The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-28 00:00:00

- • COt OtTIU N T CI if,l-.;UL,AIIi. ; WI s Majesty sat this morning to Me', ILo i'or the completion of her Portrait. 1-I,!r 'Majesty, attended by the M rchioness of' Norman ,, y, Lord Byron, and other Ladies and Gentlemen of he r suite, afterwards promenaded for an hour on the East "f erraoc . of the Castle. _ . Ronal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of F. , !nt, the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon.• Miss Pitt, Hen. Miss Paget, u Vis countess Forbes, Baroness Lebn, Viscount Melbourne, 'Lord Byron. Mr. Rich, Hon. Col. Grey, and the . Hon. Charles A. Murray. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge came to town yesterday morning, from' Kew. Her Royal High ness, accompanied by the Princesses, paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough House, and also' visited the Princess Augusta, at Clarence House, St. James's. In the atternoen the Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left Cambridge House, nn their return to Kew. Her Majesty's Royal Charities were distributed nn Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday to upwards of •1,000 aged and sick persons, five shillings each ; and the Royal Gate Charity of thirteen shillings each to 168 persons, in Scotland-yard, under the order of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York, as Lord High Almoner. The Attorney-General, Lieut.-Colonel Westanra, Mr. Hall, Chief Magistrate of Bow-street, and Mr Newton had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere arrived in town yesterday from a tour. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. Lord and Lady William Pazet, Lord Romney and the Ladies Marsham, Mr. Herbert Lsngham and Mr. R. H. Glynn (Grenadier Guards). the Bishop of St. Asaph and Mrs. Carey, Lord and Lady Cowley, Mr. Culling Smith. the Hon. J. Howard, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey, Olio Hon. Captain Upto'n, Lient—Colonel Cornwall Cobanel and Mrs. Colston, Lieut.-Colonel Knox, General Lord Lynedoch. DEPARTURES. Lieut.-Colonel Eftcourt, 43d Regiment, for New Park, Wilts ; COlonel White, M.P., for Paris; Colonel Sir William arid Lady Heiries and family ; E. Stanley, Esq.. M P.; Colonel Taylor, C 8., for Sandhurst ; Lord Sandys. for Ombersley Court, near Worcester ; Sir George and Lady Wombwell, for Leamington Spa ; 'Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, for Warwickshire. CRISTIVIAS BENEFACTIONS. Tht. Marquis of Downshire has Placed 501. in the Hands ea Mr. Murray. his agent, to assist the fuel fund at Edendeery, the late wet season having produced much . distress and loss in preparing turf for the winter. Mr. Brinsley'Sheridan, though. at present sojourning on the Continent, has not been unmindful of the poor of _Frampton, having sent instructions froin Paris for their being supplied with their usual Christmas fare of prime beef, &c.; which was accordingly distributed. • Robet Williams, Esq., caused three bullocks to be distributet3 among the poor inhabitants in the neighbour hood of Bridehead, Dorset ; whilst his venerable mother kindly caused a bullock to he supplied to the cottages ;Is the neighbourhood of Castle-hill. The annual distribution of coals, at a reduced price, to the poor of. Dorchester took place on Christmas-eve. W. Wyndham,. Esq., of Dinton, has expended the sum of 551. in the purchase of flannel and articles of linendrapery, for distribution amongst the poor on his estate. - • The Dowager . Duchess - of J3edford and Lady Georgiana Russell, who are now at Barons Court, are expected to take up their residence, pro, tern„ at the Marquis of Abercorn's splendid new mansion, Dudley house, Paa-lane. Her Grace and family will pass the approaching season chiefly at the delightful villa at Carnderphill, purchased by the late Duke, and settled on the Duchess and children. Count Eugene Ney, son of the late Marshal, an rittaehe to the French embassy at this Court, Arrived in Albemarle-street on Thursday, from Plymouth, where be landed on his way to Paris. Void John Scott is in Scotland, enjoying some excellent sport with the Duke of Blieeleuch's hounds. There were several capital runs last week. The Marquis and _Marchioness of. Westminster paid their annual visit to the schools established by the Noble Marquis and Marchioness at Chester,in' 1808, to award prizes to the successful scholars. There are 400 children in these schools, who are educated solely al , the expense of the above Noble Lord and his amiable 1.. m. 2v. The whole of th e children kW a remarkably &u t i ippeartnce, and on having prizes awarded them proportienable with their deserts, they were rompli malted by their Noble Patrons for their general good behaviour. t party of the neighbouring clergy and -ntry.s.ereprewa, At the termination of the award,the -n Item ,regaied with a substantial repast of roast " at polddi-og. -stntsv 4.Ca,titetrgiu and Mrs. Howley 'attire, Laralieth, from Addington clnttlr~ beef and The Arch'. have arrived at the t ic Castle Howard' Park. Lord gorpeth has arm, from Dublin Castle. sir Chutes and Lord and Lady Warwick and ~.,- ThursdaYi Lady Douglawarrived at Drayto n Manor, ctl -.. i -wide on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peet, from v: Castle. The Earl and Cou ntess of Carlisle are receiving a party at Castle Howard, theirseat in Yorkshire. NEW HOUSES:OF. PARLIAMENT. --The Clll-, banking wall which is to enclose the terrace on the river front of this magnificent s tructure, is now considerab!) , above the level of high water. We understand th the e delay, or rathe r sto ppa ge, which took, place' in works, vtraa occasioned by the deficieney.in the supply of the granitewhich was being used in the structure ; but this difficulty has been now removed by the impor tation of large quantities of granite from the ;Perrier 'Quarries:,. in the neighbourhood of. Dalkey, a town on th a. southern shore of. the 13ay of Dublin. These quar ries have been found to . possess a species of granite, fully oqual to any heretofore obtained ; and, as they arc inexhaustible in their extent, an afford blocks of any dimensions, however large, there is ,-‘o apprehension of any furthe delay taking place in the execution o $ f the works. It r f,ives• us sincere pleasure to find the !stra Isle in part partaking of the benefits of this uational - ou tlay, and we are happy to learn that a vast somber of yeOple have been employed in the Dalkey Quarriea to enable the proprietor, Mr. Alderman Perrin , of Dublin, .to afford the supp l y required. - MR. DE CANIP, THE ACTOR.—The, father o r the late Mrs. Charles Tremble was a great favourite of Mri, Lewis, and elicited her particular approbation, not •more for his musical talent than for the undeviating mo desty of his deportment. He was in the habit of an nouncing hiniself by a solitary rap at the street door, a practice r'egariling which she once thought proper, good hurnouredly, to lecture him. "My dear sir." said she, " I am told that you actually come to my door with a 1 single knock. Let me bee of you. to altereer th la mauy, . Youi are far too modest , Mr. 10, 3 C am p ; th are I assure you, much your inferiors, who are so furious in signifying their arrival, that one ,is opt to think this is the only way they have of making a noise in the world. Be assured, talent is often overlooked in tbis gopt town ror want of a little clatter preceding it."—Life and nor ;Tomondenee of ill, G. Lewis. gh:IGElw AY itol3lSgu.Y. — A daring and brutal robbery was committed on Friday morning last, be tween six and seven o'clock, by two men, pear the Cerne, on the person of village of Litfle ,Minterne, r, an old man, 66 years of Age, lame , Thomas Hillye. vex) , :deaf, nearly bli n d, and kept . by the parish, It ' appears the poor Old man ma: Ping from Littls Mitt terne up to Up-Cerne, for the 17turpose of paying , his shoemaker's bill, which .aniounfed to seven shillings, when, just as he had got outside of th e ga:e leading out of the turnpike road a cross t o Up•Cern e, two 'O en came behind him, one of whom pulled him by th e shoo.lcir backwards ; they then filled his mouth and eyes veitib , mud, to prevent his calling for help one of , them betel him down by the shoulders, while the oche knelt upon him, and rifled his pocke ts of the seven shil r tir,ge * which, fortunately happened io be all he had about him. Su effectually did the villains blind him, that Hillyar s a w n cthing of them, and is, therefore, unable t o .give ay description of their pernns, so that they have got clear J off.—.Sherbourne Journal. ~.. TH 6 R STRANGERS' .FRIgND OCIETY.' A , vet y eloquent sermon was preached on Christmasola Y Society, evening in aid of this a t tie episcopal Chapel,_ Gray's Inn-lane, by the Rev.M O Mr. rirner, mintr Om Psalm 132,14 th and following verses. gr. Mot- tiro e r e in the course of 'ra most heartfelt appeal, rfiun tionel some cases, which, as he truly said, were " aid - ening " , to,humanity. Rooms were: Visited where e the the was no re or even light, and the corpse Thy besid or firec of the pdyingast, This Society had, m 4 , hoever,to ce ours 1 , 441 , , . rt ,tiaved 7,900 cases, at an eitpensi.t ot sick lently deserving of suppo,r.t. nearly 3,0601. , an d was ..-illi The chapel was crowdect, and the collection ei ceeded 401. gaol : has . The only prisoner in the Nantu.: ket . ;HA in a given the Sheriff notice that, unless the gaol ii, more comfortable condition he willdig. out?' • Tr€ door, he says, h as no latch, an d. be has. hard work lo keep hiniselfconfincd.