The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

IeVRNING EDITION) 15n:the Whig and Radical side of politics. Thera is I but one consolation in this, and it is, that the cause must beat a very low ebb which can furnish forth no better championship for daily service than that of con fident ignorance and hackneyed abusiveness. We ' claim on our side an almost complete exemp Lion from the common-place grossness to which we arc alluding. We may be prejudiced generally, and pas sionate sometimes ; but we—it is of the Conservative Press generally that we speak—respect the dignity of literature even in newspaper controversy. One power ful journal, we know, is commonly accused of dealing in very bold assertions, and occasionally using language which is more conspicuous for its force than its elegance. But even in this, we submit, there will be found nothing with which an antagonist of sense and information need he ashamed to grapple. There will be found nothing such as we complain of in the Whig and R.d►ca' journals ; no wretched flimsy ignorance, expressed with a coarse affectation of contempt for learning and its decencies—no raking up of the half-forgotten slang of the streets, by way of answer to authentic state ment and legitimate argument—no repititions, for the hundreth time, of dull, stupid, personal abuse, to which public opinion has long ago given the lit direct—no encouragement of rabble prejudices, in l.ioguage suited to rabble tastes. No ; these prac tices of the Whig-Radical press are not imitated bs any of their o pponents. There may be errors-- there may be haughtiness of feeling and violence of expression—but the " swilled insolence" of vulgar and ignorant conceit, the drunken fury of illiterate presumption, which we charge upon certain portions of what is ludicrously called the " Liberal " press, no Conservative journal can justly be accused of. The offensiveness apd public disgrace of this kind of journalism are very great in all departments of po litical controversy, but they are particularly so in (lus:ions of the relation of religious or Church grin ciplc3 to the conduct of public affairs. In such dis. - . eussion.; ix;e rn;ght have hoped that even the moss hardened would have shown some respect to the dignity of the subject, and some regard to the calmness of ar gument which, if it be mooted at all, it certainly de mands. But we find that the Whig and Radical jour nak will neither keep silence nor preserve anything like the correctness and decency of argument in what they say. Insolent accusation—ignorant assumption—coarse and ribalt; levity, are the weapons of controversy to which they resort. We hope that at least some of their readers will have the sense to see that such weapons are not the proper ones to use in such a controversy. and have the judgment to conclude that they ought ra ther to seek information and decide for themselves than follow such incompt , terit guides. (From the Times.) The progress of Conservative principles, as demon . . _ strafed by the late municipal elections, is fully more ap• p.irtmt in Scotland than even among ourselves. In that country, where the exercise of an open popular suffrage in public affairs was almost unknown, the introduction of the Whig Bill for transforming Town Councils into violent po!i tical cabals served the purpose of its au hors so successfully in the first instance, that under its c7rlier operation, when the plausibilities of unbridled Liberalism bid not yet been corrected by a bitter experience of its evils, no constitutional candidate could attempt to gain a seat in a Scotch corporation without the absolute certainty of defeat. In England, even in the outset of municipal reform, matters, though bad enough, were not quite so hopeless as th:s. Proportioned to the larger share v,Uch our borough population bad previously had in the election of civic functionaries, the extension of the franchise among them was the less liable to be per verted by a passion for novelties and extremes. The moderate views of the better class of English voters were doubtless overcome for a time by the extravagan cies of the nery conitituency ; but there was always reason to believe that in this part of the kingdom the evils in question would be only of short duration, and that after the first turgid bubblings of the municipal cauldron, its waters would become cool and clear, depo siting the sediment in its natural place. Accordingly, eve n from the earliest days of our Borough Reform _Bill, the returns of Conservative councillors were by no means inconsiderable ; tho improvement has been going forwsrd at a prodigious pace ever since, and at the recent elections the defeat of the Whig-ItaeLcals has been so general, that their former mischievous as cendancy is virtually at an end. In Scotland, how ever, the rc. , atiz Atka of a similar issue, though equally sure, did certainly appear to us to be much more dis tant. The Scotch voters, notwithstanding their shrewd reflective character, were likely, as we thought, to be swayed by a spurious Liberalism for many years to ceme. From the accidents of their previous position, it appeared to us that the force of events in securing corporation reform, which assuredly would have taken place under a Tory Government ,as much as under a Whig ono, was in danger of being overlooked ; and consequently, that the extended privileges, which they owed entirely- to the progress of public opinion, would probably be ascribed by them rather to the peculiar in terposition of the Whigs than to a concurrence of causes winch no Government could resist. Our anticipations, therefore, that Scotland would for a tong while be actuated by a ‘irulent but mistaken prejudice against Conservative principles were naturally strong ; nor, considering that in the short period of seven years this prejudice has been very generally superseded by a pre ference for constitutional councillors, can there be a doubt that such a ben,ficial change has been mainly owing to the domineering partisanship of your Radical Disse,.ting juntas, and the consequent disgust of the community. 8.2 this as it may, it is certain that in the principal towns of that cou►ttry a remarkable reaction has taken place. For several years after the Municipal Reform Bill had passed, the introduction of a Conser• vative into a Scotch 'fown Council was scarcely erer :heard of. Owing to the Liberal mania which influcn:la , l numbers of Church folks, the Corporations were filled to a g:eat eatent with violent political voluntaries. In Paisley these_ ,decent gentlemen literally sold the civic regalia, and also the Magistrates' pews in thc parish Churches. In Kirkwall they violently ou.ited ;he parochial clergy from their ancient legal right of examining the parish school, and insisted on that duty being usurped by a fierce anti-establishment puipiteer. At Dunfermline and elsewhere they tyran nically deprived the town-councils of their legal repre sentation in the General Assembly of the Church ; while, even in liliiiburgh itself, where the regular means of religious instruction are notor:ously inadequate to the wants of the population, they actually made a des perwe but ineffectual struggle to reduce the number of the city clergy from 18 to 1:3 at one fell swoop. Happily th , :se outrages had little other effect than to involve their perpetrators in public odium. In point of fact, they did a world of good. Intelli gent observers soon saw that the most noisy cla- mowers for reform were always actuated, not by an anxiety for the general welfare, but by some selfish or sectarian purpose. Thay saw a Bailie Donaldson panting for a ChamberUnship ; they saw a Sir Dick Lauder lerretting for a salary from the Board of Trus tees ; they saw a Mr. Denham working furiously for a suh-clerkship in the Court of Session ; they saw a Bailie Stark half road (or a Judgeship in Ceylon ; and tilt.) , might, perhaps, descry the devoted Peter Crooks nicking a dead set at the vacant agency for the Crown. These cdilying scrambles, which have more or less sig nalize d the brief ascendancy of Liberalism throughout Scotland, have contributed materially to the success of the Conservatives in the late municipal elections. In most of the contests the more rampant voluntaries and lickspittles have been kicked to the wall. In Mus:;clburgli, Stirling, Dumbarton, and Dunbar, the con stitutional candidates have been triumphant. At Dum fries the late Liberal Chief Magistrate was de feated in his own ward, and five out of the six new councillors are in thointerest of a Conservative " Lord Provost." Greeno , ,:k was contested in only dace wards, in two of which the Conservatives were successful. At Glasgow the victory in favour of the Church and Con stitution has been so complete, that a Conservative Lord Provost has been unanimously elected—a circumstance which will secure the ascendancy of sound principles in that quarter for many years_to com e . In Edinburgh th,-: contest this year has been rather of a peculiar cha racter. Wtook hen the municipal elections place, the only q ues ti on w hi c h di vi d e d t h e citizi_nsw as, whether the n ew L or d P rovost s h ou ld be :Churchmen or a furious voluntary Dissenter. Both of the candidates for that high office were known to entertain liberal opinions in different degrees—Sir James Forrest being a staunch supp orter of the Established Church, and Mr. Adam Black one of thesurst virulent of her ene mi e s. In this contest, although Sir James has her e t o f ore b een favourable to the. preseetnt. Ministry, n th e G overnmen t de n clique in Edinburgh d to ou s t him f rom t h e chair, and to transfer it t ' o s i v i es Diss e nting opp onent . On no prcvious occasion have ployed to secure an ultra - liberal t e r g iu u ni al p e h. ffort'srhbeeewnheornle advnqising patronage of Mr. Adam Black, wh o is rd t o bear pub lisher of the E dinbur g h Review, was brought e upon the city reNspaer ps, though, to Edinburgh pl.