The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-05 00:00:00

Ice reminded me that there were at one time 200 glove ters in Dublin, and that now there are only five. Is gitation that slid that ? Is it agitation that is crushing ry trade subject to excise regulations ? If the distillery le, which employs such immense capital, is kept alive I , was not its extinction prevented by agitation.--(Hear I cheers.) If trade is declining and commerce diminish in Ireland, can the fault, I ask be attributed to agita i ? Look, Sir, to the annihilation of the glass trade. t I should detain you the entire day, if I went through ry branch of business that is suffering in Ireland ; but not agitation that gives us the hope of being able to ress it.—(Cheers.) Was it agitation that caused stares , in Connaught last year, in the very midst of plenty, I in a part of Ireland where there has been less of agita r than in any other, as if for the purpose of giving the to the assertion. Was it agitation that caused this :utnstance, which I state upon the authority of the first :master in Ireland, Mr. Wm. Murphy, that before the ion as many head of cattle were sold in Smithfield as re is at present—(Hear)—but that not one out of .00 are slaughtered here that there were before that iod. What has been the consequence of this? Not a et of these could be slaughtered that the offal of it uld not afford good coarse and cheap food for sixty in iduals.—(Hear. ) Thus are they taking that elsewhere ich was the food of the poor Irish people.—(Hear.) Iv it agitation did this ? No, it was the agitation of stle corruption—it was Castlereagh suicide agitation. (Hear, and loud cheers.) I see our fields teeming with rvests—l behold our plains covered with fat cattle, and our markets the living pork is abundant. But what Names of these? The harvest is cropped, the cattle are d, and the pork is exported for the benefit of the Eng le and the profit of the absentee landlords.—(Hear and eers.) I see all this, and I ask, ought not Ireland to be eerable, for has she not lost the protection of a domestic gislature ?--(Continued cheering.) But it is said that itation is increasing, and I am even accused of being the tinspring of it. I certainly am an agitator, and all I sorry for is, that I cannot agitate more. I make no blogy for being an agitator, but I do so for not agitating ough.--(Hear and laughter.) I never knew in the story o f any nation, of any one blessing of freedom, or vantage bestowed upon the people, that was net wrung ma their rulers by agitation ; and how am I then agitator?—for the advantage of Ireland.—(Hear.) :old you what agitation has not done for Ireland. I all now tell you of what use it may be to the country. our agitation the people will be informed that nothing abe done for their country, except by their moral and whined force—that moral force which has already pur ased freedom for the Dissenters in England, and the Ca olics in Ireland.—(Hear.) I tell the people of Ireland look to their own combination.—(Hear, hear.) The estion now is—who is an Irishman ?—(Hear.) The nnent we are combined as Irishmen—Oh !we will ly have to look at our enemies and then—we will be e.—(Hear and cheers.) Our agitation is not imitated other parts of the country. In Armagh, Lord Mande le had a !nesting. I care not now for his party, whether ey were Orange colours or not.—(Hear.) Two years ice there might have been some harts in it; but now its were of mischief are gone for ever, and even I think it a ry endurable colour.—(Hear and laughter.) I declare at there was a time when I could not endure the music " The Boyne Water," and now I consider it a fine old sh melody, and I listen to it with pleasure. —(Cheers d laughter.) All I want is that the enemies of Ireland ould meet and express their sentiments publicly.— Fear.) Let them only tell what they want and I shall satisfied.—(Hear.) Those who composed the meeting Armagh declared themselves to be enemies of Reform. sat is a fact which I am glad will go before the people England. Let the people of England look upon this rty and upon that. They find in us friends to a Be an in Parliament—they find that we support the Re •m Bill for England, even though the Government has fused giving to us a full and efficient measure of Reform. Luling my most lofty scorn upon those who talk against e as an agitator, I ask what has given me the power as agitator? It is not the exertions of the individual [well, but the oppressions of the people. The strength the agitator consists in the neglect of the Government remedy evils. What makes the people listen to the itator? Because they endure hopeless misery and woe. is only a people who are suffering who listen to the itator, as agitation is the only way to remedy their role rtunes. Who are they who make Ireland the field of itation? Lord Grey, Arzns-Bill Stanley, and Lord aglesea.—(Hear, hear.) I will tell them how they will sarm agitation. It is by taking up the tithe question in sectarian spirit --not excluding a Catholic from the !matittee—but turning the tithes into a moderate quit (al giving to the Protestant clergyman of the present neration a sufficient support, and that, in the next every an will pay his own clergyman, as he does his own , ctor and his own lawyer. —(Hear.) Let Lord Grey peal the Subletting Act.—(Hear, hear.) Let some medy be procured for the evil of absenteeism, and with rt the arrangement of which there cannot be permanent snquillity in Ireland.—(Hear and cheers.) But why ould Lord Grey increase agitation in Ireland by offering I insulting Reform Bill to us?—(Hear.) The ache des A, B, and C, in the English Reform Bill, have .en improved. Scotland has eight additional Membeis, id I ask has he the audacity to insult Ireland by fetin g her only five additional Members ?—(llear, tar.) It is this neglect of Iceland—it is this insulting stem—it is this throwing overboas d every Irish interest, at has given birth to an increased agitation.