The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

11I11N WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. '.41 minutes after 1 1 Evening ..... 53 minutes after I ~5•0 ebk Pc:.'V't 4 t t* - r *", • D 0 " , -4•4:z-Nc . „: r ii •,„ " ~~ Embellished with a Portrait of General D'Arblay, VOLUME FIVE of MADAME D'..N.RBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS, IS NOW READY, An I may be had of all Book ellers. New and Revised Editions of the First Four Volumes are also now ready. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £1:20, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £6OO, £l,OOO, £1,500. £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to £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. TIIIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Will he repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alortsc, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vanticoliotr; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; C.diban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phan°, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss Rain forth. To conclude -.vith Atiber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Alphomo, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; renella, aliss Door, open at half-past Six, and the Performances com rnekV-' at 'even.—Dress Boxee 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First. and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. bd. ; Pit 3s; Secork Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. et? and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit law, at the Box-elEce, from Ten till Four, where Season 'Tickets may be had. Privat Boxes to be had at the Box-office • of Messrs. An tire VV3, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. 3litchell;Old Bond-street ; awl of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING, DEC. 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 Burletra, called AN PONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Llurletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. 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 Faucit, 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 TLIEATRE Last Eight Nights of Mr. T. P. Cooke's Engagement, and Final Arrangement of his Performing. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Mr. T. P. Gcoke will appear in the New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER. Mary, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with Mr. Barber's new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of Oh ! why does the White Man hang on my path ?" composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box. office, front eleven to four. MAP OF CHINA. NOW READY, A NEW CHINA SUN, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WI TH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NINGPO, 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. December 2 Jifre LONDON: BRID.AY MORNING. DECEMBER 2, 1842. The landowners and farmers have been amaz ingly ill-treated by the present Administration. The free-traders would only place them on a fhir footing with the rest of the community. Sir ROBERT PEEL has lowered the price of their pro duce exclusively, and subjected them in common with the rest to the Income-tax. He avowed that his intention was to give to other classes a compensation for that tax in the reduced cost of living ; but that reduced cost is obtained from the reduced price of agricultural produce. Ile retorts, then, on the landowners and farmers the system they have so long, upheld, and actually fleeces them to pacify the other classes. Ile con tinues the corrupt system which the free-traders - would abolish, but brings it exclusively to bear against the very classes who placed him in office. So is the poisoned chalice of unequal taxation commended to the lips of those who prepared it. The landed interest, according to Sir R. PEEL'S system, is to pay the Income-tax for the rest of the community. We do not like this injustice, and as the price of agricultural produce has fallen 30 per cent., in consequence, as is said, of Sir ROIIEitT'S mea sures, the farmer ought to be relieved from the Income-tax. We are not churlish towards the agricultural classes, and we will readily lend them our aid to obtain that end. At the same time the rest of the community wish to be relieved from the tax as well as the farmer. Suppose the latter pay it entirely, to all other classes it is a prodigious annoyance. It taxes ti e trader for an income he flay never re• ceiyr. All its inquisitorial properties are expe rienced by those who do not contribute to it, as well as those who do. It is felt to be little better than a iorment in a great multitude of families. Never did a tax so much harass the people for the Effie sum it places in the Treasury. To raise 50,000,0001. by other means does not cause half as much inconvenience and contention as to raise 4,000,0001. by the Income-tax. For the conve nience cf the people, annoyed by it beyond mea sure, and for the Ilenetit of the Government, the safety of which is always endangered when they are discontented, it ought to be repealed. The other classes feel though, according to Sir R. PEEL, they not ultimately pay it. They hate it fbr its inconvenienc e and its irritation. It is inquisito rial and degrading, and Sir ROBERT PEEL will gain much more in popularity than he will lose in revenue by giving it up. All classes, and particularly the suffering agri culturists, pressed down by poor-rates, have now a right to demand this relief. All the circum stances alleged in favour of the - tax—all the pre texts on which it was defended —are changed. The peace of Canada is now entrusted to its own people, and no longer causes England so much expense. Many of our troops have been withdrawn from that colony. All apprehension on the side of the United States is extinguished by Lord ASHBURTON'S treaty. The war with Affghanistan is over, and all the expense caused by that country is at an end by our forces leav ing it. China has sued for peace, and is to pay a large sum of money to us, amply sufficient to meet the deficiency of the revenue in the pre sent year. At the same time there is now a hope that. trade, and the revenue derived from trade, will increase very rapidly, so that the resources of the Administration being increased, while its exrnses are largely diminished, it may, without the least inconvenience, dispense entirely with the whole incoine-tax. We see with almost infinite satisfaction that the I.ublic has already taken this view of the m atter, and in many places meet i ngs are contem plated to petition for the repeal of the tax. In that course of conduct fortunately all may join. On this question agriculturists and manufacturers hare no conflicting interests. Landlords and mer chants, retail dealers and annuitants, equally wish to be relieved. They liave all a common interest in reducing the expense of the Govern ment, and that can only be effectually reduced by witholding the means of extravagance. We trust, therefore, that all classes will unite on this point before the meeting of Parliament, and I plainly signify to Sir ROBERT PEEL that he must give up the Income-tax. I With the charming unconsciousness of complete ignorance did the Morning Post, on Wednes day, give the very highest praise to the system of free trade, and pass the severest censure pos sible on the system which bears the name of protection. " The lowest possible range of prices," said our Contemporary, " is the great object of the free-trade scheme of production. A high range of prices is, on the contrary, the avowed end of every protective system." Price is synonymous with cost ; it signifies trouble and pain. All price is, and ever has been, paid by labour. To lower price is to lessen the cost, the trouble, the labour, the pain of producing com modities ; and to say of a system that it has for its object to effect the lowest possible range of prices, is to say that it aims at supplying man kind with all kinds of commodities at the least possible cost, and with the least possible labour. That, undoubtedly, will be, and must be, the result of the free-trade scheme of production, and higher praise it is impossible for human lips to bestow. That is the great object which all statesmen profess to keep in view. The Corn-law itself is defended on that ground. It is said to place the necessary supply of food in our own hands, and in the long run, therefore, to secure that supply more certainly and more cheaply. Very often has it been written in the Monopolist journals— " Once make the nation dependent on foreigners, they will watch their opportunity, and when you are much in want they will withhold the supplies till you give them a most exorbitant price, or your people' are actually starved." The Corn laws are defended because they procure corn for the people on the whole at a less'''cost, less trou ble, and with less labour than the people could procure corn without them. All other Jaws are said to' have the same object, and a law which should be avowedly intended to enhance the pain, labour, and cost of obtaining commodities, would be erased from the statute-book as a disgrace, not merely to legislation, but to human nature. We know nothing like it, except the reported wilful destruction by the Dutch in former times of the produce of the Spice islands, lest condi ments should become too cheap in Europe. That is always mentioned to their discredit, and is considered so diabolical that good men refuse to believe it. To obtain the lowest possible range of prices is the assigned object of the protective system, as well as of the free-trade system. It is and must be the avowed or pretended object of every system. Every agricultural improvement, whether it be in making better ploughs or in draining land, or in a different rotation of crops, ends in producing food for man at a less cost. The inventions of WATT. and researches of DAVY, have the same ultimate object, and no other. The effects of the steam-engine are too palpable to need a word; the beautiful lamp of the latter prevents danger, and lessens the expense of working mines. In the end it gives us coals at a less cost or at less labour, and having coals at a cheaper rate, we have more labour or means at our disposal to get food. To reduce cost, trouble, or labour, is the end and aim of all the ingenious contrivances of mankind ; and free trade recommends itself to us, because .it is, as the Post admits, coincident in its object with the noblest exertions of human genius. If what the Post says of the protective sys tem be true, it would be really and truly as diabolical in its aim, as we say it is in its effects. That system is not avowedly in tended to keep up a high range of prices. We have some doubts whether on the whole it does that. It limits the supply of food, increases the difficulty of getting bread, and annually starves a great number of people. That is its chief operation ; but what prosperity it stifles—what ingenuity it cuts off—what pro digious misery it causes, as the consequences of starving a portion of the people—no tongue, however eloquent, can describe,—no human mind even can appreciate. When the people are starved down to the supply, as they are pretty nearly at present, the cost, the trouble, the pain of obtaining food becomes again about the average, or prices fall, as at present, in spite of the protective system. But whatever may be the effects of that system, no statesman would avow that its object was to enhance the labour and trouble of obtaining food for the community. From gross ignorance the Post has really ma ligned the object of the protective system as much as it has unconsciously praised the system of free trade. The speech of Mr. COBDEN at Sheffield on that thread-bare subject the repeal of the Corn-laws, will be read with interest. It gives a cheering prospect to those who have so long laboured for the best interests of the country, and leads to the belief that the present Government do not so much want inclination as power to put an end to class legislation. It is gratifying to find one op posed to many of their measures throwing off all party considerations, and giving them credit for good intentions as well as good deeds ; but it is still more gratifying to find that a large portion of the aristo cracy, and those the most respectable of the body, are anxious to legislate impartially, and to mete out equal justice to the manufactur ing and landed interests. We refer to his speech, for a list of the wealthy and powerful families, or their relatives, who are opposed to the selfish doctrines of the more needy and unprincipled portion of the aristocracy. The example and the aid of such men cannot fkil in time to awaken the rest to their true interests, and remove from a body that should be above suspicion, the reproach of passing laws rather for evil than for good, endallgerin gforthetliire very a existence e com munity. habitual . munity. andot. disr egard Were they t o d ea l j ustly between man and man, and imitate the example of the RAD NOBS and FITZWILLIAMS, and many also of the Tory nobility, they would find the people their best supporters, and thereby avert those dan gers which at every popular outbreak threaten one, if not two, estates of the realm. The Directors of the Great Western Steam- Ship Company have presented a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, which cannot fail to excite universal indignation. Why the late Go vernment patronised another party to the preju dice of this spirited Company, no satisfactory reason can be Oven. They were the first to lay down, build, equip, and send to sea a steam-ship for crossing the Atlantic; they have maintained the intercourse between England and the United Stated for four years, with a punctuality and success which even their rivals cannot fail to admire; they have, in fact, the merit of opening up a communication by steam with the whole of the 'Western 'World yet while another Com- t piny is subsidised by the Government to the injury of the memorialists, their returns having been reduced one-ball; they are left to struggle on in difficulty, furnishing another proof of the ingratitude of Governments, and the reward which so often falls to the lot of the bene factors of mankind. We cannot, for a moment, believe that Sir ROBERT PEEL and the other Lords of the Treasury will be deaf to the appeal. The country owes much to this Company for the beneficial results of steam navigation, and would cordially concur in any grant for encouraging men whose first great undertaking astonished the world. Want of space prevents us from giving. the Memorial at length this day, but the follow ing extracts will !give our readers some idea of the strange conduct of the Admiralty, the wanton insult offered to the memorialists, and the great loss they have sustained by the partiality of the Whig Government: " Your memorialists foreseeing that a line to and from Halifax, continued to Boston (as a matter of necess ity), could not be otherwise than extremely injurious to the enterprise they were the first to set on foot, tendered to do the work advertised for 45,0001. per annum—at the same time their ma naging Director, in a letter written in accordance with the printed terms for tender, and handed in with the same, stated that no Company could un dertake the work within six months, at the least, of the stipulated time,—as it would require ships of a cortain amount of tonnage and power to con- I tend against the gales and seas of the Atlantic,' and that no Company would build such ships for a yearly agreement only, or for a less term than seven years. It is remarkable that the times named were granted to the successful party, both as to term of contract, and that of starting, and the tonnage and dimensions named were adopted, while your memorialists were permitted to collect from a speech of Mr. Charles Wood, the then Secretary of the Admiralty, in reply to a question of Mr. Hume in reference to the rant of 240,0001. per annum to the West India Mail Company, that they had been led on to tender, and to give information, for the mere purpose of enabling the Government to make a better bargain with the party they intended to deal with. An addition was made in the number of voyages, and a summer communication with Quebec (which pro bably pays very well) was exacted, and about 60,0001. pet. annum, since augmented by 20,000/. more, was granted without any official communication with your memorialists, beyond a formal Admiralty notice " that their tender was not accepted." Your memorialists think, and they believe your Lordships will think with them, that this was hard treatment to them. They had been at all the pains of planning, and had incurred all the risk, trouble, and anxiety, and expense of making an experiment which has been followed by the most important results to the country, and has been looked upon by the na tions of the world more in the light of a national un dertn.king than a private speculation. The enterprising effort of your memorialists, al though at no time remunerative to the extent hoped for and deserved, was cheering until the line pa tronised in opposition to them by her Majesty's late Government came into the field, since which the pas sengers by the Great Western have been reduced by about a moiety, and your memorialists ran her through the whole of last season at a positive loss. Finding they could not long compete with such odds against them, and believing that the maintenance of a direct line between New York and England was a matter of great moment to the financial and mer cantile interests of the United States as well as Great Britain, your memorialists endeavoured to ascertain how far a direct appeal for assistance would be suc cessful in the former quarter, but they soon learnt that they had not merely nothing to expect, but that pecuniary encouragement would be given to Ame rican skill, science, enterprise, and capital, for com petition with your memorialists the importance, therefore, of keeping their Great Western on the line cannot very well be overrated. Your memorialists have had applications made to them by parties connected with foreign Governments, but they are loath to hand over the Great Western and her machinery, which has carried her the extra ordinary distance of 160,000 miles, and is still as good as ever, to a foreign Power, although they feel justi fied in noticing the fact, to show that foreign Govern ments are sensibly alive to the importance of en couraging steam navigation on the large scale. Accounts from Madrid are to the 22d of No vember, when the capital was perfectly tranquil, but it would appear that strong opposition will be made in the Cortes "to the plans of the RE GENT. It was stated at Madrid that the Com mittee of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, appointed to report on the Bill for a loan of 600 millions of reels, had recommended the rejection of the Bill, and that the Report was to have been presented in the sitting of the 20th inst., but was postponed at the urgent request of the friends of the REGENT, backed by the President of the Chamber, M. OLOZAGA, in order that the diffi culties of the Government might not at so critical a moment be increased by a circumstance so unfavourable to its interests. The Count DE LAS NAVAS had proposed a vote censuring the journey of the REGENT, and the meeting was becoming most stormy, notwithstanding the firmness of M. OLOZAGA, the President, when the Minister of Marine pronouriced the prorogation of the Cortes. According to the latest accounts, all the towns whose adhesion to the Barcelona movement had been announced have returned to their allegi ance to the QUEEN'S Government. General VAN HALEN with his army, occupied Gracia, Sorna, and Sanz. Three members of the Consultative Junta had taken taken flight to the French territory. Advices from Figueras of the c23d, state that order was quite restored by the energetic con duct of the Mayor. Girona had also returned to its duty. TERRADAS, who, with fifty armed men, had stopped the diligence near Jenquire, was hotly pursued. The insurrection was entirely confined to the town of Barcelona. The Three per Cents. were done at 2111-16 16, at 60 days, for 3,600,000 reals, and the Five per Cents. at 251 26 for cash, and 26 7-16 1, at CO days, for 19,2 )0,000 reals. The disturbances at Barcelona and the contest between General JACQUEMINOT and PORTALIS are still the chief topics in the Paris papers. The Presse, a Ministerial Journal, and evidently de voted to the cause of the ex-QuEurr, with great want of judgment displays alarm for the fate of the insurgents, and endeavours to throw the blame on the English, while the partisans of CHRISTINA are doing all they can to encourage the efforts of the Junta. " We were not wrong," says that journal, " in deploring from the com mencement the disorders of Barcelona, for, from the first acts of the Cortes, it is evident that these disturbances can alone furnish ESPARTERO with the means of maintaining in Spain the domina tion of England. It is possible that he may suc ceed in putting down the insurrection by arms; he could only conquer the resistance of the Spanish Parliament by a revolution. ESPAR TERO will be victorious, if Providence does not come to the assistance of unhappy Spain, and then be will be able to act as he pleases in fa vour of England. He will so act, and it is al ready seen how he prepares the way for so doing. If England is no longer contented with inter fering, by her diplomatic agents, in the domestic affairs of Spain ; if she carries out the plans an nounced by her correspondent at Madrid, and which have been confirmed in the most precise mariner ; if an English fleet should appear before Barcelona, ready to act against the untractable Catalonians, who will not consent to allow their manufactures to be sacrificed to England, what will occur? What line of conduct will France adopt ? Will she allow England to interfere by force in the affairs of Spain, and thus establish her commercial domination at the foot of the Pyrenees?" According to accounts from Toulon of the 25th, the Minister of Marine has directed that every disposable steamer, and a ship of the line and a frigate, should be immediately despatched to Barcelona. All these vessels were ready to take their departure, and the Jemmapes of the line, the Minerve frigate, and the Gregois, Ye loee, Papin, Cerbere, and Etna steamers, were on their way to the capital of Catalonia. The Marseilles Semaphore of the 26th ult. an nounces that two of the steamers which left Toulon for Barcelona (the Etna and Cerbere) had been compelled by stress of weather to seek refuge in that port on the 25th. The others pro ceeded on their voyage. The Courrier Francais states that the Eng. lish and French vessels, which are expected at Barcelona, are to watch simultaneously over the maintenance of order and the safety of the sub jects of the two countries. This journal adds that an augmentation of the French military force in the south is talked of. The following telegraphic dispatch was re ceived at Paris on Tuesday : " MADRID, Nov. 25 " The Regent was on the 23d at Calata yud, where, it appears, he was well received by the people. No thing new has occurred in the provinces. A private letter, addressed to the National from Algiers, states that— After repeated postponements on account of the uncertainty of the weather, the Governor-General set out this morning on his expedition against the Ouan seris, which will, it is said, deliver us from Abd-el- Kader, that flitting shadow after which we have been so long running, to the great detriment of our finAnces , which would have been much better employed in raising villages, and in bringing from Frahce families to populate them. Fears of the return of the Arabs from the Sahel have decided the Governor to expel them. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Fire per Cents. 119 ... 119 10... 119 ... 119 4% per Cents 106 50... 106 50... 106 50... 106 50 Four per Cents 101 45... 101 45 .. 101 45... 101 45 3 per Cents 89 30... 80 30... 80 25... 80 30 Rank of France 3302 50...3305 ...3302 50.. 3202 50 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 —.5080 ..5080 Bolgianßank BO7 50... 807 50... 807 50... 807 50 1841 1063 75...1065 ...1063 75...1065 Belgian Fives 1840 lO4l ... 1041 1041 ... 1041 Spanish Active. 22.6 23 ... 23 Neapolitan. lOB 45... 108 60... 108 45... 108 60 Roman,_ lOl ... 104 ... 104 ... 101 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B 265 ... :755 ... 265 ... 265 LB B7 50... 87 50... 87 50... 87 59 Rouen Orleans. 587 50... 587 50... 587 50... 587 50 Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 50... 202 50... 201 25... 202 50 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Stock was in more request, as the opening for in vestments will be limited to fewer of the English se curities until the 17th January, • this being the day for the closing of the transfer Books. The Bank of England has given noticelhat Bills of Exchange, &c., will be taken in till then at 31 per cent., per annum, in amounts of 2,0001. and over. Consols for imme diate transfer touched 94i a, closing at 944 ; and for Account, 95* ' the latest bargains being at 95* sellers ; -Exchequer Bills were at 48s. to .525. prem. ; and India Bonds at 48s. premium. Money is now dearer both in the Stock Exchange and in the Dis- • count Market. Bank Stock was quiet at 1711, and India Stock ranged from 2641 to 266. The New Three-and-a,Half per Cents. were worth 101 k to 1011, and the Three per Cents. 93 to 94*. There was an improvement in Mexican Stock, both Active and Deferred, the former closing at 301 to 30*, and the latter at 84 to 84. The Texian news had no effect, being considered as exaggerated. Spanish Bonds were a shade better, closing at 18i for the Active, and 223- to 23* for . the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted Stock remained at 324 1 Chilian receded to 88, and Braiilian . touched 66 to 661. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 52i, and the Five per Cents. at 101 to 1011. - The Share Market was again quiet this afternoon, the operations since the morning being these : Eastern Counties 14, Edinburgh and Glasgow 14, Brighton 15, _Manchester and Leeds 11, and South Eastern Scrip 2 discount. Northern and Eastern Scrip were 41 to and Paris and Rouen 4 premium. British North American Bank Shares were 71 dis count, and National Provincial Bank of England New 1 premium. _ _ _ (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Great "Western steamer brings advices of the 17th inst. from New York ; the 14th, from Montreal ; and the Bth, from New Orleans. The Stock Market at New York is stated to be im proving, but there was not the least foreign demand, a circumstance which leaves room for congratulation, as showing the increasing circumspection of our countrymen. Business in the United States was not brisk, the country buyers having very re duced means, and therefore not coming forward with orders as usual. Besides this, the old debts are far from liquidated. There is one circumstance, how ever, which deserves notice. Bad as is the home trade of America their commerce with England esta blishes a material balance against us, as most of the line-of-packet ships go out with scarcely any freight from here, but return from New York, &c., laden with produce of all descriptions. For this, it is clear, we shall have to pay in specie, since, although the Americans are heavily in our debt, they do not send us consignments to wipe off the old score, the bankrupt law having been found much more effectual for that purpose. The exchanges are against us at most of the American ports, and are likely to go still worse under the recent tariff of the United States. The political excitement in Canada does not abate, and the proceedings of Sir Charles Begot, in with drawing the official advertisements from journals op posed to his Government, and in dismissing from the Clerkship of the Peace a gentleman who had opposed Mr. Baldwin, had excited much indignation. It is stated in the Woodstock Telegraph that Major Graham, Captain Talcott, and others of the American surveying party, who have heretofore been employed on the disputed territory, passed through Woodstock on their way to the River St. Francis and the head waters of the St. John, to undertake an exploration of the new line of boundary. The Telegraph very properly urges upon our Government the necessity of immediately adopting similar measures, and not al lowing the country to suffer, as hitherto, by procras tination and delay. We have no doubt, however, that on official ratification of the treaty , s t e p s will be taken for running and laying out the line conjointly by the two Governments. The Timber trade was expected to improve before next spring. The Fruit trade, as far as the broker s or parties selling for the merchants are concerned, has long been a close monopoly, two or three wealthy firms having had the importers completely in their power. An idea of effecting a sale without their intercession was never entertained, and, bad the attempt been made, could not have pr ove d successful. A vigorous effort has now been mad e to throw open the market, and reduce the heavy c harges on the sales, and which, should it be carried ,out, will necessarily benefit the public. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather dull, owing to the accounts of the extensive supplies to come forward from America. The sales were only 3,500 bales, at previous rates. Eastern Counties and Dover Railways were in poor demand, and shares generally were in less request. Grand Junction brought 184; Great North of England, 59k; Great Western Half, 62k; Birmingham, 186 ; Paris and Rouen, 241. The transfer books of Consols close to-day, and parties seem rather inclined to go into them ; for the opening at the current rates of 94i to 95 ; for present transfer, the quotations have been flat again, at 94i to 94k. Exchequer Bills have realised 50s. to .525. premium. Bank Stock is quiet at 1711 ; and East India Stock has fluctuated from 264 f to 266. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1011 to 1011 ; and the Three per Cents. 93i to 94. There has, been, a small purchase again in Consols for the Savings Banks. Mexican Stock bears rather an improved value, since the declaration by Messrs. Lizardi that there has been no over-issue of the De ferred bonds, and which, in consequence are up to 81 and 81. The Actives are 301 to 301 r For Spanish Active Bonds the price is firmer, being 18, while for the Three per Cents. 221-, to 23 have been the quotations. Brazil Stock is steady at 66 ; and Portuguese Converted at 321. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. are supported at 52i. The Share Market, although firm, has not been brisk. Brighton Railways are 14f, Croydon 4f, and Northern and Eastern 8i discount; Great Western are 21i to 22, South Western 18k, and Paris and Rouen 4-1 to 5 premium. London Joint-stock Bank Shares are 3* premium. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 30.—There is no alteration to notice in our market, and the buii ness consists of the following transactions :—Liv(r pool and Manchester Half Shares, 90i ; London and Birmingham, 187 ; Manchester and Birminghatn, 20; South Eastern Scrip, 181; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 101; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 51i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. flank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94 Ditto Bonds ........ pm 3 per Cent. C0n5.... 3k per Cent. Red 100 k Ditto New Annuities... New 3k per Cent... lolk Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 43 pm New 5 per Cen', — Ditto 500/...... 43 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 43 pm Jan. 1860 .. Oct. 1859 11160 . Consols for Opg. ...... 95 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent irazilian Bonds. 13uenos Ayres 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent BB Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 791 Danish, 3 per 2ent. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3Ol Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. Portuguese, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent Ditto, Metallic . Spanish, 5 per cent...... 18h Ditto, Deferred . -- French, 5 per cent --f. —c. Exchange —f —c [ French, 3 per cent —f. —e. Dutch, 2i per cent. S2L Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 101 0 RES. Lid) GLondonrDittoeaEasterntC W e ste rn, o Counties 6 ( 5 5 2 I 13 paid)pA .... Ditto New (—paid) loi Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48* London Londo n and Brighton (50 paid) BlanchesterNo Lond on t 3 6 Paris and ROll2ll (20 paid) . • •-- er a n aa s nnn c a ddd r n Ga d p CBnror ( E deol 'e a vt s l-n s dh t :o p v e leni r a le n ' i he d ßs ( ) Rta( 4 ei . 7 s lar . iawpa(y. paid) ) T . ) : 16 . 2 . us . nl . ik : s) . d i 4P lodpd) I d ) 366 2 5:r5:84:1 pa...., South Eastern an d D ov er (50 p a id) Ditto Scrip (20 paid) MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. —It iS now generally supposed that the Legislature will not assemble for the dispatch of business until the usual period, viz., the first week in February, but nothing certain can be known on the subject until the next Privy Council. THE WEST INDIA AND MEXICO MAILS.—The following, notice was issued on Tuesday at St. Martin's le-Grand and the branch offices The Clyde steamer for the West Indi a ma il s f or the Ist December (to - day), not being ready for sea, w ill be detained until the arrival of the post o f Saturday,' the 3d of December, at Falmouth. The Tay steamer arrived at Madeira on the evening of the 9th or morning of the 13th . inst. ;. she wa s P reve ntei by a gale of wind from touching at Co- runna. TEMPLETON IN PARIS.—The English prim tenore has been much feted by the elite of the m usical pro fession during his late visit to the French ca p ital. All who have heard M r . Templeton are unanimous in praise of his rar e qua liti es as a vocalist. On Saturday week Auber, th e d is ti ngu ished composer of Massa niello,Fra Diavolo, Gustavus the Third, Lestocq, &e., gave Templeton an entertainment, and invited a large party of professors and dilettanti to meet him. During the evening Mr. Templeton delighted all present by singing several morceau from the various composi tions of his distinguished host, .the maestro himself presiding at the pianoforte. 61 7 ty r I zt UIV kvti t tj in Si 4 AND ,I. l )tttair eptntoit. t✓leo runs may read.' ronnzGiv. The Great Western arrived a Liverpool yesterday from New York, having made the passage in twelve days and a half. 'According to the latest accounts from Canada, Sir Charles Bagot continued dangerously ill. Mr. Ed ward Gibbon Wakefield had been returned for Beau harnois. It appears by an official return that the present year has been very unpropitious for the trade of Ca nada. Up to the Ist of October the number of vessels entered at Quebec was less this year by 411 than during the corresponding period in 1841, while the amount of tonnage had decreased 433,743 tons. Pre,ident Tyler had published an official statement of the ratification of the treaty between Great Britain and the United States. The Bth of December was appointed by the State authorities of New York to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving for the blessings of the year. in Chili a recent battle in the civil war occurred, in which 150 were killed; brothers actually fought against each other. - The Bayonne telegraph announces complete tran quillity in the Basque provinces, and in Arragon. Letters from the north of Europe announce that the winter has set in with great severity, and that part of the Baltic has become unnavigable. A Riga corre spondent, Nov. 7, says :—" It has frozen hard these two last days. About 180 vessels are detained here by the ice." A letter from Rendsburg, Nov. 17, states that, from Landwehr to Holtenau, the canal.is frozen over ; and another from Kiel, of the same date, says that the harbour was encumbered .with ice. The ,Wurtemburg and Bavarian Governments are about to establish a joint company for the steam navi gation of the Upper Danube, forming a regular com munication between Ratisbon and Ulm. The Cologne Gazette of the 26th ult. states, that the negotiations between the Zollverein and the king dom of Belgium were proceeding most favourably. Horace Vernel, the painter, who was lately at St Petersburg!), where he was received with great dis• tinction by the Imperial family, is now gone to Cir. cassia, in search of new subjects for his hippographica pencil THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2 , 1842. MONEY-TRADE-COMIVEMECE. Four Anti-Corn-law meetings have taken place in the metropolis and suburbs since Monday, viz., at Maryleboue, Camberwell, Bethnal-green, and Cray ford ; and a fifth held in South Audley-street for the formation of a new Association in that district. At the meeting of the Proprietors of the Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, held on Wednesday at St. Mary-axe, the Report stated that the surplus profits left available on the 30th September were 34,539/. 13s. 6d. The number of passengers via Egyrt had increased 227 during the second year. A dividend of 31 per cent. was declared. - 1.11.1.147 AND POLICE. A proclamation, offering a reward of 2007. for the apprehension of the murderers of James Scully, Esq., has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His Excellency offers a free pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual murderer, who will prosecute to conviction the persons c mcerned. Two other out rages have taken place in King's and Queen's counties, for discovery of the perpetrators of which two rewards of 801. each have been offered. I.ITEILAW7 IND SCIENTIFIC. Fonthill Abbey, oa which Mr. Beckford expended such large sums, and which excited the envy of the Prince Regent, is now in ruins. bo . invr—rasntroNanx.E. Saturday appears to be the day now peremptorily fixed for the departure of the Court to Windsor, and the usual orders have been issued for the necessary preparations to be made for the Queen's leaving Wal iner early that morning. The Marquis of Northampton arrived in town on Tuesday from Castle Ashby. The Earl and Countess of Jersey have been seeing company since their return to Middleton Park. Lady Lyndhurst, Count Karolyi, Viscount Ipswich, and Hon. Captain Villiers, &c., have been among the guests at the Hall. Lord Fitzroy Somerset arrived in town on Tuesday evening from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mor nington at Deal Castle. Lady Fitzroy is recovering from her recent accident. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby arrived on the Terrace, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, from Dover. Sir Charles Dalbiac, who arrived in town last week from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Rox burghe' at Fleury Castle, near Kelso, has since gone to Brighton. The Earl of Belmore, with the Countess and family, are staying at Castlecoole for the winter. Viscount and Viscountess Dillon left town on Tuesday for Brighton, to pass the winter there. Mr. Asheton Smith has taken the Marquis of An glesey's seat, Plasnewydd, in the island of Anglesey, for a term. Count Pahlen left Mivart's Hotel on Wednesday, for Trentham, to visit the Duke and Duchess of Suther land. MISCELLANEOUS. Wednesday Prince Albert visited the Beacon of Re fuge, on the Goodwin Sands, accompanied by Captain Bullock, who erected it there about two years since. His Royal Highness afterwards inspected the works of the South Foreland Lighthouse. An extensive and destructive fire occurred at Kings wood-hill, near Bristol, on Tuesday evening, when the warehouses and retail shop of Messrs. Budgett were totally burnt. The stock consumed consisted of refined sugar, cheese, coffee, and flour to the amount of 1,5001. The firm is insured in the Phoenix and other offices in upwards of 8,0001. Some women and seam6n created an enzeute at Bou logne on Tuesday, from labouring under a misconcep tion that a sailor, whose conduct was very irregular, had been severely treated by his officer, he having been put in irons for his conduct. It appears that he had chilblains on his feet, a circumstance unknown to the captain, which caused great swelling and pain, and which led to aggravated reports, causing the disturb ance in question. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. I.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.W., light airs and h tzy. DEAL, Nov. 30, A.m.—Wind S.W., P.T., W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Europa, Claman, Bata via; Queen, Quebec. Sid. Stratford, Mauritius; Magnet, Grenada; Wellington, New York. Almost all the outward hound.have sailed. Arrd. Calcutta, M‘Kennoul, St. John's, N.B. ; Priam, Monte Video. PORTSMOUTH ' NOV. 30.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.— Sld.Zenobia, Owen, Calcutta. OFF THE START, Nov.2B.—Pekin, Jones, for Hull, out 37 days. _ _ MirmoßD, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Trident, Gourlay, Tat magouche ; Luna, Whitehead, Richebucto ; Pembroke Castle, Stanebury, Quebec. WtvENnoE.—The barge Shrimp, of Maldon, has been brought in here, having been fallen in with off the Black Deeps, abandoned. 'Li v ERPOOL, Nov. 30.—W in d S. S.W., light.—Arrd. Meg, of Maldon, Poleasdale Calcutta; Great Wes tern (steamer)' Hoskin, New York, left 17th inst. Sld. Cornubia, Alaranham ; Bolton Abbey, New Or leans ; Huron ,Charleston ; Margaret Ann, Newfound land; Saucy Jack, Africa. Comc, Nov. 28.—Sid. St. Lawrence, Baltimore. Off port, Delhi, Valparaiso. KINGSTOWN, Nov. 29.—S1d. Dauntless, —. Hum., Nov: 30.—Arrd. Independent, Bombay. PORTSNIOUTII, Nov. 30.—The Anna Catharina, Bleinkoward, from Lisbon to Gamin Carlby-, which put in here the 22d: ult. leaky, has discharged her cargo, and been placed on the slipway to repair. COWES, Nov. 30.—The Anthony, Mugge, from Shields to Marseilles, has arrived here leaky, and is coming into the harbour to discharge. The Elizabeth, Jansen, from Singapore to Hamburgh came into the harbour this morning to discharge. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 29.—The Fox, Bowen, from Portsmouth to this port, upset in a squall and sank; crew saved. LITTLEHAMPTON, Nov. 29.—Two casks of cider, marked B 8, have been picked up to the eastward. The following has been posted at Lloyd's : Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, Nov. 20, 1842. NOTICE TO MARINERS. LOUISBURG LIGHT ON CAPE BRETON ISLAND. The following information has been received by liar Majesty's Government : " A lighthouse has been established on the eastern side of the entrance to the harbour of Louisburg, 60 fathoms in shore, in lat. 45 deg. 54 min. N., and long. 59 deg. 50 min. 10 sec. It stands on the site of the old French lighthouse (which was succeeded by a beacon), and shows a fixed light, visible at sea from off Cape Portland, to the south-eastern extreme of Cape Breton. The lighthouse (which is a square buildin g ) is painted white, with vertical block stripes on either cile . in order to distinguish it froml;&ithouses, and to render it conspicuous when the back land is covered with snow. The following remarks may be of service to vessels bound to Louisburg. When coming from the eastward they should bring the light to bear W. by N., or more northerly, before they run for it ; and if coming from the westward, it should be brought N. by E., or more northerly, in order to clear Green Island and the Ledges, which lie three-quarters of a mile S. by W. W. from the light. . When in the entrance of the harbour (which is nearly half a mile wide), with the light bearing. N.N.E. two or three cables distant, steer W.N.W. for half a mile, to avoid the Nag's Head, a sunken rock on the starboard hand bearing W. by N. from the light. The north-east arm of the harbour affords the safest anchorage. The light of Louisburg bears about S.S.W. W. from the revolving light on Scatari Island. The bearings are magnetic." COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, left town by the Great Western Railway yesterday morning, to honour the Duke of Beaufort with a visit at his seat, Badminton, Gloucestershire. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princoses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left Kew yesterday for Badminton to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with a visit. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and Baron Knesebeck also left Kew yesterday for Badminton. A Deputation from the Steam Ship-owner's Asso ciation, consisting of Mr.W. Attwood, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Pim, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. A. Davis the Secretary, had an interview NI ith the Right 'lon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the office of the BOard of Trade. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth and Mr. C. K. Murray had birviews with Sir James Graham yesterday at the Homo-office. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign •ofce. General Sir George Murray, G.C.8., and Miss Murray, have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, from Scotland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERS A LL'S. Yesterday was so near being a blank day, that it would be absurd to make a quotation of prices. The only bets made were 500 to 10 agst Sir G. lleathcote's Aniorino, 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt, and 1,000 to 10 each agst Mr. Bell's Blackdrop, Lord Westminster's Languish colt, and the Duke of Grafton's Pastille colt. DUTCH AND HAMBURGH MAIL. FRANKFORT, Nov. 16.—According to a statement, ,which, however, needs confirmation, the rough esti mate of the expense of the Federal fortresses of Ulm and Rastatt is 30,000,000 of florins. The payments will be made from the Treasury of the Confederation, but we hear, that for making the partial payments, an agreement has been made with the house of Roths childs,:of this city, which, for a moderate commission, undertakes to make the several payments on the spot at its own risk and costs. FROM THE DANUBE, Nov. 18.—The result of the general meeting respecting the navigation of the Danube, seems not to have been such as was desired ; it has, indeed, been resolved not to give up this fine national undertaking, but the shareholders being dis appointed in their expectations, would not consent to make any further grant of the money required to prosecute it. The offer of an advance of 50,000 florins, at 2 per cent., was indeed accepted, but com petent judges affirm that this sum is insufficient for the purpose. IIANOVER, Nov. 21.—The following particulars are reported in public respecting our accession to the Prussian Custom Union :—A Committee, consisting of Members of the Board of Taxes, and of the De partments of the Interior, whose proceedings, how ever, are kept a profound secret, is engaged in exa mining the offers which, it is said, have been made from Berlin. It must be observed, however, that his Majesty the King is supposed to be personally adverse to joining the Customs Union, and that by far the greater part of the kingdom is of the same opinion. Some provinces and towns are much inclined to the Union from their position and their commercial and local interests ; and some persons high in office in the revenue departments are zealous advocates for it. DUTCH FUNDS....A.)ISTERDAM, Nov. 29. Money. Bills. Actual Dell, 234 per Cent /MUD; ditto 5 per cent. Amen Syndic, 434 per cent 95 94A Ditto, ditto, 834 per cent 77% 77% Commercial Company, 434 per cent 12 ) 54 1303. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9 9.4 10/ Exchange on London, One month l2 20 Tao months .......s l2 15 Hamburgh, One month 35 8754 Two months 35 6234 Dutch Papers, Nov. 30. A USTRI AN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 21. Five per Cents. Metalliques. . 108% Four per Cents. 10034 Three per Cents .. 77 Bank Shares .... Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 25. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 26. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 —, Anglo-Russian Loan iosq losw Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% Inscription, Ist series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 97 % Ditto in Certificates 97 -- New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Ce9t. ......... „ AI q 51 Ditto 5 per Cent. -- Polish Bonds — New Tickets Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 p.‘r Cents. — PRUSSIAN. FUNDS.—BERLIN, Nov. 26. ~ Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. - • Mix, Prussian English Bond , , 1630, 1 per cent. LC% 101% Exchange on London .. 6 24% Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 27. . POLISH REVOLUTION. Tuesday, being the twelfth anniversary of the Po lish Revolution, a great number of the Poles assembled at the rooms of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, in Duke-street, St. James's, to commemo rate a day glorious in the annals of Europe, as having given occasion for a display of valour and patriotism unparalleled in the chivalrous ages. Captain Jablon ski having been called to take the chair, addressed the meeting in a very energetic speech, and reminded his countrymen of the glory which Poland has acquired, and the services she has rendered to Europe. He then glanced at the later periods of the history of that country, and forcibly expatiated upon one of the most infamous transactions recorded in history—the parti tion of Poland, and the annihilation of her independ ence. Having come to the anniversary of the day of the 29th of November, 1830, in the event of which every one present at the meet ing had taken an active part, he assured his brethren that the struggle for liberty and national independence was not yet at an end ; that they would all be again called upon to rescue their native land from the yoke of the oppressor. That sorry as he was to embitter their already protracted sufferings, he could not pass over in silence that religious persecu tion which the remorseless hand of their enemy has recently inflicted upon their country. He could not refrain from saying that the faith of their ancestors, the churches wherein its rites were celebrated, and the clergy who administered its consolations to a people deprived of every earthly blessing, had met with treatment at the hands of the Emperor of Russia which would have disgraced a barbarian conqueror. But it was not for him to relate the particulars of the unexampled cruelties perpetrated by the ambition of Nicholas; the public press had already brought them to light, and he trusted that the Almighty, in his justice, would decree that these insults offered in the name of religion to the principles of Christianity, should be of no long continuance. Suffer, as they all must, to see their father-land reduced to such a depth of misery and abasement, to find themselves wanderers in a foreign land, and severed from the ties which are dearest to humanity, still (continued Capt. Jablonski) they must not yet despair. The cause of justice must ultimately triumph, and this conviction ought to in spire every one of them with certainty that the cause of Poland is not lost, but she is destined once more to become a barrier against the irruption of Asiatic bar barians (he could give them no other name), and prove, as she has often proved before, the bulwark of Christendom and of Europe. Captain Jablonski having concluded amidst loud cheers, Mr. Szulc sewski, Mr. Wiercinski,l Mr. Prusinowski, Mr. Reczynski, and the young poet, Mr. Olizarowski, successively addressed the meeting in very elegant language, particularly the last, whose poetical com position bore the character of religious exhortation with regard to the duty imposed upon every Pole, as as children of one and the same mother, the unfortu nate Poland. The speeches were in Polish, the as sembly being composed entirely of Poles; the sensation produced by these energetic appeals was in a remarkable degree powerful and affecting. The meeting then broke up, amidst the ardent wishes of all present that the next anniversary might be cele brated in Poland. THE BRUSSELS TRAGEDY.—M. Caumartin, in stead of proceeding from Rotterdam to England and thence to America, as has been said to have been his intention, came to Paris, and, having embraced his mother, immediately went to the Procureur-General, and offered at once to submit to be imprisoned and brought to trial. The officer of the Crown informed him that, as no complaint had been lodged against him, there was no ground for his being taken into custody. Upon this he immediately set off for Brussels, with the determination of surrendering himself to justice in Belgium. Before he departed, he wrote two letters, dated Nov. 27. The first is to the Procureur du Roi, in which, after announcing his resolution, he declares that he shall be able to prove that he was provoked, struck, and wounded first, and that the tragical ter mination of the deplorable conflict was totally in dependent of his own will. The second letter is to M. Chaix d'Estange, as Batonnier of the order of Advocates, of which M. Caumartin is a member. In this the writer expresses his regret at not having found him at home, on calling with his brother in •law, as he wished to convince him that, under the painful situation in which he was placed, he had done nothing to forfeit his esteem, and hoping to have in sured his powerful aid in conjunction with that of M. Dupin in defending him, if he could have been brought to trial in France.--Galignani. WESTMINSTER ScnooL.—The first representation of the Adelphi, of Terence, will take place at St. Peter's College, on Monday, Dec. 12. The second and third r epresentations, with the addition of a pro logue and epilogue, on Thursday, the 15th, and Mon day, the 19th of December. Raupach, the popular German dramatist, and Tieck, the poet, whose popularity may alinost be said to have been ratified by the verdict of posterity, have lately been raised by the King of Prussia to the dignity of Privy Councillors, THE MAGAZINES. BLACK WOOD'S MAGAZINE. In his admirable notice of " Lays of Ancient Rome," Christopher North—for there is no mis taking his rapid, glowing, energetic style—does justice, in a frank and decided spirit, to the genius of Mr. Macaulay, both as a critic and a' poet. We are glad of this, fbr we have long regarded this gentleman as one of the most ac-s , complished spirits of the age—a sound sc holar, an eloquent and forcible reasoner, a poet of high and rare powers of fancy, and an historical essayist, whose sketches of character —we shall never forget his masterly portraits of Chatham and Carteret—are among the truest and neatest in the language. "If Macaulay," says Christo pher, "be not the first of critics, who is? Then name the poet who could have written the ballad of the Armada, and kindled, as if by electricity, beacons onball the brows Of England, till night grew day." The ballad in question is certainly a magnificent one, but it has always struck us as possessing one radical defect. In vigour and minuteness of description it is unrivalled ; we see the different mountains, north, south, east, and west, blazing with th e beacon fires; we see the messengers scampering, like so many mad devils, here, there, and every where, with the news of the approach of the Spanish fleet; and we hear the drains and trum pets sounding to arms in all parts of the kingdoM but we see no strong human emotion actively and directly at work ; no gatherings of sturdy Eng; lish masses with resolved countenances, a" strong hearts beating, as though they were one man. Mr. Macaulay gives us the bustle, but not the passion of the crisis, and substitutes drums and beacon fires for the irresistible energY of the roused English character. In the tlillos ing passage only—we quote from inernors---1" he attempt anything like a portrait of linusan emotion— " With his grey head unbonnetted, the' stout 'old Sheriff comes Before him march the halberdiers, behind the drums ; Ho, strike the flag-staff deep, Sir Knight! scatter flowers, fair maids " NQw, the want of earnest sentiment her e is SO fair. obvious that none can overlook it. What ness has an English Sheriff to be prattling abl, " flowers" and " fair maids" when the SPa n r t , fleet is hovering on the coast, and the very ec: s o. him sound ence of England is at stake ? Such an allusion is is impertinent in the extreme, and would IsetLe become a bridal or a May-day scene, than . 1 ," ;5 awful crisis of an invasion. We have hinted objection in' no unfriendly spirit, for, on • t rs e whole, we consider Mr. Macaulay's ballad of, t'% . " Armada" as one of the noblest in the langag c r Of his " Lays of Ancient Rome," Chris to p ile thus speaks : It is a great merit of these poems, that they are . flee from ambition or exaggeration. Nothing sel: overdone—no tawdry piece of finery disfigure w s he s simplicity of the plan that has been chosen. seem to have been framed with great artistical skill Sys with much self-denial, and abstinence from anY: thl o f incongruous—and with a very successful imitation the effects intended to be represented. yet of here and there images of beauty, and expressionds ot ' feeling, are thrown out that are wholly indeP en .d e e st of Rome or the Romans, and that appeal to the svi sensibilities of the human heart. In point of 11°1 , Id. ness of thought and language, there is often a u°e/.3 ness which none but a man conscious of great pet e , o of writing would have ventured to show. In , t ," re . rare qualities, "The Lays of Ancient Rome .t • semble Lockhart's " Spanish Ballads," whic h inu se c have been often ringing in Macaulay's ear s, first he caught their inspiring music more thowl in twenty years ago—when, " like a burnished ill vs pride of May," he bounced through the open winu°,,‘,9 of Knight's Quarterly Magazine. Two SUCK V°l/;Iv . all a summer's day you may seek without flnulore among the works! of "our Young Poets." r e° lSe do not call Lockhart and Macaulay poets at all ..o , n , both have acquired an inveterate habit of wr prose in preference to verse, and first-rate prose t° but then the genius of the one man is as differentrn may be from that of the other—agreeing, howeve r ', if this, that each exhibits bone and muscle suffieje,h,:'is equitably distributed among ten " Young l'oe t ron g 0° set them up among the "rural villages" as tbs inee, who might even occasionally exhibit in as giants. " Imaginary Conversation between Sc'tailliel r. and Porson," respecting Wordsworth, iS e st Walter Savage Landor. It is in his clevertic wanner, abounding in happy epigra- 311/1 ,, 8 of turns, quaint similes, and critical re fiectio L ll . - ,,its the most searching character. It also exi-0; much wit of thought—the best species of l‘ ri f ., o n and great fertility and variety of illustOic e . gathered, with apparent readiness, from the..,e motest and most out-of-the-way sources , 1 , [1 2 t author is clearly no idolator of the •ff rL ti ll Lake Poet, but passes sent e n ce on him wit" n i g ., the austerity of a -Rhaditmanthus. Tie is taken, -however, in att r ib u ti ng Wordsworth'&'l3the e.- sent popularity—or presumed -popularitY" - t c r. eulogistic writings of South e y. It i 3 0- 1 - 1 7 - pro. elusively owing to the eloquent criticisms vi.l° " '.110,0 fessor Wilson and Sergeant Talfourd, N, t he .neyer missed an opportunity of ~sound",l , 5 praises of the author of the " Excursion. ' fa r. " American Notes" of Mr. Charles Dick e i t i ely nish the subject of a lengthy notice, excee'^-bie well written, but not sinning on the favwlf be side. " Ricardo and Adam Smith" 11131 but useful, but it is assuredly dull and tedious; .. writers on Political Economy . are sel4oni a n d eminently conspicuous by their eloquence vivacity. BENTLEY;;S M nI. The au TI Richard Savage e" i 5 p ond mbrought to a termination, and the last ! a merits of the luckless adventurer are describe" %el letter " from Mr. Thomas Dame to Mr. 631 %1 , Johnson,John's-gate, to the care of Mr. Edward. Cavei; and London." There is great ski"i;tt ingenuity tl shown in this mode of bringing 11 15,e4 ie denouement, for Johnson—who 1 06 *- to writing for Cave's Gentleman's IVlagazi,ll%oo° which t. also Savage himself had occasionally have ributed—was just the man who would,. 4 , 0 -- ds been most anxious to hear all about his tr`.. - of last hour 4; first, from a natural feile i fidea curiosity, and secondly,. because lie bad n e : on on becoming his biographer. And he r ' n ' taking leave: of " Richard Savage," we : ; - :•ce observe bserve that the author has done all the J s-i fi d subject of which it was susceptible ; b , hts tale havd:. not achieved a ,perfect it is because the, character of his liero—oPt`;- to standing i the eulbgituns of Johnson —is t o h e un , e . been coarse, unprincipled, and deprai,vd,,,Yell was have in fAct, a rank impostor, as Croker and v ° : t on•• proved beyond the possibility of ols. h e ' r ' l a ti" r. Ledbury'sAdventures at Home and kr t j ere are resumed with spirit, though here be -Lo we are reminded a little too much of th„ e g c ; n ie nor of Dickens in the "Pickwick Papeo.,, g lo w of the scenes in middle-class life in Pal', -too' _that the author draws from life, a nd no g 00" fancy ; his account of the execution o f ars" derer by the axe of the guillotine, is 11 :,,,ti0a phic as the late Dr. Macnish's dec,daor of the same tragedy. " Leaves of fie`r`i;,,, , lorr Lore" is front the practised pen of Docto r who has told the fine old tradition o f nolan" t he considerable . ,Animation. " A Nigh ilj , r cler Adriatic" refers to the circumstance of a I s t ' The which was discovered by means of a drealf", , v incidents are supposed to have been related by French officer to the authoress while .t"tic., were steaming ,by, night across Similar,Adrlavit,ll Cicero: tells a story precisely l4OO this sole • difference, . that in his ver' ree of the dream, it was hinted that the mains of the murde red p art y would be fo s ie , in a cart, instead of in a manger. "Pereanold qui ante nos, nos tra dixerunt I" says the t adage, and Mrs. Romer may echo the anathelora.. " The Irish Mandarin" is a whimsical vaganza, setting forth how a Patlander nt tile' bogs of Tipperary t o o k it into his head to enact the part of a Chinese Manda rin at a dinner partJl and how 'he succeeded in imposing on several re' spectable " Life in Hanover" e 3 ol!:1 t am s some pleasing description s, but there ; rather too much of it: " Sir Archibald g host story, well fitted for Christmas fire-si",, reading. The illustrations are through o ut exoe l e lent. We quote from an article entitled til "Tiger-hunt" an interesting passage or two :-- The tiger had evidently been hit, but springing fog~ ward, he galloped along. We now began to pursi_ him, but it was very much after the manner that 1 1 .' , good shot in England marks down his game, and f'd , lows it, for to keep up with the royal animal was int ' possible. We trotted about eight miles an hour, th tiger about sixteen at the least. We thereforcon tented ourselves with following him, and dislodgine him whenever he got into cover. Finding a in front of him, the people of which had turned out, and fired several shots, the hunted animal endeavourEd to double. In effecting this manceuvre, be enoi e , within shot of others of the party, who dscharged.. their rifles with such effect that in a few moments the tiger lay senseless on the ground. We now des their from our posts, and approached to view prize s which seemed of more than ordinary s, We had just come up to it, when Lindsay, hYr of explaining some remark he had made relative to 3 i touched it with his gun. Imagine our horror nis" consternation when suddenly the beast srang and with one bound cleared the circle. }or no i ",:f stant we stood paralysed, stupified with excess vot fear ; then, rushing towards our elephants, Ave eve} ter, under them; this being a comparatively safe . s l 2. e i ne ir no tiger daring to approach within reach °"