The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-09 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS. A list of candidates is drawing up for the distribution of Crosses of the Order of Leopold among the Civic Guards of Brussels. GHENT, Jew. 6.—Some of the workmen of Ghent have to-day returned to their work in the manufactories of Messrs. Poelman, de Coek, and Bast de Hert. The others continue to bold out against the reduction of wages, and guards are still stationed at the above manufactories. A Flemish pamphlet, with a plan of an association, is circulated among the workmen of Ghent, and is in the hands of all the heads of manufactories. The object is to establish for the workmen of each manufactory, a fund for the relief of the sick, the disabled, and unetnployed, as well as for their widows and orphans. The town of Namur has just paid 'Cue 14,000 fs dnes to M. E. Coppeaux, being the sum adjudged to him by the tribunal of that town for the . damage kne to his property in the riots of 1831. Mr. J. Cookenl: addressed to the journals a protest in consequence rf, the publication of the list of persons who received knds from the late Government, in which his name inserted as having had large sums. Every body, says Mr. C., knows that the Government of the Nether lands became my partner, and also that the Government 'which proceeded from the revolution tnok the place of a partner, and to which lam bound by contract. It was not, therefore, the house of John Cockerell, but the partnership with the Government that received the funds. A Flemish Journal of Antwerp, of the 4th, entertained its readers with an account of an insurrection at Utrecht, and thence proceeded reports of troubles in various parts of Holland. It is now become the general subject of con versation, but little credit was attached to it. Nei ther the letters - nor the newspapers that have been received from Hr,lland say a word of such an event.— Brussels Papers, Jan. 8. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, DEC. 28.—Among the plenipotentiaries who Lave arrived here this week to attend the Congress, are Baron Ompteda, on the part of Hanover, Count Re ventlow, from Denmark, and M. de Minkwitz, from Saxony. The statue of Hofer, the Tell of the Tyrol, executed by Schaller, has been sent off to Innspruck,where it is to be erected. A commercial letter from Constantinople, via Bu charest, dated the 2d ult., sass that the Porte has at length consented to allow the Greek Ambassador, Zogra phos, to come to Constantinople in a Greek ship of war, and that his arrival was in consequence daily expected. TURICEY.-Selim Bey, the well known reneged° Selves, Las deserted with two of his brothers, and has put himself under the protection of the Sultan. Two other officers have done the same. The Commander-General of Ar tillery, Ali Bey, died lately in Syria, it is suspected by foul means. The Egyptian officers openly express their dissatisfaction. Affairs are no better in the naval forces. Owing to the increase of desertion a decree has been issued, that every officer in whose company a man is missing, must instantly supply another, and pay also a fine of 1,500 piastres. Wretchedness prevails among the people, and Mehemet Ali has been forced to give up his monopoly of silk and tobacco for the present. The Nile, too, does not rise this year, and we are threatened with the panic in 1834. COBLENTZ —The storm which visited us on the night, oaf the 31st of December did much damige to the shipping at anchor in the Moselle. The waves of the river rose three or four feet high. Two vessels were torn from the r anchorage and sunk, with their cargoes. The manufactory of Messrs. Rhodins, near Andernach, was burnt down on the same night ; the loss is estimated at twenty-five thousand dollars, but the property was in sured. Preparations were makirg at Darmstadt to receive the hereditary Prince and Princess, who were to make their entry on the 6th.—Allgenteine Zeitung, Jan. 3. MUNICH, Dre. 28.—His Excellency Baron Von Geise Minister for Foreign Affairs, will set out to-morrow to the Ministerial Congress at Vienna. He will be accom panied by Counsellor Von Fink, his Majesty's Chamber lain Count Von Waldkircb, and the Secretary M. Gesele. A despatch from the merchants of Kitzingen has ar rived here to day, to thank bis Majesty for concluding the new commercial treaty with several German States.— Frankfort Papers, Jan. 3. BRAZIL PAPERS. (From the Correio Official.) RIO DE JANEIRO, NOV. 14.—An official circular, from the Minister of\ Justice to the Justices of Peace of the several districts, states that the Regency has been informed that negroes have been landed in spite of the abolition of the scandalous traffic in slaves, which fret, if not known to the justices, shows a great degree of negligence in the performance of their duties ; the Chamber therefore orders that the strictest search shall be made for the said negroes so imported, and that the utmost rigour of the law shall be exercised towards the importers and those who harbour and keep the said negroes, and thus concur with the authors of a crime the punishment of which is called for by humanity and policy. The Correio, to Nov. 95, contains no political news of rn por tance. Within the last few days the waters of the Seine have penetrated into several parts of the catacombs, and more particularly those under the hotel of the Minister of War. On Saturday, however, the river began to fall.—Paris Paper. CROMWELL.