The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-21 00:00:00

PRICES OF .TOCKS s DAY AT JNE O'CLOCK. Till ilank Stock ..• .. ..... i 8 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Co ns ............... 91 1 4 1 .4 i i South Sea Stock 11 1 4 per Cent. lOu , Old Annnities Ditto P.ed. look. !f i New Ditto - New 2 i•;,, per Cent ... ''''Vi , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - New S per C NA— ............ • ••• • Exch. Bills, Xl,lOO l7 19 pm. rank Long Annuitil. sto expire Ditto 500 ......... 17 19 p 1 i pin. in. Jan 5. !` - .14%. 00. 10. IA, - ji - , Ditto C0mmercia1.....„.... 19 1,171. J a n 5, IFAf — Ditto Advertised........... m Jan 5, ISK I • - Pia;ik Stock for Account ..... .... April 5, Min — • India S tork for Acc0unt......... Jan 5. 187 0 —Consols for Account ..... ..91541,i Ornnium Pin PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — ' Peruvian Ponds , Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account — ' P or t u guose Bonds — Ditto Account . Brazilian Bonds ... — \ Ditto Account —‘, Ditto New Bonds — Ditto Account -1 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account 84N 4 Ditto Account ... .............. Ditto, 8 per cent. — Chillißonds ..................... Prussian Bonds _ Ditto Account .................. Russian Bonds, ISthl ..... Camel) an Bonds .................. Ditto Account ... ........... , Ditto Account ................ .. Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, tS - 2.1 ... ...... 13;, Spanish Bonds — C Ditto Account .................. 33 t 1 Ditto Account — Dmish Bonds ..................... Ditto Bonds, p.. 3.1 50 40 E , Ditto Account .... .............. Ditto Account 50 1 4 49% Greek Bonds ........................ French, 5 per cent —r. —c Ditto Bonds, 12.5 Ditto Account . ........... ...... s per cent. —l. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent..., Exchange —f. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2 1 ; per cent. Ditto 6 per cent Ditto Account 3S! , i i Ditto, 5 per cent.. , lO3 Neapolitan — Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mexican Mining Company (ass. at 5/. pm.) 100 5% Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered ............ 1131. 10s. (Id. Ditto Unregistered — 21!.4 Great Western Railway Company 5 '20 1 4 Brighton IVilway Company Brighton (Gibbs'' Railway 5 4 London and Blackw2ll Railway London and Gravesend Railway Company I 2 1 .7 , 4 I, , ndon and Greenwich Ralik"! Company 2l 29 London and Southampton Rail, :!!.., Company IS 1614 4b London and Croydon Railway Co m p an y 2 4 North Midland Railway Company 5.554 Australasia Bank __. 10 9 1 4 ~,. Danube and Mayne Company .... General Steam Navigation Company London and Westminster Bank Provincial Bank of Ireland PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JANUARY IS 3 per Cent. Consols . ........ 9 l ll Oratul Cana Ditto, 4 a l Deb cent s. 6 per cent. 87% Ditto Reduced - er ?X per Cent. Stmt . 69 Hibernian Bank .. 2l Ditto New, 153 9 3 , 4 per C e nt. Debentures - Bank Stock 217 , City Debentures, 4 per cent... 79 Royal Canal Stock. - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock Arrived. Du 0 America I 0 Brazil 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Cartliagena (I I Dublin 0 I Flanders MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due 1 France I) 1 Lisbon 0 I Ouern. &Jersey ii 0 Malta 0 Hamburg ') 0 Mexico I 0 rL7lland 0 Jama;:a 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Leeward Liands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning........ .54. minutes after 4. t Evening 12 minutes after 5 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANi— Tills EVENING will be performed the New Grand Opera of THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. Count de Rosemberg, Mr. Seguin ; Marquis de Valmour, Mr. Templeton Montalban, Mr. Giubelei ; Michel, Mr. H. Phillips. Clara, Miss Shirreff; Marcella, Miss F. Healy. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime called WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. Harlequin, Mr Ellar ; Clown, Mr. T, Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Tumour; HaralllSCeralll, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss G. Reekie. To conclude with the new E Gran EWESS.d OpPratic Drama entitled TH J Cardinal de Brogny, Mr. Warde ; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The Grand Provost of Constance. Mr. Giubelei ; The Bishop of Constance, Mr. Seguin ; Eleazar, Mr. Vandenhoff. Rachel, Miss E. Tree ; the Princess Eudocia, Miss Fordo. Mtge Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box.offee is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2.5. Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, Is.—Upper Gallery. Is. ; Second Price, 6d HAMBURG, JAN. S, 18.36. 171EINE BROTHERS, CONTRACTO RS, beg to state that it will now be too late for receiving TICKETS before the Three First Days of Drawing of the 67th HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY; but Tickets warranted un drawn will sell between the third and fourth days at Ten Pounds. The largest Capital Prize cannot be drawn before the fourth day, as per Scheme. In February, en approach of the fourth day, the price will con siderably advance, wherefore it is recommended to order in the course of this month. moms The publication of Tx& SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 ;ninnies past Three o' Clock LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1836. The great dinner at Birmingham on the 28th inst. will be on a scale of magnificence never equalled in that town. Mr. HUME, M.P., Sir W. MOLES WORTH, Bart., M.P., and many other Liberal Mem bers of the House of Commons, have accepted in vitations. Our attention has been repeatedly called to a pro ject for catrying a Railway from London to Port dynllean, in Carnarvonshire, where it is proposed to establish a line of steam packets, so as to enable mer chants and others to make the journey from the British to the Irish capital in twelve hours ! This project is not one of those waking day-dreams in which idle speculators—who, having no affairs of their own to trouble their heads about, philanthropically en cumber themselves with the distresses of their country —are wont to indulge. It has been maturely con sidered by men of information and experience—it has been discussed in public by men of every class—and WC believe we may likewise add that the approbation of it has been general and z..nthusiastic. In The Sun of the 12th inst. we gave the Report of a public Meeting of the Nobility, Clergy, G:.litry, and Free holders of the county of Carnarvon, at which the High Sheriff presided, having for its object the disci2ssion of the practicability and advantages of establishing such a line of communication between London