The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

\ > 16, .416 L ONDON JOURN EYMEN'S TRADES' HALL. _ A SPECIAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the above Undertaking will be held on Mot4DA4, Dec. 12, 184 2, it - the Hall of Science, - City-road, to take into conside ration the present state of their affairs. The Chair will he taken at Half-past Seven Precisely. JAS. BURTON, Jun., Hen. Gen. Sec. Trades! Hall-office, 16, Old Bailey, Nov. 1842. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY InVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by MIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £t+oo, £l,OOO, £1 .500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to re. 72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 3, Will be repeated a Comic Opera, called THE SECRET MAR RIAGE. Being an English version of Cimarosa's "II Ma trimorio Segreto." The Character of Carolina, by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Fidalma, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Elisetta, Miss Rainforth ; Signor Geronimo, Mr. Giubilei ; Count Montoni, Mr. Leffler ; Paolino, Mr. W. Harrison. To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF POETIC!. 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 Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Sec on d Ci rc l es 5 5 ., Se co d Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low. at the Box-office, from Text 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. Same, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 3, Will.be repeated a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Mess's. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P., Grattan, and Madame Proche iubilei. To conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Fawcit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Seven Nights of Mr. T. P. Cooke's Engagement, and Final Arrangement of his Performing. THIS EVENING, DEC. 3, Mr. T. P. Cooke will appear in the New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK ; or, the SAILOR and the • ETTLER'S DAUGHTER. Mary, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire, .Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with CRAMOND BRIG; or, THE GUDE MAN OF BALLANGEICH. James, King of Scotland, Mr. J. Webster ; Jobk Howieson, Mr. Neville; Tam Maxwell, Mr. Green ; Tibbie Howieson, Mrs. W. Daly ; Marian Howieson, Miss E. Terrey ; Maggie, Miss Neville. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. MAP OF CHINA. NOW READY, A NEW CHINA SUN, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NIN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GLORIOUS AND IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY. Orders received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The suggestion from Bridgewater shall be attended to as far a;possible. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning l5 minutes after 21 Evening 31i minutes after 2. as they assuredly will make, the policy of free trade triumphant, let not the Whigs suppose, who seem now advisedly, we regret to say, to stand aloof from the great move ment, that they are to reap the honours and the rewards. The millions—the free traders—will require to be represented in the Cabinet and in the Councils of the State by such men as Mr. VILLIERS, Mr.COBDEN, MT. M. GIBSON, and Col. THOMPSON, who now fight their battles and lend a tongue to their wants. They will not again endure to see their friends excluded from office to place in the Cabinet a rhetorician who takes no interest in their affairs, and prefers spreading through the land false notions of ancient manners disguised in rhyme to advo cating their cause in public. They, we are sure, will gratefully reward those who fight their bat tles, and be on their guard against the sutlers of political warfare, who lie quietly by in the rear looking out for the spoils. We have described the system of summary punishment and prison discipline, as one of slow torture, and we are glad to see that description fully confirmed by the observations of a Contempo rary. A writer in the Times yesterday stated : In the year 1840, the total number of persons sentenced by Courts of Justice to be whipped in England and Wales, was 1,049, and to be placed in solitary confinement, was 3,370. In the same year the total number of punishments for offences within the prison, and, therefore, inflicted almost at the dis cretion of the gaoler was : Whipping Handcuffs and irons Stoppage of diet Solitary cells _ 11,139. • ;,,„1 iti <,Dark cells „•:-,! Other punishments Here we have a total of 73,170 punishments, arbitrarily inflicted on the gaol population by the officers of the gaols. The public are never called in to witness the infliction, or to see justice done. All that mass of torture takes place in secret; the prison walls shrouding it in darkness, and taking away all possibility of redress. Now, when it is remembered that many of these additional punishments fall on persons who are summarily convicted, that they are in the first instance sentenced without a verdict of Guilty being pronounced by a Jury— that they are afterwards liable to these inflictions at the good pleasure of the gaoler or the Visiting Magistrates, no very gentle personages, it will at once be seen that the lower classes in Eng land are exposed to a great system of arbitrary and cruel punishments which constitute a ter rible torture. That odious practice, after we have plumed ourselves for centuries that it is extinct in England, still prevails in our gaols and still gives to our lower classes that characteristic of hard brutality of which civilization and the in crease of the people, the source of civilization, cannot deprive them. But then it is said there must be some punish ment for crimes. It remains, however, to be proved that many of the actions punished are in any other sense crimes than that it has pleased the Legislature to ordain punishment for them. For example, all the offences"connected with the Game-laws are not naturally crimes; they are made so by the legislator, and he is justly chargeable with all those crimes, and all the cruel punishments he ordains on account of them. In like manner numberless venial transgressions of moral duty, such as drunkenness, neglecting to provide for a family, are not crimes to be pu nished like theft or murder. The same remark will apply to trespasses on land, and many of the minor violations of the right of property, which are things to be reprehended—checked, if you will, by public censure, but they ought not to be classed as crimes, and ought not to subject the offender to torture in a gaol. We will not go through the long catalogue of actions for which it has pleased the legislator to ordain punishment; enough has been said to show that he very frequently transmutes inno cent actions, or actions to be only slightly repre hended, into grave offences, and he is the true author of these mimes. Of course lie is the author of all the cruelty which is employed in the vain attempt to repress them. We know that in matters of trade he has been much too busy, and we see reason to suspect, in matters of criminal jurisprudence, that he has done a great deal more than he ought, and inflicted, by bad criminal laws, almost as much injury on public morals, as by bad trade laws he has caused to national wealth. The Convocation of the Scotch clergy at Edin burgh has led to one important result. Vague threats had from time to time been made, that if the Veto Act was not recognised by Par liament; a vast number of the clergy would secede from the Church, and, shaking off the dust of their feet against the Erastians, trust to the people for support. This threat is now put in a distinct form. Three hundred and fifty-four have solemnly declared that they cannot in conscience submit to what they term the unconstitutional decisions of the Supreme Civil Courts, and in particular the decision of the Lord Ordinary, in the case of the deposition of the mi nisters ofStrathbogie, and thatif no measure, such as they have declared indispensable, be granted, it is the determination of the brethren assembled at Edinburgh, "to tender the resignation of those civil advantages which they can no longer