The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-22 00:00:00

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

" SIK,-The letters of your lively correspondent,
0. I'. Q.,' are read with great interest by many of your
readers. Frightful as is the picture which he draws of
France, it is less frightful, I conceive, than that which
our own country presents at the present time, In every
point of view the comparison is in favour of France. The
distress in France is chiefly confined, I suppose, to the un-
employed in cities and some large manufacturing towns ;
but in our country, the distress extends over the whole
surface. The numbers of unemployed and distressed ma-
nufacturers in Great Britain and Ireland must be much
greater than the number of the same class in France, in
comparison with the whole population. Then we must
add to this evil the state of the farming poor, who are still
employed on the roads, in gangs of twenty to forty, plot-
ting the destiuctio❑ of their masters' property by mid-
night firer. If there are men in Paris who must support
themselves out of a shilling per day, there are many thou-
sands in Ireland who are obliged to live (or rather to
starve) on twopence a day. The comparison must be
greatly in favour of France, because the causes of distress
are much less in that country. Compare the debts of the
two countries, and the general expences of carrying on
the respective Governments. Then look at the compara-
tive costs of the established religions. What an immense
difference in this single item ! The clergy of England and
Ireland cost the country more than the clergy of all Chris-
tendom besides. Perhaps you think the comparison might

stop here; but that must not be the eaae, for, to quote
your own Words, z TakatiOn in this country is much
heavier than is usually thought, immense sums being
levied in the country for local purposes, to which, in
other countries, the taxes are reigned. tlnder most of
the Governments of„the COntine7.7.t, tae church, education,
the administration o: justice, the maintenance of the poor,
the police, &c., are paid by the State. For all these oh.
Jects immense sums are separately paid by the people of
England ; the county rates alone equalling the whole re-
venue of many a Continental hingtionr,'
" Have I not proVed., thair,tha!; tf'.e-ntat'?..oi'lltis country
is much more frightf,‘,.l tl'4. tl.-‘e political state of France ?
f.'3L-.2,--zt, that France has already passed
throUgh two great revolutions, while England all that
While was adding burthen to burthen, corruption to cm-.
ruption, and misery to misery. The first revolution of
France was a stupendous furnace, which consumed to
allies an immense mass of those political corruptions that
still exist unfuettnattly in cur etVn country. We there-
fote stand in the dreadfUl situation of France previous to
her first revolUtion, and Must undergo the same tremen.
dens operationi before we can enjoy health, peace, and
happiness. As to France, she only requires a change of
dynasty—a change to a republic ;an object, compara-
tively easily accomplished in a country where revolutions
have been frequent, and where the leading .statesmen have
become, by exrierce; at:.CoMplished in political know-
ledge,, A repULlie once established, the rest follows of
'7.-;oUrie: reduction of taxes, repeal of monopolies, perfect
freedom, and equality in religion, with general peace, cow-
' fort, and happiness, will follow each other in rapid sue-
' cession. What an immense stride toil! France then have
taken before England on the path of civilization. I wish
it were as easy fur our own country to get rid of her op-
pt-essions, retaining, at the same time, all her really useful
institutions. " Yours truly,
" Dec. 19, 1831. " G. FORDHAM, Jun."
The very fact of the prevalence of incen-
diarism in a country, supposes on the part of the
people a great want of the means for obtaining
in a proper manner redress for the grievances
under which they labour. Wherever assassina-
tion is prevalent, we may be sure that there is no
justice; wherever the whole of a rural popu-
lation either commit or look with indifference on
the commission of arson, we may be sure that
they have long been the victims of oppression.
In a clever little pamphlet by Mr. Edward
Gibbon Wakefield, entitled " Swing Unmasked,"
we have the following description of the labourers
and their task-masters :

