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,; ; ~; )%eri3Ofi -Messrs. March, Hilton , .Messrs. , n, Fos- I. Evart Goer' the So- rs. GU Y ,.. it on 1,16 ) roCei Ve his E l. as SOO ° !eded to red the !as, the cellencY 100 0 °f 4 iderat e !g U 9 t 0• no r that 29 It B in tha t promote ; servic e th 031 ed gat° alters' longe d docu' own to .1110•1101.••••• unifortid% attended the of ale Emitt. 'l , ops. according !o inc orr:—pondein of Galt . ;;- ) is"es.SF7lnl'r..!! sf:v 1Y! peoile, and ‘!'t.r -,Aav ,vver jl,l dleS' hAti if 33 1 bri.:1!2111'.;: heads— a !al:ounce pa; t of the Arab system 01 %I/al-fare, is very likely to be somewhat ex aggerated. But wholt,r or not, the report ( of so inauspicious a commencement of hostilities has created a great deal of excitement in Paris. In the eyes of the Court its worst feature is the ridicule with which it will cover the expedition of notthe Duke of ORLEANS, whose speedy return will fa;.l to be attributed to his knowledge, that if he waited longer in Africa he would find plenty of real, instead of sham-fighting. Upon these events it would be premature to speak with any deree of confidence. We shall therefore for the present confine ourselves to an enunciation of the opin:ons of the French Jour nals of Monday, as we find them summed up in the columns of a Paris Contemporary. The Con- Vitutionnel observes, that ,ince ABD-EL-KADER has broken the Treaty of Tafna, the Government will not fail to take advantage of the rupture to destroy his power and consolidate the dominion of France in Algeria. Trie Courrier Francais at tributes the attack of the Arabs to the military promenade to the Iron Gates, which, it says, was calculated to provoke a war, and has had the effect of causing the French troops—decimated by sick ness—to be the attacked instead of the attacking party, a fearful odds, irr such a warfare. The Commerce, however, is confident of the triumph of France. It denounces the Treaty of Tafna as the primary cause of this rupture, but is equally san guine as to the utter prostration of the Arab chief. The Quotidienne hints fears and suspicion of Eng land, which, we need Lardly observe, are as un founded as they are indicative of the spirit which pervades the French Royalist faction. Tire Siecle end the Temps observe that this not the time for talking of the faults of the Government, hut for action, for conquest, and for glory. The National, Which is equally warlike in its tone, is furious in its reprobation of the blunders of the Cabinet. Thus all the French Journals are unanimous iu support jog a war policy in Africa. Of other intelligence, there is little of any mo ment in the Jounals of Monday. The people of Havre," says Cie Journal of that town, " have now under their eyes a proof of the good effects of free trade. Numerous orders for flour have been sent to the United States. Already 9,000 bar rels have been entered, and as many more expected. Hitherto Cie price of flour in our markets has main tained itself ; but the knowledge of this fact has pro duced its effe6., and in the market of Montevilliers it has fallen 4 fr. a sack." The official table of the prices of wheat in the French markets, made up to the 30th ult., shows that the highest price per hectolitre (24 bushels) has been 26fr. 46e. in the markets of Bergues, Arms, Roye, is3oissons, Paris, and Rou2n ; and tbe lowest 20fr. 95c, in arose of Saumur, Nantes. and Marans. The price_ of the four pound loaf cor the first fort night of the present month is reduced to 17 sous. During the last month 2,231,893 fr. were paid into the Savings' Bank of Paris by 16,413 depositors, of wh om 2,306 were new, and 1,651,000 fr. were drawn out. Letters from Valparaiso, of the 15th of July, give a deplorable picture of the molestations of all kinds to which the French are exposed in the Polynesian islands. —L'Ocianie. The state of things has improved at Otaheite since the arrival of the Artemise frigate, and of M. Alorenhout i the French Consul in that Archipelago. But it would be desirable dvat there shonld be Consulates in the other is:ands, and that a French squadron should be stationed in those Vas, where our seamen ere every moment in danger of being plundered and murdered. Thus, for instance in the Sandwich :elands, the position is not tenable. A French Consul had been placed there by Captain Dupetit-Thouars, but the person whom he had chosen was not qualified to fill '-he post permanendy. M. Dudort is, in fact, a trader the Mauritius, and .his own commercial interest obliges him to traverse the se as, and hinders him from residing. His long and fre quent ausences thus leave our commerce without protec tion, exposed to annoyances of all kinds, which the English missionaries are continually promoting against every thing that has a French air. These missionaries, whom the Debals very recently characterised as civilisers, enrich themselves with a cu pidity which ma) be called atrocious, at the expense of tile unhapy people on whom they have fastened them selves. At Fladai, the American Methodists endeavour by all the means in their power, and they are not very delicate on this point, to maintain for their exclusive Profit tile monopoly whico they have succeeded in esta blishing of all the productions of the island, Our vessel cannot even take in wood and water without the permission cf the Reverend Gentlemen, for which they are paid very dear. It would be most d:..sirah;e that the Government should send thither a a consul not quite so great a voyager its M, pudort. The obligation to reside should be an indispensible eon d'tion. The necessity of a naval force is no less ma. rifest, when we know that the insolence of the Minister, Blumsfeld, at Havai, has gone so far as to trespass on the residence of the English Consul, paid to burn the British flag.—The Capitole, quoted by the Commerce. BOURSE.—Pai: Mommv, DEC 2. Hishesi Lowest Last c Price Price. 'reach per Ce• , '• •I t (10 iO5 ... 111 50 ... 165 4!: 2 pez yeas i‘• • ... 10565... 1 , 5 65 ... 105 65 3 ~.rt,co,s 6l 93 81 93 81 9) Bank 01 . : ree mi=te ! -.1076 ..,I 75 I , .. l ltata 5 per Cc , ;s 10P,4 ••• 101 % ••• 101 X1 ••• 10 N Ban , ' •/5.7 755 ... ...755 SPanish Ar - t ie p k ,g4ase 6IS ... 13 ); ... 63,'s 6 74, •-• 6 Ts tP4oeratnogi itle°asnied 1 :: :e- C7 j a 103 5 ... 103 5 ... 103 Ro 5 ..... ...• Roman •pj 101 JoAyi lois; crrirt. B V.' SHARES. RAIL'.` St. • ,0 .„ 550 ... 550 550 47.) ;it 50 ••. 4i2 412 50 Versaill es, . ! ,7 50 •41/7 SC) •.. 07 50 ::97 50 L.B Orlean s - B. ' •"`" " Strasburg Bale.. ...•. .... ... 30,, . atti It'a rn ASPHAL'fES AND BiTU Maberly's) ' , Mel (A) AU:ARIAN FuND:.;.--Vt6I , A.A. Nov 23 f,ve per Cee.., 1\1,:i;•1•;q ,, c; Feel' . 'le: Cent - 1: o`6 'three nee Cers. Bank Shares; ..-Allgenzeine wit:. Nov, 28 Ma3rid Papers of the 25th ult. have arrived. The Liberal majority of the late Cortes were very activ e in their eideavours to defeat the Government at th e forthcoming oketion. They had held several 'acetin gs , organized Committees , an d p re p ared addresses to the nation. Ile war in Catalonia and Arragon was in reality making. no progress, and it wa s not expected that anything cou!fl be done b ...fore spring. Another Bergara Convention was spoken of, to which it was said that CABRERA Was now inclined to listen. Since the arrival of the mail from Lisbon, it has been stated that th e administrati • • •on of SAJROZA was at an end, a „ d the Colin' BOAITIM to f orm QUEEN had empowered a new administration. He was to be assisted by M essrs. iDo R. and COSTA D E FN" sECA, MAGALHAEs, F LO CABRAL. The present T Portuguese Minister at Paris, Viscount DE C•RREI RA ; ' . 5 spoken of as likely to be the new Minister for Forei gn This change, it is supposed, will be auspicious both both to Portugal and England, ensuring order there ere mod re-establishing friendly relations with us. Alen, particularly religious men, or those who sham being religious, because they think religion is for th e good of tlie people, are strangely inconsis tent. They cry out that there is a great want of relicrion amongst the people, and they subscribe and build churches, endow clergymen and send out missionaries to inculcate religion. But when the Catholics do the same—when they build churches and send out missions, anti subscribe money to promote religion—the religious men of our land set up a hullabaloo, a weeping and wail ing, only to be matched by Irish crones at a wake, against the progress of the Roman Catholic reli gion. We should have thought that would have Pleased them. But what these persons require, and what they subscribe to obtain is, that other peo- Ple should think as they think, and worship as they wor s hi p . T hey seek for conform i ty to strengt h en their a own b el i ef. Have they doubts, t h en — are t h ey apprehensive, and can they have no peace—have they no reliance on their own convictions, as long as men are found who do not agree with them ? Laugh and joke as much as you can at the close of dinner. It helps digestion mere than cheese or Champagne. Indeed moderate fits of laughter are better limn pills.