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

too. 7 „ _ 4 - .Y 7' i)rri()N. COUItT CIRCULAR. i WINDSOU, SUSI) tY.---The Ho:i. l'lliss Ans.:m, Lady Gatlfin,•r, nod th,- Fl, , n Cilarles A. .."Atirry, :I.le.ndcil ID;vint, S', , r,ic , !• ;,t St. G-orie,,'s ChA!..I this mornne. Toe Q,cen, aiteilded by La;ly Barham, ik.4;l;ed for s4;ii , tieo,• on tit , . tcrrice of the Castle yesterday. 1 The Hon. Coiunei CiTk'N ariived yesterday a rh.) ' Castle, and has relieved Lord Alfred' Paget in the duties of equerry in waiting on her Majesty. Lord Allred took his departure yesterday. Lady a.rliam, Lady Gardiner, and others of the Royid Suite, attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel this evening. The Royal dinner party yesterday evening, in cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Vis count Melbourne, Right Hon. G. S. Byng, Hon. W. Cowper, Hon. W. Ponsonby, Lasky Barham, Hon. l Miss. s Anson and Paget, Lady F. Howard, Lady G:.r -' diner, B.irone,s Lehzen, Lord Lilford, Colonel Arm- I strong, Hon. Colonel Grey, and the Hon. Charles A. I Murray. Her Attjesty has not gone out to-day. The excellent little Band of the Rdles attended at 1 the Castie on Friday night, and played the folfoising '' pieces :—March ; Overture, " Fideiio," (Beethoven) ; ! 'Windsor Castle Quadrilles, ( Weipart) ; Valsr , " L. s deoelles de Bruxelles" (Strauss) ; a!iil,,p (Sir,iuss) ; Mazu;ka (Wi . kb) ; Pas redonb:e. " La's 111.10e1101.S" .Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta attended divine a rvic. yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. Jame,'s. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Moore. The lessons were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley ; the prayers by the Rev. W. J. Hall ; and the c.-anrounion service was read by the Rev. W. J. Hall and the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem ",Awake, awake, put on thy strength" (Wise), was sung by Messrs. J. B Sale Hawkins, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart pmided at the organ. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Countess .of Sheffield, the Hon. Miss Mitchell, and the Hon, /4,1:;.is Hudson. Miss Vyse was in waiting on the Prin cess Augusta. The. Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Sheft;eld, and several other Peeps attended the service The Queen Dowager visited the Duchess of Glou cester at Gloucester House on Saturaay. Her Majesty afterwards drove to Kensington. The Princess Augusta took an air:ng on Saturday in a carriage and, four. The Marquis of Bute, Earl of Oxford, Lord Seater), Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Captain Armstrong, Mr. L. Horner, and Mr. Phillipps (of Newport), had inter views with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at tbe Home•office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Mr. Wigram, Queen's Counsel, was heard for the Appellant in Cropper v. Crosby, from St. Vin cent. Lord Brougham gave judgment on the part of their Lordships, directing the Order of the Court below to be reversed, and the injunction to be dissolved. The Queen's Advocate, and Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, were heard for the appellant, and Mr. Pem berton, Queen's Counsel, Dr. Addams, and Mr. Ren nalls appeared for the Respondent, in an appeal from the Court of Ordinary, in Jamaica, Israeli v. Rodon. Sir Herbert Jenner gave judgment on the part of their Lordships. The Court then rose. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and Lady Cecilia Underwood, arrived on a visit to the Earl of Scarborough, at Sandbeek Park, Yorkshire, on Thursday last, from Hornby Castle, where his Royal Highness had been staying on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Leeds. BADMINTON, SATURDAY.—Extensive prepa rations are being made for the reception of their Reyal ellighnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who arc expected on Monday evening or Tuesday morning, accolopenied by Prince George and the Princesses Au gusta atiei Mary. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and the Lord and Ladies Lennox, have arrived in town from Gordon Castle, Fochaber, Scotland. having left that splendid seat on Tuesday last. The Noble Duke and Duchess, with their family, will pass the approach ing Christmas at Goodwood Park, Sussex. Sir Watkin and Lade Wynn will pass the Christmas at Wynnstay, Denbighshire. The Prince and Princess of Capua have given up their mansion in Belgrave-square, intending to reside alt an hotel. It is said, and we believe with some foundation, that there is a prospect of a reconciliation between the Prince and his brother, the King of Naples. .. CHRISTENING OF VISCOUNT HINCHIN noxE.—The infant son of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich was christened a few days since et the tomily seat, Hincbinbroke House, Huntingdonshire. Ilie Marquis Lordi of Anglesey, Lady Ade laide Paget, Templeton, Earl Cadogan, Lady Templeton, and a numerous family party, were present at the ceremony. DEATH OF LADY C. S. CHURCHILL.—We regret to bear of the death of the Lady of Lord C. S. Churchill, second son of the Duke of Marlborough, which took place on Friday last. The deceased Lady. who was a daughter of Mr. John Bennett, late M.P. for South Wilts, was toarrie.d to his Lordship the 24th Au gust. 1827. FEST IVITI ES AT CASTLE HILL.--The Earl and Countess of Fortescue have been entertaining d a fai . vily circle at the above sea wben Viecount E b r i ng ton, t. The Countess entere her 80th year on Saturday, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Lord and Lady Eliza beth Courtenay, the Hon. Newton and Lady Catharine Fellowes, Hon. George and Lady Louisa Forteseue, lion. John Fortescue, Sir Thomas Dyke Aviand, Bart to ~ Lady King, &c., were am on g the guests assembled celebrate the happy event. On Tuesday Viscount Eb ringtoo, accompanied by his son, the Hon. John For testate, took his departure for Bristol, where his Excel (ac sir intended to have embarked on the following day f or • dee seat of his government. T I :: , Dowager Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux have arrived in town from Stoke Yarn'', where the Cu'ntitees and daughters have been residing in retirement sin.ee the demise of the late Earl. Her Ladyship's town neension in Arlington-sire , t has un dergone re epair during the a thorou gh absenc e of the family in Bucks. Viscountess Burghe;sll has left town on a vitit to the Duke of Wellington et Strathrieldsaye, Hants. The Marchioness of Queenshery left the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square. on Saturday, for Brighton. The Marquis of Waterford, accompanied by his brother, Lord William Beresford, left the Cevendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Saturday, for itulten Mowbray. The Earl of Coventry is staying at c reome, Worcestershire. ' The Earl Delawarr is entertaining company at his magnificent seat, Buckhurst Park, in Sussex.. Lord . and Lady De Ros, Mr. and Sir J. Peel, the Rev. H. :end Mrs. Buckley, are arrived there from Brighton. Rearl Cantilupe is also sojourning with his family. Ott Friday, as four horses belonging to Mr. La Coste, banker at Chertsey , S urre y , were engaged in drawing a barge up the river, near that town, owing to the ex ,retnely wet state of the towing path, arising from the lute floods, the fore-horse slipped, and, on re covering itself, turned round in an alarmed state to wards the other three, when tl4e whole of them fell ff the bank into the Thames. Every endeavour was in straitly made to save them, bur unfortunately without ytffeet, and the whole of them perished. The commission upon the abolition of slavery in the F ren ch colonies has conic to the following resolu tions.:-1. That in the Sossion of 1841 a Bill shall be . introduced to determine the period for the general and - simultaneous abolition of slavery. 2. That the Bill shall fix the indemnit ' of the own ers, which is to be refunded t o t h e state Out of the wages of the emanci pated slaves. n t 3• 'That tth e Bill shall fix the bases of a regulation to render labour of the elates certain. to enlighten and moralize them, emit to prepare them for free labour. I, HONOURABLE ARTILL ERY COMPANY. -- / The unnual Court for the election transaction of ordinary business wasot. officers and the evening at the Court-house, in Artillerythe)ela Finsbury-square, about 300 memb ers The principal change in the office oil Thursday b -ground, rs Was theTningpresent. ment of Mr. Pugh, for twenty-five years the su retire quartee: the corps, into the veteran company. A pin e r o f eo l n of to the value of fifty guineas, was unanimousty awardediP' e to that gentleman, and Mr. Cooper was unanimously elected in his place. The site of the original of the London Militia, at the entrance to the ground: ' in Bunhill-row, having been granted for the new church, which has recently been consecrated, the sum of 6,5 e. was voted for its embellishment. A discussion ensued on the propriety of making this corps a more effective body in case its services were re q uired, in which the junior members appeared to take much interest. Tne 1 meeting was harmonious, and b r oke u p about twelve o'clock by the company singing the national anthem. A paragraph has been going the round of the . • l enamels, stating that Lord G. l rdiner still retained hie Abah - share of the Quorn hounds. The hounds are the s:le , peoperty of Mr. T. Hodgson. ' 4E LATE BISHOP OF LICHFI ELD. —The 1,. 