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~ ''+~ Just ready, in post Bvo., with Characteristic Illustrations by Leech, THE SECOND SERIES OF T HE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; Or, MIRTH AND MARVELS. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington - street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., COLLEGE LIFE, By J. HEWLETT, M.A. Late of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of " Peter Priggins," •` The Parish Clerk," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BETT'S PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, has been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement of envy in every . branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, under fallacious pretences arid high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fea ture is their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy. It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, Of the highest legal strength. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY 1 DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, £llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £BOO, £l,OOO, £1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to x 72,1713 sterling. Direct for PRO SPECTUS- with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. JJEINE 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., 18,000/., 9,0001., 5,000/., and 3,6001. to London ; 3,600/., 800/., and 700/. to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001. to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/. ' 700/., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 900/. to Hull ; 900 /. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford, Nottingham shire ; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire ; 600/. to Cork ; and 600/. toßradford, &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 more than 25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 1/. and upwards. One Share, 1/. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 31.; four Shares, 4/. ; five Snares, 5/. ; six Shares, 61.; seven Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 10/. Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be presented Bellini's Opera of NORMA. Norma, by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Oroveso, Mr. Giubilei ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. • To conclude with the Farce of THE IRISH TUTOR. Flail, Mr. Meadows; Terry O'Rourke, Mr. G. Hodson ; Rosa, Miss Lee; Mary, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; 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 Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove, Esq., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymond ; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To be followed by Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus CLATTER. Captain Pater, Mr. Charles Mathews. To which will be added THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster ; Margot, Madame Celeste. To conclude with the laughable Farce of MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 15, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta. Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss BlUrray. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING EVERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIVE FREE TRADE PORTS OF CANTON, AMOY, FOO-CH W-FOO, NIN GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Orders recezred at the SUN OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-. Agents. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 64 : Noon, 54. BAROMETER, 30.2.-WIND, S. HIGH Ny ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning al minutes after 111 Evening 0 minutes after 0. LONDON : THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1842. The League has much more reason to be pleased than angry , with the Quarterly Revier. It has carefully culled some of the choicest spe cimens of its opinions, and carried them amongst a class which might, but for its efforts, have been left much in the dark as to the nature of the League. It has also informed its readers that the language which it quotes was used by Ma gistrates, by men bearing titles, by opulent ma nufacturers, by rich merchants, by amiable and benevolent members of the Society of Friends, by ministers of the Gospel, by numerous mem bers of the middle class, and that it was warmly applauded by the large assemblies of the middle classes to which it was addressed. But for the care with which the Quarterly has distinguished,, the rank and station of the different gentlemen' _ beletOgii?g to the League, the bulk of the Tories might suppose that they were all penniless ad venturers, hunting after mere mob popularity. Now they must be astounded to learn that the League numbers amongst its members many opulent and well educated gentlemen, who, like all their class, aspire to share the honours of the aristocracy; that these gentlemen have left their own homes and their own business, have forgone all their usual habits, have acted against their own aristocratic prejudices, have incurred great risks, have advanced great sums of money, and have not been averse, according to the Review, to overthrow the State, and their own hopes, in order to procure the:repeal of the Corn-laws. That kind of information, circulated amongst the landowners, who rely on the opulent, well educated, industrious middle classes, to pre serve the State, is well calculated to make them believe that a system which had such an effect must be most disastrous. \lf they now needed any rousing this would rouse them; and the League is much beholden to the .Review for making the character and station of the men who support repeal, and the nature of the arguments and language they use widely ..45nown amongst its Tory readers. AWL 8444.rul knowledge will not be coun - e the abuse of th e Quarterly. The pi* by, and this generation has seen f. ; l,l7,,4; : zp t AheloOes call the Law and the Consti talidritialif-"Aoo,oilen set aside or overuled; it has o.li3 any examples of agitation, stigmatised 1 a s • 4 /tIP, SV - co -r au, ,); 3. 4 4 - 0 f446+, ' ,0 71 " 1 : 17 :47211;;AIA ( r , •-, f t :je AM& by Tory writers as illegal and. unconstitutional, succeed in compelling the Legislature to do 1 justice, for any men, even the most ultra- Tory, far less those engaged in a good cause, to place the least value on loud assertions that language is seditious, and that conduct is illegal and unconstitutional. All the charges that are vehemently made by the Quarterly only mean that the League has discomfited the bread taxers. The League will disdain to reply to them, and if we were to undertake so unneces sary a task we should retort the charges. We should say that the first Anti-Corn-law Society was not formed in Manchester till after the landlords, conscious of an overwhelming majority in Parliament, had treated with contempt the prayers of the people to be only heard against the law. That the League was not formed till every reasonable exertion had been made to influence the Legislature, without the least avail. It bad shown itself equally insensible to the decay of the masters and the starvation of the workmen. A careless Prime Minister had pro nounced it madness to abolish a system which openly decreed fraud, and consecrated in justice. Yet he was more friendly to their views than the man who was seeking his post by the help of the monopolists. The justification of the League, and of every strong term it has used, admitting the correctness of the Reviewer, is to be found in the fact, that the leading states , men of both parties were allied with the mono_ polists, that the Legislature was pledged to a