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SIIA11 ) ~_ - f 5. 1 NEWARK ELECTION. , A t E. aims. EYFN IN G EDITIO (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEWARK, DEC. 28, 1839. The contest is still carried on with vigour, both par ties straining every nerve, and both confident of success. The Solicitor-General arrived here on Thursday morn ing, and immediately commenced revisiting such of the electors as, on his former canvass, were doubtful. The 1 result we are happy to say, has been most gratifying ; he has succeeded in confirming the neutrality of a conside rable number, and in deciding the conduct of many of the waverers. During his canvass on Friday morning he was met by the Chartists of the town, who had as sembled in a body with the view of obtaining an inter view with the worthy candidate. 'We are assured by I one of the Chartist leaders that the interview termina ted satisfactorily, the Sergeant replying to their objec tions with candour and liberality, and, on the other hand, the Chartists admitting the soundness of many of :.is observations, and resolving upon adding their number 'o his ranks. He was afterwards met by a body of Weslyans, whose fears had been excited by the conduct o; certain of their leaders respecting the education 3,ileme. Here again he triumphed, having in a lucid statement exhibited the real nature of the Government ~elleme, and the factious nature of the opposition by which its intentions were defeated. Mr. Thesiger, too, arrived on Friday morning, and ;oat no time in following in the footsteps of his oppo :Jew, with what degree of success time alone can deter : miae. The bombastic assertions of his supporters, in d eases destitute of proof—the frequency and duration ..1 their visits—their corruption, and the bold and un equivocal exercise of illegitimate influence—all bespeak a want of confidence, almost amounting to a certainty of defeat. Mr. Thesiger has, once or twice, acted the part of the pot-house orator ; his ditty, however, was and plainly showed the nature of his hopes. As .:n example of the commodity chiefly employed in the -.l , lnufacture of " speeches" on these occasions, we may tate that a Mr. Brogden (who has made his appearance urn nobody knows where, and whose object is every ty knows what), in patriotic tones, denounced the tteness of the Liberal candidate. who, he said, " is • ,ing to Monmouth to hang the very men whose pro ceedings, until now, he has always sanctioned." The i pie was too paipable to be swallowed, even by the To 's, ard raised nothing but—a laugh ! A numerous party of the Liberals dined at the Castle Id Falcon on Friday evening, when, in reply to a , a3t, the Solicitor-General delivered an admirable ad- rest on the nature of the present contest, the tactics oppenents,and the duty of his supporters. His ~. tnarks were well timed, and produced a powerful Feet. His language was such as became an honest and unflinching Reformer, and manifested a confidence of success which exceeded the hopes of his warmest friends. We give such extracts as are likely to be generally interesting. Having at great length detailed the insults to which Newark was so long subjected, and the painful struggles which had been made for its redemption—" I turn aside now from matters belonging individually to 3 our selves. I turn from these matters—matters important and grave to you—to those of larger import. I now ask, what are the principles in contest with regard to Government upon the present occasion ? What are the principles in which the nation is interested ? What are the principles of Government of which you wish your rrprescntative to be the advocate ? And what are those which your opponents desire should be maintained by any individual who is the Member of the borough of Newark ? Gentlemen, I would not at this moment descend to the discussion of any minor and particular acts of this Government or of that : my object is to present to you views of much wider extent. I ask you bat are the principles upon which Church Government rests ? I ask you that, because I wish to make an observation with regard to the assumption of part of our opponents—the assumption that they are the only best and safe friends to the Constitution of DT.,land. Without discussing the particular measures of Whigs or Tories, is not the difference, in principle, this :—Do not the Whigs profess that all Government is for the general good and happiness of the people ? (Hear, hear.) That the different parts of Government ought to be constructed for the advancement of reli gion, for the place, prosperity, and general happiness of the kingdom ? That Government being formed with a view to that happiness, it ought, from time to time, to be adapted—not to a by-gone state of things— not to an age that has past, when individuals could neither benefit by its advantages nor suffer by its defeats, but to the existing population, impressed with all the feelings to which the mind can be opened, and equally susceptible of happiness and misery ? I say that, as I understand, these are the principles of this Government, for which reason I support them—for which reason I join them.—(Cheers.) The principle is, that all human institutions should be first directed to the earrection of those frailties which impede man's walk to a better state. That he should have his in- irrnities relieved, his weaknesses sustained, by the con , stitution of the Government being directed to the great objects of his creation. That these being answered, in ! the first instance, it should be for the liberty and pros perity of all, not for the advantage of the few, to which troverament should be directed.—{Hear and cheers.) These are the principles which the Whigs profess, and t they are the principles by which, I believe, Ministers . . . . have bees directed. They may have been directed with inferior force, with less energy, than some of their 4 frieuqs desire ; but it is a great thing to say, that men are acting upon great and good principles, though they may imperfectly carry them out. They are on the right road, though they may not travel with the expedition which human wants may require." After noticing the conduct of the Tories relative to the Catholic Relief Bin, and the cry of " Church in danger," which is raised whenever an attempt is made to reform the Church, and giving a specimen of the Whig Church Reform, which is now looked upon by the Tories as ab solute sponation, but which, as he justly said, will, in a few years, be looked upon as much too moderate, he r Iferred to the use which is made of religion by the 11,ries in the following terms :—" Religion, which hap. - . . pill for man, has relieved his distresses, comforted him in affliction, elevated his hopes, and given to him a su perior place in the world. That same religion has been made; the stalking-horse for selfishness, and the most evil purposes. Every man who has had some dirty purpose to answer, which could be accomplished only by an appeal to ignorance and prejudice, has appealed to reli gion, frequently in order to blind those who would examine and investigate his conduct. It follows them throughout. There is not a department of the State in which the game principles of Government are not acted upon by tl,e Tories. The list time I met you here at an elec tion was when I was returned without opposition. What was then the state of affairs? You had a Tory Ministry who asked you to believe them to be a reforming Ali- nI try 111:1011 credit ; you would not do so, and they were 4r114.d out. Now, can any set of men have shown gr,'ster abhorrence of reform than they have done iiucr ? nave they not opposed every measure which h um an itv,•,ex,uity could devise ? I may say that the ma jority of the measures were of that character which has even induced the friends of the Government to blame them for their moderation ; moderate as they were, they excited the utmost indignation and the warmest oppo sition from their Tory opponents." In his concluding s 1; arks he thus alluded to his acceptance of office : Although I felt it right to accept office, although I cool,; ,not hale refused to do so without discredit to my self, I g i v you my honour that I would much rather be out of oftict than in. Office to me brings no emolu meats ; it br:rigs a great increase of labour, no in. e• um of emolument, and great responsibility. I have, therefore, not accepted it from selfish motives. Sometimes a man ,:ands in a peculiar situation, in which he cannot go forward without regret, and cannot go backward without dishonour. I have felt myself in that 'itnation. I have been placed in circumstances in which, a , I before said, I could not have refused to accept office w itt, out dishonour to myself ; and I may say—and I keow . t Agree with you in sentiment when I say so—that I isnot dishonour myself without dishonouring Newark, with w hi c !P J am so intimately connected." The Hon': And Learned Gentleman left for Mon mouth this atierooen, and is to return at as early a period as possible.. Mr. Thesiger is expected to leave shortly. ANTI-CORN-LAW DINNER.—The demand f tic)wata to the dinncr -en the 18th January has been so ;great, that, notwithskim:ing the enlarged accommo datiQn provided in the pa y ;11.0n, the Council have not on ly been compelled to cease .'applying tickets, lest they encroach too far cn those reserved for invited guests, delegases, and other friends frt. 'ln distant plsces, but have been obliged to decline rec Living even the names of applicants for the chance of futu.'t 2 preference. Three thousand tickets have been actually ,sold, leaving only four hundred for the members, del'egates, and other friends wlso have yet to apply. Th e oillery, which will be appropriated for the ladies, will seat ,about 600 ; and already gentlemen, disappointed of seatg.at the dinner, are applying to have their names entered in; the chance cf tickets to the gallery. Tickets are now ending ready purchasers in the town at five shillings premium. We have in former numbens given the names of fourteen Menihers of the House of Commons who have accepted the invitation to be present. To these we have now to add, Thomas Gishorne, Esq. (..Carlow borough) ; Gene- Yal Sir de Lacy Evans (Westmioster) ; Robert Hol land, Esq. (Hastings) ; James Stewart, Esq., (Honi ttn) ; William Ewart, Esq. (Wigan) ; Joseph Brother tan, Esq, (Salford) ; and N. A. 17,.;0r5, Esq. (Car low county.) We understand that 11-. Bowring has also accepted the invitation to be present.- DEPARTURE OF THE METROPOLITAN Po- LICE FOR WALES.—On Saturday twenty constables of the A division of the Metropolitan Police left town, under the superintendence of Sergeant Chalk, for Mon mouth. The object of sending this body of the police is to preserve order in the Court and the approaches ereto on the days cf the trial of Frost and his confe !rates for high treason, sedition, &c. RISTOL S UG A R-MA RKET.—We have nothing week to report, the holidays having occasioned a ,ension of business.—Brtslol Mercury. LONDON : MONDAY, DRCEMEER 30, Js39• We have great pleasure in directing the at tention of our readers to the Papal Bull for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which ap pears in another column. Our Tory Contem poraries will, of course, be infuriated to find the Head of the Catholic Church in advance of our English Hierarchy in advocating the rights of the coloured rase, and doubtless discover that the Bull itself is an equivalent offered to Great Britain for the marriage of the QUEEN with a Papist. We seriously recommend the Standard, the Post, and the Herald to looi about them in time. As for the Times it is already in league with the Pro- paganda Society at Rome, and only awaits the ad mission of Bishop PRILPOTTS to the College of Cardinals, to substitute for the Lion and Unicorn the Triple Crown and Keys. There is no end to the tergiversation of the To ries. They are ready to forego any principle, and give up any opinion for the sake of office. To re tain power they knocked Protestant ascendancy on the head, and to get back power they have for the last three years been labouring to bring it again to life. They now find that the monster cannot be resuscitated—that the galvanic batteries of the /11PNEILES, M`GLIEESI, and O'SULLivArrs have only thrown it into hideous contortions, re sembling those of the operators, which terrify, not invite; and they now declare that they never meant to resuscitate it. Those voluntary operators merely chose to exhibit their wonderful and scientific skill. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Journals loudly declare that he never wished to revive the sleeping mischevious spirit, and reinvest it with all the lineaments and powers of life. At the failure we are less surprised, than at the lying audacity of the Tories. Such a rabble of O's and Mac's, are the genuine representatives of the wild Irish papists, and their very names make them objects of suspicion to English Protestants. The Tories, willing to believe, insinuated that their operatic skill was real inspiration, and they only disclaim the object professed by their agent when the hideous monster terrifies themselves. That they should first destroy Protestant ascendancy, then try to revive it, and, failing, deny that they ever made the attempt or wished to make it, is strictly in accordance with Tory astuteness and Tory dishonesty. Up to the present moment the Tories have been identified with the starvation laws. No person has defended them more vigorously than Sir ROBERT PEEL. He was guilty of most disgraceful special pleading. much more worthy of a Nisi Prius or Old Bailey lawyer than a statesman, to make out a case for them last session. He headed the opposition to the repeal ; and all his influence and power were exerted - nn the side of the landed interest, with which his own fortunes are now incorporated. Now we have some reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Baronet is preparing to veer round on this point, and we shall state why. His former conduct will prepare the world for any change that may help him into power. A few months before he brought forward his measure for murdering Protestant ascendancy, he professed a strong determination to resist the Ca tholics to the last gasp. At that time his relative and man-of-all-work, the Right Hon. GEOROB DAWSON, was equally violent against the Catho lics ; but just before the meeting of Parliament of 1829, the said Mr. DAwsoN sounded, for his dear brother-in-law, the note of change at Londonderry, and professed himself a convert to the necessity of removing the restrictions on the Catholics. Since then the Right Hon. Go-before has relapsed, like the Baronet, into his original heresy, and was as vigor ously bawling'' No Popery" at DevQnport,in Novem ber as Mr. M'GHER himself. In the last speech he made there,however, which has fallen under our notice, contained in the West of England Conservative Journal of the 25th instant, the Right Hon. Gen tleman, like his retiring relative, speaks as softly of the Papists as if he were asking their votes. H e trusted, he said, to the good sense of the people that they would support a religion which had been a source of happiness to them and the safeguard of their liberties. Why, we could say as much ourselves' and such is now, generally, the courtly language which the PEELITES, frightened by their own FRANKENSTEIN, are generally beginning to use. In these remarks we have closely identified the po licy of the two relatives, Mr. DAWSON being shoved before, having no lack of assurance to pre pare the public for the opinions the other is to profess. Mr. DAwsoN, then, we have to announce, has become a convert to the necessity of revising the Corn-laws. According to the Journal above quoted, he said : " He had gone into houses where he had seen swarms of children, and the mother had anxiously asked him how she could feed them, that the father toiled from morning till night but could iiot sufficieia,y y their wants. He had found this in a great many instances, and if he had any previous indisposition to the modifica tion of the Corn-laws, such a state of feeling would remove it. Why it would be useless for him to attempt to contest the borough under such a state of things. * * * * He would go into Parliament with a desire to modify the Corn-laws in such a manner, that the objects he had named should be compassed ; and let