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cent instances, have recoiled so fearfully, yet so justly, Otl
themselves, and the instigators of their guilt.
" I desire to thank the parties signing the address for the
ready offer of their services in vindication of the outraged
rights of our Most Gracious Sovereign ; I shall gladly avail
myself of them in case of need ; but it is my sincere and
earnest hope that no circumstance of future emergency may
necessitate their being called into active operation.
" I am much flattered by the assurance which the address
contains of unlimited confidence in my Administration.

" GEORGE ARTHUR."

(From the Oswego Bulletin.)
COL. VON SCHOULTZ'S LETTER.
t flemy, Dec. 1, 1838.
Dear Sir—l take the liberty to address you some few linee,
begging you to make publicly known the kind, civil treatment
we have experienced from the officers and men belonging to
the 83d Regiment, so !het if any eiember of that corps should
travel in the United States, our friends there may show them
our gratitude. We may fairly say that ne owe our lives to
them, because had they not protected us after we surrendered,
the militia would surely have killed the greater number of us.
The Sheriff, in whose keeping we are, has trsated us most
kindly, and dose everything in his power to better the situation
in which we were thrown by the miserable cowardice of Gen.
Birge, Bill Johnson, and their officers. If our prayers were
heard, those base.rascale would be delivered over to the Bri-
tish Government by our own, and we wets!d then meet our own
fate with perfect resignation.
When on Monday night the General did not come over or
send us any reinforcements ; and when none of the inhabitants
or regulars did join us, the men, about 170 in number, heeeed
me to take the command. and lead them back to the United
States. We bad then not a single boat for u,e, and the British
steam. r, Experiment, kept up a vigilant look cut on the
'river. I chose a strong. position whch would enable our
men to defend themselves for some time aeainst a superior
enemy, dur;ng which time I was confident boats would be
sent from the American shore to our assistance. None were
procured, however, by the coward-. Tuesday morning we,
were attacked by land and water, at about seven o'clock ; the
firing ceased about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the
British withdrew and left us .in our position. We had about
30 killed and wounded. I had, during the night, sent a man
, across the river on a plank, asking for boats. Tuesday evening
the General's adjutant came over, telling me a schooner would
be over to take us away. We carried our wounded down en
the bank and waited with anxiety for the arrival of the vessel,
but none arrived. Wednesday passed away, and the British
began to surround us with considerable force, harassing our
flanks continually. I think Thursday night a steamer from
the American shore approached us, and we were informed by
a couple of men sent on shore that it was to take us away. We
again carried out our wounded, but some few rifle shots from
the British frightened the cowards away, and we were again
left to ourselves.
Friday, about mid-day, a Parliamentary came from the Bri-
tish for the purpose of taking away the killed that remained
cia the field, and I delivered over to him the British wounded
4had taken up, as I had no medical stores of any kind, and it
weyuld have been a base and unmanly policy to augment the
sufferings of the wounded enemy. One hour's cessation of
hostilities was granted for burying our dead ; but, having no
shovels, we could not do it. When the time was out the Bri-
tish steamers came down with heavy artillery, and the battle
began. As I could get no one to take the defence of the
house on our left flank, I went there myself with ten men.
As I had suspected, that house was most strenuously attacked.
From the situation of the house I was not able to see how it
went on in the other houses and the mill. We must have been
urrounded by at least 2,000 men end a detachment of the
33d Regiment. My whole number of men, when this last bat-
tle began, was 108. I kept my position, though the roof
crumbled to pieces over our helds, by the British fire from
their artillery, until dark, when I was informed that all had
surrendered, I also then, surrendered. I was stripped to my
shirt sleeves by the militia, in the first moment of anger and
fury. Even my bonnet was tak,.n away. I lost my watch,
trunk, money, and the clothing I had on me.
Some of the prisoners from Cape Vincent have already got
an answer to their fetters, money and clothing Is Ive been sent
to them through the hands of the Sheriff, who has appointed
a man here in the fort who attends to us ; he has opened an
account-book for them, and buys everything they wish for.
For my own: parr, I am naked, though a kind hand at
Cape Vincent, where I know no one, has sent me a shirt and
a pair of socks, with my name marked on them. God bless
the being who did it. I beg you to forward me some
money, when I can get a coat made here for me, and get
some other things. Address the letter to the care of the
. Sheriff at Kingston, wlio will open it and give me credit for
the money.
I beg you to have printed in several of the American
papers our acknowledgment of the kindness we have ex-
perienced from the Sheriff' and the 83d Regiment. It is a
consolation to have to deal with a brave and noble-minded
. enemy. We are tried by court-martial. I have had my
trisl—am prepared for death:—Yours truly,
J. R. Parker, Esq., Oswego. S. VON SOHOULTZ.

UNITED STATES.
(From the New Orleans Bee, 15th inst.)

On Thursday evening Major-General Gaines, of the United
States army, gave a splendid dinner party in honour of the
officers of the French ship•of--war Meteore, now in port.
There wire present the Commodore and officers of the ship,
the French Consul, Captain Rousseau, of the United States
navy, Major Church, Captain Grayson, Lieutenant Reynolds,
Doctors Hawkins and Ruff, of the United States army, Gen.
Plancbe and staff of the Louisiana Legion, Captain Wilkinson
and Lieut. Labutat of the Grenadiers, Colonel Milton, Dr.
Smith, Messrs. Norris, Savage, and other friends.
(From the New York Express.)

The Arcadian Recorder of the Bth insi. mentions the arriva
at Halifax, on the preceding night, of her Majesty's ship Her-
cules, Captain J. T. Nicholas, from Barbadoes, with the 36th
Regiment, viz, :—Colonel Maxwell, Captains Trollope, Nu-
gent, Wyatt, and Carmichael; Lieutenanta Pratt, Goodman,
and Thistlewayte ; Ensigns Nugent and Bourdeflon ; Quar-
termaster Hall, Assistant-Surgeon Scott, 27 sergeants, 10
drummers, and 389 rank and file. Major Cross died at Bar-
badoes on the 12th ult. The regiment disembarked on the
forenoon of the Bth.
The Hercules having taken the 52d Regiment from Gibral-
tar to relieve the 36th, arrived at Barbadoes on the sth ult.

