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ArTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES. This day is published, in One thick Volume, Bvo., illustrated with 1,24 l Engravings on Wood, price 50s. cloth lettered, DR. URE'S DICTIONARY of ARTS, MANUFACTURES, and MINES; containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice. " A great boon to the British Manufacturing public."— Adienokm. " The work should lie on the desk of every counting-house and wareheu,e in the kingdom, side by side with M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce.' "—Glasgow Chronicle. * a ," Subscribers are requested to complete their copies, as there are but few of the separate parts remaining en hand. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF LALLA ROOKH. This day is published, in Nyal Bvo., price One Guinea; or with India proof plates, Two Guineas. MOORE'S LALLA ROOKH. NINETEENTH EDITION. Splendidly illustrated with Thirteen highly-finished Engra vings, handsomely printed, in 1 vol. royal Bvo., bound in fancy cloth, lettered, with ornamental gilding. " The union of poetry and painting has rarely before pro duced so costly and so chaste a volume."—Monthly Chronicle. Also, an edition of the above Poem in foolscap, Bvo. with Four Engravings, after Westall's designs, price 10s. 6d. cloth lettered. _ _ _ _ _ _ Lately published, the Thirteenth Edition of MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES. Foolscap Svo. with engraved Titlo-page and Tignette, 10s. cloth lettered. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PRE3RUMS, %tick (though they are NO LOTTERIES) arcs- isTany possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEM BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, see NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons &sirous to purchase may receive, PRE •VIOUS to , oiving, any .rifer, the PROSPECTUS and PAR WITHOOrDELAY, a li ne T ULA ab, upon addres sin g , to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—TILE NEXT DISTRIBUTION eontains Pertioas of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOPSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. kc. _ . THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and gh,ares alearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will sacs❑ emir. TWEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. Trim EVENING, DEC. 19, 1839, Will Ise performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. 9ir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Arderson; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Brougham; Faulk , land. Mr. Cooper ; Acres, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. C. Jones ; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. _ - Captain Macheath, Mr. iir7iia;risoniPeachusn, Mr. W. Farren ; Leckit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. 1),,cht123, Mrs. C. Jones ; Pelly Yeaehiam, Miss Rainforth; Luoy L.ekit, Madame Testris. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Dress Boxes, 75; Second Priee, 3s. 6d. ; Firstgand Second (lireles, ss. ; Selma Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ; Gallery, Is. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—tlie performances to 4 orivileace at Seven .'Clock. 'Pickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Foltz., where Season Tickets way be had upon applioation. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, iti7, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The revival of Buckstone's " Alselard and Heloise " having been attended with extraordinary success, it will ie repeated To-night. __ THIS EVENING, Dim. 19, Will be acted Buckstone's Drama of THE DREAM AT SEA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Smith, and Ross ; Misses Martin and Grant. 4er which, THE TWO PAGES OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. Frederick, Mr. Dale ; the Pages by Mrs. Vining and Miss 31artin. To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE. Dat_Vl ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE T0.4108.1t0W. 43 minutes after 1 I Evening l7 minutes after 2 LONDON MURADAY, DECEMBER 19, 1839. • It is so obviously the policy of the Tories to sc.4e dise.ensibn between the Whig Ministers and the working classes, that all the observations of the Tory journals on the subject of the Chartists should be looked on with much suspicion. We would exempt, however, from all suspicion the hope expressed by the Standard, that mercy will be ex tended to the prisoners at Monmouth, should they .ce found guilty ; but all provocations to carry the Jaw . unrelentingly into execution proceeding from the Tories should be disregarded. They will utter taunts about favouring sedition, being guilty of misprision of treason, and a host of other un flunded insinuations ; but if Ministers can be p.qued into a particular line of conduct by such ren.arks, then are they virtually under the guidance and command of the Tories. It would answer the nrpose of the Tories to make the Whigs as un pet,)nlar as possible, and all their advice which has any such tendency should be rejected as the temp tltion of an enemy. We have no wish whatever to mitigate Mr. FROST'S offence. We conceive it to be a inti c;i wore serious offence, indeed, than trea on ; for that which the law calls treason may be— ' as In the case of calling on the people to procure the Repeal of tile Corn-laws, and as in the case of banishing .JAMES ll.—a great virtue. Mr. FitosT and his companions have, in our judgment, according to all present appearances, done much worse than commit a mere political offence. The rioters at Newport attempted the lives, and would have injured the property, of their fellow-creatures. That is a crime per se—not the consequence of any fictitious tie between subjects and Sovereigns, de rived from feudal times and feudal principles, and is a much greater crime than can possibly grow out we such passed - away relations. At the same time , as t 2le humanity of this age has justly put an end to the punishn4ent of death for offences equally great as L. 1 ` `tat of Mr. FROST, we trust that it will not slumber' in his case. When forgery, that crime which mey . carry extensive ruin through several families,. is no longer punished with death, why should such a ridiculous plot as that at Newpurt be so punished, on the technical description that it was levying war against the Sovereign, and on the old feudal notion that levyinlb war against the feudal Lord was a great offence ? The same untiring benevolence which lists struck the scourge out of the hand of the slave , driver, -and the fetters off the slaves' limbs, will, we " e-hop e , not be weary of well-doing, when it may pro.')ably save the lives of some erring politicians, who thought, possibly, that they were labouring in the cause of freedom and humanity. We know it is said that unless such offences be severely punished, there will be no security for so -1 y ciet . But the sam e reason h as a l ways b een urge d to repe l every amelioration of the criminal code. lien who are humane Irom principle are not to be I t u rned from a rig ht course by such puerile rea soning. If the security of soci e t y —if' she respect 1.,, r mutual rights—rested on no better foundation than the fear of the axe or the halter, they would be as 1:...eb1e as the dread of death in all aspiring and ambitious' men. But we are not reduced to the ne cessity of arguing this qu estion theoretically. year after year have plots and conspiracies taken place in France—year after year have the heads of poll. tical offenders fallen under the guillotine—and year after year have outrages been committed and fresh victims found for the scaffold. Notwithstanding the punishment of FIESCHI, IVIOREAU, PEPIN, and a crowd of others, scarcely a week has elapsed since a fresh attempt was made with an infernal ma chine, intending probably to blow up Louis PHI LIPPE ; and at this moment the French Police are engaged pursuing the threads of a conspiracy far more dangerous than the open and avowed combi nation of Chartists in England. It is not the way