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

EVENING EDITioN. ROYAL HOTEL, SOUTH BEACH, GREAT TAR- ' , ")' an agricultural labourer. It is in evidence NVILLIA 4 M BIRDMOUT wi H th gratitude acknew- '' l ''at even now throughout South Wales, where the CHY .a - nd for iron for railways causes a brisk trade, the short r i - ed- es the liberal patronage he has received during 'accommodationri 4 d he has conducted the Ro y al Hotel, dhopes the _ , . superior 4an with mo derate charges and lost given to agricultural labourers is 125., and efficient " . 1 ! .‘ , ages are upwards of 20s. a-week, while the domestic arrangements, will enab le him to secure to his Friends I it , an' 4 Visitors all the comforts of home. I r.,1 !,,- lose one or two days every week. What the TERMS FOR. THE WINTER SFASO s N. . per . k. , , Board and Lodgings,iwithng thprivae ff te ee ap ro a o rt ni me l n l t . , 10 2/ 3. o. i.ories say, therefor e, about a regard to the labourers Superior Gentlemen n es and Coach Houses. Posting in all its pe ompting them to encourage agriculture and re trenches. to this, that out of regard to the labourers they wish to star ye them on 9s. or 10s. a-week, when they mi , 41., - . get 20s. The real secret of the partiality of tire Tories to agricultural labourers is that they art- most willing slaves, while manufacturing la'r,urcrs both acquire a spirit of independence and o .ver to make it available. There is something of Arcadian simplicity in the .sficction of the Tories for a rural life. They have rca 1 in the writings of sentimentalists and poets, Io belonged to a race or generation which existed • . :: ')ont the time that men began to build and dwell it cities, and who adhered to all the old prejudices ~ their forefathers, of the great beauties and n2r difold virtues of milk-maids and shep h rds, and they reason as if there were tit:idler health, happiness, nor virtue, except amongst the sporadic tillers of the soil and breeders of . eattle. All th a t h as a ver y p re tty p as t o ral air, q'dte agreeable to the nymphs who may be supposed to ..earl the Morning Post; but those who have oked at the records of our rural population, and • 'tett their cottages, are well aware that they are .1 - 1 4 cted with many diseases ; that the form is bowed 3wn, and life cut short in the country by excess ;•.e toil and exposure to all kinds of weather, as ell as in cotton mills ; and that there is rather more overty, more misery, and more vice in the rural 'districts than in towns, though in them it be more concentrated in a focus, and therefore more appa rent, as well as more continually brought under no tice by the exertions of a vigilant police. Without quoting statistical details to illustrate this view, which have latterly been brought before the public to satiety, we will content ourselves with noticing a general principle. All over Europe, without any exception, crimes of violence arising from revenge, jealousy, &c., have regularly and gradually diminished, and they have diminished most in the town-covered Holland, Belgium, and England. In spite of the interested misrepresenta -ions of the priesthood, there has been a gradual and continuous improvement in the morals and con (Ltion of mankind, and that improvement has been contemporaneous with the growth of a town popu lation. Those v;ho have such a predilection for a rural life may see it to perfection amongst the savages f New Zealand, or the Guachos of South America. E;ut whether our poetical politicians prefer a rural or town life, the multiplication of mankind is in obe 'ience to a great natural law ; towns which cannot ne razed already exist, and unless the increase of population is to be suppressed by some plan of pabiless extinction, towns and a manufacturing po :)tilLt.,:n will extend themselves over the empire. l'hcy come in the order of civilization, as agricul urc followed hunting, and as fixed habitation sue r.- (led to the wandering and migratory habits of our THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME YESTRIS. The Three Last Nights of " Love" until after the Christruks Holidays. THIS EVENING, Dec. 20, 183, will iloe repeated the Now Original Play, in Five Acts, trritten ly James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. 'Dolts of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Lorch, Mr. S. Tiaiag ; Root, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppen- Main, Miss alert Troe ; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S hPERA• elkptain Maeheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, 31r. W. Parren ; Leekit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harl e y ; Pessenra, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly Pesehera, Miss Rainforth: Leer I-Writ. Madame Vcstris. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. First and Secone Drees Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s• 6a• ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Prig;Aries, 51. ; Seems( Price, la. Gd. ; es. ; Gallery, ls. Doers to be aliened at half-past Six—the performances , commence at Seven &Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Ticket may be had upon application. Private Boxes to lie had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Season, and Two Last Nights of Ainswerth's original and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Sheppard,' the representation of which has been witnessed by upwards of 130,000 persons. THIS EVENING, Dec. 20, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drgas it ACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tallaut Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Habit, URI, Smith, Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Wig ktanizt, Win Grant Mis. Laws, &e. After which, PETER BELL. To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We regret that we cannot insert the letter of H. I. on th, B oyal Exchange. Brevity is the soul of many things besides wit. t rz34. ‘. ,!-.• 77 ' r' s " f y Zl).e LONDON : FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1839. The Tories have taken great pains to deny the charge of disloyalty which has been justly made against them on account of the feelings which Messrs. BRA Dsll A w and Rosy took it on them selves to express in the name of their party. Lore; INGESTRIE, by a letter, and the Earl of DART MOUTH, by a speech, have both insisted on then devoted loyalty, and the latter Noble Lord vouchcu for his party as well as himself. The Tories wen always loyal, even when they were intriguing tc bring in the Pretender. They were loyal n the exiled STUARTs. At present there exists Pretender to the allegiance of the Orangemen, ii not to the Throne, and it would be advisable in the Tories, when they again profess loyalty, to specify which Sovereign they mean. Are they loyal to Queen VICTORIA or King ERNEST ? \\That they are contemplating may he known or guessed at by the following paragraph from the Lincoln and Newark Gazette of Tuesday : BORDERING ox TREAsoN.