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Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances corn menbe 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. 9, 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 Raymund ; 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 which will be added, the Petite Drama of SUZANNE. Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne, (an Orphan), Madame Celeste. To be followed by the Barletta. of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Captain Amersfort, Mr. Howe; Peter Spyk, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Swyzel, Mr. Tilbury. Gertrude, Madame Vestris, with the Song of " I'd Marry him To-morrew." Ernestine, Miss C. Connor. To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, called A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Buckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Marv, Miss Mattley ; The Unknown Female, Miss Connor ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 9, Will be repeated a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. 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Terry, who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of " Oh ! why does the White Man hang on my path ?" composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. MAP OF CHINA. 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 CAN TON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO, NINGPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Orders received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. - _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...... 21 ininute 3 after 6 I Evenin g 46 min utes after 6. itoo • - 4 " 4 4 - 2 .; Aro V,74A- f* *lO 1i A' ; '• -A____vi k o tt o c a _ ' e 2un. LONDON : FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1842. The Essex Herald compliments us by saying that our attempt to persuade the farmers, in re ference to its statement of pauperism being on the increase, that the Corn-laws were the causes of their distress, was " adroitly and skilfully made." That journal is, however, more complimentary than correct. It required no great degree of skill or adroitness to connect the present condition, both of farmers and labourers, with laws which obviously destroy the increase and the prosperity of their best and richest customers. We cannot repay the compliment by saying that the Essex Herald has shown adroitness and skill in its attempt to prove that those laws have not caused the present lamentable condition of both farmer and labourer ; it has only displayed great igno ftnee or very bad faith. What can the public think of a journalist who asserts " that the last harvest was below the ge neral average, and below the average (harvest 4 437.) of 1841," in order to throw the blame of the present condition of the agriculturists on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S puny alteration of the sliding scale ? W e must refuse to credit any public statements if the produce of the wheat-lands throughout England and Scotland in 1842, taking both quantity and quality into considera tion, was not nearly one-third better than the harvest of 1841, and than the average of the harvests since 1838 inclusive. Why, the whole empire, both in Parliament and out of Parlia ment—aye, even the pulpits—have resounded with praise of the harvest of 184‘); and for a journalist now to m a k e a contrary assertion for an obvious purpose, is more a proof of reckless ness than of ignorance. If the harvest were not, as we described it, a decent one, what reduced the price o f w h eat? Not Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Bill, for under it the necessary supply of wheat has been introduced at a duty of Bs., which under the old law was generally introduced at ls. What has ruined the speculators in grain, but the unexpected, early, and good harvest? They strove all in their power to keep up prices; they kept their corn out of the market as long as possible, and scarcely a grain was introduced till the markets were rising. But when it was ascertained that our own produce was larger than usual—when prices, in consequence, could not be forced up— when they had begun sensibly to fall, then the importers introduced the foreign wheat at a much higher duty than it was ever before necessary to pay on the bulk of the foreign supply. It seems to us that the ruin of the specu lators in foreign grain, and the fall of price be fore their wheat had passed the Custom-house, fully demonstrates that the common reports of the harvest were correct, and confirm the opinion we have expressed of our opponent. We believe the harvest was not even decent on the clay lands of Essex, the farmers of which had to bear all the expense of a costly system of cultivation and high rents, while they could not secure themselves from the competition of the farmers of other parts of the country, whose crops were excellent. But while they are grumbling at their short crop, the farmers of Haddington are rejoicing, according to Mr. GEORGE HOPE, the author of a prize essay published by the League, " in a most abundant crop of the finest quality." The present laws subject the tenants to certain outlays, while the harvest is always a contingency. Those whose crops suc ceed are, at the best of times, barely remune rated, while those whose crops fail are utterly ruined. The Essex farmers promised rent for the present year, and were at an expense of cul tivating the land, tantamount to wheat being 60s. per quarter; it has fallen below 505., their crop is short, the law did not destroy the harvest of the farmers in the north, nor keep it out of the market, and the Essex farmers are nearly ruined. The law, by increasing the expense of cultiva tion and raising rents all over the country, while it cannot secure equal crops for every farmer, was and is the cause of the distress of the Essex farmers, which makes them dismiss their la bourers. We need not add one word to remind our readers that those laws, by destroying the pro perty of the manufacturing classes, have made even a short harvest abundant, in relation to their means of purchase, and have caused that fall in price which is felt as an injury to both farmers and agricultural labourers. Neither do we require to notice the statement that the present distress is caused by a partial abandon ment of the system of protection, for the decay of the agriculturists far exceeds the amount of that abandonment, and began before that could have had any effect. The whole mischief has been caused, as Mr. GREG has shown in a pam phlet published by the League, by the Corn-laws inducing the farmer to promise rents and incur expenses, which the price of wheat, except in years of scarcity, will not enable him to pay. The Bengal Hurkaru of October 11, says, that the official reports of the deposition of the Hill Coolies returned from the Mauritius de clare that some Coolies say they would rather break stones than work in the cane plantations; others complain of being cruelly treated by the overseers, of having been beaten, imprisoned, and deprived of their rations for the most trifling offences. It adds that not one in a hundred have returned to Bengal. The Mauritius, it is concluded, is very far from being the Coolie Eldorado described by interested persons. This statement is of considerable importance, both in relation to our duties on sugar, which are con structed to give a heavy bounty