The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

Just ready, price 125., th e FOURTH V OLUME of T HE REV. SYDNEY SMITH'S WORKS. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Of whom may bo had, The First Three Volumes, 36s- sloth, lettered. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11, 1339, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written loy James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of (.rinthia, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Rupert of Loreh, Mr. 1. Vinin¢ ; Htion. Mr. Anderson ; the Csuntes4A of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree ; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Matheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Leckit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harlev ; Mrs. Pearhurn, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peacharn, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vestris. To-morrow, The Rivals, with Artaxerxes. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, as. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, is. ; Seeend ?rim is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, f's.; Gallery, Is. Deers t• be opened at half-past Six—the performances t• eettmettue at Seven o'Cloek. Tieltets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, at tie Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets MAC be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ainsworth's original and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Shep pard " still maintains its supremacy; 130,000 persons have witne.sed its representation, and the nightly overflows have eenfirrtred its popularity. It will be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, DEC. 10, Will be mace!, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Crnikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant Mrs. Laws, &c. After which, a Comic Burletta called A DEAD SHOT. To con c l u d e w i t h, THE TWO PAGES OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. Frederick the Great, Mr. Dale ; Phelps, Mr. Neville ; Augustus, Mrs. H. Vining ; Theodore, Miss Martin. H! 41 I-NN ATER Al LONDON BRIDGE TO. , 1011110 W. 71.") n.tnute4 after 5 t Evening l7 minutes atter 6 , ' . /- Ziye ~lxll,. LONDON : WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1839. The Corn-laws are again causing no inconsider able commotion in the country. They are severely attacked by the Liberal and defended by the Tory Journals. 'We should seek in vain for a better test either of the character of the Tories or the charac ' ter of the laws. That the Herald, Post, Stand ard, Courier, and their colleagues, the consistent patrons of civil oppression, and religious persecu tion, should zealously defend these laws, must sa tisfy every fri en d to goo d government that they are inimi ca l to t h e pu bli c welfare. When did any good flow fr om T ory i sm ? A b road and at home it is allied with a ll t h at i s oppressive and tyrannical, Its friends abroad are Don CARLOS and the exterminator of the Poles. Its peculiar Mends at home are firebrand parsons and soldiers i offering their swards to cut down their fellow-coun trymen. It is another name for brutal coercion. That these laws, appropriately named " Starvation i Laws" and the " Devil's Laws," are defended by the Tories, confirms the character the Tories have long deserved. Such laws are appropriate means by which that ruthless faction may attain its had ends. We have, however, a growing, and a Istrong hope, now that nearly the whole force of the Tory press is enlisted on the side of these laws, and now that their manifold evils are becoming so glaring as to f orce t h emse l ves on the attention of '' the most obtuse, that it will be impo, , ,sible ' for the Legislature to resist this evidence, and im possible for it to persevere in its anti-national, anti-social, revolutionary, and anarchical plan of sacrificing, by a heavy bread -tax, the prosperity of the many to the comparative aggrandisement of a few. Thus, at a dinner given at Bolton to Mr. PAtJLTON by the operatives, on Wednesday last, Mr. AINSWORTH, M.P., said-- When he took a glance at the present state of the country, he could not understand why any man should feel careless or unconcerned regarding this great and important question. Their factories were standing un employed, or only going half time ; their working men were starving ; the monetary system was completely de ranged, and bankruptcy was impending over thousands. All these evils sprung fram one source —the want of free trade.—(Cheers.) Our manufacturers wanted a wider market for their goods, and how could they obtain ths unless they were willing to take the surplus produce of other nations in exchange for our surplus manufactures. Those words were cheered by men who felt their truth, and in whose hearts they were deeply en graved. Will the landlords venture to continue their ruinous oppression ? At the same meeting Mr. PRENTICE gave the farmers this instructive lesson : But it was a gross mistake to suppose that farmers would he injured by a repeal. The objection was a landowner's fallacy to keep up their rents.—(Cheers.) Since the Corn-law was passed, farming, so far from being generally profitable, had been ruinous to thousands ; and there were instances of six farmers in succession bein g sold up on one farm.—( Hear, hear.) He had lately put down from his own recollection the names of eighty sons and daughters of farmers, all of whom had grown up to manhood or womanhood, and of these only eight were now connected with agriculture. Of all that number, only four were farmers, and four the wives of farmers. Nine-tenths of that progeny now derived their living from trade. In this case, then, the farmers had nine times more interest in the prosperity of trade than they had in the prosperity of agriculture. In fact an increase of hands in agriculture is so slowly required, and only required in consequence of the growth of towns and the extension of manu- i factures, :hat to prevent the increase of manufac tures by a bread -tax, is to stop up those conduits which carry off the surplus population from rural districts, and prevent the farmers from pro viding for theirchikren in affluence and honour. The Torics, however, offer an alternative, and recommend th e farmer to send his children to the backwoods of i Upper Canada, or the arid plains, and convict po- I pulation of New South Wales. This, indeed, is not the only evidence that the Corn-laws are injurious to the farmers. We have frequently reminded them of their dependence on the landowners, which is aggravated if not caus e d by the Corn-laws. Those laws increase their rent by the whole amou n t of the tax. The farmers arc degraded into the agents of th e l an dl or d s to collect a hateful p o ll tax' ; and w h en t h ey cannot get quite as much as the landlords demand, or they covenant to give, then the landlords remit part of the tax, and the tenants are filled with gratitude, servility, goodn ess . H ere and awe at such condescendi ng is an example copied from an Evenin g Paper of last ni g ht, L y which it appea rs that while the farmers are assisting to strangle the manufacture's they are drowning themselves : , The Earl of Mo unt Ed ge cumbe, throu g h hi s alent has inf orme d hi s tenants t h at, i n con sequ ence o f the late bad harvest and failure of the crops, he intends to take ofT 20 per cent. f rom a ll rents d ue a t Mi c hael mas , and to grant a f urt h er re d uct i on of 10 per cent . at L a d y -d ay. Is th ere an y ot h er tradesman hab i tua ll y depend ent on anot h er man, who would not fee l as h ame d and d egra d e d by being in such a position The w ay t h e D evil ' s Laws are now beginning to affect the shopkeepers was thus described by Mr. PRENTICE Ilem go now into any woollen draper's or linen shop, or to any hosier's, or any shoemaker's, husinegs is with the wording classes, and MRS. TROLLOPE'S "MICHAEL ARMSTRONG," COMPLETE. In 3 vols., post Bvo., with all the Illustrations, by Hervieu, Buss, &e., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. TE7 ff'7) Nzw s, rIC 'C' ?'L lie .„. , , . It • ' p .t .. cr e i k tftr , ,,,. 1 7t,t- z: i ,_. .k, .. -., --/-,;'' 4---a: .4-,..