The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 18414

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1841.

We imagine that Sir ROBERT PEEL, as he re-
ceives the reports of the interesting meetings at
Derby, Leeds, and Manchester, will imme-
diately set about picking holes in the statements
of the different speakers. He will summon to
his aid commissioners, secretaries, and clerks,
he will order returns from every village and town-
ship wherever there is a stocking-frame or a spin-
ning mill, and he will be prepared, when Parlia-
ment meets, to demonstrate that Mr. T. PLINT has
exaggerated the bankruptcies about Leeds by two ;
that Mr. Blocs has understated the increase of
population at Hinckley by half a score; that it
is totally untrue that he now obtains an income
of 4,0001. a-year, as Mr. BROTIiERTON said, or
2,000/. a-year, as another report has it, from a
piece of moor in the neighbourhood of Oswald-
twisle, for which his father gave only 14,5001.,
and sold a portion of it for twice that sum; that
it is not true that
,this land, under the bread-tax,
is worth 81. an acre, and when it was pur-
chased was only worth ss. ; that the number
of families in that neighbourhood living on an
average weekly earning of
is. 31d., is not,
as was stated at Manchester, 248, but 036 ; that
the distress is not near so great as has been
represented, for he knew, of his own knowledge,
that some families had blankets, and he had
given the large sum of 201. to relieve the 1,171
individuals whose families were living on
ls. 31d. a-week ; and that, finally, the whole
of the statements of the manufacturers
must be untrue, for while they were complain-
ing of such overwhelming distress a great in-
crease had taken place in the navigation of the
country, particularly in the establishment of
steam-packets to the West Indies, which had
excited the wonder and extorted the admira-
tion of Fraace, our most powerful, but most en-
lightened enemy. Some such objects will now
occupy the Premier's attention, and by the help
of commissioners, secretaries, clerks, and menials,
he will be able, we have not the smallest
doubt, to satisty the House of Commons that the
distress is.grossly exaggerated, that it is one of
the usual fled inevitable fluctuations of com-
merce, and that he and they, by their enact-
ments, have had no hand whatever in producing
It. They are conscious, he will assure them, that
they act from the very best intentions, and as it
is quite impossible that men of such sagacity and
Wisdom- can err, they will feel convinced with
him that the little distress which exists has been
caused by the ruinous speculations of the mill-
"tun's, and the extraordinary credit given by
bankrupt joint-stock banks.
Sir Roararr PEEL will succeed. He will be
cheered from all sides of the House, and his tri-
umphant refutation, according to the Tory jour-
nals, of the misrepresentations and calumnies of
the manufacturers, will be received with incre-
dible delight in every parsonage and every
squire's mansion throughout England. We feel
for Sir ROBERT PEEL, bound by the tenure on
which he holds office to engage in such ser-
vile toils, and to make out a justification for
the unrighteous conduct of his and our
masters', profound pity and contempt. But when
he has succeeded, what possible effect can his

success have on the condition of the people ?
Will it lessen the distress, will it add to employ_
ment, will it increase wages, will it turn poverty
into prosperity, and disease into health ? Sir R.
PEEL has before succeeded. He convicted Mr. G-.
WOOD of an oversight. He showed that Mr.
BROTHERTON had not examined all the elements
of the social condition of his own neighbourhood.
By the help of Mr. MOTT, he convinced the
House of Commons that the distress at Bolton
was not worth attention.

In every successive Session since 1838 Sir R.
PEEL, as the bond-slave of the landlords, has
succeeded in making out, to the satisfaction of
the House of Commons, a complete case against
the Corn-law Repealers. With every successive
Session, however, distress has augmented, dis-
Content has deepened and widened, the revenue
has fallen below the expenditure, and the suc-
cessful labours of Sir R. PEEL are crowned by
placing him at the head of the nation, plunged in
distress, and almost ripe for revolt. Another
such victory gained by this great statesmb.n, nd
the nation will be undone.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S successes in the House of
Commons neither fill the bellies nor still the
discontent of the people. His statistics do not.
calm the apprehensions of the capitalists not
give employment and hope to the labourers,
Chartism, since 1838, has lost no votaries, nor
have the Chartists become reconciled to the
Constitution. On the contrary, their deter-
mined proceedings in every quarter, are proofs of
great resolution and perseverance. While Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S successes have not reconciled
the Chartists to the Constitution, they have
driven a great number of capitalists almost into
Chartism. At all the three great meetings very
strong language was used against the law and
the aristocracy. The capitalists have begun to
attack the so-called property of the landlords,
and have spoken of a compensation, to be taken
out of rent, for the injuries already inflicted on
the manufacturers by the Corn-laws. Many of
the Corn-law Repealers, also, have become advo-
cates of Universal Suffrage. Mr. STURGE has
drawn up and published a resolution in its fe-
y-our. Another success promises to convert the
master-manufacturers into Chartists, and make
rebellion the only means by which they and the
nation can be saved from utter ruin.

One of the objections which we stated some
time back to the Government promoting a sys-
tem of extensive emigration was, that at present
our institutions are in such an unsatisfactory con-
dition, that it would be wiser, before sending
away emigrants, to reform our institutions, so that
the emigrants may carry with them righteous laws
'to the laud of their adoption. It is held by
moralists that mature beings, who know them-
selves to be afflicted with transmissible diseases,
are scarcely warranted in running the risk of
imparting to offspring their own incurable
and painful maladies. How much less warrant-
able, then, must it be in society to send off
branch societies tainted with maladies which
they know to be susceptible of cure, perpetu-
ating such dire diseases as now afflict us, instead
of first diligently endeavouring- to cure them ?
On this analogy we hold it to be the duty of the
public to-establish just laws at home, before they
send off any portion of their brethren to other

!ands.

