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Doors open at.-Half--past Six, and the Performances com pence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 4d. ; Erst and Second Cirelos 55., Second Price 2s. 6d . ; pi t 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENIG, DEC. Will he repeated the Comediatt N a of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove, Esq., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymond ; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Miss Bitterton,_ Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles MatheWs ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To be fisllowed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis it)uatorze, Mr. H. Ho 11; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster; the Duchess de Muntbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma e Celeste. ' To concludit with a Grand Comical Burlesque Bar letta, called PIQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince itSqv et, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn tbq Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles ; The Princess Emeralda, Madame Vestris. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFOR D-ST REET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 28, Will be produced a New Domestic Drama, entitled SHE'S NOT TO BLAME, in which Miss Amelia Mercer, from the Theatre Royal, York, will make her First Appearance in London. After * which, THE WELSH RABBIT. The Principal Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Mr. Salter, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr. Oxberry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval, aid M. Deneze, who will make their first appearance in this country in the incidental ballet. Places and Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPThTI7 -- , . 28, Will be repeated the new EVENING Burletta, DEC entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Twon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Alaynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which, a New Farce, called YANKEE NOTES FOR ENGLISH CIRCULATION. Principal Characters by Mr. Rice (the celebrated representative of Negro Character), Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynard, Mesdames 11. P. Grat tan, H. Beverley. and Chaplin. To conclude with a New Christmas Pantomime, called THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD; or, HARLEQUIN AND Harlequin, Mr. F rampton ; Anti •Clown ( No body), M r ieland ; Clown, Mr. H. Beverly ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders Co umbine, Miss Bullio, Boxes,4s Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, comment.' at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Grandest,Christmas Entertainments ever offered to the Public—A lavishing outlay—All the First-rate Artistes_ Everything of the most costly description. THIS EVENING, DEC. 28, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled RICHARD SAVAGE, in which Mews. Hughes, Hicks, R. Honer , bliss Terrey, , .l. Webster, N &c., eville &c., will , smith, perf Mrs.o rßm. Howle r , M rs. H. Vining, After which, a New Grand Fairy Pantomime, with splendid Scenery, Dresses, Tricks, Mechanical Changes, and Appoint ments, to be called HARLEQUIN PUCK ; or, THE EN CHANTED STATUE OF THE CHRYSTAL FOUN TAIN. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey; Clown, Mr. C. Montgo ry; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; . Columbine, Miss M. R. Fairbrother. The effects will exceed everything hitherto att9ppted. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, front eleven to four. out this new plan, he has employed strata . gems to produce disturbance and insurrection in Spain; he has fomented civil war, and been the real author of the carnage at Barcelona. That is the summary of the article in the Morn ing Chronicle, and no man was ever accused of more deceit and of greater cowardice and wick edness. He is charged with deceiving Spain, and protracting there all the horrors of war; with deceiving England, and risking, but for the good sense of the people, a European war; with deceiving the Northern Powers, inasmuch as he wished to make them, unknowingly, the abettors of his designs on the young QUEEN ; and he is charged, while he sits in his easy chair, or lies in his down and silk-curtained bed, or paces his terrace under the security of his own guards— not braving the war, nor inflamed, by a long flat tered ambition, like BONAPARTE—With planning and promoting the worst of all crimes, sedition, without a just cause, and civil war amongst a distinct people. The world can supply no ex ample of more complicated treachery and greater poltroonery. In any other journal such remarks might be of trifling importance. They might be described as the tirade of some ill-informed, rabid demo crat, or as the outpourings of some furious, dis appointed pretender. But it is generally said that Lord PALMERSTON writes these articles for the Chronicle, or causes them to be written. They are, therefore, Lord PALMERSTON'S charges—who is perfectly well acquainted with all the secrets of those transactions—against Louis PHILIPPE. They are the picture of a statesman painted by a statesman. They make us acquainted with the motives of statesmen, and serve to explain the intemperance of the person over-reached, for which England has had to suffer, and the turpitude of the person over-reaching. They display to us the true character of the men the people are required almost to worship. Looking at the indescribable mass of misery, the extol.-- tion, the plunder, the coercion, the innumerable restraints and punishments the Louts PHILIPPES inflict on mankind in every age and country, we doubt whether a more important truth than this of statesmen being totally unworthy of obe dience, confidence, and trust—of their being some of the worst men in existence, were ever revealed or discovered. It is impossible to allow such charges to pass unnoticed into oblivion. The honour of the French nation is deeply involved in them. Will they tolerate being made the instruments, for no national object, of such treachery and cold blooded cruelty? The honour of human nature is involved in them. Shall moral, religious, righteous, God-fearing men continue to reve- rence such an incarnation of wickedness ? All reflecting and serious persons—all the French na tion —must call loudly, and repeatedly for the re futation of these charges; for,, if not refuted, they must, from their own love of good, from their respect for virtue, :cast off all reverence ... . . tbr such men. It is a minor matter, but it deserves to be noted, because it will interest par ties, that it will be impossible, as long as these charges are ascribed without contradiction to Lord PALMERSTON, and remain unrefuted by Loris PHILIPPE, that the former should ever hold an office in our Government while the latter is on the Throne of France. COVENT•GARDEN THEATRE COMPLETE SUFFRAGE CON FERENCE. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.