The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

EV ENI I' l ] !HT lON. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty walked to day, for nearly two hours on the East Terrace and on the South front of the Castle attended by the Mar chioness of Normanhy, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Viscount Melbourne, and the Earl of Fingal'. The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening will be the same as yesterday. Last night the Band of the Rifles attended at the Castle, and played as follows :—March, de la Tete de Bronze ; Sinfonia, Sposa de Provincia, (Melilotti); Aria, Finale &Alla di Roma, (Donizetti); Quadrille, Les Plaisirs du Salon, (Creusey) ; Haldigungs Walzer, (Fdtrauss) ; Quadrille, Le Postillion de Lon-• gltemeau. ; Chor., Preciosa, (Weber); Aria, Lucia di Latmr.ermoor, (Donizetti.) . The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, took her departure yester day morning from the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton, Gloucestershire, on her return to her residence at Kew. The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Mr: Duncombe and Mr. Lynch had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Lord Holland has returned to Holland House, Ken sington, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Tan kerville, at their seat at Walton-on-Thames. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of the settlement at the River Gambia. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow and family, at Marshall Thomp -lon's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Norwich ; Captain Hinde, and Mr. C. J. E. Hinde, at ditto ; George Bur don, Esq., and family, at ditto; Rev. Drake, at ditto ; William Leigh, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Alton Hall, Lichfield ; Colonel Reeve, at ditto ; Lord and Lady Cow ley, the Hon. Miss Wellesley, Hon. Captain Macdonald, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. \Varrender, the Hon. William and Lady Louisa Duncombe, Colonel Lambert, the Hon. Twistleton Firnnes, Viscount Burghersh, and the Dowager Countess of Westmeath. DEPARTURES. William Rhodes, Esq., and Mr. and Mrs. Lockyer, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Ply mouth, Devonshire ; Lord and Lady de Tabley, on a Continental tour ; the Dowager Countess Listowell, and Miss Busbe, for Leamington Spa; the Dowager Countess and Lady Louisa Craven, for Clarendon Park, Wilts ; Lady Sandford Graham and family, for Dover ; the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel James Knox, for Paris; Mr. Stewart, M. P., for ditto ; Captain and Lady Mary Vyner, for Wrest Park ; the Duchess of Marlborough, for Brighton. Lord Maryborough is enjoying the sports of the season in the neighbourhood of Deal Castle, hunting always three times a week, although at rather an ad vanced age. His Lordship and Lady Maryborough intend to remain at the above seat until the second week in January. The Earl of Caledon will entertain a party of fashionables, during the holidays, at Caledon Hall, near Armagh. His Lordship, who succeeded to an unen cumbered estate of 30,0001. per annum on the death of the late Earl, will not, it is expected, again proceed to Canada, to rejoin the Grenadier Guards. The Earl of Minto left the Admiralty yesterday for Minto Castle, Roxburghshire. The Noble Earl will return to town shortly before the meeting of Par liament ; and the Countess and Ladies Elliott are ex pected to come to town before February. The Bishop of Rochester and Lady Sarah Mur ray have arrived at the deanery, Worcester, from Brom ley Palace, Rent. Lord Monteagle, the Hon. Mr. Spring Rice, and the other members of the family, have arrived at their residence, in Mansfield street, from Hastings. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and the Lords and Ladies Lennox, have arrived at Goodwood Park, where the Noble Duke and Duchess intend to pass the holidays. The Earl of Yarborough, who has been visiting Mr. Bridgeman Simpson, at his scat in Yorkshire, has gone to Sprotsborough Hall, the seat of Sir J. and Lady Charlotte Copley. The Marchioness of Bath and the youthful Mar quis, now in his ninth year, will pass the Christmas at Longleat, the splendid family seat near Warminster. Lord Stanley was to return to Knowsley, yester day, from Hawkstone, where his Lordship has been vi siting Sir Rowland and Lady Hill. There was a grand battue at the game preserves, at Hawkstone, on Satur day, when Sir Rowland Hill, Lord Stanley, Baron Austin, and the Hon. major-General Hill killed up wards of 250 birds. THE MARQUIS OF SLlGO.—Letters have been received in town this week from the Marquis and Mar chioness of Sligo, at Naples, and state the Noble Marquis to be in the enjoyment of most excellent health, having quite recovered from the recent para. lytic attack, which at the time much alarmed the Mar chioness and family. The family mansion in Mansfield street is given up, and is to be let. The Countess Dowager of Pembroke, and Lady Georgiana Herbert, will remain in Italy until Easter. Mr. Knight and Countess Nelson, who have lately returned from the Continent, have left their resi dence in Great Cumberland-street to pass their Christ mas at Dowager Viscountess Torrington's, in Kent. The Rev. Lord Charles Thynne and his lady, niece of the Countess of Jersey, have arrived at the Rectory-house, from a visit to the Bishop of Oxford and Lady Harriet Bagot, at Cuddesden Palace, near Oxford. The Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., will leave Rome next month, to attend his Parliamentary duties. BADMINTON, WEDNESDAY.—The festivities at this e'en-ant and hospitable seat are drawing to a close. There has been a ball every evening, the last of which takes place to-night. Weippert and his band have been here since the commencement. His Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Fitzroy Somerset left on Monday morning on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, at Deene Park. On Monday the Duke of Beaufort, accompanied by Prince George of Cambridge, the Earl of Chesterfield, Earl Bathurst, Mr. C. W. Cod rington, Viscount Villiers, and party, shot on the pre serves at Doddington Park, Sir Bethel Codrington's seat. Yesterday, the Duke and guests had some excel lent sport at Earl Bathurst's, Oakley Park. A con siderable number of birds was killed. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, at tended by Baron Knesebeck and the Hon. Mies Kerr, leave to-morrow for Kew Palace, The Earl and Coun tess of Chesterfield, Earl BaQ,urst, Hon. Mr. Bathurst, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, sf.nd the Hon. Miss Somerset, take their departure to. morrow. Earl Bathurst and the Hon. Mr. Batla , : t rst go to Oakley Park. Earl Chesterfield goes 'to Northamptonshire, the Countess proceeding to ;,own. Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse arrived this - anorning, on a visit to the Duke and Duch ess of BP, au f ort, who intend to receive a succession of visitors during the winter. There is to be a grand in sr„ection of the Gloucestershire yeomanry cavalry to morrow, in . the great park, previous to the Duchess of Cambridge leaving, and the troop Will escort her Royal Highness some distance towards town. The Lord Bishop of London intends holding an ordination en Sunday morning next, at the parish Church of St. James, Piccadilly. The number of candidates, we are informed, is more numerous than on any former occasion. Viscount Dungannon, Sir Watkin Wil liams Wynn, Bart., M.P., and the Hon. Thomas ligayon, have respectively given the liberal sum of 100/. towards the erection of a new market-place at Os westry. Mr. Wm. Ormsby Gore, M.P., has presented the munificent sum of 200/. in aid of the same object. At a meeting of the Central Rent Committee and the Finsbury Defence Committee, held at Lunt's Coffee-house, Clerkenwell Green, on Wednesday last, the sum of 10/. was voted towards the expences of Powell and others in Montgomeryshire, and the sum of 15/. in aid of the defence of Mr. Frost and the pri soners in South Wales. A Ministerial Evening Pa per head of " R o y a l Navy," that reports, under the Preparations, which are of a most formidable character, are making at Ports mouth. Several ships are, it seems, fittin g out for India. By this our mercantile men understand China to be the destination really contemplated for them. CRONSTADT, DEC. 3.—.0n the 30th ult. the Gulf was frozen over as far as the Lighthouse, and be yond it an immense body of ice was seen floating up t o the eastward, and joining the new formation. On the Ist it blew a storm at S.W., and again broke up the thin ice. On the 2d, between the snow storms, th e Army was discovered about four or five versts below, In the course of the afternoon some men were sent, with ' a life-boat, to communicate with her, but could not get oa board. This day the people joined her, and the re port from the Captain is that all is well. Measures are taken to cut her into harbour. Owing to the severe frosts of yesterday and to-day, the Gulf appears covered with ice as far as the eye can reach ; and it is to be hoped the roads to Oranionbaum may be strengthened, as hitherto they have been very dangerous, and no goods could be forwarded with common prudence, nor are the direction posts put, as yet, or the cracks bridged. Wind N.W., ni degrees of frost. FIRE AT GREENVVICII.