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Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., CII A. R, LE S II A It C 0 U R T , Or, the ADVENTURES of a LEGATEE. A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, Rew Burlington-street. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c. Now randy, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE JACK O'LANTERN (LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea. By J. FENI3IORE COOPER, Esq. Riehard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. CIELF-DEVOTION AY or, the HISTORY of KATHARINE RANDOM By the Authoress of " The Only Daught er ." EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN. " A tale of rare merit and engrossing interest. The cha racter of Katherine Randolph is as admirable as any which has ever found its way into a work of fiction.—Literary Gazette. " A more beautiful tale of domestic life has not appeared for many a long day."—Morning Pest. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. THE NAVAL CLU B; By M. H. BARKER, Esq. (The " Old Sailor"), Author of " Tough Yarns," &c. "We give a hearty welcome to our old friend, The Old Sailor,' whose yarns are excellent, and the very essence of nautical writing. No writer living is more at home, or more genuine on the sea than Mr. Barker."—Literary Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. small Bvo., with Portraits, 21s. bound, MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENS OF FRANCE, By Mrs. FORBES BUSH. ‘• This charming work comprises a separate Memoir of every Queen of France from the earliest of her annals to the fall of Napoleon. A very slight knowledge of French history in the reader will assure him that the memoirs of the French Queens present features of extraordinary interest. We have only to mention the names of Mary of Anjeu, Anne of Brittany, Mary of England, Mary Stuart, Mary Leckzinski, and Marie Antoi nette, to bring up a host of the most pleasing historical associa tions, while others, such as Margaret de Valois, Mary de Me dicis, Anne of Austria, and Catherine de Medicis afford no less striking pictures of the times in which they flourished. With the Memoirs of the Queens of France the author has introduced notices of the royal favourites, who were not unfrequently of much greater influence in the State than the Contemporary Queen's Consort—an allusion to Diana of Poitiers, Agnes So relle, Gabrielle d'Estrees, the Marchionesses de Al on tespan and de Pompadour, the Duchess de la Valliere, and Madame de Main tenon, makes this immediately manifest. Mrs. Bush's work cannot fail of being a desirable acquisition to every library in the kingdom. "—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION o f 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, £BOO, £l,OOO, £1.500, £7),000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to .x:72,170 sterling. DireCt for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH• OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. ifEINE 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 ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/., 7001., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire; 60W. to Cork; 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 15,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 1/. and upward... One Share, 1/. ; two Shares, 21. ; three Shares, 31.; four Shares, 4/. ; five Shales, Si. ; six Shares, 61.; seven Shares, 71.; eight Shares, 81. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 10/. at L Dubeck. irect for Shares, without delay, t o HEINE BROTHERS, The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE N. --- THIS EVENING. DEC. 7, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. • Alonso, Mr. Cooper; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; P ros p ero , M r . Yandenh o ff ; A n t on i o, Mr. J.Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff; Ariel, I%liss Rainforth. To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Alphonso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; Fenella, Miss Bailin. masses in both countries, which makes them there, as here, remonstrate against fiscal regula tions to promote the prosperity of one class at the expense of other classes. At the same time they draw a tolerably correct picture of the un happy condition of Great Britain, and refer to one class being kept subordinate to other classes by a large standing army ; they show that ours is the model Government which the advocates of the restrictive system follow in the United States; and that our legislative example is the great evil against which they have to guard their country. It is humiliating to have England de scribed as infecting other communities with a gre:tp olitical disease, and it is encouraging to know that we shall there find numerous friends who will help us to cure ourselves. A slight attempt has been made to throw ridi cule on what the democrats say on "an assumed hostility" between capital and labour ; but no sneers ought or can now conceal the fact that such an hostility actually exists, and is loudly proclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. It is unwise to deny this hostility, and better were it to acknowledge it, to seek out its origin, and, if it cannot be subdued, at least to be very careful not to aggravate it by unthinking legislation. Considering capital as hoarded labour, as skil- ful and ingenious machines made by labo ur , and used by labour, it is undoubtedly erroneous to suppose that there ever can be any hostility be tween industry and its best products. In that sense capital is only labour's helpmate. It subsists labour, while toiling to produce more, and lightens its exertions. But that is not the sense in which the word capital is used both in England and the United States. Here and there, when used by labourers, it means capitalists—the owners of capital, not capital itself; it means the power of one man, or one peculiar class over another, and in that sense the New York working men are not wrong in affirming that the history of the world is but the history of a struggle for capital or power. In the early stages of society the struggle was carried on by the sword in order to get possession of the soil, and reduce some classes to a state of slavery. In every part of the world some one class or tribe succeeded, and some other class or tribe was enslaved. The former acquired a monopoly of the soil, and the latter became dependent on them. They were only allowed to have as much of the bread they produced as barely sufficed for their existence. Out of that condition of the labouring classes has sprung their present condition; and as capitalists now, in the great majority of cases, set labourers to work, and are the middle men between them and the mo nopolists of the soil, and between them and the Government, they receive a large share of the traditional hostility which the enslaved class has always felt for the enslavers. That is the theory of the proclaimed hostility between capitalists and labourers in both hemis pheres and now that the latter class are every where becoming aware of all the peculiarities in their condition, and of the causes of those pecu liarities, it seems to us neither safe nor wise to treat this hostility as a light or assumed matter, and to run the risk of increasing it by laws con ferring additional or exclusive privileges on any class of capitalists. That hostility pervades society ; it is at present an element of its exist- ence, and foreseeing lawgivers will take it se riously into their consideration, and provide, if they can, for its gradual extinction, so that mas ters and workmen, who are indispensable to one another, may work and live together in peace and brotherhood. It is a fact little thought of probably, even by those whose whose conduct the principle which it indicates ought to govern, that at this moment, and every day of the year, persons are employed in China, in the West Indies, in the United States, in Poland, in France, and