great wrong, and that the League could have no hope of obtaining justice but by its own exertions. Even the Quarterly Review will admit that there is a degree of tyranny which calls for re sistance, and justifies rebellion. Degrees of tyranny short of the greatest enormity, require to be met with corresponding degrees of opposi tion and rebuke. From what the Quarterly calls the " unappeasable greediness of gain,'' which " has created and sustained the per severing activity" and union of the landowners, they set at defiance, years ago, all the principles of the Constitution, and to enrich themselves ex clusively the law-makers taxed the bread of the people. Obstinately did they persist, in spite of petitions, prayers, and remonstrances, to main tain a great violation of everything which ought to be law. They adhered, we admit, to the forms of the law and the Constitution, only the more securely to trample the substance of both under their feet. The true defence of the League, if any person care to defend it against the abuse of the Review, is to be found in the conduct of the Legislature. The one was the natural conse quence of the other. Only energy approaching to violence is a fit match for the hardhearted, unrelenting, systematic extortion which the landlords have practised, and still practise, by their power of making the laws. It was observed by the Morning Chronicle on Tuesday, which was heeetofore an advocate for a fixed duty on corn, and is now, we believe, like the Examiner, a convert to the total repeal of all duties, that " there are really no supporters of the existing Corn-law. The question is now not between the sliding scale and a fixed duty, but between absolute freedom and a fixed duty." The business of all Repealers, therefore, is nar rowed to the one point of contending against a fixed duty, and as there is a disposition in many persons to believe that it would at present be just and proper, as a safe means of conducting the nation to a perfectly free trade, we shall state some of the arguments which influence us in thinking it ought not now to be adopted. We shall re serve Sir R. PEEL'S stringent arguments against a fixed duty in general, till we learn on adequate authority that he means to forfeit every claim to public respect by adopting a nostrum, the fallacy and folly of which HE has admirably exposed. We must begin by clearing the ground of Mr. HUBBARD'S fallacy. That gentleman stated in a pamphlet on the present Corn-law, that a duty on corn would be paid by the importer, not by the consumer, and would diminish his profit. This opinion, which was developed and defended with much mercantile subtlety, was eagerly em braced by Lord PALMERSTON, to whom it sup plied the means of reconciling his grandiloquent phrases and theories in favour of free trade with his practice, and the intention of the Whig Ca binet to burden the most precious and important trade of all with a permanent duty ofBs., amount ing to 18 per cent. on the probable average price of wheat with a perfectly free trade. This opi nion we must try in the first instance to refute. It is perfectly clear that the consumer must, in the long run, pay all the cost of the bread he Rats, including the ordinary and average rate of profit of all the traders and capitalists in any way instrumental in supplying him. On that condi tion alone is he or can he be supplied. In a fixed and regular trade, the importer will not be contented with a less rate of profit than other capitalists; he could only get an equal rate of profit and pay the duty, provided the difference in the price of corn abroad and at home was sufficient to yield him that profit, and also pay the duty. Such has occasionally been the case under the sliding scale, and Mr. HUBBARD and Lord PALMERSTON have drawn a general infer ence from that exception, and applied, as a rule, the consequence of that law, to the corn-trade at all times. It is certain that a free corn trade would have a perpetual tendency to equalise the price of corn in this country and other countries, plus the charge of conveyance from one to the other. If there were no . other .difference in price than this cost of the convey ance, a fixed duty would be, and must be, paid by the consumer, to enable the importer to realise a remuneration. No principle has in modern times been more insisted on, and more clearly developed, as the foundation of the theory of rent, than that the coot s however high, of the very dearest portion of the necessary supply of food determines the price of the whole. There cannot be two prices for corn of equal goodness in the same market. This principle is applicable to corn im ported as well as corn grown at home, and the price of all corn here must rise to thatlevel which pays the expense of importing corn and the amount of the duty. That which is imported is a part of the necessary supply. It neither could nor would be imported unless the whole cost were paid, and to assert that the importe r pays the duty is tantamount to ass er ti ng that the farmer pays the profit he makes o n home-grown corn. If, indeed, wheat be 735. here, and 455. at Ham burgh, the cost of bringinghither it los., and th e importer lucky enough to introduce it under the sliding scale at ls. duty, he would gain 17s. per quarter; if, at the same time, from the operation of that scale, no nations had prepared. corn to be imported, and all the supply we could obtain was not equal to our need, the price would con tinue far higher than paid the cost of im porting corn, and in that case a duty might be paid by the importer. Such was the ac tual operation during several years of the sliding scale. If, however, the average price of wheat here was 50s. and 455. at Hamburgh, the expense of importation 10s., and the fixed duty Ss., then it is clear that before wheat could be imported from Hamburgh, the price must rise here on all wheat to 635. or 645., that being the sum by which alone we could obtain the last needed and imported supply. Something like that might happen under a fixed duty. It seems to us a perfect fallacy, therefore, to infer, because the importer might have been enabled, from the great difference in price, to pay the duty under a sliding scale and an interrupted trade, that he would also pay it under a fixed duty and a regular and permanent trade. We should hope that we have sufficiently exposed the fallacy so unadvisedly adopted by Lord PAL MERSTON, that we shall hear no more of it. We Purposely pass over the great injury which a duty of 18 per cent. on corn, would inflict on our manufacturers, exposed as they now are to keen competition in all the markets of the world, on our trade, and—through our trade and manu facturers—would inflict on the agriculturists—to consider its immediate effects on the latter. We quite agree with the following remarks of Mr. GREG : The existing Corn-laws profess to secure a certain THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1842. price to the farmer for his wheat. On this price the I When ESPARTERO had fully succeeded in putting landlords—the authors of these enactments—calculate ' down the civil war, he was naturally grateful for and fix their rents ; and on this price the farmers the assistance so cordially rendered by England, make their calculations, and contract to pay those and showed a preference to the English connection. rents. But it turns out that the Corn-laws do not ' ensure this price. The rents have been adjusted on This a roused the jealousy of France. Q u een ' fallacious supposition : the two contracting parties, CHRISTINA then became the favourite, and an therefore, cannot both be satisfied, and the weakest attempt was made to excite a civil war, to destroy goes to the wall. The landlord exacts