on the so-called free Coolie labour in the Mauritius, and depress the slave labour of the Brazils—a subject which will again be agitated when Parliament assem bles; and in relation to Lord STANLEY'S notable scheme to tax the labourers of the Mauritius to import Hill Coolies in order to beat down the wages of their own labour, which we brought under the notice of our readers on the lithult. Lord STANLEY did not carry his plan through Parliament uninformed of the certain oppression of the Hill Coolies, which he was pro moting. To be sure the Noble Lord, with that overweening confidence in his own wisdom which always distinguishes such petted children of for , tune, was, and no doubt still is, quite certain that the nice regulations HE had devised would be sure to prevent all the evil consequences of the cupidity to which he was giving a legal sanction. By such immeasurable vanity, which refuses to take council from experience, and persists in supposing that it can achieve by some paper orders what all previous statesmen have failed to accomplish, blacks and whites are at all times made to suffer. Mr. HOGQ, who opposed Lord STANLEY, thus remonstrated with him : What thirty or forty thousand of the natives of India torn by force, or beguiled by fraud, from their homes, transported to a distant island, where, from the nature of the soil, labour in the field is severe in the extreme ; there, handed over to taskmasters who extorted from them work beyond what their frames were physically capable of enduring—while their families, abandoned in India, were languishing in na:sery and destitution. And the system which in duced those frightful calamities to be again resorted to, without the specification of a single precautionary , measure (at least as regarded India) that had not be fore been tried and found unavailing. Mr. HOGG'S remarks are fully confirmed by the Bengal newspaper; but in spite of all his remonstrances, and in spite of all his facts, Lord STANLEY, as Mr. HOGG justly observed, sup ported on one " side of the House measures which he had opposed on the other." The Noble Lord's superabundant confidence in himself was in fact sufficient equally to Overcome all regard for his own consistency and an respect for what is due to the labourers in the Mauritius and the Coolies in India. Notwithstanding this addi tional testimony to the enslaved condition of the labourers forced or beguiled from India to the Mauritius, and of the in sufficiency of all regulations to cope with the avarice of planters, endowed both with the political power and the land of our colonies, we shall no doubt be told with much earnestness still to rely on the wisdom and precautions of Lord STANLEY to prevent all mischief in future. We shall be called on to continue the present,orper hapssome mitigated, bounty on the cultivation of sugar in our own colonies by some schemeof forced labour, now contemplated, miscalled free im migration from Africa or India We place no reliance whatever on any such regulations, and therefore we conclude that the only way to put an end to such oppression as occurs in the cane plantations in the Mauritius, and we have no doubt in our other colonies, is to p ut an end to the enormous bounty which is now given by the discriminating sugar duties on the cultivation of that commodity in our own colonies. A Morning Contemporary speaking of the present state of Ireland, makes the following remarks :—" Crime has opened its winter cam paign earlier, and in greater force, than usual. In Tipperary, murder, with its train of minor offences—such as destruction of property and brutal assaults on persons—stalks abroad; through out Cork, there is an organised and tumultuous confederation against the payment of poor-rates; in Longford, Ribbonism, with its threatening notices and armed marauding parties, is prepar ing for more active and dangerous demonstra tion ; and there is generally throughout the south of Ireland a passive resistance to the obligations of the Poor law." Discouraging as are these re marks, there is unfortunately too much truth in them. The Herald is guilty of no ex aggeration. Agrarian disturbance is rife in many parts of the south of Ireland ; discontent, as usual, is the rule, and content, the exception, in that most combustible quarter, of the sister island;—in a word, pacification is deVeloping itself after the orthodox Irish fashion, by nightly hill fires, tumultuous gatherings of the peasantry, house-breakings, house-burnings, shooting at landlords behindhedges, and bringing them down, like crows, at a long shot; and by those thou sand other sprightly but irregular contrivances, by which the Irish peasant i s i n th e h a bit of are. sil The showing' dissatisfaction with things as they inference—the inevitable inference— to be drawn from this discouraging state of affairs is, that the Tory Government, despite its boasts, and promises, and affected impartiality, has as yet done little or nothing towards the restora- `\ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1842. tion of tranquillity in the sister country. It Is I idle to say that Mr. O'CONNELL—the favourite scape-goat of Toryism—is to blame for the present system of agitation progressing at a giant's pace through southern Ireland. He has clearly nothing whatever to do with the matter. He is just now quiescent, and we might almost add, acquiescent, for the Repeal ferment, generally speaking, has no real hold on the sympathies of his countrymen; it is limited in its range, feeble in its effects, and is gradually waning away, like shadows at the approach of dawn, before the healthy common-sense influence of that wonder working Reformer, tile true moral regenerator of his country—Father MATHEW. Mr.,O'CoN NELL, too, agitates the question, as if his heart were no longer in the cause—or rather, as if there were a sore struggle going on between his natural impulses and his rational convictions on the subject, in which the latter would even tually be triumphant. It is not, then, to this gentlemen that the present disturbed state of Ireland is owing. It is no longer possible to lay the blame at his door. At whose threshold, then, is the lusty bantling of Irish agitation to be laid ? Unhesitatingly, we reply, at that of the Tory Government. Earl DE GREY led us to suppose, when he assumed the reins of power, that he was about to do great things for the sister country; Lord ELIOT made an emphatic speech to his English constituents, in which he volunteered the same boast; strict impartiality was henceforth to be the order of the day ; there was to be no more coquetting with Orangemen; no tricky, balanc ing of parties, one against the other ; the Irish Government was to be conducted, not only on the wholesome principle of showing fa vour and affection to none but the deserving, but it was also to be distinguished by the energy and promptitude of its movements, and by its anxious desire to investigate minutely and searchingly the existing state of affairs in the country com mitted to its charge, with a view to acquire, not superficial, but substantial information, and to apply, not a momentary, but a permanent re medy. Such was the boast made by the Tory party when it first entered upon office in Ire land. It took possession of power amid the sound of drums and trumpets, " psaltery, dul cimer, and cymbal." It announced itself as a mountain in labour, which in the fullness of time was to produce something worthy of