The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

t:4), EVENING EDITION. ( - - This lay is published, in 1 vol. medium Bvo., with nearly Forty beautifully-executed Illustrations on Wood,hy Williams, 21a. VISITS to REMARKABLE PLACES— Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By W. HOWITT, Author of " Rural Life of England," " Boy's Country Book," " Colonization and Christianity," &c. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. .I,INEQUALLED TRAVELLING. r LEEDS FAST MAIL, via Hudders field, leaves the Royal Hotel, Manchester, every morning at Eigfit o'clock, after the arrival of the London and Bir mingfiarn Railway Train, and in connexion with the new Dar lington Mail. Passengers are immediately forwarded to Har rowgate, Knareeborough, Boroughbridge, Thirsk, Northaller ton, Stockton, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, &c., &c., thus forming the quickest and most superior conveyance to York shire and the North of England. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) °for MU y possibilities of obtaining__ LARGE FORTUNES, PININE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, •re NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Porsosal iesirous to purchase may receive, PRE TIOUS to Riving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TISULARS, upon addressing. WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAIIBURGH. P. S.—TRE NEXT DISTRIBUTION edhtains Portions .f TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. TUE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Plharea eleitring moat rapiilly, A RISE IN PRICE will THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, Will be performed THE BEGGAR'S OPERA• Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Loekit, 'gr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peaehnnt, Mrs. C. Janes ; Polly Manhunt, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Leekit, Madame Vostris. • - - After which will Le produced a New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomjnite, which has been long, in preparation, ontided HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De- With cn irely New corations. Dress Boxes, 7s; Socond Price, :Is. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, 5s- ; Second Price, 2s. ed. ; Pit, ss. ; Se con d P r i ce , 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to e oov-nonee at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-offieo, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets away be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-NORROW. Morning '5 minutes after 5 i Evening 45 minutes alter 1, . 41": ;•lt , ' 1" ' Ai. ; • , ; 4111111 1/* • tifu LONDON : TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1539. It is quite plain that the politicians of the Tories are alarmed at the success of the bigots of their party. For upwards of two years their mission aries have been going about the country raising a No Popery cry. They have demanded the repeal of the Emancipation Act, and have declared that it was necessary to reconquer Ireland. On the prin ciple of preserving Protestant Ascendancy, they have required that the Whigs should be turned out of office and the Tories installed in their stead. Ac cording to their own organs, they are on the eve of taking the Treasury by storm. In one, or at most two short months, the Tories are to seize the helm and turn away the Whigs with disgrace and contumely. The indignation of England is to he expressed by the House of Commons, and the Whigs are to run from office, like a trespassing and pelted dog. Alas ! just at this moment, the Tories shrink back alarmed from their own victory. They are as desirous of office as ever, but they repudiate its consequences. They are ready enough, they still say, to turn out the Whigs, but all their Journals strenuously deny any wish or any intention to repeal the Catholic Emancipation Act, or to make war on Ireland. They already, therefore, disavow the policy on which their success so far has been founded, and shrink back with terror from the position in which the bigots of their party have placed them. Having always said that the No Popery policy was impracticable, that the repeal of the Emanci pation Act was impossible, without causing ten times as mach mischief as Sir R. PEEL would dare to encounter, we readily believe the disclaimers of the Tory Press. Sir R. PEEL would not repeal the Catholic Emancipation Act. What then is to be his policy, and by what party is he to be supported ? Who are the men, and what is their purpose, who at this critical time propose to break up the Administration, to dissolve the Parlia ment, and incur the immense risk of adding unnec cessarily to the existing agitation ? The scribblers in Daily Journals seem to think that the com munity is in an ordinary situation ; that Sir ROBERT PEEL and Viscount MELBOURNE may change places with as much ease as two pieces on a chess board ; that there would be no fur ther consequences from changing the whole Administration than changing the Ladies of the Bed-chamber ; but the community is at pre sent stirred to its deepest depths ; it is alive and heaving in every part, and a change in the A dminis- Itration, the precursor of a change in the policy of t the Government, would involve risks which Tory ) statesmen will be less ready to encounter than Tory 1 scribblers are to discuss. First, we want to know, as the Standard, Times, and Post have, in the name of the Tories, cast off the bigots of their party, and now disclaim the repeal of the Emancipation Act and the re-esta blishment of Protestant Ascendancy, what is to be the policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL. How is he to steer between repealing the Act of Emancipation, and carrying it into execution ? Are the Tories to suspend the law of their own authority ? If he do not propose to repeal it he will brand all his own party who have been bawling for the repeal, ' and who have kindled strife and discord that will never be assuaged during this generation, as mischievous agitators ; as men who have been exciting religious contention without any sincere, any religious, or any practical object. If he do not carry the Act into execution—if he refuse every place of profit and trust to the Catholics, be cause they arc Catholics—if he employ all the in fluence of Government to oppose and thwart every individual who is a Catholic, he will excite against him in the end as determined and as just an hos tility from the Catholics as if he were to repeal the Act. A course, however, was laid down for him the other day at a mee ti ng o f t h e C onservat i ves at Birmingham, Sir EARDLEY WILMOT then told his f r i ends that he could not find any fault with Ailinisters for appointing Catholics to office, they only carried the law into execution ; but he found fault with them on account of the sort of Catholics whom they appointed. The Duke of NoRFOLL and Lord StraltXY are objectionable, because they are W hilts ;, whil e M r. O ' CONNELL, Mr. SHIEL, and 'AI r. NN YSE are not elegible, be cause they have played a conspicuous part i n th e confid ence o f drama of Reform, and possess the the Catholic population. Sir EARDLEY iLmoT would carry the law into execution, by appointing to offices Tories who are Catholics. Where are they to be found? There are one or two country gentlemen, buri e d amongst t h e i r woods in Lanca shire ; but all the Catholics who are men of busi ness, who h ave any c l a i m to pu blic isitua tions, are Whigs and Liber a l s . This s not an accident, it is the necessary consequence of founding the Tory policy on the Protes tant Ascendancy principle, which has made the great bulk of the Catholics, whatever else they may be, thoroughly and completely anti- Tories. In a community like ours, where tolera tion prevails, to found a party on an exclusive principle, is to render it unfit to govern. Now Sir R. PEEL, though he is not to repeal the Eman cipation Act, has no other power in the country but as the representative