—New York Paper. V1 4. .!N N C - pniTioN. () ' 16 ‘`) ~.~i i:, ,sT-OFFICE REGULA L lONS. r. d. TWOPENNY AND THREEPENNY POST. FUNERAL OF THE DAUGHTER OF LORD BROUGHAM. This morning, at half-past nine o'clock, the mortal remains of the beloved daughter of Lord Brougham, were interred in that part of Lincoln's Inn which is enclosed and appointed for the burial of the dead. The procession, which passed through the city, consisted of the hearse drawn by four horses, three mourning coaches also drawn by four horses, and six noblemen's (among whom we noticed the Marquis of Wellesley's) and gentlemen's carriages. Among those present at and who followed the funeral, were Lord Brougham, as chief mourner, the Right Hon. Lord Denman, Chief Justice Tindal, Mr. Vizzard, barrister, Mr. Miller, of the Bankruptcy Court, and Mr. Charles Phillips, barrister. The deceased, who was in the 19th year of her age, was the only child of his Lordship, and is represented as having possessed a most amiable cud affectionate disposition, and was deservedly beloved by all who knew her. This is the only instance on record of the interment of a female in the burying-place of Lincoln's Inn. Hitherto it has been reserved exclusively for the resting-place of the Benchers of the Inn, but the Noble and Learned Lord made an application for permission to have his daughter laid here, accompanied by a state ment that it is his intention to be buried in the same grave himself. A Special Meeting of the Council of Benchers were called on Monday evening last, to take the application into consideration. They unanimously agreed that the privilege asked for should be granted, and which has been regarded as a mark of the highest respect and esteem in which Lord Brougham could possibly be held by that learned body. Lord Erskine applied to the same tribunal for liberty to have his lady buried in the same place, but though he also was a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, that request was negatived. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY WORD/WORTH V. WOOD. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in this case, which was heard before his Lordship some time since, upon appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. His Lordship ordered the judgment below to be affirmed, but without costs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. THE EARL OF STAMFORD, The arguments of Mr. Jacob, following Sir Charles Wetherell, on behalf of the Trustees of the Charity, occupied his Lordship the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY,) CASBORNE V. BARSHAVV. IMPORTANT POINT OF PRACTICE.—In this case an issue was directed to be tried at law. On the trial a verdict was found for the plaintiff. A new trial was ordered at the bist Assizes. The time was fixed by the Lord Chancellor on appeal, after bearing the plaintiff's reasons for desiring to postpone the trial till a future time. When the time for tr;al came the plaintiff, although urged by the defendant to proceed, made default. For that default the plaintiff stated no reason which deserved at tention, and the defendant i.herefore moved that the issue might be taken pro confeiso against him. The MASTER of the ROLLS this morning, in givin / judgment, observed that many cases had occurred which the plaintiff's default in proceeding to tri at the time appointed, the Court had order( ! the issue to be taken pro confess° against hill.. unless he proceeded to trial at the next following Assiz , and in which, on his neg;ecting so to do, the issue been taken pro confesso absolutely, but it had been ;: leged in support of the present motion, that the practi, of this Court was to make the order absolute in t first instance. No example of that sort had be quoted, and his Lordship had not been able find any printed authority on the subject. 'I only order bearing on the point which had b► found, was, after a search in the Registrar's books; • a case which occurred in 1746, before Baron Clar and three Masters, in the absence of the Lord eh:: cellar, and in which the party who had made defat not opposing the motion, the order was made ab lute in tho first instance, on affidavit of s , vice. He (the Master of the Rolls) could li consider that as an authority, and however much might disapprove of the neglect of the plaintiff, I Lordship did not think his default ought to be visit, with a punishment of which he had bad no warning, : no reason to anticipate. His Lordship was of opinio.i that the defendant was entitled to an order that the issue should be taken pro confesso, unless the plaintiff should pr4c,ec4 to trial at the next Assizes, and was entitled to :he costs of the motion. No other order could be made. HOARE V. wArrs. The Court wet occupied the remainder of the day with the further arguments of Counsel in this case. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIPGE and a Common Jury.) LUCAS V. RANDALL. Mr. HUMPHREYS stated the case. It was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation for the loss and injury sustained by him by reason of the de fendant, who was a coach and cart wheelwright, smith, and coach-spring maker, neglecting to teach him his trade, The plaintiff had been apprenticed to him for i.e years, and he merely employed him in going of errands, and doing other work which had no relation to his trade, and he was now unable to earn more than a common labourer. The defendant pleaded that he did teach him his trade, and, secondly, he pleaded that the plaintiff was drunk and quarrelling with his fellow apprentice. Now that was a most ungracious charge, which arose out of these girgurnstances. In the second year of his apprenticeship, some of the older hands quarrelled with an o th er b o y, an d was sent gav e him more liquor on ono occasion than was good him— b he to prison for six day s . Th a t was all for eyrythhiernMg proper, but he thought it most unjustifiable to put such a plea on the record AA a defence for no t ha v i n g, fafiveh years, taught him hi s t ra d e . Th e e absented himself fro m hi s wor k ; but ht f ro m his having been hurt by some tim tdhuirritni g plea a that a term rt,v}sa e s ° o bliged to go to the hospital for two or j ury would, under these t b h e r r, e e and w e e bungks. The circum stances, give such damages as the plaintiff might be considered justly entitled to. putJatomethsand were for the term of five The indentures were then put in and read, they were dated October, 1831, years. employment e TaPI usual ia g work i waso t it in tt from 1831 to 1833. - 1 saw the plaintiff there. He was a pprentice washing, clean the defendant's . emp i o tog, an d ' s g , Preparing work for the en: of errand s ßaster thought dworkthat an other proper. _ . Cross-exami ne d... 4 never saw him t i psy . I always willi ng to do what I bid him, Ran dall and , Mr. R He was . r had a little alt ercation, and I left him in a c tober 1833. I mig;:t have b een a little forward in li q uor at the AIM , 8 ? --(A laugh.) I hav e seen Lucas since, but ! gave b _ " no conversation with him. T & don't kno w that he is nor/ a horse-keeper or horse -jockey. I bay!" worked at differ ent places since. Thr,:e year s permanently .at Mr. Ro binson's. Lucas told me he was working at Mr, Coop' er's a dust yard in Westminster. Daniel Armitage--II aro a lvielwri g h t. I worked, in 1836, with the defendant, and ~i.ocas was then i n his employment. That was in the last year of his ap prenticeship. He was employed at jobbing of different sorts. It was not work fit for an advanced apprentice.. He was eleariag and boxing wheels, and puttin g i n rivets, which an apprentice ought to learn in a month. ho m 4ndall) p l eased. I spoke to his master to let bka-do other work, but the answer was he should do what work Th, Pos'-office Regulations come into to- i:.,trow. We con ; :ratulate our readers and subjoin for their u,e a table, with u:ar!ou of ihe rwc.s of posta(.e for any sixtocu ounc:,.s. It has been fur nilted to us by a valued Correspondent, and places the alterations in such a simple and clear point of view, that he who runneth may read. One charge seems to us most unaccountable. If a letter in the slightest degree turns the balance above an ounce, it will be charged four postages, that is sixteen pence ; whereas, if it were divided into three letters, the Post-office would have the trouble of delivering three letters in place of one, weighing nearly half an ounce more, and receive only one shilling. UENERAL POST. Rates of Postage to be Charged, on and after de .sih December, 1839. Weight not exceeding ounce, 0 4 ditto ditto 1 ditto 0 8 ditto ditto 2 ditto 1 4 ditto ditto 3 ditto 2 0 ditto ditto 4 ditto 2 8 ditto ditto 5 ditto 3 4 ditto ditto 6 ditto 4 0 ditto ditto 7 ditto 4 8 ditto ditto 8 ditto f 4 ditto ditto 9 ditto 6 0 ditto ditto 10 ditto 6 8 ditto ditto 11 ditto 7 4 ditto ditto 12 ditto 8 0 ditto ditto 13 ditto 8 8 ditto ditto 14 ditto 9 4 ditto ditto 15 ditto 10 0 ditto ditto 16 ditto 10 8 N.B.