The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-14 00:00:00

EV EWING EDITION. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S WORKS. Now in course of public Aim, in separate Volumes, on the Ist if each alternate month ; uniformly and neatly printed, in po•t Bvo., price 10s. 6d., THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FIUMPHRY DAVY, BART. Edited by his Brother, JOHN DAVII, M. D., F. R. S. Vol. I. Contains a Memoir of flu: Life of Sir Humphry Davy, with a Portrait, complete in itself. Vol. 11. Contains the whole of Sir Humphry Davy's Mis cellaneous Papers, from 1799 to 1805. Vol. 111. Researches on Nitrous Oxide, and the Combina tions cf Oxygen and Azote. Vol. IV. y The Elements of Chemical Philosophy. " This collection from its variety and interest promises to be one cr the most valuable republications of our tame."—Spec tator. " I,Ve congratulate the public most sincerely on the publica tion of a complete and handsome Edition of Sir H. Davy's Ks. "—United Service Gazette. This Memoir is a worthy record of film Life of our great Pl::osoplier, and should be studied by the youth of England, that :hey may know how mighty a power re si d es in the mind to comitieT difficulties."—Britannia. Smith, Elder, and Co., 63, Cornhill. MAJESTY the EMPEROR of _ELL AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA fIANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY 1 3 1 - IEAHUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) etrer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PRE- V101:S to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICOLARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HANIBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT Dis Bri'lONcontains Portions mf TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE TII(IJSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, oNE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DItED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE. 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Tickets and pieties for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, Box-:;llitte, from Ten till Foar, where Season Tickets he liad upon application. Private Boxes to Iv! had solely of Mr Andrews, bookseller, iv 7. Nev Bond-strect. ROVAL SURREY THEATRE. in , worth ' s original and extraordinary Drama of " Jaek Shep ,ird " still maintains its supremacy; 130,000 persons have ~•.it::e-sed its representation, and the nightly overflows have e, , ,r.tirtued its popularity. It will be acted every Evening. ' ft : JVENING, Dxc. 14, - I'lili ba auted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. 114;tratin?, all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Clialactl.rs by Aiessi.s. Saville, Dale, fleslop, Laws, Smith, ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss :.rant Ms. Laws, &c. To conclude with the Old English Drama of TrIE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE. Era, Mrs. Vining. Katherine Miss Grant. Lucie, Miss Martin. alter Marc Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale. J3hn the Jester, Mr. Smith. I ‘il-WATER. AT LONDON BIitIDUE TO- ORR° VV. 'n'rk 9 9 minutes after 8 g Evening 2 minutes atter 9 TO CORRESPONDENTS. qui.e are , xith E. H. Simmons, that the passage of ,he Vindicator to which he has coiled our attention, can only, by very forced interpretation, be construed into a ►ecommendation of assassination. At the same time, on the whole, we think it most advisable not to publish his communication. .f)g. c 4 .t. ,' A*: '' l. • '.. '''''' • - ‘ 4,*1. ',...-, r/f) 'llll+ LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1839. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. SUSPENSION OF SEVEN MINISTERS. In The Sun of Thursday we gave an account of a meeting of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, in Aberdeenshire, when the Veto Act (a subject which our English readers ought now to understand) came under discus - Sion on the motion that a pre sentee to the parish of Marnoch be taken on trials. This motion was supported in accordance with the decisions of the Court of Session and the House of Lords, and opposed in obedience to the decision of the General Assembly. After lengthened speeches a division took place, when there appeared for the motion, 7 ; and against it, 4 ; leaving a majority of -8 in favour of the law of the land. The Comtnision of Assembly, (consisting of a certain number of Clergymen and Elders, appointed to represent the General Assembly), met in Edinburgh on Wednesday. This important question was taken up with great ardour, and the d!bate continued from noon till half-past one next morning, when the following resolution was agreed t o 10; a majority of 121 to 14:—" That the Com misgion resolve to suspend the remanent members (Cl(Y..c obedient to the Civil Courts), viz., the Rev. COWIE of Cairnie, the Rev. Mr. THOMSON, of Keith, the Rev. Mr. rilAssoN of notriplde, ti-,e Rev. Mr. CRUICKSHANK of Mortlach, the Huy. Mr. CRUICKSHANK of Glass, the Rev. Mr. IWALKER of Huntly, and the Rev. Mr. ALLAR DYcE of Rhynie—and the Commiczion hereby do suspend the said min'sters 1.3 m the office and func- I,ions of the holy ministry aye and until they shall be repined by the - General Assembly—prohibiting 0..• d ' ii charging them from the exercise of their it:ncons until they shall be rcponed as aforesaid, ,„d Ai faring that all acts performed by them while , usp ecded shall be void and null." The consequence of which is, that till the ques tion comes before the General Assembly in May, these svcn clergymen are suspended from all cle- rical functions, and their places are to be supplied by others cppointed by the Commission. It will Thus be seen that the two powers in the State, the Civil and the Ecclesiastical, have come into violent ) cr,flisicn, and that the Ecclesiastical power, with its u:-teal daring, and with its utter contempt for the authority of the State, whether that Ecclesias tical power be Presbyterian, Protestant, or Catholic, ( Lave commenced the attack, and set the laws of the Jana at defiance. The Supreme Civil Court 1, of Sc-nland, on a late occasion, merely reprimanded r""Thally certain ministers who disobeyed their orders, ) 'wit t he - representatives of the Supreme Ecclesiasti e.-.1 Court have taken a much more decided step, I arl( suspended the whole of these recusant clergy, who felt the conviction of the wholesome truth, iixlll"tecl on the Chartists by Chief Justice TIN.. I) A L at Monmouth, that they are bound to yield obedience to the law of their country, not from the i 'i terror only which th e l aw inspires, but from a ' ,euch higher and a more binding motive, the fear ', of the Al m ighty, and from t h e thorough belief that :1 ‘• the powers which be are ordained by GOD." Thin, however, the Commission of Assembly de nies, and in that respect they and the rioters of i Wales, in the eye of the law , are Equally guilty. 1 1 it is certainly a remarkable feature o f the yes( nt times that pious and moral clergymen ~ 1 10 obey the law should be subjected to the h utn i. . ,ration, the degradation, and the disgrace of suspen sien . (in the words of Dr. LEE) from the most im. ( irant and most sacred duties imposed upon them by Church and State. May not this be described I an an act which tends to a schism in i .1 the Church, ) tillu .may not those who commit it one day repent t of asserting power which modern laws, customs, and i religion too, alike reject ? --.......