The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-18 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning . as minutes after 5) Evening 3 minutes alter 6 CO T HE NOBILITY, GENTRY, & c ., are re spectfully i n f orme d , t h at the Old Established Firm of NAGHI and CO., was in 1825, REMOVED to No. 14, PALL-MALL EAST, where the business has been carried on under the style of PAUL and DOMINIC COLNAGHI, and,CO. TO BREWERS. WANTED a SITUATION as BREWER, and MANAGER, if required, by a respectable Single Young Man, aged 27, who is fully competent in the English and Scotch System of Brewing. He would make himself generally useful, and study to promote the interest of his em ',Myers. A small salary would be sufficient. Certified by a Practical Man. Reference unexceptionable. Address (post-paid) to A. 8., 122, Aldersgate-street, St. Martin's-le- Grand. Nearly ready, Eva. DEDICATED by Permission to her MAJESTY. THE PARLIAMENTS and COUNCILS of ENGLAND chronologically arranged from the Reign of William I. to the Revolution in 16S8. John Murray, Albemarle-street. TIPS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, -ILL Ills Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, And His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA. having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis :ributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TERIES., and do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to flanks) ofer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURG'', and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various rrices. The Dis tributions contain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS and upwards. Orders for less than 101. cannot be attended to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulari, upon ad dryssing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GAUDEN. THIS EVENING, FEB. 18, Will be performed KING LEA R. King Lear, Mr. Macrrady ; Edgar, Mr. Elton ; Cordelia, Miss Helen Faucitt. After which HARLr.QUIN AND FAIR ROSAMOND. To-morrow—The Lady of Lyons, or Love and Pride ; and the King and the Duke. Wednesday—There wit be no performance. Thursday—The Tempest ; and the Invineibles. Friday—There will be no performance. Saturday— William Tell ; and the King and the Duke. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. In consequence of the great alterations in the r.rrival of the Mails in several parts of the Kingdom, we now publish a Morning Edition cF The Sun, in tirte to he despatched by the Morning mars. By this arrangement such of our Sub serAßr3 as may receive the Evening Edition too late, can suit themselves by havin g a MORNING EDITION, cont,ining the close of the Debates in both Houses of Parliament, and all other news arriving in London up to the hour of Morning Publication. Those Subscribers who wish to be sapplied with tide Morning Edition will please to notify the same to their respective News Agents, or to The Sail Office, 112, Strand, London. Second Editions, containing the Debates in Parliament up to the hour of post, in the Evening as usual. ,t, ,1;., ▪ ,112., _ f . - , :, ..,s%;:ra ";:-.1!..,_...-1,,-V f,....,-' `.....---,5..47-', , t„, . -.- • •:t ...:., 1, .•▪ e 911, 3. . .‘ '-:,-..,cpt. .4, Zi •!.'A,-,,, `,..,,,, ~.„. .._'---*-'<_ -.----- 1ft44.4: ~......... I ... .4. ' I'l fr er 1 11 .-L •i ..);-e .G'-...;...---11'i".""'4* LONDON : MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1839. EVENING EDITION. The exertions of the LORD MAYOR to break up the coal monopoly have already been productive of the most beneficial results. Prices appear to be gradually on the decline. Private individuals as well as Companies are making preparations for import ing coals into London to undersell the monopolists, and these gentlemen, after trying every expedient to thwart his plans, and even turn his humane con- duct into ridicule, begin already to look forward to the 9th of Novelllber as their last hope. But in this also they will be disappointed. The public are now sensible of the vast change which he has pro duced within the last three months. Subscriptions have been raised in several places for the purpose of paying a tribute of gratitude to his Lordship for his persevering and disinterested conduct, and the con spirators may rest assured that, after that has taken place, no LORD MAYOR would be endured who did not follow up his plan. Five or six shillings a ton have been already saved, the inhabitants of London ex pect as much more, and they will take care that the 9th of November shall not disappoint their hopes• The LORD MAYOR has the more credit and ho nour for what he has done in having fought this bat tle almost single-handed, not one of the Members for the City, or even of the Metropolitan boroughs, who are supposed to be less connected with City intrigue, has, as far as we know, even alluded to the subject in Parliament. Some of them occasionally make motions about City improvements, or building a Royal Exchange, or some fanciful project which may add to the -already heavy rates, but on this abominable nuisance, which oppresses the poor for the sake of the rich, they are utterly silent. We see from the Observer that a plan is in progress to bring coals from the interior, and sell them lower even than sea-borne coals ; but if the City Members did their duty, why should they not be sold at much less ? A heavy tax has been laid on all coals brought from the interior, at the instigation, it is said, of parties connected with the monopoly, and with the connivance of Members who profoss to re present the interests of their constituents, and their determined s il ence on the subject fully justifi es th e inference. The debate on the rebuilding the Ex change, which comes on this evening, will afford an opportunity for explanation, and the public will then judge whether the City Members are more anxious to take part in a squabble between the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Mr. JONES than to do their duty as protectors of the rights and interests of the people. W e recommend the letter, which will be found elsewhere in our paper of this day, giving an ac count of the proceedings at a sale of articles seized by the ecclesiastical authorities of Chesterfield for non-payment of Church -rates, to the serious con sideration of all who are friendly to the continuance of the Church established by law. It appears that in consequence of the opposition made to Church-rates by the Dissenters and Libe ral Churchmen in 1837, a stop was put to this dis giaecful exaction in Chesterfield, and a voluntary subscription has since that time supplied its place. Why this truly apostolical mode of supporting a self-styled apostolical Church, has been departed from, we cannot pretend to say; ex cept it he that the Church delights in broils and battles, and cannot be comfortable in a state of re- Pos - . Whatever other title she may have forfeited, she s determined that no one shall deny her claim to that of a Church militant. In the case b e f ore us . the goods of several per sons were s e i ze d by di stress , an d expose d to pu bl ic Sale ; but mark the scene that took place when the auctioneer made his appearance. Thousands cf t he populace had congregated together to ex- P r eis their feelings towards a Church which, tho ugh wallowing in wealth, resorts to injustice, c)l)Pression, and even persecution, to save itself tna expenditure of the paltry sum required to ce.ebrate its religious ordinances. In this vast crcwd of poor men, was there one blessin g uttered fo r the ,‘ poor man's Church ?" Did n the univers a l roar of execration arise from ! LI '' ~ as sembled mu l t i tu d e aga i nst t h e E sta b l i s h ment tts fu nct ionaries, for their atrocious proceed gs ? We sincerely rejoice to see the spirit displayed i b y the Peopl e on this occasion. Tlicre was no vio c;lee, no attempt to overpower the abettors of in tolerance by physical force. The multitude came there to declare their sentiments as to the State reli gion• This they did most effectually ; let other follow the exampl e Of CHESTERFIELD and Mother Church will soon give up distraining for Church -rates. Th 2 Weekly Papers of yesterday are as full of e !