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TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12. is:v.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY .—Lord Montague, the
Hon. Miss Montague, the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Free-
mantle, and Colonel Greenwood, of the 2d Life Guards,
are expected to join the Royal Circle at the Castle, at
dinner, this evenin. Lord Seaton remains at the
Castle on a visit to the Queen. The following will
also be included in the Royal Dinner Party this cyen-
i"g :—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Earl of Albemarle,
Viscount Melbourne, Hon. A. Cowper, the Marchio-
ness of Normanby, the Countess of Sheffield, Lady
Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson,
Hon. Miss Hudson, Viscountess Forbes, Baroness
Lehzen, Earl of Fingal, Hon. William Ashley, Sir
Robert Otawy, Hon. Colonel Grey, and the Hon.
Charles A. Murray.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite are ex-
pected to leave to-morrow after lunch.

The sword used by her Majesty in conferring the
honour of Knighthood upon Sir Thomas Phillips, was
worn by King George the Fourth at the Coronation,
and is splendidly decorated with diamonds.

Sir James Clark attended at the Castle on Saturday

The Sheriffs of London al.d Middlesex, and Mr.
Under-sheriff France, had interviews with the Marquis
of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr.
Baron Rolfe, Mr. Sergeant Adams, and Mr. Faulkner,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
The Duke of Richmond, Earl Spencer, the Attorney-
General, Sir Lionel Smith, Mr. M. D. Hill, and Mr.
Mayne, had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of
Normanby, at the Home Office.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday in the Council Chamber. Mr. Miller, Q.C.,
and Mr. Jackson, were heard in an appeal from Bengal,
Keerut Singh v. Koolabal Singh. Mr. Sergeant
Spankie, Mr. Lloyd. and Mr. Edmund Moore, were
the Counsel for the Respondent.
Lord Brougham, at the conclusion of the case, inti-
mated that the Court would take time to consider the
judgment,
The Court then rose.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Count D'Orsay, from Wycombe Abbey ; Lord Harley,
from Boulogne; Lord Charleville, Lord Wm. Lennox,
Col. and Mrs. Berkeley Drummond, the Hon. Capt. and
Lady Mary Nelson Hood, Major George the Hon. Spen-
cer Lyttelton, Col. Morton Eden, Lady Beresford ; Lord
Altamont, from Italy; Mr. and Lady Mary Ross, Mr.
and Mrs. Dawkins Pennant, the Hon. Algernon Herbert ;
Lady and Miss Jodrell, in Portiand-place, from Leamilig.
ton ; Sir Alexander Duff, Lady Duff, and family, at the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn•street, from Delgaty Castle.
DEPARTURES.

Sir R. Paul Jodrell, from Portland-place, for his seat,
Nethercott House, Oxfordshire ; Lord and Lady Strafford,
for Amwelbury, Herts; Admiral Sir William Hotham,
K. C. 8., for Bath ; General Shrapnel!, for ditto ; Mr.
Frederick and Lady Augusta Wentworth, for Wentworth
Coale ; Lord and Lady Uxbridge and the Ladies Paget,
for Beaudesert ; Lord Spencer Compton, for Castle
Ashby ; General Lord Lynedoch, for the Continent ; Sir
Harry and Lady Johnson and family, for Bath ; the Rev.
George and Lady Georgiana Neville Grenville, on a con-
tioental tour ; Mr. Payne, for Renton Abbey ; Captain
Sutton, 7th Hussars, for York ; the Rev. Charles and
Miss Wetherell, for Northamptonshire; the Hln. Brown-
low Batie, for Ipswich ; the Hon. and Rev. Lord Alfred
Hervey, for Cambridge.
CHANGES.

R. S. Holford, Esq., to Westonbirt, Tetbury, from
Portman-square; J. H. Davies, Esq., and Mrs. Davies,
from Germany to Tiltenhurst Lodge, Sunning hill.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN

HIGH LIFE.

Saturday next is appointed for the solemnisation of
the marriage of the Dowager Countess Cowper and
Viscount Palmerston.

We understand the preliminaries of the union of Vis-
count Ebrington, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Lady
Dover, sister of Viscount Morpeth, are already arranged.
Lord Dinorben will shortly conduct to the Hymeneal
altar Miss Smythe, sister of the Princess of Capua.
Although a Morning Contemporary states the marriage
is to take place early in the spring, we have reason
to believe, from the inquiries instituted, that it
will, in all probability, occur before Christmas. Miss
Smythe is with the Prince and Princess of Capua, at
Wivart's Hotel.
it is circulated in the higher circles that the Earl of
Liverpool is about to form a matrimonial'alliance with
the dauohter of a Noble Lord in the north.
The rumoured contemplated marriage of a recently-
widowed Ma: uis with the only daughter of one of our
Royal Dukes, ig without foundation.
We understand A marriage is shortly about to take
place between the yowl and beautiful Miss Baily, sister
to the Marchioness of Breadalbane, and the Earl of
Ashburnham.
On Monday last, at Walcot Church, near Bath, Julia
Charlotte lackenzie, eldest daughter of Sir Orford and
Lady Gordon, of Embo House, Sutherlandshire, was
led to the Hymeneal altar, by the Rev. Wm. Churchill,
of Colleton House, Dorsetshire.

