The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. THEAT TOYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME '7ESTRIS. 'PHIS EVENING, [?ac. 9, 1839, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. .!ciimer : Sir Rupert of Lsreh, Mr. J. Vining ; Huon, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppen stein, Misa Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison; Mr. W. Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vestris. Te-marrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, is. ; Second Price, 2s. id. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to com-nenee at Seven o'Clnck. Tickets and places for the Boxes t• be taken of Mr. Netter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ainsworth's original and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Skep ipard" still maintains its supremacy; 130,000 persons have witnessed its representation, and the nightly overflows have wftirmed its popularity. It will be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, Drc. 9, Val be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustratin,l.,all Cruikshants' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters :Ny Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville; 'Sirs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss -. Grant Mts. I.aws,• with the Old English Drama of To oonclude THE LAD:',E OF LAMBYTHE. Iva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine Miss Grant. Lucie, Wilbert, Martin. Wilbert, Mr. Dale. Walter Mort Mr. E. F. 'Sa vi; 3 e• John the Jester ,Mr. Smith. Evemog.... to minutes aiter 4 TER AT LONDON I C 17.1.00 E TO.MORRO R. HIGH-WA Morning.... 27 minutes after 4 LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 11139. The announcement of the Meeting of Parlia ment should put the Liberals on their mettle. , Experience has demonstrated that nothing can be gilt from Parliament, unless the public demands be i mpe yative. If the Dissenters, therefore, wish fo: the a b u .'4ion of Church-rates—if the middle classes generally require the abolition or alteration of the Corn-laws --if the bulk of the electors require the protection o! the Ballot—if the non-electors still regard the Extension of the Suffrage as the only cure for their multipiied political sufferings— , now is the time to bestir thensselves, and make their • wants and wishes known to .1 3 arliament. The i Tories and the parsons have held npmerous meet ings during the recess , and have endeavoured in j vain to kindle something like enthusiasm in their I f a v o ur. They have bribed the operatives, they i ck y e collected their retainers, they have spouted , t , pckblic dinners, but they have failed to con vince i .t, e people that they ought to be in love with " cha:us and slavery." Whoever heard of men being enthusiastic for a bloated Church Esta blishment or a plundering aristocracy? The efforts of the Tories and the parsons have been complete It failure-, and now that they have done their worst and their best, their oppooents should take the field. There is nothing generous in Toryism, nothing ennobling in priesicraft ; the former may seduce the weak, and the latter may terrify the timid, but the bull spirit of independent man will reject: both the physical coercion of the Tories, and the spiritual coercion of the Priests. Now, before Parliament meets, should those who resent the injustice acme to all the Dissenters in the person of THOROGOOtti and those who feel indignant at the injury in flicted on the whole nation to keep up the superiority of the landlords, make their opinions known by public meetings, and by oulopting appropriate resolutions. As things appear at present the Parliament will have a right to con- ' elude that the nation is entirely Tory, and given up to the cause of the Priests, without one dissen- tient voice. Let this spell be broken—let the Dis- seaters rouse themselves—let the suffering manu facturers, and the Perishing workmen, laving aside minor and remote differences, unite, and tell the Par liament, in language which cannot be misunderstood, that if it mean to preserve the respect and obedi ence of the nation, it must no longer sacrifice the masses to a few thousand landowners, and a still smaller number of men who aim at founding and preserving a dominion in the world on a pretended knowledge of a world hereafter. We see by the Carlisle Journal that the elect ' of Cockermouth gave a public dinner to their representa tives, Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. HORSM A N, on Wed nesday last. Other Liberal constituencies ought to act in the same way. It is good to ascertain that the opinions of their representatives remain unaltered and good to strengthen them in their virtuous reso-• lutions. Mr. AG LIONRY at this meeting spoke strongly in favour of an alteration of the Corn-laws, re'ommending Mr. HuNtE's plan of a gradual abatement of the duty till it was settled at Bs. or Gs. a quarter. But Mr. AGLIONBY, and all the agriculturists, must know that this scheme of a gradual abatement would prevent persons investing capital in agriculture while the reduction was in progress. At the end of each successive year every investment would be reduced in value. Such a plan seems feasible, but reflec tion has convinced us that it would be inure injurious to the agriculturists than either the present plan, or a thorough, complete, and imme diate abolition of the Corn-laws. We cannot, therefore, say that we approve of this partial re moval of a gross wrong. Let the whole injus- Lice be swept away. We are for no half felonies, nor for maiming a man and taking credit for not committing a murder. Mr. AGLIONJY said that those who insisted on having all, or they would take nothing, were playing the game of the enemy. We agree with him, and will take the smallest improvement we can get, al ways asserting, however, our right to get the whole of what is just. But Members of Parliament and others should remember that the demands of news papers or of particular persons ought not to sway them to commit an injustice. If we demand what is wrong, is that an excuse for their doing what is wrong ? If the Legislature will substitute a !mall fixed duty for the present varying scale of duties, we will accept the change ; if it agree gradually to reduce the duties we will not refuse that ; but vre shall continue to saw that the whole scheme of taxing the food of the people for the benefit of one class, and one class only, in ever so small a sum, is a grows act of injustice, and that the public ought not to be satisfied till the trade in provisions of all kinds be completely free. We agree with the following remarks in the Ex aminer, and have previou s l y expressed similar sen timents, though i n less terse and emphatic lan guage : THE To P R EPARATIONS FOR POWER. It is most certain that the Tories reckon upon the revival of the bray of No-Popery as the means of their resto ration to power. It s ;q tally certain that should they succeed in gaining ther end by such vile means, their tenure of place would Le unstable as: water, their official life as brie as the glory of their own ora..ge lilies. This is more than a drop of sweet in a cup of bitters. The greatest .iifficulty which the present Ministry has had to encounter i 3 but the crumpling of a rose leaf compared with the embarrassments in store for Sir I Robert Peel, springing- up under the very steps by which he proposes to arrive at Downing-street. Let his path to power be ever so flowery, he will assuredly find its possessio n a bed of thorns. The flame of intolerance that now cheers will scorch him. The storm of bad passions through which it is possible he may succeed in sm‘tching the keys of the Treasury, will not subside at his bidding, when it will be as much his interest to hush the voice of turbulence, and silence the howl of bigotry, as it now is to promote the hubbub. That a Minister, borne into power upon th- tide of the fiercest animosity to the people of Ireland and their religion, should govern upon the principles of national and religious equality, may safely be pro nounced a moral impossibility. Thoroughly to con tent tie friends to whose sweet voices he would be indebted for