The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-26 00:00:00

REFUSAL OF A CHURCH-RATE AT READING. A most extraordinary and indecent scene occurred at the vestry-room of Sr. Mary's parish, on Thurs day. A vestry had been summoned for the purpose of granting a rate to the churchwardens for the ne ces,ary repairs of the church, and the usual expenses incident to their office. The vestry was crowded, the greater part of the meeting being composed of low radicals, who were assembled "to do their duty," as a handbill circulated through the parish expressed it, by resisting the motion for a church rate. Immediately on the Rev. Mr. Milman taking the Chair, a motion was made, that the body of the church, being the property of the parishioners, should be thrown open for the accommodation of the meeting. This was firmly resisted by the Vicar, who declared that he would never suffer the church to be thus profaned for secular pur poses. The notice for calling the meeting was then read, and one of the churchwardens, Mr. Hobbs, stated that the sum required was 166/, seventy pounds of which were due for arrears in 1831 and 1832. It was also stated by the Vicar, that a larger sum was required, as a rent of twelve pounds from some charity property had not this or last year been received, in order that a legal claim might not be prejudiced. A rate of threepence in the pound was then proposed, and Mr. Philip Davies immedi ately proposed an adjournment for twelve months. To give even a faint outline of the noise and con fusion that pervaded the meeting would be impos sible. Mr. Davies, with the utmost vehemence, pro ceeded to inveigh against the Church establishment, and government which legalized Episcopacy in this country, the Presbytery in Scotland, Catholicism in Canada, and Paganism in India,in order to advance its own ends. He declared himself a Dissenter from principle, and stated his willingness to subscribe vo luntarily for the support of the Church (?),but avowed his determination never to pay a farthing of any church-rate levied compulsorily. In the interval of each sentence the speaker was hailed with yells of delight from his party, and there was a general cheering when he proposed the adjournment of the meeting. This was immediately seconded. Mr. Milman said this was a question entirely of a legislative character. If the Dissenters felt ag grieved they should complain to the Legislature. It is now the law of the land that the Church should be supported in this way, and until the law was altered they were bound to do so. A vestry meeting was not at all the place to debate ab stract questions, and the effect of resistance would be to entail additional expense on the parish. Mr. H. James said he should not have resisted a legal rate, but he saw in the room persons who, while they were churchwardens, had run the parish to great expense. Mr. J. then began to talk of the general reformation that is going on in every thing, but so much confusion prevailed that it was impos sible to ascertain the purport of his observations. Mr. Summers explained that the churchwardens had obtained a handsome subscription from the per. sons who had attended the church, and had been enabled to pay the expenses of Divine worship, with out calling on the parish. Here a shout was raised of "Never mind that, knock the system on the head a t once." Several persons attempted to quiet th e meeting, by telling them that till the law was altered, they were bound to pay for the repairs of the church, but their efforts were unavailing, and at last the amendment was put, and the show of hands in favour of it preponderated. A poll was then de manded, and the mover of the amendment, and some twenty others, rushed out of the church, ex claiming " up and be doing," to fetch the rate payers to vote against the rate. The poll was closed at 2 o'clock, when the amendment was declared to have been carried by 130 to 108. During the whole of the time of the meeting, and of the polling, the vestry was the scene of such uproar as would have disgraced a low alehouse. The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Vicar, whose patience and forbearance throughout the whole of the pro ceedings, were beyond all praise. —Berkshire Chron. ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. A very interesting paper appears in the Nautical .Magazine for this month, on the risk and general policy of our recent Arctic Expeditions, and we were so much struck at the small expenditure of human life attending the prosecution of this appa rently hazardous enterprise, that we have extracted in a condensed form the following particulars:— From an accurate investigation of the deaths oc curring in the Metropolis they are in the proportion of one in forty ; but there is good reason for con cluding that the number is far greater, there being prodigious omissions in the records of burials. In Liverpool, in 1830, the proportion was nearly one in thirty-eight ; but, as its returns are liable to the same inaccuracies as in London, the number of deaths may fairly be computed as exceeding this ratio. In order, however, to be on the safe side, the average of the above is taken as one in forty. With these data a comparison is made of the actual mortality during a period of 13 years, from 1818 to 1833. comprising the expedi'ions of Ross, Parry Franklin, Lyon, and Weddell. The first expedition of Ross was in 1818. He was absent seven months, with the ships Isabella, having 57 men, and Alexander, having 37 men. Out of these 94 men not an officer or man was even sick. The last expedition of Ross sailed in 1829, in the Victory, with 23 men, and returned (without the ship) in 1833, having been absent no less a period than four years and a half, during which time they suffered the most terrible hardships and privations, almost even to starving. Of this number three only died, aid two of these were cut off early in the voyage by diseases not peculiar to the climate. The first expedition of Parry sailed in 1819, and returned in 1820. It consisted of the Hecla, with 58 men, and the Griper, with 36. During an ab sence of two years only one man died out of the above 94, and his lungs