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Uuthampton-buililings, Chancery-lane. . •• _ • LONDON, 141 1 L rMY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1831. [OLERA. NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, g_, SUNDERLAND, DEC. '2l, 1831. ained at last report Cases Rod Total lO ttov,red Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A.M tor n the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 'X, 1831. Cases, 511.—Died, 188. R, NEWCASTLE, Dec. 21. 1c~, 4 , inctl at last report ''' cases 3O 4 i Total . heV 4 ' ) vtred kill Remaining at this date, the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831. Cases, 153.—Died, 53. Ti m .,,"TH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTII, DFC. 21 . N e •zained at last report 1 " eases 2 b t'd ...... ... Remaining at this date 1 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 9.—Died, 7. HOUGHTON.LE-SPRING, DEC. 21. at last report 3 `' cas e y 4 14„, -- overed 0 Remained at this date From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 19.—Died, not reported. n fl Itt, na , .SEAHAM HARBOUR, Dec. 21. SCiellCes ' lb Itung at this date From the Commencement of the Disease. i Sund triii :rer Cases, 7.—Died, 5. Id the t e. , c t No other particulars received. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. r the dist' t , Llano cvs', g o( lay the courige o u teri 11l „ additional heavy duty of twelve and a lence. 0 1 4 t , t, l' e r cent., which the Emperor of RUSSIA +mona d ° pfe' 'tk r°S eS to levy on imported goods, he seems iderlan ve t , i v . , 14 ry tray' oe c i a that the European Powers (France and L. cis , ed b e i,ed i lii l l i 4 uszi particularly) shall pay the expenses of .en far pie j, 4 me have i br io ° ,qt magnanimous campaigns in Poland ; becom e ! the 4 1 they shall be punished for having he reta'P'oce 'ti ll guilty of the crime of only wishing I counte 3. o 6 N t this, ho'''; or 0 the Polish cause—for GOD knows, they ' a : l 7' l , o ° 4 l ll °r ; 14 ,, tj t 0 : , :t guilty of the sin of interference ! This sease. 1 011 Ip hi , i us duty will of course have the effect of effort is. the '' r Lng in no slight degree the British trade der,, ari a 0, 1 11 Russia ; but even the most timid, and cour nindont• o r 1 •04 t for °° t 0 i '1 ' and forbearing become desperate by re , whic h ' 0 4 ' feel insults, and we trust the Imperial Auto 4ecttnilt " v hoi l Will fatal t 1 the reap the full benefit of this desperation _ ... . \lol ,„itli' , !h o t t , part of England. Before the EMPEROR , tbe e° )1 1 . e d on levying this duty, he should have ' has )e li t' • 4( lered well the means for carrying it through Tonity 1: 1 ,,,,re 'th e Be d ream b ; three ':; rate Utmost, and not have indulged in intern ,. DA.„TI.,r; ate bravadoes which he cannot eventually coaling , i o , ii. If the mere fact of a dispute with MITCI-0. n gitla 0 05 ( tti, 4 has so far affected the revenues of reams 0 fit .sla '8 -terrac e ) ,0 th ' that she is compelled in her necessity— ! evening s ' l , o 4 t ' CZAR has the grace to plead necessity as Detween tr, h t • our 1 091 ,i . . t of his present proceeding—to annoy it rowi r kgpe 'ill °l urriercial interests of other nations, how e, he helirdie 1 1 4 i, t hebe revenues be affected, when Russia could Pr, to II 6 ieard 11 o,', q) find herself hampered by the hostility of ted anzitog t iira su e b influential kingdoms as France and 3of its ' - ,,r wa nd ? kll these r t iit td befor e .p! State of things in France for the last week idaV , : b % iil ef ' N I er e hest judged of by an attentive considera , by a , I rtt i t A ll , the Government report upon the Lyons ipect.ibili`lliie i t , 4 ",auees—of the report of the Committee of o' if }to . 0 .0 ‘-ti atilh er of Peers upon the new Peerage e murder roz aze ttc. leet'"'-and of the proceedings in the Court of A, First Instance in Paris, instituted by the Prince of RonAN, for the purpose of nullifying th e will of the late Duke of BOURBON CONDE. As all these documents are before the public, it is hardly necessary to do more than direct to them the attention of those of our readers who desire to be rightly informed of the political condition of the French nation. The first document, relating to Lyons, shows that the Government has no intention or hope of doing any thing to ameliorate the condition of the operatives, who, at Lyons and elsewhere, are in a state of alarming destitution. The fluctuations of trade, caused partly by political, and partly by other causes, have deprived Lyon s of the business that once gave full employment to her citizens. Not only in Lyons, but in Paris, there is a hungry and almost starving multitude, who respect neither law nor order, and are ready to lend themselves to any change, good or bad, in the existing Government. This class of citizens, so dangerous to the public peace, the Ministers have confessed themselves to be unable either to permanently pacify or ame liorate in their conduct towards the rest of the nation. The report of the Commission on the Peerage Bill is a most elaborate, and, at the same time, most unsatisfactory document. The Commis sioners have assigned the most ample reasons for the reluctance with which they part with the principles of hereditary succession—so indispen sable, as they truly observe, to the conservation of the aristocratical element in the State. But the fact being that the Aristocracy in France is utterly demolished and gone, the Commission loses sight of the real question, which is, how f'ar it is expedient to raise up a sham Aristocracy to supply the place of the real one, which is extinct? We like not, moreover, the proposal of the Peers to omit the condition in the category, which prevents the nomination of merchants, &c. pay ing 3,000 francs a year in taxes, unless they shall have been six years members of a General Council, or Chamber of Commerce. This amend ment to the ministerial scheme was designed as a salutary check to corrupt nominations of eldest sons of Peers, and Court favourites, who had not been trusted by the nation, to fill offices of public confidence for a certain period, and its. omission will probably not be acceded to by the , Deputies. _ _ Of the proceedings in regard to the Duke DE BOURBON'S will, in which the Citizen KING has, in fact, been put to a public trial, we will at present, only say that we seldom recollect the exposure, in a Court of Justice, of more mean and