—The Chartist Parliament, which is to relieve Sir Robert Peel and the rest of her Majesty's Ministers from the cares of Govern ment, commenced their sittings this morning in Bir mingham ; and certainly a more incongruous and ill assorted assembly has seldom met together to effect the regeneration of mankind—the very praiseworthy object which these pseudo legislators and philan thropists propose to themselves. The Council of the Conference, who took upon themselves the arrange ment of the preliminaries for the meeting, intended to hold the sittings of the body in the Town Hall ; but the Commissioners of Birmingham, to whom is entrusted the care of the building, refused to permit its appropriation to this use, and the managers of the exhibition were obliged to collect the " illustrious strangers" within a building in Newhall-street, lately occupied by the Mechanics' Institution, for displaying curiosities in natural history, of a somewhat different, but assuredly not of a stranger description. The Conference consists of about 280 representa tives from towns and villages in England, Wales, and Scotland, and the period of the meeting has been happily chosen, so as not to interfere in the slightest degree with the progress of the holiday amusements which belong to the season. The assemblage is made up of the two rival parties of Complete Suffragists and Chartists, who are now contending for supremacy ; the majority, however, consisting of mere nominees and tools of Feargus O'Connor, who, being the violent, is of course the stronger party, and who have been elected as delegates on the distinct understanding that they consent to no compromise with the " Complete Suf frage humbugs," as Mr. Sturge and his friends are termed by their opponents. The delegates began to muster about half-past nine, and shortly after te n o ' c l oc k , on the motion of the Rev. THOMAS SPENCER, of Bath, seconded by Mr. FRARGUS O'CONNOR, Joseph Sturge, Esq., was called to the chair, amidst very general cheering. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, detail ing the circumstances under which the Council had been compelled to arrange the meetings of the Con ference in the place in which they were then assem bled, the Commissioners of the town (a self-elected body) having refused them the use of the Town hall, from the alarm which they felt at the progress of their peaceful movement. As a proof, however, that this feeling was not participated in by the repre sentatives of the rate-payers, Mr. Sturge read a me morial which had been addressed to the Commission ers by forty-three members of the Town Council, praying that the Hall might be granted for the pre sent meetings, but their request- had also been re fused. He would detain them but a very short time with a few observations on the position of the Com plete Suffrage Union. Both himself and his friends had been frequently urged by the working classes to aid them in endeavouring to procure an equality of political ,rights, but they replied that the name of Chartism was so identified in the minds of nine-tenths of the middle classes with the : ideas of violence and bloodshed, that they could not join them while they continued to act under this title. For his own part, however, he believed that there was as large a num ber of peaceful men amongst the sincere and honest Chartists, as in any body of individuals in the king dom ; yet he regretted to say that the conduct and language of some professed friends to the People's Charter, had given too much occasion for such an opinion. He held it, however, to he the duty of all not to be deterred from the bold and uncom promising advocacy of just legislation, although they might condemn the means which some were too ready to use for its attainment. It was with these views and under the circumstances he had referred to, that the Complete Suffrage Union commenced its labours; and its main endeavours were intended, and had been directed towards breaking down the prejudices of the electors and the middle classes, in order that they might be induced to grant full justice to their unen franchised countrymen. This union had been ce mented together by a solemn covenant to pursue the great object which they had in view by just, peace ful, legal, and constitutional means, and only such.— (Cheers.) The success they had already met with gave good ground to hope that, by forbearance and argument, they should do much to remove the aliena tion which had been so lamentably fostered and in creased by the e ven t s o f the last few years. Having at the last Conference adopted all the six points which involved any question of prin ciple in what was called " The People's Charter," he hoped it would have removed at least all feeling of suspicion towards them from the minds of the true friends of the people, and he thought on a review of their proceedings they were entitled to claim credit for honesty of intention until the contrary was proved against them; but th ey were reso l ve d not to be parties toan of theirystep3whapteeaveefu whatever which principles, or t o go furtherhich involved th e slightest violation in offending the prejudices of those at whose hands they sought redress, than was called for by a firm adherence to the claim of full justice for their fellow men.—(Cheers.) Whilst men in power, professing Christianity, like Lord John Russell, could be justly accused, as he was, by Sir Robert Peel, of inviting one of their coun t ry t o di po u r s t t io h n e o b f ri t b h e e d c t o h m e m you uni n t g y m to en arm agai ns t ano th er —w engage by enlisting in a murderous crusade against the unoffending people of China, and whilst the lead ing political journals vied with each other in scurri lity and falsehood. he (Mr. Sturge) could not wonder that some in a different sphere were found to follow so bad an example.—(Hear, hear.) But such con duct was not Christian, and he wished emphatically to assure that assembly (and, he believed, he spoke the sentiments of every member of the Complete Suf frage Council), that they would never knowingly act in union with any who recommended or countenanced violence for the attainment of their objects. After some further observations in recommendation of peaceful agitation, and moderation in their language (which the Chairman doubtless felt to be necessary from the aspect o f th e pi e b a ld assembly before him), Mr. Sturge concluded by saying that he would do his best to act with strict impartiality in the discharge of his duty as Chairman, and whether they succeeded or failed in the object they sought to accomplish, he was persuaded the great principles they advocated must ultimately prevail, based as they were on the immutable foundation of truth and justice.