The Sun.
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The attainment of this position has not been effected
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vincial Press has declared to be unparalleled.
We shall not, however, pause here. There are
other thins of importance which have never
been attempted by any Newspaper, but which we
propose to effect.
The private business of Parliament involves property,
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ceedings. We intend to supply the desideratum, by
furnishing accurate and daily reports of the proceed-
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important character, can no longer take place-
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don Journals published only once a week
propose to remedy this defect by givin
reports of every Corn-market of importance
in the kingdom immediately after it takes place ;
so that before any farmer goes to market, he
may know the prices that have been obtained,
in the shortest possible time, in his neigh-
bourhood.
Besides the above, we propose many other im-
provements which must contribute greatly to the
advantage of our readers ; but we have not time
to advert to them. Let us be judged by our
merits.

Sun Office, January 1, 1838.

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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1838

NEWS FROM BRAZIL.

We have received the following account from our
Livertiool Correspondent, which is important at the
prevent moment :

LIVEUPOOL, JAN. 3.—We have been at a loss to ac
count here for the great decline in the price of Brazilian
Stock, which took place in London yesterday, and which is
stated in an Evening Paper to beattributed to unfavourable
intelligence from Maranham and Pernambuco. The Paper,
however, does not give any authority for the rumour.
By tho arrival of the il/bion,Captain Keswick, this after-
noon, we have advices from Maranham to the 25th of
November, that is about eighteen days later than ashen
the insurrection had broken out at Bahia. When the Al-
bion left Maranham every thing was quiet ; there was a
good demand for British goods—Cotton was rising
in price—and every thing denoted quiet, and that
business was in a very thriving condition. They had
received no account of the insurrection at Bahia,
nor had they any recent advices from Pernambuco ; but to
those who are acquainted with the trade, this circumstance
will not La considered as at all uncommon.
To whatever other circumstance the fall, therefore, is
to be attributed, there has certainly been no grounds for it
at Maranham, and as the vessel has made a very quick
passage, there is hardly a probability she can have been
anticipated.

The John Taylor, from Charleston, arrived to-day, but
she has brought no papers ; and the private letters do not
contain any matter of importance.

Immediately preceding the great outcry raised about
two years since, for the Reform of the House of
Lords, the Times—then entering on a career of poli-
tical apostacy—had the efFrontery to tell its readers
that a single article which it deigned to publish on the
subject would" silence for ever the babbling demo-
crats." The country laughed to scorn the ignorant
and insolent 'bravado. The question acquired addi-
tional popularity from the attempt made by a recreant
journal to impugn it. Meetings were called wherever
public opinion could manifest itself ; and the Lords
soon found the brazen shield of the thunderer of Print-
ing-house-square as poor a protection as did the guar-
dians who, under the old pauper sys.tern, drove so
flourishing a trade in parochial 1-,rendicancy. A simi-
lar result may be antici attempt gated from the silly now
made in the quarter to abuse the public mind on
the questirdn of the Ballot. In our columns of yester-
day re inserted an article from the Times—the first of
a. series we are given to understand—purporting to
prove, by a prileesa of reasoning unparalleled
m the schools-..firstly, that the Ballot, if adopted,
would cause the " high and indomitable spirit,
pt out countrymen to dwindle and degenerate to that
of a sneaking pedlar ;" secondly, that it would not
secure secresy ; and thirdly, that it would not prevent
bribery and corruption. Now, the very cry for tha
Ballot is proof positive that the " high and indomita.;
ble spirit" of the electoral body has yielded to the basal
bfluence of Tory gold, or quailed before the terrors of
aristocratic persecution. The Tinzcs knows right well
that were the electors " indomitable," there would be
no occasion for having recourse for security to a Bal-
lot box. But it is a farce to talk of the " indomitable
spirit" of constituencies purchased at so much a head,
and driven like cattle to a polling booth, there to per-
jure themselves, and betray their country to escape the yen-
geancethat would otherwise fall upon them, their friends,
and their families. Let it not be supposed that we esteem

