit to the Earl of Hardwicke. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Iloward, and Sir George and Lady Couper, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. The Royal dinner party is also expected to include the Lady in Waiting, Hon. Misses Lister and Liddell, Earl of Liverpool, Lord Glenlyon, Marquis of Ormonde, Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell, and the Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty's private band, and the band of the Life Guards,:will be in attendance at the Castle during the evening. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Glou cester House. General Sancho the Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Ripon has left the seat of Sir Robert Peel, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, for the residence of Mr. Newdigate, near Coventry. The Noble Earl was expected to take his departure yesterday on his return to Leamington. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, returned to town on Thursday from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Trentham, in Staffordshire. The French Ambassador and the Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The remains of the late Countess of Denbigh were removed last evening from the town residence in Eaton-place, the carriages of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, and of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, following in the procession. PROMISSORY NOTES. (From Last Night's Gazette.) Notes payable to bea r l e v r era " An account of the tion in the United King d om,aggregate amount of Promissory a demand, which have been in circula- Banks, in England and i'Veles, 'Levi:l:n:2. v d a istinguishing those circulated by o i l n he th r e Bank nl o f England, during the Bank of England, 1 Banksad h in y S .J e o n in tl t an S d t , o h ck y l in er ,Irlemla2n,dp, pursuant n o t f t t h h e e A B v an er k ag o e f l A re m la n n u d n , t a n n f a ß b n y il a in u n the four weeks ending the 10th day of December, to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. ENGLAND. Bank of England £ 18,841,000 Private Banks 5,085,885 Joint Stock Banks ....... 3,001,590 SCOTLAND. Chartered and Private Joint Stock Banks 3,091,223 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland Private and Joint Stock Banks... Total Bullion in the Bank of England • £10,511,000 HENRY L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, Dec. 23, 1842. COMING ON or INSANITY.—The management of the early stage of insanity requires on the part of the physician great delicacy, discrimination, and judgment. Under these circumstances, where the brain is in an irritable condition, and the mind is struggling between sanity and insanity, the person being conscious that his " wits" are beginning "to turn," the medical attendant should proceed cautiously in his examination. If the patient is led to believe, from the conduct of the physician, or from anything which falls from him, that derangement of mind is suspected, the most painful and disastrous conse quences may ensue. In the early stage of insanity the patient's suspicions are morbidly excited. He has a dread of " going mad," expresses a horror of stwh a calamity, and often most positively refuses to allow himself to be questioned on the subject of his health. Should the patient believe that he is suspected to be deranged, he will sometimes exhibit great violence and excitement, and denounce his friends and family, charging them with a conspiracy aguinst his life and liberty.—F. Winslow's " Health of Body and Mind." • The immense number of 478 rats was killed from one rick at Inglesham, near Farringdon, on a farm in the occupation of Mr. J. Nash.—.Devizes Gazette. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. -24. • THERMOMETER, Lowest. 33 ; Highest, 49 : Noon, 40. I BAROMETER, 29.75.