his rent, and the Constitution, and bring Spain back to its the farmer is ruined. former state of pupilage under France. Mr. GREG confirms his statement by a succinct That plan also miserably failed, but history of the objects and effects of the Corn- the EX4IEGENT was still cherished at the laws of 1815, 1822, 1828, and 1842, and concludes French Court, and her partisans thronged around " that the Corn-laws induced the farmer to con- her at Paris, ready en the first appearance of re tract to pay rents which, except in years of volt in any part of Spain to join with the enemies scarcity, the price of wheat will not enable him of the REGENT. This was an unjust policy to pay." Now the effect of a duty for revenue towards a country with which France being the same as a duty for protection, the far- was at peace, and which really had given mer will be as much deluded by such a duty as no just cause of' offence to Louis PHILIPPE. by the existing duty, and will in consequence Next comes the outbreak at Barcelona, and promise to pay a higher rent than lie will be though we are willing to acquit'the French Go enabled to pay. Mr. GREG proceeds to show vernment of all blame in concocting a mad that home consumption will prevent the farmer scheme of this kind, it cannot be denied that the from realising the price he anticipates from the agents of France are using every possible means law : to turn it to advantage. The journals, both in the By dint of looking always at the intention, and interest of the Ministry and the Opposition, are never at the operation, of legislative measures, a stirring up the French and the Spaniards against great number of our farmers have come to believe, England, and even accusing our Government of that low prices are the effect of foreign competition, a wicked design to destroy Barcelona in order and that high prices are the consequence of that com petition being shut out. Now, how stands the fact ? to put down the manufactures of Catalo n ia. If Why, that it is impossible to point to a single year of they succeed in this plan, the darling object of low prices, in which there was any perceptible import France will be gained, the cry against England of foreign produce; or to a single year of great may be too strong for the Governme n t o f foreign importation, which was not also a year of ESPARTERO, and the coun t ry b e aga i n p l unge d high prices. The years 1834, 1835, and 1836, were into a civil war. CHRISTINA and her adherents years of low prices, and of great distress and discon- will then be let loose to encourage - rebellion, and tent among farmers, the average of wheat being ' under 455. a quarter ; yet the import of foreign wheat prevent the:QuEEN s marriage with any oth e r th an was only 122,175 quarters. The years 1838, 1839, a BOURBON. The conduct o f the F renc h C onsu l and 1840, were years of high prices, and compara- throughout the whole affair has been extremely tively of farming prosperity, th e average of wheat suspicious, and though we cannot concur with a being 675. 2d.; yet in those years we imported the Contemporary in describing him as the cause of enormous quantity of 7,858,500 quarters. Of this the bombardment of Barcelona, and of the in we say nothing more at present than that it undoubt surrection itself, we must do him the justice edly establishes the fact, that low prices of wheat in to say that he has given a tu r n to a ff a i rs w hi c h England are not, and have never been, the effect of fo will be highly acceptable to his employ ers . O ur reign competition. For five months .at the close of 1835, and the commencement of 1836, the price of Government, we trust, are taking active mea wheat ranged under 365. a quarter; at which price sures to rebut charges of such a serious charac no foreign wheat could have been imported from any tee, not only against the British Cons u l, b u t th e country in the world, even had the corn trade been country. perfectly free, instead of being burdened as it was with a duty of 50s. a quarter. And in 1839, in spite of an importation of 2,681,400 quarters, prices never ranged so low as 665., and averaged above 70s. The fact beyond all question is this—and it should be im moveably rooted in the understanding of every farmer —that low prices are owing to abundant harvests, and not to the admission of foreign corn; and that high prices are owing to defective harvests, and not to the exclusion of foreign corn ;—since in the former case it is never admitted, and in the latter case it is never excluded. Now let us !apply these principles to the.pro posed fixed duty. At present the farmers ge nernily are pledged to the high rents they have been induced to promise by the law. Those rents are paid not only on the corn and meat they consume in their own family, but on all that is consumed by their labourers and by the poor in the workhouse, and on all that is con sumed by the animals necessary to carry on culti vation. The proposed duty is expressly to keep up those rents to a certain degree. At the same time the farmers are called on to lay out a great deal of additional capital in extending cultivation. Every shilling they may so lay out will pay the higher rent. The more they lay out the more corn they will grow, and the more certainly will the price fall to its natural level. They never can recover with a fixed duty the sums they are asked to lay out. Just now, of all times then, when so much is to be done to the soil, a fixed duty, enhancing all present expenses, which could not secure a future remuneration, would be most injurious to the farmers. Before they can lay out their capital with advantage, certain of a future remuneration, all their burdens and ex penses, such as the price of seed, poor-rates, wages, and rent, must be reduced to the lowest possible figure. The design of the fixed duty is to prevent that, and therefore to prevent the future; prosperity of the cultivators of the soil: Such a consequence is influential enough to make us say that now, in particular, a fixed duty, however small, ought not to be imposed. We shall probably consider some other bearings of the proposed duty hereafter. It is not often that we feel called upon to sound the praises of Sir ROBERT PEEL, his pre cious Income-tax having by no means strongly prepossessed us in his favour; we must, how ever, in common fairness observe, that he has shown much good sense and liberality in the conduct he has pursued relative to the national statues voted last session by Parliament to the memory of three illustrious Naval Heroes, recently deceased. We are told that he has confided the execution of these sta tues to three sculptors from the capitals of the three kingdoms; that Mr. MACDOWALL, of Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, has been selected by him to model that of Lord Ex- MOUTH j Mr. STEELE, of Edinburgh, that of Lord DE SAUMAREZ j and Mr. KIRKE, of Dub lin, that of Sir SIDNEY SMITH. We understand, moreover,, that the Right Hon. Baronet " has announced his desire to discontinue the old practice of giving a monopoly of all great orders to artists of great name, and to make the patron age of•this kind at the disposal of Government available for bringing forward men whose fame has not yet risen to a point commensurate with their genius." In coming to this determination Sir ROBERT PEEL has acted with not less judg ment than liberality. It is high time that mo nopoly should be put an end to in the Fine Arts, as well as in other matters; and that struggling genius should have a reasonable opportunity allowed it for the development of its powers. Why should the lucky Few only bask in the snug, warm sunshine of Government pa tronage; and the ill-starred Many be left to wither in the " cold