- f..v... vy -,. t-) EN 1N G EDITION. But the Tory Evening Journal showed that this supply might be got for one-third of the price, whence it follows, on the joint reasoning of these two advocates of one class plundering another, that on the article of wheat alone —every other produce of the soil, and the soil itself, and even standing room on it, being taxed in an equal proportion—the landowners levied on the people of this country last year no less a sum, by a tax, than 33,600,0001. Leaving these two promoters of anarchy and des troyers of the sacredness of property by degrading it to the level of a poll-tax, to crack this nut be twixt them, we shall conclude our notice by ad verting to the mode in which Mr. PRENTICE illus trated the influence of the Corn-laws on wages : He was on a visit in Suffolk after the harvest of 18:35 ; and saw in a friend's barn a great heap of the finest wheat, which he said he was ready to sell at 4s. 6d. a bushel. He (Mr. P.) had begged a little sample hag full of this fine wheat, and had happened to place it in his reading desk, where it remained ever since, and whenever he saw it, recollecting the fallacy as to wages, and knowing that such wheat was now worth 10s. a bushel, he had repeatedly said to himself," I wonder if the hand-loom weaver, who, in 18:35, earned 4s. 6d. for a certain quantity of work, can now earn 10s. for the same quantity.—(Hear, hear, hear.) A precisely similar fact was stated in The Sun , yesterday, on the authority of the Witt- shire Independent ; and it is so palpable that a stinted supply of food is felt most severely by the labourers, that we should be puzzled to find out the origin of a contrary idea in the minds of the labourers, were we not acquainted with the arts of the Tories. They are the great masters of humbug, delusions, and fallacies. By them they maintain the little ascendancy they yet preserve. In their columns are to be found, elaborately set forth, the argument that cheap and abundant food is injurious to labourers. If the Chartist leaders, such as Mr. LLOYD, at Bolton, as quoted with much approbation by the Morning Herald yester day, be not, as we hope they are not, the tools of the Tories, they are unquestionably doing the Tors work most successfully. Those who oppose the abolition of the Corn-laws are the true friends of Tory tyranny. We regret to Fee that the Marquis of NOR MA NE Y has sanctioned those proceedings of the Magistrates of Cardiff, which we adverted to yes terday, by ordering the seizure of some publications at Newport. The Noble Marquis, then, assumes that he possesses in himself a Censorship of the Press. We shall on this occasion only remind Lord NORMANBY and the Whigs that the seizure of those publications is what the Tories have been loudly demanding of them, and blaming them for not performing for several weeks and months. They did take credit to themselves for not acting on these Tory demands and Tory maxims, and we therefore are now constrained to say, with deep regret, that they are acting, in this case, on Tory principles, and doing the unhallowed work and unhallowed bidding of the Tories. To the middle classes, many of whom, we are afraid, approve of this rigor ous persecution of Chartist opinions, we must hint that they cannot stop at this point. Between allow ing free unlimited discussion of political matters and completely fettering the Press, so that it shall express no opinions unfavourable to a dominant sect and party, there is no middle course. If we must believe that such a vast assumption of power, whether by Whigs or Tories, will be generally and permanently sanctioned, we must conclude that the end of the national liberties and prosperity is close at hand. Between the stocks of the different American States and the Stock of the United States Bank, which some of our Journalists have united in one to condemn, there is a wide difference. For the former the good faith of the State is pledged ; and as there is no one of the American States the resources of which is not rapidly increasing, while the good faith of no one, in pecuniary matters, has ever been tar nished, we know no national or State Securities which constitute a safer investment. For the latter, only its capital and the skill of those who conduct it, as pledged. Of t h e va l ue o f i ts stock we hankers, ar e give no opinion, but while we are powerfully itn pressed with the growing wealth of the several States of the United States, as offering an ample security for any loan they may contract, we must say that their wealth, except as the above Bank may hold their stocks, is no guarantee for its stabi lity or solvency. As to the stock of the several States, we have just seen a little pamphlet, entitled " A Letter on the Commercial Relations of Great Britain with the United States," which gives rather a striking illus tration of the good faith of those States, and the advantages they have derived from loans. New York, for example, according to the pamphlet, corn _ menced her system of borrowing to promote internal improvement in 1817, and at the same time began to construct canals. They were completed in 1825, and the receipts from the tolls were so great, while the law had both forbad a decrease of tolls, and any other application of their proceeds, till all the debts were paid, that in order to be enabled to decrease the tolls the State actually offered and paid a premium to the creditors to receive back their money before it ) could be legally demanded. W e w ill quote t h e w h o l e passage, with some other extracts from the pam phlet, when we have an opportunity. We must now content ourselves by adding, that it is the order natur e tolendoftheir c for api otall,d which densely-peopled y o -p nl o y a p n l eodt another countries am e for skilled labour, or the means of commanding labour, to newly and thinly , inhabited countries ; and that the capitali sts of Britain p ro b a bl y can nowhere find more advantageous investments than they will find that it is almost completely at a stand ; and if you ask any of them what they attribute this to, they will, one and all, assign the true reason, that it is owing to the high price of food, which leaves the mass of the people unable to purchase articles of clothing. This is quite true, and it will affect all classes of tradesmen, and make them Corn-law repealers. In the first Report of the Agricultural Committee of 1836, a Mr. MORTON stated that he had inva riably observed that when the price of corn was high, an increased proportion of wages was spent on bread; the people were confined to bread only, which must be felt by butchers, grocers, and all other trades men, as well as linen drapers and hosiers. But as their profit is curtailed, and their business les sened by the supply of food being cut short and its price raised enormously, a Tory Journal inadver tently last evening reminded the public that corn might be got from various places at a third of the cost for which it can be brought from America. We may add that it might be got also abundantly, as well as cheaply ; and we know no right the Legis lature has, which asks obedience to its laws, on condition of affording equal protection to all, to pre vent the manufacturers of Bolton, Sheffield, and Manchester, to buy corn freely at Trieste, Rostock, and Salonica, more than it has to put fetters on their hands to prevent their working, and gyves on their legs to prevent them running away. Another Tory Journal, yesterday morning, in order, probably, to prepare the way for the illustra tion his brother of the Evening was to supply of the enormous tax levied on us by the Devil's Laws, had the following passage : People who think and write loosely upon this matter (said the Post), or who only repeat the gabble of poli tical economy quacks, seem to forget the prodigious magnitude of the food-furnishing interest. They seem to forget that, at the present price of corn, the consumers of wheat alone, in the United Kingdom, pay for that one kind of grain in the year more than the value of all the exports of every kind from Great Britain to foreign countries within the year. Taking the consumption at but fourteen millions of quarters of wheat annually (and we believe that of late years the most observant calcula tors have considered it to be between fifteen and six teen millions), and taking the price at 725., the money value of the wheat consumed since this time last year is 50,400,0001. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAV, DE in the United States. We quite agree with the writer that the opportunities which the young com munities of Illinois, Michigan, and others, have had of borrowing, is one of the causes of their astonish ing progress. " Instead of passing through the com paratively slow process of some forty years since," he says, " they avail themselves at once of modern improvements, and, in half a generation, attain the eminence which their elder associates have been a . -- century in reaching." Madrid Journals of the Ist instant, have been duly received. In the Gazette of that date, we find he Go vernment admitting that two hundred millions of reals of five per cent. bonds have been created for guaranteeing advances by contracts, which, however, it pretends will not get into circulation. This is presposterous. The jobbers in Government securities are too cunning to burthen themselves with Spanish bonds a moment after they can find fools to purchase them. We trust the new Cortes will hare the patriotism to call the authors of this flagrant violation of the solemn vote of the late Re presentative Assembly to a severe account. On the 30th ult. ESPARTERO'S head quarters continued at Alas de las Matas, in Arragon. The Carlists had taken Esterquel in his rear, of which the hero of Victory heard nothing till the affair was over, though it lasted two days. The Carlist Chief LLANGOSTERA, treated the garrison with great humanity. Letters from Alexandria of the 25th of Novem ber, state that the Oriental question may be re garded as all but finally settled. MEHEMET ALI was in high spirits, the Porte having, it was said, ceded all his demands. On the 22d Mr. WAG HORN presented to his Highness a portrait of Queen VICTORIA in her robes of state, and, as a curious accompaniment, a portrait of himself. Both were received by the Viceroy very graciously, that of her Majesty being ordered to be placed in the Harem. The arrival of the Hatti Scheriff put the Vice roy in anything but good humour. He treated it at first as a hoax, and again as a piece of rash legislation destined to be forgotten a:most as soon as published. The fleet received it with acclama mations of joy, and such was the general excite ment that an emeute was apprehended. On the 14th the Persian Princes arrived at Alexandria. MEHEMET ALI treated them with great distinction. The French Journals of Monday publish a despatch, addressed by Marshal VALEE, to the Minister of War, intended, no doubt, to allay the popular apprehensions relative to the fate of the French Colonists in Africa. We give this docu ment, together with the latest private intelligence from Algiers, in another part of The Sun. in our opinion he must be a sanguine Frenchman indeed who will derive much comfort from its perusal. Even in the City of Algiers fears were enter tained of the rising of the natives against the French, who were left without the protection afforded by the presence of a large num ber of troops. ACHMET, ex-Bey of Constantine' has suddenly re-appeared at the head of a consider able army of Moors and Arabs, and threatens to cut off, for the present, all communication between Constantine and Bona. That he is acting in con cert with ABD-EL-KADER, under whose standard 6,000 warriors had ranged themselves, is doubted by no person acquainted with the movements of the two Chiefs. We do not regard the result of the struggle as in the least doubtful. The French arms will eventually triumph, but the conquest will not be worth a tenth of the blood and treasure expended in making it. As to the permanent establishment of the French power in Africa, that is a different question altogether. Rumours of the discovery of an extensive Bona partist conspiracy, were rife in Paris on Monday It was stated that Prince Louts NAPOLEON had been in Paris for six days, and that the police had almost succeeded in seizing him, having discovered and searched his lodgings only six hours after he left them. We believe there is not the shadow of truth in this report about the Prince being in the French capital. That an extensive conspiracy has been discovered is probable enough, as there can be very little doubt as to the existence of numerous treasonable societies in Paris. A letter from Nasarre srys that a corps of cavalry sent by Cabrera have just penetrated into that pro vince. Report says that it will be followed by a divi sion taken from the army in Aragon, which has become more free in its movements since Espartero commenced his retreat. The Christino commanders in Navarre are much alarmed at this circumstance, which may have a great effect on the population in Navarre, who are al ready so ill-disposed to the Queen's cause. The Christino journals of the frontier declare, that if Cabrera endeavours to communicate with the discon tented in Navarre it will be very difficult to maintain tranquillity in that province. —La Gazette de France. The Pare de Bayonne affirms that Espartero is going to undertake the siege of the Carlist forts. The Scntinelle des Pyrenees affirms that he will do nothing during the bad season. A French Envoy, who has been to Morella, has returned to Saragossa. A letter from Balsareny, dated November 18, says, " It is reported that Nagarra and Labandero have escaped from Berga, where the Junta has some designs against them. Pierre Davila has been arrested. He and the two others are accused of having caused the death of the Count d'Espagne, and of having supplied the troops with damaged provisions in the affairs of the 14th, 15th, and 16th, before Solsona.—Les Cunstitu tionnel. It is affirmed that in a Council held yesterday, in which the King presided, the necessity Gf a change in the higher department of the administration in Algiera was discussed. It is in contemplation to recal Marshal Valee. Several persons have been proposed as his successor for his Majesty's decision.—Le Commerce. BO URSE.--Patals,' MONDAY, Dac. 9. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price P r i ce. rench 5 per Cents ll2 10 112 10 ... 111 95 ... 111 95 4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 50 ... 101 80 ... 101 50 3 per Cents BO 60 ... 65 ... 80 ... SO 50 /Link of trance 299U ...2990 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. 10; , 9 80 5,000 f. Sh 5250 ...5250 ...5245 ...5245 Belgian 5 per Cents lO2 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Cents 72 ... 72 72 ... Bank 7511 ... 760 ... 720 ~.760 Spanish Active Passive ... 634 ... 6% ... Dutch 23 per Cents 53% ... 53% ... 53% ... 5:31i Portuguese 3 per Cents Neai.olttan Roman lOl% 101% ... 10i% 101% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. 13 520 522 50 ~. 515 515 L.B. 3.:0 ... 327 1,0 ... :315 317 SO ltsvre Strasburg to Bale 329 220 ... 320 320 ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. Yarn (Maberly' s ) German papers of the latest dates have been re ceived this morning. The following are extracts from them : BuuNswicK, Nov. 27.—1 t seems certain that at the opening of the Assembly of th e E states, many illus trion3 visitors will be present, one o f whom is the King of Hanover, who is expected in a few days. It is pro bable that the Session will be opened for the first time in the hall of the new palace. At least great prepara tions are making to have it ready by that time. NAPLES, Nor. 23.—While great complaints reach us from Upper Italy, of the bad weather, we have had for a week past extremely fine weather, as we have usually only in the best season of the year ; the Neapo litans call it St. Martin's summer : indeed every thing looks like summer. Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series IU2% 102 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th 98 97N Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2y,pe Cent 51% 514 Ditto a per Cent 93 Polish Booth Ncw I icket Anglo- Dap ish Loan, 3 per Cent 7O Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent... S t :anish, New 3 per Cents. 22 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, DEC. 6.—13, fisl—Two months, 13. 4. PETERSBURGH, ov. 26. —"Fwo months, 33 CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 27.-I'hr c months, 4 116. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 29 . — Seventy-five days, 11. 