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NTORNING MAILS are now dispatched .JAL from London to Southampton, Portsmouth, and Chel tenham, rt Nine a.m., conveying Letters and Newspapers for the following Towns : Basingstoke Guildford Peterafield Benson Henley Portsmouth _Buffo: d Horndean Reading Cheltenham 3laitlenhead Southampton Farnham Nettlehed Winchester Godalming Northlestel2 Windsor (;nsport Oxford Witney Tl.e Boxes at the Branch Offices, Charing Cross, Old Ca ven.lish-street, and the Borough will be open for the reception of Newspapers, until half-past Seven, a.m., and for Letters uuti, Eight, a.m. At the General Post-office and the Branch Office in Lombard-street the Boxes will close for Newspapers at a ty: irter beford Eight, a.m., and for Letters at half-past Egli!, a. in. By command, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. tr_ Ito - 4 cr (Lk : preiiint-e xtr;tPl .11 _ ,at • 40.4 . -.. TI - % - # l li . 4 11 I a 4. 44: ...or • ition, lents Ma r i*, sm s 7 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1839. N o. 14,757. PRICE sd. JOHN THOROGOOD has been confined in .a the Common Gaol of Chelmsford since the 16th of Jannuary last, for not paying a Church. rate of ss. 6d. In consequence of his long confinement, his business has re ceived so much injury, that his friends propose a public sub scription, for the purpose of saving his affairs from utter ruin, and as a testimony to him and to the country that they sympa thize in his sufferings, and honour the principle of religious liberty, which is violated in his person. _ _ _ PUBLICATION S. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. CHINESE QUESTION. Price Is.. BRIEF OBSERVATIONS on the DIS PUTES with CHINA, and a Proposal for bringing them to a Satisfactory Conclusion. Ridgway, Piccadilly. Master of the Horse's-office, the Queen's-Mews, Pimlico, December 21, 1839. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Hon. G. W. Fox, Lord Kinnaird, to be Master of her Ma jesty's Buck-hounds. STOCKDALE v. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Times.) Most of our readers who have turned their attention to the disputes now pending with the Chinese, must have been surprised and amused at many of the projects for settling- those disputes which have from time to time been started in speeches, letters, and pamphlets. We think, however, that the plan which we are about to lay before the public will be found at once the most asto nishing and the most entertaining of the whole. We tike it from an anonymous pamphlet just published by Ridgway, under the title " Brief Observations respec•t ing the pending Disputes with the Chinese, and a Pro posal for bringing them to a satisfactory conclusion." The author of the proposal thinks that the dem,..nds on the part of the British Government, for losses sustained by, and injuries inflicted on, its subjects, may probabig be included under the following heads :- Ist. Compensation for the opium extorted from Ise British merchants outside the port of Canton, and afterwards confiscated by the Chinese Government. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, AND INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL POSTMASTERS. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, DEC. 20, 1839. IN consequence of the great increase of Letters imistainitie Coin, it has become necessary, in order to pre vent tA6 tote. liar-, c uption of the Service, to discontinue the system which tia hitherto prevailed of entering the Addresses of su”h Letters, and taking receipts for them on delivery to the o xnet s. The praetic-& therefore, of entering such Letters as Money Letters %rill cease on and after the Ist of January, 1840 ; after which tine, patties Laving occasion to transmit small sums in cash, are recommenctm r.t makeuse of the MONEY ORDER f)FFICE, Where they will incur no risk, while those who may desire to remit Bank Notes, or Drafts payable to Bearer, are relluested to cut them in half, sendingeach half, if possible, by too different Posts. In the case of Bank Notes, or Bank Port Rills being sent, the Numbers, Dates, and Amounts should be t:aretully tak'n. 11,r1Py Orders for Suns under 5/. are granted by every Town upon every other Post lsown in the United King on apphoatiou at the various Offices. By command, W, 1.. MABERLY, Secretary. This day is published, in 1 vol. medium Bvo., with nearly Forty beautifully-executed Illustrations on Wood,y Williams, 21s. VISITS to REMARKABLE PLACES— Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Petry. By W. HOWITT, Author of " Rural Life of England," " Boy's Country Book," " Colonization and Christianity," &c. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. The following article is substituted for that which appeared in last Friday's Gazette, viz.:— DONNING-STREET , DEC. ]9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Stark, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Advocate in the Island of Ceylon. Subscriptions to be paid, in London, k.) Roger Lee, Esq., Treasurer, Clapham Common, and on his account at Messrs. Ropers and Co., bankers, 29, Clement's-lane ; to Mr. Robert Besley, 15, Northampton-square ; and Mr. James Dinnis, 62, Paternoster-row. DOWNING- STREET, DEc. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry V. Huntley, Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, to be Lieutenant-Govcr nor of her Majesty's Settlements on the Gambia. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia.=-G. J. Stone, Esq., to be Captain, June 10. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant 'of Buekinghamshire. 2d Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry.—R. C. Walford, Gent., to be Cornet. • TITHE COMMISSION OFFICE, DEC. 23, 1839. The Tithe Commissioners for Enql 4 nd and Wales have ap pointed Henry Pilkington, Esq.