disgusting conduct than that with which Louis PHILIPPE, in conjunction with Madame DE FEUCHERES, stands charged. How this person can repel the evidence of his shameful manceuvres to secure for his son the inheritance destined for another, remains to be seen by the defence. But the correspondence already pub lished is enough to sink this Citizen Sovereign in the esteem and respect of those who value the laws of honour and decency, and who feel a just scandal at attempts to obtain filthy lucre by intimidation and fraud, practiced upon weakness and old age. The Birmingham Political Council have just issued a declaration of the views and objects of the Union, which contains, among others, a statement to the effect that, " Upon maturely investigating the cause of the national distress ourselves, we found the whole to originate either in positive acts of the Legislature; or in the general mismanagement of public affairs. We found difficulties and dangers accumulating be fore us, behind us, and around us. We found the House of Commons either totally unable, or totally unwilling, to adopt the necessary mea sures for the relief of the country ; and in the mean while we saw the foundations of society giving way under our feet. It was therefore that we formed the Political Union. We could place no confidence in the House of Commons. We saw the reward of industry destroyed. We saw the mass of the people injured and degraded in their wages, in their employment,in the comforts and necessaries of their families, and in the ho nest independence to which they are entitled. We saw the whole country covered with diffi culties, discords, and anxieties,—with broken fortunes,—with broken hearts.' There was no hope for our country from any quarter,—except from the interference of the people in rectifying their own affairs." What an answer is this plain, simple, energetic statement, to the blundering sophistry of the Statesmen of the CROKEIt school, who assert that there is not the slightest occasion for Reform, for that the country is just as prosperous as it ever was, or as it ever ought to be ! We have received this morning Lisbon and Frankfort Papers, from which we extract the following : LISBON, DEC. 6. OFFICIAL-DEPARTMENT OF ECCLEq-ASTI- CAL AFFAIRS AND JUSTICE. " Sin,—The King our Sovereign basing been informed of the great enthusiasm which has manifested itself in the kingdom for the defence of the just and holy cause of religion, of the throne, and of the safety of the State, which our enemies madly and rashly think to attack, his Ma j sty is pleased that your Excellent.) , should order the districts in which inch noble and truly Portuguese senti ments have been especially shown, to signify to the in habitants his royal approbation. His Majesty has never doubted that on the present occasion he should meet with such sentiments, as he knows by his own experience that his subjects ate and has abs aye found them equal to them selves in the most difficult and arduous circumstances, and above all, his Majesty's approbation is merited by the im movable constancy with which the Portuguese,now certainly imitators of the excellent qualities of their ancestors, have at all times been ready at the expense of the greatest sacrifices to oppose, and destroy the monster of impiety and revolution which has so persecuted us since 1820, and has been the cause of all the evils that we have suffered, and which would have been much greater if it bad not always been conquered• His Majesty likewise desires that your Excellency should signify to some local Magistrates, who have the most distinguished themselves by their zeal in the performance of their duty, that their good services are known to his Majesty. " LUIS DE PAULA FURTADO DE CASTRO DO RIO DE MENDOCA. " Sr. Joaquim Comes da Si:va Belfort. " Palace of Queluz, Dec. 6, 1831." " SlR.,—His Majesty, desiring to lesson by all possible means the inconveniences which the movement of a great part of the army occasions to the people, is pleased to order that the requisitions of provisions, or of means of con veyance for the army, shall be levied in preference on what is confiscated or sequestrated for the crime of treason, or on such as ..re about to depart from the kingdom without his Royal license ; such requisitions being to he levied on the inhabitants only when they can not he raised in the manner above mentioned; and i❑ the delivery of the vales, and other proceedings, the same for malities are to be observed towards the administrators of confiscated or sequestrated property, as towards all other persons. All which I communicate to your Excellency, that you may give the necessary direction to the Magistrates under you." (Dated, signed, and addressed as the preceding.) The Lisbon Gazette gives long extracts from the Act of 59 George 111. against recruiting for foreign service, and an account of the breaking up, in the Isle of Dogs, of the Ist division of the expedition against Portugal. Lisbon Gazettes to the 10th December inclusive, announce various regulations and numerous promotions in the army. . . CASSEL, DEC. 12.-111 i Majesty the Electoral Prince has issued the following Proclamation : " While the united efforts of the Government and of the representatives of the country were producing the most satisfactory results, a deplorable event had disturbed the peace of the capital. The voice of an authority obliged to maintain publi , order was disregarded, and the interference of the armed force became necessary. A combination of uufor•tunate circum stances occasioned in the dark some accidents, which not only afflicted the faithful inhabitants of Cassel, who are such friends to order, but fills our heart with profound grief." His Highness declares that a most strict investigation shall be made, which will show how far the laws have been violated, and by whom, and that justice shall be done without distinction of persons. The Minister of War announces that it has erroneously been asserted that in the A•semhly of the States, the order for troops to come to Cassel had been revoked. The Assembly approved the proposal of M. Jordan to petitition the Government to relieve the communes about Cassel from the burden of quartering cavalry. In consequence of an accident this morning, when a garde-de•corps ill-treated a child, the Estates resolved to petition the Government to remove those troops from the capital without delay. The Paris Express says, " it would appear that the rigorous measures directed against the students, who were proceeding on Monday with an address to General Rom ARINo, has cat!sed much dissatisfaction among all ranks of the Parisians." THE RUSSIA TRADE. The following official information was received yester d4y by the Governor of the Russian Company, relative to the increase of the duties on goods imported into Russian ports, and the mode in which the duties are to be col lected : "SPECIAL UKASE.