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CANDLE 1, IC K -' it D 1)::c 14. 1839.. TO SIR. UEOR E CAItROLL. Sta.,— We, the undersigned. lohabitanta u, tilts NV aro, li,vipg been informed that Samuel Bir, h, Esq. ' has resi , 4 ned r manic Gown, reque s t you to become a CANDIDATE fur that important office. Looking back to the distinguished manner in which you discharged the onerous duties of the Shrievalty two years since, and the very high character you have always maintained, we deem you in every respect a fit and proper person to represent *is Ward in the Court of Aldermen, and we pledge ourselves to use our best endeavours to secure your election : John Downes Tyson and Mackreth Jeremiah Evans Henry Hevretsen James Baldwin Wm. Harrison Charles Bond John Henderson Joshua J. Nicholls John Saunders Samuel Bradley Edward Saunders Ben. Atkinson and Son Charles D. Bowers Sanderson and Co. John Bartholomew Walkers, Parker, and Co. Wrn. B. Matthews Robert Kirby S. Robertson George Beard Samuel Moore P. J. 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Gentlemen—Having been honoured with the annexed requi sition from so large and respectable a number of your body, I cannot hesitate to declare my readiness to offer myself as a can didate-for the important office of your Alderman, in the room of tkie venerable and respectable individual whose resignation has Jo st taken place. In the event of your electing me to this dis tinguished situation it will be my study to devote my whole time and attention to the discharge of its important duties. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and devoted servant, GEORGE CARROLL. Cavendish-square, Dee. 16. This day is published, in 3 vols. post Bvo., IC APT AIN MARRYAT'S DIARY IN AMERICA. T he Second Part : with Canada, and the present Condition 0 1' the Indians. With a Map o f Aboriginal America, and of tk ,e Seat of War in Florida. CAPT. MARRYAT'S POOR JACK, No. 1, will be pub li shed on Jan. 1. London . Longman, Orme, and Co. CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., HESPIT F I R E. A NAUTICAL ROMANCE. BY CAPT. FREDERICK Cii AMIER, Author of " The Life of a Sailor," " Ben Brace," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. S. C. HALL. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., "-ML A R 1 A N; Or, A YOUNG MAID'S FORTUNES. By Mrs. S. C. HALL, Author of ' Lights and Shadows of Irish Life," " Uncle - Horace," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA- ItANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) sifter many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HRINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PRE. ' , IOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing. WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN bRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. &e. TRH. DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and *hares elearing of most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will seen *Pour. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, Dec. 17, 1839, Will be- repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Dukes of Carinthia, Mr. (Tooper; Sir Rupert of Lerch, Mr. I. Yining; Huon, Mr. Anderson; the Countess of Eppen stein, Min Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. After whieh, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachuni, Mr. W. Parren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Fileh, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. I) ,eikum, Mrs. C. Jones ; Polly Peaehom, Miss Rainforth; Limy Lookit, Madame Vestris. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Cinch's, £s. ; Seeond Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, sg-; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six--the performances to gotn-nenee at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Fool-, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrevrs. bookseller, 1117, New Bend-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Last Week of the Season, and Last Four Nights of Ainsworth's original and extraordinary Drama of " Jack Sheppard," the representation of which has been witnessed by upwards of 150,000 persons. THIS EVENING, Dre. 17, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all C;uiksiianT:s ; l;iinitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Healop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville,. Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant Mts. Laws, &c. _ _ • After which, PETER BELL. To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE. lIIGH.WATERt AT LONDON BR1D(1E TO- ORllO l lv. Mo rning 0 'ninnies after 0 t Evening 1 minutes atter 0 tp . v j-4:V VG ()N. LONDON : TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1839. Believing that the abolition of the Corn-laws should form the great and single object of the People's present exertions, we return to that subject. Our opponents, being now at a loss for argument, have recourse to ridicule. " These people," said th e post yesterday, " have no notion of country, save as connected with cotton. Their soul is in •twist.'• The spinning jenny is the point upon Which all their ideas turn. Their capacity is bounded by calico. Cotton is in all t heir thou g hts." Such wit i s . poi nt l ess It is worthy of the wisdom of the same w r i ter who proposed a few day s a g o, as a remedy for th e danger to which the c urrenc y is exposed when corn is brought from abroad, that the Government should suspend cash payments, and expose the country to the misfortune of an num deemable paper currency. This gigantic genius, who can so easily remedy one evil b y a greater, would no doubt also advise the Government to take the. regulation of all the trade of the country into it s oWn.hands, which must be the next proper step after suspending cash payments, and so disor ganizing all trade. But, leaving such pointless wit and crude suggestions as scarcely fit even to turn aside the Tories from the painful view of the miseries that are impending over them, we wish to place before our readers a picture of what the con dition of the country would probably now have been but for the Corn-laws. What its condition is we unhappily know too Well. The masses are discontented, and the ruling classes are despised. Th- clergy are obliged to struggle to keep any hold of the people, and they are fast losing the little hold they still possess. Ac • cording to the statement of the landlords and the Clergy, vice and crime are rapidly increasing. There is an immense deal of poverty, great daring, and no security, New and stringent laws, and a new and strange police force, unknown to our forefathers, are required to preserve order and ensure protection, but they are not sufficient to keep the peace. Se damn and treason, according to the law, are vomited forth in every village, and there are no means of repressing thern The manufacturers are now suf fering; a short time back the agriculturists were ready to r i se i n arms f rom di stress ; b ut ever y c l ass is alternately the prey of distress. Most disastrous s the cont L ton of the c ?tomuntiv wider the Corn iaws. What wou hpv, 'he Corn-inwN? It is ascertained that population. when food is abundant, will double itself every 25 years. Our country has now been nearly 25 years completely free from foreign war. During that time, but for the Corn•law, the whole world would have been ope❑ to supply our peo l ►le w►th food—they could have purchased it by their manufactures at a le s expense of toil than it is gained by those who have to clear a new country, and might have multiplied, but with tenfold more advantages, as fast as the in habitants of the United States. Germany, Poland, Austria, Denmark, America offered us their food, and the Corn-laws wilfully shut it