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LONDON:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1841.

DEATH OF DR. BIRKBECK.

We announce with regret that Dr. BIRKBECK,
the President of the London Mechanics' Insti-
tute, and the patron, promoter, and founder of
such institutions in every part of the country,
died, yesterday morning, at his residence, Fins-
bury-square. He had been ailing for some
months, and his death was not unexpected. In
him science has lost a devoted student, and the
working classes an ardent and affectionate friend.

Dr. BIRKBECK was in his sixty-fifth year, and,
beyond the circle of II*: patients, by whom he
was much trusted and Waved, was best known to

the whole empire as the author and champion of
scientific instruction to the working classes. It
is now, we bAieve, nearly thirty years since he
first undertook to deliver lectures to them at
Glasgow, and from that time till within a few
months of his death he was unwearied in pro-
moting their instruction. Not only did he ex-
plain, on various occasions, to admiring audiences,
the truths of mechanics and chemistry, he also
lectured on the principles of physiology, and
taught the members of the Mechanics' Institute
by specimens, and even by the human subject,
the anatomy and functions of life. There was
scarcely one branch of the mechanical and phy-
sical sciences on which he did not occasionally
lecture, and not one which he did not improve
and adorn. His language was eloquent as well
as simple, and the influence which he wielded
over great numbers of men, supposed to be rude
and unpolished, was overwhelming while he was
speaking, and will be beneficially remembered
by many persons to the latest moment of their
lives. Though not obtrusive, though never
courting fame, though little known to the noisy,
bustling, political world, we, who have watched
his course and his proceedings for nearly twenty
years, venture to assert that no man in this age
and nation has done so much to improve and
soften, to elevate and adorn, the minds of the
working classes as Dr. BIRKBECK. We trust
that he will not be allowed to pass from amongst
us without some proof—for our own honour—that
we were sensible of his worth.

Dr. BIRKBECK, though not the author of the
address which first appeared in the Mechanics'
Magazine, nor the originator of the suggestion to
establish a Mechanics' Institution in London,
was one of the first persons who united
himself to the projectors, and, if he may
be called the founder to whom its success was
owing, Dr. BIRKBECK, whose influence, talents,
purse, and zeal, gave life and soul to the
scheme, may be called the founder of the Lon-
don Mechanics' Institute. It would be unjust,
knowing, as we do, the fact, not to add that the
person with whom the suggestion originated was
Mr. J. C. ROBERTSON, a gentleman remarkable
for the usefulness and fertility of his schemes ;
but to Dr. BIRKBECK is mainly due the honour
of setting the Institution on foot. He was una-
nimomly elected its President, and continued to
preside over the Institution, always assisting it
with his counsel and his services, till his death.
The London Mechanics' Institute was the parent
of the many similar institutions that are now to
he found in several parts of the metropolis, and
in almost every large town of the empire. They
have already done much to promote scientific
knowledge throughout the kingdom; and the
great impulse which they have given to human
improvement, begun in 1823, will be imperish-
ably connected with the name of Dr. BIRKBECK.
At a meeting of the Mechanics' Institute, last
night, the lamented event was announced by
reading the following, letter from Miss BIRK-
BECK :
" My poor father, as you are aware, has/been
a great sufferer for many months, but still we
had hoped that he would have been spared to
us for many years; but it was not so willed, for
at six o'clock this morning he expired. Late
last night he called me to him, and dictated the
inclosed note, which he bade me send you,
showing how interested he felt, even in his dying
moments, for the Institution :
"My Dear Sir—l should have liked to have
been present at another Anniversary of the In-
stitution, but it is not permitted. I have read
the programme, and I do not doubt but all will
be successful." •

Dr. BIRKBECK lived to see the 18th year of
the Institution completed, and died within a few
hours of the time when many of his grateful
scholars were preparing to celebrate the 19th
birth-day of the Institution.

