The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

TIRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBEIt 29, 1840,

expediency, liberal indulgence towards a prostrate war-
rior, and an anxious desire for the common peace and
satisfaction of Christendom, would dictate to victorious,
temperate, and fearless Powers. Many considerations
offer themselves connected with the existing state of
France and of her Government which we almost fear to
touch upon at present, so embarrassing and little invit-
ing is the subject—little satisfactory, indeed, since the
prevailing anticipation is, that M. Guizot, that indivi-
dual on whom, above all others, mankind have reason to
rely for the continuance of peace, must fall an early
victim to the intrigues and evil passions of the hour.
(From the Morning Post.)
We repeat this day the important communication
which we received yesterday by extraordinary express
from our correspondent at Alexandria, and published
immediately in a second edition. The convention
concluded between Mehemet Ali and Commodore
Napier, so far from being ratified, as some of our Con-
temporaries stated a few days ago, by the Allied Powers,
has been, as we expected and foretold, utterly repu-
diated and annulled by Admiral Stopford in express
terms, and upon his own authority in the first instance,
and subsequently upon the authority of Lord Palmer-
ston, whose despatch had arrived in the interim, con-
taining :instructions directly at variance with the con-
vention. This might have been matter of just com-
plaint on the part of Mehemet Ali, but that, having
the Treaty of July 15 in his possession, when he con-
cluded the Napier convention, be must be held to have
known that the convention was invalid, inasmuch as it
was manifestly irreconcileable with the terms of the
Treaty. To the new proposals made to him by the
Gallant Admiral, in pursuance of Lord Palmerston's in-
structions, the Pacha at once acceded : and thus what-
ever difficulty the inconsiderate and unauthorised pro-
ceeding of Commodore Napier might have produced at
Alexandria seems to be obviated. It is surmised, how-
ever, that the Commodore, who evidently thinks his
commission a very large one, has sailed to Constantino-
ple for the purpose of communicating his convention to
the Ottoman Court. Should this be so there is some
reason to apprehend that the Sultan, in the surprise and
displeasure which such a communication could not
fail to excite, may have adopted and proclaimed a de-
termination with respect to the future government of
Egypt which even the recommendation he is about
to receive from his Allies might not easily induce him
to revoke. Admiral Stopford exacted from the
Pacha a written undertaking to surrender the Turkish
fleet, and to evacuate Syria, Adana, Candia, Arabia,
and the Holy Cities without delay, promising on
the part of the Allies, that this unqualified sub-
mission should be followed by their recommenda-
tion to the Sultan to reinstate him in the Pachalic of
Egypt. It Is ill be remarked that neither the word
" hereditary" nor any other word of the same meanie.
is used in the instructions of Lord Palmerston to Ad'-
nairal Stopford, in the communication of the latter to
the Pacha, nor even in the Paella's declaration of sub-
mission, except in an introductory passage referring to
the Napier Convention. We find, on referring to
our Money Market article, that the intelligence pro-
duced at first a fall in the funds, from which, in a
short time, they not only rapidly and entirely recovered,
but advanced above their previous price. We ascribe
this to the circumstance of a Morning Contemporary
having announced, in a hasty second edition, the rejec-
tion of the Convention of Alexandria by Admiral Stop-
ford, without the additional information that a second
and more valid arrangwent had been concluded with the

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
. Much sensation was yesterday produced by second
editions of our Morning Contemporaries publishing
" Important News from Egypt," under the still more
attractive title of " Refusal of Admital Slopford to
ratify the Napier Convention." These second editions
promised " further particulars" in the third, and when
the whole of the important intelligence thus came to
. .

light, it appeared that, though Admiral Stopford
thought proper to charge the gallant Napier, with
having acted without authority, and to stigmatize his
agreement with Mehemet Ali as "a hasty and un-
authorised convention," yet that Admiral Stoplord
himself, under directions subsequently, and almost
immediately, received from Lord Palmerston, pro-
posed to Mehemet Ali, who accepted them, the iden-
tical terms, with the exception of the time allowed for
the restoration of the Turkish fleet, embraced in the

