The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. we will strengthen his hands and his heart; he shall be our leader still "—( Continued cheers.) And all this must Sir Robert quietly take, without lien daring to crack the old joke of the fat knight, " Call you this backing your friends ? A plague upon such backing, say I." No ; he naust take any backing he can get. His function is thankfully to receive it, and pocket the accompanying insult. Like the Roman Emperor (who was, nevertheless, a very different sort of " Imperial purple" man) with his filthy tax, he must swear that it smells as sweetly as if it were raised more decently. He must be grateful for having credit as a knave, while he is shown up as a traitor. No. I 3 will pardon a single treason, on the condition of his making it a double one. ( All that is needful is the iteration of Peel into repeal. i We need not call on Ireland to note these signs of Tory times. The outcry of war upon a nation cannot pass unheeded, though it be only raised by a faction. So imuch of chance as there is for the success of Sir Robert 1 Peel, so much of peril is there for the civil rights of the tCatholics of Ireland. We believe not in their peculiar creed ; we sympathise not in their peculiar forms ; but tve hold their political rights sacred, and know that any invnzion of them would sacrifice the liberties of the em pire. All the bigotry of this country is enlisted under ;he Tory leader, on the express or implied condition that he shall revoke the religious liberty of Ireland. His foot:all must be on the Emancipation Act in his pas sage to Downing-street. Let the Irish mark well these Tory proceedings. They have ample forewarn ing. To them the question is one of life and death. j Even before the knife is grasped, their freedom is pro f claimed for the first sacrifice. With the common over ' .ight of the crafty. those who have stimulated the ht getry of the few thousands have forgotten the awful re .-oil of the many millions. They exult in the crack of the pop-gun, which may perhaps bring down the ztv ;,:nehe. War with c i v il an d re ligious liberty —to this it must come. English Dissent may hate Irish Catho licism ; but their political existence is bound up toge ther. The associations which are organising th em . selves against Church-rates do well ; but the restora yen of Toryism would be a much more tremendous eril that. the c ontinuance of the rate. It would perpetuate, it would aggravate, all ezisti n i re li g i ous disparities. Thy pgo ties by wh ose c l amour, corrup tion and violenceit would be effected, would effect it for that very purpose. Sir R o b ert P ee l i s no longer in a condition to become the Minister of the Mo derates. He is no longer the tool of Tory toleration. Violence has " marked him for her own." He bears the brand like an- obedient galley-slave. It is boasted that he shall drive the present Ministry from their seats immediately on the meeting of Parliament ; and yet ftere is actually at the present moment no set of mea sures, no one single measure, for the sake of which his victory is anticipated by his own party, but the abroga t:en of the civil rights of Roman Catholics. The repeal or the Emancipation: Act is the sum and substance of Tory policy. It is Tory policy ; the faction has no other. That is the sole purpose ; but how fearfully fraught with consequences affecting the peace and the rights of all classes of the community ! After all, the bigots wi.l find they have tough work to do, and with a slippery subject. The game has appeared to go on smoothly in their own hands. They have sounded their war-cry, and mustered their strength. The one-sided wcark is over, and the reaction is coming. (From the Morning Herald.) The damages awarded to Stockdale in the action which he brought against Messrs. Hansard, as Printers of the House of Commons, were quietly paid to the Sheriff on Monday night—the sale of Messrs. Han sard's effects having been announced to take place on the following day. Why, let us ask, has the public bee❑ regaled with such an exhibition of desire to resist the law ? Why were not the damages in question paid quietly, and at once ? Sir John Campbell, and his colleague have, in truth, been baffled in their attempt to intimidate the Sheriff, as they were previously baffled in their attempt to overawe the judges of the land. May such ever be the fate of the efforts of our " philo losophic Liberals " to supersede the law, and the institu tions of England ! There is of course, still some talk amongst " Reformers," of an intention on the part of the House of Commons to vindicate the" privileges " of that august body. The august body in question will we feel as sureil, take the matter very quietly ; they will, (to bor. ro , v Sir Robert Inglis's phrase) " eat their leek)" — although they may, by possibility, brandish at the same 1 tune a very inoffensive cudgel. The House of Commons j is in the position of a discomfited bully ; and the more I submissively it shall sneak out of the affair, the better will it be for the small remains of its moral influence ' over the community ! The late attempt of the House of Commons to supersede the law of the land is only 1 part of the system of gov ernmen t, w hi c h it i s th e ten dency of " Liberalism" to establish in England. But a few years ago, the majority of the House of Commons sought to disparage, by every mode, the authority of the House of Lords ; nay, that majority did not disdain to sanction O'Connell's " crusade" against the Upper ( House—a crusade conducted in a spirit of vulgar ruf fianism, such as, perhaps, only O'Connell could have 'brought to the task. The House of Lords, how , ever, has not alone, of the co-ordinate branches of the Legislature, been subjected to the savage assaults of " philosophic Liberalism." If we revert to i Jim era of the Reform Bill, we shall find the preroga tive of the Monarch vilified, with no less bitterness than the privileges of the Peers. Yes :—the loyal, the excksively—loyal Whigs of 1839, could in 1831 men , tiou familiarly the name of the Queen in connection with the scaffold. 'The " Liberals" have not, more ( over, confined themselves to attempts to overawe the Monarch, the Peers, the Judges. They have sought j to cicroach upon the constitutional privileges of ever y order of British subjects. The Liberals have long de (sired to deprive the country g en tl emen o f E ng l an of all magisterial authority. Preparatory, therefore, to the establishment of a rural police, and the transference to Home-office stipendiaries, of that influence which • h a d been exercised for centuries by the gentry of the kingdinn, there was poured forth by the Liberal Newspapers a stream of the foulest calumny against al: " unpaid Magistrates." Calumny is, in fact, the in sirtunent by which " philosophic Liberals" seek to attain t h e i r ,ods. When the New Poor-law, was about to be pissed, the labourers of England were stigmatised ate' idl e , dissolute, and dishonest." When the " cen tralised " system (if administering justice was contem plated, the " great unpaid were the theme of unre t, mittiog scur.-ility. So, we repeat, have the Monarch, Pie Peers, and the Judges been, in like manner, vilified by the organs of " Liberalism," and by the " Liberal " -;4-ity in the House of Commons. To Lord Den i„ ad to his learned and venerabl e b ret h ren , a ll who ...., _ _ i 1„.,. the ancient institutions of England, are u nd er th e 4 deepest oll'igations. The Judges of the Queen's Bench 1 ,;:iive nobly indicu.'ed the supremacy of LAW against the e t ,, , !roachments of our tyrant " liberals.' Shall we be 1 ' O l O that the law of lib el is bad, and requires amend : 1 , mant.? So be it ; but until the law shall be amended, it must be enforced against a majority of the House of Cominon , as rigidly as against the least powerful vio ) lator of its spirit and provisions. To this great consti -1 tutional truth Lord Denman and his brethren have t given practical effect. (From the .3/)rning Post.) 1 ,A. General Court of Proprietors of Eat India Stock ime its to-day in Leadenhall-street, at which .. . interesting discc, A s:ons on several important subjects may be ex - A motion stands in the paper, of w.hich notice pecteci. was given . .at the last Court by Sir C. Forb,v, having for its obje.lt to elicit information as to the application 50,0001., with respe c t to which no of a sum ex.lek. din g account has i N .. - et ~'ven rendered to the proprietors, nor the intention of ren. lerlng any been manifested, except i that this large amount has i :Ten expended in pursuance ; of resolutions of the Seeilet ,;ommittee. The Secret 1 Committee, it should be understl Nod, consists of the two ' Chairs and the senior Director, an 4 is under the abso -1 lute controul of the President of the India Board. There is, it must be admitted, s , arnething of an oriental character in this sweeping a 'ode of dispos ing of other people's money. That the cash in this instance has been honestly laid ou •t there can not, of course, be aay doubt ; but yet we should not be mach surprised if a considerable porti 7n of the proprietors of East India Stock were of opini ~a that it s Would b e as we ll f or t h em to k now some thi n g a bout the .aantier in which this 50,0001. and.upwards , le their j i .."