„Qf Barnard's-inn, Barrister-at- Law, to be an Assistant Tithe Commissioner for especial pur poses ; and he has been duly sworn i n b e f ore Ch r . Fenwi c k, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a'Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, as required by the Act, passed in the 6th and 7th William the Fourth, c. 71, intitnled " An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and-Wales. " 2. Reparation for the insult inflicted upon the na tional honour by the detention and captivity of British ob jects. " 3d. The establishment of a commercial treaty, wheys by the persons and property of British residents in China shall in future, be protected from insult and aggression." Dropping the " probably," the author waxes positing and insists that WHITEHALL, D E C.. 16. • The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Bell, of Liver pool, Gent. and Robert Rich ar d D er bi s hire, of Liverpo o l, Gent., to be Masters Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. PREPARING, A NEW AND BEATIFULLY ILLUSTRATED T:1 INE WORTH': AND INDEPENDENT FREE INHABITANTS OF THE WARD OF CAN DLEWICK. KMEN, Y seLsible of the distinguished honour rotm.rreil upon n:e this day by your unanimous suffrages Wa,,lovite assembled, in electing me your Alderman, upon the rosy t,at ion ot you late esteemed and much respected repre sentative, , ztocitel Birch, Esq , I beg t,• .iffer y'u my grateful acknowledgments, and to as- Rue you be my pr i de and pleasure to devote myself to the imp), tan - , duties appertainingthereto, and to the interests of the Ward g..i.e-ahv. I am, Zietttlemen, your faithful and devoted servant, GEORGE CARROLL. Cavendish .4 , !:at c. Dec. 23, 1839. FA it It %;4.; DON WARD WITHIN.— Dee. 21, 1839. Al aWA I holden this day in the great Room, late the College of Phys•zians, Warwick-lane, before the Right WorAipful III; )4! A-; Y, Esq., Alderman of the said Ward, for the (ll.) (7E of WARD OFFICERS for the year ensu It was resolve(` I.l'lll. l mously •-- That ii.e most vrat:4'o4 and heartfelt thanks of this Ward mote be given to the Worshipful Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of this Wald, Iris courteous and impartial con duct this day in the r':; r, anti for the exertions he has ever •masle during Ms long ;4e,iilenee amongst us, both before and since he tonic upon himself •le duties of Alderman, for the in terest of the Ward grit4l-11!4,, and its inhabitants individually, more especially those of out poorer brethren. That the sincere thanks if this Worth-note be also given to Joseph Daw, Esq., and ltol,is,•t Westwood, Esq., the worthy Deputies, and likewise t., tFe rest of the Common Council of this Ward, for the manta , which they have discharged the important duties of their milks , during the past year. That the foregoing t esolutions be stgued by the Ward Clerk, and inserted in the usual papors. J. WARREN, Ward Clerk. STEA a F() NEW YORK. ........_ __ . _. _ r HE GREAT W ESTER N, Lieutenant Ji JAMES HOSKEN, R. N., Commander, after coming out of Dock, and having her fo:ward 'Sleeping Berths placed Fore and Alt, and the Statr Rooms greatly increased in size, is intended to Sail between I.lrstel and New York on the follow ing day for the year 1540 !- 1. ROM BRISTOL. 1 FROM NEW YORK. Thursday -Feb. '2ol i Tliiirsdriv March 19 Wednesday ...... .........Aprii 151 s;.t.inlay May 9 Thursday ..-...., June 41'i (.61: ,, i , 1ay July 1 Saturday ... .. -.3 uly `2si 'l'ne..l:.-, Aug. 18 Saturday .....-...........5ept. 1:1: :N'irtir.i -lay Oct. 10 Saturday ... Nov. 7 1 Tile,(l:t v For Freight, Passage, or farther i ikrmation, apply at Bristol...to CHRISTJ WHER CLAN] ON, Esq. London T.lll. Ward, Eq.. Gt'tt \ ...stern Railway Office. Liverpool Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, Arid Co. Glasgow Mossrs. IlaniAor, Brio he! , and Co. Pacii - .... Messrs. A ccleile and Sr 1/1:1' 4 it t. ,-- -iitil.NKS'S SI'ECLFIC SOLUTION OF COPBA. iN. , I1c) a period Fr - Two islontns upwartls of 'three Hundred Patients • ere suceessfbily, :‘,.. a: '''d at the Metropolitan Hospitals with . Ai , K ~'S SF' CCIFIC a'ILIITIOI , I of COPAIB A. es ~cl,`! Henry Greeil, 2 , q., F.U.S., one of the Council of the it, ,f CL,lege of Surgeons, .Stirgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Pro. .sor ti Surgery it. the King's College, London. ‘• I hi, .. mote trial of Mr. visfilk's Solution of ('opaiba, at St. it,„.,,.,..,, .. i„,„tal, in .5 carictl of 535 e, of discharges in the male wt. l t. c.,00, ..nd the results war taut my gtating, that it is an ettica ,•,,,,,,,,.i,...„. aid on, resat' doe not pt o:lffee the usual unpleasant ellet:ts t.t ,:,. paitia. l “Jt , IS , EPH HENRY GREEN. (Signe 4"', I. t,:•ot.t`s_ Inn- f i e lds, Apt 11 I.), I ~,b . tty 1.,,,,,b, , I ~tto. t 0., Anatomy(„,, E s q ., EMS., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and S t e. &C., anti o thers most eminent in the , Medical l'roieSemn.' .• MI ll,,,,t.yo.el;erpreAentF his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks ,- lid has gr..a' !ti'-' , lstue an Viewing testimony of the efficacy of his So hitior. cto 0, 1 ,., , i. it. Gonorrfrea, for which disease Mr. Cooper ha Itre=crined (he :-. locum in ten or twelvecases with perfect success. Nr..w.strt , el ,Sp.i,g.gardens, April] f..A., 1965." rbl. ~,,,i,,,:: .e Nltsdici to If confidently rcommentie .. d in all CP.Se of i i,,,,,,„.,, .: , ,..1:., Lrethral Di.zeharges, Siisrno.bc Strictures, l Irritatu.n of t'trt.' i 6.! revs, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland i its purn . yine ce,t , t.p.,n Inc gent ral health render it particularly ap tilicattle 114 all cas. i ct .elax•ed titre and nervous debility. Prepared only I , v .teorge Frat.ks, Surgeon, 90, illackfriars-road, 1.J...,i0n, :out 15,1 ,, , r I.•.id of All Medicine-venders in the United King doiN in Btiti!es at 9 , 5 . 1 , 4s. 6.i., and I is. each, Cstni•rsi .-Cut: - 4` t eorge Fran tfs, Bia -kfriars road," is engraysd ~ 1 1 th e ri c ,:-,titnetit - , ,t ....pp it cannot be g e nuine. 1/... - ;-. all• .I;rAn , :s '" t" t,e consulted until T'wo o'clock daily. I NATION.AI, LOAN FUND LIFE AS- StIRANCE Ar•D DEFERRED ANNUM soCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. EASTERN SRA Nell.—S, Castle-steeet, St. Mary Axe. Capital, 500,000/. EMPOWERED BY ACT OP PARLIAMENT. DIRECTORS. T. L AMIE HURRAY, Esq., Chairman. (A. Sir Binges Ctunac, h.. C. S. Robert Hollond, Esq., M. P. John Elliotson. F. R. S. George Lungley, Esq. H. Gordon, Esc. John Rawson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. unlroas. Dr. Olir thus Gregory, F. R. A. S. Professo- o!neatstone, F. R. S. ACTUARY—.-W. H. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S. 11, the principl c: Life Assurance and Deferred An nutti-s, tourAled by this Scciety, the moral obligation of all claw's of making a provision for a family or for old age is iargeiy enhanced, by the immediate advantages secured to the Assured themselves. Thr_ details of the principles of the Society, its improvement in the system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in favour of the Assured, Its extensive Tables, &c., will be found in its Prospectus, which may he obtained at the Offices of the Society, 26, Cornhili, London, or at any of its Branches throughout the Country. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. IMMEDIATE BEN P - U ,FI BL TS I C. OFFERE.O TO THE LIFE AND FIIIE INSURANCE RATES Reduced 30 per Cent per Annum Lower than any other Office. IFE ANNUITY RATES, CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! I ! FOR EIA M PLR. For every 1001. deposited, this Association will grant the An nuity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing. From WI. and upwards, in proportion. Age3Oto•tOto4s---to 50 to 55 to 60 to 65 to 70 to 75 to SO .ES OI.EB 10 £9 10)X10 10 .tl•2 101£15 10 .£2O o;Za5 0 Par Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent- , Cent Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. LIFE ASSURANCE RATES. Age _(' to t. ) 5 to 30 to to 38 to 60 to 45 to 50 Premium.l 1 1 O j.; ) s i) 011 B il d 0 . 1i 15 dtdi 85 00 'fl Ia Company make no cnarges for intermediate ages under 50 years. FIRE INSURANCE RATES. Common Insurance. s. d. Private lionies and Shops (not hazardous) I 0 per Cent. hazardous ........... • 2 0 3 6 Double Hazardoug azardous _ _ Farming Stock . . 1 6 INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, Opposite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London. South St. David's-street, Edinburgh ; Ingram-street, Glasgow; And Sackville-street, Dublin. t?.mpowe:ed under the several Acts of Parliament of 14thlGeo. 111. c. 4s ; 22. d Geo. 111. ; s3d Geo. 111. c. 141; 3d Geo. IV c. 92 ; and Ist e. 10. G E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. CHEAPSIDE, AND 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET , PICCADILLY. TESTIMONIAL LIST No. 2.—SPEC TACLE LENSES upon a new construction, and wv Ist BLE VOICE CONDUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS. The iti,ssrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal f..imily, wish toad , atte•ition to the testimonies in favour of their newly invented SPECTACLE LENSES, from some of the mos eminent inembers of the medical profession : `y e , the undersigned, have been for some time making use of M2ssrs Soloinons' newly invrnted Spectacle Lenses; the astonishing : t hev afford tr. imperfect vision gives them the decided prefer rii ,very ahor Ic.tid of tens—the clearne , s of the transparency 4.rii.as every ()Octet very distinct, and enables individuals to view the minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are particularly ,iit by candle light, es they appear cooling to the sight, and go , !cfi l.r,glit and brilliant iights:— .1. (:ordon, Esq., Al•D• Esq M,[f Bennett.stteet, Bath. C. t. v Egg . . M.ll,l3landtord. ti;At D., Tenli3 llr. ra•iss, Mau dox-street. • „ Co:, NA!, led. leatrecon, Esq., Sur eon 21, South Audley-street. eon oculist, ft No1;le pawyn F. Surgeon, 36, Albemarle -street. I'''STge°,,n. 24 , Broad street, Go lden-s q uare. Samuel . , —urge", 26, Berkley -s q uare. (. 11. N a lk ,r, ,49., Surgeon, Charlotte-s treet, Bloomsb ur y . it. J. Stc..l, EA1.,.41.1rgC011, 5, Wilinot-street, Itrunswick-square. , Sarum:, Poland -street, Walworth. hetle'Vl• k'n l"ng, Surgeon, 29, Upper Thames-street. Wut. Ntruham, (s,I, Surgeon, 1, P.trsona,,e-row, Newington. surgeon, Paradise street, Birmingham. f;rntiths, F;sq , Sutgcon, Wrexham. ) Donnell), , 3ingeott, Fahnouth. Q, Barton, Esq., S: rgeo:), Roien, Lincolnshire. &c. tte. &c. 'IT playing the above fist of Testimonials before the Public, the Solo , ions Opt sand Attrists, state that their INVISIBLE A'rIVE 1 1 0 UT. • ON DUC t OR, by which thousands of Deaf P.vrssa, ohave been ;pc stir henefitetl, is not larger than a seven.shilling and when fixedthe cavity of the ear is soft and easy, of sywaol tic,. m abtm ore uneomfOrte u perce ptible than having a iu fo place. By its use faintest whisper at a public assembly is .'earti 'Yith distinctness. l'hese,inortant new inventions are patronised by their Majesties the Kin , .sfid ueen of Hs c over, an.l their Royal Highnesses the Pi , ocesscs Atteust4 and Sophia, her Serene H i g hness the Princess crhazy, the Princesses Mary 'old Rosa, and their Graces the Dukes 1.11/i MalleilCgter, &C. &c. (, heaPS4IC. 411 d :1), AlbClll.lri,St.l Cet, e ol lqltletlee Of the grf,.ss imposition in the Country it Is neces. to state that no Truyeilers are cntployed by the above Estalt it,! in I" In the Country—To John Copland, Esq., Chelmsford ; Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham; Sheppard Ray, Esq., Ipswich ; and Mr. John Childs, Bungay It will be obvious to the Provincial Press, that it is impos sible to send Advertisements beyond the Metropolis ; but the promoters of this Subscription confidently rely upon its sym pathy to make the case known, and that it will urge persons throughout the country to undertake the trouble of conducting Local Subscriptions, and sending the lists and amounts to any of the above parties. Messrs. Wells and Perry, Chelmsford £5 • 0 Friends at Walthamstow 5 0 0 Roger Lee, Esq R. B. Sanderson, Esq. Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham Charles Sturge, Esq., do. Messrs. Bowler and Sons 5 6 6 Henry Weymouth, Esq., Bryanston-square 5 0 0 0. H. 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Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Official assignee ; Fox and Meek, Basinghall-street. WILLIAM SPENCE, grocer, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Dewsbury, and Feb. 4, at one, at the Court House, Leeds. Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Ely-place, Holborn; Greeves, Dewsbury. WILLIAM BURROWS NAYLOR, brick-maker, Bright side Bierlow, Yorkshire, Jan. 11, and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Ryalls, Sheffield; Rayner and Thompson, Sheffield ; Rodgers, Manchester-square, Bishops gate-street, London. ISAAC STOCKS, stuff-manufacturer, Clayton, Yorkshire, Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court-house, Bradford, and Feb. 4, at two, at the Court-house, Leeds. George, Bradford ; Jen kins and Abbott, New-inn, Wych-street, London. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. A. C. Tucker, linen draper, Burnham-market, Norfolk, lan. 14, at one—E. Mercer, grocer, Capel, Kent, Jan. 14, at two—J. 