to ensure respect for human life to shed blood on the scaffold, and loth theory and experience prove that the safety of thrones, and the security of sub jects' rights, are not promoted by sang'iinary punish ments. Let us also remind the public that at present there is going on in society a somewhat fearful contest between property and rank on one side, and industry and numbers on the other. As long as the numbers cherished what, perhaps, may be called an old-fashioned, if not superstitious reverence, for rank and property, there was no danger in enforcing the law against them. They then enforced it against themselves. Their opinions, their affections, their reverence, were on the side of the law, and severity, if not wise, was at least safe. But much concur rent testimony now tends to prove that this super stitious reverence has almost passed away. The authority of prescription is very much weakened, if it be not quite at an end. Neither the affection nor the reverence of the masses is any longer enlisted on the side of the law, and how they are to be preserved in obedience is a ques tion well calculated to excite reflection, not to say apprehension. The result of the contest may be to give the upper hand to numbers. Notwith standing the great advantages of discipline, or ganization, and wealth, we believe there is no ex ample of the bulk of a nation being long kept in subjection by a small portion of that nation, parti cularly when the minority derive their chief instru ments, the military,for a system of 'coercive rule from the coerced masses. In India the races are different, the knowledge of the Europeans is superior to that of the natives, but here there is no difference of race, and the numbers are not excluded from any kind of knowledge. We do not deny that the little we can see into futurity excites rather dread than hope, and counsels, like the experience of the past, that the law be executed with great mercy rather than with great rigour. It has now become a very general belief that the Tories, as politicians, have been very much injured by their own friends. The No Popery cry which the zealots, both of the Pulpit and the Press, have raised on their behalf, leads so directly and imme diately to the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act, to political persecution on account of religion, and to civil war, for the mere purpose of securing the ascendancy of the corrupted Anglican Church, that moderate men draw back alarmed. It would be impossible for Sir ROBERT PEEL, were he to be forced into office by the intolerants, to follow any other line of policy, and that policy would have no other results. On Sunday, the Spectator, a journal which is at present extremely anxious to make out a case against the Whigs, assured its readers that several influential gentlemen would forsake the Tories, rather than countenance the persecution which is involved in the principles on which the Tories are to seize office : Men of sense, it said, scout the idea of danger to the " British Protestant Constitution" from the admis sign of Mr. Wyse and Mr. Sheil to the Privy Coun cil ; yet daily and weekly has the appointment of these two gentlemen to subordinate offices in the Govern ment been paraded as proof of a deadly conspiracy against the Protestant Church ; and because the Queen's declaration of her intended marriage contained nothing affronting to a large proportion—fully one third—of her European subjects, the readers of Con servative newspapers and the listeners to Conservative orators have been assured that the omission proceeded from a treacherous disposition in the Government to undermine the Protestant faith. The Times leads on the Tory Press in striving to stir up " Protestant" animosity to Catholics ; a very able and distinguished member of the party, Mr. Thesiger, dwelt upon the same subject in his recent electioneering speeches at Newark ; and now the -Morning Post informs us that Sir Robert Peel is about to strike a blow at the Mi nistry, not for their incapacity and faults as statesmen, but because they are " minions of Romanism." It is useless, therefore, for cautious Conservatives to pretend that only the Bradshaws and Robys rail at Romanism, and that those of highest influence in the Opposition discoun tenance the proceedings of the " Protestant" party. The contrary is seen to be the truth ; and to this con viction may be attributed the revival of Anti-Tory feel ings, which our private information, as well as observa tion of public affairs, induces us to believe has actually taken place to a considerable extent : not respect for Ministers, but abhorrence of Toryism. "We will not allow this High Church faction again to ride rough-shod over the country : dissent from the Church shall not be treated as equivalent to disaffection to the State." This, or of similar import, is the language of some men of weight, hitherto accGunted Conservative, but in whom inclination to resist the reinstatement of High Churchism is stronger than aversion to the official Whigs. Both in and out of Parliament Sir Robert Peel will expe rience the effects of their displeasure. And if the. blow" he means to strike be levelled at Ministers for their refusal to act upon " Protestant Ascendancy" principles, he will do well to prepare for its recoil. We cannot doubt the correctness of the view of the Spectator, having long ago warned the bigots that they would alarm all moderate men, and we are glad to have such a testimony to their failure. For many months, and even years, the Times and the rest of the Tory journals have been bullying the public, and bullying the Ministers, to adopt a per secuting line of policy, and just as they announce their success—just as they boast of being able to kick out the Ministers—they are obliged to retreat, by the defection of their presumed friends, and their weapons fall from their nerveless grasp. This is not the first time that the Leading Journal has seen its efforts to bring about a particular line of policy completely fail ; nor is this the last time, if it pro ceed as at present, that its violence in error will make it the laughing-stock of all reasonable men. In another part of our Paper will be found a highly interesting report of the Edinburgh meeting, held for the purpose of taking into consideration the case of JoHN THOROGOOD. The number of persons assembled on this occasion, is stated by one paper to have been 1,500, by another 2,000 ; and seems to have been limited only by the dimen sions of the Church in which the meeting took place. Such zeal in the cause of conscience is honourable to the people of Edinburgh. The Scotch of former times suffered much in that cause. In no corner of the world were the vials of persecu tion poured forth as they were in Scotland ; and that too, be it ever borne in mind, by the very Church which is now thirsting for the blood of the martyr of Chelmsford, and others who, like him, refused to bow the knee to the idol which it has set up. But if the Scottish people suffered much, they also did much in defence of their religious rights. With them it was not " all talk and no do,"—they drew their swords, fought like men who felt that something dearer than life was at stake, and never retired from the field until they had rendered the cause of conscience triumphant in their native land. There is many a bright page in the history of Scot land, but none so bright as that which records her struggles for religious freedom. The day, we trust, is long gone by when such struggles could be necessary to establish an inalien able right ; but were it to return , we are well p er . suaded that in Scotland the spirit would neither be found unwilling, nor the flesh weak. We have an assurance of this in the quick and lively sympathy with which the pulse of Scotland always beats when she hears the cries of the persecuted. Mr. DAVID URQUHART has addresse d a l o n g exposition of the transactions in Central Asia from 1834—the date, we presume, of the rise of his po litical eminence—to 1839, to the merchants of Glasgow, in which he particularly dwells upon the dispositions