The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-21 00:00:00

EVENING EDVIION. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SlR—Allow me to inquire through your journal whe ther at the time of Queen Anue surrendering the First Fruits sad Tenths of certain Ecclesiastical dignities, offices, benefices, and promotions to the Corporation for augmenting small livings (more generally known as " Queen Anne's Bounty,") her Majesty did not sur render to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the ''first Fruits and Tenths of all livings in the patronage various Colleges and Halls in those Universities, of tho '—ir offices, dignities, and promotions in consider and of all t._ 4 open lectur-s being delivered to the anion of free au._ .csor being paid from the revenues public, and the PrOu.... I am, Sir, yours, &e. to surrenderei ? GQADItig. Ilfracombe, Dec. 17, 11402 [Perhaps some of our clerical rtft&T4 Will solve the question ; if not, we would recommend our Correspondent to apply to the Hon. Member for Leeds, who is well ac quainted with the history of First Fru its and Tents j NAVAL PROMOTIONS. The following promotions have taken place : The undermentioned Commanders to be Captains. Commissimas to be dated the 4th November, 1340 : William Luckrapt Lewis T. Jones Thomas Henderson Francis Siordet F ancis D. Hastings Sachett Hope Robert F. Stopford George Hathorn The following Commanders to be Captains. Commis sions to be dated sth November,, 1840 : Henry J. Worth k. g. Robinson The following Comrnanaers to bet promoted to Captains 'Wien they shall have served their time : Thomas L. Massie Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot W. J. Williams The following Lieutenants to bo made Commanders. Commissions to be dated 4th Novembr, 1840 ; William Clark Thoma s Stuart H. Hope Baagliam Douglas Curry Charles C. Birkett Francis T. latosen Gower Lowe John Fulford William H. Hall John Russell (bj Joseph Batt George N. Broke William Maitland William Knighton Stephens Wm. Fanshawe Glanville Charles GE. Patey Robert H. Elliot The following Lieutenants to be Commanders. Corn misvons to be dated Oth November, 1840: Charles Thomson George Gitrard Sidney Grcnfell E. P. Charlewood The following Lieutenant to be Commander, when he shall have completed his time : Jas. S. A. Dennis, The following Mates to be Liewtsinenta. Commissions to bn dated ...gb November, 1340 :---:- George Wyke John Sandersoi Charles E. O'Brien Charles J. Walton G. J. R Snow Charles S. Norman John A. Shears Arthur Farquhar Richard Williams Willoughby J. Lake George Johnson ft ,„... ur W. Wood Ashley La Touche G . H. C. t;;;,nderland Thome' Heard R. M. Flood Edwin W. Sanders M. S. Kirkes T C. O'Donnell Whipple Henry Stewart George E Patey John Blackmore R. D. Stupart Jas. M. Boxer Henry Warren M. H. Rodney Lindsey P Burrell William C. Cbernh-erlain The following Mates to be L'eutenanta. ecirorriisaiene to be dated sth November, 1340 : Douglas Reid F. H. Stanfell William I'. Disney J. M'Dowall Smith Richard Hoops W. W. Pridham .--. muel F. Short R. D. White Juan Dunsterville Charles Buller John Allen (b) The fol!owing Mates to be Lieutenants, being men tioned in the Gazette. Commissions to be dated 5 . 11 of N somber, I 840 : -r James H. Cockburn William Butler The following Assistant- Surgeons to be Surgeons. Warrants to be dated 4th November, 1840 : Will'am Houghton Henry Baker Dr. Peter Niddri Alfred B. Cutfield Joseph Plimsoll Five Second Masters, who have passed for Masters arc promoted, and six others, who have not passed, to be promoted when they shall have passed for Masters. ATTEMPT TO ENTER BUCKING HAM PALACE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT OF THE SUNDAY TIMES.) 'rue following particulars relating to the lady who acted so strangely at Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday afternoon last, have not as yet been published, and their authenticity may be relied on : The Countess came to England in the early part o March last, and took up her abode for two or three days at Long's Hotel, in London. At the expiration of that period she proceeded to Windsor in her own travelling carriage, which she had brought with her from the Con tinent, and hired a house in Clarence-crescent, of Mr. Ald. Bedborough, for three years, at a rental of 501. per annum, paying twelve months rent in advance, from the 20th of last March. It was supposed, upon the Countess's arrival at Wind sor, that she was not unknown to Prince Albert, but it has since been ascertained that she never saw the Prince till about four months ago, and that upon his Royal Highness's return to Windsor Castle from a visit to Eton College. A considerable portion of the furniture in her resi dence, at Clarence-crescent, was brought by the Coun tess from the Continent. The remainder was put.- chased of an upholsterer at Windsor. During her re sidence there she lived in great privacy, scarcely ever going out, and then only to walk in the inclosed gardens opposite her house, which are solely appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of the crescent. On the I,sth of October last the Countess proceeded in her carriage, with a lady's maid and footman, from Windsor to Slough, and from thence by railway to London. On arriving at the Paddington station she ordered her horses to be put to her carriage, and de sired the postboys to drive to Buckingham Palace. The carriage was first driven to the private entrance, but afterwards, by directions of the Countess, she was driven to the grand entrance, where she demanded of the porter to be shown the apartments. He told her it was impossible to comply with her request, unless she had an order to see them from the Lord Cham berlain. She then inquired who was the owner of the building; and, on being told it was the residence of her Majesty, she replied, " Oh ! that's impossible that so mean and c ommon -looking a place can be the abode U a Queen." The postillions were then told to drive to the Green Park Hotel, and from thence to various others. At last, after driving about for some time, she determined upon taking up her abode at Gordon's Hotel, Albe marle-street, where she alighted. After having exa mined a suite of apartments, she expressed a wish to engage them for three months. The proptietor, how ever, declined to let them for that period, and the Countess then said that she should take up her abode there until other apartments could be obtained. Two days afterwards (on the 17th of Octoleer), in consequence of the extraordinary conduct of the Countess, and from other circumstances, Mr. Everall, the proprietor of the hotel, requested that she would leave. She immediately ordered her bill, but on its being presented to her she declared her utter inability to pay it, assigning as a reason that she had no money. She told her maid that she had determined to leave England for the Continent on the following day (Sun day,) and directed her to dispose of all her property at the hotel, including her carriage, and with the proceeds pay Mr. Everall his bill, and keep the surplus herself. The property, however, was not sold as she desired. From the morning of Saturday (when the bill was presented to her) until the following morning she locked herself into her bedroom, suffering no one to enter but her female domestic. During the whole of that period she partook of no food, nor did she retire to rest, and she was all the time without fire or candle. On Sunday, having dismissed her servants, she left Gordon's Hotel, en dishabille and on foot, and nothing more was heard of her until she was discovered to be at Richmond. From thence she went to Mr. Redford's, at the King's Arms•inn, Hampton-court. While there ber conduct was eccentric and extravagant in the ex treme. She one morning went to the Palace (which she maintained from the first