were diseased before he embarked. Parry's second expedition sailed in 1821, and re. turned in 1823. It consisted of the Hecla, with sixty men, and the Fury, with fifty-eight. After an absence of three years, five men only died out of 118. OF these five one %,as killed by accident, one died of consumption, one from pulmonary affection, increased by intemperate habits, and one would not take proper medicines. The third exp e di t i on o f P arry wa s a b sent two y ea rs, having sailed in 1824, an d returne d in 1825. It consisted again of th e H ec l a an d F ury; t h e former with si xty-two men, and the latter with sixty. Out of these 122 only one death Occurred, and that was hastened by an accident. Parry's fourth exhibition was about seven months dur . ng the year 1827. It consisted of the Hecla and her boats, with 62 men. One death only oc curred, to a man who had been in all Parry's pre vious peditiaqk F expedition is not spoken of with tha ,/e6racyfiirllictk yistinguishes the notice of the fotegoing, the actual - number of followers not being stated. Indeed, from the constant variation in the number, according to circumstances, it is scarcely possible to come at tile exact truth. The number V%.i 4 , 11 , 4 z . 1,1 1 / 4\ is, 'however, computed at twenty, Ot whom four died, two of them from gun-shot wounds. The expedition of Lyon was absent five months, in 1825. It consisted of the Griper, with forty-one men. Not a single death occurred, although the vessel was exposed to dreadful weather, and the crew suffered considerably in consequence. The expedition of \Veddel is the last noticed. This consisted of the Jane, a brig of 160 tons, with a crew of 22 men, and the Beaufoy, a cutter of 65 tons, with a crew of 13 men. It sailed in 1822 and returned in 1823, having been absent nearly two years. During this time one man only died, and he had been for many years in a consumption. tion. The following is the general result of the foregoing nine expeditions. The number of vessels employed has been 14, the number of men 609, and the whole period of their several absences seventeen years and one month, which amounts to the same thing as 10,403 men had been absent one year, and at the average rate of mortality assumed above, namely, 1 in 40, 26 deaths should have occurred, whereas we find that only 16 did actually occur, nine of which were from causes or disorders wholly uncon nected with the climate or expedition, while seven only can be said to have been occasioned by the ex pedition. The ribbon trade of Coventry is at present in a very unsatisfactory condition ; and a number of workmen, dissatisfied with a proposed reduction of prices, have resolved to stand out and join the Trades' Union. NORTHALLERTON.--A vacancy is likely speedily to arise in the representation of this borough.-- Leeds Mercury. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, DEC. 24. —To-day the sales are reported at 2,000 bags. Price• have a tendency to advance. A MIS-FIT.— An announcement with which the overseer of Cirencester favoured an admiring public on Wednesday week, in a handbill headed with the porten tous werds, "prisoner escaped," under which attractive heading it was impossible that the following notes bene could escape the eyes of those who are " nothing if not critical." As he escaped naked, it is probable that the clothes he now wears may not fit him well !! !—Chelten ham Chronicle. EDINBURGH AND ITS DEPENDENCIES IN 1833.—Edinburgh has neither shipping, commerce, nor manufactures, with the single exception ofshawl weaving, for which she is unrivalled. Population, 187,000; 1 palace ; 1 university; 2 theatres ; 1,084 squares, streets, crescents, places, closes, &c. ; 60 churches, chapels, &c. ; 14 banks; 48 fire and life insurance companies, and agents for ditto ; 354 public buildings, offices, institu tions, societies of various kinds ; 122 mail and stage coaches arrive and depart daily; 349 carriers (torn Edin burgh to various places; 7 London steam ships; 100 hackney coaches ; 216 advocates ; 600 writers to the signet; 340 solicitors and writers; 100 accountants; 300 physicians, surgeons, and dentists ; 80 chemists, druggists, and veterinary surgeons ; 560 teachers of various branches of education; 500 grocers; 470 spirit-dealers ; 170 taverns and eating-houses; 64 livery stables, including horse hirers and dealers ; 200 fleshers ; 270 bakers ; 350 tailors; 360 shoemakers; 150 house painters; 360 hooksellers, bookbinders, stationers, engravers ; 17 pawn brokers. It is not generally known, that about a month ago Montreal was visited by Miss Janette Taylor, niece of the celebrated Paul Jones. She came to this continent for the purpose of prosecuting her claims as heiress of the great property belonging to her uncle in the United States. Miss Taylor is daughter of Paul Jones's only sister, who married a Mr. Taylor, a watchmaker in Dum fries, Scotland. A friend of ours, an old Dumfresian, re members well its being a favourite play among the school boys of those days to besiege Mr. Taylor's house, and an noy him with singing a nursery rhyme about Paul Jones, which invariably was the precursor of a mile beat, and a sound drubbing to th• unfortunate wight who happened to be csueht. Mrs. Taylor seemed rather to enjoy the joke, as she would often come to the door and laugh at the race. Miss Taylor was a short time ago en joying the hospitality of the Hon. Mr. Clark at Niagara, who, though an exile from "the " bonny winding Nith," is as clannish as a Gallovidian would desire. Miss Taylor is, in person, rather under the middle size, and inclined a little to en ton point. Her manners are agree able, and the bright twinkle of her dark eye bespeaks great energy and vivacity. We knnw not the nature of her claims, but as far as we could learn, they are very extensive and well authenticated ; but with the knowledge of the manner in which the claims of Sir John Johnson were set aside, our hopes are small of her being able to recover ber rights..—American Paper. ANECDOTE, BY CIIARLES LAMB.