- ctilatiou, with respect to the successor of ‘u.ft.mAt%;By as the Daily Papers hav e b Lord een for the last week, each suggesting its own favourite as the probable representative of Royalty in the Sister Isle. The public are aware that several names have been put forward from day to clay, with no colour of likeliho o d. I n f ac t, some illustriousin dividuals have been confidently mentioned, such as the Duke of SUSSEX, the INlarq&s of TA VISTOCK, the Earls of ALBEMARLE and RADNOR, to whom the appointment has never been offered. The Earl Of CLARENDON has also been men tioned as likely to go, and the general opinion here, as well as in Ireland, is much in favour of the Noble Lord ; but we believe that his Lordship is coming over from Spain more on a matiimonial, than a po!itical mission. What the result of his arrival in this country may be, we do not pretend to say ; but we should not be surprised to see, after all the " Sayings and Wiskings" of interested parties, that the Duke of SUTHERLAND will be Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM'S motion relative to bearing evidence at the Bar of the House of Lords stands for this evening. It is, however, stated that Lord GLENELG purposes to give their Lordships an explanation of the causes of his retirement or dis missal from the Colonial-office ; and if his Lordship do that, as it is a personal matter, no doubt their Lordships will entertain it in preference to Lord BuouGHAm's motion. The one will gratify curiosity, perhaps it will supply food for scandal, and ce►tainly it will cause personal excitement amont 4 st the Peers. The other concerns the ; it will excite no pleasure except what may he imparted by the great and varied talents of the orator ; it will give rise to uneasy reflections on self, rather than allow of boasts of superiority to another, and it will be distasteful and wearying to the Peers. They will therefore, we presume, require Lord GLENELG to proceed before Lord BROUGHAM. Such a course would be very consistent with the relative im portance which their Lordships usually allow to personal and national matters. '' Perish commerce and let the Constitution live," was the exclamation of a heated politician, who preferred the charlatan contrivances of his brethren in trade to the natural means of civilizing mankind, and rendering the labours of statesmen comparatively unimportant. In like manner we fear the Lords may saw; " Perish the People, but let the Peers flourish," though it be only to indulge in what Lord DURHAM called low petty personalities. To call for Lord GLE- N ELG'S explanation, who, according to report, has been very ill-tr , :ated, would no doubt be gratifying to their Lordships, but if that put a stop to Lord BROUGHAM's motion to hear evidence at the Bar against the Corn laws, it will not elevate the Peers in the public respect. The soreness which both the Ministry and the Opposition evince at the publication of the whole of Lord DURHAM'S Report, shows what a rrU sei able skeleton it ~ vould have turned out had it been subjected to the pruning-knife of either. Lord WHARNCLIFFE or Lord ABERDEEN would have cut out all that related to Tory misrule; Lord LYNDHURST would have lopped off the scheme for Municipal Corporations; Lord WiNcruLsEA would not have left an atom of the praise so libe rally heaped on Catholic priests ; and, after the Royal reprimand administered by and through the Cabinet to the late Governor- General for his first manifesto, we cannot suppose that the second, containing so much of the same spirit, would have found more favour with the Whigs than the Tories. We need not wonder, therefore, that Lord DURHAM expressed no regret at its publication, or that Lord WHARNCLIFFE was so determined on putting words of regret in his mouth. These dis cussions on the subject, however, and the wrang- Hugs between the two parties have, what is a rare occurrence, turned out for the good of the people. They have been let into the secret of Cabinet doings, and they can now estimate at the true value those things called " Government extracts," in other words, mangled dispatches, reports, and do cuments, which in place of informing the public are often calculated to amuse or mislead them. Had the old system not been frustrated in this in stance by accident or design, the people of this country, and the Legislature too, would possibly have been left as ignorant of the real state of the Canadas as they were up to the publication of this valuable report, and we should have gone on legis lating and fighting in the dark, as our ancestors did in the same hemisphere when George 111. was King. The facts disclosed by Lord DURHAM may avert a similar calamity. Concealment would only have prolonged the evil, and whatever Lord MELBOURNE or Lord WHARNCLIFFE may think, those most interested in this matter, the people here and in Canada, will rejoice that for once they have heard the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The publication of the correspondence between Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. FROST, the New port Magistrate, relative to the latter having at tended meetings of the Chartists, at which violent language was used, places the duties of the Home Office, and of the Magistracy,in rather a novel light. When the late Earl FITZWILLIAM was dismissed from the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of York, for attending a political meeting, the conduct of the then Administration was properly and severely censured. But the office of a Lord Lieutenant, whatever powers it might ori ginally have had, is now a place of mere ornament and patronage for individual Peers, and is one which very little concerns the interests of the people. It involves no deci sions for or against them, and brings them not into contact with the Lord Lieutenant. The office of a Magistrate, however, is one of much labour and little or no patronage. It involves the performance of duties towards the people implicating their dear est interests. We can therefore only praise Mr. FROST for his spirited reply to Lord JOIIN RUSSELL, when the latter required to be informed whether Mr. FROST had attended a meeting at Pontypool, at which violent and inflammatory language had been use d. M r . FROST, supposing the inquiry made with a view to dismiss him, insisted on the right to j u d ge f or him self what course of political conduct he was to pur sue ; that he was not responsible for the violent language of other persons, and he spoke with contempt of his office of Magistrate if he were to hold it, not by the tenure of performing his duties efficiently, but at the pleasure of a Home Secretary, who might be offended with a political opinion, and be frightened at its possible violence merely because it was in direct opposition to his own. Mr. FROST'S letter, in fact, bases the responsibility of Magistrates on a reference to the people, while the conduct of the Tories in the case of Earl FITZ WILLIAM, and the presumed intentions of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the case of Mr. FROST, would base it on the pleasure of the Minis ters. Nor can we conceive that the merely Minis terial Journals, particularly the Morning Chronicle, which indulged us on Thursday with a disserta , tion on the advantages of local Government in Eng land and the United States, will object to the just and the Republican viewof the matter which is taken by Mr. FROST. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we are happy to see by the concluding letter, had no intention tointerfere with the opinions of Mr.FRosT; though how far it may be his duty to see that " no man carries opinions into practice to the danger of the public peace," is with us a subject of doubt. It assumes, we will own, too much the duties of a Prefect of Police, and leads the Noble Lord to interfere with the possible consequences of opinion prior to any overt criminal acts, at which point alone he ought to interfere. We recommend the spirited, though sornchat testy, letter of Mr. FitosT to the attention of the public, who will no doubt be prepared, as we are, to hear that Lord JorrN It wJsE:LL's acquiescence in it will expose him to a multitude of reproaches from the terror loving, coercive Tories. There was a great deal of shrewd sagacity in the observation of a Noble Peer in the House of Lords a few nights ago , t h at not hi ng serve d a s a mo re fra gile link to bind nations together in amity than per fect similarity of political institutions. Republics are least tolerant of the popular license incidental to Republican forms of Government ; while Des potisms mark with more. than lynx-eyed eagerness the slightest external movements on the part of Ab solute Governments. This is particularly observ able in the language of the French press on the subject of the part taken by Great Britain, to effect the pacific settlement of the Belgian question. Jealousy of any dependence or Belgium up on France, is assumed by the French press as the real THE SUN, LONDON, MO cause of the anxiety evinced by our Govern ment to avoid having recourse to the direct intervention of France in the compulsory settlement of the Hollando-Belgic question. We do not look upon this as any im peachment of that degree of confidence which we ought to have in the honest inten.ions of the French Government. On the contrary, it amounts merely to a manifestation of our zeal for the virtual inde pendence of Belgium—an independence of no earthly importance, if we allow it to go forth that Belgium is a nation only by the sufferance of France. In this respect we refuse nothing to France which we do not refuse to Great Britain ; and, therefore, the arguments of the Quotidienne, and the other journals whch repeat the surmises of