—The person and disposition of this great man are well describtd in a letter written by Blaidstone, the steward of his household, about a year and a half after his master's decease. " His body was well compact and strong, his stature under nix feet, I believe, about two inches, his bead so shaped as you might see in it a storehouse and shop, both of a vast treasury of natural parts. The temper exceeding fiery, as I have known ; hut the flame of it kept down for the most part, or soon allayed with those moral endowments he had. He was naturally compassionate towards objects in distress, even to an effeminate measure, though God bad made him a heart wherein was left little for any fear but was due to God himself, of which there was a large proportion. A larger soul than his was, I think, has seldom dwelt in a house of clay. I do believe, if his life were impartially transmitted, and the unprejudiced world possessed with it, she would add him to her nine worthies, and make up the decemviri." GREAT LANDLORDS.—The arrival of the Duke of Devonshire at Paris reminds me of a story which is told of him, and which I have every reason to believe is literally correct. On one occasion, when riding out with his steward, be proceeded for some two or three miles through a well wooded and well cultivated range of country. On arriving at a break in the scenery, he pulled up his horse, and remarked to his steward bow fine an estate that was which he had just been contemplating, and how desirable it would be to possess it. " To whom does your Grace think it belongs?" was the reply of the steward. I really do not know; I was asking you." "To his grace the Duke of Devonshire," rejoined the steward, and there the conversation terminated. This is a specimen of what happens every day. On this estate, which the Duke of Devonshire had been contemplating, perhaps bitty families were employed in the cultivation, earning barely sufficient to keep body and soul together. But if this estate had been divided into small properties and bad been cultivated as it;should be by those who bad an interest in the land, why not less than one thousand families would have been fel and clothed in abundance, nay, even with profusion, and would have been joyous and happy.-- Letter of 0. P. Q• - - - THE HEDGEHOG.—Professor Buckland of the University of Oxford, " accidentally came to the knowledge of certain circumstances which led him to suspect that hedgehogs preyed, occasionally at least, on snakes. In order to be satisfied of the truth of his con• jecture, he placed the common -ringed snake (coluber natris) and a hedgehog in a box together. The latter bad been bred in an undomesticated state for some time in the Botanical Garden at Oxford, where there was no proba bility of its having been able to see snakes. At first the hedgehog, being rolled up, did not see the snake, when the Professor laid the former on the body of the letter, and in such a way as that the snake was in contract with that part of the ball where the head and tail met. As soon as the snake began to move the hedgehog started and, opening himself up, gave the snake a vigorous bite, and instantly resumed his rolled state. It speedily repeated the bite, and followed it up at the same interval as before with a third bite, by which the back of the snake was broken. The hedgehog then standing by the snake's side took up and passed through its jaws the whole body of the snake, cracking the bones audibly at every inch. This preparatory process being completed, the hedgehog com menced eating the serpent, beginning at the tip of the tail, and proceeding without interruption, though slowly, consumed it, just as one eats a radish, until about half the victim disappeared. The hedgehog could not go farther from mere repletion ; but it finished the rest of the serpent on the following evening."--Notes to Hender son's Cuvier. -eft; , _ • *AI 1111 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1834. By the arrival of the Pike from Lisbon, we have received letters and papers to the 29th ult They contain very little news of interest. The only military operation on the part of the Con stitutionalists, since the date of the preceding accounts, has been the destruction of three of the windmills from which the army at Santarem was supplied with flour. This advantage, how ever, is of no great importance, as a great number of hand mills have been set up in Santarem, for the supply of the army. General SA LDANHA has been offered a place in the Pedroite Ministry, which he has wisely refused. In a letter to a friend he says :—‘, I know nothing of the in trigues of Cabinets or of the ambition of party ; I have been called into action by a sense of duty to the Constitution ; and if, as a soldier. I can advance that cause, I will do so ; but I will have nothing to do with any Ministry." General SALDANHA has taken the proper course, for, independently of his beingof too open and frank a character for the chicanery of a Por tuguese Cabinet, his talents are entirely of a military order. Soldiers mistake their forte when they think they can direct legislation, and control civil bodies. There are few instances of good soldiers having made wise Ministers. It would have been well for WELLINGTON if he had acted with the discretion of SALDANHA. We are sorry to hear that the misun derstanding between our gallant countryman, Admiral NAPIER, and the Portuguese Mi nistry has not been accommodated, and that on the contrary, the Admiral makes no secret of his intention to quit the service as soon as se curity shall be offered him for his prize-money. The Admiral, who of all men in the world