The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-25 00:00:00

EVEN NG EDITION• MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEW S• (THURSDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The clerks in the Bank of England are about 700 in number. They are not over-well paid or courteously treated, but they are remarkable for good order and attention to the business they have to per form ; great part of which, from the nature of it, necessarily passes under the observation of the Any matter, therefore, which either wounds their feelings, or weakens their cdnfidenco in the governing body, acquires a species of general interest, but above all in this locality. Now, every one who is at all ac quainted with the workings of a great establishment like this is aware, that with respect to the details, the Governing Board, the Directors, can have little more Chan a nominal superintendence, and that the) are made to see and to decide spoil every thing through the eyes of certain favoured individuals, beads of departments, against wlapm, should they chance to abuse the power conffded to there, all chance of appeal is literally shut out. All com plaint, even against themselves, is referred back to them by the Governor, and their decision is anal. In a great majority of instances, and always if the principal is a perfectly honourable and intelligent and good natured man, no great injury may ensue from this course of practice ; but should it happen to be otherwise, then the consequences may be serious indeed, not to an in dividual merely, but to the well-being and contentment of the whole establishment. A case which has just occurred, will be the best illustration of the preceding remarks. _ . Among *te recent alterations, termed improvements; in the management of business at the Beak, was one lately introduced into the " sorting-office," but in which, as is alleged, no efficient check on the clerks, as is in dispensable in all such offices, being established, the whole of those employed, if any notes are missing, are exposed to suspicion, and any individual might be liable to a charge of fraud without any means of refuting it. Short]; after this new arrangement had been at work a 5!. note was missed, but seems to have been returned into i the goaeral . mass a day or two after, as the balance was then tq that amount in excess. The incident, however, was studs the subject of a species of general charge against the clerks so employed, who were told separately by th, superintendent of the office, that it had been traced further than he chose to say, upon which the construc tion put by the clerks was, that the remark was dictated rather by his mortmeation at finding the plan thus im perfect, than any actual belief in the commission of fraud. The whole was, as the entire body of clerks be lieve, an accident. A day afterwards, however, a Mr. G. Duff, one of their number, was removed to another and less important office, whence it was inferred generally throughout the Bank that he lay at least under the suspicion of having abstracted the note in question. A ruinour of this having reached Mr. Duff, he proceeded to the head office, and requested to know for what reason he had been removed to another office, which was, however, refusal, and Mr. Duff, finding himself labouring under a sort of reproach connected with this affair, for which be could obtain neither explanation nor redress, at length addressed a letter to the Governor of the Baek, of whifsh the following is an extract : .; Having, on the 23d of October, been unexpectedly or dered to leave the Sorters'-ofnec, and to proceed to the Accounts Drawing-office, entirely out of the course of seniority, and finding an impression prevalent in the mind, of my fcllow-cleiks that the reason of my removal was some suspicion against see is repaid to a note which bad ben abstracted and afterwards replaced with the intention of foiling the plea of the Sorters'-(.ffiee, and having in Vdih cpplhel for the reason of my removal, although the painful feature of the case seas stated to him, my mind has been so nysch distressed as to cause serious illness. I therefore Irtm.bly trg that you sell be pleased to accept my rcaina tion, as I am quite incapable of performing my duties with such a stigma resting o■ my character." To this very sensible, and indeed almost affecting, appeal, no answer was r. turned for three tvcck,, a personal interview. was solic►ted, at cvl►.cn the appli cAut was told that :he tvliole case was known to the Governor, and that hi, resignation was a:ceptetl.. Nox, it :lily laid be laid down as a mist sound general rule in ail sue:: matter_, that there ought to be no interference between an employer and the person employed, but there are several reasons which mak this ease an exception to it. The first and strongest ii the fret that the treatment of this individual is Con sidered by nearly the v.hole of the clerks in the esta , hiishiwnt to affect thttn, cud in some degree to grade and alt,r their po,sit:on, so much so that s:- rera►l of theta ha,i prepr,sed to proceed in a body to the ,Governor in order - to protest against it, and vrere only prevented from ch;i:ig 10 at the iostance of the 'thirty aggrieved ; next, there is to be colsidered the great - probability, under all the eirentnstances stated, thitt neither ilia Govetnor nor any of the Board of Directors have the remotest iilea of an act al it:loath:a Karin;; been committed ; and, finally, • that there rem:airs in that case no medium but the pros' through which n rehrarirg of the case can h, obtained, and justice done to the injured intli6dua!, stould he really stand in the situation he has de s;rtae 1 . rendering s: h amends to him, the whole corps ct clerks will he gratified and conciliated, and a real service be conferred on the governing body itse.li. It r ill bo remembered that in conseqlence of the aine•iß.ltietion telt by the merchants on the last d.- livery oi the letters received by the overland mail, at the delay oecasicocd by the preference given to the sea-ritute, a letter was n..i.ircs.;std to the Peat-offive on the subject by the Eist India and C..ina AssnciA -IE.. non. . To this letter the fullowins answer has been re ecived Gancral Pest-cffice, Dec. 23; IS-LO " Sir,--Having submitted to the Postmaster-General your letter cf the 12th inst., I stn directed to inform you that his Lordship is quite unable to account for the recent departure from the inslractions, as to the transmission of the Indian mailA .. i•ia Marseiles, nu(' I am, at the same Ptitne, desired t9miCthat the subject vras uirler his Lord ship's aetieut consideration and inquiry. " I am, Sir, &c., "THOMAS L'AWILEN . CI?., S.:Tretacy. " John Stikeman, Esq., East India ani China Assuciation." A new species of security has been introduced into the Stock-Exchange, called Trinity Pods. They are issued on account of the erection of lighthouses and beacons on various points on the coast of the United Kingdom, and arc understood, though that is not at present quite certain, to. have the guarantee cf the Go vernment They ere to bear ictcrest at 4 pir cont., and the holders will have the power of requiring payment in full after six months' notice. No quotation of them, however, has as yet been given. POST.—The English funds, after some• fluctuation Leing the day, closed under much depression. Sales of Console to a large amount were effected at prices rane,ing between and 86 for the opening, though for what amount did not transpire. An increase in the amount of the floating debt was again talked of as pro bable at no distant period, and it is surmised by those who calculate on such an event that operations in the funded securities may have been resorted to as a prepa ratory measure ; but upon the point, whether or not they emanated from the Savings Banks' Commissioners or from private parties who may have obtained a know ledge of the moves of the Government, no opinion was hazarded. hints that pass from one to another, as conveying a possiUe solution of the cause of the de c;ining action of the markets, are repeated here as they are given, but more in the way of Stock Exchange gos sip than as approaching to auything that can be de pended on as a guide. We may add, however, that among the on din in circulation was a report of the Corporation of the Triaity House being about . to raise a loan at four per cent, interest for the term of seven years. The object of such a loan is not apparent. A cerrespondeut who calls himself " An Old Baltic Trader" addresses us in broken English, complairing of what has been stated under this head in relation to the ! corn trade. He does not, indeed, pret e nd t o d en y th a t 1 debts are contracted in the continental markets through 1 the dealings of our speculators, as would, we may con ceive, be the case were the feet not notorious to the jartior clerks of every counting-house in the City. It i!, however, asserted that the extent of the business done laws been grossly exaggerated. This foreign " trailer" katees so very little of the subject on which he write", or makes the statement he does with so little regard to honesty, that, while he admits the establishment of a drawling account in the northern corn districts, he would Convey to else minds of our readers the notion that such a circumstance is one that can have nothing whatever to d o with the exportation of specie. The truth of this he w o uld demonstrate by affirming that " of the quantity of f ore i vi grain which arrives in British ports, not one tajf r i on English account at all, the principal portion lacing consipned by Bahia speculators for their own ac as if that mall make any difference. clue and risk , " Th ese supplies of grain have equally to be paid fOr by the consumers of this country. The anxiety professed by the " Baltic trader," who argues in this