The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-05 00:00:00

EVENIIS"G 141D1TION. NAPOLEON'S UNSUCCESSFUL EN TERPRISE AGAINST ST. JEAN D'ACRE. (From Sir Walter Scott's Life of the ex-Emperor.) Meanwhile, determined to pent - ecute the conquest of Syria, Bonaparte resolved advance to St. Jean d'Acre, so celebrated in the v7-ers of Palestine. The Turkish Pa cha, or Goverr;„ o r S yr i a, who, like others in his situa tion,acccented himself almost an independent sover e i gn , was tchmet, who, by his unrelenting cruelties and execu 'itons, had procured the terrible distinction of Djezzar, or the Butcher. Bonaparte addressed this formidable chief Se two letters, offering his alliance, and threatening him, with his vengeance if it should be rejected. To neither did the Pacha return any answer—in the second instance he put to:death the messenger. The French General ad vanced against Acre, vowing revenge. There were, how. ever, ebstacles to the success of his enterprise, on which he had not calculated. The Pacha had communicated the approach of Napo leon to Sir Sidney Smith, to whom had been committed the charge of assisting the Turks in their proposed expe dition to Egypt, and who, for that purpose, was cruising in the Levant. He hastened to sail for Acre with the Tigre and Theseus, ships of the line ; and arriving there ties: days ere the French made their appearance, contri buted greatly to place the town, the fortifications of which ware on the old Gothic plan, in a respectable state of defence. Sir Sidney Smith, who so highly distinguished himself on this occasion, had been long celebrated for the most intrepid courage and spirit of enterprise. His character was, besides, marked by those traits of enthusiasm at which cold and vulgar minds are apt to sneer, because incapable of uneerstaeding them; yet without which great and ho nourable actions have rarely been achieved. Ile had also a talent ; uncommon among the English, that of acting easily with foreign, and especially with barbarous troops, and understanding how to make their efforts availing for the service of the common cause, though exerted in a Manner different from those of civilised nations. Th's brave officer having been frequently entrusted with the charge of alarming the French coast, had been taken on one occasion, and, contrary to the law of nations, and out of a mean spirit of revenge, was imprisoned in the Temple, from which he was delivered by a dar ine stratagem, effected by the French Royalist party. He had not been many hours at Acre when Provi dence afforded him a distinguishing mark of favour. The Theseus, which had been detached to intercept any Vrench vessels that might be attending on Bonaparte's march, detected a small flotilla stealing under Mount Carmel, and had the good fortune to make prize of seven out of nine of them. They were a convoy from Damietta, bound for Acre, having on board heavy cannon, platforms, ammunition, and other necessary a ti -leg. These cannon and military stores, destined to form the siege of Acre, became eminently useful in its defence, and the consequence of their capture was even tually decisive of the struggle. General Philippeaux, a French Royalis e and efficer of engineers, immediately ap plied himself to place the cannon thus acquired, to the sonount of betwixt thirty and forty, upon the wails which they had been intended to destroy. This officer, who had been B mai arte's school-fellow, and the principal agent in delivering Sir Sidney Smith from prison, possessed rare talents in his profession. Thus strangely met under the walls of Acre, an English c fficer, late a prisoner in the Temple at Par's, and a French colonel of engineers, with the late General of the Army of Italy, the ancient com panion of Philippeaux ( l), and about to become almost the personal enemy of Smith, On the lith of Marcie the French came in sight of Acre, which is built on a peninsula advancing into the sea, and so conveniently situated that vessels can lie near the shore, aw l . annoy with their tire whatever advance s t o as sault tae fortifications. Notwithstanding the presence of British ships of war, and the disappointments concern- Peg his battering cannon, which were now pointed against him from the ramparts, Bonaparte, with a characterist'c perseverance: which on sueli an occasion was pushed into obstinacy, refused to abandon his purpose, aid proceed: d to open trenches, although the guns which he had to place in there were only twelve-poundera. The point of attack was . a large to wer w hi c h predom i nated over the rest a the for t etications. A mine at the same time was run under the 'extreme defences. By the 28th of March a breach was effected, the mine Wee sprung, and the French proceeded to the assault upon that day. They advanced at the charging step, under a Murderous fire from the walls, but had the mortification to find a deep ditch betwixt them and the tower. They crossed it, nevertheless, by the help of the scaling-ladders which they carried with them, and forced their way as far as the tower, from which it is said that the defenders, impressed by the fate of Jaffe were beginning to fly. They were checked by the example of Djizzar him self, who fired his own pistols at the French, and upbraided the Moslems who were retreating from the walls. The defences were again manned ; the French, unable to support the renewed fire, were checked and forced back ; and the Turks falling upon them in their retreat with sabre in hand, kill e d a num b er o f the i r b est men, an d Mailly, Wile commanded the party. Sorties were made from the place to destroy the French works; and although the cries with which the Turks carry on their military manoeuvres gave the alarm to the enemy, yet, assisted by a detach ment of British seamen, they did the French considerable damage, reconnoitred the mine which they were forming anew, and obtained the knowledge of its direction necessary to prepare a counter mine. While the strife was thus fiercely maintained en both aides, with mutual loss and increased animosity, the be siegers were threatened with other dangers. An army of Moslem troops of various nations, but all actuated by ..en had fnrim.d eneweetee e i n the enountsitis of Samaria, and uniting with them the warlike inhabitants of that country, now called Naplous, formed the plan of attacking the French army lying before Acre en one side, while Djezzar and his allies should assail them upon the other. Kleber, with his division, was despatched by Bonaparte to disperse this assemblage. But though he obtained consi derable advantages over detached parties of the Syrian army, their strength was so disproportioncd, that at last, while be held a position near Mount Tabor, with 2,000 or 3,000 men, he was surrounded by about ten times his own number. But his General-in-Chief was hastening to his assistance. Bonaparte left two divisions to keep the trenches before Acre, and penetrated into the country in three columns. Murat, at the head of a fourth, occupied the pass called Jacob's Bridge. The attack, made on va rious points, was everywhere successful. The camp of the Syrian army was taken ; their defeat, almost their dis. persion, was accomplished, while their scattered remains fled to Damascus. Bonaparte returned, crowned with laurels, to the siege of Acre. Here, too, the arrival of thirty heavy pieces of cannon from Jaffa seemed to promise that success which the French had as yet been unable to attain. It was about this time that, walking on the mount which still retains the name of Richard Coeur de Lion, Bonaparte expressed himself to Murat in these terms, as he pointed to St. Jean d'Acre The fate of the East depends upon yonder petty town. Its conquest will insure the main object of my expedition, and Damascus will be the first fruit of it." (2.) Thus it would seem that, while engaged in the enterprise, Bonaparte