The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-09 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, DEC. 30.

LONDON DAY MAIL TO EDINBURGH.
The Lord Provost has received the following letter from
the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the Memorial on
the above subject:—
Treasury Chambers, 19th December, 1838.
My Lord,—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury have now under their consideration the subject of
the day mail to Edinburgh and Glasgow, in consequence of
several representations which have reached this Board ; and I
have it in command from their Lordships, to acquaint you that
my Lords are in communication with the Post Office, and
through that department, with the railroad companies, for the
purpose of accelerating the dispatch of the letters, and the
rate at which they are carried ; but until such arrangements
are completed, it would be premature for this Board to give
any final answer to your memorial, or to the other representa-
tions which they have before them.
With respect, however, to the hour of departure from Lon-
don, which it is proposed in the memorial should be fixed at
eight o'clock, my Lords must observe that you are under a
misapprehension in supposing that the mail despatched at that
hour would convey the letters arriving in London by that
morning's post.
The Irish Mail which was originally forwarded at eight
o'clock, did not convey such letters, and in consequence was
of very little benefit, so far as the letters were concerned, and
the time of despatch was, in consideration of these circum-
stances, altered.
My Lords will be anxious, in conjunction with the Post-
master-General, to despatch the day mail at the earliest time
consistent with the conveyance of the letters arriving from the
country on the same morning, which their Lordships consider,
and which has always been represented, as the great advantage
of the day mail.
Their Lordships desire you will feel assured, that it is their
wish, as well as that of the Postmaster-General to make such
arrangements as may meat the convenience of the public ; but
you will be aware that at the commencement of great altera-
tions, such as have been introduced by the railroads, it is not
to be expected that at first all the advantages can be received
which my Lords confidently trust will be derived from a fur-
ther extension of these roads, and the improvements which
time and experience may suggest. —I am,
obedient servant, (Signed) my Lord, your
13,4111NG.

LOAD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE ITOL'!
LAND.—We are not surprised to find that a new edition
of this work has been already called for by the public, and
we venture to predict that it will not be the last, by many,
that its merits will procure. There can be no one who
has read the letters but will coincide with the following
opinions, expressed in the recently-published number of the
Quarterly Review :—" Among the many travellers of mo-
dern days," says the Reviewer, " who have contributed to
our knowledge of the interesting regions dignified by events
recorded in Holy Writ, a prominent place must be assigned
to the young Nobleman whose work is mentioned at the
bead of this article. Lord Lindsay's abilities and accom-
plishments are of a high order ; a spirit of inquiry and a
glowing enthusiasm have been aided by various knowledge,
and refined by a sincere piety. He exhibits a considerable
store both of ancient and modern learning ; but his draughts
of Helicon have been abundantly tempered by

' Siloa's brook that ffoved

Past by the Oracle of God ;'
having gone out in the perseverance and devotion of a pil-
grim, he has felt and recorded what he saw with the wisdom
of a philosopher, and the faith of an enlightened Christian."

The greatest rivalry exists between the builders of
timber steam-boats and iron steam-boats. The former de-
clare that vessels built of dry fir have a decided superiority
over those of iron, and are ninety-eight times as strong in
direct tension, seventy-eight times as strong in direct thrust,
and eighty-six times as strong in lateral straining, and are
also, they allege, decidedly superior in durability, speed,
stability, cost price, strength, elasticity, and require a much
less draft of water. So convinced is one builder of this,
that he has issued circulars challeging in sums from 1001.
to 1,0001. the builders of iron steam-boats to produce one
of the same engine power per tonnage, to compete in the
above qualities with a wooden built steamer of equal
tonnage.

An inquest was held yesterday at West Drayton, on
the body of a young man, an agricultural labourer, who
suspended himself from the bough of an oak on Friday
last, because he had seen his :sweetheart walking in the
company of a rival. Verdict, " Temporary derangement."

