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session, and their rights as students of that school—as they ympathised with the wounded honour and insulted feelings of their lecturer, and as they valued his merits and his services to them ; to use every endeavour to restore him to the office which bad most worthily filled, and from which he had been most unworthily expelled.—(Great cheering.) Mr. JEFFERSON said he had an amendment to propose, to the effect, that the meeting had not the slightest intention to cast blame upon the Council.—( Laughter and applause.) 1 Gentlemen might laugh, but no argument had been adduced eto prove that the fault had been with the Council. It was very well known to every one around him, that the proceed ings now complained of, had arisen out of certain exhibitions made by Dr. Elliotson, in what was called the Science of Animal Magnetism. It was also well known that those exhi bitions were disapproved of by the Professor's colleagues— ( Oh, oh, and laughter)—and there could be no doubt that those exhibitions had bean injurious to the hospital.—(No, no, and Yes, yes.) He:wished to go into the subject of those ex hibitions, and he was not surprised at being interrupted by the hisses of some gentlemen. The CHAIRMAN said that the question of Animal Magnetism ought not to be discussed on the present occasion ; but he thought that no gentleman should be prevented from discussing the practice of it, so far as that practice was connected with the question before the meeting.--( Great applause.) Mr. JEFFERSON would confine himself to the rule laid down by the Chairman. It was a well-known fact, that mesmerised patients had been taken to the bed-sides of other patients, to prophecy when they would recover.—( Hisses.) He would merely ask whether this was not calculated to injure the hospi tal ?—( Hisses and cries of " prove it.") It could not be de nied that Dr. E. bad been remonstrated with upon this sub ject by his colleagues, and that at length the House Committee went into an investigation respecting it, and Dr. E. never de nied the statement.—( Hisses and much confusion.) The re. port of the House Committee was laid before the Council, who came to the resolution that the Institution was seriously damaged by the practice, and they were perfectly jus tified in requesting Dr. E. to discontinue it. He ( Mr. J.) had no doubt that it was injurious, for he himself knew of pupils being prevented from coming to the hospital on ac count of the practice.—( Hisses, and a cry of " Look to the numbers this year.") Ili the present state of the public mind respecting the so-called science of Animal Magnetism, the practice could not be otherwise than injurious, whether the science were true or not, and he was not then going to say that it was not true.—( A laugh.) When the resolutions of the Council were communicated to the House Committee, the latter resolved that " Dr. Elliotson be requested to discharge Elizabeth Okey forthwith ;" and surely under the circum stances no more courteous mode could have been adopted. The Council having resolved, first, " that E. Okey should be discharged forthwith," further resolved, " that the practice of Mesmerism should be discontinued in the hospital ;" and he would appeal to any unprejudiced man, whether the Council could have taken any other course—( Hisses and laughter.) He hoped that the noise of the small minority who came to vote in favour of Dr. E., whether right or wrong, would have little effect—such minorities were always noisy.—(Great laughter and hisses.) With respect to what had been said of the character and talents of Dr. E., he was ready to admit that there was not in Europe a man more devoted to science, or more sincere and zealous in the discharge of his duty to his pupils.—( Cheers.) But at the same time that he did justice to the Professor, he would not consent to do an injustice to the Council. Mr. GEORGE, in seconding the amendment, requested to call the attention of the meeting to a few facts. which he begs ged to remind them were not to be successfully answered by hisses. In an anonymous letter, of which he had received a printed copy, he (being an officer of the Institution) was ac cused of having proposed the postponement of the present meeting to Tuesday next, in order to give the Council an op portunity of appointing in the meanwhile (on Saturday) a successor to Dr. E., so as to prevent the interference of the students by any expression of their opinion. He denied that he had acted from any such motive, and he denounced the anonymous author of the letter as a slanderous libeller.— ( Applause.) He cordially joined in the praises bestowed upon Dr. Elliotson._( Laughter, hisses, and applause.) No pupil had been more indebted than himself to that Profes sor for kindness and instruction. But it was his duty to up hold the Institution rather than the Professor, when he was convinced that the one was more in the wrong than the other. They were then assembled in consequence of a letter which had been circulated amongst the pupils in the handwriting of Dr. Elliotson, to the effect that " the Council having ordered the instant dismissal of a patient from the hospital without any communication with him (the senior physician), and having ordered that he should discontinue to use Mesmerism in the cure of disease, he felt that he had no alternative but to re sign," &c. Now the fact was, that it was one of the laws of the hospital, that a patient should be discharged at the expi ration of two months, unless the physician should especially report it to be expedient for such patient to be longer retained. But Elizabeth Okey had not yet been discharged, nor had the practice of Mesmerism been discontinued with her since Dr. Elliotson's resignation, which he ( Mr. G.) considered highly , improper.—( Applause and hisses.) Had the practice of Mes merism been confined to attempts to cure diseases, the Council would not have interfered. But the manner in which it had been practised could not have had any but a demoralizing effect.—( Hisses.) It was a fact that Okey bad been taken to the houses of Mr. Wakley, Dr. Roget, and others, to be exhibited.--( Great confusion.) What--was the hospital to be made a board and lodging-house for persons to be carried about as spectacles, to induce the public to fall down and worship the " new science ?"—( Applause.) He asked that meeting, com posed of students of a grave and important science, what did they think of their senior physician's making Mesmeric pro phecy a part of his medical diagnosis ?—( Hisses and renewed confusion.) A magnetised girl in a state of delirium had been Drought into the room where a dying man lay, to prophecy as to his recovery I She said that she saw Jacky—( A laugh)— for so the phantom was called—by the man's bed. side Was it any wonder that the patient died ?—( Hisses, &c.) This fact had been stated before the House Committee, by the nurse and other witnesses, in Dr. Elliotson's presence. Mr. TAYLOR begged leave to set Mr. George right— ( Hear, hear.) He himself had already declared his intention to take no part in the present discussion, but he was bound to state facts. Dr. Elliotson was not present when the witnesses were examined.