-WIND, W. - 111 g 44 . *at *erontilZitittion SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. We see with much regret that two extensive failures, one of a bank, with numerous branches, have taken place in Yorkshire, which will neces sarily involve other failures, and add to the want of confidence, and to the distress in the commer cial world, which already prevail. The particu lars of these Occurrences, as tar as they are known, will be found in another part of The Sun. In the absence of all information concerning - the cause of the bank failure, it would be folly to make any remarks on the lamentable event; but there can be no doubt that the unexpected and large foil in the price of corn is the cause of the failure of the Messrs. DUNN. The mischi e f ot . such a fall, for which no person was or could be prepared, as the law which is supposed to regulate price and is'. passed to keep it high re mains in existence almost unaltered, is much greater, we believe, than any mischief which could be produced by abolishing the law, which would at once put persons on their guard, and prevent any great fall, by the stimulus it would give to enterprise. Another lesson is taught by the several important failures of the corn importers. If the fall of ws. a quarter has ruinedthem out and out, it is quite clear that all apprehension of prices being beaten down here by a vast foreign importation must be wholly unfounded. Such a fall ruins the importers, and would stop im portation. It remains now with th 3 public to decide how long the fortunes of the middle classes—the lives of the lower classes are, unfor tunately, considered by our lawmakers to be of no importance whatever—are to be the sport of laws, which, being most ignorantly designed to secure stability of price, cause in reality the most dreadful fluctuations. The monuments about to be erected to the memory °tithe Scottish Reformers of 1793, and the very general tribute paid to them for the principles they advocated, form a noble contrast to the bigotry and persecution which distin guished the agein which they lived. They were charged with exciting, by means of seditious speeches and harangues, a spirit of disloyalty and disaffection to the KING and the established Go vernment, and also of publishing seditious and inflammatory writings for the same purpose. That was the sum of their offences, even according to their accusers; and for this they were reviled in Government prints, tried for sedition, brow-beaten by the Judges, and finally condemned to exile, :from which only one returned to his native country. But the real offence was for attempting to de stroy the overgrown power of the aristocracy, and to obtain a more equal representation of the people in Parliament. The Tories of that day, and especially the. Tories of Scotland, which was one great rotten borough, saw that such a result would be the downfal of their party, that. the right of returning Members of Parliament, and the privilege of granting and obtaining places andpensions would be taken away, and, like men fighting for their existence, they stopped at no thing to crush the daring intruders. The same attempt was made in England, but, thanks to the independent and upright spirit of English Juries, to the sympathy of the English public, and to the skill of the Counsel employed, the English Bench escaped that disgrace which now, almost by general consent, attaches to the High Court of Justiciary. Theiepersecutors, not con tent with reviling their political opinions, stirred up religious prejudices by describing them as Deists or Atheists, whose object was not , only to overturn the Constitution, but to deprive mankind of the consolations of reli gion and the hopes of immortality. The beau tiful and affecting letter of Muma, which we published yesterday showed how cruelly he and his party had been maligned. No man perhaps was ever more thoroughly imbued with the purest feelings, of Christianity than the unfortu nate writer ; and he was not the man, therefore, who, for a temporary blessing, however great, would associate himself with infidels and rebels. The truths of Christianity formed at last his only relief in the midst of such unmerited sufferings Let his revilers of the present day, few as they are, read this sentence, and blush for persecuting this excellent Christian even beyond the grave. "In solitary exile," said he, " there is a dignity, there is a conscious pride, , which, even independent of philosophy, may support the mind; but I question much if any of the illustrious of ancient ages could have sup ported an exile equal to mine, surrounded by the very outcasts of society, without the aid of reli gion and the example of JESUS." Yet a man entertaining such sentiments, and striving, like every good patriot, for the freedom of his country, wascondemned asa malefactor. Time, however, has done justice to