We have noticed elsewhere the devastating effects of the
hurricane. With this subject and the assassination of Lord
Norbury the Irish Papers received this morning are principally
occupied. To the latter calamitous and horrible occurrence
the Pilot devotes a large portion of its space, not only report-
ing in detail the evidence (the substance of which we gave
yesterday) adduced before the Coroner, " the scene of the
murder," &c., but giving a long article in defence of certain
remarks before made by that Journal on the assassination.
The llail had before taken to task its Contemporary, express-
ing horror at the Pilot's manner in speaking of the sanguinary
deed. In its publication of Monday last the following rebuke
conveyed to its antagonistic Contemporary, whose obnoxious
paragraph it quotes :
We extract the following palliation—indeed it amounts to a
justification—of the murder of Lord Norbury from the Pilot
of Friday evening. We shall not offer a single observation
upon the article, but leave it to meet that fate to which the
honest portion of public opinion must award it.
The first notice was (as our readers will recollect) headed
" Loi d Norbury wounded," and ended with ascribing
"jealousy" as the cause of the attack. The second notice is
under the head—
" MURDER or LORD NORBURY.—Unfortunately, murder
we must now call it—Lord Norbury is dead. He died at
twelve o'clock yesterday, wounded by five swan drops, one
of which touched the lungs and proved fatal. The circurn-
stances, the motives, are still involved in considerable mys-
tery. Various reports were in circulation on Wednesday;
we gave them as reports, attaching to each just the propor-
tion of weight they received from the public, and no one
that day knew anything else. Little more than reports, ex-
cept as to the manner of the murder, is known as yet. It is
known that his Lordship was walking with his Scotch steward
through a shrubbery, when a man just raised his head and
shoulder above a bush, and fired the fatal shot. This fact is
ascertained.

" The rest is rumour; but one rumour gradually displaces
all others ; it is, that the murder arose out of the landlord crime
of extermination. It is said that Lord Norbury had got in-
fected with the horrible exterminating mania, and had got 250
notices to quit served on his tenants. We do not vouch for
the statement ; but, if true, heavens I what a scene of crime,
cruelty, calamity, and human suffering is presented by
the ejection—houseless, homeless, and foodless—of 250
families to starvation and death. We shall not dwell on it.
We do not notice it to excuse, but to account for such a horrid
crime. It is not that we abhor the single murder less, but that,
if possible, we deprecate the system of wholesale murder more."
We learn from the Pilot, that after the most persevering
inquiries here and in Tullamore, as well as on the the spot
where this Nobleman was assassinated, I have been unable to
ascertain what was even the alleged cause for the perpetration
of this awfully mysterious murder.
A Correspondent of the same Paper writes—the Reverend
Mr. O'Rafferty, of Durrow, yesterday delivered an excellent
exhortation to his flock on the subject, in which he noticed
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the murder gains ground in that county. He also informs us
that a man named Hallion is in custody, who was found near
the spot where the murder was committed, with a pistol in his
possession. He was not in Durrow, however, when the mur-
der was perpetrated. Two other men arc arrested on suspi-
cion, and will be examined to-morrow.
MR. DANIEL O'CONNELL AND MR. PETER Peecem--In
allusion to a letter published by the latter gentleman, the
Pilot has the following remarks :—" Of course it will surprise
the public as it did us—for at first view it would seem to im-
ply, what however was certainly not intended, and what, in-
deed, is towards the close disavowed—an imputation upon Mr.
O'Connell connected with money; and we know that whatever
exceptions may have been taken from time to time to particular
acts or words of Mr. O'Connell, no imputation connected with
money could justly be made against him, or ever was made.
The letter, however, caused us to inquire into the facts,
and that inquiry has resulted in further proofs that the case in
question forms no exception to this opinion. The fact is, the
difference between Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Purcell on the
point was more technical than material. It was a difference
as to the form in which the funds of the Society should
be kept, and not as to the appropriation of them. Mr.
O'Connell conceiving that the form he adopted could be more
safely employed in certain appropriations connected with the
public cause than another form, which, however, was more
strictly and technically accordant with the regulations of
the Society, although, perhaps, not at the moment for the
public service. However this may be, we confidently assert
that when all the facts are known, it will appear that even
where there was informality it was for the sake of the public
cause alone, and unconnected with any private interest.
Indeed we should be ashamed if we deemed it necessary to
argue this with Irishmen after their long experience of. Mr.
O'Connell. However, as matters of account are matters not
for opinion but fact, we are happy to learn the accounts will
be published in the morning—involving- no doubt as teatihe
purity and disinterestedness of the parties—but leaving
lie
public of course to form their own judgments as to the weight
to be attached to technicalities."
ROYAL BANK.—We understand that several accounts Wave
been closed, and the discontinuance of others threatened, with
the Royal Bank in Foster-place, in which establishment Mr.
Ex-Sheriff Jones holds the situation of Director, with a salary
of 2001. a year, in consequence of the line taken by that un-
tleman in the late proceedings of the Corporation. —Dilb'litt
E .en -a Mail.
A Corres;ondent from Dubin writes :—":111r. P. Purcell is
a great public con:ractor, and I dare say he thinks he has
given quite enough of '-is patriotism' to. the public cae!sset,
and now is quite as wellhadf the
Indeed, it is confidently believed, by those whoha hahvee
thought
pleased not to give any more
best opportunity of keenly scrutinising' him, t
ohuet of thewcnttoomfaatrt,er.and that he sought an opportunity of backing
the accounts of the Precursor Society will be a4th or
morning, -row morning,,
" The splash of ' patriotism' appeared.' this (January h 6)
the people of Ireland in the newspapers to-mo.
and the announcement of this fact in the Pilot w' 11
mal damper to the burst of triumph which the fore.'C'a
tat 12.
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and the Tories will feel on reading the awful tidings's.x)
retirement from the Precursor Society of a personage
portant as Mr. Peter Purcell." he a deiss-s