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. GEORGE-But the facts remained the same—(Hisses).— and such proceedings were scandalously improper—( Hisses and cheers)—they were disgraceful to the character of a pub lic institution.—( Renewed confusion.) They were so unlike everything that became the character of a man holding such rank and station, that, if the Council were at all to blame, it was because they bad not sooner put a stop to them.—( Ap plause and hisses.) He asked the meeting, were they prepared again to listen to the Mesmeric prophecies, and to witness the same immoral and disgusting proceedings over and over again ?—( Hisses.) If the Council had treated Dr. Elliotson injuriously, why did he punish the pupils ? Why did he de sert his class, before the course was half finished? Why did he foist upon them (as had been said) an inferior professor for the best teacher in the world ?—( Confusion. ) But was there no other " balm in Gilead?"—( Hisses.) Gentlemen might hiss as long as they pleased, but they should not put him down. There were other professors in the schools of Lon don ; and it would be better to have one even a little inferior, if at the same time he was a little more respectable.—( Ve hement expressions of disapprobation.) He did not speak of his private character, but of his proceedings as a professor.— (Oh, oh.) Although he was willing to second the amend ment of Mr. Jefferson, yet he preferred to suggest, instead of it, another, to the effect that an address be presented to Dr. Elliotson, thanking him for his past services, and ex pressing the regret of the students tha', they were deprived of them for the future. (Mr. Jefferson having consented to the substitution of this amendment for the one proposed by him self), Mr. George entreated the students to consider that the Council had no interests in the matter other than those of the Institution and the pupils. By adopting his amendment they would avoid all interference with the Council, who would, no doubt, be informed of the proceedings of that day, and of the feelings manifested by the meeting. The Council would also know that Dr. Elliotson was willing to come back, if he were allowed to go on with his practice in his own way, and the governing body of the Institution, and that Professor would be able to adjust the matter between them.—( Hear. ) Mr. WOOD rose on the present occasion with great reluct ance ; for it bad been his intention to take no part in the pro ceedings, because he was aware that some might be disposed to attribute improper motives to him. ( Mr. W., as the readers of The Sun may be aware, has been Dr. Elliotson's principal assistant in the Mesmeric experiments.) But he felt called upon to present himself to the meeting, because the proceed ings of the House-Committee of the hospital, had been com municated by other gentlemen, and he was justified in com municating also certain facts, of which he was aware.—( Hear, hear.) He held in his hand the letters of two Professors of the Institution, (and one of them a medical Professor), who declared their firm belief in the reality of Mesmerism, and ex pressed their opinion that Dr. Elliotson had a perfect right to proceed with his investigations.—( Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN reminded Mr. Wood that the question of Mesmerism was not to be gone into further than the proceedings of the Council required. Mr. WOOD did not wish to touch upon the subject more than was actually essential to the full and fair consideration of the question before the meeting. It bad been said that Dr. E.'s letter had been circulated amongst the pupils, as if that had been done for an improper purpose. But the fact was, that Dr. Elliotson's only object in writing it was that his share of the fees should be returned to the clinical class, and that would be seen, if the letter had been read to the end.— ( Hear.) It was true that repeated applications had been made to Dr. E. to discontinue the practice of Mesmerism ; but on the contrary, he had an express resolution of the hospital-corn. snittee recognising his perfect right to apply it as a remedial agent. 4t the same time, much objection was made to the public exhibitions of the effects of Mesmerism, and Dr. E., seeing the ill feeling that existed , discontinu ed th ose exhi bitions, but continued to act upon the resolution of the Com mittee.—(Hear, hear.) As to the rule, that a patient should be discharged at the end of two months—there was now in the hospital a patient of Dr. Thompson's, who had been there twelve months, without any objection being offered.—( Hear, and a laugh.) But yet in the case of Elizabeth Okey, the Committee called on Dr. E. to say why she was retained before she had been quite two months in the house.—( Hear, hear.) She had been in the hospital a year ago, as an epileptic patient, and was discharged as cured ; but was subsequently , again admitted as suffering from ischuria. After the House- Committee bad made the inquiry of Dr. E., the Committee of Management, which was a section of the Council, arranged with him that Okey was to remain in the house until February —( Hear, hear, bear)—and yet immediately afterwards the Council, without consulting him, came to the resolution that abs ehould be discharged forthwith—(Hear)—thus distinctly telling lairn that be was incompetent to the duties of his office. The epithets " indecent and immoral" had been that day ap plied to Dr. E. on account of those experiments. Mr. GIOROE denied that he applied the epithets to Dr. Elli9ts.on. He applied them only to tha experiments.—( Oh 1) Mr. WooD—Much had been said respecting the hospital being made a beard and lodging house. But some of the Professors had remonstrated against the public exhibitions taking place there, and they had told Dr. E. that it would be better for him to take them elsewhere. Accordingly be did hold them at the house of Dr. Roget, and at another place, where the most eminent men of the medical profession were present, and declared themselves convinced of the truth of Mes merism.—( Applause and disapprobation.) The patients were also taken to Mr. Wakley's howe.—(Laughter, and cries of " Otder, order.") He was perfectly able to explain what happened there, if the present were a fitting occasion. The Gentleman was present who had repeatedly entreated Dr. E. to take them to Mr. Wakley's, and had declared his own conviction of the reality of Mesmerism. That Gentleman had also assured Dr. E. that if only two experiments sue• ceeded, Mr. Wakley would be satisfied.—( Hear, hear.) If a patient labouring under delirium uttered improper expres sions, how could the physician be accusel of immorality on that account ?—( Applause.) Mr. GEORGE-If he caused the delirium.—( Hisses and ap plause.) Mr. WOOD was sure that all his fellow-students were con vinced that Dr. E. had pursued the practice only for the sake of investigating the truth and promoting science—( Applause) —and many cases had occurred not only here, but in different parts of the country, where diseases had been cured by Mesmerism. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Wood was travelling out of the question, which was whether the practice was injurious to the Institution or not. Mr. Wooo—Hosv then was the injury to be proved ? Was it by the fact that the number of pupils had been doubled since Dr. E.'s appointment, and was this year larger than ever ? (Great cheering.) In the face of that fact, and of the avowed opinions of their own Professors, how did the Council undertake that Dr. E. should do this or that, and should not do the other ?—( Hear, hear.) As to his having said that he would never again enter either building- of the Institution— that assertion was manifestly made conditionally, and if his pupils induced the Council to rescind the resolutions, there could be no obstacle to his being restored to them as they all desired.—( Applause.) But the address proposed by Mr. George would only tell Dr. E. that he was wrong, and the Council right, and at the same time thank him for having (as had been said) left his pupils in the " lureh."—( Hear, and a laugh.) He (Mr. W.) called upon the meeting to adopt Mr. Warren's resolution. Mr. GEORGE and Mr. JEFFERSON disclaimed all persona disrespect to Dr. Elliotson. Mr. Scots warmly supported the resolution. He denied that the interest of the pupils, and that of the Council were identical. The interest of the latter was pecuniary, whereas that of the students was one of principle.—( Hear, hear.) Whilst Mesmerism was a subject of curiosity and favour with the public, the Council made no objection to the practice ; but they immediately denounced it when they thought it was becoming unpopular ; which showed that it was not the prin ciple of the thing which influenced them. He hoped the stu dents would act with independence. Mr. DONALD proposed, and Mr. MANN seconded an amend ment, to the effect that the students regretted the resignation of Dr. E., and trusted that the differences between him and the Council would be adjusted, and that their esteemed Pro fessor would be speedily restored to them. This latter amendment was subsequently negatived, and a show of hands having been taken upon Mr. George's amend ment, the Chairman declared the numbers to be equal fur and against it. After a long discussion upon questions of form, the question was put upon the original resolution, which the Chairman de clared to be carried by a majority of a greater number than had vDted on the amendment. Three cheers were then given with enthusiasm for Dr. Elliotson. But Mr. George de manded a poll, which was at length agreed to be taken between one and three o'clock this day, when the Coulter also meet to take into consideration Dr. E.'s resignation, bui their decision will not be made public before the next day o their meeting—this day week. At the close of the ballot the numbers were— For the resolution Against it Majority in favour of Dr. Elliotson. . The announcement was received with enthusiastic applause. 124 113 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 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O'CONNELL, SHELL, and the bulk of the Catholic Irish, were all engaged in that conspiracy. It was open and avowed, and, in our opinion, most just. That conspiracy was favoured and supported by the Chronicle, the Globe, and the whole of the Whig Papers. To that conspiracy Mr. O'CONNELL is, we believe, mainly indebted for his influence and power in Ireland, and as that conspiracy placed her MAJESTY'S Ministers in office, so they owe to it their continuance in place. We always gloried in aiding that conspiracy, because we think the State priesthood of Ireland a " gigantic nuis sance ;" and though we take a different view of the Poor-law, we cannot approve of the Ministers prosecuting Mr. STEPIIENS for doing that of which they tacitly and even openly approved, and of which they are enjoying the fruits. He and his friends think that law a nuisance ; they de clare it to be a violation of the law of GOD ; we do not agree with them, but we can no more think it a crime to oppose such a law by a conspiracy than it was a crime in the Catholic Irish and the English Whigs to conspire against the Tithe-law in Ireland. We are for even handed justice, and either the Ministers and Messrs. O'CONNELL and SHELL ought to be prosecuted, or it is folly and injustice to prosecute Mr. STEPHENS. The other reason is that Mr. STEPHENS is a religious enthusiast ; and if he be prosecuted for doing mischief by his speeches, the strife-stirring Anglican priesthood cught, every one of them, to be punished. Some of our Contemporaries, who have been exciting the Go vernment to this work, seem at length to have found out that Mr. STEPHENS owes his power to his appeals to Scripture. After reading that portion of his sermon at Ashton, which appeared in our Journal of yesterday, including his recommendation, on the authority of Scrip ture in two places, of something like murder, and the terri ble curse he denounced, in the name of the AL MIGHTY, on those who should not obey his commands, we are almost ready to credit the assertion of the Liver pool Mercury, that his " friends have been for some time back decidedly of opinion that he is de ranged." His case, then, is a proper one for the soothing arts of the physician, for the kind treatment of friends, for the lenitives of reason and time, and not for a criminal prosecution which, singling him out as a leader of the people, groups the griefs and resent ments of millions around a dangerous enthusiast, and at once makes his exaggerated and extravagant senti ments their bosom creed. We strongly condemn the prosecution which adds to the importance of such a man, and in these distempered times, ele vates a violent religious enthusiast, if he be not a madman, to be the chief leader of the millions. We are not sure indeed, as times go, that Mr. STEPHENS is much worse that Dr. PHILLPOTS, Dr. CHALMERS, DR. PUSEY, and the rest of the seraphic Doctors who are labouring, most industriously one way or another, to fanaticise the people. We have nothing to reproach ourselves with on this score, but the whole tribe of State Church fanatics, including Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. GLADSTONE, and the Times, may see in the conduct of Mr. STEPHENS, as they might have seen it in the case of Thom, some of the logical results of their own favourite doctrines. Mr.STEPHENs, like Mr. THOM, draws his authority from the Bible, not one word of which, not even the denun ciation of NEHEMIAH, will the Anglican pries t hoood forego. His influence is born of the encourage ment given by the State to the Anglican priest hood, and to their stickling for the Bible. If they cannot, however, keep in their own hands the mono poly of the power of fanaticising the people, of what earthly use are they ? They ought to correct the disorders induced by Mr. STEPHENS ; and a wise Go vernment, instead of arresting such a