-'I'() THE DIRECTING SENATE. " Late events having had the effect, although temporarily, still to a very considerable extent, of increasing the expenses in various branches of the Government, it has been found indis pensable to equalise the receipts with the expenditure. We have accordingly judged it expedient, in - accordance with the repre sentation of the Ministers of Finance examined by the Imperial Council, to order that an advance shall be made in the Custom house duties. " In consequence thereof, transmittingherewith to the Direct ing Senate the register confirmed by us of the goods, we ordain that the necessary arrangements be entered into for the fulfil ment of the same. (Signed) ' Dated Moscow, Nov. 1 I (0.5.)" " NICHOLAS." • (Then follows an enumeration of the articles on which the duties are equalised, and which have been published.) The official document then proceeds as follows : " The additional per centage duty to be levied according to the following rules : " 1. To the duty the quarantine dues shall be added, and then one-eighth of the whole. Upon articles where the duty has been increased by the tariff', the additional duty to be levied on the new rates, and upon all others, in conformity with the following paragraph : " 3. The additional duty shall nut be levied on corks, cork wood, or brimstone. In like manner it is not to be levied on the apothecary wares separately enumerated, excepting upon white and yellow arsenic, as well as those apothecary wares which are included in the supplement to the general tariff and this regis ter, which are liable to the additional duty. " 4. Accordingly it shall be levied upon the duty only, with out the additional per centage, upon goods imported clandes tinely, atter the present publication, five times the duty shall be exacted with the additional per centage. All other penalties remain as before. . . . . . . " 5. The additional duty on imports shall be levied in all ports and Custom-houses upon the European frontier according to the general tariff ; at Keachta, by the separate tariff; and upon the Asiatic frontier on those articles only which pay duty by the European tariff: Duties at the Custom-houses of Redoubt Kale and Anapa remain as they are ,• but in the clearing foreign goods coming by way of Redoubt Kale to the Russian Custom-houses the present regulations shall be in force. " 6. On goods for consumption in Odessa. to take the addi tional per centage upon one-fifth of the duty by the new re gulation, and upon goods transported into the interior of the empire, upon the full duty, or upon the four-fiths if the one fifth has been previously paid. In all cases the revenue arising from the additional per centages shall be carried to the credit of the Imperial Treasury alone. " 7. The regulations for the reward of Custom-house officers of three per cent, shall be taken upon the rate of duty by the last rates, but not upon the additional per centage. " Note.—The provisions of this Ukase will commence to be in force under the following regulations:— " 1. The advanced duties upon the articles are to be levied only upon those which will be brought after the Ist ofJanuary, 1832, at the same time not including those goods which may be forwarded from foreign countries before this period, or even before the pub lication of this order. If in distant places this order is not re ceived on the Ist of January, then the additional duty is to be levied on all goods imported from the Ist of January which may still be in the Custom-house. " 2. The additional per centage upon all goods uncleared, or which may arrive, is to he in force from the day this Ukase is received at the Custom-houses ; and be it understood that it is to be levied upon the old duties for all goods remaining in any Custom-house, and arriving previous to the Ist of January, and on the new rates on all goods arriving subsequently to the Ist of January. (Signed) KOTCHABEY. " Moscow, Nov. 11 (0.5.), 1831." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TTERSALL'S. THE DERBY, 1532. 9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram 11 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Non Compos 11 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Margrave 11 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dulcinea colt 10 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt 18 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt IS to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Minster 20 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Pastille colt OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Emiliana 20 to 1 agst Captain Byng's Dryad The Duke of WELLINGTON, upon inquiry this morning., passed a very tranquil night, and was then convalescent. A deputation of the leaders of the working clas , es had an interview this day with Lord AUCKLA , ..:D, a t the Board of Trade. _ . The Duke anti Duchess of ST. ALBA N's, who had arrived on the previous Wednesday from town, returned thither suddenly on Monday, in consequence of information that a cheque for 30,0001., bearing the forged signature of his Grace, had been presented at the bank. Their Graces are expected in Brighton again this day.. Brighton Gazette. THE PATENT AND MINOR THEATRES.— We are given to understand that the whole of the Minors are in a state of considerable excitement, since notices have been nerved on them, o❑ behalf of the Patent Theatres. It has been currently reported in several of the Green rooms, that many of the performers at the major theatres have openly expressed their determination of entering into a subscription, if necessary, to carry on tie intended pro secution of the minor establishments. EVIL ASSOCIATIONS.—The Duke of CUM BERLAND has been so long attached to the huzzas, that in the House of Loris he naturally identifies himself with the braros.