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all, throwing BRODIE on one side, and v‘lur Teutonic '
studies on the other, your spectre appear irr. the House
of Lords on the 4th of February ! Conckive the con-
fusion
!" FOr Mr. BENJAMIN IIUNNYNCEDE's satis-
faction, we can assure him the odds are, that riot his
Lordship's spectre merely, but the actual lising man,
will appear in the House of Lords, on the 4th ; but
this not to create " confusion" among the Ministers,
but among the Tories. But BENJAMIN need not be
apprehensive. His Lordship will make no mention of
" Runnymede." We question whether he even knows
of that presumptuous young Malapert's existence.

In the report, which we give this day, of the Queen's
County dinner given to Mr. O'CoNNELL on Thursday
last at Stradbally, our readers will find that the Hon.
and Learned Member for Dublin speaks out in the
right spirit, respecting the nature of his connection with
the Government. " They have not coalesced with me,"
says he, boldly and decidedly, " but I have coalesced
with them." And for this obvious reason. Mr. O'CoN-
NELL found them willing to do their best to promote
the welfare of Ireland ; and, of course, as a sincere lover
of his country, he was willing, and indeed bound by the
strictest ties of duty, to meet their views, and give them
all the assistance in his power. He knew well that

there was no hope from the Tories. They had pro-
mised and betrayed too often, to be ever again trusted,
even on their oath ; what then remained, but
that he should attach himself to that party who
bid fairest, without the slightest sacrifice of con-
sistency, to serve Ireland. We look on the connexion
—if connexion it may be called—between O'CoN-
NELL and the Ministers, as equally creditable to both.
It proves that neither have abandoned their principles,
but that both arc resolved to maintain them in the most
honourahle and energetic spirit. Moreover it glads us
to find that the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin

is gradually weaning himself from his old hobby, the
repeal of the Union. His langu'age on this head is not
less explicit than satisfactory. He will ask nothing
more from Ministers than what they are in reason
bound to concede. Justice, not generosity, is all he
demands for Ireland ; and if this be granted, not a word
more will he utter on the subject of Repeal. The flag
shall be furled for ever. Let DANIEL but continue to
act in this moderate, equitable manner, and though the
Tories, as a matter of course, may still continue to abuse
him—still continue to find that his name is synoniMous
with Antichrist—and bid their nurses hold him up as
a bug-bear to their little-children ;—he will find him-
self day by day increasing the number of his English
and Scotch adherents, and gaining the respect and
confidence of all whose good opinion is worth having.