itself. Well, it has gone the full period of gestation; the hour of delivery has arrived; and it has brought forth—what ? A Mouse ! In plain English, despite its boasts, it has done literally nothing towards the pacification of Ireland. It has shown no zeal—no energy—no forethought; it has been simply a Government of expe dients—a timid unconditional dependent on the Chapter of Accidents. Its name is Common- Place ! It is without character of any sort. It goes sniffing and sniffing at the two bundles, of Orangeism on the one hand, and Liberalism on the other, between which it is placed ; and though it is perishing of inanition, is afraid to take a bold bite at either. It cannot make up its mind to any decided course of conduct. It is too timid even to perpetrate a dashing mis chief. Can we wonder, then, that, if not deci dedly unpopular, Earl DE GREY'S government is at least a nonentity in Ireland, and that agra rian and other disturbances are the consequence? We do not mean to say that the recent murders in Tipperary are the direct and immediate con sequences' of the feebleness of the Irish Execu tive, but we will unhesitatingly maintain that they are more or less connected with it. When a Government, after teaching a people to hope for an improved state of things, disappoints all their just expecta tions, and leaves them in a statu quo condition, it is no more than truth to say that it is an swerable for the results of such disap pointment. By-the-bye, it is not a little curious that the very county which, but the other day, Lord DE GREY plumed himself so self-complacently on having pacified, is the very one, which is now the most convulsed in Ire land! His Lordship should have borne in mind the old adage—", Never shout before you are out of the wood." At a meeting of 'the Corporation of Dublin, held on Tuesday, a motion was made to the effect that the Council, in congratulating themselves on the termination of the horrors of war in India and China, tender their thanks to Ge nerals Sir HUGH GOUGH, NOTT, and PoLLocE, Sir R. SALE, land Sir HENRY POTTINGER, for their services in both countries. One would have supposed that no objection could have been rais ed to such a motion even by persons opposed to these wars, and that Irishmen in particular, with their usual admiration for gallant deeds, and for the honour conferred on their countrymen, would have carried the motion by acclamation. It was, however resisted by a town-councillor called KIRWAN, and he- was supported by an Alder man who rejoices in the name of KISHAN, being a brother, or some relative, we suppose, of the Chinese Commissioner who distinguished himself at Canton. The grounds for the opposition were that the wars were unjust, and that the officers had only done their duty. This is a perverse mode of reasoning, to say the least of it. Why, WELLINGTON at Waterloo only did his duty ; NELSON at Trafalgar, gave as his last signal, " England expects every man to do his duty," and the signal was faithfully obeyed. Mr. O'CONNELL, in rendering the most important services to his native isle, has only done his duty and is he therefore to receive no monument to record the gratitude and affection of his countrymen ? It should be remembered, too, that POTTINGER, and GOUGH, and KEANE (all Irishmen, by the way), did not originate these wars. They acted merely as the servants of the public, they obeyed, as all soldiers must, the commands of their superiors, and deserve thanks and rewards, not for the object of the wars :in which they en gaged, but for the skilful and gallant manner in which they brought the operations to a peaceful conclusion. But the opposition to this well-merited testimony proposed is the least remarkable feature in this singular scene, for it would appear that some of these Chinamen proposed a vote of thanks to the Emperor of CHINA, and KIRWAN and KISHAN actually embodied in their resolution a vote of thanks to Lord ELLENBOROUGH. There never was a better instance of the " reductio ad ab 81pvuoac:freiuduomitisil'hiatapoanpukeynds j o c r a w op e t tt h i hvmeee captives myi singular aogtl therefore han wre hihonou r o would ueu e da a Qn v f del havei having v h al these the name of England a bye-word among the nations of the East. As the mail has not brought the conclusion of the discussion, we can not state what was the result, but have no doubt that common sense and national gratitude would prevail. ram No authentic accounts of the submission of the Barcelona insurgents have yet been received, but from various statements in the papers of the south of France, there can be no doubt of the fact. It is said that the entire day of the 28th ult., was spent in negotiations between ESPAR• TERO and the Junta, and that the latter offered to surrender on the following terms The removal of VAN HALEN and the political chief; the garrison to be changed, and the pre sent National Guard to remain armed. No con scription. We doubt if any such propositions were made, but if such was the fact, ESPARTERO • to a certainty would reject them. The Semaphore of Marseilles states, that all was terminated, and that the Junta had accepted the terms offered by ESPARTERO, one of which was the disarming of the National Guard. The Constitutional of Barcelona, of the 29th ult, gives the following details relative to the late Junta : After the dissolution a Commission, charged to de vise and carry into operation the best means of putting an end to the difficult position in which the insurgents were placed, was appointed. It consisted of the Commandants of the National Guard, and the Al caldes of Barcelona. At its first meeting, this Com mission called upon the Consultative Junta to assemble and deliberate on the course to be adopted, but it seems that only three out of the twenty-five members of that body who had been elected were willing to assume any responsibility ; indeed, none of the other members would even show themselves at the meetinc , This journal adds, that on the 22d inst. the Deputies of Catalonia waited on the Regent, whilst on his journey to Barcelona, to entreat his clemency, and, above all, that he would draw a line of distinction between the criminal and the innocent. The Regent is reported to have replied, " I am a Spaniard and love Spain, and cannot believe that the Catalonians would rise against the cause of Spain. I will make a distinction be tween the people and those who have excited and promoted disturbances ; but as to these latter, I am resolved to chastise them with a heavy hand, and to let the arm of the law fall upon them in an inex orable manner. Either lor these seditious men must cease to exist. I know them, and I am has tening to Catalonia not to destroy, but to protect Barcelona and its industry. I have taken my oath to the Constitution. I have obtained for it victory upon victory, even to the summits of the Pyrenees, and 1 will die rather than allow it to be trampled under foot. I will do this until the moment shall arrive for me to give up the Regency, and place authority in the hands of the Queen, when I will retire into private life, and attend to the interests of my own property, satisfied at having served my: country." The Comstitucional, which had not appeared for some days, explains its non-appearance, by stating that the Directing Junta having forbidden the publication in its columns of ac counts from Madrid and the provinces,"it had preferred suspending its publication. The Madrid Gazette