—All Litters exceeding ONE OUNCE to be pre paid, or ch.rged double postage. Letters not exceeding Half an Ounce, if pre -paid, will be charged One Penny. Letters exceeding that weight, and not exceeding four ounces, will be charged formerly. No letter wyighing more than four ounces can be forwarded. TUrE Se-N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1839 The plaintiff was put to do hammerman's, or common t labourers, w or k. H e seeme d a l ways attentive and ' willing. Ido not think he was taught as he ought to WINDSOR have been. He should b e a bl e to earn 2/. a week if he her usual ride to-day. T UESDAY, —The Queen has not t a k en . kuevr his trade. A harnoterman could earn from The Right Ilon: George Stevens Byng arrived to-day etaitteen Aitlings to a pound. I was not there in 1835. at the Cast!e, and will rtuain on a visit to her Ma 'James Flynn—l worked with the defendant for three jesty until Saturday, years, and I saw the plaiatiff there. He was put to The Earl and Countess of , Uxbridge, the Ladies die eitull jab work of an apprentice. He was very Eleonura and Constance Paget, and Colonel Greenwood, willing at all times. Tapiingwas kick e d out of th e shop for 2al Life Guards, are expected to join the Royal Circle being drunk and keeping the other men away from work. at dinner this evening.xp T ed R Dinner Party at I heard since the action was commenced that the plain- the Castl e will also include her Royal Highness the tiff was a pot boy. I heard also that he was a shop- Duchess of Kent, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, keeper to his uncle, and groom to a gentleman. He told H. Miss Paget, Ho - n. Miss Anson, Lady Gardiner, me he was a member of th e F ree an d E as y Club, or Baroness Lehaen, Lord Lilford, Colonel Mu rra y. Odd Fellows. I was examined by Mr. Rogers, the Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. defendant's attorney. Mr. Randall brought me there. Mr. Huarntaays—Pray what was Mr. Rogers Her Majesty the Queen Dowager honoured Co (doing ? Just what you are doing—asking questions.— vent-garden Theatre with her presence last evening. A laugh.) Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef- How did you go there ?—ln a cart. field, Hon. Miss Mitchell, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl Did you conic to-day in a cart ?—No, I walked in Howe, Earl of Denbigh, and the Rev. J. R. Wood. the Marrowbone stage.—(Much laughter.) The Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary Pray what:countryman are you ?—Guess ?—(Roars of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, at of laughter.) tended by Mi ss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, came to town yesterd a y from Kew. The Duchess, accomp a nied I have guessed but I wan t you to set me r i g h t—you are an Irishman ?—I am. by the Princesses Augusta and Mary, and Prince I thought so from your saying you walked in the Ma- George of Cambridge, visited the Queen Dowager nt rylebone stage.—(The laugh was here turned against I Marlborough House. Mr. Humphreys.) The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Pray who was with you at Mr. Rogers'a ?—The Queen Dowager yesterday, most amiable Mrs. Flynn.—(Much laughter.) The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Any other company ?—And the baby.—(Laughter.) Majesty's. Most Honourable Privy Council had a meet- Then it was a tea drinking party ?—lt was an even- ing at two o'clock yesterd a y a ft er noon, at the C ounc il ing excursio n ,I b e li eve . O ff i ce. The Lords present were the Marquis of By Mr. .la:sty's—Did not Mr. Randall buy a lathe Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, for Luc as ?—N o t f or him particularly ;it was for me . the Chanc e ll or o f the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere, and • Mr. HUDIPHREYS—Why that's what Mr. Randall has Sir George Grey. been teaching you ? Witness—What's that ? Dr. Kay was in attendance. The meeting b ro k e up at half-past three o'clock, Mr. HUMPHREYS —T o turn —(G reat laughter.) Witness—Oh !if th e t rut h o ff en d s you, I cannot when th e M arqu i s of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, help it. Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Mann.—l worked with the defendant. I saw and Mr. Labouchere, went to attend a Cabinet Council the plaintiff doing odd jobs, and selling chips. lie was at the Foreign -office. Viscount Melbourne, the Mar always willing and able to do what he was taught. He was quis of Norinanby, Earl of Mints, Lord Holland, and not properly taught. I never saw R an d a ll teach him other Mi n i s t ers , atten d ed the Counc i l. any thing. What h e did m i g h t b e d one b y any corn- The Cabinet C ounc i l b roke up a quarter before six mon labourer. I wa s th ere a b out t h ree mont h s. I was o'clock. A deputatio n , respect i ng Ch urc h- rates, had an inter not sent away fo r b e i ng d run k b ut f rom ill ness. view with Vi scount M e lb ourne yesterday, at his official Whiten-1 Gibbi n .—l was apprent i ce d to defendant, during the time Lucas was there. I don't think he residence in Downing.street. was taught his trade. It was labourer's work all The Marquis of Bute had an interview with the through. He was h ur t b y some t i m b er falling on him, Marquis of N orman b y yesterday at the Home Office. and was at home fo~ two or three weeks. Tire Chairm an o f S tamps an d T axes, an d the Sol i c i - Mr. LEWIS addressed the Jury for the defendant, tor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche and called several wit nesses t o prove t h at the plaintiff quer Yest er d ay i n D owning -street. had received all th e requ i s it e i nstruct i on, and that the The Ea r l o f R a d nor h ad an interview yesterday with defendant had put hi m t o t h e wor k wh i ch he was Viscount M e lb ourne . capable of performing. Some evidence was given with respect to the plaintiff being drunk and quarrelling on one or two occasions. Mr. ERLE replied, and COU LAR FASIIIONAI3LE INTELLIGENCE . • Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the evidence. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. 'ALS. Sir Edward and Lady Aßßlt Denny, Mr. Holmes, M.P. the Countess Bathurst, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Warrender, Mr. Buller, M.P., Baron and Baroness de Cetto, Sir Edmund and Lady Currey, the Hon. Charles Spencer Cowper, Count Esterhazy, Mr. Lionel de Rothschild, the Hon Captain Macdonald, the Earl of Yarborough. Lord George Bentinck, the Countess Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield ; the Marquis of Waterford, at the Cavendish Hotel, from his scat Curraghmore, Ireland ; Captain Fayrer, at ditto, from Liverpool ; James Fergusson, Esq. at ditto, from Bristol ; F. Duncan, Esq., at ditto, from Cambridge; General Clelland and family, at ditto; H. Sandbach, Ell., at ditto, from Liverpool; J. Hatch Abdy, Esq., at ditto, from Paris; Misses Sykes, at ditto, from ditto. EXCHEQUEtt INEQUITy. (THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Sergeant's Inn, before Baron ALDERSON.) TOWNEND V. CHAMPERNOWNE.—THE DISADVANTAGE OF GAINING A SUIT. This case, which has been for a great number of years before the Court, again came on on petition and appeal for rehearing. Sir W. FOLLETT, who appeared in support of the petition and appeal, regretted that the case should again have to be brought before his Lordship ; but he trusted that the prognostications of the other side would be disappointed, and that it would not be taken before an other tribunal, for he thought by this time the parties must have had enough of litigation. The present ques tion arose on a decree of his Lordship, on further di rections, during last Term. The Learned Gentleman then went into the case at considerable length, and in allusion to one part of it, said the defendant found him self to be a loser by having succeeded in the House of Lords.—(A laugh.) Mr. BARON ALDERSON—That is no unusual thing. —(Laughter.) Swift mentions an instance of a person havire , been ruined by getting a decree in his favour in the Court of Chancery, with all the costs.—(Continued laughter.) Sir W. FOLLETT—We are many thousand pounds worse off than if we had failed in the Houk of Lords. Mr. BARON ALDERSON—That was arising from the delay. Sir W. FOLLETT—BOt it puts us in this position. We have been struggling for a right which we esta blished in our favour. It is the fault of the plaintiff, and yet in consequence of that delay he will get more than if he had succeeded. Mr. Baron ALDERSON--It will hurt you both ; but that is past mending. Sir W. FOLLETT—It will be an important question for your Lordship to decide where the fault lay, end whether the plaintiff is to be visited with the conse quences of the delay. The hearing of the case is likely to occupy the whole of the day. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) , DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Jersey and the Ladies Villiers for Mid. dleton Park ; the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Leicester Stan hope, for the Cedars, Surrey; Lady Aline Ramsay, for Leamington Spa ; the Hon. Capt. Chas. Scott, Scots Fusilier Guards, for ditto; Ledy an d the MisesWheatley, fur St. Leonard's on- Sea ; the Rev. Sir Nigel Greeley, for Netherseote Hall ; Lord and Lady Kenmare for Brighton; Lord Cardigan, for Dover; Lady Camper down and Lady Elizabeth Duncan, for Bath ; the Hon. H. R. Wcstenra, for Berkshire; the Countess of Fingal and family, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea • the Hon. Willi am Cowper, for Trenth am H a ll ; Rev. T. D. H. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Dover; Rev. Charles Fryer, from ditto, for Cheltenham; Hon. and Rev. T. P. Bouverie, from ditto, for Wilts. CHANGES. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris and family, from Malvern to Ramsgate. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.---We undersea? should the health of the Queen Dowager continue to improve, that early in the ensuing summer her Majesty will again make a tour of visits in the country. We hear, that the Queen has already accepted invitations from the Marquis of Exeter and the Duke of Devon shire. RANTON ABBEY, STAFBORDSHIRE.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George have accepted the invitation of Lord and Lady Lichfield to meet the Duke of Sussex and a select party on Monday next. Mr. Edward Stanley, Secre tary to the Treasury, Mr. George Payne, and the lion. Col. Anson, are among the guests expected. Lord Lichfield,. who had been stayin g in town for six weeks On important busines* relative to the Post-office re duCtion measure, arrived by the railroad at Renton, on ►Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland intend to receive a succession of visitors at Trentham Hall dur ing the Christmas holidays. It is said the Duke and Duehess intend to come to Stafford House for the season in about six weeks. The Prince and Princess of Capua, with the in fant Prince and Princess, also Miss Smythe, and their suite, arrived yesterday at Mivart's Hotel from Kinmel Park, the seat of the Earl of Dinorben. The Countess of Westmeath returned to town last week from a tour on the Continent, accompanied by Mr. Nugent. The Earl of Veiulam left Grosvenor-square on Monday for Gorhambury. The Earl and Countess of Glengall left town at the close, of the past week for Paris, in which capital they intend to pass the winter months. The Earl of Minto will leave the Admiralty the week after next for Minto House, Roxburghshire, to Join the Countess of Minto and family. The Noble Earl will return to town the last week in January, for the season, when the elegant parties at the Admiralty will be commenced. The Earl of Grosvenor will leave Eaton Hall in a few days fur Moteornbe, where his Lordship pur poses passing the Christmas recess. The Earl of Westmoreland is still at Brighton. Lord Wharncliffe is still at Oatlands, the seat of Lord Francis Egerton, in Surrey, and has not left town for Wortley Hall, as erroneously stated. There was a grand ballue on the well-stocked preserves on Monday, when Lord Fitzroy Somerset and a select party of noblemen had excellent sport. There were a great number of pheasants killed. Viscount Mahon, M.P., who has been stated by the daily journals to be in Paris, is on a visit to Sir R. Peel, Bart., and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor. THORPE HALL, YORKSHIRE.--Mr. and Lady Augusta Millbank have been entertaining his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and a select party, since his return from Horuby Castle. Kt NIVEL PARK, ST. AsAPH.---,Lord Dinorben is making preparations for the reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, who is expected to arrive on the 18th or 20th instant, from Renton Abbey, the shooting lodge of Lord Lichfield, in Staffordshire. DOVER, DEC. 2.—Arrived her Majesty's packet Myrtle, Captain Lyne, from Calais, with his Excel lency Baron Munchasen, the Hanoxerian Ambassador, and suite, who went to the Ship Hotel, where a gum d of honour and the band of the 90th Regiment were in at tendance. After taking refreshment his Excellency de. parted for London under a salute from the guns at the Citadel. James Helmer, a brass-founder ,of Wardour-street; John Mums, an upholsterer of Netptnan-street, Charles Heywood, a tailor of Sherrard-street, and James gray, Duke-street, St. James's, were brought up by constable Williams, 28 F, charged with ringing bells and knock-' ing at doors in King-street, Covent-garden, about five o'clock this morning. Toe defendants admitted that both time and circum stances were against them, and were ordered to pay a fine of ss. each or go to prison for a month. The defendants paid the fine and were discharged, NIONEY AND COMMERCIAL N EWs cable. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—W e have had a modorate demand for Cotton to-day, and prices continue in favour of the buyer. The Sales 2,500 bags to the trade. Arrivals this morning —A French mail ; also a mail from St. Thomas, by the Alert, sailed on the '24th of October, from Cape Henry Nov. 4 ; ship-letters from New York (old). By the West India mail we have reeeived Jamaica papers to the 29th of October, extracts from which are given elsewhere. THE FUNDS. Consols, opened this morning at the same quotations they closed at—for Money, 90i 91 ; for Account (Janu ary), 91i i. Exchequer Bills, 4 2 die. ; Bank Stock, 178 179 ; India Stock, 252 253. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 251 i ; Portuguese 33f 34 ; Three per Cents., 23é 1-i ; Co lombian, 304 i ; Brazilian, 73 72 ; Mexican, 294 i ; DutchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents., 52-i i ; Five per C Sitt e lo n Ce t kli ..fte7" . ...... NI i , 9 7's Cents., 98f 99. ... ................... DAY s A tec T k ONE O'CLOCK. 90 Ditto Bonds 3 Ba p n er kP 7 cgs 3 per Cent. Cons. 9l 9t0% 1; South Sea Stock Bllli 3% per Cent -- Old Annuities Ditto Red, 9814%4 New Ditto New 3% pet Cent... ...... .3s 99%X. 4 3 per Cent. Annuit'les, 17a I New 5 per Cent. ' ( Exch. Bills .£1 000 4 2 die Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto ' ' '''' . 500 ... 4 '.. dis. Jan. 5, 1880 13 11-16%' Di tto S mall . .3 dis. par Oct. 10, 1859 -- ' Ditto Co mmerc i al — Jan. 5, 1860 1 3!51 Ditto Adv er ti se d ... Jan. 5, 1880 13% 1540 Bank Stock for Accoun t ... -- April 5, 1880 — -- India Stock for A ccount ... Jan. 5.1870 -- Consos for Account..., .. 91% PRICES OF FOREIG N FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 AOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account - Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account -I Ditto Account ii 7 ,1 1, % Chilian Bonds Ditto Account — Russian Bonds, 182' Columbian Bonds ... Ditto Acc0unt ...,,„........ Ditto Account —, Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account — ' Ditto Account. ,23 9 i% 4 Danish Bonds Ditto Account —l 'Deferred il% Greek. Bonds — ,French, 5 per cent -c Ditto 110110, 1825 — 4 per cent —f —c Ditto Account — -- 3 per cent Mexican Bonds ; 5 per Cent. Exchange. — I - . —c, Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan —l, Ditto AccYunt........ ...... .. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA) AT ONE O'C I .0C n.. Paid. Per Shatc, Great Western Railway Company Ditto New . , .. .. r...,.... N nil] Midland Railway Company, B.l National Bank of iteland— I 7 IA COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YESTERDAY, Amsterdam C. 1.. 12 7 l finOratiar 4B Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 0 U l2 7%' Genoa .. ....................... 0 5 81 Antwerp,„ • •r l2 6% , Milan.... ~ .......................... 31 Hamburg, ..,.... „„,51.8 l3 1:1 iVenice .............................. 47 Altona„,„ „ . l3 1354 Naples ... ...... .. ............. ~. 40 , „. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 56 Palermo per cs. !21 % Ditto... ... ........... 3M.25 75 Li s b on ' Marseilles.. 25 75 Oporto 51 5 Bouvaeaux FraniYprt On Maine, Ex.M. 151% Bahia ... 27 Peterabnlgh, ruble... 3 Us. 37% Bue nos A yres Berlin ' ~,,,,,... 7 0 New York, 21 d ays ' sight ... 4f, Vienna, effeCriVe e... 4 iii . 10 9 Phil.idelohia 45 Trie;te ditto ... 10 14 PRICE OF BULLION , per OZ. k a d s o mm . 34 t o Portugal 0 old , cot u ......!:0 0 0 Cad 1 z..••........,,,,,,,, ~ .. 3654 Foreip go , (1, 'n bzts... 317 1/ Gi1b0a....., room 36 New Doohicions ..n...... 11 0 0 Barcelona 36 New Dollars ..... .....,.. ti 4 10Ni Seville. .......... ........... HALF-PAST ONE. Conaclq may be quoted at present a shade lower than in the early part pf the morning, this being the settling day for Consols, 90.01 Money, and for the Account, 9]i; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 disebunt ; bank Stock, 179 1781, rather lower ; India Bonds, 7 di scoun t, 1 6 t h e I;9rizlgn Market very little doing. Spanish ; A c.e e no t v w ag po fippd as in the morning, 251 ; Portuguese, 301 ; Three per Cents, 231 ; Sp an i s h Pas. ales, p 1-A ' S-arns t i ~‘lfetTed, 11i. ; Dutch T vro-ant.-a- ia P us e,r llf Cents. 521 ; Five per ,-eats. 06i. The Hamburg mail Las not yet am vet,. BATH, MONDAY.