—Figaro in London. " THE (LATE) TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE. " --It will be recollected that about two months since an organist, named ROBERT HUGHES, first discharged the contents of a pistol into the bead of his lover, ELIZA BETH WESTLEY, aged 60, and then shut himself, at the house of Mr. BENTLEY, in Lower Etst-Smithfielti. They were both conveyed to the hospital, and having since re covertd, were taken into custody, and, on Wednesday, examined at Lambeth -street. Mr. BENTLEY, and others, recapitulated the same facts which have already appeared in our Paper under the above head. The female prisoner, in her defence, stated, that iu consequence of receiving warning from her master, owing to an attempt having been made to poison him, shecame to the resolution to de stroy herself, but not wishing to do it herself, she asked HUGHES to do it for her, and he, being troubled in his mind, consented, at the same time saying he would kill himself. They had a great attachment for each other. HUGHES made a similar statement. A policeman stated, that on the prisoners meeting, they flew into each other's arms, and it was some time before be could separate them to bring them to the office. He understood it to be their intention the moment they left tl e hospital to have started into the country, and live together, though HUGHES had a wife and family. Mr. HARDWICK observed, that the prisoners had been guilty of an offence which, by the laws of the country, subjected them to the forfeiture of their lives, and remanded them until Tuesday next, giving di rections for them to lie kept separate. During the exami nation, whenever an opportunity presented itself, the prisoners embraced each other. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY ) FROM LLOYDS. DEAL, Dec. 22.—Wind 5.5 W. fresh.—Arrived from the River and remains the Fanny, Drummond, from the Cape of Good Hope Sailed his Majesty's ship Wellesley, for Plymouth ; Talavera, for Sheerness ; Stag and Galatea, for ditto and Leith ; Curacoa, for Portsmouth and the East Indies ; and Tweed, for Portsmouth and the West Indies. _ • PORTSMOUTH, Dc.e. 22. —Wind S. to S.S.W. rived his Majesty's ship Charybdis or Cerberus, from the 'Downs. FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind W.S. W. to W. moderate.— Arrived the Hermes steam-packet from the Mediterranean, sailed from Corfu 26th ult., Malta 4th inst., Gibraltar 13th, and Cadiz 14th; Stanmer packet from Lisbon, sailed the 11th inst. The Hermes steam-packet spoke the Messenger packet from Falmouth to the Mediterranean 16th inst. in Ist. 39. long. a, with damage, and one of the crew washed overboard. SHEERNE'S, DEc. 22.—Arrived the Doncaster, Hart, from Quebec. STANDGATE CREEK, Drc. 22.—Arrived the Sir Edward Codrington, Child, and Union, Wilson, from St. Petersburgh Sappho, tenby, from ditto ; and Elbe packet, Glendinning, from Hamburg.f MARGATE, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Old Maid, Barker, from Quebec. COWES, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Perseverance, Conant, from Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Thomas, Jones, from Charleston. GREENOCK, DEC 'A.—Arrived the Trinidad, Watson, from Trinidad; Vittoria, Elder, and Helen, Caldwell, from Newfound land ; and Dumbarton Castle, from St. Petersburgh. HOLYHEAD, DEc. 21.—Arrived off port, the Betty, Muir, from St. John's, N. B. CORK, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Petersburgh, Mason, from Quebec ; and Angelica, Illantield, from Gibraltar. ABERDEEN, DEC. Yo.—Arrived off port, the Aurora, DUD- Dar, from Quebec. The Eliza, Cullen, from Algesiras and St. Übe's, t 6 Cork, was totally wrecked, near Penzance, on Wednesday ; crew saved. The Salus, from St. Petersburgh to Belfast, was on shore near the Clyde on Saturday, and bilged. The Three Friends, and the Perseverance, Swaney, from Stockton to London, got in contact on Tuesday night off Aldbo rough, the former sunk; crew saved; the latter, with damage, put into Yarmouth. The Betsey Heron, myth, put into Wivenhoe, with eight. feet water in her hold, loss of anchor and cables, and must discharge. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain since Wednesday have considerably in creased, and there is a large quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade is excessively dull to-day at Monday's prices. In other sorts of Grain there is scarcely any business doing. The Flour trade is extremely dull. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. 3,635 qrs 10,175 qrs. 5,870 2,779 English Irish F, reign Oats. Flour. 5,949 qrs. I I,oB4sacks. 11,537 - brls. SMITHFIELD MARKET In this day's market which exhibited throughout but a limited supply, the trade with each kind of meat was very dull, with Beef at a depression of full 2d. per stone; with Mutton and Veal at fully, Pork at barely, Monday's quotations. Mulch Cows went off slowly last week's quotations, an useful hort horns, with her small calf, producing with difficulty from IPI. to 211. PRICES PER STONE OF et LBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Large Lambs ....... 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 2 Prime small ditto... 0 0 0 0 Prime largo Oxen 3 8 4 0 Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 4 2 4 4 Prime small ditto... 5 0 5 6 Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 8 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Small Yorkers 4 8 5 2 Coarse_woolledditto 310 4 4 Suckling Calves 12s to 40:1. eai. h. SnitlidownWethers 4 6 410 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 18s.each. SUPPLY, AS TER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. 'Sheep rind Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 975 1,710 ICS 9O NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone , by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. Reef 2 4 3 R Veal Mutton 8 4 Pork SOUTHALL M ARK ET.—llec. 21 This day's supply was moderately good, and the assemblage of buyers was rather numerous. The trade was rather dull through out, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the oflals : Beef ~.,..w,.....,. 3s. Osi. to 4s. tid 4s. Id. to ss. 40. Mutton 4 0 5 0 I Pork -- 4 2 5 4 The foregoing quotations are Beef and Mutton '.2d. to 4ci. per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise stationary. A considerable part of the supply left unsold. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCX. A courier is said to have arrived to the French Government from St. Petersburgh, with despatches from the Emperor of Rus sia, complaining of the reception given in France to the Polish refugees. The letters from Toulon of the 14th December, state that Marshal Moliter has arrived there, and on the 11th instant there also arrived a Jew Arab merchant from Oran, sent by General Boyer, at the disposal of the Minister of War; this stranger, of which nothing positive has transpired, appears to be a person of distinction, and great respect is paid to him ; he is detained in the fort Lamarque, and lodges with the Governor. Accounts fzom Lyons to the 17th, state that on the morning of the 15th, every military precaution was taken to prevent there - ported disturbancewhich was to have taken place on that day ;ithe military authorities caused the troops in the garrison to be under arms in their respective quarters; the bridge and other places were also guarded, but it appears that every thing had passed off quietly. The Empress Maria Louisa has given notice to her subjects, that not wishing to load them with any new taxes, in order to assist the poor who may be attacked by the cholera, she has or dered by a decree of the Ist December that her toilet and grand Psyche, which are of solid gilt silver, enriched with precious stones, should be sold, and their produce converted into pieces of money for the poor. Owing to the troubles at Lyons, the troops which were to em bark on the 12th for Algiers 'had been put off; but it is decided that it is to take place on the Isth instant, in several ships of war, to the number of 5,000 men. NEUFCHATEL, _Dix. Hi.—OFFICIAL NOTICE.—" The country is threatened with an attack of a party of the rebels. Accordingly I declare the town to be in a state of siege ; this declaration shall be communicated to the Council of State." The above notice has caused great alarm to the inhabitants. A French gentleman who has arrived at Bordeaux, from Val paraiso, in the ship Constitution, states that General Cruz has suc ceeded in establishing good order, and formed a constitutional army. The Duke of Ragusa left Munich on the kh of December to return to Vienna. . THE FUNDS. Great suspicion is now entertained on the future poli tical conduct of the Emperor of Russia, in regard to the affairs of Holland, should the documents prove true which are inserted in a French Paper of a note transmitted to M. Nessel rode by the Dutch Minister, which is an appeal to the feelings of the Emperor of Russia, wherein the king of Holland states that, without respect to his rights as a Sovereign, guaranteed by the most solemn treaties, it had been thought proper to place and recognise another Sovereign in the revolted parts of his domi nions. This appeal of the Dutch King, it is said, produced on the Imperial Cabinet a great impression, and after a Council had been held the Emperor of Russia despatched couriers to the va rious Courts of Europe announcing his determination not to acknowledge Prince Leopold King of Belgium until after the free renunciation of that country by King William. These documents, if true, confirm the accounts respecting the great delay on the part of the Dutch Cabinet, but our City specu lators do not give much credit to their being authentic, and Consols, which left off yesterday at 8-1!, for the Account, opened this morning rather heavy at S 4, sellers, but the estafette letters bringing a further improvement on the French Rentes ti9fl .5c., has given a spirit to our market, and Consols may be quoted at present at 845% for the Account. We do not as yet hear anything positive in regard to the Bel gian loan. In the Foreign Market little doing as yet. A Lisbon mail has arrived, sailed the 14th instant; alio a Malta mail, sailed 4th instant, and from Gibraltar the 13th. RALF-PAST ONE. The Baron and Baroness de Rothschild landed yesterday at Ramsgate from Calais, and arrived in town this morning, after having contracted, in junction with his brothers at Paris, for a Belgian loan of two millions of bonds. It was generally ex pected that the above loan would have been for four millions; the sum being so little, and the numerous applications for a slice, it is expected that it will be swallowed up in a few days ; and the great city capitalist will receive a good premium for his toils to Calais ; certainly it cannot be in better hands. We also tin. derstand that in about one month King Leopold will give his hand to the fair daughter of the King of France. This powerful alliance will no doubt bring the King of Holland to a speedy de cision, and comply with the 24 articles of the treaty. We have received the Temps of Wednesday, from which we copy the following : " The Journals of Amsterdam confirm the refusal of the Emperor of Russia to adhere to the treaty of the Belgians until it is ratified by the King of Holland, but we must repeat that there will be no war. Russia, in case of a coalition, cannot send one hundred thousand men out of her frontiers, and the reserve of the Prussian finances are drained ; Austria cannot make any more continental loans ; therefore it is impossible that a war will take place." All is quiet at Paris. BERLIN, DEC. 12.—Our political horizon is again covered with clouds, since we have received the news that the Emperor of Russia will not ratify the resolutions of the Conference at London, and we know for certain that the Cabinet of St Peters burgh has a great animosity towards that of France.—Courier Francais. Since these five or six days past the Spanish Ambassador has visited every day for an hour or two the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and extraordinary couriers are frequently despatched to Madrid. On the 15th three couriers lett fur Spain. It appears that the affairs of Portugal are the cause of these frequent despatches. Consols continue to maintain their price. They have been fluctuating from tifiTi 84 to S 4 for the Account. At present they may be quoted at 8146. 'Die great City capitalist having succeeded in contracting for the Belgian loan of two millions of bonds, has given some life to the market. Don Pedro's loan appears, like the snuff of a candle ; to be gradually dying away, THREE 0 CLOCK. Consols for Account, 844. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols . . Ditto for Account 841 Greek, 1825 — Brazilian Bonds.. Mexican, 1825 — Buenos Ayres.... Chi Han Ditto .... Columbian, 1824 Peruvian ll Russian ...... ... Spanish l4 SUN OFFICE, Quarter Past Seven We had not received the Gazette wizen we were obliged to go to Press. The reason assigned for the delay at the Ga zette Office is tile immense and unusual pressure of Dividend Notices in consequence of the New Bankruptcy Court, which comes into ope ration on the 11th of January. NATURAL ENOUGII.