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THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.—Lady Mary Ho-
ward, daughter of the Earl of Surrey, is to officiate as
•one of the bridesmaids to her Majesty, in addition to
. those ladies who attended as Maids of Honour at the
Coronation.--.. Brighton Guardian.
The Duke And Duchess of Leeds and the
Dowager Duchess intend to pass the Christmas ot
Hornby Castle. Mr. Sackville Lane Fox, son-in-law
of the late Duke, has been passing the autumn with his
family at Ramsgate.
The Viscount and Viscountess Canning have
arrived in Grosvenor-square, from a visit to the Duke
of Hamilton.
The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have not
rived at Mivart's Hotel, as stated in yesterday's paper,
t have a select party at their delightful villa on
Walton-on-Thames.
The Earl of Yarborough left town on a visit to
Mr. and Lady Bridgeman Simpson, at their seat in
Yorkshire.
Sir George Talbot, accompanied by the Misses
Talbot, leaves Mivart's Hotel to-day for Brighton,
where Sir George and daughters intend to make a stay
of a few days.
The Right Hon. Charles W. Wynn is at Nice,
Where the Right Hon. Gentleman has been staying
somc weeks for the improvement of his health, which
is far setter than when he quitted this country. It is
the intention of the Hon. Member to be present st
the assembling of Parliament.
We have to announce the demise of the Dow-
ager Lady De la Touche, who expired at her residence
In Hyde Park-place West, on Tuesday evening, at the
advanced age of eighty. Her Ladyship, by her mar-
riage with the late Lord De la Touche, formerly Sir
Cecil Bishopp, has left two daughters, the present Ba-
roness De la Touche, married to the Hon. Robert
Curzon, and the lady of Captain G. R. PecheTh M.P.
for Brighton.
BADMINTON, TUESDAY MORNING. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. yesterday
afternoon, from the Earl and Countess of Denbigh's,
ancham Paddox, Warwickshire. In the evening the
Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince George
11.1(1 Princesses Augusta and Mary, attended by the
n. Miss Kerr, arrived. The other arrivals yester-
day were the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl
Bathurst, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Miss
Somerset, Viscount Villiers, Hon. Captain Macdonald,
the Hon, Augustus Villiers, Mr. Massey Stanley, Mr.
Culling solidi, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codringtan,
Mr. T. Jones, &c.
The Duke of Devonshire,
worth, intends to visit the D before
going to Chats.,
Suther-
land, at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire.
Lady Cottingham had a soiree on Tuesday even-
ing, when Baron and Baroness dlands Minister, and Madame Deedeetto, the Nether-
manhy, Viscount Duncannon, the'trquis of Nor-
Alright Hon. 13.
Right
Macaulay, Mr. and Mrs. Bouverie, Tuffnell, Earl
Minto, Mr. Younge, Miss Bouverie, &C,, were pre-
viNt.
Me Marquis of Sligo has, since his arrival
at
Naples, bad a slight attack of paralysis, but not so tse-
rious as to asect his speech. His Lordship, when te
last accounts lea, had recovered from the shock. The
Marchioness and the Ladies Browne were quite well.
Lord Altamont had left RAI!' to join the sportsmen in
the neighbourhood of Gordon
The Earl and Countess of Uibridge and the
Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget left their house
in Bruton-street, yesterday morning, for the scat of the
Marquis of Anglesey, Beau Desert, Staffordshire, for a
few weeks.
DOVER, DEC. 10.—The Earl and Countess of
(el:ildford and Lord North left Waldershare House,
Yesto:day, for Alreford ; the Earl of Fingal left, yester-
day, for Windsor Castle, where he succeeds Lord Lil-
ford, as Lcrd in Waiting on the Queen. Departures
for the Conta2ent, from Worthington's Ship Hotel :
the Earl of Cart-lion and Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord
Henry Russell, 'L`r. Bentinck, Sir Thomas and Lady
*Mahon, Sir Thomas Cochrane. Arrivals from
Franne : --Sir Edward an,..1 the Hon. Lady Deering, and
Captain (7;onroy. The Earl of Hardwicke left, ycster-
°MY, for town.
Lady Emily Wellesley 's seriously indisposed at
Boulogne, where her Ladyship ;:as been re.9,;:ling for
some time past.
The Marchioness Wellesley continues in such a
Prz.carious state of health that her Ladyship is unable
to r
esurne her dutiee. as Lady-in-Waiting to her Ma-
Jesty the Queen Dowager.
Lady Grey and her infant are going on well
took place
.Clarendon, where her Ladyship's accouchement
place on Monday last.

,;PECIA.L CO AI AiISSION.

MONMOUTH, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
It having been notified to the Judges that the
Grand Jury were ready with some bills at half-past
three o'clock this afternoon. their Lordships came into
Court, and silence having been proclaimed, the Grand
Jury delivered by their foreman, Lord Granville
Somerset, true bills against John Frost, C. Waters,
James Aust, William Jones, John Lovell, Zephaniah
Williams, Jenkin Morgan, Solomon Britton, Edmond
Edmonds. Richard Benfield, John Rees, David Jones,
George Turner, and John Rees, for high treason :
A true bill against Amy Meredith, James Meredith,
and Thomas Keyes, for burglary :
A true bill against George George, for burglary ; and
no true bill against William Williams, for burglary.
Lord G. SODIERSFT--We have at present no more
bills before us, my Lords.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—For the present, my Lord and

Gentlemen, there will be no further occasion for your
services, but you will be so good as to attend again
on Tuesday, the 31st day of this month, at ten o'clock
in the morning, to which time this Court will be ad-

journed.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—Is there an professional gen-
tleman here who appears for any of the prisoners ?
A Gentleman (Mr. Mathews, as we heard)—My
Lords, I attend on the part of Thomas Keyes.
The prisoners having been sent for, were brought
down in the prison van, under an escort of the 12th
Lancers, and having been brought into Court, were then

placed at the bar. They all appeared in tolerable
spirits, though Frost looked much careworn. Zephaniah
Williams has regained his courage apparently. William
Jones was firm, and Waters frequently smiled. Lovell,
who had been shot through the thigh, was brought in on
a crutch.
Mr. Bellamy—John Frost, Charles Waters, John
Lovell, Richard Benfield, John Rees, George Turner
(otherwise Coles), Zephaniah Williams, Edmond Ed-
monds, Jenkin Morgan, Solomon Britton, William
Jones, and James Aust, come to the bar.

