The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1838.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY, Dxc. 14.

United States to abandon their system of prohibitory duties,
and adopt a system of moderate duties, having reference to
finance only, and none to manufactures, provided we adopted
a similar course with regard to corn. The proposition was
refused ; we adhered to our restrictive policy with regard to
American flour, and the Americans retained their high duties
upon English manufactures. The Chairman then took an
extended review of the principal objections urged, on the part
of the agriculturists, against a repeal of the Corn-laws, and
concluded by reading the petition which had been prepared by
the Directors.
Mr. S. FLETCHER moved a resolution to the effect that a
petition be presented to the House of Commons, praying for a
repeal of the existing Corn-laws. He did not consider this
question as at all bearing the aspect of p-a7ty, nor as de-
signed to place in invidious contrast the agricultural and
trading interests for the purpose of advancing one at the
expense of the other. Those interests were so closely
identified that they must either fall or rise together, and,
on this ground, he held it impolitic to legislate pirtialty
fcr either. If protection were required, let it be well
defined, simple, easily understood, and equal to commerce
and agriculture. He questioned, however, if the interests
of both and of the community would not be better advanced
by leaving them to take care of themselves.—( Hear, hear.)
So far as he had read and conversed upon this ques-
tion, he gathered that the principle of the present Corn-law
was bad, that it had not afforded the farmer the protection
sought for, whilst it had placed the importer of foreign
corn in a position that exposed him to all the temptations
and hazards of gambling speculations. But the supporters
of the Corn-law shrunk from meeting the question on its
merits, lest, in endeavouring to improve the principle they
-hould lose it altogether. Now the idea of rendering a
country independent of other countries was altogether
erroneous—in fact, it was nothing less than a new edition
of the old fable of the Belly and the Members There
was no such thing as independence : neither nations nor indi-
viduals were independent ; it had pleas.ed God to make us all
dependent upon each other. The dangers alleged to follow a
repeal of the Corn-laws, he considered, had been much exag-
e:crated. If they were repealed it was said that rents must.
be lower, the circulating medium reduced that Government

An extensive calico printing establishment, in Manchester,
has stopped payment for upwards of 90,0001. The assets arc
understood to be considerable.

ELECTION OF COIIIIION-COUNCILMEN FOR

TIIE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER.
The election of forty-eight Councilmen for the borough o,
Manchester took place this day, in the return of Reformers
for every Ward. Indeed, there was only one Ward contested,
viz.—the New Cross Ward, which returns six membei s. The
Tories took no part in contesting this solitary Wbr 1 ; the
honour of so doing was left to the Torch- light Radicals (with
little exertion on behalf of the Liberals), who might thus have
the comfort of knowing 11.% exact amount of their strength,
and thus assist them in then• calculations on some other occa.
sloe. The honours, whatever they may be, will be thus di.
vided among the Council : viz., ten Churchmen, fourteen
Unitarians, twelve Independents, two Scotch Dissenters, one
Now Connexion and two Association Methodists, one Evan-
gelical and two old Quakers, one Baptist, and two doubtfuls.
But of nearly f,',000 votes registered as municipal voters for
the borough of Manchester, scarcely half the number recorded
their votes; all of which, however, were for the Liberal can-
didates, except about 100, who voted for the Torch-light
Radicals.
There is some uncertainty as to who will be Aldermen ; but
little, if any, as to who will be Mayor. Thomas Potter,
Esq., the brother of the Member of Parliament for Wigan,
whose time and purse have, for the last twenty-five years, been
at the command of the Reformers of this district, will no doubt
be our first Mayor.

A short time since there were two pair of massive cast-iron
gates made by Messrs. Dean and Co., iron-founders, Bolton,
for the Grand Turk's Seraglio, and which many thousands
went to see, which weigh nearly forty tons. They arc twenty-
eight feet in height, and cost 1,2701. When treble gilt,
which they are intended to be, they will doubtless surpass in
splendour anything in the world. The design is exquisite.
OPERATION OF THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT IN MANCHESTER.
--
Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless fact, that on Sunday
last, the 9th instant, there were announced at the Coll: giate
Church, Manchester, no fewer than 219 couples, as candidates
for hymeneal bliss, a greater number than were " asked at
Church" during any part of the month immediately preceding the
passing of the late Marriage Act. How is this, seeing that
the Catholics arc estimated at full one-fourth of the popula-
tion, and who now invariably marry at their own chapels?
MANCHESTER CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 13.—There was an
excellent show of stock to-day, and, as has always been the
case a week or two before Christmas, the buyers were nume-
rous. Nearly all cleared oft at the full rates of last week-
-1,470 beasts, 41d. to 6d. per lb. ; 4,760 sheep, 51d. to 7d. ;
36 calves, 6id. to each sinking offal.