and Dublin. At this Meeting were present several Members of Parliament, and letters were read from others, who finding it inconvenient to attend, expressed themselves delighted at the means pro posed for facilitating the intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland. After several speeches were made, the Meeting passed a series of resolutions to the effect that Portdynllean is a much safer, more commodious, and much better-sheltered harbour than Holyhead ; and that the passage from Dublin to it could be made in five hours—that the harbour of Holyhead has been condemned as unsafe by the ablest engineers, and that vessels drawing more than eleven feet of water cannot enter it with safety. On the other hand, the Meeting resolved that Portdynllean may be safely entered at all hours, by vessels of the largest burden, as the depth at low water, in the shallowest parts, is from twenty-five to forty-five feet. The pro jected line of Railroad, from Portdynllean to London, was through M erionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Wor cester, and Oxford. In the whole of this line fewer difficulties were supposed to exist than have already been surmounted by the London and Birmingham Railway Company. As a proof of its earnestness, the Meeting in question appointed a provisional com mittee, and named .deputation to proceed to Dublin, to attend a General Meeting to be holden there on the 20th inst., which was to have been presided over by t he LORD MAYOR, and attended by the leading gentry of Ireland. Of the proceedings of the latter Meeting, we shall receive a report this evening by ex press--at all /events, in time enough to communicate in our impression of to-morrow. Relying upon the authenticity of the various com munications made to us on this subject, we can have no hesitati on in declaring that the project is one which calls for the nrompt attention and support of his MA - -yer racilitates our com ;v brings that country hin the sphere of repeals the Union, ies now only politically Ireland have hitherto ieir Crowns ; and, like 1 recourse to the cold, ;thod of interchanging :s by proxy. The con- sequence of this has been such as every sensible man must anticipate. They are still strangers to each other ; and as neither had the power of modulating the tones of the voice, and regulating the behaviour of their respective Representatives, no wonder that many acts, meant to be conciliatory, and many messages intended to be complimentary, were in the one case regarded with suspicion, and in the other received as insults offered under aggravating and peculiarly painful cir cumstances. Much of the good of everything depends upon the way in which it is done. What, then, was to be expected from parties to whom misrepresenta tion was ga i n —honour—distinction—aggrandizement? Was it natural to believe that Lords-Lieutenant, with the means of enriching their friends by grants of con fiscated property, would cry " peace when there was no peace," or represent Ireland otherwise than as a country in which all were rebels, who, at their birth, had not been bathed in the Boyne—the Irish Styx ? But independent of this, there is another considera tion which ought to have great weight with a Liberal and Reforming Minister. The expense of governing Ireland is immense ; seldom does the army stationed there fall short of from twenty-five to thirty thousand troops—which army may be appropriately styled the " Irish Ecclesiastical Body Guard." Now, were the distance between London and Dublin only half of what it is at present—and time is distance in this instance— half the number of troops, now presumed to be neces sary for the peace of Ireland, would then be amply sufficient. The chief necessity for a large military force in any place arises from the difficulty of augmenting it on any sudden emergency. Could we transport an army from this to Gibraltar in half an hour, we might safely entrust the care of that fort to a single regiment ; in the difficulty of instantaneous transport consists the necessity for a strong and well-appointed garrison, ra ther than in a dread of the attacks of an enemy. Now, no country can be influenced by a dread of military power—were it secure from the presence of a single soldier—into which fifty thousand men may be marched in the course of twelve hours ! Why, the time re duces the distance to a - Measurement between villages in the same county, rather than between capitals separated by the sea. The Railway and Steam-packet communication being completed to Dublin, a continuation of the line to Va lentia, or some harbour on the South West coast, for the reception of vessels from America, will admit of no postponement. The above includes all that we are just now prepared to say on this subject ; although at this moment we find our attention, for the first time, directed to a prospectus for the establishment of a " British and American Intercourse Company," having for its first object the carrying of a railway from Dublin to Birturbuy, on the extreme coast of the county of Galway. Of this prospectus a copy appeared in the advertising columns of The Sun of yesterday, but before this instant it altogether escaped our notice. We shall be careful not ;o lose sight of it however—of that the people of Ire and may rest confidently assured. In the Number of the Edinburgh Review, just published, there is an article on " the Origin, Nature, and Tendencies of Orange Associations," which de serves the attention of all dispassionate readers, from the very able and temperate way—for there is no undue virulence of animadversion—in which it points out the dangerous, and even unconstitutional, character of these Societies. Truly does the Reviewer remark, "we have seen enough of the proceedings, extent, and ten dency of the Orange Institutions of Great Britain, Ire land, and the Colonies, to feel satisfied that the existence of this Institution is not for the peace and well-being of the community. It may be objected that many of its proceedings are so silly, that they can scarcely be dangerous. But this is a mistake. The Orangemen, and more especially the Irish Orangemen, have had a firm, and fierce faith, in the truth, and righteousness, and utility of their pernicious Institution. Founded on principles of exclusiveness and insolence they have believed themselves to be meek and chari table ;—existing as a privileged minority among a con quered and oppressed population, they have considered themselves the injured and offended— combining against, or acting beyond, the law, they have thought themselves the most loyal of subjects—and reprobating bigotry, they have been at best but the bigoted per secutors of imputed bigotry." Not a sentence in the above passage but is stamped with the impress of the strictest truth. Does the 