1 mortal reh. .inns of the bite Dr. Butler, Bishop of Lich fiehi, are to be. intilrred in the vault constructed . some time back, by 1 ,:q.! Rev. Prelate's directions, in the c h urch o f S t. w ry , Sllirewsbury, on Thursday next. SEIZUiTt Or GOol;,ii g FOR CHURCH -RATES, • Vestry Clerk of the 84c.—°" SdtUr:a4.l' Mr. sires, . .i by Br tad parish of Allhallows %Ale Great, iiiee:')lnP37 , se ~ th e officer, from thi. Mansion •house, .seieeel rom ., ,J.,,-' lurl>t Cooper and Co., Laurence Pou:.tney.44oo, Ilm-!'" .ire to the value of 311. 45., the proci..°4o,of whielt % mainly claimed tokeards the payment of the 'live§ 0 th e Rec. Andrew S . Vincent, the non-reeident le'etc's of Allhallows the Great, and the Rev. James I.)sellarny. Head :latster of the Merchant 'tailors' Qraw4nar School, and Rector of St. Mary Abchurcb. 50r....................-...................wriwag THE NEW POSTAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SON. Stn.— As ilia form of the scaha of portages hitherto pot forth are not, in my Opinion, explicit upon the risks of excessi‘c charges that would be in cot red by slight inattention, I think the fri,llowing soak will tot bo una , !celitable to the public. ft is formed on the pric.cipie of imiicating the circumstances requiring caution. Its use will be apparent by obsening that a fractional excess over an ounce weight, on an unpaid letter, will enhance the postage from 8 , ;.1. to 2s. Bd.: IF PRE' PAID. IF NOT PRE.PAID. s. d. s. d. Not .xeeeding 3 0z...... 0 4 Excei..ding 3oz 0 S Ditto... 1 1 4 Ditto... 2 ...... 2 0 Ditt 0... 3 Ditt 0... 4 Ditty... 5 Ditt 0... 6 Ditto... 7 Ditto... 8 Ditto... 9 Ditto... 10 . 7 4 Ditt 0... 11 Ditto... 12 ..... 8 8 ditto 17 4 13 Ditto... 14 Ditto... 15 Ditto... 16 Not allowed to be forwarded. Your obedient servant, Leicester, Dec. 7. Z. Z. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST, The subjoined intelligence from Constantinople, in the Smyrna Journal, is of the 18th ult. :- 6 ' It is now clear that all the obstacles to a settle ment between Turkey and Egypt come from Mehemet Ali. Many of them have been most unexpected, be cause even at moments when he himself appears to he mo,t eager to come to a conclusion, he suddenly raises some new quibble which throws all aback. Not withstanding this, there is every reason to hope, after the last assurances from Alexrindria, that an arrange ment will ere long be effected. Diplomatists speal4 with confidence of the continued union of thei Cabinets, and their desire to bring these long draw A differences to a termination. They also affirm tb:L energetic measures are about to be taken to e• A p e _ dite this reault. The Porte on the 14th received. Iron the representatives of the friendly powers at Constant nople notes, in answer to those with the translations 61 the Hatti Scheriff, in which the Ministers state thei, conviction that that important act will give the greater.: satisfaction to their respective Sovereigns. During tt Ramazan the Sultan appears daily in public. He frequent! passes through the streets, accompanied by the Sadrazan or more frequently by I - lalil Pacha. In the alternoo.. he goes to the kiosk in the square of the Sultan Baye zid, which is filled with people till evening. Puke oariwny continues to reign amongst the three principi, ministers of his Highness. On Tuesday they dined Halil Paella's, and on Thursday, at the Grand Vizir's. The new French Minister, the Connt de Pontois, at visit paid by him on the 12th to Reschid Pacha, de Glared that the Court of France had determined to ace with energy and firmness, in hastening the orientai question to a conclusion which shall be beneficial to the. Porte. Holland has signified its disposition to enter into a commercial treaty upon principles similar to those of the treaties with France and England. The Prince fe Joinville returned yesterday from Trebizond. His Royal Highness, a few clays after his first audience of the Gr and Seignior, received from hitn,as presents, three splendid sabres, two fine pipes enriched with bril liants, several beautiful horses, and many other articles of high value. The Count de Sainte Aldegonde, Messrs. Dichon and Durand, the French antiquarians, have arrived from Salonica. Government has come to a resolution to prohibit the exportation of corn. The building of the mausoleum to the memory of Sultan Mahrnoud is going on with all expedition, so that it possible it may be finished before the end of the Rama zan. It will be very magnificent. Two days ago ..nother fire broke out in the quarter of Topkane, and consumed thirty shops before it was extinguished. The crew of the Belle Poule again exerted themselves suc cessfully." Tue following is from the Echo de l'Orient of Smyrna The Turkish Government have just sent. firmans to the governors of all the provinces in which opium is cultivated, ordering them to tr,e their influ ence with the inhabitants, to induce them to sow corn on the land, which has hitherto been reserved for opium. This is a wise measure, for in conse quence of the recent decision in Chine, the principal market for opium is lost. For the last ten years the Ottoman Government had reserved to itself the pri vilege of the opium trade, and the cultivation was consequently encouraged by its agents, but now that monopolies are abolished, it is feared that the culti vators, who have been for ten years accustomed to the growth of opium, might in their ignorance of what has taken place in China, and in the hope of realizing large profits by the culture on their own account, continues to give a preference to this article, and so expose themselves to the chance of heavy loss. As the measure of the Government is calculated at once to protect private interests, and to secure an abundant corn harvest for the ensuing year, it is generally ap proved of." ALEXANDRIA, NOV. 10.—The long looked for de nouement of the Eastern crisis is again put off by the fetes of Beyrarn. After these Mussulman solemnities the Paella will proceed to Cairo, where, according to his custom, he will remain during the winter ; but if po litical motives influenced him it is possible that the Viceroy would retard his departure. We have no fears as to the result. All obstacles are beginning to disap. pear before the frank intervention of France, which has overcome the hesitation of England and the bad wishes of Russia. The Ottoman fleet makes n.. preparations for its return. An extraordinary Envoy from the Porte is daily eapcitted, The Prussian Consul-General arrived yesterday. A secretary has hitherto performed the duties. The pub lication of the Hatti Scheriff has made a great sensation here. Novglorg, I6.—Trade is still languishing. 600 quintals of gun} have been sold this decade at 350 f. the cantaro ; about 1,499 quintals remain, which will he placed at about the same price. Fresh demands have been made for cottons, but the Minister has re plie4 04t they cannot yet be attended to. The Skciiiiin crown has just been received in circula tion at /91 - Pi4Stres, BRITISH WATER,PROOFING COMPANY, Ur, Berdoe, of Cornhill, some time since introduced an invention for rendering clothing impervious to rain, eirhout impeding the free escape of perspiration, and, j ut :zing from the opinion of the enlinis,ioners of the Metrop,;dit no Police subjoined, there is nvery probability that it will !IP found a most useful discovery, The great complaint 4gitin;!. the Mackintosh India rubber cloth is, that though it effectual:,; excludes the rain, it pre vents the free circulation of air tau necessary for the health and comfort of the body. As 4 prof that the inventor has overcome this defect , h:, exhibiP kinds of cloths, gambroons, merinos, &c., which hive port- rained water for months without the least appearance of dampness on the undersides, while the breath passes freely through it, as any one may satisfy himself by holding a mirror on the other side. One grft4t advan tage, too, is that the preparation can be applied tp all sorts of cloth, without altering its appearance, or di minishing its durability. The following is the latter of Col. Rowan : Copy of a Letter from the Commissioners of the Me tropPiitnn Police Force, addressed t o l ir P, More ton 14E 4 ., sq., one o f t h e airectora of the C 4 11 - pany. Metropolitan Police Ortictt, Whitehall-place, Feb. 23, 100. Sir—The Commissioners of Police beg to apkiFswledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th inst., requesting to be informed of the Reports made by the Police Constables who have been wearing the Clothing prepared and water proofed by the British Water-proofing Company. Time Commissioners have to acquaint yea in reply, that one suit Imo been in the use of a Constable whose beat is situated on Blackheath. He reports that frequently during time month of January he was out in six hours successive rain without getting the least damp underneath the cloth• ing....