was her property), and after commanding the workmen to discontinue their labour, declared that she was the wife of Prince Albert previously to his marriage with her Majesty. The police at Hampton Court kept a strict watch upon her movements, and were only prevented taking her into custody through the kind intercession of Mr. Retford, who then wrote to the Mayor of Windsor upon the subject. In the meantime, however, the Countess received a remittance from Prussia, which enabled her to pay her bill at the King's Arms. From thence she proceeded to the Toy Hotel, where, after a brief sojourn, she re traced her steps back to Gordon's Hotel, in Albemarle street, paid her bill there also, and redeemed her car riage and other property, and shortly afterwards (on the sth of November) returned to her residence at Windsor. Upon her arrival there she charged her servants with having purloined certain property, consisting of jewellery and clothes. The case was beard before the Magistrates at the Town ILA but, no evidence being adduced to implicate her domestics, it was di s missed. The day after the decision of the 'Magistrates (which was Saturday, the 18th ultimo), the Countess locked on her house, in which state it now remains, and left `Windsor for town. Previothly to leaving, she disposed of a great portion of her furniture to a broker at Windsor, leaving but little Property of value in the house. The Countess was first married to Captain George Pitt R 055, and was at Canterbury some fourteen or fifteen year _when the regiment to . which her ,hus band belonged was stationed that city. There is a on now living by this marriage, who is in the Prussian service. The C ountess has but one son, and not two a , some accounts have stated. The Earl of Sefton has quite recovered from the effects of his fall , last we e k, w hi le hunting. His Lord ship's face was severely bruised, Irons corning in contact with th e lune of his horse, THE NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, OF THE DREAM, AND OTHER POEMS, By the HON. MRS. NORTON, IS NOW READY, In 1 vol. post Bvo., with a fine Portrait of the Author, after a Drawing by Landseer, 101. 6d. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great::Nlarlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. On Wednesday next, the 23d inst., in 3 Tots. demy Bvo., with a Portrait, from an Original Picture, MEMOIRS OF THE Right Hon. WARREN HASTINGS. LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. INCLUDING his JOURNALS and LETTERS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, from the ORIGINALS in POS SESSION of the FAMILY, By the REV, Q. R. GLEIG. Author of " The Life of Sir Those , Munro," "Traditions of Chelsea College,' &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street , Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. 13, Great Alarlboreugh-s.treet. 1 1a, RS. TROLLOPE'S NEIV WORK, 1311- " CHARLES CHESTERFIELD, the YOUTH of GENIUS." The Publisher of the NEW' _MOENTHLY MAGAZINE and HUMORIST, Edited by TNODORE 1100 K, Esq., begs leave to announc e that Mrs', TROL LOPE'S NEW STORY, " CHARLES CHr7.STER that - FIELD," is in regular course of monthly appearance ill periodical, w ith Illustrations by Phiz. 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To be followed by those adm irable fictions " Marriage," " The lnhetitavice," and •‘ Destiny," each complete in One Volume. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. • To be had also of all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. N DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTPJS. THIS EVENING. DEC. 2t. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Thesens, Mr. Cooper ; Quince , Mr. Bartle y ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. P. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Yestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After whieo, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled BROTHER BEN. Cemraodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Dorothy, C. Jones. To conclude with A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS and Mr. KEELEY, entitled TWO IN THE MORNING. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with Brother Ben, and Two in the Morning. The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be produced on Saturday Dec. 26, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Doors to be opened at halt-past Six—the performances to iovmence at Sm." o'Clock. Ti-kegs and places for the Boats to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may oe had upon application.' f..)ress Boxes, 75. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 'le. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Ands errs, bookseller I 67. New Bond-street. TART FIRST. Overture—Zauberflote — Nlozarte. Quadrille—Falstaff. Waltz—Themis Strahlen. Overture—La Darae Blanche—Boildieu. Solo on the Horn by Mr. Hardy. Grand Selection from Les Huguenots—Mayerbeer. PAST SECOND. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Mr. ELIASON begs leave most respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is new OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. Conductor, Mr ELIASON (his first appearance this Season). Leader, Mons. NADA UD. PROGRAMME FOR THIS FVENING, DEC. 21. FART FIRST. Grand Overture in D.—Romberg. Valtes—Victoria Alexandrina—Labitzki. Overtnre—Oberon—Weber. Quadrille—Krakoviak—Solos on the Cornet a Pist-ns, Flute, and Flageolet by Herr Koenig, Herr Frisch, and Monsieur Colinet. New Overture—Eberstein—Raper . New Solo, Cornet a Pistons—Herr Koenig—Musard. Grand ;Fantasia—Purceii's Frost Scene—Solo Oboe, Mons. Barret ; Solo Ophicleide, Mons. Prospers ; Solo Horn, Mr. Jarrett; solo Trombone, Mons. Dantonet. PART SECOND. Grand Selection from Luorezia Borgia—arranged by Coote. Quadrille—Le Gothique, with Solos for Violin, Flute, Flageo let, Clarinet, and Cornet a Pistons—Musard. Duo Concertante from Il Pirati, Violin and Violoncello, Messrs. De Loffre and Pilet. Valses—Tanz Recepte—Strauss. overture— Guillaume Tell—Rossini. Quadrille—Victoria, with Solos—Musard. Tarantella from Bellphegor—Roche Albert. Prices of Admission :—To the Promenade, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d Visitors to the Boxes have the privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. tit Mr. Eliason, in compliance with numerous applications, begs leave to announce that the Lower Gallery will for the fu ture be opened at the admission of Is. to each person. Doors open at half-past Seven o'Cleek, to commence at Eight precisely. Private Boxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Ro3 al Library, No. 33, Old Bond street, and at the 13ex-office of the Theatre. Prices, 10s. 6d., 1/. Is., and 11. I Is. 6d. Boxes and Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on application to Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office, daily, from en till Four &Clock, and these in the Dress Circle will be kept .luring the whole of the evening, if required. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. In addition t• tke Solo Performers who hate already ap peared at these Concerts, Mr. Willy has great pleasure in an nouncing that he has shade arrangements with M. Delabarre, (Oboe), of the Academie Royale, Paris; M. de Folly, (Pic colo) ; and M. Baumann, ( Bassoon). THIS EVENING, DEC. 2I.—PROGRAMME. Overture— Zampa. Quadrille—Les banois. Duet from Andronico, Cornet a Pistons, by Messrs. Macfar• lane and Keightley. Waltz—Hymen Fier Kiang. Lea Bouquet dea Dames, or Musical Wreath—Strauss. Promenade, la.—Dieas Circle, 2.s.—Uppor Boxes, Is. 6ti. Private Boxes, I/. la. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bend-street. PREPARATIONS AT WINDSOR FOR THE RE CEPTION OF HER MaiEsT v.