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f D NAVY. UMBER OF THE &c. &c. \ O E r ! L c IL THE DUKE of NGTON'S LIFT, Edited by SIR JA3IES E. ALEXANDER. / The Tenth and Eleventh Parts, price 2s. 6d. each, completilug this work, ARE NOW READY, And can be had of all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher. 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW CHEAP PERIODICAL. On Saturday next, the 4th of January, will be published No. I, PriCe Twopence (to be continued Weekly) , GRANT'S LONDON JOURNAL ; a Cheap Publication of Popular Literature. Con ducted by the Author of " Random Recollections," " The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. George Berger, Holywell• street, and to be had of all Book— sellers and Newsmen throughout the country. 'ICE JOURNAL, MILITARY MAGAZINE; ins : Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir J. F. Devonshire, K.C. H., and Major-General Sir Ni cholas Trant, K. C. T. S. Forts and Positions of the Dardanelles, surveyed by a British Officer Forces of the German Con federation Correspondence from the 3lau- . . rams Case of Colonel Thomas, with the Speech of the Duke of Wellington to that Officer on the presentation of Co lours by his Grace to the 20th Regiment Remarks on the late occur rence at the Mauritius, with original aetails Army of the Indus General Distribution of the Navy and Army Examinations at Addiscombe With all the Naval and Mi litary Intelligence of the Month. 3, Great Marlborough-street. { ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense overflows Lave been attracted by The Two New Dramas and the Grand Christmas Pantomime —admiring thousands have witnessed the beautiful Scenery and splendid appointments, and acknowledge " Goody Tw o Shoes " to be the most popular Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, Dac. 31, Will bo repeated the:Now Romantic Drama, called MICHAEL EARLS, THE MANIAC LOVER. Characters by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, Neville, John son, and Smith ; Mrs. Yining, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Martin. After which, a Comedietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JA nS MENDED. Bonhommo, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Bonhommo, Mr.. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin :of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. MIGH.WATatt AT LONDON 111t1DIFE TO.NIORRO Vic. Morning 21 rainutoo after 11 i Evening 51 minutes atter 11 LONDON : TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1839. The Tory Journals have just given us a striking instance of their love for intolerance and persecu tion. Mr. Ow.EN entertains some opinions which they dislike ; they do not prove them to be false, but denounce them to be " gross, filthy, and sinful." The opinions being so described, they accuse Lord MELBOURNE of a high crime for pre lenting to her MAJESTY the gentleman who enter tains these " gross, filthy, and sinful" opinions. We know nothing of Mr. OWEN'S opinions, for we have not inquired into them ; but we remem ber when he, being opulent, was countenanced by Dr. SUTTON, the late Archbishop of CANTER BURY, arida great number of the nobility and gentry, though he then taught with much of the enthusiasm of a comparatively young man. Not being ac quainted with his opinions, we are unable to say whether they are true or false ; but an opinion, if erroneous, can no more be sinful than a crooked leg, or a squinting eye, or carotty hair. Sin is not a characteristic of opinions at all, but of actions ; and the Tories show their ignorance as well as their brutality by abusing opinions. They are re solved, however, to find fault, and not only condemn Mr. OWEN for his sinful opinions, but Lord MELBOURNE for having presented the entertainer of sinful opinions to the QUEEN. We have lately heard a good deal of a fuddle ometer and a foolorneter, but we also want a pure thought-ometer. Every person who presents another at Court should be provided with one of these, when they are invented, and, applying it to the person to be introduced, should ascertain that he had never en tertained or uttered a " filthy, gross, and sinful" thought. How we should like to see many of the Tory Lords and Tory Ladies tested by such an instrument before being presented at - Court, at which few of them would then ever arrive I Without some such' instrument we see no mode of proving the cleanliness or virtue of a man's opinions, and the attack now made by the Quartelly Review, the Post, and the rest of the Tory Journals, on Mr. OWEN and Lord MELBOURNE, demonstrates that they are anxious to persecute. If they had lived in Spain in the sixteenth century they would have been amongst the most cruel familiars of the Inquisition, and at this day thei r c h arac ter is more suited to the dark days and countries of Popery two centuries ago titan to Protestant England. It may be also for themselves rather dangerous to commence a persecution for mere opinion. The Tories are, after all, a small part of the people ; the bulk of those who follow the political leaders are not Tories, but persons desiring ease and place • and the Tories 'may soon find that their opinions, which are dreadfully obnoxious to the masses, will be entertained by only a small minority, incapable of protecting themselves. In persecuting times men have been burnt, or hanged' at lamp-posts, for their opinions, and few persons would say it • was other than justice were those who are persecuting I EYENINC-i- EDITION. individuals, by holding them up to obloquy for what they call " gross, filthy, and sinful" opinions, to be themselves persecuted. On Saturday, Mr- O'CONNELL delivered another stirring appeal and exhortation to his countrymen at the Corn Exchange, Dublin. The Dublin _Monitor says that a most numerous body of the citizens were in attendance for the purpose of hear. ing Mr. O'CoNNELL's views. As usual, the Hon. Gentleman was extremely eloquent and ex tremely vituperative of England, not without, at least, a show of justice. He quoted two instances, which have lately appeared in the public papers, of inhabitants of Bishop PHILPOTTS' diocese, though arrived at the age of manhood, not under standing the nature of an oath ; and such, he said, was the education of England, with a Church en dowed with six millions. He referred to the daily catalogue of crimes with which our journals teem, and to the pictures of distress in our manu facturing districts daily published ; and he con cluded that England is in difficulties, that her people are starving, and that she could not Abud to increase the number of her enemies by adding to them all the Catholic Irish. The Hon. Mem ber also adverted to the TITUS OATES Plot, to the pQrsecutions suffered by the Irish in past times, and to various other irritating topics. Supposing that two-thirds of what he said were inaccurate, it was not one whit less efficacious in exciting his hearers than if it were every word mathematically true. Accordingly they groaned, hissed, and shouted, as he would have them, and felt, at least for the moment, all the hatred of England, and particularly of the Tories, which he expressed. The language Mr. O'CONNELL has previously used made the Standard say last night, " Those who could thus speak of the people of England would resort to arms if they were not afraid." But when England is somewhat more embroiled and harrassed with the Chartists, as she undoubtedly will be, to guard against whom, by the by, another regiment has been brought over from Ireland, all fear will be at an end, and the people, maddened by still more intemperate speeches, probably will, if their wrongs, real or imaginary, be not redressed, resort to arms, and add amazingly to the calamities of the empire. Ours is by no means a pleasant prospect. It i s known to all who have studied the progress of so ciety, that a great contest has arisen, and necessa rily must arise, between labour and capital, or be tween no property and property. It is not confined to England, it extends to the United States, Bel gium, France, Switzerland, and