—Great and just as is the disgust of the respectable Reds, at having the peace of the town disturbed by the presc.nt vexatious opposition, it will, we are confident be increased to horror when we lay before them some of the proceedings of their o;vn party ; nor will they alone partake of this feeling, for will be participated in by every honourable and right minded pei son throssOmut the country. Whatever the bias of political opinion, the national character of Eng lishmen is loyalty to the Sovereign ; much then is it to be regretted that his character should have such frequent taints, but Newark was the last place we should have ex pected in which to have found disloyalty. In former days, meetings were held in London no the 30th w January, where a call's head was the principal dish, to commemorate the hellea,!ing of Charles I. ; and durit: the last week, at Newark, at a red supper, whieh iv are compelled to call " Calves' head meeting" the fo'. lowing toast was given by Mr. Proudlovo : " The Queen's Head in the Poultry, and may every passer-by have a chop a t i t ." It. is deeply to be regretted that a spirit of faction opposition to one of the Queen's public servants shou:A have led away these once boasted loyalists, into ex - pressions thus disgracefully directed against the Quera herself: we are aware that it is an old Republic :1:, toast, the more therefore as loyal men to be condemn by the friends of monarchy ; had the person giving tl•- toast been ordered to quit the room, the party weui,' have acted commendably, but to drink it, and therct,:. sanction it, savours but litt'e of good feeling or attae,. ment to the throne ; it has been attempted to frY.ti-I away the meaning of the toast, but the proposer bia,• self admits he thought it might have a political bearir , -. We did not suppose that Messrs. BRA DSHA and ROBY could well he outdone, but Mr. PROUD LOVE, a loyal Newark Tory, has far surpasr,:d them. Henceforth they will form a noble trig. PROUDLOVE, BRADSHAW, and Roar, three great Tory saints, the guides and leaders of the party. Will any sane man, however, boast of the loyalty of Tories after such an exhibition The Tory Journals, arguing against the aboli tion of the Corn-laws, admit that it would much increase factories ; and, pretending to pity the suf ferings of the overworked manufacturing labourers. particularly the poor infants, who scarcely eve: know what an hour's liberty or a play day is, they deprecate a measure which will add, as they say, to the mass of human wretchedness in our towns and increase the degradation and degeneracy of our po- T,,ulation. Such an argument in the mouth of a Tory —such a pretended regard for persons, whom the Tories treat in general with undisguised contempt, calling them the canaille, denying them all political rights, except the right of being sabred or hanged i: they do not obey the orders, however absurd or cue they may be, of Tory law-makers, causes in us i:1- creased disdain of the measureless hypocrisy of 1 these brutal and cruel politicians. For years thcy 1 have sought, by denying political rights, by den ing education, by refusing when they were able all r - 2- lief from an onerous and unjust system of taxatiom, to keep the working classes in the most pitia!,:e state of sla very ; and now, when it may serve a temporary political purpose, they pretend to he grievously afflicted at the prospect of those evils which they have laboured most ardently and cell stantly to accomplish. The silliness of their p e tended regard for the peopl e is nearly as palpn'lle as their hypocrisy ; but it shall be our present 1:u -siness to make it as clear as day. At present there is great and acknowledged ..! tress in the manufact urin g distr icts, caused a t 1' ! affirm by the Corn - la ws ; and there is amongs,. agriculturists, caused as the anti-abolitionists asi .;. by the same laws, a great degree of prospezity;: while the agricultural laboure rs must go shoeless and hungry to work, it may well be doubted w i le. ther a distressed manufacturing is not better off than a prosperous agricultural labourer. Whoever heard of the agricultural labourers in any district collect . ing, like the spinners, 12,0001., 10 ) 0004 or 1 8,0001., to obtain any political object; or any ob i ject whatever ? In general, the condition of the manufacturing labourers is one of opulence Com• pared to that of their agricultural brethren. Some of the former may be for a season out of work, but their destitution is on a level with the prosperity s ivage progenitors. 'lire practical question is not whether the Legis ature can stop the growth of a manufacturing and .own population, for that, if desirable, is beyond ;Ls p o wer ; but how such a population can be made most healthy, most comfortable, most virtuous, and !lost happy. Into the best means of accomplish ng that object we are not going to inquire ; we -:hall confine ourselves to showing that the Corn !aws, even on the narrow ground taken up by the Furies, are inimical to the welfare of that population• They nece:isarily make land dear, and so limit tie space into which factories and work people are crowded. They tend, therefore, to contaminate the fir and i,ijure health. Crowding people together more than is necessary, and preventing them from having the enjoyments of gardens and other similar occupaions and amusements, the Corn-laws are equally injurious to morals. But the way in which !They operate to enhance the competition amongst he labourers for food, keeps down wages, and pro duces all those lamentable consequences which the hypocritical Tories pretend to lament. There is a constant race between the increase of the people and the increase of food. Whenever the latter gets and keeps somewhat a-head of the former all goes on well. The labourers get good wages, the employers reasonable profits, the land lord a just rent, and all are happy. During the war, when our population was of necessity almost limited to our own soil for food, the manufacturing Population suffered repeatedly. When peace came trade was opened, and food was offered us from every country. The landlords passed a law to .;.eep food out of the country till it had reached a very high price. The instant that law came into operation, the tendency of population to increase •ve.nt rapidly a-head of the increase of food. But for that law the relation between food and po pulation would have been changed. There would have been more food offered than there were at the moment ii..)utlis to cat it, and the whole body of the manufacturing labourers would have been placed in the favourable condition of the demand for their ser vices exceeding the supply. They might have made, and would have made, their own terms with the manufacturers. By the great demand for the produce of their labour, to exchange for food, they would have increased in numbers and in power, arid most probably would ihave rescued themselves and their offspring from the degraded condition into which they had been reduced by the war. By the exclusion of food the relation between it and population was changed, the labour offered exceeded the demand, and never, except for very short periods, has that really melancholy condition for the labourers been re versed since the Corn-law was passed. But for the Corn-law there is good reason to believe—despite of Mr. MALTHUS'S one-sided theory—that the supply of food would have con tinued to keep a-head of the population. The active ingenuity of man throughout the commercial world being called into full operation, and the increase of the people continually generating a fresh demand, there would unquestion ably have been a rapid succession of im provements in the production of food as well as of cotton cloth, and all over the commercial world, it would have been produced by a diminish ing quantity of labour. Those who have only la bour to offer in exchange for food have clearly been the greatest and the most continual sufferers by the supply of food having been kept below the demand ; and they have been impoverished and de graded by the Tory Corn-law. At the same time the masters have been grie vously injured. If they obtained an advantage by the competition for employment being throw n on the labourers instead of their competing i with one another who should have labourers, they suffered a great disadvantage in their competition who should produce cheapest. Such a competition is the source of improvement and the gratification of the consumer. But while that could not be checked amongst the manufacturers, who have striven to undersell each other, no such competition wag allowed in the production of food, by which means its price was not lowered in proportion to the Price of manufactures, and the masters failed to obtain a