We regret to perceive that the shocking case of
starvation, to which we felt it our duty to direct some
attention on Saturday, has been seized on with avidity
by. some canting hypocritical pretenders to a pre-
eminence of feeling and sentiment. In order to ad-
minister to the false and unwholesome appetite of their
dupes—reckless of truth and political honesty—these
knaves have not scrupled to employ as instruments for
their unholy purpose the grossest and most pernicious
deception—attempting thus to convert the lamentable
case in question into a weapon
.wherewith to wage war
against one of the wisest and best considered Acts
which distinguished the Session in which it passed.
We are not disposed to assert that the New Poor Law
Bill is the perfection of human wisdom. No doubt in
some of its provisions the details are susceptible of
amendment ; but the principle on which it is based is
sound. The policy of the measure is established
by irrefragable evidence—confirmed by actual ex-
perience of its recent operation, and is, we feel
confident, calculated to work immense bentifit for
all classes, but more especially for the immediate
objects of its application. It is not to be expected that it
will banish poverty at a blow ; that it will, all at once,
create universally diffused wealth, and charm away oc-
casional want from the Isle, so that it be never after
seen. But the new Poor Law Bill contains the
living principle ; it is cz.lculated to give that which has
been hitherto begged ; and to put the people them-
selves in possession of those means which they have
too long been accustomed to see doled out to them
by the stony-hearted hand of parochial charity. We
advocate the Bill, because we think its provisions
are essentially humane, and because, with the
only true and effectual humanity, it will teach
men how to avoid pauperism, and all its
frightful evils. They will learn the impor-
tant lesson of self-respect and self-reliance. The
lesson, too, will be well learned, because it will
be taught by the operation of those favourable circum-
stances and beneficial influences which the new Bill
will silently and certainly call forth. The change in
the system will bring about gradually a reform in tote
habits—an improvement in the condition—from which
will spring up freedom and independence, plenty, and
enduring prosperity. We repeat our firm conviction,
that the principle of the Bill under notice is calculated
to work efficiently for good—for the good of all classes,
but more especially for the immediate objects of its
application. That partial evil—that individual hard-
ship (especially at first) will sometimes be found
in connexion with the new Bill, is an accident
only—an accident, be it remembered, too com-
mon to all great measures comprehending the
general good of the whole community at large.
We began by remarking on the gross delusion sought
to be practised on the ignorance and prejudices of the
populace, by certain canting knaves_who have made
the New Poor Law Bill a peg on which to hang their
worn-out calumnies, we now conclude by declaring,
what, indeed, must be evident to all who think for
themselves, that the death of the poor man, Weeks or
Wicks, has about as much to do with the calumniated
Bill, in the relation of cause and effect, as the recent
falling-in of the suspension-bridge in Scotland, and
Lord SA N DON'S still more recent supremely silly
speech at Liverpool.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1836.

Mr. Ex-Sheriff RAPHAEL has, it seems, indited
another epistle to the electors of the. county of Car-
low, in defence of himself and his late proceedings,.
and teeming with abuse of Mr. O'CONNELL. In
pursuing this line of conduct, Mr. RAPHAEL has
been exceedingly ill advised. He might have learnt,
from the late exhibitions of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT—
if he did not know it before—that wounded vanity
and disappointed ambition are bad counsellors ; vet is

he running a race with the Hon. Baronet, to show the
public which of the twain is the greatest fool. The
Ex-Sheriff had a laudable ambition to become a
patriot, and imagined that a good title to that distinction
might be purchased for a couple of thousand pounds.
He had miscalculated the cost—he lost the 2,0001.
which he had risked in the political adventure,
and instead of sitting down quietly, as any man of
sense would have done in his circumstances, he raises
a hue and cry against Mr. O'CONNELL, whose only
real offence is, that he consented to countenance the
schemes of a person in whom no confidence ought to
have been placed.
But the Ex-Sheriff no sooner lost his money than
he lost his temper also. He was thus betrayed into
the commission of an act which no provocation could
justify—we mean the publication of the confidential
letters which passed between Mr. O'CONNELL anti
himself in relation to the Carlow election. A man of
cooler temperament, and . greater sagacity, would
have seen at once that this was a worse than
useless violation of that feeling of honour by
which every one having the least pretensions to the
name of gentleman considers himself bound in such
cases, because Mr. R A PHAEL'S expose really gibbeted
himself—not his opponent.
It is evident from the letter now under consideration,
that the ex-Sheriff begins to have some misgivings on
this point. For, although he pretends to nibble at one
or two of Mr. O'CONNELL'S statements, which he
cannot invalidate, his chief aim is to vindicate himself
from the charge of having " published and misapplied
private letters"—of having " violated the privacy of
confidence." And how is this grave and weighty
charge repelled ? Why, the Ex-Sheriff asks "whose
fault it was" (t) that lie (lid so ? The breach of
confidence he does not—he cannot—deny ; but he says
he was ill used ; and this ill usage absolved him from
all obligations to observe the laws of honour. Such
is Mr. RAPHAEL'S defence ! Such is the new code
by which the members of BROOKES'S are in future
to be bound !