We scarcely expected to find a sort of con-
firmation of our views in a journal. which is dis-
tinguished by its preference of emigration to
reforming our institutions. The Spectator of
last Saturday, however, stated that the " Wake-
field system does not provide for the government
of the Colonies; it gives no security that proper
rulers shall be placed over them ; it gives no gua-
rantee to the colonists that their local affairs
shall be properly administered." In short, the
Spectator admits and states that no provision has
yet been made for the rational government of
the Colonies.

At the same time we know that the aristo-
cracy have always made the Colonies subservient
to their purposes, and have invariably sacrificed
the interest of the Colonists to their own ag-
grandisement. Latterly this has been the case
more than ever; and not a new Colony has been
founded of which the institutions have not been
framed far more with a view to provide for the
scions of the aristocracy than to promote the
welfare of the Colonists. What guarantee have
we, then, in promoting emigration, that it will
not be perverted to the enrichment of the aris-
tocracy ? Or, rather, is it not certain that the
main object of the Starvationists, in promoting
emigration, would be to increase the wealth and
power of the aristocracy, and extend the influ-
ence and dominion of the priesthood?

What would be the con Sequence ? Why, the
Colony, after going through all the degrees of
oppression which an aristocracy forces on men
for its own purposes, would finally, as it
gathered strength, which even an aristocracy
cannot prevent, throw off its dominion, and the
Colony, instead of remaining for ever a grateful
and an attached friend, would become, like the
United States, almost a decided political enemy,
kept in a state of uneasy peace, and friendship,
by ties of blood, of language, and of commer-
cial advantage, which even such proud and mis-
chievous law-makers as the land-owning aristo-
cracy of England cannot annihilate. We agree
with the Spectator that no provision whatever
has yet been made for the good government of the
Colonies. We affirm that such a provision can-
not be expected to be made till the Government
at home be reformed and improved; and we IT-
main, therefore, steady to our principle that we
must first establish righteous laws at home be-
fore we adopt public measures to send abroad
any portion of the people.

Our readers cannot fail to recollect that Mr
HARMER was excluded from the Mayoralty, not
on account of unfitness for the office, but be-
cause certain opinions, not professed by him, but
published in a Journal under his control, were
not agreeable to the Bigots. No persons were
more forward to oppose him than the PUSEYITE
writers in the Times and the Post. We feel great
pleasure, therefore, now to notice that the mea-
sure they then measured out to him is now
meted out to their own party. Their champion
at Oxford is opposed, not because he is a bad
poet, and an ignorant man, unfit to be Professor
of Poetry, but because he entertains some theo-
logical opinions not quite agreeable to his oppo-
nents. This is natural. Those pseudo-religious
gentlemen worked then with a principle of per-
secution, and now the same principle is worked
against them. Let the reader remark, how-
ever, how they cry out when their skin only is
foamed, though they had no compassion when
they
Committee
were flayine, another. Mr. WinuAms's
thus express' themselves :
by Mr. Garbetott'tshe
all
It appears m that both these letters (published
Committee) tend to establish, for the
present, as well as
unfair to candidates, future elections, a principle at once
perplexing to Members of Convoca-
tion, and fatal to the
eace o,ef the University.
According to this Principle a candidate's success is not
to depend upon the possessiopni-of quahttes suited to the office
which he seeks. The electors are to be called upon in-
directly, and without prep.aration to pledge their opinions
upon important and difficult questions, perhapsrf only
and every case submitted very 4) CmonPevoscseeacntisoirn:nrsrtet;
known to them through vague and
sbeeneotamtie°llsa;tter for renewed excitement
manudedhi.
and long
We transcribe their words to preserve them as a
memorial, and show them that
as they have acted on this principle, as in the
case of Catholics, Dissenters, and infidels, they
testify against it whenever it is applied to them-
selves. They will not in future expect us to
honour it, or to honour them, should they again
apply it to men of whose principles they do not
approve.

The Gazette de France and the Commerce are
the only French Journals opposed to the forti-
fication of Paris—the darling project of M.
ODILON BARROT and King Louis PHILIPPE.
These papers, though differing widely upon other
questions, have always had the sagacity to ob-
serve that the fortifications were intended, not to
terrify the enemies, but to enslave the people of
}ranee. We were therefore prepared for the
able comments which their respective columns
of Monday contain upon the bellicose epistle ad-

dressed by M. ODILON BARROT, to his " Dear
CHAMBOLLE," the editor of the Siecle, which
appeared in The Sun of yesterday. The follow
in' is an ex tract from the article of the Gazette,
which entirely corroborates our views :
We are opposed to no measure calculated to defend our
territory, and maintain our nationality ; but the fortifies-
'dons of Paris do not do this. The fortifications will
weaken France, giving the present Government the liberty
to be arbitrary, and consequently enabling it to persevere
in the false systems which produce discord and divide the
French. The ocean and the desert may serve as cuirasses
for England and for Russia, but the force of France is
in the sympathetic spirit of her thirty-three millions.
A national representation is worth more to France than
walls, and would 'give us fourteen armies, instead of
fourteen bastiies. Every system of monopoly is one
of division, and by excluding independent opinions
from the representation you are forced to take up a
militant position. To fortify the existing monopoly with
walls, is to perpetuate division. National unity, and
not fortifications, can preserve France from invasion,
despotism, and anarchic passions— the three extreme
evils. England is materially the most powerful country
in the world; an Itundret4 and twenty millions of men
obey it, and thirty thousand vessels quit and enter its
ports: but its very-Constitution is menaced by the system
of exclusion which it keeps up against Ireland. Russia
has her deserts and her 800,000 soldiers; hut despotism
which makes her force causes also her weakness. Unity,
under a popular monarch, can alone enable France to
match them.