of the exclusively Pro testant party. These writers, at the same time, tell us that he will not do the bidding of that party, and it is impossible that he can conciliate the opposite party. He will not go the whole hog with the Ultra Protestants, and he cannot make friends with the Catholics. There is no policy avowed by his party which lie could safely pursue, and there is no party by which his uncertain course would for any length of time be followed. He may, individually, be a great man ; but to suc ceed in administering oftheaffairsandy E refusing b ngland, h to e must be at the head of a party, repeal the Catholic Emancipation Act, he refuses the leadership of the Protestant Ascendancy party. The language of the Tory Journals, admitting the impossibility of the repeal, admits that the as cendancy on which Sir ROBERT PEEL founds his chieftainship is gone for ever. To inform us, as the Tory Journals do, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends will not propose to repeal the Emancipation Act, is to say that he abdicates his claim to the Government. The party in the nation opposed to the Ministers—the party 1 which complains of the appointment of Mr. WYSE, I is the Protestant Ascendancy party. The Emanci pation Act is the legal extinction—in fact it was extinguished before—of their usurped dominion. Not to repeal it is for Sir ROBERT PEEL to doom the Ascendancy men to equality, and to separate himself from his supporters. Such conduct will leave him without followers, and doom him to sit on the cross benches, while GRAHAM and STAN LEY aiid INGLIS lead the bigots on to the attack. To what a melancholy condition England is re duced by an unbridled, lawless aristocracy, and a hy pocritical, false, rapacious priesthood, the following picture will show. We copy it from the Times of yesterday : MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, DEc.2l..—The inhabitants were put in the greatest alarm last night, about seven o'clock, in consequence of hearing the report of several cannon in the direction of the hills. This having con tinued for a quarter of an hour, the Mayor was sent for by Major Cooke, upon whom, in consequence of the illness of Colonel Considine, the command of the mili tary devolved. It was then determined instantly to call out the troops, and pickets were sent out on the different roads to discover from what quarter the firing proceeded. In a very few minutes the Hussars and 45th were in the streets, and the artillery were all mounted. It was then suggested by some persons that the firing proceeded from Ruperra, the seat of Mr. Morgan, that it was the birthday of his eldest son, and that it was the custom on that occasion to fire off some old cannon. This idea, however, was spurned, as being to o ridicu:ous to be entertained for a moment, and it was very properly observed that no one could attribute to Mr. Morgan such a want of thought or of regard for the feelings of the people of the neighbourhood ; that be would, of course, recollect that the excitement in the neighbourhood is so great that a pistol fired on the hills would create alarm. Some of the military thought it was a ruse to draw them out, that the Chartists might come into the town by another road. The streets were then cleared, and the shops shut, in order to prevent confusion, in case the artillery should have to march. In the mean time the Mayor sent off to Sir C. Morgan's, to ascertain if it was likely any guns would be fired at Ruperra, and he received the following answer : " Tredegar, Friday, 8 o'clock. " Dear Sir —I have just opened your letter, and, in the absence of my father, who is gone to Ruperra, have in reply to say, that the birthday of my brother's eldest son is kept this day, and that Sir Charles and some of our party are gone over there. " With regard to the firing, it has been usually the custom to fire some old carriageless cannon on the oc casion, and to make a bonfire; but whether the same cus tom has been followed up to-day I cannot positively say, though I think it very probable, as the keepers may not have thought that any alarm would have been created. " I have just seen John Charles from Bassaley, who heard the firing in his way from Bassaley hither, and from the sound and direction, as well as from the time, he believed it to be the firing at Ruperra, and be never thought it anything else, till he was asked about it here, and he now thinks it to be that and nothing else. " They used to fire the guns on a bill near the housa when Sir Charles' carriage was driving up to the house, and as from an accident our carriage did not leave here till six o'clock, the firing would take place about seven, and continue for some time. Thinking the noise only to proceed from that circumstance, and hoping that this will in some way allay the excitement, " I remain, yours very faithfully, " OCTAVIUS MORGAN. " The cannon are still firing, and we think it only the Ruperra guns." This letter was immediately read by the Mayor in the Westgate, and bad the effect of allaying the excite ment, and the military were ordered to quarters. The Mayor, however, was not completely satisfied, and he therefore sent an express . to Ruperra to know for a certainty whether the firing proceeded from that estate, and about two in the morning he re ceived a very brief reply, stating that the guns had been fired according to annual cus tom. We must say that our astonishment was extreme upon finding that Mr. Morgan had had so little regard for the feelings of his neighbours as to indulge in this foolish custom at such a moment. It is impossible to describe the alarm that was occasioned in the town, but I understand it was nothing compared with that which filled the minds of those who reside some distance off, as they believed the town was attacked, and that the firing proceeded from the soldiers. Great praise is due to the Magistracy, and particularly to the military, for the promptitude with which the troops were brought out. We regret to say, that several of the Magistrates were at Mr. Morgan's at the time this thoughtless act was perpetrated. To show the state of excitement in the town, I may say that several families have left Newport, considering it unsafe to remain there any longer. This representation, we are afraid, will not be confined to Monmouth. The Chartists exist in multitudes every where. The whole working po pulation nearly are Chartists ; and the alarm which is now confined to the hills of Wales, may to morrow spread through the towns of Lancashire, the mines of Cornwall, and the vales of Kent. The terror felt at hearing a gun go off is the off spring of consciousness. It is impossible to look on the condition of our half-starved people and to remember the Corn-laws, the onerous system of taxation to which they arc liable, their total dis franchisement, and the dominion sought to be exercised over their minds and pockets by the Anglican clergy, without being convinced that Chartism springs from political op pression. The upper and middle classes cannot disguise from themselves that the working classes are not justly dealt with, and hence their almost indescribable terror at finding themselves surrounded by a population ready to resent the ill treatment they have received. A gun is fired, and a whole country side trembles. A gentleman only commemorates, according to ancient custom, the birth-day of his son, and be terrifies, and, of course, affronts all his neighbours. The MOR GANS will be shut out from society, for having been so regardless of the feelings of their friends. Whatever may be the sufferings of M r . F ROST and his followers, if he wish for vengeance, he is a l rea d y revenged in the great and continual sufferings of his opponents. Half the evil, too, let us remark, of Mr. FROST'S conduct, described in the law proceedings as terri fying peaceable persons, arises from the state o f their nerves. They are greatly alarmed, and there fore lie is guilty. The Jurors, without putting the feeling into a logical form, will act on it, and FROST and