his short triumph, he must administer affairs to their satisfaction,—that is, he must not only make bigotry and exclusion the spirit and principle of his Ministry, but he must faithfully act in that fell spirit, and carry out in all its rigour that iron prin ciple, ruled by every scream from Canterbury, every yelp from Ashton, and every snarl from all the ken nels of all Ulster. This he must do, thus must he act, to give complete contentment to the violent section of his party, represented so well by the Bradshaws at the feast and the Stowell: in the pulpit As the people would have no share in bringing a Tory Minister into power—as, on the contrary, the restoration would be right in the people's teeth—so in the exercise of Ministerial power there would be no popular leaning ; all the tendencies to please would be towards the quarter where alone the struggle for office had been encouraged and abetted- The Ministerial soliloquy would be, 1 w ill b e a s intolerant as the nation will bear" —not, " I will be as liberal as the Orangemen will submit to." Exalted and happy lot of a Minister whose principles array the millions again 't him, and who can never de viate into the paths of enliettened government without incurring the sh ame o f i ngrat P•ude and the odium of apostacy I Happy Mi n i ster , w h os e system must be ex clusion, and w h o can on l y b e lib era l b y stealth, and at such intervals as elapse between angelic c.: 113 I Thrice happy Minister, either dinned with the clamcnni of h is deceiv e d an d di sappo i nte d f r i en d s, or deafened wi . .. 11 the roar of enraged and immitigable enemies—friends wbOtti he cannot soothe without rousing a people, enemies whom he cannot turn to friends by any art or charm ! It is a singularity in the history of parties, that the Tories out of power should profess the same contempt and hatred of the multitude as when they were is office. We must admit, though we cannot admire, their consistency. They are the incarnation of the spirit of oppression. Oti L er statesmen, when forced from the councils o f the Crown, have appealed to the generous spirit of' liberty, and have forced their way back to power by promisin g political improvements and an extension: of the franchise. The Tories ask for power, in the name of oppression, and threaten, as the reward for restoring them to office, a restora tion and extension of tyranny. They are, perhaps, not mad, but those who support them must be. What SHYLOCK says to ANTONIO is but a faint f.epresentation of the mean spirit which would re store the Tories to power, while they avow their determination to spit upon the people and spurn them as heretofore. They do not come cap in hand, and ask for a restoration to power as a favour. They offer no bond, if we restore them. They claim dominion as a right, and threaten the people as angry masters threaten their scholars. " Let me but cate.h you, sir, and I will flay you alive," says an angry peda g o g ue to an urchin who has escaped from his clutches. " Let us catch you," say the Toriek? to the Catholics, " anti we will re-inflict the penal la ws on vo iz ;" to the Dissenters, " and we will compel yo .n to subrnit to a heavier and more galling yoke for the honour of the Church ;" and to the Chartists, " and we will repress your grumbling and discon tent by the bullets of the soldier and the gallows of the executioner." Such are the Tories out of of fice; in office they would undoubtedly be the actual tyrants they now describe in their speeches. A correspondent inquires why we call the Bishop of Exeter " Old Toint." We are not a little sur prised at the question, as we had supposed that the circumstances to which the Right Reverend Prelate is indebted for his alias were too generally known to require explanation. As we find, how ever, that we were mistaken in this supposition, we shall proceed to gratify the laudable curiosity of our Correspondent, and it may be, of others, by a & m ail of the particulars which attended the Bi shop's second christening. _ It i s needless to say that Dr. PHILPOTTS is the most celehrat:d of pamphleteers. It was, in fact, by means of the Pamphleteering system that he worked his way to t be mitre. Every step of the ladder by which he mounted the Episcopal Bench was formed of a pamphlet. at those productions were good in one sense, it wou,i,d be in vain to deny. In so far as the goodn e s s of ae7V thing de pends on its adaptation to the purpose for .which it is intended, they were of the first order of e.xce: l- lence. The author flattered his friends, and raili:d 1 at his enemies, to a degree, and with a tact, that threw all his competitors in that line of author craft completely into the shade. For Dr. VAN AIILDERT, the late Bishop of Durham, the most fulsome praise was too faint ; for Lord GREY and Mr. CANNING no invective was too bitter, no abuse too gross. The former silly old man had the richest rectory in the king dozr in his gift, and was therefore easily persuaded that fle wqs the most learned man th a t ever w ore a mitre. 'The ;atter persons were the warmest and ablest advocates of Catholic emancipation, of which our hero was then—though he afterwards ratted— the most uncompromi,=ing and inveterate opponent. At this period of his life every year produced half a-dozen of these characteristic brochures, no inci cident being allowed to escape public notice, that could, by any possibility, be made a peg to hang a pamphlet on. Now, it so happened that in one of the last de bates on the Catholic question in the House cf Commons, in which Mr. CANNING took a part, Lord LYNDHURST (then Sir JOHN COPLEY), a man of kindred principles with Dr. PHILPOTTS, took it into his head to make a foaming speech against the Catholics ; hut as Providence has been ' pleased, happily for his country, to neutralize that Learned Lord's talents by an unconquerable indo lence of disposition, he saved himself the trouble of hunting for arguments in his own mind, and de livered, almost verbatim, the Reverend Doctor's last pamphlet on the subject. The plagiarism was evi dent to the whole House. When the Learned Gentleman sat down, Mr. CANNING rose to reply, and commenced his speech with the following quotation from a well-known soner in Monmouth gaol), by Francis Hill, of No. 14, Northumberland-place, Bath, has been one of the rrincipal causes of such outrage, have caused to be in terc-pted a packet of these papers, of the date of the 30th of November, directed to Mr. Newbridge, Gla morganshire (12 miles from Cardiff), a district in which Chartism has very widely spread, earnestly bog leave to call your Lordship's attention to the extensive circula tion and mischievous tendency of the said paper, and herewith transmit to your Lordship the intercepted packet ; and I am authorised by John Bruce Price, Esq., and the Rev. George Thomas, County Magis trates, and Charles Crofts Williams, Esq., late Mayor of Cardiff, to add their names to mine in making this communication to your Lordship. " I have the honour to be, &c., " R. REECE, Mayor of Cardiff." Our Contemporary, from whom we copy this, who is occasionally so very indignant about the least infringement of the rights of the Church an d the Tory people, passes over this vast assumption of power without a single comment. What would he have said i had the Bow-street Magistrates—being convinced that many of his late lucubrations were injurious to the QUEEN'S authority—underta ken to arrest a packet of the Times, and had forwarded it to the Marquis of NORMANBY? We apprehend that our Contemporary would have prosecuted the Magistrates for stealing, and we should not be sorry to see Mr. REECE ex posed to the same ordeal. We have a great deal more to say on this subject, but we shall content ourselves now with having attracted public attention to it, and with remarking that the censorship of ;Nlagistrates self-appointed to the office, and acting by no rules prescribed by a competent authority after due deliberation, is a much more tyrannical assumption of power over the Press than that assumed at any time by the Government of France or any arbitrary Government of Europe. We are happy to be able to state that the croaking reports about the falling off