The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

SARTORIUS ,v. PINKTJS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Old Slaughter's Hotel, Dec. 9.
SlR,—Your report of this trial contains unintentional
mis-statements which convey to the public an erro-
neous view of the present result of this speculative
action, and I trust that you will deem it to be only an
act of justice to accord to me an opportunity of cor-
recting, in your widely circulated paper, the errors of
that report, and to reply briefly to the false and
gratuitous assertion, unsupportedby a tittle of evidence,
of the alleged kind treatment of Captain Sartorius to me,
and alleged ungrateful return on my part.
The action was brought, not for 2001. as stated in
your report, but for an alleged loan of 3001., and for
an alleged 601. paid.
The verdict is but for 2001, and conditional only,
and subject to revision on the receipt of a commission
which was sent to America to examine a principal wit-
ness for defendant consequent on an order of Lord Den-
man, made belbre trial, to the effect that the commission
should be returnable in all January next, and upon its
receipt should be referred to a barrister, to be named by
Lord Denman, to determine by the evidence how the
verdict shall be entered. It will, therefore, be perceived
that at present this is not a cause already decided by
the verdict of ajury, as your report indicates, and that
plaintiff has already failed in his action on two of the
items, amounting to 1601., and the remaining 2001. to
depend on the effect of the evidence yet to be adduced,
even if no other proceeding were in contemplation.
In respect to the alleged ingratitude, the merits will
appear by coupling this most improper and vexatious
action with the characteristic proceedings of the plaintiff
and his agent and witness Hosking, as exemplified
in a lengthened account of a report which appears in
your paper of the 20th February, 1838, made to the
Shareholders of the Pneumatic Railway Association by
a Committee appointed by the Directors for that pur-
pose, and adopted at a public meeting, which cast severe
but merited censure upon those men, and the simple
fact, that I had assigned to Capt. Sartorius, not only an
agreed consideration of one-sixteenth of a foreign patent
of great value (for a promised loan on security, but
which I have no knowledge of ever having had the
benefit), and had also made to him a gratuity of a
similar assignment in another patent, and added to that
one hundred and fifty paid shares in the above Associa-
tion, of the nominal value of eighteen hundred and
seventy-five pounds, ail of which he now retains. But
after accepting these benefits with thanks he requited
me with treachery, and violated, with Hosking and
others, contracts solemnly entered into, and deprived me
of 4,0001. secured to me therein, for which and other
breaches an action is now pending in the Common
Pleas. To whom, therefore, does thecharge of ingrati-
tude and unfairness apply ! ! !
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
H. PINKUS.

CURIOUS TRIAL-BREACH OF
PROMISE OF MARRIAGE IN PARIS.

(From the Gazelle des Tribunaux of Sunday.)
A handsome, young m4o, the, happy proprietor of a
a beard a Ia jeune France, a magnificent pair of
moustachios, long flowing locks, &e., with a wasp-like
waist, startling waistcoat, and exaggerated shirt, was
brought before the tribunal on Saturday, for having
done a confiding Anglaise out of 33,000 francs (1,3201.)
Miss Samler, the plaintiff, a young lady who had
doubly a right to be mistress of her own actions, inas-
much as she had attained her 42d year, stated, with a
most uninitiated English accent, that she had for some
time been engaged to Giacosa (the defendant), who had
always professed for her the most violent attachment—
that she had lent him 13,000 francs to pay some " vile
creatures" called tailors, &c. ; and that she had ad-
vanced him an additional sum of 20,0001. to purchase
necessaries for a tour in Italy, where they were to pass
the honeymoon. Shortly after this the prisoner suc-
ceeded in obtaining from Messrs. Laffitte 10,000 francs
which Miss Samler had placed in their hands, and hav-
ing thus completely ruined his victim, the whiskered Lo-
thario sat down and wrote the following cold-blooded
epistle to his inamorata :
" Inclosed is a bill for 500 francs (201.), which is all
that remains of the presents which you have made me.
I hope that you will employ it in returning to your
family, and I entreat you no longer to lead the sort of
life which you have lately been so much addicted to. I
do not choose to make public all I know of you ; but if
ever you attempt to persecute me with your ridiculous
pretensions, I will make your name a byword for con-
tempt, and will insert all your letters in the public
papers, and thus expose your depraved and blameable
conduct. Let this serve as a warning for you to make
no more street acquaintances.
" I recommend you to follow my example, and leave
Paris as soon as possible, otherwise your ridiculous pro-
fligacy Kill be made public. You will never see me

again. Adieu. " FERNANDO."
A German lad!, under the travelling name of Ba-
roness Lammetz, gave evidence which she intended to
be in favour of Giacosa, but had the contrary effect.
She acknowledged that she had already been duped out
of 50,000 francs by the prisoner, and that she had
latterly been his accomplice in endeavouring to extort
money from Miss Samler.

Several tradespeople then came forward, and declared
that they had been swindled out of their goods by
Giacosa.