his accomplices will be condemned, because the gentry and the clergy are terrified at the bulk of the people. They are terrified because they are conscious the people are unjustly treated ; thus the gallows must have its victims because the people are oppressed. A great deal has of late been said on the An glican clergy turning politicians, and the Tory Press has asserted, with great eloquence, that such is their right and their duty. For our part, though the clergy generally take the Tory side, we have never denied their right, and never wished to see them neglect their duty to their country, so far as that was compatible with the duty they are paid to perform. Nor can we deny the extent of their power. The votes of the House of Commons bear testimony to their skill and their influence. About 4,000 petitions, bearing nearly 400,000 signatures, were presented to the House of Commons last ses sion, at their instigation, against the Ministerial plan for improving a little the education of the people. They are a powerful political party. Now, there is at present a great public question exciting the people far more than ever they were excited on the subject of education ; but on this the clergy seem inclined to waive their right, and neglect their duty. But they cannot be allowed. On a question that agitates the masses, thatthreatens the landowners, that touches the tithes, they must speak out. On the Corn-laws, no man can be neutral. Are the clergy for starving the people, or are they not ? Let them come forward, and declare their creed. The Corn-laws are openly denounced by the inhabitants of Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, and scores of other places, as an interruption of the order of nature, and a violation of the laws of GOD. They are described as sever ing the friendly ties of commerce between nations, as sowing distrust and despair in the hearts of the people, as dooming many to misery, and inciting many to crime. Do the Corn laws deserve these characteristics or not ? Are they just or unjust? The priesthood are called on to say. The question touches not only politics but religion; and the value of their professions will be tested by the part they act. Three or four clergymen of different sects, some of them belonging to the Church of England, have joined the Anti-Corn-law men in denouncing the Corn-laws as a violation of the decrees of GoD, and the whole hierarchy must take a side. After dis playing such activity for Bible education, they must be equally active in opposing or defending the Corn-laws. They may depend on it they can not shirk this question. Their silence is acquies cence in these accusations, and as conclusive of their truth as if they were all to put their hands to the Manchester petition. They must come forward and defend the Corn-laws, or admit that they starve the people, and are a violation of GOD'S laws. To remain silent will convict them of a con. sciousness of the criminality, and show that they had not the courage to denounce it. At Ashton-under Line, the Liberals have had a dinner to convince the public that all the inhabit tants do not, share IVIr. Rosy's sentiments. Several Members of Parliament were present, and that paramount subject of interest, the Corn-laws occupied several of the speakers. Mr. GISBORNE made some excellent observations, as he always does, to which Mr. BROTHERTON was content to say ditto. 'Whatever necessity there may be for moderation in the proceedings of the abolitionists► it hardly becomes their own friends to recommend, at the outset, that they should demand less than justice. When the Corn-law men have seen the necessity of treating, terms may be talkeu of, but at present they resolutely stand out, and claim the Corn-law as their right. We have held this lan guage from the first ; we are for going the whole hog in our demands, and if any class, whether farmers or landlords, or any individuals, can show that they suffer any injustice by the abolition of the Corn-laws, we will consider their case ; but we will not for one moment concede the principle, that because the landlords have plundered and starved the people for a great many years, they are to be allowed to plunder and starve them, to a somewhat less extent, a few years longer. We prefer Mr. GISBORNE'S views, therefore, to Mr. HINDLEY'S, though we cheerfully concede to the latter gentle man that his recommendation not to go for too much was dictated by the purest motives. The majority of the abolitionists are decidedly in favour of a complete abolition, and it is therefore the duty, we think, of individuals to give up their own mode rate views, and carry, as Mr. GISBORNE said, the enthusiasm of the people with them, by demanding a great deal. We agree too with that gentleman, that there are traitors in our l camp, when so many commercial and manufacturing places stand idle, and do not take a part in this noble work. What is London about ? What are all the metropolitan boroughs and parishes about, that they take no part in this life and death struggle ? It does not become the metropolis to have no opinion on such a question. If many of the in habitants are favourable to continue the Corn-laws, let them get up public meetings and express that opinion, so that we may know our friends from our foes. To have no voice on such a momentous question is a disgrace to London. It will be seen by our Mansion House report, that an interesting dialogue took place yesterday between the LORD MAYOR, Alderman PIRIE, and a sturdy Nonconformist, on the subject of Church-rates. Mr. BURGON, who cannot re concile it to his conscience to give his money to the support of a system of religion which he believes to be utterly at variance with the Holy Scriptures, was told by his Lordship that a believer " can have no rational objection to pay what is a legal demand." Was it any wonder, after such a remark, that Mr. BURGON should be tempted tq say that people were apt to think that because they went to Church they were religious? The LORD MAYOR is a legal re ligionist, an Act-of-Parliament Christian, and can form no conception of a conscience which refuses to be bound by the statute. Alderman PIRIE has a juster notion of these things. He put the ques tion on its right footing. "We are obliged," he observed, " by the law of the land to call upon you to pay the late." The law of the land, however, is in this respect not binding on the recusant. It leaves him the alternative of having his goods seized, and this alternative Mr. BURGON, much to his honour, adopted. Were all the opponents of the " nefarous exaction" to act with equal consis tency, there would soon be an end of it. Malta Papers to the 28th ult. have been re ceived, bringing some intelligence respecting the position of the British fleet in the 'Mediterranean, which will be found in another column. They likewise bring the details of what our war-loving Contemporary, the Morning Post, calls a " new insult to the British flag," by two French war steamers, and for which, of course, the Post is for demanding, sword in hand, an immediate apo logy. "It would appear," says our indignant Tory Contemporary, " as if our Ministers had succeeded in convincing the French that any dis grace might be flnng upon the standard of England with impunity." To prove that this ap pearance is not at all fanciful, the Post quotes the following paragraph from a Malta Paper, which, in fairness to our Contemporary, we shall extract from his columns. Here it is— NEW INSULT TO THE BRITISH FLAG. The Blazer steamer left Marseiles for Malta on the 10th, with the London mails brought by the Post-office messenger, Mr. Wittenoom, and despatches for Canton, conveyed by Mr. Moore, a Queen's messenger, who ar rived at Marseilles four hours after Mr. Wittenoom (which, together with the India mails, were despatched to Alexandria by the Hermes on the evening of the 15th.) A short time before the Blazer got under way from Marseilles, two French steamers of war (which had arrived on the 9th from Algiers—one of them bringing