manner to set our readers right, is really not a little amusin g , T he " Baltic trader" says nothing of the combination of in terests called a " club," or company, through the i n . Silence of which the duties are forced up in England, and the pricer of grain are forced down in the north of Europe ; but that such combination exists is altlaough it may nt ha easy to prove that it is in a formal aud recognised shape. The understand ings on 'Change between the principal houses in the trade, as regards the points to be advised from post-day to post daY, are supposed to fora: the principal part of the ma chincry by which their objects ore accomplished. Whatever odium attaches to the empartetion of the metal s is, according to the " Baltic trader," to be cast excl usively on thous who . undertiake the merely raecha njqal tweeds of putting them on board a vessel, and '.l.es tale of them. He says upon this point " 'A° J eve-merchants (I m ean Ch r : s ti ans as we ll as IsracijlteS if the C:itY) „ohne ate the exporters of the pre (Poo metal of tills kingdom. For the sake of one per cent, they Would empty the Bank coffers, one and all alike. Whil:e 2 °s „ lia Hull not o pen his ey es t o tea an d read the riaril of the City houses that daily and wctlcl. slapo . t he cum ? That a great d:al is often shipped to greatly to b e our eirlienies is deplored, but the general run of exportation er th - e'precieu s metal is mere mer cantile prcfrt-sccl:ng of the rich houses in the . ~, - City, and has nothing to do with corn. You I want to make it out that the exchanges a r e b a d, b ecause they are 4 to per:cent. lower. That arises entirely through want of shipments at this season of the year. Very na turally this has the effect of there being fewer drawers of bilk for goods shipped. Those merchants who are obliged to remit bills cannot be so fully supplied, and the drawers take advantage and raise their prices for the bills they sell.' It is not to be doubted that the late warlike demon.' monstrations have, to a partial and, perhaps, to a con siderable extent, given rise to a demand for gold abroad, but that the evil is greatly promoted by the inordinate speculation founded upon the actual short supply of wheat to which we made allusion yesterday. (a million quarters, though erroneously stated as a thousand only) there can be no question. CHRONlCLE.—Speculators begin to look forward to the payment of the January dividends, anticipating, from the dulness of trade and absence of commercial enterprise, that money will become easy, and, from want of better employment, find its way to the Stock Market. This may probably prove correct, but we should apprehend that, in the present unsettled state of the Continent, the surplus money of our countrymen would be invested in the Share Market in preference to foreign securities. The payment of the dividends will render no assist ance to the Brink in replenishing the bull:on. On the contrary, the flush of money to be thus thrown on the market will rather add to the discomfort of the D:rec tors, by tending to raise prices, and thus prevent the continental merchants from appearing as buyers of our goods. The intelligence received to-day, however, that the various Powers, parties to the Treaty of July, had adhered to the Napier Convention, has been looked upon favourably. No one believes that Spain and Portugal will come to blows, avid the feeling gains ground that th 9 difference will be adjusted through English mediation. SUN.—The Funds have remained in a depressed state to-day, bat it is difficult to assign any better reason than I the uneasy state of the public mind in France, or in-1 deed througb3ut Europe, and the rumours in circula tion of certain operations being in progress intended to facilitate the contract of a new loan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. For the ope&ng Consols have realised only 881 to 85 ex. div. Exchequer Bills have been steady at 2s. to 4s. premium ; Bank Stock has been dull at 157 to 1.561; and the Reduced Three and-Half per Cents. have remained at 97/ to 971. There was a slight improvement in Portuguese Stock to-day, but the operations were nearly all for account. The New Five per Cents. ranged from 313 to 30i, and the Three per Cents. from 204 to 208 Spanish Active hands were at 22.1 to 228 for Money, and 22 1- - to 23 for Account, not being quite so high as thy averaged yesterday. Colombian Six per Cents. of 1824 were dull at 221, and Mexican of 1837 at a de cline from 28 to 278 to 8. Brazilian Stock was at 711. aad Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. only realised 51 to 504. The Railway Shares were dull, and although they did not vary much in price, the tendency was to de cline. Great Western were marked 24 to 23, the New 10, the Fifth G to 61, the Birmingham New to 23, the South Eastern 16* to 158, and the Man chester and Leeds' New 2 premium. Brighton Shares were 8-1 to 8, and Birtr.inbaut an'l Gloucester 23 discount. Landon Joint Stock Dank Shares brought 3 premium. The Foreign Exchanges this afternoon were still flat. On Hamburgh the rata was a little firmer, but on the other places much the same, being as follows :—Paris 2.5 f. 521:!. to 331., Arn,Urdam 12 2:1- Antvcerp 1 .2 21. Frankfort 148:1, liarnburgh 13 7, and Trieste 10 31. --- SFIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THI3 DAY. ( From the Morning Post. ) following in the - Globe of tight " We a e sorry that t! , :e intemperete remarks of some of our pain's have induced tl;e Journal des Lebnts to sup po4e thet this country entertains hostile feelings towards to-atter!. The Deb .ts very properly sa)s : --‘ We have reason to think that the language and sentiments of the English Goveremem are not such as we have lately found in the Leaden press.' We bog to confirm this view, and to add that it is only a portion cf the press, and certainly not that portion which iF gcneral'y supposed to represent pablie opieion, which has indulged in offens;ve expressions. Tile r some parties in epposition to the Government en couraged war projects, the Tories avowing their wishes for the desti uction of Prunes, the Chartists theirs for the conquest of Eighind. 11. e Standard suggested the reten tion of Acre and Cyprus." in much of the ;shore passage we concur. But the Globe is ,I.v.lty. of manifest injustice to the Tories; and indeed to its own argument, when it accuses the Tories as a body of avowing their wishes for the destruction of France.. Does the Globe imagine that whea it informs the French people that the Tories, a body possessing unquestionably morn than any other political party in Great 13:iiain of the perma- . nent elements of power, ae ow their wishes Icy the destruction of France, he says tliat. which), it it were - believed, would tend ia any degree to iliay ilie feelings of hostility towards this country which a certain pot tiest of the French people take so much pains to pa rade ? It is impossible that the Globe earl so ter (L -ecke itself. It is strictly necessary that the French people shou'd disbelieve the Globe, as we hope and think they will, or the alternative plainly is that their hostility towards England will be ii.flimed—which would be' a great evil—and justified too—which would be an evil incomparably greater. It. is 'true, as the Globe says, that the Stan-lard suggested the retention of .Acre and Cyprus ; bat who in the whole world, with the exception of the . Globe, or even with out this exception, when the party virulence of the Globe has not obtained the ascendancy over its reason and candour, pretends to be lieve that the Standard represents any body or any thing in this country but its own folly, spleen, and self-conceit, by the daily display of which it labaurrs assiduously to bring discredit and ridicule upon the powerful and patriotic party to which it affects to belong ? What the Standard may have said upon this or any other subject might very safely have been left unnoticed. But, now that the Globe has endeavoured to impart value and efficacy to what would otherAize have been entirely harmless, we think it necessary to show, by reference to a higher authority than our own, that the wild suggestion of the Standard neither pro ceeded nor received any countenance from the 'Tory party of Great Britain. In an able article on the affairs of. the East, the greater part of which has been transferred to our columns from the recent number of theQuarlerly Review, we find the following passage : " The French whole press and all French statesmen af fect to fear —or, indeed, may be really apprehensive-othat England has some separate interest in there discussions— that she has some latent design on Egypt or on Syria". We think we may venture to deny, in the fullest and most formal manner, on the part of the British nation, any such unworthy, and indeed, preposterous, views ; and we exceedingly regret that one—and we hope but one—re spectable English journal should have indiscreetly given the colour of its authority to such an imputation—by sug gesting that England, as the recompense of the blood and treasure she has spent in the contest, should retain posses sion of Acre, and some other points in tho Levant. We believe the Government and the people of England will utterly repudiate any such selfish, end worse than selfish, proposition. England wants nothing in the Levant but what she hopes to enjoy in common with all ma»hind— fiientily relations, safe intercourse, and a general and mu tual civility and protection to persons and property." It the Globe is as much the friend of peace as it would be thought, it will, by reprinting this opinion of the Quarterly Review, endeavour to counteract the mischief it may have wrought by assigning to the Standard a character and position to which the latter certainly has no pretension. (From the Morning Chronicle.) !