due return for their own produce. By the Corn-laws shutting out a competition to supply food at the cheapest rate, while it was impossible to shut out competition amongst the manufacturers to supply their produce at the cheapest rate, the master manufacturers have been as deeply injured as their suffering workmen. It is, however, with the latter that we have principally to do, and we have shown that the Corn-law, by limiting the supply of food, and so throwing the competition who should obtain it on the side of the manufac turing labourers, has ever since the peace inflicted an indelible injury on the workmen, and has con stantly tended to deteriorate their condition. The hypocritical Tories, however, now pretend that they wish to keep the supply of food limited for the interest of those who have to buy it by their labour. impiety of a Bishop's presuming to impart the Holy Ghost, and thus arrogating to himself the prerogative of the Supreme. It has been matter of surprise, observes he, to many— _ _ _ In another part of our Journal appears a letter from a Manchester Chartist, correcting a state ment of ours, and showing that the working classes feel a vast deal of sympathy with Mr. FROST. We regret to learn it, for, in our opinion, neither his recent alleged designs nor his conduct, so far as they have been developed, deserve sympathy ; and one or tw o more such leaders would bring immense suffering on all classes. We cordially approve, indeed, of the wish of the Chartists to save him from death, should that be his sentence, and we heartily sympathise with them in all their legal, quiet exertions to obtain that end. We must, however, warn them that anything in th e shape of violent language, any threats, any approximation to sedition, will compel the Minis ters, from a sense of duty and a feeling of honour, rigorously to carry the law into execution. Wish ing most earnestly that the beginning of our young and Lady SOVEREIGN'S reign should not be stained with blood on account of a political offence, we earnestly hope that the Chartists will every where abstain from the use of any language, or from making any demonstration, which may injure Mr. FROST. At the same time it has been stated to us, that at some meetings language has been used which can have none but an unfavourable effect. It is added, and we mention the asser tion without placing much reliance upon it, but in order to put the authorities on their guard, that no inconsiderable number of persons are armed, or arming, at Manchester and other towns. We believe, however, that at the present moment the authorities are every where vigilant, and that all attempts to disturb the public peace will end in the certain destruction of those who make the attempt• " That the good sense and moral: probity of the ec clesiastical rulers of this country, has not, ere this, led them to see the inconsistency, and to attempt the re formation of that part of the Ordination Service which ascribes to men the exercise of prerogatives which be long only to God, and to which no man, nor body of men, can pretend, without incurring the guilt of blas phemy. What powers your Lordship, and your col leagues in office, may possess in the distribution of the Church patrimony, I presume you can never seriously imagine, for one moment, that you have the same power to communicate the Holy Ghost to whomsoever you please. And if not, as must be con fessed by every honest and enlightened mind, why ad minister a form of words so awfully delusive in their ap plication, and which show the dreadful length of impiety to which the rulers of the Church will go in practising a religious delusion to keep up their episcopal dignity. The Pope, with his Bishops, arrogate to themselves the power of giving the Holy Ghost, and of forgiving men their sins, and have converted this pretended plenary dispensation of theirs into a source of profitable traffic. The Bishops of the Protestant Church of England claim the same high prerogatives. But on what scrip tural grounds do they found their claim ? The Church of Rome never instituted this proud pretension till after the twelfth century, when it was set up with many other arrogant claims, amidst the wildest superstitions of the darkest age. That such an extravagant preten sion as this, assumed by the Popes in all the pride and wantonness of their power, should be transferred from a Roman Pontifical to grace a Protestant Liturgy, and be acted upon by the Bishops of a reformed church in the nineteenth century! shows the blind attachment that exists to forms and opinions however repugnant they are to the sober dictates of reason, or to the solemn determinations of divine revelation. Whatever senti ments the mitred clergy may entertain when laying their hands upon the head of the probationer for holy orders, and saying, " RECEIVE THE HOLT Gi105T"......4 , whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained ;" there is no one in this enlightened age, whose mind is freed from the slavish dogmas of the Romish schools, that believes in this pretended communication of divine gifts and powers." About a twelvemonth ago it was our pleasant duty to speak in terms of great praise of a short, direct, pithy speech against the Corn-laws, delivered by Mr. ADAM BLACK, a most respectable and well•known bookseller of Edinburgh. With equal pleasure we can now give equal praise to the ener getic, straightforward, racy speech he delivered at the Edinburgh meeting in behalf of THOROGOOD, as reported in our Paper yesterday. Cordially do we echo his condemnation of ecclesiastical usurpa tion, and his abhorrence of oppression committed in the name of the Gospel of Peace. We do not think it necessary to reproduce here any portion of his speech, having so lately published it entire, but we cannot refrain from thus recording our opinion. We are well pleased to see respectable citizens like Mr. BLACK and Mr. AYTOUN, giving expres sion to such an honest indignation against the con duct of the State priesthood. We have ourselves expressed similar sentiments, but the apparently hearty and earnest zeal of the apostate and noto rious Times, for opposite parties and opposite principles, as suits the purpose of party or of t ra d e , has, we are well aware, thrown much doubt on the sincerity of all Newspaper writing, and probably made our remarks on the subject be regarded as dictated by a commercial or party spirit. We are glad, therefore, to see them echoed by independent men, removed from any such suspicion. It both gives us confidence in our opinions and assures us that they will obtain the confidence of the public. That the sincerity of writers for the Daily Press should be doubted is, in the present state of the community, very much to be regretted, but it is, we are convinced, the necessary consequence of such apostacy as that of the Tinzes, which has done much to degrade the Newspaper Press and destroy its influence. " The Bishop of EXETER as he is, and as he ought to be," is the title of a little pamphlet which has just been published by Mr. SOUTH GATE. The author adopts the epistolary form, and addresses " Old TOBY" in a very free-and easy style, telling him many plain truths, which it would be greatly for the benefit of his " soul's health" to lay to heart. He reminds him of the prominent and active part he has taken in uphold ing the countless abuses and corruptions of the Church of England, although he swore at his ordi nation that he was inwardly moved by the HOLY GHOST to take upon him this office and ministra tion " to serve GOD, for the purpose of promoting his glory, and the edifying his people." The author, following up the point here started, proceeds to argue that were the Holy Ghost really communicated by the Bishops, the conduct of the persons who are supposed to receive the heavenly gift, would be somewhat different from what it is ; but as the clergy, by