The prisoner declared that he had for some time past
cohabited with Miss Samler, who was desperately in love
with him ; that for her sake he had abandoned several
ladies of high rank and large fortune, and that he cer-
tainly would have married her bad he not obtained in-
formation of her previously immoral life, &c. &c.
The counsel for Miss Samler protested that his client
bad always borne a most irreproachable character, and
that the defence of Giacosa was adding cowardice to
infamy.

After some further evidence, all of which tended to
expose the foolish credulity of the Anglaise, and the
atrocious villainy of the whiskered swindler, the Court
passed the following sentence :
" Whereas Giacosa has swindled several tradespeople
out of their property under false pretences.
" Whereas he has employed fraudulent mancouvres
to swindle Miss Semler out of a large sum of money.
" He is condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment,
and a fine of 100 francs (4/.)"
With regard to the civil portion of the requisition :
" Whereas Miss Samler has reduced her demands
to 20,000 francs (8001.) Giacosa is also condemned to
refund that sum.

" Imprisonment not to exceed three years in the
event of non-payment of the fine."

THE PRESS AND THE PEERAGE.—Among
the new French Peerage creations are those of three
editors of newspapers :—M. Bertin, editor of the Jour-
nal des Debats ; M. Keratay, editor of the Courrier
Francais ; and M. Etienne, of the Constitutionnel.
SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—There was another
meeting last night of the electors interested in the return
to Parliament of Mr. Walter, when it was ar-
ranged that that gentleman should be relieved from the
fatigue of canvassing. It was deemed quite sufficient
that Mr. Walter (who was present), should attend
meetings of the electors convened in different districts.
It is reported that Mr. Curling, Reformer, will be a
candidate for this borough.

A
CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquiry was held
at the London Hospital, concerning the death
of Sarah Bradford, before
eased Baker, at eleven o'clock
this morning. The de was seven years old, and
lived at No. 7, Dock-street, Commercial-road. Having
been left with a younger child, in a bed room where
there was a fire, her clothes took fire, and she was so
severely burnt as to cause her death in a few hours
afterwards. The Coroner having strongly reprimanded
the deceased's parents for negligence in allowing her to
be alone where a fire was burning, a verdict of acci-
dental death was returned.

THE WAR IN FRENCH AFRICA.

The 711oniteur Pari.sien of Sunday night and the
illoniteur of Monday publish the following despatch
from Marshal Valee, Governor-General of Algeria, to
the Minister of War, dated Algiers, November 30,
and brought to Toulon by the Vantour steamer on the
night of the 4th instant :

Sir—The situation of Algeria has not experienced
any important change since the departure of the last
courier. On both sides preparations for war are
making. Ahd-el-Bader is calling the tribes around
him, in whom, however, he does not appear to find
any great sympathy. On my part, I am taking every
measure rendered necessary by the new position in
which the colony is placed. There has been no con-
flict within the last week. Only a few marauders
have appeared in the east, and set fire to some
stacks of forage, and some huts left abandoned in
that part of the plain which is no longer inha-
bited. I have, as I informed your Excellency, I
would, enjoined the French and native population to
retire for protection within the fortified points. Some
farms, ascertained to be capable of being rendered de-
fensible, are still occupied by colonists, whom I have
armed and provisioned. The events in preparation have
induced me to make a general concentration around the
principal centres of action. Several of the posts, estab-
lished merely for the purpose of watching the motions
of the robbers, became unimportant as soon as we found
that we were actually at war. Some of these posts,
indeed, would have been untenable during the winter
even if peace had not been disturbed. Their being in
the middle of marshes covered with water rendered a
dwelling upon them dangerous, and the supplying of
them with provisions impossible, No act of hostility
has yet been commenced in the province of Oran. In
the province of Constantina Achmet has endeavoured
to make a general rising of the tribes in the environs
of Guelma. The following is the report sent me
on this subject by General Galbois The ex-
Bey Achmet has made an attempt to excite some tribes
in his neighbourhood by holding out to them the bait
of plunder, at the same time giving them to under-
stand that I was absent, and there were no troops left
in this province. He advanced as far as Merdjor
Kahcl, where I encamped last year, and has directed a
levy upon the Achaches, dependents of the circle of
Guclmas and carried off many of their cattle. The
Achaches, however, being joined by their neighbours
ran to arms, and pursued the horsemen of Achmet.
They killed seven of them, but, at the same time, lost
a portion of their cattle. At this time Achmet is
threatening the Oulad Zenatis and the Amners Cha-
raguas, who have applied to me for succour. They
have retired near the camp of Sidi Tamtam, where to-
morrow I shall send a squadron of Chasseurs to protect
them.' The province of Constantina is perfectly undis-
turbed, as is proved by the following extract from Gen.
Galbois'despatch :—' I am persuadd you will see with
satisfaction the high prices to which the rural properties
in the Beylick in the environs of Constantina have risen.
The lettings of land, which took place yesterday, were
as great as the first. This shows the confidence of
the natives in the French Government. All is quiet at
Djigelli, and they have begun to till the land up to
the walls of the town. Great damage has been done
by the rains in the subdivision of Bona, and the num-
ber of sick increases. At the same time the barracks
are good, and an hospital has been erected with great
care for the reception of the sick, who have every as-
sistance their cases require.' The hurricane, which was
experienced in the Mediterranean at the middle of this
month, and caused such deplorable losses on the coast
of France, also occasioned some equally disastrous ac-
cidents on those of Africa. Several vessels conveying
mules for the Government have been wrecked at diffe-
rent points. The following are extracts of reports from
Bona and Phil:ippeville

" BONA, Noy. 24.—1 have the honour to inform you
that a hired vessel, coming from Algiers with an officer
and 19 men of the 3d Chasseurs, and about 20 officers'
horses, was driven on shore by the gale in the night of
the 20th inst., near Mafray. The Captain of the ship
was drowned. An Austrian vessel has been lost on the
Seybouse. A transport, with horses and mules belong-
ing to the waggon-train coming from Algiers, has taken
refuge at Fort Genois, after having lost two mules, and
thrown overboard all the forage and barley.
" PHILIPPEVILLE, Nov. 21.—At three in the after-
noon of yesterday there arrived in our roadstead the
hired brigs Favori and Bien Aime, with troops, mili-
tary stores, horses, and mules. The wind suddenly
rose, prevented their coming into Stora, and compelled
them to cast anchor, where it overtook them. During
the night the Favori broke from her anchors, and was
dashed against the shore at the foot of Fort de
France. The horses which were not confined made their
way to the land through a large breach in the ship's
side. The passengers and crew were able to jump
ashore. Not a person perished, and 21 out of 37 horses
were saved. At nine the next morning the Bien Aime
experienced the same fate opposite Alcantara. All the
passengers and crew were saved ; 25 mules were drowned
and 11 saved. On the 22d I was advised of a third
wreck beyond Skrickda, and that a detachment of
French were traversing the plain, seeking a passage
across the Ouad Sefsaf. They were the crew of the
Esperance, which had been cast ashore at Cape de
Fer. Forty-four mules were drowned in the hold.
The crew and passengers reached the shore with
their arms, and without losing a single man. Some of
she natives made up to ~them, but were deterred
from anything like hostility by the sight of their
arms, and one of the Arabs undertook to guide them
to Stora. In the evening, not being able to reach
Philippeville on account of the river, the guide con-
ducted them to the abode of Bassein Bou Haffia, Shiek
of the tribe of the Mouzala. The old man granted
them hospitality, fed them with milk and cakes, and
sent to acquaint me with what had happened. The
platform of our landing-place has been entirely carried
away. The roofs of our barracks are much damaged,
the block-houses blown out of their perpendicular, the
parapets levelled, three unfinished houses destroyed,
six others much injured, and a quantity of merchandise
spoiled. None of our soldiers have perished, and I
have give given orders for the reparation of the other
disasters. The Government ships which were out at
sea have also sustained considerable damage. The
steamer Acheron lost her foremast in the storm. The
brig Palinure, moored off Fort Genois, broke from her
chains, and narrowly escaped ftom being driven on
shore. Accept, &c.

" Marechal Comte VA LEE."
The Ilionitcur Algcricn publishes an order of the
day from Marshal Valce to the army in Africa, con-
taining the following letter from his Majes'y :
" At the Tuileries, 19th November, 1839.
" My dear Marshal—After having had the happi-
ness two years ago of seeing my son, the Duke de Ne-
mours, take part, under your command, in the glorious
exploits of the taking of Constantina, it is highly pleas-
ing to me to have a fresh occasion of congratulating
myself, together with you, on the share which my son,
the Prince Royal, has just had in the brilliant enter-
prise which you have so well conceived and so bril-
liantly executed. It is always with lively satisfaction
that I see my sons in the ranks of our brave soldiers,
identifying themselves with them by partaking their
fatigues, their sufferings, and their dangers,
and lam the interpreter of the voice of the
nation in testifying to you, and in charging
you to testify to our brave army of Africa, the grati-
tude of France, and that of my own heart towards it.
You have long known the lively interest I take in
Algeria. lam rejoiced at seeing it acquire, under your
direction, by the valour and devotedness of our troops,
that security which is so necessary to the prosperity of
of which it is susceptible. and which is constantly the
abject of my efforts.—Receive, my dear Marshal, the
assurance of all the sentiments which I shall ever enter-
tain towards you. Your affectionate,
" LOUIS PHILIPPE."