in other places, preparing the materials for the daily meals of the people of England. Our breakfast is partly pro vided by the Chinese and the West Indians. America contributes flour, cheese, and meat to the sustenance of the people. Poland, too, helps to supply them with bread. No dinner of the opulent classes is complete without French wines. For us to have those commodities, men of whose existence we know nothing whatever must now be labouring, and must labour daily. Who cultivates and gathers our tea ? who brings it to Canton? Nobody in England knows. We know that there is a great extent of land called China; we know something of its :govern ment, and of the appearance of its people but of the actual cultivators of the tea-plant, we have never, perhaps, seen one, and we know very little more of them than we know of the inhabitants of the moon. Yet on the labours of several ge nerations of these unknown men have many of the English been dependent for comfort, for exhilaration, and for food. What do we know either of the actual cultivators of the vineyards of France, or of the fields of Poland, or of the United States? Absolutely nothing. Of course knowing nothing of them, and they living far beyond the reach of our laws, our Government has not the smallest direct influence or control over their exertions ; but, were they discontinued, great indeed would be the destruction of coin fort, of subsistence, and of life in England? It is another, and a reciprocal fact, that at the same time the spinners of Manchester and Leeds, the weavers of Paisley and Glasgow, the grinders of Sheffield, and the iron-founders of Wales, of whose existence the inhabitants of China, of the West Indies, of the United States, of France, and of Poland, are as ignorant as we are of the existence of the men whose labours supply our wants, are labouring daily and suc cessfully to supply the ~rants of those distant and unknown people. Over the labours of our people, the respective Governments of China, of the United States, of France, or of Russia, have not the smallest direct influence, and, at the same time, the subsistence of no inconsiderable number of their subjects depends on the market for their produce which is found in the produc tions of the skilful labourers of the manufactur ing towns of England. Such facts, though familiar to all the inqui rers into the subject of national wealth, ought to be continually impressed on the minds of our Members of Parliament. It requires no second observation to prove that the reciprocal industries we have alluded to, and all the immense ma ss of employment in trade of which they are the foundation, are of almost infinite importance compared to the results of all the labours of statesmen. For several generations a large part of the subsistence of every trading society has been dependent on the labours of men over whom the rulers of each society have not had the smallest direct control. Without the inter ference of the statesmen of England, the quantity of tea required from China has always been ob tained, and the regularity of the supply, increas ing with our demand, has far surpassed the re gularity with which the supply of equity has kept pace with the demand. A Member of Parliament will on no account trust the subsis tence of the people to the natural and certain operations of trade; but here is a case in which he is obliged to trust, and has trusted for ages, the subsistence of all those who have been en gaged in the China trade, who have subsisted by selling tea, or by manufacturing the articles with which it has been bought, to the labours of un known men in a distant part of the globe. It is very likely that our intruding statesmen never knew, or never reflected, on the class of facts we have adverted to. Had we never done so it would have been no reproach to us. It is no part exactly of our duty. It is no part of the duty of any man in the street. Our duty and the duty of our neighbours, is nearly con fined to taking care of ourselves and families. If we provide for their subsistence and careful bringing up, we do all that can be, with strict justice, required of us. But those who under take to provide for the public happiness, and marshal States into order, are bound to know all the phenomena of social production, for by them their own conduct ought to be guided. It is not now contended, or supposed, whatever might have been the case when FENELow wrote his Telemuque," that statesmen make society. The Most self-sufficient HoTspuft amongst the Tories Will tell you seriously that you must tak e man. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seve4.—Dress Boxes 79. Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circl es 55., Seco nd Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office 7 • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond- s t reet ; M r. Mitchell,old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, DEc. 7, Will be performed, (sizthtime) a New and Original Come - _ dietta, in Two Acts, called, A CURE FOR — LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove. Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymund; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, (fourth time), a new petite Comedy in One Act, called THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To which will be added, the Petite Drama of SUZANNE. Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckatene ; Suzanne, (an Orphan), Mademoiselle Celeste. To be followed by the Barletta of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Captain Amersfort, Mr. Howe; Peter Spyk, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Syr) zel, Mr. Tilbury. Gertrude, Madame Vestris, with the Song of " I'd Marry him To-morrow." Ernestine, Miss C. Connor.' To conclude with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS ! Toseph Brag, Mr. Buckstone. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 7, Will be repeated a New Drama, in T wo A cts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray. After which, a New Comte Burletta, called AN'TONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giulsilei. To conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin eipl Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, St er li ng, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, DEC. 7 Mr. T. P. Cooke in a new Character, and positively the last Four Nights of his Engagement, commencing with new TURNED called THE FORCED MARRIAGE • o a RE will TURNED FROM SIBERIA, in which Mr. P.r'Cooke. will be supported by the Entire Company. Mr. After whi Cook h, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robe rt Macaire, cT. P. e. To conclude with Mr. Barber's new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zomba, the Slave, by . Mrs. H.Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of "Oh why does the White Man hang on my path ?" composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND, A D ESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, I•TINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL ME LATEST NEWS. Orders recezved at the SUN-OFFICE, 11 0 , Strand, and of all News-Agents. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY Horning 57 minutes after 4 I Evening 16 minutes after 5. TRADE IN NEW ZEALAND.