‘ Take care what you arc about; for, unless the edu cation you give is based upon religion, you are only making so many more clever devils." So spake, it is said, the Duke of Wellington, thirty years ago ; and the I3ishop of Exeter, " who had it from a high quar ter," reverently repeats the oracular words, and gives them currency through the country, as a divine guidance to the benighted philanthropists who have (mistakenly, it seems) learned from their Bibles, that " for the soul to be without knowledge, it is not good." The education plans on which people were, as the Bishop says, " hot," when this thunderbolt was ,ages fed for their annihilation, were those of Bell and Lancaster. The Duke must have returned from India a roost intense religionist far neither of these plans to have satisfied his craving. The former was the crea:aire of the clergy themselves, and re mains to this day the system of their pet schools. The latter satisfied the sanctity of George 111., and the Tories have recently declared their ac quiescence ha its sharing an annual Parliamentary grant, so that any more efficient popular instruction be thereby precluded. We must suppose the young In dian officer to have endured a religious fast amongst the idolators, which had stimulated his theological appe tite into a morbid voracity of theology. The well-fed Bishop of Exeter should have reduced the fervency of expression cccasioned by such spiritual privation to the measure of .his own - temperance and sobriety.. We etc-shod whether the authority of the Duke of Welling teo.n is at its highest upon the topics of religion and o ducation. arnrdayr atecruail l erf ' eu ti cl e oil.,,l e ß re : t s ci l to i: 7l p ion o te. s i sw E oh s ro e:e gl r ya v i i i te i ay be pardoned generally it is not quite decorous for B'sli w o ha p it-s s ng o li f '%i : s t e h nn e .:i g bt o ru s et - , pet of peace t o ~. resell. to military dicta for direction in Tile grea t mer i ts of W s the Duke of el- • i s i P n i ; it Za l r t ;t a b i y si t n -.Z . means theological or educational. His most brilliantly sueee.l%ful career as a General is the first ; the nex t is that he cowed King, Lor de, and Commons ghtfor , w ro ar4 le s a p d c ,: a r k , in a g nd a: e d r ; e m at u i e n h g into Catholic Emancipatio n ; and the third, that he These qualities en titleing a habit of strai :court they r i i . d schOol. II t w o h b ie e il d i e s s i a d e r r a a r t e ed vi ritnuep public men. reverence in cetep him to flinch in u p e o h n tn r c e b ligion," . th 6 only meant that the spirit of Christianity pere lose e education some o t t h l e le ii i i r g r ' ° ‘ tlL ;a j( ; : e . Y d vale the communication of keowledge ; !het the mind THE La should not be trained, as it is, by the predominance and even exclusiveness of classical study at public schools and universities, to moral feelings little tic (mordant with the professed religion of the country ; why then the Duke only meant what all the foremost friends of national education have always meant also. The Military Oracle and the Episcopal Expounder have simply blundered into a truism which they thought they were contradicting. But if the Duke and the Bishop mean more than this : it the Duke meant to brand Joseph Lancaster, v i h his bible and prayers, as anti-religious ; if then, as afterwards in the House of Lords, he confounded the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church with Christianity itself ; and if the Bishop intended the words now to operate as a battery against any education not controlled by the clergy, that is to say, against any national educa tion at all ; why then they have both blundered into a fallacy only calculated to perpetuate ignorance, with all the crime and misery that it engenders, and to transfer the blame from the clergy and Legislature to human nature and Divine Providence. Where is the imputed devilry ? Is it subjective or objective ? In humanity or in knowledge? It must be in the one or the other for education to have the effect of " only making so many more clever devils." For the Duke of Wellington an obvious excuse, then or now, may be offered, should he entertain a very low and base opinion of human na ture. Its meanness, servility, and devilishness have come abundantly in his way, and have doubtless left deep traces on his recollection, however illogical may be the generalisation, against human nature itself, of his ex perience. Our armies are not constituted of the most moral portion of the community. At St. Sebastian and Badejos scenes occurred that might savour somewhat of devilry, whether with or without the cleverness. In political life, although the Duke might see no wrong in tha aristocratical conspiracy to crush the genius of Canning, he could not but despise the base, though " clever devils" of plebeian Tories, who volunteered as tools for the insurgent Cabinet. The facility with which the stoutest anti-Catholic legislators and states men obeyed his command " right about, wheel," would by no means exalt his conception of integrity, There is a consciousness in the Duke, which on a memorable occasion he frankly expressed, that his peculiar talent. does not consist in political guidance. Vet he sees how the Tories, for purposes of their own, consecrate even his chance and after-dinner words upon topics of which he knows least, as if they bore the manifest stamp of inspiration. And seeing all this, and seeing through all this, and knowing that the faction is not deficient in what is called education ; whe:e is the wonder at his inferring that education has made them such " clever devils," and would make others like them, to the destruction of many of the selfish objects for which they are associ ated ?- But a Bishop ought to know more of the better side of imumen nature. The Church of England had preachers once that taught a fairer estimate of its innate dispositions and tendencies. " The wisest ob servers of man's nature," says Dr. Barrow in his" Ex position cf the Creed," " have pronounced him to he a creature gentle and sociable, inclinable and tit for conversation, apt to keep good order, to observe rules of justice, to embrace any sort of virtue if well managed ; if instructed by good discipline ; it guided by good example ; if living under the in fluence of wise laws and virtuous Governess." And then that profound Divine ascribes to " prejudieate opinions" the opposite " portraiture of human na ture ;" a portraiture corresponding with the ducal and episcopal theory, in which " all is drawn over with dusky shades," until we see, instead of " as many men, so many fiends," or, in the modern phrase, " clever devils?' To such a libel—which in his d by was the badge of infidelity, though now that of assumed orthodoxy . — the preacher opposes his sublime exclamation, "Iletna nitil, that very name doth fairly argue for us !" and so " sufficiently confute the defamers and slanderers of menleind." If the imputed desilry he not in human iteture, is it in the knowledge imparted by education? Whatever impression his connexion with Oxford may have made on the Duke's mind, he can have derived no such idea from any sound philosophy of the tendencies of knowledge. All experience testifies that we have only to give enough of it and it will he sure to work wail. " Knowledge is power ;" but not the d: ears power. And, after all, should the Duke be right, we should like to ask the Bishop whether a nation ef " clever devils" would not be a more tolerable state of secietythan a nation of ignorant devils ? (From time iforning, Herald.) Though this day may have lost some of its olden attributes of noise and revelry—though cries for wine and wassail may not.break so boisterously on the pub• lie tar as in time by gene time,—we have still around us a thousand social blessings to make up the sum of " merry Christmas !" It is in this belief,—with this keen sense el the .presence of an enlarged and en larging goo:l,—with this conviction of the advance• ment of the best and Imighest interests et I:wrian life, 1 . that grtet our readers with the old, homely, hearty alutation—" A merry Ch;istinas and a happy N e , Year." Ai 11,grIshuncn, xc ma .t azkaowledg, dear and prcutiar claims upon our gratitude-, our sinecr.st thankfulness---must confess to many benificent ences uncrjo)ed by other nations throughout Chris tendum. With the whole world in arms against us our shares have not been polluted by the foot of an invader ; with slaughter and rapine raging throughout half Europe, the Englishrnm'e home has been cense ! crated to bloodless security. In England no conquer ing Cossack ever kept his " merry Christmas." Tins i• high privilege has produced an unpurchescable, an ins lienable good in natienal independence,—in the love of true liberty, based on slf-resnect and consequent re spect for otliviy,—iu moral ' dignity, and in the per mitted cultivation of that crterpricc and knowledge, which, while they are ministrant to the commercial wealth of a people, also elevate and strengthen the national mined. The liberty enjoyed by the English ! man this day, the social blessings showered around him, and the rector:a - lents and luxuries of life—for even the me i clianicof to-day may boast of:nu:forts that were not to be obtained by the noble of two hundred years back—he owes to time influence of national independence, to the Providence that has set his country apart, belted it with the sea from the fatal neighbourhood of other I.:rfs.:On this day we would have the wealthy English man well consider the manifold blessings heaped upon his hearth ; that from the fulness of his gratitude he may cast soii.e of the superfluity to his poorer brethren. We would have him well consider time commercial greatness of his country—its moral power —its majestic supremacy opposed to other nations ; that in his thankfulness