(From the New York Gazette,)

The Montreal Herald of the 18th states that no further par.
ticulars had been received of the threatened invasion about
Swanton, with the exception of a report that at Missisquoi
Bay about twenty loyalists had been seized by the Americans
as hostages, who would be barged, if any individuals were
executed here. We are told that Lieut. Campbell Sweeney,
of the Montreal Cavalry, is one of the hostages, but we do not
place the slightest reliance on the report.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.—Among the documents accompa-
nying the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, is a state-
ment of the imports and exports of the United States for the
year ending the 30th of September, 1838. Tho amount of
imports was 112,000,000 dollars, of which 60,146,000 dollars
were free of duty, 22,650,000 dollars paying specific duties.
The amount of exp.irts was 103,136,000 dollars, of which
90,666,000 dollars consisted of domestic produce, and
12,470,000 dollars of foreign produce. Of the foreign articles
re-exported 8.047,000 dollars were such as had been im-
ported free of duty, 2,090,000 dollars bad paid duties ad
valorem, and 2,337,000 dollars specific duties. The amount
of imports was less than in the preceding year by 28,989,000
dollars. The exports were less than in the preceding year by
14,283,000 dollars. Of this diminution 4,898,000 dollars were
in the domestic produce, and 9,384,000 dollars in fee foreign
produce exported.
TRADE WITH Texas.—The trade between this city and the
%public of Texas is getting to be an object of considerable
im ortance to our merchants, and promises a rich harvest for
the enterprise, and nothing is wanting to monopolise the sup-
plying of that rich and growing country with the articles of
necessity, but a liberal spirit on the part of those engaged in
business here. The number of vessels which have left this
port for Texas since May is about thirty, principally laden
with northern productions and manufactures, and conveying a
large number of emigrants, who, from their general good
character and habits, will prove a valuable acquisition to that
country. A proposition is now before the Texian Congress
to take off entirely ail duties on importations ; should this be
carried, and we have no doubt it rill, a large amount of goods
will be shipped this season. Another proposition has also
been made to estab:ish a " National Bank." If this should
be effected, the cufrency of the country will be on as sure a
basis as that of this or any other ; in fact, Texas is on the
onward march to perfect independence. We learn from good
authority that not less than 70,000 bales of cotton will be
grown this year, a considerable portion of which will probably
be shipped to this port. Many of the planters are turning
their attention to the growing of sugar, which in a few years
will become an important article of export.
NEGRO INSURRECTION.—WO copy the following from the
Nashville Banner of the Bth inst. :

" The Franklin Record, received lest night, contains a long
account of a concerted plot entered into by a large number of
uegroes of Williamson and Rutherford counties to murder all
the whites they could or, a certain day and take possession of
the counties, elect officers to suit themselves, &c. One of
the black rascals, a preacher, the property of Mr. W. L.
King, of Williamson, , passed by the title of General. But he
had a rival in the person of another rascal in Rutherford, who
has been electioneering for Sheriff of the county, when the
whites should have been exterminated.

(From the Philadelphia Gazette.)
Philadelphia, Dec. 24. 5 o'Clock, p.m.
IMPORTANT FROM HARRISBURG.

Through the attentive courtesy of various members of the
State Legislature, we have been favoured with copies of the
following extra from the office of the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The proposition which it contains is one to which the loco..
focos must accede, or be content to bear for its rejection the
anathemas of the people.
" With a view to the adjustment of the difficulties now ex-
isting between the members elect of the House of Representa-
tives, that portion of them who have organized by the election
of Mr. Thomas S. Cunningham as Speaker propose to the
other portion who have chosen Mr. W. Hopkins as Speaker
as follows, viz.:—
" Ist. That Messrs. Cunningham and Hopkins, at an hour,
to be mutually agreed upon for the meeting of all the members
elect, in the hall of the House of Representatives, shall re-
spectively, as Speakers, resign; and the members whose seats
are not disputed shall forthwith proceed to the election of a
Speaker and other officers, pro tern.
" 2d. That a special law shall be forthwith passed, to
provide for contesting the rights to seats of the persons claim-
ing to be representatives; the committees in such cases to be
raised in the manner prescribed by the existing laws. Neither
set from the county of Philadelphia shall be permitted to vote
a any question until the right of the contested seats shall have

been eetermined; but in all other respects each shall be en-
titled to alt the in ivileges of members of the House. Or, ;is
an alternative, both sets from the county to resign, and a writ
for a new election to be issued.
" THOMAS S. SMITH.
" SAMUEL A. PURVIANCF,.
" B. M HINCHMAM.
" Committee on behalf of Members who elected
T. S. Cunningham their Speaker."
(Correspondence of t> e Courier and Inquirfr.)
PHILADELPHIA, DEC 24,1838, 5 P.M.—I have just learncil
that Mr. Hopkins's house has refused to treat with that c-f Mr.
Cunningham upon any such terms, and that the 59 Membz-rs
signed a paper containing the refusal.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, DEC. 26
50 Shares Merchants' Exchange Bank
975 Shares Dcl. and Hod. Canal Co.
200 Do. Farmers' Trust Co.
65 Do. N. 0. Canal Bat,k
45 Do. Vicksburgh Bank
30 Do, Kentucky Bark
18 Do. N. 0. City Bank
25 De. Mech. Banking A.:,sociaion
40 Do. N. American Trust C
5 Do. Eagle Insurance Co
50 Do. Paterson Railroad
10 Do. Boston and Prov. R. R.
100 Do. New Jersey Radroa3 4O.E
30 Do. Stoningtoo Railroad