—(Cheers.) Mr.MortGasT having been appointed Secretary, pro ceeded to read a list of the delegates whose qualifica tions had been sent in and found correct. There was a second list of delegates who had not conformed to the regulations prescribed by the Council of the Com plete Suffrage Convention ; but as the elections ap peared to have been carried bone fide, and that the errors were rather of a formal than an important na ture, the Council p ro p ose d th at these delegates also should he received as forming a part of the Confer ence. There was a third class who had not presented proper credentials, or whose returns had been com plained against, and the Council proposed that a Com mittee should be appointed to whom the claims of t these parties should be referred. A lengthened discussion ensued upon this proposi tion being put from the chair, several of the dele gates contending that all who presented themselves as the representatives of the various districts should be received and admitted to take a part in the proceed ings, while others argued that they ought to weigh narrowly the claims of all parties presenting them selves; and one delegate hinted that the presence at the meeting of one person who had not been duly elected at a public meeting would render all their proceedings illegal, and subject every one of them to prosecution. It was finally agreed that the _claims of all those persons whose elections were disputed should be referred to a Committee to be named by the Con ference. Mr. J. H. PARRY then moved the appointment of a Committee to investigate the claims of the delegates in list No. 3 (comprising the representatives of six towns` Several propositions were made as to the best mode of selecting the names of the Committee, and it was at length decided that any delegate present , and in thi s wa y 28 names were ni :;ght propose handedinto an ti o ie ther chairman. The Rev. P. BaEwszEß, a Scotch delegate, handed in a list of nine names which he had previously pre pared, and proposed that they (being all Complete- Suffrage men) should form the Committee. Mr. F. O'CoNNoR said, as party spirit was about to be displayed, he should feel it to be his duty to move a counter-list, and handed in the names of nine of his own party. A very noisy discussion ensue d, w hi c h l a sted till O'Connor withdrew thei r li sts, an d i t was agree d th at clock, when M r . B rews t er a nd M r . nearly four o' the names of the 28 delegates handed in should he taken indiscriminately, and those nine which had the 1, rgest number of votes, should be constituted the Coni'mittee. Th e :fleeting, which at times was extremely noisy then adjo urne d t o s i x o ' c l oc k i n th a e a v n e d ni d n i g soi.. 4 erlY , .r CORN TRADE I\ riIELAND.-A novel and hazardous speculation in the coal trade has been carrying on in Cork market for the last two months. An English gentleman, named Lyttleton, suddenly made his ap pearance at the Corn Exchange, and has been pur chasing large quantities of black feeding oats, without any regard as to quality. This he immediately ships on board a vessel for London, which he has previously chartered for the purpose, without putting it through the (process of kiln-drying! His speculations have, as yet, been most fortunate, one cargo which he pur chased having reached the Thames, from Cork, in the short space of three days. Should the corn heat during the voyage, while tho present wet weather continues, as it must inevitably be in some measure damp, whien shot from the bags into the hold of the vessel, the speculation would be ruinous.--Limerick Chronicle . HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 38 minutes after 10 I Evening 17 minute& ) it:: , 416-114(10.• .. - ' ett The Marh-lane Express, in common with other journals, blames public men for not ad hering to the law. That is unjust. Public men have maintained the law as long as they possi bly could, and at an expense of national misery which is now, and ever will be, a terrible re proach to them. The Whigs did not meddle with it till they were compelled, and the strong est condemnation of the Corn-law repealers pronounced by any statesman proceeded front the mouth of Lord MELBOURNE. Sir R. PEEL too, was reluctant to take the subject in hand, but he could not help himself; though his man ner of handling it would have been a disgrace even to that ingenious youth, Mr. GLADSTONE, had he been the author of the new sliding-scale. If he touch it again, as touch it lie must, parti cularly with the prospect of the price of wheat falling even lower than it was in 1835, it will not be of his own free will, but on compulsion. The people who expect that such a law, or any simi lar law can be maintained, are far more to blame than the statesman who opens his eyes to facts, yields to the pressure of circumstances, and abro gates a law of which he is at length convinced that it inflicts a grievous injury on the very per sons it was intended to benefit. It is real folly to ask and strive to preserve such a law, and real wisdom to r eso l ve —as it must be given'bip— to give it up instantly. Those who talk and write about encourage ment to agriculture, who discuss at interminable length the operation of manures, and yet never carry their ideas beyond the dunghill and the grim tide-waiter keeping out foreign corn, seem to us to have most mole-like views of the ques tion. The be s t manure i s not to b e f oun d in the farm-yard, but in the city. It is the increase of customers. The best encouragement for agri- . culture is not d u ty on corn, b ut the i ncrease o f the demand. The best system of drainage is the growth of towns, which carries away superfluous hands from the land, and supplies the means of carrying away superfluous moisture. If Sir R. PEEL wishes to have our fields manured, encou rage agriculture, and prevent the threatened fall of the price of agricultural produce below the level of 1835, he will, on the meeting of Parlia ment, abolish restrictions on trade, and allow the manufacturing- and commercial population to find employment and prosperity. A Morning Contemporary yesterday gave a sketch of the policy of Lours PHILIPPE, of which .this is the substance. Fearing for his throne in the years immediately succeeding the Revolution, that King assiduously courted the friendship of England, and was anxious to con clude with her some treaty to which the North ern Courts should not be parties. In 1834 the situation of Portugal and Spain supplied an op portunity to form such a treaty, and the Quad ruple Treaty was concluded. But Lours PHIL LIPPE never meant to execute that treaty, and promoted sedition and rebellion against the Go vernment, and promoted war and bloodshed in the land he had pledged himself to protect, by allowing Don CARLOS to make France the basis of operations against his trusting ally. Having this treaty ? he used it to bribe the Northern Powers to favour him, and pledged himself, if they would countenance him, that he w ou ld not keep his engagements with us. In defiance of his treaty, therefore, he sought to establish despotism in Spain, and overthrow his own ally. Defeated in this nefarious scheme, he re solved, cost what it might, to marry the young Queen of SPAIN to a BOURBON. In working LONDON : WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1842. A paragraph has gone round of the papers, sportively asserting that the Duke of BUCKING'. HAM has offered a reward for the discovery of any new argument in :favour of the Corn-law. Several arguments have, in consequence, been suggested, but it is not said whether they were regarded as novel, and, therefore, entitled to the reward. Though the monopolists may not have succeeded in that object, they have certainly pointed out a forcible, •if not a new, argument against the law. The Mark-lane Express has this passage, which must be full of terror for the landowners:— The demand which has been created by deficient harvests during the last four years has given a stimu lus to the growth of wheat upon the Continent; and if there should be an abundant harvest generally next year, we should not be surprised to see wheat at as low a price as in 1835. In this view we are confirmed by the Banker's Circular of the 16th inst. :—" The four or five consecutive years of large exports of grain from all parts of the continent ofEurope and all the shores of the Mediterranean and its connecting seas eastward to England, have so stimulated produc tion that corn is