his memory. The Town Council of that city in which the tragic scene occurred, have voted a public site for a monument to these Reformers, and one of the largest parishes in London has performed the same sacred duty. This tribute has come too late for the unfortunate victims; but it marks the spirit of the age, and may serve as a warning to persecutors of the present day. Accounts have been received from Madrid to the 15th, and from Barcelona to the 16th inst. The Patriota of Madrid states that the nego tiation relative to the quicksilver contract had been broken off, and adds—" We are sure that they will be disposed of to the greatest possible advantage, and we are happy to have it in our power to assure that the Minister of Finance, as well as the Cabinet, has resolved to adjudicate them by public auction, and to demand for that purpose the approbation of the Cortes, without which no decision shall be come to." The same journal announces that the Spanish Consul at Perpignan has been dismissed by the Govern ment for having granted passports which he ought to have refused. It is stated in another Madrid journal, that M. OLIVERAS has been arrested for having given to Colonel PRIM, one of the deputies of Catalonia, a passport, which he obtained by saying that he was going abroad. The Constitucional of Barcelona complains in strong terms of the decrees of the forced con tributions of twelve millions of reals and for the rebuilding of the citadel, and mentions a report that the -Ayuntamiento had presented to the Captain-General a protest against the forced contribution, as being contrary to the Constitution. VAN HALEN is said to have replied, that Bar celona being in a state of siege, the order could not be set aside by any representation of this description. According to advices from Girona of the 12th, a band of fifty or sixty armed men arrived on the previous night at Osor, and marched off in the morning towards the mountains. It was not known by whom they were commanded. Gene ral ZURBANO entered Girona on the 12th, with four battalions of the regiments of Africa and America. The Three per Cents. wore done at 211 15-16, at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 26, for cash, and 261 5-16 at 60 days ; and the titles of the Foreign Converted Debt, at 181, on the 14th and 15th of January next, with four coupons. The accounts from Paris respecting the mis understanding between France and Spain are more favourable, and lead to the belief that affairs will be settled without any serious quarrel. The Funds, however, still continued depressed. Rumours prevailed both at Madrid and Paris that M. GUTTIEREZ, the political chief at Bar celona', was to be dismissed; a result, says a Ministerial paper, whiclyaill put an end to all differences. This is giEvtfying, coming from such a quarter. The totln6f the Constitutionnel is equally pacific. " We do not wish (says that journal) to dissemble from our readers the real character of late events, but notwithstanding what is said in The Sun, we do not consider war to be inevitable, or even probable. For there are in Europe so many interests which are in volved in the preservation of peace, there is so little inclination on the part of the Governments for having recourse to war, that a hostile colli sion can be desired by no one, and would be equally fatal to all. The difficulties which have arisen between France and Spain are doubtless grave, but when reason resumes its sovereignty, when the passions become calmer, when the truth shall be clearly developed, it will be easy to discover that there exist not any reasonable grounds for rupture between the two countries, and that in corning to a quarrel we should only be serving the interests of England." The Presse, in reference to the misunderstand ing between the Court of Russia and the Porte, respecting the affairs of Servia, makes the tbl lowing remarks : The question of the principalities of the Danube takes every clay new importance. We mentioned that an autograph letter from the Emperor Nicholas had been addressed to the Sultan, protesting against the revolution in Servia and against the deposition of ' Prince Michael, sanctioned by the Porte. To-day the Gazette cl'Augsburg confirms this news, and adds some curious details. According to this journal the Czar's protest has thrown the Divan into consterna tion. Nevertheless, after