The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-13 00:00:00

LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Loreh, Mr. I. Vining ; Boon, Mr. Anderson ; the C oun t ess o f Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree katherine, Madame Vestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Maeheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Loekit, Mr. Bartley; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Petchurn, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly Peaehom, Miss liainforth; Lacy Loekit, Madame Vestrie. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circlee.hs. ; Seeond Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2§. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commezce at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be l;iul upon application. Privat.e Boxes to be had solely of Mr Andrews, bookseller, 1117. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. .Aiinswortli's original and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Shep pard " still maintains its supremacy; 130,000 persons have witne•sed its representation, and the nightly overflows have confirmed its popularity. It will be acted every Evening. rHis EVENING, D?c. 13 1 Will be acted, Ains'sorth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. mustre ,.: , all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Character; b, Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, ti t , Neville Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant 31is. Laws, Pat:: After vvhic. a Comic Barletta called LOVE' , TRIUMPH. coric::de with, JOCKO, THE BRAZILIAN APF. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Vorumg 41 mulutes after Evening 6 minutes atter 7 er 'o' ( - :...r'' .01 ~ , , A ,.. r ._.„,„; 4_ ).., , • - 0,„ aea,„ Zfle )111?‘. _LONDON : FRIDAY, D, 7 .CEMBER 13, 1839. ---40-- The Tory Journals b e f,ln to cry peccavi on the Corn-laws. They complaint that the blows of the Anti-Corn-law people are too hard. They want to he let alone in their iniquity. All would go smoothly with them and their patrons if the Anti- Corn-law Journals would disguise the truth, not to k:ridle the feelings of the people, and spare the feelings of the Aristocracy. Last night, for ex ample, the Standard thus complained : Is it right to proclaim just now that masses " who know that they have been wronged," are to prepare for a 41...sitructivc struggle with a class said to be untriended? " Toe.-e are times," says Fontenelle, " when though my baud we:c full of truths, I would not open a finger ;" but if there are times when eve,: truth is hazardous, whit ought w to say of those who in such times fling abroad incendial7 falsehoods ? The Standard has been for months and years appealing to the most mischievous passions in the strongest. language, and that it now deprecates ap peals to the people proves how much it is frightened and how great is its hypocrisy. It does not stand clone, however, in its alarm. Even a journal which -iirts itself forward as the ad- vocate of the ai;olition, but which has more respect for privilege than justice, reprobated, ' 1 a few evenings ago, the ad invidiam argu ments by which the Corn-laws are attacked. While such writers can fight witii distant shadows and minute statistics, which are susceptible of being mystified to any required extent, they are much at their ease ; but they become dreadfu l ilv alarmed when the base motives which gave rise to the law and the iniquity which it involves, are dwelt on. On doubtful facts, which are only hereafter to be, they are very eloquent, but they dare not touch the chord of moral feeling. The alarm which obviously begins to prevail among the Corn-law advocates assures us that if the inhabitants of the manufactur ing districts, masters and men, will now put forth Oieir united strength, the Devil's laws may be sweet into oblivion. An, - Ither great source of hope for us is that the fluctuatinN scale has fallen out of favour with the landed interest. They are almost ready to give that up, though they have not yet determined what fixed duty they will accede to. As of carts are tnaking in that direction, let us remind the farmers that a fixed duty will be greatly injurious to them. In the case of a very short crop it could not be enforced, and would cheat the farmer into making an outlay which he would never recover. But if owl] would be its effects in very bad years, in very /.1e years it would be still more disastrous to him. A ri,:ed duty would keep prices here, as the rule, hi t her by the amount of duty than abroad. To export wi:h a profit, therefore, would be out of the question. in ordinary years the supply would be fully equal to the demand ; in abundant years the supply would exceed the deman,i, and, having no foreign vent, the prices would fall ve.7y considerably. Farmers in general cannot hold over their produce, they must send it to market, and by a great reduc tion in price the farmers would be injured or rui:led, while the:monied capitalists, watching for such an event, would buy largely, and when prices rose, realize iomense fortunes at the farmer's cost. A fixed duty would be, as it has been, ruinous to the aviculturists. At 3 a remedy for this, it has been suggested, that a bounty on expovtation, proportionate to the duty, should be allowed. But it is not to be expected that the people will now tolerate a tax to pay a bounty for the very purpose of waking their food dear. The time for such sleight-of-hand tricks with the national resources, such juggling with the pockets and property of the people, has passel away. a draw hack wo u ld answer the purpose of Though the schemers, such an inapt scheme could no t be ca!ried into effect. While it seems highly probable, therefore, that something will be done to ainend the Corn-laws, it is also pro bable that a fixeLl duty wth, on the interest of the farmers, he resisted. The Morning Post of yesterday announces formally that Sir ROBERT PEEL is to ;.Teak up the Ministry whenever Parliament meets. Of course he will put down all attempts to repeal the Corn-law. The course he took last Ses sion, when he assumed the character of an advocate of the starvation laws, making garbled and false stNernents without the excuse of being misled by a hr;ef and an attorney, will preclude him from adopting a different course when he shall be Prime Minister. He is to seize office in spite of the' QUEEN, so says the Times, as the representative of the firebrand and the starvation interests ; the sworn servant of the tithe-lords and the landlords ; the pledged enemy of all the Dissenters from the Anglican Church, all the manufacturers, and nearly all the capitalists of the empire ; the cham pion of the past, who is to arrest, like another JOSHUA, the course of the universe. If such be his projects, and such ths principles of his friends, the sooner the town population —all who cherish religious freedom, and all who require freedom of industry—all who are opposed to starvation laws and Church rates, make common cause against Tory statesmen, landlords, and tithe-lords, the greater will be the probability that the intolerants and the restrictives will be overthrown. Of thei r ultimate defeat the progress of the last century is a certain guarantee. We copied on Tuesday from the Times an ar ticle announcing that the Cardiff and Glamorgan shire Magistrates " had called Lord NORMANBY'S attention to the mischievous tendency of the West ern Vindicator." We also inserted on Wednesday a statement " that a despatch had been received at Cardiff from Lord NORMANBY respecting the se ditious publications so widely disseminated through the country, stating it to be the intention of the Government to use active measures for their suppression." It was added that a seizure of seditious publications had been made. In neither of these announcements was there any objection made to the publications, ex cept