On several occasions lately the Times has
drawn attention to the reports which it has dili-
gently published of an investigation still pending
into the manner in which the union workhouse
of Sevenoaks has been conducted. Very dis-
gusting and very revolting scenes, as may be ex-
pected when you open wide the doors of every
ward and every dormitory of a workhouse, have
been placed before the public. We have read
the accounts and the comments in the Times with
great disgust, and we will not disgust our readers
by repeating them. We will content ourselves
with saying, that in this union workhouse, sixty-
one persons more were placed after it was said
to be full; that seven boys slept in one bed, and
five in another ; that the itch, and the terrible
disease called goitre, prevail from the dampness
of the situation and the crowded state of the
workhouse; and that, altogether, the place is more
loathsome than the most crowded and Worst
prison in this empire.
To the Times we are indebted for a knowledge
of the fact that the Marquis of CAMDEN and
Colonel H. AUSTEN, an opulent country gentle-
man, lately constituted the Visiting Committee,
and that the workhouse has been frequently
visited by the Rev. Dr. D'OYLY. But the Times
does not tell the public, which we desire to im-
press on our readers, that this Sevenoaks Union
is not in the manufaCtarimg districts, but in the
heart of one of the finest rural districts of the
county of Kent. Memory will not serve us
to enumerate the noblemen's and gentlemen's
seats which are within a very few miles of
Sevenoaks. Besides the Marquis of CAMDEN,
the Earl AMHERST, and the Marquis of DowN-
SHIRE, we believe, Earl STANHOPE, Sir HENRY
H ARDINGE, Mr. HERRIES, with scores of other
noblemen and gentlemen, have all spacious
mansions and parks in the immediate vicinity of
the beautiful town of Sevenoaks. There may be
a paper-mill or two, and there is, we believe, a
a silk' mill in the district ; but the character of
the district is that of rural beauty, embellished
with a great number of noble parks and magni-
ficent mansions. In this district, and under the
eye of these noblemen and gentlemen, and on
the tillers of their estates, have the disgusting
and revolting atrocities, described in the Times,
been practised.
Agricultural and clerical Kent is doomed
to be instructive to the nation. When Thom
found believers and followers within the sound
of the Cathedral bell of Canterbury, Kent re-
vealed to the astonished world how deplorably
and thoroughly the rich clergy had neglected
and injured the people ; and the same kind of
testimony which Thom and Canterbury bore to
the character of the priesthood, do the horrors
of the Sevenoaks' union workhouse, surrounded
by noblemen's seats,
of England. bear to the character of
gentry

The morning post
has taken a fair advantage
of a hasty and
incomplete expression of our
thoughts in yesterday's Sun, to represent our
argument as
confused and perplexed. We will
now reprint the sentennleveri
quotedtte by the Post, as
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" The Corn-law avowedly compels
the consumers to give more labour for theircorn than
'they would have to give if there were no Corn-law,
abolition of the law would therefore lessen the quantityTheof labour required to be given for corn, or lower the
natural price of corn, and at the same time, by fein
more persons, increase the sum of labour in theecog
munity, or means of paying for corn and all other things,"
The Post denies, for the Pro-Corn-law men,
" that the law compels the consumers to give
more labour for their corn." What then do
they mean when they assert " that the abolition
of the law would lower the price of corn, and
drive large quantities of land out of cultiva-
tion?" That could not be the case were the
foreign corn to be imported with the produce
of less labour. Their whole case, all their ar-
guments, imply an avowal, and, therefore,
we used the word " avowedly " that the Corn-
law compels the consumers to give more labour
for their corn than they would have to give were
there no Corn-law. The men of Manchester, for
example, would then purchase the flour of Ame-

rica for about one-third less labour than they are
now obliged to give for English flour.
The Post admits that " the Corn-law makes
corn dearer," but it asserts that " it makes labour
dearer." We cannot understand this proposi-
tion. Corn and labour are exchanged for each
other, and both cannot be made dearer. "La-
bour," to use the language of ADAM SMITH, is
the "first price, the original purchase-money
that was paid for all things." "What is
bought with money or with goods," he says,
"is purchased by labour as much as what we
acquire with the toil of our own bodies." Labour
was not only the first and original purchase
money; it continues now to be the only pur-
chase-money of all the wealth of the world. It
alone purchases and pays for corn, and to us,
therefore, it appears nonsense to say the Corn-
law makes both corn dearer and labour dearer.
One is the measure of the other. " Dearer" ex-
presses a relation between them, and nothing
else ; and it is an impossibility that both can be
made dearer.