Napier Convention, which the Admiral had just before
repudiated in a manner so abrupt and unaccountable.
These terms being immediately accepted by Mehemet
Ali, as regards the Sultan, the Pacha, and the Euro-
pean Powers, the question is in precisely the seine
position as the gallant Napier, by his energy in arms
and ability in diplomacy, had placed it ; the only result.
of Admiral Stoeford's interference being to irritate
Mehemet Ali, and compromise the first officer under his
own command. Not only on account of Admiral Stop-
tcrd himselt,.hut on account of the character of the ser-
,ice in which he holds so distinguished a position, do
LI we regret the course which he has pursued on this oc.
casion. Even had Commodore Napier exceeded his
instructions in completing a Convention which was ma-
nifestly most consonant to the wishes of the Powers
which he represented, as well as most apposite to the
emergencies of the case, still Mehemet Ali was not the
party to whom Admiral Stopford should have addressed
his complaint against the conduct of his first officer.
In his endeavour to compromise Commodore Napier,
Admiral Stopford has compromised himself ; for in
" -his hasty and unauthorized" communicetio❑ to Me-
hemet Ali, disclaiming the convention of Commodore
Napier, he placed himself in the position of proposing,
four slays afterwards, under direct instructions' from
Lord Palmerston, the precise terms of the arrange-
ment which Napier had previously completed. We
say the precise terms, because, as regards the restora-
tion of the Turkish fleet, Napier had actually refused
to take charge of it; as Boghos Bey observed in
F urpris e, when he beard of Admiral Stoptortl's
stipulations, " Why we offered to give the fleet up
to the care of Commodore Napier to restore to
the Sultan, and he refused to take charge of it."
'We have a great respect for Admiral Stopford, and
therefore, before passing any more stringent remarks
upon his conduct, we should like to be informed of the
nature of the instructions he gave to Napier, on dis-
patching•him to Alexandria. Did he send Napier with
the intention of repeating the tragedy of Acre uneon-!
ditionally, or for mere parade ? Or if to negociate,
what were the conditions, what were the instructions ?
These are questions which we fear Admiral Stopford
will find it difficult to answer. We fear still more that
the whole solution of Admiral Stopford's conduct ill
be found in a narrow-minded jealousy at seeing the
officer next in command achieving more glory then
himself. We should be sorry to find a feeling
like this—indigenous only to mean, incompetent,- and
base minds—to have influence on the conduct of
Admiral Stopford. Far different were the feel-
ings of Nelson and Collingwood at Trafalgar, when
the latter, leading the way into action, exclaimed,
when the enemy's fire showered upon hint, " What
would not Nelson give to be here ?" And his
chief Nelson, almost at the same instant, said to the
officers around him, " How admirably that noble fellow,
Collingwood, brings his ship into action 1" These are
sentiments which, while conferring honour on the par-
ties entertaining them, most effectually promote the in-
terests of the service in which they are engaged. If
Admiral Stopford were not disposed to act upon a si-
milar feeling at Acre, when he left the whole command
to Napier—betaking himself to a steamer, and resting
content with seeing that all went on right, without
taking any part beyond that of an ote,erver in the atfray
—he at least might have refrained from attempting, be-
fore Europe, to disparage the fame, or at least to wound
the honour of a man whose name must remain indis-
solubly associated with the most glorious of the records
of British naval history.
( From the Morning Herald.)
By the publication of the correspondence which ap-
peared in a second and third edition of yesterday's
Herald, the public is again -assured that the Eastern
question is " settled." The preliminary to this last
" settlement" is, however, the disavowal of Commodore
Napier's Convention with Mehemet Ali. The prece-
ding "settlement" was brought about by the very Con-
vention which is now repudiated ! This method of con-
ducting the diplomatic relations of a great nation is, to
say the least of it, indecent :—it bears the semblance of
trickery amt England England would retain her cha-
ractee're he English public must insist on
a plaina uestion—Did Commodore Na-
pier really nit of his instructions? If he
did, heo uss!. „o called to account for his violation of
duty. If he did not, England ought to disavow the
policy of Lord Palmerston, as his Lordship now dis-
avows the Convention of Commodore Napier. Thes•
disavowals, by a Government, of important acts
entered into by its servants, are, we repeat, most
indecent. They are most injurious, too, for they never
fail to induce suspicions of premeditated treachery, and
to call into existence feelings of on the part of
foreign nations—feelings of that never disappear
without ultimately embodying themselves in action.
True, we are assured that the " blunder" of Commo-
dore Napier will produce no bad effects, since Mehemet
Ali, on the one hand, will not recede from his part of
the bargain which he entered into with Commodore
Napier ; and since the Sultan, on the other, is expected
to prove tractable to the wishes of Great Britain and
her Allies. These things may, by possibility, be true.
Mehemet Ali may be too weak to exhibit displeasure
at being trifled with and betrayed ! And the Sultan may
not be exactly in a position to enable him to brave
England by insisting on the deposition of the rebel-
lious Pacha. But the policy of a great country like
England, requires to be vindicated en higher principles
than any which such happy accidents supply ; and every
occurrence that tends to impart a character of trickery
to her diplomatic intercourse with other States, must
bring with it, ultimately, a train of mischiefs, for which
no fortuitously-lucky results can compensate. The
history of the recent negotiations with Mehemet Ali is
disgraceful to Great Britain. " But we have at length
settled the Eastern question," is the cry of those who
look at late events through rose-coloured spectacles.
Have we" settled" the Eastern question ? The Eastern
question toek its rise in the intestine divisions of the
Turkish empire. Hare the causes which led to those di-