that they were seditious ; and therefore, ac cording to that statement, by which alone we were guided, they were suppressed. On that showing, being well convinced that if the Vindicator may be seized and suppressed, because some fierce partizans of county Magistrates suppose it to be seditious, so may the Times and The Sun, we th ought it our duty, as one of the watchmen of society, to give the alarm, and reprobate the assumption both of the Magistrates and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of a power of deciding whether a jour nal be seditious or not. That is at once assuming a censorship over the Press, and he who assumes it, If he also seizes the juurnal, carries his own decree into execution. Remembering that bad precedents are more readily followed than good practices, we condemned what, in these times, must be, as repre. sented, a most baneful precedent. The view taken by the Correspondent of the Times, on which our remarks were founded, was confirmed by the observations of the Globe of Wed nesday, which we yesterday copied. The Even ing Paper stated, that " the Magistrates of Cardiff and Glamorganshire have called Lord Nort- MANBY'S attention to the dangerous nature of the Western Vindicator. It stated, moreover, that a letter in that publication had recommended assas sination, and it gave reasons why that publication, being published at irregular intervals, in haste and secresy, had not before been seized by the police. In all this there was not one word about the Vindi tor being an unstamped publication, a violation of the law in its very nature, whatever may be the doctrine it contains ; but it was the particular sort of doctrines which was held forth,both in the communi cations of the Times, and in the article of the Globe, as authorizing its suppression. Last night, how ever, the Globe contained the following article : The Sun regrsts that the Marquis of Normanby has sanctioned the seizure of the Western Vindicator at Newport, and says, " The Noble Marquis assumes that he possesses in himself a censorship of the press." We believe that the papers in question were seized, not by any " assumption" of power, but under the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 76, which empowers Magistrates to search for and seize unstamped newspa pers. This Act was passed while a Whig Ministry was in office, and there can surely be no inconsistency in their enforcing it. The quality of the unstamped articles may be an additional motive for activity in the search ; but, whatever it might be, gross injustice would have been done to the fair trader by any connivance at smuggling. We are glad to see this explanation, however tardy and however contradictory, to what the Globe said on the previous evening. We of course can make no objections to unlicensed poachers on the domain we must pay for permission to hunt over being put down ; and if those who ordered the suppres sion had either stated such reasons for it in the first instance, or contradicted the statements which were published on apparently good authority in the Times, and evidently published from none of the malignity which usually actuates that journal, and which ascribe the suppression wholly to the doc trines, they would have done justice to their own cause and prevented a considerable injury being done to the public. To put down the Vindicator because it is seditious, will be considered as an additional assault by the Government on nearly two millions of men, who already regard it as their enemy. To suppress the Vindicator, because it is an unstamped paper—without reference to its doctrines, would give no one a right to complain, except of the law. If, however, it be suppressed because it is an unstamped paper, and if it have been, as the Magistrates of Cardiff have said, and as the Globe has repeated, a source of much of the bad feeling which exists in Wales, the stamped newspapers and the public will have a great right to complain that it has been suffered to exist so long. The journal which erewhile instructed the public that we " have too much Church," has of late found out, from the lessons of the Standard, that we have not Church enough. The once leadin g Journal has now become the led, and follows its teacher most respectfully. It took up yesterday, with great alacrity, the latter part of Chief Justice TINDAL'S charge, and demanded a sound religious education for all our youth. We all know that in the Tory Journals a religious education means edu cation under the Anglican Clergy. It means more Church to teach religion—a demand which the Standard made years ago, and which is now daily reiterated by the Times. The leading Journal, in fact, never had the ingenuity to devise a scheme of policy of its own, and has gone with every stream into which its interest has drawn it. It must be noticed that there is no country in Europe where there is already so much Church as in England ; no country where the dominion of the priesthood has been more uninterrupted, and less questioned, or where all writings which impugn their doctrines have been more carefully put aside by public opinion ; and the result is written in legible characters in the present condition of our population. To give more Church is to add to our present dread ful diseases. Before it be increased, let it be reformed and made worthy of esteem. When a demand is made for more Church we wish to ascertain whether the people are to profit by the doctrines of the clergy, or by their example. Their lives ate at varianc e with their teachin g. Gospels recommend humilit y , charit y , p o verty , and peace : the priesthood are arrogant, overbear T in h g . , greedy of wealth and power, and stirrers up o f strife. Their example is more powerful than their sermons, and to make men religious according to the Gospels, no more efficacious means could be found than to take the teaching of their doctrines out of the hands of the State Clergy. They demoralize the community in two ways. The vast wealth of some of them stimulates the general avarice ; and their wealth, not being the produce of any labour of their own, but taken from the general fund of industry, necessarily deprives sc ch m u e rc o h th a e n r: i ):::::s of their just share, and genprates pove:.%v with all its unsatisfied desires. More clergy imply more drafts on the produc e of industry, .'aLOY .rlWre taxes, more ,7" verty, more inequality in briu t i h tn e e :l;stribution a wealth, fl o e r , e have ise more r a e nd Church, more crime. Let reform nt of fst the Church, htuhreerhe: y~i MORNING EDITION. MRS. TROLLOPE'S " ATICHAEL ARMSTRONG," COMPLETE. In 3 vols., post Bvo., with all the Illustrations, by Hervieu, Buss, &c., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY. On Morality next, in 3 vols. pos• Bvo., ru FIE S PI T FIR E. A NAUTICAL ROMANCE. By CAPT. FREDERICK CHAMIER, Author of " The Life of a Sailor," " Ben Brace," &c. Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CHEAPER EDITION, IN POST OCTAVO. In a few days will be published, THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV., Being Vols. 111. and IV. Cheaper Edition, in pest tivo., price Ms., with Portrait of Queen Caroline, and Fac Simile of a Letter. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. COMPLETION OF MR. BREMNER'S TRAVELS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. Now ready, in 2 vols. Mvo. with Portraits, 28s. bound, FA XC U RSIONS in DENMARK, NOR WAY, and SWEDEN. With Notices of the State of Public Opinion in those Coun tries, and Anecdotes of their Courts. BY ROBERT BREMNER, Esq. Author of " Excursions in the interior of Russia," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 13, /839, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, i 8 "J;3. many sick and wounded from the army of Espartero have arrived in that city, where the General-in-Chief I was daily expected. The inhabitants of Saragossa are persuaded that no operations against Cabrera will be attempted during the winter. O'Donnell, whose move ments are combined with those of Espartero, is retreat ing like him. It seems that the Count de Nlorella thinks of harassing them in their retreat—Lc Gazette de France. THE ARMY.