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41 0 oho 0130 ion ove r h id pre- S fa 0 1 " d to C i e g 00 e the eat° 0' jeg all OU lia Age e. PO. 5 LITERATURE. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA—HIS TORY—RUSSIA—VoI. H. Longman, London, 1336. There is no character, in ancient or modern history, more remarkable than that of Peter the First. He is the only really great man of whom Russia can boast, and stands out in striking contrast to the pigmies—we do not even except Catherine the Second—who have since succeeded to the throne of the Czars. In point of indomitable energy and determination of purpose, and daring originality of mind, even Napoleon will not bear a comparison with him. The Corsican was made and moulded by the circumstances of his age and country; the Muscovite was independent of such influ ences. Instead of receiving an impression from the tastes, habits, opinions, and prejudices of his country men, he himself stamped his own impress upon them, which still endures, while the impulse given to the mind of France by the character and conquests of Napoleon has almost wholly passed away, or been diverted into ano ther channel. In every respect the mind of Peter was a strictly original one. He owed nothing to education ; nothing to the force of example ; nothing to the opinions instilled into him by others ; his thoughts and actions were all his own. At the early age of twenty, when the majority of men are yet scarcely out of their lead ing-strings, he set about the herculean task of breaking up old customs, and enlightening his empire against its will. And this he did, alone and unassisted, de spite the opposition of the Church, the Noblesse, and indeed every class of the Russian community. He sought no advice—for indeed there was no one about him capable of advising such a man—but considered, digested, compared, and decided, for himself. Being well aware, however, that before a man at tempts to refo:m others, he must reform him self, he began by correcting the defects of his own education, and blastered nearly all the modern languages, and acquainted himself with many of their most important legal, legislative, and commercial usages, before he had attained his twenty-first year. This done, he next applied himself to the organization and disciplining of a standing army, which he officered by foreign veterans, and which enabled him, after frequent rebellions, to raise Russia from a fourth-rate, into a first rate, Power. His navy, like his army, was the creation of his own hands. When he ascended the throne, Russia had not one ship of war, and scarcely one sea-port ; when lie died, she had a fleet capable of coping with, and vanquishing, the best appointed Danish and Swe dish ones, together with numerous ports, harbours, and outlets for commercial enterprise. In the year 1703, Peter laid the foundation of St. Petersburgh, which was then a low marshy island, covered with brushwood, and inhabited by a few fishermen ; before the e xpiration of that year, during which upwards of one hundred thousand men perished, the city con tained not less than thirty thousand houses, and twenty years afterwards was one of the most magnificent, po pulous, and thriving capitals in Europe. But it was not the physical aspect only of his country that this extraordinary man changed—his influence was equally great over its moral aspect. He converted a wild horde of savages into a comparatively civilized nation ; en dowed schools and colleges of divinity, law, literature ,and medicine ; compelled Iris highest nobility to serve, •like himself, in subordinate situations in the army and navy ; and allowed them no honors but such as they won by their own individual skill and talent. But per haps the most extraordinary trait in Peter's character, was his utter absence of any thing like conventional prejudice. Most men, even the greatest, have been the slaves of habit, but Peter knew no such master. Though born to empire, he despised the trappings of royalty ; and could work like a common shipwright, in the dock-yard at Saardam, just as if he had sprung from, and had been reared among, the lower classes. His sense of religion was equally enlarged ; be despised all priest-craft, and skewed no mercy to fanaticism. And yet the man thus enlightened—thus ever mindful of the welfare of his subjects—their best, indeed, their only, " guide, philosopher, and friend," whose magna nimity was so great, that he risked his own life a dozen times to save that of others, and at last died of a cold caught in an attempt to rescue some poor men whose boat had run aground upon the rocks—the man capa ble of these exalted actions, is the very same who poi soned his own son, and was the chief actor in the fol lowing atrocious catastrophe : The particulars of the vengeance which, on this dread ful occasion, the czar inflicted upon the strelitz are revolt ing. He did not satisfy himself with ordinary cruelty, but s p,ved no detail of physical pain tha g t on c ie o s ul o d f p h r i o s l v o i n c g . a nd re nder still more acute the d y ing a tims. He first put them to the torture, interrogating and reviling them during the operation ; and when he had suf ficiently feasted his eyes with that exhibition of cruelty, he ordered 2,000 of the mangled wretches to be put to death, taking a part in the ex,nutions himself, and compelling his nobles to assist him in c utting off the heads of the guilty chiefs. Throughout this barbarous scene, Peter, seated on his throne, gazed with calm and unpitying looks on the work of death, and never moved from his stern, composure, except to indulge his cruelty by participating in the busi ness of the executions. Nor did his vengeance rest here ; to these horrors he added the intoxication of win, as if his blood were not inflamed eno u g h already. th the wine cup in one hand, and the axe in the other, he drank twenty successive draughts, as he smote off twenty successive heads within a single hour, exulting at every stroke in the skill and dexterity he displayed." " In the following year these ferocious acts produced such results as might have been anticipated. Insurrections broke out in distant parts of the empire ; the discontent of the people could not be repressed, and the safety of the czar was threatened by increasing proofs of popular dis gust. But Peter was prepared for these .manifestations of disfavour ; he had entered upon a decisive course, and was resolved to persist even at the cost of the throne itself: Eighty strelitz, who had taken part in the disturbances, were dragged from Asoph to Moscow in chains ; and their heads, held up at each interval by the hair, and shown to the assembled crowd, were successively struck off by the hands of the czar. But, terrifying as this spectacle was, it did not completely destroy the lingering projects of the strelitz ; they still sect'qtly looked towards Sophia, and still hoped that the czar ru;glit be driven from the throne. Three of their body rashly prepared an a ddress to the princess, inviting her to assume the crown ; but the vigi lant officers of the czar discovered the authors, and Peter hanged them in front of the princess's windows. As if, however, this consummation were not enough to demon strate to the unfortunate Sophia the hopelessness of her ambitious designs, he ordered the stiffened arm of one of the dead men to be placed in her chamber, with the re bellious address clasped in the fingers in the attitude of presentation, until