to Providence for bovine bestowed upon him such citizenship, he may feel his heart epened towards those who, in this time of glad ness—this brief pause from the turmoil, and strife, and selfishness of mortal existence—may still shiver at a cold hearth, and fast in the very face of uhundance. We have been blest with a most plenteous har vest ; and complaints have from time to time reached us that there has been no thanksgiving orde"rd for the blessing—no day set apart in universal acknowledg ment of God's bounty. On this day, let every once who has the value of a cruet to bestow upon his ne cessitous fellow-creatures, practically express his grati tude for the golden treasures of last autumn. At the Christmas fireside, let Englishmen give than ks to God—by bestowing comforts on Lis suffering creatures —for the glory and ahuadanee of the h arvest. From the members of the Privy Council--- , .vho have not thought it necessary to appoint a more formal act of acknowledgment—to the smallest shopkeeper, acutely interested in the price. of bread— all may more or less declare their gratitude for the bounty of the last har vest, by casting something of their store to suff e ring want. Now this will be a true thanksgiving—an offer ing of the heart—not mere lip-service, performed by au tnority, but a genuine outpourinc , of Christian thankful ss. Let the poor be reminded of the fulness of the List harvest, by the gratitude of their richer brethren : let not the wretched be mocked by the remembrance of plenty bestowed by God upon the earth—a plenty sel fishly hoarded, no sheaf from the abundant fields set apart for the suffering. " A thanksgiving for the late abundant harvest I" This may, in unpremeditated phrase, be uttered at every Christmas fireside ; but ii the thanksgiving is to he nought but the "sounding brass" of hollow words, the " tinkling cymbal" of mere. lip utterance—if it be unaccompanied by a gift to time poor—an offering, however small, to the destitute—the prayer is but a wicked mockery, a bold 'deceit, If words are insufficient to move men to such prac tical thanksgiving,—let them take a useful lesson from the elements. Let the biting air of this present De cember teach them st repathy with time thinly clad, time badly housed, the abject poor, inside poorer still by time inclement sky. Tnere is no neighbourhood but has its Objects of misery ; many quietly, resignedly suffering the pangs of want,—the uncompleining, withering poor. Let such of our country readers who would show their thankfulness for time last harvest, seek those abodes of squalor, or send thither some offering that shall speak to the pauper of the bounty of the by-gone autumn. There will be no set thanksgiving in the Chivas ser rice of to-day for the late harvest ; but our readers may whisper their gratitude, and, moreover. may, with ii:tie exertion, reach the poor's box. In conclusion, we would plead the cause of the pour with the rich in the words of tioaz, cornpassionating Ruth :--" Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not. And let Jall also sowe rtf the handials of purpose Joe her, and leave them that she may glean them, and re buke lit r not." In this did not thiaz return best thanks for the abundance of the harvest ? (From ths Times.) We know not ..vhellicr any of cur readers who may happen to Lase the talent of remembering little thines will recollect to have heard of a gentleman Llaiiled Thomas Gibson. We mentioned' ti:e, the other day as having been one of the orator s at the dinner gibe to the make-believe late Mayor of Manchester ; but we forgot to add, that on that occasion he seriously an nounced himself as a candidate to succeed Mr.' Greg at the next election of a Member to serve in Parliament for that unfortunate borough. We since learn from the Manchester papers, that he eti:l seems quite in earnest ; and that he last week submitted himself to a meeting of some nine tailors, constituting n th e people," I/1 • r , , INDON. Ffit(DAY, DECEMBER 25, 1840: of Manchester, for the purpose of being measured for the seat. Who would have thought, when the non representation of Manchester was put forward by the Liberals of all England as the great illustration of the necessity of Parliamentary Reform, that Mr. Gibson was the kind of thing the want whereof had been so injurious to Manchester? Yet this is the article its electors propose to procure for themselves with their new franchise': like the old woman who was promised the fulfilment l of a wish by the gods, and wasted her privilege in wishing for a ladle—certainly, however, a more considerable kind of spoon. Mr. Gibson, we dare say, is a eery fit person to represent the sort of people whomf ile s e e) u r underwented with the meeting. the interrogations of these blockheads in a manner which showed great powers of endurance and a capacity not at all in ferior to that- of his catechists. - " And if," said he with touching !simplicity, " if I did not fancy myself (Tiernan to unite the majority of Reformers, I would let no private Ntmbition of my own induce me to cause a division in tise ranks of the Reform interest in this 4 borough." , doubt they are very much pleased with one another ; and, if there were nobody of more im portance concerned in the matter, we should be glad to see thenvengaged in the mutual relation they seek ; but it will DeVer do for Manchester to let its repre sentatiOn ise settled by a few tailors in its suburbs, be their - gods° of what metal it may. Mr. Gibson begins by making them a speech, in which he explains the circumstances of his successive rejections by other constituences. He ascribes his de feats to this cause, and to that, and to the-other; but he never touches on the most material fact of all—that he had changed his opinions till no set of electors could tell what they were. In early life he was, as we have heard, a Whig, or a Radical, or something as irrational. On coming to the years which in other people are called those of discretion, he announced himself a Conservative. Under that name he stood for Ipswich, and succeeded. But scarcely had a twelvemonth elapsed when a hot fit succeeded the cold, and he stood forth a Reformer. He kept his seat till toward the end of the Session, and then having given to the Ministers whom he was elected to oppose all the help they wanted for the rest of that year, he resigned his broken trust into the hands of his Ipswich constituents, by whom, on ven turing to offer himself for re-election, he was indig nantly rejected. Cambridge becoming vacant, he made an essay there ; but the Cambridge people knew not whether he.- was Whig or Tory, Jesuit or Jansenist, so they followed the precedent of their Ipswich neighbou's, and declined to invest him with their trust. He then looks about him for a more gullible constituency, and pitches upon that of Man chester ; but, haunted with the recollection of the past, affectingly says to his assembled tailors, " It is for you to consider whether my opinions are in the right direc tion, and whether you can trust me. If you cannot trust me, don't return tre—don't entice me" (there squeaks the mouse apprehensive of the trap)—" don't lead me to suppose for a moment that I have any chance of representing Manchester, if you cannot trust inc."- Trust him ! Why, poor fellow, he CAD"' not trust himself. He never knows for twenty minutes together 'What his own opinions are. At the general election he was a stanch Conservative—a thorough going active young member of the Tory party, and of the Carlton Club. Beiorc the tailors of the Manches ter suburbs he denteunes the House of Lords, preaches the voluntary system, reel waits to pronounce his judgment on the suffrage question on!y ho sees " what direction public opinion shall eventually take ;" which last is the • only shrewd hit lie has made. N.ow, there have been many instances of partiai change, which have ken held venial or even justifi able ; as where the arguments upon some one parti cular question, or class of questions, have brought round sal conscientious and considerate men froth an opinion which he had chanced, without due individual ee are ieat;on, to adopt among the general tenets of his party.. But what sort of undsrstanding; must belong to a man who in 1§37 and 16;33 is a Conservative at all points, and in 18:39 ‘al•:(1 1841) amuses himself with sneering at the HOO3O of Lords, recommending the voluntary system, aoth " waiting ueon Providence" as to the question of the suffr ? Can such a change, upon topics so great sa n e so y ILIVC been the walk of reason ? Or haee the chandeliers at Lensdowne house enlightened his dim perceptions of political fit ness ? The resell is, as he himself suspects it to be, that no constituen c y of common senie will trust a man w h o se opinions tiaus vay their colour with every pass ing hour . • " black, white, and grey ; "'Turn round three times aad catch whom you may:" 'l . :le suburban 'tailors are willing to be caught ; and ni ver was a set of liberty-boy s neore whimsically hum bugged than these chattering dunces have been by the Secretary of the Treasury, or whosoever else it was, that hit upon the pleasant invention of starting Mr. Gibson for Manchester. A foolish old man who had burrowed a telescope was bent upon astonisliing• kis twi g hbours with a peep at the heavens. So he fixed the glass in the due direction for viewing the noon, then at its full, and went to fetch an equally st6e con:- panion, who eistne at the Coll, and applied his, eye to the extremity of the tube. " What do you see ?" asked the exhibitor. " o.4,"cried his 1, lend, " there's the biggest creature in the Moon that you ever saw all alive and moving about," The other looked, and descried the same phenomenon—an elephant at the least, or a , maul rituals stirring in the moon. After mutual exclamations of amazement end