‘",'Y has been spent. At present all that is known ' 'and"thatas",ooo/. has evaporated from their trei. tsCrY , 1 zi,,,,,. • t_,lii.obody has the slightest idea where it can ha%:e t . .• . .‘ e have heard that it is intended to elud.t. the ,nq_,u:tsitiNreness of the East India i rietors by an inti- rz.. ,, 0n that the money h Pre Pin I eaatern frontier of t heir as been spe.n . t . the north this evaion be attempted t why money should Asiatic dominions. Should a it will very n a torally be asked been drawn from ,the treasury of Leaclenhall-street, toanbde expended at tl. Ne extremity ordinary cours, " of remit tanceof India, the natural being, not from En to England. It would England to India, b u t , 'rom India seem a ire about way of transacting business, for sem. 7 round money from Calcutta to Leadenhall,streesest, ca th b e , ourphsee of sending it from Leadenhall-street to " 001. matter ought to be thoroughly sifted, or there ' will be persons unreasonable enough to think e t.e , t Leadenhall-street has been drained to re secret-service chest of some of the offices abouotrWbi '°- ball, in order to exonerate the latter from Parliament. guy s responsibility, This would be hard upon the proprieta•— ,of East India stock, and, what is much worse, it would supply the Administration with an easy means (3f _ iuding and corruptin g th e p e ople of Great Britait w. That no such system of accommodation exists . ought t 4 be clearly prov e d i n th e on l y way i n w hich it can be proved—by giving a distinct and satisfactory reply to the quest i on , " Wh at h as b ecome o f t h e .50,0001. ?, But the above is not the only interesting business to ' be brought before the Court of Proprietors to•day. That Court is to he called upon to follow the example set them by the Court of Directors on Wednesday last, y passin g a vote of thanks to Lord Auckland, Sir John Keane, and the general, field, and other officers of the Anglo-Indian Army, on account of their services in , r about the late expedition to Affghanistan. These i no 'ices' we:appr e h en d, w ill not pass unanimously, for they , did n 9t pass unanimously at the Court of Directors held a week it, go.ft will very natura ll y and properly be asked what the Court of Directors meant by giving its thanks to the Governor-General of India, who ought to be a states man, and certainly is not a warrior—not for the states manlike views, in pursuance of which the Cabul expedi tion was adopted, but for " the sagacity and promptitude with which he planned that expedition," and " the zeal and vigour which he displayed in preparing the troops to take the field." This vote of thanks is as much like a vote of censure as any vote of thanks that we recollect ever to have read. The thanks of the Court of Direc tors to Sir John Keane was not, as we learn by the minutes, carried unanimously. It may be expected that in the more numerous Court of Proprietors there will be still less of unanimity. That the commander of an army who is suspected of having permitted or sanc tioned the massacre in cold blood, of prisoners taken in war, should not have received an unanimous vote of thanks from the Board of Directors is honourable to that body. It will be seen to-day whether their consti tuents think that they have not shown gratitude enough for the services of Sir John Keane. (From the Times.) It was recently announced that the bad health of Mr. Greg, who succeeded Governor Poulett in the repre sentation of Manchester, would very probably oblige the Hon. invalid to resign his newly acquired seat ; and, perceiving from the " Court Circular" that Mr. Labou• chere has suddenly left town for the cotton metropolis, we naturally infer, that as the latter personage has been promoted to the Governor's place as President of the Board of Trade, there is an anxiety in certain quarters that he should step into his predecessor's slippers, if possible, as Member for that great manufacturing bo rough. Assuming this to be the fact, we beg to offer a few remarks upon it. In ordinary circum stances one would be inclined to imagine that a gentleman holding an arduous and important public office would be as little disposed to covet the Parliamentary labours devolving upon the re presentative of a large commercial town as the con stituency must be to intrust them to such an over burdened functionary. Even in Edinburgh, which is in no sense a manufacturing city, the electors, after having had a fair trial of Government officers as their Members, are so dissatisfied with the sacrifice of their independence, involved in such a connection, that one of their leading Liberals, though for the most part approving the politics of Sir John Campbell and Mr. Macaulay, has actually published a letter recommending that those gentlemen, in consequence of their inefficiency and Ministerial subserviency, should be dismissed at the next general election. The truth is, as common sense may suggest, that, apart from any selfish views which the cotton aristocracy may have to Mr. Labouchere's official influence in favour of their staple traffic, at the expense of other interests, no hard-worked public servant desti tute of the elephantine powers of a Canning, can pro perly discharge his duties to the nation, and at the same time acquit himself with propriety as the representative of a large commercial population. The obligations pertaining to the two engagements are, to a great extent, incompatible : either the one, or the other, or both, must of necessity be neglected. But really it appears to us that the circumstance of an immense manufactur ing town like Manchester being represented by the President of the Board of Trade is, in some measure, a public indecency, and fitted to awaken the just jea lousies of the other portions of the empire. The com merce of Britain, which, in all its relations, has a just claim upon Mr. Labouchere's office for impartial encou ragement and protection, is one of the most complex things imaginable. Cotton clothing, as well as spun materials for the weaving of such clothing, may, by end less little acts of official partiality, acquire such superior facilities for production and sale, especially in foreign markets, as would eventually injure, to a considera able degree, the competing fabrics of linen, silk, and wool. On the part of a Ministerial functionary re presenting a constituency exclusively engaged in a particular branch of manufacture there is a manifest temptation to further the peculiar interests of his own electors, which in many cases can be done only by sacrificing or disparaging those of others. Now, Mr. Labouchere, if returned for Manchester, will either show an undue partiality for its staple commodity, or he will not. If he do exhibit that partiality, such places as Macclesfield, Leeds, &c., must be propor tionably injured by his unfairness ; and if he refrain from it, not only are his official pretensions to the representation of the former borough completely de stroyed, but sundry reasons might be adduced to show that, what with his present onerous duties, and his necessary obsequiousness to the Whig Go vernment, the attainment of his contemplated object would be a serious sacrifice of the independence and general interests of his new constituents. Again, on the supposition that Lord Melbourne's tottering and tenacious Ministry shall, contrary to universal expectation, attempt to prolong its exist ence through another Session of Parliament, we should certainly augur that Mr. Labouchere's return for Man chester is meant to be the purchase-price of some addi tional tamperings with the factory question ; and that the mill-grinding Moloch, already gorged with thousands of infant victims, is to be still further propitiated by a new holocaust on the part of the unprincipled Whigs. The shameful manner in which Governor Poulett made himself the tool of a certain section of his cotton constituency, by postponing, overlaying, or frustrating every humane effort for protecting the factory chil f dren from their avaricious oppressors, is fr e sh in the recollection of our readers. That Mr. La bouchere can succeed to Poulett's seat on any milder terms, is what we may reasonably doubt : but it is ,some consolation to know that al though Lord Ashley and his friends must again buckle on their armour in the ensuing session, the utter weakness of the Ministry, as well as the satisfac tory progress of public feeling in regard to factory cruelties, will enable them to fight the battles of the defenceless with greater advantage than on any former occasion. Then with respect to the Corn-laws, on the impolicy of which this journal has all along maintained a decided opinion, we should like vastly to know what possible benefit the Manchester repealers can expect to derive from a Parliamentary connexion with any subordinate member of the existing Government. At a meeting of their Anti Corn-law Association the week before last, there were facts brought forward, even by creditable members of the Liberal party, which show in the clearest manner the mismanagement of the Whigs in matters of trade generally, so far from descry ving to be requited by the election of Mr. Labouchere for Manchester, has literally brought the manufacturing commerce of the country to the very verge of ruin. The following picture, drawn by one of the speakers on that occasion, is not more distressing than true : " Mr. Berry, from Nottingham, was then aunounccd to address the meeting. He said, there really would be no living in that county in a short time unless there was some very great change, for the people were actually all out of work. When he came away on Friday morning there were 3,000 persons in the streets wandering about, who literally could not get anything to do.