- What th e State requires from a Church Estab- I lishment is to make an orderly moral people. It call have no interest, and no business with religious dcgtrines as a means of salvation. Each man must b , save d, if at all, by his individual faith, and the State is not constituted to select—for which, 1 deed, it is utterly unfit—a faith for its subjects, with a view to their eternal happiness. The Stat e is the creature of the human will for a human pur pose, and its business and its duties are wholly con fined to this life. Hence the Tories have properly taken the opportunity of the Newport riots affording a proof that a part of the people are disorderly and immoral—not that they run a greater risk than Bishop PHILPOTTS, Or Lord LYNDHURST, of failing to reach Heaven—to demand more Church and more religious education. Under this aspect, remembering the ferocious opposition which the Fire brands have recently given to the promotion of education, unless controlled by the priesthood, we must remind our statesmen of the condition of Germany. In that country a general system of edu c ation is carried on, over which the priesthood, as such, have not a particle of control. Many of the body are teachers ; some of them are members of the dif ferent councils and boards, though not in right of their pastoral office, but the boards, councils, and teachers are all appointed by the Government. Un doubtedly religious instruction forms a part of that general system of secular education ; but it is not its basis, nor is the system in any wise placed under the priesthood. At the same time the bulk of the people are orderly and obedient, to the full content ment of their rulers. Such riots as those at New port, Nottingham, and Bristol—such scenes as those of the conflagrations and disorders of Kent in 1830, are nearly, or even wholly, unknown in Germany. We are not the advocate of the drilling system ; we almost doubt whether a state of society, diversified by a Chartist outrage, be not preferable to the dull and apathetic submission to an) thing and every_ thing which distinguishes the Germans. But our statesmen are the advocates of such a system,—the Church is maintained in all its costly and distorted splendour on that principle, and to our statesmen and to those who advocate the drilling system, we say look at the effects of a secular education uncon trolled by the priesthood in Germany, and the effects of education placed in the hands of a richly endowed priesthood in England. We confine our selves wholly to such considerations as ought alone to weigh with politicians and legislators— who, as such have nothing whatever to do with religion as a means of salvation, who endow a State Church for political purposes only, and on such considerations they are bound at once to re pudiate the system of education controlled by the priesthood, now established in England, and adopt the system of secular education controlled by the Government, and independent of the priesthood, as established in Germany. Sir PETER LAURIE has indited a leper to the termagant parson who lately filled the office of Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, and who is one of the bottle-holders of the Reverend Ribald who " serves out" the Wesleyans every month in the periodical organ of the Church, yclept the Church Magazine. It would seem that the ex-Chaplain had taken offence, not so much at the severe terms in which the worthy Alderman—to his credit be it spoken—animadverted upon the bitter and intolerant spirit displayed by him in his noto rious Corporation Sermon, as at the enormity of which Sir PETER has been guilty in applying the term " Catholic" to the Church of Rome. "It appears to me," says he, " that our difference arises from the term Catholic.' Now, the sense in which 1 used it was that in which it is used by Clarendon, Gibbon, Hume, and by people generally when speaking of Roman Catho lics. Strictly speaking, the Roman Church is certainly not Catholic, nor do I know any body which can be so designated, except the universal body of Christians throughout the world." No one we think, but a quibbling bigot could have found fault with the expression " Catholic," as used by the Alderman. It is not only justified by the au thority of the best writers of our own and other countries, but, taking it in the etymological sense, as the Reverend pedant does, it is even then more applicable to the Roman Church than to any other, inasmuch as that Church approaches more nearly than any other to universality. Sir PETER having satisfactorily disposed of the pious word-catcher's main objection, proceeds to read him a lecture on his intolerance, and to defend the twin champions of Methodism from his ma lignant aspersions. " I deeply regretted," con tinues he, " to find you attacking two such excel lent men as WESLEY and WHITFIELD, who may be termed the apostles of the miners, and a vast body of humble and neglected persons, who owe their knowledge of religion solely to their disinterested, earnest, and pious exertions. If their zeal had had no other effect than that of awakening the Church of England from her lethargy, and he r ministers from their torpor, that alone might have protected that zeal from being considered baneful' in its effects, these Divines from being branded as calumniators,' and their doctrines from having exposed the members of the Chris tian body to the crafty policy of the .Jesuit, or the infidelity of the zealous Owen.' " Never was rebuke more properly administered. The conduct of this Mr. CATOR and his associates in aapersing and vilifying the character of WESLEY and WHITFIELD, is in the highest degree un grateful as well as grossly unjust. If they had themselves been imbued with the true spirit of that Gospel which they profess to teach to others, they would have rejoiced that the Gospel was spread abroad, no matter by whom. They would have been overjoyed that the Church of England had been " awakened from her lethargy and her mi nisters from their torpor," and they would have held in honour and reverence the men who were the instruments, in the hand of Providence, of this little less than miraculous work. It is because they are not so imbued—it is because they are mere hire lings in their office—because they are not spiritu ally minded, but of the world, worldly—that they hate and calumniate those by whom their slumbers have been disturbed, and by whose " dis interested, earnest, and pious exertions" multitude of persons have been brought to a sense of religion, who had been utterly neglected by their State provided " pastors and masters." Rather than have the poor instructed by any other than the " lethar gic" teachers of his own order, Mr. CATOR, and such as he, would gladly see. them sunk for ever in ignorance, vice, and wretchedness. Sir PETER urgy proceeds Revering the Church of E ng l an d , subscribing to its doctrines , admiring its liturgy, and adhering to its communion, still I can never approve of animadversions, however conscientious (as I feel assured is the case with you), on the body of Wesleyans, who, though differing from us on minor points, are the firm supporters of our Es tablishment, or of their founders being classed with St. FRANCIS, St. DOMINIC, Or IGNATIUS LOYOLA." Sir PETER is right. No man- professing to be a Christian, whatever stuff his conscience is made of, has a right to be uncharitable, inasmuch as charity, in its widest acceptation, is the fundamental princi ple of the Christian religion. We did not know, before we saw the last quoted paragraph, that Sir PETER LAURIE was a member of the Church of England. We know that he was once a Presbyterian, but we doubt not he has em braced " black prelacy," from a conviction of its apostoli ca l aut h or i ty. W e h ave superior claims to often been surprised at the new light which Scotch men receive On religious matters when they have resided a little time in England , . While in othe r re spects Arg a stiff-necked and opinionative race, somehow or other they almost all swallow the Thirty-nine Articles after the Confession a Faith, with as much relish as they do the roast-beef and plum-pudding after the porridge and the brose of their native land. The next paragraph of the worthy Alderman's letter is not in good taste. Its style is a trifle too ambitious for us. It runs thus : " I may be wrong, but in my opinion the wiser course would be to accept, and not repel, support, be cause it does not come from our own communion, which I alone renders such testimony more valuable, for, strong