admiration, they called up the old fellow's son, a mischievous schoulboy, to partake their astonislnneet. "-Mess you, father," chuckled the yetrug rogue, slyly glancing at the telescope, " is that all you wanted roe for ? Why, your elephant in tire moon is noticing but a mouse that I screwed into the tube just now for a bit of fun." Just such a practical jest has been played off upon the political star-gazers of the borough of Manchester, by the introduction of Mr. Gibson into the glass through which they see so darkly. They thought they had an elephant, and it turns out that they have only a mouse. A magnani mous mouse, undoubtedly--se mouse that even aspires to the rank of a rat, but still a mere mouse—that or dinary species of the animal which is familiar to the na turalist as the " ridicules Ines." to these charges, prisoner? said that there was a sprejudice against him in he breast of the Inspector. The LORD MAYOR said it seemed that a great deal of forbearance had been used towards the prisoner, who had been allowed to commit so many faults without being punished. The prisoner said that he was absent from duty one night because he accompanied his brother, who was going to sea, to the Docks, and was accidentally locked in. He was unlucky enough to take too much drink another night, and forgot himself so far.as not to do his duty, correctly, but he submitted that he was adequately punished by being not only locked up, but searched like a felon. The Inspector said that the prisoner had given no tice of his intention to leave the Police, and bad neg lected his duty most grossly, in the hope of being dis charged before the month expired. The Commissioner feeling that such conduct was calculated to operate most mischievously, directed that wherever he was met he should be apprehended and charged before the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR also stating that the example was a very bad one, referred to the Police Act, by which he found that it vas in his power to inflict a penalty of 101. upon a policeman so offending. His Lordship then told the prisoner that if he did not pay that fine he should go to the House of Correction for one month to hard labour. The prisoner said that he could not pay the penalty, and was immediately sent to the House of Correction to work at the treadmill for one calendar month. COURT OF REQUESTS. MIDDLESEX. Mr. Edward Fatroye and Mr. James Francis," gen tlemen," who had (like Gray's monkey) " seen the world," appeared to arrange and settle certain matters between them relative to their " travelling petty cash account." They stated themselves to be " travellers" —men who, if they had not sailed two thousand miles up the Amazon, or down the Niger to Sackatoo, had yet made a voyage in an open boat—to Eel-pie-island, and achieved a steam trip to Herne-bay, and, as it came out, to Margate, and even to Calais. Mr. Fatroye, who was a good-looking young fellow (he certainty thought himself quite as killing as Captain Meadow Taylor's handsome Thug, Ameer Ali), wore a sort of beefsteak pilot; peppered with salt, with about four inches of snow-white wristband turned over the cuffs thereof ; black kid gloves and a polished black walking stisk, upon the head of which he rested his nose, com pleted " the peculiar characteristics" of Mr. Edward Fatroye's " individuality." Mr. James Francis had very little " manly beauty" to boast of. Kenny Mea dows might have snatched a grace or two from his coun tenance with which to embody the most " ungrateful monster" Shakspeare's imagination ever drew. Mr. James Francis had a cross-gartered disposition too, which, as Mr. Owen would say, "he couldn't help having," but which was annoying, not only to its pos sessor, but to every one that came within the reach of its amiability. Mr; Francis was buttoned up to the throat in a Guernsey-frock-looking monkey-jacket, which became him exceedingly. Mr. Fatroye, the plaintiff, stated to the Commissioner that ha vyas a traveller to a house in the City, and that during the summer months he and Mr. Francis, " who had been iutroduccd to him by a particular friend," made a voyage to Calais, "to see a little of French life and manners." While at that very fashionable spot, they were induced, upon the " representations of a young gentleman upcn hall.pay," to resort to a place where they found --." dresses splendid, but fantastic, Masks of all times and nations; Turks and Jews, And harlequins and clowns, with feats gymnastic; Greeks, Romans,. Yankic-doodles, and Pindoos." In other words, they went to a masquerade, at which Ir. James Francis " very foolishly so excited himself, that a few glasses of Chateau Margaux, La Romance Conti," &e., made him " both stupid and obstinate ;" so stupid and obstinate, indeed, that he (Mr. Fatroye) lost all command over him, and was ultimately obliged to leave him in charge of " the young gentleman upon half-pay," who was never seen afterwards, but frost whose safe cristody Mr. Francis returned at seven o'clock on the foilowiLg morning, talons gold, silver, and copper, " and a watch, v, hich his aunt Flan is gave him." As Mr. Francis did not like—perhaps from his ignorance of such a made of transit—to make his case known to the 13 itish Consul and get sent Lome as " a destitute Englishman," he borrowed a sovereign of his friend, Mr. Fatroye. It was for this sovereign, and for a ring which he had lent Mr. Francis, that. Mr. Fatroye brought that gentleman before the Court. Mr. Francis, upon being required to enter into his defence, declared that Mr. Fatroye had been instigated to bring this action by " the most .contemptible and petty malice in the world," arising nut of.an affair of the heart in which he Mr. Francis had .won Venus herself from his good-looking opponent-- . --and seeing that the " ugly Jack Wilkes" himself was •'only half an hour" behind the most accomplished and handsome man of the age in a similar matter, why I‘ir. Francis, but for ages cross-gartered oli,position, might - be believed. Mr. Fatroye treated the " accusation" with vast indignation, which he "heaped up like a thousand of bricks," snapped his fingers, cocked up his nose, pulled his wrist bands an additional inch or two out of the sleeves of his "pilot," laughed savagely, then grinned self-appro batory, and at last, having got upon excellent terms with himself, rammed his nose hard down upon his shiny black walking stick, and—ha! ha! ha! ha'd ! full in Mr. James Francis's face. Mr. Francis thereat " grinned horribly a ghastly smile," and offered to read (the gallant young gentleman did) to the Court the letters he had received from the " approving fair," in proof of her having given to wit and genius " what .gold could never buy"—viz., " her heart of hearts," which Mr. Francis, ogling the air, " vowed the lady in question had admitted in black and white," he, the said Mr. James Francis, "and no one else, had long possessed, still did possess, and should possess for ever." This was mighty matter for some thing more than a sharp discussion between the two "travellers," and a very pretty result would have speed ily been arrived at, had not the Court imperatively called, upon the parties to confine themselves to the mere matter of business details of their dispute. Mr. Francis then proceeded to state that he had a " set off" against Mr. Fatroyc's claim, and, exhibiting three pocket-books, commenced reading therefrom a va riety of items of expense he had incurred while tra velling with the plaintiff. There was 2s. 6d. to help Mr. Fatroye home from an expedition to the Nore ; 11 s. at Brighton, when that gentleman " lost his hat ;" Is. 3d. for turnpikes and ale from Woodford, when each thought the other had plenty of money, and found they left .home with 7s. 6d. between them to go as far as Epping to spend the day." There was ss. deposit for a scull, which they lost going up to Eel-pie Island ; 3s. 6d. for broken glass at Erith ; and 4d. for a whip lost at Rochester. And Mr. Francis went through his three pocket-hooks, which showed that he and his ftiend had visited Canterbury, Dover, Chelsea Bun house, Southampton, Battersea, Harrow, Copenhagen house, Gravesend, Blackwell, Bartlemy fair, &c. " Why, my dear fellow," said Mr. Fatroye, when Mr. Francis had detailed his " set-off," if you are going to charge half-crowns and shillings, I can draw out an account against you as long as Lombard-street." Commissioner—The case had better be adjourned, then, to give you an opportunity to do so. " Certainly," said Mr. Fatroye, " it is my decided wish." Commissioner—But we had better decide about the value of the ring, which the plaintiff values at 18s. A very long and recriminatory dialogue then ensued between plaintiff and defendant about the said ring, which the latter declared had been forced by the former upon his finger " when they were going one night to the theatre," he (the plaintiff) having on that occasion two rings upon his little finger, and being desirous of making his friend (the defendant) " look as much like him as possible." This the plaintiff denied, affirming that the expression of such a desire had proceeded from the mouth of the defendant. This the plaintiff swore to, and 18s. for the ring, as well as the sovereign lent, were found to be due to him ; but the case was ordered to come on again as to the set-off pleaded by both parties. NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES-In conse quence of the recent disappointment when a t p r party gsome of t he Royal Artillery attended for the purpose experiments in the Marshes, the Trinity_ o H of ouse y , 'n London, has issued a caution to p i lots and others to the following effect It having been represented to t hi s Corporation, by direction of her Majesty's Board of Ordnance, that great inconvenience is occasioned to the public service by the disregard shown to the marks which are se t up on both the Ken t and Essex banks of the river Thames, in the tower part of Galleon's Reach, for the purpose of denoting t h e limits of the range of fire from tho artilcry practices in Woolwich Marshes. and that on a recent occasion the arrangements which had been made for the trial of some newly-invented shells could not be carried into effect with out endangering the safety of a brig and other vessels which had been anchored in the direct line of fire, and that similar interruptions are constantly occurring, the at tention of masters of vessels, pilots, and other nelsons navigating that part of the river Thames, is directed to the notices which have been previously issued upon this sub ject, and they are cautioned and strictly enjoined not to stop tide or come to anchor for any purpose whatever within the limits denoted by the aforesaid beacons." HUNGARIAN CALLA NTRY.