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,NEW NOVEL BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bw., ADAMB R 0 W N, THE MERCHANT. By HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," " The 'Moneyed Man," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, has been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Sh illings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY 1 DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED 131; HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £110; £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £BOO,, £l,OOO, £t,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to x:72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. HE INE 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 25,000/., 18,00 q., 9,0001., 5,0007., and 3,6001. to London; 3,6001., 800/., and 700/. to Edinbargh ; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,600/. to Beverley ; 3,600/. to Halifax ; 1,200/. to Porthlearen Harbour ; 9001., 700/., and 6001 . to Liver pool ; 9001 . to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; 700/. to Caine, Lancashire; 700/. to Ryde, Isle of Wight; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bideford ; and 600/. 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 polisibility of obtaining more than 25.0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of U. and upwards. Price of One Share, IL ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 314 four Shares, 4/. ; five Snares, 5/. ; six Shares, 61.; seven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 101. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS at Lubeck. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to thine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. DEC. 19, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SENIIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at :_4even.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. ad. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is- Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond - street; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 19, Will he performed Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699. Sir Wilful! Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; Marwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwell, Mr. Strick!and; Diil lamant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. After which, a new Drama, called THE BASTILE. Louis Qua.torze, Mr. H. Hull; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster; the Duchess de INlontbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma (lame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of OUR MARY ANNE. Jonathan Tunks, Mr. Buckstone ; Colonel Albert, Mr. Brin dal ; Ernestine, Miss Charles; Mary Anne, Miss C. Connor. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. ]9, _ Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss "frocks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Character.; by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called AN TONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. Boxes, 4s. ; I'it, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at reven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, iii IN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS Orders reeemed at the SUN- OFFICE, 112, Strand and of all News-Agents. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 17. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 37 : Noon, 51 BAROMETER, 30.06.-WIND, W. 11!Iii-1 w ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. ;'amine .37 minutes after 2 !Evening 59 minutes after 2. it. LONDON : • MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19, 1842. Every day brings us evidence that sound and just opinions are making rapid progress m the agricultural districts. It is of great importance to convince the farmers that the fall of price, of which they complain, is caused by their own mutual competition, and by the diminished means of their customers. That truth once mastered, they wilt be sensible that there are other causes which affect prices than those enactments of the Legislature on which the farmers have been brought up to rely. They will probably see that if they follow the advice "now so bounteously poured out by the landlords to under-drain, to employ more labourers, and to improve their tillage, while the manufacturers and the town population remain in their present condition, they will only ruin themselves. Every shilling they now lay out in improving and extending tillage will be an additional obligation on them to sell their crops almost as soon as they can be gathered next year, and will increase their dependence on the monied classes, and on their landlords, unless, in the mean time, the manufacturers go most rapidly • ahead, and the demand for their produce rapidly increases. They cannot export it, that is clear, till the price falls so low as to be ruinous under theirpresent charges. They must sell, therefore, to the town population, and if these remain im poverished and unemployed, while the farmers are all exerting themselves under the influence of agricultural societies, and the advice of interested landlords to improve tillage, it is clear that the price of their produce, by dint of their own coin petition, will fall ruinously low. To show them, on far better authority than ours, how the matter works, we are about to quote a passage from the speech of the Earl of ITARBOROUGH, at the meet ing of the Isle of Wight Agricaltural Society, held on Thursday last. The Noble Earl said— Ile had been taking a tour into the manufacturing districts, and had had conversations with the most sensible people he could fall in with ; and he was glad to find a great alteration in opinions. Even partners in the same firm differed with regard to high prices find low prices. That was not the case some time ago, when the cry WaS " Down with everything, that they might have cheap bread and cheap mea t." He could gssure them that thousands in the manufac turing districts Were without a penny even to give for meat. In some places it was frightful to see them. Mills that used to be full of work, were now not em ployed in any way whatever. Formerly th e peop l e • in those Now wanted nothing but to b eat . d own wiser. Th e prices. kiow they were beginning to be • 4 • • 'i • ‘t, os° • • , Wlol.# „; 4 , Ziht sun. mills that were at work belonged to persons of great capital, but the smaller mills, that worked only for orders, were shut up. From what he could make out, he thought they were remarkably well off in the island. The price of their meat was higher than it was in the north, because they consumed all that they wanted amongst themselves. In the north the la ' bourers were habituated to eating meat, but here they were not, and if their wages were much higher, he did not think they would eat mutton, for they were fond of their bacon, which was a very good thing for them. In the north every labourer eat meat. Wages were lower than they had been for a long time ; they were 2s. a day. In Yorkshire they were 2s. 3d. a day; but they were higher there because they were near the manufacturing towns, and good agricultural labourers were difficult to be got. From the distress that existed in the north, the demand for meat had fallen, and a butcher that generally averaged seven bullocks every market day, now did not average two. If meat were a penny a pound, the distress amongst the manu facturers was so great that they could not buy it. The distress was frightful.