These few observations appear to us to prove
that the Corn-law, on the admission of our op-
ponents, enhances the price of corn to the con-
sumers, or increases the quantity of labour re-
quired to obtain the necessary supply of
corn ; that it consequently diminishes in pre-
cisely the same ratio their means of pay-
ment; and that the abolition of the law
would reduce the quantity of labour required
to obtain corn, increase its quantity, and
augment the means of payment. If we have
established that point, we call on the Post to
surrender, for it admits if it were proved that the
abolition of the Corn-law would increase the
means of payment for corn, the case of the Pro-
Corn-law party must fall to the ground.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 23d
inst. On that day ESPARTERO entered the
capital in triumph, having effectually crushed
every germ of the Christina rebellion in the
Northern provinces. Though pressed for space,
we cannot omit quoting the following graphic
description of his entry into Madrid, from the
pen of an eye-witness. The letter is dated the
23d ult., and was penned immediately after the
occurrence it records :

The Duke de la Victoria is again quietly lodged in
the capital. He reached Guadalajara last night by sun-
set ; stopped there for the night, and entered Madrid to-
day, by the Gate of Alcala, at half-past one
o'clock. Only one fueling hailed his approach
here the Spaniards now know Espartero. The
windows and balconies of the houses in the direc
tion of the intended procession were hung with tapestries,
and filled with spectators. The concourse of persons abroad
was immense. The handsome arch, composed of a
skeleton of wood, covered with evergreens and flowers,
at the top of the street of Alcala, received its last touches
of embellishment only a few minutes before the spectacle
commenced. On a tablet above the arch, supported by
two allegorical figures, was the simple inscription—" Al
Pacificador de Espana—La Villa de Madrid." ro make
the English reader understand this, I hare only to re-
mark, that " villa" in the Spanish language means, as used
here, the "corporation." In the open spaces between the
columns forming the wings of the main arch, were also
placed statues of an emblematic character, the whole form-
ing a fine termination of the vista presented by the great
street of Alcala, filled with masses of the people, mingled
with their fellow-townsmen in uniform. At the particular
suggestion of her Majesty the young Queen Isabel, one of
the fine state carriages of the Palace and six horses were
ordered out to convey his Highness into town. I say at
the special instance of the Queen, because I have reaso.-,; '
to know the compliment originated entirely witl ner-
self. Otherwise, it was Espartero's wish and Intention to
have entered on horseback. At one ,;3c-lock a long line
of carriages, proceeding towards, the gate of Alcala,
announced the progress of :se corporation of Madrid
going to meet the Regent, and officially welcome him
to the capital on roaching the gates of the city.
By this time he had arrived at the Espiritu Santo,
and entema alone in the open carriage appointed for
him, amidst the cordial greetings of the National
Guards and numerous spectators who went out in the
morning to meet him. At the Gate of Alcala he was
addressed by the Corporation in a congratulatory and
complimentary speech. From this point to the Palace his
reception by guards, troops of the line, and the people,
was one continued succession of cheers and rejoicings,
acknowledged in his usual admirable manner. Though
suffering from a cold, he appeared in excellent spirits, and
much pleased with the hearty welcome of the people. To
the spectators in the balconies of the British Embassy
opposite, his acknowledgments were. particularly marked.
Preceded by the Corporation, and followed by a nume-
rous escort of general offiers, cavalry of the line, and
of the National Guard, be proceeded direct to the Palace,
without stopping at the Town-hall, the battalion of Na-
tional Guards, who went out to meet him in the morning,
bringing up the rear of the procession. On arriving
there the carriage drove up to the foot of the grand
staircase, the scene of the terrible events of the memo-
rable night of the 7th, and was received by her Majesty
in the Throne-room. The meeting, I am told, by one
present, was truly affecting. The ambition of, the
Duke to serve the interests, and resign unimpaired into
the hands of.her Majesty, on coming of age, the trust
reposed in him by her and her subjects, has become
in him a feeling of paternal affection. Young as is
the Queen, I have every reason to believe that she
fully appreciates his services and dispositions towards
her. Having stopped about half an hour with the
Queen and Infanta, and appeared with the former
at the principal balcony of the Palace, to the great
gratification of the people, who were assembled in large
numbers below in the Court-yard, he proceeded to his
own house in the street of Alcala by the same route
he entered, and still accompanied by the Cor-
poration and escort stated above. It importance
were now attached to omens, a favourable one
might be formed of the Duke's visit to the
Palace of Queen Isabel. While engaged with the Queen
in the Throne-room, I observed three magnificent eagles
wheeling exactly over the Palace for nearly a quarter
of an hour, to the no small annoyance of the innume-
rable pigeons that inhabit the exterior " attics" of that
noble building, and which were kept in a sort of pro-
nunciamento all the; time by the presence of their aerial
sovereigns.

