The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-05 00:00:00

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PRICES OF STOCKS THI 7 .4 k Steen 209 N`4 10 i 'Pe , .1 Cent Red. 8 7 34;4 shut irCent.Cons ' Per Cent. 96 1 , t ~ 40 Z shuew:3l4 Red per tent :her Ann. 1 72 6 •••• 103 Per Cent. 1526 416: Long A nn. to ex,,,re Jan. 5, IS6P 16% 15-16 Oct. in, N5 O — lan. 5, 1560 l7 3-16 Jan. 5, IRSO — 4 111'115, IRSO Jan. 5. Inn OAY AT ON , 0 - Cl.O. I, Nem 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto 80nd5...,.... 22 21 23 pm. 'South Sea Stock 'Old Annuities 'New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, X1,000...41 4`l 41 pm. Ditto 50(...41 43 41 pm• Ditto Small 4l 43 41 pm. Ditto Commercial . ...... —Pm Ditto Advertised ......... 39 pm. !Bank for Account ......... 210 India for Account ..... I Cons. for Account THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 'gm P o rtuguese Bonds 69 k, Ditto Account 69% Ditto New Bonds 5614 Ditto Acconnt...s(l!4q,l4;;;', Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 182:1 Russian Bonds, 1822 lf3 2 3 :i Ditto Account in2, 2 Ditto 111 Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditto Ace. 23! 3 1 Ditto Bonds, 1823 2o7' 1 Ditto Account French Reines, sp. c. —f —c. 1---- Exchange ...... —f —c. ----3 per cent....... —f —c. {--- Exchange f —r. Dutcll, ‘2.1- p. c. 49%1A Ditto Account 5O 49% Ditto, 5 p c 93; 4 ,i Ditto Account 0 4 3%% French Scrip 44 pm. Plier s or FOREIGN FUNDS A ustrian Bonds 9414 1 "rlßian Bonds 9 514 I , =litto Account or , ti B tazilian Bonds 6614 Ditto Account 66 1 4 B uenos Ayres Bonds 2O Ditto Account "lilian Bonds Ditto Account — C oluinbian Bonds Ditto Account 7 bitto Bonds, 1824 2'27. „Ditto Account 03 4 3, D anish Bon s . 7254 „Ditto Account — 'reek Bonds — Ditto Bonds, 1825 6 Ditto Account — qexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2 9 ' Ditto Account Ditto, 6 percent !1614 Ditto Account 36 s _lpolitan B9 ?weirs OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE o'cLocr• Paid. Per Share. Alton Mining Company £ 4 44 Angio Mex. Min. L:o. oss. at 5/. pm ) £lllO 9 140 tOlanos Mining Company ...£l5O razilian Mining Company £s 1N c ilrillan Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 63 bitto Nati0na1....—............ Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaet 5 l 5 1% t iaa Branca Minin Comn rltish Iron Mining Comna pa nv y £so 28% %.,luiribiLn Minim Co. i tse st 5 !. pm.) 51 % 2;4 411 ,.„ Rllsh Mining Company .......... 7.eteral Mining Association aihernian Mining Co. £lo 4 b et Mean Mining Co. £4B 11;4 ,a 1 del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) -- 534 1 Nted Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 12 Ditto New Strip 5 1491 All ancelire Insurance Comp lO `ro tector Insurance Comp. , lance Australian Co. „4nada Company l7 48 asneral Steam tiavigation Co. Zational Provincial Bank of England 5 47i % ' l9 Doce rovincial Bank of Ireland 23 40 -------- PRICXS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN. DEC. 2 .11;lank Stock -ISt. Patrick Insur.(per Share - , ;0 nsols, 3 Der cent - 'o v. Stock, 3N; per cent 953k ;National Ditto - h .itto Ne w - i , eOer Cent Hibernian Bank - v. Deb. 3t percent.... 88's Provincial Ditto ..„... - goYal Canal Stock .... ..... - Royal Irish Mine I, 4 and Canal Stock 23 Imperial Vine - Ballast Deb. 4 per cent. - Mining Co of Ireland 'last Office Deb. 4n. c. --.. Commercial Buildings HAILS. 4, rived, Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg O Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 1 Lis bon 0 Flanders I f) Malta .. 0 O France I 2 Sweden 0 Gu( n 0 &Jersey.. 0 I Waterford 0 ternsey HICK WATER AT LoNnorr BRIDGE TO-MORROW. rnine.. a. 3 minutes after 9. I Evenme... 6 utinitte 4 after 10. tbr 4 1 * 4 - 4 *lto - LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1833 Some of the letters from Madrid state that so gre a t was the agitation in that capital, that if eituz, the Minister of War, had not resigned, there would have been a serious revolution. It is stated that the child which the Duchess 4 e BERRI had at Blaye died on the 18th of liovember, at Leghorn. If this be true, the Duchess will consider it a happy deliverance. We direct attention to the letter of an intel ligent and patriotic Dublin Correspondent in this day's Sun. Frankfort papers of the 29th ult. have been received, but they contain no news of interest. Brussels papers to the 4th, and Dutch to the 3 d instant, have been received. It appears that the people of Brussels have taken great umbrage at th e late military convention of Zondhoven, concluded with the Dutch, respecting the gar tlson of Maestricht, and other terms of a recipro cal character relative to commercial matters. A sniart discussion took place in the Chamber on the subject, but led to no result. When the Xing and Royal Family visited the theatre, there Was but a scanty audience, which was attributed to the Convention of Zondhoven. The following are a few extracts : BRUSSELS, DEC. 3.—The French Prince and Princesses Will set out for Paris to-morrow. Yeat,rday there was a diplomatic dinner at the 1-11 tel 5 f the Minister for Foreign Affairs, at which were Sir R. Adair, Baron D'Arnheim, Count Dietrichatein, Me&srs. Legere and Casimir Perier, M. Raikem, President of the Chamber, the Ministers Count Vilain XIII., and many other representatives. In the meeting of the manufacturers, which took Place yesterday evening, the memorial to the King *as read. It was unanimously adopted, as well as the resolution to wait for the necessary information from the s everal towns of Belgium, in order to lay before the Government and the Chamber a correct view, supported by statistical facts, of the real state of the country with respect to i•s manufactures. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bayssus, DEC. 2.49 Actual Debt, 21i per Cent. Rothschild'a Loan, 5 per Cent 95 • Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 1833, 4 per cent. —Brussels Papers. Dec. 4. ANTWERP, Drc. 3.