—Boston Notion. • SUPPOSED DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.-- On Thursday evening- a n inquest was proceeded, with at the Union Tavern, Union-street, Blaekfriars, On di.? body -of Ann . Hann - , aged 60 4 a, .puar:tridow, who was supposed to have died from want. 3144 depositions ,i proved thatthe poor woman, who was asthmati.2, bad ... felt pinching want in its most dikressing form. A- Sr geon said that the immediate cause of 'death was suffe.- catioa, produced by overfloiv of mucus in the bronchial tubes. Sh - e - presented al 'vary attenuated . appearatiee:- Verdict, " Natural Death." , ip, - ,7 : .- . st . t .: l'sf., ' - -.1 . .,':(.iN (Y) N. CONDUCT OF . THE BANK OF ENGLAND. MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 'ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE: BANK OF ENGLAND. MANCHESTER, TH URSDAY .--7 A special general meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures was held this day, " to receive a report from the Board of Directors on the effects of the administration of the .Bank of,England upon the .eommereial apd mannfacturipg.in terests of the 'country." ' ' .'t V L Mr. J. B. SMITH. the Chairman of the toard rectors, presided. He said 'that, two years ago, the Chamber had assembled on a similar occasion, to consi der the sufferings under which the country was labour ing, in edpsequeace of a commercial panic, ,when resolu tions were adopted, to the effect that the Chamber were unable to assign arational cause for the recurrence of such adversity, in the midst of the blessing of peace, ample her vests, and mitigated taxation. The recurrence- of another period of distress so sonn., after the 'US:. -ltad. naturally directed the attention of the Board to - the causes of those irequ( at panics, which, by paralysing trade, and suspend ing manufactures, brought distress on 'the whole coin inunity ; and they were' satisfied that the cause was to oc fbund in the ruinous management of the currency by the Bank.. They had, therefore, appointed a . sub-corn mitt,:e to investigate the whole subject. Their report had been frecuently and carefully revised by the Direc tors ; the facts might be depended upon, for they had been rather understated than overstated. Mr. BOOTHMAN, the Secretary, then read a very lengthy report. It commenced by a review of the ope rations of the Bank from the renewal of the Charter down to the present time. It noticed in turn the various steps taken for raising or lowering the rate of interest, and increasing the quantity of bullion' ; and observed that it had been stated, on the authority of the Bank themselves, that a supply of gold could only be pro cured from abroad by reducing the value of commodities, and there was no doubt that the object of the Bank in these measures was to reduce the value of commod4ties fully 25 percent. By this means the stock of bullion was increased from little more than four millions in June, 1837, to upwards of eight millions in December, 1837 ; and in January, 1808, it was 8,995,0001. The effect of these proceedings On the manufacturing and commercial interests was then minutely pointed out ; the American cotton monopoly was alluded to ; and the importation of corn consequent on the bad harvest of 1838: In 'April last, it appeared there had been a diminution in the stock of bullion of 2,763,0001., and yet the Directors had gone on increasing the amount of their Bank notes. The last account of bullion showed that it had fallen still lower,. but without producing any effect on the foreign exchanges. The report then directed attention to the losses which these forced con tractions and expansions of the currency had in flicted on the manufacturing community. - They calculated that the amount of capital, •flo . ating and fixed, employed in the: five leading manufactures of this country, viz , cotton, silk, woollen, linen, and hardware, wss one hundred millions sterling ; the amount invested in wholesale houses and others con nected with the distribution of the, products of these manufactures, was twenty-five anions ; and the capital employed in foreign commerce thirty-five millions ; being a total of one hundred.and sixty millions. Upon this amount might be traced-a tangible loss of from 20 to 50. per cent., owing to the proceedings adopted by the Bank. This sacrifice, a' sacrifice of. forty millions, had been incurred that the Bank of England might re gainpossession of six or seven millions of specie, which she formerly forced out of the country by an undue .expansion of the currency. Of this depreciation the fixed capital employed. in the cotton', manufactures, and locked up in the shape of buildings, &c., had been depreciated at least frprn 30 to' 40 per cent. The fiats in bankruptcy issued in. 1837 amounted to 1,937, while the average of the. previous four years were but 1,266. The report next noticed the effect 'of' these measures on the working classes. In 1837 the sums drawn out of the savings' banks had exceeded those paid in ; on this subject the inquiries of the Commit tee had been extended to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, Blackburn, Bolton, &e. Some extracts froM the Annual Report of the Poor-law. Commissioners for that. year were introduced, also statements of the relief afforded, in 1837, by dif ferent charitable institutions in England, Scotland, and .Ireland, most of which showed a great increase as coin• paced with the previous year. Nearly all the reports of infirmaries and dispensaries bore testimony to the great increase of disease, and unfortunately the number of criminals had been multiplied in the same propor tion. Similar consequences, the report observed, might always hp expected to flow from forced contractions of the currency ; and at present the same thing was ' going on by the and such being the case,it was most important to inquire how such baneful fluctuations might be prevented. That the twenty-six Bank Direc tors, whose 4 ef s were .veiled even from. their con stituents, should Ours decide the fate of all the capitalists and industrious 4;tisans in the cduntiy, and that there should be neither apileal tiir re medy against their acts, must be regarded as a re proach to the age, and totally irreconcilable with ever) principle of public iustice. The Committee wished not to calumniate the Bank Directors personally, who were men of probity and worth ; but the constitution of the Bank was snob, especially from its want of capital, that it was impossible for, any body, of men to conduct its affairs .with benefit to the manufacturing interest.— APPliftiSe 2 ) N. P. Perp (the senior eenstable) proposed that this report be received, with the thanks of the Chamber to the Directors, and that ft be printed for the use of the Chamber generally. 'Unless they had a stable cur •eriCv. and a more even run of credit, it would be im for them to make their calculations, or to carry " s°11) " Operationi; because it was no longer on any , - merchant what was the state of a calculation with t Pl to be the state of money the market, but what. was us_ Y- credit.—(Hear, hear.) So king, .:y the large fluc tua tions continued, which they had eiperteNed during the last two or three years, it was imposslhin to Ix. : gulate prices. At one time a large mass of Money was afloat in the market; credit was exceedingly cheap. the most ignorant and reckless people, who kn 4 nothing about egrerperee, entered into It—he had heard of footmen, tailors, on 4 mon of even a lower stamp, catering into large s pecul4tiooS i t F4. , mmerci , t l minerprise, and carrying on business to foreign Merkets, They glutted those markets, mitred themselves, and probably the money lent them was.lost "; at the same time they ruiried•the ealtulaticg'and prudent merchant, and destroyed his market. There was one thing of wialel; they must all be convinced, thet pur enanufac tprosh4 keep driven in a great :measure froro the me re keis of Europe. There ought to be a stable system fPr every thing they did. AAA ou g ht to be the character of so institution having the thole of the currency,. But the Bank had ocposite interests to prPteete-eit had to protect the interests of its proprietors. The whelp duty of the Directi,rs wag that of making a dividend to the proprietors, and yet Iln,et wore entrusted with the cherge of the currency. how 4,0,1 tri'f.) duties were quite at variatlet...4 Hear, hear.) lie recolleggil that en ''one_ occasion. the proprietors were called 0., gether, the Pirectors eineogneed their intention of raising the discounts, a nd ; dig announeetpetit was re eeived with loud' cheers by the proprietors i $OOO Pl►- SerAre t 4Saii were made and the cheeri were roPeeted a,c,o drowne4 spore phservations. Those ettecn Atii, , kt weli for theenuMePte log they would ultimately collected,-:rd would bring ap e , e ,Let tleeided move against this establishment ley 11e great ,cocorpe,e44) part of the kingdom. That eitablishßeot had originally ,coNitropeged with an inherent vice ; it had been cet,nrneeccd for the p,u,i-poart of co-operating with the Goverment. !t was impossible that such an institution . ,should go on, In thi; ease the an W 4 been made entirely a tool in the hands of Gayer:meet ,aeql Nvi.eitelid they d 6? At this moment we were etendiog in alioAt i iep the !pest unintel -4,-Thie and incongruous the.t.sould poSsjhlY l e ißitgriiiPft While .dray were only able to get p,er peps . , onpoye r n, ment secnOtie,e, mercantile discounts we:a from 7 to p. 