-It is impossible to look without a feeling of regret upon a groupe of fine young men, all of them probably under twenty years of age, armed with pipes, tobacco-bogs, and their appliances of flint and steel, puffing into the faces of the ladies beside them the foetid clouds of the " foul weed," with a non chalant selfishness which should be foreign to their years ; and stultifying, by their indulgence in this nauseous habit, the expression of some of the finest faces in the world. Nor as I have already hinted, does the evil end here ; in short, this vile habit is a blot upon the national character, which must be wiped off,.ere he who indulges in it. can write himself a gentleman, whatever may be his birth or rank.—Miss Pardoe's City of the Magyar. LAW I.N TELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 24. IN TIIE HATTER OF THE REV. JOHN GEORGE HOUNS FIELD, A PRISONER IN YORK CASTLE. This case came before the Court upon the return to the writ of habeas corpus gra nte d i n the course a last week, by his Lordship ordering the Sircriff of York shire to bring u p the Rev. Gentleman : in order that a m otion might be made for his discharge. The follow leg may be shortly stated to be the facts of the case :—Mr. Ilounsfield, who is a clergyman of the Church of England, and has landed property near Sheffield, in 1838, owed a person named Drewery, 149/. ; for this amount he was taken in execution, and imprisoned in Yolk Castle, hut having got a friend to advance him the money, he tendered the payment in gold to Mr. Drewery, which that individual, acting under legal advice, refused to accept. Proceedings in the meantime had taken place in the Insolvent Debtors Court against Mr.Hounsfield,and the vesting order under the new Act had been pronounced by that Court, which it was said rendered the tender _of.payment of no effect : proceedings took place in the Court of Queen's Bench, out of which some o f th e writs a ga i ns t M r . fl ouns field had issued, and that Court bad refused to make a rule ni si absolute for Mr. Hounsfield's discharge. The "se was then brought before this Court, and ro-day Mr. COOKE, of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and NEwarAN, contended at considerable IN - 12th for Mr. li ounstield's discharge. I LORD CHANCELLOR, however, without calling cation, st at i ng hi s opin i on to be, that Mr. tiounsfield, upon th e other side, gave judgment against the appli being in priso n un d er t h e or d ers o f a competen t au thority--the Court of Queen's Bench—he had no jurii diction up on habeas to interfere with that custody. The prisoner must therefore be remanded. Tile Court did not rise till nearly six o'clock. POLICE; IN TEL LIGENC E. ~ MANSION—LIOUSE. A City policeman, named Robert Crosby, was brought the L ord Mayor, charged by luspeetor Ted hunter, of the Ci ty Police force, at the d es i re of the Commissioner, with having neglected his duty, and with other miscond uct. The Inspector stated that the defendant had, upon several occasions neglected his duty ; and he mentioned four or five ihstances in two of which the defendant had staid away the whole night. The Commissioner had seat the case befor e the Lord Mayor, because his Lord ship had the power of adding fine or imprisonment to dismissal, which had been deservedly incurred by the defendant. Besides the general charge of neglect of duty, there was a particular case against the defendant, on account of which he had been apprehended and de tained in the station-house, as if he had been a stranger, accused of a violation of the law. h ouse , with two other persons, Mr. Howell, the owner of the City Arms public house, in Tower-street, stated that on Tuesday night the prisoner, who was unknown to him, walked into the puffed away to the annoyance of people who called for their supper beer. Witness requested that he would go into the taproom, but no regard was paid to the re quest. The prisoner, who had a great coat upon him, q • smoking a cigar, and after a few observations, asked for a pint of half.and• half, and witness refused to serve him at all, .finding th.lt he was bent up on g i v i ng o ff ence . The prisoner then threw oi3en the breast of his great coat, and e%- his i m smoker. policeau's dress, and asked hien wheth er No. 527, statedi that he wentnto d to p ersevere i n hi s re f usa l ? Witness did means reli s h suc h a mode of threatening , poli ceman i n t h e ne i g hb our hood to rc 111111.0xeoa(letlirlielbien,ty,iy tti t ,ti: e llande. i eecindyPoliceman,cgarn a the City Arms public-house at the request of the land lord, and expostulated with the prisoner, who began to blew him up, and used extremely ofr•nsive language. The LoadMAYott—NVhat answer have you to in.lke PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASZ;Z:It- ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 24. Number Dividend of per Shares. Annum. CANALS. Price eer Share ..-....,. ...... 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/.18 , .5h. 110 1,492 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch ATZtage 1131.5 h , 72 .. 1,90 J Basingstoke 100/.bh. 5 1,005 W. 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Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ .0/. pd 20% 5,030 19e. 3d, Ditto, Ner' Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 17 iO,OOO/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,948 1. ) 6s Vauxhall ....•.....Av' , :rage 70/, 10s. 3d. sh 2O,A ASSURANCE COMPAN:ES 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 73 50,000 / 6 1 ;,, ei t i .je51,).1 Alli an ce British &Foreignloo/. sh. 111. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine • 100/. sh. 51. pd 531 4,000 $ l. per sh. Atlas i 1,260 f sh. • 51. Birmingham il ire...,.... ..... 0501. sh. 55/. pd 10714 2x),000 4!. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 40 11,000 6/. per cent. Britith Commercial 5O/. sh. 5/, pd 531 , 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medi .:11Lif e, Km. sh. 2.110 s pd 41 4 4,000 3! Os County 100!. sh. 101. pd IC 20, , . 00 ss. Eagle 20„ fa 5p d 30 r cenbs.t.l Economic Lite 1600/.Bh, 250!. pd 400 " n .2,271 225. per cent. European l e i, "0!. oh. all pd 22 5,1,000 2s. Ditto, New 0 0/. eh. 21. pd ITe 1,000,000/.61. per ct Globe Stock 12142 0,000 s!' Guardian 3%060 s. &!. Hope '2,100 5/. 73. ticl. Imperial hire 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 135 7,500 93. Imperial Lite lOOl. oh. 10/. I,d 10 13,154 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. 8/. pd 9% 2,020 31 105 Kent Eire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 Si. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd 66 10,000 I 6s. Law Life l O O/. sh. 10 !. pd SO 5.000 10s. London, Fire 25/. ch. 121. Mg. pd 18 1 A .3,'.1;.0 103. London, Ship 251. sh. 12!. 10s: pd 185, 1 100,000/. ........ Minerva Life IOU , !. sh. . !,00,1100/. National 1: ran Fund - • 0 / ss. pd 3 30,00(1 oi. per cent. Palladium 1.11 0 .: . • "0/. sh. 21. pd • 9.1 Os 50.:10) 41. per cent. 100tector Fro 20. si 2/. pd 18303 )0,000 4 per cent. Prote,tant Dissenters ....KO/ / . sh. n bl. pd 554 5t,500 I/. I'rovoient Lite 2;0,004 7s. Rock Life sio,ooo/ 5/. per cent. Duval EXch.ingp ' Stock 200 Oioo " 5 ),we cent University Life "19/. sh. 01. pd 5 1 ,4 50,000 4 per cent. United Ritntilom Life 100/, sh. 51. pd 7 1 ,4 JOSNT STOCK B A N E 3, '25,000 A gric. and Com. of Irelana2sl. oh. 101. pd 5,11:0) 8 per c,nit. Australaft , 401 sh. vit, r d 55 '0 , ,505 10 percent. Bank of Rh ,iiinehain 001. sh. 10/. pd 13% ;10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Berk 5O!. sh. 1()I. pd 23 '3 iOOO 6 per cent. London & ‘Ve.o;tmitister 1001, sh. :151. pd 23% (0 , 000 51. London Joint Stock "o' oh. 111. pd 13 1 .1,1'09 4 per cent. Lancaster ' lOOl sh. ild. pc] 50 05,0e,0 Liverpool IOW sh. 101. pd 21% •50(0)0 7 1 1 per cent. Manchester and Livel • peolD l str°o 5O/. sh. 15/ pd 1030 20,000 7 puce - A. Manchester lOO/. oh. 25/. pd • 4 1 7 i 20,060 Provincial ii 3 niss, I Irclandlooi. oh. 05/. ret 4414 IS 0,10 5 I er tent. National Bank of Ireland bol..sh. 1731. pa lots 10,090 :5 per cent. National Prov fl cial,Eng.loo/. sh. 35/. pa 06 110000 10 : 000 Glouer,tershire 50/. eh. 101. pd 30 1 6.000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 9 I t G AS I, IC HT AND CO X E COMP.% N lES. 1 0,1',00 his Od Bath 20/ . sh. Mt pd 22 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 18 1 4 (007.,,,,,,,,-,reent. 5,000 t Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh , lid , pd 25 028 51103 Birmingham 50!. sh. 93 1.850 2/ Os Bristol ', "o.'. sh. .16 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2O/. oh. 14 i 750 31 10s ' Ditto, New 2 O!. oh. 131. p d 9 2,471 43 per cont. Brighton General 2O /. sh. all p d 9 1,010 7f. Os. continental Consolidated • -.75/. 