hold in consistency with the free and full exer cise of their spiritual functions, and to cast.them- , selves on such provision asGon in His providence may afford." Now, the measure which they have declared indispensable, is a law ratifying the Act of Assembly, called the " Veto Act," and em powering them to depose all clergymen who conscientiously differ from them on that head. Before this modest request can be complied with, a radical change must take place in the two Houses of Parliament. The Bishops must be expelled from the House of Lords; all the p a a u t d r o u n o a f j S o c r i o t t y c h o l f i v t i e g a n , patrons of En g li s h li v i ngs, an d most o f t h e m ou u s s e t f o o f llo c w om in ul tl o ie u i s r train, must profess the:doctrines of Non-Intrusion. Can any rational being expect such a result in the present day ? And knowing; as these clergymen do, the inexpressible indig4tion which not only the political party in power,, but many also of their old staunch friends the Whi gs, felt on reading the cold-blooded sentences passed on so many venerable clergym en; do they imagine for one moment that the Legis lature will confer on them more power to do evil? They know pretty well the sentiments of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM; they know that thellishop of LONDON, who represents his order, distinctly stated in writing, to Sir G. SINCLAIR, that such a measure never could be carried in the House of Lords, and that the secession of a large body of the clergy was infinitely , preferable, and that no earthly consideration could induce the QUEEN'S advisers to sanction an Act which would expose five hundred clergymen to the tender mercies of the Non-Intrusionists. After the solemn declaration, therefore, made at a Convocation constituted and concluded by prayer, no alternative is left but secession, and they must make up their minds to this painful result. It will be a heavy blow and a great discourage ment to one section of the Kirk, and be pro ductive of some evil ; but any change will be better than the present system, which is injurious to religion, keeps up constant animosity in the Church, and subjects hundreds of excellent mi nisters to unmerited punishment. The accounts from Spain leave little doubt that the rash and wicked insurrection at Barcelona would speedily be put down. ESPARTERO was rapidly approaching the city with an army of 15,000 men, which, with that under General VAN lIALEN, would amount to about 30,000 troops—a force to which the insurgents could oppose no adequate resistance. The port of Barcelona and the river Belos was declared in a state of blockade by a decree of the REGENT, issued at Saragossa on the 26th. The insurgents were dis posed to yield, and would probably give up the ringleaders as some atonement for the slaughter of so many soldiers. No place of the slightest importance in Catalonia, or indeed in any part of Spain, appears to sympathise with the people of Barcelona, and the affair altogether may be pro nounced the most hopeless attempt at revolution everntade even in Spain. The following is an extract from a telegraphic dispatch which appeared in the Paris Moniteur of Wednesday.— "BARCELONA, Nov. 26.—Llinas, having lost the confidence of the people, has been superseded in the command of the armed force. He has taken refuge on board the A.leleagre. Brigadier Durando, a Pied montese officer of merit, has assumed the command. " The Captain-General Pedro Chacon returned to Valencia on that day. " Brigadier Durando, who has taken the command of the Barcelonese insurgents is," says these papers, " a brave Piedmontese officei, who fought under the orders of his countryman, General Borso di C.rminati. The latter was shot last year at Saragossa, for parti cipation in the Christino conspiracy of October, 1841." The Emancipation de Toulouse of the 27th announces the arrival of the Gemappa ship of the' line and several French steamers at Barcelona. Accounts from Madrid state that tranquillity prevailed. _ _ The Three per Cents. were done on the 23d at 21i, at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 19k, with 4 coupons; and the Five per Cents. at 26} 9-16 5.16 f 1, at 60 days. The Government of Louis PHILIPPE has gained a great triumph by the election of General J ACQUEMINOT as Deputy for the first arrondissement of Paris. The contest was de cided on Wednesday, when the Ministerial candidate had a majority of 147 over his oppo nent, the numbers being 842 for the General, and 695 for M. PORTALIS. This district is con sidered very liberal, and possibly would have preferred a candidate more opposed to the politics of the Government; but Court interest, and the patronage possessed by the Commandant of the National Guards, prevailed. Official dispatches appear in the Moniteur, addressed to Marshal SouLT by the Governor- General of Algeria, in which General BUGEAUD gives' an account of a successful razzia on the 29th ult.;,:by. Lieutenant-Colonel ST. ARNAUD, On the tribes. which support SIDI-EMBARREK, and states that the enemy was driven into the desert. LAMORICIERE'S column had been sent in pursuit of ABD-EL-KADER, who for the twen tieth time was said to be abandoned by his fol lowers, but unfortunately the enterprising Chief again made his escape. ) . .11 4 . 1:1 4 7 . 41, ‘ e". k•,:si4=; Arrw.3p, ';•••, ,„wr• _Akia • • •31s; • 4J tie LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 3, 1842. The Meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn law League on Thursday evening was extremely umerous. The Theatre of the Mechanics' In .::itution, which will hold more than 1,100 per uns-,'• was crammed, and great numbers went away;nnable to get admission. We can affirm - from personal observation, that the great majo rity of the persons present were enthusiastic against the Corn-laws, and received the strongest parts. of the several excellent speeches which were delivered, with the greatest applause. In deed the minority, which attempted to thwart the object of the meeting, was so small, that to have heard its organs, could not possibly have . oug interrupted the business, and would have made a better appearance in the published reports. We have too great a reverence for the hal lowed principles involved in Corn-law repeal not to express, whatever pain it may cost us, the deep regret we felt at being convinced that they were sullied on that occasion by unne cessary violence used towards those who took- a different view. The columns of the Herald and other monopolist journals prove that it has given them. a handle to abuse those with Seek the re peal. of the Corn-laws. ‘," Anti:-Cor'n-laW Ruf fianism" is the heading of a long article inserted yesterday in that journal, and though our Con temporary has grossly disfi,pred and exagger ated the scene, all who love the cause must re gret that the opportunity was; afforded him. Mr. WARBURTON very properly putt Mr. BLACKMORE down, when he attempted to speak before the resolution was put, but after it was put he authorised Mr. BLACKMORE to sp • eak Far, however, from supporting its own Chair man, the meeting would not hear Mr. BLACKMORE, and when another person as cended the platform to speak to order, treated them both with considerable r lersona 1 violence. Mr. WARBCRTON, we thought : , was wanting to his Own dignity, and wanting in proper respect to the. cause, as were the gentlt .men around him, thatklie and they did not prevent that violence immediately under their noses ; and being unable to prevent it, that he did not leave the chair and they did not leave the meeting. It would have been time enough to have sanctilened or allowed violence after granting a hearin; ;- to Mr. BLACK MORE. But he was not heard ; h e was clamoured at before, he could make him self heard, and he was removed from the platform by force. That is as bad conduct, we take leave to say, as that for which the Chartists have been so se verely condemned, in interruptix ig public meet ings. In this case, it was unfortunate too; for it will offend a very numerous c lass whom the Corn-law repealers desire to prop itiate. No per son will suspect us of any luke - armness in this neat cause, but earnestly desi.