him add, that be considered a population, such as that of this borough, were best entitled to demand some modification of these laws. When he was in Parlia ment he supported the Corn-laws, but be did not re gard them either as Magna Charts, or the Bill of Rights ; these were the foundations of the laws, and were consequently immutable ; but he conceived that if it were found that after ten years' operation, the Corn laws acted oppressively or inefficiently, then he should say they were open to modification or even repeal." The Right Hon. Go-before here distinctly de clares, in consistency with the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman who shoves him on, that he is ready to sacrifice the Corn-law for which he voted. to get power. Sir R. PEEL is well aware that, let him do what he will, the bulk of the landlords will cling to him as the great man for conserving those abuses which are the breath of their nostrils. They know that their only chance of preventing the total abolition of the Corn-laws would be to consent to a modification of them if proposed by PEEL., and he would know that by making such a proposition he would disarm the hostility of the manufacturers if he did not bring them over to his side. Thus from Mr. DAWSON'S conduct we are inclined to believe that Sir ROBERT PEEL is preparing to bid for popular support by volunteering to revise the Corn•laws. Let the Ministers be on their guard, or the cunning fox will out-bid them. We know this conduct is grossly dishonest, speak ng politically ; for that very reason we readily be lieve it of a Tory. The man who, for a mere party purpose, kept the Devil's laws in existence one session, knowing them to be injurious, is more worthy to be hanged than half the felons who expiate their crimes at the gal lows. But the Tories have always sacrificed the national welfare to the lowest, most despicable, and most paltry party motives ; and, therefore, we be lieve that Sir ROBERT PEEL is ready to revise the Corn-laws, though he took a different course last session, should that now serve his party purpose. The honest men of Devonport, however, and the honest women, whose sufferings, with those of their children, have converted Mr. DAWSON, will never place any confidence in a man who so basely avows apostacy from a desire to gain votes. The electors of Devonport will reject this thrice a turn-coat, and, by rejecting him, convince Sir ROBERT PEEL that the tergiversation, and the brutal policy of the To ries have deservedly brought on him and them the scorn of all honest men. Men of Devenport ! read the deceitful lying Tories a great moral lesson, by rejecting the old apostate who has newly again apostatised. He deceived his own countrymen and he will sell you. A large portion of the Press of this country, that section, namely, which is supported by the " mini sters of peace," by those who have long boasted of their loyalty to the throne, and by a considerable number of the most ignorant and most bigotted of our population, has succeeded in reviving those fatal religious antipathies that have so often de luged Ireland with blood. Ever since the first ar rival of Lord Normanby in that country, and the disgraceful defeat of that Government that patro nised Lord RODEN and the wild Orangemen of the north, incessant attacks have been made on the religion of the Irish—the grossest and most insult ing falsehoods have been uttered, day after day, against the whole nation—their clergy have been denounced as ruffians and demons—and the idol of his countryman, O'CONNELL, has been stigma tised by every vile and degrading epithet that foul mouthed slander could invent, and all these abomi nations, too, committed, in the sacred name of reli gion. The heart sickens at the atrocity of those monsters who incite two brave nations to embrue their hands in each other's blood, not for the sake of good government, or destroying the Catholic faith, which they know is impossible, or for increasing the politi cal influence and the physical power of the United Kingdom, which they know they weaken, but solely for the wicked purpose of profiting by civil discord, and by placing in dire hostility the worst and most ungovernable passions of the human mind. The sober-minded and virtuous Tories would do well to look to the fearful crisis which their violent and unprincipled leaders have been long striving to create in this hitherto peaceful kingdom. The con fidence which the Irish nation, insulted and goaded on as it has been to outrage, justly places in the good intentions of their Sovereign and her Minis ters, alone prevents the outbreak of civil war. And in what a condition is this country to meet such a danger ? The same Press that libels the Queen and eight millions of her faithful subjects, that cheers on the M'GHEES and the O'SuLLIvA Ns in their insults on their countrymen, and the OASTLERs and STEPHENSES in arraying the poorer classes against the law, has succeeded also, by the same wicked means and for the same object, in destroying mutual good will between England and France, and creating a disposition in both nations to take fire at every imaginary insult ; the country is oppressed with debt— and more than one half of the army belongs to the nation, now so loyal, yet so grievously insulted. A little more insult might drive them in despair to join the Chartists, or the French, or any political sect or foreign people that could assist them in sub duing a class that hates them with inextinguishable hatred, and that would again reduce a high-spirited people to the debased, condition of " hewers of wood and drawers of water." It is fearful to look, even in imagination, to the awful fire which some unforseen accident may kindle ; and who are the men that are now combined in a wicked conspiracy to lay the train ? The enemies of eight millions of people—the madmen who as it were, in short, " cast firebrands, arrows, and death." The great leader of these eight millions, however, is prepared for the worst, and his countrymen will not be slack to follow him. Let his words sink deep into the heart of every friend of peace ; he uses a threat, but it is a threat in which all but slaves and tyrants will join "lam a man of peace, approaching old age—l have my children grown up men and women, and grand children to the number of more than twenty. I have always declared that not one drop of blood should be shed in the assertion of our liberties. I have struggled through many contests firmly fixed in this - resolution ; but I tell you what it is, Irishmen, that I for one am now determined to die in the field rather than submit to Tory domination.—(Loud cheering.)" The Hon. Member for Greenock, Mr. WAL LACE, having, in conjunction with Mr. ROWLAND HILL, effected the most signal reform in the Post office of the United Kingdom that was ever before attempted in this department of the public service, and thus merited for himself the gratitude of his country, is now directing his energies to the im provement of prison discipline in Scotland. Mr. WALLACE is already well known as a veteran labourer in the brambly, uncleared field of Scotch Law Reform ; and what he pro poses more immediately to accomplish will be found in certain Resolutions addressed by him to the Paisley and Glasgow newspapers, which are inserted in another part of The Sun. H av i ng nothing more at heart than the im provement of the moral, physical, and social condition of our fellow countrymen on both sid es of the Tweed, and believing that the reforms in the letter and the administration of the law sought by Mr. WALLACE, would greatly conduce to such mprovement, we trust his labours will meet with 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW WORK. In the JANUARY NUMBER of " COLCR/si ; S ----- NE W MONTHLY MAGAZINE and HUMORIST," will be corn menced a NEW STORY, by Mr. THEODORE HOOK, entitled "FATHERS AND SONS," To be continued Monthly. The January Number of this popular Periodical will also contain Articles by Lady Blessington, Mrs. Trollope, John Poole, Esq., Nimrod, Douglas Jerrold, Esq., and other distin guished writers. The new year being a favourable opportunity for com mencing a Periodical, those who may now desire to become Subscribers, are requested to send their orders immediately to their respective Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, Dire. 50, Will be performed Arne's Opera of ARTAXERXES. Artaxerxes, Madame Vestris; Artabanes, Mr. Borrani ; Ar ham, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mandane, Miss Rainforth ; Semira, Mrs. E. Knight. ♦fter which, a Cernie Burletta called PATTER Twos CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. T. omen& With the New Grand Comie Christmas Panto- mine, entiilod HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Wi h entirely New Seenery. Machinery, Dresses,: and .De- *orations. Harlequin, Mr. C. .7. Smith ; Clown. Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon. Mr. Morelli ; Morrie Devil, Mr. Giboon ; and Co nninino, Miss Fairbrothor. Drees Boxes, 7a; &mind Prise Ss. pd. ; First and Scoonel Girds, is. ; Bodoni Prior, %. id. ; Pit, 3a. ; &mond Prim, b. ; Gallery, lc. Doors to no apical at half-put performanoes is son-nonse at Sorsa o'clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be takes of Mr. Notter, at the liloc-eflios„ frost Ton till Four, where Session Tickets may be bad *pen applieation. Private Boxes to lse had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 117, New Bonsl-sheet. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense overflows bays been attracted by The Two New Dramas and the Grand Christmas Pantomime—admiring thousands have witnessed the beautiful Scenery aid splendid appointments, and acknowledge " Goody Twe Shoes ' to be the most pepular Pantomime in Loadon. THIS EVENING, DEC. 30, Will be repeated the:New Romantic Drama, called MICHAEL EARLS, THE MANIAC LOVER. C'haraeters by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, Neville, John sen, and Smith ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Martin. After which, a Comedietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JAR'S MENDED. Benhoretme, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Ronhemrae, Mrs. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, *ailed THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Bruaning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin ;ef Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. NIGH-WW ATM. ♦T LONDON 1111D4111 TO-MORROW. )forming 23 rainutes attar 10 Evituing 52 minutes atter 10. * ••!,., AI 4 - 4' b ii% . 1 0 *fr. ‘ • • ~ ',.';.: r ~Lflliii% • jr*„ ii , ~...„......,. ~.,.....s-,: ~.. ... .. rb,e :51.111+ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1239. every encouragement. We recommend the Reso lutions to the earntst zzt(-otioll of out. reajcr.-i. We see with more regret than surprise that the working men of Kendal, like those of Glasgow, pre fer seeking the Charter to procuring a repeal of the Corn-laws. At a meeting held there they pro fessed a hatred of the Corn-laws, but they wanted a guarantee that they should' not be re-enacted, and they cheered for the Charter. They cheered, too, most vociferously for Mr. FROST. The Tories are pleased with this exhibition of a determination of the people to have a complete democracy, even by violence, and exult that the friends of moderation and rational reform are defeated. Deeply do we deplore—differing on this point, as on all others, from the Tories—the breach, which is widening every day, between the middle classes and the working men ; and for the preservation and restoration of peace no sacrifice should be thought too great in bringing about a mutual agreement. We hope that moderate men of both classes will take this matter into serious consideration, for their present mutual exasperation seems only to cut their own throats. Letters from Constantinople, of the 4th inst., have been received. An extraordinary sensation prevailed in the diplomatic circles of that city, in consequence of a revelation made by M. AVEDICK, the Armenian interpreter of the Capitan who, having escaped ftom Alexandria, arrived a few days previously at Pera. M. AVEDICK in formed the Divan and the Ambassadors that the Capitan Pacha in, betraying the Turkish fleet to MEHEMET ALI, acted by the advice, and with the entire concurrence, of the French Admiral LALANDE ; and that, in'fact, it was the French Admiral who first suggested the measure, and who had actually planned it with the Rear- Admiral OsmAN Pacha before communicating with the Capitan Pacha. We are not in the least sur prised at this. Our readers will perhaps remember that when the French Journals, pravious to the betrayal of the Turkish fleet, boasted of the honour done the French flag by the Capitan Paella's interview with Admiral LALANDE, to which Admiral STOPFORD was not invited, we intimated that the circumstance would turn out to be little to the credit of the French nation ; and that when the Turkish fleet was betrayed to the VICEROY we roundly charged Admiral LALANDE with being privy to that infamous transaction. We were not then at liberty to give our authority for such a statement, but the confidence we reposed in the quarter whence we received it, induced us to publish it. We were not deceived, and we now leave to the National the task of extracting food for French vanity fro:n this fresh proof of French naval influence in the Mediterra nean. That Admiral LALANDE will be called upon by the French Government to give a flat and indignant denial to the statement of M. AVE DICK we no more doubt than that the gallant Admiral will obey the behests of the Minister of Marine upon this point. But no explanation which may take place will have the least influence upon our convictions. No progress appeared to have been made at Con stantinople relative to the final settlement of the Oriental question. The Echo de l'Orient of the 7th inst., states that the adjustment of the differ ences between the VICEROY and the Porte, would be effected through the mediation of Austria only —a very unlikely story. The following additional and later intelligence from the East is extracted from the Paris Journals of Saturday : We have before us the Journal de Smyrne of the sth and 9th inst., and the Echo de :Orient of the 7th. The Constantinople correspondence of the 9th, in the Marseilles Semaphore of the 24th inst., states that Marasch having been completely occupied by the Egyptian army, the Porte has notified this movement to the diplomatic corps, pointing out the disagreeable circumstances which might result from Mehemet Ali taking no notice of the instructions of the mediating Powers. The private correspondence from Alexandria dwells upon the difficulties of the five Powers agreeing on the Eastern question ; upon the failure of the Count de Pontois at Constantinople to induce the Porte to listen to the terms proposed by the French Cabinet to Me hemet Ali, and accepted by him ; and upon the increas ing exertions of the Ottoman Councils, at the instiga tion of Lord Ponsonby, to resume a war footing. The Viceroy was in excellent health and spirits. A letter from Alexandria of the 6th contains the following pas sage : " A corps sent by the Porte against the Kurds had just been repulsed with loss, and many men have perished trom the rough attacks of these insurgents." Refat Bey, late Ambassador at Vienna, had returned to Constantinople. The reigning Prince of Servia, since his arrival in the Turkish capital, had been received with due honours. He is the second son of Prince Milosch, who was forced to abdicate. The weather bad been dreadful, and several vessels had been lost in the Black Sea, and even in the port of Constantinople itself. M. do Sercey, the French Ambassador to Persia, left Constantinople on the 2d, on board the French steamer of war, Veloce, for Trebisond. Letters from Tabriz, dated November 4, give some news from Kurdistan. Mahmoud Khan was still con tinuing his war with the Pachas of Vow and of Er zeroum. Letters from Athens, dated the 27th of November, in the Echo de [Orient, announce the definitive es:a blishment of the bank of Messrs. Wright and Eynard. The bases of the establishment had been agreed to in a Cabinet Council at which the King presided, and opera tions were to commence in January. This correspon dence is, however, completely at issue with the Mercure of Syra of the 30th of November, which announces that at the moment of going to press it had received ad vices from Athens that the negotiations were cancelled, and that Mr. Wright's agents, MM. Amon and Lloyd, had left the capital. The whole of the French Journals of rivay and Saturday have been received, with Madrid Papers of the 21st inst. Their contents are unim portant. On a second ballot, on Friday, the Chamber of Deputies elected M. MARTIN (du Nord) its fourth Vice-President, to the great dismay of Ministers, who voted for M. VIVIEN. The Secretaries were then elected. Their names are MM. DE MALLEVILLE, DE HAVIN, DE BIGNON, and DUBOIS. On Saturday the Chamber being regularly constituted M. SAUZET the President, was con ducted to the Chair, upon which he delivered a speech filled with common-place expressions abo his gratitude for the honour done to him, and his determination to discharge his duties with impar tiality. Tile following extracts are from the French Journals. Those of Madrid contain no n ews o f any interest. Twelve days has the Court of Assize at Rennes been occupied with the trial of 30 prisoners for the Corn riots at Dol. On the 24th fourteen were acquitted, and sixteen found guilty. The sentences were —one to imprisonment for five years, one for four years, three for two months, six for six months and a fine of 50f., three for two months and a fine of 161., and two a fine of 100 f. without imprisonment. One of the pri soners, a woman, attempted suicide between the ver dict and the sentence, by dashing a :largo stone jug against her head, but was not much hurt, and was let off leniently by the penalty of 1001. fine. The Tartare s t eam -b oa t, w hi c h l e ft Al g i ers on the 21st, arrived at T ou l on on th e 24th, w ith di spatches. The reports whi c h h ave b een c i rcu l a t e d at T ou l on, and a cording to w hi c h t h e A ra b s h a d su ff ere d great losses, are not confirm e d. U p t o t h e 21 s t no act i on of im portance had t a k en pl ace . On the 24th th ere were rece i ve d a t T ou l on letters from Ourlac d a t e d t h e 10th o f December, which spea k of the approaching departure from France of Rear -Ad miral Lasusse, with the Montebello and another ship of the line.—Consittutionnel. The Minister of Commerce has addressed the follow ing circular to the Chambers of Commerce in the sea ports : Gentlemen,—Some of the English regulations re specting pilotage presented the assimilation of the French to the British flag, as stipu'ated in the conven tion of 26th February, 1826. " To remedy this, the King's Government had re quired, 1. The exemption for all our vessels under 60 tons burden from the obligation to take a pilot in en tering all the ports of Great Britain. 2. The right, for all French vessels, not to pay the pilotage, when they have been unable to obtain a pilot, after having made all the customary signals, " I have the satisfaction to inform you that the de- I mantis ay. 7 b een acceded to, and that orders have just be-ea ,ceordingly by the English Government to the competent authorities. " L. CUNIN-GRIDAINE. " The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce." DEC. 27.—The Duke de Nemnurs is not better, There has been to-day a consultation of physicians to decide on the treatment to be adopted. Lord Durham, who is spoken of as the successor of Lord Pousonby, has not arrived at Paris. He visited the Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterd.iy.—Le C'om nterce. SUEZ, Nov. 28.—A report is spread here that Tana, the capital of Yemen, after a battle in which the troops of the Imaum were defeated, had fallen into the hands of the Egyptian troops. under the command of Ibra him Pacha, the younger, the Governor-General of Yemen. This is not improbable, for the Pacha has long since prepared for such a result, and the Egyp tians have made use of every means that the perfidy of Eastern policy afforded them. We have just heard that Ahmed Pasha, Governor General of Hedjaz. has gained a victory over the Arabs, and it is probable that a great noise will be made about it at Cairo, but it only proves that the tribes of Assir have again ventured into the plain, and are far from intending to submit.] BOUR S SATVRDAY, DE(. 28. lilt Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. French 5 per Cents ll2 ... 112 ... 111 70 1 1 70 4 per Cents lO2 50 102 50 102 50 ... 102 50 3 per Cents BO 55 ... 80 60 .. 80 40 ... 80 40 Bank of France 29 2 11 ...2940 Laffitte Bank I,noof. 8h 1055 ...1055 ...1050 5,000 f. Sh 5180 ...5180 ...5170 —.5170 Belgian 5 per Cents lO2 ... 102 10 102 Bank B5O ... 870 ... S 0 ... 870 Dutch 234 per Cents 52 52 ... 52 52 Spanish Ac ive 253( ... 25% ... 253, E 2.Y4 Passive tS% 61 2 614 ... 64 Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 2314 234 ... 231 4 Nea,olitan Roman 10 134 ... 101% ... 1013( ... 101% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, It, B 5OO 500 ... 500 ... 500 L.B. 325 ... 325 325 ... 325 Orleans . %lulhausen to Thann Strasburg to Bale 317 50 ... 317 50 3111 50 317 50 ASPHALTES AND BITU ALEN& Yarn (Moberly's) BELGIAN 1 U N DS—Bauman, Dan. 23 Actual Debt, 23 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 1925 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent PS Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 63 National Society . Exchange en London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Dec. 28. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEXNA, DEC. 20 rive per Cents. Metalliques Fear per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1674 —Aligemeine Zeitung, Dee. 25 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL. DEC. 29. —Wind, N. W. to N. N. W. Arrived the Essex, Foord, from Madras. Sailed the Marmion, Dyer, for Sydney, New South Wales; Montefiore, Paul, Hobart Town; Woodman, Good, Sydney, New South Wales; Caroline, Sweetman, Grenada; and the Con cordance, —, Malaga, with the rest of the outward bound. RAMSGATE, Dac. 28.—Sailed the Margarita, Richards, Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 28.—Wind N.-29, N. W.—Arrived the R. A. Packe, Salter, Miramichi ; Nonansum, Ham burg, New Orleans; Chatham, Richardson, ditto; A-la- Mode, Bartlett, Civita Vecchia. Sailed the Cistrian, Armstrong, for Bombay, Bootle, Tasker, Trinidad; Robert Sams, Loney, La Guayra. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28. —Wind N. N. E.-29. N. N. W. Sailed the Philadelphia, Morgan, New York. DOVER, DEC. 29.—Off port, Mauney, Downes, Para. HASTINGS, DEC. 29.—Off port, the Orator, Jenkins, Madras; Catherine, Sella'', Singapore. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Sailed the Ulysses, Purdy, for Alexandria. FALMOUTH, DEC. 27.—Wind N. fo E.N.E., fresh breezes ; 28, N. E.—Sailed the Catherine Grave, I)yet, for St. Kitt's ; Archibald, Perio, St. Jago de Cuba ; Numa packet, Coleman, Bermuda ; Casvalidaa, Monde zina, Havannah. PENZANCE, DEC. 28,—Sailed the William and Alfred, Culverwell, for Antigua, JERSEI, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Kimis, Le Bas, from St. Andero. HARWICH, Dsc. 28.—Sailed the Don Juan, Shearer for Newfoundiand. SUNDERLAND, Dac. 27.—Arrived the Freedom, Ro binson, from Memel. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVI O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON M A RKET. SATURDAY .—We have had a moderate demand for Cotton tto-day, at barely yesterday's prices ; the sale 3,000 bags to the trade. This being a double post day the delivery of the let ters and papers from the Post-office were very late. Accounts have been received at Havre from New York with letters and papers to the sth of December, but the President's Message had not been received. The Congress assembled on the 2d of December, when a discussion took place on the organization of the House of Representatives, which occupied the Assembly until the sailing of the packet Baltimore ; the discussion took place upon certain rival members. We have received the Antwerp Journal of yester day's date. Accounts received at the Hague, of the 7th Septem ber, from Batavia, state that a great fire took place at Kratin, on the nights of the 25th and 26th of August, which consumed 430 houses, with several ships. A sick woman perished in the flames. Accounts from Antwerp state that the continual rains has inundated all the environs of that town. Arrivals this morning.—Two French mails. two Os tend, and one Dutch ; ship-letters from Demerara, Nas. sau, and Pura ; Madras, 24th August, and 23d Sept.. all old dates. THE FUNDS. Consols„ s ed this morning at the same quotation they left off at on Saturday, 92i to for the Account, with little doing as yet ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 90' 1 191 ; Exchequer Bills 2 dis.,par ; Bank Stock, 177 178 ; India Stock, 253 255. Up to the present hour we do not hear of any arrival from the United States in our . ports, but in all probabi lity, as the Havre packet got into port, we may expect in a few hours to hear of one or two New York packets h►►ving arrived at Liverpool. It appears that the United States Bank Shares come lower, 67 68. In the Foreign Market the only operation at present in the Dutch Stock, which left off on Saturday at 521 1 and opened this morning at 521 53 1 1 , ; this improvement' , attributed to an arrangement having taken place between the Chambers and the King of Holland in respect to thi financial affairs. Spanish Active closed at 241 25 opened at 243 4, rather lower ; Portuguese left off at 331, 34, at present the same;; Three per Cents., 231 24 Colombian 231 24; ; Mexican, 281 4 ; Brazilian, 71 72 ; Spanish Deferred, 111 ; Passive, 6i ; Dutch. Five per Cents., 98 99. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 177!4 J India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. S per Cent. Cons. — South Sea Stock — 3% per Cent — Old Annuities 3 ,7i Ditto Red. 90 87 New Ditto New 3% per Cent... ...... .... 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. sank Long A nnuities toexpire Ditto 500 .... I dis. Jail 5, 1860 l4 13 15-16 Ditto Small 1 dis Oct. 10, 1859 13X 13-11 Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880. — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account... 92% RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brasilia n Bonds Ditto Account - , Ditto Accoun• Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. ... Ditto Account "..;hilian Bond i — Prussian Bonds ..... ......... Ditto tccc: nt —; Russian Bonds, 1822 III% ;:olurnl.• 1.7_5( -Ids —', Ditto Acc0unt..,,........... Ditto 1C7,0, nt ......... ..- — ? Ditto Metallic Lclarr c t: 3:' d 5,1844 I.: tto I eta.) tt vanish it 1 • —, Passive r l4 Ditto Aetrt: nt — Defvrred Greek Bonds — : French, 5 per cent, - -f. Ditto Bonds, 1825 - . 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account - 3 per rent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cont ; --- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — . Dutch, 2% per ce n t . 527 Ditto, 6 per Cent. 52% 3y s Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Account....".. ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Railway Company ..... 65 Diito New Shares . , Brighton Railway London and Croydon Railway Co m p any l4/. 15s. 6d. 10 North Midland Railway Company its 113 Ditto New PRICES O 1 IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 23. S per k.;ent. Consols I per Cent. Stock — Ditto, 4 per cent. .. . . ....... Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. It is stated in the Liverpool papers received this morning, that on Thursday evening last, at a Reform meeting held in St. George's Ward, Mahchester, Mr. George Wilson, said that there are at present upwards of 1,300 horse's-power, connected with the Cotton ma nufacture in Stockdale, totally unemployed, and that most of the remaining wheels were working short time. A report prevailed in the course of the morning of an express having arrived from Dverpool with an account of the arrival of the Indepedence packet from New York. Up to the present, hour we cannot trace it to any authentic source. Very little has been doing in the British Market during the morning, but in the Foreign Market it being settling day to-morrow, the brokers and jobbers are occupied in arranging their accounts ; the heaviest ono to adjust will be that of Dutch, the extreme fluctuation is about I to 4 per cent. Consols at presont same as they opened, at 92i for the Account ; Reduced, 90i; Exchequer Bills, 2 dis., par, 1 dis. ; Bank Shares, 1771 ; India Bonds, 6 discount. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, oi ; Por tuguese, 33f ; in the Three per Colombiap, 4 ; Mexican, 28 cents„ nothing done ; i ; Dutch Two.and-a-lialf per Cents., .52i bai ; Five per Cents., 96 ; Money on the British Market at 6 per cent. Bir,snop PHILPOTTS AGM-N --61.--- i . i) . 771.: 11 . 1_;.1TO R OF :I ii E St: i't AIR. EDITOR,--A scene took place on Christmas. day, in the Chapel of Torquay, most remarkable, strik ing, and characteristic. The Rev. Mr. Elliot performed the duty, and was assisted in the Communion by the Bishop of the Diocese. The Rubric enjoins that the Creed of St. Al hanasius he said on that day instead of the Apostles' Creed. Either from inadvertence, or a knowledge that this Creed was. obnoxious to three fourths of the congregation —a Creed forbidden by George 111. to be read in his presence, and considered by many of the brightest ornaments of our Church— either from one of these causes, or a self-conviction that such denunciations were little consistent with the cha. ratter of a Protestant Minister—the Rev. Gentleman commenced the Apostles' Creed. He had not proceeded far, when Bishop Phillpotts, with out stretched arm and voice of thunder, exclaimed— " Whosoever will be saved." Thus interrupted, startled, and confused, the rebuked minister paused, then, pe remptorily commanded, repeated in a low voice, the A thanasian Creed. The service continued, the Bishop showing, most undisguisedly. that he was irritated and annoyed. When the priest read the Exhortation, and came to "we eat and drink our own damnation," he substituted for the last word " con.. demnation," again was the voice of the Descendant of the Apostles heard, with startling emphasis, pro nouncing, " damnation! !!" The effect was electric. No one but felt their blood creep in their veins—it can not better be described than in the simple words of a female present, " The letters of my prayer-book seemed to dance before my eyes, and I felt sick at heart." Surely, Mr. Editor, it was most unseemly thus to disturb the composure and Chris tian state of mind of all those who were devoutly disposed. If the Bishop saw any thing in the conduct and demeanor of his inferior, calling for animadversion, surely the altar was not the place, nor during the Sacra ment of the Lord's Supper the time, for rebuke and censure. But I will make no comment on this scene, I forbear to paint it in the glowing colours it is capable of. To the hearts of all true Christians, such a desecra tion of the anniversary of the day that blessed us with the coming of the Herald of peace and good will to man, can only bring sorrow and humiliation—to the well wishers of the Established Church, dismay and alarm. Torquay, Dec. 27, 1839. MONEY MARK ET and CI rY NEWS (SATURDAY EVENING.) An intimation that the Manchester Ch amber of Commerce have had a meeting in the course of the week to receive a report from the Board of Directors on the effect of the administration of the Bank of Eng land upon the commercial and manufacturing int crests of the country, seems to have produced some feeling of alarm in the Bank parlour. A short account only of the meeting has been given, but enough has transpired to show that the general movement of the commercial body has at length commenced, which is to put the merits of that administration to the proper test. It is confessed by the parties who take the lead on this occasion that they were ignorant till lately of the causes which produced those rapid alternations of &stress and feverish ex citement to which they have been subjected, but their recent inquiries have led them, it seems, to fix the whole upon the management of the Bank of England, not through any fault of the Directors themselves, but the inherent defects of the system which they have been coiled upon to administer. In the report lead to the Manchester meeting a calculation is made that the recent effort made by the Bank to recover six or seven millions of specie bad caused a loss of 40,000,0001. to commerce. We have said re peatedly, and are not disposed to retract that opi nion now, that the Directors of the Bulk hare to share the blame in a considerable degree with the system itself ; but, whtrever the fault may lie, there san be no more acceptable service conferred upon the commercial interest than to subject both to the freest inquiry possible, and there can be no better source from which to press the inquiry than the leading men of the great manufacturing districts, who are rendered by their position in great measure independent of the Bank of England, which, there is great reason to fear, from many past occurrences, is not the case in the metropolis. A firm demonstration from Manchester and Liverpool must force the subject upon the atten tion of Parliament, and that before the Session is far advanced. A project of a law for increasing the post-duty, and abolishing the stamp duty, as far as regards printed paper s ( t h a t i s , j ourna l s, periodicals, music, prospectuses, notices, and placards), has been sub mitted to the French Government. The post-duty on books and prospectuses as established by thu law of the 4th Thermidor, year 4, is sc. for a sheet of 25 square decimetres, 5 liards for a sheet of 26 decimetres, 6 for one of 38, and so on. The post duty on journals and p , riodicals fixed by law of the 14th of December, 1830, and decree of the 10th of May, 1837, is 4c. for a sheet of 30 square decimetres and under, and 4c. for every sheet exceeding 30 deci metres or fraction thereof. The projected law having for its objects the removal of all that is arbitrary in the receipt of the post duty, the advantage of the journals and books in the departments, and the disencumbering the central administration of the masses of prospectuses, notices, and placards, with which the mails are always loaded, pro poses to effect these objects by adopting unity of taxation. While the law of the year 4 recognised sheets of 25 decimetres, the projected law would re cognize none under 50. The law of December extended the dimension to 30 decimetres, doubling the duty for the least fraction, while in the projected law the duts of 5c., established on a proportion of one centime for 10 square decimetres, would gradually increase at the rate of one centime for every 10 decimetres or fraction thereof, above the dimensions of the 50 fixed as the basis. Thus the prospectuses wi'ich by the law of 4 paid but a liard would pay 5c., as WO d also those journals which now pay but 4c. no de ..tn of the projected law is to accompany this increase ~t d ity with an abolition of the stamp on printed papers. Those who are fa vourable to the projecteu denv that the stamp is an instrument of control. Among the remarks on the journals, it is said that the Journal des Debits, the Constitutionnel, and the Gazette de France, are the only papers of which it can be positively affirmed that the value exceeds the capital expended. The inconveniences attendant on sending papers to the Stamp office, which are particularly felt in the departmer is where the stamp-offices are more imperfectly organised than at Paris, and the bad effect of a stamp on an elegant piece of music, or any other work in which value touch depends on beauty of appearance, are also made to bear on the question. The advantages held forth by the adoption of the new law to journals are an increase of size, and of the number of subscribers by the reduction of expense. An improvement of the reviews, which are disadvantageously contrasted with those of England, is likewise promised as a consequence, as well as the conveniences resulting from the facilities afforded to the publication of placards and prospectuses. A curious tact comes to light under the discussion, which is, that the Moniteur is indemnified by the Treasury for the expenses of stamping. THE MARKETS.-(T/11 DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals were small of most kinds of Grain, and here was a short market. Wheat firmly maintained last Mon day's prices. Fine dry Barley Is. per quarter dearer, other kinds unaltered. 01 4 Hens as last quoted, new, being tender, full ls. per quarter cheaper, Boiling 1 3 ,:as declined Is. per quarter, and Grev Peas hardly maintained their late value. fhe demand for Oats was fair, and prices were well supported. In Flour a moderate trade, at former prices. PRIG=S ON BOA RD OF Culp. Wheat, Red (old) ......... 555. 7.:5. Beans, Small ,now) 44, 4 0 , lit----Whe (old) ..... .658. 80s. ----___ (old) 368 99 . (1839) ....... 548. fO,. --- Tick (new) 42 , .44 1 ---- Fine ............ GIN. 6.15. •---_. (old) 19 , 4ls ----Superfine.„...cB4 SS .. -- Harrow (new) ;tis 46 , ----- Wh te ( 19 .3.0)....60 8 r 4.1 --------- (old)• - ..-4 ----.. Flee ............ ilne. Ili- Brank --- Superfine ...... 728 75, Oats, Feed ---Foreign tree ...... 6i). 5.2.. Barlettyr. ............................. 468 40s. - Poland 26,,. 2,. . ) :. y ......................... 30s 38,. New ........ 2g., 42 ........ s. ---. Grinding ~,,,,,,,,• 308 268. - P0tat0e ;:7 7 , 4 , ;••• '2B-.32. ----.. New ............. ___ , ''3 B . • _ 2 7% -. Making ............. 384. 448. .......... 20..32, Malt 565. 058, - scotch . ......... 22.. .. . 25, 2, : --- Fine New.. rxis. 745. - fr ith ....... *;;sack)....ss.„‘B2, Pease, Grey, New 365. :38s. Flour 'P!r o n n kL 34,.5e; -- Maple New . ...... :".-Bs. 40, 28s, 40 ,. -----__.....- Ttrth Country,.,. LO, .',2.: --- White . ... --- Boilers 40s. 4'2.. Bran 9, 10 LAST `tvic , K Wheat. ~ 0 •? 4r , 9 - 0 Ir.' 3,1258ack5 , ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON Otirt u tr th e: 3 ' 352 qrs -‘l' t 74 9 541 3, and the supply 1.70 b s t) ; 1,472 . rls 5,260 atttr~c©~ was brisk, at a general ad- SMITHFIVIatt MARKET. of all desert of cattle There was a ui go p o: hoice Beef at 54• per stone, and the inferior suits at vance-c The artvance in Alutton was 3s. 104 . per ston e. not so great. :} t r i rt, a y In Veal a fair trade wa s done. _ ouns• Porkershigher Price per stone of 8 lbs., sitAing the offal-Beef 3, rates. Veal 4s. 6d. t , Bd. to ss. 6d. ; Q .),..s 6tl, ; Mutton 4s. 4d. to ss. 44. ; Pork 4s. 64. to 6S. tIA u ,-,.. H eart of cattle at market- Beasts 2,769, Sheep I4.aita, Calves 487, Pigs 409. BILLINGSGATE. Th e sup plies were mo d erate, and so was trade ; prices un altered. Turbot, ss. to 235. ; Carp, 2s. Cod, o tos. to 12 3 . ; sume per bu sh e lSal at mark e t, pr i ce 35. per lb. ; O‘sters 425. 485. ; Iod. to Is. 6d, Whitings, 44 to Bd. ; and H a dd oc k s , BERMONDSEY WATER-SIDE POTATOE MARKET. The supplies were good of most descriptions, but there was not much activity in trade. The improved state of the weather eagled the condition of potatoes to be better. The following prices ruled ; York Reds, 755, to SOs. ; Devons, 625. to 655. ; Jerseys, 555. to 00s. ; Wi.!.l,each, 50s. to 58s. English ..... Irish Foreign HOET. There wa s b u t little business MAßK doing in this market. t , tit former prices were mostly well maintained. The only kinds sold w ere coloary and good qualities. EVENTING RDITioN. DAMN Nilo:, LViac a Le!tei in The Sun , lai, ht•acied Bishop Philpotts Again !" Christmas Day ! By Saints of old, 'T:s a day of joy, we're told, A day of hope—a day of mirth, Tr all who travail upon earth, But—unless I wholly err— Our modern Saint, Saint Exeter, Tells us 'tis a day of gloom, Dark as the portals of the tomb, A day —not of benign salvation, But—Episcopal damnation " Hope," the dying Saviour cried To the sinner at his side, " Hope, for wide my Father's Hall, There, there's room enough for all I" But Saint Philpotts, with his eye Uplifted proudly to the sky, Reversing quite the Saviour's prayer, For " Hope," straight substitutes " Despair," Bars the portals of salvation, And fiercely thunders forth " Damnation I" " Damnation l" 'tis the bigot's tool Wherewith he scares the craven fool ; The last, faint, hopeless, rallying cry Of stern prelatic tyranny, Atid falls most aptly from the lips Of one whose name is in eclipse ; Who hurls on each unlucky elf The curse be fears will reach himself, And fain would send him to that clime Whither, in due course of time, With priestly hate and spleen o'erflowing, He himself, he knows, is going I COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SIINDAY.—Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine Ser vice, this morning, in St. George's Chapel Royai. The Rev. Mr. Musgrave preached the Sermon from the first Book of Samuel, chap. 2, and part of verse 30. The Rev. C. Knyvett chaunted the first part of the Service ; the Rev. Dr. Goodall, and the Rev. Mr, Musgrave, officiated at the Altar. The Te Deum and Jubilate was Nares in C. The. Communion Se-rvice Nares in F. The Anthem, " I know that my Re;i ce mer liveth" (Handel), was very nicely sung by Master Foster. The Royal Suite included the Marchioness of Nor manby, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Pitt, Lord Byron, Mr. Rich, and the Hon. Colonel Grey. The Queen and the Royal party walked on the Ter race of the Castle for some time on returning from St. George's Chapel. Her Mjesty, attended by her usual suite, rode on horseback in the Great Park yesterday for an hour and a half. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager. on Saturday at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta attended Divine Service yes terday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James' s * The 'Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Vane from St. John, chap. iv., v. 24. The Lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Hall, the Prayers by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Messrs. Hall and Knapp. The Anthem We will rejoice in thy salvation" (Croft), was s ung by Messrs. J. B. Sale .Hawkins, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart presided a"the Organ. Miss Vyse was in waiting on the Princess Augusta. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning ie Grosvenor Chapel. The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr and Col. Cornwall, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Princess Augusta and the Duke of Cambridge honoured Covent Garden Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The Council of the British Medical Association, consisting of Dr. Webster the President, Professor R. E. Grant, H. Smith, Esq., William Farr, Esq., Dr. R.. D. Thomson, R. Davidson, Esq., George Pitcher, Esq., Thomas Wakley, M.P., E. Crisp, Esq., William Eales, Esq., George Parsons, Esq., J. Howell, Eager G. P. James, Esq., E. Evans, Esq,, R. L. Hooper, Esq., Dr. M. Hall, Dr. D. M.D.vao, J. M. Bean e ' Esq., J. N. Bainbridge, Esq., and C. H. Rogers Har rison, Hon o ra r y S ecretary, h a d an interview w ith the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Home Office._ Despatches f rom Si r Willi am Ni colay, G ov ernor of the Mauritius, were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office. A deputation on the subject of the Police Bill from the Borough of Mkt - At-bone, consisting of Mr. G. A. Young, Messrs. H. Biers, Clapp, J. Loveridge, George Glasier, Charles Marks, William Basebi, John Thom— son, and J. W. Robinson, had an interview on Saturday at the Home Office, with the Marquis of Normanby. The Earl 'of Shaftesbury has a select party at St. Giles's House, Cranbourn. Lord rend Lady Ashley are stayinc , at the above seat. The Earl and Countess of Clon mell, Viscount and Viscountess Downes, Mr. Archdall, M.P., Colonel and Mrs. Fleming, Sir George Colthiurst, and a s elect party, are visiting the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Conolly, at Castletowne, their seat in Ireland.. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon were ex— pected to arrive in town last evening, from Paris, where the Noble Earl and his amiable (;ountess arrived early in the past week, from a tour in )Maly. His Excellency the Baron Brunow visited the whole of the corps diplomatic:sir on Friday last. His Excellency Baron Gelsdorfr, the Saxon Minister, arrived at Mivare s Hotel, on Friday, from Dresden, to resume his diplomatic duties, after an ab sence of several months. His Excellency Baron Nieumann has arrived at Chandos House, from a visit to Visentant Palmerston and the Dowager Countess Cowper, at Broadlands, Riots. The Duke and Duchess of Br dford and the Marquis of Tavistock have returned to Woburn Abbey, from a visit to Baron and Lady Parka at Anythill. The Duke and Duchess intend residing principal' at Oakley House. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, ac companied by the Marquis of Chandos and Lady A. Grey!lle, returned to Wotton on Tuesday last, from Avington House, Hants. The Noble Duke and Duchess, before leaving the above seat, mused a gre at quantity o f c l ot hi ng, su i ta b le for the season , to be dis tributed among t h e poor i n the netighbowthood. The Earl and Countess of Wilton left town on Saturday for Walmer Castle, the. seat of the Duke of Wellington, in Kent. The funtral o f the late Lady Emily Agnes Grey Egerton toot plane on Friday last at Grosvenor Chapel. Major Wildman left Mir art's Hotel on Saturday for Newstead Abbey, on a visit to Colonel and Mrs. Wildman, who have returned to that romantic seat,. from a tour in Italy. Mr. C. W. Packe, 1V1.p., handsome sum of 1001. towards. the relief of the dis tressed working classes of Leic ester. DISTURBANIZE IN TH E FLEET PRISOK.----- On Friday a prisoner in the Flee to the Marshal,' :as nam su ed bsc o ri: s ed esso t n b insulted some visitors, who complained and the offender was summoned totbe lobby t o account; for his conduct, but he refused to attend. Th e o fficers: of the prison then west to coal pel him to go, but O'Ses-. sons locked himself in his room and opporied their en-- p trance The police force was. then "li ed in, and by a' got him to open the d oor , b ut , on t heir at-. %ticked th em w i t h a dagger tempting cknitiytea police nci t drove o take w ere eUre'd-, who l o d ge d . t h e prisoner ice them hi r t h e stro ng-room, wherern o out, h eat and ultimata, • twenty of t hy he now remain s. . On Saturday , a t the election for ra,,. ast k et . m . took po w for and against Q's er. the prat ,Hers to essons, and several disturbances a were soon quelled. CURIOUSpIace, which • t n ARCUNISTANCE.--Shl ortly after tbo. a gentleman was malt dos no from and Huntingdon mail had lbeen robbed 113 L ond o n toJanuaryCaxton, L st, re specting in Cambridgeshire, to mal Le inquiries speeting the robbery. While sta • ying at the inn at Caxton he was told that a letter-bag had been fou nd by some workmen when 'dulling dow a an old s,table attached to the inn, in the space beta teen the cell of the stable and the loft abov e. The 8 e n d London tlernan immediately inquired after the brig, and fel % a that it was the London and. 011erton one, gu id co rl ntainettent number of letters from that place to J- 4( m-00, W n r „ l „. e i in the character of the time, and dated. I i 703. „", -- t ,, r the letters was directed to be left at , the uo , P r h - e Coffee-house, St. Paul's Churchyard, Londo n ' a favourite h aun t o f t h e cele b rated people of C a xt on genera ll y b e l l( ye that t hi s inn was Die} . Turp ia ; an d there can h e li tt l e d ou b t t h at the b; l gi vas stolen from the mail in 1703, an d a f ter the cas b if.. contained bas beenabstra c t e d, concea l e d w h ere i t was f oun d. It t. "a remained undi scovere d f or a per i o' I o f 136 years.- - * Derbyshire C our i er . _ At the last siting of the Act thettly of Sciences, M. Arago announced an important improvement in• the process of the Daguerreotype. H about oit has bee nn e . cessary, in order to give the gold. Colour ed coat of w• dLree r to the s il vere d p l ate , to expose it for e some leng th °.' time to the v a p our o f iodine in 4 box, in whic h the che mical mical substan c e was placed., B tt e new mode stead of pla c ing the iodi ne. ; di ti,), 4 Y- be x, a plat e is irrsa impregnated with the ',opour., r li d this is plac ed lo b e flat he x withi n b a ll an i nch of c ,I be: plate on whiob ! _ drawing is to betp.lten. Th e b, ' X is then shu t, and pr minutes the s il vered plate 1) as acquired th e P r°P .. tint. M. Dilguerre hop es soon to s i mp lify the preealiY 7 of the mer cur i a l vapour after drawing, in an eq u satisfactory way.—Galignani's Messenger. I I