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Coltman, drapers, Stockport, Cheshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—JAN. 14. A. Bunn, music seller, Eagle-lodge, Brompton—A. Atkin son, farmer, Barnard Castle, Durham—J. Deen, tailor, Saville row, Burlington-gardens—S. Luce, draper, Pontypool, Mon. mouthshire—H. Lucas, wine merchant, Leominster, Hereford shire—G. Chapman. corn fact or , S e lb y, Yorkshire_J. Trus cott, share broker, Manchester. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. Richardson and J. Pike, attorneys, Golden-square, Mid lesex—T. Graham and H. T. Leigh, surgeons, Turham-green, Middlesex—J. Harvey and W. Kingston, linen-drapers, Marsh gate, Lambeth—A. M'Vey, J. M'Ewen, R. Nichol, and W. Collisteer, railway-carriage builders, Westham, Essex (so far as regards J. APEwen)--J. Chapman and D. Sutton, coal merchants, Macclesfield—P. Johnson and G. Johnson, manu facturers of earthenware, Hanley, Staffordshire—G. M'Knight and D. L. Williams, linen-drapers, Shiffnal, Shropshire—W. Aldridge and H. 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WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.—Un Y uesuay the 10th instant, five men entered a mine, at Grinn, in the vicinity of Buxton, where they have been for some time past regularly employed in getting a kind of coarse spar, an article used for making paint, known amongst miners by the name of cauk, when a large quantity of earth'fcll from the roof, which completely blocked up the passage out of the mine, and in its fall separated the workmen ; two being closed up in a narrow cavern nbout fifteen feet long, and four high. On one of the men perceiving the fall about to take place, he gave an alarm, which enabled three of them, with difficulty, to make good their retreat towards the shaft, one of them being partially caught, but he extricated himself. The other two, named Bagshaw and Bonsai, were unfortu nately shut up without any sustenance and almost without clothing, from that day till about five o'clock on the Saturday evening, being five days and four nights, when after the greatest exertion, night and lay, they were fortunately extricated from their dreary prison -house alive, but in a state of great exhaustion. On hearing of th e dreadful catastrophe ; mi ners , co lli ers , aiseworthy int ent i ons were themselv es i n rescu i ng and quarry men , f r om the villages in D er b ys hi re , to a distance of t wen ty miles, flocked to the pl ace, w i t h t h e laudable e i r n e t r e s, n t h i o u n t ot their er exerting pr frustrated, owing to the narrowness of the mine not permitting more than two men to work at t h e same time ; an d those were in immi▪ nent dange r of being k 4 yard f s deep. The the surface, a buried, as fresh falls could not by the great es t cau t ion he preve n ted. Owing to the loosenes s of the earth a occasioneden t a sinking o y-s suffere r s are, however , fast recovering, every ass i s t anc e lbtohvoeu,ghthis the fall mine ist twenty-seven humanity could suggest having been rendered them both by medical gentlemen and others. —Cor respondent qf the Derbyshire Chronicle. NEWPORT CHARTISTS.—Sir Frederick Pol lock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Thoma s , h ave b een engaeed for the defence of the pri▪ soners. Th e f ees o f Sir F re d er i c k a nd Mr. Kelly will not b e f ar short o f 1,0001. Th e y have 30 0 guineas each as a special re tainer ; 4s. 6d. each per mile to Mon mouth and back ; heavy f ee w ith brief ; 2 5 guineas to each of their , clerk s , an d a ll expenses paid. he comfort is, that they are worth as much as any two men at th e bar, and one are not tin g ed with particle of Whiggery.—N ur thern Star. So little cider has been made in the neighbour hood of Creditors, where the apple 12 cultivated to a great extent, that one respectable farmer who has been in the habit of attending the London market, and who has 50 acres of orchard ground, and for several years past has not made less than 200 hogsheads, has this year made but 10 hogsheads ; and we kn ow t h ree l arge farrdars near the town of Crediton, who have not grown apples enough to make a hogshead each. There was in general a very fair promise, but th e bl ossoms were nipp e d b y t h e v ery inclement weather experienced in May.— Western Luminary. SIR,—In a former letter to you, which you had the impartiality promply to publish in your excel lent and truly independent Journal, relat►ve to the late extraordinary trial and conviction of the repre sentative body of the people of Great Britain and Ireland for libel, I concluded with stating that it was my intention to submit to the consideration. of the public the share which her Majesty's Attorney- General has had in an affair so little creditable to the wisdom. and vigour of Parliament. It is not necessary to inform you that when the first inti mation of such a trial was given to Mr. Hansard, " plain John Campbell" was immediately consulted, and ,the Government was guided in every step which it ultimately took by the light reflected by this official repository of Ministerial legal knowledge. Sir John Campbell was never very eminent for the profundity of his black-letter ac quirements, or for his intimate acquaintance with the principles of the British .Constitution ; but I never heard from any quarter that he was ever known to fail in that first of modern professional duties—the exaction of fees. The Learned and patriotic Attorney-General told Ministers, and Ministers told Parliament, that the best way to assert the dignity of the House of Commons was to leave the action undefended, and trust to the terrors inspired in the minds of all Judges, Juries, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, or Auctioneers, by the fulmina tion of some terrible resolutions with which the Noble Home Secretary wa►s then charged. Now, though this was contended in the House, and has since been proved to the country, the sil liest advice that an Attorney-General could give in such a case, I have a Parliamentary Return be fore me which clearly demonstrates that Sir John Campbell did not scruple to make the country pay very severely for it. We may estimate the value which Sir John would place upon a sound legal opinion by the heavy cost to which he has ppt the country for the official declaration of an absurdity. It must be ad►aitted that he appeared in one of the Courtsat Westminster, and argued against the grant ing of the writ for the trial, and so successfully, too, that the writ was not granted till the conclusio❑ of a tolerably long speech on the subject. His arguments did not send the Judges to their chambers to re-study the merits of the question. The Attorney-General is not in the habit of making such demands on the time and the reflec tion of their Lordships. They were, however, courteously listened to, and—over-ruled, without a moment's hesitation. For this appearance of the Learned gentleman in his wig and gown, and for giving the advicabto Ministers which I have stated above, I find that the country has paid the sum of 1,2661. 