that Royalist organ, are really not worth a straw. The Quotidienne pretends that we care not what becomes of Belgium so she form not a close connexion with Fran:T. This is an error, and a very grave one too. What we seek is to prevent Belgium appearing as either a French or a British Province. We want Belgium to be, what it is of the utmost importance to Western Europe she should be—a free and independent Kingdom, subsisting alike independently of France and England. We have often had occasion, in the exercise of our public duty, to speak in terms far from flattering, of Mr. ROEBUCK ; we are glad, therefore, now to have an opportunity of according him praise with out drawback or reservation. On Friday last, at a public Meeting at w hich he was present in Bath,— and a full report of ,which will be found in another column of The Sun,—this gentleman made a speech which was characterized not less by energetic do quence—that best of eloquence which springs from heartfelt conviction—than by consummate political sagacity. He expatiated at length on all the leading topics of the day, and brought to the dis cussion of each, the resources of a calm, thought ful, observant, and resolute intellect. Hitherto we had been impressed with a notion that Mr. ROEBUCK was a man of crotchctty theories—a hankerer after the unattainable— a staunch advocate for the impracticable ; but we now find we were mistaken, and take this opportunity of making him the amende honorable. Nothing can be clearer, or more sagacious, or more free from —what, for want of a better term, we may call— political moonshine, than his speech of Friday. Speaking of the necessity of union. among the people, the Lear n ed G ent l eman o b served, " I will take upon myself for once to be a prophet, and I predict that the demands of the Corn-law agitators will be resisted, and that their petitions will be of no avail. Does not this show how insufficient their means are to obtain the ends sought after ? Their interests are the interests of the working classes ; but we find them ranged in hostility to one another, and if one demands one thing the other demands another. There ought to be no such feeling ; they ought to be a united people, and if they understood their interests, they would find that in all things they corresponded. But there have crept in petty jealousies and animosities, which have blinded each to their real interest, when, if they reflected, they must find thew identical, for each must be interested in obtaining cheap, effi cient, and just government." On the subject of the " People's Charter," Mr. ROEBUCK remarked as follows :—" I believe that the wider the Suffrage, the safer the State, and the greater the chances of good government. But if any one should press me further, and ask, Will you take anything short of Uni versal Suffrage ? my answer is, Certainly ; asking for the rest, however, and seeking to obtain it. If I cannot make the journey at one leap or by one stage, I must do it by successive steps ; if I cannot go on at rail-road pace, I must advance as well as I can. Onward, onward, is my motto. Every step in ad vance I rejoice in, and will make." These are the views of a statesman, in opposition to those of a mere day-dreamer. To effect real, lasting good, we must advance by " successive steps," and not seek, like visionaries, to attain a distant goal at one bound. We must duly estimate our strength and our resources, and not try to achieve reforms beyond them. If we desire to obtain Universal Suffrage, let us first pave the way for it by the Ballot and Triennial Parliaments ; and not alarm a prejudiced and unprepared community by putting that measure in the van, which should stand in the rear. We wish the Chartists would take to heart Mr. ROEBUCK'S advice, for they may rely on it, they Will find no sincerer friend than he is. Wishing well to their cause, he would nevertheless advocate that cause with no other weapons than justice and common sense. The general tenor of his advice is simply this—abate not one jot of your pretensions; but husband your resources, and bide your time. So say we, and so we are sure, will say every honest Englishman who prefers reform to convulsion, and prefers to walk side by side with the times, in stead of rushing madly ahead of them. The arrival of a British squadron in the Mexi can Gulf, has excited a great deal of interest in the political circles of the French metropolis. Besides the Pique frigate, which arrived there on the 22d of December, with Mr. PAKENIIAM, the British Ambassador, on board, there appeared there on the 31st following, the Cornwallis and Edinburgh of the line ; the Madagascar and Vestal frigates ; and the sloops of war, Ringdove, Modeste, Racehorse, and Rover. The pre sence of so large a force is regarded with suspicion by a very large class of French politicians, who seem to think that France cannot any longer enforce a blockade of the Mexican coast. The French force at Vera Cruz consists of no more than three sail ; Admiral BAUDIN had ten vessels of all sizes, at Antonio Lizardo, while the rest were refitting at Havannah under the direction of the Prince DE JO I N VILLE, where the British ship of the line, the Rodney was stationed as if to watch their movements. To increase the c hagrin of France, brother Jonathan begins to manifest symptoms of uneasiness at the prolongation of a blockade which was only to last for a few weeks. Then there is the report of the issuing of letters of marque by Mexico, which has already all but frightened several French mercantile houses out of their wits. In fact we believe that the most sensible among the French people are heartily sorry that their Govern ment deemed it at all necessary for the national honour to break a lance with the Mexican Re public, seeing that it may lead to serious misun derstandings with England and the United States. The Belgian Journals received last night, state that a remarkable abatement in the excitement upon the Hollando-Belgic question, has been observable among the Belgian populace, for the last three week& Statistical, geographical, and numerical truths have, within that short period, produced an effect upon the minds of the most ignorant, not less satisfactory than surprising. The Belgians begin to perceive that it would be madness to resist the decision of the London Conference, and that the KING in declining till the last moment to sign the treaty has done all that a patriotic So vereign could do to obtain the best terms for his subjects. Belgium can bring a hundred thousand soldiers into the field, but to resist them, or rather to coerce them, the Five Powers can bring upwards of million, and it is surely no disgrace to a Belgian to suppose that he would be no match for an Eng lishman, a Frenchman, an Austrian, a Prussian, and a Russian all at him at one and the same time. No fault is therefore found with what was under stood to be an instruction of the Government that M. VAN DE W EYER, the Belgian Minister, should sign the ultimatum of the Con ference by the 15th at the very latest, so that it might reach Brussels before the opening of the Chambers on Tuesday. In addition to the above very satisfactory intel ligence we find the following in the Dutch, Brus sels, and German mails received last night : BRUSSELS, FEB. 14.—The average prices of wheat and rye during the week ending February 9th, having been—Wheat, 24f. 15e. ; and Rye, 14f. sc. per Hecto litre, the export a tion remains prohibited, and importation duty free. The creditors of Mr. John Cockerill met yesterday in the Town Hall, to be heard on the application for a respite made by Mr. Cockerill. There was no oppositon to the application. They then proceeded to the nomination of a Committ e e of Administration, which is composed of Messrs. Jules, Nagclmackers, Elias, Ferd, Perlot, Victor Bellefroid, Max, Lesoinne, and Joyez. The statement or balance made up to the 30th of June, 1838, presented by Mr. Cockerill, indicates the assets at '20,197,469 fr. and 35 centimes, and the debts at 12,084,195 fr. and 70 centimes. We have the following letter from Liege :—" It is said that a manufacturer, patronised by the Government, while his affairs were flourishing, and who had asked and obtained permission to withdraw from the partnership as soon as he po - ccived that his affairs became profitable, in conse- DAY,-EVEN]NG- EDITION.----FI4:IIWCAM" 18, 183. quence of the works of the new railroad, is now soliciting to be replaced under the foolishly paternal gurdianship of the Government. " In other terms, he wants the Ministry to pay his debts, to put his manufactories again into good condition, and to restore them to him in the sequel, when all is going on well. _ It would be strange if the Government should become a manufacturer of rails and steam-engines, in competition with manufacturers who work with their own capital. We do not suppose that the Chambers will be very eager to accept such proposals." As for us, our task will be easy, and we shall not have much trouble to demonstrate how injurioui such an arrange ment would be —Courier Beige. ---- BaussELs, FEB. 15.