his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans) took their departure for Toulon, and, as the Blazer beat them in speed, she endeavoured, there being ample way, to pass between them, when they intentionally closed upon her, and carried away her fore-yard and gunnel, and stove in the toi e part of her paddle-box: butT hbeeiFngrenvecrhy men likewise sustained some damage TIIE SUN, .LONI)ON, TUESDAY, DECEMB.f4:R 24, high and heavy vessels, it is fortunate that the Blazer ' did not suffer more seriously." If every steam-boat collision were to forma justi fication for war we should never be at peace. Such "insults" to her flag her MAJESTY is obliged pa tiently to endure every day in the week in the very port of London. A Gravesend steamer is as little protected by the display at her masthead of the na• tional colours, should she happen to get in the way of a Leith boat, as if the Captain's nightcap dan gled above her deck. The Blazer evidently wanted to show the French war steamers that she could beat them as a fast sailer ; and as captains are often as tenacious of the reputed speed of their vessels as of their personal honour, the Commanders of the French vessels may very fairly be presumed to have been actuated solely by a determination not to allow themselves to be beaten. It was, in fact, so far as appears from the account given above, a steam-boat race, such as aro wit nessed every day between British steamers in our own waters ; and if injury was wantonly done to one of the vessels, the proper place to demand re paration is a court of justice, and the proper per son to demand it is the owner or captain of the vessel sustaining the injury. We may here observe generally, that as the in tercourse between the French and English nations increases, it is natural and reasonable to expect- a proportionate increase in the number of offences hitherto regarded as indications of national hosti lity ; and that it is for the interest of both coun tries that public writers should carefully abstain from exaggerating them, and from in all cases im puting to the offenders national, instead of indivi dual, feelings of resentment. As no man in his senses would impute to hostility to our flag the ac cidental running down of one English boat by another, why not give to other nations the benefit of an equally charitable interpretation of acts which might have been purely accidental ? Again, as rivalries and aggressions upon one another, by dif ferent English steam companies in our own ports, are rightly never supposed to originate in any feel ing but such as are common to all men running a race of gainful competition, would it not be often just to trace the quarrels of French and English traders to ano higher source ? That it is the duty of a nation to demand reparation for wrongs inflicted upon its subjects by foreigners, we readily admit ; but never until such repa ration is refused to the individual :or individuals by the ordinary tribunals for the administration of inter-national law. But the truth is, that the pre posterous war-cry now raised by the English Tories and the French Legitimists and Repub licans, is one of the last efforts of these factions to overturn the Liberal Governments in both countries. Without a war the Tories are hope less of office, and a war with England is the only chance which the French Legitimists have of bringing about a counter-revolution. As to the blood of the people, it is no more thought of nor regarded than so much ditch-water by these sanguinary and ruthless politicians. TEA MARKET. There is very little doing just now in Tea, and prices must be regarded as rather lower. Further news from Canton are expected by the overland mail due next Saturday. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but there was a good demand. Hay, 110 s. to 90s. ; Clover, 90s. to 115 s. ; Straw, 30s. to 38s. per load. TALLOW MARKET. There was very little done in Tallow, and the price was 48s. 9d. for P. Y.C. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, DEC. 23 —Wind S. W., strong breezes..—Ar rived the Emily Jane, Kennedy, from China; Caesar, Sims, Demerara ; Urgent, Nicholson, Quebec ; Prince George, Foster, Halifax. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 23.—Wind S.--Arrived the Queen Victoria, Fleek, from Miramichi. Sailed the Persian, Edington, Calcutta; Ranger, Brown, Pernambuco; Tam o' Shanter, Stephenson, Barbadoes. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind S. W., strong breezes. —Arrived the Courier, Smith, from Calcutta; sailed from St. Helena on the 14th ult. VVARIMN POINT, Ditc:2l.—Arrived the Margaret Bal. four, Fitzsimons, and Quentin Leitch, Hunter, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, DEC. 22, —Wind S. W. W. to W. S. W. fresh gales and squally.— Arrived, the Pandora packet, Vera Cruz—sailed, on the 25th October, Tampico, 4th ult., klavannah, 12th inst., with 149,000 dollars freight ; Xenophon, Tate, from Miramichi. COWES, DEC. 23.--Arrived the Stag from Batavia. TEIGNMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Arriscd the Active, Wilcox, from Newfoundland. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 23.—Arrived the Duchess of Gloucester, Newman, horn St. Ander ; Mayflower, Searle, St. Übes. NEWPORT, DEC. 23.—Arrived, the Doncaster, Yule, from Crixlnveu. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Terrier, Smirk, rom Miramichi. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Monarch, from Africa to Liverpool, 7th October, long. 8, E., by the Boddington, Moss, arrived at Liverpool ; Mountain, of Liverpool, for Messina, 15th inst., lat. 47, long. 7, by the Arachne, Fowler, arrived at Falmouth. .ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELT O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The Cot ton market continues steady. Sales are 3,500 bags to day at Friday's quotations. The letters and papers were again delivered late from the Post-office, no doubt owing to the heavy state of the roads. We are exceedingly short of arrivals this morning, only a Mexican mail by the Pandora, sailed from Vera Cruz, October 2.5 ; Tampico, November 4 ; Havanab, November 12. Ship letters from China and St. Helena (old dates,) Calcutta, August 20, also old. It appears that the members of the Stock Exchange holders of Colombian Bonds are much dissatisfied at not having received any account of the result of the interview of the deputation of the Colombian Bond holders who had an interview on Saturday last with the agent of Venezuela, which proved to be of little im portance, as the above agent, it appears, could not give the deputation any satisfactory reply previous to his receiving an answer from his Government to the pro posals made by them. This morning there is to be a meeting of the Com mittee, with a view of obtaining from the three Govern ments of Venezuela, New Granada and the Ecuador such terms as the Committee think the Bondholders ought to approve of. Up to the present time we have no information of the British Queen steamer, or of the other packets due, which causes much anxiety to the merchants who have been expecting remittances. All is conjecture in respect to her non-arrival. Another document of importance, besides the President's message to Congress, may be expected in the course of the evening, the King of France's Message to the Chambers. The French Mail had not arrived up to the hour of our going to press. DEATH OF THE REV. MR. CARUS WILSON. —This gentleman, the Vicar of Preston, died sud denly last Sunday. The cause of his death was syncope. The Preston Observer states that the deceased had only very recently been a pp o i n t e d a rural dean, f or the inspection of Chnrches in the district, and had been discharging the duties of this office only the Friday afternoon previous to his death ; he had also preached in the parish church on the Wed nesday evening previous. There are already upwards of the extraordinary number of 150 applications for the vacant Vicarage, and, it is expected there will be upwards of 200 altogether. MR. O'CoNNELL.