—(Hear id cheers.) It is said that we ought to make an expel i ent with the Reform Bill ; so we will if we get a good and just one.—(Hear.) I am not surprised to find that the rangemen who met in Armagh were irritated and vexed. heir bad passions were almost justified. For three cen ries these men have been encouraged and fostered; ad inistratiou after administration was formed to patronize e Orange party in Ireland. Mr. Peel, who was the sild and champion of Protestant ascendancy, kept in arms Ott thousand Orangemen in a time of peace. They had e dominion of the country to themselves. Wellington id Peel were their chosen champions —Mr. Peel rose ma a spinning jenny to be the first of the statesmen of ngland by his advocacy of Protestant ascendancy—if any incipl e were engrafted in his being, it was that of Pro 'tent ascendancy, and yet he wheeled round in an hour, id he left the Orangemen, like boats on a strand and the de out.—(Laughter.) There they were " stuck in the nd ."---(Laughter.) There, too, were Peel and Welling n, their chosen champions, laughing at them, and even erry Daw son sen di ng his little skiff to the opposite side., .asughter. ) Even Sir George Hill abandoned them for a ace in the West Indies. When such things have occurred them, I can forgive theta their anger ; but the moment At these men discover that their bigotry will not be profit de to themselves, they will not only abandon their present surge of proceeding, but they will become as good patriots any other class of Irishinen.—(Hear.) I trust to see rem and the Presbyterians, recollecting that their fa cers fought to the death against tyranny, join with other eases of their countrym en for the sake of Ireland.— fear and cheers.) But we, Sir, must make a useful imbination amongst ourselves, and I hop e to see the Irish fembers obey the call made upon them by the Trades and e Political Union. I may be told that the experiment ill fail. Every thing must have a beginning ; our's may only the squibbing of the gun, and the next shot will completed. It may be only the flash in the pan; but e will have a light, and a report.—(Laugh ter.) The xt attempt made will be inevitably successful; for, de ad upon it, the cities, the counties, and the towns, will list on the Members attending the meeting in Dublin. there be ten or twelve of us at present, how proud ereafter will each of us be who met here, and were the l t to commence doing good for Ireland. I declare do not know any human reward which would give e half the pleasure that I will find in the reflection at in obedience to that call I was amongst those ho took the first great step for Ireland.—( Hear, .ar, and cheers.) Then we will insist upon a proper re m] Bill for Ireland ; one, too, containing the democratic lneiple, as much of it, at least, as the Reform Bill for !Iland.—(Hear.) I have heard the English Reform jill objected to as being too democratic in principle. My ection is, that it is not democratic enough. Look ro ugh the hi story of every nation, and you will find it r o ugh just in proportion to the prevalence of the de ocratic principle. Democratic liberty for ever !—( Hear, 10 cheers.) l‘lr. O'Connell concluded amid loud cheers :tSaying " We i ns i st upon j ustice for Ireland ; we in- Pon a complete Reform Bill for Ireland, on the same i neiple as that of England ; but, above all, a Bill giving te __ h undred a n d twenty-five Members to Ireland." r. hundred proposed the sixth resolution. e said lie had ever regarded tithes as a gross violation of h ri s tianity, as a dark unhealthy spot on the pure sun of 11.0gr'on, a n d h e trusted they should now be freed from m ever. --(Hear, h ear .) T hese was not a man in the ,hen; u : i t o Y_wh . o . had no t an i nterest in the abolition of mechanic, who bought a loaf of bread for his . 1 ")'s but felt their oppression, by contributing to raise e pri ca 37; , ,eviery article of food.—(Hear, hear.) He Uad,V Ca ll iti o i r the total abolition of tithes, and eulo e country, „c: Union as the source of great good to d indepena mt d eserving of the support of every honest loam---(Cheers.) Mr. Waesir seconded the resolution, and delivered a PRICES 07 THE STOCKS TI. Bank Stock .... ..... 199.54 3 2}6 3 per Cent. Red. 82%,i % y, , 3 per Cent Cons. 354 per Cent Ditto Red SiO!i 90 % Kew 3%per Cent shut 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 - Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 164 9-16 Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 MICIS OF TORZION FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Scrip 1 pm. Brazilian tsonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Cl.Ulan Bonds Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 . Guatimala. Mexican Bonds "itto. 1825 speech of very impassioned and impressive language against tithes. Mr. JAMES DWYER proposed the seventh resolution. Should justice be denied, the interests of the country be neglected, and her feelings insulted, then should their motto be " salus populi, suprenia lesr," and every man should call with a univeral voice for a Parliament in Col lege-green.—(lmmense cheering.) Mr. SHEA LALOR proposed the eighth resolution. Mr. LAYELLE moved the ninth resolution. He thought the Irish Peers and Members of the House of Commons should comply with this requisition at the present crisis. The question now agitated was not one between the church and the people, but between the church and the aristocracy. for the landlords should pay the tithes the people had re fused to pay.--( Hear.) Even at Armagh there was a cry of " No tithes," and the resistance to them was ex tending into Connaught, and in a short time it would be too extensive to be checked.