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

EVENING EDITION• MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FRIDAY EVENINS.) CHRONICLE.—It seems now likely that the French Ntnister will be able to raise the sum needhil to supply his immediate wants by an advance from the Bank of France, against an issue of Royal Bonds to the amount of 2.50,000,0001., 10,000,0001. sterling. The Russian loan, it is now said, is not likely to ex ceed 3,500,000/. sterling, taken in a four per cent. stook at 90. It was very generally supposed in the early pact of the day, that the Russian loan had been confotioded with that of an Austrian one, alluded to in some of the French Papers as being required to the amount of 2.7.0,000,0091., but from the contents of pri vate 1 tiers received to-day we are inclined to think that the report of a Russian loan is correct, and that the ru ro)urs übcut Austria also appearing as a borrower are for the present, at least, premature. POST.—The annouecement of still more foreign loans in the journals does not escape the attention of comutr•rcial En. n in the City. A Russian four per cent. loan has been contracted with Messrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. The amount is uncertain. Pour millions sti.rling is the sum stated. Besides this, we hear of an Austrian loan for the large sum of ten mil lion 4 sterling being on the point of negotiation. Some thing mole-, definite may probably transpire wit•) respect to these important financial matters in the course of a few day:. No new Austrian loan will, we presume, f-oin what occurred in the case of the former one, meet with much favour in this country. Of the twenty millions borrowed under the auspices of the B-itish Government, only two' millions were, after a long struggl).. recovered, and this was through the pockets of tilt) English public, in the shape of a second loan. The domestic bankruptcies of Austria have been of the most desolating character. The Governments of Vienna, unlike those of Spain and Portugal, have, it is true, shown a creditable regard for the interests of unsuspuctiiig foreigners who trusted them, the anxieties of the rulers of those two insolvent States being di rected exclusively to the protection of the native. The circumstance of the two million Austrian `‘ godsend," as the sum saved out of the twenty millions was exultingly designated by the British Minister in Par liament, is, nevertheless, too memorable an affair to be speedily effaced from the recollection of our coun trinen. _ To crown all, a levy for five or six millions sterling for th.: use of the Regency at Madrid is, we understand, at the present moment engaging the attention of the loan concocturs of this city, who assume, as a matt,r of course, that the four years' interest now die on the pared-down conversions and new introductions of 1834 is totally lost sight of, as well as that such is the arid state of the Madrid Exchequer that the contemptible sum payable even in interest (ten thousand pounds stet-• ling per annum only) on the Treasury bonds issued by the Embas,:y in 1836 with so much mock solemnity is not to be scraped together. '['he exchanges fluctuated very considerably this af ternoon. At the commencement of business the quo tations were decidedly looking down. A great differ ence was made, however, in the rates fixed for bills drawn on the same places, a circumstance from which it is to he interred that the credit of the drawers is in some instances a little affected. It is not easy to say with any certainty what was the result of the day's trans actions. More bills were offering before the close : but the idea seemed to be that the currency of the last post day was barely supported. The Belgian papers say, " the Dutch Government are about to authorise the admission of oils to entry by the Meuse, the Scheldt, and the canals of Zuid Willems Vaart, and Terneuse. Hitherto importations could take place only by the Rhine and the Wahal." " Now, however," it is added, "we shall be put upon the same footing with Prussia and England. Leyden will be the place of discharge for our supplies." The new sections of railway to be opened next year arc, as we learn from the same journals, those from Ans to Liege, and from Liege to Chaufontaine, which will be in operation during the second quarter, and that of Tubise to Mons, which is to be opened during the last quarter. The total of railway expenditure for 1841 (including the new sections) is estimated, in round numbers, at 3,750,000 francs. The works gene rally already constructed pay the Belgian capitalists an interest of from four to five per cent. per annum. It was never the policy of the Government to exact extravagant fares. Passengers travelling by the second class vehicles have, in fact, been enabled to traverse the country at a charge that would barely cover the expense, the moderate profit derivable from the undertaking being levied upon those who are in cir cumstances to contribute more liberally. Numerous lines have now been several years in operation, and so perfect is the management, which is that of the Govern ment, that scarcely a single accident or mishap of any kind has occurred worth recording from first to last. It is considered here that the railway administration of the Low Countries might be imitated by the English companies with much advantage to the public. The fact we are about to state will be thought almost incre dible, but it is nevertheless true, that a man may go in the open carriages from one end of Belgium to the other, that is to say from Ostend to Liege, a trip of eight hours, at a charge of less than six shillings. The dis tance cannot, to judge from the excellent speed with which it is performed, be less than 150 English miles. The discipline maintained throughout is the admiration of all who have had an opportunity of witnessing it. TIMES.—The foreign papers received yesterday state that a new Russian loan is about to be brought forward, and the letters of this morning from Amster dam furnish some particulars of the terms on which the contract for it has been made, in which the house of Hope and Co. of that city appear to be largely con cerned. 'lle a letters state, that the loan is for 23,000,000 silver rubles, at a price of BGi per cent. Payment is to take place as follows : One-tend► on January 5, with an addition of 3 per cent. interest. Four -tenths on linuary 31, with an addition of 4 per cent. interebt. Five -tenths en Fcibruary 28, with an addition of 5 per cent. interest. The interest is to run from the Ist of last August. and will therefore leave a small profit of two months' interest. Calculating at the present rate of 38 stivers per ruble (whereas 40 stivers per ruble are to be pair!), the new Four per Cent. stock will stand the subscribers in 90 per Cent. The: Engiish stocks have been nearly stationary all day, ,Amt the only variation in the prices was that of buyer or ecllir. The prices of most of the speculative foreign stocks g.ive way in the early part of the day, the market not being. able to sustain the sale , made, which neverthe less were not more than of ordinary character ; sub7e qudatly there was a reaction, which placed things in a firer position. The f reign exchanges had, according to sonic of the brukets. a tend. nay downwards fur Paris, Hamburgh, and Amsterdam, there being more money than bills on those places. Accisrding to others, the rate on Atu,tertisna is much the same as last pose, whilst on Paris the demand was not so great as on Harnburgh, and the exchange, though lower, was not so much affecte . HERALD. —In addition to the loan for Russia contracted, as yesterday noted, with the house of Hope and Co. in Amsterdam, it is now openly stated, and was indeed then hinted at, that Austria is actually in the ma.kct, with a loan, or rather that one has been taken by a well-known Hebrew firm, to the amount in the whole of about 4,000.000/., out of which somewhere about one half, or a little more only is to be called for and paid up at present, and the remainder at a date not distant. The Money Market, therefore, is in tours! of a more ,severe pressure upon its capabilities than has been experienced for veers. For at one and the same time France, doubtless for a more heavy one than the rest, Russia, Austria, Belgium, perhaps Prussia, Brazil, and Texas, are all actually in or about the market at once for loans, not one of which will be below one million sterling, whilst the greater number are for much more than that sum. There can be little question but that the amount wanted and brought for ward, unless prevented by some unforeseen occur rence, will not altogether for all there States fall short 20,060,000/. Exclusive of this vast amount, there exists little doubt among the monied interest that a loan will be wanted to make good extraordinary expenditure and deficient revenue in this country ; and tint it will be one of the first propositions with which the Chancel lor of the ~, Exchequer will salute Parliament at the en suing Session. All eyes and ears arc naturally turned to see what course the Bank o f E ngland will pursue in this extraordinary conjuncture, and with so small a re serve of the precious metals in possession. Many people affect to believe that nothing short of a Bank Restriction Act, authorised by an Order in Council, can enable the Bank to withstand such a " long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether" upon her, as such an accumulation of loan demands, if tolerated, which, whe ther all carried on in coMpetition or not, must drain her coffers to the dregs. SUN.