of the re venue from the alteration in the rate of postage, are exaggerations. Not that it was ever expected that the revenue would not fall off; nor was the plan proposed without a full knowledge that it would. The real declension, however, has been less than was expected, and much less than was reported. On comparing last Thursday with the average of preceding Thursdays as the produce of the days vary, it has been found that the increase of letters posted on Thursday wits about 21,000, the average of a Thurs day being 39,000, and the number posted on last Thursday was 60,000. The receipts of the Post-office on those letters was about 5001. less than the average. On Friday the increase of letters posted, compared to preceding Fridays, was about 10,000, and the deficiency of the receipts about 6001. The number of penny letters pre-paid and sent by the post on Thursday was about 23 ; 0007; the number of twopenny unpaid letters sent by the post remaining about the same, so that on this branch the receipts ;,, - -freased ,instead of diminishing. On the whole, we may congratulate the public and the Government on the experiment, so far as it has gone—hough we have yet but poor mater rials for judging-- 2 1 zaving completely retilized ex pectation. We must add that no confubon or inconvenience has been suffered at the Post-yffice from carrying the alterations into effect. Letters from Athens of the 19th ult. announce that the KING has confined, by a Royal decree, the excellent Priest, THEOPHILUS CAIRIS, for his praiseworthy efforts to educate the Greek popu lation, to a Monastery in the Island of Skiathos. This manifestation of unconstitutional tyranny so delighted the Russian Ambassador, that he at once consented, in the name of his Imperial Ma jesty, to grant King OTHO the third instalment of the Greek Loan. But the illegal banish ment of the Priest CAIRIS is but one of the thousand acts by which OTHO seeks to win the smiles of Russia at the expense of the liberties of his own subjects. We question whether the Nero of the North would dare to exer cise out of Poland such barbarities as the following, detailed in a letter from Athens of the 19th ult., addressed to a Morning Contemporary: _ . Some time ago a Royal decree appeared, proclaim ! 414 that whenever deserters should not be given up, the families should be treated in the same manner MI the families of brigands. The consequence was, iht ,: . k a detachment of Gendarmes was sent to the n lghb,, Ntrbood of Mistra, and seized 130 individual s , -11 en, women, ,and children, while working in the fields, and, without . 444) them to return to their houses to take their Vl :o g thes or money, marched them to f twenty miles, where they Marathonesi, a distant.'l •o arrived halt famished an',4 Worn out with fatigue. Their cries and lamentation: wrung the hearts of the Gendarmes themselves, Isht:,. finding no provisions were delivered out to theto . , divided their rations with their prisoners. Next cln;' they were shipped on board a man-of-war for iMissolongt,• On the Captain's applying for provisions, the Governor replied, there were none, and they must provide for thennsilves. The inhabitants, although very poor, scraped together a few provisions, and sent them on board, with a tew hearty curses against everyt:ling Bavarian. On their arri%al at Missolorighi a similar scene took place, no lodging or provisions being provided for them. These miserable beings are left to die about the streets, to the great annoyance of the in habitants, who are afraid to harbour them or employ those that can work for fear of ill-treatment from the Government ; 800 individuals from different parts of Greece have been similarly transported. The Augsburg Gazette may puff King Otho's humanity, mildness, good•heartedness, and all his good qualities as long as it pleases, but while we have such iglits daily before us, it surely cannot mean we are to believe it. - Constitutional State governed after this fa shion c:_knnot long maintain its independence. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 30th ult. have reached us. The Ministers had prevailed upon the 'Municipalities' of Cuenca, Chinchilla, Caceres, and Oyagonzalo, to support their policy by forwarding addresses to the EEGENT, approving of the dissolution of the late Cortes. The Liberals were organizing a powerful opposition in the capital, From the theatre of war the news is inconclusive. General ASPIROZ had driven the Carlists from the Fort of Castro, a place of great strengh, which he instantly occupied. On the other hand, the Queen's troops were obliged to fall back from Cantavieja, in consequence of the want of stores and shelter. The weather was dreadful, the cold being so intense that many of the waggon escorts were frozen to death. Letters from Teruel, says the Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult,, state that the rebels, under CABRERA, PAOLO, tii)fl LLA NGOSTBRA, were constructing a fort at Zinares. The Governor is DOMENETH, who commanded at Oliaza. A convention between ESPA RTERO and CABRZRA was spoken of at Camarillas. Whether this be true or not is not known ; but certain it is that CA BRERA has left off shooting without mercy the mail-drivers. Relations have been opened be tween the General-in-Chief and General O'DON NELL. A factious General had arrived at Ceuta vieja, O'DONNELL'S head-quarters. He was es corted by the QUEEN'S horse. In the money market no activity prevailed. The Five per Cents. were still at 28i for cash. . "Nr bt 1(1.411ne - risit MX. song : Dent Tom, this brown ju which thus foams with mild Out of whit I n.w drink to sweet Kate of the vale, Was once Toby Philpotts— the peals of laughter which, as may easily be supposed, followed these words, uttered as they were, in a kind of chaunt, made the old walls of St. Stephen's Chapel ring again and D. PHIL POTTS has, ever since, rejoiced in the appropriate and beautiful adnomen of " Old TOBY." The Rectory of Stanhope, the gift of the rich man, is gone, but the gift of the man of genius remains, and will remain with the grateful possessor to the end of his life. May we not even prophesy that it will long survive him ? And may we not hence draw the important inference that, while the good things of this life pass away, a good name is imperishable.? The Mayor and other Magistrates of Cardiff and Glanmorganshire have found a new occupation for the Magistracy. Of their fitness for it, literary and political, we have no means of judging, but they have appointed themselves censors of the press, and have undertaken to stop the circulation of The war in Africa continues to engage the at writings which they conce i ve i n j ur i o us to the taste tention of the French journals of Friday and Satur or the morals of the people. Here is the proof, I day. France already re-echoes the first note of which we copy from the Times of this morning: — military preparations s oun d e d by the War Minister Journal of Friday NEWPORT, SATURDAY, I I O'CLOCK, P.M. in the official columns of the I.loniieur. In that In consequence of the large circulation of the paper called the Western Vindicator, containing language of out 25,000 we ca find a Royal Ordinance, 25,000 young men of the conscription the most violcnt kind, the Magistrates of Glamorgan shire and Cardiff have addressed a l e t ter , o f w hi c h t h e • o f 48,000 of the second class for the year 1838. following is a copy, to .the Marquis of Normanby A second Royal Ordinance dated the 4th inst., 4 .` Cardiff, Dec.s, 1839. , "MY LORD MARQUIS—The .county and borough grants to the ,Minister of W ar , f or t h e serv i ce of g Magistrates, who have this day met at the Town•hall 1840, an extraotdinary here, for the purpose rreflit of 19,987,0001., to A t the time of granting the budget of investigating charges 404).0 meet the urgent expellees which c 0.41 put have persons connected with the late at Newport. being fully persuaded that a paper . outrages called the Western 17inch-calor, published fur beeri foraegii fuleury Vincent (now a pri for the said aerviee, c‘taa which is to be carried to THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA V; DECEMBER 9. 