--I was once amused—there is a pleasure in affecting affectation —at the indignation of a crowd that was jostling in with me at the pit door of Coveot.garden Theatre, to have a sight of Master Betty—the❑ at once in his dawn and his meridian—in Hamlet. I had been invited, quite unexpectedly, to join a party, whom I met near the door of the play-house, and I happened to have in my hand a large octavo of Johnson and Steeven's Shakspeare, which, the time not admitting of my carry ing it home, of course went with me to the the•ttre. Just in the very heat and pressure of the doors open iug—the rush, as they term it—l deliberately held the volume over my head, open at the scene in which the young Bonito) had been most cried up, and quietly read by the lamp-light. The clamour became uni versal. " The affectation of the fellow," cried one " Look at that gentleman reading, papa," squeaked a young lady, who, in her admiration of the novelty, almost forgot her fears. I read on. "He ought to have his book knocked out of his hand," exclaimed a pursy cit, whose arms were too fast pinioned to his side to suffer him to execute his kind intention. Still I read on— and, till the time came to pay money, kept as un moved as Saint Anthony at his Holy Offices, with the satyrs, apes, and hobgoblins mopping and making mouths at him in the picture, while the good man sits as undisturbed at the sight, as if he were sole tenant of the &sett The individual rabble (I recognised more than one of their ugly faces) had damned a slight piece of mine but a few nights before, and I was determined the culprits should not a second time put me out of countenance. AMERICA.-UNITED STATES' SLAVERY. —We copy the following from a reported lecture delivered by a Mr. Geo. 'Thompson, in the Low Church, Paisley, on the evils of slavery as it exists in the United States of America. Without going all the lengths to which, in the lecture, be went, we cannot help thinking that there is too much of truth in a great portion of the sulpequent ex tract :—" He then adverted to another class of beings, amounting to three or four hundred thous idd, called free persons of colour, but who, though nominally free, were kept in a state of exclusion and degradation nearly as great as slaves. America boasted, and boasted loudly of their freedom, but their boasted freedom was all hypo critical pretences, for they are found daily to offer the utmost insults to liberty, at her very shrine. They are a nation of despots, a confederacy of despots. They lay claim, indeed, to the highest degree of liberty, even of taking their President by the nose; but their liberty is new to them, it does not sit easy on them, but rather like an ill-fitted coat ; they are continually talking about it, and looking at it, to find out where it pinches them. Fortunately, the very extent of this liberty imposes on it some restriction. They are all despots, nation ally and individually, which helps to prevent them treading on each others toes. But woe be to the free man of colour who dares to talk of liberty. He must be rigorously excluded, and what is his crime ? Murder ? No. Theft ?—No. Loss of character ? No. Infamy of any kind ?—No. But he is de scended from a negro. If liberty is to be thus used, it is a curse, and not a blessing. Free men of colour indeed ! in what did their freedom consist ? Was he permitted to sit on Juries?—No. To ♦ote for a Re presentative ?—No. To hold property ?—No. To ride in the same coach with a white man ? No. To sit in the same theatre or lecture room ?—No. To dine at the same table ?—No. To sit in the same pew ?—No. To approach the same communion table?—No. To become a lawyer?—No. A teacher ?—No. A surgeon ?—.No, To work in the same saw-pit with a white man ?—No. O❑ the same shop-be rd with a white tailor ?—No. To eat with him? No. Plink with him?—No. To be buried in the same grave yard with him ?—No. To go to heaven with him ? Ask him who reigns there...—Paisley Advertiser. PORTUGAL. (From a Morning Paper.) LISION, DEC. 18.—On Sunday, the 15th instant, addressed you per Pembroke steamer, bound to Oporto and Bristol, annexing a copy of the second protest of the nine Peers, till then existing only in manuscript, and rather difficult to be procured. It having been presented since the Emperor's return from the army, one of the Noble Dukes who signed it politely favoured me with a copy thereof, which he did not conceive himself at liberty to do before. I had, however, obtained one through another channel, but fear that the possible detention of the Pembroke at Oporto, and the circumstance of her being bound to an out-of-the-way outport, may occasion a delay in your receiving it before the annexed printed copy in the Chronica of yesterday, containing likewise the answer the Regent returned to the Duke of Terceira through the medium of the Minister of the Interior. The fair and dignified way in which the question is treated, has caused as much general satisfaction as the publicity given to it forthwith has prove d t h e strengt h and confi dence of the Government. Nut wishing to detain you any longer about the scramble for power and office, I proceed to the more in ter,sting point of military operations. The long wished for rainy season is about to set in now. The weather, which was hitherto as genial and beautiful as in May in England, has become drissling and moist these two days, and if the rains set in in good earnest, the Miguelite army will be obliged to move from its strong position at Santarem, and whether to advance or retreat, it must beat, or at least attack—Saldanha's army; in which case you need not fear the result, notwithstanding its nume rical superiority. I estimate the latter at 10,000 efficient men under arms, and the Miguelites at 13,000 or 14,000, for the hangers on are not to be counted. The 11Ii guelites are much distressed for provisions and forage. Their cavalry, which is computed at 2,000 to 2,500 men and horses having received but one day's rations in six, and cannot therefore be very effective and mettlesome. The Constitutional cavalry brigade consists of 560 Lancers, 500 horse of the 11th regiment, and 300 of the 10'h; those at the depots in Lisbon Ido not reckon. forces of both belligerents have been ridiculously over rated. Thus, when one of your Lisbon Corres pondents tells you, the 20th or 23d