—Her Majesty having ex pressed an anxious desire that the new riding-house should be completed at the earliest possible moment, Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the contractors, had guaranteed that the building should be fit for the use of the Queen by this day. The only work required to be perfected was the plastering a portion of the interior walls ; but the late severe frost retarded the operations of the workmen for a short time. Should the present severe weather continue, it is not improbable that her Majesty's departure from Buckingham Palace for the Castle may be postponed for a few days beyond the time originally fixed upon by her Majesty. It is fully expected that the ceremony of the christening of the Princess Royal will take place at Windsor. The alterations and other arrangements con nected with the Royal ki:chen are fast approaching towards completion. The whole of the culinary arrangements will be perfected by this evening. Upon the arrival of the Court a public meeting of the inhabitants will be held - for the purpose of voting congratulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert on the birth of the Princess Royal. " Better late than never." We have authority for contradicting the report in the Bankruptcy Court of Tuesday, that Lord Petro was a d toh r b e j l a d o en s c e p tts r o h Messrs. Wright, and are happy to say it was only six bun uewnidefhisco.hfilefteeen thousand pounds by the failure of CIiRISTNIAS GlFTS.—There arc perhaps few and esteem, a Christmasf present that more difficulty in the selection very Gift. e at t f affection one tm e off our s a e G h n i t e im m e s n2s a , n i d nd highly eligible swo in c o w de er o e f s c u e r n ro v u ey nd in e g d the sct h expression Bijoux, Souvenirs, which now have passed away and become extinct pily relieved by the choice of Invarious this difficulty, we are hap. y Messrs. rasn.d Rowland elegant pre parations for the Toilet invented b eon s, which constitute the most appropriate offering that can poisibly be tendered to the Fair Sex at this peculiar season. W e allude to their incomparable Oil Macassar, fur the Hair; t heir matchless Kal y dor, unriv alled f or i t s effects on the complexion ; and their invaluable Odonto, for the Teeth and Gums. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ilastings have a select party visiting them at Donington Park, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Yorke have arrived on a visit to the Noble Marquis and marchioness. THE SUN, LONDON, MON-DAY, DECEMBER 91, 1840 ORDERS FOR " THE CHINA SUN," N 01V PUBLISHING, AND WHICH WILL BE KEPT ON SALE FOR SOME TIME,) May he given to all News-agents, or sent direct to the Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, where prompt attentia'n will be paid to each communi cation in tiße ()vier it is received, and the Paper duly forwarded. Parties sending Orders should write their Ad dresses distinctly, to prevent mistake. On former occasions several letters had been received with out either Name or Address. The Price of the CHINA SUN is only SIXPENCE, which can be sent by post FREE. N.B.—No EXTRA Charge to Regular Sub' scribers. THE Zll6ll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. sforning ...... 45 minutes after 0 1 Evening ll minutes after 1. The Publientirm oft• e Evening Edition of ME SUP com meneed at 20 minutes after Three. Vit -t --' ) .1 4 11 . t ~t •; A'A:,,, \i"., r.:%. ? , 4so , :,, , ziai • „,,l , y — . , ir i z* 5.,-.k.....,_,A, p L _;...„ • bib LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1840. The community seems to us to be at present in a singular condition. The journals of all parties, and in every part of the empire, are frequently, not to say continually, engaged in a discussion of the first principles of government. Even the right of pro perty, as it exists, which is the foundation of our political order, is not considered sacred, wh►le the claims of Monarchy or Republicanism, of an Esta blshed Church or the Voluntary System, of a very limited or Universal Suffrage, of a House of Lords or of one Legislative Chamber, are incessantly ex posed to criticism. In spite, then, of the praise which has been heaped on our institutions, it is clear from these discussions that the public is by no means satisfied with them, and by no means con vinced, as it is convinced that two and three make five, that there is nothing to be discovered in politi cal science. But in this case, as in many others, practice has preceded knowledge, and though there is much doubt as to the best form of political insti tutions, we have an aristocratic Government united with a State Church, which enlists in its defence an immense number of persons armed with great power. Whether our system be erroneous or not rewlins to be proved, but in the meantime there are thousands who say that to uphold it is one of their highest duties. This matter becomes of more importance if we adopt the principle of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE. He lays it down and endeavours to prove that demo cracy is making rapid strides in every part of the world, and must be in the ascendant. So con vinced is he of this principle, that he labours less to prove it than to induce statesmen to provide for the safe development of democracy, and to guide it to a happy issue. Perhaps his principle may be enforced by considering that taking men generally they are all—at least all those of the same tribe, or race, or community—created equal. As they are created equal, so whenever the equality is disturbed, and by whatever means, there is a continual effort to restore it. Nature, therefore, establishes a de mocracy amongst mature men, whatever despotic power she may confer on parents, to whom the young owe life and subsistence, and her laws always tend to restore and preserve what she establishes. That is a short explanation of M. DE TOCQUE.- VILLE'S principles of democracy, but if that be cor rect the establishment of our aristocratic s ystem is directly opposed to the laws of nature, and our costly and painful efforts to preserve it, though they can not in the long run be successful, may serve to ex plain the vast misery to which society is now a prey. No person doubts that there are laws of nature in the moral world as in the physical w orld, no person doubts either that to run counter to the latter causes injury or death, and how then can it be doubted that to run counter to the former must be equally injurious. We run carriages, sail ships, excavate mines, and raise balloons, by our know ledge of and in obedience to the laws of gravity; and we act contrary to those laws, our carriages are o' turned, our ships sink, the shafts in mines give away, or balloons are tumbled to the earth and me.. crushed by the fall. Some corresponding facts are true in the moral world, in relation to the government of so ciety ; and the present misfortune of the community is, that before it acquired a knowledge of the natural laws it established an aristocratic system, which, in spite of them, it subsequently laboured, and now labours incessantly, and sometimes by terrible and sometimes by wicked means, to uphold and preserve. A numerous class supposes itself interested in main taining it, and they try to maintain it at all risks. We know no worse effect of this system than the bribes it holds out to some men of talents and in genuity to blink their own convictions, and write in its support. Thus the editor of the Times, erewhile a stout contemner of the aristocracy, is now one of its most powerful advocates, and on Saturday pub lished a laboured argument to refute opinions which it at the same time acknowledges " are too influen tial with some classes even in the British Island to be treated with the neglect which may be abstractedly their due." As we have given the benefit of our circulation to the whole of our Contemporary's arti cle, we suppose