visions been removed ? Assuredly not. The vigour of our
Military demonstrations on the coast of Syrie has im-
parted no new moral vigour to the Executive Govern-
ment at Cenztantinople. Our very measures have, on
the contrary, tended, in truth, to lower the Sultan in
the eyes of " the faithful," by presenting him to the
imagination of his• subjects as a potentate occupying
the seat of the Prophet, by the aid of " the dogs of
Christendom." He is no longer supported by the gc-
nius of Moharnmedism. He is a monarch, by sufferance
of the heals of the great European Monarchies. But
while England has done nothing towards securing
" the integrity of the Turkish empire," what has
England gained for herself in
.the way of advantage to
the interests of humanity ? We found the Sultan
erateful for our promises of assistance against his
formidable vassal ! Do we leave the Sultan grate-
ful for the services which have been rendered to him ?
Is it quite clear, that he is not more mortified at being
prevented from exercising his vengesnee on Mehemet
Ali, than he is gratified by the overthrow of the power
of that very troublesome personage? We found the
Sultan apparently at the mercy of the Egyptian Pacha I
Have we rendered the Sultan independent of the Em-
peror of Russia ? We found Mehemet Ali under the
influence of the most friendly feelings towards England.
It were a mockery to ask whether we have strengthened
our interest in that quarter! But our allies ! We
save surely augmented and rivetted those feelings
a kindness in
which this quintuple alliance took
place ! We have so " settled" the Eastern question,
thatjar w
wiethhave Franceb ; and we have, at all events, called intoro ught ourselves to the very verge of a
action in the bosoms of the French people, feelings
of hostility towards England which will assuredly
make themselves felt hereafter. For this result, how-
ever, we freely admit that the English Government
may not be blamed—unless, indeed, in so far as this
recent paltering with the Pacha may lend a colour
to the unreasonable conduct of France throughout the
transaction. While, however, we have all but come
to blows with " our good ally," France, how have we
dealt with our more dangerous rival, Russia ? We
have strengthened the power of Russia, by over-
throwing the power of Mehemet Ali. Through-
out the Turkish dominions, the only power really
Antagonistic of the power of Russia, was that of the
Egyptian Pacha. Hinz we have subdued for the especial
benefit of our northern " ally !" We have, therefore,
rendered Russian influence supreme at Constan-
tinople, while we have increased the jealousy with
which Russia has long regarded all the movements
of England. The latest accounts from St. Pe-
t ersburgh describe the feelings of anger which
ire openly expressed in the military and diplomatic cir-
cles there, that England should have settled the East-
ern question without the military co-operation of Rus-
sia ! It is openly stated, moreover, that our " settlement"
of the disputes between the Sultan and the Pacha of
Egypt, has led to the project of an intimate alliance be-
tveen Russia and France—an alliance directed avowedly
Against the influence of England ! The only true " set-
tlement" of the Eastern question, is such a settlement
as shall maintain the balance of power in Europe ;
and thii balances of power is to be maintained
anly by strengthening the barriers against the
encroachments of Russian influence in the East. In-
stead of strengthening these barriers, we have thrown
them down ; and having done so, we are gravely re-
quired to rejoice at the success which has crowned our
military and diplomatic efforts!

