The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-26 00:00:00

tural interest has been left in a strte of unparalleled and miserable distress. Great numbers of petitions were forwarded from the most industrious and loyal of his Majesty's subjects ; I read many of them, and whilst they displayed a firm manly aspect, they were re spectful and temperate. These petitions wese passed by unhceded.—(Shame, shame.) Their prayers were not granted ; their grievances were not redresed. It so ap peared on one occasion that half the Malt Tax was re pealed. This decision lightened the hearts of the farmers ; ;hey thought the time was arrived when some measure of elief was to be given them. But their hopes were blasted ; '.,hat measure was opposed by the Finance Minister, who issued his mandate that the reformed House of Commons was to rescind its vote. They did it ; and the Malt Tax still continues, with all its vexations, on the country.— (Hear.) Another proposal was brought forward which was expected to benefit the agricultural interest—l mean the Poor Law Amendment Bill. I was desirous to give it my cordial support ; but I found it my duty to vote against the measure ; because I could not but believe it an infrac tion on the rights of the people —an attack on the most bumble and destitute of the people.---(Cheers.) If we turn our attention to the institutions of our country, which have been already adverted to, and dealt with in a true English manner by our worthy Chairman, we find an attempt made to fix a tax upon the Established Church, which is infinitely discreditable. Gentlemen, I readily repeat the declaration I have beform made in public, that I am willing to give my support to those measures which are calculated to effect a re formof real abuses in our ecclesiastical and civil establishments; but I never will consent to hand them over to the tender mercies of the avowed enemies of our institutions—who profess a desire for reform and improvement, but whose real object, aim, and principle—if principle they have, is spoliatien and destruction.--(Loud cheers.) I much mis take if those institutions are not loved and cherished in the affections and hearts of the people of this country ; and they are willing to stand forward, and, in the words of his most Grzicious Majesty, to speak out—(Deafening cheers) —and to uze every effort for preserving inviolate their sa cred trust, wi,ch they may hand down to posterity as the richest boon which can be conferred.—(Cheers.) What course of policy will be pursued by those recently called by his Majesty to the Goveroment, I will not stop to specu late about. We have receive:l a document from the high est authority—from the first Minister of the Crown—which must be satisfactory to all persons—ai, least to all persons who are attached to the welfare of their country—(Cheers) —to all persons who have the institutions of their couniry at heart.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN gave the health of a man who had never shrunk from any duties which his King and his country demana.ed—" The King's late Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington." Three times three ; and—" One cheer snore." Air, by the band—" See the conquering hero comes." The CHAIRMAN th,"n gave—" The health of Sir Robert Peel, and his Majesty's present Ministers, who have so nobly stepped forward and h , scued the country from the dangers of the timid and vacillating policy of the late Ad mistration." Three times three, at:d—" One cheer more." Glee—" Mr. Speaker, tho' tis late." The CHAIRMAN gave—" The glorious majority of Con servative electors, who returned Mr. Duncombe in 1832." The Hon. WM. DuticomsE proposed—" Mr. Morrit's good health.' With three times three.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. MORRITT returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then gave " Mr. Lowther, and success to his election." Mr. LOWTHER was deeply sensible of the kindness with which the toast had been received. He expressed himself friendly to all real and efficient reforms, and sat down amidst loud applause. Glee—" Life's a bumper." Mr. LOWTHER begged leave to give "the health of Mr. Currer, and the Magistrates of the county and Ainsty of of York.—(Cheers.) The Rev. D. R. CURRER returned thanks in a very elo quent speech, in the course of which he alluded to the pro priety of returning two Blues of the North Riding at the next election.—(This part of the speech was received with the loudest applause ; as were those of it in which he ani madverted on the two pet Acts of the Whigs, the law for the sale of game, and that for the amendment of the poor laws. The inconsistencies cf both these laws, and the in justice of the latter, were ably exposed.) The Rev. Speaker alluded to the improved aspect of the present times ; and said, as a proof of a re-action, he could mention, that in the borough of Clitheroe, which Mr. Fort, a radical, now represented, three-fourths of the electors had waited upon Mr. Ashton, a Conservative, whose creed was, that he was an old-fashioned Tory, attached to his King, to the throne, and to the altar, to request him to allow himself to be put in nomination.—(Cheer -) Mr. Sheriff CATTLE could net think of leaving that room without asking who was to be Mr. Duncombe's col league?--(Enthusiastic cheering.) He implored them, if they had any regard for the feelings of Mr. buncombe, and for the honour of the North Riding, to return a colleague more congenial to those feelings, and who would do more honour to the constituency than the present colleague of the Hon. Gentleman.—.(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in reply to the question of Mr. Cattle, as to who was to be the colleague of Mr. Duncombe, had to say that he really did not know, or he would cheerfully tell the company. Mr. CATTLE again rose, and said he had received no an swer to his question ; and he named a gentleman—Mr. Walker, of Sandhutton—as a fit colleague for Mr. Dun combe.—(Great cheering ; after it had subsided, it was again resumed ; and at the close, " three cheers for Mr. Walker and the North Riding" were called for and given with a heartiness and good-will which evinced the feelings of the company.