—There has bceq more firmness in the public se curitics tc- lay, but the basin , ss done has been rather P. mited in ext ,nt. The French Funds, it seems, were morz buoyant, and advanced I per cent. on Wednesday, on the supposition that because the Finance Minister has post- Poned for a day or two the explanation of his . budget, be has no intention of making good the deficit in the revenue by means of a new loan, but will issue Trea suey Bonds and resort to other expedients. It appears pretty certain, however, that the whole amount required cannot be completed by means of Exchequer Bills since die charges entailed upon France by the dangerous policy of her late Minister are too heavy and of too permanent a characte r t o b e met i n t hi s way . A Russian loan is reported to have been contracted for by a firm at Amsterdam, but before this can be confidently stated to be the case, we must have pamo official announce ment of it, for such a sum as /Lis great Power would be the borrower of could Ni ever be raised among the private connections a s i ng le house, however wealthy or influential. Then again the contract price is said to be 90, while 'the market price of the Five per Cent. Stock is as high as 1121, or a difference of 22. per cent. If Russia is really pressed for . money, and we are by no means in clined to doubt it, sueh terms as these, we imagine, will very soon tempt the public to lend the Government of that country four millions sterling. Austria is said to be " looking out for ten millions sterling, and of course we shall have the preference in obtaining her custom. The European Money Mar kets were indeed seldom more hard-pressed, than they have been since M. Thiers began his grand display of enmity against the Allied Powers, though, at the same time, we will not go the length of asserting but that many of the Governments which now cloak their applications for assistance under the plea of extensive armaments, would have been borrowers, even had no such expenditure ever been required. The unvarying price of Consols for the opening and ex dividend has to d a y been 89/ to 89-1. Exchequer Bills have not recovered the depression to Is. and 3 s. premium, caused by the heavy sales yesterday. Bank Stock improved to 157 and 157 k ; the Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98 to 98i, and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 891 to t- ; Long An nuities improved to 13 and 13 1-16. The Foreign Stock Market was quite inanimate all d.iy and the alteration in prices was limited to mere trivial fractions. For the Active Spanish Bonds the quotations were 24 to 244, for the Old Five per Cent. Portuguese 65, for the New Stock 34 to and for the Three per Cents. 22 . The Peruvian Bonds were at 16, and Colombian at an improvement to 26. Bra zilian touched 714 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were steady at sli to There were no bargains in Austrian, Russian, or French Securities. The Railway Shares did not quite support yesterd:.y's prices, there being some disposition to realise the profits accruing from the recent advance. Great Western Shares were 24 to 23i, the New 101, the Fifths 5i ; the London and Birmingham 80 to 81 ; the South Western 14 to 14i ; the Manchester and Leeds 8, and the New 4 premium. Brighton Shares were 9to 8 7 i . the North Midland 241, and the South Eastern 16i discount. Australasia Bank Shares were at 17 to 16-, London Joint. Stock Bank at 3, and Provincial Bank of Ireland at 181 premium. The Foreign Exchanges were heavy again this after noon, the quotations in professional phraseology being the turn lower, or else without alteration. The more cnrrent, rates at which paper was negotiated, up to the ' close of business this afternoon, were these :—Paris 25i. 55c. to 57ic., Amsterdam 12 3 to 21, Harnburgh 13 7 : 1-, Frankfort 149, Trieste 10 3 to 10 4, and Ant. werp 12 2. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning chronicle.) The Times begins to be ashamed of advocating the exterminating policy, and the substitute of a Protestant for a Catholic tenantry. What change has come over the spirit of its dream ? " The landlords go to no such extent. A gentleman in Ireland finds the tenants on his property, who are regis tered to vote as:leaseholders, in a state of constant distrac tion between a natural desire to gratify their landlords and a'paralyzing terror of the excommunication, or other super stitious infliction with which they are menaced by the priest. But for this torturing conflict, incessantly kept up between their attachments and their fears, between their temporal comfort and their spiritual welfare, the poor fel lows would jog on gaily and carelessly enough, with their landlord helping them in this world, and their clergy busied only in preparing them for the next. At the expi ration, therefore, of the lease—the fatal boon which breeds all this misery—the landlord, if he be a Protestant and a Conservative, is naturally desirous to take the opportunity i of relieving the tenant. By expelling him from the land he lives on ? No; but usually, unless the tenant be utterly worthless, by continuing him upon that land, and discharging him from the unhappy liabilities which the land carried with it—that is to say, by renewing the tenantcy without the lease." As to the charge brought againstt the priests, that they excommunicate voters who will not be guided by them, it carries absurdity on the face of it. The Catholic voters of humble life will naturally consult men in whom they have confidence, as to the disposal of their votes ; and it is much more natural that they should confide in their priests than in Tory landlords, who seek their votes for corrupt ends. The priest ought to warn the voter against the sin against religion he commits in vot ing for a man who seeks to promote what is destruction to the best interests of his country. This is a salutary influence, and no excommunication can be necessary to deter a man alive to the guilt of giving a bad vote, from doing violence to his conscience. With the low notion of religion implied in the observation, " that the poor fel lows would jog on gaily and carelessly enough, with their landlords helping them in this world, and their clergy busied only in preparing them for the next," we do not wonder that the Times should be unable to compreSend the nature of the influence exercised by the Irish priest. It speaks of religion as if good conduct in this world had nothing to do with preparing for the next. Translated into plain English its lan guage means this—You cultivators of the soil may go to the poll either without taking any pains to inform ' yourselves with respect to the principles and character of the party for whom you are to vote, or, knowing that he is a man who, by the basest and most corrupt means, will favour whatever tends to injure your country, you may vote for him notwithstanding, without committing any sin, or endangering in any way your future salvation. Religion, my good fellow, is useful to speak about, and it serves to enable gentlemen to obtain incomes for their children ; but a poor man like you has nothing to do with it beyond paying all the claims of the clergyman. It is enough for you when you are at the end of your journey in this world, to apply to your priest for the necessary viaticum to proceed to the next. Fortunately for the poor Catholics, their priests have somewhat more elevated notions of religion. As to the jogging on gaily with the landlord, this has reference no doubt to the times on which an Irish landlord loves so much to dwell, when the steward and his assistants, with long whips, drove the freeholders before them to the poll. In those days a candidate who suffered the tenant of an adverse landlord to vote for him, laid Err self open to a duel. The principle maintained by the Times goes the whole length of that of the period referred to. The long whip has been laid aside, but the landlord claims the vote of the tenant as a matter of right. There is, to be sure, this difference, that in the former period the landlord forced the tenant to qualify, now he will only qualify those of whose votes he can be secure. But why all this outrage to morality and reli i gion ? If the tenant is but the conduit pipe of the land lord, why not make land the qualification ? Let the land ! ►ords count votes according to rent, or some valuation lof their property. This would leave the people out altogether. We have no faith in the abstinence from giving qualifications for a permanence. The landlords do not require to be told that the vote of a lease ho,der can be made tolerably sure of by means of a no minal rent, which cannot be paid, and which w:11 leave the tenant always at his mercy. To obtain land in Ireland, the tenant must contract to pay whatever is demanded, his payments being of course limited by his ability. All beyond rags and potatoes for the susten ance of his family goes to the landlord as a matter of course. Like other slaves, however, Paddy is cuening, and sometimes contrives to wrap up a sovereign in one of his rags. But the landlord would deem himself cheated if the tenant obtained more for himself than potatoes and water. (From the Times.) It would appear that the scheme for rekindling the enthusiasm of the French people by the funeral honours paid to the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte is likeiy to share the fate of anothLr scheme of the same growth for upsetting the treaties of 1815 by the levy of a mil lion of soldiers. The good sense of one part of the nation, and the indifference of a still larger portion, ap pear to be as much opposed to the spirit of these posthu mous honours as they have shown themselves adverse to the extravagant designs of the late Government, in whom this strange pageant originated. French enthusiasm is easily ex,:ited by novelty but it seldom lasts long enough to ripen into the more serious and dignified senti ment of traditional veneration. The light is gone out which projected the gigantic shadow on the canvass ; and what remains but the painted . slide of a magic toy ? If funeral honours were paid in modern Eu rope at stated periods after death, they