—The Earl and the Countess of Camperdown, accompanied by Lady Elizabeth Dun can, arrived at their residence in Sydney-place, on Thursday last, from their seat in Scotland. Lord and Lady Bateman and family arrived early in the week from town. Earl O'Neill left on Saturday for the me tropolis, after a residence of several weeks. Baron and Baroness de Steinberg have arrived in the Crescent for the season. Sir Edward Elton, Lady Harriet Chichester, Sir L. and Lady Burgoyne, Lady Wood, Lady Fitz gerald, & c ., are among our latest ar r i va l s. The Duke of Richmond gave th e l ast of his Speym ou th. t n e he o p n r E e W s u e z e n l d t e . ne a s n d d ay, at Gordon The Chai r was annual ucapswtlae;d d ts i o n o n fi e l ir9ssoftoteernnat tenants e t tss s e iw a n s e o r occupied by his Grace, who was supported on the right by W. Hogarth, Esq., Bishop Kyle, &c. Alderman Thompson has become the purchaser of the valuable estate of High Grigg Hall, to Under barrow. The Hon. Alderman has purchased estates in this neighbourhood, within the last 14 months, to the amount of more than 40,0001., in addition to the Bend rigg estate, and other extensive landed property which he was in possession of before ; all in the county of Westmorland.— Westmorland Gazette. By the usual official return published by the Customs the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to Foreign and Colonial ports for the week ending the 28th of November, is as under : Silver Coin to Hamburg .......... :36,600 ounces. D e merara ............ 82,000 Bars to Hamburg •.......... 160000 Bars and Coin to Hamburg 130000 One of Mr. Jonas Webb's famous rams, valued at,of M fifty guine as , was stolen last week f rom the premises r. Green, of Fordham, to whom it was let. It was traoed to the water's edge, where it was evidently em barked, end all further trace is lost. 77 15% It; E, M. Lloyd t o o t zt r a t a e cc t i f t r e t a ti a te fe w eveninms ago. Jo was proceeding to his dormitory at Bodysgallen, and fell was on the stairs. He fell with his thigh against the edge of one of the stairs ; the part being close to the recent fracture. He was not seriously 444 ; but it will retard his recovery.—Chester Chrunick. M o N s V t y e n had regr eat') SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. 134.1.4in0gN5:: ::: lig forward a State ag scarcely to bp ppOetion of the whole line be r..Tici intermediate ground between Winchester and laave a doubt of tween this town and the rnetropplig 1, ) , t i,,, . Ist of May next, the ti me ment i o ned by the 'director s in tbpif Lit report.—Salisbury Journal. LIEUT.-GOVERNOR MACKIE. ✓ied, Sept. 17, at the Ganibia coast or Africa, Major Wil liam Mackie, R. H., Lie utenant -Govern or cf the Colony, and late of the 88th Regiment, or Connaught Rangers. Aljor Mackie assumed the Government of the British settlements on the River Gumbja about the beeinning of the present year, and continued to enjoy excellent health until the 7th of 6 - pternber last, whe❑ h e was seized with the country fever, under the baneful influence of which he gradually sunk—anothe r victim immolated on the shrine of that pestilential and fatal shore. With an expression of sincere regret for the premature death of this excellent officer, we cannot permit his eminent military service to be passed over without such brief notice as this department of the Journal may admit. Major Mackie entered the al my in the year 1806, as Ensign in the 88th Regiment, which he accompanied in the expedition to Buenos Ayres in 1507 ; at the attack on which place he was severely wounded. In 1809 he joined the army in the Peninsula with his corps, and was present in almost all the actions in Portugal and Spain in which the Third Division, under General Pictorr, was engaged. His gallant conduct in leading the forlorn hope at the storming of the main breach of Ciudad:Rodrigo, being at the time at the head of the Lieutenants of the Regiment, and consequently first for promotion, is well known in the army. In the battles of Busaco and Salamanca, in the latter of which he acted as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Wallace, his gallantry was also conspicuous. In brief, throughout the entire of the Peninsular struggle, from the Tagus to the Pyrenees, he proved himself a soldier of the true stamp, but whose chivalr;c bearing was but too lightly remembered. Be it not se in his epitaph. In 1830, after having been some years on the half-pay, he was appointed (as Captain) to the 94th Regiment, when he obtained his Brevet Majority ; was afterwards presented with an unattached Majority; and, lastly, re-appointed to the full pay of his old corps, the 88th, whence he sold out of the Army in 11138. His amiable disposition, and high and honourable principles and feelings, endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance ; and the firm and judicious manner in which he administered the government of the Gambia wore calculated to have produced the most beneficial effects on that settlement bad his life been spared. SP 'IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY. (From the Morning Post.) INre have reason to believe that it is at present unde cided whether the meeting of Parliament shall take place on Thursday, the 9th, or on Tuesday, the 14th of January, and that a considerable, if not a preponderant, section of the Cabinet are in favour of the earlier day. The reasons assigned by Ministers to such of their sup porters as complain of the personal inconvenience to Members which must result from calling Parliament to gether at so early a period of the year, are, we under stand, various. We learn further that none of these reasons is believed to be the true one. Minis ters mention the privilege question, and the ne cessity of a❑ immediate decision upon it, in re ference to legal proceedings now pending, as the principal motive to their determination in favour of an early Session ; but this is an obvious fallacy, for no legal proceedings are now pending but such as must be completed in due course of law before the earliest day mentioned for the meeting of Parliament. Ministers mention also the necessary arrangements preparatory to the approaching marriage of her Majesty—another obvious fallacy, since it is known that the necessary arrangements with a view to this auspicious event are not likely to encounter any opposition, and may be expedited when Parlia ment is assembled with whatever degree of rapidity Ministers think fit. The true reason we believe to be, that Ministers are appalled at the condition into which they have brought the country ; that they find the Chartist organisation a much more extensive and for midable affair than they believed it to be, or than, with out Parliament to fall back upon, they dare to en counter; and that they are especially anxious to have Parliament in Session against the period when they may be called upon to decide some very awful questions expected to arise out of the proceedings of the Special Commission. (From the Morning Chronicle.) To-morrow the Post-office will be placed under time new system of charging by weight, and the public will at once experience the advantages of reduced rates. The Tories, or the Quarterly reviewers, have asserted that the measure of the penny postage is one exclusively de vised for the advantage of the middle and wealthier classes. They have denied that the labouring classes will obtain any advantage from the change. How much they know of time wants of the labouring classes will, to some extent, he seen from the correspondence between the Guardians of the Stockport Union, the Poor-law Commissioners, and the Lords of the Treasury. This correspondence shows that the cost of transmission, and the postage, have hitherto been such as to absorb the small amounts of money which the labouring classes working at a distance from their homes are enabled to save and are desirous to transmit to their families. On that account the sums transmitted by "money orders" through the pest have hitherto been trifling. Mr. Row land Hill has shown, in a report recently printed on the postage system in France, where money is transmitted at a charge of five per cent., that a poor man may send home to his parents a sum equivalent to twenty pence, at the rate of penny. (Here, if it were at a distance of a shilling postage, the cost would be eighteenpence.) " A commission of five per cent. is charged —the Pust office taking the responsibility, It is stated in the An nusire des Pastes,' that an order may be obtained fur an) sum not less than half a franc. " Great use is made of this privilege ; the sum paid into the Post-office fur the whole of France, in the year 1837, was 16,157,871 francs, or upwards of 646,000 L" Even this sum is probably trifling compared with the amounts which would be transmitted in France under a better system ; for in that country, as in this, the con veyance of letters is grievously overtaxed. Here the men of routine--the safe men of the Post-ofHee—de (dared that the system of weighing all letters, which "'need part of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan was impracti _ in France the plan is practiced. To ascertain ,ow it worked, an average operator was " timed" in taxing 300 