39. BERLIN, DEC. 3. —Three months, 6. 2.N. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—.VIENNA, Nov. 30 Five per Cents. Metalliques Fowr per Cents. .1' 07';, Three per Cents. Bank Shares --Aligemeine Zeitung, Dec .5 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-113R1.1N, DEC. 3. __ Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., V:, per cent. lO3. 10:3 Y s Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102,.4 102!-i ir..xLhange on London, three months.., ii ?IT; —Prussian Slate Gazette, Dec. 4. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TITELTE O'CLOCK. We cannot too strongly condemn the readiness with which certain portions of the public give credence to the most unfounded reports as to the solvency of some of the most regular concerns. In one particular instance, that of an eminent silk house, we can, of our own knowledge, give the most flit contradiction to such malicious reports. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—OUT market to-day has been rather dull ; the sales amount to 2,500 bags, prices are Without alteration. Arrivals this morning, a French mail ; ship-letters from Pernambuco, Demerara, and Calcutta of the 27th of July (old.) Demerara papers of the 25th of October have been received, which state that M. Ries, of Georgetown, who had left that port in April with a Commission from a num ber of estates to supply them with agricultural labourers from Germany, had returned in the Louisa Baillie with seventy men, seventeen women, an'l seven children, twenty-six or twenty-eight of whom were field labourers, and were appropriated to Plantation Reliance , nearly the whole of the latter were obtained immediately from Germany ; but of the others some had been in Lon don, from periods varying from one year to twelve or fourteen years. One gentleman engaged him to bring out 100 German labourers, at twenty pounds per head, to these people, after their location on the property, for which they were intended, ho (the gentleman) pledged himself to pay one guilder per day for eight hours work of a man in the field, to give him a comfortable cottage to live in, medicine, and medi cal attendence when sick, two pounds of salt pork, three pounds of salt fish, five pounds of rice or corn meal, six ounces of coffee, with sugar sufficient per week, and a bottle of beer between two of them every day ; and to tradesmen he presented 12 dollars per month, together with these allowances. A proposition for the establishment of rural and agri cultural schools was about to be agitated. The pro priety of obtaining for the colony agricultural la bourers from Egypt had been suggested, on the ground that the Hill Coolies had been the best emigrants hitherto imported, and that the peasantry or fellahs of Lower Egypt very much resemble them. The second adjourned public meeting, on the state of the Colony, took place on the 24th, when the High Sheriff stated that the Committee appointed on a for mer occasion to draw up a petition to the Queen, had unanimously agreed on the old one, purged of some objectionable points, and of much extraneous and useless may.er. The petition is not given in the Royal Gazette, which is our authority for this report; but it was unanimously adopted ; as also was the motion of the Hon. Sir M. M. Turk, seconded by the Rev Piercy Austin, that the same Committee should be a standing Committee, for the purpose of framing an ad dress to the two Houses of Parliament, and an appeal to the British nation on behalf of the colony. We have received Pernambuco Papers to the sth of November, bringing the Exchange on London 33 a 34. Consols, which left off yesterday at 92 92i for the Account, opened this morning at 911 92, with little doing as yet ; Reduced, 90! Exchequer Bills, 3 1 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178 179. In the Foreign Market Spanish still continues heavy, closed at 2ai 24, receded to 23i 1 ; Portuguese con tinues at the closing prices, 331; Three per Cents., 23i ; Brazilian, 71 72 ; Colombian at the closing prices of 25i- a ; Mexican, 274 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531 ; Five per Cents., 99} 100. We have a report of an extensive failure of a house at Leeds. We have no account as yet of the arrival of tie Lisbon mail. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1783 , India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 90%4% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. - i South Sea Stock — 3 per Cent 23%11%5; ! Old Annu i ti es I)itto Red. — New Ditto New 3% per Cent -- , 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .... 2 4 oie. Jan. 5, 1860 13 in—inFi. Ditto Small 1 3 die. Oct. 10, 1850 13 , 4 11-16 Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1800 — Ditto Advertised ..... Jan. 5, 1850 Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880. lndia Stock for Account • . Jan. 5.1870 --1 Consos for Account 91% lii Ti RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O,CLOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazi I ia n Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Accotmt Chilian Bond i Dtt3 .L:7, - .,;. nt an t x 7.80 ids Ditto I.zc-, ut Portuguese Bonds . Ditto New Bond s 71% 3'l % 2 Ditto Accouir — 4 .1 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto, 3 per Cent........ r 3 "s Ditto Account , Prussian Bonds —. Russian Bond s , 182'2 Ditto Account n•: 31 3:: d5,1824...251 41 : i Sp an i s h B onds :.:t.:l , Itto.i it c 5 4% 5% Ditto Account ll I --..z:3 -7 ;ch 4 ' L: i 13%4i, Zanisa Jet I i - Passive Ditto Acta nt — "Deferred Greek. Bonds — French, 5 per cent. lll f. 75c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 *-- • ----- 4 per cent. 1 Ditto Account — ---- 3 per cent. —f. —e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent ---- Exchange. Ditto Account —l Dutch, 2% per cent 5351%4'S Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account -,` Ditto, 5 per cent 149% Xi '76 Keapelitaii --! Ditto Acc0unt........ ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, Real dcl Monte Mining Co., Registered fill. 10s. 64. Ditto Unregistered 6 Birmingham and Derby Railway Company Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway l5 11 56 i , ndon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 141 Danube and Mayne Company COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YESTERDAY. Amsterdam . CA.. 12 6% tiibraitar 46 Ditto, at sight ......... ...... 12 334 ) Leghorn 30 fi Rotterdam °U. 12 7 I Genoa '2s iS Antwerp._ 12 6% i M i1an...... "11 Hamburg...—. M.B. 13 13 113%iN Naples 47 3 Altona4o Paris, 3 days' sight 25 51 Palermo per oz. 122 Ditto... .. .. ........... 3 Ms. 25 75 Lisbon Si Marseilles. Bourtioaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 151% Batik. Fetersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us. 57 Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effective 11...3 1 , ,1, 10 8 Philadelphia 4B Prieste......ditto lO 9 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ. Madrid 36%, Portugal Gold, c0m.....t:0 0 0 Cadiz 36%, J Foreign Gold, in bars... 317 9 Bilboa .. . Barcelona 16 New Dollars Seville 16 Silver in Bars HALF-PAST ONE. Extract of a letter from Liverpool received this morning :- -- -- - - " The Mary Queen of Scots has arrived to-day in 34 days from Pernambuco, when perfect tranquillity pre vailed there, and the accounts from Maranham were more favourable. The letters are to the sth of last month. Trade was rather flat there, but the crops were very abundant. Several British vessels had been freighted to load at Paraiba and Conia. Another ves •el, the William Russell, sailed for Liverpool the same day. The Rival took her departure this morning for Rio Janeiro, and the Divan will follow in the course of the week." Rio Janeiro Papers have been received this mornirg to the 13th October. Exchange on London 33i to 34, lower, but the stocks are higher, quoted at 75. The bill brokers on 'Change yesterday afternoon were rather taken by surprise on learning that the Bank had discontinued drawing on Paris and Hamburg. This had the effect of lowering the foreign exchanges. The private letters from Hamburg state that money was very easy there, at the rate of 6 per cent. Consols done rather lower than in the early part of morning, 9l for the Account ; Reduced, 904 ; Exchequer Bills, 2 4 discount . ; India Bonds, 6 discount ; Bank Stock, 1784. In the Foreign Market it is stated that there is a very extensive account to settle in Colombian Bonds, within these two days past, upwards of 100,000 of the above Stock has been thrown on the market. Colombian 254 ; Spanish 234 4 ; Brazilian 714 72 ; Portuguese 33 ; Three per Cents. 