would not be able to pay its expanse?, and, in short, that the
whole country would be paralyzed. Now he conceived that
rents might be brought lower without the value of land being
reduced. In this country the value of land was not measured
by the amount of protection affirded by Corn-laws, but by the
wealth of the inhabitants, an,d by the vastness of their com-
mercial operations. A wealthy country like this was able to
command the destinies of the world, and, in it, the value of
land could never be endangered, because the wealth obtained
by commerce would always seek to be invested in land, a cir-
cumstance that would prevent land becoming lower. He
thought then that the question of a repeal of the Corn-laws was
one of national importance, and that it ought to be studied by
all classes of the community. The discussion of this question
had been so long deferred, under various pretences, till at last
it seemed to have come upon us with the power of an armed
man ; but he trusted that the Legislature would now decide it
with a wise determination.

REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS.

MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

OF MANCHESTER.

A special general meeting of the Members and Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce was held on Thursday, in the
rooms of the Institution, Town Hall Buildings, King-street,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of
petitioning the Legislature for a repeal of the existing Corn-
laws. The meeting was convened by the President of the
Chamber, upon a Requisition signed by the number of Mem-
bers required by the bye laws, and was most numerously at-
tended. G. W. Wood, Esq., M. P., the President, was
called to the chair, upon the motion of Mr. R. Birley ; .
se-
conded by Mr. Tootal.
_ _

Mr. 11I.VicAa seconded the motion, and it was unanimously
carried.

Mr. WILLIAM NIELD proposed the second resolution, " That
the petition now read be adopted and signed by the Chairman
on behalf of the Chamber." We bad been told that agricul-
ture and commerce were twin brothers. Now, without wishing
to disturb the relationship, or to call it in question, he must
say that, in his opinion, one brother had, in some instances,
regarded himself rather too much as heir-at-law. And whether
the agricultural interest had been subjected to that fair com-
petition to which the commercial interest had been, was matter
for consideration. We, as commercial men, had been jostling
first in the home market with ourselves, and next in the foreign
market with our rivals, till we had spread the commerce of
Great Britain to almost every island in the habitable globe;
and in doing so, had we not increased the prosperity of both
interests in a degree far beyond what either could have ac-
quired without the assistance of mercantile energies? The
effects of competition en our own interests were various, and
well known to every gentleman in the room ; and he might state
his own case as an illustration. The special article with which