-ing to see it triumph, by its moderation a 3 welt/ as justice, we ter , ' bound to express our disapprobatio n of the (.+Alduct pursued by the meeting ion Thursday towards Mr. BLA CKMORE, - who had re x :Jed the permission of the Chairma n to address meeting. iTaving expressed this opinion, it gi% vs us un .ep7ned pleasure to add that the spee, ',hes deli -wed, particularly those •of Mr. Vim.' Ells 'and -1(.!Inel THOMPSON, and Mr. WILSON, v, 'ere ex ellent. In the great free-trade question, 'which 'Fos , agitating the country, and which w % take ,- iye to say spreads much further than Corn i vs—though they being the most promine ; n1 ,;the most cruel, and the most mischievons, are: Very properly first assailed —such men show' Att. "I" selves worthy .to be the leaders of the p(!opie• They are patient,i7Z -. firtn, and bold,. They flinch mit% ftdolin _ *._. , _ Passion of op inion, and flinpcot IF . **1011.01) themselves i n the front, ‘0 e4 t i t - - - is --- V* 11 07 . .. tiy be expo ed to ' . &tam. Thc..r.l 4l 'f.u: . _ ~d.a. j!!?:(f/ b "Columon They 0941 ethboliiit t4ig 4 u.vpio ~.., ,_ ,t and to.reibl e lan guagO*lppprri**743,lilions, anct so they i are tl4 iiiig• Ots , 'leaders of 04 a .4i-•mil lions. Art AjOien.:•lthe' ' millions hawr latade, TILE SUN; LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, OW. BOURSE-PARIS,WPDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 15... 119 5... 119 5 Four per Cents 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50 3 per Cents 8) 50... 80 50... 80 35... 80 35 Bank of France 3305 —.3305 • ...3305 .. 3205 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5052 50...5082 50.:.5080 —5OBO Belgian Bank BO7 50... 807 50... 805 ... 805 Belgian Fives 1840 1044 ... 104 i ... 104 i ... 104 f t Spanish Active. . 234 ... 234 ... 2 4 ... 234 Neapolitan lOB 60... 108 80... 109 60... 108 80 Roman, RAILWAY SHARES. SL Germain' B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830 Versailles, L.B B7 50... 87 50... 86 25... 86 25 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 50... 201 25... 201 25... 201 25 TIIE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1843. —We have had frequent occasion to call public at tention to the comprehensive plan, and excellent ar rangements of this useful work, and in these respects have little new to add. It is satisfactory, however, to state, that Mr. Kelly, the proprietor, not ungrateful for the extensive patronage it has justly acquired, has adopted many new improvements, and by simplifying some of the details, and making numerous additions, has this year rendered it the most complete Directory ever published. Of these we select the following : The full names of each partner in every firm appear at his proper alphabetical position with a reference to the firm, which likewise appears as before. This will remedy an inconvenience complained of, that unless the leading partner's name was remembered, a firm could not be referred to. A list of the prin cipal hotels, taverns, and commercial inns throughout England and Wales has been compiled, the land lord's name being in each case added., In the " Trades' Directory," some new lists have been added, the longest of which is " Travellers," (Commercial). The Street Directory has been much enlarged, and now embraces a much wider extent. The Court Directory also takes a much wider range than in the last edition, and includes some thousands of names not contained in any other book. The Proprietor, from his access to official documents, and the assist ance liberally afforded by the Post-office authorities, has great advantages, and consequently has been enabled to furnish a vast amount of information, all of which has been collected within the last seventy days, by responsible agents, possessing local know ledge. It is accompanied by an excellent map .of London, by Wyld, it extends to 1,558 pages, 112 more than in the edition of last year, and forms altogether a most valuable book of reference. We have reason to believe that Lieut.-General Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.8., with the greater part of the troops at present employed in China, will forthwith return to India ; and that the command-in-chief will be entrusted to Major-General Lord Saltoun, G.C.11., C. 8., at least until the payment of the twenty-one millions of dollars stipulated in the late treaty. The force under his Lordship's orders will consist of a brigade at Chusan, a small garrison at Amoy, and two battalions (British), with artillery, at Hong- Kong, where, it is expected that the head-quarters will be established.—Post. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, we under stand, deputed a reporter to attend the meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law League, held on Thurs day night, at the Mechanics' Institution, in order that the Society may be accurately informed of what oc curred. No doubt it will be greatly interested by the sums subscribed,' and by the statements made by Mr. Wilson, confirming so many other similar statements, all tending to show that the falling off in the consumption of the towns' people is the principal source of the fall in the price of agricultural produce. At length the landowners are awakening to a due sense of their own interest, and are finding out that there is no stimulant to agricultural improvement, and no reward for agricultural productions, at all to be compared to thriving consumers. At length after en countering more obloquy, and gathering on them selves more contempt than is borne by any class of men in the country, these sapient gentlemen have ac tually discovered that they have been labouring to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. If they have not succeeded, it is because there is a vitality in hu man property which even landlords cannot ,kill. A HINT TO TILE-MASERS.—The landed interest is just now bent on making England more fertile than Sicily, by underdraining every clay field. At the same time the diffusion of knowledge amongst agri culturists, and the progress of improvement, is ex tremely slow. " Two years ago," says Mr. Pusey, " the agriculturists discovered that while 405., 505., and even 60s. per thousand, were paid for tiles in the south of England, Mr. Beart, of Godmanchester, five years before, had invented a simple machine, by which he had reduced the price of tiles from forty shillings to twenty-two shillings, throughout Huntingdon shire." Fire years to spread amongst them such useful knowledge ! "The price of tiles," adds Mr. Pusey, "depends on that of coals," and then follows an eulogium on Lord Tweeddale's ingenious machine for making draining tiles. Now, as building seems nearly arrested in the manufacturing districts, and as they abound with ingenious workmen, we, would' suggest to the til e ma k ers , th ose w ho have works in the neighbourhood of 'coals, that they turn their at tention to making draining tiles by machinery at a cheap rate for ate use of the landlords in all parts of the kingdom. It will p robably be cheaper to con ve 3 r the article when manufactured to tiles. At any rate where.it is wanted, than to convey the coals to burn as the demand for such tiles, from the sudden light which has broken on the landowners, and the sudden necessity for exertion they have discovered, seems likely to be very great; if tiles be made on a large scale it will most probably b e a rofitable speculation , an d a g reat advanta g e to those profitable who are desirous to drain their land. The manufacturers should encourage the landowners by lending them all possible skill to carry out improve ment. If, as Mr. Pusey says, an increase of five or six bushels of wheat per acre were to result from the use of tiles manufactured on a factory principle, it. might puzzle the Post (no difficult matter) to tell how much of the increase was the result of manu facturing and how much of agricultural labour. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday , morn ing at Gloucester House, previous to his Royal. High. ness leaving town. Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yesterday. The Turkish Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign-office on Thursday. Sir Henry Macleod had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, and Colonel Maberly, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Commissioners of Inquiry into the Customs had a meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, White hall. Mr. A. Pringle, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, and other Commissioners, attended the meeting. Mr. Wood, Chairman o f the Excise, had an inter view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Earl and Countess of Ripon left their resi dence at Putney on Thursday, for Leamington. The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with Sir R. Peel yesterday. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public Optitton. " Who runs may read.' post.ExGrr. The intelligence from Barcelona is more favourable. The people seem disposed to submit to the Government. On Tuesday the King of the French arrived at the Tuileries from St. Cloud, and presided at a Council of Ministers. The Quotodienne, in noticing a conference which M. Conte, the Director-General of the Post-office, had on Monday with the Minister of Finance, men tions a report that the object of it was to discuss some arrangements for a uniform postage in France, and that a Bill for the purpose will be presented to the Chrmbers in the approaching session. The construction of the tomb of the Emperor Na poleon is about to be commenced, and for some days a model of the work has been exposed to public view at the Invalides. An equestrian statue of the Empe ror is to be placed in the middle of the great court, and on the pedestal will be represented the arrival of his ashes at the place where they now lie. The ex-Commissary of Police Lem - island, con demned by default, at the Court of Assizes of the Haute-Garonne, for corruption in his office, and who was lately arrested at Paris, has been sent to Toulouse, to be placed at the orders of the Proeureur du Roi. The Propaganda Fides of Rome received last year the sum of 113,000/. which was employed in follow ing the missionaries from the English Church, where ever they went, for the purpose of counteracting the effect of their labours by instilling into the minds of the heathen the errors of the Roman Catholic faith. The usual annual mass was performed on Tuesday at the Church of St. Roth in commemoration of the last revolution of Poland. The numerous Polish re fugees who were present afterwards dined together. The police of Lyons has been put on a track of a band of fifty thieves, robbers and depredators of all kinds, who have lately been ransacking that city and its environs. A liberated convict, having been be.. trayed by one of his accomplices, had denounced the whole confedeacy. ' Accounts from Vienna state that Prince Metter nich was quite , reebvered, .and had resumed his usual labours. A letter from Rome Nov. 17, in the Au gs b urg Gazette, says—" The King of Naples has endeavoured to induce Don Miguel to relinquish all claims upon the Crown of Portugal, on condition of his receiving a pension from that country. All the efforts of the King, however, on this point have been fruitless." According to the latest account& the affairs of Servia were still in an unsettled state, the clergy being hos tile to the new Prince. PUBLIC OPINION. We quote the following from the Morning Herald: —" Twelve months ago that perpetual prater Mr. Cobden instructed his confederates of the Anti-Corn law League that through the instrumentality of pro tection to domestic agriculture there was far too great a breadth of land devoted to corn cultivation, and that upwards of two million acres of our soil under the plough was unfit to produce anything but thistles, and was only worth rent because of the Corn-law. He then insisted on the absolute necessity of ceasing to cultivate poor clay lands; he then persisted that we grew far too much wheat and fed far too few cattle ; and he then attacked landowners for their sel fishness in persisting to tear up land which never should, he declared, have been disturbed. Then the curse of the country was described by this oracular leaguer to be an obstinate determination to be as independent of foreign supplies of corn as possible ; then the greatest national blessing that could be fall us was said to consist in giving up all attempts to feed ourselves ; then high rents were pourtrayed as the iniquitous result of pro-Corn-law legislation ; then farmers were characterised as public nuisances ; and then the very idea of our ability to increase the production of bread-corn was scouted as the wild fancy of foolish and interested landlords. Down with home agriculture and up with foreign grain' was but three, short months ago the war cry of the Manchester League.. How changed is now the staple of the diseoursea 'this man and his associates; the Corn-law is now assaulted because it prevents and delays the introdnctiori of improved systems of has bandry—bet:auie 'it has a tendency to check home production=because it stands in the way of more draining, better hedging, better fencing, better ploughing, better sowing, better everything—because it restricts the demand for agricultural labour—and because it limits the domestic consumption of our manufactures." Th e Chr on i c l e sa y., with reference to L or d Ellen borough's Indian p o licy—" It is no l onger attempte d to be denied that the recent successes in Affghanistan were achieved by the Generals in spite of Lord Ellen borough. The Governor-General ordered an ignomi nious retreat ; the military authorities accomplished a most triumphant advance. The recovery of our country people, whom Lord Ellenborough wou ld h ave sacrificed, is itself compensation to the national feel ing for a hazardous and expensive military enter prise; but this result, as we have shown, formed no part of the Governor-General's design. What advan tage, then, has Lord Ellenborough contrived to ex tract from these triumphs, which, if his order had been obeyed, could never have been achieved ? It would .really appear as if mortification at having been defeated in his attempt to defraud the nation of what was due both to it s c h arac t er an d in terests, had urged him to a course as nearly as possi ble similar to that upon which he had at first deter mined. The retreat which he ordered in the Pro clamation of the Ist of October, with the exception of the unpremeditated recovery of the prisoners, differs but little in its result from that which he or dered in the spring of this year. Battles have been fought, forts have been destroyed, a ' great moral lesson' has been taught in Affghanistan. But no sooner has all this been accomplished—no sooner has the avenging sword fallen indiscriminately upon guilty and innocent, the seeds of future animosity been broad sown from one end of the land to the other, the elements of greater disorganisation than ever existed before effectually let loose, than forth comes the Simla proclamation • and, to strengthen the moral lesson,' tells the Affghans, Though we have been able to overrun and lay waste your country, yet I confess that we are unable to keep possession of it. There fore we let go our hold, and undertake to recognise any Government you may establish.' This is Lord Ellenborough's moral lesson ; which, however, Would not be complete without the additional assurance that all the hostilities in which the British empire had en gaged against these people were crimes of the blackest dye—for none deeper can there be than unnecessary, and therefore unjustifiable, war." The Post says :—" It has always been our opinion that very little good could come of 'concession' to persons whose principles are bad, whose motives are selfish, and consciences callous. So we said when we saw the gifted head of the present Government bring forward measures of a nature which could not but have the effect of making bolder and stronger the party whose political extinction thi people sent him into office to accomplish. So we say now, when we see this hungry, impudent, and grasping party turn ing round on the Premier, and taunting him for giving to them conditions which their own -leaders would never have been able to obtain for them. Sir Robert. Peel has said and done much that was favour able to' , the principles of the Liberals. He took no advantage of the pre-eminent position of himself and his 