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LONDON :
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1839.

The reprimand! which Lord HILL has directed to
he given to Colonel THOMAS and the other officers
who applauded Mr. ROBY's abuse of her MA-
JESTY, will make a salutary impression on the mi-
litary. Unhappily, there is every probability that
they will be frequently called on to interfere pro-
fessionally, as at. Newport, between different classes.
We do not believe, for our parts, that the attempts
of the Chartists will be confined to one single
outbreak. It is, in fact, evident that the party or
class spirit whi ch now pervades the country will
neither be speedily nor eacily suppressed ; and it
will be, for all p arties, a satisfaction to know that
the power which serves to keep all in due bounds
is not a mere partizan of any one class. The ad-
monition, therefore, is equally well-timed and ju-
dicious.

Some of our Contemporaries are very busy raking
up all the scandal they can find of their political
opponents. We do not approve of that course,
and will not follow it. The situation of the upper
classes has in it much that is peculiar, and to hold
them up to opprobrium for not leading a similar
life to the persons who have to struggle for their
daily bread, see ms to us to be pandering to un-
founded prejudices. Not that the upper classes
deserve to be spared, for they are as unjust in can-
demning and making laws to punish infirmities in
the poor, which are not their infirmities,
as the people are when they judge of
the upper classes by- their own temptations and
opportunities. But while we declare our indispo-
sition to make attacks on the private characters of
the Tories, we must warn our Tory Contemporaries
that they present a fair mark if they will force In
to assail them. When an impudent journal,
for example, says that a great General never was an
intriguer, let us remind him that he who can attain
his end without intrigue has a crooked mind,
as well as an immodest one, if he resort to

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it. Lady HA LIILTON loved Lord NELSON for his
reputation. Countesses and Marchionesses have
thought it a duty to submit to the commands of
Royalty, and their husbands have smiled through
ribands and stars on their own disgrace. Other
men of great fame have found women an easy con-
quest, and perhaps the Pension List bears some
memorials of their success. If a Whig Lord can be
accused of adultery, it is not difficult to find a
Tory Lord who is accused of having prostituted
his wife for money. If it can be said of a
Cabinet Minister that he is a debauchee, it
can he proved of two or three ex-Cabinet Minis-
ters that they have led most vicious lives. But
we think this is most discreditable political
warfare, which can serve no other purpose than to
degrade and humiliate all, and we will not engage
in it.

The date of the arrivals from Malta is the 16th
instant, and at that time part of the squadron had
arrived at the island from Vourla Bay. .Her Ma
jesty's ships Pembroke and Minden were to return
to England. It is gratifying to see that the neces-
sity for maintaining so large a naval force in the
Levant is becoming less urgent, and that peace
will be preserved there, as it has generally been else-
where, by the exertions of her Majesty's Ministers.
Yet their general peace is not without its triumphs.
They were constrained to commence a war in the
heart of Asia, and the result has been, thanks to the
wisdom of our councils and the valour of our troops,
to extend and secure our empire in the East. If
such triumphs had been achieved by the Tories,
the country would have been.illuminated, and all
their Journals would have resounded with the
praise of the consummate Statesmen and skilful
Generals who had been successful. The Whigs
have not learnt the Tory art of boasting—
though v
with regret, that they have learnt
‘e yetadmit,
too many Tory arts, and do not know how to
dazzle and delude the people by the din of victories,
which they are content to win.

We perceive that a number of dealers were con-
victed on Wednesday at the Brentford Petty Ses-
sions, of having in their possession weights and
measures below the legal standard. The. persons
so convicted were fined each ten shillings and costs,
the penalty hitving been mitigated by the Bench.
This, we must take leave to say, is ill-judged lenity.
It is, in reality and
practically, though not inten-
tionally, the greatest cruelty to the poor, who
ought to be able to look with confidence to the
protection of the Magistracy against the fraudu-
lent practices which they hav not themselves
the means of detecting, and from which they
suffer to a degree that almost exceeds belief. The
modes by which the poor are cheated by the small
traders—and with those they chiefly deal—are va-
rious. Deficient weights and measures are, we be-
lieve, much seldomer resorted to than other methods
which are not so obvious to the eye, and not so
easily discovered. A frequent practice with the