a stormy discussion, the Divan decided that the order of things newly esta blished in Servia shall be maintained in spite of the demands of Russia. Thereupon M. de Boutenieff, Envoy Extraordinary of the Emperor, declared that if the Porte persisted, he had received orders to demand his passport, and quit Constantinople. This time it is decided that an appeal shall be made to all the Powers against the exactions of the Russian Cabinet. But the Ambassadors of France and England seem to have been taken by surprise by this incident. They replied to the Turkish Ministers that they would write for instructions from their re spective Governments. Meanwhile, M. de Boutenieff proudly maintains his ultimatum. Such are the facts. They indicate, apparently, a tendency of the Turkish Government to shake off the Russian yoke, and a wish to associate the European powers in a resistance which it seems to aim at. In this respect the facts would be important; they would show the symptoms of a new line of policy in the East. But we cannot easily accept this signification. We suspect that, under these noisy demonstrations, there lies a snare in which the diplomatists of France, England, and Austria will be again caught, if they do not keep a sharp look out. In spite of ourselves, we cannot be lieve that the events which have taken place in Servia can have seriously caused a quarrel between 'the cabi nets of Constantinople and St. Petersburgh. It appears certain in our eyes that Russia was in the confidence of Turkey, when the latter sent emissa ries to Belgrade to provoke the movement. Nego tiations were going on at the same time for the dis missal of Prince Ghika. Both were movements of the same policy. Russia affects anger at Constan tinople, in order to deceive the Powers, while a secret arrangement is made with. Turkey to sanction the sacrifice of Prince Michael. And Turkey, requests the envoys of the other Powers for support against Russian anger, and for the protection of an arrange ment which Russia, though she openly attacks all the time, covertly desires. The comedy is well acted. " Private letters have been received," says the Jlfoniteur Parisien, " from the Marquesas, of a later date than the dispatches of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS. The occupation was pro ceeding rapidly, and to the entire satisfaction of the natives. The establishments mentioned in the Admiral's Report are actively developing themselves ; 3,000 bricks were made daily, and a kiln was constructed for baking 5,000 at once, and lime also was made. The live stock brought by the Admiral had been considerably aug mented by imports from Chili." The Commerce in reference to the orders of ESPARTERO to repair the citadel of Barcelona, takes an opportunity of attacking the KING and NI. TRIERS for planning the fortifications of Paris :—" We recommend," says that journal, " to the attention of our readers the order given by the REGENT of Spain for the immediate re construction of the citadel of Barcelona. If the bombarding of the city was not a sufficient notice to the Parisians and those men fatally credulous who have voted for the fortifications of Paris, the language of ESPARTERO ought to deprive them of their last illusion: At Barcelona and at Paris the two Governments proceed in the same man lier, as if one copied the example of the other. If M. TRIERS' dictatorial ordinance was uncon stitutional, ESPARTERO 9 S decree is still more so. What right had the Executive Power in Spain to raise taxes without the sanction of the Cham bers ? Does the REGENT comprise in his own person all powers, legislative, executive, and judicial ? This is dictatorship substituted for the Constitution. The idea is monstrous. In fine, the evil is great, but it would not be without a remedy if all the well-intentioned men who were led away by M. TRIERS would acknowledge their errors arid unite with public opinion in ar resting the progress of the most formidable enter prise ever undertaken against the liberty and power of a nation." BOURSE-I'Am, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. First Highest '..owest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 65... 118 90... 118 65... 118 90 414 per Cents. 106 50... 106 50.. 106 50... 106 50 Threes .. 78 40... 78 60... 78 40.. 