would afford a melancholy proof that the memory of the greatest is not secure from the touch of time, and that the mass of mankind reserve their warmest enthusiasm for the triumphs in which they share. In the present in stance, however (and it is certainly one of the most curious in history), the judgment of posterity sanctions the work of time ; and we dispassionately believe that succeeding generations will circumscribe the real glory of Napoleon within far narrower proportions than those which it still usurps. The contrast which this last superfluous scene presents to the splendours and triumphs of the living Emperor, the contrast which it presents, too, to the closing hours of retribution and of death, will add nothing, to the memory of the man. On the contrary, it will detract from the amount of ideal uthoiratiou by subjecting that flimsy sentiment to the test of actual feelings and interests. If the GovernMent had not undertaken the expenses of the ceremony, all rirance would not have raised enough money to bury r former ruler ; and the subscription which was ori woolly set on foot for that purpose proved an utter failure. record o " Quot libr as i n d uce summo But if the scelit'ivipceonpdecorations of the Invalides, and the c i a:n ours of a greedyof excitement, had ten times the splendour and noise which a ppear likely t o accompany the funeral cort they would be but idle imitations of the t rophies of war, or the applaud ing voicelof a 7 nation. years Th of thi s passions century a r r o ed k ou o b i tl s es t s . extinct ; they are not to be revived hy th of the rhis crimes' the conflict which fiicdh e early ere echo of N a p o leon's renown , or b y the But is the sente nce erased from the rock Helena ? Is it not rather confirmed in the depths of of men's truest opini ons, ratified by another genera tion, and cnregistered i n the histor y of the •orldr THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1840. They may surround this grave with the dusty banners of past wars and all the pomp of military _ shows, but before it closes for ever, the severe voice of Europe will read over it once more the condemn ing sentence of defeated ambition. Europe will recal the violated rights of nations, the squandered resources of France, the crushed liberties of mankind, and all the evils perpetrated by the bootless game of war, and by the excess of a sell-seeking and inordinate authority. We would fain believe that France herself has other objects to revere, and that the national honours paid in her name ought, if they are to be fit or:lasting,tas be paid to the wise and good. If monuments are raised to the dead, they ought to be dedicated to those whose lives were dignified by the defence of solid principles, and whose memory is hallowed by lasting benefits. Un happily we have had evidence, but too recent and too strong, that these sober notions, which are established among a people like ourselves, slow to admire, but con stant in our predilections, have but little root in the mercurial democracy of France. The attempt has been deliberately made by men to whom the Gosern ment of that country had been intrusted to provoke a fresh outbreak of the fever of war. With such intentions, and with such sympathies with the most hateful and foolish passions which can distract the world, it is not wonderful that they should do honour to the remains of Napoleon, and exalt the demigod of discord into the genius of France. But, forsooth, it is the Liberal party which makes these professions and indulges in these delirious schemes : the Liberal party clamours at one and the same in stant for the extension of constitutional liberty, and for him by whom all liberty was stifled—for the exten sion of French influence abroad, and for him by whom the influence of France was so extravagantly abused as to provoke the overwhelming retaliation, of united Europe. Is it rational to point to the bright and burning spots in Napoleon's career without : re collecting what they cost to France and tb the world Is it consistent to decree the honour of national obse quies to him whose fall was hailed by the great bulk of the French nation 25 years ago as the term of their un bounded sacrifices and the second dawn of their public liberties ? Those expectations have not been disap pointed. France has had her full share of the benefits of peace. She has grown in wealth and population beyond all former precedent ; she has declined in none of the elements which constitute the just in fluence of a great, active, and enlightened people. France was prosperous and the world secure until she sought for more than that just influence. In an instant she affects a readiness, which she mistakes for heroism, to fling away all the blessings she may enjoy and confer, for her cruel pastime of battles and blood. For those who believe that violence is not strength, that turgid size is not greatness, that genius itself is to be admired for its uses as well as for its intensity, and that the maintenance of peace is the true glory of na tions, there can be nothing more contemptible and re pugnant than the spectacle of a nation paying homage, in the name of freedom and honour, to the represen tative of military despotism and dishonest ambition. Amongst the strange incidents which have marked the history of Napoleon, none is a more pregnant theme for reflection than the circumstance that his obsequies should be followed by Louis Philippe and M. Guizot— the two men who have done most to combat and to extirpate the fatal consequences of an inheritance of military glory, and to turn the energies of the French nation to happier and more useful purposes. (From the Morning Advertiser.). As railways are destined to form an epoch in human improvement, scarcely less remarkable than the discovery of printing itself, it becomes the imperative duty of the Government to secure to the public the utmost benefit of their establishment, and prevent them from degene rating into monopolies, not only detrimental to the pub lic interests, but dangerous to the public safety. Far be from us the attempt to deprive industrial enterprise of the just reward of its efforts, and, however enormous their profits, so long as they took due provision for the convenience and security of the public, we should be reluctant to interfere with the directors of railways, or their management. But when we see the public con venience made subservient to individual speculation, the public good impaired by the encroachments of monopoly, and human life sacrificed to negligence and an avaricious economy, to refrain from calling pub lic attention to the necessity of placing railways under better regulations than at present pervade their management, would be to incur a share of the odium and culpability which attach to the system which it is our object to correct and improve. Railways are a new element in the general economy beyond the corrective influence of competition, which guarantees security and moderate prices in other modes of conveyance. In stage-coach travelling exorbitant charges, insolence, negligence, or the recurrence of accidents, are certain to call forth the means of their own correction. If one firm be obnoxious to such occurrences, other parties will place coaches on the same line, and mismanagement must cease by the increased attention of the proprietors or by the ruin entailed on their establishment by the abandonment of the public. With railways it is dif ferent. Here there can be no competition, at least the necessity of precision and punCtuality in the ar rangements is such that the most minute variation from the rules of management, by which competing parties usually endeavour to obtain an advantage over each other, might lead to the most dreadful results. Hence, in the impossibility of safely admitting the cor rective action of competition, and under the necessity of having railways conducted under one uniform system, harmon;ous in all parts, we are strongly impressed with the belief that until the Legislature take the general question into its consideration, public safety and public accommodation will have no satisfactory security. The rail way directors have but little time to place their lines in order before the meeting of Parliament, but if they be not prepared to furnish a better account of their stew ardship than appears in the long catalogue of fatalities which the last few months have recorded against them, there can be no second opinion of the necessity of plac ing railways under a direction different from that at present presiding over their management. (From the Morning Post.) An Evening Contemporary having prudently with drawn from the deience of his conduct in refusing the request of the Duke of Wellington to know upon what authority he had published the untruth, that the Duke had declared himself to have been deceived in the mat ter of the Irish Corporation Bill, the Herald, with more valour than discretion, comes forward to the rescue of its discomfited colleague in the work of calutn niating a zealous, faithful, and meritorious Conserva tive, and of spreading discord and confusion among the Conservative ranks. It would have been prudent in the Herald to reflect that one of the most essential qualifications for such a championship as it has under taken is some degree of reputation for the love of truth, and that another qualification of some value is that the champion be not personally interested in the cause upon which he obtrudes his support. In the absence of these the pretended champion is a principal in disguise, end must be suspected of shrinking from the avowal of his real character, in the dastard consciousness that his arm is nerveless and his weapon ineffectual : ~ We have already (says the Herold) expressed our opi nion of the conduct of the Standard, in having declined, even at the command of the Duke of Wellington, to give up the name of any one of the persons from whom it re ceived the information that his Grace was deceived. We have described the conduct of that journal as honourable to itself and creditable to the character of the press in gene ral. But the Morning Post, that, like Mr. Shaw, advo cated a • surrender' of the Irish corporations, &c." There are two distinct and wilful misrepresentations in the above paragraph. One is, that the D u k e o f Wel lington commanded the Standard to give up the name of its informant. His Grace appealed to the courtesy and justice of the Standard, and appealed in 'vain. The other is, that the Morning Post and Mr. Shaw, or ei• ther of them, advocated a surrender of the Irish corpo rations, in the sense in which the Herald uses the words. Mr. Shaw and the Morning Post advocated the main tenance of the Irish Corporations until the Conser vative leaders in both Houses of Parliainent, and a considetabie majority of the Conservative Members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Irish corpo rations themselves, net excepting the Corporation of Dublin, and the Conservative press generaliy, not ex cepting the Morning Herald, had assented to the prn ciple of the Irish Corporation Bill ; and then Mr. Shaw and the Morning Post laboured with equal zeal, though unequal ability and effect, to promote such al terations and amendments of the Bill as would render it as little obnoxious and dangerous as possible to the Protestant interest in Ireland. But still another though less palpable misrepresentation is conveyed in the above passage. The Herald would evidently have its readers believe that it is interested in the question at issue no otherwise than as a volunteer champion of the Standard. This we shall show to be untrue, by recalling to the re collection of the public a recent occurrence in which the Herald was immediately concerned, and which was; of so discreditable a character that, had not the Herald imposed upon us the necessity of reviving it, ae should very gladly have permitted it to pass into oblivion. The Herald as well as the Standard has repeatedly as serted, upon the alleged authority of some nameless Con servative Peer or Peers, that the Dukc of Wellington had dec.ared that he had been deceived in respect to the Irish Corporation Bill. The assertion was an in sult to the Duke of Wellington, and a gross outrage upon the common sense of the country. It was felt by the public to be so, and nobody either believed or paid the least attention to it. The Herald, however, waxing bold in the practice of uncontradicted falsehood, or im patient of the contemptuous indifference with which its invention was received, committed in an evil hour the folly of adding to the original fabrication the further statement that it was Mr. Shaw who had deceived the Duko of Wellington, and of accompanying this asser tion by the declaration that the Herald was ready to give up its authority if the Right Hon. Gentleman ap plied to it to do so. Mr. Shaw did apply to the Herald to give up its authority for an assertion so insulting and injurious to him. And did the Herald redeem its pledge ? No. It shuffled and prevaricated in a man ner for which a witness at the Old Bailey would have been committed to Newgate, and finally refused to comply with the demand it bad challenged Mr. Shaw to make. The public may now judge how disinter ested and how effective a champion the Herald is of the conduct of a confederate in refusing to comply with the reasonable request of the Duke of ton. The doctrine that the conductors of newspapers are bound to protect from exposure hone:st and well meaning informants, although their communications may prove inaccurate, is unquestioned and unques tionable. But the Herald and Standard parade it very idly in reference to a case to which it is manifestly inapplicable. No man, peer or commoner, could have told either the Herald or Standard, as a fact within his own knowledge, that the Duke of Wellington had de clared he had been deceived in a matter upon which the Illustrious Duke had never thought, and therefore, certainly never said, he had been deceived, without knowing that he was uttering a falsehood, and knowing also that he was uttering it for a most mischievous and malignant purpose. We will now whisper into the ears of the Standard and Herald what we believe is no longer a secret to any but themselves :—There is not a single man of sense in the three kingdoms who, at this moment, believes that either the one or the other of them was ever told, by any Nobleman or by any other person tit to be named as the authority for such an as sertion, that the Duke of Wellington had said he was the Irish aga i n i s no se cret to s i h h deceivedwill whisperin respect another secret, Corporation Bill. We any but themselves :--No man of sense in the three Kingdoms will believe this, after all that has passed, until they give the name of their authority. The Herald boasts of its consistency on the subject of the Irish Corporations Bill in the following sounding phrase From the first hour when the design of surrendering the Protestant Corporations to that faction whose violent and unprincipled ambition is the belle and curse of Ireland, was publicly announced, Gown to the moment when that fatal concession took place, we never expressed but one opinion upon the subject, and that was, that such a mea sure, under every shape and modification, seould receive a determined and uncompromising resistance." After the preceding exposure the public will learn without surprise that this boast has no foundation in truth. Its 'the session of 1837, when the Conservative majority of the. House of Lords twice postponed the second reading of the Bill, expressly for the purpose of seeing what the lower House of Parliament would do with certain other measures relating to Ireland then before it, the Herald loudly and repeatedly applauded the course taken by the Conservative Peers, although .his course was taken avowedly on the supposition that, in the event of those other measures becoming a law, a Bill for the re-construction of the Irish corporations was to follow. Was this expressing the opinion that " such a measure, under every shape and modification, should receive a determined resistance?" We have not room to-day for the quotations from the columns of the Herald that would fully establish our assertion. If our Contemporary desires it we shall, however, give them ; and in saying this, we assure the Herald that we do not mean to redeem our pledge in the manner in which it redeemed its pledge to Mr. Shaw. mouthshire and of the coal and iron mining districts of South Wales at this moment. The heartless doctrines • of a low Unitariansm it is well kr!owr prevail there to an alaruu.. extent, and the inherent vice of their de -1 struetiveness is shown in the rooted hatred of the un happy people towards all the classes above them in the material and. social scale. Frost indeed pretended that no invasion of the rights of property was contemplated by the insurrection which found its term as its outbreak at Newport, but there is neither Magistrate nor man in those regions, with opportunities of information as to the direction of Popular opinion, who is not satisfied to the contrary upon the most conclusive cf aft evidence— that is, the familiar talk of the common people emong themselves. - - Our readers will remember the fact of the blow ing-up of the fortress of Michailuff, on the Circassian coast, some time ago, in order that it might not fall into the hands of the enemy. The Emperor of Russia, in order to perpetuate the renn-mbrance of this heroic act of a soldier, named Ossepoff who volunteered to fire the train, has ordered that the name of (i.,sepuff shall be kept for ever on the fist of the first company et grena de rs, of the regiment of infantry of Tenginski, as tha first soldier, and that on calling over the list, when the name shall h; , mentioned, the answer shall he, " Died for the glory of the Russian arms in the fort of Michailoff." SECOND EDITION THE FUNDS--(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. Red B9} Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities 3} per Cent Red........ 98 Ditto New Annuities... New 3} per Cent New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 4 pin Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859... l2} India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg 896 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent.. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds ... .. - BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... 24* Spanish, S per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 254 Ditto, Deferred . . Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29* French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2} per cent 514 Peruvian,l 825,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 98} SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) B7* Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .... .. ... 50} Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9} London and Brighton Railway (40 paid) ... 30/ London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 8 Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid) . 3 London and South Western Railway ......... 53 1 North Midland Railway (100 paid) 77 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . 3Bi SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) The organs of the " great national party," who pro scribe a third of the nation, find that the principle of expelling the Papists from Ireland has been laid down rather too broadly, and they now try to back out by treating the question as one of good husbandry only. The Post asks—" Do our Liberal Con temporaries mean to allege that when a landlord wishes to substitute good tenants for bad tenants, and has the opportunity, he must reject the good tenants it they happen to be Protestants ?" We do not think that any Liberal is likely to make such an allegation, and whenever it is shown that all Protestants are good and all Papists bad farmers, we will consent to empower the landlords to administer the oaths of abjuration and supremacy to every tenant before he puts his plough into the soil. Had the Orangemen at their public dinners declaimed against bad farming, and deprecated the practice of letting land at nominal rents and keeping the tenant poor and in debt, we should have expressed our hearty approbation ; but the Tory press would have left such speeches unpraised, or have given them the same notice that they would to a remark on under-draining, or the comparitive merits of long horns and Alderneys. Sir Arthur Brooke is a witness that Roman Catholics may be good tenants. We ob jsbeetcatm,aedaadrted, a to acloak thed we principle .orengstill religious lihi a jo s eunst t a originally awa laid down by the rural economy to intolerance. The Times tells us that "the baffled destruetives are so blinded with their o.vn rage that they are wholly unable to com prehend why the Conservative candidate for the county of Carlow should have been the popular one." It is not easy to say what the Tintes means by " popu lar candidate," but if the reports given in all the papers be correct, the way in which Colonel Bruen was received on the day of nomination was not that which is usually treated as evidence of populcrity in England. (From the Standard.) The restoration of the remains of Napoleon seems to excite in Paris a ferment of which no other part of France affords any symptom. In the metropolis this rage takes the form of resentment against England.. The Courtier Prancais says . that the funeral of Napoleon will ght againsteewa n ' h ' a i es t o P t r Protestation echoedot e af s n t Napoleon, yp o o n a o ai mnh g tai n or s tape t d t v v a ß e y a t t e e d: l why Y o n in a lair fi g ht ?— an d we suppose Frenchmen are too generous and high-minded to remem b er that resent ar of spectators." e n s ai g i la t i a a i e ns c u g t d E a — t hn o gi ranl England cry of yen fully. Why, when Napoleon fled from that capital penalty which his invasion justly incurred under that , aine law under which he had unjustly put to death the Duke d'Enghien and others, England aff a.ded an asy lum to the vanquished man of blood, and was at the expense of maintaining him (a cost of 12,0001. a isn'egar,hbin ar but e i sides mu c h an n o yance) d ur i ng six ye a rs. In spari ng the life of the fugitive, England acted upon the suggestion o f h er own h uman i ty, an d in maintain ing in keeping dly, upon the h im a prisoner dictate of her own generosity she acted upon the request of France, and for the sake of the peace of France ; yes, of that same France which condemns up to this moment the whole Napoleon race to exile, and holds Prince Louis safely shut up in the fortress of Ham. When the French people reclaimed the ashes of Napoleon, their rcquest was complied with in the most respectful manlier, amid a great deal of cant, the hollowness of which those who did not see at the time must see now ; and there the history ends. Where, then, is the ground of protestations against England and vengeance upon England? Napoleon was our enemy, an d a bitter one—we beat him, pardoned him, and placed him in Elba, on condition that he should not nr.olest the tranquillity of France. He broke the condition, and for the sake of France, which he invaded, we beat him again ; but still generous and merciful, we snatched him from the avenger of blood, and took the trouble to be his keeper, :restoring his ashes upon the very first re quest. Let not Frenchmen, then, quarrel with us for their own acts. (From the Courier.) Freethinking education systems act practically, as we showed yesterday, snore as nurseries for the exten sion of crime than the encouragement of virtue ; and exactly in proportion as the co-operation of religious culture is disclaimed as an active agent therein, so is that reverence weakened fur law and order which knits society together, and is indeed the cohering principle by which it is maintainul in its duly-balanced centre of g ravi:y. Utilitarian th eor i es, b y w hi c h morality is o he incu:cated and entorced solely as a matter of cool calculation in the shape of eventual self-interest, can never strike deep into the heart, or produce those convictions which, stronger than all human laws, restrain men from the commission of crime, and chain up by an internal agency, of which the workings, though invi sible, arc not unaccou n t a bl e , t h e w ild impulses of will and passion in which c r i me , ever i n i ts co mmencing ca reer, originates. Belief i n t h e great tru th o f a Powc--- r a tribunal of last resort— o f hi g h er an d other origin than human laws --and human schemes, presumptuous proportionally with the shallowness of intellect by which engendered, can alone be the corner-stone on which to build up education, and to construct and perpetuate a social system which shall c on t a i n t h e v i ta l innate prin ciple of fear and reverence, which alone imparts to laws and institutions the character of stability, and imbues the people with habits of cheerful obedience. These truths are sadly exemplified is the state of Mon-' LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DEC. 11. BEVERLEY V. WALTER, ESQ. This was an action to recover the sum of 121. 195., alleged to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff un der the following circumstances :—On the retirement of Mr. Daniel \\Made Harvey from the representation of Southwark, the defendant appeared as a candidate for the honour. Opposed to him was Mr. Wood, the pre sent Member. The defendant, as was customary, had a great many committees, at one of which the greatest part of the duties of chairman and mana ger appeared to have bees performed by a Mr. Rogers, an attorney. On one occasion when the defen dant happened to he present, u person named Walters came into the room and addressed Mr. Rogers, in forming him that there had bee❑ an incident which had happened at the Victoria Theatre the night before, and which might be turned to good account for election purposes. Walters represented that, there being in one of the pieces played at the theatre a scene in which there was the representation of a wall, a great many bills were pasted on it, and some of these happening to be ph:cards relating to the then coming election, and being in the interest of the defendant, a great many people called out" Walter for ever " se that it struck those present that if the defendant would consent the incident might be made of use to increase the excitement in his favour. The plaintiff's witnesses then represented, though not in any distinct terms, that there had been a suggestion to put up more bills on the wall in the scene, and to send into the house a body of people to greet the appearance of these bills with cheers for the candidate. The defendant, though in the room, was not proved actually to have heard this conversation, but Mr. Rogers made some communication to him, and then told Walters that the defendant approved of the plan, or had no objection, or words to that effect. It was for the prico of admission for certain parties said to have been sent in by the agents of Mr. Walter that the present action was brought. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 121. 19s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 11. (Sittings in London at Nisi Prins.) GREEN AND ANOTIIER V. GOSDEN. This action eras brought by a loan society to recover from the security of a borrower the sum of 111. 45., the balance due upon a promissory note, to which the de fendant was a party. On the part of the plaintiffs a itness named Potter, who described himself as the agent to the Society, proved that on the 24th of Oct., 1839, a peraon named Dixon, having just paid up a pre vious loan of 301., in which the present defendant had been security for him, applied for a new loan of 201., and gave the name of the defendant again as security. Dixon paid up 81. 16s. in the instalments of Bs. a week prescribed by the rules, but afterwards discontinued payment ; therefore upon the expiration of 12 months, the date of the promissory note, this action was brought. In his cross-examination this witness admitted that the only members of the Society were the two plaintiffs, Green find Tidderley. Green acted as secretary to the Society, and the other as treasurer. There were no trustees—no committee, or auditors—although the printed rules—of which each borrower was required to take a copy—set forth that there were such. There were no shareholders, and the society had received no deposits notwithstanding the offer to give the public all the advantages of a saving bank.—( Laughter.) Dixon commenced his payments at the rate of Bs. a week, on the night when he made his application, but he did not receive the loan until the 29th of Nov. He had paid another instalment of Ss. on the 7th of Nov., and the arrear of 1/. 12s. was deducted from the loan. The interest, 11. for 20/. at 5 per cent., was also deducted. The rules held out that no more than 5 per cent, per annum, 11. for 201., would be the interest if the whole sum remained unpaii for twelvemonths. In this case the borrower began to pay before he received the loan, and if he paid regu larly he would have paid half in six months. This might make the interest 10 per cent., but it was in the rules. Witness would not swear that Dixon received altogether as much as 171. when the loan was cotn pleted. The payments were to be Ss. a-week for the loan, 4d. for a ticket for refreshments at the bar of the pubic-house (the King's Arms, Gray's Inn-lane) where the Society held its meeting, and 2d. towards defraying the expences of the Society. There were also fines and other expenses to be paid by the borrower for not paying the instalments regularly. Tidderley is now the only member of the Society.