out. Through all these years, closely connected as we have been with the United States, England might have enjoyed all the advantages of a new and un cultivated country with all the blessings of civili zation. In 1815 the population of Great Britain and Ireland was probably somewhere between 16 and 17 mil lions. It might now have been doubled. Hunger, poverty, and distress are the immediately exciting causes of ferocious passions. How can the hungry savage know compassion ? But the well nurtured, daily fed, opulent, middle classes of England are a compassionate people. While the population, therefore, would have increased rapidly by the free admission of corn, they would have been well fed. In fact, accustomed to a tolerably high standard of comfort, they would not have increased unless they had been well fed, and thus while our people increased in numbers they would also have increased in kind liness and humanity. The poor would have ac quired the virtues which belong to competence ; the ferocious passions would have been rapidly abated, while there would have been much less poverty ; and, if crime had not by this time been wholly unknown, it would have most certainly been much diminished. Mr. WAKEFIELD'S accredited theory of colo nization ascribes a multitude of virtues to the colonists being circumscribed and kept together. As our people increased, the bounds of the island would have kept them together ; none of them would have strayed, like many of the Americans, into the wilderness, and become tainted with all the vices of saVage life. While we increased in numbers from importing food, we should have kept up and increased our civilization. In fact tl,e great physical change which has accompanied the moral phenomena of civilization has been an in crease in the numbers of the people. The arts and sciences have always flourished most in increasing and crowded communities. The increase of the people is the source of an ever-growing necessity, and necessity is the mother of invention. There can be no doubt, therefore, rapid as the people have improved in knowledge, arts, and science since the peace, in conjunction with a very great increase of population—a more rapid increase perhaps, both in population and knowledge, than at any ante cedent period of our history—that, with a free im portation of corn, improvement would have been still more rapid, for population would have increased with greater velocity. It is scarcely necessary to add, though that is the consideration which will most weigh with the landlords, that, as the population increased in the manner supposed, the demand for home-grown food would have extended, cultivation would have improved rapidly—fields wou:d have been converted into gardens, gardens into towns, and rent would have increased to double its present amount. Then the revenues of the Church would not have been felt as a burden—rent would not have been the produce of a tax—and the priesthood as well as the gentry, not being felt, as at present, mere instru ments of plunder, vexation, and torture, might have continued to enjoy the respect and homage of the people. But for the Corn-laws there would have been wealth where there is now poverty, con tentment where there is now discontent, peace where there is now strife, obedience where there is now rebellion, and happiness where there is now misery. For some wise and inscrutable purpose, the sel fish landlords have been allowed to turn aside all these blessings, to convert the country into an un safe habitation, and to make the people desperate What that purpose may be it is hard to guess. Why men must reach ultimate security and peace through travail and pain puzzles the understand ing, but the effect on the mind of the communit3 of the unwise and selfish legislation we are ad• verting to, is to degrade and ruin in public estima tion the selfish classes who, in seeking their own endS, have inflicted so much misery on the country. Whether it be intended to prepare the way for tin destruction of the Aristocracy we know not, but wt. .see plainly that their legislation has brought on them national contempt. We are sure that the Globe cannot be consi_ tiered as expressing the sentiments of the Ministers. for there is in its articles, on the subject of ill( Chartists, a degree of heartlessness and flippancy which, on any subject, would ill become the Ministers ; and on such an unhappy affair as that, is ineffabl:. disgusting. Although we do not agree with the Standard in wishing to have the trials of the Chartists removed to the Court of Queen's Bench, for ►ie believe they would create even more dis turbance in London than in Monmouth, we heartily coincide with that Journal in expressing a hope that mercy may be extended to Mr. FROST and his misguided followers, should they be found guilty, But that sentiment provokes the mockery of the Globe, and those who are advocates for mercy are set down as allies of the Chartists. We fully agree with the Chronicle, that the authors of the Corn-laws are chargeable with the untimely death, by slow starvation, of many thou sands of their countrymen, while the authors of those laws had nothing in view beyond the poo r selfish gratification of putting a little pelf into their own pockets. Agreeing with our Contemporary on this point, and knowing that the lives of all states men teem with similar errors, we look, we confess, more with pity than with anger, on the smaller errors and lesser crimes of such men as Mr. FROST and his followers. He but sought to do that which is daily practised by the Anglican priesthood, and daily taug ht by the Tories ; name l y , to secure an ascendancy for his own political opinions by con straint and violence. If the Ministers in the exe cution of their duty to her MAJESTY and to the rest of her subjects, have been already compelled, we should hope, reluctantly compelled, sternly t o ma k e up their m inds to let the law—which the Chartists ntmaking, complain, g, be it and to w h n i o o i t l ed, that o t f he h essy neither n no share in attachment nor allegiance if the Ministers are, from a sense of duty, sternly its ~ve igh t on:threeshoelavdesd of to the misguided Chartists let the law fall with all of N Newport w n port, su ffering s itill o beefotmheesse unhappy men, or to them to mock the sor rowsspeak of their conditio in any terms but those of deep commiseration. It is no honour to the Government that such out rages should have been attempted—nothing to . its credit that the populati on can be so easily e xcited to acts of violence. If it look on all these events, as it ought, with becomin g sorrow and even humili ation, it is most scandalous in those who pretend to speak its sentiments to scoff at the unhappy men whose existence and conduct are nothing less than a reproach to it. The Chartists are numerous in the country, and are keenly alive to insults as well as injuries. N e i. ther the cause of the Ministers nor the cause of th e QUEEN can be served by using language towards them which can only embitter their feelings without iheir I,umbers or their strength. It is therefor• , and insulting to mock at their error-s aid their misfortui , es; and if we thought that the language and sentiments of the Globe wete known and approved of by the Ministers, we should think them unworthy of support. We know, however, that it is foreign to their nature, and alien to their policy, to ridicule and insult either men or opinions, against which they are obliged, as a mat ter of duty, to direct the force of the law, and we notice the effusions of the Globe to deny that they arc authorised by the Ministers. For them to en courage such remarks, would be to forfeit the re spect of the reflecting and humane. A sort of scoffing similar to that now adopted by the Globe, formerly made the Tories