---The whale-trade stands prominent in point of importance compared with all the other sources of wealth and naval power which have opened in New Zealand. Hitherto, it must be acknowledged the mother -country has not availed herself to the full extent, of the advantages which the new colonies have presented, especially in regard to the enlargement of the mercantile navy, viewed as a nursery for seamen. Several years ago, the Ameri cans could boast of having in the South Sea fishery about two hundred and fifty ships, each from three to five hundred tons burden. The officers and crew of every vessel amounted, on the average, to twenty five individuals, five of whom may be considered as n tgh e e e v n e e r r lgenerally having sailors about are been afloat,thr at sea years, exposed apross, before.ednearly to T a lt lheh whole climatesvoyagehole 0 fand l hd a i S et t ic s l, every vicissitude of weather ; the tempests of Cape Horn, the squalls of the tropics, a the an hurricanes . of e j n? of , familiar rnitt t a h n e d m. the T t h y e p e h m oo p n lo s y o m f whale-fishing, g e- e fi q sh u i ally more perhaps than any other, habituaeasetesofthemennfo, skill, da nerve, and acnatlilsprfoerstehneseucohf mind,a de renders dexterity, them well fitted for the duties of an armed ship. It de serves to be mentioned, too, that nearly half of the black oil obtained by the adventurers of Nantucket and New Bedford is conveyed to England, and sold thereat a pro fit 4'50 per cent., even after paying the duty chargeable on it as a foreign commodity. This fact, if it does not prove a great relaxation of enterprise on our side, leaves no doubt as to the increasing activity and suc cess of the shipping interest in the United States, the natives of which at once increase their wealth and add immensely to the future resources of their coun try.—Edifiburgh Cabinet Library, No. XXXIII. Polynesia. INcENDraarsm.—The fearful spirit of incendiarism has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Col chester, and during the past week much alarm has been occasioned amongst the inhabitants by repeated rumours of fires in the adjacent villages. On Friday night, we regret to state, a cry, too well founded, was heard about seven o'clock, of a fire at West Bergholt. The engines and firemen were dispatched with the utmost promptitude, when it was ascertained that a detached barn was in flames, which with its contents consisting of clover seed, the produce of eight acres, rapidly fell a prey to the devouring ele ment. The whole was the property of Mr. R. Brad brook, whose stock has been three times fired since the harvest. The scene of the present burning was but a very short distance from Mr. Thomas Daniell's, the destruction of whose property we recorded last week. Mr. Bradbrook was not insured.—lpswich Express Meyerbeer has suffered a great domestic calamity. He has lost one of his brothers, scarcely 44 years of age. This brother, to whom he was much attached, was struck with apoplexy while walking in one of the streets, of Berl4n. He dragged himself home with dirityoUttii died two days afterwards. ee:q.' .v -, I kind as you find them; that you cannot alter ,human nature by written Constitutions; that men must be dealt with as they are, and Consti tutions adapted to them, not framed on some ab stract principles of presumed perfection. If that be true, and no man will deny it, statesmen are bound to know the whole phenomena of man's social existence, including the important facts that men who live in different countries labou for each other without any knowledge of the existence of each other, and that the subsistence of both—including millions of familin in diffe rent countries—depends on their mutual and reci procal labour. On such phenomena their laws ought to be framed ; for by interrupting and de ranging labour in one country, they necessarily interrupt and derange it in many other countries. We can readily excuse Lord STANLEY for being ignorant of the quantity of corn grown in Tamboff; it is not much reproach to Sir 11. PEEL that he was not precisely informed of the number of oxen in Spain or Holland which might be exported to England; but we cannot excuse any statesman for being ignorant of any of the facts on which the subsistence of the masses depends. To provide food is, in fact, the first and great aim of all human exertions; and all the results of statesmanship, all laws and constitutions, all victories and triumphs, which do not end in securing a plentiful subsistence for mankind, are less valuable than leather and pm nella. We have brought under notice an ex ample of an immense class of facts, of which the pervading principle is, that the subsistence of society is obtained without the possibility of any one statesman contributing to that noble end. When so much that is beneficial is done without the instrumentality of law-makers, they might, we think, have a little more confidence in man and in nature, and not presume that every part of society must necessarily fall into anarchy which is not regulated by them. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria arrived to-day at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty, attended by his suite. The Earl Delawarr, Viscount Sydney, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Earl of Aberdeen, arrived at the Castle in the course of the day, on a visit to the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert -enjoyed their usual morning walk ; and in the afternoon the Prince rode out on horseback into the Great Park, attended by the Hon. C. A. Murray, and Sir Edward Bowater. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty this morning at the Castle. The Hon. Frances Devereux has succeeded Lady Caroline Cocks as one of the Maids of Honour in Waiting. Viscount Sydney and the Hon. Captain Duncombe have succeeded the Earl of llardwicke and Sir Frederick Stovin as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Sir Henry Wheatley left to-day. Her Majesty has a dinner party this evening at the Castle. Covers are laid for twenty-seven. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundass, Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and Hon. Miss Stanley, will join the Royal Circle. which will also include his Imperial Highness the Arch duke, the Lord and Lady in Waiting, the two Maids of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in "Waiting on her Majesty, the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness, the Earl Delawarr, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Aberdeen, le Baron Lebzeltern, le Compte Marinovich, le Capitaine Kochel, le Capitaine Dumont, and le Comte Carolyi. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester left town yesterday afternoon to honour the Duke of Wellington with a visit at his seat at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. EDUC4TION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, have arrived at Strathfieldsaye, Hants, on a viait to the Duke of Wellington, from the seat of the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, Gloucestershire. A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held yes terday afternoon at the official residence of Sir Robert Peel in Downing-street. The Lord Chancellor, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Sir James Graham, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer attended. Sir Henry Macleod had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Count de St. Aulnire, the French Ambassador, transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign -office. A meeting of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, and other Com missioners were present. Sir George Cockburn had an interview with Sir Robert Peel in Downing -street yesterday. The Postmaster -General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Haddington has left town on a visit to Lord Wharnclitre, at Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Dispatches were received yesterday from Sir Hugh Gough, for Lord Stanley, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. Dis patches from Malta, Gibraltar, the lonian Islands, Ceylon, St. Helena, and British Guiana, were also received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The fallowing circular has just been issued from the Office of the Church Education Society, and is addressed to the Secretaries of the different branches of this Institution. The names of all the Bishops, except Dublin, Derry, Tuam, and Limerick (the two latter not being in the country) are subscribed : " The undersigned Prelates, Presidents of the Church Education Society, have to announce to you for the information of the members and friends of that Institution, that a comm u ni ca ti on h as b een re ceived by the Lord