—(Hear.) Several other resolutions were then adopted ; among the rest one of thanks to Mr. O'Connell, which was re ceived with acclamation, and passed amid repeated cheers. Mr. O'Connell was then called to the chair, and a vote of thanks passed to Mr. Grattan, when the meeting separated. PRICES or SHARES TM; Guardian AsturanCe Co Canada Company 118 DAY AY ONI O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent.... ...... — India Stock Ditto Bonds Nis. 'South Sea Stock shut Old Annuities — New Ditto ...... shut 3 per Cent. Ann. 1350 .... shut Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 9 8 pm. I)itto ...... ......500 9 8 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial.... ...... pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Opening ...... India for Account Cont. for:Jan. 19 63% 4' 4 THIS DAT AT OWN o'cLocr. Neapolitan Peruvlati Bonds Portuguese Bonds Prussian. Old Ditto, New Russian Spanish, le:21 12X, 180 French Rented, sp. c. 95t Exchange 2.5f. 25c. 2 per cent —f. —c. Exchange...— —t. —c. Dutch Scrip S DAY AT ONI O'CLOCY. Paid. 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In addition to the customary Reviews, Reports, Fine Arts, Theatres, &c. it will contain—Original Papers and Poems by Allan Cunningham James Everett J. Hamilton Rey- T. Carlyle Thos. Hood nolds Rev. Hobart Caunter I'. K. Hervey Leitch Ritchie The Author of the Miss Jewsbury The late W. Roscoe Corn Law Rhymes J. Thos. Roscoe Rev. Charles Dance W. J. Rev. H. Stebbing The Author of the Charles lamb W. C. Taylor Dominie's Legacy The Author of Lon- J. Mackay Wilson Edw. Herbert, (ofthe don in the Olden &c. &c. &c. Old London Mag.) Time • . '47', - 4 f' , - ' -s• - 20,4-4:7',, %-:. ttivr !"'41114- 2514 I . ih . ~.e ,vii , 1 4 r 40--.,..z.,...),4_,....,,.., ~.. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 5 1832. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, SUNDERLAND, JAN. 3, 1832. Remained at last report I New cases Total Died 1 Recovered 0 Remaining at this date, S o'clock A. 51 1 From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 26, 1831. Cases, 531.—Died, 200. NEWCASTLE, JAN. 3. Remained at last report lns New cases Total . - 153 Died ll Recovered '26 Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock A. 31 116 From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831. Cases, 482.—Died, 150. GATESHEAD, JAN. 3. Remained at last report f4Q New cases Died 5 Recovered Remaining at this date B9 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 285.—Died, 88. NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, JAN. 3. Remained at last report 6 New cases 6 Died 4 Recovered 0 Remaining at this date 8 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 32.—Died, 16. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING AND PENSHER, JAN. 3. Remained at last report,. 7 New cases Died Recovered Remained at this date 6 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 38.—Died, 19. HADDINGTON, N. 8., JAN.:. Remained at last report New cases Died Recovered 5 s Remaining at this date 5 From the Comm e n cement o f t h e Di sease. Cass 19.—Died, 6. A report has been received stating a case of Spasmodic Cholera to have occurred at Pittington, three miles and a half north-east of Durham, which terminated fatally. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. The Quarter's Revenue will not be made up till a late hour this evening. Reports are various —but they are only reports. We learn that the negotiations with the French Government, in regard to the details of the treaty of which the Protocol may be considered to have been already made, are in such a state as to afford considerable hope of the desired con summation being attained. One of the Com missioners of the Customs is, we understand, in Paris, endeavouring to arrange the minor points, and it is satisfactory to hear that the disposition of the French Ministry continues favourable to the spirit of the modifications proposed. The success of the proposition will not only reflect credit upon our Government, but will be, of necessity, of the highest public benefit to both countries. The basis of Mr. PITT'S treaty, of 1787, affords an excellent model for the proposed mea sure, and the great increase of the trade between the two countries which followed it for the few years of the treaty's continuance, is a sufficient pledge of the beneficial results to be now antici pated. Nothing can be more disgraceful than that the intercourse between two such countries as Great Britain and France should be so limited as it is ; but it cannot be otherwise whilst the French prohibit our cottons and hardware, and we impose duties, amounting to prohibitions, on the brandies, the wines, the oil, the fruit, and the silks of France. It is, perhaps, hard to sa3 which of the two tariffs is the most abominable, but it is so far plain, that it does not lie in the mouth of a British Minister to reproach France for following aZ illiberal policy, as compared with our's. There is much to be conceded on both sides, before the system of retaliation can be brought to an end. It was an opinion of the late Mr. HUSKIS. SON'S that the period for commercial treaties had gone by, and assuredly there would be no need of them if each nation would take for the prin ciple of its tariff that sound maxim of leaving industry alone, with which a system of protection is altogether inconsistent. If France, for ex ample, had framed her tariff solely with a view to revenue, and not to the forcing of particular branches of industry to the exclusion of others, her wine-growers would not have been ruined by the loss of a vent for their wine. The vice of interference is unhappily an old and inveterate one in the French Government, and has ope rated also upon the silk manufacture to a very great degree. If the silk trade of Lyons had been allowed full energy and sway, instead of being restricted in foreign markets, for the sake of forcing the cotton of Rouen and the iron of Charenton, the silks of England, Germany, and Switzerland would not now have rivalled those of Lyons and Tarare ; nor would the Spaniards and Italians have wrought their own coarse fa brics for home consumption. The destitution of the Lyons workmen, and the consequent dis turbances, are, we believe, to be traced without difficulty to the mischievous system of restriction which has for some time past paralyzed the pro_ ductive energies of France. The French Papers of Tuesday contain little news. The Funds improved at the close of business to 67f. 20c. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARI3, JAN. 2.-Five per Cents. 95f. 50c. 75c. '7oc. 80c. 70c. 75c. 70c. 75c. 96f. 95f. 95c. 96f. 95f. 90c. 96f. 95f. 90c. 80c. 60c. 95f. 50c. 60c.40c. 45c. 50c. 4(k. 50c.; Three per Cents., 661. SPc. 40c. 20c. 50c. 4nc. 67f. 66f. 90c. 95c. 66f. 80c. 50c. 40c. 45c. 65c. ; Bank Stock, 1,6101. ; Rente de Naples, 76f. 50c. 40c. 10c. 76f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 744 74; Rente Perpetuelled'Espagne, 54!4 54 5-ti%54 53% % %; Exchange on London one month,paper, 25f. 40c.; money, 25f: 40c.; three months, paper 25f. 25c.laioney, 25f. 25c.-Cours Authentique. We have received American Papers to the 16th of December, but we have no room for extracts. The packet ship Manchester, respect ing which some fears were entertained, had ar rived safely at New York on the 16th ult. Montreal Papers to the 7th December, and Quebec to the sth, have been received. The port of :Montreal was clear of square-rigged yes sels, and the winter had only just set in—a cir cumstance unusually late. The navigation at Quebec remained open on the sth ult. It will be seen by The Sun of this day, that five of the six Bristol rioters, who were put on their trial, have been found guilty. Sentence has not yet been passed on them. In another part of The Sun will be found a report of the Aggregate Meeting held on Satur_ day last in Dublin. With the sentiments uttered at this meeting relative to tithes, and even to the Reform question, we find no fault ; our only cause of complaint is that they are delivered, ex cathedril, prematurely, and at a most inauspicious season, when those who are struggling to gain for Ireland, as well as for England and Scot land, the blessings of a free representation, are surrounded with difficulties, and exposed hourly to the restless, subtle, never-ending intrigues of the most corrupt, malignant faction of which history makes any mention. Mr. O ' CONNELL himself seems to be partly of our way of thinking ; he seems aware that his present position is no very commendable one, by the extreme pains he takes in his speech to justify his measures of agitation, and to prove that he could not, from necessity, act otherwise than he is now acting. But granting to this arch agitator that agitation at a fitting season is productive generally of great good, we would simply ask him, is this the fitting season ? Are not the friends of Ireland, the zealous anni hilators of her rotten boroughs, the advocates for improvements in her system of represents: tion, now the present Ministers ? And is it wise—is it just—is it generous—nay, is it reconcilable . with common sense, to en deavour to harass them with difficulties, to barricade every step of their progress ? Is it thus that Mr. O ' CONNELL would serve Ireland, by doing his very utmost to in crease the power of her enemies, by crippling that of her friends ? Truly it is, to say the least of it, most questionable patriotism, which in duces a man to lend new energies to an ascend. ancy faction, by throwing stumbling-blocks in the way of a Reforming Administration. The Whigs are Reformers. Mr. O'CONNELL is also a Reformer. The difference between them—for they both agree in principle—is one only of degree ; but is this a sufficient reason for throwing a whole nation into convulsions ? Because two Reformers differ, is, therefore, the very principle of Reform itselfto be jeopardized ? Really, Mr. O'CONNELL should be cautious how he acts, or by his incendiary appeals—ap peals which scarce lunacy itself can justify—he may be the occasion of mischief, for which no after recantation can atone. We deprecate the whole system of agitation now going forward in Ireland. It is absurd, useless, suicidal, and can answer no end but that of endangering the Reform question. The true patriot joins sagacity with zeal ; he chooses his time well ; he directs his energies into a proper channel ; but the itinerant brawler is the same at all times and all seasons—a firebrand whom all good men have equal interest in en deavouring to extinguish. We repeat, we do not quarrel with Mr. O'CONNELL'S opinions of tithes, nor even with those on the Irish Reform Bill ; we deprecate only the time chosen for promulgating them. When new Peers have been created, and the Ministers have found their strength ; when the great question is placed beyond the power of the Ultra faction, then will be Mr. O'CoNNELL's time for action ; then may he justly declare the grievances of Ireland, in the firm conviction that they will be listened to and redressed by a liberal Whig Administration. But to agitate now, is after the true Irish fashion, to put the cart be fore the horse ; to begin at the wrong end ; to bluster when repose is needed. Brussels and German Papers have been re ceived this morning. The former infer that the Emperor of RUSSIA has not withheld his ratifi cation to the Belgian Treaty, from the nega tive circumstance that the Dutch Journals are silent on the subject. The German Papers, on the other hand, say that he has refused to ratify—and further, that hav ing now arrived at St. Petersburgh, NICHOLAS is determined on paying particular attention to Foreign Affairs, and settling the peace of Eu rope in his own way. Portugal is to be taken under his especial protection, but a regret is expressed at the difficulty of affording assist ance. It is considered unfortunate that the views of France and England upon this subject do not coincide with those of Russia. However, the Autocrat is resolved to set all things to rights-- and Europe has only to hear and obey. The following is a list of the arrivals in the port of Antwerp for the last five years :—ln 1827, 831 ; in 1828, 955; in 1829, 1,031; in 1830, 719 ; and in 1831, 398. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind S.W., Inoderate.—Remains the Elpbinstone, for Madras. Pommourff, JAIL 4.—Wind S.—Arrived the Lady Kennaway, Moncrief, from London for Bengal. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Lima, Smith, from Buenos Ayres. Sailed the Caledonia, Strogan, for Bom bay. Off port, the Warwick, Gibson, from Pernambuco ; Bellona, from New Orleans; Ajax, Shern, from New York ; and Sarah and Henrietta, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, GRYIENOCK, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Joanna, M'Keller, from Marseilles ; Elizabeth and Mary, Johnston, from Honduras ; and Guiana, Dunlop, frown Berbice. Coatc, JAN. 2. —Arrived the Voador Mussquita, from St. Übe's ; Brilliant, late Adams, from Tortola : the mas ter, one man, boats, bulwarks, &c., washed overboard, and part of the cargo thrown overboard. WEXFORD, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Two Sisters, Pitt, from Liverpool, N. S. DUBLIN, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Favourite, Silk; and Union, Howlen, from London. WATERFORD, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Hero, Smith, from Miramichi ; and Percival, Lethsby, from St. John's, New Brunswick STANDGATE CREEK, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Two Bro thers, Robson, and the Snaresbrook, Partridge, from Hamburg. NEW YORK, DEC. 15.—The Cherub sailed from New York, to Liverpool, on the 2d inst., but it is doubtful if she can get to sea, as the frost has set in with great se verity. The Margaret, Burton, from Montreal to Liver pool, is frozen up the Three Rivers, and it is reported has discharged the cargo. SLIGO, DEC. 31.—The James Daly, from the Clyde, to Ballyshannon, on shore at Brundiff, was got off yester day with little damage. The Industry, Carr, from Quebec, arrived at Thirk wall, bound to Dundee, with considerable damage, and cargo shifted. The Mediterranean, Wilson, from Cashel], bound to Leith, put into harbour with three feet water in her hold, having struck on a rock. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. By way of America we have received Mexican Papers to the 27th October. They state that the difficulty of collecting the revenue from the Custom-house had led to long debates in the Congress as to the propriety of extending the time on the bonds, and that many were due to a large amount, and which the exigencies of the Government re quire should he paid. The Secretary of the Treasury stated in the Lower Chamber, on the 27th September, that immense sums were due, and if longer credit was allowed, the Treasury would be deprived of resources which were indispensable. A proposition was read, authorizing the Government to take effective measures for preventing the introduction of the cholera into Mexico, which was adopted by a proclamation, dated 3d October. " POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. " VERA CRUZ, OCT. 29. " TO THE CONSUL OF TILE UNITED STATES. " Six,-The obstacles which have hitherto prevented the regular visits of the Health Officer are nnw remtsved, and hereafter no vessel will be allowed to communicate with the shore until permission has been received to that effect. These precautions are rendered necessary by the accounts received of the extension of the disease called the cholera =thus." THE FUNDS. The only arrival this morning is the estafette from Paris ; it is of little importance, with the exception of an improvement in the Rentes from 66f. 65c. to 66f. 90c. Also it appears that a fire is again kindling in Italy, which seems to cause some alarm to the French Ministry, as well as the affairs of Portugal. Austria, no doubt, does not wish for France to interfere in the Roman States, and France does not like Austria to have too great a predomi nance in Italy; therefore we may conclude that they are watching each other with an evil eye ; should another revolution take place in that quarter, no one can foresee how it will end. Consols opened at the same price they left off at, SSi i, since which they have been done at 83i, with little or no business doing. In the Foreign Market the Belgian Scrip maintains the price of yesterday, 4 to 1. We hear that the leaving off price of the French Funds was 67f. 20c. HALF-PAST ONE. We are informed from a valuable private channel, that the present state of negotiations upon the Belgian ques tion is in a favourable way of adjustment, and which in a very short period will put an end to all fears of misunder standing between the Powers, and so effectually consoli date the peace of Europe, that no impedimenta will exist any longer to a general disarmament. We attach the more eonfideneeto the information, as our former com- munications from the same source were generally correct. Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at 83 for the Account, have improved to 84i, owing to a general report on the Stock Exchange that the affairs of Holland have been settled. Belgian Scrip at 1 pm. We hear to-morrow is a holiday at the Stock Exchange. THREE 0 CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 83i. We have just seen the last published number of the " Figaro in London," which is as sprightly as usual, and contains an amusing caricature. THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—The article which appears in the present number of the " New Monthly Magazine," on the " Temper of the House of Lords," in vestigates the causes of that decline of oratory, which, notwithstandin g the pre-eminent powers of speaking pos sessed by some Members of the present Upper House, has really taken place in that Assembly—a decline which, in fact, has been in progress ever since the time of Sir ROBERT WALroi.E. The same paper conveys some interesting in dividual remarks on the respective Parliamentary tone and influence of Lords GREY, BROUGHAM, ABERDEEN, LON DONDERRY, ELLRNBOROUGH, and WicxLow. COUNT Y OF KILKENNY.