23 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per C ents . 534 ; Five per Cents. 99 k. The British Q ueen was spo k en w ith on the 17th ult., in long. 51, fourteen days out. Accounts from Hobart Town state, from undoubted authority, that information has reached the colony, ex pressive of the determination of Ministers to try the social system of convict management, and that Norfolk Island is to be selected for that purpose. The packet ship from New York of the 19th No vomber, a new ship called the New York, has not yet arrived, but may be daily expected. EMBER 11, i 839 CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY:) MUSGROVE V. NEWTON. The arguments in this case, which were part-heat:l yesterday, occupied his Lordship the whole morning. The principal question in the case was whether the de fendant was bound specifically to perform a contract for the purchase of an estate from the plaintiff. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DA r.) FRANKS V. PRICE. His Lordship the MASTER of the ROLLS was en gaged the whole of the day in hearing the further ar guments of counsel in this part-heard case. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) WILKINSON V. CLARK. This was an action for false imprisonment. Mr. Sergeant Bornpas and Mr. James were for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. Jones for the defendant. It seemed that the parties had some dispute about a bill, which plaintiff had agreed to get discounted for defendant, who, not receiving as much as he thought he should, waxed wroth, and gave pla;ntiff into custody, from which however he was speedily discharged. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 20s. His Lordship refused to certify. Our city begins to fill with fareigners of all nations, and we expect that the winter will be very gay. We learn from Malta that three English ships of the line, the Edinburgh, Pembroke, and Belleisle, had arrived there to reinforce Admiral Stopford's fleet. The treaty with England seems to be as good as con cluded. Our Government meets with much difficulty in abolishing a sulphur monopoly, because the French Company, it is said, demand an exorbitant indemnity of several millions, while his Majesty would be glad to abolish the monopoly on more reasonable terms in con sideration of the distress which it causes in society. His Majesty, accompanied by the Queen, will go n another. Vittoria this week to Paler mo . A Neapolitan man-of-war is now in our road. Th e projected steam navigation has f a ll en to the ground, but we ex pecte of thi s year a boat of 250 horse ehaScsoiccilrdYin Engl an d for the Neapolitan Com ppc ao o nvnYiep'iaan'n purchased dur in it is intended to buy the u Corbi, widow of the celebrated Court physi- I cian, Bartholomew Corbi, died lamely at the age of 104. HAMBURG BOMEN HALLE, DEC. 6, Austrian 5 per Cents. Rank 106 . l c s6 1665 Rank Shares . An,io-Russlan Loan .. 1164 lu,i% :MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: ENORMOUS IN crtEn.sr or THE COUN TY RATrs.--Yesterday, the Grand Jury h av i ng b een sworn, t h e Chairman said th e provisions of th e N ew Pr i son B ill , which prohibited the Magistrates from employing prisoners in any of the sub ordinate capacitie s of yardsmcn, or wardsmen, or the like, which had hitherto been the custom in the prison s of Middlesex and other counties, would entail an addi tions l expense upon the county of Middlesex in resp, :et of the House of Correction alone of upwards of 5 ,0001. a year, and in respect of Westminster Brie? .ewell and the New Prison, Clerkenwell, of not less than 2,0001. a year more. The Act would corn Le into operation on the Ist of January next, when the ninety-five prisoners in the House of Correction, wl l o were at present employed there as monitors , or in o'„he r capacities, m ust b y law cease to be so em ploy ed, and their pl aces supp li e d by turnkeys with regular salaries. Th e cases t r i e d during the day we re of ,no public interest. A DESPERATE FELLOW.—A rogue at the west has stolen a lot of newspaper accounts.—Post P. [The rascal deserves no mercy—he should be sentenced to colltct them.—Toronto Examiner.] BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. John Rice, proprietor of the Norfolk Coffee House, at the corner of Compton -street, High-street, St. Giles's, appeared upon a summons at the instance of the police inspectors, F division, to show cause why he did, on the morning of the Ist inst., willingly and knowingly permit and suffer several persons of noto riously bad character to meet together and remain on his premises, to which he pleaded not guilty. Inspector Black stated that on passing the defend ant's house about four o'clock in the morning, he heard a noise, and having sent a constable to ascertain the cause, he brought back word there were several persons of both sexes inside. On questioning the defendant about it, he said, that the moment he had opened his door a number of persons rushed in, some of whom at his request went away, but several of them refused to stir. Constable Marchant, 139 F, observed several men and women inside, many of the latter having neither bonnets nor caps upon them, and some of them he knew had been many times in custoiy ; bhe defendant was present, and he heard him say they should have nothing to eat or drink, and some, after using very impertinent language, said they would not stir from the place unless they were served. Witness had frequently seen the defendant drive improper per sons away from the door, on their attempting to force in at an early hour in the morning. The defendant said, that when he opened his door, nearly thirty persons who had been at a raffle in St. Giles, rushed in, and he was totally unable to keep them out, as they absolutely took the place by storm. The constable, on being further questioned by the Magistrate, said he had never any trouble with persons who frequent the house, and when he entered none of the women had any refreshment before them. Mr. Joseph Fleming, a school assistant, proved that the house had been open only ten minutes, and no re freshment had been served to any person previous to the police entering, and he saw some women, because they were bad characters, turned out after having de layed a few minutes. _ _ Mr. TWYFORD said that no blame could be imputed to the police for the steps they had taken, but after such decisive ecidence, both on the part of the police and the witness for the defence, he could not think of ordering a conviction, and the case should be dismissed. DANGER OF JOKING.—An old man of the name of Knight met with his death in the City of Lon don Union workhouse at Peckham under most extraor dinary circumstances. It appeared before Mr. Carter, the Coroner, who presided yesterday at the Crown, High-street, Peckham to inquire respecting the facts, that the deceased had formerly been in the navy, but had been supported latterly in the above workhouse, he at the same time • practising as barber of the village, whereby he received a considerable sum of money, but which all went in tippling. He had a habit, when he went home to Marlborough House (the name of the establishment), of snatching the food of the paupers and ravenously eating it, though without the slightest motive as far as want was concerned. He did this on Friday night, when he endeavoured to swallow nearly two ounces of stolen beef, while his mouth was full of pork and bread taken from another pauper. The con sequence was that he was choked. Verdict—" Acci dental Death." EXTENSIVE FRAUDS.