Primate, from Sir Robe r t P ee l, stating that her Majesty' s Government, having given to the question of education in Ireland very mature deliberation, have resolved to recommend to Parlia ment the continuance of the Parliamentary grant for the purpose of education on the general principles on which that grant ha s h ere t o f ore keen made ; and that they have further resolved not to propose a separate vote for the Church Education Society. " The undersigned have received this communica tion with unfeigned regret ; but they regard it as most in accordance with the respect which is due, and which they are anxious to show, to her Mjesty's Go vernment, to abstain from any further expression of their feelings on the occasion. And to the mem bers of the Society, who must share in these feelings, they earnestly recommend the same orbearance in expressing them. "Under these circumstances the undersigned deem it to be their duty to call upon the friends of the Church Education Society to continue to use their best exertions to raise funds by means of voluntary contributions, for thg support of the numerous, useful, and well regulated schools in connexion with the So ciety, being persuaded that the maintenance of those schools is of essential service to the interests of true religion in Ireland. "While thus earnestly pressing upon the members of the Society the importance of exerting themselves with unabated zeal to support its schools, the under signed are anxious to express their trust'—as in the year 1832 it has been already expressed by them and by their predecessors in the episcopal office, on the occasion of the first establishment of the plan of national education— that in withholding their con currence from this system, they will not be suspected of perverse opposition to the Government in its en deavours to promote general instruction, and to heal the wounds occasioned by party and religious dis tinctions.' " The undersigned are desirous now, as formerly, to give just credit to the intentions of her Majesty's Government' in supporting the plan of national edu cation, although the resolution adopted on the part of her Majesty's Ministers will make it needful to per severe in a temperate, but not on that account less effectual, appeal to the friends of the Church Educa tion Society to keep up its schools. At a time, there fore, when increased efforts to make known the claims of the Society throughout the country are rendered more necessary than ever, the undersigned wish to convey to all who are to be engaged in the discharge of this duty, their decided judgment that their advocacy of the Society will be most in har mony with its principles and character, and will best promote its true interests, when it is founded upon the objects of the Society, and its necessities, with out drawing aid from any of the exciting or irritating topics which the disappointment of the friends of the Society might suggest. "With this recommendation the undersigned wil lingly leave it to the General Committee and the several Diocesan Societies to'devise and take such measures as they may deem best calculated to advance the interests of the Society, and they cannot but hope that when the claims and wants of the Society are thus calmly 'and dispassionately brought forward, under circumstances which make it entirely depen dent upon voluntary subscriptions of the members of the Church, it will receive a measure of support more commensurate with the great work that it has to carry On, than it has hitherto obtained. But with what ever degree of success it may seem good to Almighty God that their efforts should be attended, the under signed, and those whom they address through you, will still enjoy the happy assurance that they are acting according to his will in persevering steadily in their labours to maintain the honour of His Holy Word, and to train the children committed to their care in the principles of the Church to which it is their privilege to belong. " jons G. ARMAGH. " EDWARD MEATH. " CHARLES KILDARE. " ROBERT P. CLOGHER. " JOHN KILMORE, &C. " RD. DOWN A.ND CONNOR AND DROMORE. " SAMUEL CORK AND CLOYNE. " LUDLOW KILLALOE AND CLONF ERT . " J. T. OSSORY AND FERNS. "Dublin, Nov. 30, 1842." M R. K----IRK'S GLACCARUM. The private view of this remarkable project opened yesterday a t P or tman -square, ha v i ng , it appears, been transferred from the Colosseum. A full company added to th e p i cturesqueness of the scene which, on e ntry, attra c t e d t h e eye. Consisting. of three thousand feet of artificial ice, a frozen lake extends over the surface of the floor, actual in its veri similitue with the same thing in nature. If it lack anything in this respect, it is only the aqueous trans parency of the original body, which here, perhaps, as sumes the appearance of a dense mar l, over which' the snow-drift seem to have passed. This smooth expanse receives the shalt admirably. Fastening on the polished steel, you can run a race with wing -footed Mercury up and Clown its extent; or, if in clined to more courteous movement pursue the evolu tions of the dance, or the animated gestures of the gym. nast. Absolute security also is its undeniable character dread of im mers i on i n unknown depths istic. The separation from peril on l y b y two -i nch b r i ttle crystal—the —the fear of something Worse than cold-water spe cifics, or a more than innocent baptism in the Preiss nitzian fashion—have no place in the thoughts of a Glaciarum skaiter. In truth, all the recommendatory qualities of the sport attach to his pleasure, devoid of drawback. Nimbleness of foot, vigour of motion, gratification from enjoyment, enhance his amuse ment, without that sense of danger experienced on the undulating glass of the Serpentine, or other sheets of water that crack beneath his path. Free, too, from weather, no sleet spits in his face, no eastas s a i w l ainncde chills e hini t o the bone, but he glides along in mirth and recreation, with the thermometer at spring temperature, while beneath him, spreads for sport, the winter ice of the Arctic. Mr. Kirk should stand a fair chance of depopulat ing the parks. Chemistry has made him acquainted no less si ngu l ar t h an nove l. A n wi with a substanceamalgamation chiefly composed of carbonates of soda, having, subsequently to its liquid state, undergone a rapid crystallization, has enabled him to lay down a species of extensive ice-plat, smooth as a metal mirror, and fitted to please the heart of the subtlest skaiter, were he of the Baltic seas or Polar. The ensemble of the gallery or apartment is ren dered complete in detail by its cast of ornamental de sign. One side of the room is barricaded off by rail ings for spectators. Alpine scenery enriches the other three. From the base or borders of the lake rise grottoes, decorated like Calypso's. Beyond these, and forming portion of the landscape, spiry steeple, Swiss auberge, and low-thatched cottage, vary the architec tural groupings of the scene. Further in perspective, peaks and snow hills mingle with the sky, indistinct and shadowy; while in the intervening vales and ra vines the light blue mists steam up in aerial softness. Even the ceiling is made to add to the general effect, faint and pale, as if lit by winter suns. Imagine the scene transferred to Zurich, or a lake of the Cantons, and the picture, as beheld yesterday, is exactly to be realised. A brilliant noon in winter_ figures in animated and skilful movement—good humour, ready for a jest, and ripe for a laugh—with out rain, drifts, or freezing mercury—et la voila ! Sir William Newton, of the Skaiting Club, with other fashionables, numbered, we believe, among the amuses; and a very excellent collation was laid out for visitors. GRAND JUNCTION CANAL. The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of the Grand Junction Canal Company was held yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Sir William Eden, Bart., in the Chair. The Report, which was read by the Secretary, stated that the nett tonnage for the half-year ending June 30, 1842, amounted to 51,512/. Os. 6d., being 10,7261. 