man, would have ordered the Archbishops and Bishops of the land to have undertaken his conversion and cure, and the conversion of his followers. We are glad to learn from the Glasgow Argus, that the people of Glasgow are on foot against the Corn-laws. Hull, too, is following in the same path ; and Leeds is going on before. The farmers also are moving, but in opposition ; and the Herald to-day presents us with a proposed petition from the farmers and landowners of Worcestershire and Gloucester, which, amongst other things, proposes to tax manufacturing capital, and prevent the extension of manufactures. Not content, then, with starving persons slowly out of existence, the authors of that petition would probably despatch them at once, and wait for no slow process to extinguish England's greatness. A great part of this petition consists of complaints of injustice suffered by the landed interest, but that injustice, if it exist, inflicted as it is by the landowning law-makers themselves, does not warrant them in also inflicting a grievous injustice on all who eat bread. One robbery, supposing it to have been committed,' does not justify another. We shall per haps some spare day publish the petition, and till then we waive further comments. We may notice that the Buckingham Conservatives —alias 'the landlords and priests—held their anniver sary dinner at Buckingham yesterday, but we cannot possibly find space for the magnificent common-places with which the lay and clerical members of the same holy brotherhood complimented each other. A good deal was said about the growth of Popery in the land, to which the Times yesterday, as we elsewhere notice, gave the clue. It prevails at Oxford, and is patronised by some Bishops and dignitaries of the Church. We beg the attention of our readers to a report in another part of The Sun, headed " The Coal' Trade." It is not many days since we had to notice an attempt made by the coal confederacy to defeat the ob ject of the new regulations made by the Navigation Com mittee. The coal people, under the disguise of Sunderland shipowners, got up a memorial to the LORD MAYOR, in which they stated sundry grievances and hardships entailed upon them by the regulations. The LORD MAYOR, they fancied, had other matters to think of, and might easily be imposed upon by false representa tions ; but they found, to their great discomfiture, that his Lordship was not to be hoodwinked. He wisely determined to see with his own eyes, not with theirs. He personally inspected the state of the River from London-bridge to Graves end, examined the officers intrusted with the execution of the by-laws, and found that the complaints of the self-styled shipowners, were a mere ruse on the part of the coalowners and their coadjutors, to get rid of those laws which they foresee must, if perseveringly maintained, put an end to their monopoly. The master of a collier was also instructed to play off a trick upon the LORD MAYOR, by applying for an order on the Harbour-master at Gravesend, to allow him to break through the regulations, on the pretence that his ship was so leaky that she could hardly be kept When we called public attention, in the beginning of the month of November to the case of JOHN WIL LIAMS, of Newtown, committed to gaol by a clerical Magistrate, who demanded excessive bail, we found an able auxiliary in the Chronicle, who reminded us and the public that a fine of 30,0001., imposed on the Earl of DEVONSHIRE 150 years ago, and the excessive bail demanded of individuals, led to the famous Bill of Rights. To-day, however, our Contemporary has not a word to say against the excessive bail demanded in the case of STEPHENS. On the contrary, our Contemporary approves of the commitment, and says that " it can not be said that the Magistrates of the neighbourhood or the Government have not borne with him as long as the safety of the country would permit." The language of our Contemporary, joined to a tirade in the Globe of last night against the bulk of the Newspaper Press, of which " factitious excitement" is said to be " the [vital element," leave no doubt that the Government countenances and recom mends the prosecution of Mr. STEPHENS. But if any doubt were left, and we have been willing to cherish it as long as possible, it would be entirely dissipated, we think, by the statement of Mr. BRA NDT, that Mr. STEPHENS is to be " charged with a con spiracy by intimidation and threats to prevent the execution of the law, more especially of that relating THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1839 above water. On the cross-examination of this man I by the LORI MA 70R, he stated that Sir JAMES DUKE was the consignee of his cargo, a strAtement proved the next day to be a downright falsehood, as in deed was the whole of his story. Yesterday a deception somewhat similar was at tempted to be practised at the Mansion-house, and met with a similar fate. The LORD MAYOR is fo well acquainted with the coal gentry, that he sees through their pranks in an instant. We would therefore advise them to desist from such unworthy, we should rather say disgraceful, because dishonest, practices, for by continuing them, they are only exposing more and more the real nature and injurious effects of the scandalous monopoly in which they are concerned. 'What a pitiful figure did the coalowner make, who ap peared at the Mansion-House yesterday. He evidently came with an intention to brow-beat the LORD MAYOR; but how soon was he compelled, by his Lord . ship's acute and able cross-examination, actually to give evidence, and most important evidence too, against himself and his brethren ! Among other things he let out—as we hinted the other day—that the shipowners and coalowners in the North are one and the same parties ; that the peseta price of 345. per ton is, in their opinion, but a fair re munerating price, though the coals stand the factor but 19s. in the River, even after three or four • shillings more than ought to be charged are paid •at the pit's mouth, in consequence of the combination ; and that business cannot be done in any other man ner. No, certainly, if the price is to he kept up artificially, this is the only manner in which the mo nopolists can do business ; but the LORD MAYOR informed this gentleman that he should cause it to be done in quite a different manner, and we have no doubt he will keep his word. So ashamed was our soi-disant shipowner of the whole proceeding, that he would not let his Lordship into the secret of his name or residence ! Advices from Madrid of the 26th ult. have been received this morning. They announce the arrival in that capital of letters from Malaga of the 19th, with an account of a Carlist revolution in Alhucemas, a penal settlement of Spain on the coast of Africa. This movement took place on the 15th of November, under the direction of some Carlist prisoners that had been banished there by the QUEEN'S Government. These men succeeded by promises in inducing a part of the garrison of the fort, consisting of two companies of the 4th battalion of Gra nada to enter