( ss, it was nobly despised. To ,:foefettihiiei ntraP the sinap!,,-minded, Mr. Black even condescended to own bro!licr-in-law (a F rofessed Churchman aitn servative) to forfeit public respect by ratting to his ancieilt tabernac le hanLeriiigs. Ali the drud ges of the self-ristituted conclave, who call themselves " toe inh a bitants' Liberal committee" Were toiling d ay and night in favour of Mr. Black's supporters. On the mnrning of the election the supernatural übiquity of Sir Gibio t Craig., of Recarton, in swearing and voting for RI Black's candidates at the different polling-places, was such es made every body exclaiv, " There be sir We v eartons in tha field to-dly!” ,N ,, vertile!e-s, the Conservatives returned an equal num 'sn",_nof Councillors with the Liberals : and it gives us 3utimirt: satisfaction to state, that on Tuesday last the o h .. en 7 rdidate was elected Lord Provost by a ma ' . 3 ' 11 councillors to 14. The Town Council, re- J a Z t o '"-g theparect,.nsions of another violent Dissenter, has t,‘iro chos en .oon t cn e nservat . ivc treasurer by a majority of a• • raring rentarksi. g r atifying results we offer the fol- In g place, the Scotch Dissent ers have been taugh t with the Church p,pt i: i y at t . hig election that, compared constitute a pitiful and powerless minority . . n ' the y .n _ h eretofore their vauntings as to their numbers and fluence have heels _alagnilo quent in the extreme. ..... When it has been the pur pose of their Central Board (some thin g like the three denomination clique in London) to cut a figure in i the eyes of the public, or to intimidate the Whi g s from granting additional Church endowments, 1 they have been in the ha bit of p uttin g forth the I most imposing arithmetical statistics as to their nume rical superiority. These conventicle frauds have been repeatedly exposed in the Times, but such artifices we may hope are now at an end. In the late struggle for Mr. Black, the Dissenters not only commanded the I united votes of every elector belonging to their re spective sects, but were supported by a very large pro portion of Liberals who adhere to the Established Church. Yet see what they have made of it ! Could the poll-books be scrutinized, we venture to say that one-half of Mr. Black's supporters in the City wards would be found to be Church people. What, then, would have been the miserable figure of the Dissenters had they prosecuted the contest on their own unaided strength? We trust that they have now got a hum bling that will do them good ; and, in order to give a salutary pungency to their chagrin, let them hear in mind that the Church has been signally triumphant under circumstances of defection in her own ranks chat will very probably never occur again. In the second place, this election has dealt a severe and well•merited blow to the insolent dictatorship of the Liberal committee. A score or two of pragmati cal shopkeepers have had the effrontery to take the independence of their fellow-townsmen into their own exclusive keeping. On all public occasions they ob trude their unsought and impertinent fiat as to the pre cise line of conduct which their mightinesses mean to force upon the community. Only imagine the educated citizens of Edinburgh being led by the nose by such a gang as the Radical committee of Marylebone ! Yet the latter gentry afford the only correct emblem of their kin dred caballero in the Scottish metropolis! Well, in the late struggle, they issued their mandate in favour of Mr. Black. Any voter daring to disobey was to be ex- , communicated from the ordinances of Liberalism, and branded with the stigma of apostacy. The fury and arrogance of their public demonstrations at the ward meetings were only surpassed by their imperious dra goonings in private society. With the most insuffer- Able impudence they have endeavoured to concuss the Church councillors in Sir James Forrest's interest by libelling them as political renegadoes. It has turned out, however, to be all in vain. This domineering faction has been subjected to an ignomious defeat in common with their pet candidate ; and we ear nestly trust that the intelligent community who have thus indicted that rebuke will follow it up by spurning their interference on all future occa siees. That the city of Edinburgh should suffer itself to be ridden by such enlightened partisans as Mr. Morris Scott, the trunkmaker—bah ! it sickens one to think of it ! A Morning Contemporaay, sorely mortified at the issue, has exclaimed in accents of the most touching anguish, " What readnebs can have come over the Liberal party to induce them to commit such a suicidal act ?" Let us tell our distressed brother that the self-destruction he speaks of is only in its com mencement. In the last place, we cordially congratu late our Scotch friends on the good understanding which has been restored between the non-intrusion and anti veto Conservatives. Throwing aside their temporary differences, they have worked together most nobly in the recent struggle. This is just as it should be. We have already endeavoured to recommend the same harmony and forbearance in regard to Parliamentary contests ; and various encouraging circumstances have arisen which induce u 3 to recur to the subject with more ear nestness than ever. FRAN CE. SPIRIT OF THE FRENCH JOURNALS The Grand Deputation of the Chamber of Peers waited upon the King, at half-past eight last night, with its address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, which was read by the Chancellor of France, Baron Pas (pier. His Majesty replied : " Gentlemen—l am much affected by the sentiments you have just expressed, and it is delightful to me to find in them a pledge of that perfect accordance between the different Powers which can alone secure the safety of the State. I hope that, by persisting in this just and disinte• rested policy, which does honour to France, and calms all disquietude both within and without the kingdom, we shall retain the benefits of peace and keep away those piinful necessities before which, as you say with much reason, neither France ncr myself will ever shrink when the interestE or dignity of the country impose them upon us as a duty. I also feel sensibly the congratulations you pre sent to me on the occasion of the birth of my grandson, the Duke de Chartres, and I have been much affected by the earnestness with which you have hastened to bring them to me." The Address Committee of the Chamber of Deputies met yesterday (Thursday) at nine o'clock, and remained sitting till half-past five. The time was employed in reading the official documents laid before it, and in again hearing the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, who attended for the purpose of giving verbal explana tions. At the end of the sitting M. Dupin read the draught of the address which he bad prepared. To day (Friday) the Committee will discuss this draught, paragraph by paragraph, and it is expected to be termi nated at that sitting, so that it may be presented to the Chamber to-morrow (Saturday), and on Monday the de bate opened, which will probably last through the week. The Constitutionnel says that when the Committee chose its reporter for drawing up the address, M. Salvandy had three, M. de Lamartine one, and M. Dupin six votes. i . The Presse states that search had been made at the Foreign.bffice for the instructions given to M. Eugene Perier, when he was sent on a diplomatic mission to .Me hemet Ali (a circumstance which, this Journal observes, contributed to induce the Four Powers to sign the Treaty of London), but that none have been found in, the archives of that