The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-21 00:00:00

SPlit!..T OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. . A Correspondent suggests that means should be " taltea to diffuse as extensively as possible throughout the 'aation the astounding fact, communicated in the Tir.ecs of Saturday last, that the people of England are indebted to that paper for " Roman Catholic Emancipation, the relief of Dissenters from obnoxious tests, Reform of Parliament, the correction of ecclesi astical abuses, and the effectual permanent commuta tion of tithes ; 7 ' and as not one of these measures would , Dave passed " had the Times been one (if its oppo• nests," he recommends that meetings for the purpose of expressing their deep sense of gratitude to that Journal for its forbearance should be universally held. We have all escaped a great danger of which few o f us were probably aware. If civil and religious liberty b e the greatest of blessings, we no doubt are indebted for that blessing to the Times—but then we might also be now Ivithout it if it had so pleased our Morning Con temporary. A mine might at any time have been sprung beneath us, and the stoutest heart must .quail at the thought of what might have become of us had the Times chosen to apply the match. With unparalleled generosity the Thaw/o'er delayed its alliance with the Conservatives till the Reform cause was out of danger. During the critical period when praise of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Lynd hurst might have Iceen fatal to liberty, the Times showered down a copious stream 'of abuse on their heads ; and now, when praise is thrown away on them, they arc overwhelmed with it. Still there is some thing mysterious in this avowal of the Times, espe cially as we are told " truth, not wanton arrogance," dictated it. It must appear to many somewhat odd that it should seek to ingratiate itself with the Duke, Sir Robert, and the alien Leader of the Peers, by tell ing them that they owe their present sorry plight to its power of moving the people of England at will. This is some such consolation as would be offered to a farmer 'whose stacks had been consumed by Swing, were a man coolly to inform him that it was in his power to have prevented the mischief had he chosen. The Conservative leaders may well exclaim on learning from the Times what it could have done, but did not do— " Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours, We might have met them dareful beard to beard, And beat them backward home." But may there not be more in this announcement than meets the ear ? It has been observed by Humc that, when a Government is overturned, the successful party, having more power than that which it succeeded is more formidable to liberty. The Times, perhaps, means to proclaim to the Conservative leaders that as it defeated the Tories in 1832, it has now more power than they possessed before that defeat, and if they only come down handsomely, it will exert it for the destruc tion of our liberty. The Times, we know, dictated the political opinions of three-fourths of the people of England. Is the Times less powerful now than 'it was ? Certainly not. Sir Robert, and the Duke, and Lord Lyndhurst are left in the lurch, because the Times chooses to leave them in the lurch. The devil does not help those who enter into a contact with him 111 they perform their part. The Reformers must not halloo, then, till they are out of the wood. The power which could have prevented the passing of the Reform Bill may any day destroy it. The people should reflect on what the Times told them, that they were only Reformers because it chose to make them so. It might have made them any thing vise just as easily. There is a fell' band of magicians in Printing-house-square. That place must be well watched. It was the cradle of the' liberties of the people of England ; it may be their grave. The Con servatives, however, must not place their hopes in ma jorities in the House of Lords, but in the Times. When the Duke of Wellington was fool enough to imagine that he could defeat Reform by th e Peers, the Times told him (March 30, 1832) " It is impossible for the Duke, or for any man in his right senses, to fancy that the introduction of a solid reform into our institutions can depend upon the miserable- chance of a majority or minority in the House of Lords. Ask where is the Reform Question ? What space does it occupy ? By -what power is it sustained ? Aud by what force sent onwards ? Why, every schoolboy will inform his Grace that it exists not within Saint Stephen's Chapel, or the tapestried Chamberthat it is not confined by the walls of the old Palace of Westminster, nor will it be governed merely by what passes there—that it is not buoyed up or dragged forwards by 360 Members of the House of Commons, nor will it be sunk by the pressure, nor driven from its course by the adverse breath, of 199 lay and mitred Lords. It is everywhere—in every cot tage, in every shop, on the mountain, in the dell, in the village, the factory, the city ; in the breast of every Eng lishman, Scotchman, Irishman ; that it spreads over, per • vades, inflames, propels the whole community ; that it forms the atmosphere, and the food, nod the lifeblood of Britain ; that he who destroys the ration, and he alone, can rob us of a full, effective, and permanent reform of the constitution of Parliament." But who put Reform into all these mountains, dells, villages, and cities ? Who made it pervade, inflame, and propel the whole community ? The Times. Were the sun to withdraw its face from us the earth would be a dull inert - mass. Had the Times and the Duke been then on a good understanding with each other, the people of England might have been de livered over, bound neck and heels, to the Tories. The House of Commons, the Palace, and its inhabitants, were nothing, for the Times breathed Reform into the people. Wondrous power I Stupid Duke, not to understand the force of it ! " Well, my. Lord Duke, and what ,of revolution ?" was the bold and Spirit-stirring language of our Contemporary. " The overthrow of episcopacy was a revolution in Scot land ; yet the nation willed it, .2.nd in spite of the abusive epithet revolution' the sound frightened no body." . . . . " We tell his Grace, and his crotchety ally, Lord Carnarvon, and his somewhat zlippeiv friends the Bishops, that the people will have this reform, the value of which consists in its extensive, that is what the Tories call its revolutionary, character. But the people desire that it should be a revolution without victims, if Noble Lords will permit." The people desired, that is, the Times desired, to have a revolution, and, at a word from the People-Times, the Bishops would have dangled beautifully from lamp posts, and the brickbats and bludgeons would have soon made very pretty victims of the Peers. We can almost conceive that the man who never blanched at the' sight of the hosts of Napoleon must read with something like horror this announcement of enormous power. However, they who make bargains with the evil spirit must abide the consequences. If the great ally of the Tories can crush us, it can also crush them. We all exist by sufferance.