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hat Don Francisco de Zea Bermudez should fill f the duties which are imposed upon him by his effective charge as Councillor of State, I have resolved, in the name of my well-beloved daughter, Queen Isabella 11., to relieve him from the functions of Minister of State, remaining satisfied with his talents, his services, and his tried loyalty. In consideration of the extensive knowledge of Don Francisco Martinez de la Rosa, and his well-known attachment to the person and rights of my well beloved daughter, Queen Isabella IL, I appoint him, in her Royal name, Secretary of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs. Considering the merit of Dor; Nicolas Gazeli, and the prof of esteem with which lie was honoured by my well-beloved consort, in being called to the Council of Regency, I nomi nate him Secretary of State and Minister of Grace and Ju-tice, and grant the title of Councillor of State to Dun Juan Gualberto Gonzalez, in ac knowledgment of the loyal services which he has rendered to the State, in discharging the functions of that department. In consequence of the loyalty and former services of Don Jose Vasquez Figueroa, I have deigned to appoint him, in the name of my dear and well-beloved daughter, Queen Isabella 11., Secretary of State and Minister of the Marine. Don Xavier de Burgos having represented to me that the numerous occupations of the Ministry of the Interior, at the head of which he is placed, will not permit him any longer to give, ad interim, his atten tion to the Department of the Finances, I have called provisionally to these functions Don Josef Aranalde." We have received by express the Augsburg Ga zette of the 20th inst., from which we take the fol lowing, dated Vienna, Jan. 12 :—" All the accounts we receive from Spain are in favour of the cause of the Queen, and the stability of her Government. It is also believed here, that the foreign relations of that country will soon be settled. It was nothing but the uncertainty as to the strength of the parties, and the presumed issue of their struggle, that pre vented the greater part of the Cabinets of Europe hitherto from acknowledging the young Queen. They were apprehensive of taking decisive steps in favour of either claimant to the Crown, lest such party should afterwards fall. This apprehension having, however, now vanished, it is said that the Cabinets have resolved to re-establish their former diplomatic relations with the Court of Isabella." The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 18th has the following from Berlin, dated the 14th :—" The certainty that there is no probability of a change in the present corn laws of England has discouraged the inhabitants of the Rhenish provinces, whose last hopes lay therein ; the manufactories are inactive, and many persons possessing property are about to emigrate." N'Ve have received a file of the Moniteur Egyptien, a journal lately started at Alexandria. The number of the 19th of October contains a pom pous eulogium on the reign of Mehemet Ali, and addresses the Viceroy in the following terms : " We must certainly be strangely blind unless these results are considered sufficiently brilliant to prevent our despairing of a country which owes you so much already. For this you teceive that continued ap. applause which resounds from the banks of the Nile to the boundaries of Europe. Yes, Prince, this is grand, it is noble. Still we venture to sav it, because we are sure you will not be displeased, something grander and nobler still remains to be done, to complete the confusion of your enemies; it is the happiness of the people subject to your laws. You have already done much for them,—you have given them more liberal institutions,—you have emancipated them from humiliating wrongs,—you have elevated them to the rank of nations; but mi sery still hangs over them; the evils of war have fallen so heavily upon them that it could not be otherwise. The time has come at last to realize all your generous intentions in their favour. Ef. feet their relief from the state into which they are plunged, and glory will net have sufficient wreaths wherewith to bind your brow ; our voices will not have words enough to bless you." The freedom of this language, in a land of pure despo tism, seems to have made a powerful sensation among the numerous Europeans of Alexandria, and we find the following in the next number of the Moniteur Egyptien :—" Much noise is made in several circles of Alexandria relative to our last ar ticle, which several persons, doubtless well inten tioned, have considered too bold. These persons deceive themselves. .Truth can never offend the eminent man who governs Egypt. His intention is to be enlightened by the press. If light be in our possession, we will not put our candle under a bushel. It is essential that the Government should listen to our language, as to that of a friend. No one more than ourselves owes both love and gratitude to the august Sovereign of Egypt ; but the expres sion of these sentiments cannot make us forget the object for which he called us to the distinguished honour of being placed near him, with some other chosen men, capable of understanding him. To us has been confided the charge of publishing the acts of his Government ; to us, then, also the care of throwing into the crucible the precious metal that he wishes to employ in them. Mehemet Ali, like all men who possess extreme power, and who dazzle the multitude by their eminent qualities,is obliged to endure courtiers who cringe and speak with beaded knee before him ; but he only esteems those who speak to him uprightly with truth upon their lips. We ' value his esteem before all things on this account : the language of slaves does not become us.