would be the most difficult perhaps to reconcile to the Portuguese way of doing business, viz., putting off every thing to the morrow, com plains that he can get nothing done expeditiously or well, and that the interests of the fleet are wilfully neglected. Similar complaints have been made by every British officer of rank who has entered into the Portuguese service. Colonel HODGES quitted the service because the men under his command were neglected by the Mi nistry ; and every officer who values the comfort and health of his men has made remonstrances against the neglect and indifference of the Mi nistry to these subjects. The Lisbon official Paper, the Chronica, contains a kind of manifesto, which is intended to appear as an amnesty, inviting the Miguelites to join the Constitutionalists. It is not, how ever, of that general character which would make success in the attempt probable. Nothing short of an unconditional amnesty, signed by the REGENT, which the article in question is not, will produce •the slightest effect. Even in that case we doubt, after the declaration of the Miguelite chiefs to Colonel HARE, that they would never treat with the present Ministry of Don PEDRO, whether any amnesty, however extensive, would detach the partisans of MIGUEL from his side, unless preceded by a change of Government. General MACDONALD has resigned the com mand of, the Miguelite army, which has been taken by General POVOAS. The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morning. They contain no news of interest from Spain. The debate on the address, in the Chamber of Deputies, has concluded. Most of the amendments, although not of a kind materially to affect the original address, were rejected. The - speeches of M. MAUGUIN, and other opposition Deputies, which were expected to be very violent, were, on the contrary, re markable for their moderation. This WA; per haps, the resii% 1 of a uetermination to defeat the p la 7. Which had been laid by the Ministers to entrap the opposition into a declaration of sen timents Which would offend and alarm the mo derate party in and out of the Chamber. If so, M. MAUGUIN and his friends have acted moEt prudently. Their influence in the Chamber must be, in a great degree, regulated by the skill with which they oppose the doctrines of the juste milieu party without giving encourage ment to the party called the Young Republicans, for it cannot be concealed that republicanism is not a favourite principle in France among per sons of property, and particularly in the com mercial interest. There are thousands even of those who detest the juste milieu, who would shudder at a prospect of pnre republicanism. The Ministry know this, and therefore are con tinually goading the opposition into the avowal of sentiments which would create alarm in the moderate party. Hitherto they have succeeded in their efforts, for the members of the cote gauche in the Chamber of Deputies have been more remarkable for patriotism than prudence. With a greater regard for moderation, and with more consideration for the prejudices of the timid than they have yet displayed, they will become formidable to the Government. Brussels, German, and Brazilian papers have arrived this morning. Extracts from them will be found in another column. There is nothing, however, very important in them. As the Session of Parliament approaches, curiosity is on the wing to know what measures the Ministry will bring forward. We are not in the secret, but -we may make some conjectures, and offer some suggestions. We presLlme a Bill will be again brought for ward for a commutation of tithes. We think and hope such a Bill will be passed before the temporal property of the Church is meddled with in other respects. We wish a similar course had been followed with regard to Ireland. We believe the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER will be obliged to repeal both the house and window duties. It is rumoured his intention is to repeal the former, but to retain the latter. We think of the two the house tax is the best, if it were fairly levied, because the house which a man occupies is in proportion to his ability to pay taxes, but the house tax is un fairly levied, and a proper rate cannot be esta blished without a new survey in every parish, the amount of the expense of which must be added to the tax for the year in which it is made, and, therefore, perhaps, on this ac count, the best course is to repeal it. The window duty we consider a tax upon health, for air anti light in dwellings are necessary to health, which the window-tax tends to exclude, and is felt most severely in old houses. There is an objection upon principle to these taxes, which the trumpery resisters to the payment of them are ignorant of. They were imposed as a commutation for the tax on tea, which was re pealed in Mr. PITT'S time, because its amount led to smuggling and adulteration, which could not be repressed. The tea tax, therefore, should never have been renewed, but it is nearly double what it was in Mr- PITT'S time ; and now that the trade with China is thrown open, adulteration, if not smuggling also, cannot fail to take place to an extent which will again compel a repeal of the tax on tea, unless the duty be greatly reduced. But how are these taxes to be supplied ? There is a limit to reduction of expenditure, and the country will not submit to, indeed cannot bear, additional taxes, But there is no limit to increase of revenue through well apportioned du ties of customs, which will always increase with the increase of the