less highly than the Times whatever is essentially great or
good in the character of our fellow-countrymen. But
we will not descend to the baseness of extolling them
for a corrupt and shameless abandonment of principle
—for evincing at the hustings a profligate disregard of
every moral and divine obligation. We would he un-
--..otthy of the trust reposed in us (ELI, we seek, viltl-a,
the Times, to confound the effrontery of impniteot
venality with that ".7ral courage which is equally proof
against the blandishments and the terrors of aristo-
cratic, irresponsible power.
Turning to the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons, appointed in 1835, to consi
der the most effectual means of " preventing bribery,
corruption, and intimidation, in the election of Mem-
bers to serve in Parliament," w,.: find the following
evidence of what the recreant Times pompously calls
the " high and indomitable spirit" in so much danger
of degenerating to that of a " sneaking pedlar" by the
adoption of a system of secret voting :---
Evidence of Mr. JOHN JAMES, of Hereford, before
the Committee, with respect to the purity of the con-
stituency of that borough :
" His bribery increased in Hereford since the passing of the
Reform Bill ?—I believe bribery to have prevailed at Hereford
since the passing of the Reform Bill to a much more consider-
able extent than before.
" Has the bribery you speak of been direct or indirect, or
both ?—Direct and indirect, both.
" Do Sou mean that money has been paid previous to the
elect ion ?—Certainly.
" Have you seen the bribery oath refused by those to whom
it has been tendered ?—Never; I believe the man who takes
the money will always take the oath.
" Does the fear of the loss of their licences act upon pub-
licans?-1 have no doubt it does; I have known an instance
where a man in Hereford supported the Corporation, and who
stated to see that the only reason he voted against us was, that
he was promised a licence for his house.
" Do the gentlemen in the neighbourhood of the city of
Hereford interfere much ?—They do very much.
" By threats to tradesmen of the loss of custom?—Yes."
Mr. CHARLES COWELL, of Ipswich, examined re-
specting the " high and indomitable spirit" which pre-
vails in that borough :
" What was the price paid for a vote-to those who received
the bribe ?—I should suppose from 11. up to 50/.
" Does bribery exist among the better class of shopkeepers,
as well as the lower order of shopkeepers?—No, I do not think
bribery exists, but intimidation does.
" Now, with reference to the exercise of intimidation, I
think you stated that although the better class of shopkeepers
were not much attacked in the way of bribes, yet that consider-
able intimidation was exercised aver them?—Yes, considerable
intimidation has been exercised ; I know several of the most
respectable shopkeepers who would not vote at all at the last
election, fearing to prejudice themselves with their customers.
" Does not a belief exist in the minds of tradesmen, that if
they vote in any particular manner, their conduct in voting is
likely to be visited upon ihcm with the withdrawal of custom ?
—Yes, when I wont round canvassing I was told this repeat-
edly,—' We were injured last time in consequence of voting
for Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wason, and they have not protected
us by the ballot, and we do not think we are called on to
make the same sacrifice again for them ;' that was the fre-
quent reply that was made to me when I was canvassing.
" Do you know whether the persons who gave that answer
to you, voted at all at the last election, and whom they voted
for ?—Several of them did not vote at all.
" In the course of your canvass, did you find voters who
told you, ' We are willing to vote for you, if a case of neces-
sity arises, or we are sent for ; but we would rather not be
called upon to vote, unless it is a case of necessity ?'---.Msny.
" In point of fact, did you call upon voters who made that
answer to you, to come up and vote on the second day ?—I
did, and was, at the time the poll closed, with two very respec-
table tradesmen in Ipswich, who placed themselves in my
hands in this way. One of them sent a message to me about
nine or ten o'clock in the morning of the second day, request..
ing to see me ; I called, and he told me it would be very un-
pleasant for him and his friends to be called upon to rote ;
they wished not to vote ; but if at any time I could come to
them and say we had reason to believe their votes would turn
the election, they would not hesitate to come up and poll ;
they said, we will leave it to you altogether, as a point of
honour, but do not call upon us unless our votes are essential
to carry the election ; if they are we will come, but do not
place us in the situation of offending our friends, if we merely
swell the minority ; and in consequence I waited with the
gentlemen till the poll closed, and did not ask them to go and
-rote. Several more tradesmen acted on the same principle,
and did net vote.
" Is there' ny feeling in favour of the Ballot gaining ground
at Ipswich?—The events at the last election I would say have
materially strengthened the feeling in favour of the Ballot ;
for instance, many of my own particular friends, who were
heretofore strongly opposed to the Ballot, have now declared
themselves converts to the Ballot.
" Do you conceive the Ballot would be a preventive of
bribery at Ipswich ?—Yes, my sentiments are very strong upon
the subject ; I consider the Ballot is the only security for the
independence of the suffrages."
Mr. T. EDWARDS' and Mr. J. R. STAFF, of
Norwich's, account of the " indomitable" virtue of the
Norwich electors :
" Did you lose two Members of Parliament for not bribing
them ?—We did.
" Did your opponents bribe them ?—Yes, they did.
" Have you any evidence of that ?—There is the evidence
of
" Could that bribery be traced to the candidates so as to
affect their seats ?—No, it could not.
" Is it within your knowledge that by the adherents and
partisans bribery was carried on on the other side 7—To an
enormous extent ; I am certain, from my knowledge of the
constituency, that unless they had had a very strong influence
indeed, they would never have done it.
M. HARMAN VISGER, of Bristol's, evidence of the
independence of the electors in that city :
" Did it appear that after polling they received any money
or any order for drink?—At the bribery box.
" At the bribery box, in the way you described yesterday ?
Yes ; also what was called Blue beef at Chri,tmas, which I
believe was a cunning way of avoiding the name of polling-
money.
" There was also a distribution of beef at Christmas, was
there ?—There was.
" To the members of the Operative Society ?—Yes, and to
all who voted.
" It was distributed under the name of charity ?—lt was
distributed very ostentatiously, under the name of Blue beef.
I saw sonic splendid oxen, decorated with blue ribbons, driven
about the city about Christmas, and which were understood to
he the oxen which were to be given to the voters on the Blue
interest : this was Christmas 1832. Ido not know whether I
should remark here, that there was another distribution of beef
subsequent to the late election, ostentatiously advertised,
which I will read. This is the Tory paper—the organ of the
Tory party—Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 21st March,
1835 :--` A subscription, amounting to about 800/., has been
raised in this city for the purpose of enabling the Conservative
operatives to celebrate the triumph of their principles at the
last election ; it will be distributed among them in the course
of a few days in bread and beef, that mode being coaside red
preferable to a public entertainment, in which the wives and
children of tile voters would not have participated : the men
will receive about 14lbs. of prime beef, and three quartern
loaves.' I saw cart-loads of bread, and in one or two places
crowds waiting about to receive this. There is no doubt what-
ever that they did thus received this which was promised, and
the value is as near as possible the 7s. 6d. polling-money.
Mr. JAMES HUDSON of Leicester's testimony of
the public virtue of that constituency :
" Will you describe the manner in which that system works,
in the first place with regard to bribery ?—Simply in this way,
that those who have the best purse are sure to be returned ;
politics are comparatively immaterial.
" In what shape was the bribe administered ?—ln a variety
of ways ; the general rule is to give a district ticket at the
commencement ; the town is divided into districts.
" Are those districts each under the superintendence of a
Curnalittee ?—Yes, or rather of an agent_ ; two agents are
appointed connected with the general Committee, to superin-
tend particular districts.
" Are those district tickets given by those agents ?—They
are given by the agents of the Committee from some of the
workers of the Committee. I find a vote in districts No. Bor
2, or whatever it may be, I take it to the Committee, and I get
a ticket from one of the leaders of that Committee that the
man belongs to districts 2 or 8 ; the working of that ticket at
the last election was this, that a district ticket for the --
1 party gave that man free access to all the public-houses for
eating and drinking the whole of the time, and I think we
never had so much eating and drinking and drunkenness as
we had at the last election."
Of the manly patriotism of the electors of Leices-
ter, York, and Hull, the following account is ex-
tracted from Mr. PA RIC E's evidence :
" What is the sum ?—ln Leicester it varies from from 1/.
to '2l. ; in York the sum is notorious to election agents ; for a
plumper 2/. ; and for a single vote 1/. in cash ; and in
there is a direct money payment to them.
" Has that been since the passing of the Reform Bill t
Yes.
" With that description of persons are those honorary ar-
rangements made ?—ln point of fact they are always made, I
should say, with, or indirectly through, the principal agent for
the candidate, the gentleman most in his confidence in regard
to the money arrangements ; though he is not the mechanical
perpetrator of the bribery, he is affected with a complete
knowledge of it ; for example, in the case of Stafford, which
I attended, of course I had too much good sense to pay any
single person myself. Mr. Ingleby, a most respectable solici-
tor of Birmingham, the principal agent with me, being my
senior, we both of us detested the system, but certainly we
we were all cognizant of the arrangements made, and I should
say we were so far implicated, that though we did not know
exactly how it was paid, or by whom the money was drawn
from our resources for doing it, we had a knowledge, there-