into a conspiracy for proclaiming Don CARLOS, evacuating Africa, and by the timely seizure of some vessels in the harbour to make the best of their way to the Basque•, where they persuaded themselves the boldness of their deeds would obtain for them from the Pretender a most favourable recep tion. On the first intelligence of the danger which threatened the fort, the Chief Military officer, Don NICHOLAS AMAT, offered to remonstrate with the insurgents when he was barbarously murdered. They then proclaimed Don CARLOS, and after letting loose all the prisoners, and being suffered by the cowardly Governor, who had still a suf ficient force to restrain them, they seized two vessels, which they freighted with military stores, and compelled the Captains to stand for the coast of Valencia, where they expected to fall in with a band of Carlists. One of the vessels being separated from the other in a gale, was driven on the coast of Oran, where at their own desire sixty-two of the insurgents were landed. They had intended to sink or burn the vessel, but the Captain, after escaping a sharp fire of musketry from the shore, escaped to Malaga, where he apprised the authorities of what had taken place. On the receipt of this intelligence the Captain-General, PALAREA, demanded the assistance of the Captains of a French corvette and an English frigate, to seize the missing vessels with the rebels on board, and to re cover the fort of Alhucemas. To the no small sur prise of the Captain-General, the French officer answered that the orders of his Government were, that he should observe a strict neutrality. On the other hand, the English Captain declared that he would get under weigh with as little delay as possible, that he might render all the assistance in his power to the Government of her Most Catholic Ma jesty. It may be easily imagined, that the answers of the two Captains has created no small stir in Madrid. To add to the popular indignation against the treachery of France, it was published in the capital simultane ously with the King of the FRENCH'S speech, at the opening of the Chambers, in which the paragraph re lative to Spain has given great offence to the Ultra- Liberal party. On the contrary, the conduct of Eng land is lauded by all parties in the capital as most ge nerous, and as entitling this country to the lasting gratitude of the Spanish nation. The Gazette announces the promotion of Major- Generals ALAIX and VAN HALEN to the rank of Lieutenant-Generals. When it is borne in mind that ALAIX is War M►nister, the modesty of his promotion cannot be too sufficiently admired ! There is nothing in the annals of Hibernian impudence to match this method of obtaining promotion. We have no political news from Madrid. The Paris journals of Thursday have all been re ceived. The trial of GISQUET v. the Messager," was not concluded, and little else was talked of in the salons of the French metropolis. The following ex tracts from the French Journals include all the intel ligence they bring of the slightest political interest : Captain Mounier, of the Reins Rose, which left Valparaiso on the 25th September, and has arrived at Bordeaux, says in his report : " At this time of my departure, there was no positive news respecting the issue of the war. On the day that I left the port, I fell in with a brig coming from Lima, which gave me the following intelligence :—The Chilian army had evacuated Lima, and was encamped in the environs. President Orbegoso had retreated into the Castle of Callao, which had not yet been attacked, and it was supposed that no attack would be made. The Commander-in-Chief of the Chilian army had placed General Gamara, at the head of the Peruvian Govern. ment, against whom, the Councils of the three powers, had, it was said, protested, as being imposed by force. General Santa Cruz, with the Bolivian army was 45 leagues from Lima." Other letters from Valparaiso, of the same date, say that the power of Santa Cruz appeared to be stronger than ever, as well in consequence of the foolish attempt of Orbegoso, as of the unfavourable issue of the Chilian expedition, the success of which was erroneously announced by the English Journals. Nicto and Orbegoso have taken flight ; of the 15,000 or 16,000 men that they had under their command, 700 have gone to reinforce the garrison of Callao, the remainder have joined the corps of Moraus.—Le Commerce. The Emancipator of Toulouse publishes the following pe- _ tition : " Petition of the Merchants of Lavelanet, for intervention in the affairs of Spain. __. — . " To the Members of the Chaniber of Deputies, " Gentlemen,—The Spanish revolution is consuming its energy and its resources, without any result. " France has a right to complain of a state of things which is unfavourable to it at present, and may be injurious to it in future. We especially, inhabitants of the South, have immense grievances to allege on this subject, since Spain is the cause of results which directly and fatally affect these countries. " The state of war has annihilated our commercial inter course with that country, and our current coin, rxported by the Committees that are openly organized at different points to aid the factious, daily goes to be swallowed up there. " The manufactories of the South—especially that of woollen cloth, formerly so flourishing —are threatened with general ruin. " It is for you, Gentlemen, to put an end to our fears by adopting such measures, and police regulations, as the inte rests of our country imperiously calls for. ee Rescue Spain from its dreadful struggles, and save cur commerce." Th! English Journals have not arrived.— Constitutionnel. FRENCH FUNDS.-PA.RI3, JANUARY 3. t i ii ,i, v ur e er, p ,p e pe r er : ( 7 1 1 1 70 6 9i f icl 1 85c 5c.. .......... Latest Prices-110f. 15c. Cents, 78t: 90e. Bank Actions, :1,116. 1 f. ftente el e Naples, 9Sf, 90c. 99f Roman Five per Cents., 100i4 Spanish Actives, 17:... Ditto 78r. 80c. Ditto 2.660 f. Ditto 99f. Ditto 100,', Ditto 1714 Bolgian Five per Cents., 9.3; Ditto 9 9 31 Belgian Three per 4 ents., fiSf. Belgian Bank, 5,01 5(,51. itto Portuguese, Three per Cents. 19%. Haytian Loan, 352 f. 50c. Excnasiou ON LONDON.