department. The same thing, it adds, has hap pened in the case of M. Walewski : no minutes of his instructions being anywhere to be found. "In the bureau of the Chamber, of which he forms a part, M. Thiers," adds the Presse, " has endeavoured to account for the circumstance of the small number of official documents found in his cartons, by stating that he had exchanged with one personage alone, the Ambassador at London, M. Guizot, more than 100 private letters." The Constitutionnel says—" The Presse pretends that the present Ministry have received from M. Walewski letters addressed to the President of the late Cabinet, which are of a nature seriously to compromise the policy of M. Thiers. It is possible that unworthy adversaries may spread vague insinuations, in the hope of creating prejudices against M. Thiers, without having sem.e or courage to give any direct form to their accusations ; but let any facts be stated. We know that M. Thiers is ready to give to any direct accusation a formal denial, and to support it by proofs. M. Thiers was no more capable of i giving instructions of a nature to compromise him, than M. Walewski was of accepting them. The mission of M. Walewski was wholly in conformity with the known policy of M. Thiers. Calumny should be silent, consi dering how soon it may bo put down by discussion in the Chamber." " A report is current," says the Presse, " that some letters written by M. \Valewski on the results of his mis ion in the East, and received by the successors of the Ministers of Ist March, are of a nature to inculpate the conduct of M. Thiers in the most serious manner." " There is much talk," says the Quotidienne, " in va rious diplomatic saloons, of an act of the late Ministry, which some indiscreet communications, male, perhaps, designedly, may bring out from the mystery of the Ca. blast into broad daylight at Vile Parliamentary tribune. The story runs thus :—At the period when the Treaty of London for a few moments put hearts into the bodies of the greatest poltroons, and galvanised, for an instant, the old carcases of our statesmen—when the Nlarseil laise was sung, and all Europe was to be revolutionised, ' it was proposed in the Council of Ministers to address a n ite to the Celina of Madrid, to inform it that it was the intention of France, in the then grave situation of Europe, to occupy the Balearic Islands as a guarantee in the vent of war for the security of our establishments in Africa, and the payment of the debt of seventy millions due by Spain to the French Government, which engaged to evacuate these islands on the settlement of the Eastern question. But before sending this note, it was thought proper to sound the felling of the Spanish Ministry as to this occupation. The Junta communicated this informa tio❑ to the English Ambassador, who hastened to send it to his Government, and Lord Palmerston loot not a mo ment in giving the necessary instructions to Lord Gran ville, who was desired to announce officially to M. niers, that the moment a single French regiment should set foot at Mahon or Palma, the casus belli would have arrived, and the Ambassadors of the Four Powers, who signed the Treaty of July 15, would demand their passports. This explicit declaration moderated the ardour of the Cabinet of the Tuileries, and the note which was to have been sent to the Cabinet of Madrid was put back into the portfolio, in which probably it still lies." BOURSE.—PARIS, SATICRDAT, Nov. 21. first Highest Lowest Last Price Pr i ce . Price. Price French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents 96 75 ... 96 75 ... 96 75 ... 96 75 3 per Cents 79 ._. 79 35 ... 79_ ... 79 Al Bank of France I.,,tlitte Bank 1,0001. Sh lO6O —lll3O ... 100 ...1660 50001. Stares 5125 —.5150 ... 5123 ...5150 Belgian Bank S per Cents 97 7, ... 07% ... 977,', ... 97% Dutch '2% per Cents 53 ... 53 ... 53 ... 59 sp.oiish Active 24 ... 24 ... ..:3A. ... i:n Passive 5% ... 5 % ... 5& 5Ns Portuguese 3 per Cents 23 ... 23 ... 2t - V , ,,, ... 223* Neapont.tn lioraan 99}Q ... 9934 ... 9914 ... 99! y RAILWAY SHARES. it. Germain , er.ailles, It. p : 9 6) ... 290 ... 387 50 ... 357 50 L.B 'O5 ... 302 20 ... 305 ... 30V 140 ( '"e= ol . .. . •—... *********** :91 50... 4W 5,1 ... 49J ... 490 S_rasnurg to 11:sie ... . I he Earl o f D esar t saileCl from Cowes in the (art Y p art of past week, for Dunmore, Iceland, wh(re Lis Lordship the past to visit his sea t, Desert, Kilkenny, pr. vio us to going a cruise of several mo n ths. PROJECTE D MAILs.—,It isrtunit Liverpool that the trains whi c h convey the I MI mail-bags !L i , h an hour as to enaebreitlneek ? and the a f ternoon ma il at ALTERATION IN THE IRISH enabl e 01 , are shortly to l e a ve L on d on a t morning mail to leave Liver. pool for Dublin at five w anticipated that the mail gefo'nisresiltho departure of the pro five. By this alteratio n it for Dublin (which also packets will reach Dublin b i s v e e v r e p n oo o l ,e l l e n t c t k e . ra) now vincial mails. The evenin a L m iv: i r i p t o r o a l . at four This is an Liverpool at a be well delivered the at which let ters but if the train vrnich arrives in tug ; tqleir-iasnrgftoesrrtLhpeaivsLterpool cannot o'clock in the afternoon be made into elants of Liverpool will have the benefit of receivingle. met.- their letters before they quit the Exchange. THE 14014'00'N, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1840. SPAIN. MADRID, NOV. 14. The only act of the Madrid Government of any import ance since my last, has been a decree naming a com mittee to superintend all proceedings with respect to the national debt and the improvement of public credit. The decree is as follows : With the important view that the various dependen cies charged with the departments belonging to the public debt proceed in complete harmony, and under one con stant and fixed principle of action in all that concerns the improvement and establishment of the national credit, the alleviation of the lot of the creditors of the State, and, at the same time the rendering effective those gua rantees which have been granted them, and which may be conceded to them anew, for the re-establishment of public confidence and the encouragement of national prosperity, the Queen, Isabel 11., and, in her Royal name, the Provisional Regency of the kingdom, have resolved upon decreeing as follows : Art. 1. A committee is hereby to be established, and composed of Don Manuel Cantero, Director of the Sink ing Fund, as President ; of Don Jose de Garay, Director of the liquidation of Accounts ; Don Pedro Surro y Director of Revenues ; Don Jose Higirio de Arche, Ac. countant of the Sinking Fund ; and of Don Jose Bon ajo, of the Finance-office. " Art. 2. This committee is to consider and propose to the Regency the plan which it may conceive best calcu lated to revive and consolidate national credit, and the most simple and economical means of organizing the de -I)endencies charged with the departments of the public debt. ~ AUGUSTIN FERNANDEZ DE GAMBOA." " Palace, Nov. 13, 1840." The Col responsal newspaper, which takes the Finance office under its especial care, approves highly of the ap pointment of this committee. The state of feeling in the capital, though the most complete tranquillity prevails there, is of that mixed and unsettled kind which must be expected to exist during the progress of the vast experiment of removing the greater portion of the employes of 4 country, and putting others in their places. Such a process, necessarily affecting the interests of a great number of families, and awakening the rivalry and pretensions of others, must give rise to considerable discontent, and place the conductors of the undertaking in a state of severe trial. The point of political interest, however, which holds pre-eminence in the public mind at present, is the news re ceived here from Paris within the last few days. The people have beard with surprise the confirmation of an army of observation being sent by France to their fron tier, and ask what they have done to deserve a demonstra- tion of this description ? It would certainly be a difficult task to give a satisfactory reply to the expression of their astonishment. The right which the Spaniards exercised in the late revolution was but the common right of all na tions—the protection of their country from foreign in. fluences in their internal concerns—influences which all unbiassed persons must admit were incompatible with the national independence and prosperity of Spain. Olozaga has gone to Paris on a mission connected with the disposal of the ex-Carlist prisoners in France, and other questions touching the two countries. The Castel lano of to-night, in noticing his departure, says he goes as Ambassador. This statement is incorrect; the mission of Senor Olozaga is