1,539. the following chapters of the second section of the war budget (Algeria), viz. :—Staff, 187,0001. pay and maintenance of the troops, 11,403,0001. ; clothing and encampment, 2,700,0001. ; military beds, 160,0001. ; general transports, 1,000,000 f. ; general remount, 20,100,000 f. ; harness, 200,00 W.; forage, 1,537,000 i. ; materiel for the artillery, 800,000 f. ; materiel for the engineers, 200,000 f. ; and secret expenses, 200,000 f. The Journal des Debats states that the success of the Arabs in their late irruption into French Africa has been greatly exaggerated. This statement, resting only on the credit •f that journal was not believed in Paris. It was even supposed from the non appearance of any official dispatch during the whole of Friday and Saturday, that the Government had received unfavourable news from Algiers which it had deemed it prudent to suppress for the present. M. B. SA RRA NS, jun., has just published a pam phlet entitled " Decline of Great Britain," a chapter from which, on the commercial and political usurpa tions of this country for the last two centuries, is paraded in all the Paris journals of Saturday. This is evidently done by way of reprisal for the notice taken in the English Journals of the Bobadil march of the Duke of ORLEANS to the Iron Gates, which provoked the vengeance of the Einir ABD-EL-KADER, who has already made France pay dearly for such a wanton aggression upon his territory. The exposure of M. B. SARRANS gives us very little uneasiness. He has the testimony of English politicians for our national decadence ever since we had a Parliament and a free press, and yet, wonderful to relate I. we have gone on, with hardly any interruption, increasing in wealth, in commerce, in the glories of arts and arms, in Icivilization, and in population, from that compara tively remote pOrii94 to the present, Notwithstand ing out' grumbling, and M, B. $4 4441 1 1; array of what he calls f.lf.!ts, we believe that England was never in a better condition to assert her claims to the dignity of a first-rate State than she is at the present moment, our rebellions at home and squab bles abroad notwithstanding. Smyrna journals of the 19th ult., inclusive, rL. , ceived in Paris, bring interesting news from Con stantinople and Alexandria, a summary of which will be found in another column. The following is the latest account of the disposition of the Eng lish and French fleets in the Mediterranean, with the movements in that quarter : Admiral Stopford, with the English fleet, were s till at Ourlac, with the exception of the Powerful and the Ganges, which anchored in the port of Smyrna on the 15th ult. The Pembroke was to sail for Malta as soon as the Hydra steamer had arrived. The Journal de Smyrne adds that Admiral Stopford would soon sail for Salamina, in order to be nearer Malta, where he expected to winter, Admiral Lalande arrived on the 15th at Ourlac, with part of his squadron. The Hercule, the Jupiter, the Trident, the brig Comets, with the Pepin steamer, were at Smyrna, where the Triton and the Bougainville had already arrived. The Diligente, from Toulon, had joined Admiral Lalande, who was expected also at Smyrna. " The French squadron," says the Journal de Smyrne, " bad well employed its time in exercises and manoeuvres, f t was said that the Belle Poule frigate, commanded by the Prince d e Joinviile, with the Papin steamer, were to return to Toulon, and that the vessels which were to have rein forced Lalande's squadron will remain there, and form a squadron of reserve." The Austrian squadron, u n d er I ar-Admiral Baron Bandicra, was still at smyrna, The English @orvette Hazard, which joined Admiral Stopford on the lath, 4t Qurlac, met on the 17th, a Turkish steamer, coming from Akle*Pfiria. There was nothing said in Egypt about the departure of the Tur kish fleet. L e fiers from Rhodes, of the 15th, announce that the new Gove:lnor of the island arrived there on the 28th of October. On the 12th a slight shock of an earthquake was felt. The island was tranquil, and its sanitory state satisfactory. Letters from the Dardanelles, flitted the 18th ult., announce the arrival of the new Governor Haidar Pacha, on the 13th, and the departure of the former Governor on the 18th, for Constantinople. Prince de Joinviile arrived on the 17th ult. at Con stantinople, from his tour to Trebisond. The exportation of corn had been prohibited by the Turkish Government. The Portafoglio Maltese states, that on the 23d the Turkish Ambassadors in Prussia and France, bath of whom are named Nourri Effendi, were saluted on leaving the lazaretto by 19 rounds, fired from the batte ries of the city. Tney departed in the French Levant steamer, and the Ambassador to Prussia was to land ut Leghorn, and proceed thence to his destination. The same Journal announces, under date Tunis, the 10th ult., that a quantity of gunpowder on board the Maltese vessel Crocifisso, anchored in the Goletta, having- accidentally taken fire, tin- vessel was blow to pieces, and nine of the crew and two of an a djoining vessel were killed by the explosion. There is no additional news of any importance in the French Journals, except that the arrests of suspected persons are more frequent than ever. 'The Spanish Ministry having been beaten in its mai. tart' positions, has imagined a singular means to make use of the array to advantage. It is against the elec tors that it now means to make the troops act, and the next elections are to $ rye, it appears, as its field of battle. The following paragraph is in the Eco del Commercio (a Madrid Journal) of the 29th of Nov. : " It is highly important for the Ministry to commence the cL.,'.ctions of certain provinces such as Catalonia, Andalusia, and New Castile. With this view it i 3 said to be ;;% intention to distribute the disposable troops (though military operations must suffer from it) in the districts of ea,7h of those provinces in which public opinion is adverse to it!' No event of any importance has occurred in Aragon. The journals which are in the habit of extolling the military genius of the Duke of Victory cannot purr suade themselves to call his retrograde movement a retreat. His intention, say they, is to restrict more and more the lines of Cabrera. We do not understand how this is to be done by removing to a greater distance from the point to be attacked. However, the campaign is certainly put off till the spring. Demoralisation and desertion prevails in the army of Christina, The con fidence of the Royalists increases, and the Count de Morella, almost without having fought, obtains all the advantage that a great victory could have procured him. —La Gazette du Havre, Wu said yesterday that Marshal Soult intended to send an aid-de-camp to Algiers i❑ order to enter into a direct communication with Marshal Vallee. We learn to-day that this aid-decamp set out for Algiers two days ago.—Le Commerce. 130 URSE.—PARIS, SATURGAi, DEC. 7. - first Highest Lowest last Price Price. Price. Price. rench ,per Cents He 50 ... 112 50 ~. 112 30 ... I'¢ so , ov , per C en ts.....„„ 105 75 ... 105 75 ... 14.5 75 ... 105 75 4 per ( ents UR 50... Jut 50 ... loi !,0... im 511 3 per Cents BO 9.4.,, ,So 90 ... 80 75 ... SU 80 Bank of rrance L a tii t t e Bank I,ooof. Sli lOBO ...RV° „op , ...I 80 5,404, Sh s_4i) ...5250 ~,5240 ,„6950 Belgian 5 per 0134. lO2 ... 101 ... 101% .„ 101% 3 per Cents 72 10 ... 7 2:0 ... 72 10 .. 72 70 Bank „ 755 ... 755 ... 7,0 ... 750 6iianish Ac ive passivi• OS .i, ( 44 ••• 6 % ... 6 ' , 11 ' /tech 2% par Cents s3'l ... 6' ~. 53% ... 51N Pcmie.tese 3 per rents s+Ca. oht.th !ionian nily 9 . 101% ... 10,% ... Mk, RAILWAY SH .. ARE,. -4 tierrnat , Versailles. 11 B 502 50 ... s'l 50 .„ 5412 50 ... 505 L 8.... 312 50 ... 3241 ... :ti 4 , 1 ... 3,20 liavre ASPHAtqES AND BITU :JENS. Varn og4berly's) .......... ..... &it) ~. 310 ... 380 ... 3ilo GILBERT'd MODERN ATLAS.