—One month, paper, 25t Isc; money, 25t 15c; Tlrec months, paper, 25f, --c.; money, 25f, --e. Ditto 510 f. MANCHESTER-THURSDAY. TO THE ED I7' 0 OP' Tilt: St.,-Having I,ell in your Paper of the 2:: - lust a nication,- purporting to be from your Repo, t, it is statA, that in consequence of the proceedings gong on against Mr. Stephens, the town is in a state of alarming excitement, and being an eye-witness the perfect tranquil lity of the town, I cannot think that the respectability cf your Paper is likely to be promoted by the insertion of intclli genes so much at variance with the truth. With the exception of a small gathering about the New Bailey, the town has not presented any appearance that could justify the statements of your Correspoialeilt ; and for the sake of the character of this large community, and that of the cause of truth, I trust that, before you publish his communica tions in future, you will a3certain whether they are founded in fact. A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. bece, [Being desirous of conveying only correct information to our Readers, %ve willingly insert the above letter ; but, at the same time, it is due to our own Reporter to state, that he is a gentleman of close and accurate habits of observation, quite incapable of stating any thing but his own honest convictions. The fact, probably, is, that the people of Manchester and its neighbourhood have got so used to the excitement caused by continual meetings of masses of people, operated on by elo quent orators, that the excitement which appeared frightful to a person accustomed to London, was thought nothing of by those who live amidst that, which to others appears like the smoke and running lava of a volcano.] :TONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY", TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrival this morning—A French mail. No ship letters. LIVERPOOL. COTTON•MARKET, YESTERDAY.—Since the report was made of the stock on the 31st ult., the business doing, with the exception of to-day, was moderate, but evi dently with a favourable impression on the market, and symp toms that it would not be long before activity again prevailed. To day has verified the latter position by the sales being upwards of 8,000 bales, at least 6,000 bales being taken on speculation, at prices full as high as on Friday last, and if not quite at the highest point again, as near as may be. Speculators have taken 7,000 bales—American 1,100 ; Carthagena 300 ; and Bahia 100. We had written this when we found that 4,000 bales of American had just been sold (not included in the above re port), 3,100 of them in one line to a speculator. A Philadel phia paper states that about 400 boats, laden with produce, valued at one million six hundred thonsand dollars, had been detained on the Erie Canal, by the doing of the navigation. We have no arrivals this morning of any description, with the exception of the French mail and express from Paris, and they are void of interest. The Lisbon and Mexican mails are still due—it is feared that the former has met with some acci dent, and has been obliged to put hack. It is looked for with some anxiety, to ascertain it' the report which prevailed yesterday be correct, that the Emperor of Russia has recog nized Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal. There was no alteration yesterday in the rates of the Con tinental Exchanges of the North, but on Paris they were quoted rather lower. Consols, which closed yesterday at 94 to I, for the opening, are not quite so good ; at present may be quoted at 94k, with little business d. ,mg as yet. Exchequer Bills, 65 67 ; India Bonds, 63 65 ; Bank Stock, 202 i 2031- ; India Stock, 262 263 In the Foreign Market Portuguese Stock has rather re ceded, closed at 331, at present 323 ; Spanish Active also lower, closed at 16} 17, now 16. i; Belgian, 99+ h ; Bra zilian, 77i 78; Colombian, 20i ; Mexican, 23 24; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 54+1; Five per :Cents., 1011 102. Portuguese again improved to 334. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY ATONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 203 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9 3 1,4 % Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 , 0 per Cent MON Old Annuities Ditto Red. 1009g4 New Ditto New 34 per Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 I4Y, Ditto Small .. 65 pm Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1889.... ............. ~... Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1880 —l India Stock for Account — Jan. 5. 1870 —l Consols for Account 944 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds —' Peruvian Bonds . Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... ........ I , Ditto Account 2l 'i, % 1 /s % 'ie Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Account — i Ditto Metallic.. Columbian Bonds, 1824 "6% y 4 , Spanish Bolids.. Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — . Ditto Accet it. Greek Bonds — • French, 5 per cent. —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent ... ...... —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account Ditto, 0 per Cent I Ditto Account 54% Ditto Account N'eapolitao 1 Ditto Account ...... .....—... 101% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company Cobre Copper. Brighton Railway Condors and Croydon Railway Consparty 2O 13 IA Manchester and Leeds Railway Company 5O 0% London Joint Stock Bank. lO 13 ti Union rank of Australia. 1214 17 in Worthing Tontine COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. insterdarn . C.F. 12 44 I fllbralta- 44 Ditto, at sight Rotter. ,, in 2 U. 12 4% Antwerp... Hamburg . ......... ...... M.B l3 10 Altona .'.. , l3 10 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35 Ditto 3 Ms. 25 65 Leghorn :11 Genoa 25 80 Milan .1 Venice 4B Naplei .., 40 Palermo per oz. 118 Lisbon rf3s Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 151 14 ?etersbut gh, ruble 3 Us. 10 3 4 Berlin Vienna, effective fl 2 M. 10 7 fricste ditto lO 9 sladrid 36U Oporto - ' -: 1 1 /2 Rio Janeiro 25;, Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres New Yurk, 2i days' sight PhiLidelphia 46 PIUCE OF BULLION, PFEt OZ Portupsal (401.1, .coin £0 0 0 Cadiz.... Bilboa .... Barcelona Seville 36 )Silver.bars, standard 0 5 07;,, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS.DUi'ILIN, JAN. 3 ' 3 per Cent. Ceniols 314 per Ceir. Stock - Ditto Reduced - Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 153i1 ...... ~... 1 0% i City of I;ublin Steam Company - 314 per Cent. Debentures .. 92 , A ; Nation it Insurance Company._ - Bank Stock .... ............. ... 196 ; City Debentures, 4 per cent - Royal Canal Stock - .... . .. r.lrnd Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. We have no further arrivals to the present hour, and for some time past we have not had so blank a day for intelligence as the present. It is expected that on Monday we shall have numerous arri vals from all quarters of the globe, as several mails are now over due. The 15th of January is fast approaching, the period allowed by the five Powers for Belgium to give her consent to the ultimatum agreed upon by them ; in the meantime the Prussian and Dutch troops are drawing nearer to the Belgian frontier, no doubt to be prepared for the event. Consols at present may be quoted a shade better than in the early part of the morning, 94i 1 for the opening ; Reduced 934 ; Exchequer Bills 67 ; India Bonds 63 ; Bank Stock 203. The Government Broker purchased 11 thousand Re duced at 93k. In the Foreign Market Portuguese have improved since the morning to 331 i ; Three per Cents 211 Belgian 991 4 ; Brazilian 77k; Colombian 25 26 ; Mexican 23+ ; Dutch Two-and-a half per Cents 541 ; Five per Cents 101 a k; Spanish 16i 17k. The Share Market is scarce worth noticing—prices much the same as yesterday. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .203 1 India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red 93%Ditto Bonds 63 3 per Cent. Ccits I Ditto Old Annuities — lili per Cent 100VDitto New Annuities :t per Cent. Red ICO%!Ex. Bills, I,COO/ *4,1 67 pin. New 31 per Cent O2 Ditto 59 0 / (,7 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 67 pin. Jan. MI Oct. 1350 Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent ' Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. 701,4 Balgian, 5 per cent — Ditto New Ditto 34, Brazilian Bonds 77% , Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent — 'Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent !Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent 2 1 5 / BlSpanish, 5 per cent 171; Ditto, 1824 26N Ditto, Consolidated — Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent —l. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —C --c Mexican, 5 per cent — French, :3per cent Ditto, 6 per cent., 18 9 5 24 Dutch, 2% per cant. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent !Ditto, 5 per cent. IOIA (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.-(THIS DAY.) Great Western Railway,...-- A talented Contemporary has pronounced the Oriental Herald to be one of the most extraordinary. pub lications that ever appeared ; we can cordially re-echo the sentiment. Its information upon every subject that relates to India is unbounded, and the diligence which is dis played in its colections is worthy of all praise. At this particular time when parties are anxiously looking for ac counts from their relatives, it must be invaluable. Private correspondence, if in fact now much less requisite than for mely, is very ample in its details ; in proof of this we have had the curiosity to count the following items in the current Number for January, and find under the Bengal,Ma dras, and Bombay Presidencies alone 1,075 appointments, prcmotions, changes, &c., 193 births, 60 marriages, and 135 deaths. LONDON DOCKS.—Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of proprietors in this establishment was held at the Company's house, Prince's-street, Bank, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Directors on the state of their drairg, and for the declaration of a dividend. T. Cattley, in the chair. After the minutes of the last Court had been read, Mr. J. D. Powles, the Secretary, read the Report of the Directors. The balance-sheet was thin red, and the Directors recommended a dividend of 1/. 7s. 6d. per cent. on the capital stock of the Company for the last half year. The Report was adopted, the disi dend agreed to, and, after some discussion relative to the affairs of the Company, the meeting adjourned. The identity of glanders in the human subject and in the horse has recently been demonstrated by Mr. Rayer. A patient in Mr. Roux's ward, at the Hotel Dieu, had con tracted glanders while examining a second horse. Mr. Rayer took some puss from the patient, and w ith it inno culated a h ea lthy ass. The animal died with all the signs of acute glanders nine days afterwards.—Lancet. MA NCH ESTER. (FRIPAY.) ) Ali is quiet in this town and its neigobourhood. apprehunsious entertained that there would be a riot, or breach of the peace of some kind yesterday, have happily proved to be unfounded, and I believe that there were not more than 4,000 or 5,000 persons added to the ordinary po pulation of Manchester in the course of Thursday. This is to be attributed to she judieioos advice of Mr. Stephew, who, it is said, dis Approved ef the direct iovitation of Mr. F. O'Coliaor to the people of the adjoining • districts, to come into Manchester, and of the indirect sanction given to that proceeding by sonic others of the Radical leaders, and that letters were despatched by his advice to the Se cretaries of the various Unions in the neighbourhood, point i:g out the impropriety of any display on that occasion. However that may be, the result has been that no de monstration of physical force, with the exception of the few thousands to which I have alluded, took place, and everything passed off in the most peaceable manner. The statement made by Mr. Brandt, the gentleman who appeared for the prosecution at the New Bailey yesterday, that the warrant against Mr. Stephens had been so framed as to embrace r.charge of conspiracy against other parties, will show that my information as to additional warrants being issued, was correct. Another proof that further proceedings are meditated, will be found in the fact that Goddard and Shaekell, the Bow•street officers, are still in the neighbou,hood, although their locus in quo is not gene rally known. The friends and counsel of Mr. Stephens have acted, I think, with good judgment, in advising him to refrain from attending any public meetings for the pre sent. There c: -7n, however, be no interdict upon Lis addressing his congregations at his Chapels at Ashton, Staleybridge, or Duckintield, as usual, and that I I believe he wol do as usual on Sunday next. Although a great number of special constables had been sworn in here for the last few days, and although there were five or si% troops of the 2d Dragoons in the town, with other military detachments in the neighbourhood, ready to act upon any emergency, the gallant officer in command of the distric', Colonel \Vemyss, very properly kept his forces in the back ground, so that there might be no risk of any accidental collision with the people, and not a single soldier was . seea in the streets of Manchester during the whole of yes' terday. At the meeting last night, of which I forwarded a brief report by express, a Mr. Deegan, an Irishman, made use of very absurd, and, I may add, very violent language, pre* iiously to the commencement of the regular proceedings- There is but one opinion with respect to addresses of this nature ; they are calculated to do more injury to the cause of Radicalism, which they profess to advocate and promote , and to estrange and disgust moderate and rational men , than all the efforts of the Tories and their organs. It would not be fair, however, to judge of the entire party by this sample. That the Unionists in the manufacturing dis" tricts are firm and determined—that their addresses are bold and occasionally violent—that arms have been pro' cured very extensively by the working classes—and that the organization is most complete, and widely ramified, are all undeniable ; but that any overt acts of outrage or violence against the persons or property of any party are meditated, as has has been roundly asserted , is, I firmly believe, without any foundation. Let tG not be supposed, then, that the circumstance of no po• pular demonstration having taken place here on Thus" day, argues a want of sympathy in Stephens' favour among the Raicals of Lancashire. On the contrary, it only shows how complete and widely extended is the influenc e he exercises over them. Mr. Stephens left town last night an hour after he 11 81 been liberated on bail, for his residence at Duckinfiel a ' His address to the Magistrates at the New Bailey wa s extremely temperate, and has given rise to much discussion' A public dinner will be given