In the Times of this Morning, appears a letter to
Lord BROUGHAM, bearing the signature of " Run-
nymede." It is written in a smart, flippant manner—
very much after the fashion of the would-be witty re-
flections in BEN. DISRAELI'S " Vyvyan Grey"—
and indeed, from its extreme foppery of style, we can
attribute its authorship to none but this ingenuous
youth. It is a great pity that this promising springald
will not content himself with catering for the tastes of
the boudoir and drawing-room, instead of rushing
headlong into the arena of politics, where he is
about as much at home as O'CONNELL would
be in the pulpit of the New Jerusalem Tabernacle.
Conceive a DIS RA ELI sitting down deliberately to at-
tack a BROUGHAM ! Why, the mouse attempting to
eat up the lion—of which /Dap speaks so amu-
singly—was nothing to this ! It is edifying, however,
to observe how, in spite of himself, young BEN'S ad-
miration of the first Statesman of his age, peeps out.
He speaks of his sarcasm, as if the very thought of it
were enough to annihilate him. " Your Lordship
(says he) has a genius ; good or bad, it marks you
out from the slaves who crouch to an O'CONNELL,
and insult a BROUGHAM. NAPOLEON marched
from Elba,--you, too, may have your 100 days. What,
though they think you are dying—what—.though
your health is quaffed in ironical bumpers in the
craven vecrecy of their political orgies—what if, after

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received. The Court of Peers passed
sentence on the last of the prisoners of April on Fri-
day. Among them was the prisoner Dr. BEAUMONT,
whose appeal to this Government, as a British subject,
we noticed some weeks since. He was convicted to the en-
tire satisfaction of his Noble Judges, of having been an
active member of the Society of the Rights (y. Man,
and was sentenced by the Court to transportation for
life. As Dr. BEAUMONT was born in New York, it
is probable that the sentence passed upon him by the
Court of Peers, will be brought under the consideration
of Congress as soon as the result of his trial is made
known to the Government of the United States. He
is greatly blamed for the intemperance with which be
conducted his defence.

A rumour prevailed in Paris on Saturday on the
subject of a change of Ministry. The persons named
as about to retire were the Duke'DE BROGLIE, Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs, M. GUIZOT, Minister of
Public Instruction, and M. PERSIL, Minister, of
Justice. They were to be succeeded by MM. HUMANN,
GERARD, and S A UZET. It was further stated that the
Cabinet, consequent upon such an arrangement, would
bring in Bills for the reduction of the five per cents,
and for a general political amnesty. The first of these
measures cannot be long postponed, as six of the nine
Committees into which the Chamber of Deputies is
divided, have declared themselves in its favow, and the

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1856,

other three have yet come to no conclusion on th

subject.

The Foreign intelligence contained in these Journa
will be found in our extracts from them.

The Moniteur at length publishes the long expected promo-
tions in the navy. Rear- Admiral Baron Reni: ; Constant
Lemarant is promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral ; Captains
Le Blanc, Lalaude, and Gailois, to the rank of Rear-Admiral.
A letter from Toulon of the 18th says that the Alyeridas
and Artemise are ordered to take their provisions on board,
and that it is supposed they will shortly sail to join the squadron
of Admiral Mackau at Brest, where it is expected that the
whole squadron will be assembled in the fist fortnight of
February, and immediately proceed to the Antilles to protect
our possessions there, in case of need.
The Sentincile of the Pyrenees, after having announced
that the Carlists had fortified the castle of Guebara, three
leagues from Vittoria (a position which they considered as
highly important), says, in a kind of postcript, that the castle
had been taken by the Christinos. The Gazette says :—" A
report has been spread at Elisondo that Zarandaja (Leon
Yriarte) had fallen into an ambush formed by the 9th and 10th
Isttalions of Navarre, in the environs of Aria, and that having
received two lance wounds, he had. been taken prisoner with
20 foot soldiers and 12 horsemen. This is another piece of
news wh'elt requires confirmation, like that of the desertion to
Don Carlos of a company of the English auxiliaries.
The Bayonne journals received this morning do not speak
of the capture of Don Yriarte by the Carlists, but say that in
Lis late expedition he made some Carlist custom-house officers
prisoners.