that we are in some measure bound to correct his errors, and we shall do that in one or two instances, leaving the remainder—after we have, we trust, damaged tire whole—to the good sense of our readers, We do not, however, adopt the rea soning of the American writers referred to by the 7i n/s e ; we confine ourselves to our Contemporary's own observations. He almost begins by saying— It is instructive though strange, to behold how men. with minds well able to apprehend both the evil of power when coqfined to the hands of a privileged few, and the true reasons why such power is an evil, can yet be blind to the still broader and grosser evils of the same power when committed to the universal mob ; and bow hopelessly impatient is modern Republicanism of any re straint upoa the despotism of the majority. In that statement lies the great error of our Con temporary, and of all those who fear democracy, and we think unreasonably, because democracy is consistent with the laws -of nature. " The power possessed," to adopt the phraseology of the Times, " by the universal mob," is not the same power " which is confined to the hands of a pri- vileged few." Each unit of the universal mob wields only his own power, and there must be two minds to concur, and two hands to work in concert, before be can move any power but that of his own right arm. In an aristuc racy, or in every form of government where the universal mob submit to the privileged few, whether' from custom or conquest, or however the dominiott ► may have originated, the power which those few exercise is not in reality their own power, but tt ,e power of the confiding many. They give command, and the rest of the people obey. Now, bc , ...tween the power of the ' whole, dispersed throw gh the whole as Nature disperses it, and wielded by each individual and the power of the multitude, wielded by a few, there is such a vast difference that they cannot be called the same or even similar. Prima facie, there in our judgment an ad mirable reason why dc.crt ocracy should be the best form of government. in it each unit of the mass has to judge only for himself, and to act for his own interest. Before ,can put another unit in mo tion, that unit must be convinced that what is to to be done will be for interest ; and it may be supposed, as every individual is allowed to be the best judge of his own ii t terest, that the whole of the units, or the majority - of them, acting as indivi duals, will, in the :majority of cases, judge wisely and act wel f. In the aris tocratic form of government the select few, in whose hands power i ; confided, have to act, not for themselves, but the whole, and for that the fa culties of the silent few , arc not adapted. Naturc endows no class with its culties to govern, and cre ates no Queens for men, as she establishes a Queen Bee. In fact the select; few talk of the public good, and consult their own. The results correspond to the prima facie view. 'The universal mob in Arne ' rica are governed for th- 4 eir benefit, wh;le the univer sal mob in Europe are oppressed for the benefit of the privileged few to ovhose hands power is con- tided. The Times, sensible that the condition of the people, under the two) forms of government, will not bear out its theory.,, forestalls the objection which it sees will be mra3 e from the discontent and poverty of the people «of Europe, and the prospe rity and contentment of the inhabitants of the United States, though Oley wholly consist of colo nists, or the descendant of colonists, from Europe, by saying— In the United States, -.a here the democratic doctrines have been pushed to a g Ivat extent, though not nearly far enough to satisfy weir votaries, the mischief of them must long since ha re been glaringly obvious, but for the peculiar circums : - .ances of a country abounding in new lands, which halve furnished a hitherto-unex hausted resource against that heaviest of all pressures upon either a sovereign population or a subject one— the want of subsistence. It is needless to observe, that this resource must become less and less available as t h e new lands become appropriated by daily-accu mulating swarms of Europ•!an, in common with Ameri can settlers ; and as the appropriation of the near land increases the &stance, and consequently the expense, the anxiety, and the hazard of migration, to the subse quent occupiers. As long, however, as there continues to be in the United States anything like a cheap facility for the obtaining of land, which is the obtaining of a livelihood, it is ridiculous to talk of the democratic ex periment as having been fairly made in that country, Has our Contemporary yet to learn that it is no t land, any inoTe than tile sun or rain, but labour which supplies the subsistence of man ? He wins food from the salt wave as well as from the fat soil. in fact the trouble of cleating, preparing, and ferti lizing an unused soil is a hindrance to production, which men having a cleared, prepared, and ferti lized soil have not to encounter- There is no bounds—there can be, as yet, no bouutls—set to the productive labour of man, and we are better entitled now to argue that fifty millions of human beings may live comfortably in Great Britain in the year 1900, than our ancestors were entitled to argue in 1700 that there would be sixteen millions in 1840, Even were the delusion of un exhausted Jands well-founded, is it not plain that the lands of _Eu rope are no more fully occupied than those of America—that, in fact, except as they are mono polized by the select and privileged few, they are as inexhaustible in Europe, for all we know, as in America ? Even if it were . not so is not Ame rica open to Europeans ? Is not the land there as much part and parcel of the great combined system of production, by which cotton is produced there, and manufactured into cloth here, and the inhabitants of both hemispheres fed and clothed, as the soil of Ireland or Kent ? May not emigrants from London or Liverpool reach a new home in Illinois or kiintucky almost as easily and cheaply as the emi grants from Boston ? Does not, therefore, the inex haustible soil of the United States offer precisely the same advantages to the aristocracy-governed people of Europe as to the democratic inhabitants of the United States ? To be sure it does. It is offered for their use on the same terms as it is offered to the inhabitants of Massachussets or New Jersey ; and not the inexhaustible soil, therefore, hut the democratic government of one country, and the aristocratic government of the other, is the cause of the comparative poverty, misery, and dis content of Europe, and of the comparative opulence prosperity, and contentment of the United States. We cannot enter further into the subject, but we hope we have said enough to make an indulgent reader mistrust the long defence of our landlords which, under the name of a select few, the Times published on Saturday. Iver- Mr. TOOKE has sent a second letter to the newspapers, on his pious endeavours to " purify the representation of Finsbury," and has thereby, in an eminent degree, proved that JOB knew human nature well, when he exclaimed, " 0 that mine enemy might w r ite a book !" All that Mr. DUN COMBE or Mr. LEIGHTON, or Whig or Tory newspapers, have said, or written, or published against the Treasurer of the Society for the Diffu sion of Useful Knowledge, is harmless, compared with his last letter, which appears in The Sun this day. He utterly denies that he used the influence of his office to turn out Mr. D u NCOMBE, and at the same time states that probably he asked Mr. COATES to sound Mr. LEIGHTON 011 the subject o f the requisition, cheque for a bill due by that by the Society, filling up ari he expressed his sorrow that Mr. LEIGHTON had forgotten an o!d friend. This is the admission of an accused person, not