" What is that defective being with calfless legs and
stooping shoulders, weak in body and mind, inert, pusil-
lanimous, and stupid, whose premature wrinkles and fur-
tive glance tell of misery and degradation ? That is an
English peasant or pauper; for the words are synonymous.
His sire was a pauper, and his mother's milk wanted
nourishment. From infancy his food has been bad as well
as insufficient; and he now feels the pains of unsatisfied
hunger nearly whenever he is awake. But half-clothed.
and never supplied with more warmth than suffices to
cook his scanty meals, cold and wet come to him, and
stay by him, with the weather. He is married, of course;
for to this he would have been driven by the Poor Laws,
even if be had been, as he never was, sufficiently corn-
fat table and prudent to dread the burden of a large family.
But, though instinct and the overseer have given him a
wife, he has not tasted the highest joys of husband and
father. Ills partner and his little ones being, like himself,
often hungry, seldom warm, sometimes sick without aid,
and always sorrowful without hope, arc greedy, selfish,
and vexing ; so, to use his own expression, he ' hates the
sight of them,' and resorts to his hovel only because a
hedge affords less shelter from the wind and rain. Com-
pelled by pat ish law to support his family, which means
to join them in consuming an allowance from the parish,
he frequently conspires with his wife to get that allowance
increased, or prevent its being diminished. This brings
begging, trickery, and quarrelling, and ends in settled
crate. Though he have the inclination, be wants the
courage to become, like more energetic men of his class, a
poacher or smuggler on a large scale ; but he pilfers occa-
sion .lly, and teaches his children to lie and steal. His
subdued and slavish manner towards his great neighbours
shows that they treat him with suspicion and harshness.
Consequently, be at once dreads and hates them; but he
will never harm them by violent means. Too degraded to
be desperate, he is only thoroughly depraved. Hii mise-
rable career will be short ; rheumatism and asthma are
conducting him to the workhouse, where he will breathe
his last without one pleasant rec.,llection, and CO make room
for another wretch who may live and die in the same way.
" This is a sample of one class of English peasants.
Another class is composed of men, who, though paupers
to the extent of being in part supported by the parish, were
not brad and born in extreme destitution, and who, there-
fore, in so far as the moral depends on the physical man,
are qualified to become wise, virtuous, and happy. They
have large muscles, an upright mien, and a quick percep-
tion. With strength, energy, and skill, they would earn a
comfortable subsistence as labourers, if the modern fashion
of paying wages out of the poor-box did not interfere with
the due course of things, and reduce all the labourers of a
parish, the old and the young, the weak and the strong,
the idle and the industrious, to that lowest rate of wages,
er rather of weekly payment to each, which in each case
is barely sufficient for the support of life. If there were
no poor laws, or if the poor laws were such that labour
was paid in proportion to the work performed, and not ac-
cording to a scale founded on the power of gastric juice
under various circumstances, these superior men would be
employed in preference to the inferior beings described
above, would earn twice as much as the others could earn,
and would have every motive for industry, providence, and
general good conduct. As it is, their superior capacity as
labourers is of no advantage to them. They have no mo-
tive for being industrious or prudent. What they obtain
between labour and the rate is but just enough to support
them miserably. They are tempted to marry for the sake
of an extra allowance from the parish ; and they would be
sunk to the lowest point of degradation, but for the energy
of their minds, which they owe to their physical strength.
. . . . By poaching or smuggling, or both, many of
them are enabled to fill the bellies of their children ; to
put decent clothes on the backs of their wives, tied to keep
the cottage, whole, with a good fire in it from year's end to
year's end. The villains ! Why are they not taken up ?
They are taken up sometimes, and are hunted always by
those who administer rural law. In this way they learn
to consider two sets of laws—those for the protection of
game, and those for the protection of home manufacturers ,
—as especially made for their injury. Be just to our um.
paid Magistrates ! who perform their duty, even to the ,
shedding of man's blood in defence of pheasants and res.
trictians on trade. Thus the bolder sort of husbandry Ise I
bourers, by engaging in murderous conflicts with game-
keepers, and preventive men, become accustomed to deeds
of violence, and by living in gaols, qualified for the most
desperate courses. They also imbibe feelings of dislike, or
rather of bitter hatred towards the rural Magistracy,
whom they regard as oppressors and natural enemies ;
closely resembling in this respect the defective class of pea-
sants, from whom they differ in so many particulars."
Several features of this picture were given by
Mr. Macqueen, in his interesting pamphlet on ,
the distress of the agricultural labourers in Bed-
fordshire. We will return to this subject to-
morrow.—Morntng Chronicle.
We really do not comprehend the taste or the •
meaning of an Evening Contemporary, who is '
so fond. of copying the articles of other Journals,
and appending to them such remarks as he may
be pleased to indite, with a view to destroy their
effect, or express his own concurrence. Some
particulars respecting Torrijos' capture, which
we yesterday published, were last evening repro- '
duced in this form, having to all appearances
excited an unusual degree of anger. We are
accordingly accused of indulging " a triumphant
anticipation that a number of fellow-beings,
men who would be free, are to be put to death
by the executioners of despotism." Now we beg
it to be undentood that we never did any thing
of the kind. We lamented the pitiable infa-
tuation, the thirst for place and plunder, which
had led the unhappy beings in question to
commit so many acts of treason and re
bellion against their country as to render
their fate inevitable, now that they have fallen
into the hands of those whom they have for a
year and a half harrassed and outraged by every
means which modern incendiarism could invent.
We never said or even thought any thing of
" men who would be free," because we were
well assured that there were none of this class,
at least in the sense we understand the term in
England, among the sixty desperadoes who