The CHIEF JUSTlCE—Prisoners, you have been
called into Court at this time for the purpose of being
informed, that the Grand Jury have found true bills
against each of you for high treason. You will have

copies of the indictments, and a copy of the panel from
which the Jury will be taken, delivered to you in due
time. In the mean time, the Court wishes to know if
you have any Counsel, or wish to have any one assigned
to you as Counsel or attorneys ; but, if you are not
now prepared to answer, you will only have to express
your wishes between this time and the time of your trial,
which will not take place until the 31st of this month,
and it shall be attended to.

M. Wightman—My Lords, I am instructed by
he Crown to apply to the Sheriff to furnish a copy of
;he panel.
Mr. Owen, solicitor—My Lord, I appear for one or
;wo of the prisoners, and I wish to make an application
o have the money which was taken from them returned

to them. I appear for Zephaniah Williams.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—Which is Zephaniah Williams?
—(The prisoner being pointed out.)—Do you wish to
have this gentleman assigned to you as your solicitor ?
The prisoner Zephaniah Williams—l do, my Lord.
Ten pounds was taken from me.

The CHIEF JusTlcE—ilefore we can grant your
application, Mr. Owen, we must know if the money
forms any part of the proof ?
Mr. Wightrnan—My Lords, on the part of the
Crown, we have no objection to give up the money.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—Then let it be so.
Mr. Owen—l appear also for Jones.
The CHIEF JUSTlCE—Prisoner, is that so ?
W. Jones—Yes, my Lord
An application for his money to be returned wis
then granted.
Mr. Owen—May I presume to ask, my Lords, if • e
may not apply to have counsel assigned at a future • •
riod, between the and the trial ?

The CHIEF JUSTlCE—Certainly, upon your mak,.
application to Mr. Bellamy, the Clerk of the Crown.
Mr. Bellamy—Yes, certainly, if you will make
plication to me yourself, or by your agent in town.
Mr. Owen—l now beg, my Lords, to make appl•- •
tion that copies of the depositions may be furnishe(
the prisoners.
The CHIEF JUSTICE—I believe the depositions • -
not before us in this case, but we will see.—(T.
Lordships then referred to the Act.) Yes, the dep
tions having been returned to the officers of the Cot•
you may have them on the terms mentioned in the A(
Mr. Owen—My Lords, Mr. Geach defends some
the prisoners ; may I make application also on
behalf ?

ter. I told him not to make any statement. I asked
him if he had any one he could bring to show that hp
was forced, and his answer was that he could not, for
they had all fled the country. He said that Frost was
with him in going down to Newport.
By the COURT—He said he did not know Frost per.
sonally, but he understood that he was there. Trellong.
where he was taken, is 46 miles from Newport.
The prisoner, being duly cautioned, said—
nothing to say."

I have

The Rev. J. COLES—William Jones, the evidence
which has been given against you is quite sufficient to
put you on trial. You therefore stand committed to
the present gaol delivery to take your tr:al for conspi-
racy and riot.
The prisoner was then committed.

MONEY MARE ET and CITY NEWS

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
TIMES.—The city merchants, if not the public
generally, will readily call to mind the disputed point on
the arrival of the September mail from Bombay, whe-
ther Colonel Campbell or Mr. Waghorn had the greater
share in forwarding it, together with the July and
August mails, so promptly from Alexandria to Malta,
as to insure their reaching England in time to be
answered by the Indian mail of November from
England, which was, in fact, most successfully accom-
plished. As connected with mercantile affairs alone,
these mails were probably the most important that
were ever forwarded to this country, and they
brought intelligence besides of a great victory 63
our troops in Northern India, the influence of which,
politically, could not but be very great and ex-
tend over the whole of our eastern empire. Had
a delay of these mails, for a few days only, oc.
curred on their arrival in Alexandria, so as to pie_
vent their reaching England before the 4th of Novem-
ber, a month would have been lost both to the Govern-
ment and the merchants, and all their arrangements
consequent on that great event, in all probability frus-
trated. If any praise or blame, therefore, with respect
to them is attributable on any part of the route, they
should fall where due, and the merit, if any. be made
known to the public. The following account of Mr.
Waghorne's share in it is given by himself in a letter
addressed to Mr. Larpent, the Chairman of the East
India and China Association, and must be left to make
its own impression :