a full confession ; and we are therefore bound to conclude that if he had told the whole truth, he would have said, "I am verily guilty. I have used my influence as Treasurer of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for m y own purposes. I have said I was desirous to redeem from its present state of political degrada tion, while I humbly confess my objec t was to raise Finsbury myself and turn out a useful and independent re presentative of the people ; and I have also wickedly said my paramount object was to purify the repre sentation of Finsbury, while Mr. COATES and all my colleaguei knew that I had no such object in view ; and that while professing to be a pious man, I was backbiting two of the most consistent men of my own party, in order to oust one or the other, and get into Parliament." This is the confession, no doubt, that Mr. TooKE will make, when he has leisure to revise his second letter and reflect on the ii,jury that lie lizts done to almost every person to whom he alludes. He praises only one individual, the. Treasurer of the Society for the pill. usion of Useful Knowledge, who punctually discharges pecuniary claims, %silo is trustee for several consi derable estates in the borough, who is desirous of redeeming Finsbury from its present state of poli tical degradation, and who pledges himself to pu rify that corrupt and degraded place by his patriotic and disinterested services. The electors of Fins bury may well say, " Save us from our friends I" We have received the French Journals of Friday. The Moniteur Parisien states that the Prince DE JOINVILLE has been promoted to the rank of a Hear-Admiral ; but, as no such promotion is recorded in the official columns of the Message/. or the Moniteur Universel, we presume the state_ merit to be incorrect. But that some promotion awaits the Prince for having conveyed to France the remains of NAPOLEON, can surprise no per- son. Even the National must admit that such a service is entitled to something more sul stantial than the consciousness of having per ormed a duty, the imposition of %%hie. was the highest honour that France could conic on the son of her King. _ _ _ The National states that the Minister of Public Works has ordered the suspension of the fortifica tions of Paris. This journal, with characteristic propensity to mischief, hazards the supposition that the determination of the Cabinet to suspend the works, was the consequence of threats held out by the great Northern Powers. The Commerce, with more truth and better temper, humorously remarks, that it was " the great Northern Powers" that caused the works to be suspended, and that their envoys are Sir John Frost and Captain Snow. Perhaps the state of the French Exchequer had some share in influencing the resolution of the Ca binet. Now that the first excitement is over, it be- comes a serious matter to put France to an expense of about forty millions sterling in the present ex hausted state of her finances. The following account of an election riot at Cherbourg is from the co!umns of the Messager. M. QUENAULT, the returned candidate, is a sup potter of the SOULT-GUIZOT administration : " As soon as the result was known a group of per. sons in front of the Palais de Justice raised cries of ' A bas Quenault! A bas les laches qui ont vote pour lui : Vive Briqueville !' and they also sang the ' Marsellaise.' The Mayor having exhorted the mob to disperse, a po tion of it did so, but another portion proceeded to the house of M. Quenault, where it uttered similar cries, attempted to force the door, and threw stones at the windows. This mob, which was composed of from 150 to 200 persons, then proceeded to the house of M. Chevrel, an avoue, and one of the pro prietors of the Phare de la Manche, and also to the house of M. Rossignol, a Judge. They threw stones at the windows of both these houses, and one of the stones struck the mother of Madame Rossignol and wounded her slightly. Some windows were also broken at the house of the Mayor. The mob next visited a house lately occupied by M. Lode, the Registrar of the Civil Tribunal, but now occupied by M. Trigan, a Lieute nant of Marines, who, on making his appearance to in quire into the cause of the tumult, was struck on the arm with a stick. The Procureur du Roi has ordered an investigeion, with a view to discover the authors of these different outrages." The Commerce draws the following picture of the present state of France : " We should seek a long time in history beforc we could find a situation so complicated, so unsteady, so obscure as respects futurity, as that in which France is now placed. Nothing is firmly seated, all is un certain. Our financial condition is in progress of disorganisation, and deficits daily on the increase ; the Administration is without force, capacity, or esprit du corps; the Chambers are morselled to indi vidualism, all political creeds are shaken, and we have seen treason itself impudently claim the homage of the people. An improvident and disastrous policy suffered our exterior power to be debased more and I more, and ultimately annulled. By its repeated con cessions, it has induced Europe to array itself against our interests ; it has wounded all the feelings of the 1 country ; it is with them at complete variance." The Commerce concludes by proposing as the panacea for all those evlls, the dereliction of the British alliance for that of Russia. The Toulonnaise of the 13th instant brings intelli gence from Algiers of the 3d instant, a few days before which date the Bishop of Algiers proceeded to Blidah, accompanied by three clergymen, and, in the presence of Marshal Vallee and Generals Bellonet and Chan gamier, consecrated the principal mosque of the town, which is to sale for the Catholic worship until the construction of a church, for which funds have been provided by the Government. The Courrier du Bas Rhin of the 15th instant an nounces that the Duke of Orleans was expected in Strasburg towards the close of the month, when a corps of 15,000 men would be concentrated in that city. BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 18. ' Ira Highest Lowest Cast Price Price. Pricy. Price French S per Cents 4 per Cents 97 SO ... 97 50 ... 97 50 .. 97 50 n per Cents 77 ~. 71 20 ... 76 95 ... 77 20 Bank 01 ir,ince I.l.tlitte Stank I, 000 f. St lOB5 ...lein ... 1085 ...1590 SOCOf. Shares 52e0 ...,5; - .01 ...5200 ...52;10 Ilrelg.;n Bank 5 per Cent , 9) ... )8 ... 98 ... 18 Dutch 2% per Cents ...... ...... 51 ~. Si ... n ... 52 S ).11,11 Aceive 23;44 ... "23;, , , „,,,,, zlsi „. '23 li Passive 5% ••• 5% S X; — 5% 101 ... its ... Inl ... iOl , Teapolitan Roman 99% ... 99% ... 99% ... 993 t RAILWAY SHARES, St Germain Versatlicadt. ii 390 ... 390 ... 390 ... 39J L. 8.... 485 ... 480 25 ... 485 ... 