—The 6th Regiment of Light Infantry and the 31st of the Line had been ordered to quit Lyons and repair immediately to Toulon and Marseilles. The former was to embark for Algeria, and the latter to replace the 38th in Marseilles. General Parchappe, who commands two brigades at Lyons, was forthwith to proceed to Africa. The 3d company of the waggon train in garrison in Lyons was also to leave for Toulon. Several officers of the military administration in Strasburg had received orders to set out in twenty-four hours for Toulon. A battery of the 6th Regiment of Artillery was likewise ordered from Besancon to Africa. BRUSSIILS, DEC. 9.—M. de Gerslacher, Minister of the Grand Duke of Baden at Paris, has been intrusted by his Sovereign with a special mission to the King of the Belgians. This mission is on occasion of the open ing of official relations between the two countries. He had a private audience of his Majesty on the 7th at the Palace of Laeken. We have mentioned that the notaries of the ceded portion of Luxemburg, eleven in number, who had been provisionally retained in their functions, were suspended by Messrs. Stift and Hasenpflug, but having obtained an audience of King William, they received the assur ' ance that all of them should be reinstated. A letter srom Maestricht says, that the Commissioners have issued a circular dated the 29th of November, stating that they have r eso l ve d t o put into execution the convention relative to the navigation. The King gave a private audience on the Bth, to the Count de Jounione Walwork, Minister Plenipoten aqry for the King of Bavaria at Paris, who has come to Brossels on a special mission to the King. The amber of Repres e nt a tiv es co ntinu e the dis cussion of the se 9iral portions of the budget. It is said that Chambers are going to de liberate on a law against anonymous libels. We do not know what may be the fate of the discussion vhieb it will occasion, but, at all events, it must do much good, even though the law should he re jected. For in this case it would doubtless be sufficient the first power in the nation had made solemn and au thentic declarations to stigmatize for ever the authors of such attacks on character, made under the cover of the anonymous press. It would be sufficient, we say, if the Legislature declared that every anonymous attack on individuals is unworthy of any credit, because it is the work of a coward, who hides himself like an assassin, to attack unwary passengers. VIENNA, DEC. 2.—The Princess Amelia of Saxony has declined the offer of apartments in the Imperial Palace, but has cheerfully accepted the use of the Court equipage and servants placed at her disposal, ?Ind the many other marks of delicate attention. Every body was eager to treat the illustrious visitor with the regard due to her. Her Royal Highness left Vienna this morning. For some weeks past the waters in the Danube have been so unusually low that the navigation is attended with the greatest difficulties, and the communication by steam-boats was obliged to cease about Presburg. This favourable opportunity is taken to complete the blowing up of the rocks near the much dreaded whirlpools, which still obstruct the passage. The latest accounts from Presburg are again more fa vourable. The ticklish point of the freedom of debate, on which the Diet has been more than once in danger of coming into difficulties, is likely to be s ttled in a satisfactory manner, the Government having, it is said, given very sufficient assurance on the sabject. A highly favourable impression has been made in the Diet by the offer of the Government to pay out of the pub lic treasury the expense of the four new courts of jus tice, and a court of appeal, to be created in Hungary. in order to make the people religious. Experience has demonstrated the complete failure of the State Church, as an institution for teaching either religion or political obedience, and instead of now extend ing and strengthening the Church, on the demand of the firebrands and the Tories, the Legislature should proceed in a completely opposite direction. DISMISSAL OF THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. Letters from Portugal, of the 3d inst.. announce the dismissal of the whole of the Portuguese Mi nistry on the 25th ult. When Baron SABROSA and his colleagues were summoned by the QUEEN to the Palace to receive this proof of her most faithful MAJESTY'S regard fur the welfare of her people, they had not the remotest idea of the fate that awaited them. Queen DONNA MARIA is not remarkable for extreme courtesy in the dis charge of her regal functions, and on this occasion displayed more than her wonted abruptness. Were the act performed by a Sovereign of the other sex it would be designated " kicking out a Cabinet." The following is a list of the new Cabinet : Count BONI TIM, President of the Council and Minister of War. Viscount CAREIRA, Foreign Affairs. FLORIDO FERRO Z, Finance. FONSECA MAGALHAES, Interior. COSTA CABRAL, Grace and Justice. Count VILLA REAL, Marine. As Viscount CARBIRA and Count VILLA REAL are at present in France, the QUEEN en trusted their portefeuilles to the President of the Council. With the exception of Bom orN and COSTA CABRAL the new Ministry is composed of decided Charterists ; but the President of the Council and the Minister of Justice belong to the Ultra Liberal party. A great outcry was raised by the Opposition Press of Lisbon about the change of Ministry being a concession to Eng land—which it doubtless is—but the public peace remained undisturbed. " The last act of SA ➢ROSA'S Ministerial career was," says the corres pondent of a Contemporary, " the publication of two more notes which had passed between him and the British Embassy. That from Lord HOWARD to him contained a statement of the several claims, amounting to 376,0001., which he was directed to urge upon the Portuguese Go ♦ernment on behalf of English subjects, and a positive demand for their immediate payment. Baron SABROSA'S reply was to the effect that he would submit the matter to his colleagues, with out whose concurrence he could ►►ot take any step in it, but that meanwhile he had a counter claim to present, founded on the 14th article of the treaty of 1661, whereby England bound herself, in case the should recover the island of Ceylon from the Dutch, to give to Portugal the port of Columbo, in that island, and that, therefore, as England had become mistress of Ceylon by the treaty of Amiens, he demanded the delivery of Columbo to Portugal, together with all its revenues accrued since 1802." It is a thousand pities that a man so industrious in the perusal of forgotten treaties as the Baron DE SABROSA was not appointed perpetual keeper of the State archives. Who can tell but that among the old parchments he might discover a treaty for con verting Great Britain into a Portuguese colony ? Let the Nacional of Lisbon, so furious against the " proud and insolent Islanders," bethink how very easily this hint might be improved upon. The .11 Mediterraneo states that the French and English fleets were still at Ourlac on the 26th ult. Admiral STOPPORD had at first intended to send a part of the English fleet to Malta, and proceed with the remainder to Athens, but he had suddenly changed his mind. The Dido and Ha zard corvettes, which Admiral STOPFORD had sent to cruize between Miconi and Naxos, had rejoined the squadron. The Powerful and Gorgon of the line, and three French ships of the line, were at Smyrna. The Castor was to go to Constantinople to relieve the Carysfort ; and it was supposed that the Hydra and the Gorgon would be ordered to Alex andria. The same Journal adds