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the witness presented M. Persin with eighteen of I,ooof. each, M. Gisqnet affirmed that M. Persin did no more .11;il s'avv; him tte door of his cabinet. . M, Sevier, in answer to a question from M. Mauguin, stated that it was M. Persin who introduced him to Madame Pradel. - M. Ghsquet denied that he bad had any acquaintance with M. Persin. He begged leave again to explain his conduct in the affair of Messrs. Mnreau and Feuillant. An omnibus line (the Algeriennes) bad been established between Bercy and Neuilly for six sous. This was against the law, and it st as his duty to suppress the line, which step was ultimately taken by the Court of Cassation. Upon this the Mayor, the Municipal Council, and the Officers of the Municipal Guard of Neuilly, strongly represented to him the necessity of a rapid communication between Neuilly and Paris. A similar representation was made from Bercy. The plaintiffhere made a pause, and then observedthat he was endeavouring to refresh bis memory on the case—" The entire of which," he added, "is deplorable ; and, had my adversaries acted with good faith, I should not have been obliged to reply to all these unex pected questions. Had my adversaries any feeling of shame, this trial would never have taken place." The President here recommended moderation to the plaintiff especially as the defendant was compelled to comply with a si milar recommendation. The Advocate-General here dwelt upon the 25 shares ac cepted at par by M. Nay. M. Gisquet repeated that he knew nothing on that paint, and that his son-in-law was the best judge of the step which he ought to take with regard to the 25 shares and the profit he bad made on them without his knowledge. The sitting was here suspended for about half an hour, at the expiration of which M. Parquin rose to address the Court on behalf of the plaintiff, and stated that, instead of having been guilty of fraud and corruption—instead of having parried the conse quences of a dissolute career by infamous expedients, his client, daring his administration of the police for the space of five years, could be taxed with no other crime than that of having established baths on the river, and conceded or mo dified some omnibus lines in favour of young and enterprising speculators. He censured with great indignation the avidity with which the Press had prejudged thecase now pending, and had heaped outrage and insult on the public functionary, who, at all events, had made no attempt to hush up the proceed ings. He (the Learned Counsel) would now re-establish the facts of the case as they really existed, and for that purpose he would explain the origin of the connection which had been formed between his client and M. Foucaud. His client was in London in 1831, and, being at the same hotel as M. and Madame Foucaud, an intimacy soon commenced between them. M. Gisquet bad come about a contract for muskets, and M. Foucaud about a contract for sword-blades. M. Foucaud, knowing that M. Gisquet enjoyed the confidence of M. Casimir Perier, applied to him to present a demand to the Minister of War for an army contract in his (M. Foucaud's) favour, and M. Gisquet complied with his request, and subsequently receivel a letter of thanks from M. Foucaud on the subject. M. Gisquet, soon after his return to Paris, was named Prefect of Police through the influence of M. Casimir Perier. The Learned Counsel here entered into some particulars relative to the grant of the omnibus line in which Nlme. de Nirul had an interest. He maintained that the application for the grant had been carefully examined by the Prefect, and that Mme. de Nieul had nothing to do with its success. That lady, he said, had been exposed to all the chances of the undertaking, and in the event of its failure, her share of the funds would have been furnished. With regard to the omnibus line, of which M. Feuillant was the manager, it was that gentleman who had proposed shares to M. Nay, who, being an utter stranger to their value on the Stock Exchange, was not aware that in taking them at par, and paying 25,000 f. for them, he was in reality making a profit of 32,000 f. The Learned Counsel then took a summary view of all the operations which his client was accused of having unfairly turned to account in favour of himself or of his friends and relatives. He ad mitted that the warm bath on the Seine bad been a present made to Foucaud, Cofiinn, and Viel ; but a Prefect of Police had surely the right of so doing. He defended his client for the grant of the Hirondelles in favour of Nabon, Grasse], and C. Gisquet, and contended that it was a person unknown to the plaintiff, M. A. Blanc, who had the largest part of the profits resulting from it. It was a point to be remarked that his administration as Prefect of Police had lasted five years, whereas the facts laid to his charge took place all within the space of four or five months. If the Messager had contented itself with saying that the plaintiff had misplaced his patronage, that would have been within the limits of fair controversy, but to accuse him of underhand dealing, of cor ruption, and exaction, was what could not be permitted. In conclusion, he dwelt strongly upon the necessity of punishing the libellous allegations of the press, and restraining it within the limits which a sense of decency and a respect for the laws should invariably suggest. M. Mauguin having risen to present some observations on behalf of the defendant, The President said that it was now for the Advocate-Gene ral to address the Court. M. Plougoulm, however, resigned his right in favour of the defendant's Counsel, and the sitting was adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow morning. FIFTH DAY. The Court was, if possible, more crowded than on the pre ceding sittings. The President stated that the Counsel for the defendant was invited to make known anything else that he had to urge against the plaintiff. M. Illauguin said that a number of new facts had been brought to light in the course of the proceedings, and that he intended to demand a new examination. He wished to state a fact relative to the affair of the warm baths. M. Vigier, who already had an establishment of baths on the Seine, and whose lease expired in 1832, had at that period demanded a renewal of his lease, but he had obtained it only at the expiration of three years, whereas the concession had been made to Messrs. Vied and Coffinn in a few days. On the part of the river allotied to these new baths there had been boats and other establishments for the working classes, for the suppression of which many ineffectual attempts had been made under the restoration. M. Gisquet bad come to a decision for forcibly expelling these boats, but not, it would appear, through a regard for the interests of the river navi gation ; for, in a few days afterward, he permitted Messrs. Viel and Coffinn to 'establish warm baths on the same spat. The Court might enlighten itself on this point by applying at the Prefecture for the decrees issued by M. Gisquet for the suppression of the boats, and the establishment of the warm baths in their place. M. Gispiet declared his readiness to give all the informa tion thal might be required on this point. The Advocate-General—Do you contest the fact, M. Gisquet 7 M. Gisquet-" Yes, and no. A laugh.) He proceeded to state that he admitted that the wood-merchants' boats had been suppressed, but solely in the public interest, and to clear the bed of the river, which in this part was choked with a quantity of mud. M. Mauguin said that as the fact was not 'denied by M. Gisquet be had no wish to urge the Court to take information on the 'subject. The Learned Counsel then addressed the Court on behalf of the defendant. If everybody thought what the Messager had published was true, his client was in that case entitled to a verdict of acquittal. The Learned Counsel here entered into the facts of the case, and laboured to establish from the evidence the participation of M. Gisquet in the different rpeculatione which gave rise to the charge of cor rupt and fraudulent dealing against him. In the affair of the Parisiennes he observed that the demand for the con • cession