The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-19 00:00:00

TO THE EnITOR (917 TPE

SIR-- i you _
circulating journal the following. remarks
The use of chicorie is becoming so glaring now
that the .honest man has no chance. It is used
.in this
part to an immense extent, mixed one-half with ground
coffee, by this means the revenue is losing sd. on each
noti6(l t!vit s Fzok: as a substitute for cofft,e, owl th,t,
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duce foreign coffee to 9d. per pound, instead of allowing
it to be smuggled by way of the Cape, putting other
merchants to the expense, as well as encouraging an
improper trade? Why not make a, general reduction in
the duty on coffee? &larger amount of revenue would
be certain to accrue if it was adopted, as well as girittg
a stimulus to the shipping interest and commerce in
general.

Your inserting the above will much oblige,
A GROCER, AND TEA-DEALER.
Sheffield, Dec. 17th, 1839.

THE NEWPORT RIOTS.

MONMOUTH, TUESDAY.

The list of the witnesses was not de!ivered to the
prisoners yesterday, as had been intended ; it requires
vast consideration, care, and attention, because not only
must the names be inserted, but the full description of
each witness, and if there is the slightest error, that
witness cannot be examined. The difficulty may be
imagined by taking the following as an example :
" William Parfitt Powell, surgeon, assistant to Wil-
liam Brewer, of the parish of St. Woolas, in the borough
of Newport, in the county of Monmouth, and abiding
at the house of William Phillips, grocer i❑ the said
parish of St. Woolas, in the said borough of Newport,
in the said county of Monmouth."
There are no less than 236 witnesses on behalf of
the prosecution, and a copy of them is to be delivered
to each prisoner. Although all the prisoners charged
with high treason are included in one indictment, yet it
does not follow that they should be all tried at the same
t:me. The probability is that one or two of the ring-
leaders may be tried separately, and that the others will
be classed in such a manner that the same witnesses may
be called to prove the distinct facts against them ; other-
wise it would be impossible for any Jury to keep the
proofs that relate to each particular case apart in their
minds from those of the other parties. The delivery of
a list containing the names of so many witnesses may
tend to embarrass the prisoners : for instance, Frost
will be unable to tell which out of the 236 will
be called against him ; all he can know will be,
that none other than those named can be called ;
however, if the intended defence, that the prisoners
were not present, be true, the above circumstances can
make no difference. I conceive that the spirits of the
prisoners must be softy depressed when they perceive
the names of some of the persons who are to testily
against them, and nothing, I think, will strike a more
deadly blow to Chartism than when the real dupes dis-
cover that some by whom they were incited and led on,
whose violent and treacherous speeches induced them
to enrol their names as rebels, and afterwards to act as
such, but who, as bad hearts always do, turned cowards
at the crisis, and either remained at home, or fled on
the first approach of outbreak, have turned traitors, ay,
doubly traitors, first to their Queen, and then to those
they had misled, have betrayed them, and will be the
first to state the share that each unhappy man
took, and having pointed out their persons, ji
and sworn to their acts, shall be permitted
to retire to freedom, and perhaps upon leaving sonic
it least of their victims to bear the punishment which
they themselves ought to suffer. Surely this will be a
lesson to those who are at large, and teach them that
to attend to the inflammatory speeches of these men is
to do that which may lead them to the most condign
punishment, even if it should not subject them to the
last and extreme penalty of the law. Let them look
back to other times, and they will always find that these
who had been their chief leaders and inciters in the
roam, have either deserted them on their march of mad-
ness, or have fled on the first approach of danger. I
have reason to believe that on the trial facts will tran-
spire which will prove this in the most pointed manner,
and although it may appear hard upon those now ac-
cused, yet it may ultimately be attended with great
good, and show the misguided that rebellion and outrage
only tend to misery and woe.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)

POSTSMOUTII.—The Blenheim, 72, Captain Sir
Humphrey Senhouse, is come into this harbour from
the Lisbon station, to have a new foremast, and to be
prepared to proceed to the East Indies. It is also ex-
pected that the frigates Blonde; 46, 'lnconstant, 36,
and Pique, 26, will be sent to that quarter, together
with the large steam-ship Cyclops, and brigs Wanderer,
18, and Fantome, 16, with the corvette Nimrod, 20.
The frigate Madacascar, 46, and Belviderzl, 42, with
the Harrier, 18, are expected to be commissioned here
next week. • The Persian, 16, and Pylades, 18, are
under orders for the pendant at Plymouth.
The Talavera, 72, Captain Mends, from the Medi-
terranean fleet, has arrived at Plymouth, where she is
to be paid off, having been nearly four years in Com-
mission. Having left Malta so long since as the 23d
October, and maing a circuitous route, she brings no
news whatever.
The Pembroke, 72, Captain Moresby, is ordered to
be paid off in this harbour, and her arrival _from the
Mediterranean is daily looked for. She has been up-:
wards of three years and a half in commission.
Considerable anxiety is felt in consequence of a IT-
port of the loss of the Tribune, 24, Captain Williams,
off Barcelona, during a hurricane on the 28th Novem-
ber. It is sincerely hoped that the crew were saved.
The Andromache, 28, Captain Baynes, has arrived
from the North America and West India station, last
from Bermuda, which she left 20th November, having
been retarded in "her progress home by easterly wands.
She has been ashore for several hours on the Magda-
lens, and requires docking. Remains at Spithead await-
ing orders. Vice-Admiral Harvey arrived from Hali-
fax at Bermuda in the Winchester frigate on the 29th
October, intending to winter there.
The Etna, receiving ship, Lieutenant Wilson, and
Meoter steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, have proceeded
to the eastward.

By a recent Admiralty regulation, all candidates
must be examined at the Royal Naval College, Ports-
mouth, previously to receiving commissions in the corps
of Roy al Marines. This is a most necessary ordeal, but
somewhat tardily adopted.