—(Hear, hear. ) Such was the state of things in that district, that he was obliged to get a man to remain in his house, for the pro tection of his wife and family during his absence. They came in droves of tens, twenties, forties, fifties, and hun dreds, begging from door to door, and of course people could not relieve them. Such was the state of things in Not tingham when he left on Friday morning last. la Leicester they were little better, and the stocking trade had nearly left Nottingham. They had a meeting of the Poor law Guardians on Thursday to take into considera tion what was to be done, because the people must have something to eat, and they came to the re,olution of giving out-door relief. They could do na other. On Friday morning there was a man who offered to take him to an inn in Nottingham, where ho said there were fourteen of the best mechanics of the place just getting ready to depart to France to assist in making railways. The trade of the country was leaving in every direction. Of what use, then, are Mr. Labouchere and his Board of Trade to the real interests of a manufacturing population apart from the factory prejudices of a knot of millowners ? The influence of that gentleman upon the Corn-law question, or upon any question involving the prosperity of British commerce, is only such as may render his return for Manchester a public calamity, be cause, without aiding the Anti-Corn-law party in the slightest degree, it will, to a certain extent, help to fur ther and facilitate the misgovernment of the very worst Cabinet that ever provoked the resentments of a free people. (From the Morning Advertiser.) , To censure in others the vices we practise ourselves is a failing so common as to have given rise to a pro verbial saying about " Satan rebuking Sin ;" b u t we doubt whether even Satan himself would follow the E, sample of certain Tory scribes, by visiting the shame as d disgrace of his own errors on those who not only c on demned, but actually int erfered , to prevent them. With a serious and sapient air, the Times quotes a passage s char ge , i n which from Chief Justice Ti ndal' ' " religious education" is recommended as the corrective of political fanaticism ; and hence infers an intention on his Lordship's part to cast a very serious imputation on her Majesty's Ministers. Surely if there had been a single particle of common sense or common honesty in the moral composition of this " delicate monster" this Caliban of the Press—be would have hesitated to commit himself by so egregious and palpable a blunder ; for it is notorious as the sun at noon day that the want of religious education among the poor is the fruit of Tory bigotry, lashed into absolute frenzy by the h es and misrepresentations of the Times and its col let,, ;ties. The most disgraceful chapter in t he histor y o f , he present year will be that which records the p rom edings of the English High Church party in re ferule% 'to the question of education. In no country of Eur ope could priesteratt exhibit itself in more flagrant colours, o; with a more successful opposition to intel lectual cultore and the best interests of the human race. A plan for tlie establishment of a normal school (that is, a school for the training of teachers) was issued by the Lords of the Treasury ; and it was proposed to F la ce at the he a d o f i t a c l ergyman o f the Chur c h of E ngland, with a view to " the incorporation of religious Erection with the whole matter if education." A s „ h eme more carefully arranged, more sedulously -ded, and better calculated to meet all reasonable gual 'lions, ions, could not have been devised ; yet its publi cobtjieocr, wa s greeted with the frantic a n d savage ye,ls of and the mercenary execrations of all those to bigotry THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1839. whom the ignorance of the people is the staff of life. It is a melancholy and humiliating reflection, that in a country distinguished above all others for freedom of opinion and boldness of thought, the violence of faction should have achieved a triumph which perpetuates the combination of poverty with intellectual darkness. That the want of sound political knowledge, which would be among the first fruits of a good system of education, was the cause of the outbreak at Newport, no sensible man can doubt ; and we trust that so fatal an experience of the evils of ignorance will open the eyes of the rational professors of Conservative principles. The risk of life and property may perhaps teach a lesson which ought to have been impressed on their minds by the dictates of humanity. Let them silence the insane cla mour about Dissenters and Papists, and endeavour to unite all classes in the bonds of charity ; let the Church cease to be the rallying-point of faction, and lead the march of civilization, instead of hobbling and growling in the rear ; for by such means alone can " the throne and the altar" be secured from danger, and peace and prosperity be revived in our manufacturing districts. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES BYtITISH FUNDS Bank Stock ... ..... ..... .......... 177 f India Stack 3 per Cent. Red 9u Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Wis. .— Ni I Ditto Old Annuities — 3Y.,, per Cent. Red 99 IDitto New Annuities New 3Y,'. per Cent j Ex. Bills, 1,0001 ~1 r dis. New 5 per Cent 1 Ditto 500/....... ...... „„ 5 di s. Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto 5001 2 dis. Jan. 1800 Oct. 1859 Jan 1900 ..... 92 ~ , i , FOREIGN FUNDS _ Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds 7134 Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chi Han, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent 2lsi Ditto, 18 - 24 25 Danish, 3 per cent Greek Bonds, 11325, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, ri per cent.. NW: Pernyian.lB23.6 per cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russia?! Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent. — Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent. —f: —c Exchange French, :3 per cent SOf. —c. Dutch, :..3 per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. ARES, Grcat Western Railway s7},c, Ditto New Shares hi London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham: Railway 142 London arid Croydon Railway (Trunk) 9 Ditto Scrip Manchester and Leeds Fa ilway York and North Midland Railway 39 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) We find in the Christian Guardian and Church of England Magazine an article on the subject of National Education, which presents a gratifying contrast to the tirades of the Tory Church militant. Those prints of the party which showed so much solicitude to disclaim the other Church Magazine as a veritable organ of the national hierarchy, appear, by their silence, not to be by any means anxious to claim credit for liberality by the recognition of the views before us. While they disown thorough-going intolerance, on account of the odium which they know attends it, they cannot afford to recognize the more liberal sentiments which are sometimes put forth even amongst zealous Churchmen, as that would deprive them of the indispensable pretexts for attacking the measures of Government. Being resolved to use the Church as their cat's-paw, in spite of its own honester mem bers, they turn a deaf ear to all that is said, even on their own side, which they cannot make subserve to,thelfactious ends of the moment. The Tory organs have been affecting prodigious anxiety for the better religious instruction of the victims of Chartist delu sions. The hollowness of this affectation is evident from their factious hostility to the only practical means of effecting the object they profess to desire. When those means are sincerely set before them, even by Conserva tive Churchmen, they bestow not the slightest notice on the subject, and leave it to Liberal journalists to acquaint the public that there are Churchmen who, although by no means Ministerialists, are yet capable of post poning party bitterness to the honest promotion of the object which, with the others, is a mere pretext— and nothing more. The Christian Guardian, after giving due credit to the present exertions of the Presbyterians, Baptists, Independents, and Methodists, in our mining and manufacturing districts, proceeds to say that, " unless some far more decidedly ag gressive atracks are made on these neglected regions, it is impossible to forbode the miseries which must shortly result from the combined effects of infidelity, popery, licentiousness, and