Tne CHAIRMAN said he had called this special general
meeting of the Members of the Chamber of, Commerce,
in conformity with an unanimous wish of the Board of
Directors. They had taken the important question of the
Corn-laws into their consideration at two or three suc-
cessive meetings, and he was happy to say that they agreed
in opinion that the subject was one on which it became the
business of the Chamber at this time to express its opinion.
The Directors had requested him to lay before the Chamber
the form of a petition which they had unanimously adopted;
RS suitable to be sent to the House of Commons ; end they
had also desired him to express the views which had actuated
them in its preparation. And he should attempt to do this,
though speaking from the Chair, where any partizanship
would be exceedingly improper, but which might be allowable,
and perhaps justifiable upon this occasion, since, amongst the
Directors, no difference of opinion existed; and therefore he
should have to state nothing but that in which all concurred.
At the present moment the subject was especially interesting,
because, after having enjoyed, for a series of years, moderate,
and even low prices of corn, we were now, in consequence of
one of those dispensations of Providence with which all
countries were occasionally visited, suffering from the high
prices of corn, arising from the comparative failure of the
last harvest. If a change in the national yoliey, with regard
to the corn trade, were to take place, at appeared to him
that no time could be more propitious than the present,
when the country had been enjoying low prices ; when the
expectations and habits of the farmers were adapted to those
low prices ; and when rents had also accammodated them-
selves to such a state of things. If they were to wait for
a change till the country had become familiar with a high
scale of prices, it was to be apprehended that any change
then would be attended with greater injury to the farmers than
would now take place—if any injury there would be—and if,
in consequence of improving prices, rents should have arise.,
there would be more difficulty in persuading the landlords to
acquiese, and more suffering to themselves in permitting it.
Oe all these accounts, therefore, the present was the most fa-
vourable time that could have ben selected for making the
change. Since the peace, two important statutes had been
passed with reference to this subject. The first was in the
year 1815, and the second in the year 1828 ; and the latter
was the statute under which the trade in corn was now regu.
lated. It was a remarkable circumstance, and one with which
the country should be well acquainted, that the law of 1815 in-
troduced what was deemed, upon all hands, a new principle
into the trade. It introduced, for the first time, in the lan-
guage of the Duke of Wellington, the principle f prohibition,
namely, that the importation of foreign corn should be abso-
lutely prohibited, until the averages, as recorded in the
Gazette, reached SOs. per quarter, after which prohibition
should cease, and a free unlimited import take place. This
was the law under which the country went from 1815 to 182'),
but so far from having answered the expectations of those
who urged upon the Legislature its adoption, the landed
and farming interest suffered exceedingly from lowness
and vicissitudes of price, whilst the people, during the
same period, suffered from the great elevation of prices. The
agricultural interest applied to Parliament for relief; and a
Committee was appointed, who recommended a change in
the law. A new law was introduced in consequence of that
oe f':
osdalsl:o:
recommendation, but, as if the course of events in matters
so complicated would ever baffle the endeavours of legislators
to provide for what was to happen for the future, a provision
was introduced into the law which made it nugatory. The
new law never once came into operation, and the country
continued to suffer from the same legislation from 1815 to
1828. He alluded to this subject to show that, in caning the
attention of Parliament and the country to this question,
and, in recommending the Chamber to petition for a re-con-
sideration of this question, and for a change in the existing
law, they were not assailing any of the ancient and. valuable
institutions of the country, or interfering with a system which
had engrafted itself in our habits and customs. He could
not characterise the injurious character of the law of 1815
in terms comparable with those in which it was spoken
of by one of the most distinguished statesmen of the day,
now no more—the late Mr. Canning. Perfectly aware of
the mistake then made, and of the injurious consequences
which had ensued, in the year 1827—within a year from
his death, and within a few days of his becoming Primo
Minister—Mr. Canning proposed, in the name of Lord
Liverpool's Government, an alteration, with the full concur-
rence of Lord Liverpool himself. He spoke of the operalion
of the law of 1815, tien in full force in these terms :—[The
Chairman then read along extract from Mr. Canning's speech
in the !louse of Commons on the Ist March, 1827, in which
he denounced the Corn-law of 1815 as being a futile attempt
to reconcile two opposite principles.l Mr. Canning's propo-
sition was founded upon another change in the system--the
substitution of duties for absolute prohibition ; his Bill passed
the House of Commons, but it was lost in the House of Lords.
Mr. Canning became Prime Minister whilst the Bill was be-
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passed by which the corn trade was now governed. The pro-
fessed principle
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change, and a valuable improvement :
much, but beyond this it had done but little,
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failed, to a lamentable degree, to realise
thoseT he expect-
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which Mr. Canning had formed of
in producing prices fluctuating from 395. 4d.
per quarter to
70s. and 80s., and to describe the evil effects of the variation
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man then proceeded to show the operation jotf. the
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contended could only ensue from the adoption of the principle
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to avoid extremes of dearness and cheapness, results which. he
plauwlatni.oana
taondsotohnerefarmer. The avowed
of commercial freedom. The effects of interference with
trade in corn were not confided to home, but it was producingi
most injurious consequences to our foreign relations. . Weate
could not expect that foreign states should seek to cultivate
with us a trade in corn vvhen the demand for it here was so
small, and liable to be stopped as speedily as it sprung
.up.
To set them an example of the adoption of the principle
of prohibition, was to encourage them to adopt a simi-
lar course, as to taking our manufactures, upon which
our prosperity depended. Our course of dealing had led
to a feeling of jealousy on the part of other powerful states,
and induced them to become our rivals. The merchants
and manufacturers of this town were suffering from the
operation of the German league,
which was a system
similar in kind, though not equal in degree, which our
Government were putting into operation with regard to corn.
They (the Germans) protected their home manufactures by
high duties, and we sought, by high duties, to protect the corn
trade at home. The manufactures of the United States had
had their origin in national feeling Within his day, Ame-
rica was in no degree a manufacturing country, and we had
been taught to believe it was not possible she could become
one, and yet, in consequence of our engaging in war with her
she was thrown upon her own resources, manufactures were
established, then came legislative protection, then came high
daties, and thus the masufacturing industry of America had
reached a pitch which was most formidable to ourselves. On
one occasion a proposition was made by the President of the