'This remarks le ,eir,etimstance ought to sink deeoy into the heart pf overt' Pmon 4epatile, in the first place, they had to egrry roir? Wsiness at ,an,i4cl . cac#4. disadvant ; for this heavy charge of 6. pr 7 per ,cent. !,ta4 k^ be de ducted ; they only got the oat amount, apd acquiring eame little property I.3rehe labour et yeere, wiiza they came to invest it they eoutel A* get above 3 p er cent. fpr it. Ple believed he had said What W9n4 l induce them to receiyo tybe report, which contained ma ss of information. At prgi.s,e4iiL was not intended to taco re medial measures into cope t iel,eratkee. Th e ppROUGiinEEVE (Mr. J. 4tootiq opr44lly seconded the r e elution. In the first place, lie vyiAl 3 .l to inquire if the resplution passed two years ago, U; 'which q the Chairman had Welded, was at a public meet• iugrpF pply at a meeting of the Board he did not know of it, becaus • The et-swelpN :--At a public meeting. Mr. BeologP ;fir r Y he could basic found 04 1141 reason of the distress at that time, for he had felt it tki.eo I.nd ever since. H seen in business mo re than • tiiirty vgu'!, and his workpeo . 'Le bed never bee n obliged to go on the peel;! ; all till 1809% The report was a most'weadilful (loch ment ; they had heard} , reasoning price's about it he would now give thern sono w ept melancholy facts W,onid first speak of his hoietc thP goutitr " cle: t", ) 835 , his bad debts amongst dratierg watt 0,00/. t.tfs.s in 1836 (when the panic .begun} they were 4,980/. Hs. -n J 837, they were 9,4 , 90/, —(Hear, bear, hear)---,hemg t i iree times the amount of 1835, Independently o f gi g pipptry trade, l ie ;:ad made bad debts amongst th e. merol4o4 Of I' h i c • country to the amount of 80 ,000/. O r 90,000/, that ;Identical year, I§l7 ; those, many had- gone into tuP Gazelle, and he weep.' O toe meetin g to judge what •kiad of dividend they would reak,e, :eulan ,y with oet,a lawsuit. or two. He would now give' 44 • idea of , th cerresimmience he had in I 837. ; heel nningwl4 foreign trade. On s.i t g 27th of March he had written to. Singapore, requesting Ai k iii,tioih . p.they Could buy pro tinte et, such low prices as the.o o 44o?g ' fipm this side showed %% id leave a margin pfat:least per Fat the , r eturns should be .reed,e le hills. [Mr. krooks then .i rad e extracts from letters from Aoypitlbdies; Constanti •• • , nople, and other plaCes, all illustrative' of a .simila, • state of thingq He had only known, of this macaw ten days ago, but he immediately got hiS clerk to make out a few states dents,' for he - determined to' ineet'this ( lose. le held in his ItAd a tableof the produce which he had sold in 1837, which contained, amongst others, the . fol lowing items : Pro !uce. Pla - A.s. .1 Cost. Loss. IPeromt Si napore Vida Canton Tetna Bombay Trieste.: Calcutta Bombay Tetna Antimony ore Ditto Silk Nitrate of Soda Gum and Wool Oil Silk General Cargo Nitrate of Soda Ditto ... General Cargo Silk Sugar Cotton Bahia General Cargo Penang Cotton Bombay • ... Silk .. !Canton ... Cfssia Lignea , Singapore .. Col ton 'Alexandria .. 'Canton N.lrate of Soda .. T,.. C.oton !Bahia ..... ~ -ate of Soda Tetna • , •on (Bahia ... •,tto : , itto 1' ,er ;to Ito ~.11 518 4,361 1 2,739 735 580, 2,719 6,355 2,923 2,341 Bombay Calcutta 428 2,198' 489 302 22,173 j 800 772 4,798 2,950 3,214 :718 2,021 1,379 i 791 1,419; Canton 698 1 1,90' 3,913 £2211 42 171 33 1,234 i 3o ,5461 20 1110, 20 123 ; 22 681 999 2,830 25,954 23 2;882 421 '654i 22 (0.9, 22i 144 231 608 311 212 24 163, 33 . 6861 23 1351 40 7,367 33 322 40 248 32 1,275 24 919 311 J-1769 24 .349 48i 692 33i 679 48• 4341 55 743 52 267 39 '503 26 1,178 30 210 31 301 30 954 33 15,148 58 ar, hear.) Now, in 1836 and 1837 he had .lost no I than 120,0001. clear away, with the cotton trade, • ;hipping trade, and the spinning trade, z. e. the flax • ; away - it had gone, and he might get it back as , - - tultl,--(Applause.) What he had now to state • very remarkable. He had been in business thirty ' yearsiast August, and never last any money in Ida except at two particular periods; 'or he could not stood it long. - The first was , in. 1825 and 1826, 1' , second in 1836 and 1837.—(Hear, hear.) And t was a very marvellous .thing, he 'had always got • re -money after a panic than ever he had got in any oCier ; year. . That proved what a melancholy thing a p oic was—crew many, were absolutely ruined, mid how many were frightened out of the market, and dared not start again, for it - was few that had spirit to start again ; . for if they had the money they would keep it in their pock ets. The Bank of England was no more to be depended upon than a will o'the wisp; they could make no-calculation for whatever they did abroad ; property might go down 30 or 35 per .cent. In March, .1856, h e h a d b oug ht 27-inch printing. cloths at 9s. 6d., but in August, 1837, they were down, to 6s. 6d., thing a r e du c ti on o f 31i per cent. That was a reduction of which no calculation could he made by'any one ; and if he had been in full work, which was not the case, it would have made a difference of 9001. a - Week to him. In December, 1838, when things were rising again, he had bought cloth at Bs. 60., being an advance of 25 per cent. on what he had bought-in 1837. This was all the doing of the Bank of England ; no calculation could have foreseen it. Mr. COBDEN—What is the present value of 27-inch printing cloths ? Mr. BROOKS bought at about Gs. Bd. or Gs. 9d. Mr. COBDEN—That is very important, it illustrates the evil again. • Mr. Bnootts continued—The tea included in the list which he had read, on Which he had suffered a loss of 58 per cent., was the same as some which had been sold by a friend of his in the beginning of 1836, and which subsequently went down 58 per cent. ;. he had thought that be would not sell it then, and he kept it till the panic began. Whose fault was that, but that of the Bank of England ? He hoped other gentlemen would come forward and show their accounts ; lie thought his friend Mr. Gardiner looked very serious. . Mr. R. GARDINER said it was not hisintention to say anything about his losses ; it was. not his intention to follow Mr. Brooks. They bad heard of his losses, but they saw him in health and strength ; but the Sufferings of the poor in 1837 were a lusuiy, comparatively. speaking, to what they were at present. In 1857 ,provisions were abundant, and comparatively low ; now all establishments were standing, and people were thrown qut of' work one half fbr the other. . There Were thousands. and tens of thousands unemployed at present, and how they existed he could not tell. There yds an awful . responsibility. There was blood resting somewhere. Many establish ments had stopped, one in the .neighbourhood of Bolton, by which 1,400 or 1,500 people were not reduced to one or two days, but stopped altogether. How were these people to live without resources ? • One time, money absolutely could not be disposed of at per cent.. ; and a gentleman, who h a d b een rece i v i ng 3 per cent., hut WhoSe interest had been reduced to 31 per cent., had told. him that, he must leave _the country to seek another .investment; stating that a friend of his , had been advan6rig money on American bonds, and for which he got 6 per cent. ; but he had no faith in those securities. Another person, finding money so plentiful that he could get no interest for it, said he would set to and build a mill (he knew a person who had built three) ; he put in the gearin g and the steam power, and let it, by which he could get 71- per cent. Tt.is was an unnatural state of things. Many peo ple had had their intcrest reduced so low, that they were compelled to seek other means as an invest ment ; the result was the most disastrous consequences, as they had found. Last year, when the cotton 'crop was coming round, the most experienced merchants had been deceived to the extent of 2d. or 3d. a pound. Mr. WILLIAM WNEILD said, that' a subject of greater importance could not engage the attention of the commercial 'world. The return to a gold currency in 1819 or 1820, had produced from 1815 to 1823 a con stant and steady decline in the prices of almost every article.—( Hear, hear.) During the last two or- three, years effects had been experienced similar to what w e re felt in time of war, and naturally made men look about. them 'to find cut the cause. 'That cause was assigned in the-report that had been read. Now, if in 1836 moriey had been. so abundantly plentiful, that men had been literally compelled to commence speculations, duearnents being, held out to them, and, if, in a few brief eriontlis . every species of supply or support was cut off, certainly atone or other of those periods there was a flit porhaps at hoth.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Brooks 1d a his In'sgcs ; fortunately for him, there was a 1 1 1 4 ands t enT d e• margin—not ao with many other individuals. Ho bad accidentally -, met an individual in the street, whom he bad 1 ,;:lown many years, and were he to men tion his pantie, every one in the roam would concur as to the steadiness with which he had conducted his busi nes;, the Aippcp of anything like a speculative charac ter ; and he stared that, two or three Months ago, he had every reason to WIWI) that PO WaS worth 60,0001.; now, when all his engagements were paid, ho should not 11;1vp A shilling left.