3s. 10d., independently of the expenses in curred since the rising of Parliament. Of this sum Sir John Campbell himself pocketed 3541. 18s., and his clerk 101. 10s. The Parliamentary paper on the authority of which I state these facts was moved for by Mr. Wallace on the Ist of July, 1839, and purports to be a " Re turn of the whole of the Expenses then incurred in the trial of Stockdale v. Hansard, with the names of the recipients of each sum, and the sum total expended and to be paid by the public." The Solicitor-General pocketed 431. Is.; Sir F. Pollock 51/. 95.; Sir W. Follett 431. is.; and Mr. Wightman an equal amount ; besides 1051. 18s. 4d. paid to the solicitors, Messrs. Parkes and Preston. In fact from a constitutional question to be decided by the House of Commons itself, the case of Stockdale was converted by the law officers of the Crown into a legal job, for which the country is en titled to hold the Attorney-General responsible. One benefit, however, must result to the country, and to the public press more especially, from this contest of an individual with the Legislature—the law of libel must now be reformed. Had any of the several Bills to effect this object, brought for ward by Mr. O'Connell, been properly supported by Sir John Campbell and the Government, Mr. Stockdale would not have dared to show his face in any Court of Justice, to bring an action against the printer of the House of Commons. But the Attorney-General, though a flaming patriot and a zealous law reformer on the hustings at Edinburgh, is a remarkably moderate Whig in the House of Commons. Difficulties stare him in the face in London, which he never encounters, even in his dreams, in Scotland. Once in sight of Auld Reekie he cares not a button for office, and he ridi cules the absurdity of titles ; but in his chambers in Westminster, secure from the hubbub and inter rogatories of the Canongate and Princes-street patriots, " plain John Campbell" entertains very different notions about the desirableness of place, and even discovers something ex ceedingly dulcet in the phraseology of rank, as the sounds are heard in his own family circle. The Attorney-General is a professed Law Reformer, but except where Reform, or rather change, in the law will facilitate the practice of a lawyer not over fond of black-letter reading, I have long been of opinion that he will give him self no more trouble on the subject than may be requisite to keep him on good terms with his constituents and his colleagues in office. In his changes of the law it will be the ease of the profession, not the interest of the public that will be the chief point studied. This, after all, is not quite so reprehensible in him as might at first be supposed. Sir John Campbell, though not a first rate lawyer, is nothing else. Now, no mere lawyer can ever be a great law reformer. His mind can not grasp those grand principles which are the foundation of all law, and by recurring to which laws can only be beneficially reformed. This can only be achieved by a statesman as well as a lawyer, like Lord Brougham. Sir John Campbell perceived at a glance, with all a lawyer's keenness of perception, the expediency of increasing the salaries of the Scotch Judges, while he dimi nished their labours ; but the honest law reformers of that country have been vainly endeavouring, during the whole of his Parliamentary and official life, to make him comprehend what has long been notorious to every person paying the least attention to the subject—namely, that many of the laws of Scotland are worse in themselves, and more clum sily, expensively, and oppressively administered than any to be found on the Statute-book of any other nation throughout Europe ; and that, consequently, the efforts of the Scotch representative body ° ti ent to be directed to the immediate improvement of the entire system. In conclusion, I would impress upon the House of Commons and the country th e pro priety of trusting less in future to the legal acumen and the patriotism of her Majesty's Attorney-Ge neral, after the examples of both furnished by the details to which I have here called your attention, and that of your numerous readers. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most obedient servant and constant reader, A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Brooke's Club House, St. James's-street, Dec. 21. THE NEW POLICE ACT.—It has long been the practice of many of the most respectable trades men and shopkeepers of London to celebrate Christ mas Eve at some hotel or tavern which they usually frequent. This year, according to the wise interpreta tion of the Magistrates, the good practise is all but abolished, as no licensed victualler could allow them to remain his house after twelve without the risk of being fined. DISTRIBUTING THE QUEEN'S BOUNTY., The ancient custom of awarding to a number of poor men and women a sum of money, called the Queen's Bounty, was gone through yesterday at the Alrnonry ies, o ne Office, Whitehall-yard. There are two bount called the Gate Bounty, and the other the M i na Bounty. The former owes its name to the fact that, many years back, a certain number of infirm and aged men and women used to attend at the gates of the Royal ro.i dence weekly, and be relieved with sixpence each. This mode of payment was afterwards a b o li shed, and the present one instituted in its stead, th at of paying the pensioners 13s. each at Christmas and Easter. The number of pensioners in this bounty is at present 168. The second bounty has been instituted more recently. It is given to 1,000 poor persons, who must be above GO years of age. Many of the recipients are very aged, and one of them is 100 years old. The sum received by them is 51. each at Christmas and Easter, Thomas A iris, who was formerly Governor of Coldbath-fields Prison, and who is in his Oath year, has been since the year 183:1 4 Neipient of both bounties. " Less than the above would not meet the exigencies of the case, and their attainment would