—(A Voice—" They want more employment.") The Noble Earl is quite correct in ascribing the present fall in the price of meat to the inabi lity of the manufacturing population to buy meat, the consequence of which is, as the Noble Earl knows, that the oxen from Lincolnshire, which used to be sent to the manufacturing towns in Yorkshire, are now sent to Smithfield, where the competition with the Hampshire and Sussex stock beats down the price of all. The Noble Earl is wrong, however, in accusing the manufacturers of ever having wished to sacrifice everything to cheapness. That is the slang and unfounded charge of the Tory journals. The town population were first made sensible of the evils of he Corn-laws by a great rise of prices, and they naturally inveighed against that exorbitant price. Gradually the still more mighty evils of restricted trade, want of employment, want of wages, in creased poor-rates, augmenting destitution and crime, and much actual starvation, becatoe mani •fest ; prices fell without giving relief, and then the manufacturers, without relaxing their hosti lity to prices artificially forced up by the law, urged against the law these graver charges. They never wanted mere cheapness; they wanted plenty, they wanted brisk trade, they wanted free trade, they wanted justice, and were only led to demand low prices because high prices was the primary effect of the unjust law. As the Noble Earl has seen the real cause of the decay of the agricultural interest in the destitution of the manufacturers, we hope that he will relax his hostility to that repeal of the Corn-laws which would give work and wealth to the manufacturing districts, and that in another session we shall not find Lord WORSLEY one of the foremost and most distinguished opponents both of a reduction of duty and of total repeal. The Earl of HARBOROUGH'S remarks throw a clear light on the effects of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy in abolishing the prohibition on the im portation of cattle. The Premier grasped at that little relaxation because it bad not been mentioned by the Whigs. He could say that was his own. He taunted them with not having thought of cattle, and boasted of his great achievement on that head. Short-sighted, igno rant statesman ! He ought to have known that. the condition of the Manufacturing classes was such that their consumption of meat was nearly. at an end, and that the price would fall whether he allowed fbreign cattle to be brought in or not. To gain a triumph over an 'antago nist, rather than promote the public good, he only slightly altered the Corn-law, and he did away with % the prohibition to import cattle. Now, poor man, he has to bear, amongst his uninformed agricultural friends, to whose ignorance and prejudices he has pandered, all the blame of the whole reduction of the price of cattle, as if it had every farthing been caused by a few lean cows brought from Holland and Spain. He has suffered in character and popularity, and the good cause of free trade has in some degree suffered from his alliance. His injudicious relaxation has brought additional unpopularity on free trade amongst the agriculturists, by making them at tribute their sufferings to his relaxation of the restrictive system, whereas all the blame of them really belongs to those restrictive laws which have deprived the manufacturers of trade, and disabled them from purchasing beef and mutton. We can trace in this case, as in many others, a distinct connexion between the adoption of a party policy and the loss of popularity and repu tation. So always was it, and so will it ever he, and so shall cunning men always find out in the end—at least whenever they apply their cun ning to national affairs—that they overreach themselves. We must now quote from the report of the same meeting, which we find in the Hampshire Independent, some observations of the Rev. WALTON 'WHITE. They were, it is true, but the echo of Mr. H. D. GORING'S speech of the previous week, at Steyning, but being spoken in a district purely agricultural, and much eulogised by the agriculturists present, they are a strong additional evidence of the progress of sound doc trines. Very soon there will be no person-- neither agriculturists nor manufacturers—favour able to the Corn-law; and if Sir ROBERT PEEL does not repeal it, he will have the demerit of upholding a law which he knows to be unjust and mischievous, against the voice of the whole empire. The Rev. Walton White said they knew they must depend on their own exertions in future. They could not look forward to protection.—(Hear.) The principle was broken down, and they would go on until they returned to first principles. It would hare been well, perhaps, for them, if these first principles had never been departed from, for in that case they would not have been in the difficulties in which they now found themselves. It seemed to him that the principle of protection would in every way gradually he with drawn—(Hear)—and that all classes of society, in all pursuits, whether in trade or agriculture, would be left to their own exertions. He had no fears for agri culture; he believed that all eventually would be well. Capital, intelligence, and industry must be successful, and would succeed better in agriculture than in any other way. The demand for agricultural productions could not fail. They (the agriculturists) were not liable to those revulsions which extended to trade; and when they returned to first principles, those changes which from time to time caused panic and alarm, would be at an end. Returning to first principles, means returning to the natural laws which regulate the production, price, and sale—the demand and the supply o f all commodities. It means totally repealing the Corn and all other laws restricting trade, and it means the overthrow of our present mis chievous system of meddling with, and attempt ing to r egu l a te, everything. It tells men:th at the cure for panics is reliance on the natural laws which regulate society. To find a clergyman espousing and recommending such opinions to aviculturists will he as useful to his class as it is creditable to the individual. It redeems the body from the accusation of having defended the Corn laws because they were supposed to increase the tithe-rent charge. We are not without hope that more of the clergy will follow this example, and be anxious, by their conduct, to clear themselves fr )m the suspicion of heartless sordidness which now weakens their influence, and inflicts irrepa rable damage on the Church. Two specimens of summary conviction by Mr. GREENWOOD, the Magistrate of Clerkenwell, have appropriately called forth the censure of our Contemporaries. A boy was selling pictures in the street to gain a few pence, he was pounced on by the police, and fur this innocent and even virtuous action, made an offence by the law, he was sentenced by Mr. GREENWOOD to be im prisoned fourteen days. The prisoner, who is described as an innocent, intelligent-looking child, about eleven years of age, begged of his Worship not to punish him, as he sold the prints "for the support of a widowed mother." But the Magistrate was inexorable, the law must be car ried into execution. Selling prints was, in. his eyes, only an excuse for begging; and to prison fbr fourteen days, to herd with felons, was the widow's son sent for endeavouring to procure food for his mother. The other case was a poor lad, about fourteen years old, with scarcely as many garments about him as covered his nakedness, whom a policeman saw begging. The Magistrate satisfied himself in t hi s case, as in tfie other ease, 'of the boy's iniquity by his own imagination. He supposed' that the lad had put on these garments for the purpose of exciting compassion. In vain the youth supplicated that a policeman might visit his abode to see how lie lived; the Magistrate, fully convinced of his own integrity and his own immaculate love of justice, was again inexorable, and the boy was sent for twenty-one days to the House of Correction, to become most likely a member of the copartnery of thieves. We trace, in Mr. GREENWOOD'S decision, the influence of a class