that the settle ment of the Eastern question was not so close at hand as was generally supposed. MEHEMET ALI was continually starting fresh difficulties, and in reality aimed at the independent Sovereignty of Egypt. The Madrid Journals are of the 2d inst. The QUEEN REGENT had consented to accept the resignations of Captains-General SEOANE and VALDEZ. In truth her MAJESTY'S pretended unwillingness to part with the services of these gallant and liberal officers was but a piece of Court acting, intended to impose upon the Constitutional party. Generals MoNso and BUERENS are spo ken of as their successors. A letter from Calanda, of the 30th ult., published in the Eco de Arragon, a Saragossa Journal, of the 4th instant, contains the following account of the position of the hostile armies at the above date. The first divi sion of the QUEEN'S army with the head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief, at Mas de las Matas. The second division at Aguaviva and Tenebrosa, which they are fortifying. The third division has a brigade at Castelsaras, and another in the envi rons of Huesa, Hijar, Andorra, Alcorisa, and Ca landa ; are well fortified, and have strong garrisons. The positions of the Carlists are as follow ; The chief, BOSQUE, is at Belmonte and Corollera, from whence he makes his excursions. LLAN GOSTERA is at Monroyo, and from thence his lines extend to Alolinos and Ejulve. CABRERA is at Villarbuengo, but it was not believed he would long remain there. The Carlist garrisons have been increased by the new recruits to guard the prisoners. _ _ A French vessel was seized by the Spanish au thoriiies at Santander charged with smuggling, and with not having her papers regular. She was bound to Oporto. Great preparations were making in Madrid for the elections. Never was there such a political contest in Spain as there is likely to be when the new Cortee assemble. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us, but they bring no news from Africa of a later date than the accounts received on Wednesday. Ac cording to private letters the French were expecting that a formidable attack would be made upon the garrison of Mascara, which was but indifferently provided with the means of successfully repelling it. The Consul of ABD-EL-KADER at Oran had likewise been arrested by order of Marshal VALEE as he was on the point of leaving that town to join the camp of the Emir. Two other persons have been arrested in Paris on charges connected with the last Infernal Machine ex l .losion. Some arms and ammunition were found concealed in their respective residences. On the morning of the 6th instant, the office and private apartments of the editor of the Journal du Com merce of Lyons, were searched by the police for the discovery of a correspondence between Prince Louis NAPOLEON and the Marquis DE CROUY CIIENEL. The search was unsuccessful, as no papers of a treasonable nature were found. The Moniteur of Tuesday is completely silent about the reported Bonapartist conspiracy. The accounts from Saragossa are of the 3d. The Plzare de Bayonne continues to say that Espartero is going to undertak e the siege of Segura. The correspondent of the Sentinelle del Pyrenees writes thzt the campaign is terminated. Arrangements continue to be spoken of, but their • - i re not known. It is a,' 4 ,;-„zed that the conditions -. at or at ` will B f'onstitu iA letter from Sa ra g ossa Al tni p d informs us that tonue b . settlec; BOURSE....E'AitIS, TUESDAY, DKr. 10. , . First Highest Lowest last Price Price. Price. Price. reach 5 per Cents ll2 ... 112 30 ... 112 ... I'2 25 4 per Cents ....... 3 per Cents BO 50 ... 80 65 ... 80 50 ... 83 CS Bank of France Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1077 50 —1077 50 ...1077 50 —1 77 50 5,000 f. Sh 5213 ...5240 ...524 , ...5240 13elglan 5 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 3 per Cents 72 72 72 7 , ... ... ... . Bank 7 60 ... 7CO ... 760 ... 760 C3upoils Spanish A etive Passive 6,4 —6% ... 6% ... 6% New Ocferrei Don Miguel .7.eaiblitan Roman lOl ... 101 ... 101 ... 1441 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germai, Versailles, R. B 515 ... 515 ... 512 50 ... 512 30 L.B. 312 51) ... 312 51) ... 3:0 ... 310 Havre Orleans ......, .............. Strasburg to Bale ......... BELGIAN 1' UNDS—BituaqELS, Die. 10. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. VI Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. 70% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 4per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7O) Nationaal Society . — Exchange en London (shoat) —Brussels Papers, Dec. 10. el USTRIAN FUNDS.—Vixews, Dec. 7 Five per Celts. Metallique; Four per Cen:s. Three per Centi: Bank Shares --Allgenzeine Zeiiting, Dec, 7 BOROUGH OF SOUTHWA RK.—A very nume rous and highly respectable meeting of the friends of Mr. Wood was held, on Wednesday, at the Brown Bear, Southwark-bridge-road, Mr. Cooper in the chair. Mr. Wood addressed the meeting at great length, in explanation of his principles, and views on the Corn-law question, as well as on the new Poor-law, which gave universal satisfac tion. Afterwards, several resolutions, expressive of the confidence of the meeting in Mr. Wood, were put and carried. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL N EWS CITY, THURiDAY EVENING. Late this afternoon, two communicationswere received at the Stock Exchange from the Agents of the States of Bogota and Ecuador, offering the same rate of in terest to the Colombian Bondholders as those proposed by Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., on behalf of Ve nezuela. There is this difference, however, that the two first States are ready to grant land-warrants for the arrears of interest to such holders as may be simple enough to take them in payment for their undoubted claims to cash. The whole of these offers will be, we are sa tisfied, indignantly refused at the public meeting about to take place. The price of Colombian Stock rallied this afternoon to 26} and of Mexican to '27 ; Spanish left off at 23i a ; Portuguese Five per Cents. at 3:31 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 53i. The prices of Consols remained steady up to the close of business this afternoon, at 911 ; Exchequer Bills at 2 4 dis. ; but Bank Stock fell to 1771. Many of the Shares were heavy ; London and Bir mingham fell to 49 prem. ; Great Western to 10 dis. ; and the Brighton to 15,1 dis. The Mercantile Markets were extremely inactive this afternoon. Teas sustain their value. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The Market this day has been very dull. The sales 2,500 bags, at a slight decline. The transactions wholly to the trade. The Liverpool steamer to New York was spoken with 26th November, 10 A.M., lat. 42.45, long. 32, ten days out. We have received Hobart Town papers to the 20th July. The Hobart Town paper of the 29th July says, that the meeting of the Legislative Council has bee❑ post poned until the 19th August. HOBART TOWN MARKETS.—There has been but trifling transactions in flour and wheat since our last, and that without any alteration in the figure ; holders felt no inclination to force the price, until the last mo ment, and buyers are waiting that opportunity for pur chase. Oats have advanced Is. per bushel, in conse quence of a scarcity in the supply and an increased de mand ; other articles at last quotations. The rain in the south of the Island, we hear, bas been very abundant for this last fortnight ; on this side we have had but few days rain, and we regret to hear that even this, a few miles distant from town, has pene trated but a few inches below the surface. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct the following notice of a proposed Act which is about to be laid before the Legislative Coun cil, entitled " An Act to ascertain by the ♦erdict of a Jury, whether applicants for compensation under an Act of this Island, passed the 14th of November, 1838, entitled ' An Act to prohibit distillation within the Island of Van Diemen's Lind,' be entitled to com pensation," be published for g eneral information. The Port Philip papers state that it is the intention of the Government to form a settlement at Portlond Bay, in the district of Australia Felix. The above papers arc filled with English intelligence. The a rr i va l s t hi s mor ning have been the French and Ostend ma il s , s hi p l et t e rs from China , old dates, South 9 F t i ti ve D p e e c r e c m e b n e t r s. : , —Jws_ol - J u l y 2 , H o bart Town , July 21 , Calcutta, old date s . Spanish 23 7-16th s . We h ave rece i ve d th e Journal of Antwerp of yes terday's d ate , b r i ng i ng the Amsterdam prices of t h e Two -sa;-lialf per Cents., 52-a ; The gloomy s t a t e of' the weather damps all d escr i p . tions of s p ecu l at i ons i n th e funds. Consols op ene d t hi s morning at the leavi ng o ff pr i ces of yesterd a y, 91/- i f or the Account ; Reduced, 90; i, ; Exchequer Bills, 4 '2 discount; Bank Stock, I-16 179 ; India Stock short. In the Foreign Markei most of die prices are at the same quotations as they left off yesterday. We hear tlial tr:eT:: has b een an extensive failure yesterday in 'eolon - ihian 'Bonds—not a Member of the House. Spanish Actives same as they closed at 23i i- ; Portu guese 33i; Three per Cents., 23i ; Brazilian, 71,1 72} ; Colombian, 2.54 i ; Spanish Passive, 5i 6i ; Deferred, 104 11 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53.1 -I- ; Five per Cents., 996 1. No American arrivals. PRICES OF STOC t. , THIS DAY Al ONE o'CLOCK. Rang Stock... 1783 7 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ofN% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. South Sea Stock — . 3 ~p er Cent. ; Old Annuities — Ditto Red 11%4% New Ditto --- New 3% per Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 Jan. 5, 1860. 13% Ditto Small 23 1 dis. Oct. 10, 1859 . Ditto Commercial — Jam. 5, 1860 —. Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account .. Jac. 5. 1870 •-••••• Consos for Account 9IV, RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds belgian Bonds Ditto Account ___. arazilis 1 Bonds Ditto Account 3uenos kyres Bonds Ditto kezo - ant .:Thilizn lord . — Prussian Bonds atto iCLG: of — Russian Bonds, 1821 — " . o hunt 1.• n. , ids — Ditto Account Ditt3 121';',, or :.,2 a; tat 3: 7 d 5,1824 r.:; 1:,:0.nt 4 51 i% ij 6, Ditto Account. anistt la I • 73k 3. . Passive Ditto Atc: nt —' "-Deferred 1 1(1% Greek Bonds — . French, 5 per cent. Ditto Bonds, 1835 — 4 per cent. —f. —c, Ditto Account - 3 per cent. —l. —c, Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent ; Exchange. —f. —r. Ditto Account _••.•• Dutch, 2., per cent. 53%406 Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan ..... .... . Ditto Acc0unt........ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Railway 11) 44 Groat Western Railway Company Brighton Railway 1 - 'ton and Birmingham Railway Company ... 40 14 Ditto New Shares Loudon and South Western ..... - ... 581 . Mi. 9d. 38l London and Croydon Railway Company l4/. 18s. 6d 851 Lo ,ion and Blacs wall Railway Colonial Joint Stock Bank 25 30X, PRICES OF IRISH STACKS. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 10. fl per cent. Consols - 1 per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced - i Hibei Alan Bank -- Ditto New, Is3o ..... —' City of Dublin Stearn Comp. .- 314 per Cent. Debentures Wqi, National Insurance Company Bank Stock .. flrand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock The Launceston Paper of the 11 th July says, " In our number of the week before last, we referred to the determination of the Government to compute the pro fits of the distillers upon the assumption of the duty paid having been 4s, the gallon. " Upon the subject of this 4s. duty, the Hobart Town Courier has the following excellent remarks : I. It might bare been in contemplation of the Go vernment to raise the duty to 45., but having omitted to do so, they cannot now take advantage of their own neglect. Such a proceeding is against every principle of law, as it is of justice. We trust, therefore, that the duty will be calculated from 2s. 3d., which was the sum at which it was fixed when the Distillation Act came into operation." We give the Wowing from the Commercial Daily List" of this morning : The average yearly consumptions of Tea in Europe is as under : LIM Great Britain United iztates 8,000,000 Holland Russia Germany 2.000,000 France 230,000 57,530,000 There are about 35,000,000 of pounds in this port a present. Thei ntclligence received from Lisbon this morning of the Portuguese Minis ry having been turned out, and new Ministers having been appointed by the Queen has not had much effect on the Portuguese Stocks, which have improved about 4- per cent. We understand that the present gentlemen in office are very favourable to the British Government, and we have no doubt that the slave question will soon be amicably settled between the two Governments. We have no further arrivals to communicate al present. This day is the weekly meeting of the Bank :Direc tors, but as yet we have not heard of any notice being issued by them. Consols at present may be quoted at 914 i for the Account, with a steady market ; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 dis. ; India Bonds, 8 dis. ; Bank Stock lower, 178 4 1774. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives a shade better, 234 ; Portuguese 331 in the morning, 331 1 ; Three per Cents. 234 ; Colombian has also improved to 26 ; Spanish Deterred, 10i ; Dutch TWo and-a-Haif per Cents. 53 ; Five per Cents. 991. CLOSING PRICES. BAIT Is ti UNDS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9u Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Ccas per Cent. Red 9B%' Ditto New Annuities New 3t per Cent — ,Ex. Bills, 1.18)1)1 2.1 2 Ells. New 5 per Cent Ditto 504 2 dis. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ 1 dls. Jan. 186 , Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 FOREItIN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent - i Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent. I Ditto, New Ditto ...... ......... 3.3 U Brazilian Bonds 71% I Prussian, 5 per cent — Iluenos Ayres, 6 per cent — I Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent — I Ditto, Metallic. Colomh,an, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 23% Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent ... 'French, 5 per cent.......... —l . . —c Greek Bonds, 18•J5, 5 per et. I Exchange f—e Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent.. 1825 2N Dutch, 2 per cent. 546 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — 'Ditto, 5 per cent...... 1)9)4 SEI A RES . . Eastern Countios Railway Urcat Western Railway London and Brighton Witham) , 14 14 London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway 119 Ditto New Shares 1 0 1,4 London and South Western Railway 18% London and Croydon Railway (Trun,.) 9 Ditto Scrip . D r )TCH MAIL. THE HAsuE, DEc.B.—ln the sitting of the Second Chamber, on the 6th, a Royal Message to the following effect was delivered:— " The great amount of the relief granted during the last three years out of the funds for the encouragement of agriculture, to the owners of cattle who have suffered losses in consequence of the prevailing murrian, make it necessary to take some measures in favour of that fund. " A project of low for the re-introduction of a tax on horned cattle, horses, and sheep, accompanied ny an explanatory memoir, is therefore presented to your as sembly." His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Prussia ar rived here on the 7th from Berlin. Her Royal High ness Princess Marianna, his consort, went as far as Alphen to meet him. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 10.