The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1841.

higher the general estimate of the value and im-
portance of the monopoly is raised,. The more
extensive, too, they are—meeting men at every
turn, the more continually the ideas of that
value and importance are forced on the mind,
and the more urgent they become as motives
for action. In many cases they become over-
whelming, and every human power is defied in
obedience to them. It results therefrom that
no monopolies whatever should be created, and
no peculiar privileges should be granted and en-
forced, which are.not strictly and demonstrably
necessary for the public advantage. Even the
monopoly of the soil—except, as Mr. LOCKE says,
securing to each man who tills it as much land
as he improves, cultivates, and can use—is not de-
fensible. No idle whim of a class, no fancied
advantage to a nobleman, no caprice or desire of
superiority in the members of any sect, should
ever tempt the Legislature to bestow on them
monopolies or exclusive privileges, unless the
Legislature wishes to provoke those desires
which, in general, legislation is intended to re-
strain. A priesthood, for example, is endowed
' to check enthusiasm ; but endowment strengthens
it by worldly avarice, and the land becomes
flooded by ambitious priests of various sects,
each anxious, by exciting religious enthusiasm,
to found and preserve a dominion over the minds
of other men. They are prompted by avarice
to take advantage of the natural religious feel-
ings of mankind to reduce the enthusiasts to de-
pendence on the order of priests.

Legislators ought, on this principle, to take
the utmost care not to multiply decrees, orders,
prohibitions, and restraints, because the inevit-
able consequence is, that they continually pre-
sent to the minds of the people the idea of some-
body seeking to hinder them, and thus cause the
very actions they are solicitous to prevent. Every
action has its own natural consequences, and
every object its own natural attractions or re-
pulsions for the mind. Prohibitions and re-
straints alter these natural consequences, and
give a false value to the objects and an erroneous
bias to the conduct. Take the preservation of
game and the Game-laws for an example. Ex-
perience has demonstrated that common daily
labour, however poorly paid, being steady and
in demand throughout the year, generating
habits of temperance and frugality, is infinitely
more advantageous to the labourer than poach-
ing or hunting or shooting. But these latter
have been made so attractive by the false value
given to the objects by prohibitions and restric-
tions, and such an erroneous bias has been given
to the conduct, that there are multitudes of men
who, like WALTER, will dare anything, will
violate the laws, trespass on their neighbours'
property, and imbrue their hands in blood,
because somebody seeks to hinder them from
taking game. When such consequences result
from decrees, restraints, and prohibitions, it be-
comes extremely difficult to say how much of the
criminality which at any time pervades society
is the consequence of the "natural depravity of
man," presuming that to exist, or of that great
system of restraints and prohibitions which is
founded on a theory and justified by reasoning,
and which a great mass of law-makers ar.d public
writers are continually anxious to extend. The
case of WALTER is only an illustration of the
very general statement, "I had not known sin,
had you not prohibited it ;" and at least com-
mands men, with urgent vehemence, to decree no
restraints and no prohibitions, till their utility,
taking into account their effects in promoting
the crimes forbidden, be unanswerably demon-
strated. In defiance, however, of this plain and
yet certain rule, the greater number of political
writers think they can do nothing so advisable
as devise new restraints and prohibitions.
Besides starving men to death—heinous enough
offence in monopoly—it seems to have the addi-
tional evil effect of disturbing and perverting
the natural relations of man to the objects of
creation—perverting his judgment, erroneously
biassing his conduct, and rendering him ha-
moral. Our country teems with invasions of
the right of property ; we sanction much
of our immorality by law ; and there seems
little chance of amendment as long as we
act unceasingly on the principle of seeking to
hinder men from performing an immense variety
of very innocent and even praiseworthy actions.
Laws are made by ignorant men, very little ac-
quainted with the bearings of their own enact-
ments, and still less acquainted with the vast
phenomena which constitute human society;
and it cannot, therefore, on reflection, excite
any surprise if it should turn out that laws, re-
straints, and restrictions, cause a much greater
number of crimes than they prevent.

The attention of the public was yesterday at-
tracted to the instruction given by the Church
and the two Universities, by the Tory Herald
and the Tory Post. The observations of both
were suggested by the recent conversion of Mr.
SIBTHORP from the Church of England to
Popery. We are not surprised that such an
event, though now far from unexampled, should
deeply affect our Contemporaries. To them it
must be as much a cause of sorrow and lamen-
tation as it will be of rejoicing and exultation to
to Dr. WISEMAN and the Lord Mayor of DUBLIN.
The Ultra-Protestant member of the Cathedral
town of Lincoln will henceforth probably re-
member his brother, and hold his peace, instead
of attempting a dull joke against Maynooth and
Mr. O'CONNELL. It must contribute to bow
down with affliction many a Protestant horn
now exalted with pride, which the observation
of our Contemporaries will not contribute to
raise. The Herald says--
The secession
.of Mr. Sibthorp from the Church of
England affords another striking illustration and expcsi-
Lion of the mystery of Puseyism, and of its close and
essential connection with the mystery of Jesuitism. Here
is a man of accomplished mind and of high family lost
to the cause of Protestantism by listening to the suphis-
. tries of Messrs. Pusey and Newman, and depend upon it
he will not be the last—for the cause of this declension
from Protestism is not accidental. It is laid deep in the re-
cesses of that system of school logic which still reigns
supreme and pre-eminent in the University of Oxford.

The followers of High Church, Low Church, and no
Church, are but the successors of Remus and Occam.
The subterfuges of conscience find an easy retreat into
all the varieties of mood and figuro. Some bellow out
for Popery, because they think that the Church of Eng-
land is too nearly allied to the principles of Noncon-
formity, and others would admit Dissenters to the Uni•
versities, because they deem the Church of England too
Popish and exclusive. But it followed, as usual, that
extremes meet, and that whether you pursue the Low
Church of W hateley, or the High Church of Newman—
the cause of Protestantism and the Reformation is equally
endangered.
We again say—that until the University of Oxford
expels the system of logic now taught from its schools,
the minds of.the English clergy will never be at rest.
There will be a perpetual vacillation between Popery and
Liberalism.
That is the description given of the teaching of
the University, and of the doctrines taught.
They unsettle meres minds;
they teach them to
vacillate between good and evil;
men infidels or bigots. Nor is the description
which the Post gives of our national religion
" much more encouraging. The Establishment,
intended to preserve and prescribe one faith,
seems, according to our Contemporary, to admit
within her bosom—as we know, in fact, from the
lastounding diversity of doctrines which are
taught from her pulpits—men of almost every
creed.

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ermularies fitted for even the most sternly a
minded men as to the bounds and limits of orthodox}lldly:
If a man be but of a reverential temper, not wiseinli:
own conceit, nor over anxious to thrust his own peculiar
notions upon the acceptance of others, the Church of
England will allow of ample enough range for his
Christianity, without his rushing forth into the trackless
wilds, and inextricable thickets of Dissent. And it, on
the other hand, a man be of that mind which leads him
co seek a shelter for his religious hopes within narrow
bounds, and under authoritative protection, he may find
that comfort too within the Church of England, and
without submitting his mind to the despotic devices and
the intoxicating ceremonials of the Church of Rome.
The consequence of this laxity is thus men-
tioned :

The religion of the people of England bad become a
kind of Christianized ethics, 9f which the Protestant
Churches were the public schools, acting under the au-
thority of the State. It was recognized rather as a
branch of public decency than the vital principle of the
nation. What it was most zealous in was not a faith of

its own, but a protestation against the too much faith of
others, delivered in the coarse language of triumphant ha-
tred The hatreds, which were mistaken for
religion, found their way into the Acts of Parliament and_
Custom House oaths, but our Prayer-book (a copy of
the Roman missals) remained a sublime epitome of Ca-
tholic Christianity.
Church of Englandism, then, is a protes-
tation against the faith of other men, de-
livered in the coarse language of triumphant
hatred. What a beautiful, humane, and exalted
creed! The people will thank the Post for such
a graphic description of the faith of the tithe-
owners. Catholics and Dissenter's, with all
who are opposed to religious intolerance,
will be grateful to it for acknowledg-
ing that our Acts of Parliament for the
preservation of the State Church, for ex-
cluding Catholics and Dissenters from political
power, were founded on that hatred, expressed
in coarse language, fbr the faith of others,
which is the vital principle of Church of Eng-
landism. The natural consequence of such a
political religion is thus described by the Post :
Many had grown weary and faint under the burden
of mere Protestantism, which is, with regard to Church
matters, a formulary of non-belief, and therefore no sup-
port at all. They wanted a belief and a guidance other
than that which their own fallible judgment gathered
from the original documents. They were going over to
Rome, when the Tractarians stepped in to show them
that the Primitive Church afforded all they wanted, and
that the Church of England is the true depository of all
that the Primitive Church had, without the admixture of
modern fancies and strange unedifying observances,
which have disfigured the simplicity of the Catholic
faith in the Church of Rome."