—that on the night of the Bth iinst, it reined the whole nine boors he was on duty, and that when iae 001 f. off his great coat hi the presence of the Sergeant at the Sta t tion, it was found as dry inside as when he put it on—that since he wore the water-proofed clothing he has been out in as much wet as at one tittle woubi 44-YP saturated three suits of the ordinary clothing. none and d f y ,wahni which rains and snow, storms The o ther Police Constable is situated at Kiagsland—he rep or t s that he lees worn the water-proofed clothing night clotg except a little wet through one of the tees of Xixe towsers, on the first dayiiiipageribeeterpatc4itindaelirYs'e;geitrga he put them on, but since awn kaY pbserved nothing " 1 441 of it. I hive the honou r to be, Sir, C. ROWAN. H. C. M oreton Dyer. Esq four ., most obedient Servant, The Portsmouth „ . which had been the Sir Francis Drake " day towed into harbour l oo ke d for some time days past, v•as and Gosport nuatttig-brie, be fitted for use, purpose it was designed it srtm.veastsenio, aonn,df.wroilnilimßnlris,,tdoi by s ia a r dinirably constructed fin 'le _ Ha n , a, a np o ds d hei t ar k e l r e ri a a d g e v a p n a t s a s g e e r y e c r :7 li from it, not only to foot all part , of the neighbourioo• , LERS' taints generally of Portsmouth 71 u n n ti t G ivs ' 2 ) , s r. p lo or T t, Ec willTioos(,. : ,i, pli b eg u r t a t h t . he ir!; .‘;i soan be experipnced. LICENSED VicTuAL CIETY.--On Friday there was a s pecialmeeting ; 1.0 committee o rßhin a the above Society, f 0 ii-w.tees were e Pcted. At the same a : v et e ; I " : ' n vo ffi pi Ato guinea each was paid to several;, -. z .n ,, g i , 6 ' - bac't ilefal ififtriMeptal in apprehending publi ' r i '.'" -,') c-oou , '. - predators. TH" SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9„1e39. JOHN THOROGOOD. MONEY MAIMET and CITY NEWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg you will Once more accept my sinc;!re thanks for your kind advocacy of my cause. Please to ackimicledge the receipt of 501. from the kind friends at Leicester, by the hands of Mr. Aliall end Mr. Murecl!. (sAiurroay EVENING.) TlMES.—There h,s boil some revival of &eland to day for different An t r !r i cau state stoc k s , chiefly ca:L,ed iyy a report whien has been very industriously spread, teat a proposal is to be subwitted to Coogresi for amid gamating the whole of the local debts into one, under the guarantee of Congress, and thus 'creating another American national debt. Tois would be without doubt an effectual remedy for the want of credit which at pre sent attaches in this country to the greater part of the states ; but would be an act on the part. of Congress, sup posing it to be sanctioned by the vote of majority, about as absurd as can well be imagined. After having accom plished, by great efforts, continued during a long series of years,the extinction of the whole public debt, and thereby obtained the most independent financial position of any country in the world, nothing can be more un likely than the adoption of a new debt, contracted far purposes in which the General Government had no voice, and must have condemned. if any opportunity had been afforded of doing so. The injustice of such a mea sure is not less obvious than its absurdity, for many of the states have no debt at all, and yet they would have to take their share of the burden of taxation for the payment of the interest on the collective debt. As the dealers io:these securities, however, have been lately in an almost desperate condition, they eagerly catch at: anything which may afford a hope for an increased cir culation of these securities, and hence the new activity which has been noticed to-day in the Money Market. ' It is also said, in connexion with American affairs, that another loan has been made to Mr. Jaudon, the agent of the " United States Bank ;' but another ver sion of the rumour is, that the firmer loan, negotiated at the time of the dishonour of the Paris bills by _Messrs. Hottinguer, and which was repeatedly announced as completed, is only now disposed of; and that its amount is 900,0001., the security being, as before, a deposit of American State Stocks. I ought to apologise for not acquainting you before. I had a visit, on the sth, of two gentlemen from the Religious Freedom Society—one of whom was Mr. Boykett. I am, Sir, your much obligerl servant, JOHN THOROGOOD. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY-THE BRI- TISH JEWS. TO THE EDITOR OF 7'IIE SUN. SIR,-1 observ e w i t h p l easure i n your paper o f the 4 thinstant, your truly generous tender of services in ilia of the above cause, which is at once in unison with that true charity which now so generally and happily prevais throughout our laud. Permit me, therefore, to solicit the aid of y our powerful pen for the cause of that long neglected and persecuted people the " British Jews." Why do they still continue deprived of all those civil rights which all other sects are permitted to enjoy ? since they have heavy claims for such bene fits, which might easily be quoted if needful, not the snootiest of which would be found, their known charity ! If any doubt of this exists, I would refer to the lists of subscribers, in aid of one and all of the noble institu tions with which your great City prevails, and where they will be found by no means to number as their smallest supporters ! and I am quite sure that it only needs the removal of their civil disabilities to insure their largiA. bounty. All interest for their cause seems now neglected. I am quite at a loss to imagine why ; since I cannot doubt that if the feelings of the British public were taken, a large majority would be found their patrons. 1 have laboured hard for their cause, and was well supported in the task ! but they need a stronger arm, and you, Sir, possess it. I therefore respectfully solicit your appeal on behalf of this peculiarly interesting peo ple, which will oblige Your's, very respectfully, Leith, Dec. 6. W. T. POST.—We hear that Messrs. Rothschild and Sons have, after some negotiation, agreed to advance Mr. Jaudon, on account of the United States Bank, the sum of 900,000/. sterling, the terms being the same as those on which the loan of 800,0001. was obtained by that gentleman a few weeks since from other parties. It is not in our power to state exactly under what cir cumstances this arrangement has been concluded. The general idea seems to be that Messrs. Roths child are disposed to think favourably of the affairs of the Bank, and that, had they the remotest doubt of its solvency, they would have been careful not to incur any additional risk in connection with it. The present advance will, however, be represented by bonds of a convertible character ; and assuming, as we conceive we are warranted in doing, that those Advances which have to be made by them to the institution, for the discharge of the bills drawn on Messrs. Hottinguer and Co., of Havre and of Paris, are to be deducted from the amount, the operation may have somewhat of the appearance of a scheme by virtue of which Messrs. Rothschild n ill be enabled to secure themselves more effectually against any contingent loss on the French account. In their letter to Mr. Dunlap, the President of the Bank, they exhibit no want of con fidence in the resources of the establishment, and, al though in the existing state of the Money Market and the Exchanges it were to be desired that no further ah sorbtion of British capital should take place for ex traneous purposes, it is certainly not our intention to put an illiberal construction upon the present pro ceeding. HERALD.—For some time past it has been under stood that a plan has been in contemplation in the United States, having for its purpose the consolidation of all the State Stocks of the Union. The scheme is at once bold and gigantic, but from the varied nature of these State loans, and the great comparative difference in their market value, the project appears surrounded with difficulties of the most complex character. Be this as it may, the plan has found great favour amongst the generality of the holders of these multifarious se curities on either side of the Atlantic; and so strong is the opinion amongst them of the feasibility of the project, and the probability that this consolidation will be carried into operation, that it has created a new stimulus for speculation in many of the American State Stocks, which a few weeks since were considered almost worthless. In addition to these circumstances, the existing easy state of the Money Market has fur ther created a tendency for general speculation in al most every description of public security, foreign or domestic. United States securities in consequence have been rather in request for two or three days past, but to-day nearly all the States Stocks have been in demand. Large amounts of Illinois Stock have been sold, which has caused them to advance to 77, being a rise .of 4 per cent. Ohio are 87k, Maryland 35 ex. div., which makes them equal to 77k. United States Shares are also in request at 16 a 17, and United States Bank Debentures are 94. CHRONICLE.