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EXCELLENT FURNITURE, LIBRARY of BOOKS, WINES, 014 INA, GLASS, LINEN, an ELEGANT CHARIOT and PHAETON, THREE HORSES, LIVE . and DEAD FARMING STOCK, &c. MR. GEORGE ROBINS will SELL by AUCTION, on the Premises, on .TuEsnAT, De tember 17, and Two following Days, at Elkin for Twelve precisely, THE EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and variety of Property at the Residence of JOHN HUNTER, Esq., AT SIX-MILE BOTTOM, BETWEEN CHESTERFORD AND NEWMARKET. It includes Chintz, Cotton, and Moreen Curtains, Grecian Sofa, Couches, Ottomans, Mahogany Chairs, Lounging ditto, Elegant Rosewood Commode, Cheffoniers, Occasional, Sofa, and Work Tables, set of Capital extending Dining 'fables, a Cireular ditto, with flaps, Sideboard, Two Secretaires, and Bookcases ; TWO CABINET PIANOFORTES, BY BROADWOOD, A NOBLE CHIMNEY GLASS, 66 In. by 58 In., Handsome Ornamental China, Japan and Marqueterie Cabinets. Seventeen Four-post and Nursery Bedsteads and Hangings, Invalid Couch ditto, excellent Bedding; CAPITAL WINGED WARDROBES, Chests of Drawers, Cheval, and other Glasses, and the usual Bedroom Articles ; Brussels Carpets LIBRARY OF BOOKS, about 900 volumes, including the Delphine Classics, 1401,015., and many Standard Works ; China, Glass, Plated Ar4les. Linen ; Small Cellar of Wines, comprising fine Civet; Old Port, Sherry, Madeira, and Hock. AN ELEGANT CHARIOT, A DITTO PHIETON, with Double Body and Harness, Two Horses, a Poney, Saddles; capital Brewing, Dairy, and Kitchen Utensils, Baker's. Patent Mangle, &c. THE LIVE AND DEAD FARMING STOCK, in Three Cows. Sow, Six Pigs, Two Tumbrel Carts , Plough , Harrows, Land and Garden Rollers, Capital Patent Winnow ing Machine ; A STACK OF MEADOW-HAY, 30 Quarters of Oats, 70 Bushels of Potatoes, 37 of Apples, a quantity of Mangel Wurzel, Capital Manure, Six Acres of Swedish Turnips, Half an Acre of Cabbages, 48 Iron Hurdles, Five Dozen Sheep ditto, Garden Tools, and numerous effects. May be viewed the day preceding and mornings of Sale, and Catalogues (at 6d. each) then had:on the Premises; the Crown, Chesterford ; Rose and Crown, Saffron-Walden ; the Crown, Bockerill; the Bull, Cambridge ; Rutland Arms, Newmarket ; of G. S. Ford, Esq., Henrietta-street, Covent•garden ; and Mr. George Robins 's Offices, in Covent-Garden. EXCELLENT FURNITURE, SERVICE of PLATE, LIBRARY OF BOOKS, PRINTS, TABLE and BED LINEN, RICH CHINA and GLASS, removed from the Mansion in Harley-street, to be SOLD by Direction of the Executors; also a TRAVELLING LANDAU, CHA RIOT, and a BRITSKA, By Mr. EDMUND ROBINS, 'At his Auction Rooms, in Covent-garden, To-Moßßow and several following days, at Eleven. T HE very SUPERIOR FURNITURE of' ' a MANSION, REMOVED FROM HARLEY-STREET, comprising a handsome Drawing-room suite of Curtains, in Blue Silk 'Cabaret, with Gold Cornices ; Sofas, Couches, and Chairs en suite ; Rosewood Centre, Card, and Occasional Ta bles; Two Cheffoniers, with Marble Tops and Plate-glass Backs ; Gilt Pier Table ; a Cabinet and a Horizontal Grand Pianoforte; beautiful Buhl and Ormolu Clocks. NOBLE CHIMNEY AND PIER GLASSES, of large dimensions, in gold frames; dining-room curtains ; set of capital five feet six dining tables, extending seventeen feet, and chairs , handsome seven feet six pedestal sideboard ; suspending and table lamps ; two dinner waggons. SPLENDID WINGED LIBRARY BOOKCASE, thirteen feet long and nine feet high, with plate-glass doors and marble slab top, library table and chairs, secretaire bookcase. THE FURNITURE OF SEVERAL BEDCHAMBERS, including capital four-post bedsteads and hangings, superior beds and bedding, chests of drawers, HANDSOME WINGED WARDROBE, 15 feet long ; Dressing Glasses, Tables, Basin Stands and Ap pendages, Chairs, Turkey and Brussels Carpets, Fenders, Fire Irons, Capital Presses, Dressers, and Requisites for the Cu linary Department. SERVICE OF MODERN PLATE, comprising 2,000 OUNCES OF SILVER, including Large Salvers, Waiters, Candlesticks, Tea and Coffee Equipage, Liqueur and Cruet Frames, Salts, Spoons, Forks, and Ladles, and every essentia l for the Table and Sideboard. LIBRARY OF VALUABLE BOOKS. Comprising numerous highly esteemed Classical and Standard Works, Dr. Rees Cyclonwdia, in 45 Vols., a vast number of beautifully illustrated Works upon Voyages, Travels, Cos tumes, Antiquities, Scener), &c. COLLECTION OF RARE PRINTS in frames and in portfolios, excellent foreign Damask Table cloths and Napkins, capital Linen Sheets. SERVICES OF RICH CHINA AND GLASS, of an expensive and beautiful description, ornamental Porce lain, pair of noble bronzes, THE ;HARM HORSES, several pairs of China Vases, marble figure of the Apollo Belvi dere. Also A TRAVELLING LANDAU, A CHARIOT, AND A BRITSKA. at the Offi in Covent-garden. WATERPROOF AND WARM WINTER CLOTHING. WALTER BERDOE, TAILOR, No. 69, CORNHILL, was the first who h introduced the NEW VENTILATING WATERPROOF, whic renders garments (when proper l y made up) completely i m pervious to rain, without offering any obstruction to the e! cape of perspira tion. It s complete success is now fully established, as is proved b the most con vincing test;monials, its extensve adp and the numerous attempts subsequently made byi rs o t otheotion, ac complish the same end. THE CODRINGTON DREADNOUGHTS are a , pot , and much approved Waterp roof Garment, gentlemanly, port able and convenient , are n ow in g eneral use, and the best proof of their efficiency is the greatly increasing demd for them, through the reco mmendation of those who have an long tried them. W. Berdoe has now ready a large stock of all the most ap proved materials for Warm Winter Clothing, and is convinced that the process of the British Water-proofing Company is the best. First-rate Clothing of every description made to order. 69, CORNHILL (North side). CHALLENGE TO THE FRENCH DISTILLERS. —Extraordinary as it may arpear to persons favourable to the use of French lirandy, and enter taining prejudices against that of home manufacture, J. T. BETTS and CO., with the most perfect confidence in the superiority of their production, do hereby publicly challenge the best manufacturers of Cognac, to produce an article of equal purity, and possessed of the same wholesome properties, as the PATENT BRANDY. In flavour, it assimilates closely to the finest Cognac ; and J. T. Betts and Co. could carry their similarity to a point to render it nearly, if not perfectly, identical ; but, as suevi a fan cied advantage could be obtained only by imitating certain im purities existent in Foreign Brandies, from which their own is entirely exempt, they are determined not to minister to a vitiated taste, at the expense of the established purity of their Spirit. Borne out by the Testimonials of many eminent Chemists, by whom their Patent Brandy has been analyzed—by the sanc tion of the Faculty, who are constantly recommending its use —by the assurance of innumerable families, •f all ranks, who find it more congenial to their health than the Foreign—by their perfect willingness, at