he was concerned had, within the last 17 or 18 years, been
reduced in value 75 per cent., or from 100 per cent. to 25.
Various causes had certainly contributed to produce this great
fall, but competition was the most powerful. He would ask
whether the agricultural interest of the country had been
fairly subjected to this competition ? Had the landed interest,
instead of having to devote their energies in the way com-
mercial men were compelled to do, been fairly brought into
the field ? There was no want of intelligence amongst them;
but he did think there was a want of enterprize, and a want of
calling forth those energies which they did possess in aid of
that competition to which, he conceived, they ought to be
subjected. He might be told that the case of commerce was
not parallel to that of agriculture, perhaps it was not; he
might be told, "you may multiply machines, but cannot mul-
tiply the number of acres of land"--this was true; but if the
information he received from celebrated agriculturists was
true, he could say that there were meens of making land more
productive. Cases could be produced of land having been
doubled and even trebled in value, and if this had been
done in many instances, he conceived that the practice
might be extended very largely. However, let the agri-
cultural interest be subjected to the same degree of com-
petition, or to a relative proportion, as the commercial interest,
and that circumstance, he had no doubt, would materially
assist in rectifying any difficulty which might for a time take
place. Under these circumstances, as commercial men, he
thought the Chamber had great reason to complain, and that
it was high time for the legislature to give this subject the
consideration which it deserved.
Mr. RICHARD BIRLEY seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. B. SMITH said he completely dissented from the
prayer of the petition, as no inference could be drawn from it
except that the Chamber approved of some sort of Corn-law.
He did not know what was the meaning of the President in
referring to the ancient institutions of the country when upon
the subject of the Corn-laws; but he (Mr. Smith) would just
state, that the whole course of legislation by the Corn-laws was
the most scandalous attempt of certain legislators to serve their
own purposes that was to be found in the history of any couri-
ot
try.
upassedn w e could
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of
At the revolution of 1688, when England was an export-
ingntry
what did our,
Par-
liament declaring a bounty of ss. upon every quarter of corn
country when
we
legislators grew
do? more n
exported, thus enabling foreign consumers to eat British
They r a
an
bread at a less rate than Englishmen themselves And
from the year 1740 to 1750 no less a sum than 1,515,0001.
was paid in this way for the benefit of the landed proprietors.
[A portion of this gentleman's speech has, by some accident, not
reached us; but that which has goes on es follows :—] He had
before him another specimen of beautiful stockings—here were
two of similar quality, that of Nottingham manufacture were
selling at °3s. a dozen, whilst the Saxon might be bought at
Hamburg for 12s. 4id. Was net this real foreign competi-
tion? What were we to say of our Corn-laws when the
Saxons could make articles at this amazingly low rate, and
buy their yarn in the same market as the Nottingham manu-
facturers? The yarn from which these Saxon stockings were
made was spun in England ; it was then sent to Hamburg; tho
Saxons then had to traverse 700 miles, and yet it came back ma-
nufactured and ready to be sold at the low rate he had mentioned.
After this explanation, he thought the meeting would agree
with him that the Chamber ought to take a higher and more
determined tone in their petition to Parliament upon the Corn-
laws. Mr. Smith went on at considerable length to enforce
his views, and to contend, from the reply of the President
of the Board of Trade to a memoral from the London mer-
chants, proposing that the duty on British coffee should be
reduced from 6i. per lb. to 31d., and upon foreign coffee
deter-
mined stick istO 3di•
per lb. to 7d., that the Government were
ck by monopolies. In conclusion, he said he had,
by these statements, shown that the effects of our Corn-law
legislation bad been most scandalous, that it was absolutely
necessary it should be entirely abolished, and that the Cham-
ber ought to state in the petition, that whilst they sought for
the abolition of all monopolies in agriculture, they did not
seek any protection upon manufactures.
A very long and irregular discussion followed, in which it
was contended, on the part of the Directors, that as the pe-
tition was moderately worded, and was drawn up in the
spirit of argumentative reasoning, it would be more likely
to be successful than if it demanded all that was worsted,
and enforced that demand by confident assertion. On the
other hand it was urged that as the. Chamber, last year,
had presented a strong petition, praying for an immediate
abolition of the Corn-laws, and as such an event was but
an act of justice to the manufacturing interests, a petition
which desired less could not be adopted without compromising
the judgment of the Chamber, and laying it open to the re-
proach that it was behind the interests that it professed to
protect in knowledge and energy. The 'view of the Directors
was supported by Mr. Tootal, Mr. Fletcher, the Chairman,
Mr. Sanders, and several others; whilst it was opposed by
Mr. Smith, Mr. Cobden (who gave a long and interesting
statement of the machine-making, and spinning, and manufac-
turing establishments, on the Continent), Mr. Dyer, Mr.
Rawson, Mr. Ashworth, Mr. E. Ashworth, and others. An
amendment was moved that the meeting be adjourned till
Thursday next, to afford time to amend the petition ; but after
much debate it was withdrawn, on the condition that the ori-
ginal motion be withdrawn. This was assented to ; and ulti-
mately a motion was carried for the adjournment of the meet-
ing till next Thursday, when the subject will be again dis-
cussed.
Mr. Toone then took the Chair, and thanks were voted
to the President of the Chamber for his conduct therein.
The meeting lasted from eleven o'clock till a quarter past
four.