'sceptical reader ask for proofs ? Let him turn his eyes to Ireland ; let him see the condition to which that country, so lavishly endowed with all the best gifts of nature, is reduced by Orange ascendancy ; and cease to doubt the perni cious nature of these most intolerant of Societies. flow much blood has been shed in Ireland—how man) parents have had to bewail the loss of children, and children of parents—since the first Orange Lodge was established in that country in the remarkable year 1795 ! But, thank God, • the power of these Institutions is fast passing away. The light of public opinion has been let in on them ; a ll tri . :?r closest secrets have been revealed ; their warmest advt;cates are one by one dropping away ; and at no distant date they will exist only in the annals of intolerance. The Reviewer concludes' his exposition of the Orange Societies by the following cursory re marks on the present aspect of the Tory party :—" The Tories have been in a false position ever since the breaking up of Lord Liverpool's Administration, when the split took place, which was the close of their long reign. Since then, all has been make shift or give way. They are too weak to stand alone, and they know it. With one hand leaning upon . Orangeism, they beckon with the other to a fraction of the Liberal party." And beckon they may, till their very finger-joints ache with the effort ; yet not one single Liberal—if he be c onsistent in his creed, and no sham Reformer—shall think it worth his while to take notice of their dumb summons. The truth is, between Tories and Liberals a gulph is placed, which neither can pass with safety. Lord STANLEY and his party make the nearest approaches to what may be called Conservatism ; but, nevertheless, there is a wide line of demarcation between them. Rightly, therefore, does the Reviewer observe—" the Tories have no hopes, nor any very sincere desire for an alliance with Lord STANLEY'S small party." It is but a few days since we noticed one of those gross violations of truth with which the Times so often shocks its readers, when it attempts to defend itself from the, charge of inconsistency or illiberality. It had the unblushing impudence to declare that it had never attacked the religion of the Irish Catholics— that its " advice and constant exhortation had been, in every instance, to let men's creeds alone ;" and it even went so far as " to appeal to its bitterest enemies for the truth" of these astounding assertions, holding up at the same time to just condemnation the " unwise and " unfeeling" and unchristian practice" of making men's religious creed "an index of their dispositions as citizens." This profligate journal was well aware, that in making these professions, it was pronouncing the sev6r;st censure upon itself, its pages having teemed for months and ri3oLlths with the bitterest intolerance of every thin°. Catholic ; but it calculates on the stupidity of its readers, and on the facility with which it can unsay what it has said, when it finds it has given them offence. - In the leading article of the " leading journal" of - - 4,744ar5i -'4lll/rAak UM. _JESTY'S Govenizent. Whater nmnicatiot it 401.4 4,, virtual!. nearer toi l , with fish hat t of fa by the matiron bond o ex.:::kid and boas •tl*AepaEuzi_ratit4 of the ‘• other c / s, Dave had ceremonio 1 u / te - eling me kindnesses and e ecting alliances THE SUN, LONDON, THUngl:4;Ay, JANUARY 21, 1836 this day, which we have given in another part of our paper, will be found such a commentary as ri ht have been expected on the text, " Let men's breeds alone." The staple of the article is, as usual., abuse of O'CQN ng NELL, and a scandalous misrepresentation of the principles and views of those Catholics who support the first Administration which has ever. proved itself sincerely desirous of doing justice to Ireland. Its acrimonious tone—acrimonious even for the Times — is easily accounted for from the state of hopelessness to which the affairs of the party with which the Times is now identified, are ; but we would draw the attention of the reader particularly to the passage where it is remarked of the Catholics, that " they did not speak the truth, because . it was one of those (many) occasions on which, according to thellr hereditary creed, THEY DREAMT NOT OF KEEPING FAITH WITH HERETICS." Now, if we were asked where the best exposure of this atrocious calumny against the Catholic religion, viz.—that it holds the doctrine " that no faith is to be kept with heretics," is to be found, we should say "in the Times"—in the Times, however, as it was, not as it is—in the Times of those days—now gone for ever—when that journal stood foremost in the defence of truth, of justice, of national improvement—of everything, in short, which it now opposes and condemns. The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received. Their contents are wholly unimpor- Various rumours are in circulation on the sub ject of dissentions in the Cabinet, and the prevailing tone of public feeling in the Chamber of Deputies; but all is mere conjecture, unworthy of serious con sideration. These JourMals bring no new intelligence from the North of Spain. _ ;ant. PARIS JAN. 18.—We believe there is at least some ex aggeration, if there is not something else in what has been said of the precarious state of health of the Duke of Or leans. We are assured, on the contrary, that the marriage of the Prince is very seriously contemplated. The Prin cess spoken of is the daughter of Donna Maria Charlotte, consort of the Infant Francis de Paula, and sister of Queen Christina. The young Princess is 14 years of age ; it is said that she will come to Paris in a few months with her mother, and that the marriage will take place in a year. This morning at 11 o'clock, the English Ambassador M. Guizot and some Doctrinaire deputies, met at the Hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Urquhart, an English diplomatist, has arrived at Paris in his way to Constantinople. It is said that he is the bearer of impor tant dispatches for the English Ambassador in Turkey. The Algesiras, Triton, Nestor, and Scipion, of the line, and the Arteinise frigate now at Toulon, have received, as we are assured, orders to be ready to put to sea at the shortest notice. A postscript to the Arinoricain of the 14th, says—" A telegraphic dispatch of the 13th, announces that Admiral Mackau just left Paris, and that, on his arrival at Brest, the Jupiter (on board of which he will hoist his flag), the Terpsichore, and the Oreste, will put to sea. They will be followed in a week by the Jera and Santi Petri, of the line, and by the Hernzione frigate? After the equipment of the three last vessels, there will still remain ten companies of seamen, so that two ships of the line, or several frigates, might be immediately manned. General Alava was to leave Bordeaux to-day, to come to Paris. PARIS, JAN. 19.