—ShortIy after twelve o'clock on Wednesday night an alarming fire occurred in Trafalgar-road, Greenwich, and was very nearly attended with loss of life. It originated within the dwelling-house of Mrs. Reeve, No. '2, and, it appears, through the negligence of one of the domestics, by leaving a lighted candle near some bed-curtains, which caught fire, and, by th e ti me it was discovered , the \ flames were bursting from tbe windows. Engines were speedily on the spot ; but before it was got under, very considerable damage had been done. A vineyard, on an extensive scale, is now forming at Shirley, near Southampton. THE GEORGE THE FOURTH, INDIAMAN. This fine vessel, 1,438 tons register, formerly belong ing to the East India Company, and latterly purchased by the spirited proprietor of Nicholson's Wharf, has just arrived with the most valuable cargo of produce ever brought into the Port of London. The following is a copy of the report in the Custom House list this morning : George the Fourth, from Canton, of London ; 89 men ; J. Drayner ; 1,438 tons ; East India Docks, and Ni cholson's Wharf. Nicholson. Packages. Packages of Tea .. Also—consisting of Raw Silk, packages of China Ware, Ginger, Antimony, Ore, Sherry, Furs, Soy, Silk, piece Goods, and other Merchandise 294 In all 24,070 Mr. Nicholson has introduced a new mode of paying the sailors, which appears to work well. This is the short account given of it by himself in an address to the men on board the ship : _ " In the first place, you will have monthly wages, at the current rate paid to other ships ;—ln the second place, you will have the privilege of acting on your own account as merchants, both in your outward voyage and home : you may, if you think fit, take out Scotch manu factures, or any c.ther goods, to Batavia or China, and you may barter the same with the Chinese in exchange for tea,silk, China root,ginger, or any other produce. " In the third place, you may take as nzuch money or as little as you please, and whatever sum you take or have due to you for wages, I will give you credit in China to an equalamount, in addition to your own ; so that if anv of you take out one hundred pounds, you will be able with my advance to bring home two hun dred pounds' worth of China produce." The following is the account given of this valuable cargo, copied from the Commercial Gazette of Wednes day : " The George the Fourth contains a cargo of pretty nearly 2,000,0001b5. weight of Tea, which will contri bute about two hundred thousand pounds to her Ma jesty's Exchequer. " In addition to her cargo of Tea, she also contains an abundance of Silk, Ginger, Soy, and other valuable commodities, the produce of 'the Celestial Empire.' " The Value of this cargo, at the present LOW PRICES, is little short of half a million sterling ; and it may realise, with the Duty, more than one million sterling; and even then, TEA will be ttucti CHEAPER than in the time of 4 the old East India Company.' " This cargo of Tea, large as it is, is only sufficient to supply the demand for three weeks' consumption of this country !" In addition to these, she landed a large quantity of Tea at Hong Kong and the Cape, and brought home the most rare and valuable article of all—a fine ourang outan. LITERATURE: SHELLEY'S ESSAYS, LETTERS FROM ABROAD, 6.e. 2 Vois. Moron, London: 1839. These volumes comprise the whole of Shelley's prose works, which we must confess we prefer to his poetry, for the latter we can understand, while, as regards the former, we can only now and then, at long intervals, get a glimpse of the author's meaning. Had Shelley confined himself to prose— though it cannot be denied that he had the ele ments of a great poet in his nature—we think he might have become one of the most popular writers of his day. Nothing can exceed the musical flow of his style, which is chaste, eloquent, lucid as the fountain of Tempe, and singular happy in the se lection of epithet. The English language has few finer essays to boast of than Shelley's " Defence of Poetry," whether as respects its pure and lofty turn of thought, or the manner in which such en nobling reflections are expressed. His " Letters" are interesting, chiefly by virtue of the glimpses they give us of certain characters who have long held a prominent station in the world's eye. They have little wit or vivacity—nothing of that acute and ready observation which gives such a charm to epistolary correspondence ; they are the produc tions, however, of a gentleman and a scholar, and furnish us with one or two curious particulars re specting Lord Byron ; and, more particularly, John Keates, whose last moments are thus described : " I hasten to communicate to you what I know about the latter period and closing scene of the pilgrimage of the original poet from whose works, hitherto unseen by me, you have favoured me with such a beautiful quota tion. Almost despairing of his case, he left his native shores by sea, in a merchant vessel, for Naples, where he arrived, having received no benefit during the passage, and brooding over the most melancholy and mortifying reflections ; and nursing a deeply-rooted disgust to life and to the world, owing to having been infamously treated by the very persons whom his generosity had rescued from want and woe. He journeyed from Naples to Rome, and occupied, at the latter place, lodgings which I had, on former occasions, more than once in habited. Here he soon took to his bed, from which he never rose more. His passions were always violent, and his sensibility most keen. It is extraordinary that, pro portionally as his strength of body declined, these ac quired fresh vigour ; and his temper at length became so outrageously violent, as to injure himself, and annoy every one around him. He eagerly wished for death. After leaving England, I believe that he seldom courted the muse. He was accompanied by a friend of mine, Mr. Severn, a young painter, who will, I think, one day be the Corypha3us of the English school. He left all, and sacrificed every prospect, to accompany and watch over his friend Keats. For many weeks previous to his death, he would see no one but Mr. Severn, who had almost risked his own life, by unwearied attendance upon his friend, who rendered his situation doubly unpleasant by the violence of his passions exhibited even towards him, so much, that he might be judged insane. His intervals of remorse, too, were poignantly bitter. I be lieve that Mr. Severn, the heir of what little Keats left behind him at Rome, has only come into possession of very few manuscripts of his friend. You will be pleased with the information that the poetical volume, which was the inseparable companion of Keats, and which he took for his most darling model in composition, was, the Minor Poems of Shakspeare." PALMYRA. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1839. A republication of a tale originally published in America, and which was brought out soon after, in two volumes, by, if we remember rightly, Mr. Col burn. The present republication forms one Num ber of Chambers's " People's Edition," and is singularly cheap in point of price. SONGS OF AZRAEL, Southgate, London, 1839. There are some pleasing specimens of versifica tion in this collection, which is introduced by a short preface, wherein the author speaks modestly enough of her poetical productions, observing, " the following little pieces have been written during brief intervals, snatched from the precarious labours of the pencil ; but never should I have ven tured to publish, had the giants of the land been been still walking bodily on the earth. In the ab sence of fairer and brighter flowers, the daisy of the field may be sometimes thought worth the gathering." Two or three of the ballads in this little volume —more particularly that entitled " The Village Home"—are worthy to vie with some of the best of the late Haynes Bayley. HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP. Moxon, London, 1839. A light, amusing essay, which may be consulted with advantage by those who ate anxious to become acquainted with the mysteries of horsemanship. The author, as he styles himself in the title page, is an officer of the household brigade of cavalry, and of course an unimpeachable authority on eques trian matters. FINE ARTS. HOUND HARD PRESSED. Ackermann, London, 1839. A clever portrait of a hound, who is represented in the act of pursuing the chase at his utmost speed. The work is engraved by Treacher from an oriainal painting by Turner, and shows both skill and vigour of execution. LLoyD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) SHIELD S , DEC. 17. A -7.1r- rrived the S u sa n, Dabines , from Gravelines. Sailed the Sarah and Hesther, for Boston, United States. B O: 1 1 , s THE wAuiz..T.i7LbseaTiihedet for D N EA ezfo D un E lla nl i st , he Tu D rn o e lp r, hi f n ro , rn K ß in o g m w b e a l y i . , Newfoundland, S. S. rom Madras; Princ o Dart, George, FM Airtb, Madina. ..