— t ' P.S. The preceding article was already printed, when unfavourable reports were spread abroad rela tive to the existence of the Moniteur Egyptien, which within these few days have gained much con sis'ency. The appearance of our journal is the most striking refutation which can be given to these re ports, disseminated by error or evil design. His Excellency Boghos Bey has given the most positive assurance that our journal will continue to appear." The number of October 26 bas the following : " The ex-Dey of Algiers, some time ago, solicited permission from his Highness to fix his residence in Egypt ; this has been granted. The Dey, in con sequence, arrived last Thursday, from Leghorn, with this intention, but he proposes first to make a pilgrimage to Mecca." The Council of Djedda having reported to his Highness that Eve's tomb was falling to ruin, and that it required 15,000 piastres to restore it, his Highness has sent the Governor of Djedda an order to furnish the sum, and to make inquiry as to the legacies bequeathed to this pious monument, in order that they may be applied to the salaries of the persons employed there. The Lyons papers of Monday state That a dis turbance was expected in that town on the preced ing day, in consequence of its being announced that the public criers had resolved .to sell in the streets certain 'publications of the Societe des Dcoits de l'Homme, in spite of the interference of the police on the previous Sunday. A crowd assembled in the Place de la Prefecture, but as the papers sold were solely such as had obtained the visa of the police, the criers were not molested, and every thing passed off quietly. (From Galignani's Messenger.) The Moniteur announces that the King has re ceived a letter from the Grand Duke of Hesse, no tifying the marriage of the Hereditary Prince, his son, with the Princess Matilda of Bavaria; and ano- ther letter from the King of Hanover, announcing the birth of a Princess, daughter of the Duke of Cambridge. The Bordeaux papers of the 22d inst. give de tails of the marches and counter-marches of the Queen of Spain's troops in the northern provinces, and the increase of the Carlist bands, without any important result. The following are the only para graphs worth extracting : " The insurrection in Navarre is making rapid and alarming progress. The Carlist battalions are daily increasing, and they become more and more rapacious7l provisions and clothing. Every town, efitiVithrgeiiiilorced to supply them, at fixed pe 4ods, with certain ration's, shoes and shirts, and it i astonishing to see the exactitude with which the t -- ' 4Uajj,-)tilort inhabitants oP each district, though harassed by evil war, convey their contingents to the Carlists. The people of Pampeluna and Abescoa are the only parties who have hitherto refused to contribute. The column of El Pastor three days ago surprised a band of rebels in the mountain of Lizarra, five leagues from St. Sebastian, and took about fifty muskets and six prisoners, all of whom were in stantly shot. The frigate, the Lealtad, of sixty guns, has run ashore in the bay of Santander, and it is feared will not be got off again." The Journal des Pyrenees Orientates of Per pignan, of the 18th inst., has the following :—" On the 13th Ceneral Llander was preparing to leave Barcelona to make a tour of inspection in the en virons, when a rumour arose that he was to be arrested as soon as he was beyond the ramparts, and carried as a prisoner to Mad, id, to answer for his political manifesto, and his refusal to install the sub-delegate of M. Zea. A crowd assembled round his residence to prevent his going my, but on being assured that their Captain-General was in no danger, they dispersed without committing the slightest act of v►olence, and when the mail took its departure all was quiet, not only in the town, but throughout the province. On the 14th General Llander returned to Barcelona." The Augsburg Gazette of the 21st has the fol lowing of the 16th from Vienna :—" The order in which the Ministers were ranked at the first sitting of the Congress was as follows :—For Austria, Ist vote, Prince Metternich; Prussia, 2d, Count Alvan sleven ; Bavaria, 3d, Baron Giese ; Saxony, 4th, M. de Minkwitz ; Hanover, sth, Baron Ompteda, who also represents Brunswick and Nas sau, to which the 13th vote was applied; Wirtem berg, 6th, Count Beroldigen ; Baden, 7th, M. de Reitzenstean; the Principality of Hesse, Bth, M. du Thil ; the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 9th, M. de Trott ; Holstein, 10th, Count Reventlow ; Lux emburg, 11th, Baron Verstolk ; Saxe-Weimar, 12th, M.de Fritech; Mecklenburgh-Schwerin ' 14th, M. de P lessen, Oldenburg, &c.; 15th, M. d e Berg; Hohenzolern, Hechingen, &c.; 16th, M. de St ranch; the Free Towns, 17th, M. Schmidt. Then the President of the Germanic Diet, Count Munch-Bel linghausen, and the Imperial Councillor, M. de Werner, appointed to draw up the protocols, take part in the Conference. The sitting lasted from three till five o'clock. The ball at Court yesterday was extremely brilliant; upwards of 1,500 persons were present, and among them all the Ministers. Much activity prevails on our Exchange, and con sequently the Funds show a tendency to rise. Our Funds to-day are—Metalliques 5 per Cents., 95 12-32; ditto 4 per Cents., 85 15-16; Bank Ac tions, 1,231 f." " The Gazette states that the two squadrons of Bavarian Light-horse had arrived in Munich, on their return from Greece, and had been reviewed by the King. The Greek Ministerial papers contain a decree ordering all captains of vessels to repair to Nauplia, to obtain a renewal of their charter party for the year 1834. The smallest cutters are not excepted. This measure has been resorted to in order to put an end to piracy, which has so frequently done extensive mischief in the Archipelago?' This paper has the following after a private letter from Rome, dated the 11th : " Duke Paluzzo, a Senator of Rome, Commander- General of the Civic Guard, and a Knight of several Orders, died here yesterday, where he was born in 1760. He belonged to one of the oldest and richest families in Italy, having given a Sove reign to the Papal chair. Prince Borghese, Prince Corsini, and the Marquis