their behaviour, clearly show that is utterly impossible that they can have any dealings with the Spirit of GoD, that part of the ceremony alluded to cannot be considered in any other light than that of a religious juggle : "If Popish or Protestant Bishops, by laying on o hands, do give the Holy Ghost, they must either im part it from the abundant measure of this gift, treasured up in themselves, or by an authority they have to call it down from heaven at the time of ordination ; in either case, the communication, if real, would be attended with some demonstrative proof of its presence, like as it was in the days of the Apostles ; and we should certainly see it manifesting its indwelling influences by the spiritual gifts, the divine graces, or the miraculous powers with which it endued its subjects. But where, I ask, my Lord, are the exhibitions of His power, in the great body of the clergy, at the present day, who are more intent upon the pleasures of the world than they are upon the duties of their office ? Your Lordship, I think, will conclude with those who judge of facts by their evidences, that it would require all the blind credulity of that dark and wonder-working age, which gave rise to the cere mony of the stirrup and the slipper, to believe that those reverend gentlemen are filled with the Holy Ghost, who, instead of ministering to the Church of God in holy things, are making the rich revenues of the Church minister to their unholy lives ;—or that they have the power to forgive or retain sins of the people, when they are so accursedly laden with their own trans gressions. " The Ordination Service, in this respect, teaches the people to believe a lie, and authorizes the priesthood to practise an imposture--an imposture, too, of a most awful nature, since it represents the Holy Ghost as calling and qualifying men to offices in the Church, which they never fulfil, and giving them powers to fleece the people, that they may gratify the vain desires of an earthly mind. To affirm that such men have received the Holy Ghost, and are officiating in the Church under His di rection, is to father upon Him the sins of your own body, and to make Him a party concerned in all the sinecures, pluralities, non-residences, and other scandalous pro ceedings, which stain, with so deep a guht, the cha racter of the Church of England. My Lord, for the sake of maintaining the honour of the Christian religion, and of silencing the captious objections of blaspheming infidels, those which ascribe to fallible men a power which belongs only to the Most High God, ought at once to be obliterated from the ritua► of a church that professes to be constituted upon the prin ciples of the Reformation." The neglect of their duties by the Clergy is severely and justly animadverted upon in the fol lowing passage, with which we must conclude our extracts : " My Lord, in conclusion, permit me to say, that if we look into those parts of the Empire where the spirit of disaffection and outrage are found most to prevail, we shall see that they are characterised by a deficiency either in the method or the measure of clerical instruc tion. Circumstances of deep misery and want, pressing upon minds untutored by the Gospel to bear adversity, and which are strongly excited by passions that have never felt the check of an enlightened conscience, may be expected to produce tumultuous expressions of indig nation among the lower orders. But in most in stances, where the spirit of murmur has burst forth into a flame of rebellion, the evil is to be traced to the conduct of an inefficient clergy who, though loud in their praise of Church and State, are shamefully remiss in the duties they owe to that autho rity by which they are maintained and fed. The clergy have lost their influence over the people, and the people have lost their respect for the clergy. Though some may be disposed to question the truth of these observa tions, they certainly gather a confirmation from the feel ings of hostility so generally expressed against the priest hood of modern times, and would, I fear, meet with a practical proof, were any calamitous events, of a poli tical nature, to break out in this country. To guard against such events is the wisdom of all—more espe cially is it the duty of those who sustain the clerical office. " Yet, my Lord, it is impossible to view the present restless and discontented state of the nations, without feeling a firm conviction, that certain revolutionary principles are extensively at work, which threaten, ere long, to bring the two extreme classes of society into a state of dreadful collision. Turn where you will, the kingdoms of the earth are heard to groan beneath the weight of grievances too heavy to be endured ; and to de nounce the subversion of those arbitrary dominions, which, through an excess of ambit:on, have been dead to the cries of distress, as well as to the dictates of reason. Might, in too many instances, has overcome right ; and a general abuse of power has weakened, in all directions, those ties which, by binding the different orders of the community in a unity of interests, give security to the institutions, and stability to the Govern ment of a country. When the great body of the people look upon the priesthood and the aristocracy of a na tion as the chief causes of the evils they suffer ; and when the insolent authority and insatiable monopoly of wealth on the part of the one, have given just ground to the conclusions formed by the other ; it would be no surprising thing, in the ordinary course of events, should years spent in fruitless murmurings give rise to some rash and dangerous enterprise, the last sad effort of despair; or that the hope of establishing a more equi table order of things should at length induce the nations of Europe to throw off the yoke of obedience with their respect for hereditary dignitaries." These are matters for serious consideration both by the Clergy and the Aristocracy. No reasonable man can shut his eyes to the dangers which are accumulating around us, nor to the evidence which every hour is bringing forth, that those dangers spring from the unjust exercise of power on the part of those classes of the community. The Church has carried its grasping, arbitrary, and oppressive spirit to such a pitch that it is regarded as a nuisance by the great mass of the people ; and the aristocracy, by the gross selfishness which it has displayed in its legislative capacity, has proved to the millions that their interests have little or no share of its consi deration. If some relaxation of this one-sided sys tem of legislation be not speedily manifested by our rulers, and something like fair play given to the working classes ; if industry shall continue to be paralyzed, and the millions starved by our legisla tors for no other purpose than that they, the legis lators, may put a little more money into their own pockets, who that reflects on what is daily passing before his eyes can doubt that the millions will take the remedy into their own hands. " You have denied," he remarks, " as a Legislator, that the abuses which attach to the worship and disci pline of the Church over which you preside, have at tracted the eye of public attention, or that they call for the plastic hand of a reforming genius. You have boldly affirmed that the regulation of the affairs of the Church is not a proper subject for Parliamentary inter ference. You have resolutely opposed yourself to the axiom that popular power is increasing: thus practically refusing to allow that, in the exact proportion as know ledge itself is extended, so the various species of power arising from its extension are capable of being brought into operation against, or proving fatal to the systematic malversations of a time-serving priesthood. Having done all this, you have necessarily laid yourself open to a candid examination of the