of Russia, France, and Prussia towards our empire in India. The ground gone over in this " Exposition" has been so very often trodden of late, that we deem it unnecessary to do more than glance at it in our columns. Mr. URQUHART sets out with tellin g the Glasgow " bodies" that I PETER the Great of Russia was the first to plan the conquest of India, and that he was only pre vented by t o appearance in P nr. NADTR S HA H, who, as all the wor'rl ' R :now the trouble, by overturning iiiniselt the Mogul em pire. Russia, baulked in her first design of con quest, was succeeded by France, who, by the merest accident, and quite unintentionally on the part of the victor, was beaten out of the field by England. According to Mr. URQUHART, Russia, so far from abandoning the idea of driving the English out of the East, planned the German Commercial League for the express purpose of giving Prussia and the German States an interest in her oriental triumphs, by providing them with new and profitable markets for their manufactures, and enabling them to com pete successfully with English commercialists throughout Central Asia. France, he maintains, adopts the policy of Russia in the hope of sharing in the spoils, and especially in the confidence of re gaining a part of the territory she has lost. Thus Russia, Prussia, and France are represented as bound up together by the common ties of a common interest, to act in perpetual hostility to England, who is said not to have the remotest idea of the ruin by which she is menaced. As for Russia, " the accomplishment of her mighty destinies" are predicted by the same political seer to be marked by " Calcutta and Constantinople, Alexandria and Delhi, and other cities scarcely less famed than these, becoming aeries of the Imperial Eagle !" This is an uncomfortable prediction for the good folks of Glasgow ; but if it will at all tend to con sole them, we venture to predict in our turn, that it will not be fulfilled within the range of our pro phetic vision, which extends beyond the destinies of the next generation, and that which will succeed it. We are quite as jealous of the designs of Russia as Mr. URQUHART, but to counteract those de signs the best course is to avoid ridiculous exag geration. The interests of France and Russia are not, and never have been identical in the East. France knows that she could not figure as the ally of Russia in any plan of oriental conquest, and that the genius of her people and the ideas of her Government could not harmonize fora single day in the joint possession of territory with the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. If any crumbs were to fall from the table of a Russian conqueror she is quite sensible that England only could pick them up. France, forgetful for a moment of her true policy, has of late abetted the views of Russia, in the West, and at Constantinople, and sorely has she suffered for it. At this moment her dynasty, purchased by a revolution, is threatened by the CZAR, who requires only the nod of England to plunge her main into the horrors of another civil war. By adopting the BONAPARTIST family into his own, he has indirectly flattered the vanity of the French King-makers, and offered a sort of pledge to Europe that he would maintain the members of that family in a condition to assume at any time their pretensions to the Throne of Louis PHILIPPE. In fact, there are few sacrifices which the Emperor NICHOLAS would not make at this moment to pur chase the alliance of England against France. In the next place it is not the fact that Prussia is indifferent to the aggressions of Russia. Already she trembles as she contemplates the overwhelming power of her gigantic neighbour. That she is not over friendly to England, proves no more than that she dreads the freedom of our institutions, and feels a conviction that in a struggle with Russia she could obtain from us but small assistance. If the truth were known, her sympathies would be found to lean more towards Paris than St. Petersburgh. If we look to India there is nothing very dis couraging in the political horizon. Our empire was never more firmly consolidated, nor our moral influence greater in the East than it is at this mo ment. Russia has encountered us there, and all Europe is a witness of her humiliation. In Persia, in Affghan, at Herat, Cabool, and Lahore, our triumph has been most complete. This surely ought to console us for some disappointments, in cluding the non-appointment of the Editor of the Portfolio to succeed Lord PALMERSTON as Foreign Secretary. Brussels and German papers have been received this morning. M. LIBE AU returned to Brussels on Saturday from his mission to the Germanic Diet. On Sunday a Te Deum was performed in the Church of St. Gudule in Brussels, in honour of the anniversary of the forty-ninth birth-day of King LEOPOLD. All the Foreign Ministers and the Members of the Cabinet were present. The fol lowing are extracts from these journals : BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—The Independent has the fol lowing letter from Ghent, dated the 14th December : The agent of a house at Liverpool is actually in this city ; he offers to our manufacturers to export all their superfluous stock to Singapore, Marseilles, and Batavia, insuring them against all loss above 10 per cent. The journals of Ghent announce the departure of a vessel from that place to Rotterdam, with a cargo of calicos, linens, &c. Without drawing any inferences from this act, or pretending to give it more importance than it really has, we mention it as a proof that the old markets for the manufactures of Ghent are not so com pletely lost as has been asserted. BRUSSELS, DEC. 17.—The Chamber of Representa tives not being able to proceed to business yesterday, for want of a sufficient number of members, was ad journed to this day. A letter from Cobourg, of the Bth December. says— " The publication of the intended marriage of Prince Albert to the Queen of England, took place yesterday, accompanied with a salute of the artillery of the Cita del. The principal public officers, and some deputa tions, went yesterday from Gotha to Cobourg. Every body rejoices at the happiness which awaits our amiable young Prince, who is so much and generally beloved. Count Le lion left Brussels this morning to return to Paris. We are assured that the Ministry is on the point of laying before the Chambers a complete project of law for indemnifying the sufferers by the events of 1830, including those of the seige of Antwerp. The printer of the Meplastopheles has been to-day found guilty by the Court of Assize for Brabant of calumny, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, a fine of 1,000 francs, and deprivation of his civil rights for five years. A general subject of conversation here is an attempt made by an Englishman, named Murray, to murder nis wife while she was taking an airing on horseback on the Boulevards. It seems that the lady has left her husband, and refuses to return to him. The affair is in the hands of justice, and a large reward is offered. BELGIAN /. UNDS—BnusseLe, DEC. 17 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ....... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 Soper Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. 7534 National Seeiety . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Dec. 17. DUTCH FUNDS.—Axerreanate, Dec. 17. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Mon 51)6 ey 5215. Ditto, ditto 5 per cent Amon Syndic,4 )6 per cent 92 93 Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 70% 'lO% Cominerch.l Company, 4 , ,, per cent 165)6 166% Ditty (1632 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1 8 37, 5 per cent. 95)4 1,6 Loon 1837, 5 per cent. — Exchange on London, One month I 1 9714 Two months ...... —Dutch Papers, Dec. 17. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, DEC. 14. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An. 10-Russian Loan PIN 106-X Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 10234 10 - 2!