—(Laughter.) Mr. Sergeant BAMPAS made a speech for the de fendant. The Jury, after two hours' consultation, found for the plaintiffs.—Damages, 91. 14s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE, Abraham Michaelson, alias Darfie Volfron, was brought up for examination, charged with having robbed Joseph Alexander of a quantity of jewellery and money. The prisoner was apprehended at Hull some time ago, as he was going on board a steamer bound for Hanabur6h, by a policeman, who received notice that he had committed a serious robbery upon a poor fo reigner. He was then conveyed to London with part of the property, which he had on his person, and was remanded until more of the property, which he had de posited in the steam-vessel, should be brought from Hamburgh, to which place she had sailed in the interim. Joseph Alexander, it appeared, lodged in the same house with the prisoner, and kept his money and the jewellery which be had just purchased, in a box. Tne prisoner, one morning, went away rather suddenly, and soon afterwards the prosecutor found that he had been robbed. The landlord of the lodging-house, a respect able man, made every exertion to discover the thief, who was at last traced to Hull, where he was snugly en hoard the Rob Roy steam .vessel, which was bound for Hamburgh. Sir PETER LAURIE—Have you got anything to say? The prisoner shook his head, and intimated that he did not understand a word of what was said or what was meant by the proceeding at all. The landlord of the lodging-house said that the pri loner talked as good English as any one in the room. Inspector Brake said he had every reason to believe that the prisoner was a most desperate character, and handed a paper to Sir Peter Laurie, of which the fol lowing is a cop .-- Abraham 'Gutt Jelk, of the borough of Kingston upon Hull, saith as follows :—ln the year 1831 Abra ham Michaelson, alias Darfit Volfron, was tried at Berlin, and sentenced to twenty-five years' imprison ment. He afterwards appealed against the sentence to a higher Court, and got his sentence commuted to nine years' imprisonment, which expired in June last. The crime with wi.ich he was charged was for robbing the postman and murdering the guard between Breslau and Berlin, along with three others. The deponent further saith that the above person was taken into cus tody at Frankfort, on the Oder, and he (the deponent) was at the place above named at the time. (Signed) " ABRAHAM GUTT JELL. " Dec. 5. 1840. " Witness, A. F. Cadworth." The p r osecutor identified ear-rings and brooches, and other articles of jewellery as his property, and it was stated that they were round on board the Rob Roy steani-vessel, upon her arrival at Hamburgh. The prisoner was committed for trial. 'Fire LORD MAYOR received a letter from Captain Fisher, the principal Harbour-Master, on the subject of the wreck of a vessel which had gone down near Northfleet several years ago, and which was found for the first time, some days ago, to be likely to be an im pediment to the navigation. The vessel was called the P r ovidence, of Whitby, and she sunk in the year 1795 at Northfleet Hope, near the India Arms. A collier's anchor got foul of the wreck. Captain Fisher, when he heard of the circumstance, set his men to work, and by them a considerable portion of the wreck was weighed. The timbers were found to be in an extraor dinary state of preservation, and are of oak. It is ex pected that the whole of the wreckage will be cleared away in a few days. Much surprie has been expressed that this wreck should have been so many years in a spot on which ships are constantly letting go their anchors, without having been ever before run foul of. Indeed the fact of her loss seems to have been completely forgotten. It is conjectured by Captain Fisher, and other men of expe rience, that she may have formed a shoal in which she was completely embedded, and that the late gales have caused the ground to be washed away. G UILDHALL. A young female named Mary Evans, was brought before Mr. Alderman White, charged with maliciously breaking two squares of plate-glass. Mr. William Crouch said that the prisoner came into his public-house, in King•street, Snow-hill, on Thursday evening, and perceiving her to he intoxicated, he refused to 7er; e her with !iquor, wizen sit c, - )inmel:eod srnesli ing tilt, glass in the ,:hop, and was with difficulty pre vented from demolishing the whole of the front window•. Mr. Alderman WurrE sentenced her to a mouth's imprisonment. Mr. Crouch observed that he thought the punish ment quite inadequate to the offence she had committed. As the law was severe in punishing- licenced victuallers, he considered it should be e4ually strict in protecting Coin). SI - lIPPING LOSS OF THE SHIP BENGAL AND THE BARQUE CATHERINE JAMIESON. It is our painful duty to have to record this week the loss of the above-named two vessel', and the following are the particulars, as far as they have transpired : TUE BEN GAL —ln entering Table Bay on the nit , h of the 17th inst , tro - qu., 13,:ngal, of Glasgow, 765 tons, from Calcutta, NMI, so Lnridon. being in waist ii: water and retreshmen.s, and %chile working in, went on shore at the east side of the hay, about ten miles from Cape Town. The night was dark and stormy, accompa nied by thunder and lightening, and the wind blowing strong from the south-cast. By her next tack she would have made the shipping, but unfortunately she refused to stay twice, and while in the act of attempting to wear. struck heavily upon the sand, and has since become a total wreck. The following day such a dreadful surf was run ning as to render it dangerous for boats to approach the vessel for the purpose of lightening her; but the next day ( Saturday) nearly 100 tons cargo and stores were landed. but since then any boats that have been sent have returned without being able to get near the ship The last accounts state that the sternpost had been broken in, and the water ha; now free access through the vessel. The cargo consists of 6.757 bags saltpetre, L 292 begs dry ginger, 923 bags rice, 1.000 bags linseed, 209 bag. kutch, 182 bags horn tips, 400 bales jute, 9 boxes tincal, and 6,319 pieces redwood. Crew and pa.sengers saved. THE CATHERINE JAMIE3GN.-This vessel, on the night of the 19th inst., on standing in for Table Bay, got on shore on the Mouille Rock, off Green Point, near the spot where the Palmer was los:, and all endeavours to get her off having proved fruitless, she is become a total wreck. She was bound from Batavia to this port and London ; and as the captain had been unwell the greater part of the voyage, and brought on shore sick, we must defer further particulars till our next respecting this occurrence. The cargo, partly laden at West Australia, but mostly at Batavia, consists as follows :----For this port 5,734 bags and 100 casks of coffee, 1 tin box of shawls, 1 box of confec tionery, 4 baskets of sugar, 2 cases of tortoiseshell, 1 case of cigar cases, and three tins of dower seeds. For London, 989 slabs of tin, 2,959 handles of rattans, 6 bls. of wool, 11 cwt. of whalebone, and 1 hogshead of seal-skins. By prompt exertions about 2,000 bags and 100 casks of coffee have been landed in a sound state. Crew saved. These repeated disasters call loudly for the assumption cf some measure calculated to operate as a preventive of their recurrence. —Cape of Good Hope Shipping List, Sept. 22. LOSS OF THE BRIG HOWARD OF EXETER On Monday the brig Howard, Bartlett, master, with a cargo of timber from Miramichi, came to an anchor eff Teignmouth, intending to run in with the evening tide, but the wind at the time blowing strong S. W. prevented the pilot from making the attempt. It continued to blow hard during the night, and increased to a gale from the South, when she parted from her anchors, and came on shore on the beach near the public baths, at half-past eleven P. m., the sea running very high at the time. At about half-past twelve the inhabitants were roused by the report of cannon, which proved to be Captain Manhy's apparatus, that had been brought to the spot by Lieute nant O'Reilly, of the Coast-guard, who with his men used every exertion to convey a line to the ill-fated ship, which was now labouring very much, and her crew and the pilot, thirteen hands, were seen, imploring relief. After several attempts a shot from the apparatus took a line across the ship, by which the crew hauled a hawser on board from the shore. The pilot with great difficulty and diligence reached the shore much exhausted ; another man that followed him mat a watery grave, the rope having broken. At this juncture, Mr. Warren constructed a grummet or sort of rope-cradle, which was handed on board, and by which nine more of the crew were safely lauded, who were all conveyed to the house of D. Martin, Esq., who caused them to be stripped and wrapped in warm blankets, at the same time giving them such refreshment as was necessary. Mr. Cartwright was also in attendance, and assisted mainly in promoting their restoration. Two men were still missing, but as they did not make their appearance, it was thought they were lost. It was now half.past five, a.m., Tuesday morning, and all having been done that human aid could accomplish, the vessel was left to her fate. The gale now moderated and she held together, upon the falling of the tide the two missing men were discovered on board safe. Thus twelve of the thirteen were providentially saved. Lieutenant O'Reilly, with the men of the coast-guard, Mr. Maxton with his men belonging to the Customs, the Messrs. M. W. and C. Warren, Tucker, Owens, and a great number of inhabitants, deserve the greatest praise for their strenuous and persevering exertions, which were ettended with much danger, as the sea broke with great violence, often overwhelming the parties engaged. The vessel must be a total wreck, and should it come on to blow again, she cannot remain together. She is the pro perty of Messrs. Sanders and Snow, and of Mr. W. Spark, of Ex e ter._ Westgrn Times MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of December II.) Suoeu.