After giving this letter, Marshal Valee says that
France will not hesitate to avenge the insult just offered
to her flag, and that all Algeria will find in the King's
words the certitude that prompt and energetic measures
will put an end to the struggle which the army of
Africa has sustained for nine years, and which it will
have the honour of terminating by glorious combats and
useful labours. The Moniteur Algericn states that out
of the 12,000 f. left by the Duke of Orleans for the poor
of Algiers, 5,000 f. have been given to Christians,
1,500 f. to Jews, and 2,500 f. to Mussulmans.
(Private Correspondence.)
" ALGIERS, Nov. 30.—The rains continued till the
25th with such violence that the Arabs were driven from
the plain and retired to the foot of the Atlas, near
Bouffarick. This necessarily caused a suspension of
hostilities for several days, but as the weather became
fine again the enemy made a move towards the camp of
Foudouk, which has, however, received reinforcements.
The only cavalry we now have, properly so called, is the
2d African chasseurs, which is on the plain where the
enemy has upwards of 6,000 horse. Consequently we
are not prepared to make any attack, and the Marshal
keeps on the defensive till the arrival of further reinforce-
ments. A blockhouse ocoupied by some of our Arab allies
has been burnt, and the small garrison gone over to the
enemy. This will be the case with all our new made
friends if they find Abd-el-Kader gaining ground. It
appears that the Arabs in the province of Oran have
not made any movement. Several Arabs of distinc-
tion in Algiers have been arrested. The Casbah and '
all the forts of the environs, including the small one of
the Figuier, have been armed. The guns are all le-
velled, and the artillerymen constantly on duty with
lighted matches."
According to the correspondence of the National,
foyers continue to make great ravages among the troops
at Bona, and the 2d and 17th Light Infantry, with the
234 and 48th of the line, are said to have only a small
part of their men in a state for duty.

AN OLD WARRlOR.—Sergeant James Gray,
the last of the Hamiltonians, who served in the Duke
of Hamilton's regivent during the American war, died
suddenly at Hamilton on Wednesday last, much re-
gretted by a large circle of acquaintances.—Scotch
Reformers' Gazette.

EVENING EDITION.m-k

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING FAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We strongly recommend to the most active mem-
bers of the Church militant, or, as the Time: cans
them, the " wine-warmed" individuals of their party, she
use of a very ingenious instrument which is said lately
to have been invented in the United States. This is
a " fuddleometer," by which they can ascertain to the
greatest nicety the precise degree of intoxication under
which they are labouring. At present, while they are
unassisted by any such guide, it is natural that they
should frequently be overtaken. By the time that the
parson gets on his legs a great deal of execution has
been already done. Her Majesty has been toasted in
solemn silence—the Queen Dowager with rapturous ap-
plause. The Ministers have been hooted, groaned at, and
plentifully blackguarded, and the prophesied advent of
the Hanoverian liberator has diffused a generous
glow over every heart. Now the Church is drunk, and
the band strikes up the appropriate air, " With their
jolly full bottles." Is there any wonder, then, that the
dignitary who represents the Church on the occasion
should also be drunk, and that all the parsons pre-
sent, taking in the inspiration of the music, should
vie with each other in flooring the jolly full 'bottles;
We admit this is all very natural—but, alas, when the
parson gets drunk he talks just as nastily as the layman
in a similar predicament, and there is no stopping
him. Now only see how invaluable the fuddleometer
would be to him. Let him set it to the Queen-point,
because of course there is no objection to bis getting
drunk enough to abuse the Ministers, the Pope,
Dissenters, Whigs, and Radicals ; but the mo-
ment he gots Queen-drunk, the instrument will
give him a kick in the paunch which will render him
straightway speechless. Might we recommend the fud-
dleometer also to the writers in the Times Y We don't
mean, of course, to insinuate that they are drunk in the
ordinary sense of the word when they write their articles
—but the well known earnestness of their political feelings
expresses itself pretty much in the same language as
does the wine in the mouths of their fellow-labourers of
the Church. We have often thought of collecting at the
end of every week the choice phrases employed during
that period by the Tory writers and speakers, and re•
producing them under the head of " fashionable lan-
guage." First we would give those which have been ap-
plied to her Majesty, and which are apparently some-
what more circumspect, but in reality contain the most
insolent and base insinuations. The epithets which are
applied to the Ministers, the Liberal press, and the
whole Liberal party, we would then give alphabetically,
as the Post does the fashionables who attend Conser-
vative parties.

(From the Courier.)

The price of corn is no more proportionately higher
on a " deficiency of produce" in any case, than the
prices of calicoes or cotton, from a short crop of the
one, or short-time manufacturing of the other. The
farmer has no advantage whatever in this respect over
the power-loom cloth maker, or the cotton grower,
but the reverse, under the operation of the present
Corn-laws, for with a deficient harvest of one-third,
and a rise of prices consequent, the duty im-
mediately falls, foreign imports are poured in,
and prices are thus kept down below the rate of
remuneration to which in equal compensation in simi-
lar cases, deficient stocks or production to the ex-
tent, would give a just claim to indemnification of prices
in full. Herein consists the peculiar hardship of the
ascending and descending, scale of duty upon the
farmer exclusively, which can only be palliated, for
justified it cannot be, on the overwhelming plea of
the public good. But the farmer is not the
less sacrificed for the exclusive benefit of all
other classes of the community the manufac-
turing classes above all. He at all events can have no
interest in wishing that the " bounties of heaven
(how devout are these Liberals as recorded of the
first Whig, said by Doctor Johnson to be their
ancestor) may be dispensed with a sparing rather
than an abundant hand." It may readily be compre-
hended, indeed, that a rich manufacturer, with his
unlimited resources, might be tempted to console
himself like the Pharisee of old, that he is
not one of those poorer spinners or manufacturers, big
neighbours and competitors, who, in bad seasons, And
deficient both in credit and capital, are compelled to
shut up their factories and loom shops, and leave the
markets of the world free to himself and his mightier
steam power of money and machinery ; or he might view
with no particular despondency the destruction by fire of
a dozen large manufactories in his vicinity, or two or three
hundred thousand bales of cotton, by which production
would be kept down and stocks diminished, whilst his
own cellars were amply provided with the one, and his
own mills rapidly filling up, at higher prices, the vacuum
of the other. But the farmer has no consolation of the
kind to fall back upon. He must pray for a fair crop
and an average harvest in his own defence, and as the
sole condition upon which the present Corn-laws can
really prove a protection, and serve, instead of damaging
his interests.

(From the Standard.)

The special commission for the trial of the South
Wales insurgents is opened to-day. How much of
anxiety and pain to multitudes is involved in this
visitation of justice! Some of the afflicted are no
doubt guilty ; but it is much more certain that the
majority, the wives, the children, the parents, aid
near kindred of the accused are innocent. Is, then,
the law to stay its hand ? Alas ! the condition of
society will not permit that the criminal shall escape
through our compassion for his nnoffending connec-
tions. The utmost that we hope is. that justice shall
be administered in mercy ; and of this we have full •
assurance in British Judges and British Juries. Al-
though, however, we must not expect, or even
wish to arrest the course of justice, those •
awful words, so heavily fraught with misery to multi-
tudes of our guilty and of our innocent fellow-crea-
tures, the name of " a special commission" cannot fall
idly upon our ears if we are Christians. We cannot,
as Christians, hear the sounds so ominous of intense
agony to some, without asking ourselves, are we in-.
ded ourselves guiltless of the tears, perhaps the blood,
of our brethren ? Has the State collectively—have we..
individually—done our duty by those whose crimes the
State is now preparing to punish, while we look on as
free from any share in the crimes punished ? This is a
grave subject of reflection, by far too grave to allow of
any admixture of party or political considerations.

THE QUEEN AND TIER HUSBAND.—Ac•
cording to law and Blackstone, the husband of a
Queen regnant is her subject, and may be guilty of.
high treason. If he fill any public office, or be a.
Peer of Parliament, or on any account take the
oath of allegiance, he vows fidelity and obedience.
If, however, the usual ceremony be performed on
the marriage of the Queen, her Majesty at the
altar will vow to love, honour, and obey her hus-
band. Between his vows, therefore, and her vows,
there will be a conflicting duty. Which are to be
conside*xl the most binding—those imposed by the
law, of those imposed by the Church ? It will not
be creditable to the country, and certainly not to
the Church, to allow any such conflicting vows
to be made. The whole tenor of the law will not
sanction any plan to release the husband from his
duty as a subject ; it will only be decent, therefore,
that her Majesty should not pledge herself at the
altar to the duties of a wife in the same language
as other ladies. We respectfully suggest to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops, and all
the Clergy, that they ought to look to this in
time, and frame a marriage ceremony and marriage
vows appropriate and suitable to her Majesty's
condition.

We have elsewhere given a brief report of the
proceedings at the county meeting, held yesterday. It
will be seen that the proposal of a rural police is about
to be carried into effect, and that the county are giving
their support to Mr. Wallace's reasonable proposal
that the salaries of Sheriffs-substitute should be consi-
derably increased. The Popery-phobia received a
well-merited check. Some worthy Tories in the county
of Berwick, acting on the spirit recommended by the
leading Tory journals, got a series of resolutions
passed and sent to the various counties, denouncing
Popery—expressing regret at its progreks—and de-
deprecating the appointment of Romar.: Catholics to
offices in the State. Such resolutions, we imagined,
would have met with but too cordial a reception from a
majority of the country gentlemen of Aberdeenshire ;
but we were agreeably disappointed to find that they
did not. Sir R. D. Horne Elphinstone, and our High
Church friend, Mr. Gordon of Craig, condemned them.
Even Sir William Seton laid aside for once his intole-
rance ; and the meeting unanimously agreed to take no
further notice of the resolutions, than simply to ac-
knowledge their receipt. We hope this will be a les-
son to the Orange ascendancy men. Even Tory Aber-
deenshire repudiates their measures.—Aberdeen Herald.
The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived off the
the Tower, from Hamburg, yesterday, after a favourable
passage.

COAST GUARD.—We hare seen a copy of the
Admiralty Regulations with respect to the appoint-
ments of Mates of the Royal Navy to :he situation of
Chief Officers of the Coast Guard, and the following is
an extract :—" All Mates of i years' actual service,
either in the Royal Navy or Revenue Service, will be
eligible to be Chief Officers of the Coast-Guard, pro-
vided they have been employed within three years.
Their promotion will be on precisely the same footing
as other officers now employed in the Coast-Guard Ser-
vice. They will be allowed to return to the Naval
Service with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, provided they be found in all respects
fit and desirable for active duty. Such Mates are to be
classed with the Mates of Revenue Cruizers in the an-
nual recommendation for promotion."—Naval and 41i-
litary Gazette.

We observe that our Contemporary The Sun of last
night contains no fewer than three articles in reference
to the conduct which the Patriot has thought proper to
adopt towards Mr.Thorogood, the Chelmsfordmartyr,and
the Dissenters generally. One of these articles is from
The Sun itself ; another proceeds from the pen of Mr.
John Childs, in the form of a letter ; and the third is
from the Scottish Pilot. We do not quote either of
these articles, because we have already so fully and un-
reservedly expressed our own opinions on the subject.
Now, however, that the Patriot has evidently retired
from the contest with us, into which it so recklessly
rushed a week or two ago, it may be proper to bestow a
parting word upon its recent conduct towards ourselves.
And we are sure there cannot be two opinions as to the
injustice and want of generous feeling evinced by that
conduct. When we took up the question of Mr. Tho-
rogood's
martyrdom to his anti-church-rate principles,
seven or eight weeks ago, we did it solely with the view
of stirring up the Dissenters to interest themselves in
the subject, both because he had an individual claim on
their sympathies and assistance, and because a great
principle—the very foundation of Dissent indeed—was
at stake in his case. We expressed ourelves in a suc-
cession of articles on the subject, in the gentlest terms
we could employ, when compelled to make allusion to
the apathy of the London Dissenting Committees in a
question of such vital importance to the cause of
nonconformity. We blamed them for that apathy,
with the view and in the hope of prevailing
on them to take some steps to arouse the public mind
to a sense of Mr. Thorogood's wrongs, and of the
outrage offered in his person to the rights of con-
science ; and had they only done this—had they only
got up meetings in the metropolis in that martyr's fa.
your, and in favour of the principles for which he is
suffering, we should have been, as the Patriot well
knows we have often been before, among the most zea-
lous supporters of thPse Societies. Neither of the
Societies, however, thought fit to move in the matter ;
and other journals then began to arraign their conduct
in still more decided terms than we had felt disposed
to employ. We had scrupulously abstained from indi-
vidual allusions ; and even when quoting from our Con-
temporaries the articles which appeared in their columns
on the subject, we struck out all references to par-
ticular persons, and substituted those very convenient
things, in such cases, called asterisks. Guess our sur-
prise, then, when, in return for all our forbearance and
gentleness, the Patriot came out one evening, breathing
fire and fury against us, charging us with being engaged
in a conspiracy with The Sun and the Standard to
hold up the Dissenters to opprobrium—pointing to
particular individuals supposed to be writers of our
articles and even denouncing us as being guilty
of " insolence " in presuming to arraign the conduct
of its friends of the London Committees. This we
thought at the time was carrying matters with
a high hand, and so thinking we lost not an hour in
replying to the Patriot, taking care, however, not to
follow its example in losing either our temper or our
manners. The Patriot has not attempted a rejoinder
to our reply, but tacitly admits, by its subsequent silence,
that its conduct was not what it ought to have been.
As, therefore, we thus see, or fancy we see, proofs of
its penitence, we shall not be so unmerciful as to cudgel
it again ; that is to say, after we have finished our pre-
sent article. In the plenitude of the Patriot's wrath
against us, for daring to arraign the conduct of its friends
of the London Committees, it actually hints, if we un-
derstand it rightly, that these Committees will not get
up meetings of the Dissenters in favour of Mr. Thoro-
, good, because we have called upon them to do so. Well,
it they will not do it now that we have appealed to them,
why, let us ask, did they not do it before we made any
such appeal ? Their proud sprits would then have been
spared the mortification of its being supposed that we
were entitled to the credit of setting them in motion.
This
excuse for not seeking to arouse the public mind
in favour of Mr. Thorogood is paltry and pitiful in the
last degree. These Committees must needs aggravate
their past apathy they must deepen the criminality of
their previous neglect by persisting in their guilty in-
activity, lest, forsooth, some one shouldsuppose, in. the
event of their moving in the that had been
the matter, we
the power that impelled them. If hey were conscien-
tious men—if they were honest in their professions of
attachment to the principles of Dissent—if they really
felt for the victim of their own advice—thee would
simply ask themselves what, in this case, is the path
of duty ? and, that path once clearly discerned,
they would nut hesitate a moment in entering on it.
! No earthly consideration would deter them froml the
' course which their consciences and judgse„ ,
nts uactated ;
far less would they be scared from flint course by so
contemptible a consideration as that to which we have
referred. But if nothing else will prevail on these Core.
mittees to respond, not to our appeal only, in favour of
Mr. Thorogood, but to the loud and unanimous
voice of the public to the same effect, will not this
solemn consideration have some effect on their apathe-
tic and sluggish minds ;—the consideration, tamely,
teat while they are standing by with silent tongues,
inactive pens, end folded hands, John Thorogood, who
went to prison at their own instigation and in acc.ird-
ance with their own advice, is suffering the pains of
martyrdom—is sink,ng in his spirits—and rapidly giving
way in his health. If, under these circumstances, they
will not note make a demonstration on behalf of Mr.
Tt.orogood, when will they do it ? Do they mean to
reserve their demonstrations in his favour untill death
shah lave rescued him from the grasp of his hierar-
ememesease

chica. oppressors, and spared him all further pain of
mind on account of the cold neglect of Dissenting
Committees. Again, we tell these Committees--and
we tell their organ, the Patriot, that every day iLey
suffer to pass over their heads without taking steps to
get up a metropolitan demonstration on Mr. Tnoro-
good's behalf, adds new aggravations to the guilt of
their past neglect—which, one would suppose, mast
already press with sufficient weight on their minds.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS•

(TUESDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—In the English house very few
transactions took place, and Coes°ls have not recovered
the depression they experienced yesterday. The Con-
tinental Exchanges have again receded somewba.t consi-
derably. The change (for the worse, it is understood)
arises from the circumstance of Messrs. Baring and Co.
having ceased drawing an account with the Bank of
England. The question which now presents itself will
be, whether the Bank have suspended their operations
from a conviction that they are now in a sufficiently
safe position ; or that they find it useless any longer
interfering from letting them take their natural course.
A very few div;s must, we think, set this matter at rest,

POST.—There was no movement at the Stock Ex-
change in the early part of the day, the quotations being
in most cases steady in both Markets.
A meeting of the Committee of Spanish American
bondholders took place during the day, at which it was
determined to call a general meeting for Friday next, as
the first convenient day that could be devoted to the
matter just brought forward by Messrs. Reid, Irving,
and Co., the agents of the State of Venezuela.
We have no amendment to report in the prospects of
the Share Market, but rather the contrary. A general
dulness prevailed in it. Bargains in the joint-stock in-
terests seem of late to have become mattes of very
difficult, and we may add, indeed, distinct negociatioa.
The following is the translation of a letter which has
been addressed by the Chairman of the Committee of
Spanish bondholders at Paris to the Spanish Ambassa-
dor in that city, on the subject of their long and shame-
fully-neglected claims on the Spanish Government :
" TO M. THE MARQUIS MIRAPLOItES, SPANISH AMBAS-
SADOR, NEAR THE CABINET OF THE TUILERIES.
" Sir,—Six months have passed over since we last
reiterated our complaints of the state of neglect to
which the foreign creditors are abandoned by the Spanish
Ministry. With every one else than your Excellency,
we might apprehend that our grievances had not been
brought under the consideration of your Government ;
but the loyalty, station, and frankness of your character
are too well known to us to admit of our indulging in
the least suspicion upon this point. Moreover, we know
but too well to whom we are justified in attributing the
prolongation of the distresses of the Spanish bondholders.
" The happy events that have restored peace to a
portion of the Peninsula, and the promises of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Regent at the opening of the Cortes,
had led us to hope that the Spanish Minister, sensible
at length of the necessity of being just both to the do-
mestic and foreign creditor, would bring forward one of
those financial projects which might re-establish credit
and maintain it on extended bases. How great, then,
has been our disappointment at the moment in which,
by the accompanying circular,* we endeavoured to rea-
nimate the confidence of the Spanish bondholders, to
see an application made to the Chamber of Procura-
dores for authority to emit provisional five per cent.
bonds, till the proposition should be carried for two
hundred millions of reels to be appropriated to the ac-
knowledgments given for sums lent to the Government !
" You have been a witness, Sir, of the effect which
this proceeding has produced on all the exchanges of
Europe. To the recollection of frauds recently prac-
tised comes to be added a formal contradiction given
to the promises of the Queen, and a marked decline in-
stantly strikes the project with reprobation.
" Now, the new Minister causes to be announced in
the columns of one of his Journals, that he is anxious
to extricate himself from a slough hitherto so fatal, to
occupy himself with the future, and to seek the best
and every means of restoring to Spain her ancient cha-
racter for probity.
" If such are in reality his designs, let him repudiate
forthwith usurious and underhand operations, alike
onerous to the Treasury and destructive to the credit of
Spain ; and, relying upon the law of the 17th of April,
1838, let him contract a loan which may relieve the
national and foreign creditors in consolidating the past,
in regulating the present, and in guaranteeing the future.
The immense resources of the nation proclaimed by her
Majesty place him in a position to effect an ameliora-
tion in those respects, which is but strict justice, and
which alone can fairly prove the existence of that good
faith which,' according to the language of the Queen's
speech, ' has never been denied.'
" With regard to us, Sir, your Excellency has been
for a long time cognizant of our good feeling, and of
our anxious desire to second your Government in enter-
ing on a system of reform which it would seem to wish
to do. May it, for the happiness of Spain, and the
satisfaction of her creditors, return to those habits of
honour, openness, and good faith which formerly so dis-
tinguished the Spanish name.
" Deign to accept the homage with which I have
the honour to be, Sce,, _ _ _ _

(Signed) " PARADIS,
" President of the Committee of Spanish

" Paris, Nov. 30, 1839.

Bondholders."

A deputation of merchants from Liverpool has just
waited upon Lord Palmerston on the subject of the
protracted blockade of Buenos Ayres by the French
squadron, and we understand his Lordship to have com-
municated to the party the fact, that negotiations for the
settlement of this business are going on, and that the
French Admiral, M. Duportail, who sailed in October
last, had special orders to treat with the British autho-
rities without reference to M. Martinez, the French
Consul.

The exchanges were again lower this afternoon, but
we understand the leading firm, who lately appeared in
the Market as sellers of bills, have withdrawn for the
present. This is construed into a favourable symptom,
as it would now seem to be considered that things may
once more be safely left to take their course. The less
favourable look of the quotation is attributable solely
to the discontinuance of a supply of paper from the
house alluded to.

• This appeared in a former number of the Moming
Post.

TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg the price
of gold i‘ 429 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives
an exchange of 13.7, and the exchange at Hamburg
on London at short being 13.4 it follows that gold is
0.35 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in London.
The premium on gold at Paris is 9} per milk, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10}d. the ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.39, and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.30, it
follows that gold is 0.36 per cent. dearer at Paris than
in London.

The funds have been steady, without any particular
feature. Consols slightly improved to 92, buyers, for
the opening.
By the usual official returns published by tho Cus-
toms, the exportation of the precioup metals from the
port of London to foreign and colonial ports, for the
week ending the sth of December, is as under :

Ounces.
Silver coin to Hamburg
Silver coin to Mauritius
Silver coin to Gibraltar
Silver bars to Madras .. 22,274
Silver bars and coin to Hamburg 703,994
The overland despatch from India brings dates from
Calcutta to to the 17th, and from Bombay to the 28th
of October, both inclusive. The commercial intel-
ligence is not altogether of a favourable cast. British
manufactured goods continued much depressed, and
with the same want of demand as before, although
stocks were not heavy. This state of things was
attributed generally to the difficulties arising out
of the stoppage of the China trade, by which the
resources of the consumers were cramped for want of
means, and by the withdrawal from active circulation
of the large capitals put in action by that trade. There
was a tendency to decline in the prices of raw cotton,
although no actual fall to any extent is reported. But
as the coming crop, according to all accounts, was very
promising in quantity, the prices might be expected to
give way as the season advanced and it should arrive
at market. Wool, however, was in great request, and
picked up in all directions as parcels were brought from
the interior. Bar-iron also was in fair demand. Cotton
yarns, however, showed no signs of improvement, nor
was any to be looked for whilst stock remained so heavy
and imports continued on so large a scale. The draw-
ing rates on London were as before, say from 2s. to 2s.
00. to id. per Company's rupee for bibs at six months'
sight, or nine months after date. Few Foreign hilts had
come to market.
Some extensive business in raw silk had been done
at Calcutta for Bombay and England, hut at a re-
;luction io prices from former quota' ions. Fur silk
piece goods there was also an inquiry, and some
sorts were scarce. Purchases of cotton, but to no
great extent, had been made for shipment to China
and England ; but sales could only be effected at a
reduction of prices. The Money. market was easy,
but apprehensions were emertained that it would
not long remain so, unless more favourable accounts
should be received from this country, as intelligence
had been received there by the August mail
of the embarrassments of the Money-market here
and the advance in the rates of discount.. Less hu- !
siness had been done in exchange than would have
been the case, because of the short notice published of
the departure of another despatch from Bombay, which
allowed the merchants a few hours only for their opera-
tions and correspondence. A few transactions took i
place at 2s. 2d,
are thus seven rupee.pe:r—CAogmepnacnvy's
v . bills, with documents The
quota-
tions at
10 rnonths, 2s, 24
• ; Treasury bills, 2s. Oid. to 2s. ;
mercantile credits, 2.
s. 2d.; Bank of England post bills,
2a. Old. to 2s. Government ui ties were heavy.
Union Bengal
The and
Banks wesreee
discounting
r at the
following rates :—For Government and salary bills, 4