held the same language which he did many years after its failure when at St. Helena. Repeated and desperate assaults proved that the conse quence which he attached to taking Acre was as great as his words expressed. The assailants suffered severely on the occasion, for they were exposed to the fire of two rave libs, or external fortifieations, which had been constructed under Philippeaux's directions, and at the same time en filaded by the fire of the British shipping. At length, employing to the uttermost the heavy artillery now in his possession, Bonaparte, in spite of a bloody and obstinate opposition, forced his way to the disputed tower, and made a lodgment on the second story. It afforded, however, no access to the town ; and the troops remained there as in a cul de-sac, the lodgment being covered from the English and Turkish fire by a work constructed partly of packs of cotton, and partly of the dead bodies of the slain built up along with them. At this critical moment, a fleet, bearing reinforcements long hoped for and much needed, appeared in view of the garrison. They contained Turkish troops, under the command of Hassan Bey. Yet near as they were, the danger was imminent that Acre might be taken ere they could land. To prevent such a misfortune, Sir Sidney Smith in person proceeded to the disputed tower, at the head'of a body of British seamen, armed with pikes. They united themselves to a corps of brave Turks, who defended the breach rather with heavy stones than with other weapons. The heap of runs which divided the con tending parties served as a breast-work to both. The muzzles of the muskets touched each other, and the spear heads of the standards were locked together. At this moment one of the Turkish regiments of Hessian's army, which had by this time landed, made a sortie upon the French ; and though they were driven back, yet the di version occasioned the besiegers to be forced from their lodgment. Abceding the ill-omened tower, which had cost the besiegers so many men, Bonaparte row turned his efforts towards a considerable breach that had been effected in the curtain, and which promised a more easy entrance. It proved, indeed, but too easy ; for Djezzar Pacha op posed to the assault on this occasion a new mode of tac tics. Confiding in his superior numbers, he suffered the French, wh o were commanded by the intrepid General La nnes, to surmount the breach without opposition, by which they penetrated into the body of the place. They had no sooner entered than a numerous body of Turks mingled among them with loud shouts ; and ere they bad time or room to avail th emselves of theirdisc . e brought them into that state o f c l ose fighting where ) n l' st ren gth anel agility are superior to every other-acquire r The Turks, wielding the sabre in one hand, and the poniard in the other , cut to pieces almost all t h e French who had e itered. General Rambaud lay a headless corpse in the b rea ch—Lannes was with difficulty brought off, se vere l y wounded. The Turks gave no quarter; and instantly cutting the heads off those whom they slew, carried them to the Pachs, who sat in public distributing money to those who brought him these bloody trophies, whi c h now lay piled in heaps around him. This was the sixth assault upon these tottering and . blood-stained ramparts. " Vic.. tory" said Napoleon. ";s to the most persevering ; tt an d , contrary to the advice of Kleber, he resolved upon anothe r lad yet more desperate attack. (Jo the 21st ut May the final effort was made. The attack of the morning failed, and Colonel Veneux re. mewed it at midday. f• Be a , sured," said he to B ona p ar te , " Acre s h a ll be yours to night, or Vcneux will die on the breach." H e k ept hi s word at t h e cost o f his l ife. Bon was also slain, whose division had been the executioners of the garrison of Jaffa. The French now retreated, tisPirited and despairing of succ e s s . The contest had carried on at half a musket- shot distance, and the bo dies . 4 of the d ead lying around putrified tinder the burning made to establish a suspension of arms for removing this-horrible annnylatice. Miot says that the Pacha re turned no an swer proposal of the French. Ac t e i oc lice, d F orng tiasSturidatuaneegt_Shernaith's official reports, the arrnis beoken off by the Fren c h fi r i ng itYlrp se was actually agreed on, but u on those who were en jaged in the melancholy °face, a p nd then rushing on to wake their last unsuccessful charge and upon the b re ach. This would have beeu criAls o u useless, and would have tended so much to the inconvenience of the ' French themselves, that we cannot help suspecting some misunderstanding had occurred, and that the in'erruption was under a wrong conception of the purpose of the work. ing party. This is the more probable, as Sir Sidney Smith, who reports the circumstance, was not at this time disposed to put the best construction on any action of Bonaparte's, who, on the other hand, regarded the British seamen with peculiar dislike, and even malignity. The cause of per sonal quarrel betwixt them was rather singular. Bonaparte had addressed the subjects of Achmet Djezzar's Pachalic in terms inviting them to revolt and join the French; yet was much offended when, imitating his own policy, the Pacha and Sir Sidney Smith caused letters to be sent into his camp before Acre, urging his soldiers to mutiny and desertion. Sir Sidney also pub lished a proclamation to the Druses, and other inhabitants of the country, calling on them to trust the faith of a Christian knight, rather than that of an unprincipled rene gade. Nettled at these insults, Bonaparte declared that the English Commodore was mad ; and, according to his ac count, Sir Sidney replied by sending him a challenge. The French General scornfully refused this invitation, .unless the challenger would bring Marlborough to meet him, but offered to send one of his grenadiers to indulge the Englishman's desire of single combat. The good taste of the challenge may be doubted, if, indeed, such was ever sent ; but the scorn of the reply ought to have been mi tigated, considering it was addressed to one in consequence of whose dauntless and determined opposition Bonaparte's favourite object had failed, and who was presently to com pel him for the first time to an inglorious retreat. Another calumny, circulated by Napoleon, against the English Commodore, was, that Sir Sidney Smith had ea deavourod to expose his French prisoners to the infee tion of the plague, by placing them in vessels where that dreadful contagion prevailed. This charge had no other foundation than in Bonaparte's wish, by spreading such a scandal, to break off all communication between the Commodore and the discontented of his own array. After the heat excited by their angry collision had long Fubsided, it is amusing to find Napoleon, when in the island of St. Helena, declaring, that his opinion of Sir Sidney Smith was altered for the better, since he had become acquainted with the rest of his countrymen, and that he now considered him as a worthy sort of man—for an Englishman 1 The - siege of Acre bad now continued sixty days since the opening of the trenches. The besiegers had marched no less than eight times to the assault, while eleven despe rate sallies were evidence of the obstinacy of the defence. Several of the best French Generals were killed ; among the rest Caffarelli (3), for whom Bonaparte had particu lar esteem ; and the army was greatly reduced by the sword and the plague, which raged at once among their devoted bands. Retreat became inevitable. Yet Bona parte endeavoured to give it such a colouring as might make the measure seem voluntary. Sometimes he an nounced that his purpose of going to Acre was sufficiently accomplished when be had Lettered down the palace of the Pacha; at other times he affirmed he had lift the whole town a heap