78 60 Bank of France 3302 50...3302 50...3302 50...3302 50 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 ..1050 ...1050 ...1050 5,000f...5080 ...5080 ...5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives .... . 1840.... 104 ... 104 ... 104 104 Threes ... 72 75... 72 7 5... 72 75... 72 75 Spanish Act ive. . 231 ... 23 ... 23 231 Passive ...... 4 ... 4 ... 4 ... 4 Dutch 2i per Cents... 54 ... 54 ... 54 ... 54 Portuguese Fives 32 ... 324 ... 324 ... 32i Neapolitan ..... 106 25... 106 40... 106 25... 106 40 Roman ..... 104 i ... 104 i ... 104 j(gi RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, L.B lO7 50... 107 50... 113 75 R.B 275 ... 275 ... 275 ... 275 Rouen - 640 ... 642 50 Orleans. 620 -,... ... 622 50. 622 60 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50 We have received information from a quarter on which we can entirely rely, that it is not the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose any alteration in the Corn-laws. The anxiety of the public during the last week to learn the policy of the Government renders this information of peculiar interest and im portance. We may be permitted to add, that no such intention has at any time existed on the part of Minis ters since the close of the last session of Parliament.— British Queen. We understand that Sir John Pirie, though solicited, refused to act upon the Committee of Inquiry into the management of the British American Association. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) COURSING. NORTHLEACH MEETING.—The Northleach Cup was won by Mr. F. Herbert's Fly ; the Farmington Stakes by Mr. Lawrence's Lovely ; and the New Barn Stakes by Mr. Agg's Agility. ALNWICR NEETING.—The Prize was won by Mr. Dand's Tomboy beating Mr. Haggup's Lady Prudhoe. ANNAN MEETING, DEC. 16 AND 17.—The Queens bery Stakes (16 dogs), were won by Mr. G. Ramshay's Lady Gray, and the Douglas Stakes by Mr. Thomson's Teddy. CHAVANAGE (BRISTOL) MEETING, DEC. 16.--The All-aged Stakes were won by Mr. Pring's Burgundy, and the Puppy Stakes by Mr. Melis's Merlin. WORKINGTON MEETING.—The Cup (24 dogs) was won by Mr. Postlethwaite's Ben Brace. HORNBY MEETING.—The Sweepstakes were won by Mr. Maxwell's Swift. MULGRAVE MEETING, DEC. 19.—The Cup (16 dogs) was won by Lord Normanby's Dr. Syntax; his Lordship's Fly ran up. WEAVERTHORPE, DEC. 21.—The All-aged Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Fowler's Phaon, Mr. Jeph son's Brenna running up • ' the Puppy Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Fowler's Prince. BRICWORTH STEEPLE CHASE, DEC. 22. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 50 added, 11st 101 b each; four miles. Ekins' Duenna, llst 101 b (Frisby) 1 Mr. Elmore's Lottery, 12st 10Ib Mr. Langham's Buffoon, llst 101 b 3 Won easy. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. DERBY.-25 to 1 agst Aristides (0-50 to 1 agst Sir Valentine (0-1,000 to 15 agst Everton (0-1,000 to 15 agst Lucetta c (0-1,000 to 15 agst Clara c (t)- 1,000 to 15 Jamal (t)-1,000 to 15 agst Humbug (t). FILIAL PIETY. — In the Insolvent Debtcrs' Court, at Cork, last week, Andrew Coughlan, a very old and infirm man, applied for his discharge. One Michael Coughlan was sworn, and deposed that he had arrested the insolvent and brought him to Cork. The Corn missioner—What relation are you to the insolvent ? Witness—He is my father. And did you arrest your own father ?—I did, when I was paid for it.—The witness retired amid a m urmer o f execrat i on. The insolvent was discharged.—Dublin Journal. TORQUAY. — The veteran Reformer, Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, &c., arrived here for the winter on Saturday last.— Western Times. SiI' ,7 II4ARY OF NEWS ANI) ribltir tO it. ►Vho runs may read.' POREIGAT. On Tuesday evening their Majesties, the King and Queen of the French, received the Prince de Ligne, Ambassador from the Court of Belgium, the Chan cellor of France, M. de Humboldt, and the Envoy of the Pacha of Egypt. Satisfactory accounts have been received from Al geria. The Governor-General remained in the Lower Scheliff, with his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale, taking advantage of the magnificent weather with which he has been favoured for the last three weeks. He is pursuing the course of his operations against the hostile tribes. Considerable excitement prevailed at Barcelona on the 16th, in consequence of the recent decrees issued by the Regent. The Ayuntamiento having drawn