- 17d Arr ci iv u e e d be th c e ; Emma, LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.--Wind S. S.E., fresh breeze. — Off port, the John, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Brothers, ditto ; Robertson, Montreal ; Promise, Quebec ; Patriot, Alexandria; Dee, Miramichi. Sailed the Ara zimbo, Marcy, for New Orlean s ; Henrietta, Longford , ditto ;, Ullover, Lennox, Charleston ; Kellermonk, Smith , Sc. Michael's ; Josephine, Pringle, Africa. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Wi nd S. W.—Arrived the Ranger, Grey, from Odessa. FALMOUTH, DEC. 19. —Wind S. S. E. to W. S. W.— Arrived the Liverpool (steamer), Burney, from Gibraltar, left Ist inst, Cadiz 2d, Lisbon 6th, Oporto 7th, Vigo Bth, and Corunna 15th. Sailed the Delight packet, for the Havanna, Belize, and Mexico ; Star packet, West Indies. PENZANCE, DEC. 16.—Off port, the Wellsford, Michie from Quebec ; Clarence, Brown, ditto ; Sackville, F a d e, Sierra Leone. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 1K49. CORN-LAWS. (From the Times.) From a Sheffield newspaper, which has been for warded to us by the Working Men's Anti-Corn-law Committee in that town, we should infer that the inha bitants of the Fitzwilliam district, or at least a consi derable proportion of them, arc at present in a highly excited state. Anticipating the general movement which will probably be made against the Corn-laws in the ensuing Session, there appear to be various persons in Sheffield extremely anxious to give their gratuitous services as leaders and dictators, not only to their own townsmen, but to their fellow. subjects at large —persons who, though justly hostile to the bread -tax, are unhap pily mixed up with other political opinions of a more exceptionable kind, which cannot fail to injure, rather than benefit, the common cause of repeal. The provincial paper to which we allude is literally crammed with pre tensions of this description. Thus, in one corner, we have Mr. Ebenezer Elliott—" the poet's eye in a fine frenzy roiling" —straining his muffled lyre, and rhapsodizing alternately on the co-ordinate merits of Chartism and cheap victuals. In the same print, another candidate for distinction bestows his counsels upon a benighted public, in the person of a Rev. Guardian of the Bath Union, who, in whatever way his cure of souls may be attended to, incorporates with his anti-Corn-law homi lies such bursts of incontinent admiration at the work ing of the New Poor Bill, and the temporal blessed ness to which it has raised the labouring classes, as must tend very materially to put the credit of those homilies upon a par with that of the preacher. Side by side with the efforts of the preceding claimants, and in all respects incomparably superior to either, is the " Address of the Working Alen of Sheffield to the Working Classes of the United Kingdom,"—a document which, apart from the pleasure we have in complying with their committee's request deserves to be noticed for ita own sake, not only as furnishing, upon the whole a creditable specimen of their intelligence and moderation, but as affording us a favourable opportunity for sub mitting a few friendly words to themselves and their fellow -countrymen throughout the country. The sub stance of the address, though its extreme length has obliged us to curtail it considerably, will he found in to day's paper. Relying on the characteristic frankness of the work . ing men of England, we are sure they will admit, that how much soever a sense of duty may have impelled us to withhold our approbation from some of their proceed ings and demands, we have done our best on all occasions to contend for what we deem their just rights, and have ever been, as we still are, their sincere, though plain-speaking, friends. Notwith standing the differences of opinion which in pe riods of violent political excitement have sepa rated parties who, up to a certain point, were previ ously agreed, our devotedness to the liberties and com forts of the poor, in contradistinction to democratic license and feudal oppression, has never relaxed for a single moment. Our labouring countrymen are per fectly aware of this : and therefore, knowing the gene ral confidence which they repose in us, we are not without hope that our remarks upon the Sheffield ad dress may be read and weighed by them with equal can dour and advantage. Of course, it is needless to say, that, in the leading object of that address, which invites the co-operation of the working classes to obtain the gradual repeal of the Corn-laws by all legal and constitutional means, we cordially concur. With our known opinions respect ing the ruinous impolicy and injustice of those laws, we can have no possible objection that all who suffer by them, comprising, without exception, every man in the kingdom, should meet in an orderly manner, and petition for their alteration with the utmost ear nestness. On the contrary, we like to see the unen franchised classes exerting that combined moral influence which the Legislature (having excluded them individu ally from electoral privileges, lest the influence due to the intelligence and property of the nation should be overborne by their superior numbers) not only encour ages, by investing them with the right of petition and of knowing how every elector votes at the polling booth, instead of sheltering him with the Ballot, but, when ex plicitly, reasonably, and extensively exercised, must, in most cases, be quite as efficacious for the redress of their grievances, apart from revolutionary demands, as their actual possession of the franchise. The unanimous and constitutional co-operation of the working men of Eng land, if temperately pursued for an object consistent with the public welfare, cannot long be resisted in any quarter whatever. Nor are we less pleased with the evidence which our Sheffield friends give of their respect for religion, and of their implied abhorrence of the disgusting ob scenities of socialism, whose author, Owen, though de nounced by one of their provincial lecturers, as unfitted " to break from his sty into decent society," and much less " to play the philosopher in " high circles," has re cently been introduced by Lord Melbourne into the highest circle in the kingdom—that of the Queen herself!! ! The manner in which the " address" quotes the authority of Scripture, if it did not misap ply that authority to objects not contemplated therein, would meet with our unqualified approbation. Even as it is, the earnest appeal of the Sheffield committee to that sacred testimony is indicative of a promising state of mind, which a further acquaintance with its scope and spirit may be expected to improve.' But, after all, there are various things in their address—good as it is in the main-- against which, for their own sake, we cannot refrain from offering our se rious protest and remonstrance. Although, for the purpose of securing unanimity in their immediate object, they wisely recommend that the claims of Chartism ought not at present to be insisted on, it is perfectly plain to us, from divers expressions in. their paper, that their theory of civil society is essentially an unsound one, and calculated (even if this Corn-law grievance, and every other grievance, were satisfactorily settled), to make them discontented and unhappy for life. Their fundamental error, arising chiefly from their worldly circumstances and defective education, consists in imagining that the existing inequalities among mankind are not only attributable to iniquitous human aggressions rather than to the ordination of God, as confirmed by the uniform character of his moral admi nistration in every age and country, but are capable of complete removal by certain changes in the social struc ture, which, unless brought to more practical and com prehensive views, they will never cease to demand. Now, this, let us plainly tell them, is just to make war against the eternal and immutab!c sovereignty of heaven, which, as a portion of its retributive discipline, no fretful impatience of man's can either elucidate or alter. To fancy that the unequal distributions of Pro vidence are susceptible of removal by any mortal de vices, is just to mistake in toto the powers and province of civil government. All that human legislation can effect, even in its best efforts on behalf of the poor, can only be a partial remedy for privations, which (though legitimately entitled to the sympathy and succour of the State, with a due regard to the co-ordinate and sometimes conflicting claims of other interests) without narrowing the range of the active and passive vir tues, and proportionably arresting the moral progress of society. What, then, is the difference between one Govern ment and another, that should impel us to prefer the Conservatives to your pretended Liberals ? Why, just that identical difference which would induce people to prefer a skilful, cautious, and straightforward physi• clan to a boastful and blood-sucking quack. The Whigs have told the working men of England, that if they would only ,rgitate to keep the Liberal faction in office, they