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed Mr. Walker's health, and it haring been duly honoured, Mr, WALKER rose, and when the applause with which he-was received had subsided, he said he scarcely knew how to take the manner in which his name had been re ceived. He almost thought it was because it was connecteJ with the representation of the North Riding.—(Cheers.) He was taken quite unawares, and scarcely knew how to make answer to the suggestion. He felt scarcely able to undertake so great a charge.—(" Yes, yes.") There were many other gentlemen in the Riding much more competent to fulfil it.—(" No, no.") We were now on the eve of a great crisis, and he thought the nation ought to give their support to the men who, in the exercise of his just preroga tive, his Majesty had called to his councils—(Cheers) — men, who, acting on Conservative principles, would keep up a good understanding with foreign countries, and promote the prosperity of the people at home.—( Hear.) In his opi nion every man should give his support to Ministers acting on such principles, and he would give them all the aid in his power. (A requisition to Mr. Walker was immediately set on foot in the room, which received a great many signatures.) About one o'clock the party finally separate (Henry Hewgill, Esq., having succeeded Mr. Price in the chair), having first sung " God save the King." " Waits " at Christmas are derived from those choirs of angels that attended the birth of Christ. In imita tion of these, shepherds in ancient times used to usher in Christmas with music and carols ; the pastorali or rural music performed by the Calabrian shepherds on bagpipes, are of this nature. PIGEON-SHOOTING AT PARIS.—The great match took place on Sunday in the fields between St. Omer and the Barriere de Clichy, and almost all the English fashionables, together with a great number of the Parisians, were present. The long avenue was filled with fine equipages, and a very elegant tent, in which was a fine fire and a magnificent piece of roast beef, weighing at least 2001 b., with liqueurs, wines, &c., was erected in the middle of the fields. The first match was for 20,000 francs (8001.) between Lord Barry and Major Welch. 100 pigeons were let out (50 for each) the Major killed 27, and Lord Larry 26. The second match was for 1,000 francs (401.) beteK'en Lord Barry and Mr. Johnson ; the former killed eight pigcons to Mr. Johnson's four. A third match (also for 1,000 francs) took place betweeu Lord Craven and Mr. Cobham, at 16 pigeons each ; Lord C raven killed 10, and Mr. Cobham killed 9. Another match Iwas also made between Lord Berry and Major Welch for 6,000 francs (2401.) to be decided on the same ground. The following extraordinary example of somnambu lism is mentioned by Dr. Abercrombie as an established fact : A girl, aged seven years, an orphan of the lowest rank, resid ing in the house of a farmer, by whom she was employed in attending cattle, was accustomed to sleep in an apartment, se parated by a very thin partition from one which was frequently occupied by an itinerant fiddler. This person was a musician of very considerable skili, and often spent a part of the night in performing pieces of a refined description, but his perform ance was not taken notice of by the child, except as a disa greeable noise. After a residence of six months in 6;2 family she fell into bad health, and was removed to the house or benevolent lady, where, on her recovery, the most beautiful music was often heard in the house during the night, which txcited no small interest and wonder in the family, and many a waking hour was spent in endeavours to discover the invisi ble minstrel. At length the sound was traced to the sleeping room of the girl, who was found fast asleep, but uttering from her lips a sound exactly resembling the sweetest sound of a small violin. On further observation it was found that, after `- - being about two hours in bed, she became restless, and began to mutter to herself. She then uttered sounds precisely re sembling the tuning of a violin, and, at length, after some pre , h i de, dashed off into elaborate pieces of music, which she per formed in a clear and accurate manner, and with a sound s-Pe r tly resembling the most delicate modulations of that in ant. During the performance she sometimes stopped, e sound of re-tuning her instrument, and then began .r".n 'here she had stopped in the most correct manner. , . , =pins occurred at irregular intervals, varying from so' , een, or even twenty nights, and they were gene ffognwed by a degree of fever and pain over various parts • body. 1 1 104 jiff LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Ism. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. The KING will officially Di SOLVE the PARLI.h.• MENT to-morrow at Brighton. REFORMERS! of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, BE AT YOUR POSTS. Scout all Pretenders and Tory Im postors. Leave no County, City, or Borough un tried. The Tories are at their last gasp I It would puzzle CRUIKSHANK himself to dis Cover any object in nature more dismal than the looks of the Tories since their inglorious defeat in the City of London. Before that event took place, they fancied themselves such able adepts in dissimulation, as to have no difficulty in cajoling the people into a belief that they had relinquished the a iniquity of their former ways ;" and henceforward were resolved to de vote themselves solely to the promotion of liberal prin ciples, and the reforming of time-impaired institutions. They got even the whole phraseology of the Radicals by rote ; and very gravely parrotted every expression in the Reform Vocabulary, capable of a double interpreta tion. Charmed with the " sounds themselves had made," and believing that they could pass themselves off for the " real Simon Pure," they betook themselves to all parts of the country with Reform on their lips, and corruption in their hearts, hypocritically whining about " altered circumstances," and " measures not men," with other jargon of the same sort. Fortunately for the country, the people were on their guard, so that when the Tories imagined they had achieved the great object of their ambition, they discovered that they. had been the dupes of their own artifice ; and that what was mistaken for the popular voice, was, in fact, neither