—The Southern Reporter contains a copious report of a very long speech made by Mr. O'Connell at the Tralee dinner, given to him in the Chamber of Commerce there last Thursday. The Hon. Gentleman on this occasion dwelt with his wonted eloquence upon the topics of the day, denounced the lay and clerical firebrands of Orangeism, contrasted the peacable conduct of the Irish with the tumultuous risings of the Chartists : then after condemning the profligacy of the adverse English Press, &c., he referred with exultation to " the glorious temperance revolution" in Ireland, denied the existence of either Whiteboyism or Ribbonism, and adverted to a variety of other sub jects. "As to the Tories," said Mr. O'Connell, to wards !the conclusion of his speech, " as counsel for Irelanell I have had a large and extended practice, but I confess to you that in the course of my career I never prosecuted so great a scoundrel as certain of the Tory gentry, who are now admitted to the society and converse of persons calling themselves honest men. I would on this question fearlessly appeal even to his Grace of Wellington, a nobleman, by the way, of whom I have never entertained such high-flown notions as some persons hold regarding him." TEMPERANCE RIOT AT HARLOW.— On Friday last six men named Lincoln, Brett, Francis, Bull, Jarvis, and another, whose name we could not as certain, were examined before the Magistrates at Ep ping, charg ed with a rioto us ou t rage at H ar l ow. It appeared tat Mr. Barnard, of that town had invited Mr. T. Whittaker, who is well known in some parts of this county as a lecturer on temperance, to visit that neighbourhood, and endeavour to convince the inhabi tants of the nourishing qualities of cold water and coffee. Accordingly his first lecture was announced for last week, but a party, resolving that Christmas should not be so easily deprived of the jolly bowl with which he usually redden's the noses of some of his guests, and warms the hearts of others, mustered strong for the rescue, armed with XX and tobacco, and thus the rival powers of the pump and barrel were brought fairly face to face. A row of course com menced, and the advocates of the beer-can having by several degrees the advantage:of lungs over the charn pions:of the tea-kettle, the latter decided upon a retreat. A running fight accordingly began, and the lecturer's head being placed beyond the reach of brickbats and bludgeo ns , in the h ous e of M r . B arnard, a fierce attack commenced upon the windows and doors, which were much battered and broken. For this the six defendants were called upon to answer, and after a long investiga tion the Bench held them to bail to take their trial for the riot.—Essex Herald. THE PEMBROKE BOROUGHS.—We have been informed on unquestionable authority, that in the event of a vacancy occurring in the representation of these Boroughs, an independent gentleman of Liberal prin ciples will come forward as a candidate, and oppose the re-election of the Netherby renegade. The gentleman alluded to is a resident in the county, and possessed of much local influence. It is said that active prepara tions are already being made by his friends to secure his return, and competent judges affirm that no doubt can be entertained of his success, now that the Orielton interest is at an end,'and the worthy Baronet, who so long considered Pembroke as his " pocket Borough," cannot any longer with decency interfere in an election for that place.— Illelshman. Towards the close of the Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon the Dutch Funds fell nearly 1 per cent., which is attributed to private letters having been re ceived by the Ostend mail, that at Amsterdam the Dutch Stock receded per cent., owing to the Second Chambers having refused the Dutch Loan. To-morrow being Christmas, all the public places of business, as well as the Bank, will b e closed. Both the British and Foreign Markets are very inac tive as yet, which is generally the case at this period of the year. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the quotations they left off yesterday at 92 for the Account ; Reduced 90a 1 ; Exchequer Bills. 5 to 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 177. k 1784- ; India Stock, for the opening, 253 255. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed at 24/ i, opened at 24i . ; Portuguese, which left off at 33/ 34, at present the same ; Colombian, same as they closed, 241 ; Brazilian, 70/ 71 ; Dutch Two-and- Half per Cents., 52-2. 3 - i ; Five per Cents., which left off at 97/ 98/, are at present 97i ; Mexican, 281 ; Spanish Deferred, 14 3 -, i ; Passive, 62 I. PitlOES OF STOCKS Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 177% 8 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. — South Sea Stock 3% per Cent — , Old Annuities 89% Ditto Red. 99 8% % New Ditto New 3% per Cent... ...... .... 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toevpire t Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860 l3 15-16% 14 1 Ditto Small 3 5 (tic Oct. 10, 1859 13% ( Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860 .. ' Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 1860 Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880. — India Stock for Account , . Jan. 5. 1870 — Consos for Account '''92 1% RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS rms DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — I Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds ... Ditto Account 2:11 - 1111 7 1 .and : Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Accci. nt Ditto Account coin* kr_n<7ids Ditto Metallic - Ditto Accos, nt Lclarr t 1: 3:: d 5,1824 Llitto Acco - ait 213 Ditto Account. anish .1(r 1 ~....- ......... .. Passive 614 Ditto Atm nt 'Deferred II% Greek Bonds — I French, 5 per cent. —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ------ 4 per cent —f. —c. Ditto Account — —___ 3 per cent. —l. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent --_— Exchange. —f. —C. Ditto Account — Dutch, 2% per cent 52M % L,, i Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Account....... ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. id. United Mexican (issued at 51. pm.) Pa Per Share.4o 3 Great Western Railway Company 65 _ Ditto New :hares Brighton Railway 3O 15 London and Croydon Railway Comp any 141. 16s. 6d. 9% Manchester and Leeds Railway Company 60 69 8% North Midland Railway Company 95 85 National Provincial Bank of England 35 34 ;ii Provincial Bank of Ireland. .............. . HALF-PAST ONE. Insurances have been made at Lloyd's on property on board the British Queen steamer at 6 per. cent. No intelligence as yet of the arrival of the British Queen. In consequence of the wind continuing fair, we may expect her to-morrow, with several other arrivals from the westward. Everything appears dull in the city in respect to spe culation in the Funds and commercial affairs. Consols at present are not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted 918 for the Opening ; Reduced 901 ; Exchequer Bills 6 4 dis. ; Bank Stock 1772 178. Money is rather scarce. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 242 ; Por tuguese 332 ; Mexican 281 ; Colombian 24 248 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents„ .521- ; Five per Cents. have been 984, at present 972. We understand that our talented and enter prising townsman, Dr. D. B. Read, has obtained a Go- CONDITION OF THE POOR.