—The numerous bankruptcies and compositions which have occurred lately in the country, 11(1 some announcements in the metropolis of a similar character to-day, have attracted general interest in the mercantile world. These ,results, however, could not be unlooked for, and, we are more surprised that they did not take place earlier, considering the long and severe ordeal to which our t - nerchants and traders have been subjected, from the scarcity of money, while it is well known that our manufacturers were at the same time pursuing their business at a ruinous loss, by the necessity of keeping their works in operation, although there was no cor responding demand for their goods. In a great manufacturing country like this such a stale-- of things is perhaps in some degree incidental to the ex istence of such v - st mechanical productive power. But in the present instance these misfortunes, if not occa sioned, have been much aggravated by the mismanage ment of those to whom the administration of the cur rency has been confided. Although it, in some degree, re-acts in the provinces, and has compelled our manufacturers to realize at very low prices, in some cases, it i s sa id, on a par w i th the panic of 1825 ; yet the value of money there is consider ably less than what it commands in the metropolis. This is, in a great measure, the result of the arrangement be tween the Bank of England and the country banks, by which the former is fettered ; whereby, to reach the ex tremities, a more powerful action in the centre is ren dered necessary. In Scotland, too, we hear, that through out the whole crisis there has been no inconvenient pressure experienced ; and, we believe, the same remark will apply to Ireland. During the last few days there has been rather a fullness of money on the Stock Exchange, which we are inclined to attribute, in a con siderable degree, to .the late Bank notice regarding advances, but it is not now thought that any ma terial relief can be experienced until the January di vidends. We understand Mr, Jaudon has opened negociations to-day with the house of Rothschild, for the loan of 900,0001. sterling, on account of the United States Bank, to be raised in debentures payable in London and Paris, and to be secured on the deposit of American State Stocks. Business was done in United States Bank Shares to-day, at 171. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, since the receipt of advices by the Great Western, may be said to have shown a decidedly different character to that displayed previous to her arrival. It may easily be accounted for from the circumstance of an increased confidence gain ing ground in the United States at her departure, which, if maintained, must - cause an early export sof cotton to this country to a much larger extent than otherwise would have taken place. Since Saturday last, the de cline may be stated at id. per lb. on American, and the sales during the week not amounting to more than 9.2,400 bags of all descriptions. RIOTS AT NEWPORT. don't know." I came with them to about fifty yards about 501. per annum each man, officers included. below Stow Church. I tried to run away several times, We say again, that contrasting the ratio of prices but I could not, Ido not know L.Thania h Williams ; in the two countries, which may be set down as 3to but I heard them sly he was there. I do not know •?, against England, with that of wages, which is that .J,hn Frost, hut I heard he was there. When I got by of a very close approximation to equality, the British the church I turned round and went home. I did not seaman on board the Royal fleet is cruelly underpaid, see the prisoner after I saw him in the park. and his preference of other services to that of his own The pr:soner declined asking witness any questions. pinching and screwing Government is easily as well as Other evidence having been given, deploi ably accounted for. The service of the United Mr. Phelps said he did not think the burglary had States in respect of wages to men and officers exhibits a been made out, one witness having opened the door. contrast. with that of England still more disgraceful to He should therefore proceed for the felony in stealing the latter than does the report of the French marine, as the cleaver. the fruits of the comparison in our conflicts with the Evidence upon this charge was given, and he was former country have long since proved themselves still committed for trial. snore bitter. The above are, we think, the most im- John Gibby and William Stevens were then charged portant topics of the report to which we need call the with high treason in tnanufacturiug pikes ; but the a'tention of our gallant and patriotic countrymen, who evidence not b e i ng rea dy t h ey were remanded till take a becoming interest in the fortunes and honour of Tuesday, when it is expe c ted th a t they will be exa- the British navy. There are, doubtless, other points mined at Monmouth. _ well meriting to be remarked upon when time and Some other trifling cases having been gone through, The Rev. James Coles, chairman, said he could not help congratulating his brother Magistrates on the ter mination of an investigation of the most important cha racter, and which had occupied the attention of the Ma giitrates during the greater part of twenty-three days. The Magistrates wished to express their thanks to the inhabitants who had acted as special constables—to the legal gentlemen who had attended the examinations— and more particularly to those who• had conduct.ed the prosecution. space 0. Morgan, Esq , then expressed the thanks of him self and brother Magistrates to the Rev. James Coles, for the zeal and assiduity with which he had presided over the examinations. Mr. Coles acknowledged the compliment by bowing to the Court as he left the chair. The Mayor stated that he had received a letter from Lord Hill, announcing the promotion of Captain Stack as Brevet- Major, and that of Captain Grap to a com vany of the 71st, now on its homeward voyage from India. The letter stated the appointment to have been in response to the address of the inhabitants of Newport to the Queen. shall serve. (From the Morning Advertiser.) We live in strange times. The wisest and most far sighted among us does not know what a clay may bring forth. Every thing is in motion. Neither opi nions nor institutions are stationary ; and the transition from one class of principles to another and directly op posite class, is not only a matter of bily occurrence among all ranks of men, but is taking place with a ra pidity unknown before in the annals of the human kind. The conduct of the Tories, in reference to the Queen, furnishes a forcible illustration of this. But a few months ago they arrogated to themselves all the loyalty in the land. Every one else was denounced by them as traitors in heart to their sovereign, and as ready to seize on the first opportunity that should pre sent itself to subvert the throne, and bury the Monarchy amid the "rubbish" of Republicanism. How altered the aspect of matters now ! How sudden and extraordinary the change that has come over the spirit of the Conservative dream ! Now, the Reformers are confessedly the only parties who stand by the person and the throne of the Queen. She is abandoned by her Tory subjects. Would that this were all! Not content with leaving her to her fate, by with drawing from her their countenance and support, they have tacitly entered into a confederacy with the physi cal-force Chartists to overthrow the throne and compel her Majesty to seek for that repose in a foreign land which they seem resolved she shall not enjoy here. At this moment the only truly loyal persons in these realms, and the only supporters of the institutions of the country, are those who are known by the designation of Liberals, as contradistinguished from the extreme Radicals. The serious charges we have preferred against the Tories are not brought forward on light grounds. We rest them on the overt acts and uncontradicted treason able language of the party themselves. It were im possible for the most inveterate antagonist of Monarchy that ever lived to express himself in more indecent terms of the Sovereign personally, than did Bradshaw. the foul-mouthed brawler, in his recent speech at Canter bury. And yet, were any of the atrocities he uttered on that occasion, though 140 parsons and gentry were present to hear them, denounced or repudiated by any portion of his auditors ? Not one ; so far from it, they actually, in the plenitude of their anxiety to be suffi ciently prodigal of their applause of his speech, cheered themselves out of breath, and into a state of positive exhaustion. The persons, therefore, who could thus drown the voice of the speaker with their tumultuous plaudits, are, to all intents and purposes, to be re garded as sharing his treasonable sentiments, and as being abettors of his designs against the institutions of the country. Then, again, there was the disgusting exhibition of a precisely similar character at Manchester. We defy human ingenuity to make use of language more grossly disrespectful to the Queen personally than that which proceeded out