November, that the foreign force of the Constitutional army will amount in a fortnight from the date of his letter to 8,000 men, I must beg leave to undeceive you, by the a'surance that up to this day half that number is considerably above the mark. There are a great many recruits in Lisbon (the Lancers, for instance, have 34 horses and nine teen in the depot here), but they are nor yet clothed, armed, or completely drilled ; all which requisites the Emperor has this day ordered to be accelerated. Captain Wyat arrived last night with a detachment of 167 British invalids and bad characters from the army, who are lodged in the tower of St. Julien, until they can be shipped home, as every corps is careful y weeded. Yet such is the moral supe riority of the Constitutionalists, that they go into battle with confidence of victory, and their more numerous antagoni.ts generally in the anticipation of a defeat. The number of deserters from the enemy you will perceive from the Chronica to be considerable. The Infantas have been sent into Alemtejo, but Miguel continues at Santarem, where 'Major Mitchel, and other staff officers, approaching the place without swords, saw him two days ago on the bridge. Yesterday we had a report of the Queen of Spain's troops, estimated at 6,000 men, having pursued some Carlist bands over the Portuguese frontier as far as Cas tello Branca, in B-ira, and Marvdo and Portalegro, in Alemtejo (the Portus Alaur of the Romans), which must have proved a port of sadness to the Migueliree, the Spa niards having proclaimed Donna Maria there. General Morillo was likewise said to move upon Braganfee, in the north of Tras-0,-Montee. I hope there is better foundation for it than there proved to be for the alleged mutiny and arrest of several grandees at Santarem, which was likewise adopted by the Chronica. - - Sr. Übes, and the high position of Palmella, in Alem tejo, are well garrisoned and fortified, and have nothing to fear. The situation of affairs in Alg ayes, though not so brilliant as might be wished, gives no uneasiness here, the garrisons in that province being for the present per fectly safe and supplied by sea. The check lately sustained by the Constitutionalists at Alcacer seems to have been exaggerated in England, and to have caused unnecessary apprehensions, the Miguelites having never attempted to improve it since by iurther aggressions. In fact, Don Miguel had neither sunk so low as he was represented to have done, nor recovered so much as to have any chance to regain this capital, where his despotism is held in de testation by the middling classes—namely, the great bulk of the inhabitants. Saldanba, though he has no seat in the House of Lords, has been sought to be gained over by the protesting Peers, or the Duke of Palmella's party, against Cirvalho's Mi nistry, who boasted of his adhesion before the Emperor's last departure to the army. But a gentleman, who dined with the Marshal on Sunday, at his head-qnarters at Sin teira, assures me he observed, when the topic was brought upon the carpet in conversation, " That he had but one enemy to mind, who was at Santarem opposed to him (namely, Dan Miguel), and whom alone he was endea vouring to expel from the soil of his native country, without paying any attention to, or interfering with, other party squabbles ;" an answer worthy of the cha racter who made it. Admiral Napier, however, is a loud and clamourous supporter of the aristocratic opposition. The Ministry, though very grateful for his transcendant merits in the salvation of Portugal, complain (I know not whether rightly or wrongly) of his frequent interfe rence in matters not connected with his department, in which they allege he spends more money than the re sources of Portugal can well afford, the navy being paid according to the regulations of the British Marine, and he having received ninety contos, or millions of rees, without rendering any account of the money, and demanding more. They also reproach him with keeping a number of ships idle in the Tagus, whilst the coast blockade is not strictly enforced, and a number of ships with full cargoes from the Brazils, Africa, and with warlike stores from England, arrive daily in the ports in Miguel's possession, which ought to be captured and brought into the Tagus, instead of annoying British ba calhao men (Newfoundland vessels) and traders in fruits, or attacking the island of Madeira, visi'ing the Cape de Verde islands, and the Portuguese settlements on the coast of Africa and India, for which climes the British Captains are said to have no relish. It would be a great pity if these bickerings were to occasion an open breach between the hero of the Cape of St. Vincent and the Queen's Go vernment; yet such an event is much dreaded by all the well-wishers of the cause of freedom in Portugal. The Ministry, it is sild, will be immediately strength ened by the accession of an individual whose name removes every fear of republicanising Portugal, or prejudicing British interests ; and a new Ambassador to England is to sail to-morrow evening, or ❑ext day, in the James Watt, steamer. The Marquis de Mortier, the new French Ambassador, having fallen ill at Paris, Monsieur de Lurde, the French Charge d'Affaires, not as usually styled the Charge d'Affaires, is obliged to remain till relieved. Sir Thomas Stubbs arrived last week from Oporto, and was most cordially received by the Emperor. The Mini ster of the Interior has since offered him a title, as a proof of the Qui en's Government's entire approbation of his valuable services. May his successor in the command of Oporto keep that interesting position with equal success ! Colonel Hare has been for some time %Nith the army, as a military observer, but not in the character of a nego tiator attributed to him. He is likely to have soon an opportunity of witnessing some engagement in the vici nity of Santarem, if the weather breaks up, as there is every appearance. General Macdonald is accused by our newspapers of drowning Ois cares in copious libations. But his account of the battles of the 10th and 11th Oc tober, seem to proceed from a strong pen, though some what inflated. The Bishop of