The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-19 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS OF TUESDAY. " The Memorial Bordelais of the 14th inst. contains the following letter from Bayonne dated the 12th inst. : A French courier has just arrived from Madrid, who did not meet with any band of insurgents on the cold. It appears, in fa ct, that Merino's band has dispersed ; and some persons say that this has be-n done by his own order, which shows that he conceives that the other bands are quite sufficient to keep the Queen's troops in cheat during the winter, so that his operation.' may be recommenced in the spring. The Carlists are still at lnrunda, which they have now made their head quarters. No decisive attack upon them is in preparation. Neither at Irun nor Tolosa has anything new occurred. Since the attitude assumed by Ahescuanos against the insurgents, they have not ven tured upon any attempt. The imperious demands made by the Carlists for rations and clothing have irritated the inhabitants of the valley. They not only concede nothing willingly, hut even show a disposition to fire upon them if they should be too urgent.' Letters from Madrid inti mate, that the Count de Colntniai, the Ambassador at Paris, who is the brother of M. Zea, is about La be re. placed by the Count de Parsent. " The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 15th instant, received by express, has the following :—` Extract of a letter from Bayonne, d ,ted the 13th :—You already know that a great number of the insurgents have returned to their homes. The rest have taken refuge in Navarre. It is believed that these fugitives have determined to make a stand in the environs of Salvatierra, in the valley of the Bo' unde. The Queen's troops are enraged dt not having been able to come to a serious trial of strength with their enemies.' An extraordinary courier, from the English Ambassador at Madrid, arrived here yesterday. He left the capital on the night of the Bth, when everything re mained quiet, except some demonstrations of discontent at seeing M. Zea still in power. However, letters brought by this courier to a commercial house here, state his dis missal was hourly expected, and that his successor is not to he the Duke de San Fernando, but Pizaro, who was in the Cabinet a few years before the Constitution.' " A letter front St. Sebastian, dated the I I th, says— • According to a letter from the bead-quarters of the Count de Caro , agena, it appears certain that Don Carlos had entered Spain with about 200 men, but was imme diately pairsued by the Count, and forced to retire again into Portugal, which he effected with about 30 followers, the rest having been dispersed.' " The Augsburg Gazette of the 13th instant contains the following extract of a private letter from Naples, dated the 28th ult. :--- 4 The grippe at last prevails here, and we way say that there is not a family in Naples that has not one or more of its members affected by it. In many in. stances the complaint is mortal. Last week it carried off 200 persons in the quarter of Pendino alone.' " A letter of the sth inst. from Vienna, states that the Emperor Francis is in a very unfavourable state of health, and suggests that if he should become worse, it is very pr'•bable that the meeting of the Congress at Vienna will be deferred to a later period. '" The Corsican Committee for raising a monument to the memory of Napoleon in Ajaccio, his native city, have requested Marshal the Duke de Treviso, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, to form another committee at Paris, and take upon himself the office of President. The Marshal immediately laid the application before the King, who not only authorized the formation of this central committee, but further sanctioned its object by desiring that his name might be placed at the head of the sub.- scribers. " The Gazette of the Two Sicilies, of the 30th ult., announces that for some days previous loud reports, accompanied by shocks, had been heard at Vesuvius. A thick smoke, some flames, and a great quantity of cinders, issuing from the crater, seemed to forbade an Cat ly eruption. "I.. ,, tters of a recent date fiona Oran relate a horrible, event that has occurred in the neighbourhood of that town. Seven or eight French officers having gone out on a spor ting excursion, four of them did rot return. Gen. Desmicliels having sent out, on November 14, a part of the garrison in search of them, t'ney found, at a short dis tance from the town, their frAir bodies laid in a row, with their heads cut off and horribly mutilated. " The Nuremberg Correspondent states that the ob ject of Marshal Maison's mission is to obtain the con currence of the King of Prussia in soliciting the Em poror of Russia to permit the removal to America of the Poles rho have been sent to Siberia, at the same time that those who have taken refuge in divers states - see a,ootteli 1,1 1,161.11/IcILCUrC3 sense to the Council of Commerce upon the question of cast iron, as it recommends that the present duties should be maintained. It also recommends the continuance of the present duty on coals, but has voted for the ex emption from duty of such coals as are used in steam navigation, and 'wishes for the abolition of duties on navigation in the interior of the country. The Council of Apiculture has also voted for the maintenance of the coal duties,. FRENCH FUNDS.-Paais, DEC. 16. Five per Cents., 104 f. 103 f. 93e. 85c. Four and a Half per Cents., 99f. 90 , :. Four per Cents., 90f. 4('c. Three per Cents., 751 20e. sc. 15c. :National Loan, 103 K SOc. Rente de Naples, 91f. 40c. 60c. 30c. Boman Five per Cents., 93 92% 92. Ilente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 42% 41% 42. Royal Spanish Loan, 88 87%%. Recite Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 39%. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 35 c . ; money, 2 5f. 35c. 'Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 20c. -Cours Authentique. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, DEC. 17. Five per Cents., 103 f. 80c. 75c. Three per Cents., 75f. 74f. 95c. National Loan, 103 f. 65c. Bank Actions, 1745 f. 1,740 f. Rente de Naples, 91f. 20c. 10c. 20c. Boman Five per Cents., 92 9114 Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18.' Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 41% Royal Spanish Loan, 87N 87 86%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 70% 70 69%, Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. Ons month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, -f. -c. Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 15c. -Count Authentique. without any diplomatic character, the King being delft, mined not to waver from the solemn protest he made. IN told the envoy that he should always be happy to receive him as Marquis de Bassecourt, but the Ambassador of Chris dal should never have access to him, VIENNA, DEC. 6.--Tran4uillity continues to prevail in Greece, and trade is becoming brisk; considerable orders ba've been received at Trieste from Greek houses. the post communication with Nauplia, which the Greek Government has established by regular packet boats is of great benefit to commerce, and may serve to render Greece the entrepot for the trade between the Mediterranean and the East. The Greek Regency has done wonders during its short administration, and deserves the thanks not of Greece alone, but of all commercial na tions. The cultivation of the soil is nOw the nbjett of its attention, and the happiest results are anticipated. TRIESTE, DEC. 2.—The news from Greece continues good. Colocotroors son has been arrested. The change of Ministry appears to have exercised a favourable influ ence. The conspiracy at Napoli and the disturbances at Tinos have had the good effect of bringing rivet* to the regency all men of strt ng character who Were before ad verse to it on various grounds. both the King and the Regency deserve this. There was nothing in the conduct of either to antbarFse the plot so happily discovered. The King loves his new people with enthusiasm, and the Regency has proved, by all its actions, that it is d e sirou s of the public good." AUSTRIAN FUNDS, Dec. 6. Dec. 7. Five per Cents 94 3-16 94 9-32. Four per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgemeke Zeitung, Dec. 13, GERMAN PAPERS. Iti , mr, Nov. 30..—0ne event has occurred here which has produced a powerful sensation. A person gave notice to the Government that a conspiracy was on foot, and demamied a certain reward for the discovery of the same, which, together with a full pardon, was promised to him. lie directed the police to go to the palace of Prince Erco lani, in Bologna, whose wife is the daughter if Lucien Bonaparte, where they would find a quantity of arms in a reccss, the entrance to which was behind a certain picture. The alarm of the family may be imagined, at seeing the police arrive at night and search every part of the mansion. Every picture was immediately removed from the walls, but no arms were found. The informer was given over to justice, and has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Some sup pose that he has been himself deceived. In consequence of this the Government has resolved to establish a Special Court of Justice, to judge all political offences. The papal army has suffered a severe loss in Colonel Lazzarini. In consequence of neglect of duty, a courtmartial has sen • tenced him to he degraded from his rank, but to retain his full pay. The affliction caused by this sentence put an end to his life yesterday. According to report, the papal army is about to be newly organized. It will in future consist of four brigades, which will be commanded by four Generals. VIENNA, DEC. 4.—To-morrow there will be a grand reception of the nobles by the Empress. M. Celto, the Bavarian Ambassador, has visited Prince Metternich, and the diplomatic corps, and to-morrow he will present his credentials to the Emperor. DEC. 7.—The British Ambassador, Sir F. Lamb, has returned here from Milan. An English courier has arrived from London. His despatches, it seems, relate to the affairs of Holland and Belgium. The Hungarian Chamber is constantly occupied with the agricultural interests. A deputation will shortly arrive at Vienna to lay before a e Government the result of its deliberations. In and around Presburg several persons have been robbed within these few da) e. The authorities have ordered the severest vigilance on the part of the police, and many suspicious individuals have been arrested. NAN-Es, Nov. 2 8.—Our artillery mancouvres are ended, but the troops are still being exercised, going through their evolutions twice every week in the Champ de Mars, The King a few days ago gave a banqu e t to several regiments in the open field, partook of it himself, and expressed his satisfaction with the spirit of the troops, their discipline, and attachment to his person, in the most flattering toms. The privilege of the Steam-packet Company of the Two Sicilies ends next year; we hear it will ❑ot be renewed. The Government has two steam-vessels now building i n England, which are intended for regular communicatio n MI ith the coast of Calabria and Sicily. On the Ist Ja nuary, 1834, two newly-built steam-vessels, of a hun dred-horse power, with machines made in Glasgow, will ply three times a month between Bircelona, Genoa, and Naples. The Marquis de Bassecourt has received his credentials from the Queen Regent, but remains here i LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1833. Three days Paris Papers have arrived. They contain little news of interest, however, except from Spain, which is, to use an American phrase, " important if true."