undertook the conquest of Spain, conveyed
thither in two launches t Is this, let us ask,
going in search of freedom ? And who, we
would venture to inquire, were Torrijos' fol-
lowers on this heroic occasion ? We can inform
our contemporary that they were chiefly composed
of those refugees from all , countries, who in
motley group s- Dftet assemble in the Bay of
Gibraltar and on the Barbary coast, when piracy
is slack up the Mediterranean, and there is in
that quarter little work for daring spirits. And
were these the elements by which Spain was to
be regenerated, even if this were required ?
For we are assured, upon competent au-
thority, that the people arc attached to their
Government, that the peasantry are in a state of
rapid improvement, and that both commerce and
agriculture are advancing throughout the country..
We view with disgust those who, pretending to
be the advocates of law and peace at home,
would yet gladly have hostile bands of hungry
and desperate adventurers go forth to foreign
lands to trample upon their institutions and
plunge them into anarchy. It is abhorrent to
the feelings of an honest man to hear these po-
litical crusades tried tip by the would-be direc-
tors of public opinion, as if they delighted in
nothing so much as blood and confusion. In
all this there is a mixture of atrocity and mad-
ness. Under the hope of introducing political
improvements, as it is supposed nearly allied to
those going or. among ourselves, they would
eagerly send out from our own ports expeditions
against Spain and Portugal, no matter whether
recruited at Wapping or in the Bay of Gibraltar,
the leaders of which, even granting them all the
success they may anticipate, could only find
support among the very dregs of the popu-
lace. Our contemporary questions whether
we can, in sincerity, wish for freedom at
home whilst we pray for the success of'
tyrants abroad. It is in the definition of
the two terms here used that we so ma-
terially differ from our contemporary. What
he considers freedom, in reference to the ques-
tion at issue, we should call atrocious licen-
tiousness, murder, proscription, and demo-
ralization, such as Torrijos would have intro-
duced had his design succeeded. These expe-
ditions may sound very finely in England ; men
and officers unemployed may join in them ; but
we can assure them that the harassed inhabitants
of both Spain and Portugal look forward for
their delivery from them with anxious expecta-
tion, well assured that their best shield is their
own avenging arm. Fully convinced that nothing
is to be expected from bands of aspiring adven-
turers, rendered desperate by distress and ready
to plunge into every kind of enormity, they stand
prepared to repel every aggression that threatens
danger to their internal peace and national in-
stitutions, the preservation of which to them is
dearer than all the untried theories which it is
wished to waft over to them either from Lon-
don or Paris.--Morning Post.

On Monday the hands employed in the
manufacture of lace, residing in Loughborough, com-
menced a total stand, in consequence of the want of de-
mand for that fabric. The period for which they will
continue out is one month; and by this measure from
2,000 to 8,000 persons, n-.en, women, and children, are
out of employ.—Boston Gazette.

On Thursday evening last an old Danish man
with one arm, named MILLER, a vender of blacking, who
lives in this town, wos stopped by two men between
Mount Pleasant and Boston: they demanded his money ;
he said he bad lost nearly five shillings worth of copper
out of his pocket, which he had taken that day : they
asked if he had any more ; he saiel " Yes, I have," at the
same time chinking some silver and copper in the pocket
of his truwsers. The ruffians immediately seized him;
after MILLER succeeded in getting his basket from his
back, which was fastened by a strap, he said, in broken
EngliAh, " I es, me give you something, you skinrils;"
at the same time hitting one of the rascals a tremendous
blow on the head with his wooden arm that has an iron
plate at the end of it. The fellow ran off at full speed,
and MILLER after him, while the other villain threw the
poor wan's basket over a hedge, and ran off in another di-
rection. After some difficulty he got his basket again,
and returned safe to Boston. MILLER has been a soldier
many years in the English army, and appears to be a de-
termined fellow.—Boston Gazette.

CONTAGIOUS PRESENT.—The clothes of a
woman who died at Sunderland, of the cholera, were sent
to a female relative at Scarborough, which circumstance
becoming known, it excited great alarm in that town.—
Applications were made to the woman o❑ the part of the
Magistrates and the Board of Health, to induce her to give
them up, which she refused. At last, however, she con-
sented to surrender them for a considerable sum of money,
and they were burnt on Friday.— York Courant.
MURDER NEAR NANTYGLO.—WhiIe the
postman, DAVID GRIFFITHS, wax on his way from Tre-
degar to Nantyglo, he was overtaken by a sharp shower of
rain, which induced him to take shelter in a hut, where
he saw an individual long known in the neighbourhood
as a person of deranged intellects. The former and latter
were seldom seen without pipes in their mouths. On the
postman lighting his pipe, the other asked him for tobacco,
which he said he could not afford ; when the wretch struck
him a violent blow with his fist, and proceeded to murder
him with what they call a spanner, an instrument used for
forcing a nut on a screw. The unfortunate victim was
immediately rendered insensible ; but, shewing symptoms
of life, the maniac again seized the same weapon, and
actually beat his brains out. He then left the hut, took
off his shoes and bat, placed them on the edge of a pond at
a short distance, smeared himself over with clay, and ran
off. He was apprehended at Nantyglo. On being asked
if he knew anything of the murder, he answered " no ;"
hut, when shewn the body, he said, " 0 yes (taking
hold of the nose of the corpse), that's the fellow who re
fused to give me some tobacco !" The postman has left a
wife and seven children to deplore his loss.—Bristol