" Alexandria, Nov. 24.
" With regard to a report that Colonel Campbell isti
the prime mover in getting the mails of July, August, and
13th of September last sent by the Pacha steamer to
Malta, that he applied to the Pacha for the steamer, and
that it was he who availed himself of my services to take
charge of the Government mails by that opportunity, the
simple facts are these, and let them speak for themselves.
" When the mails got to Alexandria, Colonel Camp-
bell took no steps for twenty-hours to get them sent
on to Malta, until I waited on him to hire a merchant
steamer, the United Kingdom, then in this port, to
which he agreed after my having told him, that if he did
not hire her for the Government, I would on account of
the merchants ; on this Colonel Campbell consented to
hire her ; but after application was made to the captain
and the mercantile house here, to whom she was con-
signed, it was found that her insurance did not war-
rant either the captain cr the consignees to permit her to
go to Malta, although 5001. was offered. 1 next pressed
the Colonel warmly to ask for the Pacha steamer Groo-
ms°, and that I would go as messenger and navigator
of her to Malta and back, which, after another twelve
hours' delay, he at last consented to do ; he did it ;
but when the Pacha's permission arrived from Cairo, which
took two days more, the Colonel then declined taking
her. On the Colonel's refusing to accept the steamer he
had before asked for, Mr. Briggs and myself took up the
matter with double zeal and interest ; for we both
felt that a great victory in India had been achieved by
British valour, and that the sooner it was known in Eu-
rope, &c., the better; besides there were three months'
mails from the East in Egypt, and the sooner they could
be got to England the better. Mr. Briggs then drew no
a circular, to which my name was attached, with other
firms here, addressed to Mr. Larkin the Consul, which
circular you may readily forsee was totally uncalled for, if
colonel Campbell had been prime mover. Mr. Briggs
and myself then went to the Pacha's Minister privately ;
we dwelt on the urgency of these mails, and how noble-
minded it would appear in England among the merchants
that Mehemet Ali's Government gladly put a steamer at
their use for their India letters after the official of their
Government in Egypt had refused the acceptance of such
favour on political grounds.
" This argument had its full force with his Excel-
lency Boghos Bey, the Minister iu question. I next
morning started with the mails for Malta. I should
mention that the engineer for the vessel when she
was wanted for the service in question absolutely
refused to go to sea in her unless his wages were
augmented. However, I prevailed on him by promises of
money, and by using my influence on his behalf on our re-
turn, and thus that difficulty was got over, and then another
presented itself, as follows. When Colonel Campbell
found out that the steamer was permitted by the Minister
to start with the private letters from India to my care,'
as well as the letters from the Alexandrian merchants, the
Colonel then appointed Lieutenant Daniel, of the Indian
Navy, to take the Government despatches as messenger,
and not me. This appointment to Lieutenant Daniel was
refused by him on the plea, that, as Mr. Waghorn had
jointly with Mr. Briggs had all the trouble of getting the
steamer, it was unjust to deny him the credit of taking the
Government despatches, as well as his own. ,Colouel
Campbell, on hearing this from Lieutenant Daniel, per-
sonally, was obliged to order a new passport as messenger
to be made in my name, and the one before signed for
Lieutenant Daniel to be destroyed. This officer is now
in England, and I am sure, if called on, will bear testi-
mony to these fads."
The funds have not been quite so firm to-day. - '

POST.—There Was but little passing to attract at-
tention in this part of the town to-day. The funds
were flat in the English market, a circumstance that
seems to have arisen rather from the less .favourable
state of the foreign exchange, than from a diminution
in the supply of money or any other intelligible cause ;
but, as we intimated yesterday, the Bank of England is
now in a position of comparative security, so that there
is not the same necessity for the interference of the
Directors in the operations of the bill market that
there was some months ago. A great quantity of silver
has been transmitted to the Continent on Bank ac-
count, the effect of which has been, and will continue
to be, to send back gold coin ; and, although the rates
of exchange have given way in some degree, they are
still considered too high to offer any temptation for a re-
newed exportation of sovereigns. The value given yes-
terday for the pound sterling, at three months' slate,
was as follows :—Paris 25 GO to 57i ; Hamburg 13 9i
to ; Amsterdam 12 3 to ; Antwerp 12 31 ; and
Frankfort 1501.
The Madrid intelligence contained in the Journals of
this day goes still further to develop to the world the
existence of that total want of principle on the part of
the Spanish Government which we have taken so much
pains to expose and to guard the public against. The
letter addressed by the Chairman of the Spanish bond-
holders at Paris to the Marquis of Miraflores, the
Spanish Ambassador there, a translation of which we
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subject, and the funds generally were tumbling in conse-
quence. The Minister was endeavouring, through the
medium of the press, to pacify the public, but to little
purpose ; and it is well remarked by the Madrid corre-
spondent of the ,Morning Chronicle, the organ, be it
remembered, of Lords Palmerston and Clarendon, both
supporters of the Queen-Regent and her advisers
:
It is surely unreasonable in the members of the Spanish
Government to expect that the public, to whom they
addreo4 thVmselves, would take their word for this or
any othi r statement they might think proper to put
forward ? Do they so soon forget the effects produced
on the public mind by the veracity of Perez de Castro
in re Zea Bermudez and Senor Marlani ?—of Senor
Arazola on the morning of the 7th of October, in the
Congress ?—of Narvacz, Minister of War, on the morn.
ing of the suspension,' when he promised there would be
no dissolution' ?--of San Milian, who makes contracts and
allow; them to be sold over again at large profits ?—in
abort, of the whole batch who have given the most in-
controvertible proofs that their word is not worth the paper
it is svrttteo poor'? Loose, however, as they are in points
of wet sWeVentt qtey say nothing in explanation which
in any way affects the laestion up issue. They acknow.
ledge that they have created 290 millions 9f bonds; that
40 millions of this sum are altesdy.fiisposecl of as pavan..
keep to contractors; that the remainder are to be given
it,•y#3, for !4tp purposes ; and conclude with a hap) taut the
new ispatis thos created and negotiated will not imme
diately come into eompetition with the bonds already in
the market. For this the public require some other secu-
rity than the word of Ministers."
ft will now, at all events, be seen that it is indeed
upon a vary pratty set the British people have for years
past been beatowiq wastingtiipir patronage and their
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ERALD.—Amongst the best-informed circles of
the city, it is pretty well understood that the Bank of
England Direction feel that their present position is
very secure, particularly as regards any comparison with
the state of foreign and domestic commercial affairs se-
veral months ago. The Bank, in consequence, has ceased
to supply Messrs. Baring with bills against the importa-
tion of bullion, which is one of the causes of the decline
in the Continental Exchanges for the two last post days.
The cessation of any speculation in foreign corn for the
present, sent without taking into consideration the impedi-
ments that winter places in the way of imports to this
(country from the corn-growing countries of the north of
iz,:)rofre fpr season, coupled with the known fact that
_llion is tolerbly plguqul on the European continent,
time, tiwrp is 94 likely be any
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prove that, iu.
sudden demand for spec,—
continued decline in the exchanges p,,
ante of trade has been, and is yet against this country,