—lf the following news is true, it Completely refutes all the assertions of the liandelsblad, and certain other journals, respecting the consent which the German Diet cannot fail to give to the partition of Lux e mburg. The Gazette of the Rhine and Moselle Contains the following article : " We are assured that our Envoys to the Diet have received orders to oppose and to protest against the cession I of any part of Luxemburg. It is affirmed that they have already protested, and that it has in consequence been resolved to postpone all decision on this subject till the meeting of the Congress of Vienna." 4 The Dutch Journals of the 3d contain no in'eresting news,—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, December 4. The Pike schooner has brought accounts frii t ii Lisbon of the 23d, and from Oporto of the 28th ult. Matters appear to have made no progress in the military way up to those dates. NirGuEL's army was at Santarem, and PEDRo's in its former position besieging it. Don CARLos was at Castello Branca, and would probably remain there, for his cause is lost in Spain. It is stated in the correspondence of the Morning Papers, that France, England, and Spain were about to interfere in the affairs of Portugal ; but this is doubtful. The intelli gence came from Madlid, and produced a great sensation in Lisbon. The following is from the Private Corre spondence alluded to : 'AWN, Nov. 23.—The two armies remain nearly in the situation they were in when I wrote last, with this difference, that the army of his Imperial Majesty is daily augmenting, and approaching nearer to Santarem , whilst that of Don Miguel is diminishing by desertions, and fast approaching to a state of ab-olute distress, for want of all the necessaries of life.—ln addition to the vigilance hi therto kept up by Count Saldanha, he has ordered the hanks to he cut which have been constructed to retain a large portion of land from the Tagus, and by this measure the water will flow over a great extent of ground to the north-east of Santarem, and prevent the possibility of the army of Miguel retiring on Abrantes, without first fighting a hattle with the Queen's army. Although the weather is at present fine, the heavy rains must soon come on, which will not only augment the difficulty of marching on Abrantes, or any place north of the Tagus, hut also prevent their crossing that river to fulfil their design of getting into Elvas, for which they have long been preparing. They are evidently without the means of transporting the army over to the Alemtejo, and if they had the means, a number of gun-boats, under the command of able officers, are stationed in the river to annoy them. We are daily expecting to hear of some important movement. Fresh British troops are arriving daily, and in another fortnight the auxiliaries will amount to 8,000 British, Irish, French, and Belgians, and by that time his Imperial Majesty's army will be nearly 30,000 strong, with the addition of numbers of guerillas, daily augmenting, and clearing the country in all directions. A considerable force, both naval and military, is now collecting at St. Übes, which will soon be able to make important movements. I am sorry to say some unpleasant circumstances have taken place in the Irish and British brigade, which, although not materially affecting the general service, are a disgrace to our countrymen holding commands in the Queen's army. Whatever difference there might be in the engagements made by her Majesty's agents in London, elsewhere there certainly was a general understanding that all were bound to adhere to the general regulations of the British Army. This has not been adhered to, hut a system of unjust oppression, tyranny, and favouritism, has been substituted for it, by which several meritorious officers, on pretences the most frivolous, have been dismissed without ceremony, after expendiag large sums of money, and having distinguished themselves in every engagement during upwards of two years that this unhappy contest has lasted. In vain they solicit investigation, or to be permitted to return home. Some are now starving in Lisbon, and others confined in prison. The fault rests with British commanding officers ; men now pl iced in power, who never rose higher than subalterns in the British service, are not, and never can be, from their age and habits, able to put a battalion through the movements ; and, forgetful of their situations, exercise a system of tyranny which is insupportable to men who know their duty. Foriunately Don Pedro has at length been made acquainted with these proceedings, and has expressed a wish to see and examine every case of dissatisfaction with the service himself, from which, and his own love of justice, happy results are expected to arise. I give you this information in jus , ice to the Portuguese Gov,rnment, who have been frequently blamed without cause, and are anxious that every justice should he done to all foreign officers in their service, as the sequel will clearly prove when their accounts are settled. A contract has been given for 400 German horses, I understand at 151. each, to be accompanied by some weli disciplined men. A General of some distinction is also expected, with 1,200 Be!gians, to be embodied with the French, of which he is to have the command. Nothing further has transpired respecting the change of Ministers, still it is hoped and expected the Duke of Palmella will shortly be at the head of an efficient Mini stry, and give additional facilities to the good cause of Constitutional liberty, already placed beyond doubt. Our merchants are displeased with the revocation of the order which declared Spanish dollars a legal currency, at 910 reis, and sovereigns at 4,200 reis. This revocation has taken several parties by surprise, and caused some trifling losses. To-day the importation of foreign flour was also prohi kited, but will, according to the decree, be still admitted until the 23d of December. This order was also not looked for so soon, and proves the confidence of Govern ment in the resources of the country. The Emperor had the gallantry to present Admiral Napier with a diamond star (placar) of the order of the Tower and Sword, which he had made specially for the