—The bad health of the Duke of Or leans has been spoken of. We can say that he walked on the Bois de Boulogne yesterday, with the Duke de Ne mours. His face, indeed, still bears some marks of fatigue, but otherwise he seems to be well. The expedition against.Tranezen had not yet left Oran on the 7th ; it was announced, that it would set out on the 9th. It is evident, even from the Ministerial correspon dence, that the object of the expedition to Mascara has not been obtained.—Messager, Jan. 19. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS JANUARY 19. live per Cents., 110 f. 109f .- 80c. 85c. 110 E Fdur per Cents., 1021. 2.;c. Three per Cents. 81E sc. 80f. 95c. 85e. Bank Actions, 2,150 f. 2,152 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 99f. 80c. 70c. 60c. Roman live per Cents., 103;4. Spanish Actives, 50 49% 50. Spanish Differes,ls l A;, 2 . Passives, , 6% tA $4%. Belgian Loan, five per Cents., 103 1 ,i%. Portugue, Loan, Five per Cents., 85 Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents 5.314. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 50c. ilaytian Loan, 4.10 f. EXCIIANCE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 23F. 52%e. ; money, 25t Three mouths, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 37,2 c. —Cours Bomism, THREE o'CLocK.—At Tortoni's, and at the open ing of the Bourse, the market was entirely passive. The Three per Cents. 81f. 25c., offered; the Spanish stock rather worse. About half-past 1 o'clock the price of the Three per Cents. gave way, and fell to 81f. sc. ; no reason has been assigned for it. The Spanish stock, on the contrary, has im proved, owing to a report that news from Madrid to the 12th i mentions that the vote of confidence has been passed n the Chamber of Proceres by an immense majority. Th e Actives dropped to 491, and are now 494. The stock has improved at Madrid, and every thing was quiet. QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 110 f. —c. ; Three per Cents., Sof. 95c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb hards, —; Differes, 101; New Loan, —; Actives, 49-; Passives, 161; Ducats, 98 85 ; Romans, 1031; Pedros, 85 ; Belgians, 1038 ; Dutch, 56f. 50c. ; Haytians, 410 f. —e. ; —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 121-; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 251; Five per Cent. Pei pe tuelles, Letters and Papers from Madrid, to the 11 th inst. inclusive, have been received. The Legislative Chambers were then engaged in the gradual removal of those abuses which are only to be eradicated by wise laws and a strong executive. Unmoved by the threats of unmasked rebellion, and unshaken by the fears, alarms, and terrors of timid neutrals, the Members of the legislative body, in concert with the President of the Council, were calmly deliberating upon measures calculated to promote the welfare of the coun try, in unison with such constitutional acts as might give a permanence to its liberal institutions. On the sth instant, the project of law voting confidence in the Government, which had passed the Chamber of De puties, was in due form laid before the Peers. By order of the PRESIDENT it was read a first time, and a Committee was named to take its details into consi deration. On the Bth the Committee made its report, in which the Bill was approved of without any sug gested mutilation or amendment. It was then agreed that the debate on the Bill should commence on the 1 1 th, as the Government wishes to have the law perfected with as little delay as possible. Among all well-informed persons in Madrid the prevailing opinion was, that the Peers would pass the Bill precisely as the Deputies sent it up to them, although several were expected to be made against it. In the Chamber of Deputies the Bill for the Regu lation of the National Guard was discussed for three days in uninterrupted succession. This measure was followed by one still more important—the Ministerial project for establishing the Electoral law of Spain. This measure—than which nonemoredeservin careful revision can be submitted to the Spanish Le gislature—will occupy the Chambers during a v of ry considerable part of the present Session. The speech of LOUIS PIIILLIPPE, on opening the French Chambers, gave great satisfaction to the Madrid Cabinet. M. MENDIZABAL openly avowed himself delighted with those pledges which it con- Quadruple tained relative to the observance of the Treaty. A report was in circulation in the political circles of Madrid respecting the interception of a letter from Don C Alums to a member of the royal family, in which it was stated that a Russian agent was at the camp of the Usurper, commissioned by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to make terms with him for the pos session of the crown of Spain. According to this re port, which obtained implicit credit with several influ ential persons in the capital, the AUTOCRAT offered to afford Don CARLOS sufficient aid to enabl e hi m to as cend the Spanish throne , on condition of receiving , as ,a,c.commupsetnbsaetiovnerythaegrßeeaalbealerictolstlielse great maritime. This intelli gent— . Powers of Western Europe. The accounts from the north of Spain received by the Government were exceedingly favourable. The chief cause of complaint was the conduct of MINA—no longer spoken of but as a blood-thirsty inhuman tyrant. The property of the monks confiscated to the uses of the State is estimated at 122,640,000 reals, or 1,226,4001. sterling. The public will find, in another part of The Sun of this day, the copy of a petition from the British mer chants residing at Canton, addressed to the King in Council, on the subject of those grievances,- annoy ances, and indignities to which Englishmen are ex posed in their intercourse with the authorities of the Celestial Empire. This petition is copied from a work just published by Smith, Elder, and Co. entitled " An Address to the people of Great Britain, explanatory of our commereial relations with the em pire of China, and of the course of policy by which it may be rendered an almost unbounded field for British commerce." We have read over this Treatise with much care, and cordially coincide in the principles laid down and the views taken by the writer. These principles and views we shall take an early occasion to dwell upon ;' the more especially as the British Government and the Directors of the East India Company appear to he equally remiss in asserting the dignity of the British people. ODE to the GENTLEMAN in BLACK. While others sing of war and love, Sun, moon, and star, and mead, and grove, Clear rill or whispering breeze ; I'll change the theme by way of spree, And chaunt a candid stave to thee, Oh