rebellion " (From the Courier.) ' It must be presumed that no one would attempt to dispute the advantages to be derived by this country, and by British India, from the establishment of an ex tensive system of steam navigation. If it has been con sidered desirable by the Legislature that, for the pur pose of procuring quick communication by railway for the three miles between the City of London and the East India Docks at Blackwall, all sorts of pri vate interests should be invaded, all sorts of damage and inconvenience on individuals should b e i n fli c t e d, and that even the urgent remonstrances of the Corporati on o f th e City of London should be disregarded, a fortiori it is incumbent on the Legislature to provide facilities for rapid and cheap communication with our distant posses sions in India, by which intercourse is to be accelerated not by a few minutes of time but by many weeks ; and in which project are involved not the comparatively unimportant profits of individual speculators, but the vast interests of Great Britain in the security and well being of her East Indian dominions. It must be consi dered as a point settled that the country will be satisfied with nothing less than the most extensive and the most perfect system of steam communication with India that can be devised. The only question that remains for inquiry, is, what plan and what route, under all the cir cumstances—political, commercial, and social—are the Lest to be adopted ? This is an enquiry which the country expects Parliament to enter on without delay ; and it is to be hoped that the subject will be discussed dispassionately, and without reference to party consi derations. (From the Standard.) The Duke of Palmella caused the letter, of which the following is a translation, to be published in the Lisbon Government Gazelle of the 10th inst.:— " Lisbon, Dec. 9, 1539. " Sir,—An assertion, as extraordinary as it is false, in which my name is compromised, as also those of two high personages (both of them deserving the greatest respect), was published in one of the last days of the last month in the Morning Chronicle, and copied from that paper into others, both in London and Paris. Those journals to which I allude declare, that when her Majesty Queen Adelaide was at this Court she entered into conversation with me and with other persons, in the course of which she used expressions of censure towards her august niece, the reigning Queen of Eng land. As such an imputation, in the highest degree injurious to the high personage to whom it is attributed, is not only false, but without the smallest shade of founda tion, 1 have thought it my duty to take such means as offer themselves to me to contradict it without delay in the face of the Portuguese public, and to declare it calumnious, before the contradiction can appear in the English Jour nals, to which I am going to address it. " I am, &c., " DUKE DE PALMELLA." This letter leaves nothing to be added in refuta- ion of the slanders upon Queen Adelaide. It will be remembered, that the first version laid the scene of the Queen's objectionable discourse in the Duke of Palmella's house, and when it was discovered that her Majesty had not been in the Duke's house at all, during her visit to Lisbon, the first misstate ment was excused on the ground that if not in the Duke's house, the discourse complained of was had in the Duke of Palmella's presence. The Duke himself sets both stories at rest. Now, we ask, what would be said of the Conservative Journal that had deliberately published, and pertinaciously adhered to, a falsehood so malignant and so groundless as this ? Would it not be said, and justly said, that such a journal deserved to be excluded from the borne and hands of every one pretending to call himself an honest man ? The thing will, however, be passed over very lightly in the case of a Whig journal. There is some reason in this seeming partiality in the indulgence allowed to the newspapers of the several parties. The public wishes to read on both sides of every question—to read truth, no doubt, for choice—but still to read on both sides. Now the Whig journals can no more keep their columns free from falsehood than the Whig party can support itself without " enormous lying," the very basis, as a very clever Whig, Mr. Charles Buller, has acknowledged, of the party's existence. CLEAN STAELES.—As for the straw which is impregnated with urine, it is the invariable custom of nineteen grooms out of twenty to allow it to remain at the bottom of a horse's bed for several days, when it is at length cleared away ; I remember having heard that a crusty old merchant, whose name I will not mention, was always in the habit of asking an applicant for a clerk's berth whether he was a good hand at " scratching out." If the answer was in the affirma tive, the reply always was, " then my good fellow, you won't do for me, for my clerks must never make mistakes." You may, therefore, previously to hiring a groom, ask him" how often he mucks out," and should he say" once a week, or twice a week, Sir," the sooner he "mucks himself out" the better. Some of these gentry, indeed, think that to look after a horse properly requires no sort of training to the business at all ; and I have known one of them who applied for the situation of groom to a gentleman, who kept hunters too, acknow ledge very cavalierly" that he did not know much about nags, but had looked arter a kiow (cow) a good bit !" Old Sporting Magazine, On Friday evening a very large and beautiful meteor was observed from the New Bridge in this town. Its direction was from the zenith due north, but as the lower part of the atmosphere was cloudy, the latter part of its course was obscured. It had the appearance and ma g nitude of a rocket, its motion, however, being down wards ; and it left in its train brilliant corruscations.— Dover Chronicle. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE ‘v TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4:30 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 1 3 74, and the exchange at Ham burg on London at short being 13 GI, it follows that gold is 0.39 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 8/. 17s. 10id. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 40, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 30, it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 109 per cent., and the par of Exchange betwee❑ Eng land and America being 10/ 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.57 per cent. against England. A further decline has taken place in the Foreign Exchanges, in which a fair amount of business was done. Bills on Hamburg were in great demand, and as Messrs. Baring, who act for the Bank of England, have still declined drawing, several other houses were able to obtain 13. 94, which they could not have done on Friday. Bills on Amsterdam went off currently at the same rate as the last post. Of paper on Paris there was a considerable supply in American bills, and al though they went off at 25. 50, still they appear to have currently met the demand. The quotations were for Amsterdam, short, 11. 19i ; at three months, 12. 3/ ; for Paris, 25. 25. 30, short ; 25. 57i to 62- 1 2 - at three months ; Hamburg at three months, 13. 94 to 1. Private letters and papers irosn Monte Video of the 4th of October represent that place to be in a state of great confusion, and preparing for a siege. The drums were beating, and all the people capable of bearing arms were assembled as a militia for the defence of the town. They are described as in their appearance resembling that of Falstaff's ragged regiment. The French sailors, however, who had been landed, were well appointed, and presented a remarkable con trast. Very contrary rumours were, as might be ex pected, in circulation. It seemed to be certain, how ever, that Rivera, the intrusive chief of Monte Video and ally of the French, had retreated before the troops from Entrerios, but had halted at one of the passes of the Santa Lucia Chico river, about fourteen leagues from the town. with the enemy close upon him. It was reported that his intention was to give battle on the day of the date of these advices, and that the alarm of war was spread in order to show the garrison, which, such as it was, consisted of more than 2,000 men, their posts, and the sort of duty expected from them in case of ne cessity. A despatch had been received from General Lavalle detailing the particulars of his advance into the territory of Entrerios, and of an action on the 22d of September, with a body of men which had been assem bled to oppose his progress at Mocorota. His own forces are stated at 800 men, and those of the enemy at 1,500. According to these accounts, the latter were defeated with the loss of more than one hundred men, among whom were two leading men of the country, Zapata and another, the former mistaken in the private letters for another person of the same sur name, who commanded the troops of Entrerios engaged. Lavalle asserts his own loss to be one officer and three men killed, three officers and fifteen men wounded only. The foreign residents at Monte Video, in conse quence, were hoping that it would open the ports, and allow vessels to ship the large quantities of dry hides, which were awaiting the result of the blockade. If Rivera should be beaten, however, in the approaching battle, the consequences would be extremely unpleasant to them, for then the city would be blockaded by the French on the one hand, and besieged by the Entrerios troops on the other. The commercial intelligence from Mauritius comes down to the 27th of September. Some activity in the demand for cotton goods may be noted, as well as for flour. The sugar crop, owing to the extreme drought, had been late in getting in, and was coming to market slowly. Such as had been offered for sale went off on favourable terms. By the usual official return published by the Cus toms, the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to foreign and colonial ports, for the week ending the 12th of December, is as under : Cold coin to Hamburg Gold coin to New York 59 Silver coin to Hamburg 2,899 Silver coin to Madras 4,622 Silver coin to Jamaica POST.