—Morning Chronicle. It is difficut to say whether Sir Robert Pees ac ceptance of the proposed Glasgow dinnerinb,oi.ru..g.hhis, re spectful and reluctant refusal of the Ed affords the better illustration of his admil7 : o l e taste and judgment. In both of these decisio , :,s the Right Hon. Baronet has evinced unquestio!:.ahly a sound and di,... niiied discretion : nor have lye a doubt that, while his presence at a festival 'ledicated to his honour by the Conservatives of thq West of Scotland, will be pro perly apprcciatoL both as a testimony of their con fidence in Sir Robert's political principles,-and as a public ratification of the recent choice of their sons who selected him to the Lord Itectorship of their renowned University, our countrymen will rightly value, on.the other hand, that elevation tit character whereby, declining without disparaging another equally flattering invitation, not immediately iden tihed with his sole object in visiting Scotland, this distinguished statesman has put himself into an ad vantageous contrast with your Whig... Radical dinner humus, whose civil way of iiiddirin• themselves to a feast by " having s;.r niFcrl ,neir intention to be at their Pallia;nentary stewardship," has almost always fondled into existence those stewardships of a different sort, which are essential to the organization of parties In such House,z, of Commons as " the Golden Fleece" or " the CA Boar," especially in purveying the ne cessary rounds of applause and beef usually deside- Mita therein—the former rounds being yours at any price yon choose, and the latter at two and sixpence ft head. Whereon we may observe parenthetically, that, as retards public indifference about seats in these Houses of Whig-Radical Commons, there has been of late, among most of their former Members, a pretty general acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds. But, to return from this digression, we frankly own that 'the anticipated Glasgow fest:yid is not more creditable to Sir Robert Peel than likely, if conducted with ordi.. nary judgment, to confer important benefits upon the Conservative cause. Inferior to London only iu And population, Glascrow, A . is second to nom in Ile erre L 4e lit l i voinf and influence. With an immense inass of ithabita.!'!t3, who for the most - pint are educated, reflecting, practical, and religious, 'theft) is perhaps scarcely any community that exerts a more commanding i4vt; ti th large eircumjaccnt territory, or at Wilt ttig'h with more sobriety of judgment 'any tst'atements which may be made to them. We observe, that nearly 3,000 torrit; have already intimated their intention IA; lie present at this great public demonstrfttiVii ; and as some previous knowledge of their general sentiments on political sub jects may ,tlmw, the country not only the extreme insig nificance of the points on which encellent men Are 'Oc casionally divided, but the chief grounds *whereon so large a number are likely to unite in this magnificent tribute, we lay before our ro.derS the following short analysis, which approximates as near to we chilli:, as circumstances admit of. Conservative as the approaching festival will undoubtedly be, it were a. mistake to suppose shat all who mean to attend it are Tories, or even favourable to the refutto principles of the Conservative party. There will be present, we doubt not, certain bitter enemies of our existing In stitutions. in Church and State, who being willing and interested accessories to the O'Connell conspiracy against both, arc only desirous to convict Sir Ro bert Peel of pleading for their improvement and their permanence. Others, apprehensive that the Right Hon. Baronet may possibly propound sounder and sincerer views of reform than they can endure to give him credit for, will go to the banquet, if for no other purpose than to get that equivocal quietus for their fears which consists in their " knowing the worst." With not a few, the feeling of mere curiosity will, for the time at least, het the better of their languid libe- ralism ; and these, in common with some who may be • otherwise neutral, will come to the dinner rather to see and hear the distinguished guest than to give their senction to those views of state policy which they may probably. expect he will develope and defend. Now, allowing that at least 2,000 of the expected company are decided Conservatives, we have good reason to believe that the greater number of the remaining 1,000 will consist chiefly of the curious arid the neutral, who are in a highly promising transition-state towards Conservative Reform, or at least maintain, in conjunc tion with reform biasses, the great Conservative prin ciple of church preservation our belief of this being founded on various recent indications in connection with the fact, alike indisputable and anomalous, that by far the larger proportion of the Glasgow voters who returned Mr. Oswald and Lord William Bentinek are members or professed supporters of the established • church of Scotland. Connected, however, with the reform predilections of the transition-party, - whose sentiments arc concurred in by many thousands, who, though not able to be present at the festival, will doubtless be swayed in one direction or another by its proceedings, we may mention further (what, indeed, is universal among ourselves), that even the stanchest Conservatives of Scotland are decidedly favourable to such a thorough and wise amendment of our national institutions in cases of incontrovertible need, as, by removing accidental or inherent evils r may promote their usefulness and - stability : and as the Church question, with its municipal ramifications, constitutes, even perhaps to a greater extent than with us, the principal bond of union among the Scottish Conservatives, so, being habituated to an extremely simple, economical, un secular, and efficient church establishment, allowing of neither pluralities, nor curates, nor non-residence, nor disparity of clerical rank, nor state' interference of any kind in her purely spiritual concerns, whereon she is constitutionally her own supreme and independent le gislator, there can be no question that these popular peculiarities dispose our Scotch friends to conceive that the churches of Ireland and England may demand in several respects those steady, practical improvements, which, with a pardonable nationality, theirown Presby terian establishment, they think, does not so urgently require. In short, the northern Constitutionalists, though possessing the good sense which knows how to make all prudent allowances for the danger and diffi culty of introducing even plausible speculative experi ments into institutions identified with the higher inte rests of men, as well as intertwined with their hearts and habits, are nevertheless at one with the English Conservatives in support of sober and rational reform ; and it is just because they have perfect confidence not only in Sir Robert Peel's accordance with these views, but in his pre-eminent qualifications to carry them into area, that they arc about to hail and honour the Right Hon. Baronet's visit to Scotland with such a splendid and enthusiastic welcome. From the state of feeling prevalent at present among ths serious and intelligent people of that country, we arc quite sure that the approaching fes tival will be productive of incalculable good. According, to a Scotch newspaper we learn that the spurious liberal ism of the Whig-Radical Archbishop of Dublin, as ex emplified in his recent-endeavours to support the O'Con nell Government by persecuting converted Catholic priests, and putting an interdict on sermons against Popery and Socianism, is viewed by religious persons of all parties in Edinburgh with unqualified disgust— a sentiment this which cannot fail to be applied with at least equal force to the Popish Government leader in Ireland, whose favourite time for haranguing his Trades' Unions is "on &Way after mass." Al ready, too, the testimony of Feargus O'Connor is Working its inevitable elect wrong the Scotch Radi cals, who, as we learn from a recent Glasgow print, are flinging O'Connell, as they ought to do, to the dogs. These symptoms, with many others that might be adverted to, are of the most encouraging kind ; and if Sir Robert Peel failin giving the Conservative cause a complete and permanent ascendancy in the West of Scotland, it will be only because the partial accommo dation which the most spacious structure can afford must necessarily exclude immense multitudes from wit nessing his earnest and manly bearing, and from hear ing his lucid and powerful advocacy of the common interests of the empire.