Mr. Mark Pinale, the respected Magistrate of
Cowfold,
a small parish in Sussex, has advanced the wages
of all his married labourers two shillings a-week.

NEW WORK, BY THE AUTIIOR OF " TRE-
curiosiPtyted
NIAINE."—An unusual degree of interest and curiosity has
ptirtelevailed concerning the nature of Mr. Ward's new work,
" Pictures of the World at Home and Abroad." The
especially as it referred to the production of a
without in the smallest degree satisfying
writer whose skill in drawing " pictures of the world"—the
real and living world of society and human nature—un-
questionably surpasses that of any of his living rivals.
There may be writers who concoct a story with more art
than Mr. Ward, but none who place before us such living
and breathing " pictures" of the characters and scenes he
desires to represent. The very high expectations enter-
tained as to this new work are most fully realized. For
truth of outline, force of expression, and brilliance of co
louring, these " pictures" equal, at the very least, if not
surpass, any that have hitherto proceeded from the same
gifted and accomplished hand.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

FRANCE.

The Moniteur contains a Royal ordinance, dated yesterday,
which, in honour of Marshal Gerard's accession to the com-
mand, remits all the punishments adjudged by the Councils of
Discipline of the National Guards of the Department, and
suppresses all preceedings commenced previous to the promul-
gation of this ordinance.
" The Municipal Council of the department of the Seine,"
says the Siecle, " yesterday set aside the demand of the Pro.
curcur du Roi for a manifestation from that body to afnrd
grounds for the prosecution of M. Altaroche, for an article in
the Charivari, in which the grant of 20,000 f. for the funeral
of Marshal Lobau was strongly criticised. The Council ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction at the paltry manner in which the
Church of the Invalids had been decorated on the occasion
of Marshal Lobau's funeral, sad intimated not only that the
Government should have fulfilled its promise of contributing
towards the expense of the ceremonial, but that the gallant
veteran's obsequies might have been appropriately solemnized
for the 20,0001. expended on them. In the course of the
discussion it was stated that 1,500 f. of the money had been
paid to the Clergy of the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois,
and it was added that the Archbishop of Paris had demanded
10,0001. for honouring the solemnity with his presence. Se-
veral of the members objected altogether to the vote of
20,0001."
A quartermaster of the 4th Lancers committed a most de-
termined suicide a few days ago, in the general hospital at
'Fours, whilst taking a bath. Having made an ineffectual at-
tempt to cut the artery of each arm with a table-knife, he next
stabbed himself to the heart, and previously to expiring en-
deavoured to divide the crural a:tery. His desperate act is
attributed to the sufferings which he had long felt from a can-
cer in the stomach, produced, it is supposed, by an excessive
indulgence in spirituous liquors. He was in other respects a
man of good character, and was 47 years of age.
The dignity of Marshal of France dates back as far as 1183,
when Albric Clement, Seigneur of Metz, was appointed to
that office, second only in rank to that of Connetable. There
have been 295 Marshals of France during the 653 years that
have elapsed since then until the present time.
The first edition of M. Casimir Delavigne's new play, La
Popularite, has been purchased, it is asserted, for 8,000 f., by
M. Dolloye, the publisher.
The responsible editors of the Gazette de France and Temps
were yesterday summoned before the Tribunal of Correctional
Police, •for having given an unfaithful account of the proceed
ings in the case of the prosecution for libel recently brought
by Messrs. Perier, sons of the late M. Casimir Perier, against
several Journals of the capital. The Editor of the Temps was
also charged with having, in his account of the case in ques-
tion, inserted various expressions insulting to the Crown law-
yers. After a long hearing the Editor of the Gazette was
acquitted, but the Editor of Temps was condemned to one
month's imprisonment, 2,0001. fine, and the costs of the pro-
ceedings.
The France is facetious on the subject of M. Dupin's al-
leged intention to publish a pamphlet explanatory of his poli-
tical opinions, "which," observes this Journal, " have re-
mained best known to himself ever since the Revolution of
1830." The Legitimatist organ then applies to the Hon.
Deputy's case an anecdote told of Talleyrand, who, when
under the necessity of explaining to Louis XVIII. his parti-
cipation in the execution of the Duke d'Enghein, presented
the King with a memorial commencing with these words—
" Sire, your Majesty will learn nothing new from me,"—
" and he kept his promise," says the France, " for after read-
ing the memorial Louis 111. was as wise as ever. So will
it be with M. Dupin's pamphlet."
The following is one of the gravest instances and one of the
most expressive symptoms of the power which the Government
has allowed the Clergy to assume. The recital of it needs no
comment. Who should have thought that after the revolution
of July the Jesuits would recover the power to punish those to
whom they succumbed during the restoration ? We will war-
rant the truth of the details we arc going to give :
M. the Count de Montlosior died at Clermont- Ferrand on
the Bth of this month, of an inflammation in the bowels. Be-
fore his death his Bishop obtained permission to see him, and
did not cease to solicit from bin importunately a rehactation
of his writings ; it may be easily understood, that by this ge-
neral proposition, worthy of good fathers, they wished spe-
cially to impugn the famous Memoire a Consulter. The Pre-
late failed..