all times, that it should stand or fall by its own intrinsic merits—and by their certain knowledge that no part of their representation is overstated —J. T. Betts and Co., fortified by all these circumstances, dare their conti nental neighbours to meet tham on that ground ; a challenge which they must either accept, or, by a refusal, tacitly admit the superiority of the Patent Brandy. The formati on, from time to time, of ephemeral establish mehts, by parties styling themselves Brandy Distillers, who re preseNt their Brandy as equal or superior to the Patent; and the frauds continually practised by others in selling inferior articles as Betts's Patent Brandy ; render it indispensably re quisite for the Patentees to impress upon consumers the abso lute neee , : isity of satisfying,themselves that it is Betts's Pate.it Brandy which they r eally obtain. If p urchasers would take this simple precaution, the complaints frequently made of the defective character of Hom e-made Brandy, to be h would soon cease Ga T l h io e ns P , a w te h n i t e ee h s cannot send out less than Two Cash on deliver y , may be obtained, .either pale or coloured, for the highest legal , rY at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of bars, leading to strength, .at the Distillery, No. inithfiel 't John-street,—their only Establishment. COPAIBA AND Cu • irritati B ERS ENTIRELY SUPERSEDED BALSAMIC PILLS, ' , a CERTAIN CURL for gonorrhoea , gleets, strictures, lions of the kidneys, gravcl,pains in the loins, affec tions -liseascs or the urinary passages,—These " the bladder or urethra, and p:oyed in upwards of 1,500 cases in private Pills having been ern_ s t , ate practise within three years, prior to being advertised, in man y irl . tron housand cases since, and use in as the in no one instance known to fail, are only safe and efficacious remedy in present f the latter, in disorders, and entirely obviating the necessity ' in • all stages • f those hl:ayviinniguirieLosumrsede I. Charing those dii•gustjug, nauseous, and in many cases a eines, as cubeus and copaiba ; the dangerous results o Medicine he inflamniatory stages, are too well known to ne e each bay. Prepared only by M. 0. Wray, and sold Whl a s 'y comment. atNo I IS, Holborn-hill, and 0, Agar-street, Strand, i ,' apoe .and Retail, cross Hospital; and may he had of all respectable PatesiZ Venders in Town and Country ; at 2s. ,d. 45.6 d., and 11, Advice given between the hours of Eleven and One tn . the Mi log and Seven and Nine in the Evening. orn. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Copy of a Letter from the Chevalier De la Garde, Ch.anberlain to St,:oislaus, late King of Poland, 229, St r and, London.) (Ti Mr. Preut, No. 20, Vere-street. Dee. 11, 118. Sr 1 feel myself bound by the duty I owe to my fellow—creatures that you will publish the following most extraor. to request dinary ef f ec ts of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. For a period - , but of :10 years : have suffered more than I can well express, avoided taking advertised remedies, having a power. at all times have ful antipathy te it, Mu, until a few months since, after having been laid u p f o r 2.2 weeks of an attack of Rheumatic Gout, princiin Ily confined to the feet, buy at time it travelled to various parts of the again with accumulate d force to the extre. frame, and then re turning' that I was delir ious for five d tys and mities, and to such a de g ree nights. I now say that, fortun.:tely I was induced to try Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pals; and, with With, I assure yourself and the pub and th a t, in less thn 24 hours. and was free from pain; and by the time I had t a ken half a box, the inflarnation and swelling had disappeared. I h a ve the pleasure of adding that my g eneral health has m ne way cutThred, and that the effects Silllair's Pills were imperceptible. I am, Sir,our obedient servant, THE CHEVALIER DE LA GARDE. The testimonials of the astonishing effects of this Medicine are universally ac c ompanied by the fact, that no inconvenience of any a , .rt attends its a dministration, but that the patient, without feeling the operation of the i nedicine, is universally left in a stronger and better 1 state et health t r ail experienced previous to being afflicted with t ie r 1 ; and in all cases of acute suffering, great relief is obtained In afew hours, and acure is generally I This valuable dis.uvery is sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, Lon t don ; and, .by his atVitiurnent, effected in two or three days, by all re,i,ect3ble Medicine Vender• hroughout the Uniteo Kingdom Price 2s. 9d. per box, Ask for Blair's Goat aa: 11 an d Address of Rh euma ti c Pills, and o b ;erve im the Name i'rout, 7.29, Stran I, London," pressed "Thomas upon the Governrtent Stamp affixed to each box of the Genuine Medicine. EXCISE OFFICE, OLD BROAD-STREET Nov. 29, 1839. FOR SALE, by Order of the Honourable the COMMISSIONERS of her MAJESTY's EXCISE REVENUE, in a spacious room, at the Chief Office, Old Broad-street, on THURSDAY, the 12th of December, 1839, at One o'Clock in the afternoon precisely, About 16,000 Gallons of FOREIGN BRANDY, which have been regularly condemned and re-distilled, now in vats at the Excise Distillery, St. Catherine's. Catalogues may be had and Samples seen at the Excise Warehouse Keeper's Office, Old Broad-street, three days preceding, from Ten till Two o'Clock ; and on the morning of Sale, from Ten till Twelve o'Clock. T OH N THOROGOOD has been confined i n the Common Gaol of Chelmsford since the 16th of January last, for not paying a Church- rate of ss. 6d. In consequence of his long confinement, his business has re ceived so much injury, that his friends propose a public sub scription, for the purpose of saving his affairs from utter ruin, and as a testimony to him and to the country that they sympa thize in his sufferings, and honour the principle of religious liberty, which is violated in his person. Subscriptions to be paid, in London, to Roger Lee, Esq., Treasurer, Clapham Common, and on his account at Messrs. Rogers and Co., hankers, 29, Clement's-lane ; to Mr. Robert Besley, 15, Northampton-square ; and Mr. James Dinnis, 62, Paternoster-row. In the Country—To John Copland, Esq., Chelmsford ; Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham ; Sheppard Ray, Esq., Ipswich ; and Mr. John Childs, Bungay It will be obvious to the Provincial Press, that it is impos sible to send Advertisements beyond the Metropolis ; but the promoters of this Subscription confidently rely upon its sym pathy to make the case known, and that it will urge persons throughout the country to undertake the trouble of conducting Local Subscriptions, and sending the lists and amounts to any of the above parties. Messrs. Wells and Perry, Chelmsford £s 0 0 Friends at Walthamstow 5 0 0 Roger Lee, Esq. 5 0 0 R. B. Sanderson, Esq. Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham Charles Sterge, Esq., d 0.... 