The Commerce is particularly happy in its
remarks. It proves by quotations from the
speeches of M. Onnox BARROT in the Chamber
of Deputies, that if in 1830 he was the actual
originator of the project for fortifying Paris, he
thought but very indifferently of it in 1833. In
fact, in the latter year he opposed the fortifica-
tions tooth and nail. The fbllowing extracts
from a speech of his, delivered in the Tribune,
will place this fixt beyond contradiction :
We are not agreed about the necessity of permanent
fortifications. Bonaparte himself recoiled from before
the popular susceptibility which such a scheme naturally
caused, and before that jealous spirit of liberty, which
ought to be respected. Governments are often drawn
into their own despotic systems of violence. Violence
on one side begets the same on the other, and the avenger
then seeks after means of security and force ; these are
to be found in national sympathy. In such circumstances
what would be the fourteen bastiles round Paris, each
with its garrison shut out from the population, and hav-
ing it in its power to intercept all communication with
Paris ? Path.; may thus be blocked, and military inac-
tion may paralyse every effort of the national will.
If you wish to put troops into twenty or thirty forts,
it will be necessary- to disseminate an army, and then
you will just attain the aim which you desire. Instead of
leaving the army free to act upon the rear of an enemy,
you will concentrate it into the forts around Paris, and
thus leave all the populous departments to the mercy of
an enemy. And the principal advantage to result from
the fortifying of Paris, that of leaving the army free to
operate, will be. completely lost by a system of forts,
which will absorb the greater part of the army, and pa-
ralyse its movements.

suppose, that, after you had called all the enemy's
forces to Paris, they had the best of it in an engagement,
and that you bud staked and lost all in one throw, what
would be the consequence ? The enemy would garrison
your forts. In. 1814 and 1815 "the foreign Generals felt
that the soil of France trembled beneath their feet; they
were anxious to withdraw and give terms. Had they
had forts round Paris to garrison, they would have im
posed much severer conditions.

Here then -we have the important admission
that, in the case of a successful foreign inva-
sion, the fortifications of Paris would only serve
for garrisons fbr the invading troops. But of
what importance is it to Lyons, Bordeaux,
Nantes, Toulouse, and all the other great and
wealthy towns in France, whether or not Paris
he fortified? Would they fare worse if Paris
was not defended by a single gun, than if the
2,000 pieces of artillery now preparing by
LOUIS PHILLIPPE, bristled upon the ramparts
of the Capital ? Most unquestionably not. '
Speaking with reference to the operation of the
centralized system of government, established
by NAPOLEON, it is usual to regard Paris as a
synonyme for France ; but an invading army
would break up that system the instant it set
foot on the French soil, and then Paris would be
nothing but an inland fortress capable of being
reduced at any time by a simple blockade.
Neither our Contemporary the Chronicle, nor
the French papers from which we have quoted,
appear able to account for so remarkable a
change in the opinions of M. ODILON BARRO.T.
Can these Journals have forgotten that the KING,
shortly after the Republican Deputy's display of
opposition to the fortifications in 1833, discovered
a wonderful aptitude fur place in the brother
of that gentleman; and that his MAJESTY'S
choice of so worthy a servant had a most mira-
culous effect in cooling the patriotic fervour of
the declamatory Deputy? For our part we re-
member perfectly some such circumstance, and
were not a little struck with the effect
produced. To make the dumb speak is
sometimes hardly more miraculous than to
silence the babbling, and the latter wonder
the KING of the FRENCH, by the magic of a
few words, effected in the case of M. ODILON
BARROT. Since that period we have found him

in all political relations an altered man. The
Court has drawn him within its magic circle, and
latterly he has essayed with some effect to
mouth its sophistries. At' the present moment
we can discover no difference between M.

TRIERS and M. ODILON BARROT, and would
just as soon see the former in the Cabinet as the

latter.

The Madrid Papers of the 13th instant contain
no news whatever.

The Five per Cents. were done at 334, for
cash, and at 334 35 331 s 4 344, at different
dates; the Three per Cents. sold for 224 4, for
cash, and 234, at 60 days ; the Four per Cents.,
at 22 for cash ; and the debt bearing no interest,
at 61 3-32 4, at different dates.

The whole of the French Journals of Monday
have reached us. They contain no news of im-
portance. The trial of M. DUPOTY continues to
excite the attention of the Opposition Press. It
was reported that the Court of Peers had con-
demned DUPOTY by a majority of 136 votes to
3, and that he would be condemned to ten years'
imprisonment in the prison of San Miguel.
The Moniteur publishes the return of the produce and
consumption of beet-root sugar manufactured.in France in
1841. According to that document the number of ma-
nufactories in activity was 366, and the whole quantity
produced 8,365,205 kilogrammes, of which 4,409,959
were sold for :consumption. The duties levied thereon
amounted to 5,467,120£

Private accounts from Bayonne of the 16th inst. state,
that warlike preparations were still making on the fron-
tiers of Spain, although the march of troops to the south
hid been suspended. Marshal Saldanha, the Portuguese
Ambassador at the Austrian Court, passed through
Bayonne on the 14th, on his way to Vienna.
A Ministerial paper says this morning, that the sen-
tence of the Court of Peers will be published on Wed-
nesday or Thursday.
The Gazette du Medi of the 16th, says "M. Dupuch,
the Bishop of Algiers, arrived yesterday from Bordeaux
at Marseilles, on his return to his diocese. We are
assured that the Prelate had scarcely alighted from his
carriage, when he received a telegraphic dispatch, in-
viting him to proceed immediately to Paris.
It will be recollected that the Journal du Cher
has announced that M. Dupuch was appointed to the
Bishopric of Bourges.—Constitutionnel.

The Journals or Upper Italy are full of complaints of
a continuation of bad weather, of which there are few
examples. The Milan Gazette mentions every day the
non-arrival of the French Journals, in consequence of
the interruption of the communication between the
South of France and the North of Italy. The
same is the case in the South of Italy ; and the
Journal of the Two Sicilies mentions deplorable accidents,
caused by the overflowing of the Sangro, in the interior
of the Abruzzo.

