The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. COLLEGE LI FE, By J. HEWLETT, M.A. Late of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of " Peter Priggins 2 " " The Parish Clerk," &c. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. year after year. The same principle applies to a merchant who sends goods abroad, and cannot I ook for his returns in less time than a twelvemonth• He can borrow nearly to the amount of his goods to enable him to subsist in the meantime and complete his bargain. It is, we believe, the case with the greater number of merchants, ma nufacturers, and agriculturists, whose produce or ventures can only be realised in long periods, to borrow largely on the faith of the commodities they will hereafter have to sell. The money borrowed, whether paper or IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN OF 25 MILLIONS FLORINS, C.M. To be reimbursed with 51,331,170 Florins. G RAND DISTRIBUTION on the FIRST of FEBRUARY NEXT at VIENNA. 1,600 Bonds, gainini , together 1,457,360 fl., in lots of 250,000-40,000 1-187000 fl.-12,000 fl., &c. Smallest Prize 600 fl. 10 florins are equal to 11.—a trifle more or less as per day's Exchange. Price of each Bond (which may be had in fifths for 1/. es.) is 71. sterling. Payable by Bank Notes, Money 10 Bonds 651. or fifths for 131. 26 „ 120/. „ 241. Orders, or Drafts, Primes bursable in Frankfort, Paris, or 40 „ 2201. „ 551. London. Lists of the Drawing will be immediately forwarded to each Shareholder. metal, is immediately disbursed in paying wages, or in paying for work, or in subsisting the indi vidual. He obtains by that means the services of men whose labour is completed, or whose produce is brought to market in much shorter periods than his own. This may, and does go on, ad infinitum, so that there is a perpetual bor rowing by those who have commodities on the way to the market of those whose commodities are already completed. Credit is plainly the means by which the latter and the former are made useful to each other; and the end of credit is to make the products of these different classes of producers, as M. SAY will tell M. MICHEL CHEVALIER, the market one for the other. If there were no credit, no commodities could be exchanged but those that are produced in equal times, and there could be little or no trade in the world. Credit, like every part and portion of social and combined production, has its root in a great natural fact; and that fact, in its case, is that commodities are produced or brought to market in inequal times. The object, or end, of credit is to enable all the various productive classes to assist each other ; and the monied man who gives a hand to each, and whose money is continually returned to him with interest, as payment for the valuable purpose it serves, is the means by which their products are made mu tually available. M. MICHEL CHEVALIER also says that " Eng land exists under singular conditions. She is insulated, in the widest extent of the term. In dustry is there carried on differently from what it is on the Continent. Everywhere else agricul ture has the first rank. England gives herself up in preference to commerce and mannfactures." The truth, we believe, is, that England has merely preceded other nations in developing manufactures and trade, till they have become preponderant in the empire, for most other coun tries have at the same time been acting in the same manner. There is hardly one of them in which the products of other arts have not gra dually gained on those of agriculture. That is the necessary consequence of the progress of mankind; men were always fed by some means or other, and it is only in an advanced stage of civilization that they get well and comfortably clothed and lodged, and surrounded, in doors and out of doors, with a great multitude of luxu ries and conveniences. That manufactures and commerce should grow faster than agriculture, is natural and necessary; but England preceded other nations in this career. At present, far from being insulated or exceptional, the fibres of her trade connect her with all the nations of the globe; she sympathises with them all, and they are all e:.ger and desirous to become as she is— commercial and manufacturing. France, unfortunately, has preferred war to the cultivation ofeominerce, and she now finds herself almost cut off from trading with other Wagons. No person can more deeply regret this than we regret it, for the multiplied connections of trade are the surest guarantees of national peace. The French were wont to uride themselves on their ships, colonies, and foreign trade. To the begin ning nearly of the eighteenth century, they were as far advanced, or further, than England. HumE, and several writers, have noticed how much they had preceded us, and how many arts England had borrowed from France. Here is a passage from Bou NG BROKE'S Letters on the study of history, to the same effect : The soil, the climate, the situation of France, the ingenuity, the industry, the vivacity of her inhabitants are such ; she has so little want of the produce of other countries, and other countries have so many real or imaginary wants to be supplied by her, that when she is not at war with all her neighbours—when her domestic quiet is preserved, and any tolerable ad ministration of Government prevails, she must grow rich at the expense of those who trade, and even of those who do not open a trade with her. Her baubles, her modes, the follies and extravagances of her luxury, cost England, about the time we are speaking of (1660), little less than 800,0001. a-year, and other nations in their proportion. Till that time and subsequently, England im- ported largely from France, and imported be sides wines, baubles and luxuries. Now mat ters are changed; and France, having persevered in carrying on war against her neighbours, to the neglect of domestic quiet, she supposes that she is obliged to bar out English and other pro ducts by a tariff, which isolates her—and, by pre venting commerce and manufactures from in creasing faster than agriculture, makes her an exception to the general progress. For Prospectuses and Bonds, apply to I. A. SCHWARZS CHILD, Banker, at Frankfort-en-the-Maine. To save trouble, letters and payments will be received at M. A. SCHWARZ SCHILD'S, 122, Minories, America-square, `London. THE ~NEXT DISTRIBUTION o f MONEY DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £6OO, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together is 72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, Win!. IbUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. "TRINE BROTHERS having remitted during a very short time very large amounts of Money Divi dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland. Dividends of 25,0001., 18,0001., 9,0001., 5,0001., and 3,6001. to London; 3,6001., 8001., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 9001. to Hull ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire • 7001. to Colne, Lancashire ; 7001. to Ryde, Isle of Wighl; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bideford ; and 6001. to Eiadford, &c., &c., they beg to call the attention of those desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining mere than 25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of I/. and upwards. Price of One Share, 11. ; two Shares, 21. ; three Shares, 31.; four Shares, 4/. ; five Shares, 51. ; six Shares, 61. • seven Shares, 71.; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 9 1. ; ten Shares, 101. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS it Lubeik. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, Ewa addressing a line to Heine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be produced Dr. Arne's Opera of A RTAXERXES. Artaxerxes, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Arbaces, Mr. Manvers ; Ar tabanes, Mr. W. Harrison; Mandane, Miss Rainforth; Semira, Miss Poole. After which, Mr. Bunn's Comic Interlude of MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somerton, Mr. Cooper ; Mr. Brown, Mr Meadows ; Mr. Smith, Mr. Bartley ; Mrs. Somerton, Mrs. W. Lacy. To• conclude with a New Comicality, called PUNCH'S PANTOMI3IE ; or, HARLEQUIN KING JOHN, and MAGNA CHARTA. By the Writers of " Punch." King :inlin, Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan t,loon, Mr. Garden ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown, M. T. Ridgway. Ooors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com merce at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ,;(1. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 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. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bend-arcet ; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11 - 1:1 be performed Congreve's Comedy of THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Adapted for Representation). Period, 1699. Sir Wilfull Witwoud, Mr. W. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining; Marwoud, Mr. Stuart ; Witwoud, Mr. Charles Mathews; Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwell, Mr. Strickland; Mil lamant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort, Mrs. Glover. - . To be fon:owed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis Qua.torze, Mr. H. Ho 11; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster; the Duchess de Montbazon, Mi.-3 Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. To conclude with a Grand Comical Burlesque Bar letta, called RIQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince Biquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn -the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin,' Miss Charles; The Princess Emeralda, Madame Vestris. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will he repeated an English Version of Bellini's Opera cf LA SONNAMBUL A. Count Rosiolph, Mr. W. H. Weiss ; Alessio, Mr. Walton ; Liza, Mrs. T. H. Se vern ; Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia (her first appearance on the English stage); Elvin°, Mr. Templeton. To conclude with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr. Oxb'rry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval, and AI. Deneze, who will make their first appearance in this country in the incidental ballet. Places and Private Boxes to Le had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters *Mews. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Mayiaard, 'Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. 1 5 . Grattan. After which, a New Farce, called YANKEE NOTES FOR F.NGLI4H CIRCULATION. Principal Characters by Mr. Rice (the celebrated representative of Negro Character), .ralessrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynard, Mesdames H. P. Grat tan, H. Beverley, and Chaplin. To conclude with a New Christmas Pantomime, called THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD; or, HARLEQUIN AND NOBODY. Harlequin, Mr. Frampton; Anti .Clown (No body), Mr. ieland ; Clown, Mr. 'H. Beverly; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders Co umbine, Miss Bullin. Boxes, 43 Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-put six, commence 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. 27, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled RICHARD SAVAGE, in which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, R. Honner, J. Webster, Neville, Smith, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. H. Vining, Miss Terrey, &c., &c., will perform. 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 mery; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Columbine, Miss M. R. Fairbrother. The effects will exceed everything hitherto attempted. We have long ago remarked in this Journal ,hat Puseyism sprung more from political than moral causes. It has its origin mainly in the recognised disability of the Church to satisfy the religious feelings of the people, and render them contented with the State. The early Christian Church and the Romish Church had such effects, and hence the idea that the Church can now only be made efficient as an ally of the State, and as the teacher of religion, by becoming what the early Church, or the Romish Church, was. Hence, too, we find the Puseyites recom mending the abolition of pews, the revival of imposing ceremonies, and the re-establishment of numerous festivals and holidays, as they still prevail in Spain and Italy. Strongly recom mending these latter, Lord JOHN MANNERS has lately published a pamphlet, which does much more honour to his good intentions than to his wisdom. Like the Noble Lord, we wish that our people had more festivals ; we wish to see them at leisure to be joyous ; but that the Church can now be the means ; of working the desired reformation is not to be credited. To hope such great things from her again as she effected in the early ages, is like expecting as much from a man after he has when n s h been r s tried comesa foundnd befo re utterly u s p r The Journal des Debats o f Th urs d ay l ast con- 4 : i ncapable, as tains an extract from the first lecture of M raising to achieve wonders. MICHEL CHEVALIBIt, at the College of F rance , When the Church deserved the name of the some statements in which are worthy of a poor man's Church, she actually stood between moment's attention, as an exemplification of him and the oppressor. In the early ages of Ovinions across the water. He says of credit, for Christianity, the then enlightened' priesthood, -example, th a t .‘its object is to render the pro- 'inheriting all the. knowledge that was preserved duce of previous labour useful or profitable to of Rolm', and composed chiefly of Romans, was present labour." That is, at best, only one object the oppoi ent of the barbarians, who overr un the of, credit. When a m an b orrows on hi s bi ll the emp i re ; an d i t was b y us i ng th e ir religious cha -1 sum of 50t, that he may compl e t e a h ouse he racer to 1- - irotect the people that they gained has begun to build, h e i s ena bl e d b y t h e loan to their confi d e nce, and wonderfully increased their command a certain portion of the products of own influence and power. England, like the previous laitiour, by which he completes the task nations on the continent, was inhabited by a con he has in hand. But when a man breeds and quered and a cot..quering race; and here, as there, rears cattle vvhiclit he cannot dispose of for three the priesthood o tten stood betweenthe people and or four years,. and during that time lives on his their oppressors. THOMAS A'BECKETT was the own credit, o'r the credit of others, something first man of Saxon blood who filled the See of different takes place. He cannot appropriate to Canterbury after tho Norman conquest, and his the end of rearing the cattle the produce of pre- quarrel with the is briefly depicted by vious labour -.through the whole three or four THIERRY, as a quarrel of the races, in which years, because the hulk of such produce is an- the Church appeared. as the defender of the nasally created and annually consumed. One conquered Saxons. Is .there any chance of the -harvest is always nearly eaten up by the time the Church now assuming that character? Will it other is about to be gathered in. We hold M. take up the cross to defy the landlords as MICHEL CHEVALIER'S description, therefore, to BECKETT did to defy thee -King? Will it lay aside be incomplete, and as the principle on which its worship of wealth to tal 'ce part with labourers at credit rests seems to us of importance, we shall state it for c ons id era ti on . six shillings a-week ?Will it protect the humbled We lately a d verte d to t h e general fact, or peasantry against the squi'ms ? At present the Church in England has no ilwiependent charac principle, th a t a ll c ommo diti es ar e produced in ter. It is the creature of the law, and the land unequal times, in order to el uc id a t e th e natural necessary dependence o f th e f armer , whose lords make th e l aw . It i s th e servant of the State • it looks most obsequious :Ty to the Crown produce requires a year to complete it. 