Germany, though it be there comparatively faint. Under another name, it is a contest between the aristocracy and democracy, following the contest which subdued a mere armed and titled aristocracy, and substituted for it an aristocracy of wealth. The contest be tween capital and labour having raged with fierceness in this country for some years, any thing more wanton, or more wicked, can scarcely be conceived than for the Anglican Clergy to have added to it a contest between the Protest.. ants and Papists. The well-timed Act of 1829 promised to put an end to the dispute for religious ascendancy, hut the Anglican Clergy and the Tory bigots, for the most base and sordid party purposes, have again kindled it, adding to the servile strife which there is no avoiding. The immense influence which one or a few elo quent persons can exert over the multitude is, in the case of the Chartists, too apparent. Messrs. M'NEILE, M`GIIEE, and Co., envious and emu lous of Mwsrs. O'CONNELL and O'CONNOR, have endeavoured, by the force of much talk, to rally an army of bigotry to begin persecu tion. They have so far succeeded, that they have compelled the Catholics to agitate in self defence. The fools who have gone after the bigots are more to blame than the starving Chartists and the poor Catholics. These may gain something by agitation, and can scarcely lose ; but the opulent, easy classes of English gen tlemen and English ladies can only lose and suffer. Quitting their comfortable parlours, their beautiful villas and lawns, or their happy winter fire-sides, they have lent themselves to swell the triumph of these broken-loose pulpit fanatics. Contrary to their own mild and benevolent nature, they have allowed themselves to be made the tools of these strife-stirring, designing priests, and their strife-stirring coadjutors of the press. Now, when it is too late—when they see the use Mr. O'CONNELL makes of the silly encouragement they have given to fanatic violence —they may repent the folly which threatens to endanger their own ease, peace, and security. The new Society Mr. O'CONNELL is to institute is to be called " The Friends of the QUEEN and Protectors of Ireland." Any title will serve to collect a numerous body of adherents, and the Friends of the QUEEN will be the decided enemies of the bigots and the Tories. We published on Saturday, in our Evening Edi- tion, and yesterday, in our Morning Edition, an abstract of the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester on Thursday relative to the Bank of England. The speeches of Messrs. PRICE, BROOKES ; GARDNER, and others, have deservedly excited great attention in the commer cial world. They demonstrate the great extent of the losses of the mercantile community by the unwise conduct of the Bank of England in rela. tion to the currency. We publish this morning the Report made to the Chamber by the Directors after they had subjected the whole matter to a rigid in vestigation. It was adopted by the Chamber una nimously, and may therefore be styled the Manifesto of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce against the Bank of England. It sets forth the grievances of the former, and of the manufacturing interest generally, which are caused by the latter, but it points out no remedy and demands no specific re dress. It is a sort of declaration of war, followed by no immediate active hostilities. The Chamber makes out a strong case against the Bank, almost too strong, apparently, to be strictly correct. It goes back no further than 1835, and brings forward proof, between that and the present time, of several acts of gross mismanage ment. The Bank first threw a large sum •f money into the market, and thereby gave facilities to discount American acceptances to an enormous amount, and gave an excessive stimulus to trade and speculation. It supplied manufacturers and others with money at three per cent, and causing at the same time a rise in prices by an abundance of current}', made them hope and expect to obtain larger e profits. So it encouraged adventures, r which its own su bse q uent curtailment of the could be realised, rend ere d currency, ere they profitless. The Chamber distinctly pi -Oyes that the Bank, whenever its coffers get empty, fills them with gold from abroad at the expense of the manu facturers. The result of its several operations was to cause a loss to the holders of manufacturing capital, varying from 25 to 50 per cent. on a gross sum of 160,000,0001. Mingling no personalities with its remarks, the Chamber follows the opera- Lions of the Bank step by step, and proves that they have been most disastrous. The Chamber does not confine itself to the merely pecuniary effects of contractions and expansions of the currency. It points out that derangement of employment, distress, disease, and extensive death, all arise from the.desire of the Bank Directors to bring gold into their coffers or to swell their divi dends. We are unable further to analyze it, but shall quote a paragraph towards the conclusion, in which we cordially agree : That. such a power over the property, and, as has been seen, the health, morals, and very lives of the,' community should be vested in the hands of twenty-six irresponsible individuals for the exclus:ve benefit of a body of Bank Proprietors, must be regarded as one of the most singular anomalies of the present day—that the secret acts of these individuals, veiled as they are even from the eyes of their own constituents, should de cide the fortunes of our capitalists, and the fate of our artisans —that upon the error or wisdom of their judg ment should depend the happiness or misery of millions and that against the most capricious exercise of this power, there should be neither appeal nor remedy ; that such a state of things should be allowed to exist, must be regarded as a reproach to the intelligence of the age, and as totally irreconcileable with every principle of public justice. The Bank Directors may perhaps object to one body of traders lecturing another body, and may tell them to mind their own business. But the enormous privileges which the greedy Bank has coaxed or filched from careless or ignorant states men, make the Bank, a public institution, as much a part of the Constitution, and as much respon sible at the bar of public opinion, as the Cabinet or the Corporation of London. In former times, Sovereigns merited and obtained the curses of their subjects by altering the value of money, while they kept it of the same denomination ; and by their jugglery with the currency, they inflicted, as has been said, more misery, and caused more losses than ever did war, pestilence, or famine. At present the standard may be untouched, and the same disastrous effects produced by a sleight-of hand dealing with paper; and the source of the enormous mischief remain undiscovered. Like ignorant savages, we even worship the Mumbo- Jumbo that inflicts on us disease and death. If we forbear to bore our readers day after day with notices of the evil produced by the Corn-laws, our interest in that subject does not, we can assure them, lessen with the increasing evidence which every day affords, in the augmenting distress of the people, of their disastrous effects. Long ago and repeatedly have we so strongly denounced them, that scarcely anything remains for us to do, but occasionally to place before our readers—who gene rally, we believe, share our opinions on this subject —in extracts from other Journals, the accumulat ing proofs of the horrid calamities which the Devil's laws inflict on the public. 