--A report is in town that a considerable display of ‘• hurlers" was made yesterday in several parts of the county of Kilkenny, and some rumours are afloat that more than one conflict took place between them and the soldiery. Government has received an express with some account of the transaction ; but the particulars are kept in profound secret, at the office in the Castl e to which it had been forwarded.—Dublin Evening Mail. Within the last few days many of the diplo matic agents of foreign Powers, both accredited and un accredited, to the British Government, have had frequent interviews with some of the Members of the late Adroinis. tration, preliminary, as it is supposed, to an early motion in the Upper House on the foreign policy of the present Administration. OLD 13AILEY.-(THIS DAY.) _ OLD COURT. This morning these Sessions commenced before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Justice PARR, Mr. Justice J. J. PARKS, and Mr. Biron BOLLAND. Jane Anderson, a young woman having a child in her arms, was indicted for stealing a clock from the dwelling house of Messrs. Wells and Dunning, the proprietors of a public-house in Marylebone, called the Admiral. It ap peared that this was one of the species of robbery so pre valent of late in public-houses. On the day named in the indictment. the prisoner, accompanied by a man, went into the Admiral ; the man stood at the bar drink ing, and engaging the persons there in conversation, and the prisoner went into the parlour, from which she shortly afterwards returned and left the house, without speaking to the man as she passed. He waited, suspecting she bad something very bulky under her cloak, pursued her and brought her back, when the parlour clock was found under her cloak. She was then given into cus tody, and in the mean time the man made his escape. The Jury found het Guilty ofstealing under the value of 5/. James Moore was indicted for stealing in the dwelling house of John Corbin a silver watch, a silver snuff-box, a case of instruments, and other articles, his property ; also for stealing some gold pins, a silver pen, and four shillings, the property of John Henry Corbin. Mr. John Corbin stated that he was a licensed victualler, in Henry-street, Portland New Town. On the evening of the 21st of December his servant had occasion to go up stairs to the first floor back room; she found the door fast, and heard some one in the room; she gave an alarm, and the witness went into the yard with a candle, when he saw the prisoner drop from the window of the room into the yard ; he had no boots or shoes on, and on endeavouring to escape through the house he was secured by Corporal Harrison, a soldier. On going into the bed-room, witness found that the prisoner had gained admittance by breaking the venetian blind of the window. A desk and a box were on the bed, having been forced open by a chigoe], and all the articles enumerated in the indictment taken out. Several of the articles were found lying about, and a phosphorus-box was found on the floor. John Henry Corbin, the son of the preceding witness, enumerated the various articles which belonged to him, and had been taken out of the desk. Joseph Harrison, corporal in the Royal Horse Guards, was, ou the night of the 21st of December, at Mr. Corbin's house, when there was an alarm of a man being in the bed-room ; he went into the passage, and seized the pri soner coming into the house from the back yard. Mary Harrington, servant to Mr. Corbin, stated that on the evening of the 21st of December, about half-past eight o'clock, her mistress sent her up stairs with a bonnet and shawl ; she was going to put them in the bed-room, when she found some person was holding the door. She called, " Who's there :" and, receiving no answer, she raised an alarm. She afterwards went into the room, and found a great many things strewed about. Richard Dullandy, police constable, received the prisoner from Corporal Harrison ; on searching him he found a silver pen-case, the lid of an ink-bottle, and three shillings —the prisoner bad neither shoes or hat on. His shoes were found in the back yard. The prosecutor identified the articles found en the Prisoner as part of the property taken from the desk and box. The watch, snuff-box, some gold pins, and several other things were still missing. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of the capital offence. NEW COURT. Alice Hankerville was put to the bar, charged with stealing two shirts, five vests, a pair of trowsers, stock ings, gaiters, and three pictures, the property of George Augustus Coleman, organist, in his Majesty's German Chapel, at St. James's Palace. The Jury found her Guilty, and the Judge (Mr. Ser jeant ARABIN) sentenced her to fourteen years' trans portation. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Dec. 3), 1831, made up from the Return. of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat— o9s. 2d. ' Oats —21 s. lid. 375. 7cl. Barley 35s &I.' Rye .....—. 365. 10d I Pease—. 38s. 5d IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEERB PRECEDING. Wheat....... 604. 5d Oats .......—.2 s. 8d.18ean5.......... 395. 2 d. ld.l f Rye 375. lid I Pease."... 42i. 2d. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Bd.l Oats 13s. 9d.1 Beans— I Is. Od. Barley —,. 6s. 4d. 1 Rye -14 s . Od. l Pease-- 6s. 6d HAY MARKETS.