Patrizi, are spoken of as likely to succeed him. A Consistory is to be held on the 17th, for the creation of Monsignors Brignoli and Grimaldi as Cardinals. The direction of the police, when given up to Chevalier Sebregondi, is to be somewhat removed from the superintendence of the Governor. Some reform is also taking place in the finances, which proves that the Government is desirous of 'amelioration." The Gazette has the following from Constantinople, dated the 24th : " The rebel Cadi Kiran had contrived to elude the vigilance of his guards, and escape to the Russian quarantine lazaretto at Teals; owing, however, to the union of the Turkish and Russian Governments, he has been given up, with a number of his partisans. Strong measure have been resorted to in Candia by the Government there. Two wealthy Turks, pos sessing land there, Schekir Bey and Mehmed Bey, have been exiled, and are about to be shipped to Smyrna. The unexpected arrival of Mehemet Ali's Admiral, Osman Pacha, has created a great sensation here. Educated in Europe by the Viceroy, at a great expense, then promoted first to be Major-General in the army, then Admiral, and charged with the most important offices, his fall from favour excites not only the surprise, but also the mistrust of the Divan. A change has taken place in the command of the Keys of the Dardanelles; the fortifications there being about to be increased, it has been found to be expedient to appoint a governor more enlight ened on this point, and Colonel Hafts Bey has been appointed to the post" The Gazette of Fribowrg of the 18th instant an nounces, that according to a published list of the students at that university at the commencement of the winter term, they amouuted to 480, of whom 143 were theologians, 83 jurists and camaralists, 157 students in medicine, and 97 in philosophy. There were 97 foreigners. The National announces that it has received an other summons for its editor to appear before the Court of Assizes, for having reported judicial pro ceedings in its number of the 22d inst. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paitis, JAN. 24 Five per Cents., 104 f. 90c. 95c. 9c. Three per Cents., 74f. 95c. 75f. 10c. 75f. National Loan, 105 f. Bank Actions, 1,710 f Rente de Naples, 90C 75c. 91f. 901. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 91%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 20. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 35% 26►%%. Royal Spanish Loan, 68 69 68fi. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 55 56 56%. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 97. Haytian Loan, 2'7of. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money, 25f. 10c. -Cours Authentiaue. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paals, JAN. 25. Five per Cents., 104 f. 95c. 105 f. 104 f. 85c. Three per Cents., 75t. 15c. 20c. 15c. National Loan, 1041. 90c. 85c. Bank Actions, 1,710 f. Rente de Naples, 90f. 90c. 81f. 90f. 80c. Roman Five per Cents., 91% Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 20 19 7 / 20. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 37%%M.. Royal Spanish Loan, 70 71 72►,~. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 58 57% 58%. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 97. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money, 20f. 10c. -Cours Authentique. At the last Court ball a curious citizen was seen standing on tip-toe, and peeping into one of the windows. " Take care," said a passer by, "if Louis Philip were to observe you, be is quite capable of asking you to pay something for your peep."—La Charivari. ALLEGED PECULATIONS IN THE COURTS or REQU ESTSe—A meeting of the Commissioners of the Westminster Courts of Request was held on Friday night, at the Court, in Castle-street, Leicester-square, Mr. T. S. Duncombe in the chair, to take measures preparatory to an investigation of the Return made to the House of Corn mans last year. The facts of the case which gave rise to this meeting were stat e d by M r . Mi c hi e t o b e t h us : Last session a return was ordered of all balances paid by debtors into the Cou r t of R equests , an d not paid ' out to creditors, from the formation of the Court to 1821, and from 1821 to the 31st December, 1831. This Return was moved for by Col. Evans ; the Clerks received the order, but never communicated it to the commissioners, making: the return without their knowledge, and it was not till a considerable time after the commissioners knew the return had been made ; another charge was, that so far was the return made from being a real one, it was false and fabri cated, and even admitted to be so by the clerks themselves ; in consequence the commissioners stood in the situation of having made a false return to the House of Commons by means of their clerks. Another charge was vitiating the hooks, and alterations being made to them. .Resolutions having been adopted calculated to carry . the objects of the meeting into effect, and a committee having been appointed to conduct the inquiry and draw up a . full and faithful .. statement of all the moneys received, paid, and remaining in hand in these courts, in accordance with the order of the House of Commons, thanks were voted to the chair man, and the parties separated. ?RIC it, (1, • !sank Sttex 3 per Cent. Red. B9 8% 9 3 per Cept.Conq BB 3/0/4 3!4 per Cent. Ditto Rcd 97 New 3 1 4 per Cent." 96 1 rer Cent. Ann. 1726 - 1 per Cent. 1B'a3 Rank Long Ann. to exni re "Jan. 5. 186 r ...... ...17 1-16 Oct. 10, 1859 l7 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1.60 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 S tr. F. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds 25 21 . pm. South Sea Stock 98% Old Annuities.. New Ditto ••• *** 13 per Cent. Ann. 175 1.... Ex. Bills, .El,OOO 46 47 pm. I Ditto .....