intensely hated by the working men of England. A writer in Blackwood's Magazine for the pre sent month, challenges the Whig Radical writers to contradict certain facts which he states relative to the condition of the Navy and the country. On one point we will accept his challenge. His object is to show that the Ministers have neglected the interest of the country. The Sun has on so many occasions pressed on the Ministry the necessity of reinforcing the Navy, that we shall not be suspected of any desire to defend them against the strictures of the writer i❑ Blackwood; but we respect truth, we love fair play, and think it is our business to point out when other writers speak ill of them falsely. The writer in Blackwood institutes a com parison between the amount of the Navy in 1792, and at the present time, and the relative numbers are as follow :—Ships of the Line in commission in 1792, 26, in 1838, 21 ; frigates in commission, respectively 52, and 9; ships of the line in ordinary and building, 124, 70 ; frigates ordinary and build ing, 63, 84 ; total line 153, 90 ; total frigates 115, 99 ; grand total of all vessels 411, 363. The writer adds a comparison between the population, exports, imports, and tonnage of the two periods, and draws this conclusion : " Thus it appears that since 1792 the population of the British islands has more than doubled, the imports more than tripled, the exports more than quadrupled, and the commercial navy increased about 70 per cent., while the ships of war, in all branches, have sunk to nearly a half (f their standard in 1792. This, too, has taken place during a time when the colonial empire of Great Britain has been multiplied above five-fold, and the chances of hostility with which we are brought in contract at different points over the globe, have been increased in a similar proportion. We invite the Whig- Radical writers to examine and contradict these facts if they can, and submit them to the deliberate considera tion of all the sober reasoners, and of all the intemperate admirers of democratic wisdom throughout the realm." The author appears to have taken his account of the Navy in 1838, from " Barrow's Life of Lord Anson ;" we have not that work at hand, but it was referred to by Lord COLCHESTER in the de bate on the state of the Navy in the House of Lords, on the 22d of February last, and Lord COLCHESTER then gave precisely the same account of the number of ships in commission as the writer in t heMagazine, but the Noble Lord ingenuously added five steam-ships. Why did Blackwood omit this item? Steam-ships are at present the most effective of all vessels, and five steam-ships, with a suitable arma ment, may be set down as equivalent to ten frigates. This important class of vessels has since been nearly doubled, and is of itself equivalent to what was a very large force in 1792. Such an omission does no credit to the correctness of the Blackwood critic, to say nothing of any bad motives by which it might be dictated. In 1792 the country had been nine years at peace, and in the interval had prepared a great na val armament, on account of the dispute relative to Nootka Sound. There had not been sufficient time, even if such had then been the policy of the country, to get rid of every vessel, whether useful or not, which had ever borne the name of a man of war. Not one, but some score of vessels were at that time kept on the Navy list that were as useless for a men of war as the river barges. Now, after twenty four years continued peace, when every useless. vessel has been broken up or sold, there is not a. single vessel on the list which is not sea-worthy, and- fit to perform all the duty of a man of war. *lf.the, writer in Blackwood were not aware of this great difference between the ships at the two periods, his ignorance is inexcusable ; if he were, his bad faith:. is still more to be condemned. At any rate, the ,erms of his comparison give a very imperfect de .•cription of the state of the Navy at the two periods.. Moreover, in 1792, the " Ships of the Line" included some score or two " of Heroes, Leanders, Lions, Gladiators, and Centurions," that were far less than the frigates of our day. In like manner, at that time the " Frigates" included a multitude of Ariadnes, Storks, Cymbelines, &c., carrying twenty small guns, which might be conveniently hoisted on ward and stowed on the booms of the vessels that are now called frigates. As the writer in Blackwood seems to know no more of the Navy than he may have learned from the novels of Capt. MARRYAT, we make no reproaches to him for his ignorant pre sumption, but other persons are aware that ships of the same denomination in 1838 are twice as large as they were in 1792. Their scantling and their armaments have been at least doubled since that time ; and consequently, putting out of view the inefficiency of about one-third of the ships that were then in tree Navy List, the number of ships in 1838 ought at least to have been doubled to make the comparison a fair one. Such trifles, how ever, arc conveniently neglected by the Tories, who generally have it at heart to make the worse appear the better reason. If the writer in Blackwood had had an atom of penetration or a grain of honesty, he would have of his co mpar i son f rom t h e seen all the fallacy number of men employed at the two periods. In 1792, said Lord COLCHESTER, on February 22d, (see " Hansard's Debates," Vol. 45, page 770) the whole naval force of the country only amounted to 16,000 men, whereas last year our whole naval force was 35,000 men, from which it appears, confirming what we have said as to the efficiency and size of the ships at the two periods, that in 1838 the Navy, instead of being " sunk to nearly half of its standard, in 1792," is more than doubled. Without disputing the facts as stated by Blackwood, the Whig-Radical writers of The Sun tell him he does not know the value of the facts he quotes, and that his comparison, though nominally correct as far as it goes, is, by its incompleteness, sadly dishonest. But if this fallacious comparison should redound to the discredit of the Whigs, what will the writer say to his friends the Tories, who had not more than 20,000 seamen up to 1830, and not more than fifteen sail of the line in commission ? If the Whigs are to be blamed for the smallness of the Navy at present, in comparison to its amount in 1792, the Tories, up to 1830, were doubly descry in.; of censure. We however do not blame them, f the Navy was sufficient for the wants of the country. The Whigs have now a naval force in a perfect state of order and discipline almost twice as large as the Tories then had. At the same time our relations with foreign countries are peaceful. There is, however, one great difference in the situation of the country now and prior to 1830. Then the Tories were in power, and had no par ticular motives for sowing dissension between dif ferent States, and the democratic and Whig op position deprecated war in all its phases, recom mending to the utmost of their means the improve ment o f commercial relations between different nations as the surest bond of peace. Since 1830, the Tories being in opposition, have wickedly sought to sow dissensions between nations as a means of obtaining power. Their absurd rhodomantades against France have no other object. Since they lost the power of coercing the people into submission e c t ;Ay "t 4; Vi e ' f o i • • gam. Till , ' SUN, LONDON. TUli-SDAY, DECEMBER 17,139. i to their tyranny, they have continually sought t o revive national jealousies that they might impel the people into a career of war and murder. They have at one and the same time enConrag,ed the insolence of Russia and the continuance of the war in the Peninsula, and are chiefly to blame for the necessity which now exists