On Saturday a Greenwich pensioner underwent
examination before the magistrates in George-street, Green,.
wich, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of goods from
the Royal Hospital. The magistrates remanded him for
further examination until this day ; but on Sunday it was:
discovered that the deceased had put an end to his existetieer
by banginc, himself. The deceased had for sometime acted
as sailmaker to the hospital.
An inquest was held on Monday at the Towq of
Rmnsgate public house, 'Wapping, on the body of a nen—
born male infant found in the river. it appeared that the:
mate of a steamer saw the body floating down with the:
tide and secured it. The infant seemed td 10' of full growth,
and without any marks of violence on its eersoai. Na
evidence being adduced as to when or where !Ile, body
came into the water, the jury returned a verdict of " rlta4sl
drowned."

SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.-011 •Sa^
turday morning, about six o'clock, the body of as elderly
female, named Martha Siveright, Lying at No. 3, Prospect-.
terrace, Bagnigge Wells-road, was discovered in one of the,
basins of the Maiden-lane arm of the Regent's Canal. Her
age is stated to be sixty-two. Her mind had been noticed,
to be deranged for some time past, and she had frequently
expressed an intention of destroying herself.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning l2 minutes after 9 I Evening 43 minutes after 9

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 40 minutes past Three o' Clock.

WITH WHICH
THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW
INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1839.

We copy from a Bury Paper the justly indignant
denial which the Poor-law Commissioners have given
to the assertion of Mr. STEPHENS, which we yester-
day referred to, in order to elicit such a denial. We
never for one moment believed, or could believe, that
any one pf the Poor-law Commissioners was the
author of the work referred to, or had in any manner
sanctioned its publication ; but we believed, and still
believe, that, the assertion having been made, and
probably credited by many thousands amongst the
multitude, it was most necessary to have it
contradicted. We are quite sure that the work
is as abhorrent to the feelings of the Poor-law
Commissioners, who are undoubtedly animated by a
conviction that the new law works well for the people,
and are undoubtedly humane as well as honourable
men, as it is and must be abhorrent to the feelings of
all moral beings. Mr. STEPHENS is now become a
person of too much notoriety to hazard such accusations
without being called on for proofs, and as he cannot
possibly prove this accusation, he must be convinced
of the guilt of having made it. No zeal in the cause
of humanity—admitting, which we do not, that Mr.
STEPHENS'S views of the Poor-laws are correct—can
ever be the smallest justification for charging any
gentlemen with an act which he justly denounced as
atrocious.