letters. It was found that on the average h e orted, weighed, and marked the charge on twenty six letters and one-half per minute. Mr. Hill states in his report " In the first report of the postage committee (1372), Mr. Bokenham describes some careful experiments made in the London office, which gives an average of 33 letters per minute, taxed in the English manner. " But in comparing these two results it is necessary to bear in mind the following circumstances, each tending to impede the taxat,on of letters in the Parisian office : a. The scales and weights employed in the Parisian office were of the ordinary kind; whereas there can be no doubt that much time may be saved by employing, scales of a peculiar construction, adapted to this special purpose ; and, " 2. The gradations of weight in France are exceed ingly small, and advancing th us:—one-quarter ounce, one-third ounce, one-half ounce, two-third ounce, &c., while the gradations proposed for England are so large (advancing by half ounces), that a practised person would determine the weight of by far the greater pot tion of even the heavy letters without putting them in the scale at all. This view of the subject is confirmed by what I saw in the Petite Poste,' where the gradations are ?toz., loz,, 20z., &c., and where the number of letters actually weighed was certainly less than one in a hundred. It is right, however, to add that the proportion of heavy letters is somewhat less in France than in England. .• Taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case, I think there can be no doubt, that the proposed substitution of char g e by we i g h t, f or the present system in the Post-o ffi ces of England will, after a little practice, facilitate the taxation of letters; and I may add, that this opinion is confirmed by all the officers in the Parisian Post. office whom I conselted ; some of wham had witnessed the English method as practised in the London office. These gentlemen also objected to the English method, on the ground that it created temptations to fraud, by requiring a scrutiny, which revealed the contents of letters " It was chiefly to train the Post-office establishment to do what has long been done in France that the in termediate stage of reduction has been adopted, and n ot, eatth as some of the Tory foll owers h ave surmised, to fe plan by raising an alarm at the extent of the first or immediate defalcation which even the supporters of the measure do not expect to be small. Mr. Hill has no where pretended that, even when the plan should be fully carried out, there would not be some loss. He has maintained the probability that the ultimate loss would be inconsiderable in amount, and as nothing compared with the advantages derivable from the great impetus which would be given to the whole correspondence of the country. For ourselves we arc prepared to expect that the intermediate reduc tion about to take place will not greatly extend the benefits beyond the classes who at present chiefly make use of the post ; and, even for those classes, it will leave a number of important facilities unattained. For large masses of commercial circulars, a fourpenny will be almost as inapplicable as a shilling charge. Thrifty tradespeople, on estimating the cost of time, would find that they lost by putting letters in parcels, or pursuing the ordinary practices, to evade a penny postage ; but we doubt whether they will yet be tempted to discon tinue their practices by the inducements of thefinsrpenny postage . We should no t , h owever, be surprised ir the correspondence of the country were soon to be doubled under the intermediate. charge. %V 0 are not quite satisfied that the scale of' charge for the heavier letters or parcels might not at on ce have been so far reduced as to admit of books —and other things of small weight, for which a trustwor,liv and punctual conveyance is wanted—being transmit ted by post as they are in France. The bookseller who wishes to transmit a book to a pla ce i n the country five or six mil es out of y country the attorney who wants t o send th an edra ug h t of lease a town ; or transmit of a conveyanc ; th co mmercial man who wishes to punctually ae sample for market ; or the printer who is desirous of sending proof s h ee t s to an author ; will still h ave to expend much time in find ing an uncertain and t rou bl esome conveyance, is still denied the convenience of a known, speedy, and cer tain carrier, by a charge of eight or twelve postages for a little packet of four or six ounces. For all such conveniences even the amended charges still amount to 4 prohibition greatly, we have no doubt, to the le the HV e rlue; and f ur t h e present. of :s the disparage- mcnt of the change. The public may, however, we are assured, rely on the plan of the penny pcstage being fu!ly carried out. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Our relations with China have now reached a crisis, the result of which will exercise a vital influence on our future intercourse with that country, and, therefore, we rejoice to hear that though the British Government has refused to fulfil the pledge given by its agent at Canton to indemnify the owners of the opium recently seized, yet are active preparations in progress to enforce from the Chinese full compensation for the outrage. Orders here been forwarded, as is stated by an evening print, to the Admiral Commanding in Chief of the essels on the Indian station to concentrate all his dis posable force at Canton ; and further orders have also, it is added, been issued to the ships at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Pacific to proceed to the same destination, for the purpose of supporting the claims of the Government. Communications are said to have been made from Lord Palmerston to the United States and other powers, announcing the probability of a blockade of the Chinese ports. Hence we are in duced to hope that speedy redress will be obtained tor tile gross spoliation recently perpetrated by the Chinese authorities, To submit to the aggression would be merely to invite its repetition, and expose ourselves in future to every wrong and insult which an arrogant, treacherous, and cowardly people could inflict. Out rages of this kind should be repelled in Amine. They are nuisances which increase in the exact ratio of their endurance, whereas the mere indication of a resolve to oppose their perpetration is frequently sufficient to pre ent their recurrence. We have a strong expecta tion it will prove so with the Chinese. Hitherto, whenever their arrogant pretensions have been sternly opposed, they have become as basely subservient as they had previously been oppressive, tyrannical, and cruel. Therefore it is not only by a respect for na tional interests and honour, but by the dictates of sound policy, that Great Britain is prompted to exact with the utmost vigour the most ample reparation for the spolia tion to which her merchants have been subjected. While thus affording our most cordial support to the Government in the adoption of the course which we were the first to recommend, we can by no means con cur in the propriety of its refusing to recognize the act of its agent with regard to the promise of indemnity. We regret this dereliction from duty, not the more be cause the Government might have preserved its own honour and that of its agent without any expense, as the seizure of Chinese property would speedily supply an equivalent for the indemnity, but on the simple grounds that such refusal is calculated to break up all confidence in the acts of the representative s of Governments, and while bringing the Government into disgrace destroy all faith in diplomatic engagements. A Contemporary remarks—" Dearly as the nation remu nerates already the services of that numerous clan, the Elliotts would come to be a most intolerable bargain at the further cost of three millions of sterling value for Bri tish property treacherously acquired and utterly de stroyed." In reply to this, we have merely to observe that the remuneration, however dear it may be, which the nation gives to " that numerous clan, the Elliotts,' has nothing whatever to do with the question at issue between the merchant whose property has been confis cated, and the Government which refuses the indemnity promised on its beh a lf b y i ts aut h or i sed agent. If the " clan of the Elliotts" be, as is insinuated, too dearly remunerated, this is no justification for seeking an in demnity for that remuneration at the cost of those who surrendered their property, on the faith of one of that chin representing the Government of Great Britain. If Governments once separate themselves from the re sponsibility incurred by their agents when emergencies arise, there can exist no faith between nations, and no respect for the parties representing them. Therefore, while we are delighted to hail every measure taken with a view of obtaining redress from the Chinese, we must protest against the Government violating the faith pledged through its representative. (From the Herald.) The impending war with China is