and that the late quotations have been maintained by
the transactions of the Bank of England.
In the British Stock Market there have been some
extensive sales of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Re-
duced Annuities and of the New Three-and-a-Half per
Cent. Annuities for the opening. These transactions,
coupled with the very rotten appearance of the Foreign
Market, and the reduction of ,the exchanges, have
caused Consols to fall 9q a sfor the opening, which is
a decline of 4 per cent.
It has been generally understood that during the last
two or three accounts of the Foreign Stock Market,
there has been what is termed a pretty general clean
out amongst those deluded parties who followed their
inside patrons, and dabbled in Spanish Bonds, in pre-
ference to following their usual trades. The Colom-
bian job is expected to add considerably to the number
of those who have already ruined themselves by specu
hating in all the foreign swindles ; in fact, if matters go
on as they do now, it will, in the course of time, be diffi-
cult to number the families who have become destitute
by dealings in foreign securities.

CHRONICLE.—There was more business doing
in Consols to-day, but the prices of yesterday were
not maintained, and rr.oney was in greater demand.
The tea trade is still maintained at advanced prices ;
and from the avidity displayed by dealers to hold stock,
it is evident that they do not anticipate any speedy re-
sumption of our commercial intercourse with China,
and the greatest anxiety is evinced by those engaged
in the China and East India trade to ascertain the in-
tentions of the Government. The opinions entertained
on that subject are necessarily contradictory and vague,
as Lord Palmerston has, with perfect propriety,refuscd
to communicate any information to those who have ap-
plied to him. Rumours have, however, been current
Ibr a few days past, that Admiral Maitland, with a
squadron of several ships, has received instructions to
proceed to Canton, in order to ask for an explanation
from the Chinese Government. These reports are con-
fined principally to those interested in our affairs with
China, with whom, perhaps, the wish is father to the
thought. We have not, at least, been able to trace them
to any certain source.

SUN.—Money has been in increased demand today,
and the report of a considerable failure at Leeds (cur-
rent very generally to-day) has caused some little
alarm. The commercial markets are certainly not by
any means buoyant. A considerable quantity of East
India piece goods was offered publicly to-day, but there,
were few buyers. Mauritius Sugars to the extent of
4,000 bags went off pretty well, at rather good prices.
In other articles there was not much business transacted.

The Consol Market closed rather heavily at 91/ -s'-
for the Account ; Exchequer Bills fell to 4s. discount ;
India Bonds to 7 discount ; and Bank Stock to 178
to 1781.

Cololbian Stock rose to 25- this afternoon, and
Mexican to 27k. The Bondholders completely repu-
diate the offer on the part of Venezuela, to pay 2 per
cent, interest on the proportion of the Colombian debt
proportioned to it. Portuguese Stock left off at 33:1,
and Spanish 25/ ; other Stocks closed nominally
the same as they were in the middle of the day.
The Share Market was rather animated this after-
noon, but we cannot quote any rise in prices. Great
Western Railway Shares were last quoted at 10 dis-
count ; London and Birmingham at 51 premium ;
Brighton at 15i discount ; Manchester and Leeds at
7 premium ; and Bristol and Exeter at 28 discount.