to keep up a more ex tensive Navy than ever was before maintained in Peace. Their whole foreign policy, since they have been in opposition, has tended to sow strife between nations, and stir up the enemies of Britain. The aristocratic party, of which the writer in Blackwood is a partizan, quartered its sons and nephews and bastards and butlers' sons on the Nary till the national resources which ought to be applied to the public defence were devoured to maintain the spawn of aristocratic corruption. The democratic wisdom which would have prevented that and which essayed to remedy it, was sneered at by aristocratic writers. Extravagance was written into fashion ; the nation was burdened with taxes to support it ; and wide -spread discontent, except amongst those who live on taxes, is the conse quence. Compared to the actual consequences of aristocratic selfishness, the consequences of " de mocratic wisdom," even admitting the fallacies of Blackwood, are full of social benefit. The whole article, which is puffed off by the Tory scribes as " fraught with statistical statements of the high es t i mportance , w hi ch prove th e f o ll y and ruinous t en d ency o f t h at li ne o f policy which has been p ursue d, o f l ate years, b y the Govern ment," co n t a i ns a grea t num b er o f f a ll ac ies simil ar to that we have exposed. We shall not travel further into it, this splinter being a fair specimen of the whole block. In fact it is the part on which the ignorant writer most prides himself. In the bulk of his remarks he agrees with Mr. Sheriff A msoN, whose speech at a late meeting, to promote emi gration, furnishes the staple of most of his fallacies. By the Iberia steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, from the Mediterranean, we have re ceived Lisbon papers of the 10th inst. The new Ministry had announced that henceforth all persons in the employ of the Government would receive their salaries regularly at. the end of every month. This notification, which appeared in the Diario of the 7th, gave, of course, unbounded satisfaction to the officials of every grade, who were loud in their praises of a policy embodying t heir sublimest concep tions of patriotism. Nothing had been determined re specting the claims of the national creditors, and it was supposed that with the best intentions it would be impossible for the Government to provide the requisite funds for paying the dividends. In the internal administration of the kingdom economy has been carried as far as possible ; the expenses of the Court are a mere trifle ; but such is the wretched state of the country, induced in a great measure by ruinous fiscal regulations and the fetters imposed upon commerce, that the coffers of the Finance Minister never contain as much surplus ca►sh as would defray his own salary for a month in advance. As respects the differences with England, we hare pleasure in observing that the new Minis try condemn in lobo the conduct of their predeces sors, and have already expressed themselves desirous of renewing the friendly relations which so long sub sisted between the British and Portuguese nations. The weather has been exceedingly stormy in the Mediterranean. We regret to have to state that the English brig Clondoline, from Newfoundland, with a cargo of fish, bound to the port of Figueira, was totally lost on the 3d inst., on the coast about eight miles south of Figueira. The master and crew were fortunately saved. The. Cleopatra steamer, from London bound for Bombay, was forced to put into Lisbon on the morning of the 10th, having lost her foremast, and received other severe damages, the repairing of which was ex pected to delay her for some days. The Paris Journals of Sunday have . .all been received.' The Moniteur contains the following announcement of the receipt of official intelligence from Africa : The Government received yesterday despatches from Algiers of the 7th instant. N o important event had occurred in the province of Algiers since the last ac counts from the Marshal. The Arabs" continued to make partial incursions in the plain, and bands of Had joutes and horsemen belonging to different Kalifas of Abd-el-Kader attempted to carry off cattle in various directions. They had, however, nearly everywhere failed, and been vigorously repulsed by the troops charged with the defence of the camps. In the different encounters numbers of Arabs were killed, and several horses were taken from them by our soldiers. The concentration of our troops continues along the line of the Chin. The works of defence of the town of Belidah are carried on with all possible activity. The dike constructed for the purpose of supplying the Casbah with water at all times has been completed, and the victualling of the town is now secured. The Arabs incessantly harassed our soldiers in their movements round Belidah. The Kabyles, and after them the regular troops of the Kalifa of Miliani, posted themselves in the ravines, from whence they kept up a constant fire against our posts. We have had seve ral killed and wounded. According to the reports of General Duvivisr, the enemy suffered a considerable loss. The packets from Bona and Oran not having ar rived in Algiers when the mail left, no intelligence had arrived from those provinces. In the Toulonnais of the 11th instant we find correspondence from Algiers, dated the 7th, which represents the state of French Africa as exceedingly critical. ABD-EL-KADER had issued a proclama tion, setting forth that on the first day of the Beiram (the 11th instant) he would offer up prayers in the great Mosque of Algiers. This created a great panic in that city, the Christian inhabitants of which expected to be massacred. Marshal VAL LEE caused sentries to be stationed at all the gates, and no person to be allowed to enter without being searched. The native inhabitants were forbidden to assemble in any number in the streets, or to congre gate at private houses, and under no circumstances to be found out of their own houses after nine o'clock at night. The Hebrews were treated by the Marshal in the same way as the Moors, though they had pea tionedto form themselves into a militia company to de fend the town. ABD-EL-KADER was himself en camped near Medeah, from whence he threatened to march upon Algiers at the head of an army of 6,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry, and 20 pieces of cannon, In anticipation of such an attack, the Marshal had ordered the troops at the outposts to fall back on the city, and all the fortified points except Belidah and Bouffarick, to be evacuated. The next dis patches:from Algiers may be expected to bring im portant news from the Regency. r The presence of the young Duke of BOR DEAUX, at the Court of Rome is giving the most serious uneasies des Debuts tothe of Sundaye French Government. The Journal has a long article on the subject , i n which the right of France ns to insist on the expulsion of the DUKE from the Papal States is intimated. Since the DUKE'S re ception by the P OPE the salons of the French Ambassador have been deserted, while the Palace of the young Pretender is crowded with noble visitors, The young DUKE is exceedingly popu lar among all classes, less on account of his rank and family, than his urbanity, and the elegant ac complishments of his mind. Accounts from Saragossa of the 9th announce that numbers of Carl:sts deserted Cabrera's ranks, and that an entire company, c onsisting of 101 men, with its officers, had lately repaired to Mas de las Matas, and mad e thei r submission to General Espartero. Accord ing to a letter from Vinaroz of the 29th ult., eight gib bets were erected at Morella on the 27th, to hang as many Carlist chiefs whom Cabrera had caused to be arrested, charged with having entered into negotiations with the Christino