The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRE6B, FRIDAY EVENING,, DECEMBER 24, 1852.

Chancellor P We own we meet eect an agreeab' 1p i Ministry must oome.togetheri_less,with a view te,
solution to this difficulty, increased •a it is yttits ' sink points of Werke" in glee IC 'finis
tame submission of M:. 0 urreroxes Oxford bend/ i
agreed, do erase to the
l owls ag'gnisffisemen thee to ' 'points
rite
to the recent electivn of Lord eIDIERSir as Changer/De i upon they are
of that University. , ' N - general good. Or measures ver to this end
But what a host of farkgreeteediffiaultiesatill sal . will require to be brolight onward fame-
the peculiar mental contdrmatiort of this most able .•diately, there is none more argent the.
and meat excellently disposed gentleman create in one of electoral reform. It is Undeniable that at
any government he may join, He has written books, present a small minority of the qualified electors
contributed articles, and Limed pamphlets enough to under the existing law returns a majority of the
ruin a score of politicians. In an age of progress he House of Commons, aatt that a °wept organisatiea
is full of reverence for authority ;—in an age of free- exists which exercises almost absolute control over
dom he is full of designs for weaving trammels eccle, this minority. The people know that our existing.
siastical ; —in an age of parliamentary omnipotence,li electoral system is a mischievous deception, and they
he is full of schemes of synodical action. And will give their confidence and support to no Ministry
then his mystification', his refinements, his that is not prepared to reform it thoroughly. The
subtleties, his speculations, his quiddities, and hie Conservative element in the impending coalition
quoildities—they are endless, and perplexing as they will find that it can gain nothing by tabooing par-
are interminable. Aud yet who so full of active bone- liameutary reform; the Liberal element that it can
violence, of amenity and courtesy, of reasoning only lose character by consenting to have reform
power, of reliance on argument. of knowledge, in- tabooed.
formation, and intelligence as this uncertain, unde-
pendable,
oscillating, vacillating, anything and
everything Mr. 0 LADSTONE ?—whorn his friends can't
be without, mid nobody can live with.
And then this able, this excellent, this amiable,
man ; this admirable debater ; this sage counsellor,
grows worse instead of better. He has lost the little
simplicity ho ever bad; and now all is mental
struggle, mental doubt, mental compromise with him.
He has cultivated a conscience until it vibrates and
trembles like an aspen leaf—until it has brought 6.11
the casuistry of the Old Fathers to play on modern
politics; until—in short, no man, not even Lord
ABERDEEN, can say what MT. GLADSTONE will
do or say, or advocate next. All we know is that
be has reached the conclusion, that between incomes
derived from daily labour and from acquired pro-
perty, there ought to be no distinction in taxation.
Such a man we may highly respect for his moral
worth, and greatly esteem for his intellectual capa-
city ; but confide in politically No :—that is out of the
question.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The Times says :—We may now safely announce
the complete success of the project of a united Administra-
tion. From the following arrangements it will be seen at
ones that all the supposed difficulties of the design have
been met in such a way that the country does net lose the
services of any considerable statesman, and that no sacrifice
of dignity has been imposed on any statesman or any party.
Lord /John Russell takes the Foreign-office, with the
leadership of the Rouse of Commons. The great and vowing
importance of this department in the present state of conti-
nental affairs, and the fact that in every other European Go-
vernment the Foreign Secretary is the chief of the Adminis-
tration, will entirely satisfy the scruples of Lord J. linseell's
most jealous admirers and most sensitive friends. The
department, it is well known, had at one time been marked
out for Lord Clarendon, undoubtedly as qualified for it as
any other man in this kingdom. lie has, however, we
believe, been among the foremost to persuade Lord John
Russell to undertake it. Should it prove too laborious for
the Whig chief, he may, without any compromise of
dignity, ask to be relieved by removal to an office of less
arduous eh , and in that cue no doubt his °Visions
will be considered in the choice of his successor.
Lord Palmerston takes the Homanfilee. It is im-
possible to overstate the value of his Lordseip's adhesion,
and his implied testimony to the prospects of the new
Administration ; still leas is it possible to deify the univer-
sality of his gs nius, and that tact, which is the first
requisite for the successful climbing' of any public office.
As Home Secretary, TON it must not be forgotten, his lord-
ship will have the management of that militia in the con-
stitution of which he has performed so prominent a part.
These two name are in themselves a sufficient guarantee
for the support of the whole Whig party. The Duke of
IiIESITAATLE will take the Colonies. As some other pro-
bable arrangements, including the distribetion of the Chan-
celloiship of the Exchequer. the First Lordship of the Ad
mink'', and the Presidency of the Board of Control between
Sir J. ORAHAM, Sir C. WOOD, and Mr. GLADSTONE, are
not yet dvlinitively settled, we forbear to say more, bat the
decision will not be postponed beyond to-day.