—Since the examination of Thomas Shelford, at Hatton-garden, on Friday last, for having defrauded Mr. M'Cowley, of Alfred-place, Bedford-square, out of 501., under pretence of obtaining for•him a situation on the Birmingham Railroad, nume rous inquiries have been made at the office by persons who have been similarly defrauded, to ascertain on what day the prisoner would be brought up for re-examination, and to see the prisoner, in order to identify him. He has evidently pursued his transactions most ingeniously, and to a considerable extent. It appears that some time ago he was one of the parties who hired apartments at various places in the west end of the town, and by creating a nuisance obtained money to give up possession. A French lady, named Veriez, met with her death in a private lunatic asylum at Yotk, by throwing her head back so suddenly as to dislocate the second vertebra of the neck, during an attempt to administer some gruel and wine to her. She had been in a me lancholy condition for some time, and had :efused to take either food or medicine. An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict returned accordingly. Mr. Dawson, the keeper of the asylum, has a high character for the humanity with which he treats the persons placed under his care. EFFECTS OF SEDENTARY EMPLOYMENT.— On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Barley Mow, Mount -street, Grosvenor-square, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of:Ann Bales, aged 22, pupillto Mrs. Treacher, dressmaker, of 57, Regent-street. It was distinctly proved that deceased, who came home to her aunt's, Mrs. Bevor, a milliner, residing at No. 22, Mount street, to sleep every Saturday night, went up stairs in excellent health and spirits at a quarter past twelve on Sunday morning last, and, whilst undressing in her aunt's room, fell down at the latter's feet, breathed three times and expired. Mr. Parrott, a surgeon, said she had died of apoplexy, and so had a sister of hers, aged sixteen, five or six years ago. A Juror—ls it not extraordinary that women so young should die of apoplexy ? Mr. Parrott—Not at all. The sedentary occupations of milliners and dressmakers predispose them to that malady, Mr. Bevor, the uncle, on being questioned, said that his ni ece wor k e d from eight o'clock in the morning until nine at night daily. Coro ner—Work 13 hours a day ! That's a very long. time. A Juror—Dressmakers work much later than that at our end of the town—from seven in the morning to eleven at night. Verdict—Died of Apoplexy. The title of the Drury-lane pantomime is Harlequin Jack Sheppard ; or, The Blossom of Ty burn Tree. The opening, it is said, is written by the author of Othello Travestie, Sheridan Knowles is engaged in writing the libretto of ball a d o p era , t h e music of which is to be enmposed by Benedict. It is to be brought out at Covent-garden. SUDDEN DEA TII.-Tuesday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the steward of General Sebas tiani, the French Ambassador, at Hertford-house, Ilanchester.square, was walking quietly through the hall, apparently in his usual health and spirits, when he suddenly fell to the ground and expired. Surgical aid was promptly obtained, but all endeavours to restore animation proved unavailing. The first six months from the opening of the Croydon Railway terminated on the 4th inst. ; during that period 311,319 passengers have travelled on the line, and the money received is 17,666/. 113. 3d. LOUIS PHILIPPE AND HIS COUSIN OF DESSAU.—There is at Dessau, the capital of the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau, an old gardener of the Ducal Court. In his youth he had a situation at Versailles, where he had obtained the friendship of a young Prince, to whom he used to offer fine fruit, and who always thanked him, styling him his " Dear cousin." The young Prince is now King of the French. The old gardener has a grandson, who wishes also to be a gardener. The old man, remembering his relationship to Louis Philipp e , l a t e ly wro t e to hi m, requesting that he would employ the youth in one of the Royal gardens, and see that he duly attended to his profes sion. The King has most graciously replied to his old acquaintance in an autograph letter, written in the German language, and commencing with the words— "My dear cousin." The King tells him that he has granted a situation of 2,000 f. to his protege, with lodg ings, and that he will take care of the youth. The epistle concludes with—" Your affectionate cousin, Louis Philippe." The old gardener exhibits the royal communication to all who visit the Duke's garden, always holding it in both hands, in dread of the pre cious autograph being torn from him.—German Paper. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday morning, between five and six o'clock, a fire broke out in the ex tensive workshops of Mr. Bowen, coachmaker, Mill street, Old Kent-road, which, owing to the combt'stible nature of various articles used in the business, burnt with such fury that notwithstanding the firemen brought seven engines to bear on the premises, they were soon entirely destroyed. , IMPORTANT—IF TRU E .—A provincial paper in 1824 stated that the grains of wheat were so large hat year that they choked the littl e bi r d s th a t attempted :o swallow them. TO THE ERITO1? OF THE SUN. London, Dec. 11, 1839. the list of Grand Jury sworn at Mon mouth to try the " Chartists," I observe the name It. H. Blewit, Esq. M.P. I believe him to be the same gentleman who, according to report in the public papers, attended, in the capacity of Justice of the Peace, the examination of the prisoners at Newport, and, moreover, has offered a reward for the apprehension of one or more of them. If I am correct as to Mr. Blewit having already sat in judgment upon the parties, is it likely that he can carry out the following recommendation of the Learned Judge. " I intreat of you that in the approaching investigation, you will dismiss from your minds all which ,you may have heard upon the:suyect bsfore you entered into this Court." Your notice of the above in The Sun of this evening, either by insertion of this or otherwise, will oblige, Sir, A CYMRO, BUT NO CHARTIST, ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS On Tuesday, the 10th inst., being the Seventy-first Anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a General Assembly of the Academicians was held at their apartments in Trafalgar-square, when the following distribut:ol of premiums took place ; To Mr. William Edward Fro -t, for the best Historical Painting, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Thomas:Earle, for the best Historical Model, the Crfild Medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Edward Falkener, for the best Architec tural Design, the Gold Medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Henry Le Jeune—for the best Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal and the Lec tures of the Professors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Richard Dadd—for the next best Copy made in the Painting School, the Silver Medal. To Mr. Thomas Pius—for the best Drawing from the Life, the Silver Medal and the Lectures of the Pro fessors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Thomas Heapy—for the next best Drawing from the Life, the Silver Medal. The Third Medal for a Drawing from the Life was awarded to Mr. Henry Le Jeune, but he having received last year a superior Prize in the same Class, it was adjudged to the next best, the work of Mr. Richard To Mr. John Henry Foley—for the best Model from the Life the Silver Medal and the Lectures of the Pro. fessors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli. To Mr. Charles Crockford, for the best Drawings of the University Club House, Pall Mall West, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors Barry, Opie, and.Fuseli. To Mr. Thomas Hay ter Lewis, for the next best Drawings of the University Club House, Pall Mall West, the Silver Medal. To Mr. Frederick Stacpoole, for the best Drawing from the Antique, the Silver Medal, and the Lectures of the Professors Barry and Fusili. To Mr. Abraham Solomon, for the next best Draw ing from the Antique, the Silver Medal. To Mr. James Price, for the next best Drawing from the Antique, the Silver Medal. To Mr. Joseph Edwards—for the best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal and the Lectures of Pro fessors Barry and Fuseli. To Mr. Henry Ardwell—for the next best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal. After which the President addressed a discourse to the students. The General Assembly afterwards proceeded to ap point Officers for the ensuing year, wben Sir Martin Archer Shee was unanimously re-elected President. Council, New List—John Peter Deering, Esq., Sir Robert Smirke, Edwin Landseer, and Richard Cook, Esqrs. Old List—Thomas Uwins, Frederick Richard Lee, William Wyon, Esqrs., and Sir Richard Westmacott.: Visitors in Me Lffe 4cademq, New List—Edward Hodges Baily, Abraham Cooper, Charles Lock East lake, Esqrs., Sir David Wilkie, and Clarkson Stan field, Esq. Old List—Thomas Uwins, William Hilton, Charles Robert Leslie, and William Mulready, Esqrs. Visitors in the School of Paintings, New List— Charles Robert Leslie, Charles Lock Eastlake, Clark son Stanfield, and Thomas Uwins, Esqrs. Old List—Henry Perronet Briggs, William Collins, William Etty, and Edwin Landseer, Esqrs. Auditors re-elected—William Mulready, J. M. W. Turner, Esqrs, aad Sir Richard Westmacott. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY DEAL, Dac. to—Wind N. W.—Sailed the Wm. Wise, Ellis. for Launceston. LIVERPOOL, Dac. W.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Mary' , Queen of Scots, Kelly, from Pernambuco. Off port, "the Elizabeth, from Savanilla ; Hannah, Laguna. Sailed the Rival. Keswick, for Rio Janeiro; Eliza, saw yer, Jamaica; Andes, Gavey, Vera Cruz ; Cabinet, Lug net, NewlOrleans; Thetis, Brown, Savannah ; Cceur de Lion, Webster, Charleston; Jane Walker, Whyte, Mo bile; Robert Bruce, Tilley, St. John's, New Brunswick. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Grove, Miramichi. FALMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Wind S. E. to E. S. E.—Sailed the Delight packet on a cruise with supplies for the home ward bound. PENZANCE, DEc. 9.—Off port, the Kossack, Mol, from Riga. Sailed the Lady Wright, Wright, for St. Michael's MILFORD, DEC. B.—Arrived Ann, Skinner, Quebec. CLYDE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Bengalee, Hamlin, Cal cutta. Sailed the Roger Stuart, Gordon, for Demerara. KINGSTOWN, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Rifleman, Mills, from St. John's, New Brunswick. DUBLIN, DEC. 9.—Arrived Corib, Ceiling, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 10.—The Mona, Gla — si, from Cal cutta to this port was was left at St. Helena on the 22d October, the crew being mutinous, and having refused to proceed. The Aberlin, Nap, arrived at this port from New York, boarded on the 2d inst., a derelict (reported yesterday), and found a small hand-pump with the word •' Miriam" cut on it. SHIELDS, DEC. 9.—The Nina, Blacklam, of Sunder. land, has put back with much damage, having been in contact with a vessel off Scarborough, on the 7th inst. LEI rn, DEC. 6.—The Fame, Norton, has put back with bows stove, and rigging damaged, having been run foul of near the Fern Islands. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE The arrivals of most kinds of Grain have been small, of Irish Oats good, and Flour moderate. Wheat and Barley firm at Monday's prices, withiliittle doing. Beans and Peas no varia tion. Oats of good quality maintained their value, and inferior parcels dull in sale. Flour supported its late quotations. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a very good supply of all kinds of Meat, and the demand was very limited-prices unaltered. Beef 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s. Bd. ; Veal Is. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork 3s. 104. to 4s. 6d. ; Irish 3s. to 3s. 3d. per stone of Sibs; Larks ls. to Is. 6d. ; Grouse 2s. to 3s. ; Gold Plover 6d. to Is. ; Black Game 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Snipe 6d. to Is. ; Surrey Capons 4s. to 7s. ; Fowls, Bs. to 4s. each ; Chickens ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Pigeons, 6d. to 10d. ; Hares, 2s. 6d. to 3s. ; Teal, 6d. to Is. ; Hen Turkeys 4s. 6d. to 6s. t3d. ; Cock Turkeys, 6s. to 9s. ; Pheasants, 3s. to 4s. each ; Wild Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Rabbits 9d. to Is. 6d. CITY FISH MARKET. Good supplies, and a fair trads; prices much as last quoted. Turbot ss. to 205. ; Cod 2s. 6d. to 12s. ; Soles od. to 3s. per pair ; Lobsters 10d to 3s. 6d. ; Oysters 12s. to 40s. per bushel ; Whitings sd. to 10d.. and Haddocks M. to 2s. FRUIT MARKET. There was a good business done in most descrptiions of Fruit, and we may now expect this trade to be very brisk. Second quality of Patras Currants sold briskly, in butts, at 755. to 785., and Caroteels at 80s. ; New Turkey, 85s. to 87s. per cwt. ; Valencia Raisins, 445. to 475. ; Turkey pulled Figs, but languid, at 435. to 70s. - COLONIAL MARKET. B. P. Sugar sold slowly at 60s. for brown,63s. for middling, and 68s. for fine ; 4,000 bags Mauritius went at from 40s. to 535. A small parcel of Ceylon Coffee sold at 101 s. 6d. to 102 s. 6d. A small parcel of Jamaica fetched 985. for fair or dinary ; 16 bags Grenada Cocoa sold at 455. for fair quality. Good brown consuming Nutmegs at 4s. 6d. — POPULOUSNESS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. —The number of inhabitants to a square mile in Eng [and and \Vales is at present about 265. In West. moreland there are little more than 70 ; and in Lin colnshire almost a purely agricultural county, there are about 120. Mr. Farr states that in the East and West London Unions the number of inhabitants to a square mile is 186,046, and that the greatest density a ttained in the heart of English cities is 243,000 to a geogra phical square mile. —Comp anion to Almanack for 1840. LETTERS FROM BRIXTON ON T I IIIRSDAY. —ln the comparatively small post district of Brixton hill, the office sent out upwards of 800 letters on the first day of the new rate of postage. WOLVERHAMPTON.—Our trade has not im proved, an d t h e di stress among st the smaller manufac turers a p pears to b e i ncreas ing rather than otherwi se. . No lar ge or d ers , an d ve ry few ones, have b een received by the factors.—Sts ibrd Layintmer. A ludicrous affair took place a few weeks ago at a place not one hundred miles from Perth. A man who had some business to do at a distance from home, told his better-half he would not be home till the next day. Some disappointment having occu rre d, h e di d not go the whole of the distance, but returned late at night. His wife told hint she had felt very cold, and she had placed a bag of chaff beside her in the bed, and she wished him to lie down in another bed in the same room. The good man did not like the proposa l. but stepped into the bed to remove the bag of chaff, when 10, instead of chaff, he found a young man, a neighbour of his. Only judge of the conster nation of the parties, verifying the old adage, that two is company, but three is not." What ren ders the affair odd, is, that the husband and the man bad hitherto been on very bad terms. The most appropriate punishment for the com binators when detected in raising the price of coals, would be a few days' solitary confinement in a black hole. _EVENING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR.. WINDSOR, TUESDAY."-it.e Queen walked for ,orne time to-day on the Terrace of the Castle, attended by Baronest Lehzen, Hon. Miss Anson, and Hon. Miss Paget. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Hudson, and the Hon. V'• Ashley, arrived on a visit to her Majesty this afternoon. Sir Thomas Phillips, the late Mayor of Newport., took his departure from the Castle this morning ; and the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Holland, Lord John Russell, Lord Wm. Russell, Hon.. W. Temple, and Mr. C. F. Greville also left. The Marchioness of Normanby, Viscountess Forbes, the Earl of Fingal', and Admiral Sir Robert ORvaY arrived to-day at the Castle ; and Lady Barham, Lady Gardiner, Lord Liltord, and Cul. Armstrong took their departure. The Hon. William Cowper and Colonel Brown are expected to join the Royal circle at dinner this evening- The band of the Rifle Corps attended at the Castle last evening, and played the following pieces :—Gran a March of the Carlsbad Volunteers (Labitzky) ; Sin, fonia, Pirata (Bellini) ; Aria, Des Forster's Tochlerlei 3 (Kuckhan) ; Aurora Walzer (Strauss) ; Quadrille, Les Plaisirs du Salon (Riccis) ; Der Baijrescher Fe' laschrett (Kellar) ; Galop (Watch) ; Andante and, Allegretto (Watch). Her Majesty the Queen Dowag er, attended by tb Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Miss Hudson, Maid of Honour in Waiting ; and the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain and Treasurer, left Marlborough House with her suite, in two carriag es and four, at a quarter past two o'clock yesterday after• noon, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. The Princess Augusta toek an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Henry and Mrs. Goulburn have left Montague House for their seat, Betchwortb, Surrey., The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Lord Brougham, the Judge of the Prero' gative Court, Mr. Justice Bosanquec, and Mr. Justice Erskine, were the Lords present. Sir E. East sat As Privy Councillor. Mr. Cooper, Q.C., was heard in an appeal of Wylde v. Campbell, from the award of the Slave Compensation Commissioners. Mr. Burge, Q.C., and Mr. Rennolls were for the respondents. The appeal was allowed and the matter remitted back to the Commissioners. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Rev. John and Mrs. Peel, at Mivart's 11 ° tel t Lower Brook-street ; Mrs. Maberly. at ditto. DEPARTURES. Mr. Lister Parker, from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook° street, for Gopsall Hall ; R. Can Lippinistt, Esq., froat ditto, for his seat, Over Court, Bristol ; Mr. and Miss Keckewick, from ditto, for Devonshire ; Mr. and Maclaine Barnevald, from ditto, for Cambridge ; Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, on a Continental tour ; Lord Folk!: stone, for Gorhambury; Lord Saye and Sele, for L o r dß ro ton Castle; the Dowager Lady Kerry, for Dublin; for and Lady Antrim, for Rome ; Lady Charlotte Pr° l3 Y , Windsor; W. H. Lambton, Esq., for Leamington "c Spak; the Marquis of Camden and Lord and Lady Bre ck s• for the Wilderness; Sir Charles and Lady Ma x k. Clifton, Mr. Balfour, for Kent. It has reached us, from an unquestionable autho rity, that it is the intention of the King of Halve!, with his illustrious consort, to visit this country eatroyre February. The object of his Majesty's visit is present at the nuptials of the Queen and Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg. la ac cord- The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russ ing to the Augsburyh Gazette, is to leave St. Peters burgh this month on another foreign tour. Sir Edmund Lyons, according to a le tter from Athens, 17th ult., in the Augsburgh Gazette, has pre sented a letter to the Greek Government demanding on behalf of the lonian Republic some islands of the coast of Laconia and the harbour of Navarino. It was said that Greece had again applied to France for pay anent of the third series of the loan. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham en tertained the Earl of Minto and a select party to dinner last evening, at their residence in Bruton-street. Mr. Wombwell entertained the Duke of Mont rose, Lords Pembroke, Charleville, Allen, Stuart de Rothsay, William Lennox, Count d'Orsay, Major Wild' man, and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday , at his house in George-street. The Duke of will pass the Christmas at Raby Castle. The Earl and Countess of Jersey are at Middle ton Park, where they will pass the Christmas. The Earl of Liverpool, who arrived at Fife House on Sunday, from Pitchford Hall, Shrewsbury, has since gone to Buxted Park, Uckfield, where the Noble Earl will pass the Christmas. We regret to hear that Lady , Emily Wellesley is seriously indisposed at Boulogne, where her LadyshiP has been residing for some time past. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn's. party at Barons Court, this winter, will be confine(' entirely to the family connections, owing to the recent demise of the Duke of Bedford. The Earl and Countess of Jermyn have returned to Ickworth Park, Suffolk, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have arrived at Mivart's, from their scat, Walton-on-Thames. Lord Seymour, and his brother Lord Algernon Seymour, have arrived in Spring-gardens, from Wilt shire. The Earl of Harborough is expected at his seat Stapleford Hall, near Melton Mowbray. The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, with the Lords Alexander and Cosmo Russell, and the Ladies Georgians and Rachel Russell, arrived at Barons Court, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, in Ireland, on Thursday last, from the Doune, Perthshire. The Lord Chancellor, we are told, has pre sented the Rev. Hugh Hughes, lecturer of St. Leo. nard, Shoreditch, to the Rectory of St. John's, Cler kenwell, void by the resignation of the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, and family have arrived at Paris fro n Bourges, the ancient capital of the Duchy of Berry, where the Noble Earl remained a week to visit his Royal Highnes Don Carlos and his consort. The Earl and Countess landed at Marseilles from Malta. GENERAL LORD SEATON, G.C.B.— This gallant Nobleman returned to Dover-street, yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty. His Lordship lost an arm in the Peninsular campaigns, where he commanded the 52d light infantry. He was subsequently appointed Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, whence he proceeded to command the forces in Canada. His Lordship has two sons, the Hon. Lieut. James Colborne, of the 15th Foot ; and the Hon. Lieut. Francis Colborne, of the 25th foot. The Marchioness of Clanricarde has not left for St. Petersburg, but intends to tike her departure to- . morrow for Berlin, where the Noble Marquis is to endeavour to meet her Ladyship, and to accompany her to the Russian capital. The Duke of Devonshire will leave Devonshire House in the ensuing week for Chatsworth, w here his Grace purposes to receive a distinguished p art y at Christmas. The Earl of Ducie, and the Ladies Cathe rine and Emily Moreton, have left Park-lane for Woodches tor Park. evo nshire ARRIVALS AT HASTINGS.—Lord and Lady William Fitzroy and family, Lord and Lady Monteagle. Countess of Fingal, and the Ladies Plunket, the Ladies Ann and Harriet Montagu Scott, Hon. General and Mrs. Brodrick, Lord Sudeley and the Hon. Miss Tracy, Sir Thomas Strange, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. R. Ames. Departures—Sir Horace St . . Paul, Sir Henry a nd Lady Wheatley , Mr. and Lady Louisa Duncom be, Mr. Percival Mickelwaite. aded After exchanging D O VER, DEC. 10.--A hostile meeting too k place at Boulogne this morning b e t ween Lord Loftus naanndt Hallett,Lord Harley,R. N. Attended by shots edand Lieute nant e us te- conds interfered, and the gentlemen left the ground , without being reconciled. They arrived here this afternoon, and left for London Th e y immediately. both crossed over yesterday by the Britannia packet, and returned by the saline to-day. RETIREMENT OF MR. O'CONNELL FROM PARLITMENT..---Mr. O'Connell will not sit in Parlia ment after the exipration of the present. This he told the people of Bandon on Thursday.—Limeri ck Chronicle. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARD' Another candidate has started for this borough i n the person of Mr. John Coding, a Radical and a Dissenter. FIRE ON BOARD THE COUNTESS OF LONS" DA LE STEAMSHIP.—Various exak:gerated accounts having appeared in the papers, we are requested to state the facts of this occurrence, which are as follow —On Sunday morning a portion of the coal was per ceived to be on fire by the stoker appointed to keep the watch in the engine-room. He immediately ga te an alarm, when such effectual means were taken as to ex tinguish the fire in a very short time. The Countess of Lonsdale has scarcely suffered any injury, the damage not amounting to 20/. TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN E NGL A ND AND NAPLES.—Extract of a letter from Naples, 26th ult. :—" Mr. Macgregor left this place for Genoa yes terday after his return from Sicily. He has traversed all the sulphur and wine districts of that island, and has entered on negotiations with Prince Cussaro for a treaty of commerce and navigation between Naples and Eng land, which will abolish the sulphur monopoly in Sicily. It is well known here that both the treaty and the abolition of the monopoly have been formally agreed upon." COLOMBIAN LOANS.--The COMMIT. TEE of SPANISH AMERICAN BONDHOLD ERS request a MEETING of the HOLDERS of COLOM MAN BONDS, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on FRIDAY next, the 13th inst. The Chair will be taken at One o'clock preeisely. THOS. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Freeman's -Court, Cernhiil, Dec. 10, 1839. I