18s. 3d. less than in the preceding six months, and 5,415/. 13s. sd. less than in the corresponding period of the preceding year. This falling off in the Company's revenue the Report attributed to the depression of trade which had generally pervaded the country. Al though the revenue had been so diminished, yet, in consequence of the reduction lately effected in the ordinary expenses of the canal, which had amounted to nearly 8,0001. in the half-year, the balance of one account, to the 30th Juno last, amounted to 44,8821 Os. 11d., being 3,8361. 15s. 6d. greater than the balance of the same account in the corresponding, period of last year. The Committee, therefore, re commended a dividend of 31. les. per share, amount ing to 40,0921. 10s., to be paid, free of Income-tax, on Monday, the 9th of January, 1843, thus leaving the balance of 4,7891. 10s. 11d., out of which the Income-tax would be paid to the Government, and the remainder carried to the account for new works. TILE PaOPERTY TAx.—The Post-office revenue promises to be considerably increased by the necessity of serving propri e t ors assessed to property, who live at a distance from their estates, with notice of the time the appeals are fixed to be held. A letter from Roch ford division was lately received by an owner wherein the tax amounted to 4s. 4d. and the charge for post age was 2d.—Essex Herald. ACCIDENT AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE.--Afew minutes after twelve o'clock, on Saturday night last, as a man named G eorge Byng was putting out the lights in the second tier of boxes at the Haymar ket Theatre—the performances having terminated and the audience retired—he overbalanced himself and fell head foremost into the pit. The noise caused by his falling upon the seats brought other persons who were engaged at different parts of the theatre to the spot,. where he was discovered lying in a state of insensibility with a large wound in his forehead. Ima gining that he was either dead or dying, a stretcher was procured, and be was conveyed to Charing cross Hospital, where he was attended by Mr. More, the house-surgeon, who quickly discovered that ani mationsuspended, and with the aid of re storatives and oth er means he was i n a short time was only brought to a sense of consciousness ; and the wound in his head having been dressed, and his wrist, which had been sprained, _having been attended to, to the surprise of those wh o conveyed hi m t o th e hospital, he signified his intention of proceeding to his own home, which he actually did without any assistance, after having sustained so frightful a fall. STRATIIFIELDSAYE.—The Duke of Wellington is enjoying the society of a few select friends, among whom are Lord and L a d y Mahon, w h o arrive d f rom Walmer, where th ey h ad been stay i ng since they left Walmer Castle. The Duke is in excellent health, and rides thirty miles occasionally to meet the Vine hounds, with which pack his grace regularly hunts. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1842 1 Alb 0, de'i• . .. i....te c:L tr kZ" l- IpaitiosA -, - , iatu, LONDON : WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1842. The address and resolutions of h the working men of New York, inserted Th e Sun, are at once gratifying and humiliating. T hey a re a opinions roof of the progress of sound u in the t e h s e t io h of n United States on the all-important (' freedom of industry. They enco urage that noxious restrictions on trade will there soon e be done away. They show a common interest and a common feeling between the industribeg , t:,:--trontiWbttton At the same time, society is not benefited by the punishmdnt they inflict on themselves. It is no compensation to the numerous families im poverished in order to raise the rent of this Lord or that Marquis, that the extorted opulence only ends in degrading the extortioners. It is no com pensation to traders, that the restrictions which ruin them to enrich my Lord, really enrich the classes of persons which those trials have brought under the public notice. That the wealth extorted from the poor, anl that restrictions imposed on trade do not, in fact, serve to raise up and cherish a high-minded set of gentlemen, cultivating all the graceful arts, and inquiring into all kinds of science, but that it increases the number of cour tesans, usurers, and gamblers in society, is a gross aggravation of the injury which the poor and the traders affirm they suffer at the hand of the law. Society is, in truth, quite as much injured by numerous immoral classes being called into existence by the wanton extravagance of the upper classes, as by restrictions which are im posed on industy to enrich them. Intelligence has been brought by the Levant mail, from Constantinople, to the 17th ult., and from Alexandria to the 10th. Considerable changes were expected to take place in the dif ferent departments of the Administration. The Divan had granted permission for the establish ment of a French newspaper at Constantinople, to appear on the Ist of this month. Syria still continues in a very disturbed state, the particu lars of which will be found in another part of the paper. We have accounts fr7mt Madrid to the 28th, hut they are without interest. According to in telligence from the Spanish frontier of the Ist inst., the insurgents at Barcelona were about to surrender to ESPARTERO, with the exception of some 200 militia men, and those most compro mised in the revolt, who had not the means to fly. Considerable forces were marching from every direction to reinforce ESPARTERO, who would find himself at the head of 30,000 men. The emigration from Barcelona still continued. Upon the Madrid Exchange on the 28th, the Three per Cents. were at 21/ for ready money, and 211 i• at sixty days' date. .15,800,000 real s were done in the Five perCentt o at 26i ready money, and 26L 9-16 I at sixty flays' date, with the 12 coupons. • „,••••-- The insurrectio n a t Barcelona stilroccupies the ?aris journals, and furnishes the ground of a violent attack on the French Goviithment in the Courricr Francais. It admits the fact, which has been occasionally adverted to in The Sun, that France has not a single ally in Europe, This rouses the ire of the Christine journal, the Presse, which denounces in strong terms the in gratitude of the Spanish nation •for the many good acts of the French towards the country. A very pretty, sort of quarrel it is, but we will allow the contending parties to speak fbr themselves : "Before the events at Barcelona,” says the for mer journal, "we declared how necessary it was for the French Government to resume relations with Spain. It appeared to us that France had no need to consider the character or tendency of the regime which was in force at the other side of the Pyrenees. It is with the Spanish people that we make an alliance, carry on trade, and re ciprocate sympathy. What matter is it then to us what the form of government may be, if the SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. No doubt now remains that Sir R. PEET, and the Irish Bishops are not quite of one Opinion on the subject of education in Ireland. The Pro testant clergy, disapproving of the National Board instituted by the late Government, formed a separate association for the purpose of training the children committed to their care in the principles of the Established Church, and, as a natural consequence, of excluding from the schools all the children of Catholics, Pres byterians, and Dissenters. To such a sys tem all who wish to see political and religious rancour swept away must decid edly object, and we, therefore, rejoice that Sir R. PEEL has discountenanced a plan which could only tend to keep up animosities and throw additional odium on a Church not viewed with much complacence by the Catholic population. Sonic weeks since, a number of Bishops.made an application to the Government for a grant of money to this ,new Board, and, after mature de liberation, the Minister replied that