would do everything for them in the world. How has the promise been realized ? What has the Reformed Parliament done for them ? What has the Municipal Bill done for them ? In a word, are they a bit better off in 1539 than they were eight years ago? On the other hand, the most honest portion of the Conservatives have been in the habit of telling the labouring classes, that while sincerely desirous of miti gating the hardships of their position by so superintend ing the trade and commerce of the country as to keep them in regular employment at the best possible wages, the chief grievance which working men are prone to complain of—namely, the grievance of not being mas ters and gentlemen—is what no legislation on earth can pretend to cure. Could our Sheffield friends, in ad dition to the repeal of the Corn-laws, obtain to-morrow the Vote by Ballot, Annual Parliaments, and that Universal Suffrage which we fear their hearts arc still set upon, their position in society would not be a whit improved thereby, but their dissatisfaction with it would be prodigiously increased. Practical measures for advancing the general intelligence and prosperity of the country, apart from speculative innovations upon the structure of its institutions, are what would really be for the benefit of all classes of the community with out compromising the just interests of any. In the ad vantage of such measures the working man of England would participate in their due proportion ; and such mea sures the Whigs are neither competent nor ready to give. THE KENSINGTON UNION.—Some of the newspapers contain a long, tedious report of a rupture between the Board of Guardians and the Poor-law Commissioners. It appears that at the usual weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Kensington union, held in the Kensington workhouse, the Board proceeded to the business for which they had been spe cially summoned—viz., to take into consideration two letters from the Poor-law Commissioners ; one contain ing a copy of a letter from the vestry clerk of Chelsea, complain►ng, by direction of the Parochial Committee, of the proceedings lately instituted against them by the Board ; and the other expressive of the Commissioners' disapprobation of a declaration made by Ms. Cornell, the clerk to the Board, in reference to a statement made by Mr. Kyder, one of the guardians of Chelsea, to the justices of the Kensington division, assembled in special sessions, on the Bth ult. The following resolu tion was adopted, after a discussion perfectly parochial and violent—" That the Board were obliged to have re course to the proceedings complained of by the parish of Chelsea as a matter of absolute necessity, and that that should be the only answer that should be returned to the Poor-law Commissioners." A great deal of squab blino- ensued about some other resolution, we believe, after which the meeting broke up. NEWS FROM TIE MEPITERRA NE AN. (From the Harlequin, of the Bth inst.) The Minden and the Pembroke left here on the sth. The Rhadamanthus remains in port, and will not pro ceed to the Levant before the 14th inst., unless some important despatches arrive for Sbßobert Stopford. The Hermes arrived from Alexandria . at 6 a.m. on the 30th ult., bringing an India mail to the 28th of October from Bombay, originally put on board the Atalanta, but subsequently, in consequence of her taking fire and get ting burnt to the very cabins, transferred to the Hugh Lindsay, which reached Suez on the 21st of November. On the 24th, at 4 p.m., her mails got to Alexandria, whence the Hermes sailed with them at 11 a.m. on the 25th. These mails were despatched to Marseilles by the Acheron a few hours after their reaching Malta, which vessel may be expected back on the 13th with the London overland mail of the 4th instant, which will be carried on to Alexandria by the Blazer, whose turn it is to make the two next voyages. The Zeno. bia, on her way to Aden, put into Mocha, on account of taking fire, but, as the same was soon got under, she proceeded, after a short delay, without any material damage. The Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Alexan dria have again unbent sails, and made themselves snug for the winter. The report which had reached Sir Robert Stopford, that the former were leaving Alexan dria by single ships, appears to have originated in an English vessel's having met at sea a Turkish launch with a crew of men and officers which had contrived to desert whilst watering, and which, it is sup. posed subsequently foundered, as no tidings had reached Alexandria respecting her down to the 25th ultimo. The Paella pe rs i s ts in retaining the Ottoman fleet until such time as all his demands upon the Sultan are agreed to. He appears to fear treachery from France, and thinks it doubtful whether the alliance with Great Britain will be of long duration. The seamen and officers of the Turkish ships are suf fering greatly from dysentry, brought on by coarse and unwholesome food, and there are scarcely ever less than 1,200 individuals in hospital. Considerable discontent prevails. Private letters from Malta of the Bth instant an nounce the arrival of the Pembroke ship of the line from Vourla, on her way home to England. The Minden, which had sailed for the same destination, had been obliged by bad weather to return to Malta. Colonels Wangfuhl and Cameron, who were attached to the British Legation in Persia in the capacity of in structors, had arrived at Malta from Constantinople. The last advices from Athens, mentioned that King Otho had, at last, authorised Mr. Wright to establish a bank in Greece. Discontent was general throughout Greece. MONEY IVIAAKET and CITY NIP.; 17 ;6. OHURSDAY EVENING.) TlMES.—Thett , was but a thin attendance Of dealers to-day at the Stock Excili - e, the majority of theta being in the Court where the cause; " Mortimer against Taylor and another" came on for a hearing, and was de cided in favour of the plaintiff. The case arose out of the fraudulent purchase of 5,0004 stock by a stock jobber of the name of Taylor, since dead, by whom the stock was transferred to a creditor of his at the west end of the town, of which the leading- facts were noticed at the time. The funds remain quiet. CHRONICLE.—We are again without any arrivals deserving notice. The British Queen, which was to have left New York on the '2d instant, is hourly ex pected ; indeed many parties imagine, from the length of time now elapsed, that she must have been detained for the purpose of bringing the President's Message. Even supposing such to have been the case, and that she might leave on the 6th, her arrival may be looked for to-morrow. In the English Stock Market, Consols remained stationary thr o u g ho u t the day, with little business, many of the members having proceeded to the Court of Exchequer, the trial of Mortimer v. M'Allan, respecting the transfer of 5,000/. Consols, having been appointed for this day. Late in the fore noon the verdict was announced as being in favour of the plaintiff (Mr. Mortimer), which gave universal satisfaction ; indeed, looking upon it from the com mencement as purely a " mercantile transaction," We do not see how, in point of equity and justice, any other decision could have been come to. In the Foreign House, Colombian Stock underwent a further depression ; the Committee of South American bondholders, which met to-day, having received letters from Col. 'Wright, the Commissioner of the Ecuador, as also from Senor Mosquera, Commissioner for New Gra nada, declining a personal interview with the Committee, upon the grounds that it could lead to no result, they having no discretionary powers from their respective Governments ; Senor Fortique, for Venezuela, declined also to attend, but professed his readiness to receive at his private house the Chairman, as President of the Committee. We understand the Committee received information from Chili that the Minister of Finance, in his budget for 1840, had entirely passed over the foreign debt, and made no provision for the dividends, although he does for that of the internal debt. Dutch Stock was some what lower, the letters from Amsterdam bringing the price of the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. i f per cent. worse, arising out of the circumstance of a determination on the part of the Second Chamber to oppose the in tended loan of 56,000,000 of florins, although at the same time they do not object to granting a vote of credit until a period which they conceive may be sufficient to place certain grievances, connected in a great measure with monetary affairs, on a firm and secure footing. POST.