— Times. We observe, with much concern, that some of the journals, especially the weekly ones, professing to be the most cordial among the various advocates of Re form, arc again labouring, with all their might, to di, vide the friends of the people. It is true that avow edly their object is to strengthen the union which has heretofore existed among the Reformers. But what avail their professions and protestations, when the in evitable tendency of the course they arc pursuing is to detach the friends of Reform from each other? That is the direct way again to consign over the people of E . neland to. the tender mercies of oligarchical faction. The alleged ground of quarrel which these journals have with the Melbourne Ministry—a Ministry, be it observed, they have heretofore most lavishly praised— is, that they do not mean to make the ballot an open question. On what foundation, we should like to know, does the assumption rest, that the ballot is ran to be an open question? There is not, so far as we are aware, .even the shadow of a. foundation for such an assumption. The Ministry, in their collective capacity, have made no declaration adverse to the ballot's being an °Pm question ; neither has any member of that Mi nistry, in his individual capacity. Is it not, then, a most preposterous course for any liberal journal to adopt, first, to make an assumption altogether unsup ported by fact, and then proceed to attack the Go vernment, as if the offence with which it is charged were as notorious as its own existence ?- So far from the conclusions to which so many of our Contem poraries have leaped with such wonderful haste, being justified by anything which has yet transpired in the Cabinet,. we can state most positively that that Ca binet have not yet come to any decision on the subject. It is therefore, we repeat, equally unrea sona bl e an d uns to generous to make an assumption altogether unsup ported by fact, which has a tendencyexcite preju dice against the Ministry, and then to abuse a and at tack that Ministry on the assumption, just as if the fact had been officially proclaimed. The proper course for the - Reformers to adopt, under existing circum stances, would doubtless be to wait patiently until Par liament again meet, when the views and intentions of Ministers will be ascertained. That will require no great exercise of patience. Parliament Will meet in little more than five weeks. If it should then be found that Ministers do not evince a disposition to make the requisite concessions to the popular demands—if it . should be found that they shrink from acting with the decision and energy which the existing crisis TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, PriCENIgEII 21, tS:IG. requires-61ess sufficient reasons can be given fdr ptistponing important measures —then, we thi - fl journal has 'sh'el the wirae tides without eneleer be forie---then;;;'e say, let the ReierinerS. conititire toge ther to cease that Ministry to make wti . ,e know What the PS-e:4o:t ri'nictUre demands, 'and arc pre pared te, Viialte the reqiusite concessions. we re peat what we haVe Ofte'n said befo'r.cl ;titWid . ! ; .; diet Lord Melbourne ine peculiar position in whieh tits'',.ate of parties has placed the country, and that he possesses the.decisiOn of character' to act in a mintier becoming the occasion. It is bet right. et any rate, that lie should have a fait icial. We may be told he l'as had t.hih 'already. He has had no sneh thing ha situation of the country at this moment is, owing to the daring. and desperate cOnalnet Of' the Lords last Session, difrerent what it ever was before. It rel - pion therefore, to be seen whether with these his circumstances he is not , prepared to alter nis course of policy—whether he is not prepared with the aggeavatol tlini:!lise to employ a corresponding powerful reinetly. • We repeat our firm conviction ) that the No -1 ble Lord is fully prepared for this.— Morn. Advertiser. The Briti , eh tfiercenaries at St. Sebastian are repre : seuttd as having at length received from the Govern ment of Madrid, not their arrears of pay, but promises of payment of those arreers at some distant and indefi nite ;Aerial. if they think proper to be satisfied with wishes, hopes, and promises, " the currency of idiots," instead of solid caah, every body else ought to be con tent. They ought surely to know the value of Spanish promises by this time, and if they accept them as good security for their arrears, their heretic faith, since they went to the dominions of her Catholic Majesty, must have become strongly tinctured with a belief in the mi raculous. To be sure, there is a large sprinkling of the Irish there, who must not be confounded with the here tic auxiliaries of England and Caledonia. Those Irish, if we may credit O'Connell, require no arrears- of pay, nor, indeed, require any pay at all, for in illustrating his generous theory of the advantages of habitual starva tion to his destitute countrymen, he exultingly ex claimed, to the great delight of his audience in the Inti midation SOciety the other day, " Look to the legion in Spain where Irishmen, while the Englishmen and Scotchmen were dying of hunger, were playing at leap frog." He seems to estimate the soldierly qualities of the men of England at as low a rate as he had previ ously valued the chastity of the women. But what an inestimable acquisition to the Spanish Government would be an army entirely composed of those Irish " leap-frog boys," who would jump the more the less pay they got, and become merrier and more active under the process of starvation. But why have not the " leap-frog boys" jumped over two entrenchments, within which the Englishmen and Scotchmen are glad to esconce themselves, and given the handful of Carlists who dare to blockade them there a regular Tipperary threshing ? Why do they only " leap" within stone walls, while the enemy are waiting for them .without ? As to their spirit of fun and frolic, if it has really.im proved by privation, they arc likely to be put in a better condition for Christmas gambols than any other people on the face of the earth, with the exception of O'Connell's famishing countrymen at home, for whom he deprecetes all legal provision, lest, we sup pose, they should lose their frog-like activity, and sink from the beautiful independence and frolicsome viva city of utter wretchedness into the - dullness of com fort and the stupid contentment of repletion. Con currently, however, with the enlivening intelligence of the promising result of Brigadier Godfrey's mission to Madrid, which, at least, to the English and Scottish troops at St. Sebastian, must open an agreeable pros pect of the future, if they can only contrive to live on until it be realised, there is a statement