The new steamer Vesuvius is ordered for commission
in the river, having been to Glasgow for her machinery.
The cutters Cracker and Raven are undergoing a
refit in Portsmouth harbour, the former to return to the
Jersey station, and the latter to Sheerness.

The troop ship Jupiter, Mr. Milton, master, may be
expected home from the East Indies about the end of
January, with the 61st Regiment, and also unservice-
able stores from Trincomalee dockyard.
At Spithead—Andromache, 28.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Blenheim, Blonde,
Pique, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Cracker, Raven,
Messenger, and flag tenders.
DEC. 17.—Orders have arrived for the Andromache,
26, Captain Baynes, C. 8., to be docked and refitted at
this port, and she is accordingly come into the harbour
for that purpose.

The ftlenleim, 72, is ordered to be expedited for
the East Indies, to join the Admiral, Sir F. Maitland.
The steam-vessel Alecto, Lieut. Hoseason, has ar-
rived from the river, and having embarked Mr. Lyall,
purser, to join the Tyne, 28, also Mr. W. Minchin, As-
sistant• Surgeon, and received dispatches for Sir R.
Stopford, proceeded, after a few hours' delay, to the
Mediterranean.

The Dolphin schooner, of 3 guns, in command of
Lieutenant Holland, has arrived from the West Coast
of Africa to be paid off, and goes to Sheerness "for that
purpose. She brings no news. Rear-Admiral Elliott
was at the Cape of Good Hope in the Melville, 78,
with the Corvette Modeste, 18, and Childers, 18 ; the
latter had recently arrived out from Plymouth. The
Dolphin has suffered much from fever, and been very
successful in the capture of slave vessels, having a short
time since detained two under the American flag. The
Harlequin, 16, and Wolverine, 18, are the next ships
ordered to proceed home.

SERIOUS PARCEL ROBBERY.—OR Tuesday
the correspondent at Bolton of a Sheffield house trans-
mitted a parcel through the medium of railway and
coach to this town, containing notes to the amount of
185/. The parcel arrived here the same evening, but
was not delivered until the afternoon of the following
day, when, from the loose condition it was io, suspicion
arose in the mind of one of tha firm that all was not
right, and he called in a witness, to examine its con-
tents. A letter broken open was found which had con-
tained the cash above stated. Several other documents
were also found torn in pieces, evidently to ascertain
what they contained. Immediately a gentleman con-
ne•cted with the concern started for Manchester to in-
vestigate the matter. Upon application to Sir Charles
Shaw, every facility which the police possessed was
readily afforded, and the result was (it is believed) that
the parcel had been safely delivered at the coach-office at
Manchester. Further inquiry was going on here yester-
day before the police authorities, but at the present stage
of the business izit forbear saying more.—Sheffield Iris.

FRIGHTFUE DEATH.---On Sabbath evening
last the body of an old woman, residinc, in the Castle
Cable, Pertb, who was in the practice of leading about
an idiot female, soliciting charity, was found in her own
house literally burnt to ashes. It is said that she had
been intoxicated for several days, and in this case she
must have accidentally set fire to some portion of her
clothes. When the remains of the wretched woman
were discovered on Sabbath evening, the poor idiot was
found cowering a short distance from them, apparently
unconscious of what had happened. The body when
touched actually crumbled into pieces.—Caledonian
Afercury.

;P;RIT of thet PUBLIC JOURNALS.

di:P.Nitii.= PAVERS Ok".CHIS DAY.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

Although there must be endless diversity in the way
in which people strike the balance between money on
the one hand and feeling on the other, yet it is very
extraordinary that any men should choose, for the sake
of any amount of money, to continue In the relative
position of ti,se who profit by, and uphold the Corn-
laws. Supposing them unable to perceive their real and
permanent interest, and its harmony with the prosperity
of the community, still the wonder is that their common
human sympathies do not torture them into some sacri-
fice of gain for the sake of peace and good will, of kind-
ness and mercy. It must be a horrible reflection that
rise of rents is the falling of the poor man's means of
subsistence. They thrive at the expense of his daily
bread. When their looks glisten with gladness, his eye
is dimmed, and his cheek grows pale and hollow. Their
prosperity is the measure of industrial adversity. The
shout from the tavern sounds like the tolling of a
knell in the factory. And in their satisfaction and
hopefulness, men read a fearful prophecy of famine.
It is strange, we repeat, that any class should have a
taste for this sort of relation towards their fellow..
creatures arid countrymen ; or that any sordid conside.
rations should reconcile them to its endurance. -It
is true there are kidnappers, and slave drivers, and
Thugs, and other monstrosities of human nature, who
have grown to relish their occupation as if it were
the most innocent in the world. But then they are
much more isolated from the common mass of mankind
than the British landoWner. He lives amongst those
whom his legal monopoly deprives of halt. their bread
and all their meat. He is within reach-of,the multi-
tudes whom he helps to reduce from independent work-
men into a wretched surplus of the labour market. On
the well-gravelled-roads of his fine domain he may sec
young children breaking stones or otherwise prema-
turely toiling, that the saving of their school money and
the pittance of their earning may replace the slice
which his tax cuts from the cottage loaf. He stands it
all ; he -soothes his mind with some pitiful sophism
about agricultural morality ; he is kept in countenance
by the County Association. He remembers the
Parliamentary cheering at Peel's last tissue of
scarcely plausible fallacies ; and thus he stands
it all ; and that he can do so is the won-
der. There are symptoms that the coming winter
will be a trying one for the self-satisfaction and self-
delusion of this class. They have not yet faced the
worst. Full expression has net been given to the
emotions -they excite. If they have been unable to
learn from their own hearts the abomination of their
social position, they will ere long, be compelled to read
it in the faces of multitudes, and to hear it in their
execrations. The tide of popular indignation was stopped
last year, as it rolled towards them, by a breakwater of
delusion that cannot again be interposed. Neither
Chartism nor the anti-Poor-law feeling will serve their
turn again. The coming effort for Corn-law repeal
will not be scoffed at, like the former, as a middle
class agitation ; it will spread deep and wide beyond
that or any other single class into a national ferment.
The Address, which we inserted on Tuesday, from
" the working men of Sheffield to the working me-
chanics, artizans, and agricultural labourers of Great
Britain and Ireland," is a document worth atten-
tion for its facts and reasonings ; and indepen-
dently of these, it has a deep and impressive signi-
ficance. It is the earnest utterance of toil and
suffering. This is no sport of intellectual gladiator-
ship, like so many senatorial speeches on the same sub-
ject. It is no trick of faction, like the hollow and hypo-
critical declamations of godless orators on the truth and
the peril of the Protestant religion. The words of that
document represent realities. Its sentences- sound on
the ear like the reports or shottcd cannon. It portends
a heated s!suggle, and not the sham fight of a Parlia-