of official publications, the effects of which seem at present to be somewhat mischievous. Commissioners have been em ployed to inquire very minutely into the habits of vagrants; and though they have not, as far as we know, discovered any means whatever by which vagrancy can be prevented, they have dressed up so many stories of the pranks of vagrants, many of them resting on no better I foundation than the boasting of the vagrants themselves, whose word in other matters would be considered wholly worthless, that the hearts of the community have been hardened against every vagrant. He is always considered an im pudent impostor. A vagrant is treated by the Legislature, the Magistrates, and the public generally, as a being without any rights, who mhy be taken up at the pleasure of a policeman, and incarcerated at the pleasure of a Magistrate. In the olden times when a vagrant was a pil ferer, both by force and fraud, and in other I make good his innocence, or leave the country in disgrace. If the fact is established beyond the controversy of even the Ministerial journals, LOUIS PHILIPPE will probably disown the acts of his representative, dismiss hint for a time from office, and endeavour by all possible means to hush up this revolt, like the other in which the ex-QUEEN-REGENT'S party so signally failed. He may, however, have other designs in view, for we believe he would have recourse to any ex tremity rather than lose the opportunity of mar rying one of his sons, or at least one of the Boun- DON line to the young QUEEN. The Consul, therefore, may provoke a collision between him self and ESPARTERO'S Government, and under pretence of avenging some imaginary insult, Louts PHILIPPE may make war on Spain. In such a case with which party would Europe sympathise ? With the SOVEREIGN who che rishes at his Court a worthless woman, guilty of two rebellions against a neighbouring State with which he is at peace, or with a REGENT chosen by the nation, who put down civil war, and has since been actively engaged in healing the divisions which so long afflicted that unhappy country ? It is needless to answer the ques tion. The most despotic Monarch in Europe would not abet such a deed, and it would be de nounced with ;general execration. ESPARTERO on the former occasion acted with great prudence, and gave the French Government no pretence for any act of aggression. We trust he will pre serve that character to the last, and if affairs come to extremities, throw the responsibility on the proper head. The Spanish nation appears unanimous on the question, and any course of policy like that anticipated would rouse them to madness. At present not one district or town in Spain sympathises with the conspirators. The Madrid Gazette of the Bth publishes dispatches from the political chiefs of Toledo, Jaen, Pam peluna, Ciudad Real, Seville, Huelva, Guadala jara, Soria, St. Seba.stian, Burgos, Logrono, Le_ rida, Huesca, Almeria, Temel, Bilbao, Malaga, and Saragossa, announcing that the utmost trap. quillity prevailed in the districts under their care times when the community was generally pros perous, comparatively little evil resulted from - . ._... he over-much righteousness and bard-hearted- ness of the Legislature, the Magistrates, and the public. But now when distress has reduced a great multitude of respectable working men and artisans to vagrancy, as was proved at the Anti- Corn-law meeting at Lincoln—these general dispositions cause, as in these two cases, a great deal of mischief. Unmerited punishment is in flicted on persons more deserving of compassion than anger. We make laws to deprive men of food, and then we punish them with imprison ment fur not having wherewithal to eat, and being hungry. We will not allow theth to labour honestly, and then, under a notion be- 1 The capital, too, is quite tranquil, and awaits with patience the development of this extraor dinary outbreak. There is no later intelligence from Barcelona, but th , 3 Minister at War pub lishes the annexed dispatch from General VAN HALEN gotten by elaborate Reports, we imprison every seeker after food and work as a vagrant. In this matter neither the public, the Magistrates, nor the Legislature is free from blame, and neither are those Commissioners who have dressed up, perhaps for the sake of making an impression, the Reports on vagrancy. From such scenes as those at Clerkenwell, from the remarks of the Magistrates, from the terrible tales we read every day of people dying for want of assistance, from the many cruel crimes we read of in the papers, and from the vast number of punishments inflicted by the Magis trates for actions equally as harmless or meri- In consequence of the events which I have already described, from eight in the morning of to-day (the 4th), the generality of the population, to stop the ef fects of the cannonade, decided on di sarm i ng t h e 'groups which the revolutionary Junta had armed. A little after, Commandant Garcia, who headed those of Barcelona, faithful to the Government, announced that we could enter the citadel, as white flags were displayed from the Atarazanas and other points. I gave orders to the regiment of Zamora, to the Foot Artillery and Sappers, to occupy these forts. I or dered General Zurbano at the same time to enter the citadel if there were no great obstacles. The Com mittee of Proprietors then coming to assure me that the population were prepared to receive the troops pacifically, I marched from Sarria to occupy the place, which was accomplished at three in the afternoon. At half-past five the ordonnance and address enclosed were issued. The Commandant of Barcelona gave up 200 of the most turbulent who were arrested, and who will suffer condign punishment. The Treasurer of the Provincial Department tells me, that besides 47,000 crowns taken by the revolutionary Junta, 37,000 more were stolen by the last Junta, &c. FINE WEATHER. torious as the two punished by Mr. GREENWOOD, we begin to think that our countrymen and women are becoming a very hard-hearted, cruel set of people. Want and hunger, and the fear of hunger, seem to press on all classes, and threaten to convert them into ferocious savages. We trespass on one another; and were we to decline as fast in the next six years as we have in the last six, the morals and condition of the Chinese would be exemplary in comparison to the morals and condition of the English. The Morning Chronicle very properly styles the sending of these two youths to prison as " manufacturing criminals." Unfortunately for society, nearly all the Magistrates throughout the country are employed, like Mr. GREENWOOD, in " manufacturing criminals." They manu facture some twenty or thirty thousand a year, and are much honoured for their labour. Our Contemporary suggests that there should be a supervisor of the Magistrates; but who is to be supervisor of the supervisor? Who shall Butterflies in flaunting pride, Showing off at Christmas-tide! Sun with June's effulgence glowing, Winds with August's mildness blowing! Birds exulting, as in season, Thinking, doubtless, and with reason, That December's iron sway Ihs yielded to the smiles of May ! Never yet was seen a change So unparalleled 'and strange I Baffling to their great surprise, Moore's and Murphy's prophecies, And proving that the year is thrown Topsy-turvy, upside down ! Ten to one ! who takes the bet ! In a week or's° we get . Summer's daintiest fruit-pies, Peas, and beans, and strawberries, Parsnips, born of April's shower, Lamb, mint-sauce, and cauliflower ! The intelligence from Lisbon is to the 12th instant, and will be found under that head. If the statements respecting the duties charged on English manufactures and produce be correct, and Portugal refuses to make material re ductions, England certainly has no great reason for altering the wine duties. It would appear that most articles are charged 50 per