The Preston Observer says that a society is i❑
progress of formation in that town to settle all disputed
questions of accounts, or other differences, without the
expensive recourse of applying to the lawyers. This
is a curious circumstance, for it shows that the people
no longer rely on the law and the Judges to adjust
their disputes, and have recourse to a plan of their own.
They help themselves. The Judges, the Barristers,
and the Attorneys, with their fictions, sham pleas, legal
delays, and high fees, have, in fact, driven customers
from their shop, and they set up a company to pro-
vide for themselves. We hope the lawyers will not
procure an Act of Parliament to compel the inhabi-
tants of Preston to go to their shop, for they already
possess, in the inability of the people, whether arbitra-
tors or not, to give legal force to their own decisions, a
pretty sufficient protection.
We presume those who unite to form this New
Court must enter into an agreement to abide by its
decisions, and should any person then refuse obedience to
a decision unfavourable to himself, on the supposition
that the law would not enforce it, the curous question
might arise whether the Law Courts would be bound
to enforce the contract the individual had entered into
to abide by the decision of the Arbitration Court.
The individual who had gained a verdict in the latter,
would have, it seems to us, a good cause of
action against an opponent who refused to
acknowledge the decision, having first agreed to
acknowledge the Court ; and if that be so, the
legal Court might find itself bound to enforce the
decision of a Court not recognised by the law, and
which was taking the bread out of the mouths of its
licensed practitioners.

The lawyers have carried the matter so far
that we are not at all surprised that the people
seek to escape from their jurisdiction, and estab-
lish Courts of their own ; for not only are the Law
Courts expensive, procrastinating, and insufferably vex-
atious, but they are insufficient. Daily almost do we
read of complaints made in the Police Courts of va-
rious disputes, particularly between the husbands
and wives, for which the law affords no remedy, and
for many of which, as it settles the nature of the
contract that binds them together, it ought to afford a
remedy. The rich may procure a divorce, for ex•
ample ; but the poor, however deeply injured, are very
often saddled for life with wives whom they know to
be unfaithful, and with the maintenance of children
not their own. In fact, our laws and our Courts, by
the strenuous resistance which lawyers have made to
reform, are becoming, or have in many cases become,
quite unfit for their original purposes. 'We should
anticipate, therefore, that other towns will imitate
Preston, and dispense with Attorneys, Barristers, and
Judges. The country will then be wholly saddled,
as it is at present partly, with a sinecure estab-
lishment, to administer laws that the people will ad-
minister for themselves.

We are curious to know the real extent of the modi-
fication which is about to take place in the French
Cabinet—for, according to the reports of persons in
" high places," neither will the KING permit, nor will
the Opposition insist upon, a total change of Minis-
ters. Louis PHILIPPE has at last learned that to
change a Cabinet every month, for no other pur-
pose than to induce some popular Member of
the Opposition to abandon his principles, and
so destroy his influence over the popular mind,
is as dangerous a game for Royalty as for the
most noisy apostles of office-storming patriotism.
Having in the course of the first five years of his
reign lavishly wasted the reputable patriotism of both
Chambers, and of all parties, his MAJESTY made the
discovery, that it was possible soon to exhaust all the
materials for the construction of any Cabinet with the
shadow of foreign or domestic influence—and hence
his extreme unwillingness to consent to a complete
change of Ministers. Besides, though gratitude is not
a Royal virtue, the KING may possibly feel that his
protection is due to Count MOLE, were it only on ac-
count of the facility with which he submitted to an abridg-
ment of the constitutional privileges of his office. Dur-
ing his administration the KING has reigned and go-
verned—has directed the internal and external policy '
of France in whatever way he deemed most accordant
with his own Royal ideas of domestic and foreign
policy. Count MOLE and his colleagues were so
many ciphers, to which the KING imparted whatever
nominal value he pleased. Here, then, is another source
of vexation. The address which ousts the present
Premier is no less a virtual condemnation by the
Chamber of Deputies of the Royal system than a
positive assurance that that system must be either
wholly abandoned or greatly modified. It is stated
that the KING, however, does not altogether think
RO—that his MAJESTY is persuaded that, by adroit
management, the Opposition may be made to regard
a change of men as synonimous with a change of
measures ; and that he has hopes of being able to
induce THIERS and GUIZOT to steer the vessel of the
State according to the charts supplied by himself to
Count MOLE and his colleagues. We cannot believe
such a statement to be correct. The KING must know,
that should the Address now before the Chamber
of Deputies be finally adopted, no mere change of
persons in the Administration can affect the principles
to which it pledges Constitutional France. The ad-

dress, as prepared by the Committee, is a direct un-
qualified censure of the whole Foreign policy of the
Government, with the exception of the Belgian and
African questions, and upon the first of these no opi-
nion is offered--the closing words of the paragraph
being, " The Chamber awaits the issue of negocia-
tions." We will pass in review the several paragraphs
referred to in the order in' which they occur. And,
first, of the evacuation of Ancona :

You announce, Sire, that by virtue of engagements taken
with the Holy See, our troops have quitted Ancona. We
have thus given a striking proof of our respect for treaties,
but we regret that this evacuation did not take place at a more
opportune moment, and with the guarantees which a wise and
foreseeing policy should have stipulated.