mentary field-day. The simple mention of the occasion
of the meeting from which this address emanated is worth
balei of eloquence. " This meeting arose from various
causes, the principal of which were the want of employ-
ment and the want of the common necessaries of life by
the greater part of the working population of this town."
There is a cause fora public meeting of mechanics. Can.
any man deny its sufficiency ? If some meet
because they say the Constitution is in danger,
and others because they say the Church is in
danger, is it not time for men to meet whose
bread is in danger ? They suffer under "want of
employment." They cannot get " leave to toil." They
lack " the commonest necessaries of life," And, at
this very moment, Dukes are discussing, at agricultural
association dinners, the practicability of doing till next
harvest without further importations. Rising bread at
home, declining markets abroad, want of work and want
of necessaries—these are materials for meetings and
addresses. that demand no ordinary degree of serious
consideration. 'rhit portion of the address which ap-
peals to.,the.agricuitural labourers is another feature in
the composition not to be disregarded. It is clearly
and cogently expressed. There is in it something of
the spirit of:those popular sermons by which the.primi.:
tine missionaries of. Methodism first made their way to
the uncultured and neglected souls whom they prose-
lyted. That may be applied to the one which was often
said of the other, " it comes from the heart and goes to
the heart:". .These classes are likely to understand one
; alley share a common lot, and speak a common
'The fact that the geld labourer is' not less
injured than the factory labourer, by the'Corn-laws, has
often been proved. What is now to be observed-is not
the fact itself, but the circumstance that its exposition
to the'ruitia is undertaken by the mechanic. The rise
iethusindieated of a new sort of " Mutual InStruction
Society." Any -Could put the question- to the farm
Have their wages been doubled since 1836,
veraised in vqual proportion to the increased price; of
breat! ?". From many quarters.. the inquiry, if made,
might pass unheeded ; but when it is,.putby, one set of
toil-worn men, whose bellies are 'Pinched by hunger, to
another set of toil-worn men, whose- bellies. are also
pinched by hunger, such questioning becomes' quite a
different matter. Nor should the, readers of this ad-
dress overlook the remarkably scriptural character of
some of its passages. Its authors are not open to the
imputations which, rightly or wrongly, have been made
by the Tory Papers against the Welch Chartists.
No pupil of the National Schools can know his
Bible 'better than these Anti-Corn-law mechanics of
Shr.ffield. Here is no refolutionary infidel mania,
calling for the sole cure of scriptural education.
The starving labourers have read the holy book, and
say, it is on their side. They could bandy texts with
the Bishop of Exeter. They feel their mouths muzzled
by dear bread and low wages. When told to read their
Bibles, they reply from its pages, " Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." And they
append a very pithy commentary : Our Legislature con-
siders man of far less value than the ox ; for these laws
muzzle him effectually, b 3 preventinc, him from exchang-
ing the product of his skill and industry with countries
where tens of thousands of acres of the finest corn land
in the world are lying waste." It would be difficult to
deny the aptness of the quotation, or the justice of the
exposition. There is that in the addressykich will make
it felt as a voice of truth, a cry of human nature against
grievous wrong. Against such a cry, it is neither wise
nor safe to interpose, whatever profits it may put to
peril. The attempt is sheer infatuation when, as in
the pre eat instance, it can be demonstrated that the best
measure of the value of the land is in the commercial
prosperity of the country.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)

The almanacs for the ensuing year, though filled with
prophetic revelations concerning mundane affairs and
skicy influences in 1840:are yet less confident in their
tone and less marvellous in their predictions, than the
heralds of Tory triumphs and the chronicles of Carl-
tonian rumours. • The latest of these rumours gives to
Sir Robert Peel an immediate working majority of five
in the present House of Commons when it assembles
in January ; and for this, it seems, the country will be
called upon to thank the constituencies of Manchester,
Birmingham, Edinburgh, and other Gattons upon a
grand scale, or Old Sarums yet in their youth. The
Francis Moores of Toryism are setting up a rather novel
claim to confidence in their present predictions. They
argue from what has not been, to what is to be. Be-
cause their prophecies of last year are unfulfilled, their
prognostications of this year are to be received as in-
fallible. A majority must be obtained in 1840, in virtue
of a minority in 1839. Their Leader is the hero of a
hundred defeats, and therefore " victory sits on his
helm,' hatching chickens (we may add) that are always
prematurely counted. Peel, according to the specu-
lations of his soothsayers, is an abstract of the whole
human race :
" Peel never is, but always to be blest."
One excuse may certainly be made for these false pro-
phets—that they have never deceived the country, in-
asmuch as the country never reposed faith in them.;
but it is strikingly characteristic of the modest nature
of Tories to rest their pretensions to credibility now
on the falshood of their past assertions. There is no
parallel to a political cheat in the moral world. What
bold-faced experimentalist ever hoped to ensnare a vic-
tim with the assurance, " I lisped lies in my cradle, and
therefore I call upon you to trust to my veracity."
No impostor, in the annals of that species of knavery
which in the world political is called Toryism, ever
conjured up sufficient effrontery to say, " I admit that
I have tricked and plundered you all my life—but
confide in me, deliver into my hands your untold
gold." There are Snakes in abundance on the great
stage who flourish on the badness of their characters ;
but
among the Tories are troops
of specula-
tors, who o
seefktthoeir integrity and certificates of turn the proofs of their roguery into
unex-
ceptionable character. This is going rather too far.
The authority on which rest these predictions of the
Carltouian soothsayers, touching a certain majority of
five votes to begin with in January, is assuredly not at
all suspicious authority ; it must improve before it can
be suspected, being at present far too bad for that.
Butinwshpiictiel ofco nittsainexsescermabeleo all
quality it finds people, in a
world sorts,
not ashamed to
become vouchers of its excellence. There are a few
waverers between the meanness of Tory-Radicalism
and the madness of Chartist policy, who implicitly

t believe in what they devoutly wish, the attainment of
t!,e, threatened majority, and the -efficacy of some trap,
either in the House or upon the hustings, by which the
specified five may be caught. But we must find corn-
, fort in the hope that among those Tory-Radicals who
back and echo the prophecy, there are none who have it
in their power to ensure its fulfilment, by offering their
. own votes to constitute the five. History relates but
one instance of an enthusiast, who, having foretold
that he should die on a certain day, starved himself
with rigid punctuality, and fulfilled his prediction to
the letter. Should any Reformer in Parliament, how-
ever, be in the habit of declaring himself quite certain
that Ministers will be thus critically beaten, it could do
no great harm to suspect him of an intention to verify.
the statement brhis vote. The Tories are rather in-
clined to superstition—it is an old fashioned doctrine,
as old as tyranny. They have dislikes to certain days,
and partialities for certain numbers—especially for
number one. There is, perhaps, something in the date
of the present-year utfravourable to their predictions
and plottings.- They may like 40 better than 39.
The maxim that there is luck in odd numbers is an
Irish maxim ; they hate all Irish maxims, as they' hate
everything Irish, except the Irish Church. Nine
has. Certainly not been a ." tuneful" number to them ;
it has brought to them more discord than has
ever been associated with it since the birth-day
of the Muses. For example, in .this present but
expiring 39, in May last, .there was the false step of
their leader, the vaulting ambition of the Premier-elect
overleaping itself, and falling " the other side"—the
old Opposition side, where so many scores of candidates
for. place are so. heart-weary of sitting gazing at the
promised -land, but tasting neither milk nor honey.
This has been a wofully discordant year to the party.
Then there was the year 29, the " fatal year," as it is
called by the majority to this day—the year in which
the great Duke himself suddenly appeared, to the
eyes of - his startled followers, transformed from the
living likeness of St. George of England even into tini
very Dragon ; when Lyndhurst was a hydra with
rather more heads than are assigned to O'Connell in
the present day ; and when to lay to the charge ci
Peel crimes of no greater magnittide, and of no
deadlier dye, than those of which Frost is accused;
would have been almost equal to passing him by un-
suspected and unspotted. This was beyond all ques-
tion a disastrous year to the Tories. Going back yet
ten years farther, we alight on the field of Saint Peter
at Manchester, and sicken at the bare contemplation-ol
that inhuman and unprecedented onslaught upon the
peaceable Parliamentary Reformers of that day, for
which the thanks of the Tory GOVernment were so un
blushingly tendered. 'lt was in -this year, and 'by thii-
act, that Toryism- certainly acquired its deepeSt stair
and. most enduring odium. It was a year of incalculably
more hazard than security, more retrogresaion that,
advancement,' to thi- Tories. It is not exactly one of
those .years that the Tories of to-day would like to
recal—not that they would for an instant shesitate
to re-enact its horrors, at Manchester or elsewhere.
if expediency pointed that way. But as it does not
follow that the opposite of wrong should be right.
so the even number is riot necessarily lucky because
the odd one brings with it ill omens. We have
no faith in omens ourselves ; but for the curious and
credulous that way, it may be as well to turn from
the nines to the tens, with the view of testing. as
far as such " coincidences" can, the value of Tory
prophecies for 1840. In 1820 the Regency termi-
nated—the first of a series of events, all tending by
regular gradations to the narrowing of the bounders
of Toryism—an event that was immediately followee
by a persecution, in the form of a Bill of Pains and
Penalties, that net merely entailed temporary difficulty
and confusion upon its authors, but published their in-
faaly wherever the Engligh language was known. What-
ever the King might feel, that was undoubtedly ae
" untoward" year for the Tories. In 1830 they lost
their George the Fourth, and the accession of the Royal
Reformer constituted that, as events instantly turned
out, anything but an auspicious year for the principle
of Government they had maintained. That principls
received a shock throughout Europe—a death-blow in
some instances—from the great revolution in France
that immediately followed ; this being succeeded by the
independence of the people of Belgum. Following
this came the grand stride of liberty in our own country,
the bright day in our calendar, when the bandage was
torn from the eyes of Parliamentary Justice, and she be-
held the misery and ruin which her blind decrees had in-
flicted. It was in this year that the people of these king-
doms gave sigris indeed of a spirit equally discriminating
and determined—of a heart to hope, of a head to think, of
a concord and an energy to execute. It was in this year,
on the 16th November, that the Tory Government re-
signed, and on the 22d the. Reformers were in posses-
sion of the strong-hold of Downing-street. This, un
.deniably, undoubtedly—this was not a lucky year for
the Tories. And now for the speculations concerning
1840, Ten more years bare elapsed, and the Crown is
on the head of a Sovereign, who, not by her sex, nor by
her youth, nor. by her. unexampled inexperience .and
difficulties, but by her education, by her natural gifts,
by her character, ready-formed for the Throne, wins the
confidence of her subjects e who, in the first place, by
her intelligence, her firmness, and her sympathy with
those opinions which arc, in a stronger or a weaker de-
gree, the opinions of the great majority ; and, in the
next place, by the unmanly calumnies and the traitorous
aspersions of the -Tory faction—has secured popular ad-
miration and: affection), Thus we stand upon the thres-
hold of 1840. What of auspiciousness to Toryism is
there, in this position ? Judging from the past, we have
a fair ground for concluding that as the odd number has
been unlucky to the Tories, the even number will again
be lucky to the Liberals.. And, apart from the circum-
stances cited in our favour, we confess to a secret liking
for the look of 1840—though coming events throw no
dismal shadows before._ -A Sovereign's marriage is to
all loyal subjects (the Tories were loyal once) a plea-
santer spectacle to behold, by anticipttion,than a Royal
funeral ? and with the blessing to be pronounced on the
Royal Bride next year will be mingled and identified
the prayers and the hopes of the greatest people that
the sun shines upon. The marriage of such a Queen—
the hopeful and happy marriage of a Soverign thus as-
sociated with the enlightened sentiments that pervade
her realm—cannot be a source of joyful anticipation to
Tories. Whatever majorities of five one way or other,
before or after, may decide, that event, with King Er-
nest, keen-eyed, in the 'distance, cannot betoken to
the Tories a year of grace and fruitfulness. Of this
threatened majority of five, not only is there no cause
of fear, but there is no fear. There is hope on the other
side, and there may be belief ; the Tory traders in false-
hoods may at last put faith is their own prophecies, but
there is no truth in them. They are disciples of that
fabled truth which is always at the bottom of the well—
lying there I

(From the Morning Post.)

As the meeting of Parliament approaches the Minis-
terialists appear quite frantic with fear of the overthrow
of their patrons. The throes of desperation in the
Chronicle every morning are painful for even the Tories
to behold. We are not so hard-hearted as to regard with-
out pity such convulsions of impotent rage. The per-
sonal abuse of Sir Robert Peel is indeed very disgusting
—disgusting we presume to all decent Whigs as well as
to us; but the miserable apprehension of defeat with
which it is combined is truly pitiable. The great outcry
now is that the Tories mean to compel Sir Robert Peel
to propose the repeal of the Romanist Emancipation Act,
and that Sir Robert has no choice but to yeld to this com-
pulsion, or bid adieu to his position as head of the Tory
party. Is it possible to conceive more extravagant non-
sense? Who but the commonest fools can give it credence
for one moment ? And yet this is the shift of false-
hood to which the Ministerialists in their state of
desperation are reduced ! Such is the nonsensical false-
hood theY'assume, and then they cry piteously to the
a Irish millions" for help. Ay, let. them cry. The
Irish millions are indeed the only people who have any
synipathy for them. The lazy, dirty, superstitious,
priest-ridden " Irish millions" may possibly regard them
with some favour, but all men of sound sense and sober
honesty—all men who have understanding to judge be-
tween right and wrong, and a heart to feel the blessing
of rational freedom and faithfully-supported law--
detest their want of principle, and despise their mean-
ness. The Tories do not want the Emancipation Act
repealed, though they have been compelled by the
perfidious treachery of the Romanists to regret
its enactment. What the Tories want is that the
Emancipation Act shall be fairly and honestly ad-
ministered, and its purpose be fairly and honestly
carried out. Several years ago Sir Robert Peel ad-
mitted that the Emancipation Act was felt by him and
his party to be irrevocable with respect to the privileges
it conferred upon Romanists, but he at the same time as-
serted that it was equally irrevocable "with respect to
the assurances which it gave to Protestants." These
assurances' the perfidious Romanists have shamlessly
trampled upon ; and the existing Government, being
palpably dependent upon the Romanists, has basely
aided and abetted the insolent and encroaching perfidy.
That which the Tories expect from Sir Robert
Peel is that, so far as in him lies, he will not suffer
the Romanists, through their tools, the present Mi-
nisters of the Crown, .aby longer to disregard and
trample upon " the assurances which the Roman
Catholic Emancipation Act gave to Protestants."
Sir Robert Peel, in' his place in the House of Com-
mons (see debate of April 2, 1835), has openly recog-
nised and pledged himself to these assurances. The
Tories only expect of him that he will steadily, yes,
and sternly too, now that the time has come, carry for-
ward his own declared views. The honest indimnation
of all England calls aloud to him to do this, and we
trust and believe he will concur in the reasonableness
of the call, and d o as England wishes that he should.
The British public do not want the civil privileges of
the Romanists to be taken away but they do re-
quire that the Romanist system of hostility to
the Established Church, which has been effec-
tually worked into the system of the present Go-
vernment, shall be stopped. The indignation of
England cannot hear it, and stopped it must be.
Let the education question be remembered. That
is an exclusively English question. A large majority
of the representatives of England in the House of Coin.

mons, and a very large majority of the House of Lords
I have decided upon that view of the question which is
agreeable to the Established Church. The Govern-
ment, relying solely upon the assistance of Irish Ro
manism, has taken a course of the bitterest hostility to
the Established Church. The British public say that
for such conduct the existing Government ought to be
driven out of office by any and every means which the
Constitution and the law admit of being used. They
say that the Government deserves no forbearance, and
should find none. The Rorcanist influence under which
it acts is the manifest and the monstrous evil. This it
is that Sir Robert Peel is called upon to take the lead
in crushing. The voice of England demands that that
shall be accomplished.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We find in the Christian Guardian and Church of
England Magazine an article on the subject of National
Education, which presents a gratifying contrast to the
tirades of the Tory Church militant. Those prints
of the party which showed so much solicitude to
disclaim the other Church Magazine as a veritable
organ of the national hierarchy, appear, by their
silence, not to be by any means anxious to claim
credit for liberality by the recognition of the views before
us. While they disown thorough-going intolerance, OD
account of the odium which they know attends it, they
cannot afford to recognize the more liberal• sentiments
which are sometimes put forth even amongst zealous
Churchmen, as that would deprive them of the
indispensable pretexts for attacking the measures
of Government. Being resolved to use the Church
as their cat's-paw, in spite of its own honester mem-
bers, they turn a deaf ear to all that is said, even
on their. own side, which they cannot make subserve
to the factious ends of the moment., The Tory organs
have been affecting prodigious anxiety for the better
religious instruction of the victims of Chartist delu-
sions. The hollowness of this affectation is evident
from their factious hostility to the only practical means
of effecting the object they profess to desire. When those
means arc sincerely set before them, even by Conserva-
tive Chnrchmen, they bestow not the slightest notice on
the subject, and leave it to Liberal journalists to acquaint
the public that there are Churchmen who, although
by no means Ministerialists, arc yet capable of post-
poning party bitterness to the honest promotion of the
object which, with the others, is a mere pretext—
and nothing more. The Christian Guardian, after
eking due credit to the present exertions of the
Presbyterians, Baptists; Independents, and Methodists,
in our mining and manufacturing districts, proceeds
to say that, " unless some far more decidedly ag-
gressive atracks are made on these neglected regions.
it is impossible to forbode the miseries which mus!
shortly result from the combined effects of infidelity,
popery, licentiousness, and rebellion " •
(From the Courier.)
It must be presumed that no one would attempt to
dispute the advantages to be derived by this country.
and by British India, from the establishment of an ex-
tensive system of steam navigation. If it has been con-
sidered desirable by the Legislature that, for the pur-
pose of procuring quick communication by railway
for the three miles between the City of London
And the East India Docks at Blackwell, all sorts of pri-
vate interests should be invaded, all sorts of damage and
inconvenience on individuals should be inflicted, and that
oven the urgent remonstrances of the Corporation of the
City of London should be disregarded, a fortiori it is
incumbent on the Legislature to provide facilities for
rapid and cheap communication with our distant posses-
sions in India, by which intercourse is to be accelerated
not by a few minutes of time but by many weeks ; and
in which project are involved not the comparatively
unimportant profits of individual speculators, but thr
vast interests of Great Britain in the security and web
being of her East Indian dominions. It must be consi-
dered as a point settled that the country will be satisfied
with nothing less than the most extensive and the most
perfect system of steam communication with India that
can be devised. The only question that remains for
nuquiry, is, what plan and what route, under all the cir.
cumstances—political, commercial, and social—are the
best to be adopted ? This is an enquiry which the
country expects Parliament to enter on without delay ;
ind it is to be hoped that the subject will be discussed
dispassionately, and without reference to party consi-
derations.

(From the Standard.)
The Duke of Palmeila caused the letter, of which
the following is a translation, to he published in the
Lisbon Government Gazette of the 10th inst.:—
" Lisbon, Dec. 9, 1839.
. _

" An assertion, as extraordinary as it is faise, in
which my name is compromised, as also those of two high
personages (both of them deserving the greatest respect).
was published in one of the last days of the last month in the
Morning Chronicle, and copied from that paper into
others, both in London and Paris. Those journals to
which I allude declare, that when her Majesty
Queen Adelaide was at this Court she entered into
c.mversation with rule and wEth other persons, in the
course of which she used expressions of censure
towards her august niece, the reigning Queen of Eng-
land. As such an imputation, in the highest degree
injurious to the high personage to whom it is attributed,
is not only fahe, hut without the smallest shade of founda-
tion, I have thought it my duty to take such means as offer
theinselv,s to me to contradict it without delay is the face
of the Portuguese public, and to declare it calumnious,
before the contradiction can appear in the English Jow--
na/s, to which I am going to address it.
"I am, &e.,
" DUKE DE PALMELLA."

This letter leaves nothing to be added in refuta-
tion of the slanders upon Queen Adelaide. It will
be remembered, that the first version laid the scene
of. the Queen's objectionable discourse in the Duke
of Palmella's house, and when it was discovered that
her Majesty had not been in the Duke's house at all,
during her visit to Lisbon, the first misstate-
ment was excused on the ground that if not in the Duke's
house, the discourse complained of was had in the Duke
of Palmella's presence. The Duke himself sets both
stories at rest. Now, we ask, what would be said of the
Conservative Journal that had deliberately published,
and pertinaciously adhered to, a falsehood so malignant
and so groundless as this ? Would it not be said, and
justly said, that such a journal deserved to be excluded
from the home and hands of every one pretending to call
himself an honest man? The thing will, however, be
passed over very lightly in the case of a Whig journal.
There is some reason in this seeming partiality in
the indulgence allowed to the newspapers of the
several parties. The public wishes to read on -both
sides of every question—to read truth, no doubt, for
choice—but still to read on both sides. Now the Whig
journals can no more keep their columns free from
falsehood than the Whig party can support itself without
" enormous lying," the very basis, as a very clever
Whig, Mr. Charles Buller, has acknowledged, of the
party's existence.

Mr. Charles Kemble has just arrived in Paris
rom Italy, where his daughter remains. We are sorry,
fas all who know Mr. Kemble will be, to find that his
health is seriously affected.

DEATH OF A MlSER.—Tuesday afternoon an
old shoemaker, who resided at Brook-street, Lower
Deptford, named Allen, died from the effects of an
asthma, leaving 6,0001. in cash and notes, and a similar
sum invested in the Bank of England. The deceased
lived in the most penurious manner, and during his ill-
ness would not apply for medical advice, nor have any
one to attend upon him, for fear of the expense. On
examining the boxes and drawers in his house, money
and documents were found to the amount of 12,0001.
The notes were discovered hidden between the leaves of
books, and in some bags were penny-pieces and farthings
to the amount of 40/., which, must have been hoarded
up for many years, as most of them were mildewed. A.
will was also found, bequeathing the whole of his im-
mense treasures to his relatives, about ten in number.
The old man was a bachelor, and a native of Scotland,
and in the 70th year of bis age.
The Waterford Chronicle states that a vast in-
crease of epistolatory communication has taken place
through the Waterford post-office since the reduction in
the amount of postage on letters, but that, there has
still been a great falling off in the amount of the receipts
as compared with the.corresponding period of last year.
On Friday evening a very large and beautiful
meteor was observed from the New Bridge in this town.
Its direction was from the zenith die north, but as the
lower part of the atmosphere was cloudy, the latter part
of its course was obscured. It bad the appearance and
magnitude of a rocket, its motion, however, being down-
wards ; and it left in its train brilliant corruscations.—
Dover Chronicle.

SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.--From a Correspon-
dent.)—A committee consisting of fourteen of the most
extensive and respectable newsvenders of the metropolis,
have prepared a memorial, the purport of which is to
solicit the proprietors of the Sunday press to publish
their papers on Saturday only ; and it is said they have
been so far successful in accomplishing their purpose,
as to induce all the London journals, except two, to
act upon the principle they advocate. The memorial
states that "newsvenders' servants, as is well known,
have to rise at five, four, and even three o'clock on
Sunday mornings, notwithstanding the fatigues of the
previous week."—Morning. Herald.
HALF HANGED FOR A WAGER.--A few
days since a person from Horton was in the New Inn,
along with some companions, when the conversation
turned upon hanging, and the person in question
offered, for a small wager, to be drawn up and suspended.
The wager was closed, a rope procured, and a noose
formed, into which he thrust his neck, and was thus
drawn up to the ceiling by the rope, which passed over
a hook, which providentially broke and let him down,
else the most disastrous consequences would have en.
sued ; for, as it was, he was half hanged, and his neck
was very much injured.—Leeds Times.

SALFORD MECHANICS' EXHI-
BITION.—The total number who have passed through
the exhibition, up to Tuesday night, is twenty-two
thousand five hundred and sixty-nine,--,41/toitchesto.
Guardian.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE Iv M.

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
TIMES.—Our old friend Spring Rice,. now " Lord
Montcagle," makes rather an awkward debut to• day in
' the Money Market, in his other new chdtacter of Con-
troller of the Exchequer. Some commercial' Exche-
quer Bills, which bear his signature, have been sold at
275. discount. This depreciation, after his miserable
management of that department, ought to excite no
surprise ; but the brokers have been literally astounded
at another circumstance which occurred in the courge of
the day, being the appearance of a commercial bill dated
as far back as the 3d of April last, which bears also the
signature of " Monteagle," though several months
before Jim's elevation to the Peerage. Some say that
his mind was probably so full of the honours
which he then had in prospect, that he wrote
his future instead of his present name, but this will
hardly get him out of the difficulty, as the proper sig-
nature would be that of the Controller of the Exchequer,
then Sir J. Newport. Others conjecture that the Ex-
chequer Bill inquestion may be a forgery, but then the
insuperable difficulty presents itself of explaining how a
forgery could be committed of a name which had no ex-
istence, and which, after all, if a sort of second sight (
had revealed the future peerage, was not the name of
the proper person. Without presuming to 'set this
matter right, the conclusive remark is, that when people
once cultivate the art of legerdemain, it sticks by them
in one shape or other to the last. All the June bills,
have the signature of Sir J. Newport.
it appears,
These brought into the market to-day, and " legiti- f
mately" signed " Mont eagle," are dated in September. I

CHRONICLE.—In the absence of arty' extensive
business, the Consol Market shows a disposition to ad-
vance, as also the heavy stocks, all of which leave off at
improved prices. Exchequer Bills, on the contrary,
are I s. lower. _

The last list of bankruptcies in yesterday's Gatete,
and the increased gloom which pervades the aceoun••ts•of
the state of trade throughout -the ,manufacturing dis=
tricts, attract much interest throughout the city.
The Woollen and Yarn trades seem to be most severely
affected ; but all descriptions are suffering, and prices
continue to fall. In Huddersfield and Bradford every-
thing is depicted. despondingly, and in the former a
fact is stated which we formerly noticed—that what
with failures, and the sacrifices made in getting rid
of stock, both in the raw material and manufttetured
goods, there had been no parallel since 1826 ; while at
the same time the pressure has been increased during
the last month, in consequence of the different Banks •
having been compelled to draw the reins tighter and
tighter every wear. Pius is also in accordance with
what we previously remarked, .that, while the restrictive
policy of the Bank of England was experienced in the
metropolis to the greatest extent, money-was • not of
nearly so mud] value in the provinces, owing to the
fettered position in which the Bank of England' 'stood
vith certain country Banks of issue, which thwarted her
own exertions to control the circulation, and tvort it
would require some time before the screw in the Lon-
don • market • would extend its ir.fiuence with full
force in- the manufacturing districts. That time has
evidently now arrived ; and when money is declared to
no comparatively easy in the London market,- the com-
plaints from the country on . account of its scarcity are
iouder than ever. So:aa parties tazdeve that the period
ior which the Burk of Ene!und had contracted with the
Banks to which we nae alluded has expired, and that
this causes the,inereitF:ed scarcity of money in the coun-
try ; and: we understand .tintt some .of these accounts
have run cue, but not the tvi.oie of, them. We believe,
nowever, the the cheerless.: aspect presented for the
.sinter niontl:s, and the derangement of our monetary
,ysttrit," arc only now being felt is 'their' entire vigour.
But while- the low price of goods must be attended with
ooiotts evils and loss to our manufacturers, yet it may
produce good by inducing a demand from the Conti-
nent, mud thus revive our export trade towards the
Spring ; and the influx of raw cotton from America will
facilitate employment through the winter. It is Ame-
rica, indeed, to which we must turn our attention un-
der existing;• circumstances, as the quarter from which
to expect assistance ; but crippled as all international
intercourse new is, through tariffs, Sec., our exporta-
irons will, we fear, be doomed to considerable disap-
pointment.