Ir may be essential to the strength, permanence,
and utility of the New Cabinet that its member! be
wkctcd with a view to their natural or acquired
aptitude for administrative business. The days have
passed away when the English public could be
carried away by mere clap-trap words of party, and
induced to overlook the incompetence of party
leaden for the offices in which they were placed
bungling financier will no longer be tolerated as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, or a person utterly ig-
' norant of naval affairs as First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, simply because he vehemently protests his devo-
tion to the political doctrines professed by the party
which is in the ascendant for the time beiog. The
public has learned to judo Ministers by the
same test as lawyers, physicians, and other profes-
clonal men. The ABERDEEN organs declare that the
Noble Earl is folly aware of this, and has laboured to
impart vitality and permanent's to his Ministry by
filling the offices with men of approved administrative
talent. This is so far well, but by no means enough.
Mere able administrators, in the England of the 19th
century, will not, and ought not, to obtain the public
confidence, unless they are at the same time
thoroughly imbued with popular principles. The
Conservative character which Lord ABERDEEN is
seeking to impress upon his administration, weakens
its duration by depriving it of popular sympathy.
The people can and will trust no government but
one that consents to hold office by the tenure of
public confidence; and the history of the civilized
world since 1783 proves the wisdom of this determi-
nation. During this period we have had two great
nations in which the people have more or less taken
into their own hands the task of political ameliora-
tion—England and America. In all the rest the
people have devolved the task upon their rulers.
Framee is only a partial exception. The utmost con-
ception of popular liberty to which the French peo-
ple appear at any time to have attained, is that
of choosing the rulers who are to art in their behalf
as absolutely, with as little check, as the despotic
monarchs and statesmen who held the reins of em-
pire from the death of HENRI IV. till the meeting of
the first National Assembly. When we contrast the
history and actual condition of the two states in
which the people have more or less acted for them-
selves, with the condition of the nations in which
political action has been almost exclusively left to
the governments, there can be no doubt that the
greatest and least intermittent prosperity has
been enjoyed by the former. England and
America are (Russia excepted) the only na-
tions which have not during the period to
'which our attention is restricted, been shat-
tered by repeated and destructive revolutions.
The progress of these two nations in productive in-
dustry and accumulated wealth, has far outstripped
.all the others. In the neatnee of their adminis-
trative organisation they may be inferior to lees
popularly constituted Mates, or they may occasionally
cling longer to old prejudices; but there is this in
their favour, that every political amelioration intro-
duced in them, is so with the consent and under-
'mending of the whole community, and is irre-
versible. The reforms of Joemu 11., of Aus-
,tria, of LEOPOLD of Tuscany, in a great
measure died with them, because theyhad,
in a manner, been forced upon people in-
capable bielreciating them. But all rebus
'which the of America have adopted, sell the
m ratioa
'people of ng s
have wean f
endured. rom Tory or timid Liberal
iminist

Tho Morning Chronic.'e, after definitely giving the
War-office to ,Ir. Sydney Herbert, the Admiralty to
Sir James Graham, and the Cancellorship of the
Exchequer to Mr. Gladstone, says:
The remaining appointments are, perhaps, not yet finally
disposed of; bat it is supposed—and we rsjoiee that sues
should be the case—that office has been offered to some
of the ablest of those liberal politicians who have
hitherto been unconnected with the executive government,
and who,* junction with the administration would at once
add to its strength and tend to secure the oonfidence of the
couirry. Lsrd Aberdeen has throughout displayed en
honourable desire to render the union of all friends of pro-
gnu complete and permanent ; and we may well hope that
all to whom proposals have been made will concur in the
great object of cstabLahing an efficient administration.

MUSIC.

LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.