shade " of neglect and ob scurity ? The temper of the times demands a totally different course of action. It demands the throwing down of all those barriers which have hitherto obstructed the road of the un befriended artist to fame ; that a clear stage and no &your should be allowed to every one who enters into the arena of competition ; and that genuine, undoubted merit should be promptly and spontaneously recognized, whether it be displayed by an R. A., or by one who can boast of no such distinction. Monopoly and Favour itism are the two great malign influences under which this country has laboured for years, but we are now fully awake to their injurious cha -1 racter; week passes ev h e o r m h e i more sbugtr ojwo i o nn r g B l d e ue s lt s el re t mv o ii n u n c s a et si a om l the mis c hi e f s th e y h ave wroug h t h ave the oppressive b ur d ens. Give fair play ;o to r ae s ns l to genius, d and there will be no want of artists capable of sake oknneogotl off realising our most sanguine 'expectations ; but hitherto, the energies of hundreds of gifte d spirits have been cramped, subdued, and frozen, from the humiliating conviction—found e d on rational grounds—that toil, struggle, aspire as they may, there is but a slender chance of their win ning renown in the world's eye, unless Luck, in the shape of an influential pa tron, steps in to befriend them. Had it not been for Monopoly and Favouritism, we should now have possessed a National Gallery worthy of an opulent and enlightened kingdom, instead of that mean, discreditable heap of lit tleness which affronts the eye of taste in Trafalgar-square, and which resembles nothing so 'intich as one of those fine, fillagree castles which we sometimes see stuck upon the snowy surface of a Twelfth-Cake. The insurrection at Barcelona, though speedily put down by the energy of ESPARTERO, begins to excite feelings of rather an unpleasant cha racter among our neighbours across the Channel France, though she has inflicted so many evils on Spain, still considers that un fortunate country under her especial protec tion, and is jealous of any other Power, but above all of England, interfering with the Go vernment of the QUEEN. During the Carlist war, though pledged with England to support her against the intruder, the French Government showed great reluctance in the cause, even at first; and latterly rather aided than opposed Don CARLos, with a view, as some assert, of making terms with the party most hostile to England. 1 Madrid papers to the sth have been received. The Gazette announces that since the departure of the REGENT 3,000,000 reals have been for warded to the army in Catalonia, independent of sums and supplies furnished by the Intendents of provinces. Accounts from Seville appear in the Madrid papers, stating that on the 28th about twenty persons raised a disturbance in the streets by singing revolutionary songs. In the course of the night the authorities called out the troops, and got ready the artillery, and on the following day the town was perfectly tranquil. In other parts of the country tranquillity prevailed. The Three per Cents. were done at 22 at va rious dates, and the Five per Cents at 26 9-16ths at 60 days. The titulos of the foreign converted debt sold for 181 for the 20th inst. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with re marks on the bombardment of Barcelona, and abuse of the English Consul, Mr. PENLEASE. There is little new in these remarks. The follow ing extract, however, from the Journal des Debats, is worthy of notice, as it probably ex presses the opinions of the French Government respecting the conduct of ESPARTERO, and the course of policy which Mr. PENLEASE considered it his duty to adopt. It displays nearly as bad a spirit as that which inspires the Radical and Re publican papers, and in plain terms intimates that Mr. PENLEASE was rather glad than other wise at the injury done to the most industrious city in Spain. This is a most wicked and, we believe, most unjust imputation on the British We feel repugnance," says the Minis terial s ul :"—" journal, W ai n associating oursel ves i n t h e Con systematic declamations incessantly poured out against an allied country, and we regret that the conduct and the language of the English been to those satisfied with re f us i ng an asy lum Consul at Barcelona force us to a b an d on our reserve. Had her Britannic M AJESTY ' S Consul who most required it, without exposing the motives of this conduct, it would be sufficient to blush for him and his country at the i nterpretat i o n he gave t o hi s d ut i es; but he should not be allowed to throw blame indi rec tly on those who understood and execute d t h e i r mission more nobly, more courageously, and more honourably than he has done. This somewhat more than scrupulous respect for the doctrine of non-intervention will appear perhaps extraordinary to those who are acquainted with tsoftoEnglisipolitics, and persons will believe i that the British Consul beheld without to o muc h regret the calami aeles tempted ha calami ties which have afflicted the most industrious city and the most manufa c t ur i ng p rov i nce o f d S e p l a i i c n a . cy ofTbe English C onsul, by an excessive diplomatic conscience, has sinned against the imprescriptible .rights of humanity, in order not to err against the rights of neutrality. We trust that the English Government will mark with its energetic reprobation, the lan guage of its agent, and we are convinced, for the honour of the English nation, that it will feel nothini,r, but shame at the conduct of its repre sentative." The attack on ESPARTERO is equally unfair and ungenerous, and shows that the failure of the revolt viewed in certain quarters with i s re gret. "Is it not melancholy," says the Journal des Debats, "to think that this lamentable disaster could have been avoided by the most trifling concession, since everybody was submit ting, and the leaders of the revolt were quitting the place?? What title to glory, what security for his personal power, does the REGENT hope to obtain by this act of merciless vengeance, which is regarded by persons of all opinions as an act of Vandalism as odious as it is impolitic ! What secret hatred will it no t exc it e ? PHILIP 11. and the Duke of ALBA never treated the revolted towns of Flanders as ESPARTERO, VAN HALEN, and ZURBANO have just acted towards Barcelona. The REGENT would not yield anything to repen tance, nor did he even receive the suppliant deputies. Certainly, when the noble Spanish people raised one of their fellow-citizens to the Chief Magistracy of the State, it was never ex pected that this Chief would display more pride and rigour than a King by divine right. Who knows even if this bombardment of thirteen hours, suspended as if to let the mortars cool, would not have been resumed some hours after, bad not news arrived at head-quarters of the rising of Catalonia and the advance of the Na tional Guards to succour Barcelona? At mid night the REGENT suspended the firing until morning ) and sen t to demand submissi on . Stunned by the first disasters of the bombard ment, and supposing themselves without succour, the inhabitants yielded, the more so, as they were threatened with a renewal of the bombard ment at four in the morning. No shadow of an amnesty was offered to them. On the con trary, they are treated like the town of an enemy's country W hi ch has been se i ze d o n aft er a l ong siege and a sa ngu i n ary resistance. The unfortu nate town is afflicted with a contribution of 2,000,000 of douros (10,000,00 0 of francs); and, in virtue of a decree of General VAN HALEN, is declared i n a state of s i ege un d e r e x ce pti ona l ju risdiction. The Government promises nothing on its side i n the way o f o blivion and pardon, b u t the decree terminates by inviting the inhabitants to forget th e past, an d t o fraternise with th e troops. I L w i ll be seen t h at th ere i s no thi ng re assuring f or any persons now that the c hi e f s o f the insurrection have taken to flight, and every inhabitant may drea d b e i ng taken up as on e o f their accomplices. Let us hope , however, that the bomb ar d ment w ill su ffice for the punishment of Barcelo na , and t h at humanity will not have to liNaent rigour s from which the insurgents themselves abstained during their reign." The latest news from Barcelona is the follow ing telegraphic dispatch in the Messager of Mon day night : " PERPIGNAN, DEC. 9.