M. de Montlosier wished to confess only ; but all the cures
had been ordered not to I:sten to him before he had signed
this retractation. The sick man experienced a violent crisis.
That' sent for a Vicar in the absence of the Cure ; this eccle-
siastic was edified by the words of M. de Montlosier ; be
went directly to the Bishop's house in order to signify the
piety of his penitent. " Wretch," said he to him, " have you a
retractation in writing? Return immediately and make him
accept that which we shall give you." The Vicar, trembling,
presented it to the family, who protested, and this ecclesiastic
declared then that the confession was null. On hearing these
unworthy words, M. de Montlosier declared that he was
ready to make a declaration signed by four of his friends.
They drew up the declaration, which was taken to the Bishop
by the Vicar. It was rejected. This is a copy of the decla-
ration : _

" I declare that I never meant to write anything against
the Apostolic and Roman Catholic religion, in whose bosom
I wish to die. _ _

" If any doctrine opposed to its dogmas and my morals has
escaped me, I repudiate them as contrary to my past and pe-
sent intentions."

The Vicar having again presented himself bearer of this
refusal, the dying man refused to see him again. "Do not
talk to me any more of a declaration to insert in the news_
papers."

This incredible obstinacy did not stop here; the former
Bishop had excommunicated him, and the actual Bishop c-m-
-sequently refused him Christian burial. All Clermont is
indignant.
The body of M. de Montlosier is to be taken to Randanne,
where he had his tomb constructed.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, DECEMBER 13

Five per Cents., 109 f 80c. 75c Latest Prices-109f. 85c.
Four per Cents., 103 f. 50c.
Throe per Cents., 79f. 50c. Vc Ditto 79f. 5Cc.
Bank Actions, 2,' 933. 2,680 f. ...... Ditto 2,69 f.

itente de Naples, 9jf.sie.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%
Spanish Actives, 10 ys
Spanish Passives, 3%.
Belgian Five per Cents., 10034
Belgian Bank, 1,59" f. 1 30f. 1,223 f. 1,,'35f Ditto 1,300 f.
H 2ytian Loan, 402 f.
EICIIANGIt ON LONDON.--Onemonth, paper,25f.2714c.; moncy,2sf 25e.
fl• i•pe months, paper. tlsf. ; monay. ?51. 12%,.
A letter from Gaudaloupe of the 12th of October men-
tions that the yellow fever is still making its ravages in that
island, and that three members of the Cour Royale, Messrs.
Reboul, Coprcpry, and Lasserre, have fallen victims to it.