«.» • 46 47 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 93;; Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds 9634 Ditto Account l B l /8 17% — Ditto Account 96 ' Portuguese Bonds 59% Brazilian Bonds 69;6 1 4 , Ditto Account 59"14% Ditto Account 69!4 1 4 ' Ditto New Bonds 58 1 4 98% Buenos Ayres Bonds 2l I Ditto:Acconnt 55 914 9 Ditto Account — Prussian Bonds lO2 Chilian Bonds ....... ........... —' Ditto 80nd5,"1822 IOIN Ditto Account "314 Russian Bonds, 182'2 lO4 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto 1l l Ditto Bonds, 1824 2 2 14 'Spanish Bonds, 1821 2 4 14 Ditto Account 2214 1 Ditto Ace. N 1 . , 4 1 ,4% Danish For, s - 314 , Ditto Bonds, 1823 22 , 4 Ditto Accrunt 73;4 Ditto Account 22IA Greek Bonds French Rentes, 51). C. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 - Exchange —f. —c. Ditto Account —3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. 2934 ' Exchange —f —c. Ditto Account. Dutch, 24. p. c 4914% Lm o, 6 per cent 38% 8 Ditto Account 49%56 Ditto Account 3B, Ditto, sp. c 951,i Neapolitan B9 Ditto Account 95;6 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE o'cLocr. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £7 8 42 Anglo Mex. Min. Co. oss. at si. pin ) .£lOO 8% Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O 137% Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Ditto National 22% Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company 356 British Iron Mininv (7omnanv .... Columbii.n MininA Co. liss at 5/. pm.) 51% English Mining Company 1231 General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co. £4B Real del Monte Mining Co....(unreg.) I nited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 _.... . Ditto New Sctip Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. , £2 Australian Co. Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of I reland 25 9 614 30 954 I 25 84 4 505‘s 1 II X £1 5 6 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 24. Bank Stock lSt. Patrick In!ur.(perShare Consols, 3 Per cent ...... 87% Royal Irish Ditto Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 95% i National Ditto Ditto, New ... ........... .... 95% iPatriotic Ditto — I per Cent —lHibernian Bank .... ..... ...... Gov. Deb. 3!,4 percent — Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock 4014 Royal Irish Mine............... Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent....... 7714 Mining Co. of Ireland tWlast Office Deb. 4D. c. Commercial Buildings trrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg 0 Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 2 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 France 0 O Guernsey &Jersey 2 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Malta . 0 O Sweden 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning —.lB minutes after 4. Evening...3B minutes after 4. ERRATUM. We are requested to correct an error which appeared in our Leading Article of the 25th instant. The late agricultural meeting at Cowbridge was, it seems, to petition in favour of the Corn Laws, not against them. - -44 D gqi3A 44,1 F.:TA LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1834. The turn which affairs are taking in Spain, and the alliance which exists between England and France, open a brighter prospect to the friends of liberty and rational government than any which has been exhibited to the world from the remotest ages. Indeed, there is no period of history that can at all be compared to it, whether we consider the independence of the States, the system of representation, or the growing education of the people. France and England, from the similarity of their modes of government and institutions, have formed a virtual, if not declared alliance—the accessio❑ of Spain alone was wanting to form the most powerful confederacy of free states known in the history of mankind. Though a severe contest , may be anticipated in the spring between the , contending parties, and some time must elapse before she can shake off the trammels of super stition and the chains of despotism, yet, on looking at what she has effected under much less favourable circumstances, there can be no doubt as to the final result. There is hardly, indeed, any future event on which we might reckon with more certainty than the regeneration of Spain. The enemies of reform derive great aid from their wealth, from their long possession of power, and from the stupid superstition of a certain portion of the people ; but these advantages are infinitely counterbalanced by the natural love of freedom, the increasing intelligence of the age, the feel ings excited by Royal despotism and ecclesias tical tyranny, and above all by the bright example and friendly regard of the two countries adjacent to Spain, and forming an impenetrable barrier between her and the enslaved regions of the north. The slightest glance at the state of Europe in 1820, when the Constitutional standard was raised at Cadiz, and its state in 1834, will show the vast preponderance thrown into the scale of Constitutional Government. Austria was then trembling for the fate of her Italian provinces, where the longings for a Con stitution prevailed as in Spain—the broken pro mise of the King of PRUSSIA was still fresh in the memory of his disappointed subjects — and France, the neighbour and ally of Spain, had an army officered by the adherents of the existing dynasty, on the frontier — threatening every moment to take part in the quarrel, and deliver over the devoted leaders to the tender mercies of FERDINAND. England, notwithstanding the generally liberal policy of CANNING, was controlled by the party who had for the last fifty years resisted all Constitutional reform, and remained utterly passive, while the French army, backed by all the other Powers of Europe, traversed the Peninsula, and made pri soners, or drove into exile, the men whose chief object (however clumsily they went about it) was the establishment of a charter like that which the French Sovereign had granted to his own subjects. Russia remained, and is now the inert load pressing down the energies of freedom in every country where her might could be