. _
fore, though participation in the offence could not be traced
home to us.
" Who were the mechanical agents?ln the Ea2e of Staf-
ford I can state now how it was acne t we took a very respec-
table innkeeper of bonden, who was in our confidenctt:, who
lived at mootner inn, and through vt,h-- all the I,oc note%
managed passed, and it wamanaged*"."riroes from
„.cn certain panother
confident ;•
..14 stranger Who would take the money and dole it
writ to flit ilasters. The money I frequently saw paid to the
Toasters. That individual was sent out of the way, the Lon-
don innkeeper I mean, pending the chance of a petition ; in-
deed I have known in my own personal knowledge and prac-
tice, several individuals sent to France ; I have known a
clergyman in a Cornish borough sent to France ; and out of
:he way many weeks."
In addition to the evidence here quoted, the lie-
port clearly proves, on the testimony of a number o 1
highly respectable witnesses, that briber; and intimida•
tion to an extent fatal to the freedom of election, pre.
veiled in 1834-5, not only in Hereford, Ipswich, Nor
wich, Bristol, Leicester, Hull, Warwick, Stafford,
Harwich, Cambridge, Denbigh, Ripon, Halifax, Exe-
ter, Coventry, but likewise in the counties of Cheshire,
Essex, Devonshire, Warwickshire, and Denbighshire.
Now since that time the evil has gone on increasing.
Bribery and corruption have prevailed to a greater
extent during the last election than they ever did be-
fore. To boast about the " high spirit" of an elector
who is ready to sell his vote for seven shilling's
worth
of " Blue beef," or as much beer as he can swill for
a week, is worthy of the moral principles of the Times
—of the recent " brickbat and bludgeon" organ of
the flatnc-to-the-rooftree democrats of Bristol.
But in the very article in which the Times attempts
to prove the Ballot unnecessary, it is a curious fact
that the main argument against it is based on an in-
stance of the extent of bribery in a parish bordering
on the metropolis, where the election to a certain lec-
tureship is made by Ballot ; thus demonstrating the
untruth of all that is before said about the " high and
indomitable" virtue of the electoral body. With cha-
racteristic consistency our Contemporary adds :
" There is no label or ball that would not admit of
some private mark or scratch which the candidate
might previously stipulate for as the evidence of the
voter's fidelity to his promise." What a fine compli-
ment this to the high independence of English gentle-
men ! What a conclusive argument against the effect
the Ballot would have upon the moral sentiments of the
nation But we cannot allow such a libel upon the charac-
ter of English gentlemen to pass uncontradicted. They
might bribe and bully, but they never would descend
to the petty sneaking villanies of which the Times
supposes them capable. They would not play the
eaves-dropper, nor speculate upon scratched balls, were
the Premiership of England the reward of such base-
ness. The very idea must have first suggested itself
to some involuntary treadmill peripatetic.
That no plan can be devised by which Election by
Ballot can be conducted with the most perfect secrecy
is mere fudge. If the proof of secrecy were to deter-
mine the question we could ourselves settle it to the
satisfaction of a Parliamentary Committee in less than
an hour. But it is because the Tories know that the
Ballot can be so devised as to combine the most per-
fect secrecy with the greatest order and harmony in the
conducting of elections that they are in a transport of
fury at the prospect of its adoption. They would
fain persuade their countrymen that secret voting
is un-English, and in the next breath they assert
that there can be no such thing as the exercise of a
secret suffrage ! But they never tell them that bribery
is un-English--that yielding to the intimidation of
landlords and employers is un-English—that to com-
mit perjury, and as far as is possible betray the
liberty of our country for seven shillings worth of
" Blue Beef," or a week's indulgence in the drunken
revelries of a beer-shop is un-English. The Tories
never tell the poor man than in the Aristocratic
clubs—in the India House—in the Bank—the elec-
tions are all by Ballot. They would persuade the
poor elector that by braving the vengeance which a
Peer dreads to incur by an open vote, they earn for
themselves a crown of martyrdom of which it would
be an invasion of their rights to deprive them. But the
intelligent working classes will not be made the dupes
of such cruel and insulting sophisms. They must be
protected in the exercise of their just rights as well
as the aristocracy ; and for the poor but honest eke-
or the Ballot is the only secure and efficient safeguard.

Lt triull

There is one most important point in the Canada
question which those most opposed to coercion have
hitherto kept out of view. About the expense of the
war—the danger from collision with other states—and
the ‘. heavy blow" which it would give to Reform
at home, there can be little doubt ; but there is still
less doubt that if justice demands these sacrifices, the
nation must be prepared to make them. An
honest man prefers justice to every consideration,

and a nation that fails to act on the same prin
ciple must expect the contempt and disgrace which
a private individual is certain to meet with when,
From selfish considerations, he deserts those he is
bound to protect. If this country yield to the Ca-
nadians—if those of French origin, hitherto hostile tc
British settlers, are to obtain their full demands—the
whole of Upper Canada, and the 100,000 British
settlers in the Lower province, will be left at the
mercy of a party who have heretofore stood aloof
From them with Jewish pertinacity. They can lay
into
Upper imposts they please on goods imported
Upper Canada—they can take from British
settlers lands which are held by as good
:enures as most of the large estates in England, and
they will in all probability continue to prevent British
subjects from settling in a country which was conquered
from France by British arils. Thousands of the class
composing the " Working Men's Association" have
settled in the Upper Province ; they emigrated thither
on the faith that their rights were to be protected by
England ; and England cannot, in honour or jus-
:ice, leave them till she places them on a per-
fect equality with their French neighbours. No
working man with a particle of common sense would
give his sanction to measures which would lead to such
a result. There is, however, another consideration,
The horrors of war justly make every one reluctant to
decide the conts,iLby arms ; but if we retire from the
affray—if we wirrdraw our troops to save us expense
and annoyance—will not the horrors of the civil war be
increased? The two parties will struggle for the mas-
tery till America steps in to decide between thein,
and England will be in the envious position of the
selfish coward, who provokes a quarrel, and coolly
stands by, while one of the combatants subdues or
murders the other. We are taking it for granted that
the British settlers demand the assistance o f this
country, for everything depends on them. If they
join the Canadians, then the question will be altered,
and it will be vain to attempt to hold Canada by mili-
tary subjugation ; but if they are resolved to
their connection, the only alternative, and the leas
evil, is determined interference on the part of Grea
Britain.
Hu maintain

The French Papers of Tuesday have all been re-
ceived. They contain the usual complement of Roya'
New Year's Day addresses. The following
are ex-
tracts from them :

The Echo du Nord Lille of the 21st December says
" In the night of the 28th, several Courieri, despatched by
the Minister of War, arrived at the head-quarters of the First
Military, and orders were immediately transmitted to recall the
men absent on furlough, and to form battalions and squadrons in
the was establishment."
It was announced yesterday that a division of heavy cavalry
was going to be assembled in the environs of Life, as well as
several batteries of Artillery. We have gone to the origin of
these reports, and the following is the (nearly official) informa-
tion which we have obtained
" Three thousand cavalry will arrive in this division, twelve

We see by a report which is contained in the Here-
ford Times, that the inhabitants of Presteign, in
\South Wales, gave a public dinner to Mr. PARSONS
on Thursday last, at which a handsome piece of plate
' was presented to him, for his spirited and patritic
defence of the cause of some ofd from the poortheir humble te-
Radnorshire
cottagers, who had been ejecte
nements on the Crown lands in that county, under pe-
culiarly hard circumstances. Mr. PARSONS richly
deserves this public compliment, for having made the
cause of the Welsh cottagers his own, and carried
nhantly against all obstacles.

At the moment at which we write (half-past three
o'clock), one of the largest public meetings we have
beheld for a long time, is being held at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern on the subject of
thee}th war in Canada.
Mr. HUME is in the Chair, and roceedings have
greatest order, and
hitherto been conducted with the
in a spirit of moderation highly creditable to the Re-
formers of the metropolis.

rt.;