Generals. Cabrera had issued a retaliat or y decree for expelling from within the Carlist lines all individuals who had sons or relatives serving in the Queen's army ; and providing, moreover, that the nearest relative of any person joining hereafter the Christino troops should be shot. Suspecting the Governor of Cantaviej a to be plotting ' with the Christinos, he ordered that officer to be shot ; and had also removed O'Callaghan from the Governorship of Morella, which he had given to Pedio Thltran de Kin. A report likewise states that he had threatened to blow up the Convent of Bemfasa, containing 2,500 Christina prisoners, if any attack was made on him by Espartero. The Chamber of Peers will sit to-morrow as a Court of Justice. It will then adjourn to the second half of January to try the accused. Of the 400 persons inculpated 361 have been pro visionally set at liberty. The Court will immediately decide on the fate of these 361 persons. The Court will then decide on the 39 others, whom the Commission propose to put on their trial. It will afterwards determine respecting those who have fled from justice. The English journals have not arrived. The Chamber of Commerce of Lille has addressed a letter, dated November 27, to the Minister of Commerce, in order to obtain an augmentation of tkimport duty on thread and linen man u f ac tu r es. The - Minister replied on the 3d of this month that this important subject has been discussed in the Council of Ministers, and the augmentation of this duty asked for by the linen manufacturers does not appear to require such immediate attention, as to make it necessary to decide by an ordinance the questions connected with it, and which arc therefore reserved for the consi deration of the Chambers.—Le Commerce, Dec. 14. The accounts from Spain are of little importance. On the frontier some movements of Cabrera are spoken of, which should seem to indicate an intention on his part of resuming offensive operations. We yesterday men tioned several advantages obtained by his troops. These accounts are confirmed by the Madrid journals of the 7th. The Siecle says—" The project of law on sugars, which is to be presented in the next session, is not con fined, as some journals have announced, to equalizing the duty on home and colonial sugars. The principle of a reduction of the higher duty imposed on foreign sugars, which is the national and indispensable comple tion of this measure, is also admitted. It seems that this higher duty will not exceed 15 francs."—Le Ga zette de France. BOURSE.—PAMS, SATURDAY, Dan. 14. tirst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. rend) 5 per Cents ll2 112 5... 111 75 ... 111 75 4 per Cents lOl 25 ... 101 25 ... 101 05 101 25 3 per Cents BO 60 ... 80 GO 80 55 ... 80 55 Rank of erance 2030 ...2080 ~ ..2980 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sll 1075 ...1075 ..,1075 ..,1.75 5,000 f. 811 5222 50 ...5225 ...5222'50 ...5222 50 Belgian 5 per Cents. JOIN ... 101 N ... 70 .1; 1 0 .1( 3 per Cents 7l 75 ... 71 75 ... 71 75 ... 71 75 Bank 765 ... 765- ... 765 ... 7fis Spanish Ac ive ... 25% ... 25% ... 25% ... 23% Passive 6% ... 6% ... 6% ... 6% Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ~. 23% ... 2:3% ... 23% Neat.olitan Roman lOl% ... 101 1 4 ... 1015( ... wilt RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 507 50 ... 510 ... 507 50 ... 510 L.B. 317 50 ... 317 50 ... 317 50 ... 317 50 Havre Orleans .. %lulhausen to Thann .. Strasburg to Bale 315 ... 317 50 ... 315 ... 316 25 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, DEC. 13. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An . 10-Russian Loan 106% 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series 102% 102% Russian s . per Cent. Hop.: and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9B 97% Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe - Cent 51% 515( Ditto 5 per Cent 95 Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7l 7( % Norwegian Loan, 18.34, 4 per Cent... lOO% 100 Spanish, New .3 per Cents. 22 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. 1 - 1 A I'd EURO, DEC. 13.-13. 61—Two months, 13. 4. STOCKHOLM, DEC. S.—Seventy-five days, 11. 39. CIARISTIANIA. Nov.3B.—Thr c months, 416 414. PETE ItSRURG H, DEC. S.—Two months, 38 , ,41. Be ELIN, DEC. 10. —Three months, 6. 2.%. REFORM CLUB HOUSE.—This building is ra pidly approaching towards completion, and, if not disfigured by these crane-necked chimnies that are rising up to such a height above the roof, will form the most magnificent and palace-like structure of the kind in the metropolis. Till the work is completed, however, and the scaffold ing removed, it would be premature to judge of the effect ; but we have strong misgivings, and though it would be hazardous to dispute a point of architectural taste with Mr. Barry, we must express our conviction that these turrets, so tall and slender, will destroy much of the dignified simplicity which stamps the massive structure be low. They rare -not in keeping with the rest of the building, and besides , a re defective in one import ant point—uniformity,' which conduces so mate rially to grandeut of 'character. The pepper-boxes on the National Gallery turned 'Mr: Wilkinson to ridicule ; and even Mr. Barry is not safe against this dangerous weapon. The envious begin already to say this intended masterpiece, and happy spe cimen of a peculiar Italian style is, after all, only a large chest of drawers turned upside down. Ma. FROST.—We are surprised that a Corres pondent who writes from Duke -street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, cannot distin guish between a deliberate statementinade - by - The Min, and by all the other papers, relative to the CoUnael engaged for Mr. Frost, and the rigmarole account of proceedings in the Court at Monmouth, given by a Correspondent on Saturday; taut we are even still more surprised that he should fix upon a short paragraph in the paper, inserted by oversight, as if that ought to outweigh all the accounts that we have given of meetings ex pressing sympathy for Frost, and all that The Sun has done to obtain a fair hearing for a political sect that every other daily paper either treats with contempt or would worry to death without trial. But we are accustomed to ingratitude, and do not complain. The following is the only part of our Correspon dent's letter worth insertion :—" The men and women of Merthyr Tydvil have sent 251. for the Defence Fund. The feeling in favour of Mr. Frost is immense, and subscriptions are going on with alacrity in all parts of England and Scotland." STOCKDALE V. HANSARD.—The sale of the goods of the defendant in this case under the writ of fieri facias was appointed for this morning, at twelve o'clock, on the premises, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and the affair excited some interest in consequence of its being generally rumoured that the House of Com mons would interfere through its officers to prevent the sale taking place. At the hour appointed a written notice was posted on the warehouse door, stating that " the sale would not take place," but we have been unable to learn the nature of the arrangement come to between the parties. CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY, CASE V. ROSIER.