Mephistophiles By thee this world is kept alive, Grave bishops fatten, lawyers thrive, Spring lions find their feeders ; For had we not thy name to maul, No parsons should we need at all, Quack scribes, nor special pleaders. They tell me that thine elfin crew Are ever—ever on the hue And cry to tempt a sinner, That barristers you tempt with fees, Aspiring Churchmen with degrees, And poets with a dinner. If so, for heaven's sake, bait with haunch Of venison fit to fill my paunch, Old wine, rich soup, and cod-fish, Spread well your nets, and sure as fate, I'll nibble at the tempting bait, And you will book an odd fish. Despotic fiend 1 all earth is thine, Talk as we may, of mind divine, Tis thou do'at give it weight— While virtue starves in roofless garret, Or prates unheeded like a parrot, Thou rul'st in kingly state. Sometimes in full lawn sleeves arrayed Thou preachest peace, demure and staid, And sometimes for a rare Frolic, thou praisest Church and King, And State, and all that sort of thing, • Beside the Speaker's chair. Old Johnson said, with venom big, In principles thou art a Whig, (Right hacknied is the story), Formed but to dupe, defraud and lie, But that's the very reason why I'm sure thou art a Tory. But now farewell, for hark, I hear Enjoyment's truest chanticleer, The sweet-toned dinner chime ; So here's your honor's health, and when, Most puissant Prince, we meet again, It will not be in—rhyme. COWES-TUESDAY. AFFLICTING ACCIDENT-THREE LIVES LOST!!! The Pomona schooner sailed from Cowes Roads about 10, A.M., on Monday. Two pilots, John and George Rose, father and son, went to pilot her out of the Needles. Sa muel White, son of Mr. Thomas White, ship-builder, went with them, to see his brother, with was going to St. Mi chael's in the schooner, clear of the island. It appears they were seen to leave the vessel about one, P.M., in a small boat, (a 14-foot punt), to return to Cowes, about two miles outside the Needles, the wind blowing fresh, and soon after the sea overrun her. This being observed by the Lady of the Lake tender, an attempt was made to reach them ; but it blew so hard, they towed the stem out of their boat, which was astern, and but for this ac cident they could have saved one of the party—two had sunk. The schooner Hebe, of London, was very near them, and also tried to render them assistance, throwing ropes, to them ; but having sprung her main boom, and carried away her main sheets, she was obliged to run in under the island. Thus perished the only hopes of a large family, Rose leaving a wife and six children, all daughters. Had it pleased Divine Providence to have spared only the son (a youth 19 years of age) he would have been able to have supported them. They now must depend upon the charity of others, which we hope will be as freely and liberally given as the 'destitute situation of this unfortunate family deserves. White was a remarkably promising young man, of great scientific attainments, and well known to most of the shipowners in England as a first-rate naval architect, and highly esteemed in the town. This is the second loss Mr. White, sen., has experienced within a short time—Mrs. White died, after a short illness, in March last. An accident of a singular nature happened a few years since, when two pilots, Clarke and Derrick, and an officer in the arms', were drowned near the same place, as they were returning from a transport—the officer having been out of the Needles with the pilots, to take leave of his brother ; we hope it will caution others not to risk their lives in such boats outside the Needles, at this season of the year. Our worthy Rector and the farmers of this parish, (Northwood) seem not on the most friendly footing. The liberal Gentleman is likely to experience some trouble in the collection of his tithes, unless a new light should open on him. It appears that the land was valued, and the tithe fixed some twenty years ago, when wheat was 151. or 161. per load, and the farmers think that valuation too high, now wheat fetches only 9/. a load. As the Parson cannot comprehend this, it is proposed that he should in future take it in kind. NEWPORT. Our municipal affairs seem to remain in the same state they were in on the 30th ult. The Town Clerk is the only official—neither party can concede, so that, till Parliament meets and :relieves them, we can have no Aldermen or Mayor. Report says an application is to be made to Par liament for the Quarter Sessions for the island to be held at Newport. This would relieve the island from a great expense in County Rates, and hundreds of pounds, that are now taken out of it, would be spent in it ; besides, all par ties, whether prosecutors, defendants, witnesses, constables, or jurymen, would be saved an immense loss of time and expense, and could be home every night. Now they are kept at Winchester sometimes for a week at a time, at a s erious expense, and, perhaps, the ruin of their business. The Municipal Bill has had a good effect on other bo dies. The Commissioners for improving the town of Cowes have this year published a Balance Sheet„ being the first in twenty-one years. Had it been done five years sooner, the inhabitants might have been saved near a thousand pounds, which the Commissioner's Clerk borrowed and omit ted to return. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Jan. 15, 1836 made up. from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englen I and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 37s Od. I Oats B ar l e y 2Bs Id. Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 3(3s. 5d I O ats B ar ley 97s 8d Ry e DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat Barley l9s. 10d I R ye VALUABLE TO WHITESMITHS, &C.--It iS per haps not generally known amongst mechanics, that the salt called prussiate of potash, which may be had of a ll th e chemists, is now much used in case hardening. The pro cess is easy, and saves a great length of time. The method is to powder the salt, and sprinkle it upon the iron when in a state of redness : it will be found to run like oil, and when plunged into cold water, will be found to be as hard or even harder than iron case hardened in the usual way. The Leeds and Sheffield houses engaged in the American trade are stated to have escaped, as well as the Liverpool houses, in the late conflagration at New York. It was at first reported that some of the Yorkshire houses were great sufferers, but there is now reason to hope that that is not the case, CHINA-CANTON. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. THE 'PETITION OF THE UNDERMENTIONED BRITISH SUBJECTS AT CANTON. HUMBLY SHENVETII, That we are induced, by the extraordinary position in which we feel ourselves placed in relation to the Chinese Government, to petition your Majesty in Council to take such measures as may he adapted alike to maintain the honour of our country, and the advantages which a sane and uninterrupted commerce with China is calculated to yield to the revenues of Great Britain, ana to the important classes interested in its arts and manufactures. • We beg humbly to represent, that at the present moment, the Commissioners appointed by your Majesty to super intend the affairs of British subjects trading at Canton, are not acknowledged by the constituted authorities of this country, and that they are not permitted to reside within the limits to which their jurisdiction is, by their commis sion, strictly confined ; while they are forbidden by their instructions to appeal to the Imperial Government at Pe king, and are perfectly' powerless , to resent the indignities offered to the late Chief Superintendent, or to compel re paration for the injuries done to your Majesty's subjects by the late unprovoked stoppage of their trade. Your petitioners are well persuaded that the powers vested in your Majesty's Commissioners were thus restricted with the express object of avoiding, as far as possible, all occasion of collision with the Chinese Authorities ; while it was hoped that, by maintaining a direct intercourse with the principal officers of Government, instead of indirectly communicating through the Hong merchants, a sure way would be opened for the improvement of the present very objectionable footing on which foreign merchants stand in this country, and for security against the many wrongs and inconveniences which they have had to suffer in the present state of their commercial avocations. Your petitioners, however, beg leave most earnestly to submit to your Majesty in Council, their thorough convic tion, founded on the invariable tenor of the whole history of foreign intercourse with China, as well as of its policy on occasions of internal commotion, down to the present moment, that the most unsafe of all courses that can be followed in treating with the Chinese Government, or any of its functionaries, is that of quiet submission to insult, or such unresisting endurance of contemptuous or wrongful treatment, as may compromise the honour, or bring into question the power of our country. We cannot, therefore, but deeply deplore that such authority to negotiate, and such force to protect from insult, as the occasion demands, were not entrusted to your Majesty's Commissioners, con fident as we are, without a shadow of doubt, that had the requisite powers, properly sustained by an armed force, been possessed by your Majesty's late First Commissioner, the lamented Lord Napier, we should not HOW have to de plore the degraded and insecure position in which we are placed, in consequence of the Representative of our Sove reign having been compelled to retire from Canton without having authority to offer any remonstrance to the Supreme Government, or to make a demonstration of a resolution to obtain reparation at once, for the insults wantonly heaped upon him by the local authorities. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Majesty will be pleased to grant powers plenipotentiary to such person of suitable rank, discretion, and diplomatic ex perience, as your Majesty, in your wisdom may think fit and proper to be entrusted with such authority ; and your peti tioners would suggest that he be directed to proceed to a convenient station on the east coast of China, as near to the capital of the country as may be found most expedient, in one of your Majesty's ships of the line, attended by a sufficient maritime force, which we are of opinion need not consist of more than two frigates, and three or four armed vessels of light draft, together with a steam vessel, all fully manned ; that he may, previously to landing, require, in the first instance, in the name of your Majesty, ample re paration for the insults offered by the Governor of Kwang tung and Kwangse in his edicts published on the occasion of Lord Napier's arrival at Canton, and the subsequent humiliating conduct pursued towards his Lordship, to which the aggravation of his illness and death may be attributed ; as well as for the arrogant and degrading language used towards your Majesty and our country in edicts emanating from the local authorities, wherein your Majesty was repre sented as the " reverently submissive" tributary of the Emperor of China, and your Majesty's subjects as profligate barbarians, and that they be retracted, and never again em ployed by Chinese functionaries : that he may also demand reparation for the insult offered to your Majesty's flag by firing on your Majesty's ships of war from the forts at the Bogue, and that remuneration shall be made to your Majesty's subjects for the losses they have sustained by the detention of their ships during the stoppage of their trade. After these preliminaries shall have beel'a conceded (as your petitioners have no doubt they will be), and not till then, your petitioners humbly suggest that it will be expedient for your Majesty's Plenipotentiary to propose the appoint ment of Commissioners on the part of the Chinese Govern ment, to adjust with him, on shore, such measures as may be deemed most effectual to the prevention of future occa sion of complaint and misunderstanding, and for the pro motion and extension of the trade generally, to the mutual advantage of both countries. Your petitioners believe, that if these matters shall be fairly represented, so as to do away with all reasonable objection, and the favourable in clination of the Chinese Commissioners be gained, there will be found little disposition on the part of the Supreme Go vernment to withhold its assent, and every desirable object will thus have been attained. Your petitioners would humbly entreat your Majesty's favourable view of these suggestions, in the confidence that they may be acted upon, not only with every prospect of success, but without the slightest danger to the existing commercial intercourse, inascutich, as even with a force not exceeding that which we have proposed should be placed at the disposal of your Majesty's Plenipotentiary, there would be no difficulty, should proceedings of a compulsory nature be required, in putting a stop to the greater part of the external and internal commerce of the Chinese empire ; in intercepting its revenues in their progress to the capital, and in taking possession of all the armed vessels of the country. Such measures would not only be sufficient to evince both the power and spirit of Great Britain to resent insult, but would enable your Majesty's Plenipotentiary to secure indemnity for any injury that might, in the first in. stance, be offered to the persons or property of your Majesty's subjects ; and would speedily induce the Chinese Government to submit to just and reasonable