‘ Russian 5 per Cent. Hop and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9B 97% Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2)4 pe. Cent. 51)4 51 Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish Bonds New 1 icket Anglu.i;anish Loan, 3 per Cent 7l 'k% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... WO% 100 S, , anish, New 3 per Cents. 22 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 8 rive per Cents. Motalliques Boar per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares PrussianS t.Sc Ici.Sc Englishh ~ 4)4 Loan, 1930, 1630 '"• 4l, gemeine Zeitung, Dec, 14. Money. PRUSSIAN FUNDS. — BERLIN, Dec. 14. 103% 102)6 Lechan . ge on London, three months... 6 21% —Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 15. per cent. 11Bf0:3;2iI6 The Paris Journals of Tuesday state, that to the other difficultie s of the Government, is now added the distressed condition of the working classes, hundreds of thousands of whom are without bread or employment. Upward s of 80,000 persons in Paris are reduced to subsist on public charity ; in the department of the Lower Seine the working n - , - -Alp, . ,;.;. 4111 flfv EVENING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1839. people srn opt ;n cronifl iry he to so!irit nitnq. beinQ ashamed to appear in the day ; while in Lyons, and in all the large towns in the south of France, the misery of the humbler classes of arti zans is fast driving them to desperation. To con struct and maintain an overwhelming naval arma ment ; to keep up immense military establishments ; to support in useless splendour a mushroom aristo cracy, with no estates but their umbrellas, the working classes of France are robbed of the fruit of their industry, and thus subjected to the horrors of periodical famine, and the shame of beggary. We are not surprised at the frequency of plots and conspiracies among them, when we reflect upon the wretchedness to which they are reduced to maintain armies of idle, profligate, spies and informers---vampires whose abodes are the graves of freedom and public virtue. The Scriptures tell us that if men work not, nei ther should they eat, but one of the great objects been to secure the mono opfolayllofGeoavteinrigimetnots has the idle. Having robbed the poor of their equal right of inheritance to the soil, they have apportioned them toil without reward as the penalty of a conscious existence I The Court of Peers sat on Tuesday, when it was resolved to proceed forthwith to the trial of M. BLANQUI and thirty-three other alleged con spirators. There is nothing new about the Bonapartist conspiracy in the French journals of Tuesday. The affair is considered, however, of the utmost im portance. It does not appear that the papers seized at the office of the Reparateur de Lyons have any thing to do with it, except a print representing the triumphal entry of the Duke of BORDEAUX into Paris, and a copy of ARMAND LAIT'Z'S pamphlet. The co-operation of the Bourbonists and Bona partists in this plot is certainly the strongest thing about it. Letters from Naples state that the Infante Don SEBASTIAN and his wife have been treated with great distinction by the Neapolitan Government. No further intelligence had been received from Africa, except that the ex-Bey ACHMICT had cer tainly taken the field, and was in the vicinity of Constantine. The colonists were greatly dissatisfied with the conduct of the French troops. Preparations of every kind are proceeding with the utmost activity to reinforce the Army in Africa. Be sides the surgeons of the corps of troops that have already sailed, and are on the point of doing so, applica tions have been made to the hospitals for young men who will set out immediately. A sufficient number has not been found in the faculty of Strasburg, and at the Val de Grace. Yesterday, at half-past one o'clock, there w.s a great Council of Ministers at the Palace. At noon, Count Appony and Lord Granville went to the Cabinet of Marshal Soult, in the offices of the Fo reign Department. The Monileur of to-day, the 17th, contains various judicial appointments. It has no news whatever, either from Africa or the East.—Le Commerce. SPAIN.—The Eco d'Aragon of the 12th instant pub lishes an intercepted document, purporting to have emanated from Cabrera, which enjoined the families re siding in the district of Segura, whose sons or relatives were serving in the Queen's ranks, to repair, in twenty four hours to that fort, in order to take out passports for Madrid, the place fired by Cabrera for their resi dence. Those who should decline obeying that order were to be shot without respite. This decree, dated Olieta, the 29th ult., was signed by the " Commander- General Liangostera." The Eco then states, that, during the last two or three days, many families, driven from their homes by the Carlists, arrived in Saragossa. They were all provided with passports delivered to them for Madrid, by the Governor of Segura. The third di vision of the Queen's army, stationed at Alcoriza, had been directed to proceed to Ejulve, Palomar, and Cabra, for the purpose of intercepting the mountain road through which the garrison of Segura was supplied with provisions. _ INUNDATIONS IN ITALY.—The Milan Gazelle of the 9th inst., states that part of the province of Mantua still remaining under water, it was impossible to form an exact opinion of the extent of the damages occasioned by the late inundations of the Po and Oglio. It had been, however, ascertained that within its territory 5,547 dwellings had been inundated, 3,607 abandoned, 1,021 so much injured as to require to be propped up, and 709 demolished. 6,519 individuals were left with out shelter, and 5,024 without any means of existence. BO URS E.—PARts, TUESDA2, Dan. 17. First Highest Lowest Lust Price Price. Price Price. French 5 per Cents lll ! 1 5 ... 112 ... 111 80 ... 1 2 25 4 per Cents lOl 90 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Ctrs, au Mr! 4U tit/ 40 5 , 1 ,10 Bank of trance 293a Belgian 5 per Cents lo l 3i ... 101 N ... 10 ii ... 10;14 3 per Cents 7l 80 ... 71 se ... 71 80... 71 80 Bank BlO ... 835 ... SlO ... 81 1 Spanish Ac ive .. Passive 6 ... 6i i i ... 6 ... 6 Portuguese 3 per Cents 23i ... 23% ... 23% ... 2.3 q Nicacolit.iii Roman IOIY4 ... 101% ... 10i% ...101% Madrid journals of the 10th inst. have come to hand, but their contents are not of the slightest moment. It was asserted that the Carlist army com manded by CABRERA, ►were suffering from want of provisions, and consequently, that there was no truth in the accounts of the inexhaustible stores laid up at Cantavieja and Morella. ESPARTERO maintained his positions, by which the Carlists were closely blockaded. The Five per Cent. Actives were, on the 10th, in slight demand on the Bourse for 27 1-16 cash. The following parag,raph relative to the settle ment of the Eastern Question is from the Augs burg Gazette of the 14th instant, received this morning : " TURKISH FRONTIER, DEC. I.—England, Austria, and France have lately resolved to declare to Mehemet AU, Ist. That if he wished to treat directly with the Porte nobody would hinder him ; but that the sanction of the great powers would not be given to any peace, unless tounded on an equitable basis. 2d. That no coercive measure would be adopted against him, unless the powers should be obliged to prevent a new attack on the Porte—the advance of the army of Ibrahim into Asia Minor." RAILWAY CALENDAR FOR 1840.—This is a very comprehensive and useful Railway Compen dium, and has been prepared with much care, and evidently by one acquainted with the subject. It contains a map, showing the comparative lengths of the principal railways in Great Britain, distin guishing by different colours those not yet opened, those opened in part, and those opened through the whole line ; and below it gives the actual length of each, with the number of shares, the amount paid on each, and the total amount of capital in railways, amounting nearly to the enormous sum of sixty millions sterling. It will be seen from the map, that the longest line laid down is that from London to Yarmouth, being 1261 miles, and the longest railway yet completed is the London and Birmingham, the actual expense of which, up to December, 1838, is put clown at 4,983,8491. Th e price is moderate, and we can safely recom mend the work to public notice. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE VERSUS EGYPT. —A pamphlet has been published under this title, the object of which is to deprecate the efforts now making to establish a speedy communication with India via Egypt, and to remind the English public that much of England's maritime greatness is due to the commerce she has maintained with India by the Cape of Good Hope. The author is alarmed less those efforts should send back ttie commerce with India to the old route of Alexan dria and the Red Sea. But as far as these efforts have yet gone, they are confined to the convey ance of passengers, letters, and the very lightest species of merchandize. The number of steam vessels proposed to be employed on the Compre hensive Scheme is only four, and admitting the pos sibilitytie ofl tchoettfoena,rssougfFarr,edreicriec, pepper, spices, &c.,k Scheer, Esq., being ultimately r ea li se d , t h e d ay mu st be very dista nt when which are b roug h t f rom I n di a , can be conv e y e d cheaper by th e route o f t h e Red Sea, with tw o , and o or a perhaps cons additionalconsiderable ea laud carria g e, a r loadings riae and unloadings, , by than wh o ll y sea round th e C ape of G oo d Hope.° The doubtful state of Egypt which Mr. Scheer uses as an argu ment against the proposed speedy communication by the Red Sea is an effectual bar against sending rich and heavy cargoes by that route. Honouring his patriotic zeal in the cause of the maritime and com mercial supremacy of Great Britain, his fears that they will be injured by the proposed comprehensive plan of communicating with India by steam, and crossing the Isthmus of Suez, appear to us wholly unfounded. We must express our gratification at seeing that the Comprehensive Scheme is warmly advocated by the inhabitants of Calcutta ; but we inno: r-nent . nrd- r , .rrrrriondation that the :)iders o u Uovernment may uitimately give them. They ought immediately to carry their own project into effect, with a full reliance on the Government coming into their terms when they have demon strated its advantages. Let them only show by experiments that they can regularly and certainly convey letters and passengers from Calcutta to London in 38 days, and the Government will be compelled to employ them. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind S. S E.—Arrived the Mul grave, from Quebec ; Grace, Frost, from Richebucto. Livituroot... Dec. 18.—Wind S. S. E., fresh.—Sailed the Rosendale, Friend, for Bahia; William Sharpies, Junes, Bombay; Pakenham, Lloyd, Pernambuco; British Ame rican, Pritchard, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, the Sarah, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Lanark, Quebec ; Avon, ditto ; Ranger, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Francis, ditto ; Tagliafero, Alexandria. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.--Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Richard Reynolds, Bell, from Miramichi. FALMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind S. S. E. to S. E., fresh gales.—Arrived the Corsair, Greig, from New Orleans— sailed Bth October. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Velocity, from Newfoundland ; Isabella Ellen, Wakeham, Sc. Mary's River, Gambia; Mayflower, Wakeham, St. Michaels. ILFRACOMBE, DEC. I7.—Arrivcd the Fame, Rawson, from Teneriffe. DUBLIN, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Richard Watson, Tate, from Quebec; Mayflower, Malaga. LIMERICK, DEC. 15.—Arrived Thetis, Sealy, Miramichi. BRISTOL, Dec. 17.—Sailed Thomas, Bury, Jamaica. ABERAVON, DEO. 17.—Off-port, Howard, Quebec. MILFORD, Dac. 17.—Arrived the Julia, Rich, from Quebec, with loss of sails. NEWHAVEN, DEC. 18.—The Ruby, Mowbray, from London to Cardiff, which put in here on the Bth instant, having been on shore, sailed on the 16th, after being re pi ed. PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—The H. Z., De Vries, from Havre to Amsterdam, was totally wrecked near Mount Pier this morning. RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, DEC. 13.—A boat 14 feet keel, 74 feet beam, with a coat of resin outside, and painted green inside, was picked up off the Point of Ayre on the 16th ult. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY ) HUNGERFORD MARKET. The supplies were to a fair extent, and the demand was good —prices steady. Turbot ss. to 21s. ; Cod 3s. to 1.25. ; Soles 10d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters 10d. t o 3 s . 6d. B ee f lid. to ; Mutton 7i-d. to Bid. ; Veal Bd. to 9d. ; Pork 7d. to Bd. per lb. Vegetables in fair supply, and prices rather on the advance. CITY FISH MARKET. There were fair supplies of most descriptions of Fish, and the demand was in proportion ; prices much as last quoted. Tur bot, bs. to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to 12s. ; Lobsters, 9d. to 3s. 6d. ; Soles, 6d. to 4s. per pair ; Oysters, 16s. to 48s. per bushel. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but the demand was good prices much as before. Hay 50s. to 85s. ; Clover 90s. to 113 s, Straw 30s. to 40s. per load. TEA MARKET. The holders were firm ; much depends on the next news we have from Canton. TALLOW MARKET. _ Scarcely any business done in this department, and the quo tation of P. Y.C. is 48s. 3d. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little done in any description of produce, and prices were unaltered. B.P. Sugar sells slowly at 60s. for Brown ; 635. for middling ; and 68s. for fine ; 283 bags Ceylon Coffee, not a prime parcel, sold at about 100 s. ; 2,100 bags 9d. duty, went first at about 445. ; in Rum, Rice, Cocoa, and Spices, there was but very little done. Fur to-morrow we have public sales of 19,000 lags Java Rice. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TIVRLTI O'CLOCK. Ship letters have been received this morning from Quebec, St. Mary's, Newfoundland, Havannah, Bom bay, 27th August, and Manilla. A French mail has arrived, and one from Ostend. The letters and papers from the Post-office were de , livered late this morning. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yes terday's date. Accounts from Cobourg of December 8, state that on the above day the intended marriage of Prince Albert with the Queen of England was proclaimed by the sound of cannon from the forts. Already the superior functionaries and the deputations have pro ceeded from Gotha to Cobourg. The Dutch mail of the 18th inst. has arrived, which brings a decline in the Dutch Funds, owing to a report that the Second Chamber will reject the loan of fifty six millions. Several sellers appeared in the market. Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 51 13-16 ; Five per Cents. 98* ; Ardoin's Spanish 22i- 9-I6—(Prices from Am sterdam Dec. 17.) The above Funds have fallen about per cent. Dis counts on Holland 5 per cent. The discussion on the loan was to take place this day in the Second Chamber. The exchange from Hol land comes 11.97) cents. Great disappointment has prevailed this morning among the merchants by the non-arrival of the British Queen. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the same quotations they lel t off yesterday-92 to i f for the Account ; Re duced closed at 901 ;at present 901 4, with little doing. Exchequer Bills, 5 to 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 177 k 1781 ; India Stock for the opening, 253 to 255. In the Foreign Market Spanish heavy closed at 231 24 ;at present 23i ; Portuguese left off 331 34, continues the same ; Three per Cents, 23i 24 ; Co lombian rather lower, 251 ; Brazilian, 71i, also lower; Mexican, 28i 29 ; Spanish Passive, .5 1 1 bit ; Deferred, 10i ; Dutch has rather receded owinc , to the decline of the Dutch Stock a t A ms t er d am ; T wo-and-a-Half per Cents. left off 531 -a, at present 53k 1 ; Five per Cents., 991 s ; closing price, opened rather higher, 99x13-. The Continental intelligence from Paris is of minor importance with the exception that great distress and poverty prevails in several parts, as well as a great gloom in commercial affairs. PRICES O STOCKS THIS Bank Stock '117% _ DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX. India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9040; : Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. — , South Sea Stock — ,3s, per Cent. — ? Old Annuities B. Ditto Red. 98% 9 New Ditto New 34 per Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ...... 5 .: die. Jan. 5, 1860 -- Ditto Small 4 2 dis. Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860. . Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1850 Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, 1880 . — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 92 !r", 1 4 RICES OF FOREIGN FL/ NOS THIS DAI AT ONE 0 (A.M.. li Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds DIU. ACCOII 11 t - Portuguese Bonds. arazilia o Bonds __. Ditto , Vecount 3tienos 'tyres Bonds Ditto Accoun` Ditto, 3 per Cent.... 23 Ditto •Cct:oant - . ,ittoACcount Ilhilian 3oiid . — , Prussian Bonds D•tta to,cc:. nt — Russian Bonds, 1822 Colutnt v. - ..E.:tids 21.74 2 .Ditto Account Ditto .>,c;.c, nt — Ditto Metallic :.cl.l - r: ir 3 7(18,1824 I.;itta Acco.i it 24% Ditto Account .Tanish . So 1 . — Passive to Ditto ,fr..:.-t..:c nt — 'Deforred ln% Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ---- 4 per cent —f. —c. Ditto Account — ---- 3 per cent. Bf. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent ' ----- Exchange. 251. 40c. Ditto Account Ditto Account —, Ditto, 5 per cent • 99% k '<oanolitan —. Ditto Acc0unt........... ... eitiCES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. — - - Fe; Share Groat Western Railway Company 65 584 9 Ditto New Shares Rs lgn ton Railwa‘ London and Blac kwall Railway l5 1 2 % PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 17. 3 per Cent. Consols l% per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, IR3O 34 or Cent. Debentures... 91 National Insurance Company Bank Stock ... — City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Stock - Royal Canal Stock HALF--PAST OIVE. All speculations, both in the British and Foreign Markets, appear to be at a stand still, and we cannot quota a feature during the course of the morning worth attention in either of the Markets, with the exception that Consols have rather improved since the opening price, and may be quoted at present 944 for the Account ; Reduced, 0034 ; Exchequer Bills, 5 3 dis. ; India Bonds, 8 dis. ; Bank Stock, 177:}. In the Foreign Market, scarce anything doing. Spanish Active, 231 ; Portuguese 33i ; Three per Cents., 23 ; Colombian, 244 ; Belgian 101 1 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents., 533 53, a fall of about 3 per cent. since yesterday. The British Queen has not yet arrived. ThE LATE BOW -STREET OFFICERS.—The claims of the officers formerly attached to this establish ment, under the directions of the Magistrates, have at length been recognised by the Government. The com pensation afforded to them was fixed as follows :—To Ruthven, the senior officer, a pension of 2301. a-year ; and to Gardner, Ballard, Goddard. and Keys, a pension of 1001. a year each ; to Fletcher, who had served only ten years, the sum of 1501., without any retired allow ance ; and Shackell, whose length of service was also limited, has been made an inspector of the G Division of police with a promise of speedy promotion. FUTURE PROPERTY OF INSOLVENTS— Scarcely a day passes that applications are not made to the Insolvent Debtors' Court respecting subsequently acquired property, and orders are made on the subject. The publicity given to the cases has occasioned many applications. ST. GEORGE'S, SOUTHWARK.--Yesterday a meeting of the inhabit an t s o f thi s par i s h too k p l ac e In the Vestry Room, pursuant to a recommendation o f a meeting of the Clergy, Churchwardens, Overseers, and Sidesmen, held on Wednesday last, for the purpose ?f adopting the most efficient means to prevent the conti nuance of the system of Sunday trading, whlch has , long been carried on i n th e p a rish, and mare particu larly in the poorer parts of it. CHANCERY CO 1-.71.Vi LIND L CI HIS DA' .` Ll.l ~.~• The further arguments in this case occupied his Lord ship the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The resumed arguments in the case of Knight v. Knight, occupied the Court th while of the day. VICE.CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) NOKES V. WHARTON. This case came before the Court this morning upon motion to dissolve aninjunction which his Honour granted on Saturday last, restraining the defendant from selling Pope's Villa, at Twiekerham, or the fur niture thereof. It appeared that the plaintiff, some time since, agreed to purchase the property in question, but not being enabled to raise the whole of the purchase money he applied to a gentlemen in the City, who agreed to advance the money required upon the plaintiff executing a conveyance to him of the property. The conveyance was executed, and the de fendant was made a trustee of the property for the pur pose of selling it, should the money not be repaid to Mr. Thornton in six months. That time had long since gone by, and the property was advertised for sale in July last, but in consequence of some arrangement between the parties it was put off. The sale of the property had been again advertised, and upon the plaintiff dis covering this he applied for an injunction ex-parte, stating that he was not aware of the provision in the conveyance that the sale was to take place i❑ case the money was not paid in six months ; and fur ther that the arrangement between the parties was that the sale should not be made at all without the plaintiff's assent. On this statement his Honour granted the in junction, which was now sought to be dissolved. On the part of the defendant in applying to dissolve the in junction, it was urged, that the statements on which he sustained it were without foundation ; and affidavits were read which stated that the plaintiff was perfectly aware of the provisions of the conveyance, and that his assent was not required to proceed with the sale. His HONOUR, at the conclusion of the arguments, ordered the injunction to be dissolved, thereby allowing the sale to proceed, which is advertised to take place to-day. EQUITY EXCHEQUER. (THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Sergeants' Inn before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) IN RE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RA ILWAY.—PE TITION OF BRUEN AND OTHERS. Mr. PALMER appeared for the petitioners, who are the lessees for three lives under the Prebendary of Fen ton, in the Cathedral Church of York, of certain lands taken by the York and North Midland Railway Com pany for the purposes of the railway. The petition prayed that the money which had been paid into Court might be invested, and the dividends paid to the peti tioners, together with the costs of making out the title, and all other expenses incident thereto. Mr. Baron A LDERSON—IS there any rent reserved to the Prebendary ? Mr. PALMER—There is a rent of 5/. a year in one lease. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Is the property remaining sufficient for that rent ? Mr. PALMER—That is stated in the affidavit. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—This part of the property is chargeable with the rent, unless the remainder is suffi cient to answer it. Mr. PALMER—The Prebendary has been served with a copy of the petition and he does cot appear. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—You may take an order to receive the dividends until further directions. IN RE HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY. This was the petition of the Master, Brethren, and Sisters of God's House Hospital,at Kingston-upon-Hull, part of whose property had been taken by the Hull and Selby Railway Company. The petitioners stated that they were the owners of certain other property in Hull, which was subject to a mortgage of 5061. to Mr. W.H. Dykes, and they prayed that the amount of the purchase money paid by the Company into Court, might be paid to the mortgagee in discharge of the mortgage. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—The property which i• mortgaged is settled to the same uses as that taken, I presume ? The Learned Gentleman who Appeared for the peti tioners, replied that they were a corporation seized in fee of such property to the same same uses, and Mr. Baron ALDERSON then said there was no objec tion to the payment. Mr. BARBER (who appeared for the Company) ob jected to pay the expenses relative to the mortgage. The petition did not define the costs which were asked. Mr. Baron ALDERSON directed that the Company should pay the costs of the investment, and of the pre sent application. SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ARNOTT V. LORD A. CHICHESTER. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 751, lent by the plaintiC to the defendant. The clerk of Mr. T. B. Howell (plaintiff's attorney), read copies of two letters addressed to his T,rdair •,. the Naval and Alilitary Lib douse, St. Jame6'F, re questing payment of the demand, and stating that a draft given by his Lordship on Messrs. Cox and Co. fir 70/. in payment of the debt, had been returned unpaid. The answers to these were put in, and read by the Sheriff, in which the 'defendant requested that legal pro ceedings might be stayed for a time, as he was nego tiating fora loan, on the success of which plaintiff's de mand would be met. No person appearing on the part of his Lordship, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Baron ROLFE.) THE ROBBERY AT HOWELL AND JAMES'S. William Frederick Bar, a genteel looking young man, was indicted for steali' g a ruby pin, value I the property of John Howell James and others. The prisorer pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. The circumstances of the case, which have recently been fully detailed in the police reports. were then de posed to by the shopman of _Messrs. Howell and James. Mr. CLARKSON contended that it was evident from the fact of the pin being included in the bill sent into the prisoner's mother, that the transaction was a debt merely. Mr. Justice PATTESON, in summing up, said there could be no doubt that the prisoner had taken the pin, and it was for the Jury to determine whether he had taken it with a felonious intent or not. The Jury, without leaving the box, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. After the verdict had been re corded, the Foreman of the Jury said that if he were not stepping out of his province, he should wish to make a few observations on the circumstances of the case in relation to both parties. With regard to the prisoner the Jury were of opinion that he ought to feel that he stood in a very awkward situation, whi c h th e y h o p e d would make a strong impres.ion on him—they trusted his Lordship would admonish the prisoner on the sub ject,and they hoped that what had happend would produce a complete revolution in the prisoner's character. With respect to Messrs. Howell and James, the Jury felt that those gentlemen ought to be more circumspect in their mode of doing business. If they laid down a rule of doing business, they ought to adhere to that rule rigidly. A premium was held out to vice by the lax mode of doing business of certain houses at the west end of the town. Mr. Justice PATTESON said the prisoner had heard what the foreman of the Jury had said—he had indeed had a narrow escape. From the conduct he had pur sued, that he had defrauded Messrs. Howell and James there could be no doubt, and he suspected that he never had any intention of paying for what he had taken. From the company he was in, and from other circumstances, he feared, that whatever he might say, would have very little effect on the prisoner, but he hoped it would operate as a warning to others. Ile agreed in what the foreman of the Jury said with regard to the lax mode of conducting business adopted by Messrs. Howell and James. He must sly they ought to have produced the person who sold the other articles, and it was very wrong in them not to have done so.—The prisoner was then discharged. George Johnson, alias Wells, alias Thomas Jackson, was charged with being at large before the e xpiration Of a term for which he had been transported. Mr. RYLAND conducted the prosecution. 1 L George Cherry—ls beadle of the ward of C heap , Knows prison er . H a d him the .st (h . prisoner'sw as sentenced eon. March, 1837, fora burglary in the house of Leaf and Co. He then went by the name of Thomas Jack son. He was committed to Newgate for trial. He bobwy in nMiriis left leg. Court Court , of. the e d was tried and convicte i ! l., : i n h t e his Witness produced a certifi cateto Clerk for an hita from viction. Has no doubt the pprAisyoNnEer_isKteheewme his fe a t Cross-examined areeand a J. Needle is in the service of MOSSrs. Leaf. On the Ist of Ma er's rch, 1837, sand the pri soner in the passage of his employ house, and gave him over to the beadle. Has no doubt the prisoner is the man. Thomas Woodruffe---Was a turnkey in Newgate i n March, 1837 . Prisoner vva s at that time in custody on a charge of burglary ; h e was after N rd sent ' a s to the hulks in executionof his . sentence. Henry Charles Barke r I s a policeman. Remem bers the conviction o f I ' • t its prisoner in April, 1837. Philip Parish, aCity policeman, gave similar tes timony. G. Teacie, a p o li ceman , appre h ended the prisoner on the 14 eeernber last. P r i soner sa id hi s name was not Wells, b ut G eorge Johnson. When they got to the station-h ouse he told him he was accused of returning MITI transportation, and prisoner made no reply. EVEN TIVG PITION. bv Mr. P.‘• had L !ii.• 1,,..•!•0thee, and ti ai.,l.(y. 01 L:1, LA:apc of such oonvict. „,; Mr. PAYNE contended that there was not sufficient proof of identity to warrant the Jury in cdnvieting the prisoner. Mr. Baron ROLFE summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner guilty Mr. 13,tron Rot.YE having addressud the prisoner in a very imprc , ive tmuoner on the nature of the offence of ;vhieb he had been convicted, sentenced him to be im prisoned in the Penitentiary, and kept to hard. labour for one year, and at the expiration of that time to be trans ported for life. Having disposed of the only remaining case, which presented no features of any pnblic interest; the Court adjourned to the 6th of January next. DUTCH EAST INDIES. We have received the Java papers from 24th July to 21st August. IiATAviA, AUG. 26.—Accounts from Timor say:that in April this year the English schooner Essington had Arrived in that port from Timor Laut, from whiell place the captain of the vessel, Mr. Watson,liad..sircceeded ID bringing away one of the survivors of the crew of the English schooner Staat Come, which was taken by the natives in 1823. This unfortunate man, Joseph Tobias, an Englishman , has lived seventeeen years as a slave at Lauran in Timor Laut, where the schooner was hauled ashore and burnt, the remainder of the crew being murdered. During all this time he was most cruelly treated, and has suffered so severely that it may be doubted whether he will ever recover the use of his legs, which have been, as it were, shrivelled and crooked from the beat of the sun. Only incessant labour could save him from chastisement with a firebrand, of the effects of which there are countless marks all over his body. He has wholly forgotten his mother tongue, not being able even to count ten, so that little or no in formation can be obtained from him. Other letters from Batavia, of the 13th and 16th of August, speak of great damage done by uncommonly heavy rims, which have laid large tracts of land under water. Accounts from Pontianae, on the west coast of Borneo, say that about twenty shipwrecked persons had arrived there, who were found on the evening of the 25th July by the schooner Zeemeeuw, in the open sea, endeavouring to reach land. They belonged to the English brig Maria, Captain W. Wilson, which was bound from the Isle of France to Timor Koepang, with a cargo of pieces of the value (including 42,000 11. in specie) of 91,200 florins ; and which, having sprung a leak, stork in spite of every effort on the evening of the 21st July, in 0 12 south lat., and 108 30 long. east of Greenwich. The persons saved are the Captain, a French passen ger, M. Mauthier, and two children, and the whole crew, consisting of sixteen Lasears. Our Dutch stock was very much depressed to-day,there were numerous sellers, and the prices declined. again very sensibly. It was reported, on what ground we know not, that in the explanations given yesterday by the Government in the secret sitting of the Chamber were not judged to be satisfactory, and it was thought probable that the loan w ould be rejected by the Second Chamber. We give the report as generally circulated on 'Change, but do not see how the prospect of the rej ,, ction should cause the Funds to fall. All Foreign Funds hkewi , e declined.