the grant to the National Board would be continued, and that lie must decline propoSing a vote for the Church Education Society. The Bishops have, therefore, issued a circular to the respective secretaries announcing these facts, and at the same time calling upon the friends of the Church to use their best exertions to raise funds by voluntary subscriptions. To this circular there can be no objection. It is drawn up in a Christian spirit, displays much moderation, and disowns any per verse opposition to the Government, in its endea vours to heal the wounds occasioned by party and religious distinctions. We only regret that men who have so much in their power, and whose interest it is above that of all others, to put an end to the dissensions which have caused so much bloodshed in that unfortunate country, have considered it their duty to oppose the Go vernment in this humane and noble attempt. Catholic priests are as jealous of any interference with the religious tenets of their flocks as most others, yet they in general approve of the National Board, and can see no danger in the plan, but, on the contrary, great good, in allow ing children of different creeds to associate in the same schools, and form attachments which will not be forgotten in after-life. The exclusive spirit which has all along been displayed by the Irish Church has been the bane of the country, and it is lamentable to find, in the present age of improvement, that it is still as rife as ever, and threatens to re vive animosities which were fast wearing away. What can a Church, already tottering to its fall, gain by such a vain and bigoted scheme ? The Government, however, have done their duly, and we trust, notwithstanding the secession of the Bishops, will be successful in removing those dis tinctions and prejudices which have for years rendered Ireland a thorn in the side of this country. The examinations of the creditors of some noble insolvents and bankrupts have made us acquainted with the dunned sort of lives they lead, and the company they keep. Instead of enjoying themselves in refined society, in intel lectual pursuits, or in the cultivation of arts which tend to improve themselves and others, they consort with griping money-lenders, men of a bad character, second and third-rate attorneys, fourth-rate tradesmen, and the men of straw, who are put forward to bear the ignominy of their transactions, should they be brought to light. In like manner the recent trial, SMITH v. BOND, placed before the world a considerable number of persons, highly connected, associating night after night with needy gamblers, com mon informers, and persons whom every respectable man would cautiously shun. Per sons of that description, with the women and valets of such a man as Lord HERTFORD, do justice on the noble libertines, and revenge society for their infractions of decency and morality. To be surrounded and preyed on by harpies of the most revolting species, to be exposed to all their rudeness and vulgarity, must be pretty nearly equal to a seclusion for a time in Northleach, and, though the vices of these noble persons are far fitter objects for the legislator to strike at than the quarrels of illiterate peasants, we ask him not to add the tread-mill to the self-degrada tion they inflict. They are punished enough. We hope, however, that the public at large will take notice of the company kept by many of the upper classes, and give up the hope, if it were ever entertained, of the improvement of society from their influence. union of the two nations rests on a community of interests? Every government existing in Spain ought to be considered by us the government by right; for such is the only national policy that suits a free people which respects the liberty of others. We think it our duty to insist at the approach of the session on those principles of conduct. France, by the fault of her Government, is sepa rated from Spain, and all her relations remain interrupted between the Cabinets of Paris and Madrid. This state of things, which was before considered as provisional, it is now attempted to render definitive. Spain is a field of battle which is abandoned to the English at the very mo ment that we have not in Europe a single ally left. We have already an enemy on the Rhine, and now measures are being taken which will produce one on the other side of the Pyrenees. We were not sufficiently isolated, and now a blockade is prepared for us. We hope that the Chamber of DeputieS will protest solemnly against this line of policy. The men who govern us must be taught that inaction is not talent, and that France is riot obliged to them fbr having alienated from us our natural allies. Since the ill-timed tirades of M. MOLE against the Swiss, the Government has not committed a greater fault than this interruption of relations between France and Spain. Let us prove to Spain that public opinion here is convinced of it, and that there is not on this point, as well as on many others, any mutual responsibility between the Ministry of October 29 and the nation." The Presse, in reply to this, says : And what is the policy pursued by the French Government with regard to Spain ? In our opinion it has only returned by kindness all the acts of hosti lity of the Anglo-Spanish Government of Madrid. To the manifest preponderance given to English in fluence; to projects of treaties of commerce suspended solely by the opposition of Catalonia and the Cortes ; to the tariffs so prejudicial to the trade of our southern departments; to that malevolence which is always observable both in words and actions, the French Ministry has only returned reiterated proofs of good feeling. It has detained Don Carlos beyond perhaps what the law of nations would warrant, and doubtless beyond what is in accordance with the ancient,re nown of this country for hospitality. It watches with the most severe and vexatious rigour over the exiles of September. Last year it sent an Ambassador to Madrid, a concession which was met with a fresh in sult; and this yearit does all that it can to dissemble the resolution taken by the Cabinet of Madrid to cause Eng lish interference in the affair at Barcelona—a resolution of which it is as certainly and perfectly informed as our selves. What can it do more, unless, indeed, it throws itself on its knees at the Spanish L ega ti on , an d supplicates for F rance in Spain a little place by the side of England ? Had the French Cabinet made a concession of this sort, what clamours would have been raised against it ; to what reproaches for want of patriotism and of dignity would it not have been subjected ? The Courrier is right in saying that France is not to consider what form of government is established in Spain. This is national policy; it is ours, and we have always proclaimed it to be so. Whatever may be the party, whatever the Govern ment which rules in Spain, France has not to demand of them the reason of their existence ; but it should require good international relations, an alliance useful and sincere, the respect of her rights and her inte rests. Let the Government of Madrid be Carlist, Moderate, or Radical, as it chooses; but it is for us to form a faithful ally, that the interests both of Spain and of France be not sacrificed to England. This is all we ask, and all we require. The Journal des bebats, a Ministerial paper, gives the following account of the state of affairs at Barcelona on the 28th and 29th ult.:— The inhabitants were in painful anxiety as to the fate which awaited them after a revolt in which the deposition of the Regent was so audaciously decreed. The words attributed to him are certainly well calcu lated to alarm their minds. He is said to have de clared, " I will deliver them up to Zurbano, and he shall rebuild the walls of the city with their bones." Van Halen is also said to ha%e been determined to shower down upon the rebels shells and rockets until they were all consumed. In fine, General Seoane, Governor of Madrid, has used the following terms in the Senate :—" Too much