it should moulder into dust and drop at her feet," Napoleon once observed to his brother Louis, " I am Trance :" with far more truth and propriety might peter have said, " I am Russia ;" for lie infused into every branch of her political, social, m ili tar y, and com mercial system, a portion of his own energy, which did not cease with his own life, but has continued una bated up to the present day. For every advantage R uss ia now possesses, she is indebted exclusively to Peter. She is as much the offspring of his loins, as the son is of the father's. Catherine may have extended the dominion of the Czars, but it was Peter who sup plied the means. But fo r him she had still been a illation of barbarians, without physical or moral re sources of any kind. Of this extraordinary man, the volume before us furnishes with an interesting and well written Memoir, whose only fault is that it is too scanty in its details. Considering the abundance of his raw' terials the aut!ior should have turned them to better account ; and devokid mote than two-third s of a volume to the biography of the founder of the Russian empire. We are much better please l with his acentna of the reign of Catherine the Second, /c hose character he tite,p A irg thoroughly to understand. T 1 portion of his volume is written with c onsiderable fluency and animation ; contains many well-drawn historical portraits, among the best of which we may mention that of the famous Cossack impostor, Pugatschef, who at one time shook the throne of Catherine ; and is full of statistical de tails, respecting the progress made by Russia in war, commerce and the arts, during the reign o►., the Northern Messalina. Nor must we omit to notice the spirited style in which the historian relates the conspiracy against, and murder of, her husband, Peter the Second, which placed Catherine on the Rus sian throne. It has all the interest of the wildest and most stirring romance. We.subjoin a brief account of the fortunes of Catherine the First, wife of Peter the Great, and subscqently empress of all the Russias, which, if we remember rightly, Madame de Geniis has made the subject of a pleasing tale ; " Amongst the prisoners of war was a young Livonian girl, called Martha, an orphan who resided in the house hold of the Lutheran minister of Marienburgh. She had been married the day before to a sergeant in the Swedish army ; and when she appeared in the presence of the Rus sian general Bauer, she was bathed in tears, in consequence of the death of her husband, who was supposed to have perished in the melee. Struck with her appearance, and curious to learn the history of so interesting a person, the General took her to his house, and appointed her to the superintendence of his household affairs. Bauer was an unmarried man, and it was 'not surprising that his inter course with Martha should have exposed her to the impu tation of having become his mistress ; nor, indeed, is there any reason, judging by the immediate circumstances, as well as the subsequent life of that celebrated woman, to doubt the truth of the charge. Bauer is said to have de nied the fact ; which is sufficiently probable, as it was evi dently his interest to acquit the lady of such an accusation; but, however that may be, it is certain that Prince Menzi koff, seeing her at the General's house, and fascinated by her manners, solicited the General to transfer her services to his domestic establishment ; which was at once acceded to by the General, who was under too many obligations to the Prince to leave him the option of a refusal. Martha now became the avowed mistress of the libertine Menzi koff, in which capacity she lived with him until the year 1704, when, at the early age of seventeen, she enslaved the Czar as much by her talents as by her beauty, and ex changed the house of the Prince for the palace of the So vereign. The extraordinary influence she subsequently exercised, when, from having been the mistress, she became the wife of the Czar, and ultimately the Empress Catherine, developing, throughout the various turns of her fortune, a genius worthy of consort with that of Peter himself, opens a page in history not less wonderful than instructive. The marriage of the Sovereign with a subject was common in Russia ; but, as Voltaire remarks, the union of royalty with a poor stranger, captured amidst the ruins of a pillaged town, is an incident which the most marvellous combina tions of fortune and merit never produced before, or since, in the annals of the world." A HISTORY OF BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. PART VI. Van Voorst, London, 1836. There are several curious particulars in this Number, of the habits and peculiarities of that amphibious ani mal, the seal, which no one can read without instantly calling to mind the famous battle between the phoca and Captain M'lntyre, which Scott has turned to such diverting account in his best novel, " The Antiquary." The scal is, it seems, endowed with great sagacity, which our author, who is evidently a phrenologist, ap pears to think is the necessary consequence of the con formation of its skull. " The form of its cranium," quoth he, " deserves especial notice, with relation to the development of the intellectual faculties. The cerebral cavity is of very considerable extent, and the facial portion comparatively small, indicating a high de gree of intelligence and docility—a conclusion which is amply confirmed by all the facts with which we are acquainted, both of its natural manners and acquired habits." The author then proceeds to give several anecdotes illustrative of the intellectual faculties of the seal, which, it must be confessed, show this animal quite in a new light ; and will go far to convince the most stubborn sceptic that, with a little previous dis cipline, the phoca might be made a better politician than half the ultra-Tories of the clay ; for it can conform to circumstances ; is anything but impracticable in its nature ; and is imbued with a truly laudable spirit of inquisitiveness. Moreover, when duly cured, its flesh makes ' capital hams, which, to our thinking, is a fact far more deserving to be publicly insisted on, than its sagacity. The following remarks may perhaps amuse : " Seals seem to have a great deal of curiosity ; if people are passing in boats, they often come quite close up to the boat, and stare at them, following for a long time together ; if people are speaking loud, they seem to wonder what may be the matter. The church of Hoy, in Orkney, is situated near a small sandy bay, much frequented by these creatures, and I observed when the bell rang for divine service, all the seals within hear ing instantly swam for the shore." Possibly they were of a pious turn of temperament, and were going to make their appearance, among the Elders, at church ! The sum of 22,0001. has already been subscribed for the Liverpool Music Hall ; but the intention of the Committee is to raise 50,000/., so as to enable them to erect a building which shall surpass anything of the kind in the kingdom. DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last night, about 10 o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the boiling-house of the ex tensive soap manufactory of Mr. Knight, Old Gravel-lane, Shadwell. The parish engine was in a few minutes in active operation on the devouring element, but tended little to check the progress of the flames till the arrival of the London Establishment engines, and upwards of forty men from various stations, under the orders of Mr. Braidwood, their superintendent. A powerful engine also from the West of England Office contributed great assistance in saving the adjoining warehouses, containing several floors of s tock ; but the portion of the building where the fire ori ginated is, together with the various utensils and machinery, entirely consumed. The conduct of the firemen and police constables of the H and K divisions is beyond all praise. The property destroyed is estimated in value at 5,000/., but is insured in the Suit and County Fire-offices. How the fire originated is unknown. INTEREST( NQ ANECDOTE.