of the line was addressed to the Prefect on the 2d of May by Messrs. Foucaud and Hediard, and granted on the 6th of the same month. Messrs. Moreau and Feu llant, the directors of another line, injured by the competition, offsred a compromise, and purchased the concession for 200,000 f. The line bad been conceded to Messrs. Foucaud and Hediard on condition of their giving en interest in the concern to M. Nay and Madame de Nieul. Thus the parties interested in the concern were M. Foucaud, the friend of M. Gisquet, M. Hediard, the private secretary of M. Gisquet, M. Nay, the son-in-law of M. Gisquet, and Madame de Nieul, a lady whom it was not yet time to characterize (sensation). Madame de Nieul had (sync her share, not of the expenses, but of the profits. She had received twenty-five shares. worth 50,000 francs. Including the affair of the numbers, he said, that the presents made by the ex- Prefect of Police to his friends amounted to 735,000 francs; and for whose benefit were these sums ? For the bent fit of his family, of M. C. Gisquet, his brother ; of M. Nay, his son-in-law, who was already indebted to him for a receiver generalship, and of Madame de Pradel and her daughter, Madame de Nieul, the shame less harlot. under the protection of M. Gisquet.—( Sensation. ) The Learned Counsel argued that the largeeses of M. Gisquet were at the expense of the municipality, as the profits of the grants and concessions ought to have gone to the city and A nd not to his friends and mistresses. His well-known pe cuniary resources at the moment of his appointment as prefect of police, he contended, were insufficient to cover the adven turous risks to which he was exposed, and the' enormous ex penses which he incurred. He supplicated the jury to pro ticunce a verdict of acquittal, as a contrary verdict would be tantamount to a guarantee of impunity for future misdeeds. The Learned Counsel here resumed his seat. M. Gisquet rose and demanded permission of the Court to reply to the counsel for the ellessayee:—" Gentlemen of the jury," said M. Gisquet, " I do not pretend to be a pleader. I have been outraged; there has bsen just poured ton me the gall and the poison which had before been dis tilled from the pen of the Messager. The President—l must stop you, Sir; I will not allow you insult M. Mauguin. M. Guisquet—l shall not have recour-e to personalities. The organ of my adversaries has addressed to me the most outrageous observations. I could myself unveil tales of the domestic hearth. M. Maugnin=lf M. Gisquet wishes to allude to anything which concerns me personally, I declare that I will hold him harmless, and give him free permission to say what he chooses. M. Guisquet--I make no particular allusions, my observa tions are meant as general. The President--No one of the parties in this place has the r'ght to touch on the private life of any one . Af er a pause of some seconds, M. G u i squet resume d big discourse. He said that M. Mauguin had vilified him in his pleadings. He had been the partner of Casimir Prier; ho had then a house of business with a capital of 1,100,000 f. On the Ist of August, 1830, he was named member of the Council-General. He had already before the revolution been a member of the Tribunal of Commerce. In 1830 his fortune was the same as it is at this time. He denied that be bad been guilty of a falsehood in asserting that be had lost 35,000 f. by the musket contract; and be added that the profits realised by him in England had been derived from a private speculation in muskets, into which he bad entered in that country. After reminding the jury of him services in public life, M. Gisquet cKifi ti-,;• in priv:.te life, been poisoned, au,i the confidence rep6A! , :l :a depositary had been speculated upon. He had descended to entreaty to avoid legal proceedings, the scandal of, which would not fall upon himself—he bad proposed to his adversaries to submit his conduct to a tribunal composed of the friends of the National and the Courrier Francais, and M. Mauguin himself; but this proposal bad been rejected. He contended for the propriety and public utility of the con cessions which he had granted, and if they could be justly interpreted as acts of corruption, he was totally ignorant of the meaning of the word. The Advocate-General, on the question of public uti lity, wished to know the nature of the s?rvices rendered to the public by M. Foucaud and Madame de Nieul and her mother. He thought it difficult to reconcile the grants made to these individuals with the idea of a strict and upright Ad miniitration. M. Gisquet replied that he had already explained with regard to the lines of the Sylphides and Parisiennes. As to his preference, he would, with the permission of the Court, be silent. M. Gisquet here sat down. M. Parquin replied on behalf of the plaintiff, and the Cow t adjourned at half-past five. SIXTH DAY. The proceedings commenced at half-past ten o'clock, with the reading of a letter by the President from the Mayor of Bercy, to rectify the assertion of one of the witnesses, who had stated that the four omnibus numbers bad been granted on the application of the authorities of Bercy; whereas, two of the latter had merely applied to the Prcfcet against the total suppression of the line of the Algeriennes from Bercy to Neuilly. M. Gisquet observed that the mistake must have arisen from the incorrect report of the proceedings of the Court in the journals. M. Foucaud, in boasting of his ability to give information on Spanish affairs, could have had no other mo tive than to corrupt the persons employed in the Prefecture, as he (M. Gisquet) had never disclosed the secrets of State eitberto M. Hediard or:M. Foucaud, or to any other individual. If he had wished to profit in a pecuniary point of view by his functions, he might have made money on a variety of privi. leges, as every thing might have been sold, even to the most petty places and concessions, without excepting even the ad- mission tickets to the Court of Assizes. The President presumed that M. Gisquet spoke figuratively as, if an admission ticket to that Court had been sold, he would have expelled the party engaged in such a traffic. The Advocate General then addressed the Court amidst the deepest silence. He commenced by noticing the gravity of the case now submitted to the Jury, who, he was convinced, would be guided in their verdict by the same scrupulous regard for truth and justice with which he himself was actuated in summing up the facts of the case. He would lay down certain principles which formed the basis of his arguments. The law had expressly stipulated that public functionaries should not be inviolable; for, as Benjamin Constant had justly observed, the functionary who was inviolable by the law was dishonoured. The grand question was, not whether ,the grants made by M. Gisquet were useful or legal, but whether they had been granted on those moral grounds on which all the acts of an upright and impartial administrator should be founded. This point he would now proceed to examine. M. Gisquet bad been appointed to the eminent functions of Prefect of Police; and he would ask if he had been a faithful observer of his public duties? Were he to interrogate his conscience on this point, what would be the answer of that inward monitor ? The Learned Gentleman then pronounced a severe censure on the rapacity of the witnesses compromised in the case, especially Messrs. Hediard, Aragon, and Foucaud, the latter of whom had extorted 150,000 f. from M. Gi- rivet. What had been the services rendered by M. Foucaud for this sum, which had assuredly not been lavished in the interest of the public ? The r ature ef those services remained a I rofound mys tery, the elucidation of which, however, the public had a right to expect. A new undertaking had afterwards been set on foot, and a disgraceful attempt had been made to terrify a commer cial company with the threat of a competition, which there was no intention of following up. The consequence was, that the company decided upon purchasing the credit of M. Foucaud with the Prefect for the sum of 40,000 f., making nearly 200,000 f. which that gentleman had pocketed. This man—this Foucaud—was now dragged into Court