—The aecounts received from Holland by the mail of the 18th instant, notice some little depres sion in the value of the public funds in the Amsterdam market. This was owing, it appears, to a report which was current, to the effect that the Second Chamber would discountenance the proposed loan of fifty-six mil lion guilders. The discussion upon this question was to come on on the 19th instant (this day). The English Market has not for some time past been in a state to admit of the introduction of any fresh creations of foreign bonds, if we except the two amounts (together 1,700,0001.) negociated for account of the United States' Bank, and, perhaps, about a quarter of a million of American State Se curities, these being in a manner forced upon our capitalists by circumstances of a specific nature. The action of the Bank of England on the circulation has completely put a stop to the operations: of that class of persons who have for years past been playing the part of paid tools to the unprincipled Ministers of Spain and Portugal. The application of the Bank " screw" is al ways a signal fer the retirement of these gentry for a season, the interval being usually employed in the con cocting of pamphlets and letters vituperating the Di rectors, and recommending such a change in the mone tary laws as may better answer their mercenary pur poses. The public may take it for granted that a man does not give himself the trouble of sitting down to his desk day after day and writing a dozen angry letters on the dry unpalatable subject of banking, with the pure and disinterested motive of enlightening them alone. The stimulus is in many cases, we believe, to be found in the incumbrance that arises to the authors, or their friends and partisans, from an over. loaded bill case—from a too great accumulation of unsaleable securities. Much of the clamour, however, is no doubt attributable to those who are ever on the watch for an opportunity of dipping their hauls once more into the pockets of their chosen victims in the name of some one or other of the foreign States who have practised so largely on the credulity of this coun try. A loan of 300,0001. was contracted not many months ago for the use of Brazil. An attempt has since been made to obtain a little more money for the same destination, but it failed. Suspicion was naturally awakened by the repetition of the demand within so short a time, and other means of raising the wind were of necessity resorted to. There was a changing of agencies and other proceedings calculated to increase this suspicion, but the Brazilians are, as we have shown, still harping upon another foreign loan. HERALD.—The state of the Money Market, so far as regards the rate of interest, scarcely requires any comment. The continued heavy discount at which Exchequer Bills remain in the Money Market, has, however, latterly created much attention amongst the moneyed circles. It is well known that their present depreciation mainly arises out'of the fact, that they were not included amongst the other securities upon which the Bank were desirous to grant loans until the open ing. Thus they have been rendered a species of dead capital upon the hands of the holders, who, in many cases of emergency could not avail thenyselves of them as a means of borrowing money upon, except from day to day, or for extremely short periods. Considerable inconvenience has occasionally arisen out of this state of things, and it was somewhat anticipated in the early part of the day that it would be proposed in the Bank parlour to remove this existing restriction upon Ex chequer Bills as securities for loans or advances from the Bank. No notice to that effect has, however, been given, and nothing has transpired to warrant the sup position that the Bank Direction have any such mea sure in contemplation. According to the official returns of the actual ex ports of bullion from the 12th to the 18th December inclusive, it appears that gold in coin has been ex ported to the amount of 596 ounces, and silver in coin to the amount of 11,526 ounces. SUN.—The trial of Mortimer v. M'Allan, which has excited so much interest in the Stock Exchunge, was decided to-day in favour of the plaintiff. It may be recollected that a few weeks since Mr. Mortimer, a Stock-broker, sold to a Mr. Taylor 5,0001. Consols for immediate transfer, but the cash not being forth coming a cheque payable the next day being offered him, he placed a distringas on the Stock at the Bank, and to-day obtained la verdict in :his favour. Mr. M'Allan is the representative of Mr. Taylor, who has since the transaction committed suicide. Consols for the opening closed at 921, Exchequer Bills at 3s. dis. ; and Bank Stock at 177,i. Spanish Consols improved to 238 d, but Colombian fell suddenly from 24i to 23, and Mexican dropped to 28 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per cents closed at .538. The Shares were all a shade better this afternoon. PROPERTY WIZEIOUT AN OWNER.--Mr. Lyon, solicitor, appeared again at the New Bailey on Thursday last, to show cause why he refused to pay 1271., claimed from him by the Salford Police Commis sioners, being his proportion of the expense of paving and sewering Hope-street, Salford, in respect of some property in that street, supposed to belong to him. The case, it will be remembered, was before the Court on the 28th ult., when Mr. Hope denied being the owner of the property, and it was adjourned to Thursday last, to give the Commissioners an opportunity of proving that he received the rents, and acted as owner. On the part of the Commissioners several of the tenants of the property were called, who all stated that they paid their rents to Mr. Lyon's agent, and had done so ever since they occupied the property. Mr. Bradley, the agent, was also called, who stated that he re ceived the rents, and paid them over to Mr. Lyon, for which he received a commission ; but, he believed, Mr. Lyon was not the owner of the property. Mr. Maude said he thought that a sufficient prima facie case was now made out against Mr. Lyon ; and a warrant of distress must be issued against him, if he did not either pay the money, or state who was the owner. Mr. Lyon then produced several deeds, which he handed to Mr. Maude, and stated that the land in question, 4,600 yards square, was sold in 1805 by a man named Barns ley, subject to a chief rent of 861. 38. 3d. Barnsley was indebted to a Mr. Milne in 2,0001., for which he mortgaged the chief rent as a security. His interest had, through subsequent deeds, become vested in a per son named Rayner, who, he understood, was now in America. The mortgage was assigned to Mrs. Pigot, wife of Dr. Pigot, of Nottingham ; and he, (Mr. Lyon) received the rents for her ; but, as she is now dead, the rents are sent to her husband. The mortgagees were very awkwardly situated, as they could not sell the land for want of a title. Mr. Maude said that statement was sufficient to exonerate Mr. Lyon. The summons was then dismissed.—ilianchester Guardian. THE O'CONNELL COMPENSATION. The Tory papers tell us that the subscriptions to this fund are few and small, while the other party's papers state that its progress is satisfactory. Air. Peter Purcell has sent his " usual subscription," 20 guineas, as tribute to Mr. O'Connell. EMETICS IN CONSUMPTION.—Emetics have been employed in the early stage of consu mption; and as one of the occasional an d rare means o f curing this disease before the breaking down and expectoration of the tuberculous matter, we know of none contributing to this end, on which more reliance can be placed.— Dr. iVeatherhead on ConsuTiiption. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 27.—Things are at a standstill and likely to remain so. Mehemet has entered into the spirit of the treaty of commerce, by permitting all Eu ropeans cultivating land in Egypt the free exportation of their produce ; and the merchants have received a firman allowing them to purchase maize from the fellahs. His Highness Mehemet Ali, at the request of the Royal Society of London, has ordered the construction of an observatory for meteorological and magnetic experiments, to complete the series already made by that Society in several other parts of the world. These experiments will be superintended by M. Lambert, of the School of Engineers at Cairo. The observatory will be built upon the island of Boulac, and all the instruments and appa ratus will be sent from London. CAIRO, Nov. 23.