The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON DON, SAT URD AY, DECEMBER 23, 1837,

posed as it has ever been to everything free, and noble, and
generous in religion and politics,"—but they are banished from
every other community. No doubt the Heads of the
Colleges would apply these principles not only to Canada,
but to a place nearer home. They would then be allowed,
they vainly imagine, to sleep on in their present torpid
state ; but they would find it only a vain imagination, and
would soon be roused from their slumbers by a voice
still louder than that of Reform. It is with a view
to carry on progressive improvement, and extend
liberal institutions throughout the British dominions,
that we have ever recommended to the Government
a milder course of policy towards Canada. Should a pro-
tracted war be the result, Reform would cease, but there
is still a greater evil. How could the people of Ireland be
supposed to act cordially in the cause, while the men that
cry most for war refuse them justice at home ? The silence
of all the Liberal Irish Members last evening is worth more
than ten long speeches. They reserve themselves for events.
The people of that country have never had redress except
from necessity ; and should necessity again arise, the tithes
of Ireland would not be worth a month's purchase.

We are glad to find that Ministers have altered their
determination, and agreed to re-commence the Session on
the 16th of next month, instead of en the Ist of Fe-
bruary, as they originally proposed. The disturbances in
Canada have of course induced them to adopt this resolu-
tion ; but under any circumstances it would have been
advisable—for a recess of upwards of a month, when
public business of the most difficult and important cha-
racter is pressing so heavily on the attention of Par-

liament ; when the most perplexing and momentous
of the Irish questions are still unsettled ; and the
spirit of active Reform is rife throughout the country—
a recess, we say, of so long a duration would, in our pre-
sent position, have been a relaxation which Ministers would
have been nowise justified in taking. Besides it would
have had the effect of protracting the session to autumn,
when business is invariably slurred over, and transacted with
unseemly haste, in order to gratify the impatience of Hon.
Members, and enable them to get down betimes to
their moors and shooting-boxes. By the proposed
abridgement of the recess, much of these inconve-
niences will be obviated, and Bills will be sent up
in proper season to the House of Lords, who will
thus be deprived of the excuse which they turned

to such plausible account last Session—namely, that the
consideration of them must be postponed to the next meet-

ing of Parliament, because they have not sufficient time to
discuss them. We gice Ministers great credit for their
determination to re-assemble the House on the 16th of next
month ; nevertheless, we cannot compliment them much
on their sagacity and foresight, for on the very day
when Lord JOHN RUSSELL announces his intention

to prorogue Parliament for a month, on that very day
comes the startling intelligence that the Canadas are all
but in a state of open revolt ! Ought he not to have anti-
cipated this thunder-clap ? The political atmosphere in
Canada, which has been daily growing darker, has been
threatening a storm for months past!

Madrid papers of the 13th inst. have been received
Their contents are unimportant. After a debate of nine-
teen days' duration, the Deputies agreed in the Address to
the Throne, as:originally drawn up. So much for the wise
employment
of time ! CORDOVA was intriguing for a seat
in the Cabinet, and his success was deemed certain.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all been received
but their contents are of no political interest. In the
Chambers only preliminary formalities have yet been gone
through. The latest accounts from Africa are favourable.