5O 0 Messrs. Bowler and Sons 5 6 6 Henry Waymouth, Esq., Bryanston-square 5 0 0 0. H. Smith, Esq. Benjamin Wood, Esq The Kingsbridge Church-rate Abolition Society 5O 0 Messrs. Morley and Sons Mr. Irwin Messrs. W. and T. Johns, Chelmsford ......... C. E. Branfill, Esq., Upminster Mr. Luke Embleton 2 2 0 Mr. A. Rosline. John Wilks, Esq 2 2 0 The Lord Petre 2 0 0 J. Morant, Esq Start and Sharp, Wood-street 2 0 0 Two Constant Readers of the " Morning Chronicle." 1 10 0 Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. James Grant. Esq. 1 1 0 R. 'Wainwright, Esq. Mr. T. Hodges, Chelmsford 1 1 0 Mr. E. Cooper 1 1 0 Mr. Tawel 1 1 0 Mr. W. Wansey 1 1 0 Mr. Saxton Mr. John Travers Mr. R. Wainwright Mrs. Warren Mr. James Grant Dr. Janes... . Mr. P. Alarriage, jun., Chelmsford 1 1 0 Mr. Thomas Marriage, Springfield 0. Pritchard, Esq., M.D., Chelmsford Mr. James Christy, Broomfield... 1 0 0 Mr. G. Wood, Chelmsford Mr. John Copland, jun., Chelmsford Mr. Charles Gray, Chelmsford Mr. James Fenton, Chelmsford 1 0 0 Mr. B. Dixon, Wickham G. Rogers, Esq., Margaretting Mr. J. D. Piper, Witham 1 0 0 Mr. T. Hodges. jun., Waltham Mr. Edward Thomas, Bristol Mr. Alfred Dark, Coalbrookdale Mr. Butler, Childerditch Mr. Ranson, Ipswich 1 0 0 Mr. A. 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Rouse 1 0 0 10 0 Mr. R. i , acey Rev. John Whitby 0 10 0 Mr. John Ridley, Jun. Rev. James Sprigg . Mr. W. F. Paul 0 10 0 Mr. George Christopherson 0 10 0 Mr. Payne 0 10 0 Mr. George Cowell Mr. William Cuddon, Bungay 1 0 0 Small sums 5 5 0 Friends of Religious Liberty at Dun stable P. Rogers, Margaretting, Second subscription Friends at Blandford Reverend T. Woods Friend to Religious Liberty , Dove r One who wishes that all would pract;se that religion which teaches on earth peace and good-will to wards men A few Friends at Buckingham Chape l, Pimlico W. J B lota Benjamin Smith, Esq., 11 , ' P Joseph Hume, Esq.- T.I.P. Mr. Bousfield Mr. Barchart Enemy to Intolerance 1 0 0 Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Bocking 1 0 0 1 0 0 Mr. James Young, Hackney Mr. J. Hughes Mr. W. H. Strange Mr. James Strange Mr. R. Wakefield, Clapton Mr. P. Travers 1 0 0 Mr. Joseph Stevenson, Clapham ..................... H. T. Subscriptions under £1 2 5 0 Leicester subscription 5O 0 0 Friends at Craven Chapel, London ...... ............ .. 21 7 6 John Easthope, Esq., M.P. Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P 5 0 0 Edwd. Smith, Esq., Sheffield AFriend An Enemy to Tyranny Suhscriptions from Bishop Stortforil, per Mr. Wa terman •• 5 0 0 Stoke Newington Church-rate Abolition Society ... 50 0 Mr. Besley A few Friends of Freedom after a Dinner at Toxteth 3 2 6 Park, Liverpool . .•••••••••. T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M. P Mr. Smith and Friends 3 0 0 Friends at St. Ives J R. Mills, Esq 2 2 0 Thos. Hawes, Esq., Lavender Hill Rev. R. V. Yates, Liverp00l John Cropper, Esq., do. Mr. Bricknell, Herne-hill 1 1 0 Mr. Geo. Gray, Borough-road Mr. J. G. Wigg, King's Lynn J. Elliott, Esq , Great St. Helen's 1 1 0 Rev. J. Gray, Brixton . . J. Griffiths, Esq., Clerkenwell-green Mr. Sam. Barton R. M. Savill, Esq ., C o lchester 1 1 0 J. M. Mart in, Es q ., Birmin g ham 1 1 0 Mr. Brooke, Dewsbury: J. p. Smiths, Esq J. IL Warter, Esq. J. Burls , E s q .... Mr. J. Jac kson 1 0 0 John Southall, Esq., Leominster 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 E. P. Southall, Esq., d 0 E. . . .. 1 0 0 3 15 0 JohnS ,.s a u. m boe e r l y vi Southall,p, Sr Newman, o i oa u nn t Southall, Enls,gdsEelr.7l.l,. ..... I% A l i r a . or D i c . e L j l o n n y e d s , , I- L I a e r o l m e s i t n o s n t e e r , , Independentßaptist o s i s l t i e n r i ste r 0 10 0 William Rathbone, Liverpool Willia m Earle ............... .•• ....... a tis,"—Luc AN. 110 HERE is perhapsnsitivt feel them selves the over-se selves com HERE is reveal noC indiscretions,or their physical T, of embarrassment as when situation in life so full does the horrot of exposare imperfections, to others. Day after day while increasing disease aug accumulate in the morbid imag;nation , . Led a system which u t i h t e d ir a m e o rr r e al p ar Bible of the anguish thus protracted, do we have a p hiv cuccessful, and which long practical experience has proved to be big., ' -imunication with ments the sufferin g of the body and the irritability of the mind. Sen. preclude, the absolute necessity of personal those who recoil from such mode of consultation A ill enable us to description of the case, written in lain language, w n the pecu. treat the patient with delicate secrecy; and such has bee . „ _,...., f difticuu u" liar nature of our practice, embracing every variety e' n the °ppm - . cumstaraces that the most timid may feel encouragement i tunity thus afforded them, full and minute Twrnty.five years of practice, exclusively constitution arising trom indiscretion, gaiety, or climate, whereby the . n to may have become enfeebled, enable us to promise a restoratio Leant). without any interference with the ordinary diet and habits. Messrs. 60SS and Co. are to be consulted, as usual, every day, at their residence; and Patients in the remotest parts of the coun try can he treated successfully on their describing minutely the case, atal enclosing a remit tance for 4 drice and Medicine. No ditticultY ran occur, .. 19 the Medicines will be securely packed, and carefully devoted to diseases GOSS aad Co M.R.C....Surgeons, No. 7, Lancaster.p ;ace, Strand London. Just published (Twenty-third Editi0n),...1.,, The ,EGIS et ~,,, o protected from nbserv , " - eases. —2.1. The sy_ ' Popular II ea ISe f i 1 Lis 1 a t on Lues Vener y commentary on the above Diseases, ea it i e._.3d •H Y. I , 2 , 1 , T ., A A addressed n , elusively o the female Sex May be had i" '''' " ' ' - • London ; anclof all Booksellers ,Prieess.eacb. at L! , l'aterno.f er.ro,i , 1 LIFE, a familia: cominen, P ÜBLICATIO N S. 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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STEEBLE CHACE. A match for 100 sous each was run on Thursday last hi the neighbourhood of Cheltenham, between Mr. D. Winton's Nimrod and Mr. Wood's Gilbert. It was won rather cleverly by Mr. De Winton. A Cup was afterwards run for and won by Mr. Walker's chesnut horse, beating Mr. Griffiths' black horse and Mr. Hewer's brown horse. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. THE DERBY. 16 to 1 agstilluley Ishmael 18 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid—taken 20 to 1 agst Launcelot—offered 22 to 1 agst Bokhara 48 to 1 agst Prince Albert--offered 200 to 3 agst Janus THE OARS. 11 to 1 agst Lalla Rookh 12 to 1 agst Currency HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's staghounds will meet on Wednesday, at New Lodge, Winkfield ; Friday, at Maidenhead-thicket—at eleven. Sir J. Cope's hounds Tuesday, at the Three Crowns, Buckle bury—at half-past ten. 1 ickham hounds Tuesday, at - Key-street ; Friday, at East ling—at half-past ten. Mr. Mure's hounds Thursday, At Hinderclay-wood—at half past ten. Major Pugh's hounds Tuesday, at Brithdir-house ; Satur day, at The Cefu—at ten. Mr. • Surtee's hounds Wednesday, at Breckonside ; Satur day, at Unthank—at eleven. Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds Wednesday, at Cumber. corner ; Friday, at Hardham—at half-past eleven. Mr. Morgan's hounds Wednesday, at Huckworthy ; Satur day, at the Turnpike, Morwell-down—at ten. Essex and Suffolk hounds Tuesday, at Ardleigh Crown ; Friday, at Hintlesham George. Mr. Notley's harriers Thursday, at Friern-common. Essex staghounds Tuesday, at 'High Easter—at twelve. East Kent hounds Tuesday, at Bossingham-street ; Wed nesday, at Acrise.mill—at half-past ten. Oakley hounds Thursday, at Astwood ; Saturday, at Bletsoe —at half-past ten. Atherstone hounds Wednesday, at Hoar-park; Thursday, at Combe ; Saturday, at Orton-on-the- Hill—at a quarter to eleven. Mr. Brand's hounds Wednesday, at Digswell ; Friday, at Warden-hills-,-at half-past ten._ Western Hunt Tuesday, at Crouzen-rah—at nine ; Friday, at Treglisson—at ten. Mr. Musters' hounds Tuesday, at the third milestone on the Mansfield-road ; Thursday, at Saxondale ; Saturduy, at Cot grave—at eleven. Heythrop hounds Tuesday, at Chadlington-gate ; Thursday, at Sandford-park; Friday, at Barington-park—at half-past ten. Duke of Grafton's hounds Wednesday, at Creslow ; Friday, at Adston—at eleven. Mr. Fane's harriers Wednesday, at Tetsworth ; Friday, at Wapsgrove. Earl Kintore's hounds Tuesday, at Netherdale ; Thursday, at the Log-hill ; Saturday, at Keeper's-house, Dunlugas. Cleveland hounds Thursday, at Wilton-lane-end—at ten. Holderness hounds Tuesday, at Brantinghamthorpe • Thurs day, at Danthorpe-hall ; Saturday, at Sunderlandwick—at eleven. Lancashire Union harriers Wednesday, at the first gate on High-cross-moor ; Friday, at Scale-hall—at ten. Baron Rothschild's staghounds Thursday, at Hockliffe—at half-past ten. Perthshire hounds Thursday, at Keithock ; Saturday, at Ballathie—at half-past ten. Woodfold hounds Wednesday, at Mitton-brook ; Friday, at Lamack—at half-past ten. Woodhorn hounds Thursday, at Widdrington Whin—at ten. Sir M. W. Ridley's hounds Wednesday, at Whittington ; Friday, at Whalton ; Saturday, at Nuningkirk—at half-past ten. Staley huunds Wednesday, at Bromley-fell ; Saturday, al East Dipton—at nine. Haydon hounds Wednesday, at Ellerington ; Saturday, at West Dipton—at Line. Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hounds Thursday at Annadale Toll-bar ; Saturday, at Riccarton-cover, Liulithgowshire. Mr. Russell's hounds Tuesday, at Newton-hall ; Friday, at Willington-burn—at eleven. Carlisle hounds Friday, at Gretna-hall—at half-past nine. Eamont harriers Wednesdry, at Little Salkeld ; Saturday, at Stockbridge—at ten. Wigton harriers Thursday, at Heskit New-market--at eight. Union harriers Wednesday, at Lesson-hall ; Friday, at Bol ton-park—at nine. Mr. Hill's harriers Tuesday, at Temple Sovverby ; Friday, at Colby-moor—at ten. The Bedale foxhounds Wednesday, at York-gate ; Friday, at Thorp Perrow—at half-past ten. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds Wednesday, at Old Wcston Wind mill ; Thursday, at Elton—at ten. The H. H. Tuesday, at Bramdean-common ; Thursday, at Minchin's Barn ; Saturday, at Grewall-hill. Sir R. Sutton's foxhounds Tuesday, at Blankney ; Wednes day, at Midge Inn ; Thursday, at North Carlton ; Friday, at Gate Burton ; Saturday, at Hackthorn-house—at eleven. The Duke of Rutland's hounds Tuesday, at Weaver's-lodge ; Wednesday, at Plungar-village ; Friday, at Aswarby-house— at half-past ten. EXTRAORDINARY COMPETITION. -- Three gentlemen, well known in the fashionable world, have made a wager, the oddity of which is likely to give rise to considerable a musement. The first of the parties is to drive a stage-coach ; the second is to walk through the country as an itinerant melodist ; and the third is to perform four principal dramatic characters, two in tra gedy and two in comedy. The greater part of the money obtained by these eccentric adventurers, in their several pursuits, is to be devoted to charitable purposes. The competitor who obtains the largest sum by his exertions is to be the winner of the wager, which is to the amount of several thousands. We have not heard the " where-abouts" of the Jehu and the Apollo, but it is said that the dramatic aspirant is to make his debut at Edinburgh, and that he will afterwards appear at oth er provincial theatres. If the report we have heard of hi s t a lents proves correct, he will probably complete a few nights at one enagther has been very o i I.i Duringtcareerepoints ; but no particular accident has hap pened great n t London, winterlas t t week theatres. p r r st e r m w i stormy, and the sea alon g t he coast very boisterous, with hi g h winds, south east , north-cast, and the inter mediatepened among the mariners.—Hull Advertiser. THE CHARTISTS.—From resolutions adopted at a lat e meeting of Chartists of this town and neighbour hod, we p e rceive it is intended to send a D e l eg ate to another Conve n t ion . W e have always been candid oc cas i on , The step they have thought proper to take with the Chartists , and we shalt so on the present we consider highly injudicious.--Nottingham Review. THE CHAR TISTS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I am a country clergyman. On many mo mentous points nearer to yourself than are (I am sorry to say as I fear) most of my clerical brethren. When the Times newspaper renegaded, I ordered yours in stead, and have continued ever since your gratified and sometimes grateful reader. I like you, because you can " discern things that differ," and seem always upon the watch, and honestly desirous so to discern. You can distinguish between Catholics and Popery—between true religion on the one hand, and Church of Englandism or Dissenterism on the other—between what is good in Chartists and their Charter, and what might be amended in both. But why do I write to you to-day who never wrote to you before ? Because, for once, I may afford four pence, though I might not have afforded a shilling, to gratify myself in writing to tell my newspaper Editor how much he has generally pleased me ; and to express my hope that he will exert himself in forcing off all needless taxation from the shoulders of the people, as energetically as he has this of the postage. Let me implore your attention at this moment to the poor bewildered Welsh Chartists. Though a clergy man, I am in heart, and somewhat more, a Chartist. Surely every Englishman born . and living in his native land has a constitutional right to the suffrage. Well, as to the silly, infatuated Welsh Chartists ! Suppose their conviction to be, that by showing themselves in force, armed mainly with their working implements, tkey should excite all England to join them, and thus at once get their Charter made a part of the law of the land, to the unspeakable benefit of all ! What of that ? Surely they have suffered for their bakyism. What else could it be ? Designed treason ? Absurd. Had it been that, could twenty-five raw recruits have