'that for the protection of its enorrinnu; wealth; it has rit •• P per.indes all society, and is the source no longer any inherent. power, it never can iedit—the se whose works are completed in be, as in the early ages, till it wbolly changes Jong period s b orrowing from those whose work its character, th e protector o f the pcople against s completed inta shorter time. The cattle breeder, I the aristocracy and the State.. Ira Lever can, to pursue our ialustration, knows that at the end i therefore, acquire the mrdidene:e of those whom of three Dr four years, when h e w ill b e ena b led it seeks to w i n and reform, and, however closely to sell his stock, that it vvillb e worth a considerable I th e Puseyite propositions in ay bring the Church sum. The , monied classes in his neighbourhood lof England to coincide I\vitb, the Church of know that as well as he does, an d on that know-' Rome, they will fail in gaining for it that power led ge he ca a a t any time borrow, and they will I over the people which the 1 31 iesthood possessed 1 at my time lend hits some thi ng like the val ue in the early ages. Tempor;l,l benefit it can no of I iis stock, ;to enable him to go on rearing them longer confer on them; its promises of moral _PlaCes and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at th ± Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. vor.ning 15 minutes after 9 1 Evening 56 minutes after '9, .. ~....„ ~, , ....,, , ,,,rigip...,, A i g t&j.. ts , —,..., 'rfre e§ttit LONDON : TUESDAY(MOTINING. DECEMBER 27, 1842. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1842. advantage have now been refuted by the expe rience of several ages. It is of great consequence not to make a mis take as to the mode in which improvement can be effected. All classes are now agreed as to the necessity of an extensive reformation, either political, commercial, or moral—they differ only as to which it shall be. Holidays and leisure, which all desire, must grow from the circum stances of society, and from the general ease. Days on which all persons should suspend their labour, however suitable for a pastoral or an agricultural people, would be wholly out of the question in a nation intersected by railroads, and sustained by commerce and manufactures. In our society there must be plenty of means of leisure, for great numbers of persons are supported in total idleness, but unfortunately leisure-like property is very unequally distributed. Holidays in England must now be local and partial, and to keep the great machine of combined production, by which all can be easily supplied, perpetually and uniformly in motion, there should be always some at work, and some enjoying them selves. Play days in England must now depend less on Church festivals than on establishing relays of labourers. If Lord JOHN MANNERS were to study the habits of the present genera tion more, and the canons less, we think his good intentions would grow into some theory more useful than a recommendation to increase the number of Church festivals. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The unfavourable state of the weather has preventedhher Majesty leaving the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Riding-school, and remained there an hour. The Prince was attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. Lord Glenlyon took his departure from the Castle on Saturday. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day on a visit to the Queen. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt of St. Leonard's-hill, will join the Royal Dinner Circle this evening. Covers are laid for eighteen. The Royal Dinner Party at the Castle is also expected to include Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Lister, Hon. Miss Liddell, Sir Henry Wheatley, Marquis of Ormonde. Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell, Captain Francis Seymour, and the Equerries in Wait ing on her Majesty and on his Royal Highness. The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Saturday for the residence of Lord Haddo, at St. Leonard's, near Windsor. His Lordship returned to town yesterday morning. Sir James Graham paid a visit to the Noble Earl in the afternoon at the Foreign-office. His Excellency the American Minister returned to Grosvenor-place on Wednesday, from a visit to Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, and left town the following day with Mrs. and Miss Everett, to pass Christmas with Lord and Lady Ashburton at the Grange. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has left Hagley Park, Worcestershire, on a visit to Sir. Stephen Glynne, Bart., at his seat Hawarden Cascle, Flintshire. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. THE QUEEN V. SMITH AND SHIELDS. SlR—The report of the:proceedings on the trial of this indictment, as presented by your paper of the 14th inst., is most unjust towards Mr. Boast, the prosecu tor. It is only just presented to my notice, and in justice to Mr. Boast, I trust you will remove the im pressions created by your report, so far as the facts will enable you to do so. That Mr. Boast had been bankrupt and taken the \ benefit of the Insolvent Deb tors' Act, and in certain disputes between himself and a disappointed partner, had been indicted on a charge of perjury, were circumstances sufficient to prejudice the minds of any Jury sitting upon a criminal charge against convicting upon the evidence of a prosecutor compelled to make such admissions; and with that conviction Mr. Clarkson opened the case for the pro secution as not depending i upon the testimony of the prosecutor; yet no sooner had the prosecutor been examined and such factsiadmitted, than it was sug gested that the prosecution should be abandoned. A very little experience of the Common Sergeant at the Criminal Court will be sufficient to induce the opinion that first impressions have great effect upon his mind, and to that is to be attributed the result of the above prosecution. However, as to the charge of perjury , above referred to, it should have appeared in your re port, as was stated in Court, that the defendant (Mr. Boast) was acquitted upon the examination of the pro secutor, and his acquittal was accompanied with the expression of the regret of Lord Denman, who pre sided at the trial, that matters of a purely civil cha racter should be so readily made the subject of crimi nal charges. The newspaper containing the report of the trial with such remark of Lord Denman, was in Court, and referred to in the examination of Mr. Boast. 'Vith reference to the charge of forgery referred to in your report (although the name is mis-stated), no criminal charge was ever made against Mr. Boast; and the fact that the holders of all the supposed forge ries were admitted to prove the bills against the estate of the person whose name was alleged to have been forged under the fiat of bankruptcy issued against such party, and prosecuted at the Court of Bank ruptcy in Basinghall-street, is sufficient evidence to controvert the charge of a criminal act. The alleged connexion with the lady, and which is to be inferred from your report, was positively denied by Mr. Boast on his examination. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. STAFFOiID, Solicitor for Mr. Boast in the above prosecution. Buckingham-street, Strand, Dec. 24, 1842. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BOAST V. SMITH AND SHIELDS. SIR,—My attention having been called to your re port of this case of the 14th inst., and having some time since been, and also my wife being, patients of Mr. Boast, I feel called upon to state, lest my wife might be considered as the Mrs. Cox cutting so prominent a figure in such report, that the real name of that lady is Cock. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Dover-road, Dec. 17. JAMES COX. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was just what might have been expected on the day following Christmas, i. e., flat and unimportant. A list of the engagements booked on the Derby will suffice : DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken and afterwards offered 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Murat—taken to 601. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken to 101. 33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Progress colt.—t 1000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt—t 6 times 2000 to 30 agst Major Yarburgh's Dumpling—do. 500 even between Blackdrop and Oygen colt—taken Mr. James Bland, one of the few surviving proffes sional turf speculators, of the old school, died in Picca dilly on Sunday night. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Our respected Mem ber, E. R. Rice, Esq., with Captain D'Aeth, Mr. Hodges, and another gentleman, visited the Shak speare An d Abb ot ' s Cli f f Tunnels last week, when they expressed themselves highly gratified with their abees ppea cff ra l ?ee riv as nn w eL ellnaesartlhe one-third progre progress b m e a in d g e i e n em th p e le A te b d: On their r e t urn they wer y e further gratified by having a view of a blast of two barrels of gunpowder, as a specimen of the manner in which many tons of the cliff over the sea-wall have been brought down within the last few months, and in which it is in tended to bring down the Round-down. We are happy to hear that all the persons who lately received injury on these works have, with very few exceptions, returned to their employment, and that none of the accidents have proved fatal to life or limb, save in the ease of the poor boy Lorden, some three or four months back.—Dover Chronicle. BIGAMY.—A FAMILY COMPLAINT.—A young man, named William Bowden, was brought before a county magistrate on Tuesday, at Stockport, on a charge of bigamy. It was proved that he was married to Mary Holland, at the parish church of Ashton-under-Lyne, on the 17th of May, 1835, and in July, 1839, to Betty Holland, at Almondbury, near Huddersfield ; both of whom are now living. He was committed for trial; but, on the application of Mr. W. Vaughan, who ap peared on his behalf, bail was accepted tbr his appear ance at the assizes. Strangely enough, the prisoner's mother, Hannah Bowden, who, on hearing of his ap prehension, had come to see him, was also taken into custody, under a warrant which had some time been out against her on a similar charge. She was also brought before a county magistrate the same day, when Mr. J. S. Barrett, deputy constable, stated, that a few years ago the prisoner was married to a person named John Smith, of Stockport, her first husband, Joseph Bowden, being then and new living at Shef field. Smith is also living at the present time ; but the prisoner and he had separated some time ago, and she had lately been residing with a man named Joseph Lockett, near Huddersfield, to whom, it was supposed, she had also been married. She was re manded. The number of butchers' shops in Brighton wa ascertained the other day, for the purpose of deeding a bet. It seems that the bet offered was, that the number was nearer 100 than 60, a position which turned out to be correct, the number proving to be 81. MR. AULAND, M.P., AND THE CORN-LAWS. Killerton, Dec. 22, 1842. My Dear Lord, It was not till yesterday that I saw in the Standard of Tuesday an account of an agricultural meeting at Barnstaple, in which it is stated that your Lordship read an extract from the re port of a speech of mine at Yeovil, and expressed " your satisfaction that those sound and just principles which you had always advocated were supported by a gentleman, who, not twelve months ago, was of a dif ferent opinion ;" and further, that your lordship asked when you saw such " "persons throwing aside their former opinions, whether you might not safely argue the probability that greater alterations would take place in the introduction of foreign produce." I have hitherto not thought it necessary to notice the various criticisms which have been made on the speeches at the Yeovil meeting, because I felt that a very undue importance was given to what passed there. But as your Lordship has brought my name so prominently forward in the county adjoining that of which I have the honour to be one of the representa tives, it seems incumbent on me to show whether I have "thrown aside my former opinions ;" and I, therefore take the liberty of addressing your Lordship, as the means of publicly disclaiming the construction which has been set upon my expressions. It is the more necessary that I should allude to your Lordship's remarks, because the report of your Lordship's speech contains what appears to be one continuous extract from my own, whereas, in fact, the words are taken from two distinct passages—the one relating to agriculture, and the other to the glove trade. I believe that my only direct allusion to legi slative questions, affecting the agricultural interest, was confined almost to a single sentence, in which I stated that I had nothing to regret in having support ed measures which I believed to have been dictated by fairness and moderation, and by a due consideration of the various interests of the country. I then ex pressed my satisfaction that just protection had been secured to the glove trade, in which Yeovil is so deeply interested, and ventured to advise the glove manufacturers not to place so much reliance on pro tection, as to relax their exertions for the improve ment of their manufacture; and I added that the best security, alike for agriculture and manufactures, is to be found in the direction of increased intelligence to the object of producing the best article " at as low a cost as possible ;" not, as I am reported to have said— " at the lowest price," in reference to the price in other countries, but at as low a cost as possible, in reference to the circumstances of England. This, I believe to be the substance of what I stated at Yeovil, and it does not appear to me to justify the charge of a change of opinion. To cheapen the cost, as well as to increase the quantity of production by encouraging improvements in agriculture, appears to me one of the main objects of agricultural associations; and the more completely they succeed in promoting this object, the more unan swerable, in my opinion, is the claim of the British farmer to fair protection ; of such protection I am now, as I ever have been, the decided advocate. In the pre sent circumstances of this country, protection to agri culture is not, as far as I can judge, too high ; I ear nestly hope that it may not prove too low. I never sought to obtain favour by professing to advocate exclusively, or to an extreme length, the claims of any one interest; and, therefore, I am not open to the charge of inconsistency, for speak ing now in a tone of moderation, which I have maintained under other circumstances. I trust that all prognostications of changes, tending to disturb a settlement so recently made, will prove as ill-grounded as those which have no better founda tion than the proceedings at the Yeovil meeting. At that meeting (I may be permitted to add), had I thought it the proper occasion for making these ex planations, and repelling the charge of a change of opinion, an ample opportunity was afforded me ; but I have so strong a sense of the inexpediency of di verting such meetings from their proper object, by giving them a political character, that I then re frained ; and I am very glad to have now a fitter op portunity for correcting any misapprehension to which my expressions have given rise—l have the honour to be, my dear Lord, yours, very faithfully, THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, Jur'. To the Right Hon. Earl Fortescue. NON-INTRUSION CANT.—The most abominable feature of the Non-Intrusion agitation is the cant of its leaders and promoters. Not content with assert . ing their honesty and their faith in the soundness of their principles, they blasphemously assume that they are fighting God's battles, and that all who are op posed to them are in league with the powers of dark ness. Dr. Candlish told a large meeting that Satan was in the C onvoca ti on , and was like to have caused some disturbance, but that the Lord had defeated him • ether p ar ti es , w ho have since given expla na ti ons of the proceedings, have adopted the same style.— Aberdeen Herald. CHEAP LtviNG.