in a French paper, the Messager, which throws a new light upon the " non-intervention" system at St. Sebastian. The French paper states that the British Ambassador, M. Villiers, has concluded with the Spanish Government a convention in two articles, in addition to the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance, by the first of which the British Government takes upon itself to clothe, feed, and pay an English Legion of 10,000 men, and by the second insures to the Madrid Government, until Don Carlos shall be expelled from Spain, a monthly subsidy of 1,000,000 francs, or 40,0001., to be increased to 60,0001. from the Ist of next Feb ruary, if Parliament gives its assent to the arrange ment. The convention, as to the legion of 10,000 men, it is said, is to be executed without delay. It is added, that a secret article exists, by which Eng land has reserved to itself the right to keep a garrison at St. Sebastian until the whole of the sums due, by virtue of the new convention, shall haVe been repaid ; which, we suspect, will be on or about doomsday. Now, if there be any truth in this account of additional articles to the treaty of the quadruple alliance, and the obligations which those articles throw upon England ; if the whole statement be not a mere bubble, like a multitude of other inventions during this Spanish con flict, to produce a temporary effect upon Spanish funds ; then, indeed, our Government has, at last, summoned "courage enough to creep out of the snail's shell of piti ful " co-operation," and to put out the horns of direct intervention. Whether a tap from any of the Northern Powers will make them draw them in again, we cannot say ; but this is quite ccrtain, that if our Government send an army, which is openly and avowedly a British army, into Spain, it must be prepared to :tin the risk of a European war-and for what British object? None whatever. England, whether'lsabella or Don Carlos sits on the - throne of Spain, will still be the heretic and hated England. Look at the bitter fruits which our British merchants gather front the policy of Whig inter meddling in the domestic disputes of Portugal. Will Spain be more grateful ? The experience of - all history answers in the negative. Does any generous sympa thy with free principles animate our Government in rushing into the internal disputes of Spain, at the ex pense of an enormous annual sum to the British na tion ?, Can the Ministry that abandoned and betrayed the Poles, whose independence we were bound by treaty to maintain—whose cause was so righteous— whose efforts for liberty were so unstained with crime —can that Ministry, we ask, be stimulated by any generous motive in plunging this country into the ex pensive obligations, and perhaps inextricable difficul-- ties of direct intervention in the national quarrels of the Spaniards, where libeialism is only another name for the most ferocious and blood-thirsty licentiousness, and where revolution, fraud, cupidity, and cruelty, have gone hand in hand ? No, such a Goveinment can only be actuated by motives as discreditable as their policy is dangerous and absurd. What those motives arc we do not pretend to divine, but if Par liament sanctions this convention, and allows the pub lic money CO be thus squandered upon foreigners, while our poor are kept upon a starvation subsistence at home, the sooner the highest authority in the realm puts an end to its existence the better. Is it possible that such a project can seriously be entertained by the peace and retrenchment Ministry ? What ! having thrown an enormous stun already, taken out of the pockets of the overtaxed people of this country, into the all devouring gulph of Spanish polities, is our retrenchment Ministry about to settle an annuity of 750,0001. a year upon the sanguinary and dishonest while they are pinehinee the Government of Madrid, diet . of the ,helpless poor at home down to a famine allowance, on the plea of a necessary economy ? A s t o keeping Si. Sebastian as a security, we have suspected from what has been going on there for some time past, that such an intention was entertained in Downing street ; but we supposed it was to be a. pledge for the repayment of past advances to the Spanish Government, not a security for future sums of good money thrown after bad. How will France take this, o see another English in Spain, close t o h er Gibraltar created by the frontiers ? Even in that respect are we not sowing at St. Sebastian the seeds of a future war ? What busi ness have with the internal disputes of the Spaniards, any more than they could have in the'domestic quar rels of England ? Supposing Russians or French men chose to pay us a visit, to settle our national question of Reform, would not all parties, however hostile to each other, join to chase them back again as insolent intruders ; and yet Russians and Frenchmen would have just as much right to interfere in our .do mestic politics, as we have to intermeddle in the con flict now going on in Spain, to decide who has the best title to the Spanish. throne. Liberals say the " will of the nation ought to prevail ;" so say we ; but we also say that the will of the nation can only be ascer tained by all foreigners withdrawing from the contest. \VhateYei Om; CAN for the did df foreign bayonets, li the naftv dig is stipported !ly the »a , t 4 The dr.hir recently tie Cdu: t ot • I .„4 land 'OOl.O into in-yarning fair his late Majesty' King Charttsi X. F rd i v " r `;` ,„ .; • I . more wsenssioa 'wittiest esreics than geneissy low an official announcement of a character merely ceremonial. Thus it is that, when persons of frivo lous minds are invested with hish authority, circums \vtd`lldlie ftspfded tn:)ortant, are supposed td have soled interesting in r, ltiticiii td pdhliti affairs: It Was on the 16th of NoVenibef that we innionlidad to the British Emlilie the intelligence of the demise of the late king of France. It was on the 16th of December, or ex actly one Month artehvards that the Lord Clianfocr lain, acting, as in such eases lutist always act, thi , tier the instructions of the Secretary of State for the Foreign Depattilienti tssited tits circler fot the British Court to go into mourning for ten days on the imiati. eholy occasion. In other words the British Court was ordered to put on mourning about a fortnight after the period at which, according to the ordinary sequence of such proceedings, it should have been taking its mourning off. A course so extraordinary has na turally excited some curiosity, and, although we con fess ourselves unable to solve the mystery, we think it right to lay before our readers some of the more plausible of the varions.rumours and.conjectures which we have heard upon the subject. Some persons in sist that Lord Palmerston put the official letter which announced to him the death of Charles X. into the . pocket of a light claret-eoloured coat, with pearl buttons, and thus forgot the intelligence altogether, until about a fortnight afterwards, when he wore the same dress at a juvenile party at Pansanger, and having waltzed for three minutes with a young lady, and being by this exertion considerably exhausted, he threw the document, along with his pocket-handkerchief, from its lurking place—that it fell on the floor—was presented to his Lordship by his fair partner—and that in this way the matter was recalled to his Lordship's recollection. The rumour, as we have repeated it, is verycircum stantial, and it is thought to be the more deserving of credit that this would not be the