—Abbaz Pacha has been here for some time, but has now proceeded to Damietta. During his stay here he passed the following rigorous sentence, which has been loudly blamed as barbarous by Eu ropeans, but is considered an act of impartial justice by the aborigines : A young Turkish female of surpassing loveliness, for some reason, could not agree with her legitimate spouse; and, after some severe domestic strife, she was repu diated and sent forth from the congugal harem. She took advantage of this liberty, and received the amorous salents of a young Greek, in whose society she was dis covered by the mercilessly moral police of this country. Thus surprised in a tetc-a-tete, which is so severely proscribed by the Koran, notwithstanding the voluptuous disorder of her costume, she was dragged to a prison, from which she has just been led, to expiate her crime in the Nile, into which she was thrown, to the great joy of a vast concourse of Molhus and Ulemahs, who were unmoved by her heartrending shrieks and prayers for mercy. ALbaz Pacha would fain have made the young Greek experience this " mode of navigation," but he called upon his Consul to protect him from the rigour of the Turks. Moreover, the young Greek solemnly protests that his lovely but unfortunate companion had fallen a victim to the gross calumnies of the police, and that he was merely visiting her for the purpose of purchasing some of her jewels. An Arab is to be stoned to death to-day for a crime of an aggravated nature (incest), which, according to oriental custom, receives this dreadful punishment. TURKISH FIRMAN. The Smyrna Journal publishes a firman, addressed by the Sultan to the Governors of the empire, and explaining in detail the principles of the Hatti-Scheriff of Gulhane, which they are called upon to put in force in their respective provinces. It is to the following purport After informing the Governors that the new social constitution had been sworn to in the sacred name of God by the Sultan and all the public functionaries of Constantinople, the firman says :—" Thus from the highest to the lowest, from my Vizier down to the simple shepherd, every man can dispose as he pleases of his property." It then orders that all trials, both civil and criminal, may be open, and full justice may be administered. With respect to capital punish ment, it says, " No person can be put to death, how ever he may have merited it, except on the follow ing conditions :—There shall be forwarded an exact report of his crime to the capital, where the cause of the criminal shall be submitted to a judicial in quiry, and decided upon according to the law of the country. Upon.this decision, I will pronounce the pain of death, so that no person may be authorized in future, under any pretence, to inflict death, publicly or clandestinely, upon any individual whatever. Every public functionary or other person, who shall be con victed of having transgressed this regulation, shall him self be punished with death, without regard to his rank, character, or credit, all men being equal before the law. The property of the criminal shall not in future be con fiscated ; his innocent heirs shall in no wise be made to partake of his punishment, and all their legal rights shall be preserved." The next line in the firman is a volume—“ Every arbitrary act is abolished for the future." After stating that the regulations respecting taxes are preparing, and that there will be no exceptions in favour of any class, all persons having to pay ac cording to their means—the firman concludes with an order to the Governors of the districts to have it read aloud in all public places, and otherwise published, so that none may be ignorant of its contents. MEETIN G OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. A very numerous meeting of the Magistrates of the County of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, for the despatch of county business. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS in the Chair. The minutes of the last Court were read and con firmed. The Report of the Committee of Accounts recom mended that the sum of 2501. be paid to Mr. Baker, and 150/. to Mr. Wakley, the Coroners for the County, on account of the sums due to them for holding inquests since the last Court day. The Report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction stated that there were at present confined in that gaol 813 male and 315 female prisoners. The Report as to the New Prison stated that it at present contained 96 male and 41 female prisoners. Sir J. WlLLimas brought up a Special Report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction as to the immediate necessity of appointing 56 male and 26 female turnkeys to maintain the discipline of that prison under the New Prison Act. The additional expense to the county in consequence of the provisions of this statute will amount probably to 5,0001. per annum for the House of Correction alone. The Report was read and received. Mr. JOHN WILKS thought that, under existing cir cumstances, it was the duty of the Court to come to some specific resolution immediately as to the manner in which the new Act of Parliament should be carried into effect, so as to s ecure the d ue order and manage ment of the House o f Correction. I t was not for them thisresolution moving unanimously to discuss the policy of the new Act ; th e i r d u ty wa s simply fter to some obey it. Hconcluded resolu tion embodying thi s view of the qu es ti on. A adopted. a Mr. TULK stated that there w as now room for several addition a l patients in the Hanwell Asylum, and that n o ti ce would be given to the different pari s hes who discussion, by was had now pauper lunatics confined at Miles's and other private asylums, that unless they were removed to Han well Asylum by the 25th instant, the county would not Pay the additional expense of their keep. After disposing of some other business, the Court adjourned. In some parts of this county and in Hereford shire not a seed of wheat has been yet put into the ground, and a larger breadth than usual will be reserved for spring grain. The wheats already up present a dif ferent appearance in different places. In some they look str ong , healthy, and vigorous, whilst in others the blad e i s o f a yellow and sickly hue. The wet season has continued up to nearly the present period, and so unfavourable a time for sowing has scarcely ever been remembered.—Worcester Journal. . _ There - are nearly 240 prisoners nnw in Wor cester county gaol, the largest number ever known at one time. KING'S COLLEGE. •-- Trie pupils of the upper sixth class of King's C :ollege School reited on Wednesday afternoon, the t Bth of December, th e whole of the third book of Mi'Arm , and &deg of Horace, in the large theatre of the Co liege, before a numerous as;.!mbly, among which: we = the Principal a! the College a .nd the Masters. 'The a ames of the boys were as follow : MturoN.—Sells(head monitor), Eason (sec ond itto), Ince, Roope, Hodgson, Thurston, 17)avies, Sit a, Ta evor, Wray, Vouog, Brandram. HouAcE.—Bladon, Thrupp, Karsla.ke, Rost, The Principal expressed his grea-, ; iatisfacti'L in, and said that it gave him great pleasure, &c., a. Id part ioularly the last boy in the Milton, Braudram. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUR NA LS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY., • (From the Morning Advertiser.) Our Liberal readers must have been highly gratifi 'ed by the intelligence that Lord Melbourne has given nt ' tier of his intention to move on an early day of tht ensuing session for the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts. The statu quo of the question, as concerns those Courts, may be briefly recalled to the mind of the reader. In 1834, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Inquiry returned a report that it would be desirable to do away with the jurisdiction exercised by those Courts, except in civil matters, abolishing their power in criminal matters entirely, and leavin g their jurisdic tion in civil only so far as related to marriages and wills. In addition to this, seeing that there existed at that time three hundred and sixty of these Consistorial Courts, exercising a criminal jurisdiction of a vague, extensive, and extraordinary description, it was pro posed that all these Courts should be abolished, with the exception of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The recommendation of the Commissioners for the abolition of these Courts was, in 1836, sent up to the House of Lords, when tho fate which might, be expected awaited it ; their Lordships generally, and the Bench of Bishops especially, refusing to sanction the proposed reform. In this condition the question remained till Mr. Hawes, on the 25th of April, brought forward an express motion for their abolition, grounded upon the Report and r ecommendation of the Ecclesiasti cal Commissioners. The motion was successful, and a resolution for the abolition of the inferior Ecclesias tical Courts was carried unanimously. No Bill to follow up that resolution has, however,- been prepared, and we are fearful that it will turn out to be a mere " brutum fidmen," leaving the question- as it was before, like many other suspended measures of im portance, and unsatisfied conviction continuing to rankle like a thorn in the public side. If the assent of the Bench of Bishops, and of the Lords generally', to the resolution of the Lower House is doubted unsier the ‘Vhig rule, what would have been our prospects' bad the projected Tory domination been confirmed ; the Bishops, and their docile and respectlbl coronettcd pupils, would have been supported in their distaste to ecclesiastical change of any description by the existence of a Ministry never over-favourable to the claims of Dissenting redress, or of Church re form ? Yet these Courts must henceforth be con sidered as defunct, as a dead carcass linked with the living body of the Church, and as so injurious to the proper exercise of its vital functions, as, for its own sake, to require the sharp and speedy remedy of ampu tation. In fact, the anathema of Sir S. Lushington himself, the head authority of one of the chief Eccle siastical Courts, has already struck the system of these Courts a mortal blow, and sooner or later they must be extinguished by a natural or violent death. " The