—We receive accounts from all parts of the kingdom, of the festivities in honour of the 47th anniversary of the birthday of his Royal High• ness the Prince of Orange. The tendency to a decline in Dutch Stock, which commenced yesterday, has continued to day, chiefly in consequence of the London prices of Saturday last. The very sensible decline of the Commercial Company, which left off yesterday at 169, and were sold to-day at 167, likewise affected the market. In Spanish stock the market was still more unfavourable. To-day it ex perienced a further, not inconsiderable, fall. Ardoin's (last prices) 22 13-16 i.—hutch Papers. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 3.—His Majesty King Frede rick VI., departed this life this morning at eight o'clock, after three weeks' increasing decay of strength, though without being confined to his bed. His Majesty was in the seventy-second year of his age, and the thirty-second of his reign. At twelve o'clock his Royal Highness Prince Chris tian Frederick was proclaimed King, by the title oc Christian VIII., Count Moltke, the Minister of State, in the presence of the Princes and the other Ministers, anti several high officers appearing in the balcony of his Royal Highness' palace, Armalnberg, and there pro nouncing three times in a loud and distinct voice, —" King Frederick VI. is dead ; long live King Christian VIII.I" which was repeated each time hi the Herald. His Majesty then went into the balcony and satis. &ed the assembled multitude. The troops were assem bled to take the oath at one o'clock. Frederick V I. was born Jan. 28,1768, was declared co recent in 1784, and ascended the throne March 13, 1808. He was married on the 31st of July, 1790, to his surviving consort, Marie Sophia, the daughter of the late Landgrave Charles of Hesse Cassel. Only two children of this marriage have survived him. the Princesses Carolini and Wilhelmina, who arc both married. The present King is a son of the Crown Prince Frederick, who died in 1786. He married in 1815 the Princess Caroline Amelia of Holstein Augus tenburg, born in 1796. The Prime Minister and Principal Officers of State assembled in the Palace, and were confirmed in their offices by his Majesty, who addressed them in a speech in which he declared his resolution to govern in a pa ternal manner, but observed that every change in exist ing institutions required the most mature consideration. We are enabled to give the most unqualified contradiction to the following statement, which appeared in the Cheltenham Chronicle, of Thursday last, that " Mr. Jefferys resigned the office of Principal of the Training School, Gloucester, because he was a Pu seyitc, and that to the fullest extent." The reason of such resignation was neither more nor less than this, that an eligible College Living came to Mr. Jeffery's option, and he accepted it. 'We have no doubt our Contemporary will consid er it hi s d u ty t o insert this cJunter-statement.—Cheltenham Jaw nal. THE WORKING CLERGY, ---The Rev: W. Baker mAs elected 0.1-4- . ain of the Lincoln Union , ?n Wednesday lift ; s a l ary 35/. A s v icar of Cherry IA Mr. Baker receives 951., thus waking his annual income as one of the hard-working clergy, 130/. Contrast this with the Bishop of Durham's 19,0001. a-year CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN THE BRITISH COLONIES. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) As the names and titles of the Catholic Bishops in our foreign possessions form a frequent subject of reference i n th ese countr i es, we subjoin a correct list of the Catholic hierarchy in all the British colonies : In Lower Canada, there are M. Joseph Lignay, Bishop of Cuebec, with his coadjutor, M. P. Turgeon, Titular Bishop of Sydney ; M. J. J. Lartigue, Bishop of Montreal, and his coadjutor, M. Antoine Tabeau. In Upper Canada, there are the Right Rev. Dr. Alexander Macdonald, Bishop of Kingston, and the Right Rev. Dr. Ganlin, his coadjutor. At the Red River, M. J. N. Provencer, Bishop of Juliopolis, and Vicar Apostolical. In New Brunswick, the Right Rev. Dr. Eneas M'Eacbern, Bishop of Charlottetown, and Vicar Apos tolic of New Brunswick and St. John's. In Newfoundland, the Right Rev. Dr. Michael Fleming, Bishop of Carpathia, and Vicar Apostolic for the whole island. In Nova Scotia, the Right Rev. Dr. Wm. Frazer, Bishop of Time, and Vicar Apostolical. In Trinidad, the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel M'Donnell, Bishop of Olympus, and Vicar Apostolical. In the British Antilles, the Right Rev. Dr. R. P. Smith, Bishop of Agna, and coadjutor to Dr. M'Donnell. In British Guiana, the Right Rev. Dr. William Clancy, Bishop of Oriense, and Vicar Apostolical. In Malta, M. Francois Xavier Carnana, Arch bishop of Rhodes—the title being united with the see of Malta. In Zante, M. Ignatius Lestaria, Bishop of Zante and Cephdonia, with his coadjutor, the Right Rev. Dr. John Hynes, of the Order of St. Dominick, Bishop of Leros. In Gibraltar, the Right Rev. Dr. Henry Hughes, late Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Ireland. At the Cape of Good Hope, the Right Rev. Dr. Griffith, a Dominican, Bishop of Paleopolis, and Vicar Apostolical. Mauritius, the Right Rev. Dr. William Morris, Bishop of Troy, and Vicar Apostolical. In Australia, the Right Rev. Dr. John Bede Pold ing, Bishop of Hiero-Cresari a , and Vicar Apostolical. In India, the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel O'Connor, Bishop of Madras, and Vicar Apostolical, installed the 2d of September last, with his coadjutor, the Right Rev. Dr. P. J. Carew, Titular Bishop of Philadelphia. There are, besides these twenty-two Prelates, two superiors of missions, who do not rank as Bishops. These are the Very Rev. Dr. Robert St. Leger, in Cal cutta, and M. Benoit Fernandes, in Jamaica. _RD S HALL.—Yesterday the fourteenth Anniversary of the re-opening of Gerard's Hall, was ce lebrated in the great dining-room, when about 1.50 gen tlemen sat down to dinner. Some had come a distance of 150 miles t o b e present on the occas i on . Mr. Crack in the Ch a i r . Th e company did not b re ak up till a l a t e hour, owin g t o th e exce ll ent w i ne , the good spe ec h es, and perhaps also to the greatest pie, according to all accounts, ever se en i n London. It weighed 1 571b5., an d contained th e f o ll ow i ng s avoury ingredients :--Cumber land Pi e -3 geese , 4 ducks, 6 chickens, 7 t ur k eys, 3 t h e a n r g es u , es ! i b 2 r ih ac . eruornfpgstroeuaskes,, 2 6 iphh. sausages,easants, 6 partridges, 10lb. of butter,4 and sst. 61b. of flower. THE ARMY,—MARCH OF THE RIFLES TO MONMOUTH.—In order to strengthen the mil at present stationed in South Wales, two rl to hold T themselvesd(itary forces gai i e , companies of nowsta i t n ioniidt un red rank and file, ay. 2d battalion of the Rifle Bri Windsor), c onsisting of about one h have just received ercle barracks at Winthor, to proceed to readi ness to march to Monmouth, Wednesday next, under the commahn(t'idYleoir"f' i ii lMajore destination ave lr t t h e ' e a i n r . g, three artillery waggons arrived at Yesterday mornin g the Infantry Barrack% the 'Windsor, from Woolwich, laden those who will proceneodw there (amounting with ammunition, for abutments of the V 6 v ight hundrecl , ) „ , anr!, ',„, tetosaobuutsuhet of the troops stationed ales_ , on the it h i nst . was struck on Mond.: * Manchcste- The second arch (63 feet sof,_.,) of tile north ..