—We have, this vernmeot appointment to superintend the buildi ng o f th© week, with deep regret, to call the attention of our new House of Parliament with regard to the ventila- townsmen to the severe and increasing privations to tion, Sze. — .Edinburgh Courant. which great numbers of the working classes in this The Grand Seignior has made a present to his borough and its vicinity arc now exposed. The want Royal Highness the Prince of Joinville of three superb of employment, with the additional evil of dear bread, a swords, two pip e - mout h- p i eces a d orne d w ith b r i l l iants, has reduced hundreds of families to state which may be more easily imagined than de scr ib e d, w h en i t i s re and of rare be auty , severa l h orses , an d var i ous other costly objects. collected that very many of them can earn, when in full employ, but a scanty su b s i stence, by protracted tion took plac e at t h e C ounty Pol i ce Offi ce , this morn- FEMALE S HEEP S TEALERS. —A n investiga n- and excessive toil ; an d t h at t h ey have hadto endur e , ing, before Capt a i n Th omas, wh i c h , a f ter occu p y i ng up _ for a very c ons id era bl e per i od, the aggravated suffering wards of four h ours, terminated in the comm i tta l o f two consequent on the hi g h pr i ce o f corn. —L e i cester Alier fenzales to th e C ounty Gaol, for trial at t h e S ess i ons, on curt'. [Th e preva l ence of distress throughout the the charge of s h eep - stealing. The case was o f a some - country, particularly in the manufacturing districts, is what ,:ingula r nature in all its circumstances . Th e s h eep attested gen era lly b y t h e P rov i nc i a l Papers.] in question was stolen from the farm of Mr. Thomas NEWPORT CHARTISTS.—Sir Frederick Pol- Hemus, of Defford, and Thomas and John Meadows lock, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Thomas, have been (father and son), of Strensham, in whose dwelling a por- engaged for the defence of the prisoners. The fees o f tion of the carcase was found, were apprehended, and Sir Frederick and Mr. Kelly will not be far short of committed for further examination on the charge of being 1,000/. They have 300 guineas each as a special re the thieves. This morning, however, upon the matter tainer ; 4s. 6d. each per mile to Monmouth and back ; being further inquired into, Hannah Meadows, the heavy fee with brief ; 25 guineas to each of their daughter of the elder prisoner, Thomas and Ann, th e clerks, and all expenses paid. The comfort is, that wife of his son, attended at the office, and completely they are worth as much as any two men at the bar, and exonerated their relatives from the charge, Hannah eon- are not tinged with one particle of Whiggery.—_Northern fessing that she it was that killed the sheep and carried Star. it home, whilst Ann, her sister-in-law, looked on. The WILD SWAN.—A very fine swan, weighing result was, that the two m en were lib e rated from prison, A A-lbs., was shot on the 3d inst. in the neighbourhood and the women committed to gaol in their stead.— of Silloth, Holme Cultram, by a son of Mr. Littleton, IVorcester Herald. of that place—a youth of ten years of age.—Carlisle We are sorry to announce that an old established Patriot . house in the town has sus p en d e d pa y m ent, owing t o The new Post-office regulation does not work the insolvency of a power-loom manufactory ne ar justly in all cases ; last week we received a letter from Leeds, and the f --e stoppage o f a l arge mercantile house i n Rochford, written on rather a stout sheet of foolscap, Glasgow, and several failures i n th e neighbourhood of for which we were charged eightpence ; but under the Huddersfield, in which they ar e d ee ply involved. B y old system the postage would have been only fivepence. this unlooked-for circumstance 700 hands will be throw n —Chelmsford Chronicle. n out b o e f r e mployment in L ee d s , an d a bout a si m il ar T HE " R ETARDER. " —A patent has been ta k en um attheir establisilreent near Lancaster.—Leedsi omit f ,,, e n-,..lov , nf;nn Intelligencer. ,„.• r. tard;- .' - ...Jul.:Ai L ' l --' I riages when going dow n hill, ' i THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. There were good supplies of most kinds, and a tendency in prices to be lower. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. Butchers' Meat in fair demand : Beef, 71d. to 80. ; Mutton, 7.1 d. to 81d. ; Veal, Sd. to 9d., and Pork, id. to Sd. per lb. Vegetables were rather dear, though the supply was good of all kinds in season. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. There were good supplies of most descriptions of Fish, and a fair demand. Prices stationary. Turbot ss. 20s. ; Cod 2s. 6d. to 125.; Soles 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. 6d. ; Oysters I6s. to 48s. per bushel; Haddocks 9d. to Is. 6d. ; and Whitings 4d. to Bd. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) WARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT. The election of Memb,:rs to represent this Ward in the Court of Common Council concluded this afternoon, at one o'clock. The polling had taken place for the last two days at the New Court, Old Bailey. Shortly before two o'clock, Mr. Alderman HARMER entered the Court, and announced the final state of the poll to be as follows : Taylor, 394 ; Bedford, 394 ; Blackett, 380 ; Ob b Ird, 378 ; Burn, 347 ; Fig-gins, 3:139 ; Edkins, 338 ; Beckwith, 338 ; Price, 337 ; Anderton, 334 ; Gal loway, 332 ; Savage, 317 ; Ramshaw, 317 ; Marriott, :311 ; Charles, 308 ; Wells, 303 ; Wollatt, 287. The first sixteen were then duly elected. The an nouncement was received with loud cheering by the friends of Mr. Wells, the new candidates, who has succeeded in ousting Mr. Wollatt, the former represen sative of the ward. Mr. Wells is the gentleman who was some short time since announced as a candidate for the borough of Cambridge. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS I)AY.) HILL V. GOMME. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to•day in this case, which was argued before his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. dismissing the plaintiff's bill with costs. This bill was fired by the plaintiff for the specific performance of an indenture by which a person named Deans gave him the whole of the property of which he might die possessed. His Lordship after shortly adverting to the facts of the case, stated his clear opinion to be that the indenture was invalid, inasmuch as no proof had been brought for ward that any consideration, meritorious or otherwise, had been given for it. His Lordship thought the deci sion of the Master of the Rolls perectly correct, and ordered the appeal to be dismissed with costs. DILLON V. COFFIN. • The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, in which the question was whether the testator's East India Stock, and Shares in the Giobe Insurance, Company, passed under a deed which be had executed or whether they now remained a part of his personal estate to be administered ? His Lordship felt bound to declare that the deed did not operate so as to affect the testator's interest in the East India Stock and the Globe Insurance Shares, and that they remained as part of his personal estate to be administered. COOPER V. EWALT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon motion to discharge an order pronounced at the Rolls for the taxation of a solicitor's bill of costs. His Lordship was of opinion that the order of the Court below was perfectly regular, and dismissed the motion, with costs. MONDAY V. JOLLIFFE. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which was argued before the Court some short time since, and at the conclusion of the argument his Lordship gave judgment, but ordered the case to stand over for the purpose of considering the terms on which the decree should be made. The bill was filed by an intended lessee against his landlord for the specific performance of an agreement for a lease. The term for which the lease was to be granted had now expired, but it had not terminated at the time judgment was given, and the material question now was how the Court was to give to the tenant the benefit of the equity which the Court had decided belonged to him. It was contended on the part of the landlord that the lease should bear date from the time of the decree, and that the Court had no power to ante-date the instru ment, and upon this the difficulty in drawing up the decree had arisen. His Lordship considered it surpris ing that there was so little authority upon that point, but it had been discussed in Nares v. Nis bett, in 31 Swanston, in which the question arose, and in which Sir Thomas Plumer had expressed a clear opinion, that the Court would exercise such a jurisdic tion ; and it appeared to his Lordship that unless the Court exercised such a jurisdiction, it could not do jus tice between the parties. The decree his Lordship would make, therefore, would be to declare the plaintiff entitled to the benefit of a lease from the time the draft was proved, and to refer it to the Master, if the parties differed, to settle its terms. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY•) APPREHENSION OF GAMBLERS.—John hamlet, a foreigner, and John Rogers, both of very respectable appearance, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, the sitting Magistrate, and charged as follows :—Ser geant Creman, No. 9 of the C Division, stated that, in consequence of directions he received from the Com missioners of Police, he went in plain clothes to the house No. 7, Leicester-square. He found the street door open, also a second door in the passage, but a door at the foot of the staircase was fastened. Witness knocked, and the defendant, Rogers, looked through a small window in the upper pannel of the door, and asked him what he wanted? Witness replied, " It's all right, old fellow ," and Rogers then opened the door, and he proceeded up stairs to the front room on the first floor, where he found the other defendant and three other persons not in custody. They were playing at roulette, and Hamlet was superintending the game. Witness drew his chair to the table, and asked if any one would play hazard with him. Hamlet replied that he should be happy tG oblige him, but they had no bank. Witness then played at roulette for a few mi nutes, and lost twelve shillings, lie then made an excuse that he was going to get sonic supper, and left the house, and informed Superintendent Baker of what had transpired. He returned in about twenty minutes, and was let in by Rogers, without ;any hesitation. On going up into the play-room, he found Hamlet there alone, and was about to commence playing with him at roulette, when Superintendent Baker entered the room and took the defendants into custody. Superintendent Baker stated some further particulars, when Mr. LONG asked the defendants what they had to say in their defence ? They both said they were merely servants, hired by the proprietor of the house, whose name or address they refused to disclose. Mr. LONG said the case was fully made out against them. In two former cases brought before him he had treated them with some leniency, but, it appeared, with out effect, and he should, therefore, fine the defendants .50/. each, and in default of payment, commit them to the House of Correction to hard labour for six months. The defendants declared their inability to pay, and were consigned to the lock-up cells. UNION-HALL-(THIS DAY.) This morning a sailor, who gave his name William Crawley, was brought before Mr. TRAILL, charged with having capsized an orange-stall, the property of Robert Taylor. Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner what he had to say? Prisoner—Why, if I have done wrong, I'll pay for it, your Worship. He says I threw over his stall for a lark. Now, your Honour, it happened in a lark. I had laid a wager of .ss. to run backwards a cert a i n distance, in doing which I accidentally came stern fore most on this good man's barrow and capsized it. Mr. TRAILL to the prisoner—Under all the circum stances, I shall merely order you to pay for th e m i sc hi e f you have done, which is 10 s. , or in default of payment, seven days in the House of Correction. Prisoner—Will your Honour let me sit down while I send to my:friends for the money, for damn me if I have a farthing. Mr. TRAlLL—Certainly. Prisoner—God bless your Honour, may you live a long life. AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—This morning, at eight o'clock an affair of honour took place on Hamp stead Heath, between Peter Darlton, Esq., a gentleman residing in Cadogan-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, and Captain Phillimore Bargewell, an officer on half-pay. Mr. D. arrived on the ground, accompanied by his friends, a few minutes before eight o'clock, promptly followed by his antagonist and his friends. Both fired without taking effect. Immediately afterwards the seconds interfered, and succeeded in effecting an ami cable arrangement. The cause of the meeting arose from an alleged debt of honour due to Mr. D. at the late St. Leger races. SOUTH-EASTERN (LONDON AND DOVER) RAILWAY.—A special meeting of the Proprietors of this railway was held yesterday at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street, T. W. Tyndale, Esq., in the o c . e '_,.. to receive a report from a Committee of Shareholders Ici r' state appointed at a recent meeting to inquire into 1 Whittle Professor Barlow, of Woolwich, Mr. Danie l of the Company's affairs. The Committee c o n sistedt of The Pr li r e l i and other Harvey, and some of the principal report entered minutely into the facility for the details of the undertaking ; the ufin n d a ness and in the Committeen expressing r s s o and officers of the their strongest confidence in its i Committee had spent five able management of the Di d re e e d to mc Committee, who had affor corn fullest investigation. examination Thee o f the works now in pro most satisfacto rily, in a personal o _ the line, and had no hesita tion every department almost gress on various portions t re proceeding • i. rnvvYe culation s of revenue had been drr,h` after deducting4l tion in saying that they rily, and with an e conomy cal without parallel. and fifty per cent. there was every reason to believe f m or ost w would be nine or ten per cent. on the s o e r v k e in re g ly ex te p s o t o e scs,. the income capital invested . It was stated that few subscription lists tsexhib i te d so respectable and responsible a proprie tary. The report was r ece i ved with much applause, and , adopted with only two dissentient voices in a meeting of 100 Proprietors. A vo t e o f continued confidence in the Directors was carried by acclamation, and the meeting separated. RAILWAY FROM HERTFORD.—The subject of a railway to connect the towns of Hertford and Ware with the Northern and Eastern line, has been again mooted, and some step •,- ; we are pleased tc► lienr lmve WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen rode out ca horseback in the Park this morning, but her MajeeY was compelled, b 3 the rain, to return to the Castle in the carriage which always follows the Royal party. Her Majesty was attended by th e B arone ss Lelizen, Miss Quentin, Earl of Fingal, Hon. Col. Grey, Sir Robert Otway, and Sir George Quentin. Lord and Lady Kinnaird arrived this afternoon at the Castle on a visit to her Majasty, and the Marquis of Normanby is expected this evening from town. The Duchess of SuLlierland, and Lord Alfred Pa get, took their departure from the Castle this morning, The Royal dinner party this evening is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marqu:s and Marchioness of"Normanby, Viscount Mel bourne, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Hon. Charles Howard, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Fingcll, Sir Robert Otway, Hon. Col . Grey, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Lord Hill, Colonel Taylor, and Captain Woodford, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. The Duchess of Sutherland returned to Sutherland House yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Wind sor Castle. The Marquis of Normanby left town yesterday afternoon on a isit to the Queen at Windsor. Despatches from Sir William Nieolay, Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at thi? Colonial Office.. FAS H lON ABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Harborough, from the Continent ; the Right Hon. Thomas Phluta, M. P., ;Ind Mrs. Planta, frolii Hastings; the Ccnat from Paris; the Hon. Lady Blackwood, from Kent , Lady Fitzroy Somerset and the Hon. Miss Somerset; the Doviager Lady Suf