The,Phare della Marine says—" We have this moment
learnt that a terrible disaster has happened this evening
on the road from Valgones to Cherbourg. The yarn
manufaetury at Pont-la-Ville has been entirely des-
troyed by fire, together with its dependencies. Several
neighbouring houses have 1.10:11 consumed in the dread-
ful fire."—Commerce.

.
We find in the Constitutionnei the following version of
what has recently occurred in Monaco:—" The people
of Monaco have gained their ends. The monopoly of
corn is abolished throughout the principality by order of
Florestan 1., but there has been a species of insurrection
which threatened to be fatal to the Farmer-General of
the monopoly, M. Chapon. The populace attacked his
house, and committed some depredations. M. Chapon
made his escape through a back-door, and gained a
small port, where he embarked in the French Govern-
ment steamer Tenare. -His brother-in-law remained
concealed fur several days, but at length managed to
save himself. The Prince has shown great affability and
liberality. He is about to dismiss the old Governor,
who has incurred the hatred of his subjects. It is be-
lieved that he will be succeeded by the son of General
Partouneaux, who resides in the principality. The King
of Sardinia is alarmed lest this petty revolution should
spread into the neighbouring countries, and has sent
some Carbineers to the frontier of Monaco."
The Infanta Donna Luisa Carlota entered Burgos on
the 7th inst., accompanied by her consort Don Francisco
de Paula, who went to meet her Royal Highness, at-
tended by the authorities of the town ; the National

Guards, and two regiments forming the garrison, being
under arms on the occasion. The. Prince and Princess
reside in the mansion of the Marchioness of Barrio Lucio.
A letter from Hanover of the 9th ins% states that M.
de Lutken, one of the King's Privy Councillers, and a
strong advocate of his Majesty's new measures, had been
attacked one evening in the street, and severely wounded
by a large stone. The assault was attributed to feelings
of political vengeance.
" M. Sieveking, of Hamburgh," says the Siecle, " has
entered into a Treaty with the British New Zealand
Company for the purchase of the Chatham Islands at
10,0001., for the German Colonisation Company ; and if
this Corporation is fully organised by that time, the
Treaty will be exchanged at London on or before 12th
March next."

A Correspondent of the Debuts, at Cairo, states that
the Turkish Governor of Aleppo has been driven out of
that town by the inhabitants, on his attempting to levy a
tribute.

The elections of Deputies to the Constituent Assembly
of the Canton of Geneva are finished. Out of 11,396
electors inscribed on the list, 7,226 have exercised their
right, making an average of 63 out of 100. The differ-
ence between the numbers of voters in the city of Ge-
neva, and the country districts or colleges, amounted to
next to nothing, those in the city being in the proportion
of 63 to 100, and those in the country 64 to 100. The
Assembly was convoked for the 17th inst. The Federal
remarks :—"Judging by the ensemble of the elections,
the g-eat majority of nominations to the Constituent
Assembly have been acquired by the conservatives and
the moderate progressive party."
"It was rumoured on Saturday in the diplomatic cir-
cles," says the Temps, " that the Baron do Benkendorff,
Minister of Police in Russia, had fallen into disgrace,
and been dismissed. lie is a brother of the Countess de
Lieven. In the eyes of certain persons this disgrace is
an indication that our diplomacy does not advance in fa-
vour at the Court of Saint Petersburg. The Emperor
Nicholas is said to have decided that in future there shall
be no Russian Ambassador at the Court of any power,
but only a Minister Plenipotentiary."—On this subject
we find the following in the Constitationnel :—" We are
informed that a revolution has been effected in th 3 cabi-
net at St. Petersburg. Several Ministers have been su-
perseded. Count Pahlen and the brother-in-law of
Princess Lieven have been called into the new Cabinet.
It is affirmed that Count Pahlen will not be succeeded
here by an Ambassador, but by a Minister Plenipoten-
tiary only, in the person of M. de Boutenief, the Russian
Ambassador at Constantinople. This is a serious change,
as it obl;ges France to have only a Minister Plenipoten-
tiary at St. Petersburgh. The unfriendly feeling of
Russia towards France has long been apparent, and it is
to be regretted that France did nut take the initiative in
this matter. France must be no more than a secondary
power in the eyes of Russia ; or has the Emperor
Nicholas, in his affected contempt, some hidden motive
which our Government, as it appears, has not sufficient
ability to discover ? The Baran de Barante, by this au-
tocratic decision, is thrown out of employment."
Marshal Saldanba, Portuguese Envoy Ex.traor-l'inney
to the Emperor of Austria, passed through B-eeonno on
the 14th inst. on his way to Vienna, intend;.,,,,
to pass by
Marseilles and Italy. Lieut.-Gen. Ezpf.;letalas also vi-
sited Bayonne.

A letter from Strasburg, in the Augsburg Gazette,
says that a letter has been recei;erl by a commercial
house in that city from a higb ':unctionary of the French
Government, stating the i':itention of the Cabinet to in-
stitute negotiations several German Governments,
for a mutual meillification of Customs' tariffs. The
French Goverlnuent proposes, it adds, to reduce the en-
trance duti.P.3 on cattle, and requires that the duties on
French vb-ines in other countries shall be lowered.
e Patriota of Madrid states that amicable feelings
J..,ive been renewed between the Spanish and French
Cabinets, and that the intercourse of the two Govern-
ments is on a very satisfactory footing.
The Carlsruhe Gazette states that a shock of earth-
cruake was felt on the 10th inst. at Zwingenberg, near
that town, where the walls of the chateau were cracked
by the movement, and several stones displaced.
BOURSE—PAnis, MONDAY, DEC. 20.