weakness was shown in the treatment of the rebels of last year. For every finger spared then three hundred heads must now fall !" This sentence stands textually in the report of the sitting of the Spanish Chambers. At Barcelona they were persuaded th a t th e C aptain-General, Van Ilalen, seriously intended to carry his threat into execution, and was preparing to do so when the Regent arrived. Mortar batteries and congreve rockets were planted on the ramparts of Montjuich, which commands the town within half a cannon-shot, so as to be ready by the 25th, but the energetic remonstrances of the French Consul gained a respite of two days, and the Barceloriese two days more by overtures. At last the Regent arrived on the 29th, a pacific Junta was instituted, and from that time a bombardment would have been a monstrosity without necessity or object. The town was filled with terror. The inhabitants moved out in masses, and encamped at the foot of the glacis. More than 50,000 people are said to have thus left their homes, either to bivouack in the fields, or seek shelter in the surrounding villages. The French and other foreigners hastened to the port, and embarked in the ships of war and packets sent from Marseilles; they are said to have amounted to between 1,400 and 1,500. With them were many Spaniards. Many French also re tired-to places in the country to wait till the crisis was past. Amidst all this general commotion of a population amounting to 150,000, neither robbery nor any personal violence was committed. At the end the public peace seemed to be no longer disturbed by anything but the retributive severities of the General. The Quotidienne, a Carlist paper, joins with the Radical National in reprobating the policy of General BUGEAUD, and more especially the French Government, in Algiers : Nobody (says the Quotidienne), has warred more than General 13ugeaud. No one has attacked more tribes, destroyed more towns, burnt more farms, executed more razzias, carried away more flocks, or burnt more crops. And yet he is no more advanced than his predecessors. General Bugeaud himself does not believe in the submission of the Arabs. He says so, and he writes so. And he uses his very incre dulity as an argument to sanction a permanent army of 80,000 men in Algiers. And all this time the much-talked-of colonization exists merely in the co lumns of the Moniteur Algerfea. BOURSE—Psars, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 45... 119 50... 119 55... 119 60 Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50 3 per Cents 89 65... 80 75... 80 60. 80 75 Bank of France 3315 —.3325 ...3315 .. 3325 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1057 50...1055 ...1055 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 ...5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank, 1841 1067 50...1067 50..,1067 50...1067 50 Belgian Fives, 1840 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 Spanish Active. 23/1 ... 23i ... 23A ... 231 Old Deferred 10 ... 1D ... 10 ... 10 Neapolitan... lO6 25... 106 60... 106 25... 106 60 Roman, . .. 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 ... 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain' Sao 830 ... 830 ... 830 Versailles, R.B 265 ... 265 ... 265 ... 265 Rouen ' 627 50... 632 50... 627 60... 632 50 Orleans 605 ... 607 50... 605 ... 607 50 Strasburg to Bale 202 55... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75 BELGIAN FUN _ a-13nussa.s, atc. 3. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, 54 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.o2 X Lean of Thirty Millions, F our per Cent ....... 99% Three per Cent..... Thirty-seven ns, ditto ( 1 849) ............... 163 (4 Loan of City, 1832, Four p er C ent 97 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent National Society . . ..... ... .............. Exchange on London (short) ..... ................... —Brussels Papers, Dee 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, Nov. 25. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four Three per Cents. ..... ........... . 100% per Cen t , . ............................................ 774 Bank Shares ...«« .... .. .. ......... 1624 .••• ..... AO •• l• Allgemelne Zeilung, ..... 29. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Dec. 2. Austrian 5 per Ce n t s Rank Shares , 110 Anglo-Russian L oan 1635108% 18 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist ser i es, Certificate lO3 14—% Inscription, Ist seri es lO3 _— Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series — Ditto in Certificates 9B -- New 4 per Cent. (1840) 67% 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... 51% :51 Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds New Tickets — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE or THE PRIVY COUNCIL.— The Court has been occupied this morning with the consideration of a petition for an extension of Simis ter's patent, as applicable to stays. Several witnesses, some of them staymakers, have been examined in sup port of the patentee, and were cross-examined by the Solicitor-General, on the part of the opponents to the extension of the patent. The case is expected to occupy their Lordships the whole of the day. The Attorney-General was in Court in the early part of the sitting. TEE ACCIDENT AT SALISBURY.--A Correspondent writes to state that the account of the lamentable accident which occurred on Thursday last at East Grafton Church (not Bishopstone), was not occa sioned by the falling of the arch or nave itself, but from a part of the unfinished compartment of the vaulting in the nave, which fell, owing .to the negli gence of the mason, in not wedging up the centering when ordered to do so. Had this duty been attended to, no calamity would have happened. SUNIEOAfilif OF NEWS AND abitc ptitton. " Who runs may read.' rozammN. It is confidently stated at Paris that the Rouen and Paris railroad will be opened next spring. The Pr e ' valence of the most de nse fog that had visited that city since the winter of 1829 still prevented all corn: munication by telegraph, and the arrivals by P°l from Spain had no t on M on day brought new s t'' later dates than that received by telegraph on FridaY; A supplement of the Madrid Official Gazette 0 ' the 28th, co n t a i ns th e D ecr ee of the Regent for the blockade of the port of Barcelona. Private accounts from Alexandria of the 22d u lt. state that the object of Artin Be 's visit to Paris was_ to raise a loan f or the Pacha of Egypt. Several cases of plague had occurred in ;Lower Egypt. The no r " tality amongst the oxen still continued. The Semaphore of Marseilles announces the In' rival there of the Amsterdam steam-boat from 13 e, r fi l celona, which c ity s h e l e ft on the 30th, when the destruction of th e B r iti s h li ne - o f-battle ship Fer o " able appeared inevitable. to The election f or t wen ty D e puties in Portugel r supply the va can t sea t s h a d a lt t e rminated in fav ° e a of the Governm en t. Th e Ch am bers had, llow e L v e r ; been further adjourned till the 28th December, w"ie the extraordinary session would be closed , and tb Chambers prorogued till the 2d January.