—ln the provision market of Co lumbus, Ohio, last week, the finest turkeys were sell ing at 25 cents each; geese at 18 cents; ducks at 16 cents the pair ; and chickens at 75 cents a dozen—six pence a piece ! Beef at 2 cents per lb., and other eatables in proportion. A cheap place to live in, that Columbus must be. But perhaps, as Pat said of the state of things in Ireland — a turkey could he bought for sixpence—but the plague was to get the money." —Commercial Advertiser. The Hon. 11. C. Lowther, M.P., for Westmorland, who is now at Cottesmore, is shortly expected at Lowther Castle, in the county of Westmorland, the seat of his father, the Vener a bl e E ar l o f L ons d a l e , to enjoy the pleasures of the wood and field, in pursuing the recreation of pheasant and partridge shooting in the ample preserves surrounding the locality of Lowther. There is a young woman at Abergavenny, who, sixteen years ago, had the misfortune to have a darning needle, and a piece of thread in it, thrust into her arm, and a few weeks since it came out at the ankle, the thread still in it; the needle was much smaller than when it went in, and considerably bent. During its passage from her arm to her ancle, she never ex perienced any pain from it, but the leg is now very painful, being considerably inflamed. Monmouth Merlin. NOVEL MODE OF ROBBING A HEN. RoosT.--Farmer Budd, of North Fareham, had his fowl-house robbed a few nights since, in the following novel manner, of nine fowls :—The thieves having found a hole in the house large enough for their purpose, sent in a ferret, secured by a string, which, on seizing a fowl, was drawn to the hole, the bird taken, and the trick re peated. The tenth experiment failed by the string breaking, leaving the ferret behind to disclose the manner of a robbery, which otherwise would have been unaccountable. Many fowl-houses in the neigh bourhood have lately been robbed in this ingenious way.—Hampshire Advertiser. EDUCATION OF A GERMAN LADY.—The education of a German lady is, to us, a very singular one. It is composed of the two extremes of household useful ness and social ornament. Accomplishments are carefully taught. All that tends to give the ladies eclat in the ball-room and in large companies, they are more regularly drilled into even than ours. Music and dancing are indispensable. The French lan guage has long been universal, and English is now becoming so. Their greater intercourse with fo reigners keeps in use their French. Music is so much a national enjoyment, that not only all young wo men, but almost all young men, play on the piano and sing. This is not only a great relief to the mo notony of private life, and an elegant and refining enjoyment for the evening circle—especially to weary men, harassed or exhausted by the daily tug of their affairs—but is conducive to the pleasure of those agreeable little parties which abound so much among the Germans : where singing, a dance, and simple rapidly the hours.—Howitt'sGermany. n a Saturday last, her Majesty the Queen Dowager honoured this town w ith a visit. He r Majesty, availing h e rself of th e ex t re mely favourable state of the weath er , was i n an open carr iage, dra wn games pass POOLE.—On by four horses, and was attended by several of her Majesty's suite, also in an open pony carriage.. The Royal party drove slowly through the High-street, round the Quay, and along the west shore, whence they returned to C an f or d H ouse . Her Majesty, who, we rejoice to Says y looked quite well and much pleased, was received with every demonstration of the most loyal and respectful attention. The bells in the church tower were rung in celebration of the honour bestowed upon the town.—Somerset County Gazette. TORY JOBB lic o.—The appointment of Captain Superintendent of the Roya l Willi am Vi c t ua lli ng Yard and Roy a l on Capt a i n Captain John Coode, R.N., C.B. is about to be con ferred Hospital at Plymouth, lately held by Sir G. Cockbu rn Richard Arthur, R.N., brother of Sir George A rt h ur a zealous po li t i ca l supporter o f (Chairman, if we mistake not, of Sir George's electi on comm i ttee at Pl ymou th). B y thi s appointment, a annum will be at t h e di sposa l o f L or d Haddington, naval good service pension of 1501 . per w e 'le y h distinguishedwi 11 , u'e i service,be no t o a n sa some p a y o m ffi e c n e t r fo o r politicalof a agency. Captain Richard Arthur (a Captain of 1810) comma n d e d th e V esuv i us b o mb at Copenha rl gen, and was Posted from the Cherokee for a gallant and successful att ac k on seven privateers under the batteries of Diepp e in 1810. He has, however, been fully employed, and, besides the C. 8., has had a good ser vice pension b estowe d upon hi m . He is an excel lent officer, and our sole objection to his appointment is, a desire to see a more equal division of the very few good things which the Board of Admiralty have, in these piping ti me s of peace, to give away.— United Service Gazette. _ THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 52 : Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 29.04.-WIND, S.W. ~.. cI) _ , z , g r-44(vigso,„,--wl Atrt. *ctonbWitittion Every preparation is being made at the Chamber of Deputies for the opening of the session. The scaffolds of the painters are removed, and carpets, furniture, and decorations are daily brought in. The bas-relief in plaster, representing the King taking the oath to i Workmen are engaged in laying down observe the Charter, has been replaced by the work pavement round the Bank of England, in itself in marble, executed by M. Ramey. i needle-street. SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. The inhabitants of the United States, if we are to judge from the annual Message delivered by the PRESIDENT, are a very religious people. That high functionary, to whatever party he may belong, never subjects himself to the imputation made by Sir ROBERT INGLIS against the MEL BOURNE Government, but devoutly offers up thanks, in the name of the people, for the mani fold mercies conferred on them as a nation. The Message this year is peculiarly marked in this respect. "We have continued reason," says he, "to express our profound gratitude to the great CREATOR of all things, for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a people." And after enumerating some of these benefits, adds, "Such are the circumstances under which you now assemble in your respective Chambers, and which should lead us to unite in praise and thanksgiving to that GREAT BEING who made us, and who preserves us as a nation." After such a solemn preamble, we expected some se vere admonitions respecting the sins of the people, and especially those two great national sins, Slavery and " Repudiation." Not the slightest rebuke of these great crimes escapes from his lips ; and though he laments in the most lugubrious strains the wantof money and the want of credit, he forgets to lament the sufferings brought upon thousands of families in England and France by a system of fraud and bad faith unexampled in modern times. Even France, when driven to madness by the profligacy of her rulers, and the total ruin of her finances, did not, like certain States, forget justice and honour, but paid according to her means. For the Americans there is no such excuse as poverty or bad goverment; for, according to the PRESIDENT, it is a land blessed with genial seasons—the granaries are filled with abundance—the neces saries of life abound in every direction, and it is the best governed country in the world. This omission is the more remarkable, as, in almost the same breath in which he alludes to want of credit, he emphatically de• dares that the credit of a Government is the very soul of a Government itself—a principle of vitality, without which all its movements are languid, and all its operations embarrassed. The first great duty, therefore, he had to perform was to enjoin upon the people the only course for re medying the evil. He should have taken his text from the inspired writings, which he has evidently read with care, and said " Pay that which thou owest." " Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour's." " Owe no man any thing." The Giver of all Good to whom he so devoutly pours out thanksgivings cannot fail to punish deeds which are contrary to the principles of morality and the dictates of true religion ; and that nation which sets them at defiance, how ever powerful, cannot escape, any more than a private individual, from the consequences of such crimes. The punishment in fact has corn menced. Credit is gone, trade is paralysed, and universal reproach now attaches to the whole American nation. They have ample means; the money thus fraudulently obtained has en abled them to make railroads and canals, and improve extensive tracts of territory ; and while they derive the comforts as well as the neces saries of life from these means, many of their unfortunate creditors are pining in want and broken-hearted. Indignation against such con duct, and the manner in which the Chief Magis trate of a great country has passed over it, is loudly expressed in all quarters. Let the Ame rican Congress, therefore, look to its true inte rests, and wipe away the disgrace. Improve ments in one State benefit all those around it ; the debt of each of them becomes the debt of the community; and common sense and common justice demand that Congress should recognise it as such. There are many honourable and able men in that assembly, and we therefore confi dently trust that the subject will be brought for ward this session; and that a country which boasts of its liberty, its wealth, and its religion, will re move a stigma which now effectually excludes it from the pale of civilized nations. As we observed yesterday, Lord MANNERS'S pamphlet, entitled " A Plea for National Holi days," is more to be commended for its good in tentions, than the sagacity which dictated it. When we glanced over two or three of its earlier pages, we began to fancy that his Lord ship's views would be very likely to accord with our own, on the subject of holidays, inasmuch as we are no advocates s for—what the Spectator aptly calls—" the all work and no play system," but bold that occasional recreation is abso lutely indispensable to the mind's health as well as the body's; we soon found, however, abundant cause to differ with the Noble Lord, for if he recommend an increase in the number of public holidays, it is not so much with a view to the people's welfare, as to the aggrandisement of the Church. He seems to imagine, with the Puseyites, that she has not half power enough, and accordingly he would increase that power by every ingenious contrivance pos sible. Hence his lament for the pau city of holidays, and his recommendation that their number should be increased, so that— we quote his own words—" the poor and labour ing population of England may be restored to the beneficent and venerable sway"of Mother Church. Now we have no desire to see this ancient dame exercising more influence over the minds of the poor than she at present exercises, for we cannot but remember that she has almost invariably been an enemy to freedom of thought, and has made a point of exerting her authority with a view to keep the popular mind in a state of " fat, contented ignorance." "We have abun dant reason to hope," observes Lord JOHN MAN NERS, " that were the observance of Sainls-days services encouraged, rather than discouraged by modern laws, and habits, not only would our churches be filled with humble worshippers, but the poor and needy would feel in many little and unsuspected ways, far more than they can feel now, that the Church is indeed to them a mother —an endless well of comfort and consolation, running over with blessings, temporal and eternal, alike in the heats of Laminas or the snows of Christmas." This is a mere flourish of speech, which means something or nothing, just according to the reader's fancy. The allusion, in particular, to the probability of the Church's proving a mo ther to the poor, is a special instance of rigma role. She may exhibit herself to them as a grandmother, with all the indolence and imbe cility of old age; but we think it very unlikely that she will ever give them proofs of her ma ternal relationship to them, by evincing any ex cessive solicitude respecting their spiritual and temporal interests. The intelligence from Barcelona is to the 18th, but is generally without interest. The REGENT, who was still at Sarnia, had shown great le niency towards the insurgents, and had set at li berty almost every civilian. The war contribu tion, too, was to be reduced from 600,000 to 400,000 dollars. The fbllowing telegraphic dis patch, from the French frontier, has been re ceived : "PERPIGNAN, DEC. 23. " General Seoane, the new Captain-General, ar rived at Barcelona on the 20th. General Van Ilalen was to leave on the 22d, with the Regent. A delay of a week had been granted for the payment of the contribution. " The Foreign Consuls, including the English one, have offered a public dinner to the French Consul and to the Commandant and staff of the French and naval force." wooden Thread- A m y GF T..; C AND tiutiltr eptittoll. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. The Paris papers had not arrived at the usual hour of going to press. The Levant mail has brought let ters and papers, but no intelligence from Constanti nople. Madrid accounts indicate the dissolution of the Cortes as inevitable, and a modification of the Minis try as likely. Nothing, however, is certain on this subject till the return of the Regent. Letters from Athens of the 7th inst. announce that the new Minister of Finance, M. Lillevergo, having become insane, the King had not yet been able to supply his place. All those to whom his Majesty had oftered that department refused to accept it. " The Treasury," say these letters, "is ix a state of bank ruptcy ; the public functionaries have not been paid for the last three months. A crisis is fast approaching in Greece." The Leipsic Gazette of the 20th inst. states, that notwithstanding it is more than a year since a Royal ordinance appeared at Berlin limiting the power of the censors of the public press, no mitigation of their severity had ensued. Accounts from Alexandria of the 6th inst. state, that Mehemet Ali was still in Lower Egypt, and not expected to return to Alexandria for some time. His son, Ibraham Pacha, had arrived at Cairo. The mortality continued among the cattle. The Pacha, it is said, inteads to purchase the Great Western to convert her into a steam-frigate. PIIELIC OPINION. In reference to the President's Message, the Times says :—" We have seldom had occasion to peruse a document in which the feebleness of the individual by whom it is promulgated, and the foibles of the people to whom it is addressed, are more conspicuously dis played than they are in the last Message of the Presi dent of the United States. To assert that the Ame rican States under their free and wise institutions are rapidly advancing towards the consummation of the high destiny which an over-ruling Providence seems to have marked out for them'—that the Ame ricans have a Government, the strongest in the world, because emanating from the popular will, and firmly rooted in the affections of a great and free people, and whose fidelity to its engagements has never been questioned'—and that the name of General Jack son was placed, by the defence of New Orleans, amongst those of the greatest captains of the age'— is to provoke a smile throughout the civilized earth, and to speak in a tone which is the more ludicrous, because it is contrasted with the humiliating facts which even this pompous discourse cannot altogether conceal or contradict. With some few exceptions, there is hardly a paragraph in this Message which does not convey some arrogant assumption very ill-suited to the present condition of American so ciety and American credit ; and, however reluctant we may be to pass a severe or unfavourable judg ment on the concerns of our friends on the other side of the Atlantic, it is impossible to withhold the expression of our dissent from many of the propositions laid down by President Tyler for the edification of the Congress and the nation. The part, however, of the President's Message which will excite the greatest interest in this country, as well as in the United States, is that which relates to the state of the finances of the Union. Flom the estimates which it contains, it would appear that the principal defalcation in the revenue is expected to arise on the present quarter. Indeed, if these round statements are to be relied upon, the decrease in the Customs for the fourth quarter is equal to the whole anticipated decrease on the revenue of the year. Our limits forbid us to enter to-day upon the discussion of the scheme which, under the name of a national exchequer, is put forward with the hope of improving the currency and retrieving the credit of the country But, whatever be the merits of the project, it can hardly be doubted that no such scheme can be suc cessfully carried into execution, except by a Govern ment and a party of overwhelming and incontestible power. That power, it is needless to add, Mr. Tyler and his friends never possessed; and already the ap proaching elections of Congress and of the future President have roused political feeling in America to a height which must at least suspend all effectual legislation on these important subjects." The Herald thus speaks of the American President, Tyler :—" The present position of President Tyler is most singular ; accidentally elevated to the Presiden tial office, when therein he quickly deprived himself of the support of the party by which he had been elected to the Vice-Presidency—and if his motive for deserting the Whigs were to secure his re-election by the Democrats he has failed to secure their support, and the \Vhigs appear to be still numerically the stronger party in Congress had they a chief to com bine and govern them. The President is now isolated from both parties, and is furiously attacked by the ultras of either ; possessed of a strong will, decided personal opinions and unbounded courage, and un fettered by party connections, he h as shakenl party combinations in the Union to their foundation with out gaining personal advantages, and the certainty that under no probable contingency will Mr. Tyler be re-elected makes his presidency one of more than ordinary struggle in the republic, and of tumult, con fusion, disorder, and intrigue in Congress. The misery of all this is, that during this preparation for the next presidential election, this violence, this dis cord, and these intrigues, national questions of the utmost importance and principles, full of future hap piness or wretchedness, are in agitation ; and the ne cessities of the country do not produce one man of commanding intellect or superior intelligence. To us, distant spectators indeed, bad as Mr, Tyler's op ponents assert him to be, there seems as much, pro bably more, sterling good sense in his views, than in those of any other politician in the Union." The Post has the following remarks, suggested by the American President's Message :—" With respect to the new American tariff and the probabilities of its early modification, it may be right, for us to utter a word or two of caution to English manufacturers. There is no doubt that the free trade party in the States was in a majority at the late State elections, and that a re-action has set in against the opinions, on the strength of which President Harrison was elected. But we must not calculate too confidently that, therefore, the next President will be a Locofoco President, and that Congress will abolish the import duties. Political re-actions, we beg to observe are (taking the widest range) things of about semi annual occurrence in America ; and no man knows how many there will be between this year of grace and the next presidential election at the close of 1844. Another important consideration is, that the Democratic party is divided within itself. Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren are already an nounced as rival candidates on that interest, and even Mr. Tyler himself may try his chance on the same professions. Disputes of this kind are usually settled by a convention of delegates, a majority of whom fix on the man who is to 'stand.' But it is now ru moured that whether Calhoun or Van Buren be the one chosen, the friends of the other will not abide the decision ; and thus, though in an absolute majority, it is just possible that the Democrats, after all, will not bring in their man, and that some one favourable to protection will be elected. This, of course, is merely problematical; but we thought it only fair to state the facts of the case, that our merchants and manu facturers, engaged in the American trade, may form their own judgments, and watch the progress of events." NIONEY - TRADE-COMMERCE. On Saturday next the Liverpool cotton-brokers make up their annual statement of imports, &c. of cotton during the year, from January to December ; from sources at hand it appears in the imports there has been an increase this year of 69,968 bales, and in the exports, 18,680 bales : the increase for consumption is about 600 bales weekly. It is calculated that if the opium trade were en tirely suppressed, there would be an actual loss of 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 dollars per annum as re gards the direct trade with China ; besides several millions more for which produce is obtained in the Archipelago.___ PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. A new police -court is about to be erected at the Newington end of Kennington-lane, and is intended to relieve the Union-hall Magistrates, and it is to have a new district assigned to it. The cost of the site will be 6001., and the contractor is to complete it by March, 1844. LAW AND POLICE. John Frederick Fulford was charged at Lambeth street with stealing 401. in notes and silver from his employer, Mr. Robert Norrish, baker, Ratcliffe-high way. He was fully committed. Michael Barret, a coal-whipper, was charged at the Thames-office with beating several policemen of the K division in a very brutal manner, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. FINE ARTS. A handsome monument was last week erected to the memory of Mungo Park, the enterprising tra veller, in the burial-place of the family at Galashiels. The inscription is—" In Memory of Mango Park, the celebrated African Traveller, who perished in the Interior of Africa in 1805, aged 35 ; also, Mungo Park, of the 11.E.1.C.5." A white marble statue of Mme. Malibran has just been placed in the mausoleum which M. de Beriot had erected in the Cemetery of Lacken, to the memory of the celebrated cantatrice. TxrEAMPILICA.L. The drama in Manchester has been revived, by the opening of the Theatre Royal, under the manage ment of Mr. Robert Roxby, a comedian of consider able talent. Shakspeare's play of As You Like It began the campaign on Saturday. COUTZT-FILSRIONAIILM. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness leave Castle Howard, the se4 of the Earl of Carlisle, early in the ensuing week, for Woburn Abbey, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Bedford with their company. The Marquis of Granby, M.P., has returned to Belvoir Castle, from a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Exeter at Burghley House, near Stamford. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have a select party assembled at Barons Court, County Tyrone. Viscount and Viscountess Howick, and the Earl of Durham and the Ladies Lambton, h a ve arrived at Howick Hall, on a v i s it t o the iarl and Countess Grey, from Lambton Castle. Lord A. St. Maur has joined the hunt at Melton Mowbray. Lord William Lennox has left town for Goodwood, to join the party assembled there for the Christraas holidays. MISCELLANEOUS. Upwards of 30,00 e persons visited the British Museum yesterday, being twice as many as came t he last Boxing-day, when the numbers were 14,6 00 • The Royal Polytechnic Institution was visited by not less than 5,000 holiday-folks. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO THREE' Yesterday having been a general holiday at Liver pool, no business was done in either the Cotton or Share market. Two new plans, just laid before the Government at Madrid, for furnishing it with funds to carry on the administration with vigour, and to effect judieious re' ductions in the expenditure, have just become know n in the City, where they attract a good deal of atter tion, and lead to general discussion ainc e . 4 all parties interested in the affairs of Sp?" With regard to the proposition for advancing one Mi r lion sterling upon the security of the Almaden mines' and 500,0001. subsequently, there may be something feasible in this, but the other proposition for guaranteeing the payment of the interest on the thre e per cent. debt, provided more three per cent. stock to the amount of 5,000,0001. is created, and given ss collateral security to the capitalists, so binding the°' selves, is of a mo s t d angerous ten d enc y, notwith standing the proviso that the new stock should only be issued in case of a failure of its en gagements on the part of the Spanish C t vernment, and then not at a lower price than 35y. Those acquainted with the financial affairs of govera• ments are well aware of the temptation, when tilt coffers are low, of breaking through contracts, and raising money by issues of stock when once there to a supply of such on hand ; and if the object be to prove the security of the present creditors, nothing more fatal could, we think, be resolved upon than t ° hold such a rod in terrorem over their unfortnnatp heads as the contingent issue of 5,000,0001. of stock. The Almaden mines may be let well, and are quite sufficient security i n th emse l ves , b u t th a t a few ri stockjobbers prefer the plan most likely to put mon e y' in their own pockets. Free trade principles, we hope, are spreading i n America, as it is stated in the accounts received Yee" terday, that amo ng o th er o bj ec ti ons t o the existing t laws, which re gu l a t e commerce w i t h ot h er n ations, has been urged that the want of sufficiently discritar nating impositions, are the cause of great and disPr e ' portionate increase in the employment of foreign sels in the transportation of American produce. proportion of United States goods exported in Brii"'• vessels to Great Britain direct, declined from one third to one-fourth, w hil e th e propor ti on carried!: the vessels of the north of Europe, which are not sub _. ject to onerous t axa ti on a t home, has largelY creased. The vessels of the Hanse towns carry p ow 200 per cent. of that carried in American vessels, in stead of 15 per cent. as in 1827. This is the ow , Power which has the advantage of the United Stste e ' in the internatio na l t ra d e ; an d it arises Pa rti f ls from the absu r d t rea t y w hi c h a d m its ves t ic of all nation s t o sa il un d er t h e Hans" ce flag, but m os tly f rom th e f act, t h at i n consequenels " of the abse nce o f a ll t axa ti on at h ome, th o se re the can be built and sailed cheaper than those co tton United States ; and the increasing quantity of ,_t i .", h to be carried creates a demand for tonnage, ivii k r they can supply cheaper than the American 6 . 11 r s huilder, whose Government has imposed upon tax of five dollars per ton, to protect the mou turers of iron, cordage, &c. These common co ol * mercial principles h ave i n fi n i te l y more to do with the increase or diminuti on of American trade, than 4; he dreams of small political lawyers, whose paper schemes are set at naught by trading ingensym, The market for the public securities has b ee° The though business continues very restricted' oners broker acting for the Savings' Bank Commissions r has taken the usual amount in Reduced Three p f : r Cent. Annuities at 94i. Consols are ,931 to 931 5 4 0 .. the opening. Exchequer Bills realised 528• t° ts . premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Can r 1011 to 101-1 ; and the Old Three-and-a-1 10 ,4, most Cents. 101 to 101*. The Canada Debentures ham been done at 11 premium. In the Fcreign Stocks the leading feature haste the dabbling of a few jobbers of influence in the SP% Dish investments, u p on th e s t reng th o f th e " gren new and original pantomime," said to be in preps tion for exhibiting more tricks in the finance line, and building up a famous treasury, not of cards, but D: something equally fragil e , Th r ee per Cent. Bon d s, to the amount of 5,000,000/. The A ctives touched 18i- to 19-1 : • and the Three per Cents. 2 4 1 14 ° . ' 25i; Portuguese Bonds are firm, and the Converted, 33k; Mexican Stock has rttulser A only 34, but Brazilian has improved to 71i ; DiL te ‘.. Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at t 0 7 .1_ The Railway Shares have been very dull, buts not lower in price. Edinburgh and Glasgow 1 1 _7 . the New at .. 4? realise discount ; Great - Western, New, 1.41 . p a r r e a mium ; Brighton Loan Notes, premium ; Par n i e , di9. Rouen, 6 premium; and South Eastern Scrip, ti PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE" RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Edinburgh and Glasgow lO - Ditto New A 6 4 4: . . ... ........ •••-• ... to to : ...: Great Wester* .... . •••" Ditto New ...... .. ... ......... ... 50 London and Brighton ...,.. 10 Ditto Loan Notes Paris and Roue' ... .... . ...... 20 - South Eastern and Dover M t* Scrip PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DU8L1N,1.... 17 . ...• t• Three per Cent. Consols 10 0 1 , Ditto, New, 1830.... Bank Stock 4' BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, DECEMB ER 2 ug g First Highest .i..owest uric** Price. Price Price. li e French Five p J er Cents. 118 95... 119 ... 118 90 ••• Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 101 50••• 7 8 0 Threes ... 78 60... 78 65... 78 b 5•• 20 Bank of France 3315 -.3320 ...3315 " • aoo Laffitte Bank 5,000f,,.5080 -.5080 -.5080 •••roi l o Belgianßank, 1841 lO6O ...1080 ...1080 •• ' iO 3l Belgian Fives lo3i ... 103 k .... 1031 ..• 10 4 1840 1031 ... 104 ... 103 i '" 231 Spanish Active. . 231 ... 231 ... 2 3 1 "' 4 Passive 4 ... 4 ... 4 ••• 1 06 Pi Neapolitan ...... ..... lO6 20... 106 20... 106 2 0 ••• AI Roman lOO ... 104 k ... 104 k ••• RAILWAY SHARES. ma St. Germain ... 840 ... 840 ... 840 ••• 1 15 Versailles, L.B ll3 75... 115 ... 113 75... 265 R.B 2BO ...285 ... 280 ••• 6 52 5 0 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 202 50... 202 5 0 ••• BELGIAN FUN_3.—BaussaLs, Doc.% ..- Actual Debt, 2% per Cent., l O2 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. ............ Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Three per Cent........... Fig Thlrty.seven Milli, ns, ditto .. ......... .... 11 6 ------ (1846).............. ca Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 77 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ..... National Society ...• Exchange on London (short) ...................•••••••• —Brussels Papers, Lee. 24. A U'TRIAN FUNDS.VIINNA, DU c ' 11 00 Five per Cents. hletalliques Four per Cents.....-- . „a -- iv Ttirei; per Cents ..........» 000000 ops Bank Shares 11.•••••••11•1010..... lgemeine Zeitung, Dec. aO. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ro India 5t0ck............46 pis Ditto Bonds ............ Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New AnnuWes...o pia Ex. Bills, 1,0001.... 94. 5 4 pra Ditto 500/..... • 0 pel Ditto Small ...... _ Bank Stock for Acct. '— India Stock for °pg.- 951 Consols for opg. ••••-• FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditt0......... 'Prussian, 5 per cent. I :131, Russia 5 pei ....?" Ditto, M eta11ic....... ~a, Spanish, 5 per cent. ...•• Ditto, Deferred.... French, 5 per cent. Exchange ........... --1_ French, 3 per cent. Dutch, 2i per Ditto, 5 per cent. ••• Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons .. 3i per Cent. Red... 1011 New 3i per Cent......... New 5 per Cen' Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860... — Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 — FOREIGJ Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 25 Chilian, 6 per cent. 74* Colombian, 6 per cent — , Ditto 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Danish, 3 per sent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 313 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ••• Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great W 'extern, (65 paid) . 641 • - Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . London and Brighton (50 paid`, io k Ditto Loan Notes (10 ' , did) ..... •••• Paris and Rouen (20 pai4' ..... ..... 22 South Eastern and Doer (50 paid) 17 Ditto Scrip (20 maid) STATE OF TnADE.—We are sorry to learn symptoms of d e p ress i on h ave aga i n manifested , selves in several districts where a revival of trigle bu t commenced. China will t a k e a goo d many 8* () ° (1 : 4 ,,.,' h ys it can give us no staples in return, save tea, rather a luxury than a necessary of life; and, —apci we can get access t o th e cont i nen t a l m's America, we fear trade w ill con ti nue to coaklis— decay.—Aberdeen Herald.