as the Church of England is in the affections of the people, it is not so powerful as not to be aided by the noble championship of a Chalmers, or the classic elo quence of the lamented Hall." We have a notion that when Sir PETER had written this sentence, lie fancied he had achieved something almost, if not altogether, as fine as any thing that ever dropped from the pen of champion CHALmERs or the tongue of classic HALL. We are sorry that we cannot acquiesce in this opinion. It gives us pain to disturb the self-complacency of the worthy Alderman, but truth is truth. We are, therefore, bound to say that, notwithstanding the pains which the writer seems to have bestowed on the composition of the above paragraph, it appears to us to be very far from a master-piece, either in respect of its logic or its " classic eloquence." We are of opinion that to say that the Church of England stands in need of the aid of those whom it either despises or persecutes, is not very consistent with the assertion that it is " strong in the affections of the people." But, per haps, Sir PETER used the word " people" in the sense in which the three tailors of Tooley-street did when they began their petition to Parliament with ",We, the people of England." Let that, how ever, pass. " The championship of a CHALMERS" is, questionless, a fair specimen of the alliterative ; but as to the "classic eloquence of a lamented HALL," we think there may be a doubt. The elo quence no one will question, but whether the epithet " classic" is exactly that which a good judge would apply to it we will not take the responsibility of determining. Perhaps, if Sir PETER were to leave subjects relating to " classic eloquence" alone, the world would sustain no great loss. There is a trite maxim fully as applicable to Aldermen as to other ambitious aspirants, "ne sutor," &c. We are quite willing to allow that in all matters pertaining to gastronomi cal science the judgment of an Alderman is final. From his decision on the merits of turtle soup we admit, there is no appeal. But between the domain of calipash and the regions of classic eloquence there is a great gulf fixed, which, as far as we know, no member of the Honourable Court has ever yet passed. We do not now expect that Sir PETER will form an exception to the general fate of the worthy fraternity, for, after upwards of five and -twenty years of hard labour to attain the accom plishment of " classic eloquence," he is farther from his point than when he set out. The very best of his oratorical exhibitions are nulli tnagni concussus, as the Eton boy said to the cobbler, who asked him the Latin for " no great shakes." The Morning Chronicle to-day reproduces from the Monthly Chronicle the scale of duties on corn proposed by Mr. CANNING'S Administration, and displays, with some pomp, its apparent advantages over the present scale. We fa tr,ifrom this conduct of two Ministerial Journals, that it is intended to recommend Parliament to adopt Mr. CANNING'S scale, on the authority of Mr. HUSKISSON, who was its real author. Such a scheme will, however, leave in full force all the objections on principle which apply to the present law. If the Duke of WELLINGTON'S scale• has, according to the Chronicle, doomed more of his own country men to destruction than he ever destroyed of their enemies by all his famous victo ries, Mr.. CANNING'S scale would also consign a number to destruction, though not so great, per haps, as the more stringent scale of the Duke. If he, however, have by his Coin-law slain his thou sands and his tens of thousands, why should the Whigs, by adopting Mr. CANNING'S scale, enable people hereafter to say that they have slain their hundreds and their tens of hundreds. Such con duct would be dictated by a most pitiful ambition, making a little :war on their starving country men because his Grace had made a great war. A gigantic mischief is ennobled by a sense of the power which can cause it ; and while the mighty murderer or plunderer is exalted to .a demi-god, the petty imitator of his rapine gets hanged as an as sassin, or is sent to the treadmill as a thief. We hope the Whigs will not degrade themselves by starving their countrymen on a small scale. Better allow the present law for which they are not responsible—the odium of which belongs to WELLINGTON, PEEL, GRAHAM, and their political corn-rogues—to remain, than to substitute for it a Whig Cern-law, which will concentrate hereafter all the odium which now belongs to the Tories, for upholding a system of starvation, on the present Ministry. We cannot comprehend the terrible and yet de urading ambition of statesmen, to take on them selves the awful responsibility of interfering with the food of the nation. They know nothing, or next to nothing, of the great natural laws which regulate the production and the distribution of food, and yet they rashly thrust their own impediments into the vast and complicated machine, producing harsh grating friction at every movement, and ending in destruction. From one end of the land to the other does the voice of hunger and complaint now rise. Distress and misery are stalking gaunt and terrific through the country. For them the authors of the Corn-laws are by all men declared to be responsible. If they were not to interfere with the food of the country, no man could lay this misery, and the slow, painful death of numerous human beings, at their door. No man could or would dare to say that the Legislature assassinates the people• But men do now say it—do write it—do print it —and there is not a hired advocate of the Corn-laws in the country who has audacity enough to deny the charge. Now that enor mous guilt rests on the Tories. Let the Whigs make a new Corn-law, however slight may be its interference with the great laws which the Al mighty has proscribed for the production and distribution of food, and all these heavy and in supportable charges will weigh on them. We hope, therefore, that it is not the intention of Ministers to propose a measure which will substitute Mr. CANNING'S scale for the Duke of WELLINGTON'S scale of duties, a maiming for a murder. The total abo lition of the Corn-laws is the cry which has gone forth ; the iniquity must have an end, though the Whigs may decline the honour of being the instru ments of achieving the good work. To show how little is known of the operation of these laws, let us beg the attention of our readers to the latter part of the first and the whole of the second passage in Mr. WEBSTER'S letter. It was read by the Duke of RUTLAND at a meeting of the Leicestershire Agricultural Association on the sth instant : ,d My DEAR D UKE " LONDON, Nov. 16. am obliged to you for the respectful mariner in which, while presiding at the meet ing of the Waltham Agricultural Association, you were pleased to refer to our conversations at Belvoir, and I have still higher pleasure in noticing the just and liberal sentiments expressed by you on that occasion, respecting the relations of our respective countries. Such senti ments, I assure you , w ill be heartily recip rocate d on our side of the Atlantic. E n g land an d the United S ta t es are not only the two most commercial c ountr i es in the world, but they axe gree one who shall co mpare the small amount o f annual trade between England and France with the g reat of intercourse lso with t4se each other. f r iii s w ill strike ally two which h ave t h e greatest de- THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14.1P39. amount of that between England and the United States, and yet France is within sight of England, with 30,000,000 or 34,000,000 of people, and the United States are 3,000 miles off, with half that amount of population ; and, notwithstanding the progress which may be expected in some branches of manufactures in America, there is no reason to doubt that this inter course will continue, and, perhaps, be increased by the rapid increase of population in America. While the United States continue to import British