of the 29th publishes numerous reports from the political chiefs of the different towns in Spain, all of which announce that the best spirit prevailed in the respective districts. There never, in fact, was a more isolated attempt to change a Government than this affair of Barcelona. The Three per Cents. were done at Madrid on the 29th at 22 21 15-16 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 261 11-16 f at 60 days. A thick fog still prevailed at Paris on Tues day, and as it prevented all communication by telegraph with the provinces, it is supposed to be general throughout the country. The papers consequently are very barren of news. The only article of interest is the following, taken from the Presse, on the rumour of the French Govern ment having taken possession of the Marquesas Islands, in the Pacific. "The full importance of the Marquesas," says the Government journal, " will not be understood until the day comes when the Isthmus of Panama shall be cut through, and thus a free passage be opened for the commerce of Europe. More than once al ready the idea of realising this project has been seriously entertained. Companies have been formed in the United States, and elsewhere, which' have obtained all the necessary grants from New Grenada. Unfortunately, these asso ciations have not been carried on with a spirit of perseverance, and have suffered their privi leges to become extinguished. It is im possible, however, that this isthmus can much longer be suffered to remain as a barrier against the enterprise of maritime nations. It would be a disgrace to the age if it suffered its progress to be arrested by so weak an obstacle, when three centuries ago so many bold and noble attempts were successfully made to open a channel for the spice trade, shorter than that by the Cape of Good Hope. The pos sibility of making a way through the Isthmus of Panama is no longer problematical. Surveys of the ground have been made by able engineer., and it is ascertained that a wide canal may be cut across at an expense not exceeding 12,000,000 f. At this very time, if we are well informed, a new company is being organised in London, under the auspices of Mr. BARING, for carrying into execution this important project. Let, therefore, the necessary capi tal be raised in London, or let recourse be had to the contributions of other places—it will be easily found. The late treaty between England and the Emperor :of CHINA is decisive of the question. Henceforth, the gates of this vast continent will be opened wide to the com merce of Europe, and will become the theatre of rivalry. All maritime nations have an ilk terest in piercing passages which will shorten the voyages of their vessels, and reduce the expense the extremities of the earth. of transport and competition on the new markets hemat through the Isthmus of Panam a i s Theopen opened cutting t the only means o f securing all these interests. Our forefathers prided themselves in having found a way to India without having to double the Cape of Storms. The discovery of Cape Horn appeared to them to be an immense advance ; but it is in our power to realise one a hundredfold more important. From the day on which our ships may pass from the Carribean Sea into the great Southern Ocean, the voyage to China, Japan, and the Oceania, will be but a mere ordinary passage, as we may then be said to be able to take one straight course. Then, on this great highway for all the ships of Europe, France will have two ex cellent stations. The consequence of our An tilles will then become as great as it is now in significant. They will be, as it were, the first stage of all great commercial expeditions. The Mar quesas, placed at the entrance of this, great oceanic labyrinth, which extends to a length of 4,000 leagues, would become the second stage. It is easy to conceive all the advantages which may be drawn from this admirable position. We do not hesitate to affirm that the possession of New Zealand, to which England attaches so much value, is far from being worth, in a maritime point of view, the possession of the Marquesas. It is useless after this to complain of the French Government not having thought of making this new colony a penal settlement. It must be confessed that it would be a strange man ner of establishing the sovereignty of France on these shores, were we to send in the suite of our soldiers and our sailors the refuse of our hulks and our prisons ! This would be a singular mode of causing our name to be beloved, and our in fluence to be respected, by sending among a new people the most corrupt and criminal of our own ! No; it s not an establishment for transported convict that M. DUPETIT THOUARS is gone to found in this virgin land, hitherto unbroken up by any European colonists. Such a conquest is made for better purposes than to serve as an asylum for robbers and murderers." BOURSFr—PARIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER G. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 119 55... 119 75... 119 55... 119 71 4% per Cents 106 50... 106 50... 106 50... 106 50 Four per Cents 101 30... 101 30 .. 101 30... 101 30 3 per Cents 89 75... 80 80... 80 75... 80 80 Bank of France 3335 ...3340 ...3335 .. 3340 LafittelThial,ooof...los7 50 ..1057 50...105 7 50...1057 50 5,000f...5080 ...5082 50...5080 .4082 50 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives lo3a 103 k ... 103 i ... 103 k 1840 lug 104 i ... 104 i ... 104 i Spanish Active. . 23i 234 ... 234 ... 234 Neapolitan... lO7 107 ... 107 ... 107 Roman, 1044 ... 10.44 ... 1044 ... 1044 Portuguese Fives 324 ... 324 ... 324 ... 324 RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, LB B5 ... 85 ... 85 ... 85 Rouen .... 635 ... 637 50... 632 60... 637 50 Orleans.... 607 50... 607 50... 606 25... 607 50 Strasburg to 8a1e...—. 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50 BELGIAN FUN:. 3.—BatissExs, Dac. 6. Actual Debt, 256 per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. ........... 1023 i Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Three per Cent........... Thlrty.seven Milli. ns, ditto (1840) 103% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 97 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 76 National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Dee. 6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 28. Five'per Cents. Metalhques ........ ..... s. Four per Cents., 0 0000.004••••••••••••••••••••••••••• .. • ...... 04 100511 Three per Cents . Bank Shares ... .... , . . DecdllgetneineZeilung. 2. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE or THE PRIVY COUNCIL. — Their Lordships yesterday ',resumed the hearing of Mr. Simister's application for an extension of his patent for stays. The case of the opponents to the extension was concluded, and the Court proceeded to give judgment, refusing to grant an extension of the patent. There being no other case for hearing on the list for to-day the Lords present rose immediately after giving judgment. The public will be rejoiced to find, that the omis sion of Sir Robert Sale's name in the honorary dis tinctions granted to the heroes of our late achieve rnents in India, proceeds in no degree from a desire to underrate the merits of that gallant officer. Sir Robert Sale very recently received the Grand Cross of the Bath for his noble defence of Jellalabad, and other eminent services on the north-west frontier of India, and it was therefore imposs ible to g ive him the same distinction which has been conferred on General Pollock, General Nott, and Sir William Parker; but it has been notified to the Governor-General of India, in compliance with his recommendation, that it will be proposed to Parliament to grant to Sir Robert and Lady Sale, with the benefit of survivorship, a n an. nual pension of 5001. as a special public recognition of signal merit.