AN IMPOSTOR AT RICCALL.—On Sunday
night last, at Riccall, about eight o'clock, a stout, but
forlorn-looking man, apparently about forty-five years of
age, was found lying prostrate upon the causeway by some
persons who were returning from the Methodist Chapel.
On a light being procured, he was supposed to be in a fit,
consequently he was very humanely taken into a kitchen
belonging to the Hare and Hounds, and all possible atten-
tion paid to him. Presently a person went into the
kitchen, and recognised him as a pot-companion. This
person said they had been drinking together at the Tra-
veller's Inn that afternoon, and acknowledged that he had
described himself as the man who some years ago detected
two resurrectionists in the act of taking a corpse out of a
grave in a church-yard of a village near Hull. He said,
that after they bad deposited the corpse in a cart, which
they had for the purpose of conveying it away, and were
in the act of filling up the grave, he took the body out,
laid it near an adjoining hedge, and placed himself in its
situation, first rolling himself in the cover in which the
corpse was wrapped. After the resurrectionists had tra-
velleA a short distance, one of them by some means or
other touched the face of their supposed corpse, and said to
his partner, " I think it is warm !" " Yes, you !"
replied the above impostor, " and I will warm you." At
that they immediately made off, leaving the horse and cart
in his possession. After bearing the above history, it was
thought advisable to remove him to the inn where he had
been drinking that afternoon ; but, on the attempt being
made, he feigned another fit, and fell prostrate upon the
floor. The person who recognised him as a pot-compa-
nion, well knowing it to be deception,
immediately seized
him by the collar, and saluted him in no very welcome
terms. The man in a moment, although apparently almost
dead in a fit, resented it by extending his fist most man-
fully. The constable was then sent for, and on his arrival
he was searched, but nothing was found upon him of a
dangerous description. He was afterwards taken into a
stable belonging to the Hare and Hounds, and locked up,
they intending in the morning to have him before the Ma-
gistrate as a vagrant; but, no sooner were the lock and
door belonging to the stable opened in which he was, than
he watched the opportunity, rushed out, and made off,
with all possible speed, towards Selby. He was pursued
a abort distance, but in vain. It is supposed that he is
going about the country imposing on the public, by throw-
ing himself into feigned fits.— York Courant,

PRANCE,

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.
FARIS, DEC. 18.
_

SIR,-You have not forgotten—you cannot ever forget
—that whilst the Poles defended themselves, the organs of
the Russian Government and cf the P..tissiati party sieiv
constantly assuring us that so soon as Warsaw should 1;)e
captured, and Poland reduced to subjection, we should
have abundant and satisfactory proofs of the clemency, the
justice, the mercy, and the greatness of mind of the
Northern Autocrat. Even our Sebastiani, in one of those
unhappy moments, when he dreamt of nothing but peace
and high prices, assured the Chamber of Deputies that the
young and enlightened Monarch of Russia now thoroughly
understood the Revolution of July—was prepared to adopt
it and its consequences—would be faithful to the engage-
ments iniposed on him by the treaties of Vienna relative
to Poland—and although, unfortunately; the Polish Revo-
lution could not be successful, and must iie.rish, yet that
Nicholas the Great would in the moment of victory pro've
himself to be the wise and humane Prince, and would
confer on vanquished Poland those institutions which she
had sought to obtain by the Revolution of November,
1830. These were not the very words, but they are the
substance of the prophecy of M. Horace Sebastiani ! Now
let us see how the prophecy has bean fulfilled ! It is a
curious and an interesting; though a painful and mortifying
subject.
Whilst an army of 40,000 men remained unsubdued and
undissolved, the Russian Commander-in-Chief was autho-
rised to make promises, which have since been violated,
and to hold out hopes which have since proved to be falla-
cious. The Polish officers at Warsaw were then not
arrested—those who had taken an active part in the
Polish Revolution were then unmolested, and all classes
were invited to come and range themselves under the
banners of a generous and forgiving Prince. Multitudes of
officers and other individuals returned to the capital, or
remained there—the 40,000 troops broke up, dispersed,
and a great portion emigrated ; and then from that mo-
ment the Celr gave evidence of his real character, and his
real intentions, by imprisoning, by banishing to Siberia—
by degrading—and even by causing to be shot some of
the heat and bravest of the Polish officers—by confis-
ca ing property—by seizing estates for the benefit of the
Crown—by granting a pretended amnesty, which was

so wretched a system of trickery and oppression that it did
not even include any one class of men who had really taken
put in the Revolution—by prohibiting the national colours
—by destroying all hopes of national institutions—and by
concerting measures for rendering Poland a mere military
province of Russia. This is the line of conduct pursued
by the Russian Government since the fall of Warsaw—
and now what has become of the prophecy of M. Horace
Sehastiani? The King of the French assured us that the