terms. We are, at the same time, confident that resort even to such measures As these, so far from being likely to lead to more serious warfare, an issue which both our interests and in clinations alike prompt us to deprecate, would be the surest course for avoiding the danger of such a collision. Your petitioners beg to submit that the mere restoration of the liberty once possessed of trading to Amoy, Ningpo, and Chusan, would be followed by the most beneficial con sequences, not merely in the more extended field thereby opened for commercial enterprise, but in the rivalry which would be excited as formerly, in the officers of Government at these several ports, to attract the resort of foreign mer chants, and thus extend their own opportunities of acquiring emoluments from the trade. With respect, however, to this point, or any other of com mercial interest. that it would be expedient to make the sub ject of negotiation, your petitioners would humbly suggest that your Majesty's Minister in China should be instructed to put himself in communication with the merchants of Canton, qualified, as they must be in a certain degree by their experience and observation, to point out in what respect the benefits that might be reaped under a well re gulated system of commercial intercourse are curtailed or lost, in consequence of the restrictions to which the trade is at present subjected, and the arbitrary and irregular exac tions to which it is exposed either directly, or not less severely because indirectly, through the medium of the very limited number of merchants licensed to deal with foreigners. As as instance of the latter, your petitioners may state the fact, that the whole expense of the immense preparations lately made by the local government to oppose the ex pected advance towards Canton of your Majesty's frigates after they had passed the Bogue, has been extorted from the Hong merchants ; and as but a few of them are really in a solvent state, they have no other means of meeting this demand, but by combining to tax both the import and export trade. We would further humbly, but urgently, submit, that as we cannot but trace the disabilities and restrictions under which our commerce now labours, to a long acquiescence in the arrogant assumption of supremacy over the monarchs and people of other countries, claimed by the Emperor of China for himself and his subjects, we are forced to con clude that no essentially beneficial result can be expected to arise out of negotiations in which such pretensions are not decidedly repelled. We most seriously apprehend, in deed, that the least concession or waiving of this point under preSent circumstances, could not fail to leave us as much as ever subject to a repetition of the injuries of which we have now to complain. We would, therefore, humbly beseech your Majesty not to be induced by a paternal regard for your subjects trad ing to this remote empire, to leave it to the discretion of any future representative of your Majesty, as was permitted in the case of the embassy of Lord Amherst, to swerve in tbo smallest degree from a direct course of calm and dis passionate, but determined ukaintenance of the true rank of your Majesty's empire in the scale of nations, well as sured os we feel, that any descent from such just position, would be attended with worse consequences than if past events were to remain unnoticed, and we were to be left for the future to conduct our concerns with the Chinese functionarie s , eac h as h e b es t may.* It would ill become your Majesty's petiticesTors to point to any individual as more competent tIOn another to un dertake the office of placing 9,a a secure and advantageous footing our commercial relations with this country. We may, however, perhaps be permitted to suggest the inex pediency of assigning such a tfsk to any person previously known in China as connected with commerce, conducted under the trammels and degradations to which it has hi therto been subjected, or to any one, in short, who has had the misfortune either in a public or privz.te capacity, to endure insult or injury from Chinese authorities. -Equally inexpedient would it be, as appears to your pe titioners, to treat with any functionary not specially nomi nated by the Imperial cabinet, and not on any account with those of Canton, whose constant course of corrupt and oppressive conduct forms a prominent ground of complaint; or to permit any future Commissioner to set his foot on the shores of China, until ample assurance is afforded of a reception and treatment suitable to the dignity of a Minis ter of your Majesty, and the honour of an empire that ac knowledges no superior on earth. And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c. Canton, Dec. 9, 1834. (Here follow the signatures.) KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) WATTS V. FRAZER AND ANOTHER-LIBEL. This was an action for libel, brought by Alaric Alexander Watts, Esq. Editor of the Literary Souvenir, against the proprietor and publisher of Frazer's Magazine. The case had been tried before Lord Denman at the Sittings after last Term, and a verdict had for the plaintiff, damages 150/. A new trial had been subsequently moved for by Mr. Earle, on the ground of the rejection of certain evidence at the trial, rehitive to the plaintiff being the publisher of certain newspapers, which contained reflections upon the characte of the defendant Frazer: Lord DENMAN now delivered the judgment of the Court. The point to which the attention of the Court had been di rected, was one which they thought a fit matter for reconsi deration, and therefore there ought to be a rule for a new trial.--Rule absolute. DAVIES V. WILLATTS. This was an action for money had and received, brought by the plaintiffs, who are extensive cloth manufacturers, against the defend an t, t o recover t h e amount of certain bills wich had been discounted by him for the plaintiffs' agent in London, and which the plaintiffs had been subsequently called upon to pay. It appeared that the plaintiffs' agent, Williamson, had drawn bills at a longer date than he was authorised to do, and had acted in a very fraudulent manner towards his employers, by converting their proceeds to his own use. The case had been tried at the London Sittings after last Term, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, when the plaintiffs were nonsuited. A rule to set aside the nonsuit, had been moved for during the present Term by ate Attorney-General, on the ground that the defendant sl' A ould have been required to prove how the bills came ilito his possession. Lord DENMAN now gave judgment. T i ne Court did not think that any fraud attached to the , lefendant in his transactions with the plaintiffs' agent-, and therefore as the hills bad been discounted in the rr_gular course of trade, he should not be called upon V.; give an - account of how he came by them. They were of opinion on these grounds that there ought to ht no rule.