commo dities, it is evidently the interest of England that those her customers should increase both in the numbers and in the ability to buy and consume her products. On the other hand, every intelligent person in America sees, not only the evils which would ensue from any in terruption of the harmony existing between the two countries, but the embarrassments also which must be felt in America, whenever any disasters occur sufficient to derange the general prosperous course of trade and business in England. The intimate relations of com merce subsisting between the two countries, the well known laws of trade and exchange, and the important fact, that both countries use, to a great extent, a re presentative paper currency, necessarily cause any great embarrassment which may be felt in one to be extended to the other. Your Grace was quite right, I think, in your observations on the subject of corn—America is indebted to England is various ways, and is likely to remain so, while the interest of money remains so much lower in the latter country than the former. " We have this year a most abundant wheat crop ; and if England should have occasion to import corn or flour, both countries would be benefited by her taking her supply from us. We should be paying so much of our debt, and she would be receiving her supply with out the necessity of sending abroad specie. And it is undoubtedly true that the short crop in England last year, leading to so heavy an export of gold and siver to the Continent, most seriously affected commerce and business in the United States, as well a s i n E ng l an d. Let us hope, my dear D u k e , t h at b etween two Christian nations, speaking the sam e l anguage , d er i ve d from the same origin, enjoying the same liberty, and connected by these mutual ties of interest, nothing may ever exist but peace and harmony, and the noble rival ship of accomplishing most for the general improvement and happiness of mankind. " Allow me to close this letter with an invitation, which, if given some wears ago, would have passed for mere compliment, and that is, that you will come and see me. You are fond of excursions by sea. Eighteen or nineteen days will take you from Belvoir Castle to the Falls of Niagara, and you may see much of America this side of the Alleghany, and something of what is beyond, and return to England in a period hardly longer than an ordinary recess of Parliament. Nature has done much in America, which is worthy to attract your no tice. Man, I hope, has done something ; and, at any rate, you and your connections and friends would be sure of receiving that respectful and hearty welcome to which your character, and your hospitality to others, so well entitle you. " I have the honour to be, my dear Duke, very faith fully yours, cDAN. WEBSTER." Here is a proof that the supply of food for our people, instead of being limited by our own soil, might with great advantage be drawn from the whole continent of North America. The world might be made willingly tributary to our skill, and the stupid greedy landlords will not allow it. More over, it is made manifest that the Corn-laws, by preventing tlie . importation of corn from America, prevent the Americans from paying our country their debts, derange our currency, and their cur rency, and involve the whole commercial world in confusion, while they doom thousands of our own people to starvation. The Ashton-under-Line Conservatives have had another meeting, and have added insult to dis loyalty. Mr. ROBY was not present, at least his loyal strains were not heard, but his place was well supplied by Mr. L. RICHMOND, who denounced as false and calumnious the construction put, by all impartial men on Mr. ROBY'S words, " virgin in nocence was banished from the Palace," and laid it down as an indisputable fact, that it was impossible Conservatives could be disloyal, as " they imbibed loyalty with the milk from their mother's breasts." If they were disloyal„"exclaimed the logical orator, how could they respond to the loyal toast " Our glorious Constitution in Church and State ?" Of course this man knows nothing about the civil war between CHARLES I. and his Parliament, and never heard of subjects, while professing the utmost veneration for the Sovereign, carrying arms against him. An address was got up, abounding in ex pressions of most sincere and devoted attachment to her MAJESTY, but containing not one word of regret for the abominable language used by Mr. ROBY. On the contrary, justifying it, and thereby condemning Lord BILL for asserting the honour and dignity of her MAJESTY. The words speak for themselves :—" We feel ourselves bound, in duty to your MAJESTY, to declare that the alle gations which have been made against us, of having countenanced language disrespectful and insulting towards your MA JESTY, are wholly unfounded and calumnious." The French Journals of Thursday have just been received (half-past one o'clock P.M.), having been detained by the stormy state of the weather in the Channel. In Paris the English mail of Tues day was in arrear for the same reason. The fol lowing letter from Tunis, which the Paris Journals quote from the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 9th, received by express, contains the latest news from Africa : TUNIS, Nov. 12.—For some days past public curio sity has been strongly excited. The Bey has just re ceived an embassy from Abd-el-Kader, the ostensible object of which—but which is said to be a veil for some secret intrigue—is to offer him a present, con sisting of six very fine horses, a pair of pistols, and a yatagan adorned with diamonds, some lion and panther skins, and dates. This event, which is the more worthy of attention, as the Bey had hitherto never had any in tercourse with the Emir, gives rise to many conjectures. Persons who pretend to be well informed draw infe rences from it, and build up a thou:and "suppositions ; some say that Abd-el-Kader, being on the point of breaking with France, is endeavouring to draw the Bev into a coalition against us, or at least to secure for himself a secret support ; others pretend that the Emir wishes to conclude a commercial treaty with the rie gency, in order to procure, by way of Tunis, all the European goods that he wants, and especially arms, which he used to obtain by way of Morocco, but which have now cemed to reach him by order of the Emperor, with whom he has quarrelled. Lastly, some persons, founding the r opinion on the route taken by the embassy (which, instead of crossing the terri tory of Constantine to the south of the French possessions, and taking the direct road to Keff, has went by the Great Desert, and has entered the regency by way of Torigourithe and the province of Djezid), affirm that it comes from Ain Madi, that Abd-el Kader and his generals are still besieging that place, and that the objects of the embassy is to ask for ammunition of which the besieging army is wholly destitute, and to in duce the Bey to give orders to the Tunisian Arabs of the Great Desert to join the troops of the Erner to hasten the surrender of that important place, against which all his efforts for these 15 months have failed. All these conjectures are corroborated by the mys tery in which the Tunisian Governmerst seeks to involve this embassy. Its agents have made a report that it is sent by the Emperor of Morocco : the Envoys themselves are desired to say they arc M . orequese, b ut several betray the part whi c h they are des i red to act by accen t and by their Al ger i ne di a l ec t, w hich it is so easy to recognise. Another letter from Tunis, of the 16th, says that an active contraband trade in gunpowder has been carried on for some months past at Souze, Monester, La Midee, and Sflax. All this powder is sent to A.bd-el-Fader by way of Kirrouan Djezid to the Great Desert. The Presse says' Marshal Valle has been discharged to-day from his post, and succeeded by General Trezel. We are assured that the Royal ordinance will appear to-morrow in the