numbers, and of the means of the population. The revenue from cus toms is to be augmented not from increasing the amount of the duties, but by diminishing them. They were all excessive in 1811, when money began to rise in exchangeable value from the defalcation in the supply of gold and silver from the South American mines, and they are still more disproportioned i❑ amount to the price of the articles upon which they are levied now. They should be lowered so as to bear a reasonable proportion to the price of articles imported, for as the aggregate of mercantile income increases by small profits upon a great number of articles sold, so the public revenue is to be increased by small duties upon a great number of articles imported. For this purpose, returns should be ordered from the Custom house of the declared value of every article imported in 1810, with the amount of the duties then levied, anti a similar return of the articles imported at the present time, with their declared values, whereby it will appear what is the amount of the duty now levied compared to the present price of the article, contrasted with the duty levied in 1810 compared to the price at that period, and a foundation will thus be laid for constructing a well apportioned table of duties of Customs. A Bill was passed last -session, brought in by the Vice President of the Board of Trade, consolidating the duties of Customs, as it appears to us, to little purpose, because these duties were consolidated so late as 1825, but infinite good may be done by a Bill for remodelling these duties ; such a Bill is necessary if we mean to render India what it ought to be under the freedom of trade and communication now opened with it and China, and it receives importance nearer home from the demonstrations made by Prussia to secure to her manufacturers the markets of Germany. But the main object is to promote home in dustry by promoting importation, because, for every article imported, some article of home industry must be exported. We understand the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has it in intention again to attempt to compel country bankers to give security for their issues. We know he will be a; completely discomfited again, as he was last session, but we shall not be sorry if he makes the attempt, because it will enable us to show the mischiefs he has done, by enabling the Directors of the Bank of England to raise and depress prices at pleasure for ten years to come, as they have done for nearly half a century past, by the abuse of their exclusive privilege of issue. We make no doubt we shall have a continu ance of law reforms, to which we do not object, but we beg leave to press upon the promoters of these reforms, this consideration, namely, that not one in a thousand in this country goes to law, and the nine hundred and ninety-nine are distressed, and require relief. Notwithstanding the Report of the Agricultural Committee of last session, we believe the Govern ment will be obliged to yield to the general feeling, and bring in a Bill to repeal the present corn law, which has destroyed agricultural capital and industry, and restore the operation of the laws that prevailed for forty years previous to 1815, by which both were improved. Though this committee states that the heavy clay (wheat and bean) land has gone and is going out of cultivation, that farmers have lost their capital, and continue to hold their farms only by scourging and exhausting the soil, and that a diminished supply of horne-grown corn, with an increasing demand, has rendered the nation annually dependent for a portion of the supply on importations from abroad ; yet, in conclusion, it avows its opinion that hopes of amelioration in the condition of the landed interest rest rather on the cautious forbearance, than on the active interference, of Parliament. The remark with which it sets out is just, namely, that although it is in the power of the Legislature to do much evil, yet it can do little positive good, by fre quent interference with agricultural industry. This was an unanswerable reason why it should not have interfered in 1815, again in 1822, and again in 1828 ; but having iaterfered in these years to do evil, it must now interfere to do good by removing the cause of the evil it has done, otherwise our landed proprietors will, ere long, be without rent, and we shall be rendered still more dependant upon foreign countries for a supply of corn. We look with no small degree of impatience for the Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, which has been too long delayed. We are sa tisfied that by refusing relief to able bodied labourers, putting an end to the payment of labour out of the rate, and abolishing the dis tinction between married and unmarried labourers, the evils of the poor laws may be more easily removed than is generally imagined, but labour and cultivation are so intimately connected that these things cannot be done, until the cultiva tion of the soil be restored to agricultural la bourers as they enjoyed it previous to the year 1815. We are unwilling, however, to antici pate the Reports of the Poor Law Commis sioners, which, we trust, will be forthcoming soon after the commencement of the Session of Parliament, which we also hear will not be allowed to separate before a well considered measure shall receive effect, founded upon this report. We have much to say with regard to Ireland, but we must postpone what we have to bring forward on this head to another opportunity. We beg to call the attention of our readers to a