this evening at Oldharao about ten miles from this, to Mr. Fielden and Genera l Johnston. (Feargus O'Connor, Mr. R. J. Riehardsoat and several of the leading Radicals, have gone over to at' tend it.) I shall, if possible, forward you a report, in tie for to-morrow's paper, by express. A 'meeting of the Rae"' cals of Bolton will also take place to-night at the Too Hall, Little Bolton, of which you shall have a report. BY EXPRESS. OLD 11 A M. FRIDAY NIGHT. „ cal There was a very numerous assemblage of the na ,a; -,t electors and inhabitants of Oldham to-day, which was attend by Mr. Fielden and several other gentlemen. Some very off mated speeches were addressed to the assembled thousands' which I must pass over, and come to the more immediate business of the day, a — PUBLIC DINNER given by the electors of the borough of Oldham to their Representatives, John Fielden, Esq., and General Johnsto n , At half-past five the party, which included most of the r e g spectable inhabitants of the borough, sat down to dinner s_ the Albion Hotel. Mr. John Nairs presided ; and after good things which had been provided for the entertainin ell were discussed, The CHAIRMAN rose, and having apologized for any lueT l ; ciency which he might exhibit in th e ar d uous p os i t i on in wh'" they had placed him, gave— The Pespl a the source of all legitimate power."—(Dra w with much cheering.) Mr. KNOTT having been called upon, observed that the r : was much truth in the sentiment which the toast embodie u s' All laws derived their existenc e fr o m s o c iety, and ..gb• to be framed for the benefit of all classes in societii Circumstances might for a time deprive the people b ° o their just rights, an d o th ers m i g ht en j o y th e m I s s, had no legitimat e titl e t o th em ; but j ust i ce w ould u' mately ba done. It might be asserted that it was 3 surd and wicked or, the part of the people to claim them; and that every effort made to demand them should be d e ,: nounced as an act of intimidation and rebellion, Such is; the course pursusd by the parties who had unrighteoualy P ° sessed themselves of power, knowing the punishment tls.so awaited their misdeeds. Much odium was cast upon o r people who advocated the principle embodied in the toas L 1 but no man who understood human na t ure , or the 'l e man race, could feel him se lf ea s y i n his consciell who denied that ri iciple. Whenever any nation bad dee; iterated from that principle, it had sunk into decay. The ditt, of its destruction were mar k e d ou t by the limitation of t t , . Suffrage, which d en i e d t h e p eo pl e th e power to correct t', abuses of the la ws . If E ng l is h men w er e no t p u t in poss eo sion of their just rights, the time was not far distant when t . o v e oppressions they were subjected to would render their ustl o , as insignificant and worthless as she had been great and g` rious._(Much cheering.) The CHAIRMAN then gave " Universal Suffrage, Mil d Parliaments, Vote by Ballot, and No Property Qualification Menibers•of Parlian en t. "—( Vehement cheering.) th o Mr. R. J. RICHARDSON having been called upon, spoke - toast. He had no hesitation in declaring his sentiments uP, ° th the great questions which were agitating the length and brew' a of the land. He would take away the other two points, W i t , go to the first, and that would include the whole of the subj ee • The last speaker had shown them that the people had a l a tural right, a legal right to make the laws, and unless they ' I so, the abuses of which they now complained would continue; It appeared to him that the question of Universal Sugrag o was well understood now. When he recollected who were to address them after him—the real representatives of the pe°P..,,, and the real champions of R e f o rm—he felt it would not 1 J; right to trespass long upon their time. Universal Suffrage t o not only the natural right but the constitutional right of " t people. It was founded on the law of nature—upon she fir s a principles of civil society— and on the immutable a ll , unerring law of God. Being a rigid Constitutional' s he would go to the letter of the Constitutle,. ° ; but no further. B e lieving that Constitution to I ' o the best safeguard of society in England—believing it v ia enough for their safety to know that their excellent repres elv tives, Mr. Fielden and General Johnston were for the Colv stitution. He, for one, would be ready to defend it if neer, sary. It had, however, been rather Tory-fied of late, but h would call u p on th e R a dicals, through th e p u bli c P res s, to adl, cate and demand the right of the people to Universal St l Gage as one of the great fundamental principles of the C °ll ,l stitution, which declared that evory man of sound mind, l e mature age, untainted by crime, had a right to vote in t making of the laws—( Loud cheering )_that the P °.„ $ liament was the best safeguard of the Constitution, and the Juries of 12 were the best safe guards of the hives, and lib e , r ; ties, and properties of the people—( Hear and cheers)--t1 the people had a right to meet and take cognizance of the 5 fairs of the nation, and that every inhabitant, being a Protegi tant, had a right to have arms for his defence.—( Veheru el ! cheers.) These were the four principal points of the con stl :l tution, and upon these, the first Parliament had been eleell by Universal Suffrage ; by the second, Juries were to proteee the rights of the people ; by the third, they had the privileg of holding free assemblies ; and by th e f our th, th e y wer e al t d i g tied to arm for the protection of the whole community. He wad of opinion that if thevhad Universal Suffrage to morrow,their 0 t step would be to follow th e l as t max i m , i n or d er t o preve l li those wild and newfangled treasons which had been batuh e a against the safety of the Commonwealth being effected, 8° ,,, to arrest the course of those dangerous incendiaries who trying experiments as to how much it was possible to make t" ~ people endure. He was aware that there were a set of men , who while they advocated Universal Suffrage, were hatehitif, dangerous plots ainst the safety of the community and t u ,„ - Throne. He knew Associations which, while professing ,° Throne. advocate Universal Suffrage, and while issuing addresses , t ; the people of Ireland, and asserting the right of every man t ; his vote, denied reli e f t o men even in th e l an d o f th e ir bitti; He and the R a di ca l s o f t h e N ort h wou ld con t en d that I was the natural, universal right that the poor should have re; lief. What mattered it to them if their glorious institutio by which relief was extended to the poor was destroyed by these would-be Reformers ? England, indeed, would be r,e; clued to a desperate state if the poor were to ° sent from their native land—if they were' to b e ` torn from their native homes under the preteue e that the land was not able to maintain them, for the purpes! of gratifying the beastly, filthy doctrinaires, who advocated the Malthusian principle. It was most important to the rising ■