601/.pd 105 1 1,1.100 10/. - City 01 London.. ....... . .100/. oh. all pd 195 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 100/. oh. 75/. pd 100 i 4,000 31.05. Equitable 5O/. pd 20 110,000 23 per cent. Imperial.... . '5Ol. sh. 57% ' 000 5.. par cent. Isle ot Thaoet 25/. sh. 201. pal 131% 2,350 6/. per cont. Independent 30/. sh. all r., 49 ' 9,000 41. peresnt. Phoenix 51)1. sh. 39/. pd 33 1 4 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff lOO/. sh. SO/. pd 63 40 0 0 . South lilstropolitan 5O/ sh. 191. pd 17 1n1;0 4/, per cent. Unita ileneral . 'f'/ sh. 471. pd 1112% 240 5!. par cant. Warwick 5Ol. sit. 50 400 5/. per cent Walt: field 0,1.00 1. Westmiost, t Chartered 5,000 12s, Ditto New 5ll. oh. 104 pd 1134 750 3 per cent. Yarmouth '2ol. sh. 181. pd. WATER wonks 1,400 10s. Birinin.c, , ,h.tin 95/. sh.'ls/. pd ‘-'2 1,434 71. East London l6O/. sh. 170 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 65 2,000 21. Kent 100/. sh. 4531 4 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2OO/. sh. 326 1,500 2110 s Near River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,4136 21 lOs Manchester and Salford 100!. sh. 55 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOOl. sh. 104% • 3,294 43!. West Middlesex Average 631.125. 9d. sh. 101 1,360 11 14s York Building Go. Lessee Prop: 1001. sh. 35 IRON NAILWAYS. 6,100 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby ..... l n ot p d 75 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 9Ol. pd 67 15, , 00 Bristol and Exeter .... ..... 100/. sh. 60 pd 3; 7,500 Cheltenham & G.Western 100/, sh. 62 Al. 2511% 3,004 Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 25 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd 50,000 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231. p 3 8% 10,000 Great North of England 100/.0. '7O/. pd 57 10,910 14 percept. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 21,000 Great Western 3 00/. sh. 65/. pd 88 20,000 Ditto New 501. sh. 401. pd 50 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 501 sh. 35/. pd 3531 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100!. sh. 100!. pd 115% 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 50!. pd 45;4 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. fis% 5,100 10 percent. Liverpool & Manchester 101./.811. 1001. pol 185 7,988 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares .sn/. pd 87 1 4 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 3(;,000 London and Brighton 50/. sh. 50/. pi 42 24,600 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 2031. pd 173( 20,600 II per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. oh. 201. pd 7% ' 95,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100!. sh. 901. pd 169%, 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....251. sh. 5/. pd 27 31,250 DAV° New Shares 32/. sh. 24/. pd 49 38,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. lid. .5431 • 33,000 . . .... ... London and Croydon/ 131. 1 ') 1 . P 'N . Ac. ss. ~t . 124 ... ...... Ditto New Scrip.... ... ...... Manchester and Leeds...loo/. oh. 70/, pd 741 4 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 251. pd 27 .... Manchgeter and•Bizaningharn 70/. sh. 401. 571, -•- - ---- • Ditte'Extension 7l. pd 3 1 4 I o,'oo Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 100/, pd 75 15,000 ...... ... North Midland ...... ..• Ditto New 40/. rd 37% 5,128 ...„.... Northern and Eastern-. MI. sh 301. pd 43 5.,600 Preston and Wyre - ",(1/. sh 30/. pd 116 58,000 South Eastern and Dover 1,900 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... MY. sti. 275 9,00:1 Thames Haven 5O/. oh 5/. IA 6,000 York and North Midland 50 • sh. 50/. pd 03 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 51. s 5 03/. pit 12 4,000 11. ss. A item l5/. sh. 12/. It spd 1(1 10,000 m. ..... Anglo Mexican,iss. 51. pm.lool. sh. al 1 , d 1% Ditto Subscription "5/. pa I 2,000 pii, Bolanos 15(1/. eh all pd 35 10,000 H. lOs Brazilian I mp. iss. 5/. pm 351. sh. 20/. pd 12 6,000 ... ...... Macanbas & Cceaes United 25/01,251. pd .. 15 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2Ol. sh. 141. pd 2 ICIOOO Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 2.1!. pd 1 10:000 Ditto Scrip lO/. sh. 101. pd 2 20,1)00 British Iron . 50/. sh. 55/. pd 1 ,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 4 f. pi I % Cita Branca . 6, 1 ,1. pd 0 % Candonga ..... 10,000 11 Copiapo ....... ........... 201. sh. 13/. pd 10 5,560 ~. Columbian, tss, 5/. pin.... 551. sh. 551.. pd 0% 2,850 3/. English l4/. Gs. pd 3 20,000 General Mining Association 2o / sh.lB/.. pd 6 0,155 Mexican Company 100?. sh. 5711 pd 6 3,000 Polbereu Consols . lO/. sh. W. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte U nreg i s tered 3 Ditto Loan Note' 1501. I'd 160 30,000 United Mexican, iss. '2 pm. 401. dl. all pd 2. Dittt. Scrip 3 l,i Ditto New Scrip Si p 3 5% West Cork 5O/, sh 501.1)11 18 LITER ANY I NS'BITUTION S. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh_ 16 1,500 London University IOU sh. all pd 8 700 King' College lOOl. I'a34 MISCELLANEOUS. 13,000 13,000 i i ,‘,lO 0 M. .0 3 , 15s. Ati;t7r7lia - ii — Agricultural.loo/.lsh. 25/. pd 37% 6;ix:o /, per cent. British American Land Company 231. pd 10 10,0rAD 1. per cent. Canada Cornoany lOOl. sh. 30/. pd :.-1N 10,000 5/. per cent. Upper Cana la Loan City Bonds, 4 psr cent lOO4 20,000 11. Os. CerieralSteam Na,igation 15/. ;In 141. pd 24% 10/.per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sh l9 8,000 Caoutehouc Company 1211. pd 12 New Brunswick Land CompaNy...so/ pd 12 2,T54 5/. per cent. iterersiemary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 110/. pd 110 2,033 5/. per cent. Ditto Now 'OO/. sh. 1001. pd 117 4,000 10,000 6s. Van Dic.ner.'s Land.... 1001. sh, 171/. pd 9 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, DEC. 19, 1840. BANKS. 1,0a0,11001. 6/, p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...831.65. Bd. sh, all pd 103 2,000,0001. 6 p. et. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 157 500,0001. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. all pd 233 500,000/. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5001.1 h. 100/. pd 178 500,0001. ii is. et. National lOO/.sh. 10/. pd 14X 500.0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/, sh. 50/. pd 81 1,000,0004 6p. et. Western of Scotland ... 2001. sh 40/. pd 73 INSURANCE COMPANIES.¢ 250,0003 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh.r,l/. pd 275.60. 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. pd 134 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scetland JO/. sh. all pd 94 50,000 Bp. ct. North British 200!. sh. 10/. pd 18% 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 20 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh .1.,t0 100/. sh. 10/. pd 154 /00,000 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd MISCELLANEOUS 4,818 ..... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1• Ditto Allocated; 961. sh. all pd 47 5,40 C 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water 231. sh.,all pd 33 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron F0unc1erv......501 sh 481. pd 53 10,000 3 per ceat. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/. sh. 10/. pd 8 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... B5l. sh. all pd 5t:M 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas • „.251. sh, all pd 8236 750 7i per cant. Ceill) Coal Gas ........., •...201.' all pd 51 1.280 Edinburgh and Dalt:ell Aanway LO/. sh 58 23,000 5 vet co•it. Equitable Loan co,nriny slsh.ud 9 SI -- The Syrian correspondence of the Malta Times says that " the Turks have become animated with . their success, and are making rapid strides in throwing off their former indolent habits." We trust that this statement is eorreet ; for it is encouraging no less to the friends of ci. vilisatiun than to the advocates of peace. The original " Soirees Musicales" arc to be re sumed on Saturday next at the E n glish Opera-h ouse. The orchestra will consist of do vocal and instrumental performers of first-rate talent, directed by Signor Negri, and the whole under the management of M. Laurent, sen. EVENING EDITIO N' MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of December 24.) The Mercantile Markets closed this afternoon, and will remain so until sth January. SUGAR.—Although the accounts received by the West India Mail are less favourable for the Sugar crops, the merchants have submitted to a further reduction of 6d to Is per cwt; but good and fine yellow kinds have brought " former rates; Grenada, good yellow have fetched 78s, mid 74s to 755; Antigue, fine bright 81e 6d to acs; Jamaica, middling yellow 765. The Gazette average price is now 53s 4 1 d in 1839 it was 37s 7d, and in 1838 at this time 35s 31d per cwt. To-day the merchants have submitted to rather lower rates for brown and middlin g yellow descriptions. -- REFINED.Prices for Refitted goods must be quoted 11 to is 6d lower this week ; Standard lumps at 90s ; Titlers ordinary and good 90s to 95s ; Hambro Loaves 91s to 969, low and good brown lumps 87s to 89s per cwt; common Treacle 36s 6d to 375, patent at 41s, best old make and Golden Syrup at 425 to 44s per cwt. Bastards are heavy of sale, for common sorts 51s to 52s have been accepted. Pieces have given way, Bonded Crushed Sugar 335; Loaves 141bs at 36a 6d, 10:bs 37s to 37s 6d, and 611 es 409 to 403 6J per cwt. Treacle at 15s, Bastards and Pieces • at 16s to 265. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 31s 3d on board at Amsterdam. MAURITIUS.—HoIders bare been compelled to accept ra- • tiler lower rates, good and fine yellow kinds brought former prices ; 59 bags offered at sale • went at . 'so3 6d to 64s 6d for low and good brown. EAST INDIA —ln Manilla prices remain as last quoted' I . Siam at 24s to 27s for low and good white. Java has sup- ported former rates. To-day Porto Rico for Refining under bond at 23s for middling colour and good grain. MOLASSES.