This society gave a performance last evening at
Enter Urn, consisting of Mend( lssohn's " Elijah," pre-
ceded by an elegy, " Mourn for the Mighty Dead," written
by Dr. Mackay, and composed by Sir Henry Bishop. This
piece is noticed in the review of new musical publications
which appeared in our paper of yesterday ; and we hat e
only, therefore, to add that it was exceedingly well sung by
four solo voices with the chorus, and that its grave sad
mournful hormoay produced a very striking effect.
The performance of the "Elijah" was, on the whole,
very good ;—better in the 4plo pans than in the charm's.
It appean to us that both the Sacred Harmonic Societies
me eammitting a mistake in the excemive and constantly
humming numbers of their choral voices. For mmy
the original society used to announce live
hendrad u the total number of its band and
shim • when the new society WU started it as-
meracted air hundred; then the old society announced
eaves hundred; and now we are told by the new society
that Its band and chorus consist of eight hundred per-
fibemare. It they go on capping " each other in this
Maur, we say expect a thousand or more one of these
bye. New this is bidding against each other for public
liven by inking imposing but deceptive displays of
Meng& Were Ii potable to obtain eight hundred or a
cheesed velem and instrremMe, ell picked performers,
liaWash seeke end therewshly under the coots(
Orirli - illeiNlM, then aces Mighty *Oft might be pro-
demi by seth a Waled Inn Bet It M notorious that
these smear ebeenee et faster Hall ass swelled by a
mewl et who make a gnat show to We
arebeene. baba= eriey at all, so coarsely
ash iteenwetly OW they make awn noise tbot
senele. Neither Mr. Casts ore
Me. beam ma
make aorides et mei es rabidly atiMbrie. The
coakeetar orieet peeekly lusew them Waetanally,
bs iteimatted vbb their quelleallens, ew Bloom
daring cis peekraerree whet every kr of *set le debt.
Hiear~Meesepe4 with !.bliss token be Vida, fie
eeusttaaee emelides eki be Was be demi= I but,
rtes bed be Ibe gift of tits May " rias4se bkosolf, be
melt aft lobo the &linguists ; or, if he did, he meld
eft
tae le lawn lass. A melte of hashed (et three et
the Nowt) welt4ibesel bell.behtedi ebbed esker
wield seek a wraps bigeerlea of reel pewee then b
ewe peekteett by the erewds MNlMbied is the orchestra of
Imam Mall.

It is okee heat this eabesport that the 'admit.=
Ice puma liblety whisi sane wry pedeend Odle-
' sophist pelitiomme ems quite se ready te isie y lid
1131.1 od, le net saws valetas. sentiment. The lees
foe the anodise, et freedom of theentit . and adds
in the tailividul is the aim fie tees of health sad
intiddimie penienset pennell7 in a
If the we ewe geeneeded that
of klastty=msee Wit fay, ma diet able admi-
' plausible's—eves though devellef
to ewers nopelerayispethiss
—am all is all anSeient medium& pope-
'Ay, the energies of the veggie dill be
and the day of the nation's greninaes and
closed for ever. Yet, it is sleet, the new
ra:a
'being completed on the peZe that admidshative
skill is the one thing. needf sad Bata for from
being a drawback, it te ' -
_y a rememsndadon
to a statesman that he looks down apes
of the
c=
and is impatient their centred. A
animated by this spirit will naturally soh
to resist—in the least ostentatious and 'M-
alting manner it may be, but still to nada
limy clang. in our elective system that eau impart
nay more direct and effective voice in the similes of
parliaments to theprepueo led at largo. The elective
system which to 111110 was
abolished beadle the people V°l-edisetwored that it
gave them the show of choosing their lighinisee sad
tax-imposers without the substanow The diedeeneee
bf the last few years have shown that the new slew
five system devised br Earl OUT is in this Nome
little better, and the people are urgent to hive it
reformed in its turn. A Cabinet animated by
such sentiments as we have been dimities
will necessarily and conscientiously ems any
Such change. They have not sufficient faith In the
wisdom and virtue of the people to treat the mak
to help themselves in any way or on any oceseleni
they believe that it is best for a hw " enlightened
men" like themselves to act for the people; they
know that the people are averse to being treated in
this manner, like fools or children; and therefore
1 they seek to uphold such sham and delusive institu-
tions as give the people the appearance without the
reality of power.
This is a most dangerous political heresy, however
"patriotic," amiable, or accomplished may be the
parties entertaining and acting upon it. All history
Shows that only a free self-governed people can ba
, wally intelligent, virtuous, and permanently pros-
porous. Our own history shows that the great
source of faction, turbulence, and conspiracy, for the
last two hundred ysars, has been the elusory nature
of our representative institutions, compelling the
people, whenever they had to seek justice at the
1 hands o' unwilling rulers, to have recourse to modes
on action not reessoidied by the law or the constitu,,
ion, and often in opposition to both. The cone-1
uence of this state of affairs was inevitably a
, ! founding of liberty with turbulence and lawless.
1 ems in the popular mind a dangerous error
1 hich can only be counteracted by letting the share
hich the theory of the constitution attributes to
he people in the composition of parliaments be •
day.
In other words, the New Ministry, if it is to de-
serve well of the country, must promote Parliamen-
t Lary Reform. To be creditable or useful a coalition

The sale parts (as we have said) wen well esstalsed.
Mr. !Mips swq Sis yet 417ansibli" with Arse lei
digeity. lbs. Isienehs, es eayesee, wee way
essowal i evader is tho sew of the widow
ma kor iiiiii. whisk she whh melt bells& M
is* yelpsigal peek was as shanties es
weleali Iraillellpllllllo dam Miss C. Must =sae
a asset MIR Bee seise wu sweet swl time,
sail herstyle ma pos.
Prim She apyastasee et thole% which was quite Itill is
=t, we essisie gist thb society is la a ilourishiag

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the gleams eelehalles at the day. =tomb while
we have emeleal bus Iliaihelat, whose she am Is. we
lases that she is asantfea ia Obi
Edam thassetwe efilLegetre " dlleggite" KJ=
bosh Ishii else Yd la
Iwo ha debts asseesW*, wllhestedes et
ha allemsees. Ilhe ha iel latellf la ail add dog la
liesedikhavii aslairad a whet emensed ofthe in-
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SAY MUSICAL FESTIVAL—The gem re dio Wit 40 this, the greeted of ear roviocial
meek re4, lase lest boa declared to be 11,9261.81.94.
doe eispeome were 7,51201. 16s. • ' leavWg a Wiliam of
IS. Id. to be handed over WWII
to the table -
=ea behalf of which the festival was instigated.

DRAMA.
RE-OPENING OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
6 Old Drury" is exhibiting symptoms of a re-
newal aad vigorous vitality under the management of Mr.
B. T. limith, Assam brew One important »formation
bilis swiesakm of rimy which now range at the rates of
the Adelphi and Olymplo i sad soother the determination
to
;arsioi
that style of dramatic entertainment which has
tits old livamst tragedy and comedy in the
taste. TM sempsign will open on Monday night
with meths* mita eif "Uncle Tom," for whom British
seem end will be noeceded by a
gumbo , with its inimitable masks,
*add many, este a imps as would not have room
on say other atm». It wield be shear cruelty to the
pubie Se anticipate their plemearable surprise by any ela
serl ptiew
rate do of Use tricks. sosaary or ttansfo
It will he suileimst to hint Chet m ,on the incidents will be'
the wanderteigisammossis of tits Broth.» Biegrist on La
renlhoe Or 11§Iser Dared type hie own spinal column,
whisk twists asset in a meaner wholly unheard of even
la praskis. An eseellest kisiegida hem been secured in
ei pieta el Owe Veered, sad a meet graceful colum-
bine to lino. Lesiss Bisset*, who will introduce for the
Ist time la this aWre• L'ltagosials," the inaugural
tiltthe lfraah •no hymn of clownohip
et
divided between ma Mathews and Herr Doulin, so
»studied with talent terpsichorean and pantomimic, and a
CallAitikm prodigality of Detch foil and blue fire, the
Isoive. Imam. cadorak‘ Adis may expect a rich treat at Drury-
's'''s whose theat expect in smaller. threats,
to enjoy it.
•
,
T, il. f . - - -.1
.'614 *RIifiNDIA STEAMER ORINOCO PO releascd
from gunmen» in Southampton water
_yesterday. The
specie she brought was taken tram her on Wednesday.

FRANCE.