—•LOrd LONDON DERRY declared that he would blow out the brains of any one who molested him ; his Lordship probably conceiving as he had done so long without, that brains could be quite ay eisily dispensed with by otbers.—Fistaro in London. VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) WILLIAMS v. PARKINSON. Mr. COOPER wished to mention this case to the Cuurt (which, it will be recollected, was reported yesterday) at the re quest of the Warden of the Fleet. The Court would recollect that it had been stated by him (Mr. C.) in Court, and it had also been stated elsewhere, that the Warden had refused to obey the writ of habeas issued by the Court. The Warden had now furnished him with a statement, upon reading which he was bound to say that it was clear that there had beets no intention whatever on the part of the Warden to disobey the orders of the Court, and that he (Mr. C.) was under a mistake in stating so. His HONOUR wished to see the statement, after reading which his Honour observed, that there was no imputation what ever on Mr. Brown, the Warden, for what he had done, and in fact that there was nothing in it. The following is the statement :—That the habeas corpus was brought to the Warden's Office late in the day on Wednesday last, to which a long return was required. The Warden complained of the shortness of the notice, the prisoner being ordered to be brought up the next morning, and stated by the Statute 48 hours was given to make the return, whereas, now he would have to employ a clerk to make it ; that when it was transcribed it would cover upwards of a skin of parchment, the prisoner being detained on other suits, by which an extra expellee would be incurred, but that no re fusal whatever was made by the Warden to obey the writ. The solicitor for the prisoner then took the writ away with him, and said he should go to the Six Clerks' Office about it, and the Warden supposing the writ would be brought back again in the evening gave directions to the officer to inform the prisoner to prepare herself to go up to the Court next morning, after which the tipstaff came and informed him that the writ was not brought back, which was the only reason that the prisoner was not brought up. With regard to the fees taken upon writs of habeas corpus, they were the same now as had been taken for the last fifty years, and which by a late Act of Parliament had to be accounted for to the Treasury. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY,) His Honour the MASTER of the ROLLS proceeded with petitions today, but nothing of any public importance had come before this Court previous to our reporter's leaving. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) THE KING v. JONES. Mr. MAULE opened the case. Sir JAMES SCARLETT said, this was an indictment pre ferred by Mr. Archibald Fleming against the defendant, Mr. James Lovett Jones, for wilful and corrupt perjury. The cir. cumstances under which the perjury was charged to have been committed were these :—The present prosecutor, Mr. Fleming, and the defendant's father, were the joint proprietors and di rectors of a certain mining speculation, called the St. Agnes Consolidated Mines, and Colonel Campbell became a pur. chaser of 100 shares, at the rate of 50/. per share. Colone; Campbell becoming dissatisfied with his purchase, brought an action to recover his purchase money back from Messrs- Fleming and Jones. That action was tried in this Court in February last, and Colonel Campbell succeeded in obtaining a verdict. The present defendant was a witness upon that oc casion, and it was for alleged false testimony to the prejudice of Mr. Fleming that the present indictment was preferred. Mr. Cherer, a short-hand writer, read his notes of the evi. dencc given by the defendant on the trial in February. Mr. Fleming, the prosecutor, was called, to prove that the defendant had sworn falsely respecting a book alleged to have been the treasurer's book of the Company. The prosecutor stated, that in September, 18.24, he went into Cornwall, where he found Mr. Jones, the present defendant's father, and he re. mained there until the following February. Jones had been superintending the working of the mines, and left Cornwall is consequence of a dispute the prosecutor had with him. The prosecutor's counting-house was in St. Michael's-court, Cornhill, He was treasurer to the Company, and he swore that the book alleged to be the treasurer's book was not kept by him, no: had he ever had it in his possession. In September, 1536, then was a trial at Bodmin, in which the prosecutor was defendant, and then the book was produced by James Lovett Jones tin present defendant ; the next time he saw it was at the trial last February in this Court. Cross-examined by Mr. POLLOCK—The first page of tin book was in the writing of the defendant, and some parts of it in that of a person named Galliard, who was clerk te him, the prosecutor, and clerk also to Messrs. Wilkin son. He could not swear the book now produced was tin same that was produced on the two trials, but he believed it was ; he never before noticed the words " The St. Agnes Con solidated Mines" on the back of it. The prosecutor was exa mined at great length, relative to his connexion with mining; speculations, when it appeared that he had been either the projector or director of a great many mining com panies. In April, 18'24, the first meeting took place to form the " St. Agnes Consolidated Mining Company," at which the only persons present were himself as direc. for and treasurer, and Mr, Jones, as director; at that meeting, Mr. Archibald Wilkinson was elected secretary. No money was then subscribed, but Mr. Jones said he had sold some shares. The next meeting was on the I:'th July, the very day Colonel Campbell bought the 100 shares, and the Colonel was made a director. At that meeting the only persons present were Mr. Jones, Mr. A. Wilkinson, himself and his nephew. The prosecutor then received from Jones, Colonel Campbell's cheque for the amount, viz. 5000/., which he on the same day sent to the Co lonel's bankers and got the cash ; he then sent the cash to his own private bankers. The " Company" had then no banker, and the reason why he got the cheque cashed so soon was, that he was desirous to ascertain as earl• as possible if it would be honoured. He, the prosecutor, had bought from 400 to aso shares of the " East Pink Mine," and consolidated them with the shares of the " St. Agnes Consolidated Mine ;" the shares of the former he bought up, at from Si. to Si. each. Colonel Campbell paid 501. each. (The cross-examination was proceeding when our reporter left.) COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) MORNING ADVERTISER.