If ever there was language employed in which by
implication a Cabinet was denounced as foolish,
blundering, and improvident, it will be found in this
paragraph. It clearly regrets the time, and deplores
the circumstances, of the evacuation. This is the first
fatal blow. Now for the Swiss question :

We hope that the difference which sprung up between
your Government and Switzerland, has not disturbed those
relations of old friendship which united the two countries, and
which the political events of 1830 had contributed to strengthen.

Here is no rejoicing at the success of the French
diplomacy. The utmost the Deputies do is to express
a hope that no serious mischief has been done—that
the Cabinet, by its blunders in this quarter, has
not succeeded in disgusting an old and faithful friend
and ally, rendered more dear to France by the events
which placed Louis PHILIPPE on the Throne. When
it is considered that this is a question known to affect
the KING'S personel feelings, the opposition that
forced the adoption of such a paragraph must have
looked to something more than a nominal change in
the French Cabinet. We next approach the paragraph
relative to the state of Spain:—
It is with profound grief that we see Spain consuming itself in
the horrors of civil war. We ardently desire that the Go-
vernment of your Majesty, in continuing to afford to the cause
of Queen Isabella 11. the support which the interests of France
allow, may exert, in concert with its allies, all its influence for
the termination of such deplorable excesses.

This is a call for the direct interposition of France
in the pacification of the Peninsula ; and, conse-
quently, a plain and straightforward condemnation of
the system pursued by the Government since the dis-
banding of the French Auxiliary Legion, when the
Quadruple Treaty was finally abandoned. To a call
so direct the KING must return a specific answer; and
that such an answer should be in the negative, with
M. THIERs at the head of the Cabinet, is impossible,
The paragraph relative to Poland is the last which we
shall quote as conclusive of the decided convictions of
the Opposition :

The Chamber, deeply moved by the misfortunes of Po-
land, offers its constant vows for a people whose ancient na-
tionality is placed under the protection of treaties.
Deeply will this barb rankle in the heart of Lours
PHILIPPE'S dear ally, the Emperor of RUSSIA. It is
a brand cast in a powder magazine, with material suf-
ficient to set all Europe in a blaze. The Chamber of
Deputies explicitly recognizes the nationality of Po-
land as a free State, or what is still more, as a State
whose independence is guaranteed by treaties which
Russia cannot set aside. This annual protestation
against the incorporation of Poland with the Empire
of the CZAR, will keep alive the embers of Poland's
independence till the arrival of the auspicious hour
whe❑ the voice of liberal Europe shall again call upon
her to assume a distinguished position among the free
nations of the world.

Our persuasion, then, is, that any change in the
Cabinet dictated by the paragraphs in the address
above quoted, must be attended with highly important
results. M. THIERS will not enter the Cabinet un-
conditionally ; for though we place no great reliance
upon his professions of patriotism, we know that his
vanity would not suffer him to risk a second time his
popularity with that party of which he is now the
oracle. The KING all but destroyed his influence
before—an injury which M. THIERS never has for-
kotten, even while striving hard to make the nation
forget it.

The Paris Papers of Saturday and Sunday have a.l

been received ; but those of Monday have not yet
arrived, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather
last night. On Monday the debate on the Address
was to open ; and according to the Journals of Sun-
day, the following list of Members who proposed to
speak for and against its adoption, as prepared by the
Committee, were entered on the Notice Book of the
Chamber of Deputies :
For the Address—Messrs. Guizot, Billault, Du-
vergier de Hauranne, Havin, Montepin, Conte, De-
jean, Salvator, Janvier, Mauguin, Passy, Glais-
Bizoin, Larabit, Remusat, Portalis, Sapey,
Durand, Ganneron, De Tracy, Isambert, Malleville,
Auguis, Desjobert, Chaix Ange, Boirot, Mar-
shal Clausel, De Mornay, Boudet, Chapuis Montla-
ville, Mathieu.
Against it—Messrs. Liadieres, Rouel, De la
Grange, Beudin, Jars, Meilheurat, Pages (de l'Ar-
riege), Las Cases, Baude, Quenault, Meynard,
Enouf.

It may excite surprise that in the list of speakers in
favourof an Address fatal to the MOLE Administration
we do not find inscribed the names of MM. TRIERS,
ODILLON BARROT, DUCIIATEL, GARNIER

PAGES, LAFITTE, S &LVERTE, and DE SADE.

With the exception of LAFITTE, upon whose vote
it would be no longer safe to calculate, now that he is,
through the influence of the Duke of ORLEANS,
banker for the army, we believe there is not one of
these gentlemen who will not support the Address
by every means in his power. The reason for withhold-
ing their names most probably is that they have severally
amendments to move upon certain paragraphs. Among
the most remarkable of the reports to which this Ad-
dress has given rise, we select the following from a
Journal dated Monday, just received :

Amidst all the remarks made in the Chamber on the
draft of the Address, after it had been read by the President,
the words of a deputy aide-de-camp to the King were re-
marked, who exclaimed that the Address was insolent and fac
tious, and that means would certainly be found to prevent its
passing. We are assured, besides that, that it was said yes-
terday evening, at the Palace, that it would not be accepted
—(gu'elle etait inacceptable). If, however, as is possible, the
majority of the Chamber adopts this Address, what course can
be taken not to accept it ?
The Ztfoniteur confirms the accounts received from
Rochelle, of the 2d instant, relative to the popular
commotions, in consequence of the exportation of
grain. Before order could be restored three lives
were lost, and several persons were wounded. One
of the killed was a woman, but whether her death was
or was not accidental, is not stated. To appease the
people an order of the Town Council, prohibiting the
exportation of grain of every description, was
posted up in every part of the town. The employ-
ment of the troops in slaughtering an unarmed mob
of misguided people, is severely censured in several of
the Journals.

The CZAR has rewarded the intrigues of his am-
bassador in Turkey, M. DE BOUTENIEFF, with the
order of the White Eagle. In the imperial rescript
the good understanding between the EMPEROR and
the SULTAN, is attributed to the indefatigable zeal of
this functionary.
The following brief extracts include what remaining
news there is to be found in these Papers :
While several Journals announce that some demonstrations
are making in Metz and the environs in favour of unhappy
Belgium, most of the regiments in our garrison arc sending to
their home 3 those of their soldiers whose time of ger% ice ex-
pired on the Ist of January. The number of the men who thus
leave these regiments is very great —Courrier de la Moselle.
The Gazette de Bale, after announcing in its number of the
Ist of January the transmission of the direction of the Confe-
deration from Lucerne to Zurich, adds the following paragraph:
" Several Swiss Journals mention a ►ague report, imply.

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2,

ing that the French Government would be disposed to take
part for the Swiss convents. They add that several diploma-
tic notes are expected on this subject. These reports arise
from the numerous visits made by M. de Montebello to the
Pope's Nuncio."

Yesterday, after the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
couriers were dispatched from the principal Legations, doubt-
less with the draft of the address which had just been read.
Amidst all this movement the activity of M. de Pahlen is re-
marked. To-day at night-fall he gave an audience to the
representative of the King of Holland.
Last year the debate on the address lasted a whole week.
It will probably be as long this year. —Le Commerce.

The Madrid Papers which have reached us this
morning are of the 30th ult., but their contents are
unimportant. In the Senate the Bill for the new levy
of 40,000 men was adopted on the 29th—an unim-
portant measure to a Cabinet without the means of
providing their equipment when raised. The capital
was tranquil, and in the provinces robbery and assas-
sination had in some sort superseded civil war. In
various districts of La Mancha, the Carlist chief
PALILLOS circulated the following General Order,
which will sufficiently explain the mode in which the
provincial belligerents carry on their military opera-
tions :

" Every father, mother, brother, and relative, to the fourth
degree, of those now serving in the ranks of the rebels, who
may fall into the hands of my troops, shall be immediately pw
to death. This article comprises all individuals whose rela
tives shall serve as peceteros, or what is called 'national volun-
teers,' and finally, every man armed against our legitimate
Sovereign Don Carlos, and his i:nprescriptiblc rights."
General CLONARD has been authorised by the
Government to try Generals NARVAEZ and COR-
DOVA by Court-martial. We understand that our
Ambassador has offered these Generals his protection,
and even pledged himself that they shall not fall the
victims of ESPA RTERO'S jealousy.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY ( THIS DAYS, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have not received the Liverpool Cotton Market as yet.
Extract of a letter from Rio Janerio, at the North and
Souih American Coffee-house, of the date Nov. 21 :
" To this day's date our Exchange was flat ; NV( d.iesday
281 a 28, and it remained so until ebout one o'clock, p.m.
(this day), with little money offering. Bills were done freely
at 28, and money, even thus, was not abundant. Something
was done at 28k; Stock flat at 78, few buyers. Latest accounts
from England, to the Bth of October, by the Electra.
We have very few arrivals this morning. One French and
three Hamburgh mails remain due, as well as the :Mexican mail,
which has been over due nearly a month. Great anxiety pre-
vails with the merchants for the arrival of the packet, the
Philadelphia ; but we understand that she was detained at
Mexico for the protection of the British property there during
e bombardment of St. Juan de Ulloa, by the French squad-
ron, not a single British ship-of-war being on the station,
although for some time past it was expected that the French
Admiral would make the attack.
We have again to announce most distressing ac-
counts received this morning from Liverpool during the
late hurricane which prevailed there. The Pennsylvania,
New York packet-ship, which put to sea on the 2ith for Nest
Yurk, is reported to be entirely lost with her crew and pas
sengers, with the exception of one, who, being in possession ut
a life-preserver, gained the shore. De,d bodies from the
various wrecks are daily being washed on shore.
The St. Andrew, another pocket ship to New York. rs
gone to pieces.

FUNS.
Consols ,whi,:la closed stiryday at 9431 to 941 for the opening,
may be quot'eel at present the same. Recut, ed, 93;1 / ; Es-
chequer Bills, 66 68; India Bonds, 63 64; Bank Stock,
2021 2031.
Mote} was in considerable demand during last week, owing
to the payment of duties into he Customs and Excise, as well
as conE4e,erablc sums being required for the payment of bills
becoraing due the 4th of the pie-cot month. Discount on
Ball Bills have been at 31 per cent.
Ureat excitement prevails in the City, particularly among
tae merchants, occasioned by the disastrous accounts received
from Liverpool this day
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active may be quoted
17 il- ; Portuguese, 324 34 ; Three per Cenrs., 214; 13,1-
4jan, 004-
,-,1 ; Brazilian, 77i 78; Colombian, 27k 28 ; Nlexi-
ran, 24: ; Dutch Two-aLd-r Halt, 541 1; Five per Cents.,
1021.
Llo}d's is al,o without a letter from Liverpool.
PitICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Sto: k 203 India Stock 3 pe, Cent. Red...... ......... 93 ~. Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons
9-,',',,,374 Sew li Sea Stock
•,., per Ccnt Old Annuities —
Otto Red, 10034 It". New Ditto N, n;i per Cent too 'h% : 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
Ni.w 5 per Cent. . Exch. Bills, £I,OO
Bank Long A nnuities to expire Ditto 500 ...... CS riti pm.
Jan. 5, 1360 1-1 13-18 A Ditto Small 63 66 pun
Oct. 10, 18.',9 Ditto Commercial — pm.
Jan, 5, 1'',141 Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, Aso — Bank Stock for Account —
April 5, IsBo — i India Stock for Account
Jan. 5. 1870 - f Consols for Account 944
PRIC'S.S OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austr'.ari Bonds — ! Peruvian Bonds l7
Belg'.ari Ponds
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Aytes Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
I i-tto .Account
Columbian Bonds 2534 Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 "77i S Spanish Bonds .
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account Ditto Accot 'it. 17% -I.l',
Greek Bonds — , Fiench, 5 per cent. ...... ... —fl ,
Ditto Bonds, 1825 —..._ 4 per cent.
Ditto Account -- 3 pet cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... —__ Exchange. —f, —c.
Ditto 'Account Dutch, 254 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per Cent ' Ditto Account 'al.!.
Ditto Account
Neapolitan —l Ditto Acc0unt....„........