Pint Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric... Price.
`'reach 5 par Crnt, ll6 40 ... 116 40 ... 116 35 ... 116 41
4 per Cents lOO 90 ... 100 90 ... 100 00 ... 101 00
3 per Cent% ex div 7B 15 —7B 25 ... %8 15 ... 78 20
Loan ex div 76 80 ... 78 80 ... 78 80 ... 78 80
ienk of France
Latlitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1041 ...1040 ...1049 ...104(1
5,00111. Shares 8065 ...5065 ...5005 ...5065
'el:van Bank
Belgian 5 per trim., 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 102% ... 1:-.2%
,p..i.sti Activ" 24% ... 24% ... A% .... 24%
Pt,sire 5% . 5% ... 5% ... 5%
..
New Deferred
veapolitau, ..
'..oa-.1111..,.
RA/LWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
ver.A.l:cs, L.ii 197 50 ... 197 50 ... 1.2 50 .. 19.1 50
ftauen
,rte.ins 480 ... 480 ... 480 ... 480
chr?sburg ,o Bale 223 75 .. 225 ... Y 3 75 ... 243 75

COMMISSIONEL—One of the reproaches made
to the Whigs by the Tories was, that they dele-
gated the duties of Government to Commis-
sioners. Ministers, it was repeatedly said, even
while the Whigs were employed in devising
great measures of improvement, ought to take
on themselves the task of inquiry, and ought to
frame measures on their own responsibility. But
how do the Tories act? Last night the appoint-
ment of another Commission was announced in
the Gazette, of which the duties are to inquire
into the manner in which Exchequer bills have
been issued, and what means can be devised to
Prevent a fraudulent and forged issue of such
bills. Aro the gigantic talents, then, of Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham,
and of that cluster of divine statesmen who
now stand at the head of affairs, while they have
nothing else to do, unable to re-model the Ex-
chequer Bill-office? and must they have recourse
to the mercantile talents of Lord Ashburton and
Mr. George Glyn? We do not blame the ap-
pointment of the Commission, but we hops. the
Tory Journals will now repent them of their
sneers against the Whig Ministers, who, according
to them, could do nothing without a Commission.

WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON-
DON LETTERS, DEC. 21, 1841.

THROUGH THE GENERAL POST.
Four Weeks, ending Dec. 18, 1841 5,480,920
Corresponding period of 1840 4,408,127
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,682,912
Increase since 1840, on the Four Weeks' Letters 1,072,793
Ditto, 1839, ditto
THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST.
Four Weeks, enclitic, Dec. 18, 1841 1,810,182
Corresponding period of 1840 1,582,006
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,021,386
Increase since 1840, on the Four Weeks' Letters 228,176
Ditto, 1839, ditto

A deputation from the London Mercantile
Committee on Postage waited, in the course of
last week, on the Postmaster-General, with the
view to urge upon his attention the great benefit
that would accrue, not only to the public but
also to the revenue, from the perfecting of Mr.
Rowland Hill's plan of penny postage. The
chief points brought before Lord Lowther's no-
tice were the necessity of increased facilities for
posting and delivering letters in the metropolis
and the suburbs, and the carrying out of like
measures in the chief provincial towns, besides
an extension of Post-office conveniences to coun-
try districts at present destitute of them. The
representations the deputation made were re-
ceived with all due courtesy, and were promised
full consideration by his Lordship, who assured
them that he was as willing as his predecessor to
carry out Mr. Hill's plan.

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY).
A General Court of the Proprietors of East India
Stock was held this morning—which had not concluded
when we went to press. We shall give a full report of
the proceedings in our Second Edition.

,LOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 22.—Wind this day at noon W.
DEAL, DEC. 21.—W.N.W. to W., moderate—Arrd.
Mary, Newcastle, Mauritius ; General Walfedo Deme-
rara. Arrived from the River, Amiens, fur Bahia ; Di-
ligent, Gibraltar.

RAMSGATE, DEC. 21. Sailed the Felicia, for South
America ; Fulmar, Odessa.

OFF DOVER, DEC. 21.—Westphalia, Wessels, Bremen,
for Npw York ; Ingeborg, Copenhagen, for St. Croix ;
Elizabeth, Wilhelmine, liamburgh, for Port-au-Prince ;
Elizabeth, Foreman, Quebec.
SALCOMBE, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Victoria, from Terceira.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Onyx, Shields, and sailed for Gibraltar ; Margaret,
steamer, ditto.

OFF PENZANCE, DEC. 18.—Twende Brode, Bakker,
New York, for Antwerp. The Bristol Packet, Payne,
from Bristol to this port and Falmouth, was run down
last night off the Lands-end by a schooner.
ST. IVES, DEC. 20.—1 t blew a heavy gale yesterday at
S.E. to E.N.E. The Catherine, Salts, from Newport to
Exeter, got in contact with a French lugger, went on
the Beach, and received much damage, but was hove off
this morning. The Grenadier, Ertand, and Clorinde,
Launcelot, both from Newport to Rouen, got ashore,
but are expected off—cargoes discharging. The Cleo-
patra, Ertand, from Newport to Rouen, is ashore on
Hayle Bar—cargo discharging.
DUBLIN, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Naparina, White, Quebec.
SHIELDS, DEC. 20.—Arrd. Grafton, Cook, Calcutta.
Sd. Euphemia, Algiers ; Anna Louisa, New York.
HULL, DEc. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Lord Wen-
loch, Mitchel, St. John's, N.B. ; Persus, Rowan, Mira-
michi. The Consort, Armstrong, from Memel to this
port, got ashore on Oland, but came off, after discharging
part of cargo, and put into Carlshamn, it is supposed,
without damage.
SLIGO, DEC. 19.—The Duke of Gloucester, Newman,
bound to Liverpool, fell over at the New Quay yesterday,
and has five feet water in her hold—cargo discharging.
MILFORD, DEC. 20.—Acrd. Corsair, Liverpool, for New
Orleans, leaky. SM. Evenwood, late Howe, London.
The Bridget, Timmins, from Dalhousie, was obliged to
leave Carmarthen Bay yesterday morning, not being able
to get over the bay • on the Ist instant she shipped a sea,
which broke the wheel and filled the cabin ; on the 17th
passed a barque under close reefed maintopsail, and
loss of foreyard.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Wind N. fresh.—Arrd. Her-
culean, Grindale, Bombay—sld. from St. Helena 3d ult. ;
Ranger, Brown, Lima_sld. Sept 2 ; Wilsons, Campbell,
Demerara—sld. sth ult. ; Hebron, Mobile ; Lancashire,
Lyon Savannah ; Richard, Montreal ; Malabar, Barker,
and Andrew White, Quebec ; Grange, Montreal, having
been in contact, off Bardsey, with the Andrew White.
Sid. Denison, Antigua.