all a protest against the levying of the contribution of 12,000,000 of reals, as nontrary to the Constitution, the Captain-General replied that Barcelona being in 3 state of siege, he could not receive any representation from the civil authorities. The Cologne Gazette states from Vienna, t h a t the b projected convention between Austria and Saxony, fo r the construction of a railroad from Prague to Dresden, has been concluded. A Madrid journal mentions the discovery of a coal mine in the:province of Guadalajara, fourteen leagues from Madrid. MONEY- TRADE-C 01VIIVIEXCE. An Anti-Corn-law festival took place at Coalbrooa dale on Wednesday last, when from 300 to 400 per, sons were present, among whom were many ladie s ' R. R. Moore, Esq. delivered an eloquent speech. PUBLIC IMPROVEIVEVNT S. A number of National schools are in course eree. a tion in Bethnal-green parish, and a large buildiPg for the education of 500 children at Stepney. ECCLESIASTICAL. There are at present 300 candidates for Church pre ferment on the Government books in Ireland' LAW AND POLICE. s l3 rich' The rule-book in the office of the Quee n tn e the Dublin, has had stamps ex t r a c t e d from '" amount of 7001.: the parties are yet undisc overed. Robert Edwards, a private in the 6th Foot/ WA charged at Union-hall with stealing 0 , gold vol, value 50 guineas, and other articles of Mary Allen as an acc om plice is the robbery, 'the prisoners were remanded till Lieutenant Su llivan ' party robbed, can appear. jewellery; - - CCEITYLT-7PAS.7IIOI I MBI JO. 1 The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield their plan for passing the winter at Rome ; they P hs l 7 teed direct to Naples, and remain abroad six, or nt ves . The Hon. Sydney Herbert left the Adroirs'yra. terday on a visit to the Dowager Countess of e broke at Wilton House Salisbury. Xes' Mr. Charles and the 'Misses Grenfell left tow • terday for St. Leonard's. t the Mr. Parnther has returned to Grafton-stxee- f season. in•rays - The Earl and Countess of Sefton left 13 .. ,e'5 .- ses . have alter e d square on Thursday last for St. Leonard's -on -lug- f e w The Earl of Clanwilliam left Belgrave-square a days since for Somersetshire. The Earl and Countess of Mexborough. ,wl, 0 l ante' no g tain a party at Mithlay Hall, Yorkshire, in •i week. . _ —... !MISCELLANEOUS. e b Handers oratorio of the Messiah was Perf °rlll d vester the Sacred Harmonic Society at Exeter-hall day evening. Miss Towers, a pupil of Sir G ' -dSrli r , tr i ar o t : made her debut on the occasion : her voice is a s t n iy Messrs. Bloor, of Old Bond•street , have rec 7 t ii completed an elegant dinner-service of Derby h ware for her Majesty. was $ The father of Haydn, the great M USiCiark' wheelwright in a se ques t ere d village, an d or t° the village church. ...,... LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DA:" DEC. fiop e vs 2, e 4 1 . 1 —, Vkri 24.—Wind Harrison, d Quebe c. e h b t e LONDON, ca.irs‘illinne. Demerara; OFF MA RGATE, W ., g .., DEC. 23.—Superior, Da.OßternerY' RAMSGATE, DBC. 23.—Arrd. Hiram, SElle''''' for On' Pernambuco ; Caroline Arnold, Hamburg'', for vannah ; Armenius, do., for Port au Prince. „, : y vtr ' . .L DEAL, DEC. 23, . A, f ' t S.W . , F. id ., lir.V" . Mont moderate. —Arra " Jamaica, Ceylo n ; Toronto real ; Herald, Belfast, out six weeks ; Mary lla tba* fur Shields, for Suez. Arrd. from the River, 6t)rge' Cape of Good Hope ; Franklin, Rio Janeiro; Gra. ham, Sierra Leone ; Eliza, St. Vincent. ri . r e- DOVER, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Felicia, Hallman -- ' men, West Indies. a nd a SWANSEA, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Sarah, Maria' - Ann, Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind N. N. Nir. ;,„ t °; W.S.W.—Arrd. Anne Laing , London , f o r Jatna' -- Dianay London,.for Berbice; Sna ' , kbolra , p opts Stoc for New York. Arrd. off, Scotia, P Rotterdam, for New Orleans. Co WES, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Great Northern (steamer) Londonderry, for London, t o repair engine ll° .• has Ark, Flanders, from Richmond damage , to Portsmouth, come into the harbour with con siderable having been struck by a sea in lat . 46, long. 30, to and must discharge. Th e Urania, from St. Croix Flushi • ng , has come into the harbour to discharges being leaky, and decks s wept, having exPerience heavy gale. rd• LIVERrooL,DEc.23.