--.The Second Part o f this elegant work contains Maps of Europe and England, with brief h Bo), ig,a) and geograplit paper. The proprietor Announces that he has engaged a well-known writer to furnish the printed in beautiful type ao4 excellent cal notices, letter-press for the future Parts , and than it is his determin a ti on to make it as complete and accurate a system o f descriptive Geo graphy as can be produced. if rho word of proiniso is kept, the work cannot fail to qicceed. It unites th e a d vantages o f an atlas and a geo graphical a n d stat i st i ca l di ct i ona ry, die price is mo derate, and the neatness of tho maps, and the The Sun, denies colouring of the several counties, province, and Be P ni ° ow L s i k s i i , f inTl E et T te i r N( a i dd A r states, deserve every commendation. the assertion s of " A Friend to Polish TT .-illiOD " greates a t objection letter hjee t i s o h n or t t o , anduch words in proper T ess E ed xEJEß , HALL. --M. I a s " falsehood," " I that he Caused the disturbance at Exeter flail, and that he is a Polish .Jew. Had M. Beniowski made language, We might have inserted it, We have a defy the coward," &c., and on that account chiefly hAve declined publ;shing it. prdrcsssed himself We are, besides, anxious to put an end to this unseemly controversy, which every Pole must see only benefits Russia. BII.OI3DICMA Q NEWSPAPE 4,_prother Jona, than is a most indefatigable personage. He is ever going ahead, and seems to delight in nothing so much as in beating his venerable ancestor John 1 13pii . . !lc boasts that he has longer railroads, longer canals, b etter snips, more freedom, and even Il' r. a= ::, y, that he can rear larger and better cattle than E.... 1 Spencer. Large as our English newspapers ao e, he was determine , ' to beat his grandfather in that respect also, and has produced certainly the Test paper in the world, under the truly Yar,,.L.e title of the Boston Notion. The head letters stand two inches high—the sheet measures 5 feet 10 inches by 4 fee:, 1 inch, being about 24 square feet—it is a double sheet, with 10 columns in each page, making in all 80 columns,.containing one million of letters, and all sold for the moderate charge of 3, d. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, SATURDAY.—We have had a fair demand for Cotton to-day, at yesterday's prices —sales 3,000 bags. The arrivals this morning are two French, two Ostend' and one Dutch mail ; and ship letters from Honduras of August 6, Cape September 30, St. Helena October 12, Sydney August 6, and Valparaiso, September 1 ; New York, by the Virginia. From Sydney papers received to the 3d August : " A very interesting meeting has been held at Hunters River, to petition Government to establish schools on the plan of the British and Foreign Society Schools." PUBLIC MEETING.—The meeting called in the Market-place, to take into consideration the-most ad visable mode of affording relief in consequence of the prevalence of distress among the population of Sydney, arising from the high price of food, was held yesterday, Ist August, pursuant to notice. The Lord Bishop of Australia ascended the platform at two o'clock, preceded by Richard Jones, Esq., followed by Sir John Jamison, the Colonial Secretary, the Sheriff, the Reverend Mr. Wood, and several other gen tlemen of rank. On taking the chair, the Lord Bishop, in a short but excellent speech, stated the objects of the meeting ; the resolutions were then passed amidst loud cheering. RATE OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN SYDNEY •ND LON DON..--We understand that it is the intention of our Commissariat to draw, during the present month, a cer tain sum on England. The bids will be disposed of by tenders, but as the amount intended to be drawn has not yet transpired ; we cannot say whether it is likely to affect, in any sensible degree, the present rate of exchange, SyntigT COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE..—FIour is very firm, 100 tons of seconds has been taken from the millers for exportation to South Australia, at a high figure. Rice has changed hands at an advanced price, mid is expected to rise. Tea is offered in larger lots, at pi, ps. to IP/ The k Ice imported by the Hero, and sold on Wed nesday last by Mr. Smart, realised from lid. to lid. per lb. The millers bought largely, The Hobart Town people appear to have a more ex. tensive trade with South Australia than falls to the share of the merchants of Sydney ; so great was the quantity of goods offering at the former port for South Australia a few weeks since that the Samuel Baker, schooner, was able to load a full cargo at eight guineas per ton, making her freight upwards of 1,f200/. HOBART TOWN MARKET--..A. rise of 21. per ton has taken place in flour, which may be placed to the large demand for supplies for south Australia, Port Philip, &o. Best samples of wheat have sold as high as 18s, per bushel ; fine flour 461, per ton seconds 54/. ; thirds 421. (From the Sydney Herald of the 24th July.) LFQISLATIVE COUNCIL—The Governor laid upon the table the Qti§torog 13i11, as amended, to be read It third time. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Revenue of New South Wales declining. Gross income in 1837 in 1838 202,579 18 7 Decrease £24,320 5 4 The greatest decrease was in the duties on imported spirits and tobacco, owing, it is supposed, to smuggling. The general prosperity of the country is, however, satisfactory. REVENUE. Including Crown Lands" . £.33,079 11 10 Expenditure, including Port Philip ... 463,161 17 1 This heavy amount is chiefly occasioned by the pharges Incurred in maintaining the police and gaols, and includes what in England vvou d be defrayed out of local funds. The estimates for 1840 exceed 300.0001., while the revenue, exclusive of Crown lands, will be only 200,0001. The Governor observes upon this that there must be some change. The revenue of Port - Philip has greatly increased ; the estimated expenditure for 1840 will be about forty thousand pounds, and the income probably not half. Port KA I is likely to prove of great service to the whole of the colonies, We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date, Letters from Padang of the 28th May, state that the situation of Sumatra was most favourable ; that the Chief Baron has given in his submission ; also that or(h and peace had been restored. The overland express from India was expected to ar. rive this morning. We have received Port Phiip Papers to the 14th July. " A report has reached Melbourne that the native, of the Mount Macedon di. , :trict have made a descent upon the station of S. J. Brow n, Esq., and driven off a fiock of sheep ; the overseer went out with some of the men, and succeeded in recapturing the stolen property ; at the moment when t he native camp was discovered, nine Sheep had been slaughtered for regaling the party. Munro, Esq., a few days ago, was alarmed by some of his men running into hig hut with an account that the blacks had come round them in a Large body. Mr. Munro went out with the purpose of conciliating the natives, when he was encompassed by a large number of them, and wounded in the back with a spear. He was fortunately rescued and carried to his hut." Consols opened this morning at the quotations they closed at on Saturday, 92i for the Account, Reduced 90i Exchequer fills, 3 1 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade better, closed at 04 at present 24i -a; Portuguese same as they left off, 33i- 84 ; Colombian, 29t 30 ; Brazilian, 71i 72 ; Spanish Passive, 5i 0*; Deferred, 10j 11 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., .53i ; Five per Cents., 9U 100. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock - -- 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 9030i Ditto Bonds —_S per Cent. Cons. — South Sea Stock 3y 4 per Cent Ditto 114, - i New Ditto .... New :34 per Cent,„ ~r.•,MN 1 , ,, i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New S ........ per C en t. . ......... ,„.. -- Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 1 3 dis Long Annuities toexpire Ditto... 500 ... I 3 dis. . ,Ign. 5, 1800 13 15-18' Ditto Small. ,„. INV g Otis go, IA 1159....... ............ ---, Ditto Commercial ,,,— j- e . n . 1800,„„ ..... ~. Ditto Adverti se d Jan, 5, 5 611 ,,?wint , p. — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1i11ia,,,,ii0,,,,0, ..-- India Stock tor Account ... 2.',5 Jan. 5. 1870 -,...- Congos for Acc0unt.......„ 9:2% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THlti DA% AT ONE o CLOuO Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds B e igio ponds Ditto A eFfitint .. — Portuguese Bonds arazilia „ B on d s ..