first time of an accident of nearly a similar kind having occurred to an official dispatch, under the present Administration. There are persons, however, who confidently assert that this story is wholly untrue, and that it has been sent abroad by some friends of the Administration, in order to veil the real circumstances of the case, which these persons affirm to be that Lord Palmerston, im mediately on the receipt of the melancholy intelligence, set on foot a negociation with the .. Court of the Tui leries for the purpose of obtaining the consent and permission of the King of the French, r that the Court of the Sovereign of Great Britain should wear mourning for the deceased Monarch. It is added that some of the Noble Lord's colleagues are most anxious that all mention of the asserted nego ciation should be suppressed, lest. that portion of the British people, who entertain extravagant anti obso lete notions of national dignity, should deem it humi liating and degrading, but that the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs does not personally participate in this feeling, but is, on the contrary, rather desirous that the public should be made acquainted with the fact, that he has conducted one negociation to a suc cessful issue. Another, and an cppotite, explanation of the delay, given by persons not usually ill-informed upon diplomatic subjects, is, that the King of the French having of late shown himself somewhat defi cient in the energy and zeal necessary to carry into execution the joint projects of the Governments of Great Britain and France, with respect to the nations of the Peninsula, Lord Palmerston thought the opportunity too good to be lost, of - stimulat ing, by the threat of a Court mourning for Charles the Tenth, the languid efforts of our ally, and of fixing the wavering and ambiguous course of his foreign policy. Should this turn out to be the fact, Lord Palmerston, although his coup has not been successful; will acquire nevertheless the reputation of a statesman eminently skilled in the adaptation of his means to his ends, and richly endowed with the quali ties of promptitude and vigour to seize and improve the advantages which time and fortune throw into his hands. We must own, however, that—for our own part—we have considerable doubt of the correct • ness of this version of the affair ; for we think it un likely that his Lordship could have taken so masterly a view of his position, and discharged the duties it exacted with so much diligence, talent, and zeal, without receiving the customary offering of just pa negyric from our Contemporary of the Globe. A fourth version of the matter, very current in society, is, that--.—since the death of Charles X.; Lord Pal merston has received communications from the Court of the Tuileries, throwing, not merely cold.. water —for this it is ~,known to have been constantly doing for many months .back—but huge mountains of ice, upon the Noble Lord's pet scheme of Peninsular policy ; and that in a fit of vexation, his - Lordship issued his directions to the Lord Chamberlain. This explanation acquires plausibility, at least, from the fact, which we believe to be undeniable, that for the first fortnight or three weeks after . the arrival of the melancholy tidings, Lord Pahnerston attempted, wherever he went, to throw ridicule upon the notion that any testimony of respect to the memory of the deceased Sovereign should be paid by the British Court, bound by the closest ties of alliance, as it then pleased the -Noble Lord to say the British Court was, to the King of the French. One other explana tion we have heard, and we will give it to our readers, because, without professing to know the facts, we think this explanation sounds, at least, quite as much like truth as any of the rest. It is said, then, - that his Majesty, whom all will admit to have a finer and more correct sense of what it befits the King and the Court of England to do upon any occasion, determined, from the first, that he .and his Court would, upon this occasion, show that mark of respect which decency and custom prescribe, to the memory of departed royalty. The will of their Royal Master was, it is stated, pertinaciously opposed by Ministers,' until they found that it would be imprudent on their part to urge the irreverent) and unbecoming contest to extremities. It is thus that in some quarters a lapse of time, quite unprecedented, we believe, on any former occasion of the same nature, is accounted -for.—Morning Post. About half-past twelve o'clock on Monday a terrific explosion, which was occasioned by some defect in the gas pipes, and. the gas escaping in the extensive ware house of Messrs. Fuller and Co., button manufacturers, Wood-street, Cheapside, took place, and property de stroyed to a considerable amount. A female in the ser vice of the above persons was severely. burnt about the hands, the neck, and. head, by the explosion, and is now lying at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A person digging in the neighbourhood of St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, during the last week, disco vered a very antique circular silver box, a silver spoon, a number of silver clasps, a massive silver - ring, supposed to have been worn on 'the finger as a charm, or cure for diseases, and several ancient gold an d s il ver co i ns . Th e silver box', which is of.the 'rudest workmanship, about two inches in diameter, and appears to have been gilt ; on the bottom is engraved, in the roughest manner, a representa tion of the crucifixion ; and the limb is covered with a rude etching of a lamb, holding a standard. There is little doubt it has contained some valuable relic which has probably mouldered into dust ; and that it has been worn round the neck of its possessor, as there is a provision for expending it, like a locket. The spoon is jointed in the handle, so as to fold up to put in the pocket ; the slide which passes over' the joint to fix the handle, represents a bishop's mitre, and it is supposed to have been used by the priest, either in anointing with oil, ,or administering extreme unction. Among the coins are a silver penny of Edward 1., a groat of Edward 111., which, as Calais is included in the inscrip tion, has probably been struck soon after the capture of that place in 1346-47 ; an angel of Edward IV. ; a gold noble and a quarter-noble—all in fine preservation ; and a gold German jetton. From the various dates of the coins, it is evident they have been hoarded as curiosities ; and they have probably been buried with the body of their possessor. —null Observer. Monday. night Mr. Harper, the celebrated performer on the trumpet, gave a concert at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate4street, under the immediate patronage of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress; and we feel pO-ratified in stating that this established public favourite had the sup port of a very large and. fashionable audience. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. -.... , 1 . Z:.=- Co.nnlission signed by the Let.(l Lieu:nll-it of th We ~ t Paine: Cie Couity of Yor _arid of the City a n d Cou , t.ty of the City. •• df York. ' South West Reinvent of Yi`O . :filtnrY C s ' Prow Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Watson, resigned, Dec. 14: DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. tjAila) 411413$14EWSi schoolmoter, Bervsford•strect worth. ELIZA BETii vletua l iort Airg , igehrlY. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLI AM VR A V F.N. palvi „ nia wifaeture r , H or ,f o rth i York lire 11ANKRUP1'S. • • 10(301,1), chcesemonguri NeYotatc-s't o ee •. ridrr I)cc. 30, at tWelfei arid Jan. 31, at eleven ' at the Court Hutchison, Crown.n 3 onrf , Threarineedle-street ; • iralluit„p'fic.6fritzsignee, THOMAS IkensertYictualler, West-street, Soho, Jan. 4, at twelve, and 31, at 611 e, Ott Ole court of Bankruptcy. Fry, Cheapside ; Graham, official asslpiee. iSRAEL ALEXANDER, h orse -dealcr,,Cliiristall- , street, Fins bury-scptalY, Peer 07 at one,. and Jan. 31, at twelve, tt the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, O iOial assignee ; Young, Marie-Aare, EDWIN BART lIROP, woolstdpler3 Wakefield, Yorkshire, tL (me; and :31, -at eleven ' at the gesicri? House, Leeds. Adlington, Oregeryr Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, Landon ; • Sewell, Chatteris, Cambridge j Taylor, Wakefield. JOHN RICHARDSON, carportcf, Watling, Norfolk, Dee. 2d, atitl Jet.' 31, at eleven, at. the Globe Inn, Icin : 4's Lynn, Nor folk. Smetham, King's Lynn ; Milne, Parry, Milne, tttid Morris, Harcourt-buildings,'Tempre, London. • JOHN TURNER, cotton-manufacturer, Heywood, Lancashire, Jan. 9, and 31, at twelve, at the Commissioners -rooms, Manches ter. J. and W. Heron, Manchester ; Johnson, Son, and Weather 7 all, Inner Temple, London. •••• • SAMUEL DUTSON; inn-keeper, Bury, Lancashire, Jan. 18 and 31, at ten, at the Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancahire. Chester,. : Staple's Inn, London';' Armstrong, Chapel Walks, Preston. JAMES CHARLES SMITH, upholsterer, Denmark Camberwell, Dec. 31, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 31, 'at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assignee ; Oliver, Cheapside. GEO. THOMASIFERRERS, bedding-mlnufacturer, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square, Dec. 30, at twelve, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assig nee, Basinghall-street ; 'Duff, Castle-street, Holborn. THOMAS WILLIAM CLARKE, innkeeper, Horricastle, Lin colnshire, Jan 2 and 31, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Spilsby. Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery-lane, London; Clithe row and Son, Horneastle. JOSEPH WOLLETT, merchant, Gould-square, London, Dec. 31, at half-past Twelve, and Jan. 31, at One, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-Lane, Cornhill, official assignee ; Drew, Bermondsey-street. • RICHARD GEORGE CLODE, wine-merchant, Birming ham, Jan. 10 and 31, at One, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Michael, Red Lion-square, London ; Griffiths, Bir. mingham. • WILLIAM CATTARAL, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and 21, at one, at the Clarendon Booms, Liverpool. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford-row, London; Lovindes and Robinson, Brunswick-street, Liverpool. RICHARD PRINCE and FERDINAND EICHMAN, stuff printers, Manchester,' Jan. 9 and 31, at eleven, at the Commis sioners' Rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Hulmc and Andrew, Manchester. ,N JAMES LEVICK, ivory-merchant, Sheffield, Dee. 23, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. ?Tatter shall, Great James-street , Bedford-row, London ; Wilson and Youege, and Palfrey - man and Bingley, Sheffield. WILLIAM HABT,.milliner, Cheltenham, Dec. 29, and Jan: 31, at four, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Bousfield, Guild , hall-buildings, London ;_ Winterbotham, Cheltenham. THOMAS STOCKDALE, soap-manufacturer, Liverpool, Dec. 30, and Jan. 31, at-one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Norris and Allen, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London ; Tool win, Park-lane, Liverpool. HENRY CHARD, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and 31, at eleven, 'at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford-row, London; Lowrides and Robin son, Brunswick-street, Liverpool. HENRY PEIRCE PERKINS, ironmonger, Enfield, Dec. 27 and Jan. 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, officio.' assignee ; Clarke and Tanqueray, Bishopsgate Church-yard. WILLIAM POLLARD, Printer, East Stonehouse, Devon. shire, Dec. 29, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal Hotel Devonport. Surr, Lombard 7 strect, London; Elworthy, Devon. port. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Miles, butcher, Aldbarn, Essex, Jan. 10, at twelve—J. Deeley, miller, Rawreth, Essex, Jan.. 12, at twelve—B. B. Bing, stationer, Fish-street-hill, Jan. 12, atone—G. Strutt, ironmonger, Iligh-street, Camberwell, Jan. 12, at two—R. llunter, bookseller, St. Paul's Churchyard, Jan. 10, at eleven—P. Astley, woollen warehouseman, Wood-street, Cheapside, Jan. 10, at twelve—R. Rogers, linen draper, Pitfield-street, Hoxton, Jan. 14, at half-past eleven—H. F. Foley, surgeon, Windsor, Berkshire, Jan. 11, at twelve—R. Jones, hoot maker, Whitechapel-road, Jan. 11, at one —T. Christmas, flour dealer, New Church-street, Lisson-grove, Jan. 10, at one—T. Pickford, rectifier, Whitechapel, Jan. 11, at two—T. Weedon, victualler, Southall, Middlesex, Jan. 10, at half past one—T. Herbert, haberdasher, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, Jan. 10, at one. In the Country. J. Noakes, hosier, Hinckley, Leicestershire, Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Bell Hotel, Leicester—W. Chawner, tea dealer, Hinckley, Leicestershire, Jan. 11, at one, at the Bell Hotel, Leicester—W. Reynolds, soap maker, Bristol, Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Commer cial-rooms, Corn-street, Bristol—J. Page, tailor, Birmingham, Jan. 13, at one, at the White Horse Inn, Congreve-street, Birm►ng ham--T. Stephens, malster, Chaxill, Gloucestershire, Jan. 16, at two, at the Lower George Inn, Gloucester—C. J. Berrie, grocer, Tamworth, Warwickshire, Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Lichfield—J. Lythgoe, cooper, Liverpool, Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—John Poets, tailor, Swan Bank, Jan 12, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—M. At kinson, money scrivener, Fulbeck, :Lincolnshire, Jan. 10, al eleven, at the Hotel, Newark-upon-Trent—G. Blenkin, merchant , Kingston-upon-Hull, Jan. 14, at eleven, at the George Inn, White friars-gate, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. Wilson, joiner, Manchester, Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—R. Cooper, jeweller, Bristol, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Commercial• rooms, Bristol—S. Cearns, grocer, Liverpool, Jan. 17, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES—JAN. 10. J. Ablitt, haberdasher, Silver-street, Wood-street—E. Scott, grocer, Great Yarmouth—P. F. Laporte, bookseller, Haymarket T. Whytall, cabinet maker, :Upper-street, Islington—J. liit chell, linen draper, Pudsey, Yorkshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. Epworth and R. Thompson, pawnbrokers, York—S. Wright and H. Fiske, grocers, Watton, Norfolk—W. Woods and W. Jack son, cotton spinners, Ashton-in-Mackerfield, Lancashire—R, C. Nesbitt and P. Scott, common brewers, Durham—T. Stordy and T. Clarke, colliers, Carlisle, CumberlandL-J. Braithwaite and J. Dennison, ironmongers, Liverpool—H. C. and J. C. Morris, share brokers, Manchester—J. Mellish and Co., pattern designers, New ington-terrace, Kennington-greon—G. Arblaster and Co., brewers, Trevetliin, Monmouthshire—W. Carr and H. Turner, silk mer cers, Crawford-street—J. Shotwell and T. Smith, architects, Li verpool—L. Jonas and J. La Mort, chemists, Minories—C. 0. Rooks and R. J. Smith, coal-merchants, Holland-street, Black friars, Surrey—G. Sewell and J. M. Carruthers, surgeons, Rom ford, Essex—J. and T. W. Plaisted, licensed victuallers, Wool wich, Kent—J. and J. C. Bathe., paviotir, Houndsditch—T. Ker shaw and G. Ashburner, schoolmasters, Ormskirk, Lnncashire— G. Clode and Co., wine merchants—H. Shepherd and J. William . - son, brewers, Pendleton' Lancashire—J. Lancashire and J. Stroud, fruit-merchants, Bristol. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. THOMAS and JOHN 131:ACK, merchants, Leith, Dec. 29 and Jan. 12, at one, at the Royal Exchange, Leith. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of Dec. 20.) Secimr.—Tlie West India taw Sugar Market has under gone much improvement during the past week, the refiners having at length been compelled to come irate the Market, and purchase freely; from the grocers there has been a good de mand, and the importers have obtained an advance on all de scriptions of 6d. a ls., at which rise 2,600 hhds. and trs. have been disposed of, mostly of good and fine yellow qualities ; tl.ere have been no public sales of Barbadocs, and none are advertised. The stock of West India Sugars is now 33,983 hhds. and trs., being 8,876 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius is now 28,142 bags, which is 8,194 less than last year (includ ing the East India Dock.) The delivery of West India last week was 1,898 hhds. and trs., which is 380 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius was 2,189 bags, being 712 less than the corresponding week of last year (including the East India Dock.) This afternoon we have again to report an improving Market for British Plantation ; for the grocery qualities there eras a brisk request, and in the refining descriptions there was much business done, the refiners being all again compelled to come into the Market to purchase, they having several orders on hand to execute - for Refined goods, and the importers of West India have obtained an advance on the prices of Friday of Gd. for the 1,400 hlids. and trs. disposed of, the principal part of which was taken by the refiners ; sales of good brown Berbics; for the pan made al sls. 6d., Jamaica mid. yellow at 605., Antiguas good 645. At length the Refined Sugar trade has assumed a rather better appearance; from the shippers there has been a good demand at an advance of Is. ; sales of double Crushed made at 365., and Lumps to pass the standard at 775., but there are few goods now to he purchased for immediate delivery under 465. 6d. a • 475. for Crushed; contracts have been made for larger pacels to be delivered in January at :355. a 365. ; the grocers have purchased more freely, and at rather improving prices, 755. a 'Ms. paid for Lumps rather under the standard, and goods are extremely scarce. Treacle is not cheaper, but the demand moderate. Bastards continue dull of sale at the quotations. In Dutch Crushed nothing has been done, and prices remain as last quoted. This afternoon from the grocers there was a good request for Refined goods at steady prices ; of the export descriptions but few parcels remain in the hands of the refiners, and double Crushed is not tq be purchased under 3tis. 6d. a 375. for im mediate delivery. Mannurius.—There has at length been some improvement in the demand; from the grocers there has been a good re quest by private contract, particularly for the mid. and good yellow descriptions, for which they have paid prices fully equal to those of last week there have been no public sales, and at , present none are advertised. No further arrivals have entered this port. This afternoon there was a good enquiry from the grocers. EAST • INDIA.—In Foreign East India there has been no thing done, the buyers being averse to purchase at present rates, whilst on the other hand holders arc not sellers at any reduction; for Bengal there has been but little request from the shippers, still the holders are firm in requiring fully lwe vious rates, and have offered none at public sale ;• from the . , grocers there has been a good demand at unaltered priers. FOREIGN.—The Market for all descriptions has been in a very inactive state, there continuing to be no request for Brazil or white Havannah, and the demand for the yellow qualities of. the latter at former prices has subsided, but at the reduced offers made of Is. 'a 2s. there arc no sellers. 4!..0 chests Bahia has arrived. Rem, 131:ANDY 'AND Ileudticos.-The Ruin Market has been mid there are sellers of Jamaica and Leeward Island a re&m:ion tn) lite rates of Id. a 11d. per gallon. good mid. - at 108 s. a 111 s., low mid. and mid. 925. 6d. a 944. , good and fine fine ord. unclean 923. ; Demerara, mid. 90s. a 915., fine and fine ord. 81s. a 86i., tinifft,m. fine fine ord. and mid. 815. a 88s., triage 635. ; .St. Lucia miii. V:33, a 03s. ; Berbice, mid. 89e. 6d. a 91s. ; `Sun - luta, 40s. has been paid for fair quality; Ceylon of good quality is much wanted at 433.; but the holders generally refuse to WO lUsetbon 493. a 503. ; Samarang would sell readily at 435. a 4.15. fergood, &tit lhvre is scarcely any in the Market offering for In the Foreign Mathet St: Domingo has been sought after at 48;. for fair quality, being no sellers with !n 2s. of that price, no business has taken place ; Brazil is much wanted, but it is impossible to purchase under 48s. a 49. ; Valparai.7o good and !lite fosey, at 463. a 585., damaged went at 403. 6d. a 525. TP.A..--There has been more enquiry after Company's Bo beas at -%d. a profit on the last sale. The prices were- Cant, l3ohca ls. 10}d. a 2s. I+l., Fokien do. 2s. 7d. a Congou ord. 'Old. a 13. Old., mid. Is. Id. a ls. 41d., strong is. 4y. a Is. W., line ls. 9d. a 2s. 91d. Soktchong Is. 4d. a 3s. 6d. ; Pekoe Is. sd. a 2s. Id. Flowery 'ls. Jo.. a 3 F. 6d. ; Hyson Sk;n ls. a Is. lot. Twankay Is. 40. n lr. iod. ; Hyson 23. Id. a Si. 3d. ; Gunpowder 2F. 9d. a 3s. Stl, per lb. Tat.Low.-There has been rather more demand for parcels on the spot for consumption at 425. 6d. for P. Y. C. For de livery the operations have been also on an extended scale, and 433. paid for the spring months. TkIPENTINE.-Rough is rather cheaper, 18s. 3d. has been accepted for a small parcel-Spirits have sold heavily at 81s. a 82s. Mot.Assr.s.-The importers of West India demand former rates, but there has been- nothing done. The total deliveries of West India Molasses from the ware houses for Immo use for the wc:tk ending - December 17, amount to 3,530 cwt. COCOA.-There has been nothing done in Brtish Planta tion, either by public sale or private contract, and pi - ices remain the same as last quoted. For Foreign there continues to be no Two car.zocs request. The total deliveries of West India Cocoa from the ware houses for home use fur the week ending December 17, are 6,669 lbs. RICE.:—The demand for East India has been very moderate' by private contract, and 8,375 bags Java at auction, the sound, was all taken in at 6d. decline, from 12s. 6d. a 13s. for low and good middling white, with the exception of one lot which sold at 13s. 6d. ; the damaged went cheap and sold at Bs. 6d. to lls. COTTON.—The private purchases consist of 1,800 bales Surat at aid. a €411., 150 Bengal at 4k a 4id., and no Boweds at Bd. a Sid. OILS.—In Linseed Oil there has been rather more business doing on the spot at 355. 6d. at 365., and for delivery next year there has been a great deal of business done. Rape sells slowly at previous rates. Olive Oil dull of sale at the reduced prices quoted. The public sale of 200 tuns Sperm and Head matter was all bought in at reduced prices, the former good and. fine at 781. a 801., and the latter at 841. a 85/. PROVISIONC.