more nor less than the shout of a disguised Conservative. They imitated the Reformers so well z:iat they mistook each other for the adherents of tha but unfortunately f or t h emse l ves , t h ey great bocii; dame convicti on on t h e pu bli c . failed in imposing tri s The disappointment of the Tori.z. ; notwithstanding their seeming adoption of liberal principles, ren;inds us of the admirable story of the two Aldermen in search of the ass, so humorously told by CERVANTES. Never was there a finer representation of the present proceedings of the Tories than the following laughable tale. One would suppose it had been written for the occasion : " In a town four leagues and a half from this city, it happened that an Alderman, through the artful contrivance (too long to be told) of a wench, his maid servant, lost his ass ; and though the said Alderman used all imaginable diligence to find him, it was not possible. Fifteen days were passed, as public fame says, since the ass was missing, when the losing Al derman, being in the market-place, another Alderman of the same town said to him—pay me for my good news, gossip, for your ass has appeared. Most willing ly, neighbour, answered the other ; but let us know where he has been seen. In the mountain, answered the finder ; I saw him this morning, without a pannel, or any kind of furniture about him, and so lank that it would grieve one to see him ; I would fain have driven him before me, and brought him to you, but he has already become so wild, and so shy, that, when I went near him, away he galloped, and ran into the most hidden part of the mountain. If you have a mind, we shall both go to seek him. You will do me a great pleasure, quoth he of the ass, and I will endeavour to pay you in the same coin. In short, the two Aldermen, hand in hand, went to the mountain ; and coming to the very place where they thought to find the ass, they found him not, nor was he to be seen anywhere thereabout, though they searched diligently after him. Perceiving that he was not to be found, quoth the Alderman that had seen him to the other, Hark you, gossip, a device has come into my head, whereby we shall assuredly disco ver this animal, though he were crept into the bowels of the earth, not to say the mountain, and it is this : I can bray marvellously well ; if you can do so never so little, conclude the business done.' Never so little, say you, neighbour ?' quoth the other. Be. fore Jove, I yield the precedence to none, no, not to asses themselves.' We shall see that immediately,' answered the second Alderman ; for I propose that you shall go on one side of the mountain, and I on the other, and so we shall traverse and en compass it quite mound ; and every now and then you shall bray, and so will I ; and the ass will most certainly hear and answer us if he be in the mountain.' To which the master of the ass answered, Verily, neighbour, the device is excellent, and worthy your great ingenuity. So, parting accord ing to agreement, it fell out that they both brayed at the same instant ; and each of them, deceived by the braying of the other, ran to seek the other, thinking the ass had appeared ; and at the sight of . each other, • the loser said, Is it possible, gossip, that it was not my ass that brayed ?'—' No, it was I,' answered the other. I tell you, then,' answered the owner, ' that there is no manner of difference, as to the braying part, between you and an ass ; for in my life, I never saw or heard anything more natural.' These praises and compliments,' answered the author of the strata gem, belong rather to you than to me, gossip ; for by Jove, you can give the odds of two brays to the greatest brayer in the world; for the tone is deep, the sustaining of the voice according to time and measure, and the cadence frequent and quick ; in short, I yield up the standard of this rare ability.'—' I say,' answered the owner, that I shall value and esteem myself the more henceforward, and shall think I know something, since I have some excellence.' " This said, they separated again, and fell anew to their braying ; and at every turn they deceived each other, and met again till they agreed, as a countersign to distinguished their own brayings from that of the ass, that they should bray twice together, one immediately after the other. Thus doubling their brayings, they made the tour of the mountains ; but no answer from the stray ass, no, not by signs ; indeed, how could the poor creature answer, which they found in the thickest of the wood dead and half rotten ? At sight whereof the owner said, I wondered indeed he did not answer ; for had he not been dead he would have brayed at hearing us, or he were no ass : nevertheless, gossip, I esteem the pains I have been at in seeking him to be well bestowed, though I have found him dead, since I have heard you bray with such a grace.' " Hereupon they returned home, disconsolate and hoarse, and recounted to their friends, neighbours, and acquaintances, all that had happened in the search after the ass ; each of them exaggerating the other's excellence in braying. The story spread all over the adjacent villages ; and the Devil, who sleeps not, as he loves to sow and promote squabbles and discords wherever he can raise a bustle in the wind—" But why go on with the story, and expose the malignity of the enemy of mankind ? He of course gave currency to the great abilities.,of the Aldermen ; maliciously whispering that WELLINGTON, deceived by the noise of the PEEL manifesto, thought the whole country was up to support the Conservatives ; and PEEL overpowered with the brilliancy of a Lord Mayor's " show," imagined the metropolis had swal lowed the bait prepared by the wily Premier. Great then is the disappointment and dismay of the Tory chiefs, when they find that the Reformers, instead of their being their dupes, only laughed- at them ; and that although they have so far succeeded in gulling each other, the country has always been perfectly aware of their designs. Like the meeting of the Al dermen, the Tories now ask one another, " and was it indeed you that made all that splutter in the Metro polis ? Why I protest I thought half the citizens of London were at your heels." " And I " answers the other, equally astonished, " was quite confident