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Great Western brought little fresh intelligence
from Canada. But, perhaps, the project of a near
railroad, which has been urged upon the Governor. Ge-
nerel by the inhabitants of the Eastern townships of
the - Lower Province, as well as by other parties
whose interests are much bound up with the commer-
cial prosperity of Canada, may be accepted as a
convincing proof of the opinions there entertained
ef the probability of continued quietness., It is pro-
posed that this railroad shall intersect the fine
'race of country between the town of Sherbrooke and
Sr. John's. The whole length of projected read,
it is calculated, will not exceed 85 miles. Its route will
scant from Sherbrooke and pass through the townships
.f Oxford, Ascot, Hetfey, Bolton, Stukeley,Broonie, and
Shefford, a small portion of St. Hyacinthe, Monnai, and
eeenville,to St.John's,where the farmer of the townships
,nay take his choice of the markets of Montreal, Qin:-
ecc, and the United States—all of which are accessible
either through the Champlain and St. Lawrence Rail.
road, the Chambly Canal, or Lake Champlain. It is
proposed to carry this project into effect in three ways
—or by conjoining them :—First, as a Government un•
((creaking, to be managed by a Board of Trustees ;
:be funds to be raised upon the credit of the pro-
vince ; the interest to be paid from the receipts of
he railroad, or, in case of a deficiency from that
source, by the public revenues, as in the case of
some works of Lower Canada, and numercus public
vorks in Upper Canada. But as this sort of scheme
tiers little check upon excessive speculation, still less
apon extravagant outlays of the public money, it would
scarcely need the experience of the results of the pub-
he undertakings in Upper Canada, to induce the
Governor-General to negative it. The second
proposition—that of a Lint Stock Company, with
corporate privileges, like the Champlain and St.
Lawrence, and other Railroads—would be negatived by
the capitalists, who would in vain look for an adequ.ite
return for capital so employed in a thinly in-
eahited country. The third proposition—which, how-
ever, the projectors have: with great sagacity, urged as
their dernier resort—is that of a local undertaking, for
which the funds are to be raised on the credit of Go-
:ernavent, and the payrneet of the interest to be se-
cured by local assessments upon the lands of iesi-
dents and nonresidents, something in the following
manner :—The lots to he divided into three classes ; the
first class to include gill lots lying within ten miles
of the.railroad, the second class those lots lying be-
tivemiles, and the third class
,a includeen
Tuts _eteen twenty
and thirty miles of the
ten
ail and
1 t twbwenty miles
railroad—the assessments to be graduated according to
the distance Which each class of lots May be situated
from the railroad. That the income from the under-
takingit Standard.)
eaendlacrodn.
also form a sinking fund to pay up the capital,
and keep the road in operat.on ; and when the capital
shall have been paid, the railroad to become the property
of the districts through which it may pass. This. ap-
pears to ll s to- be the true art of honest borrowing.
(Fromit t
As to the ballot, conspicuously proved
to be a cheat. wherever it has been tried. No ma-
chinery is perfect in protecting from exposure ; the
details of a ballot election have even been inverted
(Mr. Grote's- box is not- an exception). But were
such machinery possible, there always will exist
means of corruption or exposure dehors the pro-
cess -of voting, that will 'render all secrecy in the
act •of tendering the suffrage quite nugatory as
regards -either the voter's integrity or his re-
sponsibility. There is, indeed, uncommon impu-
dence in an Irish priest proposing the ballot as
a protection to the elector in the exercise of his
right of suffrage. The Irish Romanists have been
101(1
again
and again—and we say properly told—that
they are to consider the act of voting as one in which
religious interests are concerned : of every such act
they are bound to give account at the confessional.
ilow, then, are they protected from responsibility by
the ballot as regards the priests—the power which at
present moves them, and the power which the landlords
eave most reason to dread ? In the Romanist part of
Ireland the Ballot would be altogether a one-sided pro-
tection, were it effectual in any degree as a concealment,
which, however, it never could be ; it might conceal votes
• rota landlords, but it never could conceal votes from
priests. If we have a bias upon the ballot question,
however, we are bound to own that the bias is rather
favourable. We think that the ballot would greatly
tend to promote Conservative principles. The pro-
perty of the country is at present in the hands of
Conservatives, who are too generally Conservatives
for that very reason, and for no other. According to
the present
o nt
• system of voting, these Conservatives find
it convenient to forget their politics from election to
election in whatever does not immediately come before
the public. They make their Conservative speeches
and deliver their Conservative votes of course in
bduetaiinthgesy
bmake t
itnhge mtsheel
ivre s
lands am
entodstiiine
their
i a mprivate
highest anti-Conservative bidder, by giving their cus-
tom to the anti-Conservative tradesmen who will be
contented with the lowest penny. The Conservative
is believed to be secured by his principles ; the anti-
Conservative, it is hoped, may be brought over, or at
least softened, by favours in the shape of land-letting
or custom, or, in the last resort, by a gross bribe. Now,
the ballot would, to a considerable extent (were it pos-
Sible to secure secrecy), cure all this.
(From the Courser.)
We abstained in our last number from replying to an
article in the Chronicle of that morning on the subject of
education, in which the accuracy of certain French sta-
tistical returns, quoted by ourselves and the Morning-
Herald, was impugned, because
at the moment we could
not exactly refer to the authority from which we had
taken our materials. We have fortunately been able to
recover it, and now proceed to the consideration of the
finis-statement challenged. In order to show the ina-
dequacy of secular instruction alone, however highly
carried, to moralise or improve the morals of the people,
we took occasion to extract certain returns of the de-
partment of Criminal Justice for the year 183 S, drawn
up by the Keeper of the Seals in France, and published,
and to collate them with former returns for 1834,
which was the last year preceding the application of
the new system of popular education in France, as the
former year may be assumed to be a fair representation
of its effects after a trial of three years, under the
special superintendence and zealous administration of
the Government and its agents. The comparative
returns were thus stated, as truly quoted from the
Courier and the Morning Herald by the Chronicle.
The number of criminals accused was, in 1834,6,952 ;
and in 1838,8,014.
Of these there were uneducated, i.e. 1854 16138
could neither read nor write