—Prices have still a downward tendency for British Plantation Sugar, and the market has been in a dull state, for although holders have submitted to a reduc tion on last Friday's rates of 6d per cwt, still the demand from both grocers and refiners has been extremely limited, and the quantity sold for the three market days has not exceeded 650 libels, &c., including 191 hhds, 3 tierces, 68 barrels St. Lucia at public sale which went heavily at the above reduction ; fine yellow sold at 81s to 82s 64, good 793 6d to 80s, middling and good middling 77s to 783 6d, good grey 75s to 765, low middling 74s per cwt ; common sorts arc most difficult of sale, and upon those the decline has been again the greatest ; low brown Ber bice has been sold at 725, low middling Trinidad 755, fair middling Demerara 78s, and nearly fine Jamaica, with rather a greyish cast, 82s. To-day prices underwent no variation, but the demand was very limited. REFINED —There has been an increased disinclina tion evinced on the part of the home trade to purchase Refined Goods, prices have suffered a depression of is to Is 6d. Standard lumps selling at 945, brown lumps, ordinary and good S9s to 935, Tittlers and Ham burgh Loaves 96s to 98s, fine 99e to 100 s per cwt : good Bastards are extremely dull of sale, and prices un certain for common kinds. Common is now 37a 6d to 383, Patent 41a to 425, best old make 43s to 44s per cwt ; there is a large supply. Pieces arc on the decline. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 6d to 32s 9d. Loaves 141bs at 37a to 37s 6d, 10114 s 38s to 385 6d, and Gibs 40s to 41s. Treacle at 14s 64 per cwt. Bastards and Pieces dull of sale at I6s to 265. Dutch Crushed Sugar offered at 34s on board in Rolland. To-day Refined Goods sold slowly, Standard Lumps at 93s 6d. Bonded Crushed at 32s 9d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—ThIS afternoon few sales were made pri vately, but prices underwent no variation ; at public sale 366 bags were sold—low and middling yellow at 76s to 78a 6d, good mid 79a 6d to 803, low dark to fine brown 52s to 743 6d per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon 2,363 bags Bengal, and 295 bags Cochin China were offered at public sale, the coloury kinds of the former, which formed the bulk, sold at full prices, viz fine white at 87s to 87s 6d, good 85s to 86s, damps and washed 81s to 86s 6d; brown sorts were all taken in at 60s for damps, but since sold rather under that figure ; tile latter fetched stiff prices, viz. low heavy brown and yellow 2ls to 22a 6d, and white 23s 6d per cwt. F OR EIGN.—YeIIow Havannah at 233 to 24a 6d for mkt and fine yellow, and a cargo of 2,000 boxes not yet arrived at 23e ; at public sale 370 boxes went at 23s to 24s 64 for mid and fine quality. White is neglected. Foreign Musco vado 22s to 23s tor greyish brown and god mid yellow, one lot rather better f.ss, and very fine 27s ; 55 hhds 25 brie Porto Rica fetched 223 6d to 23s 6d for low middling and middling yellow. White sorts of Brazil are held firmly, for blown former rate,' have been supported. Moeasses.— P. ices of West India still have a dow ward tendency at auction, 13 puns St. Lucia sold at 324 to for good colour, but thin quality ; 31 puns Foreign were taken in at 13e for middling. COFFEE,—The market for British Plantation Coffee has assumed a quiet aspect, and the demand this week has been vcry limited, especially for middling descriptions, which have not supported their former value by 2s to 33 per cwt; ordinary arid unclean sorts however have brought previous rates. St. Jago de Cuba, good middling colory bold green fetched 72s 6d to 74s 6d, middling 67e 6d to 70s, low middling 62a 6d to 635, fine ordinary 53s 6d to 575, good ordinary dingy, 483 6d to 495. Mocha is less in request and former rates were barely maintained. This afternoon there was no public sale of any kind, and the transactions privately were on a small scale in both East and West India for home consumption, holders how ever appeared unwilling to submit to lower rates. The Foreign market is firm, and the demand steady. Rtmt, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDS.—Prices have yet a downward tendeucy for Rum, and both shippers and the home trade buy with extreme caution; of Leewards the sales have amounted to only 100 pulls at a reduction of id per gallon, for proofs 2s 10d accepted, 2 to 7 per cent over 2s 101 d to 3s. The sales of Jamaica are so trifling that they are not worth enumerating ; of Mauritius 100 casks have been sold at 23 7d for 1 per cent over proof at public sale 25 butts, 43 puns, 116 hhds, Calcutta were all taken in, 10 to 27 per cent, over proof at 2s 6d to 3s 2d, being an average of 2s 5d for proof, there were buyers 2d under those rates. The arrivals of Rum have been large since this day week, and amount to 1,600 puns and hhds. Prices remain firm for Brandy, but the purchases have been on a small scale only : we quote Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 5s 3d in hhds, in puns 5s Id, do 1837 hhds 5s Id, puns 4s I Id, do 1838 hhds 4s 11d, puns 45 9d, do 1839 Hide 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d per gallon. The stock continues on the decrease. In Geneva a fair business has been done for shipping at Is I Id to 2s, and the home trade ray 2s 5d to 2s 6d for fine quality. For British Corn Spirits the demand is dull, and prices are on the decline lOs is the quotation for cash. To-day the Rum market was flat, and proof Leewards obtainable at 2s 91d per gallon. OILS.—For Seal Oil both for home use and export, buyers have been compelled to pay rather higher rates. Pale 311 lOs to 32/, yellow and brown 261 lOs a 30/. Cod 27110 s to 271 15s. Southern at 241 to 26 /for ordi nary and fine quality. Sperm first quality at 106 Ito 107/. Linseed Oil at c 63 on the spot, and 26s lldto2 selling 27s 6(1 or delivery in the next 2 and 4 months, Rape pale in large parcels at 425, and brown 41s. East India Cocoa Nut Oil, prices uncertain. Palm at 341 to 35/. For Olive, prices continue to improve. Spanish 58/. This afternoon at public sale 200 tuns Southern Oil all sold at 24/ to 261 15s for low and fine quality. SpicEs.—Holders of black Pepper are not disposed to EVENING EDITION• submit to any further reduction, and common light `4ll - is not to be bought under 3d. White fetched lid tc, 9 if. r and niiddin ; :t quA:,ty Pr:ces hay, !uril,,2r improved is Cid to 2s for Cassia Lignea, low middling at 84s to 85s, middl;ngs 86s to 88a. good 89s to 90s, sad fine thin quill is worth 91s to 92s per cwt. Nutmegs talon in at 33 9d for good middling consumers. In Cloves a fair business has been done; Bourbon for shipping arc selling at Is Id to is IA per lb. Ginger, of all kinds, is held firmly. For Pimento prices remain firm. TALLOW —For Petersburg Yellow Candle on file spot; prices have improved to 47s to 47s bd. For delivery in Spring months 47, 9d a 4b< per cwt. F,)r South Ameri can 43s tO 463 (3d for t.;W and flu e qui ai rv . firmer. This afternoon P. V. C. on the spot at 47, 6J, and for delivery in spring mouths 47s 9d to 48a per cwt. FRUlT.—There has been a good deal doing in 211 el•!scriptions this week ; of Valencia Raisins the ar rivals arc again large, but consist mostly of only middling quality : among the :ate ar'-ivals of Currants also th re is the largest portion of ordinary- parcels; with Figs Suli.oa Raisins the market is well supplied, and the impinters, are pressing sales according to quality : of other Turkey F,uit there 16 hut l itt l e arr , ve d yet . 'l'Ea.—Although theaccountsr ec ei ve d f ro m China are of a highly important character. still they have had no eflat on the pi ices of Free Trade Tea, an d t h e transa ctions ha ve been only to a limited extent for actual consumption. SPc culators have refrained fromoperating, being aPP re. bensive that the taki 'g th e ca p ita l o f Ch usau (Tingbae) and other proceedings of the English forces. will speedily bring about a settlement of the misunder standing with the Chinese. At the public saies on Tuesday the biddings were languid, and jai - , porters with difficulty obtained an a d vance of Id to ka on last Friday's sales for Congou ; other kinds want at former prices. 0. 9,500 packages offered only 4,000 were disposed of at the following rates—Congou, good rod coarse but iresh 2s 3.d to 2; 31d, but mid bu rnt blackish leaf, rather fresh, 2s 4id, but mid rather strong rather blackish leaf, and full flavour, 2s 42d to 2s 44d, but mid strong Pekoe Souchong, flavour, 2s aid a 23 sd, very fine, 2s 9.1 ; Hyson Skin, but mid coarse 2s id, good and full burnt, 2s 5d to 2s 51d; Imperial but middling. 35 to 3s 34d ; Twankay, middling strong, burnt, 23 6ld to 2s 64d,nriid rather strong large mixed bloom kind, 2s 3 d; Hyson, fine 5s 7d a Os, but mid coarse and woody 2s 8 I a is 8-}d, Hung Muey, very little scented 2s 4d to 23 4id ; Pouchong, good ord faint old and odd 2s 2d to 2s 2 4 3 ' musty curled and twisted Ankoi 23 41d to 21 6id ; Yowl Hyson, but mid strong 3s 2d ; Gunpowder good 3s 10d t ° 4s Id ; Orange Pekoe 3s 6d per lb. Since the sales the demand has been very limited by private treaty, and rath er lower rates have teen submitted to. In the speculative market there was a good deal of b u a ness transacted on Tu es d a y, an d o f C om p an y' s Cong ° ,, d fd , that day nearly 3,000 c h es t s were so ld f or c ash at and in some cases at 2s 3id, but at the close o f the 1 7 1 . 