--At a public meeting held at Durham, in January last, the following statement was made by the Rev. J. Towns end, as illustrative of the fact that the children of the poor may attain to the highest honours and emoluments of the Church of England :—" I should detain you too long if I confirmed this view of the usefulness of cathedral preferments by any anecdotes illus trative of their value by encouraging the hopes of parents that their sons might be benefitted by their acquiring them. May I, however, mention that instance which is recorded of one of our Archbishops of Canterbury ? He was the on of a poor farmer in Oxfordshire. On one of his public days, when many noblemen and gentlemen of high rank were at his table, his servant came to inform him that a vonerable looking man was inquiring for him, and insisted on seeing John Potter (the Archbishop). The Archbishop, on further inquiry, ordered a chair to be placed at his right hand, and that the old roan ghould be brought in. He wits so, and the Archbishop introdrieed to the assembled noblemen his own a g ed father, and begged big father's blessing in their presenc,e ; and declared to them all the double delight which he kit when he could welcome his pram in the splendour of his own prosperity, and remember the humility of his home, and think of the happiness of his father on looking on and blessing his StieoX4tfill son." We learn that a memorial has been forwarded this requestng t to lose no day to the Commissioners of the Admiiraltyhem , signed by se veral inhabitants of the townr time in despatching two VC64i814 to the North Seas, with stores, provitoions and clothes, so that thwy pay be in rea diness to relieva the distressed seamen on tacit , 64a4pe from their horrible imprisoowent. It states the names of the s ix voi gels—viz., the Swan, of Hull ; the Dee, of Aber deen ; the Grenville Bay, of Newaaipt)e i the No7/0//r, of Berwick ; and du: Thames and Advice, of W4tl4 O P i and that their crews must to at least 300. The plp morial further suggests the prof:pi e ty of re-establishing the hospital at fittiomness, which rendered so oph service last year to the crews of those vessels which had been 4ef4ined so long.—Hull (Saturday . ) Joyrnal. coped) piece of plate is about 0 he presented to Lord Hattief4,e by his late constituents, the eleeters of the county of Stafford: lisi tt e y i lse is elegantly supported by the spreading branches of a finei,y,A.i.,;;Mi oak-tree, rising from 4n octagon base, on which also 'rests q pen of horses, , executed, and full of animation. it k P.!" , fee~ three inches keigl4 l of silver gilt, weighing rather mere than 590 ounces, " 4 4' aft value of 500 guineas. On three sides of the base are eicsPiayoa i4e; ems of the Noble Lord, and on the fourth is the following inscrlPtiOn anted to the Right Hon. Edward John Lord Hatherton, 4 4 .44 y rifr opus body of the inhabitants of the county of Staf ford, as a ram*wt I.heir esteem, and in testimony of their approbation of his zealous to the interests of the county while representing them la ‘leilou:ie aj 1 2 ;airfli1}Pn:: dvring twenty-three years," THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1836. BRIGHTON-THURSDAY. This morning their Majesties, invited by the fineness of the weather, drove out before luncheon. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Augusta -44-:we out together this morning, and having alighted at the Chain, walked for some time on the Pier esplanade. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence quitted the Palace this morn ing for London. Among the calls at the Palace to-day are—the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, Major-General Dickinson (from Worthing), Rev. Dr. Jones, Colonel E. Drummond, Hon. Mrs. Gosling, and the Hon. Miss I r by. This morning Captain H. R. H. C. Elwes (12th Foot) of Billing, near Northampton, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Tennant, of Kemp Town, Brighton. After the cere mony a large party of fashionables, including the Countess of Winterton, Mr. L. and Lady Jane Peel, Lady Lilias Oswald, Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Sir R., Lady, and Miss Wilmot, Lady Hampson, Lady Grace Gore, Mr. and Mrs. Craven, &c., partook of an elegant dejeuner a la four chette. The bride and bridegroom left Kemp Town this afternoon for Worthing, to pass the honeymoon at the resi dence of the bridegroom's father, who has built a splendid mansion there. The Countess and Lady G. Bathurst and Mr. L. Peel dined at the Palace yesterday evening. Sir John and Lady Hall and Lady Fremantle will enter tain select parties to dinner this evening. We are happy to hear that Prince Polignac contemplates taking a house here for a sojourn of some weeks. The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp quitted Brighton this morning. Lady Grace Gore's invites are out for a ball and supper this evening, and extend to a large party of Haut ton. On Tuesday evening Sir W. K. Grant, Lady and Miss Steward, and Capt. Drummond dined with Prince Polignac. COURT CIRCULAR. The Earl of Minto, Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr. Todd, had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing -street yesterday. Dispatches for Sir Lionel Smith, Governor of Jamaica, for Sir Evan M. M'Gregor, Governor of Barbadoes, for Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Governor of Ceylon, and for Major Campbell, Lieut.-Governor of Sierra Leone, were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. The Earl of Erroll arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Brighton. Sir John, Lady, Mr. Spencer, and Miss Shelley, left their residence in Belgravc.square yesterday on a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Sir Andrew Leith Hay left town yesterday afternoon. Earl Grey is entertaining a select circle of friends at Howick, and is not on his way to visit Paris, as stated. The Count and Countess Flahault, who is an intimate friend of the Countess Grey, the Marquis of Douro, Lady Eliza- beth Bulteel, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, and the Hon. Captain Henry Grey have left the Hall. Sir B. and Lady Leighton, have been entertaining their tenantry at Loton Park and Alderbury in a sumptuous manner. The Earl of Sandwich has arrived at Hinchinbroke House, from a shooting excursion. The Baron de Kreusser arrived at the Clarendon on Wednesday, from Stockholm. Princess Polignac and children were expected to ar rive at the Clarendon last evening, from Paris. The Prince, who was detained at Brighton longer than he expec ted, arrived in town for the purpose of receiving his Lady and family. It is not, we hear, the intention of the Prince at pre sent to take a house in London:but to remain at the hotel. The Earl of Devon and his interesting; family are sojourning at his seat, Powderham Castle. Mr. Southey