—,At per Load ,n 1 ru,se., CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 sto £2 10 New Meadow Hay _ . d 215 3 It, llseful Old )itto 2 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0 lover Hay 4 10 5 15 Oat Straw £l Sto £1 10 1 Wheat Straw... 1 12 1 14 A short supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10 3 0 3 10 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay......... 3 15 4 0 Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs 15 ..Generally 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw X 1 10 to .£1 12 1 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 10 Supply short, and trade very dull ; prices stationary. BRI6HTON, WEDNESDAY. In consequence of the severity of the weather yester• day, their MAJESTIES did not take their usual carriage exercise, but remained *luring the day in the Palace. Her Royal Highness the Princess AUGusza left the Palace at two o'clock, in a carriage and four, with one outrider, accompanied by Miss WYNYARD, proceeded along the Marine Parade to Kemp Town, from thence to Baunsvvick-terrace, and returned to the Palace at four o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, attended by the Rev. Mr. Noon, rode out on horseback to Stanmore Park, and returned over the Downs to the Palace. Earl GREY arrived at the Palace last evening at four o'clock. His Lordship had the honour of an audience of his MAJESTY immediately, with whom he was closeted for nearly two hours. In the early part of the morning Sir Corm; CAMPBELL had the honour of an audience of the KING. The following had the honour of being entertained at dinner last evening by their MAJEsms : Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, Prince George of Cambridge, the Princess Louise, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Grey, Earl and Countess of Errol, Count and Countess Ludoff, Lord A. Hill, Lord and Lady Falkland, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, Major and Mrs. Keppel, Mr. Cavendish, Mrs. and Miss Cavendish, Sir Robert Otway, Mademoiselle D'Este, Lord and Lady Belhaven, Miss Wynyard, Sir Colin Campbell, Miss Wil son, Sir Herbert Taylor, Sir Byam Martin, Sir James Reynett, Sir Andrew Barnard, and the Rev. Mr. Wood. THE WEATHER.—The ice on the orna mental waters in Regent's Park was not yesterday strong enough to admit of skating in the middle, but several young gentlemen amused themselves on the edges. The Royal Humane Society's men commenced their attendance there as well as in St. James's Park. The ice boats on the Grand Junction and Regent's Canal will proceed im mediately up and down them, in order to keep the navi- gation open. DEATH BY BURNING.-011 Sunday morn ing Jostaut SIIUTT, a little boy, aged five years, who lives with his parents, at No. 2, Hyde-place, Westminster, got out of bed, and, in his night-clothes, went to the fire to cry " sweep" up the chimney, to frighten his sister, when his clothes caught the flames. His mother jumped out of bed and extinguished the fire, but not before be was so dreadfully burnt, that he only survived a few hours afterwards. An inquest was held on Monday, and a ver dict of Accidental Death returned. A correspondent informs us that during last week a certain clergyman of the establishment, whose living is not more than twenty miles from Grantham, vi sited several of his parishioners and innkeepers, and pre sented to them copies of a corrected Black List, (suitable to his own dear feelings, for in this list the Bishops are omitted), and solicited the innkeepers to introduce them on the Saturday at their market tables. It is the general opinion of his parishioners that this Reverend Gentleman, the circulator of such trash, must begin - to quake, and no doubt he is now considering on which side his bread is buttered.— Stamford News. MR. BULWER'S NEW NOVEL.—" Eugene Aram is decidedly the most finished of Mr. BurwEa's productions. A❑ admirably wrought -out story, of wliicr. we never lose sight, gradually rises in interest till the feel ing becomes equally intense and painful. There are scenes, in the third volume especially, superior in power and effect to any thing he has yet done. Eugene Aram is a fine, a most original conception. He is described as ' a man whose whole life seemed to have been one sacrifice to knowledge—what is termed pleasure had no attraction for him. From the mature manhood at which he had ar rived, he looked back and recognised no youthful folly.' We have only to add, that it is dedicated to Sir WALTER SCOTT, and that a more fitting offering was never laid upon his shrine. To have done it justice, our extracts ought to 4ave been a hundred fold.—Literary Gazette. 20 rt-t SPIRIT OF THE metre .1 , s ( :.S. • We yesterday referred to our own laws, autho rizing imprisonment for debt, in no terms of satis faction or panegyric ; but our insolvent legisla tion is mercy itself compared with the code now under discussion in the French Chamber of Peers—a code which was lately presented by a popular Minister as a humane improvement on their old system. It unfortunately happens that it is generally the class of the wealthy who make laws for the poor—the body of creditors who regulate the fate of debtors. From no other cause but the insensibility thus occasioned, can we account for the absurd and barbarous regula tions often enacted to secure the rights of the former, by the needless oppression of the ' latter. At Rome, debtors might be imprisoned for life ; in some of the States of Greece they might be sold for slaves ; and in the civilized legislation of France, it is now proposed to enact that a man for a simple debt of 2001., without alleged fraud, may be kept in gaol for five whole years ! ! Nay, a scale of a man s debts is adapted to a scale of penalties, by which it appears that for 201. the debtor may be imprisoned a year ; for 401. two years ; for 1201., three years ; and for 200/.or upwards, five years! ! And these are corn mercial debts,--or debts that would come under our bankrupt