Killaloe, at the request of the Government, will go to the See of Limerick. There is no material difference between the net incomes of the two Sees—none that could have made it an object to the Bishop of Killaloe to have made the exchange if it had not been an object both with the Government and the Bishop to co-operate in accelerating the operation of the Church Temporalities Act; for by vacating the See of that See and Clonfert become consolidated, the Bishop of Clonfert taking the title of Killaloe. The vacancy in the See of Limerick was one which it was competent to the Government to have filled up in the ordinary course by the introduction of a new Bishop. The public will not fail to appreciate as it deserves this evi dence of the spirit that actuates the Government. MATRIMONY WITHOUT A CLERGYMAN. —An advertisement in the Wakefield paper announces That Thomas Thornhill Clarkson, and Elizabeth Lomax Wilson, both of Wakefield, having taken each other in marriage (in the form used by the Society of Friends), on Sunday, the Sth inst., at Crown-court, Wakefield, before respectable and sufficient witnesses there assembled, who signed a certificate thereof, do, by advertisement, publish and &ochre the same,— Yorh Paper. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1833. The Paris papers of Tuesday have arrived Those in the interest of the Opposition state . that the difference between Marshal SOULT and the doctrinnaires of the Ministry continue, and hat the Marshal is anxious to introduce to office M. M. DUBIN, BERENGER, and PASSY. It iS said that General LAFAYETTE will be proposed by the Opposition for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, but with little prospect of success. The news from Spain in these papers reaches to the 14th inst. It is not important. General VALDEZ, who is said to be a candidate for a post in the Ministry, had arrived at Estella. Queen ISABELLA was proclaimed at Bilboa on the 15th inst. A letter from Bayonne, dated Dec. 20, states that M. PERIER, the Secretary of the French Embassy in Madrid, had arrived there on his way to Paris, after having been ar rested by the insurgents at Villa Franca, and plundered of all his despatches. The French Funds are steady. The following are the quotations of Tuesday : FRENCH FUNIA-PARIS, Du. 24, Five per Cents., 10:3f. 60c. SOc. Three per Cents., 74f. 95c. 90c. National Loan, 103 f. 60c. Rente de Naples, 90f 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 917:',. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 17%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 41. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 695. Belgian Loan, 101, Five per Cent., 96. Hay tian Loan, 2871. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, —c. Three months, paper, !25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 15c. —Cours Authentiaue. We have received by the packet from Lisbon accounts from that city to the 19th, and from Oporto to the 21st inst. The only news of in terest is that of the entry of two Spanish for ces into Portugal, one of them under General MoRILLO, to the amount, as it is said, of between 5,000 and 6,000 men, in search of Don CARLOS ; but the news rests for the present only on the authority of some travellers who had arrived in Lisbon. One of these divisions is stated to have entered Portugal on the 12th inst. It is singular, however, that no notice whatever is taken of the entry of the force under RODIL, which was reported in the French Papers to have taken place several days pre viously. We must still doubt the fact of the second entry, not for its improbability, but for the want of authentic information respecting it. The assertion of the Lisbon Chronica that it has been communicated by persons worthy of credit, does not add much weight to it ; for the Chronica, although professedly an official organ, is not very particular as to its announcements. The Por tuguese Constitutionalists consider the violation of the Portuguese territory in pursuit of Don CARLOS a very desirable event. This is, in our opinion, exceedingly absurd. The Spanish Go vernment, although not in hostility with the Government of Don PEDRO, has not yet for mally acknowledged even the accession of his daughter, and we think M. ZEA BERMUDEZ has as little good will towards Don PEDRO as he has towards Don MIGUEL, who has put him self in open defiance of the Spanish Court by his protection of Don CARLOS. If Spain be permitted to violate the Portuguese territory, with a view to capture or drive out the Spanish Pretender, what security will there be for the Portuguese Constitutionalists, that when one object is attained, the Spanish Government will not attempt another equally importantlo it, as it is now constituted, viz., the establishment of a juste milieu system in Portugal ? If Spain be permitted to insult the Portuguese by an open disregard of the laws of nations on one point, will she hesitate at a repetition of the same conduct on another ? Will not the Queen of SPAIN, in her dread of the propagation of liberal principles in her own country, dictate such an arrangement between Don PEDRO and his brother as would amount, virtually, to the overthrow of the Portuguese Charter ? We are sure that the attempt will be made with the sanction of some of the great European Powers, and but too probably with the tacit consent of other Powers, which appear to be much more anxious for the settlement of the dispute be tween the two brothers on any terms, than for the establishment of a free constitution in Por tugal. There has been no movement of consequence between the Pedroite and Migueli►e armies, but it was thought that the commencement of the rainy season would compel the Miguelites to abandon Santarem, in which case they would probably be compelled to attack the army under SA LD A NH A. The Lisbon paper 0 Periodico dos Pobres of the 18th inst., contains the Protest of the Peers against the arrest of the Conde de TAIPA, and the answer of the Ministry, which, in the name of the Emperor, promises that when the Cortes meet, the Protest shall be brought under consideration. We perceive that in proportion to the really desperate state of their