121
57
67 67
101

118
771
117
89
78 79
911
108
93
96 96;1-
113
63
107
103. k
26

100 Do. Utica Railroad, 3 days
200 Do. Long Island R. Rcal
125 Do. Mohawk RAtread .
265 Do. Harlem Road
10 Do. Slracue and Utica Radroad

NEW YORK MARKETS, DEc. 26.
Corr•ac.—With the exception of the ordinary demand from
the home trade, the market has rernaintd in a very ieactive
state. The stock, however, of the leading d,scrit,tions teing
light than otherwise, have i:iduccd holders to continue firm,
consequently %le have no alteration to notice i❑ prices. The
transactions embraced 1,900 bags Brazil at 10- at 11A- cents.,
150 Laguyra at 11.4, together with small parcels or various
descriptions within the range of quotations.
FLOUR.—The market is without the least variation—prices
8 dol. 871- cents to 9 dol. 25 cents.
RicE.—Holders evinced a greater desire to realise, and
prices a shade below our former quotations were accepied
The transactions, however, were light, consisting of about 50
tierces, fair to good, at 3 dol. 50 cents to 3 dol. 62-11 cents;
50 tierces, strictly prime, at 4 dol. 814 cents; and 350 brls.
good New York Rice Mills at 4 dol. 50 cents•—all cash.
TOBACCO.—Prices continue extremely high, and for the
last fortnight there has been scarcely anything done. S ;me
few hhds. Kentucky have been taken by manufacturers as
high as 14 cents. For selections 15 cents was yesterday re-
fused.

lIIGII WATE;{ A F LONDON MUDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning 54 anr,utesafter Eveninc, l5 minutes after 3

On SUNDAY, JANUARY 27,
Will be published, a Wcckly Newspaper, price Sixpence, entitled
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Established by, and devoted to, the Interests of the

WORKING CLASSES.
The Profits to be placed at their disposal.
" THE CHARTER" will advocate the principles of the People's
Charter, or National System of Education, together with all those
Social and Commercial Reforms identified with the interests of the
people, and embrace all those matters of variety necessary to con-
stitute a popular Weekly Journal. Engagements are entered into
with some of the most talented and popular writers of the day ; the
Committee pledging themselves to make " THE CHARTER"
equal to any Paper now extant, in its literary and mechanical
features.

" THE CHARTER" will contain 64 closely-printed columns.
Orders received by all the Newsmen.
W. LOVETT, Secretary.

'sc. ty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA,
k His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
His majetv the KING of PRUSSIA,
having A UTIIORISE:D and GUARANTEED several Distribu-
tions of Money, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES, and
do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to Blanks) offer possibilities
of obtaining

LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGIL and
HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK,
have ceased to contract for Lotteries, but are NOW SELLING
SHARES for any of the said DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY,
at various races. The Distributions contain various portions from
9/. to 20,000/. and upwards. Orders for less than 10/. cannot be
attended to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE-
VIOUS to diving any orders, the Prospectus and particulars, upon
addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.

The publication (f THF. Su:; NEWSPAPER cor.,lpenced this day
at 39 minutes past Three o' Clock.

LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1839

We learn from Birmingham that the question of the
Corn-laws is to he brought before the Town Council
this day, and it is expected that a public meeting will
take place in the Town-hall. The Ward of Cripple-
gate Within is to meet to•iorrow in pursuance of a
requisition signed by thirty-five inhabitants of the
Ward, which will, we hope, be more effectual than the
meeting of Bishopsgate Ward. Aberdeen has joined
with Glasgow, and at length the town population
seems alive to the importance of the Corn-law

question.
A Dublin Paper states that Ministers are to intro-
duce the subject into her MAJESTY'S Speech ; it
implies that they are to make common cause with the
towns, and, if necessary, go to the country on the issue,
by a dissolution of Parliament. The report is counte-
nanced by Mr. G. WooD being nominated to second
the Address ; and Mr. WooD is a Corn-law agitator.
Such would be a bold, an honest, and a manly policy,
and might ultimately increase their power, and save
the State. We are far, however, from being over-
sani;uine of success, for we are deeply impressed with
the great power of the selfish, immoral, and corrupt
interests which twenty-four years have nourished into
strength, under the law, and which will be arrayed,
under the mask of patriotism, against its abolition.
In Tales Magazine the following account is given
of the manner in which the stipends of the Scotch
Clergy are paid :
" The Act of 1808 converted the money !stipends of the
Ministers into grain, and thus the Established Clergy have the
same interest with the landowners that grain should be dear.
For example, in augmenting a Minister's stipend, he is not
allowed a fixed sum of money, but a certain number of quar-
ters of grain. The actual grain is not delivered to him ; but,
calculating the value at the market-price of the year—for
ascertaining which a method has been long practised in Scot-
land—the Clergyman receives the value from the land pro-
prietors of his parish, in proportion to the extent of their
estates, The Clergy were easily induced to go into this
scheme, as, for a great number of years previously, grain had
been constantly rising in price. This accounts for the Gene-
ral Assembly having, more than once since the date of the
Act, petitioned PErliament against the repeal of the Corn-
laws— a circumstance that must be inexplicable to those who
are not aware how stipends are paid."
We have repeatedly in this Journal insisted on the
fact, that the tithe-receiving clergy of England, who,
as COBBETT said, are very often the largest corn-
sellers in their parishes, have, like the Scotch minis-
ters, a strong pecuniary interest in supporting the
starvation of the people. The Bishops are landowners
as well as titheowners, most of the clergy have glebe
lands, and thus the whole body of the State-paid
priesthood, with all their vast influence over the public
mind, are the steady and unflinching advocates of the
Devil's laws. We hear a great deal about this body
of men being the moral teachers of the nation, and hu-
man society, it is said, would become a mass of putrid
vice, but for their teaching. They are the very salt of
the earth. If this be so, it is a great pity that they
should receive such a large and such a continual bribe
to uphold a monstrous system of plunder. Their moral
influence should be exhibited in the Legislature to
which they belong, and in the conduct of their pupils,
the lay Members of both Houses. They will not con-
vince the public that plundering by Act of Parliament
is not more atrocious than highway robbery, for it adds
the meanness of fear, and the blackness of treachery,
to the act of spoliation. As long, therefore, as they
advocate Vie continuance of the Devil's laws, and as
ong as their pupils, the landed gentlemen who consti-
tute a majority of the two Houses of Parliament, shall
continue by those laws to extort money from the
people, the world will doubt whether the enormous
bribe given to the landowners' associates does not
pervert them into teachers of immorality. As long as
they claim the noble character of teachers of mankind,
they must be responsible for crimes as well as virtues.
A Correspondent of the Chronicle hints that the son
of the Cotton-spinner would not be averse from giving
up the landed interest, helpless as that is without
him, to propitiate the townspeople, and be restored to
power. 'We consider that not unlikely. Sir ROBERT
PEEL has only shown himself illiberal where the
State-paid priesthood, who were his tutors, were con-
cerned. The principles of his policy were imbibed at
Oxford, and he is one of the lamentable instances in
r,
our Statesmen, of priestcraft having prostrated good
sense and sound judgment. He cannot, however,
be insensible to the decay and probable ruin of
the trade in which his father acquired his wealth,
and in which the property of some of his family is yet
embarked. If the statements made in the Chamber of
Commerce of Manchesterbe correct, he must be induced,
from his usual sound views, from patriotism, and perhaps
from interest, to support the Corn-law abolition. We,
at least, cannot conceive the arguments by which he,
whose wealth is now partly realised in land, could urge
those who are yet embarked in the cotton manufac-
tory, and struggling for a competency, to submit to a
tax varying from 20 to 100 per cent. on their food to
swell his present rent roll. 'We should not, therefore,
be surprised to see Sir ROBERT PEEL outbidding
the Ministers for the support of the middle classes
by proposing a modification or repeal of the Corn-
laws. By so doing he would again have the merit of
sacrificing his party and his friends to the public
welfare.

The LORD MAYOR'S spirited efforts to put an end
to the coal monopoly has called forth the warmest
praise from the public. We rejoice to see the services of
a meritorious public functionary so justly appreciated,
for no tribute can be more gratifying to a rightly con-

stituted mind, and no incentive to exertion stronger,
than the applause of one's fellow citizens.
His Lordship had the honour of receiving, •on
Thursday last, a splendid entertainment from the Port
of London and Navigation Committee. The company
invited on this occasion was numerous, and it seems to
have been expected that a great coal.man was to be
present, who had announced his determination to meet
the LORD MAYOR, and demonstrate the utter fallacy
of the statements about monopoly in the trade, and the
falsehood of the charges made at the Mansion-house
against the parties concerned in it. The gentleman,
however, did not make his appearance, finding, per-
haps, on second thoughts, that the task he had under-
taken was not a very easy one.

In returning thanks, on his health being drunk, the
LORD Yo rt remarked that, after a Committee of
the IL:use of Commons had declared that it would re-
quire a Legislative enactment of a stringent nature to
destroy the combination in the coal trade, it would be
too much to expect any remarkable, change from the
exertions of an individual, unless he were heartily sup-
ported by the public, and aided by the assistance of
practical men. - " He could not," his Lordship ob-
served, " see why there should be a law to curb the
dangerous tendency of combinations amongst the poor,
and no law to counteract the more fatal combinations
amongst the rich and powerful. If the pitmen or coal-
whippers combined to keep up, or regulate their wages,
they were amenable to the laws, but those who were
so ready to complain against them, could commit the
very offences they were eager to punish with perfect
impunity, and in the most barefaced manner." These
observations, just as they arc, when applied to the
coal-monopolists, are of far wider application. There
is, in too many cases, one law for the rich and
another for the poor and Nchile the rich have the ex-
clusive right of making the laws, we do not expect to
see it otherwise.

Mr. BLACKET, the late Chairman of the Naviga-
tion Committee, stated that the altered appearance of
the river since the adoption of the late regulations was
quite delightful ; and that he had seen, a day or two
ago, no fewer than 400 colliers moored i❑ the most
regular and excellent older. This seems a great number
to he in the river at one time. Does it not imply that
sonic facilities arc still required in discharging the

cargoes ?

The Morning Herald is in a quandary about the
late decision of the Court of Arches in the case of
MARY WOOLFREY. It calls this a " Popish victory,"
and twaddles away, day after day, about the dangers to
which the Church of England is exposed by the pro-
. ccedings of certain " Romanized divines," commonly
called the Oxford tract men, who are, it says, :labour-
ing to introduce the 6' exploded superstitions of the
Clark ages," and who have given special symptoms of
exultation" at Sir HERBERT JENNER'S " extra-
ordinary decision." The Herald, however, finds a great
source of consolation under its present affliction in
the important fact, that the said victory of the tomb-
stone having caused it to look more attentively into
the question of Church of England Popery than it
had previously done, it found that the mischief had
extended much farther than it " had any notion of"
—a very consolatory reflection, no doubt—and that
this extension was owing to " the too great indulgence,
or rather total neglect with which the most powerful
organs of the press had long treated the doctrines of
Oxford tract men."
Notwithstanding this highly criminal apathy on the
part of the press, and the consequent up-rearing of the
horn of Popery within the sanctuary, no sooner
does Granny essay to buckle on her harness than her
very aspect terrifies the tract men, the pen drops from
their impious hands, and Popery trembles to her in-
most recesses I But let her speak for herself. Her
readers are duly prepared for her self-adoring explo-
sion by a piece of recondite information to the effect
that " the daily press surpasses all modes of conveying
knowledge and fixing public attention upon any given
question." Having made this important discovery—
having laid this egg, so to speak—she cackles or rather
crows over it to the following tune :—" Though it is
but a very short period since we resolved to grapple
with the monster engendered within the Church, and
endeavouring, with unnatural appetite, to destroy its
parent, the public attentio❑ is already drawn to the
tiring in a, manner that is likely to provent the 'mis-
chief from spreading, if not to speedily extinguish it
altogether." After this can any one wonder that the
gasconading propensity of our Contemporary should have
attracted the attention of the caterers for the stage ?
What visitor of Drury-lane Theatre does not acknow-
ledge the happiness of the idea in the new pantomime,
where our venerable Contemporary, by a touch of
harlequin's wand, is transformed from an old woman
into a cock.

As to the " extinction" on which our Contemporary
plumes herself, we can discern very few symptoms of
it. We believe that the converts to the doctrines of
the tract men are daily increasing. The Bishop of
OXFORD is favourable to them, and it is a well-known

fact that they have been embraced by many of the
young men attending the University. That they are
opposed by the party •i❑ the Church, calling themselves
" evangelical," is no proof that the opinions are not
spreading, but, on the contrary, may be considered as
au omen of a fierce and protracted contest within the
pale of the Establishment. The public will not be
uninterested spectators of the match ; and we tl►iuk
that tl►e issue, whatever it be, however it may affect
the Church, will be favourable to the cause of truth.
Questions, and important ones too, which have been
scarcely ever mooted since the present system of re-
ligion was established in England by the power of the
State, will be publicly discussed, and the people
will perhaps be led to inquire in earnest into the ex-
tent of the so-called " Reformation," and whether there
is in reality any very material difference between the
old and the new Church. We apprehend the diffe-
rence will he found to consist principally in the chief
power being vested by the one system in the Bishop
of ROME, by the other in the Sovereign of ENGLAND.
The sole object of HENRY VIII. was to get the
supremacy, and as much of the revenues of the Church
as possible; transferred to himself. In every other
point he was averse to any change, for in what little
religion he had he was a Catholic to the last. In the
reign of EDWARD VI. the present Liturgy of the
Church of England was framed. It was little, if any-
thing, more than a selection from that of the Romish
Church translated from Latin into English. ED-
WARD': proclamation to the people of Devonshire
and Cornwall, who had risen in rebellion at the very
sound of religious reform, quieted their fears bydeclaring
that the only cha►age in the Service-book was a change

from a foreign to the vernacular tongue ; and in the
reign of ELIZABETH, the POPE twice proposed to
sanction the Anglican Liturgy, provided his own su-
premacy were acknowledged. ELIZABETH, however,
loved power too well to listen to the proposal, and
.wisely preferred being POPE in her own dominions.
The maiden QUEEN had a great hankering after
Popish ceremonies. In spite of all that Bishop
JEWELL could say or do, she would not part with the
crucifix in her devotions.

If these things are duly considered, it will—not be
deemed any great wonder that the body and substance of
Church-of-Englandism should be thoroughly Pene-
trated with the leaven of 13e7.:.ry. All, in fact, that
the Reformation did in this corner of the vineyard was

to skim off a little of th 6 scum which had risen to the
surface of the religious cauldron, in consequence of
the fermentation which had taken place. The tem-
porary ebullition ceased, but the ingredients remain the
same, and the spirit of fanaticism which has sprung
up of late, calling itself Evangelism, is setting them
again in motion. If the Evangelicals have strength
enough to bring about another Reformation in the
Church of England, and to make it really Protestant,
we shall rejoice ; hut for them to attempt to combat
the new " heresy," as they very improperly term it, by
arguments drawn from Scripture, is utterly, futile.
The question is not (yet) between the Church and the
Scriptures, but what is the faith of the Church as
she herself has declared it ? In this latter question
the tract me❑ will beat their opponents•holiow.
We have not space to enter farther into the subject
at present ; but we 51011 keep a watchful eye on the
belligerents, and report their proceedings from time to
time to the public.

Letters from Constantinople of the 19th ult., have
come to hand. They announce that the recent suc-
cesses of the Circassians over the Russians was owing
to the receipt of a dispatch, purporting to be addressed
by Lord PONSONBY to the Circassian chiefs, imploring
them to hold out, and that they would eventually ob-
tain succours from England. As no such dispatch
was written by our Ambassador at the Porte, we
must regret an occurrence which, while it must militate
against any reliance on the part of a simple, chivalrous
race, on the friendly professions of Great Britain, may
likewise lead to the wanton effusion of much innocent
blood. There is great cruelty in deceiving a people
with whom we sympathise with promises of the sup-
port of a Government fatally deaf to their most earnest
supplications.
On the 20th of November two Russian transports
were wrecked on the Circassian coast. Many of the
troops on board were drowned.
The boat of her MAJESTY'S ship Tyne was upset
in the Golden Horn on the 17th ult. There were seven
persons on board, of 1,v4.-nri four, including Mr.
KIEST, the mate, lost their lives.

No additional intelligence has reached Constanti-
nople from Persia or Central Asia, except that the
SCHAH had reached Teheran by no means satisa:d
with the result of his expedition against Herat.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have been received
with the conclusion of the debate in the Chamber of
Deputies on Saturday o❑ the paragraph of the Ad-
dress relative to the evacuation of Ancona. The
debate on this paragraph was not closed when the
Chamber rose, so that we must await the arrival of
Monday's Papers for the decision of the Deputies
upon a question of vital importance to the Cabinet.
A summary of the debate is subjoined. We regard
Count MOLE'S attempt to fix upon M. THIERS a
charge of inconsistency as most unfortunate.

The French Government has ordered inquiries to be
made respecting the real causes of the late disturbances
at Rochelle.

The high price of bread is filling France with dis-
content. .We understand that the Government is
about to fix a minimum.as the only plan to prevent a
famine.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING OF SATURDAY THE 12TH (CONTINUED).
Count Mole said that his policy agreed with that of all pre
ceding cabinets, excepting that of M. Thiers. M. Duchatel
observed that coming down to the house and asking for
100,000 men and 100 millions was war. He denied that it
was war. Was it the same thing to touch the hilt of one's
sword and to draw it from the scabbard ? When Casimir Pe-
rier made these demands, they led to peace, not to war. The
Minister then read a series of dispatches from Casimir Perier's
cabinet, promising and ordering the evacuation of Ancona
whepever the Austrian troops quitted the Legations. If it
was Perier's intention to have made Ancona the guarantee of
institutions to the Romagna, he would not have entered into
these promises or explanations. The Minister then said, that
M. Thiers certainly adopted other views, and was scarcely a
month Minister when be wrote to the French ambassador.
The letter was then read, as follows:

" Monsieur le Marquess—l see that the Holy See is about
to demand seriously the evacuation of Ancona. My opinion
on that subject is, that we occupied Ancona, not in order to
act as a police for the Roman states, but to prevent the house
of Austria from dominating exclusively in Italy, and driving
out of it the French influence. We can have no intentio❑ of
deinitely, keeping Ancona, which belongs to the Pope,
whom we can have no intention to despoil. But we can-
not evacuate it without guarantees against the eventuality
which our troops went to counteract. The guarantee of in-
dependence, which there were hopes of obtaining from the
Court of Rome, are now to be despaired of ; and yet it was
only with a view to those that we occupied Ancona. Such
being the state of things, I recommend expressly that
you do not assume at Rome the initiative of the ques-
tion of evacuating Ancona; on the contrary, never to raise,
it, but to avoid it as much as possible. And, if forced
to state an opinion, let this opinion be, that the retreat of the
Austrians does not necessarily occasion the retreat of our
troops."
Count Mole continued, by saying he did not know what
M. Thiers meant. M. De Broglie, indeed, had endeavoured
to make the cession of Ancona a condition for a new arrange-
ment relative to the East. But his proposals led to no
answer. The French could not have remained at Ancona,
after the Austrians had retired, without a war. The Pope
would have demanded the interference of all Europe. And,
suppose that Europe would make war—suppose the Pope, in-
dignant, quitted his states, and sought an asylum in Venice—
what would you say as to the impolicy of pushing him to such
an extremity ? As to Cracow, he hoped it would be soon
evacuated.

Here M. Thiers observed that he had received a similar
promise two years ago.
M. Guizot then rose, and complained of the conduct of the
President of the Council. He hall been asked to furnish the
commission with the diplomatic documents relative to An-
coua. He refused, at the same time siying he would not
make use of them here. And now he comes down and pro-
duces a garbled statement, part of this letter, and part of that
letter, without enabling any one to form a fair judgment.
Count Mole insisted on his right to act as he had done.
M. Thiers supported M. Guizot, and repeated his com-
plaint as to the want of fairness in the conduct of the Presi-
dent of the Council.

Though it was near seven o'clock the Centre clamoured for
hearing M. Thiers, and terminating the debate; the Left
side of the Chamber rose, however, and broke up the sitting.

The Madrid Gazette of the 6th contains a Royal
Ordinance appointing:a Committee of fifteen Members
to prepare a plan for a revision of the Customs Tariff.
Of this Corrrnittee M. ARGUELLES is appointed Pre-
sident, and most of the Members are men presumed to
be favourable to the principles of free trade. General
CortDOVA remains at Seville awaiting the sentence of
the Court-martial. No news of any moment from the
Provinces.

TILE ADDRESS.—Mr. Edward Buller, Member
or North Staffordshire, will move the address. Mr. G. W.
iVood, Member for Kendal, will second the address.

Dr. Sandes, the Bishop of Killaloe, has been ap.
pointed to the vacant see of Cashel at Waterford.

We have been informed the Postmaster-General
has by a new regulation directed that all Post-office orders
must be presented by the parties to whom they are pay-
able. We are disposed to think that if such a regula-
tion has been issued it has been by mistake. The public
pay 6d. in the pound to be permitted to transmit small
sums of money by Post-office orders. These orders have
been hitherto payable through bankers or third parties on
receiving the endorsement of the person to whom they arc
made payable. A regulation to the above effect will render
them nearly useless. It would be just as reasonable to limit
the payment of a bill of exchange to the drawer.—Times.

George Robins, it would seem, has been extending
his professional labours into Scotland. To-night he has
announced the famed Castle of Tullichewen and Demesne,
near Dunbarton. The Lake of Loch-Lomond, very pro-
perly designated by Mr. Robins as the " 7W plus ultra" of
Scotland's fame, is within a short mile of the Castle and
Estate. -Our reader,e; will be amused by the unpretending
style which extends throughout his description. He has
found the task beyond his feeble powers, and escapes from
it by taking consolation in the reminiscence that Sir Waiter
Scott found himself in the same dilemma. The journey
from London to this scene of enchantment, is, by means of
the Railway and Steam communication, accomplished in
less than 25 hours.

A meeting is to be held on Friday the 18th inst. at
the London Tat ern, to receive the report of the Com-
mittee appointed to examine into the important subject of
st:am communication with India via the Red Sea. Sir R.
W. Horton will take the chair.

14 ' VI) _R ?-' N G 1-; if I S 'A ir')

DEAL, JAN. 14. —Wind WAS. W., moderate.—Carum dove
from the River, the Bertha. Young, for St. Michael's ; ViC"
toria, Crouch, Waterf,rd ; Lion, Ducker, Trieete ; A.ustria,
Ekman, Lisbon ; Ann, Nacksa; Ann. Oporto ; llVlesbo,rough,
Jennington, Greneda ; Demerara packet, Bridge s, Dombay:
Thomas Lowry, Graham, Calcutta; Ada, Simpso, (1, Itill'silll
and remain with the outward hound.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 14. Wind W. to N. W., fres!, breezes
:
with rain.—Arrived the Eclipse (steamer) Russell. f -cm Lon'
don ; Eliza Ann, Burwell. Havannah ; Pauline, Kle..p, Bre-
min. Sailed the Janetta, Aslett, for London; Hope. Burdy,
ditto ; Eclipse (steamer). Russell, Dartmouth ; Ooveroork'
Carney, Cork. The Rattvisan, Lundsturm, for Malag a, vhic'
got on shore in Stokes' Bay, or. Sunday night, having heel!
driven out of her course, has been got off, and ps oceedea
for Cowes.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 14. —Wind S. W.—Arrived the Beer and
Wingnett, Bee, from Zante ; Aide-de-Camp, lines, Sa cnitg°"'
Sturge, Iberia steamer, Cooper, and Royal Adelaide s•igarner,
from London ; City of Limerick: steamer, Dublin.
FAestount. JAN. 13.—Strong' breezes, squally, with o°'
from the Westward. —Arrived ti,e Shannon steamer, FP''
from London ; Rapid, Cephalonia ; Wave, David, Guernsey;
Caboy, Smith, and Harmony, Blaci, London. Soiled tho
Shannon steamer, Pym, for Dublin; I;uby, Cook. ARIVieIP.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14. —Wind fresh frk.Nrn the Wi.stward•-•"
Arrived the Siddons, Britten, from New York—lely 26thVe'
comber; Thomas, and Corsair, Cummins, Silty) ; L°9
Nevas, Havanna') ; Columbine, St. JCL/011,01'i,
Perry, Leghorn ; Emma. Percival, Marseilles ; _Vtrogo'ie:
Le Brics, Rochelle ; Racer, Yarmouth ; and Maria ',fere%
Leghorn; Due de Braganz Contente, St. libk,'s ; Three
Brothers, Guiana; Queen of the South, St. Michael's;
Seville; Endeavour, Droghedt, ; Emerald Isle, Cana Pbe
Dublin.
LIVERPOOL. JAN. 14.—The Crusvder, from Liverpool ,t4b°
Bombay, on shore near Blackpool, is going to pieci is
tto
last night's gale. She is sanded 10 feet, and is supp oseu bt
be parted from her bottom. Saved on Saturday Dig f
30 bales and cases ; driven on shore on Sato-Cray 79 hhds. so.
ale, 23 cases and 9 cask glass stades, 30 bails, and 3f I cgs Q"
The wreck of the Brighton, on shore near Burbo, ha ,s
brought into the river. The stern of the Fame of I )ott.,gll:,
was washed on shore on the 13th inst near Blackpool
Mary, Sharpe, arrived at this port from Calcutta, expo. lesev"
a hurricane on the 6th inst., 500 miles west of Cape GPsea''
lost long-boat, jibboom, &c,
HULL, JArs. 14. —lt came or. to blow yesterday morni
from W. and increased to a heavy gale.—The Samna 10
William, which was on shore, has been get off and brought ni
here with cargo much damaged. The Brothers, Largiet
Mont::se, bound to this port, is on" shore on the Mere Sa"„
but expected to be got off. The Eliza, Adamson, &Gat .11°''t,
don to Selley, which was driven out of this harbour 7th juste"
has arrived at Dunkirk.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 13.--The Friendship, Lane, from. 14elet
castle to this port, was towed in this day by the To-
(strainer), dismasted and abandoned.
BERWICK, JAN. 12. —The vessel wrecked on the rocks gliff
th's place, Bth instant, is the Pheeuix of Lynn, and net
Stockton ; she was laden with wheat and barley, which is 10
and the vessel sunk ; Betts, master.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 14.—(Isle,of Wight.)—Sailed the 10
Alfred, for St. Michael's.
AMSGATE, JAN. 14.—Arrived Jane Abile,Fardell, LOO4II
HULL, JAN. 13.--Arrived William the Fourth, (stearo'
from Dunkirk ; 'William, Bernington, do. ; William, 0a
Jamaica Jamaica ; Scs'!er, Rowe, Ostend ; Louth, (steamer) Jamie°
London, with kiss of rudder.
BRISTOL, JAN. ;.4.—Arrived Adele, Selina, from NoPie'a,
CORK, JAN. 14.
—.arrived the Amanda, from NeWfOtinil
land ; Sea Bird, Crutc.hfield ; Royal Exchange, flevalogosti
sails, &c., in a hurricane, °°cut away both her topmasts;
inst., in long. 16. ; H. M. .S. Inconstant, Plymouth;
port, Julia Cram, Lisboa.
sing
Gray, JAN. 14.—Arrived ~,sff
~coort, the %wig of
Gray, Hertford; Stockton, Brook, of Stockton, with logs
sails, bulwarks, &c. Aift
- MILFORD. JAN, 13.—Arrived the Mary, Thomai, Car
CREEK, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Lord Ogilby, Norris,
Corfu; Alert, Patras.
SHOREHAM, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Hull, Clark, 01;°rt.:1,
HASTINGS, JAN. 14.--Arrived off the Elizabeth, San-
from Mauritius.

The Caroline, of Ballyshannon, Investees, of Londoride;,,
and Jessie, of Greenock, were driven on shore, at Inoi°,o
Island, 7th inst. The Livestees capsized and sunk ; the Je'w
got off with loss of bowsprit and rudder; the Caroline 0"
pected off.
ShAKINGS .—The Russian brig Juno, fron.' Chertsandi 0,
Antwerp, was spoken on the 11th instant, in 10. 30 N?
to
24 W., by the Rapid, Robert, from the Gulf of MellebPst•
Liverpool ; on the 15th ult., off Cape Garmavand, the 54,
10
rick, Palmer, from Liverpool to New York Is.,t •• Ist.
lon. 38.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NOSI°3'

CITY (THIS DAY.), TWELVE O'CLOCK fit
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 14.—The dement to
Cotton today has been to a a
fair extent, and full prices "-
been obtained. The sales are 4,000 bags, chiefly Americallo
The only arrival this morning of consequence is that iob
the United States, by the packet.ship Siddons. by '770
conveyance New York Papers have been received to
December Montreal to the 21st, and Quebec to the ot
The news 'from Canada, in respect to military affairs, ere bf
a favourable tendency. No new invasion had taken 114.:,/e,
the rebels ; but, finding that all their attempts were-aborvd,
they have commenced the horrid act of assassination, by 113'
dering Sir Allan M'Nab.
The New York Papers. in respect to their local irate
~,4
Bence, are not of importance. Their contents will be few
in another part of the Paper. viO
Accounts from Havannah to Dec. 6, state that Coffee
a it
very scarce, owing to the rainy weather, which prcvente.
arrival from the country. The roads being extraordinary bad,
the demand was great and prices firm. Sugar scarce and b 4
Exchange en London 13 per cent. prem.

