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ti~ FIAJCES ` - '1( vi Rank St.r.tx ............... 2114 12 3 per Cent. Berl, _BB N 3 per renr.C'ons. :3 } ,i per Cent Ditto Red 97 1 4 NeviN pe r Cent ..... shut :3 Per Cent. Arm. 17.26 - 4 per Cent. 19213 10314%1 Rank Ltrag Ar.n. to expire Ja;4. 5 1960 17 1-161 10, 1P59... ........ -1 Jan. 5, 18(10 -1 Jan. 5, IPBO April 5, Jan 5. IS7O .. . .... S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 'sew S per Cent. India Stock ......... shut Ditto Bonds 22 20 pm. South Sea Stock 'Old Annuities New Ditto per Cent. Ann. 1751 - Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 4l 43 pm. 41 43 pm. ;Ditto Small ...... 41 43 pro. IDitto Commercial 'Ditto Advertised ißatik for Account llndia for Account - tons. for Account ..5i11.04%% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 971 Peruvian Bonds :91 , 2' Belgian Bonds 9B Portuguese Bonds 57% Ditto Acc0unt,.............. 96 Ditto Account 5754 Brazilian Bonds "1'67 ! Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account "671 Ditto Acconnt 57 1 4 7 B'uerios Ayres Bonds... — Prussian Bonds IOIN Ditto Account .1% Ditto Bonds, 182. Chilian Bonds Russian Bonds., 182. 1 1274 Ditto Account Ditto Account 1035 Columbian Bonds 19% Ditto 111 lO3 Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 1821 „.„,....2314 Ditto Bonds, 1824 22% Ditto Acc. 23 1 ,, Ditto Account 22% Ditto Bonds, 1823 20% Danish Bon ; . ..... ...... ...... 72% Ditto Account Ditto Acccunt...... ......... 72% French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Greek Ponds -- p' —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 5 825 --- 3 percent. f —c. Ditto Account --!— Exchange...... —f —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent :1514 knutch, 21, p. c. 5 0.;%;4 Ditto Account „„ I . Int , 8 per cen t ~ 37 Ditto, sp. c 93% Ditto Account. ...... ...... ... 37 ' Ditto Account 945 , 4% Neapolitan= .. 89 French Scrip 45z pm. PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE ectocr. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £7 7% Angto Mex. Min. AA). tins. at 5/. pm ) XlOO 8% Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 142% 140 Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm.) £2O Ditto National 22% Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 Cata Branca Mining Company .• ... ... British Iron Minine Comnany £so 30 Columbian NlliiinA Co. 'iss nts/. pm.) 51;4 `2% English Mining Co m p an y 12% 25 1 4 General Mining AssociP;.•lon Hibernian Mining Ct., £lo 4 Mexican Mining Cm, £4B 1154 Real del Monte ',fining C 0.... (unreg.) --- 53 Untied sTex. Min. Co. (iss. at Qt. pm.) 40 11 3 i Ditto Nev Scrip 5 14 3 ; Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO I I3i Protector InsiiranceComP. Australian Co Canada C0mpany........... ........ ... General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 2,5 4 lt,f ? 399{ I% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 18 Panic Stock —i St. Patrick Insur.(perShare Consols, 3 re: cent Gov. Stock, 3', per cent. 9F►"National National Ditto Ditto, New ................... 95% i Patriotic Ditto 4 per rent „........ ........ Hibernian Bank 23 - 4 Gov. Deb. 314 percent.... SS% Provincial Ditto — Grandßoyal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine — Canal Stock — Imperial Vine City De!. 4 per cent...„.. Missing Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4n. c. --- Commercial Buildings 334 FRENCH FUNDS.—Petits, DEC. 18. Five per Cents., 103 f. '7oc. 65c. 75c. Four and a Half per Cents, 99f. 90c. Three per Cents., 741. 90c. 95c. 90c. Bank Actions, 1,740 f. Rente de Naples, 91f'. 15c. 91f. 91f. 15c. Roman Five per Cents., 91%. tiente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18 • Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 404 41 40%. 'loyal Spanish Loan, 86.32,16 1 4. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 66% 69 C9Ti Belgian Loan, IE3I, Five per Cent., 96. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, —f. —c. Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 15c. —Count Authenttoue. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam,...„ C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight '''' 2 Rotterdam 0 U 12 4 Antwerp 12 6 Hamburg M.B. 13 12 /4.lana l3 12 Pmrls, 3 days' sight 25 55 Ditto 2 U. 25 80 Bordeaux 25 85 33erEn Frank fort on Maine, Ex. M.151f Petersburgh, nible, 3 Us. 10 o Vienna, effective IL 2M. 956 Trieste...... do 9 57 Madrid 36% Cadiz 37% Bilboa Barcelona 36 Seville 36 Gibraltar 47 NOE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4B Genoa 25 70 Milan 11 Venice 47 Naples Palermo per oz. 122 Lisbon Oporto slli Rio .laneiro l6 Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres — I)ublin, 21 days' sight — Cork MA: Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Flanders 0 O France 1 `.: Guernsey &Jersey 0 BULLION, PER OZ. I. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, In bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Sllverbars, standard 0 4 Ili ,ILS. Arrived. Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 Leeward Islands I Lisbon 1 O O Sweden 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 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Also, a Stamped Edition, for Country Circulation by post. London : W. A. Scripps, 7, Wellington-street, Strand. l i tt 'b r :* ~,..e -, k L i.,-24 -7 4 ; * tin , ~0 , .....,_, ~,. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1833. Owing to the prevalence of stormy weather, we are again without a supply of Paris Papers. It is not probable, however, that the papers of Thursday, which should have arrived this morn ing, contain any news of importance from Spain, at present the only point of interest. The con test in that country between the QUEEN'S Go vernment and the Carlists has taken such a turn in favour of the former as to leave little pro spect that the settlement of the question will be long retarded. We have received a file of the Lisbon Chronica to the Bth instant, the date only of the accounts which we gave on Thursday. They contain the decree of the Regency, ap pointing a commission to investigate the claims of foreigners in the Constitutional service, and an official account of the number of persons imprisoned in the tower of St. Julian by order of Don I\l lcuEL, from the 17th of April, 1829, to ti e 10th of July, 1833. The list mentions only 52, but it is supposed that the number was much greater. A part of the Register had been destroyed, and, consequently, the names of many visitors are unrecorded. The Times of this morning contains an ar ticle on the abuses of the Post-office, to which we particularly invite attention. More than three years ago The Sun first exposed th e abuses of which the Times complains so forcibly as regards the injury inflicted upon a large and industrious class of tradesmen—the dealers in newspapers ; and within the last three months we noticed the defect alluded to by the Times . , as to the mode of communicating I with Prance from Dover. It is not from any . silly pride in having been the first to denounce ►he abuses which our able contemporary has this day exposed that we notice these facts, but in order that we may have credit for consistency in seconding the efforts of the Times towards the removal of the evil complained of. As far as the Duke of RICHMOND is concerned, we have to award to him the credit of good intentions, but his Grace appears to have been influenced by the counsel of persons who are interested in the maintenance of the monopoly. He would not otherwise have stated, in an swer to the repeated applications which have been addressed to him, that he did not consider the monopoly in question to be a public evil. The Post-office is the only public department in which the emplo . gs of the Government are allowed to add to their remuneration by fees arising from a monopoly injurious to the public, and particularly to a large body of tradesmen. No argument can be adduced in support of this monopoly. If the clerks of the Post-office are not sufficiently paid by salaries, let their salaries be increased. We entreat the Duke, for his own honour and the public service, to wipe off an abuse of which, whilst others reap the profit, all the odium falls on him. We have before us accounts of two dinners, at which different Ministers have been making what may, in some sort, be considered as de clarations of the kind of course the Government at present think of pursuing in the next Session of Parliament. One is a dinner given to Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord EBRINGTON, at Plymouth, on the occasion of their being ad mitted to the freedom of that. borough ; and the other a dinner at IVlancliester, on Thursday last, to Mr. POULETT THoMSON and Mr. PHILIPS, Members for that place. The account of the second is too imperfect to justify us in giving it to our readers, particularly as the portions which have not reached town appear to be the most important. From the statement which is made, it appears that Mr. POTTER and Mr. BROTHERTON, the Representatives of Wigan and of Salford, and Mr. PHILIPS, the colleague of Mr. POULETT THoMsON, in the representation of Manchester, made an attack upon the over-caution with which Minis ters have proceeded, which compelled Mr. P. THOMSoN to enter upon their defence. We shall be curious to see the charges, and the answer the Right lion. Gentleman made to them. In the mean time one or two observa tions were made by him at an earlier hour of the meeting which are worthy of note. He is re ported to have said— "ls there any one who will say, after having adminis tered reform to the Church of Ireland, that reform is not needed in the Church of England ?—(Loud and reiterated cheers.) We have set on font the means of searching into the abuses of the system of Corporations in this country; let us take advantage of the fruits which will thus be gathered, and administer correction there. The Dissenters call aloud for relief from practical grievances —from the necessity of contributing to an establishment to which they do not belong.—(Hear, hear, hear.) That appears a just and fair demand.—(Loud applause.) The state of public education calls for the at.ention of Parliament more, I was almost going to say, than any other subject.