—The English Funds left off rather higher than they did yesterday, but there was no business of consequence done in them. We understand that the considerable differences aris ing upon the Foreign Account, which terminated yes terday, have led to several compromises among the speculators. One party has been declared. His diffi cultic:: are occasioned, we hear, by the non-perform ance of his engagements on the part of a \Vest-end adventurer. The business done for the new Account was quite limited. The accounts from Germany mention that gold had become a great incumbrance in that part of the Conti nent. It appears to have been held at an enormous sacrifice by many of the importers, and the anxiety to get rid of it is becoming very general. The evil of an embarras de richesses was never more strongly exempli fied than the present situation of the German. HERALD.—The existing easy position of the Market does not appear to have produced any specula tion in the British Funds, and the want of confidence in the value of the Peninsular and Transatlantic Securi ties has, in a great measure, negatived that desire for speculation in them which a plentiful money market frequently causes. Rather more business has been transacted this day in the Railway and Bank Share Market. Great Western Railway shares are 8 dis. Birmingham have advanced to .52 prem. Brighton are 144 dis. South Western are two shillings and threepence prem. Manchester and Leeds are 7 prem., and the New ditto Shares 5 prem. Commercial advices from the Mauritius, with a " Price Current" to the 25th of September, have been received here to-day. The letters complain that the weather had been very favourable, the extreme drought having completely checked the growth of the sugar crop, and new sugars were arriving at Port Louis very slowly in consequence. High prices were demanded for sugar generally, and few purchases were made ; the new sugars at public sale being mostly bought in. Go vernment Bills on London were 3 per cent. premium, and Private Bills, at 90 days, were 4i- a 5 per cent. dis. Sovereigns were 2,+, per cent. prem„ and British silver coinage 4 a per cent. prem. Freights to England were 4/. 10s. a 4/. 155., with 5 per cent. primage. SUN.—There was a shade of improvement in the Foreign exchanges this afternoon ; the market opened, however, very heavily. At the conclusion of business the more current rates were these .—On Paris, 25f. 511 c. to 25f. 671 c. ; on Hamburg, 13. 9- 4 1 - to 13. 91 ; on Am sterdam, hi. 3 : 1; on Ant wer p, 12. 3-1 ; and on Frank fort, 1501 a . There was a fair supply of bills on the Continent late in the day. The import trade is brisk, but as regards exports we cannot yet quote any improvement. It is not, there fore, likely that the present firm state of the exchanges will be maintained. The demand for West India and East India Sugars and Coffee are brisk this afternoon at full prices. Teas also supported the late rise in prices, althougl the holders showed a disposition to sell. The Funds closed steadily at 92 to 924 for Consols for the Account, at 178 for Bank Stock, at 2s. 4d. discount for Exchequer Bills, and at Bs. discount for India Bonds. Colombian Bonds were flat at 25 to 251, Spanish at 28:1 j-, and Portuguese Five per Cents, at a fall from 34.1 to 33k. The other Foreign bonds were much the same as they were in the middle of the day. The Great Western Railway Shares advanced this afternoon to 8 discount, Brighton to l4i discount, London and Birmingham to 52 prem., Manchester and Leeds to 7 prem., and North Midland Shares to 8 discount. The Joint Stock Bank Shares closed also at rather better prices. THE INCREASING PREVALENCE OF DIS TRESS AMONO OUR POPULATION. — We greatly regret to perceive that the distress among our labouring popu lation is daily on the increase. We have this week re ceived intelligence from Otley, Yeadon, Guisely, Brad ford, and in short from almost all the manufacturing towns and villages in the West Riding, of the increased numbers who are being thrown out of employment. In Leeds and the out-townships, the number of the unetn ployed is also rapidly on the increase. It is almost im • possible, we believe, to form any adequate idea of the present privations suffered by the working classes in this neighbourhood. Hundreds of families are starving, of cold and hunger. The poor-rate is totally inadequate to support them, even when their application is successful. In no previous season, do we believe, have there been stronger and more urgent claims upon the compassionate kindness of the charitable and the merciful.—Leeds Times. FALMOUTH, MONDAY.--In consequence of its being pretty certain that there will be is likely sharp contest here, in whic h money likely to be the motive power, Dr. Bowring, with the consent of his friends, this morning determined that he would resign the contest to a Mr. Hutchings, nephew of Sir John Guest. The Doctor had gained the good opi nion of nearly all the Liberals, though many were at first opposed to his coming, and no man ever excited here so deep an interest as he has done. Indeed, all parties of the Reformers have pledged themselves to unite in his support if he is in a position to come for ward and unit e w i t h anot h er R e f ormer a t any f uture election. CHATHA M Commander B u t ter fi eld, was rea d y t hi s morn i ng, to go DEC. 16.—The Fantome, 16, round to Portsmouth, with a fine young crew, and very few vacancies but owing to c ontrary winds, an d no steamer r ; being in port, she will remain till to-morrow. SPORTING INTELL:GENCE. THE CITY STEEPLE CHASE Under this title a race took place on Tuesday, in the neighbourhood of Rumford, for a Purse of sovereigns, added to a Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each • the second to receive his stake ; 12st. eac h ; an d f or which eight horsos started, and came in as follows : Mr. Elmore's br g Lottery (Mr. Mason) 1 Mr. Goodman Levy's b h Vandyke 2 Mr. Charlton's Phosphorus Mr. Barker's b m The Queen 4 Mr. Goodman's ch c Weathercock Mr. Robinson's b g Humbug Mr. Allen's ch c Charles the Twelfth Mr. Theobald's b g The Great Dan The ground selected for the race was about three miles and a half from Romford, and included some rather for midable fencing. It commenced at Carter's Farm, took over the same line of country as last year, round a flag placed in a field close to the road side, and finished at the starting point, making about four miles. The betting was about even on Lottery against the field. Vandyke took the lead at starting, followed by Lottery and Humbug, the others well up, and in this way they ran till within a field or two of home, when Lottery went in front, followed by Vandyke and Phosphorus. A fine race ensued between the three till near borne, when Lottery left them, and won rather easily by a length and a half. The weather was fine, and the attendance more numerous than last year. many parties having availed themselves of the Eastern Counties Railway, which allbrded them a abort, pleasant, and economical trip. The stakes will be given up at the Cestle Tavern, Moorgate, on Monday evening next. EXTRAORDINARY MATCH AGAINST TIME. Ahout ten days since a match was made amongst a few amateur jockeys to ride one mare from the Elephant and Castle to the Pavilion at Brighton, in four hours; the owner to ride. Odds to a large amount were laid upon time. The match was kept quiet; notwithstanding which, at the appointed hour, (ten o'clock) for starting, a large assembly of people were present, and after taking her cloths off, and fixing her saddle and bridle, the mare looked the picture of perfection. Saturday last was the day ap pointed, and precisely at ten o'clock she started at a slap ping pace, accompanied by three gentlemen, at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and it required good nerve and judg ment to avoid the coaches which were thronging to town), and so she continued at perfect ease to herself and owner, completing the distance of 20i miles to Relf's, at Reigate, in one hour and five minutes ; at this time there was only one gentleman with the mare, the others could not keep the pace at the same rate. She continued on to Crawley, a dis;ancc