of ruins ; and, finally, be informed the Direc tory that he could easily have taken the place, but the plague staging with its walls, and it being impossible to prevent the troops from seizing on infected clothes for part of their booty, he had rather declined the capture of Acre than run the risk of introducing this horrid ma lady among his soldiers. What his real feelings must have been, while covering his chagrin with such flimsy pretexts, may be conjectured from the following frank avowal to his attendants in St. Helena. Sdeaking of the dependence of the most important affairs on the most trivial, he remarks, that the mistake of the captain of a frigate, who bore away, instead cf his forcing his pas sage to the place of his destination, had prevented the face of the world from being totally changed. " Acre," he said, "would otherwise have been taken—the French army would have flown to Damascus and Aleppo—in a twinkling of an c:e they would have been on the Euphrates—the Syrian Christians would have joined us—the Druscs, the Armenians, would have united with us." Some one re plied, " We might have been reinforced to the number of a hundred thousand men." " Say six hundred thousand," said the Emperor, " who can calculate the amount ? I would have reached Constantinople and the ludies—l would have changed the face of the world. " (4) (I) Philippeaux died during the siege, of a fever brought OR by fatigue. Bonaparte spoke of him with more respect than he usually showed to those who had been successful in opposing him. One reason might be, that the merit given to Philippeaux was subtracted in some deg , ee from Sir Sydney Smith. The former was a Frenchman and dead—the latter alive, and an Englishman. (2) Related by Miot, as communicated to him by Murat. (3) Caffarelli was shot in the elbow, and died of the amputation of the limb. He had before lost a leg, which induced the French soldiers, who disliked him, as one of the principal contrivers of the Egyptian expedition, say, when they saw him hobble past, " He, at least, need care little about the matter—he is sure to have ONE foot in France." He had some days' delirium before he died; but Count Las Cases reports, that whenever Bonaparte was announced, his presence—nay, his name alone— seemed to cure the wanderings of the patient's spirit, and that this phenomenon was renewed so often as the General made him a visit. (4) Las Cases' " Journal de la Vie Privee, &c., de Napoleon," tome i., partie seconde, p. 384. The extra vagance of Napoleon's plan unavoidably reminds us of the vanity of human wishes. The cause to which he ascribes it is the mistake of a captain of a frigate, who, instead of forcing his way to Acre against the opposition of two ships of the line, was unfortunately taken by them. This is a mode of reasoning which Napoleon was very ready to adept. The miscarriage of_his plans was seldom imputed by Lim to the successful wisdom or valour of an enemy, but to some accidental circumstance or blunder, which deranged the scheme which must otherwise have been infallible. Some of his best Generals were of a different opinion, and considered the rashness of the attack upon Acre as involving the certainty of failure. Kleber is re ported to have said that the Turks defended themselves with the skill of Christians, and that the French attacked like Turks. MAJOR MORSE COOPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sts,—Major M. Cooper being prohibited from the discus sion of any point which may be considered a military one, I, as a friend of Major Morse Cooper, take the liberty of explaining one or two points which it appears are misun derstood by civilians, although perfectly clear to all mili tary men, viz. the apparent inconsistency of the Major's two letters, as implied by the Morning Post. Captain Morse Cooper was gazetted on the 10th Jan., 1840 (after having been eighteen months under Lord Car digan's command), to an unattached Majority. On the following day, the Ilth January, the Major wrote a letter to the late Major Jenkins, offering him a large sum to ex change, which would have made him an effective Major of the 11th Light Dragoons. In the letter of the ith November, 1840, Major Morse Cooper distinctly and pointedly says, " from experience I hold the opinion that no Captain' or ' Subaltern' of ordi nary spirit and gentlemanly feeling is safe," &c. This is the gist of the two letters. Now:although at first sight these may be an apparent inconsistency to civilians, that a man can serve as a Major, and cannot serve as a " Captain or Subaltern," it does not appear very difficult to explain how perfectly consistent the two facts are. The Lieutenant-Colonel is a Field officer. The Major is also a Field-officer; they are, therefore, coadjutors, and more nearly equal in respon sibility. It is not probable that a Lieutenant-Colonel should annoy his Major ; whatever might be his inclina tion, he would not, from the closer approximation of the two grades. The " Captains" and " Subalterns" had better submit. It is for this reason that Major Morse Cooper so exclu sively asserts that no " Captain or Subaltern" is safc , &c. Sucb is the explanation, as briefly submitted as possible, of the alleged inconsistency. I am at a loss to imagine what the life or death of Major Jenkins has to do with the matter, as the fact of Major Cooper's offer to Major Jenkins was known to every officers of the 11th Light Dragoons then present with the regiment. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, VINDEX. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of Meat were not larger, the demand ra ther brisk, and prices in some instances rather higher. Beef, 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 8d to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 2d to 5s 2d pzr stone of Blbs. Game and Poultry in large supply ; trade better than has been known for some weeks past; but prices did not materially vary from our last. Eggs in abundant supply at 5s to 63 for French, and 6s to 8s for English, per 120. WHITECHAPEL MEAT MARKET. The demand was dull, and prices were mostly lower, on account of a large supply, a portion of which remained unsold at the close of business. Beef and Mutton, as com pared with last week, was Id. to 2d. , and Pork 4d. per stone lower ; Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 4s, to ss. 2d. ; Pork, 33. Bd. to ss. per tone. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET, We had a fair supply of Hay at Market, which met a steady demand at 31. 10s. to 51. 12s. for Clover, and 31. to 41. 13s. for Meadow. Straw sold well at 283. to 323. per load, THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 5. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with Cobb's Farce of THE FIRST FLOOR. _ Whimsey, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Whimsey, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Monford, Mr. J. 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He believed that unjust taxation, unfair representation, and the existence of ras cally restrictions upon our trade and commerce, was the , chief cause of the destitution and suffering existing in the country, and until these were removed, it was vain to hope for permanent or even temporary relief to the great mass of our comparatively unemployed population. Talk of the influence of machinery ! give us free trade —a repeal of the Corn-law—a reduction of taxation, and he cared not although their productive powers, as a manufacturing nation, were greatly increased,. With her mineral and other resources, her persevering and ingenious artisans, Great Britain did not need to fear competition with any nation in the world.