Moniteur." The Moniteur of this morning contains no'ordinance. —Le Commerce. Twenty-eight letters, it is said, have been seized at the residence of a person who has acknowledged them to be from Louis Bonaparte. The Prince speaks with great freedom both of persons and things for the cop respondence is in cyphers. The key to the cypher seems to have been given in consequence of whot he we search are assured attheresidence of M. do Crony has not thought fit to dissemble anything, and d oes no t deny any of the facts respecting which he is interrogated. We believe that the examination will soon be termi nated and made public. It appears that the Ministry decline taking any part in the preliminary investigation, leaving the direction of it to the police and the bar, We have been assured that LouiA onap a si nh t o e pui o ed n 4 t t ,i ; seizure of his letters had made or caused it to be made, s an offer to the French Government immediately leave London ; and to retire to any part A. rn erica which it lieapanoidl6;ah°oadtt b t c h:e n d d n iv i ii t a i iii 6 i :es ed o h . fL a L L i e l e i:s p 7:e l t i s , t i o;n l (b w i3e o .s u tthr l doe destroyed. i s h. COLO - BIAN BONDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt —ln your report of the proceedings of this meet ing, I shall feel obliged if you will correct your report in regard to the observations made by me at that meet ing ; and instead of the unmeaning words, " France was allowed, for the paltry sum of 600,0001. to establish cook-shops and blockade coasts," let it be reported as the words were spoken, thus, " While France is per mitted to enforce the payment of the paltry sum of 600,000 dollars for an injury committed by a military rabble on French cooks and confectioners at Mexico, and is also permitted by the English Government to blockade the ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico to the detriment of British merchants, the Government of Great Britain made no interference to enforce the much more extensive claims of her own subjects." And where it reads " upon the first occasion that Viscount Mel bourne had the privilege of dining with her Majesty," add the words, "let him advise the Queen to employ her navy in enforcing the just claims of her subjects against the Spanish American States." Knowing the desire of your valuable Journal to give impartial and full reports, I trouble you with this note. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, J. WEST SHREWSBURY, Notary, &e. Took's-court Chambers, Chancery-lane, Dec. 14. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE IRONMONGERS' COMPANY. Sir WM. FOLLETT replied; and The MASTER of the ROLLS gave judgment in this case, dismissing the petition of the trustees of Lady Mico's Charity, and referring it back to the Master to examine into the details, and to approve of a scheme for the distribution of the funds, having regard to the declaration of the Court, approving of the scheme pro posed by the Ironmongers' Company. His Lordship's judgment having been delivered at a late period of the day, we are compelled to reserve a more detailed report for our Morning Edition of Mon day next. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY. (Sittings at Guildhall before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury.) THOMPSON V. STUART. This was an action to recover a sum of 200/., money lent. The details of the case related to matters of private and family arrangement, and were of no general interest. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. CONSISTORY COURT, (THIS DAY.) LLOYD V. LLOYD.—INFORMATION AND SENTENCE. Sir JOHN DODSON said this was a suit originally promoted for nullity of marriage, by Mr. Geo. Lloyd, against his wife. On the first session of Trinity Term the Court rejected the libel, which pleaded the invalid ity of the marriage, and permitted Mrs. Lloyd to pro ceed in the suit for the restitution of conjugal rights. The libel was brought in, which pleaded the marriage on the 26th October, 1837, at the house of the British Ambassador at Paris, and the entry of the marriage in a book kept for the registry of marriages ; the second and third pleas were that the names of parties were in their own handwriting ; the fourth plea stated the cohabitation of the parties in London and Paris until 1838, when Mr. Lloyd withdrew himself without just cause. The libel was admitted on the 6th July. An allegation was brought in by Mr. Lloyd. The pleas stated the marriage in Paris by civil contract, also according to the Catholic form, and afterwards accord ing to the Protestant form ; that doubts existed as to the validity of the marriage, in consequence of Mr. Lloyd being a minor by the law of France ; that Mr. Lloyd, who was the natural son of Sir William Lloyd, came to England after the marriage, whore he remained for some time ; that in March, 1838, Mrs. Lloyd came to England, and remained three weeks in apartments at Mornington-crescent, after which she returned to Paris. The Learned Counsel detailed at length the particulars of the case, which have already been before the public. Dr. HAGeART was then heard on the part of the wife, and submitted that the proof of nullity of nvirriage entirely failed. After further arguments from the Coun sel on both sides, Sir S. LUSHINGTON, without hearing the reply, gave judgment. Unless the witnesses had committed per jury, he must believe the charge of adultery to have been proved ; and as to the connivance on the part of the husband, and the charge of adultery against him. there was nothing in that to induce him to change his opinion. He had no doubt whatever as to the case. and therefore granted the divorce. •UILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) Henry Bartlett, a lad, was placed at the bar, charged with cruelty to a horse. Thomas Gibbons stated that he was a constable in the employ of the Animals' Friend Society. He was in Smithfield yesterday afternoon, and saw the prisoner whip a horse about the legs to make him kick, and them unnecessarily and cruelly beat. him about the hem with the butt end of his whip. The prisoner si,id the horse was an exceedingly vicious one, for which reason he had brought it to the market to sell it. It had just previously kicked down a person who was passing by, and he flogged it on the heels to prevent its kicking. The father of the young man corroborated this state ment. Mr. Alderman WHITE—It would be much more sa tis'actory in all these cases to have the testimony o' another witness, beside s th a t o f th e p a id o ffi cer o f the society. The case is dismissed. er~~• - A 1 ON '4, , CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—The de mand has been very moderate throughout the w(ek, with a heavy market for all kinds. The new crop of American has been offered very freely, and sales of good fair to fine, made at decline of fully d. per lb., fair and middling qualities arc about Id. lower, common qualities less influenced ; Brazil and Egyptian rather better to buy, and India is decidedly heavy of sale at our last quotations. The sales to-day are 3,500 bags of all kinds, without any apperrance of improvement in the market. Speculators have taken 1,500 bales of American, and exporters 600 hales of American and 100 bales of Surat. We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to September 22. The following are extracts : " The present posture of affairs in this country is one of intense interest, and we may look every day for in teiligence of importance, either as regards the opera, dons of the Argentine army in the Oriental terri tory, or of the incursion of Don Juan Lavalle and his adherents into the province of Ent,e Rios ; in the meantime the most perfeet tranquillity reign , in the capital and all the districts of the provnice ; ,nd indeed there is no excep! ion to the general on,:is turbed state o f th e w h o l e R epu bli c, hut the incursion alluded to. Our Monte Videan neighbours are ino far less enviable situation ; that town, being