have been difficult, if not impossible, had not the Chinese Government already pointed out the way for their accomplishment —not, to lie sure, in a strictly literal sense, but in a manner admirably adapted to the emergency wherein British interests have been placed." Grown warmer still, he announces his proposal in the foi'owing terms : " In conformity, therefore, with lria Celestial Majesty's taste for summary proceedings, evinced in the seizure of 2,000,0001. worth of property by the detention of innocent and defenceless individuals, sans ceramonie, let their natisra/ pi stectors, in a similar spirit of neighbourly freedom, take the earliest possible opportunity of returning the compli meat, by quietly laying hold of the tight little island' et Lantoa, which would only serve as a temporary place or refuge for the persons and property recently expelled cnci. excluded from Canton, but whereon (and in connexism with the fine natural harbour of Cap-sing moon), a erma nent emporium for the fut ure t ra d e with the wh o le Eastern . Archipelago could be most advantageously established, without the power of Mr. Commissioner Lin and all his myrmidons." It is most gratifying to be able to infer from the following passage, that even if there had been no quarrel with the Chinese, the author of this most practicable and profitable scheme would not have with held it from the country and the State, nor failed to prove :t justifiable under any circumstances. He tells us— " That this is no chimerical idea, the rapid growth and increasing prosperity of Singapore, under infinitely lees favourable circumstances, affords abundant evidence- And, laying the present dispute with the Chinese entirelrynt of the question, the extension of British commerce in thee seas imperiously calls for some permanent acquisition it that quarter, capable of insuring under the British jig accommodation and protection to merchants and mer cheldise of all nations and at all times." And yet, after all, this magnificent disposer of other people's possessions does not reckon the fee simple of Lantos (or " such hke"—for he is not particular what he " grabs") to be any very great catch, for the present, at least : No.doubt the . fee simple of Lantoa (or such lilts) would prove in the first instance, rather an inadequate egni •alent for the large sum at which the confiscated opium has been estimated ; but, neve'theless, it would stand in wad of an interim dividend, and in the course of a short while its actual value would far exceed the original pur chase-money, besides placing the whole trade along the coasts of China, &c., under British controul. In all like lihood, too, respectable Chinese traders would become settlers, and, under British protection, would naturally become the medium of intercourse with their countrymen, free from and unfettered by the exactions and vexations to which the direct trade with China has hitherto been subjected." bhe jam sails! We will not pursue farther this " proposal for settling the disputes now pending with th , Chinese." It is meant as a joke of course—a bur lesque, probably, upon other " proposals," which, hardly less defensible, have been propounded more seriously-- we cannot say more gravely. Indeed, it is the extreme gravity of the facetious writer of the pamphlet that has induced us to notice it, in order that no matter-of-fact gentleman in the City, who is interested in the Chinese trade, may devote the leisure of this holiday to building warehouses and pagodas in the " tight little island of Lantoa," or dream during his after-dinner nap of his richly laden fleet of merchant vessels riding "in the fine natural harbour of Cap-sing-moon." (From the Morning Chronicle.) The honest Conservatives, who, in the simplicity of their hearts, believed that Sir Robert Peel's sentiments were in unison with the fierce manifestoes against the Irish Catholics which have formed the staple c,f every Tory journal, whether published quarterly, monthly, weekly, or daily, now find that they have been in a fool's paradise. Sir Robert never forgets, however they may, that discretion is the better part of valour. Lie now turns round on them, and calls for the productitm of specific evidence, that he ever lent himself to a v-- sade against the Catholics. They, no doubt, think that it was ungenerous and unmanly in the 'light Honourable Baronet to allow them to write and speechify as they did during this vacation, exposing themselves to ridicule in their respective neighbourhoods, as silly fools, whom their leader thought so meanly of that he would not even condescend to set them right with respect to his real sentiments. The letter which he addressed to the Observer, steered clear of all intimation, that he disapproved of the zeal dis played by the ultra Tories against the Catholics, and that they were not justified in their endeavausa to agitate for the exclusion of Catholics from the Constitution. The friends of the Re& Honourable Baronet now proclaim that if be had spoken frankly, the zeal of the Conser vatives would not have led them to act with so much zeal at the period of the registra tion , for, believing as they did, that a great eifort was, once for all, to put down Popery, they made exertions which for no other cause they would have made. But this explanation conveys, in very plain terms, that the ultra-Tories and fanatics have been shamefully befooled, and that Sir Robert took a very low estimate of their understandings, when he durst not convey to them his real sentiments on the question for which they were bestirring themselves. And when we look back to the columns of our Tory Contempo raries, we cannot help thinking that the honest Conser vatives, who have been on a wild-goose chase for what they conceived the great objects of their party, can hardly be blamed for the interpretation they put -upon Sir Robert Peel's caution. It suited the pnrpose of the Times two months ago to exclaim, " The Papists may raise a yell against those who cry No Popery ;' but it is the cry of men whose homes and altars are at tacked, and who feel that there is no safety nor honour —no peace nor refuge, but in unflinching battle:" What sort of battle the writer had in his mind wo of course, cannot say ; but the fanatical Orangeti k en . meant the battle with the arm of flesh. This is not the language used when stimulating Peaks tants to zeal in the diffusion of their tenets, and in combating the principles of Popery. No