and com pelled to drink of the poisoned cup which he had presented to another. He would even add that one of M. Gisqieet's greatest misfortunes was to be obliged to appear in Court side by side with such a man. The Advocate- General then dwelt in strong terms on the immorality of M. Gisquet in promoting an association between his mistress, Madame de Nieul, and his own son-in-law, and stigma tised his indelicacy and total want of proper feeling in bar gaining with a mother ( Madame Pradel) for a daughter's in famy. He then, after a short suspension of the siting, entered into an examination of the incriminated article of the Messager. He said that, according to the strict terms of the law, the responsible Editor of that Journal ought to be condemned, as, in the strict sense of the phrase, M. Guisquet bad not been guilty of peculation; but he contended that the inaccuracy of the term made use of found its excuse in the gravity of the facts stated in evidence, and, consequently, that no culpa bility in reality existed on the part of the Messager, which bad, on the contrary, rendered a service to the came of public morals. Defamation, however, existed in the portion of the article of the Messager relative to M. Gisquet's private life. The Jury, lie said, were called upon to examine not the truth of the statement as to the alleged immorality of the Prefect's private life, but whether the Massager had been guilty of de famation. To tax a man with indelicacy and immorality was to give scope to the hatred and the vengeance which the Legislature had expressly wished to prevent. Consequently, defamation. was expressly forbidden by law. The public ser vices rendered by M. Gisquet in 1834 had not been forgotten, and he trusted that the assurance that he had not been guilty of peculation would be some consolation to him—some allevia tion of the bitterness of the lesson which he now received. If the Jury faithfully fulfilled the important mission entrusted to them—and be bad no doubt that such would be the case—a great moral lesson would result from the present trial; and it would be recognised that the press, in spite of some excesses, had honourably discharged its sacred mission, and had given proof, if he might use such an expression, of the utility of scandal. M. Gisquet declared that the Advocate-General deceived himself in supposing that be, as Prefect, had given money to the men by whom he was surrounded. " I have not given money," be added, " I never exacted conditions—l never bad any participation. If you would hear Messrs. Blanc and Nabon"— A Jura man—We are convinced.—( Movement. ) M. Gisquet proceeded to repeat the observations which he had already made during the course of the trial as to the right which he derived from his situation of Prefect of Po lice of conceding the lines to omnibuses. He inveighed against the reproaches which had been addressed to him by the Advocate- General, which would have such a painful effect on the future life of his children and his family. He spoke not for himself; the remainder of his life, he added, was embittered. His acts, be continued, were free from any exaction ; the fortune which he now possessed be had enjoyed in 1830, and that fortune would hardly suffice for the wants of his family. " Wheel" exclaimed M. Gisquet, "could I become an extortioner, a peculator—could 1 commit crimes which are punishable with the pinery ? No, Gentlemen ; you have seen my actions, and you will render me decide d satis faction. Observe v. hat an enormous difference there r xists between my position. and that of the Messager. What risk does that journal run? • To what is it exposed ? To a fine-- to a year's imprisonment, which its responsible editor will go and spend in in a 'liaison de sante, as was done in my time. For me, Gentlemen, what have lat stake ? It is my honour, my whole life, my children's bread ! Everythin g ; neighs on me, Gentlemen ; at this very moment, perhaps, it 13 in contem plation to erase my name from the list of Councillors of State. I value that honourable title, which was given tie by my friend Casimir Perier. This, Gentlemen, is my stake, welt I shall lose all—all in this fatal trial." M. Gisquet here sat down strongly agitated. M. i%lauguin rose and said that his client hod intr alum' no hatred in the whole affair, and the opinion of the public was not courted by him. The Massager belonged to M. Walew ski, a man of honour, and possessing an independent f.trt tine. M. Brineleau, the responsible editor, held an opinion which had never been hostile to that of M. Gisquet. M. Brindcau, the defendant, wished to say a few words in explanation of the motives which had actuated the pasties connected with that journal in regard to the incriminated article. The directors and editor of the Messager, he stated, were totally unconnected with M. Gisquet, and had, there fore, been influenced by no feelings of hatred cr yeagt ance in their publication of the inculpated article. Supported by the documents with which they had been furnished, they had pro ceeded on public grounds, at the risk of their interests and the peril of their personal liberty, and they now awaited the ver dict of the Jury, in the full confidence of its justice. The President then charged the Jury, minutely summing up all the evidence with great ability and impartiality, and ex pressing his conviction that the attention which they had paid to the painful case submitted for their consideration would en able them, on retiring to their private room, to supply any omission with which he might be chargeable. He felt con fident that they entertained a just sense of the importance of the task confided to them. They were called upon to decide whether an old friend and associate of Casimir Perier, a man formerly entrusted with elevated public functions, heel been guilty of a series of acts which rendered him a fit object of public malediction—whether such a man had disposed of the prorerty which of right belonged to the State, in favour of his friends, his creatures, and his mistress. They sat there to pro nounce whether the press had published its disclosures With a view to gratify the public appetite for scandal and to serve paltry personal interests ; or whether it bad conscientiously , discharged a public duty by unmasking a corrupt and unworthy functionary, and holding him up to public reprobation. Never had the verdict of a Jury been looked forward to with more confidence and more respect. The President then formally addressed the two following questions to the Jury : —Has the defendant, Achille Brindeau, in the number of the Massager for the 12th of September last, been guilty, lit, of the offence of defamation against a public functionary? 2dly, of the offence of defamation against a private individual, by imputing to him acts of immorality of a nature to affect his consideration and honour? The President, at the same time, reminded the Jury that in the case nof nffeces committed by th e P res s the ex i s tence of extenuating circumstances was not recOgnised. The Jary retired at six o'clock precisely to deliberate on their verdict, and returned into Court at half-past seven. At that hour both Messrs. Gisquet and Nay were absent. The Foreman of the Jury returned a verdict declaring the respon sible editor of the Messager guilty of defamation against a public functionary, and not guilty of defamation with regard to his private life. Much surprise seemed to be excited in Court by the verdict. M. Cappin, in answer to the usual question from the Presi- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1839. dent, having declared that the defendant's Counsel had no ob. v.ilhJrcnv in;o 1.1;r: rate on the penalty, and, at the expiration of abut five mi. nutes, pronounced its deciion, condemning the responsible editor of the Messager to a fine of 1001., the minimum of the penalty, and ordering the seizure of the number of that jour nal for the 12th of September last, and also the insertion of the judgment in the Messager. The Court then broke up at a quarter to eight o'clock, amidst considerable agitation. . . No. ll.—lneome and Charge of the Consolidated Quarters ended Jan. 5. ---- INCOME. t MS 1 183:t .• Customs.