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DEVON PORT ELECTION. (Abridged from the Plymouth Journal.) THE NOMINATION. 1 . V.f \fp AE I'v EVENING EDITION. Early on Wednesday morning, the borough of Devon- , port presented a scene of great excitement, W. Hanco ck, Est, the Returning Officer, having appointed that the election of a gentleman to serve in Parliament for the bo rough of Devonport and township of East Stonehouse, in the place of Sir Edward Codringt n. G. C. 8., should take place outside the Town-hall, in ',Kerr-street, at eleven o'clock. Many of the houses in the borough and town ship were decorated with the colours and emblems of the candidatesp. Tufnell, Egg., and the Hon. G. Dawson. A few minutes before eleven o'clock the Returning Offi cer, J. Woollcome, Esq., and A. Bone, Esq., who were accompanied by their clerks, took their places on the hust- isp , and the preliminary forms having been read, Mr. C. TRIPE then rose and was greeted with tremen dous cheering. Gentlemen, I call your attention to the fact that Sir J. Y. Buller, one of the, Members for the southern division of the county, will submit a motion on the 30th of this month, the effect of which is to attempt to break up the Miaistry.—( Cheers, groans, and hisses.) Gentlemen, I can speak of it lightly, as I know they will be beaten, and your adversaries will be daunted. Gentle men, will you send to Parliament a man to aid and assist Sir J. Buller inlhis motion ?—(Cries of .4 N o ," and " Yes.") By your decision on this question you will not only send a vote there to oppose him, but will prove to the kingdom that Sir J. Buller does not represent the feel ings of the county. With these observations 1 shall con clude; by giving your votes this day you will demonstrate the opinions you entertain for a young, virtuous, and liberal Queen.—( Cheers from both parties.) Mr. Tripe con cluded by proposing H. Tufnell, Esq„ as a proper person to represent the borough. Mr. Muacu, of Stonehouse, seconded the nomination. Mr. RAMSEY then rose and said that Mr. Dawson stood before them that day as an old and valued friend— ( Oh, oh)—he became a candidate for their suffrages at the Linvitation of a large body of the constituency ; be was well known as a statesman of Conservative princi ples, attached to the liberties of the country, and gifted with talents of the highest order; with all these sterling virtues he was endowed with one still more high and holy...that of charity. It was the hope and desire of the nation that they would triumphantly return the Right Hon. Mr. Dawson, whom he had the honour now to pro pose as the representative of this bornugh in Parliament. Mr. Anson BAYLY seconded the Right Hon. G. R. Dawson. HENuT TUFENELL, Esq., then rose and was received with unbounded applause and cheers. He said he re joiced that day to appear before the assembled constituency of that borough. He was glad they would now have se before them the antagonist principles of Toryism and Li beralism.—(Cheers.) There was one most important question which deserved their most anxious consideration. For same years they had, unfortunately, deficient harvests, and the poor of the country had suffered extreme misery in consequence ; not only had the poor:suffered, but the mc , netary system of the country had been deranged by that cause ; they had no free trade in corn, and they were obliged to send their gold into foreign countries. If they had ha:'.. a free and permanent corn trade they would have sent their manufactures instead, which would have given employment to thousands of industrious artisans ; whilst our popu lation was increasing by hundreds and thousands, was uc 1 a state of things to be end ,red ? Not enly was the present system in itself bad, but the means by which it was carried into &till were still worse.:lt was put in the hands of a few speculators in corn, who raised up the average to the highest pitch, in oreer that they might make not a fair and honest gain, but 50 and 100 per cent. on the distresses of the country. The present system neither ensured steadiness of price to the farmer nor a market for the manufacturer, and both were ruined by it ; but he would tell them that the voice of the country was [ now raising, and he would appeal to them to attest their attachment to free trade, and, above all, the abolition of the present system. They had seen what Toryism had been, and he would ask if it was now changed ? The Right Honourable Gentleman talked of rescuing the Queen, but he should like to know in whose hands he would place her; would he place her in the power of the Bradshaws, the Robys, and the Thompsous (not Brad shaw the ,egicide)? would he put her conscience in the lc epiag of the Bishop of Exeter? lie h ad a g reat reve -1 mice for the Established Church, and be was a member of that Church, and would support its Protestant principh a ' to the utmost, but when oi:a Protestant Church took a political character—when it attempted under the garb of religion to side with the rar.ks of Toryism—when those ministers mixed in the bitter waters of political strife— under these circumstances it reflected no credit on the Church ; they were not true followers of our Saviour, nor true disciples of that Gospel winch breathes glad tidings to ail men. The principles of Tories were founded on sand and would fail. It was for them now to decide. The Hon. Ca..didate then sat down amidst great cheering. ! The Ri4lit Hon. G. R. DawsoN then rose and was Igreeted with the ai.?lause of of the Tories. He refused to I.l,dgeliimself either in favour for or agair.st the Corn-laws; but he was favourable to a modification. Ile would never consent to any modification which produced a low rate of wages with cheap bread ; he called on the electors to be l at their posts on the morning,:aud rally round the institu ' tions which l,ad proved so great a blessing to the country. The Returning Officer then called far a sl ow of handF, which was declared to be in favour of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Tripe then demanded a poll on behalf of Mr. Tufnell, and the returning officer postponed the proceedings till this I im.rning at eight o'clock. Three cheers were then given for 1 the Mayor, and nine for the Queen. GERMAN AND DUTCH PAPERS. HANoVER, JAN. Lt.—Official notice has been given of six weeks' mourning for his Majesty's sister, the Dowager Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 13.—His Majesty has suffered for some time from St. Anthony's tire in one leg, but is now ! happily recovered. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick arrived here ves ' terday from Jatland. It appears that he passed the Belt without much difficulty. His Majesty is indefatigable in his attention to public business, so that we may hope that i the preliminary arrangements for the Budget of 1840 will be speedily terminated. It were to be wished that the Budget could be published before the convocation of the ( Estates, for it would doubtless give much satisfaction to the people, since it may be foreseen that considerable re trenchments will be made.—Hantburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 18. T. PETIIRSBURGIit JAN. B.—On Monday last, 25th of December (old style) a solemn Mas=, followed by Te Deum, was performed in the chapel of the Winter Palace, ' 1 in commemoration of the evacuation of the Russian ter- ritory, by the armies of the enemy in that day in the year 1812. The Emperor, the Grand Duke Alexander, and Prince Peter, of Oldenburg, were present at the ceremony, which was also attended by the Members of the Council of the Empire, the Senators, and general officers, &c. ST. PETIRSSURGH, JAN. 10 —Exchange oa London, 34 prem. The cold is severe, the mercury in Reaumur's thermometer being at 21 to 22 deg. below Zero, in 471 to 491 deg. below freezing point, or 15+ to 17i- deg. below Zero of Fahrenbeit.—St. Petersburgh Journal, Jan. 11. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Jas. 17. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1383 1650 An,lo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, lst Series lOl% 104 103,, Russian 5 per Cent. How , and Co. 3d and 4th "51 1°8?1' Soles i Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 51% 51A, Ditto 5 per Cent 9BX 98 I Polish Bonds 1 New ticket Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 73i 73 Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent.... lOl Sdanish, New 3 per Cents. — EXCHANGES 01 1 / LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 17.-13. 7—Two months, 13 5. BURLIN„ JAN. 10.—Three months, 8. 21%. STOCKHOLM, Jas. I.—Seventy-five days, 11. VI. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtaxNA,JAN. 11 Five per Cents. Metalliques Year per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1634% —4l/genuine &Jiang. Jaa 18 PItUSSIAN FUNDS.— BEaLIN, It st. 18. Bois. Money. ) St. Schuld. Sch., 4 . ,, per cent. 1044 Prussian English Loan, 1530, 4 per cent. 1034 10 102%3% liachange on London, three months 6 ‘211( —Prussian State Gazette, Jan 1.9. DUTCH FUNDS.