—(Renewed cheering.) He was not disposed to combat the statements respect ing the beauties and advantages of a residence in New Zealand—read by Mr. Crawford—and more particularly those which alluded to the probability of their being devoured by the cannibal inhabitants, but would ac knowledge the truth of the sentiment, that there were cannibals enough amongst our oppressors at home— (Laughter)—who, although they did not swallow up their bodies in the same hasty way as the New Zea landers did, as surely and effectually took from them their means and substance.—(Cheers.) A cannibal aristocracy devoured the produce of their labour—a cannibal priest hood made away with their means and substance—and a host of useless non-producers and pensioners ate up the remainder. But was it a cure to send a few of the most useful of their artisans out of the country ? No such thing. The merchants and manufacturers declared that so long as the present Corn-law and other restrictions upon commerce ex i ste d, i t was impossible they could compete with the.foreign untaxed merchant, and that they would ere long be compelled to ' shut up their factories and workshops. If this were the case, what was the use to them of sending a number of the operatives out of the country, and thereby raisii g the price of labour Emigration in their case was a re medy that merely hastened the disease it pretended to cure.—(Haar, hesr.) If any class or party of men above another should be sent out of the country, it was the fat Bishops, the non-producing pensioners, and the other bloated adjuncts of the present system.—(Roars of laughter and cheers.) Let these characters leave this, country, and have their fat corporations brought down by tilting the land in the Colonies, and the indus trious masses would speedily place themselves in that position which, as tax payers and British citizens, they were entitled to occupy, and Britain would then assume her former proud position as the envy and admiration of surrounding nations.—(Cheers.) It is impossible to gag the people, even if a police man were to watch every operative. They will find means to utter sentiments like these to one another, which will thus become ,as they are repeated and renewed, as much a por 1. of the creed, or the minds of the operatives, as " t instinctive belief that the sun will rise to-mar )% as it has risen to-day, With such a creed, re 30( t for the Government, respect for the Legislatu,o r espect for the priest hood, is wholly incompati ; aid as it extends and strengthens—as exten l :1 i strengthen it will —it may be possible to extl ale these men, but to rule them by the present rn will be impos sible. With respEct to emigration, at which, as a re medy for our national evils, we have always looked with distrust and aversion, Mr. MALcoutt made GOLDEN SUN Was published to commemorate her most Gracious MAJESTY'S CORONATION ; but t.l - !e 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-, wrest, which Queen VICTORIA has now HAPPILY realised, we reserved a few copies of THE GOLDEN CORONATION SUN, Which can be sent by post free to all parts o the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, Nov. 28, 1840. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW, Morninc , l2 minutes after 11 1 Evening 47 minutes after 11. The Publication of t e Evening Edition of Tint Sing corn maneed at 30 minutes after Three. 14)t WJo LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1840. We see by the South Australian Record of the 28th ult. that there is a great want of labourers in Australia. Labour is said to be " the great want of Austra!ia, and the cry resounds from shore to shore." Labour is, or speedily will be, equally wanted in New Zealand. The land sold for 20s. an acre will not be worth a button to the capitalists who have bought it, unless labour be employed on it, and hence the cry at Australia and New Zealand for labour. To re9pond to this cry, apparently, some persons connected with the New Zealand Company got up a great public meeting at Glasgow on Monda ,, last. It vas held in the Justiciary Hall, and the LORD PROVOST was in the chair. It was called, accord ing to the Scots Times of Wednesday, from which our knowledge of the meeting is derived, "to con sider the propriety of memorialising Lord JOHN RUSSELL, her Majesty's Secretary for the Colonial department, praying for a grant of money to enable the Glasgow New Zealand Society to send out emigrants." A very , modest proposition. The New Zealand Society wants to have its barren lands made fertile, and wants to secure a large profit on its capital, after the fashion of the Sydney capitalists, at the exyense of the tax-payers of England. To enforce this modest proposition a Mr. CRAWFORD, at the request of the Committee, read a number of extracts from the newspapers and several private letters, depicting the beauties of New Zealand and the happy condition of the emigrants. A Mr. GILLESPIE, who ap pears by the report to have been a Chartist at some time or other, then gave a fearful description of the state of to the the population use of m c of in which he as cribed eryandto Glasgow, superabunda . nt population. One specimen ah must suffice. After referring to the case recently published in the news papers of a woman who was obliged to carry he r dead husband to the Church-yard on a porter's barrow, he added— A woman, whose child bad b een d ea d eight days, and which remained unburied, had to come down to the street and implore the passers-by to carry it home to the grave. He went with the woman, and conveyed it to the lonely churchyard.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was from motives of humanity be gave his assistance to this poor woman. On Mr. GILLESPIE, who concluded by moving, in accordance with the object for which the meet ing was called, sitting down, a Mr. ROBERT MALCOLM, jun., moved a resolution to this ef fect : That the meeting, though favourable to emigra tion to Now Zealand or any other quarter of the world, by those who may be so disposed, object to any ap plication to the Home Secretary, or to any other Go vernment officer, for a grant of public money for such purpose, and are altogether opposed to the question of emigration being allowed to occupy public attention, to the exclusion of more important objects, being fully convinced, that not even temporary relief can be ob tained to the oppressed operatives of this country by such means, and that until bad laws and unjust government, which we deem the principal cause of our present suf ferings, are complet e ly rem ove d, we can h ave no h o pe that our circumstances can be greatly improved. After considerable discussion this important amendment was carried by a large majority—three fourths of th e mee ting d ec l ar i ng in its fa v ou r - Thus s o f ar as Glasgow i s concerne d , the cry at Australia and New Zealand for labour will not be answered. to be kno wn to the people ; they regard it as a kind In f ac t th e WA KEFIELD sc h eme b eg i ns coefpdtuttebrye, serfs and none ne t w ho h s o e whomhal'eanytheinitaetle proprietorligence,ex of Petworth transported to Canada from his estates, will answer to the call for labour at the antipodes, Those who h ave 20s. per acre f or land there, expecting to recover it given the New Zealand Company by the toil of e xpatriated labourers, may probably whistle for th e i r money. This result of the meet ing at Glas gow i s of great importance also to the workmen, as we ll as to the capitalists who have embarked their capital in the New Zealand specu lation ; but t h e language used at the meeting was still m ore important. Words are not TVE merely signs ; t h ey are important things, and re quire to be k nown. Mr. IL __Ar.coLm was the • great orator of the operatives of the night, and what he said is especially worthy of the attention of those who think that all will go smoothly and well, if the aristocracy only resolutely persists in denying all concessions to the people, and if the Govern ment shut them up in prison as seditious libel lees when they m eet to claim the i r