—(Applause.)" After all this trumpeting, the Church reform intended for this country ought to be something worthy of the name ; but there is, we believe, reason to fear that it will, after all, only herald in a mouse, of which even the most desperate Tories will have much ado to pretend to be afraid. The relief of Dissenters from some of the grievances under which they labour, and the commencement of a system of national edu cation, may, however, it appears, be looked forward to with certainty. If the intended reform in the Church were made subservient to the latter object, Ministers would do the country one of the greatest of services. Many clergymen keep school for emolument, not only without the reprehension, but with the approbation of stanch Churchmen. Now, as a proper edu cation is, of all things, most calculated to make a moral society, it would seem a natural part of a clergyman's duty at least to superintend the education of his parish. There are few large parishes which have not charities for education, which might be rendered much more extensively beneficial than they are at pre- sent ; but wheresoever such facilities do no' exist, or wherever they fall short of the object to be accomplished, we can conceive the possi. bility of making it part of the duty of a reformed clergyman to devote a part of each day to the instruction of the youth of his parish at a fixed price, low enough to put the instruction to be afforded within reach of the poorest. But the most important portion of Mr. THOMSON'S speech which has reached us is following : " I am aware," said the Right Hon. Gentleman, "that there are many other, perhaps not less important, topics than those which I have already named ; but still I pass over them. There is one, however, with which Ido not meddle—not because I do not consider it important, but be cause I consider it, perhaps, the most important of all. I think there is scarcely one gentleman present who does not already imagine that I allude to the Corn Law.— (Hear.) That question stands under peculiar circum stances ; upon it the people of England are entirely dis agreed. Ignorance—fur, in my opinion, it is ignorance— makes those who ought to be the beet friends opposed to every alteration in the present Corn Law. It is a ques tion upon which we should feel—as all here do deeply feel—its importance, and ought to strain every nerve to carry some change." This is precisely the language held by Mr. MACAULAY at Leeds. The Ministry is in• clined, as what Ministry of average intelligence must not be, to alter the corn laws, but they fear they have not the power. The ignorance of the country gentlemen has to be overcome, and any one who is aware of the profundity of that ignorance, will acknowledge that the ob- stacle is not a slight one, but will require every man " to strain every nerve" to overcome it. The dinner at Plymouth passed off without any such interruption to its harmony as appears to have occurred at that of Manchester, and in the account of it which will be found elsewhere will be seen some additional de clarations as to the intentions of Mini- A more equal distribution of the revenues of the Church we may infer is to take place ; the repeal of the house tax is pro mised, and a reduction in the numbers of the sters. army is certain, recruiting having already ceased. The two last are important announcements. The ~~ expediency of reducing of increasing the arma ments of a country is a question peculiarly for the decision of the executive, and if the execu tive be watched as that of England is at present, there is not much fear of a greater forte being maintained than the poBition of af fairs renders prudent. But the expediency of repealing or retaining a particular tax is one which is fairly open to public discossin. As long as a general tax on property is abstained from, justice requires that both the house and window taxes should be repealed, because they are taxes pressing upon a particular destriptiOn of property—taxes which had as fair a claim to be repealed at the dose of the war, as the in come tax itself. But it being a matter of choice which tax shall be repealed, the house or the window tax, we must say we think Lord A LTHORP has chosen ill in preferring to repeal the house tax. That is a tax which has the advantage of not (if the valuation be fairly made) barefacedly and openly favouring the richer at the expense of the middling classes. All houses of 404 a year and upwards pay 2s. 10d. in the pound on every pound above that value, let it amount to 1,0001. But look at the window-tax :no sooner does it begin to touch the exceedingly rich than a graduated scale, reducing the duty, comes into operation. Putting the health of the people aside, (and no one can doubt that it is greatly concerned in the proper ventilation of houses) we think that the reason we have given above ought to be alone sufficient to induce Lord ALTHORP to abolish the window instead of the house tax. At any rate, if the window tax be retained, we trust that we shall see the present unjust graduated scale done away with. The interrogatory system of which Sir PETER LAURIE, the late Lord Mayor, was so ena moured, is becoming very unpopular in France. We perceive by the Paris papers that the spi rited refusal of RASPAIL and some of the other defendants of the Society of the Rights of Man, now on their trial in Paris, to criminate them• selves, and thus gratify their prosecutors, is much approved of, and we hope the example will be generally followed. When desired to reply to the interrogatories of the President, RAS PAIL said, " You are our accusers; prove your charge. We are not here to furnish proofs against ourselves." This is the principle of English law, from which Sir PETER LAURIE thought proper to dissent, supposing it