has been on a visit at the castle. •The Learned Earl is not expected to come to town until the meeting of Parliament. Lord and Lady Mulgrave having taken up their re sidence at Dublin Castle, the gaieties of the season may be shortly expected to commence. A performance will take place at the Theatre Royal on Saturday next, by command of their Excellencies. Preparations are making for a juve nile fancy ball at the Castle on Twelfth Night. Lady Grenville, who was sister to the last Lord Camelford, continues to enjoy her residence at Dropmore, the house and pleasure grounds at which place were so tastefully decorated and adorned, under the immediate su perintendence of her deceased Lord. The English Barony of Grenville, created in 1790, is extinct, not having de scended to the late Lord's brother, the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. Cambridge University Term ends this day, and Ox ford Term to-morrow. The apartments in the Round Tower, 'Windsor Castle, where the Earl of Munster is entitled to reside, as Lieutenant of the lower Castle, but which his Lordship has generously refused, are to be appropriated, it is understood, during the approaching season, to the occasional visitors of their Majesties, by whose commands they have been ele- gently furnished. Sir John Beresford and Sir Thomas Cochrane landed at Dover on Sunday, with Lord and Lady Frances Egerton. Several otherpersons of distinction also arrived by the same packet. The party at present staving at Gorhainhury, th e noble seat of the Verulam family, is confined to the Earl and Countess Craven. Viscount Grimston bas arrived there ; also, Lady Catherine Barham, and Lady Mary Grimston. The Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen are expected to -arrive to-day from their Lodge, N. 8., where his Lordship has been following the sports of the field during the season. The Earl of Westmoreland will leave Brighton for Apthorp, Northamptonshire, to receive the Duke of Wel lington and a select party, on New Year's Day, the birth day of the venerable Earl. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland intend to remain in the French capital until the eve of the meeting of Parliament, as Trentham is undergoing repairs and embel- lishrnent. The establishment of the French Ambassador is packing up, the Count and Countess Sebastiani intending to leave Hertford House for Paris in a day or two. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor and Lady' Elea nor Grosvenor will leave Moteombe House, near Shaftes bury, to join the circle assembled at Christmas, at the Marquis of Westminster's, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. A set of high-bred horses, under the charge of a trainer, have been sent off to Paris for his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, who is a great admirer of horses. It was at his suggestion that the Commission for encouraging the breed of horses in France, of which the Duke de Cazes is President, and Count Flahault is Vice-President, was formed. The youthful son of Sir Gore Ouselcy, who has been more than once alluded to, as one of the musical pro digies of the age, is said to have completed an opera ; the young composer is only Il years of age. The performances at the St. James's :Theist - 4o to= night, are for the benefit of the Royal. Belgrave Hospital, The bill of fare is unusually attractive, and we cannot doubt that this effort to increase the funds of a most meritorious institution will be attendc,d, as it deserves, with complete success, On Wednesday evening the seventh conversnzume. took place at Manchester House. It was attended by.-- The Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Count Wallstein, Baron and Baroness Biome, Countess Bjornstjerna, Baron and Baroness d'Ompteda, Count do Grammont, Chevalier d'Aguilar, Mrs. Cowper, Baron de Cetto, Baron Maltitz, M. Dedel, Count Mandelsloh, M. Hummelauer, M. and Mcle. Durand St, Andre, the American Minister and MrA, Stephenson, 40, The two magnificent carriages now building far the Emperor of the Brazils will not be ready before. the midi die of January next. They are, decidedly the most superb vehicles ever constructed in this or any other country. With the harness, the order has been extended to twenty five thousand pounds. Mr. Bums is seriously indisposed, and is confined to his room at Drury-lane Theatre, from the effects of the fall from his horse on Friday last. It has been rumoured that it is in contemplation to effect a reduction of salaries in the Foreign Department, an d that it has been also proposed to reduce the allowances of some at' our Foreign Ambassadors, commencing witlr Earl Granville at Paris. While Prince Talleyrand was here, the French Government considerably reduced his Ex pplippey's allowance ; but it was found that the reduced sum was tiPt SAPient; and an application was made by the Ministry for a further allowance, which was granted, The present French Embassy is however, SO expensive as that of Prince Talleyrand's, which consisted of two Score. taries of begat* ? two AttgeheS ; and another soeretary fbr the Passport Department.-.7-2;lferniag Paper. A letter has heen received by the Committee from Lady Peeh in w h 01 0 expresses her grateful sense Of the high honour infef#44 for !.pr 41141 and, and ; we tinder stand,- apologises for mil appgapyp g him, on the plea of prpviOs Qnir.,ollPllt§ and the melemency of the weather Plea !lil WPA IiPPW that titli.ble'lath's devotion to kc!' (li§t/FhPliOleFl Riftn.Afjs 111 fAnclilY to be tifsed Pqrfec't sincerity. 1-4 P list o §tP.W44,I lia r been made out Arrangernebis have been made - for the strictest re 7 gularity and fairness in the order of admission. Under the auspices of a Committee which could not be surpassed for efficiency, we confidently anticipate that this will be one of the most magnificent festivals ever celebrated in the Bri tish einpire.-Giasiow ConBlikliona4, IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 13. CITY REGISTRY.—If the claimants for registry do not come up to-day, the Court will close—the last day has come. • The numbers recistered yesterday were—Liberals, 5 ; Orangemen, 3. The Liberals remain inactive ; their apathy cannot be accounted' for on any other grounds than those which reflect discredit upon them. CENTRAL INDEPENDENT CLUB.—A meeting of the re gistration committee of the Central Independent Club was held yesterday at the club-house. TRADES' UNION.—The usual weekly meeting of the body took place at the Corn Exchange yesterday evening. The apathy of the professors of Liberal opinions, in holding back from the city registry, was dwelt upon by Mr. Arkins, whose firm opinion it was, that " those persons had in their pockets already, or expected, the Conservative money. There must be something of the kind, or those persons would not hold back. Those men had notices served four or five times for sager. them, and could not be got to come up. The Union would serve again for them, and would not cease until they brought them forward. There was a class of persons, whom he might call house-jobbers, who greatly retarded the progress of the franchise—they had their shops and houses let at enormous rents, but they could not be got to pay the taxes for the tenants, and thus deprived the people of their right of fran- chile." ELECTION OF LONGFORD.