'We have fre quently told the upper and middle classes that they were endangering all property. Not long ago Mr. MACAULEY, a Cabinet Minister, had to defend the right of property from the attacks made on it in Scotland. On Thursday last a meeting was held at Leeds, the object of which was to give relief to some of the many thousands who are out of em ployment. If any occasion could reconcile the poor to the possessiohs of the rich, it was surely this, when the purses of the affluent were to be opened to mitigate their sufferings. How ever, on that occasion an address was pre sented from the unemployed operatives, a great number of whom attended, and their Chair man, while they vehemently applauded the senti ment, and would scarcely allow a gentleman to speak who impugned it, said " If the unemployed could not get bread for themselves and children, THEY WOULD TAKE IT FROM THE COMMON STOCK- AN OPINION IN WHICH, HE SAID, HE COR DIALLy AGREED ; FOR HE DECLARED, BE FORE GOD AND MAN, THAT BEFORE HE WOULD STARVE HE WOULD TAKE BREAD WHERE HE COULD GET IT." It is fearful to think, says the Chronicle, that a large mi nority should countenance the doctrine of spoiliation. They only threaten to imitate what the landlords actually perform ; and if it be right in the latter to preserve their tax, which they call property, by violence, it must, a fortiori, be right in the umemployed, if they can, to preserve their lives by the strong hand. The fearful conse quences, the fearful conclusions, and the fearful conduct which the Devil's laws are forcing on the bulk of the community, terrify us for its future prospects. By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at Fal mouth, on Sunday, from the Mediterranean, we have received advices from Lisbon of the 24th inst. The Braganza left Gibraltar on the 21st, Cadiz 22d, Lisbon 24th, and Vigo 26th. On the 23d accounts had reached Lisbon, via Bahia, of the capture of four more Portuguese slavers by Bri tish cruisers on the coast of Africa. No details were given. The new Cortes were to meet on the 2d of January, when it was stated that a Royal speech would be delivered, in which the real state of Portugal would be frankly and without reserve set forth for the guidance of the national representatives. The capital was quiet, notwithstr.nding the efforts of the editor of _ _ ......._. _. the Nacional to make it be believed by the mob that the Government sought to purchase his assas sination in consequence of the terrors which he was inspiring in England I Young REMECHIDO, the son of the Miguelite chief recently captured and put to death, has died of the wounds he received ten months ago in an engagement with the QUEEN'S troops. Had he recovered, the Government would have spared his life. Madrid Papers of the 22d inst. state, that the REGENT has signed a Royal degree not yet made public, for the re-establishment of the Convents of Monks throughout the Basque Provinces. The capital was tranquil. The following news from the theatre of war is from a Paris Journal : " On the 19th the Csrlist chief Bosque attacked the village of Ginebrosa, which was defended by the Second Regiment of Grenadiers of the Guard, under the orders of Brigadier Velarde. The assailants had brought up a gun to a neighbouring height, but a bat talion of infantry, supported by some companies of Chasseurs, having sallied out, the Carlists fell back on Belmonte, leaving some killed and wounded on the field. The head-quarters of the Christinos were still at• Mas de las Mates. Colonel Zurbano had destroyed the band of Alegre, near Muniesa, and taken a number of prisoners. In the evening of the 23d a large convoy of military effects and stores arrived from Madrid at Saragossa, escorted by four companies commanded by Colonel Gaspar Rodriguez. Russia, jealous of the progress of English arms and influence in Central Asia, has declared war against the Khan of CHIVA, the Chief of a powerful Tribe on the borders of Persia. The ostensible cause is the punishment of the Chivians for robbing sundry Russian caravans, and retaining in captivity a number of Russian subjects; but the true object of the war is to rival the terrors inspired by British power in Persia and Affghan istan. The kingdom, or province rather, of Chiva i s bounded on the north by the deserts of Kirchiss, on the west by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Persia, and on the east by the provinces of Turan, Bokhara, and Balk. As Balk borders on Affgha nistan, it will be easy to make the fame of the Russian expedition familiar to those who so re cently witnessed the triumphant entry of General Sir JOHN (now Baron) KEANE into Cabool, the capital of that warlike nation. The EMPEROR has entrusted the command of this expedition to Lieut.-General BEROWSKY, who left U:emburg at the head of a strong military force on the Ist of December. Previous to setting out, General BE ROWSKY published a declaration of war against Chiva, a copy of which we find in the Prussian State Gazette of the 20th. After setting forth in general terms that robberies had been committed, and merchants made prisoners by the Chivians, the declaration of war concludes as follows :—" The rights of Russia, the security of her trade, the tranquillity of her subjects, and the dignity of the State, call for decisive measures, and the EMPEROR has judged it to be high time to send a body of troops to Chiva to put an end to roberry and ex action, to deliver those Russians who are de tained in slavery, to make the inhabitants of Chiva esteem and respect the Russian name, and, finally, to strengthen, in that part of i ngbiat '" „t oj eo , d ege ...7.ar tai Cr' • gll3l. ARMY AN THE JANUARY UNITED SE R AND NAVAL AND Contai A Glance at some Defects in our Alilitary System A Letter to Lord Colchester, Captain in the Royal Navy, by Tonawanta The Military Establishments and Discipline of the Chinese England's Wooden Walls. No. 4. The Vietory A Ramble to the Eglintoun Tournament, ley Henry Curling,H.P. 52d Regiment Memoirs of Edward Costello, F. S. F. &c. Notices of the Cape and Southern Africa, since the appointment. as Governor, of Major-Gen. Sir George Napier, by Major Charters Colonel Pasley's Operations at Spithead, with a View to the demolition and removal of the Wreck of the Royal George The Archimedes Steamer The Australian Colonies in connection with Naval and Military Settlers Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1 HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA Isavinf. AUTHORISED and GUA RANTRED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREVUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) •o9'er many 'possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, et HAAIBURGII, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchass may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing. WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. &c. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Shares clearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will loon occur. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, Dec. 31, Will be performed Sheridan's Cernedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; S.r Oliver Surface, Mr. Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley; Joseph Sur face, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Crabtree, Mr. Meadows ; Moses, Mr. Keeley ; Lady T ea z le, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Orger ; Maria, Miss Lee. Ti conclude with the New Grand Comie Christmas Panto , mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL Or ED MONTON; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Wi h entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses,: aid De. eirations. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ' • Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Morris Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes ' 7c; Second Prioe, 3c. Id . ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; S end Prise, 2s. id. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be *penal at half-past Coix—the performances to sommenoo at Seven .'