much more important that a rogue should be convicted by the interrogatories of the Judge, than that an innocent man should be protected against the contrivances which a judge or a magistrate, who takes credit for skill in the number of convic tions, might use to entrap him. The firmness of the accused parties on the trial to which we have referred, seems to have ruffled the Presi dent of the Court of Assizes, and to have produced frequent altercations between him, and the accused, and their advocates. We subjoin a scene which occurred during the proceedings on Friday last. One of the advocates, M. PINARD, had branded with the title of forger (faussaire) the person who had prepared the act of accusation, and who, in doing so, had wilfully misstated an important fact. President—Forger is a strange word. The Court orders that it shall be recorded against the advocate. M. Pinard—l will substantiate my expressions. Raspail, one of the accused-._M. Pinard was not chosen by me. He was named for me by the Court. I bring ill luck to my counsel. My first advocate was suspended for two years, for saying that the Court did sot act with impartiality. M. Pinard-1 persist in my expression. [Here M. Michel, M. Bethmont, and all the Counsel for the prisoners rose and demanded that their names might be recorded as agreeing with M. Pinard in the use of the ob noxious term forger. Shortly afterwards M. DUPONT, one of the prisoners' Counsel, charged the Government with having falsified a document found on one of the prisoners. The Advocate-General—l demand that the words of M. Dupont he recorded. M. Dupont—." I persist in the accusation"—to which all the prisoners' Counsel adhered. Raspail—lf the Court persists in persecuting our counsel with these chicaneries, I declare in the mine of all the accused, that we will dispense with their assistance. M. Dupont—And I declare in the name of the advocates engaged for the prisoners that we will persist in our duty towards our clients, in spite of the chicaneries of the Court awl the advocates of the Ministers. [Here all the counsel fur the prisoners ruse and made the same declaration.] This is the way in which the prosecutions of the juste milieu Government are conducted. With all possible respect for Sir PETER LAURIE, we hope it will not be adopted in this country. The local papers have of necessity been unable to go at anv very great length into many important particulars connected with the in quiries of the Municipal Corporation Commis sion. We are rejoiced, therefore, to find that public spirited individuals are publishing reports of the proceedings of the Commissioners in their respective towns. These reports will, we fancy, prove a sufficient answer to the ravings of our conservative contemporaries about " moun tebank commissioners," " unconstitutional in quisitors," &c. &c. We have now before us a digested report of the evidence taken before the Commissioners at Cambridge, and a more ef ficient exposure of barefaced robbery could not be desired. Some of the details are so curiou s that we cannot forbear extracting them for the amusement, no less than the instruction, of our readers. It appears that, although the town con tains a population of 2 0,917 soul s , of whom nearly 1,400 are 101. householders, qualified to vote for Members of Parliament, the corpo ration consists of 162 persons only. The go verning power, however, resides in the Mayor, twelve Aldermen, and twenty-four Common Councilmen, who are elected by a process quite effectual for the purpose of excluding from the chief offices of the Corporation any person un friendly to th e domination of the D u k e o f RUTLAND, long the patron of the borough. Neither the M a y or , Aldermen, o r Common Councilmen, appear to have acknowledged the slightest responsibility either to the freemen or ' to the town at large. The consequences of this are but too visible in their management, or rather mismanagement, of the town charities, in their dealings with the town property, and in their ne glect of its bridges, its roads, &c. In order to show the efficiency of the system pursued at the elec tion of corporate officers, it will be sufficient to state that for the last fifty years the Mayoralty has been confined to one farnily, its connections, and dependants. It appears from a document, produced by one of the witnesses, that that office was held as follows :—From 1788 to 1795, in clusive, SAMUEL FRANCIS and JOHN MORT LOCK were alternateiV Mayor ; from 1796 to 1801, inclusive, JOHN FARLOW, jun., and JOHN MORTLOCK, were alternately Mayor; from 1802 to 1809, inclusive, JOHN CHEET IIAM MORTLOCK and JOHN MORTLOCK were alternately Mayor ; and from 1810 to 1816, FREDERICK CHEETHAM MORTLOCK and JOHN CHEETHAM MORTLOCK were alternately Mayor. Mr. Commissioner LONG might well ask whether the MORTLOCKS came into the world with the sign of the mace upon them ! The "MonmocKs and other lions of the Corpo ration came in for auditorships of Excise, corn missionerships of Excise, receiverships of the Post-office, livings, &c., all through the most Noble and most Conservative Duke of RUT LAND'S interest. The understrappers, who did the details of the dirty work, were rewarded partly from the public purse, and partly from the corporate funds. The mode in which the last were made available is worth detailing. We cannot do it in fewer words than it