of the filthy mouth of that insignificant, but self -consequential, personage, called Roby. His abominable treason against his Sovereign was also, it seems, applauded to the echo by the gentle men Tories who surrounded him, there not being e ven a single dissentient voice in the assemblage ; so that the Tories of Manchester are fairly chargeable with cherishing the same treasonable designs as Roby against her Majesty personally, and as entertaining the same views respecting the Monarchy, always, of course, only so long as the Sovereign is opposed to their principles, and is determined, if she can help it, not to have their services as Ministers obtruded on her. Then there is the redoubtable parson, the Rev. Thomas Gregg. He m a d e , th e o th er d ay , a mos t v i o l ent spee r,a l —atrocious would be a fitter term—at Liver pool. He denounced the Queen as not being a Chris tian, and adjured the Tories henceforth to disclaim the title of Conservatives ; assigning as the reason that there is not now remaining a single institution in the country worth conserving. And was this insult to the Queen, and this avowal of worse than republican prin ciples also cheered ? It was, and cheered, too, unani mously, and loudly and lon g , by one o f th e l argest Tory meetings ever assembled inLiverpooll Need we then say one word after this as to the true character of the Tories ? Can any one, after this, entertain the slightest doubts as to the desperate expedients to which they are prepared to resort whenever a favourable opportunity present itself with the view of carrying their profli gate principles into practice? The friends of the Queen and of constitutional principles will incur a fearful re sponsibility if they disregard the plain warnings which are thus given them of the reckless measures to which the Tories are prepared to have recourse for the ex..een tion of their mendacious designs. (From the Herald.) We observe several anonymous letter-writers buzzing about the daily press, with insinuations that the inspec tion demanded by the Privy Council Education Com mittee is not of sufficient moment to justify the applica tion for grants in declining their Lordships' requisition. Some of the writers, it is more than probable, are merely the emissaries of the Council, seeking to distract and divide the national schools. Others are sincere ; but mistaken in their belief that the inspection will be al together nominal, and, therefore, that it is a pity to lose the "hard cash" for a nominal objection. With the formery gentry we have no concern. Their ob ject is that of mischief, in the form of treacherous advice, and we leave them to the very honourable and upright course which they ere pursuing. But sin cerity and integrity always demand respect, even when they are most in error. It is to such men we respectfully submit the following considerations : As friends and members of the National Society, you would not willingly become the instruments of its in jury and ruin ; but, by accepting the proffered bait of the Council, you do everything in your power to in troduce schism and division amongst its schools. With a degree of moderation and liberality, almost amounting to indecision, the Board has left it to your option to take or reject the grant ; but the want of their " sanc tion" is a sufficient evidence of their sentiments, and in such a position you cannot doubt the course which they would wish you to adopt. But you think the in spection will be almost, or altogether, nominal. Depend upon it you are here mistaken. The wish to injure, impede, and interrupt the National Society's plan of education will always be a ruling motive to keep up this inspection of the Privy Council. " Delenda est Carthago" is their motto, and to harass and annoy the school masters, the clergyman, and the Committee will be their incessant object and delight. Remember, also, that, by once submitting to their inspection, you be come for ever their slave and tributary ; and you will think it probably a very dear and unprofitable bargain to " sell your birth-right for this mess of pottage." But by agreeing to this inspection, remember that you indi rectly sanction the wrong and robbery on which it pro ceeds—that you countenance the manifest injustice and oppression of compelling schools to submit to conditions which were not in existence when they were under taken or contracted for. If you have the spirit of an Englishman, you will indignantly repel such acts of tyranny and oppression. You will be no losers, it is probable, even in a pecuniary point of view, the public, if not the Parliament, will step forriard to your rescue. If not, you will have done your duty, and you may calmly leave the eve , :,'c to Providence. Once more. By submitting tis this Privy Council inspection, you will do everythin g in your power to debase your diocesan—to degrade the Church, and to pave the way for fresh insults to the clergy. Re member, also, that you thus directly countenance the false and profane distinction between a religious and a secular education ; and that the evils you will thus inflict on your parishioners will be far greater than any pecuniary benefit they can derive. Think of all the plague and confusion arising from a two-fold inspection —the conflicting and contradictory suggestions you may receive from the Council and the National School or Diocesan Committee. Think of these things, and then doubt, if you can, whether it is better to pursue the manly and straightforward course of d'aty, or to in volve yourself and your successors in the crooked, je suitical, and crafty designs of the Privy Council Com mittee. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) 'We rejoice to observe the universal indignation that the protracted incarceration of John Thorogood in her Majesty's county gaol of Essex, for the non-payment of ss. Gd. church -rate, is creating throughout the country. The great meeting at Leicester has been followed by several other meetings, all well attended by members of the Established Church, and at all of which, resolutions strongly condemnatory of this poor man's persecution by what Phillpotts, Bloomfield, and Co. facetiously call the Poor Man's Church, have been agreed to. Edinburgh, we are also happy to see, has not been behind its southern brethren in the cause of humanity and re ligious toleration, and has publicly expressed its unqualified disgust at John Thorogood's treat ment. Indeed, we daily hear of public meetings, that either have been or are to be held, and sub scriptions entered into for the purpose of main taining his distressed family, and mitigating—as far as wordly comforts can mitigate, in a gaol—the suf. ferings to which the Essex High Church party have for the last eleven months inflicted upon this conscientious Dissenter, and which, if left to those worthies, will in all probability only terminate with the life of their victim. How far the charge of lukewarmness is well or ill-founded against a portion of the Dissenting body for not having evinced greater activity and sympathy towards the Chelmsford martyr, we do not stop to inquire. The controversy that we see raging among sonic of our contemporaries, can, in our humble judg ment, lead to no practical benefit or solution of the great question which we hope to see set at rest for ever during the next Session of Parliament. We therefore prefer seeking consolation for the future, to indulging in reproaches and recriminations as to the fact. And we confess that, un less the House of Commons is prepared to stultify itself by rescinding the resolution which it deliberately came to upon the 30th of July last upon this very case, we see no cause for despair. The resolution to which we allude was moved by Mr. Duncombe,the Member for Finsbury, and ably supported by Mr. Hawes, Mr. Easthope, Mr. Harvey, and several other staunch friends of civil and religious liberty, and after two divisions, being as a matter of course opposed by the benevolent Inglises, &c., was successfully carried ; it was as follows : " That it appears by certain papers laid before this House, that John Thorogood, a Protestant Dissenter, has been confined in her Majesty's county gaol of Essex, since the 16th day of January last, for neglecting to appear in the. Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, for the non7paynient of Os. 61—being the amount of Church rates assessed upon him for the parish of Chelmsford ; and it is the opinion of this House, that it will be the duty of the Legislature; at the earliest possible period of the next Se3siou of Parliament, to make such alterations in the existing laws for levying Church-rates,'as shall prevent the recurrence of a like violence being ever again inflicted upon the religious scruples of that portion of her Majesty's subjects, who conscientiously dissent from the rites and docttines of the Established Church." In the foregoing resolution the House of Commons has not only recorded its condemnation of poor Thoro good's incarceration, but. it has as distinctly pledged itself to adopt measures at the earliest possible period .of the next. Session of Parliament, " to prevent the re currence of a like violence" being ever again inflicted upon the religious scruples of those who conscientiously dissent from the State Church. We feel confident that the. HOuse of Commons, as far as it is concerned, will redeem its pledge ; but we trust that her Majesty's Mi nisters will not leave this question in the hands of indi vidual Members of Parliament, but that as a Govern ment they will come forward with their long promised but too long delayed measure for putting an end to the present Church-rate system, which is not only a blot upon our wealthy Church, but a disgrace to the Chris tian country in which we live. (From the Times.) We on Saturday recommended to public attention the official report on the French navy, by Admiral Rosamel, Minister of Marine. Our purpose was, and is, to point out to our countrymen the wisdom of main taining a close watch upon the proceedings of this de partment of French warlike policy, and the prudence of considering as a subject of just and wholesome jealousy, on the part of England, every attempt by France to increase beyond due bounds that description of force which, in her case, is chiefly applicable to schemes of ambition and aggression —viz., her naval armaments. It can never be too often repeated, that the natural defence of a military country is her army—of a ma ritime country, her marine. France can apprehend no invasion but from a power whose army is superior to hers—a power which is not in existence ; whereas England, comparatively without an army, has every thing to fear, if her soil be once trodden by a host of foreigners ; and has no means of averting such a cala mity, save an unconquerable fleet alone. This, then, is the true key to the rightful and legitimate policy of those two nations—signifying, in other words, that policy which aims exclusively at self-protection. Should the British Government be suffered by the people of Eagland (however unlikely the supposition) to augment its army during peace beyond that point which the home service and that of the colonies with their necessary reliefs, may require, such an act becomes proof suffi cient that England anticipates a condition of things no longer deserving the name of peace, and therefore sub jects herself to a fair demand of explanations from sur rounding Governments. It is the same with France in relation to her marine, which has assumed a formidable aspect. The sum appropriated to the naval service of France for the year 1840 amounts to 70,648,000f.,0r50me t hing short of 3,000,0001. sterling, and presents an excess over the estimate for preceding years of 4,432,000 f., or 175,000/. sterling ; occasioned, quoth the Minister, by a larger amount of farce, with pay, clothing, provi sions, works of naval "materier—that is, stores for shipbuilding, and colonial expenditure. The above sum of near 3,000,0001. sterling, so far as we are able to understand, covers no more than the effective of the French navy. Including for what in France is called the personnel, or the officers and seamen actually afloat —viz., '20,500, and under the head of pay and clothing, the sum of 16,630,000 f , or £665,200 sterling For victuals of the same, 8,5116,900 f., or 341,076 Making £1,006,276 for pay, clothing, and victualling of 20,500 seamen and troops serving on board ship in the nature of our marines. In looking into the parallel item of our English estimates for the year 1839.40. we find the charge for wages of the total number of men, viz., 23,165 sea men afloat, exclusive of marines, 830,1311. It must be here understood that British seamen provide their own clothing ; so that 23,165 British sailors cost this country but whilst 20,000 Frenchmen cost France 665,200 making a difference of numbers of 3,165 men, and of charge £ 154,800 —a comparison which proves, all things considered—. and amongst them the greater cheapness of subsistence in France—that British officers and seamen are inade quately paid in proportion to the service of their fa reign rivals. There must be added to the above es timate of numbers in the British navy 2,000 boys, a n d 5,500 Royal Marines, making the gross numbers afloat in our service, seamen, marines, and boys included, 30,665 ; and the charge of their maintenance, and for the clothing of the marines, 943,7311. If to French pay and clothing of 20,000 men, viz ................................... X66 54 1, 3 200 76 0 we add for victualling , the total cost of French service afloat is... 1,006,276 --- And if to the wages of 30,665 British sea men, marines, and boys afhat, vii . 943,731 ........ we add the victuals of th elo 603,471 the total Charge for the force of men afloat will be. ......................................... £1,547,2C0 Thus the Numerical force of England to that of France afloat being a little more than 3 to 9, the charge is as nearly as p oss ible in the s ame proportion of a little more than 3 to 2, or NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH; DEC. 7.—The Revenge, 76, Captain *he Hon. W. Waldegrave, sailed on Monday, for Lisbon. The Nimrod, 20, has been commissioned at Ply mouth, for the East India station, by Commander Barlow. Report sends the following men-of-war to India, to strengthen S r Frederick Maitland's squadron :—Blen ieim 72. Blonde 46, Thalia 46, Nimrod 20, Fantome 16, Wanderer 16, and Cyclops steam-frigate. Another report gives the reinforcement of that squadron as fel lows :—Alfred, Blonde, Thalia, Alagicienne, Nimrod, Pearl, Victor, and Harier. The Fantome, a new brig of Sir William Symonds's construction, is ordered to this port, when remly, to have a few days' trial cruising with the Hon. Colonel Gre ville's new yacht brig the Anonyma. The Satellite, 18, arrived at Jamaica on the 18th of October, from Barbadoes ; the Tartarus (steamer) on the 2Uth from St. Thomas's ; and the Skipjack on the 21st, with 120,000 dollars on board, from Carthegena. The Inconstant, 36, sailed from Jamaica on the 9th October, for Vera Cruz ; the Dee steamer on the 22d for Port au Prince ; and .the Hornet schooner, on the same day, for Cliagres. The Vestal, 26, arrived at Trinidad on the 10th of October, from Grenada, and sailed again on the 13th. The Racer, 16, arrived at Barbadoes on the 10th of October, from Maranham for Antigua. The Firefly steamer called in here on Sunday, on her way to the West Indies, having on board General ',Sinis ter and family, recently appointed to command in the Leeward Islands. The Firefly is fitted with an inverted boat as a covering for each paddle box, on the plan of Captain G. Smith. This invention is also to be at tached to the three iron steamers which are to accom pany Captain Trotter in his exploratory voyage up the river Niger ; and still further, we understand, to the 14 large steamers, each of 1,200 tons, building for the West India packet service. These vessels are building rapidly, from lines laid down by Oliver Lang, Esq. The Meteor steam vessel, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived .his afternoon, from Falmouth. The Alecto steam vessel is hourly expected from the River, touching at Malta, on her way to Lisbon. Extract of a letter from an officer in the Bengal army, dated Cabul, 27th August, 1839 :—" Colonel Wade is daily expected. He at last had to force the passage of the Khybir, and had some two or three days skirmishing at Ally Musjud, the entrance of it. This place, though strong, was evacuated. You must bear in mind that he had only new-raised levies with him ; Captain Mackeson, of the Bengal infantry, and assistant to Colonel Wade as a political agent, acting on this occasion in a military capacity. Wade has had a dim cult task to play, and he appeared to have succeeded well." The British Queen, from London to New York; was spoken with on the 15th of November, at noon, in 44,, 40 46. long. 44 45, W., twelve days from Portsmouth, wind blowing N.N.W. According to the latitude and longitude she had made but little more than half way to New York. In Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Blonde. Pique, Mkeor and Messenger steamers, and Raven cutter. • At Spitherd.—None. APPOlNTMENTS.—CommanderCharles A. Bar. low, to the Nimrod. Lieutenants—W. T. Cosser and William Clayton. to tire Fantome ; Malachi Donellan, front Cobham Semaphore, to commend the Crescent receiving ship at Rio Janeiro ; N. S. Knot and N. H. Pipon, additional to the President ; Augustus H. In gram, to the Blonde ; H 1). Rogers, to the Revenge, vice Georges ; James Fellows, to the Pique, vice Thompson. Maters—T. R. Lord, to the Fantome ; John Cater, to the Nimrod ; J. G Barlow, to the Pique, vice Martin. Purser—Frederick Siddan, to the Nim rod. Assistant Surgeons—Dr. A. Mitchell, to Haslar Hospital ; A. D. Milne, to the Pique, vice Dees, su perseded. Mates—W. F. Bate, to the Britannia ; Ed ward E. Tumour, to the Seaflow,n. ; Herbert Blatch ford Gray (chief mate of the Sprightly revenue cutter), to the Coast Guard, on the new establishment. Mid . shipmen,---Hon. Oliver W. M. Lambert, and C. F. Coventry, to the Elude ; F. A. B. Craufurd, to the Benbow. Clerk—W. 