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Embellished with a Portrait of General D'Arblay, VOL UME FIVE of MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS, IS NOW READY, And may be had of all Booksellers. New and Revised Editions of the First Four Volumes are also now ready. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE. NEXT DISTRIBUTION of 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, 1:200, £4OO, £6OO, 1:t100, £l,OOO, £3 1 500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to x:72,170 sterling. Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Alonso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr. Vandenhoft; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ;.. Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Alphonso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ; Female, Miss Bailin. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances coin menus at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ed. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Bueond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-sffioe, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets slay be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-st r eet; Mr. Mitchell , Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Same, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, Dec. 2, Will La performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Towle, Mr. W. Farrea ; Sir Oliver Surfaee, Mr. Strieklansi ; Joseph Surfaee, Mr. Stuart ; Charles Surface, Mr. Claw Mathews • Crabtree, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin Ihneklcite, Mr. Biel stone ; Mose!, Mr. Webster ; Careless, Me. Howe ; Rowley, Mr. Gough; Snake, Mr. Wilsone ; Sir Harry, ( with a Song), Mr. Caulfield ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teaal• Madame Vestris; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover, Lady Sineerivel‘. Mrs. W. Cliford ; Maria, Mrs. E. Yarnold. To which will be added, Mr. Charles Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To seaclade with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS ! Joseph Brag, Mr. Buckstone. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Will be repeated a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called AN I'ONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ♦LMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. TO conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Fawcit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Eight Nights of Mr. T. P. Cooke's Engagement, and Final Arrangement of his Performing. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Mr. T. P. Cooke will appear in the New Nautical Drama, en titled THE UNION JACK ; or, the SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER. Mary, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, ROBERT MACA IRE. Robert Macaire, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with Mr. Barber's new Drama, en titled THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, the FUGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of " Oh ! why does the White Man hang on my path ?" composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. MAP OF CHINA. NOW READY, A NEW CHINA SUN, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NIN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GLORIOUS AND IMPORTANT. EVENTS OF THE LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY. Orelers received at the ~S77IV-OFFIC.E, 112, Strand, and of all New -.:Scents. December 2. 11/101 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. \inTning 2$ minutes after 1 I Evening 53 minutes after 1. 4.:.# .., WA: 't 4.:- c,,.rei; V ,_ , a , u i v , ' ' '' ..... t 4 A'? 2t<''', 4 .10...406.-- - -;!*—: ' ''''; ''' ' -141 :,1ti, ' • ‘.,;(c . .s' . ~. .: , - - ,, 5 , -'s - .iiiek:,,,34, ~„, . , , ~l it• --i< . i.' ,i_itt _‘zei Atn. LONDON : FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1842. The landowners and farmers have been amaz ingly ill-treated by the present Administration. The free-traders would only place them on a fair footing with the rest of the community. Sir ROBERT PEEL has lowered the price of their pro duce exclusively, and subjected them in common with the rest , to the Income-tax. He avowed that his intention was to give to other classes a compensation for that tax in the reduced cost of living; but that reduced cost is obtained from the reduced price of agricultural produce. He retorts, then, on the landowners and farmers the system they have so long upheld, and actually fleeces them to pacify the other classes. He con tinues the corrupt system which the free-traders would abolish, but brings it exclusively to bear against the very classes who placed Min in office. So is the poisoned chalice of unequal taxation commended to the lips of those who prepared it. The landed interest, according to Sir R. PEEL'S system, is to pay the Income-tax for the rest of the community. We do not like this injustice, and as the price of agricultural produce has fallen 30 per cent., in consequence, as is said, of Sir ROBERT'S mea sures, the farmer ought to be relieved from the Income-tax. We are not churlish towards the agricultural classes, and we will readily lend them our aid to obtain that end. At the same time the rest of the community wish to be relieved from the tax as well as the firmer. Suppose the latter pay it entirely, to all other , classes it is a prodigious annoyance. It taxes" lie trader for an income he may never re- AR its inquisitorial properties are expe rienceoy those who do not contribute to it, as wellae those who do. It is felt to be little better than a torment in a great multitude of families. Never did a tax so much harass the people for the little sum it- places in the Treasury. To raise 40,000,000/. by other means does not cause half .as much inconvenience and contention as to raise 4,Q00,000/. by the Income-tax. For the conve nience of the people, annoyed by it beyond mea sure, and for the benefit of the Government, the safety of which is always endangered when they .are discontented, it ought toberepealed. Theother classes feel it, though, according to Sir R. PEEL, they may not ultimately pay it. They hate it for its inconvenience and its irritation. It is inquisito rial and degrading, and Sir ROBERT PEEL will gain much more in popularity than he will lose in revenue by giving it up. All classes, and particularly the suffering agri eulturists, pressed down by poor-rates, have now a right to demand this relief. All the circum stances alleged in favour of the tax—all the pre texts on which it was defended—are changed. The peace of Canada is now entrusted to its own people, and no longer causes England so much expense. Many of our troops have been withdrawn from that colony. All apprehension on the side of the United States is extinguished by Lord ASHBURTON'S treaty. The war with Affghanistan is over, and all the expense caused by that country is at an end by our forces leav ing It. China has sued for peace, and is to pay a large sum of money to us, amply sufficient to meet the deficiency of the revenue in the pre sent year. At the same time there is now a hope that trade, and the revenue derived from trade, will increase very rapidly, so that the resources. of the Administration being increased, while its expenses are largely diminished, it may, -without the least inconvenience, dispense entirely with the whole Income-tax. We see with almost infinite sat;isfactiqn that the public has already taken this view of the matter, and in many places meetings are contem plated to petition for the repeal of the tax. In that course of conduct fortunately all may join. On this question agriculturists and manufacturers have no conflicting interests. Landlords and mer chants, retail dealers and annuitants, equally wish to be relieved. They have all a common interest in reducing the expense of the Govern ment, and that can only be effectually reduced by witholding the means of extravagance. We trust, therefore, that all classes