—For West India prices have further given way, sonic parcels have been disposed of at 28s for ordi nary Berbico, and 293 6d to 303 for Demerara ; the finest sorts in the market cannot be quoted above 35s per cwt. This afternoon the trade evinced little desire to purchase Bengal at the public bales, which comprised 2,327 bags, the principal part was, however, disposed of, but at a re duction ,on the rates of yesterday of 6ci to Is, fine white went at 83S to 83s 6d, middling arid good 81s to 82s 6d, fine bright yellow 79a to 79s 6d, good 76a 6d, damps and washed 75s to 82s per cwt. FOREIGN.—Brown descriptions of Brazil are wanted by re nut offered our refiners, yellow kinds at former rates. White starts a on n 2O l s o i terms;w g e o r od 221 2 1 Bahia gnod anordinary r e brown • went at ot 9 offse d to to 235, low middling white 243 6d per cwt ; yelicw vannah at 22s 6d to 25s for ordinary and fine quelity, m`",- dling and good middling sound fetched 22s to 235, good • 23s 6d, fine 24s to 255, washed 21s 6i to 0 43 per cwt. For White 24s to 300 6d for low and good middling vvashed. By, private treaty 180 barrels soft white Brazil have been disposed of at an average of 24s 6d for low and good , quality. COFFEE.—Holders of British Plantation evince firm ness, and have refrained from offering any at public sale this week. East India and Cape descript ions : in Prices . little variation has taken place. In Ceylon real good ordi nary is not to be :purchased under 74s pe r cwt. Jagolity Cuba at public sale taken in at 755, for middling quado there were buyers at 733 ; two lots pea berry, however, Rio sold at 104 s. Mocha has a downward tendency. at 45s for fine ordinary, and 40s 6d to 445 - 6 d for low andgaonod ordinary. St. Domingo at 433 6d to 4196 d for good a fine ordinary. TEA. —The market for free trade has presented a more lively aspect this week. To-day the free tradeiqma2:okn. was firm, and a good many purchases were made cash. 24 id. • Fair Twankay is with difficulty to be obtained under • t and there you ;2a lid to 2s lid was paid for common . The market for Company's Congou was gale were sellers at 2; Id cash, hut buyers for the most part will not give more than 23 OAd per lb. The news fro! China may be looked for about the 7th of next mont b The letters from Liverpool state the market was quiet,but that prices were firm, and the lowest quotation for clean Congou, 23 2d per lb cash. l Pent SP/CES.—For Black Pepper t here has not been much . inquiry ; common Sumatra at aid per former rate; ; Cassia Lignea , fi ne thin quill, a b ; t 90s im to t 9la good, 883 to 89e ; low middling and middlin In g, di , a 84s toor 87s East India Ginger is held firml y . rates. Nutmegs have bro u g ht former prices. For Cloves • West at fmer ' prices have an upward te ndenc y . Cinnamon at last sale's rates. FRUlT.—Valencia Raisins of fine quality at 38s, bat . ' common kinds have met with a slow aa!e ; holders, how ever, generally do tot a pp ear dis p osed to submit to any further reduction ; C urrants, 72s is the extreme quotation for fine parcels ; Turkey Figs, 403 to 451 ; French Plarn 3 and Prunes have moved off slowly. Prices have given way for Jordan Almonds. Rum, BRANDY, AND IN.LANDS.—HoIders of West In dia Rum are not disposed to submit to any further reduc tion, and have for the most part withdrawn their samples from the market, but the demand has been very limited for all kinds, ceturnon shipping Lece.vards not to be had ~_ under 2 91 per gallon. Prices have given way id for East India ; 220 puns have been disposed of at 232 d for ~ proof strength. For Brandy holders ere firm, at last , neck's rates. Geneva at Is lld to 2s for export. British Corn Spirits at lOs cash. Rms.—Prices for Bengal, must be quoted 3d to 6d higher this week, low middling white at 12a 63, liliddiing 130, good middling and good 13s lid to 14s, and fine bold white 14s 61 Carolina has been in fair demand for home use at .341 to 36a per cwt. To-day several parcels of middling white Bengal were disposed of privately at 133 per cwt. Teeeow.—For Russia Tallow this week, prices have suffered a decline of 6d to . 9d per cwt : on the spot for P. Y. Candle, holders have generally accepted 47s 3d to 47a 6d far first quality. For delivery in spring months, 47e 61 has been aceeeted. South American at 44s 61 to 463 61 for good and fire, and 33s 61 to 44s for low dark t middling quality. To-day the market was inactive,, and the nearest price for P. Y. Candle on the spot was 47s 3d per cwt., even at which there were few buy ers- OILS.—For Southern and Seal Oil prices now rule 203 to 40a par tun above those of last Friday. Seal at 331 103 to 341, yellow and s'raw colour 291 to 321, and brown 281 to 28/103. Southern at 261 to 261 lOs for common, 271 to 28/ 10a fur middling and good, and 291 to 30l for fine pale quality. Pale Seal at 341; Cod at 271 103 to .271 15s ; Sperm at 1041 to 1071; one party will not sell under 110/, Linseed Oil at 28s 3d to 28s 6d on the spot, and 29: to 29s 9 1 for delivery. Sales it Rape have been made at 45s to 45s 6d, ,and brown 445. Palen at 341 153 to 351 for good quality. For East India Cocoa. , Nut holders are unwilling to submit to lower rates. For Olive prices continue on the advance. Spanish at 601, per tun. COUNTRY MARKETS. VV heat. Barley. Oats. fie. ns. pop SC S. to 44 51 S. to a 40 60 --------- -- - Per Quarter.! s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Bath ,62 70 30 33 24 28 Blandford —I 58 60 30 33 14 26 Bridport ... I 63 Chard .....—....., 1 56 CA i 8 32 12 24 Gloucester ,' 55 6.-1 28 37 20 28 Exeter • ' '6O 70 '27 3 1 2 1 28 Guildford '6B 71 33 37 3 2 58 Newbury ....., 150 63 27 38 19 20 Reading —,-- !48 72 2S '1) 1.0 22 Salisbury ....... 48 60 128 35 2 2 28 Sherborne 1 54 62 30 3 , 1 '22 30 Shepton Mallet ,56 64 32 4 0 22 28 klxbridge 1 —11 l 23 28 Warminster —I -6 6(3 31 .41 25 32 Winchester ;01 64 — feovil !55 60 330 34 ,22 38 :42 LI LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Dec. 23 Wheat, Norfolk and Sittlitlk, 60th. - -- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 556 to Ws. 13 .. Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Sealing, For. —B. to—d. Eng. ILL to 148. per stelle shelling l9s. to 80i. per load DEVIZES CORN MARKET. Per Sack. s. el. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. 5. First Wheat 33 0 to 3, 5 6 Oats 23 0 to 34 0 Second 2O 6 31 6 Beans (per sack)... 22 '2 28 0_ Third Barley - 27 0 42 6 Bread (per gal:on) 1 2 48 52 49 51 46 46 3(1 4 40 be 44 3, 4 PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS Manu '. facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. The best wrought FIDDLE PATTERN SPOONS and FORKS, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The follow-. ing are the weights recommended , but the articles m a y be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce. . oz. .d. ..t. s. d 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 2..: 10 15 12 ditto Dessert (lit., 20 7 2... 7 3 4 12 ditto I able Poi ks 3 - 7 2... 10 15 0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 7 '2.., 7 34 . 2 ditto Gravy Spoons lO 7 2... 311 8 1 ditto Soup Ladle 10 7 2... 311 8 4 ditto Sauce ditto., . 10 7 F... 316 8 ' 4 ditto Salt Spoons (g i lt st ron g ) 1 0 0 1 ditto Fish Slice 12 ditto Tea Spoons lO 7 8... 3 1 pair . ditto Sugar Tongs (strong) l5 (1 N. B. A Price Current, stamped as a Newspaper, containing drawings, and every information relative to the purchase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be had on application, or will be sent into thecountry, free of postage, in answer to a paid letter. ______ LADY'S GOLD NECK CHAI'NS• may be selected from of several patterns, price, weight of four sovereigns, 'Five Guineas; weight of five sovereigns, Six' Guineas : weight of Six sovereigns, Seven Guineas. The. weight is given •by comparison with the weight of sovereigns, being more easily referred to than if stated in ounces and dwts. The quality of the Gold is warranted equal to any that is worked, h), London. into articles of this description, T. COX SAVORY, , .. • , 47, Cornhil Goldsm o it e h y , en S p il o v o er r s s in fr i o th m , GWrfezetihnitialier ~ & ee c t . rcstr Drawings of the newest patterns will be sent post free, if ap plication be made post paid. , TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to Silver for durability, equal in appearance. Table candlesticks, S inches high, 7s. per pair ; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches, 119. per pii i r ; ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches high, 13s, per pair ; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chased cen tre, 4s• each. The particular metal of which these and a great variety of other articles are made, can only hit told from silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells -street, Oxford-street. 44 48 44 50 46 50 44 54 42 52 4i. 414 42 50 41 52 49 fAi II II? 'I LI S. On the 9th ir.st., at Cadiz, thelaCy of F. Lonergan, Esq., of a daughter. On the 18th 'inst., at Chiches..er-eottage, Wandsworth.ro!dp the lady of R. Bevan, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., by the Rev. Simon Asher ' Mr. M. ' Meyers, of Great Alie- s t ree t, G oo d man 7 s -fi e ld s , t o .lessy, fifth daughter o f B. Solomons, Esq., of Albemarle-street,. Piccadilly. At Cripplegate Churelt, Mr. I'. Perrutt, eldest sun of Mr. C. Perrott, of Tenter -street, to Miss Caroline Hinton. eldest daughter of Mr. J. Hinton, Stonehouse, neat Devonport. DIED. -• On the 21st inst., at Broomhaugh, Northumberland, Hugh Shirid, Esq On the 22d inst., Eliza, the wife of Mr. H. Spring, of Park place, Isl ngton, aged 27. On the 16th inst., at Keyhaven, Hants, Commander. J.X• Symonds, 11. N., aged LO. London Printed and Published, by. lantrat4 0 1 ; 112, Strand at The s„,-: 1%;, - ,, 1i 2, Stra the county of Aliddleiex.—Friaay, December, 25, 1840. . ■ I