—The King arrived at Brussels from Lacken this mort!ing. Fornari, the Papal Internuncio, had an audience of the King, and presented his new credentials, appoint ing him Nuncio at the Court of the King of the Belgians. At noon the Council of Ministers met, and remained sitting till two o'clock. The King presided. A detachment of the train of Artillery has arrived at Brussels this afternoon, on i;s way to the camp. The Liege Journal says that a letter from Vcnloo an nounces that that fortress is to be placed in the most for midable state of defence. A petition is circulating at Bruges, addressed to the Chamber of Representatives, to the effect that, as the Conference has irrevocably decided, and as Belgium can not resist all Europe, the petitioners beg that the final treaty may be accepted, and an end put to a state of things which cannot be prolonged without endangering the safety and the welfare of the people, and even the influence and action of the Government. PESTII, FEB. 4.—Baron Wisselengi has been convicted of high treason, but with circumstanccs o f m iti ga ti on , an d sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The afftir has yet to come More the higher court, whose decision is ex pected at the end of this week. It is probable that sen tence will soon be passed on M. Kossuth, who issued a manuscript Gazette. Great numbers of workmen are employed in raising a dam on the bulks of the Danube, by way of precaution, which is looked upon as very The patriarch Archbishop of Eslaw has just ar rived here on his way to Vienna. Bois LE Doc, FEB. 13 —The Bth battery of field ar tillery passed through here yesterday on its way from Oss to Boxtel, where, as ;sell as at other places in these pro sinces, workmen are actively engaged erecting and arming batteries. FISDHOVEN, FEB. 13.—There is no foundation for the report that some Belq.,ian partisans had attempted to make themselves masters of the battery No. 2, at Wuensel. In truth this would not be an easy matter, as the frontiers are everywhere occupied by regiments of hussars and dra goons AMSTURDANI, FEB 15.—We learn that the men of the levies of 1832 and 1833, absent on furlough (that is, those belonging to the capital), to the number of 1,600 men, will leave this city to morrow morning for their several corps. I3nussELs, FEB. 16.—We learn with pleasure that all the masters of ateliers, manufactories, &c., in the environs, have agreed to declare to their workmen, that if there should be any disorder or tumult caused by ill-diF.p)sed persons, all those who should have absented themselves on that day, will find the establishments closed against them on their return. We recommend all persons who are friends to the interest and honour of the city, and of the whole country, to make the same declar.:tion to the ser vants or workmen whom they employ. In this case the rioters may be easily counted and pir. down. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsrEitimm, Fr n. b. Ditto, A Ar tr t i : t l e la ,si ) tvt7o, bt , iiS , 2 , . ,I,4 y e tp ct e eie r (Ant urt,.e 54 n 4 Cent t. ilrloney. 13.11;.1 3.11;. 1543 1r:0i,„i 101 ).-o-i i i .?,i Ditto, ditto, 31, per cent 73 7.1% Commercial Company, I ~ per c._nt 175 175% . _ Ditto (1502 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837.5 per cent. Loan 1937, .5 ;.er cent. Exchange on London, line month l2 0.14 Two mon:hs 'SELL AN 1. UN DS-011USSEL, Feu. 16 Actual Delft, 2' per Cent. ... notlischilii's Loan, 5 per Cant. PS% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. CS% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent hl Society of Commerce, 4 k.,,,per Cent ll9 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 5l National Society . ... —Prussels Papers, Feb. 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-171Extva, Fug. 6. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —AllgemeineZeitung, Feb. 12. We have received the whole of the Paris Jour nals of Friday and Saturday. They contain very little news of any moment. The election contest is still carried on with great vigour. That sublimated abstraction of soliloquizing humanity, M. DE LA MARTINS, has published a manifesto by way of Ministerial set-off against the manly, constitutional address of M. THIERS. This rhapsody is gene rally read, and as generally laughed at. The wags of the Chamber pretend to believe that M. DE LA MARTINE'S address is copied from some Parlia mentary document in the archives of Louis the Fourteenth. The price of the quattern loaf in Paris is about 7d. British currency. The people complain of it as exorbitant. The following extract from a Paris Journal would seem to throw some light on the mysterious in trigues of that Constitutional incubus, General ESPARTERO Our disputes with Ministers, excited all kinds of ambi tious projects. We find to-day, in the Memorial Borde. lais, the following article : " It is said at Madrid, that General Espartero wishes that Don Carlos should be supported by Europe in found ing a dynasty, as the Emperor of Mexico, and that his second son Don Juan Carlos should marry Queen Isabella, Don Carlos would require nothing but transports for all his adherents, and a great part of his army would follow him to the new world, and this would put an end to the Spa nish contest. Maisto might then become Commander-in- Chief of the Mexican army, and Espartero, Constable of Spain. By this means, France would be indemnified for its expenses and claims on Mexico by means of loans, and England would find other very solid compensations, in ar ranging the policy of the Peninsula, and preparing a future state of prosperity for the fine countries cf America, which now present only a scene of misery and anarchy, injurious to the manufactnres and commerce of Europe." The Journal L'Europe announces that its editor has been again summoned before the Judge, for having inserted in the Number of February a fragment of the inculpated article of the National. This fragment, which contained only facts without comment had escaped the notice of the Parquet; but it has now thought fit to include us in the proceedings against the National and the Echo Franrais. The ex-Notary, Armand de Fabre, was arrested at Nice on Saturday. He had about him 680 francs in money, and a bank-note of 1,000 francs.—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARis, SATURDAY, FEB 16. MONEY and COMIVIERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET OF SATURDAY.—To-day tl.e market has been exceedingly quiet, and the sales only amount to 1,500 bags, mostly American, 7id. a Bid., and New Orleans 92d. a 101 per lb. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of the 16th February. M. Van de Weyer has received orders to sign the Ultimatum on the 15th. The Act will be notified to the Chambers on the 1 9th. The treason has been accomplished by twelve Represen tatives.—Belgp. Arrivals this morning :—Two French, two Ostend, one Dutch mail; also a mail from the West Indies by the Tyrian, sailed from Barbadoes on the 23.1 December, St. Thomas, Jan. 10, and Cape Henri, Jan. 15. By the above conveyance we have received Jamaica Pa• pers to the 9th January :—" A requisition is about to be resented to- the Custos of St. Catherine, for the purpose of convening a meeting of the inhabitants, to take into consideration the situation in which the county is placed— the best and most effectual measures to be adopted for the preservation of property—and to prepare a memorial to her Majesty, on the state to which the Island has been reduced " Our accounts from the country are distressing; we will n go over them now, in the hope that, after the excite. rne;it of the holidays, some improvement will take place. We learn that his Excellency the Governor proceeds on a tour round the island in the steamer Dee. He will leave Port Royal on Wednesday morning. His object is to advise the negroes to resume labour, and continue it upon the receipt of fair and reasonable wages, and not to give any just cause of complaint. We have received the Journal of Antwerp one day later, of Sunday, Feb. 17. BRUSSELS, FEB. 16 —There was a meeting of the Catho lic Notables of the Chamber of Representatives, to advie the measures to be taken in the present circumstances. Af.er a long debate and an animated discussion they uaanimousiy agreed not to enter into a serious resistance. We learn that money has been given to several artisans to surround the public tribune in concert with the police, and to hiss MM. Gendibeen and Dumertier, if they speak against the mutilation of Limburg and Luxemburg.