cent. ad valorem duty, and some so high as 130 per cent. Even the Dutch are more favoured than the English. This is a strange return for good services so often ren dered to a country that, but fbr foreign aid, would long ago have been swallowed up by her more powerful neighbour. After such rare change, I trow, Nothing need surprise us now; We may soon expect to trace Smiles on Whiggery's sullen face ; Tories shouting out with glee, " Down with Corn-Monopoly !" Dan O'Connell and Dick Sheil "Voting side-by-side with Peel ; High Church Bishops in a row Kissing Antichrist's great toe ; Hume, inspired by novel hopes, Sporting choice, poetic tropes; Sibthorpe, gone his past alarms, Clasping Russell in his arms; Feargus and his Chartist clan Turning Peelites to a man; Borthwick speaking, two months hence, Almost like a man of sense; And (queerest change of all) John Bull Grown so incorrigibly dull As actually—A, thought distressing ! To deem the Income-tax a blessing ! guarantee the public that the Secretary of State will not neglect his duty or prostitute his func- tions as well as a Justice ? Has the Minister of Justice in France or Prussia escaped without reproach ? We believe not ; and, considering the hard-heartedness from which the evil flows, we hold our Contemporary's suggestion to be no adequate cure for it. We have said before, and we say again, our whole system of criminal juris prudence requires to be investigated by philo sophers. Its principles must be examined and proved, instead of ever building and building on an insecure or rotten foundation. To inflict pe nalties, seems for the public, which has over whelming power, the easiest thing in life ; to draw good out of the infliction, one of the hardest tasks judging from the want of snecest--that men every undertook. It gives us infinite pleasure to see that the Income-tax is working just as we anticipated it would work—just as such a tax ought to work that is to say, in so offensive, vexatious, and tyrannical a manner, as to inspire us with san guine hopes that Sir ROBERT PEEL must, at no distant period, consent to its total repeal. At a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the merchants, tradesmen, and inhabitants generally, of the Ward of Tower, which was held yesterday, the greatest possible dissa tisfaction was expressed at the surcharges in the returns of this detestable impost ; and a gentle man named MAITLAND observed that "having been surcharged in all his returns, he could not refrain from coming forward and asking the meeting to go along with him in denouncing the whole system of surcharging which had been practised. He considered the time and trouble expended in seeking relief by appeal more intolerable than the pecuniary loss itself." Meetings of a similar character to this, and at which similar language is held, arc, we per ceive, getting up, not only in the metropolis, but also in many of the more influential provincial towns; and at all these meetings, the bitterest complaints are uniformly made, of the preposte rous and impudent nature of the surcharges. Is not the Income-tax sufficient of itself to supply the wants of Government, but its amount must be increased by every artifice to which ingenuity, unembarrassed by principle, can have recourse ? This invariable system of surcharging is not the result of mere accident. It is scarcely possible that there can be a mistake in the case, A hint, we suspect, has been thrown out from head quarters. Money is wanted—friends and sup porters are clamorous— so money must be raised, and the machinery of the Income-tax furnishes —or, as it hoped, will furnish —the necessary amount. The last election must have cost an immense sum; and who shall assure us that the scandalous system of extortion now so generally attempted, under the plea of collecting the Income - tax, has n o t i ts or i g i n in the anxiety of G its unscrupuloZer a l g tm en e t n ii t a to t ms of to Toryism, was a matter of life or death ? _____--,--- , • The mystery in which the origin of the insur rection at Barcelona was at first involved is now gradually disappearing. ' The suspicious and med dling part taken in the affair by the French Con sul, the lying telegraphic dispatches transmitted to Paris, and the lamentations of the Govern ment journals on the failure of the conspiracy, showed that others besides the Christinos and Republicans were mixed up in this atrocious scheme. The Madrid Gazette of the Bth leaves no doubt on the subject. It positively states ' that it was got up in Paris, and implicates in the plot the French Consul at Barcelona. The Barcelona Constitucional confirms the statement, and openly accuses a "certain Consul" with hav ing been instrumPrital in creating the revolt. " The time is not yet come," says that journal on the Bth i!lstant, "for expressing an opinion on recent events. At a later period we will expose the foreign hand which, under a semblance of philanthropy, spreads gold to corrupt the vile, to bribe traitors, and to direct the arms of mis guided men against their country. Neither will we hesitate to criticise certain acts of the Go , 3:ertnnent, which are of a nature to produce a very different effect from that which was expscted from them. At prevent it is only permitted to us to mingle our tears with the blood of the vic tims, and to ' implore the Government not to give way to an unworthy feeling of ven geance, and not to shed a drop of innocent blood." The affair, therefore, canuot rest as it is. A remonstrance will be made by the Spanish Government, and the Consul must either I TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1842 dare it. Propagandism ? This is practised, though not avowedly. If all intervention, whether friendly or hostile, be declined ; if the conspiracies which are plotted and the insurrections which are excited are blushed at, we have the right to come to this conclu sion :—Either take off the mask and affirm boldly, that you desire to plunge Spain into complete anarchy, in order that she may afterwards throw her self into the arms of your friends ; .or declare, with us, that ill-hu mour i s no t b ecom i ng a G overnment like France with respect to Spain. Let not the mean ing of our words be exaggerated. We know that the occasion of the bombardment of Barcelona would be badly chosen to recommend our Government to adopt some new and benevolent measure towards Spain ; but we regard as fatal the policy of those who, for the last two years, have not ceased declaiming against th e Spanish Governme n t, who eagerly catch a false intel ligence, in order to separate as widely as possible France from Spain, and who seek to identify our cause with that of all the enemies of the Regent and the Constitution. The bombardment of Barcelona, therefore, afflicts us much more than those who make so much noise about it. We condemn it in the name of humanity, and we see, besides, that it is used as a n 1 argument to induc e , if possible, France to come to a complete rupture with Spain. BOURSZ—Pinis. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. First Highest L.owest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 60... 191 60... 119 45... 119 45 Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 191 50... 101 SO Threes, ex div. 79 20... 79 20... 79 05.. 79 05 Bank of France 3345 ...3345 ...3342 50...3342 50 Laffitte Bank 1,000f...1053 75 ..1055 ...1053 75...1055 5,000f...5080 ...5080 ...5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives 1840 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044 ... 1044 Spanish Active. . Portuguese Fives 32* ... 32i ... 32 ... 32 Neapolitan Roman .. 104* ... 104 i ... 1044 ... 104} RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 852 50... 855 ... 852 50... 855 Versailles, LB 125 ... 135 ... 125 ... '32 50 R. B 270 ... 272 50... 270 ... 272 50 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 205 ... 