—The High Sheriff has fixed Monday the 26th inst., for holding the election. Both parties, judging from the tone of their respective organs, are confident of success. The Mail relies without a doubt on having " to record as deep and deadly a defeat to priestly influence as has yet occurred in Ireland," and hints that Mr. White will not dare to come to the poll. The Pilot, on the other side, with better grounds, has " not a doubt of victory," and says that " if there is real working a contest may be spared." If the Conservatives are so very sure of success, why do they talk prospectively of a petition against Dlr. White's return. This has a suspicious air, and to our minds the threat seems significantly conclusive of the Liberal candidate's success. PUBLIC DINNER.—Mr. O'Connell has accepted an in vitation to dine on the 19th inst. at Mayo. The Mail, dreading the effect of this additional manifestation of popu lar feeling in favour of the Hon. Member, is stirring heaven and earth to deter the men of Mayo from coming forward on this occasion. A long and lachrymose article on the subject concludes thus—" Let his own revolutionary clique give him a triumph, but we shall incessantly call upon every man, who is not willing to be numbered among that pack, and who dislikes hypocrisy and humbug, to prove his estimate of them and their master by leaving them to the enjoyment of their own goodly company. The coming of the mendicant amongst us will have the effect of putting the principles of men to the test, and for that reason we shall not regret his visit. The lovers of peace, order, and justice, will have an opportunity of discerning friends from foes, and we shall not neglect to make them known." PROTESTANT MEETING.—In the Mai/ of this evening appears the following requisition, signed, it seems, by eight Irish Peers We, the undersigned, request a meeting of the Protestant Noblemen, Gentlemen, Clergy, and landed Proprietors of Ireland. in the Great Room of the Mansion-house, in the city of Dublin, on Tuesday, the 24th day of January, 1837, at twelve o'clock, for the pur pose of petitioning both Houses of Parliament, praying them to adopt such measures as will give protection to the Protestants of Ireland, and to prepare a loyal and dutiful Address to his Majesty, calling his most serious attention to the imminent dangers which threaten the liberties of all classes of his Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland, and the attempts which are making to undermine and destroy the Protestant religion in this kingdom : " Downshire, f Bandon, Farnham, Downes, Dunsany, Enniskillen, Roden, Glengall " Admission to the meeting will be by Tickets, to be is sued by the Committee of Arrangement, of which further notice will be given." The paper in whose columns the publication of this in tended so-called " Protestant meeting" is seen, declares that it will be " the most numerous and important assembly of loyal subjects that ever was held any age or country for a po litical purpose !!" The Insignificants whose names are ap pended to the requisition, we will dare' assert, were, before this magniloquence of the Mail, ignorant of their prodigious influence, and never could have dreamed of their vast im portance and coming greatness. It is but fitting that the most " important assembly that ever was held in any age or country" should be headed by the greatest men of the pre sent age in any country, and therefore we find the illustrious Downes, Enniskillen, &c., &c.! ! APPOINTNIENTS TO OFFICE.—The Pilot and the Even- ing Post are divided in opinion on the subject of Mr. Duffy's appointment to the office of Filacer of the Exchequer. The latter sees in Mr. Duffy a fitting and proper person for the situation, whilst the Pilot thinks that there is something anomalous in the appointment to a legal office of an individual not belonging to the profession of the law : and that there has been "an unprecedented misuse of the patronage of Government, so marked as to almost exceed belief." In reference to some other appointments, we transfer the testimony of the Mail in favour of their propriety :—" Mr. Murphy succeeds the late Mr. Trail Hall, as Assistant-Barrister for Cavan—Mr. Finlay goes to Kerry, and Mr. Kane is to be appointed to Leitrim. The latter gentleman has as yet to be proved ; but we un derstand that when he acted as one of the registering bar risters for the county of Dublip, under the Reform Act, his decisions were fair, and gave general satisfaction. He is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Murphy is a professor of the same religion ; but has the good taste and good feeling to cease from agitation ever since the period that the Emanci pation Bill was carried," &e. ' It has been blowing a perfect hurricane for the last two days. The London papers of Sunday did not arrive t:2: 1 one o'clock yesterday ; and the Holyhead mail sine, six this morning, had not reached at the time, o f our going to press (three o'clock)." The Liberals have served My notices for the ensuing registry, and the Tories tine, The latter will hardly at tend—if he does, we have reason to think his claim will be successfully resisted. At the last sessions the Liberals re gistered fifty, the Toros none.—Kilkenny Journal. TILE JUSTICE RENT.—The people of Kilkenny are pot coming forward as they sh ou ld t o subscribe to%La Justice Rent. What is the cause? Are thoy 4Vollie to Corporate Reform ? Have they lost tha t , Ettrietism in a sudden ad miration of tltc tithe oystent ? This apathy is really tl n . worthy of' the " boys of Kilkenny" —of the constittyats of O'Connell,—.lo/kenny_Journal. Two hundred and Ilfty•nine notiecs of togiatry have been served for the next Quarter Segikions, to he held on the 28th inst., at Ennistimnr, the county Clare. The estahlishment of a college at Manchester is con templated, It would appear, from the account of the disease in Naples, which has made great ravage% that it is not the Asiatic cholera,. because it does not possess any of the pain ful and agonizing, ellariworistioi of that dreadful complaint. It i 0 1)41 1 410e common cholera, aggravated by the ex treme destitution of the poorer part of the population, hud dled together in close alleys and narrow streets, This day is remarkable for being the anniversary of the day on which Cromwell was declared Protector, in 1653. It is the anniversary also of the birth-day of the celebrated Jahn Selden, in 1584, and of the day on which Thomas Pennant died, in 1708. It is now fixed that the dinner to Mr. James Os wald, 111,1 1 „ by the citizens of Glasgow, is to take place on Thursday, the sth of January. The Tontine Coffee room has been handsomely granted for the occasion. Sir John Maxwell, of is to be in the chair. The cratipier4 arp A. 0, Speirs, Esq., John Dednistoun, Esq., Pllti W. Buchanan, Esq.--Glasgow Chronicle. The usual convivial Meetings previous to the election of Common Councilmen have commenced, which takes place on Wednesday next, when great bustle will prevail in the City and the popular Clahs, which will be crowded with the friends of the candidates who aspire to civic honours. Such has been the feeling of mistrust amongst the ' shipping interest, occasioned by the late storms, that a letter has been received in this town, in answer to an application for a policy of insurance, stating that a deter mination has been come to at Lloyd's not to insure any vessel not warranted in port, except at such an enormous premium as was not likely ever to be offered.—Liverpool Courier. A SPORTING PAUPER.