• and tirmingliam Railway, The eel,' _..y, and only " settled" half an inch. coi- ' —orated sculptor Thorwaldsen has re -.cu from his Danish Majesty the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog. MORNING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen Dowager left the Castle at ban' past twelve o'clock this morning , at tended by t h e C oun tess of Sheffield and the Hon. MISS Hudson, the Lady, and Maid of Honour in Waiting, and the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice Chamberlain. The Earl of Albemarle also took his departure this morning. The Band of the Rifle Brigade attended at the Castle last night, and performed the following pieces March ( Welch) ; Overture, Nuovo Figaro (Ricc i ) ; Aria, Finale Straniera (Bellini) ; Valses, Les Ailes d e Mercure (Strauss) ; Romanze,Aus der oper das Nacbt lager in Grenada (Von Kreutzer) : Quadrilles, Les Plaisirs du Salon, from Bellini's Norma ; Galop (St rauss ) ; R on d o , Fi na l e Bi anco e German" (Benin') ; God save th e Qu een . Her Majesty, ow i ng t o the u n f avoura ble weather , has not taken eque s tri an exerc i se t o -d a y. Venetian Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by th e Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Hudson, and the Hon. William Ashley, returned to Marlborough Ho use at a quarter before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, with her suite, in two carriages and four, from her Majesty at Wind so r C as tl e . ted M Dedel, Minister o f th e N e th er lands, transac ted business at the For e i gn Offi ce yes t er d ay . Ch a rles Sir Willoughby Gord on , C a pt a i n H a y, Mr. Bullet), and Mr. Packin g t on b a d i n t erv iews with th e Marquis of Normanby ye s t er d a y a t th e Homo-office:, Dispatches wert- received yest er d a y ° a t the C office oloniar from Sir J. Fr a nklin, G overnor of Van Dio n Land. a visit to FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' ARRIVALS. Count D'Orsay, from Wycombe Abbey; Lord Her" from Boulogne; Lord Charleville, Lord Wm. Lean °s 3 Col. and Mrs. Berkeley Drummond, the Hon. Capt. en Lady Mary Nelson Hood, Major George the Hon. SP ti cer Lyttelton, Col. Morton Ed en , L a dy Beresford; 11° Altamont, from Italy; Mr. and Lady Mary Rosa, Mr . and Mrs. DavVkins Pennant, the Hon. Algernon Herbe rt; Lady and Miss Jodrell, in Portland-place, from Lea mter ton; Sir Alexander Duff. Lady Duff, and family, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn street, from Delgaty Castle. DEPARTURES. Sir R. Paul Jodrell, from Portland-place, for his ..l e _ A ll4 Nethercott House. Oxfordshire ; Lord and Lady Strout"' for Amwelbury, Herta; Admiral Sir William K. C. 8., for Bath ; General Shrapnell, for ditto; _ ..4 ° 1 ; Frederick and Lady Augusta Wentworth, for Niroa"" — ; - Castle ; Lord and Lady Uxbridge and the Ladies Pag e ," for Beaudesert ; Lord Spencer Compton, for COOP Ashby ; General Lord Lynedoch, for the Continent; S ir Harry and Lady Johnson and family, for Bath; the Re /. George and Lady Georgians Neville Grenville, on o C . ,O 11 " tinental tour ; Mr. Payne. for Ranton Abbe y ; Sutton, 7th Hussars, for York; the Rev. Charles an Miss Wetherell, for Northamptonshire; the Han. Bro_ low Bate, for Ipswich ; the Hon. and Rev. Lord OW' Hervey, for Cambridge. Hotbant, CHANGES. R. S. Holford, Esq., to W es t o nbirt, TP4tbury. fr °° : Portman-square; J. H. Davies, E sq ., ark Mrs- Da n e s, from Germany to Tiltenhurst Lodge, Sunning.hill. THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.—Lady HO' Mary ward, daughter of the Earl of Surrey, is to offic iate 3 one of the bridesmaids to her Majesty in addition to those ladies who Attended as Maids oiHonour at the Coronation.-4/righton Guardian. The Duke and D uc h ess o f L e eds and the Dowager Duchess intend to pass the Christmas at Hornby Castle. Mr. Sackville Lane Fox, law son-in of the late Duke, has been passing the autumn with his family at Ramsgate. The Viscount and Viscountess Canning have arrived in Grosvenor-square, from a visit to the Duke of Hamilton. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have rot arrived at Mivart's Hotel, as stated in Wednesday's paper, but have a select party at their del: i ghtful villa on Walton-on -Thames. The Earl of Yarborough left town on a visit to Mr. and Lady Bridgeman pion, at th e ir sea t in Yorkshire. Sir George Talbot, accompanied by the Misses Talbot, left Mivart's Hotel yesterday for B r ighton' where Sir George and daughters intend to make a 01 of a few days. quitted W.itetitneetmdoafWn t hi shyn i sans been is at t 14 : 1 1 , C 0 g e : wheni Ho n . nC phi G r 1 o a e v r i sW B ohm fa eTe r r eh b we e et t hile t ke e is r g fß t ho h tir a gi i n ht thoeni. the intention of th e H on . M em b er to b e pre sent at health, country. the assembling of Parliament. We have to announce the demise of the Dow' ager Lady De la Touche, who expired at her residence in Hyde Park-place West, on Tuesday evening, at the advanced age of eighty. Her Ladyship, by her mar riage with the late Lord De la Touche, formerly Sir Cecil Bishopp, has left two daughters, the present Ba roness De la Touche, married to the Curzon, and the lady of Captain G. R. Peebell, M. for Brighton; BADMINTON, TUESDAY M His MORNING. _ Royal Highness the Duke of Ca mbrid g e a- • don s visit to the Duke and Du;;ltess Best- •CTIVe ercio afternoon, from the Earl and Connte . s u s f O r f t Den t big h's, Nuneham Paddox, Duchess of Ca Warwickshire. In the evening the Hon. Robert r.'2.'oridge, accompanied by Prince George and Prir . ie"..sses Augusta and Mary, attended by th e Hon. ntss Kerr, arrived. The other arrivals yester, day w ere th e E ar l an d C ountess o f Ch ester field, Ear l ,likthurst, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. MI Somerset, Viscount Villiers, Hon. Captain Macdona ld ' the Hon. Augustus Villiers, Mr. Massey Stanley, . 51 ' Culling Smith, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codringten, Mr. T. Jones, &c. The Duke of Devonsre, bore oing to Chat s ' worth, intends to visit the Du ke a nd Duchess of Sather' land, at Trentham. hall, Stafiordahire. Lady Co'-tlngham had a soiree on Tuesday even' ing, whet, Baron and Baroness de Cetto, the Nether' land% Minister, and Madame Dedel, Marquis of Na iDi r" :oanby, Viscou n t D uncannon, t h e Ri g ht Hon. P; Macaulay, M r . an d M rs . B ouver i e , Mr. Tuffnell, Ea" of Minto, Mr. Younge, Miss Bouverie, &c., were Ore' sent. The Marquis of Sligo has, since his arrival at Naples, had a slight attack of paralysis , but n ot so se ' rious as t o a ff ect his speech. His Lordship, when the last account s l e f t , had re covered from the shock. The Marchioness an d the Ladies Browne were quite sve.'_ Lord Altamo n t h a d l e ft Italy to join the sportsmen w the neighbourhood of Gordon Castle. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge and the s Ladies Eleanore and Constance Paget left their heu_, in Bruton-street, on 'Wednesday morning, for th es e,` .. of the Marquis of Anglesey, Beau Desert, shire, for a few weeks. of DOVER, DEC. 10.—The Earl and Countess se, Guildford and Lord North left Waldershare flouter yesterday, for Alreford ; the Earl of Fingal left, yes . da, for Windsor Castle, where he succeeds Lord L e t Departlu! ford, as Lord in Waiting on the Queen' :- for the Continent, from Worthington's Ship Hote . _ rd the Earl of Cardigan and Lord A. Fitzclarenee, Henry Russell, Mr. Bentinck, Sir Thomas and 1-d_ r s o ul Str d M'Malnal, Sir Thomas Cochrane. Arrivals France :—Sir Edward and the Hon. Lady Deering, al: r., Captain Conroy. The E ar l o f H ar dwick' left , Y e ' t day. for town. Lady Emily Wellesley is seriously Boulogne, where her Ladyship has been residing w some time past. $ The Marchioness Wellesley continues in suc h ide precarious state of health that her Ladyship is 10; 4 , indisposed!: to resume her duties as Lady-in -Waiting to her P• 1 jesty the Queen Dowager. ell Lady Grey and her infant are going on weld at the Clarendon, where her Ladyship's aceouchesuen took place on Monday last. Lord Brougham left London for Paris--Y er terday morning. Mr. RODY. — Th i s gentleman, who has lat ely been g reeted with that sort of fame which is verl closely allied to infamy, for hi s en d eavo urs to blac ke ° 1 the reputation of the Que en an d t h e C our t, is, we s°l ; pact , the same Mr. R o b y w h o, l ast Year, published book entitled, " Seven W ee k s i n B e l g ium, Swi tier ; land, &c." In this work Mr. Roby alludes to sotr i, bum pe u r m son having written over against his name in „be atth then o p n r t o a c n e v e e d r s t, t t o h the ay w t o h r a d t s , " i f a an i eAth memory ' se i st. ot t pO• treacherou s the- individual is one holding an inliv r i ,„, / e place in the present Administration." Here we R- s a the true Roby spirit—a false political insinuatinnvrak attempt to work upon the religious feelings of the e w se , and ignorant. Every person in the slightest dagrf _ O O quainted with the modern English literature, "u s at that the person who wrote Atheist after his uen! fis a Montauvcrt was the late unhappy but • hly Percy Bysshe Shelley. The circumstance big is a lluded on, Pub' by Southey in his letter respecting Lord Bit a nd has fished in 1812 ; it is stated in Byron ' s w orks , ; to say been published fifty times in other hli pu__ cation flgiish nothing of the countless numbers of travelling • If. Album ID e and foreigners who must have seen the c e Mr. Roby must be " a bold man ; " we "oporY there is something more about him t han his which is" treacherous."