—( Hear.) There were. scores and hundr4ds of instairs of this cause producing these dis astrous conseqqeni:e4 ip every OM pf tbc. Community, down to the working Men, wile, in many ems, had no ~ - sources left. Surely it became an important question For iiiaa w H ereantile. world, how these evils were to b e reme died'. a the fault 4e with the Bank of England, let it be remedied ; 'hp, for one„,fid not stip that blame was:to .7,t,tached to them. They had a twofold eharaptec te porferm Ct o z- were not amenal4le tq the community, ik • • • 4,0 ,to the s..arpo w era ; tiOr J 144414 1. PiPllns! Was fA get tke he#t dividend they could:. • But Ile did blame the Legislature..-..,(yea r ,' hear.) It was quite time this question should be taken up 140 gravcli Oeillged s A.E tn the remedy, all sound judging men ere totally an, .euprqy at igru with the Bank of England, and tbat was a atrong gronud why they f 9r u. rm iry. nr. Niiiirro,:wpirr 4 could not agree with Mr. Gardiner in suppeng thp.t the Bank Of Unglond would reform itself. It was a strange fact, .but one that was nnonestioned, that the Bank always made. the largest profits 0101 . 113 e country was suffering the severest dis tress. I - le believed there was not an economist of any feppte, net nnly in this kingdom, but in any civilised' country; of lurope, that did not denounce as bad, and reprobate as pernicious, the principle on which the Bank of England condueted its affairs. In 1812 Ow flank was not in the habit of looking either at the pric of gold or the s t a t e o f t h e exc h anges, an d he believed eVerY iPflividucl in• the' kingdom, except (hose connected with the Bank of England, as Direc tors:, f i r In any ether way interestedly connected, knew tliet it was imliepeosable for their establishment to keep .. close and attentive revved to .the state of bullion and ; ij ; e state of the exchanges ; yet the Bank, on the in-' ~,qty 1 r 1.512, stated distin c tly th a t t h ey never looked at the ?ripe current or the Exchange List.---( Hear, In tile last §..?qien pf Parliam e nt, Mr. H ume l made a motion for .an inquiry into t h e B an k . He ~liuttleworth) happened t o h ear th e d e b ate pa ‘", it oo64 s ion, an ,: more full, able, arid incontrovertible -‘,lternents could not he ; but (and this showed .s little attention paid by slip p 0 4 14.. COI§ impo r t a nt bieet) the House during his speepir was 4ltimt empty ; .to 4 man times might have been counted ont-,54;p0.. tags *To n i 4t fventy pfmons orernt, The 'Ater was very OPP di4p9sed of. Neither the Bank ..r the Government. would do anything to correct the ils under which they all suffered so dreadfully, unless IP4Pofrftmuity at large should move. Mr, H, 4s4WOATff Mr. R. COBDEN, and Mr. S. , rowis, also spoke in favour of the motion, which was i.,en put, and carried unanimously. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting ,oparated. url RING ROBBERY.--Last week, as Mr. Bolton,"wlid is . an extensivt corn dealer in Birmingham, anti who regularly attends Coventry and Warwick mar iAs; wig Vaving Coventry, a little after six &clock i n ii 4 e yening, a 4 Wfl . walking to the railway statio n f or theo~ n g p'!4iriOngilapti oig train, he was knocked dowti and %.Yf) Vrtic, l were` In company with .n renia :Rey pi4pl9pd 14irp J 7 0 ./.., consisting of- , a 501. bill, some Coventri puttst • N S ZIRDAA7 DEC E M 13!4',R 9 8 I c-39 , . . _CITE TWOPENNY POSTAGE. --<:C: TO . THE EDITOZ2 OF THE SUN. . . heg to complain, of a system in the Two penny Post Department, that of &taming letters, and not denvering them every two !wors t , according to the rules Lpht t letter in the Post office hcfore eight o'clock this morning, which letter did aor arrive at its destina tien•More twelve o'clock, a distanCe of only a.rnite and a half froin the General Post-office. This is the third inst_inco of the kind, as regat.d.s myself, within this fort , , . • • tiui•loseition of this :sill 4reativ oblige; Sir, Your humbl.e..serva.nt, JOHN, CHILDS. 10, 13r t ooks' Market, Dcc. 07. THE NEWPORT RIOTS. 1 Ntveoht, DEc. 27.-----Since our last letter wry beve beet, : travelling on the hills anti_ in those districts where Chartism abounds, and we have made , the ,most minute ir,nuiries of those who :ire most likely to ; efford inforina tion as the state of things in their different neighbour. hoods ; and, there cannot. be a doubt but that secret ; - - - tilectitegs ace still being held, and that everything is in ia most unhealtliv.state., Alll i peesons agree that it i s th e intention to hold a large , rneeting. It was to have taken place on Christmas-day, but the Chartists are waiting the the arrival 'of, Mr. O'Connor or some of the delegates, - and r - nen are absolutely stationed on some, of the Inds with telescopes looking' out for the -:approach of some of the .I , :aders. , The magistrates' are in -frequent con. sultatiOn, and will, we think, act with firmness to pre. vent any ,disturbance. Strange. to say, the, town cr Tredegar, which is situate in the midst of the Chartists ; has not &soldier in it; and the reason assigned, is, that attempts would be made, to tamper with, the military, ,and . it therefore is better to have thona,at some (ha lance. 'There are six armed policeman under the com mane‘cf Lieut. Homan, and they Are always on the look- out, and would give early intimation 4 - o the military . commanders. , We heard from one ,person who had had connunnication with- some ,Chartists that they were ready to Move at a moment's notice, as soon as-a leader should,' arrive..; that they were ,well armed, and that . other ,arms were to meet them on : their march, and that. their lull determination was.that Mr. Frost should not be injured -; but probably they'should uot move until after the trial. ,There is one matter here that par ticularly requires notice. . Large numbers of the working , classes were sworn in., as . special con stables,' and were on duty for a few days after the Newport -riots ; theSe men.were- to be paid for their attendance, and they have now asked for their money, but are told that they will not be paid till after the trials, this ii a created great dissatisfaction. .We heard one fact, that -last Saturday ,two men . called puddlers re ceived. one month's wages, amounting to no less than 231. eao,,so that there is no complaint on the score (it wages. Witha:view to ascertain the real state of things, which we was ',liable to obtain from the Magistracy, whose knowledge of the events taking place is very . limited, from the meetings being held underground, ant' the complete secrecy with which they are managed, we have mixed with the commercial travellers in order to learn the state of trade, and we find their almost uni versal answer to he " We can neither get money nor orders." The shopkeepers are completely panic struck ; no inducement will tempt them to buy, as they say they do cot know that they shall remain in the possession of their shops for 12 hours. This state of alarm arises from the fact of there being secret meetings every night in the levels, and a Sort of committee meeting of the leaders at a place at Merthyr, called Pont Storehouse. Having ascertained this to be the ease, we went personally among them, and we found that their numbers in, Merthyr alone ex ceeded 10,000, all in a state. of feverish anxiety and ex citement, ready at a moment (if directed by their lead ' ers) to commence another insurrectionary movement • They are also.anxiously awaiting the arrival of Fergus O'Connor, or some delegate to direct them. Indeed, the general impression among them ,seems to be, that they should, wait the result of Frost's trial,endeavouring in the meantime to entrap the witnesses; and that then, it' Frost should be convicted, there should be a general rising to draw off the troops, and that he should be saved- at all hazards. Every attempt' is also made to tamper with the few soldiers (one company of the 45th), stationed-at. Dowlais, . and they have changed clothes with the miners in some instances; many of them have been made drunk by them, and, indeed, considerable ddßeulty is felt in keeping up the proper state of mili tary discipline ; bnt, when we consider that the .com pany is. composed almost entirely of mere...boys,, it is only to be wondered that they have acted as well as they have. In addition to this force at ,Merthyr, which contains upwards of forty thousand inhabitants, there are only about thirty pensioners, who are most,of them enfeebled by. age, and are only armed each with a cutlas ;, should a - simultaneous rising ..take place at Merthyr, the Dowlais and. the Plymouth works, all bein g , within a distanee of two miles, it is.impossible to calculate ,the extent to which,,the work of destruction could be carried before a sufficient force could be brought to bear upon them. At Newport everything is quiet, but all arc ready and the Mayor, with a praise wort by alacrity, has caused the principal witnesses to br - brought there from the hills, and thus now they are un 'der the protection of the military.—Timcs. IRELAND. MEETING OF THE TRADES POLITICAL UNION. Au extviordinary general meeting or this body was held last Thursday afternoon at the Adelphi Theatre, in pursuance of a desire havin g been expressed by Mr. 0:Cormell, to a deputation of the Union, to meet the body, and state to them his views on the present posture of political affairs as regards Ireland. Two o'clock was fixed for the meeting, but long before that hour a very considerable bay of respectable artizans and traders had assembled. Mr. O'Connell entered about ten .11141111 es after two o'clock, and was received with long continued cheering. The Hon. Gentleman addressed the n , tet.ting at considerable length, and concluded in these words, ", Our first object should be to agree to a declaration repudiating the foul assa ult s w hi c h are daily made upon the HAI people, and; to come to an under standing as. to the best mode of protecting ourselves from Tory domination and persecution."