• A great quantity o f r i c h f urn iture and other 'Valuli able articles, b e l ong i ng t o th e Ki n g of Hellind,baeeu which were left in the Palace at Brussels, have lately received safely at the Hague. col- The ' of reports pre va l en t a t C ons t an tinople, t hat h e . lision had taken place upon the frontiers cf Pere lla Li e - tween the Sultans troops and those of the Shah l' totally unfounded. A rig a The Journal de F ran kf ort s t a t es that the - the Government has just adopted a course respeot' ° ,,,c en d Lombardo-V ene ti an R a il roa d , w hi c h will Put a the to any differences that may have arisen betivees shareholders an d th e C ommittee. Not o nly d inigll not offer any o p pos i t i on to the Com Pane ci3nhen?! lu it the works as l ong as th e i r funds perm"' t • will complete th e res t o f t h e line as a State ral r, cv ut e d in A letter from Vi enna o f t h e 25t h ult., publisn the Journal d e F ran kf ort, states that the i m ir P o in Bank of Austria had at present G 0,000,0 fl "beirse' specie in its cellars, proceeding from the reeirn lent. ments made to that es t a bli s h men t by the G° l7-11) PUBLIC OPINION. iek We quote the f o ll ow i ng f rom the ci t ron % bo are " Suppose the merchants, manufacturers, Scce Lea gue subscribing their fifties and hundreds te th r '. it a Fund were to accompany the contribution wit 1. , e at claration to the effect that they subscribed 15itePg no of regard for an abstract principle ; that they co ti la• conception of any advantage to the various 5 1 3 . , :it o f tions in which they are embarked from the reP'vt end the Corn-laws; that the change wo uld neith er :i t D ent their operatio ns , en h ance t h e i r profits', nor beset' „Ol in any way whatever to the amount of one sinro ling : we should like to know how the Tory J. ° t hat would treat such a declaration ? We itnq in f: their columns would shake with laughter at the parent insincerity or egregious folly of such a d e( ', ic ier tion. Nor would. they fail to show, and with this logic than they are accustomed to employ , eft pretence implied a complete condemnatio n of ti. a p t forts and objects of the League. For if the cal)] tit (they would argue, and justly) reap no benefi t r fcr Corn-law repeal, then who will ? Not the cultivate _;eos his customers will remain as impoverished as they' t l 4 , lo • present. Not the workpeople, for there will be r crease of employment, nor the chance of better vs . % o r Not the nation atlarge,for there will be neither ma i ' '7, 0 r0 means to use the liberty of purchasing fore ign _ ents without any of that extension of trade which aug' "jolt its wealth. What an aimless and mad crusade., tioo, it would be inferred, is this Anti-Corn - la w eg And what a strange exception from the comrn Jas , r ho of human acti on i s t h e con d uct o f those pers'nl4..t;en be are giving a way th e i r 50,000 1 . to b ene fit ne ither selves nor any of their fellow-creatures! It mt it er well conceived with what gibes and jeers, w hat , foes sarcasm and thundering denunciation, the , .this would greet language of this sort from the lie,. Fund subscribers. Well, then, the rever se takes place. A Liverpool merchant, a P„ c te' meeting, puts down his 1001., an d a vows his a et 1 a il tion that, should the fund accomplish its w0,4"„,,h t ot be a large gainer by hi s p resen t lib e rality. e t j, motion of the objects of the League is an ef tbru ty , thin justice. It is also a work of the no blest cha t , )0 ; But besides th a t, it i s a l so a pro fit a ble. spout, ' POt and if it were n ot a p ro fit a bl e specu l a tion, it cett ic ,,, v er possess either of its higher attributes. Th,eves the motive or character of the contribution in burstshigher. out Overlook ing into jeers ee rs an this d obviousgibes, re • tasrumtshstatthdaedd ert.o i gun'et ciations, just as e nerge ti c as if the speaker had diri , c h t e ly T th im e e o s pp s o a s y i s te :_ gr , o ‘ und." 00 1 pain we have witnessed the re-aPP e ' rance ..-at With feelings of u° of tha t frightful . system (for shocking as it is to acknodwere 0;1 it is no less)—that frightful system m u h r o f ire outrage which has so long infested the sout land, and in particular the unhaPPY la l &3 ce racy, and which, as we firma believe, no vigi d is can totally suppress, and no legislation effectuallyf it arm. No executive vigilance can suppres.sslige ctio ne has its life and being, not in any spirit of '1 resistan county or . .1 : i I not in its hostility to authority, or in its /11 o, to political order, but in the disorder and c° trol of a , sphere of duties beyond the coarse co . n for it human law ; and no legislation can touch It.) tis 3 ' is independent of mistaken or defective lawsl i oto dependent of religious difference, and Ine„e, Lat is it independent of mere party politics. ll' _, l misgovernment may have aggr avate d the ; , nt of course admitted, but this has not been the .i 3 p il ot of the mischief. The evil has arisen flo c e to say that the removal of the cause will now i s remedy the fearful disorder that has roll ° yic the evil has arisen in the general syste:n liP°ll due tea ' the occupati on o f l an d has been based and eo n di ord . and in the treatment of: the occupier by the la n , t bat , The state of the country has been such,—a"u the let it be ad m itt e d, ow i ng t o circumstances be.l' . °" . ( t the control of individual landlords or tenants,—huL e en state of the country, from whatever cause, Ilas„. such, that a breach on the part of the landlord ; 1 ) 1 el duties towards his tenantry—of those eq ° , l o charitable, and unwritten duties which are n°'tli a found in the letter of his contract, but beyena4,', le! 3 which are not therefore the less binding, ' 3 r " un til dangerous in the neglect,;—the state of the d o ne ' ,we say, has been such, that th e breach of thaf,e trod 5 could riot fail to be att en d e d w ith the most ee isas each , I consequences to the t enan t ; an d yet that 1 r „.- rather that total neglect, has, it cannot be ding been rather the rule than the exception?' azoNEr—TRAnZ.—CODITVISSCCIP'A jut le: At a meeting of the proprietors of the G-Jan' . ,ed• tion Canal Company, held yesterday at the Crew'; ;vs Anchor Tavern, the report stated that thel let ton co. for the h a lf year ending June were 10,2704 less_ : ' l,l it - in the pre ce di ng s i x mont h s — a f a lling off attij o y • able to the genera l d epress i on o f t ra de in. t h e co" A dividend o f 31. 10 s. was d ec l are d for the half yell" ECCSIASTICAL. Dr. Parry, th e n ew Bishop of Barbadoes, AO 1 at his distant diocese on the Bth ult. ELECTIONEEIUNG. with' The Hon. James Stuart Wortley was elected ti 4 3 out opposition on Thursday last, as a rePre s i e :/i t i l li f o a for Buteshire, in the room of the late Sir Rae, Lord Advocate of Scotland. NAVAL AND 11117LITABIr• t n s o r Further enlistments for the navy have bee by order. , s u ndf Sundt In consequence of Christmas falling On „ be the customary dockyard holiday will be given , following day. SPOIETING. The "lawn-meeting" at Badminton on 3 13 n cigis held by his Grace the Duke of Beau'fort, forrnedar. most brilliant field : in addition to nearly 5° riages, there were more than 1,000 equestriau Their Royal Highnesses the - Duke and Duchess Cambridge, with the Princess Augusta and the Grad Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, were present, an' sumptuous breakfast was given in the great hall. COURT—FASIZIONABLZ. Tne Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Prir cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and ti Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Streli l to have arrived at Strathfieldsaye, Hants, on a visi t the Duke of Wellington. at The Marquis of Camden is passing the winter the Wilderness, Kent. Viscount Duncannon and family have arrived in Cavendish-square, from Besborough, in Ireland. L The Marquis of Breadalbane leaves Taymou to Castle on Saturday next for Edinburgh. The Marquis of Exeter has returned to Grose e nor-square. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the La dies Paget, are passing the season at Tewin Waters, F Lert fordshire. The Earl of Haddington has left town on a visit to Lord Wharncliffe, at Wortley llall, Yorkshir e . Viscount Northland, M.P., arrived yesterday ill Pall-mall, from Dungannon Park, Ireland. The Duke of Norfolk has arrived on fly;le Park terrace, from Surrey. Lord G. Paget has left town for Deane ?ark. MISCELLANEOUS, Meyerbeer's brother, to whom he waslntich attached, died from apoplexy a few days since In the streets of Berlin. Lord Edward Clinton, son of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, died of fever on his outward passage to China, in June last : his remains were buried at the entrance of the Gulf of Siam. The emigration from the port of Belfast, durin the three but year has consisted o f 18.040.