---Rule refused. EXCHEQUER COURT.--(THIS DAY.) The Court was engaged the whole morning in hearing Mr. CRESWELL and Mr. THESSIGER, against, a rule for & new trial in the insurance case, of Chattock v. Shawe. The case will occupy the whole day. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. The Judges met this morning in the Exchequer Cham ber, when they selected their Circuits for the Spring As sizes as under : NORTHERN—Lord Denman and Baron Parke. HOME—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Vaughan. MIDLAND—Lord Abiuger and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. NORFOLK—Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Justice Gaselee. WESTERN—Mr. Justice Littledale and Mr. Baron Bolland. OXFORD—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. NORTH WALES —Mr. Baron Gurney. SOUTH WALES—Mr. Justice Coleridge. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wind S.W., moderate,—Arrived the Arina, Richards, from Dublin. Arrived from the river and sailed the Robert, Yoe, for Bridport. Pu!,. back and remains in the Downs the Ann, Griffiths, for Bp:mbay. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind W. S. W.—The Malcolm , for Calcutta, is reported to be between the Owers and the Narb, and will be in to-night. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Barnes. Schallat, for Batavia. pALMOUTIT,JAN.I9.—Wind rived_ his Majesty's ship Quail, from Lisbon —sailed the 10th instant ; Camilla, Hanson, from Vostizza ; and John Pink? Nixon, from Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—Wind E. to S.S.E.—gailed th e Inca, Harrison, for Canton ; and Rosalind, Little, Bombay. MARGATE, JAN. 20.—Arrived off port the hnet, Forbes , from Riga ; and Lynke, —, from the Cap!, of Go o d Hope. CLYDE, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Guiaina., Hamilton, from Berbice ; St. Vincent, Brown, and Jean ! Hastie, Robertson , from Demerara ; and Agnes ! Cook, from Hayti. WATERFORD, JAN. 18.—ArriXed. the Volunteer, Galhards• from St. Übes. HULL, JAN. 19.—Arrived. the Jupiter, Goberg, Landscrona• The Fly, Sampson, from St. Michael's, was on shore near the North Foreland yesterday, and filled with the tide—cargo' saved in a damaged state. The Lavinia, Leash, from Liverpool, struck on a bank neat, Sligo th© 16th instant, fell over, strained, and made a g deal of water. The David, Loudon, from Perth, was driven on shore Palling the 19th instant, and would be a wreck—erew part of the cargo saved. Brazilian h ur C ch o n_ s s t u r l e a e t t e . O L ffi o c i e l;io l n 7 , , Jan , n 1 d 9 7 1 -s B t 3 r 6. eo t, Few Sir—_l have the honour of transmitting to you an extract. of the observations issued by my Government and received by 10 through the medium of his Excellency the Brazilian Minister of the Court, which the Commander-in-chief of the Braxiliao vessels of war , bl oc k a di ng t h e ports o f t h e province of Para. 0 to follow respecting the said blockade, which you will 1 1 pleased to notify in your official list for the gov ernmen t o f all parties concerned therein. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ( Signed) ANTONIA DE SILVA, Szc''' Brazilian Consul General. Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyds. The regulations to be observed by the Commander-in-Ch ief of our vessels of war, respecting the blockade are as follows No vessels blockaded to any destined port can be captured of condemned if previous notice or intimation of the blockade be net given by the blockading forces, or by some vessel beloor ing to the blockading squadron or division ; and that ignorance of blockade may not be pleaded, any vessel having re' ceived such intim a ti on w ill b e li a bl e to capture if she re-appow' off the blockaded port during the continuation of the blockade' The Commander of the vessel who gives notice thereof will de,' dare the same on the ship' s paper, stating the place or latitude in which the notice of the existence of the blockade was made' and the master of the ship to whom such information has bee made, must give to the said commander a certificate of having received such notification, which must contain a copy of the' declarations made in his ship's papers. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK , Our arrivals this morning are a French. and a Lisls o mail by the Quail, sailed 10th January ; ship letters fro° the Cape of Good Hope, of an old date ; also a mail fro° Ostend. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antgol e of the 20th J anuar y, b r i ng i ng t h e A msterdam funds of 16th instant :-21 per Cents., 55 11-16 ; 5 ' per Cents., 102* ; Ardouin's Loan, 49 13-16. The Lisbon mail is of the same date as previously r e '" ceived by the L on d on M erc h ant steamer, and consequentiu does not bring any fresh intelligen ce . Consols, which closed yesterday at 913 for the I.o' count, and 91* 4 for money, opened at the same p rice° this morning. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 ; India Bonds,, 3 6; Bank Stock, 214 215 ; India Stock, 252 253. It is expected that the Commissioners for the Wi ts t j n ( Claims will purc h ase Consols to a large anl i o ttu t in t`i course of the a f ternoon. In the Foreign Market little doing' ,and ft- prices are muc h t h e same as they Active B on d s , 504 • ; Portuguese, 8 1 41 ; 3 per C en t s ., 54! Colombia n , 331 3 4 ; Mexican, 38) . , ; Dutch 21 per Cent'' 554- ; Chilian, 50 1 51k. IP- 4 '' most o b Jtf yesterday. Spatli: . The express from Paris 'orings advices from M a drid t ° the 11th inst. As we stated two days ago, it was no t, es' pected that M. M en di- zabal would bring forward his ne t financial plan until 4. ne 20th inst. No news of i m portan from the arm i es ; .a the North of Spain. French prices . 5 per Cents., 1 ,10 10 ; 3 per Cents., 80 95 ; Spanish tive, 49i HALF-PAST ala'.. o Although the Com m i ss i oners for the West In Zia Clai'l purchased in the early part of the morning u p war ds . f e 250,000/. Con so l s a t 91 1, it has not had any effect on r*P market to th e contrary, Soon after the Commissione d were supplied with the Stock, Consols receded from 91 1 e to 91/ fo r A ccount, and 91i for Money, at which they may be quoted at present, with little doi ng . Eoh d 14 quer Bills, 17 19; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 215 ; India Stock, 253. In the F ore i gn Market Spanish A ctive Bonds hav be come h eavy, and receded from 50/ to 49i, at preset)+, 49 Portuguese, 84k ; Three per Cents., 54i. ia We h ave no further arr i va l s at present. Th,4 Ma-r letters are of the tenor already published. THRE.R LOC IC Consols for the Account, NU, k`