456 25 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale The Madrid Gazette of the 11th inst., which we have just received, contains the four financial decrees of the Regency to which we alluded on Saturday. The first declares that the purchasers of all national property, except convents, are to pay one-third of the purchase-money in bonds of the consolidated debt, bearing interest at five per cent ; anodic' third in bonds at four per cent. ; and the remaining third in bonds of the debt without interest, at the rate of 50 per cent., in unconsoli dated credits, at the rate of 66 per cent., and in bonds of the debt, bearing five per cent. interest, at the rate of 68 per cent. All convents and con ventual churches not yet disposed of, are to be sold at the expiration of six months, and to be paid for in coupons of the public debt, which are to be re. ceived at their full nominal value, without regard to their present depreciation either at home or abroad. Regarding this matter merely in a financial point of view, it is just in principle, but the extent to which it may relieve the public creditor depends wholly upon the amount of conventual property remaining unsold in Spain. It was, however, expected that these decree.; would create a stir in the Money Market, by restoring some degree of confidence in the financial good faith of the Spanish Government. The determination of ESPAKTERO to march an army into Portugal unless the Portuguese Govern ment consented to the free navigation of the Douro was generally talked of in the political circles of Madrid. ESPARTERO has work enough on his hands without entering upon a war with Portugal, ur any other Power. His proper business is to re generate Spain, by purifying her institutions, establishing an uniform a dministration of justice, festering industry, and developing the natural resources of a country which is capable of being c hanged from one of the poorest to one of the richest and happiest of the nations of Europe. The Madrid Gazette of the 12th publishes a firman of the SULTAN ratifying a treaty of com merce concluded between Spain and the Sublime Porte on the 2d of March in the present year. By this treaty Spain is placed on a footing of equality with the other European Powers in trad ing with Turkey. The firman itself is a curiosity of its kind. Queen ISABELLA 11. is described as " the most glorious of the eminent Sovereigns, pro fessing the religion of JESUS, the most illustrious among the Sovereigns professing the creed of the MESSIAH, the most high and most august Queen of SPAIN, the SULTAN'S most dear and sincere friend." Royal friendships are strange affairs, and this partiality of his Highness for the Infant Queen of SPAIN among the strangest of Ithem. The SULTAN is not so fortunate as many of his subjects if he have no dearer and sincerer friend than the Ro)al ISABELLA. The funds improved on the 11th and 12th, in GOLDEN SUN Was published to commemorate her most Gracious MAJESTY'S CORONATION ; but the Penny Postage, which now facilitates the send ing of letters, was not then in existence. Look ing forward to an event of great national in terest, which Queen VICTORIA has now HAPPILY realised, we reserved a few copies of THE GOL DEN CORONATION SUN, Which can be sent by post free to all parts the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, Nov. 28, 1840. consequence of the decrees published in the Gazette. The Fives left off on the 11th at 26 3-16ths for cash, and 27 at 60 days ; and on the 12th at 264 for cash. The Paris Journals of Saturday have not yet arrived. 'TIE CHARTISTS,—Does a Chartist marry two wives, it is particularly noted that he is a Chartist ; scores of Professors of the Church of England, or of certain Dissenting bodies, and professing the ordinary run of political opinions, may commit the same offence, and no persons think it worth while to record what is their faith, either religious or political. The same fact is true of all other offences. If a Chartist gets drunk, or steals, or breaks open letters, or commits forgery, it is carefully chronicled that he is a Chartist, and the offence is imputed to Chartism. Such a mode of proceeding is improper, and we are sure that it would tell much against the Church were every offender who professes its creed to be set down as a Churchman, and were his offence, as is done with Chartism, to be traced to•his religion. But while the Chartists alone are exposed to such observations, it follows that much more is expected of them than of other men. They arc to be snore virtuous than their neighbours, and set them a good example. This has always been the ease with rising sects, both in religion and politics, and the professors of Chartism will probably bear it in mind, and co rmit no moral offences which may be tortured into reflecting disgrace on their political creed. nonou GII OF WA I.S ALL.--ThO Slidfordskire Ex awincr states, that the report of the retirement of Mr. Fine'.► from the representation of Walsall, which we copied from the Anti-Corn-law Circular, is premature. We are glad to hear it, as the lion. Member is too good a trump to be par(cd from without regret. SWITZERLAND Letters from Switzerland state that. the Grand Coun cil of Solurc adopted on the 13th inst. the following principles as the bases of the new Constitution of the clnton :- 1. The sovereignty resides in the people, who exer cise it through the medium of its delegates. 2. The Catholic religion is the religion of the canton, except in the bailiwick of Bucchegglaud, which pro fesses the Evangelical creed. 3. The liberty of tht press is guaranteed, saving the repression of abuses. 4. Industry and trade are free. 5. The right of petition is granted. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY ) Samuel Wolfe, a dealer in second-hand clothes, in 1 Monmouth-street, was brought up by Blundell, F division, charged with annoying, obstructing, and assaulting him. The complainant, it appeared, was passing down the street about half-past seven o'clock, in plain clothes, when the defendant came from the front of his shop, and, catch ing hold of Asked b'm if he wanted any clothes. On putting his heads upon him he took him into custody, but not bcfcre he turned him round. Two witnesses were called, who proved that the defend ant merely put his finger upon him, and caused no obstruction. Mr. HALL said that he had at various times received complaints from respectable persons, who did not wish to conic forward and prove the case. He wished that officers would not appear in plain clothes ; but there were cases in which the Commissioners found it necessary to adopt such a course, being in possession of facts ; and it was his opinion, that if the nuisance continued, it would be absolutely necessary to legislate upon the subject. Thu practice had prevailed for many years, and in the present case he was inclined to believe the evidence of the officers before that of the witnesses for the defence, as they might have some interest in the result of it ; but he thought t hat as the defendant's residence was known a summons might have answered the ends of justice. He wotfd therefore mark his sense of the offence, and as a caution to others, o: der the defendant to pay a fine of 2s. 6d. Cashman Solomon, a Jew salesman, of Holywell-street, was charged with a similar offence against the same com plainant. Mr. HALL said it was only last week a fine had been in. fl'eted upon another person living only a few yards from the defendan', aid as it did not appear to have the desired effect he would impose a penalty of 10a., or five slays' im prisonment. The defendant upon paying the fine complained of the hardship of the charge. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals were fair of Wheat and Flour, good of Barley, but short of most other grain. There was a a small fresh arrival of Wheat, and moderate of other corn. The best parcels of Wheat obtained a further advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter, and other qualities sold readily at their former value. Barley is. per quarter dearer ; Brans and Peas sold slowly at no variation in prices; Oats at their last quotations ; Flour a fair sale at the currency below. rarcrs off ROA ItD OF SYI P. Wheat ,lied (old) ----White (old) —I. 3 .-..-------- (Old) - 48 f. Bed(1EL.11) 50.. 51.. 'lick (new) 37 39 , . —-- Fine 55. 57, .----- (old) .-- Superfine ',83. (.34 -- Harrow (new) 40., 4!s White (1840 .... 5 ts. 54, -- (old) ..... ....i45.40. ----- 'ine COs. vie. Drank Superfine 6.5 s 70s Oats, Feed --Foreign free 51s '.O:. --- New llyr 38s. 40, Poland Barley 9. i I ;i5.. -----.....-••• New 4 ).55.28... : -- Grinding ' , 6s. 28t. Pot atoe —B. —s. ' ...-.... Malting 12s. 3Es. ----- *row 2.6s 30a. Malt s6s. CO Scotcn 27s. 3Js. Fine New 623. 63, Irish 18 , . ..215.215. Pease, Grey, New l'le, 38s. Flour Town (per ~ack)....508. s:ls. Maple New 4os. 41s. Seconds 46..485. -- White 14s. al,. -- North Country—. 