This is quite edifying; the protestation against
the faith of others, expressed in the coarse lan-
guage of hatred, had made many weary with
this formulary of non-belief; but then the Trac-
tarians stepped in and showed that the protest-
ing system of hatred of others' faith, and the
formulary of non-beliet; was not true religion.
There was a primitive Church, differing alike
from the too much faith of Rome, and the no
faith of protesting hatred, which has been re-
covered and founded by Dr. PUSEY. Puseyism,
according to our Contemporary, is a new reli-
gion, neither Roman Catholicism nor Protes-
tantism, different from both ; and that new reli-
gion, while it still hypocritically wears the garb
of the Establishment of hatred, and is selfishly
nestled in its extorted wealth, is expected by its
authors to work the regeneration of the people.
But when such a correct description is now
given of the non-belief of Protestantism, by the
very men who, at the same time, laud it as hav-
ing heretofore been the salvation of the State,
with its strife and its hatreds, what must be our
enormous credulity if we can hope anything
from this new phasis which Dr. PUSEY would
give to non-belief and protesting hatred? The
other Tory authority, quoted first, tells us that
Dr. PUSEY and Dr. NEWMAN are leading men
astray by their sophistries, that the root of the
evil lies in the school logic which reigns su-
preme at Oxford, and that the system of edu-
cation there adopted distorts and corrupts the
mind. The one convinces us that the whole
education of Oxford is a disgrace to the age, the
other that the established Protestantism, so long
honoured, is a system of hatred and a disgrace
to humanity. The cross fire of these two best
possible Tory instructors, one aiming at the
University and the other at the Protestantism
established at the Reformation, seems very
likely to blow up the whole system. Toryism
is condemned out of its own mouth. Truth is
extorted from it, and it curses its own creed.
We have long regretted, and so must every
well-wisher to his country and his kind, that the
University and the priesthood, which have so
much influence over the minds of our statesmen,
by controlling their education, should adhere to
doctrines so little in accordance with modern
knowledge. To regulate the affairs of the poli-
tical world by the doctrines of either Pro-
testantism or Popery, is a rank absurdity. Yet
" protesting hatred against other mens' faith," is
the corner-stone of the instruction given by the
priesthood. It is an insult to the mighty genius
of England, to the caln?and profound wisdom of
BACON, to the searching sagacity of LOCKE, to
the intrepid and far-going analysis of BERKELEY,
yet to retain the logic of ARISTOTLE, and yet to
teach the mysticism of PLATO at our Univer-
sities. It is utterly impossible that men who
lived two thousand years ago can be of use as
guides in the present state of mankind. It is
utterly impossible, too, whatever may be
taught at the Universities, to prevent the events
which daily happen from making an appropriate
impression on the mind, and from teaching their
own lesson. It is utterly impossible, therefore,
to prevent the knowledge which experience
brings from being at variance with the teaching
of the priesthood, and of the Universities. Un-
fortunately, the latter, to a considerable extent,
mould and influence the minds of statesmen,
who read nature through the darkened glasses,
with which they are hood-winked at College,
and wear during their lives. Hence, between
them and society:--between their legislation and
the national wants—there is perpetual friction.
which at this moment threatens a vast social
conflagration.

The capital of Scotland must, indeed, be a
frightful place to live in. Madrid or Rome,
when the Church was every thing, and the In-
quisition was in its full vigour, could scarcely be
worse. Till the Non-Intrusion mania sprung
up, the authorities in Scotland rarely interfered
with the observances of the Sabbath. The
education of the people, their habits and
national pride, led them to regard the first day of
the week with a holy and religious reverence,
aad to refrain as much as possible from worldly
pursuits on a day set apart by universal consent
for solemn duties, and rest from labour. Now
the case is different. The clergy, and the
lay authorities in some districts, not con-
tent with this voluntary homage, have deter-
mined to make the observance of the day so
strict, that the people, and chiefly the lower
classes, are forced to rebel against them. Not
many months ago, a Kirk Session prohibited
the people from burying their dead on a Sun-
day. The people resisted the tyrannical
ordinance, and resolved to have a burying-
ground of their own. Travelling by coach, or
railway, or steam-boat, forms a theme for long
discussion at almost every meeting of a Church
Court ; nay, even practices of still less moment,
have lately occupied a Kirk Session at Edin-
burgh. Nothing is too small for the visual organs
of these holy inquisitors. Will the people of
England believe that a respectable shopkeeper
in Edinburgh was sent to gaol for twenty-one
days to pick oakum for selling sweet-meats
to children on a Sunday 1 The prose-
cution was instituted on the information of
a clergyman of the Established Church (the
poor man's Church) who " gloried in his place in
the Presbytery that he had prosecuted a poor
man under such circumstances, and boasted
that it would be a long time before the
man would he able to pay the fine by
selling sweeties." The Chief Magistrate of
Edinburgh, a crazy Non-Intrusionist, not
only justified the atrocious deed, but ex-
claimed in a fit of enthusiasm, " If such a daring
and wilful violation of the law of GOD were not
put down, all reverence for the Sabbath would
be lost." And this is the way in which
Lord Provost FORREST would make the
poor love the Sabbath-day. The unfortunate
victim. it appears was fined Bs., added to which
were 11s. for expenses of Court, and a fee to the
Procurator Fiscal (public prosecutor) of 21. 2s.
While the poor man was working like a felon in
was indeed,"of
prison, from his inability to pay 3/. is., his wife
and child were reduced to the greatest distress.
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members in-
teresting,
heart-broken looking woman, and
the child, from the cold to which it had
unavoidably been exposed in the shop,
was fast dying, if it
was not already dead."
And can such cruelties be permitted in a Christian
land' While Sir JAM
ES
FORREST, - in his scarlet
robes of office, and the Reverend persecutor, are
singing praises in the church, time " sighing of

the prisoner," and the -cries of his afflict,(l wife
and dying child, will reach the ears of Hlai who
"delighteth in mercy rather than in sacrifice."
Need we ask, which will be the more. •effectual ?
Such a mockery of all that is sacred, and just,
and merciful, will do more to create unbelief
in the doctrines these- men set forth, than all
the writings of =scoffers and infidels. The
LORD PROVOST, and Mr. GUTHRIE, the cler-
gyman, should be tried for bringing the re-
ligion of the country into contempt. They do
infinitely more mischief than the works of
PAINE and CARLILE, and should be made to
" read their sin in. their punishment." In
the concluding sentence of Mr. ROBERTSON we
cordially concur. It will find a response in every
well-regulated mind. " The fact was," said he,
" that those self-righteous individuals were fast
bringing Christianity and the Gospel of peace
into contempt and hatred. For his own part, he
would rather be an infidel than the prosecutors
of this poor man on such a miserable charge, and
under such circumstances. It might be a short
road to the Eldership to give information against
this poor man ; but he doubted very much if it
was the quickest way to heaven."

We have received Madrid Papers of the .3d
inst. In the Gazette of that date we find the
annexed decree of the REGENT suspending the
payment of the 30,0001., granted by the cOrtes,
as an annual pension; to the perfidious and pro-
fligate widow of FERDINAND Vlar
" With a due regard for just po ttical
considera-
tions, and for certain motives of public prOpriety, in
my quality of Regent of the kingdom, during the
minority of her Majesty Queen Isabella IL, and
with the concurrence of the Council of Ministers,
I have decreed as follows :—From. this moment, and
until the adoption of a new legislative measure, the pay-
ment of the grant allowed by the budget to her Majesty
the Queen-Mother, Maria Christina, of Bourbon. is Sus-
pended. You will receive this as decided, and will see
to its execution. "I)UCA DE LA -VICTORIA.

A. M. ANTONIO GONZALV,
"Oct. 20. "President of the Council of Ministers."

The unfortunate Brigadier QUIROGA Y FRIAS
was shot on the 3d instant at Madrid. The fol-
lowing account of this sad and deplorable event
is from the pen of an eye-witness:—

The wretched woman, Maria Christina de Bourbon, and
those by whom she has been impulsed and assisted,
deserve the execration of the poor people of Spain
for the calamities and sufferings that some of
the best families in the country are undergoing,
through the infamous conspiracy in which their rela-
tives and friends were cajoled to join. Brigadier-General
Don Gregorio Quiroga y Fries, is another of the vic-
tims ; his execution took place at ten minutes after
one this day, at the Campo de Guardias. The sen-
tence being read to him while standing under
the colours of the first battalion of National
Guards, which was on the spot, he pre-
pared to meet his awful fate as became both a
man and a Christian, arranging his worldly
concerns with peculiar nicety, leaving one-half of
his property (he was very well off) to his poor
mother, whose only son he was—the other half, by
the new law of entail, goes to his cousin, M. Campu-
zano ; he parted with the many friends who called to
bid him adieu in apparently good spirits, break-
fasted cheerfully this morning with his friend Brigadier-
General Larina and two clergymen, and, accompanied by
them, got into the open carriage, precisely at one, dressed
in full uniform, wearing. the stars of his orders, &c. He
was observed to smile on an acquaintance he perceived
among the crowd, but became deadly pale as he walked
prom under the regimental colours to place himself in
front of the firing piquet ; he told the soldiers that he
would not give the word of command to fire, because it
was against the wish of his confessor that he should do
so. Handing his hat to the Rev. Gentleman, whom he
requested to transmit to his mother the cambric hand-
kerchief he placed under one knee, he met his fate with
apparent resignation, but the men fired so awkwardly
that a second discharge became necessary.
Poor Quiroga, whom I was intimately acquainted
with, was thirty-eight years of age, a most gentlemanly,
intelligent, well•educated, and amiable man. M. Vial,
the son of the gentleman of that name, who was Spanish
Minister in London, in 1832, has likewise been shot at
Bilbao. Four officers are to be shot in Madrid the day
after to-morrow.

The Madrid papers of the 3d inst. are loud in
their denunciations of the intrigues of France.
The projected marriage of a French Prince with
the young Queen is general ridiculed. "We invite,"
writes the Ministerial Expectador, " all those
who, faithful to a policy of old standing, dream
of such a marriage, to remember 1808, and not
forget that the blood of the Spaniards of Pavia,
St. Quentin, Baylon, and Tolosa still flows in our
veins. We ran to arms in 1808, and in 1814
we drove from our territory a Monarch sup-
ported by the colossus of the age. In 1841 we
still feel strong enough not to permit that the
King of SPAIN should be a Prefect of France."
Madrid Bourse of the 3d.—Fives, 27 for cash,
28 at GO days.
The Corresponsal of Madrid gives the following de-
tails, which are not without interest, of the last moments
of INlontes de Oca:—" When he arrived at the spot fixed
upon for the execution, he got out of the carriage, and,
after whispering .a few words to his confessor, he looked
calmly around him, and walked with a firm step in front
of the picquet charged with his destruction. He remained
standing after the first fire, and merely made a slight
motion with his hands, which were placedin the pockets
of his paletot. A second discharge was necessary, and
this time, having been struck in the head, he fell. It
was necessary, however, to fire into his ear to put an end
to his existence. His courage from beginning to end was
admirable ; his physiognomy, which was smiling, and full
of manly expression, profoundly interested all who were
present. Montes de Oca was the intimate friend of Espar-
tero, but quarrelled with him when he refused his approba-
tion to the nomination of Linage to the rank of Major-
Gen. Montes de Oca, Gen. Don Francisco Narvaez, Minis-
ter of War, and Don Calderon de Collantes, Minister of
the Interior, preferred giving in their resignation to con-
curring in this appointment." The Corresponsal gives
the copy of a paper, in the handwriting of Montes de
Oca, and which was found upon his person, but states
that he constantly refused to reveal the name of the per-
son to whom he intended to send it. In this paper he
complains of having been abandoned for a fortnight in
the midst of the terrible circumstances by which he was
surrounded, and states that if he had been possessed of
arms, and especially money, the cause of the Queen
would have had an army of 20,000 men to resist all at-
tempts upon the Basque provinces. The paper con-
eludes as follows:—" If we let the present opportunity
pass, the cause of our Queen is lost for ever. Tell me
frankly what kind of assistance we may reckon upon from
the exterior, the state of our diplomatic relations, and,
above all, the wishes of —."

The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all
reached us. In the Journal des Debats we find
a very remarkable article, the purport of which
is that France is on the verge of a great
revolution, which threatens to upset society.
" The question is no longer," writes the
Debuts, " whether the KING. ought to
reign or govern, or whether the Constitution
ought to be interpreted in such or such a sense,
but whether social order, the Government, and
the Constitution, shall exist. The revolution
which threatens France cannot be termed a de-
mocracy or republic, but purely and sim-
ply spoliation. This is the truth, of which
everybody is conscious, except some Par-
liamentary doctors, who are enclosed in the
Chamber of Deputies as in a catacomb, with-
out hearing or seeing ought of what is
passing in the world. • • • It appears
as if we lived under some fatal spell.
We speak of the Chambers' Parliamentary de-
bates, of the inviolability of the KING, and of the
Representative Government, while an attempt is
made to assassinate the KING every year, except
when his children take
his place. Calumny
prepares the attempt to murder the KING,
which is itself only a means to an end." The re-
publican National admits the statement of the
Debuts to be true so far as regards the upsetting
of the present Government, a'id glories in it.
" You plead," says the latter Journal, address-
ing the Debuts, " a fatal cause, and you are
conscious of it. We plead a just cause, and
we likewise are conscious of it. And this
is the reason why N. 011 see with bitter pain the
present escape
towards the past, while we see
better times approach. Thence your apathy,
and our activity. You have already one foot
in the grave,
While we are rising into life."
The National, in our opinion, here falls into
the trap set for it by theDebats. It evidently does
not see the drift of the Debats' gloomy representa-
tion of the state of France. It Ibrgets that
QUENISSET'S trial comes on next Monday, and
that the Chambers are soon to assemble,
from which the Ministers anticipate a stormy
opposition. The Debats wants to frighten the
people, and to
provoke the Republican press
into new indiscretions before the meeting of
the Court of Peers on Monday. It will succeed.
" We have now in the Mediterranean," says the Globe
(of Paris), " thirteen sail of the line, six more. have
gone round from Toulon to Cherbourg ; fourteen other
armed vessels, principally frigates, are at sea ; and we
have besides, alt ready for sea, twenty corvettes of 30 to

16 guns, thirty-two brigs of 20 to 10 guns, thirty-eight ,
flotilla-boats, twenty-eight transports, and thirty war-
steamers."

The Chamber of Commerce of Nantes has addressed
a memorial to the Minister of Commerce on the colonial
sugar trade, adopting the same view of the case as the
Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux.

The annual interest of the national debt of Holland is
74,700,405 florins, or nearly 100,000,000 francs.
A German temperance pamphlet, the fourteenth edi-
tion of which has just appeared, called "Das HausKreuz,"
reckons that the number of drunkards in Prussia is
270,000, in Hanover 300,000, in Hesse-Cassel 13,000, in
Mecklenburg 10,000, Lippe 1,600, and Waldech 1,200.
A drunken vagabond was arrested a few nights since
in the Rue Montholon, vociferating " Vive le Due de
Bordeaux !" "J'aime le Duc de Bordeaux ! " On
being brought next morning before the Commissary of
Police, he declared he' had no recollection of having
uttered sentiments so contrary to his real opinions, and
was convinced that he must have shouted, or at least
meant to shout, " Vive le Vie de Bordeaux ! " " J'aime
le Vin de Bordeaux ! " The rogue's ingenuity did not
save him from being committed.
The Courrier de Lyon contains accounts from various
parts of the Jura of the great damage done by the late
storms. Numerous bridges have been washed away,
with houses and other buildings. A great deal of land
is still under water, and considerable quantities of farm-
ing produce have been destroyed.
The Cour Royale of Douai has annulled the sentence
of the Correctional Tribunal of Lille, which had con-
demned Messrs. Bianqui, Savary, and Coffy, to various
periods of imprisonment, for illegal conduct on the oc-
casion of the census, and sent them before the Tribunal
of Municipal Police of the town, on a charge of noctur-
nal rioting.
; On the sth inst., as -a number of journeymen carpen-
ters were at work on a new building near Bolbec, in
Normandy, four ,of them were struck down from the
roof to the ground by a heavy beam which fell upon
them. Two were taken up dead, a third was in an almost
hopeless state, and the fourth very seriously injured.
A letter from Trieste, of the Ist inst., states that the
King Otho steamer, on her way from Venice to Greece,
had been obliged to put into Cuezula, the Queen of
Greece, who was on board, having suffered much from
sea sickness. It was expected that her Majesty would
be able to resume her voyage in a few days.
The Hanover Gazette states that the personages who,
under the Royal patent of July 3, have been appointed
to authenticate the signatures of the Prince Royal of
Hanover, were sworn into their new office on the 3d
instant, in the presence of the King, the Prince, and the
Members of the Cabinet.

" A report is current," says the M'oniteur Parisien,
" that a house of the first rank in the linen and calico
trade has stopped payment for several millions of francs."
The Gazette de France says that the house is that of
Messrs H—, J—, and H---, of Mulhausen, manufac-
turers of toiles peintes. " The liabilitieS of this house,"
it adds, " are estimated at several millions of francs. A
great number of workmen were employed by it." The
Gazette says that the Procureur du Roi has had an inter-
view with the Syndic of the Agents de Change, on occa-
sion of the absconding of M. Bonnet.
We have authority to contradict, as totally without
foundation, a paragraph which appeared in this journal
on the 26th ult., extracted from the Cork Examiner,
stating that Lord Holland had been converted to the
Roman Catholic faith, while at Rome in September last.
His Lordship has not been in that city since 1835.
The Memorial d'Aix relates that, a few days ago, the
keeper of M. Laboulie, the owner of a large landed estate
in the Commune of Saint-Antonin, perceiving a band
of known poachers on his master's property, and satisfied
that they were about to commit their usual depredations,
went and obtained the assistance of three gendarmes.
The poachers, fifty in number, were found seated round
a blazing fire, getting their breakfast. On being re-
quired to show their licences to shoot, they refused to
do so, declared that they were sworn to implacable hatred
to the rich, and threatened, if the gendarmes made any
attempt to molest them, that they should all be killed.
Finding their opponents too numerous, the keeper and
gendarmes were forced to retire; but as several of the
poachers are well known, active steps are taking for
their apprehension.
Three men of desperate character, who had committed,
several robberies and assaults in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Paris, where they have been long known
as among the worst frequenters of the low coffee-houses
and wine shops at the Barriers, were tried the day be-
fore yesterday, before the Court of Assizes of the Seine.
One of them, whose conduct had been the most violent
and atrocious, was condemned to hard labour at the
hulks for life ; a second to fifteen years' hard labour in
the hulks ; and the third to ten years' solitary confine-
ment and labour. All three were also condemned to
stand in the pillory.
'We learn from Rome that, on the 26th ult., the Por-
tuguese Ambassador Extraordinary, the Chevalier de
Migueis, had an audience of the Pope, and delivered his
credentials. The Viscount de Carreira was also received
by his Holiness and took leave. He was to come imme-
diately to Paris.
The Sentinelle of Bayonne states :—"Colonel Rizo,
who was at Vittoria with a squadron of his regiment of
cavalry, when the movement took place there, had been
sentenced by a Court Martial to three years' confinement
in irons ; but Espartero, not satisfied with this judgment,
has reversed it, and had him tried again by men more
devoted to himself, who have sent the unfortunate officer
to the galleys for life. Vittoria is calm in appearance,
but in reality is in apprehension that the Regent will be
levying a contribution upon it."—The Phare says that
the sentence on the colonel is ten years' confinement in a
fortress.
A letter from Constantinople, 20th ult., in the Leipsic
Gazette, says :—" The English have not yet evacuated
Saint Jean d'Aere. The Syrian soldiers, who have re-
turned from Egypt, are becoming a scourge to the
country. They do not enter into the army, but go
about offering their services to the Druses, the Ma-
ronites, and the Naplousians. It is said that Mehemet
Ali, on sending back these Syrians, applied to the
Porte through the mediation of England, to send home
the Egyptians also who are in the Ottoman army, and
who are 16,000 in number. The question will not be
brought before the Divan until after the feast of the
Ramazan, and, although the application is well-founded
it is not thought that the Sultan will comply with it."
The Expropriation Jury assembled at Versailles on
Saturday last to decide upon four claims for immunities
for loss and damage occasioned by the formation of the
railroad bet Ween Paris and Rouen, in the department of
the Seine et Oise. The first two were by the Mayors of
Carrieres-Saint-Denis and Houilles for lands required
from their respective communes, and for the loss they
would sustain by the alteration in the direction of roads.
Carrieres-Saint-Denis demanded 37,000 f., but received
by award of the Jury no more than 650 f. I and the claim
of 100,000f.,_made in behalf of Houilles, was reduced to

1,600 E ! The third case was a claim, made by the Civil
List, of 46,224 E for about 35 acres of the Forest of
Saint-Germain. The advocates for the Company, after
hearing the evidence and arguments in behalf of the
Civil List, left the question entirely to the discretion of
the Jury, who awarded the full sum. In the fourth case
the town of Poissy had made a claim for 25,500 f. ; the
Company offered 10,000 f. On coming before the Jury,
the town reduced its demand to 18,000 E, and got an award
for 15,000 f.
The last number of the Breton announces that an
officer of Engineers left Nantes on Friday for the pur-
pose of proceeding to the disarming of a part of our
coasts, and to send back to the arsenals the pieces of
cannon, which are injured by the sea air. It is doubt-
less to hinder them from being damaged by the sea air
that the provident Cabinet of the 29th October disarms
a part of the ships of the line in our fleet.—National de
!'Orient, Nov. 8.

The Putriota, a Madrid journal, pretends to know
positively that M. Salvandy, the French Ambassador,
will very shortly set out for Madrid, when he will be
ab'.o to form a better idea of the state of Spain than he
could have done before the late attempt in favour of
Queen Christina.

The Olservateur de Pyrennes (a journal of Pau), of
the 7th inst., says:—" On Thursday last a detachment
of Spanish refugees who entered France with General
O'Donnell passed through this town, coming from Nay
and returning to their own country by virtue of the
amnesty which has been granted to them. This detach-
ment, with the exception of a small number of men
grown, was entirely composed of youths between fifteen
and eighteen years of age, and even still younger. One
could not conceive on seeing them that it could have
entered into any body's head, to carry on a civil war
with such soldiers."—Commerce.
The Dix-Nieucieme Siecle has the following para-
graph:—" It seems that the preliminary investigation in
the proceedings against Quenisset are terminated. This
affair has more ramifications than was at first supposed.
There will be eight persons among those arrested very
seriously implicated. If we may rely on information de-
rived from good authority, it is not merely an isolated
assassination that the Court of Peers will have to try,
but a real plot. At the moment of the commission of the
crime several individuals posted near St. Eustache, in
the midst of the confusion caused by the death of the
Princes, were to fall on the post of the municipal guard,
to disarm it and commence an insurrection.—Constitu-
tionna

COCKNEYISM" or TILE TIDIES.—This once pow-
erful
Journal, which every day was wont to
strike some chord that vibrated through the.
heart of the empire, has now descended to the
very lowest grade of twaddle, and every day puts'
forth trash worthy of an ancient Alderman. Sir C.
Hunter himself could not surpass an exquisite
specimen of genuine cockney simplicity which
appeared in its pageS yesterday. A compositor,
who has taken an accurate gauge of our Contem-
porary's foot, wrote to explain.the great distress
to which the compositors are now exposed, and
which is unhappily both intense and wide-spread.
In this letter the " Mighty power possessed by
the Times" is spoken of. ItS " noble and gene-
rous efforts in the cause of suffering humanity"
are praised, and it is supplicated to do fbr the
compositors what " it has done for Frenchmen,
Spaniards, Poles, .starving Irish, Highlanders,,
and distressed Spitalfields weavers." That
Journal is described as " issuing a history of the
world for a day -to the inhabitants of the four
quarters of the Glithe,".witlimuch more flummery
of the same kind. The compositor, knowing his
men, administered a dose of flattery which would
have choked a dog. In acknowledging the
many compliments the Times ingenuously says,
" we like both the spirit and the style in which
the letter is written," and it offers the writer a
place in the establishment of the Times. Speak-

ing for the public, it declares that it likes the
gross flattery of the Times. This is genuine
cockneyism, gobemolleherie of the biggest
swallow. After the Times has thus certified to
the merits of the Times, what will it not believe
itself and endeavour to make others believe?

SHARP PRACTICE.—The Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes are putting the inhabitants of
many of the London districts to great inconve-
nience by the mode they have lately adopted
for raising. money. Circulars have been sent

round beginning thus :-,--
" Pursuant to directions from the Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes, I have to inform you that in a sche-
dule delivered on ie Bth instant, in compliance with the
Acts relating to the land and assessed taxes, by the col-
lector of your parish, to the receiving officer for this dis-
trict, you are returned in arrear, after demand made, for
the undermentioned taxes, payable on the 20th of Sep-
tember last."

It is then intimated, that unless the tax is
paid forthwith, processes will be commenced,
and the persons in arrear will be saddled
with costs and expenses.. During these hard
times, probably one-third will be unable
to pay within the period. This mode
of raising money is contrary to practice,
and meetings should be held to protest against
it. It is a fair specimen of Tory Government.
They demand six or nine months to consider
what to do for the relief of the people, but they
will have the money out of their pockets in less
than six weeks.

Public meetings are being held all over the
country to address her Majesty and Prince
Albert on the happy birth of the Illustrious
Stranger. The county of Cornwall ought to take
the lead, followed by the principality of Wales.
Lambeth is booked for to-morrow, at the Horns,
at three o'clock.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Houses of
Lords and Commons assembled yesterday, pro forma,
for the purpose of further proroguing Parliament by
Royal Commission, until Thursday, 21st December.
The :Lords Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Buckingham. and Lord Wharncliffe. No
Member of either House of Parliament was present, ex-
cept the three Lords Commissioners ; and the Commons
were represented by Mr. Lee, the Clerk of the House of
Commons.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 11.—We have
again to notice a very heavy business in the Cotton
Market, the sales not amountinn, to more than 3,000
bales, all to the trade, with a tendency to farther reduc-
..
twit in prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, NOV. 11.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange are—ln Eastern Counties,
74 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 43e ; Great North of
England, 64 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares.
214 ; Ditto 32/. Shares, 521 ; North Midland Thirds,
14* ; North Midland, 751; Manchester and Leeds Quar-
ter Shares, 22t.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE,' NOV. 11.—There
is no improvement to note to-day, though business might
have been transacted at late quotations, generally.
Sales have been made in London and Birmingham; Old,
at 158, and Quarters at 214; London and South Western
may be quoted 52/ to 53 ; South Eastern and Dover,
191 to 20 per share.
There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter.