The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER s, 1852,,

wheels. A thousand incidents of a similar kind aro

ramiliar, we doubt not, to the popular recollection.

. . _ .
let it has long since been demonstrated with tolerable

distinctness that cities can be illuminated with coal-

gas, that trains can be b 3 conveyed to and fro upon
iron rails by the steam-engine, and that ships
of a rather considerable burthen can be enabled to

cross the ocean not merely through the cumbrous
instrumentality of paddle-wheels, but with the in-
visible assistance of the screw-propeller. Greater
marvels than these have been effected, moreover, in

our own time—greater marvels than even HORATIO
could, by any possibility, have ventured to dream of
in his philosophy. We have seen how easily a metal
tube can be thrown across the Menai Straits for the
conveyance of the crowd of travellers between England
and Ireland. We have seen how readily Time itself
can be outstripped by the magical swiftness of the
electric telegraph,—we have seen how effectually the
sunbeams can, by the adroit employment of iodine, be
made to take our portraits according to the exquisite
process of the daguerreotype,—we have seen how the
electrotyping arrangements can grow copper with the
utmost imaginable delicacy and precision,—nay, more
than this, we know how, through the development of
the powers of the microscope in one direction, and of
the telescope in another, the infinite mysteries of

creation have been disclosed more and more plainly
to the sense of vision—here in their minuteness,

and there in their magnitude. Nevertheless, with
all these testimonies before us, with all these
examples glaring upon our judgment, with ell
these truths forcing themselves irresistibly upon our
remembrance—we are still as resolutely determined
as ever to throw cold water upon whatever change is
suggested, no matter how obviously it may be calcu-

lated to benefit the community, and to enhance the
comforts or the luxuries of the population. An alter-
ation of the existing state of things has only to be
proposed, to be pronounced by a hundred different
voices as wholly preposterous. This propensity to
discountenance whatever is novel appears to us to
contain within it the reason why so little has been
effected in the way of sanitary innovation. Other-
wise GEORGE ALFRED WALKER would not have
talked so long, unheeded, about the necessity for ex•
tramural interments. Otherwise SOUTHWOOD SMITH
would not have argued in vain so long in favour of a
more wholesome method of house ventilation. Other-
wise the citizens of London would have obtained
years before now better drainage, better water for
domestic consumption, and a whole host of other and
equally necessary metropolitan improvements. The
facts are before the nation as plain as pikestaves
—but no ! they are new—that is enough—they
are new, and therefore are neglected. Evi-
dence to this effect has been collecting during
more months than wo like to think of, by the
Commissioners of Gwydyr-house. It has been dis-
cussed again and again in both Houses of Parliament.

It has been considered in Committee—it has been re
corded in Blue Books—it has been insisted upon in
the public journals. The thing is notorious—as no-
torious as the abuses in Chancery, or as the abomina-
ble architecture of the National Gallery, or as the
absurdity of the fountains in Trafalgar-square, or as
the non-completion of the unfortunate Nelson Testi-
monial. Yet the refuse of the capital is still not properly
cleared away ; the contaminated water of the Thames
is still swallowed daily, by wholesale ; corpses ere
still buried away in our intramural grave-yards—es
though Mr. WALKER bad never written his pamph-
lets ; as though Dr. Smarr had never published his
books; or, as though Mr. CHADWICK had never been
installed in that unlucky building in Whitehall-gar-
dens, so long and so bootlessly dedicated to the
labours of himself and his brother Commissioners.
The reason of all this is, unhappily, precisely as we
have stated it. The changes are obviously practicable,
are obviously advisable, are obviously necessary,
but then they are new, and therefore
they are discarded. Popular as Reform is
amongst us, we are still, very many of us, fer the
most part, in this way—Conservatives. Only we ap-
pear unluckily to begin at the wrong end—by endea-
vouring to conserve whatever happens to be the most
flagrantly worthless. We see the abomination before
our eyes, we have its demerits dinned into our ears,
we come at last to that stage of perception that the
evil is actually " stinking in our nostrils," and yet we
somehow or other seem to hug it to us the more
closely, and to cling to it with the more unrelaxing
tenacity. In this manner, as we asserted at the com-
mencement of these remarks, the innovator, however
rational or commendable his enterprize, invariably
encounters the bitterest opposition.
Aware of the truth above mentioned, we are by no
means surprised to observe the discredit thrown from
various quarters upon Mr. CHARLES PEARSON'S mag-
nificent scheme of a Grand Central Railway Ter-
minus in the metropolis. Everything combines to
prove this project as practicable as it undoubtedly is
desirable. Granted that it must necessitate an enor-
mous outlay; but then the returns must no less cer-
tainly be proportionally great. Already we have
taken occasion more than once to direct public
attention to the proposed undertaking. It appears to
us, however, so peculiarly remarkable in its character
that we must, perforce, avail ourselves of every rea-
sonable opportunity of reverting to it until such time
as we may have the satisfaction of witnessing its
actual completion, or at any rate its actual com-
mencement. The meeting held on Monday last at
the London Tavern, and presided over by Sir JAMES
Doze, presents to us, we conceive, precisely one of
these welcome opportunities. Upon that occasion
the originator of the enterprize submitted the details
of his plan to the serious reconsideration of his fellow-
citizens. Reflection seems only to convince him the
more fully of the entire feasibility of his proposal.
And no wonder 1 Tke inducements to its acceptance
are so numerous as to be rather difficult of enumera-
tion. Foremost among them is that rather terrible
consideration that whereas the houses in the city of
London have within the last forty years diminished
by 1,500, the population has increased by 4,ooo—an
overcrowding which Mr. PEARSON justly designated
as " revolting to decency, and injurious to
morality, and destructive of health, and even
of life." Anything that can tend to ameliorate
the condition of those who are the innocent victims of
this over-crowded state of the metropolis, must as-
suredly command for it the sympathy of each sincere
and practical philanthropist. Nothing could more
effectually secure a really beneficial change in this
direction than the establishment of a central railway
terminus, such as would place within the reach of the
humbler classes a cheap and ready means of convey-
ance—between the place of business and the suburban
residence. It has been calculated that, as things are
at present situated, the cabs and omnibuses of London
make daily no less than 12,000 journeys, conveying
on the average no less than 144,000 passenzeis.
Place a cheaper and a readier means of conveyance at
the command of the hard-working inhabitants of the
City—we allude here more particularly to the clerks
and subordinate officials in our various metropolitan
establishments—and instead of living, as at this period
they do, in over-crowded, and even, in some in-
stances, squalid and delapidated tenements, in the
thick of the ill-ventilated and ill-drained byways of
the capital, they might occupy wholesome and decent
dwellings in the suburbs, with no fear of any lapse in
punctuality. That is merely one among the very
many inducements to Mr. CHARLES PEARSON'S enter-
prise. Numerous others, mentioned before now by
ourselves, might very readily be recapitulated. Such
a recapitulation, however, we cannot but regard as
altogether unnecessary. We repose confidence in the
good sense of the majority of our fellow-citizens, and,
doing so, rely upon their energy for the furtherance
of this noble scheme of a Central Railway Terminus.
Farringdon-street, as the originator of the enterprize
has admirably well demonstrated, presents to the
public precisely the very site that was needed for the
due carrying out of the undertaking. Let not that
site he lost for ever by the shameless timidity or
injudicious procrastination. Let the supporters of the
ellernu., on the contrary, combine vigour with vigi-
lance •
in the tn‘lc of its promotion, and many more
m"tha may not elapse before Mr. CHARLES PEARSON
may be enabled to rejoice in beholding his darling
Pt6leet in a fair way of rapid and prosperous realiza-
tion.

Government knows its fato. Manchester, and
no inoeusiderablo portion of the House of Commons,
have spoken plainly snough. Every one knew they
would do so, as avery one knows that the
Speech will not do it. It la settled now that Protec-

tion is to be finally disposed of before Christmas.

Lord DERBY and his colleagues will not be allowed,

on any pretext whatever, to Burke the great question
till next February. Ile met Mr. VILLIEDS' motion
last spring, by a solemn promise that after the elu-
tion Parliament should be assembled in sufficient time

to pronounce its final verdict on Free Trade and Pro-
tection before Christmas. That promise must now be
fulfilled. The country has a right to know on what

i
principles its commercial transactions are to be con-
ducted. The farmers ought to be finally dis-
abused of any lingering reliance on protective
duties for their produce. All political parties

ought to have the rubbish of Protection squab-
bles cleared out of their way, to facilitate their
re-formation on the real questions of the day ; and
all the world ought to know that our policy on this
vital question is settled for ever. Such are the
reasonable views of Mr. COBDEN, and all the speakers
at the Great Manchester gathering. _

If the Queen's speech-does not announce, in full
and decisive terms, a thorough Free•trade policy,

"a distinct renunciation and recantation of Protection
on the part of this Administration," then, either by
an amendment on the Address, or by a substantive

resolution, the House of Commons is to be called upon
to declare that it has no confidence in any Government
" which does not avow its determination to adhere to the

policy of Free Trade, as it has hitherto been adopted,
and to carry it out in every practicable way." No
toleration is to be given to any "mystical intimation
from the Governmeat that they do not intend to in-
terfere with Free Trade ;" but an "avowal that they

have changed their opinion!, and are honestly in fA,
your of Free Trade," will be unflinchingly de

mended. Such is the practical purpose of this grew
meeting. We sincerely hope that Lord DERBY and
his colleagues are, and for some time have been, dis-
posed to act in accordance with this purpose. The
Free-traders express themselves willing to receive
their repentance not only " at the eleventh hour, but
at the eleventh and three quarters hour." They
remark truly enough, that greater men than the
Members of the present Cabinet have changed
their opinions, and they fairly ask the present Minis-
try, if they cannot change theirs to go manfully at
once into opposition. It is perfectly clear that there
is a large majority against Protection in the House of
Commons, and an infinitely larger majority in the
country at large ; and nothing, therefore, could be
more unconstitutional, than for persons whose opi-
nions are at variance with those of the majority, both
in the House and outside of it, to carry on the Go-
vernment of the country. In this representation of
the case, Mr. COBDEN and his coadjutors are unques-
tionably right. Tho Ministry must, to insure
the respect of the country, either announce them-
selves converts to Free Trade, or retire into oppo-
sition. If not converts, it cannot be expected that they
should avail themselves of the innumerable facilities
which the Government of the day possesses, for fur-
thering the great cause, both in their home adminis-
tration and their diplomacy abroad. A Free-trade
Ministry would be ever on the watch to teach its ad-
vantages at Foreign Courts, and to Foreign Ministers
and Ambassadors, and would eagerly improve every
opportunity to perfect the abolition of all monopoly
and protection at home. An Anti-Free-trade Min-
istry, on the contrary, merely working out a policy
which it disapproved, must, negatively, lose many
advantages for that policy, and must be tempted to
embarrass it as far as lay in their power.
We hope, therefore, that the Government have
become real converts to Free Trade. They have had
such lessons on the subject, that if they have
not learned them, it will be generally believed that
they are either unaccountably slow to learn, or un-
pardonably obstinate ; neither opinion being very
favourable to their continuance in office. They have
received the seven years instructions of the Anti-
Corn-law League ; the impressive teachings of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and other truly
great converts ; the lessons of opposition and the les-
sons of office ; the Budget lesson of their own
CHANCELLOR of the EXIMIEIItUER, and the national
lesson of the General Election ; lessons from tenant-
farmers, lessons from landlords, lessons even from the
large shipowners themselves ; verily they have had
it line upon line, line upon line ; and if, after all, they
now hesitate about a full, frank, and manly confession,
that they have erred, that they repent, and that
they will bring forth fruits meet for repentance,
assuredly they will lose whatever respect Liberals
of every shade may have hitherto felt for
them. .TORN BULL is a most forgiving old fel-
low ; assault him with all the violence which used
to escape with a 51. penalty, and if you show him you
are really grieved for your conduct, ten to one but he
will shako hands with you, and share a bottle of wine
with you, instead of inflicting a paltry penalty ; and
we feel pretty confident that if our present Ministers
will but make a clean breast of it ; if they will confess,
for instance, that political partizenship or necessities
may have blinded their eyes—but that the evidence
against their past creed is too glaring, too conclusive,
to be withstood, and that they now therefore give in
their cordial, unreserved adherence to Free Trade,
and will honestly lay themselves out to render
it complete—if they will say thus much, we are
confident that, on this subject, byegones will
be byegones, and Lord RADNOR and the Earl of
DERBY, RICHARD COBDEN, and BENJAMIN DISRAELI
will shake hands most heartily, and be thorough good
Free-trade friends for life. The rumoured plan of
making the QuEEN's Speech the vehicle of Ministerial
recantations, is, we think, fhe one to be desired above
all others. No one doubts that with our beloved
SOVEREIGN'S education and intelligence, she is a
sincere Free-trader, and although she delivers only,
the advised speeches of her Cabinet, yet when her un-
derstood sentiments are in harmony with those of the
great mass of her attached subjects, there is something
peculiarly graceful in putting language into her
mouth, which she can utter with sincerity, and
her people cheer with cordial enthusiasm. Minis-
ters might, indeed, individually avow their changed
opinions ; but it would neither produce the same im-
pression at home and abroad, nor afford her MAJESTY
an opportunity of placing the last wreath of legislative
triumph on the brows of Free-trade. When once
she has performed this solemn yet joyful act (for we
are willing to take for granted she is to do it), it is
morally certain that she will soon have Royal and Im-
perial followers; nay, we are daily expecting to hear
that England's transatlantic daughter has placed a
Free-trade President at the head of her Government.
Bankrupt exchequers on the Continent, and strange
to say, a largely overflowing exchequer in the United
States, are alike teaching the advantages and the ne-
cessity of Free Trade. Large classes in each country
are beginning to understand that protection of a few
is the robbery of all ; that protection to native indus-
industry really. means protection to native idle-
ness, or native incompetence. The world is ripe
to learn the great lesson of Free Trade. It needs
but the DERBY converts and Queen VICTORIA to
proclaim their conversion, and the door of Protection
is sealed abroad as well as at home.

OPENING OF PARLIAMHNT.—The Queen, it is ex-
pected, will leave Windsor Castle on Wednesday next, for
Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of holding a Privy lm-
a, at which her Majesty's Speech from the Throne, on
opening the Session of Parliament will receive the sanction
of the Sovereign. Her Majesty, as we have already stated, is
expected to deliver the Speech from the. Throne in person, on
Thursday, in the House of Lords, returning to Windsor Castle
the same afternoon.
NOMINATION or Surturrso—The nomination of
sheriffs for next year is appointed to take place on Friday
next in the Court of Exchequer, on which. occasion the
Right lion. Benjanim Disraeli will officiatt! in h. is robe as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the first time rinse his ap-
pointment. The chief judge:, and also the judges and
barons of the three courts—Queen's Bench,h Common Pleas,
and Exchequer—will take part in r. Three
gentlemen will be nominated for all the counties in England
and Wales.
THE FOREIGN SECRETART.— AffOn Saturday evening
the noble Secretary of State for Foreign airs and the
Countess of Malmesbury, entertained a select' circle of the
!taut ton and diplomatic corps at dinner, at their residence,
Whitehall-gardens. The guests included his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, his Excellency the French
Ambassador and the Countess Walewski, his Excellency
Canna,
his Ex-
the Napolitan Minister and the Princess
cellency the l'ortuguese Minister and the Countess
Lavratho, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and
Countess of Glengall, Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville,
and Lord Stanley.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER VPICOUNTESS CASTLE-
-It.4.lNE.—We regret to announce the demise of the Dowager
Viscountess Ciettlernaine, the mother of the present Lord
Castlemaine,
large
nu
FAILURIIs.—A lag
Johnmberi of fainlureso., mereessan-
nouncedMr. C. in the provision trade. The principal houses in-
volved are those of Messrs,Ht arucilic
aben,d c
rho others,
five which are four or ve in number,' being
character. The libilitiett in the case of Messrs. Ruck are
of an unimportant
stated at about 40,000 L

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY).

The Lord-Chancellor took his seat on the Wool-
sack at two o'clock, when the swearing in of Peers
was resumed.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, late Sir Stratford
Canting, and Lcrd Raglan, late Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set, took their oaths and their seats on their elevation
to the peerage. The former was introduced by
Viscount Canning and Viscount Hardinge, and the
latter by floe Earl of Eglinton and Lord Colville.
At 4 o'clock their Lordships adjourned until to •
morrow.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE IVS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were
estimated at 6,000 bales ; of which 1,000 American
were taken on speculation. The market was tame,
but steady, without alteration prices. The sales
comprised 4,500 American, GO l'ernam and Maren-
ham at 6d to 6,-Td, 50 Bahia at 61d, 1,000 Egyptian
at 'lid to Bd, and 200 Surat at 4d per lb. Railway

Shares were steady.
The state of the dried fruit trade is described by
Messrs. Witherby and Hanson, in terms which con-
clusively show that there has been no improvement
in respect to the prospects of future supply. They
state that :

" The latest accounts from Greece mention that at
the middle of October there would probably not be one
vessel taking in currants there, or at the islands. . .

" Oa the ird inst. a cargo of New Patras Fruit, just
landed, was offered by public auction, the lowest
quality, very bad, was taken in at 28s, rather better at
335, and the beat about 40 tons, at 55s (since sold at that
price) whilst some low rain• damaged 1850 Fruit was
sold at 475. There has since been more business done,
but principally in middling qualities, and the Market
appears to have been benefitted by the exposure of this
miserable Fruit. Holders of Old Fruit, many of whom
aro acting upon orders from abroad, where they are more
alive to the prospect of an absolute scarcity of currants
in this country than ourselves, are sanguine in their ex-
pectation of still higher prices. They know that the
1852 crop, if it exceed 8,000 tons, will not have produced
any better Fruit than has been imported in the 15 car-
goes already arrived in this country, and therefore that
we shall have nothing but the Old Fruit to fall back
upon, much of which is of ordinary quality;—that cur-
rants are no longer an article of luxury and extrava-
gance, as was the case 20 years ago, bat one of daily use
by all classes of society ;—and above all, that the London
clearances alone from the Ist November to 30th April,
during the last four years, have averaged 6,500 tons,
whilst those of the United Kingdom have, during the
same period, exceeded the total quantity that now exists
in this country."

The New York advices are very satisfactory as to
trade, considering the advanced period of the season.
The amount of specie brought is 100,000 dollars. In
Stocks there was a buoyant feeling, and money was
more abundant. The accumulation in the sub-Trea-
sury had nearly ceased, and more gold dust was
coming forward from California. Most of the im-
ports for the season had bee❑ received, and the exports
were steadily increasing in value.
The value of merchandize put upon the market in
the third week of October was 709,484 dollars, and of

dry goods 763,319 dollars, making a total of
1,572,803 dollars. The imports of the first two
weeks in October were 5,331,782 dollars. The ex-
ports were 4,495,382 dollars, for the three weeks,
including specie. Freights continued firm with an
upward tendency.
At the close of the second week in October, the
excess of imports over exports was 2,451,973 dollars.

At the close of the third week thg increase was

3,309,203 dollars. Increase in one week, 857,230
dollars. This is the only important feature in the
last returns. In the list of articles exported, there is
nothing new. The shipments of cotton to Liverpool
were a little larger than usual, and the aggregate
value of exports for the week shows a slight increr'e.
Bread stuffs were pretty active for shipment.
The Old United States Bank was paying out its
final dividend of 70c. par share. Its most recent pre-
vious dividend was in 1834, 18 years ago, when
about 2 per cent. was paid. The whole amount paid
to stockholders since the expiration of its charter is
about 109 dolls. per share.
The Boston Post srys that the State Treasurer has
accepted the propose', of Messra. Blake, Ward, and
Co., of London, for the purchase of 100,000 dolls. of
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Stock, running 20 years,
at 5 3-100 per cent premium.
The Potomac Savings' Bank, which failed, was ex-
pected to pay in full.
Gold seems to have been discovered near Quebec,
unless there is an imposition being practised.
Accounts 47.'0m Halifax state that nearly all the
Nova Scotia fishermen were detained by the steamer
Devastation, for alleged informality in their papers,
and any vessel attempting to leave would be fired into.
The underwriters at Lloyds are drawing up a pro-
test against the prosecution of the voyage by the Mel-
bourne steamer, which has put into Lisbon.
The Banking Institute holds its second soiree for
the season to •morrow evening, when Mr. Macgregor,
M.P., will preside.
A public meeting of the General and Executive
Committee for promoting Tribunals of Commerce is
to be held on Wednesday, when a series of resolu-
tions will be proposed, embodying the chief objects
contemplated by the association.
There is no movement in the stock me"ket, end
the quotations have been almost the same throughout
as on Saturday; Consols realise 1001 1 for transfer,
and 1001 1 for December 9. Exchequer Bills are
745. to 775., and India Bonds, 84s. to 87s. premium ;
being a little flat. Bank Stock is worth 223 to it,
and India Stock 274 to 276, being an improvement
on the latter. The New 3; per Cents. have been
marked 1031 to it.
' In foreign stocks there have been a good many
' bargains. Mexican have been in more demand at
251 to Vend Peruvian Deferred at 62,1 to f Equador
Stuck hri been done at 44 being rather flathr.
Buenos Ayres Bonds are worth 801. Grenada 2li.
Venezuela Deferred Pre dull at l4"1. The Turkisn
Scrip is heavy, still at 2 to 24 premium ; and the
Swedish Scrip is discount. Spanish Deferred
realises 25k to t, and the Passive 6i. Nothing
has been done in Dutch or Northern Bonds,
Railways do not quite support the advance of Sa-
turday, and there is less doing. The French shares
are generally firm, though likewise quieter. Swiss
Railway to prem. Upper India 1 prem.
Gold mines are dull and in banks there have been
no dealings.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Oficial List.)
Business done,