—A3ISTERDAM, JAN. A., Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Sv3dic,4% per cent 91% 92 1 4 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Commercial Company, 44 per cent 10414 171% Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto mr, 5 per cent. 754 71 994 99% Loan 1837, 5 per cent.................. ..... Ifachange on London, One month ll 97 1 6 T w ;an m . 2. soon ***** " ll 8"Y —Dutch Papers, MARSHALL, MAYOR. ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday, the 23(1 day of January, 1840, Resolved unanimously, That the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex being vested in the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of London, and its duties executed by two Freemen of the City, elected by the Citizens, Liverymen in Common Hall assembled, it becomes the duty of this Court to see that none of its rights are anyway infringed. Resolved, That as it appears the Sheriff of Middlesex, Wil liam Evans and John Wheelton , Esqrs„ have been committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, by order of the House of Commons, for exercising the imperative duties of their high and distinguished office' a a s declared by her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, in a legaland constitutional manner, this Court deeply sympathizes with them, and hereby offers its tri bute of respect to the Sheriffs for the firmness, discretion, and dignity with which they have conducted themselves on this important occasion. Resolved, That a Ward Committee be now appointed, in cluding all the Aldermen now present, to co-operate with the Committee appointed by the Court of Aldermen. WOODTHORPE. PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROYAL NUPTIALS. THE COURT JOURNAL of TO-MOR ROW, will contain some interesting and exclusive Particulars relative to the approaching Royal Nuptials—The Trousseau, Royal Presents and Festivities—The extraordinary Glass Drapery, &c. &c. W. Thomas, publisher, 19, Catherine-street, Strand. NEWARK ELECTION, BY EXPRESS. The Second Edition of THE NOTTINGHAM and NEWARK MERCURY of Friday next, January 24, will contain full particulars of the ELECTION at NEWARK up to the time of Closing the Poll, Speeches at the Nomination, &c., &c. Orders for this Number of the MERCURY are requested to be forwarded immediately per post (prepaid), inclosing the amount, 40., which comes under the half ounce. Published by R. Allen, 57, Long-row, Nottingham. On Feb. Ist, in Po., with 64 Illustrations, price 55., GREYHOUNDS and COURSING ; in cluding also Hare Hunting, Deer Hunting, Stag Hunt ing, Fallow Deer Hunting, Deer Stalking, Otter Hunting, Badger Hunting, &c. &c.: being the Fifth Part of Blame's Encyclopzdia of Rural Sports. " Ought to be in every country library, from that of the no bleman to the tenant farmer."—British Farmer's Magazine. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. The Second Number of CI APTAIN MARRYAT'S POOR JACK, ‘..1 With Illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield, R. A., will be published on the Ist of February. " Promises to be as good as Peter Simple.' "—Atlas. " The text is illustrated by some admirable woodcuts, from drawings by that prince of marine painters, Stanfield."—John Bull. " We shall be much disappointed if Poor Jack does not be come a popular favourite."—Morning Herald. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTIIIS. THIS EVSNING, JAR. 24, Will be performed Sheridan's Opera of THE DUENNA. Don Jerome, Mr. W. Farren ; Don Ferdinand, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Carlos, Madame Vestris ' • Isaac Mendoza, Mr. Keeley; Father Payl, Mr. Bartley; Clara, Miss Rain forth ; Louisa, Miss Middleton ; Duenna, Mrs. C. Jones. To conclude with the New Grand Comic Cl-sietmas Panto mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Wtih entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De- UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 23. —This day a congregation was holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following gentlemen were admitted as MASTERS OF ARTS.— Rev. J. Rowlandson, of Quee n ' s College; Rev. R. Blakiston, ditto ; Edward Sleap, Brazcnnose ditto ; E. Cooper Woollcombe, Balliol ditto; J C Bentley, St. John's ditto; and as BACHELOR OF ARTS.—Samuel Andrew, of Lincoln Col. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has intimated her intention of patronising and honouring with her presence the Ancient Concerts, during the present season, at the Han over-square Rooms. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is ex pected to arrive at Kensington Palace from Kimmel Park, the seat of Lard Dinorben, on Thursday, the 6th of February. The Earl of Derby gave his first family dinner party yesterday, in Grosvenor-square. His Lordship is in the enjoyment of good health. Lady Beresford's soirees, in Cavendish-square, will not commence so early as usual this season, owing to the demise of the late Hon. Henry Philip Hope, brother-in-law to tl • Viscountess. The Marquis of Anglesey will commence his dinner parties at Uxbridge House early in the ensuing month. Mr. D'lsraeli, iVI.P., will give a series of political dinners to the leading Members of the Conservative party, at his mansion at Grosvenor-gate, on alternate Sundays through out the sessf on. The Lord Bishop of Ely and family have ar• rived in Dover-street. The Countess of Bridgewater will leave , Ash ridge Cagle for Grosvenor-square abo u t th e l ast week in Fe -1 bruary. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor will leave e )mb House for town early in February. lie Earl and Countess of Mount Edgeumbe Jte ilanly have left the Pulteney Hotel, Bath, for their seat, wEdgcumbe. oust Leveson, M.P., has left Devonshire -ry • r Northampton, where his Lordship will remain severa I unt with the Earl of Chesterfield's crack pack. . . ). „ "P" I tit t alin Webster :las arrived at the Foreign (, h despatches from Lord Beaulieu, our Ambassador at re 51414 LONDON : FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1840. The House of Lords were last night officially informed that Lord CROFTON has been elected as representative Peer of Ireland in the room of the Earl of KINGSTON, deceased. In reply to the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, Viscount MELBOURNE stated that he had no objection to lay the Convention of Bergara before their Lordships. In reply to Viscount STRANGYORD, Viscount MEL BOURNE said he was not aware of the arrival of an agent from Monte Video, in Paris, offering to place that city under the protection of the French Government. The Earl of RIPON made a long statement in moving for some returns of the finances and of the political re lations of the country. The Noble Earl pointed out the fact that for three years the expenditure had exceeded the revenue. He supposed that by the end of Apil it would be this year a million above the revenue. Since 1830 the expenditure had augmented 3,200,000/., and he saw no probability of its decreasing. On the contrary, the Noble Earl from the state of the country, and from the naval and military pre parations of other countries, and from our relations with China, expected an increase of the expen diture, while our quarrel with that country, cutting off a large branch of trade and a productive source of revenue, would diminish the national resources. He admitted the natural elasticity of the national powers, but, on the whole, drew a very unfavourable, and we are afraid, not very incorrect picture of the national re sources and prospects. As one great source of our ex penditure, the Noble Earl referred to the immensity of our foreign possesions, for which, as they gratify the national ambition, the nation can have no objection to pay. Viscount MELBOURNE replied to the Noble Earl, and admitting the propriety of his motives, expressed opinions at variance with the Noble Earl in respect to the resources and prospects of the country. He re lies more on them. The returns moved for by the Earl of RIPON were, as a matter of course, laid on the table. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from two persons confined in Chester Castle, who had been sen tenced to tw e l ve mon th s ' i m p r isonment, for using in flammatory language at a public meeting. The Noble Lord stated that an informality, as he was informed, took place at the trial of these persons, who were not present when the witnesses were examined, and were not, therefore, able t o cross - exam ine them. The prisoners were also made to conduct the defence in a peculiar and unusual manner. The Marquis of NoRwANBY thought the Magistrates justified in their proceedings, but promised to make further inquiries. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Copvhold Enfranchisement Bill was referred to a Select Com mittee, which was appointed. The Commons did not collect in sufficient numbers to make a House, and adjourned till this day. They are tired of privilege. It is our business to draw as much instruction as possible from the wrangling in the House of Commons, which, like a street squabble, is in comprehensible to most of those engaged in it, while spectators look on it amazed and bewildered. Performing this duty, we showed on Monday that the mass of stupid and absurd fictions which the Judges call the libel law , lies at the bottom of all the easo nable objections .which the House of Commons can possibly make to being respon sible to law for the due exercise of its ne cessary privilege of publishing whatever it deems useful to the public. For many years that mass of stupid and absurd fictions has been unani mously condemned, and at length the House of Commons is made to feel, by the disgraceful con flict in which it is involved, the folly, and for it, the moral guilt of allowing that stupid and absurd mass of fictions to remain the law of the land. Were the Libel Law made what it ought to be, the House of Commons could not have any objection to its publications being submitted to a Court of Law. But besides this objection, the House of Com mons also objects to submitting its privileges to be tried by the House of Lords, which must be the case should it allow them to be questioned in a Court of Law ; because an appeal will always be to that House, brought by either party, from any decision of the Inferior Courts. It was said by Mr. Sergeant JACK SON on Wednesday, in reply to the objection, that the appeal does not lie to the House of Lords as a branch of the Legislature, but as the highest Court of Appeal in the em pire. The House of Lords is both a Court of Law and a branch of the Legislature, being a rival of the House of Commons ; and experience by no means warrants the House of Commons in sup posing that any question brought before the House of Lords as a Court, in which the other House may be concerned, will be decided without any mix ture of partizan and aristocratic motives. Such a circumstance suggests to us, that the House of Commons has been guilty of another neglect, from which it is now itself destined to suffer. The monstrous anomaly of constituting one branch of the Legislature the highest Court of Appeal, both making and administering the law, while it has no regular Judge except the LORD CHANCELLOR, and no bar of its own, has long been complained of by suitors, and by the public generally. At the very best it is only an appeal from the LORD CHANCELLOR sitting in Chan cery to the LORD CHANCELLOR sitting on the Woolsack. It may, however, be an appeal from a wise and intelligent Judge to a few booby partizans who happen to be Peers. Such a tribunal exists, we believe, in no other country of Europe, and is of itself a disgrace to our so-called paternal Legis lature. Ir may, however, now be expected, since the House of Commons feels the evil itself, that it will deem it high time to give the nation a proper Court of ultimate appeal. The House of Commons has no excuse for not effecting this reform. With the power of the purse, it can accomplish whatever be right, and it ought to make the House of Peers resign an anomalous office, which it is unfit to exercise, but probably keeps as a means of annoyance. If the privilege dispute, otherwise one of the least possible importance, should serve to direct public attention, and the attention of the House of Com mons, to the incongruities of the libel law, and of having the House of Peers as the ultimate Court of Appeal, it may be the means of conferring two lasting benefits on the nation. The Bank of England resolved yesterday, great]) to the satisfaction of all commercial men, to re duce the rate of interest from 6 to 5 per cent This is a beneficial change ; on which we con aor tula.xe our friends in all the commercial am manufacturing districts. At the same time, we must say that we sec nothing in the circumstances of trade which war rant the conduct of the Bank in having formerly raised the rate of interest to 6 per cent. It mat' have answered the purposes of the Bank, but cer• tainly it injured, to an immense extent, the manu facturing classes. Money, of itself, makes no money ; it is only when employed in industrial pursuits that a profit on it is obtained. The interest of money, therefore, must bear a close relation to the profit obtained in business. The con duct of the Bank, so far as the community is concerned, is defensible, if profits have ranged high during the time interest has been fixed by - it at 6 per cent., and be now falling when the interest has been lowered to 5 per cent. The direct reverse is, we believe, the case ; enterprise is now getting lively, profit is likely to increase, and, conse quently, the conduct of the Bank has been the direct reverse of beneficial to the nation. If it be said that its conduct was no guide to others, and that the interest it demanded, if higher than the market rate, would only make its custom ers go to another shop, it ought to be remembered that what it really lends is not money but credit, and that it has received from the Legislature a mo nopoly, to a certain extent, of the representative of credit. It can and does manufacture that at its pleasure ; and what is really meant by its lowering the rate of interest, as what was meant by raising it, is, that it augments or diminishes at pleasure its manufacture of the representatives of credit, and lends them out at a lower or a higher premium. It makes them scarce or abundant as suits its 'im poses, utterly disregardless of the good of the pub lic, which the Legislature at least is constituted to accomplish ; and which it, too, utterly disregards, as long as it gives a monopoly of the representatives of commercial credit into the hands of one yeedy set of capitalists. We condemn the Bank not now for lowering, but for formerly raising the rate of interest, by which it has contributed, with other monopolists and plunderers, to injure and impede the trade of the empire. A Morning Contemporary, which con founds credit with money, blames the Bank by an ticipation for now making in9ney plentiful. But whatever may be the case with money at this peiiod, credit should be comparatively plentiful, because in the spring a number of enterprizes are commenced which will hereafter add to the sum of the national wealth. We cannot blame the Bank for no longer doing what it can to stifle trade ; but our Contemporary, who is intimately acquainted with money transactions, has probably peeped into futurity, and is already certain of the mischief which he predicts. Mr. WALTER was yesterda3 completely de feated in Southwark, a happy harbinger of the other defeats, in and out of the House of Com mons, which await the boasting, deceiving, de luding Tories. Their man has withdrawn from Penrhyn ; Edinburgh they dare not contest ; at Birmingham nothing can give them the least chance but dissensions amongst the Reformers; and if they succeed at Newark, it will be by means of which honest men should be ashamed. At Southwark they have put forward a crack man ; they have used the only popular topic which they can press into their service; Mr. WALTER is a great Anti- Poor-law man ;he has been most zealously sup ported by the Times, and Mr. W ALTEIt and the Times, if they be not identical, as one of the speakers said on the day of no mination, have both been gloriously defeated. The men of Southwark have proved that the Tories have calumniated them, and that they have not fallen from that liberal faith which has long been their pride and glory. Though we have not ' gone out of our way to attack Mr. WALTER or contribute to his defeat, we rejoice at it amazingly, as will the whole empire, because it gives a noble lesson to apostasy, perfidy, and cant. Honour--• great and lasting honour, to the men of Southwark, for the heavy blow and great discouragement they have given to the most violent faction that ever I sought to coerce, degrade, and ruin a great nation. terd A a n y ot s h te e bod y, the Corporation intoincrease th of London, ef.raywhi yes chs arisen between the House of Commons and the Courts of Law. The Courts of Aldermen and of Common Council have taken up the matter, and it seems to be expected that it will also be referred to a Common Hall. One of the speakers hoped that the Corporation would address her MAJESTY to dissolve the Parliament. The privilege party found, it is true, a sturdy champion in Mr. Alderman WHITE, but many of the Liberals spoke most strongly against it. We cannot ourselves join the worthy Corporation in professing an unbounded reverence for the law and the Judges, includiAg their own Recorder, and their municipal institutions,. but we re,sret that the Liberal party in the House of Commons should have affronted so many of their friends out of doors in the pursuit of such a trifling and unworthy object. ' The Court of Queens Bench, yesterday, granted a writ of habeas to bring up the Sheriffs, so that the conflict between the Judges and the House of Commons is approaching. fhe latter seemed in clined to shun the fight ; they contented them selves with attacking subordinates ; the Judges show that they are not to be stopped by the orders jq h . mar 4s• , c< - tak . • - Zl),e ~ 1 A , 11 , 12 -1 c;:72,.3,T, ], ....cie; '.• corations. Har.equin, Mr. C. J. Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. 'Cotter, it the Box-office, from I'en till Four, wh . re Season Tickets luny be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller ;67, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 'he Grand Comie Pantomime, universally allowed to be the best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows , ever witnessed, and will he repeated every evening. THIS EVENING, JAN. 24, Will be repeated, an entirely new Legendary Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYISEN. After which a Drama called THE INNOCENT CULPBIT. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and . . Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the'Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Those Correspondents wh• wish to see their communi cations inserted, must send us, in confidence, their names and addresses. Without that we have no guarantee of the accuracy of the communication. We cannot see what benefit would arise from publishing the letter of " A Constant Reader," complaining of the extra charge on letters delivered within the district of Romford. It appears to be a local question, having no connexion with the new regulations. The reason why he does not get his Birmingham letters earlier is this— the canting Pharisees will not allow letters to pass through London on Sundays. Jolts FROST. —A Correspondent at Aberdeen informs us that on the 21st an Address to the Queen in favour of Frost and his companions was sent off by the mail to Lord Brougham for presentation, containing 7,996 sig natures, and a similar address from the females, signed by 5,000. Another Correspondent at Bury informs us that the petition prepared in that town received in two days 3,228 signatures, many of these by the middle classes. We cordially concur in the remarks made by R. W. on the question of privilege and the necessity for amending the law of libel, and regret we cannot find room for his letter HIGILWATER AT LONDON BRIDOE TO-MORROW. Morning 3 minutes altor 6. Evening 9.4 minutes after 6 THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1840. of the House. It seems probable that they will at least have the Corporation of the City of London to support them. The nomination for Birmingham took place yesterday. Mr. STURGE, we regret to see, is not the favourite of the Birmingham electors ; and like an honest man and an upright reformer, he has withdrawn from the contest. This noble and pa triotic conduct, while it increases our regret, raises Mr. STURGE in public estimation, and will not be without its reward on some future occasion. "He came forward on principle," as was well ex pressed by Mr. EDMONDS, " and on principle he retired from the contest. He sacrificed his per sonal feelings for the good of his fellow-citizens." His supporters no doubt this day have supported Mr. MUNTZ, and thereby prevented a consumma tion which would for ever have disgraced Birming ham—the return of a Tory. This conduct is the best sign of the present times. Reformers see the folly of playing the iVlarylebone game, and increasing the ranks of the enemy, out of some miserable pique or personal consideration, and at the expense of those whom they profess to serve. The same noble con duct has done honour to Devonport, Falmouth, and Southwark. No wonder the organ of Mr. WALTER is furious against the patriotic conduct of Mr. CURLING, and in the madness of despair abuses the electors of the Borough as a mob led on )y barefaced and infidel demagogues. The patriot ism of men like STURGE and CURLING makes the galled jade wince." A public meeting, we learn by the Ipswich Ex press, was held on Friday last at Chelmsford, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the release of JOHN THoROGOOD, the extinction of Church-rates, and the abolition of the Eccle siastical Courts. There was a numerous and re spectable attendance, and resolutions were passed embodying the sentiments of the meeting on the above-mentioned points. A petition to Parliament was also adopted. We are sorry that it is not in our power to give, even in the most abridged form, the speeches delivered by the gentlemen who took part in the proceedings of the day, as some of them —that of Mr. BRANPIL, late candidate for the representation of one of the Divisions of the County, in particular—were distinguished by argument and eloquence of no mean order. We hope, however, to be able, in a day or two, to afford our readers an opportunity of perusing them. In the meantime, let the friends of religious liberty in other quarters take example from the people of Chelmsford. Let them "go and do likewise." For they may rely on this, that unless they do so—unless they show by their deeds that they are really and truly ag grieved, their words, should they talk till dooms day, will never procure a redress of the grievance. Let us also express a hope that, as the London Dissenters have not chosen to set an example to the Country Dissenters, they may not be too proud to copy one from them. The suspension of the trade with China is excit ing the deepest interest throughout every part of the United Kingdom. The discussion of its origin, merits, and tendency is not confined to the Metro politan Journals. No question, the Chartist riots and the Corn-laws excepted, engages more of the attention of the most influential of our Provincial Contemporaries. The Plymouth Journal has commenced the publication of a series of very ex cellent articles on the subject, evidently from the pen of a writer to whom the details are familiar, and hicli we are only prevented from copying by the heavy press of Parliamentary and local intelligence. Moreover, independently of what appears in the Newspapers, the Press teems with pamphlets in which the views of the most practical merchants and the ablest lawyers are respectively developed and enforced ; thus manifesting that there is hardly any class of her MAJEsry's subjects by whom this question is regarded with indifference. From the several pamphlets on the opium question now before us, we select two which appear to us to place it, as regards China, upon a right footing: The first is from the pen of Mr. WARREN, a Bar rister, and the author, we believe, of the " Diary of a Physician," and very powerfully advocates the right of the owners of the destroyed opium to com pensation at the hands of the Imperial Parliament ; i i,l l it i a e Er iß second is inthe form worthy hyh yofa attention of Resident f from nm a C l t e i hr i e t i e nw r ar t ,i o taenr Lo rd writer's a PA pc etiec L ua; knowledge of the way in which the Chinese Trade has been conducted before and since the opening of that Trade, and the steps which ought to be taken with a view to the effectual chastisement of the Chinese for the outrages committed against our flag. Mr. WARREN labours hard to exonerate Captain ELLIOT from all blame, but the letter of the " Resident in China" demonstrates as clearly as light that the British Superintendent wanted all the requisites for the proper discharge of the duties of an officer placed in such a situa tion. He blames him, opinion hw a ah n da d etve i r n hdoo o n u es— r upnearmeaerigyo, overy the Ejustly,as East India Company dohig co-operatingthe opiumw it h thetrade ad e illegal Chinese ;l authorities ieeood condemns h b s y de claring the t l i f es a h p y risolier into facility thewhiatil:dws hoifcltihheecdheiloiveesreedahhtirlosrei com ing voluntarily to Canton on the first stoppage of the trade, instead of remaining on board the Larne, where he could have compelled the release of his countrymen ; and he denounces, as approaching to p eovp u ei s ui i l l m la w, ni iwth rll hi l tc t h y he , ifllis force recoe o n at o te t attempting nhdiss hd eismight l easily s i .1 y have recover done, i p z pamphlets trn during epholf e t tthsheebs before f y rou e r n : weeks ah d it s that destruction. h t .) : t e s h a s e e , us, it is very satisfactorily proved, by reference to the Imperial Edicts, that the alleged injury done to the morals of the Chinese by the use of opium, has no thing at all to do with the prohibition of the drug, but that the Celestial Government is solely ac tuated by an absurd dread of the injury which the country must sustain from the " oozing out of the syce or native silver," of which the mines of China, if properly worked, would supply more than would suffice for the corn mercial wants of the whole world. When this question was first mooted we were of quite a con trary opinion, but after a careful and diligent inquiry into all the details of the subject accessible to us, we are inclined to agree with Mr. WARREN and the British resident in China upon this point. Having ascertained that opium is openly smoked by mandarins of the highest rank in Pekin, and that the cultivation of the peppy is encouraged by the Government in six provinces of the Empire, we can no longer place any reliance upon the moral pretexts urged by the High Commissioner LIN, the more especially as we have