laws—where the debtor, unless fraud, contumacy, or concealment can be proved against him, is liable to no imprisonment whatever ! Our neighbours, too, boast of the hospitable soil of France, and it is certainly hospitable enough when the stranger has money to spend on its pleasures ; but how is he treated when he has exhausted his resources, and contracted obliga tions which he cannot discharge ? Let foreigners hear the enactments of the proposed code, and tremble at the sound of arrest for debt. " Foreigners," says the project of law, " ni t domiciled in France, and imprisoned for debt, are to be released as follows :—Where the debt is 500 francs (201.), after two years; where it is 1,000 francs (401.), after four years ; where it is 3,000 francs (1201.), after six years ; where it is 5,000 francs (2001.), after eight years ; above the last sum, ten years The Scotch law, which is only severe upon fraudulent or re fractory debtors, but which allows the innocent or unfortunate insolvent to be liberated on a surrender of all his property, (or, as it is tech nically called, a cessio bonoruni), enacts that the former shall be allowed no air or exercise so long as they continue to resist payment, in order, say the Scotch lawyers, that by the squalor carceris they may be brought the more speedily to give satisfaction to their creditors. What, we ask, must be the squalor carceris of a foreign debtor confined for ten years in a French prison ! Yet in the Chamber of Peers there seems no disposition to mitigate the chief barbarities of this project, the Noble Peers limiting their huma nity to the protection from arrest of persons above seventy years of age !—Times. Our table is covered with communications, printed and in manuscript, on the subject of Irish tithes, and on the best mode or modes of relieving the distress of the miserable peasant who is the chief sufferer from theirs. Upon this matter of tithe two questions must occur to every one,-Ist, Is it the mode of assessing and collecting tithe which the Irish people complain of ?-2d, Or is it the amount of provision collected for the established clergy ? If the thing called " tithe" were alone objected to, with out reference to the magnitude of the sums so levied, or to their application, a reformer of the temporalities of the Irish Church would have a task comparatively easy. The petty, but eter nally-recurring vexations and oppressions of the tithe-proctor constitute a grievance which hu inane men, of all parties, must long since have desired to redress, and the Composition Act of Lord Wellesley's Administration was designed as a remedy for the evil. But Mr. Goulburn, who would lately have taken to himself the whole credit of that measure, in its original frame and construction so important, is said to have struck off it that effective clause which made the acceptance of a composition for tithe com pulsory upon the clergyman. The Act has, since the year 1824, been allowed by the Bishops, with whom the objection, if any, has almost invariably lain, to operate in about 1,100 parishes throughout Ireland, or about 11-18ths of the whole island. It is in the non-compounding parishes, as might be ex pected, that ill blood has principally shown itself towards the clergyman, whose agent for the col lection of tithe has usually been a proctor of coarse and unpitying habits, and often a confe derate with the lowest ministers of the law, for the sake of multiplying fees and costs, and wring ing the last halfpenny from the parishioner. In those parishes where the composition act has been executed, the collection of tithe has been no more oppressive or vexatious than that of rent, being placed in other hands than the proc tor's. But, unfortunately, the odium annexed to the tithe system in those parishes where the old customary conflict between parson and pauper still continues, has extended, through a natural prejudice which the Catholic priests encourage, to the levy of tithe in all other quarters, until at length there is not a spot in any part of Ireland where the name of tithe is not abhorred by the Catholic population ; and the vulgar sen timent against tithe has been diligently and suc cessfullyio th . E eagerness st atl sh form Establishment. downfall . Such and so deep-rooted is this feeling, that we doubt whether a full equivalent to tithe, although raised by a tax or rent, or otherwise, in whatever way might be least onerous to the people, would be peacefully (at least for any long period) sub mitted to, if its avowed destination were the exclusive support of the Protestant Church of Ireland. Still we deem that a land-tax must be resorted to, instead of tithe, and not merely the clergyman, but the lay impropriator, ought to be indemnified from its produce. In considering how far the dreadful condition of the poor has been caused or made worse by the abuses of the tythe-system, it might be well to inquire whether, by the same authority which diverted the possessions of the Church into the hands of laymen, a distinct obli gation was not imposed upon the new proprie tors to employ a portion of the wealth thus transferred to them by confiscation, for the bene fit of the neighbouring poor, in the same manner, and to as great extent, as it had been so be stowed whilst in the keeping of the triona-tic orders. We have received a carious letrer upon this subject, signed " Philo Pauperis," COll - passages from original acts of impropr ,° ia zttiortelfemrealdwee to n the the 2 reign6h of f f effect to several provisions of grants conve y in g t the Church property to laymen , and containing clauses studiously protective of the rights poor to relief. " Mo ine luestious. said by our correspondent, ari•es out o f that Henry Monarch,Viil:: as is truly as giving elan those old records. Wheretige have not the pro visions in favour of the poor been enforced ? hnd '4 : 1 . s . ll 1 4 `:p4./