—(Cheers.) Resolutions were then passed, pledging the meeting to the most energetic opposition to the return • of the Tories -to office—their enthusiastic allegiance to the Queen, and .detertnination to support her throne. Mr. FITZPATRICK moved a resolution to the following effect : . " Taat.wc are firmly determined, to resist hy all legal and constitutional means, and at, the risk of our lives and property, the rd.= of the Tories into power." Mr. D'AttcY proposed, and Mr. O'BRIEN seconded, the motion " That we concur heartily in whatever arrangement can be made for the expression of Irish sentiment in opposition to Tory misrule, and that we concur in sen meet with the meeting held on Tuesday -last, as to the necessity of petitioning the .Queen and Parlia ment to prevent the restoratio n to power of the Orange 'roses, and in the propriety of and 'address from the Roman Catholic people." • Mr. R. Wm.su proposed, and 11.1t,iiivt9A.:: se copaca i.mpthef re69.lkitiOSl ;7-1 tt i4eh taddre:lg ought, in our judkrnenis, be votecl In slinultanem mootir4g4 of the' Irish people, or dr" by gn fltAte4ll,l - 411. .v.oonotiln of the Irish people fpu) every locality, assembled in Dublin, if such as seinb,ly or conTentior. GAu bo held without ony violation of th 4144 otherwise not to be held; JAMES MAATIN PrOpqs.dd the. last resolution, which hein,7 secogclosi,, was pAssed, as were all others, unanimously " Resolved—That this meeting declare its unanimous and enthusiastic allegiance to the pe,sori and throne of cur most gracious and beloved Queen ; and that me arc and shall he at all times ready to peril, and if new:nary sacr;fiee our lives in defence of her person and Govern ment, and of the civil and religious liberties of the people of Inland, against all traitors, of whatever class ; whether Peers, Prelates; gentry, operatives, or a any other denomination under which the ranks of% Orange Tor i s ti ß t andALr H A traitorousLgi tyrannyw asthen may be ranged." called t o the Chair, N r. and a vote of thanks passed to Mr. John O'Brien, the father and founder of the Union, who returned thanks in an appropriate speech, shortly after which .the meet ing separated. • LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(PHIS DAY.) DEAL, Dec. 27.;—Wind N. W., moderate.—Arrived the Margaret, Canney, from Calcutta. .cowEs, DEO. 27.—Arrived the Roland,. Sceengrape, from M on te Video. MAityroarr, DEC. 26. Arrived the C9itts . . 2.s.—Arrived the Youn— Queen, Atkins, ff(111i Hope, Middleton, feoru Miramichi. STRANRAER, DEC. 9.5.--Arrived the 'Eleanor, Bruce, Miramichi. LtvEttroot , DEC. 27. Wind N. N. E. to N. W., moderate,—Arrived the Westmoreland, Mann, frbm Per nambuco ; Areatus, New Orleans ; J: H. Shepherd, Red man, ditto; George Wilkinson, Quebec.. off port the Rapid, and IL A. Parke, from Demerara, Sailed the ile I Rasendale, Friend. Bahia ; ma a rg ri a s re , t Lu A cy rc . i f i o u r lal Anco Archibald, Hancock , Grande ; Boreas, Ball, and Peri, liaise, AzorPo, Musotto, Dgo. the Blackener, Cochrane, for Trinidad. • • Govians, and Thorpe, StePZP, tllll, DEC 27.—Wind N. sf N vmo . me E a , t4 - 0111g 4,:ir .o r r i , v tc e: ii t r h: rt l:N v 7 a l s „ abandoned off Sunderland yestorday in a sinking state. Wit%Nitvg, DFP. oq. The Oroviu, liieEtnond, of North Shields, lately abandoned on the Mouse Sand, has been towed into this port, with ioSs tnainrottst, ruch !ler. syo, DEC. 27.--. The Mary (.c) Weber, Shea rPr's, from: Havre to Mauritius, struck on a'reef near Per 113rnbuce—rin the 9th ult., beat over with Ws V.' rudder, and arrived_at that part on the :34, SPIRIT 'of the'POBLIC 'JOURNALS'. F4Oll TEE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (Prom the piintS.)' That the Ministers / to use a .homely phrase, are on their last le . s, is clear coongh from the tone of their journals, their only organs and representatives (beyond the walls of Windsor Castle) . during the recess of Parliament -• 'I he Landon papers are given up to speculation upon the. speedy adverit, of Sir Robert Peel to office; and' of that speculation the unvarying character is peeVish and querulous despondency. They no longer calculate the delays or difficulties which ite.set a Conservative Government on its actta road to power —no, that halcyon season . is past ; but their scanty gleams of hope are drawn from the remote and uncertain prospect of those contingencies through which a Conservative Government, now recognised as inevitable, may hereafter possibly be undermined and shaken, and through which.sonte.generation of yet unborn revolutionists may recall to sight ,and memory, after a lapse of Sears, the all but obliterated vestiges of their now dying predecessors. We cannot desire any change fur the_better in this chart of the land which lies before us. A sate and sheltered port is still ready to .receiye the majestic .British rrian•ofwar. Fraud and villariy, and rampant Popery- a -the essence of both— have spent their entire ! force on the sacred vessel. The shark O'Connell has for years been snapping his serried t aws as she laboured through the sea of anarchy, but while the State, recovering its balance, glides once more steadily forward in the course of law, arid peace, and free-. dom i the monsterof revolution, with the Government which ix supported, plunges and fllunders in despair. Words have begun to recover their natural meaning. Lies no longer pass fOrs truth, nor sounds . for things. The oeoplb of England hav e riot now to learn that political Popery is another naive for perjury,, and that O'Con aellism is an amalgam of avarice, cowardice, and trea son. the late: movements of the Irish :traitor have been but writhings of his mortal agony. With redoubled fury the powei-s of life are fast evaporat s tog. lie 'halloos on his . hounds against whatever is most-true,. healthy, and. energetic in The empire ; but th e cry of the bloodhounds is feeble, their spirit flags. and their pace falters.' England herself is put under ban by this persecutor of the word of. God, and practical. excommunicator of all honesty and virtue. He sees in England nothing but what provokes the refined palate . of a bog-trotting ruffian to ." disgust !" Such is his declaration-. .We are denounced by this favourite pupil of St. Omer's 'as a "disgraced people of passive slaves." Great, oh Popery, is tiny zeal for freedom ! The humbugging beggarman falls foul of the Times for having defended the Lord-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire, the Marquis of Bute, from his reviling-s. We did so deliberately. We do it again. Lord Bute was a sound and righteous Protestant for refusing to Deli a. part of his estate to 'a priest. The pretext on which the demand was made appears to have been the erection of a Romish mass-house -under the nose of the Lord-Lieutenant. We honour Lord Bute for his in flexible frustration of this at once impudent and insi , dious project. The Noble Lord was thereby rescued from the risk of having a master over himself and hottseholif, and a horde of spies and incendiaries planted at his own threshold for ever. He never could have got rid. of them. His Lordship further saved the whole Protestant community of that-district from the visitation 'of a Perpetual- nuisance, 'in the shape of a Po pish colony. fixed. upon. them,_ p and yiding them lik e a nightmare. There ;la no end'ita the machinations of these areign slayes„ . Pushed on, 'as they are, to every imag i nable encroachment upon Protestants, and offence to their . tranqUillity, by a despotism the most un-! relenting that ;the world : ever saw, with future lanination as the alternative for those recusant members of the Church of Rome who . flinch from the execution of her most criminal mandates. sir. Daniel O'Connell- denies that the Irish priesthood arc what the 7'imes-hus represented them. No doubt he gross falsehood of his denial is one which has amply secured its own' absolution, and a plenary indulgence for as many more such sins against the God of truth as it may serve the temporal interest of O'Connell and of the priesthood who confesses him to propagate. But a very slight acquaintance with even the recent and public transactions- Of the Irish priesthood must have well satisfied the Protestants of Great Britain how just and true, and far within reality, were the statements of this journal as to priestly practices, and the mean and base, the sinister and treacherous ways by which the . Romish Church never fails to seek the extension in all quarters of the influence and doMination of . her Ministers. Why, Stonyburst has spread the plague of Popery throughout circuits containing scores of miles. Vast sums of money, it is well known, have been dedi cated by the College of the Propaganda to the sole purpose of restoring the ascendancy of Romanism in England. The Englishman, therefore, who exerts himself to ' stop or retard this torrent merits the gratitlale of all Protestants who lay their faith, to heart. As for thiti — Mr. Daniel O'Connell, thii coarse disturber of the public peace and safety; whose whole life is one alternation of bullying and skulking, we should have laboured to little purpose had we not long possessed ourselves of his hatred by our hearty manifestations of contempt for his character and abhor rence of his sordid, base, and treacherous- intrigues. He is a bad man, redeemed by no one virtue—false zo Popery itself, which, on more than