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-offitte, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be bad upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. THE SUN, LONDON, TtrESDAI", DECPIVIBER 31, i 839 Asia, the lawful influence to which Russia has a tight, and which alone can insure the mainte nance of peace. This is the purpose of the pre sent expedition, and as soon as it shall be attained, and an order of things conformable to the interests of Russia and the neighbouring Asiatic States shall be established on a permanent footing, the body of troops, which has received orders to march on Chiva, return to the frontiers of the empire." The words marked in italics explain the real designs of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. It is not Russian commerce that requires protection, but British in fluence which must be proved inefficient as a pro tection against the consequences of Imperial ire. We trust this view of the question will not escape the vigilance of Lord PALMERSTON when he turns his eyes eastward after the honeymoon is over. A Paris Journal, the Commerce, of Sunday, has a letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 11th of December, which states, that although the Russian and English ambassadors at Constantinople were acting in concert, and with every hope of success, relative to the conclusion of a pacific Treaty be tween the SULTAN and the VICEROY, yet the Russian Minister of War had ordered the Third Division of Artillery, under General JESINE, and a heavy park of artillery under Colonel TEODORON LEHMANN to proceed immediately to Bes sarabia, to re-inforce the artillery of the army of the South. It was likewise stated that General YERMOLOFF was about to be sent by the EM PEROR to Persia, on a diplomatic mission to the SHAH, but without superseding General DUHA MEL, the present Ambassador from Russia to the Court of Teheran. General YERMOLOFF is to be attended by a numerous body of officers of different grades in the army, who will make an offer of their services to the SHAH for improving the discipline of his troops. Should this offer be accepted, Persia will have as much cause to lament the consequences as the Porte the morning after the battle of Nezib. But here again the object is to destroy the growing influence of England, and to recover the ground lost by the occupation of Karrack. The French Journals of Sunday contain very little political news of interest. The several Com mittees of the Chamber of Deputies met on Satur day, and there was some sparring between the leaders of the Opposition and the Ministers, but they led to no result. The only revelation of any importance was made by M. DUFAURE, the Minister for Public Works, who stated in answer to a question, that after the voting of the ad dress the Government would bring forward a Bill for the reduction of the Five per Cents. The Ministers further stated that Don CARLOS would be detained in France during the continuance of the civil war in Spain ; and that the Govern ment was quite indifferent to the presence of the Duke of BORDEAUX at Rome. Upon the whole, however, the Committees presented little political enthusiasm, and none of the_ animation observable at the opening of the last Session of the Chamber. The Moniteur publishes a long official account of the contests between the French and Arabs, near Belida on the 14th and 15th of December, but the details differ in no essential point from those which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Our readers will observe that the official accounts from Algiers relate only to the events of the 15th of Decem ber. It was on the 18th that the action was reported to have taken place, in which the Arabs are stated to have suffered great loss in consequence of a landing of troops in their rear near Cape Matifon. Unfortunately no confirmation whatever has yet been received of this new success, the account of which was transmitted by correspondents at Toulon on the autho rity of reports spread in that city after the arrival of the Neptune and the Amazone from Algiers.—Journal des Debats. The Chartists sometimes indulge a fond hope that the Tories would be civil to them were they in power. They may undeceive themselves by looking into the number of Fraser's Magazine just pu . blisited. - ;,..‘.. Stein dealing with the physical force men" is there laid down as the rule for Sir Robert Peel's Administration, when he can form one. The Tories will admit of no physical force, but their own. They are, par excellence, the organizers of the men of steel ; they are marshallers of bayonets, and they resolve on giving no quarter to the carriers of clubs and pikes. Physical force Chartists ! the Whigs would dissuade you from having recourse to weapons—the Tories at once say you shall b e disarmed and subdued. The Marquis of Ailsa is suffering from a severe attack of the gout, at St. Margaret's Isleworth. MELANCHOLY VISITATION.—A very melan choly occurrence took place last week in the death of a police sergeant, his wife and child, within a few hours of each other, and all of whom were interred on Satur day in one grave, in a burial ground in Salmon's-lane, Ratcliffe. The man's name was John West, No. 277 K, and his wile died on Tuesday in giving birth to a child, now the only survivor of the family, and her other child, who was about twelve months old, died the next day. West, who it appears had of late been in delicate health, was unable to withstand this double loss, and expired a few hours after the child. The Police Commissioners not only defrayed the whole expense of the funerals, but ordered the infant child to be brought up at their expense. The superintendent, inspectors, and all the men that could be spared from duty in this division of the force, followed the remains of the de ceased to the grave. The deceased sergeant was only twenty-eight years of age, and he had been six years in the metropolitan police force. He bore an excellent character. I CHRISTMAS BENEFACTIONS.—Christmas did not this year assume the form which he is wont to wear towards the poor ; he did not dress his head in snow and icicles, and thus the husbandman was enabled to pursue his honest labours ; but nevertheless much could be found to mitigate within cottage walls, and we rejoice to find that the children of wealth have liberally and bene volently stretched forth their hands to enable their hum bler neighbours to participate in the enjoyment of the plenteous season. SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On the evening of Christmas-day a curious circumstance occurred to the Bedford coach, on its way from Ampthill. When it reached Houghton -gate the coachman got down to take up the pole chain ; and, as there were no passengers on the coach, he was obliged to l a y the reins on the horses' backs. When he was proceeding to mount the coach again the horses bolted off, leaving him to follow as he could ; and in this manner they travelled along to the town of Bedford, which they reached in perfect safety. BRISTOL SUGAR-MA RKET.—We have nothing this week to report, the holidays having occasioned a suspension of business.—Bristol Mercury. The quantity of wheat exported from Limerick since the Ist of Sept. last has been the one-thirteenth part of the quantity of oats sent to the same destination. . . A medic a l gentleman residing near the Chain Pier, of the name of Hodgson, hired a Newhaven boat with three of a crew, for the purpose of shooting sea fowl a day or two since. A squall overtook them, and the boat was thrown bottom upward, and three out of the four perished.—Caledonian Mercury. BLO O D LETTING PREVENTED.—Late on the night of Christmas Day the Barnstapl e M a gistrates, having received information on oath that a hostile meet ing was about to occur between Mr. Francis Ridd, of this borough, surgeon, and Mr. James Lister, surgeon, of Cobmartin, issued summonses for their immediate apprehension, and the parties were brought up before them, about eleven o'clock at night, in custody of Su perintendent Steele, and bound over, themselves in 100/. each and two sureties of 5,1. each to keep the peace towards each other for twelve months.