now as it were in a state of siege, a great portion of the foreign popula tion, such as Spaniards, Bisques, have b,•en ob. iiged to take up arms ; but the British Coosul-tht neral has given notice to his countrymen that he wili resist any attempt forcibly to enrol them under the ban ner of any of the conflicting parties." The following notice appeared in the Monte Video Journal, of 17th October : " Whereas various British subjects residing in tho interior of the republic have, whilst following their peaceable occupation of industry, been torn from their families and homes, by officers in command of arme,i men, acting under official authority, and who, through violence and force, have been compelled to take arms in the military service of the state ; and whereas, these .Icts of forcible imprisonment are not less offensive to the dignity of the laws, and of this country, and the harmony which exists between it and Great Britain, than they are flagrantly an abuse of the persons of her Majesty's subjects : " This is to give notice that allßritish subjects within the territory of this Republic are hereby strictly re quired and enjoined to remain at home, to refrain from mixing themselves with or interfering in the present political affairs of this country—to refuse positively and peremptorily to take arms on either side, but where force may prevail over justice and the law ; then arc prsons invited and required to forward to this Consu late a written state of the case, consisting of names and persons taken by force. " THOMAS SAMUEL HOOD, " H. M. Consul-General. "British Consulate, Monte Viedo, Sept. 11." We have several arrivals this morning, but the one of most importance is that from Mexico, by the Express packet, with a freight of 500,000 dollars on board for merchants' account. The accounts received from the Brazils by the Opossum packet state that all was tranquil there. Exchange, 32. The Lisbon mail still continues due. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday at the commence ment of business were not well supported, but towards the end bills were more plentiful to meet the demand, and the rates rather improved. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at 91-k 92, same as they closed ; Reduced, 90if, ; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 dis. ; Bank Stock 177 178. In the Foreign Market Spanish left off at 23i at present, 234 4 ; Portuguese closed at 331- 4, opened it same price ; Colombian left off at 24i 2.54, at present 2.51 ; Brazilidn, nothing done ; Mexican, 281 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53t ; Five per Cents. 994 4. P!I 10Es 44F STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'CLDCIK. lank Stock... her Cent. Cent. Red. ; per Cent. Cons. ~. per Cent —(N Annuities . _.'itto Red. 933 i New Ditto • seir 34 pet Cent i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17,1 Sew 5 per Cent. ' , auk Long :Annuities toexpire I Ditto Soil ..... 4 2 dis. Jan. 5, 15 , 41 Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial .;.td. 5, IStio — Ditto Advertised ..... --- Jan. 5, 1850 — Bank Stock tor Account ... April 5, 1880. — India Stock for Account .. lan. 5. 1871) — Consos for Account 92 RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O,C LOC IA Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Boini., 'elgian Bonds Ditto Account l , razilia .n Bonds Ditto Account ;tienos Ayres Bonds Ditto , Iccount : hilian .3cri.d. 1 , Prussian Bonds Ilttc iscstc - , nt — Russian Bonds, 18:4. ..... :okurie s.:-...8ru ids Ditto Account Ditt3 Iv:4, nt !:..31" - x - r. c 573: 7 d 8,1824 - lit .5% , ,,i ' Ditto Account 'anis`a J.T 1 •__ . Passive .................... Zi Ditto ,•,-;., nt lo,;'. reek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. Ditto Bonus, 1 , t25 --.......- 4 per cent...—. —l'. --I. Dui° Account ',. exican Bonds, 5 per Cent ----- Exchange. —4. —c. into Account — Dutch, :2.%,, per cent. ......... L:134 Ditto, 6 per Cent. ... Ditto Account P 1:IC ES W. Si-I ti LiE s THIS DA 1: .4.'" iiN.L. (i'(:: ; ~....ki.. ..,<l. Per Sti, :ic Eiszern Counties R a il wa y 1 18 4 3 s iioon iimi Birmingham Railway Company 9 l, 14` , 5,,, N rth MV' ft. idland tailway Company Q 67 . ork and N ort h Midl and Railway Company 30 - i9 , 4i Provincial Batik l of Ireland 44 COURSE OF EXCHANGE , YESTER DAY. :insterdion C.ie. 12 6 , .4itiraitar 43 I.tto, at sight 1.. .30 65 ,ittcrilain O U. 12 6X, . Genoa,. ........ . 25 85 Antwerp... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 j Palermo „ ......... .......per oz. 122 Ditt0......... ......... 3MsO5 70 Lisbon 5l 41irseilles. ........... ......... 25 70 0?orto 54 Itnurcleaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 Bahia 27 Peitersbuigh, ruble... 3 Us. 37 Buenos Ayres — ileriiii Vienna, effective 11...3 M 10 8 Philadelphia 46 Prieste ditto lO Is PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. ;liiiirld 36X, Portugal Gold, eolu.—.Xo 0 0 Cadiz.... tilboa .... 'Xi Nina Doubloons 3 ircelonA - , ;ti New Dollars 0 4 10',.., 1 ie rille 36 I Silver in Bars HALF-PAST OP/ E. (From the Rio ,Janeiro Price Current of the 19th Oct.) COFFEE.—Prices have followed the fluctuations in the Exchange, and are to-day firm, and about 150 to 200 rs. higher than last week. Taere is a continued steady demand for all descriptions : the sahs to-day exceed 5,000, and those during the month 60,00 Q bags. Tile stock on hand is only 3,000 bags i the arrivals, owing to thelprevailing wet weather, have been consider ably smaller than they were last month. P.S. SATURDAY, OCT. ] 9.—Exchange —Not much doing ; it opened this morning rather flat at 321, and left off at 82. Coffee very firm ; sales this morning 4,000 bags at full prices, almost no stock remaining in sand. Shipments this month, to-day included, 61,591 bags. Nothing new in other articles. The French mail has arrived, but the letters are not out as yet. The Hamburg mail has not yet arrived. This being Saturday, as usual little business doing in the British market. Messrs Rothschild's American loan is expected out in the course of next week. Consols are rathc r butter than in the early part of morning, and may be quoted at 9 2 for the Odening ; Reduced had reached 901, since which they nave re eeded to 901 ; Esnhequer Bills, 4 2 dis ; India Bonds, 8 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178. Spanish Active, 23 ; Portuguese an ; 25H ; Mexi ca n, 284-; Dutch Two-ioa. Half per t. l Cents., ; Five per Cents., 99 Very in the above market. A son of Sir John Gue s t is, we ithderstand, ro be brought forward cal the Liberal interest for Falmouth. The wealth of his family, and their con nexion with the mines and furnaces of Wales, with which, and the mining interests of Cornwall, there is a close connexion, will make him a very accept aide representative to the inhabitant s of that part of Cornwall, and there is, we believe, no doubt of success. hip The recent alterations in the Post-offic e con tinue t o wor k well. There has been every day since the change till yesterday a successive increase —the lett ers on one day exceeding preceding day—in th e penny and pre-paid letters. The whol e system, too, so far as it has been carr i e d into effect, has worked so easily, and so m those on the any ad vantages are expected to accrue from the penny postage, that the reduction to the universal penny rate will, we believe, take place sooner than was at first i n t en d e d . M ore l oss , we und erstan d , than was ex p ecte d , h as accrue d o n the coloni a l post age, in w hi c h no i ncrease o f letters can yet take place to com p ensate f or the reduction of t h e rates. On the wh o l e , we ca n „y that the ch anges work better than w a s anticipated, though the pub lic, we understand, suffer some i nco . by the want of letter-weighers, Whi nvenience ch MAGI be made so fast as they are required. The p e ople at the Post-office can already wQich so am , — their hands that they do n u tot p • ..ately with to the test of a balance. , one letter in twenty Despatch P' THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. Good supplies of most kinds in season, and a fair trade. Mushrooms, ls. 6d. per pottle ; Black Grapes, 2s. per lb. ; Almeira, Is. per lb. (some kinds of grapes were as high as ss. per lb.) ; Pine Apples, is. to Bs. per lb. ; Pota toes, Scotch, 80s. per ton.'; Devons, 655. ; York, 60s. ; Jersey, 50s. to 60s. ; Spinach, Is. per sieve ; Cabbages, 6d. per dozen; Apples 4s. 6d. to 12s. per bushel ; Lemons 63. to 9s. per 100; Oranges 3s. 6d. to 10s. per 100 ; Turnips 1 1 , per bunch ; Brocoli 10d. to 2s. 6d. per bundle ; Carrots 4s. Gd. per dozen bunches ; Onions Is. Gd. per sieve ; Celery 2s. per bundle ; Plants 9d. to Is. per dozen. NENVGATE AND LEADENIIALL. A large supply of all kinds of killed meat, but the demand was dull generally; prices much as last quoted. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal 3s. Bd. to 4s. 6d. ; Pork 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d ; Irish 3s. to 3s. Bd. per stone of Sibs. A very large supply of all kinds of Game and Poultry, -demand limited-prices unaltered. Turkeys 4s. 6d. to 9s. ; Gold Plovers 6d. to Is. ; Pheasants 3s. to 4s. ; Grouse 2s. to 3s. ; Snipes 6d. to Is. ; Rabbits 9d. to Is. 6d. ; Geese 4s. to 6s. 6d. : Pigeonsl6d. to 9d. ; Chickens Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls 3s. to 4s. ; Partridges 2s. to 2s. 6d.; Hares 2s. to 3s. ; Teal 6d. to is. ; Wocdcocks 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; Larks Is. 6d. per dozen ; Eggs Gs. 6d. to 9s. 6d. per 120. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. There were but moderate supplies, and no description of Fish could be quoted cheap. Turbot, 58, to 20s. ; Cod, 3s, to Its. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 13d. to 4s. ; Oysters, 12s. to 40s. tier bushel ; Whitings, 53. to 13d. ; Had docks, Bd. to Is. 6d. HUNGERFORD MARKET. We hail fair supplies of most kinds, and a good demand, prices much as last quoted. Turbot ss. to 20s. ; Cod 3s. to 12s. ; Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters Iod. to 4s. ; Beef, id. to Sid. ; Mutton, 7id. to Sid. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Poi k, 7d. to 81b. per lb. Of vegetable.; the supply was good for the sea son, and so was the demand, at prices the same as Covent- Garden. HAY MARKET. The supplies were to a fair extent, and so was the demand. Prices unaltered. Hay, 60s. to 90s. ; Clover, 803. to 1103. ; Straw, 30s. to 403. per load. TALLOW MARKET. This market was very quiet, and the price of P. Y.C. 495. per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) DEAL, D> c. 13--Wind, S.W.—Arrived the Lord William Bentinck, Stockley, from China; Tigris, Simons, Ceylon; Dash, Barber, Cape of Gaud Hope. LIVERPOOL, DEC 13—Wind, S. S. E. Fresh breeze.— Arrived the Dart, Gray, from Terceira; Eliza Kilbcck, Waugh, St. Domingo; Why-not? Dart, Lisbon. DOVER, DEc. 13.—Off Port the Adiona, Simonian. from Denia ; Elizabeth, Fukkins, Batavia, for Rotterdam; Orleans, from Batavia. COWES, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Perkins, from St. Andrews, N. B. FALMOUTH, DEC. 12—Wind, W.N W. to S. W. Fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived the Opossum packet-ship, from Rio Janeiro—sailed, Oct. 20 the Express, packet ship, for Vera Craz 10e 8 1 Tampico 30th. and Havanna 9th ult., brings 420,000 dollars; Carline, Harry, Cephalonia . , Now DEC. O.—Arrived, the George Robertson, from Rio Janiero, ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 12.--.04011, the Symmetry, Cie mentson, Altea. MILFORD,DEC 12 —Arrived Bachelor, Murray, Quebec. WATERFORD, DEC. 14 . —Arrived the Patriot, Nicols, from Alexandria. CnRK :DEC. 11,—Salled Truman, Tullevary,.Barbadoes. YARMOUTH, DEC. 1 1.—Arrived Galles, Wright, Memel. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 12. The Friendship, Blythe, of Yarmouth, in entering this harbour to-day, struck, and drove round, but was assisted in by the Tiger, steamer, leaky. LOWESTOFFE, DEo 13.—The Vidra, Morley, from Sunderland, ran on Newcombe Sand, this morning, but was assisted off, rather leaky, and will proceed. IRE IN BERNIONIDSEY-STREET.—Thi s morn ing, at a quarter-past four o'clock, a fire was discovered by the policeman on duty:in Bermondsey-street, on the extensive premises belonging to Air,' Smith, wool stapler, residing qt No, 102, Bermondsey- l a,- fire engines promptly arrived, b u t r tible nature of the ~,;t.. The ,rom the combus- on the premises it was not ~..,sued till about six o'clock. The damage is con fined to the premises of Mr. Smith, and is said to be very gregt. The premises are insured in the Sun Fire Office. DISTRESS.-,-Tin eonsequenee of the very great distresi which prevails in Nottingham, a public meeting has been h e ld t o ta k e t h e situation of the poor into due consideration. nave been transmitted from St. Pe „ugh, and are hourly expected in London, or probably have already arrived, containing such mo difications of the propositions recently submitted by Baron Brunow to the British Cabinet, on the sub ject of the Eastern question, and more particularly with regard to the admission, under certain con - dilions, of the ships of war of Foreign Pow ers through t h e D ardanelles, as are likely to lead to an arrangement with respect to the measures to be adopted by the five Powers for the settlement of the differences between the Porte and Mehemet Ali. —Morning Post. EVENING Ea TT lON CO u ;.T k, i RCULAk . WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Hon. Miss Paget and the Hon. Miss Anson rode out to-day . in a pony phaeton in the Park. Her Majasty has not been out to-day, either on horseback or in a carriage. The Earl of Albemarle is expected to arrive at the Cc.stle, to-reorrow, on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party et tha Castle this evening is expected to include in-r Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Wm. Cowper, ti,e Marchioness of Normanhy, Lady Fanny Howard, Finn. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Fingal, Sir Robert Otway, Hon. Colonel Grey, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Au gusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. His Excellency Mr. Stevenson, the American Mi nister, attended yesterday ri , ". the Treasury Department , tind the B Ink of England, and closed the negociation which has been pending so long between this Go vernment and th .t of the United States, relative to a ~uo, her of slaves cl•zimed by American citizens as their t,ru and, which having been shipwrecked some eight r ni,,c y,..ars ago in the Bahamas, were liberated by the Anthornics of Nassau.—The amount of compensation t Lich we understand her Mijesty's Government finally agreed to pay, and was yesterday received by the Ame rican Minister, amounted to between 20,0001. and 30.000/ sterling. Sir Lioni Smith and Mr. Erskine had interviews itli the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Mr. Labouchere arrived in town on Thursday from Brighton. The Right Hon. Gentlemen left town yes terday for Manchester. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Captain J. W. Hinde, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish.square; Captain Shawe Manley, and family, at ditto; Lord and Lady Paulet, and family, at ditto; Mr. Talbot Patters , n, in Cambridge -street, Hyde Park, from a 4,,ur in North Wales ; Hon. William Temple, Lord John Manners, Major Ormsby Gore, M.P., Hon. William Duncombe, Major-General Sir C. Broke very, K. C. B , Lord and Lady Charleville, Lady and MiSa Foore, Mr Grog, Mr. Charles Greville, the Der- jag er Lady de Clifford, and the Rev. George Bur - owes and Miss Elvington, from Cork, at the residince of B. B. Williams, Esq., in Portland-place. DEPARTURES, Mr. and Mrs. C. Berkeley, from Marshall Thompson's; Hotel, Cavendish•squaro ; J. Richards, Esq., from ditto; William Munnings, Esq., from ditto, for the Isle of Wight ; the Hon. B. 0. Noel, from ditto, for the Hon. Frank Noel's, Teston, Maidstone ; the Right Hon. Earl Stradbroke, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street, for Dublin ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq., M. P., from ditto, for his seat, Ankerwycke House ; P. J. Leslie, Esq., from ditto, for Ireland; the Earl of Oxford, from the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, for the Continent. On Tuesday died, at Woodstock, from an injury she received by a fall from her horse when huntir,g, Airs. Parker, the lady of 'l'. A. A. W. Parker, M.P. for this County. Mrs. Parker was a Mit i'urner, grand-daughter of Mr. Turner, who coalesce" w i t h Mr. Parker's grandfather, in the celebrated. erntest for this county, about seventy years ago, wber. the contending parties were W enman an d D ashnnd against Parker w and Turner. M rs . Parker as onil y twenty-one year s of aze.