Bank Stock
R per Cunt. Reduced Annuities.-- .....
3 per Cent Consols Ara:. lOOB it
New 3!,‘ per Cent. Anna. 1033k %
f.ong Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 18€9
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 6%
India Stock , ... .. 274 G
Do. Bonds, 1000/ B7 4
Ditto under 1.0004
Consols for Account 10034 1,4
Exchequer Bill- 11,4 d. March June,
1,0004 .....
500/.
Small - 73 73
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazllian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOl
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent,
Equador isonds
Grenada, 11,i per Cent.
Do. Ex Dec. COUPON{ 1849 2li
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Accotinta .
FeTuvian 80nd5.1849, 6 net Cent., ......
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent.
Sardinian Bond: 5 per Cent.
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent — ii
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Swedish Loan
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852„
Venezuela Bonds —
Do. Deferred 1 Cent. .. 14% 15%
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 10 Gu. £ ... 8114
Belgian Bonds, 4,,. per Cent _
_,.

- .
Dutch Excha., 2% per Cent., 12 GulL... 65y8

THREE O'CLOCK
... 100% i 4

(14NnsoIs ••• •• ...
DID K, Adi.o.oftuxt_ Doo. 1 ...

.. 1007 s %

COMING EVENTS.--Os DIT.—It is stated by those
who at least wish it to be believed that they are in the
confidence of the Government, that the Chancellor will
positively propose the repeal of the Malt Tux, and, if
possible, of the Hop tax also. It is further asrerted that
the Income Tax will be wholly taken off the tenant-farmer
class—that that on other incomes will be reduced to 2d.
in the pound sterling ; and, that on property raised from 7d.
to Is. per pound, or to 5 per cent., going down to property
returning 501. per annum, in place of 150/. We may presume
that Lord Derby's supporters in the Upper House are not
likely to tolerate so direct an attack upon property; while
the Free-traders will neither consent to except farmers from
their fe;r share of the national burdens, nor to part with the
malt tax until other imports of a much more objectionable
and clamant kind are repealed. The manufacture of soap
and paper must be free before we can listen to the emancipa-
tion of beer.— Weekly Dispatch.

THE FUNERAL-OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
—Up to a late hour cn Saturday night no order had ema-
nated from the Horse Guards to alter the arrangements made
with regard to the number of officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men of the line regiments ordered to come up
from the head-quarters and depots of every corps in the
United Kingdom, and the islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
The number of each corps to be present at the funeral of
their late gallant Commander-in-Chief, will therefore be
three officers, one sergeant, one corporal, and six privates, as
first stated. with the exception of the 33d Foot from Glasgow,
and the Rifle Brigade from Canterbury ; these corps
being designed to walk before the funeral car with their
arms reversed, and all the others Rill follow the
funeral car carrying the body, and be without their anus.
—ln the official programme of the forthcoming grand funeral
processior, , a conspicuous place. is given to what is denomi-
nated the "Guidon," which is thra refeleed to in the de-
scription:—"The Geldon,
on, car.ied by a lieutenant-colonel,
supported by two captains in the army, on horseback." It
is net generally known that the guidon is a military ensign
or flag, and in itself an object that at the funeral may
escape notice except from military men. It is a term now
used fig the little banner of a regiment, and the guidon which
will be borne in the procession is the banner of the 33d
Re-
giment of Foot, the late Duke's regiment.
By the way, it is, perhaps, worth knowing, that
some of the regular " Whig set" begin to express a decided
preference of Mr. Bright to Mr. Cobden. It is somewhat
curious that Mr. Lucas, M.P., the rampant Romanist of the
Tablet, is the brother of Mr. Bright'a sister's husbaad (do
our readers trace the pedigree ?), and the son of a steady
old Mark-lane Quaker, of whose denomination the member
was farmorly a professor. There i 3 no zealot So fiery as a
new c9I/Talt•••• Wieldy Dispatch.