so routed 10,000 miners and colliers ? I firmly believe there was no more thought of treason in them than in the lads of the 45th, who so heedlessly slaughtered them I Would that the Government would withdraw its Special Com mission, and prove itself wiser in its second thoughts than in its first. Should punishment stop here, the poor Chartists might then feel it to be their just desert, and the Government to be indeed merciful to them and worthy of their love ; but should the Special Commis sion, with Baron Williams, go farther, as in the sad case of the Dorchester labourers, both the present Govern ment and the whole country may very soon see cause to repent the rash procedure. Would that you saw this matter, Sir, as I see it ; you would then greatly contribute to the joy of your con stant reader, North Staffordshire, Dec. 5. H. P. DUTCH AND HAMBURG MAIL. The British Government having been informed by its Consul of the generous devotedness with which the fishermen of Ostend had exposed them selves to the greatest dangers to assist the crews of several English vessels which were wrecked in the great storm in January last, has granted them a reward of 1001. sterling. BRUSSELS. DEC. s.—The Chamber of Representa tives met yesterday at one o'clock. A very long debate arose on the non presentation to the Chamber by the Minister of the treaty of peace with Holland. The Minister replied that the treaty had been communicated to the Chambers in its sitting of the 2d of May last, and that the ratifications, which were unaccompanied with any observations, would shortly be laid before the Chamber. BRUSSELS, DEc. 6.—Yesterday the King gave an audience to the Chevalier Peruzzi, Charge d'Affaires of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Colonel Sir Maxwell Wallace had an audience of his Majesty. A letter from Eccloo to the Independent says, " Some jou! nals have stated that the Dutch Government had sent troops to Cadsand, with hostile intentions towards Belgium." It appears from other sources that a few troops had been sent, but were hostile only against robbers that generally appear in that quarter during the winter. A letter ftom Rome, of the 22d of November, an nounces that his Holiness the Pope, Gregory XVI., has delivered an allocution relative to the religious dif ferences in Russia. After having deplored the apostacy of the Roman Catholic Bishops, he exhorts them to return to the bosom of the Holy Church ; to reflett on what they have lost, to consider the terrible punishments which according to the Holy Canon they bring down on themselves, and on the flocks committed to their charge. His Holiness concludes his allocution by inti mating that he will use all his influence with the Czar, in whose impartiality, elevation of mind, and justice he has so much confidence, to induce him to settle the affair in a manner favourable to the Church. . . VIENNA, Nov. 27.—The mail from Constantinople confirms the probability of the speedy conclusion of an agreement between the Porte and Mehemet Ali. ILANovxa, Nov. 25.—Though our revere it Monarch at this moment enjoys excellent health, the public is not without apprehensions of the consequences of the great fatigue to which his Majesty has exposed himself in the late journey and many hunting parties, the re views, balls, and other amusements which would fatigue a much younger man. This apprehension of the public appears to be the better founded as his Majesty was lately seized (on a hunting party) with a spasmodic attack, which, for some hours, made his Majesty's attend ants fearful of the consequences ; happily it passed over, and his Majesty returned to the capital in good health. LUNENBURG, Nov. 23.—Our apprehensions are but too soon realized. The Holstein transit duty, the in troduction of which into Hamburg may be expected, has induced the Government of Mecklenburgh to take advantage of the excellent situation of the country be tween the Baltic and the Elbe, to open a free commu nication for the Baltic trade. . A causeway is to be made from Wiemar to Beit zenburg, passing through Gadebusck, Cloddram, and Bellaher. There are to be no tolls on this road. The town of Beitzenburg is to have a safe and convenient harbour in the Elbe, and for this harbour there will be a regular communication by steam boats to other ports. The work is already begun. Thus the condemned communication between the Baltic and the North Sea by short and unshackled ways will be at length fulfilled. —Hamburg Papers, Dec. 3. THE HAGUE, DEC. 3.—Baron B. Fagel will set out in a few days for Paris, to resume his functions as Am bassador of the Netherlands at the French Court. From the official statements laid by the Govern ment before the Statea' General, it appears that on the Ist of January this year, there was in the Treasury a surplus of 44,976,361 florins ; the actual 'receipt was 46,112,346 florins, so that there is a surplus of 1,315,955 florins. AMSTERDAM, DEC. s.—We hear that it is seriously contemplated to fix the seat of the Provisional Govern ment in this city ; we wish that this matter may be happily accomplished, as it would be a very important change for this capital. THE HAGUE, DEC. s.—Our Dutch funds, after a tendency to rise, remained nearly at the same prices as yesterday. Little was done in Spanish Stock, the prices were better ; Russian and Austrian maintain their prices ; South American are more in demand. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 6. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, ‘2!,5, per rent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon svadic, , l% per cent 9t $l5 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 783 7914 Commercial Company, 4', per cent 16 7 1%' 169 Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. — Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 Two months ...... 11 Kg —Dutch Papers, Dec. 6. BELGIAN Dim 6. Actual Debt ON per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ........... 1 " Loan of Thirty Milli ons , 4 per•Cent...7. . ... ------ 3 per Cent.......... 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7 051 National Society Exchange on London (short) Brussels Papers, Dec. 6. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, DEC. 3. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4'4 per cent. litiqi 103 t Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 102;.e 15:xchange on London, three months 6 VIA —Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..-NIEIINA, Nov. VS Five per Cents. Metalliques ..... ........... 10S% Foci- per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares ISB4 Zetisoig, Dec. 9 The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are re ceiving a party at Burghley house, their seat near Stam ford. Lord and Lady Thomas Cecil arrived at the above mansion on Thursday last from town. We hear that the title of that gallant veteran, Sir John Keane, the Commander of the Army of the Indus, is to be Baron Keane, of Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford. It may perhaps not be out of place here to say, that Sir John Keane has not been re called, as has been so often stated, by her Majesty's Government. The facts, as we can collect them, are, that upon the resignation of Sir Henry F ane , Sir Jas per Nichol was appointed C ommander-in-Chief in India. Sir Jasper Nichol is, we believe, junior in rank to Sir John Keane, and that circumstance, from military etiquette alone, might have induced the hero of Ghuznee to have resigned his command ; but the stronger reason j a , that having spent more than five years in India, he is naturally desirous of returning to his home ; and it is with pleasure we hear that the triumph of this gallant and generous soldier has given the warmest satisfaction to his old comrades in arms, who will receive him with a hearty welcome.—Observer. THE POLITICS OF THE MASSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-It is a sign of what Cobbett used to call the " worst improvements of the age," that the working classes have any politics at all. Until a very recent period the masses generally took their political bias from . the pre va ili ng o pi n i o ns of the classes above them, but In no case had they apart from Owe any opinions of their own. Twzrity years ago it was a thing not to he supposed, that the working classes could fail to be influenced by a movement of the whole of the class immediately above them, which possessed the double charm of being in opposition t : o the aristocracy and for the abolition of I tax, forming the very essence of a popular measure. Yet, such is the fact, the agitation for a repeal of the Corn-laws, backed as it is by the wealthy capitalists, inforceci as it is by the eloquence of some of the most ta'ented lecturers of the day, has, and will probably con tinue to fail in agitating the masses, because their minds are pre-occupied. 'l'►he millions have begun to think, imperfectly per haps, and withal, too energetic, but to think, and as their intense energy attests, to think in earnest. Like all young thinkers, their energy may occasionally be too great for their judgment, and their conclusions, there fore, illogical. But, from this, who, or what class, is or ever has been exempt. _ The working classes, like the middle classes, may be divided into two sections, those of no politics, and those who entertain political opinions, and like them those of no politics far out-number the politically inclined. When, however, a great political question arises, then the whole political and non-political become equally im bued with the prevailing opinion, whatever it may be. The masses comprise every grade of political opinion, from the Ultra Tory to the Ultra Democrat and the Socialist ; the great majority, howcver, until recently believed themselves to be Whigs. After the Chartist agitation it may appear strange, but it is nevertheless true that the majority of the working classes are not Chartists. They are, that is, those who profess a poli tical bias, what might be termed Ultra Radicals, i. e. those who wish an Extension of the Suffrage to every man untainted by crime. Vote by Ballot and Short Par liaments, the payment of Members, with no property qualification, and Triennial Parliaments, which would concert them into Chartists, is what they have not yet progressed to. How long it will be before they, and by their influence the whole of the masses, become Chartists, may be guessed at with some degree of certainty, after we have inquired into the cause of their having them selves evolved these political opinions. It is a startling fact, that there is no opinion more universal among the masses, both political and non- political, than that of non-estimation of the political ►ntegrity of the present elected Members of the Legislature. Ask a working man of no politics why he don't read the debates in Parliament? and nine times out of ten the answer will be, " What is the use ? what does it concern me to know how one set of rogues abuse another set of rogues in the dispute who shall get the most of the public money ?" This feeling of con tempt for the morale of the Legislature, and the conse quent belief that the Legislature are actuated by any motive but that of good to them, combined with the fact that they are not represented in the Legislature, has in evitably led the masses to the discovery of the principle, " That equal laws depend upon equal representation." This principle, though well known, has not been until recently current among the working classes. It has been, as it were, evolved by themselves ; and with it also the consciousness that the rights which the working of this principle should give them are unjustly withheld. This most natural result of a low opinion of the po litical integrity of the Government—which opinion (whether true or false I do not stop to inquire) is calm and dispassionate as well as universal—it will be perceived at once must lead to the masses becom ing Chartists, and if that appellation, from any cause, should get into disrepute, the same principles, wrought out in the same manner, will be the animus of the masses, under some other designation. It must be obvious also that this feeling will natu rally extend itself from the representatives to the con stituency, and hence the slight opinion which the work ing classes have sometimes expressed of the middle classes. Among the working classes, as I said before, there are all grades of political opinion, and I have invariably beard those who have professed themselves op posed to Radicals and to Chartists, while abusing both for being so, give utterance, of their own motion, and apparently without being conscious of the fact, to some one or other of the principles of Chartism as a part of their own political creed. 1 have endeavoured to show what the politics of the masses are, and what has caused them. The masses have began to think for themselves. Thoughts, like those described operating in the minds of men accus tomed to intense physical energy, naturally beget a state ' of things in which—what shall I say—more energy than judgment is displayed, and hence the outbreak in '\' ales. Let not those who believe themselves to be lovers of order be alarmed at this conclusion. IT IS THE TRUTH. And whether it be enunciated or not, or whether it be believed or not, or being believed, whether it be denied or not, it still is the ever progressing truth ; and as no power can destroy the truth of a principle, so no power can stop the progress of the events which the knowledge of its truth evolves. The difference between the political opinions of the masses now, and at any former period is that now the masses think for themselves, while before they only were moved by the impulse of others. They will of course act foolishly until experience shall have made them wise, but never more will they blindly be the instruments of their own destruction in the hands of others. T. J. DUNNING. [Our Correspondent will see that we have omitted a few passages of Ills letter, merely in order to bring it within our space.] A Sale of considerable attraction at Robins's Auction Rooms commences to-morrow, and continues throughout the week, embracing the splendid furniture and elegant appendages of a mansion in every depart ment, noble glasses, lamps, library bookcases, with the valuable collection of books, prints and drawings, services of plate, china and glass, and three carriages. It is rarely so much of value is comprised in one sale, and it has been matter of conjecture as to the name of the ❑oble owner, but this is kept a profound secret. Great secrecy has been observed by the Con• servative Journals respecting the mission of Lord Stuar de Rothsay to the King of Hanover.—Observer. BADMINTON.—The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will see company this week, when the Duke of Cambridge and his illustrious consort, Prince George, Lord Ellenborough, Capt. and Lady Georgiana Cod rington, Lord and Lady William Somerset, and Lord Fitzroy Somerset, are expected to arrive on a visit. `We stated last week that the dice seized by the police, in the gaming house, in the Quadrant, were falsely numbered, or were loaded. Several Correspon dents have asked us for explanation on the subject, and therefore, without going through the whole infamy of the process, we can state that one pair of dice has, on one die, two fours, two fives, and two sixes—the fellow die has two twos, two threes, and two fours. It will easily be perceived that no combination of these dice can throw five. By the same process of falsification other numbers are excluded.—Observer. UrILTSPUR-STREET CONIPTER.-011 Thursday, at Guildhall, a number of persons applied for orders to see their friends in the Compter. Sir Peter Laurie said it was intended to assimilate the regulations for visiting this prison as nearly as possible to those of the Cold Bath-fields prison, which was the best-managed gaol in the kingdom. In future only one visit in a month would be allowed, except in special cases. The names of visitors would be registered in a book at the prison, and applications to visit would be made in the first instance to the keeper of the prison, who, if he saw no objection, would fill up the order and send the appli cant with it to the Magistrate for his signature. No discharged prisoner would be allowed to visit. THE FISHERY.—The Penzance driving boats, some night last week, caught a few pilchards, but they drove up channel near Plymouth, where they found hakes in abundance ; they bad from four to nine hundred each. The Plymouth trawlers are said to have taken large quantities of hakes, which have been sold in the Ply mouth market, at one shilling per dozen.—West triton. CHAIR USED BY CHARLES 1. ON HIS TRIAL. —An attractive curiosity has latterly, along with many others, been added by loan to the list of those which will shortly be exhibited by the Birmingham Mechanics' Institution. It is the chair which Charles I. not only sat in during his trial, but which was also placed for his accommodation upon the scaffold at Whitehall. It has a low seat and high back, and is covered with de. cayed crimson velvet, a footstool being attached to it of corresponding style and materials. It has descended to the present possessor from Bishop Juxon, who attended at the time of his execution.—iirnzinghant paper. We (the Cheltenham Examiner) understand that it is the intention of the Post-office authorities, at the request of the inhabitants of Cheltenham, to put on a day mail from London to that town, in addition to the present night mail. To start from London every morning at ten o'clock, and reach Cheltenham by half past six in the evening. By the same arrangement, the additional mail will leave Cheltenham every morning lat half-past eight, and reach London at half-past four in the afternoon. EY4:NING EDITI(iN. RIOTS IN WALES. ....___ A little pamplet, entitled an " Address , i, t Winking Classes of Wales on the late o 9*410.1 17 ,' at Newport, by O ne o f th e People," ha 'W.e ~ .t.:•,-, , publish e d a t S wansea . It di s pl a ys 'nue . ,--., '.;,:,-''''.,` flection and jud gmen t, p o i n t s ou t the de Q144,- . ,5.4: „ u the physical force men, and at the same 714....47 . 1 best and, as the writer considers, the on ' .7 4 ; f4iit -4 .. bettering the condition of the lower classes. . /4 t: t.- 4.' 4 are his remarks on the fearful odds agains."7. WC . disciplined multitude, when opposed to a body . regular troops : Tile only intelligible object of an outbreak or riot, such as took place in Newport, must be the discomfi ture of the military and civil authorities of the place, ' and your retaining possession of the town; and 1 will suppose a small portion of the country about it. Well, suppose all this done—suppose you master some two hundred or three hundred soldiers at a great sacrifice of human life—of the lives of your friends--your fellow workmen—possibly of your relatives—what have you I gained? Possession of the town. Well, what then ? Will this convert a single individual to Chartism i' The firing of a gun is no proof of the truth of the Charter. You have immediately dispatched against you horse, loot, and artillery—a great portion of the force of the , country ;—and here you are, with no fortifications, to contend with men whose very trade is war, and who have every assistan ce th a t sc ience and accumulated i experience can give them—who can bring their terrible engines of destruction to bear upon you and yet expose ' themselves to little or no danger. A body of artillery would reduce, in a few hours, a town like Newport to a mass of smoking ruins tumbling about the heads of its unfortunate inhabitants. But I turn from the sicken ing and horrid contemplation —nor have I brought it before you but with the intention of showing the folly of all such attempts. Many of these attempts are, I be- I lieve, made by men who think that all is done if they I once get the mastery over a body of soldiers stationed in a district ; but in reality this is only " the beginning of troubles"—one step further towards ruin. Upon this subject let me add one more remark :—you can form no notion of the military power, merely by seeing a few i troops of soldiers such as are sometimes stationed in your populous mining and manufacturing districts. These are very formidable from their arms and discipline— forty of these men would be a match for ten times their numbers. But this is not all ;—there is a tremendously additional strength gained by the combination of different kinds of soldiery, each kind acting with equal skill in his own department, and presenting, altogether, a fear ful odds, pregnant with destruction to any undiscip lined force however numerous—and even to -a force partly disciplined, armed, for example, as the people at Newport were. Thus, 300 foot soldiers and 100 cavalry are far more powerful than the same number of infantry only. The same number, distributed into horse, foot, and artillery, would be able to meet fifty times the number that 400 foot soldiers armed with the gun, &c., could