one weuhl wish to damp the ardour of men impressed with the excellences of their religion, and coffer to impart its benefits to those who are without the pale of the Pre testant Church. But the speakers at great Pro testant, meetings, as they were called, and Conservative dinners, boldly interpreted these exhortations to mum agitation for the repeal of the Emancipation Act, and the return to the old penal code. Sir R. Peel had his eyes open, and saw what was going on. But the Right Honourable Baronet could not resist the temptation of allowing the zealots who entered on this work of agita tion to continue under their delusion. He had already, by conniving at the manifestoes issued against the new Poor-law by his adherents, obtained some electioneer ing advantages ; and he thought a profit could in like manner be made of the 4' No-Popery cry." We told him, when he first began to show sprip toms of a wish to disown his party, that " the Qan servative devil has been raised, and it is beyond the. Power of Sir Robert Peel to lay him. The Conserva tives will show Sir Robert. Peel that there is also a compact between him and them" (alluding to the woe made by INIr. Bradshaw of the allegation that the Queen had violated the contract with her people), "and that, Who violates that compact, he must prepare. to abdicate. They will force him to go the whole hog with them. Reluctantly he may yield to the pre‘sstire but he will plainly be given to understand that he hoe no business to be at their head, if he is not prepared to embark in the career of persecution, and bloodshed which they have chalked out." By the cowardly (we use the word politically, not personally) course which he has adopted, Sir Robert Peel has laid himself open to the just reproaches of the Orangemen. To address a letter, characterised by a low cunning, to the Observer, not denying in substance that he would cast off the Orange men when his purpose was served, but that he had authorised any one to state that such were his views, was calculated to deceive those who were not thoroughly acquainted with him, into a belief that he would not be found wanting at the proper time, if the zealous only did their duty. This is not the course which a magna nimous or ordinarily honest statesmen would have pursued at such a time. Such a statesman, con ceiving it his duty at all times to proclaim his opi nions boldly to the world, would have more partcu- I VENING EDITION. larly felt it his duty to do so, when the peace of the empire was in danger from the bad passions excited by the stream of invective against the Crithhiies which had been so long suffered to flow. Sie4l:4ol 'ought to have said, " I claim no power or —4nB! of any class of British subjects ; I cannot p vagant opinions with regard to Irish (.> being entertained and expressed ; but I coantry, at the head of the councils of whic placed, and to my own honour and repute boldly and explicitly, what my own sentim you are dissatisfied with my moderation. you may re pose confidence in others, who are disposed' to proceed to extremities against the Catholics ; but I warn you that if I am elevated to power, the Emancipation Act shall be executed fairly and honestly." If 'Sit Robert had held this language, the most fiery bigots of his party would have esteemed him the more for it. As it is, we charge him with indirectly encouraging the crusades which hare taken place throughout the length and breadth of the land ; and the actors an.l audiences in these exhibitions will charge him with treachery—with betraying their cause. We charge him with preserving an interested silence, while dangerous principles were broached, for the sake of obtaining a paltry party advantage at the time of the registration ; and they will charge him with a want of courage to tell them how far they could calculate on his co-operation in the hostility on which they were embarking against one-third part of the population of the United Kingdoms. But we must leave it to Sir Robert to satisfy the enthusiasts at the great Pro testant meeting which has been convened for the Bth January at Dublin, that he has acted with honesty ..and propriety towards them. In the meantime, his partizans of the Daily Press are sadly perplemed by his pusillanimity. The Times has lost an inexhaosti hie subject for invective,—Popery and the destruction of the Established Church by the introduction of three Roman Catholics into the Privy Council—this topic has supplied materials for many a heavy column of abuse in the Times. But now that Sir Robert Peel has thought fit to back out of the fray and leave his adhe rents in the lurch, aad Popery is no longer to be the theme of themes with them, new ground must be broken. The Standard had not a word yesterday about Popish idolatry. The Times, in its straits, has been obliged to hash up some of its old dishes on the subject of Lord Normariby's Irish Administration. To be sure, the minutes of evidence taken by the Lords' Committee may at any time be resorted to for a piice de resistance. The Morning Post betakes itself to expostulation with the Irish, and tells them, if they will only be good boys, they will get what is reasonable. " Let the Irish, or any one, show," quoth our fashionable Contemporary, " that an injustice is done them, or proposed to be done, and they nave a right to be listened to, while they express themselves in terms of decent respect." All that is necessary is, that Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Sheil put themselves in training in some fashionable seminary, that, in asserting the claims of their countrymen, " they may breathe their murmurs low," and do no violence to good breeding. All these indications augur ill for a campaign which was at once to drive Ministers from their seats. Instead of the ardour necessary for such an onslaught, to obtain for it even the faintest chance of success, all is doubt and discouragement. Sir Robert Peel has told them, at the very time when they were about to sound their clarions and advance in order of battle, to unfurl their banners, for he has no heart to lead them. They mu;t cast about without loss of time for some fresh grievance ; though they have hardly time to work the nation properly during the short interval between this and the meeting of Parliament. Foreign affairs hold out little hopes to them. The campaign in Affghanistan has been most provokingly successful. Our Indian empire is more secure than it has long