one occasion, he would have betrayed and sold ; and now it shall not be our fruit if he fail to reap the abundant fruit of his (From the Morning Chronicle.) The announcement of the advent of the Penny-post seems to have deprived the Tories of all powers of utter ance. The Times, which fought so valiantly the cause of the Penny-post last spring, cannot afford a whisper of Congratulation, -now that its lahmirs are about to be crowned with success. It prints, indeed, the Treasury Minute ; but in an insignificant part of its piper, and without a syllable of comment.: The Post, which, in the teeth of declarations to the contrary, continued, with brazen assurance, to assert that the Penny-post was abandoned, promises, indeed, to say something—a some• thing likely to prove as veracious and correct as all its lucubrations on postage since the Tories were baulked of carrying Mr. .11,11's plan themselves. The country, in general, or we are much deceived, will receive the news with feelin g s f ar diff erent . . The promp titude of the Chancellor urthe Exchequer gives ex. cellent augury for his subsequent career in office, He has acted, we think, wisely not to wait until the stamps were prepared. - Stamps have been decried as unnecessary ; but we shall be much surprised if the pub lic demands do not become urgent for their introduc tion ; and certainly it is politic to let the publiefee) Ole want of that which has been sneered at. The speedy coming of this great measure must doubtless 'be some what attributed to the suecessfril issue of the uniform fourpenny rate, in simplifying the Post-offloo manipulav tions. We believe that the general conviction amongst the Post-office authorities is, that the principles of uniformity and weighing are so advantageous to a rapid despatch of letters, that ; oven-with a finiPpenny rate a great increase of business might have been undertaken without any increase of force. • The Queen and the . humblest maid.2n will in future equally commuaie.ate their thoughts in a penny stamp ; .se that , tae highest personage in the realm has now 'no advantage in this respect ovetthelowest " c . l iter subjects. row the Morning 44(iverlistr.) • lOrr.e provincial jiieirialist is " happy to learn" (and his happiness Is shared hy the metropolitan Tory pres 3) that the f‘ chiefs of the Conservative party have, at, last determined to adopt, what the country has 'long called for, a vigorous course of action on the meeting of P:irliament." So that this joyful journalist anticipates the bliss of "congratulating his readers ere long on the overthrow of the traitorous Ministry, as it has been fitly termed by tho Duke ofiluckingbam." This announce ment is only worth noticing, perhaps, for the sake of the borrowed epithet which adorns it. The " traitorous" Ministry, The cry of " treason' raised 'by the Tories, is the last desperate remedy of the detected knave when he calls out " thief." We shall next have Min;; (ers accused of " flat burglary," in, virtue n( the- indo mitable resolution of their antart:ists to break into Doivning-street. 'This s,nrem of retort has been a trick among scitLipl and depredators, rather more respectable than some who now adopt it, ever since the hisliday of roguery. The Tories have for some ! genres past been utterly unscrupulous, and 'not allege tiler unsueoessful, in their use of it. In 1835 they, commenced the work of damaging the new and auspi cintrs GoVernment. by Imputing to it—their own practices! They are assuredly not deficient in self knowledge they know their own vices ; and thus know the Ode ingredients whereof they are themselves composed; they are aware, too, of the ill-odour that. follows them ; being keenly alive to the fact 'that no man is so sure of incurring, by any contrivance what soever, political odium in this country, as by deiignat ing him Self a Tory. To a government this' applies in a far stronger degree than to individuals. Accordingly, when the enemy looked about them for the means of iu juring Lord Melbourne's Ministry in public estimati on , what was the worst word they could say of it ? It was in effect, to all intents and purposes, a " Conservative Government"---a Liberal Cabinet controlled and governed by oppositio.l—a Reform . Ministry, 'at the mercy and under the management • of anti-Reformers! There was no certain way of ruining the but by imputing to it., however theoretical', Liberal, practical Toryism us a consequett c ! This game was played over and over aga i n, some' of r Ra dicals aiding tho more with far more ' , decency. " al ay after day, afte-..uexteirty tnan ° boast tre-echoed, -«~ ministers were held rsilessioinn, was the complete check—that Sir Robert Peel was virtually Premier, having a Liberal for his /o:unz tenens—that the Tories in reality ruled the country,-th at the Government was a " Conservative Government." All this 'served, its purpose for a' time ;' but 'everylie haS 'its limit ; and when it was seen that in spite of the " dead lock," and the " ripeness of the pear," practical reforms tvere the result of the Liberal union by which the Ministry was sustained—that the. public service n-as gradually be coming petrified by 'the introduction of 'tried friends of Abe , people into' every- department of the State— that. such -gaud fruits as- education grants and penny postages, valuable in theiriselves, and .equally so as 'promises of more, were " attainable under this. " Conservative" Administration, which Was to bring forth Toryism 'only—a new turn of the old trick became necessary, and accordingly the Government which but 'the other day Was (virtually) a " Tory Ministry," is now, by a most felicitous synonyme, converted into a " traitorous Ministry." The Tories began by imputing - to the • Liberal 'Cabinet their old . practices of being faithless and t reac h erous to the people ; they end by imputing to it their new habits, of being " traitorous" to the sovereign. " The chiefs of the Conservative party haveat last determined to adopt a vigorous course oraction," &c.. Have 'they ?' Then observe—if the To ries are thus to be banded fer a course of action which is to overthrow the Government, the Tory chiefs adopt the views and sentiments of their followers. Sir Robert,• like the junior Absolute, must' " take the estate with the live stock on it as it stande--he must take his Brad shaws, speeches included. 'His union with the Ultras, if formed, is formed with a full knowledge of all that, they have said, done, and written ; he takes them to his bosom with a foreknowledge of the political leprosy that renders them loathsome, and from that instant must abandon every hope orpretence of being personally uninfected and unspotted. "If there is to be no line of separation, but .all are to 'make common cause for a common object, then kthe united Tory party becomes the " traitorous" party indeed, and Sir Roberi Peel must be the founder of a traitorous" Ministry. If it were not disgusting it would be diverting to observe the gravity of the Tory attempt to fling the odium of treason upon the representatives of Liberal principles, and to repel in their own 'persons the charge, after they have been convicted of it... 1 The Chartists' have drawn , a line, which the Tories affect to be one of ac quittal to themselves. Tories have not yet taken up arms; they are not traitors, 'because they only speak treason, like the good villag er of Braybrook, ' " w h o was not an ass, b u t on l y brayed like one." There is no ter ror in this threat of a " vigoroUs course of action." No Reformer in his senses can suppose that, although the Tories should attain their " majority" ih the spring, they would, therefore, have " sown their wild oats ;" and no Reformer in his senses will ever• put a moment's faith in the sincerity of their reformation, or their fitness for the government of this moral and enlightened nation. We read of an animal who i with an instinct as cowardly as his thirst for blood is acute, invariably ascends a tree, from the sheltering.branches'of -which he may drop 'down upon the neck. of his prey, as it passes unsuspectingly beneath. .The instinct of -Toryism prompts it to ascend to power for the indulgence of appetites not totally dissimilar. • How silly must be its victims it they should resolve to help the gorged ; but still ravenous brute into the tree, which he.mnst .otherwise attempt to climb in vain. FROM THE DAILY PAPF I Es OF YE,STEILDAY. ' (From the 0/obe.) The Glasgow'Chartists,-as we 'mentioned yesterday, succeeded in carrying the,;. 