nationality of Poland " should not perish." But it has
perished. Where is the Charter ? Where is the Consti-
tution? both guaranteed by the Treaty of Vienna. Where
is the Polish Diet ? Where is a Polish Viceroy ? Where
is a Polish army ? Where the Polish flag ? Where, in
fact, is Poland ? It no longer exists—hut is a Russiat,
military province; Paskewitsch is the Military Governor
of Wars tw—the Poles are tried by military tribunals—
those who fought for their regeneration are condemned to
exile or to death, and Poland no longer exists but in the
hearts and souls of a people who will ever be patriotic,
though proscribed and oppressed. So that the prophecies
of M. Sebastiani have been all delusive ! ! So, then, the
assurances of Louis Philip have been all falsified by facts.
What then is to be done ? Will England make war
against Russia for the nationality of Poland ? Will Louis
Philip and M. Sebastiani risk a fall of five per cent. in the
public funds by declaring war against the Northern Auto-
crat? This is by no means probable; and yet, it one or
other of these steps be not taken, Poland has fallen, and is
from this moment a mere Russian province ! Is this the
interest of Austria? No. Is this even the policy of
Prussia? No. And yet this barbarian Colossus threatens
to overrun Europe, whilst the Courts of Vienna, Berlin,
London, and Paris look with a half closed or bewildered
eye, and wonder what next will be decided on by the Em-
peror N'cltolam. I hate to hear the babbling of those
demi-diplomatists, who tell you that the peace of Europe
will not be distut bed. Why the peace of Europe is dis-
turbed.

The conduct of iius.ia to Poland is a disturb-

ance of the peace of Europe—for who will venture to dis-
arm—and who will venture to abandon himself to coin-

men"! and the arts of peace, whilst Russia remains in a
sullen state of preparation—comenting to no measure
which shall benefit—and projecting every scheme which
can injure mankind.
_ _ _

The conduct of the Russirm Government to France is
intolerable. It has ordered all Rusmisn suljects to quit
France. It has issued a decree, prohibiting all Rus-ian
youths from proceeding to France fur an education. It
has refused the intervention of France in Polish affairs.
It has lately refused to listen to her entreaties on behalf of
Polish independence and nationality. It has attacked
France in her official journals. It menaced the revolution
of France with a war, which would have been most cer-
tainly commenced, but for the breaking out of the Polish
Revolution. It refused to receive any Ambassador from
France but the Duke of Mortemart. It insulted the Duke
whilst at St. Petersburgh, insulting the country he repre-
sented. It kept France at bay until the Polish Revolution
was vanquished, and now it bolds the language of insult
or of defiance towards the French Government, and is
preparing an immense force, if not to attack France, yet
at least to render it impossible that France should disarm.
Any other Minister than M. Casimir Perier would long
ago have demanded satisfaction for all these insults offered
to his country ; but this course could never be adopted by
men who only act and reason with reference to the price
of renter.

And the conduct of Russia towards Belgium and Rol-
land is no less arbitrary and disgraceful. The Emperor
consented to the division of Belgium from Holland—con-
sented, therefore, to disturb the articles of the Treaty of
Vienna relating to the Pays Bas—consented to the elec-
tion of Prince Leopold, to the Conferences of London, to
the articles adopted and signed, to the changes made, and
the alterations effected. For myself, 1 protest against
them all. I protest that eventually the force of circum-
stances and the march of events will he too strong for all
of these men and all of their measures—because I am cer-
tain that eventually Belgium will be united to France.
But the Emperor of Russia neither thinks so, nor believes
so. He was a party, and a leading party, to the negocia-
tions in London, represented not by one but by two 111i-
nisters—and now to throw obstacles in the way of the very
arrangement he consented to—is an evidence of a deter-
mination on his part to dictate the policy of Europe—to
extend the influence and territory of Russia—and to en-
deavour to arrest the progress of liberal and enlightened
opinions.

In fine, to the whole of Europe the Russian Govern•
ment is dictatorial, tyrannical, usurping, and unjust. This
is a fact !—a fact we must record as a starting point for
the new and coming year. In Spain it is counselling an
expedition in favour of Don Miguel and against Den
Pedro. In Portugal, it is indirectly urging the Govern-
ment to make no concessions to England. In Turkey, it
is conspiring to enfeeble the Government of the Sultan,
and destroy the force of his manly and enlightened system.
In Greece, it is labouring to make an exclusive Russian
party, and to cause it to be believed that the Government
of St. Petersburgh is alone capable of defending these Isles
from the " cupidity" of the English Government, and
from the agitations of France. It treats with insolence
the representations of Great Britain—it refuses to pay
the Court of Berlin the expences incurred by the support
of the Polish Refugees—and it view' with jealousy and
anger the advances made by Austria to France through M.
d'Appony, at Paris. It would quarrel with Austria, but
that it desires the extermination of liberty in Italy, and
the re-establishment of absolute institutions in the domi-
nions of the Pope, the Duke of Modena, and the Duchess
of Parma. It is courting the United States of America, in
order at some future period to enable i-, with security, to
attack British commerce ; and it is extending its relations
in the East, with the view of ultimately disputing British
influence in India. This is the conduct of Russia. It
has been forced upon me by letters just received from St.
Petersburgh and Moscow—by intelligence from the Hague
—and from the well-known fact, that Russia will not
sanction the twenty-seven articles for arranging for the
moment the affairs of Belgium. And is nothing to be done
against this Power? Is Russia to be allowed thus to defy
the counsels, the wishes, the policy, and the hopes of the
rest of Europe ? Is England and is France to look on
and contemplate with comparative indifference these pro-
ceedings of the Russian Government? If so—then Russia
will destroy the balance of power—destroy the peace of
Europe—attack all liberal institutions—and labour to re-
establish the worst principles of the worst days of the in-
quisition and the Holy Alliance.

Your obedient servant,
0. P. Q.

At this season of the year we generally ob.
serve not only coaches but waggons crammed with im-
mense piles of provender for the cockneys. The fol-
lowing is a statement of poultry slaughtered in one week,
from last Tuesday, by a single poulterer in this town,
now on its road to London :-1,610 bead, viz., 800
Zeese, 300 turkies, 150 ducks, and 30 dozen of fowls.—
Boton Gazette.

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.forty-one Members, which was not recognised so,
Union, and yet we are, it seems, to get an additi°oo
only fire ! Lord CASTLEREAGH'S arrangement 0,1
equity itself comp fired to the present. We are told
ew
" whether the Cabinet will change their resolution
tive to corporations is as yet a matter of uncertainty'
Dublin Morning Register. fi
TILE DORMANT PEERAGE.—Mr. 'J.' he
the able author of the well-known Dictionary °',ol
Peerage and Baronetage, (a new edition of which i° 'pot
in the press) has just rendered an essential service tiihotit
annals by the completion of another work of great la"ti,
and research, entitled—" A General and Heraldic Did,
nary of the Extinct, Dormant, and Suspended Peetoti
History, it has been justly observed, takes but a WI iv
view of the great men who illustrate her p iges,
cords but their public deeds. Once retired fracitio
scenes, whether of military adventure, or political o'ol,
we hear no more of them nor of the families they foto re
This defect was long since felt by lovers of histories' tat
search—a defect, which, in the seventeenth centuriffolif
celebrated herald, Sir WILLIAM DUGDA LE, pertro 111
attempted to remedy. After a labour of thirty 13_ re,
published his Baronage of England, which, thong ,ol
plete with deep and learned investigation, is, on accouflie,
its great fire and development, precluded from general 0,
BANKS and others since pursued the same track and cl'ot
mined the same faults. Mr. BURKE alone merit. .4
praise of having attained the desired object, by proddti
a popular work in the compass of a single volume.