-GARTH v. ANDERSON. Mr. Serjeant WILDE opened the case to the Jury, which was an action for libel, brought by the well-known Captain Garth against Mr. Anderson, Editor of the Morning Adrertiger, published in that Paper of the 16th of June last, which was ns follows : " FRACAS IN THE KING'S BENCH. " A gentleman named Deacon, who has at present the misfortune to be an inmate of the King's Bench, was visited daily by his wife, who generally spent the whole day with her husband. The lady was one day surprised at the receipt of an amorous epistle, which was left at her resi dence by the post, begging an assignation, it was signed X. Y. Z , and requesting an answer to be addressed accordingly, to be kit till called for at the post-office, within the walls of the prison. The lady very discreetly brought the letter to her husband, who took the advice of his friends as to the best means to be adopted, to trace out the gallant writer. The plan determined upon Iproved successful ; there was no notice taken of the affair pub icly, but the lady was instructed to write an answer, and di rect ft as reque-ted. The answer was punctually called for, and by the system of espionage which had been set on foot for the purpose, it was readily discovered that the messenger was employed by Captain Garth. Mr. Deacon was then ad. wised to seek reparation by an action at law, but he preferred a more summary course. On Friday last he pro vided himself with a small pocket-whip, used by sports men for their dogs, called a flogger. This he placed in the crown of his hat, along with the love-epistle, and he accosted Captain Garth on the racket.ground at a time when it was thronged by persons. lie demanded whether the letter was in his hand-writing. The Captain, seeing the letter in the hus band's possession, acknowledged to being the writer, and Mr. Deacon instantly knocked him down with a blow of the fist, and whilst he lay before him, and before he could recover himself, began to exercise the use of the flogger, not in the fashionable style, that the Captain might imagine himself horse whipped, but in good earnest—he cut at him so heartily to con vince him that he was really being whipped. The bystanders timely interfered, and rescued the Captain by removing him be yond the reach of the infuriated husband. The affair was appealed to the Marshal, but whether on the part of the Captain seeking redress, or otherwise, did not appear. The Marshal not being empowered to interfere to take into consideration the provocation, but merely the breach of prison discipline that had been committed by Mr. Deacon, ordered him one month's close confinement in the strong room, where he now remains. A petition, numerously signed by the prisoners, has been forwarded to the Marshal, soliciting his liberation, but no answer has yet been returned." The Learned Serjeant observed that Captain Garth was a young man, and whatever might be his misfortunes in life lie was not to be exposed to prosecutions of this kind. Nothing could be more satisfactory to his mind than to hear his Learned Friend, the Attorney. General, indulge in vindicating the liberties of the press ; but he (Mr. Serjeant Wilde) was prepared to call witnesses to prove that so far from Captain Garth having acknowledged to having written the letter, he most positively denied it. The paragraph had been written for the express purpose of holding up to ridicule the character of the Captain, and he hoped the Jury would award such da mages against the writer in the Morning Advertiser as they thought he ought to pay. The Learned Serjeant then called Wm. P. Amber, who stated that he was an officer of the King's Bench prison. He recollected the day on which the whipping of Capt. Garth took place, being on the racket ground ; the Captain was walking there, when the defendant came up and requested to speak to him. The Captain replied certainly, —Mr. Deacon then took a letter out of his pocket, and asked him if he was the writer of it ? The Captain said, certainly not. A second letter was shewn and the same reply given,— Deacon then knocked him down with his fist, and the Captain retired to seek assistance or something, upon which Deacon fol lowed and struck him furiously with the whip, and then with his fis This witness underwent a cross-examination by the Attorney- General, but nothing particular was elicited. This being the case for the plaintiff, The ATTORNEY.GENERAL then addressed the Jury for the defendant, and observed that the Paper in question was well known to the public as a journal seldom heard complained of in a Court of Justice, and its correctness ever called into question. He would not trouble the Jury by calling any wit nesses to prove the truth of the paragraph complained of, because his case had been completely established by the witness Amber, He would not detain the Court and Jury by any lengthened ad dress, and ho hoped they would dismiss the case, and by so doing induce the plaintiff to keep impudence and innnoralit) within the walls of a prison. The Lord Chief Justice TINDAL summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages one farthing. On application being made to the Court to certify, hislLord •hip refused. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The attempt of the Dutch Government, in the note to the London Conference which wa published on Wednesday, to open negotiations which we had conceived for ever concluded, and to alter arrangements which had been declared definitive, suggests the propriety, or rather im poses the duty, of recapitulating a few facts in the history of these diplomatic transactions, and. of describing exactly the present state of the question, that the document alluded to may be the better understood. The Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers, in their thirteen or fourteen months' operations, ha\ e dug a kind of diplo matic labyrinth, to escape from which the care less observer may sometimes require a guiding thread. From the bombardment of Antwerp on the 27th of October, 1830, after a long series of alleged grievances, it will readily be allowed that a reunion of the Dutch and Belgic provinces under the same sceptre—and that sceptre held by a Nassau—became nearly impossible. The National Congress, on the Bth or 10th of the following month, confirmed the worst apprehen sions of the friends of peace and of Orange as cendancy, by decreeing the expulsion of the dy nasty, and the entire independence of the Belgic provinces. From that moment the separation might be considered complete, and the preten sions of the Nassau family superseded. The Duke of Wellington's Ministry was as decided on this point as that of Lord Grey, and th© Emperor of Austria enterta i ned no more doubt of its necessity than the King of the French. We say this without desiring to iTty compliment to the Belgians for their determit*v tion to separate themselves from a neighbouring people, who might have added to their power without abridging their liberties, and without either reproaching the Dutch Government for any harshness in driving them to rebellion, or for any weakness in not recovering thri , r allegi ance. We even allow the extreme probabilit:Y that the Belgians would never have rebelled' Ams all, or that their insurrection would have spee dily been put down, had they not been encou raged by the example of the French revolution ists, and conceived that they could fight safely from behind the shield of the French Govern ment. In this calculation the Belgic insurgents were right. France from the beginning declared both to them and to the great Powers that shy would consider any aggression directed by them igainst Belgium as an attack on herself; and as, from the state of disorganization in which the Dutch army was left by its expulsion from Brus sels, the Belgic volunteers were threatening even the Dutch frontier, the King of Holland was unable to do for himself what his allies in any other circumstances would with alacrity have executed for him. Nothing, therefore, remained but to allow the treaty of Vienna, so fat as Bel gium was concerned, to be deemed waste paper, and to concur in a separation already in fact ac complished. Here, then, the office of the great Powers begins. They had proclaimed the banns and effected a forced union between the parties in 1815. Out of that union obligations and interests had arisen, which it was necessary to adjust at their political divorce, but which the parties themselves, in their mutual rage and common feeling of injuries, could not be ex pected amicably to settle. Besides, whatever alteration in the balance of the international power the division of the Netherlands into two States might produce fell within the domain of diplomacy, from the concern, immediate or re mote, which the great Powers might feel in such a new distribution of force. But above all, every nation had an interest in preventing, by a friendly adjustment of differences, the continu ance of hostilities, which must sooner or later have involved them all. On these grounds, which involve no supposition of interference in any affairs of domestic government or internal ar rangement, the great Powers interfered between the belligerents, and demanded a suspension of arms (which took place on the 21st of No vember) with a view to negociations for a final settlement. The King of Holland had pre viously applied to the Allies for that assistance against his rebel subjects which he thought was in " the bond" which guaranteed his throne, but both parties were now heard, and an equal obli gation to keep the peace was imposed upon both. The separation was, in fact, considered as complete, though its terms remained to be settled. The Belgians, giddy with their newly acquired independence, and secure in the pro tection of France, proceeded, in the first in stance, as if they were the only nation in the world, owning no past obligations, and re fusing to pledge themselves to any future en gagements. They made their Constitution, de posed their former dynasty, settled the number of their provinces, incorporated with their new State every piece of ground that they could call Belgic, asserted their rights of navigation, and released themselves from their debt, without any reference to a higher tribunal than their own omnipotent National Congress. They sent, in deed, an envoy to the Conference of London, and received envoys from France and England at Brussels, but it was chiefly with a view to protest against all protocols and to resist all ar rangements. Meantime the King of Holland, who, being a legitimate Sovereign, had his Ple nipotentiaries received in London on better terms than the refractory Provisional Congress, found the benefit of his diplomatic prudence and experience in the Conference of time Great Powers. Accordingly, an arrangement was concluded, and consigned to two protocols be fore the end of January last, in which his Dutch Majesty was guaranteed in all the territory to which he had thought himself entitled, includ ing the Gland Duchy of Luxemburg, and was to receive front his rebel subjects the pay ment of 16-31 of the joint debt. The Belgic Congress protested against this order, ordered their volunteers to put on their smock-frocks, threatened the Dutch dikes, and threw down the gauntlet to Europe in arms. The protocols were peremptory ; but the peculiar situation of Belgium, which made this resistance safe, pre vented them from being executed by any other power than the French Government, which, having entered the Netherlands as an umpire, might remain as a conqueror. In the, midst of these protests the Belgians fell to King-making, hoping to have greater success in their negotia tions with their rivals, when they could present themselves at the doors of the Conference with a Sovereign at their head. In their first attempt in this way, they were unfortunate ; but-the in clination towards France, which they evinced in their election of the young Duke of Nemours, was afterwards useful to their pretensions, in showing those whose minds were perpetually alarmed at the idea of a French union that they could not be neglected or opposed with impu nity. While in a state of war with the Confer ence and the protocols—but feeling the ne cessity of some arrangement, which would end. their domestic agitations, and admit them