'following amendment on the temperate and judicious resolutions brought forward at the late Anti-Corn .Law meeting in that ' city i—" That while this meeting has ex pressed ifs . opinion that the Ookri r laws ought to be imme diately repealed, accompaniedka reduction of those taxes. formerly adverted to, Jus, also thoroughly con vinced that the interests of tbew.hol,e people can never he attended to until every , rip of sane mind, uncon victed of crim e , h av i ng attaincgi e years of his maj or ity, ik ill be represented i n the Commonio ouse of Parliament." Unfortunately, a great adVanTi,given to the cham pions at pure democracy by theex .i, stence of such laws as the pi'esent . Corn-laW, and k: the nature of the feel ings' which such laWs exciie, in all whose honest inteiests they undermine ano(' r'iftn. Those of the ,aeillpar tisans of the present .systenk 1 , ,v1i0 ate short-sighted enough to chuckle at the poli4iil schisms in the ranks of the friends of trade and rOdstry, arc blind to the far more serious dangers indicatO 'by those very schisms. They rub their hands with 'glee that the masses are not united against the Corn-lov‘A.sipg/ 9 ; and they shut their eyes to the truth tkit f they are not so u n it e d, merely because those of themiiiho are p o liti c i ans press for c h anges m ore boundless..; : We would ask all who, like ourselves, arc in favour Of amoderate will gradual measures for the removal of restihetions on the free de velopment of our commerce La Industry - -whether this' state of feeling; in considerable numbers of' those who d epen d for bread, atUtlie-cointorts of life, on the continued: ---w e in4lit liari.. said the .accelerateii— extension of the fields of prodiltion and means of em ployment —we would ask theitioibether this state of feeling can afford matter for congratulation. On the one harid, here are masses or i ik working people who disdain nea rer o bj ec t s , and i 141,'4; to a, political re volution solely to improve t4IL condition. On th e other, here are men w h o were` peiier.politi c i a n s before— or if so, were, in many case's, p4b4hly, of some shade of. Coniervaism—fOrced to torn4ators—foreed to ad dress themselveS to half-eniployo, and half-fed myriads, to subscribe, publish, diffuse diftCon.tent by itinerant leetures, and to teach the peoPlA ig,look on those above them as the robbers of their b41r...: All this is tembn g to a state of things which the ms,ons may soon render revolutiOnary. No revolution v these days, c a n b e anything else than a braid war tto he, middle and u pp er classes, and those who a muse t cm with fervid dis cani-ses-abOut No Popery ott_the _one hand, or No Church-rate perhaps on the otkAr r —are even yet hardly aware of the volcanic soil upon which they stand. While we hear clamours of Clunich.and State in dan;er for this or for that trifle, far ottie t i.Aang,ers arc brewing for both in the condition and et,af' , p 1 large b o di es o f the people. W'y'e are convinciatthere needs little exaspeiation of that temper eirW condition to produce a st ae . of things—whichever w,it may terminate—. which must be long fatal to the mte.Fnal tranquiility,ihe wealth and greatness of this c--- (From the Stwiffra) The farmer s mus t exert thenisil . .ves to put the p resen t Ministers Out of office at oupcupOpy must require of their representatives —not to tofoct• pledges from the Melutiers of the Cabinet—l'e who would affect to set any value, upon Mtn' pledgftuuld deserve that no value should be set upon4tkewn. The farmers must require of their repreisiltaiives to take the very earliest opportunity of kwin g the Ministers out of office. If, indced,,,4br.: ~.purpose of the administratiOn were. not confessAity the Correspondent of the Sheffield journal, the 1 , 4* the Ministerial Press for, the last two mo n th s e iQhl to apprise us o f it. We charge ourselves with hlarne for not having given an earlier warning, and we must, in part, at least, venal the advice to htypatient which fvrit . ,tffered. We still adhere to the .principles upon which that resti-vve are AS 011116 'convinced as ever that there will ho soma sacrifice in the immediate occu pation of office by , the Conservative party, but it is wise sometimes to make -siscrifices in order meet and defeat .sudden and unforeseen_ r_a s o f treauliery.. The present is one"! ,t !..itse • cases. The farmers, we say it again, must ref . .. - . t alre•Q, their repre sentatives, be they Conservatives. , 6, , wfijas, or Radicals, to put out the Ministry upon th,:, e a r - tr es i pe Opportil,_ Wily, No pretence of p?liev .. or p:artY engagement mist be listened tol the quest . onis not, at leak has no...been, a' party question. m ...tie' Ministers are preparing t o m a k e i t ant; such, and 4 :nerefore they h a v e Ch ange d t h e i r r e l ation to g..,Attural Whigs and agricultural Radicals, as well as to agricultural Conservatives ; .they must therefore be put out, and put out promptly:or the agricultural inte rest of the United Kingilom is irrecoverably ruined, and all other interests are ruined with,it. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, with' ady Charlotte G rev ill e , t h e H on . M r. Egertor and f am il y, were at Rome when the last letters w" town, and it w a s no t th e intentie: ere received in return to be pres en t a t th e ap i of his Lordship t o , ` t 1 ° ; of Parliament. ItoBBEIIY AND P_..ESTITUTIO.N.—Ou Thurs day morning •a qu P .htity of plate; consisting of a num ber of. table and .tr.,a-spoons, silver forks, and numerous other articles, of plate, were dis Covered to have been stolen tom the residence of Sir Phillip Hard w i c k, i n 1) ••• • .'alter-street, Portman-square. It appears that, on Christmas-day, the servants were allowed to invite each of them their friends to spend the day with them (the family dining, out), which was enjoyed.in the most convivial manner. On Thursday morning, on the but ler looking over the plate; be, missed the above-men tioned articles, and was on the point of proceeding to the police station to give information of the robbery when a man, having the appearance of a porter, delivered a basket, directed to Mr. Seymour (the b4er),.wit',, the words on it " Carriage paid," and -;44s delivere:t to him. On opening it, to his aStonislanent the Whole of the missing property was found teetained in it, with a note addressed to Win as foll ows Sir—On due re flection of the dishonest and treacherous conduct- of which I committed,' and 'what may bring many innocent pereetas into extreme difficulty, X have sent 'you all the plate which was purloined, belonging to your employer. I am, sir, your'g4h&O„. . There cart be no doubt bUt that the robbery had been effected by some ' individual, an acquaintance of the servants... VI7,—TheNNA, DEC. 17,—The ArchducP Charles i Ferdin an d ar ri ve d on t h e 3d at Gratz on his way to Upper Italy, and on the 110 7 1 9- f t - r"i'riestie for Vienna, where, the' `Viceroy now is, r on the same day, Coe Duchess of Berri left Tr!,est„: to , return to'Gratz, IN' THE •CANTON OF Ti's,* SINO. fe l? f t .is inagrieggio, 1C — T - r -iuganQ Journal of the 17th inst., contains the There has been som e di s t ur b ance i n t h e circle a district in the Vallemaggra. When cne proceedings of the Electoral Asiembly were con cluded and the resolutions were reading, a band of dissen tients fell upon the people, wounded some and threatened others, who took refuge in an 'inn. The tocsin was sounded, and the house assailed with missiles of all kinds ; hut the Carabineers of Chiassa,came up, dispersed the rioters; and. restnred• order. A corps arrived y.esterday from Corregio, to concur in *Serving the peace, - inforeement was a l so s en t yes terdar'to Vezilac adi c.ree orders have likewise ar i sen nut attic ele , '• returned, to Lugano since all 44, l '.:ecome• AyiNpip ions, but it has 1 1 .0UsP. -- The whole of no valu able collection of pictures formed-nt. a osf by the late hake of Buckingham. i name *ell removed to 'the graudSgallery.at itnonghe iarest Hof; th'e lection ard ne of the unfo.rivoleillarie-44teitaSter -quetn Fyanee, and several Rembrandts, EVENING PIDITION. SPORTING INT.E.I,eLIGENCE, . ..„ . . GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH FOR 100 v S0ViS. This morning. at half-past seven, this match came pg . lxtmeen Clark, the celebrated Staffordshire runner, tond James Freers, Captain Lawdes groom, belongingto t):e nuards. The "match was, to start from -the place whero T)burmgate stood (each taking contrary r oa d s ), t o run tound the outside of Hyde-park and Kensington-gardens, returning to the starting post. Freers proceeded alo - tig the Usla~lige-road into Kensington-lane, turned into Kensing ton, pracf eling through Knightsbridge; Piccadilly, along Park lane, into Ost;ord-street, to the starting-post; his 'antagonist took the contrary direction, and th.:y pt.ssed each c tiler at Kensington. The distance, being four miles and a half, was perfolned by Freers in the short space of :23 minutes and 45 seconds, winning by upwards of a quarter of a mile. Large sums acre pending on the match ; a number of sporting gentlemen were present on the occasion. TeQ.NTING APPOINTMENTS. • I Her Majesty's ataghotinds will - meet on Monday, at Brick- , bridge; Wednesday, at Salt-hill; F r id ay , at Riehing's-park--= ' .• I at eleven. • The Brighton .harriers Monday, at Patcham ; Wednesday, at the Race-course; Friday, at the Dyke—at a quarter-past ten. The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket-bill ; Thurp day, at Telacombe Tyit—at half-past ten. The B. V. H. Monday, nt ThOrnhill-obeli - sk. Shropshire hounds• Monday, at Stoke-heath; Friday. at Prudhod—at half.past ten. ,• ThelCheshire hounds Monday at.Somerford-bridge; day‘, aatt Mere —hall St:nnford-brid ge ; Satur day', Mr. Archer's hounds Mond#, at Cann - 10ml New- , hrid .. ge • ; Thursday, at Chapman-hall —at half-p as t t en . ' - Marquis of ..Meynell:s bounds .Monday ; at Rangemoor "manse ; Thursday', at the Spread Eagle ; Saturday, at Ingestre. Mr. Meynell's Monday, at Red Wood- g a t e. ; Wednes day, at Bunny-park ;- Friday; it Horsley. o-y 11a • r General Wyndhal t 's 'h oun d s • Monday, at B e dh atp • a w ayl o b od oy h s ,: f t a ls ". e m ; ; hill; Wednesday, at .Shillinglee-park; Friddy, at the Com passes—at half-past ten. The M. IL, Monday, at Dole's Ash ; Wednesday, at Stir s _ ford-cross ; Friday, at Chaddon-farm—at half-past top. Sir C. Constable's'Staginaunds Montfay, N e • wton ; Th i‘ u i r r sda .. v, at Catwick ; Friday, at Bpron,Pidsea—at 'eleven. Tues day,Friday, , atc Charlton-chimps—at 0 . 