—Dutch Papers, Dec. 18. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGIOCE. OXFORD, DEC. 17.—This day the following degrees were conferred : Bachelor in Civil Law.—F ranc i s Hessey, Fellow of St. John's. Masters of Arts.—Rev. John David INY, BrasPn nose, Grand Compounder ; R ev . Wm. Slater Crowdy e , Lincoln ; Rev. Nutcombe Ox en h a m, William D y Ryder, and William Hawkin s , Exeter ; Rev. Philip Seholfield, Univer si ty ; R e v. Th o mas Boys Fer risi Trinity. Bachelors of Arts.—Frederick H. Bennett, Chr ist Church ; Richard Mallett Coley, Queen's; Godfr e y Bolle Lee, Fellow of New ; John Bickley Hughes , D, of Magdalen ; Rev. David Jones, Jesus ; Wil liam Twining, Balliol ; Philip Sankey, St. John's. ORDINATION. At a general ordination held in the Chapel of F ham Castle on Sunday, the 15th inst., the following gentlemen were admitted to Holy Orders by the Lord Bishop of Winchester : Deacons—Frederick Menzies, 8.A., Brazenose, Oxford ; Henry John Vernon, 8.A., Magdalen Hall , Oxford ; John Maunoir Sumner, 8.A., Balliol, Oxford ; Rob,rt North Maddock, M.A., Queen's, Wor l d ; Frederick Assheton Iremonger, 8.A., Pembroke, Ox ford ; Isaac Philip Prescott, 8.A., Oriel, Ox ford ; James Stephen Dodson, 8.A., Merton, Ox ford ; Thomas Brock, 8.A., Oriel, Oxford ; Tho mas Whytehead, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge ; W John James Ramsay, 8.A., Pembroke, Cambridge ; m' Bruce, 8.A., Oriel, Oxford, by letter dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Llandaff. Priests—William Howard, 8.A., Christ Church. Oxford ; William Skirrow, B.A , University, Oxford ; Charles Richmond Tate. M.A., Christ IVIII ; U 74). nun , ingtoru, Ncw, Oxford Taos. Prater, Exe.er, Oxford ; Arthur Thou'o Corte, M.A., All Soul's, Oxford ; Henry Luke Dodds, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford ; George Towricend, Warner, 8.A., Trinity, Cambridge ; Robt. Dear, RA% Trinity, Dublin ; Thomas Golding, LL.B., Trinity Hall, Cambridge; by letter dimissory of the Lord Bishop of Rochester. We have accounts from Texas to the 9th ult. The yellow fever had committed frighful ravages, both at Galveston and Houston, and the majority of the inie habitants had fled into the interior. The shipping at' Galveston had experienced a severe storm on the .st'a air. It lasted three days, and its violence was so greet as to drive ashore all the vessels in port, including threes steam-boats. Emigrants were pouring into Texas int large numbers. The recent arrivals at Galveston from New York had brought upwards of one hundred families of German settlers, who intended to locate in the upper country, and a still larger emigration was expected from England in the spring. A new town has lately been, laid out in Arkansas Bay, called Preston. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LEWISHAM.—BE. tween ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday night eta alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. E. Lewes ford, cabinet-maker, Ordnance-roes, Lewisha,n-lane, Lewisham. It was found that not only the workshop and a small house at the bask were on fire, but that: it had communicated to two other houses adjoining, one of which was occupied by Mr. Blacke, baker, and else other by Mr. Hall, a private gentleman. Mr. Long ford's premises, which are insured in the Kent Fire-officer have sustained much damage, the house and workshop being completely razed to the ground ; the stock, wliich is ciso very much damaged, is insured in the Licenied Victuallers' Insurance Office. Mr. Blacke's stock and furniture are not insured, but are very considerably damaged. The house of Mr. Hall is very much ins jured, and the furniture has sustained great. damage IY/ fire and removal. Mr. Hali insured, The fire VrAS discovered by the police, who instsntly gave the alarm, and messengers were immediately despatched to toter , to the different fire stations. Several envines arrived with all possible expedition, and by one o'clock the Blames were extinguished. The origin of the fire is not k-aown. CONSERVATIVE MEETING.— On Tu Lsday last there was a " fifth anniversary" Tory-treat rst Bir mingham, consisting first and foremost of a cut, an d dried " Report," cooked up by the Brummagem " Loyal and Constitutional Association." This literary luncheon over (which was discussed in the Committers-room) din ner todowed—that at Dees, we are told, was " the leading one"—but et all of them no doubt the viands and wine were far better than the sequent oratory, for that was wretched. There were a great m an y p ar sons. assembled on this prandial, smart, interesting occasion , ; and we see in the lists no other names of mark or likeli hood but those of Mr. Dugdale, Lords: Gifford and. Dartmouth, with Sir Eardley Wilmot. Lord Ingestrie has addressed the following letter to the Stajfirdshire _Examiner :—" Leamington, Dec. attention has this day been c a lled e your dof paper havingof theutt uttered d h which I am broadly towards her Majesty, I distinctly deny having expression to a single sentiment not breathing the most: devoted loyalty to my sovereign. the Queen's name is, according to the Liberal doctrine, so identified with that of her Ministers that the birthright- t. , in exercising of an Englishman,turiegtai"vs treason of censuring their administration , I am supposed indirectly to reflect upon her Majesty, the fault is not mine. I was at first disposed to treat this contemptible attack as personal, and with entire indiffe-- rence ; but as through me an attempt is made to imp u g n the loy a lty o f th e party w i t h which I have the honours to act, I have thought proper to give this public deai,i?! to your assertion, an d trust to your can d our a s a P° tical opponent to give this letter a place in your P a P e r. have the honour to b e , your obedient servant,_ INGEsTRE." THE DOVER GIIOST.—The noisy ghost that. has lately bee n di s t ur bi ng t h e peace f u l d o micile of Mr Keys, Lim e kil n - s t ree t, turns out to b e the serva nt, Betty Perry, a g i r l o f 16. B e tty was discovered on Monday ni g ht plyi ng h er a l arm i ng avocation of causing' the miraculous opening of doors, which she perfor med by lifting_ the latch, pushing open the door, and gl iding away. On being thus detected she was accused o f the deception. She at first stoutly denied it ; but, after IS severe examination, she confessed her guilt as regarded the agitation of the latches. For some time, however r on no account would she confess that the knocking or • ginated with her, though she latterly confessed that sib e ) had knocked twice to frighten her master. She gave f her reason for the diabolical proceeding that she wm vis fearful to be left alone, and imagined that by such mea' XS she would induce the Emily to remain with her. Sinese the girl has been discharged various other proofs of fiber guilt have come out, and we need hardly add that the knockings have entirely ceased.—Loeal Paper. I CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE SPITF I R E. A NAUTICAL ROMANCE. By CAPT. FREDERICK CHAMIER, Author of " The Life of a Sailor," " Ben Brace," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.