that all Bristol must have been formed into a Church and King Association, on hearing the Conservative shout which hailed my accession to office. But why did you not tell me before that it was not .swelled by the voice of the people ?" " Bless me, how unreason able you are I Did you not instruct: me to imitate the people, in order that they might be de ceived into a junction with us ? And, truly, had they only your discernment, I should have succeeded. But they know us too well, and so we are only the dupes of each other." This, in point of fact, is no exaggera tion of the Tory disappointment. They have done their best to deceive the people ; they have failed ; and all that now remains for them, is to congratulate each other on their consummate skill in hypocrisy. When once we forsake the path of virtue, into how many and grievous errors are we betrayed. A certain portion of the public press, that in its pride of power thought the abandonment of principle a very venial offence, and easily to be written out of recollection, now to its cost finds that, as usual, one guilty act re quires to be bolstered up by another ; the hunted cul prit soon loses his presence of mind, and, by the words of his mouth, does he oftentimes stand con (lemma The cuckoo-cry of " measures, not men," has for some weeks past rung in our ears R by little and little we shall, byraud,by, gather what more it precisely means than was first suspected. In the columns of our great Contemporary, the following question, with much simplicity, slipped out yesterday morning : " Is it imaginable that the Duke of WELLINGTON 14.7.:• , - -..... -Aft • :,',‘.. ..... • : _ / . k . , ---.. ~', . . . , 1:114. " ...p. : ., '•l* -- ', ihiy_ o ,,,'l r - •,' -,...1 N ~, _,&!.. , ' . , 4 11r A , • ~. . stu g ... 4 .. 0 . , 4 i.. u - l ' :,: 1.. 4 % '''.: ~,i' r :' , 4, .. 4 :4' . . , ..' 9• - . .1 11 , 11 :, '.". ':4-4: ' ~ eta PRICES OF STOCKS TIM , Bank Stock - 223 24 3 3 per Cent. Red. 1 per Cent. C0n5.......... ..... .... shut 34 per Cent - Oitto Red. .99% 3% 9 New 334 per Cent. ..-.... Assented I per Cent. 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Millwood, Mrs. Faucit. After which will be produced a New Grand Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN MAB; OR, THE THREE GLASS DISTAFFS. Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1834. (with what unconscious innocence his Grace's name takes precedence of his nominal leader's), Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord LYNDHURST, or Lord ABERDEEN, would suffer Messrs. HERRIES and GOULBURN, or Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, or Lord ELLEN BOROUGH, to obstruct or bias the determination of THEIR policy ?" What words to write ! What a question from such a quarter I Is it imaginable ? No I most excellent Gentleman. Not a man, in all Britain, but will answer no. It was never suspected. How delightfully this lets the cat out of the bag. The Government, then, is centred in four . persons only ; and the names of the others have only been employed for a convenient filling up of blanks. The country is not to look to them as representing the offi cial stations for which they have been gazetted ; their persons are only to be regarded as embodying forth a great Government fiction ; they are nobodies, and the Sovereign has been made the puppet in a solemn farce for shadowing out a falsehood ; the audiences and hand-kissing, and such-like matters of pomp, were all a mockery. What a maintenance of the KING'S prerogative ! The Duke, Sir ROBERT, Lord Keeper COPLEY, and Lord ABERDEEN "awa" are solely the King's Go vernment, and we have the authority of their own official organ for the fact. If this be the determina tion of their policy, what, pray, becomes of the Con stitution ? Is the assumption of Government by a quadrified cabal in strict consonance with Constitu tional law ? If it be, away with the offices which re quire but men of straw to fulfil their no-duties ; the appointment is a mummery and a cheat, nay, more, a robbery of the public purse, which the KING must not be allowed to countenance by any regal miming. But let us in our turn become the querist. Is it imaginable that the Duke of WELLINGTON would suffer Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord LYNDHURST, or Lord ABERDEEN, to bias the determination of ins policy ? We ask the people, and if their practical negation does not shortly run from one end of the island to the other, the Duke may safely consider himself to be what Mr. WARD called him—indeed " a wonderful man ! The Duke, with his tripartite fiction—PEEL, LYNDHURST, and ABERDEEN—is the Government; such is the horse, and such the harness. This is the man (the motto need no longer be dressed in plurali ties), and one of his first measures is to declare by his Blackfriars trumpeter, that the holders of high state offices will not be suffered to obstruct or bias the de termination of his policy. This is the man whom the Tories would move heaven and earth to fix in absolute power I The cowards—why do they not honestly speak out, and propose at once a DUKE-DICTATOR SHIP as a fitting substitute for our present constitution ? Then we should know their real object. We wonder how Mr. HERRIES, Mr. GOULBURN, Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, and EDWARD Baron ELLENBOROUGH relish the compliment which has just been passed upon them? The Government that proposes to carry forward the Reform Bill upon Tory principles, will have to look for its opponents beyond the ranks of the liberals. In the address of the Marquis of CHANDOS to the Buckinghamshire folks, equally remarkable for its bold ness and soundness of judgment, his Lordship is pleased to declare that " true to the principles he has ever advo cated and from which no public or private motive can makehim swerve," therefore, &c.,it is morally impossible that the Tories can conduct the affairs of this reformed na tion without an abandonment of their principles. It may be a partial abandonment; no matter—they must swerve, be it in much or in little. Here then we get two classes of tories, distinct in their shades of difference ; behold the elements of a squabble ! Give them but time enough, and we shall have a parody of the far famed Kilkenny cats. No motive, public or private, shall ever make us swerve from our principles, say one party—and a very profouid determination it is. Many motives, public and private, will induce us to swerve from them, say the other—and very prudent, if not so consistent is the counter-resolution. Nothing but some extraordinary n - ianceuvre by the " Extraordinary Man" can extricate him and his harness from the diffi culties which threaten to embarrass them. We shall see if we but wait a •while. The Paris papers of Tuesday have all been received. They are almost wholly taken up with reports from Bayonne of the state of the war in the North. The only matters worth notice in them are given in our extracts. FRENCH FUNDS.