of 201 miles, com pleting the distance in one hour and thirty-eight minutes. Here she was put into a stable to take some gruel, which she did well ; and still as fresh as could be, she started again, after eight minutes' rest, with the same gentleman (who mounted a fresh horse to accompany her), and con tinued at a slapping pace to Hand's Cross, down the steep hill by Slaugham-park, and on to Johnson's Hotel, at Hixsted, completing the distance, 40 miles in 2f hours, as fresh as a kitten. She continued down the flat lands, and over the hills, on to the Pavilion at Brighton. At precisely, by the stop watches, in three hours and twenty minutes, she was pulled up, and walked fresh through the town, and seemed as if she could go over again the same distance. She was put into the stable, had her gruel, corn, and rubbed down, afterwards led out on the parade to take the stiffness off her. We avoid publicity in the names of the amateurs con cerned in the match, for reasons assigned to us. THE WAR IN FRENCH AFRICA. ALGIERS, DEC. 7. My task would be too melancholy to attempt to give you an exact picture of the misfortunes which are befalling us, and which daily threaten to ruin our colony. How great is the difference from the prosperous state in which the Duke of Orleans left us and our present condition ! Scarcely fifteen days have passed since we were strewing flowers and singing to the glory of the brace men for whom we are now weeping with rage acid despair—with despair, for ten years will not suffice to repair our disasters, and ten years is an entire existence in Africa. What re morse must the Government now feel for having con sented to create a power where none existed ! What can France now do to stop the blood which is flowing from the wounds of her defenders ? What a black page in their history will be that shameful Treaty of Tafna! How dismally will our laurels be covered with crape ! But, like the Romans, we must not despair to wipe out the faults committed by General Bugeaud ; we must take the field against the sanguinary hordes of this modern Attila. Let us not aggravate our lamentable position by despairing reflections. Let us hope that the Chambers will not take upon themselves to tempo rise any more. Should they do this, the whole nation would rebel against their shameful determination. Let us trust in Marshal Valee. All our roads are infested by assassins, and the hos pitals are filled with our expiring countrymen. We are obliged to act with the greatest caution, as the Arabs have given out that they intend to honour the fetes of the Ramadan by a general massacre of the French. Marshal Valee is furious ; he meditates a plan which is repugnant to his feelings, but which stern necessity im periously ordains. This is to fall suddenly on the Arabs, who would be easily overcome if their forces were united, which is unfortunately not the case at pre sent, as they attack us on all sides. For this purpose we must abandon all our possessions in the plains. The weather, however, will, we fear, prevent us from com mencing operations before next spring. It is, alas! too true that we hare been compelled to abandon the camp of Blida, and the inhabitants have retired to Bouffarick. Everythinc , that has been left is probably by this time burnt by the Arabs. The Mar shal also talks of evacuating the important positions, Cara, Mustapha, Harba, Foudone de Coleah, Maelma, &c. This is really heart-rending to[give up what we have sacrificed so much to conquer ; but, as things are at present, it were better to abandon them. All the settlers in the plains are ordered to abandon their farms and retire into the town. What hosts of our poor coun trymen have now nothing but ruin staring them in the face ! All their farms have been burnt, and the Go vernment can make them no sufficient compensation, even if they were so inclined. At all events nothing has been done to chastise the insolence of the Arabs. Abd-el-Kader has given out that he will enter Algiers at the head of about 30,000 men next Monday or Tues day, to pray in the principal mosque there. We are preparing to receive him. By the next courier you will hear of the result of his reception. A spy of the Emir's has been taken ; he was bearer of a letter containing accurate details of our forces, posi tions, &c. A strict inquiry has been made, and strong suspicions have fallen upon a general officer ; but nothing is as yet known. Marshal Valee has ordered that no Arabs shall as semble and discuss political matters in the streets, mar ket-places, &c. Why does he not shut up the mosques, for it is in these places, to which no Christian can gain admittance, that this dissembling race conspire and plot against us. We have good authority for stating that Abd-el- Kader is encamped at Medeab, and on the territory of the Hadjoutes, and that he is ready to march down into the plains with 6,000 horse, 10,000 foot, and 20 pieces of artillery, and that Ben Zamoun is ready to join him with his Kabailes to march on Algiers. This explains the prudent conduct of our General in abandoning his positions and concentrating his forces ; for he will not accept a battle excepting in our lines, on account of our numerical inferiority. Abd-el-Kader's intention in procuring a truce was to take measures for the complete destruction of our power in Africa ; and this we have given him the means to effect by our folly in signing the treaty of Tafna. We have in Africa at present the following forces : At Algiers—The 24th, 41st, 48th, and 62d ; one battalion of the Ist, thirteen battalions of line infantry ; 2d light infantry, three battalions ; the sth, 6th, and 7th companies of discipline ; a regiment of lancers ; two battalions of the foreign legion, Ist African chasseurs, regular spahis six squadrons, artillery, engineers, sappers and miners, parks of artillery, &c. ; presumed effective, 16,000 men ; actual effective, 10,000 ; and 2,000 em barked in the Neptune and Alger. At Oran—The Ist line, two battalions : 15th light, three battalions ; one battalion of African light infantry, regular spahis, auxiliary Arabs, &c. ; presumed effec tive, 6,000 ; real effective, 5,500. At Constantine, Bona, &c.—The 22d, 23d, 26th, and 61st of line ; 7th light, two battalions of foreign legion, spahis, Turks, artillery, &c. ; presumed effective, 17,500 men ; real effective, 9,500. Total general of the army of occupation, before the arrival of the 58th in Africa, 25,000 men. And even, we think, 25,000 men is a slight exaggeration ; but, ad mitting that we have them, this is not sufficient force, even in times of profound peace, seeing that we have to guard Algiers, Blida, Coleah, ten camps, and as many fortified posts in the province of Algiers—Bougia, Gi gelia, Stora, Philippeville, Bona, La Calle, Constantina, Milah, twelve camps, and several posts in the province of Constantine, Oran, Mostaganem, Arsero, three camps and several fortified posts in the province of Oran—in all fourteen towns or villages, twenty-five camps, and an infinity of small posts. Do 25,000 men suffice even to garrison these places, and can we ever afford to draught from them a column of 3,000 men to punish the insolence of the tribes ? Yet, when the Emir's intention to commence opera tions became no longer doubtful, nothing could awaken the Governor from his apathy, or induce him to demand reinforcements. SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—The friends of each of the candidates (Mr. Walter and Mr. Wood) for Southwark, had their respective meetings last night. Mr. Wood, after stating his devotion to Liberal prin ciples, said they had been told that in Southwark a Tory candidate would havn no chance, and a Whig one very little. If he were elected he would act in Parliament as an independent man, his object being to do his duty honestly towards his constituents and to wards the real interests of the United Kingdom. He was sure he should make a better hand of the New Poor-law in the House of Commons than Mr. Walter, who was considered rather passionate on this subject. Mr. Wood next declared himself in favour of House hold Suffrage, and an entire repeal of the duties on the importation of Corn. LlTLla:y F 1. iii.. MAXWELL'S LIFE OF TVELLIjVGTON. VOL. I. Bailey, London, 1839. The first volume of this work is now completed. It forms a handsome octavo, is richly bound in green cloth, is beautifully printed on a thick and elegant wove paper, and is illustrated, not only with a va riety of well-executed steel engravings, but also with maps and plans of battles, to say nothing of up wards of thirty woodcuts, which give the reader a very accurate idea of the costumes, manners, and other incidents of the scenes to which the narrative refers. As regards the literary department of the work, it is enough to say, that it is under the superintendence of a gentleman who has been for some years favourably known to the public by his " Bivouac," and " Stories of Waterloo," and was himself actively engaged in the Peninsular wars against Napoleon. But the great recommendation of the volume, next to its scrupulous accuracy as regards facts and dates, is the perfect impartiality of its tone. Mr. Maxwell is no indiscriminate eulo gist of the Duke of Wellington, but allows his action to speak for themselves, thereby passing on him the noblest and most graceful panegyric. In trac ing the progress of his Grace's oriental career, he goes at considerable length into details, and supplies us with much information, which we have no doubt will be new to the majority of our readers. His account of the decisive battle of Ass)e is not only more circumstantial, but infinitely more spirited than any accounts we have ever met with on the subject ; and reminds us of Walter Scott's glowing and picturesque description of Napoleon's famous victory at Austerlitz. Equally graphic is Mr. Maxwell's sketch of the internal condition of Spain, at the time when the conqueror of Europe first poured his armies into that distracted country. On the whole, we consider this " Life of Wellington" incomparably the best of all that have hitherto been published. It is no hurried, slovenly performance, got up to order to suit a temporary purpose, but a well-digested biography, the materials for which have been gathered from an immense variety of sources, all carefully sifted, compared, and arranged. THE COURT FAVOURITE. 3 Vols. Southgate. London, 1839. There are some skilfully-contrived incidents in this story, which is also not without pathos, espe cially towards the close, where the death-bed scene of a lady of rank, who, by breaking her marriage vows, has driven her husband abroad, a hopeless exile, is described with much true feeling. We should have been glad had the rest of the tale been written with the same simplicity and adherence to the promptings of nature ; but in the delineations of some of the characters there is too evidently a straining after effect—as in the instance of Carlos Sinclair, who is rather a " faultless" hero of ro mance, than a personage whom we can recognise as one of the world about us. The nearest approach that the author makes to actual existence in her sketches, is in the character of Frank Beresford— an intelli g ent , high-mind e d E ng li s h gent l eman o f rank and fortune, and a favourite with the late George the Fourth, from which circumstance the tale derives its title. This character is sustained with great spirit, and is in perfect keeping through out. The language of the tale, generally speaking, is easy and animated. NORTH AMERICAN RE VIE W—No. CV. Wiley and Putman, London, 1839. A little more vigour and vivacity of manner would not misbecome this periodical, for its articles, though seldom deficient in good sense, are, for the most part, insipidly written. They are also too uniform in style, so much so indeed that we might almost fancy that the majority of them were the productions of one and the same pen. The most remarkable article in the present Number is that on the Canada question, in which the Reviewer speaks contemp tuously of Sir Francis Head's "Narrative," while he speaks in terms of respect of Lord Durham's Report, especially that portion of it which relates to the future Government of British America, ad ding We would it were in our power to say that the measures of the English Cabinet are iden tical with his Lordship's recommended plans. They savour of weakness—weakness of two kinds ; the one growing out of the state of parties in England, the' other,.,:ciut of that inhere n t d e f ect i n t h e Consti :tniion'of t he. olonial Office, tt. which we have so often "adVerted:Between the feat of the Tot ies at home, and the back-stairs influence of the oligarchists in the Colonies, the hest features of the Durban Report have no place in the Ministerial plan. The union the Government proposes, is a mere union of the Canadas ; and the measure of measures, the direct establishment of responsible Government, is to be sought for in it in vain. These are omissions for which nothing else can make amends. Minor reforms are well enough in their way ; but they are not enough here." In the notice of Cooper's " Naval History of America," some of the mis statements in which have been fully exposed in the last number of the United Service Journal, the Reviewer takes high ground, and pretty plainly insinuates that Mr. Cooper has shown rather too much partiality to England. This charge, of course, was to be expected, for Jonathan is particularly proud of his naval achievements, and certainly he has some cause for boasting. The criticism on " Milnes's Poems" wants justice and discrimina tion. The remark that Mr. Milnes " possesses the very common fault of seeking for effect by un usual expression," applies less to him than any poet of the day. " Border War of the Revolt] tion" gives some few amusing sketches of the old Indian habits of warfare; but, as a whole, will not, we fear, befound interesting to readers on this side the Atlantic. EARLY EFFORTS. Whittaker, London, 1839. In our notice, a few months since, of this little unassuming volume of poems, we stated that we thought it far from improbable that they might become popular, and the present edition (the second) which is now lying before us, proves that we were not mistaken in our anticipations. The poems are the composition of two young Jewish ladies—the Misses Moss—and are distinguished by many tender and graceful thoughts, and an easy flow of versification. HINTS ON ETIQUETTE, Longman, London, 1839. A new edition (the nineteenth !) of a little work which has had an extraordinary run of public favour—a proof of the omnipotence of Fashion and Etiquette in English society. The work is got up with singular neatness, is of a convenient size, and cheap in point of price. ELIA. Moxon, London, 1839. We have here the first series of those admirable essays " de omnibus rebus, et quibusdam aliis," which the late eccentric Charles Lamb published some years ago in the " London Magazine," under the quaint signature of " Elia." Mr. Moxon, one of the most judicious publishers of the day, deserves all possible encouragement, for thus giving us for half-a-crown----and in the neatest and most elegant form too—a work for which hitherto the admirers of Elia's writings have been in the habit of giving seven or eight shillings. It is enough to say of the present series o f E ssays t h at Mr. Southey—a hig h authority in literature—pronounced them not long since, in the " Q uarter l y R eview, " to b e a mong the most original in the language. TRAINING RACERS.—The period has now arrived when, in anticipation of frosty nights and sever e taainleddelbsy weather, the horses in training at Newmarket where retire to their boxes, w hence they are suffered else where emerge but once a day to walk in their paddocks. I t a nd one or two othlwer.ms,ust deed, if we consider the severe discipline • ' h " I sup- Stevenson, Marston, to the this cessa tion from regular work is as necessary constitu by which p ti o o s n e, of ex t o h e e p h t o t r h s e e a s s to h d is u o n f de L r o st r a d n E di x n e g tse . r, riding-school will now come into operation, h ose gigantic his is , horsesneighbours. in the means his Lordship confidently expects be a clear month before any one o f his horses will With due deference to the Noble m a q o more forward th an t h e present day are more apt to b e g rand in n with Craven and o iF re r s st horses case in th e sta bl e o f ) i ever se, and this is esp t e h e o ia s l e ly prepared i f e o e r t t io h g e s ir , Lord Jerse, and with Spring clea r month before Epsom. The grand th a e rt n la n t n t s e i r sts a even if attainable,atwteh in tr a a l i i ni k ng o to the day, as perfection, ..,DIARIsic grand coup thrown over vv is not enduring. HOW p little jar fi d s . h in the spring, is the often, by graspi ng of an incendiary INc E NT spirit throughout to mark the pro gressagri- cultural and manufacturingoecurreddislarrtoicuritgs.h l o u l t v b i t o h t i ll ,. thetiw last ttroono,o traced Manchester, few weeks fires have Rochdale, and Leeds, which could be ° no of other s cause than wilfulness and malice on the part t party or parties yet unknown. In the rural districts, 'e incendiarism is equally prevalent.---Leeds Times. 141VENING EDITION. CotJTtT t;li":,(". • WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty walked on the Terrace of the Castle this morning, attended by Lady Barham and several of the Royal Suite. The Duchess of Kent left the Castle this morning shortly before ten o'clock for Kensington. Her Royal Flizbness will return this evening to dinner. Viscount Torrington arrived this morning on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at Kensington yesterday morning, from Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness afterwards went to Marlborough House, to pay a visit to her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager. Her Royal Highness re mained at Marlborough House until half past three o'clock, when her Royal Highness, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, took her departure in a landau and four, with outriders, on her return to Windsor Castle. The Princess Augusta visited the Queen Dowager yesterday. Her Moje sty the Queen Dowager inspected a por trait of tvie Princess Augusta yesterday, painted by Mr. Ross, by command of her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge left the residence o f the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, Gloucestershire, 00 Monday, on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at his scat , Dean Park, Northamptonshire. A. deputation on the subject of the Tobacco Trade, consisting of •hc Hon. H F. H. Berkeley, M.P.. Mr' Frederick Ricketts, Mr. Benjamin Parnell, and Mr. W. D. Wills, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing -street. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Swabey, and Mr. Wil" burton, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office. Despatches from Sir W. Nicolay, Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office, FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Thomas Hawkes, Esq.. M P., Mrs. Hawkes, Miss Hawkes, Miss Alicia and Miss Eleanor Hawkes, at Long' s Hotel, Bond -street, from the Continent ; Edward Ar b ; ford Sandford, M.P., Ayshford Sandford, jun., and Edward Sandford, Esq., at ditto, from Somersetshire ; Sir Alexander Crichton, Bart. at ditto, from the Grov e Seal. Kent ; Lord Ch cheater, at ditto, from Belfast ; George Ferguson, Esq., at ditto, f om ditto. DEPARTURES. Count Albert Esterhazy, from Long's Hotel, Bond' street, for Paris ; Thorns Griffin, E , 4q., and Mrs. Griffin, from ditto, for Liverpool ; Edward Corbally, Esq.. from ditto, for Harborough ; the Rev. Charles Vivian, fron 3 ditto, for Hatton Hall E. Atkinson, Esq., from ditto, for Rockford, Essex ; Rev. G. Turner, from ditto, fo r Framlingham ; William Meichlam, Esq., from ditto, for Scotlar,d ; Frederick Fredericks, Esq., sod M. Frede ricks, from ditto, for Duffryn House, Wales ; Edward Armstrong, Esq., from ditto, for Dublin ; Thomas N g°. land Allen, Esq., from ditto, for the Vache ; the Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, for Dover ; Lord Edwal. Howard and the Hon. Ch ar l es Petre, for Fornham Suffolk ; Hamilton Fitzgerald, Esq., for Brussels ; the Earl of Wexford, for the Continent ; Sir John Shellg; Bart., for Buckhurst ; Lord Fitzgerald and Vas e Y' Monymusk ; Lord H ar b oroug h, for Paris ; Hon. Sir Alexande r an d L a d y D u ff an d f am ily, for Par ts , General Sir John C ros bi e , G . C. B , f or W aterga te, Susse r t; the Earl and Cou n t ess o f E rro l an d t h e L a di e s Hay, i ° Richmond Park ; L or d an d L a d y d e R os , for Strata fieldsaye. G e neral the THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty, understand intends to pass the winter at Mariborougla house, and does not contemplate visiting St. Leonard's this season. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex turd Lady Cecilia Underwood are expected to leave Ran ton Abbey, the seat of the Earl and Countess o f Lichfield, to-day, for Lord Dinorben's, Kinmel Park., St Asaph. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset are re ceiving a fashionable circle at Stover House, Devo a. The party will not separate till after Christmas. The Earl and Countess of Warwick have 4 1 numerous and distinguished party at Warwick Castle where a brilliant circle will assemble during the holydayo • Lord and Lady Clinton and a numerous part:Y are partaking of the hospitalities of Lord and LAY Rolle, at Bicton Lodge, Devon. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have landeti at Marseilles from their yacht, after a cruise of several weeks on the Spanish cmst. The Earl and Countess were to have arrived at Paris yesterday, bat did not intend to stay more tnan three days in. the French c,ipital, owing to the serious illness of their eldest daughter. His Excellency Baron Bulow has quite reco vered from the serious indisposition which obliged his Excellency to leave for Germ my immediately o n tl le settlement of the Belgian question. His Excellen( (3' will return to this country in the course of the ensui' month, to resume his diplomatic functions at the Briti tb Court. The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville b 1 , 5 purchased the s pl en did mans i on, with its costly fur ne tore, &c., helongine• to the Duke •of Sutherland, 1 0 Hamilton-placo, and for six years the abode of the late Duchess-Countess. Mr. Leigh Hunt's play is in rehearsal :It Covent-garden, and will probably be brought out aft.:. the novelty of the Christmas pantomime is past. The Duke and Duchess of It3ucclench have left Montague House tor Devonshir e, and, after .a brief sojourn, go on a visit to the .Earl and Countess 0 ' Cawdor, at their seat in Wales. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lord Scott have left for Torquay, for the winter. Viscount and Viscountess. Chelsea are still on a visit to the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Wellesley, at Bisbee) Wearmouth, and do not come to town until the close of next month, when they t a k e p ossess i on. o f a res id enc e :i 0 Wilton-crescent. The Marchioness of Exeter will. give a juvenile ball at Burghley House on New rear's Day. Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil, the. lion. Captain aci d Mrs. Frederick Spencer, the Do wager Lady Clinton, and Sir Horace Seymour, are the Christmas party ex pected to assemble at Burghley House. Lord and Lady Stanley returned to the Earl o f Derby's, at Knowsley, this week, from a visit to Sir 11 , . and Lady Hill, at their seat, in Shropshire. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, ao companied by the Marquis of Ch. mdos and Lady it' Grenville, arrived at Avington-I louse, their seat in Hants, on Friday last, from Stot ye park. A disti o guished circle will assemble at tl le former seat tb.is week, to enjoy the hospitalities of the Noble Dike aril Duchess. The Marchioness Dowager and t/' me Ladie s Hastings left Loudon Castle on the 10t 7 a instant fo r Kelburne, a seat of the Earl of Glasgow.. Her Lady ship has removed in consequ once of her medical atter). dants declaring that a char ge of air was necessary. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Errington left Flore nce last week, for Rome. The Earl of C' J rk an d Vi seounte ss Dungarva.n intend to pass the wi n t er at M arston I l a n, in Some setshire, in consequence o f t h e very a s ;l i cate h ea lth ‘P her Ladyship. The Earl of Errol i nten d s to (431: a grand dinn er on the 4th of February, t o about Efty b .blemen and ge,s tlemen, to celebr a t e th e marr i age of tb.e Queen, which , it is said, will take pl ace on t h at d e , 1 . The Baroness D e Cliff or d an-A . the young Lort are at Hinckley H a ll, L e i cesters hi, ce , where they are seeing company. Sir William Abdy, Bart., and party of gentle' men left tow n last week, for Brigl' ,ra m . Iro'imi BROUGHAM EXPECTED IN A M ERIG• said-It is .em desi ge a v i s i t ing tl od States United per. N o strange r coo come among us who wou ld be. more , corn B a lly receive ,t!. Every American d eli g hts to re honour get a ius. 1 . Lord ost splee ,did men of tl se the that ensuing Lord B s r° um ug r h may be considere d one of t'ne nineteenth ce ntur y .— New York Daily ,E x press. P The Hon. and Rev. Georae N e ville Grenvil le PR zsing tn and Lady Charlotte ar e 61e seas on at Jour leig bt in Somersetshire. Colonel G eorge place for P etworth, as eWyndham Sussex. Ci ener ail at Coek er mouth Castl e The in Wyndham h 1• ft Grosve nor : Earl • and „Countess of 13 11 r ham, with titre Ladie s M ary and Alice Lambton. ar rived on Sa turdr at Howi c k H a ll , on a visit to thee E 'art and Countess Lord Ki nna i r d, the nP,w Master • of her m Grey, f rom L ambton Castle. : o lest)? 1 Buck H oun d s, h as j ust taken, for si x months, colt: 0 ,0 ' 0 Cavendish's mansion a'. St. Leonard', r, witb in a bht r ait ao • [odes of Wi n d sor , for the purpose of being in tb e c i a ties • diate neighbourhood of the scene of hi s oflieja`i The new Master is making arrangement g for the r t e Cal chase of huntrzrs, and will comm. , nce . h' is 4" 6 -rs paign" in the course of a few days,. ha' f s ..rhe Hon. C o l one l Cavem'Ash a nd fa mil y fr :d arrived at D over , w h ere a me ss i ao h as been e n,a ; for the winter. Balfe has met with immense su eciess at D u . bi t ii i:e . On the evening of his benefit there were 3001. in `;b house. He has entered into a secon. engagemen fool, Mr. Calcraft, for himself and Mrs. Balfe, to Pe r 0 11. .,. 40 for three weeks, for which he is t a receive Musical World. I w o btiri f i h t THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.-- 1 . 10 i t h Gazette of th e 10 t h i ns t. announces the - t t h e hea er the Empress of Russia. had consider s tl y l. mp rovedi .ce i l e Majesty i s now a bl e t o t a k e carr i age , airing saa d to r 4 ,0 is company in the evening. The G ran d D u chess u i b ag ue out of danger, though far from cor ra l escel ate T he P et has broken out in Silistri a ; it ,nrnb CCU g ot tinti r, b a was making fearful ravage s i n die su m Tot finding Pore The Marquis and I\lar ,li oness A iiesburY t his still at Paris, and are nr,, expected to leave fortis is country until the close f . February r. T, tle Marc' in th e p ossess i on of eAcellent h ea l t h. The Marchior, e „ of Clanri Sunday at Antw 61 d r AtilY P : le e r erp ; thence her I Berlin, where t:ne Marquis is expo e t ra e tto lu eet ' __....ow orriveclasot°o row'' I