FUNDS—PARIS, Nov. 21.
Five per Cents., 1,7 f. 65c. .fsc. 6i%c.
Four per ( ents., I,lf. I,c.
l'hre per Cents., 7511 90c. 79f.
Lank Actions, 2,51,0 f. 2,6.00 f. 2,597 f. 50e.
Route (le Naples, 97f. 611 e. Sc.' 9ec.
Roman FiVC per Ceuta., 100%%%.
Spanish Actives, 20N.
Spanish Passives, 4h.
Brussels Society, 1,71Uf.
Belgian Bank, 1,512 E 51• e.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 19%!.G.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., MN %.
Hay tutu Loan. 375 f.
EXCHANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 417±4c.; money, 25).
Three months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 251.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 107 f. 95c.
Throe per Cents., 7A.
Bank Actions, 2,597 f. 50c.
Humans, 100%.
Belgian Bank, 1,512 f. 50e.
Brussels Society, 1,7101.
Miguelites, 1334.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 1104.
Spanish Actives, 2 A.
Spanish Passives, CS.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 517.
Haytlan Loan, 375 f.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
We have received a Montreal Paper of Nov. 27, which contains
the same accounts from Canada as published yesterday.
We have received a number of American Papers—all of the
same dates as yesterday, The letters are not, as yet, delivered.
The unfavourable accounts received late yesterday from Canada,
absorbed great attention, and created alarm and anxiety. It had
tho effect, late in the afternoon, to depress the British funds, which
were in the early part of the morning at 931 for the Opening, but
towards the close of the market they receded to 93_} ; Money
Stock was also slightly affected.
Great anxiety prevails in the city for further information from
Quebec and Montreal.
Consols opened this morning at 93, and fell to 92!,. Exche-
'pier Bills, 20., 45 47; Ditto, 2d., 43 44; Bank Stock, :03,1 ;
India Bonds, 28.

In the Foreign Market the business during yesterday was only
of a limited extent. Spanish Active closed at 19, with Coupons,
and opened at 191 ; Portuguese closed at 38 to 38k, and opened
at 30; Three per Cents., ibk ; Brazilian, 80; Colombian 244;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53k.
At present (one o'clock) there appears to be rather a panic in
the British Market, Consols having receded this morning a per
Cent., owing to the confusion in Canadian affairs.
Consols have again receded to 92i for the opening.
The Foreign Market also heavy—Spanish 19?,- ; Portw
guese,

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
We have Montreal papers to the 29th, bringing further details,
from carious quarters in Canada, of the collision between the
Patriots and Royalists, as well as the killed and wounded on both
sides ; but the information received is of the same nature as that of
yesterday.
Consols, which had receded in the early part of the morning
from 93, the opening price, to 92, afterwards improved to 923 4 ;
at present they are 92} for opening. Exchequer Bills, 2id., 45
47 ; ditto, 2d., 4l 43 ; Bank Stock, 2041 lower ; India Bonds,
28 26.

In the Foreign Market most of the Securities are still heavy
Spanish Aetive, I9i • Portuguese, 29i ; Three per Cents., 19/I
Dutch Two-and-a-lfalf per Cents., 52i 53 ; Colombian, 23i
Mexican, 26.

Shares are also very heavy.
TWO O'CLOCK.
A report has just been circulated that 5,000 troops are going
to the Canadas by way Halifax'

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92k.

A grand dinner was given yesterday evening at the
Albion Hotel, Aldersgate-street, by Mr. Murray, the publisher.
About one hundred of his fellow- labourers were invited, and
all agreed that the entertainment was most sumptuous. The
party did not separate till a late hour.
JUSTIFIABLE FELICIDE.—At the Bromsgrove
Petty Sessions last week, William Whitesnoith appeared to
a summons to answer the complaint of Thomas Marsh for
having maliciously wounded and killed a favourite Tom cat,
the property of the complainant. The complainant's daughter,
who proved the death of the cat, deposed to having witnessed
the transaction. The defendant being called upon to account
for the serious injury he had committed, justified the act by
relating the crimes and misdemeanors of which poor puss had
been guilty, in plundering him from time to time, and pro-
ceeded to read from a memorandum the following account
of trespasses he had suffered previous to putting the death
warrant into execution :—Nov. 9th, she (Tom) stole and
; 19th, she took all the brains out
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one penny-worth of milk ; 24th,
threw
a roei
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fftrtheheeea dfli fresh
2olfhs et, rra ing
shewashing
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and wet, ate, or dirtied
20 lbs. of salt beef, rendering what was left unfit for cooking ;
28th, she ate two hog's puddings which were for dinner, and
on Wednesday last made free with a lot of butter. The
reading of this document produced roars of laughter in the
Court. The bench decided that the provocation was certainly
very great and dismissed the case.-- Worcester Guardian.
Count Sellon, of Geneva, the indefatigable anta-
gonist of capital punishment, has just published the following
remarkable case :—" About six years ago a man of Aubonne,
in the Pays de Vaud, was fired at, and so severely wounded
that a year elapsed before he recovered. Suspicion fell on a
young man of the name of Berseth, who, on his trial, though
he did not avow himself the criminal, said nothing calculated
to clear him from the accusation. The tribunal, convinced of
his guilt, condemned Berseth to eighteen months' hard labout'.
He endured his punishment at Lausanne, where, during the
whole time of his confinement, he distinguished himself by
the most exemplary conduct. The father of Berseth lately
died, and on his deathbed confessed himself guilty of the at-
tempted murder. The son had allowed suspicion to rest on
himself, that he might save his father from public infamy.
Measures have already been taken to restore this meritorious
young man to the rights of citizenship, which he had for-
feited in consequence of his supposed crime."

PIGEON SHOOTING.—The match at Chalk Farm
yesterday, after some very indifferent shooting, was won by Mr.
M'lntosh. He tied with Mr. Lamb, each killing eight birds,
and in shooting the tie off beat him by one. The prize was a
silver cup, and the match was handicapped, long distance.

ADJOURNMENT

OF THE
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Her Majesty went down in state this day to the House of
Lords, for the purpose of giving the Royal Assent in person to the
Civil List Bill, and some other Bills.

The Queen left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before one
o'clock, in the state carriage, drawn by eight cream-coloured
horses. The other carriages which composed the Royal proces-
sion contained the usual state attendants.

Her Majesty proceeded along the centre Mall, and through the
Horse Guards ; the entire line of the route being kept by troops
of the Life Guards and a strong police force. As the intention
of her Majesty to go down to the House of Lords this day was
known but to a small portion of the public, the crowds which lined
the route from the Palace to Abingdon-street was neither so nu-
merous, nor collected so early, as on all previous occasions of her
Majesty's public appearance in State. But there was no abate-
ment of the enthusiasm with• which she was greeted, nor of the
cordial satisfaction she testifies at the manifestations of loyalty
which meet her wherever she appears.
One interruption, indeed, took place in St. James's Park,
just as the Royal cortege was entering upon the parade.
Her Majesty's carriage having passed the Duke of York's co-
lumn, a middle-aged man, meanly dress-A, attempted to throw a
letter into the carriage, but he was forced away by the indignant
spectators, and taken into custody by the police.
Her Majesty reached the House of Lords, and proceeded
through the Royal Chamber, which was lined with ladies and gen-
tlemen, who had been favoured with tickets, to the robing-room.
The guns in the Park and at the rear of the House firing a Royal
Salute.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The doors of the House of Lords were opened at eleven o'clock,
and even at that early hour several Peeresses had taken their seats
in the body of the House. The side galleries and the back benches
in the reporters' gallery continued to fill rapidly, and before twelve
o'clock every seat was occupied.
At twelve o'clock the Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his scat on the
Woolsack, and prayers were said by the Bishop of London.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then took his seat, and
On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
The Prisoners' Conveyance (Ireland) 13111, and the Slave-owners'
Compensation Bill, were read a third time and passed.
At half-past twelve there were at least 200 peeresses and other
ladies in the body of the House, all in full dress; but up to that
hour not more than twenty peers had taken their seats. Among
them we observed the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Norfolk,
Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Wellington, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Glenelg, Lord Brougham, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Barham, Lord Colville, Earl Redes-
dale, Lord Bandon, Lord Ravenswerth, the Duke of Somerset., the
Earl Ripon ; and on the cross benches were Mr. Baron Gurney,
Justices Park, Coleridge, Coltman, &c.
The space appropriated to the Foreign Ministers and Ambas-
sadors behind the Episcopal Bench, having been found on former
occasions too small, was on the present occasion considerably en-
larged, and exhibited the usual display of brilliant uniforms, variety
of costume, and decorations. Among those present we observed
General Sebastiani, the French and Russian Ambassadors, the
Austrian Charge d'Affaires, the Greek Ambassador, the American
Minister, M. Van D'Weyer, the Turkish and Persian Ambassa-
dors, &c. &c.