„,„,„ „„ Ditto New Bonds — Ditto Account , vu Ditto Accoun"33% 4% : , .,.i Buenos Ayres Bonds —i 4 itAt 1 I)Pr crnt, ~,-., VI Ditto Account.„ .. 1.1. 1 13., 14 - Ditto Account Chilian &OP — Prussian Bonds Ditto Aecouht — Russian Bonds, .:111N IA Columbian Bonds ; ' 1821...... Ditto Account Ditto Account Flagg ilgtMli.9.-•,,, - rolumbian 80nd5,1824.,30% 2N Spanish Isluuts•it . t..,..P414 3i4 Dittp ac ti count 30% 28% % Ditto Account .. . • , iiv .ii, .... „ . - , • Danish ruls „,„ — Passive . ...................... 6 Ditto Account montinni —i 7Detierred il Greek Bonds .. french, 5 per cent...—. —f. —r. Ditto Bonds, 1t325 -,.. i sits=,prr cent. Ditto Account -, ---- 1)P PPM, in,•• .9 0 : --ci Karim! pontitl, per Cent --- xchange....„, ~, f, —e, pito itccppilt „,„,,,, ~, — i Dutch, 254 per cent. ,..533k yi Ditto, II per Uttrif, nom, =-, Ditto Account -, Ditto Account Neapolitan •••• LIMO ACCilliltiiiiii,, „n..— I'R ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid, Per Share. British fran CoMpllnV Edinburgh and Glasgowm—oroo r Provincial Bank of Ire ~,,,,,,, •••frt m! , !:1! Union Bank of Australia... , 4/- 4 , , atto of London 5 Mexican and South American 7 6 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 7. par 004, Ceplols tier Cent. stock ....,„„ 97% Ditto, 4 per ctnt -. Ditto Reduced Ditto New, Feln 98% City of Dublin steam Comp. 33. per Cent I)ebentures nt y io i flatl . zu u r r a e lice 4 C p o e m , g e a n n t y . Bank : , tAcic Grand Canal Stock „,„„„ Ballast Office Delmturps, 4 . Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. Cppsolg at present may be quoted 92 to 92i for the Account ; Reduced POI i gNobegger Bills, 1 3 ; India Bonds, 8 die. ; Bank Stock, 178, The chief feature in the Foreign Market is a fall in Colorphiag 139114, owing tea long notice being posted at the Stock Exchange, to the following effect ;—That the portion of the Colombian Loi.ins assumed by the Venezuelan Government is U 8 per cent, on the sum of 662,950/. sterling. The proportion thus assumed by the Venezuelan Government is 1,888,390, on which they are prepared to pay 2 per cent. div ; dend, engaging to have month's ilivideild in advocte in the bands of their agents, Messrs. Reich Irving, and Co. ; but It is a consi deration that those availing themselves of thisarrangement must deliver up their present bonds in exchange for new debentures, to the extent of the portion assumed by the new Government. Colombian, which were in the early part of the morning 801, receded to 284 ; Mexican, 29f ; Spanish Active also lower, 234 ; Spanish Pas sive, 6 ; Deferred, 11 ; Dut c h T wo-an d a- H a l f per Cents„ „tiqj i Five per cents ? , nothing doing. THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—We have been desired to state, for the information of those en gaged in the wine and spirit trade, and innkeepers in genera), th4t it hq beep p rule for thp lost eighteen months, at the Custom House here, to charge the duty pp the increase in bulk upon all rums and brandies whilst in bond, making the ellowonce for loss in strength ; the loss in spirits being according to the length of timt they may have been in bond, and being in a damp or dry eel*. Owing tp the vopopr which constapqarises it' o damp cellar, 40 penetrating through the wood, the damp increases the bulk and diministwe the stron:tt-„, „ much so that a puncheon of him has been known to lov as much as forty gal:ons in strength, and increase eight gallons in bulk.— Liverpool lifercyry. YICE.CHIVSICERY.-(THIS DAY.) BELL V. THE HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY. This case came before the Court upon motion to dissolve an injunction granted in July last, by which the defendants were restrained from proceedin g with their works in front of the plaintiff's wharf, or from com mencing any other works whi c h wou ld ren d er the wharf of the plaintiff unfit for the lauding of goods, until the Com pany should have made another convenient landing -place for the goods belonging to the plaintiff. The Hull and Selby Railway Company was established by an act passed in the 6th year of the reign of William IV. for the purpose of Parrying" passengers and goods between King. ston-upon-Hull and Selby t by the provisions of that Act, part of the Railway near Hull was to pass along the shore of the Humber, upon land, which, when the tide was in was covered with water. The works of the defendant being conceived by the plain tiff to be greatly injurious to him, he ap plied to them upon the subject, when, according to his statement. they agreed to erect a wharf as couve. nient for his purposes as the one he then had, A tem porary wharf was then erected by the defendants, and upon their refusing to build any other the plaintiff filed his bill, and obtained the injunction which it was the object of the present motion to have dissolved, The arguments, which appear likely to occupy a day or two, were proceeding when our Evening Edition went to press. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) SCOTT V. VAN SANDAU. This case, on the application of the Attorney-Gene ral, was postponed till to-morrow, to give the defendant time to make sows necessary preparations, Sir Williaal Follett, for the assenting. POWLE V. STEINKELLEIL. This was an acting brought by the plaintiff, to re cover the sum of 1,0691 odd, being the balance (Inc upon an 3,C01.101 fat' cat on goods sold a nd delivered. Mr. THESIG ER stated the carne. The alleg,.(l suns was due upon a eontract for the mantthioture of bricks. The defendant was a natitto of Poland, and in cont.- quence of pertain representations m ide to the plaintiff, that bricks could be manufactured much more oheapiy in Poland than in England, he was induced to co over to that country, taking with him Et number of English workmen. The contract was made by the defendant op the par t of the Russian Government, and after a large number of bricks had been made, it was ascertained that the bricks were to have been made of the size of Russian bricks, and not the size of English bricks. The defendant had concealed that fact from the plaintiff, and the question was, whether the plaintiff was bound to supply bricks at 103 florins the 1,000 of the Russian size, which was double that of the English bricks, the plaintiff alleging that the agreement was to supply the bricks of the Eng l, 4 l, sine , After the Learned Counsel had proceeded at some length into his statement, the case, on the suggestion of Lord Denman, was referred to a r bit ra ti on , Tt4 " ?Aut. NEWSPAPER--.—THE QUEEN V. HAGUE AND OTHERS. This was an indictment against the defendants, J. Hague, James Archdeacon Richardson, Henry John Richardson, and Christopher Hawdon, proprietors and publishers of the Paul Pry newspaper, for a series of libels which it wi:,s alleged had been published in that paper, upon the characters of the prosecutors George Whitehead, and Major William James Richardson. There were forty-two counts in the indictment. Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case on behalf of the prosecutors. They were both at the time of these most scandalous publications Directors of the Standard of England Assurance Company, Major Richardson being the brother of two of the defendants, and Mr. White head, a conveyancer, and connected with mercantile speculations. The libels were continued for severa l months with the greatest malignity and perseverance, the object being to extort money from the prosecutors. Considerable difficulty had been experienced in getting at the editors and p ro p r i e t ors o f the riper, but it had at length been ascertained that they were the defendant u agoe , who was formerly en attorney, the two .Richard sons, and Christopher Hawdon, who was also an attorney. An indictment had been preferred at the last October Sessions, and removed by certiorari, on t h e application of the defendants, into that Court. The indictment had been prepared under the advice of a most eminent pleader, and he feared the evidence would be somewhat tedious, as there were not less than 42 counts in it, it being deemed advisable so to frame it by the express advice of that gent man, l i ord P. I;NMAN--I cannot agree with that gentleman, whoever he was, that he exercised a sound discretion. The shorter an d more di st i nctly the charges are put the better. S uc h an immtl.44V gays of lett ers are a mere waste of time, Mr. ALEXANDER resumed, and after referring at some length to the articles complained of, called the following witnesses James Turner-1 am a printer, living at Hatton,gar den. I was applied to to print the _NW pry newiniper. Did you print it ? I don't think I ought to answer that question, Lord DENtiAN—You are not bound to say that you did print it. WITNESS—About the middle of last year there was a change of proprietors. Mr. Henry John Richardson then applied to me to know if I would print the paper, Henry, his b rot h er, James Archdeacon Richardson, and Christ o ph er H awdon, were frequently together aet ing as the proprietors and editors of the paper. I heard James speak of Major Richardson, the prosecutor as his brother. I heard him on one occasion ay that , i ' h ey were serving him out," but no name WAs Mentioned. 