—Times. The Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acknow ledge the r ..:e - pt of 101. conscience money, as an omitted payment on account of the Income-tax. REMISSION or RENT.—We remember that we were severely taken to task a f .v ye_rs rgo, by more than one agricultural Correspondent, for speaking of the tenants as paupers, and dependents on the landlords. We hope they excuse us for repeating the state ment. We herr numerous instances of their in ability to pay the rent they have contracted to pay. We see accounts of tl.- 1 / 4 Rector at his tithe audit, and that landlord on his rent day, le witting 10 or 20 per cent. of his claims. The Sussex Advertiser, for example, tells us that Mr. Courthope, of Whiligh, has remitted 20 per cent. on all his tenants' rentals. What is this abatement of a demand, this forgiveness of a sum promised and due, this acceptance of a re mission of a claim which cannot be met, but a proof of dependence and of pauperism, which ought not to be the condition of the industrious and intelligent yeomanry of England ? AMERICAN NEWS LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. By the arrival of the ship North America, Captain Lowber, one of the New York liners, which sailed from that city on the 19th ult., we have received papers two days later than those received by the Great Western. They do not, however, possess much political interest. The North America brought 15 passengers in the cabin, and about 140 in her steerage ; the latter are chiefly emigrants from this country, who are returning home disappointed and penny less. Off Waterford she met and spoke the steamer Britannia. The Mail steamer Acadia arrived at Boston on on the 17th ult., after an excellent voyage of 13 days. A great excitement has occurred in New York by the suicide of John C. Colt, the individual who was tried and condemned a few months ago for the murder of Mr. Adams. On the day ap pointed for his execution he was married in the presence of the sheriff and officers to a woman with whom he had formerly cohabited ; and at a few minutes before the hour appointed for his execution, and when he was expected to be led forth, the sheriff and attendants on entering his cell, where he had been left for a short time alone, found him stretched lifeless, he having stabbed himself with a large clasp knife, which he had managed to secrete, or which had been conveyed to. him, He declared to the last that he had killed Mr. Adams in self-defence only. The schooner Creole, Captain Delvaille, arrived* at New Orleans on the Bth instant, from Mata moras, in ten days.' The army under General Woll had retreated beyond the Rio Grande, and a part of them had arrived at Matamoras. The Mexican authorities had prohibited the circula tion of newspapers out of the Mexican territory. The Creole brought 27,693 dollars in specie. The officers and crew of the Spitfire, one of her British Majesty's steamers, wrecked on the West India station, were brought to New York on the 18th, in the brig Anawan, from Belize. One of those disgraceful scenes of outrage called Lynching had occurred in Barbour county, Alabama, where a mob of 130 persons violently seized a Mr. G. W. Lore, who had been thrice tried for a murder, of which he was suspected, and without further legal proceedings, he having escaped from gaol, seized and hung him. The Mexican troops under the command of General WoLL, consisting of 1,200 men, had re turned from the invasion of Texas, which incur. sion was attended with the loss of 600 men. No Mexican• papers were allowed to be sent to the United States. The intelligence conveyed to Boston by the Acadia had reached New York, without having any effect upon the markets. Cotton was in pretty fair demand at steady prices; and flour was in request at former rates. A small amount of business was done in bills on England at 106 to 106 i, and on France the rate of exchange was 5 40. ROBBERIES IN CLERKENWELL YESTERDAY.— The inhabitants of Aylesbury-street, Goswell-street, and Clerkenwell-green, have recently been visited by an organised gang of depredators, who have hitherto been very successful in eluding the vigilance of the police. A middle-aged woman, respectably dressed, succeeded yesterday in robbing no less than five children of their cloaks as they were on their way to school, most of which were absolutely pawned in the immediate neighbourhood as soon as stolen, At about half-past ten yesterday morning, a frock-coat with velvet facings, was stolen from the shop of Mr. Franks, No. .2, on Clerken well-green, and no trace has Yet been discovered of the thief. Two MEN COMMITTED UPON A CHARGE OF CON SPIRACY TO tMURDER.—TWO men, named John Kavanagh and James Farrell, of Rahanna, in this county, were arrested on the night of the 20th of November, by Mr. Hill, sub-inspector, and a party of the constabulary from New Ross, after a most harassing march. They were brought before C. H. Tuckey, R.M., and Major Sweeny, under a warrant from Richard Rathborne, R.M., and John Maher, Esqrs., and committed to Carlow gaol, on a charge of conspiracy to murder Valentine Egan, steward to Mr. Byrne, of Rosemount, county Wex ford.--Carlow Sentinel. ROBBERY OF THE CASTLECOMER MAIL.—On Wed nesday, morning last, as the postpoy was proceeding from Castlecomer to Ballyragget, with the Durrow and Barryragget mail bags, he was stopped by two men, about two miles from Castlecomer, and deprived of the bags. On the return of the postboy to Castle somer, Sub-Inspector Green, with a party of the constabulary, proceeded to the spot, but could learn nothing that could lead to the discovery of the robbers. The bags were subsequently found on a limekiln near the spot; one bag was untouched, and the other opened, but the letters sustained no injury. The mail was conveyed so Ballyragget, after the discovery of the bags by a mounted policeman.—Carlow Sentinel. THE LEAGUE FUND.—The friends of the Anti-Corn law League, in Blackburn, are making the most stre nuous efforts to render their contribution to the League fund worthy of the important object for which it is designed. On this evening there will be a tea party in the school-room of the new Independent Chapel, at which William Eccles, Esq., will preside. Mr. Cobden is expected to be present. The most correct report of the pugilistic contest be tween Freeman and Perry will appear in Bell's Life in London of December 11 ; also the particulars of the Great Champion Coursing, Meeting at Newmarket. ALLEGED MURDER OF A JEW.—Considerable Ben ! sation has been created in the neighbourhood of the Circus, Blackfriars-road, in consequence of the death of Mr. Nathan, a dealer in curiosities, who expired on Wednesday from the dreadful injuries he received from three persons at an auction-room in Great Marlbo rough-street, on the afternoon of Friday last. Three persons are in custody to await the result of a Coro ner's inquest. THE DUTCH IN JAVA.