learned that they were probably suggested to the Chinese authorities by certain rivals of the opium traders at Canton, as the surest means of raising a religious clamour in this country. the original q uarrel has been long since o u r t i , gi a os wal cause eadhissetinocftly stated on a former occasion , lost sight of by the Chinese, and insults heaped upon us which we cannot submit to without the cannot wl ith China as with any other Power total de s t ruct i on of our influ ence in the East. We zed. deal In the with wh om we have politic al or commercial rela tions. Sh e ac knowledges no international law, and holds a ll ot h er co untries in co ntem p t, either as di rectly her vass als, or as t oo obscure to be so recog ni of the treaties,n British oradmit n Resident in Chi na ," s h e will make no intercourse with her own people, excepting at one port, and that subject to such restrictions as no other nation ever thought of imposing. She treats the whol e human race as enemies, and therefore has no right to impose upon any other Government the dutyof enforcing her laws for the preventionof smug gling. The Christian feelings, or rather prejudices, of our people, have been appealed to, and we have been gravely told that any attempt to coerce the Chinese must prove fatal to the spread of Gospel I.h a with nts , c a China, i n a , fallacy—_a fallacy the clumsiest that could be in tyreuntth in in vented. tHhaotwg, reat empire. But this is a gross ex cept by opening by force the trade system of trading and by utterly abolishing the through the agency of Hong merchants, w e so much as hope ever to open a door for our missionaries into the interior of the Celestial Empire ? After the patient endurance for upwards of thirty years of the most unexampled indignities, we are riot so much as allowed to hold - the slightest intercourse with the people or Government of China, save through the agency ' of the Hong merchants, whose connection Iwith us degrades them in the eyes of their fellow -countrymen. Even in their pub lic documents, we are contemptuously spoken of as " red-bristled barbarians," " foreign devils," and the like, while to legalize the popular hatred of us, a placard is stuck up on the foreign facto ries every year, accusing the Europeans of the crimes too atrocious and revolting to be named, and yet all this has been meekly and submissively borne by the gain-seeking governments of the West. But our passiveness under insult has only increased the insolence of these faithless and cruel barbarians. Being called to no ac - count for the blood of the unfortunate Lord NAPIER, they fancied that there was no out rage which they might not perpetrate against us with impunity. The time has, however come to convince them of our power, our energy, and our acute sense of wrong ; and, above all, to establish on a quite new and liberal footing our com mercial relations not only with the port of Canton, but with such other ports as we may deem suitable for the objects of traffic on the coast of China. To do this effectually, we believe a better plan could not be laid down than that suggested by the Resi dent in China, in his letter to Lord PALMER STON. He recommends the sending a strong naval force to Canton, which, by suddenly detaching parties of men to seize upon the heights that com mand the forts of the Bogue and Tiger Island, could easily take possession of them without ex posing the ships to the fire of a single gun from the shore. These forts, by being kept, and the guns preserved, would enable us at once to block ade the port against the shipping of all nations. Not a junk could pass up or down the river without the permission of the Commander of the blockading squadron. Canton could be easily seized, but this is a step the writer does not recom mend, as it would inflict upon an over-crowded population the greatest misery, and create a preju dice against the British name. He, however, ad vises the seizure of all the coasting vessels, in cluding the junks trading in salt; and the entire stoppage of the trade with Emoy, Formosa, and Japan. This would soon bring the Chinese Govern ment to its knees ; and we might then, besides ex acting payment for the whole of the seized opium, and the expenses of the blockade, exact from the ce lestial Government such conditions for the trade with European nations as would be consistent with justice, and beneficial to the whole of the civilized world. This is a view of the ques- tion which we have more than once taken, and which we have no reason to suppose has been overlooked by her MAJESTY'S Government. Our ships of war are already on their way to China, and we have now no fear, save that half measures will be adopted, and that con cessions, of which the Emperor will never hear a syllable, will be accepted. If we strike at all, it is of the utmost importance to strike so as to leave a lasting impression of our power behind us. The Chinese must be made, not only to confess but to feel, and to tremble at our power. If a less de ci sive course is adopted, we may soon expect to hear of the plunder of the factories, and the murder of all the European and American Residents at Canton. Hobart Town papers just received state that on the 27th of July last, wheat was sold in Sydney at a guinea and a half the bushel ; flour at 801. ster ling the ton; and bread at 2s. 6d. the loaf ! At Hobart Town on the 20th of August, wheat was selling at twenty-seven shillings a bushel, with every reason to fear a still greater rise in price. The suf ferings of the poor were dreadful, and a general fa mine anticipated. As some of our Contemporaries are continually representing these Colonies as lands " flowing with milk and honey," and teeming with " wine and oil," we shall, to prevent cavil or con tradicticnt quote this melancholy intelligence as it appears in Murray's Review, a Hobart Town paper, of the 20th of August : The Vittoria, from Sydney, the 28th of July, arrived yesterday. Not a grain of foreign supply has been re ceived, and wheat is now in Sydney one guinea and a half the bushel !—flour, eighty pounds the ton ! bread, two shillings and sixpence the loaf ! We antici pated this ; and we repeat, week after week, we implored the Government to afford protection to the people under its rule—we reminded it that for the little Colony of Van Dieman's Land to attempt to effectually relieve the great Colony of New South Wales, was as a poor man lending his little all to a rich bankrupt. He would ruin himself without assisting the other. And such has been the result. It is not yet too late for his Excellency Sir John Franklin to save this Colony from starvation. We implore his Excellency to act promptly, and with decision. If he hesitates, bread will be unattainable to a great portion of the people, and with great inconvenierce to most of the remainder ; but as to the poor, actual starvation must follow ! No sooner was the dreadful condition of Sydney ascertained, than the price of wheat here rose to twenty-seven shillings the bushel—what will it be in a few days, if the Government does not interfere its saving protection ? And will it not then incur a fearful responsibility ? THREE O'CLOCK, P.M.—The French mail of Wednesday has not yet arrived. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLEES' SOCIETY Ok SCOT LAND.—We are glad to see from a Scottish Paper that this useful institution has had much success dur ing the short period it has been formed. It was ori ginally projected by a few of the intelligent and pru dent commercial men of the North, and though it has been in existence only two years, it already numbers above one hundred and fifty members. The object of the Society is to establish a fund for the relief chiefly of commercial travellers, who may be rendered incapable of attending to businees in consequence of sickness; and for securing a certain sum for the payment of funeral expenses. Any one, how ever, engaged in commercial pursuits may be admitted, and in ordr to insure its respectability, the candidate must be introduced by a member, and ballotted for by the Directors. The annual contributions are regulated according to a table drawn up by a skilful actuary, and founded chiefly en data furnished by the Highland So ciety. Such institutions deserve encouragement. They promote a spirit of independence. The recipient in sickness has an income to which he is entitled by his own exertions alone. He is not degraded by applying for relief to his employers, or to the parish, and the member who never receives a penny has the satisfaction of having contributed to the relief of his brethren, who have not, like him, had the fortune to enjoy good health. GILBERT'S ATLAS.—The Third Part of this work contains maps of Scotland and Ireland, with descriptive letter-press by Mr. R. Mudie. We have already noticed favourably, as they deserved, the maps published in the first two Numbers. The pre sent are equally beautiful and correct, and are en hanced by a neat and comprehensive account of the two countries to which they refer. The description em braces the nature of the soil, the quantity of land in cultivation, the principal rivers and mountains, with the population and staple trade or manufacture of the chief towns and the population of each country. We never saw any Atlas in which the outline and size of each country, province, or state could be ascertained with such distinctness and at one glance. The colouring is perfect. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty rode yesterday afternoon in the Riding house, attached to the Royal Mews at Pimlico. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Hon. Miss Cocks and the Hon. Miss Cavendish, have succeeded the Hon. Miss Pitt and the Hon. Miss Paget, as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Au gusta, yesterday. A Deputation from the Town-Council of Manchester, consisting of Mr. Alderman Kay, Mr. Alderman Shuttle worth, Mr. Thomas Hopkins, and the Town-Clerk, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Featherstonhaugh, and Mr. Wallace, had inter. views with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial. office. Mr. Wallace, M. P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Lord Wharncliffe and Mr. Ainsworth, M.P., had inter views with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home office. Despatches from Sir J. Franklin, Governor of Van Dieman's Land, were received yesterday at the Colonial office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. Viscount Dungannon and Lord and Lady Aylmer, at the Carlton Hotel ; Mr. Massey Stanley, at the Clarendon Hotel ; the Hon. John Brabazon Ponsonby, Sir Hed. worth and the Hon. Lady Williamson, Lord Barrington, and Major Holford, at Thomas's Hotel; the Earl of Euston, and Sir Rufane Donkin, in Park-street; Sir Chas. Coote, Bart., M. P., Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Deans Du,.das, Sir Charles Douglas, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley ad the Hon. Mrs. Rowley, in Lower Serkeley•street. DEPARTURES. Lady and Miss Gore, from Montagu-square, for Wilts; Captain. Penruddock, for Bath ; the Hon. Tracey Leigh, for ditto; Lord Clanmorris, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont, Lady F. Hotham, for Brighton ; Mr. and Lady Louisa Knox, for Liverpool ; Captai❑ Aitchison, R. N., for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Venables Vernon. and family, for Bedfordshire ; Mr. Culling Smith, for Hamp ton-court Palace ; the Hon. Miss Jerningham, for Cossey Hail, Norfolk. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23. —Ntiind W. S. W., strong and vcry squally. Co;vEs, JAN'. 23.—Arrived the Princess Victoria, from Rio Janeiro • Alchymist, Well s , St. J o h n ' s , N ew B run swick, with sails split. DA aTmotrrif, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Swift, Shears, from Sardinia; Salonic, Buckingham, Palermo. FA LRIOUTII, JAN. 22. Wind W. to W.N. W., strong gales and squally.—Sailed the Royal Adelaide, Batty, Vigo, &c. KING ROAD, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Falcon, Small, from Pau, with decks swept, loss of sails, and two of the crew washed overboard by a heavy sea in long. 18. BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Arrived the City of York, Hands, from St. John's, N. B. SWANSEA, JAN. 22.—1 t has blown a tremendous gale the last 24 bouts, from W. to W. S. W. KINCSTOV'N, JAN. 21.--Arrived the Alexandrina, Boston, from St. John's, N.B. DEAL, JAN. 23. —Wind, S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrived the Udney Castle, Turnbull, from Jamaica ; Codrington, Gayner, Antigua ; Barlow, Spence, St. John's, N.B. Put back the Asia, Mackie. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Wind, W. S. VV., fresh gales.—Ar rived the Trinidad, Crane, from Honduras ; Platina, New Or leans ; Belvidera, Al'Cawn, Charleston ; Brilliant, Cracker, Terceira ; Louise, Osborne, New Orleans ; Hebden, Fowler, Malta. Off port, Superior, from Charleston. A square rigged vessel, with ropes off mainmast, and a sloop near her, were yesterday seen to the northward of Tuska, by the Louise, Osborne, arrived. The Isaac Allerton, bound to this port, was left on the bar of New Orleans on the 22d ult., by the Louise, Osborne, arrived here. The Eliza, Abby, from Wilmington to this port, was driven on shore at Ballyleague on the 20th instant ; crew saved. The Mary Ann, Redfern, from Dundalk, which was on shore in Bootle Bay, has been got off and brought in here. RAMSGATE, JAIL 23.—Arrived the Arage, Beaufort, from Havannah, with loss of anchor, cable, sails, &c., leaky, and with part of cargo thrown overboard. BELFAST, JAN. 21.—1 t has blown hard all yesterday and to-day from W.N.W., with heavy squalls. LOWESTOFFE, JAN. 23.—1 t blew a strong gale the whole of last night from S.W. to S. S.W. The Staur struck upon Passefelt Flats, this morning, but was assisted off leaky. The Tyne, Pearson, lost an anchor and cable off Whitby. HARWICH, JAN. 23.—The Friends Adventure, of Sunder land, slipped both her cables during the gale on the 21st inst., and has gone to leeward. The Margarets, Barclay, from Dundee to Havannah, was assisted in here to- dav, leaky, and with loss of boats, sails, &c., having struck on the - Long Sand. YARMOUTM, JAN. 29.—The Margarets, Barclay, has ar rived here, with loss of bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a vessel. WHITSTABLE, JAN. 23.—The Favourite, Blenkinsop, from Honduras to London, was got off yesterday, and into the Queen's Channel, to wait for a steamer to tow her into the River, RAMSGATE, JAN. 23.—Two casks of nutmegs, one marked on head No. 501 N , middle B Yr 501, and on the other head No. 501 Y 871 N 40 3 1 1. B 501 ; the other over the head No. 404 H middle B Y 2 St. 514, and on the other head 405-109 No. 2-405. B 514, have been picked up off this place. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 23. —Some wrecks, apparently bul warks, painted green inside, and several cover nuts, were fallen in with at the back of the Wight this morning. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 23.—The John, Dyke, from Dublin to this port, in coming up the river last night, ran on shore on Western Beach. SWANSEA, JAN. 22.—The Avenger, Presett, from New port to Newhaven, is on shore in Fabian's Bay, but is expected off after being lightened. BRISTOL, JAN. 22.—A vessel, supposed in the coal trade, foundered at anchor during the gale on Tuesday ; crew saved. FAL3IOUTII, JA N. 22.—A brig, supposed to be the Express packet, bound to the West Indies, which sailed hence on the 17th inst., was seen in the offing in the evening. Microan, Jaw. 22.—The Ann, Nixon, from Gloster to Leghorn, was driven on shore in St. Bride'F, Bay yesterday, and instantly broke up. CORK, JAN. 21.—1 t commenced blowing a gale from the southward last night, since veered to the west, and continues. SHIELDS, JAN. 22.—The Margaret, Eiley, of Guernsey, lost her bowsprit during a heavy gale last night. WARKWORTH, JAN. 21.—The Eliza, of St. Andrew's, bound to Newcastle, was totally wrecked on Butmar Rocks— crew saved. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE, O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.-The sales this day are 3,000 bags, all to the trade ; nothing done on speculation or exportation. From the Australian Papers to the Bth of August, we extract the following " THE BLACKS.—We have received the followin g letter from a respectable settl e r i n th e sout h ern district, and its authenticity may be relied on Galang, Aug. 24—1 hasten to inform you of the alarming state in which the settlers in our part of the country are placed, in conse quence of the blacks. For this last month they have been killing cattle in all directions, both outside and within the boundaries ; the last three weeks they have commenced their havoc here among the cattle of Messrs. Ryan, Roberts, Henley, Fennel, and mine, to a ruinous extent: in fact, one-third of the increase is lost through them, for what they do not kill they scatter over the country.' " Rio Janeiro Papers received to the 23d November bring the Exchange on London 31/ to 31i. The Dutch mail of the 22d instant has arrived, bringing the prices from Amsterdam, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51} ; Five per Cents., 98k; Ardoin's Spanish, 24. Both the public and monied interest were rather taken by surprise yesterday afternoon, on the Bank Directors giving notice of lowering their Discount from 6 per cent. to 5 per cent. The prevailing opinion is that it will have the effect to improve commercial affairs, both in town and the manufacturing districts, as well as among the middling classes. Owing to the boisterous state of the weather the usua Foreign mails are still due—two Ostend and a French. EVENING EDITION. SOUTHWARK ELECTION, (THIS DA Y.) DECLARATION OF THE POLL-RETURN OF MR. WOOD. This morning it was announced that the declaration of the poll would take place at eleven. But to the great disgrace of some parties, there was no appearance of any body till past one—the crowd waiting all the time, with ex emplary patience, under a drizzling rain. At that time Mr. WOOD appeared upon the hustings ac companied by Mr. Alderman Wood ; and the High Sheriff having declared the poll—Wood, 2,059, and Walter, 1,535 ; majority for Mr. Wood, 524—the latter gentleman thereupon " duly returned to serve in Parliament," be came forward, amidst great cheering, and said— ,, Gen tlemen, you will not think me ungrateful for the honour you have conferred upon me if, at the same time, I must beg to observe that you have bestowed greater honour on yourselves—( Cheers)—and that you have done more for the cause of liberty than has been done for some time by any constituency in the kingdom.—( Cheers.) We bail' had an extraordinary battle to fight—we have had a com bination of interest and party and power against our liberties. —( Cheers.) Bribery has been attempted.—(" No, no.") I repeat, bribery has been attempted—(Cheers)—be t bribery has failed—coercion has failed—a powerful Press has failed—a long purse has failed, and you are the victors. —(Cheers.) Let the stand you have now taken be an example to the people of England, and above all to those places who are now day by day being called upon to exercise the suffrage. Gentlemen, we are threatened with a speedy dissolution of Parliament—(Hear, bear,)—and with the turning out of the Whigs and the bringing in of the To ries —(Cries of " Now," and cheers)—with the destruc tion of our liberties, and the turning upside down of the Reform Bill, and with the stoppage of all the great nlea' sures of civil and religious liberty—but, I say, Gee' tlemen, here is an example which you have nobly set to the electors of England—unaided by any extraneous power—against all the efforts:made against your liberties' (Cheers.) You have returned one of your own body (Cheers)—to fight your battles—to stand up against both Whig and Tory—to disregard the interests of parties"; and simply to endeavour to carry on the cause of goon government.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, we are c harged in one of the Morning Papers with acting unfairly; but we have only exemplified the old adage about the bundle of sticks, that could not be di vided, and therefore could not be broken.—( Cheers. Now, speaking of the press; Gentlemen, I think I have a right to complain of the Morning Chronicle, for not giving me that support to which I think, as an advocate of the policy which that paper supports, I was entitled fairly--' ( Hear, bear)—but of which I have experienced nothing of any value, while I have had to contend against an able , a powerful, an influential paper.—(Cheers, and cries of the Times ) Gentlemen, I lament that I should ha ve been so deserted, especially as the struggle has been a most severe one, and as we have only conquered by ind°l mitable resolution.—( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, Ivv ~1 ' now state the numbers I have polled in each parish. ? t ' George 644—majority 177 ; Bermondsey 412......r0aj0rl 170; St. Saviour's 378—majority 57 ; Christchurch 26" —majority 37 ; Rotherhithe 136—majority 48 ; S j Olave's and St. John's 227—majority 33.—(Cheers./ And, Gentlemen, +here polled at this election 3,594 elec tors—more considerably than have ever almost polled be; fore in the borough.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, I now g to take my scat in Parliament—(Cheers)—aud while 0' pressing my deep gratification for the support I have re ; ceived, and my determination to advocate the just measu res of reform, allow me to add that I trust those who dig er from me will never think they are debarred from calb e g on me to look to any measure affecting the interests of t'" l i borough—with as much readiness and zeal as if the ca r were from my supporters. —( Cheers.) My endeave a will be, Gentlemen, to act in such a manner as best to promote the true interests of the empire.—( Cheers.) Mr. Em.ts. (the proposer of Mr. W a lt er ) came forwar' in the absence of that gentleman; but it was with dr; ,, culty the crowd were persuaded by Mr. Wood to all him to speak, and what he said was almost totally inaudib' e a ; Mr. Curling was present, but the general opinion ,hat he would not be able to be beard. [To be concluded in our Second Edition.] THE FUNDS Consols have improved on the leaving off prices of yes terday from 91i for the Account to 911 ; Money, 91 Exchequer Bills, 17 19; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; Bank Stock 1781 1791 ; India Stock 249 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active opened at the closing price, 25i 26 ; Portuguese left off at 331 341 ; at present 34i ; Three per Cents., 234 Colombian, 271 ; Mexican, 291 4 ; Brazilian, 754 764 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 521 i; Five per Cents. 1011 4. _ lIALF - PAST ONE. . . . The Rio Janeiro Papers bring accounts of aßevol;tion having taken place in the province of St. Catherine, which was soon put down by the Government troops, on the sth of November. (From the Sydney Papers of the 12th September.) The True Colonist gives the following Agricultural Report : The crops in general do not look well, and the native herbage has a very wintry appearance. The turnip crops have generally failed, We have never seen the butchers' markets so badly supplied. Last Saturday the butchers shops presented an appearance of famine, the wet weather, we learn, having detained the expected supplies on the roads, owing to the rivers being flooded. The quantity of wheat sown this year, on this side of the island, already exceeds the usual quantity. Both commercial affairs and speculating in the Funds have been as dull during the morning as the weather has been disagreeable, which has prevented the arrival of in telligence from the Continent and Peninsular. The French, Ostend, and Hamburg mails still remain due, and the arrivals from other quarters, which are very few, are of minor importance. Consols, which were:looking up in the early part of the morning, are not quite so good, and receded from 91i to 911 it for Money, at present may be quoted 911 for the Account, 91-i4; Exchequer Bills-have improved to 20 prem. ; India Bonds, 24 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1794 ; Spanish Active receded from 26 1 } to 24 ; Passive, sa ; Deferred, 12 ; Portuguese, 34 ; Three per Cents,, 23 ; Colombian, 27 ; Moxican, 29:1 ; Dutch Two-and-a Half, 521; Five per Cents., 101. CLOSING PRICES. Brtrristi FUNDS. Bank Stock 179% India Stock "50 3 per Cent. Red 91% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Ccns. 91%1 Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Red ... 99% Ditto New Annuities New 3% per Cent 4 19% Ex. Fills, 1,0001 2d 01 pm. New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 20 piri Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ... 2O pin. Jan. 1860 179% Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 pr cent — Russian Eonds, 5 per cent I 13; I Di i.to, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent — ui to, Deferred French, 5 per cent. —f, —c, Exchange 103 f. 5C:i. French, 3 per cent Bof. 75c. Dutch, 2% per cent. ,Ditto, 5 per cent. lo skiAnns. • Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 pr cent Brazilian Bonds 6ue1163 Ayres, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Colomb,an, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 27% Danish, 3 per cent 76% Greek Bonds. 1825, Spec C — Memican, 5 per cent Diao, 6 per cent. 18'15 Peruvian, 1825.6 per cent — Birmingham and Derby Railway Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Orcat Western Railway Ditto New Shares 2O Gosport Junction Railway 2l Hull and Selby London and Brighton Railway.. 2O London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway — Ditto Quarter Shares London and Greenwich Railway IN 1 ondon and South Western Railway 446 London and Cioydon Railway ('Turk) ll Ditto Scrip Manchester and Leeds I!: , ilway Ditto New Shares Manchester and Birmingham Railwaay Midland Ceunties Railway :3 North Midland Railway Ditto ditto Extension 83% Ditto New Share , South Eastern and Dover l5 Lord Dinorben is, we understand, appointed Militia Aide de-Camp to the Queen, in the place of the late Sir W. W. Wynn. An institution for the cultivation of useful know- led g e has been established at Calne, under the patronage of the Marquis of Lansdowne. It is rumoured that there are apprehensions of an outbreak of the Chartists at Trowbridge ; but our Trow_ bridge correspondent says not a word on the subject. The following is a copy of his letter. It is certainly multum in parvo :—" News is very barren—Trade very flat —money scarce—demands abundant."—Devizes Gazette. A number of the pupils of Mr. Pyper, of the High School of Edinburgh, entertained that gentleman at dinner in the London Hotel, on Wednesday evening last, when George Paterson, Esq., jun., of Castle Huntly, filled the Chair, supported on the right by Mr. Pyper, and on the left by Patrick Warner, Esq., of Ardeer. The Chair man, in a most chaste and feeling speech, gave the toast of the evening, the health of Mr. Pyper, which was acknowledged in a learned and powerful reply. The 4, Cause of Ed uca ti on " was then given by Mr. Ik n l . Tar s la t ne ; one of the croupiers. After which, " The ß i a e b r was proposed by Mr. Brown, " The Bench i l i n c d h were, 3 :‘ The Turnbull, and several other toasts, among . Memory of Sir Walter Scott," " The Literature of Scotland," &c. It must have gratifying Hifi N e h . en S N c , h r oolci The to Mr. Pyper to see so many of his former do honour to him as a. man and a friend, and pupils i t l es assembledt thei y fy e r t high estimation i n which he is held by them as a distinguished classical sc h o l ar , an em i n ent lt a learned la ngua ges, and an ornamentan, successful teacher of the to t that . educatio ( n i a e l mcien semi nary_las been so long a of which h e disin , tusiei n t member. THE WEATHER 0 0 The tempestuous weather which still continues wit; „ in London, appears to be general through ou t th e king a° l,o as wilt be seen by the subjoined notices : ( From the Glasgow Chronicle of Wednesday.) r ot A quarter to fiv e o ' c lock.—The London mail has nn" arrived, being upwards of two hours behind its fixed tin' e. , In our last we not i ce d t h e stormy state of the 'veto ther for some days past in this quarter, and r egret r have to add that it still contin ues as b o i sterous as cLe; Yesterday we had high winds from the s out h- west a ll accompanied often with heavy showers of rain and a?":k, times hail ; and at night, between seven an d ten o'en 3 " it blew a perfect hurricane. (From the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday la s b o o The gale which commenced on Saturday morning po t continued to blow with little abatement up t o the Pr e t o . moment, and since the establishment of first c lass s te ",; o o vessels, there has been no similar instance of th e detail' o f of the English mails. The London Morning Papnr s i o t M onday, due at seven a.m. yesterday morn i ng, arrive pr half-past sever, p.m. last.night ; th e L on d on even i n g Pif, pe rs of Monday, due at seven last night, arrived at s , past one to day ; and th e L on d on morn i ng papers o r l e , terday, due since se ven thi s morn i ng, h ave not yet arrivo d ll From Cork w e h ave s i m il ar accounts. From t h e Engi po country papers, too, it appears that the hurricane bad be t s, general, without, however, causing any serious acciden THE MARKETS.-(THIS DA CORN EXCHANGE. i l5 , The boisterous state of the wind h as occas i one d the arr - ct o of Grain to be short this week. In additi on to the elPeope' agitation of the Corn Laws, the mildness of the weather t ioo. rates to keep the trade here almo s t i n a s t a t e o f stagnate Oats is the only article in which any business is experiell Flour retains its late heaviness. SMITHFIELD. 1 4e/I' A very short supply, b u t th e l arge quan tit y o f M ea t at e ./ gate market has caused a general decline of 2d. per at °fi rie Head of Cattle at Market—Beasts 495 ; Sheep 2,70 3 'All 603 ; Calves 117, price per stone of 81bs. sinking the, 6tl , Beef 3s. to 4s. 2d an d 4 s . 6d. ; p r i me M utton 3 s. Bd. to 4 ' and ss. ; Veal ss. to 6s. ; Pork 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. 0 15114 The supply was short, and prices very hi g h—The (I , e l . fair. Cod, ss. to 20s. ; Turbot, Bs. to 30 s . ; Crimp,'" mon, ss. per lb. SEED MARKET. see p/ There was very little business doing in any kind Of and previous prices ruled. of TALLOW MARKET. There were very few purchases of Tallow, and the r ite P. Y. C. was 495. 6d. t 1 M. el Palj i This great market ntinCOLONIAL co ues very A steady, RKET d both as to vor and prices ; the business doing b e i ng mostly in the P r ' ye!' commodities. B.P. Sugar sells steadily, brown at 6 0 Vore lows, 615., and fine 635. We had some small were 01 11 to zil, Be nga l an d Havannah Sugar, which were too sit a iittl e affect the market, and they sold at former rates. Ve r o ' 001 small t doing in th e C o ff ee M ar k et b y pu b l i c asle. There ere r " e 1 1° lots of Ja va an d E as t I n di a 9d. d uty, amoun ting o io e above 900 b ags a l toget h er , an d t h ey f etc h e d about Pfe„ubl'A rates. Good p a l e J ava a b ou t 75 5 . t o 76 5. W e had , sales of B enga l Ri ce — goo d w hi te B enga l 155., OA. P I 00 " quality of J ava 14 s . Pi mento was at 4d. per lb. $ quality. In Pepper no variation. The imports of g the Custom -house continue light. PUBLIC SALE OF TEA. „Tbe fe A pubtc sale of about 8,000 c h es t s o f T ea too k p lac' d e er e was a very larg e a tt en d ance , an d t h e sa l e progr ess briskly, and all sorts fully supporting the market pric es. kinds for sale were mostly Congous and Twankays.: • Ar - - - The Right H on . Ed war d Elli ce arr i ve d In lingten-st ree t on S atur d ay last from a tour. 11 1 j • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thornhill will leav° 0 4 '1 dlesworth Hall, in Norf o lk, i n a f ew d ays, for Berkele) ipte‘l Lord Di nor b en i s , we understand, aPP,°,,te Militia Aid-d e -C amp to t h e Queen, in the place of the W. W. Wyn n . f e lt! Pooß's-R A TES.—At t h e Uxbridge filit Sessions, on Wednesday, a number of the poor inhabitant s k parish of Hayes appli e d t o b e re li eved Sewn the payment rates.—William Burr, ow i ng a rate of 3s. 44d., said -heads/. earned 13s. per week, o u t o f which, besides his rent, he ,d oy, support his wife and si x children, neither of whom earn farthing. He was reli eve d accordingly.—The wifeof W. o sev attended, for her husband, w h o , she said, earned 13s. e,s per They had only one child, b u t were t oo poor to pay c o riotT he b e ß r e e n l i c e h v ed s a . id their The o e fa r m s eielr tho ught the y wa s small be too hard with the poor man , w h o was muc h di s tresse°_ , . erov: , business was only to re c o mmen d th ose h e considered poll 101 l jects. The overseer repli e d th at an execution had ,rby B e Bench t ought they 11° V9 Bench considered th a t was no b us i ness of the over see' since issued against Carter's goods, which were fistula eo n constable to be insufficient to pay the expenses, an d til er o i l stable had in consequ ence sa id he would not execute an°tsour them. The Bench said they would see to that. Th e ' see that the constable performed his duty. riv 6tl Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst have t r i p. at Mivart's Hotel, from Clarendon Park, their seat in "' e rik: A SHORT CUT FOR EiIIPS FROM I VIA L „" - a H d —A correspondent of the Brighton Gazette says, er e3- leorY; one of her Majesty's ships, which recentl arrived , 81 %, mouth--" This ship is from the Mediterra y nean in i- Is e e c fr t last, and having taken a circuitous route b pihs j Lisbon, which she left on the 10th inst., brings no n e no to l tfr ever." Thi s wr i ter probably knows a shorter route from, which her Majesty's ships can pursue than by the Gut of hilt and th e R oc k of Lisbon. It is certainly a roundabout9tvhat tb ocean spread s i n t h at d i rection, and we never heard 0 to W Canal of L angue d oc, even if the French would allow it, will fl oat a seventy-four. m ~ e . MEETING IN THE LYCEUM.—.A. pu ing of the citizens of Glasgow was held in the Lyceu ll ' n be l ' on Monday la s t, t o a dd ress an d pet i t i on her MajestYl%sest'hst of the unfortu na t e me n now l y i ng under sentence ° coneses Wales. The meeting was called en a few hours' annou ° ri d e , vet the Hall, side-rooms, and entries leading to it, a s, ea ci i, Nelson -street, were choked up by thousands of citiee!se to testify the interest which they took in the fate of t i n e d tbe t y viduals, and the wish that a pardon might be gra, n , t : s cet o lf From the immense number who could not gain adrin i be air e d' Bazaar was applied for, but this place happened to „ o ger s r e , engaged. Messrs. Moir, Pattison, M'Farlane, and R a sd dressed the meeting, exhorting them t o calm ai l of spectful behaviour in this a p pea l to the Qu-goiepl mercy. There are many reasons why h e e , prtir should yield to the solicitation of her subjects at t"i t hor t t l moment. The age could stomach the execution ° „00 5 ' s e ( tal sentence passed on Mr. Frost and his two cornP r a ".eate h el would assuredly disgust every right-minded person 0 ' - I ;sesl'"e sect or party in the kingdom. Scotland has, as Ye t ' s bev e e nothing but peace and or d er s i nce the present agitati° f o re Di A petition or addre ss coming from thi s quarter is thq, e . 0 01,01 titled to respect ; an d i t is much to be hoped that t be v effective. Mer c y i s the brightest jewel that adorns. o 0, diadem of any M onarc h ; it surely will no t be sullie b u t sf e brow of Victoria. H uman blood, no matter how s hed' 5 ber 0 { accords with fe ma l e purity. We cannot let oursciveswerler that "Victori a " will ever b e adhibited to the dea th o of town whose so l e cr i me was an infatuated attempti sta in natural right s upon their fellows; or that she wi l l i s ts 3 0 bridal wreath w i t h the blood of patriots, for as patr he Y will ever be regarded by those for whose deliveran ce themselves in danger.— Scots Times. i