message from the President of the American Republic to the Senate, in refusing to lay before them a paper he had read to the heads of the departments relative to the Bank. Its some what cavalier tone may serve to reconcile some of the few who in England are foolish enough to refer to mere forms as a test of the degree of responsibility of the governing power to - the people. England, surrounded by powerful rival States, is clearly not in a situation to have its chief magistracy elective ; but, supposing that it were, the few who desire such a form of go vernment to be established in this country would not, we imagine, be very well satis fied with so haughty an answer being returned to the representatives of the people. In our own case the difficulty would have been overcome with much less violence. In the event of the House of Commons calling for a docu ment improperly, the Ministers resist its pro duction, and if the representatives of the people persevere so far as to pass a vote insisting upon having the document, they take it as a hint that they must resign. They do resign, and some other administration, that has the confidence of the representatives of the people, immediately succeeds to their power, and everything proceeds smoothly. We hardly imagine that the Presi_ dent of the United States, and the Senate can be upon the most cordial terms during the remainder of his administration. If the extracts we have had from the report of the Poor Law Commissioup had not esta blished the necessity of a lar g e modification of the Poor Laws, the police reports every day furnish evidence of the fact. Take, for instance, the following example of the effects of legal charity as at present administered : <, Sarah Corney, a rawboned Irishwoman, with an infant, was charged with having conducted herself in a disorderly manner in the palish workhouse of St. George, Hanover-square, and with having demolished about nine s quares of glass. 46 Mr. Randford, the master, said, the prisoner arid her infant were supported in the parish workhouse, and the woman herself had for a number of years received parish bounty. She was one of the most violent, vicious, a nd drunken women in the house, and he had found it necessary, on more than one occasion, to have her brought before the Bench on account of her conduct. On Tuesday last she had been brought to the office for disorderly conduct. She had gone out the day previous and got drunk, as was her custom, and, in consequence of her drunken habits, it had been determined by the Ward, that she should not have the liberty of the gate, that is, she should not go out in turn because the only use made of the privilege was to get drunk. In consequence of this determination she became very violent, and when brought before the Bench, the Magistrates recommended that she should be received again into the house, but not allowed to go out. When she got back to the workhouse, she demanded her dinner and a pint of beer, which not being immediately brought her, she seized a pint pot, and smashed windows to the value of 3/. She fought and resisted until overpowered by numbers. " In defence, the woman said she admitted breaking the windows. She asked for her dinner and beer, but she did not get it. The overseers, she considered, promoted bad conduct among the paupers by not giving them as much ' wittels!' as they could eat. " Mr. DYER sentenced her to six weeks' imprison ment." A pretty state of law that must be which gives a drunken wretch like SARAH CORNEY an idea that, without any reference to desert, she is entitled to draw for her luxurious subsistence unlimitedly from the pockets of her industrious neighbours. We have received letters from Oporto, dated the 30th ult. They state that no movement had taken place on the part of the Miguelites since the 22d, when a party of cavalry approached the city, but retired after a slight reconnoissance. A great number of Spanish Carlists had arrived at Villa Real, where they were being armed by a Miguelite General. A gentleman, who has just returned from Egypt, states, that in an interview which he had with the PACHA, the conversation turned on the preparations making by Russia in the ports of the Black Sea, in the course of which the PACHA stated that- the British and French Governments had been grossly deceived by the representations of Russia on that subject. The PACHA declared that he had undoubted proofs of the views of Russia, and that the only course for the British and French Governments was to send a fleet to the Dardanelles. " Should this, contrary to expectation, lead to hostilities on the part of Russia," said the PACHA, " I am ready to assist Great Britain with 100,000 troops, in as fine a state of discipline and as fit for fighting as any in Europe." We have reason to believe that a communication of this important interview has been made to our Ministry, although it was probably unnecessary, as Lord PALMERSTON must have been previously aware of the senti ments of the PACHA through the reports of his official agents in Egypt. Such an offer of alliance is not to be despised, and it is the more valuable considering that very recently we had in a blind courtesy to Russia arrested the progress of the Egyptian arms, and opened the way to the increased influence of Russia over the resources of the SULTAN. The British residents of Hamburg have addressed a memorial to Lord PALMERSTON, which will be found in another column. They complain, and apparently with great reason, of the neglect of the British Government, by which they have been exposed to various exac tions and annoyances, and particularly to being treated as aliens by the Government of Hamburg, at the same time that they are com pelled to perform military services from which they were formerly exempt. Lord PA LAI ERSTON will, we are sure, instantly apply for the redress of these grievances. Those who desire to see a fine sample of cant, will do well to peruse a report of a meeting which took place at the Liverpool Exchange Rooms on Saturday last, and which will be found in another part of The Sun. A gentle man named EDEN, horror-struck at the idea of the good folks of Liverpool becoming too en lightened, proposed that the proprietors should take an opportunity of showing their attachment to Christian principle by keeping the news-room shut the whole of Sunday. Mr. EDEN must entertain strange notions of Christian principle ; he must be clearly of opinion that Christianity is a something at utter variance with common sense, or he would scarcely bring forward a proposal which has for its immediate and ine vitable object, by closing the avenues to rational entertainment, to throw open still wider those to dissipation and all sorts of profligacy. Close the Liverpool news-rooms, and you fill the Liverpool public-houses. This, we suppose, is what Mr. EDEN calls inculcating a Christian principle. And so it is—after a fashion ! Cant like this is really intolerable. It is An drew-Agnewish to a degree bordering on the superlative. If it be unchristian to store one's mind with rational and useful information on the Sabbath, thereby helping to render one's self a better man and a better citizen, pray what is it to show off in gaudy carriages on the highway, or in dandy yachts on the river,—to cultivate dyspepsia in this pot-house, and cherish all the systems of apoplexy in that ? Is this setting a discreet example to one's equals or inferiors ? Is this the sort of doctrine that was taught us by the propriety, moderation, and utter freedom from intolerance that our SAVIOUR'S life evinced ? Shame on such sickly fanaticism! It is seldom that we find cant perfectly free from selfishness. It has a trick of sticking to number one, with the same tenacity with which an oyster sticks to his bed. Thus we find that Mr. EDEN—worthy, as he is, from his extremely costive virtue, to inhabit that paradisaical garden which bears his name—though he may be disin terested in the present instance, has not always evinced the same miraculous disinterestedness. What said Mr. EARLE on this subject ? What was the consequence of stopping the sailing of the boat on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on a Sunday, by which passengers were conveyed into the country ? Why, that six or eight omnibuses immediately started ; and the proprietors of the canal, of whom, lie believed, Mr. EDEN was one, then consented to let their boat ply as usual.—(Applause.) In doing this, they never dreamt of profit.—(A laugh . ) " This is a rich anecdote, and proves to our satisfaction that though saints may talk of closing their eyes to all wordly motives, they generally contrive to squint pretty signifi cantly at their own interests. Some cant from a lust for notoriety, some for their own personal aggrandisement, and some from sheer imbecility of mind ; but show us the man of strong intellect and sterling integrity who affects the puritan from a pure moral conviction of the wisdom and necessity of the course he is pursuing, and we will —But it is usel e ss to pursue this question further. It is an absurdity, and involves a con tradiction in terms. From time immemorial the members of the Council of the Order of Advocates have gone to pay their respects on the new year to the Chief President of the Royal Court, the Presidents of the Chambers, and the Procureur-General, but in consequence of a resolution come to by the Chamber of the Council, they have this year abstained from this mark of respect.--French Pape". INSOLVENTS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) Jane .Dalson, a lady of rather corpulent appearance, and the proprietress of two ham and beef shops in Ken nington-lane and the Wandsworth Road, applied by het petition to be diicharged, The insolVent teas opposed by a person named Holds worth, a butcher, to whom she was indebted 71. 18. Mr. Harben, a solicitor, stated that he had made re peated applications to the insolvent on behalf of Mr. Holdsworth, for the payment of the debt, both in person and by letter, of which she took no notice: She was threatened with proceedings, but that threat was as little heeded as the applications which bad been made for payment; subsequently, however, upon process being issued, Mr. Dollinan appeared for the insol vent; the action was tried ; great difficulty attended the proving the delivery of meat to the insolvent, but talimately a verdict was obtained for 5/. 17s. Mr. Holdsworth, previous to the trial, offered to take the debt without the costP, which had at that period been taxed at upwards of 201., but the insolvent refused to agree to the adnption of such a course, and upon the attorney Writing to her to inform her of the offer, she expressed her surprise that he should put her to so unnecessary an expense, and desired her solicitor to leave her to her fate. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired of the insolvent why she had not paid the debt. The Insolvent—lt is not my debt, it belongs to nay daughter; she incurred it, and I will not pay it. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I see you owe but about 30/. in the world, which it is evident you will not pay through perverseness, as the profits of your business are stated in your schedule to be about 150/. a year. I shall dismiss your petition. The Insolvent left the Court expressing her indignation at baying received no benefit for two months'imprisonment. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY.) .; _~ PRICES OF STOCKS THIS AY A.', ON , ' o'cr,ocx• Ilan 1 ,. . Stc.. it - 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent,Cons. ..... . 88% 8 14 Ditto 80nd5...,..... 24 t 3 25 pm. 3 1 ,4 per Cent. — South Sea Stock 7.... Ditto Red In% ry, 7% Old Annuities Niew3% per tent. - ... 96% 6 % New Ditto.... -***!'",, ''''''" 3 per Cent. Aim. 1726 .... —l3 per C '''' .-.. Aa ' ' 1 77 . Ei .. - —l' per Cent. 1826' Rank Long Ann. to expire lo3 % !''. "1i - 1 ! 1 r" - Ili• 131 5,.... ,„,u 4 pm ttn . ..500, 47 48 pin. Jan. 5, 'B6B 17 1-16 . .itl 1548 ,liittA;gair 47 48 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 IS 15-46 17 ;Ditto Commercial ....... —Prn• Jan. 5, 1pf„„ %u....., ... , . . iIION IDitto Advertised ...... ... pm. Jan. 5, jeao --',-; tank for Account — April 5, 1350,,,,,,,, .....,. i India for Account ..... - Jan. 5. Ino, 'Con f- A unt BO% %14 —____ • ....... 3. O. CCO ?RIC " i n , FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Atlo- - , Bon i Pevian Bonds . 93i .Jelgian Bonds ds 98% 96 1 4 8 ' Portuguese Bonds 567 "Ditto Account 96% ! Ditto Account 86)4 Brazilian Bonds 67 , 4 , Ditto New Bonds —.5614 53 Ditto Account 67% Ditto Acc0nnt......56 1 4 57 6 Buenos Ayres Bonds — 'Prussian Bonds lO2 Ditto _Account ...211¢ Ditto Bonds, 182 lO3 Chilian Bonds .... — Russian Bonds, 1822 10416 Ditto Accoun' M% Ditto Account 111 4 14 Columbian Bonds 19% Ditto 111 Ditto Account — ,Spanish Bonds, 1621 53 % Ditto Bonds, 1824 223414 ' Ditto Ace. 2 3 IA % Ditto Account 22% Ditto Bonds;lB23 ' 2l Danish Bon a ""1 1 4 . Ditto Account 20% Ditto Account 73 1 ,¢ ,French Itentes, sp. c. —l. —c. Greek Bonds — Exchange -f -c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 29 —9 per cent. ..... —l . . --c. Ditto Account .— . Exchange —f —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. 29 ',Dutch, 21 p. c 49% Ditto Account Ditto Account . 49% I tn. o, 6 percent 2B Ditto, sp. c 9P4 Is Ditto Account 38 7% ! Ditto Account 05% Neapolitan B9 French Scrip 4% pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per 'Share. Allen Mining Company £7 8 % ngio Mex. Min. co. (mg. at 5/. pm ) X um 9 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 140 Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 62% li 7 Ditto National 22% , 24 Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 3% , 6' British Iron Minim , Company £so_ _ _ 30 Columbizn Minim Co. 'lie 5/.pm.) 5U6 English Mining Company l2y,, General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. .£4B Real dcl Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) nited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 Ditto New Sctip Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp, Australian Co. Canada Company l7 General Steam Navigation Co National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of I r eland 25 EN 25 S% _ 4 104 54 F 12 PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock —lSt. Patrick Insur.(perShare Consols, 3 ner cent Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 964 National Ditto... ......... Ditto, New .......... ........ 9d4 ,Patriotic Ditto I per Cent —!Hibernian Bank .;ov. Deb. 35; percent.... 88 3 i Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock ... . s .... 40% Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock — imperial Mine — City Dab. 4 per cent, — Mining Co. of Ireland 3allast Office Deb. 4D. C. -- 'Commercial Buildings 14AILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg Habu 0 O Brazil - 1 O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena 0 I 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 , 1 Lisbon 0 I Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 1 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...3e minutes after 2. J Evening...ss minutes after '2. 'XS, DUBLIN, lAN. 6 14 3 i 11 3 4 Li 5 6 21% 48 12% 116 39M FROM LLOYfrs. DEAL, JAN. 9..... W in d E.S.E., fresh breezes. PORTSMOUTII, JAN. B.—Wind Arrived his Majesty's ship Tyne, from Rio Janeiro, with 460,000 dollars. FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind W.S.W. to S.S.W., creasing fresh gale.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Pike, from Lisbon—sailed the 29th ult., and Oporto the 3d instant; and Consolation, Sampson, from New Orleans. Sailed the Lord Melville packet, for Halifax. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Rin Lido packet, from Halifax—sailed the 23d tilt. ; and Diligent transport, from London for Milford. COWES, JAN. B.—Arrived the Abeona, Coveney, from Rio Janeiro. MILFORD, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Clarkson, Irvine, from Riehebucto. LlvEltroor.,•JA 7.—Arrived the St. George, Carrett, from Paraiba ; Johnston, M'Pherson, from Demerara ; Napier, Lucas, Harlequin, and Ashton, from New Orleans; Rhode. Island, Manchester, and Marposa, Evans, from Savannah ; Caledonia, Graham, from New York ; Wake. field, Armstrong, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; and John Porter, Jenlcioson, from Halifax. Off port the Antigua, Rio de la Hache. TUDWELI. ROADS, JAN. '7.—Arrived the Char lotte, Langan, from Quebec. GREENOCK, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Vistula, Christian, from Mauritius ; and Helen 111`Gregor, Sheddon, from Demerara. NORWAY, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Triton, APLeon, from St. John's, New Brunswick. TORBAY, JAN. 7.—During the day it has been mode rate, but at nightfall it came on to blow from S.S.W., and had now (10 p.m.) increased to a hurricane. The Providentia, Qaulbery, from Cadiz to Gottenburgb, is lost near Stromstadt. The Terranova, Wessbury, from Uddewale to London, put into Gottenburg leaky, and must discharge. The Sophia, Fox, from Dublin to Pugwash, pnt into Arechat alter striking on Madame Point. Also put into Arechat Sir William Heathcote, Smith, from Gibraltar, bound to Montreal. The Nemises, Ito Vans, from Poole to St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, is wrecked near Halifax. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house : FAtztouT it, JAN. 7.—The Pike arrived at two P.M. from Lisbon, from whence she sailed on the 29th Decem ber. It was reported at Lisbon when the Pike left, that a party of Miguelite troops had made a sortie on the Pe droites, and cut the Irish brigades to pieces. M'llonald has resigned for certain. Montreal papers to the 14th, Quebec to the 9th, Hali fax to the 221 Nov., and New Brunswick to the lstDec., have been received at the North and South American Cof. fee.house. The Montreal papers state that by letters received from Halifax, they regret to learn that the Post-office at Fal mouth, Jamaica, was destroyed by fire, but the heavy rains which prevailed prevented the destruction of the ad joining houses. The Qiehec papers state that the weather was fine and mild during the week, but was interrupted by a severe storm of snow, which continued the following day. The navigation of the St. Lawrence may still be said to be open, and on the first change of wind to the west a vessel coubl safely get to sea. The Halifax papers do not contain any news. The New Brunswick papers state that they were visited by the first snow of any consequence this winter, and on the following day the weather was moderate, and the snow disappeared. It is now ascertained that in the late awful famine in the Cape de Verd Islands, not less than 18,000 persons perished. Accounts fro.n Paris, by the French mail this morning, state that, on Monday afternoon, all the Ambassadors of the Northern Powers assembled at Count Puzzo di Borgo's, to be informed of the contents of a note sent to him by the Minister of Foreign Affairs relating to the East. Accounts from Bayonne mention that the second battle, said to have been fought at Guernica, in which the Queen's troops were defeated, is not confirmed. On the contrary, Zabala has returned to Navarre, joined by Liedzabel, and they have proceeded on the side of D'A.peytia. Accounts from Arragon mention that the Carlists have entirely disappeared from that province. The .lioniteur Fitates that on the 3d inst. General Lorenzo attacked the Carlists and completely routed them. The Gazette de France gives Zabali's report of the late battle, in which he states that the Queen's troops lost from 400 to 500 men. -- From unquestionable authority, we can state that Gen. I3ouimont and the other French officers embarked at Gibraltar on board an English vessel, on the 23d, for Italy. The Austrian Observer says that the Austrian Govern ment continues to attach the highest importance to the preservation of the atornan empire. THE FUNDS. We have s everal arrivals this morning. The accounts from Lisbon are not of a favourable nature, and nothing of a decisive character has taken place. We have a report of a sortie from Santarem, in which the Irish brigade has l b e disliked, and th a t a l arge f orce of Don Miguel's has p) cedeestd r,:o it also appears true that Napier begins to the so u th. The Express f rom P ar i s b r i ngs the Rentes higher, 76f., and the n ews f rom S pa i n i s o f a m ixed complexion. Consols, w hi c h l e f t o ff y es terday at 89 k for Account, e r e o nd e yed ; sellers, opened at 87k t 0,90 for Account, little doing as yet. Nothing at present doing in the Foreign Market. Later report.—Consols still keep declining; they have receded from 89k 90 to 89i. HALF-PAST -0771T.T." Consols, which were done in the early part of the morning at 89i for the Account, have again improved to 894. In the Foreign Market, Spanish 23 to ; D u t c h 49i ; Portuguese low er, 554 56. Consols for Account sq. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ............... l India Stock ••••••=. !I per Cent. Red..... 881 I Ditto Bonds.. 2l pm: 3 pei Cent. Cons BB4 South Sea Stock _ 31 Per Cent. 97& Ditto Old Ann 3 per Ce n t. R e d 97 ( Ditto New Ann. 1 New 3• per Cent 4 per Cent Ditto Small Long. Ann. to expire Austrian, 5 per cent....... j j O a a c i ::.. l l B l 6 Bi9 o . ........ ... . . FO 1 i 97 6 : R la li r . E -R; 96i 1 Ditto, Reg. Bonds ... ...... 56 Belgian, 5 per cent ......... ....... 66t 1 Prussian, 5 per cent. Brazilian Bonds ...... 6 per cent , 21 Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. 104 Buenos Ayres, . 1 Ditto, Metallic lOOl Chilian, 6 per cen c t ew 184 Spanish, 5 per cent - 031 Columbian , 6 Per t Ditto, 1824 22-: Ditto, 1823 2l Danish 734 French .5 per Cent.... --f. C. Greek, 5 per cent 23i Exchange f. —c. ' Nt E ( 1 1 : in ol a , D d ie l ijt : kß au t o: i l g So s i s i l i . t) s i f .e s's.offr:oes°°::oo4ii‘)s4gpcp.c.r..cl i.k L i 6 . 66 89 .. pPp i n inli n s . : Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 30 French 3 per Cent —l. —c. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 3B Dutch, 21 per cent 4 91 Peruvian 6 per Cent. ln Ditto, 5 per cent.. ..... 1 I