—Consolidated Duties 3,69,70J 3,750,0',2 Permanent Debt ... ‘ Sugar applicable to the Terminable Annuities Consolidated Fund , Interest on Exchequer Bills ---- t Sinking Fund . Total Customs 3, 2,1,709 3,750, 32 'Die Civil List Excise Stamps 1,514,1t,0 1,,521,1 - .3 tary Revenues of the C Taxes Post Office Crown Lands 40,141 i Miscellaneous 273,2.4 35-1,—.... 873 1 ~99 ~ fISS 11,267,213 1 To Cash brought to this Account to i The Amount of Exchequer replace the like sum issued, or to 1 off out of the growing I be issued, out of the Consolidated ; The Amount issued in the Fund in Ireland, for supply and - ! for Supply Services other Services 'und, in tl 1,143;205 11,2 ,7,213 TT: , r A , T - t A ~ • pi! I.—An Abitract of the Net Produce of the Lilt: icaib e.nd 1635, a Decrease on each head thereof. 1 ~2 .1. pia of iallurtry, 1835), shewitl i g the ih,,,,ase or _ . . QUARTERS ENDED § I Y EAR I li ~.. QUARTERS ENDED ended di . April 5, 1 July 5, ; Oct. 10, Jan. 5, ~ Jan 5, , April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, \ J a. n iE l .e (ll, I Year ended Jan. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 5. ~..........._....-,„„.. ...„: 18:37. 1837 1837 1833 1 1833 1833 1833 IK3 1839 1133.i 1 "---.......-----..-.-..........-, Increase. I Decrease. 1 Increase. Decrease. . Customs.-Cons lidated Duties..... 2,211,023 3,121,121 3,931,182 3,1K9,703 - 3,15'; 07 3,453,P52 1 1 ,1)9J, 050 0,7.0,132 3 - ' - Sugar Duty am:lit-Wile to Conso !I I' - i - lidated Final. . - - - 2:13,268 1,21 3 (43,,, - - 1 - " - - / - Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies ei6,166 - • 1,505,031 6f43,570 - ' (i 05,395 - 1,47,4,221 1,10;,155 ; - ~ - - -----r. 0 ---i Total Customs 4,436,51)5 4,430,3: 1 .5 5,136,116 4,521,.78 ; 18,82(1,291 1 4,061, 1 .70 4,760,400 An' ~ 271 4,834,'S A 19,154,' 29 ; , Total Custcqns 328,145 1 331 110 Excise 1,834,143 2,663,564 3,70. - ,,4fi7 3,59 ~c6l i 11,7 4,'139 I 1,705,55'3 ", ; 37,1 ; 2 . 4,093,' 59 3,627,.110 i 11,914,114 iil':.:cise 36,fit16 Stamps 1,619,462 1,647,939 1,6:2',.'52 1,544,4 4 '0 'I 6A3.,11 , 3 ' 1,64' 1 ,194 1, 1 1: 0 ,124 1,751,476 1,521, ii. 3 i 6,612, , :%7 i "Stamps- ... Taxes 191,219 1,609,409 :10',0'62 1,5'T,,028 3,677,718 130,5'76 1, 09,::03 1329,f 45 1,596,689 3,6.i4,318 I; T x aes 22,:;30 7,C 6 1 ... Post Office 367,000 35 11 ,737 4 ' f. 1,006 376,001 1,517,713 399,000 381,00 3 410,000 365,001 1,525,00.1 I' p ost _ ett i e ., 7 ,157 11 000 I Crown Lands 65,000 65, 1 '00 40,C014 I . - 170,000 ' C r o wn L an d s .... 170,150 40,000 , Miscellaneous 26,334 5,727 2,701 174 1 ,34 963 .5 841 . 1 1 - , 10,•;1•0 8,376 6,340 i 50,947 I; Miscellaneous.... 10,011 6,166 --- . Total Ordinary Revenue.. 8,153,953 10,712,561 11,492,634 11,813,711 I 5:'3 42,!?,'202 8,005,134 10,899,M4 12,126,127 1 ",000,73.4 i 43 , 4 ;3 2 ,535 I Imprest arid other Moneys, inclil- • ing Re-payments of Advances I;lmprest & otha for Public Works 159,171 270,719 200,531. 325,873 , 83,183 817,609 1 11 3,5130 449,418 2-22,948 243,523 1,14'3,479 II Moneys 160,345' • - - - Total Income 8,622,134 10,983,50 11,093, il 5 11,T.01,932 i i 4 '000, 9 11 1 8,1T:,714 111,317,962 12,349,075 12,349,213 44,176,014 • 1,098, '33 - 22,920 . - " 581,608 34,217 ---. The Amount applied to the Con- I Deduct De. solidated Fund 5,780,325 7,251,669 8,712,02 9,011,312 ' 30,756,00 . 6,431,319 0,829,102 9,767,134 9,646,163 32,72' 1 ,988 I - crease. Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills I Deduct Decrease 22,930 34,277 charged on Sugar Duty - - - - - - - - - - ' Ditto, as part of the Ways and - • Means of the Year . 811 Sf 8 . 3,7.31,911 2,980,473 2,790,'590 12,314,- 2 1,645,365 4,518,8f0 2,591,941 2,702,860 1',449,0 . 6 ....” s -Increase on ,-- i , Increase on' the 1---- the Quarter Total 8,622,134 10,s;83,580 I 11,1.9 , 065 11,001,b32 I 43,110,61 i II 8,129,714 11,:=147,062 12,311 4 ,075 I 1, , ,319, - ..: 1 3 ~ 44,176,014 II Year ! L 075,203 51- 7 ,3 2 1 ------ to Quarters ended the sth January, 1838, and the sth January, 1839. Quarters ended Jan b. 8,116,399 708,6(Yd 11,^57 8,1 07,779 7:35,907 8,655 203,076 471,673 NOTE ON THE AFFAIR GISQUET. - - _ For a more thorough comprehension of the trial now going on in France the followir g circumstance must be borne in mind. When the last election for the Chamber of Deputies took place, M. Gisquet presented himself as candidate for St. Denis, the suburb of Paris; he met with the utmost resi;t num, on the ground of his adherence to the Government and the Court, by which be had been raised to eminence and treated with the most confidential favour. M. Gi: vet, see ing his nomination in peril, disavowed his connexion and present attachment to his former patrons, and to support this assertion, communicated facts with which his confidential situation had rendered him cognizant. The result was on the one baud his election for St. Denis, and on the other a com munication from certain high quarters that henceforward he must renounce all hope of countenance and support. Thus alone can it be explained how M. Gisquet has pro ceeded in the course he has adopted, which clearly proves a man without diplomatic, or at least judicious advisers, and still more deficient in that high patronage which have found one of the many means of extending over km the broad protecting wing of French Ministerial and, above all, of Royal power. It was only at the eleventh hour that certain exalted persons took the alarm at the consequences of the failure and disclosures of the ex-administrator in the Court of Judicature ; and, Government taking the field too late, vainly sacrificed the position of its representative in the Court, the Attorney-G,ereral, whose motion of interposition was quashed by the decision of the Judges, leaping him all the odium of having acted as a party man in the discha , ge of his magisterial office. The only case in the recent annals of English Courts which may be compared in importance to that of M. Gisquet, which now overshadows every other topic in Paris, is that of a deceased illustrious personage and of Mary Ann Clarke—with this difference, that the one could not, as in the present instance, exclaim— " Et dici potuir•se, et non potuisse repelli l" As in the most serious affairs of France jokes must perforce intermingle, they, of course, have not been wanting on the present occa;ion : for example, it has been proposed for M. Gisquet to change, henceforward, his name, by altering the first letter iato an " R;" thus it would sound Monsietir .Risque PROMENADE CONcERTS. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE: We arc glad to find that these concerts at the English Opra House, unlike some of their predecessors in this country, • show strong s)mptorns of vitality. They have now been established for more than three weeks, during which time the number of visitors has been gradually on the increase, and on Saturday evening they fell little short of fifteen hundred. The musicians have now become ac customed to each other, and under the guidance of Signor Negri, perform overtures of some of the first rate Operas, quadrilles, and concerted pieces of instrumental music of great difficulty, with a precision, hat mouy, and effect rarely surpassed at the Italian Opera. The overture to Guil laume Tell, though so often repeated, was eathusiastically ervored on Saturday night, so was the Echo, and so ought to hive been a beautiful quadrille composed, we believe, by the leader. Haydn's Toy Symphony followed, and excited great laughter. This piece, as appears from the life of Hsydn, was compavd for the amusement of Prince Ester hazy, and his circle of friends at Eisdenstadt. The author, in order to find materials for the piece, went to a village fair, and purchased a quantity of children's musical toys, such as whistles, cuckoos, rattles, and other juvenile instru ments, for which we have no name, and which we never saw before, and after comparing their character and powers, he produced this ridiculous symphony. The juvenile portion of the audience were not the only persons who rejoiced in this musical pantomime. The perfor mances were finished before eleven, and though the price of admission is extremely low, the company was very respect able. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DERBY BETTING. 