HERALD.—No circumstance of 'the Slightest poli-
tical moment has transpired here to-day. The Money
.111arket ,coctinues very easy, both in the discount Mar-
ket and on the Stock Exchange.
'lna letters which- we're'•reeeived from the Liverpool
And Manehebtcr Share Markets this morning haying
,Aollouuced some renewed speculation in Railway
Shares, with an improvement in some instances of the
quOtatios, bare caused' considerably "More jobbing in
Shares here than v have quoted for some time.
Great Western Railway SLares have advanced to 7f
a 6 dis., and the ditto New Shares to.-1 : Brighton
are. ; Blackwall are dis. ; Birmingham
52 'prom., Croydon Trunk are 3t. 18S. .6d. dis., and the
Scrip ft prem., Manchester and Leeds are 8 prem., and
York and North Midland 9 a :4 'prem.'

SU N.—The Funds left off rather fi- mly- this after-
nof n, Consols for tlie.opening having touched 94 to
Exchequer Bilis and East India Bonds rema ned the
0.11-le as in the morning.

In the Foreign Bonds not much business was done.
Spanish Actives closed at an advance to 23i ; Portu-
guese New Five per Cents at Oh ;,Colombian at 25,
French Three per Cents. at SO ; Exchange 25 40.
The Railway Shares were rather higher in conse-
quence of the speculation going on at Liverpool, es-
•pcciaily in the Great .Western and Brighton Shares.
The former rallied here to 6 discount, and the latter
t.O 141- discount. Manchester and Lreds Shares
proved to 8 prem.

Na arrivals were announced during the afterno'n.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. I.—The facts I am about to
communicate to you are of a nature so extraordinary
that I shall premise thrm by u solemn avernment of
their correctness. When the laughter they will occa-
sion shall have subsided, you will be impressed with their
real gravity.

The En peror has just issued an ukase, directing the.t
for the future, under pains and penalties, every p"-ma
who writes must, as we are all taught, slope hi', letters
from the left to right by drawing his pen frorr, the right
to the left. This curious ordinance was `'.educed in this
way :—His Majesty lately received freru one of the most
distinguished officers of his Government a memorial on
the finances of the empire. It was written is that way
which men who are left-hand:,--d can only write—that is,
the letters were sloped cer.ttary to the usual and correct
form. The reading of this memorial so teased his
Majesty that he instantly directed the ukase above re-
ferred to.

You will remember, that some years since his Majesty
isswd an ordinance against the adoption of " goats,
" Jewish," or " French," beards by his subjects. Two
young noblemen, who had just returned from a tour of
Europe, presented themselves early last Month to pay
their homage to the Emperor. One of them had a beard.
which displeased him exceedingly. The other was more
unfortunate, forlais face was adorned after the fashioe,of
our ill-fated first Charles. He wore moustachious and
a tuft—l think you call it an imperial—on his chin.
This was too much for the Emperor. He rushed upon
the offender, seized hint by the tuft,. and shook him Jio-
lently by it, nor in fact did lie relonse it till he tore. it
by the roots from the young man's face.
The young nobleman, smarting under. bodily -pain.atid
a sense of the indignity, retired with his friend. Both
demanded passports to withdraw from the empire, but,
although they are respectively members of most di s.
tinguished families, they were refused, and are at this
moment living retired on their estates at Moscow..
These matters have naturally suggested the near.ap-
preach of a climax which you must lona-;moe.have con,
s]derc,d inzvitahl6. It is superflUous to add that the
outrage I have just narrated has caused an immense:
sJisation.

THE RIGHT HON. HENRY LABOUatiERE,—
The President of the Board of Trade arrived here, we
believe, on Monday evening, from Lord Hatherton's, at
Tcddesley Pork, Penkridge, and is expected to stay in,
this neighbourhood somi two or three days lone.
The 'tight Hon. Gentleman is the guest of Mark ph!..
bps, Esq., M.P., at the Park ; and we see by. the Liver-
pool papers that he is expc.-dod to dine with the Mayor
and a numcrcus party the Town Hall there on Fri-
day. Mr. Laboueacre, in company with his host, made
his Appearance on 'Change yesterday, about half-pakt
coo (;'clock, and was introduced to a considerable num-
ber of the principal merchants and manufacturers there
Luna")lcd.-11lanchestcr Guardian.

Lord Howden has arrived in Hereford-street
from Paris, on his way to Grimston Park, Yorkshire, ro
remain until the meeting of Parliament. We are lap:ppy
residehealthais t mGurez.
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ar.a. r opvaerdk.
riehreaLratdh)a,stbiLpadeyonHtinot:ved;
to en's
with a small circle of relatives.
The principal theare at Bourclearix on Thurs-
day night presented an unusual scene of disorder. The
audience had become offended at the appearance of a
performer named Troy, as Lord Effort, in the Domino
Non', under the evident, influence of an over-liberal
allowance of wine, and, he was reprimanded by a general
The actor retorted with violent gestures, and
advancing tov.o.ras the lamps, called out, " Yes, God-
`lnn Uputl this a storm of hisses broke out, and he was
filreed ;AT the stage by his brother actors. lu the second
act Lc again came forward ; and the audience were all in
a ferment, and the hisses prevented the piece from going
on. The tuanaqer at length made his appearance, and, with
the assistance of some of the company, endeavoured to
f)ree the cause of riot from the stage. The latter,
however, resisted, struck ore of the actors, a contest
the curtain was let down, the police interfered,
and M. Tre,y was taheo into custody. Apologies were
made by the manager to the audience, and, another
actor having assumed the part, the entertainments of
the evening, nroeeeded without further interruption,—.
Galignana's Messenger. • -

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