—In the parish of Lion bistea, in the county of Radnor. a pauper keeps seven couples of dogs ; he receives ai. a year for the rent of his house, independent of tither relief ; since Lady-day, to the present time, he has also received 15s. for fhod far his dogs. He hunts bares in the autumn, and rats at other times.—Hereford Journal. Wit ALE SHIPS.--A letter has been received by th owners of the Nuyidk from a gentleman in Shields, from which the following is an extract 'r,stt The last I heard of the Norfi4 was frqng the roaster of the Everthorpe, who s i aw Ilex in company with the Grenville Bay (lat. 74 or 75), fishing in clear water, on the 20th of August. Messrs. Warham and Lisk are much afi aid that they twP hoot fur ther north this year than last, but their roam for sup posing thk, arivs trp tiwir ilat having been seen to the sq4thwani ititucse the above date. Notwithstanding this, they think they may arrive better fished than we heard of, as there was a great run of fish to the north, when the Lady Jane was fast in the middle ice." Not the slightest appre hensions are entertained by the owners of the Norfolk, as • the provisions which she took out with i her ere amply :Ng ! • cient, with rood manage:l:put, i t ct t4e crew during trhe winter,—./Aiiia"Adverirser. FOREIGN IN TELLIGENC E. FRANCE. PARIS, Drc, 14.—The Conerier says—" It was reported this evening, in some circles, that there had been great agitation in the Council of Ministers, in consequence of Marshal Clausel's dispatch. Vehement reproaches, it was said, were made to several members, on account of the re prisals which the Marshal had experienced, and the delays which had been occasioned. A new Ministerial crisis seems to be at hand."—Jvurnal du Commerce. Lord Granville had a conference with M. Mole, yester day morning, in consequence, it is said, of dispatches that had been received. Couriers were dispatched this morning to London and Madrid. It is said that M. Salvandi, after an interview with M. Guizot, was presented to M. Mo;e, for an important mission to M. Latour Maubourg,.—Mes- (From the French Papers or Tuesday and Wednesday.) The following is the text of the letter of convocation for the Session of 1837, dated Tuileries, Nor. 25, 1836, and addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Deputies : " Sir,—We acquaint you that the opening of the Session of the Chambers will take place in Paris on Tuesday, 27th of December next, and that you are required to attend it.—Your affectionate, (Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE. (Countersigned) " G ASPA INN, Peer of France, Minister- Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior. —Courrier Francais. On Sunday, at five o'clock, the King granted an audience to Count Mole, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the evening his Excellency Lord Granville, the President of the Chamber of Peers, Count de Bondy, and several Peers and Deputies, had the honour of being received by his Ma jesty. Yesterday, at a quarter before twelve o'clock, the King and Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Princesses Mary and Clementine, and the Prince de Joinville, accompanied by the Count de Montalivet, the Prefect of Pollee, the. Aides-de-Camp of his Majesty, the Ladies of Honour of the Queen and Princesses, went to Versailles. The Duke of Orleans left Paris, for Brussels, on Sa turday night, at nine o'clock. Prince Talleyrand arrived at Paris on Sunday, and at five o'clock went to the Tuileries, where he had a long au dience of the King. M. Thiers paid a lengthy visit to the Prince yesterday. The Right Honourable Edward Ellice has just arrived in Paris ; his noble brother-in-law, Earl Grey, is expected in January. A letter from Vannes contains fresh details respecting the tragic event of which we have already given some ac count. On the Gth of December, at breakfast time, the Sub-Lieutenant Severac, ensign bearer of the 65th regi ment, in consequence of some trivial remark being made, fell, sword-in-hand, upon his comredes, who were unarmed, and in undress. This circumstance would lead to the be lief that this desperate outrage was the result of premedita tion. Out of the six officers present five were wounded. M. Derivaux is dangerously wounded by a cut on the head, and has seven or eight cuts on other parts of his body. M. Froidure is dangerously wounded ; he had a finger cut off'. M. Baron is also dangerously wounded ; he has a cut on the face and neck. M. Dupont is seriously wounded by a cut on the head, and another on the shoulder. M. Guirre is slightly wounded on the head and hand. Se verac was not apprehended by the Guards without a violent struggle. Two soldiers were wounded in endeavouring; to secure him. His resistance was not overcome before received a bayonet stab. Severac having eominitte: i the above-mentioned outrage, tried to blow out his brains with a pistol, but the ball only passed through the lower jaw, and lodged in his tongue. The Adjutants Dibos and Balazac were obliged to cut the brachial artery tq disarm National. The late tempests have done Voty eonsiderable damage to the port of Havre, and at Ingouville, Sanvie, and St. Addresse. The sea is on the point of making its way through the fosses of Havre on to the plain of Ingouville, part of which is below the level of the sea, and thence reach the plain of Le Heure, so that Havre would be com pletely insulated. In consequence of this apprehension the Prefect of the Seine Inferieure has given orders for pro ceeding immediately to take all such steps as are likely to prevent such a calamity. The river continues to rise ; every hone it is higher. Since Monday night it has increased by 'at least a foot, r.nd is advancing in the most frightful re:annex in the Place de la Greve and the Rue de la Mertellerie. The ground floors of all the houses on the Quay de la Greve are two feet under water, which has riot, wo believe, happened within the last 60 years ; au t j the inhabitants of the Rue de 1% Boucheric and the Rue des Vierges, have been driven from their dwelling*. All passage along the quay is stopped, from the Rue Geoffroy Lasnier to the Place de l'Hotel de Ville ; and all the small adjacent streets. Barriers are erected at the two ends of the Rue de l'Hotel de Ville, at the entrances into the Place, and at the foot of the Pont Louis Philippe, to prevent vehicles from going along. The flood has invaded the Rue Traversiere, as high up as No. 26, and the Rue Villiot, as far as the corner of the Rue de Bercy. These streets are to be traversed only by boats and flying bridges. Until Monday night the Quai St. Paul was free ; but yesterday morning it was invaded by the torrent, and has since been passable only by means of planks. During Mouday night the guard-house at the Port au Platre. WAltoverflowed, and the guard was obliged to retire. The Port au Vin is covered with water, and there is no poSsibility of going from the Garden of Plants to the Ree des Fosses St. Bernard. At Berey all the wine-stores are inundated, and the houses berd,,ering" the quay are de serted and closed. The res . :want called the Marroniers. and other similar establ ; : - :ments, are embanked, to exele jde the water. The W fisherman atermen state that the habitats on of a y 'near the bridge at Ivry has been swept"a way le the torem t ; that one of his children is drowned ; th at r, r a himself has had both his thighs broken by the fall of would have perished, had not relief come.. a beam, and at the moment it did. Down the river the Piles of t !ee Pont des Artes are covered above their capitals ; ;Art of