a matter which threatens most seriously to compromise the national cha racter of England. We trust that ere Parliament shall assemble, romonstrances against their scheme of vio lence —violence in aid of fraud—will be addressed to Ministers from all parts of the kingdom : and after the meeting of Parliament, we do hope that the Conserva tive party will convince Lord Palmerston and his asso ciates, that the mere weakness of China—its incapacity of self-defence—furnish es no justification of' a crusade against the Celestial Empire, die rulers of which have been guilty of no offence beyond the attempt to vindi. cote their own solemn laws. The Whigs truckle to Russia and to France, in cases, in which France and Russia happen to be, beyond question, in the wrong. The Whigs permit the great powers in question, causelessly,to insult the flag of England ; and either dare not exact redress—or consent to accept of "explanations" of a most equivocal character—" explanations" scarcely less derogatory to the character of England, than the offences themselves. On China, however, is the bottled up valour of Lord Paltnerston and his friends destined to be poured out—China, that never insulted England, nor ever sought to cultivate with us, aught but the most amicable relations! But although it appears to be im possible for the Whigs to render themselve s more odious than they are—whether they are seen acting like the , paid agents of Russia, o n th e one h and, or swaggering I in Cainkyses' vein, against the Chinese, on the other— this most unjustifiable war with China may tend to bring into question, the utility of those functions which have been so long vested in the East India Company, and which, we are sorry to state, that great Corporati on hiss so lamentably abused. The East India Company is the cause of this quarrel with China ; and, throughout the whole transaction, the East India Company has been beyond question, in the wrong. The East India Company has long carried on the trade of smuggling in opium. Against the noxious practice, the Chinese au thorities have always remonstrated. Their remon strances have been treated with contempt. They have at length exercised their powers as guardians, at once of the morals and of the trade of the country. They have seized an immense quantity of the smuggled drug. They have condemned it. They have burned it. The Chinese authorities have, we maintain, been justified in every step which they have taken. If England shall go to war with China, in order to secure indemnity to the East India Company, in its character as a wholesale smuggling concern, England will degrade herself in the eyes of the civilised world. We regret to perceive that our Conservative Contemporary, the Courier, takes a different view of this matter ; and contends stoutly fhr the expediency of a war with China. Our Contempo rary observes : " The present state of our quarrel with China, and of the opium question, is generally believed to be as fel lows : —lt is known that Government have so far repudiated responsibility for the guarantee given by the Superintendent, as to refuse payment of his opium drafts. It is impossible to conceive, however, that in declining to take upon themselves the pecuniary indemnity accorded by their agent, the atrocious injustice was meant to be com mitted of leaving the mercantile community without re source. Dearly as the nation remunerates already the service of that numerous clan, the Elliotts would come to be a most intolerable bargain at the further cost of three millions of sterling value, for British property treacher ously acquired and utterly destroyed. It may be, and upon the whole is, perhaps, the most dignified course not to raise the question of money damage s against the Chi nese, on direct account of the State itself, by the preli minary liquidation of those obligations contracted by the recognised agent at Canton on its behalf; but it would be the height of iniquity not to enforc e against the Chinese offenders that penalty for spoliation, redress for which is denied or deferred at ;ionic. The im pression amongst those most likely to be well informed is, that :Ministers have decided for action in a more honour able sense." We do not hold that the mercantile community ought to be left without resource ;" but we do hold that the only fair claim left to the mercantile commu nity involved in this affair, is a claim against the East India Company, That great Corporation haring tre panned m any East India merchants into the opium trade —nay having, in many cases, compelled th em to i enter into t—ought, assuredly, to be rendered re sponsible for the loss and ruin which may follow the recent wholesale destruction of opium by the Chinese authorities, These merchants possess no equ i ta bl e rightthe Br of redress gnst sh either aai China, or a t t h e h ands of iti G overnment. The East India Com pany would have much better justified its title to the high functions which it exercises, if; instead of debauching the subjects of the Chinese empire by supplying them freely with the most baleful of poisons, it lied sought to evoke the industrial energies of the countless millions of Hindoos committed to its own care. Had the capabilities of the soil and climate throughout a large portion of our Indian domi nions been duly consulted half a century ago, there ap pears little reason to doubt that England might, at the present day, have been independent of China in the article of tea, and of the United States in the article of cotton. It has, however, been the policy of the East India Company to " care for none of these things," but to prefer the adoption of a system, under whieh the native Indians arc robbed, as never a patient people was robbed before, by means of the atrocious land -tax--. and under which smuggling has become a part of the regular trade of " the Honourable" rulers of that gl o - ious empire in the East which owns the sway of England. VEOM TIIE EVENING PAVEIiS OF YIATERDAT. (From the GloLe.) There are two men in the present age whose predi gious intellectual subtlety is only equalled by their pro digious moral deadness and defect of perception. One of these is Lord Lyndhuro, and the other is the Bishop of Exeter. If the Church end Constitu tion of England could be endangered and ruined b y an y two men, certainly these trro Would be the men for the business. With Lyndurst to look atP the State, and Phillpotts the Church —the onr. ', Oast.: j og abortive sessions, the other .. 1 . • —amouring . of un churched children and r” 1 '. —unies---it will cer;,, in l y be a strong proof ,•‘' • , ~. the inherent vigour o f our institu tions 'r It they sutler no detriment, if they incur no disgust in the publ,;,7 tiniatiou, from the practices of t lits pair of champions. Lyndhurst is a Lay EAeter i1mi;p4r..,.........._ COUNT D'ESPAGNE.--All doubts regarding th c ,ate of this officer are no w removed. In the evening of the ‘26th of October, having b een invited to Berge, ie order to pr es id e at a meetin g of the Catalonian Junta in his character of Captain-General, he was deposei„ his papers seized, and under art escort instantly hurr', e a off to France. For this coup preparation s h a d ' Join made, and f rom t h e known feelings of the troops, among whom the cries of " Down with the tyrant," bad re peatedly been heard, no opposition was apprehended. Quiti,in g I3erga for the French territory, tine Count was conducted towards Organya, a sm4i town on the main road, leadit , from Seu do Urgel towards Lerida end Barcelona, end' on reachin g the Coll de Nargo, a ruged mountain cliff overhanging the Segre, he Was told tope pare for death. His hands and feet were then ties', and in thi s state he was precipit ate d from the feaseni : hei g ht into the river below, where his body was. after- I wards found. HEREDITARY LUCK. —The prize of a lac ei Tepees i n t h e C alcutta Lottery has fallen conjointly to Richard Wills, Esq., son of General Willis, cotnman,ding the Northern Division of the Army, and C eptain • Stuart, who is the General's son-in-law, It is ' singu. ilis should far instance of good fortune, that General NV;; himself have drawn the lac in a Bombay Lrsttery some }ears ago.—Bombay Paper. • DREADFUL INUNDATIQS AND LIFE.—The l ate heavy and Loss of reontinued rains have occe sioned extensive inundation s in different parts of the county of Herts, and i.n some of the lower par o t county a gre a t d ea l, of mischief has been done ts byfthhee flood. At Cheallunt Marsh the water overflowed the high road for a considerable distance, and the meadows; presented th e appearance of a river. Owing ii sudden ri s i ng o f the water in many places in this reeiels hourimod a great many sheep and cattle have e b drowned. Th e ne i ghbourhood of Watford has also }stenn very much i nun d ated, and the meadows, exteridaa nearly across t o B arnet, have within the last fe•, e d . been covered w i t h an i mmense sheet of watraN ' s ~.. T he flii tningh a m Railroad, w hi c h completely intr e pelt of th e coun t y , h a d the effect of backircts this eg , rs and causing it t o sett l e i n this locality. the w ri t e: , Two tnen— a to pass places farmer of the name of Hodsden, from St. Albans, and a carter, lost their lives in attempte eb e where the water was beyond theer depth. ROYAL INSTITUTE OP BRITISH _ARCM TLCTS.