Imperfectly instructed, i. e. could read
and write imperfectly
Knowing to read well
Possessing superior instruction 203 276
Upon these figures the Chronicle thus proceeds to
remark The inference drawn by the Courier is,
that there is a vast comparative increase of crime, not
among the unlettered or imperfectly educated classes,
in which there is a positive diminution in 1838, as com-
pared with 1834 ; but in the two classes decently and
more highly instructed. This would be true, if the
figures were rightly stated, but there is this important
error, that the numbers in the two classes of imper-
fectly and well instructed are transposed in 1838, and
that instead of 2,587 persons being able to read well,
the correct number is only 702, which is erroneously
stated to be the number of those possessing imperfect
instruction. This correction being made, the deduc-
tions of the Morning Herald and Courier fall to the
ground ; for it appears that the increase of educated
criminals in the latter year, the increase of the total
number being taken into account, is a mere fraction,
which may be nothing more than the consequcnce of
comparing two single years." The error in respect of
the figures, if error there be, which we must take leave
to doubt without better proof, is at all events not ours,
for on reference to the letter of M. Michel in the
Univers, from whence extracted, we find them copied
correctly.

Mr. Jones, after observing that the evidence in this
case was likely, from the number of the witnesses for
the prosecution, to occupy the attention of the Court
to a late hour, said the following were briefly the facts
of the case :—Some months ago the prisoner Wingfield
was engaged as an assistant by Mr. Simpson, silk mer-
cer, of Regent-street, to attend in a shop which this
gentleman had opened in Cheltenham ; and taking ad-
vantage of the necessary absence of his employer in
town, he purloined an immense quantity of the most
valuable articles, consisting of silk shawls, scarfs, large
folds of velvet, and silk Waistcoatings, which were for-
warded to the other prisoner, who disposed of them by
pawning and otherwise. After leav!ng Mr. Simpson's
employment, Wingfield obtained another sit9ation with
Messrs. Goodgains and Shrewsbury, mercers, in Poston,
Bedfordshire, where he carried on a similar system (;f
depredation, in concert with Kennedy, to whom he for-
warded all the stolen goods, accompanied by letters,
which showed a most extensive system of robbery
was carried on, Mr. Hall, of the firm of Hall and
Allan, St. Paul's Church-yard, with whom Wingfield
lived as shopman, would prove these letters to be in his
(Wingfield's) handwriting. •
Messrs. Simpson, and Shrewsbury and Goodgains
having confirmed the Learned Counsel's statement in
detail, identified property which was produced by a host
of pawnbrokers' and duplicates of which were found in
the prisoners' possession ; and a number of other wit-
nessess being examined, the further hearing of the case
was adjourned to Wednesday next.

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

-
We presume that Japan has not been excluded from
the contemplation of the Government, while the im-
posing spectacle of a British war fleet floats for the first
time on Eastern Asiatic seas. To establish a commer-
cial intercourse by peaceful means with that country—
to furnish its population of twenty-five millions, whose
habits, and the climate in which they live, render Euro-
pean manufactures almost necessary to comfort—who are
advanced, in civilization, and who, from long use, have
accustomed themselves to luxuries—is a grand national
object. Were that country thrown open to our enterprise,
it would tie like the creation of a new nation of customers ;
and the achievement of this object, so devoutly to be
wished for, might, by an effort at this moment, be
easily. effected. It is observed by Dr. Ainslie :—" With
regard to the real difficulties to be surmounted in the
establishment of a commercial intercourse with Japan,
I consider them, so far as they are founded in the
character and political institutions o f the Japanese, to
be of infinitely less importance than the Dutch, from
whose interested reports on that subject the idea ge-
nerally entertained of them has been formed, would
represent them. I may add, that the Japanese appear
entirely free from any prejudices that would stand in
the way of a free and unrest:icted intercourse with
Europeans ; even their prejudices on the score of re-
ligion, on which such exaggerated accounts are re-
ported, are-Moderate, and inoffensive. The consump-
tion of woollens and hardware might be rendered
almost unlimited ; they are fond of the finest speci-
mens of glass ware, and it only requires to bring them
acquainted with many other products of British industry
to obtain for them a ready introduction." In reference
to the exclusion of foreigners, the reasoning and the
policy of the Japanese and Chinese Governments
appear -to be founded on the same basis—con-
tempt, yet dread, of Europeans ; their contempt is
founded in ignorance ; but their dread is founded upon
a full conviction of their own weakness. We hope
the Government will not neglect the present propitious
moment, while so many officers of rank are in these
seas, to obtain, by conciliating the Japanese, per-
_
rais,ion tel resume our commercial connection with
that country ; if the letter to James I. is preserved
in the State Paper Office it might be turned to some
advantage in the negotiation. The latest attempt to
this end was made under the auspices of the East
lediatiiin-pany, in 1813 ; and the profit on the adven-
ture:was .42,126 Spanish debars. The goods England
might supply to Japan would be—woollens, broad cloth
of primitive, not mixed colours, hardware, glass ware,
carpeting, printed cottons, ironmongery, porcelain, lea-
ther, morocco of the brightest colours, clock-work,
fire-errs, lace, mock jewellery, stationery, medicines,
bottle corks, a few oil paints, window glass, phials, pig
lead, sheet lead, long ells, looking glasses, figured nius-
lins, carnlets, spy-glasses, rabbit skins, and felt cloth.—
Indian News.

EVENING EDIT` .O\ •

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH IVIAI

FROII THE Du NA, DEC. 10.—The rapid decis:au,
of 0,3 Turco-Egyptian question, without the active,
co-operatioti pt Russia, may probably have disappointed`
many ardent hopes of our warriorr, ; for, a!, is the case,
in all armies, the Russian soldiers, and still more the
officers, wish for war. But in those matters where
other and higher considerations prevail than among the
military, this decision can give only satisfaction. For
if it was brought about directly by the Britis
claim
h and
Austrian forces, yet the Russian statesmen n:3Y
the honour of having conceived the first idea of ;!., and
paved the way fen its execution. Russia looked 0:4
to the object in view, viz., to strengthen the declining.
Ottoman empire ; and that this object has been attained
without causing it new sacrifices of men or money is to,
be considered as an unexpected piece of good fortune
rather than a failure.—Haniburgh Papers, Dec. 22.
Tun HAGuE, DEC. 24.—1 n the evening Sitting
of the Second Chamber of the States General, on the
23d of December, after very lengthy debates, which
were protracted till midnight, the Budget of the Ways
and Means was agreed to by a majority of 34 to .15.
his
We learn, from the Rotterdam Courant, that
Majesty's frigate the Rhyn will be sent on a new (*e-
dition in the spring, and that the command of it will be
given to his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the
Netherlands, Captain in the Navy.
BERLIN, DEC. 18.—A report is just spread here
which, if confirmed, will soon put an end to all fears
of an interruption of the peace of
Europ
nication is said to have been made to
our. Cabicnet that
e A onan
the armaments of France are suspended.
Faom THE MAINE, DEC. 16.—We. bor of new
notes sent to the French Cabinet by the Courts of
Vienna and London. Their contents are not knOwn
but persons usually well informed affirm that their ob-
ject is the confirmation of the friendly relations which,
till within the last five months, have prevailed for a
quarter of a century between the States of Europe.--
Amsterdam Handelsblad.
ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 15.—The day after tomor-
row, the Princess Mary of Hesse Darmstadt will be
confirmed according to the rites of the Greek Church,
and on the following day will be married to his Impe-
rial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander.
The Grand Duchess Helen and her daughter are ex-
pected to arrive here to-morrow evening at the latest.
The cold, which set in on the 9ch of the month, con-
tinues with great severity. The thermometer of Ran-
mur is every day from 20 deg. to 22 deg. below zero
.
45 deg. to 491 deg. below 'freezing point, or 13 deg
o I 7} deg. below zero by Fahrenheit's scale).
aELGIAN UNDS—BRUSSELM, DEC. '2'3.
Acttlal Debt, 2!,,, per Cent. .....................
s.Rethschild's Loan, 5 per ...... ............
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.........
• 'l-AA ........ g6g

,er Cent. .........
r.s%

----Thirty.geven------- -
Loin of Cltv, 183.2., .1 per ................
Society of Commutrce, <IY, per Cent ............
BNaaltiikonoaflliscolgitr;:
......
.........
...
..........
..............
..
Exchange i n Londoi (short) .................. 11 :la
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 26.