— North Devon Adveritser. GR O ANS FROM A COAL PIT I—Great excite ment was created on Sunday last in consequence of a report that a person had fallen into a pit (Barber's Field Colliery) belonging to Mr. Banks, of Braidley, and that groans were distinctly heard proceeding from the same pit. A moment's reflection would have shown the preposterous character of the rumour, as if a person had fallen into the pit the odds were that he must have been killed on the spot. But so great was the excite ment of the hundreds assembled, that nothing wou'd convince them to the contrary till the parochial a uthorities had adopted means for some one to descend. Accord ingly the two constables of the town, Mr. Fellows and Mr. Charles Whitehead. watched the pit during Sun day night, and on Monday morning the descent was made, but nothing was discovered but dead cats and dogs, and some say a lion, which died when Wombwell's collection was in this town. A similar report was cur rent a short time ago, and the proceedings in conse quence of it cost the parish a good deal of money, but terminated as in the present case. The pit which was the scene of the last supposed tragedy was not railed nor enclosed in. - --Staprdshire Examiner. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 30 —Wind S. to S. E.—Sailed the Angclique, Le Roux, for Martinique. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.—Wind S. S. E., fresh breezes— Sailed the Gentoo, Dodds, for Calcutta ; Dyson, Bow skill, Lima ; United States, Barr, New Orleans ; Limner, Edington, Barbadoes; Wanderer, Hinds, St. Lucia. STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Renshaw, Nutall, from Mogadore. DOVER, DEC. 30.—Off port, Tasso, Christie, Quebec. WATERFORD, DEC. 27.—Sailed the Condor, Hen richsen, for Messina. HULL, DEC. 30.—Arrived Haughton, Hunter, Riga OFF THE WIGHT, Dec. 30. —Nederlanden, Batavia. WORKINGTON, DEC. 29.—The Hero, Harrison. in enter. ing the harbour yesterday, struck the Auser Bank, and beat up behind the rocks. LIVBRPOOL, DEL 30.—The Swan, from Glasgow, is on shore near the Rock Light-house. DaAL, DEC. 30.—The Nortk Briton, Fyall, from Leith to Sydney, New South Wales, got on shore on the Goodwin Sands yesterday, but was assisted off and into the Downs, with rudder damaged, and loss of anchor and cable. DOVER, DEC. 30.—The Norman, from Quebec to Swan sea, was burnt at sea on the Bth inst. in lat. 44, lon. 42. Crew saved by the Tasso, Christie, arrived off here. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY. HIJNGERFORD MARKET. This market was tolerably well attended, and there was a moderate amount of business doing. Turbot 6s. to 21s. ; Cod 3s. to 12s. ; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. ; Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; and Salmon, 3s. 6d. per lb. Butcher's meat in tolerable demand, and prices steady ; Beef, 7d. to 8d ; Mutton 7p. to afd.; Veal Bd. to 9d. ; Pork 7d to ad. per lb. In vegetables no variation in prices. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were to a fair extent, and the demand was good; prices stationary. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to ; Oysters lie. to 48s. per bushel; Salmon, 3s. per lb. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters, Bd. to 3s. 6d. ; Sprats, ss. per bushel ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, Id. to Is. 6d. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were generally extensive, particularly of Hay and Clover, and there was also a revival in the demand. Prices remain much as before. Hay, 50s. to 88s. ; Clover, 85s. to 115 s. ; Straw, 30s. to 40s. per load. TEA MARKET. The trade are anxiously looking for further news from China, and no impulse can be given to business until such arrives. Prices remain the same as they. were before Christmas. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVA O'CLOCK. LIVFNPOOL, COTTON MARKET, MONDAV.—The sales amount to 3,000 bags, without change in prices, and wholly to the trade. Extract of a letter from New York of the sth of December :—" Our town was in an agitated state du ring the whole of yesterday, expecting the President's Message, as well as the Liverpool steamer, neither one or the other made their appearance ; in consequence of these disappointments, the criers of the news in the streets made their appearance with papers, containing the President's Message of last year, of which they sold a great number before the deception was found out. The news expected by the Liverpool, the organization of the Chamber of Repre sentatives at Washington, and the nomination of the President at Harrishourg, greatly excites the people. In respect to the question of the Presidency, it is the opinion that General Scott will be appointed. • " Another explosion of a steamer has taken place. The Wilmington just haviug left New Orleans for St. Louis, her boiler burst, and the explosion was dreadful. It is stated that 20 were killed and wounded. " At Mobile there has been another fire. Accounts of the 21st of November state that on that morning ten houses were consumed by the flames, as well as a number of wooden ones." We still continue without any arrivals from New York of a later date than that received at Havre of the .sth December, to the great disappointment of the mer chants. %% e are in hopes, as the wind has changed, it will not be long before we have several arrivals from the United States, as well as the President's message to Congress. We have very few arrivals this morning, and the Lis bon mail, due on Monday, has not yet arrived. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the closing price of yesterday, 92} -1 , for the Account ; Reduced, 90k 91; Exchequer Bills, 2 dis., par ; Bank Stock, 177 178 ; In dia Stock, 253 255._ In the Foreign Market it is settling day. Brokers and jobbers are chiefly occupied in paying and recei ving the different balances. Spanish Active, left off 24/1 i, has receded to 241 i ; Portuguese left off 33i 34, opened at the same ; Colombian as they closed, 231 241; Mexican, 254 29 ; Dutch Two•and-a- Half per Cents., 531 ; Five per Cents., 981 i. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company ...... .. 40 5 34% United Mexican (issued at 21. pan.) ... 4O 2Ni Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 90 455; Great Western Railway Company 65 59 Diito New bbares ... ., 9O 16k London and Elackwall Railway London and South Western N wth Midland Railway Company 95 .Ditto NilW .. Id 12Vo. HALF-PAST ONE. The Lisbon mail has arrived, with an overland ex press from India, bringing the remainder of the letters left behind by the last express, consequently they are not of a later date. The Braganza steamer, which has brought the Lisbon mail, brings accounts from the above capital to the 25th December. The Braganza sailed from Lisbon the 24th November, and brings letters from Alexandria of the 25th November, Corfu the Bth December, Malta the Ist, Cadiz the 22d, and Vigo the 26th. The papers by the express from India has just been received, but they are of old dates. Scarce any business has been doing in the British Market during the morning, and in the Foreign the settling of the Account is going off well. Money in the House is at any easy rate. Up to the present hour we have no tidings of any of the New York packet ships having arrived, but the wind at present being fair they may be hourly expected. Consols are the same us at the opening price, 9214 for the Account ; Reduced 90-1 91 ; Exchequer Bills 2 discount, par ; Bank Stock 178 ; India Bonds, 8 discount. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather better thanlin the niorning,at 24k. ; Portuguese 3314 ; Colon,- bian 244 ; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 53i ; Five per Cents., 98i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 178 India Stack 3 per Cent. Red .. ;1 per Cent Ceus. — Ditto Old Annuitie , 3 , .4 per Cent, Red 9:l ;Ditto New Annuities New 11y4 per Cent 100% 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 9 d 2 dis. New 5 per Cent , Ditto 500/ 2 dis. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/..... Jan. 186 , ) Oct. 1859 . .. „ 6 Jan 1860 Consols for Opg FOREIGN FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. 