'party, but seemed more anxious to conciliate his fallen foes than the friends who so enthu siastically supported him. Sure we are that he acted on a firm conviction of being in the right_ of doing all that was best calculated, under the circumstances, to promote and establish his country's welfare. - No-- doubt in this he made many personal sacrifices—no doubt, by steering a different course he might have secured for himself a great amount of popularity with the faithful friends on whom he relies for political power. We did ourselves, with the bold sincerity of true friendship, express our alarm at the principles propounded, and disapproval of some of the measures introduced by the Tory Government. The Radicals, in a paroxysm of petty exultation, broke into exclamations o f d e li g ht at the course they saw of the Premi er ' s things taking. B u t w h a t i s now their tone ? All im pudent calumny an d v it u peration character and m o ti ves . othing, they declare, has been done—nothing that can satisfy the philosoplic, the enlightened, the foes of farms and friends of fac tories. Let this be a lesson. Let men who have principle—let men who have the destinies of an empire in their hands—think now that it is time to stop in this career of concession." MONEY—TRADM—OOI I2 IV/ZRCE. The charity of the Royal Free hospital, Greville street, is about to be removed to the extensive pre mises of Messrs. Seddon in Gray's Inn-lane, formerly the barracks of the City Light Horse Volunteers ; these premises have been fitted up at a cost of nearly 10,000/. for the purpose. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Telensaque has been sufficiently raised to ascertain the nature of her cargo, which is found to be of timber and tallow. Some metallic substance also had obstructed the passage of several of the harpoons. Accounts brought by various vessels and steamers, state that no less than the wreckage of 12 large ves sels, and the' complete loss of their cargoes,has taken place during the late hurricanes, as well as three which have been burnt to the water's edge'; upwards of 32 persons are ascertained to have perished in them, along with an unknown number in the vessels burnt. LAW AND POZZCZ. Wilmot Buckle the murderer ,of `his wife at St. Mr. Greendl, M.P., Buckley mur ‘, Helen's, has confes.sed his crime in the Presence of and afterwards at the inquest. He stated that the and the Superintendent of police, deceased had goaded „him to distivetioa about hii former sweetheart in Wigan, and that he pulled his knife out of his pocket and stabbed her. The Jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the prisoner, who was re moved to Kirkdale gaol, to abide his trial at the next Assizes. Jane Biggerstaff, was finally examined at Worship street, with having stolen a large quantity of miscel laneous property from different children, and com mitted for trial upon four separate charges. John Joliffe, a man about 32 years of age was re examined at the Greenwich police-office, on the charge of intermarrying with Elizabeth Winterburn, his former wife, Maria Joliffe, being still alive. The pri soner did not deny the offence, and was fully com mitted for trial. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duchess of Hamilton is still at Mannheim, on a visit to the Grand Duchess Dowager Stephanie of Baden ; her Grace is expected in town at the eud of the month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, and Lady Charlotte Hill, arrived at Hillsborough Castle on Saturday last. The Earl of Zetland will leave Ask Hall, to be in stalled Deputy-Grand Master of England, onlMonday next, at Sunderland. The Earl and Countess Cowper are staying at Kingstown. The Earl of Courtown has returned to Courtown Castle, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wick low, at Shelton Abbey. Lord and Lady Jocelyn have left town for Dublin Castle, where his Lordship will resume his offi cial duties as State Steward of tile Lord Lieutenant's household. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been en tertaining a select party at Deene Park, His Lord ship leaves in a day or two, to inspect his regi rent, Prince Albert's Hussars, at York, which duty he performs monthly. MISCELLANEOUS. F. Robertson, Esq., was on Tiles lay last elected Dean of the Faculty of Advocats at Edinburgh, in consequence of the elevation of the late Dean, Alexan der Wood, Esq., to the bench. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. There has been an extensive .ale of Consols for Account in the course of the afternoon, to the amount, it is stated, of 150,000/. The stock, however, was taken most readily, and the Market left off at an advance of from to per cent. on the lowest prices of the morning. There is a feeling entertained in the Market that the public securities will go higher, not withstanding the increased demand for money for commercial purposes that is now becoming very ap parent. Consols for Account were quoted this after noon at 938 to 94 without the dividend, and at 94 with the half-year's interest, for the first transfer day next week. The premium upon Exchequer Bills was fully maintained this afternoon. Bank Stock left off heavily. There was not much done in Foreign Stocks this afternoon. The only bargains quoted were in Mexican at 30-a ; in Spanish Consols at 18 ; in the Deferred at 10i; in Spanish Three per Cents. at 23 ; and in the New Dutch Five per Cents. at 991. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, the London and Birmingham, and the South Eastern and Dover Shares, receded a fraction or so, late in the day. The Manchester and Leeds rallied to par. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were worth 31 premium. In the Foreign Exchanges there was scarcely any alteration this afternoon, on a comparison with the rates of last post day. The quotation for Paris was 25f. 821 c. to 87ic.; on Amsterdam, 12 64; on Trieste, 9 588 ; on Frankfort, 151: 1 ,; and on Ham burgh, 13 111. The Commercial MarkAs were firm this afternoon. On 'Change a good deal of animation prevailed. Tea alone is dull of sale. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather brisker, 8,000 bales having been sold, of which 4,000 bales were on speculation :1 400 bales Egyptian, realised 6/d. to 60. ; 150 of Peruvian, 61d. ; 60 of Bahia, 64d. to 64d.; 400 of Surat, 31d. to 4d.; and the American sold at 4d. to 61d. per lb. But little was done in the Railway Shares, the markets being dull except for Paris and Rouen, which were in request. Grand Junction llalf Shares were 91i ; Great Western Halves, 621 ; Midland Counties Fifths, 21 ; and Paris and Rouen, 25. The notice which appeared at the Bank of Eng land yesterday afternoon, and adverted to in the Morning Edition of The Sun, does not lower the rate of interest, as stated by the Post and Herald. On the Ist September last the Bank Directors gave notice that the rate would be 3/ per cent., which was a re duction on the previous charge of per cent., but there has certainly been no increased charge since then. The demand for capital is decidedly increasing in the City as trade improves, and we are happy to state that there are unequivocal symptoms of revival in various branches of trade ; some articles, such as dyes, &c., having advanced yesterday 30 per cent. for shipment to China. Articles likely to be received in full supply from that quarter are of course lower, and tea begins to decline. A statement of the revenue of the province of Canada for 1841 reached us by the last steamer, and shows the total Customs to have been 214,4381. Quebec paying 53,5051.; Montreal, 108,750/. ; St. John's, 23,273/. ; Kingston, 8,179/. ; and Toronto, 6,403/. The Excise duties were 22,570/., and the payments by the American Land Company amounted to 22,2221. The total net income was 297,9901. The timber trade in Canada .is evidently improv ing, after all the outcry against the abolition of pro tective duties. The following communication from Aylmer, in the Ottawa district, bears out our asser tion :—" We entertain very sanguine hopes that the timber trade will revive, and the producer meet the reward of his toil in the ensuing season. We under stand, in the confident expectation of this, large quan tities of timber will be made this winter, and the low prices of provisions is greatly in favour of the operative. All is life and bustle in the lumbering sec tions, already in active preparation, and as soon as winter sets fairly in we trust to see, as heretofore, strings of lumber sleighs wending their way to the shanties with requisites for the hsriy sons of the forest. Bytonn and Aylmer then will revive; both have been sadly suffering from the pressure of the times." The operations in Stocks will be restricted for the next few weeks within a narrower circle, as tle trans fer books are closed for Consols, &c. For money there have been transfers at 941 to 944, being a shade higher than yesterday forenoon. For the opening on the 17th of January, without the dividend, the rates have been 93i to 934. Exchequer Bills have realised 495. to 51s. premium, New Three and•a-llalf per Cents. 1011 to 101/, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 94 to 1. A purchase of 5,000/. has been made in the last-mentioned at 941 for the Savings Banks Commissioners. Bank of England Stock remains at 171- to 1721. The news from Spain is looked upon as rather more encouraging, and the Active Stock has touched 181, while Three per Cents. were 23 to 231. Portuguese Three per Cents. have been firm at 224-. Mexican Bonds have ruled steady at 30i to 304. Dutch Two and-a-llalf per. Cents. have been at 524- 52i. The only business worth noticing in Shares is in the South Eastern, at 264- to 274-; and in the Scrip at 21 to 1i discount. Blackwall are 11, and Man chester and Leeds, 1 discount. Newcaspe and Dar lington Junction have been sold at 11 premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares are 2 prem. CLOSING PRICES. lIRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .....1711 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 941 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons 944 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent. Red... 101 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i t per Cent... lOl4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 51 p m Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 51 pm J an . 1860 ... ...... 12 ' 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l2 13-16 Consols for Opg. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Nv Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pez cent — Ditto, Metallic .... Spanish, 5 per cent lB Ditto, Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. —f —c. Exchange French, 3 percent —f. —c. Dutch, 2* per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. ...... 101 g Belgian, 5 per *Ant — irazilian Bonds... — Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Chilien, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 — Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 794 Danish, 3 per tent — Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3 O ll Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 perct. SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... 48 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Blackwell ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ... Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) . 91 Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ........ ......... 25 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... 231 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar ... .. 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 91 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh ...... M.B. 13 14 Venice Altona ..... . ... l4 14/ Naples Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75] Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 231 Frankfort on M a i ne ...152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 Buenos Ayres ...... Berlin... Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 1 Philadelphia Trieste; ditto Madrid ...... 36i Cadiz 36* Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville PRICES OF BULLION, PER ca Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 New Doubloons ......0 0 0 New Dollars... ........,0 4 91 ,Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 Ili LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 2.—Wind this day at noon, southerly, light airs and hazy. DEAL, DEC. I.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Chance, Harris, Trinidad ; Salvatore, Teneriffe ; Bar bara, Banton, Bombay ; Maria, Crewa, westward. Al most all the outward bound have put back and remain. OFF MARGATE, DEC. I.—Bengalee, B•Jodle, China; John and William, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Wil liam Harris, Rogers, Honduras. Sld. Liverpool steamer, Alexandria. PLYMOUTH DEC. I.—Wind S.—Acrd. Ed w ard. M`Kenzie, Quebec.i FALMOUTH, DEC. I.—Strong breezes and squally. —Ski. Niagara, Scuddoe, Boston. SWANSEA, Nov. 30.—rrd. Gloucester, Easter brook, Valparaiso. MILFORD, Nov. 30.—Arrd. John Larch, Liverpool, from China. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 1.--Wind S., moderate.--Arrd. Lauriston, Jamaica. Sld. William Prowse, Valpa raiso; William Russell, Brazil; St. Thomas; Royal Mint and I. 0., Jamaica ; Martha, Cuba; Swatara, New Orleans; Satisfaction, Africa. Arrd. off, Potter, Ceylon. The steamers Prince of Wales and Royal Victoria were in contact last night off the rocks, and both received considerable damage. One man was killed, and three persons severely hurt on board the Victoria. CORK, Nov. 29.—Arrd. William Large, Osmo therby, Jamaica ; Brooke, Stirling, Cuba. CASTLETOWN, Nov. 30.—Three casks of gin, of about 140 gallons each, marked Harris and Co. (z), came ashore in this bay yesterday. RAMSGATE, DEC. I.—The William Hamley, from Newcastle to Guernsey, has been assisted in here, leaky, having been ashore to the eastward of Dover. DOVER, DEC. I.—About 100 casks of French wine, marked H R 8 1, No. 10 d 13, have been picked up, and landed on this coast. YAEIIOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. I.—The Mary and Sally acrd. here from Seville, spoke yesterday, about 26 miles S.S.W. of the Lizard, the Ockbrock, for London to New Orleans, and took the mate and one man on board belonging to the Sophia, Kettels, and. at Plymouth, which vessel had been in contact. SCILLY, OCT. 29. The Eleanor, Clark, from Odessa to London, which put in here 10th inst. leaky, is discharging her cargo. The Iberia, Hall, from London to Gibraltar, put in here 22d inst. leaky, and is discharging her cargo at St. Mary's Pier, having shipped several heavy seas, and experienced a heavy gale at W. by .S., and was obliged to cut away her masts. The Hope, Guthrie, from Odessa and Cork to London has put in here leaky, and with cargo shifted. • Bathroar, DEC. I.—A boat, marked outside Dal marnock, Alloa, has been picked up at Abbotsburg ; a companion slide, 3 feet 3 inches square, with a brass rim, apparentlybelonging,to a steamer, painted wains cot inside, and black on the top, has been washed ashore at this place. Several , pieces of deck plank, of red pine, about 34 inches thick, have also come ashore. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.---,Glenarm, Liverpool to .Port Adelaide, Sept. 1, lat. 16 N. ion. 18 W., by the Lena, arrived at St. Helena. Statute,' Liverpool to New York, 7th ult., lat. 38 lon. 71 ; Bravo, Fal mouth to St. Andrew's, N. 8., 3d ult., by the Tropic, arrived at New York. Superb, Havapnah,to Mobile, Oct. 20, lat. 25 lon. 84; Atalanta, Stockholm to Rio Janeiro, Sept. 30, lat. 16, by the Philip Hone, ar rived at New York. Admiral Colpoys, Newfound land to Demerara, lat. 15 ; Lord of the Isles, St. An drew's, N. 8., to Demerara, Oct. 13. SOUTH SEA FISHERY. The Lady Amherst, of London, was lying at Callao on the 7th of August, with 2,500 barrels. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess De Grey, with Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, Mr. Magenis, and suite, left the Viceregal Lodge yesterday, on a visit for a few days to Mr. and Lady Florence Balfour, at their seat, Townly Hall, Drogheda. The Government have sent down Mr. Nicholas Kelly to take charge of the district of Skibbereen, considering it expedient, on account of the recent de plorable affray in that place, to remove Mr. Gore Jones to another district. Mr. Kelly went down to Skibbereen on Saturday night. On Sunday an inquest was held before George Brad shaw, Esq., and a respectable jury, on the body' of the late James Scully, Esq., of Kilbeach, and, after a lengthened investigation, a verdict of " Wilful mur 'der" against some person or persons nriknOWn was re turned. 'The Earl of Glen all,' Sir John'Fiiigerald, 'Messrs. Creagh, Scully; lieiiting,'O'Metigher, Chdy; ter, and several other . Magistrates 'attrided at th'e' inquest, and have since called a Meeting , of Magis trates fot•Friday next; at Cashel, " to 'talce'inth'con-; .sideration the steps necessary to be adopted on 'the Melancholy occasion of this murder." The deceacod gentleman was a Magistrate of Tipperary, the eldest son olCounsellor Denis Scully, formerly of Merrion square, Dublin, the well-known author of a work called " Statement of the Penal Laws," and he was brother to Vincent Scully, Esq., of the Leinster cir nuit; who married Miss Grogan, of Harcourt-street, Dublin, sister to the Member. The Lord Chancellor yesterday dismissed the'peti tion of Mr. John Devereux, in custody for running away with Elizabeth Kennedy, a ward of the Court, with severe reproof. Mr. and Mrs. Kean, having been engaged for a short period at the Theatre Royal, made their first appearance on Saturday evening in the Gamester. The house was crowded in every part, and nothing could exceed the enthusiastic manner in which these general favourites were received. LORD SALTOUN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. SIR,---I beg to return you my best thanks for the manner in which you have mentioned my old com rade, Lord Saltoun. As a soldier I abstain, of course, from particularising any escapes that Lord: Saltoun has had, for, in the army, " a miss is considered as good as a mile," and is thought of no more; but it may be as well to say, that, at Waterloo, he had three horses short under him, one of his spurs shot off, his forehead laid bare by a shot in the front of his cap, his sword broken in two, and the cloak in front of his saddle riddled with shot. At Peronne he was hit by a spent iron ball which buried itself, with his purse, in hiA groin ; but, notwithstanding the pain and suf fering which this must have caused he marched up to Paris with the army : this wound was never men tioned. As a civilian you may, perhaps, scarcely understand Ihe strong feeling that exists between two old soldiers who have served so much together as we have : this feeling must be my excuse for having troubled you upon tFe subject. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Nov. 29. * 4 * TRIUMPH of the FR.ENCHTABINET. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—General Jacque minot has been re-elected Deputy for the first arron dissement. This is a great triumph for the Ministry; and the manly sentiments expressed by the General in favour of England makes his return a subject of rejoicing to us. The numbers yveme Number of voters 1,537 842 695 General Jacqueminot . All the other candidates SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag-hds., Mon., New Lodge, Wink field ; Wed., Beaconsfield-11. Brighton hare., Mon., Thunder's Barrow ; Wed., Patcham ; Fri., Dyke. Brookside ars., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Telscombe Tye. East Sussex hds., Mon., Jevington-10i. Findon hds , Tues., the Dyke ; Thurs., Ashington Gate ; Sat., Kennel. Marquis of Hastings' hds., Mon., Bunney ; Wed, ' Redwood Gate ; Sat., Hathern Turn-10i. Capt. Candler's hds., Tue s ., Sh raw l ey Wood ; Fri., Tiddesley Wood-101. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., The Lawn ; Wed., Dyrham Park ; Thurs., Jackament's Bottom, Tetbury ; Sat., Staunton Park. Mr. Tudway's hds., Tues., Berkeley Lodge, Stander wick ; Fri., Brewham Common. Mr. G. Notley's hds., Mon., Treborough Post; Thurs., Wasford Turnpike -gate-101. Somerset Subscription hds., Tues., Cocker Combe ; Fri., Raleigh's Cross-10/. Sir J. Cope's hds., Tues., Hampstead Norris-10i. Norfolk hds., M on., Litcham Common ; Wed., the Crayfish, Thursford ; Fri., Edgefield-101. Mr. Drax's hds., Mon., Holness Kennel-11. Mr. R. Cockburn's hds., Mon., Puddington ; Thurs., Washfield. Mr. Giles's lids., Mon., Holly-bush Hill ; Thurs., Highnam. Herefordshire hds., Tues., Harewood's End ; Fri., eighth mile stone, Frome's Hill-road-10. Shropshire hds., Mon., fifth mile stone ; Wed., Eller ton ; Fri., Hawkstone-104. Mr. Archer's hds., Mon., Bray's shop ; Thur., Chap man's Well-104r. Essex and Suttolk hds., Tues, Goll Grove ; Fri., Little Bentley Hall. INsoLvENcy.—On the Ist of November the amended Bankruptcy Act was first put in operation at the Bankruptcy Court, Basinghall-street. Yesterday the returns of insolvents who petitioned for protection under the provisions of this Act were sent in, when 57 names appeared in the short space of thirty days. This, it must be borne in mind, is quite independent of tho numerous petitions which are disposed of in Portugal street, where the Learned Commissioner is o c cupied from ten o'clock in the morning until late in the evening, almost every day in the week, in hear-. ing cases, when the aggregate amount of debts is not sufficient to entitle the petitioner to the benefit of the new arrangements under Lord Brougham's Act. PROMENADE CONCERTS, ENG LISH .rOPERA 91 These delightful concerts commenced at this theiti!{` 9 , ,o last evening tinder the able" manageme nt of + T lien. We were at once pleased and disappeinted at reading M. Jullien's programme—pleased to find'iliat the series of concerts is to be an annual one, disap pointed at learning that the series for the present season is to be confined to twelve concerts only. How ever, as the houae last evening was crowded to suff, cation, and as there i 5 every' prospect of its contirinihg to be so every evening during the season; we are not without hopes that M. Jullien may be induced to re consider the matter, and to give us a second and a larger series of these delightful entertainments. These promenade Concerts have done more to ruivance taste for good music in England than any other single cause. They have not only formed an immense musical public, capable of appreciating good muSic, but, what is of infinitely more importance, intolerant of bad ; and the progress of the science is forwarded more by driving bad music out of the field than even by the introduction of that which is excellent. The feature of last night's performance was the real. Scotch quadrille, in which M. Jullien introduced an admi7, cable imitation of the Highland bagpipe. The airs chosen for this purpose were the popular inelodies4., " The Campbells are coming," and " Tullochgorum , and so exact was his imitation that the Mac callum Mhor himself might have been deceiv ed by • it. The instrument which he used was apparently a flageolet, but we presume it must have been fur nished with the mouth-piece of an oboe or a bassoon, or some reed must have been introdUced to break the current of air—at all events the imitation was corn plete, and the performance was loudly encored. Among other melodies introdUced in the course i ts, of the Scotch quadrille waS that' exquisitelY beautifual one—" Ah 1 . where, and ah! where is my ingli tan .14 htyi laddie gone. manner in which M. Jullien set this pathetic air, and by his orchestral accompani merits has ,elaborated and carried out, a s it wnsep i l b intentions and feelings of the composer, di? . ( 1 1.1 f honour to his taste and to his science. It one the most exquisite things we 'have ever h eara ; .e audience were enraptured with it, and at its ebalcl u i poil sion enthusiastically, called for its repetition. in 'IA 'O 4 first part,M.yllet eve eu:oandso_ploarotn.lltihre. Liviaozloa:c!ritin:irtr: a,style unequalled 'since the days when LinieY rrR his zenith.;.- and in the s formed a solo on the clariOnet with exquisite taste a judgment. The house was - crowded to excess' and everything 'proMises a good season. We hope that the public patronage will be such as to induce I ,v;i;fiel Jullien to make a long season alio. 1 - ti(; a PRICE OF SUGAR. - - EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY. „ to. ' L OND ON, DEC. 3, '''. „ 0 "... The following average prices of Brown or NIL r does British Sugars, exclusive of duty, w ere P lished in the Gazette of last night : West India cie t-345. 