12 to I agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton 16 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 22 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers 25 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. ACCEPTANCES. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1839. The Oatlands Stakes of 50 sm. each, h. ft. D.I. Duke of Rutland's Rattrap, 5 yrs, Bst. 121 b; Lord Suffield's Cara van, 5 yrs, Bst 31b; Duke of Rutland's Blankney, 5 yrs, 7st.'9lb ; Lord Chesterfield's Prizeflower, 5 yrs, 7st. 51b ; Mr. Wilson's Quicksilver,s yrs, 7st. 31b; Mr. F. Craven's I-wish-you-rnay-get it, 4 yrs, 6st. 131 b ; General Grosvenor's Daedalus, 4 yrs, 6st. 131 b ; Ldrd Chesterfield's Caroline Elvina, 4 yrs, 6st. 41b ; Lord Suffield's Hahneman, 4 yrs, 6st. The following declared forfeit :—Mr. Bowes's Epirus, 5 yrs, Bst. 51b ; Air. Bowes's Jagger, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b; Lord Chesterfield's In dustry, 4 yrs, 7st. 71b ; and Lord Jersey's Joanina, 4 yrs, 7st. Ilb. DONCASTER RACES, 183J.—MONDAY. The Champagne Stakes of 50 s,vs. ea h, h. ft., for two years old ; colts, Bst. ; and fillies, Bst. 31b. The winner to give six dozen of Champagne to the Doncaster Racing Club. Red House in. Mr. Orde's b. f. Queen Bee, Mr. Blakelock's ch. f. Curtius, out of Fancy ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. c. by Liverpool, out of Miss Fanny's dam ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br. c. HawkesLury, Colonel Cranford's br. c. Shark, Mr. Jaques's b. f. Interlude, Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, Mr. Bowes's b. c. Middleham, Mr. Eddison's ch. c. by Langar, dam by Whisker, out of Matilda ; Mr. Osbaldes ton's ch. c. by Winterfield, cut of Mrs. Rye ; Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. f. by Belshazzar, dam (waled in 1831) by Whalebone ; Lord Kelburne's ch. c. by Retainer, out of Emilia; Mr. C. Attwood's b. c. Avigenua, Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, Sir J. Boswell's ch. f. Queen Anne, sister to General Chasse ; Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by Langar, out of Emigrant's dam ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Emilia:3, out of Maria; Mr. Bell's b. f. by Gaiusborougb, cut of Golden Drop's dam ; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Gambia, by The Colonel, out of Black Daphne; Lord Westminster's c. Launcelot, brother :o Touhstone ; Lord Westminster's c. Maroon. TUESDAY. The Four-years Old Stakes Of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., with 50 adJed by the Corporation ; for colts, Bst. 71b ; and fillies, Bst. 31b. Maiden horses, &c., at the time of naming, allowed bibs. A ...inner of the Derby or St. Leger 21bs. extra. Mile and a half. Mr. W. It. Rasnsay's br. c. Lanercost, Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Alzira, Duke of Cleveland's ch. 1. Virginia, Lord Chesterfield's b c. Eon John, Lord NS estminster's br. c. Richard Roe. The Cleveland Stakes of 20 sots. each, b. ft., but 5 only if declared to the Clerk of the Course by the first day of the York Spring Meeting, with 50 sacs. added hy the Corptiration. One mile. Mr. W. R. Ram,ay's br. c. Count Lauciston. 4 yrs ; Sir C. Monek's b. f. Garland, 4 yrs; Mr. Bowes's ch. h. Epirus, 5 yrs; Mr. Depham's b. c. Compensation, 4 yrs; Mr. C. Attwood's b. e. Clcanthes, 3 yrs ; Mr. J. 0. Fairlie's ch. c. The Hydra, 4 yrs; Lord Eglinton's ch. f. Opera, 4 yrs ; Lord Eglinton's br. g. St. Andrew, 4 yrs; Mr. Ilowa:d's b. f. Orelia, 3 yrs ; Duke of Cleve land's Virginia, 4 yrs; Mr. liiburne's hl. c. Master Allen, 3 yrs; Captain Ilealey's ch. g. Van Buren, 5 yrs; Lord Chesterfield's b. h. Prizeflower (1 1i 1f-bred), 5 yrs; Lord Chesterfield's Industry, 4 yrs ; Llrd Chesterfield's f. by I'rism, out of Rowton's dam, 4. yrs ; Lord Westminster's ch. c. Sir Ralph, 4 yrs. THURSDAY. The Tyro-years.old Stakes of 20 soya. each; for colts, Bst. 51b; and fillies, Bst. 21b. T. Y. C. Mr. Blakelock's ch. f. by Curtius, out of Fancy; Mr. Clark's ch. c. Benjamin, Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br. c. by Liverpool, out of Miss Fanny's dam; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br. c. Hawkcsbury, Co lonel Crawfrd'S br. c. Shark, Mr. S. King's b c. Mariner, Mr. Jaques's b. e. by Physician, out of St. Martin's dam ; Mr. Bowes's hr. c. Black Beck. Mr. Bowes's b. c. Middleham, Mr. Osbo.ides ton's ch. c. by Wintt•rtield, out of Mrs. Rye; Mr. adoaldeston's ch. f. by Belshazzar, darn (foaled in 1831) by Whalebone; Lord Kelburne's ch. t. by Retainer, out of Emilia; Mr. C. Attwood's b. c. by Paracelsus, Sir J. Boswell's Queen Anne , Mr. Parkins's br. c. Naworth, Mr. Smith's b. c. The Jovial Bachelor, Mr. How ard's ch. c. Fi!zroy, Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by Langar, out of Emigrant's dam ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Emilius, out of Maria ; Mr. Bell's b. 1. by Gainsboroug'n, out of Golden Drop's darn ; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Gambia, Lord Westminster's Laun celot, Lord Westminster's c. Maroon, Mr. Nevilt's c. Merry Peb bles, Mr. C. M. St. Paul's f. Calypso. The Gascoigne Stakes of 100 soya. each, 30 ft. ; for colts, Bst. 71b and fillies, Bst. 2ib. The winner of the St. Leger 41b. extra. St. Leger Course. Colonel Cradock's br. c. The Provost, Mr. Bowes's b. c. Erin go-Bragh, Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Commodore, Duke of Cleve land's b. c. Kremlin, Lord WeAminster's ch. e. The Lord Mayor. rRIDAY. The Scarborough Stakes of 30 sous. each 10 ft., for three yrs old ; colts, Bst. 61b ; and lillics, Sit. 31b. The winner of the St. Leger Stakes 71bs. extra. One mile. Mr. Orde's b. c. Johnny Boy, Lord Stanley's ch. c. Aeronaut, Pro vost, Mr. Walker's b. f. N. 3, Mr. B owes ' s ch. C. Accelerator, Mr. Clark's br. c. Dragoman , Colonel Cradock'a br. a. The Major Yarburgh's bl. f. Lollipop, Mr. C. Attwood's b. c. Clean thee, Lord Eglinton's br. c. Malrolio ' Sir R. W. Bulkcley's b. c. Owen Swifr, Mr. Arrowsmith's b. c. Troy, sir T. Stanley's br. c. Apothecary, Mr. Hcbden's eh f. Appleton Lass ; Mr. Smith's b. c. by Margrave, out of Lady Fractious; Mr. Howard's br. c. Fits- Ambo, Mr. Wormald's gr. c. 801 u . ,, Mr. J. Peck's b. f. by Clin ker, out of Selina • Lord Chesterfield ils. Zimmerman, Lord West minster's The Lon ! ! Mayor. DONCASTER, 1840. The following additions to the nominations for the Great St. Leger Stakes will complete the list published by us on Friday last : —Mr. C. M. St. Paul's b. f. Calypso, Mr. Greville's ch. c. Per seus, Lord Orford's b. c. by Reveller, out of Chapeau de Paille ; and Lord Orford's gr. c. by Clearwell out of Angelica. On Friday morning a young man named Edwards was received into Bartholomew Hospital with a fractured arm, 'lasing fallen down on Snow-hill while in a state of intoxication, He had a very narrow escape .from being run over by a cab. On Friday a policeman of the A division, named Lambourn, was discharged with ignominy by the Commis s:oners, in consequence of violent conduct and disgusting language exhibited by him nt the door of the Olympic Theatre, where helwas on duty a few nights ngo. Tt:e gentlemi n who gave him into custoily was Mr. Wise, a MuOitrate of the Tower Hamlets. The policeman was drunk at the time. CHARGE. Permanent Debt. Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidates Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly paid out of the Civil List, or the Heredi tary Revenues of the Crown Total Charge The Surplus The Amount of Exchequer 131113 issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fun, off nut of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 139 The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1839, in part of the sums grante for Supply Services 11 The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1539 id for the Quarter ended Oct. !O, IS3q, and paid by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Con )lidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1S3:) brother sinner, brother man—what boots it, though all the world be right, if thou be wrong ?