Oli

TO TIIE F,ME

A merchant, of severs) merchants—and great Ood, what
somehants I—without any avowed .object, without any
known have caused to be bought, and are stilt
buying dais in all the markets of the globe, bat especi-
ally at Hamburg, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Constantinople,
Odessa, Remake Beedeaus, on the coast of Brittany, and
even in Patio, conikletable quantities of grain, all destined
for England, sa if It were intended to effect a certain mo-
nopoly, or to prepare for some great contingency. Whet
is mat curious in all this history Is that the actors hide
themselves bakinda curtain. lloweem this may be, they
.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
By imperial demos Jerome Bonaparte is appointed
heir to Ss throw

44%.5,0:`AR15, THURSDAY EYRNINO.
About a month , when the government Jour-
inale alluded to the *molition of the temporary bar-
racks that disfigured the approaches to the lavatides,
las a proof of the serious intention of the government
to reduce the army, I had occasion to observe that the
argument was ill founded, seeing that the resolu-
tion to take down these unhealthy huts had been
announced some time previously, and that the new
barracks building near the Hotel de Ville would
speedily supply their places. I believe I did not
notice a subsequent report emanating from the same
source, that the artillery of the army of Paris was
about to be reduced, being persuaded as I was that
all announcements of this kind were illusory and
made with the object of serving a momentary political
purpose. Any doubts which you may have enter-
tained upon this point must I think have been dis-
pelled by the perusal of the remarkable article in yes-
terday's Moisileur. The fact that vast and unlooked-
for additions are to be forthwith made to the metro-
politan barracks is there announced in a swaggering
tone, which savours much less of the Bordeaux text
144L'Empire c'est la l'aix " than of the ominous pant,
ce
'phrase "L'E c'est l'." There to be coa-
ntrated in tmpirehe EeoleEpee Militaire an "is
imposing "
force of cavalry, infantry, and artillery ; the general
who is to lite there is to be surrounded by a force, of
which it is exultingly said, that it will be "almost
la corps d'arnWe," it is admitted that the new barracks
at the Hotel de Villa will at: once be occupied by
2,400 men, and that they will be capable of receiving
a larpr number when necessary, that the infantry at
the Eools Mihtaire will be increased from 3,600 to
0,000, the artillery from two batteries to three, that
more cavalry will be quartered in Paris than
was ever before known, that the quarters now or-
dered to be provided for the crack regiment of guides
will serve as a model for other cavalry barracks about
to be built, and the warlike manifesto winds up with
the proud boast that when the already immense
Champ do Mars shall bo enlarged, there will be
formed " a permanent camp of instruction such as no
other country in Europe possesses." I am desirous
on this, as on all other occasions, not to say a word
calculated to excite unfounded alarm. An appeal to
the military vanity of the French is, I readily admit,
no proof of hostile designs. The present measure
does not necessarilly show that any increase of the
standing army of France is contemplated. The arti-
cle in question represents it as necessary, merely for
the better organisation of the service, and is so worded
as to convey an impression that the now bar-
racks are only required in substitution for less
convenient buildings, which will be converted to
other purposes. But the broad fact remains that
whereas just before the proclamation of the Empire
the abandonment of certain barracks in Paris was
put forward as a proof of the pacific views of the
government, the erection of immense military
quarters in the capital is now suddenly ordered.
The extension will certainly take place at once,
while the time when, if ever, the existing "small
and inconvenient " barracks will be got rid of is
necessarily doubtful. The head of the government,
which, curiously enough, asserts in this document
that it derives its force from the respect and sym-
pathy of the country, desires to have a "perpetual
camp" under his eyes. With a standing army in
the Champs de Mars, an immense force quavered in
the Tuileries, and 3 or 4 regiments at the Hotel de
Ville, " the Empire of Peace," will make a display of
physical force which meat lead to doubts of the
accuracy of that designation. The ostentation, way,
too, in which the present announcement is made
looks like a symptom that peaceful professions have
nearly served their turn, and that bravado may be
expected to take their place.
I understand that General Baragnay d'Hillier has
occasioned further delay in the settlement of the
new constitution, by moving an amendment in the
Senate to-day. I am, however, persuaded that the
pertinacious scruples of certain senators will in no-
wise substantially modify the despotic nature of the
institutions carried out for France.

The Labrador steam-frigate left Marseilles on the
21st, with Abd-del-Kader and his family and suite
on board, in all about 60 persons. Everything that
experience could suggest was effected t render the
voyage as agreeable as possible. The Emir, on leav-
ing France, expressed his gratitude for the extreme
kindness shown him by the Emperor and the popu-
lations of the various towns which he had visited.
The proclamation of the empire took place on the
11th on board the French vessels in the roadsted of
Lisbon. At eight in the morning the Newton and
Catinat steam-corvettes were dressed out, and at
noon a salute of 101 WIMP was fired. The English
squadron lying in the roads and the vessels of the
Portuguese navy displayed their flags, and fired sa-
lutes of 21 guns.
It is announced that the English company to whom
the St. Dialer and Gray railway has been conceded
has undertaken to construct the crystal palace in the
Champs Elysees for a sum less by two millions of
francs than that guaranteed by government.
P ARM 111111111111 DAY Symms.
The Moniteur contains the flawing paragraph
LlZupon the " myrtles's= egeesticese in grain,"
!Maiden was reeds gent a month:

EAT Agr.icOleot Depabar maw We M-
imi. artiste Wo wad la a Germs* oewspoper—
' The Fame gewnsessefir Ltailieght at Rem" /sr the
Asper „le *WIMP shwa MOO lasts of
wheat.' The Bale Naessailieg upon this
.ortaties. 00111116,11 it as a pleas et fbise sews, sad it
seesiales thas :. In Otis Ibe Gomm paper: are but
baba Nixes of statseisets-..bilas4 by wee English
Jeereob—etatamenta to whisi surible pee* cc either
:Me of the water lave neves sillosbad the least la
be meth atwenty-feu hen.. " The asealeises ot the
lab /prints en paths., went We my add far-
thr, that the esetwals br prolielsos mole by the war
&parable* einaprise We setae euesetaptlea of the *bob
army for um than a yaw eel that the abaisisteallee
invafiably makes its pudase with pablaity of
wear-
twee, and has ao need to resist le the resoluta of kedge
ewatsies.

This article is a good spesimen of the favourite
strategy of the Moniker, whisk is to give an indig-
nant denial to charges that have never been made.
The but peirfit well authenticated
iitatimsait et the • was, that immense
purhoss genie made for cash in all
the merkets of Frirope—thees of France excepted—
lad that the corn so pnrshoood had during a long
of time been sold in England at a loss.
period
o s conversant with bulbous became convinced
that losing operations so sztoadvo and so persistent
had in them nothing of a notteatile character, and
it was inferred that they met be the result of some
hidden political motive. From a variety of circum-
stances it wee considered in Mark•lane to be satis-
factorily made out that these improvident tran-
sactions were carried on with French capital. 1 wo
theories were suggested to account for the pheno-
mena. According to one, the object was by depres-
sing the English corn market, to react upon those of
France, and so induce a belief that the French
granaries were well filled, thus promoting a rise in
the funds, and producing an artificial prosperity.
Another suggestion was, that certain parties in France
who now find it easy to finger an unlimited amount
of cash, thought it prudent to provide for their
personal comforts in the event of their being:compelled
at a short notice to fly the country and seek
refuge on the hospitable shore of England. In this
latter point of view the surmise was that it had been
thought impossible to make large cash remittances
to London through Paris bankers without exciting
suspicion of the motive, and that by means of im-
portations of corn from different countries a hoard
might be laid up with recrecy. Whatever improba-
bilities may attend either of these suppositions, the
fact 'remains certain. The Press. of Paris com-
mented upon it some time since, and in last Mon-
day's number of that journal 1 find it again alluded
to in the following striking terms :
We spoke shoat a month age of gigantic operations in
grain which were being executed upon a vast scale in the
ports of Hollaad and the Baltic, the focus of which opera-
tions wu in Landon and Liverpool. At that time a special
journal denied the accuracy of our intelligence, not being
able apparently to believe that its London correspondents
could have neglected to inform it of an operation which
nevertheless Will the subject of every conversation at the
Corn Market' n Mark-lane. We now, however, ,dled
agricultural journal, the Mercurial* des Hanes el MarrAes,
fully eonflnnisg the news which we gave on the 17th Nov.
last- According to this journal thigh what is taking plase:

CMAt king good paymasters, and that is the main
rt of what we have just said, our Hamburg cot-
=1:01 writes that only within the last week, purchases
made in that market, at continually rising prices,
Kea then 300,000 hectolitres of grain of different kinds
M be delivered in the spring in different parts of the Hattie,
rod the destination of which is unknown. We give this
feet as certain, we have it from one of the first houses iu
Hamburg. For the rest this iaoredible movement bus also
been remarked at Marseilles, where '200,000 heciolitres of
wheat have been bought for immediate as well as future
delivery.