merous, hut involve matters of inconceivable meere-
tude both to this country and to Europe generally.
The events of the approaching Session will, in all hu-
man probability, decide the question—which has for
some time past been at issue--as to whether the
Constitution which has existed for ages, and under
which Great Britain has risen to all her political
and commercial greatness, is to be any longer the
Constitution of these realms, or whether our
free monarchical system of Government is to
be overthrown, and a pure republic created on its ruins.
If the leaders of the Tories proceed in their present
reckless course—if they persist in calumniating their
Sovereign—in assailing free institutions—in attack-
ing Liberal principles, and in goading on their bigoted
disciples to deeds of desperation—if they shall persist
in this course, and shall obtain a temporary triumph
over the wiser and better portion of the nation, then
there cannot be a doubt that that triumph will be speed-
ily followed by the subversion of the: Monarchy. Such
a result would, in the supposed case, be inevitable.
The torrent of filthy calumnies which they have for
some time past been so actively employed in pouring on
the Sovereign and her Court, must have had the effect,
in the case of the uneducated millions, of diminishing
their respect for her Majesty, lessening their attachment
to the monarchical form of government, and preparing
them for the support of any proposal which may be
made to introduce a republican system. And while
the minds of the more ignorant masses must thus
be necessarily poisoned against their Sovereign, and
prejudiced against the principles which have established
her on the throne of these realms, the better-informed
classes, disheartened and disgusted by the mendacious
conduct of the Tories, will feel themselves unable to
preserve the existing institutions of the country. Is it
necessary we should employ yet more explicit language ?
Then we say, that in the issue of the struggle now going
on between the Liberals and the Tories—the former
for the retention of power, and the latter for their re-
turn to it—is involved the fate of the monarchy. Need
we say one word more with the view of arousing the
friends of the Sovereign and the supporters of the Con-
stitution to a sense of the urgent necessity that exist,
for their united, cordial, and energetic.exertions to main-
tam the ascendancy of Liberal principles ? And
if an effectual stand is to be made against the
meditated irruption of the Tories into Downing-street,
it can only be done by the immediate commencement of
a vigorous courserof opposition to the line, of conduct
they are pursuing. They are organizing so ought the
friends' of Liberal,principlesf and of free institutions.
The .Tory laadere are carrying on a secret correspond-
ence together, for the purpose of fixing on the precis(
tactics to be adopted in the approaching Parliamentar3
campaign ; the leading men among the progressive
party ought not to lose a moment in following theit
example. The Tories are merging all minor differences
in their zeal for general principles ; it is only by pursu-
ing the same course, that the Reformers can frustrate
their machinations for a return to office. We pressed
this point with a peculiar earnestness a few days ago
it cannot be urged with too much emphasis or with suf-
ficient frequency. It is now as clear as the sun, when
no cloud, nor the shadow of a cloud, interposes between
that luminary and the human eye, that the ascendancy
of Reform principles and the maintenance of the insti
tutions of the country are entirely dependent on the
course which the Liberals shall in these respects pursue
during the next six months.
Chief Justice Tindal's charge, on opening the Special
Commission at Monmouth, affords most favourable
promise of the proceedings, unfortunately made neces-
sary by the riots at Newport, being conducted in a
manner calculated to produce a most salutary effect
upon the country. Impressive and impartial, luminous,
temperate, and marked with mild dignity, holding with
firmness the balance between the law and those
charged with its transgression, accurately defining the
limits which mark the confines of treason, the evidence
necessary to establish a verdict of their violation, ano
the circumstances which may extenuate the offence—
the charge presents as admirable an example of al
those high attributes which should characterise the
judgment seat as ever came under our consideration.
The spirit pervading the whole charge, in perfect hare
mony with the solemnity of the time, is in itself suffi-
cient to produce on all capable of the slightest degree of
reflection more respect for the law than scores of capital
punishments. With the policy of the law its adminis-
trator has nothing whatever to do. It is not for him
to 'e xerci s e an individual discretion where a statute pre-
sumed to be sanctioned by the combined wisdom of the
nation marks the line of action. The office of the
Judge is to adininster the law, not to argue its expe-
diency, and byethe.total absence. of ,all political allusion,
unless as the quOstion,of.law, was immediately involved
in the cases about to come' under consideration, the
Chief Justice has evinced a correct appreciation of the
limits to which his thigh functions should be confined.
It is not the extent of punishment inflicted on the
offender, but the exposure of the atrocity of the
offence, which, in civilized communities, operates most
effectively in the suppression of crime. With this
truth the Chief Justice, in his allusions to the in-
fluence of education in suppressing crime, appeared to
be fully impressed ; for it is only by affording a more
thorough appreciation of the enormity of crime, that edu-
cation can exercise any influence in its prevention. The
extent or severity of,punishrnent has little or no effect
'in deterring from the, transgression of the law, so long
as public sympaihy exists in favour of that transgres-
sion. While public opinion hails with applause the
commission of an act, however criminal in itself, or
however great the penalty -awarded to. it by the law,
there will never be a dearth of parties ready for its com-
Mission. If the penalty of death wete effective in pre-
venting crime, and- the proximity of the penalty to the
offence increased its efficacy, the death of the sixteen
individuals who fell in the, riots at Newport should
necessarily produce a more salutary effect than any
subsequent executions. But the fall of these deluded
men, like all slain in similar cases, unless public
sympathy be detached from their offence, would pro-
duce but little effect in deterring others from its repeti-
tion, nor would public executions have a better effect.
We make not these observations with a view of mitigat-
ing the character of the crime charged against those
accused of being concerned in th Newport riots.
which is of as grave a nature as any which could
possibly be perpetrated against society : nor, so far as
concerns the individuals implicated, do we offer any plea
on their behalf. The severest penalty of the law attaches
with as much justice to their transgression, as to any
in the whole catalogue of crime. But it is solely from
the inadequacy of capital punishment to protect society
from the recurrence of crime, that we appeal against
its infliction. If the death of any, or of the whole of
those who may be capitally convicted by the present
Commission, would prevent such dangers to society as
occurred at Newport, we would say without hesitation,
" Let them die ;" but it is in the full conviction that
capital punishments fall completely short of their object,
and not unfrequently aggravate the evil they are in-
tended to remove, that we thus early call for the adop-
tion of some more effective example to be made in
regard to the Newport rioters. We are comparatively
indifferent as to the mode in which they atone for their
crime, provided only that their punishment be so regu-
lated as to afford to society the most beneficial effects
of its infliction.

(From the Morning Post.)
Day after day we find the Ministerial Newspapers
employed in the most rancorous, and yet, we 'Bust add,
ridiculous abuse of Sir Robert Peel. There is some-
thing peculiar in the yell of fear and hatred with which
their mention of the Right Hon. Baronet's name is now,
on all occasions, accompanied. We attribute this to an
instinct of impending destruction, like that which
prompts sonic of the lower animals of the forest to
shriek when they hear the lion's approaching tramp.
The Ministerialists are evidently in an agony of ter-
ror, from having heard that Sir Robert Peel means to
spare them no longer, but to be down upon them, with
the honest indignation of all England at his back, as
soon as Parliament, meets. Most fervently do we
bop and trust that Sir Robert will in no degree dis-
appoint either their fears or the hopes of his loyal Pro-
testant fellow-countrymen. The time has come to
crush these minions of Romanism—these paltry depen-
dents upon an Irish conspiracy against the British Pro-
testant Constitution. We hope, and we believe, that
a blow will be struck, and that immediately, upon the
meeting of Parliament.