—what boots it though all the world be blest and happy, if those wart wretched, and thine inmost heart wrung with woe ? What hoots it though all thy brethren and mankind were safely housed within the arms of everlasting mercy, if thou wast u.iencompassed with those arms, and an alien from the commonwealth •of spiritual Israel. Haste thee brother sinner, friend, who, , ver thou art, to go down into the depths of thine own soul—pray God to search thee, and prove thee, and to let thee set. and feel, and rightly understand whether thou art in the way of wickedness, and that thou then pray God to lead thee into the way everlasting. When thou art thyself enlightened, set out on a mission of enlightening others, and not till then : when thou art thyself forgiven, set out on an errand of helping others to obtain forgiveness also : when thou art thyself renewed, set out along with thy fellows, who, toge ther with thyself art wicked and unenlightened, and in search of forgiveness—let the prayers be for them, and their prayers for thee ; and the prayers together of men lire-model and like- :e ett- d, and msn having one end and one aim before them—let those united and associated prayers go up before God as a cloud of incense, well pleasing in his sight., and as surely as there is a God in heaven, who hears thy prayers, thou wilt find God on earth answer thy prayers. Se surely as the breathings of thy spirit, the sighs of thy contrite • soul, the prayers of thy broken heart ascend on high, so surely will the answer of peace be sent down into thy wait ing but troubled, thy believing • but perhaps desponding spirit. God says unto thee, Christ says unto thee, the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father says unto thee, son or daughter, child of God, thy sins, which were many, are forgiven thee, go in peace and sin no more. I never feel the last sands of the old year ebbing out, or hear the fearful sound of the rising t;de of-the new year travellin g from the depths of an eternity that bath been partly unfolded to us— I never feel the hidden time coming onward with its waves to meet me, but I think how much more needful than ever it is to leave the old, .and take up -the new— to end the old and begin - the new, by making for myself sure work for that eternity ; and I call upon you, by brethren, in this the first service in which you and I as brethren have been con nected—l call upon you each one for himself, now, this afternoon, to make your peace with God ; lose no time about it, let nothing put it off, let nothing come in between you and this work, allow nothing to set it aside, suffer nothing to take you off. As you stand before God, and for him—as you stand upon the brink of the grave, and may fall into it—as you are upon the edge of a never-ending eternity, and may be plunged over its narrow brink to-day —as you know not what a day or an hour may bring forth, lose no time ; up and be doing, every one for himself, every man having to stand or fall to his own God. Behold, now is the accepted time ; behold, now is the day of salvation. Lose, therefore, no opportunity, and above all things em brace the present opportunity, and avail yourselves of the privileges which this happy moment presents you with, and make your peace with that God who is willing to speak peace to the wailing spirit. Then you are happy men, and you are not happy till then. There is no peace for the wicked ; nothing can make the wicked man happy ; nothing that he can do for himself ; nothing that others can do. for him ;. notlieg which the whole world has in its power to offer to him and to accomplish in his behalf ; nothing can make the wicked man happy. " There is no peace, saith my God, for the wicked." He may shift with the shifting scenes around him—he may change with the changing times in which he lives—he may array himself in the pa noply of power, and think he can ward off the shafts, the darts of sickness, of disease, and of death—he may seat to himself, as the rich man did who is spoken of in the Gospel, after he had stripped himself from the cumbrous panoply with which he delinded himself when before his enemies, and had retired into the innermost receises of his luxurious and his selfish indulgences; he may say he will take his ease, eat drink, and be merry—clothed as thou art in scarlet and purple, fed on the finest of meat, quaffing tee choicest end the richest, of wine, and faring sumptuously every (lay ; eat, drink, and be merry, for there are much goods in store for thee, for many days ; but, in the midst of the feast, God knowing no difference, and being no respecter of persons—God says to him, in the midst of his contemplated enjoyments e or his enjoy ments themselves, " Tuon tool ! this night thy soul shell be required of thee." You are tot rich—Allele are not many wealthy. not many mighty, not. many wise—wise, mighty, and wealthy, in this world's estimation—here. But though you are not rich in the world's goads, you poor man, or poor woman, may have your refuge, your sources of worldly enjoyment and worldly amusement, and worldly dissipation, and worldly deceit ; and if any of you have fallen into it mistake, into which some poor persons have fallen, that because they are poor God will be indulgent and oblivious of their effences, be not deceived—God will not be mocked. Whatever a mail soweth, be it in his poverty or in his pride —whatever a man soweth, be he dressed in rags, or " clothed in purple and fine linen,"—whatsoever he snwe'h that also shall he reap. If you sow to the flesh, of the flesh you - shall reap corruption. If you sow to the spirit, of the spirit you shall reap life everlasting. God is no re specter or persons—the rich man must repent or he will never believe—the poor men must repent or he will never believe.—(True.) The rich man must believe or he can never be forgiven—the poor man must believe or he can never be forgiven. There is but one truth—it is in this book ; there is but one way—the way unfolded in this writing. There is but one heaven, arid the kingdom of heaven is open to but cne class of persons, and they are all believers. God is co respecter of persons—al are alike beneath his eye. A'l alike; . are included in his offers of mercy, or his denunciations of vengeance, thou mats wilt arise in the resurrection of the just and go into eternal life, and thou man shalt receive the greater condemnation. But if, my brethren, you have thus made your peace with God— steadfastly this day, giving yourselves up unto him, to fol low his leading, to hear, and mark, and keep his wo.d—to do his bidding—to walk in his was—and in all things, and at all times, to ask what God would have you do, and then to do his will, whatever beseems—whatetter betides—at all risks—and at all hazards, then I can wish you a happy new year with all my heart, and I know it will be the happiest and the beet year you have ever yet lived. Begin it with God—carry it on with God—let all your works this year be begun, and carried on, and ended in him, who is in all and above all—God blessed for ever. Then all will be well with you, all will be well done for you, and all will be well done by you e and those things, even those that seem the darkest, and come lowering as black clouds hang ing over your heads ; even th ose dark clouds when they do burst, instead o f shedding- down as they would have done storms an d vengeance on y o ur head—fhr you will find that your h eaven l y F at h er hicks a smiling fice behind th a t frowning Providenes—all even' those most newel co:re and unlikely, and apparently opposed to your interests —all thingS will work together for good unto them that love God. Love the Lord God, then, with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength ; love your neighbour as yourself, and the blessing o e f nd G .o od f g t go. with withyou from the be ginning to year eon which you have just entered. I have ,no other new-year's gift to g i ve you , but if yOu take that you will find it good, a n d the ,-uch as I have, give I unto you. The best knowledge, the best u nderstanding, the result of all_the experience which I ;lave had of the world, in the ways of God, this it is, my brethren, which leads me this afternoon so faithfully, and REV. MR. STEPHENS. MANCHESTER, SUNDAY EVENING. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) I went to Ashton-under-Line, this morning, to hear the Rev. Mr. Stephens preach, which he is in the habit of doing every Sunday, to the several congregations attending his chapels at Dukinfield, Staleybridge, and Charlestown. He appears to be in high estimation here with the poorer classes generally ; and I have heard, in the course of the day, many anecdotes of his benevolent and charitable feel. in.'s towards the indigent of all sects and parties. Some of the perions who work in the factories, however, who'have been dismissed from their employment, in consequence of having listened to and followed the indignant and rather over zealous denunciations of Mr. Stephens against their task masters, complain that he has done more harm than good, by enlisting the weak in a crusade against the powerful— arraying the servant against the master, and there may be some truth in this. There are few persons whose name has been more generally in the mouths of men of all parties in this district, for good or for ill, during the last ten days, than that of the Reverend Gentleman. I perceive a letter from a Manchester Correspondent in yesterday's paper, in which it is asserted that is my com munication published in The Sun of Wednesday. I stated that in consequence of the proceedings going on againA Mr. Stephens, the town is in a state of alarming excite meat." If your Correspondent had taken the trouble to read my letter in the first instance, he would have saved himself the trouble of addressing you upon the subject, for I nzade no such statement. From information which I received, and letters which were read to me from the Secretaries and Delegates of various Unions in the sur rounding districts," had no hesitation in believing that the Members of these Unions, comprising the great bulk of the Working Classes, were in a state of extreme excitement. I had also good grounds for believing that most of these men were in possession of arms, and that a hint from their Delegates and leaders would be enough to bring them in a body into Manchester on Thursday last. Under these circumstances, I think I was fully justified in stating my apprehensions that there was some probability of a breach of the public peace, and but for the good sense of some of the " movement party" here, I repeat that very serious consequences might have resulted. One of the local Journals of yesterday has also ho noured me with some remarks, but the peculiar position in which that Paper stands with respect to the prosecution _ instituted against Mr. Stephens, render the comments of the Editor not worth my notice. Since the copy of the warrant under which Mr. Stephens was arrested has been furnished to his solicitor, which was done on Thursday evening, shortly after the proceedings had terminated, by Goddard, the Bow-street officer, Tho mas Cleworth, publican of Leigh, whose name appeared upon the back of the warrant as the informant, attended the Radical meeting at the Town-hall in Bolton on Friday night. He was, on being recognised, immediately sur rounded by a large body of persons, who, notwithstanding his protestations that he had nothing to do with the matter were about to give him some very rough treatment, but the Working Men's Comaiittee took him under their protection to the house of Mr. Findlay Frazer, Crown Tavern, where he st.qed, that if his name was attached to the warrant on which Mr. Stephens had been arrested, it was without his knowledge, ant that it could not possibly be in consequence of anything which-he had said to any magis:rate, or magis trate's clerk. At the request of several members of the Working Men's Association, he agreed to insert the follow ing advertisement, which appeared in the Bolton Free Press : " ARREST OF MR. STEPHENS.—It having been AS sertcd in Leigh and other towns, that the warrant against the Rev. J. IL Stephens had been issued.on an information, given by me, 1, Thomas Cleatorth, hereby declare that I have never given a single wore of information to any Ma gistrate on this subject : and further, I ()Gra REWARD of TW 0 POUNDS sterling to any person who shall give such information to we as will lead to a discovery of the person who has originated this calumny against me. (Signed) ' 6 THOMAS CLEWORTH. " Alexander Thomson, Chairman of the Meeting." This appears to be one of the most extraordinary cir cumstances connected with " these must extraordinary pro e,ael:ngs" as they have been termed by Mr. Stephens. Placards and hand-bills containing the above statement were widely distributed in the course of Saturday. But to return to the business of today. Mr. Stephens's residence is at Dukinfield, a retired hamlet within lel' a mile of Ashton. It is a small cottage-like house, situate on the side of a hill, and commanding an extensive pro - pect over the adjacent country. The Chapel at Charlestown is a large square building, totally devoid of ornament, and capable of containing about 1,000 persons. The afternoon service commenced a t two o'clock and the hymn would appear to have been selected as _appropriate to the occasion. When Newt out of Egypt came, And left the proud oppressor's land." The Rev. Mr. Stephens entered the chapel after time prayer and hymns had concluded, and the building at this time was crowded in every_ part. The great hulk of his congregation appeared to be composed of the labouring and industrious classes ; their demeanour was extremely correct and respectful, and there was a tincture of cnthto-i.,-.sm in the way in which they followed the Rev. Lecturer through out his discourse, giving vent occasionally to ejaculations in a subdued tone of voice. Mr. Stephens having ascended the pulpit, addressed his hearers as follows : " Well, my brethren, right well have you begun the worship of another year, by baring your breasts to the eye that racketh the hearts and trieth the reins of the children of men, by raising your minds unawed, save by his pre sence, and unimpressed, save by his power, in elevating your souls with all the thousand feelings instinct of him who gave them being, and with head and heart •howed with obedient and childlike cheerful homage you have this afternoon in songs of praise, and with breathings of prayer unfeigned, dedicated yourselves agAitr and afresh unto God, and to his service. .1 hope, I trust, I know that this your homage and dutiful worship is sin cere. I know that you, many of you at least—most of you, I believe, and all of you, I hope—l. know that you are, my brethren, as those who, having been raised unto life from the dead, are resolved—more than ever resolved, to give up your bodies and your spirits unto Him and to his service. If there be any amongst you that bath hitherto withheld his heart from God, and bath stubbornly kept his mind shut up against the incoming li g ht o f H ea ven—that bath barred his breast against the soft persuasive approaches of heaven ly wisdom and heavenly goodness and heavenly power, the great God of all our mernies ; let me beg of that man here to-day, in the house of God, at this hour, whilst yet in the way of his Maker and Redeemer and Sanctifier, to come and reason together with that Lord who has said, " Let your. sins be as scarlet, and they shall be made white as snow-1.