_, It is stated in a letter from _Madrid that Don CARLOS, after having entered Spain at the head of 200 men, and being driven back to Portugal, was pursued by General Roptr. as far as the tow❑ of Mi randa, from which he fled to Chaves, where the Miguelites were in force to protect him. We are told that the Spanish Government not only approved of this violation of the Portuguese territory, but had also announced its attention of sending such a force into Portugal as would secure the capture of Don CARLOS, or compel him to fly by sea. If this be true, the Spaniards are not great sticklers for the respect due to territorial limits as regards other states, however jealous they may be of an infringement of their own. Don PEDRO, well aware that the pursuit of CARLOS in Portugal by the Spanish Govern ment would be beneficial to him as regards his contest with Miguelites, may not protest against this violation of territory—he may even have invited it ; but it would be a bad precedent, and would probably make PEDRo unpopular with his own party, for the natural hatred of Spaniards by the Portuguese is extreme. We are assured in letters from Madrid of the Bth inst., that the road from Madrid to Bay onne is now quite open, and the band of MERINO was supposed to have dispersed. Th e Car/Ist bands in other parts of Spain, are said to have dwindled away to an extent which has removed all anxiety from the Government, and nothing is wanting but a change of Ministry to secure the stability of the QUEEN'S Govern -,1 ment. We are glad to find that the success of t he QUEEN'S troops in putting down the rebel lion, is not likely to be serviceable to M. ZEA, and the partisans of ajuste milieu system in Spain. The Constitutionalists, without whose aid the QUEEN could not hare maintained herself against the Carlists ; are resolved to gather the fruit of their exertions ; and therefore demand the dis missal of ZEA. the QUEEN seems to be aware of the necessity of his retirement, and either the Duke of SAN FERNANDO, or PIZARRO, who was in office some years ago, is likely to be made Prime Minister, 1 U°, however, is said to be only ft cat's-paw of ZEA, put forward to pre vent the accession of the Duke of SAN FER NANDO, whose weight and influence would enable him to establish a Constitutional system on so firm a basis as to defy the attacks of the juste milieu. SAN FERNANDO him self is not exactly the man whom the Con stitutionalists would choose, if they could have their own way entirely ; but it would be a great step towards liberalism to displace ZEA. The French Funds maintain their late rise. This is a pretty sure indication that there is not much alarm in Paris as to the warlike prepara tions of Russia. Indeed, were war with Russia to be declared to-morrow, we do not think the funds would be materially affected, provided the British and French Governments should go hand in hand in the contest. The accounts from Lisbon in the Morning Papers add little to what we gave yesterday in our city article. Private letters state that a great deal of intrigue is going on in the Portu guese capital, and that a change of Ministers may be expected. The partisans of the Duke of PALMELLA are increasing in number and influ ence. Don PEDRO is said to be rather unpopular; but whatever may be his views as to the Regency, it is admitted that he is doing all in his power to ameliorate the conditions of the people, and to introduce civilization among the lower orders. He has ordered the creation of public schools, and for the purpose of providing the artisans with employment, has made material improve ments in the Palace of the Necessidades, which he wishes to purchase from the State. He has ordered the building of a hospital for the recep tion of wounded and aged soldiers, on the model of the Hotel des Invalides at Paris. He has also given directions for the cleansing of the streets, as in the time of JUNOT. The health of the young QUEEN is stated, in opposition to the Tory accounts, to be very good, and, so far from being kept in a state of seclu sion, she dines every day with the REGENT, and her mother-in-law, and all the aides-de-camp who are in service. She is not only allowed, but urged by her father, to throw aside all the formal customs of previous reigns, and to mix freely with persons of her own age. It is only on state occasions that any ceremony is observed. The finances of the Government are said, like those of MIGUEL, to be in rather a low con ,INll42Re,, of the general officers have though the REGENT had ordered it, and are obliged to content ;themselves with the 2/. 10s. per month, which they] received in Oporto. The arrears of the private soldiers are, however, pretty well paid up, and the officers bear the privation without manifesting the slight est discontent. There was a report in Lisbon of a seditious movement having taken place in the rebel army at Santarem ; but it does not appear to have been of any importance. The German Papers represent the news from Greece to be favourable with respect to the interests of commerce generally. Prince TALLEYRAND is expected to arrive in town, from France, to-morrow or Saturday. Immediately after his arrival he will hold a con. ference with Lord PALMERsTON, at which the course to be adopted towards Holland, in con sequence of the new impediments thrown in the way of the negotiation on the Belgian question will be determined upon, the Belgian Plenipo tentiary, M. VAN DE WEYER, having already obtained sufficient information from the King of the BELGIANS and his Government as to the extent to which they are willing to go in the way of concession, to enable the British and French Governments to come to a decision. The public in this country care very little, we believe, for the Belgian question, abstractedly considered; but as the King of HOLLAND seems to have been acting throughout with the sanction and encouragement of the Emperor of RUSSIA, the British and French Governments will do well to take this opportunity of convincing the Autocrat that they are not to be deterred from bringing the Belgian question to a close by the intrigues or threats of the Russian Cabinet. Had they done this before, we doubt whether the Emperor of RUSSIA would have proceeded so boldly as he has done in the prosecution of his ambitious views with respect to Turkey. Our forbearance on the Belgian question must have made him believe that for the preservation of peace we should hesitate at no sacrifice. As advocates of the interests of the many as opposed to those of the few, we have repeatedly lifted our voice in favour of an equalization of the duties imposed upon sugar, whether it comes from the East or the West Indies, as gradual as may be necessary to break the fall of the West Indians, or to allow of an increase in the con sumption of sugar by this country. We must confess that we do not apprehend that the injury to the West Indians by an admission of East Indian sugar upon equal terms with theirs, would be so great as they imagin e . I n t h e first place, unless they anticipate a time when the colonies which now send sugar to us upon the most favoured terms will under supply us, how can they ever look forward to any great permanent rise over present prices ? Any one acquainted with the resources of British Guiana must be perfectly aware that it has virgin soil, fit for the cultivation of sugar, greater in extent than the whole of the British West Indies. It only wants a maintenance of the present prices to bring the whole of that fertile colony into cultivation. Whether those prices will be maintained, depends partly upon the degree in which the present supply from the old colonies will be kept up, and partly upon circumstances abroad, over which we have no control, for it is clear that as long as we export sugar to the continent, the price in England must be regulated by that of foreign countries. But, supposing the present price of sugar to be maintained, we cannot doubt that, in a very few years, labour and ca pital will be applied to the fertile territory of Guiana now lying absolutely waste. The ques tion is not, therefore, whether the West Indians can exclude East India sugar from the English market, and so maintain prices, but whe ther it be more desirable for them to have sugar of the finest quality brought from their near rivals on the coast of South America, or sugar of inferior quality brought from their distant rivals in India. Their short sighted cupidity threatens them with the inflic tion of the first evil ; whereas a simple adoption of the common principles of justice would bring upon them only the second. We use the word evil, because we have been arguing as a Jamaica planter anxious to keep the monopoly of the English market ; but we think that the result would be far from evil. The West Indians would not be much affected one way or the other, except insomuch as they are benefitted by everything that tends to promote the prosperity of their customers. Let us see how that prosperity would be affected by receiving sugar from the East Indies. Every child knows that the manufac ture of cotton was at one time the staple of India, that it maintained a large population, and that its exports of it were immense. It is equally notorious that, at the present moment, England is able, by the aid of her ma chinery, to send back to India, in a manufac tured state, the very cotton which she sent to us raw. This has been the case for some years past, and the consequences are, that large masses of the people are thrown out of employment. They could find employment in the cultivation of sugar, if we would receive it ; but that we refuse to do. Whilst labour is thus de preciated, another operation is going on— viz , the purchasers of our cottons are gra dually becoming, from that and other restric tions imposed upon their industry, less able to purchase them. But labour being cheap, cheap as we said before in consequence of our refusal to let it find employment, and the cotton being grown upon the spot, it must at last strike some one as a good speculation to set up a cotton mill in India. It was in this way, by refusing to take the corn and timber of Prussia, their only means of paying us, that we compelled her to set up manufactories of her own, and it is by continuing to force her manufacturers to have cheap food, that we maintain those rivals in their present flourishing state. That by refusing to sake the sugar of India we are fast cutting off that great Market for our manufacturers, may be judged of 'Lon, ta*,.• ••••••. e . V... a minute of the Governor-General, dated 30th May, 1829, and is to be found in the 275th page of the " Appendix to the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons," which sat upon the affairs of the East India Company last year. Aft er d eta ili ng t h e state o f m i sery to which the East Indians are reduced, the Go vernor-General proceeds to examine how it may be relieved, by the settlement of Europeans in the country. He thus commences : " No stronger argument can be adduced in favour of the present proposition than is exhibited by the effects which European skill and machinery have produced against the prosperity of India. In the last despatch in the commercial department from the India House, dated 3d September, 1828, the Court declare that they are at last obliged to abandon the only remaining portion of the trade in cotton manufactures, both in Bengal and Madras, because through the intervention of power-looms the Bri tish goods have a decided advantage in quality and price. Cotton-piece goods, for ao many ages the staple manufacture of India, seem thus for ever lost. The Dacca muslins, celebrated over the whole world for their beauty and fineness, are also annihilated from the same cause ; nor is the silk trade likely long to escape equal ruin. In the same despatch the Court describe the great depression of price which this article sustained in consequence of the diminished cost of the raw material in England, and of the rivalry of British silk handkerchiefs. The sympathy of the Court is deeply excited by the Report of the Board of Trade, exhibiting the gloomy picture of the effects of a commercial revolution, productive of so much present suffering to numerous classes in India, and hardly to be paralleled in the history of commerce. " If all the ancient articles of the manufacturing pro duce of India are swept away, and no new ones created to supply this vacuum on the exports, how will it be possible for commerce to be carried on, and how can any remittances on private or public account be made to Eu rope ? If bullion alone is to supply the balance, soo❑ will the time arrive, when, under the increased value that scarcity must give to money, it will no longer be possible to realize the revenue at its present nominal amount. It is, therefore, the bounden duty of Government to neglect no means which may call forth the vast productive powers of the country, now lying inert from the want of ade quate encouragement. It may be confidently asked, whether to the natives singly we may look for success, and whether any great improvement has been ever intro duced not exclusively due to European skill. To those who 59 feelingly deplore the misery of the Indian manufac turer, it will be consolatory to know that a prospect exists of better days, with a hope also that her staple cermnodity, the cotton manufacture, may still be rescued from annihilation. Mr. Patrick, an 'Englishman,' is at this momenterecting a very large manufactory for the spinning of cotton-twist by machinery, to be moved by steam and it is not irre levant from the object of the present paper to observe, that these great works are erecting upon his own estate, held in fee-simple, under a grant from Warren Hastings. Hi therto the Bengal cotton has been held unfit for conver sion into twist, but an improved kind has been lately cultivated, which it is suppobed will be quite fit for the purpose." Read that, ye cotton spinners of Lancashire! Read that, ye silk manufacturers of Hudders field, of Congleton, of Manchester ! When this magnificent market has been snatched from your grasp, ye will regret that ye suffered the blind fully of your Government, guided by the base selfishness of the slave owners of the West Indies, to exclude the article upon which the East ndians might have employed their labour, with equal advantage to themselves and to you. When this mine of wealth is closed to you, when your factories fall to decay, when your workmen cry aloud for food, remember that it was because you suffered injustice to be per petrated that the punishment was brought upon you. The woollens of Belgium are now com peting with us almost every where ;—we may thank our restrictive system for supplying the English capital to manufacture them with. The saws of Molsheim are driving ours out of the American market;—we may thank our restrictive system for enabling the workmen of Molsheim to take low wages, by refusing the food ready to be sent to us. Cotton manufactories are being esta blished in India, and, should they► succeed, again we shall have to thank our restrictive system. What more warnings do we want The above observations have been made with reference to the petition which was agreed to yesterday at the East India House, praying for an equalization of the duties on East and West India produce. We earnestly hope that the Government will not continue deaf to the re monstrances of reason, policy, and justice. It is to much to the credit of Gateshead, that it has been the first since the prorogation, to stir the question of the removal of the Bishops from the House of Lords, at a public meeting got up expressly for that purpose. As this meeting is well-timed, it will not be without its influence on the country ; other towns and cities will promptly follow the same example ; the cry of " remove the Bishops," heard first in the North, will be echoed back by the South ; the East and West will not fail to swell the chorus, until, by the time Parliament meets, the whole kingdom, we doubt not, will be uplifting its voice in one resolute, irresistible demand for the expulsion of the Reverend Prelates. The men of Gateshead are by no means squeamish on this subject. They speak out with an energy—a directness inseparable from the cause of justice. Like sportsmen in a rookery, they fire their shots with singular preci sion ; pop, popping away at the lazy, black rooks with a perseverance that it does the heart good to witness. A few more such shots, and the whole rookery is cleared. It is idle for us at this time of day to assur e the Bishops that, as regards their seats in the Lords, they must be of " the movement party." They know it themselves ; none better. They have seen the sword, suspended only by a horse-hair, hanging above their heads for these two years past, and must now be in hourly expectation of its fall. Yet the time was, when, if they could not have averted, they might at least have protracted, their doom. A manly, liberal part played by them during the Reform question, might have induced their grateful countrymen to put up with the absurd anomaly of their position as Legislators, for some time to come ; and saved the majority of them many a severe fit of spleen and dyspepsia. But they chose to play the double game of party. They would not say yes, and they were afraid t o say no. They leered now at the Whigs and now at the Tories, and by thus combining cowardice and cunning to a degree unparalleled