—Papa, Dile. 23. Five per Cents., 106 f. 50c. 45c. Four per Cents., 92f. 70c. Three per Cents., 76f. 65c. 70c. 75e. National Loan, 106 f. 35c. Treasury Bonds, March, 3►%. . Bank Actions, 1,797 f. s''c. Rente de Naples, 93f. tOc. 20c. Roman Five per Cents., 95 94%%. Rente d'Espagne. Five per Cents.. 41 415{, 40%. Rente cl'Erpagne. Three per Cents., 27% % 27. Rovai Spanish Loan, 44 43% 44, Rente Perpet. d'F.spagne. Fi►e per Cents., 425{ %. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 97%. RXCUANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f - 325,c. • money, —f. —c. Three months, paper, 25f. 17,g;c.; money, —f. --c. —Cours Authentique. We have received German, Dutch, and Brussels papers, but they contain no news worth giving. There is a great dearth of political speculation in all the Continental journals. DUTCH FUNDS—As:mm.lot, DBC. 23. Actual Debt, 2 , 4 per Cent. 534; to 544 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent. Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 754 to 7544 Loan (IRV) 5 per cent. Ditto (1e32 and i 111.3) 5 per cent. Exchange en London, One month l2 12 wo months —Dutch Papers. Dec. 24. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—Beaus, Dec. 19. St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent. ION 99% Prussian English Loan, MO. 4 per cent 9l 95% FOREIGN EXCHANGES On Amsterdam, 250 florins, 2 months 14114 141 Hamburg 300 francs, 2 months 152 London it 3 months 6 25% Leipsic 6 days Frankfort 2 months 103% 103 Petersburgh...loo rubles, 3 weeks 3O 1-12 —Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 211. 'We have received intelligence from Lisbon of the 13th inst. The Portuguese Government has paid up the whole of the arrears due to the soldiers who assisted the usurper M IGUEL , an d mos t o f th e British troops in the servi ce o f t h e Q UEEN h ave b een s in en ie t txspho eltlring home. " There was to have been a prorogation of the Chambers on the 16th inst. till the 2d of January, when they were to meet again for the discharge of business. Portugal is now in a very tranquil and prosperous state. BIRTH. --On th e 24 t h, at A rt hi ngwort h, Norh amptonshire, the Honourable Mrs. Charles Heneager, of a son. DIED —On the 17th inst., at the Hermitage, near Fd Cheshire, Ch ar l es B a ld w i n, E sq ., f ormer l y Lieu tenant-Colonel of the King's County Militia. A spirited chase took place on the 12th instant, at Heekington, by the constable of that place and seven men charged to assist, to take two poachers named Medlar and Burgess. One being in bed when they went to the house, made his escape out of the window with nothing on but his shirt, and showed real game, taking hedges and ditches, roads and 000 fields, w i t h out s h oe or stoc ki ng, an d closely 0 pursued §f/ve4 pariolgo Air tbp Whitle 4ay ; night coming on, and the bppters running by ILO4, not by scent, lost him, were compelled to give The other, Burgess, t oo k shelter In a ;MI() at creclington uoder largp broivirig tub; one of the pursuers suspected that to be the OW; and got upon it, and held hi m d own w hil s t th e oherj cam. -- secured him.--Boston Herald. up and SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, DEC. 24 AND 25.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Ex, Doughty, from Waterford ; Royal George, from Londonderry ; Wellington, from Dublin; and Erasmus, Mark, from Batavia. Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Lord Nelson for Lis bon, and Mary for Sligo. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 24 'AND 25.—Wind N. N. W.—Sailed the Srath Eden, Cheape, for Madras and Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, EC. 24. —Wind N. N. W. FALMOUTH, DEC. 23 AND 24.—Wind N.E. to N., light breezes.—Arrived his Majesty - s ship Pantaloon from Lisbon ; sailed 14th inst. PENZANCE, DEC. 24.—Arrived off, the Montcalm, Cham bers, from Halifax; and Dart, Letrecheim, from St. Michael's. BRISTOL, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Anna Catharina, Throok, from Wyburg. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Louisa, Wood, from Savannah ; Senator, from Quebec ; Superior, Anderson, from Faro ; and Hibernia, Young, from Archangel. CLYDE, DEc. 23.—Arrived the Bathea, M'Neale, from De merara; and Supply, Martin, from St. Petersburgh. MARGATE, DEC. 25.—Arrived off, the Vine, Eliburn, from Dublin. RAMSGATE, DEc. 25.—Arrived off, the Fagg, Bailey, from Terceira. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Maria Anna, from Echegineria, for London, very leaky, having been in contact with a vessel bound to Cadiz. YARMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Eight casks of flour picked up off Cromer, were landed here yesterday, marked " Baltimore— Petersburgh—superfine. L. W. Wierman, 196. Arector. J. J. C. C. Son." MARGATE, DEC. 24.—The Star, Barber, from London to Havre, has been assisted in here with damage of rigging, &c., having been in contact with the Anns Resolution, of South Shields. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. - - The supplies this week are good of mo s t kinds of Grain, and there is a tair return of Flour. The Wheat trade remains much the same as noted on Monday ; and the Christmas holidays in tervening, has caused a slack attendance at Market, so that all other Grain remains without variation. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. i Oats. Flour. F'nglish Irish - Foreign 240 2, GO SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of each kind of fat stock was indifferent, both as to numbers and quality ; of Store Pigs moderately good. The trade was dull throughout, with Beef at a depression of from 2d. to 4d. per stone ; with Mutton, Veal, and Pork, at barely Monday's prices. Mach Cows went off tardily at their last week's currency, viz., auseful short horns, with their small calves, from 141. 10s. to 161. 10s. ; good ones from 18/. to '2O/. each. PRICES PER STONE OF BLE. TO SINK TIM OFFALS. s. d. to s. d s d. to s. d. Interior Beasts Second quality ditto 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Coarse-virtiolled ditto ... 3 8 310 Prime Scots, &c. "I 10 4 0 Southdown Wethers ... 4 0 4 4 Large coarse Calves 3 0 4 2 Large Hogs . Prime small ditto Suckling Calves each l2 ii 24 0 1 Quarter old Pigs each, 8 U 12 0 SUPPLY, AS PER. CLERK'S STATEMENT. I Sheep 1,710 I Calves. 1 Pigs. 28 231 Beasts 433 DENHALL MARKETS. by the Careasi. NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, I _ s d te s d s d to s d Beef, inf.rior. 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 2 2 2 4 -- middling 2 4 2 6 middling . 2 8 3 0 -- prime large 2lO 3 2 ----- prime 3 II 3 8 - prime 5ma11......... 3 6 3 8 Pork, large 2 0 3 0 Veal 3 0 4 6 -small 3 2 3 8 COLONIAL MARKETS.—( THIS DAY.) The markets for colonial produce are closed on account of the holydays. The sales of Sugar this week have been unier ,500hhds., and purchases by private contract are made only to meet immediate wants. Coffee and Rum maintain advanced prices. Spices also look firm, and a further rise is expected. There is scarcely any business doing to-day in other staple ar ticles of trade. Rice is rather more in request. In Cotton and Wool higher prices are looked for. The consumption of Cottons is still on the increase, and in Wools there is an improved demand TOBACCO. —Several public sales have occurred, and in some lower prices have been submitted to, but many of the holders are firm at former prices, and appear determined to hold rather than submit to such rates—the large quantity of their ordinary and middling class of Sugars lately imported, (which are not better than are made by our British manufacturers, and sold at I Os. to 13s. duty paid), has caused a slight reduction in price upon finer qualities, of Is. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; such as Cabanna, Pellons, &c. that used to realize Its. 6d.,t0 13s per pound, although the proportion of the latter descriptions on our stock is so small, compared with ordinary or middling, a fair price may yet be expected to be obtained for them. TALLOW.—The market is dull, at 40s. 3d. to 40s. Gd. per cwt. CHICHESTER MARKET—Dec. 24. Beef 131 utton '3 6 4 2 I Pork 3 o 3 8 supply of both fat and lean stock limited ; trade with the forme. rather brisk, with the latter somewhat dull. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. An express has arrivcd from Falmouth, bringing the arrival of his Majesty's brig Pantaloon from Lisbon, which sailed on the 14th inst., but she does not bring any news of consequence. The capital was perfectly tranquil, and the sensation produced on the first information of the Duke of Wellington's Adminis tration has subsided. The Queen was enjoying good health ; the Don Pedro frigate had left the Tagus, supposed to con vey to Lisbon the Duke of Leuchtenburg. Our arrivals this morning are one French, one Ostend, and one Dutch mail; also the Lisbon mail, with the express from Paris. Not a ship letter has been received. The contents of the above arrivals will be fuund in another part of the paper. THE FUNDS. The Bank, as well as the Stock Exchange and Foreign Market, are open this morning for business. Consols are at the same price as they left off on Wcchesda-, 92 to for the. Account, with little doing, although the French Funds come with an improvement, Rentes Three per Cents., 76f. 75c. Spanish also higher at Paris, 114. Money conti nues scarce, owing to the approaching elections, which has an effect on the market. The Foreign Market is agitated. Spanish Stock, which left off on Tuesday at 541 opened at 54, receded to 534, at present are 534- 4. Portuguese Stock also receded to 861 y. - A great deal of Spanish Stock is coming to Market for Money. HALF-PAST ONE. The British Funds, as well as the Foreign, continue ex ceedingly heavy. Consols have receded from 92- to 911 92 for the Account, with little doing. Spanish Stock, which was in the early part of the morning 544, has receded to 53k 4, near two per cent. fall. There were few buyers to any considerable amount, owing to a report in the Stock Exchange that General Mina was defeated ; but not much credit is given to the above information from Paris, which is supposed to be for stock-jobbing purposes. Portuguese Stock has also declined to 85 f i it was in the previous part of the day at 861-1. 100,000 of the above Steck has been brought to Market. It is stated that the King is coming to town to morrow to sign the proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament, after which he will again return to Windsor. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 91i 92. MARSHA LSEA PRISON.—The Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household having been kindly pleased to bestow a very liberal and benevolent Christmas Donation, upon tll3 debtors confined in this prison, the same was distribu c i yes terday, by J. Rutland, Esq., the Duputy Marshti, in a plenti ful supply of beef, bread, and porter, exclusive of one shilling to each individual. That his L6rdship's bounty was most worthily bestowed could not be more clearly evinced than by the gratitude expressed, and the good order maintained, on the occasion. The City Theatre re-opens this evening with Leman Rede ; Wild, of the Fitzroy ; Mrs. Chapman (late Miss Ann Tree); Misses Cooke, Wilkins, Pitt, &c. &c. Rede is the manager, and, arguing from former success there, is likely to do well. A substantial concrete wall, joining the east end of the present one at St. Leonard's, has been begun, and is to be continued to the eastward until it meets that at White Rock. It is now, in the present very favourable weather going on rapidly.—Brighton Gazette. EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.---During yesterday morning seven different cases of accident (two of them com pound fractures of the limbs, and to which a fatal termination is apprehended) arising from intoxication, were brought into St. Bartholomew's Hospital. We are sorry to say that the sea has made a consi derable breach in the western part of the wall at St. Leonard's, but that no buildings are endangered thereby, nor is it proba ble such will be the case.—Brighton Gazette. POLAND.—A private letter from Leipsic, of the 13th of December, contains the following . paragraph In the course of next Spring, a grand review of Russian and Prussian troops will take place near Kalish, on the Polish territory." This intelligence has given rise to a variety of conjectures. The prevailing idea appears to be, that it is in tended for the purpose of still further intimidating Poland, where the general discontent amounts almost to despair. The latest news from Poland states that the prisons are now quite empty ; all the prisoners have been sent to Russia and into Siberia. ------- PERSIA.—The late Schah of Persia reigned thirty eight years, and is succeeded by Mohammed Mirza, his grand, son, who has been acknowledged by the Russian and English Representatives at Teheran. When the last accounts left about leaving Tabreez f o r however, und ers t oo d th at t h e s i x b rot h ers TPeerhseiraan. the It wag, Monarch was of the young Monarch, as well as several of his uncles, would attempt by f o rce of arms to assert their cl a i ms t o th e crown, and that there was little chance of a civil war being ikYt*led• A letter from Toulon of the 10,th. 11 4' the follow ing Qur miOrea yvill positively set sail on Saturday, not for flip levant, as had been imagiPedo3llt fqf. 4}l(. Hyeres Isle to practice 1.1, ..0 hlannTlP.9ll cif , ttie sails ;And other d u ti,— Thp TOPArt§ which huge tlm spread of an apprn--• • have Olsol from the merchants. P have inerenspa —ening war ~.mums of insurance —iree-told at Marseilles, and there is great difUeultp in getting ships destined for the Black Sea insured at all." DUBLIN. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Abridged from the Morning Register of Wednesday.) CRIM. CON.—HODGENS V. MAHON. Baron SMITH came upon the Bench about 11 o'clock. The first witness examined was Margaret Howe. I know, said she, Mr. Hodgens and Mrs. Hodgens. I was cook to them. I went to them in February, and continued in their service until the 17th of March. I have seen Mr. Mahon. I saw him there different times, and going in company with Mr. and Mrs. Hodgens three times to the Castle. I never saw him in the house except those times, though I have heard of him. I remember, on the 12th of April, to have seen Mahon coming out of Mr. Mulrennin's , the portrait-painter. The house-maid, Eliza Devoy, was with me at the time. I saw Mrs. Hodgens come out first, and in a short time after Mr. Mahon came out. There could not be more than three minutes' space between the time of the two coming out. She came out first and look ed about her, and then she went down the street. He came out afterwards. Cross-examined by Mr. JACKSON.—The, very day fol lowing that on which I saw this we went to tell Mr. Crostue; the action was n o t b roug ht a t th at t i me, b ut I t h oug ht it necessary to go. Counsel—'Who told you it was necessary ? Witness--- Am I no answer ? Counsel—lndeed you are. Witness—Well, then, Mr. Hodgens did. The time Mr. Hodgens desired me to go was the day after she was at Ashbourne races. I don't know the day of the month of April of the Ashbourne races, but it must have been early in the month of May. It must be after that Hodgens came to me. Hodgens came to me to look for Eliza De voy ; there were the three servants of us turned out without a fault. He desired us to say anything we knew of Mrs. Hodgens, and I knew nothing of her. It was be fore what I saw in Dame-street that Mr. Hodgens came to me. Mrs. Hodgens went to the Ashbourne races, as f heard, with Mr. Mahon and Colonel Douglas and his lady- She went there in a coach-and-four. I was not in the house at the time of the races. I was not turned away by the master for telling lies of the mistress. I have got the discharge from them. 'Thomas Magee, exemined by Mr. LITTON—I know the gentleman they call Mr. Mahon. I first met him in Ennis kr ary, at Quigley's Hotel. I acted as waiter there at that time. I saw him there about June last. I had a conver sation with Mahon. He procured me a situation out of Quigley's, and I was unacquainted with it until I went home , to it. He said he would get me a situation as postillion- H e did get it for me. He told me it would be with a lady, but did not mention her name. He told me then to call at No. 9, Sackville-street, to Mr. Freymouth. I went there ? before the time I was desired, and I saw there Mrs. Hod" Bens, my late mistress, and Dr. Mahon. They were a lone. The Doctor desired me never to go into the room where ) my mistress sat without tipping at the door. I wa Williams's Hotel six or eight days. I saw Mahon fre quently there. He was there almost every day. He Te • mained till ten or eleven at night, generally in the evening late ; I never saw anything particular, more than to see them together, and stand at the fire. They sat at the table. I never saw any thing more particular than that, and I went in, through mistake, two or three times, without tipping at the door. O'Gorrna° Mahon, Mr. O'Keeffe, and Colonel Douglas were a mongst the visitors at the hotel to Mrs. Hodgens. After that she went to Gayfield, General Luscombe's place. I w e nt there to her as footman. He stopped the first night she went to Gayfield until ten o'clock. She stopped there a bout five months. I left four or five days before she did. I sa lt ; Mahon in that ho use f requent l y . H e often stopped a" night ; but I can no t sa y w h et h er h e slept ther.—(Lang , ": ter.) I mean that h e s t oppe d t h e w h o l e of the n i gh t" There was a bed-room allotted there for him. Her bed room, that of Mr. Mahon's, and Mr. Walshe's, wer e on tb s same lobbv.—(Lau g ht er .) On' of these rooms was M r ' Holwell VValshe's. I could not call any one my m aster . One person hired me, another said they hired me. One d paid me part of m y wages, and Mr. Holwell Walshe me the remainder.—(Laughter.) Mrs. Hodgens a cted a t my mistress. There have been ladies there on a vis lt i o.:e night I heard a no i se , an d I was i n the habit always ° locking the doors at night. I found the noise was in 1)1 ' Mahon's room. I heard in that room the voices of rei; mistress and D oc t or M a h on. T hat was about eleven a" night. There was no family in the house but the servan ts ; and I was the last up. After that I had, upon one occa sion, sion, to go up to Doctor Mahon's room early in the no r ', ing. I always went np with his boots. I did not see t _e n d one in bed with him in the morning. I saw her in his " 4 ° , - 1• room. The room was quite dark. I went to the f°e," he - r the bed, and I knew my mistress was there, for I hear d oss voice in the bed. I thought, up to that time, my mistreat was . a proper lady. When I saw them in bed it vas a night. I saw her partly throu , rh the door another m onl c i ing, in his bed-room, and I then went down stairs. Idi not think it proper to go in. Cross-examined by Mr. BENNETT-4 am the ma n that is called Tom. I will answer any 'thing that la m ca lled' There is a woman called Eli za Fl em i ng. She was there a" the time. I lived in the house with her. She never sv al ) called Eliza Mag ee . Th a t was an empty title.—(Laug h te r'/ Will Tommy Magee ? Mr. O'CoNNELL—Is this Tommy Magee ?—(Laughte r " ) Mr. BENNETT—This is Tommy Magee.—(Laughte r ; ) t To witness—Are you fond of tithes ? Witness—l do° understand you. Mr. O'CONNELL—Oh! then, this is not Tommy Mag ee. —(Laughter.) e , ? Mr. BENNETT—Gentlemen o f f as hi on were the"r There were gen tl emen, b ut I am no judge of fash i o ° L (Laughter.) mid they smoke c i gars ? Y es. Did t': y e use a pipe —you understand me ? Th ere was many ocii thy;-e. I never go t a p i pe o f L or d Kingsborough's. i pip seas these parties th ree ti mes toget h er. I cannot say what a the time I first saw them together. Between the first ae second time was f rom th e 13 t h to 17th October—that isk,, to the best o f m y op i n i on . Th e fi rst time was, I t";hat about the 13th or 16th O cto b er, an d the reason I saY, 'her is, I s aw th em t oget h er i n t h e one week. I hear" „dint voice in th e room a f ew d ays b e f ore I left her. I °The say the length of time, whether a week or fortnight. . , time I first saw any unchaste freedom was at night trlest There was no one in the house but the servants and O K that time. I suspected something wrong ; because where ev ns thing was right below, I suspected something must be li r above. Mah on an d M rs. H o d gens wanted me to swear ao ajd davit that I saw nothing between them. I told them l e° not do so. I canno t t e ll h ow l ong I remained in the g.era, vice after I t o ld M r . H o d gens. I to l d h i m there Nra' I to propriety going on between his lady and 'Mr. MalO' the best of my opi n i on . Id o not recol",ect where it 01s ~o a . told him first. I once spo k e to hi ln out in Cullen's-"'`-tee I went into prayers in the town, and he came out after to Cullen's-w oo d, hi mse lf and another woman ; I "" Mrs. Kelly is her nam , :,. Eliza Fleming ejkarnined by M r . O'CONNELL--- k' -11 Mr. Hodgens., and Mrs. Hodgens. I lived with h er ' en , vent to 1 .1.ie with her th e 25th M arc h l ast . Sh e was al's, 10.. `._ - tephen's-gre en ; I a l so li ve d w i t h h er i n Freyin° ll c i at in Sackville-street. I saw M a h on i n t h e afternoon anvil', night at Freyrnouth's. He was there without any else. The latest hour I have known him to be w ith 1 4 , Hodgens w as b e t ween twe l ve an d one at night. I renl a ' a a her him coming with other gentlemen, Mr. O'Keeff_ e ' av ia Colonel Dou g l as , an d O'G orman M a h on. I have °went of his coming to the house after these gentlemen tit to away. I rem em b er l eav i ng hi m a f ter me. I wen t ° hut buy butter of a Saturday night. I told my mistres_a cto r ter was want e d, an d s h e d es i re d me to go ; I l e ft Pf . . atc , Mahon after me ; a ft er I returne d I f ound the back-'" dae r ing room closed against me ; the front drawing-rooti l an d was open ; there were folding doors between the front o, back room ; I h ear d a bustle--walking like, and th e r , t he ing door o p en , an d M rs. H o d gens came and unlock" sly door, and looked at me, and asked me was I sick ; sl f ,cas peared as if con f use d , an d her hair was tossed ; I sold the net sick ; she said she had locked the door to ke e p t he people of th e h ouse f rom p i mping ; there was alight ~, ck front drawing- room ; I did not see any one in the in drawing-room ; this was 11 at n i g h t ; Dr. Mahon rv't oas 9; the front drawing -room ; no one was th ere but my O s he was at the table reading a book. Mr. O'CONNELL—H e came to fi n i s h hi s stuch .6s.. ; . t (Laughter.) Th e l a t est h our I k new o f M a h on com ine on e night was between 10 and 11. He rapped and rung he r night. The boy was opening the door. She was L l ' e to bed-roo m , an d came d own a l ong w i t h me. Sh e to ld w alin g settle his bed-room, that he was ill from eating sore ° that disagreed with him. tl?' The case closed for the plaintiff by reading orders,,, 000 i n uff Court of Ch ancery re l a ti ve t o t h e marr i age o f the 1 . with Mrs. H o d gens , an d t h e sett l ement o f pro perty' u pon her, upon which she was entitled to receive dividends her own receit. rician t, Mr. WALSII p E rose to a dd ress th e J ur y f o r the dete when the Court rose, and the case was adjourned. LIVERPOOL C OTTON -M ARKET , DEC. 2-• - ",,,itP Th e A , sales in cotton to-day amount to upwards of 2,000 bale 99 1 50 a rather a heavy ma r k e t, a t the pri ces o f y es terday, vii.,i3d. Pernams, lkfd. and 13d. ; 200 Maranhams, 12id. a nd fon' 70 Bahias, 110. to I lid. ; the remainder in Amer ican, 8i d. to lid. o f daps since, tow d S t." the an- - y, of Acton-lodge, was sitt i ng 'vi of P 'Mrs. Montg.omery, the li be r a b Colonel Monto, 7ner _aghter and Lady Byron, near the window of on? ~. were parlours, in which several canaries and othe r fancy kiradvarting kept, they were much alarmed by a fine sparrowha.: , ,v tun atel through a large square of glass towards the birds. P°: ca lle" he missed his aim, and the servants being immediate,' 00 tbi in, the hawk was soon captured alive, and is still kop l premises. Eliot spry vian. at al' been Refc resul Stan( to tri for% Jery safe. eery Adt aga: all urg. retu they NIT whi tut wh exc wh Ba tur