felt. Independent of all these circumstances, many of the friends of Constitutional Govern ment in Spain, remembering the frightful scenes of the French Revolution, and dreading the visionary and wild schemes of certain leaders of the party, kept aloof, and preferred even their enslaved state to political regeneration, accom panied with the risk of similar consequences ; yet, with all these disadvantages, the Constitu tional cause was triumphant till it was put down by foreign force, and if triumphant with such odds against it, what rational doubt can exist of its failure now ? It is hardly necessary to turn to the other side of the picture. It is familiar to the most careless observer. All the predictions of bloodshed and ,anarchy which were to spring from reform in England and France have been signally falsified, and the internal peace and friendly relations of the two countries have reassured the most timid./ No foreign power will now be suffered to interfere in the quarrel, and we may therefore confidently look forward to the day when the institutions of Spain shall be placed on a similar footing with those of England and France, and the three countries form one vast community in the West, having for its boundary a line drawn from the North of the British Isles by the Alps to the Straits of Gibraltar. There is no fresh intelligence of moment from Spain. The change of Ministry had excited, as was to have been expected, a pro found sensation at Madrid, though the excite ment was of a satisfactory character, and augured well for the popularity of M. DE LA ROSA. Accounts from Bayonne, of the 20th inst. men tioned that the insurrection in Navarre was making a very alarming progress, and that the QUEEN'S troops were much harassed by un availing marches and countermarches. There was some gossip again at Paris respecting the probability of a speedy change in the French Ministry, though nothing public had transpired to give the rumour any appearance of likelihood. If we had consulted history, possibly the restraining corn laws passed in, and since, 1815, might not have been made. Towards the close of the reign of Queen ELIZABETH, consequences resulted from restraining corn laws similar to those which have been experienced in our times. In the year 1596, a judicious paper was drawn up by a magistrate of the county of Somerset, preserved by STRYPE, and adverted to by HUME in an appendix to the volume which contains the history of the reign of ELIZABETH, in which the author says, " forty persons had " been there executed in a year for robberies, " thefts, and other felonies ; thirty-five burnt in " the hand ; thirty-seven whipped ; one hundred " and eighty-three discharged ; that those who " were discharged were most wicked and des " Aerate persons, who never would come to " good, because they would not work, and none " would take them into service-; that, notwith " standing the great number of indictments, the " fifth part of the felonies committed in the " county were not brought to trial ; the greater " number escaped censure, either from the su '' perior cunning of the felone, or the foolish " lenity of the people ; that the rapines " committed by the infinite number of " wicked, wandering, idle people, were in " tolerable to the poor countrymen, and " obliged them to keep a perpetual watch on their ,‘ sheep-folds, their pastures, and their corn ", fields ; that the other counties in England " were in no better condition than Somerset " shire, and many of them even in a worse ; " that there were at least three or four hundred " idle vagabonds in every county who lived by " theft and rapine, and who sometimes met in troops to the number of sixty and committed " spoil upon the inhabitants ; that if all the " felons of this kind were assembled, they would " be able, if reduced to good subjection, to " give the greatest enemy her MAJESTY has " a strong battle ; and that the Magistrates " themselves were intimidated from executing " the laws upon them : and there were instances " of Justices of the Peace who, after giving " sentence against rogues, had interposed to " stop the execution of their own sentence, on " account of the danger which hung over them " from the confederates of the felons." The exportation of corn had been prohibited by the 34th of Edward 111., c. 20, and the Ist of Philip and Mary, c. 3; and restrained by the 3(1 of Elizabeth, c. 5, s. 26, 13th of Eli zabeth, c. 13, and the 33d of Elizabeth, c. 7, s. 22, to which the above consequences are ascribed by HumE. They serve to account for the numerous acts passed in the reigns of the TUDORS for the encouragement of tillage, ren dered unprofitable by the impossibility of export ing its produce, and for the number of acts passed in those reigns relative to the poor, deprived of work through restrictive corn laws, long before the abolition of the monasteries to which these acts have been ascribed. Three years and a half ago, corn ricks were burned, and farmers in England are now obliged to watch their farm-yards as countrymen were obliged to watch their sheepfolds and corn fields in the time of Queen ELIZABETH. The burnings here were preceded by burn ings in France, in the spring of 1830, owing to a similar cause, for France has a worse corn law than we have. She has not only pro hibited her subjects from dealing with other countries in corn, but she has divided her king dom into four parts, and she does not allow any one of those divisions to trade with the others in corn, until the price in each reaches a certain amount. The burnings took place in Nor mandy, which is an agricultural province. Normandy raised corn to no purpose if she could not sell it ; and the poor people thrown out of employment, because the farmers did not employ them to raise grai❑ which they could not sell, burnt the grain already raised, in order to com pel the farmers to employ them to raise more. So here, our agricultural labourers, being thrown out of employment by the operation of the corn laws, have acted in a similar manner. Crime has confes'edly increased greatly of late years in England ; its increase has been ascribed to every cause but the right one. Idleness is the parent of crime. The corn laws have been the cause of distress as well as idleness, and distress pro duces crime. In order to remove crime, dis tress, and idleness, the operation of the present corn law, which produces them, must be taken awa y ; and as the law now begins to bring in. fliction most heavily upon the landowners, we are not without the hope that it will be taken away. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind W.N.W. to S.W., light. Jan. 26.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—Sailed the out ward-hound on the 25th. Arrived and sailed for the River the Kent, Cowbie, from Bombay, and from St. Helena the 3,1 ult. Arrived from the River and remain the Louisa, Wildgoo.e, for Demerara ; Jack, Duke, for Africa; and Andromeda, Head, for Barbadoes. His Majesty's ship Thunderer, from Sheerness for the Medi. terranean, was towed down by steam, and remains. PoaTsmounr, JAN. 25.—Wind W. to S.E. Jan. 26. —Wind W.S.W. to W., strong breezes and squally.— Arrived his Majesty's ship Undaunted, from Mauritius— sailed the 14th November ; Robert Fennie, Maxwell, from Rio Janeiro—sailed the 21st November, and his on hoard 2,600 dollars; and his Majesty's steamer Firefly, from Woolwich. FALMOUTH,PouTH J J A A W N . . S w .W .s.w .to . , s. strong gales and squally. Jan. 25.—Wind S. to W.S.W., moderate hreczes.—Arrived from London the Premier, Byron, for Ascension. Off port the Rebecca, from Lisbon. MARGATE, JAN. 26.—Arrived off port the Symmetry, Riley, from New York. COWES, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Lion, Bathie, from Sourabaga; and Zephyr, Pope, from Antwerp, leaky, an d must discharge, bound to New York. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Charles, Rive, rom Rio Janeiro. LtvEarooL, JAN. 25.—Arrived the John Tayl r Crawford, from Bombay ; Amazon, Drysdale, from Bahia; Andes Patten, and Elizabeth Frith, Hamond, from New Orleans; Roscoe, Delmo, from New York ; Beiram, from Cephalonia ; Capricioso, Seios, from Genoa ; and Vesictore, Allard, from Marseilles. GREENOCK, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Lavinia, Caldwell, from Sicily. DUBLIN, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Mars, Blake, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. GALWAY, JAN. 24.—The United Kingdom, Robinson, bound to London, has been carried into a place of safety, part of the cargo supposed to be damaged. Jan. 25 Arrived the Camille, Collings, from London. ISLE OF MAN, JAN. 22.--The Utility, John, from Dublin to Whitehaven, was driven on shore in Castletown Biy on the 19th inst., but it is expected will be got off with very little damage. LIMERICK, JAN. 18.—The St. Nicolai, Brandt, from St. P.tersburgh to Liverpool, was totally lost at Aswick on the 10th inst. ; the master and one man saved. The Shubenacordia, Collins, from Aricali to Liverpool, is on shore near the Saltery ; crew saved. The Effort, Gibson, from Sr. Andrew's, New Bruns wick, to Newcastle, was abandoned on the 18th inst., in lat. 50, long. 17, being water-logged. The James Clamfit, of Exeter, — and an American brig, were lost off Sline Head on the 17th inst. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Montreal Papers to the 2d January, and Quebec to the Ist January, have been received at the North and South A merican Coffee-house: (From the Montreal Papers.) The Upper Cinada Legisl.ture exhibits symptoms of continued activity and spirit in the prosecution of the bu•inrss of the country. Mr. Bolton has introduced a Bill to provide for the accounting of executors, administrators, and partners. His Excellency laid before the House of Assembly the report of several Commissioners for erecting an hospital near Kingston, for the improvement of the navigation of the river St. Lawrence. The Lieutenant-Governor has replied to an address of the House, that he has not yet received an answer frotn the Colonial Secretary to the address of the House of the 22d December last, on the subject of duties levied at Quebec. We mentioned in our last that the state of the sale of the stock in the Montreal and City Banks belonging to the Canada Inland Assurance Company, consisted of 108 shares. LOWER CANADA.—The Legislature will open on Tuesday, 7th proximo. It is said that the Governor has now received an unusually large number of despatches on the different questions, but their contents have not tran spired. (From the Canada Papers.) We learn &Urn York that part of the Roman Catholic population that have hitherto resisted the authority of their Bishops, have made their submission, and been received within the pale of the church. (From Barbadoes, via America.) _ By the Barbadian of the sth December we learn that a dangerous riot took place at Bridge Town on the 23d of November; several thousand blacks collected, and undertook the rescue of a slave from the possession of his master. The negresses were by far the most violent ; they threw broken bottles and stones in all directions. By the French mail, arrived this morning from Paris, we learn that unfavourable accounts have been received from Oran, the French troops having been repulsed by the Arabs. Accounts have been received at Havre stating that the city of Arica, in Peru, has been destroyed by an earth quake, and 700 persons perished. THE FUNDS. We have a number of arrivals this morning, amongst which are four foreign mail., but their chief information, which is from France and the Peninsula, has already been anticipated ; therefore we must wait a few d4ys, to see how the new Ministry of Spain will be received by the Spanish nation and the Captains• General of the provinces. The express ftoin ..Paris has brought the Rentes higher-75f. 20c. Nothing appears as yet certiin respecting a change in the French Ministry. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 88i Q for the Account, opened at the same price this morning, with little doing as yet. In the Foreign Market—Portuguese Stock has improved to 581e59. HALF-PAST TWELVE. We understand that the news from Lisbon is, that Sal danha has taken Leira with 1,200 prisoners, and is march ing on Coimbra, HALF-PAST ONE. A Philadelphia paper of the 7th of January has been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, which contains the following :—" A very destructive fire has taken place in Philadelphia ; the loss is estimated at 500,000 dollars." We have intelligence this morning from Buenos Ayres to the 27th of October. Civil war has again broken out, and business is at a stand. Several battles have been fought outside of the city. The insurgents are stronger than the Government troops, who have sent for reinforce ments ;—this was received via Rio Janeiro. Consols may be quoted at present at 88i I for Account, with little doing. Portuguese stock has improved one per cent. owing to General Sildanha having got possession of Leira, where he took 1,200 prisoners. Great sickness prevails in Don Miguel's army, and it is supposed he will be obliged to retreat from Santarem. Spanish, 248 8 ; Portuguese, 588 591 ; Dutch, 491 I. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account £3Bi• CLOSING PRICES. , Bank Stock 2l4f 3 per Cent. Red B9 3 pee Cent. Cons BB l per Cent. N per Cent. Red 97f 96e 1031 Long. le jjo )ew aae r in C3 . l A c ils P 6o ; c l:7 o :. C t el O t expire li776: t. FOREIGI Austrian, 5 per cent 9Bl Belgian, 5 per cent 96f Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 2l Chilian, 6 per cent 24i Columbian, 6 per cent....., 20 Ditto, 182£ Danish Greek, 5 per cent......... `3f Mexican 5 per Cent s, 18 25 294 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 3B Peruvian 6 per Cent. lB ot.An:. ,lcil.i.. kn.... ...... _.48. O'CLOCK. i I 243: , Dsc .Dli India uttt oh ,_FOURONsSto ckßill s , leedwa iAos . 1 70 pm Ditto 80nd5. ...,,,,, ***** 2 Ex. Ditto 500/ 4B on, Ditto Small 4B pm Bank S. for Ace. 214 Consols for Opg BBl India St. for Opg. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent.... 5 8 : Ditto, Reg. Bonds ......... 57k Prussian, 5 per cent...... 1014 Russian Bonds,s per cent. 104 Ditto, Metallic ............... 100'4 Spanish, 5 per cent.......... 24; lE, French rxe Ditto, cnhhn l ?") 8 i e 2 1 1 3 : ). e . e. r r: .............................. :: ... ............... — 55 o : 2 o 2 c cc .. Dutch, 21 per cent 44 Ditto, 5 per cent .. 951 It is reported that another of the charming daughters of Lady Hardy is on the eve of matrimony, the bridegroom being a younger son of Lord Sefton, the Hon. Francis Molyneux.—Court Journal. Sir John Beckett, who is proposed as a can didate for Leeds, is married to a daughter of the Earl of Lonsdile, and may be considered as one of the elite of the Conservative party. Sir John held successively the offices of Under-Secretary of State and Judge Advocate. _ _ _ The yachts of the Royal Western Yacht Club are privileged to enter the ports of Austria, Prussia, France, awl H o lland, free of port and harbour duds,. COURT OF CHANCERY,-(THIS DA' I IN Rl{ HAGCERSTON A LUNATIC. A gentleman behind the bar stated, that in this mall his Lordship had ordered, in 1831, the whole the lunatic's fortune to be vested in an annuiti Since that period an additional yearly incoo" had been left to the lunatic. He had likewise a sum ' money lent upon mortgage. The petition, which was 0 petition of the Committee, stated that the lunatic's into' was sufficient for his support, without also sinking b. money that was out upon mortgage in an additional 3' nuity, and it prayed that the Court would be pleased U 1 to direct that that additional annuity should be raised. The Loam CHANCELLOR directed the order to be mid subject to the mortgage-money, being got in and trill)" ferred to the name of the Accountant. General. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. STROUD. This was an information filed by the Attorney•Gener at the relation of certain ministers of the religious tonne tion founded by the late Selina, Countess Dawager ' Huntingdon, for the purpose of having that charity , connection established under the decree of the Court, tb the defendants might be removed from being trustees, er be ordered to render an account of the trust funds arisit from bequests, donations, chapel collections, &c., -.dile had come into their hands; and that it might be referrt to the Master to approve of a proper scheme for the futu , regulation and management of the connection. The opening of the pleadings, and the reading o f t defendants' answers, occupied nearly the whole of t morning, and the case seems likely to occupy the whole to-morrow. VICE CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY' SPECIAL INJUNCTION-CLAY V. ATKINSON. Sir E. SuGDEN applied this morning, ex park, for special injunction to restrain the defendant fromcollectig or receiving any debts due to the partnership, or interferi! , in the management thereof. The case stated by the bli supported by affidavit, was of this nature :-.—the defends' Atkinson and his brother were partners together in ti woollen trade. There was no partnership deed betwee them, but they were equal partners. The defendant brother died in 1832, and by his will be appointed to persons trustees, of whom the pliintiff was one. Ti testator also directed that his brother, the defendant, shot have the option of taking his share of the partnersh . ll which the defendant did not thi n k p ro p er t o comp ly WO It was sworn that the assets of the partnership considel ably exceeded the amount of the debts, a very small po torn of which only the surviving partner had discbarge 4 that the business was falling off, that the defendant 1 ,1 been twice to Ireland, for the purpose of preventing it inspection of the books, and that he had tried to coo 3,0001. upon part of the partnership property. His Hotioult immediately granted the injunction. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) OPPEY V. LORD DE DUNSTANVILLE. Sir JAMES SCARLETT showed cause against a rule N il for a writ of prohibition against the Vice Warden of t b . Stannaries in the county of C ornwa ll, th e o bj ect of will! was to try the question as to the jurisdiction of the Vi c Warden's Court in cases of appeal. The case is likely to last at least the whole of this (14 COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court took motions for new trials, but up to ti hour that our reporter left nothing possessing the le l public interest transpired. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DO The COURT was occupied the whole of the mornif i % with hearing Counsel in the case of Somers v. Mosel' Judgment in which was deferred. The case is of CO'' derable importance to nil engaged in the South Fishing Trade. it When the COURT decide the question, we shall lay at length b fore our readers. In the West of England cider is advancing price. Good cider, that inigl.t have been bought a ma t " ago at 289. a i.ogshead, is now selling at 359., and it; 0 ' petted to be higher. d re Some journals assert that the Ministers very much out at elbows. It is probably to darn the 1 01 ,1 that they have brought Cl eo p a t ra ' s nee dl e to Paris.---4P, Cursaire. POWERS.—An Oxford student joined, With' out invitation, a party dining at the inn ; after dinner be boated so much of his abilities, that one of the party Fa' ii ; " You have told us enough of what you cm do, tell u , som e thing you cannot d o ." Faith," said he, "I WO pay my share of the reckoning."—Athenccum. The forthcoming narrative of his Excun sions in the Holy Land, Syria, N u bi a ," & c ,, by 111 r il Mathis, will contain, we understand, among other origin' detmils, an account of some cu'ious discoveries in EgYP t " In this interesting country the author caused many e 3o , e , vations to be made, by which were brought to lig' several remarkable and valuable antiquities. His r e ' searches in Nazireth, Jerusalem, Damascus, Mount Le l banon, and other places renowned in the Scriptures, 0 1 be read with much gratification by those who seek I , modern books of eastern travels for illustrations of Biblic * topography. - An individual, named Septimius Kay, yeSte day gathered in h;s garden, situate! in the Club pie Sheffield-moor, a ripe strawberry.—Sheffield AfereurP Galignani's Messenger says—" We have re ceived the following letter from the Earl of Aldborough " Carlsbad, Dec. 20, 1833._, " SIR,—In reply to a letter I have this moment ca l , i read in your Journal of the month of November, s igne rs ' Charles H. Tandy,' where, in reply to my declarali that Miss Tandy was not Countess of Aldborough, as 1 0 been incorrectly stated in your paper, it refers to a judr meat given in the Arches Cout t some ye a rs s i nc e as 4 proof in her favour. It is always with m uc h regre t tha t I obtrude my name on the public; but it is impossible t ; pass this over in silence, and I am obliged to explain svh s „' delicacy to the departed wou'd induce me, if possible,' avoid. " My father left me for twenty years without one sh il , d hug of allowance. I had a large family, seven infant dren, dependent on me ; myself dependent only on cred it e i payable on his demise, to support them. I bad suffer every possible privation. I received a letter from bi ° from which the following is an extract:— " ' Miss Tandy is in the last stage of a deep consuinir t tion ; and I ask you to give her a sttisfaction which pledge myself shall in no way hurt you, and will be ges' e : rous towards her ; s a y s h e i s your wife. I will give r an allowance if you write the to that effect.' " My situation was at this time desperate ; for titre - I cared not. B ut who can see helpless infancy w ithal'' , , bread ? I wrote. I got the allowance. He commenceo the trial alluded to by the document. I had not :h i weans to go to law ; so, finding myself entrapped, de l i ceived, and a conspiracy against me, I declared in ee the Journals of London my inability to defend the cat' s ; from want of means, and declared, as 1 do now, th e', it was false. This may, or may not prejudice 01 case ;' but I have a better opinion of the honour of Eng; lishmen than to think it will ; and, at all events, from it lowest to the highest, I will appeal, and not submit': such monstrous injustice. I shall not notice any furthel attacks ; it must rest with the law to decide the case. f content myself with again in the most solemn mans e . declaring, before Gad and man, that she is not my wil l ; and that I had one at the time. I pray you to give thi place in your Paper, and I have the honour to be, &c., " ALDBOROUOH. c‘ P.S. Of the situation in which I was left in Load' ). " I can produce thousands to give evidence ; those who 3 1' sisted, who gave me long credits, and to whom m y grat',". tude has beer, out at cominund interest with their claita,' A portentous panic arose amongst the trade s ' people of Lincoln dining the last week : after having plied several hundred pounds' worth of goods to a pegl ° ', who had taken AshhournlHall for his residence, a /ludas; change took place, and a siege commenced in order to g e t ; back the p ro p er ty. It last e d for two days, and at lel 3 o o the beleaguered mansion was surrendered, and each 10, took his own, or as much as he could find of it. T b " parties who have been thus unlucky in their speculat ion" - b 5 are well known on account of sonic equally extraordiai r l t p e t ri o 7i aidedingasgaatinHstul,l:ne person. It is n o t state d now where the lady called in the rneg if ' e panic arose, but all accounts concur in representing 0 1. 3 ;5 the elegant furniture and effects which had been delive 115 on the premises were rapidly remov, d when once hroa s under the direction of the claimants. A watch c vj , s et at night, and a nun her of bankers employed " I surround the premises, to prevent any improper teroo ° , of the effects until they w ere reco vered by the anzio l. tradespeople,