(From the Herald.)
The attempt lately made to impose what is called a
rural police, but which is, in reality, a Home-office gen-
darmerie, upon the county of Hertford, was not, as our
readers may recollect, successful there any more than in
Buckinghamshire. That the attempt will be renewed,
however, is very probable, for, independently of the lore
of tyrannical rule and hatred of constitutional govern-
ment which animates the Whigs, the extension of the
continental police system throughout the country would
afford them such an immense accession of patronage
and influence, as the " no-patronage" and " purity of
principle Government must have a passionate avidity to
clutch. In contemplation of the probability of a re-
newed effort on the part of the Whig-Radical members
of the Magisterial bench to saddle the county with this
costly and unconstitutional police system, the rate-paying
inhabitants of the parish of Watford have recently held
a meeting to take into consideration a subject in which
their interests are so deeply involved. The result of
that meeting was a resolution to address a petition to
the Magistrates of the county of Hertford, in
Quarter
Sessions assembled, deprecating the Government
scheme, and praying that it may not receive the sanction
of indgisterial recommendation. The additional bur-
dens in the way of increased taxation, which
system must necessiaJ.il.ynflict 0n..) such a
•...le country, is one ^r
the grounds of ..,section to the measure ; 'out jrn-
portant as that ground of objection i
there is a still
mere iaiporPot one; of wilich the inhabitants of the
parish of Watford have not been umnindful. They say,
4' We would also berr t
41
LP state our decided opinion that
the principle of tue -Nurql Police Act is highly ob-
jectionable, inasmuch as it places in the hands of the
Government that pow r which ought to rest with the
pm/ autiorities." In other words, it goes to sub-
vert the principle of our native and constitutional
constabulary force, in order to substitute for it

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one of foreign and tyrannical extraction. The
rate-payers of the parish of Watford also observe,
" that the want of any police is confined to
certain localities, and that sufficient powers are given to
such localities by the Act of the 3d and 4th William
IV., cap. 90, which Act enables the rate-payers of any
town or parish to appoint police whenever they may
think it necessary to do so." Aye, but that Act did
not adopt the principle of centralisation ; and the Act
of the 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 93, does. Therefore
the Whigs, by their underlings, are straining every
nerve to impose the latter upon the country. The
question is not (though the Ministerial Papers put it so,
for the purpose of deluding the public), between a❑
inefficient and an efficient constabulary force. Whatever
re:fin-I/mho?: of the system of watch and ward may be re-
quired from the particular circumstances of any locality
can be effected under the powers given by the Act of
the 3d and 4th William IV. But the fact is, the
Government, being more anxious to grasp additional
patronage for itself than to see the constabulary force
rendered more efficient for time service of the public, re-
solves all reform into centralisation, and, under pretence
of rendering property more secure, prepares to strike a
deadly blow at public liberty. Nor are such Ministers
as England is now inflicted with the less disposed to
strike that blow, because, along with breaking down that
admirable combination of liberty and order which gren‘
out of our Anglo-Saxon institutions, it will inevitably
contribute to the humiliation of the landed aristocrat::
Let this tyrannical scheme of Gallican despotism once
overspread the land of ancient and regulated freedom,
and the impartial and upright administration of
rural justice by benches of independent Magistrates,
constituted from the nobility and gentry of each
county, will be supplanted by Home-office kadiism,
A vast brood of Whig dependents will be fixed upon ali
the rural districts, in the shape of stipendiary justices--
the more servile and obsequious vassals of the Secretary
for 'the Home Department—persons fit to be ordered
either to commit or discharge persons, accused of crime
as it might please the despotic caprice of time great
central Mogul of the British empire. As to the Act
of the 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 90, it was but
an extension of a very excellent Act passed for the
improvement of the constabulary force in the previous
reign—we mean the Act of the 11th Geo. IV., cap.
.37, intituled An Act to make Provision for the Light-
ing and Watching of Parishes in England and Wales.
By that Act the Churchwardens of the parish were di-
rected to convene a meeting of vestry, on the requisition
of three rated inhabitants, to determine whether the pro.
visions of the Act should be adopted. If at such meet-
ing it was resolved to adopt the provisions of the Act,
by a majority consisting of three-fourths of the votes,
three inspectors were to be elected by the rate payers, to
be renewed by triennial election ; and among other
powers which the Act vested in the inspectors so chosen,
was the following :