—The shops were closed yes terday at Barcelona. In default of chiefs, 200 soldiers and militia have been arrested, and several of them shot. " The Cyclops s t eame r has towed away the For midable, and an English frigate has also left. "The French Government _steamer Gusendi left Barcelona yesterday evening, and touched at Port Vendres, with dispatches and 21 military passengers. " Van Halen has prorogued for six hours, from the 6th, the time granted to deliver up arms. The unin habited houses are to be left open, to be certain if there be any arms concealed therein." A letter from St. Jean de Luz, dated the 7th of December, and addressed to the Phare des Pyrennees, says :—" A report is in circulation here that a French vessel, of the port of Socoa, laden with :merchandise, forwarded from the custom-house, and destined for Oporto, which left Socoa yesterday evening, has been stopped at sea by an armed Spanish vessel, and car ried into one of the neighbouring ports. It is even said that the crew has been thrown into prison. I shall communicate to you, as soon as possible, the de tails of this event, if it should be confirmed."—Le Commerce, Dec. 12. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 55... 119 55... 119 40... 119 45 Four per Cents. 101 ... 101 101 101 Threes, ex div. 79 20... 79 20... 79 10... 79 15 Bank of France 3340 .-3340 .-3340 ..3340 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1065 ..1055 ...1055 ...1055 5,000 f 5082 50...5082 50...5082 50 ..5082 60 Belgian Bank 1841 lO7O ...1070 ...1070 ...1070 Belgian Fives. 1840 lo4k ... 1041 ... 104 k ... 104 a Spanish Active. . 23 —. 23i —. 23 —. 23i Passive 3i ... Si ... 31 ... 3/ Roman, lO4l —. 104 i —. 104 h ... 104 k RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain 847 50... 850 . 847 50... 847 50 Versailles, L.B lOO _. 100 ._ 100 . 1 00 Rouen ... Orleans. 620 —. 622 50... 620 —. 622 50 Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50 DUTCH t'UNDS.-.AMSTERDAM, DEC. 9. Money. Bills. Actual Det t, 2% per Cent " t2lAi 52% Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Srndic,4% per cent 9I ,4 yie Pdto, ditto, 3% per cent 77 77% Commercial Company, 4% per cent I3U 30% Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 20 Two months ..... Haraburgh, One month 35 IN Twomonths 35 63)4 Dutch Papers, Dec. 10. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. There was more activity in the Stock Market, though unattended by any special alteration in the quotations. Consols for the opening remained at 93i to 94, and for Money were 95 ; Exchequer Bills brought .51s. to 535: prem., and India Bonds, 455. to 475. prem.; Reduced Three-and-a-llalf per Cents. were 1001 to 101 ; Bank Stock was firm at 172 to 173. The speculators for a fall in Foreign Bonds, having engaged to deliver a good deal of Stock to-day, were occupied in obtaining the necessary amount to com plete their bargains, and the natural consequence was a slight improvement in most of those having a specu lative character. The Active Spanish Bonds were at 181 to 19, and the Three per Cents. at 23/ to 24. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were also a shade better, being 381 to 881 ; the Three per Cents. were done at 221 ; and the Converted at 321. Mexican Bonds ranged from 318 to 311 ; Colombian were steady at 218; Chilian at 73, without the Deferred; Buenos Ayres at 23i ; and Brazilian at 69/. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. were at 521 to 528. The bargains in Railway shares, besides those already reported, were these :—Great Western Fifths were 41 ; Birmingham Quarter, 248; and Northern and Eastern Scrip, 51- premium. Brightons were 138 and North Midla n d s , 38 di scoun t. A us t ra l as i a Bank Shares were 131 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A fair business is reported in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, but without any alteration in prices. The sales were 4,000 bale, comprising 600 bales Surat, at 31d. to 48d. ; 100 bales Bahia, at 61d. to 61d., and 3,300 of American 41d. to 61d. Railway Shares were not very steady, and only a moderate business was done. Birmingham and Gloucester Scrip were 121 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48 ; Grand Junction, Half, 951 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 901; and South Eastern, New, 17i. It is stated, in accounts from the Hungarian fair of Pesth, that rather a large business had been done, both by the foreign and domestic buyers, the supply of goods being enormous. Were it not that up to the present time the ill used holders of Mexican Bonds have never received the slightest satisfaction, or even a promise of satis faction, from the agents of the Republic, we should be loth again to revive discussion upon the much-de bated subject of the fraudulent issues, but until some security for the future is obtained, we feel that the Press cannot too perseveringly expose and deprecate the whole transaction. At the same time, if it be not too late, the Stock Exchange Committee should look after the other foreign conversions in progress, and endea vour to establish, as a principle, their right and de termination to know what is the actual amount of bonds in circulation, since no other course can pos • sibly guarantee parties investing in Foreign Securities against fraud and imposition. It may be safely affirmed that every conversion is a source of great pecuniary profit to the Government undertaking it, independent altogether of the cora ' promise usually made for a reduced dividend, or a deferred stock, &c. Spain has made an immense deal,by this trickery, and like every State that has once forfeited confidence should be made to publish the progress of the conversion from time to time. If it be not too late we see no reason why Messrs. Ricardo should not be called upon to say a few words respect ing the Spanish conversions, but at all events the re missness of the Stock Exchange on former occasions must not be suffered to act as an excuse for passing the " last new" juggle on Mexican Go vernment account. How can Messrs. Lizardi ever get over the fact of each bond bearing , their own signa ture, and purporting to be issued in consideration of other bonds presented for conversion ? It is self evident that the stock sold in the market, to the amount of 1,552,0631., which is the over-issue, never could have been exchanged f o r a n y oth e r bonds, and therefore contain a falsehood on the face of them. Advices have been received to the 20th of October from the Cape of Good Hope, but we have not seen quite such late dates. From the frontier we learn that there had not been asingle Caifre depredation for three weeks previously; and it is stated that cattle could never be grazed to the same amount in equal safety on such a frontier in any other part of the world. Every thing was quiet at Natal. A monthly post hld been established between Cape Town and Natal. There had been drought in the Eastern districts, but the weather was very favourable at the Cape. The Funds are supported. Consols for the open ing are 94. Exchequer Bills remain firm at 51s. to 535. premium ; and India Bonds at 455. to 475. prem. The Commissioner for the Savings' Banks has taken the usual amount in Reduced Annuities at 941. Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are lon to 101. Bank Stock is steady at 172 to 173. Long AnntQies realised 121 to 12 9-16. The Foreign Bonds are more in demand. To morrow is settling day. Spanish Actives are 181 to 181, and the Three per Cents. 231 to 24, being an improvement; Mexican have also risen and are 311 to 311 ; Chilian have reached 93 ; Brazilian are steady at 69/ ; and Portuguese New Five per Cents. obtain 384; Belgian Stock is 101'8; and the Dutch Two and- a-Half per Cents. are 52i to 52k. Shares on account of the settlement are fluctuating rather more. We quote Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1 ' • Brighton, 14k to 14; Blackwall, 11* ; Midl an d Counties, 38i; and South Eastern Scrip, 14 to 2* discount. Great Western are 241 to 25 ; ditto New, 14; Birmingham, 100 ; South Western, 201 ; and Paris and Rouen 6 premium. Australasia Bank are 12, and London and Westminster 1i premium. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 13.—Shares generally are very firm, and the demand for London and Birmingham, South Western, Bristol and Exeter, and Manchester and Leeds, still continues. Bristol and Exeter, 46k; Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 901 ' • London and Birmingha m , 190 ; M anc h ester an d Salford Bank, 10i, 10i, and 11 ; Rochdale Canal, 52. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 172 India Stock —pm 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 94a Ditto Bonds .... 47 pm 3 per Cent. Cons 95 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent. Red... looi Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... looi Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 pm New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 53 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 52 pm Jan. 1860 ...... 12a Bank Stock for Acct. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 Consols for Opg. 4 FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 3B ll Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent.....,cent Ditto, Metallic . .... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 19 Ditto, Deferred 10i French, 5 per cent —f. —e. Exchange —f.. —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. 5 per cent lOl 3razilian B on d s ... 69* Buenos A yres 6 per cent. 23i Chilian, 6 per cent. 73 Colombian, 6 per cent — Dit to, 1824 213 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO3 Danish, 3 per lent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 313 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) •.• ... 48k- Great Western, (65 paid)• Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) B4 London and Brighton (50 paid) 36 London and Blackwall ( paid) ....... ... 6 London and Birmingham (90) Ditto Quarter Shares (25 r id) 49; London and South Western 1/6s 10d pd) 62 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 Paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip (20 paid) SUM ARY OF NEWS AND public Optitton. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. The Journal du Havre states, that M. Thiers will be completely separated from the Gauche in the en suing session, M. de Tocqueville having declared to M. Odillon Barrot, in the name of sixty members, that if he yielded to the deceptions practised during the last two sessions, his party would not follow hint. The Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux having been again consulted by the Minister of Commerce on the sugar question, has declared that it knows but one efficient solution of the question, viz., the entire sup pression of home-made sugar. The Toulonnais says :—" When the Etna, after towing the Formidable off the sand-bank, passed the Rodney in gaining her anchorage, the captain and officers of the latter took off their hats, and cried out several times, Thanks, thanks, sir; you have saved the Formidable.' At the same moment the whole crew manned the yards, and loudly cheered the Etna, and the crew of the Formidable, imitating the same example, gave six cheers for that steamer, which, on its side, replied to each vessel by shouts of Vive le Roil'" The Alger, ship of the line, sailed a few days since from Toulon, for Africa, with 900 men on board be longing to different regiments. Commandant Lelievre, who commanded at Maza gran, passed, on the Bth inst., through Chalons-sur- Saone, on his way to Paris, by order of the Minister of War. He was accompanied by another officer and a surgeon. This journey, no doubt, is caused by the necessity of giving explanations on the contradiction contained in the English journals, relative to the brilliant defence of Mazagran. Julia Phalipon, who was condemned to death at the Court of Assize of Aveyron, for having poisoned her husband, to marry a paramour, was executed at Rodez on the 3d inst. Espartero still remained, on the 6th, at his head quarters of Sarria. General Zurbano entered Barce lona on the sth, with a battalion of infantry of the Infant. The Inzparcial and the Constitutional, Barcelona journals, apologise to their readers for appearing only in half-sheets, as the bombardment had prevented the compositors from setting up the type. In the former paper, the theatrical bill appears as usual. The pieces were—Angelo, the Tyrant of Padua, and the ballet of The Lover without a Mistress. Up to the end of August of the present year, there have been emancipated at Martinique 457 slaves, at Gua deloupe 319, at French Guiana 48, and at Bourbon 25. This number, being added to those enregistered in the four colonies since 1830, gives a total of 33,820 slaves set free. A letter from Vienna, Nov. 29, says :—" Princess Constantin Czartoryski died yesterday, after a short illness, at her country seat at Weinhaus, near this city, aged 52. She has left a husband, four sons, and a daughter to deplore her loss. The former is bro ther of Prince Adam Czartoryski, now residing in Paris." The Augsburgh Gazette of the 7th instant states, that letters from Bucharest of the 26th ult., announce that the Assembly of the States would not be con vened to elect a new Hospodar, but that the Prince would be appointed by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh in conjunction with the Ottoman Porte. Prince Ghika had been appointed in this manner. runzac OPINION. The Times makes the following remarks on the appointment of the Prince de Ligne - as Belgian Am bassador at Paris :—" The appointment is probably to be taken :as a further indication of the . secret determi nation of both the Courts of the Tuileries and of Brussels to resume at the earliest convenient opportu nity the negotiation for the commercial union of the two countries ; and we trust that this nobleman, who has hitherto been conspicuous on no occasion except at the coronation of Queen Victoria, and then for his appointments rather than his abilities, will be found equal to the important task of defending the inde pendence and the real interests of Belgium against the false temptations held out to her by the Cabinet of France. In the meanwhile the French Ministerial Press, which had commenced so vehement an agitation on the subject, has subsided into total silence, pro bably from a consciousness that the measure was more likely to be carried by sleight of diplomacy than by strength of conviction, and that more was to be ob tained from the apathy of Europe than from her ac quiescence. The two great arguments of the pro moters of the union,—the one being political, and the other commercial—produced