—The Dutch Government is expected to bring forward a project for building a town in the interior of Java, on the border of a river which is to be made navigable, or, if no natural site offered, a canal would be dug. The notion of se curity seems to have prompted this design, as it is thought that Batavia is in such a situation that it might easily be taken by an enemy, who, finding him self in possession of this seat of the colonial govern ment, could easily reduce the rest of the island. The new city would, therefore, be the capital of 'Java, and he seat of government.—Bombay Times. AN EXAMPLE TO LANDLORDS.—At the audit in 1841 of Mr. G. C. Courthope, of Whiligh, Ticehurst, that gentleman allowed his tenants 20 per cent. on their rentals ; and at his audit at the Greyhound Inn, Wadhurst, held on the 17th Nov. last, he said he felt for the depression they experienced, and that should they not improve, he was willing to meet the times. It is much hoped other landlords will act as gene rou4y.—Sussex Advertiser. BODY FOUND IN . THE THAMES.--Yestmlay, after the fog had somewhat cleared off, the body of a young man, apparently of the age of 20, was disco vered floating on the surface of the water, near Shad well Dock. The Thames police were apprised of the circumstance, and the deceased was conveyed ashore, and the pockets examined; in one of them was found 3s. 9d. in silver and halfpence, and also a silver-mounted tobacco pipe. The deceased appeared about 6 feet in height, dressed- in ablue striped shirt, blue jacket, double-breasted waistcoat, worsted drawers, and shoes. Notice has been sent to the Coroner, Mr. Baker, for an inquest. NAVAL I NTELLIGENCE.—GIBRALTAR, Noy. 24. Her Majesty's ships Cambridge, 78, Captain E. Bar nard, and Warspite, 50, Captain Lord J. Hay, sailed on the 19th for England ; the latter ship was to call at Cadiz on her way. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Polyphemus, Lieutenant Commander John Evan'' arrived on the 21st from Malta, with the for England. She sailed last evening orststiereturn with the mail brought by the Company's steamer IVlont rose. 11er Majesty's ship Formidable, 84, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, is to sail to-day for Malta. The Lord Bishop of Gibraltar takes a passage in the above ship. The Rodney, 92, Captain Robert Maunsell, C. 8., and steam-vessel Lizard, will be the only men of-war at anchor in the bar. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. With no particular activity in the market, we continue to notice the same steadiness in the value of the public securities. Consols were 95 to 95* for Money, with the dividend, and 93* to 94 for Account, and ex-dividend. Exchequer Bills were 475. to 495. premium ; and India Bonds, 42s.premium. Bank Stock was rather higher, being 1721 to 173/ ; Reduced Three per Cents. were 941 to 948 ; and Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth 1008 to 101. The Foreign Market left off with tolerable firm ness, in the absence of any further news. Spanish Actives were 18*, and the Three par Cents. 231. Mexican 304 to 308 ; Colombian 211 ; and Brazilian 691 to 70. The Portuguese Converted Stock was worth 321, and the Three per Cents. 224. Danish Bonds were firm at 831, and D utch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 528 to 53. The Share Ma: ket continued good, though the quo tations at the close were barely so la as in the morn ing, being these :—Great 'Western were 241 ; London and Birmingham, 99 ; Paris and Rouen, 58 ; York and North Midland, 44/, and the New, IE4 premium. Bristol and Exeter were 24 ; North Midland, 381 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 21 discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 3 to 31 premium, and Na tional of Ireland l 1 discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The report of the Liverpool Cotton-market yester day, states business had been quiet, and that only 3,000 bales had found buyers, 200 of which were— Surat at 30. to 4d. ; 100 Bahia at 61d. to 64d. ; 150 Maranham, at 51d. to 61d. ; and the rest Ameri can ai 4d. to 51d. per pound. In the Share market there was a good demand for Grand Junc tion, Liverpool and Manchester, and Great Western, at full rates, but no change in the others. Eastern Counties, New, were 101 ; Grand Junction, 185 ; Great Western, Fifths, 91 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 631; Paris and Rouen 25+; and South Eastern, New, 181. The advices from the United States by the sailing packet North America, are to the 19th ult. The market for State Stocks at New York did not seem to be improving, as the discredit into which they have so deservedly fallen in Europe was much against their value in the eyes of the native capitalists, who speculate largely upon the chances of a profitable vie here or on the Conti nent. At Amsterdam, Louisiana Five per Cents. (Hope's Loan), have fallen 8 per cent., as no interest is expected to be paid next January, and never, per haps, was so sad a spectacle exhibited of a great na tion being sunk into utter degradation by the growing popularity of repudiation doctrines. 'The acivices before us state that it is now pretty generally conceded on all hands, that the present crop of cotton will be the largest ever grown in the United States, say 2,200,000 bales, and may range as high as 2,500,000 bales. Financial affairs are now in such a state, that no interposition is made by suspended banks or visionary financiers to " sustain prices," or " hold for better prices." Neither does the absurd notion of financiers appear to operate, to the effect that Bank facilities are necessary to send the crop forward; on the contrary, the re ceipts at the ports of the Atlantic have, up to this time, been immensely greater than ever before, and the requisition of specie in payment does not check its export. It flows freely to the market. The state of affairs in the British colonies offers no thing particular for comment, though Sir Charles Bagot's return is not considered at all improbable among parties in the City connected with Canada. A communication from Texas states that one of two things will happen there this winter—a formi dable invasion from Mexico—or an acknowledgment of its independence. The Funds are still rather flat, with a minor busi ness doing. The purchase for the Savings' Banks has amounted to 5,0001. in the Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities at 94f, though 941 was at first asked. Consols have been done for Special Transfer at 95 to 95f, with the dividend, and for opening at 93i. The premium on Exchequer Bills is dull at 47 to 48 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 100 i to 101; Bank Stock has been more in request at 1721 to 173 f. Annuities for Thirty Years are at 121. Being still without news from Barcelona, owing to the interruption by fog of the telegraphic communi cation with Paris, the Spanish Bonds are heavy at 18 for the Five per Cents., and at 23 for the Three per Cents. Portuguese Converted Stock is worth 32f. The Mexican Active Stock is neglected at 30/. People are afraid to touch it, and what. the Yankees will say now to Mexican good faith we may easily guess. Brazil Stock has been steady at 691 ; Danish firm at 831; , and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock at 52f to 53. The Shat; Market is very good. Great Western Railway are 25i; ditto New, 14+ to ; Birmingham, 100 ; ditto Quarter, 25 ; ditto Thirds, 32 ; South Western, 204; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 5 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow New, preen. Brighton are 14i ; Bristol and Exeter, 23i ; Eastern Counties, 14 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2 ; Greenwich, 7 ; and South Eastern, 21 discount. British North Ame rican Bank are 7 discount. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 7.—There continues to be a demand for all the leadinc , Railway Stocks, and prices are well supported?: —South Eastern, 224 and ; Ditto Scrip, 174 ; Manches ter and Leeds, 70k; Ditto Half, 301 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 20; Sheffield and Manchester, 32 ; Ashton and Oldham Canal, 76. CLOSL'Id BRITISH Bank Stock .1721 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94i 3 per Ceut. C0n5..... 95 31 per Cent. Red... 1001 New 31 per Cent......... New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 121 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 49 pm Ditto . 500/ 47 pm Ditto Small Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... 260 Consols for Opg. FUNDS. FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, S per cent — 3razilian Bonds... 7O Buenos A yres 6 per cent. Chaim, 6 per cent. — Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 2l Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Boii Danish, 3 per 2ent — Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3Ol Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 perct. -- SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) , ~. .. 46 Eastern Counties (23 paid) .. 8/ Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... 48 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) „ 5 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6-ti London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) .., , „ 190 Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) Ditto New Shires ( 2 paid) 34 London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 4dpd) 5 1 London and South Western (41/6s 10d pd) 611 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 1)0) North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 paid) .... South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip (20 paid) ... 17i York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94 it Ditto New Shares (20 paid.) Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pe► cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, .5 per cent lBi Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per Cent —f. —c. Dutch, 21 per cent. 53 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 101 i COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria, hunted with the harriers in the Great Park this morning, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, le Chevalier Marinovich, Major- General Wemyss and Mr. G. E. Anson. The Royal party had excellent sport, killing three hares; the last was a splendid race. Lady Fanny Howard has succeeded Lady Charlotte Dundas as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented her Majesty leaving the Castle to-day. The Queen has a dinner party this evenin4. Covers are laid for twenty-nine. The company is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Imperial Highness the Archduke, Lady Cremorne, Lady Suffi e ld, M r. G . E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Delawarr, Earl of Jersey, Lady Fanny Howard, the Lord and Lady in Wait ing, the two Maids of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty, the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness, Baron Lebzeltern, Count Marinovich, Captain Kochel, Captain Dumont, and Count Carolyi. Her Majesty's private band, and the band of the Life Guards, will be in attendance at the Castle in the evening. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-Governor, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official re sidence in Downing-street. Mr. Whitla, of Barbadoes, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Master-General of the Ordnance also visited the Right Hon. Gentleman. Mr. J.hn Montague had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Cotnmittee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present -yet—Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, Sifieft Jenner Fust (Judge of the Prerogative Court), and Dr. Lushington (Judge of the Admiralty Court). The Solicitor -General was heard in opposition to Mr. Simister's petition for an extension of the term of his patent for stays. Lord Campbell, on the part of the Lords, then gave judgment, that no sufficient ground had been shown for their Lordships to advise her Majesty to extend the term of the patent. The Court then rose. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. SUMMAV OF NEWS AND titubltc otittoit. " Who runs may read.' FOTLEIGN. The King of the French and the Royal family were to take up their winter residence at the Tails ries on Wednesday. Advices from Algiers to the Ist inst. have been M ceived in Paris, but bring no news of General Bu geaud's expedition, in which the Duke d'Aunaale takes a part. It is currently stated that the disgrace of Lelievre, the hero of Mazagran, is certain, and that he bad im posed on the Minister of War by gross exaggerations of the defence of the place. The celebrated Vestris, for many years known throughout Europe as the first dancer at the Aeadassir of Music, died at Paris on Monday, aged 83. During the last month, the amount paid into the Savings' Bank of Paris was 2,771,468 f. by 19,5 57 persons, of whom 2,513 were new depositors. The amount of reimbursements was 2,216,000 f. The new suspension-bridge which has been substi tuted for that called the Pont Rouge, uniting the Cite with the Isle St. Louis, is so nearly finished tba, it was submitted two days ago to the customary tria! as to strength. The experiment was satisfactory , se.' the bridge will be almost immediately opened. It is made for foot passengers only. A discharged convict named Lauban Was con.- demned to death on the 26th ult. by the Court o f A s ; sizes for the Meurthe, held at Nancy, for two &tin' crimes of murder androbbery. At the Court of Assizes for the Eure, h e ld at E" reux, on the 3d inst., a man named Dangeul was ene" demned to death for the murder, on April 1 9 , at rt: teaux, near Paris, ofa person named St. Omer, vibe' he afterwards robbed; and also for an attempt to our: der and rob on May 8, at Miserey, near Evreux , vi woman named Deniot. 4 . } . A rich farmer, named Cla v ier, residing in„,. —e corn. funds, was found, a fe w d a y s b ac k, the mune of Ruffey (Jura), an d w h o has 2 0 ° , ' -1° in his mu rdered A convict, named Pascal, condemned dwelling. ar d la bour for life, lately escaped from the bag °f to b . st. Bre in The next day a custom-house officer on balf - P a Y;ith the commune of Lambezellac, was found six wounds given by this desperado. that The Leipsic Gazette publishes •a rumour -; to partition of Turkey is already arranged ; Au take Moldavia and Wallachia, the Duke of Leand lantz Constantinople with Turkey in EuroPe , list Russia to have Poland to the Bug. This jeur ila must be at a sad loss for rumours. pierced is The Post OPlNlON. allu P d u es il i ra n l t c hefollowm . gep tern". to the recent speeches of the Members for Somerset i —" We have again looked through the speechesh.ceh the Conservative Members for Somerset, upon Iv l a rch wweasCtoommfinendteadomyeesterday. avowal The seomobejehcitghof our se i princiPle o ; duty — some hs d ya u ms t O a sea vsoaminpae.triaoNiftviecectifiosnneadntteiment—some gener eh