" That the sa;d inspectors s'iall from time to time ap-
point and employ such number of able-bodied watch .house
keepers, sergeants of the night, watchmen, patroles, street.
keepers, and other persons. as they shall think sufficient
for the proper protection of the inhabitants, houses, and
property, streets and other places within the limits of this
Act; and to provide all such watchmen, watch house-
keepers, sergeants of the night, patrol, and persons as
aforesaid, with such clothing, arms, ammunition, and
weapons, and shall assign to them such beats and rounds,
Ind duties, and appoint such hours for them to be on
duty, and also such wages, rewards, and gratuities or re-
munerations for their services, and also make such rules,
orders, and regulations relative to the watch-house-
keepers, sergeants of the night, watchmen, patrol, street-
keepers, and other persons, and their duties, as to the said
inspectors shall seem meet; and also shall and may offer
and give, as well to the said persons as to any other not
specially employed by them, such gratuities and rewards
for apprehending felons and others, offenders within the
limits of this Act, as to them may seem proper ; and shall
end may defray the expenses of prosecuting any such fe-
lons or offenders, for the protection of the inhabitants
adopting the provisions of this Act, or in defending any of
the said persons or other officers of the said inspectors in
the execution of their duty, as they shall think proper."
Another section described most fully the duties of
watchmen, sergeants of the night, patrols, and other
members of the constabulary force, appointed under the
provisiens of the Act--an Act in which that outlandish
word " poliee"—a word hateful to English ears as
being associated with notions of continental espionage
and tyranny—is not to be found. But this Act, passed
V a Conservative Administration for the reform of the
old watch and ward system in the parishes of England
and Wales, met with no favour from the " liberty-
.oving" Whigs, because it adopted not the principle of
despotic centralisation, under which France, with " char-
'ered rights," knows nothing of constitutional liberty.
France, whose Government police system, instead of
offording a better protection to life and property and
'he public peace than we have, or lately had, in Eng-
'and, fills the nation with swarms of political spies,
under whose demoralizing auspices popular emeutes and
insurrections are of frequent occurrence, regicide plots
ripen with a rapidity that makes them familiar events,
Ind the country continually struggles in the grasp of
yranny or the throes of revolution.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Courier.)
It has never been pretended that a year of scarcity
Ind high prices in food necessarily produced a sinaul-
t,aneous rise in wages, any more than that wages neces-
sarily fall in years of abundance and low prices. There
are many causes besides the price of wheat which concur
in determining the character, more or less permanent, of
labour rates, as of profits. The manufacturer no more
thinks of laying an extra per tentage of price upon his
;roods in times of dear food, than he does of increasing
the wages of his work people. The economy of
Industry in all it's ramifications is not founded upon
,he casual success or depression of one, but of an
tverage of years. Were it otherwise the confusion
would be interminable of profits, salaries, wages varying
with and dependent upon seasons at home an-1 the fluc-
tuations of trade abroad, with the revenue contingent,
from the throne down to the peasant. Every year would
give rise to a succession of " equitable adjustments,"
which could be fairly decided only by the people in full
conclave. The corn barometer would reflect anything
but fair weather all the year round ; for all the year
round the prices of corn are fluctuating more or less,
ke those of any other commodity. Again we are un-
hesitatingly assured that the " demand for manufactures
in the home market, so far from increasing, so as to
keep pace with the diminution in the foreign de-
mand, is less than in ordinary years." As the returns
of exports for this year cannot be published for some
time to come, we have no precise means for testing by
them the accuracy of this wholesale conclusion, so un-
scrupulously hazarded by the writer under cover of
this security from detection ; and it will, therefore,
he taken at its true value as squared by other
proofs, either of total ignorance or fallacious mis-
representations. It is not alone when corn is dear that
goods are " unsaleable," and that the overstocked ma-
mfacturer, having exhausted his capital, cannot pay
wages, and " turns off his hands." It is no more cause
Ind effect than that the pen, in unreflecting hands,
would necessarily cover the paper with leading articles
redolent of sense. It is not affirmed that the amount of
wages is complained of, or would render the goods unsale-
ible were not the market or demand disturbed by ex-
traneous causes, with which corn has no more concern
now than it had in 182.5. When corn is high the
pressure of course is felt more or less by all classes, in
-he same way, but more urgently, as when teas, sugars,
broad cloths, and cottons are high. The same paper
which decries now high prices for corn, was first, indeed
dmost alone, some months since, in writing up the prices
of cotton, in the interest of our Trans-Atlantic brethren,
but certainly not for the benefit of the operative classes
at home, who are the great bulk of it's consumer; in the
shape of fustians and calicoes.
(From the Standard.)
The calendar of committals for the special commis-
sion has been published—it contains 38 committals.
Twenty-seven of the prisoners committed are persons
who have had more or less of literary instruction ; the
majority of them are indeed set down as able to
read and write well." The remainder are generally
young men, and, what is remarkable, all, or nearly
411 those incapable of reading and writing who
appear on the calendar, are charged merely with small
thefts, committed in the course of the insurrection ;
so that it is not unreasonable to suppose
that they are very poor, as well as very
leaorant creatures, possibly the professional thieves
of the neighbourhood, who used the occasion of
v
public tumult to ply their trade with unusual acti-
ity. The fact, however, that 27 out of 38 of
the insurgents are persons possessing more or less of
merely literary education, is a complete answer to
those who say that mere instruction in reading and I
writing will make good and peaceful subjects. It
were wolf if it could bo ascertained how many of
those persons had an opportunity of attending the
services of religion, and if they had, how they used
that opportunity. We will undertake to say that not
twenty-seven out of the thirty-eight—nay, not seven,
nay, not one was a regular attendant at church. The
Country will learn in time what is in truth the cheap de-
fence of peace and order and property, but meanwhile
it is miserable to think that men aro left in
ignorance of their duties, and then hanged for not
knowing, what so left, they cannot know, and ignorae,t
of their duties they are left, if left destitute of religious
instruction ; though they should be able to road and
write as many tongues as MezzcLiete knows, or as
e-
tGnildbeedrttoWkankoewfie.ldo(ownaheothing,
we again repeat , )
::new next to nothing r
, must
be done to Christianise the mining and manufacturing
districts,

(From the Globe.)
The active measures of the Chartists in Wales have
diverted public attention from their proceedings in other
parts of the country. Indeed it is not easy to obtain
information about them, torch-light meetings being at
an end, and the most important leaders of the party
in confinment. The Nitional Convention died of
inanition in the summer, and the Delegates, after
bandying
.mutual charges of peculation, dispers-
without giving any account of the way in w 1“
had expended the proceeds of the ".

_..cn they

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,ent.