in all but ecclesiastical annals, have met with the usual fate of intriguers and sycophants. But setting aside the question of retribution, the disembarrassment of the Bishops from the false and painful position which they now oc cupy in the House of Lords, is to be insisted on as a matter or justice. It. is vu UM, conviction only, that we ground our arguments. We would not expel them as a punishment for past sins, but as a means of prevention against future ones. Like Othello, we would be " cruel, only to be merciful." The Reverend Prelates never had, they never can have any right, founded on common sense, to a seat in the Upper House of Legislature. They are priests, not politicians. The community at large knows, or should know, nothing of them, as members of this party or that party, but simply as the spiritual heads of their respective dioceses. By emancipating' them, therefore, from the trammels of politics, we conceive we are doing them an act of cour tesy ; for we are making them more trustworthy men, and, of course, better Christians. That their Reverences may not be of this way of thinking, is natural enough ; what school boy could ever be brought to believe that the birch which his master flourishes above his head was intended to do him good ? But this is nothing. As we " chasten" the Bishops because we " love them," we are resolved, please God, to lay on the stripes with spirit. Conceiving then that the expulsion of the Rev. Prelates is necessary, first as an act o f kindness to themselves ; secondly, as an act of, justice to the country, we feel bound to do our best to bring the people to the same persuasion ; to exhort them to peruse the observations of Mr. C. RIPPON with the attention their great importance deserves; and above all, to follow, as soon as possible, the example of the bold and enlightened men of Gateshead. " Fling but a stone, the giant dies." Let the people but make one bold effort, and episcopal politicians are ex tinct for ever. The Lord Chancellor will not continue his judicial sittings after to-morrow or Saturday at latest. It was his intention to have sit till Christmas Eve, but Mr. James Brougham's lamentable state of health causes his Noble Brother's anxiety to proceed to Brougham Hall earlier than otherwise he had resolved upon. ILLNESS OF MR. JAMES BROUGHAM.— The account received this morning in town of the st tte of Mr. James Brougham's health, we regret to say, is most unfavourable and distressing. An old maiden lady named Witham, of Alounjoy township, Pa., in the 80th year of her age, a few days ago mowed and made an acre of heavy grass into hay.—American Paper. On Sunday last the new Prebend, the Rev. Dr. Hunt, read himself in at the cathedral in this Kentish Gazette. The Western Luminary says, " We are sorry to state the loss of the Jane of Salcombe has been received, and that the master and crew, with three passengers, have perished." CHINA TRADE. The Gipsey, Captain Highat, sailed from Liverpool, on Friday, for Bombay, with a cargo selected for the Canton market. The Ea , t India Company's Charter will expire on the 22d April, and this vessel is expected to arrive at Bombay, so as to clear at that port on the 23d for Canton, which is the day on which the trade to China and India will be opened to the merchants of this country. The Gipsey belongs to Sir John Tobin, one of our most active and enterprising merchants, and as she is a swift sailer she will most likely be the first vessel which will reach:this country with a cargo of tea from Canton.—Liverpool Times. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, DEC. 17. —We have had a fair demand for cotton to-day, and the sales are 4,000 bags, at very steady prices, bay iihranhams at 10d. ; Pernarns, 91d. to 10id.; New Boweth, at 9J. ; and Nev Orleans, at 10d, per lb. COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) FORMS OF PRACTICE. The LORD CHANCELLOR, and their flonours the 3 11 ",,, TER of the ROLLS and VICE-CHANCELLOR, had a con 9 °Tl Ertion td-day on the subject of the new rules that b B 5 lately been and are about to be issued foi• the regulae l l of Chancery Practice. The six clerks, secretaries, Et of the public offices were likewise in attendance in on Hall, and occasionally re f erre d to f or po i nts o f information' The conference Was held in hi s L or d s hip' s p r i vate r ooPs and continued till 12 o'clock: BRUSSELS PAPERS. DEc.l4.—The Belgian Ambassadors quitted the capitals of Prussia and Austria without any plausible notice— without any reasonable explanation, and without the nomination of successors. The appearance of those per sonages leads In to a comparison with what passed about forty years ago. The States of Liege, after the commotion in Paris in 1789, rose against the Prince Bishop. We were then as docile and blind imitators of France as we are now. The Prince Bishop made a powerful appeal to the German Princes, and the Estates sent an agent to Berlin. Then, as now, diplomacy inter vened to restrain the two parties ready to face each other. The Prince Bishop prudently withdrew. The King of Prussia replied to the message of the States by sending a Charge d'Affaires. The revolutionists take this step, which is only a means of meeting an inquiry for an anticipated recognition; they congratulate themselves, and sing their songs of triumph ; but we hear mourning when they fancy the revolution near and the new order of things confirmed. We would not swear that the diplomacy of our days is more secure than that of those times, nor would we affirm that Prussia and Austria are more favourably inclined to the popular revolutions of 1830 and 1833, than to those of 1789.—Industrie. GHENT, DEC. 13.