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before his Lordship twelve months since, upon appeal from the decision of the pre sent Master of the Rolls. The bill was filed for the purpose of establishing a legacy of 2,0001. The de fendant put in a demurrer to that bill on the ground that the legacy was bad for remoteness. On the case coming on before the Master of the Rolls, he allowed the demurrer, and from that decision the parties ap pealed to this branch of the Court. His Lordship was clearly of opinion that the demurrer had been properly allowed by the Court below, and dismissed the appeal with costs. DOBSON V. LYALL. His LORDSHIP also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upon the construction of a bot tomry bond.' His Lordship directed a reference to the Master, to inquire what, on the 13th of June, 1821, was due and payable on the bond, and what money was at that time necessary for the purpose of discharging other demands against the ship, what amount was re quired to enable her to complete her voyage, and what were the resources in the hands of Mr. James Stewart, in Calcutta, applicable to the payment of the bond and the other demands on the vessel. DILLON V. COPPIN. The arguments in this part-heard case were concluded to-day. The LORD CHARCELLOR postponed his judgment. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The bearing of consent petitions and short causes occupied the Court the greater part of the morning. 'The case of Knight v. Knight engaged the attention of the Master of the Rolls the remainder of the day. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS I)AY.) VIGORS U. WARNFORD AND HARRI3ON. Mr. K. BRUCE applied at the sitting of the Court ex parte, for a special injunction to restrain the defen dant Harrison from taking out execution ior under a judg.. ment he had obtained at law. The plaintiff is the manag ing Director of the West Cork Mining Company, of which Company the defendant, Warnford, had been a director, and the defendant Harrison had been in the employment of the Company in Ireland, and he had, by an action at law which he brought against the defendant Warnford, established his title to some re muneration. Before these proceedings had commenced, Warnford disqualified from being a director, and it was therefore contended that the proceedings brought against him could not affect the Company. Notwith standing this, however, the defendant Harrison had threatened to take out an execution against the effects of the Company , to restrain him f rom doing which was the object of the present application. Hi s HONOUR granted the injunction as asked. EQUITY EXCHEQUER. (THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Sergeants' Inn, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) KNIGHT V. THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD AND OTHERS. Mr. Boutler and Mr. Sitnkinson appeared for the plaintiff ; the Solicitor-General (Wilde) and Mr. Gir dlestone for the Morning of Waterford ; Mr. g'v;abston and Mr. Purvis for the other defendants. Mr. BOUTLER pease was the Rev. Thomas Knight ; and the defendants vtre the Marquis of Waterford and his tenants, and George Aden Askew and his tenants. The bill was filed by the plaintiff, who is the rector of the parish of Ford, in the county of Northumberland, for an account of the tithes of the lands in the occupation of the several de fendants within that parish. The Marquis of Water ford had answered separately by his guardian (being an infa nt at t h e t i me th e suit wa s i nst i tute d), and ° his tenants had put in another answer. Mr. Askew and his tenants had put in a third answer, but the defence set up by all the answers was substantially the same. The defendants stated that the parish of Ford is a rectory, and comprises within its bounds or precincts the manor of Ford, which contains upwards of 8,000 acres of land, producing an annual rental of 10,0001. ; and it was then alleged that from time immemorial there had always been payable by the lord or the owner of the manor of Ford for the time being, in half -yearly payments at Lady-day and Michaelmas, to the parson of the parish the yearly sum of 401. for the maintenance of divine service for and in lieu and contentation of all manner of tithes within the said manor ; and that the lord or owner of the manor, in respect of the said sum of 401., had always received one tenth of all manner of titheable things arising within the manor. The answer also stated that Mr. Askew in 1768 purchased of Sir J. H. Delaval (the then lord of the manor) certain lands within the manor, together with the tithes. The rector claimed, by his right as rector, and it was admitted that he was rector. The plaintiff admitted having occupied lands within the parish, and having had titheable matters, and it now rested with the Counsel for the defendants to establish the defence set up by them. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the question in this case really was who was the rector of the manor of Ford. The parish of Ford comprised two manors— those of Ford and Etal. The right claimed by the Marquis of Waterford was limited to the manor of Ford. The case on the part of the defend ants would generally be, that for a very long period of time, and as far as any evidence could be given, there had been a constant payment of 401. by the lord of the manor to the rector, and a con stant reception of the tithes by the lord of the manor. His Lordship would recollect that this spot was on 'the borders, where a continuous warfare had been car ried on for many years, and it was well known that the Castle of Ford had been twice or thrice sacked, and papers and documents destroyed. The evidence that would be submitted in answer to the common-law right of the plaintiff would consist of a variety of title-deeds, in which the tithes had been conveyed ; it would also be found that the tithes had been the subject of mort gage and lease, independently of the land. The manor of Ford consisted of several townships, amongst which he had to refer to Keymerston, Hetherslaw, and Cat fordlaw. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It is part of Flodden Field. Tac SOLICITOR-GENERAL—It was a part of the manor, and his Lordship would recollect that there was a great deal of prose and poetry connected with the district. Mr. Baron ALDERSON recollected it perfectly well, having often turned aside there when he went that Circuit. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the Court rolls for the last two hundred years would be produced, shoeing the holding of Courts, and that the tenants of the places he had mentioned did suit and service there. This would be followed by evidence of receipts, and discharges, from the year 1690, for the payment of the stipend to the parson, and the perception of tithes by the lord. There would also be evidence from 1703 of the payment of the land-tax and other dues, properly attaching to the owner of the tithes ; and it would appear that anciently the lord of the manor repaired the chancel. He would then offer a decree made in a cause of " Jenkins v. Blake and Dawson" by this Court, in 1686, and various other documents which would folly bear out the case on the part of his client. The Learned Gentleman was lett addressing the Court. The hearing of the case is expected to occupy several days. SHERIFF'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) JENNINGS V. THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought to recover compensation for damage and deterioration of property. The plaintiff was the proprietor of a public-house, known by the sign of " The Mariners Ashore," in White Horse street, Whitechapel, to which there was a skittle-ground attached ; on a portion of which ground the above Company had infringed, in the construction of their railway, by which, the plaintiff alleged in his action, that he had suffered damage to the amount of 185/. A great many witnesses were examined on the part of the plaintiff, who proved that the alterations caused by the buildings of the railway had quite unfitted the skittle-grounds for their intended purpose ; likewise that half the liquor, at least, that was sold in the house was served there, for which a higher price was charged than in other rooms ; and a clerk of Messrs. Richmond, Strong, end Co, -brewers, proved that the quantity of porter drawn since the alterations complained of had decreased one-half. The Jury, after a short deliberation, awarded 401. damages. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Richard P;ince, a respectably dressed man, who had been convicted of stealing monies, value seven shillings, the property of John Aldhouse, his master, but who had been recommended to mercy by the Jury, on ac count of his former good character, was, after a severe admonition from the Recorder, sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. Henry Stanridgc, aged 16, was indicted for stealing one pair of stays, value four shillings, the property of Henry Edward Cox. The prosecutor keeps a stay shop in St. Martin's court, and saw the prisoner take a pair of stays from his door on the 6th of November. The Jury found him guilty. On inquiry it was found that the prisoner had been previously convicted, and he was sentenced to seven years' transportation, with an intimation that be would be sent on board the prison-ship, and if his conduct there was correct he would be released at the end of a twelvemonth. Robert Bre4ford was charged with stealing a shawl the property of Edward Ellis Everett and others. lispector Jenkins of the H division saw the prisoner take the property in question ; he apprehended him and found the shawl on his person. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. SHoP-LIFTING.—Mary Stratford and Margaret Cronin were charged with stealing 21 yards of calico the property .of William James Stevenson. The prosecutor is a draper residing in the Ratcliff Highway ; the prisoners went into his shop under pre- tence of making purchases, and took the calico in ques tion. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. William Downing, a respectable looking man, was charged with embezzling various sums of money, the property of his master, Mr. Wynford. Mr. C. PHILLIrs, for the prosecution, said that it was not his intention to offer any evidence against the prisoner, as the matters in dispute between the parties were strictly matters of account, and the prisoner would leave the bar without any imputation on his character ; at the same time be thought it due to the prosecutor to state that he was a gentleman of the highest respect. ability. _ . Mr. CLARKSON, for the prisoner, thought it due to him to state that he was a man of the highest respect ability. _ _ Th ere were several indictments against the prisoner on allied which he was found Not Guilty. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, Dac. 16.—Wind, N. N. W.— Arrived the Alex ander Robertson, from Monte Video. Sailed, the Gilbert Henderson, Tweedie, for Hobart Town; Rosalind, Crouch, Valparaiso; Oscar, Brazil: Duke of Bronte, Harris, Ja maica ; David Lyon, Sibley, do ; Ruckers, Deane, Gre nada ; Catherine Green, St. Kitts; News, Bermuda ; M-,ry, Malta; with the rest of the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 16. Wind N. CREEK, DEC. 1 6.—Arrived, the Batley, Patras • Orfeur, from Hunter, Kerry, ditto; Unity, packet, Craigie, Tarragona. MARGATE, DEC. 16. Arrived off, the Combatant, Par sons, from St. Andrews. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 16.—Wind N.—Arrived the British Merchant, from Bombay ; Julius Caesar, Mitchell, Quebec; Britannia, ditto ; Woodstock, Simpson, ditto ; Ruby, Westcott, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Elizabeth, Sin clair, ditto ; Herald, Allcock, Alexandria ; Linnet, Di.tcham, Cephalonia ; and Cintra, Renfrec, Denia. Off port the Palmyra, from Demerara; Mediterranean, Africa ; John Begg, ditto ; Adelaide, Terceira ; Al gonquin, Philadelphia; Ganges, Quebec; America, ditto; and Adventure, Carthagena. CORK, DEC. 14.—Arrived the J3nas, Wood, from St. John's, New Brunswick. HARWICH, Dec. 16.—Arrived the Mary, Richebucto. TORBAY, Dee. 15.—Sailed the Hildegonda 'lda, Hen drick, for Surinam ; and Jacoba Maria , New Y o r k. GUERNSEY, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Louisa, Lanfesty, from Rio Janeiro ; and Clara, Tarragona. FALMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind S. S.E. to N.E., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived the Iberia, steamer, Cooper, from Gibraltar—left 7th inst., Cadiz Bth, Lisbon 10th, and Vigo 12tb. SWANAGE, DEC. 16.—Off port the Eleanore, Wallace, ' from Calcutta. DOVER, DEC. 16.—The Alert, Salmon, from London, arrived here yesterday evening, took the ground in the basin, and before she could be lighted filled with water. GUERNSEY, DEC. 14.—The Maid of Alicant, Le Snore, put back to-day dismastcd, having encountered a heavy gale sth inst. in long. 18. FALMOUTH, DEC. 15.—The Liverpool steamer, with last week's Peninsular mails, left Vigo for this port Bth inst. EVENING EDITION THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) MINGERFORD MARKET. There were fair supplies at market, and an impronzent in the busine'n done. Turbot, 6s. to 20s. ; Cod, 3015 1 155. ; Soles, 10d. to as. 6d. per pair; Lobsters, 10d; to 4s. Beer, 7d. to ; Mutton, lid. to Bfd. ; Veal Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to Bd. per lb. Prices of Vegetables were as last quoted. CITY FISH MARKET. The supplies were abundant, and the demand good, and last prices were sustained, Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 3s. to 125.; Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. ; Oysters, 12s. to 40s. her bushel ; Whitings, Scl. to 10d. ; and Haddocks, M. to Is. 6d. PROVISION MARKET. A fair business done in most kinds of provisions, and prices were steady. Irish Bacon, 495. to 555. ; Irish Butter, 90 s . to 99g. The nominal price of Bladdered Lard was 625. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but there was a fait demand ; prices much as they were. Hay, 50s. to 90s. Clover, 84s. to_ll3s. ; Straw, 28s. to 38s. TEA MARKET. There was more business done in Tea than for some daye past. Prices L-d. to Id. per lb. higher then they were quoted last week. TALLOW MARKET. This department was quiet, and the price of P. Y. C. 48s. 6d. COLONIAL MARKET. Very little done worth ' particular notice—prices steady. British Plantation Sugar 60s. for brown ; 635. for middling ; and 665. for fine. Good ordinary Leghorn Coffee 1015. ; and middling Jamaica 112 s. Eighty-four baskets Java Sugar sold at 215. 2,100 bags Saltpetre sold at 225. 6d. td 235. 4,000 bags Bengal Rice in common parcels sold in part at 9s. 6d. to lOs., or thereabouts. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0 CK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales in Cotton this day has been 4,000 bags, but no altera- Lion in prices. We have received the Mauritius papers to the 18th September. Exchange on London Government bills * 30 days sight, 3 per cent. prem. ; Bank bills, 90 days sight, none ; Private bills, 90 dais sight, 41 to 5 pet cent. discount ; Private bills, 6 months sight, 6 per cent. discount ; on France, 90 days sight, 41 to 5 per cent. discount. A Lisbon mail has arrived by the Iberia, left Gibral tar on the ith inst., Cadiz Bth inst., Lisbon 10th inst., Vigo 12th inst. Information received by the above mail (which is the one due yesterday) state that the recent changes in the Ministry has not caused any improvement in the prospect of the foreign holders of Portuguese Bonds, as the present Ministry as yet have not thought on the above subject, and it was uncertain whether they would submit to the Cortes the plan proposed by the Ex-Minister of Finance, which was to appropriate the sum of 900 contos annually out of the tobacco contract money to the part payment of the dividends. It appears that there has been very boisterous weather on the coast of Portugal, and the Liverpool steamer, from Lisbon, which was due last Monday week, is re ported to have put into Corunna, having sustained some damage. TTIE FUNDS. The only arrivals this morning of consequence is the Lisbon mail, due yesterday, and the intelligence it con veys is not of much importance, with the exception of a repetition that the Portuguese bondholders in this coun try have very little chance of receiving their dividends, although a new Ministry has been formed. Some private letters by the above conveyance express doubts that they will not continue long in office. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91i 92 for the openirg, opened this morning at 92 92i ; Reduced 9O ;as yet very little doing. The Money Market continues easy on good bills at 6 per cent. discount at the bankers' and bill-brokers'. Messrs. Rothschild's American Loan bears a premium of about 1 per cent. ; 22 per cent. is to be paid on it this day. Exchequer Bills, 4 2 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1771 174 ; India Stock, 253 255. In the Foreign Market the settling of the Foreign Account passed off well yesterday. Spanish Active, at the leaving off prices, 23,i- 24 ; Portuguese at the closing 33} 34 ; Three per Cents, 23:1- 23: 4 1 ; Colombian, same, 25 ; Mexican, same, 284 2S ; Spanish Passive, of 6k ; Deferred, 1O 11k ; Brazilian, 71 72i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i ; Five per Cents., 99 4 I. PAICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock l7B India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. oN% . Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. - i St;uth Sea Stock -- 3 1 , per Cent - Old Annuities • --- iht• Red. 9Sii A's 1 New Ditto Ditto _ _.............. ..... 1 ~.. New 314 pet Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. -1 Exch. Bill!, £1,000... 2 4 dia. Bank Long Annuities toexpire i Ditto Jan. 5, 1860 J O: n t . . 1 5 0 ; 1 121 1 )..... ......... ___- 1371'‘ "( Ditto p vi i t t t t ( B A ;om m d a re m il r e u r s c; .. ::: 12 44 — 2 64: Jan. 5, 1860 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, ISSO . — India Stock for Account .. --- Jan. 5.1870. — Consos for Account 924 RILES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o,cLoc)L Austrian Bonds — Peruvian 80nd5............... Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Prrazilia n Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds I)itto Ac.73unt Chilian Boad : — Prussian Bonds .............. 13,tt0 Accc - . tit — Russian Bonds, 1822.......... ... Colunt V. E<t ids — Ditto Acc0unt............... .-- Ditto teem. nt — Ditto Meta11ie............. - C•onert .sr 3:rd5,1&24 r tf. 4.,-.1.,,t 25), k3„i , • Ditto Account. ...—......24 'it rianisii ix :1 • — Passive ... :.. .. :—. ........ ' - 14 i Ditto Aztec nt — "Deferred ..................... 1056 Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent.... —f. -c.' Ditto Bonds, 1825 - ---- 4 per cent....,., —f. —.O. Ditto Account — 3 per cent...—. —C.,—c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —f.• —,. . _ Ditto Account ..—.... Dutch, 2N, per cent. ...„53X% Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account I , Ditto, 5 per cent 99 5 , 1%% Neapolitan — Ditto Acctunt.........»... PRICES OF' SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl.0:. li. Paid. Per Share Great Western Railway Company ........ .......... 65 57 London and South Western ... North Midland Railway Company.. ...... ......... 95 67 HALF-PAST ONE. The Hamburg mail has just arrived of last Friday's date, 13th December, by which we have received Ham burg papers of the same date, bringing the exchange on London the same as per last account-13 4 at two months ; gold, 430 ; short, 13 64 ; Metalliques, 1061 ;Bank Shares, 1,618 1,622. Consols continue firm at the morning price, 92 to 92k. But little doing. Exchequer Bills, 2 to 4 dis. ; India Bonds, 8 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, at 231-4 ; Portuguese has receded from 341 to 33i; Co lombian, 254 ; Brazilian, 711 ; Mexican, 28i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i ; Five per Cents., 99i , -. Hamburg Papers state that accounts received from Trieste, of the 30th ult., say that the Capitan Paella was reported to have been poisoned at Alexandria. We must wait for further infoi mation to ascertain if the re port is true. WESTMINSTER PLAY.—The Queen's scholars of Westminster School performed the Eutzuchus last night for the third and last time this season, as the pro fessional heroes of the sock and buskin would term it, and there was a very crowded audience to witness the representation. The management deserve great praise for the important change they have made in getting up the piece, and dressing the characters. Plundria, in place of appearing in frock coat, boots, and beaver, like a dashing young English gentleman, came on the stage in a Greek dress, cut according to rules laid down, not by Stultz, but by a doctor learned in ancient lore, Lam bert Bos. He wore a short cloak as an upper garment, and the chlamys which covered the left arm, and was clasped on the right shoulder, one end hanging down in front, and the other behind, leaving the left arm free for action, the colour of the chiamys was saffron, with a reddish border. Thais wore an lonian tunic of white linen, embroidered with gold, with long sleeves, which were fastened down the arm with small clasps. Over the left shoulder was thrown a violet-coloured pallium, ornamented with stars, falling from the waist in full folds, and reaching to the feet. The girdle was fas tened in a bow, and her feet were inserted in laced socks. The other characters were dressed in equally proper costume. This experiment has met with the most complete success, and it. is to be hoped the scholars will never recur to the old barbarous custom of representing Greek characters i n modern English dresses. And you are ADVICE Erous TO ofenjoying WRITINGgo good health s "and feeling happy. Bu t these you cannot do unl ess S ou A breathe freely a suffi cient quantity of atmospheric itir, the oxygen in which purifies i y o ur blond ; an d you can not breathe sufficient air f your chest (that is, the upper part of your body, containing the lungs) be pressed in, or narrowed, , by your bending down your shoulders, or stooping. .Therefore, b e care f u l a l ways to sit up nicely when you write, and on no account let the front of your person lean against the desk or table."--- The Smith and DnlierCopy-books. DARING ROBBERY AT TIIE HORSE GtTARDS. —This morning, during the time the exchange of the guard was taking place at the Horse Guards, a country gentleman was robbed of a valuable gold watch, by some dexterous pickpo c k e t, w h o e ff e cted his escape. , fhis place, during the reli e f of the guard of a morning , is said to be the ren d ezvous o f so me of the most noto rious pickpocket s in the metropolis. Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the vaults under Bedford Chapel, Charlotte -street, Bloomsbury-square, used as wine cel lars. The parish engine was the first to arrive and to get to work ; numerous others speedily followed, and the flames, after great exertion, were confined to the vaults. The damage is not ver y extensive, and the par ties are insured. LEARNING TO SPELL.—" When the. art of important exercises in spelling may with the lips, because we rarely hwbaervictei:onigemciasesnaioccneqdut' noto irei s ' p ' ell the words we speak, but far more advantageously with the pen, because we always have to spell the words we write. Through life, at the pen's point, we must construct our words out of twenty. s i x separate materials."—The Smith and Dolier Copy-b oo k s . COMPLIMENTARY BEQUEST.—Mr. Th om p= son, a barrister of the Temple, has it is said, by his will, left 18,000/. to Mr. Chambers, as a compensation for the loss of his place as a police magistrate at Marl. borough-street.