Gros Caillou is also river h:es become a f r i g htf u l t orren t, u pon under water. The which not a single . le oa t d are venture. It is very near, i f not quite, at the her a nt it attained in the remarkable flood of 1740. During the, whole of ye s t er d ay morn i ng t h e sur f ace o f t h e river eke* covered with bundles of hay and straw, quantities a thatch-wood, planks, and casks, mingled with dead fowls, 40 the carcase of a horse. All the wooden buildings on the wlearfs, used by the collectors and officers of the Cus toir.s, are either submerged, or carried away from the '.s'barfs. The water comes up the servers as high as the Rue Montmartre. The Catacombs arc also filled to be yond the Luxembourg. The force of the stream has car ried away enormous pieces of the wooden frame-work which supports the water-engine on the Pont Notre Dame ; the building is out of its place, the wheels no longer turn round. and alarming sounds of giving way are occasionally heard. Vast crowds collect on the quays to view this imposing spectacle. Above and below Paris, the country represents immense lakes, the borders of which are lost in the dis tance. The accounts received yesterday from the depart ments, are alarming. At all points the Seine has broken its boundaries, and threatens to spread still more widely over the adjoining lands. The Mayor of Montereau, about thirty leagues up the river, writes that the water was fur ther increased by a rise of seven feet ; and, consequently, it was apprehended that before the close of the last night, there might be an increase at Paris of about eighteen inches. The communications between France and Switzerland arc re-established on the most amicable footing. Our commercial relations with the latter country will have suffered but mo mentarily from that factitious anger which the Swiss Press had awakened against France, and which some still try to keep up by imposture. Meantime the resolutions adopted by the Diet against the political refugees,are being executed conscien tiously. A reward of 400 Swiss livres (600 francs) has been promised by the Vorort to whoever will furnish the autho rities with the means of arresting any of the four principal refugees (Rabschenplatt, Mazziiii, and the brothers Ruf fini) whose retreat has not yet been discovered. The Can tons have been recommended to adopt some punishment against individuals who afford an asylum to refugees whose expulsion has been ordered. Government has not yet de manded the extradition of the fugitives implicated in the StrashUrgh affair, who are now concealed in the Canton of Basle eountry.—Debsts. M. Gutierrez d'Estrada, formerly Mexican Minister f or Foreign Affairs, who has been residing in Paris for a s h or t time, has been named Minister Plenipotentiary to his Bri tannic Majesty.—Journal des Dcbals % Prince Talleyrand arrived in Paris on Sunday, and at five o'clock went to the Tuilleries,where h e h a d a l ong au dience of the King. M. Thiers paid a lengthy visit to the Prince yesterday.—Courrier Francais. A letter, dated Rome, Nov 26 . th, in th e Augsburgh Ga zette, shows that some alarm exists lest the cholera should reach that city from Naples, TILE VENDOME CONSYttATORS.—In the second day's, sitting of the Court-martial held at Tours on the 10th ins le, in the case of the Vendom e consp i rators , the examination of the prisoners was continued. The prisoner Oudenot declared that he looked upon Bruyant's plan as an insan e idea, and that he himself never intended . to conspire. Th e whole f ptlairetyTete Noire, had tact the morning of October 30 at t h e but merely on a party Of p l easure , They had sung some songs, t o w hich, howev er , no po li t i ca l importance could be attached. Brigadier Bruyant plxided in his defence that his object had been . merely to ameliorate the lot o f hi s C oun t r y men . The PreKt;r.ai having observed to him that had his plan stIMA , 4I, he would, no doubt, have expected to he t p e reeted to the rank of Colonel— " Why not," e k cia,lened'Bruyant, i n a t one o f e nthusiasm, and tie?, teteo,ost confidence in his own merits, With re , gird to the assassination of Barriettx, he contended that the ! meisfortune was due to chance alone. The President (to Bru yaat)—Did you not, in your proclamation, allude to a gene- . ral participation of property ? Prisoner—The territory of a commune ought to be distributed among its inhabitants, and those who have more than their share ought to pay a rent. Soldiers ought to be considered as the best citizens, and ought not to be fed like beasts. The principal hotels and inns in Vendome ought each to lodge a squadron, and to look for their payment to the mass. The prisoner after. wards stated, that on proceeding to his chamber, liQ seized his pistols and sabre ; that on the 1100:COMIllisstanal Awl withdrawing, he took to flight ; that in thepanao ito rnvi with Quartermaster Laudry, who fired his pistol at h;tifi without receiving any provocation. The prisoner d e nt e d that lie cut a t Landry with his sabre, but said that 11;2 teiit3 rade Thierry had done so. " In turning into the corride , ::' added the prisoner, " I threw myself upon Barricux, and just as he seized me across the body my two p . istok went off. Barrieux was my comrade, my friend—iye i ielonged to the same squadron." President—" The cir cums t raice that your pistols had been loaded since the morning: proves that you intended to make use of them." Prisoner—" I loaded them without any object in view, without any reference to the plot of the evening." Th.:: pt isoners Marshal, Descartes, Bissiere,N4rdin, Lenoan, 11f,er nard, and Penoit, denied all intention of participatin,..- in . a conspiracy. All the witnesses were heard in ti course of this sitting, which was protracted till half-n: d st six o'clock. The proceedings were to continue on t llth), when the Captain-Reporter anate ensuing day (the the Counsel for the prisoners were to be heard. sentence was expected to be 61 the same evening. With the p ex ro c n ep o t u i n o c n ed i or n t t t he cou atimination of the principal prisoner, Bruyant, f .. 100 Vneeedings h a v e hi t h erto presente d b ut li tt l e interzA, The Court was well attended, and the ladies formed, no inconsiderable portion of the auditory. A new suspension-bridge over the Loire at Digoin, on the departmental road between Moulins and Macon, was opened on the 22d ult. Another similar bridge at Four neon, between Moulins and Bale, is very nearly finished. Extract of a letter dated St. Sebastian, Dec. 7, 1834 : " Our town would appear threatened with a siege at. least equal to that of Bilboa, if we were to judge f rom t h e war like preparations in pr ogress here at this moment. One sees in the st ree t s no thi ng b ut car t s an d carria ges fill ed with am munition, pieces of ar till er y, mortars, shells in im mense quantities, &c., all of which have come _from England. A large portion of the soldiers of the Legion are working at the fortifications. In a month from this time St. Sebastian will be capable of resisting the entire united force of the Carlists. The motive of all this work is, with us, merely conjecture ; but it would not seem exclusively in the in terests of the Queen." FRENCH FUNDS.-Pmus, DEC. 13. Five per Cents., 1071. 40c. 30c. 4::c, 50c. Four per Cents., 99f. 2*c. 15c. Three per Cents. 78f. 9,.c 85c. 95c. 90c. Hank Actions, 2,330 f. Rente de Naples, 97f sc. 97E Spanish Actives, 20N 1 ,4% 14, Spanish Passives, 5%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10114 Portuguese Three Der Cents. 