meet. Three pieces of cannon, served by thirty men, would make fearful work amongst 20,000 undis ciplined men. They would be mowed like the green grass before the mower's scythe. He next endeavours to demonstrate that the expectation of a mob being joined by the soldiers is hopeless : I know of no soldiery who are so much influenced by the feelings and sentiments to which I have above alluded, an'l I know of no country in which so few acts of insubordination of troops have taken place as in England. Within the last fifty years, at least 100 popular outbreaks have occurred—some from political, some from other motives ; and you cannot point your linger to a single case in which the military have re fused to fire upon, much less have joined the people. Is it wise to risk your lives on the hazard (against all experience) of their doing so at present? In foreign countries there arc, occasionally, instances of military disaffection ; but mark the consequence. They have in every case been put down by other soldiers. And why ? For this plain reason—once from under military command, these men become disunited—every one is master ; no order, no unity, all is confusion ;—and, as you have seen from the passage of Somerville which I have quoted ; without order, a military body is nothing— their arms nothing—and they yield to the better di rected movements of soldiers acting under one bead, and moving "like one man" upon a point. Take away this unity of direction, remove this magic of discipline, and the soldier, even with arms in his hands, becomes a common man—he must yield to his disciplined com rade. I can, indeed, safely challenge any man to point out to me a single instance in which a military revolt has succeeded, unless seconded by the officers, or where the plot has had some leading men connected with it. Well, then, all this proves that the expectation of a mob being joined by soldiery is hopeless ; and if they did join, tine people would gain little or nothing by it. In conclusion lie adds : I shall now sum up all I have said on this subject : consider it well, and, as men who judge of others by what you have known of them, tell me is it not a broken reed to which you trust in entertaining the hope that the soldiery will juin you, or tht,t you can expect any favour from them -Ist. The notions of duty—the habits of thinking— the discipline and training of the English soldier—is such as to make it morally impossible that he would re fuse to act in a riot, outbreak, or insurrection of the working classes. i)..dly. . The co nsequence o f any por ti on o f th e sol dieryjoining a portion of the insurgents, would be certain death, inasmuch ,as they must be soon over powered by superior forces ;—therefore they would not join. idly. The cases of the French Revolutions afford no parallel to the one we are supposing. All the habits and circumstances of the French soldier are different from those of the English ; and, therefore, until you place the latter in the same circumstances, until, in fact, you change his nature, it would be folly to reason from one to the other. 4th. Though the French soldiers joined in the Revo lutions, which were of all classes. they have never refused to put down local tumults or outbreaks. sth. An immense number of popular tumults have taken place in England within the last 100 years, and yet the soldiers have joined no one of them. It is, there fore, unreasonable, because against ail experience, to expect they would do so now. 6th. The soldier's ignorance of his companions' senti timents and feelings on the subject of duty, would pre vent him proposing a plot for refusing to act, or joining a tumult or insurrection, even if inclined to do so. My countrymen,—have I not told you enough to convince you, that by violence you cannot succeed Look back on Uhl various combinaeions that have been formed for political purposes, and tell me whether one of them has succeeded by " lab ysical force," whether political progression has not been stayed—thrown back by a display of it. Never was ti his truth more strongly exemplified than in the case of 'the Irish Catholic Asso ciation. They, too, were men battling for their rights ; but their arms were reason—elleir triumph conviction. And nobly were they rewarded. The Catholic Asso ciation was formed, at first composed of the masses—the working classes : power despised it, rank smiled not on it ; but its voice was that 01' humanity and truth, —it worked its way—it convince 3—it enlisted the sympa thies of Englishmen, althougn not immediately benefited by the accomplishment of its objects—it became a mighty power—mighty in Tnoral influence ; and preju dice, intolerance, and religious oppression quailed in its presence. The Irish Catholic became one with the British citizen. Look again at the Reform Bill. There, too, success, crowned peaceful agitation. The Political Unions were formed—opinion, like the wave rolling on to its destined shore, gathered strength in its very pro gress ; and the people mighty, beca use the " Law, Or der, Union," was their motto, in. a voice of thunder proclaimed that the things which had been should be no more. And yet, here was no foolish, bravadoing display of " physical force." A single scene like that of New port would have ruined the can: ;e. Here is a verse sung ou the morning of the great, meeting of the Poli tical Unions in Birmingham, by a hundred thousand of your fellow operatives, as the gathering Unions marched into the field, Chartists ! who say that " physical force" is the only means of bettering your condition, hear!—how grand in its very peacefulness l—how ma jestic in its consciousness of the innate power of. Tighe and truth ! God is our Guide ! no swc.rds we draw, We kindle not war's battle fires, By Union, Justice, Reason, Law, We claim the birthright of our sires. THE CONVICT GEORGE CANT.--At the last October Sessions, Cant, wh o k ept a pu bli c- h ouse i n Holborn, was convicted of a rape on his servant, and sentence of death was recorded against :him on the un derstanding that he would be transport;cd for life. A petition was presented on his behalf, anKlamong others the Dukes of Manchester and Bedford, au d Mr. Crawley, M.P., sent statements to Lord Norman.by favourable to the prisoner. Hopes were entertained, ghat these appli cations would be successful, but it appears an order was sent down by the Home Office on SaturdaY to the Gaol , of Newgate, directing that the convict Should be re moved to the hulks, preparatory to his transportation. THE CONVICT .WILLIAM LEES.—The war rant for execution was sent on Si.turday from the office of the Clerk of the Peace to Ntwgate, but it Ivo backed sine die, the time when " execution shall be don e," vest ing i n th e Sheriffs, subject to the fiat of the Secrotary of State. We u nderstand thF.t the inquiry as to his sanity of mind for some months prior to the murder is pnsceed ing, the result of which expected to,rauspire in a few d a ys.—Observer. 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