— Belie. The G Nernment arc so convinced that they are acting against the views of the nation, that they expect re . istence on the part of the people. A great number of muskets which were in Brussels have bQen thrown pell . inell into waggons, and sent to Liege. They. w rite from Louvain that the banking-house of Messrs. Is— has suspended payment yesterday ; the cre ditors assembled to debate if they should give them time. S x months was given them. We have received Trinidad papers to the 29th Decem ber. No news of importance in them. We have received i3arbadoes papers to the 27th Decem tier. The prospec. is, we are informed from various guar• tors, alarming on the score of provisions. First Highest 1 isw , st Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Frenc-h 5 per Cents. 3 ptr Cents. 7B 75 —.79 75 ...79 70 _lB 70 Bank of France 2(100 _2'300 _2600 ...2600 Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 5,000 f. Sh. 5 185 ...5195 —.5185 ~ 5190 Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents. C.B 50 ... 119 SO ... 69 50 ... 68 50 Batik 5 55 ... 560 ... 555 ... 561 Coupons Spanish*Actise Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 921 1,-, both for Money and the Account, opened this morning at 92i 93. Exchequer Bills, 64 66; India Bonds, 61 63; Bank Stock, 205 206; India Stuck, 2541 51. In the Foreign Market little business doing as yet. Spanish Active, which closed at 1981, may be quoted rather lower, 191 i ; Portuguese same as they closed, 361 ; Three per Cents., 224 t ; Belgian, 99,1- ; Colombian, 284 91 ; Mexican, 231 24 ; Dutch Two-and a• Half, 541 i 5 : Five per Cents., 1028 -1-,. PIaUES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. , link Stork — India Stock .; per Cent. Red. 9:3%% Ditto Bonds —Pm :3 per Cent. Cons. 93 2% South Sea Stock — .;.y per Cent . Old Annuities — Ditto Red. lOO% j New Ditto New f; y, , , per Cent llieyi., : 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 3 per Cent. 3avk Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 ... 64 62 inn. Jan. 5, 1860 IS 1-16,,4 Is Ditto Small Oct. 1•I, 1859 l4 15-16 Ditto Commercial — —pm Jen. 5, 186 , l4l, Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... -- April 5, MO — India Stock for Account ... 255 6 I Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account 9 - e - Vei PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds I Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account MOWS Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds 2 B, Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 21:1% 30; , 4 Spanish Bonds . Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — , Ditto Account. 19% lA lA, % Greek Bonds ' French, 5 per cent. —l. —c, . . Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account 7 , loxican Bonds, 5 per Ceti.. Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account —' Dutch, 24,' per cent. ..... —.54% 5 Ditto, 6 per Cent ' Ditto Account 55 Ditto Account Neapolitan i Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. 13razillan Imperial Mining:Co. (issued at 51. pm ) VI Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 25 British Iron Company lnited Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) Great Western Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway Lvntlon and Birmingham Railway Company 90 ptichestor and Leads Railway Company • 51 I3ritish North American Bank l'er Co:cnial Bank 1 0 L 1 172 1 68 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 16. 3 per Cent. Consols 924 GrandCanal Debs. 6 per cent. 934 s% per Cen•. Stock Ditto Reduced - Hibei nian Bank .t SH,RES. St. Germain „. 570 ..... 570 ... 570 ... 570 Ve sailles, R.B. L.B. Charleroy 445 ... 450 ... 445 ... 450 ASPHA urEs AND Br- Ditto New, IS3O ...... 997.1 City of Dublin Steam Comp. :.Iy.', per Cent. Debentures 93 National Insurance Company flank Stock .... — City Debentures, 4 per cent. 'rand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONE. Demerara papers to the 27th Dec., just received, state that the first Christmas holidays since the final emancipation of our population arc now nearly over, and never do we recollect holidays passing with more order, decorum, and general sobriety. An advertisement which has bcen:issucd byiGovernment. reducing the interest of Exchequer Bills from 2d. to ild. per day, equal to 2i per cent., being a reduction of 4 per cent. per annum, has had a slight effect on the British Market. Consols, which were in the morning 928 for the Ac count, have since receded to 921, Money 928, they had reached 93; Exchequer Bills fell to 58, at present 58 61 ; in India Bonds nothing done ; Bank Stock, 205 6. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives, 19+ ; Portuguese, 354 6+ ; Three-per-Cents., 24; Belgian, 991; Colombian improved near 1 per cent., 30i; Mexi can, 24i; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 541 55 ; Five-per-Cents., 1028 s. We have no further arrivals. Tu ,!ENS.... leyssel (A) 2 5, 0 ...25 0 —2500 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92i. -.25 1 41 We have received this morning Madrid Papers of the 9th inst. inclusive. M. PEREZ DE CASTRO, the recently appointed President of the Council has hardly quitted his chamber since his arrival in the capital. What share the disorder he found affairs in may have had in producing his pre sent indisposition, is a subject of very general surmise. On the 7th General SEAONE produced the heads of his long threatened bill of impeach ment against Count TORENO, which was at once referred to a Select Committee. The ac counts from the Provinces were only interestinc , to the lovers of the horrible, from the number of re taliatory murders which they recorded. Several of the victims were young men, not exceeding twenty years of age. But the most important news from the Spanish capital i s th e p roroga tion of the Cortes for an in definite per i o d, b y a R o yal Ordinance of the Bth instant. Thi s i s , i n d ee d, a most perilous proceed ing, if we regar d the social and moral disorganiza tion of Spain, at the present moment. According to lett ers rece i ve d i n P ar i s on S a turday, the proro gation of the Spanish Cortes was followed by a dissolution on the 10th—a measure still more hazardous AN TI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATIONS The following is the petition presented by Mr. Villiers on night, and ordered to be printed in the votes for distribu tion this evening, of the leading individuals from the pro vinces in London against the Corn laws. On this petition Mr. Villiers fotinds his motion on Tuesday, for hearing evidence at the bar of the House of Commons against the existing duties on foreign corn : " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, the Pe tition of the undersigned Merchants, Manufacturers, and others, engaged in Trade and Commerce, humbly showeth— " 1. That your petitioners are deeply interested in the trade and manufactures of this country. " 2. That all restrictions on trade and commerce are abjured by your petitioners as injurious to the general increase of the wealth and capital of this and all other countries. " 3. That the existing duties, prohibiting and restricting the im portation of foreign grain, are most injurious to the interests of your petitioners, and a grievance to the people at large. " 4. That the duties on foreign corn oppress all the industrious classes, by artificially affecting the price and supply of the ' daily bread' of the people, thereby forcing the community to subsist on food at more fluctuating and generally higher prices than those at which it could otherwise be procured. " 5. That the benefit intended :,y the opening of the ports for the import of foreign corn under the present system is frustrated by the uncertainty of the supply from foreign markets when required on occasions of urgent scarcity. " 6. That the extremely irregular and uncertain import of foreign grain has rendered that trade in the highest degree speculative and hazardous :and has caused ruinous losses to a great number of persons engaged in a commerce essential to the community. " 7. That the rapidly increasing population of the United King. don], computed to exceed 1,000 a day, and the limited extent of the territory of Great Britain and Ireland, render it most unwise to restrict the people to the food raised from their own soil. " 8. That the restrictions on the importation of corn necessarily incapacite: he corn-growing countries from purchasing British manufactures, and afso induce foreign Governments to impose high duties on the manufactures of the United Kingdom, these combined causes producing a very rapid and premature growth of manufactures in foreign countries, by which the consumption of British goods has been limited, both in those countries and in the common markets of the world. PROROGATION OF THE CORTES. " Takin g i nto cons i derat i on t h e grave interests with with whi c h my Government is at present occupied , parti. cularly th ose connected with t h e ap p roa ching campai gn , which I wish to be conducted with the utmost zeal, in order to terminate as speedily as possible the deplorable war which ex h austs the country ; an d whereas the wor thy representati ves o f th e nation, after the long and pain necmris, era S ess i on