principles upon which your conduct has been regulated ; nor, in the course of such an inquiry ought it to be forgotten that, as a public servant, the people have an indubitable right to can vass and decide upon your actions, in the prominent situation you occupy in that institution, the support of which the State has thought proper to impose upon them." The people unquestionably possess this right, and we scarcely need inform the Bishop that they are exercising it every day, and that not in the most ceremonious manner. After some pretty sharp strokes at the Right Reverend TORY'S personal conduct and character, and quoting St. Paul's de scription of a Bishop, in which we cannot recog nise any likeness to his apostolical successor, the author returns to the extravagant doctrine advocated by his Eminence of EXETER, namely, that the State has no power to interfere in any matters in which the Church is concerned. On this subject, we find the following just observations : " The powers, the prerogatives, and the revenues, with which the Church of England is invested, were never received by transmission from Christ and his Apostles ; but have been derived from the legislative enactments of British kings and senators, who have en riched the Church at the expense of her purity. " It must surely be admitted, my Lord, that the arm which created the ecclesiastical machinery of this country, can, if need be, as easily destroy it. It is only for the Queen and the Parliament to resolve that there is no further necessity for this ostentatious display of ecclesiastical pomp to secure the stability, or to main tain the dignity of the empire, and away go the thrones, the principalities, the powers, and the resources of the Church— 1 Then might ye see, Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags ; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft, Fly o'er the backside of the world, far off, Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.' " That the State has a power to determine upon such an appropriation of the Ecclesiastical revenues, as shall be most conducive to the general welfare of the nation, is a position that cannot, I think, consistently de denied by any who maintain the supremacy of the Government." To doubt that the State possesses this power, or rather this right, is not a little absurd on the part of the Bishops and other Churchmen, for it is in fact to doubt their own title to their possessions, inasmuch as it was solely through the exercise of this power by the State that the Catholics were ousted, and the present occupants put into their places. The writer then touches up Old Toby on the Madrid Papers of the 11th inst. have been re ceived, but bring no news of interest. The capital was tranquil. A report had reached ESPARTERO'S head-quarters, that CABRERA had consented to the release of all his prisoners, he having no more rations THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, ISM. to give them. Every person supposed that they would have been shot. In the Eco cl' Arra gon of the 13th instant we find the fol lowing political manifesto addressed by the chief of ESPARTERO'S Staff to that Journal, which at once settles the question about the General-in- Chief's alleged participation in the Cabinet Coun cils, recommending the dissolution of the Cortes. It does honour to ESPARTERO'S patriotism " Sir—The Eco del Conzercio of the 2d, states that the Ministers were spreading the rumour that the Duke de la Vittoria had advised the illegalities which they wished to commit, and that he was preparing to sustain them by force. The Duke de la Vittoria deplores, as every good and loyal Spaniard must do, the animosity of party spirit which he regrets to see is again breaking out, at a time when he hoped a grand reconciliation would have been effected. He had a right to think so, after the details of the celebrated sitting of Oc tober 7. He then rejoiced in embracing at Bergara those who had formerly opposed his course ; and, per suaded that this spirit of reconciliation had also presided at that sitting of Congress, and that henceforth every question would be arranged in the same spirit of har mony ; he hoped that all would divest themselves of all party feeling, and that the conduct of Ministers would have been dictated by the force of circumstances, which deprive the Constitution of none of its moral power when the results correspond with excep tional measures, when principles remain untouched, and these acts meet with the approbation of the legislative bodies. On the other hand, his Excel lency had hoped that several useless and frivolous pro jects would have either been withdrawn or modified. This is merely the expression of his wishes, and implies no censure on either Deputies or Ministers. For the Duke of Vittoria does not interfere with what does not concern him, and he wishes the people not to believe that he has ever interfered in State matters. As far as regards his private opinion, he hoped that the Cortes would not have been dissolved, as be thought that they might have coincided with Ministers ; that he has never exercised any sort of influence on the dismissals, which he thinks will be highly prejudicial to the State ; and that he has never offered to support by force any acts which he thinks are hostile to the Constitution of 1837, the throne of Isabella, or the Regency of her august mother. Firm to his principles, a warm defender of, na tional independence, and all that he deems sacred, he trusts that these principles will never be attacked by those who endeavour 'to turn aside the army from its chief object, which is to destroy its armed enemies, who still retard the general pacification, which would have placed a bridle on passions and partial interests. " I must request the insertion of this manifestation in your excellent journal, and that you will receive the assurances, &c. "FRANCISCO LINAGE." On the Madrid Exchange on the 11th inst. fifty-six bargains in the New Fives, to the amount of 28,200,000 reals, were transacted, six of which were for Cash at 271 and 27 1-16, and the others for time at 29 for sixty days. On the Debt without interest, ancient coupons, three bargains were done at 91 for sixty days, and in the New at 5 11-16 for fifty-nine days. Letters from Constantinople, of the 27th ult., from Alexandria of the same date, and from Smyrna of the 29th, have been received. The Oriental question is stated in them all to have made no pro gress of late. Prince DE JOINVILLE has been recalled from the East, to be present at the opening of the French Chambers. M. ZA GRAPHOS, the Greek Foreign Minister, arrived on the 24th at Constantinople, charged with a complimentary mission from King OTHO to the the young SULTAN on his accession. His recep tion was most flattering. The arrival of the widow of one of MEHEMET ALIAS grandsons at the Porte was supposed not unconnected with a poli tical object. The substance of the news from Alex andria and Syria will be found in another part of The Sun. We are happy to state that trade was active, and foreign goods in much demand at Con stantinople. The Paris Journals of Wednesday, the whole of which we have received, publish the following news from French Africa : " ALCHERS, DEC. 13. " TOULON, DEC. 16. " MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER or WAR. " No serious combat has taken place in the province of Algiers. Hostilities have not commenced LI Oran. The province of Constantine is perfectly tranquil." This intelligence is favourable, inasmuch as it sets at rest the vaunting threat of the EMIR about attacking Algiers on the 10th instant. Marshal VALLEE has now little to fear, as reinforcements have reached him in sufficient number to enable him to act on the offensive. Besides the troops already embarked, 300 men of the 17th Regiment of the line left Marseilles on the 12th, to embark for Africa. Se veral vessels