1 Ditto, New Ditto q 3 % Prussian, 5 per cent, Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds — ... . B 6 Buenos Ayres, per cent — Illussianßonds, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colomb.an, 6 per cent.... ..... `. ) 1% Spanish, 5 per cent 2 l'A Ditto, 1824 24 I Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. llll. 50c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct. Exchange —f. —c Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, (i por cent.. 1825. Dutch, 2% per cent. 5 3% Peruvian, 1525,6 per cent...... Ditto, 5 per cent. ... l/8% SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (ircat Western Railway 'Sy Ditto New Shares London and Brighton Railway 1654 . ... .. .. ..._ London and MaCl:wall Railway London and Birmingham Railway l 4•? ,:: _ London and South Western R 41 ailway % Manchester and Birmingham Kailwaay North Midland Railway ........ ..... SO% Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover O% PRIZE FIGHTS PREVENTED.--11l conse quence of information received by Mr. Goodyer, Chief Constable of the county, that three prize fights were (in sporting phrase) "to come off" in a field near the Red Cow, Hinckley-road, Mr. G., accompanied by a party of police, repaired to the spot. There were there assembled about three hundred persons. On the ap pearance of the force, just now so novel to county de linquents, the prize fighters, with their numerous backers, ran off in all directions. A part of them went to Ratby, where the interference of the police Trre vented a renewal of the entertainment. One of the gentlemen of the " fancy" was taken into custody, and will be brought up for examination to-day at the County office.—Leicester Chronicle. A PARIS PICKPOCKET'S FIT.—On Christmas Day, the divine service in the church of St. Merry was suddenly interrupted by one of the congregation, who pretended to be in a fit. The congregation rose from their seats to render him assistance, and he was con veyed to a neighbouring house. The sensation created by this event had hardly ceased, when a great number of persons perceived that they had been robbed of watches, purses, snuff-boxes, &c. A commissary of police who had been sent for visited the man who had been in the pretended fit, and a physician declared that he was in the most perfect health. He was recognised by a police agent as one of the most notorious pickpockets in Paris, and was taken to prison, where he was joined in the evening by several accomplices who had been arrested with the stolen property still upon them.—Paris Paper. FESTIVITIES AT CASSlOBURY.—Cassiobury, the ancient seat of the Essex Earldom, in the county of Hertford, has been this week the scene of Eglintonian gaiety. The weather has been all propitious 4 although we must add, that the amusements were chiefly indoors, and the whole arrangements such as defied the power of Murphy and his satellites. A host of Nobility have been the guests of the liberal Earl of Essex during the last fortnight, and we are told that covers have been laid for sixty during the whole of that period. But the grand night was on Thursday, when the effect produced by the pieces du theatre, and the tableaux was strikingly interesting. A grand ball and supper succeeded, to which, as we have said above, the whole county were invited; and the scene now was literally as splendid as youth, beauty, wealth, gaiety, good taste, and grace could render it. i PRACTICAL REFUTATION OF i CORN - LAW FALACIES. The stupid fallacies invented by the friends of mono poly to delude the working classes, receive a practical and unanswerable refutation by the existing state of things. One of these fallacies was, that dear bread caused high wages. Of the folly of this assertion the working men are now too well convinced ; for not a man of them is receiving a penny more of wages in consequence of the dearness of bread, whilst great numbers are altogether out of emp'oy ment owing to the bad state of trade produced in a considerable measure by the Corn-law. Another fallacy was, that the farmers, if they got more for their corn, could buy more manufactured goods--so that it was the interest of the manufacturer to pay a high price fibr his corn. To this there is a three-fold answer— first, that the extra price for corn goes not to the farmer, but in general, and always in the long run, to the landlord ; second, that the farmer is a desperately bad customer if the manufacturer has to furnish him with the means of buying his own goods ; and third, that even if the farmer should be able to buy more ma nufactured goods from a high price of corn all other classes are able to buy less ; and it happens that the other classes cesiderably outnumber the farmers. S . o that this is wretched arith met i c, an d wretched special pleading. Another fallacy, evincing the most amazing ignorance consisted in the assertion that England could do very well without her foreign trade, and that that trade was rather a loss than a gain ! The manufacturers and their workmen are now smarting under the bitter practical disproof of this preposter ous error. The mere suspension of demand from one ,a the nations among our many foreign cus tomeWhas thrown thousands of workmen out of bread. What, then, would be the ruin and desolation that would follow the loss of our entire export trade, amounting to Fifty Millions sterling a-year ! Another fallacy was, that England could not compete in manufacturing with those countries where labour was so much cheaper, and she might as well, therefore, give up the attempt at once. The wiseacres who are of this opinion would of course ad vise our manufacturer and workmen who produce the fifty millions of goods which we export, to lie down and die. For our parts, we should like at least to give the poor fellows one chance for their lives, and that would be by giving them access to cheaper food, and EQUAL ISING the price of food to them and to their foreign competitors. if the alleged inability to compete with foreigners really exist, it is owing to that very system of restrictive Corn-laws which the fallacy-mongers up hold."—Leeds Mercury. SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY. MADELL V. GRANT. The plaintiff in this case was J. Madell, a dealer in precious metals, residing at 48, Sutton -street, St. John street-road, Clerkenwell, and the defendant was Win. Grant, a watchmaker residing at Gosport, Portsea. The action was brought to recover the sum of 6!. 55., a balance of account on a transaction alleged to have taken place on the 29th July last. The defence was that no such transaction had taken place. Mr. BATLEY stated the case for the plaintiff, and called Robert Clare, who stated he was a commission agent, and travelled for the plaintiff—he called at the defend ant's house, in Gosport, on the 29th of July, and sold him two gold watches for ten guineas, and two d"zen metal keys for five shillings, in return for which he took old gold to the value of 4/. l Os., and leaving a balance of 6!. .ss. due to the plaintiff, as whose agent witness was acting, and who was present during part of the transaction. On his cross-examination he said he had likewise sold two gold watches and two dozen metal keys to the defendant on the 2d of July, but that was a previous transaction, and had been settled ; the amount also was different. A letter had been written by the plaintiff to the defendant, relating to the first transaction, but wit ness had told defendant that it was a mistake. Could not recollect the exact day, but it was the twenty something. Could not recollect the time of day, nor whether it was wet or dry, nor could he tell the name of persons who had been called in to value the gold. On both occasions he had gone to Gosport from Godalming. The Attorney for the defendant denied that any transaction had taken place between the parties, except the one on the 2d of July, which had been settled. A letter was here put in from the plaintiff to the defend ant, demanding a balance of 4/. Bs. 2d. on the transaction, of the 2d July—and when the defendant wrote request ing an explanation the answer was the writ in the pre sent action, claiming a sum of 121., which was a larger sum than could be claimed, even if the defendant had given no gold on account. He then called John Perry Grant, the defendant's son, who managed the business for his father, was never absent from home during the month of July. Was in the shop constantly during the hours of business ; recollects the transaction of the 2d July ; recollects the 29th of July ; it was on a Monday ; was never absent from the shop the whole day. Clare never was there during the day. Could not have been there without witness knowing of it. No watches were purchased of him or of the plaintiff except on the 2d of July. The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 6/..h5., the amount claimed. The verdict appeared to excite some surprise among ,he persons present in Court. A CHRISTMAS DAINTY.