3 there were sellers at 2 s 3d ; s i nce t h en the market 1.;1', been very dull, and pri ces h ave f a ll en to 24 id a 2s / per lb, and even thereat th ere are f ew b u yers. To-day the market f or F ree T ra d e Tea was n a dull a rcels state, and lower r a t e s were accepted for the p selling dull disposed of, common C ongou an d T wan kay for cash 5 l of at 2s lid to 2s 2d p er lb. C ompan y's Congou w as sale all the day, and th e c l os i ng pr i ce on 'Ch an g e 2s 1 id per lb cash. a nd RICE. —There has b een a goo d d eman d for Bengali fall the whole of 5,792 bags at public sale found buyersidacning former rates, good middling white fetched 12s ‘,„ at 123, good and fine whit e sorts wou ld fi n d ready ° F ., u) :;:j a ve 13s to 14s, but of such few parcels are to have e a b d; nc viva ' former rates are asked, but the operations privately at 9a to 12s for low and good white. sells slowly for home use at 34 s t o 36 s per cw t' PRICE OF BREAD. The h"ghest s rite of . • 1e.,: i the M t Lcat. Got d Bre.to may be had at ?;,td. PRILEi OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quartet . . 1 1 9 . 70e New DTI sh 11e,, Clover...sos B(.'s St. Fein ...... . ............ -- .' • ' OO ... .....3 ICS . Old t it,. Dii.'o —s —3 —s Rye Gams ........... _ ...„ ___,. New i Fore gn Ditto —s 50s 75s Pacey Grass ........... ....—. , g . Ma 01.1 Di so Di•to —s --s —s Linseed, for lea hr g '"—: W, 70 New White Clover 45s s(s Os Dit o, for sowing ...... 4 05 go Old Di.t., Ditto —5 --s —s Ditto, for crushiog .07 ...4 stU 43s • ew Ire oil —.s .. Ss Villein , ............ . ........ ..... 8 60 , 00 , Old Ciao —s 20s 3 , s Canary .............. eL •J'r folium s .!Ss 7061 Per Bash .._..., . 4 , od to I.sr, E Oda Carraway 'ool4 Is 9214 d for the 41 s 50s &.siWhite Must.rd... , IN od to 1 9 ‘,7 Foreign Ditto 7s Ott tc ll* u ° Coriander ... . 5, 4 1 6 2 1 .4816:1T8air0ew.n..D.....itt0............... .. .. PItiCE JF OIL. 10 0 Rape Oil, brown, per ton... ......................... ....9; Diu°, refined Linseed Oil Lins cd Oil Cake.at tne Mill (per 1 0 0 0) ........... u /tape ake, per tot! PRICE OF T £ A 2 LL H O W 6 , M S e O l t i A n Town Tallow Yellow Itussi,„ 210 Ditto Rough .................. , 0 White -- " 0 0 Graves .................. - .... U l: 0 Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs .•.•• «.......• 0 5 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs, I Id ice o f Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ..... ......„ 21. -- g P' S si tu c if ..... .1.12.11....--el 19 , : COAL MARKET Ships arrived since Isst market-stay, W. 5. d. Adair's Buddle's West Hartley 2O 0 Carr's Hartley 2O 0 Garesfield 1.1. lyweil Ma n 2ll 9 Leaze's Main l6 9 Russell's High Main Townley _ ..... West Hartley 2l 0 Wylaso Walls E• d Beivicse andCo ..:3 0 Walls End Clennell l9 6 Walls End Clarke and Co l9 : Walls end Heaton .. 22 Walls End Hilda. ..... ......... 22 C Walls End Killtngworth ... .2 :i Walls End Perkins 2l W. E. BraddylPsHettodi , 20 0 s.. tf• Walls End Haswell. 24 0 11 Wails End fletton... `2l Walls End Lambton W. E. North Hetton Lyons 22 9 Walls End Russell's Hatton :4 Walls End Stewart's 4 3 Walls End Hartlepool 24 I ennant's Hartleppol ...... z$ Walls End West Hartlepool 2.2 W.P.s End Adel - Ate ..... ...• "• 3 Walls End Coundon '2l Walls End Evenwood 2l 9 „, . Walls End Gordon Walls End Tess Cowpen 2O Howard's Netherton Main... 19 Hartley Llangennech Coal Y CORN MARKETS. COUNT 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. I Pease. ------ -- Per Qua, ter.l s. to s. s. to s. s. to a. s. to s. s. i. Atingdon ... 56 6ti 30 40 20 34 j 44 52 44 403 Andover...... rii 60 33 41 :6 34 _- Banbury 52 6) '27 31 24 29 Basingstoke S 2 60 27 38 26 3i i4B 52 42 4 9 Cirencester 56 6 , 24 36 'l9 32 40 42 ...... -- Coventry — f 2. 35 26 35 46 40 ." Daventry Derby 6O 63 30 46 24 •.:8 48 50 Dowd. n — 72 24 40 42 -- Ilunger ford 50 65 32 58 '25 33 44 521 39 4E; Mallon - Maidenhead 52 74 35 40 '25 34 43 50 42 Nottingham 54 67 30 18 ~ - 3 33 45 51 " %Vantage O3 80 34 43 'l6 32 36 46 -- --• Warwick - Winchester 70 3 6 29 43 4v York 6O 32 40 28 30 --. -0. Per Bushel s.d. s.d. 3.d. s. d. s.d. 6. d. s. d, s. d. a. d. 9 .: Birmingham 70 7 9 3 9 53 4 • 4 9 56 49 1 6 6 7 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Dee 9. Wheat. Barley. Oato. Pease. Beat First '7ls. Od. 3 is. Ud. 203. 4d. Os, Od. 42 ' ''''''' Second 6O 0 30 0 25 0 26 0 6 31 C Third Average price of Wheat 21. 18s. 41. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per io. .......... Ils. tid. to Os. 7d. Fresh Butter, Ds. Os. 0.1. to 1.1 4 twn.........—........ 013 0 7 Salt Ditto--..... 011 1 Veal .........,..................... 0 8 1 0 Ditto,per 05t....92 0 112 i Pork----...... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos ` .. " 2 ,0, EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Dee 9. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First '713.0d. 3 is. W. 205.4 d. as. Od. Second 6O 0 30 0 25 0 29 0 t Third Average price of Wheat 21. ISs. fici, PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per so. Os. Rd. to 05.7d.1 Fresh Butter, Ds. Os. Od. to 15.14 t,m.,.—........ "' I Salt .. 011 Iti Veal...—. ... Ditto, per c0t...92 0 112 I i i i •-•- Eggs, per 0 Lama, per qr. ...... 0 0 0 0 OatStraw(kpl.)... 7 0 9 ''' Fallow, cwt............E3 0 42 I Wheat Ditto.... 6 6 -8 e , Quarters Loaf ..«. UBl 0 9 Barley Ditto ...... 5 6 . 7 V Potatoes, 141 b. ..... 04; 0 0 Hay, per 5t.......... 0 0 ILi EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. —Doc. 8. Per Sack of 28011). Imp. Per Stone OS 1410. Imp. First Oatmeal S2co;ld ditto Rirleyin c .a t, .. ......... I 1 % 7 O Si'll.ciaerri°ltel 1y(11:(41tei11e0..a...1 ....................................... 1 1 ; _..... a_ ........... .... •-• ()casein eat 1 8 0 Peaseme- I . ... k. Pot Barley from 30s. to 50s, per sac _--- CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 2.4 gallons to the bushel.) Barley. Wheat. s. d. to C. d. s. d. 0 7 8 0 3 S - 9 0 0 4 0 —075 0 3 6 —OB9 0 4 0 C 676 3 0 3 6 —OBl • 0 3 3 08783 6 4 i) 6674 4 0 4 4 Oruro ilelitone St. Austell Bodmin 7...iskcard Launceston Camel ford Penzance Oat',. 771. to e • U 2 - 3 6 3 2 5 4) 0 'l4 6 --0 2 4 3 9 2 4 $ MINING INTELLIGEVTCE. Totis.Cwt.Q" ?r ores sold at Redruth IstS; Week... 2,511 21 U 8 opper . 17.223 3s. 0,1 —Average k tan dard 110/. L35..41d. Quantity of Coppei Average Produce. QJIIIIII V' Of one c, Amount of sale REGISTER STOVES, 3 It. wide, 243.; Bra 33 Poles for Window Curtains, ls. 3d. per foot. Register stoves, d elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; re g i ster stoles , Bd. hpbr inchright ; fronts, bright and black bars, bronzed ornaments, Ioos. ; brass poles for window curtains, 1 inch diary eter, Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. Bi. ; a 2 inch pole, 3 feet 6 inches long, with ends, rings, and b-aekets, complete, far ws. Catalogues gi atis, containing the price of every article in ironmongery. RIPi'ON and BURTON, Wells -street, Oxford..street. BIRTHS. On Friday, the 11 th inst., at Milverton House, Warwick shire, the lady of Henry Byrom Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th inst., in Grosvenor-square, the Countess of Carnal von, of a daughter, who only survived a few hours. On the 7th inst., at Warwick-road, Upper Clapton, Harriett Caroline, the wife of John R. D. Tyssen, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., the lady of Herman Curtis, Esq„ of a son- On the 9th inst., at Esher, the wife of Captain M. J. Currie, R.N., of a son. On the 10th inst., at Chatham, the lady of F. Todd, Es q.. 33d Regiment, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Rushden Cottage, Higham Fer:ers, Northamptonshire, the lady of C. Sargeaunt, Esq., •f a se m. On the 11th inst., the lady of J. Cuthell, Esq., of Cunna ught terrace, of a son. On the 1 Ith inst., at the Marshal's house, Queen' s B enc h , Mrs. Samuel Chapman, of a son. On the 11th inst., Mrs. H. Nethersole, of New Inn-bnild ings, of a daughter. On the 23d ult., at Naples. the Hon. Mrs. Aieane, o f daughter. - _ _ MARRIED. On the btb Inst., at St. Andrew's Church, Newcastle-on- Tyne, Sydney Smirke , Esq. , of Berkeley. square. London, to Isabella, e ldest daughter of J. Dobson, Esq., of Newcastle. On the 10th inst., at , Camberwell, J. D . Bl yt h , Esq., son of J. W. Blyth, Esq., of St. Omer, to Mary, youngest d ugbter of the late J. G. Gerrard, Esq., of Camberwell. On the 10th inst., at St. Mary, Stoke, Robert, eldest son of the lion. Lindsey Burrell, of Stoke-park, Suffolk, to Sophia J an e, only child of F. W. Campbell, Esq., of Barbreck, N. B. On the 11th inst., at Marylebone Church, E. Brooke, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Christiana, eldest daughter of the late Walter Clerk, Esq., of East Bergholt House. Suffolk. On the 25th of October, at Toronto, Captain F. Hallett, of the Coldstream Guards, Military Secretary to Sir G. Arth ur, and eldest son of General Si r H ug h H allett. On the 2Mth of October last, at Suez, on hie passage to Bom bay, F. Buller, third son of W. H. Sutton, Esq., of Herting fordbury, aged 19. On the lit inst., at Birr Barracks, King's county, Irela nd, C. Ellison, Esq., Captain 88th Regiment, youngest son of the late Colonel Ellison, M.P. On the Bth inst., at St. Omer, Mr. G. Till. On the 11th inst., in Upper Grafton-street, Fitzroy •square, Mrs. Myatt, aged 77. N On the 11 t h i nst. , A nne M ary, secon d d aug ht e r of Willia m% orton, Es q ., o f G rove -hill, C am b erwe ll. S ur rey, aged 14 . On the 9th inst., at Lower Tulse-h:11, Mrs. S. INeete. On the 9th inst., G eorge , th e you n gest son of C. Heusch, Esq., of Bedford-square, aged 12. London: Printed and Published by AIIIIIDO YOUNU , 0 1 No. 112, Strand at The Sun Oifice, No. 112, Stra,,d, the county of Middleiex.—Saturday, December 12, 1 ti4O. I Aet -Yea dud, ber, 1161 Bard In less b 4sua 1 1 41.....„ -I th e poi po to I Der MI CE Ist inc, the reel the and for Rail the are, debt of ti Chaff Ai); so rr schei eider \Tho T 1 Rnu prem -___