likely to be in excess beyond the power of consumption of the population of Europe for some years to come, and prices consequently low. There is, for example, a marsh in the neighbourhood of Leghorn, 30 miles in length, which a few years since grew scarcely a blade of corn—so unhealthy that the peasants were allowed to cultivate patches of it without paying any rent, now covered with the finest wheat possible." Now what has been the stimulus to that pro duction, not at home, but abroad ? Obviously the high price of wheat in England, which is not a natural price, the result of the increase of our population, and the deficiency of the home supply, but of the Corn-law. The sliding-scale was expressly intended to raise the price, and limit the foreigner's advantage ; but he has always been able, except last year, in consequence of the unexpectedly early and bounteous harvest, to introduce the bulk of his corn at a nominal, or very low duty. The foreigner, therefore, who grows his corn, as the Post continually assures us, at a very little cost, has continually obtained for it, when we wanted any, the high, artificial prices of England. Hence the landowners of Mecklenburgh—and we shall not soon forget seeing one of them, as he went across to Ham burgh, most complacently handling a purse heavy with English gold—Tuscany, the Crimea, and Poland, have in some years realised pro digious gains, which have stimulated cultivation in those countries. Now were there no Corn law, the price here would not rise at any time so much above the level of price on the Continent; the stimulus of our growing population would be first felt at home ; and till all that our own cultivators could supply had been consumed, none would be brought across the ocean. That the price of grain should rule somewhat higher here than on the Continent, from the density of our population, and its rapid increase, is natural ; but the great excess of price which tempts at times, and at times rewards, foreign cultivation, is the result of our enactments. But what are the elements of the law-made high price of England, or of what is it made up ? First an artificial value is given to land, and the farmer must promise, before he begins to culti vate, to pay an exorbitant rent for the use of it. He must pay more for all his seed-corn and the food of his animals. He must pay more in poor and county rates. He must pay more for wages —for the increased rent is paid on the food of his labourers ; and his increased expenses, in order to bring corn to market, caused by the law, constitute the elements of its high price in England. Thus the Corn-law subjects the Eng lish farmer to heavy charges, from which the foreigner is wholly exempt, who nevertheless gets as high a price for his wheat, when he can import it, in the English market as the English farmer. Hence the Corn-laws operate imme diately as a premium for foreigners to cultivate corn fbr our market. We know that their after consequences, in putting an end to trade, operate in the contrary sense; and abroad as well as at home, they carry with them all the curses of a great system of gambling, and now make men wild with hope, and anon make them mad with despair. Arne's opera of Artaxerxes was performed at this theatre last evening, for the purpose of giving Mrs. A. Shaw an opportunity of appearing in:a thoroughly English opera. Her Artaxerxes must have convinced the musical public that her claim to be considered the English prima donna, par excellence, rests not alone upon her proficiency in the modern Italian school of music, but upon her thorough knowledge of her art, a knowledge not confined to the compo sitions of any single school, for she has shown that she is as capable of appreciating and elaborating the beauties of Arne and the older composers as those of Rossini and the moderns. Her Artaxerxes is, with out comparison, the finest on the stage. She threw an energy and a dignity into the part to which we have hitherto been unaccustomed ; the words also were articulated with a distinctness of enun ciation which rendered every syllable distinctly audible ; while, at the same time, the intonation was rich, and the music given with the most perfect taste, feeling, and correctness. Until last evening we had no idea of the capabilities of the part of Ar taxerxes. The exquisite feeling and mellifluous rich ness of tone with which she gave the air "Fair Semira, lovely maid," was most deservedly applauded. The great triumph of the night, however, was the beautiful melody " In infancy our hopes and fears." Mrs. Alfred Shaw entered thoroughly into the ideas of the composer, and in this beautifully plaintive air exhibited a tenderness of feeling and a correctness of taste which have never been surpassed. There was no straining after effect, no endeavour to introduce ornaments, no attempt at showing off the powers of the singer at the expense of the music, but the tide of melody was suffered to flow on uninterruptedly clear, and rich, and full. The audience listened with enraptured silence until the conclusion of the air, and then there was one loud and enthusiastic call for its repetition. Mrs. Alfred Shaw has added immensely to her already high fame by her performance of Artaxerxes. She is not only the most mellifluous contralto, and the most accomplished singer, but also the most finished musician of the day. Miss Rainforth was the Mandane, and her's was a Mandane every way worthy of the Artaxerxes of Mrs. Alfred Shaw. We recollect seeing Miss Rainforth in this character some two years since, and cannot but congratulate her on the marked improvement which she exhibited last night. Her Mandane is now one of the best on the stage, and not only did she sing the music with taste, feeling, and correctness, but she acted the part admirably. In the celebrated bravura, " Monster away," her acting was of a very high order. The song of the part, "The soldier tired," was given with great pow 9r, chastened and controlled by exquisite taste and jcdgment. Let Miss Rainforth go on as she has begun, and she will achieve for herself a name and a fame equal to that of any compeers. Harrison, as Artabanes, was very unequal; he gave the air, " Behold on Lethe's dismal strand," excellently well ; the music was quite within his compass, ,and he did full justice to it; but in "Thy father! awav,l renounce the soft claim," he failed, manifestly from want of power. in Braham's quartett, " Mild as the moonbeams," he and Mr. Manvers, who was the Arbaces, rendered most efficient support to Mrs. Alfred Shaw and Miss Rainforth, but to the ladies alo n e is due the credit of having made the opera go off with the eclat with which it went off last night. The anise en scene was faultless. At the fall of the curtain Mrs. Alfred Shaw was loudly called for, and she made her appearance, leading on Miss Bainforth to shar e th e h onours. B ot h l a di es were g:eeted with that applause which their exertions had so richly etdhe before evening's the merited. I3unn's pleasant interl u d e o f M y Neighbour's Wif e followed, and Punch's glorious pa n t om i me con cluded irising entertainments. of theur curtain. The n. house was COU RT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUE SDAY.