1 1 1 8 ! f m c o i r i u t d m l 1 ' 0; h s a_k ci - l a c il t tl i3 e t r ° l li 7 i l . a d ur Y s ' d a a y t , Cr a t Mr. W. Horlock's hounds Monday, at Gidtty-hall ; Thurs day, at Hillcock's-winemill; Saturday, at Dcsrry-hill—at half past ten. The Cottesrnorc hounds Monday, at Tolltborpe Oaks ; Tuesday, at Ayston ; Thursday, at the Mall, at Witham-com mon—at a quarter to eleven. Earl Fatzwilliam's hounds Monday, at Waleet-park ; Tues day, at -Papely-gorse ; Thursday, at Cherry Orton ; Saturday, at Bythorn Toll-bar—at ten. • Sir R. Sutton's hounds Monday,•at Midge-inn ; Tuesday, et Martin by Illankney ; Wednesday, at Sudbrooke ; Thur;d•iy, at Anbourn-village ; Friday, at Gate Burton ; Saturda:y, at Wellinuore—at eleven. The r NorthuMberland and North Durham hounds 'Monday, at Howick ; Wednesday, at Bell's-hill , Friday, at South Chalton ; Saturday. at Middleton-hall—at half -pas'. ten. The East Kent' honnda Monday, at Postlin% 'Lees ; Wed nesday, at Swanton ; Friday, at Breech-down —at half-past t en. 'Vise East 'Sussex foxhounds Monday!, at Short-gate —at a quarter to eleven. The Fuldon foxhounds Tuesday-;' at the Nal- t• Th pos , urs day, at Erringham—at eleven. - The Norfolk foxhounds Tr.esday, at Elmham-hall ; Thurs day, at Bodhant ; Saturday, at 'I laursford Crayfish —at half past ten. Mr. Villebois' stagliounds Monday, at ; Thurs day, at Wereharngiall—at eleven. Mr. Mare's foxhounds Tuesday, at Easton ; Friday, at Branches-park—at half-past ten., • The Duke of Beaufort's hounds=-Monday, at Sithwood ; Wednesday, at Dyrhatn-wood; Friday, at Stanton-park ; Sa turday, at. Yate-rock;. Tudway's h oun d s Tuesday, at e Bonn's-lane, Maiden Bradley; Thursday, at Sturton-inn ; Saturday, at Downh:.ae,. Mr. G. Notley's harriers Monday, at Larford, near riar,„ v _ combo; Thursday, at Dorniford—at ten. The Middleton harriers Tuesday, at Warminster F.rs ; Fri day, at Southdown-barn—at eleven. The Atherstone hounds Monday, at Cadeby Toll-gate ; Wednesday, at Birchley Heys; Thursday, atley ; Satur dAy, at Newham—at a quarter to eleven. The Warwickshire hounds Moa;day, Foss- , farm ; Tuesday, at Mitford-bridge ; Thursday, e.rbourne-villag e ; Friday, at Avon Dassett ; Saturday, at Fpweli White- house—at a quarter to eleven. Mr ilellier's foxhoun' . .ts Moraday, at Hockley-house ; Wed. '1 nesday, at the King's Arms, Kenilworth ; Friday, at Beskes,- ; well—at half-past te, a . The Quern ho'Ands Monday, at Bunny ; Tuesday, at B ar .. I don ; Thursday, at Staunton Wyville ; Friday, at Barkby-hal,i Sir T. Bmhey's hounds Tuesday, at New-inn, Rand.sik. heath ; Thursday, at L ogger h ea d s; raaturday, at Hilton —at half-pass. ten. Mr. Leeche's foxhounds Tuesday, at Penley ; :Patin:day, at Handley—at half-past tell. The Padsworth foxhounds Tuesday, at Owstcm ; Thursday, at Burn ;` Saturday, at Ackwortla-',noor-top:,t half-pa s t t en. Mr. Foljambets' foxhounds '..tlonday, at Headon-clump ; Tuesdayat , at Osberton ; Thurs.d ay, at Gringley-on-the- Hill ; Friday, Thoresbyapakk—e. Y .tall-paat ten. Earl of Yarborou-,11 foxharands Tuesday, at Redbourn-hall ; Wednesday, at rA iby Cr oss-roads ; Friday, at Kingerby_ house—at clever,. Lord Cheat ,srfield's hounds Monday, at Maidwell; Tuesdr„ at, Badby-w co d ; Thursday, at Misterton ; Friday, at Bra .tap;: tun. wood . . Dak aof Grafton's hounds - Monday, at Beachamptor, . Wednesday, at ; Priday, at Sadder. „tos.e; , mill- t ha.f.p as t ten. ' The Oakley hounds Monday, at H.ail Weston ; xr Chu to r9da eli v v ' e a ta t . Milton -house ; Saturday, at Swineshead— a t a qt. ter 4. 41 ` Mr. Drak e ' s h oun d s T uesday, at usm°" ;house; Thltra- day, at Charndon-common ; Saturda.y, at W arden Kennel -_at half-past ten. oMurednesdra„:;.s.'daaty,B:n.c Cuckoo-d own ; F ri- T s i h r e ß Y . b h t a l r r n ri , e s r h s nds T .vill—at h a lf- past ten. day, at Roneombe-gate—a", ale yen. - Air. G. L. Cobham's ',tour ds Vrida y , at a. ten. MONUMENT 'TO THE DUKE OF WELLMo-- TON IN F.DINTAIRGII.---On Tuesday a meeting W.V. held in the"l - lop,toun Rooms, Edinburgh, to cons Vier th j propeiety of erect i ng in tin , metropolis o f S' cotland 11:Carmel testimonial to his Grace the Duke ',,f We1" . , 0 . g ,-, ton. The meeting was eumerously at m , Lord Provost was in the Chair. ' "Professo.r Wilson, tle so n ! u d t e io d t . , s „T h om e . o r . Rosel-, ere, moved, and seconded by the Earl and it was re , reed Sir George Clerk, the Lord Advocat ~ l' de Duke of Wellington the Earl of Dalhousie, and othr irs ; a co' .spicuous situation in the that an equestrian statue of t } ' .e personal remembrance of should be erected in city, " for perpetuating his Grace, and recoality, the gratitude and admiratire of the Se c tt i s h nr:c i on. " Upwards of :2,000/. were sr ~ , b .. . scribed on th e ' eeeas ; oe, PitisoY.e LIABL E TO WINDOW TAX 4 ' A tur , :,narg.: was lately ma d e b y M r. Talbot, the F Airve tn ., of taY.es in this district, of thirty windows, Y in that. part of the Essex Convict Prison, in ' .. 3 rin bein g fiehi. ang various Acts occupied by Mr. Neale, the Governor , w r i' lieh g Mr: Talbot contended was liable as a henefi , , , The Commissioners here, after consul' 4at occupation, which was of Parliament, which were reciter!, at Mr. Neale. Mr. Talbot granted, and forwarders t o. r.e Justices Litticdale, Patteso Of reqr,oste a athceastei,me, relieved thr- Commissioners above, , and that the Commissio,„eni by whom it wa's laid b, o f o 40 so/charge for thirty windows, theta and Meule, who 11,,,,, 4 .0 9/, 16s. 3d., is therefore confirt r .net ...-- Essex H:„ . ,,, aid„ w am er o e un7in o g ng% 7 Tr4E MURDER OF PETER COFFEY XT B ut d . m'ANGLIAM.—The inquest was resumed en, r. t'ommitted the the parties who were suspected of bavi7 ridgy, murder were brought into the rorrn, r fi r, ir names 7 0 years et age.; Thomas Walsh, an old man, nearly both about 40 John Walsh and his wife Mary Wal.,i d, 1 " : hor.1", age did not appeal. years old ; and Ellen Cr;n o n r , to exceed 20. The Cnroner first read over th e d e s Lions which h a d been - Already tat,,„ , poi; and, afte r a proper, caution, sev erally r.ixamined 'the p r i soners . Witnesse A the were nvestigafterwards examined., an d t h e Coroner aditeurn ed i . on till Se.'curday morning, when furf,h e i 1 evidence a- ! ai e o nst tue jrisoners was given, and the in , jue i t was n,Q l ' . ,,r, adjourned till Monday, .the 23d ; . I .tstant, vale', additional evidence was adduced, The Ci erooor b.eving read over the evidence, asked the pristineris whether they wished to sal , anything., a t that time, cautionin g them to do P:i .hey t:nueght proeei. The prisoner Thomas Walsl', then den:,ed what had beep sworn against hi m; he declared hin',self p er fe ct l y inno cent. Prisoner John Walsh observed that he' had nothing to say; but would leave all to Almighty God, Mary Walsh said she uever w:ls in the people's bolts, since they had tetken ;t. The prisoner Connor declared that she was innr _meet. The Coroner then read eve j r the evidence, an.'„i the ferry i'etired mad rem a i ne d i n d eli., beration. 0., '.. 1 entering the room again the foreman .‘ We find ' fhomas Walsh, John Walsh, Owen W%r„„lsh said. „ and Eli en Co nnor • gu il ty o f t h e murder, ear' r Walt'., a s accessory a f ter t h e f act ," The Coroner da -t 111,e m y sai".l that hi s d u t y was to comm i t them. tb dike th e i r 'trial for th e o ff ence at t h e next Warwick Assi2es. Mary Walsh bef ore s h e l e f t t h e p l ace .exclaimed.,.... Indeed, gentlemen, lam not guilty,,nor is my h ug ' Indeed, BRUSSELS, DEC. 25... 2 -The ay,zrage iniee of wheat last week was 22f . 64 e . , and th'af of rye 14f..per hectolitre. The Moniteur promul , gate, in' its . of is c i a i part :-1. Provisional regulations, for the' execution' of the 9th article of the Treaty of 'l9th April, 1839, rela tive to the pilotage. 2. ,proviso. regulations for the execution of the 9th, artiele relative to the common superintendence. P.,. Provislonal regulations for the execution of tlle 'same 9th article relativelti the naviga tion dte...ies in, ,the S c h e ld t and its mouths. ' `lo each of tiles, three_ documents is annexed the ratification ;by k- F:mg Leopold, dated . Weisbadth, 'Nov. 12,'and thrlt of King William, dated the Hague, Dec. 12, 7 1i339 ,',_',_ iihmiteur _Beige, Dec. 25. , BLACK CHEST OF' CHARLE I' I l i e ' XII---- a , . , of the small rooms we were also tanntli•ed with a 'sight of the large black chest bequeath , J d to the uni , -„ rs i ty b y Charles XIII., with indtrue,',,lons that it. ah'euld not be opened till fifty years aft er his death, "la is supposed 'to contain priVate cv,respondence orl, the. passing events of his time, and '..trat he left th'. e injunction in order that all the er.,,rties implicated m a i& be dead, before the contents .;re known. The tie ee for opening it is now not fe- distant; but little c ar i os ity i s f e l t o n t h e sub ice', in Sweden; a bolief having gone broad that a prince) l• hand, kayfut of disclos ures, alrout hi mse lf , opened the el s e t, and, ab s t rac t e d f rom it every paper of moment, soltat little will be revealed even, when the day ariivis.—Rxsomer's Excursion lir , I)c?unark, Xotp. I way, and ,tvedeor. i Last week we announced the nfep,ueu, return o f his Exa2llency Baron Bulow t,o resume :i . ts,.diplomatic duties as Prussian Minist er at ttlet,.Brie.ish Sp u rt. It has since reached Ili that the Baroness Bulow 4 with lber; rerting family; wilt lea . 6 8. - erlinirirrcottntry r - in a month or six weeks after his Excellency. • A- t a. ' , • ; "{,