—lnverness Courier. —The net A TICKLER FOR " OLD TOBY." tr , to presentation to the living e, Coomb Pyne be.ot,g. _ pd Mrs Edwards. The 1. vin lately became vacant' bet Mrs. Edwards having a son a cle rgyman, to , presen d. son—the I,lshop of Exeter refused to institute and M".s. Edwards brought an action ag ainst thctePii. Y ,'' de. the Court of Common Pleas , which was la blige d termined in her favour , and t he Bishop will be oh to pay damages and costs , more tha n 1,0001..-50 Paul saY" for this peace able, good Lord Bish o p . St. a.er w nor 111 a Bishop ought to be blameless , brawl not a aes. See third chap. Timothy.—Western A for th e The amount of the subscription available it sr, use of the unfortunate Joseph Millie's family, is , pears, 9741. 18s. Oid—Tyne Mercury. MR. FROST. A meeting of the friends of Mr. Frost, and the other persons concerned in the late riots at Newport, took place last night at the Doctor Johnson's Tavern, Bolt court, Fleet -street, for the purpose of considering the best means of assisting them in their present perilous emergency. Among the gentlemen present were—Mr. F. O'Con nor, Mr. Richard Oastler, Dr. Wade, Mr. Hartwell, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Burns, Mr. Bronterre O'Brien, Mr. Cleave, Mr. Welford, Mr. Gaskill, Mr. Hetherington, &c. &c. Mr. Rogers was called to the chair, and several gen tlemen addressed the meeting as to the best measures to be adopted in the present emerg ency. A public meeting was s u gges t e d, but it was stated that such a step was not likely to meet the views of Mr. Frost's legal advisers. Mr. GASKILI. feared that a public meeting would afford an opportunity to the advocates of violent mea sures to pack the meeting, and give expression to sentiments which he was satisfied were not the senti ments of the Radicals of London. Mr. OASTLER would certainly object to such a step being taken without the consent of Mr. Frost's family and friends. He would ask what was to prevent a paid agent of the Government speaking at that meeting, and doing the greatest possible injury to the object they had in view ? Mr. CLEAVE said one of the objects which might be attained by a large public meeting would be the refuta tion of the calumnies which had appeared in the public press with respect to Mr. Frost's character s and the assertion that had been made of the ahsenoe of all sympathy on his behalf in the minds of the public. Mr.O'CoNivoit said the collection of funds alone would be of very little service to Mr. Frost if the calumnies of the press were not refuted, which could be bed done by public meetings. The Whigs and Oho To. ries, The Sun and the Times were all of the same way of thinking, One told its readers that public feeling was against Frost ; the other, that there was no sympathy in his behalf, Why, let them look at the effect of public meetings in the la se of the cotton spra ners and the Dorchester labourers. He should certainly, therefore, advocate the holding of public meetings, and moved a rescletion to that effect. Mr. O'BatEN also thought that the poison infused by the daily press into the public mind should be coun teracted by public meetings. They had seen the case of -Frost, and the other men, prejudged by the loyal Magistrates, and public thanksgivings to God and the military for having saved the town of Newport from ruin and destruction. There was not the slightest evidence to show that the object of these men was to sack the town—on the contrary, it was shown that they paid at every public-house for what they required on their way, Tae fact was, that the object of these men was to show their disapprobation of the tyrannical and unconstitutional proceedings of the Whig Magistrates of the district towards Vincent, Ro berts, and the other persons in confinement. It was most important that that fact should be fully set before the public. He was therefore an advocate for public meetings, and would support the proposition of Mr. O'Connor. If the Government saw that twq or three millions of men were of opinion that the punishment and sacrifice of these men, so far from preserving life and pro perty, would be likely to be attended with much more disastrous results, it would be doing them essential service. Mr. GASKILL thnught there had been too much of th , language of intimidation used for the last six months, and that it would do little good to resort to it now. Mr. O'BRIEN explained. He had never meant to intimidate the Government. He was merely repeating the language of The SunArlit the Weekly Chronicle, and no one would suspect these Journals of wishing to inti midate the Government. Mr. OASTLER wished to know whether Mr. O'Con nor, who was best acquainted with the sentiments of Mr. Frost's family, and lus legal adviser Mr. Geach, could state if the proposition of public meetings would be ob jectionable to them ? Mr. SWAINE had lately had a communication with Mr. Gulch, and he believed from his statements that public meetings would be injurious to Mr. Frost's interests. Dr. WADE suggested the propriety of a deputation to Lord Normanby, to point out the dangers likely to result from the sacrifice of Mr. Frost. Several persons objected to suc,;l, a s t e p. Mr. HARTWELL bell 0 ;31 the great o bj ect i on to public meetings wm the tear of injudicious language being used, Now meetings were already contemplated, and as it was probable that these would be conducted in some cases by intemperate although well meaning persons, it would be as well that the control of these meetings should be placed in the hands of a Committee. Mr. HETHERINGTO N stated that he saw Mr. Geach on the previous day, and his on l y o bj ection to public meetings lest injudiciou s l anguage should be used. Mr. o was, iCo nnor's resolution f or t h e h o l d i ng of public meetings in London was then put and carried wimp moody._ Mr: O'CONNOR then moved the appointment of a Committee of seven to carry the previous resolution into effect, which was agreed to, Mr. GASKILL then moved that subscriptions be en tered into for the defence of Mr. Frost, the funds to he handed over to Mr. Geach, in order that he and his fellow prisoners might have a fair and impartial trial. Mr. ROGERS was then appointed treasurer for the London district, and several subscriptions were entered into on the spot. In the course of the evening it was an nounce d t h at Sir F. Pollock, M r . Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Thomas, and Mr. Stone, had been retained for the defence of the prisoners. The meeting adjourned at half-past ten o'clock. •=1•1•1M..... GERA it Pt Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., THE DIARY OF A NUN. " Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love." SHAICSPEARE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries.