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NEW NOVEL BY HORACE SMITH, ESQ Just ready, in 3 vols., post BTo., ADAM BR OWN, THE MERCHANT. By HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Branilletye House," " The Moieyed Man," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BETTS' PATENT BRAN — Dr.—The unparal- Wed 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 arid high sounding titles, urge upon the piblic notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is their vast inferiolity to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be ofilained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONFA DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, XS% £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, zet4oo, £l,OOO, £1,500£5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to 4:72,170 sterling. • Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a very short time very large amounts of Money Divi eland!! to their Correspondents in GreLt Britain and Ireland. Dividends of 25,000/., 16,0001., 9,0001., .000/., and 3,6(101. to London ; 3,600!., 8001. , ant 700/. to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3.6001. to Halifax; 1,200/. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/., 700/., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire; •7001. to Colne. Lancashire; 7001. to Ryde, lile of Wight; 600/. to Cork ; GOO/. to Bideford ; and 6001. to Bradford, &e.. &e., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBEOK ; gua rante:4l by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than 25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money. Dividends of 11. and ilpward.s. Price cf On? Sl.aie, It. ; !Aro Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 31.; four Share., 4/. ; five Snares, 51. ; six Shares, €l.; seven Shares, ; eight Shares, 81. ; nine Shares, 9/. ; ten Shares, 10/. Direct for Sharer, without delly, to HEINE BROTHERS at I.ubecic, • The full Prospec!us, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upin addressing a line to ELtine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. DEC. 19, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE. —1 he Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, airs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei Orne, Mr. Leffler ; ldreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Birtley ; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley; Blrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss, Lee. Doors open at Ilalf-past Six, and the Performances com mence at seven,—Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circics be., Second Prim 2s. tSd. ; Pit 3s; Sec,nd Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to he taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-ofEce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Bev-office ; of Messrs. An drew:l,l6i, New Eund.atreet ; Mr. Mitchell, Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 19, Will he performed Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, J 699. Sir Wilfull Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; Marwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone; Waitwell, Mr. Strickland; Mil lamant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. After which, a new Drama, called THE BASTILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. H. Hull; Fricancleau, Mr. Webster; the Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. To conclude with the Farce of OUR MARY ANNE. Jonathan Tunks, Mr. Buckstone ; Colonel Albert, Mr. Erin dal ; Ernestine, Miss Charles ; Mary Anne, Miss C. Connor. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 19, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Maynard, Wieland,.Miss Chaplin, 'Mims 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 Giubilei. To conclude with a Comic llurletta, called ANTONY and PLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss 1111 es rray. To conclude with NORMA. Polio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Yorma, sir. Paul Bedford; Adalgisa ' Mr. Wright. Ilexes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, ININGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Orders received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand and of all News-Agents. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. morunig...... 37 minutes after 2 I Evening 5B minutes after 2. LONDON : MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19, 1842. Every day brings us evidence that sound and ust opinions are making rapid progress iu the agricultural districts. It is of great importance to convince the farmers that the fall of price, of which they complain, is caused by their own mutpal competition, and by the diminished means - of their customers. That truth once mastered, they will be sensible that there are other causes which affect prices than those enactments of the Legislature on which tlfe farmers have been brought up to rely. They will' probably. see that if they follow the advice now so bounteously poured out by the landlords to under-drain, to employ more labourers, and to improve their tillage, while the manufacturers and the town population remain in their present condition, they will only ruin themselves. Every shilling they now lay out in improving and extending- tillage will be an additional obligation on them to sell their crops almost as soon as they can be gathered next year, and will increase their dependence on the monied classes, and , •on their landlords, unless, in the mean time, the manufacturers go most rapidly ahead, and the demand for their produce rapidly increases. They cannot export it, that is clear, till the price falls so low as to be ruinous under their present charges. They must sell, therefore, to the town population, and if these remain im poverished and unemployed, while the farmers are all exerting themselves under the influence of agricultural societies, and the advice of interested landlords to improve tillage, it is clear that the price of their produce, by dint of their own com petition, will fall ruinously low. To show them, on far better authority than ours, how the matter works, we are about to cittote a passage from the speech of the Earl of HARBOROUGH, at the meet ing of the Isle of Wight Agricaltural Society, held on Thursday last. The Noble Earl said— He had been taking a tour into the manufacturing districts, and had had convQrsations with the most sensible people he could fall in with • and he was glad to find a great alteratio n in opinions. Even partners s in the same firm differed, with regard high prices and low prices. Th at was not the case some time ago, when the cry was Down with ever ythi ng , that they might have cheap bread and cheap meat." He could assure them that thousand s . in the manufac turing districts were with out a any even t o give for Meat. In some places it was frightf u l to see them. Mills that used to be full qf wor k, way whatever. were now not employed in any Formerly th e peop l e in those places wanted nothing but to beat down prices. Now they were beginning to b e wiser. The mills that were at work belonged to persons of great capital, but the smaller mills, that worked only for orders, were shut up. From what he could make out, he thought they were remarkably well off in the islan& • The price of their meat was higher than it was in the north, because they consumed all that they wanted amongst themselveg, In, the north the la bourers were habituated to eating meat, but here they were not, and if their wages were much higher, he did not think they would eat mutton, for they were fond of their bacon, which was a very good thing for them. In the north every labourer eat meat. Wages were lower than they had been for along ; they were 2s. a day. In Yorkshire they were 2s. 3d. a day; but they were higher there because they were near the manufacturing towns, and good agriculturat labourers were difficult to be got. From the distress that existed in the north, the demand for meat hadfallen and a butcher that generally averaged seven bullock; every market day, now did not average two. If meat were a penny a pound, the distress amongst the manu facturers was so great that they could not buy it. The distress was frightful.—(A Voice—" They want more employment.") The Noble Earl is quite correct in ascribing , ' the present fall in the price of meat to the inabi lity of the manufacturing population to buy meat, the consequence of which is, as the Noble Earl knows, that the oxen from Lincolnshire, which used to be sent to the manufacturing towns in Yorkshire, arc now sent to Smithfield, where the competition with the Hampshire and Sussex stock beats down the price of all. The Noble Earl is wrong, however, in accusing the manufacturers of ever having wished to sacrifice everything to cheapness. That is the slang and unfounded charge of the Tory journals. The town population were first made sensible of the evils of the Corn-laws by a great rise of prices, and they naturally inveighed against that exorbitant price. Gradually the still more mighty evils of restricted trade, want of employment, want of wages, in creased poor-rates, augmenting destitution and crime, and much actual starvatinn, became mani fest;. prices fell without giving relief, and then the inanuacturers, without relaxing their hosti lity to prices artificially forced up by the law, urged against the law these graver charges. They never wanted mere cheapness; they wanted plenty, they wanted brisk trade, they wanted free trade, they wanted justice, and were only led to demand low prices because high prices was the primary effect of the unjust law. As the Noble Earl has seen the real cause of the decay of the agricultural interest in the destitution of the manufacturers, we hope that he will relax his hostility to that repeal of the Corn-laws which would give work and wealth to the manufacturing districts, and that in another session we shall not find Lord WORSLEY one of the foremost and most distinguished opponents both of a reduction of duty and of total repeal. The Earl of HARBOBOUGR'S remarks throw a clear light on the effects of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy in abolishing the prohibition .on the im portation of cattle. The Premier grasped at that little relaxation because it had not been mentioned by the Whigs. He could say that was his own. He taunted them with not having thought of cattle, and boasted of his great achievement on that head. Short-sighted, igno rant statesman ! He ought to have known that the condition of the manufacturing classes was., such that their consumption of meat was nearly at an end, and that the price would fall whether he allowed foreign cattle to be brought in or not. To gain a triumph over an antago nist, rather than promote the public good, be only slightly altered the Corn-law, and he did away with the prohibition to import cattle. Now, poor man, be has to bear, amongst his uninformed agricultural friends, to *hose ignorance and prejudices he has pandered, all the blame of the whole reduction of the price of cattle, as if it had every farthing been caused by a few lean cows brought from Holland and Spain- He has suffered in character and popularity, and the good cause of free trade has in some degree suffered from his alliance. His injudicious relaxation has brought additional unpopularity on free trade amongst the agriculturists, by making them at tribute their sufferings to his relaxation of the restrictive system, whereas all the blame of them really belongs to those restrictive laws which have deprived the manufacturers of trade, and disabled them from purchasing beef and mutton. We can trace in this case, as in many others, a distinct connexion between the adoption of a party policy and the loss of popularity and repu tation. So always was it, and so will it ever be, and so shall cunning men always find out in the end—at least whenever they apply their cun ning to national affairs—that they overreach themselves. We must now quote from the report of the same meeting, which we find in the Hampshire Independent, some observations of the Rev. WALTON WHITE. They were, it is true, but the echo of Mr. H. D. GORING'S speech of the previous week, at Steyning, but being spoken in a district purely agricultural, and much eulogised by the agriculturists present, they are a strong additional evidence of the progress of sound doc trines. Very soon there will be no person— nei ther agriculturists nor manufacturers—favour able to the Corn-law ; and if Sir ROBERT PEEL does not repeal it, he will have the demerit of upholding a law which he knows to be unjust and mischievous, against the voice of the whole empire. The Rev. Walton White said they knew they must depend on their own exertions in future. They could not look forward to protection.—(Hear.) The principle was broken down, and they would go on until they returned to first principles. It would have been well, perhaps, for them, if these first principles had never been departed from, for in that case they would not have been in the difficulties in which they now found themselves. It seemed to him that the principle of protection would in every way gradually be with drawn—(Hear)—and that all classes of society, in all pursuitS, whether in trade or agriculture, would be left to their own exertions. He had no fears for agri culture ; he believed that all eventually would he well. Capital, intelligence, and industry must be successful, and , : i vould succ ee d b e tt er i n agr i cu l ture t h an i n any z o a t y. fail l:be T d h e e m y an o d he for a agricultural productions notctions liable to those revulsions which . extended to trade; and when th ey returned to first pr i nc i ples, those changes which from time to time caused panic and alarm, would be at an tu en d . Returning to first p r i nc i ples, means returning n i n Re to the natural laws which regulate the production prize, and sale—the demand and the supply of all commodities. It means totally repealing the Corn and all other laws restricting trade, and it means the overthrow of our present mis chievous system of meddling with, and attempt ing to regulate, everything. It tells menlthat the cure for panics is reliance on the natural laws which regulate society. To find a clergyman espousing and recommending such opinions to agriculturists will be as useful to his class as it is creditable to the individual. It redeems the body from the accusation of having defended the Corn laws because they were supposed to increase the tithe-rent charge. We are not without hope that more of the clergy will follow this example, and be anxious, by their conduct, to clear themselves fr.mi the suspicion of heartless sordidness which now weakens their influence, and inflicts irrepa rable damage on the Church. The tribute to Sir John and Lady Pirie for promoting, during the late Mayoralty, the public welfare, the charities, and the benevolentinstitu tions of the City, we are glad to see has not been proposed from any party or political feelings, but solely from the esteem and gratitude entertained by the public in general for their services. Mr. Grote, the late Whig Member for t he City, an d Mr. Masterman, the present Tory Member, are two of the joint treasurers, and the subscribers belong. to all parties. This is creditable to all, and renders the gift doubly valuable. His Imperial Highness the Archduke of Austria has, during his sojourn in this country, received the most marked and distinguished attention from noble individuals, as also public bodies; and, on the occa sion of his last visit to Windsor Castle, to take leave, was honoured by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who accompanied his Imperial highness from thence to Mivart's Hotel, where the illustrious party were also attended by Lord Liverplol, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir E. 13 owater, &e Trio WEATHER.—For the last ten or twelve clays the season has assumed more the appearance of spring than the advent of Christmas. The typhus fever is raging to a fearful extent in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, and several cases have already termi nated fatally. On Wednesday last the heat of the sun was so powerful that ladies were seen walking in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield with their parasols up. Several birds' nests have been found, and some with young ones in them, in a healthy state.—Leeds Mercury. S ~~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY _EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1842. f Just ready, with characteristic Illustrations by Leech, .Ai. WASSAIL BOWL for CHRISTMAS. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq, Richard Bentley, New Burlington-st-eet. Just ready, in post Bvo., with characteristic Illustrations by Leech, THE SECOND SERIES OF THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; Or, MIRTH AND MARVELS. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 19. THEItMODIETEE, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 47 : Noon, 43. BAROMETER, 30.55.-WIND, W. 4 4,,a7Cts Crb p 1114 AA, ) %.7y J iviwo s.e, 15,0, • , Ns, • t . ;A!' L' A A A ' : As' A.: 14, / 1 9 .„c gbg o§Ata. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, .SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert and the Royal Household attended Divine Service this morning in the private Chapel within the Castle. The Rev. William Canning and the Rev. Lord W. Russell officiated. The Holy Sacrament was administered to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Viscountess Canning, Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon. Frances Devereux, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Sydney, and Dr. Prwtorius. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, at tended Divine Service at the Parish Church this afternoon. The Rev. J. Gore, Vicar of Shalbourn, officiated. The Rev. Gentleman's text was the 10th, 11th, and 12th verses of the 145th Psalm. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the Home Park this afternoon. Yesterday her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort enjoyed their usual early walk, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out. baron Van de Weyer went to town. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House on Saturday. The Royal Duke afterwards returned to his residence at Kew. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir David Davis, M.D., arrived at his residence in Park-pia - cc, St. James's, on Saturday, from Canford House, Dorsetshire, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Her 111.1a:esty, we are happy to state, is quite well. A meeting of the Customs Revenue Commissioners was held on Saturday, at Gwyder House; 'Whitehall. The Earl of Aberdeen left town, on a visit to Sir 11. Peel, on Saturday, at Drayton Manor. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel officiated, yester day, as Chaplain in Ordinary, at the performance of Divine Service, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Errol, and Lord Greive, were among the nobility present. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, visited the Earl of Aberdeen on Friday. His Excellency also trans acted business, on Thursday, at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Ripon has left Leamington, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor. Lord Stanley has left Lathotn House, Ormskirk, Lancashire, the seat of Lord Skelmersdale, for Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. The Countess of Denbigh expired at her town resi dence on Friday night, about two hours after her accouchement. Inquiries after the Earl of Denbigh were made on Saturday and yesterday, in Eaton-place, on the part of the Royal Pamily. The Noble Earl was more composed yesterday. Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of Canada, were received on Saturday at the Colonial office. Dispatches were also received on Saturday from the Governors of Van Dieman's Land, the Mauritius, and Gibraltar. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Shelbourne, at Lansdowne House, from Bowood Park, Wilts; Mr. Culling Smith, in Arlington-street, from a visit to the Duke of Beau fort, at Badminton ; Lady Petre and Hon. Miss Petre, in Mansfield-street,,from Brighton ; Viscount Gage, at Whitehall, from his scat, in Sussex • Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., at the Bath Hotel Picca - dilly, from Paris ; Captain Dallas, at ditto, from De vonshire ; Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Wood ford, K.C.8., and Lady Woodford and family, at Mi vart's Hotel, from Portsmouth; his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, in Portland-place, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle ; Viscount Duncannon, in Cavendish-square, from a visit to the Earl of Besborough, at Brighton ; the Right Hon. Lord Lynedoch, at Markwell's Lon don Family Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the Hoo ; Lord Dacres, at ditto; Mrs. Walter de Winton and family, at ditto, from Surrey ; W. B. 'Wainman, Esq., Mr. and the Misses Wainman at Long's Hotel, New Bond-street, from Carhead, Skip ton, Yorkshire ; Rev. Mr. S. M. Nelson and Mrs. Nelson, at ditto, from Banbury ; Mostyn Lloyd, Esq., at ditto, from Wales • Hugh M'Almont, Esq., at ditto; Alexander Elli s , and Gilbert, Esqrs., at ditto, from Kent ; Captain and Mrs. Norris, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Carew, Esq., and Mrs. Carew, at ditto, from Brighton ; Wil liam Leigh, Esq., at ditto; Rev. M. Noel, at ditto; Alderman Sir James Duke, Sussex-place, Regent's Park. DEPARTURES. Viscount Torrington, for his seat, Yates Court, near Mereworth, Kent ; the Earl of Portarlington, from the Bath Hotel, Piccadilly, on a tour ; Mr. B. Sweete, from ditto, for Somersetshire ; Miss Maxwell, from ditto, for Cheltenham; Hon. Colonel Fane, from Mi vart's Hotel, on a tour ; the Misses Byrne, from ditto, for the Continent; Mr. R. Bethel, M.P., from ditto, for Rise Park, near Holderness, Yorkshire ; the Coun tess Beauchamp, from Portman-square, for Brighton ; Commander G. G. M'Donald, R.N., from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; the Hon. Charles Langdale, Mrs. Langdale and family, from ditto, for Yorkshire ; Henry B. Hoghton, from Long's Hotel, New Bond-street, for Bold, Lancashire; Cap tain Stevenson, from ditto, for Baffbrd House ; Sir Alexander Crichton, Bart.,. from ditto, for the Grove, Seal, Kent ; Messrs. H. Penrice, Power, and Gilbert, Messrs. Manson, Christian, Darling, and Ellis, from ditto, for the holidays. - CHANGES. The Earl and Countess of Winterton, at Shilling lee, Sussex, from a visit to Sir Peter Pole, Bart., at Fodenham, Gloucestershire; the Countess of Lucan and family, at Laleham House, near Staines, from Castlebar House, county Mayo; Mr. J. Bailey, M.P., and Mr. Bailey, at Euston Court, near Tenbury, on a visit to Mr. J. Bailey, jun., M.P., from Leamington Spa ; Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart., M.P., at Dray ton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, from his seat in Bucks; Lord and Lady Robert Gros venor, at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on a visit to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Westminster, from Moor Park, Herts ; Mr. E. J. Shirley, M.P., and Mrs. Shirley, at Eatington Hall, from Lough Fea, Ireland. FLANDERS MA IL. BRUSSELS, DEc. 16.- I A7 dreadftiaccident has occurred in the portion of the international railway in the interior between Quicorain and St. Satilve, and what is more terrible is, that if we may believe the accounts which have reached us, there is reason to sup pose that it wascaused by some evil disposed person. The train which left Quicorain fur St. Saulve, on the 14th, at a quarter past three o'clock in the after noon, ran off the rails at Quaronble, in France. The man on the look-out in the tender was killed, and a Custom-house officer had his thigh broken. None of the passengers were injured. It seems that a rail, which was raised qp at one end, caused this accident, and eye-witnesses think it was the effect of malice. However, the service is stopped; the French engineers have required that the state cf the place shall be ascertained, and they have forbidden any one to go near it. The effects of the peace with China already begin to be felt with us in several ways ; the cotton manu facture, in particular, have received a new stimulus, and prices have risen considerably. A couple of Greek houses, which have had a large quantity of cot ton in their warehouses for some years, have gained large sums on this occasion. The King arrived yesterday evening at the Palace of Lacken, on his return from Ardenne. i sosfa Peersthat Baron ofr ra trance, ar, willqu i s e h r o , r t y y r esi comei en t t Courtlt oo Brus sels. 18. Loan 00 c a t 111 L bb, ist O r S pi. troucenvNeen:LlT2 ohurcre ß eep it ept U gre per s ce L Dcc, nt Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto ..... . SofLoan ociety o fC Commerce, ty , l 832 , F Four Four r r a . C ci e n a l l Half r . " . ............ t. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. ............. 77 National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Cc 15. AUSTRIAN ell e..I.I.o.VIENNA, DEC. 7, Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. 100( Three per Cents. Bank Shares ................. ••••••••••••4••••••••••• ••••gi 1014 ifllganeine Zeitung, Dec. 11. RAILWAY ,MONOPOLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Being fully aware that you are an enemy to all monopoly, because it only benefits a class, and ge nerally, if not always, is injurious to the community at large, permit me, therefore, to explain the cause of my troubling you on this occasion. WhsnatWalsall, a few days ago, I wished to go to Wolverhampton, by the evening train, which leaves Birmingham about seven o'clock, but was informed if I did so I should have to pay the fare all the way to Stafford, which by the second class train would be four shillings, and if I waited until the morning I might go by either first or second class for one . shilling. I, therefore, waited until the following morning, and went by the first class, and paid only one shilling. I was told this in congruity occurred twice a day regularly. This subject was discussed in the commercial room at the hotel, and we were unanimous in thinking it ought to be made public through the press. Your obedient servant, A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. Wcraester, Dec. 17, 1842. HARVEST PROSPECTS.—In further corroboration of the unprecedentedly vast area of seed corn laid out at this side of Christmas, in the south of Ireland, we have to state that the blades of grass corn look _most. vigorous and healthy, giving early indication of a still larger crop of wheat in the next year, and there is an ticipated a more plentiful harvest, generally, than we have had this season.—Limerick Chronicle. ,4 77 V "ey k . • l •tqf —.2=.:! A`l 11:41rd 4' 4 , w SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch The hostility of Louis PIIILIPPE to the RE.. GENTjOf Spain is now assuming a serious aspect, I and unless that Monarch:be deterred by the other Powers of Europe, will, to a certainty, lead to a war between the two countries. Every fresh circumstance tends to confirm the suspicion that the conspiracy at Barcelona was the work of the French, and that it was got up with a view to ulterior and hostile proceedings. Spanish jour nals, and, what is of much more importance, Spa nish functionaries have advisedly proclaimed the fact, that the French Consul was implicated in the plot, and, but fbr the part lie took in the affair on the 3d inst. by landing from the French ships a band of desperadoes, no bom bardment would have taken place, and the city would at once have returned to its allegiance. This is a grave charge, and, therctbre, demands the most searching investigation, but, without waiting for inquiry, the King of the FRENCH has adopted the acts of the Consul as iiis own, and has rewarded him for his services by promoting. him to the rank of officer in the Legion of Honour. Such a•hasty step bears all the - marks of premeditation, and leaves no doubt in our • minds, that the King of the FRENCH will have recourse to the last extremities to put down ESPARTERO'S Government, and marry one of his sons to the Queen of SPAIN. Private letters from Paris affirm that active measures are in progress for coinplciing the rupture, and that an official communication was made on Thursday to the Spanish Charge d'Affaires at the Court of France, announcing that if the charges against the French Consul were not withdrawn his passports would be deli vered to him—in other words, war Would be declared. Will the rest of Europe suffer this? Will England stand by and allow such a wanton act of aggression upon a country not only at peace, but closely allied with this country? We have every reason for answering in the negative. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the House of Commons, stated distinctly that the British Government would take no active part in establishing any particular Government in Spain, but at the same time would suffer no attack upon the independence of that country. Thi s i s a fearful crisis; but, thank GoD, it is not brought on by the English nation, or by her rulers. If the French nation be determined on war, and the blind rage against England which has lately pervaded all their journals leads to the inference, the wish must he gratified. LOUIS PHILIPPE with M. TRIERS raised the war storm iii . 1840, and to a certain extent calmed it by yielding to the Allied Powers. He has raised it a second j time, but the feeling of humiliation still rankles in the breast of the war party, and a second concession might cost him MS throne, and perhaps his life. It is for this coun try, however, to be prepared for the worst, for it is our firin conviction, that nothing short of a miracle can preserve peace for twelve months, between England and France. A case, which we consider one of a v er y crue l description, was d ec ided on Saturd a y, aga i nst a publican, by M r . (GREENWOOD,on, the Polic e was instigated ed Tl b i The accuser p e rsonal motiv es; th e Magis accuser (a policem an ), ev id ent l y irate was aware of the fact, for he intimated that the course proposed by the informer" looked so mtichi like making t by the cab man a tte c d a , except and though r e ally cep dadnigtnNivty of two police con as fined fi ve poun d s . s w t h a bo es, e t n h d e e d d e the fen no offence was comunPli Two of these functionaries, it appears, on hearing a noise, " such as talking loudly," knocked at the door of the defendant about halt= past two in the morning which was instantly opened, and on entering they found several cabmen at the bar, two of whom they positively swore were drunk. None of the party were seen drinking—no complaint was made by the neighbours of any noise, and, as they also swore, the landlord refused to serve out more liquor at that time of the morning. On leaving the house these gentlemen also swore the cabmen booted them as they went along. This was very im proper, and very indiscreet, for the grievous offence probably gave rise to this cruel and ini quitous proceeding- We call it cruel, because two convictions for such a venial fault as this, if fault it can be called, may deprive the publican of,his license, and ruin him and his family. It is iniquitous, because, looking at the merits of the case, the defendant's conduct was rather praiseworthy than otherwise. If all publicans were fined, and further punished by the loss of their license, fin. conduct like this, not one in London could escape. It is a common practice for policemen to have two or three counts in their charges against prisoners, one of which is generally drunkenness, and when the rest fail they fall back upon this. The Magistrate knows the fact, and he should therefore have been cautious in believing their statements, and still more in imposing a penalty of such serious consequences. The old law allows only a fine of ss. for drunkenness, but this merciful new Act imposes a fine of 5/. on a publican for what he could not possibly prevent. Our readers will re member that the Magistrate who gave this deci sion sent a boy of eleven years of age to prison for selling prints in the street to gain a liven heiod for himself and his widowed mother. The half-yearly examination of the masters in training at the National Board of Education was held on Thursday last at Dublin, on which oc casion the Lord Lieutenant attended, accom panied by the Countess DE GREY ; and the platform was crowded with visitors of various religious denominations; amongst whom were several clergymen o f the Established Church and the Presbyterian b o dy. The Archbishop of Dublin, Doctor WHATELF,y, was also present, and addressed the crowded auditory with much effect in a forcible and argumentative speech, in the course of Which, alluding to the opposition that had been rai se d to the N at i ona l B oar d o f education, and it s was, no doubt, system of tuition, be said, " it a precious privilege to have the Bible, and the Power of reading it ; but was it not melancholy to reflect that b y some it was so shamefully abused? There are men who talk of it, who have it perp e t ua lly on their lips, who glory in it, and yet di sp l ay a c haracter quite op posite to the spirit of charity and forbearance which it inculcates. He would exhort the in structors of youth before him to have the Bible, not merely in their . hands or mouths, but in their hearts." This is a home-thrust at the bigotry of those High-Churchmen —among whom we timr we must number the majority of the bench of Bishops—who, for mere party purposes, have distinguished themselves by the inveteracy of their opposition to the system of education adopted by the National Board. No calumny was too ab sur d—no abuse too gross for these interest e d I n t o lerants to launch against the Board in question. In Parliament, and out of Parliam ent , they asserted that it was opposed to the di ssem i nat i on of the Scriptures among its pupils, or, that if it did permit them to be disseminated, it was in a garbled and muti lated form, so that more harm was done than good 'b'y such a qualified permisSion. They stated moreover, these deperate High-Church bigots, that the new system of education would neveran- I swer, but that, after doing as much mischief'as pus sible, it would be put down by the common sense and right feeling of the Irish community. Alas, for the prophecies of Intolerance! The National Board of Irish Education has answered—and more than answered—the expectations of those who originated it Instead of sowing dissensions among the pL , ople, it has materially assisted to heal them; instead of tending to encourage a laxity of religious principle, it has strengthened and confirmed such principle to the utmost; instead of sinking quietly and gradually into insignificance, it has slowly but surely acquired a vast moral influence in Ireland. Viscount CLIVE has just issued an address to the freeholders and other electors of the Northern Division of Shropshire, the representation of which is vacant in consequence of the elevation of the late Member, Sir RowLAND HILL, to the peerage. In this address the Noble Viscount says :—" Should I be honoured by being chosen as your representative, I shall anxiously endeavour to support the honour and dignity of the Crown, and to maintain the privileges and efficiency of the Church. I shall study, to secure the rights arid liberties of the people, and to protect the institutions to which they owe their origin and pre servation, both by resistance to those who clamour for their destruction, and by a' readiness to adopt such improvements as altered circumstances may require." In these remarks, his Lordship dis plays true prescience and sagacity. He sees that Toryism can no longer stand still or retrograde; that the signs of the times indicate material changes; and, like a man of good common sense, he throws out a pretty broad hint that he is willing to yield to what can no longer be successfully resisted, and legislate for the age in accordance with the spirit , of the age. Thus, if it should be found imperatively necessary for the great land owners and agriculturists to give up their darling Corn-laws, Lord CLIVE—Tory though he be, and surrounded though be be by Tory connec tions.—will not hesitate to throw them overboard, thereby evincing—to quote his own significant words—" his readiness to adopt such improvements as altered circumstances may require." Symptoms of a similar conciliatory and 'acquiescent spirit on the part of the Tories are daily developing themselves in all quarters, and Ave really almost begin to think that Providence has, fbr wise pur poses, at length. vouchsafed to endow them with something like foresight and common sense. At the Christmas meeting of the Isle of Wight Agricultural Society, which was held on Thurs day last at Newport, a gentleman named WALTON WHITE, who is first, a Tory, secondly, a parson, and thirdly, a great land holder, declared boldly and unhesitatingly that the farmers " must not look for ward to protection, for that principle was broken down ; they must look to their own exertions." Sound observations these, but who could have supposed a year ago, that they would ever issue from Tory lips ? Henceforth, we shall incline to the charitable opinion that to be a Tory, is not absolutely to write one's-self down an ass! The intelligence from Madrid is to the 10th inst.. The REGENT still remained at Sarria, according to the latest accounts from Barcelona, but was expected in the capital about the 15th. The Herald() states that orders had been issued for the departure of the Infant DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA from Spain, and also that the Cortes would be again assembled immediately on the arrival of ESPARTERO. The following remark able accusation against the French Consul by the Political Chief of Barcelona, dated the 2d inst., appears in the Madrid Gazette :--- " After the favourable reaction; the result of which was the dissolution of the revolutionary Junta, and the embarkation of its members, and after the rabble called the Patulea had been disarmed, there followed another reaction from the conduct of the French Consul, who landed the revolutionary Junta, and all the men who had promoted the rebellion. The revo lutionists assembled anew in the course of yesterday, many of the National Guards quitted the town; leav ing it at the mercy of banditti. These commenced by raising the standard of Christina, and ended by plun dering the streets called Ancha and Las Platerias. Finding the city in this deplorable condition, given up to Vandalism, fomented by the Moderados and the French Consul, orders were given to open the bom bardment," &c. The Three per Cents. were done on the 9th at 21i for cash, and the Five per Cents. at 26 1-16th for cash, and 201 at 60 days. On the 10th, the Three per Cents. sold for 22 at CO days, and the Five per Cents. at 26 for cash, and 261 at 60 days. The Paris Moniteur has the following an nouncement :—" By ordonnance, dated the 16th, M. FERDINAND DE LESSEPS, French Consul at Barcelona, has been promoted to the rank of officer in the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour." LOUIS PHILLIPE, therefore, makes himself responsible for the acts of his agent, and as the Political Chief of Barcelona has denounced the French Consul as the chief author of the rebellion, and the cause of the bombardment, the two Governments are directly at issue. We have made some remarks on this important crisis in another part of the paper, and here subjoin ex tracts from the Paris papers, in order toshow that the wild rage against this country which has per vaded their columns since the bombardment of Barcelona, is still on the increase. Liberals and Conservatives and Legitimists are alike hostile. The Government journal, the Debats, says:— The English Press has not discovered any other means of justifying the pitiless neutrality of her Bri tannic Majesty s representatiVe than in calumniating the conduct of the representative of France..A print, which has .mado itself the ready organ of the party rancour of the ex-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and which, besides, appears to be inspired on the present occasion from sources existing nearer to ourselves (the Chronicle), contains a most violent accusation against our Consul at Barcelona. The English jour nal states grave facts, but we do not think ourselves obliged to place faith in its assertions ; and in consi dering from what source it has drawn its pretended information, we are exceedingly disposed to believe the contrary of what, it affirms. A light will be thrown over all these matters ; the calumnious recri minations which the Spanish authorities already allow themselves cannot remain without reply. Explana • ' lions must be given, and it must be fairly known on which side have been intrigue, ingratitude, and on which a too enduring patience—the patience of a neighbouring Government, having peculiar claims upon Spain. The Commerce throws all the blame on Eng land. " The more the facts are elucidated," says that liberal journal, " the more it becomes evi dent that it was England which bombarded Bar celona by the hands of ESPARTERO. This is a fresh crime to be added to the list of those which pollute the history of that sanguinary and sordid policy which exists solely by the dissensions and disturbances of the Continent 'and which has al ways reckoned upon interior discord and civil war amongst her most certain means of in fluence. All Europe has been moved at this scandalous spectacle of a Government which suffers foreigners to place in its hands a torch to fire its own cities. Public reprobation is divided between the REGENT and those who excited him; and it must be said that England enjoys the greater part of this reprobation. England is aware of this fact, and the English,Press, with that common accord which characterises it when ever national egotism is concerned, are united in displacing the responsibility of this ferocious act, and attributing it to the French Consul." " We approve," says La Presse, " and all France will unite with us in approving, the con duct of Government, which has promoted the French Consul at Bitrcelona to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour. Under existing cir cumstancPs it is more than justice, it is a noble reply made to the calumnies published in the official journals of Spain and England." " M. GuizoT," says the National, " replied last evening to the accusations of the English Press by appointing M. LESSEPS officer of the Legion of Honour. This would not be too much, it would not be even sufficient to recompense the COnsul's humane and honourable conduct, and the more meritorious as he acted under very difficult circumstances. But it is necessary that the fact of M. LUMPS having been calumniated should be well established. If it-were otherwise, this mark or favour conferred on an agent of whom the Spanish Government complains bit terly, would . be a certain cause of rupture, and create fresh difficulties between the two coun tries. M. GUIZOT is not so prompt to reward merit, nor does Ise on ordinary uceasion,f display so much energy; we are apprehensive, theretijey that this appointment conceals some new act of perfidy, or is meant to prepare us for some fresh check offered to our national honour." Le Sleek observes, that the Government, by promoting M. LESSEPS to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour, demonstrates its appre ciation of the calumnies of which the French Consul was the object. ." We applaud (says Le Siecle) this act of justice. But as the attacks against M. LESSEPS originated with the official organs of the Cabinet of Madrid, we trust that satisfaction will be demanded for such an out rage, and that it will not be refused. We are not disposed to suffer any attack against the dig nity of France from Spain more than from any other country." The Courrier Francais says : "The English journals must imagine all Europe to be most stupidly credulous. For several years their Government has been labouring to make of Spain, as it has of Portugal, an English. pro vince. To gain this end it spares neither gold, nor ho nours, nor flattery—it buys Linage, seduces Espartero, meddles in every intrigue, interposes in every differ ence; Instead of entering into free and fair negotia tions for treaties of commerce, it arbitrarily imposes them, and would have them signed by the light of the flames raised by the guns of Montjuich; when all this is done, when the whole world points at Eng land as the author of all the evil—as the only party profiting by the evil—it finds journals sufficiently complaisant or of sufficient bad faith to accuse— whom ?—the French Government, whose only wrong has been in remaining a passive spectator of this per tinacious usurpation. But the falsehood will no longer have its dupes ; Europe must at length believe its own eyes. England may derive profit from this conduct, but to obtain honour by it is impossible." The other journals which have articles on this subject regard the charges brought against the French Consul at Barcelona as calumnies. The 2Ltoniteur publishes the following telegra phic dispatch : " PERPIGNAN, DEC. 15.—Thirteen soldiers of the Corpos Francos were shot on the esplanade at Barce lona on the 12th. No Spaniard was allowed to leave the town." The same official journal announces the occu pation of the M:.;rquesas island by Admiral THOUARS in the month of June last. The sub joined is his report addressed to the Minister of Marine : "To Admiral Baron Duperre, Secretary of State for the Marine and. Colonies. "Bay of Taiohae, June 25, 1842. "Monsieur l'Amiral—l have the honour to inform your Excellency that the taking possession, in the name of the King and of France, of two groups form ing the archipelago of the Marquesas, was this day happily effected. The recognition of his Majesty Louis Philippe, first, has been obtained by means of conciliation and persuasion, in conformity with your orders, and has been confirmed by authentic acts drawn up for triple expedition. " I add to these official documents the circumstan tial report of the cruise of the frigate la Reine Blanche, from her sailing from Valparaiso, and that of all the events which took place for the acknowledgment of the King's sovereignty, and for the taking possession of the archipelago of the Marquesas.—Accept, &c., " The Rear-Admiral Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Station of the Pacific Ocean, "A. DUPETIT THOUARS." The subjoined is an extract from the Com merce, giving an account of another razzia in Algeria : The packet Amsterdam which left Algiers on the 10th, and arrived at Marseilles on the 12th, brings letiers and journals. We find the following in the 'Mbar :—" On the 6th Arabs from the interior brought the following news of the army. On the 29th of November the Governor-General penetrated into the mountains of Orianseris. The Kabyles . fled, their villages have been burnt, and on the return of the army to the plain several tribes sent horses in token of submission. " The Governor then made a razzia in the country of the Beni-Zentes, which was completely successful —women, children, flocks, horses, and a rich booty fell into his hands. After this happy coup de main several tribes submitted." Two Aghas have forsaken the Emir, and waited on the Governor-General, who treated them with dis tinction. BOURSE—PARIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17. First Highest -...owest Last Price. Piles Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 1g... 191 20... 119 5... 119 15 4% per Cents 106 60... 106 60.. 106 60... 106 60 Four per Cents, 101 ... 101 ... 190 95... 100 9b Threes, ex div. 78 85... 78 90... 78 75.. 78 90 Bank of France 3350 ...3350 ...3345 ...3345 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1052 50 ..1052 50...1052 50...1052 50 Belgian Bank, 1841 1075 ...1075 ...1075 _1075 Belgian Fives 103* ... 104 ... 103 k 103 1840 1044 ... ... 1044 ... 104 i 104 i Spanish Active. . 24 24 ... ... 23/ Passive 3 ... 3/ ... 3i 3/ Portuguese Fives 32 ... 324 ... 324 ... 324 Neapolitan Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES,. St. Germain B4O ... 840 ... 840 ... 840 Versailles, L. 13 l2O ... 120 ... 110 ... 1 12 10 R.B 2BO ... 280 ... 280 ... 280 Rouen Orleans. 617 50... 620 ... 617 10— 620 Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 205 ... 202 50... 205 We have merely time to call attention to a letter from " A Commercial Traveller," complaining of the arrangements made by the Birmingham Railway Company. Commercial houses ought to take some steps to abate the injury caused by such re strictions on business. As coaches are driven off the roads, and the means of travelling are com pletely changed by these great Companies, they are bound to accommodate themselves to the wants and convenience of the public, but especially of that class whose success in business depends so much on regularity and speedy conveyance. CHANNEL PASSENGERS.—From the 9th to the 15th December, inclusive, there passed between France and England, by Boulogne, 601 passengers, two horses, and nine carriages ; by Calais, 279 passengers, two horses, and five carriages. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—CEIIIS DAY) LONDON, DEC. 19.—Wind this day at noon, Wes terley, light breeze and hazy. DEAL, DEc. 18.--Wind W.N.W. moderate.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Muth, Hull, for Mobile ; Sovereign tran sport, Parkfield, Rhind, and Rowena, westward. Sid. Thomas Houet, Cape of Good Hope, and several others. The Scotia, from Rotterdam for Mobile got on the Goodwin Sands yesterday, but was assisted off, and proceeded without apparent damage. FALMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind N.W. to W., mo derate.—Sld. Solway, West Indies. SWANSEA, DEC. 17.—The Brazilian, from Havre to Port-au-Prince, 'got on the Patch Sand Bank at the entrance of eath harbour last night, and ex pected to become a wreck. Crew and part of cargo saved ; the latter in a damaged state. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Palmyra, Croal, Demerara.; Methiers Pumeiro, Patha, Fayal ; Walter, Boyd, New Orleans, left 16th ult.; Secret, Brewer, Lima ; Margaret Forbes, Pres cott, Charleston ; Susquehanah, Micken, Philadel phia; New Zealand, Bannerman, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Devonia, Africa; Valparaiso, Val paraiso ; Perdonnet, New Orleans ; Harriet and Jane, Charleston. A large three-masted vessel was seen 15th inst. five miles north of Point Lynas, with her bows just above water. BALLYSIIANNON, DEC. 16.—The Louisa Conolly, ashore on the Bar, has become a wreck ; part of cargo and materials saved. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.—Wind N.W. to W.— Arrd. ,Nailor, London, for Maranham ; Pakenham, London, for Vera Cruz ; Tory transport, Lukey, Quebec. Sid. her Majesty's ship Warspite, Bermuda. Arrd. off, Belgique, Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp. COWES, DEC.. 18.—Arrd. Pilgrim, London, for Rio Janeiro; Neptune, London, for Havannah ; Achilles, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for A n t w e r p. Orr -NORTH FORELAND, DEC. 14.—Polidon, Ham burgh, for Pernambuco. RAMSGATE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Providencia, Ham burgh, for Madeira, with damage to ragging. The True Love, Poulton, from Mauritius to Amsterdam, has been assisted in here leaky, with hiss of sails, &c. KINGSTOWN, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Plata, Liverpool, for Buenos Ayres. DUBLIN BAY, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Cleveland, Manly, Colombo and Cape, left Oct. 2, with the master and crew of the Abercrombie Robinson. LEITH DEC. 16.—Arrd. Thames, Bell, and Nor thumberland, Mepu]ay, Dalhousie. MONTROSE, DEC. 16.—The Mary, Lawson, from Belfast, which was ashore in the bay on the 12th inst., has become a wreck. Cargo saved, in a da maged state. STROMNESS, DEC. 10.—The Highlander, Roberts, from Riga to Liverpool, has put in here leaky, having struck on a reef off the island of Sunday. KINSALE, DEC. 15.—The Woodside,' Scott, from Gibraltar, which arrived ,here on the 11th i ns t., go t on the rocks yesterday, but was assisted off. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 18. Arrd. Elbe steamer, Dunkirk ; Lady Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar. Sld Royal Tar steamer, Gibraltar. TEIGNMOUTII, DEC. 1 7.—Arrd. Haberdure, Hore, Labrador. Orr PENZANCE, DEC. 17.--Elizabeth, Newfound land ; Nassau, Nassau. ..--• ~v C 1 ~-~'r~ S if Fi 'lf F AND nt t OtlttC " Who runs ma read•' sertmEGN N . Louis Philippe has rewarded the French Con sul at Barcelona, by raising him to the - rank of an ofb cer in the Legion of Honour. Tilt: Constitutionnel denies that there is any truth in the reproach so often brought against some of! the French jouri:,als, of a desire to involve France and England in war. The illessager informs us, v.nder date of Perpis'- naa, the 15th, that thirteen soldiers of the corps raised by the Juntas were shot i .it Barcelona on the 12th. No Spaniard was allowed to stir out of the town- These, with the captain of inti.:ntrY mcncement, are the only executions that have be positively announced. en A letter from Granville states the shot in the com vernment cutter arrived there am few ay ds ago with !: an English Go a message of thanks from the Gov ernor of the island of Jersey to M. Jayet de Gercoi trt, the couimander of the yrencli Government cutter -Espiegle, for the services rendered by that vessel on the octurnonce re recently of two fires at St. Helier. The Journal des Chemins de Fer : mys, a ll the shar es • for the railroad from flouen to . Havre ;lave taken, and that the works will be Ilrged ou with 85 much celerity as those of the roi id f rom Paris to Rouen have been. A deputation, composed of six of the notable inha bitants of Saragossa, arrived at tlo. Regent's head quarters On the 10th, to congratulate hin t, in the name, of all classes of the population of,that city, o n the sup been pression of the revolt at Barcelona. The Phare des Pyrenees of the 14th states, under that date Barcelona, the 11th, threci o'clock P.N., three regiments were to march on. that day from Bar' celona for Gerona and the French fronti er. 15t inst. The St. Petersburgh Gazette of the publishes an order of the day, sign( td by of War, announcing that the Em peror has the Min ist that, in future, all non-commission€ ..(I officers and s:_l__ diers who have not completed their twenty years vice are to be called out annually for a fri°n,°r which September 23, and do duty with re oments to they are for that time to be appoitatee... - the The Duke of Bordeaux arrived at 'Dresden on Bth from Prague, and alighted at ;the Palace' of A letter from unich mentions tbe arrival th e r e e . an officer of engineers of the Egypt ran At l y i l; on a tour of inspection of the militar dec ided__ / establishiner of Germany, France, and England. PUBLIC OPINION. The following remarks are from the Chroage' --- discre, " Can anything be conceived so thor o ughly ditable to a Minister and a great part: r as the Pr esenD state of doubt about their future intent ions ? N° rean knows whether Sir Robert Peel means in Februar:, to propose the total abandonment of all Corn last whatsoever, or to stand resolutely by the Act ot. las w session. No one knows what his Plat' will eo; ho many of them are urging him to stand by. their 111°- °polies ; or how large the proportio n that are assu.re n he ing him that in any dereliction of least principles may count on the baseet compliance: on their P•3r, t . s * We do not pretend to be in the secrets of the Ca rf 1 :: net ; and we can only infer their intontions from t 0,.: a ß f a te b r e Babel oonfg silence language of their supporters in Parliament or in , i t° press. But who can make out anything from sit" a confused on and the jar ie ri a n i g n sqouaen.stidsor?, wThhieeitshristibnieps: peared to have thrown over, in order to vent on the opponents of the Co-laws, sad en renews Corn-laws, its protest against those laws, calls fto A fresh reli t° . the direction of free trade is to be made tion of them, and insinuates that some fresh m ove ill At the same time the same note is all at once taken up persons of more or less weight all over the couly: try. The Duke of Rutland boldly to Bs his agricut tural neighbours that the sliding-scale can wen b f b / f, a reduction of "some shillings." Mr. Escott, at "- by Ministers. same season, inculcates on his auditors 1 ;he probal:ilitY of a freer trade in corn. Messrs. - Dick inson and 't i land boldly announce the doom of nica lopoly to those who returned them to support it. And from th e forth to the shepherds who surround ,h in' further end of Somersetshire the saa Miles croaks warning that the sliding-scale is docarrod, his rave s , ploughing must henceforth be the only ' yrotection et the agriculturists." ld The Post says" Her Majesty's Gover nruent woo I , do much good if they 'would take so• ale mod e ; authoritatively informing the public whc tther it is, t) is not, in their present contemplation t ) make any r last 0 5510! . important alteration in the Corn-law of On every side the loud cry is that such a Iterati °ll is t: and de e p and must be, in the contemplation of the C I rove r Z el' at They who express a contrary opinion are 150 g —d,, s. Conservative as well as Radical authorities as ridiculously blind to the manifest signs c ,f the 60 1 ' I are qu ete ' in proof that the present law cannot stand. T he f ti tt i ; rent of public opinion is said to be dead :Aga in s " re existing law ; and if public noise and clamoiar We_,_ should be constrained to admit that the same thing as the current of Public opii lion si .s c true. , But we think there may be agn lot dea..l :ivhf:eit titious and fraudulent public noise and c larn ew ' an d A ve ought not to be recognised as public °pi- li°l4 agai nst the think also that the noise and clamour' is existing protection to home agriculture -8 gars to have and fraudulent. But, such as it is, it app !.'' had its intended effect upon a great ni. tu n a rsons the as se r ti f on_ c i . calling themselves Conservatives, and we Cora" persons joining in the general prophecy tha t the law ' must go:" , i n t cb- The Advertiser makes the following ex' 3 e' e- Corn -few servations on the exertions of the „Anti ;., League and the terror of the Tory mono r l ' a "fis t at " The triumphant progress of the Anti- Cor° l , Fund is filling the Tory monopolists wit li ilt t he such They looked on the idea of raising 50,0001 LI '''.. o ne space of a few weeks, by voluntary exertione.:way of the most Quixotic notions that ever found ~ .1 1: r ici ed into human head. If they had for a mome et ),;,,,sly that those who first propounded the scheme se l ," lists expected it could ever be realised, the n %Ott the would, one and all, have urged on their frieli te ' t he propriety of consigning them, without de Loy! it is safe keeping of a lunatic asylum. The fories,_hed, clear, imagined, when the idea was fir: it bO a c c r eie that those with whom it originated as ere s e . o re' seeking to play off a hoax at the expens , ~ o f d that it pealers. The monopolists took it for gra; ate d I vitie it would be just as rational an undertaking to , (I ,. e vo uld scheme for paying off the national debt, as " a iaW be to engage to raise 50,0001. for Ant i_corbe-ho, purposes, from a people whom they knee v t 0 ~.„_to a. poverished—•impoverished by those v er y r b i a ilure, degree verging on starvation. Nor wi is ta e m pt t° the signal if not ludicrous failure, of a ) II which the raise such a sum, the only resu l t ~,/. ea monopolists anticipated front the 50,°`"" one of terprise. They made equally sure that fa ilure the certain and immediate fruits o f the and the would be the breaking-up of the Lc :agnae'oaitation consequent extinction of Anti-Gorn• JO l e this While the Tories were busily engaged . id 13 ) 0 ' o f, un flattering unction to their monopolist E 0111 E, ° ReVie t6 happy hack was set to work in the Qu a r terlY troilable to give ' form and pressure' to t h e ir ui icu n too k. pen exultations. The ill-fated scribe ,fertil% ' f i tli firs t gives in hand, and did as he was desired, Lle ti e ntire expression to his confident predictions a in - u estien' failure to the attempt to raise the AIM 111 , q r a t the and then he gives way to a fit of long b t ' for the supreme credulity of those who could, et e° ooo /. for little moment, imagine the collection of Jo ° he r ange such a purpose to be a contingency w ithi a ,'' sa ys the of possibility. ' Let them laugh that win v lau ghter proverb. Who has the greatest cause f' ire should now-=the Repealers, or the Monop o lists ? it hearty like to see the latter now attempt to got U P it wo uld laugh at the League. What an abortion • horrible needs be—it would doubtless resemble the `"_ ofie ls. grin ' and ' ghastly smile' of Milton's fall en a_ s b ent . The monopolists are in no laughing mood : it.Pr e ; t he They are the subjects of feelings and ern, Au) evilly , very opposite of those in which laughter is 61 0 00/. supposed W. have its origin. No less than . 1 . ' • e s cc of the 50,0001. are already raised, though have been only as yet made in ten or twave t° t " e d„, This is no joke to the monopolists. They -1103 ts a mit, however reluctantly, that it is at air e ven the very fair beginning; for it is only considen ld h i leor light of a commencement by the Anti-Cer n- o f Leaguers themselves. In that sum—every sl tilling ~ . a nou o llu which is already in hand, no portion of the: being in promises—in that sum the Conservr tti ye ' i c e nopolists must read the death-warrant of I eg.islati.o protection to the agricultural interest. BP the a not, they must be blind as the moles and, the bats , They must neither have eyes nor ears to perceir what is passing around them. They must Ile labour ing under the influences of a political in estnerifa, .11ectoos. more potent by far than any ever produc• ;d by . La: Fontaine or any other profess or of the map, ;tisiug arc'h No matter how profound may be the tranc a in whi they are at present—and profound it must be if they are unconscious of the impending extinction of the 1 , corn monopoly—they will , ere long, awake, ao°. opening their eyes, will be struck with amazement ay. seeing that monopoly lying in a mass of m i l is aroun d them. In adverting to the bombardment of Barcelona, the Times says—" Private accounts which hav e been re ceived from Barcelona, and communicate( 3. to us by persons worthy of cred it, stron g l y confirm the opinion we already entertained , and have more the to once ex-. p re ssed, as to the real ef f ect s of the bomb arclment ot that city. If those e ffects had been commensurate to the number of projectiles said to have been discharFe d against those dev oted walls, or to the alarm and inoig nation which our French Contemporaries have got up upon this occasion, it is hardly i,u.ible that sole fuller account a such a sweeping destruction should