29%;.4„ Dutch Two and a Half per Ceiv.s.,s4l; . tikkytian Loan, 360 f. ExcitANue ON I.ol.nott. -fours Authen:,sque. '" One •h r e rn e t o i n io t i h it , h pa s, i ra r p , o 2 r s , r 2N l i r fitv: e. i r FRENCH, F'JNDS.-PAnts, Dec. 14. Five per Ceuta.. lu7f. 40c. 45c. Four an Four per een t s .. 90f. 10 c . e t a Palf tier Cents. 101 E 50c. 2,41 ''., Actions, Cents., 78f. 80c. 85c. 2, 4 u".. Actions, 2,340 f. ''_cute de Naples, 97f. 10c. Roman Five per Cents., 1001/%%. Spanish Actives, '2l 20% Mg. Spanish Diftbres, 8%. siianish Passives, 514. Portuguese Loan, Toree per Cents, 30, Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 55. haytian Loan, 360 E EXCIIANGF ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 3114 e.; money.; 25t. 31c Three months, paper, 251. 12%c. ; mot. ey. 25t. lOc. -('sirs AullieufiJur. BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.--.T1Y, 2 funds have sustained themselves to-day, notwitlistar,dir.b the unfavourable news from Bona. At Tortoni's thy l'iad shown a tendency to fall (having been down so low goc.), but the improvement in Consols in London on Mrnday caused a slight alteration fur the better, which contir.e Messrs. Grille and, e( i . to the close of business. Labouglis, the manufacturers of Mul hauscn, whose fd.are was announced yesterday, aro defaulters to the amount ui 2,500,000 f. (100,000/.) LAST PR iCEs.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 65c. ; Threa per Cents..., 78f. 10c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb- V..rds, —; Differes, 81; New Loan, —; Actives, 201 ; Pas-. sires, 5.i; Ducats, —; Romans, 100,1-; Pedros, —; Belgians, —; Dutch, 551. ; Haytians, 3601. —e. ; Mi guels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 33 ; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, ; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —; Three per Cent. Portuguese, 3(); Bank Actions, 2,3401. ; Austrian, —; Ronte de Naples, 971. 25c. GERMANY. HAMBURGH, DEC. 3.—The Swedish and Norwegian Consul gives notice in th e Borsetz-halle of to-day, th at the Christiania mail bag was stolen just before the house where the post should set out, on the 28th November. HAMBURG!!, DEC. 9.—The Consul of Sweden and Nor way gives notice in the Borsen-halle of to-day, that intelli gence from the Norwegian Government had been received by him, stating that the mail bag which was dispatched from Bergen to Christiania on the 25M November last., and which contained letters for foreign countries, is also missing. An express was immediately . i..ispatched from Christiania to in form the merchants, ti - . a t they might as soon as possible send duplicates of any 'remittances they may have forwarded by this lost bag. ST. PST; itSBURG, Nov. 30.—The Imperial Court is gone snt mourning for 24 days, (from the 25th inst.) for thelP: ce King Charles X. A collection of Italian pictures b"..s lately been placed in the Hermitage, which formerly belonged to M. Koesvelt, in London, and was purchased) last year for 9,400/. sterling. There is one picture by Raphael, which is valued at 5,009/. The ice in the Neva became fixed on the 26th in the afternoon. The passage in boats has ceased. Since yesterday it is passable on foot. His Majesty has been pleased to form a Bishopric of Riga, from the Eparchy of Pskow. 2,500 rubles are granted to fit up the episcopal residence. Frinach, Bishop of Staritza, has been chosen by his Majesty from the Arch dukes proposed for the dignity of Bishop of Riga, and the Bishop of Pskow is elevated to the rank of Archbishop. Two new handsome granite bridges have just been opened.—Hapaburgh Papers, Dec. 9. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, DEC. 9. NHL Donny. Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent. ,T..,, K. --; Ditto ditto 3 percent. Ditto Bank Shares MS 1338 Anglo_Russian Loan 1 ..t...% pl 2 i i i Paper 1 nscription. 6 per cent. -. Russian 5 per cents. Metal. ••• 97%, 97!4, Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3 d and 4tll Series Ditto, Certificates rortugnese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent .. _ . . Ditto, 3 per cent .e. ‘,7v . , .... Dutch 2 . y,, per Cents. I ) at. 5 per Cents Polish Winds, 3 per cents. ~.. New Tickets A bglo-Danish Loan, 3 per es , „ t. ,, 7IN Norwegian Loan of ISM, .i. per cents. ........ Npauish, in piastres,. 3 `",.:r Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cetit IS% 1S Creek 4 per cents'. 11133, guaranteed by France 92 91 'EXCHANGES ON LONDON. 114mutreat, Dec. 9.-13 s,i' ; two months. 13 4. Sr. Purr.ii.sucitou, Nov. 29 —Three month,. 111 25-3& CHRISTIANIA. Nov. 0 —Three months. 5:2. &foci:mum, Nov. 29.—Two months , 11 38. ItuittaN. DEc. tl.---rtireentkriths, 6 :22% —Hamburg Pavers, Dec. 9. The Wolverhampton Musical Festiva: will take place on the 9.9til inst., at St. John's Church. The Earl of Bradford, Earl of Stamford, Lord Hatherton, Sir John Wrottesley, Sir F. L. Goodricke,'Cbarles R. Villiers, Esq., M.P., and Thomas Thorneley, Esq., M.P., are among the list of patrons:. The tiirnvike gates in all Scotland yielded, accor ding to a Parliamentary Paper, on an average of 1833, 1831, and 1835, about 250,000/. a year, the amount being one good index to the increase of trade, by remembering that there was a period not very remote when there were no such things as turnpike gates. On Sunday night there was a severe frost, .and to day we have had a Jell of snow from the east. In conse quence of the almost constant rains, the instances are ex tremely rare where the farmers have been able to sow their wheat ; their potato ground is, for the most part, still un ploughed. The early settir ' , in of winter will have the effect of throwing farm work very far behind. The Lond.on mail to-day (Monday) was three quarters of an hour be hind its usual time of arrival. The cause of this was a great fall of snow OQ the north part. of the line of road.— Glasgow Chronic*. LORD PE . MBROKE, THE HUMORIST.—Of all the Mede - aw l .:l ; ersiati laws established in his house, the most peremptory was, that any servant who once got. drunk should be instantly discharged—no pardon granted, no excuse lis tened to. Yet an old footman, who had lived with hi m many years, would sometimes indulge in a pot of ale extraordi nary, trusting to the wilful blindness which he saw assumed when convenient. One fatal day even this could not avail. As my Lord crossed the ball, John appeared in full view— not rather tipsy, or a little disguised, but dead deurik, and unable to stand. Lord P. went up to him : " !Ay poor fellow, what ails you—you seem dreadfully ill; l e t me feel your pulse. God bless us, he is in a raging /el ver ; get him to bed directly, and send for the apothecary The apothe cary came—not to be consulted, for his I,ordsbip was phy sician-general in his own fatally ; but 'to obey orders—to bleed the patient copiously, clap a hugr blister on his back, and give him a powerful dose of phyr.,ie. After a few days of this treatment, when the fellow emerged, weak and wan as the severest illness could have left him, Hah, honest John, eried his master, " I am truly glad to see thee alive ; you have had a wonderful escape, though, and ought to be thankful—very thankful indeed. Why man, if I hr.d not passed by and spied the conditim you were in, you would have been dead before now. But John, John (lift; ug up bis finger) no more of these fevers !"—Lord Whanaclife's Lady Mary Wortley,