THE FUNDS.
Cmsols opened this mnring at the leaving off price of y.e.se;
beg'.
terday, 9411 for the Opening; Reduced 93} f. Escon3p
Bills 66 68; India Bonds 63 65; Bank Stock 2021 '''"
India Stcck 2562 2571 ex. div. , „ d
In the Foreign Market
the only feature worth observafr st
the rise in Portuguese Stocks, which closed at 334 4filic
present 334 to &If ; Three per Cents.. 211 22•
aoislt
cause of the improvement is still a mystery. SP bise
Active as it closed, 17 i -a ; Brazilian 771 78 ; Colon,'"
also improved, 28i to 29 ; Mexican 243-; Dutch Twol:oige
Half per Cents., 54if • Five per Cents., 1021 i; i''
at New York 91 ; Bank Shares 123 - 124.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC7IC-;0, 6%
2,3 niti•
Bank Stock 203 2 ' India Stock 63 6'414
3 per Cent. Red. 93N,f,' I Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons. 9.214.,,,„% i South Sea Stock ............•••••'
U, per Cent i Old Annuities ..................... ..,
Ditto Red. IOOX •)474, I New Ditto ........................ <
New 3i4 per Cent 1003i% ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751.•:,,a pl:.
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 ...... 60 coriv
Jan. 5, 186') --Ditto Small 66 fo'
Oct. In, 1859
Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised - --1,
Jan. 5, 1881 Bank Stock for Account ...... ,
April 5, 1880 lndia Stock for Account .....:940
Jan. 5, 1870 _ Consols for Acc0unt..........
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS-DAY AT ONE O'COcic
Austrian Bonds — , Peruvian 80nd5..................
Belgian Bonds q9;414 i Ditto Account ..................
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent,. ...... . ••• 07F
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
l).tto Account
Columbian Bonds 27 Ditto Account... ..........•
Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic .... ..............
Columbian Bonds, 1824 —' Spanish Bonds . ...................
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
. 17,10
Ditto Account — Ditto Account. ............
... 4
Greek Bonds
French, 5 per cent.........c •,°'
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — —4 per cent. .......• ... .... . c-,
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... ' Exchange.... ....... yor
Ditto Account — Dutch, 2s.', per cent.. .......... ,-• ,
Ditto, 6 per Cent — j Ditto Account. ................. il
Ditto Account
Neapolitan — ! Ditto Acc0unt..........
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE 0,CEOCK•0010
Paid. Per ...
R ‘al del Monte Mining Co., Registered 631.105. 6cl. • 16
Ditto Unregisterei,
Great Western Ifailway Company 65 79 .vh4
Brighton Railw y • 14 9*
London and Blac,Awall Railway ..... . ........
LAninn and liirmii,,ghain Railvfa, Company 9O
,13
London and Croydon Railway Company 2O
It 11°.
orthing Tontine ..
01t'"
be
0 tbe
This is settling day in the Foreign market, and 0 off
present hour there is every aappearance that it will g 0 opt
without any failure. Portuguese Stock is the heaviest aee°.,ef
to settle. The extreme fluctuation has been about Three Yt,
Cent. ; Colombian is the next, from 2i to Thrt e per Cetlo
extreme fluctuation. To-morrow will be settling day is
British market. a s 1
Consols are not quite so good as in the morning, all ef.,
present may be quoted 94k, for the Opening, and 92F 01
div. Government brokers purchased the small arsiour4 63
2,0001. Consols. Exchequer Bills, 66 68 ; India Bonds'
65 ; Bank Stock 2021 ; India Stock 2571256 s lower. log
In the Foreign Market the chief business doing is set,',4k;
the Account. Spanish Active, 17;} ; Portuguese, 631 'jog
Three per Cents., 21i; Belgian, 99i ; Brazilian, nebax
done ; Colombian Six per Cents., 27 ; Dutch Two-an
d•
per Cents, 541 1; Five per Cents., 1021.

THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS. 16$
Batik Stock 2o23i' India Stock
. per Vent. Berl
3 per Cent Ccits 92 iDitto Old Annuities ...............
...,
:!.4 per Cent. Red 0039 ,Ditto New Annuities ............ „drY
New 3 per Cent 1('0,„i Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2%d ....... 3 ri:
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001
P Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 68
..,
Jan. 1860
Oct. 185(1
Jan. 1860 ....

FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent Portuguese Hoods, 5 per cent-• 01.3,i
C 9% Ditto. New Ditto ............ ......
Brazilian Bonds MI, ; Prussian, 5 per cent ............... ~w,i
Buenos Ayrc Londe, 6 per cent.
Ditto, .... `,....,
Chilian, 6 per cent
Co!omb.an, 6 per cent -27 ;:lipanish, 5 per cent. .................
Ditto. 1824 29 Ditto, Consolidated ................ ,G,
.
Danish, 3 per cent 75 French, 5 per cent. ...-. _ f •-f 0
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange •
Mexican, 5 er cent. French, 3 per cent _l --",t,'
. -
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 `..4% Dutch, 2% per cent. ............... ~v2s
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — Ditto, 5 per cent.... .............. iv;
Y. (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.-(THIS DA I
Great Western Railway r. .. -. ..
London and Brighton Railway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway
London and Croydon Railway
Manchester and Birmingham Railway .
Ditto Ditto Extension.
North Midland Railway