t fraudulent dealer is to attach to the bottom of one
of the scales, on the outside, a penny piece, by which
means an ounce of every thing weighed is stolen from
the purchaser. A lump of butter or cheese of still
greater weight, as some convictions have proved, is
often used for the same purpose. It wou'd not, per-
haps, be far from the truth were it affirmed that, by
these and similar deceptions, a vast proportion of the
poor are made to pay ten per cent. more for their foOd
than the wealthier classes of the community. Thus
between the high price of the staff of life occa-
sioned by the Corn-laws, and the frauds practised
by the little dealers, or, in other words, between
the wholesale robbers and the retail ones, the mass
of the people are nicely off.
To provide against the recurrence-of cases of such
aggravated delinquency as these, every precaution
ought to be taken. We are no advocates for un-
necessary severity. The great object of all punish-
ment ought to be, not to take vengeance on the
offender, but to prevent a repetition of the of-
fence. But to this end a trifling fine, like that im-
posed by the Brentford Magistrates, .is totally
inadequate, if not absolutely ridiculous. The
defaulter is no sooner in his shop or stall again,
than he commences his depredations on the public,
to compensate for his fine. No measures are taken
to stamp him with the infamy which he deserves.
The punishment which would work a far more effec-
tual cure for this evil than any fine, however large,
is publicity. Means should be adopted to put the
public on their guard against offenders of this des-
cription, to whatever quarter they may migrate ;
instead of which their names are at present as care-
fully concealed as if it were high treason to whisper
them.

The proceedings which took place at the Com-
mon Council yesterday are a disgrace even to the
Corporation of London. If any one virtue distin-
guished the late LORD MAYOR more than another
in the discharge of his duties, it was charity to the
poor. This is admitted by all impartial persons,
whether Whigs, Tories, or Radicals, and yet every
trace of his admirable conduct in lessening their
distresses, whether by saving them from .prison or
from starvation by lowering the price of coals, is
carefully expunged from the vote of thanks that
a time-serving, self-serving, and belly-serving

junta of both parties deigned to confer on Mr. Al-
derman WILSON yesterday. In the original draft
of the vote not the slightest allusion is made to his
spirited and unceasing exertions to destroy what
many of these Common Councilmen themselves
have denounced as an abominable and a starve-

tion monopoly. And why ? Because there are
certain parties interested in this crying abuse,
and who, though ever professing charity,
care not for grinding the faces of the poor,
provided, JUDAS-like, they put money into
their own pockets. There was another reason.
They withheld every expression of approbation
as a warning and an admonition to the present
LORD MAYOR, to eschew the example of his
predecessor. Even that humane and just principle
which led him to treat the starving creatures in the
streets not as criminals but as unfortunate fellow-
beings, they would not suffer to stand recorded in
their paltry vote of thanks, which, with• great libe-
rality, they ordered to be framed and glazed, and
presented to his Lordship. They refused this,
because his conduct reflected disgrace on those who
were in the habit of punishing paupers as crimi-
nals. What a noble idea some men have

of charity I They enrich themselves by
starving the poor, and'they refuse a vote of
thanks, because their own deeds are evil. Possibly
there is a third cause att he bottom of all this sulki-
ness. In the amended vote we see the word hospitality
is omitted. What are we to infer from this ? That
their God is their belly, and they glory in their
shame. They glory in having marked by their
silence, that the Chief Magistrate, while he ad-
ministered to the wants of the poor, would not
allow them to spend his substance in riotous living,
Shame upon these hypocritical Reformers--these
wire-drawn benefactors of the poor. Of these facts
Mr. Alderman WILSON may rest assured—that
the impartial and disinterested consider him ho-
noured by the opposition of such parties; that the
public are only the more convinced of the vast dif-
ficulties he had to encounter in abating one of the
basest nuisances that ever afflicted a community ;
and that by earning the enmity of the grinders of
the poor, the monopolists, and the wine-bibbers,
he has acquired the esteem and unqualified appro-
bation:of the benevolent and the just, and the silent
blessings of those who had none to help them.

Madrid continued tranquil on the 20th instant,
,he date of the last arrivals from the Spanish capi-
tal. This is entirely attributable to the precau-

tions taken by the Government to repress all insur-
rectionary movements. The Ministers of War
and the Interior had " put their heads together" to
maintain the public peace, without relaxing one
jot in their efforts to render the Constitution of

1837 a dead letter. While the one proposed the
removal of all ultra-Liberal political chiefs before
the commencement of the general election, the
other was transcribing a list anew Captains-Gene-
ial to accord with the other meditated changes in
the Executive Government. The Opposition Jour-
nals attribute the reaction of the Government to
to the determination of Senors PEREZ DE CASTRO,
San MILLON, and •ARRAZOLA, to remain in
office in despite of the Cortes—to the intrigues of
the French faction about the. Court--to the desire
of. the Camarilla to evade the promised tithe and
ecclesiastical reforms-4o the apprehension on
the part of iVlinisters of economical savings
in the budget by a vote of the Cortes to the
amount of 250 millions of reels, as recommended
by the Finance Committee ; and, above all, to the
latent hope of succeeding by frequent dissolutions,
agitations, and commotions, in disgusting an indc-
lent people with the Constitution altogether. This
is,intruth the real design of the Spanish Cabinet.
Their grand object is to restore the mongrel-fun-
damental law of MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, called
the Estatuto Real—a law which would please no
party, and is entirely unsuited to the political wants
of the Spanish nation.

The news from the Provinces is not of much
importance. The following account of a severe
check received by a small division of the QUEEN'S
troops, is from the Eco del Commercio of the
20th :

Letters from Albacete state that near Caces de Iba-
nez the sth Foot and Lancers of the Guard had been
severely handled by an ambuscade laid for them by
Cabrera. They were completely routed and their Ca-
lonel killed. This misfortune was caused by the in-
opportune recal of these troops to the Capital. A
Carlist band had laid in wait for those squadrons, and
succeeded in nearly destroying them. The National
Guard of Ibanez came out in time to cover the retreat
of the wreck of those squadrons, and prevented the
enemy from pillaging the town.

As a counterbance to this reverse, General
ASPIROZ on the 14th attacked and routed 9,000
Carlist infantry and 600 cavalry near Lerida, who
had offered him battle, and were at the time strongly
entrenched and defended by several pieces of moun-
tain artillery. ASPIROZ lost 122 men in this en-

gagement, but that of the Carlists was still more
considerable. The next day another body of Car.
lists was attacked and beaten near Sonsona, and on
the 17th the Carlist fugitives were again attacked
by two of General VALDEZ's brigades, when they
again fled, leaving the field covered with their dead.
During the three days the loss of the rebels was
stated to amount to 800 men killed and wounded.

By a circular of the Minister, Senor COLLANTES,
the election of Deputies for the whole kingdom is
ordered to commence on the 19th of December, and
the returns to be made on the 31st of the same

month. This election will decide the fate of Spain.

If the Government triumph there will be a speedy
end put to the Constitution.

Our Paris Contemporaries of Wednesday are in
raptures with the New Charter, granted by the
SULTAN to his subjects, which they would have
us believe is exclusively of Frenc►h manufacture.
This is a point which we shall not dispute with
them. All we care about is its adaptation to the
wants of the Mahommedan Empire. We regret to
have to add that its being French would be a poor
guarantee either for its appropriateness or its per-
manence, as the history of too many French Con-
stitutions abundantly and lamentably testifies.
The following painfully interesting intelligence
from Africa, is extracted from the Constitutionnel
of Wednesday :
A letter from Algiers, dated the 15th November,
published by a Morning Journal, contains the following
particulars :

" On the 10th of November, Colonel Rafel of the
24th regiment of the line, commanding the camp of
Ould-Lalag, having been suddenly informed of the ap-
proach of a party of Hadjouts, who seemed to intend to
carry off the park of cattle, immediately mounted his
horse, and accompanied only by the lieutenant com-
manding the detachment of Chafum, a quarter-master,
a brigadier, and some chasseurs, hastened to meet the
Hadjouts, while the main body of his battalion was
arming itself. Carried away by his courage, and with-
out considering the small number of those who accom-
panied him, he advanced in the direction that had been
pointed out to him, but he was only a short
distance from the camp when he fell into
an ambush. The small body of Frenchmen
were assailed with a shower of balls, and almost all of
them fell at the first fire. Colonel Rafel, Lieutenant
Weitersheim, the Quartermaster, the Brigadier, and
almost all the party, were killed on the spot. The
Arabs hastened to cut off the head of the unfortunate
Colonel Rafel and fled. When the troops came up
they did not find any enemy.
" The death of Colonel Rafel will not be unavenged.
Two Companies of the brave 2d regiment of Light In-
fantry have been sent to the camp in this part of our pro-
vince. Already the heads of five of these Hadjout rob-
bers have fallen as an expiation for the murder of our
officers ; our v engeance will not stop there ; we may
be certain that Marshal Valee will not cease to pursue
the murderers till they have atoned for their crimes with
their lives."

We have a letter from Algiers of the 18th of No-
vember, which says two battalions of the 2d Light
Infantry are gone to the interior. It is said that Blidah
was occupied on the 11 th by four companies of the
24th Regiment of the Line.
The Acheron steamboat is gone to Bona with two
companies of the 62d Regiment of the Line, and 'forty-
two officers belonging to different corps. Several vessels
are now taking on board artillery, engineers, and horses
for the province of Constantine.

There is no other news of moment in the Paris
Journals of 'Wednesday. The capitalists were all
absorbed in the study of Spanish politics, with the
exception of the ROTHCHILDS, who were men-
tioned as about to advance a loan of two millions
sterling to Turkey, on the Customs of Smyrna and
Salonica, to be expended by the Porte in the pro-
motion of agricultural improvements.
" The Gazeta Piednzontesc, of the 23d instant, states
that the city of Reggio, the capital of Ulterior Cala-
bria, had of late been visited by frequent shocks of
earthquakes. No fewer than thirty occurred between
eleven o'clock on the morning of the 23d ult., and ten
o'clock A.M. of the 26th—viz., nineteen on the 23d, four
on the 24th, five on the 25th, and two on the morning
of the 26th. The strongest shocks, five in number,
took place on the 23d ; the rest were comparatively
slight. They were accompanied by a subterraneous noise,
but fortunately occasioned no material accident.

BOURSE,—PARIS, WIDNESDAT, Nov. 27.

first Highest Lowest

Price PTice. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents lll 30 ... 111 35 ... 111 3 ... 111 35
4 per Cents lOl4O ... 101 40 ... 101:40 ... 101 40
3 per Cents B2 .. 82 ... 81 95 ... 81 95
Bank of erance 2942 50..2942 50 ...2942 50 ...2942 50
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f. Sh 5220 ...5220 —.5220 ...5220
Belgian 5 per Cents lOl% 101% ... 1015 ... 101%
Bank 745 ... 745 ... 745 ... 745
Spanish Ac, ive 25% ... 26 ... 25% ... 26
Passive ••• 6% 6%
Neapolitan
Roman lOl ... 101% 101 ... 101 Sf
--•-• -

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 13 470 ... 472:50 470 472 50
LB. OOl 25 ... '292 50 ... !.:91 25 ... :192 50
Havro

Strasburg to Bale 3BO ... 30U ... 300

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Brussels and German Papers, the former of Wed-
nesday's— date, have been received this morning.
The following are extracts from them :
" BRUSSELS, Nov. 27.—The Minister of the Interior
and of Foreign Affairs informs the public that he has
just received from the Belgian agent in Mexico new do-
cuments relative to the commerce of Mexico, as well
as information respecting an iron mine, called San
Rafael, situated to the south of Mexico, with a state-
ment of the terms on which foreigners will be allowed
to take part in the working of this mine.
A letter from Capella, of the 25th inst., says that on
the preceding day the Customhouse officers seized
21 bales of English; manufactured goods, the value of
which is estimated at 3,000 francs.
VIENNA, Nov. 19.—The Duke of Blacus, who died
on the 17th, was attended on his death by his wife and
three sons. This afternoon at three o!clockhis remains
were solemnly deposited in the church of Augustines,
which is the parish church. Besides the officiating
secular Clergy, the funeral was attended by the Capu-
chins and Redemptionists. The Duke, whose fortune
is known to be very large, made his will a few days be-
fore his death. There is no foundation whatever for
the report that he has bequeathed a large sum to the
Redemptionists. They are not even mentioned in the
will. There was a pretty considerable number of dis-
tinguished persons at the funeral.
BERLIN, Nov. 18.—D. Van Pizyluski, Canon of Po-
sen, is gone to Colburg, as we hear, to represent to
Archbishop Dunim the present state of the affairs of
the Church of his diocese. The Archbishop is, of
course, the only person to whom such representation
can properly be made, fOr the Government, to which
an application was singularly enough first made, can no
more remedy than it caused the state of things com-
plained of, and which the clergy have produced by their
own measures. It is certainly true that numerous se-
cessions from the Romish to the Protestant Church,
now take place in the Grand Duchy of Posen ; and
that in some parts the country people refuse to pay
tithes. But shall the armed force interfere in favour of
a body of clergy, whose proceedings have lately been of
such a nature, that an insurrection was every moment
to be apprehended. But the more unexpected the pre-
sent occurrences in Posen, the more openly does people
here say that the Government has been much too supine
in this affair.

BELGIAN 1, UNDS—Bitosme, N.Y. 27.
Actual Debt, 21,-.i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ll'l
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9'24
3 per Cent.
Loan of City, IS3'2, 4 per Cent :l5
Society of Commerce, 41,,,per Cent ll4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 704
National Society .
Exchange on London (short) -
-Brussels Papers, Nay. 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov 19
five per Cents. Metalliques
Feur per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1013%
—Altgemeixe Zeitung. Nov, 24

Lord Kinnaird, it is reported, is likely to be the
Master of the Buck Hounds.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Last evening Sheridan's Rivals was revived at this
theatre, with the costume of the period at which it was
originally produced. Anderson made his first ap-
pearance as Captain Absolute, and if he would get rid
of his tragedy strut we know of nn better representative
of Jack Absolute at present on the boards. Brougham
was hardly gentlemanly enough in Sir Lucius. It is
sufficient to state that 'Far= was Sir Anthony, and
Madame Vestris Lydia, for our readers to be assured
that those parts were represented as admirably as the
author himself could have wished. The piece was given
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in which Mrs. E. Knight (forrrierly Miss Pevey) made
her first appearance here asWilhelmina. She was wel-
comed by the audience as an old, favourite should be
welcomed. Harrison was the 'I om Tug, and was en-
cored in every song be sung. The house was crowded.

The Duke of Richmond is expected at Good-
wood, on Monday next, to preside at the Chichester
Club Cattle Show, on the following day.
THE DECLARATION OF RIGHT.---If we may
judge by the expedients to which the Tories resort, they
are certainly-on their last legs. Loud is the brawling
with which they have announced their intention of pub-
lishing the Bill of Rights in the Britannia of to-morrow.
But let them beware, lest this artifice is turned against
themselves. In this celebrated declaration, second
only in importance to Magill. Charter, it is cxpressiy
stipulated that " excessive fines ought not to be im-
posed, nor unusual punishments :inflicted." How would
What boy is more
this apply to the case of John Thorogood ? The
Tories may find the people may gather some important
truths
ifromFAaaGGatltNenotivseypseTruEsi‘all._of this, , Bill of Rights."
to be pitied than a junior boy ? ri
mayp say what they
will produces on the
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described in Oliver T .Iwist is nothing compared to that
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which People
it
minds of those who are subjected
to it—we contend
that to breed a gentleman's son up like a tiger is the
readiest way to make a beast of him.—Comic Latin
Grammar.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF -MONOPOLY.
Table showing the ex-duty price of West India. Sugar,
in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against
that of Foreign Sugars.

London, Nov. 29, 1839.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the Per cwt.
average price of British Plantation Musco-
vado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at BBs. 4d.
The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
mporters, in the week ending the 26th inst., according
to the returns made upon oath by the West India
Sugar-brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parlia-
ment, and on which the above price is computed, con-
sisted of 804 hhds: 97 trs. and 203 barrels, and not of
1,400 hhds. and tierces, as erroneously estimated in the
market.

The falling-off in the delivery of Sugar from lite
bonded warehouses of this port only from the 4th May
last, to the 23d inst., is about 22,500 hhds. and tierces,
whi!e the decrease in the landing, from the Ist January
last, to the 23d inst. is about 30,500 hhds. and tierces,
so that, by the exercise of a rigid economy on the part
of the British community in the use of Sugar, the de-
falcation in the West India crops has only exceeded the
saving effected by the consumers by 8,000 hhds. and
tierces.

Foreign Sugars continue to remain difficult of sale.
Manilla Sugar, produced by free labour, has been sold
this week at from 18s. to 225. per cwt., and may be
fairly quoted as being 17s. per cwt., quality for quality,
cheaper than West India Sugar ; in other words, the
West India merchants, by the aid of their monopoly,
obtain 17s. per cwt. for all the Sugar consumed by the
nation, more than its continental market value.
The best British Treacle commands readily 355. per
cwt. in the home market, while Refined Sugar, equal
in quality to the double refined standard loaf, and made
from Foreign Raw Sugar, has been sold for exportation,
deducting shipping charges at 33. per cwt.
The Mincing-lane Sugar Market has been unusually
dull, and lower prices have been accepted.