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" Who runs may read."

roBsio3sT.
The French Journals, of Monday are occupied with
the trial of M. Dupoty, Editor of the Journal du Peuple.
The Courrier Francais, remarhing upon the infamy of
this trial, says :--" It is certain that the Ministers and
their families openly express an opinion that K Dupoty
ought to be condemned, and leave it to be inferred that
the existence of the Cabinet is attached to the success of
the accusation. The whole weight of the Government
is thus brought to bear upon the Peers. Will they show
that they are beyond the reach of such deplorable and
powerful influence? Will justice be greater than fear?
Up to the last moment we will not despair. It is not fur
us to trace to the Judges the line which they ought to
follow, but we entreat them not to forget at this solemn
moment that M. Dupoty is an adversary of the Govern-
ment, and that the Government desires his condem-
nation."

It was privately reported in Paris on Monday that the
Court of l'eers had actually voted the condemnation of
I)upoty by 136 votes to 23 ! Atrocious as this report is,
we can hardly doubt its correctness, from our acquaint-
ance with the infamous composition of that servile and
most despicable Court.
The France says that the idea of the King of Prussia
visiting the Court of St. James's for the christening of
the Prince of Wales is totally erroneous ; that his Ma-
jesty and the Queen will live quite retired all the winter
at Charlottenburg ; and that the recent death of the
Queen Dov:ager of Bavaria, her Majesty's mother, will
prevent tiny fetes being given at Court.
Ernest of Hanover continues to play the despot
to admiration. According to the Hamburgh Correspond-
ent the Opposition Members of the Second Chamber of
the States General of Hanover, who have not been al-
lowed by the Government to take their seats, have quitted
the capital, and returned to their constituents. The sup.
plementary Deputies have been called on to sit in their
stead.
The lithographed French correspondence from Spain
says, that it is agitated whether it might not be advisable
to prolong the term of the Queen's minority from 14 to
IS years of age. The dissolution of the Senate was an-
other proposal. Both were resisted by the Government.
A letter from Vittoria, of the Bth instant describes in
a lively manner the joy of the people of that city on being
relieved from the state of siege, the arbitrary rule of the
military commission, and the further payment of the
mulct with which all householders had been visited who
took part in the affair of the 4th of October.
At Barcelona a survey of the citadel has been made,
and an estimate formed, that it would require 4,000,000
reals (40,0001.) to complete its destruction, and only
1,500,000 reals (15,000/.) to repair it. The inhabitants
of that unfortunate city seemed heartily tired of their
political excitement, for it is stated, that out of above
30,000 electors of the Ayuntarniento, only 1,000 had
come forward to give their votes on the late occasion,
and the Republicans were left in a minority.
The Madrid Gazette contains two decrees highly
illustrative of the state of Spain—one removing from
Oviedo to other towns six . canonigos, whose quarrels
could not otherwise be settled ; the other complaining
of the excessive number of applicants who daily pre-
sent themselves for situations in the post-offices, arising,
no doubt, from the general belief that no particular
aptitude was required for these offices," and declaring
that candidates must produce certificates of their know-
ledge in at least arithmetic, Spanish grammar, and Spa-
nish geography. Those who in addition possess a know-
ledge of accounts, general geography, and any foreign
languages, are informed that their claims will receive
particular consideration.
PUBLIC OPINION.