will unite on the point before the meeting of Parliament, and plainly signify to Sir ROBERT PEEL that he must give up the Income-tax. The once happy and secure vales of England seem no longer safe dwelling places, and they are overrun with paupers. The terrible disease which the country gentlemen and the farmers were longago warned would spread its infection from the decaying towns to the rural districts, seems now to be ravaging them. "SUDDEN IN CREASE OF PAUPERISM" is the heading of an ar ticle in the Essex Herald, which thus goes on to detail the alarming progress : The accounts received this morning from various parts of the county, announce the consequences con templated by the late rapid reduction in the produce of the soil, as regards the wages of agricultural la bourers, which threaten to fall in proportion; in some parts they are already lowered to Bs. a week. The dif ference will be felt, and be thought by some greater than it appears ; but there are parishes in this county where the wages have never been generally and permanently raised beyond nine shillings ; and if the reduction in the price of flour within the last four months is referred to, the shilling lost in the wages will be found to be fully compensated in that article. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the measures of late adopted to instruct the labourer, and ' to promote his independence, will enable him to ar rive at the fact, that the present reduction of wages is the natural consequence alone of the crippled re sources of his employer, and that he may rest assured that on the return of the means, a proportionate in , crease will quickly follow. For the moment there certainly is cause for the apprehension of the want of employ, and that many will be thrown out of work altogether. The present law, it is well known, forbids relief out of the house under every plea but that of affliction, however numerous the family, in order to counteract a principle that was prac tised under the ohl law—that of paying from the poor-rate a part of the wages ; instances have been found, however—notwithstanding the liberality of the master and the competency of the labourer—in which numbers in a family have rendered such wages less than required to afford the common necessaries of life. In some unions it has been the practice to take from large families into the union-house one, and some times two children, in order to bring the cost of maintenance within the earnings of the parents; and such a relaxation of the general rule has been sanc tioned, in some cases, by the Poor-law Commissioners. We hear of an increase of paupers in one union in particular, where the house was built for only 350, and there are now more than 300, and an overflow is looked for. The union-houses must be relieved of the aged paupers, if room is required, and accommo dation can be found for them out of the house. The reader will remember that the increase of pauperism takes place in communities already very seriously afflicted with that evil, and it can scarcely become more intense without absorbing the property of the soil, and rendering a country residence in England no longer either safe or pleasant. In spite of the New Poor-law and the Corn-law, the landlords will scarcely save their estates and the tenants their capital. We have printed in italics one statement, which we consider to be extremely important. Ac cording to the Essex Herald the resources of the farmers are already crippled. It is their need, not their will, for they are well disposed towards their labourers, which compels them to lower wages and turn off their hands. Similar state ments have been made of the farmers in 'Wilt shire, Cheshire, Surrey, Sussex, and several other counties. The Corn-laws, however, are still in existence, and have lately been altered on an im proved plan ; but they are so noxious to the farmers themselves, that the very first decent harvest in six years has crippled their resources. This is a most important fact for solving all doubt as to the effect of our legislation. In favour of the Corn-laws it is alleged that they enable the farmer to keep hands in employ. ment and land in cultivation, but under their in fluence the farmers turn off their hands, and are crippled in their resources. What has become of the plunder obtained by the bread-tax ?It has been in a great measure imaginary, and has been dissipated as soon as got. The injury done by the laws to the rest of the community is not the less because the gain of the farmer has been nil. His expenses, we believe, have exceeded his gains, and all the advantages of bolstering up prices have gone to the landlord in the shape of rent. How rent is spent the foul disclosures lately made of the manner in which our nobility pass their time and employ their money, have in formed the public. The produce of the tax on the people's bread enriches courtezans at home and abroad. It is wasted in odious profligacy. It goes to nourish vice, not sustain labour. In all ages plunderers have been profligates, and there seems no difference in this respect between those who plunder by law and those who plunder by the strong hand. None of the wealth extorted by the bread-tax remains with the farmers, who have no hoards, no resources, and who cannot, like the Messrs. ASHWORTH and other manufac turers, keep a large number of labourers em ployed long after the period when they can hope to profit by their labour. One bounteous harvest, when the towns' people are unable to buy as largely as usual, suffices to reduce the farmers almost to as bad a condition as the labourers. What delightful, what blessed consequences, of that tax on bread, which stifles trade ! Pauperised Essex is, at the same time, not without its poachers. We see by the journal we have quoted, that three men were lately sen tenced to two months' imprisonment each for doing that. on the squire's game which the squire does on the people's bread —that is, take it away without leave of the owner. In other places, too, the people imitate on game the conduct which the game owner pursues towards the people's food, and bloody encounter s ensue. The New castle Journal gives the following account of a been WITA P c i E the as a g P h P t lately er o that a gang DESPERATE of A po F a F c ß h A er Y s have of pursuing their no cturnal de p redation s on the pre serves adjoining Warkworth. On th e Wednesday week information was brought to Mor wick-hall, the residence of Mr. S. G. Barrett, that a party of poachers were upon the estate, and that gentleman immediately went out, accompanied by his brother-in law, the Rev. H. Bell, Vicar of Longhoughton, for the purpose of warning them off. Shortly after leaving the house, and being a short distance from each other, Mr. Barrett heard Mr. Bell call out as if for aid, and on proceeding to the spot he found the Rev. Gentleman attacked by the whole gang, five in number, who had knocked him down, and were beating him unmercifully with the butts of their guns and bludgeons. After defend ing himself, Mr. Barrett, who in turn was attacked, succeeded in getting out his pistols, when the villains fled: Mr. Bell was conveyed to Morwick-hall, with one of his arms broken by a desperate blow from the butt of a gun, which was also broken by the blow, the butt end being afterwards found on the spot ; he was also severely beaten about the head by the cowardly villains when on the ground. Happy, peaceful England ! Such a scene re flects equal honour on her people and her Government. Here is its counterpart in another place : DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH PoActiEus.