of last year, have now sat t h ree month s o f th e present S ess i on, a circumstance equally painful to them and prej u di c i al to their interests, w hil s t their presence i n the provinces mighenthusiasmt b,3 extremely bene ficial in r eviving if loyal, of r a the people, who, ever constant, and firm, as Spaniards ought to be , may receive es a say ore the lively iropl l o more skilful direction, from the example and advice of the depositaries of their confidence; " 9. That your petitioners believe it can be proved by irrefragable evidence that the operation of a restrictive policy has not been bene ficial to the agricultural interest; that it has checked agricul tural improvement; and that the apprehension which exists, both as to the quantities of corn which would be imported from foreign countries, and the effect of such importations on British agricul. cure, are wholly groundless. " 10. That your petitioners deemselves authorised to state, that in the above allegations they have the concurrence and express the sentiments of many hundreds of thousands of our fellow subjects, as declared at many most bumerous public meetings, holden in different parts of the country upon this important question within the last two months. " Your petitioners, therefore, pray that they may be heard by themselves, their witnesses, agents, or counsel, at the Bar of this Honourable House ; and be permitted to produce evidence on al! the allegations of their petition, to show the great injuries to which the interests of your petitioners are exposed by the said duties on foreign corn ; and that your Honourable House will proceed to exa. mine into the nature and extent of the grievances of which your pe. titioners complain, with a view to afford such effectual i elief as to this Hcnourable House in its wisdom may seem meet. J. B. Smith, Manchester William Rawson, Nottingham Robert Hyde Greg, Manchester and Manchester J. Aiken, Liverpool Thomas Barker, Preston Joshua Walmsley, ditto Thomas Close, Nottingham Jcseph Sturge, Birmingham Thomas Wilson, Kendal William Scholefield, ditto Isaac Wilson, ditto John Johnston, Glasgow John Johnson, Derby William Weir, ditto Robert Longdon, ditto James Garnett, Bradford C. J. S. Walker, Manchester Robert Milligan, ditto Peter Martineau, Tower Ham. Hamer Stansfeld, Leeds lets Edward Baines, jun., ditto J. Wynn, Wolverhampton. " In the name of our august daughter , Is ab el IL , and in my capacity o f Queen Regent , agreeably to the 26th ar ticle of the Constitution, and the advice of the Ministers, I decree the followin g : reserving " The C ortes of the p re sent Legislature are prorogued, to myself to recal them as soon as the motives which ind uce d me to prorogue them perm it. " Such is my command, which you will communicate to the Cortes. " THE QUEEN. " Given at the Palace, Feb. 8, 1839. " To Evaristo Perez de Castro, Piesident of the Coun cil of Ministers. " EVARISTO PEREZ DE CASTRO. " Madrid, Feb. 9." General NARVAEZ has addressed a second letter to the Spanish people in justification of his flight from his native country. MORE WORDS FOR Music.—We have been talking a good deal lately about " words for music," and what sort of things they ought to be. The Morning Chronicle selects a speci. men from the latest libretto, which places the success of our exhortations, so far, in a remarkable point of view. Here it is— " One fatal night, as slumbers o'er us stole, A fearful noise disturb'd our tranquil rest ; 'Twas loud as torrent's roar—as thunder's roll— And, in an instant, we were up and dress'd ! 'Phis puts us in mind of an anecdote we once heard of a man who had run away from a• mad bull, with some damage to his unmen. tionatles. " The bull," said he, in an eloquent and sublime crescendo (that ought to have been set to music, " the bull roared like thun der—l ran like lightning—and, in jumping over the hedge, tore my breeches as if heaven and earth were coining together."—The Mu sical IVorld. CORONER FOR MIDDLESEX. STATE OF THE POLL THIS DAY. Wak le y, Adey. —1783 450 .1286 Two o'clock. Majority LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--THIS DAY. DEAL, FEB. 16.—Wind W. S. W. moderate. 17. Wind W. moderate.—Arrived, and proceeded for the River, the Chieftain (whaler), Harvey, from the South Seas and Sydney ; Lyon, Norie, Montserrat ; Conserva tive, Port au Prince ; Fairy Queen, China ; Margaretta, Batavia; Montrose, Sierra Leone. Came down from the River, and remain, the Day, for Cadiz; Margaret, Lander, Rio Janeiro; Planet, Hall, Cadiz; Oscar, Barrett, Gib. raltar ; Countess of Durham, Stowe, Llanelly ; Resolu tion, Garbutt, South Seas. Sailed, the Fanny, Palmer, for Liverpool. PORTSIMOU NI, FEB. 16.—Wind W. to N. W., fresh breezes and squally. 17.—Wind W., fine —Arrived the Bayonnais, Chair, from Monte Video, in 69 days; Chase, Austin, London ; Emerald, Hewitt, Fowey ; Martha, Williams, Southampton ; Dart, Pepperell, Limerick ; Victorine, Favell, Cherbourg; Gironde, Golightly, Lon don. Sailed the Adder, Wills, for St.:Michael's; Hur tence Eugene, Le Croix, Havre de Grace ; Greenwood, Liddle, Sealiam ; Martha, Williams, Cardiff; Alarm," Hannyton, Limerick ; Bayonnais, Chair, Cowes. PLYMOUTH, FEB. i 7. Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hen rietta, Dcmerier, Dunkirk. RAMSGATE, FEB 16.—Arived the Harmony, Chatham, with damage, and loss of anchor and cable, having been in contact with a brig in the Downs ; Day, London ; Brotlieu, R( ynolds, Youghall ; Cassard, Cassard, London ; Faith, Langton, Wie.erfn d, leaky, having struck a w eck at se?. ; Bei zeias, Vint, Newcastle, with bows stove, hav ino, been in contact with the Protection, Edgar, off the North Foreland. _ _ . . . YARMOUTH, ISLE Or WIGHT, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Johnson and Elizabeth, Joey, from Rouen ; Brothers, Thomas, Rotterdam ; Ammocion, Richards. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind blew hard last night from the W. S. W., during which the Melhouruq, Budge, for Jlmaica, drove on the Mother Bank, but brought up again with her second anchor. MARGATE, FED. 17.---The Rose, Avery, from Guernsey , to Lodon, got on shore on the Hook of Margate sand yes terday, and Celerity, M'Kenzio, on Forenets Rock ; but both vessels got off and proceeded for the River. FALMOUTH, FEB. 15.—W. to W. S. W. Strong breezes and squally. 16.--W. N. W. to W. ditto. Arrived, the Sarah Ann, Dunnett, from London; Roy al Adelaide Steamer, Say, Dublin ; Tyrian Packet, Lieut. Jennings, West Indies, sailed from St. Thomas's on the 10th, and Cape Hayti on the 15th January ; D'vaeest, Thompson, Port au Prince ; Sydney Trader, James, Youghal. Off Port, the star, Harvey, from Odessa ; Ellen, Patter, Gijou. Sailed, the Ann, Clements, for London ; Eliza beth, Quick, and Heroine, Ball, Dub:in. DOVER, FEB. 17.—Sailed, the Lydia, for Hamburg. MARGATE, FEB. 17.—Arrived, the Derwent, Addison, from Shields; J hn, Williams, Cork. _ _ . MILFORD, FEB. 17.—The George 4th, of Liverpool, is so much strained that she is discharging her cargo in order to b. , refastened, caulked, and coppered. HULL, FEB. 17.—The Fame, Russell, from London to Selby, which was driven on si:ore on the Spurn on the 7th uit., has been got off and brought into the Humber. WEvAtotmt, FEB. 17.—Arrived the Aimable Angelique, Cohen, from Bordeaux. _ _ . TEIGNMOUTH. FEE. 17.—Sailed, the Zealous Champion, for Lisbon; Elope, Symons, Swansea. SHIELDS, FEB. 14.—Arrived, the Laurel, Galless, from Gravelines. LEITH, FEE. 12.—Arrived, the Ulverstone, Puckwood, from Dalhousie. HULL, FEB. 16. —Wind W., fresh.—Arrived, the Alex andria, Dapez, from Caen. CORK, FEB. 14 the Lady Bute, Al‘Kenley, from New South Wales. KINGSTON, FEB. 14. —Arrived, the Britannia, Burridge, from St. John's, N. B. JERSEY. FEB. 14.—Arrived, the Jeune Louis, from Nantes; Three Sisters, Godair, from Arichat, with part of cargo thrown overboard. GUERNSEY, FEB. 11.—Sailed, the Ace of Trumps, Ladstone, for St. Michael's; Alfred, Lidstone, ditto; Maria Sophia, St. Übes. SHIELDS, FEB. 16.—The John Rogers was towed foul of the lon, Latrotre, of Guernsey, and carried away her bowsprit and figure-head, &c. SHEERNESS, FEB. 16.—The, Spiranza, from Constan tinople to London, struck on the cantledge below the Nore this morning and knocked off her rudder, and has been towed off to Stangate Creek. SCARBOROUGH, FEB 16.—The Gisland, Skipsay, from Shields to London, was abandoned yesterday morning off Robin Hood Bay, dismasted and in a sinking state; crew saved. The Eliza, Colson, from Newcastle to Sunderland, has put in here leaky. BRIDLINGTON, FED. 16. —The Artist, from London to Shields, which was on shore near this place has been got off with little damage. The True Briton from Yarmouth to Sumderland, has put in here with bows stove, and loss of bowsprit, anchor, and cable. A brig was seen to founder about 6 leagues S. S. W. of Fiamborough Head. The cargo of the James and Thomas, from Hull to New York. has been discharged with little damage. The Daphne, Smith, arrived at this port, from London, struck upon Eastness, arid is leaky. The Eugenie, Voltz, for Daniie, while in the act of warping to one of her Majesty's buoys in the harbour, took the ground on Point Beach at high water, where she re mains, and as the spring tides are at their height, it is doubt ful if she will come off next tide. THE MARKET:.:.- (THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE The past week's arrivals of most kinds of English Corn were small, of Barley good, of Irish Oats moderate, and of Foreign Wheat good. The trade during the week supported previous prices. The fresh supplies of all descriptions of Corn were small today. The millers purchased readily, the best runs of English Wheat at Is. per quarter advance on the terms of last Monday, and other parcels sold at rather better prices. The demand for Foreign Wheat having been limited, the terms remained as last reported, with a fair trade. Barley much decreased in quantity, and good parcels rather exceeded the former quotation. Beans met a fair sale and were the turn dearer; Boiling Pease unaltered ; Grey Pease obtained Is. per quarter advance on last Monday's prices. The demand for Oats was good, and the supply having decreased, this article was Is. per quarter higher for most descriptions. The fresh supply of Flour seas short, and more business was doing in the trade, at a small advance in ship parcels. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) —s. —5. Beans, Small ,new) 43. 4ts ----- White (old) —s. —s• Red 183,t3 62s. t l ss. 'Fick (nevi) fine 66s. 66b. ..— (old) Superfine 70s. 725. Harrow (new) 37,28, ----White (1535)...,665. 68s. - (aid). ....43,,43. .--- Fins 70i 725. Brank_ Superfine T. 78s oats, Feed New. 25..29 , --- Poland , •-, New '25.3 0 ,. --- Potatse 2B 30s l' ,l .ny --- Scorch . 3-.13•:.5. - Irish 2`3s 2jl.:lBs, Flour Town per sack) - seconds 58 .5 ii, .....- North Country 52-.5 i: . - Boilers -12 s. 44,5,,1 ISran ---Foreign free Vis 828. Rye 42s 455. Barley .36i 425. - Grinding 35s 38s. - Malting 4O;. 43J. Malt s6s. 655, - Fine New e, 4. 68s Pease, Grey, New 33s. 365. - Maple New 37-. l - ,Bs. --- White 40s. 42s ARRIVALS F GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST NVLi.:I , N' heat. Barley. ()his. 2,821 qrs I 9,1J0 qrs. I 3,868 qrs 4,722 acks ,015 1;220 4,448 lids. English r Forei;u J,SSO SMITHFIELD, Norfolk end Suffolk beasts were in large supply. Other kinds not so much so. Trade in Beef heavy, and prices a trifle lower for the best sorts. Sheep were in moderate supply, and the demand for Mutton was good ; former prices were fully supported. Veal was fully as near, but Pork a slizde lower for the prime Forts. /Ref, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d.; Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. Beasts, 3,193; Sheep, 19,700; Pigs, 215; Calves, 59. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies of most kinds good, and trade brisk; prices much as on Saturday. Turbot, ss. and 7s. to 10s., 155., and 21s. ; Cod, 2s. to 55., Os., and 10s.; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. each; Whiting, 4ds to 6d. each ; Haddock, 6d. to Is. 2d. each. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 29.—The Tatar expected from Persia has just got in, and by letters he brings to the sth, we learn that on the 4th instant, Mr. M`Neill, accom panied by Sir Henry Bethune and Major ' , arrant, started from Tabrctz for England, via Tiflis and Russia. Colonel Shce and the " detachment" had proceeded for Bagdad, whilst Captain Shiell and the gentlemen of the mission were to set out for Erzeroom on the 6th. The British merchants were staying in Persia to wind up their affairs, and hopes were entertained that they would be able to effect this without the slightest danger of molestation. We must now see what will be the next act of this political drama. Mr. M‘Neill has done perfectly right to proceed home by the route he has taken, as he will thereby view with his own eyes further proofs of the progress and pre sent position of Russia in the east. Sarim Effendi arrived by land from London last night, and now resumes his functions as Musteshar of the Minis ter for Foreign Affairs. The military preparations on the part of the Ottoman Government continue with activity. The number of re cruits enlisted for the navy, both here and in the provinces, is to be raised to 20,000, and 40,000 for the army. The wind is blowing strong from the south, and we shall soon have in the shipping that was so much wanted here. .In that case the p resen t enormous f re i g ht s canno t be maintained. On th e o th er h an d gra i n w ill p ro b a bly rise as freights decline. The Odessa pAcket that put in here from stress of weather re-sailed fur her destination yesterday. M. Duclos, appointed French Consul at Belgrade, has arrived here, and proceeds in a few days for his destination. His nomination has been elicited by that of Col. Hodges, our Consul at the same place. On the night of the 20th instant, a few hours before day break, the watchman of the city announced that •the Porte was on fire. The conflagration, favoured by a strong northerly wind, spread with such rapidity as to leave no time even to save any of the property in the apartments inhabited by the Grand Vizir, and in less than two hours the whole of this extensive wooden . edifice ivaz converted into ashes. It was by many said that the whole of the state records and papers of Government had also b een burnt ; but the place where these writings are permanently kept, and where every evening all important documents are deposited, is a massive building of .stone, perfectly fire proof, and situated, moreover , at a considerable distance from the Porte. The ship Triton, commanded by Captain Hamelin, a n d the corvette Favourite, had joined the French squadron at Smyrna. Two slight shocks of an earthquake were felt in that city, on the 22d at night. The General Steam Navigation Company's Packet, the 'lnwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom (louse, at half-past eleven o'clock last night. um• stances which have only transpired within! The Leinster Express states that cir et ; e x may lead to the discovery of the assassin and the oon s P l a nce the particulars of which we for the present suppress, in w oe jibe of the ends of justice; bw. upon which, as fa r as human I"es can penetrate, we look with great probability Oa' Tile Coromandel Land nym° ~ nun ondon t oc to New South Wales, arrived at Sydney, all well, about the - tuber last, hav'ng left P•ymr,u'h 14th June. 11 Sunday next is the bin} -lof his Royal e C ay let ness Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge, who will co s ro a _P ico his 65th year. His Royal Highne.s gave the second cower for the season on Saturday ev ning, at Cambri 'ge How e . r the Lady Charlotte St. Maur, eldest daughter ( ,',„id the p resent . ra cy, Duke of Somerset, has resigned her appointment to the hoU of hef Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. w hO Ihe Duke and Duchess of Clevelaaat f o r the w ere expected in St. James's-square on Saturday evening delay season, from Newton House, near Boroughbridge, have !nr d their departure from the north, until the close of the weelc_:. no ting Darlington, his Or ice's son, is entertaining a party at hi s S Lodge, Pouton, near Grantham, ev ena.s li. INDIA AND THE COLONIES.--On the _ f oe of Thursday last, a public meeting, to prom ote the object. 6 the ting Aborigines' Protection Society, and to give information held re the pr e sent condition of the natives of British India, asu Friends' Meeting House, Darlington. and atte nded by n and respeaable audience. KENDAL ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. (From the .Kendal Mercury.) The Council of this Association have had several meet ings since our last. On Friday, the Bth inst., they p a resolution expressive of the deep regret aod G. I nd W. ig nation with which they had read ;he speech at t. Wood, Esq., on seconding the Address to the Throt...e, be- Wood, that it was calculated to mislead the House as t o the ass . ed real state of the manufactures of this country, and had 0. 1 ; posed the Anti- Corn.law cause to serious detriment; • and a copy of the resolution was directed to be forwarded to G. W. Wood, Esq. A letter was received from Mr. Wood, in the following terms, addressed to the Secre taries Westminster Feb. 12, 1 839 . DEAR regret much to learn, Westminster, your letter of the sth instant, and the accompanying resolutions of the Executive Council of your Association, that the remarks which I made on the general trade of the country, on se conding the Address to the Throne, on the first day of the Session, are considered to have exposed to detriment an object which they are endeavouring so earnestly and so properly to promote. It would indeed be unfortunate if such were the case, and I should feel it a matter of great personal mortifica tion as well, inasmuch as I go heartily along with your. Association in desiring to see their object realis ed, and have been endeavouring to contribute to its progress, for the last three months, to the utmost of my power. Dexterous use was made in the debate of the WO t° , which I referred, to raise an argument to the prejudice of our cause, and the public announcement made by Sir 17 2. Peel, that night for the first time, of an opinion on his po, that the Corn-laws should not be interfered with , was el'" culated to produce, and did produce, the expression of grC satisfaction on the part of those Members, connected with land, who intend to resist repeal or change. The circumstance has been made to recoil on myself, in my opinion, somewhat unfairly, by some of my Lancashire friends, inasmuch as the general truth of what I said on the trade of the country has not been challenged, and the circumstances themselves are of too much importance, and too obvious notoriety, not to have been pressed into the discussion, whether alluded to by myself or not. The remark made to me, at the meeting of the Dele gates on Saturday, when I was speaking to them on the subject, was, that the statements I made were correct, but that there was an important omission, in my not haring commented on the nature of each class of exports, on whic h the apparent increase in quantity, in 1838, bad arisen. I endeavoured, in addressing the House last night, to remedy this alleged omission, and with regard to negl ing it on the night of the Address, I think it will be 012° visa's, that when speaking as seconder of the Address, de tailed commentary, on that occasion, would have bee viewed by the House as out of place, and not strictly) ew' fisble, and that it would therefore scarcely have been SO' viceable to us. The details which I did furnish, exhibited the real fee" of the case, to those familiar with such subjects. A further circumstance is, that the Corn-laws would o f themselves come, in a very few days, under the particular eiscussion of the House, which made it inexpedient, t° my mind, to endeavour to force them, at a dibadvantagef Into imperfect and premature discussion that nights „ Should it be the pleasure of the Executive Coun cil entrust their petition to my care, I shall be gratified a n ., honoured by the circumstance, but whether they thiok proper to do this cr not, they may rely on its prayer receiv ing my support, and on my best endeavours, at all tittle* to promote and insure success. I am, respectfully, dear Sir s, Your obedient humble Servant, GEO. WM. WOOD . Another meeting was held on Wednesday eveningl...aali to take into consideration the explanation offered by tvil. Wood on bririOng forward his motion on Monday evening' The Mayor occupied the Chair. The explanati on of Mr. Wood was deemed satisfactory by a majority of the Cna °- cil, and it was moved by Mr. Wilson, and seconded by Mr. Ycates, that the petition be forwarded to him. 01. 1, Hawkes moved, and Mr. Samuel Rhodes seconded, that be sent to Mr. Villiers. The motion was ultimately ear; by a majority of ten against four. Mr. Hawkes the, announced his intention of moving that the signatures Le; these of the working men and electors who joined in w r vote of Saturday evening, should be erased. The May or thought ;t was not competent to him to entertain suc' w motion, and it was withdrawn. The petition, which b as received 2,666 signatures, and is about seventeen yards long, was sent off on Thursday. SIR GEORGE GREY. (From the Second Edition of the Devonport IndepenciO n' Sir George Grey arrived by the mail this afterno° ( Saturday), and was first received at Stonehouse by a a t mime of Gentlemen, appointed by the Electors f or tla' purpose. Previous to his arrival, the following Resolution bad been unanimously agreed to : " That this meeting, having the greatest confideocer/rl, Sir George Grey, and highly approving of his Par. 0 1 mentary conduct, pledges itself to use its utmost e xert to secure his return as one of the representative s for P) borough, at the ensuing election." o f The Hon. Baronet having addressed the electors to Stonehouse, at the Prince George Hotel, proceede d u , the Town-hall of Devonport, where he was met by a 11,1. merous body of his supporters, Dr. Thomas in the ebs..; when a resolution was also passed, declaratory of the' determination to secure his re-election, after which t he meeting was adjourned until Monday evening. Tne reception of the Hon. Baronet both at Stone and Devonport, was so enthusiastic as to leave no doubt ° his being again returned as Member for this borough. The election was officially announced by C. Tripe, E s q" the Mayor, for Wednesday next, at the Town Hall. • i 5 PENINSULAR STEAM PACKETS.—A Public Meeting for now holding relative to memorializing the Governm ent the removal of the Peninsular mail packets to this port IP stead of Falmouth. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Chronicle, in a leading article on the su P ; i l ject of the Canada Co r respo n dence, recently printed,,.tioug- speaks of the proce e di ngs o f th e H o use of Lords , the last week ; —" L or d D ur h a m h as committed the ttil pardonable offence of confiding a copy of his Report t.? friend, throu g h w h om i t was pu bli s h e d i n the Times bell e it was produced on their Lordships' table; and these and immaculat e men , n i g ht a f ter n i g ht, attach so mu!!: importance t o thi s h e i nous o ff ence , t h a t a ll other Consider, tions seem to merge i n it. W e can have no particula: motive for vi ew i ng frith partiality the act by which we' I r e selves were anti c ip a t e d i n l a yi n g the Report before th e public ; but we should be ashamed of ourselves if we itb not express the indignation which we feel, in common if our readers, at witnessing night after night, this paltry 4 1,1 tempt to detract fr o m th e s ervices rendered to the natlis the Earl of D u rh am , by hi s masterly Report." justly and handsomely said. too The Times has a pointed and spirited article, Aar t d sophistical, however, on the subject of Lord Durb an ` the Sir Francis Head, in which our Contemporary takes u p n lly cudgels on behalf of Sir Francis, and alluding incideothis, to Lord Glenelg's resignation, says—" In the who le 0 0- tory of political dealings there never was treatment sOr d e ' bccoming, s o o ff ens i ve , s o ungentlemanlike or sO far served, as that which the Noble Baron, late S e cretary 0 , the Colonies, has experienced at the hands ot . h is l ie triguing and faithless colleagues." The Tim ee ' n hy, another leading article on the subject of Lord Norina-or which is smartly and energetically written, in „ n er, Contemporary's most marked and con amore • r ig but full of ingenious special pleading from the beginu',., o , to the end, observes of his Lordship's Irish Administratic4 that " a multitudinous and a bloody tyranny, srcinfigi from the earth's surface under the fragrant name - - t be ; ralism has pervaded the whole of Ireland—everywhere `the ting the law at open defiance—usurping and an foss functions of public justice. Murder has become an institutl.°r, It has the regularity of science, and the übiquity ef f ai r de The Morning Post has a leading article in abuse of 1 - 4° 0 .. Durham and Melbourne, wherein our ironical Cont' rary calls the former " a sensible and sweet tempered pli and the latter "an anxious and severely laborious net nister." There is some drollery here, but assuredly enough to redeem a column of common-place. 001 The Morning Herald in an article upon the Corn-lerw. says, " the claims of foreign trade against the c laims °, la tive industry—the power of money against the rights oti in hour—such, and no other, are the might-, i ssues invol ve ° the present attempt to repeal the Corn-laws." PERSECUTION OF THE poL6.' _ _ _ Accounts via Paris from Lemberg, in Austrian G a , " t ¢• state state that the persecutions in Poland, as well as in tß e " o f tenor of Russia, were continued ; sixty-five famililted Odessa, Kiow, Volgnia, and Podoltc, bad been arre l r and transported, partly to the North and pa tly to !: to These families arc to be confronted with Konawsi, ee tt Pole, who has denouncetem. Tir prope ba s o id sequestered, valued at twenty eight he millions.rtY It is tve y also to have been intimated to them, that even should co, not be condemned as accomplices of Konawski, their P n r , perty would be sold, and the proceeds applied to the bey chase chase of land in the Government of Siberia, wherefac will be required to take up their residence in case ° quittal. bo at From Vilna they write us that Simeon Konawski, ai ucb the commencement of his captivity, had evinced so der firmness, had at length made certain confessions, to „ n d of to escape the tortures with which he was menaced, a" by which they made him experience the first effeel g io k. feeding him with salt herrings an d w ithholding 'l r a he His prison was of the most loathsome description) a n each day received a given number of lashes.