were then at that port freighted for the conveyance of troops, horses, and military stores for Algiers. All the regiments in garrison in the South of France have been ordered to furnish each three hundred picked men for the African service. The Report read at the secret sitting of the Court of Peers on Monday, details some new facts connected with the secret Societies des Families and des Saisons. It appears that they collected funds for the defence of all persons accused of poli tical crimes, and for the support of their families during their imprisonment. Out of these funds the Moniteur Republicain was partly supported. In the course of 18 months 14,000 francs were collected, a fact which demonstrates how widely they must have spread, as the contributors, with very few excep tions, were all persons in the humblest walks of life. We shall take another opportunity of enter ing into some details respecting this document. The squabble between the French and English Captains at Port Louis, of which we gave an account in The Sun of Tuesday, is the subject :of a long and hostile article in the Temps of Wednes day. There is a party in France quite as mad for international bloodshed as the Tory faction here. These very choleric persons would go to war for the blowing of the wind from a northern or southern point of the compass. We quote the article from the Temps, not for the purpose of stirring up bad blood, but in order to show that acts which the Tories represent as humiliat ing to the honour of this country, are frequently re garded in an opposite light by our neighbours. As regards the question now in dispute we trust the Governments of both countries will have the good sense to settle it quietly, and that care will be taken to prevent, as far as possible, such misunderstand ings for the time to come. The following is the article from the Temps : " On the 7th of September her Britannic Majesty's ship Greenlaw was at anchor by the side of a French brig and schooner, the Lancier and the Isere, both of which were covered with flags. Captain Driver, of the Greenlaw, saw in the disposition of these flags an outrage upon the British colours. He did not demand expla nations, but hoisted the tri-colour flag in a way implying an insult to it. The officer commanding the Isere, in the absence of his captain, demanded reparation, al leging that the arrapgement of flags complained of was purely accidental. Captain Driver accepted the challenge at first, but thought fit to decline after wards meeting any save his equal in rank, the captain of the French vessel. The circumstances being stated to the Governor of the island, he obliged the English captain to make excuses, and to hoist the tri- co l our fl ag twice on his mast top, by way of reparation. Six days after, the Governor having reason to believe that the first insult of the flags was intentional on the part of the French, demanded reparation. The French re fused, pleading that th e i r d o i ng so wou ld b e admitting theirintention to insult, which they denied. Never theless, the French Captain offered to hoist the British flag at his mizzen on the day of his departure, and salute it with twenty-one guns. The offer was rejected, and menaces were made to fire on the French vessel, if it refused to make the same amende that the British ves sels had done. Still the French refused. The British Governor then published an order, forbidding any com munication between the French vessels and the shore, except such as werr necessary for the service of his French Majesty ; this being occasioned (said the order) by the refusal of the French Commandant to make the usual demonstration to prove that he did not intend to offend by the disrespectful manner in which the British colours were hoisted on board the Isere on the 7th of September. This order was published on the 18th. M. de Tinan, the French Commandant, had landed at one o'clock of that day, ignorant of the order, which had not yet been notified. He was about to return at ten at night, when he was arrested, and brought to the guard-house. Major Wilson, who Commanded there, repaired to the Governor, and was not receive d, and then to Colonel Power, who said he could not apply to his Excellency till next morning, till when M. de Tinan EVENING EDITION. must be kept. The French officer gave u? his sword, and was not permitted to embark till daybreak. The British Governor published an account of the af fair for the information of the garrison. He had demanded, he said—first, a written declaration from the French Commandant that he did not in tend to insult the British flag on the 7th ; se condly, as a public demonstration of this, that the union jack should be hoisted on his mizen. The first was accorded, the second refused for the reasons above stated. His Excellency added, that the reparation might be obtained by force, but not without effusion of blood, and would be an inexcusable attack upon two vessels of a friendly power, surrounded by ships and batteries. " M. De Hell, Governor of Bourbon, had demanded explanations of Sir William Nicolay - , Governor of the Mauritius. The Temps adds that the French Govern ment, which has always been so ready to acknowledge error where it existed, anal to offer satisfaction where it was due, will not fail to maintain its dignity by demand ing satisfaction for our wrongs. ' After the humi liating explanations which the French Ambassador,' says the Temps, ' gave to the English Government in 1 the affair of the Express, we must have a signal repara tion. Our flag insulted, our navy outraged, in the per son of the Commander of the Isere—these are wrongs which cannot be passed over in silence.' " We have letters from Constantinople and Alexandria to the 27th ult. M. de Sercey, the French Ambassa dor to Persia, had arrived at Constantinople on board the Veloce. He will not set out for Teheran till there is a post, because the roads are at present dangerous. The Oriental question had not advanced one step to wards a solution. It is even said that the last instruc tions received by Lord Ponsonby are much at variance with the views of France.—Le Corstilutionnel. SMYRNA, Nov. 30.—Admiral Lalande entered our port on the 23d in the evening, in the Jena. It is said that he intends to go to Ourlac on the 3d or 4th of next month. It is said that the ships of the line under his com mand will go successively to Toulon to re-victual, and will then return to this station. The English fleet is still at Ourlae. Admiral Stop. ford, it is said, applied to his Government for permis sion to winter at Malta with a part of his squadron. It is now affirmed, that in consequence of intimation which he has just received from London, the English fleet will not quit these seas. Merchants' letters from Constantinople, speak of da mage suffered by several merchantmen in the Darda nelles.—Echo de l'Orieat. BOURSE.--PAms, WEDNESDAY, Dan. 18. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. rrench 5 per Cents lll 80 ... 111 90 11180... li2 55 4 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 102 3 per Cents BO 45 ... 80 45 ... 80 40 ... 80 40 Bank of erance 2985 ...2990 ...2090 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO9O —.IOEO —.lOBO ...1. 80 5,000 f. Sh 5222 50 ...5222 50 ...5220 Belgian 5 per Cents lo l 3i 101% ... 10.14 ... 10134 Bank 825 ... 825 ... 810 ... 815 Coupons Spanish Active 25 ... 2554 25 ... 25 Passive 6% 6 ... 6% Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 2354 235 ... 2354 Neapolitan Roman ... 1015 10.154 RAILWAr SHARig. ._ Versailles, It. B 502 50 ... 505 ... 502 50 ... 505 L.B. 32 0 .. • 320 ... 3:7 50 ... 320 Havre Orleans Strasburg to Bale ___ _ _ 313 75 ... 313 75 ... 013 7 5 ... 313 75 ASP HA LTES AND BITU MENS. Yarn (Maberly's) r3ELGIAN I UNDS—Baussats, Due, IS Actual Debt, *4'. per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 pef Cent. 9 214 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 y,iper Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............« 76% National Society Exchange on London (short) _Brussels Papers, Dec. 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtanue, DEC. 10 Five per Cents. Metalliques - 10'7% Four per Cents. lOO% Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1630 —,Allgemeirie Zestung, Dec. 1::. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TIVELTE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—We have had a good demand for cotton to-day at full prices ; the sales 5,000, chiefly American descriptions. Arrivals this morning—French and Ostend mails ; also a mail from Lisbon by the Liverpool, old date, 6th December, met with an accident, and obliged to put into Corunna, which she left the 15th December ; a mail from Gibraltar of the Ist December, from Cadiz of the 2d, and Vigo the Bth : ship letters from Madeira and Bombay of the 24th August (old date), and Madras of the 29th. Letters from Falmouth state that the cause of the Liverpool steamer not having arrived in due time with the Lisbon mail was owing to her engines having broke down in the Bay of Biscay, which obliged her to put into Corunna. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yes :frday's date, but it does not bring any news of conse quence. This is the dullest morning we have had for some time past, both foe arrivals and Continental intelligence of importance. Letters from Warsaw to the 3d December, stated that ten vessels had arrived there by the Vistula, laden with ra,ls, from England, for the railroad constructing from Warsaw to Cracow. A report just prevails that the British Queen has been telegraphed off Portsmouth. THE FUNDS. Consols opened at the same quotations they left off yesterday, 92i for the Account ; Reduced, 90i ; not a feature in the above market worth quoting at present. Exchequer Bills 4 2 discount ; Bank Stock 177 178 ; India Stock for the opening 253 25.5. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed at 231 ; opened 23i 4 ; Portuguese left off 331 Q ; at present 331 1 ; Three per Cents., 231 ; Colombian rather improved, closed at 231, at present 234 241 ; Mexican also better, left off 271 28 ; opened 271 281 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents., 534 ; Five per Cents., 991. The Money Market continues as per yesterday. Six per cent. for Bankers Bills ; Merchants Bills and second rates at a higher discount. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock ll7g 3 per Cent. Red. DO•N 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 per Cent Ditto Red. 987,, 9 New 3% per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Jan. 5, 1860 13 13-16 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880. Jan. 5.1870 RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Drazilia n Bonds. Ditto Account Eiuenos Ayres Bonds Ditto It.T.ottnt Chilian 3ond Ditto nt Colamt I.7.B<rids DAY ATONE O'CLOCK. Small Advertised Commercial India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - D ii i tt t tt t oo o Exch. Bills, .£l,OOO „..! 4 2 dis D Ditto 500 4 2 _dia. Bank Stock for Account ... - India Stock for Account .. Consos for Account 9 2 1 /g 4 2 'HIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds Ditto Accoun' Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1822. Ditto Account - Ditto Acco‘. nt Lclrr c 17 d 5,1824 23% 4 t.:O Acco.nt 24 :3% 4! Danish 3cr Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds , 0 % 5 4 Ditto Account. Passive 6 _ Ditto Art(r. nt Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent. ...... Ditto Account Neapolitan. Deferred lO% French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. --- 4 per cent. —f. —c. ---- 3 per cent....... —f. —c. ---- Exchange. —f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. — Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per eent — Ditto Acc0unt........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Birmingham and Derby Railway Company .... 80 57 Groat Western Railway Company Diito New shares Brighton Railway '3O London and Blackwall Railway l5 National Provincial Bank of England 35 16 16% 16 12% 241 HALF-PAST ONE. The dullness of the weather and the great scarcity of information cause a general flatness in the Money Market, and commercial affairs are also inactive. The report of the British Queen being telegraphed off Portsmouth is not confirmed as yet ; we have no doubt bad it been the fact ere this several expresses would have been in town with the President's Message. She is hourly expected. Consols reached 92-1- in the early part of the morn ing, since which they have declined to 92 for the Ac count ; Reduced was done at 90i ; at present 901 ; Exchequer Bills 4 to 2 dis. ; India Bonds 8 7 9 dis. ; Bank Stock 1771. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 231: Por tuguese 33i ; Colombian 24i ; Spanish Passive 6 ; Deferred 10i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., nothing done ; Five per Cents. reached 9 7 ; at present 96i. is noted Messrs. Messrs. Rothschild's American Loanat 1 prem. ; United States Bank Shares about - CLOSING PRICES• 177% India St a ........................ Bank Stock Ditto Bonds ......... 3 per Cent. Red ........... . 90% Ditto Old Annuities. ...." 9 3 per Cent CGns. b 9 BRITISH FUNDS 334 per Cent. Red New 4i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Ditto 50of ............... 5 dis. Long Annuities to expire Opg Oct. 1859 .................. Jan. f 360 .................. 13 13-16 Bank Stock stoot f f o o r r Consols for Act Aet Jan 1660 .................. -- 92 _ _ __ FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian 5 per cent 1013, 2 Belgian, L per cent Braz ili an Bonds Ch ili a n, 6 per ce nt Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Colombian , 6 p er cent ......... D i tto , 1824 24 -- Danish, 3 per cent ............ Greek Bon ds, 1825, 5 per ct _ Mex ican, 5 per cent... ,,,,,,, Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ..... Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent : SH, Birmingham and Derby Rai' :astern Counties Railway (mat Western Railway Ditto New Shares . Hull and Selby London and Brighton Railwr London and Blackwall Rails London and Croydon Railwi Manchester and Leeds Nils York and North Midland Rs Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent.......... —f —c, Exchange —f. —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. [way 57 22% ay ILI4 vay ay (Trunk) 9!:, vay ailway .RES, FRESH SEIZURE OE , c "NTINDI- CATORS." (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BATH, DEC. 18.—Another seizure of Vindicators has been made in Newport, at the shop of Mrs. Ed wards. I have just time to catch post, to apprise you that nearly 3/. worth of other go ods—Clea•ve's Gazette, Odd Fellows, Penny Satirists, and Fly, and Almanacks have been taken with the rest—everything but stamped papers. Ido hope the proprietors of the above periodi cals will bestir themselves. DAY.) CHANCERY COURT..-(THIS NOKES V. WARTON. This case came before the Court upon motion to-day, for the purpose of discharging the order pronouncecT by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor yesterday, dissolving an injunction, with costs, which had been granted on Saturday, restraining the defendant from selling Pope's Villa, at Twickenham. The arguments were proceeding when our Evening Edition went to press. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY•) The case of Knight v. Knight occupied the whole of ;he day. VICE-CIIA.NCERY.—(THIS 1)A'Y•) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, after disposing of the short causes and unopposed petitions in his paper, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the petition of Searle v. Gray, which wcre part heard yesterday in his Honour's private room. QUEEN'S BENCH.--(T.HIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Lord DEN MAN and a Common Jury.) AUGHTERLONY V. GRENFELL AND OTHEES. Sir W. FOLLETT (with whom was Mr. Wightraan) stated the case. It was sin action for a breach of con tract, brought by the riaintiff against the firm of Pascoe Grenfell and Sons, for the non-delivery of fifty tons of cake copper at 851., which, it was alleged, had been contracted for on the Gth Augu st, 1838. The contract was made by Mr. Short, on behalf of the plaintiff, with Mr. Argill, who acted as the agent of the defendant, and was for fifty tons of cake copper, At 851. per ton, to be delivered over the ship's side at Havre or Rouen at the buyer's option, on or before the Ist September followirg, for cash. For the defence, it was a ,ileged by the Attorney-General tb at Mr. Argil' had no ~,uthority to make the contract without consult ing his prii:cipals (the defendants), and that when the o ff er w as matte for the copper by S hort, he was aware of the fact, arid the t he might send in a contract subjectto the decision of his .nrincipals. The contract , on being shown to the defendants on the following morning, was at once rejected, and sent back to Mr. Short's counting house. Mr. Short, who negaciated the purchase of the cop per for the plaintiffs, was examined on their behalf ; and Mr. Argill, who acted as the agent of the defendants, was examined on the other side ; and the evidence as .u to what had occurred was of rather conflicting nature. Lord DENMAN left it to the Ju r y to say yvhether they were of opinion that Argill hi nd authority from. the defendants to make the controct in q t. ! and, secondly, whether, if he had the authority, he exercised it on that occasion witho ut leaving any r eservation to his principals to accept or reject the contract. e's obser va- The Jury interrupted the Learned Judg tions by finding a verdict for the defendants.estion EQUITY EXCHEQUER. (THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Sergeants' Inn , before Mr. Ba ron Alderson.) HALL V. LAVER ; HALL V. SAWYE T: ; HALL V. VA UGHAN. PAYMENT OF COS TS. The case came before the Court on further directions and petitions, and was chiefly confi ned to the ch que occu stion of costs. In the course of the disc ussion, pied the Court for a considerable time, Mr. SIMPKINSON said that his client Iliad been served with a copy of one of the petitions, in. which he was not at all interested. Mr. Baron ALDERSON observed that it was unne cessary for him to have appeared under such circum stances. Mr. SIMPKINSON submitte d that he was entitled to the costs of his appearance, as the petition had been served. It would be a matter of course in the Court of Chancery. Mr. Baron ALDERSON tho u g ht the practice of this it Court better. He lived in h o p es of seeing some uni form practice adopted in the C ourts of E q uity, for wasvery desirable that in the C ourt of Chancery uand ve the Court of Exchequer ther e should be but one ni form practice. Great inconvenience bad been expe rienced in the Courts of Law be fore alterationsd b bad rb been made made to render the practice more uoiform, Courts of this w as surprised this had not been done in the Equity ; but he was a very subordinate p erson in matter, and had to wait until other people t ook it up. Mr. SIMPKINSON said his client had been p ut to the trouble of wading through the petition, in order 0 an ll y ascertain whether he was interested or not. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said the client of the Learne d Gent:eman certainly had been put to same trouble in that respect, and unless he appeared he could not obtain his costs. If people chose to serve an unnecessary party, they must pay the costs, which he directed to be done in the present instance. INSOLVENT COURT—(THIS DAY). ---•--- - William Fitzroy Scudamore, nephew of Sir Cha!les Scudamore, whose case appeared in The Sun some time ago, came up for adjudication. A person named Walter said he had been deeply ad in jured by a statement made b y the Insolvent ; he b him in his custody when he made his escape. It w ould a ppear that he had in some measure lent himself to the escThape. e CHIEF CostivrissioNEn could not, he remarked, hear anything on the subject. Walters said it appeared in the newspapers. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—We cannot attend to what appears in the papers. Walters—The Insolvent ma de the s ,tatement out, it appeared, and I wish to contradict it. The COURT refused to enter into the maiter, and the case stood over for the Insolvent to fill a new balance sheet. The Insolvent to be discharged. BOW IS DAY. --.0.--. Dr. George Dawson, of Slough, was brought before Mr. HALL, upon a warrant which had been gi a nted at the instance of his son, charged with making ukle et certain language respecting, her Majesty, whereby a breach of the peace was apprehended to be about to be committed. The examiDation was strictly private, but it appeare d, ' from the account given by Partridge, a constable of the A division who apprehended the defendant in the City, that his conduct for some time back has been such as to lead to the supp os ition that be was labouring under delusions respecting the I parrioge of the Queen ; and it also appeared, from the dioovery of some let ters, written in the defendant's hando.riting, and which were directed to several memb ers of the Royal Faro that he required to be kept under some resOltint. After a considerable time ha d ela p sed in I`..aking the evidence of the defendant's son and the policeroan, li was removed in the custody of the latter to Clerkeilwell orison. THE MARKETS -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of Grain and Flour this weeku b have beenitate toler ably good. The weather being so wet, ourbuyers hes to purchase; very little business has been transacted, and price s continued unaltered. In the Flour trade a fair sale at fervor ARRIVALS. Wheat. _Marley. Oats. to as.• English ........ 5,62 u qrs. 12,660 qrs. 3 3900 grg. s po 10,700 ..-.... brli. Irish ............. 7,450 0.700 , 6 1 10 Foreign ......... SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of cattle was much too large for the d emand' Retail deal ers havin g bou g h t largely on Monday, the trade WV . heavy at reduced prices. Prime Beef barely brought 4s. 2_, B f ae ir ef, t B ra s. de 4 , d. a , n 4 d s. fi 2 n d e . , yo a u n n d gwa 6 s d. atss. per stone, and Christmas Beef 4s. 6d. Prime Mutton Veal. 2d. per stone lower, the inferior at former rates. In Vea l 1 4d. per stone. Price per stone of 81bs sinking the offal and Beef, ss. 2d. ; Veal 4s. 4d. 4s. ' s 4d., and 55 * • and ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4 • 2 930 • Pig* Head fcattle • at market :-Beasts, 858 ; Sheep, , , 360 ; Calves, 140. . Mutton,4d Pork advane CITY FISH MARKET. 4s" tole' '1 he supplies were good, and prices reasonable. Trade Soles, 4s. Bd, 2 44 nd rably brisk. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. to 120.; _ t „ o 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. ; °,31.4d 16s. to 48s. per bushel; Whitings, sd. to 10d.: WI " docks, Bd. to 2s. terms. TEA MARKET. This market remains • . a in a state of great inactivity, prices .613-nd altered. Company's Congou at 2s. 3d. per lb. c a '" Twankay of low quality at 2s. bd. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ,1 SEED MA RKET. a nd no 0- A:moderate supply, the demand not very grea t s riation in prices. TALLOW MARKET. ;. 4 8 The market was quiet, and the price of P. Y.`-'"" - 6d. COLONIAL MARKET. But little business doing, and prices steady. T he iraP°s 64. rather heavier. B.P. Sugar sold at 605 . for Brown ; for middling ; and 68s. for fine • 110 hhds. Barbadeed sold at 58s. to 625. 6d. ; 11,64 0 bags o f Rice were put up att. t: spld in part at 1 ls. for fair quality of J and there 15 ava. 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