field, from Norfolk. _ _ DEPARTURES. Lady Catherine Cavendish, 4',.)r Dover ; the Earl of Beauchamp, for Worcestershire ; the Dowager Lady Kin ;laird, for Hastings ; the Dowager Lady Anson, for Holk ham Hall ; Lord William Montague, for Herts ; Alfred Dyson, Esq., and Lady, from their cottage, Shepherd's bush, for Vicar's-hill, Fareham, on a visit; the Earl of StradbrOte, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat, liennam Hall ; General the Hon. Sir A. Duff, Lady Duff and family, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn street, f - Paris ; M;., and Mrs. Haffner, from ditto, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Betenshaw and Miss E::meads, from ditto, for Kent; the Baron Vandewoestyne, from ditto, for Portland-place ; Lord Mgcrnon Chichester, for Lea mington Spa; the Dowager ft rchioness Conyngbam, for the Denbies ; the Hon, Mrs. Armytage, for the Continent ; the Dowager Countess Nelson, for Yates Court, Kent; Lord and Lady Barham, for Extol: Court, Rutland; Lord Blayney, on a visit to the Earl of Ckledon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George and rrineess Au gusta, attended by Baron Knosebeek, and the lion. Miss Kerr, leave to-day for Middleton Park,. Owl' , a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey, daring. the holydays. • Earl and Countess Poulett are passing the Wt.' ter at Hinton-St.-George, their seat in Somersetshire. The Noble Earl is enjoying the best of health. Viscount and Viscountess Milton, w h o stayed several days at Harewood House, on a visit to t he Earl and Countess of Harewood, are now at Mil ton with the Earl Fitzsvillians and the other branches of the sired.—Herts Refiwnier. .L: -, ;NING TI ON. COURT C ti ULA R. family. Viscount and Viscountess Combermere intend to remain some time longer at Combermere Abbey. Ow ing to the regent death of her 'Ladyship's mother the intended festivities - on the 24th ult., when the Hon. Wellington Stapleton Cotton attained his majority, did not take place. The Dowager Countess of Winterton, accom panied by Lady Charlotte Turner, and Captain and Lady Louisa Rabett, arrived at Brighton, at the close of the week, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wieterton, at Shillinglee Park. The Marquis of Bute has returned to Luton Park, his seat in Bedfordshire, from a visit of several days, to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfielclsaye. Lord Seaton and the Hon. Messrs. Colborne have joined Lady Seaton at Lyneham, the reside: lo of Mr. J. and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, near Yealmptelb . • The Countess of Beauchamp, who has been staying a short time at Brighton, left at the close of the past week for Madre:field Court, Worcestershire, where the Noble Earl had previously arrived from town. B. B. Williams, Esq., and Miss Williams, had a dinner party at their house, in Portland•place, ors Fri day. The Hon. Captain and the Lady Susan Hotha'n' Colonel and Mrs. Elrington, Alderman ThomP's"' M.P., and lady, Captain Mathew, M.P., the Pot tu guese Charge d'Affaires, Captain Elrington, B. Traver:, Afuurguushtautsswaonrdtb,L,alcyreCtliireyordintleenftdtotownpa, pass s e t s h - e Esq., &c., were among the g uests. terd B a l 3 i i, Christmas with the Duke of Devonshire. ARRIVALS AT CHELTA.NHAINI, DEC. 22 Lord Sudeley and the Hon. Miss Tracy, Admiral Lord Colville, Lady Dynevor and the. Hon. Misses Rice, Mr. Hawkes, M.P., and family, Colonel Wyatt, Mr. Compton, Rev. Mr. Aylmer, Dr. Montgomery, Lady Louisa Irving, Sec. C. H. Leigh, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of Mon mouth, has subscribed 201., Sir C. Morgan 20/., Lord Granville Somerset 51., Lord James Stuart .51., Sir J. R. Meyrick 51., Mr. Blewitt 101., for the proposed ser ice of plate to be presented to Sir Thomas Phillips, late Mayor of Newport. Viscount Sandon, M.P , Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P., and C. Cresswell, Esq., M. P., have respectively subscribed the sum of 100/., and John Gladstone, Esq., 2001., towards the formation of a Collegiate Institution at Liverpool for the education of the commercial, trading, and working classes. These munificent donations cannot but excite the admiration of the intelligent inhabitants of that wealthy and populous town. DERBY.—An Arboretum is being laid out un der the directions of J. C. Loudon, Esq., at Derby, at the expense of Joseph Strutt, Esq. When finished that gentleman most liberally and benevolently intends presenting it to the town. This example will, we hope, be followed by other wealthy individuals.—Derbyshire Chronicle. Sir W. Brabazon, M.P. for Mayo, is to be en tertained at dinner by his constituents, on the 6th of January, after which the worthy Baronet departs for London to attend his Parliamentary duties.—Mayo Te legraph. Mr. Eneas M'Donnell made his appearance at Knaresborough on Monday, but•he met with so little encouragement fro:n any party that it was thought he would leave the town without delivering himself of a speech. The Tories were shy because he is a Roman Catholic ; and the Hon. M. Langdale, M.P., had not taken the least notice of Mr. M•Donnell's challenge to a discussion.—Leeds Mercury. It is said that the Earl of Liverpool is about to be united in marriage to Mrs. Mytton. Lady Granville gave her first ball this se ason, at the British Embassy in Paris, on Friday evening last, which was most numerously attended by French and foreigners of distinction. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, arrived from Rome, were present. The present season is not remarkable for the presence of a number of English in the French capital. They rather look to attractions at home. It is said that the late Mr. Philip Hope has left to each of his three nephews 30,0001. a year. His valuable collection of books was bequeathed to Mr. Hope, and the remainder of his personal property to the other two nephews. EXPEDITION FROM THE ROYAL GEOGRA PHICAL AND CHR ISTIAN KNOWLE DGE SOCIETIES: . t hat we had to announce t h e return o f expedition to Kurd istan, cause d b y t h e dis turbed state oldie country. It appears t h at t h e Ame rican.wission 11ad also . sent two gentlemen, a Mr. Homes and a Dr.. Grant, into the same country, to hold com -4' ieation with the mun Chaldee Christians. The Rev. iser. Homes is just returned to Constantinople from Mardin, front w hi c h place he made his escape with difficulty, his his companion h a vin g life an d th at o f e been put in great danger by the reckless ferocity of the inha bitants. Dr. Grant was to ga on with C a ptain Con nolly t o M osu l and Bagdad, the latter gentleman having a tater and guard from his being in charge of de spatches for India. Dr. Ainsworth and Mr. C. Ras sam intended to resume their journey to Kurdistan on the Ist of the present month. On account of the very unsettled state of. the country, which is overrun by freebooters who were lately engaged in the armies of Turkey and Egypt, from whence they were provided with arms and ammunition, they will proceed to Alenl)° , through Koniah and Adana, and from thence will pro cure a guard to Mosul. SEASONABLE BENEFACTIONS.—Mr• Strat ford Dugdale, Mr. and C. H. Newdegate, Esq., have presented 201. each for the relief of the suffering poor of Nuneaton. Mr. Hastie, M.P. for Paisley, has trans mitted 5001. as his subscription for the relief of the un employed weavers in that town. This is the more gratifying, as the aid has been given unsolicited. On Friday the trustees of Bedford Charity, distributed the usual quantity of money and clothes to the poor, at the White Hart Hotel, Aylesbury. The applications were very numerous. The Duchess of Northumberland will give away, during the present week, at Alnwick Castle, bedding, clothing, and food to the poor of the eight parishes adjoining the castle. Her Grace and the Duke will arrive at Northumberland House for the season, on the 3ath of next month. Lord Middleton has sub scribed 1001.. and the Earl of Stmrhnrou,h and Lord lieve the distressed working classes at Nottingham. se—we, ' i