. —
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Paid. Per •=.haie.
Brighton Railw y
Lo ion and Blac 5.P iawaii Railway 9 7
London and Croydon Railway Company 2O 12% 13
Blanchester and Birmingham Railway lO !,
1 )., i ~. ...xteim,... .. . ••• , % 3 ',.,..:
Northern and Eastern Railway Company l5 8
' - .••• 1 n tta“way ,uutpaity 55 58'4
In—sn Rank of Australia
I!. Is. 14 Si. 60.
Worthing Tontine
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
tmsterdam C.F. 12 454 Gibraitar 4,
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2U. 12 454 Genoa 25 80
Antwerp...
I.laanhurg.
&Rona.—
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Palermo per oz. liB
Ditt0....... 3 Ms. 25 65 Lisbon ,-,3 S 6
Marseilles.
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 Bahia 26
Petersburgh.ruble„..„3 Us. 10% Buenos Ayres ........ —
Berlin
... . . .. ..„.... ..... .
M.
7 0 New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effective fr 2. 10 7 Philadelphia 45
frieste ditto lO 3 PRICE OF BULLION, PER ut
Madrid. ...... ..................
Cadiz.... •••••••••••••••••••••••
Gilboa ....... 36 New Doubloons ............ 00 0
Barcelona
cline ..... ••••••••••••••••••••

HALF-PASTONE.
We have no further arrivals to the present hour to commu-
nicate. The general conversation in the City entirely relates
to the unfortunate events at Liverpool,. and it is much feared
that the Underwriters and the vaimus Insurance Companies
will be great sufferers by the dreadfuli hurricane. Accounts
have also been received from Dub n of. the hurricane having
extended to th.t quarter; and serious injuries have been sus-
tained, but not to be compared with that experienced at
Liverpool-
Consols may be quoted as in the early part of the morning,.
941.1 for the opening. The dividend on them is being paid
to-day. The Government broker purchased 6,000 Conso's
at 92i ex-dividend; at present they are 921
.1 ex-dividend.
Exchequer Bids, 68 66, lower; India Bonds, 65; Bank
Stock, 203

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade higher,
i; Portuguese rather improved, 3i3; Three per Cents.,
; Belgian, 991 a ; Brazillian, 771 78 : Colombian,
281; Mexican,Dutch Twod a. Half per Cents.,
; Five per Cents., 1021. French mail has not arrived.
count ;?North Midland, better,
There is little doing in Shares. Brazilian, lower, 3i- dis-
- THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Aecount, 94-e
3.A. premium.

A plan is in contemplation for an improved commu-
nication between the Eastern Counties and the North and
West of England, by a mail from Bristol to Yarmouth, by
way of Oxford, Cambridge, and Norwich, communicating
with the railway at Stoney Stratford.
About eleven o'clock at night two shots were fired
in a plantation on the grounds of Major Lewis, of Llaniron,
in Cardiganshire,adjoining a tenant s lands, when hisyoungest
son, and his companion, two lads, totally unarmed, cou-
rageously sallied forth to capture the depredators. They
fell in with three men armed with guns in the middle of the
preserve, and desired them to stand ; two of the poachers
escaped, but the third, being hotly pursued, turned round,
and at the distance of ten yards deliberately took dm at
them, when fortunately his gun missed fire. He was in
the act of cocking again to repeat the attempt, when they
closed with him and disarmed him. When captured, he
coolly expressed his surpr:so and disappointment at his gun
not going off; as he had discharged it thirty-four times in
the course of the day, without a single failure. The gun,
upon examination, was found to be loaded five fingers deep,
and, had it gone off, from the proximity of the parties, the
discharge might have been fatal to both.

BREAD TAX.-Mr. Paulton, whose exposure of
the atrocities of the Corn-laws has excited such a sensation
elsewhere, will deliver two lectures during the ensuing
week, on this, at present, all-absorbing subject.—Liverpool
Chronicle.

TILE PRESS.—The total number of Newspapers
which passed through all the Post-offices in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, was 42
millions!

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