We quote the following remarks, suggested by the
coming season of Christmas, from the Morning Chronicle:—
" Beef is dear in London, says the Pust, for Christmas
is coming. The increased demand is not, we fear, that
of the millions. Little matters the price of beef to the
poor wretches that beg herring-brine to flavour their
potatoes. Little does it avail them, either, that pork
is only three times as dear as, in dear times, it is at
at Cincinnati. But is it not atrocious that, in such cir.
cumstances, there should be a duty of 12s. per cwt. on
salted meats, and of fresh 1Y eat an absolute prohibi-
tion ? No light can beam for the poor, on the prover-
bially dark days before Christmas, while the gripe of
monopoly is unrelaxed. What cares it for Christmas ?
The voice of Him who then was cradled in a manger,
taught the simple prayer to give us this day our daily
bread. May Heaven hear it ! for monopoly will not."—
Thanks to the Tories, who have shown such an active
sympathy with the people, and dope so much to remedy
their distresses, the poorer classes bid fair this year to
enjoy a right merry Christmas. What rejoicing will
there not be at Paisley ? What feasting at Spitalfields?
What fervent expressions of gratitude to Ministers will
there not be offered up by the mechanics and their fami-
lies in their cellars at Manchester ? Kindly and con-
siderate Tories ! How readily have they not responded
to the prayer, " give us this day our daily. bread !"
They have given us our bread ; and not only this, but
they have expressly commissioned the Duke of Bucking-
ham to see that we procure it in the orthodox fashion!
The Post administers a gentle reprimand to the "pom-
pous hosiers of the midland counties " in the following
set terms :—•' When we took the liberty of administer-
ing a gentle reprimand to certain pompous hosiers of the
midland counties for meddling in matters which they
did not understand, we were assailed by some London
critics as though we had done the stocking-makers and
their cause a great injustice. But the communications
we have received from the districts in which these ho-
sier-statesmen are well known, tell a very different story.
They commend our plain speaking about these pompous
personages, and assure us that we have given a very fit
reproof to arrogant and grasping men, who think them-
selves entitled to complain because they have not every
thing their own way. These men complain of distress
merely because there is a depression in a trade from
which they have derived enormous profits. Surely it is
not too much to expect that they should take the rough
with the smooth, and be thankful for what they have ac-
quired, instead of trying to set the country in aflame because
their gains are now less enormous than they have been."—
The above passage breathes the true aristocratic spirit of
the flippant and fashionable lady's maid. It is redolent
of the airs of a housekeeper's room at the West-end.
The " pompous hosiers" indeed ! How well this sneer
becomes the chronicler of the " arrivals and departures',
of its aristocratic masters and mistresses ! We always
defer respectfully to our Contemporary's authority on
matters of dress and etiquette ; but with equal respect
we must beg to protest against its politico-economical
tracts, which were anything but " Tracts for the Times."
Speaking of the proposed Commission for investi-
gating the Exchequer bill fraud, the Herald says
" We entirely approve of the constitution of the Com-
mission. True—it comes upon us like an exemplifica-
tion—with a vengeance—of the triste adage which with
cutting philosophy recommends, the victims of horse-
stealing, to—(when the steed is stolen)—' shut the stable
door.' But here we have just had to sit down with a
loss not of a steed,' but—of a sum which, in the figu-
rative phraseology of the betting-room at Tattersall's re-
presents precisely the value of 16,000 ponies.' This
number of nags is so large, or say that the cost of
them (400,0001.), is so enormous, that it is well to find
the stable-door is to be shut at last. And really it was
high time that it should be. The recent frauds prac-
tised in the revenue, have gone pretty far to reduce the
First Lord of the Treasury to that melancholy position
in which he would not have had a horse left in the
Stable' to walkout on a rainy day'—if a certain Thomas
Spring Rice had had charge of the Exchequer stud
much longer."

In a leading article, suggested by the late Northamps
tonshire meeting, the Times takes the opportunity of
thus sneering at the Chartists :—" Be their political de-
mands as rational and justifiable as they are notoriously
the reverse, the Chartists seem to imagine that their ob-
jects will be best gained, not by temperate and reason-
able appeals to public sympathy, but by a course which,
instead of gaining them a single respectable supporter,
must terrify every orderly member of the community
from giving them the slightest countenance. Perhaps it
is well that it should be so. For ourselves, though we
shall never cease to advocate the just rights of the work-
ing classes, we can truly say that those of the Chartists
who persist in obtruding their own case at every public
meeting in the kingdom save us a vast deal of trouble.
Were they possessed of ordinary discreetness and
prudence, we might possibly be subjected to the neces-
sity of refuting and repelling their pretensions. As
they now manage matters, exciting distrust and
disgust in every impartial spectator, they are work-
ing their own ruin much more effectively than
any hostility of ours could hope to achieve."—
We hope the Chartists are by this time convinced that
the Tories, instead of being—as they once imagined they
were—their friends, are their worst enemies. If they
be not fully persuaded of this truth, we despair of their
ever being enlightened. The Tories merely used them
as their tools, and had never any other notion than that
of jast playing them off against the Whigs, and then
shaking themselves clear of all alliance with them. The
Chartists displayed a woeful want of sagacity in con-
necting themselves, even for an hour, with the Tories.
They estranged many of their friends, and laid them-
selves open to the justifiable taunt, that men who could
be fools enough to allow themselves to be gulled by their
natural enemies, were certainly not fit to be entrusted
with the slightest addition of political power. Warned
by the past, we trust the Chartists will henceforth make
common cause with the Opposition in Parliament, with
whom they have many more points in common than they
ever had, or ever can have, with the Tories.
The Advertiser says—" If no man ought to be cons•
.
pelled to pay Church-rates, whatever is to be contri-
buted for the purpose of beautifying of churches, or for
the extension of burial-grounds, ought to be contributed
voluntarily—if, we say, no man should be forced to pay
these Church imposts' least of all ought Dissenters or
Roman Catholics to be subjected to this legal compul-
sion. They derive no benefit whatever from the
Church's ministrations ; they never cross her threshold ;
they never read her prayers ; never hear her sermons ;
never receive her sacraments. Surely it is enough that
they support their own ministers, and contribute to the
keeping of their own places of worship in a state of re-
pair. Nor is this all. It is degrading to the
Church, and a reflection on Churchmen, that they
should thus come annually forward to put
their hands into the pockets of Dissenters.
Where is there the pocket into which Mother Church
does not contrive to thrust her übiquitous hands ? That
must be a very extraordinary man indeed who can
keep his pockets clear of the Old Dame's clutches. In

our progress throup,th life, from the cradle to the gr:;u,-,
she taxei: us with the most rigid punctiliousness. At
baptism her hands are stretched out for a fee ; in mar-
riage, she cries out, "pray remember the parson;" and

even beside the grave, she insists most devoutly on her
dividend. Her principle of action is, give nothing for
nothing I
The following is from an article on the subject of edu-
cation in the Cambridge Advertiser :--" The important
question of the education of the poor must not belost sight
of. In the last forty years the population of the rural
districts in this kingdom has increased at the rate of
more than forty per cent., while in the la►ge town and
the manufacturing districts the increase has been much
greater, varying from eighty to nearly one hundred and
thirty per cent. ,In that period no material improvement,
as regards mental and moral culture, has taken place in
the agricultural population."
The Tyne Mercury observes in an article on free-
trade: —" The sliding scale will not do—emigration will
not do—taxation will not do—nothing will do, you will
very speedily discover, but throwing your ports wide
open to every commercial power, and giving and re-
ceiving the advantages of the mutual and augmented in-
tercourse."