—The e Queen a n d P r i nce Al ben; enjoyed the i r usual early walk in the Home Park, this morning; afterwards his Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. George Edward Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing to-day. The Rev. Lord W. and Lady Russell will have the honour ofjoining the Royal dinner circle this even ing. Covers are laid for fifteen. The Royal dinner party is also expected to include Viscount and - 41s-4 countess Canning, Hon. Miss Lister, Hon. Miss Lid dell, Sir H. Wheatley, Captain Francis Seymour, Marquis . of Ormonde, Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell, - and the Equerries in Waiting on the Queen and the Prince. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. His Excellency the Turkish Ambas sador transacted business yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viscount Canning arrived in town yesterday morn ing from Windsor Castle. THE FRAUDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—The,Go vernment Police Gazette of yesterday contains the oiler of a reward of 101. for the discovery and appre hension of a person named William Burnby, against whom true bills of indictment were returned by the Grand Jury at the last sessions of the Central Cri minal Court, for divers perjuries committed by him on his examination before the Surveyor-General of her Majesty's Customs, touching the conduct of certain officers of the Custom-House, London, and others, against whom warrants have been issued. THANKSGIVING IN MASSACHUSETTS.—This day was a great day in Massachussetts. It is estimated that at least 200 marriages took place between sunrise and sunset. In a single town of Ware nine weddings came off.—New York Herald. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1842 WITH NINETEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY CEORGr: CRUIKSHANK, ALFRED CROWQUILL, AND LEECH. The JANUARY NUMBER, price Half-a-Crown, of BENT LEY'S MISCELLANY, Will contain •. THE ADVENTURES F MR. LEDBURY AND HIS FRIEND JACK JOHNSON. ALBERT SMITH. WITH AN By ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH. CHAPTER X.—Mr. Ledbury's Journey Home. CHAPTER XI.—A few particulars of Mr. Ledbury's family. CHAPTER XII.—Of the Grand Ball given by Mr. Led burv's friends to celebrate his return to his Native land. The Races at Celle (Life in Hanover), by Dudley Costello. This World of Ours, by W. G. J. Barker. George Child's Second Love; a Legend of Southwark, by Paul Pindar. The Wandering Jew; Leaves of Legendary Lore, by Dr. W. Cooke Taylor. Pleasures of a Trip in a Budgerow, by H. R. Addison. Song of the Morning Star. Christmas Eve; the Story of a Scull, by Henry Curling. A Lay i f Ancient Rome, by John Stewart. MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH SHEPHERD MUNDEN, COMEDIAN. BY HIS SON. With Original Anecdotes of Garrick, Shuter, Mrs. Siddons, George Frederick Cooke, &c., &c. THE GALANTI-SHOW ; or Laughter and Learning all the Year Round, by Jack Gossamer, P.P.P.S.S.E., Rail road Philosopher Extraordinary to the Million. With five Illustrations, by Alfred Crowquill. The Soft Man, by Alfred Crowquill, with Illustrations. The Sedar, by H. R. Addison. To Anna, by K. J. FIGURES FOR THE MILLION, by a Cypher. With ten Illustrations by Alfred Crowquill. THE GOLDEN LEGEND: THE LEGEND OF ST. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, ESQ. WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CR UIKSHANK. &c., &c., &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street. THE WEATHER. --SUN OFFICE, DEC. 28. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 49 : Noon, 38 BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND, W. to S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. • . Cbt Sun It is gratifying thus to find that the Porte has yielded to the suggestions of the other Powers, and adopted a plan which will in all probability lead to better government in Syria. The other intelligence in the papers is not of much interest. The excitement caused by the Barcelona affair was gradually abating, and the journals of Monday were chiefly occupied with discussions on the late ordonnance for the crea tion of a Privy Council. The Ministerial papers of course approve of the measure, while those of the Opposition object to it; some on the ground that it should have been a legislative measure, instead of being an act of the Royal will. The Constitutionnel takes this view of the measure, and observes, " That as the only question to be submitted to the Chamber is the financial provi sion necessary for carrying the ordonnance into execution, none of those ameliorations which might have been the result of a discussion on the details of the measure can now be introduced." The National, after denouncing the measure as immoral and illegal, gives the ordonnance pro mulgated by Louis XVIII. after the battle of Waterloo, constituting a Privy Council, and ob serves, " that the Government of the Restora tion endured but for fifteen years. Then came the Revolution of July, and with it. a Royal or donnance suppressing all Ministers of State. Now, again, on the 24th of December," adds the National, " we find the Privy Council reconsti tuted, which we consider the most audacious, as well as the most significant among the acts which most clearly demonstrate the progress of the counter-revolution. What the Revolution of July had destroyed is now restored, and at the same time the Government glorifies in the recol lection of that well-constituted period when, under the protection of foreign armies, the spiteful Government of the BOURBONS acted with unlimited audacity against the spirit of the Revolution, introduced anarchy and discord into our institutions, and placed the remuneration of intrigue, and the salary of treason, to the charge of a ruined country." " One of the first acts of the Revolution of July," observes the Commerce, " was the sup pression of the Ministers of State. A Royal Or donnance, published this,morning, re-establishes them. We have again followed in the track of the pure old monarchy. This is a material act of re-action against one of the consequences of the Revolution of 1830, and a formal violation of the Charter. By degrees, as the fortifications are rising above ground, and the military regimen is being organised in Paris, the extra-represen tative Government is developing itself. An institution, abolished in 1830, as contrary to the principles of a Parliamentary Government (the Privy Council) has been re-established." The Gazette de France, of Sunday, says : " The ordonnance which creates Ministers of State, is another means of influence created for Government over Parliament. It is a mode of dominating the representative principle. Sine cures are offered to political opponents, and statesmen are created Ministers for life, to blunt their eagerness for being Cabinet Ministers, &c." A report having been in circulation at Paris that a new creation of Peers was about to take place, the Presse states that the rumour is with out any real grounds, and even that the Cabinet has postponed the four or five promotions it had intended to make previously to the meeting of the Chambers. The latest accounts from Algiers are to the 15th of December, contained in a letter quoted in the Sentinelle, of Toulon, to the following effect : " On the 2d inst. the three columns of Algiers, which had been acting separately, united on the Oued Kechab, at the foot of the Ouanseris. On the pre ceding day the rear-guard of the right column was engaged for several hours with 300 or 400 Kabyles of the tribe of Beni Ourac. The affair, however, was riot a serious one, and we had only two men slightly ' wounded. The centre Column, under Colonel Forte, received no submissions, but the left column, com manded by General Changarnier, received those of all the tribes it passed through, and imposed upon them heavy contributions of barley and wheat ; so that the General was able to supply the right column, com manded by the Governor-General, with 200 sacks of barley. A razzia made by part of General Changar nier's troops in the night of the 2d produced nearly 1,000 head of cattle." A letter from Oran, Dec. 10, says :—" The troops of the Mascara division are in the field, and General Lamoriciere is to proceed with his troops to join the expedition directed by the Governor-General against the tribes of the Ouanserres. The Mostaganem brigade, under the orders of General Gentil, is out since the end of November. It is designed to sup port the Mascara division." BOURSE—PARIS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 26. First Highest I.Amest Last Pri Pe r Price. Freneh Five per Cents. 