been. Russia has not yet been suffered to take possession of Constantinople ; and Mehemet Ali has not been suffered to dismember Turkey. What is to be done ? For it must always be borne in mind that, with so slippery a gentleman as Sir Robert Peel, a quarrel in which he may engage without imprudence must be formed. The abandon ment of the No Popery war at this juncture is a heavy discouragement to the Tories. (From the Morning Advertiser.) It. is not in the language of exaggeration, but in the painful conviction of a certainty, we affirm that, with out the repeal of the Corn-laws, or the intervention of a miracle more extraordinary than any already achieved by the mechanical genius and industry of the country, f rent Britain will never be able to maintain her posi tion amongst nations. Hitherto the power of machinery and steam—more than equal to the sum total of the manual power of the whole population of the British ieles—has enabled the skill, capital, and industry of the country to sustain, even under the Corn-law prea sure, a competition with States more favourably cir cumstanced ; but while the exorbitant price of food has manacled British manufacture, it has af forded encouragement to the efforts and enterprise of other nations, and thus not only by their own energies are those nations excluding us from foreign marts of manufactures, but British skill and capital, rushing to the most favourable field of action, like water to its level, are pouring through foreign lands those fertilising streams which would otherwise enrich their native soil. It is not by military force, but by commercial capacity and effort that nations must in future maintain their relative positions. So long as the individual aggrandisement of a despot constituted almost the sole object to which the efforts of a people were destined to' be addressed, States might achieve superiority by war and conquest. But the multitudes are now beginning to form a more correct appreciation of their interests. Nations feel that there is a wiser and more certain way of advancing their own prosperity than by cutting their neighbours', throats. War has, by repeated experience, even in its success, unless when undertaken to repel aggression, been demonstrated to be injurious to the general weal. in the present phase of civilised communi ties, it would he madness in any nation to dream of establishing for itself a supremacy by warlike agencies. Commerce is 'the grand lever by which States must maintain or ac complish their elevation, and to place this element of greatness under any restriction is as impolitic as to plaee handcuffs on an army as a preparative for battle. To the repeal of the Corn-laws, therefore, we earnestly re commend the popular effort to be now directed. It is ground on which no constitutional principle is in volved, and as such, is admirably fitted to concentrate the whole industrial classes. of the empire without ex citing any alarm amongst those nervous politicians, who regard even the correction of a self-evident abuse as a dangerous inroad on existing institutions. The absurdity of attempting the draw distinctions between the agri cultural and manufacturing interests in this question, we shall expose in a future article. (From the Mornin,a Herald.) For this d a y, a t l east , be politics forgotten Let this day, so pregnant with mightiest good to the great family of Christian man, be devoted to the interchange of charity, peace, and goodwill by all r. On this day we will permit Lord Melbourne to eat his pud ding in quiet--Normanby shall coquet with his mince pie unmolested—yea, Daniel O'Connell himself play at snap-dragon with the Pope, and no harm dune. To day we will not tread the " burning marl " of politics, but give ourselves to the genial spirit of the time, pausing from the daily warfare of party to celebrate the festival made sacred to the dearest hopes and holiest aspirations of millions of the human race. We will forget ribands, orange and green, in the holly and the misletoc. Christmas brings, indeed, its special enjoyments. To the rich, it should be a most grateful season, for it affords to them an opportunity of marking their thankfulnes to Providence by the charity they themselves exercise towards their lcss,happy fellow men. On this day, the man of many thouv.nds may profitably forget the worldly distinctions that." hedge him" round for the rest of the twelvemonth, in his practical sympathy for want and wretchedness. On this day, above all others, he should reflect, if Pro vidence have made him the possessor of earth's goods, that he holds a part of them but as steward for , those to whom are denied, it may be, the meanest necessaries of life. On this day, he should remember, earth was sanctified by the Advent of Wisdom, Love, Charity, Benevolence, Meekness,---sent from God himself— to ; be a Preacher and a Pattern to the lowliest of m en. Hence, we would ask the rich man, seated at his dozen courses to-day—Have you given any of the poor a din ner ? Are you sure that there are hearths burning the brighter for your bounty ? Faces, to which smiles are not common guests, lightened with at least a passing gladness ? Have you made common cause with human nature, in its lowest necessities, and shaken some of ` the lowly your " superflux" to want ? Have you taught and the ignorant the holy purpose of this day, by the awakened and active sympathi es o f the rich man towards the poor ? Have you impressed upon them your 011 , 11 Mill . in the Divine origin of Christian charity, by your obedience to its precepts? If you have done this, why, "eat, drink, and be merry." If not—if. forgetful, reck less, of the be n i gn d ut i es of the season, no poor man gathers a ci u tr ,' A f rom your table—no fireside is made warmer by you r b ount y —no face the happ i er b y your care ; you wilt indeed keep a Christmas—that is, a poulterer's Christmas—a butcher's Eihristmas--e wine -merchant's Christmas —but not 'the Christ mas of the Christian, not the Christmas demantied. Providence from the rich to the poor. This day should yield some hour of s elf-examination to all men ; tro hour to he made golden by its fruits. How many, on this day, might be the better, were they to ask theriselves,— if no man suffered from their injustice ? If, with a petty and perverse tyranny, thoy did not persect A te some small offender ; or it may be, some one wholly innocent.? 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