WSONEY—TRILDE—COMIKZMCE.
The claims on Messrs. Ridge and Rowland's Chi-
chester bank amount to 150,0001, and the effects of the
bankrupts Will afford about 6s. Bd. in the pound.
STATISMICS.
Mr. Porter, in an analysis of the Census, read before
the Statistical Sccie.ty on Monday, stated that in all
Great Britain there are 13,600 idiots, lunatics, &n., and
in England alone lin 500. In 1831, there were 800,000
female servants in Great Britain, while in the city of
Westminster alone they formed one-tenth part of the
population.

NAVI9.7, AND renaTausr.
It is stated that the Warspite, 50; the Dido, 20; and
Hazard, 15, are fitting out for immediate service for China.

Law AND POLICE.
In the action of Pisani, chief dragoman or interpreter
to the British Embassy at Constantinople, against Law-
son, printer and publisher of the Times, fur alleged libels
contained in the articles of that journal, the jury returned
a verdict for the defendant. •

At Marlborough- street Police-court this morning,
Thomas Garnir, a young man of respectable appoarance,
cashier in the house of Mr. Vandergaucht, silk mercer,
Quadrant, was reiranded till Friday, on a charge of rob-
bing his master to a considerable amount.

The Neapolitan papers are loud in their praise of a
new English cantatrice, who made her first appearance
in La Sonnambula, at the Teatro del Fond°, on the 3d
of last month. The debutante, Miss Emma Bingley, who
is only in her 19th year, is a pupil of Curioni.

COURT-----71115110N11117.M.
The Earl of Munster left town last week to meet his
Countess and family at Paris.

The Marquis of kildare, who has been on a continental
tour, arrived in town last week, and has since gone to
Carton House, the seat of the Duke of Leinster, in Ireland.
Viscount Grimston arrived at Gorhambury on Satur-
day last from Coombe Abbey, near Coventry, the seat
of the Earl of Craven.

Lord W. Russell left ➢iivart's hotel yesterday fur Wo-
burn Abbey.

Lord Ward, accompanied by the Marquis of Bland-
ford, Lord Seaham, and Lord Henry Lennox, left Mi-
vart's hotel, on Monday morning, for Ilimley Hall, the
Noble Lord's seat in Staffordshire.

We regret to hear of the indisposition of the Duchess
of Somerset, who has for the last three weeks been con-
fined to her chamber.

His Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, and the
Duchess of Inverness, are expected to arrive to-morrow
on a visit at Woburn Abbey, from Newstead Abbey.
The Earl of Surrey arrived in Hyde Park-place on
Monday last.
Sir James Graham leaves town on Friday to visit his
.•
constituents at Dorchester.
It is now definitively arranged thatlhe long-expected
nuptials of his Highness Prince Nicholas Esterhazy,
eldest son of his Excellency Prince Esterhazy, Arnba.ssa-
dor at the British Court from the Emperor of Austria,
and the Lady Sarah Villiers, the lovely and accomplished
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, are to be
solemnized on Saturday week, January 1.

IVIESCZEGILNEOUS.
The custom of Christmas boxes arose with sailors. In
the infancy of navigation, they nailed a box to the mast
of the ship on going to sea, and at times of storm or
danger, dropped a piece of money in the box, for prayers
to be said for them, which collections, if they returned
safe, they presented to the Church. These gifts, received at
the time of the Nativity at the entrance of the chapels
and cathedrals, were called Christmas boxes.

The sale of Dr. Johnson's "Rambler," was greatly
limited at first. The first paper which sold well was
Richardson's, No. 97.

A meeting of the inhabitants of the county of Sussex
was held at Lewes yesterday, to address the Queen on
the birth of a Prince of Wales. Among others present
were the Earl of Chichester, Earl Delawarr, Lord March,
Captain Pechell, and a few country gentlemen connected
with the East Division of the county. After the address
had been moved and seconded, Mr. Woodward proposed
an amendment in favour of the People's Charter, and for
the removal of the sentence on Frost, and all political
offenders. Only twenty hands
.were held up for the
amendment, and the several addresses afterwards were
adopted without opposition.
Yesterday a gentleman named Luke, residing in Ken-
sington-square, while skating on a pond in Kensington
Gardens, nearly lost his life. The ice gave way in nine
feet water, and, after he had sunk twice, he was happily
rescued by one of the icemen. The ice in all the Parks
is still dangerous, and particularly so in Regent's Park,
where at least ten persons were immersed in deep water,
but all fortunately saved.

xturaourts or TIE DAT.
We understand that the Editor of a fashionable Sun-
day paper has engaged the boy Jones to give full parti-
culars of the Royal Christening.
The metropolis is expected to be more full about the
end of next month than it has been fin. some years past;
the business in Parliament will attract numbers to town,
and many foreigners of distinction are expected to be
present at the Royal Christening.
On Wednesday afternoon, in St. Jude's Church, Li-
verpool, five persons, all of mature years, in the presence
of a crowded congregation, publicly abjured the errors
of the Church of Rome, in which they had been nur-
tured. Three other Roman Catholics will, to the great
mortification of Dr. Pusey, make a similar abjuration in
a few days.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CI7 Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 21.—We have
had a moderate demand for Cotton to-day, but the busi-
ness has been wholly to the trade, and consisting of 3,000
bales, of which 1,200 were Surat, at 34d. to 4d. per lb.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 21.—The trans-
actions reported at the Stock Exchange this day com-
prise. Eastern Counties, 84; do. Debentures, 101. 11s. Bd.;
Grand Junction, 196 ; Great Western, Fifths, 04; Paris
and Rotten, 10k.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 21.—We
have had a steady market, and prices continue firm.
Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ; Manchester and
Leeds Quarters, 3/. 165.; Manchester and Salford Water
Works, 53l ; Midland Counties, 844 85.