—The demand for Irish Butter has been con fined to limited parcels to supply the immediate wants of the trade. Dutch has given way in value 2s. ; at 108 s. a liOs. for the best qualities. The request for either English or Foreign Cheese has been on a very limited scale. SPlCES.—Jamaica white Ginger at Si. 1 is. a 8/. 9s, SALTPETRE.-1,199 bags Calcutta at 6d advance on the rates of the last sale ; refraction went at 275. gd, 61 265. 6d. a 275., and 5 refraction 275. a 275. 6d. • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. , VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS. TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 20.. The Sir Charles, Long, from Calais ; King George, Oar ner, Ostend ; Egyptian, Sayer, New York ; Minerva, Gray, Calcutta; Perseverance, Gobert, Calais; Pink, Whitnall, Dunkirk ; Rosaline, Crouch, Quebec; Matilda, Mason, St. Petersburgh ; Jane, Davie, Oporto ; John Bull, Corbin, Hamburgh. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Madras, Quick, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Countess Lonsdale, Strannack, Hamburgh ; Commercial Packet, Hart, Rotterdam; Sir Edward Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam; Os• prey, Payne, St. Sebastian. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Countess Lonsdale, Strannack, Hamburgh; Sir Ed ward Banks, Norwood, Rotterdam; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; Dursto Suand, De Silva, Oporto ; Eleanor, Tierney, Barba does ; Philadelphia, Morgan, New York ; Navarino, Dale, Guernsey ; Vrow Elizabeth, Laurie, Ostend. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. • The Northern Charriosen, for Harlingen; Luna, 'Priers, Corilensiel; Amiable Victoire, David, Barficur. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19. The Orpheus, Bursley, from New York ;, Roberston, Neal, Montreal ; Ava, Gasking, St. Andrew's, N. B. ; Thomas, Hearner, Quebec ; Calcutta, Rursbeck, Dalhousie ; Arian, Roberts, Marseilles. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Laura Ann, Casely, for Lisbon ; Ellen, Lyon, Lisbon ; Wilberforce, Harrison, Maranham ; Frances, LeOie,Charleston. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Sandbach, Bispham, for Demerara ; Brutus, Dawson, Africa; Mary White, Garrington , Sierra Leone ; Wilmot, Drenning, New Orleans; Barbadian, Barbadoes ; Bee, Morris, St. John's, N.B. TELEGRAPHED. Off Voct Nant, inward bound, the Anion, from Genoa ; Charlotte, Quebec. Wind S.W. --- The disposal of the furniture belonging to the Prin cess Polignac, at Ham, has terminated says the Gazette de Picardie, after three days' sale, during which crowds pressed with avidity to the chambers in which the Princess had passed so many solitary hours, in a dwelling to which, for six years, the poor have constantly turned with an eye of hope, certain of relief. Each was desirous of possessing something that had belonged to the Princess, and, conse quently, eve r y article went at a high price. Some water coloured drawings, executed in the fortress by the captive, were the objects of strong co'tnpetition, as were the articles of his furniture. The produce of the sale, which was gene rously given to the poor, amounted to 3,500 francs. SNUFF-TAKING.—It is curious to see the various modes in which people take snuff. Some do it by little fits and starts, and get over the thing quickly. These are epi grammatic snuff-takers, who come to the point as fast as possible, and to whom the pungency is every thing. They generally use a sharp and severe snuff—a sort of essence of pin's points. Others arc all urbanity and polished demea nour ; they value the style as much as the sensation, and offer the box around them as much out of dignity as bene volence. • - Some take snuff irritably, others bashfully, others. in a manner as dry as the snuff itself, generally with an economy of the vegetable ; others with a luxuriance of ges ture, and a lavishness of supply, that announces a moister article, and sheds its superfluous honours over neckcloth and coat. Dr. Johnson was probably a snuff-taker of this kind. lie used to-take it out of his waiscoat-pocket, instead of a box. There is a species of long-armed snuff-taker, that per forms the operation in a style of potent and .elaborate pre paration, ending with a sudden activity. But smaller and rounder men sometitheseattempt'it. He first puts his head on one side ; then stretches forth the arm, with pinch in hand ; then brings round his hand, as a snuff-taking ~IQp liant might his trunk ; and, finally, shakes snuff, head, Lod nose together, in a sudden vehemence of convulSion. His: eye-brows all the while arc lifted up, as if to make more room for the onset ; and when he has ended, he siraws him self back to his perpendicular ; and generally proclaims the victory he has won over the insipidity of the previous 019 - merit, by a snuff and a great " Hah ! "—Leigh Hunt. _ POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in woad cases, 12 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing Four Airs , witlr the mechanism finished in a very superior manner, are offered for Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, with Sis Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London . N. B. The small musical boxes, inches long, continue selling in tin cases, price 19s. each, or in composition shell cases, at 09'7 8111 Tll S. On the 20th inst , in Hamilton-place, , the Hon. Mrs. Ge°rge Elope, of a daughter. On the ltith inst., at Mallow, county Cork, the wife of Wilija nt Milliken, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst., the lady of L. Goodma n, Esq., Cambridge terrace, of a son and heir. MARRIED. • On the 20th inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, William, the eldest son of Matthew Needham, Esq., of Linton Firs, Nottingham P t. shire, to Camilla, second (laughter of S . Bosatiquet, Esq., of tipper Harley-street, and of Din , eston Court, INlenmouthshire. On the 16th inst., at Albridge, Somersetshire, the Rev. Fiancia Jenne., D. C.L., Head Master of King Edward's School, Birrnillr ham, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, to Margaret, 0 11 1 child of H. Symons, Esq., of Axbrid D/ED. On the 18th inst., in Upper Brook-strect, Mrs. O'Giady, sister of the late Viscountess Barberton. On the Bth inst., at Onslow-terrace, Bror»pton, aged 84, Janet relict. of Mr. D. Thomson. trt On the 18th inst. , at Connaught-terrace, Miss Mary W ade,. her 79th year. On the 18th inst.; at Eaton-square, S. 131aeknore, Esq., aged 74 : On the 16th inst., - aged 81, Mr. John Bott, of Well - str i "' Cripplegate. On the 15th inst., aged 21, Anne; eldest daughter'of J. Coven" try, Esq., of Burgate House, Hants. On the 17 th inst. , in Upper Harloy.,strcet, Louisa Henri etta * youngezt daug of P. Hadow, E. On the 16thhter inst., at Wallington R e ctory, Iferts, aged 82, Elisa beth, wife of the Rev. T. Sisson, A.M. On the 18th inst., at Hither-green, L ew isham, cged 38, Lieut. Robert Lester Parkinson, R.N., second son of J . Parkinson, Egli of Sackvillc-street. On the 17th inst., at Chelsea, an 17, Charles, only s urvivn g child of the late C. Mande, Es On the 18th inst., at West q. Drayton, Middlesex, aged 929 MI% Joseph Tienielin, for above fo rt y y ears a. respectable inhabitant ot Piccadilly. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No• 119, Strand, at ne Sun Office, No. 112 Strand, in the county of Midalewx.— Wednesday, December 21, 1636.