202 50— 205 The tribute to Sir John and Lady Pirie for promoting, (luring the late Mayoralty, the public welfare, the charities, and the benevolentinstitu lions of the City, w•e are glad to Fee has not been proposed from any party or political feelings, but solely from the esteem and gratitude entertained by the public in general for their services. Mr. Grote, the late Whig Member fbr the City, and Mr. Masterman, the present Tory Member, are two of the joint treasurer. , , and the subscribers belong to all parties. This is creditable to all, and renders the gift doubly valuable. THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT " As an illustration of the remarkable mildness of the weather during the past week, it may be men tioned that on Tuesday last several butterflies were observed sporting in the sunshine,"--Herald of this Morning. donnanee has just been is sue d relative to the The Pari s papers contain no news . An or importation of books into France. In place of booksellers' p a ckages bein g sent to the Prefec ture nearest t h e lplace of_l an di ng, to be verified, they are for the future to be exam i ne d b y agents specially a ppteinted a t the sea-ports th roug h which such articles are allowed to pass. All pirated editions are to be seized, and, when a doubt exists, the matter is to he referred to the Minister of the Interior, from whose department an answer is to be given within forty d a y s , French works, the property o f p ersons in foreign countries, or being a foreign edition of works which have become public property, may be im ported, provided that proofs of their origin be sae tisfactorily given. The re-importation of French works is to be permitted only on a special appli cation of the publisher to the Minister of the Inte rior. These conditions are applicable to lithogra phic prints and engravings. Books taxed at less than 150 francs for 100 kilogrammes are to be packed separately according to - the several works, so that the different parcels in one large .package may be clearly perceived. Should they be mixed indiscritninatelY, the highest duty is to be levied on the whole. Books intended for transit are to be similarly arranged. All books sent to France must be either half-bound or stitched. The following places are given as those through which books may be admitted into France; those marked with an asterisk are open to the admission of French books :—Dunkirk, *Lille, *Valenciennes, Forbach, Sierck, Wissen bourg, *Strasbourg, St. Louis, Verrieres de Joux, *Les Rousscs, Belleg•arde, *Pout de Beauvoisin, Chapareillan, * Marseilles, Perpignan, Behobia, *Bayonne, Bordeaux, Nantes, *Le Havre, Rouen, Boulogne, Calais, Ajaccio, *Bastia. AccOrding to the National the following is the amount of foreign merc h an di se dispatched His Imperial Highn ess th e A rc hd u k e o f A us t r i a through France in tr ans it s d ur i ng th e y ea r 1841, has, during his sojou rn i n thi s country , rece i ve d t h e most marked and distinguished attention from noble and the countries to which it belonged. The individuals, as also public bodies; and, on the occa total was 203,000,000 f,, of which 70,000,000 f. sion of his last visit to 'Windsor Castle, to take leave, wercforwarded by S w i tzer l an d' ; by Great Britain, was honoured by his Roy a l Hi g h ness Prince Albert, who accompanied his I m p er i a l Hi g h ness f rom t h ence • 30,900,000 f.; the Ger man U n i on , 29,000, 0001. , Sardinia, 22,000,000 f. ; an d t h e U n ited Stat es , to Mivart's Hotel, wher e th e ill us t r i ous par t y were 16,000,000. also attended by Lord Liv e rp so l, the Marquis of A letter dated Toul on , t h e 9th inst., published Exeter, Sir E. howater, feti CHlNA.—The Hon. East I n di a C ompany ' s war in the N a ti o nal, st ates that t h e ships ordered to steamer Nemesis, Lieutenant W. 11. Hall, R.N., be laid up in ordinary have still on board three- Commander, has been ordered to Formosa, to effect fourths of their cr ews , an d a ll th e i r art ill er y. th e re l ease o f C a pt a i n G u ll y an d the crew of the Ann , The Paris jour na l s st ill cont i nue t o d e b a t e and about 200 of the troop s e m b ar k e d i n t h e with acrimony on t h e resu l t o f t h e B arce l ona transport Nerbudda, which, as we ll as th e A nn, was some time since wrecked on th a t i s l an d, a ca l am i ty insurrection. It i s some re li e f t o fi n d even one eo.. e t Hwed by the captivity or till on board. of them takin g a rat i ona l v i ew o f t h e a ff a i r, and .-. uica POST TO CHlNA.—Extract from a letter, artkle fc©m we therefor e copy w i t h p l easure t h e following q dated Macao, September 18, 1542 :—" I owe yo u an the Constitulionnel : ackfioseledgment cf your very kind and friendly We have for these two years past declared our- letter, of the 28th of May, which reached me among selves partisans of a policy of ll good understanding the earliest of that month's overland—viz., on the 4th and conciliation between the French Government and of August, Which was only 60 days after their dis the existing Government of Spain. This is an addi- patch from London—the quickest post on record to tional motive for us to deplore and censure the violence this part of the world, considering the whole was of which Barcelona has been the object, the bombard- brought from Bombay to this in a sailing vessel." meat of that manufacturing city, and the cruelties Yesterday the Chambre des Requetes was occupied which are said to have been committed after its sue- with an appeal from the judgment of the Cour Royale render. We are of opinion, however, that the latter of Rouen, in the action brought against the owners have probably been exaggerated in the accounts that of the English steamer the Britannia, plying be have appeared, A an, we think also that Europe would tvveen Loudon and Havre, for having run down do well to wait for the judgment of Spain herself on the French steamer the Phenix. Heavy damages these events. In the meantime we cannot, even on the had been awarded against the English Company, occasion of t hi s sad event, make use of the same language as the accident was dedlared by the tribunal to as those journals which for two years have declared have occurred through the negligence of their ser a Personal war against Espartero, or which ha 4 stnnt Vanta, and against this decision the present appeal othermotive ofpoliticalsympathYw With th„ernbel§. Spain was lodged, on the ground that Art. 14 of the Civil has for eight years presentee us with a sad spectacle, and Code which allo ws a French subject to cite before all parties fusee to reproach themselves with having the French tribunals a foreigner for money due, did shed blood with barbarity. We will excuse in none not apply to offences attended with injury to property. of them the fury and vengeance and cruelty which arts The Chambre des Requetes, after hearing the argu distinguishing traits in the Spanish character, go tilents of the Counsel of the Company, confirmed in heroic in other respects. But let Ils not be expected every respect the judgment already given.— Gelignani to join in the furious cries which are now set up 'of Thursday. against Espartern by those who would have found ex- PRICE OF BRFAD IN PARES AND LONDON.—The cases for the insurgents who murdered 800 soldiers, if highest price of white wheat of the first quality in ment, o they had asucceeded in pr oc lai m ing another Govern- Paris i s 32f. per 11 hectolitre, which is equal to r nother Regency in Spain. We blame with ; 48s. 10d. per quarter ; and the highest price of white energy the bombard men t of B arce lona, but we do not wheat in London being 555. per quarter, it follows go the le ng th of wishing for Spain a new revolution, that wheat i s 12i1 per cent. dearer in London than in anarchy, or a republic. What do those persons de- , Paris. The duty on the importation of foreign corn sire, who connected as much as thee - . could the haine 1 into trlland is U4lv 20s. per quarter, which is' equal of France with the revolt of Barcelona ?Do they 'to per cen t. an the price of wheat in Paris. nearly 41 wish to make a conquest of Catalonia, and transform I highest- ' ' price of flour in .L. __ -o ,is is 54f per 159 . it into a French department ? Suppose that Catalonia i , 1.1 The which is equal to 335. lici. 1 °grammes., p- , had been all on fire, and that the insurrection, had '' . • Ise spread , 2801 b English; aid the highest price of flour in Ise spread into a civil war, would they have found, an ' • „ ..Y. ' don being 455. per sack, it follows that flour is 3 . 2 i thing but words to support the ineurgeme' ',9‘AUSO ? ' i per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The price Yet it is necessary to know clearly What ie desired. There has a good deal been said On:the sub' • , ._ 1 of bread . . of the first quality in rill , § is 31c. per kilo , J e ct.fk gramme, which is equal to rather pore than sid .per substituting in Spain French influence for that. of -, elb. En lish, and the price of tbi,'s 4P?. loaf at the full England. That, no doubt, li"vory Ane. . 'Bet ' what . pricqd bakers in LOndon being / iovv.7t-,d.,. it follows means are to be employed for the . Piirpose ?' Is 'it . that llread is nearly 43 per cent. dearer in London an armed invasion ? Certainly not, no one. would I in p • , k kh a n ans. THE TORY DINNER. (From the Devonport Independent.) We understand that the Gallant Commander-in- Chief of this district, Major -General the Hon. H. Murray, has promulgated the following praiseworthy caution among the military officers under his com mand. We should be happy to see the same spirit also carried out by the heads of the naval depart ments ; as in all decided political demonstrations, we think officers in active service display gool taste in absenting themselves : " The — Major-General thinks it necessary to caution the officers against attending any political dinners or political meetings which may take place in the wes tern district. "It is seldom that meetings of the above nature pass off without some imprudent speeches being made, of which the objection does not exclusively attach to the speakers, but extends to the assembly. A much greater evil, however, results from subsequent misre presentations, by which officers who have attended such political dinners or meetings, might find them selves involved in serious blame for language they have not used, and opinions they have never enter tained, but to which it is presumed that, contrary to their duty as officers, they have given sanction by their presence.—Dec. 3, 1842." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.. (From The Sun of Saturday,) In the C.tton Market at Liverpool yesterday the sal Were 5,000 balm', but the quotations for best American were about id. per lb. lower, and for Surats also, than on Friday week last. Shares were flat, end there were but few sales. Eastern Counties, 8i ; Great - Western, Fifths, 88 ; Liverpool and Manches ter, Quarters, 451 ; Midland Counties, Fifths, 2/. 6s. The Acadia steamer furnishes a few items of com mercial interest from the United States and Canada; the letters from the former place reaching to the 2d inst., and from the latter to the 26th ult. The winter in Canada had given signs of commence ment, but the steamboats and ferryboats were still running, and the temperature was mild. At Mon treal the last sales made in Ashes were at 2.55. for Pots, and at 265. for Pearls. American Flour was held at 225. 6d., and Canadian had been sold as low as 21s. 3d. at three months. Provisions were held very firmly, owing to the very favourable accounts from England, and many large holders had withdrawn from the market. Prices could not be called higher. Large Beef sold at 2.i dollars; prime 4 dollars, and prime Mess at 6 dollars. Prime Mess Pork was .5 to 8+ dollars. All American packed, Canadian cured, ranged from .ss. to 7s. 6d. per barrel. The stock of Canadian was low, but about 40,000 barrels of American were in the stores. Wheat was unsaleable, except at very low prices, 3s. 6d. per bushel, compared to flour. The banks were drawing on London at par, according to the rate of 1/. 4s. 4d. currency per 1/. sterling, fixed by the last Act. The last v(asel for England left Montreal on the 23d ult. The financial position of Pennsylvania attracts much interest here, s it is feared the English cre ditors will get no interest next February. Mr. Biddle had published a letter on the subject, endeavouring to prove the solvency of the State which had at tracted much attention. We subjoin the leading points of importance on this side the Atlantic : " I believe that Pennsylvania was led into her large scheme of internal improvement by the recommen dation and expected assistance of the General Govern ment. And I believe that in the construction and tiontinistration of these works she has committed many errors and indiscretions, but these were incident to the infancy of all great enterprises, and she has made no mistake which she cannot repair, and com mitted no indiscretion for which she is not able and willing to atone. And, finally, I believe that she is equally able and willing to discharge honourably every dollar of her present liabilities. " Her position is simply this :—She owes a debt, contracted chiefly to make her internal improvements, of snore than 39 millions of dollars, composed of the following sums : " Six per Cents., 1,829,059 dollars 37 cents ; Five per Cents., 32,788,167 dollars 10 cents ; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 200,000 dollars ; Four per Cents. (temporary), 15,000 dollars making a total of 34,822,226 dollars 47 cents.—bearing an interest of 1,659,982 dollars 67 cents. " Ist. Add Six per Cent. Stock issued for interest unpaid in July last, 874,118 dollars 71 cents, bearing, an interest of 48,000 dollars. " 2d. Claims of domestic creditors under the Act of June, 1842, filed already, 1,159,401 dollars 65 cents ; yet to be filed (estimated), 200,000 dollars; making a total of 1,359,041 dollars 65 cents, bearing an interest of 81,542 dollars 49 cents. " 3d. Relief notes issued upon the responsibility of the State, 2,206,650 dollars 68 cents; interest 1 per cent. till funded, 22,066 dollars 40 cents; making a total of principal, 39,262,037 dollars 51 cents ; and of interest, 1,864,238 dollars 56 cents." Accounts from Australia have come to hand of a much later date, being from Port Philip, August 17, Hobart Town, August 19, and Launceston, August 25. The price of wheat at Van Diemen's Land was 20s. per 100Ibs. The new Sydney Bill of Incoryora tion was leading the other colonies to demand similar institutions. The revenue of New South Wales, whence our accounts though indirect are later, was decidedly better last year, and the expenditure esti mated for 1843 was lower. Nothing beyond mere surmise or rumour has trans pired up to the present time respecting the successful tender for the Canada Loan Debentures, though the Stock Exchange people will have it that Mr. Maubert, a member of 'the house, and others in connexion with him, will get it at about 108. In opposition to this it is said that all the tenders have been rejected, and that the deben. tures will be sold openly in the market; while a third statement is to the effect that the Bank of England will take the whole on higher terms than any other parties, and whichit had intimated its willingness t o do, before the public centract, for mere form's sake, and to prevent any appearance- of favouritism, was announced. The Stock market is scarcely so good to-day. Con sols are .93 4 for the opening. The Government broker has invested 6,0001. in Reduced Three per Cents., a small part being the proceeds of Life An nuities granted. The prices of this Stock have been 941 and 94g. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 101 to 1011; Exchequer-bills are firm, at 50s. to 51s. premium ; and India Bonds have been at 435._ to 463. premium. The French Funds having gone lower, rather influence our market. The Foreign Market continues dull, and Spanish Stock is not so good, as the late troubles in Barcelona seem to involve the French as abettors, if not almost as principals. The Actives are 18i to 19, and the Three per Cents., 241. Mexican Bonds have been quiet at 311 ; Brazilian have realized 69} to 69i ; and Portuguese Converted, 32f. Austrian Bonds are 112. There have been only one or two bargains in the Share market. Brighton are 14 discount; Birming ham, 100 premium ; Ditto, Quarter, 241 premium ; and Paris and Rouen, 51 premium. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 16.—There is no material alteration in the Share Market and stock generally is but sparingly oTered :—Man chester and Birmingham, 20 to 201 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48 to 481 ; Lancaster and Preston, 281 to 294; ditto Three-Quarter Shares, 19 to 191 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 32 to 321. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds ....... 46 pm Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 52 pm Ditto 5001...... 52 pm Ditto Small Rank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... Consols for Acct. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent... . . Ditto, Metallic . .... Spanish, 5 per cent.. — Ditto, Deferred 10i French, 5 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Dutch, 2i per cent....... 52i Ditto, 5 per cent. Rank Stock 3 per . Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.... 3i per Cent. Red... 1016 New 3i per Cent — New 5 per Cen', -- Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 123 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 FOREIG tustrian, 5 per cent. ll2 Belgian, 5 per cent lO2 Brazilian 80nd5.... 69i Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent B o ll, Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 perot. 77_ SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 43 Bristol Z.nd Exeter (70 paid) .. Great Western, (65 p a id) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) ...... . Ditto Quarter Shar es (25 p a id) 49g London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 614 Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 22it Ditto Scrip (90 naidl FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—A dreadful accident has occurred in the portion of the international railway in the interior between Quicorain and St. Saulve, and what is snore terrible is, that if we may believe ‘ the accounts which have reached us, there is rea3on to sup posa that it wascaused by some evil disposed person. 'Du train which left Quicorain far St. Saulve, on the 14th, at a quarter past three o'clock in the after noon, ran off the rails at Quaronble, in France. The man on the look-out in the tender was killed, and a Custom-house officer had his thigh broken. None of the passengers were injured. It seems that a rail, which was raised pp at one end, caused this accident, and e y e n w ;,'nesses think it was t h e e iropt of malice. However, the se;,•vice is stopped; the French 6'2 7 sneers have required that the *tte of the place shall be Zscertained, and they have iCrbidden any one to go near it. The , effects of the peace with China already begfb: to be felt with us in several ways ; the cotton manu facture, in particular, have received a new stimulus, and prices have risen considerably. A couple of Greek houses, which have had a large quantity of cot ton in their warehouses for some years, have gamed large sums on this occasion. The King arrived yesterday evening at the Palace of Lacken, on his return from Ardenne. It is said that Baron Parquier, Presi lent of the Court of' Peers of France, will shortly conic. to Brus sels. BELGIAN FUN 3.— BRUSSELS, DEC. FL Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , — Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. ln2% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 93 -- Three per Cent. .... ..... - --- Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto --- ----- (1 . 8401 IO3N, Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 9B Society of Commerce. Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77 National Society . . Exchar ge on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, ec li. 11 ~ ~ , 1 ~. NI rLI t , 1)J...-VIENNA, DEC. 7 Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents 'three per Cents .. l7 Bank Shar , s Allgetneine Zeitung,Dec. 11, The winter bas completely set in at St. Peters burgh. On the 28th ult. the ice on the Neva was strong enough to _bear light carriages ; and on the 29th the passage over the Isaac's Bridge was re-esta blisked for the season. Pedestrians crossed from Oranienbatun on the 26th. SUM'ARY OF NEWS AND 3 10 Kb t C pintou. " Tl'ho runs may tea' • roRMIGN. Colonel Webb, whose trial for sending a challenrk ge to fight a duel, had created eicitement a t New Yosi has been convicted, but received an uncondition pardon from the Governor of the State. Congress was to assemble on Monday the 4th ill' "The large amount of 3pecie imported in Sew Orleans has induced some of the banks th ere to se,i sume cash payments in anticipation of the day fil e by law. The Union, City, C o mmercial, and Slat', were to resume on the 2dst inst." ' • •r Of A large conducta was on the way from the eits Mexico to Vera Cruz, with.specie, $130,000 a wi lich was said to be destined for New Orleans. of the On Wednesday, at two o'clock, the King d French took a promenade in the park of Neuillyi returned to the palace of the Tuileries. e ig . Their Majesties received, on Tuesday eve' s- a ': Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, the Sardinian sinlbasice dor, the Greek Minister, the Chancellor of Fr° Count d'Argout, and several peers. ° .„-, s eem' Espartero was still at Sarria on the 9th of -Li 1. , ber ; though his entrance into Barcelona had been;t vcral times announced as near at hand it is not e" th e .ie that he will appear there. It is believ ed that he 1% return to Madrid without entering the city. eeo . The Heraldo, the official paper of the ex-tql, a _ s d Regent states, that during the afternoon victo r ' ' ` tee instant cries of "Death to the Duke were raised in Seville, but that the distu r b a nce ea, ' by by those expressions was immediately suppresseu the National Guard. n ego' The Augsburgh Gazette announces that the tiations relative to the marriage of Princess Cl G o' tine,' of Orleans, with Prince Augustus, nf'S aie s ere burg Gotha Cohary (cousin of Prince Aieert)bo‘rtiy, terminated, and that the contract w ould - be j 5 `signed and ratified by both parties. Tll. Pr t c r e fon , to receive a million of francs, as -a marD a g e e r and to preserve all her rights under pact of the 7th of August, 1830. ,_. 23d ult., Priv ate letters from Constantinople o f the state that Jaffiz Mirza Khan, the late F i e s. l' A si s it i n ,is at' tachment to British interests of u_d bassador at the Ottoman Court, so n oted the Turkish capital as Plenipotenlia l r ' y 'as fr t : ‘ ! - P rett-huerßS t, i i b li fitd° arrange the differences pending between r.r4l%'°"' Persia. punx.ic opxNxos. , mes s in The Times thus accounts for the disturrn there Tipperary :—" Whatever difference of OPiT l i o ni in may be upon the question, between or upon w' to the particular rests the guilt of having given I ' l l nd, miserable agrarian system of the south of. Ire.' d 3 , s that upon the question whether other causes, hes',. Sides not which lies in the existence of that s ystem, P a s o ut' contributed to the production of the Emar ae , r° ;ast i 5 rages which still continue to recur—this •a% rd - e el)" admitted by all, even by those who think, 11 °'" - s ingt that the landlords are more sinned against than 6 l e tbeu r but that they are wholly sinned against, sillle ° ca use, selves—viz., that in the existence; from whatever w ith of this subletting, middleman, rack-rent s y stenl' os t,2 its necessary accompaniments of t e eming r clearances, • improvements,' and other qua P e i e th cal economies, has consisted one y great cal°Esda: per wretched condition, moral and m. phsical, nt sentry of the south, of Ireland p . Our •- - ; ° u di e ss, poraries, acerding to their res ec tive Pr t ilt assign other reasons also —as, for i d, the Toryism, Orangeism, or, on the other ha t !' riot nstanee, Repeal agitation, or the influence of the Rom i5ll nnite hood—for the prevalence of the evil; but theyonc, if in admitting the agrarian system to be als e . oit• e n f ot e the ou r sper,in h c e ip a a d l, m jio tt n e s d et t o h r a go t pmeiaitl e. al :1 0 4 , i b tf t differences have more or less aggravated the'er'v'se that they have in., any way been, an originat th The o ne R gr e e p a e t a c l a a t g is i e t , at c io a n nno is t f i o n r de a c n d in s s o ta p n a t i b p e ab c, it, or that the agrarian abuses have not been ; o y nced '• ea rior I ° pO te itebo y a a n nd er ß ig il i s i a la n t d er s3 o , point of time to the commencement of the •it ° P system et the e t r h g a a t n t i la se e d claim s p i t ra o e c y o 051 7 hardly deserves a serious refutation. But Pr in e- cit• e to the Repeal agitation there was no doubt the a .5i 0 0 tion, half political and half religious, for a lTh i en' of Roman Catholics to equal civil rights; tin", o f the to civil power. Now, that the life and strengt'h e l! conspiracy did not lie thesagitation 'vhele„weve,t raised for the acquisition of these privileges, "; made of the existing misery much wicked and designing persons Ina,Y: l r c ;o Pe r- Use suede them that political power was the..04 1 41 3- with . i tr id t i h n e g i r i, : - . l , i ) s tn tre i l l s e , m an t c l4 l itshaaitsotLloietfhi;thilr:noPtni°ll3oP,rudire;leendrjor.;eig- norliscothe:e., evils under which they Sutrered—howelfen, dven this may have been, yet that the essence of t i ` e ;, c itor tatio n tent mt and d e ,o fo u l t h r ): l s g , i e ng ha c v ir e c p,o um n s t ta in n u c e e d s , :t—ijugirhst;btils 111 tent did not lie in this superinduced' egftat i°ll 4 .s c oo' 'gjaloraf has long ceased ; s econdly, Roman Catholic,lo; (as Mr„ Scully) have :alien Victims to it; an d t ( i i suir Roman Catholic priests have, both prior an lies to sequent to the full' admission of Roman CA political power, not only iu . t,e.rfe,r ed • spirators, but have for so doing not onlx t hey notwithstanding the superstitious light ,w 1 o n , are in some places regarded by the peasantry, are to tering death at the hands of the Leaguers, b ut ated many cases been actually attacked and.roaltre_ e them. The existence of the mischief cannot b t t hat buted to any political party, as such oc.:110, which resisted, or to that which advocated, the il l s ; to ef the oman Catholics. It remains, therefore!Lio of Veinsttbtltiee erei:ll: the agar . ian system, and to that alone, the er :s 'b c i e st the mischief must be traced. Indeed, the faf,t as daylight, whoever may be to blame for it. ti.cor , The Herald thus Speaks of Mr. Greg's Greiff° law Prize Essay :—" The object of J 34 . 1 1 00 j-bet pamphlet, or Prize Essay,' if he has the oc„ . , t hat l t pride to insist upon it being such— is to sh°" oy ster is only by bolstering up the manufacturle c ont i. that the land can be possibly relieved fro m tt lati en ' nually increasing burden of a growing P °P te The reductio ad absurdum could be easill ! P I P ) , SO lit his statement of the case, because there 0102;vhooever, limit to the extension of IllarlufiletUreS, and c han ce h ° that limit is reached, to say nothing of ta t t he once their decline, the growing population mus tent t thrown back upon the land. To a certain ca tent process is going on at this moment, as, -I ‘„, ir e ‘eting vi n Y o o t r o k n sh ly ire in . Wood admitted the other day at a public be itlslreelal i t o ie n s s tio t n e ntihuestituhttirowee:_beui tointliceresoi currences of the past. What has cause When 11,„ ing redundance of population ? Das tl.rreneeeotn;ci factitious stimulus at work to produce P-i e c a use' t he non ? For such an effect there must be is riot h~ we know that the cultivation of the lan . , t ore oe cause ; for the economy of labour in agr, le re , it far outstripped the extension of agrienToo census of 1831 was taken very badly ; lt st the n tj , - ,il established beyond all dispute—narnelY, o f the :IA ber of families subsisting by the cultiva ti°- We c l° " 0 0 had in the ten preceding years decreased. , very much whether the purely agricultural rays/ is much greater now than it was half a e l l' and yet the total population, we are increasing at the rate of 200,000 a Yea r. • c le f We take the following. from the Clir b °" a i, ided, c ° , favourite fancy with most people is tic e like P t i re the fine old English gentleman.' n r° Oleo ° tore him residing on his ' bountiful esta just JO" to hi 6 and the soul of happiness to all around i ta ble well as generous to all his tenants, lila to his visitors, faithful to his friends, and ea° ir g e ountrY be tagonists. If a bold peasantry' he t r e laso rfi ll3 s t be pride,' surely , a noble-hearted lawn' s. w het Int l i t se their country s glory; and no rnatter.a r , dividual 6 ic e the particular, political opinions • A se man who, as a landlord, uses his legitun dinuiediate 7.oonitlf; to promote, not only the more o f the e°': l l3 o f lw his dependents, but the general goodA Chnirati° is sure to command the respect an. 0 , eon . 4 , who witness his private or learn his .the el -I %t We should be very sorry indeed to den); a mong .o ence of the fine old English gentleman theriisels,,, that portion of the landlords who theiridentif.,:l' WOl,, with Tory opinions. Narrow as may be gels' t he be short-sighted as may their views — may, tlll _, structive even of their own intere sts as il re s 0 policy to which they lend themselves, we fire solot aware that amongst the Tory landlords there,. wis e ° exomples of individuals who combine what is due to themselves, with that proli e •:. due t. whichleods to a right appreciatien of what 1 , e,. 11 i te, others. Aral however party heat may betray. 01 • 01 1 es tp party excess; e ar party prejudice enfeeble his ' with a sing; 10 capacity, the Tol - v landlord who acts . v o f minded pride, will often find that his person outweigh his political conduct, even in the I sv those who differ most wi:lely from h im. rtV , he such landlords there may be in the Tory P tlot 1 shall not undertake to say : but sure we ar l ', lfinily , 1 results of the last general election have fe. glory ° the ranks of the Tory p art y , dimmed the el the fine old English gentleman. die The Post says :—" Our belief is, that S' :I;ecipePe leads a life of deep anxiety from sincere d_ev l_ o plet to the well-being of the great body of the .!. iv e , present -to se which well-being he perceives at Ve helps i 5 naced by many gloomy circumstances. l• that all he has done, and all he contemplates el,..oolotee with the most anxious desire that all classes, 1 1 • t he poorest labourers to the richest nobles, .npl e Y ,"; 04 0 . better of the system of Government Willa h dire r he We believe that he spares no persona l l a bour - J" elv • to leaves nothing unconsidered w hich seeine bo• , assist him in forming just views of what chignliiticol one. And when we add to this, his great ruiner n which no one will dispute, his eletel,.,,oter fr.to do what seems to him fit to be done', no n c ole whom it may please or displease, and his ~, ;,; .. 91 4 111