45s 4t3i. --... Boilers ')7s .38g. Bran ARRIVALS OF (.111AIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. t.)v.s. Flour English Irish — Fureign SMITHFIELD. The trade for Cattle was hardly so good as on Friday, but the supply was good, and the quality mostly consisted of a superior description. The supply of Mutton was short, and trade rather on the mend, the quality generally good. Calves in short supply, and trade about the same as last Monday. In Pork hut little doing, the supply con. sisting mostly of stores and Pigs. Beasts, 2,111 ; Sheep, 13,620; Pigs, 615; Calves, 78. Beef, 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Veal, 4s. 83. to 6s. ; Pork, 3s. 8d to 55. 4d. TEA MARKET. The demand dull, ON trade being buyers only for their actual wants ; no further reduction can , however , be quoted in the currency. Company's Congou fetched 2s. Old. to 2s. Oid. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The prices of Russian Tallow were 48s. to 48s. 3d. per cwt. on the spot ; little business doing, with every pros pect of a reduction before the close of the year, the stock being very large, and many time contracts to complete. HOP MARKET. The prices of secondary Hops, of this year's growth, were about 103. to 1.55. p,..r cwt., which has led to the sale of some five hundred bags and pockets, but generally the market was flat. New Kent, pockets 10/. to 181., ditto, bags 6/. to 201. Last year's growth, 6/. to 11/. per cwt. WOOL MARKET. The recent large sales of Coloni al Wool have esta. blished a firm market for the article generaly, and there was a good business doing in most sorts, chiefly for the West of England. LLO YD'S SHIPPIN Ci-('PHIS DAY LONDON, DEC. 21.—1 t blew very hard in squalls from the N. E. on Saturday night, and continued until near day break on Sunday, when it moderated to a fresh breeze, ani recommenced about midnight from the northward. Wind this day at noon, fresh easterly breeze, and fine. SHEERNESS, DEC. 19.—The Lochiel, Garrick, from Shields to London, got on the Maplin Sand 17th inst., and is full of water. WHITSTABLE, DEC. 20.—The Flora, Hunter, of Dun dee, which was on shore on the Ledge, near Margate, has been got off, and is now at anchor in the Swell. DOVER, DEC. 20.—Off port, the Zephyr, Meyers, from St. Andrew's. N EWHA VEN, DEC, 20.—The Ino, Clarke, from Stockton to Shoreham, got on shore near Eastbourne, and was abandoned by the crew. Since brought in hero. CLYDE, DEC. 18.—Sailed the Thistle, Elder, for De merara ; Richard Brawn, Dunlop, St. Vincent. WATERFORD, DEC. 17.—Sailed the Lochinvar, Allen, for Trinidad ; Isabella, Mackay, Newfoundland. YARMOUTH, DEC. 19. The Nelson, Booth, from Stockton, was driven on :shore on Hopton Beech y estezday. SouTnwoLD, DEC. 20.—A chest lid, painted green in side and black out, marked " William Hunter, South 1 Shields," has been picked up here. A boat's thwart, about sevea feet long, painted at the end black, with a broad arrow head cut at each end, has been picked up at Walbeswick. LOWESTOFFE, Dac. 20 —A seaman's chest, containing some old clothes, and a memorandum, with the name of Robert Wilson, of North Sunderland, on board brig Simpson, of Blyth, was picked up on the beach last night. HARWICH, DEC. 19.—The Jenne Helena, Tobbins, from Dutakirk to Hull, has been assisted in here to day, very leaky, and with pumps choked. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I9.—Wind N.E. 20th, E. N. E., blowing hard.—Arrived the Superior, Dunning, from the Cape of Good Elope; William, Cheesop, Quebec, touched on tho Kontish Knock. Put back, tk United Kingdom, Allen, with four feet water in the hold, e and loss of sails. WEXFORD, DEC. 17.—A jolly-boat, marked outside " Renard, Jetsey," and inside " Frederic lc Grand," cam e on shore near Carnsore P oint yesterday. Several pieces of bulwark were washed on shore during the last few days. B ELF AST, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Sarah , Stewart, Simp son, and Thomas Gilston, Nl'Donald, from Miramichi. G AL WAY, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Leila, M•Donaugh, from Quebec. CROOKIIAVEN, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Harper, Mu S rp mith, hY. from Miramielii ; Lady Douglas, and Cor iolanus, from Quebec. LIMERICK, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Athelstone, Island. Youens, from Quebec; Ninian, Bawler, Prince Edward's The Pleiades, of Whitby, was abandoned at sea in lat. 4t, lon. 46. Crow saved by the Ninian, Bawler, ar rived here. Bumf, DEC. 19.—The Kilmarnock, Champlain, of this ! :.)t t, from Loridon, in attcreptitq,; this port last night, got oil the Saul Point at the clitranco of the harbour, and is sets leak ) , Lot i.s ,;(1,,.;:.d to be got off with daniige. HULL, Due. 12.—Wind N. E. ; fresh,—Arrived the William and Ann, from Miramichi. EVENING ED IT i 0 v. M.MERCIAL NEWS MONEY and C CITY, TWEL VE 0' CL 0 CIC. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDA Y.-We Lave had a good dernond for Cotton tc-dny, and full pric(s have been obtained ; the sale 4,000 bags, chiefly Anic ricens. . . The Jamaica papers, received on Saturday' last, con tains a very long speech, delivered by Sir Charles Met calfe, at the opening of the House of Assembly a - t J a macia. We give an extract of the Address, ia answer to his Excellency's speech that " fire humble Addr ess of the Assembly, states her Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, return our thanks for the speech of his Excellency at the opening of this Session. and hasten to express our gratitude to Divine Providence for the preservation of the life of our beloved Queen from the late attempt at assassination by the band of a madman. We have to assure your Excellency that we resume our duties with increased satisfaction and devotion, en couraged by the approbation bestowed by your Excel lency on the results of our during the last Session, and assured that our future labours will be viewed and judged of in the same s firit of candour, jus tice and truth. " The supplies which the emergene; service may require, it will be our duty to pro% ide, with that due regard to economy which the still pros trate condition of the state of cultivation of the gr eat staples of the colony imperatively demand. of the public We have the satisfaction to state that the Comm'rai- sion appointed to revise the laws of this island have made considerable progress i n their labours. and w e en tertain sanguine expectations t hat at their termination we shall have it in our power to expunge all enactmenti now obsolete from our statute book, and to retain O nly such portions as are adapted to the prewit state, of society in this island. " We sincerely thank your Excellency for your ea ertions in endeavouring to car r y into effect the prov-%- sions of the Prison Bill of last Session. " The Courts of Reconciliation, judiciously intro duced by your Excellency, meet with our sincere appro bation and support ; we feel assured that land-pro prietors of this country are not less than any other por-' tion of the community willing to submit their disp rho ute° with their labourers to the decision of a jury of humbler classez. The peaceful demeanour of the emancipated poa pu lation of this island redounds to their own credit, affords a proof of their con tinued comfort and prosperity " We entertain a well - ground ed conviction t hat - the mutual integrity of employers and labourers a rc beg in , ning better to be understood , and that the into:l7st or both parties are found to be intimately connected: The address ends by stating , " In conclusion, o'csts'ed sire heartily to concur in the confident hope e%V re be by your Excellency, that harmony and union the characteristics of the present Session, no less that of the last." the , 0 1.91 ' To the