purpose. Manoel Goncalves de Miranda and the Minister of Finance, Joze da Silva Carvalho, have been restored to the honours of which they had been deprived, in virtue of a decree of Don John VI., of the 18th of June, 1823. His Majesty left to-day for the army, from whence nothing new has occurred. Don Carlos is still in Castello Branco. _........._ S'lr Thomas Stubbs, the Governor of Oporto, I regret to find, has been definitively exonerated of his command, his successor, General Torres, having yesterday received the Emperor's final instructions to proceed to this important point, which be will, no doubt, as gloriously defend as the Serra Convent. " A Rood of Land the Labourer's best Friend," is the title of a threepenny pamphlet, giving an account of what the writer calls the successful result of the allottnent plan in the —. . parish of Great Missenden, Bucks. The plan was only commenced at Michaelmas, 1832, so that no fair argument of its ultimate benefit can be urged from so short an experience. But w e are willing to admit that where the poor laws are properly administered, and education is at the same time properly advanced, the allotment plan may be a useful aid in giving a higher tone of independence to the agricultural labourer, now debased almost to the level of the beasts of the field by the manner in which his ignorant supe riors have administered the poor laws ; but it is a dangerous error to suppose that it can remove the source of the anxiety at present felt by large classes of society. The landowners, in all their plans, forget that there is any human being to be cared for but themselves and their labourers, although it so happens that the majority of the nation are neither landlords nor farm labourers, but persons upon whose prosperity their wel fare depends. Hence their corn laws, and, now that they find themselves distressed in spite of the corn laws, hence their desire to spread the allot ment plan. But what is in the mean time thought by them of the laborious manufacturer, of the ingenious artisan, of the toiling children whose excessive exertions to earn a morsel of food they last year affected to pity ? Abso lutely nothing. The manufacturer wants to get his food as cheaply as he can, representing that it will not hurt the owners of land, for that he and his family will then be able to pay a higher rent for land than if it were to be cultivated in corn. The land owner will not listen to him ; or perhaps laughs in his face, and tells him that to pay the farmer a high price for his corn must be good for him, because the farmer will be able to give him more for his goods. As, however, the manufacturer prefers keeping his money in his pocket to giving it to the landlord, on the chance of having a portion back, not for nothing, but for goods, that-is money's worth, he were allowed to sell them abroad, and as the landowners find they can now provide so comfortably for their labourers by allotments of land, for which they get high rents., we trust that they will be ready to con sent to the repeal of the corn laws, and thus give some thought to the poor depending upon the rates in towns as well as those upon the rates in the country. Although we look upon the idea of solely depending upon the allotment system for a re moval of the evils in which our rural population is immersed as mischievous, it would perhaps be thought unfair not to give what Mr. CAR. RINGTON, jun., justly thinks the strongest ar gument in favour of his plan. He says:— " It employs at once the labourer's spare time and spare money. "On this third point I feel myself particularly strong ; I say that no other plan affords a savings-bank to the labourer at once for his time and for his money. It is here that neither a mere change in the a dministration of the poor laws nor school education can help us. The la- bourer has throughout the year some spare time and some spare money, which be cannot turn to account. H e is sometimes several days out of employment, and he is some times ill and unable to do a full day's work. Now his spare time and his spare money are very fond of one another's company; and if either of them be idle, he is sure to carry his friend off with him to the public-house. Therefore any plan proposed ought to aim equally at the time and at the money. This plan does so with the ex ception of winter evenings ; but this exception is only in full force for about three months in the year. "Much of the evil seems to lie here. Let any one con. hider the situation of the labourer after his work is over. Every spot of ground belongs to other people. What is he to do with himself? Even if he is a bookish man, which he very seldom is, and can find amusement in that way, what is he to do with the spare sixpence in his pocket ? What have his wife and younger children to do for the greater part of the day ? How is their labour to be turned to account ? Under the eye of the parents there is no moral education going on upon the children ; nothing to open their understandings, to set their minds at work, to teach them the value of industry and thrift. It never answers to make any set of men mere machines. If the labourer is suffered to go from his daily work, like a farm horse, with nothing of his own to think about, he will find amusement for himself in some way or other, and will fall into bad habits. Addressing, as I do, country people, I need not enlarge on the evils of the public•house and the beer- shop, how the habit grows on a man, and how im provident he becomes, how the money slides away, and the family suffer; yet the public-house and the beer shop, with their beer and their company, offer a very strong temptation—a temptation, of the force of which a rich man is perhaps not quite aware, and which we must op pose by some very strong motive if we hope for success. Now here the law, however administered, gives no help ; and experience proves school education to be quite insuf ficient." The mistake into which the writer has fallen is that of supposing that there has yet been a trial of proper school education. It would be a wonder if the course of instruction usually pursued in country charity or Sunday schools, or, indeed, the majority of all schools, did pro duce any material benefit. Had the sums which have been wasted in ill directed and desultory efforts to diffuse faulty instruction been properly a pplied, Mr. CARRINGTON would not now have to remark that so few agricultural labourers are " bookish men." When they do become bookish men, we shill hear of no more midnight burnings, no more heavy poor rates, no more arguing that either they or their brethren engaged in manufactures must starve. Accounts arrived yesterday from several o .he West India islands, but the details, not• withstanding the stir some of the Conservative prints are endeavouring to make about them, will excite little interest in this country. That most worthy of note is from Anligua, the last date from which place is the 4th November. It appears that the joint Committee of the Legislature of Antigua, appointed to consider the Slave Emancipation Act of the Imperial Parliament, made a report on the 31st October, in the shape of a despatch to the Governor, in order to prevent any delay in the preparation of one, if the Legislature should agree to this. Both houses of the Legislature did agree to it unanimously. One of the most marked features in it is the opinion it expresses that immediate emancipation would be better than the appren ticeship plan proposed by Mr. STANLEY. They give the same reasons against the inter mediate stage of apprenticeship as were given by Lord HowicK, and they wish his Excellency to apply to the Home Government for per mission to grant immediate emancipation. They allege the peculiar fitness of this colony, its full population, the religious and moral habits of that population, for such a course. This is rather inconsistent with the perpetual declara tions we have had of the utter inaptitude of the negroes for immediate freedom. For years have we been told we must wait longer ; we were told so even last Session by large men-owners ; so that if the Government was deceived, if, as is very likely, those who lived upon stolen goods did not stick at a lie to preserve those goods, there can now, that the truth is known, be no difficulty, we should imagine, in granting the request of the Antigua people. We see that they besides want to get rid of the 42per cent. duties, and although the pretence they set up for it may be ridiculous, we do not see that there can be any objection to it, provided a proper reduction be made of the unjust duty now levied upon East India sugar. The House of Assembly of Jamaica, on the 17th October, protest against the Bill of the Imperial Parliament, in order, they say, to shield themselves from responsibility, but express their determination to give their best support to such plans as may be proposed by the Supreme Go vernment at home to carry into effect the aboli tion of slavery in the colony. Two days before the House of Assembly of Barbadoes came to the resolution to suspend all proceedings upon the subject until they had learned what Jamaica meant to do. Before quitting the Antigua document there is one point in it which we cannot help noticing. Every one knows that West Indian landed property has for years been almost as valueless as English, and that West Indian landowners are almost as much distressed as the English. The similitude does not end here, for both en deavour to mend their case, not by honest in dustry, but by robbing some weak and defenceless party. We suspect that their dishonesty is one main cause of the distress they both feel ; but, strange to say, they both contend that this dis honesty is the only thing that enables them to live. The report of the Committee of the Antigua Le gislature speaks of the slave owners as " now but too sadly depressed by overwhelming difficulties of all kinds." We are not fond of lightly appealing to the Deity, but we cannot help declaring that there are many who would think it an impeach ment of GOD'S Providence, if the atrocious iniquity the West India planters have been seek ing to maintain, were visited by any thing else but distress. Indeed it would be a singular phenomenon to find a few score of men thriving and happy by depriving nearly a million of human beings of the right to their own labour, when all over the world we find much smaller violations of the immutable laws of the CREATOR followed by loss, ruin, and misery. To return to our comparison of the landed interest of the West Indies and of England. The Antigua report says— Without entering more fully into the painful difficul ties which beset the present enactments, we would not, however, omit to remark that the diminished fertility of our soil in many districts, and the uncertainty of our climate everywhere, render the supplies of food for our labouring population at all times precarious, notwithstand ing the most industrious cultivation. The provisions reaped s• d dow supply more than half the consumption, even under the present system of coercion." "Even under the present system of coercion !" Poor blinded creatures ! when and where was a system of slave labour so permanently productive as one of free labour ? Ye have been severely punished for your folly, for your ignorance : even as severely as your brother robbers in England. Would to GOD, that your common fate could be to each of you a warning and a There are few of the English land owners who will not see the absurdity of the 46 even under the present system of coercion," for they know that it is more profitable to pay wages, high wages too, to a free man, than to have the work of two slaves for nothing but their keep ; but there are many of them who, when told that the island does not produce food enough for its inhabitants, and that there are in it some barren wastes, would say to them selves, " Why that is the case of England ; all Antigua wants is a high protecting duty on foreign corn." The planter sees the folly of this, he sees that it would be no gain for him to make his wastes, or even fertile land, yield high priced coin, but he cannot see that it is no gain to him either to have slave labour. Let him look to the distress of the English land owner from grasping at too much, and consider whether a portion of his own may not be also owing to grasping at too much. Let the English landowner consider whether he does not overshoot his mark like the West Indian. Or if he sees that it would be absurd in the Antigua landowner to exclude foreign corn when he can import it cheaper with produce of his own, is it not worth his while to inquire whether, instead 01 himself insisting upon growing corn, it ~voul(1 , not be better to let the English manufacturer gel it from those who are willing to take what he has to give in return, and be made rich by in creased demand for land for other purposes ? We ask the question ; but alai, how easily do we see the beam in our neighbour's eye, how hardly the mote in our own ! esson. sentence, THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY M A RKETS.—t At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. . . ............_...._.. Supply tolerably good, — trade dull, and prices barely stationary. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 %lew Meadow Hay 3 15 4 8 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 5 4 8 Clover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw £1 6to £1 8 1 Wheat Straw... 1 8 110 SMITHFIELD. A limited supply, and a dull trade ; prices stationary. Coarse neavy I,wtand Meadow Hay .t3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 10 4 5 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay 4 0 4 5 Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 0 ..Generally Oat Straw ... £1 4to £1 6l' Wheat Straw SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 4.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the John, Gordon, from Quebec ; Gazelle, White, from Lon don for Smyrna, and remain with the outward bound ; Tasmania, for Jamaica ; Eleanor, from Sunderland to Portsmouth ; Caroline, for Southampton ; and a number of coasters. Four p.m.—Arrived a Government steam packet, from the Southward, and remains. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 4.—Wind W.N.W., a bard gale all day, and there is every appearance of its continuing.— Arrived the Duke of Wellington, Priantz, from St. Mi chael's, I , aky, and with loss of boat, anchor and cable, &c.; and Swift, Howard, from St. Übes. Off port the Avon, Nicholson, ftom Miramichi. FALMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Wind W., strong breezes.— Arrived his Majesty's ship Pike, from Lisbon—sailed the 24th ult., and Oporto the 28th. MILFORD, Dec. 3.—Arrived the Diadem, Walter, from Puerto Cabello. Liviotron , Dec. 3.—Arrived the Indian Lass, Stuhh, and Vixen, Wakern, from Lisbon ; Liberty, Moore, from Archangel ; and New York, Haxie, from New York, on shore near the Clarence Bank. Dueritr, Dec. 3.—Arrived the George and Henry, Wolagan, from Oporto. CORK, DEC 2.—Arrived off port the Cordelia, M'Kel lar, from St. Domingo. BELFAST, Dec. 2.—Arrived the Henry, Richardson, from Miramichi. PADSTOW, Dec. 3.—The tlbion, Hudson, from Youghal to London, has been brought up the harbour, and is now alongside the pier. ST. Ives, DEC. 3.—Part of the cargo of the Mary Ann, Nl‘Kenzie, fr , ro Cape Breton to Limerick, has been saved and brought in here. The Margaret, M‘Bride, from Westport to Glasgow, and the Industry, Bett, from Wick to Dublin, are on shore at Way, and it is feared will be wrecked. The Success, Baxter, of London, from Maldon, sunk on Hashorough Sand on Tuesday—crew raved. The Rachel, Wissett, bound to Lisbon, has put back to Liverpool leaky, and must discharge. The Stsffette, Grentzbeck, from Liverpool to Pillau, was on shore near Marshaud the 23d ult.—cargo dir. charging. The Jane, M'Leod, from Baltimore to London, was on shore near the former port the 13th ult., but expected to be got off after being lightened. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Montreal Papers ta the 12th, and Quebec to the 10th November, have been received at the North and South Ameriem Coffee-house. The Quebec pairr states that the arrivals from sea on the books of the Exchange, amotint to 100 sail, and the tonnage to 261, 292. There is one important fact by this conveyance—that England, France, and Spain are going to mediate between the two brothers, and put an end to the desolation in that country by civil war. This is confirmed by the private letters we have seen this morning. Also, that General Saldanha has written to several officers in Don Miguel's army, some of whom are related to him, stating that if they will ahanden the cause of Miguel, he will gua• ranter to them that they shall retain their different ranks in Don Pedro's army ; in consequence of which we understand that about fifty of Don Miguel's officers have come over to Don Pedro. The news from Mexico, by way of America, confirms what we previously stated, the defeat of the rebels by St. Anna's troops. THE FUNDS. The only arrival this morning of any consequence is the Lisbon mail by the Pike, which sailed on the 24th ult., and from Oporto on the 28th, although it brings no ac counts of any military operations of consequence. The French mail has not yet arrived. Consols opened at the price they left off yesterday, 88 i for the Account, with little doing at present. In the Foreign Market Spanish 23 i; Portuguese, 56i I; Dutch, 49i 50. Q UAR TER PAST TWELVE. Since writing the above, Consols have receded to 88f I HALF-PAST ONE. The French mail has not as yet been received in the City ; but a Flanders mail has arrived, and brings the Dotal funds rather higher, about -a- per cent. Up to the present time we have no news of importance to com municate. Consols in the early part of the morning bad a heavy appearance and were at 831 for Account, owing to a prevailing opinion that the Bank would not in future lend money under 4 per cent. The Bank Directors are still in discussion on the subject, but within a short period the Consol Market has a more firm appearance, and Consols may be quoted 88i for Account. We had also a report that our Government was going to send some sail of the line to the Mediterranean ; this re quires confirmation. In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock was also heavy, but may be quoted at 23; Portuguese, b 6 to THREE 0' CL 0 CK, Consols for the ♦ccount, 88• C OURT OF CHANCERY.-(T HIS DAY•) BOWER V. MARAIS. This was a case in which there had been an appeal from a❑ order made by Sir William Grant, and also a petition in bankruptcy, heard a considerable time agoo• The application now was, that the costs of the assignees might be directed to be paid out of the estate. Severa Counsel were heard, and after a lengthened conversation at the bar, the Court intimated that it would consider the propriety of the application. RING OF SPAIN V. MACHADO. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN stated that about a fortnight ago it was directed that this case should stand for to-day, and that by this time the parties to whom he was opposed were to have filed their new bill, and be prepared to enter upon a discussion of the merits. He had been informed that the bill had not been filed last night, and that they now wanted them to make fresh affidavits. If they had desired further time to file affidavits, they ought to have been in dustriously employing the intermediate time. Unless they could show some satisfactory ground against it, his clients were entitled to have the order of the Court direetinz the payment of the money (116,0001.), upon which Lord Eldon had put an estoppel, and to which the recent verdict at law had given his (Sir Edward's) clients a clear right. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was impossible for the Court to do justice in this case without hiving all the facts brought before it, and that it had he'll out of the power of his clients to get their affidavits ready by today. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave till next Wednesday week, and ordered the hearing to stand peremptorily for that day. DARE V. FLETCHER. His LORDSHIP proceeded to hear the further arguments in this part-heard appeal. VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.: TINLEY V. FARWELL. This was a petition, praying a reference to the Master to inquire whether a gentleman of the name of Ward, one of the trustees of the charity mentioned in the petition, was of unsound mind, and that if the Master should so find, the parties might be ordered to proceed in the election of a new trustee. A testator of the name of Charles llopetoun directed certain altos-hous , s to be established, which he vested in ten trustees, which number be directed always to be kept up. The charity was established by a decree of the Court in the year 1740, and a scheme was ~ e ttled by the Court that the ten trustees should always be continued, and that when that number was reduced to six by death, the election of f ulr new trustees should take place. Mr. Ward was the seventh trustee, and one of the three in whom the estate was vested. He bad lately become bank rupt, and that event had preyed so much upon his mind that his intellects had become deranged, and he was now confined in a lunatc asylum. Under these circumstances the present petition had become necessary. His HONOUR immediately granted the order as prayed. ROLLS' COURT- THIS DAY.) there was no business for the Court to dispose of. The Record e r, Jury, and Counsel, were all in accen ance, and he just comphints of s, treat a waste of public time we , e oud and d-ep, particularly from the gentlemen sumaamed , 0 serve on julies. Af er waiting until past 10 the Jury drew up and signe l the following memorial or remonstrance : " To the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department. 4 , We, the undersigned, having been serving as jurors for the County of Middlesex for the whole of the present sessions, beg leave to say that we feel a pleasure in doing our duty for the good of the public, but being greatly in convenienced by the repeated adjournments for want of business, feel it incumbent to submit to your Lordship that we are tradesmen greatly depending on our own ex ertions at home. From the facts of the above case we are emboldened to apply to your Lordship for a discharge, understanding the delay to be entirely occasioned by the unprecedented detention of the Grand Jury at Clerkenwell. W. Sykes (Foreman) John F.lgar, W. Smith, Barnard Smith, Edward Taylor, William Maberley, G. Mims, Thomas Okey, A. C. Lindale, Hugh Metcalf, W. Stet t :tar, Thomas Peckard, T. Stephens, Benjamin Nicholson, Richard Wolley, Nathaniel Rogers, Henry James Tolley, T. W. Mills, John Tocey, James Kewley, Joseph Copeland, John Morris. The memorial, thus signed, was then conveyed to the COMMON SERGEANT, who (we believe) directed it to be forwarded to the Home Office by the Sheriffs. Mr. Sheriff Wilson undertook the mission, and set out at eleven o'clock with this and two other documents from Jurors in attendance in the New Court, to present them to Lord Melbourne, at the Home Office. LAMBERT V. LESLIE. This cause came on before the Court upon exceptions to the Master's report. At the hearing the usual references had be n made to take an account of all the dealings and transactions between the plaintiff (Mr. Charles Lambert), who carried nn business in Bond-street, and the late Sir Jonathan Miles, the executors of that gentleman being defendants. The nature of the transactions consisted principally of loans of money and securities which passed between the parties. The plaintiff, it seemed, had not kept any regular account of his receipts an , i payments on behalf of Sir J. and in carrying in his claim before the Mas ter. It consisted of bills of exchange and promissory notes which he alleged had been unsatisfied. In the hands of the executors, however, were found numerous other notes, securities, and checks, which the Master bad refused to take into account, and struck a balance only in respect of the vouchers and securities which were in the possession of Lambert, although the former referred to the same period, and s'absequently to it with the latter. To this the defendants, the executors, had filed an exception, on the ground that the account taken was not sufficiently extensive, and that the checks originally drawn in favour of Lambert, and now produced by the defendants as having been paid, afforded evidence that he had received in part at least satisfaction of some of the securitiea,wbich he had carried into the Master's office. His HONOUR said, the Master had proceeded on the principle that securities found in the possession of the per son or his representative, who had origin illy given them, was prima facie evidence, that they had been sitisfied, and therefore he had acted very properly in excluding those securities from his account ; it was otherwise, how ever, in respect of the checks ; because, being drawn in favour of the plaintiff, Lambert, they were prima facie evidence that so much money had been paid on account. He should, therefore, refer it back to the master to review his report in that respect. The defendants had also filed another exception which was of this nature. Lambert not having kept any account of his transactions with Sir Jonathan, who had been in rather embarrassed circumstances, it was considered advi sable, in the circumstances of the case, to give the plain tiff notice to produce evidence of consideration, having been paid for the securities he possessed, as suspicion un doubtedly rested on them, no accounts having been produced. The Master, however, had not taken that view of the case. His HONOUR overruled the exception, declaring that the production of a security was evidence of a debt which could not be impeached but by circumstances proved, which gave evidence against its authenticity and amount. It would be quite inconsistent with all law and equity, merely because no account had been kept, to impose on the hoider of a security the necessity of proving its con sideration. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) :Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) DOE ON THE DEMISE OE WETHERELL V. 2IRD. This was an action of ejectment, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover possession of certain premises in the parish of Sc. Mary, Kingston, on the ground, as was alleged, of a breach of covenant. The breach charged was that the defendant had converted the premises into a private lunatic asylum, which it was alleged was a nuisance, and that in consequence, by one of the covenants, the premises became forfeited. The SOLICITOR GENERAL stated the case for the plaintiff. He onserved that, in the lease, a lunatic asylum was not specifically named, but he contended that it would come under the general denomination, " or other offensive trade." A similar case had been tried before Lord Ellen borough, at the Surrey Assizes, and that Learned Judge had decided that a lunatic asylum was an offensive trade ; indeed the Learned Counsel thought that no business could be more offensive than the conducting of a mad house. The case is wholly devoid of in.erest, except to the parties concerned, and it is likely to last nearly all day. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TYNDALL.) MONCK V. CLARKE. This was an action brought to try the validity of a Commission of Bankruptcy, and was the second trial to determine the same question. The case is likely to last a considerable part of the day. OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.) NE W COURT. DELAY or BustnEss.—Toia morning, at 9 o'clock, the Com:non-Serge ant, accompanied by Mr. Sergeant AnAntN, and Swriffs HARMER and WiLsoN, entered this Court, when they expressed their deep regret that, owing to the arrangements at Clerkenweli, the business of this Court should be so much retarded, and their attendance prolonge 1, to the detriment of their private business. The Court could assure them that no blame attsched to any /won conn-cted with this Court. Mr. Sheriff HARMER suggested the propriety of the Jurors making a representation to the Secretary of State, which would no doubt prevent a recurrence of so mud] inconvenience in future. There being no business before the Court, the Jury at length requested that they might be discharged. The COMMON SERGEANT was inclined to comply, but was informed that he could not deliver the gaol until the Grand Jury for the county should be discharged, but he would advise the gentlemen to draw up a remonstrance immediately, and he would have it conveyed to the Home Office. This was accordingly done, and after some time part of the Jurors were discharged. OLD COURT. This Court was opened this morning at 9 o'clock, but lowing to the course pursued by the Middlesex Magistrates in relation to the forwarding of bills of indictment to the Grand Jury (which it was said was still undischarged) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MORFE COURSING MEETING, Nov. 28,29. The Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Boche's Boron, and the Goblet by Mr. Parr's Penelope. The Patsbull AU Age Stakes were decided by Dft Harries's Harkaway and Mr. Bates's Burgundy. The Second Class Patsbull Stakes was won by Mr] B ohe's Bracelet. The Morfe Puppy Stakes was won by Mr. Davenport's Dragoon. AND 0 VER SF ORD MEETING, DEc. 4.1 The Cup was won by Mr. Hewo-'s Fly. The Salperton Cup was won by Mr. Turk's Amulet, and the Guineas by Mr. Beckett's Lady. The Sandiwell Sakes was won by Mr. Freeman's Fancy. The Sewnharnpton Stakes was won by Mr. Yesrsl. y Yatch. The Brighton harriers have had some excellent sport lately ; they hunt a country where the bares are very plena tiful. On Friday they threw off at the Devil's Dike, but owing to the prevalence of cold northerly winds the sport was considerably retarded, inasmuch as the scent was very faint. Two hares were speedily put up, which afforded a run of about half an hour each, and were captured. A third was chopped. On Monday the sport was of a mote animated description. Found the first at Sweethill, which led the hounds and huntsmen at a racing pace for about half an hour, when she fell a victim to her pursuers. Found a second at Pangdean, which proved " nothing but a good one." She took away towards Sedlescombe, from thence to Newtimber Holt, skirted the bill, and directed her course to Newtimber Great Wood. Having reached the extremity of the wood she turned, ant matte for P a ng., dean Holt and Patcham, but the hounds were then close it tier heels, and she speedily fell a victim to her stanch oursuers. The run cccupied nearly an hour. In the field we observed Lord Lake, Sir Charles Pratt, and Captain Quicke. FOX-CHACE.—On Thursday last, at 12 o'clock, a fox, apparen - ly much distressed, was seen running along' the Paintwick road, by the Virginia WAters, into Suff dk •qu ire, where, finding the gate of the court-yard of the house No. 6 Open, it crossed the pleasure ground, and atteniptel to leap the wall, but not being able to clear it, reynard bolted through the iron railing in trout of the house, and passed on to the grounds attaehed t i Mr. Fisher's house, in front of Suffolk Parade, where he was taken. It being dinner time, the numerous rn.cli.inics and at tieing employed at work on the buildings around Lansdowne-place, being on their way home, fureot their roil, and joined in the unusual sport; and seldom indeed has a more numerous " field " been " in " at the capture. Reynard was conveyed, with all the honours of war, in a fly-carriage, to Lord Seagrave's kennel; and his Lordship, on bearing the circumstances, liberally rewarded his cap tors. The fox has since, we understand, been let loose in one of the woods in this vicinity, and will doubtless afford .-xcellent sport, before the hunting seism] is over, to Lord Seagrave's crack pack of fox hounds.— Cheltenham ' Journal. BAROND'HAUSSEZ AND HIS BOOK. Baron d'Haussez having been very unjustly as sailed for the views he has taken of English society, and put forth in his work recently published by Mr. Bentley, under the title of " Great Britain in 1833," we willingly insert the following remarks from the Baron, in vindication of himself, contained in a letter from hint to a friend in London :- 1 " Rome, sth October, 1833. " My dear --, I have received yours of the 19th of September, which, by the date, you will observe has retched me in due course—and which, like every other proof of your remembrance, has made me comparatively happy. I should have beon snore so had you not con firmed, what I had More heard, the sensation pro duced by my book in the salons of your capital. I extremely regret, and can scarcely conceive it possible, that so false an interpretation should have been given to my intentions and my language. I fond in this the sub ject of a piquant chapter upon the susceptibility and dis position to self admiration so prevalent among your coun trymen. I slid not think it a crime of lsze nation to say that your daubers 01 canvass were not Raphaels, your scrapers on the violin were not Paganinis, that your builders were not Palladios, that too much pepper was put into your soups, and that your sauces wanted piquancy. Ifl ittered myself that the critics would have looked with approbation on the sincere praises bestowed upon the more important objects, such as the institu tions, public spirit, education of the men, the virtues and accomplishments of the f males ; I thought, indeed, they would have remarked the precaution, wflich I sedulously adhered to, of indicating the exceptions to my general observations. Mr. particularly, whose table I have described as being served on the most refined elegance, I should have supposed, could not have applied personally that which I have written generally, upon the cuisine Anglaise, and that lie, of all others, would not have given the signal for the cho rus of displeasure now universally raised against me. I have carefully re-perused my book, and I persist in saying that there is not a single animadversion or view of English society which I am not able to sustain by facts taken, not from the exceptions, but from the general bearing of th e muHtude ; and I assert that there is not one to which the reproach of personality cao,w it hpjoeurxttuieuennepitoiyvbneeotfahttaettn,raiiptbmeuratsdeovdn animadversion, individua lity happen t, certain individuals may have applied censures to themselves, is not only possible, but ought to be the case, otherwi se I should have been justly charged with inventing fables. To r inoticecti y general factso th rd e fid i e st l dhneo isatta ckospt p particularly haveafforded when becomes absolutely impossible. I depend much upon your friendship in pleading my cause, and in being the interpreter and guarantee of the esteem which I feel for the English nation, and my unceasing gratitude to those who honoured me with their attention and kindness. during my residence in Great Britain. I shall shortly send you some copies of a Preface which I intend prefix. ing to the new edition of my book, and beg you to dis rie bute them among our acquaintance. After a short stay t ere 1 shall proceed to Naples and Sicily. After having s.-en the island, I shall pass the winter in Naples. I trust, in the course of the ensuing year, that the anger of your countrymen will have calmed, and reflection restored to them that lucidity of judgment to which I have paid such merited homage in my book, and which I regret has not been made use of as regards myself. I hold su much to England as even to travel in an atmosphere resembling hers ; since entering Italy I have seen but two fine days. Every thing here bears the semblance of tranquillity; one sees a Pope in the Vatican, cardinals in the churches, prelates in the salons, monks in th street., and all seem entirely regardless of th.- revolutions e ither hatching about them, or taking place elsewhere." * This gentleman, a Member of Parliament, of whose hos pitality the Baron D'Hausses had so frequently partaken, has, we understand, felt and expressed himself warmly under the idea that his " batterie de cuisine," whose fire is always opened upon his friends with the most powerful effect, should have been so misrepresented as to its " calibre, charge, and range." LIVERPOOL COTTON .rrIARKET 7 DEC. 3.-- The market coutinues firm. The busin,bs transac46 to day amounts to 2,500 bags. Prices have advau rd a, shades e of the loon tonsid The 3f the 9 pre 'chi of some ~N., a visit ez, a! doubt :or to long ortly rks of pre irkby light first f tb• haul, rack-