is done to our hands in the report before us : " REAL PROPERTY OF THE CORPORATION. "From the statements of Mr. Cbevell and Mr. Spencer, it appeared that within the last forty years a considerable part of the real property belonging to the Corporation had been sold. That all the remaining estates had been leased for various term.. That from sixty to seventy leases and sales had been made to members of the Corporation. That at Michaelmas, 1832, the following was a correct account of the number of leases with the terms for which they are granted : 62 for 999 years. I 500 3 99 69 40 2 21 —• Total number of leases 137 " Since 1832 one of the forty years leases has expired and the property has been re.let on a fourteen years lease. THE THREE SALES TO MR. ALDERMAN BOND. " In October, 1809, the Corporation sold to Thomas Bond, Alderman, a piece of waste ground situate on the south side of Maid's-causeway, cont4ining 567 feet in length and 40 feet 6 inches in breadth.--Pur chase money two guineas. " Mr. Freeman Coe stated that this ground is now garden ground, in front of some of the most respectable houses in Cambridge, which are also partly built on it. " Mr. Elliot Smith said that in 1809 the above pro perty was worth from 100/. to 120/. " 2d. On the 16th August, 1810, the Corporation sold to Alderman Bond (subject to a rent of ten shillings) a piece of waste land near Parker's Piece, varying in length from 252 to 225 feet, and in breadth from 24 to 20 feet.—Purchase money one guinea. " Mr. Elliot Smith said that in 1810 the above piece of land was worth nearly 150/. " 3d. On the 26th of April, 1814, the Corporation, in consideration of the surrender of a previous lease of the premises, conveyed to Alderman Bond the Three Fishes in Regent-street, in St. Benedict's parish, con taining by admeasurement 74 feet by 47, subject to a rent of ten shillings. " THE TWO SALES TO MR. ALDERMAN BUTCHER. " Ist. On the 16th August, 1791, the Corporation sold to Stephen Robinson, of Horseheath, two pieces of waste land in the parishes of St. Benedict and St. Andrew the Great.—Purchase money 211. " Mr. Foster stated that the above property was on the following day conveyed by Stephen Robinson to Joseph Butcher, Alderman, for 301. That Robinson was a friend and client of Butcher's. That the land in question is now built on, and comprises nearly the whole of Regent street, on both sides of the way, being a total frontage of 1,386 feet. That in 1791 he barely knew the property, but that from his knowledge of it a few years afterwards, and from his having heard at the time that it was a very scandalous transaction, he had no doubt that if put up by auction it would have produced at least ten times as much as Butcher gave for it. That, in 1810, Butcher sold some at twenty-four shillings a foot. That some fetched twenty-six shillings, some thirty shillings, and some two and three guineas a foot, and that none was sold for less than twenty shillings. That the land was divided from the road by a ditch, and that in 1791 there were buildings at each extremity of it. That in 1810, 18 feet of it produced Butcher more money than the sum paid to the Corporation for the whole 1,386 feet. " Mr. Hovel! said that he knew this property in 1791. That it was the general opinion that it was given away. . That he has no doubt it would have made 500/. That Butcher's bargain was considered so good a one, that it was the signal for a general scramble for waste land amongst the corporators." A scramble accordingly did take place, each corporator doing the best he could for himself. We have only room for one specimen of the kind of jobbing that followed; but certainly out of Cambridge it would be difficult, we should imagine, to find its parallel. It is in the shape of four leases to one THOMAS ROBINSON, which are thus described :, " Ist. The Corporation, in consideration of the surrender of a term of thirty.three years, and a fine of 1501,, demised Clement Hostel, and the waste ground ad joining, to Thomas Robinson for 999 years, from Michaelmas, 1791, at the rent of 201. " 2d. The Corporation, in consideration of a fine of fifty guineas, leased to Mr. Robinson other parts of the Clement Hostel estate for 999 years, from Michael mas, 1794, at the rent of 21. " 3d. The Corporation in 1808, in consideration of a fine of one guinea, leased to Mr. Robinson a piece of void ground near the King's Ditch for 999 years, at the rent of one guinea. "4th. The Corporation in 1811 leased to Mr. Robinson a piece of waste ground, adjoining the above pro perty, for 999 years, at the rent of two shillings and sixpence. _ _ " Mr. Foster stated that Thomas Robinson was the brother-in-law of Richard Comings, sen., a member of the Corporation. That be (Mr. Foster) in 1824, pur chased the above property of Mr. Robinson for 3,7501. That be afterwards resold it in lots, and realized a very considerable sum by so doing. That the property pos sessed an extensive frontage in Bridge_street, one of the best streets in the town, and comprised a public-house, a liquor-shop, an excellent Baffler's shop, a mansion house, six or eight other dwelling houses, livery stables, a yard, and a very large garden. That most of the buildings were ancient. That Robinson (besides temporary repairs) had done nothing for the property, except building asmall summer-house. " Commi.eioner Long said