—We have lately put ou record several curiosities of the season, for the infor mation and amusement of our readers, and we have bad the opportunity of witnessing another, which we deem equally worthy of notice. It is a Christmas pie,. in tended to grace the table at the Anniversary of the Commercial Travelle-s' Society, to be held on the 28th inst., at the London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill. Its circumference is six feet and four inches. It is eleven inches deep, and weighs five stone and five pounds. It contains in its capacious interior two geese, two turkeys, four fowls, a brace of pheasants and also of grouse, two hares, two rabbi ts,three tongues, with the usual substratum of beef-steaks, &c. It is surmounted with a noble swan, and elegantly ornamented with trellis-work of pastry. This tit-bit is from the cuisine of Mr. Holmes, of the King's Arms Inn of this town, and, we have no doubt that it will prove worthy of the occasion, and add to his annually increasing reputation as one of the caterers for that interesting festival.—Kendal Illercuiy. TAPRAG OR RAGA LT ACT.—Mr. Jopling, the worthy steward of the Earl of Burlington's works in Kirkby Ireleth, has adopted the following plan to k•-cp the men from cock-fighting and drunkenness. Should a man lose one or more days in these sports, Mr. Jop ling obliges him to work as many days as he has lost, for which he receives no pay, but his earnings go to find hooks, pens, ink, and paper for a night school, which is open for young people gratis who wish to improve them selves. Those who resist this regulation are at liberty to leave Mr. Jopling's employ. It constitutes a part and parcel -of their agreement, and they cannot complain of being taken in. The men think it a great disgrace to come under the operation of the above law, and have named it the Tafrag or Ragalt Act.—Kencial dlielcury. Three thousand tickets for the Anti-Corn-law meeting, the Manchester Times states, have already been sold, and no more are to be issued till it can be ascertained what additional accommodation can be had by the erection of a gallery. Persons disappointed had better secure tickets for the second evening, the arrange ments for which are under the direction of the Manches ter Operative Anti-Corn-law Association, as many of the principal speakers at the first meeting will be pre sent at tho second. Twenty-one Members of Parlia ment have already accepted the invitation to the great Convention. SEIZURE OF SPHIrTs.--Wednesday last, in formation having been lodged with the Excise, that a spirit dealer in town, to the injury of his creditors, was sending off a quantity of spirits to various other spirit dealers, Messrs. Pearson, Headley, and Miller, of the Excise, immediately instituted a search, and recovered in one place 30 gallons, in another 26, in another 50, and in another 20, in all 126, which they seized and conveyed to the Excise store. The spirits were con cealed in back courts, in bed-rooms, dungsteads, &c. The penalty for receiving spirits without a permit is, by the Act, 2001., with forfeiture of spirits.—Paisley Ad vertiser. We know of but two or three clergymen who have advocated a repeal of the Corn-laws, considering themselves bound so to do as Christian Ministers. If the parsons will turn politicians, here is a legitimate subject for them, one on which they may preach hourly, and with great advantage to their flocks ; but we fear that the tithe-receivers will be in no haste to take up the cause of the bread-taxed millions. Let them re main silent on this all-important topic, while they agi tate for Protestant ascendancy, while they vociferate for the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act, and while they anathematize the promoters of national education, and the result may be, that the farmers and the manu facturers may come to an understanding on the question of the Corn-laws which will not exactly please the par sons, namely, to procure the abolition of tithes and Corn laws together, which would be by no means an inequi table adjustment. The question is, shall the people be starved or not i ) —Devonport Independent. EXEMPLARY HONESTY.—On Saturday even ing last, the wife of an industrious man, named Richard Price, of the Waen, Bettws, Montgomeryshire, who attends Shrewsbury market with fowls, &e., lost her purse, containing five sovereigns, two half sovereigns, and 14s. 6d. in silver, on Pride Hill, in Shrewsbury, and had the same proclaimed by the town crier, with the offer of half-a-Avereign reward for its restoration. Fortunately, the purse was picked up by a little boy, the son of Samuel Heighway, a shoemaker, living near St. Mary's Church, who with a feeling of honour and honesty that does him the highest credit, immediately on hearing that the loss of a purse had been proclaimed, went to the crier with the purse and its contents that his son bad picked up, and placed the same in the crier's hands to be restored to the rightful owner, VENING EDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—l regret to find that a charge characterised by so much mildness, and equally worthy of the humane man and upright Judge, as that of Lord Justice Tindal at Monmouth, should contain even one pas sage calling for reprehension. His Lordship's refe rence to the Newport riots, and the means of pre venting such outbreaks for the future, not only assigns a wrong cause and a fallacious remedy, but has a tendency to give the English public an erroneous view of the religious state of the Principality, and to induce them to conclude that there is really a necessity for what some papers represent as a panacea for all social evils—" MORE CHURCHES." NOVV, Sir, it IS a well-estab;ished fact that the people of Wales are eminently a religious people, and I will venture to add that even the districts recently disturbed, are better provided with the means of religious instruc tion than most of our English agricultural dis tricts. The same observation holds good with respect to other parts of Wales. It must be recollected, too, that we owe this not to Government patronage, not to Parliamentary aids, but to the voluntary system. There is scarcely an employer of large bodies of men in the Principality, who has been connected with the country any length of time who will not (be his politics or re ligion what they may) freely acknowledge that to the labours of these Dissenters during the past 70 years, they owe the rescue of the great body of the population from that half civilised state in which it had existed from the period of the Reformation. One remark as a proof that the religious state of \Vales is such as I have described it. In the country parts "to profess," i. e. to belong to some religious sect, is the rule : not to do this marks a man as something distinct from, and perhaps not so good as the generality. In this, as in some other respects, Wales and Scotland closely re semble each other. As to sound religious instruction— every Welsh congregation has annexed to it a Sunday school, in which not only children, but adults are fre quently found. Instruction is given in singing, a Cate chism, and, above all, in the Bible, accompanied by expositions. The carrying out of this instruction, the after-reading of the Welsh (and they are a reading people) is altogether religious, for more than nine tenths of the books in the language are religious works. Well who does not see that if the means of religious instruction are to prevent riots, the Mon mouthshire outbreak could never have taken place ? The