119 ce. ric 10... 119 30... 11 P ice. 9 10... 119 25 Four per Cents. 101 60... 101 60... 191 60... 101 60 Threes . 78 90... 78 90... 78 85.. 78 90 Bank of France 3320 ...3350 ...3320 ...3345 Laffitte Bank 5,000f...5082 50...5082 50...5082 50 ..5082 50 Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ... 810 1841 lOBO ...1080 ...1080 —lOBO Belgian Fives 1840 lo4i ... 104 ... 104* ... 104* Threes 73 .•• 73 73 73 Spanish Active. . 24 ... 24 ... 23i ... 231 Passive Portuguese Fives 32i ... 324 32i Neapolitan Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, L.B l2O ... 120 ... 117 50... 12 0 R.B 287 50... 290 .•• 287 50... 290 Rouen Orleans. 627 50... 630 ... 627 50... 630 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 203 75... 203 STATE OF TRADE. FROM A CORRESPONDENT) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. —W e have had to-day, contrary to the expectations of many, a very excellent demand for cloth, accompanied too with a general, though not a large, advance on mos t ties and desc r ipti ons of goods. This increase in the demand, and that before many have made an end of stock-taking, is a most favourable symptom ; indeed, it may be taken as an almost infallible sign that more prosperous times are at hand. Twist is in fair demand, and the prices are not higher; this arises from the fact that few of our ex port merchants have commenced their spring pur chases. Tile market is buoyant. TuE ARMIES OF GERMANY. —The Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 21st instant, mentions a pl an as h av i ng been in a g it a ti on f or some time for an annua l meeting of officers from all the armies belonging- to the Ger - man Confederation. The object of thi s annua l 're union is, to afford opportunities for personal acqualint : ante to officers who, in case of a war, would., it is hoped, be called on to fi g ht s i de by side.. The laudable zeal which at pr esen t prevails in Q-e rmny for everything that may tend t o promote f:nat union and nationality which alone ca n make t'ne Germans strong as a people, makes it extremely probable that the proposed plan will be warmly take n up, and will meet with much favour among civi'Lians as well as among military men. It is propo.,,ed that the first meeting should take place at Leipzie, near which city the great battle was fought, the " Volkerschlacht," as it is still called there, the happy issue of which rescued Germany from the degrading thraldom to which it had been subjected by the victories of Napoleon. AFFAIR OF HONOUR IN CLIFDEN.--A hostile meet ing took place at Clifden, on Wednesday last, between Henry Ainsworth Hildebrand, Esq., of Boffin, and Patrick Bowes Daly, Esq., brother of the Rev. Doctor Daly of Galway. The parties, attended by their friends, Wm. Conneys, Esq., of Augbris, for the former, and Francis Browne, Esq., for the latter, met in a field near Clifden Castle. After an exchange of shots, Mr. Hildebrand apologised in suitable terms, and they left the ground perfectly reconciled. The quarrel arose out of a discussion on National Educa tion, which took place at a private party g i ven at the house of Dr. M organ , an d at which both gentlemen were guests.— Tuam Herald. LYNN.—The Charity Trustees of thi s t own have commenced distributing a charity called " C rane ' s Charity," which the poor of this town participate in once in five years ; on a former distrib u ti on of the charity, party spirit and political interest ran so hi g h, that voters (although not requiring it) h a d it g i ven to their wives, in order to disqualify them from voting, but "such things have ceased."—CambridgeAdvertiser, - - VL.N . HALLA Barcelona, which has thus never been entered byESPARTERO. It is said that Girona, Figueras, Olot, Valencia, and other towns, are to be dis armed like Barcelona. MADRID BOURSE, Or THE 19TH.—Five per Cents., 27k, at 60 days. No transactions for cash. The French Government has received the fol lowing telegraphic dispatch, announcing the pa cific settlement of the Syrian question " VIENNA, DEC. 21. " We have received accounts that the Porte has consented to give a Christian chief to the Maronites, and to the Druses a chief of their own nation." "' et itte I. l *l ition SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch _ A great variety of schemes has been brought forward by the clergy for awakening a stronger sense of religious duties among the people, and a more lively attachment to the services of the Established Church, bnt Protestants cannot fail to regret that all the proposed innovations are copied from the practice and discipline of the Catholic Church. While that Church remains fixed in its tenets, and claims the character of infallibility, the Protestant Epis copal Church is receding from its first principles, and gradually approaching, with the sanction, at all events with the connivance, of the Bishops, towards " Mother" Church. The Puseyites, and they are not few in number, approve of auri cular confession and absolution. Some of them have adopted the genuflexions and other outward signs made by Catholics, burning lights on the altar, and imitating ceremonies in Divine worship which the Reformed Church had hitherto regarded as the peculiar abominations olAntichrist. These ceremonies, it is vainly supposed, will attract the multitude, and excite that fervouranddevotion so conspicuous among Catholic worshippers. An other notable device has just been discovered, and we regret to find that a prelate of so much learning and good sense as the Bishop of NOR- , wicu should have sanctioned it, as a means of gathering together the strayed flock. Pews now are found to be highly injurious to religious worship, and orders have been issued in several churches for their demolition, and substituting in their place chairs and stools on which the rich and the poor, the high and the low, may take their seats promiscuously as in the olden times. The Bishops are great Conservatives, they dis like reform, and least of all reform in that esta blishment where it is most wanted, and it is therefore strange that they should encourage an innovation which might make things even worse than they are. if the poor come in this way to church they may drive away the rich. Do these Reformers imagine for a moment that the haughty squire, with his proud dame and delicate daughters, will con tinue to frequent a church where they must come in contact with farm-labourers, low mechanics, and paupers? The habits of the people, and the custom of the times, are alike opposed to such amalgamation; and the result will be that the higher classes will leave in a body, and either desert the Church altogether, or erect chapels of their own, where they can enjoy their snug pews, associate with persons of their own rank, and perform their devotional exercises without any of those interruptions or annoyances which they would find among a mixed multitude. In either case the parish church would be more deserted than ever. The poor not unfrequently attend church for the purpose of seeing their richer neighbours; and the ex ample of the higher classes is as certainly fol lowed by those beneath them as the effect follows the cause. This is not the way to en courage religious worship ; and a very different system must be adopted before the " poor man's" Church becomes an object of general attraction. There are ample funds set apart for ecclesiastical purposes, to build more churches than are wanted. Let these funds, therefore, be properly distri buted, let ample accommodation be provided for the poor without money and without price, but above all let the clergyman —as is done in Ca. tholic countries, mix more frequently with his flock, consoling them in their distresses by his exhortations and his prayers, and bright ening their future prospects at the hour of death. The cause of all the present apathy and coldness towards the Establishment lies in the system. Our clergy, at least the greater portion of them, have no community of feeling with their flocks. They are educated among the nobles and the wealthiest classes of the land. They assume the habits, the an tipathies, and too often the pride, of the rich. They look, consequently, to wealth and preferment, and regard the moral and religious education of the people as objects only of secondary consideration. A thorough reform of the whole system of ecclesiastical education and Church government might increase the power and usefulness of the Church ; but to imagine that this great work is to be accom plished by the demolition of pews, the tinkling of bells, and bowings at the altar, is one of the wildest of visionary schemes. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 19th instant. A general belief prevailed that the Cortes would be speedily dissolved, and that a decree for the dissolution had been forwarded to Catalonia, for the signature of the REGENT. This event is exceedingly probable, as that body had evinced great opposition to the present Go vernment, and hopes are entertained, that since the revolt at Barcelona, the feeling throughout the country is favourable to the REGENT. The following account from Seville, dated December 15, appears in the Patriota : In the morning of yesterday an extraordinary courier arrived, with orders for the disbandment of the battalions Nos. 1 and 3 of the National Guard of this place. This measure took place immediately in the greatest order. The disarming commenced yes terday, and will be terminated this day. It is gene rally thought here that the remaining battalions will be re-organised. This measure would give great satisfaction to the public, as the National Guards of Seville, are in a state of disorganisation and disorder which cannot any longer be tolerated. The judicial investigation into Ithe circumstances of the late dis turbance is proceeding actively, and it is asserted that warrants have been issued for the arrest of several persons. There is at this moment the greatest tran quillity, and nothing indicates a probability that it will be again disturbed. Three companies of regular troops arrived yesterday, and others are expected. The Constitacional of Barcelona pilblislies the following order of the day : " Army of Catalonia. —The Generals and Officers named in the following list (the list contains nine teen names) are comprised in Article 1 of the procla mation of the sth inst. Consequently, the General in -Chief orders the publication of their names in the general order of the day, that all persons may be well apprised, that if they are acquainted with the place of asylum of either ofthese Generals or Officers, and do not reveal it to the authorities, they will incur the penalty of death, decreed by Art. 4 of the same proclamation.' The REGENT left Sarria on the 22d for SUM ARY OF NEWS AND 431gbItt eptlitolt. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. A telegraphic dispatch has been received at Paris from Vienna announcing that the Porte had consented to the appointment of a Christian Governor for the Maronite or Christian population of Syria, and a Druse Governor for the Druses. On Saturday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Due Decazes, M. Dupin, Procureur-General at the Court of Cassation, the Comte D'llaussonville, Baron Thenard, and Ge neral Dariule. " It was on Saturday given out as certain," says the Constitutionnel, " that the session would be opened without any speech from the Throne; but that the Ministry, in order to bring on a political discussion, will immediately present the Bill for the grant of secret service money. On the other hand, it was asserted that this point is not yet positively decided upon, but is to be finally determined at a Council to be held on Jan. 4." Private letters from Paris of Monday announce that the King of Sardinia had conferred on M. de Lesseps, the French Consul, and M. Gatier, com manding the French naval station off Barcelona, the Cross of St. Maurice, for their exertions on behalf of Sardinian subjects during the bombardment. The celebrated Vidocq, formerly chief of the secre t police, will in a f ew d ays be brought to trial on several charges —one for having assisted a fraudulent bank rupt in secreting the property of his creditors, and again for having been connected with the fraud com mitted by Madame Benard, the housekeeper of Count Demidoff. The Chamber of Commerce of Havre met on the 23d to hear the Report of the Committee on the Sug ar question. After the document had been discussed , a letter to the Minister was drawn up, in which the Chamber strongly recommen d s the entire suppres sion of the home-made manufacture on paying an In demnity. The Moniteu r p u bli s h es a return of the impor ts of France during the month of November last, from; which it will be seen that, notwithstanding the reeee ` elevation in th e tariff duties, the introduction of fo reign threads into France was still very considerab le. The quantity imported in that month amounted to 659,432 kilogrammes ; that of linens to 236,5 55 ; coals to 130,417,685, &c. Espartero left Sarria on the 22d for Madrid, with.. out having entered Barcelona. The _Espectador informs us that the Supreme Tri bunal of War, which had been ordered to investigate the charge of brutality and ill-treatment brought by M. Lefebvre against Zurbano, is about to g i ve in its report, and that it is generally believed to be favour able to the General. The belief in the dissolution of the Cortes was very current in Madrid. The Patriots announces that the Duchess of Vic tory's soiree, on the 18th was numerously attended, and nearly all the foreign diplomatists in Madrid were present. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times, after pointing out a variety of absurd anomalies in our Ecclesiastical Courts, adds :—" N or is it easier to comprehend the principle which has 4e fined the limits of that peculiarly ecclesiastical juris diction which is exercised pro salute anima, not f°r the redress of wrong, but for the reformation of the offender. Defamation, incontinence, swe aring, an d one or two oth er vices, seem to be separated off from the great mass of human delinquency, and consigned to the care of the spiritual authority, and unreasonably as the 201. note from the Leicester shire shire freehold, as if the robber or murderer were less in need of emendation, or his practices less inconsis tentse with ecclesiastical morality, than slander or look living. That the Christian Church should undertake, as in a certain sense, and by certain means, it does, to as arbi▪ trarily_ contain all Christian men, or at least its own mem bers, within the limits of the Christian law, is no 11% than its necessary duty ; the question being with what weapons she is commissioned to p( oform her task--persuasion, e x h or t a ti on, menace , eccle siastical censure, deprivation of civil Paw. lege, fine and impri s o nmen t, or fi re an d s wot but that th e C our t s o f t h e Church she'''. claim a jurisdiction over, and should not ex" tend that jurisdiction beyond, certain elegant ei:ti?cts of vice, of which no separate account can be give n except that they look a little like the leavings ,of nicipal law, is a fact somewhat startling to ti'le un derstanding of a plain man. Nor is the clams ren dered more intelligible by recollecting that the ultnno ratio of the Ecclesiastical, as of the Civil Courts, 19 its jurisdiction temporal pe na lty o f i m p r i sonmen t, an d t h a t jurisdiction does not in this, any more than in the preceding cases, confine itself within the limits o f the English ecclesiastical establishment. How far the practical inconvenience of all these anomalies is mixed by fictions, li m it a ti ons, an d except i ons—and w h at will be &Meted in its peculiar department by the late w ell judged Statute of Wills—it is not to our present pur pose pose to examine. W e w i s h on l y to po i nt attention to the nature of th ese anoma li es as a preparation r probing more c l ose l y th e nature of th i s con fusion. The Herald observes, in an a r ti c le on the qu estion of the Su gar Duties There is, however , no ap prehension i n th e W est I ndies that the presen t Mi ters, in proposing a reduction of the duty on fc reign sugar, will bring forward so monstrous and on.e-sided a project as th a t o f t h e Whig Ad m inistrat , ..on, so, signally a n d r i g ht eous l y rejected by t h e Etouse of Commons. The colonists entertain the mc st con fident expectation that any reduction of duty on the foreign will be accompanied by a modification of the colonial tax. And all the protection theyt o ppear seek is su c h as w ill g i ve t h em the opportun i ty o f ulti mately demon s t ra ti ng th at f ree labour i f, i n t h e t r opics cheaper th an s l ave l a b our. That a prohibitory d u ty such as the p resen t i s i n di spensable fo r th i s purpo se, the present state of our sugar colonies f,lone disproves; for that duty has not, owing to particular circum stances, done aught to destroy the profit of the slave trade, whilst it has, in conjunction with the circurn stances referred t o , c h ec k e d t h e consumpt i on o f su gar in England and impoverished the Imperial exchequer. There can be but one objection to a ( iiminution of the duty on colonial sugar, and it is that the revenue may suffer therefrom ; but surely the duties on the colonial and foreign article may be so judici nisly prop or tioned that the p resen t amount of revenue may be maintained. without dimi n i s hi ng th e consumption of the sugar of British possessions at home ?" The Post, reverting to the question of free trade, says :—" W e are rem i n d ed b y a cor respondent that it was Mr. Alexander Baring, now Lord Ashburton , who present e d t o th e House ol: Coma ions, the petition of the merchants of Londo',l in favour of free trade , to which the Anti-Corn. law League' refers in its advertisements, as contalning imperishable prince" pies.' Our belief is that such maxims' as those re commended in the old London petition are very perish" able. 'W e believe that the most acute minds which, two and twenty years ago, acceded to their truth, are now convinced of tb eir unsoundness, and very reason ably so, because tlley have been taught by ex p er ience that these fre e trade maxims ought not to be rel i ed upon in the p o li cy o f a S tate whose interests are ci▪ r cumstanced as the interests of Great Britain undouht ly are. 13e-fond question the most acute-minded, as well as ti:VJ most eminent of all those who joined In the Lorelon petition, was Lord Ashburton. Have the free-tr aders still the advantage of his support ? The Govirnment to which the Noble Lord has done such ess , mtial service in the United States of America has done much since its accession to power to promote the . maxims of free-trade, and to give them great weight and currency in these islands. Does Lord Ashburton approve of all the proceedings of Govern' anent in that regard ? We believe that experien.ce has satisfied th e m i n d o f L or d A sh b urton, that the views expressed in the London petition of 1820 were to a very con s id era bl e extent fallacious, and to his praise be it said, he is not so bigoted to theories as to refuse to be t aug ht b y th e l essons o f exper i ence , nor so wanting in candour as to refrain from suppor . tos the modified views to which experience has g i v en rise. The Chronicle says :—" To Sir Robert Peel incie. be attributed the want of employment for labourers, of which we have such distressing accounts from nearly all the agricultural districts. We have not so mean an opinion of his understanding, as to suppose that he was the dupe of his own arguments in favour of the sliding scale, and we do no t, th ere f o re, thi▪ nk that we are chargeable with any wan t o f charity toward the Right Honourabl e B aronet, i n ass umi▪ ng that he took up the sliding scale merely as a means of driving his political opponents from power. But though we accuse the Premier of dishonesty in pro posing the sliding scale against his better judgment, we will not go so far as to impute to him that he anticipated all th e m i sc hi evous consequences w hich have flowed from it. He could not believe that his sliding scale would be a permanent settlement of the corn question ; but he might not be aware, that so long as the farmers entertain the belief that a change must take place, they cannot in prudence take leases, or enter on an y o f th ose i mprovements b y which employm en t may b e a ff or d e d to t h e mu l t i tu d e s of labo urers now idl e i n every par i sh. The farmers are now as hostile to the slidi ng; sca l e as th e manu f a cturers. They have found, f rom exper i ence, t h at i t a ff or d s them no protection, and th a t no ca l cu l a ti ons can be safely made under it. The lang u a ge o f a l mos t ev ery paper circulated in the agricultural districts is, away with the sliding scale, and let us have a permanent law." ONMY—TRADE--C 011111WER CZ. At the meeting of the proprietors of the Croydon. Railway yesterday, at the London Tavern, it was Fe, solved to discontinue the carrying trade, by which the Company had recently been losing 121. per week. This resolution is to come into effect on the 24th .of March next. Negotiations w ill b e ma d e meanwhile