above address his Excellency Wade lowing reply :—" I thank you c ordially for address. I receive with great gratification tr __ .fi . ments that it conveys ; and I rely with perfectel.. he ; dente in your zealous endeavour s to promnhabitants- ote t cu of class of the i fare and happiness of every y .? our s l en Y; '.his island." --- We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date. December, A private letter from Frankfort, of Ilth mentsstates otfhaitnraanntrAy,usatrricagnimeconrtps,ofcocmavpaolrsey:l of two refit' lion of artillery, were to take a position aaTl 11%0 00 Another corps of Imperials, to the number of men, were to occupy Ulm. But, in another letter from Frankfort, it is Goal , nY stated that the great States of and France are negotiating for a disarmament. ber Accounts from Frankfort, of the 15tb Decor ._ Rastadt. a batta state th a t Solomon Rothschild, chief of the bouee of is said to re, ate Vienna, had left for Paris ; his journ e Y their A to a French loan. to the Cabinet (Russian) which claturseTrtthwe ecceorurnetsspornedceeliivLdfrofrmommLoseciopvisi,c state, according t that an insurrection would take place in the Government of 1(i v, Ischernegon, and Pultowa. The following are the names reported of tbc new arns btrooufgebart.. Ministers in Holland :—Minister of Marine and 0; 10 ' nies, M. Band, will be appointed Goverhor in Indio M. Van Mennen is to be replaced in the department of Justice by M. Opden Hooff ; M. le General de N.oc l ‘ Minister of the Interior, will cede to M. de Gonge Van, Campens Niewwland, Member of the Council of State of the Second Chamber. The portfeuille of Foreigo Affairs will go to M. Baron Verstolk de Solen• ----- ----- THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning a t 89 sellers for the Account, left off on Saturday 88k 89 ; Reduced, t39* Exchequer Bills, 1 3 pre m. ; Bank Stock, 1561 15,1 ; India Stock, for opening, 237 239. In the Foreign Ma r k et, S p anish Active, 23ir 24 ; Deferred, 121 ; Passive, si, 6 ; Portuguese, 321 331 ;.• Three per Cents., 211 ; Colombian, 23k 244 ; Alexica o, 28± ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 51 Five per Cents., 971 i. Nothing doing as yet in either of the Houses. Shares—London and Brighton, 61 i dis. ; Great Western, 24 25, prem. ; ~New, 10± 11 prem. :. Blackwell, 5 4 discount ; 13irtaingham, 79 81, prem. ;. Southampton, 531. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.- RAILWAYS. Paid . Per Share. Birmingham and Derby lOO ..... 73 ...... to Birmingham and Gloucest er 9O - Ch e lt e nham and Great Western. 621 291.- to 65 - Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths ... London and Brighten ii ... t -- London and Birmingham ......••• 90 169 .... to Ditto i Shares - London and Greenwich ..... .• 2O . ..... ...... to --- Ditto Scrip -- 2 ...... 3i ...... to London and south Western London and Croydon (Trunk) 134. ...... 124•••••• to 121 Manchester and Leeds - Ditto New Shares 25 ..... . 27 ...... to --- PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, 3 per Cent. Consols ..._ Three and Half Stock 97i , Grand Canal Stock...••-•• Ditto Reduced ...... ... I Ditto llebs. 6 per ceret••• ..... IiEC. 19. itto 1830 ...... 97; ! Di t to 4 per D c ent ....... ••••• 3i per New, New, Debs. ...... tOb Royal Canal St ock ......... •-- NALF•PAST ONE. Consols have been fluctuatirr, during the c ourse of the morning from 89k to 88±, and at present may be! quoted 89 for the Account. There is not a an d the bus i ness cs feature in m s doing: a the British Market wor th notice, Money is of minor importance . Reduced 89. _. n ybe quoted at the rate o f about 5± per cent. at Lee& bankers', and in the H ouse about 41 to 5 per cent.. Exchequer Bills, 3 1 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing done ; India Bonds, 15 dis. In the Foreign Market Spanish Passive, 5 Active ra ther beetter,. 23; 24 ; ass, 1 i ; D utc h ; Portuguese, 32 ; Thre per Cents. 21 ; Colombian, 24 ; Mexican, 2 8k 7 Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 51±. In Shares some business has been done. --Birming ham and Derby, 73 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 67 ;; Cheltenham and Great Western, 291 ; Great Western. 90i ; ditto, New, 511 ; ditto, Fifths, 10- ; London and Brighton, 431; London and Birmingham, 169, We do not hear as yet of the arrival of the British Qoccri. ...........—.................—.-.... The Duke and Duchess of BuckStoinghamßucks. will shortly leave Avington House, Hants, for we, His Grace will preside at the a nnual dinner of the B Halluck ingham Conser vative Association, at the Town , Buckingham, on the 13th of next month. We understand a marriage is on the lapis be tween Lord Monteagle and Miss Marshall. His Lord ship's daughter, the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Maid or Honour to the Queen, is also to be married to Mr. Jolla G. Marshall, the preliminaries of which union, we ha.vc reason to believe, are already arranged. Lord Clifford has re turned to Ughbrook, his; scat in Devonshire, from town. We are sorry to hear tha t the young Prince Don Francesco of Capua has been seriously indisposed these last few days, and that the disease under which his. Royal Highness is labou rin g ori g inated from cold, and haw assumed the character of infaritine fever. The physician* assiduously in attendance are Sir Robert Chermatde, I_. Miclaugalin, and Dr. Guersents, with the private physi' can of the Infanta of Spain. Although a great improve" ment has taken place since yesterday in the health of 04 interesting young Prince, the consternation of his Nord parents, the Prince and Princess of Capua, can bo mole easily imagined than described.— Galignani. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 18.---T he transactions in our market have been very few, and at gra' - dually declining prices. Low qualities are almost unsale able. sugars were forced up to a price far beyond tvbat any ex isting circumstan ces made rational or safe, and it il/ i m possible to say how ra p idl y the y will descend to a rra-' tural level ; but what that level may be the following jab" portant statement will be a tolerable guide to— S toc k Ist HI di a. Mats of Ba g s of Gaz. aver. Dec. Mauritius. Bengal: price. 1840 l9 230 ... 29,085 ... 29,588 ... 565. 0.1. 1839 38,150 ... 61,500 ... 34 364 ..• 385. 4 1' 1838 35,945 ... 64,978 ... 7,886 ... 325. bu• 1837 20,840 .. 35,067 ... 14,415 .•. 40s. 7d. blyB3wA7l:NivwchFasuitiLnaLptphyecars,that aggregateth though the s t be large stockas 1836 36,200 ... 29 250 ... 18,029 ... 365• 6 d,' 1835 31,250 ... 47,586 ... 7,606 ... 385. 9a. Rose and Sa year, prices were 15s. sd. per cwt. lovver! —B.-idol lii°r" curt'. SUDDEN DEATII OF A CLERGY' stAN.—On Crowntur d T a y a v eeveningßromley, m a li e y inquest 1 was heldbefo before e t t he Baker, on the body of the Rev. Joseph i Braedselexy', Recto r ro.! St. Leonard ' s, on on I h s e t D I setcD. Iciii: Bromley. From the evidence it appeared that on the preceding night the deceased gentleman hard been se n t f ur t o hi s residence in Tredegar-square, to ba tisc an infant. He commenced the crem ony in a fi'r m ' audible voice; but, on getting about half through it, his voice slightly faltered, he instantly dropped to the f107,r, and e x pi re d, a pp ar ently without a str u gg le. The deco" s rd died of apoplexy. Inc ovcrliross of she Choulh-ratt: put ) , iii t!1 ; parish of Lowick, Northumberland, ai d, we trust, lie the precursor of many such victories along o ur borders.-- tit he Chronicle. Th, up to tion 6 gion a six 81 Franc, eighty a sinvi officer atver vPner n Anvili, " Q I Taitin tiers l ard, the ou inelost to the repelli geant under difficu' were r the dit Was us 1 ii by ti eve n Apoi °oea! the th e s One taisf A ` ll ti Of ti 444 i t4t( th e A ) d ay th e h 4l tl 'lt) 1111 by Ott 101