—The first meeting for the present session was held yesterday evening at its rooms in Grosvenor-street. Mr. Basevi, V.P., in the chair. The meeting was well, attended, and amongst the visitors was the Marquis (Jf Northampton, the President of the Royal Society. Amongst the correspondence read was a letter 'from Colonel Maclean, expressiv e of the interest whi , J h the Rajah of Tanjore continues to manifest in, the, welf are of the society. There was also read a lecter addressed to the Earl de Grey, teen, the native , architect of that Prince, in which h.,-; gave an accot:nt of the variou s public works which he had undertaken there. A vote of thanks was passed, expressive of the satisfaction of the meeting at 4 communication from this quarter. Mr. Donaldson read a communication from M. Paris, ee:com Dobre e , o f panying some works on he antiizies and ..nonuments of th e Brazils. Mr. t Poynterqu read a, letter from Mr. Barry, the architect H the ouse of C ommons, w i th respect to the ver o it f' ies o f stone examined by the commission appointed for he opened tr, that inquiry, Although he had prepared dupli- . sates at his own expense to present to the institet these were required by the Government for the Muse,um f s e h r o thertshortly purpose of study,the of Economic Geology, to piece at the top of t h e b uild. ing, and ascertain the tfTects of exposure t o the ti 4, an d s e e um access, ". ili p w u e b a l t i l c i , er ;;ith T l h e i r s y museum There were exhibited some plans and s t . ec lone of stair-. cases, constructed by Inigo Jones, on wl i ' • I, e o it was stated that the Institute were desirous e'• •.*t_ re (!eiN rag communications with respect to the wcy . e ' Dent English architect, whose style se' s •..) of this f e c n t ) 1 I original. Mr. Britten stated that an • • so i per oc e ket. - book of Inigo Jones was in the pj- 'jng o in f a the r : Duke of Devonshire, who had sever t 4 : : sc p s . l'l' of it printed ; and that another manuscript o ket e bo ß o s k of Sir James Thornhill of likewise in Pc ' Mr. Noble exhi- hired several speciine,, s o f stucco existence, from Pompeii, and petrifaction s from (I:ifferentparts of Italy. Mr. Do naldon read soree remarks, illustrative of the life of s'spollodorus, the Traja n an d _ Grecia n arc hi tect o f t h e t i mes o f kdrian. 'Whatever doubts might have existed as tr, the , I . succes s of the return of the Solicitor-Genera!, fostered we which had beer, admit there were doubts, and encouraged by- the Redparty, prior to the ca nvas) f , they h ave now been all dispelled ; ani the gro:ands o . cry, Si nce the f i rst canvas such doubt are prove d to have been,baseless .I,..iti vision by Mr. Jergeant sVilde, and years ago, he has eothad onte, gnat has been that is ten to him personally, by, ee open avowal se truly flattering of several of the resr,;ectahic Red Ps•.ty, that they, do ianti car ot hope, for a b otter Membar, and not wash, eu • •11 • the o i . therefore, ti '".it they will not Jo:■ in pp : l - Lien of a faction -_for a faction it is. Tne result of the canvas sh' crs that the Blues never were truer to their Mena the principles they have avowed ; if left to ber, or to . t e st: the secant seat on principle, and it is or, t o contest' principlealone that, Mr. Tbesiger's friends profes s to ' be S r *t e G , .ral will be returned,and act i ng, t h e ()eel o.- . 111 E not merely by a bare majority, but by such a numl as will indisputably show that there is no fallin g off i n the liberal ranks in Newark.—Lincoln and Newark - of yesterday. Gazelle w .p ,r,~ !:V_ENING ED IT! ON. Philpotts a Clerical Copley. Arcecs anebo , it nt it well be added, "et cantare parati." the Bishoo of Exeter cannot boast, Idte Lord Lyndhurst, of barking public measures, he indemnifies hithselfby black ening principles —public and private characters. Forcer- . tnirilv it nrnounts to a slur on personal character to throw out imputations in a Christian country, on the " abiding sense," of religion—the regard for the Church, &c. o; his opponents. These imputations have been so unfor tunately levelled by the Bishop of Exeter that they hay , • instantly called forth the most crushing replies from the ionoured head struck by them. W e absolutely begin to think that nothing but sheerascetic devotion, the peniten tial courting of mortification —the zealous candidata:- ship for disgrace--could have led the Right Rae. Prelate, in sheer excess of his Christian humility, ta expose himself to such answers as the Marquis of Lansdowne's and Sirßichard Bourke's. Certain! ) , nu ;I.SII/ rant for martyrdom could succeed better than tatia Bishop, in sacrificing every earthly rag of repute in t eye of the world, so far as that repute is attaelted to fairness in controversy. In sober sadness, the Bishop of Exeter's treatment of public documents, and animadver sions on individuals, thereupon grounded, are utt-r1 ) inconceivable, except on the supposition of some such purpose as we have assigned to him of self-mortification, through the purposely provoked answers of the rot n of honour whom he has attacked so wantonly. Tato;, in the earlier ages of Christianity, enthusiasts, like to this pious Philpotts, ran about extorting the crown of martyrdom from whomsoever they met with. Sir Richard Bourke has given the coup de grace to his Grace of Exeter, and sickened him, we should think, for one while, of his assumed functions o f H ea d o f t h e Church, and Grand Metropolitan over the whole of the British colonies and dependencies. (From the Standard.) ingly It is sometimes necessary, in order to determine the animates of a party, or of an individual, to pass from the consideration of particular acts to the re neral andte no ur o unequivocal conduct—because, f i n t hcases party where or i i in dividual purpose would defeat that purpose, we nry be quite sure that no such disclosure will be made by any act. There are two classes of the community whom it may be necessary to remind of this truth. We allude to the members of the Church, and the per sons, whether landlords, farmers, or labourers, whnsc interests are embarked in the national agri vulture. We speak of them as two classes, though they areey ar e , attacked fo r th e i m ni es o arh s eds t x vsuope p eeflh a cla r ttml r oot , eoAt nh t di, ei tnf different Church, trt same hie riune.rtdefence ehnr;tee m eanrn e ce p acs , pledged same m e t ea,eahuoasesfge2irt.ai agricul tural c,rieht wi t n e oc r rl s ud a ds if ien e ag c nt the pledget o ih as tura! interest. But does the conduct of the party which they are supposed to command correspond it i ii these professions ? We are surely entitled to ask this question of a party which would impute to Sir R. Peel, because of his silence, all the opinions expressed hastil:-/ by those by whom he is supported, and which p-„ff s at the possibility of the formaticn and P, gratuit ous rP:' auc ° c e of a Conservati ve Ad m i n i strat i on upon thP hypothesis, that we Conservatives o.:e divided by irreconcileable differences. We 4,- e en ti t l e d to ark this question, w h en we find Lord Lansdowne pro fessing an entire zeal for the Church, Lord Melbourne pledging himself to a devoted defence of the agricultural interest, and the journals N l ,v l r t the eno gull service rati%hr:eeg voenwre : i,t f Ino t at h uto e et snigi o yar b da l c e eetxo L c ae o rini r i Lords d tnt a o ao c:st,ttthr,,zenn: attempt tcei night,iot co l l c oe a tx g uei to ly n ctlliaessjeoaflotuisiey c a o n n d n r u e n s i e t n y_ tm t e l7e t o le f v a d great , valuabl e an connection—at against th e Church, and sh a ll ( pro b ably to-worror have to return to the saute service. The are happy t o believe, must be va i n in an : , bdsee ", nevertheless it i s th e d uty of Churchmen Cr ; but . eet it. TWO EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.—_ A day two ago a bill for 240,000/., tw;ilye months' date, ui discounted in Liverpool at, we relieve, 8+ per cent. per. annum. The amount of thc disco unt was 20,000/. this city a gent l eman upon a bank of issue wit:a a one-pound note, and was requested to call again! NVe pledge ourselves to the authenticity of these two ext,-.4- orclioary facts.—Dublin Evening post. PUNISHMEN T OF A POOR MAN. —A t the rey Sessions On Monday, an old agricultural labou-er good character, who had helped himself to ia bit of wood, value twopence, from a pile of faggots belon g i 41D , to M. Cooper, the l a t e Hi g h Sheriff of tl - ie county, ta„s sentenced to one month's imprisonment for the oke nem . Ha had already been in prison for a month. P'erhaps if the handle of wood had been valued at ti.,reepcncil. he would h ave h a d t h ree i nstead of two, mc.nth s ' impri , sonment. le for Ise of ra' il ea a°d ntea' con' cesr r : .01 11 lodes , s of F her Ity'n Teon nirai r to hich the oh and