9d. per East India 33 61 ~ Mauritius 32 9i The average price of the three kind s, to ke° jointly, is 345. Olid. per cwt. The actual weights of sugar sold on account of r e: importers, in the week ending the 29th Nov., ac h°o„ ing to the returns made upon oath by the suga r A nd kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, on , on which weights the above prices are compu ted, East sisted of 14,394 cwt. West India, 3,828 CiVt. D India, and 6,082 cwt. of Mauritius. About 1,200 cwt. of very dark unsound sugars hs g, been sold in the same week at from 2 03 . 6d. 02 _ per cwt.; these,having been classed in the returns " . 1. East India unfairly depresses the average that kind of sugar, as well as the total average relined Refined sugar, equal in quality to double oes• manufactured in London from foreign Muscoval „.11 may be bought to be put, free of all charge'" board a British ship at 265. *per cwt., being less ai ,' ,„, cwt. for refined white sugar than the average ( I,''' a b o ,•, , of West Indian raw sugar, by Bs. 9d.. The total % re , of British sugars for the week in Mincing-lane, 14,_ price v 24,304 cwt. ; assuming that the sales at the oute.r; added together, are to the same extent as the weight .. sold in the London market, the consumers 104 48,600; cwt. of sugar, at 345. per cwt., aw° 11 ,„ 11 i z ht in round numbers, to 82,6201. sterling. 1 121 1. - ' t 'ss have bought 48,600 cwt. of foreign sugar, Ja u ! tiu g good, at 18s. 6d., amounting to 44,9.50/., , elt liwi ns id ii. n difference of 37,6701., being the excess of price rthe ,'for British sugars, which, added to 236,565/-4 (see , f fruits of protection for the four previous we° ks itie Of SUB, 26th November), gives 274,2341., the c° t oo the sugar monopoly to the sugar producers' , 01 - 1 ,j,,tel cost-thereof to the public for five consecutive vit7,4k.,;41 Should Sir Robert Peel be disposed to render, l ii justice to the people of this country.; by.prnetio.ll(' measure to the House of Commons for the • 0 4 " 1 ",, A -14„; -, ' of the.monowii;,.. _ .n 4,1.1. - hay. lb. Dy rnany . if°o ag ; llit laged the people, , through the excessive pri,c€l , b it s 'for Colonial produce, \vhi.4h,butfor these inee.? ,' iY 9 could not have occurred,, he may r e ly ononagepl a, ; 01 '"that of . having arrayed against hi scheine,ol. ',lot Weight,and infhience of the West - India 1;04,.f.1iF 4 , u , 0 gentry will be in active foree, they 4 . 4 re,. vII I L i '",, l e old cant of having been, deprivedrof'the 6 .alaW' ' ~i 4 the humane determination' of the t Aligi c9 141 ,• 1 . , 0 11 04 s lo la n % tt . w i : a il i l s b e e d . abate that disgraceful nuisance, prOtesliiii3O„ i lti s " - ' ''.:' re -ruodrguecae ag to ain c s o t m th:'s j i n n t f o nl e t Or ti f t' r--- 1,iti.::,,4 theirs in the British markets, they Wili harp ,:t this pint with all the ingenuity and eunn?..„,s lo o,, possess, a line of argument which has 07 1 -(qiiet; ~ succeeded in securing for them at the n4 16 _1 0 6 3 '6( i petitioUlooo ; cent. per cent. prices over and above - thor.. i i r d ,4 't'itl 1 , 1' ' • their foreign rival sugar producers, but n° love :,,i. will they utter about the liberal compens a t'alii i ii of „ them at the time of emancipation in the, $ isiiii,, , twenty millions 'of hard money, and since the in ,ii.,,f,. in the shape of forty millions more paid the 4 1 p011 1 cessive price for their sugar, coffee, rum, Ike' ; o f o i,d, „ I these enormous gains they will maintain a Pr t ii i to, ; i silence; their recollections upon these import° genf7 .- will be refreshed, however, by some intelligent ~ ber of the House, who, probably, in addition.. w. bo 4 minding them of the sixty millions, may in Bn9 ~. that their selfish clamour does not arise fro _ ti p, humane wish on their parts to mitigate the horn ~ slavery, but that it has its origin in their avn s la , desire to be allowed to continue their 11 .. u sta tioii the pockets of the community without le°'',.. an for a few years longer. No circumstaolf: he better display the absence of sincerity .2..'iybep West Indians than their sayings and. doingsnmeil, Lord John Russell, the session before 1107 P rur t Ale a reduction in the duties on foreign sugarsleet, very moment they were, with dismal coue.t7elLsed opposing the measure, on the ground that intlo the consumption afforded lucrative encourtigenle° ~. t heir. • slave trade ; they were cognizant."Of the fact th h afr o.t h of dependents in the colonies had been, fora lel' ise ti- time, and were even then, consumers of large fi l w ell ties of the objectionable sugar ; they kne w use fine that their dependents imported, for domestic ,_lO,O lump sugar at 265. per cwt., and, ordinary r ed sugar at 15s. per cwt., both sorts inal ev bad from slave-raised muscovadoes, and yet.,l . l e tbat the hardihood to pretend before the 1 -0 . 1 ,.. .thi they entertained feelings of alarm 1 .i .,' 0 it` industrious poor of the mother country, clo i ' s. in the''' was notorious their white and black laboureil4o West Indies were doing, should augment the.7.oo,ofoa of slavery. For example the inhabitants of. VIZ I, ' pry/ 4 4 West India colonies were and are importing . ~,t, T 23 hand fine sugars at 265. per cwt., ogle. iv i' , P. II produce of the Brazils and Havanna, W10_ 1 1 4,0,, si. l other, they are . exporting their own 3 ' t b yt p manufactured stuff, and, ,obtaining for it here , • ‘ ,601, , i , j the mischievous operation , of the sugar f u l a rstOi!'. l law, 345. 9d. per. cwt. ~80 ;much, th 6o '. i n tere4W India sincerity, when the parties fanertheirt . wiic. b,,, are threatened. Who, after learning thi 4 64 7 . t /0 '• a 1 ,.... , 1,, ie. , admits of easy proof,. can put any faith iii.W as ..' ..8.. , representations ? . 0 so rne. , l - Want of space deters( :us from su binittig acrd ii r: marks for the consideration of that numerous. Te ss therefor , now the party who are sincerely anxious to_st i e P... o. the slave-trade ,and slavery; ,we will, t the merely remind that party t hat to this mane% the merely the ene _t means employed have pot accomp h effect of sired. They have unsuccessfully.tried t e treaties ; they have endeavoured in vain to . pe_rsu,,, d v : the United States to co-operate with them; theoy,,T'eit the mortification toperceive that France, tired from r alliance, urges her Government to withdraw ba; engagements formed in 1831 and 1833 ; tn . Y fern' the the disastrous results of the expedifi° ll „ I,° l the Niger, they have the fate of the modem ... , as before their eyes, from which so much g . , "._. expected. :They have experienced that the privi . leir .s ; bounties, and monopolies heaped unspanniff ping der that British colonial produce, for the purpose of lteeP". the plantations in a productive state in t or m .e , to Great Britain, nar4 . slave -holding countries might thereby be . e . Pt, ° _,,,„ , . follow the bright example set by ta- , • lies, Scc' ' that the monopo . signally failed in their intended object. The plan • tions are badly cultivated, so . 11 o f the eon' c conferred, have done little more than -forty millions sterling since the y-ear of sinners of the protected produn a- of _ ealebaoi}u! --‘- ardour and with . ,i slave trade progresses wit unabated wretched victims than here. 4, ~./ cipation. In the mean ti i i i ne it is notorious that the more cruelty towards its tish cruisers placed. 1,40,,-,q cape the vigilance of the la ff .. we shall en'` v# tofore, inflicted in order that . the slave ships may In this state of a ans .,' intercept them. slaver aiscargr. active competition against brought into f the former feel„aattoaf dear our next week to show that free labour sugar, -i" atmnt, will do sured of liberal and ones 7 . tion of slavery' .0 9.1 !„;-!1 in markets where the producers o ~ . ~) towards effecting the rapid ex mc _ .., ,Str ---- • Sii o44 ti .flogentlernanty.... i.„O any plan yet conceived and practised. ~,, ~„ ~. : Muslq ERlSlll.—Thurday eveni h on Mesmerism, and convinced a nu ni as m an , a o : 4 ; i i , . C. Ball, delivered a lecture at t e Aerdoeulaside. ...tire‘7.;,,,,: five audience that the subject- remains. ' Y IC' -T: as ever. lie certainly throw no new light ar° ll ..x.",-