THE 211ARKhTS-YESTERDAY

PRICE OF B!t.EAD•
o(l).',llllfiDopeiiliilutitttli es - rice
.....
............ d, for t5h:1711,05
..oal. G. d Bre:sa may be had at 7%d.
PRI: Eli OF SEEDS,
ONlcdwoEitng,lD.osphPiii,,,llet:oleCii'Cltover...so3 Sits St. •Fein ........
1
—s s —s'ltye Glass. ................. --s is Art.
New Foreign Ditto —s 50s ,5, Pacey Grass ............... s—s —s
—s ---3 —siLinsceel, for feeditg ~.—s 483 54s
ew White Clover 455 505 00s)Dit‘e, for sowing .......-5 1;0' 704
—s —s —a 'Ditto, f©r crushi.:g ....-5 4'...:: 465
, w 'Pre 0i1.... —s :Ss 4-2s,llcini, ........................ —s 36s 42s
Old Vitro —s 20s 3''s Canary ...................... —s 805 Otls
—s 4Ss 7081 Per B.sliel.
Eaglish Curraway —s
4635 s 535 White iMustA'd .... 4s Od to 11s Of
Foreign ;.iitto — 6 1.5 s Brown Ditto
......... 16s Od to 195 Oct
Coriander —s 12s 165 Tares .................. 7s 6d to 125 0a
Pawl:: at' OIL.
Rape Oil, brown, per ton ................................. X 44 0
Ditto, refined ................... .., ....................... 45 0
Linseed Oil ............ .... ...... . .............................. 28 10
Lins td Oil Cake at th, Mill (per 1000) ............... 14 0
rtalv: ake, per to:t ....................................... .. 7 it
PRIcE OF TALLOW, 50AI', Fec. per 1121 b.
Town Tallow .. ............ £2 13 Melting Stull' ............... £1 I) 0
Yellow Russia ............... 29 6 Ditto R0ugh.................. 1 0
White .......... .... u 0 C Graves ......................... 014 0
Soap Ditto ..................... 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 5 0
PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of tilbs,
Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 23. 11%dl
COAL MARKET
Ships arrived since 1„s, market-nay, 2.
s. A.
Adair's
Buddle's West Hartley 2O 6
MlyweilMa.r,
Polito', Windsor ............ 20 0
Townley . , ...•
West Hartley.... ........
Wyla,ii .......
Walls E d Bewict,e andC t.. 3 6
Walls End Clennell
Walls End Clarke and Co A" 6
Walls End ,;osfo.th
Wits tind Heaton ........
Walls End Hilda ..... :-2 0
Walls End Killingworth ... ~2 0
Walls End:Nor hwtherland 20 9
Wa ll‘ End Riddell's 23 tr
W. E. BraddylPsEletton.., 25 0
Walls End Hetton ........ .
', End .Lambton ...... .

Walls

s. cr
Walls End Lyons. 2 3
'3 1:1
Walls End remberton 23
Walls End Russelys Helton 24 6 6
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Whitwell
Walls End Caradoc
%Val, End East Hetton : , 23 0
Walls End Hartlepool
Walls End Kelloe .... 4
3
....... 24 3
'ennant's Hartlepool 24 3
W..11s End Ader,ioe
Walls End Cornforth
WallJ EnclitichardsOn's Teesla 0
Walls End South Du:diam... :3 6
Walls End Tecs. ......... . ...... ,t. 3
Walls End West detton ~. 23 9
Cowen ..... .....
Stanley Main

A IN,
Barley, Mecklenuargh 1511 to 16S
--- Magdeburgh 174 to ISA
-- -- Holstein
---- Summer 132 to 150
Oats, Eider 9) to 111
- Mecklenburg .., I'2o to 139
----- Holstein l2O to 331
lEst Friesland l, 5 to 120
Pease, ecklenburg
! Beans
t°3°°
Buck Wheat
Rapeseed, Hanover 2.0 25
to 2
Malt
- 330 V; 432

HAMBUR'
Gil
Wheat, Marks 3OO to ',30
Magdeburg 12 to 36 t 1
Anhalt, white 313 to 354
red to 34.2
--- Brunswick 20.1 to 336
Mecklenburg 270 to 351
--- Polish
-- Holstein
Rye, Mecklenburg 23( to 2r)B
Dantzic
Elbing and Ko-
nigsburg 225 to 246
—.. Upland
ltiga
COT]
Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 11%'
Georgia, Ist suit 7 7%
2d
3d and 4th 5% 6%
CM
Mocha 1, to RN
Batavia
Sumatra
Rio 4% 5
Bahia 4% 51i
SUGAR.— (Witt
llavannah, White ....... 6 to i
Brown 5
Wlii_te 5% 61<1
.................... IC%

MARKETS

Vie••• 000000000000000000000

Maranham . ............... 7'

Mara,-
Madras ......................
,ts ..................... 4 • 5

Surats ..........
Domingo ............

'EE.
Domingo ................... to 5
La Gilayra..... ............. 6%
Porto Rico .............. 5M %
Ilavatmah ........... ; ..... Oyi

BS Discount.)
White ........... toV
'Brown ............ .5 5
Pernambuco, White ...5%
Brown ...5

rn. 5 to 04

SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE KNIVES,
with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen ; Dessert Knives, 11e.;
Carvers, 5. 6d. per pair ; Table Knives, with white bone
handles, Bs. 81. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. 8(1. ; Carvers, 31.
per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; new shapes,
395. ; Papier Macke Tea-trays, gothic shape, 60s ; the set of
full sizes.
Catalogues, containing the price of every article n furnish-
ing ironmongery and cutlery', gratis.
RTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street.
RIPPON and BU
Established 1820.

On the 18th inst., at Laggan Cottage, Ness Castle, Inver-
ness, the lady of the Hon. W. Fraser, of Saltoun, of a daughter.
On' the 2ist inst., at Ince Hall, Cheshire, the lady of the Rev.
W. Waldegrave Park, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., in the Addison-road, Kensington,-Mrs-
Bowles, of a daughter, still-born.
On the 24th inst., Mrs. H. Barclay, Bedford-row, of a son.
On the 25th inst., in the Park, Blackheath, the lady of G. J.
Jackson, Esq., of a son.
On the 26th inst., the lady of W. Lane, Esq., of Bedford-
place, Russell-square, of a daughter.
On the'26th iest., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the lady of T-
Selby, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 28th inst., in Cumberland-place, r'egent's-park,
Mrs.
G. Marshall, of a daughter.
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''"'"-""-____.-rn-- -- --------
FRAUD ON THE MANCHESTER BANK.--.
A young man has been apprehended, whom we have every.
reason to believe will turn out to be the offender. It ali-..
pars 'that the police used every effort to trace him out in'
vsinientif `srtiednesday, when Superintendent Sawley, find-
ing the uselessness of the means which had been taken,
determined upon a new scheme. He gave directions to re
number. of policemen. in whom be could place reliance, to ;
go into all the haunts known to bane freq e uentedawell
mob gentry and search them, d alsppr bey hend the s
any _
of such characters as might be
met in the streets.
n
reets.
This ruse, we believe. has been successful. A young ma
was taken by M‘Mullin, in Mosley-street, on
Wednes.;
day night, in company with a prostitute whom he has.been
Court
living with, and he was brought to the
ent pßorough
articulars only
next day for examination.Suffici
were then stated by Mr. Sawley to satisfy the Mag istra te e
that there were grounds on which to remand him ;
but w ,
Paso since heard that lie has been seen by a clerk at the
Post-office and identified as the man to whoin the letters
were delivered. All the statements made by him on ap-
prehension, to the police, have also been discovered to be'
fate. We refrain from giving his n'ame, or
state entering
of into
any further particulars, as-in the present •
case it would be unfair towards him. He will be brought
up again on Monday.—Manchester Times.
MR. CHARLES KENIBLE.—We are . glad to •
learn that the state of her father's health on the return of
Mrs. Butler to this country, was considerably better than
it had been for some time previously. The disease under
which he has been suffering so long is one of
and a few days before the arrival of Mrs. Butler, Mr. Lis
ton, the eminent surgeon, had successfully removed a tu-
mour from the region of the loins, which, we bear, has'
given him considerable relief. —Court Journal.
A GOOD REASON.—The Rev. Alexander
Harvey, who lately favoured the friends of religiotes free-
dom in this city with an able exposition and defence of their
principles, remarked to an individual at the close of onnof
his addreises, that it struck him as a strange circumstance,
that the only opposition he bad met with from the friends
of the Established Church was from persons in a state et
intoxication. The gentleman replied, that it could only ht.;
accounted for by the fact, that the state of the Establiel:-
ment is so desperate, that no sober person will undertake
her defence.—Scottish Pilot.

MARRIED.
On the 22d of September, ai Ootacamund, H. Irrere,.Es4-4
M. C. S.,to Theodora A melia Mary, eldest daughter of the LOed.
Bishop f Madras and Mrs. Trevor Spencer. ,
On the 17th inst., at Kingstown, near Dublin, R. C.
tian, Esq., of Upper Pembroke-street, eldest'scin of the lite
Captain Christian, Royal Navy, to Mary. Annei pitialeoC
daughter of the late Commissary-General Elliott.
On the 28th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, eorg4-
Frederick, youngest son of T. Furnivall, Esq., of Finding',
Little i%lissenden, Bucks, to Anne, eldest daughter ofJohn Mr;
Parker, of the West Strand, and Chester-street.

On the 24th inst., at Clapton, Catherine, widow of
the kite- •
J. Powell, of Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged 56:
On the 25th inst., at Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy4lllllgrit
John Borster, Esq., of Eg-ham, Surrey, aged 93.
On the 27th inst., in Torrington-square, Mary, the wife
the Rev. J. Hunter.
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the county of Micklletez.—Teesday, Deeember, OP ,