—1 t is observed here that it is extra ordinary that, at the very moment of the meeting of a Congress at Vienna, and the arrival of Baron Verstolk Van Soelen in that city, as member of the Congress, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria should send away M. de Lone, the representative of the Belgian revolution.—Lynx, Dec. 15. PRICES OF STSCKS TH flank Stcuc 2IIM % 11 Iper Cent. Red. 87%44 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. - Ditto Red 06%% Niew 3% per Cent, 1 Der Cent. Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 wy. 15-16 Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880............, - Jan. 5, 1870 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 97 Belgian Bonds 95% — Ditto Account 4554 Brazilian Bonds t 6% Ditto Account 6654 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account 2154 Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds 1954 Ditto Account. — Ditto Bonds, 1824 22.4 Ditto Account 2-2% 1,41 . , V , -A9 n :....• 72 24 Ditto Bonds, 1825... ...... Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2914 Ditto Account Litt , fl per cent 37 Ditto Account 37 Neapolitan B9 S DAY AT ONV O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. — India Stock Ditto Bonds 2O 21 pm. South Sea Stock ....... ..... Old Annuities 8 5 34 New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 , Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 4l 42 pm, IDitto .50e :41 42 pm. Ditto Small 4l 42 pm. Ditto Commercial . — pm. Ditto Advertised ......... pm. Bank for Account — ilndia for Account ... I Cons. for Account BB% THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds i ni Portuguese Bonds 576 Ditto Account 576 Ditto New Bonds 56% Ditto Acconnt 56 14% Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 1822 l6 Russian Bonds, 1822 102% Ditto Account lO3 2 Ditto 111 lO3 Spanish Bonds, 1821 234 1 Ditto Acc. 23%M. Ditto Bonds, 1823 'olja:i Ditto Account , —3 per cent. — - Exchange ...... —f. —c. Dutch, 21 p. c. 495 50 Ditto ccount 49Th Ditto, 5 p. c 93 3 4 Ditto Account ......... 94 Fcanch Scrip ‘l,i pm. PRICES OF SHARKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCF. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £7 7 1i% Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm ) £lOO 814 Bolanos Mining Company .4150 140 Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Tmp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 61 Ditto National 22 1% 25 4% Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 1% Cata Branca Mining Company 3g 5 Lritish Iron Minim , Comnanv £5O 29% 1 4 Columbizn Mining Co. 'iss at 5/.pm.) 51 1 % 2;4 English Mining Company 12;4 251% General Mining Association l2 SIA Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 4 Mexican Mining Co. £4B 11 1 14 Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) -52 g X United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 11. X Ditto New Scrip 5 14% Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 11% Protector Insurance Comp. ...... Australian Co. Canada C0mpany................ General Steam Navigation Co.. National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland ......... 11 4% 1% 39304 HAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrive& Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg ........ ..... 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 1 0 Lisbon I 0 Flanders 1 1 0 Ma1ta....... ......... ... 0 3 France.... ..... 0 Guernse v&Jer s e v.. 1 , 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning —.17 minutes after' 8.1 Evening... 44 minutes after 8. *tilt KING OF SPAIN G. MACHADO. When the LORD CHlNCielacia.tO;i6l;;eat, be imp diately proceeded to hear 'the resumed aigiltiieiits upon ti part heard motion. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) In consequence of having to consult with the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor upon business connect' with the new orders of the Court, which had becAO necessary on the passing of the recent Act of Par Hansel for rcgul sting proceedings in Chancery, his Honour ti Master of the Rolls did not take his seat till after well o'clock. Nothing of any public interest occurred in ti course of the morning. His florroua has announced his intention to take e 1 36 causes to•.morrow, and petitions in the general paper t, Saturday. After *bleb ht! Will adjourn his sittings ti the first day of Hilary Term. VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the Vice Chancellor did not take hie sea / this morning till 12 o'clock, in consequence, as we under: stood, of attending a conference with 'the LOP Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, relative ° the new orders. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. SHORE. The arguments in this case, which have already occupie g the Court two days, were resumed to-day, by Mr. Pepl' proceeding to address the Court in behalf of the ge nera , trustees. The learned gentleman argued with m uch ability that the doctrines of the Unitarians were not incon" sistent with those professed by Lady Hawley, and was citing several ancient and eminent authors upon that point when our reporters left. The Court was crowded the whole o the day by eminent dissenting Divines, and persons div venting from the Established Church. The arguments will probably occupy sevi nil days more, Sir Charlei Wetherell, Mr. Booth, and several other Counsel h a ving to address the Court. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall before the LORD Cum , Junta and a Special Jury.) GOUIN AND ANOTHER, V. COCKBURN, BART., AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were bankers and merchants in France, to recover from the defendant s , w h o were merc h ants i n L on d on, the sum o f 1441. 2s. The case is likely to last all d 4y. The question in dispute was as to the validity of a contract which On entered into in France, which, according to the opinion of se.veral French advocates, was in accordance with the law of that country. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY•) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind W.N.W. strong.—Arrived the Africa, Skelt , m, from Ceylun—sailed 28th July, and Miuritios 27th September. HULL, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Ann, Minnett, frogs Quebec; the Exchange, Norton, from Miramichi ; and the Ophelia, Piyde, front Riga. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.—A bard gale all night and this morning. HUMBER; DEc. 17.—Arrived the Devil , Fyfe, frail Rigs. PLYMOUTH, DEc. 17.--Wind W.—Arrived the Ned' Eagle, Quick, from St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH, DEc. 17.—Wind W. fresh gales With heavy squalls. RAMSGATE, DEC. 18.—Arrived the Faith, Upharn from Seville. TEIGNMOUTH, Dec. 17.—Arrived the Freedom, COu' eine, from Newfoundland. WHITSA EL; DEc. 17. —An ived the Alert, White , from Belfast. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Garland, Murray , from Miramichi; and the Sempre la Stepo, Farrara, frool ueneva. GREENOCK, DEC. 16 —Arrived the Tha'estrus, Dell , from Demerara ; and the Debella, Miller, from Cloribec. _...._ The Eudora, Mackie, from Bengal to the Mauritiug, was lost at Cuttaek previous to the sth August. The Elizabeth, Hill, from Bengal to Liverpool, sailed 17th July, was driven on shore on the Northam Burros* near Bideford, during a heavy gale on Tuesday morning, and filled with water —crew saved. The Pompee, Mallet, from Bengal to Bordeaux, put into the 11liuritius leaky, and must discharge part of the cargo. The Rothschild, Harrison, from London to Gibraltar, put into Ramsgate with damage, having been run foul of. The Marquis of Chandos, Tay, from London to Dane` rara, put into Portsmouth with damage, having been ia contact with the Hamillap Guernsey. The Betsey and Isabella, Young, from Perth to London. put into Sunderland very leaky, and must discharge► having been on a rock. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.--(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Supply moderate, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 3lO 4 I Useful Old Ditto . 3 15 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye—grass Hay 4 0 4 4 Clover Hay 4 0 5. 0 Oat Straw £1 6to£l 8 I Wheat Straw... 1 8 • 110 SMITHFIELD. Supply moderato, trade very dull, and prices barely stationary. Coarse heavy Low Jana Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 5 4 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and ltye.grass Hay ..... Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s o... Generally Oat Straw ... LI 4to £1 6 I Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Three French mails have arrived, and the express from Paris, which is rather of more interest than the pr e vious accounts received from Spain. It brings a report that the Spanish General Rodil had entered Portugal with troops in pursuit of Don Carlos, who was too wise to b e kid napped, and made his retreat in good time into the in . terior of Portugal. The information received from Lisbon of the Bth inst. corroborates what we stated in our City article of yester day, that the armies c , ntinue in their same position, but that Don Pedro is loosing ground in the Algarves. Eight thousand of Miguel's guerillas are laying siege to L a gos, and if not soon relieved that town will fall into their hands. It appears that Colonel Hare has made the third trip to Miguel's head-quat tens, but the result of his mission was not known. We have an arrival from Calcutta of July 17, but it is not of so late a date as previously received. THE FUNDS. The unsettled state of affairs in the East, involving the partition of the Ottoman Empire, has certainly roused the two great powers of Europe from their slumber ; and if Rus,ii does not keep within its ancient limits, France and England will counteract the extension of Russian ambition, and form an alliance, offensive and defensives with the Bey of Egypt. Consols opened a t th e same pr i ce t h ey l e f t off, 881 for the Account. Nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONZ There is no appearance of business in the funds. Con sols continue at the opening price of the morning, 88 1 buyers for the account. The Foreign Market is in the same inactive state as the British, with the prices at yesterday's quotations. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, Sl3ll. The public can f orm an o pinion o f the busi ness transacting in th e St oc k Exchange this morning, by the " Memb ers o f t h e H ouse " b e ing engaged in railin g for Christmas turkeys. A Court of Common Couneil was held this day, but nothing of importance took place up to the period when our piper went to pre. The Wesleyan Missionary Committee have resolved upon sending out 18 new missionaries to the West Indies, six of whom were to receive ordination at Great Queen -street chapel yesterday evening.._. Christian Advocate. The Underwriters at Lloyd's and the outports, one and all, declare that the late gales have been literally ill winds, which have blown nobody good. Ye have 'Nand Bth !?ing extra Otlil had a liar as Mii !gos, who . I titely, an tthintv C nitC d( !!h. Th 96 ei, Wit 3 4 Miguel hIADRIE ?wed to•dai N 1 k irb° b n a e e g Z o t e h i r a i n c t i l kce th e d a t a `` Marti ne; 4 been ne !Hugh the 'klor , f or Irid, wi trt Ince 1 ! 1 other ill loan wil 4 Perpetoe %the ; but 'bent state Bank of 14 1% of the r!st contra 41 1er sum! Iden by A Ittice of t *gel, of I t'esaary h) The DI en him-1 t country, It tacbed. The rif habit, I dement/. t Course 1 staked aim "t given contaii " The borrow hay * i ll() ad enlif doa d escribed d e la earl " Th 4 pensive, Valencia 4 iineigl °f Mori: t ime, it the seen " Th, the susp !eplaced 14 the al " Th the offic t erritori teived Loweve thus ad mere aj they sa: hicious Writin Means recom prev