—Friday morning last, about two o'clock, a most desperate conflict took place between the keepers and assistants of Mr. Peter Arkwright (nine in number) and eleven armed poachers. It appears that the keepers had some suspicion, and proceeded with two large dogs to Littlemoor Wood, about a mile from Matlock, where they met with eleven poachers armed with guns,.which they instantly presented at the keepers, who immediately let go the dogs and fell in with them. Here the ba'tle raged most furiously for some time ; three or four shots were fired by the poachers (as they . say only to kill the dogs), and, wonderful to relate, missed all the m en , one d og only being killed. Not having time to re-load, they fell upon the keepers with the butt ends of their guns , f our o f w hi c h were broken entirely to pieces. The encounter now began to be in favour of the keepers, every man on both sides being more or less injured. The poachers at length gave up the contest, with the loss of four pri soners, one of whom was much worried by th e d ogs , as well as being otherwise injured. Three of the poachers, John Travis, Edward Travis, and Samuel Smith, were sent off to Derby county gaol, for trial at the next assizes, and the fourth, named Itobinson, formerly a most respectable man, is on bail.—. Derby Reporter. Secure from foreign foes, the people of Eng land, split into classes, make war on each other. Her worst enemies rejoice, and believe that she is only secured from them to be certainly de stroyed by her own hands. Let us add to these terrible affrays, bloody battles, and sudden in crease of pauperism, the prevalent practice of incendiarism, and then we see that the squires, by their legislation, and their administration of the law, have made our once " merrie" and free England, whose woods and fields echoed with jovial sports, a disagreeable and dangerous place to live in. No inconsiderable number of the landowners themselves seem sensible of this, and they put the Channel betwixt them and danger. They seek from the police of the Continent the safety and protection of which they have deprived people and property in England. MISTERS. TIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1849. THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. FIRST SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE CONVOY CATION OF MINISTERS ON SATURDAY, THE 19TH OF NOVEMBER, 1842, AND CONCURRED IN BY 427 MINISTERS. 1. That according to the recent, and, as it appears to this Convocation, unconstitutional decisions of the supreme civil courts, and the interpretation which those decisions, if allowed or sanctioned by the su preme power in the State, would put upon the civil law—the obligation to receive and admit a qualified presentee, imposed by the law of patronage on the presbyteries of the ChurchAis Ocivil obligation, such as may be enforced by the ordinary compulsations of civil law; and in particular, that the rejection of a presentee in respect of the dissent of the congregation, according to the fundamental principle and law of the Church is not merely an act to which the civil courts, may refuse to give civil effect, but is in itself a civil wrong or offence, which nay be dealt with accord ingly by the civil courts. 2. That other decisions of the civil courts, and in particular the decision of the Lord Ordinary in the case of the deposition of the Strathbogie ministers, imply an assumption of a jurisdiction in the most sacred functions of the :worship and government of the Church, especially in the matter of the deposition of ministers, to the effect of reducing the sentences of spiritual courts in the exercise of discipline over mi nisters and members of the Church. . . 3. That these claims to jurisdiction in spiritual matters, on the part of the civil courts, are based chiefly, if not altogether, upon the Act of Queen Anne restoring patronage—an Act from the first unjustifiable, and recently interpreted in a sense to which the Church cannot conscientiously submit, and to which she cannot consent to accommodate her ecclesiastical procedure. 4. That as the principle involved in these decisions, and particularly in the recent Auchterarder judg ment, is that of the supremacy of the civil courts over those of the Established Church in the exercise of their spiritual functions ; so the members of the Con vocation declare that no measure can in conscience be submitted to by them which does not effectually pro tect the Church against the exercise of such jurisdic tion by the civil courts in time to come, and in par ticular fully prevent all future encroachments of the nature specified in the preceding resolutions. 5. That in all their past contendings the members of this Convocation have been actuated, and they trust that in all their future proceedings they will continue to be actuated, by a deep conviction of the value and excellence of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution under which they live ; and that one of the chief causes of their present anxiety arises out of their im pression that the tendency and inevitable result of the recent decision of the civil courts, especially if these shall be finally sanctioned as the law of the land, must be as entirely subversive of the Constitution as they are repugnant to the principles of this Church and the consciences of her office-bearers. SECOND SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE CON VOCATION OF MINISTERS, ON TUESDAY, THE 22D OF NOVEMBER, 1842, AND CONCURRED IN BY 354 1. That while the Church most solemnly protests against the ;invasion of her jurisdiction by the civil courts, as contrary to the word of God, the Confession of Faith, and the Constitution of this kingdom; and while, in this particular, she is entitled, in the judg ment of the brethren now assembled, to declare, as the General Assembly in the claim of rights has declared, that the assumption by the civil courts of authority in matters spiritual, and espe cially in the ordination, admission, or deposition of ministers, and the other proceedings there set forth, is in violation of the law establishing the Church, which was made unalterable by the Act of Security and the Treaty of Union ; and that whatever is done in the exercise of that assumed authority ought therefore to be held as in right or de jure, it is null and void and of no effect ; still, whatever the nation in these circumstances might do, it is not the duty of the Church, as a kingdom not of this world, which has not and cannot have any power of the sword, or any secular dominion whatever, to plead her title thus acquired and secured to the temporal benefits of her establishment, in opposition or resist ance to the supreme power of the State, except in the way of remonstrance, protest, and serious warning. 2. That as, on the other hand, it is the bounden duty of the Church and of her faithful Ministers, to represent to the supreme power of the State the nature of the invasions of the civil courts upon the spiritual provinces so, on the other hand, the refusal on the part of the State of such a remedy as has been de clared indispensable to meet the emergency, cannot be otherwise construed than as being a recognition and sanction by the State of the principle which the deci sions of the civil courts involve. _ _ _ 3. That the brethren now assembled fully recognise the intrinsic authority and final jurisdiction of the civil magistrate or .the : supremo power of the Stato;m the exercise of all civil functions, and in the discharge of all the duty which he owes towards the Church of Christ ; and M particular they acknowledge the right of the civil magistrate to fix the terms on which he will establish the Church, as a right which he is to use on his own responsibility, and in the use of which the Church is not entitled to resist him ; and hence, accordingly, as the Church being essentially independent of the civil magistrate in her spiritual province, is not bound, and is not at liberty to conform her procedure in the government of Christ's houSe to the orders of the State, or of any courts of the State, against her convictions of duty founded on the word of God, so neither is she warranted in prescribing to the civil magistrate, or requiring him to act according to her views, whether in the administration of civil affairs generally, or in what he does towards religion or about things sacred, as in his giving to the Church, or withholding from her, the civil countenance and support ; nor may the Church resist his determination in these matters, since, in both departments of his duty, the civil ma gistrate is always bound to act according to his own conscience, under the rule of the word of God, and on his responsibility to God. 4. That it is the duty of the faithful ministers of this Church not to continue to receive the endow ments or emoluments secured to them by the civil law, or to involve themselves in the manifold incon veniences and serious evils of a protracted struggle with the civil power, after it shall appear that the supreme power of the State, by refusing to relieve them from interference of the civil court in things spiritual, does thereby substantially and effectually sanction the condition which the civil courts would attach to their holding of these endowments or emolu ments, and to which they never .can submit or yield obedience, viz., the condition of subjection to civil control in matters spiritual, and of being bound, against their consciences, to intrude ministers upon reclaiming congregations. 5. That it is the duty of the ministers now assem bled, and of all who adhere to their views, to make a solemn representation to her Majesty's Government, and to both Houses of Parliament, setting forth the im minent and extreme peril of the establishment, the inestimable value of the benefits which it confers on the country, and the pain and reluctance with which they are forced to contemplate the possibility of the Church's separation, for conscience' sake, from the State respectfully calling upon the rulers of this na tion to maintain the Constitution of the kingdom in violate, and to uphold a pure establishment of religion in the land ; and, finally, intimating that as the endow ments of the Church are, undoubtedly, at the disposal of the supreme power of the State, with whom it rests either to continue to the Church her possession of them, free from any limitation of her spiritual ju risdiction and freedom, or to withdraw them alto gether, so it must be the duty* of the Church, and consequently, in dependence on the grace of God, it s the determination of the brethren now assembled, if no measure such as they have declared to be indispen sable be granted, to tender the resignation of those civil advantages which they can no longer hold in consistency with the free and full exercise of their spiritual functions, and i to cast themselves on such pro vision as God n His providence may afford, main taining still uncompromised the principle of a right scriptural connection between the Church and the State, and solemnly entering their protest against the judgments of which they complain, as, in their decided opinion, a lt oget h er contrary t o w h at h as ever hitherto been u n d erstoo d to b e t h e l aw an d Constitu tion of this country. * Twenty-one of the above 354 adherents added the following explanation to their concurrence " While filagreeing from the doctrine which seems implied in the resolutions, that the silence of the Legis lature constitutes an obligation on our consciences to regard the terms of compact between Church and State as altered, we adhere, in so far that the silence of the Legislature, after a reasona bl e t i me w ill, on the g roun d o f Christian expediency, oblige us to leave the Esta blishment." The town of Thetford, in Norfolk, has been thrown into a state of unpleasant ferment during the last few days, in consequence of a solicitor, hitherto consi dered of the highest respectability, having suddenly absconded, leaving liabilities incurred by him to the amount, it is supposed, at the lowest, of 20,000/. He had appointed Friday last for meeting some very heavy mortgage accounts, and for handing over the amount for a farm which he had recently purchased ; and his non-appearance on that and the 'following days, led to the above unpleasant discovery. His absence has almost created a panic in the neighbourhood, as from his extensive transactions in mortgages, conveyances, and other monetary matters, it is impossible to calculate at present the extent of his defalcations. Wednesday,la Court of Directors was . held at the East India House, when Lestock Rober t Reid, Esq., was appointed a provisional member of Council at Bombay. Another portion of the Berlin-Stettin railroad was opened on the 16th ult., na mely from Neustadt to Angermunde. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The suggestion from Bridgewater shall be attended to as far as possible. - COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, left town by the Great Western Railway yesterday morning, to honour the Duke of Beaufort with a visit at his seat, Badminton, Gloucestershire. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left Kew yesterday for Badminton to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with a visit. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and Baron Knesebeck also left Kew yesterday for Badminton. A Deputation from the Steam Ship-owner's Asso ciation, consisting of Mr.W. Attwood, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Pim, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. A. Davis the Secretary, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth and Mr. C. K. Murray had interviews with Sir James Graham yesterday at the Home-office. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office. General Sir George Murray, G.C.8., and Miss Murray, have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, from Scotland. MAGAZINES-CONCLUDED. SPORTING RE VIE TV. There are two embellishments in the Sporting Review, the best of which is a sketch, in which are included portraits of several fine greyhounds, the property of T. S. Bowles, Esq. The literary portion of the work is as well conducted as usual; and we may single out the " Anatomy of Pugilism" as deserving of especial praise for the humane spirit that pervades it. 16 COLBURIV'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. The author of " Notes on the Army," in a seventh paper, strongly advocates for general adoption what he terms a "limited service period." He shows that nothing can be more disheartening or cheerless to the soldier, than the prospect of unlimited service, with a dis charge, as worn out at last, on an inconsiderable pittance or pension per day. The chief' difficul ties to this measure appear to lie with the East India regiments, and those at the Cape; but these, the writer demonstrates, a rotation system and other plans could obviate. The use of iron cables instead of hempen ones, is considered as the most beneficial change among the naval improvements of the preSent century, in an article treating on that subject : rudders, logs, and log-lines, have also been greatly amended and rectified; but the present greatest desideratum appears to be, the need of a respon sible Board of experienced officers and men of science, whose express duty should be to investi gate and register the important plans and obser vations, which, for want of such a Committee, are daily, with their' advantages, lost. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Mr. Lever's " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman," is brought to a conclusion this month. It is not so lively or amusing as " Charles O'Malley ;" still it is well worth reading, if only for the vividness and fidelity of its sketches of Paris in the memorable year 1814, when that city was the resort of all the leading crowned heads of Europe. The " Three Half Crowns" is a notice of a well-known series of sonnets by the Italian poet, Casti, the majority of which, if we remember rightly, have already been translated by Leigh Hunt. In the essay entitled " Poets and the Public" we are pleased to perceive that the writer undertakes the defence of Lord Byron, whose stirring and versatile genius it is now the fashion to underrate. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This periodical is much improved under its new management; and the Number before us contains, inter alia, several intelligent reviews, and among them, one of Mr. Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient Rome," which are spoken of in warm terms of approbation, and another of Mr. Taylor's lately published tragedy, " Edwin the Fair." The " Fauteuil" is an interesting story, the scene of which is laid in France during the stormy period of 1794. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The first article in this Number is the best; it is an historical essay on the subject of the "Last Days of the Stuarts," wherein the author gives a very fair estimate of the public and private cha racter of William the Third, who certainly was "an intriguer born." " Tales of the Haunted Garments" contain one or two forcible descrip tive passages. CITY OF LONDON MAGAZINE. This is an improving periodical; the last Number was a good one, but this is much better, containing, as it does, more variety, both in prose and verse. " The Theological Argument against Capital Punishment" is a well-considered and well-digested essay. BRAD SHAW'S JOURNAL. There is a picturesque engraving of the far famed Lake of Windermere in the present Number, together with a graphic account of a visit paid last year by the writer, who signs him self" Maufice Harcourt," to Rydal Mount, the residence of the poet Wordsworth. This account is cleverly drawn up. We may extend the same praise to the brief biographicul Memoir of Allan Cunningham. THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Among other papers, relating to a variety of matters connected with agricultural interests, a proposal appears for establishing a farmer's club-house in London. The necessity for such an institution appears obvious, as a place where agriculturists from all parts of the country might mutually meet and correspond upon their affairs. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. The usual excellent and exemplary collection of sermons, and annotative papers upon portions of the Scriptures, continue to carry out the origi nal design of this Magazine in an approved manner. It appears ably supported by the pens of many talented divines, and the lay contribu tions are also as laudable. THE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE. A very charming portrait of Medora—one of wistfully o ogriazoin B heroine y r o n ' s appearsbeauties—embellishes r is lat tice-window, and endeavourin g to descry the first glitter of Conrad's sail in the di s t ance. w A de scription of a beautiful h o blonde, goes by the sobriquet La Bellissima, is drawn w it h muc h airiness and fancy ; but being the admired of every dazzling circle, she despises her suitors, and when her beauty has faded, becomes the vic tim of a dissipated roue. A variety of interest ing tales, legends, and verses from fair penscom pose a very agreeable Number. THE FUNDS-(CI BRITISH, rUSING PRICES) FUNDS. - - ---- - - Bank Stock —.. .171 i India Stock —pm 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 94i Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent. Red 101 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... ..... lOl4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001. .... .51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 9-16 'Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859 - Jan. 1860 l2 13-16 Consols for Opg. ...... 951 FOREIGN FUNDS. 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent.., — Ditto, Metallic . .... Spanish, 5 per cent.,.... 18 Ditto, Deferred 10 French, 5 per cent --f. —c. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, per cent. 524 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 101 n Austrian, 5 per cent. per cent 3razilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cont. Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79i Danish, 3 per .:ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 303 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1337 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .•• 48 Great Western, (65 paid) . Ditto New gbares - (50 'paid) . ............ 63i London and Blackwall ( paid) ....... ••• London - London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9 3 /4 Pa ris an I Rouen (20 paid) ....... 25 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 2 3 3 /4 Ditto Scrip (20 paid) fittontiVitittion SUN OFFICE Three o'clock. _We have described the system of summary punishment and prison discipline, as one of slow torture, and we are glad to see that description fully confirmed by the observations of a Contempo rary. A writer in the Times yesterday stated : In the year 1840, the total number of persons sentenced by Courts of Justice to be whipped in England and Wales, was 1,049, and to be placed in solitary confinement, was 3,370. In the same year the total number of punishments for offences within the prison, and, therefore, inflicted almost at the dis cretion of the gaoler was : Whipping Handcuffs and irons Stoppage of diet Solitary cells . 11,139 Dark cells Other punishments ..... 3,935 Here we have 'a total of 75,170 punishments, arbitrarily inflicted on the gaol population by the officers of the gaols. The public are never called in to witness the infliction, or to see justice done. All that mass of torture takes place in secret; the prison walls shrouding it in darkness, and taking away all possibility of redress. Now, when it is remembered that many of these additional punishments fiall on persons who are summarily convicted, that they are in the first instance sentenced without a verdict of Guilty being pronounced by a Jury— ' that they are afterwards liable to these inflictions at the good pleasure of the gaoler or the Visiting Magistrates, no very gentle personages, it will at once be seen that the lower classes in Eng land are exposed to a great system of arbitrary and cruel punishments which constitute a ter rible torture. That odious practice, after we have plumed ourselves for centuries that it is extinct in England, still prevails in our gaols and still gives to our lower classes that characteristic of hard brutality of which civilization and the in crease of the people, the source of civilization, cannot deprive them. But then it is said there must be some punish ment for crimes. It remains, however, to be proved that many of the actions punished are in any other sense crimes than that it has pleased the Legislature to ordain punishment for them. For example, all the offences connected with the Game-laws are not naturally crimes; they are made so by the legislator, and he is justly chargeable with all those crimes, and all the cruel punishments he ordains on account of them. In like manner numberless venial transgressions of moral duty, such as drunkenness, neglecting to provide for a family, are not crimes to be pu nished like theft or murder. The same remark will apply to trespasses on land, and many of the minor violations of the right of property, which are things to be reprehended—checked, if you will, by public censure, but they ought not to be classed as crimes, and ought not to subject the offender to torture in a gaol. We will not go through the long catalogue of actions for which it has pleased the legislator to ordain punishment; enough has been said to show that he very frequently transmutes inno cent actions, or actions to be only slightly repre hended, into grave offences, and he is the true author of these crimes. Of course he is the author of all the cruelty which is employed in the vain attempt to repress them. We know that in matters of trade he has been much too busy, and we see reason to suspect, in matters of criminal jurisprudence, that he has done a great deal more than he ought, and inflicted, by bad criminal laws, almost as much injury on public morals, as by bad trade laws he has caused to national wealth. The Convocation of the Scotch clergy at Edin burgh has led to one important result. Vague threats had from time to time been made, that if the Veto Act was not recognised by Par liament, a vast number of the clergy would secede from the Church, and, shaking off the dust of their feet against the Erastians, trust to the people for support. This threat is now put in a distinct form. Three hundred and fifty-four have solemnly declared that they cannot in conscience submit to what they term the unconstitutional decisions of the Supreme Civil Courts, and in particular the decision of the Lord Ordinary, in the case of the deposition of the mi nistersofStrathbogie, and thatif no measure, such as they have declared indispensable, be granted, it is the determination of the brethren assembled at Edinburgh, "to tender the resignation of those civil advantages which they can no longer hold in consistency with the free and full exer cise of their spiritual functions, and to cast them selves on such provision as GOD in Hisprovidence may afford." Now, the measure which they have declared indispensable, is a law ratifying the Act of Assembly, called the " Veto Act," and em powering them to depose all clergymen who conscientiously differ from them on that head. Betore this modest request can be complied with, a radical change must take place in the two Houses of Parliament. The Bishops must be expelled from the House of Lords; all the patrons of English livings, and most of the patrons of Scotch livings, must follow in their train, and a majority of the House of Commons must profess theldoctrines of Non-Intrusion. Can any rational being expect such a result in the present day? And knowing, as these clergymen do, the inexpressible indignation which not only the political party in power, but many also of their old staunch friends the Whigs, felt on reading the cold-blooded sentences passed on so many venerable clergymen, do they imagine for one moment that the Legis lature will confer on them more power to do evil? They know pretty well the sentiments of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM; they know that the Bishop of LONDON, who represents his order, distinctly stated in writing, to Sir G. SINCLAIR, that such a measure never could be carried in the House ofLords, and that the secession of a large body of the clergy was infinitely preferable, and that no earthly consideration could induce the QuEEN's advisers to sanction an Act which would expose five hundred clergymen to the tender mercies of the Non-Intrusionists. After the solemn declaration, therefore, made at a Convocation constituted and concluded by prayer, no alternative is left but secession, and they must make up their minds to this painful result. It will be a heavy blow and a great discourage ment to one section of the Kirk, and be pro ductive of some evil ; but any change will be better than the present system, which is injurious to religion, keeps up constant animosity in the Church, and subjects hundreds of excellent mi nisters to unmerited punishment. The accounts from Spain leave little doubt tha the rash and wicked insurrection at Barcelona would speedily be put down. ESPARTERO was rapidly approaching the city with an army of 15,000 men, which, with that under General VAN HALEN, would amount to about 30,000 troops —.a force to which the insurgents could oppose no adequate resistance. The port of Barcelona and the river Belos was declared in a state of blockade by a decree of the REGENT, issued at Saragossa on the 26th. The insurgents were dis posed to yield, and would probably give up the ringleaders as some atonement for the slaughter of so many soldiers. No place of the slightest importance in Catalonia, or indeed in any part of Spain, appears to sympathise with the people of Barcelona, and the affair altogether may be pro nounced the most hopeless attempt at revolution ever made even in Spain. The following is an extract from a telegraphic dispatch which appeared in the Paris Moniteur of Wednesday.— "BARCELONA Nov. 26.—Llinas, having lost the confidence of the people, has been superseded in the command of the armed force. He hag taken refuge on board the Meleagre. Brigadier Durando, a Pied montese officer of merit, has assumed the command. " The Captain-General Pedro Chacon returned to Valencia on.that day. " Brigadier Durando, who has taken the command of the Barcelonese insurgents is," says these papers, " a brave Piedmontese officer, who fought under the orders of his countryman, General Borso di Carminati. The latter was shot last year at Saragossa, for parti cipation in the Christino conspiracy of October, 1841." The Emancipation de Toulouse of the 27th announces the arrival of the Gemappe ship of the line and several French steamers at Barcelona. Accounts from Madrid state that tranquillity prevailed. The Three per Cents. were done on the 23d at 21i, at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 191, with 4 coupons; and the Five per Cents. at 26k 9-16 5-16 I at 60 days. The Government of LOUIS PHILIPPE has gained a great triumph by the election of General JACQUEMINOT as Deputy for the first arrondissement of Paris. The contest was de cided on Wednesday, when the Ministerial candidate had a majority of 147 over his oppo nent, the numbers being 842 for the General, and 695 for M. PORTALIS. This district is con sidered very liberal, and possibly would have preferred a candidate more opposed to the politics of the Government; but Court interest, and the patronage possessed by the Commandant of the National Guards, prevailed. Official dispatches appear in the Moniteur, addressed to Marshal SOULT by the Governor- General of Algeria, in which General BUGEAUD gives an account of a successful razzia on the 29th ult., by Lieutenant-Colonel ST. AnrtAun, on the tribes which support SIDI-EMBARREK, and states that the enemy was driven into the desert. LAMORICIERE'S column had been sent in pursuit of ABD-EL-KADER, who for the twen tieth time was said to be abandoned by his fol lowers, but unfortunately the enterprising Chief again made his escape. BOURSE—PARIS, WPDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 15... 119 5... 119 5 Four per Cents 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50 3 per Cents 89 50... 80 50... 80 35... 80 35 Bank of France 3305 —.3305 —.3305 .. 3205 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 50:.i2 50...5082 50...5080 ..5080 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives. 1840 lO4l, ... 104 ... 104 i ... 104 i Spanish Active. . 23* ... 23* ... 2 I ... 23* Neapolitan... lOB 60... 108 80... 108 60... 108 80 Roman, RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain' B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830 Versailles, L.B B7 50... 87 50... 86 25... 86 25 Rouen Orleans. 5BB 75... 560 588 75... 595 Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 50... 201 25... 201 25... 201 25 THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1843. —We have had frequent occasion to call public at tention to the comprehensive plan, and excellent ar rangements of this useful work, and in these respects have little new to add. It is satisfactory, however, to state, that Mr. Kelly, the proprietor, not ungrateful for the extensive patronage it has justly acquired, has adopted many new improvements, and by simplifying some of itle details, and making numerous additions, has this year rendered it the most complete Directory ever published. Of these we select the following : The full names of each partner in every firm appear at his proper alphabetical position with a reference to the firm, which likewise appears as before. This will remady an inconvenience complained of, that unless the leading partner's name was remembered, a firm could not he referred to. A list of the prin &pal hotels, taverns, and commercial inns throughout England and Wales has been compiled, the land lord's name being in each case added. In the " Trades' Directory," some new lists have been added, the longest of which is " Travellers," (Commercial). The Street Directory has been much enlarged, and now embraces a much wider extent. The Court Directory also takes a much wider range than in the last edition, and includes some thousands of names not contained in any other book. The Proprietor, from his access to official documents, and the assist ance liberally afforded by the Post-office authorities, has great advantages, and consequently has been enabled to furnish a vast amount of information, all of which has been collected within the last seventy days, by responsible agents, possessing local know ledge. It is accompanied by an excellent map of London, by Wyld, it extends to 1,5.58 pages, 112 more than in the edition of last year, and forms altogether a most valuable book of reference. We have reason to believe that Lieut.-General Sir Hugh Gough, G-.C.8., with the greater part of the troons at nresent wilt return to India ; and that the command-in-chief will be entrusted to Major. General Lord Saltoun, G.C.H., C. 8., at least until the payment of the twenty-one millions of dollars stipulated in the late treaty. The force under his Lordship's orders will consist of a brigade at Chusan, a small garrison at Amoy, and two battalions (British), with artillery, at Hong- Kong, where, it is expected that the head-quarters will be established.—Post. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TIME E. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was rather brisker, 8,000 bales having been sold, of which 4,000 bales were on speculation : 400 bales Egyptian, realised 61d. to 63d. ; 150 of Peruvian, 64d. ; 60 of Bahia, 63d. to 63d.; 400 of Surat, 33d. to 4d.; and the American sold at 4d. to 60. per lb. But little was done in the Railway Shares, the markets being dull except for Paris and Rouen, which were in request. Grand Junction Half Shares were 914 ; Great Western Halves, 621 ; Midland Counties Fifths, '4; and Paris and Rouen, 25. The notice which appeared at the Bank of Eng land yesterday afternoon, and adverted to in the Morning Edition of The Sun, does not lower the rate of interest, as stated by the Post and Herald. On the Ist September last the Bank Directors gave notice that the rate would be 33 per cent., which was a re duction on the previous charge of 3 per cent., but there has certainly been no increased charge since then. The demand for capital is decidedly increasing in the City as trade improves, and we are happy to state that there are unequivocal symptoms of revival in various branches of trade ; some articles, such as dyes, &c., having advanced yesterday 30 per cont. for shipment to China. Articles likely to be received in full supply from that quarter are of course lower, and tea begins to decline. A statement of the revenue of the province of Canada for 1841 reached us by the last steamer, and shows the total Customs to have been 214,4381. Quebec paying 53,5051.; Montreal, 108,7501.; St. John's, 23,273/. ; Kingston, 8,179/. ; and Toronto, 6,4031. The Excise duties were 22,5701., and the payments by the American Land Company amounted to 22,2221. The total net income was 297,9901. The timber trade in Canada .is evidently improv ing, after all the outcry against the abolition of pro tective duties. The following communication from Aylmer, in the Ottawa district, bears out our asser tion :—" We entertain very sanguine hopes that the timber trade will revive, and the producer meet the reward of his toil in the ensuing season. We under stand, in the confident expectation of this, large quan tities of timber will be made this winter, and the low prices of provisions is greatly in favour of the operative. All is life and bustle in the lumbering sec tions, already in active preparation, and as soon as winter sets fairly in we trust to see, as heretofore, strings of lumber sleighs wending their way to the shanties with requisites for the hardy sons of the forest. Bytonn and Aylmer then will revive; both have been sadly suffering from the pressure of the times." The operations in Stocks will b e res t r i c t e d f or t h e next few weeks within a narrower circle, as the trans fer books are closed for Consols, &e. For money there have been transfers at 941 to 94*, being a shade higher than yesterday forenoon. For the opening on the 17th of January, without the dividend, the rates have been 933 to 93 1 . Exchequer Bills have reali se d 49 5. to 51s. premium,'' New Three and-a-Half per Cents. 1011 to 1014, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 941 to 1. A purchase of 5,000/. has been made in the last-mentioned at 941 for the Savings Banks Commissioners. Bank of England Stock remains at 1713 to 1723. The news from Spain is looked upon as rather more encouraging, and the Active Stock has touched 183, while Three per Cents. were 23 to 234. Portuguese Three per Cents. have been firm at 223. Mexican Bonds have ruled steady at 303 to 303. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 523 523. The only business worth noticing in Shares is in the South Eastern, at 26i- to 273; and in the Scrip at 21 to 11 discount. Blackwall are 11, and Man chester and Leeds, 1 discount. Newcastle and Dar lino i con Junction have been sold at premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares are 2 prem. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. I.—We have had a very flat market to-day, but prices con tinue firm. South Eastern Scrip, 18 to 183; Man chester and Birmingham, 20 to 20 , 3 ; Mancheste r an d Leeds, 69 to 70; Ditto Half Shares, 293 to 30; Ditty, Quarter Shares, 43 to 41; Eastern Counties, 83 to 93; Ditto New, 103 to 11. MLIETING OF PARLIA MENT.--It is now g enera ll y supposed that the Leg i slature will not as sem bl e f or the dispatch of business until the usual p er i o d, v i z ., the first week in February, but nothing certain can be known on the subject until the next Privy Council. Raupach, the popular German dramati s t, and Tieck, the poet, whose popularity may almost be said to have been ratified by the verdict of posterity, have lately been raised by the King of Prussia to the dignity of Privy Councillors. SiMMARY OF NEWS AND titibitt PtlitOlt. " Who runs may read•' POEEIGN. Thgel s li e g o e m disposed neefro to submitmßarcelona t is o t m h o e r Go more favourable. The On lesday the King of the French arrived at the Tuilerit from St. Cloud, and presided at a Council of Miniters. M. T c he ort uoto th d e ien D ne illec in tor n - o G t e ic n i e n r g al a o c f on th fe e re p n o e s e t. w offi hich ce, had on ionday with the Minister of Finance, men- _ tions a ' , port that the object of it was to discuss some arrangetents for a uniform postage in France, and that a ill for the purpose will be presented to the ebrinher in the approaching session. The c(astruction of the tomb of the Emperor A H-:N`' poleon islbout to be commenced, and for some days a model )f the work has been exposed to public view, at the Ilk-aides. An equestrian statue of the Empe ror is to e placed in the middle of the great court, and on tle pedestal will be represented the arrival of his ashes t the place where they now lie. The e—Commissary of Police Lerurrnand, con demned br default, at the Court of Assizes of the Haute-Gronne, for corruption in his office, and who was late]) arrested at Paris, has been sent to Toulouse, to be plac , d at the orders of the Procureur du Rol. The Plvaganda Fides of Rome received last year the sum o' 113,0001. which was employed in follow ing the misionaries from the English Church, whet!. ever they went, for the purpose of counteracting tnef effect of tleir labours by instilling into the minds the heather the errors of the Roman Catholic faith. The ustal annual mass was performed on Tuesdig. at the Chtrch of St. Roch in commemoration of the last revolution of Poland. The numerous Polish re fugees wh) were present afterwards dined together:. The poke of Lyons has been put on a track o' band of fifty thieves, robbers and depredators of all kinds, 7EO have lately been r an s ac ki n g that c it y its envircns. A liberated convict, having he u u A trayed by one of his accomplices, h a d dent:ni— whole confederacy. :N i re e r. Accounts from Vienna s t a t e th a t Prince : n i d nich was quite recovered, an d h a d res umed h is " 5-- labours. A letter from Rome Nov. 17, in the AugO ltr i c t Gazette, says—" The King of Naples has ende av°ll7 to induce Don Miguel to relinquish all claim s the Crown of Portugal, on condition of his receir th 'v e a pension from that country. All the efforts c:. King, however, on this point have been fruitless. ~..A According to the latest accounts the affhirs of were still in an unsettled state, the clergy being tile to the new Prince. PUBLIC OPINION. ' We quote the followin g from th e Morning 11 "ifi, Twelve month s ago th a t p er p e t u al prater 11.; Cobden instructed his confederates of the Anti - 9 °; law League that through th e instrumentality of gri t ; tection to domestic agriculture there was far too b • a breadth of land devoted to corn cultivation, B,e that upwards of two million acres of our soil und er plough was unfit to produce anything but 0/47; and was only worth rent because of the Corn,.; Ile then insisted On the absolute necessity of cea,TA to cultivate poor clay lands; he then persisted 1 14 , we grew far too much wheat and fed far too v er .: cattle ; and he then attacked landowners for their s er fishness in persisting to tear up land which nev.he should, he declared, have been disturbed. Then the curse of the country was described by this orate leaguer to he an obstinate determination to we; independent of foreign supplies of corn as po s s i be , then the greatest national blessing that could' to fall us was said to consist in gi v ing up all atteinpt! 91s. feed ourselves ; then high rents were pourtrar a w ; the iniquitous result of pro-Corn-law legis lati es; then farmers were characterised as public nuloncoo. and then the very idea of our ability to increase . „o froduction of bread-corn was scouted as the P o ancy of foolish and interested landlords. ` 1) ,.% ) • with home agriculture and up with foreign g c " - t h e was but three short months ago the war Cr' G '.„ o le Manchester League. How changed is now th e ihe of the discourse of this man and his associates; anj-. Corn-law is now assaulted because it preven t ts bus . delays the introduction of improved systems 0 ' , 00 0 . bandry—because it has a tendency to chec k t " do e' production—because it stands in the way ( N - t a t t'ar draining, better hedging, better fencing, ploughing, better sowing, better everything --be cw i it restricts the demand for agricultural labourl-0,1 because it limits the domestic - consumptinll Qf manufactures." The Chronicle says, with reference to Lora a borough'. Indian pulicy—" It is no longer attcul tii -e ir • to be denied that the recent successes inAffgh 4 , B ,7, - 0 ' achieved borough. The eby Governor-Generalthe G ener Generals in spite ordered o he el nious retreat; the military authorities accomplish our most triumphant advance. The recovery country people, whom Lord Ellenborough fe• eP sacrificed, is of itself compensation to the nat' ° " - ry ater• ing for a hazardous and expensive military• n° prise; but this result, as we have s h o wn', 091 :, 1 - part of the Governor-General's design. W ha ' 3-v eX" tage, then, has Lord Ellenborough contrived to had tract from these triumphs, which, if his order It been obeyed, could never have been achieVe d ' v i t c, would really appear as if mortification at ha tieo been defeated in his attempt to defraud the it in. of what was due both to its character an d s g. terests, had urged him to a course as nearly as rte r fLaenrdiffpn,,.ol,::;,,, ble similar to that upon which he had at firs t Ilre mined. The retreat which he ordered in the , iOO clamation of the Ist of O c t o b er , w ith the excePerl, of the unpremeditat e d recovery o f the Prif,„ n or differs but little in its re su lt f rom that which ",ien. dered in the spring of this year. Battles hav e ine rsi fought, forts ha ve b een d es t roye d, a `grea t ,, -- t no lesson has been taught in Affghanistan. has sooner has all this been accomplished—no so ne Liltf the avenging sword fallen indiscriminately upon g be en and innocent, the seeds of future animosity t he broad sown from one end of the land to the other! s A elements of greater disorganisation than ever C / 4 : 010. before effectually let loose, than forth comes the 50 e , 4, ,, proclamation ; and, to strengthe n the moral le 4 B . tells the Affghans, Though we have been ow 0 0 overrun and lay waste your country, yet I that we are unable to keep possession of it. no ise fore we let go our hold, and undertake to r e rtora any Government you may establish.' This ' B ,„ ot ila Ellenborough's moral lesson ; w hi c h, however? - that - not be complete without the additional assuran ce j e a , all the hostilities in which th e B r iti s h e mpire la l ,ke9t nec es " gaged against these people were cr i mes of the hi ll : 4 1, dye—for none deepercan there be than un and therefore unjustifiable, war." n ion The Post says :—" It h 1 been our O P' t as a ways . that very little good could come of ' concessi°ll Bra persons whose principles are bad, whose motive; w e selfish, and consciences callous. So we said v rh , e b r ing saw the gifted head of the present Governmerl'int hat. forward measures of a nature which court 11 " f the ,, have the effect of making bolder and stronget- WI; party whose political extinction the people s e - i n e w o 1041 into office to accomplish. So we say nowL . , , ";titil'' see this hungry, impudent, and grasping Ph i a:_f9 r ing round on the Premier, and taunting l ea ders giving to them conditions which, their 0 01 Sit would never have been able to obtain for the.M• 0° Peel 6- Robert has said and done much that 12 5 V I , able to the principl es o f th e Lib e rals. ,-Ll e • 9:04;.' advanta g e o f the p ro - em i nen t p os iti o n of nin' s his party, but seemed more anxious to coli c his fallen foes than the friends who s°- )60 siastically supported him. Sure we are th a h t acted on a firm conviction of being in the rig of doing all that was best calculated, under _.JO circumstances, to promote and establish his c ount welfare. No doubt in this he made many , rs a:• `• sacrifices—no doubt, by steering a different eoti, o f he might have secured for himself a great announliee popularity with the faithful friends on whom he ,r e ,_ ;A d for political power. We did ourselves, with the ut t l ie [ , :; sincerity of true friendship, express our alarm at • he „ principles propounded, and disapproval of some measures introduced by the Tory Government. .-!";!,.,.01'; Radicals, in a paroxysm of petty exultation, WILL into exclamations of delight at the course they 88 11 , : things taking. But what is now their tone ? pudent calumny and vituperation of the Pre o V° u r e i::' character and motives. Nothing, they declare, D. been done—nothing that can satisfy the philos o p hic, the enlightened, the foes of farms and friends of fat' tories. Let this be a lesson. Let men who hav e principle—let men who have the destinies of an empiFe. in their hands—think now that it is time to stop in this career of concession." DIONEY—TILADE—COMBI ERCX. The charity of the Royal Free Hospital, Greville street, is about to be removed to the extensive prel mises of Messrs. Seddon in Gray's Inn-lane, forraerly „ the barracks of the City Light Horse Volunteers ; these premises have been fitted up at a cost of nearlY, 10,0001. for the purpose. NAVAL , AND MILITARY. The Telernaque has been sufficiently raised to ascertain the nature of. her cargo, which is found to be of timber and tallow. Some metallic substance also had obstructed the passage of several of the ' harpoon s •:., Accounts brought by various v essels and steatner#•„,,y; state that no less than the wrec ka g e of 12 large sels, and the complete loss of their cargoes has' • place during the late hurricanes, as as thlti l which have been burnt to the water's edge • upwiirr of :32 persons are ascertained to ha ve perished in thern!:, .+,' • *long with an unknown number in the vessels burnt. LAW AND POLICE. Wilmot Buckley, the murderer of his wife at Helen's, has confessed his crime in the presence li O f Mr. Greenall, M.P., and the Superintendent of the poc e ' and afterwards at the inquest. He stated that deceased had goaded him to distracti on about his • '