--arford Herald. The Lord Chief 13. , :ron and f a mily a re expected to arrive at their reS;dence on T ues d ay n ext. We are happy to state tl.;at the Chief Baron's health is consider ably improved by his sojourn on the C o ntinent. --Dub lin Morning Register. The late Duke of Bedford has not left Ensleigh Cottage, near Tavistock, in Devonshire, to the Dowager, nor the lands annexed. The villa at Campden Hill and plantations around are now the property of her Grace by will, and there she means to take up her abode. The Dowager Lady Waterpark gave an elegant dejeune on Thursday in Hereford -street, Park-lane, on the occasion of the marriage of her daughter, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, to the Lord Bishop of Hereford, Dr.. Musgrave. The ceremony took place at St. George's Cimrch, Hanover-square. The Marquis Wellesley has returned to King ston House from Sir Charles Metcalfe's seat, Fern Hill, which the Right Hon. Baronet lent to his Lordship during the autumn. The Marquis is frequently visited by his illustrious brother the Duke of Wellington, but he has not accepted invitations for several years. The Earl and Countess of Lovelace, and the in fant Lord °Ahem, have arrived in St. James's-square from a visit to E. A. Sandford, Esq , M.P„ at his sea t in Somerset. Lady King, his Lordship's mother, is gone on a visit to her brother, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Dublin. General Lord and Lady Aylmer have returned from their chateau, at Passy, near Paris, and have since left town for Leamington. General Lord Combermere's only son, the Hon. Wellington Cotton, of the 7th Hussars, attained his ma jority on Friday last, when the event was celebrated by he usual rejoicings Conibermere Abbey, his Lord ship's s, at near Nans.wich. BATH, DEC. 12.—Lord Powerscourt, for the city, has arrived at the Lion Hotel, from Powerscourt Castle, county Wieklow. The Noble Lord presided at the annual dinner of the Bath Church of England Lay Association on Monday. Sir Alexander and Lady Hood have arrived at the York House Hotel from their seat near Glastonbury. Our other latest ar rivals are Sir Bouchier and Lady Wrey, Sir Thomas and Lady Clavering, the Hon. Mrs. Hall, Colonel and Mrs. Fawcett, Mr.' Miles, M.P., Major Oliphant, Mr. Ludlow Bruges, Captain Cavendish, Rev. Dr. Horner, Captain Cole, R.N., Madame Stockhausen and Mdlle. Bildstein, Madame la Marquese de Sommary, &c. The Duke of Beaufort has accepted the office of patron of the Bath Horticultural Society. , The Bath theatre. will not be opened this season by Mr. Woods. It 'is advertised to be let. MELTON MOWBRAY, DEC. 9.—The Earl of Lonsdale has arrived at Cottesmore in good health, and has already been ()et with his hounds, which have had excellent sport. The Earl of Pembroke is shortly expeced here with his noble stud for the season, and also Prance George of Cambridge, who was out with . the INvoir pa c k on S a t ur d a y. Our pr e sent vi s itors ' are the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn, Marquis of , Waterf.rd, Earl of Desart, Lord A. St. Maur, Lordi Garducr, Lord Macdonald, Sir F. Johnstone, Couvi i , Bathyany, Sir J. Musgrove, Captain Williams! and Messrs. Moore, Gilmour, and Tomline. The D u ke of St. Alban's end Lord Clanwilliam are expes Jted, and a brilliant season i s ant i c i pate d , as t h ere - were never more stsbles engaged in the t own , or so visitors ex pected as durin g th e p resen t winter. I ;incorn iviercury• BADMINTON, NVEDNESI).*I7.__His Royal Highness the Duke o f Cambrickc and P r i nce G e orge, accompanied laythe Duke of lieaufort, Earl Bathurst, Lord Fit:eroy Somerset, E7arl of Chesterfield, and the Hon. James Macdonald., Yesterday had an excellent was laid f or upwar d s o f 36. In t d i a le y's e% s e h l o li o n t g in t g h . there D wasinn Dinner dance. Th e gran d sta i rca se was illuminated wit . costly candel a b ra . Th e drawing room, boudoir, L and otuer saloons were thrown open. The library was also brilliantly lighted, in which a re a ries w 14 portriit4 of the Beauforts. from the time of of Gaunt, from wiioni the family trace their genes- j logy. A qua d r ill e hand was i n attendance . Thi s - ;horning the Duke of Beaufort's fine pack of hounds met on the lawn, agreeably to appointment, while the noildr s host and hostess and their royal guests were at breakfast, ehich was laid for sixty. After breakfast his Royal and George, Highness the D u k e o f C am b r id ge IPri_nce . the Du4o3 o f B eau f ort , ELrl of Chesterfield, H on . Jaines Macdonald, Mr. T. Jones, Mr. M assed Stanley, Mr. C. W. C o d r i ug ton, Earl Bathurst, L t ., rd F. So merset, Hon. Augustus Villiers, Viscount Villiers, and a particularly numerous field assembl e d i n front of the mansion, all wearing their scarlet coats. I t was a most animated sight. The De ... 5 of Cambridge, with the Augsta and M Princesses ' - "Sti, and the amiable hostess and the Countess of Chi , : terfi , id, Lady Augusta So tuerset, Lady Georgian a C odrington, Lady Fitzroy, arta the Hon. Miss S omerset, Mi ss Kerr, and the othe'r ladies witnessed the pleasing sight from the wincincvs. There is to a ball this evening ana one to-morrow night. SINGULAR are informed by a letter just received by Mr. Andy, which was shown to us, that on the 24th of July last, the following sin ' gulag incident occurred in Crawford county, i n this State :—‘‘ A thunder storm came up at six o'clock, a.m., at which time one Alonzo Robinson, stepping out of his father's house for a pail of water, was struck by a flash of lightning on the top of Ib3s head, and rent his shirt and pantaloons in piccel. His father was looking out of the window, saw bin, fall, and run out o f hi s bed room and found four members of his family lying on th .6 flaor--gave them a place near the door—went to bis se who was a few paces from the door, found him all on he and lifeless. He immediately stripped him and apr / lied milk and water. Continuing this treatment, in a short time the i'. - ody became blistered from head ► ,o foot, anti in 15 or 20 minutes afterw ar d s b egan t' ~ show si g n '' of returning life. A physician was caller', i n a f e w minutes, under whose care he continued t .o recover. The other four were not seriously injurrid, although one young woman was so badly burnt as not to be able to help herself the next day.—Scito(O s io IVatchman. IMPORTANT TO CREDITORS. OF INSOLVENTS. —ln the Insolvent Debtors' Court, last Friday, an im portant application was tusde to the Court respecting subsequently acquired property, under the 89th section 4 of the new Act. The insolvent (Bartlett) was dis charged under the Act some time no and had since I received a largo sum of ; eye ton- He had reeenth recovered a verdict for 44. t., and the assignee, under tl , e ly comprehensive words of the section, which spoke .f tj " money due or growing due," came to the Court so. obtain the same, or a portion thereof, for the crest' jis s 3rs r, inserted in the schedule, as subsequently acquire' i pro perty. Mr. Commissioner Bowen ordered the rate to- ;; be made absolute for the payment of 401. 2s. 2 i - 1. to the• assignee for the creditors.