clerical functionaries who presided in them," said Dr. Lushington, " were wholly ignorant whether their pro ceedings were or were not consisl-,ent with law. Such a Incas and medley displayed had seldom been exhibited ; they were sentiments of the grossest and most grievous injustice." It is notorious to all persons familiar with the history of the Church, that ever since the organizing " Constitutions" of 1603 were agreed to, the same ob jections have been made to the heterogeneous mass of canon avid civil laws ; and that the unconformable junction of a new and old system has caused the same confusion and the same disgust. An able writer in the Edinburgh Review, referring to the patchwork Consti tution of the Church hastily adopted in 1603, says— " Neither the Bishops at that time had any competent knowledge of the laws they had to administer, nor had the clergy the most vague conception of the canons which prescribed their duties and regulated their inte rests in matters of spiritual jurisdiction." Precisely in that condition has the Church Constitution remained ever since. Cromwell once intended to clear away the whole framework of the Ecclesiastical Courts ; and it would have been well for society if he had enforced that wholesome resolution. The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church is not only disgraceful to a civilised coun try, but most painful in its exercise to the respectable members of the English Church, most injurious to the estimation and the popularity, to the wholesome influ ence and to the permanent interest, of the Establishment. (From the Morning, Chronicle.) For months past the Tory Press have been va pouring about the wonderful things their party was to achieve at Manchester at the next election. Loud and long were their notes of triumph when Sir G. Murray purchased, at the expense of the remnant of character which his previous pledge-breaking performances in Perthshire had left him, the precarious support of a few " honourable and independent" Chartists, and the somewhat dubious honour of a defeat, more disgraceful, but a little less decisive, than on former occasions. What change is this which has come over the spirit of their dream ? How is it that their boastings are turned into lamentations, their confidence into despon dency, their exultation into an agony of terror and de spair ? A simple announcement appears in the Court Circular that Mr. Labouchere has gone down to spend a few days with a friend at Manchester ; and, if a thunderbolt had fallen in the midst of them it could not have caused a greater panic. That the electors of Manchester would, in the event of Mr. Greg's health preventing him from taking his seat, be extremely glad to secure the services of a gentleman whose character stands so high with the country, and who, from his business-like habits, his intimate acquaintance with the commercial interests of the empire, and his known opinions on the all•important question of the Corn laws, is in every respect so well qualified to represent their great metropolis of manufacturing industry as Mr. Labouchere, is in the highest degree pro bable ; and that, if he were to come for ward as a candidate, he would be returned by an overwhelming majority, is abundantly certain. Happily, however, the improvement of Mr. Greg's health of late has been such as to remove the apprehen sions, which were at one time entertained, that he would be unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties ; and, although we do not pretend to be in the secret of Mr. Labouchere's intentions, we have the strongest reasons for believing, that it has never so much as entered his contemplation to take any step which would dissolve his connection with the constituency of Taunton, among whom he is so deservedly popular. Although the Tories, therefore, may escape for the present the infliction of a signal defeat at Manchester, the ludicrous terror which the bare surmise of the possibility of a contest has occa sioned among them, will not, we trust, be lost upon the country. Shameless as they are, they will scarcely venture in a hurry to boast of re-action at Manchester, or talk of their popularity in the manufacturing districts. So hopeless does the writer in the Times consider the Tory cause to be, in case Mr. Labouchere should be induced to come forward as a candidate for Man chester, that he can find no better resource than to en tertain his readers by sneering at the " cotton metro polis" and the " cotton aristocracy." The rancorous spirit of arrogant domineering exclusiveness, which is the very essence and life-blood of Toryism, is continu ally showing itself behind the hollow mask of popularity, which, for electioneering purposes, they find it conve nient to put on. Bland and humble, the Tory candidate goes hat in hand to the manufacturer to solicit his vote. Who so loud as he in the praises of British energy and enterprise ? Who so warm in his pro testations of attachment to the interests of trade and commerce ? Listen to the same man in the unre serve of private society, and the ingenuousness of after dinner potations. Mark how he sneers at the vulgar parvenu, who has dared to raise himself by the exercise of talent and honest industry to an equality with the hereditary lords of the soil ! We tell these narrow-minded exclusives, that the " cotton aristo crcy," as they are pleased to term the manufacturers of Manchester, are a body of men who may vie with the foremost in the land, in intelligence, education, princi ple, and public spirit. We tell them that it is owing to the energy and enterprise of these men, that the country has been enabled to struggle on under the load of debt entailed upon it by the senseless wars and pro fligate extravagance of their forefathers ; and the still heavier burden of the bread-tax wrung, by their grind ing selfishness, from the pittance of the famishing arti san. Are they aware of the importance of the branch of didustry which they presume to make the butt of their paltry witticisms and clumsy ridicule ? Do they know the amount of the capital embarked in the cotton manufacture ? Do they know that a mil lion and a half' of persons, whose collective wages ex ceed 17,000,0001. a year, depend upon it for their daily bread : that the value of the cotton yarn and manu factures annually exported considerably exceeds 20,000,0001, and constitutes at this moment more than half the value of the whole export trade of th c , British empire ? Well may the writer in the Times a n . ticipate defeat at Manchester, if he has no better ch arge to bring against Ministers than that of having fostered and encouraged, to the utmost of their power, this most important branch of national industry. We thank him for having taken off the mask, and avowed openly, what his more timid brethren make no secret of in pri vate—that the bitter and unprincipled opposition of the faction to Lord Melbourne's Administration has for its chief cause the countenance and encouragement which have been so steadily and undeviatingly afforded to the industrious middle classes—the trading, commercial, and manufacturing interests of the British en pire. his L qu ie a u r t t . er J s a . me H s T e h t o ie m d ps i o li n s , s A a d si j l ut, cruiting Di s t ric t, h ange d hi mse lf on brought it over the door, and insid round his neck, while standing 0 , kicked the stool away. When fount. unfortunate deceased was a native of Truro, Cornwall, and has for some period laboured at times under an ab berration of mind. He was a most temperate, amiable man, and much respected. Major Barry, of the Royal Engineers, lately stationnd at Limerick, has been appointed to the command of the Engineer Department at Birmingham, in succession to Captain Jebb ; and Lieut. Renwick has replaced Captain Scrvante at Kilkenny, the latter officer being ordered on foreign service. The depot companies of the 50th Regiment embarked at this port on the 10th on board the Britannia steam-vessel, and sailed for Belfast. Captain Conroy, Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutoaant- General Commanding, Sir E. Blakeney, K.C.8., ,has returned to the Royal Hospital. DINNER OF THE CAMBRIDGE REFORMERS TO T. M. GIBSON, ESQ. n Wednesday last a public dinner was given to this ge. otleman at the Town-hall, which was attended ,by abo, ut three hundred persons. That veteran., and steam eh Reformer, Henry Gunning, Esq., M.A., and Senior Esquire-Bedell, occupied the Chair ; and was supported on the right by I'. M. Gibson, Esq.; and lm the left by George Pryme, Esq., M.P. for the boron* The Cs AIRMAN proposed the first toast—". The Queen—Qu,len Victoria, a long and happy reign :to her." This toast was drunk w i t h th e most deafening cheers, and one cheer more, many times repeated. The CHAIRMAN----That our Sovereien's reign might be long and prosperous, he was sure they all ''wished. And when they looked to her sex, they could say, as was observed with regard to the other sex, " It was 'riot good for woman to be alone." This only bar to her happiness, he was happy to say, was about -speedily to be removed. It was her privilege to choose her hus band, and she had exercised that privilege by choosing the Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg.—(Cheers.) And when they looked at his family history, they would see that his family had sacrificed life and property in sup port of the Protestant religion ; and, therefore, the Tory cry on that subject went for nothing ; and it was forfeited,we l l known, e r that r n t . h — e ( Q c u h e e e e n r s m . ar ri e He d , a h C o a w t h e volierc,, had) somewhat digressed ; he rose to propose " The health of the future husband of the Queen." This toast was received with the liveliest demonstrations of loyal en thusiasm. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of "'her Majesty the Queen Dowager." The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Duke of Sussex —(Cheering for some minutes)—and the rest of the Royal Family"—(Renewed cheering, and loud cries of " now in England"). The CHAIRMAN proposed as the next toast, " the health of her Majesty's Ministers."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then said, knowing, as I do, the een ,timents of those amongst the Cambridge constitu efloy who dare to be Liberal, I will not say one word respeet;ag the toast I am about to propose, but at once name to y.ou Thomas Milner Gibson, Esq., our guest. —(This ens a signal for plaudits, such as have been seldom heard within the walls of she old Hall, and they were many times renewed, and seemed to be in terminable.) When the applause had subsided, Mr. GiesoN rose, and said that he had not been in attentive to public events, and especially to those mat ters connected with Cambridge, which reached him through the medium of its local press. Amongst these he had recently read with no little astonishment the proceedings which had taken place at the' great Educa tion Meeting held at the Town-hall. It appeared Satis factory, on reading the announcement of t.`ie meeting, to find that the clergy of the Establishad Church in this district, after a long and deep slumber, seemed " awakened"—to use the expression' of Sir Robert Peel—to the importance of extending the mean.s of education to the humbler classes ; but when he looked at the sentiments promulgated on this occasion, he was at a loss to understand how those who gave ut terance to them could call themselves friends to popular , education.—(Hear, hear.) The speeches of reverend, right reverend, and other distinguished persons, esquires, and justices of the peace, seemed—some of them di rectly, some of them indirectly —to have but one object in view ; and that was, to effectually hinder, under va rious pretences, the mental education and moral im provement of the working classes. It had been said by one present at the meeting, " He thought the Bible the only book the poor would desire to read, and he would have them taught to read this book at the right end."—(Great laughter.) What must the working classes think of all such public exhibitions ? Would not the common sense of the nation demand of such men, were they willing to confine themselves to the Bible ? and if they did, where in that sacred volume could they point out such selfishness, such intolerance, as they themselves practised ? They would teach the 'peo ple nothing but the Bible, and the prelates end the priests, and the deacons, carrying the pftnciple out, say "We alone are the persons to teach it ! We 'are the only people to be safely entrusted with the giving of education, if religion is to form a part." Now it was strange, that the only places of education in which little or no religious instruction was observable, were our public schools, at which the youth of the aristocracy were taught Latin and Greek, alone, and over which those exclusive guardians of religion, the clergy of the Established Church, were supposed to pre side with fostering spirit and a holy care. The schools, on the contrary, of the middle classes, as they were called by the privileged ones, but in the scale of intellect and . virtue the higher ones, were remarkable for the whole some religious sentiments and sound principles of mo rality which were taught in them.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) They never would have a good system of na tional education without Government inspection. The inspection of prisons was an example of the efficiency of such a national system. At the time when the inspec tors were appointed, the Magistrates—the unpaid Ma gistrates, be it remembered—asked, was it thought that they wanted looking after ? Was there a doubt as to their integrity? Had they not got chaplains?—(Hear, hear.) In fact, had they not got all the apparatus necessary to carry out the scheme in a proper marner ? But, despite of all the objections the Magistracy could bring to bear against an inspection, their opposition was overthrown, and the inspection was carried through ; and (said the Hon. Gentleman) a wretched system was reported to the House of Commons regarding the 1 manner in which the prisons were conducted. How was it that the Aristocracy were willing to entrust the people with the Suffrage, and afraid to entrust them with the Ballot?—(lmmense cheering.) Why is the Ballot called a revolutionary measure ? Is it that the result of an appeal to the constituency would be far different by secret voting to what it is under the pre sent system ? Sir Rebut Peel's chief plan of opposi tion to all measures which had for their object the in crease or further security of popular rights, was to pick holes and point out trifling blemishes in it, and llec lare that it was not perfect. He did not make a In . anlY stand against it on the broad and intelligible princip. t es of the violent men of his party, but he adopted the jesuitical course of marring its success by factious tills noauvre and delay. The Right Hon. Leader of the Conservative party might manage, by his jesuitical talents, to reconcile its jarring elements, and to make them amalgamate, so long as they were arrayed in opposition to the present Ministry ; but once let him succeed to power, and undertake the affairs of Govern- • ment, and the unnatural union from which the Tory party derived its present strength was at an end. And here it was remarkable how cautiously the Right Hon. Baronet had delivered himself on the subject of the Corn-laws. As if looking forward to the nexessity of some change, he did not make a single obsemation on the subject in his recent speech which did not boar a double construction, and from which, with his usual tact, he might not release himself hereafter. Sir R. Peel was too clever and clear-sighted a politician not to I foresee, with the progress which the question of the t Corn-laws is making in the public mind, that neither b e nor any other Minister could stand his ground for two years together, unless he made up his mind to grant some alteration of the present partial and unnatural system. Mr. Gibson sat down amidst the most en thusiastic cheering, which was renewed at brief inter vals, and kept up for a considerable time. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of their able and honest representative, George Pryme, Esq.— (Immense cheering.) Mr. PRYME returned thanks in an eloquent speech, and after some further proceedings of minor importance • the meeting separated, We are very much oblig ed to Emerson Tennent. We are exceedingly rejoiced that the office-bearer of Sir Robert Peel has thrown off the mask—and that he has had the candour to propose the " Glorious and Immortal M emory " to the Orangemen o f N ewry . I t i s important that this should be known, for this Emerson Tennent is somebody, inasmuch as he was chosen by th e Government o f IS'34 to fill an important office—and we may b e sure t h at " the lad" would not betr a y hilt self on a doctrine of such paramount importance as the revival o f O ran geism in Ireland, if he did not know that it would be agreeable at las head-quarters.—. Du blin Evening Post. " PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE." —So u nusual a quantity of rain has fallen during the last few months, that the earth is surcharged with moisture, and the consequence, we fear, will be that disease. c especially in the dwellings of the poor, will b e prevalent. Low fevers, we have heard, are ra th er in low situations. Under such circumst ances, g eneral vry we beg to suggest to landlords of small houses that th ey will be doing an act of charity to their tenants, an d very much improve the health of the town, if they will cause their houses to be lime-washed—a practice very promo tive of health at all times, but especially so after such a wet season as we have experienced. L+l V . EN IN G ED IT .v#fPr' . . _ • - .4,,, - .0, t il .., ~...ii , . • ~ THE ARMY.—IREk: ." ii ::-.• ~.› .:. -- gn i ~..,7 , g K.' , ' Lieut. James Thompson, Adjutant to .... :. ,ts , ~,.. Tuiting District, hanged himself on 5.,„ 1, 'l" .- . ... . '4llr-: .is quarters. He tied his sash to -'', .. . .a . .: dr4 4- rought it over th e d oor , an d i ns id e t i e , t r;• - ~,L . :;'2 4. 1;, - v , )unct his neck, while stand ing on a s t oo , :5411.: .-.'. ick e d t h e stoo l away. When found he was dm.. 'e j * I I