r i g h ts as men and citizens. n —e said, amongst other things,— With the fi rs t speaker (Mr. Gillesp i e) he agreed that misery and W retchedness amongst the working po pulation prevailed to a most appalling and unparallpt-1 extent. He believed that --- * lated by -,vues similar to those re -.." "III"Pie at the commenceme nt of his and effective rem e d y was absolutely necessary ; speech were of d a il y occurrence, and t h at an immediate but he altogether disagr ee d i n the sentiment t h at em igration was capable of effecting a cyre,-,--(Cheers.) lie (Mr. M ) knew th a t m i sery of the most soul-harrow i n g na7 ture existed in the country, and he believed that the ~Dcratives would be 2 till Lithei redilc;:a in Ow so 3 i-i scale, and that our merchants and inacutuetusers ware 0 -' the brink of bankruptcy and'ruin, but he ;lid not ascribe these evils, as Mr. Gillespie had doge, to the initt- these observations Now, although neither he nor that meeting could oh j ect to any one leaving the eounti y who might be in clined to do so, he could not but assert his hostility to the principle of emigration, believing as he did that at best it was a contemptible expedient, a miserable quackish prescription for the effects of bad government, and that it was by the attention given by a great portion of the operatives to that and several other silly remedies, to the neglect of one great means of cure, that the day of their emancipation from slavery was so long protracted. Their operatives, however poor and oppressed, had an undoubted claim upon Vie land that gave them birth, but they had no claim, t , ir 3 had no right to the posses sions of the poor nativ,s d New Zealand.—(Cheers.) The colonies by right h waged not to the British Go vernment—and it is 1 wnrigbt robbery to legalise their sale.—(Tremendnn s. Leering, and loud cries of " True, true !") But itting that it was just and proper that our reduce l - 1 0 rativcs should be !breed to emigrate thereto, what (.. ',mace had they that their condition would be bit c id? The same Government that reduced them he; v t tdcontrol them there. The capitalists there wouldg trendily at enorinousprefits as they did in Great Br ;,'e, • The effects of competition would be felt in New Zealand as well asin this country. In what then did the advantage consist ? They had liberty at home—the liberty to starve, he believed the same liberty awaited them in New Zealand. But he would ask what benefit could it be that a few thousand opera tives left the country—their places would be speedily supplied by others, who would assuredly be reduced to the same level ? If one thousand had a claim upon the Government, or desired to leave the country with the aid of the public money, twenty thousand had the same claim. Nay, he believed that in Great Britain and Ire land, there were millions of human beings farther re duced and in greater poverty than those who now claimed to be sent to New Zealand, some of whom were high paid operatives ; and was it right to leave these men struggling against the iniquitous system which ground the industrious classes to the dust—was it proper to sanction the carrying away of the materials of which popular political agitation was composed, and to render the chances of an impression upon our rulers more diffi cult and time more distant ? No ! he would say, let us stand together, united and determined. That is a noble spirit. There speaks one of those sturdy and righteous sons of Scotland who love, independently of all poetry, the " mountain glens and passes" of their fatherland, and in whom their native poets have made it an object of heart felt adoration. A similar spirit pervaded the speeches of several other working men, and the ge nerous and proud resolution to obtain rights at home rather than plant abroad a colony to become a nation of slaves must command admiration. It is held to be a moral duty that mature beings should have a reasonable prospect of rearing a family in virtue, independence, and honour, before entering into matrimony. On the same principle it must be the duty of a nation to see a reasonable prospect, before it plant colonies, that they will grow up into virtuous, independent and honour able nations. But men who arc them selves slaves, who have no share in the govern ment of their native land, whose bread is taxed at the mercy of idle and worthless landlords, who are denied all the benefits of political society, while they are obliged to hear all its burdens, can have no hope of planting free and independent colonies, aeJ they are right first to demand freedom at home. It is not only unjust, it is cruel to posterity to plant colonies of slaves. We trust, therefore, that the example of the Glasgow operatives will be imitated by all the industrious classes of the empire, who will steadily resolve to achieve freedom at home, not spread misery and slavery over the virgin soil of the southern hemisphere. We have already pointed out in this Journal that a Corn -law lies Ai certainly in Mr. WAKEFIELD'S schemed transporting labourers by the money raised on laud sales as such a law exists in England. We have already, too, 'stated that the very object of his scheme is to prevent the labourers, from acquiring land, by affixing to it . a price beyond their mea ns , a nd so of keeping them /la poor and As degraded in the new colonies as they are in the old country. PersoLally, therefore, we rejoice that the Glasgow operatives have seen through the bubble, and that they prefer struggling ,for freedom at home to being transported as slaves of the capitalists to New Zealand. A subject is broached by Captain MA RIIYAT, in his " 011 a Podrida," which is of greater influence and deeper philosophy than the Captain seems to be aware of, viz.—the " enmity between the press and the aristocracy." He approaches near the truth when he states—, AtiZtrs ar e o . . 1 _ 0 not to be so easily purchased as for ----, , . u u y p ieter writin g i;, Pn.r9Mity with public opinion, to writing for government, b e cause they are better remunerated. Now, if it be recalled to mind that in the rapid march of the pe o p le, in their assertion of their right to a greater share in the gov:rment of the country, in the pointing out and correction of abuses, and i n the breaking down of all the deft ces is th whic au h have gradually yielded in so man y years, it e thors and the press who have led the van, and that in these coutiuual lin oads the ariAi-nt-...ney have bet - 3a the parts? cet 1 au vioader that there has ari.co, ui,- waitittingly, perhaps, on the part of the aristoc rac y , a feel , ing aga i n st the press , and a gainst authors in general. The pen has been, and will probably for a long while continue to be, the enemy of the aristocracy : and it is hardly reasonable to expect that the aristocracy should admit the enemy within its camp. But an important question must be put and answered, in order to carry the matter further. Why is the onward march of the people against the government ? why should inroads be continu ally made on the aristocracy, and why should the press be the organ of those : attacks ? The aristo cracy possesses nearly all the wealth of society— the government is in possession of power. Public writers, like other men, desire power and wealth, which the aristocracy and the government can bee stow; their productions are purchased in a great mea sure by the aristocracy, and why then should they be the organs of incessant attacks on the aristocracy, of incessant encroachments on the government? Not long ago the case was the reverse. The bulk of the press, the mass of the penholders, whether they composed ponderous folios or single para graphs, were all on the side of the aristocracy and government. What has produced the change ? The press is the organ of public opinion ; and we must conclude, from Captain MARRYAT'S statement, that public opinion, in spite of the im mense bribes offered by government and aristo cracy to go in a different direction, has declared it self hostile to both. Authors only lead the van :if the onward march of society, and, according to Captain MARRYAT, that runs incessantly against government and aristocracy. Some persons seem to suppose that public opi nion is uncertain, capricious, subject to no law, and the result of fancies like the opinions of a love sick girl. They suppose it is made by writers. Such is Hot the case. NV ha te ver may be the opi nions of individuals, which, after all, arc not more liable to alteration than their bodies, which grow, strengthen, and decay, the opinions of nations are regulated and determined by fixed and certain laws, which are quite as unalterable as the laws of the material world. For example, every reasonable man refers to that material world, as the test of all truth, so far as it concerns this life, and that being governed by regular laws ulti mately corrects all the vague, false, and incorrect impressions of individuals, and models public opi nion on itself. But clockwork is not so regular as the periodical revolutions of the material world. In relation to government and aristocracy, this principle comes thus into operation. They both profess to be extremely beneficial to society, or to the bulk of the people—to be instrumental in keep ing order, promoting prosperity, repressing crime, and effecting a variety of great social benefits. But the bulk of the people have for a considerable time been in a state of considerable suffering, prone to dis order arising from physical privations, and immersed in deep poverty, while crime has increased, and all the prosperity and happiness of society have been clearly traced to the active exertions of individuals, to commerce, which government and aristocracy only impede, and to the great desire of men to im prove their condition, which government and aris tocracy only misdirect and pervert. Thus the pro fessions of government and aristocracy have been engraved by the condition of the people on the pub lic mind as erroneous impressions, misbegotten falsehoods, or wilful lies ; and hence the march of public opinion has been against government and aristocracy. Sensible of this, govern , ment and aristocracy have made efforts, mock or real, to reform themselves, and so fulfil the conditions they profess, or redeem the pledges they make to society. Whether or not they will succeed in this, and so again turn the current of opinion in their favour, time alone can show ; but those who judge more from a contemplation of events than from books—who look at the history of society, as it has been acted rather than as it has been written, who know that events, not authors, make and correct opinions, seem generally to agree that they will not, and that government and aristocracy are doomed to very great changes, if not to annihilation. Of government it is remarked, that it is a ma chine of very ancient date, and that whatever theo ries may, in latter times, have been invented to up hold or justify it, such as—that it is founded on the sacrifices of individual freedom for the advantage of all—that it is borrowed from parental au thority—that it originated in a contract, by which allegiance and protection are mutually exchanged—the fact undoubtedly is, that govern ment was originally founded in rude conquest and brutal usurpation, and that modern governments, however modified, have all been tainted with the vices of their origin, and still continue practically to act on the principles from which they sprung. One and all they practically endeavour to coerce the mass of the people for the advantage of a few, though that few may have become, as in England in latter years, more numerous than formerly. The facts on which government is founded, and the theory—the practice and the profession—contradict each other, the material world continually reminds men of the falsehood ; and the old machine will never recover so far its influence that public opinion will be again turned in its favour. A completely new one, founded on true representation, may be built, but whether that will answer better, or remain in work ing existence longer than the one founded in con quest, and upheld by coercion, is a question which we cannot undertake to answer. As to aristocracy which depends for its so- dial existence on government, it took its rise in circumstances ; it was in its origin useful to society, and was respected and honoured for its own intrinsic merits. The members of it generally were strong and armed men, who organized their followers into a means of mutual defence. They were the leaders of the people in war, and their judges in peace. For the possession of their estates they performed most important duties, which they have now laid aside, for which in fact they have become unfit, and those duties, such as command ing armies and fleets, and presiding in courts of law, are performed by hirelings, whom the people, still paying the aristocracy, by securing them their estates for performing such duties, are obliged to pay by taxes. Besides depending on government, which is net likely again to find public opinion run in its favour, the aristocracy has great and glaring vices of its own. Its practices are a standing contradiction to its professions. It is latterly exhibited to the people as a sordid plunderer, while it professes to be all that is noble, generous, and disinterested. To its other great, glaring, and irredeemable vices, it now adds the most iniquitous exaction and the most detestable hypocrisy. Nature, the laws of the material world, and of the mind of man, must be wholly reversed, to enable it to turn public opi nion again in its favour. Not contented, appa rently, with the certain destruction which awaits it, it aspires to perish amidst the jusi And indignant ex ecrations of mankind. Now, authors a:P oP posed to the aristocracy because they are the organs of this growing and inevitable public opinion. Captain NI/anti - 7AT" . has done good service by drawing attention to the fact, and by helping to c oristo mion ex plain the natural law by which publi p been turned against government and acracy.has Lll been The Paris journals of Thursday have a, received, together with a report of the continuation of the debate upon the Address in the Chamber of Dcputiec, up to th:- hour of post ou Thut sday afternoon. The speakers were the late Minister of tho Interior, M. DZ RgI , IUSAT) Me GARNIER EVEN ING_ PAGES, a Member of the Extreme Left, and M, rstAUGUIN, reeking hot from St. Petersburgh , as desperately in love with every thing Russian', from bears, train-oil, and tallow, to serfage, to knoutage, and Imperial alliances. Basking in the smiles of the EMPEROR, no wonder that.AU" GUIN found the climate of Russia delightful, and the fresh breezes off' Cronstadt milder and more life-invigorating than the air of the far-famed Mont pelier itself. M. REMUSAT, like his colleague, g. TRIERS, affected no concealmen t of the policy Of the late Cabinet. He unbl ushin g l y admitted that the integrity of the Ottoman empire was a mere fiction in the mouth of himself and colleggues• The Ottoman empire might have gone to the deuce for what the Ministry of M. THIERS cared, pro vided they could but have established the sure macy of France in Egypt. In the debate on Thurs day M. BEcun RD contplained of a letter addressed by Marshal SOUL T to Mr. LLoTn, an English" man, wherein the illustrious P re sident of the Conn" cil had expressed a hope of t he continuance of a friendly alliance between Frameand Eng s aid lanthed. The Gallant Marshal, in explan.ation, letter was not intended for pu blicatiun, nevertheless, he gloried in avowing befe the or Chamber the opinion which lie had expressed in decided that letter. He was an advoc ate, a strong, d advocate for the continuanc e of the French an E as i;;;11 alliance. This declar ation electrified th e Chamber.... The Marshal had n ot concluded his remarks wheLi the post left Paris. hut that, The Jottrimi des Debats, whic h ably soPrrti the pacific policy of the Cabinet , h as the follovving remar ks upon the ...lobate of Wednesday, and th e day preceding : me A n l t . s G of ar il n i i . e T r hP;acgrse,s,anadttatchkei directng:e vemr.y,,acbkosdyi i of sparing Royalty. lie turned ft.' "count the conecearl. of M . Berry . Guizot mounted the Tribune not to r It was high time to put an end to " c3 , o a a sYstem' b .,: tiltics of M. Gamier Page., but to ' reslit respect for the Chamber. 'The noble and. e.lergeitoliegieuse guage of M. Guizot produced in the Chinni's) a" sbiettaintgthaendsatmhee timeapplause o o f m t a la g i this nt of th e explosion. This was in our opinion the great 0: 1c .,,„ W ill Minister, and a solemn lesson given ta the ° P of TA of tba e b M. Guizot protested against the rashness o atr, unc, and against the follies of the press. The c beri will receive this protest as it was received by.tlie the anctut. the country will not see without'', surprise n gi.. ceivable ovation which the journal of M. Teiers, Ih t ) e.. e ta ty timist journal, and the journal of the Republic, now', ;nal on M. Berryer. " What a great citizen" says a r w arSt of the Left. " The Royalist orator, (and it is a J" 7 . li t e journal which speaks,) has denounced the polieY Cl. , t , ! King. This great citizen curses the July Cl. .v 0 of legitimist interests calls for war, the This Royalist orator insults Royalty--this representative.. lution, the overthrow of France and of Europe ' Actor r. 13errje , ingly, the journsl of M. Thiers confesses that M. He is g°° th re e , is the most eloquent man in the Chamber. eloquent than M. Thiers. Sea what it is to attack n, What in e or King 1 What courage 1 What genius lion I It is because M. Berryer is passionately too _... revolution ; not the Revolution of July, which is too propagrda re d.. ,cific, too mean, too honest. M. Berryer loves a g rand:s _ t volution—that uhich would take by storm all the Monarj: e t 0° lea n'Pd:i:nigi :nebdvtalif al or,_l:!cit. ifol o tcli t. 'fifuiall:-: in Europe, beginning with the French monarchy. ~. .I . ° a the Quotidienne to add, .: at length" Courrier has reason to say " What a great citizen, has spoken. i . general news news in the French Papers of Thuro) • _ a The following brief extracts include the onlY and Vice Turkish I Turkish Ambassador, Admiral j iZousg iu, Yesterday evening his Ilfa'esty gave audience to ! r b il ., The Duke of Orleans set out last Roussin. the Royalist oraatuor o'clock, for Sr. Omer, accompanied by and Lieut.-Col. Montguyon._ to to-dei The Committee on the Address met ag.vio examine the several amendments which have' e , A cn f a r :e posed by different Deputies. It resolved that it e'du" - a - e ,./.. hito consideration several of these amendments, .I"lcus. ing on o . n the whole the proposed Address now under wg i in the Chamber.—Courrier Francaise. .nig.Chotioaaeti Gleerlaraell PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This splendid Theatre is OPEN' EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. In addition to the Solo Performers who have already ap peared at these Concerts, Mr. Willy has great pleasure in an nouncing that he has made arrangements with M. Delabarre, (Oboe), of the Academie Royale, Paris; M. de Folly, (Pic colo); and M. Baumann, (Bassoon). THIS EVENING, DEC. S.—PROGRAMME. Overtures--Midsummer's Night Dream, Anacreon. Quadrille—Prince Albert. Waltzes—Victoria, Der Feen Welt. Solo on the Bassoon by Mons. Baumann. Selection from the Mountain Sylph, introducing the Brida Chorus, Farewelito the Mountain, and the Fortune-telling Scene. Selection from Meyerbeer's Opera, Robert le Diable, arranged with Solos for Bassoon ' Harp, Corno-Inglese, and Clarinet. Solo on the Flageolet by Mr. Champion. Duet Cornet a Pistons, Messrs. M'Farlane and Keightley. Grand Battle Symphony—Beethoven. Promenade, ls.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Private Boxes, le. ls. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-oilltre, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Unprecedented Novelty—Change of Pieces every night—Lase week of Jim along Josey—and engagement of Mr. Butler. THIS EVENING, DEC. 5, Will he acted, THE STRANGER. The S ranger by Mr. Butler. To be followed by JIM ALONG JOSEY, and Piccaninny Colman'4 Visit to the Masquerade. To conclude with THE RAVENS OF ORLEANS. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Continued attraction of the Wizard of the Wave. THIS EVENING, DEC.:S, THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE; OR, THE SHIP OF THE AVENGER. After which, BOMBASTES FURIOSO. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Attwoed, Lennox, &c. To conclude with the Melodrame of THE BANDIT OF THE BLIND MINE. Characters by Messrs. Harding, Dale, Cony, Blanchard, Alt_ wood, Miss E. Montagua, Mrs. France, &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage. This highly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAILY from Ten till Dusk. The Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety, Ind beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa lious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged with the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits of the animals. The most important additions recently received are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant, a pair of the scarce Carastows, called Cushew Birds, the Sacred lois, the Bush Cow (the only specimen in Europe), a pair of Cassowaries, the Monster Boa (the largest ever seen in confine ment), &e. The splendid collection of Carnivora are fed at Four &Cloak, st which time the ferocious attributes and amazing muscular p - vver3 of these forest monarchs are displayed to the utmost ad vas Cage. Admission, One Shilling. COURT CIRCULAR• The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday. M. Lisboa was introduced by Captain Seymour, Groom in Waiting on his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater and Captain Sey mour, rode out on horseback yesterday. Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yester day at Buckingham Palace to inquire the state of her Majesty and the infant Princess Royal, were the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjcrna, the Belgian Minister and Madame VAR de Weyer, the American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson, tL3 Spanish Minister, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame Murphy, Marquis of Hcadfort, Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, Countess Dowager of Dunmore, Earl and Countess of Cadogan, Countess of Errol and Lady Ida Hay, Lord and Lady Friroleston, Lady and Miss Foley, Lord Rayleigh, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles and Lady Adam, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, Mrs. G. E. Anson, Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, and Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Pechell. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, left her residence, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, for the station of the London and Birmingham Railway, near Euston square. Her Majesty and suite consisted of the Vis countess Barrington, Lady in Waiting ; Hon. Miss Gore, Maid of Honour in Waiting ; Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain ; Sir Andrew Barnard, Clerk Marshal ; the Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain ; Lady Georgiana Curzon, Lady and Miss Gore, and Viscount Barrington. Her Majesty and suite left by a special train at half past ten for Sudbury Hall. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Wednesday evening at Marlborough House. The Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Lister, and Mr. Vizard had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouchere left town yesterday for Brighton. Despatches from the Governor of Newfoundland were received yesterday at the Colonial -office. THE RHINE.—The Mannheim Journal, in ap pealing to the humane in the lower circle of the Rhine in favour of the sufferers from the inundations in France says, " Let us retain the words of the song which everybody is now singing, They shall not have the Rhine I' which will resound throughout Germany, whenever pretensions of foreigners shall require them to be acted upon ; but at this moment, when we see the south of France a prey to the deepest affliction, let us forget our national differences, and see nothing but fellow-creatures living like ourselves by agriculture, struck by a catastrophe to which we may one day be ourselves exposed." The Earl and Countess of rt^l e rived at their town re , " poned the:- who have ar _.,..unce from Ramsgate, have post. . visit to Leamington until after the Royal , urtstening, when they propose to proceed here for the beaefit of the Countess's health. Her Ladyship is suffer irotn an accident, which confines her . to the sofa, and obliges her to be carried up and down stairs; nor can she rise from the sofa without the aid of crutches.-- LeaMingem Chronicle. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE Oa. CITY, TWELVE O'Ckwa have LIVERPOOL COTTON M ARKET, TIitiRSDAY.,-"" and had a better demand . for Cott on since our lastrep OrLP than which has enabled sellers to ob tain rather batter rat! re they could de last week. Pr ices have consequentel covered from the depression we t hen noticed. This ,av°,e, able change in our market may be attribut ed to a b'et'l.o state of trade in Manchester, and money matters being a more accommodating position, arising out of the aue• cessful progress of affairs in Syria, and the improved state of things in the United Slates. Speculators have taken 3,500 bales of American. The sales to-dar are about 3,500 bales of all kinds , only the market aot lively as it was previously in the week ; 1,500 A merica t he II 50 Pernams, and 220 ° Surat, were forwarded country last month unsold. received Since the above has come to hand, we have been Friday's Cotton Market. — " Since the above hal rice, written yesterday, to go by the steam- p acket to about 4,000 bales of Cotto n have been sold at previous raL4. into The liamburgh mail, which arrived yesterday evening' brings the Exchanges upon Landon same as last Pos g ' 13 2i. Gold -I mar k lower, 4231 ; Metalliques, 105; Bank Actions, 1,700. ------- . 7 The packet ship Burgundy has arrived at Havre fr°rnid New York, sailed on the 9th November, having on Oa 3b0,000 dollars in specie. Consols which left off yesterday at 68 k cx . dill" fordtihve. TIIE FUNDS. opening, arc rather bettor, and may be quoted 89 CI" z ., for the Account ; as yet there is very little doing. 6 i dis chequer Bills, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock , 156 158 r'' Stock, 236 238. In the Foreign Market the only operation to the pr°' sent time is in Spanish Active whic h has rather im p roved, left off 235-1, may be quoted 23i 24 ; Deferred, ilk 124; Passive 51 4 ; Portuguese rather lower, left on , 344, at present 331 341 ; Three per Cents. 214 224; Colombian, 254 26 ; Mexican, 294 30 ; Dutch Two-and! a. Half per Cents. , 51 4 Five per Cents. 984. • Shares—Great Western, 21 22 premium ; London and Brighton Railway , 104 4 dis. ; .Blackwall, 45 4 die, ; Birmingham , 77 79 p remium ; Southampton, 53 54 per share; Croydon, 113 121 per share; Greenwich, 7i ei per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY A T ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths . 4 .... 9 London and Brighton London and Blackwall ............. 225 18i to -- llanchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties Ditto 1 Shares - North Midland - Ditto New COURSE OF EXCHANGE-' —( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 6 25 Gibraltar -i't t3 „, Ditto, at sight 90 Rotterdam O U. 12 65 Genoa .. Antwerp Hamburg... M.B. 13 11 Venice 47 3911 Alt ona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 45 Palermo, per oz l2l Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon ..................... 52. k Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankforton Maine _1495 Bahia Petersburg, 3 Us 37 Berlin Vienr.a, effec. fl. 3 M lO 4 Philadelphia York, y r 2 e l s . . days',...s.i.g. 1 . i• t 4 -4 46 a . oz. Trieste, ditto lO 6 IrruciE OF BULLION, YE Madrid Cadiz 354 Foreign Gold, bars 317 9 Bilboa. Barcelona ... 355 New Dollars Seville ... ........ ..... 355 i Silver in Bars O5 0 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 3. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 974 ' Grand Canal Stork ..... .... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto New, 1830 •• 975 Ditto 4 per eent..........., —. 35 per Cent. Debs. ...... 904 Royal Canal Stock -- BALF-PA ST ONE. Tim Cape of Good Hope Papers, received thismorning. arc bot of a larourablc tendency. According to the re porit appears that the Caffres are en deavouringwar against the colonists: they also froiii the to kindle frontier,a have a dread o f an attack from the boors. At the simpa time the Caffres are committing daring robberies, in const quence of wh ich his Excellency starts for the frontier om the 6th October. Consols have been during the morning 89, alternatelY' buyers and sellers, with scarce anything doing, and them has not been a feature worth notice in either of the markets; to the present time. Consols have fluctuated from 39 ssi tolB9 ; Exchequer Bills, 2 5 3 prem. ; India Bonds,lsl dis. ; Bank Stock, nothing done; Reduced, 88-i- 89. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 23i, have bean 24 i. Deferred, 12 ; Passive, .51 ; Portuguese, 34 ex. half div. 'Three per Cents., 122; Mexican, 1294; Dutch Two .a.od4 a.. Half per Centi., 51. 4 4 ; Five per Cents., 984- ~ In Shares little doing. Great Weste rn, 874 Plevit 49 ; Fifths, 9; London and Brighton 394; Blackwell, In ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27. Jack," was assisting to unload k n o l .,i ‘b t o a u m t on l g () s t h it, o'clock corn yesterday manilla, as a e tch l a: a i d ° companions coalsby the ffrom m n name of barge e " l) + i the back of Somerset House, and while crossing the plaok from the barge, he slipped, and fell into the river, with a ' sack of coals, weighing about 200 pounds, upon his back , An alarm was instantly given by his companions, vvho with some difficulty succeeded in dragging him into the barge in a state of great exhaustion. He was with difficulty re stored to life. Lord Lyndhurst returned to George-street, ni ; at Eilnovf!r_square, on Monday evening, fr,m Strarnfiel - .•: / 4!. 1..,N1 L j u3illmst ~ , i ti:c o,.:7Ariure of her Lady ship, proceeded to his new villa, situatedto iin Oxfo therdshire/4 on the borders of Buckinghamthire, nspect provements going on there. illik ei p 1 , 0 11........... 4 : 4 : . C RA j Th e T Which v„,„ ally a will, " it p " v tb • ftd, felteci li ttittrit exectn opini must gi ab 4 The f u tae.Cour ROl t fil This ed o taball e of Wild n n P •K, 4 - /k nElt , r, wri~ 4%l , lq kt ir b , 'er tr tom ! til l '141 : 1 1 : 1"l i e f t 13 t Co C I i a:lunici ii ut aships c‘s m e it kti %li t t ri ,k h ta t , 1 / 4 d, d4 rnaE i ' A b ete4 . -Rarr THE CROWN PRINCE OF HANOVE R. Now ready, in the December Number of COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MA GAZlNE,:price 35.6 d. IDEAS ON THE PROPERTIES OF MUSIC. By His Royal Highness THE CROWN PRINCE OF HANOVER. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND UMORIST, for December, also contains Articles by the Editor, Theodore Hook, Esq., Mrs. Gore, Thomas Hood, Esq., Mrs. Trollope, Nimrod, and other distinguished writers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. I