he could hardly believe that the property mentioned by Mr. Foster, could be the same that was leased to Robinson by the Corporation. " Mr. Foster, Mr. Beaks, and other gentlemen, how ever, clearly identified it." Among the witnesses examined was a common councilman named STARMER, who had himself bought land of the Corporation for half it s value, and was frequently one of the referees who fixed its price, gives the following account of the principles upon which he acted. It is at least can did. He said that as " It was only Corporation property, he should not make the same calculation for a stranger as for a friend. That be should make a little difference, and sometimes a great difference, in favour of a friend, because it is only Corporation property. That relations of persons applying for leases have occasionally been on the references, but that in his opinion that was not fair. " Co;nmissioner Long—Do you think it fair, and con sistent with integrity and conscience, and the duty you owe the Corporation, that in letting estates a difference should be made between friends and strangers ? " Mr. Starmer._Yea. " Commissioner Long—Then you think that the pro- petty was given to the Corporation t give to their friends ? , " Mr. Starmer—lt is bona fide the property of the Corporation, and I think they have a right to it. My idea is that they have a right to do what they like with their own property." Mr. STARMER forgets that if his predecessors had had the same notions of duty towards the town, there would long ago have been no pro perty to deal with, and that 999 years must have passed before future STARMERS could have played the game into which he appears to have entered with so much zest. It is but fair to add, before we close this article, that some of the corporators expressed themselves greatly scandalised at this open confession of their brother dilenquent. Mr. Alderman WILLI MOTT thought it necessary to say that he dis approved of Mr. STARMER'S evidence, and was confident that he was never actuated by any such motives as those avowed by him. Unluckily speaking of a fine he had himself paid on the renewal of a corporation lease, he said , that it was " too mu c h for an old corporator,' ' an odd sort of expression to he used by a man professing to make no difference between corpo rators and strangers. We must close from lack of space, not lack of matter, for we might fill columns with similar details of rascality which only do not excite unmixed indignation because we feel that the reign of corruption is now over—that the people will shortly have the control of the property which belongs to them, and that place hunting Mayors, and gorman dizing Aldermen, will not be able to use for their own benefit funds intended for the ad vancement of public objects. It is this thought enables us to laugh where otherwise we should only feel disgust and indignation. Another public Meeting for the repeal of the Union and abolition of church cess, took place on Wednesday last at the St. James's parish school-room, Dublin. Messrs. O'CONNELL and FERGUS O'CONNOR were both present, and each tried to out-do the other in the fury of his advocacy of Repeal. DANIEL was the more energetic, but FERGUS was the more vituperative. DANIEL talked of the "poor, paltry creatures" about the Castle ; FERGUS of the " intellectual cripples" in the House of Lords. Each fractured his metaphor, each knocked down his man, DANIEL flooring KINGSTON, and FERGUS, SPRING RICE. Un willing, of course, to be behind-hand, when such fine, rollicking, Donnybrook-fair play was going forward among " the boys," " honest JACK LAWLESS," sprung forward, and with a generous ambition to outdo his two great Repeal rivals, remarked with singular polish of phrase that Mr. HILL's statement was " a base and deliberate falsehood—a downright lie," adding with a pith and energy that must have carried dismay to the hearts of DANIEL and FERGUS, that "if he (Mr. HILL) informed him of his author, he would retract the offensive expression, and ask pardon for using it ; but were he a Member of Parliament, he should fog him from one end of the House to the other, until he surrendered the name of his informant." What a pity JACK is not an M.P. ! Nothing else of moment took place at this Meeting, except the discovery made by a Gentleman named O'KEEFE ; to the effect, that O'CONNELL was a Cicero ; SHEIL, an Hortensius : and STEELE a Cato ! SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 20.-During last night it blew very heavy from S. W. to W. S. W., with severe squalls, and has continued all day from W. S. W.—Arrived the Lightning, from Smyrna. Remain, with the Jupiter, the Lord William Bentinck, the Ocean, and the Exmouth, with an American, from the westward. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 20.—1 t has blown trernendouey all list night and to day from S. W. to W., and several of the outward bound drove during the night. 7p, m.— The gale continues from W. Dzc. 19.—A strong gale from S. S. W., with heavy gales.—Arrived the Eliza, Pile, from Prince Edward's Islands. FALMOUTH, Disc. 19.—A violent gale all last night and to-day, from S. W. to W. S. W.—Arrived the Eve line, Friend, from Messina. PENZANCE, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Fountain, Ainslie, from Messina. BRISTOL, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Janetta, —, from Lisbon. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Castilian Maid, Scott, from Albea. TORBAY, DEC. I9.—Arrived off port the Aurora, Swaffim from Bilhoa. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Sparrow, from Lishon—sailed Bth lust. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Sandbach, Birp. ham, from Demerara ; C. R. C., Braid, from Messina ; and William IV., from Cadiz. NEWRY, DE% 19.—Arrived the Agnes, Malcolm, from St. Andrews, New Brunswick. DUBLIN, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Ward, Ennis, from St. Andrews. WATERFORD, DEC. 18.—Arrived the Sarah Maria Booth, from London. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. We are without any foreign arrivals, with the excep tion of a Lisbon mail of the 7th instant, which is an old date. THE FUNDS. The speech of Lord John Russell at Plymouth has had some effect on the funds this morning. Consols, which left off yesterday at 89+ 1 for the Account, opened at 891 1, and are at present 891 1, with a fine market. We have neither reports nor political news. The Foreign Market is inactive as yet; prices same as yesterday. The financial operations of the Bank in lending out two millions, the whole of which it is supposed will be taken by the great city capitalist, have also had :the tendency to improve the Funds this morning. Baron Lionel tie Rothschild left London yesterday for Paris. His departure is supplied to have reference to the great money speculation. HALF-PAST ONE. It is the current report that affairs with Russia have been adjusted. It is expected that Talleyrand will bring the speech of the French King with him. Consols continue steady at the morning price, S9i for Account. The Foreign Market also looks well.—Spanish 231 ; Portuguese, 57; Dutch, 50i I. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, Sq- 11. DEWSBURY.—The trade of this district con inues •ery flat indeed.— Wakefield Journal. During the last fortnight, the cholera has raged in the House of Correction, Wakefield. There have been four fatal cases.- Wakefield Journal. A correspondent assures us that there are at this time, within musket-shot of the bottom of St. James's -street, no less than 20 minor hells, in full ope ration, independent of the great Pandemonium, and the other established clubs at which gambling is permitted. There are ten Trade Unions no w esta bli s h e d at Mansfield, consisti ng of a great numb er o f mem b ers.— Nottingham Review. FINE ARTS. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SACRED ANNUALS. LONDON, itS3:l. These Illustrations, are brought out in vecl splendid style; each indiYidual picturp highly-coloured from designs—by far the tA i " part of them—supplied by Haydon, with es' planatory poetic notices prefixed, each of which is printed in a fanciful yellow type, and eV' rounded by a laurel wreath—Apollo's Delphic crown, we suppose, being alone considered worthy to encircle such rare gems of poesy' Those among the putthasers of Annuals wild are fond of show and glitter, will not fail to 101 this, for it will dazzle them to their hearC s content. In the cover only, there is nearly 5 1 much gold as would furnish an epaulette for 8 11 officer of the Guards. MY SKETCH- B OK. No. 3. Another of George Cruickshank's periodical issues of fun. The Fox and the Goose is so inimitable quiz, both in design and eiecutidni an the medicines supplied by the College of H ea lth in the New-road. A sly, shrewd fox, with his, tail peeping out under a coat of the very newest cut, is acting as auctioneer, and knocking down his infallible elixirs to a flock of geese who are crowding about him, each apparently anxious to become a purchaser. The Montpelier Rotunda has one or two caustic hits at the grim, olci Anglo-Indian frequenters of that fashionable place of resort. St. &oil hin's Chapel shows us a congregation of umbrellaed fanatics listen. ing to the ravings of a Professor of the Un' known Tongue, who is also holding forth under an umbrella. COSTUMES ON THE WESTERN COASI4 OF AFRICA. LONDON, 1833. An agreeable, unassuming little work, con• taining six coloured engravings of the various costumes worn by the Indigetes on the western shores of Africa. Some of these costumes are picturesque enough ; we speak, however, only of the male ones, for the female are barbarous and unsightly to a degree. The different literary explanations prefixed to each engraving, arc just what they should be, brief and pertinent. LITERATURE. A GUIDE TO FAMILY DEVOTIONS.- LONDON, 1833.— VIRTUE, IVY -LANE. The Rev. A. Fletcher is the author of this work, which contains, among much other value able matter, a hymn, a portion of Scripture, with suitable reflections, and a prayer, for every day in the year. It is published in parts, at a price adapted to the pockets of even the poorest classes of readers, and is embellished with a variety of appropriate illustrations, selected from the works of some of the most celebrated artists. As the book is characterised by a bland and benevolent spirit of piety, unalloyed by the slightest tinc ture of gloomy, sectarian bigotry, we recommend it with pleasure to the notice of our readers. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARI There was a good supply at tl trade was rather brisk in the earl sequently dull, at last week's pr Potatoes (cwt.) 3 0 to 5 0 Cabbages, Savoy (12) 1 6 3 0 Ditto Red 2 0 5 0 Cauliflowers 1 0 2 6 Horse Radish(bundle) 4 0 6 0 Celery 0 6 1 0 Carrots (12bunches) 4 0 7 0 Turnips Coleworts or Greens 2 6 4 0 Leeks 0 6 1 0 Endive 1 0 2 0 For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 8 2 6 English, Forced 1 0 2 0 Filberts Pine Apples (lb.) Melons (each) 4 0 8 r 'EN MARKET. ,his morning's market, and the rly part of the morning, but sub. ices. s.d. s.d. 1 Spinach (half- s i eve ) 0 6too 8 I Apples 2 0 7 0 (Pears 4O 80 Quinces 3 0 5 0 Onions ...... .... Onions ( pickling)....,, 2 6 3 6 Seville Oranges (100) ISweet Oranges.... 5OlO 0 Lemons 7 0 13 0 Walnuts Span. Chesnuts (peck) 4 6 6 0 French ditto French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Spanish klazienuts Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0 Sea Kail (puminet) 1 0 1 6 v. HAY M A RKETS.--LAt • per Load in 36 Tru,ses., CUMBERLAND. Supply limited. trade steady, and prices stationary.: Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay,,,,,„,,...., £3 5 to £3 10 New aleadow Hay 3 10 4 4 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and ttye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4 Clover Hay 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw £1 6toXI S 1 Wheat Straw... 1 8 110 SMITHFIELD. Best Hay ss. per load dearer than last quoted; prices other. wise stationary. Supply moderate, and trade dull. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to -C3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 10 4 4 Useful Old Ditto, 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and hye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4 ;;lover Hay (extra fine)...£s s... Generally 'tat Straw ....E1 4to £1 6 1 Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10 HUN GERFO RD. Hay ss. per load dearer than last quoted ; prices otherwise sta tionary. Supply rather limited, and trade dull Coarse Meadow Hay 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 3 19 4 5 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay 4 0 4 4 Clover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw ... £1 5 to£l 8I Wheat Straw t 8 1 10 PENRITH, DEC. 18.—Mr. James Brougham, M.P. for Kendal, is at present dangerously ill. his said that Dr. Holland arrived at Brougham H4ll yesterday, and started again for London this morning. Mr. Blamire, M.P. for East Cumberland, visited Mr. Brougham this day, and the Lord Chancellor is expected shortly. Very slight expectations are entertained of Mr. Brougham's recovery. THE ELOPEMENT.---The young parties who went off three or four weeks ago to tie the marriage knot at a relation's of the gentleman in Scotland (and whose union we saw advertised lately in one of the Scotch pipers) returned to this neighbourhood, after their trip, on Friday evening last. We presume the family of the bride will receive them graciously, when all matters are properly explained (that is, if any explanation at all be required in this instance) for the husband is of respectable connections, and bears, so far as we have ever heard, an irreproachable character.— Oxford Journal. By the Gazette of the 13th instant, it ap pears that the Tables for enabling persons to purchase Government Annuities, through the medium of Savings' Banks and Parochial Societies, are prepared; since then, we understand that they have been forwarded to every Savings' Bank in the kingdom ; and any parties desirous of forming a Parochial Society, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of the statute 3 William IV., c. 14, into effect, may be supplied with the tables, &c., and proper instruction, on application at the National Debt. office. The French Papers of Wednesday state that Don Carlos entered Spain on the 29th ult., with a force of 300 men, taking the direction of °reuse, but that the arrival of Morillo, with an overwhelming force, compelled him to throw himself once more into Portugal. A Mi guelite corps of 1,000 infantry and 100 cavalry covered his retreat. The reported violation of the Portuguese territory, mentioned in a late number of our paper, was, we find, correct. Generals Morillo and Rodil respectively crossed the Portuguese frontier in pursuit of Don Carlos, who, if arrested, would (a la le Due d'Enghien) h ave , been shot. Cuevillae, Villalobos, and other Carlist Chiefs, had been defeated at Valderas by Colonel }Joyous. Gene. ral Martinez de San Martin has been appointed Captain General of Valencia. General Vander was marching against the insurgents concentrated at Marella, who appear to be in considerabl e for ce . Ikl. tea was still i n o ffi ce on the 9th inst., but his remaining so for m any d ays was deemed imp oss ibl e . The Duc de San F ernan d o had Z decl in edea would, ent e r in g e rg into a s it w Pizarro. The Ba s que Provinc es an d B i scay are described as having become another Vende e . C ar li st guer ill as occupy nearly the whole country. G erman P apers to t h e - 14th bring the Speech of th e Ki ng o f Wirtemberg on closing the session of the St a t es . I t conta i ns not hi ng very remarkable, exc e pt t h e statement that the negotiations for establishing a u n if orm system o f tolls and cus'oms in said,tle n e i d try. The successor of M. eith er M. Bard ax i or M. Germany have been going on for 12 years. COURT The LORD wt eleven o' ' 51 4 Ward. C. 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