The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

To-morrow will be published, Bvo., 10s. 6d- 'cloth, the Second Edition of L AYS of ANCIENT ROME. By the Right Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman& Just reads , with characteristic Illustrations by Leech, A WASSAIL BOWL for CHRISTMAS By ALBERT SMITH, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. EDITED BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ. In a few days. FREDERICK THE GREAT, HIS COURT AND TIMES. The Third and Fourth Volumes, completing the Work. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street Orders received by all Booksellers. • NEW NOVEL BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., A D AM BROWN. THE MERCHANT. By HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of Brambletye House," " The Moneyed Man," Sce. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with Portraits, 21s. bound, MEMOI El S OF THE LITERARY LADIES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. ELWOOD. " A work of great merit. The first biography is that of Lady Mary Wortley Montag ' u ; the last, that of Mrs. Maclean, better known as Mi ss Landon ; it thus comprises our Blue stockings from the commencement of the last century down to the present. Each biography is marked by good taste and ex cellent judgment. The author is considered in each mere than the individual, and yet sufficient narrated of the latter to in terest and instruct."—John Bull. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE POOR-LAW SYSTEM. On the the 31st of December, with the Illagazines, wlll be pub:ished, with Illustrations by a distinguished artist, No. I, Price One SHILLING (to be completed in twelve Monthly Numbers), E S S I E PHILLIPS; Or, THE PARISH GIRL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE. Authoress of'' Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy," &c. " The object the author has had in view in the composition of this work has ben to call the attention of her readers to the absolute necessity of some alteration in the law which at pre sent regulates the maintenance and management of the. poor. Her conviction of its tyranny and injustice, of the impractica bility of enforcing iPs provisions with uniformity, and of the cruel hardships which are inflicted on the poor by the attempt to enforce them, is strong, and she conscientiously believes well founded." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Ma-lborough-street. •„s Orders received by all Booksellers throughout the Kingdom. BETTS' PA' I:E.N '1! BR AN Ift 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 distingnishing 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. Jchn-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or co lo ure d, a t Eight'en Shllings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. PTILIE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY 1 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, £-100, £6OO, Xt4oo, £l,oob, £1,500, £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. lIEINE 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., 18,004., 9,000/, 5,000/., and 3,6001. to London; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3.600/. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/. ' 700/., and 6001. to Liver pool; 9001. to H u ll ; 900/. t o Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and'6oo/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham shire ; 700/. to Colne, Lancashire ; 600/. 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 '25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain stoney Dividends of I/. and upwards. One Share, IL ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 31.; four Shares, 41. ; live Shales, 51. ; six Shares, 61.; soven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, Si. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; 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 Ileine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alonso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, bliss Rainforth. To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF POItTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Alphonso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; Fenella, Miss Bailin. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Scven.--)ress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles as., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to he taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may by had. Private Braes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond - street; MA r. l itchell, Old Bond -street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, • Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren; Richard Sad rope, Esq., M r . Buckstone. Mr s . F e li x T r i mmer , Mrs. Malone Raymond ; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitterton, 31rs. Glover; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which : a-Drew Drama, in Two Acts, called GRAND FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren; Drayton, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury ; Langley, (a Retired Trader), Mr. Stuart ; Driver, (a Lawyer), Mr. Strickland; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster; Snap, Mr. Clark ; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son), Master George Webster ; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnokl; Susan, (Servart to Lsoliley), Mrs. Stanley. To which s i 1 be added, the Petite Drama of SUZANNE. Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne, (an Orphan), Madame Celeste. To be followed by Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus CL Al TER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. • To coneln4e with Mr. Bnekstose's original Farce of THE IRISH LION. THEATRE. ROYAL, ADELPFII. THIS EVENING, DEC. 16, Will be repeated the new Burletta entitled THE Merl. CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. Tire principal characters • by Mcsg . .s. LyOn, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Maynard, Wiclarsd, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, 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 Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giuhilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA: Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Min Murray. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half six, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NE W CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FXVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, ININ GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH A L 1111 LATEST NE WS Orden mem& at the SUN-OFFI.CE, 112, Streind, and of all News-Agents. ••••••••••,-- WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE vorning...... 25 minutes after 01 Ev en i THIS DAY. ng .. 49 minutes after 0. free, and onlegislatiee protection they could not depend. —(Hear, hear.) lhit if their landlords met them— if they themselves stood firm in their own position if they would cultivate their land, and exert them selves, he could assure them solemnly, from what he knew himself, there was no land upon the Continent —no farmer epon the Continent—no capital upon the Continent, that ever could compete with them. Mr. J. A. SMITH also said— Mr. Goring had told them that they could no lon ger rely on legislative protection. It was not for him to say whether he was right or wrong in that opinion, but he was sure that Mr. Goring, and others that expressed the 'same opinion, were acting the kindest and the truest part towards the farmers of England, when they encouraged them rather to rely on themselves than on any legislative protection.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was sure that Mr. Goring spoke the words of truth and wisdom, When he told them that, as in every other profession of life, whether it be the manufacturing or whether it be the agricultural, capital, intelligence, and industry, car ried the day.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It was to these three great elements of success that this country owed its proud pre-eminence. It was to these ele ments that the English farmer would owe his success, if success was hereafter to attend his exertions.— (Hear ' as hear.) It w his firm and conscientious be lief that, whether in manufactures or in agriculture, monopoly was an unsound principle.—(Cheers.) He thought that when they relied upon their own intelli gence, skill, and industry, they relied upon something positive and practicable, they relied upon something unchanging and certain; but when they relied upon legislative protection, they relied upon what they had found to be dependent upon party spirit and party feeling—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—utterly unsound, unworthy to be trusted. That was the bane of a country's prosperity.—(" True.") Now while this progress towards just senti ments is so rapid in the landlords, and we have sufficient reason to justify us in asserting that it is still more rapid in the tenants, the progress of the League towards power is still more remark able. All the great towns of the empire are re sponding to its call. The metropolis has almost ceased to be the centre of political opinion, which, for the present, is at Manchester. The public eye is turned to that town and to the meetings of the League. Glasgow has followed the, example of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, &c., and given its powerful support to the League.. Edinburgh promises to do the same; and though party politics may make the Members of the: City of London take a side opposed to the gene ral sentiments of the town population, they can only fora short period keep themselves out of the. general stream. All the town population, and all their Members, will demand repeal. Some journalists say Sir ROBERT PEEL Wil not again alter the Corn-law and the Tariff for, ten years ; others say lie will continue for a session or two longer to inflict decay on our trade, and starvation on the people, for the sake of legislative decorum ; but if the bulk of the town population declare against such a course, and the agricultural population are com- . pletely lukewarm on the subject, or even join iii demanding that the question be now set at rest, will any person tell us how, in face of this growing public opinion, Sir R. PEEL can carry, on the Government ? He may, by the help of his dissolving party, rub through one more un easy and unquiet session ; but if he can find no expedient to improve trade, no means to give food and employment to the people, and no miraculous good fortune should intervene, he must know, unless he repeal the Corn-law, that his Administration will, a few short months hence, be quenches for ever by universal in dignation. Such being the prospect, we hold with the League that now is the time to redouble its exertions, and that nothing short of total and immediate repeal, settling the question for ever, releasing the great business of supplying the nation with food from the influence and control of party politics, and making the circumstances on which the farmer has to depend as certain as the laws of nature—ought to satisfy it. Such, too, being the prospect before us, we hold those Whig journals which promulgate tales of its being Sir ROBERT PEEL'S intention to propose a fixed duty, and bring forward argu ments favourable to such a duty, to be at present far worse enemies of the cause of the repeal, than the discomfited and baffled monopolists. They seek to snatch from the energetic men of the north the fruits of their victory, and make a garland of them for the brows, of the Whigs. We disposed the day before yesterday of one of their fallacies in favour of a fixed duty : here is another, derived from the very same circum stance, namely, the vast difference of price which has taken place under a sliding scale, and an interrupted trade : "As matters stand," says Mr. Hubbard, in his "Notes of a Traveller," " it was a sound .measure pro posed by the late Administration to impose a fixed duty of - Bs. per quarter on wheat, and proportional duties on other grain ; because, if we do not levy it as import duty, Prussia and the other exporting countries will levy it as export duty, and bread will not be cheaper to the British consumer by the same. amount of duty going into the Prussian Exchequer, instead of into the British. We are told, indeed, that this would be contrary to the interests of the landholders in Prus sian Poland, and the districts which supply Dantzic and the other Baltic ports with grain for exportation, and therefore no such export duty would be imposed. But this is the mere ipse dixit of political economists, looking at the Continent with English eyes." It is not the ipse dixit of economists looking at the Continent with English eyes, but Mr. Larsla judges (.I . a free trade in corn by the trade as it has existed under a sliding scale. Far be it from us to affirm that the Governments of Prussia and Russia will riot levy an export duty on corn, 'or what observer of their successive follies would guarantee them against the commission of any absurdity ? but we will be bold to affirm that if they levy any such duty they will effectually exclude their grain from our market, and inflict misery on their own people. Throughout the country at present the lan guage held by the agriculturists is that they have nothing to fear from foreigners. That is ex sage already quoted pressly stated by Mr. H. D. GORING, in the pas lence of our inland communication, the supe riority of our ins 1 our climate, k' , Which . L allows us to wor k out of Loo kin to the excel , etnent s , t h e open nature of doors at alm os t a ll seasons, the • and industry of ou r people, t great e nergy he results of the liberty they enjoy as compared to the con . tinental nations, and lookin g to the vast capa bility of our soil, we are convinced that Mr. H. D. GORING IS right ; and that, under.a free trade, reducing at the outset the farmer's expenses perhaps 20 per cent., the price of agricultural produce would in general rate ver y little highe r here than in Prussia and Russia. As we have already said, and as we find Mr. COBDEN said at Nottingham, if there were no tax on corn, its price would at no time be higher here than on the Continent, adding the expense of carriage. Only in seasons of scarcity, should we require large importations. In favourable seasons there would be little or no difference in price. To levy a duty on corn exported froth either Russia or Prussia, would not, as Mr. LAING supposes, compel us to pay that duty, it would merely ex clude Russia or Prussia from our market. No country, be it remembered, has a mo nopoly of food. It is not, like silk or tea, the produce of a comparatively narrow space. Man does not live by bread alone, and a small differ once in price gives a peculiar direction to both cultivation and consumption. All the world will supply articles of food. It; therefore, the two countries mentioned were to levy a duty on corn exported, our produce and consumption would adapt themselves to that duty, and we should, in proportion, grow more grain, and import from those or other countries more untaxed cattle cheese, butter, salted meat, cocoa, sugar, &c. Sze! The greater dost, too, in bringing flour from Ame rica than from Dantzic, with a free trade, would not be such as•to enable Prussia to levy a duty on grain exported, without throwing the whole trade into the hands of the Americans. The notion, therefore, that our people would have to pay the duty levied by Russia and Prussia on exported grain, which is put forward to con vince the League and the public to favour the Whig Bs. fixed duty, seem s to us to be un founded, and we trust it will have no effect in making the League and the public compromise the great principle for which they have been and are contending. As the day of triumph arrives, and it cannot he long postponed, the League must be on the watch that all the advantage s of No 0 e''S4 •- , . „......r.., ..„ .2 ite.. ... ?.. . a - ov r 1.2, 4 , 4 , _ • 7, 0 ..,..,. leyi° '. ' , ~..4 = M:.<1•,_2101,a,. A 4grY-- 4' . " 4. ' 140 ,,,,, - . 2 0 '1 1 , F ,4,' 4, • ~..V;11141; 14 be _atizt4 : FRIDAY MORNING. LONDON DECEMBER 16, 1842. w lien we find the landlords themselves avow ing that protection must be given up, it would be nothing better than fatuity in the League, and in all those who have struggled for t h e repea l of the Corn-laws, to ::iccept any terms s h ort o f un conditional fre e trade. Beside s t h e i nstances of Messrs. AcLAND and DicaiNsoy, to which we adverted, and besides the tone of have all. eady gentlemen at nearly all the agricul l'Y S ItiVillo ._,..., ~.irretings, w! find Mr. li. D. Gonixo ,: 1 — 7 --- -- - --, ut thus at th e S tey fling Agricultural • di:llie. ix l 2:- 4 -- i tell them that, no matteruneen,acdommueteidt ruct _. , gout , :w c ome it mm t—corn wo i c. - a S THE SUN, LONDON, the contest are not snatched by those who, while the League has been toiling . and sweating, have been enjoying the sweets of repose, or amusing themselves with the delights of literature. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. - His Royal Highness Prince Albert hunted this morning with his beautiful pack of beagles, in the Great Park. The Prince was attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Viscount Sydney, and the Hon. Captain Duncombe. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk in the Home Park in the forenoon, and in the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness again walked out. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of ",Vales and the Princess Royal were taken airings twice to-day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. • The Earl of Aberdeen and Major Malcolm ar rived to-day at the Castle, on a visit to the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Messrs. Lloyd and Grundy, by commanding them to place his name as Patron and subscriber to the National Art-Union. Sir William C. Ross, A.R.A. has been engaged during the last f ew d ays a t the Castle, taking the portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for which he was honoured with the last sitting to-day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Fanny Howard, will join the Royal dinner circle this evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured Count Kielmansegge, the Hano verian Minister, with their company at dinner yeater day evening, at his Excellency's residence in Grosve nor-place. The Governor of the Bank of - England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi dence in Downing -street. Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign -office. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview on Wednesday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A Meeting of the Customs Revenue Commission was held yesterday at Gwydyr House, "Whitehall. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday at the Home-office, Dispatches for th e G overnors o f t h e W est India Co lonies were sent offlast evening from the Colonial-office The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA T TE RSA LL'S.—YESTERDA Y. The following were all the bets laid :—'7so to 25 agst Winesour-1,000 to 25 agst Blackdrop-1,800 to 40, and 500 to 10 agst Sirikol-400 to 10 agst Amorino-1,000 to 20 twice, and 2,500 to 50 agst St Valentine-1,000 to 20 agst the Brocard colt-1,000 to 20 agst the Languish colt-1,000 to 20 twice agst the Oxygen colt-1,000 to 12 agst Auld lang Syne—and 2,000 to 20 agst Cheviot. The same odds were afterwards offered against all of the horses mentioned, except Amorino and Sirikol. PUBLIC MEETING IN AID OF THE LEAGUE FUND. -We understand the Committee appointed by the Anti-Corn-law Association to make arrangements for a public meeting in this city, with the view of promoting a subscription in aid of the great League fund of .50,000/., have fixed the day for Thursday, the 12th of January next. The meeting is to be a public soiree in the Waterloo-rooms; and Mr. Cobden, M.P., and other gentlem en , f orm i ng a depu tation from the Anti-Corn-law League, have agreed to be present. —Scotsman. RIGHT or SEARCH.—In a letter from Boulogne, December 9, published by the Progres du Pas de Calais, we read—" A new case of personal search has been mentioned, which appears to have been attended with shameful circumstances. An English family landed a few days ago at Boulogne. After the master and mistress had been searched, the same course was observed with a young lady's maid. Whilst the searching woman was handling her, the poor girl, unused to such conduct, became suddenly flushed in the face. This symptom of modesty was misinter preted; it was supposed that dread of detection had made the blood mount to her face, and the moat rigorous and indecent, but fruitless, search ensued. These are excesses of authority, which the Govern ment would check, if it had the slightest regard for public decency." ALDERSGATE DISPENSARY.—OH Wednesday a quarterly general Court of Governors of the above dispensary was held in the Board-room, Aldersgate street. Mr. Herring, the Treasurer was in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. Wood, the Secretary, said that the time had arrived when it was necessary to ap point auditors to examine the accounts. The follow ing where then elected :—William Batty, Esq., Ed ward Groom, Esq., Yates, Esq., and Dr: R. Row ley. The Secretary then read the Report, from which it appeared that the number of patients relieved and cured by the dispensary during the past quarter was greater than at any former period, by between 200 and 300, making the applicants above 2,009. The institution was considered to be of more immediate service to the poor than the hospitals ; for in the latter patients were seen only on particular days, while the former distributed its relief throughout the week. The Committee anticipated much . support to the charity from the anniversary dinner, fixed for March next, at which Lord Carrington, whose noble father had given 8001. to the institution, would pre side. The Report was received, after which thanks were given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. We have received the second number of a new paper started last month at Boston under 'extraordi nary circumstances. Our readers will recollect the legal decision by which it was pronounced that a slave-holder might seize and repossess himself of his runaway slave in any of the free States, without trial —that is to say, without affording the party seized an opportunity of showing that he was not the slave pretended. Under this decision, a re• spectable inhabitant of Boston, named George Latimer, has been arrested and imprisoned at Boston by the agent of a Virginian, whose name is James Gray, and the whole city has been electrified by this transaction. Not only have immense and thrilling public meetings been held, but, in order to make a more powerful appeal to public sentiment, a new paper has been commenced, entitled the Latimer Jour.. nal and North Star, devoted wholly to this matter. The details of Latimer's case are promised in the next number of the Journal, and we shall eagerly watch for them.—Anti- Slavery Reporter. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At a meeting of the Zoolo gical Society, held on Wednesday, Professor Rymer Jones in the chair, • several interesting communica tions were read from corresponding members re specting some new species of animals and birds which were now being forwarded to England for the Society's menagerie. Among them was a new kind of bird, from Western Africa, called pulih, a species of mocking-bird, so melodious in its note, that when the natives would pay an orator or a poet the highest compliment, they say, "he is a perfect pulih." A large collection of mammalia from South Africa was announced r.s haring been presented to the Society by its President, the Earl of Derby. A great and rapidly extending impression in favour of free trade is undoubtedly made. It has reached the quarters which might he supposed most impene trable. The meeting of every agricultural association brings fresh illustration of the change. Still it must be remembered that all this takes place under pressure, But let this energy subside, and trust to the truth spreading itself; let this purpose be suspended or d f ea ircrtoeatirfvteerr toast..s nno after-Sinner agriculturaloPrartoot The dinners, ' e o Er u ss l , relaxed, and we should probably hear little more theme n t the have no difficulty in shifrtign.g_ charter might become backslide of monopoly ;and again his fi r R ag ob t e o rt th P e e m el ai w nrp ou a l s d t might the House of Commons at the very mention of Corn -law repeal, ring with the yells of scorn and defiance. The steam must be kept up, or there will be no advance. The efficacy of the propelling power is exhibited ; it were madness to turn it off, or to dream of its abatement. The effect o and tt a s g theaanind is already produced, proportionally ; try more of it. Anticipation of the 50,0001. Fund has been a wonder ful enlightener. Conversions multiply with subscrip tions ; they will increase yet more with the applica tion. And the progress is in a geometrical ratio. Light, once kindled up, radiates in all directions.- Anti-Bread-tax Circular. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE. —Yesterday, as some workmen were digging up the foundations of the old workhouse in Blisset-street, Greenwich, they discovered several skulls and bones of human beings. A few days previously one skull had been found, but as it was extensively decomposed, little notice was taken of it. Those last discovered were in a much better state of preservation, the teeth of one being perfect, and the hair on another also in good condition. It is quite a mystery how the bodies came to be placed there, for it never was a burial-ground, nor is there on record any account of any other builling existing on the spot before the erection of the work house. A good many people seem to think they are the bodies of persons who died in the workhouse and were dissected, but not afterwards interred in conse crated ground. If reference be made to the most celebrated living members of the British peerage, it will be seen that the active political life which the majority of them have led, has not had the effect so erroneously attri buted to this kind of mental excitement. The truth will be demonstrated by the following statement : The Duke of Wellington, 71; Earl Grey, 76 ; Earl Harrowby, 78 ; Earl Abergavenny, 86; Earl Carlisle, 67 ; Earl Harewood, 73 ' • Earl Haddington, 60 ; Lord Lyndhu rs t, 68 ; Lord Bexley, 74 ; Lord Abin ger, 73 ; Lord Brougham, 61 ; Lord Plunket, 76 ; Lord WynforJ, 73 ; Lord Manners, 84 ; Lord Dun fermline, 64 ; Lord Carbery, 75 ; Marquis of Anglesey, 72 ; Lord Wellesley, 80 ; Viscount Sid mouth, 83 ; Viscount Melville, 69. THE GREAT FREE TRADE FES TIVAL IN NOTTINGHAM. (Abridged from the Nottingham Mercury.) A large public meeting was held on Tuesday last at Nottingham, by the friends of free trade in the Midland counties, in the Independent Chapel, Friar lane. Five hundred gentlemen connected with the trade and manufactures of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, besides a large number of operatives, mak ing an audience of 1,000 persons, were present. On the motion of Mr. Alderman FREARSON, se conded by Mr. Alderman WILSON, John Heard, Esq. was unanimously called t o th e Ch a i r , w h o opened this meeting. Mr. WM. BIGGS, Mayor of Leicester, with some preliminary remarks, proposed the first resolution : " That the distress and embarrassment so generally prevailing among the merchants and manufacturers of the Midland counties at the period of their meeting in December last, has since extended itself, and is now seriously felt by the agriculturists, thus fully con firming the opinion there expressed, that, while the Corn and Provision-laws are destructive to the manu facturing and mercantile interests of the country, and are the occasion of untold privations to the whole of the labouring portion of the community, they also inflict the greatest injury upon the farmer, and will be ultimately ruinous to the landowners themselves." Mr. THOMAS WAKEFIELD seconded the resolution, which The CHAIRMAN then put, and not a single hand was held up against it. Mr. CRlrrs read the second resolution, " That this meeting cordially approves of the continued and strenuous efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League to en lighten the public mind as to the evils inflicted upon all classes by the Corn and Provision-laws, and re joices in the fact that the principles of free trade have recently made rapid progress among a powerful por tion of the community which has heretofore been most active in opposing them, and that the first Minister of the Crown has emphatically acknowledged the truth of tl - is.e principles, by making, in his place in Parliament, this memorable declaration :—‘ I believe that in the general principles of free trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market, and:sell in the dearest.' Mr. J: BRIGHT, of Rochdale, was then introduced to the meeting, and made some comments which were warmly applauded. Cbt TEA PARTY. The friends of free trade principles took tea together n the Exchange, at five o'clock, when the splendid suite of rooms were thrown open for their accommo dation, and such was the demand for tickets, that double, or even treble, the number might have been sold. The CHAIRMAN, having commenced' the evening with a speech, Mr. BRIGHT, in the course of some eloquent re marks, observed—The state of things was not here the same as in a thinly populated country—we live in a densely-populated land; but if twenty-eight millions of people are "cabined, cribbed, confined," and told that work however hard they may, and have as many machines as they please, they must still be restricted to the'produce of the soil upon which they live, it is evident that suffering must be the consequence. If the population were to get up to fifty millions, would they say the same then Would they say that re strictions must still continue, to enable the landlords to sustain "exclusive burdens," which are very much like mortgages ?—(Hear and laughter.) Well, was it to be done ? I asked Sir Thomas Dyke Acland— the father of the SOmerset gentleman who had just changed his note—" if the Corn-law could be mai tained for ever ?" He replied, "it could not—that as the population increased, its continuance was impos sible." I said, " When would you have the law re pealed ?" Sir Thomas answered, " When the pressure from without is strong enough." I said, " What is the meaning of that ? Is not the pressure strong enough when the distress is so great as to produce the special notice of the Government ?" The fact is (continued Mr. Bright), they perceive that they have stretched the cord until it is nearly broken, and now, I suppose they are about to give in.—(Applause.) Mr. RICHARD COBDEN, M.P. for Stockport, after recapitulating many points stated by him at former meetings, continued—l may mention the commence ment of the League as an- encouragement to all who are engaged in a good cause to persevere. At first there were only two or three men meeting once or twice a week behind a crimson curtain in Market street, Manchester, who used to call themselves the League. Our opponents, unwisely for themselves, attacked those three or four men. If they had known the four obscure individuals —if they had drawn aside that curtain and caricatured those men, they would have do ne th em selves better servi ce . I men tion this m ere l y to s h o w that those engage d i n a good they cause must t League had h ar d wer k to contend w ith t h e i ndifference firstrnet r l i v u it mh in hp;they did not mind so muc h t h e oppo the end . — (Applause.) Th e sitirm of those who considered they went too far ; it was from others who took no notice of them ; it was like firing at a sand bank. True, their lecturers were p umpe d on, the parish bells were rung t o d rown t h e i r voices, and cannon were fired under th e i r very noses; but they wanted the newspaper p ress to b egin t o occupy themselves with the subject, and at last it did. That was a great step, and in time the. agitation began to take. It had advanced by degrees, until the news paper press, out of deference to public opinion, was and this was all that , t o h b e l y ige e d xp to eot d e i d scu t s o s the d p do to to to e i a e r ; ry question—they the, no other weapons. It is 'now discussed in the coffee-house, in' the steam-boat, in the market place; and this was the time when they thought it only necessary to place their case in the hands of the electors, and a packet of tracts was ready for every town in the kingdom, so that the million electors would, ere long, know the merits of the question as well as we do. In England, every thing goes by authority; it was a great thing to have the evidence of James Deacon Flume in their favour, who, for forty-nine years, filled important offices under sue - cessive Governments ; they had selections from euloium of Sir Robert the g Commit tee,hi s evidence Ns,it h a prefatorybefore Import Duties Peel, on this same Mr. Hume. Then they had selections from the Rev. Baptist Noel's pamphlet, and sixteen goodly pages selected from Colonel Thompson's works on this question. Then we have the three prize Essays, and selections from eminent writers. These pamphlets we intend to place in the hands of every elector, and how do you think the landowners and county Members will look when they know that every elector has got a copy ? It will be very much like the comical expression of a man who is found out.—(Laughter.) No more protection to agriculture. Now, it will cost to distribute these tracts between 30,0001. and 40,0001. Should they not, as men of business, assist to carry this question to a successful issue ? If you feel or understand it, you will not want prompting by me. If we can put the prize essays in the hands of the farmers, I do not doubt but that, at another election, they will go for free trade. But it does not require an election, we have only to convince Hon. Members that their con stituents have changed their minds, andare in earnest, and they will not wait for an election—they will not wait for a dissolution of Parliament to repeal the Corn-law, lest it should bring in the other set ; and they would alMost rather abolish any law than allow those unconstitutional Whigs to come into office.—(Hear, and laughter.) My firm belief is, Sir Robert Peel would rather repeal the Corn-law than not. —(Hear.) He cannot do so, however, un less we aid him. It is true the Earl of Ripon and Mr. W. Gladstone may be free traders ; but the prin ciple found no favour with such men as Lord Stanley, Lord Wharncliffe, and Sir James Graham. We are not party men—whether Lord John Russell or Sir Robert Peel propose free trade, we support him ; and I would ask, if there are any Conservative free-traders in Nottingham, why they do not come out ? I do not expect to convert the leaders, . but surely there is some portion of the rank and file who are ready to assist us in getting rid of these laws. Colonel Tnosiesox delivered himself to the meeting in his usual argumentative and forcible manner. Mr. Cnirrs moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and Colonel Thompson, whO were justly entitled to the cordial thanks of all friends of freedom and free trade; for their exertions to abolish all mono polies. Mr. BEAN seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, with la ud applause. The CnAtumAN after receiving the thanks of the meeting, stated th at the amount of the contr ib ut i ons in the morning an d evening was 1,330 1 . 15 s. —(Thi s , announcement was received with loud and long-con tinued cheers.) The meeting then separated. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE FUND. It appears that there has already been collected in the following places: Manchester, in two days, upwards 0f..... I:4,000 Liverpool, up to 11.1onda 3 r last Nottingham, upwards of . .. . Leeds, upwards of Huddersfield.........., , Halifax .. .. ........ ~ , 780 Bradford (tea party) Holmforth (tea-party) lOO Blackburn (tea-party) .. 600 Rochdale .......... „„ .... £12,752 it is probable that the Manchester subscriptions are already more than double of the sum collected in the first two days. , We regret to hear that Admiral Sir Davidge Gould is prevented arriving in Brighton, so early as was intended, in conse quence of his having slightly fractured one of his ribs by a fall, when in the act of crossing the dining-room at liawkshead. IVe are happy to add that the venerable Admiral is going on extremely well.—Brighton Gavre. . RIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1842. LITERARY CURIOSITY. —MECHANICAL PRODIGY. 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Sun *troullEbitton SUN OFFICE Three o'Clech A Correspondent yesterday called our atten tion to the system of extortion adopted by the Income-tax Cotnmissioners in some of the Lon-. don districts; and another complains with equal justice against the loss which be and many others sustain from the amount of light gold still in cir culation. It appears that in turning over 5001. a week, there is a loss of nearly twenty shillings, making a loss of 501. a year. It may be said, why take light gold ? and in reply we say, why allow it to continue in circulation? It is well known that, in these hard times, many trades men are glad to receive payment in any shape, and will sacrifice their usual profits rather than refuse a - customer ; but does this fur nish any excuse for the bungling policy of Mr. GOULBURN ? When distress was at its height, without any previous notice, he issued a pro clamation, somewhat in the ELLENBOROUGH style, which created a panic throughout the country, and robbed thousands of poor people of considerable sums. Thus, while the hard working 'classes 'pay enormous duties on every article of life for the benefit of the State and class interests —while they pay a tax on sugar to the - West India planters, another on corn and malt to the landowners, and a third on tea amounting to a hundred per cent., :and iti purchasing all these - 'articles are robbed to an unknown extent by false weights and measures, by adulteration, and a hundred other nefarious practices, the Chancellor of the Exchequer comes in among the other plun derers, and makes the victims pay for the wear and tear of the QUEEN'S coin during the last twenty years. Justice and common sense, which unfortunately have little share in financial regu lations, would throw the loss on the Treasury or the community at large, and not on the lower and middle classes. When it was ascertained that nearly one-half of the gold in circulation was light, and it had been the practice of former Governments to call that in at the public ex pense, equally levied on all, there is no justifica tion whatever for this sudden and harsh mode of proceeding, or allowing a great portion of it yet to circulate. A humane Government would say, Whoever may suffer, let us take care that the suffering shall not fall on one class, and least of all on those who have barely the means of sub sistence. But i❑ everything relating to the cur rency, the present Prime Minister has been sin gularly unfortunate. By the Bill of 1819 he created a complete revolution in the value of pro perly, and caused the ruin of thousands ; and he cannot propose a plan even for renovating the coin without exciting complaints of partiality and gross injustice. With the long experience he has had in such matters, and honourable and merciful as he is allowed to be in private life, it is really surprising that in public life he should commit such wanton injury on those least able to bear it. The great Whig party—or rather what was once the great Whig party, for we fear the Troja fait, or past tense, must be applied to the power and influence of the Whigs, who appear well nigh broken up and scattered to the four winds of Heaven—this once dominant party, after remaining for some months in a state of sus pended animation, is at length beginning to ex• hibit symptoms of vitality. On Wednesday last, at a grand public dinner given to him by his po litical friends at Chester, Mr. W - ILBRA HAM; a staunch,. Whig, spoke out boldly and in detail, on .•the subject of the present Administration, exposing 'their flagrant inconsistencies with infinite acuteness, and doing justice to such good qualities as they possess, in a commendable spirit of liberality. We hope the example of this gentleman will be followed by others of his party, and that the Tories will not be permitted longer to boast that they have silenced the voice of opposition by their saga cious and liberal measures, and that the country is generally favourable to their policy. Mr. WIL.. BRAHAM distinctly showed that for almost every thing that was good in their remedial propositions Ministers were indebted to their predecessors ; that their free trade tendencies were decidedly borrowed from the Whigs; and that even in their foreign policy,--with the single exception of the ASHBURTON affair—they were little better than servile plagiarists from the men whom they had so long denounced for that very policy ! With equal force and adroitness, the speaker pointed out the fallacy of the assertion that the Tories had been more successful than the Whigs in tranquillising the country. During the MELBOURNE Administration, he justly remarked, a riot took place at Birmingham which lasted four hours; but one of the first fruits of the PEEL system of Government wasan insurrection in the North of England, when the manufac turing districts were in the occupation of the mob, not for four hours, but fur four teen days; and nothing but the modera tion of the misguided rioters themselves prevented a convulsion that would have shaken the fabric of social order to its foundations, and deluged the country with blood. Reverting to the question of his own political principles, Mr. WILBRAHAM generously observed that he was not so much of a party man as to reject good measures, merely because they happened to be proposed by a Tory Government. He would take them, and cheerfully too, no matter who might propound them. As respects the franchise, he was decidedly favourable to a " material " ex tension of it, convinced, as he now was, that the ReforM Bill had failed, in more tran one signal instance, to answer public expectation. W e wish that other influential Whigs would act as Mr. WILBRAHAM has done, and speak out boldly on this importaut question of the franchise. 'They cannot have a better opportunity than the present, when there are no longer foreign broils to diStract the public attention. Besides, it is but just that they should not lose a moment in dispelling the notion—a delusive one, we be lieve, butnevertheless very generally entertained among the people—that, as . a body, they are far too much wedded to the " Finality " doctrine. This was the fatal rock on which the Whig vessel split, and went to pieces. Had it not been for this, the MELBOURNE Ministry would have been in office at the present moment, and Chartism— which is nothing more than a type of popular despair—would never have gained the strength which it now unquestionably possesses. In reference to the momentous question of the Corn-laws, Mr. WILBRAHAM empha tically stated :—" These laws will be re pealed in all their obnoxious principles, and by Sir ROBERT PEEL; and he, as on other occa sions, will have the support of the Liberals, who have always shown, with respect to great prin ciples, that theydo not mind the tnan, so thatthey can get the measures. And Sir R. PEEL, in re- pealing the Corn-laws, will have the support of the great body of those country gentle- men, who swore on the hustings never to allow any Minister to touch these laws, .wh e th er Whig or Tory." We believe that Mr. WIL BRAHAM is perfectly correct in his prediction, and that the Tories, notwithstanding the declara tions they have made a thousand times on the huFtings and in Parliament, will of their own accord assist their chostn Premier to repeal the SUM \' , ARY OF NEWS Corn-laws, and thereby add one more to the numerous reasons we already have for respect ing their consistency, and that stern, Spartan like integrity of which they have always made such a boast. The intelligence from Constantinople, brought by the Levant mail, is to, the 27th, and from Alexandria to the 26th. The 'mortality among the cattle, it appeared, still prevailed ; and ME IIEMED ALI had been obliged to quit Mansourah, as the plague had broken out at that place. The accounts from Syria are not favourable. Some of the Albanian soldiers had revolted against the Turks for want of pay, and the country altoge ther was in a very unsettled state. The Court of St. Petershurgh has, it is reported, refused its assent to the measures of the Porte with regard to Servia, and is said to have signified through its Ambassador, that if it were persisted in M. DE BOUTENIEFF would demand his passports. No facts of importance bad occurred, however, since the last accounts. The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th. On that day an extraordinary Gazette announced that Barcelona had surrendered, and the empire of the laws had been restored. The capital still continued tranquil, and the accounts received from the provinces are equally satisfactory. The latest intelligence from Barcelona will be found among the French news. The Three per Cents. were done at 21 15-16, at 60 days, the Five per Cents. at 26 3-16 for cash, and 26 9-16 1 at 60 days. The Paris papers show no symptoms yet of returning reason and honesty, in regard to the revolt at Barcelona. The Presse, which repre sents Queen CHRISTINA and her party, and per haps also the French Court, is furious at the failure of the rebels, and the just punishment in flicted on them by ESPARTERO. Aware that the lamentable and disastrous events in Catalonia were produced by agents on the _French side of the Pyrenees, the writer in that journal trics to cast the - blame on other parties, and chiefly on the English and the existing Government of :Spain - , both so cordially hated by the Chi•istinos. No invention, no falsehood, no calumny is spared. Fort Montjuich was suppled with ammunition, from the Rodney, English officers pointed the guns against the city of Barcelona, and English ships were ready to open their guns to batter it to pieces, all to en courage English commerce. But the truth will yet come out; falsehood cannot long prevail; and judging from the wrath of this journal, and also that of the cautious and moderate Debats, independent of other circumstances, we feel the strongest conviction that time will bring to light the real instigators of this wicked insurrection, and that those who are now so loud in their de nunciations of England will turn out to be the guilty parties. The thllowing summary of the late events sufficiently shows the spirit which animates the Conservative party in France. It contains nearly as many lies as paragraphs : " The number of persons already arrested," says the Journal des Debats, "is more than 400. These unfortunate persons are dragged to the citadel, where a Military Commission is constantly sitting, and there they are shot, after a sort of trial of the most sum mary description. It is even said, in a letter from Perpignan, that Van Halen, on his entrance into Barcelona, had four persons seized and shot, because he fancied that he had seen them taking part in the collision of the 14th of November. The punishment of death decreed against every person retaining arms of any kind, and the premium of 10,000 reals pro mised to denunciators, produce an enormous mass of objects of high value. The terrified inhabitants-delirer up in haste not only muskets, but fowling-pieces, pis tols, richly-mounted swords, oriental poniards, in short, all those objects of luxury, which are rather curiosities than really offensive weapons. The disarming has thus become a considerable source of booty; it is a confiscation, the produce of which is not controlled by any person in the interest of the public Treasury. As to the rigour with which it is carried on, it is car ried to such an excess, that a seizure was even made at the theatre of the innocent pikes and swords used in the performance. The Regent intends, it is said, to disarm the entire country, and to be prepared, by this concentration of force, for the day when the treaty of commerce with England shall be made public at Catalonia. It is n ow es ti mate d t h at more than 1,000 projectiles, shells, &c., were fired upon Barcelona, without reckoning those projectiles which were intended to, set houses on fire. There was in Montjuich a store of 1,600 shells, of which half Were thrown, and a fre s h su ppl y was t o have 'been broUght. by sea , from Tarragona and Tortosa. All the letters agree in .stating that the English ships of war were ready to furnish a supply, if necessary, and even to fire uptln the town if the resistance had continued, and add that arrangements hadbeen made on b oar d f or t hi s pur pose.' This cru e l bombard men t— t hi s furious, re action—these military executions were unnecessary; nothing has shown that such frightful measures were requisite. What the Regent is doing at Barcelona is nothing but the gratification of personal vengeance. Many Spaniards say that the movement at Barcelona was foreseen and desired by the Regent.' It was spoken of two months previously at Madrid as an approaching event. The authorities of Barcelona al lowed the turbulence of the National Guards to have a free 'course. The Republican° was not prosecuted, notwithitanding its daily programme of revolution. When the day of combat in the streets arrived the Generals retired to the forts after a resistance of only three hours, and Van Halen wou ld h ave evacuated the city as well as the citidel even if lie had not been compelled to do so by force. All this was, as is said, concerted in the interest of foreign manufactures. It was even remarked that the bombardment had been only delayed in order to wait for the English ships, and that it began almost as soon as they had made their appearance in the roads." The following telegraphic communication was received by the French Government during Tuesday : " PERPIGNAN, DEC. 12. " Yesterday three regiments left Barcelona for Girona. Orders had been given for 1,000 men to be employed daily in the reconstruction of the citadel. The Rodney has sailed for Malta, leaving the English frigate the Inconstant. The Etna, which left Barce lona yesterday at three o'clock, arrived at Port Vendres this morning, with forty passengers. She will return to Barcelona to-morrow." BOURSE—PARIS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. First Highest :.owest Last Price. Price Price. Price. Five per Cents. 119 t 5... 191 60... 119 55... 119 60 Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 191 50... 101 50 Threes, ex div. 79 25... 79 25... 79 25.. 79 25 Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1052 50...1052 50 5,000 f 5080 —.5080 ...5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank, 1841 lO7O ...1070 ...1070 Belgian Fives lo3k 103 k ... 103 k ... 1 031 1840 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k Spanish Active. . ... 23i ... 2si ... 23i Portuguese Fives 32 ... 32 "' 32 ... 32 Neapolitan Roman lO4l ... 1041 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, LB ll O... 122 50... 110 1 10 R. B 268 75... 270 ... 261 75... 270 Rouen Orleans. 625 ... 625 ... 622 50... 623 75 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 75 Yesterd. k filth' French Laffitte _ esterday week a fight took place between Free man, the American giant, and , Perry, alias the Tipton Slasher, for 1001. aside; which, owing to the fog—. after fighting nearly an hour and a half—was put off till yesterday. Freeman and his party, after being moved twice by the Magistrates, pitched at Mel bourne Common, near Royston, where the unfortu nate fight between Owen Switt and Brighton Bill took place, the latter of whom was killed. The American and his friends, after waiting an hour for the g a ther party, who did not show, left the ground. EXPENSES OF TILE LATE CONTEST IN YORKSHIRE. —A paragraph appears in the Leeds papers, to the effect that Miss Rhodes, of the Stafford Arms Hotel, Wakefield, filled as many as 8,000 glasses of brandy during the election for the office of registrar, and Charged them to the committee acting on behalf of the lion. Arthur Lascelles. The statement is wide, of the mark by several thousands ; and 800 would be • much nearer the truth. The gross amount of Miss Rhodes's charge to the committee is 2,1701. Mr. Hodgson's expenses fall short of 4,0001. Mr. Las celles will hardly be free, it is said, for 5,500/. or 6,0001. Both parties are paying off as East as the bills can be got in; and we hear of no grumbling on either side in regard to deductions from the charges in the bills.— York Courant. Baussm.s ' DEC. 11.—On Friday the 16th of thi s month, the fifty-second anniversary of his Majesty's birth will be observed in the usual manner.—lt will be remembered that the Chamber of Representatives has resolved to sear,...h for, c _Meet, and publish docu ments relative to the ancient natioxil assemblies of Belgium. We learn that the Chamber has just ac quired some highly interesting MSS. towards this collection. These papers (between 550 and 600) concerned the States-General assembled at Brussels and Antwerp in the years 1576, 1577, 1579, and 1580. Count John and Lady Cecil Delafield, left Mivart'a HOtel yesterday, for the Earl of Limerick's seat in Bedfordshire. AND Vtil)ltc apinton. " IVho runs may read.' FOREIGN. A Council of Ministers was held on Tuesday at the Tuilleries, at which the Xing presided. On Monday evening their Majesties received th e Austrian Ambassador, Count d'Appony, the Ministers of Bavaria, Holland, the Hanseatic Towns,' and Saxe Weimar, and the Charges d'Affaires of Russia and Switzerland. Accounts have been received from the sth inst. They state that the expedition, which was on its march against Abd-el-Kader, was favoured with very fine weather, and the troops were, accord ing to the letters received at Algiers, full of health and spirits. A letter from Rome, Nov. 28, says :—"A comrau nication has been made by the Russian Embassy of the_ Al g i e rs dated nomination of several Bishops by the Emperor of Russia. Up to the present time the Pope has refused to confirm them. The Journal de Frankfort states, from Breslau, that the convention between Russia and Prussia for the reciprocal giving up of deserters has been extended,. indefinitely, and is now, contrary to the statement of several German journals, in full force. Advises from Athens, of the 30 th ult., state that the How ship-of-the-line, and the Scou t bri of w g-a , were anchored at the Pirmus. straners, who intend sojourning for the winter. 4 1 ' Naples is now in its full gaiety, by the arrival A ll the best houses in Chian are already occupied DY English families of distinction, and the season is ex pected to be very brilliant. The child has announced her first ball for next week. thec Accademia balls began on the 28th ults with r usual sendour. Jews out being The L eipsic Gazette states that, next year , . the t. in Poland are to be subject to military service, wi Baroness de Bothr The Smyrna journals of the 29thhet. announces the arrival there, on the 27thi -from yrout, of N i v i s allowed, as hitherto, top rovide substitutes. Devastation British steamer. According to the„ne,_. brought by that vessel, the Druses, having vainly mended the liberation of their Sheiks, had men arms against the Turks. According to rumours at Constantinople the a of .Servia had assume d a serious aspect, as the Bua a.iri a g , Envoy, it is st a t e d, i ns ists on the Porte retrosra,j and causing. the abdication of the newly-elected r"' and the reinstatement of Prince Michael..era of On the 23d ult. a conference was held a Syrian the representatives of the Five Powers - on the th at question. An ulti m atum was to follow, insist rules'' in the Maronit e s s h ou ld have a Christian a s ff . stead of an Ottoman governor. ULIC 010. The Post ha s th e following remarks on the P re s seet o condition of Spain :—" It is strictly true that o ne 1812 to 1842 we have seen in Spain the acts of the continuous revolutionary drama. We overlook .. setting in alternations of success, now leaning towards the_e:or treme supporters of all things as they Were, n ll _ 9 , for the chief point of importance is the result of th e with then tide of liberalising innovatioe _ regal and aristocratic privilege, hare lung-protracted struggle. Antiquated Prejaddeo under foot—Reform has triumphed — th e fa vote military leader of the ultra-Liberals has been placed_sk. in the position of virtual sovereignty. The mark of destruction has been put on every thing _ as new, the very name of antiquity being looked 'she a death-warrant. Spain has her Parliament has realised the glories of popular representatisv, Her philosophers and reformers asked f } cois t :; ... ther can the most forward of them seek tutional Government. They have it. been tro Wha?t f how huge an expense of the bone and sr en, of national power have all these fine thing's de brought to pass ? What woeful and wide-spreads._ solation and bloodshed—what unimagined desecral:u7 of all that Spanish Christianity regarded as b what miserable breaches of public and private faithlke what squandering of her treasure—what risertit, libations of her best blood—has the world been v', nessing in the course of her progress to freedom.,;'? how much the better is she now for that freeabsve for . The revenues of ecclesiastical establishments been distributed adventurers—debt' has been heaped on debt, " L i D el anaongsV-her -soldiers and P.ll her appearance in the -loan market would be the s g„ for a burst of mingled indignation and derision.._o7t, her own representations, she has left' herself witu chat • the means of paying even a fractional interest on c i for she owes. Her name has become a r swindling insolvency ; and, in point of bebopalS tche tige, her standing is less respectable than that „e i " meanest limits of the State beyond the PeiHns—e. that really belongs to. England, in connexion "The responsibility," says the Chronck, , !R te events at Barcelona, is light enough. The ahsur of charging us with having run aline of battle: then aground, that we might distribute her materiel t for authorities of Barcelona, is .too gross-to advert; o. any other purpose than to show the lengths to il_t e ,the defamers of England, in the French pros, t a. oi ' 'disposed to push their hostility. Suc h an assn' is simply ludicrous—incredible even if Lord gad( ;f ton had been at the helm of the Formidable instead t , at the head of the Admiralty. But the facts, e t le t a r s o with thed.t upon which other charges rest •are true. It refused vv that the prot ec ti on o f the British flag'. a:s' re to ol to the rebels of Barcelona, and that our Cools declared that he could not consent, by g ran . to such protection, to levy war upon the Sovereigenrs, whom he was accredited. This conduct, it aPP,. it is approved of by the British Government, "le, undoubtedly is by all parties of the British. Pe?P ht , Now if the English Consul at Barcelo na was ?the as he undoubtedly was, in stating that to an grand of protection sought by the rebels would be t awiset hostility' against the Spanish Governnien, option is left to the Regent but to demand theo.urvilyty of the French Co n sul, who avowedly has be nc h GO • of that act of hostility ?' It is true tbe -D o leo vernment, by adopting the act of its agent, m a g. e 'l l he the Regent in a difficulty similar to tha t in wu l from was placed by the departure of M. de Saland3i Go. Madrid. But, upon the other hand, the F rejac e ' ettor vernment must be contented to avow itself the a . i . t , of this insurrection, and to accept all the reseen sib e l rn of an act of hostility' against the Spanish G :; c use ment. Is the French Government the conduct of its agent in having, by false reP an d tions of the state of Catalonia, Arragon, soo Valencia, induced the military in the Atara raised to capitulate ? In the general outcry d the against Espartero in Paris we can understan ,he motives of the Republicans and the Carlists. latter denounce him as yßobespierre on liorse(.be ask,' and, strangely enough, for having put dove a I T . he cratic insurrection. The National denounce s t cola'l prepared t i es e nta, inhumanity' of the bombardment, but witiwiluthoe descending to point out in what other way rity of the Government could have been " se ten d er- What we cannot understand, however, is the the ness of French Conservatives for Republicans Louie soil of Spain and Portugal. We know how'home t Phi!ippist Conservatives treat Republicanism at qui te but Republicans at Barcelona and Lisbon are ql favourites with French officials, journalists, and con suls. This is very strange." • end. The Herald thus describes the wicked inventions calumnies of the Paris journals against this con.ntwry. s " Just in proportion as there is not the shad isroe li the a rted. cause does the violence and rancour of the,J- . Our press against England become more phrenzie,.a days Paris contemporaries seem during the last w to have pressed some of the most exalted maniac ,r the Bicetre and Salpetriere into their Ang nnothing service ; for, it is charitable to assume that•nliri short of insanity could pour forth such coninii fury and nonsense as have degraded those jou vision since it became apparent to their un willing to that the insurrection at Barcelona was ,frulesSter disturb the Regency of Espartero, and would of minate in the signal and righteous punishment residents of 7it that city. The wickedness and folly of the 3 ' tacks on England because Espartero is able to stir re press revolt in Catalonia would be contemptible we,. or they not indicative of future danger to the peace Europe, of a condition of the public mind of France melancholy to note, and of an obstinate determination to indulge in self - deceit ; they would b e laughable were they not mischievous, and might be safely left t• the refutation their absurdity contains were they ,not eagerly swallowed by millions of French subjects. The second city of Spain was for three weeks in the possession of an ignorant mob who had expelled the constituted authorities and the garrison after dreadful ,1 slaUghter. The English caused the outrage, cry the French journals una voce; the Regent of Spain inar- s 3 ches to put down the outbreak and punish the criminals el engeged:therein—the English have stimulated his Hig hness they unanimously shout ; Espartero, in the deplora ble but obvious exercise of his duty, bombards the town —the English have induced him to fire, they contem poraneously roar; an English ship of war run3ashor e in the port and is obliged, to enable her to get offi to unload her stores—the English are supplying the Queen of Spain'e troops with ammunition, they madly vociferate; the English Consul declines to protect rebellious subjects of his Sovereign's ally—what de- , testable cruelty, they exclaim. Were the Barcelo nese to walk for the next six weeks on their heads — the English have done it, would be the outcry of these public instructors of France. Nothing is too puerile, inconsistent, outrageous, or detestable for their malice to leave unrecorded against England. It is in vain to correct the falsehoods propagated by their telegraph, to rectify the misintelligence of their journals, to show the folly of their gobemoucherie, to disprove their inferences, and to pick out the speck of truth from the mountains of lies they pile thereon —the French, if truly pourtrayed by their journals, have made up their minds that England has excited