heartlessn° Whig might not have spoken. There is reallY mr. indication in the speeches of Mr. Acland end for no r t e h m in a g rl' ihat Dickinson, that they have an Y warmer feeling an the people of the county which they represent u se d a lecturer on some branch of science may be saPt )° ,,,,' Ti to have for bis auditory. Mr. Acland said much ti r o the subject of "improvement" mingled with allasie_,, to his own merit in having " come so great a distancevnt to attend the meeting at - Yeovil, but nothing ff a r m , —nothing kind or warm-hearted towards the s ing people around him—does this gentleman 'Oro to have uttered in any of his speeches. We imp let the aristocracy and gentry of this kingdom n ot , rh i s this be an example to them, but a warning' for substitution of the character of the schoolma ster the that of the kindly protector and friend is one of ill that should. In an article on the subject of parochial and 11 , 1 ; tional schools, the Chronicle observes : Atternrof to proselytise are a portion of the religious freecini%)., this country which, in some degree, all sects °Lai and to which the Church has incontestibly an,e3dif.. right. But children, the children of parents 0 n, g o f ferent religious body, are not legitimate objectexist proselytism. Great differences of oPin ic ' n • u g amongst the clergy as to the right of private matters ment, and a consequent freedom of choice, on 1113 : 11 be of religion, even in adults. About children there can a nd no question. To proselytise them is disingeo w A li tio nce cruel. The endeavour is a gross abuse of the in' ote r• bestowed by station and professional cho e 'a 0 In the Church schools called National, 5 ° j ' ir c ies they are supported by subscriptions, and by legacies - or _endowments of which the conditions are r „ e5 ,4 5 as baptism may, tive, there is the right of as rigid an e xclusi v . c e- c ,"t e of the inspector pleases. The most formal cert nie- ,, be ported by legacies and endowments , saP required. With parochial schools; an d those „ lie , if it seem good to the authoritie-, .. of baptism becomes then an act • not re i l ate tive, the case is different. To require a ni t ro bs right the poor child of a right, of the most precious e°. Ni hich that child inherits—the right to inst.rucdEi.se, It aims at enforcing a ceremony which sakes ' of crated when only submitted to for the unjustly an advantage that would otherwise be . pector, withheld. There is plenty of work for an i n , iii id r en, of injustice. in securing efficient instruction for the 00‘'kedness without wandering into these by paths of er on well and bigotry.' His duty is to see that whataestiosiness in the national and parochial schools. • nting has he with " reclaiming" the children in cir s a e il i t schools ? Nor can we deem the questions a' ro .• dicious which relate to the training of children Poe catechising in church during divine The PL I perly belonging to the Establishment. . ce i s PO serVi t he very edifying exhibition. It tends to i alc _ e d as s children vain of their memories, and bold ; I I; treir l " test of intellectual comprehension or rehe, at tend' ing, it is very worthless. Regular habits or,_, t w hy' once on Sundays are, no doubt, desirable i,,1)," trouble the infants about `fasts and festivals? , „ ro se The Times says, with reference to the late4iieg, cutions against one of the St. James's g liii s, 'd houses :—" If gaming is, as Lord Abinger 6 3 Y so eCtS, ;f pernicious vice, degrading in its moral eff ret nedio art of prejudicial to the honest industry of the countl;--pt'it Parliament has devised extraordinary it down—why, then, any connivance on the _P t . t his Government at establishments for the practice ° v ol ts vice must be a flagrant breach of duty. G° er le; 9° in this country do not connive at it On proci4)., bear much is clear ; for, under every Government, _ t heir of the police using, and being directed to us e ' for ample power for the purpose of entering the o f the gaming-houses frequented by the lower ora, e , '' ito ple: people, and seizing and breaking up the tabr t :ong el ments, money, &c., found in such houses, anatrate, fur Persons detected in them before the Meg r isciP l . e punishment. Why is this done except upon theP But if that gaming-houses ought to be suppressed ? ~.c ii n g Government do this on the principle that g''',.. ro ter houses ought to be suppressed, what can be a S neo ple• insult to the moral and common sense of the r - one who walks down St. James's-street? E lwell i n than the spectacle which presents itself to everyter that street from Piccadilly, and the Palace of the i the Ole , your front is surpassed in mag . n fi L e ence ,101.Y . _ t it is ; on your right hand. Do you inquire ii,r 3 Queen 5 Every man in the metropolis, from the from Prime Minister to the policeman on duty, weeps the the policeman on duty to the beggar win s f o r crossing, can tell you that it is, a nd 134 ' WWI° hell' d years been, the principal and 'most "obienien "d in London—the place where more re ancient an. mor d e ividua i s fitted legislators have been depraved, honourable families ruined, more in etri e yable c l l 5 . - to adorn high stations plunged i nto irr t w ithin u le honour and misery, than in any other spo ourself 1111- four seas. `Not to know this, argues y o u come We known.' Proceed a little furthe r, and y .; not el ano ther stately mansion , with a ' pervius taniivhir any ' limen aectrque fores,' but o a large ant ;Caw decorated doorway , w i t h lamp-posts in the.la._ ig , h e ll bitious style of cast - iron architecture. Tru:fouse,--- the second'—the' Junior St. James's Club it. Lor j the lord-trap of Mr. Bond. Here it is thm .b n othe r and i• - l ir, Cantalupe and Marquis Conyngham, ht, th e gentlemen whose follies have been exposed. by i' Smith, were victimised. Here, night after nig __., rt o hazard-table is spread, and the flies of fashion sv," into the bloodsucker's net." on the The Advertiser has the following rema rks ..„_. atrocious murders lately comm itted in Tipperarf , 0 "The origin of the occurrences, again tracing and annals of Tipperary with a finger of blood, is bey , 11 _ , all doubt in the nature of the'relations subsisting be, tween landlord and tenant. The horrible murders Mortimer, not of party spirit, not of religious animosity,er; not of any •interference on the part of the Cons 1 !. Scully,andHaly, are manifestly the result, inly and or' ercise of the governing power; but . re _ _ tive authorities to foment popular hostdi—tv to the e,,1 -agrarian agrarian system, which places whole bodies f of ice of a possessor I rectly attributable to the malignant influ d en . ces o _o p t an santry at them ercy and the c . apr be racked for rent, °r selfishness may dictate --to t as the wants of extra allnts of he he be dealt with as ruined by ejectment, jus o r 'f the landlord, may suggest for actuating motalv,''__ (rant expenditure, or petty dissatisfaction on the pert. To be superadded likewise to this is unquestiotn nI.Y_ the new Poor -law—a measure literally inciting. until', very evils it was instituted under the professioonio' the P eminently foreign. to the temperament of ii , being calculated to remedy—a measure not y_ is i r , n t e people, but an odious novelty even to the manY 1 1 to of the general system already inflicted upo ~,,e b —in fact, a measure involving a, principle Nv''' no society aiming at progressiv el y improvin g PPP°.