special . Five per Cent. Actives 25i- cash to-day. THE FOUR POWERS AND MEHE- i MET ALI. 1 (Front the Morning Herald.) W e understand that Lord Granville communicated on Thursday last to M. Guizot a note, received from Lord Palmerston, the contents of which are most im portant. Lord Palmerston sets out by declaring how much he is pained on perceiving that his note of the 2d Novem ber had given inquietude to the present French Cabinet, as that paper was rendered necessary by, and written iu reply to, the previous communications of M. Thiers. Lord Palmerston assures Lord Granville that he has the highest respect for M. Guizot, and that he is anxious to preserve the bast understanding with France, hut that he cannot treat the Turkish and Egyptian question on any other basis than that of the Treaty of July, for the complete execution of which England and and its Allies are pledged. Lord Palmerston then states it to be the determina tion of the conference to held no terms with Mehemet Ali, unless he immediately submit, and that even Egypt will not be assured to him if the Pacha continue to resist. Should Mehemet All instantly restore the fleet, and sue for peace, the Porte will be advised to give him Egypt hereditarily, and nothing more ; but in so doing, Lord Palmerston says the conference must take care that France does not create a n y p repon d erance er in fluence for herself, by being suffered to take part in the settlement of the question. Lord Palmerston concludes by saying that a mes senger has been despatched to Admiral Stopford, in structing him to inform the Viceroy of the ultimatum of the conference, and to assure Mehemet Ali, if h e de lay a day in making his submission, the Great Powers will support his decheance at the Porte, and that instant measures will be taken to dispossess him of Egypt. We further understand, that when this note was de livered to M. Guizat, a conversation ensued between the French Minister and Lord Granville. The former asked if the Pachalic of Acre would be ceded as well as Egypt hereditarily to Mehemet Ali, in case of his im mediate submission ; to which his Lordship answered, the conference was determined, in any case, to take Acre from him, and that now he should not be left any part of Syria. We also understand that means have been taken to ; foment an insurrection in Egypt against the Viceroy, and that the news of his being deposed, and possibly strangled, is daily expected in London. To the above revelations we have to add, that hitherto Lord Palmerston has been in the practice of sending the diplomatic (not service, of course) de. spatches for Admiral Stopford to Vienna, for the pur pose of submitting them to the inspection and approba tion of Prince Metternich, and that the Prince has more than once stopped the despatches in transitu, and referred them to the writer, Prince Metternich being of opinion that as Mehemet Ali did not submit at once to the orders of the Porte and the Conference, the Treaty of July should be rigorously enforced, and therefore he thought it useless to offer terms, or to treat with the Viceroy, and consequently declined to participate in the war of words which Lord Palmerston invented. To avoid the stoppage at Vienna, and suspension of his final orders, Lord Palmerston has sent the despatch above alluded to in the communication to Lord Gran ville by another channel directly to Admiral Stopford. In addition to these communications we arc enabled to annex the following statement, in corroboration of the above, together with more precise details, from an es , teemed Correspondent : '‘ We learn that, in order to carry out the decision lately taken by the 'conference in London, according to which the Four Powers would recommend to the Sultan to reinstate Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt, if he should speedily submit, send back the fleet, and eva cuate Syria, Adana, Candia, and Arabia, the Admiralty have sent orders to Admiral Sir Robert Stopford to send an officer to Alexandria in order to make the fol lowing communication : T e of f icer, on his arrival in Alexandria, will de mand an interview of Mehemet Ali, in the presence of Boghos Bey, in order to deliver a communication from the English Government. He will then inform the Pacha that if he make immediate submission to the Sultan, and put in the officer's hands a written en gagement to deliver (give over) the fleet, and withdraw his troops from Syria, Adana, Candia, Arabia, and the Holy Cities, the Four Powers will recommend the Sultan to reinstate Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt. The officer will stay three days at Alexandria to learn the decision of the Pacha, and convey it to Constantinople. It; a t t h e en d o f t h ree d ays, M e h emet Ali has not determined to make his submission to the Sultan, the offic er w ill p rocee d t o C onstant i nop l e , an d make his report. The officer is ordered to insist that the written engagement of Mehemet Ali be open, in order to ascertain its contents, and if it does not con . tair; the engagement he will not convey it to Constanti nople, but deliver it at once to Admiral Stopford.'" ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN CHRIS- TINA AT FONTAINEBLEAU. FONTAINEBLEAU, Nov. 20.—This day, at three o'clock, the King arrived, accompanied by the Queen, the ,Princess N Adelaide, the Duke d'Aumale, the Duchess de emours. and Princess Clementine. The Count de Montalivet, M. d'Athalin, General Rumigny, Count Jules de la R3elie- Weald, the Duchess de Marmin, Countess de Rumigny, Bdronne de Finguerlin and Madame Angelet followed in different carriages, The King alighted in the " Cour Ovale," and was received by the Count Germini, the Prefet-General d'/Uorg, by the Sub- Prefet, and the Mayor of Fontainebleau. At four o'clock, the Count de Houdetot, Aide.de-Camp to the King, and wbo had received his Ma jesty's commands to attend Queen Christina during her stay in Frant, announced the arrival of her Majesty. A few moments having elapsed, the Queen's carriage entered the court-yard, called the Court of the White Horse, escorted by a squadron of the 6th Dragoons. A battalion of Infantry of the 39th of the Line, ranged in th e court - yar d i n f rost of the gate, paid her military honours. The King, Queen, entered the the ga t e , the Ki ng , ac - Prince, and the Princesses were on t h e b a l cony o f t h e Queen of Spain. At the d escen d e d to t h e f oot ri received the Queen in the most g oci nof r s a to: n hap d neatns titehad ierstaircase , cbacysaert the xghDpeceurekei d'Aumale,eamhdge of the French, who embraced affectionate sympathy. Queen Christina ascended Ciestaircase, arm. She approached thoen a Queene King's her with the greatest tenderness, and pr esen ted h e r t o her s h t e a r i rca augustse, aunt, daughter-in-law, the Duchess de Nemours, and the Prin- CeFS Clementine. Queen Christina is of the middle sta ture, with a very fine head. The vivacity of h er e y e is re markable, and the expression of her countenance is com posed of dignity and full of grace. That calmness, and that intelligence, which shews itself in her countenance, explains how she has been able t o strugg l e dur i ng ten }ea rs against the audacious politi ca l party wh i c h now reigns in Spain, how the Queen preferred abandoning the power, than to see it abused while in her hands. 'he Observer of Sunday, Nov. 22, which contained three folio columns c.:unected with her Majez-- ty's accouchement, has been twice re-printed, and will be kept on sale at the Office, No. 170, Strand, all this month of November. The extensive publication of the Observer commences at Six o'clock on Sunday mornings. An Edition adapted for the country and to send abroad, is regularly published at Four o'clock on Monday afternoon. SUPPOSED Loss OF A STEAM-TUG.—The Caledonia, a steam-towing vessel, left St. Katharine's a fortnight ago with a French vessel, a barque, in tow, for the purpose of proceeding with her to Havre. After the Caledonia had been detained a short time with her charge steame r al. Margate, she proceeded on her voyage, and news has since arrived of the loss of the barque, which was laden . with tallow, and her crew. It is feared that the Caled ma has shared the same fate, for no tidings of her have been obtained for the last ten days. s:eamer, a n ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Monday , afternoon, just' before high water, as a large towing outward bound, in tow, a schooner in tacking across the river off the Tunnel Pier at Wapping ran foul of the was going down the river with the ship Champion, lar board paddle box, carr ied part of it away and broke the wheel. ' o m t i l d i e d r i e s t o e f a , n t l l - 1 d her bow s prit, coming in contact with the riie bu%v c r a i r t ri of the schooner also snapped in twain, and further mischief would have happened had not within . half f e the , steamer oast off the tow-rope and gone on a short distance. The vessel at the same time cast anchor in the : ti t h i e , o r or steamer atafterwards o d r s i s tug g river, took and her in in a t ofewwattand minutes proceeded a f ter w ard downs ati%. repairedsee seen e t r o d w a i m . g ag d e o , w and a brig. __ oMAN broker, Pool-street, stated that A W it owN SLIMY named Harriet Ely and Vary Ann Williams, wome n , COMMITTED FOR STEALING were brought Court on Thursday last, charged with felony under the following rather singular circumstances. Mr. Lunt, pawn his shop the preceding d a y andpledged a shawl, belong ing to Williams, for a shilling. While he was making ills prisoners came into out the ticket the prisoners went out of the shop, taking with them the shilling, the shawl, and the duplicate. 11„ in the evening, but neither the-shawl, the shilling, nor the duplicate was found. M —r. M au de remarked that ill's was a felony, though the sha,wl belonged to one of the pri- P °l ice, and the prisoners were apprehended goners. The prisoners we re heommitted for a month. —Manchester Guardian, each SINGULAR ACCIDE NT TO A CAB-lIORSE - On Thursday Morning, ab out e l ev en o'clock, a somewhat a ngular occurrence took place in Chatham -place, Black friar's-bridge. It app ears that wor kmen have been em ployed on the w estern side of Chatham-p l ace , b e tween the general foot pa vement and that which a dj o i ns the houses, in digging to th e d epth of sev e ral feet, fo r the p ur p ose of altering the co urse of a spri into the vaults belonging to the h ouse s, and seriously damaging them. Th e n late s t o nv weather had , ho wever, suspended the p rogress of the work, and the excavations had become filled w i t h mud and water , but of too tender a consistency to susta i n any weight, in which state it was ° left without warning or notice. A t the above tinae a cab- ; man in the employ of Mr. L ee , Bed ford-row, drove up to the spot f ca b.proprietor, of Bed or the purpose of settin g down his fare, who was go i n g into the house of Mr. Tyrell, surgeon, at the northern corner Ti l e fare had no sooner alighted than the h orse suddenl. r v is up to his middle in the mire. The p oor animal's ' e , r ts to release hims elf were truly distressin g , so d the res t e r his struggles the deeper be got. Serg eant E„ - „,, 301, and police con stable Buckingham, 323 , having o btained assis an te, re leased the cab from the horse, iind at length succe eded in res cuing him, but th ey h ad no sooner d one so than the poor creature fell upon it s s id e an d ex pired. E PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND, London, 42, Old Broad-street, Nov. 2.3, 1840. The Public are hereby requested to take notice, that all BILLS of EXCHANGE and LETTERS of CREDIT, drawn upon Messrs. WRIGHT and CO., from any of the BRANCHES of the PROVINCIAL BANK of IRELAND will, if at maturity, be instantly paid, or, if requiring ac ceptance, will, on presentation, be accepted by Messrs. SPOONER, ATTWOODS, and CO, 27, Gracechurch-street. By order of the Directors, JAMES MARSHALL, Secretary. Now ready, in 3 volumes, price 31s. 6d. boards, THE HOUR AND THE MAN A Historical Romance. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. Also, 3 vols., price 275. boards, DEERBROOK. By HARRIET AIARTINEAU. Edward .Aloxon, Dover-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, NOV. 24. Will be presented Sheridan's Dramatic Piece of THE CRITIC ; OR, A TRAGEDY REHEARSED. Sir Fretful Plagiary, Mr. W. Farren ; Puff, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Sneer, Mr. Cooper ; Don Ferolo Whiskerandus, Mr. HArley ; Tilbuiina, Mrs. Orger. The Interval between the Play and the Afterpiece will be oc cupied by A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS and Mr. KEELEY, entitled TWO IN THE MORNING. To eonclude with Auber's Opera of FRA DIA VOLO. The Marquis San Carlo (Fra Diavolo), Mr. W. Harrison ; Lord Allea.sh, Mr. T. Bishop; Lorenzo, Mr. Binge ; Lady Alleash, Miss A. Taylor ; Zetlina, Miss Rainforth. To-morrow, The Midsumm r Night's Dream, with Simp- Eon and Co. On Thursday, the MidsuCmer Night's Dream, with He Would be an Actor. On Friday, The Spanish Curate, with Two in the Morn ing, and Fashionable Arrivals. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, %. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to 2,rnmence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boat. to be taken of Mr. Grogan mi_the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ne had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. And: us, bookseller New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Mr. ELIASON begs leave mast respectfully to announce that the above Theatre is now OPEN EVERY EVENING with the Grand Musical Entertainments, entitled THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. Leader, Mons. NADAUD—Conductor, Mona. MIJSARD PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING, NOV. 24. PART FIRST. Overture—Fidelio—Beethoven. Valses—Cacillien—Strauss. Overture-6oethe's Faust—Lindpainter. New Quadrille--Postillon de Alam'ablon—Musard. Historical Melange of Old French Airs, from the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Solo Cornet a Pistons—Schone Minka—Herr Koenig. Grand Selection from the Messiah. PART SECOND. Grand Overture Fantastique--Des Frangs Juges—Berlioz. New Quadrille--Rendezvous de Chasse—Musard. Fantasia Flute on The Hermit's Song from Der Friesehutz Herr Frisch. Valses—Les Fusees Volantes—Strauss. Overture—Le Dieu et la Bayadere—Anber. Quadrille —L' Angleterre—Musard. Galop—Zinc bonne Fortune—A. Adam. Prices of Admission : —To the Promenade, Is. ; Dres Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. Visitors to the Boxes have the' privilege of passing to and from the Promenade. t4.-t• Mr. Eliason, in compliance with numerous applications, begs leave to announce that the Lower Gallery will ter the fu ture be opened at the admission of Is. to each person. Doors .pen at half-past Seven o'Clock, to commence at Eight precisely. Private Boxes can only be procured of Mr. Mitchell, Rol al Library, No: 33, Old Bond street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. Prices, 10s. 6d., 1/. Is., and 1/. Ils. 6d. Boxes and Places in the Dress and Upper Circles may be secured on application to Mr. Parions, at the Box-office, daily, from len till Four o'Clock, and those in the Dress Circle will be kept during the whole of the evening, if required. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary Novelty —Increasing popularity of the Negro Melodists, and continued attraction of " The Wreck of tho Royal Geerge " THIS EVENING, NOV. 24, Will be acted, ,THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. After which, THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE ; OR, THE SEAMAN'S CHEST. Preceded by a Grand Pictorial and Scenic Inductien, repre senting a Cruise round the Coast, and depicting the awful ca amity, with the sinking of the Vessel, &c. To be followed by JIM ALONG JOSEY, and Piccaninny Colman%i Visit to the Masquerade. To conclude with the Caledonian Romance, entitled THE REIVER'S RANSOM ;OR, GILDEROY THE BONNY 'BOYI ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Continued attraction of the Wizard of the Wave. Decided success of the Ran-Dan Club—Revival of Wallace. THIS EVENING, NOV. 0 4, THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE ; OR, THE SHIP OF THE AVENGER. After which, TIIE FEMALE BOATMEN'S SOCIETY ; Oil, THE HAN-DAN CLUB. Characters by Messrs. Bender, Attwood, Miss Pettifer, Mrs. France, Mrs. Hicks, and all the Ladies of the Ballet. To conclude with the Melodrama of WALLACE, THE HERO OF SCOTLAND. In which Messrs. Dale, Blanchard, Coney, Mulford, Ben der, Courtney, Asbury, Miss Kemble, and Miss E. Montague, will appear. `GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—So determined are the efforts to get this line opened before the middle of December, that on one part, for which Mr. Bedbmough is the contractor, the excavations are, for expedition, carried on upon a novel and undoubtedly quick system. As during the past week, the wet has so obstructed the horse and barrow runs, platforms are erected one over the other, and the soil is thrown up, a spitful at a time with the spade, and then successively hoisted to the next, where another man is ready to receive and pass it on ; it is said each spit or spadeful hoisted costs a penny —Salisbury Herald. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. -Great has been Tory rej o i c in g a t t h e results of th e recent Municipal elections. Th e s y s t em b y w hi c h they contrive to make p a show (f victory, when they have it not, deserves exposure for its vileness, and as a warning to all parties to put no faith in their statements. It is by lyin& when lies cannot be detected, and suppressio n of facts when a lie would not he safe. In many inA inees that came within our knowledge, the lists alluded were wholly false, the gains being jnst the reverse of those stteed, and then almost every place was omitted in which the Liberal gain could not be denied. To take our own county, for instance; the Liberals gained largely at the last registration in Taunton, Bridgwater, \\ T ells, Frome, and Bristol: they lost only in Bath, and there but slightly. Yet did Fraser claim a gain for the Tories in Bristol (where the Liberals gained nearly boo), and wholly omitted all the other places from its list. Is this honest ?—Somerset County Gazette. A FLANIING DEPARTAIENT.—" New Jersey Mines up in a blaze of glory." says a New York journal, , xulting in the majorities that province has given in favour a General Harrison. But New Jersey is always in a blaze of some sort; whether i t b e a blase of glory o r t h e blaze of a conflagration. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 21.—The meeting of the English re sidents of Brussels took place yesterday morning at the Hotel de l'Europe, It was composed of all the English of distinction now at Brussels ; Lord Ranfurly presided, assisted by Lord Combermere and Admiral Drummond. The meeting deeply sympathising with the victims of the lamentable catastrophe which has afflicted several de partments of France, resolved that subscriptions should be opened in all the towns of Belgium in which there are English residents, and appointed a Committee to receive them. 2,300 franca were subscribed on the spot. According to the present arrangements of the British Post-office, all the letters from Belgium for England are forwarded to the chief office in London, whence they arc again forwarded to their destination. Thus letters from Belgium for Dover, for instance, are not delivered to their address till they have twice travelled, to no purpose, the distance between the two places. It was for the interest of both countries to change a system which caused such delays, and we learn that an application to the English Post-office has been completely successful. From the Ist of December next the letters from Belgium to Dover, and the places between that town and London, will be enclosed in a separate bag, and directed to the postmaster at Dover, who will forward them to their destination. DUTCH FUNDS.—AsirrEitoas, Nov. 2.) Money. Bill.. • tetual Debt, 2.% per Cent .)itto, ditto 5 per cent. A omit Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............ Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 71• 1 4; 72 1 4 Commercial Company, 4t per cent 16434 166% Ditto (183.5 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 per cent........ ............... Exchange on London, One month l2 Two months Dutch Papers, Nov. 21. Bautiems „ Nov. 21. R A o c t t r h u ; :a : c l L h D i G i e d i b ,, A t ,LZ2:3I.I,UmSNr per CDe5 Cant n — t. Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 584 ___--(1,4;,) 9 . -.)% 3 per Cent. ----..Thirty•seven-----... CS% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent tal Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 11() Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .......... National Society . ..,- Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Nov. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 13 rive per Cents. Metalliques • lO3 Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares l7lO —Alipenzeine Zeitung, Nov. 19. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Nov. 20. Bills. Money A ustrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares A nylo-Itussian Loan 1 0 71% 107 Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, Certificate Inscription, lit Series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop:. and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9 7 1% 97 _ - Ditto in Certificates ' S7% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 4i 4934 Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. '7 3 14 73 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Celt... Spanish, New 3 per Cents. — eXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Nov. 20.-13 4 N.—Two months. 13 2U STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13.—Seventy-five days, IL 36. PETRRSBURGH, Nov. 10.—Two months, 39 13.16 pence. HERLIN. Nov. 17. —Three months, 6.16 h. LEH.IIC, Nov. 16.—Two mo ths, 6. 11N. VIENNA, Nov. 12.—Three months. 9. 46. HAMBURG GR MARKETS. AIN. Wheat. Marks 333 to '154 Barley, hiecklenburgh 174 to 194 --. Magdeburg 036 to 3A - Magdeburgh... 180 to 0 , 6 - Anhalt, white 3 , 4 to : 81 --- Holstein --- red ... 236 to 363 -- Summer l6B to liB -- Brunswick 330 to 354 Oats, Eider ..... l2O to 136 - Mecklenburg 214 to :Al3 -- Mecklenburg ... 144 to 11i8 - Polish - Holstein --- Holstein - East Friesland... 12 , tle 133 Rye, Mecklenburg -- Dantzic -- Elbing and Ko. Buck Wheat 6O to s's nigsburg 225 to 246 Rapeseed, Hanover ... 501 to 525 -- Upland - Riga 2lO to '230 Tares COTJ Carolina and Tennestee 714 to 9% Georgia, ht suit 2d , 644 IPh 2d and 4th 5! f, COI Ithicha 13 to I.IX, Batavia Sumatra Rio 4% 54 Bahia 'ON. Maranharn ;Madras 4A Surat Domingo 'EE. Domingo La 6 ui. I, 4 6 1,4 Porto Rico 5 i % Ila vannah 4N tiN, 8? Discount.) Bahia, White 5 % t o 7 IA Brown 5 5N Pernambuco, White 5% 7 % . I Brown 5 NI ;rown, 5 to 6N. SUGAR._ (Wit' Ilavannah, White 6 to 9 Brown 5 iii Etio, White 5% 654 Brown Manilla. Br, IRELAND. The London mails have been delayed by the boisterous state of the weather, but the storm has ceased. As yet no account has reached Dublin, through the provincial press, of any losses by shipwreck on the coast of Ireland, or of any material injury inland. 4 DARING ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE WILLIAM RAD CLIFFE, ESQ., OF LAOAN VALE.-It is with feelings of the utmost horror that we publish the details of a most villan ous attempt, on the part of some murderous ruffian, to take away the life of the above respected gentleman. Last Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Radcliffe was sitting in his parlour at Lagan Vale, a shot was fired at him ; the assassin taking his aim through a chink in the window-shutter, by which he was enabled to see his in tended victim. Happily the cowardly scoundrel was frus trated in the execution of his design. The ball struck the table, and glancing off, fell under the chair upon which Mr. Radcliffe was sitting. The doors of the house being locked, that gentleman was obliged to go up stairs to pro cure the keys. Upon finding them he immediately opened the hall-door, and, accompanied by his two sons, rushed down to the porter's lodge, when as he was in the act of areu,ing the inmates, a man dressed in a light-coloured frock coat and glazed cap, dashed past. Mr. Radcliffe and his sons followed the fellow, but quickly lost sight of him, owing to the darkness of the planting at Orrr,cau. At the wooden pathway, leading into Ann-street from the county Down, a person answering to the above description, passed, running so furiously that he did not stop to pay the toll, but, pitching it to the keeper, proceeded on rapidly. This was about half an hour after the firing of the shot. Con nected with the foregoing particulars, it may be stated that the watch-dog at Lagan Vale was taken away by some person on Wednesday evening. About five o'clock on the same day a man called at the lodge and inquired if Mr. R idelffe were at home. Receiuing an answer in the affirmative, he inquired the road to the house, arid pre tended that he was going t here, but he did not do so. Not the slip; test suspicion a ttaches to any one, ror can any reason whatever be assigned for the commission or the outrage, Mr. Radcliffe being a gentleman universally es teemed. Among the i mmense num ber s who , at v ar ious times, have been em ployed by him at his mils, there is not one who speaks of him otherwise than in terms of the highest respect and afLction. Informations have been forwarded to the Castle• and a rev. ard will immediately be issued for the apprehension of the culprit. —Belfast Vin dicator. " The Hon. James King, Mitchelstown, is removed from the commission of the peace for Limerick and Tip perary, for sending to prison James Tobin, on a conviction for stealing timber, the man having been summoned to Petty Sessions far the charge, but which in the interim Mr. King himself adjudicated, apprehending the fellow would abscond."--Limerick Chronicle. The preceding paragraph appeared in the limerick Chronicle of last Saturday, and has since gone the round of the papers. The removal of Mr. King and the transic a year ago. For it would be difficult pi t i o h n a a p l l u u r d p e o d s e to t he s took to r p y l a i e g omwo rrevived n to say, though doubtless the Chronicle had some sinister object in renewing Cork Reporter. JOHNSON, MAYOR. ACOMMON COUNCIL holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Monday, the 23d day of November, 1840. Resolved unanimously— " That a dutiful and loyal Address be presented to her most Gracious Majesty upon her safe and happy delivery, and the birth of a Princess Royal." Resolved unanimously— " That an Address be presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Majesty's Royal:Consort, upon her Ma jesty's safe and happy delivery, and the birth of a Princess Royal." Resolved unanimously— " That compliments of congratulation be presented to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, upon the safe and happy delivery of her Majesty, and the birth of a Princess Royal." WOODTHORPE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER. THIS EVENING, NOV. 24 The entertainments will commence with PAUL THE BRAZIER; or, the DEIGN of TERROR. Paul, Mr. Balls. To conclude with the New Burletta, named After which, Two Acts of ENGLISH ETIQUETTE. Mr. Handel Hilsbs, Mr. Balls • Achille Townsend, Mr. St. John Horton ; Miss Agatha B loomington, Mrs. Garrick ; Peggy, Mrs. H. Beverley. To conclude with HOW TO RULE A WIFE! Duke Aranza, Mr. Butler ; Juliana, Mr. H. Beverly. Dress Boxes, 4s.—Olympian Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2b —Gallery, ls, Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, is. 6d ; Pit, Is. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. THIS EVENING, NOV. 24.—PROGRAMME. Overtures—Der Fre),,ebutz, Zampa. Haen•el's Fantasia, introducing Solos for the principal Instru, ments. Selection from the Mountain Sylph, introducing the Brida Chorus, Farewell to the Mountain, and the Fortune-telling Scene. Solo on the Oboe by M. Albert Delabarre, of the Academie Royal (his first appearance in this country). Solo on the Violin by Mr. Willy. Duet Cornet a Pistons, Messrs. M'Farlane and Keightley. QuadrilleQ—La Princesse, La Fille du Regiment. Waltz—Der Feen Wilt. To conclude with Beethoven's Grand Battle symphony, for chich an addition has been made to the already numerous and efficient orchestra. Promenade, Is.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Private Boxes, U. Is. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her Majesty's Immediate Patronage. Th ishighly popular and interesting resort is OPEN DAILY .ig from Teri till Dusk. The 'Menagerie, which is unequalled in the number, variety, Ind beauty of the specimens it contains, occupies several spa -ious and elegant buildings comfortably heated, and arranged aith the nearest possible assimilation to the natural habits o the animals. The most important additions recently received are the rare and beautiful black Leopard, le Mignon Elephant, a pair of the scarce Curassows, called Cusliew 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‘c. The splendid collection of Carnivora are fed at Four o'Cloak, at which time the ferocious attributes and amazing muscular p )wers of these forest monarchs arc displayed to the utmost ad aotage. Admission, One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received severaipoeticaieffusions on the late joyous event, but in general they are hardly worthy of the theme MAP OF CHINA. AT WAR WITH CHINA—WHERE IS CHINA? VERY FEW CAN TELL. The Sun Newspaper will soon answer the question by publishing a Beautiful, Large, and Highly Correct MAP of CHINA, with a Complete History of that Extensive Empire, and its Singular People. THE MAP will nearly occupy a page of The Sun. It is got up under the special Superintendence of the celebrated Mr. JAMES WYLD, Geographer to her MAJESTY the QUEEN. It comprehends also a large pot tion of India, from the Mouths of the Ganges—•the Islands in the Bay of Bengal— B irmah —Assam Tbibet Nepaul Cochin China—Canton, and the immense Islands and Bays along the coast of China to PEKIN, situated One Hundred and Twenty Miles inland from the confines of the Yellow Sea. The next News from China is expected to be ex ceedingly interesting and decisive. The Island of CH USAN, the first point of attack by the Expedition, commands the great Bay of Nankin, from which the Imperial Canal communicates with Pekin, the Capital of the Empire. Chusan is about half way between Canton and Pekin. ORDERS FOR " THE CHINA SUN " May be given to all News-agents, or sent direct to the Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, where prompt attention will be paid to each communi cation in the order it is received, and the Paper duly forwarded. Parties sending Orders should write their Ad dresses distinctly, to prevent mistake. On former occasions several letters had been received with out either Name or Address. The Price of the CHINA SUN will only be SIXPENCE, which can be sent by post FREE. N.B.—No EXTRA Charge to Regular Sub scribers, who will receive their Papers in the usual course. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London, Nov. 11, 1840. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 40 minutes after 2. I Evening 5 minutes after .2. The rublication oft e Evening Edition of Tux SUN com- menced at 10 minutes after Three. , .....„: , i t . .., .„, .4 y.' - l'ffil e „ fl, rs. : „-...._..._e, ;,.....,:. ,:,...1, „ -12- - ---,--, , Z-')) --:1-10-1. LONDON: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1840. The few accidents which have of late taken place on railways seem to have come on society like the shock of an earthquake, and have seized hold irre sistibly of the public mind. Loud and just has been the condemnation of that carelessness by which some half-a-dozen or a dozen lives have been lost. Eagerly made and numerous have been the reeom ' mendations to improve the management of rail roads. Captains of trains, better engineers, em bankments, examinations and licenses, six-wheeled carriages, buffer springs, new signals, an extended railway police, are amongst the novelties which the excited state of the public mind, caused by the loss of a few lives under very painful circumstances, has showered on the public press. The outcry against the Directors has been great. Coroners and Coroners' Juries have been called on to amerce the Directors wherever they or their servants were the least in fault, and the utmost vigilance of the public to protect itself has been required. Old en gines, shattered and dilapidated carriages, contri vances denominated antique, though they date from within the last ten years, have all been loudly and hotly decried, and it has been ex pressly and pertinaciously said that the Directors must not be confided in, that they have a pecuniary interest in the matter, and that the only way to secure the public against such disasters is to watch over them, control them, and compel them by law to have better drivers, more secure engines, and be more particular and peremptory in appointing the hours at which each train is to start. We have not evinced, we believe, insensibility on this im portant question, and have come forward with our share of recommendations and warnings. But we cannot fail to feel astonishment, on reflection, at the warm interest which such sudden accidents excite, compared to the apathy which habit engenders, con cerning deadly injuries inflicted on society to ten fold, or even a hundred-fold, the extent caused by railways. Not now to speak of the Corn-laws, except in their relation to the priesthood, though they are a frequent example of a state of the law slaying by lingering torments hundreds and thousands, while the railways, like a cannon-ball, have only inflicted a sudden, though a terrible death, on a few, we can but feel prodigious astonishment that the priesthood should be allowed year after fear to inflict pain and woes on society to which the accidents on railways are the merest trifle. A large portion of the evil of the Corn-laws is inflicted for their be hoof, and that enactment is maintained by their Christian voices in Parliament, at tavern dinners, and amongst their tithe -enslaved parishioners. Of that slavery to which we yester day adverted, as defined by Mr. DovER with the full approbation of the Times, they are the contri buting authors, for they constitute a very numerous class, maintained in lordly and legal opulence, wrung from the slave class, who receive not a decent equivalent for their labour. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY toils a few hours every week, and he receives about 68/. a-day, while the weaver for six days' labour, each day of sixteen hours incessant toil, receives only 9s. An agricultural labourer works nearly as many hours as the weaver, and gains about the same sum. But it is out of the produce of these men's labour that the income of the clergy is paid, and the workme❑ are condemned to excessive toil and excessive poverty because, among other things, the priesthood are very numerous and receive very much. Thousands are condemned to suffering to gratify the :,eifisliness of a few, but habit renders us thoroughly a►:d perfectly apathetic to the evil, and the overturning of an empty carriage on a railway would excite infinitely more comment. Neverthe less, this evil may be remedied like the accidents on railways. Inequality of property, except it be pro duced by positive enactment, like the great inequa lity caused by the Corn-laws, does not fall within the scope of legislation ; but the priesthood, and the property of the priesthood, exist but by law, and the legislator is the g uilty author of all the dis tress and suffering caused by the wealth of ti e priesthood, and the poverty of the labourers. The priesthood, like railways, exist, for a pur- F, VEN 11414 P. ON -_~~_. pose. Man, in all grades and varieties ) exists by the will of his CREATOR ; if he be happyi and he exists for no purpose of society or of the law giver. The priesthood are the creatures of the law, and are maintained to teach the people reli gion and morality. Beautifully to a certain extent' though with some little drawbacks of d an g er, have the railways answered their purposes. Astonish' ing is the celerity with which they convey gers and goods from one end of the empire t° the other. But numerous and opulent as are the priest hood, long as they have been in existence, she'. tercd and protected by the law, honoured by an ah lw r compulsory attendance on their preaching, it is their complaint that the people are Plung e in heathenism, and it is a known fact that O r passen criminal calendars extend month by month and Y ear , by year. The purpose, then, for which the priestllo is instituted is not answered, and those terribler evils we have mentioned, and which were P we : fully adverted to at Norwich, are inflicted on soc ie t y ,_ in vain. They are without compensation. if t h e priesthood do not cause, as we bel ieve they do , b r their avaricious example, and by thei r p ractice es at variance with their preaching, many of the crilliog and much of the heathenism of so ciet y , theY d 0 prevent them. How should they ? They are divided am ongal themselves in opinion, and only agree in .stret ehin i. g their consciences to subscribe the their they scription to which secures them What they care for is the wealth which the! obtain by their vows. Amongst them there are qui! Papists, Puseyites, Arminians, Calvinists, whoh as the Sco te rs are as much opposed to each other Presbyterians and the followers of Rome. Fro m' Articles, suo the source of their calling they have none, they c an have none, of that holy enthusiasm vali d ' bes Pea a deep, a solemn, and an abiding conviction.. TirY d like are paid like lawyers for what they teach , an of tho them, are regarded by the reflecting part community, as taking fees to tell fa lsehoods'- ' n ent adhering to one formula, while th e y avow other d iffer ent opinions, and take different sides , c an have n° th o effect than to make the community believe it is nothing but the bribery of the Sta Le.e s i dowment which makes them teach the a 'f°rm e cut and dry doctrines they coldly expoun d ' ". enc :f i n ipite of in spite of all the bolstering of the law, large incomes perpetually growing larger, in aV h te oo d new churches and new endowments, the P rie h st t h e are falling into contempt, and are regarde d 4 a u . multitude, whom it is desirable they s h ou ld in ence, with aversion and disgust. Their open, pable, and heartless insincerity re nders them utteth: and hopelessly unfit to obtain any mastery over minds of the people. ma tter Now this is, we affirm, a most important I t u nder' for the consideration of the Leaisl ature• To takes to check crime and promote morality. a. this end it employs the whole of the terrible aPP its ratus of criminal jurisprudenc e, inflicting by tni nala penalties, perhaps, as much misery a s the cri it actually inflict on society ; and for doing Whi ch _ 0 that mote can only answer on the supposition tig misery would otherwise be inflicted their, if actually suffered. If such be it s function, an u t. to attain that end it institute an d support a Pr ies hood, how can it answer to itself for still m the derided priesthood of the Establishment? h Tbe l y d affirm that they are most usefu l, but whY they be implicitly confided in an d believed, vest, the railroad directors, who have a personal inter a strong motive for good behaviour , are trot for one moment to be trusted, but must be watched and p le „ . ce „ under public control? Beyond their affirmation ,1" c 911- 7; is not the shadow of a proof that they any benefit on society, in return f or the vast iv come annually bestowed on them. In the absen ce of all such proof beyond the interested assertion s of the priesthood, Parliament cannot answ er to its conscience, if it have one, for con tinuing t o trust the safety of society to such a bat tered, degraded, broken, and antiquated contrivance as the endowed priesthood. Like railway dir ge ; tors, it undertakes to conduct society t o the end 0. ° its journey ; and it is now plain th at the expels to machinery of the priesthood, which it em f lo or s a ll this end—bouncing at one time away control, and at another crushing the people-..-Me `not and cannot be made to a nswer the purpose. M. GuezoT emphatically declared, in the spee c " which we yesterday published, " that the grea t policy,—the superior interest of all the Powers ot Europe is the maintenance of peace everywhere and always." Such enlightened sentiments in tha mouth of a French statesman, and now, we hope, the ruling statesman of that e mpire, must give un mixed satisfaction to all the peace -loving ptpeople 0 England. It was coupled with another stement of which we have a lways felt the force, and which tea ches our s tatesmen a lesson, tha osing t the con. tes t in the East did not justify exp the grea t interest of p eace to the hazard uf interruption. That gteat interest he said had ben sa crificed to the minor interest of the East. fie did not say by whom sacrificed, but whoever flight have been in fault, no possible circumstances could justify any English Minister for entering into w ar with France, which would involve all Europe for the interest, or eve n inte g rit y , of the Turkish empire. Let us hope that the danger may now be considered over ; and that the alarm which the threatened interruption of peace has spread through the whole empire, will only inspire our statesmen with double caution, while it su enothens the urinationdate sucii as willof the re s people erve t ht e blessings n s o Ministers I p i e n a i :t e e: s tr i o is ; t : ere u er(ci t ne z gt j o titei T lh appreciatesto his country. peace T The e s atghreibcrunietaunies, o theg fostering s m t earni l u lg factures, the roads of France, Inuc" hands of peace and liberty; and lie will not, we presume, remain at the head of affai rs ' after providing for the continuance of tratiqillitY' • without attempting to promote the improvement °I the peaceful arts, and so make Fra nce at strong within herself, once and a blessing to social family of which she is so distinguised the h g re at member. The Times of to-day contains a great eulogt. on the Whigs, and a severe condemnation of th e Tories, and it will not be less grateful t o the former: nor less grating to the latter, that it is unclesigOeti; and, therefore, sincere. It says " that the force o f events would have assuredly secured Corpora' tion Reform under a Tory Government, as much as under a Whi g one." According to this statement th• Whigs in carrying that reform through only complied with a necessity of society. They took counsel of events, and endeavoured at le ast to make the municipal institutions of the country conform to , the wants of the people, and the circuity' N ances of the times. But what did the Tories ? Why they opposed th a t re f o rm nearly by all the means in their power. They carried evidence to the Bar of the House of Commons against it, ana rendered it as littl e efficient, when they cou ld not stop it, as possible Unwittingly the Tory Journal ha' again given an accurate d escr iption of the 'foriel They are not merely like the bandy-legged d rum " mer in th e rear o f t h e re giment or society, but when its onward march is necessary for saft3S, they command it to halt, and try to make it face.. about, in order to keep it plunged in the sands of corruption, till the rising tide of ppp , ...-- lar indignation overwhebm it. The Tories re sist, all they can, the force of circuuri 'urn r' me 111( eO l IQ( the