5.. I believ e d t h ey were ta lki ng o f hi m , I h eard Henry mentioned say they w ou ld h ave Sam e money out of hi m b efore they ( g L av a e ug it ht u e p r. , ) lithhe w i n yn e my private ktehree waiting for proofs. The articles new handed me are in sum then sttn i ti ng on i d Was ,00 roo ~_m the hand-writing of Mr. flawdon. There is a great similiarity in the hand-writing of the two defendant , the Richardsons, and the paper now in my hand. is written either by Henry or Archdeacon Richardson. --(The witness afterwards identified several other documents in their handwriting,h4 heard the defendants sa that their Arst object was to get the a • circulation,Y per into Tne office for the publication f p th e • • W e i o paper is ILI iington-street, Strand. were the op Several cies of : • the paper printed by the witness o put tn, Mr. BATLET, in behaltuftht 41'00- ardsee, plettdt4 olitty tq itIO po, - .ant Henry Rieli. arts cutint4-,i6 dd..- • —,, 10th, 11th, 12th, and ; , IZilllon- ' _.,,luant entering into his own recog ,pd..s tO c ome up to receive judgment when called and nctt to be ca ll e d up for judgment at all it entirely Ceased fro m pu bli s hi ng any further libels upon eith er of the prosecutors, Mr. C4.AeicsoN,, RA behalf the claw:Woos Thomas ____ CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAN ) HUNTER V. PUGH. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave jntlgtrent this nao7 in thi, cas; in winch tiic all for ti , 4 purpose of obtaining the deeison of the Court upon the ques tion wheth er by the will of the testator, in the cause, under which the defendant whs the trusst,.e of crl sin property, he was bound to convey it to *plaintiff or whether other claimants were entitled to it. His Lordship was clearly of opinion, that under th will the fee in the property in question passed to the person through whom the plaintiff claimed ; the defen dant, therefore, was bound to convey to him, and his Lordship decreed accordingly. COOKE V. REETHAIL This case came before the Court upon an appeal. motion from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor. His Honour, in February of the present year, made an order whereby he directed an injunction which he had gr'imted to be continued till the hearing of the cause, and the object of the present motion was to discharge that order. The parties to the cause consisted of five phiiti tiffs and six defendants. Ten of those gentlemen were the Directors of a Railway Company, intended to be called " The City and Richmond Railway Company ;" but afterwards that title was altered to " The Metro politan Central Railway Company." The Company was originally projected by two individuals of the names of Luxton and Blount, one of whom was an engineer, and the other an architect. In March, 18.96, they ap plied to several professional*gentlem en to act as their solicitors in the formation of the Company, and among the rest to Mr. Beetham, who finally assented to be , come their professional adviser. The necessary adver ' tisements were then put in the newspapers, and in the latter end of March the first meetingof the Directors took place, and the gentlemen forming that direction retained Mr. Beetham as their solicitor, and then prepared the derd for establishing the Company, and afterwards application was made to Parliament for an Act. Considerable ex pence was incurred in obtaining the assents and dissects of the proprietors of property on the intended line, anc ultimately Mr. Beetham had a hill of costs against an. Company to the amount of between 16,000/. and 17,0001, one of the items , in that hill being 7,0001. for servine; as many notl_:,.s. Mr. Beetham had been paid 5.,8171. on account of that bill, but the project failing the Directors refused to pay the halanee claimed by Mr. Beetbana, amounting to 9,5004, alleging that he was not entitled to it, inasmuch as he had agreed with the Directory only to he paid the costs out of pocket, if the application to Parliament did o e t suceeed and a$ an additional reason for not paving his demand, the Directors asserted thal t . hn had given them bed advice. In this stetce circumstances Mr. Beetham brought his) action to recover payment, and to restrain pp from proceeding in which the plaintiffs filed their bill, and obtained an injunction, which his Honor'upon application to him for that purpose, refaced to dissolve, and the object of the lomat motion was to have that order dischar ge d, Mr. Wakefield and Mr. Keene appeared in support of the appeal. Mr. Wigram anti Mr, Lloyd supported the order of the Court helew, The arguments had not concluded when our Evening Edition went to press. 1 4 -1 v INT T NG Hague, also pleaded guilty to the same counts, and on the , acne terms. TIM, was assented to by OA Counsel for the prosecution. %V lii:uri Bidnev, fof•elu,u l to Turner, &imbed that he saw the defendantsut:y at Turner's house. He understood Major Ri,hards o n to be the brother of the twm dthndatits. He heard the two defendants (the llichar,l,,n-,) swear that they would follow him to death's door, and never leave him till they had 3,0001• cut of him. They were speaking of the . Mdjor at the time ; Hawdon was not then present. They were laugh' ing at the article is the paper. Several of the articles complained of, a very scu rr il ous character, charging the prosecutor s with fraud, f orgery , swindling, &c., t h en put in and read.were which were of Lord DENMAN—Th ere i s no stamp-office in tbis case. Mr. HUMPHREYS—No, my Lord, it is an unstamPed papor. Captain Augustus John He)sell—Th e late Colonel Hepsell w as toy father. Major' Richardson, one of the pro,ecuton., married my sister. An article reflecting unon my sister appeared in the Paul Pry of the 10th June, 1838, and I waited upon James Archdeacon Itchardson shortly afterwards. He said if I came from Major Richardso n he would have no communication with me. I sa id I came on my own account, and he then denied that he had written the article in question. He said s o f ar as hi s i nfluence went, nothing s h o uld appear in th e p aper contrary to the wish of :ny family. He asked why had not Major Richardson gone to Hague , and that it was his intention to anatomise and cresh by brother, and drive him from society into obscurity. Herman Hendricks---I know the defendants, 3arnes Archdeacon Richardson and Havvdon. I brard Ha° . don state in Richardson's presence that it was. his inten tion to crush Major Richardson, and that he would never leave him till he had done it. .Lord DENM AN t h en summed up to tht Jury. Th e indictment charg e d t h e defendants witt: i a conspiracy to injere and ruin the prosecutors, racy to extort money frau, th.„ prosecutors, and With publishingseries of libels a truth of the cha ges w":s not in question on the present occasion, and he tbr,ught there was little doubt that they would find the 'i,rticles libellous. They would also take d into considerationsoot also with a conspi: the evidence of co..spiracy, find their vP:rdiet accordingly. Tne J ur y f oun d the defendants guilty of the libels, and of the conspiracy to publish them. The indictment, which contained upwards of 600 folios, was stated to be 231 feet long! IN SOLI - EN T I) EBTO COURT (THIS DAT.) MUTILATING BOOKS. Kw JUDGMENT . time John Webb, wh ose ease ago, appeared for i::,d.gment. He was oppose d °n the part o f Messrs. 'y'V . right, the bankers. The in . sotv , ut ;veered in The Sun I°llle '. had bee n a b utc h er i n an extensi ve business 1 1 Newpo r t M ar k et. The charge againstntit was coat h e h ad withheld and mutilated his act -o books, so as to conceal the true state of his au "irs. There were leaves extracted from the book, and W 1 .% alter e d f rom pounds to shillings. It was alleged th at he had concealed a large sum of money. knew Mr. C omm i ss i oner BOWEN said the Court 'We of tips man' s a ff a i rs f rom his books. It was a s erias case. Th e i n j ury was extensive, and the ju d gine n; would be serious. He w as or d ere d to be remanded for two years for fraudulently withholding and destroying his books. APPREHENSION OF -ANOTRE SET OF G AMBLERS. -(THIS DAY.) r This morning, amongst. the night charges brought to Marlbo roug h- street Police were seve n individuals of very fashionable appearance, who had been apprehended last night at a gambling house, No. 66, St. James 8- street. The names entered on the police sheet are Thomas Jackson, William Willmott, Henry Palmer, John Jones, John Rogers, Thomas Smith, and George z:4tewart, which are supposed to be mainly fictitious is whi s p ere d t h at three of them are of high s tation 10 society. Their apprehension was effected after muc h difficulty by Sa per i ntendant Baker and a strong party.°' ( the C division of police, at the instance and complaint of the parochial authorities of St. James, Westminster , who are determined to use every exertion in the ir power to purge the parish of these nuisances. Th ° doors of the house were so strongly secured that theY The f ottw t o he cro h u o p u i s e e rs ; e o s n e e a p or t with the b an k over, the, i severe njury, as them e was a them trace m of u b st ioo h d av fo e r s s u o lt e aine dis tance, Tim f ables, scrapers, and other gambling Im' PleffientP, w ere ta k en possess i on of. Owing to Mr. Adolphus, who was retained as Coun sel for Jackson and Willmott, not being able to attend until this afternoon, the hearing of the case was post poned. HE MARIZE - T(a-118 DAY) CORN EXCHANGE, The arrivals of Grain last week were moderate. and of F l " r t fair ; the fresh supplies middling, The bes t runs s r i u o n n s da ;f .s % t V err h : have obtained Is. per quarter - ad vance on and for Foreign there ha; been a similar improvement. ley than riot in so much dematd as on Friday, but Is. per quarter than last Monday. Ileans dull, and sold at their former valu_, Peas met no 7 ariation, The Ilemand for Oats was slack, LT! maintained their rates, but inferior were rather. lower. Flower trAtle arm, at last Monday's prices. A AD OF snit.. ....r --I .... Bean s , Sinai? , (old) )) 38. i ... 3 .5. Tick (new) ... 41,44 , ._--- (old) Harrow (new) 40.. 41, _...-- Cold) 44'.46.41 Brank .. 4 Oats, Feed _211,...4 New Poland —'• .....s. New .4, 10. Potatoe "' 324. .219, Ws. u ew :.0. 321 ' &own Irish .......... ..225. 25, 2 7" Flour Town per sack) SB. 12'• ---.. seconds 545.505 1 —..— North Country._ 511.. 52.. Bran S :PI '.DON DURING- LAST WU:A. ,ar ley ',..- ,105 q r.. 2,0121r5. I 6.7 - 10 2,9d7 85, ack , :1,178 1 ,10 _ SMITHFIELD. 5,8 „is 4 Friday , je Ann ual an w ns h e r h en ta c k e e o s f p t i h ac e e n o e n ar T a h p li p rui ro te l s., o f t few choice cattle were brought to Als.lcet, being withheld for iiS B at h u o r w day o t f Ca l t n tle c , ° the purpose of fattening; iiv,,t buye . on l ypu re diate use. The tilc4 was ilierefore very heavy, and the rchased for ime. supply, except o, f ea l vea, being rather large, B ee f sold heavily, at last Monday's prices. Mutton 2d. per stone cheaper, Veal met a slight advance. Pork, heavy sal* st a decline of Bd. per stone. Prices, per stone of Sibs. sinking the offal, Beef. 3s, 441. to 4s. 4{l. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10 d• ; f Veal, 4s. 4d, 4Q .55.. 2d. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to Si.. 6d. Heads 0 Cattle at Market.---Beasts, 3,840. Sheep, 24,630. Calve. , 6a, Ns, .542, PRICE:, •N ill %Vheat, Bed (old, r.ss. 7, ---.—.- White ,01d).... r 5, Igris —....--. Red * 18:39 ..... 54. iO , -------- Fin- rVs 6.is ------- Superfine r6s Ois. ---- Wl4 te ( 1839)... 611 s. s4s. --- Fine 665. figs -___.--- Superfine its 75, - ---Foreign free 60. 525. rip. 4 (is 40.. Earley 30 38s Grinding 3G. As. Malting 33., 44.1. Malt .665. 655. Fine New .. lnds 745. Pease, Grey, New 363. 40s. ----, Maple New 4os. 411 s. - White 40s 41.5. -- Boilers -12* 44.. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC i . v`6 heaL i i. English Irish , ..... .... --- Foreign ...... BILLINGSGATE MARKET. as Fair supplies and a good demand ; prices much the ' 1 "-!". on Saturday. Turbot. Bs. to 6s. to 12s. ; So le s . 6d. to 3s. per pair; Lobster-, 10d. to 3. 6d, ; Oysters. 121 *,,. 40$, 14r bushel ; Whitings, 6d, to 10d. ; and Haddocks, out 4 24, PROVISION MARKET. A fair demand for most coinmodities, and prices stilt (4 Irish B u tt er 88 s. to 945. ; Irish Bacon 50s. to 545. ; Big d dered Lard 63 5 . to 4. p er ewt. In English Butter very littl e d o i ng. Foreign Butter nominal. 'E,I MARKET. The Mark e t i s quiet, l but prices are very firm. SE ED MARKET. Little doing, except h for me' 31s. and R apesee d . The -°r latter 311. per l 31s. to 44 5 . per quarter; and the ast. Other quotatio ns as before. Cheese as ALLOW ET. P. Y. C. received but very little busi K ness, and fhe price W ss 435. 6d. to 435. 9d. LLOYD'i HIP 'lr DAY') DEAL, DEC. 7, Wird S. E. S. E. fresh,—Arrive d the Providence, from Quebec. Sailed the Governor Anenn, Morley, for Cape Coast Castle ; Bragen sa (steamer), Lewis, Lisbon, &c. ; Pactfi.; Swanson. Js maica. K . LIVERPOOL, DECEMBER 7 AND B.—Wind S. S E. fre sh L , breeze : . —Ar r i ve d the Trinity yach t , f rom Malaga; re nand, Wakchain, ditto ; Diligent, Nichols Salon 1. • Em ma ', Arval, Sutherland, Jamaica; Virginian, Hi gg ins Ne w Watkins, Adamson, Porto Cabello; :ridge, Salon. Sailed the John 'l C % ," ° : G y( e n. t u bi ; ng ;) V . a u lp z a , r s al a s: Thompson, fur Bombay; VV:,rd, Macho, St. John's, °e t . Brunswick ; Josephine, Scott, Barbadoes ; D av i e Gros Minter, Lima; Globe, Craig, Valparaiso; Mary J °lles° ditto; Phceniz, Fistkley, Monte Video; Lancashire Witch, Curoni n g Port, St. Michael's; Heroine, S cott, ~ America Cynosure, Rio Janeiro; England, Waite, " e n. Dove o k Susquehanna', Philadelphia ; Lorimer ThomP 4 4 port the Stormont, from Demarara ; Mary Oleo Yr Trieste; Elizabeth, Nagle, Newfoundland. .`'' s o mery Calcutta. BIRTH. --This morning in Charles-street, Berk e ' eY-fiquare, the Countess of Craven of a daughter. THE ALLEGED OUTRAGE ON THE EASTEn COUNTI ES RAILWAY.—Friday l ast wa s the day ap pointed f or i nvest i gating the conduct of the officers ° the E astern C ounties Railway, and also that of a lots) constable at St ra tf or d , in reference to the charge made agai ns t t h em b y Mrs. Cullum, on her applic.tiJa at , Lamb e th- street o ffi ce for a warrant against an indi vidua l for a n assau l t upon h er. The parties a ttended befor e Mr. Hardwick at Lambeth-street office at two o'clock,the hour fi xe d upon f or t h e inquiry. At the coneiriton of the proceedings Mr. Hardwick said that the c op plaint of Mrs. Cullum, in so far as it re.- ete officers of the Railway Company, wag . lived, an d i n hi s op i n i on t h ey st.- completely from the sli g h tes t blame tea .od perfectly exonerate d On in the matter. while several m en were employed iv a winch used ia raisin g we i g ht s on b oa rd the Dreadnought hospital ship, J ames P ass MI i n to the boat 1 3 ing along side, and, pit c hi ng Oh hi s h ea d, dislo c.;:ted his neck, nod expir e d a s h ort t i me a ft er wards. He has left a wile and family tota ll y unprov id e d for.-- eed neg the Greenwich Gazette. SPLENDID FL OWER.—_.There iS now a flower in the greenhouse, at Mr. John Fox's nursery, Rose Vale, near Penzance, an Epiphylliurn Truncatus, bear ing upwards of 100 foyers of the most beautiful de scripsion.—West Briton. I