—WindW N.W.,fresh.--A,r Cumberland, Power, Maranham, le ft 16th ult.; __,, eti ' Delano, New Orleans, sailed 24th ult. ; NiagaT, Cole, ditto ; Europe, Furber,_ New York; MP': Quebec. Arrd. off, Magnet, Quebee i 14 ° 81°4 n ed The Montrose, hence to New Orleans was abode . _ 17th ult., in lat. 50, ion. 17, with eight feet w ater l i t " , the hold, crew saved, and arrived here in the Ara l- KINGSTON, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Energy, Quer n doa CORK, Dxc. 21. Arrd. Wm. Delaney, 14° se . ; for the River Gambia, with loss of bulwarks', log Terpsichore, Waterford, for Newfoundland, wit' of sails, &c. CARDIGAN.—Arrd. Triton , Rees, Quebeclo Dila, OFF LEITH, DEC. 21.-- Gilmour, Drymme' housie. NEWPORT, DEC. 22.—S1d. Era, Pernam btle%eslop, PWLIIIELI, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Hannah' Ptrn Quebec, with loss of roundhouse, galley. boa t ' ' Q " ... e be€l FOWEY, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Royal Adelaide, a leaky, with loss of bulwarks, &c. G'— I .,ovit MILFORD, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Monkey' ` Jamaica. Silat uil TYNEMOUTIJ, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Jane and and Friendship, Newfoundland. Lau rie, FaustouTH, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Telegraph' Rio Janeiro, sailed Oct. 29. ti . new ell, DEAL, DEC. 20 TO 22.—Arrd. Hercules' '-` ° r l as ; and Lord Oakley, Quebec Harriet,gondo . ; e hoi e, Oscar, Aftrica; Symmetry, Richibuctoi la s Peiroi Hull for Mobile ; Norden, Stockholm for Rio Jal r l don ; Wilhelmina, Catharina, Tigilatjah, for Ar aste Ann, Falcon, St. Thomas, for Hamburgb• Be v e r for OFF DOVER, DEC. 21.—Ospey, Jam es, Dunkirk. 41 ,.,,,dcbi• GRIMSBY ROADS, DEC. 21.—Carlton, 3 , -..- -- , 1 'to YouGHAL, DEc. 20.—The Ellen, from Live,rr-but Cork, struck inside the Olack Rock yesterday, was assisted off, and into the harbour. .... RAILWAY RETIJIti v,- „„ re' • the su — • io We extract from the Railway Ma ozone t Orl l s_, l C Greg, fee ceived on the principal Railways 0. ntl l 11 — for tor the week ending on the day of the er." ~.„,i f eci ... to each. The return includes the money I. `" an d Me. passengers, ger! L parcels, carriages, horse s, mails, chandize Tota l ' j. Week Miles 4 . is. 0 ended Name of Railway. op e ned. 091 13 4 Dec.l7 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 .I_oo 17 ' 16 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 '-- 9 2 6 Brandling Junction 25 3 19 la 17 Chester and Birkenhead ...• l5 187 4 18 Dundee and Arbroath ... • i , 17 Edinburgh and Glasgow ~ 18 Eastern Counties 17 Glasgow and Ayr 40 570 1 ,2, 1 0 17 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 22k 6, 949 1 7 4 17 GrandJunct., Chester&Crewe 113 1 0 256 r. I I 17 Great North of England 15 Great Western - Hayle lB 17 Hull and Selby Lancaster & Preston Junction 201 3,655 14 4 18 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 1 3,857 2 4 17 London and Birmingham ll2l 51 9 7 22 London and Blackwell ...... 17 London and Brightea .. 46 , ••••• 1 0 Ditto Shoreham Branch .••••• 51 215 19 11 31 20 London and Croydon lOl d o , 22 London and Greenwich 4 ,453 1 5 , 5 18 London and South Western ..• 93 576 : 7 16 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 2 ,04 i'„ 1 1 17 Manchester & Birmingham 17 Manchester and Leeds 17 Midland Counties .. 17 Newcastle and Carlisle ...... 15 Newcastle and North Shields 7 1, 0 249 9 , 1 • 18 Northern and Eastern . . 17 North Midland 16 North Union • 215 17 Preston and Wyre l9l 7 s 5 17 Sheffield and Manchester...... 1 1, 527 0 d 22 South Eastern 17 Taff Vale 18 Ulster 24 , A o 17 York and North Midland 2B ' ''' ' BO O 9 10 —,--------- ira er ' S ---------- At Wells, near Ling, where the staff of a r e g por t of hussars is stationed, two soldi ers who were s' e oi cising with their comrades fell down, alldrter 0 them having shown some clumsiness, the 7: 4 ,, e c 0 0 ; command (the Chevalier de L—) had , fiftY s':l 3 et" flicted upon him. When the punishment was at 7-blol' the man went up to the officer and struck hirn 11, b iro , The officer instantly drew his sword At this moment there was a general m urmur t h ,ene' in so I, an d killea ro dll the ranks, and the exasperation having h 6 'e °-- e a 0 4) ral, four of the soldiers fell upon the officer, an zette . their sabres cut him in pieces.—Leipsic Ga