DAY.)
CITY, TWELVE d'et ock.
The news received this morning from Halifax and New Ertilltnv
ddresses
kic
Is of a very cheerful nature. The paper: are filled with loyal a
tram the effr:ers commanding the troops, as well as from the inhabitants,
to aid in putting clown the rebellion in C.tnada.
lialifax Telegraph OffiCe, Monday Mottling, Dee. Is.
"As the public mectin3 held on Friday last has excited ranch intercat,
we lay a faithful repart of the proCeeding§ befdre our readers. Many
fears were entertained lest injudic.ous conduct on the otscasion might
cause unpd. asant division; but the reverse was experienCed. Th
meeting was wisely conducted, and all seemed delighted that they could
meet on common ground, and express a universal sentiment in al-
luding to political questions.
"The Telegraph invariably held cut the view, that those who are
cared Nova Scotia Reformers are sincerely and affectionately attachA
to Great Britain and her institutions. The meeting corroborated all
this. There was no comprothise of principle, while loyalty and attach.
ment were fully and fervently expressed."
Tha mail which arrived yesterday brought nothing new, and only a
Quebec paper of the 4th had Leen r, ceived there. The Halifax ;Evers
of the 10th of December sate that his Excellency the Lieutenant_
vernor received a dispatch from Lord Glenelg by the last packet, stating
that it was extremely desirable that the separation of the existing Coun•
cit into two bodies should take place without delay. His Excellency com-
municated the dispatch to her Majesty's Council yesterday, and his Excel-
lency, in the Queen's name, declared that Board dissolved. A PrOelarlaa-
lion in Wednesday's Gazette calls the Legislature together on the 25th
of January for the dispatch of business.
The meeting at Mason Hall on Friday was every way gratifying,
and it was truly a legal one. The Gazette of Wednesday announces the
disolution of her Majesty's Council. Two Councils" we understand are
to be formed—an Executive and Legislative—the former to be composed
of ten or eleven members, the latter of seven, to be selected from differ-
ent parts of the Province. We hope results will follow fromthat head the change
beneficial to Nova Scotia, but we are not very sanguine on
The inhabitants of Annapolis, in expectation that the troops from
Halifax would not find a steamer at Windsor to convey them to St.
John's, New Brunswick, prepared forty sleighs to meet the so! iers,
twenty miles from Annapolis.
We have received a New Brunswick paper of the 9th of December,
from which we copy the following :
er of the 15th
" Newfoundland.—We have been favoured with a pap
of November. Several subjects still agitate the country. The Legis-
lature continue in Session—a delegation to London has been resolved
upon."

THE FUNDS.
Consols closed yesterday at 921 1 for the Account, and Oltened this
morning heavy at 921, owing to reports of an armament present
921 ; Exchequer Bing, Old., 47 to 49 ; New Ditto, at 2d. per day, 48
prem.; Bank Stock 2051.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active cloci at 191 20, opened at
191 1 ; Portuguese closed at t 291, opened at the same ; Three per
Cents. closed at 191 1, opened at the same; Brazilian closed at 711 7'2,
and opened at the same; Mexican 26/ ; Dutch Two_and-a-Half per
Cents. 521 4 cx dividend.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. ...... ..... 205,1.1,11a Stcek... ........................
3 per Cert. a.ei . ........... . 9114% Ditto Bonds ...... . ........ ... 011.
3 per C.A. Cons, -- South Sea Sus k ........ . .......
316 per Cent............ 99Tf, Old _knnnities . ........ .....,.....
I),tto Red ')B%%s New Ditto ............... ~ .........
New 31(4 per Cent — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751..,
News per Cent... ..
Bank Long Arinuitiestoexpire Ditto ........... ...sfr ......... 48 51 pin.
Jan. 5, IMO ..................... 14; Ditto Small
Oct. 10 1859 .................. 14 11-16' Ditto Commercial,. ....... -- pas.
—Pm
Jan. 5, !WO ..................... -- Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1841' -
Apri N ISM . - 'Dill% Stock for Account --
Jan.l ,
5, 1870 — Consols for Acconnt ......... 9-2741,4 i 4
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds .. 100,4 Ditto Account ..............
Ditto Account — Portuguese 80nd5......... .....
Brazilian Bonds .........
Ditto Account '7l %IA IA Ditto New 130nd5.... ........
Buenos ,N.yres Bonds - Ditto Account
Ditto Acc0unt.................. Dlto, 3 per cent.... .... ,
Chillian Bonds — Prussian ii‘mds
Ditto Account . Russian Bensis, 1822 ......
C ilumbian Bonds
Ditto Account ..... ............. Ditto ;Metallic
Cslumbian Bonds, 1624... '24% 4 14 Spanisk Bonds
Ditto Account .,.. 2414 Ditto Account ..................
Dsnish Bonds .............. ..... . 72% Ditto Bonds, 1R.31, ...............
Ditto Account ........
Greek Bonds — French, 5 per wit. ......... —,
Ditto Bonds, 169.5 — ----- 4 per cent. .......... —i --,,
Account -- 3 per cent.
Dittoan Bonds, 5 per cent , -- Exchange ........... —f. —' .
Mexican
Account
Ditto
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent
101%1A
Neapolitan........
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT
d. ONE O'CLOCK
Pai Per Share
Brighton Railway Company ............................. 5 43% 713 4
London and Southampton (New) Rai1way....,.... 5 17y4 17
L'indon Joint Stook Bauk 7 7
9
Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company ....... 17
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, DECEMBR 3.
3 per Cent. Consols 90% Grand Canal Delis. 6 per E
cent 0.
90i
itto Reduced
3c,17
Ditto, 4 per cent ... ....... ...
D
3)4 per Cen'. Stock 9734 Hibernian Bank .......•••••••••••••
.... --
Ditto New, 1330
3,<, per Cent. Debentures
... --
Bank Stock
Royal Canal Stock -tallest Office Debentures,4 per
Grand Canal Stock — cent .......... .., .......
............
HALF-PAST ONE.
We have received a Boston paper two days later of the 11th Dec.,
but it does not contain any news of consequence.
The speculators in Brazil Stock are on the qui rive to ascertain the
intelligence by the ship reported to be off Liverpool; but the express
from the latter town has not yet arrived.
Consols which were heavy in the morning at 911 for the Account,h
to,
have since improved to 921 4, and for the February Account, 92
2%d. per
, wit
little doing ; Exchequer Bills improved, 21d. 48 50 ;
Dit
day, 46 48 ; Bnnk Stock, 204 4 205 4.
In the foreign market, scarce a bargain doing. Spanish Active,
191 's with Coupons; Passive, 41 1 ; Deferred; 71 4 ;
Portuguese,
29i to 30 ; Three per Cents., 194 ; Dutch a-half per Ce
Two-and-nts.
521 4 ; Brazils, 714 ; Mexican, 264 ; Colombian, 244. Shares arc
firm with very little doing. London and Brighton are 1 dis.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Conicls for the Account, 921.

MONEY MARKET.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
A most unaccountable state of things Still exists in the Brazilian
Stock. All the various rumours which were circulated yesterday, in
reference to the politizal position of Brazil, turned out this morning, as
we felt assured would be the case, to be wholly imaginative, and the
Stock, consequently, rose to 73, being an advance of four per cent, upon
the lowest price yesterday; but sales, or, more correctly speaking,
offers
to sell—for we believe there was very little real business transacted—
caused it to recede again to 70i to 71, from which it afterwards rallied
partially, and at the termination of business was quoted at 714 to 72,
making altogether a fluctuation of 6 per cent- since t he closing
g. of the
It
market yesterday, and about 13 per cent. since yesterday
is altogether unusually strange, for there has certainly been no arrival,
direct or indirect, of a recent date ; and if there was anything of a
financial nature received by the last packet, it would no doubt have
transpired long before this. We rather think that it is all attributable to
some nervous holders, who have taken more alarm at the recent ad-
vices from Bahia than they would seem to warrant, and endeavoured to
force their stck upon a market which was already in a very anxious
state. All the o
other foreign securities were buoyant, and some improved
a little.

C A

(From the Morning Herald.)
Our monetary readers will recollect that. in the congressional address
of the President of the United States, he recommended the interposi.
tion of congress to prevent the New State Bank of Pennsylvania, that is
Mr. Biddle's Bank, from issuing the bills of the Old Bank, of which it
is the trustee, or rather virtual representative ; and as this extra oppo-
sition to the United States Bank has created some feeling here, we
deem that the following return of the actual position of the United
States Bank on the Ist of Dec 1837, will be acceptable :
The stock of specie in the vanlts of the bank, after paying out to the
government 522,459 dollars, amounted to 3,349,850 dollars. The
notes in circulation at the same time (exclusive of the long post notes
issued during the late troubles) were as follows :
Of the present United States Bank 522,452 doll.
Of the late ditto Bank
This return does, therefore, not include the two millions sterling of
post notes now running in favour of the Bank of England; but it
proves that the Bank of the United States is not a whit too well pro-
vided to meet its coming engagements, while it shows the folly of the
Bank extending its operations in any way that would cripple the power
it has acquired in the fresh accumulation of a stock of bullion more by
luck than good management. This we allude to more particularly, be.
cause there is a silly rumour afloat that the Band Direction have deter-
mined to establish a bullion agency in Paris, with a view to bring their
surplus capital into employment, and thus to conciliate a few of the
quidnunc.; who would go the whole hog for a large dividend at the risk
of the capital, which, if it cannot be properly and safely employed at
home, had better be re urned to the proprietors, a feeling that prevails
here to no inconsiderable extent. Some surprise aho has been felt that
Mr. Jones Lloyd, in his new brochure upon the currency, should re-
commend the Bank Direction to expand t'leir circulation at the moment
when there is really no good employment for capital, whilst at the same
time it remains to be proved whether the post notes of the Bank of the
United States will, as they fall due, be taken up, or rest upon further
negotiations.
There has not been much business in the British Funds to-day, and
'he Consol Market closed decidedly more heavy than it opened.

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We regret to have to. announce the death of Mr.
Samuel Smith, for rn,ny years editor of the Weekly Dispatch
newspaper. Though possessed of a naturally vigorous consti-
tution, intense application to his laborious duties had, of late,
so overborne his physical powers, that his medical attendants
insisted upon change of air, and a temporary cessation from
mental exertion. Unhappily this step is as delayed too long.
For the last month he had been staying at Canterhuiy, his
native city, but without any sensible improvement. Ile never
rallied, and expired, on Thursday last, of rapid consumpiion,
to the great grief of his family and friends. No man was more
universally or deservedly esteemed.—Sunday Times.—[With
melancholy feelings we cordially join in the above tribute to
the high character of a gentleman not more esteemed for his
kindness of heart than
Mr. Srdth wasp i for his enterri
nse, abiresplity,
ect andwhat ster
is
n
integrity of conduct. every
termed a straightforward Englishman—the true friend of
liberty.—ED. Sun.]
Dr. Corhet Hue, the late Dean of Jersey, is sup-
posed to have died worth 80,0001. The deanery and rectory
of St. Ilelitr's were worth 1,2001. a-year. and he derived
1,5001. per annum from his living in England. Three of his
brothers also died without issue, and he shared their property.
If he should have died intestate, which is reported, his large
fortune will of course devolve to his brother, Dr. Hue, the
j eminent physician, and lecturer on chemistry in London.
THE CLERGY, ACTORS, AND LAWYERS.—
When Garrick was, or. one occasion, asked by a clergyman
how it happened that an audience in a theatre was so often
melted into tears by the representation on the stage of matters
of mere fiction, while the ministers of the gospel preached
sabbath, after sabbath, truths of unquestioned reality, arid of
eternal importance, without producing the slightest impression
on their hearers,—when asked this question the reply of the
great tragedian was, " We actors pourtray fiction as if it were
truth, and you clergymen preach truth as if it were fiction."
I have often thought, that if our clergy exhibited as much zeal
and energy in inculcating the great truths of the gospel, as
counsel at the bar do on behalf of their clients, their ministry
would be attended with much happier results than it usually is.
The fictions of law, and the sophistries to which counsel must
have recourse, are worked up so skilfully, and are uttered with
so much animation and energy of manner, that they have, as
in the case of stage representations, all the appearance, and
often produce in the minds of strangers, all the effect of ac-
tual truths.—The Bench and the Bar, by the Author of
" Random Recollections."
The mildness of the weather has been so great dur-
ing the week that many persons have dispensed with fires
during the day-time.—Brighton Guardian.

A.

MEETIN( AT THE CROWN AND
ANCIIOII.--(THIS DAY.)

A meeting :;:as held this day, pursuant to advertisement, at
tire Crown and Ancher Tavern, Strand, for the purpose ef
petitioning Parliament on the present unhncesappy
iwar
that in Caonada.
The interest with which passing occurren Colony
are viewed by the inhabitants of this metro
longwas befthe time
appointed for taking the Chair. In the Music Gallery there
were several ladies theut we have scarcely ever aserved so few
persons of note on platform before the arrival of the Com-
mittee The latter were received with vehement cheering.
Mr. Roebuck first mounted M. the platform, followrd by Mr.
Grote, M.P., Mr. Hu t.e, Leader, M. P., Mr.
Crawford, M. P., and Colonel Thomson. o They were
serve greeted
with the most tumultuous cheering. We als obd Dr.
Wade, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bell, and several other gentlemen,
who take a prominent part in public meetings.
Mr. PROUT moved that Joseph Hume, Esq. take the chair.
—(Great applause with some dissentients.) The question
being seconded and put, was carried by an overwhelming ma-
jority.
Mr. Herat having taken the chair, proceeded to address the
meeting, but was for several minutes interrupted by hisses frona
one quarter of the room, from which, however, after some
struggling, the solitary author of the confusion was removed.—
Mr H
. ume ten sid, that when he had attended this morning
to his hhumblea support to the proceedings of Committee ho
give
was not aware that he should be requested to take the
Chair, but in a good cause he was always ready
to take whatever station should be allotted to him, He was
well aware that agencies were at work to mar the purposes
of the meeting—( Cheers)—but he trusted that he was ad-
dressing a body of Englishmen willing to do justice beaysca
man and
as he was sure that when the
objsct was to interpose in behalf of a large body of their felt
low-subjects, he might rely upon their support, in obtaining a
patient hearing from every individual who might offer himself
to their attention.—(liege. For himself, he could only say,
that of all the public meetings which he bad ever attended,
there never was one to which he came with greater anxiety
than the present, and he never rose with greater sorrow of
of heart than he did now to say a few words upon a
most painful subject. If any man supposed that he or those
around him rejoiced in the misery of their fellow-men in
Canada, he trusted that that person would not leave the) room
without being convinced of the contrary.—( Hear, hear. Of
the many public subjects which had occupied his attention as
a public man during the last 30 years of his life, none had ap-
peared to him more important than the Colonial policy of the
several Governments which had ruled this country since
be had been before the public—( Sir William Molesworth
here entered the room, and was greeted with very
loud cheering)—and those who watched his conduct in
Parliament must have seen that on every occasion when the
ocrc y o
n f
he miser came from afar and reached this land across the
ea,never shrunk from denouncing the oppression in his
place in Parliament, and wherever else the opportunity offered.
—( Hear, hear.) It was because he had so long watched the
colonial policy of the Government that he thought he was
qualified to give an opinion upon the present state of
affairs in that colony, which he considered to be the
melancholy result of that policy.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
The Canadians were as much entitled to the enjoyment of the
rights that had been given to them as the people of England
were, and he was sure that no real feeling Englishmen would
think otherrise.—( Cheers.) He stood there as the advocate
of popular rights, and he contended that the acts of the op-
pressors of the Canadians had been disgraceful indeed.—
(Cheers.) He did not mean to say that every Government
had been cognisant of the evils that had taken place under
their authority, but he would take upon himself to say, that
when a province was removed three or four thousand miles
from the mother-country, the Governors, or those who had to
administer the laws, did so with a severity in cha-
racter totally unexampled for its illegality.--(Cheers.)
When such things took place under their very noses in their
own land, was it to be considered as a matter of surprise that
ed in Cand?—Cheers.) The Government of the
occurred
had acted a
ina a manner anything but liberal towards
country
Canada.—(Cheers.) What were they met for at the pre-
sent moment? Why, accounts had been received during the
last three weeks, that some o
consequence of f their own fellthe oppression
ow-subjects in
Canada had been obliged, in
they had received, to take arms for the assertion of their
rights.—(Cheers.) This was not a matter of rejoicing ; it
was one to be looked to with the deepest regret.—( Cries of
" Whose fault is it?") They had met for the purpose of
putting an end, if possible, to the horrors of civil war. C
pore
had been taken, accompanied with great pains, by some
tion of the public press, and by the agents of the Governmeat,
to persuade the people of this country that the strife that was
taking place in Canada was between the French Canadians
and those that were English. That was not the case.--
( Cheers.) Seventy-eight years had passed away
d sinceec ome any
French subject existed in Canada ; for they ha b
English subjects as soon as that country became
bound to the British possessions.—( Loud cheers.)
They
had heard of Papineau Canadians—it was said that those
were the parties who had armed, but the Canadians of British
descent—were all of them loyal in the extreme—(Cheers)—it
was said that they ought to be deprived of their liberties on ac-
count of the course they bad pursued.—( Cheers.) He trusted
that Englishmen would take no notice whatHeeverand those abo
him had nothing but the public weal to look to, and if they
advised them in a manner that did not turn out beneficial, be
trusted that would be attributed to human weakness, and not to
any bad intentions on their parts. Those whom he had
thought were the friends of freedom he was sorry to say
now came forward joined and bound, with the enemies of Re-
form, against the interests of the people of Canada. They
had been told that the Canadians bad no substantial ground
of grievance or complaint ; but those who said so, little
thought of the authority they had for the contrary. He (Mr.
Hume) had in his pocket copies of despatches from Lord
Glenelg to Lord Gosferd when the Commission was sent out
in 1836. Let them bear in mind that since 1820 complaints
had been made to that country by the people of Lower Canada,
and every year they had been growing stronger and stronger,
and they would see the truth of the observations of Lord
Glenelg, who observed that it was for him ( Lord Gosford) to do
that justice which they were so desirous of doing, and to obtain
that full information which would enable the British Govern-
ment so to act.—( Hear.) Ile had the satisfaction of stating
to them further, that from his own knowledge these complaints
were well founded ; and he held in his hand a list of petitions
from the Canadians people, which would show them that there
were real grounds of grievance, and real cases of oppression.
He would ask them had they ever known a people
ear to take
Was up
arms without strong grounds of complaint ?—( H.)
it to be supposed that men in the possession of their peaceable
and comfortable homes would turn out and brave all the rigours
of a Canadian winter, and submit to all the horrors of civil war,
and oppose the troops of her Majesty as well as the attacks of
these oppres(ors, who now called themselves the only loyal
party. He (Mr. Hume) could assure them, that those who
were now anxious to carry oppression still further—who
growled and grumbled at the laxity of the British Government
sand
,
were the :greater part of them Orangemen I—(Groan
hisses.) He spoke from authority, he had it from the master
of an Orange Lodge in Upper Canada, that in that country
alone there were 16,000 Orangemen embodied, and that they
considered themselves the only real allies and friends o
Wf those
he
who called themselves the British party.—(Hcar.) hen
had read to them the proceedings and course adopted by the
Canadian people, he was sure that their commiseration would
be extendsd to them for the horrors and the sufferings, and the
various evils, that people were now enduring. Had they not
that as the
in the Gazette only the other dhouse and cabin was shut up
ay, a statement,
troops msrched along, every
—that the people went into the woods and wilds
the
inn
the depths of winter, and great must have been
oppressions that induced them to sacrifice their prodperty, their
lines, arid those of their wives and children, ie efence of
their bberties.—( Chcers.) He would go back for the last
ten years, and in a good cause ten years was a long trial for
men who had been so long deprived of their rights.—( Hear.)
In 1828, a petition was forwarded to that country by the Ca-
nadians, complaining of the grievances under which they la-
boured, signed by 87,000 individuals. Another petition was
sent from Quebec—even from that city which was said to be
the abode of loyalty—anti that a
petitimm Committee f House of
Commons was appointed to enquire into the grievances com-
plained of. Did that Committee deny that grievances did
exist ? No, they said the grievances were justly complained
of, and recommended that they should be redressed. Year after
year passed, but no redress was given to those who
oreoly pyi eti-
tioned for peace arid happiness, with the liberty njonig
of Assembly
tsrldni
Commissionteci Canadawbeoosnehf
very
the fruits of their own industry.—(Loud d!cers.) The House
elected by nearly universal suffrage.—(Cheers. It con-
elected
of 88 members so chosen, anetherefore at the very least
it represented seven-eigtbs of the population—it represented
ee mbe
mada,
the great mass of the community. That Assembly drew uIY
petitions after petition, remonstrance after remonstrance, ana
in order to leave nothing undone, they, in February, 18341
88. but I
n theyva r i
abl werey
there
wolrt,
ochaldfssei ecraiehlit
sithmnswweo:ieudatajrrsto.
drew up a series of 92 resolutions, embodying their grievanceS.
Those resolutions were embodied in a petition which he him;
self presented to the House of Commons ; it was also embodied
in an address to the Crown, which was also duly presented, hot
without the least shadow of redress. The governing party had 011
several occasions tried divisions upon certain of the Hewitt',
t thei°".
minority
stethNeyl.
lnaontisN'sl
c.
ie-t
complainedncofaloitmltvofiomnueoueitnn:sossttl
foi:o,?If,
then,
andC t lna'
7 raisingc9a admittingl. —1
u(
p Cot
hilalae
tteohrnteisei.
people to come forward Oa
came forward to enslave 500,000 CI:
'svoaos,oco°ol"°msCigfilitof nb' orfn imnspatvfdrtooobtatio::o
theepi:
leasodlpiaalviele, same:o
faGnt
lEo,:tenheneg)ergylnprra‘
tools for enslaving themselves. —( Loud cheers.) He be'
seethed them not to look at the
present
cause as onl
of a partial •
or isolated character—it was one which ins 1 u
•o ire
the liberties It
of every man whom he was then dd •
a ressing.
was adMitted on all hands that grievances existed. 'Woul"
they then give support to the Government to out down thol
who were in the field fighting for their liberties, an
for
. the redress of those grievances which had been so lollb
disgracefully
left without redress. They were told that th°
dignity and honour of the Crown was to be maintained. VI
way,s h
however, in which these objects could best be effecte";
was
by doing justice to all men.—( Hear, and great cheering (d
support
The honour and dignity of the Crown could best be rtc-
by making timely reforms where abuse and discontent Pre'
!sailed. The honour and dignity of the Crown could best bite
supported by giving to the Canadians those measures whi,t,"
would confer upon them happiness and contentment, and, 1"

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