-t them be red as crimson, and they shall be as wool." Put away the evil of your doings—cease from doing evil ; learn to do well. Let the wicked man for sake his ways, and the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts. Let him turn unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him. Let him seek his God, and he will undoubtedly pardon him. You know I have always told you—that I have always shown you—that your feast business, until it be done, is, each one for himself to mike his peace with Gqd— each one for himself to pray " Create within me a clear I heart—renew within me a right spirit." What boots it 96,410 515,197 9,4Cfi,958 1,`;00,255 11,'267,213 4,778,068 90 7 2,605 5,680,673 at the same time, as I trust, so effectively, to press home ' on your attention the necessity of individually dedicating e s': all you are and all you have.to the God that made you t and then doubt not that the Lord and Judge of all the earth will do right ; of this have no dread ; in reference to this be under no apprehension. He will bring it to pass, or his word is a riddle, and we cannot exp:ain it. His word is a mystery, and we cannot understand it—his word is contradictory, and we cannot reconcile it—his word is ab surd and monstrous, and we cannot tell what to do with it • —the word of God is en unintelligible jargon, or a wicked medley of confuSed and altogether unintelli gible mystery, which man ought never to have had anything to do with at all, and which man ought now instantly to repudiate and reject. The word of , God is an unmeaning fable or an .absolute deceitful lie, unless he who runs may read it, and understand what he reads—unless the weyfarine man, though a fool, can so far (Prect his steps and guide his ways, without erring and straying like a lost sheep-- e if, I say, the word of God be to be understood and to be trusted at all, then "fear not, little flock"---you and your children—you and your worldly life—you and your temporal inheritance—you and your fortunes and destinies, here in this world, and hereafter in the world to come, are in the hands of your heavenly Shepherd, and Keeper, and God. Commit then yourselves into his hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator he will take care of you and yours—he will take care of your country, he will take care of the world he has made, for in his hands are the hearts of all mankind, and all will conspire to serve his sovereign will—to fulfill and ac- • complish the eternal and immutable decrees of his all ' beneficent Providence. I bid you possess your souls in patience, having first made yourselves individually possess all good—having made more work for Heaven, so far as your own interests are concerned personally—l bid you possess your souls in patience in reference to everything else ; for rest satisfied of this, the year on which you have just entered will not only be the trying year, but the telling year of England's future destinies. The battle.we are now , fighting from one end of England .to the other IS not the battle which most men take it to be. It goes much further—it runs much deeper than most men have ever yet supposed it to do. It is not a battle of party against party for the time being. It is not a struggle for power or for place among men who, for the moment; are placed in antagonistic relation to each other. It is the working of the mystery of iniquity mentioned in Holy Scripture—the mystery of ungodliness-=-the battle directly though not ostensibly—the struggle actually though not openly avowed—the struggle particularly of Christ in his spirit, is wielded against Beiial in his spirit, and in his spirit to his children. It is the battle between God and Mam mon—between Christ, the Prince of Peace, and Beelzebub, the Prince of the Devil. The question is, whether God shall reign in England, or whether Satan shall domineer—the question is whether the laws of Heaven and the institutions of mercy are to be the lees of a Christian land, and the in- • stitutions of a Christian people ; or whether laws begotten below and born here on earth are to be the laws and insti tutions to which a once Christian land and a once Chris tian people are to be compelled to submit. It is the bates tie, my brethren, of this book (the Bible) against the earth and against hell. If this book stands they fall,—(Several voices, " Just so.") If this book falls great is the fall of • the House of God, and you will be buried in the ruins. The lists are drawn—the battle is set—the field is pitchedeleadly will be the struggle ; and who is able-- who feels himself able, to enter into that warfare ? Pray God that he will teach your hands to war and your fingers to fight. I am well aware, my brethrene that I have long been charged—indeed, have always been charged, with a deviation— a departure from the duties pre,cribed to the profession of which I am an unworthy member, though I trust as upright, a sincere, and devoted one. I have been charged with departing , ft= the duties of that profession, by wandering away to,' what have always hitherto been considered the forbidden paths of politics, by the introduction into my discourses of . subjects which I am sorry to say, for so many years, if not. - • age, have always been considered as foreign from the pule pit ; and as it may happen that the bonds by which you and I have been held together now for some years, in love and brotherly kindness, may be broken asunder—as it maf happen, and before very long, that you and I will have ,to bid one another farewell, it's only right to yen and to myself, and to the truth, whose int erpretcr I am—to the book whose espoundk r I have endeavoured to be—and to the service and master, whose Minister I am—it's only right that I should this day, in the opening service of the New Year, again repeat w h a t I have so often asserted, that sunless a priest, minister, clergyman, religi ous teacher—call him what you like—unless a priest of the living God be a politician in the pulpit, he has no business there at all.—(Several voices, " No, he has not.") Law and religion can never be separated. If you attempt to disassociate them, or to disunite them, it is like attempt ing to disassociate and disunite the soul from the body of man, and expect, after you have done so, to find a living being before you. The body without a spirit, is dead.-- faith without works, is dead—politics without religion, is dead—religion without polities, is dead—the one is the , body, the other is the soul. Read this book (the Bible) , from the beginning to the end, and tell me whether . , in the whole of its code of laws, you find one law out of them till that does not apply to this world, and to. this world only. These are the laws of God. To whom ? To angels ?—to archangels ?—to devils ?—to archilevils ? No!—to man. They are the laws of God, to, be kept—where ? In heaven ?—in hell? No !—cat earth. " Thy will he done on earth us it is in heaven." Toe laws here given ate given to man for him to keep on earth, that, by so keeping the law, and doing the will of God here, he may liken himself to the angels that are in heaven, and thus, in this probationary state, prepare him self fora life of holiness—for that place "at God's right hand where there are pleasures for evermore." If, then, all these laws of God to man on earth are by man to be un derstood and by man to be observed ; and if God has , chosen from amongst the children of m e n th ose w h o more par ticularly are entrusted with the duty of explaining,expounde lag, enforcing, a p p l y ing, and exemplifying those laws, vvhste are we to say of a man thus chosen of God—thus inspired with the Holy Spirit—thus entrusted with the heavenly charge—thus authorised by the Divine commission—thus sanctioned by the Divine power—thus wielding Heaven' o svn authority —what are we to think and what are we' to say of that mini vilna shuns to declare the whole counsel of God ; who says what he chooses to say, and keeps back what he does not choose to let out ? who only tells the people a portion of the law—a portion of their duty-- a portion of their privileges, and who withholds from them that portion of -their privilege, of their duty, and of the law which God Alinightly has commanded him to commu nicate to them, entire and without reservation ? The man who does so is either purblind—(for would, not be uncharitable even here)—the mats who withholes any part of the Word cll . God, is either pig' . blind, not seeing the way, or he is wilfully wicked, nose walking himself in the way, nor leading his brethren to it ; • or, lastly, he is forsworn, taking the name and authority or God on his lips in vain, saying, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord bath not said it—the most awful of all imposters, of all hypocrites, of all deceivers, for whom is r!served the hottest place in the bottomless pit of (Two or three cries of " Hear, hear.") Woe unto you ye Pharisees, scribes a'nd hypocrites—woe unto you, for yours is the domination of hell ; you neither walk in the - way yourselves, nor allow others to walk in the way ; Yols keep the key of knowledge —you will neither open the :1,511,f 04 1, 31,681 11,143;285 2,702,860 1,F00,255 I