great preventative against such occurrences—the great want of the Welsh, is not CHURCHES but SCHOOLS. Many a Welshman, who may be strongly impressed with the importance of religion and obe dience to its duties, may think that one of his reli gious duties is to uphold the Charter. It is evident then that to complete the instruction of the man something is wanted. What is it in this particular case ? It is evidently the secular not religious portion of instruction. The latter may safely be left tp those who nave so well cared for it in past periods. The religious spirit of the Principality will, as it has done, provide the means of spiritual instruction for its inhabitants. The population of Wales require not merely motives to good principles, but to be shown how those principles are to be put into operation so as to benefit themselves and their country—not only to be told to be good—but to have that good pointed out to them. The cry for " more churches"Ls, looking to the feelings of the Welsh with respect to the Establishment, absurd. More churches ! in a country where many of the present pa rish churches are very sparing,:y occupied, and where eight-tenths of the population are Dissenters! A more effective mode of rendering deeper still the irritation which is said to exist in some parts of the Principality could not be devised than that of erecting or aiding in any way the erection of churches. The English Church is as anti-national in Wales as it is in Ireland. And were it possible to raise churches so that a steeple-house should crown every hill and grace every valley of Wales—still this would be no provision for the religious wants of the Welsh, for they are a people whose very genius, like that of the Scotch, estranges them from its forms and ceremonies. Much misrepresen tation has gone abroad on the subject of Wales and Welsh Chartism. Let Governments beware of listen ing to such misrepresentations. Some of them have their origin in party spirit—others in the incapacity, from ignorance of the language, &c., of the country, of those who take upon themselves to speculate on the causes of its present disturbed state. Let the matter be well investigated, and these specu lators will be proved to be in error. I am, Sir, /our's, &c. AB GOMER. London, December 28, 1839. THE Coax-Laws.—Mr. Sidney Smith, the celebrated Anti• Cora-law lecturer, has visited Hudders field this week, for the purpose of delivering two lec tures on the Corn-laws. The first lecture was delivered on Thursday evening, in the Philosophical Hall, to a numerous audience. A GALLANT MASTER.—A respectable elderly farmer in the parish of Chirk, was recently fined in the sum of five shillings and expenses, for beating one of his female servants with a stick. It appears, that in consequence of the girl not going about some part of her duties with that alacrity her gallant master expectA she would, the ashen plant was called in and appliel to her shoulders, and the result was as given Above.— Caernarvon Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT.—As Captain Badeock, of the Adelaide, of Cork, lying at Pillgwenlly, was going on board on Monday evening last, the hatches being opal, he accidentally fell into the hold, received serious in juries, and, we regret to add, expired on the following d a y.—lferlin. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.--On Friday morning last, Wm. Mason, a coal miner, was shockingly injured by a fall of earth whilst at work in one of the pits of Jesse Ainsworth, Esq., Pitbank, Greenacres Moor. The poor man died whilst being conveyed to his home at Lower Moor. He was forty-four years of age, and was a widower, and has left four children. On Frid..y the Coroner's inquest was held at the Black Swan Inn. Greenacres Moor. Verdict—" Accidental death."— Aranchestcr Advertiser. RES tIitRECTIO NISTS.—A disgusting and rather novel scene took place at Aveton Gifford on Tuesday last. It appears that about two years ago a poor man, named Wilkie, was buried at Aveton Gifford. Not many days afterwards some relative of the old man ob served a very considerable shrinking of the grave, which was pointed out to others, and a stor' becoming very prevalent in the village that poor old John Wil kie's body had been snatched, the friends insisted upon having the grave opened. Tke sexton attended ac cordingly and when they got down as far as the lid of the coffin, the old man's friends had no wi•ii to have the coffin opened as they were satisfied all was right; and nothing more was said about poor old Joint Wilkie until Wednesday last, the 18th inst. On the evening of that day eighteen jolly fellows met at the Royal Victoria Inn, in the village, to give the little land lord the benefit of an opening supper. After supper, when the grog was flowing freely around, the party amused themselves by passing their joker very freely on a young man called Macey (a ma son by trade, and who worships at the shrine of Bacchus seven days out of the week). Macey threat ened some of them with a split if they did not desist. He was told by the party to say his worst, if be knew any thing. Consequently he charged three men of the party with being body snatchers, whose names are Saunders, Frost and Ruth, also that Jordan (the cele brated wrestler) came from Plymouth after the body and that he, Macey, held the horse, and had one shilling for his trouble, while the others procured the body ; and he believed it to be the body of poor old John Wilkie. This was too good a story to be let drop by the village gossipers ; and in a day or two the story began to be generally believed, and to wear a serious aspect. A respectable party waited on the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, the Vicar, who gave orders that the grave should be opened, to see if poor old John was there or not. In the mean time, the Rev. Gentleman's domes tics had orders to hold no communication with Frost, who is the Rev. Gentleman's gardener ; another gentle man had written to Saunders (who is a carpev ter) requesting he would clear up his character before be came to his house to work again. Ruth, who is the sexton, was threatened with excommunication if this story proved to be true. Tuesday last was the day appointed for opening the grave. The Vicar appointed four respectable farmers to attend on whose veracity he could depend ; and at twelve o'clock, the time app' pointed, all the rag-tag and bob-tail of the village bad asrcmbled in the yard to await the result. Such was the crowding round the grave that the men had great difficulty in throwing out the earth. The lid of the coffin was at length opened, and there lay poor old John Wilkie as straight as they had put him in. The abuse that ensued--the crimination and recrimination of the accused and the accusers—baffies all description. , The sequel of the story turns out to be, that the men are smugglers—that on the night in question Jor:faa came to Aveton Gifford after a couple of tubs. Macey was very inquisitive, and wanted to know what it was in the sack—and, merely to put him on a wrong scent,they told bins it was a dead body. Macey believed it, and kept it a secret until Wednesday last, when he split ao stated.-11restern Times. EXTRAORDINARY TEMPERATURE.--It ap• pears by some meteorological tables, which have been published, that the 24th of December, of the present 3 ear, was only ten degrees colder than the 24th of June. The thermometer out of doors remained at 50, the day preceding Christmas.dly. The heavy rains have apain produced floods, as high as they were in November. The galesof wind on Monday and Tuesday were severely felt on all our coasts, and several wrecks have taken place at Harwich and Dartmouth. On Saturday a sharp frost set in, and there is now a prospect of some real winter weather. We regret to hear that typhus fever is very pre valent in the neighbourhood of West-bridge and Wharf s t , eet. The miserable state of the weather acting upon the system of the numerous poor located in these quar ters, coupled with their distress, has. no doubt, supc:. induced the complaint.—Leicester Chronicle