cause, the country sup porters of that surpassing humbug Mr. SAD LER, become more and more vociferous in the announcement of their confidence of success. The Leeds Intelligencer acknowledges that the requisition to Mr. BAINES to stand for Leeds has been signed by 1,300 electors, and that 400 more have promised him their support, and refers to the minority which supported Mr. SADLER at the last election as a guarantee of success against the liberal candidate. The same paper talks in a vague way of Mr. SADLER'S canvassing books at Huddersfield " presenting results most honourable to a majority of the electors," but carefully abstains from mentioning numbers. However Mr. SADLER'S friends may persuade him of his having two strings to his bow, we would advise him rather to think of another proverb relating to two stools. After the publication of the facts contained in the exposure of Mr. SADLER in our columns of Monday, the following sentence in the Leeds Intelligencer is amusing : " The electors have no notion of being, as the Com mittee's addre , os says, a second time made matter of BAR GAIN AND SALE.' No more Macaulays ; no more fol lowers of that paragon of Whig jobbery." It is certainly more than probable that Mr. SADLER was only humbugging poor Mr. FOSTER (Anglice, lied) when telling him his cock and a bull story about the letter he had received from the Duke of WELLINGTON, an nouncing his intended appointment to office under a new Ministry ; but whether it be true or not, it sufficiently proves Mr. SADLER'S willingness to do that which draws down from his partisans such unmeasured abuse on Mr- MACAULAY. Whatever else may be said upon the question of Mr. MACAULAY'S ap pointment to the situation of fourth councillor in India, it is certainly a compliment to the constituency of Leeds. They chose an able, clever man for their representative. The Go vernment recognize the soundness of their choice, and employ his talents in a situation of the highest responsibility and confidence. The Li berals of Leeds may regret the loss of a repre sentativeexwtrheome of c hildish follyodidthe h mhonour, but fr it he wou t l o d be the resolve never to have an able representative, because their last has found a wider sphere for the exertion of his abilities. Had Mr. SAD. LER been chosen representative of Leeds, and had the Duke of WELLINGTON made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, or Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland, and had Mr. FOSTER been appointed his Secretary, there would have been abundant room for surprise ; but still we should have said that the Duke did not pay Leeds an ill compliment in so distinguishing its represen tative. But however that may be, for Mr. SAD LER, the would-be Minister, or his friends, to taunt Mr. MACAULAY for going to India, is ludicrous in the extreme. Since the above was written, we have seen a second letter, addressed by Mr. FOSTER to the Morning Chronicle, in which that gentleman replies to the charges brought against him by the Leeds Intelligencer, in a way to bring home HAMBURG PAPERS. HAMBURG, DEC. 20.-13oasEN HALLE, HALF•TAST Two, p M.—ln Wheat, again, little has been done this week, our consumers buying nothing, and speculators very sparingly. Rye, Barley, and Oats, continue heavy. For Pease the demand continues. From the 7th to the 13th inst., only one cargo of corn, bound for Copenhagen, rimed through the &mind. Wheat, Anhalt, white --red 78 to 85 - Marks SO to 84 - Mecklenburg Holstein Lower Elbe 60 to 70 Rye, Upland 59 to 62 -- Mecklenburgh 54 to 57 Holstein Barley, Anhalt 5O to 52 Mecklenburgh. 36 to 46 Lower Elbe 3O to 38 Oats, Mecklenburg Lower Elbe 2O to 26 Malt, Pomeranian 36 to 38 Pease, Upland, yellow Beans 4O to 43 The following table shows the quantity of Grain im. ported and exported during the week : Lasts Imported. Lasts Exported. Wheat 399 Rye 62 Barley Oats 93 Pease Beans l 3 Tares 0 Rapeseed ll FUNDS.—Although since Tuesday purchases to some extent have been made, prices continue depressed. To day the market was again heavy towards the close. Discount 4 per Cent. End of December. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent Anglo-Russian Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1821 924 Ditto, ditto, 1831 9lli Ditto, ditto, 1832 Certificates 92 Polish Bonds 12 23 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1225 Ditto Metal liques 9 5 1, Ditto 4 per Cent..... Sr - - -- ,panish 3 per Cents. 37}, Ditto 4 per Cent 45% Dutch 1. 2 per Cents. i-l 4 Ditto 5 per Cents 9IN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAnntqw, Dec 20.-13 7 ; two months, 13 6. STOCKHOLM. DEC 6.—seventy-five days, 13. PETEKSBORGN, DEC. 6.-10%. PRICKS OF ,TO , 'KS THIS DAY AT ON ti'cr.orK. Bank Strut 3 per ( ent. Red. 8l 87 India Stock — 3 ier Cent. Cons. 3'4 per Cent. — South Sea Stock — Ditto Rol 97% %334 ; Old Annuities 67!,:i gewl3}4 per Cent. 3 rer Cent Ann. 17D3 ... I:3 r Cent. Ann. 1751 ... I per Cent. 1 R2n Rink Long Ann. to expire I Ditto ......5(30 45 46 :an. Jan. 5, 15130 l7 1-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1850 — ' Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, Ism — i Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, IF3SO , Bank for Account April 5, 1880 ;lndia for Account —Cont Jan. 5, IS7O Tons , r Account ...90 ss% 90 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 97 Belgian Bonds 9571 6!4 Ditto Account 96 Brazilian Bonds 67 Ditto Account 67 Ruenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account i!4 Milian Bonds — Ditto Account .1;4 Colombian Bonds l9'4 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1924 9314 Ditto Account '23 4 Danish Bon i 7 2 104 Ditto Account 721 4reck Bonds — Ditto Bonds, i 825 Ditto Account — '4cxican Bonds, 5 per cent 294 Ditto Account — --------------- Lyn, , 6 per cent IS Ditto Account 38% 7% S Neapolitan B9 Tills DAY AT ONK 0 CLUCK !Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account h7 I Ditto New Bonds 583,4 Ditto Acconnt 56% "Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO3 'Russian Bonds, 1822 IO4 _... . .... Ditto Account Ditto 111 'Spanish Bonds, 1821 0 314 Dittr, Ace. Ditto Bonds, 1823 .........201i Ditto Account :French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. Exchange —f —c. ner cent. —f —c . I Exchange . —c :Dutch, 2i p. c 5Ol 1 Ditto Account Ditto, 5 p c Ditto Account 95 Fr.2nch Scrip 45,; pm. PRICES OF SHARKS THIS DAT AT ONE O . CLOCY. Paid. Per Share Alten Mining Company £7 7%. Anal° Mex. Min. .o. (Ist. at 31. pm IXIOO 8 Rolanos Mining Company £l5O 14214 Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £26 62 Ditto National 22% r 27 Ditto St. John Del Rey . lO 6% Ditto Cocaes 5 1% Cata Branca Mining Company 314 54 Ltritisli Iron Minim , Company £so 29N Columbian Mining, Co. 'its at 5/. pm.) 5134 214 English Mining Company 1214 25 1 4 ireneral Mining Association Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 4 Mexican Mining Co. £4B 11% Real dcl Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) 54 rifted Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. Dm.) 40 12 11 1 4 Ditto New Scrip 5 14 1 ( Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. lO 1114 Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co Canada Company l7 48 Gene! al Steam Nav I Ration Co. in r 124 National Provincial Bank of England 3 414 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 23 59% IA PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 23. Bank Stock Consols, 3 ner cent Gov. Stock, 3K, per cent. 95% , National Ditto... ......... Ditto, New 95% Patriotic Ditto — 4 per Cent —'Hibernian Bank :;ov. Deb. 3ti; percent.... 88% ;Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent. Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4n. c. Commercial Buildings — Arrived. Due. (Arrived. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 2 Dublin 0 1 Flanders 0 1 France 0 1 Guernsey&Jersev 1 Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 0 Leeward Islands 1 Lisbon 0 O Malta ....... ......... I Sweden 2 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...50 minutes after 2.1 Everung...ss minutes after 2. 1 7 ' fi • 3 , f - `7, iiA k conviction to the mind of e ve r y one w h o read/ . i I SASSIN it, that Mr. SADLER'S career, as a public ina n f !tie Geri is run. Mr. F OS T E R not only triumpliantiii"ogcontain' establishes his own case, but makes good el .f thi s myst charge that he has brought against the would.bv Isz ttitEMßUl Member for Huddersfield. In fact, he make/ i ',, ll lier as fa eaccounts Mr. SADLER'S own letters minister to 1 11 r. SADLER'S own condemnation. It is c l ear tho ,th tehuser , strait with very imperfect requisites f or th e c h arac ter' :e c( ;cant chnt to c( this gentleman has been playing the game of ti ' t hee G,I IA Mach iavel. He has been curst with an am bition l aUser, brea ! t ernunicat 1 beyond his powers ; what wonder then that such " Vaulting ambition hes o'erlesped itself, t orn of his And fall'a to the other side ?" ted expre ______....—..._____ 44,- - We have received Brussels Papers to the 24th inst. They state on the authority of letters from the Hague that several couriers had arrived there:recently from St. Petersburgh witf despatches for the Dutch Cabinet. All thest couriers speak of the extensive preparation making by Russia in the ports of the Black So, 'ards the T. The ti conveye garden, ttaining a disguis i Ngh w h t y ' 4 user the t c "er ollnds on t I l t Wo-edged k t oed and v ge heart. Frankfort Papers to the 20th instant arrive(' this morning. They contain the following article from Smyrna : 1 SMYRNA, Nov. 16.—The number of European shipg ' stationed on our seas are increased ever ay. Sir Pulteney:Alalcolln sailed hence yesterday for where the greater part of his squadron is assetnb where li t he will receive the reinforceritent front England. The' -British Admiral wt t that ~, At ten o'cl very pe part until he - ' receives fresh ' ins fro , - lt t h_ c , . his Government, which he expects next y tilt c oessior llther, and Salamander steam-packet. The British fr Madd . ; it % l ich at ai v ri o v u ed ria. here T t) e ur F d r a e y n s ch ago b , ri i g s g E on ni e u t i o at j i o o t ol ls ti - the Grand g th a rZlin w ira h at rived here from Toulon on the 12th. The Grenouillo juoeicalHenad_t sailed yesterday, wi h despatches for Admiral Hugon. It t , iin an a „ 0 : Two Austrian vessels set sail for Venice in October; 4 t h, ‘ g neig r bi one of them, the Hydra, belonging to the division in the ' ICI the it in th the resen' 1.,v int, under the command of Admiral Dandolo, has been k P . ,, icem, replace Iby the Carolina. All is quiet for the present ,f `" '' th P e prose( in Candia ; Alehernet Ali is too powerful. It if Sarah Do thought, however, that this state of things cannot last long, Court sei 'h4Hous u e r o y l and that Mehemet himself, seeing the impossibility of establishing a monopoly in Crete, as he has done in Eqpt, and as he may do perhaps in Syria, will give up T he the Ti a possession which can only be injurious to him. It ie I the value said that the regiment last arrived, of 3 2)0 men, will re.. '6. lieve the Albanian troops in their cantonments. The Egyptian Admiral, ditnan Pacha, is still off Suda, with two ship. I.; +he clerk "tester-sou of the line of 100 guns, one of 84, and a frigate of 60. As t , th th _ .., An Egyptian sloop of war was lost in a storm off our coast pi th the ' na, a fortnight ago, with all the crew, 25 in number. alt with a bit's to roak 4 old silv e t "') . of the i "to custody ?olicemar I ttainly sta s poon, as it g The prim I,l lvoman i rto years. , t kitchen ' l L in; she her i jkovered el ' d ing so brc Air. Will The Can 41 told the t ied to the The Jury FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. t ; l.ttrlh it :h tch h e :e r e lV i ß c d s o il m r t°lt e ; 4 d Was gut " 11 not fret !;,! 1 , that b 'his move( I t ith some " t said, t t ,/le money was prt s Pening a ' ' , tiring bit by man at !% tongue, kn is vai t4 Other po ~eoeet-1 e Ye rich me l 'Pon you, 1 4 ently de ,hen the 1 t audien, 'PPlieant * otild be gettin g up DEPARTURES. The Duke of Bedford, from Be!grave-square, for %Voburrl Abbey ; Lord Claude Hamilton, from Argyll House, for ditto; Major-General Sir Patrick Ross, for Bath; Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, from Burlington Gardens, for Latimer/► Bucks ; Sir Henry Campbell, from Richmond, for Bath ; Vis count Ashbrook, from Beaumont Lodge, near Windsor, for Brighton ; the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, and family, from Alton Towers, for ditto; Lord Kinnaird, from the Albany, on a tour; Lord Hotham, for South Dalton Hall, near Beverley; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fulke Greville Howard, from Grosvenor square, for Elford, near Lichfield; Sir Charles and Lady Egerton, from Albemarle.street, from Brighton ; Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., for ditto; the Duke of Norfolk, from St. James's-square, for Arundel Castle. CHELTENHAM. ARRIVALS.—Lord Howth, Lady Beauchamp, Lady Walsh, Colonel Thomas, Colonel Eyre, Major Wallis, Dean of Clonmacnoise, Rev. Mr. Trooke, Rev. Mr. Byron, Rev. Mr. Harvey, Rev. G. Bonner, Captain Bradbury, Captain Robert son, Captain and Mrs. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Harlow, Mr. and Mrs. Shipton, Mr. and Mrs. Burrows, Mr. and Mrs. Ireland, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Wilkinson, Mr. Redington, Mr. Grimshaw, Mr. S. Bateman, Mr. Morris; Mr. Penrice, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Longman, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Cavendish, Mr. Burleigh, Mr. Ryall, Mr. Sayes, Mr. Pounsett and son, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Thynne Gwynne, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Colchester, Mr. Davis, Mr. Rusby, Mr. Craw ford, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Galliers, Mr. Parker, Mr. Reveley, Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Beddington, Mr. W. Holland, Mr. Ham mond, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risington, Mr. G. Fenwick, Mr. Huntley, Mr. Evans, Mr. Cheston, Mr. Pyrton, Mrs. Mannock, Mrs. Hodson, Mrs. Shew, Mrs. Hare, Mrs. Heaven, Mrs. Tearne, Mrs. Roper, Mrs. Sedgwick, Mrs. Scott, Miss Birtocb, Miss Itinollis, &c. &c. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have now the public opinion on the contents of that important document, the speech of the King of France s by the operations on the British Funds this morning, which are not so good as previous to its arrival. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left left off on Tuesday 90i for the Account, opened this morning at 90k, with little doing as yet. The express from Paris is not interesting, and of minor importance. The only thing worth noticing is the price of the French Funds, 74f. 90c. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing u yet, and the prices are much the same as on Tuesday. By the French mail thin morning, the inforraatiou from M idrid states, that the Council and the Ministers do not agree. The director of the Caisse Royal, M. Gargalle, has lent from his private purse a large sum to the Treasury, as likewise M. Piera, the two rich capitalists of Madrid, which has relieved the public credit in that capital. Th• critical situation of Catalonia at present occupies the at tention of the Ministry. Twenty-six battalions of volun teers are organizing in that province. The accounts from Paris state that the police were ac• quainted that a grand plot was to have taken place in that capital on Monday last at the opening of the Chambers. It is called " The Plot of the Chevaliers of the Poignard." A journal of Lyons also gives a hint of their having information that serious movements were to have taken place both at Paris and Lyons on the 22d. Thus it appears that Louis Philip is not on a bed of roses. They also state from Paris that for several days past the ambassadors of the north have been continually on the alert. M. Pozzo di Borgo has left off visiting the English Ambassador, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. Couriers are continually arriving at the Russian Ambassador's, and others are despatched imme diately. Conferences with the Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors take place daily. A Lisbon mail has arrived this morning, sailed on the 19th inst., and from Oporto on the 20th. It does not bring any news of consequence; it only confirms the Spa nish General's entering Portugal to kidnap Don Carlos. HALF-PAST ONE. New Orleans papers to the 17th November have been received at the North and South American they do not contain any news. Letters are in town, dated October 1 1 th, from the United Mexican Company's mines. Previous to:the Corn. patsy's extinction of ithe insurgents, they had lost lay.them upwards of fifty thousand dollars, which the agents were applying to get restored. This mine is in great prosperity. The other Mexican mines had escaped such a contribution, and were yielding largely, and a great sum in dollars may soon be expected. The defeat of the insurgents will re• establish order in the country, and place the Government on a firm footing. • The letters from Lisbon give an account of a sortie made from Oporto on the 11th inst., in which Don Pedro lost one of his best Colonels. The Consul Market is not so good as in the early part , of the morning, having receded from 901 to 89i for the Account ; little doing. Money is again plentiful, owing, it is said, to the Bank issuing two millions. The Foreign Market is inactive, prices much the same as on Tuesday. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 89k. The storm on Monday was most severely felt in the rcighbourhood of Pancras road, Battle bridge, &c. In consequence of the rain draining from Highgate and Hampstead into the Feet ditch, it oyetflowed, and the roa is about Camden Town and Bagnigge-wells were for several hours impassable for foot passengers, being nearly three feet deep of water. Many of the inhabitants, parti cularly the publicans, have been great sufferers by the water getting into the cellars and lower parts of the houses. T e landlord of the Elephant and Castle, Camden Town, had the whole of his Christmas stock in the cellars com pletely destroral, and several others in the neighbourhood had pigs and fowls drowned. The road on the following morning presented a curious appearance, the mud in niany places being nearly a foot deep. STMI/ More FICA: