The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-18 00:00:00

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Due. 0 America.... 0 0 France 1 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern. &Jersey I 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg ...... .. 0 0 Mexico I 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 Flanders HAMBURG, Nov. 25, 1834. lIEINE, BROTHERS, Contractors, for the Great Lottery, published and drawn, by authority and under guarantee of the Hamburg Government, beg to inform the public, that the 65th Lottery of 10,000 Tickets will be drawn on the 18th of March, next ; and tickets are now selling at 108 marks banco, or 81. The prizes are one of 100,000, one of 50,000, one of 30,000, one of 20,000, one of 10,000, two of 5,000, four of 3,000, seven of 2,000, twenty of 1,000, forty of 500, and 1,500 of of 103 marks, which 1578 money prizes are altogether stated in marks banco, and payable without any .deduction whatever. Four thousand tickets are delivered gratis lb the holders of the 2,000 first drawn tickets, as per scheme ; in consequence of which, those purchasing one ticket, at the trifling cost of 8/., may obtain three prizes : and thus, if fortune prove favourable, gain 180,000 marks banco, at the present exchange, the fluctuations of which are of a very trifling nature, equal to 13,0001. sterling. Owing to the gratis tickets, the number of tickets on sale is a very limited one, so that, of course, they will be cleared off very ra pidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to pur chase at the present first price of 81., are requested to direct, by one of the first mails, but only for whole tickets, to the above named contractors, Heine, Brothers, in Hamburg. Those remitting a 101. note will receive an order for the balance of 2/., together with the ticket ; on the contrary, those preferring to pa) , Heine Brothers' draft for the cost, are recommended to pay such draft im mediately when presented. A full scheme, and every desirable in formation, being always sent with the tickets, those giving orders will only have to write a line, ordering the ticket or tickets, adding the meney, or an order for the same, or stating the mode of pay ment that may be preferred to the more convenient one of remitting bank notes, and giving their full and plain directions. APPENDIX TO " THE BLACK BOOK." Now ready, price 3s. 6d., with a cut by SEYAIOUR, representing the Duke's mode of keepi ng th e peop l e qu i e t, an APPENDIX TO « THE BLACK BOOK," Comprising, 1. Principles and Practices of the Reform Ministry-2. Relative Importance of the Agricultural and Commer cial Classes-3. The Church and the Dissenters-4. Working of the Excise Laws-5. Poor Laws Amendment Act, and Lord Brougham's Speech-6. Catastrophe of the House of Lords-7. Character and Composition of the Reform Parliament--8. Dissolu fion and Character of the Reform Ministry -9. The Duke and the Tories-10. General Election—H. Tables of Ecclesiastical and Election Statistics, &c., with Corrections of former Editions of the Black Book. Also, in one large volume, with Portraits of the late Ministry, price 18s., or with the Appendix, bound in black cloth, 215., THE BLACK BOOK Of Abuses in Church, State, Courts of Law, Corporations, and Public Companies.—No Parliamentary Candidate or Elector ought to be without this important volume at the existing crisis ; it being a complete picture of the system of Tory misrule and corruption, which it is now sought to perpetuate. Published by Effingham Wilson, BS, Royal Exchange. 8, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET, D EC . 18, 1834. T HE STANDARD NOVELS AND RO MANCES. The Subscribers to the Standard Novels and Romances, and the Public, are informed that the next Volume, to be produced early in February, will contain H AJJI BABA, By JAMES MORIER, Esq. Complete in One Volume, originally published in three volumes ; and now illustrated with Two Engravings, and with a New Intro duction and Notes, written expressly for this edition. * The succeeding volumes will be duly announced, the Pro prietor having made arrangements to increase the celebrity of this Library of Fiction, by including other productions of the most cele brated novelists of modern times. The works which form the Standard Novels, being the exclusive copyright of the Publishers, can only be procured in that Series, which is wholly unconnected with any other collection of novels whatever. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be presented the Historical Play of RICHARD THE SECOND. After which, the New Interlude, called REFLECTION. To conclude with the New Farce, called TAM O'SHANTER THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be presented the Grand Dramatic Poem •f MANFRED. After which, the Historical Opera of GUSTAVUS THE THIRD; OR, THE MASKED BALL „-,s, ,t:oo*HH,. - it. trifn LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1834. The Tory Cabinet, through its head, Sir ROBERT PEEL, has at length published its declara tion of political faith. The document is a most im portant one, and has been drawn up with evident skill and subtlety. On a hasty perusal, it wears all the ap pearance of frankness and liberality, but when more diligently examined, it will be found that its tact is more to be commended than its strait-forwardness. That Sir ROBERT PEEL is its sole author, no one who is at all conversant with his mode of oratory, will for an instant doubt. It has all his pomp and round about manner of expressing the simplest fact—all his studious vagueness—and favourite peculiarity of in sisting on his matter-of-factness, at the very moment when he is saying nothing at all. The leading defect of Sir ROBERT'S present Ma nifesto is, that, with much pretension and virtuous horror of apostacy, it leaves the reader nearly as much in the dark, with respect to the course of policy that the Tories will adopt, as he was before. It is explicit only on the wrong side. Thus, on the great question of Municipal Reform—which is ushered in with a very ominous Ultra-Tory preface about " ancient rights" and "prescriptive authority,"—we are merely told, that though the inquiry will not he interrupted, yet that Government can give " no other pledge than that they will bestow on the suggestions it may contain, and on the evidence on which they may be founded, a full and unprejudiced consideration." Of course they will I Who ever doubted it ? Even an ELDON Cabinet would promise as much as this I But is a great question like Municipal Reform, on the abso lute necessity of which the mind of three kingdoms is made up, to be disposed of by a side-wind like this ? Are the people, who have smarted so long and so severely under Corporation abuses, to rest satisfied with the empty assurance that Ministers will give them consideration? We all know that a vague promise of this sort means nothing more than that, if Ministers find the future House of Com mons refractory, they will do their best, by giving a bit-by-bit Municipal Reform, to appease it ; but that, if otherwise, they will adjourn the question to the Greek Calends. On the Pension List, however, Sir ROBERT PEEL is far more explicit. Here, there- is no mistaking his meaning. He is frank to a degree that must electrify Mr. HERRIES, whose whole existing dynasty figure among the Pensioners, at a rate frightful to think of, and still more frightful to have to pay. Our Premier declares that there shall be no revision—no " retro spective inquiry." He will not lop off one of the Hydra's heads, though, by way of softening down the sternness—to give it no harsher term—of this declara tion, he promises that in future no heads, but such as may be furnished with a creditable stock of brains, shall sprout up on the Pension List. Truly, this is but a sorry consolation for Reformers. On the ticklish subject of Church Reform, Sir Ro- BERT has again recourse to vagueness and generality, except indeed where he tells us that he will not give his " consent to the alienation of Church property in any part of the United Kingdom, from strictly eccle siastical purposes," by which, of course, he implies that Catholic Ireland shall still be saddled with an ex travagant Protestant establishment. She shall be saved, in spite of herself. And how ? Why, by pay ing just as dearly as ever for the support of a Church whose creed she repudiates ! Tithes, however, our new Ministry will endeavour to settle, as they can, "by means of a commutation founded on just principles and proposed after mature consideration while as re spects the Irish branch of the Establishment, they will strive also to " do the handsome thing by it"—that is to say, they will not object to improve the distribution of its revenues, " if"—oh, that " if," it has a fearful meaning in a Tory mouth I—the Church's " influence can thereby be extended and its true interests pro moted 1" The plain English of this is, the Tories will do nothing but what they are absolutely driven to do. Of their own accord they profess their perfect readiness to stand stock-still ; but if they be compelled to move, why they will just creep forward a little, at a pace " founded upon just principles, and proposed after mature consideration." One passage, however, in Sir ROBERT'S Mani festo, we must not in justice omit. He says, " I con sider the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settle ment of a great constitutional question, a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct, or by insi dious means." To a certain extent this declaration is satisfactory. It assures us that the Tories will make no attempt to alter the Reform Bill ; but then it assures us at the same time that they consider it a " final" measure, and that consequently we shall have no Triennial Parliaments--no Ballot—no Household Suffrage ! We have no dislike personally to Sr ROBERT PEEL. He is an active, quick-witted, practical States man—though we wish he would not be always show ing such a disposition to faint, at the mention of the word " apostacy"—still we must frankly tell him that his Manifesto will never do. It is throughout (ex cept on the wrong side, as we observed before) a studied begging of the question of Reform. It looks at it, like a man blinking at a fierce, meridian sun. Now the country, for the last month and upwards, has been daily—hourly, expecting something explicit on the part of the Tories ; instead of which Sir ROBERT here puts it off —not, indeed, with a point-blank denial, but most assuredly with an evasion, of justice. He equivocates where he should be de cided—is decided, where he should entertain a whole some distrust. His present Manifesto is evidently a feeler, put forth to try the pulse of the House of Commons previous to a dissolution ; but its only effect will be, to render a dissolution inevitable. Again ! Look at the men Sir ROBERT brings with him in his train ! There is actually not one among them all, whom a Reformed House of Commons is not bound to regard with the keenest eye of suspicion. Associated with more liberal colleagues, Sir ROBERT might be a valuable Minister ; but linked as he is with GOULBURN, HERRIES, KNATCHBULL, DAW SON, and other such "small deer," we do not see how his system can outlive a Session. The Marquis of CHANDOS is found again I At the Agricultural Dinner yesterday he hoped that the new Ministers would remit a part of the Malt Tax. The whole I said the Agri culturists ; but to this his Lordship made no response, so that we may safely infer there is no split between him and Sir R. PEEL. Indeed, there can be no doubt on the point, for he told the meeting to rely on the justice of the Legislature, and to confide in the loyal and honourable men that now form the Administration. After this, the Agriculturists will do well to put the Marquis of CHANDOS'S promises in their pockets, and take what they can get in the shape of relief from their distresses. It is stated officially that the Colonial Department has been offered to the Earl of HADDING TON, and the Woods and Forests to Lord LOWTHER ; but that no answer has yet been received from either, though no doubt is entertained of their acceptance of office. The other vacant offices are likely to remain so, until it be definitively determined on what day Parliament shall be dissolved. Monday or Tuesday next are now confidently spoken of—but doubts are still entertained in some quarters. The Reformers, however, should be prepared— _ . _ " To doubt's to be resolved." The honest independent electors of the city of Bath will he glad to have their attention directed to an ad dress from their tried and valued representative General PALMER, which they will find in another column of The Sun. The General is not a new man—he ap peals to an experience of twenty-five years of public service--and after so long and confidential an inter course, it would be an act of mere presumption were we to enter into any detail of his principles, or of his pe culiar ability to discharge the duties of an upright and efficient Member of the House of Commons. General PALMER has always professed Radical Reform prin ciples, and during the many years he has had a seat in Parliament, he has always supported those principles by his votes and influence. H e is moreover one of the most regular members we know with regard to constant attendance in the House, and unremittin g watchfulness over the interests of his constituents. This is im portant—much more so, indeed, than the electors in general appear to be at all aware of. Notwithstanding the period during which General PALMER has repre sented the city of Bath in Parliament, he has thought proper to enumerate his opinions on most of the great questions now before the public ; and although we differ with him on some points, we cannot sufficiently commend the example of speaking out, which he has thus set to the other candidates throughout the coun try. Most earnestly, therefore, do we trust that no obstacle will be thrown in the General's way during the ensuing election contest. The electors of Bath are indeed THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1834. provided with two able and indefatigable Reformers I —General PALMER and Mr. ROEBUCK. Better men, in every sense of the word, than their present repre sentatives, cannot claim the suffrages of the consti tuency . of Bath. Mr. ROEBUCK is a man of talent, and we believe, of sterling integrity. During the last Session of Parliament he gave the strongest assurances of his zeal in the defence of the rights of the people ; and though many of his votes were given in opposition to measures which we advocated ; and some of his opinions are directly contrary to ours, yet on an occasion like the present, we deem it of the utmost importance that all Reformers should merge their individual differ ences of opinion, in order to obtain the services of those men most capable of.defeating the machinations of our deadly enemies the ultra-Tories. The Reformers of Bath are now called upon to discharge a great trust reposed in them for their own and the nation's benefit. Let them continue to support their present Represen tatives, and they will discharge that trust honestly, faithfully, and efficiently. They have now " good men and true," and we entreat them not to suffer themselves to be imposed upon by the professions of more accommodating Statesmen. We are happy to find, as well from reports which have been privately conveyed to us by parties on whose statements we can place confidence, as from other more public sources of information, that the return of Mr.W. H. Ho BIIOUSE for the borough of Finsbury may be re garded as quite certain. Mr. HoßuousE's address to the electors of that borough is given in another part of our paper, and to it we refer the public for a full exposi tion of his principles. He does not mince matters, nor has he had recourse to sounding phrases, which explained, mean everything, or some part of everything, or nothing—just as it may suit the convenience of the person who adopts them. He distinctly and emphatically states that he will advocate Triennial Parliaments ; the Ballot ; the abolition of all Plura lities, Translations and Church Rates ; the admission of Dissenters to all civil privileges and honours in the Universities ; the Reform of our Municipal Corporations ; the abolition of the Window Tax : and the careful revision of the Pension List. There is no mystery in all these solemn pledges which he offers the Reformers of Finsbury. They are not words which mean nothing ; but they are the frank, unsolicited avowal of opinions which entitle Mr. HOBHOUSE to the confidence of the Constituency to which he addresses himself. Of Mr. HoßUousE's sincerity in the great cause which he espouses, no better proof can be given than his retiring from a contest in in Bath rather than endanger the reform principles by creating a division among the constituency who sup port General PALMER and Mr. ROEBUCK, and so giving a Tory a chance of being returned. We wish we could persuade some others in Finsbury to follow the example of Mr. HOBHOUSE in this particular. We are sorry to hear that a liberal candi date, it is true, but at the same time a gentleman having no chance of being returned, is resolved to divide the Reform interest in Finsbury, and so play into the hands of the Tories, while he rails against them. We hope he will think better of it ; and either wait for another opportunity, or offer himself where he has some better chance of being successful. Mr. DUNCOMBE well merits the support which we are confident he will receive from the elec tors of Finsbury, and as the return of Mr. HOB HOUSE is equally certain, we cannot but regret the ap pearance of a third reform candidate, which will only have the effect of creating great embarrassment, and calling forth the most angry feeling. We know that the Electors of Finsbury will return Mr. HOBHOUSE and Mr. DUNCOMBE ; and we believe in so doing they will consult their own interests, and the interests of the country. The German Universities have no cause to complain. that they are ever overlooked in the deliberations of the Aulic Council. Scarcely a month passes in which we do not learn some account of the watchfulness of the Supreme Diet over the proceedings of these learned bodies ; and of the more than parental solicitude with which the President of the Council is wont to mark the conduct of the youthful aspirants for literary fame. Even our own Most Gracious Sovereign, in his cha racter of King of HA No vER, is not behind the most zealous of his regal confederates, in restraining the curiosity of such members of the Universities as evince a disposition to inquire how the institutions of. Ger many might be established, in accordance with liberal principles. The Hanover Gazette, which we have just received, publishes a royal ordinance, bearing date the 2d inst., in which it is commanded that in all Universities the Professors shall carefully and strictly enforce the re solutions published by the Germanic Diet or Aulic Council, for regulating the studies, and restraining the conduct of the scholars. One of these resolutions con tains a clause that no student shall attend any club or society for discussing the laws or institutions—civil, military, or ecclesiastical—of his country, under penalty of immediate expulsion ; which penalty of expulsion, when executed, shall be duly notified to the Govern ment, in order that the higher authorities may mark the expelled individual. Besides the secret terrors which would attend expulsion under such circum stances, it is further resolved by the Diet, and enforced in the Proclamation above alluded to,—" That such students as shall have been expelled from the univer sity, shall not be eligible for any civil, military, or ec clesiastical employment, professorship, or academical dignity, or to practice at the bal, or as a physician or surgeon, in any of the states of the Germanic Confede ration." This is, in short, the same thing as declaring it a capital crime for any person in Germany daring to think who is capable of thinking with effect. The student against whom every avenue to distinction is closed, and on whose movements the paralyzin g glare of the minions of the Diet is turned, is lost. His only chance of escaping ruin is to expatriate himself for life, and even then he goes forth under the sur veillance of the secret agents of the Aulic Council, who are to be found in every country in Europe. Still the very sight of these proclamations, dated from a German Court, and in the name of a German SOVEREIGN, is cheering to an English Reformer. It proves that there is a necessity for such re strictions —it shows that the German Uni versities are becoming objects of alarm to continental tyrants. Kings seldom trouble them selves with anticipated evils, and their proclama tions have reference to an existing state of things. There is then political societies to be crushed in the Universities, and that is something. Yea, it is much ; for where once such studies obtain so deep a footing, they can never be eradicated. We regret, however, that the students of the Ger- PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS tustrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto _Account Chi Dian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bends, 1321 Ditto Account 3IY4 atnish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1925 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Dit - n, B per cent Ditti Account Neapolitan DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock shut Ditto Bonds . .20 22 pm, South Sea Stock - Old Annuities - New Ditto , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151— Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 39 41 pm . Ditto 500 39 41 pm Ditto Small 19 41 pm• Ditto Commercial - —pm Ditto Advertised - -- pm Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consola for Opening 99-Wig man Universities are at present subject to the basest and most degrading system of espionage, carried on through the instrumentality of the Government. Spies are introduced everywhere ; the professors are tam pered with ; and no person can hope to be distinguished who does not, in some way or other, contrive to make himself useful to the civil authorities. It is no part of our duty to notice, with an eye to disapproval, any act of the Sovereign of the British empire, performed in the capacity of King of HA NOVER ; but we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that his MAJESTY should allow himself to be actuated by the ignorant fears of the Despots who form the tyrannical confede racy, known by the ridiculous designation of a Holy Alliance. Paris letters state, that a secret article was attached to M. ARDOUIN'S treaty with the QUEEN'S Govern ment for the new Spanish loan, giving him the right to rescind his bargain, " should the Committee of the London Stock Exchange refuse to allow it to be nego tiated in their House." DUTCH PAPERS, DEC. 16. DUTCH FUNDS—Aus•reannti, Due. 10. Actual Debt, 2.!6 per Cent: 5334 to 54 1 A A mort Syndic, 4 per c.mt p to 9256 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7514 to. 75% Loan (1530) 5 per cent. Ditto (1 , =32. and 1833) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month 12 12 5-10 to 12 10 Two months l2 07 5-10 tt4l2 5 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.: OLD COURT. Thomas Goodwin was indicted for stealing a warehouse stool on the 12th of last month ; he was further charged with having been, at a previous session, held in April last, convicted of a felony. The Jury found him guilty, and the Learned Judge told him as his former lenient sentence of three months' imprisonment had had no good effect upon him, it would be the duty of the Court to send him, on that occasion, out of the country for 14 years. Charles Langley was indicted for stealing a cloak, value 21. 10s. the property of Charles Mumford. It appeared frOm the evidence adduced, that the prosecu tor's gig was standing in Shorcditch, while he was absent upon some business in a neighbouring shop. The cloak was left lying on the seat. The prisoner was seen to snatch it up and run off with it. He was immediately pursued, and was ob served to throw the cloak away. He was soon after taken into custody. Verdict—Guilty: Thomas Stowe, a sailor'from the Navy of Don Pedro, was indicted for stealing, on the 9th inst., a coat and vest, the pro perty of Thomas More, also a sailor. Mrs. More said the prisoner was in the habit of calling upon her husband. He used to keep his clothes in a chest, and she missed on the day named the coat and vest then produced. Her husband was not present, as he had got a ship since the prisoner was taken into custody. She was certain they were her husband's from some marks upon them. Mrs. Rawling said the prisoner was in the habit of visiting, at her house for the last eight weeks. On the day in ques tion he brought the property, which he asked her to pawn for him, saying at the same time that he would have plenty of money in the beginning of next month, as he would then re ceive his prize money, and would relieve them. The prisoner in his defence said that More had given him the clothes to do as he liked with, because he had given him (More) an order for 901., which was about the amount of the prize money he expected to receive. Several sailors gave him an excellent character, and knew that he had full the amount named to receive as prize money. The jury almost instantly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. There was another indictment against the prisoner for nearly a similar offence, but no evidence being offered upon it, the jury also returned a verdict of Not Guilty in that case, and the pri soner was discharged. John Edwards, Charles Fitzpatrick, and Robert Morgan ; three lads, were indicted upon the capital charge of assaulting, and stealing a black silk bag from Miss Mary Ann Pritchard, on the King's highway. The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal on behalf o , Morgan, and found the other prisoners Guilty of the capital charge. NEW COURT. Ellen Hannon was indicted for uttering a counterfeit half. crown to Francis Herdrick, with intent to defraud him. It appeared that the prisoner, accompanied by two men, went to the prosecutor's shop in Fitzroy. square, and purchased half an ounce of tea, for which she tendered a half-crown piece, which was changed, and immediately afterwards it was discovered to be bad. She was pursued, but denied knowing the piece to be a counterfeit ; at the same moment she was observed to throw something down, which was picked up and found to be another half-crown of the same description. Mr. Field, Inspector of the Mint, examined both pieces, and declared them to be counterfeit, and cast in the the same mould. The prisoner, who still denied the felonious knowledge, was found Guilty. Timothy Grady, aged 61, was indicted for uttering two counterfeit shillings, with intent to defraud James Thomas Edwards. The prisoner went to the prosecutor's shop in Aldersgate street, and b oug ht an ounce o f sa l ts , f or w hi c h h e ten d ere d a shilling, and received the change. On a subsequent day, he came for a pennyworth of ointment, and tendered another shilling ; but the shopman had discovered that the former one was bad, as well as tho second, and had him taken into cus tody. Verdict—Guilty. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. The gentlemen of the Bar frequently complain to the Court, that from the present system they are unable to tell when the cases in which they are engaged will come on, and that fre quently prisoners have not above two or three hours' notice of trial, and consequently they are unable sufficiently to prepare for their defence. It appears that the business of the present session had been arranged by the authorities of the Court in the following man ner commitments of the first week after the last ses sion were to be taken by the Grand Jury on the first day of the present session ; those of the second week on the second day, and so on in rotation, a day for each intervening week, until all the bills were disposed of. It was thought that the Police Magistrates would have furnished a sufficient number of cases for the first day, or if not, that the aldermen and county magistrates would make up the deficiency. This, however, has not been the case, chiefly on account of the trifling nature of the charges brought before them, and the plan not being per fectly understood. This, however, is not likely to occ ur aga i n . The Jud ges recommen d e d t h a t the New Court should not sit upon the first day, having found great inconvenience on the Winter Home Circuit, arising form the Grand Jury not being able to furnish bills fast enough to occupy both Courts. The Petty Juries were consequently discharged until the following day, and the prosecutors and witnesses were not detained a whole day for nothing, as formerly. By the present plan, instead of 500 or 600 witnesses being all at once in attendance, only so many are summoned together, as the Grand Jury are likely to examine in the course of each day, and the allow ances which the absent witnesses would otherwise receive are saved to the county. LITERATURE, THE OMNIPRESENCE OF THE DEITY. A POEM. BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY, A.B. THIRTEENTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. London : Simphin and Marshall. 1834. When a book reaches the thirteenth edition within the lifetime of its author, having fairly travelled through the preceding editions at the solicitation of the public, it has nothing to fear, and very little to hope for, from newspaper criticism. It becomes, by that kind of universal consent, or rather forbearance, which leads to the establishment of customs in common law, a " part and parcel " of the literature of the country : and though, like the law, it may in time become obselete, yet can it never all at once be abrogated. Nearly half the volume before us is composed of short pieces, some of them, we believe, never before published. They contain passages of greater beauty and originality than any to be found in the " Omni presence of the Deity." The following description of Night, though not the best specimen of the author's ability, is, nevertheless, a fair criterion of the general merit of his minor poems Another day is added to the mass Of buried ages. Lo ! the beauteous moon, Like a fair shepherdess, now comes abroad, With her full flock of stars, that roam around The azure mead of heaven. And, Oh ! how charm'd Beneath her loveliness, creation looks ; Far-gleaming hills, and light-inweaving streams, And fragrant boughs with dewy lustre clothed, And green-hair'd valleys, all in glory dress'd, m a ke up the pageantries of Night. One glance Upon old Ocean, where the woven beams Have braided her dark waves. Their roar is husli'd! Her billowy wings are folded up to rest ; Till once again the wizard winds shall yell, And tear them into strife. A lone owl's hoot— The waterfall's faint drip,—or insect stir Among the emerald leaves,—or infant wind Rifling the pearly lips of sleeping flowers, — Alone disturb the stillness of the scene. Spirit of All ! as up yon star-hung deep Of air, the eye and h ear t t oget h er mount, Mans immortality within him speaks That Thou art all around! Thy beauty walks In airy music o'er the midnight heavens ; Thy glory garmenteth the slumb'ring world." The splendid services of rich cut glass for his Highness the P acha of E g yp t , manu f acture d by J o nes, of Ludgate-hill, will remain a few days longer, previous to their being forwarded to Egypt. SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTERIAL MANIFESTO. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF TAMWORTH. GENTLEMEN,—On the 26th of November last, being then at Rome, a received from his Majesty a summons, wholly unforeseen and unexpected by me, to return to England without delay, for the purpose of assisting his Majesty in the formation of a new Government. I instantly obeyed the command for my return, and, on my arrival, I did not hesitate, after an anxious review of the position of public affairs, to place at the disposal of my Sovereign any services which I might be thought capable of rendering. My acceptance of the first office in the Government ter minates, for the present, my political connection with you. In seeking the renewal of it, whenever you shall be called upon to perform the duty of electing a Representative in Parliament, I feel it incumbent upon me to enter into a de claration of my views of public policy—as full and unre served as I can make it, consistently with my duty as a Minister of the Crown. You are entitled to this from the nature of the trust which I again solicit—from the long habits of friendly inter course in which we have lived—and from your tried ad herence to me in times of difficulty, when the demonstration of unabated confidence was of peculiar value. I gladly avail myself also of this, a legitimate opportunity, of making a more public appeal—of addressing, through you, to that great and intelligent class of society, of which you are a portion, and a fair and unexceptionable representative—to that class which is much less interested in the contentions of party than in the maintenance of order, and the cause of good government, that frank exposition of general principles and views, which appears to be anxiously expected, and which it ought not to be the inclination, and cannot be the interest, of a Minister of this country to withhold. Gentlemen, the arduous duties in which I am engaged, have been imposed upon me through no act of mine. Whether they were an object of ambition coveted by whether I regard the power and distinction they confer, as any sufficient compensation for the heavy sacrifices they involve, are matters of mere personal concern, on which I will not waste a word. The King, in a crisis of great diffi culty, required my services. The question I had to decide was this—shall I obey the call? or shall I shrink from the responsibility, alleging as the reason that I consider myself, in consequence of the Reform Bill, as labouring under a sort of moral disqualification which must preclude me, and all who think with me, both now and for ever from enter ing into the official service of the Crown ? 'Would it, I ask, be becoming in any public man to act upon such a principle ? Was it fit that I should assume that either the object or the effect of the Reform Bill has been to pre clude all hope of a successful appeal to the - good sense and calm judgment of the people, and so to fetter the preroga tive of the Crown that the King has no free choice among his subjects, he must select his Ministers from one section, and one section only of public men. I have taken another course, but I have not taken it without deep and anxious consideration as to the pro bability that my opinions are so far in unison with those of the constituent body of the united kingdom, as to enable me and those with whom I am about to act, and whose sentiments are in entire concurrence with my own, to esta blish such a claim upon public confidence as shall enable us to conduct with vigour and success the Government of this country. I have the firmest conviction that that confidence cannot be secured by any other course than that of frank and ex plicit declarations of principle ; that vague and unmeaning professions of popular opinions may quiet distrust for a time, may influence this or that election, but that such profes sions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being made, they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with the honour and character of those who make them. Now, I say at once that I will not accept power on the condition of declaring myself an apostate from the princi ples on which I have heretofore acted. At the same time I never will admit that I have been, either before or after the Reform Bill, the defender of abuses, or the enemy of judicious reforms. I appeal with confidence, in denial of the charge, to the active part I took in the great question of the currency, in the consolidation and amendment of the criminal law—in the revisal of the whole system of Trial by Jury —to the opinions I have professed, and uniformly acted on with regard to other branches of the jurispru dence of the country. I appeal to this as a proof that I have not been disposed to acquiesce in acknowledged evils, either from the mere superstitious reverence for ancient usages, or from the dread of labour or responsibility in the application of a remedy. But the Reform Bill, it is said, constitutes a new era, and it is the duty of a Minister to declare explicitly, first whether he will maintain the Bill itself ; and, secondly, whether he will act upon the spirit in which it was con ceived. 'With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I twill repeat now the declaration which I made when I entered the House of Commons as a Member of the Reformed Par liament, that I consider the Reform Bill a final and ir revocable settlement of a great constitutional question —a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means. Then as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willing ness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of Government. If by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation—that pub lic men can only support themselves in public estimation by adopting every popular impression of the day, by promising the instant redress of any thing which any body may call an abuse, by abandoning altogether that great aid of Go vernment, more powerful than either law or reason, the respect for ancient rights, and the deference to prescriptive authority ; if this be the spirit of the Reform Bill, I will not undertake to adopt it ; but if the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining with the firm maintenance of established rights the correc • tion of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances, in that case I can for myself and colleagues undertake to act in such a spirit, and with such intentions. Such declarations of general principle are, I am aware, necessarily vague, but in order to be more explicit, I will endeavour to apply them practically to some of those questions which have of late attracted the greatest share of public interest and attention. I take first the inquiry into Municipal Corporations. It is not my intention to advise the Crown to interrupt the progress of that inquiry, or to transfer the conduct of it from those to whom it was committed by the late Govern ment. For myself I gave the best proof that I was not un friendly to the principle of inquiry, by consenting to be a member of that Committee of the House of Commons on which it was originally devolved. No report has yet been made by the Commissioners to whom the inquiry was afterwards referred, and until that report be made I cannot be expected to give, on the part of the Government, any other pledge than that they will bestow on the suggestions it may contain, and the evidence on which they may be founded, a full and unprejudiced consideration. I will, in the next place, address myself to the questions in which those of our fellow-countrymen, who dissent from the doctrines of the Established Church, take an especial interest. Instead of making new professions I will refer to the course which I took upon those subjects when out of power. In the first place, I supported the measure brought forward by Lord Althorp, the object of which was to exempt all classes from the payment of church rates, apply ing in lieu thereof, out of a branch of the revenue, a certain sum for the building and repair of churches. I never expressed, nor did I entertain, the slightest ob jection to the principle of a Bill of which Lord John Rus sell was the author, intended to relieve the conscientious scruples of Dissenters, in respect to the ceremony of mar riage. I give no opinion now on the particular measures themselves. They were proposed by Ministers in whom the Dissenters had confidence. They were intended to give relief, and it is sufficient for my present purpose to state that I supported the principle of them. I opposed, and I am bound to state that my opinions in that respect have undergone no change, the admission of Dissenters, as a claim of right, into the Universities ; but I expressly declared, if regulations, enforced by public authorities superintending the professions of law and medi :ine, and the studies connected with them, had the effect of conferring advantages of the nature of civil privßeges on one class of the King's subjects from which another !lass was excluded, those regulations ought to undergo modifica tion, with the view of placing all the King's subjects, what 3ver their religious creed, upon a footing of perfect equality in respect to any civil privilege. I appeal to the course which I pursued on those several questions, when office must have been out of contempla tion ; and I ask with confidence, does that course imPIY that I was actuated by any illiberal or intolerant spirit to wards the Dissenting body, or by an unwillingness to con sider fairly the redress of any real grievances ? In the examination of other questions which excited public feeling, I will not omit the pension list. I resisted, and with the opinions I entertain, I should again resist a retro spective inquiry into pensions granted by the Crown, at a time when the discretion of the Crown was neither fettered by law, nor by the expression of any opinion on the part of the House of Commons ; but I voted for the resoluti on moved by Lord Althorp, that pensions on the Civil List ought for the future to be confined to such persons o nly as have just claims to the Royal beneficence, or are entitled to consideration on account either of their personal services to the Crown, or of the performance of duties to the public, or of their scientific or literary eminence. On the resolu tion which I thus supported as a private Member of Pa r-. liament, I shall scrupulously act as a Minister of the Crown, and shall advise the grant of no pension which is not in conformity with the spirit and intention of the vote to which I was a party. Then, as to the great question of Church Reform, ° l3 that head I have no new professions to make. I cannot re my consent to the alienation of Church property, in any part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiatical pur poses. But I repeat now the opinions that I have alreadY expressed in Parliament, in regard to the Church Establish ment in Ireland, that if, by an improved distribution of the revenues of the Church, its just influence can be extended, and the true interests of the established religion promoted, all other considerations should be made subordinate to th e advancement of objects of such paramount importance. As to Church property in:this country, no person has el pressed a more earnest wish than I have done that th e question of tithe, complicated and difficult as I acknow ledge it to be, should, if possible, be satisfactorily settled by the means of a commutation founded upon just principles' and proposed after mature consideration. With regard to alterations in the laws which govern o ur Ecclesiastical Establishment, I have had no recent opPw" tunity of giving that grave consideration to a subject of t he deepest interest, which could alone justify me in maki e t any public declaration of opinion. It is a subject wh ich must undergo the fullest deliberation, and into that delibe re : o tion the Government will enter with the sincerest d e sire ; 0 remove every abuse that can impair the efficiency of te a Establishment, to extend the sphere of its usefulness , aP to strengthen and confirm its just claims upon the resp e ct and affections of the people. r t her It is unnecessary for my purpose to enter into itir details. I have said enough, with respect to general Pi l o ciples and their practical application to public meas ures , e , indicate the spirit in which the King's Government is P r , ' pared to act. Our object will be the maintenance of P ea ce the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without refer 7: to their original policy, of all existing engagements wit h , n t reign Powers, the support of public credit, the enforce al . l _ o of strict economy, and the just and impartial considerat,w, ' of what is due to all interests, agricultural, manufactuier' and commercial. 4)o' Whatever may be the issue of the undertaking e. I am engaged, I feel assured that you will mark, by e o 1 newal of your confidence, your approbation of the ee u- I have ursued in accepting office. th e enter upon the arduous duties assigned to me, Ny- th r „ t deepest sense of the responsibility they impose—with g c t i l s , distrust of my own qualifications for their adequat e e, charge, but at the same time with a resolution to Perse' `.e r e, which nothing could inspire but the strong impulse of r o o duty, the consciousness of upright motives, and the. tai" belief that the people of this country will so far mo n , of the prerogative of the King, as to give to the Minis!' his choice—not an implicit confidence—but a fair tris'' I am, Gentlemen, With affectionate regard, Most faithfully your's,„. (Signed) ROBER T PE.614 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THI S DAY) (FROM LLOYD'S.) A ,giveti DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind N. N. E., strong breeze.---° .- 4 0. from the river and sailed the Japan, Hill, for the South The Hero, for Antwerp, and Sesostris, for London, renaa'ri. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17. —Wind N. N. E. ztife t PLYMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind E.—Arrived the ,T.ar.- Katharine, Suttaby, from St. Übes. FALmoUTII, DEC. 16.—Wind N. E. to E., fresh. r..,44 BRIRTOL DEC. 17.—Arrived the Duke of Wellington, °— St. Michael's ; DE C . Alfred, Cocks, from Smyrna. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 16.—Arrived off port the Stormont, frog Demerara ; and John, Taylor, from Bombay. DUBLIN, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Alfred, Mears, Londble.. CoRK, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Zebulon, Forster Qu e and WATERFORD, DEC. 15.—ArriVed the Rapid, , M i ! le r r 'froo Regulator, Angel, from London ; and Brothers, ' Taylor, Seville. St' SLIGO, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Ceres, DempseY, (rein John's, New Brunswick. for „,a, POST- OFFICE NOTICE.-- , —HiS Majesty's brigS I ta .- the Lisbon mail of the 16th instant, detained; letters 4,01 this evening. His Majesty's brig Spey, for the L e His Island mail of the 17th : letters in time this evening 1 7th; Majesty's brig Opossum, for the Mexican mail of the letters in time this evening. as bur" The Amelia, Glascott, from - Africa to England, eater, by the natives' on the 21st August, and the master, na i l and steward killed. The following was posted at Lloyd's this morning - ' -- 8 34. Admiralty, Dec. 17, I o f tlig ''''''Sir;""'-La.DA,,commanded by my Lords Cmmissioners Coro' A . dmiralty to acquaint you for the information of tin es tY l mittee for managing the affairs of Llo 'd's that his I‘, 'lO6 sloop, Champion, has been ordered to c ) ruiZe o ff Seal oi y °` the continuance of the easterly winds, to reliev e e - ,,row the vessels homeward bound that may be in want cu t r sions or water.—l am, Sir, your most humble S er ,l,6W' (Signed) JOHN BA IL W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyds, BARFLEUR NEW LIGHTHOUS E. (RECEIVED FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMEN'r.I36, the Notice is hereby given, that from the Ist April, 1 5 i 6 1e4 116 fixed light in the old lighthouse of Barfleur, situated ,- ns tell a E. N. E. of Cherbourg, will be discontinued; ari i; "' t boll y s e of it, an intermittent light will be shown on the lately built, 61 metres (about 67 yards) S. 25 min. `" the of the old lighthouse. t „ o ve The new light will be 72 metres (about 236 feet) a' b s eeP bar of high water at the equinox. The flashes win :e t ' regularly every half minute during the whole of tbl ea gtie s ' a D In fine weather they may be seen at the distance of 8 e and the light will not disappear entirely at a less distalle 4 leagues. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 17. fi a inb u ; r , g The William Jolliffe and Lord Strangford, fromThet'' —Atlas from Cronstadt—Charlotte, from The from Hamburg. nINC' f r ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOA — Hall, -° 4 The Adonis, for Guernsey and Jersey—William proge"' Genoa and Leghorn—Vrow Elizabeth, for Ostend, _Ol4ll, m a rlboi a o cs and Ghent—St. John, for Havre and Rouen— n a rba for Jamaica—RaMona, for Rotterdam—Tropic, for —Argo, for Gibraltar—Euphemia, for Vera Cruz. 0. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH ARca-- 10 4 C am The Mercy, for Barbadoes—Flora, for lliance , for Jai , Cadiz, San Lucar, and Seville —A kirk—Europa, for Havre and o. Monte Vide Anna, for THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) -....--- aCK. 17F o'ci - d I ,l '' CITY, TWEL a , n o We have no arrivals this morning of foreign ma il. from pr ls one arrival of ship letters, consequently the expres!,6! hour l i has not as yet been received ; but the French man l'cl toce, expected, and should it bring any information of conse we will give it in our City article of half-past one. THE FUNDS. . as at 00t The opening of the Consol Ma rket this morning 'lwo shown so favourable a view of Mr . Peel's address f! 5 _,,,,nt i° first anticipated, owing to a general belief that parlir t - s p 8 on the eve of being dissolved , and that then affairs Witt at the price they more serious turn than at the present m oment. A 9 2 i 1; Consols opened at present they are 921, Sellers for the Account. irDufc'eetell that talented address has not had the least favourable eP the funds. Spanish, 521 i ; Portuguese, 85k i ; Dutch, 54 f• „ rz ,, left off yesterualz_.9 eon The general topic of conversation still continini ig er City, respecting the address of Sir Robert Peel, wn,"; he par: HALF-EAST °:701-"tbe pounded in various ways, according to the politics o; ,. ' t oil OW ties. Up to the present time, it has not had any ell' lth funds. little doing. 1. port'' Consols may be quoted at 92. i to 92+ for the Account, 0 Spanish has improved, since the morning, to 53 4 . r guese continues firm, at 85k -}l. Dutch, 54i i• e h rna l i ° 4 As yet we do not hear of the arrival of the Frell a the C express from Paris, which causes a great dulness I in respect to foreign intelligence. r. 0 0 THREE O'C— Consols for the Account, 921 to 921. ~,.. (.(iuR VIC TH E 1 Cot e ar ab la st 4-a