'l'. Sidney, to the Blonde. Vol. Ist. Class—Henry L. Lyon, 'o the Blonde. Gunners Robert Gray, to the Nimrod ; William Davis, super numerary acting gunner 3d class, to San Josef. Boat swain—William Riley, to the Poictiers. (From the 15 evonport Independent ) PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Her Majesty's ship Imogene, 28, Capt. Bruce. was paid off into ordinary on Friday. Her Majesty's bomb -vessel /Etna was towed into Baropool on Thursday, by her Majesty's steam vessel Carron, to take on board Ordnance stores for Woolwich. Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 72, V Captain Sir H. Fleming Senhouse, left Lisbon on the 16th, on a short cruise ; she is ordered to return to England. Her Majesty's ship Canopus, 81, will be taken into dock on Monday, to he examined and repaired. The Lord Lynedoch transport arrived on Friday from Portsmouth, and came into harbour to embark the 25th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope. In Harbour—lmpregnable, 104, Captain Eden ; San Josef, 110, Captain Taylor ; Meteor and Carron steam vessels ; Lord Lynedoch transport. In Barnpool—/Etna bomb-vessel, 6, Lieut. 'Wilson. Her Majesty's ship Minden, 74, Captain A. Sharpe. arrived at Malta the. 16th of November, and was to sail ;.he 00th for Gibraltar, and from thence to this port to pi 4 Of. ROTN,CLSIJASIOUNRDOAFYTHNEIGEIXITA.MINIAsTeInOdN. NEWP ( o C you ) bere t P death f i OO7 thisE sQ .. estimable\V e regretgentleman, to at of Viscount • with the conclusion of the examinations. Altogether, Beresford. Mr. Hope was the uncle of the Member lam informed, 125 prisoners have been examined. 1 3 : i : il l-i re r t: l o l4 ie ß r a e Y c o o n t P d ' l c -it i ll : L u e rsday last at the se( for Gloucester, and brother-in-law of the Viscountess THE EXAMINATIONS. l3eresford. 'Ace his brether, t h e l ate Thomas H o p e, The Court sat at eleven o'clock to d ay to conc l u d e Esq. the subject of our notic e ? w a s I:e ma rkable for his the examination of t h e p rison ers in custody. There highiy_eultivated mind, and his jest and elegant taste were present—the Mayor, Rev, James Coles, and O. in the Fine Arts. In his youth ha had visited every Morgan, W. Brewer, and J. Hall, E sqrs . part of Europe, end various portions of Asia, particu- Before any of the prisoners were brought up f or exa larly Turkey, He wtis conversant with and spoke minati o n, M r . Phelps proceeded to tak e t h e d epo sijons seven different languages, and maintained an extensive of two witnesses against David Jones, alias David the Tinker, for whose apprehension a reward o f lOU h as correspondence with learned men in all parts Pf E4rope. kfe P 44 igrfficl one of the most perfect COPeCtim of been offered. Althoug h not in custody, a bill o f indict dierognds 40 Prepiew tenee that has, perhaps, been ever possessed by e p r iv 4 t e i n dividual- W P understand it Isaac Williams , alias Isaa c Phillips, commonly is valued at 150,00 W. Although possessed of a n ample knew as " Ben," was then p lac ed at the bar, charged fortune, his habits were o f t h e mo st simple and uneaten- Inca will be preferred. with burglary. tatious nature ;he seemed to regard wealth only as the • William Pries Jones sworn—l live at Blaine and Wang lc f Aping good. A few years ago he inherited, am a puddler, I lodge with John Evans, labourer. I upon the dcst4 of a relative, a large fortune, which he remember Sunday the 3d of November. I was at divided at once with his nephews. A principal contri- home until half-past eleven at night. It was my turn butor to all, without exception, of the public charities to work at the furnaces. About twelve o'clock I went of the metropolis, he distributed annually in private to the forge. I saw a lot of armed men, all over the charity many thousands. His was the melting heart floor. They told me I must go with them, and I went. and open heed, unq many an aching heart that at this I was then working at Pontymister, in the parish of seasod of the year would lave been relieved and cheered Mechem They made me call people by their names by his bounty, will have to deplore the loss of their out of their houses. I know the prisoner. We were benefaator, a t sc h oo l toget h e r. I saw him go into Ch ar l es Harris's BRISTOLfjPAR MARKET', DEc , 6 . — The' house at Pontymister a t a b out twelve o'clock. He Sugar market continues steady, and a tolerably f a i r bu- brought out a butcher's cleaver with him. I s a id to siness has been transacted. The supply of good ql.la- I him, " Isaac, have some pity, and leave it there." Ile lilies is by no means adequate to the demand, the sa id .; 1 . ),_.. n your eyes, if you say much I will split you majority of the samples on show being of a low and Or with it,?? `fig took the cleaver w , away. ISa the pri most unsaleable descripti on ,—B r i sto / Mercury. soner aga i n a t eight or idne o'clock, at Sir Charles ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.—An address Morgan's park. 'p er ° were thousands there armed. was unanimously adopted by the Old Association of The prisoner bat! a sword, which they took from our j3,:ptists, in Wales, at their Annual Meeting, lately forge. There W 45 a Cord in George Grippa's home held at Brynmawr, B recons hi re , an d tran•mitted to about thirty yards from Harris's. I saw a person take Lord ,total Russell, for presentation to her Majesty. that sword, and I know it was the same the prisoner THE GREAT WESTERN.--..-W e have heard that ' had. It was about two feet and 4 hilif long, and h a d a this noble vessel is to be ",gid up for the winter in Cum- piece of brass c oming round the back of t h e h an dl e. I berlod B a sin, and ;hat her paddl es ‘ ? .tve been taken don't know the man I saw take th e m.,0, When / ,off fer ,thp purppse of enabling her to enter the :O±.—. I siov the prisoner in the park I asked hi m what he had Bristol Mercury. I done wi!ll thq giffilVfft He said, "Oh f d—n it, I ETENING EDITION. (Vint the Morning Post.) The weekly toady of the Adrnihistration has a dis sertation upon " the Tory preparations for power," in which it is said, that " 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." For what block heads does this toady write? Is there any one so ig norant as not to know that the people are with, the Tories and not against them? Only let her Majesty's Government give us a general election—an opportu nity for the people to represent their present opinions in the House of Commons—and the Ministers will soon have an opportunity of being pract.cally con vineed that the people are with the Tories. But Ministers know this very well, and won't try the ex periment, The toady knows it very well too, but to say yesterday, call e d th e Observer, which so would not be toadyism, by the which h e thrives. ln a newspaper of declares for itself in capital letters that it i 3 " patronise' by her Majesty and all the Royal Family," we found the following leading article 4. Great secrecy has been observed by ti journals respecting the mi ss i on of j , Conserv say to the King of Hanover , rd Stuar• .zis Lore'-' • and, although his report is kept secret, we hear, from geed authority, that no direct attempt to dethrone her Majesty kill be sanctioned by Sir R. Peel, notwithstanding the traitorous declarations of his agents at Canterbury and Ashton." W e are sure that her Majesty cannot " patronise" such miserable impudent stuff as this, whatever the publishers cf it may delare on her Majesty's behalf. Are we to regard this as a specimen of nose-and-neckcloth plea santry ? Alas! for the dolt who conceived it, whatever be his title or degree. Surely this is not the sort of wit to which the gay Lord Melbourne and the gallant Lord Palmerston accustom the Court of Queen Vie toria. Such wretched trash would hardly be tolerated in any taproom, even though the regular joker of the place were hired to utter it. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. (From the Globe.) interested beginning to bestir themselves f or a c h ange n We are glad to see those who feel m os t immediately i We arc confident they ne e d now appre hendthe Corn-laws. was given la s t s m a r s tists. But w e Near b y t s h u e eliinterr uptionmobsnt s t g h u e i i , r i e e d ffo crti should be sorry to see this made a class interest. We than a p ar ty one . W e s h ou ld b e sorr y to see it wish to see manu f acturers an d agriculturists compare re matter of ex c l us i ve ly manu f ac tu r i ng We should note:, and a : , re p entant s i nners are asked they can, to mak e ou t—Wh a t h ave th e C orn -l aws c the devil done f or you ?''— so we would wish them t d , if one for any body ? It h as b een a mos t unfortunat e um stetalt simultaneously by all w h om th e y injure, that they nee in the effect s o f t h ese l aws , that they are not create an appearance of contrariety in the two great in terests of this country, by exciting discontent in the oue, while they seem to secure advantage to the other. Thus at perio ds ofhigh prices the far mers h ave regar d e d t h e directed the fair remuneration of agricultural outcry against the pressure of those laws as an outcry labour ag ainstand capital. Again, at periods of plenty the farmer alone complain of low prices ; and a temporary stimulus and ease are afforded to other classes,which indispose !be im to agitate against the dormant influence of the Colu..l aws. We have thus fluctuated between the temporary show of protection afforded by the Corn-laws to our landed in terest, and the temporary flu,li of prosperity to com merce and industry occasioned by the Unction of those laws (or rather by the reaction caused by them from excessive scarcity to excessive production.) The natural regulator of our home markets—the de mand namely for ag ricultur a l p ro d uce (which there is no doubt in th e world the nearest cultivators will have most share in supplying) —has been replaced by the artificial re gulator of a curiously contrived scale of duties, intended to regulate prices more satisfactorily toour home producers than the ordinary principles of commerce would Z le without interference. This attempted regulatior, has resulted in fluctuations more enormous than erettid ever have been expected from the utter absence of restriction ; and these fluctuations, we are convinced. may Le regarded as periodical, and predicted with as much certainty, and nearly as much precision as the next con-w.f. Tbs, landed interest has sought to secure advantages ey legislation, which the natural effects of ne us e p erous come and wl". ic h no it ice the declin e o f t h at merce would have sec ure d without, ; Legislatiou can cause t o sur e . commerce. " 00 7 skilled labour co, r mmands fu long we may b e regar d e d as ex- e i remunerati on, porters of a g rici'Lural produce in the most compeer form—the or!. e form in which produce so bulky can be exported over sea and land to such an extent. Tile artificer or manufacturer, living in England, must always be a large consumer of English farm produce, and the more he exports, will be the better able to pay for what he consumes at home. the English agriculturists resolve to have those consumers to themselves. Not contented with th e vast prepanderance over all agriculture? riva l s which situation and the expense of trans Bert secures to them—not content even wig ;t the m A erat y e fixed duty which might be claimed, both for tb . , sa k e of rer burthens, revenue, and as a set-off agains". peculi our agriculturists have resol.ved to monop Mi ze the sup ply of wants they cannot at all brace. satisfy. They have resolved to dieable the most, numerous class , 4 their custoreers from bein g , as they have been, their best ones, and from afford.in g prices which suppose un abated means for their payment. (From the Gamier.) The Anti-Cotn-law Association, whose head-quarter, are at Mancheste r , are, as we gather from the illanclays ter and Salford Advertiser, on the alert. A meeting of members was held on Wednesday evening last for the purpose of preparatory arrangements for a grand festival in January. We have not the smallest objection to some feasting first, and flourishing speeches after, of these Manchester gentlemen. On the contrary, we like to s good old customs kept up, of which Chrismas festir ,ties and New Year's revels are not the least we' of our traditiona r y b equests. Let us hope e. 011 ,oliao the forthcomi ng occas i on the merrymaking will not be desecrated with the satr.e exhibition of and low-lived abuse of 'Landholders an will 11. aristocracy, which in the set cent and phras.., of that tor, ~e poured forth at of factious oratory was so liberiell former gatherings of these poop ,e, In the Utopian miraclesf t to Ist evorked by any P . ,lteration, or b y t h e abo liti erficial on ohe f;orn-laws, so `;thently dwelt upon b y su p reaeoners, we have as much faith as in ,those so undoubti•egly attributed to our good Lady of Loretto, for dienelief in which we heretics are just as unce remoniously consigned to eternal perdition b z -Monkish zealots, as the landlords are nserciles denounced for persecution and eitermin, by the fierce familiars of the Anti-Corn-la., quisition. Assuming that the principle of C ern-laws, as of laws a ppli ca bl e to any other commodieh must 7ffolection, it may, or may not lee, a fair teebject for Le in quiry whether th a t p rotect i on would be be dispenstel by a duty fixes in amount, 'or by the fluctuating scale of duties now in operation.. The objections to such an inquiry being entertainell at all are of very serious im port to the mennunity at large, for the perpetu a l itch for dah'oling In legislation, which is the ',no uomania of ",he present day, inevitably tends to un' e i ege the tent re and stability of all property, and to e'onipto mise or mystify the possession of all rights. Itr_ volution after revolution we have had in Currenr,saleen Corn laws, and laws for the regulation of tr Ade, for the last twenty years, to say nothing of rev olutio, ns p o and the result of all this quackc,y, which has beet, dignified with the sounding title (-Apolitical economy, is that, after just as many peri.edical stages of nation-1 and individual stoppages, we, are as far from the lane of promise as before, if the Anti -Corn-law men are to be credited. (Fram the Standard.) We are told that the present Corn-laws lea'ls, t o ruinous fluctuations. The very reverse is o ,:h e fact,. us we have long since proved by a reference to the v ariation of prices before and after the passir, g o f tiv ae l aws, the matter is dis and as we shall again prove by a republica of the authenticated table of variatir, o , puted. Fluctuations in the prices of corn there alwaNs good to Providence to vnry must be while it shall seen - Ace of the earth ; but it is plara the seasons and the proe that such fluctuations . will be least felt under a syste which encourages to, th e utmost the provision of a lic.oie supply, and throrn open our ports to the world vihe..s that supply sj,all be deficient —the system of t' ae present Corn.laws. Fluctuations in thr, price of corn there a l ways, we again say there mu ,t be, while the 'physical constitution of a 0 worl,d shall remain what it is. But what would be the effect of such fluctuations upon this country . if the Corn-I,iws were repealed? Why, that the strea m of crapital which now escapes casually in V,ad serasons, and is more than replaced in good one s , woe: ss l go out in a fiood, the constant current t k aat a regular importation of corn must produce be4ng swollen into twofold, per hrps tenfold, violer,ce, by famine at home and high prices abroad. Pow long could the country stand this ? The first, event of the kind would bring anar chy, and then let the monied capitalists, the gre: At movers of the Anti-Corn-law sedition, look to the selves. 'We do not expect that they will, for no' ,hi ng is so bli n d as avar i ce ; but it behoves us all to ourselves aga i nst t h at state of anarch,„ in w' arch ich its greedy auth ors m i g h t b e j ustly punished, but o f w h ich we all, th oug h i nnocent, wou ld be :he victirr,s. PRACTICAL APPLICAIi•ION OE SCIENTIPIC KNOWLEDGE.—A few yea: As since A ship arrived at v Liverol, after having been for several weeks the s p ot ,., wasb.ed cA of w:, n d an d waves. TI - Ae compass having be overboard in a storm, their voyage was dr eary aria pro_ crastinated, much ution being necessary ; und despite , he..a. the simple fact which, their fate, but for a fortuitous eireuedsta•ace might one Op• board, the peril might an uP„-iight have been inevitably sealed. Now of the extreme ease with which a : 111P.riner's n ee dl e might g-'aeedle, c,r the blade of a be made, been known to any have been avoided. A sewin penknife, being held in a hammer, and subsequ e ,- ~tly floated 'oy cork on water, or Post.ure, and struck 1•.,y suspended by a threr: i W i t h out ; Jon, would be come a magnetic needle, '. • ant., point nertl„, and south ; e,r the end of a poker held Pe% tical, and, Passed over its surface front one extreme te, the other, would impart magnetism. which, if the the be of steel, would be of a perm * . nent character." I take this from a " Mechanics' ki ll . gazitie," pul-:Xished in America. Again, I read ' in a , i lewsPaPer the other day as follows :—" A penknit br accident ,e. , dropped i n t o a we ll t wenty f eet deep. A start_ bean from a mirror was directed to the bottc Ai, w i tdch rendered the knife visible, and a magnet fa Aitened to a pole, brought it up." And so of thousands . of' oases that occur daily in the mechanics' h i -us-ness ' ahr ' A a little science Comes in play very well here, thong' a a man does not know am more.—Claztotes Hints t‘ .., - mechanics. RAILROAD AtCIDENT. cident occurred on the Cr On Saturd a y an ac breaking of a n axletree _, - ydon railroad, owing to the , belonging to one of the spoil wa gg °l7 . s, which for 4 time obstructed the line, but waa O'hefly of " nse° ,4ence from the serious injury it caused to one of tl' , ‘1 poor workmen. This man chose to rid'' on the ' part o f the engine (though often warr e d nave oac k it dangerous), and thereby received sur,,i l a t was ....la concussion as it is feared may terr n i ne , ',., o ' blow from the , , -- v fatally . He was conveyed to St. 'Thomas's U.ospital, othe „ d e R -.nip has returned; where he shortly after expired. r..,.... ~.....im,im4i )d on uniel re of at ors it in a ped lonel r the ,raes lativw ten ,uld tole pus at !eh of lot e ir le7