The staff of Don Carlos at Onate consists of 800 officers
and monks, who are not one of the smallest burdens on the
finances of the Pretender. _ .

A letter from Vittoria says that the General-in-chief has
deprived Espartero of his command, and that the Chapelprris
are incorporated with the division of General Evans. They
receive six reals daily.
It is affirmed that Guerque is acquitted by the court-mar-
tial, and that Don Carlos has placed under his command four
battalions, with orders to proceed to the Asturias.—Messager,
January 23.

,
Madrid Papers to the 17th inst. have been received.
The Chamber of Peers passed the law voting con-
fidence in the Government, without a single amend-
ment This was as we anticipated it would be
when informed that the Bill had received the
sanction of the Deputie:. In the Chamber of De-
puties, a stormy debate took place on the 14th
on Article IV. of the project of law for
regulating the elections. The first three articles weie
carried, but when the fourth was proposed a majority
voted against it, and in favour of a system_ of direct
election. Strange as it may appear, M. MENDIZABAL
approved of the decision to which the Chamber came
in its discussion on this measure. _ _

The news from the North of Spain received by the
Government was very favourable. The Carlists were
losing
ground in Navarre.

New York Papers to the Ist instant have been re-
ceived. Mr. BARTON had not then reached the
United States, and no further notice was taken by
Congress of the relations between that country and
France. It is said that the President is still for war;
but all will depend upon Mr. BARTON'S report of his

embassy.
The Accounts from Texas are to the 16th ult.
The war continued to rage with unabated violence,
although SANTA ANNA 'had succeeded in repulsirg
the Texians. Whether they will eventually succeed
must depend upon their friends in the United States.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal Papers to the 25th December have been received
at the North and South American Coffee-house. We extract
the following :
" The papers from Nova Scotia and the lower Provinces
received yesterday, are unusually barren of news.
" We are informed by a gentleman who has arrived from
Fredericton, that a smart shock of an earthquake was felt on
the morning of the 30th ult.
" We have much pleasure in stating, that owing to the
readiness with which the Committee of Trade entered into the
views of the deputation from the St. Andrew's Railway Asso-
ciation, about one thousand signatures were in the course of
Tuesday obtained to the petition.
" We have great pleasure in subjoining a portion of a pri-
vate letter from a gentleman in tile eastern district of Upper
Canada. Well may the Constitutionalists tell Lord Gosford
that our neighbours have their eyes upon us r--
" If the Constitutionalists in your province be firm, and pre-
pared to strike the first blow, there can be little apprehension
of the result. To avoid war is to be prepared for it. I always
find my safety in meeting danger more than halfway in this
province. We look on with much concern, and the spirit of
the people here is already so much excited, that many of them
only wait an invitation to go down and assist their countrymen
in Lower Canada. In my opinion the sooner you make a
stand against the tyrannical conduct of the French House of
Assembly the better ; for in the meantime they are forging
chains wherewith to bind you hard and fast.' "
We extract the following from the Baltimore Papers re-
ceived this morning to the 30th December :
" Mexican Journals have been received to the 18th ult., and
from their contents the intelligence appears of a nugatory or
equivocal nature ; Mexico is stated to be tranquil, but the
Journals of that city contain dispatches and other letters
showiug that meetings have taken place in various towns, to
demand of Congress to preserve the Federal Constitution of
1824. The middle and north-western States are still in the
pay of the
.Indians in their incursions, and are market by
murder, plunder, and desolation."
Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 22d November have been.
received at the North andouthern American Coffee- House.
They state;l/4from the Eastern frontier, that " according to
the accounts received by last post, it has not been disturbed for
several weeks past. In the new province, the business of lo-
cating and assigning boundaries, &c., to the various claimants,
is proceeding with little interruption. A correspondent,
however, states that the Commissioners find it difficult to sa-
tisfy the Caffres in the lands given to them. Botma and Crio
flatly refuse to take these intended for them on the river ;
wh:.t will be result, we do not know. They build on their
own lands, at .d the soldiers go and burn them down. Our
correspondent states that Colonel Smith is about to leave the
frontier. He is discharging the Hottentots. They are aug-
menting the Cape Corps as fast as they can. From the Fen-
goe settlement, in the neutral territory, the intelligence is not
satisfactory. The few remaining families, it is feared, will be
compelled to leave, as they are unable to defend their cattle.
All accounts agree in stating, that there is much suffering
and great disorder in Graham Town. Drunkenness has not
diminished."

We have received Swan River Papers to the Bth of August,
and Mauritius Papers to the 22d of October. Their contents
are not important.
The Cape Town Papers further add, that on Wednesday
morning, a pretty smart shock of an earthquake was felt in
Cape Town and its neighbourhood. It lasted about three
seconds. Earthquakes are very rare at the Cape—none has
occur re i since 1809.
Our arrivals this morning are two mails from Calais—two
Ostend—and one Lisbon by the Espoir—►vi►h a number of
ship letters, both•from the West and East Indies.
We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of
yesterday, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 22d instant.
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55 7-16; Five per Cents. 103 k.
The accounts of the loss of the passage-boat on the More-
dyke has been already contradicted by us, and to-day officially
by the Handelsblad.
Calcutta Papers have been received. The following is an
extract of a letter from Bencoolen :—" My letters from Ben-
coolen of the 20th of July are still more gloomy and portentous.
The contiguous county was in a disturbed state—commotions
prevailed." _

The information from New York does not bring the arrival
there of Mr. Barton, as was generally expected. The ship
General Washington, which sailed from Liverpool with the
Pantaloon, with Government dispatches, had arrived out, and
no doubt communicated the sailing of the Pantaloon. Ex-
change 8} on London.
Consols, which left off on Saturday at 914 -1 for Money,
and 91 for the Account, opened this morning rather heavy
at 91 to 91- for Money, and 914 for the Account, with little
doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 ; India Bonds, 35 ;
Bank Stock, 214 215 ; India Stock, 253}.
In the Foreign Market the Securities are not so buoyant as
they closed at on Saturday. Spanish Active left off 491 at
present 49a 1 ; Portuguese, 834 84 ; Three per Cents., 53}
51; Columbian, 33f ; Mexican, 381; Dutch 24 per Cents.,
543- 55. The French prices coming lower has' an effect on
both the Markets.

HALF-PAST ONE.

BUENOS AYRES, OCT. 17.—The country appears to be in a
more prosperous state than for a considerable time past. An
evidence of the confidence that is felt in the stability of the
present Government is afforded by the fact that a voluntary
Loan of upwards of 1 million of dollars has been made to the
present Ministry. Doubloons Spanish, 120 to 121. Exchange
on England, 61. Posted at the North and South American
Coffee House.
t To Stock,
We have seen private letters from Lisbon of the 16th inst.
All was tranquil there, and they do not communicate any news
of importance. The present Ministry maintains their power.
We have also perused letters from Madrid, whichilarndeaco
per
communicate any thing further than what-is already published.
• Consols continue steady at 9111 for the Account. Exche-
quer Bills, 18 20 improved ; India Bonds, 6 4 ;
;Bia)nuktel:
0144 ; India Stock, 252 253.
In the Foreign
iMatroke4t,9l4:anpishortuAgcuteivsee, is heavy,
re-
ceded from 481
and a Half per Cents., 55• per Cents. 531 ; Colombian, 331 ; Mexican, 38i
THREE 6' CL 0 (..K
Consols for the Account, 911 i'• '

Mr. George Henry reeling has left town for Paris;
to resume his negociations with the Frinvh Government,
on the subject of the Post-office.