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C'IA L MARKET.-Dee. 21.
Walls End Hilda -.0.0'1
c„L
Bewicke and Co. W. E.
Bean--- M.,. Od. Walls End Hotspur...oi G
Bensham Main ---- 27 6 Walls End Newmarcbo i 1.1 rs
Bishop's Main, 2B 0 Ditto Northumberlano,e, ''''
ROTANY
v.( SPW
Gosforth W. E. Bean... 18 0 Ditto Peareth....--...'a
Elebburn Main ,414
Howard Main .....---. 23 9 Be!l'a PriAnrose „....,.....;
Silllngworth .28 9 lietton's 14;g5 l'e -ans.-0 0 'lv, 'AT and Dr.
Orel's Redhugh -......... 26 0 Vane's Main.............-• I IaTERIA MF. yontop Windsor-. 25 0 Walls End Hetton 00'51 , A
S!sipcote
,
1 AN Ant
l'antielti -. 27 6 W. E. Russell's Hetton'o 40111 Y ani
Townley ., , r, A
~....... ~,;(3 3 Walls End Stewart • AtkNsi-iii. c
Went Hartley ----. 26 0 W. E. Stewart's (Sea- 0 ty,
Willington ---. 30 0 ham) .--------0- 0 pli-,TITREs o
Wylam-----. 28 0 Walls End Adelaide.... ,4 INCIPLES 0
Walls End Brown's-. 29 0 Blyth ---.... ft .
iIATIONS-
-1)itto11,11,11obson,&Co. 29 3 Walls End E1gin......-0 a 111, -
Ditto Bewicke and Co. 31 0 Hartley --...-..-.-00 :3 1.1)
. WIFERY,
Ditto Blake ---- 3 Silkstone Field and CO' 0 ht'bitEN-Dr.
Otto Burraton ---.. 29 :3 Silkstone C1ark.......... ,rtivc,
Walls End Callerton ........ 26 0 W. E. Barnsley -...... ONI
_ lOLOGN
Walls End Carr and Co. 28 0 Walls End Henderson I , f __Dr. But:
Walls End Gosforth ....... 30 9 +il CO‘
g 1 -IPARATIN
,i,,Pt at market, 102%-Ships sold, 43-Unsold. t.},.„ .
I,I4,'AIISTRY-
_-;-_----,--..,-,,--r,c - , ... w$ •bICAI .11311
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS -,JRING LAIL: $O,, .-
' Fls x. 4 ANY and
Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. A.
--.
I•t' tX Per Quarter. s. to B. a. tO B. B. to e. . t nIiERIAIENI
Abingdon-. 62 81 31 43 22 30 •""
..,
,k;TURES an
Ilcupltal.
Andover.* 73 80 37 41
Birmingham-- 56 66 40 44 24 3•2 •••" t, .IY-Dr.
ttridport -..-. 56 74 32 39 26 30 "" I.INIcAL LE
cirencester - 4S 64 30 42 20 29 "" IV
e-"E and SUB
1, aringdot.,---... 31 el; f. 45 40 26 38 11, ~
Guildford 49 74 23 32 20 35 "" Pus will be pi
Henley. , - M 83 30 35 '2:B "'.° ..
l':(1°Io, ani Bob
Hereford - 84 92 44 48 - - "' l
flighworth -.-.. 62 80 32 42 23 34 , b ..' Catalogue of the
Maidenhead -.. 65 86 32 46 20 30 '''' . ? tl• IiODGKE
Monmouth---. 54 61 39 - - - ' • 4 particulars
Reading
..."'"
Salisbury 42 62 32 37 21 25
Southampton ~-. 54 58 37 40 28 32
Stroud
Tewkesbury .-...... 65 74 40 42 30 38 '' •
,5..10,-,
Uxbridge _ 48 74 32 34 24 32 - ' tc 1 tl) TEEI
Wan tage--. 5B 80 30 43 21 30 ""' , Id, lIRODIBLI
warnthister
Windsor., , 59 - - - 21 22 "" 1•01 or other 1
Worceater 63 66 44 51 31 32 -'' , ONSIEL
HULL MARKET-Dec. 20. /, 4 Zeon Der
Wheat, Old -s. 58s. 6s's New -''''
..,ft r(ET, BLOC --- Foreign -s. 50s. 545. ln bond._ -e.
_, tiNj„
Oats, Poland -s. 20s. 225. Old --ts• ---,_ 4•e patronag
- Small or Feed.... -s. 20s. 21s s.-",t'' Profp • 1 .
......‘ , ssiona e.
- Foreign -s. 20s. 21s -s. t 7 . ropoi i, • Barley, Norf. & Sul ... -s. 40s. 425. Line. & Wok! -s. „,,,Aii. , , respec
-- Foreign
Beans ......... ............... 398. 40s. 425. Foreign -a. )k ,X ED
TEETH
Pease, White... -s. 425. 48s. Grey -s. ,le,
Tares -s -5...-s. Foreign -.§. 0)7 `-'leD ANE U 2
;61•AktIlt,. .
Rapeseed, in bond n0ne.......... Free, per last -1....,, 44,, Jof Londo]
CHELTENHAM MARKET.-Dec. 20. ,s4lki"lls perfume(
iii 'I a, h
Per Bushel. a. d• to s. d. Pet lb. 5 1 kt.. eat, or pre
Wheat
Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton
Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal
Beans . 5 0 6 0 Pork
0 1,1 ACORRO
Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb /tripe .
Hay__ls With t 1
31. lOs to 3!. 15s. Od. per ton. 1 , , on
LEWES MARKET.-Dec. 20. '') answer es
6 ~ti,,,.
White Wheat (per quarter).--....X3 70 to .£3 1,1 0 +......_.._______
Red ditto
Barley ______. 18 0 2 ~' 0 ‘ 14PORTAT
Oats, New
Pease 7117 0 2 (10;ki. IR. J. V.
Oil Cake. New 12 0 0 per thot?!.../ k
wrtri, square, ss
NORWICH, Dec. 17. , ,r,054,4 'Y Years, fee
Wheat (per or.) - 555. 6.35. fBs. Beans (per or.) ........ •'" , qi• t
sr& Iwi ! -•,8 that wh
Barley -- 9.95. 355. 375. I'ease, Grey................ 1,,,„ .
Oats - 235. 30s. 325. Flour, fine (per sack), tf 4,"(); et, an lIS
`l,th he has Is CAN'PERBU RI, Dec. 17. 6,1 •t,
Wheat, white.-........... 60s. to 70s. -01 d.............. -s• tt,,ili,,me Patentee;
'"-- red - -50 s. to 665. - Old.-- -s• 'O5! lc "Ilteifie doe, ,
Barley, Malting -38 s. to 4'2s. - Grinding.. (.1• IoF ltu,.,_ •
Oats ,. 20s. to 28a. --. old- -s. t,04.0 At,'
_, , or of the
Beans ----- 345. to 385...... 01d............... 40s. le4 ke a of wimpl„,
ti'
Pease .........„ . -5. to 455. -... Grey ................ 355./: s.
~,CaSe, but p
MANCHESTER, Dec. 17. cs'i it,' '''kt being on
'Wheat, per 701 b. 9s. 6d. to 10s. Od. Red 9,. 3,/, tO , ph._ g c
Barley, per 60lb 5 0 5 3 Oats 3 5•41 ! 4;177 no restrt
Beans, per Imperial quarter
Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 1 ihpi,
Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 42 0 yt dSI
5 1t , atentee 1
Flour, per Sack of 2801 b
01 '", in
EXETER MA R K ETS.-Dec. 16.
..„ 'p I At,
~,,, the I
Beef (score)-..-Bs. Od.l fla. Ott. Wheat (bushel) -Si. 0" 6 Ili t."' any medi
Mutton (113.).---0 5 0 Si Barley -........---...4 6 Illtl, "ttuall unr
Veal and Lamb-0 5 0 6 Oats -. -..-2 4 6, , ,id Y
Perk -0 4 0 6 Beans 5 6 1I Al ''llolved the
I vee, Geese (each) -- -3 0 4 0 B,,tter (Ib.) 1 0 1 .11.
1 I °ln, a 9 nos
Ducks 'counle\.--2 4 4 0 lEges (14) ...-.-.0 0 eV 140 h., i..
Fowls ..-.....--2 3 3 0 F., tales (peck) -0
.....,/,, iet" a
t mu limbs,
(,"1 nd usele
DUSIFRIES MARKETS.-Dec. 14. d li' th, ~,
a. d. s. el. a. „•,a 14 • r atentee,
(3 v• lust Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 Oto 7 6 Butter, 16oz OO 1 t,ti antanenus
Barley 39 4 4 Eggs, dozen 0 4 11/4 "Dense his Oats , „ '2 22 7 Beef, per lb. ...... . .... 4, . it„ .S 1
Flour, 141 b.
'2 4 3 8 Mutton .. ............ ..... „ 4 i h, ,
Oatmeal
. 0 111 acing,
t'otatoes, cwt.
ti,t, divulge the
~.
• 6 '4ibt 2001.,
IRISH MARKETS. I 't'ae
ig Allli s under his
DUBLIN MARKET NOTE.-FHIDAY, VeC•A,ell,,i IRo •
.1 MI FPcific to t
From 10 28 . 14,
3,121 Wheat, per barrel 2.0 atone 21 0 23 0 /5 010 h. hahling eau
il T:ti ila-g,-- 16
6 stone
~ 13 3 14 g 15 1,4 offvring.
'Y
4,164 0at5...,.--- _ l2 stone 9 9 14 6 19 01, he Papatee,
' 7,018 Cwt. F10ur......-..... 9 stone 4 0 23 0 0, I," the exercise (:
663 Oatmeal
Sold to Makers only. i L nerahon tin
5,709 Cwt. flour -. _ 15 0 23 0 18 ' -I"ti6c, Which
lc i
Average price of Wheat and Flour 465. Sd. per sac )r ;
THE -. 1 Firsts, ........... from lls. Od, tort t 5,,,...
Receipts of Flour, 12,4b9
Seconds, from 15s. Od. to T, ,f 1,, THE
as, th
Sales of Do. 11,013
Thirds,.....-.. from as, 01, to s"'" ~ A r., ,
t' •=nut) now
1,
FRICR OF ittLEAD. •Plj attributes o
Quartern Loaf 9Nd. I Half Quartern .......--../ Y d.
D ~, igestitin t
Wheat, Barley. Oats. 1 F10ur,F_L......1 '
r. cit 1,....,, ,
toi, "t Patentee
per barrel per barrel per barrel ,
...., 0 to T
20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. i Ist. , , b,. Two it
d.,tki sti„.-Irrroysqui
s. d, aa. d. E. d. as, d. s, d. as, d, a, d, as. d. '',,,, 0 rl le `."...... 1
Cork 23 0323110160196 11 0 16 0 20 , ll6l )14t,.. noble, a
Limerick 1268 30 013 0 14 012 0 13 618 0 20 00,, 1I N 'lt.
Waterford 2ti 0 31 0 130 16 010 0 11 013 0 20 010 ';.', !,1 /,-------_____
Clomnel .... 26 8 30 010 6 15 013 6 13 920 0 2.0 013 'I, s• '4OI.ERA i
Carlow.- •25 0 36 014 0 16 0 10 0 11 620 6 2l
_.(,),_i___,',Y,
Butter P1..1 UNIV.;
Beef, Mutton, fork, •
3d• 4111*/ II P. P
per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 24. •
.........,.(,; ... ~ r(
'd. a d. 8. a d. s. d. as.d.s.d.4. d. s. d. ". 014$ 04
d• t. fish Col
Cork -4i 631 526 0 33 94 0900 84 0;3 // I th, 6n, on ref
Limerick- 3 4 3,1 434 I) 35 0.97 093 88
- o^B e 1 ti t44rlt of the
Waterford 4 6 3 635 0 36 o'3+B 94 080() + 0 t lit, i
Clonmel - 4 5 5 6 34 0 35 094 87 -('
.... ci i tia, b 4 atoppin
Carlow 4 51 0 0 0 0 0 0119 116 86 0_...1e lt .13altie, as
j
,A 5- insf 4 KILECNNI".-Butter 96s to 3+98. per cwt. ; Wheat -
..0 ,A, 14,, ;eneral A
per barrel ; Flour 20s. to :14s. per bag; Oats 9s. to 111'..1:00 S, LlAled
fievura
!el ; Barley Ils. to 14s. ; Beef 44.1. to 58. per lb. cwt.o lei!
, .
to sd. ; Potatoes 2d. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per ;'' "ti `q lay befi
41th • Pigs 325. to 335. per cat. th,,t their gene]
1 e cot 40 s‘... rotiora
1' 'nail'
'aVe are assured from a high quarter that a, , ,1Z trot
Isl 'q SECONI
present
determination of the Cabinet is against 11l ,ili . tt,„
P •-.O.AL A(
mentation of the Irish INlembers. Taxes give ns I'. ill
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