exactly opposite, though simultaneous effects on public opinion in Belgium or in France. If, as at first, it was contended that the French ought to be ready to make any commer cial sacrifices in exchange for so great a political result, the Belgians naturally took alarm at these expressions, and began to inquire whether a great political result, which France was ready to pur chase at any price, could be anything but a great political loss to their own national power and inde pendence. If, on the other hand, the Belgians were reminded of the incalculable advantages which awaited their manufactures in the wide markets of France, the whole phalanx of French prohibitionists raised their united voices to resist a measure which promised so much to Belgium at their expense. In this dilemma there was nothing for it but to abandon a line of public argument which went so much fur ther than it was intended to do, and unluckily raised an obstacle on the one side exactly equal to that which it removed on the other. It now remains to be seen whether private exhortations will have a more favourable effect, and whether, by engaging the atten tion . of the Prince De Ligne and theßelgianGovern- ment exclusively with the commercial considerations, and by dazzling the French deputies on their arrival in Paris with the political attractions of the scheme, it may not be possible to bring both parties past the object of their apprehensions, as it were, by blinding one eye. Certain it is, that if the French and the Belgians both taken into consideration both sides of the question, both countries will reject the measure, for the very reasons which reciprocally incite the one country must deter the other." The Chronicle, in adverting to the Corn-laws, says :—" Men seem everywhere to have made up their minds to two things ; the inevitable termination of the corn monopoly; and, second, that such an event will be beneficial to all classes. The idea of one class prospering by means which destroy the prosperity of the rest of the community, is, we trust, abandoned for ever. What has made this country great and powerful is the extraordinary development of manufacturing industry. We have extraordinary advantages in our mines of coal and iron, and in our insular position. So long as other branches of industry prosper, agriculture must prosper. The world has never yet seen an instance of a country distinguished for in dustry and commerce, that had not also a prosperous agriculture. What agriculture wants is a market; and where there are manufactures and commerce, there is necessarily a market for food. The landed interest may be assured that it is only when there is no im portation of food into a country, which has a large population employed in manufacturing for foreign markets, that agriculture can be in distress, for this would be a proof that the crop had been so abundant, and prices consequently so low, that no importation could take place. So long as food is imported, so long is the British agriculturist in glory. Except in the cases in which the crops of this country exceed the wants of the inhabitants, agriculture must always be prosperous. Against abundance from favourable seasons there can be no protection." The Post thus renews its attacks on the renegade Tory Members :—" The members of the Anti-Corn law League, and their political allies, the Conserva tive representatives of Somersetshire and other coun- ties, equally protest that the best encouragement for British agriculture is the encouragement of manufac tures and commerce. Our county Members have no longer any peculiar interests to take care of. The representatives of the towns are the most appropriate guardians of the agricultural interest, for their business is to take care of manufactures and com merce, and that is the best way to take care of agriculture ton. If this be a sound theory—which we take leave to doubt—it follows that there is no particular use for county Members. The country gentlemen might assign the cares of legislation altogether to the Members for London and. Liver pool, Manchester, and Glasgow, and the rest. But while it is admitted by the country gentle men of the new school that the best mode of encourag ing agriculture is through the encouragement of com merce and manufactures, it is a further tenet of the same delectable philosophy that the best way to en courage commerce and manufactures is to permit an unrestricted importation of foreign- agricultural pro duce in exchange for British manufactures. There fore the best way to encourage British agriculture, is mport agricultural proauca from abroad. But considerable importation of agricultural produce from abroad would immediately lead to the abandonment of the cultivation of a great portion of our inferior land at home, therefore the test way to encourage British agriculture is to pursue a system which will very much discourage British cultivation. This conclusion seems to us to be absurd ; but, for aught we know, it may seem very reasonable to the enlightened gen tlemen who have lately addressed agricultural so cieties. At all events, it is a legitimate conclusion from their premises. The Herald gives this description of city patriot ism The citizens of London are exhorted by the' agents of the Anti-Corn-law League to signalise the forthcoming St. Thomas's Day, by returning to the Common Council representatives who are violent op ponents of the Corn-law. Worse advice could not be given ; the best qualifications which a Common- Councilman can possess are a perfect acquantance wit the municipal affairs of the City, and with the want s of his ward, a high reputation in his private capacity, and moderation in political opinions. The career of every red-hot Liberal spouter—of every hungry Whig-Radical who has of late years successfully sought the distinction in question, has almost invariably exhibited an attempt to advance his own personal interest, by either soliciting some corporate place, or turning the influence which he has acq uired to his own advantage. Mr. Charles Pears on is now City Solicitor, Mr. W. Pritchard is now High Bailiff of Southwark, and Mr. D. W. Wire h as re p eatedy selected a Sheriff to step into the emoluments of the Under Shrievalty. City patriotism is in truth another name for City jobbing; and if the reputation of the City of London have, in despite of municipal ba quets and culinary displays, somewhat fallen during the last twenty years, the cause is, th a t the easi est access to its Common Council has been political agitation, not private worth or eminent muni cipal fitness. The Corporation of London derives its present importance chiefly from external causo , over which it has no control ; it has ceased to be respected because of its general excellence, As internal merits, or its utility to the City. Its A lder. men are no longer first-rate city merchants! and Common Councilmen have ceased to be rising and i n " fluential City tradesmen. There is doubtless muc ot n h respectability in the Corporation ; yet does it command very much respect. Th e Institution is supported from such assaults as the Whigs made en it; but descend from the aggregat e to particuars, and respectful sensation's are not spontaneou sly ot," cited as individual members are no ted. Cliq uerte is everywhere observable ; the meetings o f the variou e s wardmotes no more indicate the pu blic opinion of th . wards than the resolutions of the Common Counc:l testify the views generally entertained in the The Advertiser, in reference to an article in t,nu D Quarterly Review, says :—" Much stress is laid y. the Quarterly on the fact of the Bev. Mr. Massie, ot Manchester, having at a public rneetin,E burned! copy of Sir Robert Peel's Sliding diately after its publication ; and while flamingbur were trampling beneath their feet the ;so on which the measure was printed, e xclaiming" d. . perish all laws which deprive the people of brea n IVill the Quarterly, or any abettor of monopo.ly, c? SCale descend to informY us what there is wrong in As Bill we regards the burning of the Sliding-sole suspect there are thousands, even of those who _ . l .," sh ' first instance expected to profit by it, who now wi table with all their hearts that the first copy laid on th,etaken of the House of Commons by the Premier bad : this ? fire' on that memorable niglit;', and been destruYeaof and never heard of more. We are not now spealdl one the injury which that mischievous measure hatera of to the country generally, but of the vast allT an t s , individuals, who, in their capacity of corn-Mr" N o r have at home and abroad been victimised e hi ' t ' Sir is this all. We are grievously mistaken if ven_ not Robert Peel himself, the author of the Bill, &ea for by this time heartily wish that accident had done _t it, before it was laid on the table of the House, shat Mr. Massie, amidst the acclamations of the ar"" ie . audience by whom he was surrounded did frora u_ sign. At any rate it will not be denied that no meinore sure of the Right Hon. Baronet has done 1 11 damage his Government in the estimation ofthe coo:, .4 1 What is there, we again ask, in Mr. Massie's exclanibretaltcL, So perish all laws which deprive the peoPle r of a nd that is wrong? That book to which Mr. .5 1 s sl- ea nn all ministers of the Gospel lookup with ut te rs they due to divine authority, and which in all niatter take as their guide—that book denounces in the, very strongest terms, and in numerous places, not ()alloy, laws, but the persons of those who deprive, in V ol its the poor of their bread. And surely, so far f r om et being unbecoming in a minister of the GosPe h l press a wish that all laws should perish, wilie , an Set hold from the poor their necessary food, it W s- n a Jur which equally commended itself to religion laws de inanity. Nor is it merely because the Corn-ars, are fit the working classes of their bread, tbat f ; Stei l 0- fit subjects of denunciation on the part of d a of the Gospel. These odious imposts Y are, in IllT r itasi cases, indirectly the means of withholding 5.,„ the food, in other words, religious instruction, N P u" operative population of our large towns.; VIONEY—TRADE—COMDSX)Ie-gl Giles; A new Association, to be entitled " IDe two and St. George's Bloomsbury Branch of the li ondo i Anti-Corn-law League," was formed on Plus of evening, to assist in further carrying out the P the League in London. czzsi.a...wrxcisZe . o r are Twelve new churches are now u ilding , f the about to be! commenced, in various part s ° i n i t s e h tro a polis. s E to li ry ik o g f T lr a el N an p d,' S ' , L ,I I I T i iCIZN.77°' b• The statement that Mr. O'Connell is about to pub' himself. II f A e has, .however at press, "Memoir on Ireland and the Irish. The Duke THEATRICAL s dente The second season ofthose . I r perforal to Apsley House, from antes, the Fro very popu A . 11 ' Theatre, wi plays, a t i C n h ip r r is o t v m .em as etoi. holidays, h. commence on Monday, the 16th of next moll CRT_rasiuoicaloo. r et ur n ltehtter U., of Wellington is not expected to , St. James y s Strathfieldsa e, until after tn Lord fr 0 Regiment. n The Duke of Manchester, according to the lat est letters, intended to pass the winter at Nice, for the d LadlLady health. Devonshire. synlour, frportion 0 D . utferin, arrived in Spring-gardens, on Monday eve ins, day for Chester Castle, to resume the command a to accompanied by Ladol, Lord Charles Ilrellesley left Apsley House on Tt.te,t_s; 15th Lord Stanley Latham Hou se , Ormskirk, Lancashire, the seat v Lord Skelmersdale left town on Tuesday morni n g. f° ,,f Lady John R Skelmersdale. day of a son and heir.' Tue s. ussell was safely delivered on SO ur . Lady Langham arrived in Berkeley-square on day. Sir Charles Des Vaeux led to the altar, at All °ll .l l 15 Church, Langham-place, o n Tuesday, the L' il f7 s , / Y e Cecilia Paulet, daughter of t he Marquis of Ati rLc it ,. ter, and afterwards left town for Tunbridge IscELLANEOTT. reieicing M It is suggested, that if ther e is to be any'rviute• on the occasion of our victor ies in China ana '6firist istan, the Monday and Tuesday at 50a mas-day should be devoted to a national holiwy ' that, to to render the event more memorable/ ht e ol for u cities should throw open the parks to the pub lic fair and fireworks. n oon, LLOYD'S SHIPPING' ------,-- LONDON, DEC. 14.—Wind this allY southerly, fresh breeze and fine. ~,..,„ gamlej, RAMSGATE, DEC. 13.—The lv iwara '' 0 the from Shields to Guernsey, which put in h ere 0 Ist inst. leaky, is discharging her c argo. t v , plod.' D S ) i l e lg rr r a ini L , DEAL, DEC. 13.—Wind S.W. to S.So:i: er, Arrd. i Carolina, Quebec. Arrd. from Til e 0 001 jane - 1 - 0 o ominica ; Pakenhaxn, Vera Cruz; eo f n o e r ; Rio; Nailer, Barbadotarr haul , i,„ kh ot, _. vanna; Denmark, New Orleans ; °tit; Gar and, Newfoundland. peoler3ril. BRISTOL, DEC. 13. Arrd. Anna Jones , . g oer , SonTHAMFTON, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Oriental sv. Alexandria. for COWES, DEC. 13. Arrd. Ellena, London, Monte Video. , Syria, PLYMOUTH, DEC. 13.—Wind S.----ATrog., hal. Bristol, for Civita Vecchia, with loss of ~saiLs ! , for QuebeeN,epturne.v. warks, &c. Arrd. off, America, Perry: -P a Amsterdam. ngbreezes. FALmouTn,DEc. 13.—Wind 5.5. W..: sig., a h e avy —Sid. Montrose steamer, Gibraltar. ItiLr.w(furing the gale, with violent squalls from 5.5.11(9 night, but moderated towards day Newfoundland. TE light. Walling! lcßi ouTR , DI c . 13. ---Arrd. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 13. _Cape of Good Hope, with quarter boat stove,ig froYo &c., washed away, having experienced glue W. to N.W., in lat. 39, long. 32. ,-, n . Verne' DUBLIN, DEC. 10.—Arr. Cynthia, urab' rara ; Ariel, Clements, St. Sebastian. Lueil l ' B O ver, KINGSTOWN, DEC. 10.—A rrd--. IGVraantituredre,' Sliariviee't-: for 01°1 SHIELDS, DEC. 11.—Put back, Crowley, burgh, after being on Blyth Rocks. A rt ite. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13.—Wind S.S.E.,lll°"e;) t t 3; Arrd. Jane, M‘Donald, Africa, left Corsica, ‘./e''' Viek er A s i t a . rAyndArnen,A,,,sS.artnrliddeer,s,onnttigua ; VQenetbia,ec Arra. Montgomery, ue ' off, Agnes Gilmore. RAMSGATE, Wit h ut foreland~ loss of sails, rigging, &c., having been run into off tri e So sisted off and N'ess BRID castle to Rouen, went ashore in here, but 0 535 asnodTop:szr,ocDeeEdce.dl.2.—The Scotia, from .- , , ,priba ' VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-2--The Lord Lamb - 0; London for Calcutta, 10th ult., let. 10 N. lon. 4; Ann Bark, Bayen, from Havre, 18th, lat. 25, lon. "ion. Hector, Hamburgh to Ifavannah, 24th, latee n , ~ 29 ; Dutch: bark showing bargee with g be,i' der, R 184, in a white ground, 4th inst., by the Or ti ' ‘ , ' tude, arrived off Margate. Amphitrite, Arnsterd3— i to Batavia, let. 14 N., ion. 21 W.; Alary Deck, b° l-le t to Rio, and Trio, of Plymouth, for Monte Video 01' twenty-three days, by the Albatross, arrived Ell e n mouth. Australian, from Liverpool, and 0 1 1 Jenkinson, 0ct.25, ffCapePalmas; Vitula, Liverlt, to Buenos Ayres, 9th ult, lat. 11, lon. 22, by tP" o °. Jane, arrived at Liverpool. Mary, bulwa r h loss of St. Übes , to don, 30th ult., lat. 43, ion. 11, witicof stanc hi ons , cabouse, boats, &c. , by the M entort arrived at Cork. - tiY The venerable Earl of Lon sdale, accoinpa a nie 4 , his daughter, Larygorederick Bel-1611a, haVO rr' v d a t-York House, Twickenham, from town, and in ten to remain there during the winter. • ii