There is but little political news in the Paris
Journals of Tuesday. The rumours in the poli-
tical circles were, that a dissolution of the Cham-
bers was resolved upon; that the Ministers
would be defeated at the elections; and that a
modification of the Cabinet would take place.
The last is the only rumour to which 'we attach
any degree of credit. The Chambers are about
to enter upon their last sessior,, and the KING is
sensible that be could not hope to gain anything
by their dissolution. As a majority of the m :.,mbors
would readily support a Cabinet in which M.
TRIERS, M. MONTALIVET, or M. MOLE had a
seat, provided the first-named little gentleman
did not figure again as Minister of Foreign Af-
fair, it is very likely that some changes in the
Ministry will take place. The mercantile world
has but little confidence in M. HUMANN, the Mi-
nister of Finance, and at Court he is anything
but a favourite. His, therefore, will be the first
dismissal. No Minister ever was more popular
abroad than M. GUZZOT, but at home he is re-
garded with the utmost suspicion. We there-
fore consider his retirement from office as ex-
ceedingly probable. Europe will regret this,
but a day is not distant when France will lame,lit
it still more.

sion, have refused to answer, not acknowledging the
authority of that tribunal.
The Sabine and Dunori French ships of war sailed
from Pensacola on the 14th of October. They had lost
ten men of their crews by the yellow fever, which raged
there. Among them was M. Michael, the surgeon of
the Sabine, who died in the United States' Hospital after
six days' illness.--Le Commerce.
A woman at Duysburg, in Belgium, aged 39, and who
had never had any children, is mentioned by the Inde-
pendant of Brussels as having just been brought to bed
of three children, a boy and two girls.
The Phare of Bayonne states that on the night of the
19th inst., during a violent storm, a shock of earthquake
was felt at Biarrita, and along the coast from Boucau to
Hendaye.
It appears that it was the roadway planking of the
suspension-bridge at Blagnac, in the -Dordogne, which
gave way the other day, and not the suspending chains.
The waggon which was going over at the time was
laden with several heavy pieces of iron machinery. The
waggoner hung on by the bars of the bridge, and was
not thrown into the water ; and only one person out of
five (not eight, as was stated), who were precipitated into
the water, was drowned. All the horses, except the one
in the shafts, perished.
The trial of Messrs. Arsac, Gasc, and Roaldes, late
Mayor and Deptity Mayors of Toulouse, for unduly
exercising ther functions as such after the Prefect had
sent to them the Royal Ordonnance for their dismissal
(the lull particulars of which we gave at the time of the
disturbances in that city), has been pendinr, before the
Correctional Tribunal of Pau for several' days. The
sentence was given on Saturday, when the accused per-
sons were condemned to the penalty of 100 f. each and
costs. The defence set up was that the Royal Ordon-
nance contained a legal informality by not stating the
day for the re-election of the Municipal Councillors ;
but this was over-ruled. Messrs. Arzae, Gasc, and Roal-
des immediately gave notice of their intention to appeal
against the sentence.
M. de Rubelles, editor of the Journal du Bourbonnais,
has been fined 50 francs by the Correctional Tribunal of
Moulins, for wearing a foreign order without special
permission.
The Courier de la Gironde of Bordeaux states that M.
Loste has been named Juge-Commissaire in the bank-
ruptcy of Messrs. Balguerie. " This nomination," it
adds, " promises an active and conscientious liquida-
tion." The Globe says that several stoppages .of firms
have occurred at Bordeaux simultaneously with that of
Messrs. Balguerie.
The prosecution by the family of tl a late M. Lafarge
against the Indicateur of Tulle, fo the libel we have
already more than once noticed, was brought to trial on
the 18th inst., before the Correctional Tribunal of that
place. The case was argued with great warmth and
ability by the advocates of both parties ; but the Tri-
bunal decided against the accused, and condemned the
responsible editor to pay a fine of 300 E, and damages of
600 f., and to the insertion of the judgment, at his own
expense, in the Gazette des Tribunaux, the Album de la
Correze, the Progres, and the Indicateur.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 30.

!Ira Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prici.. Prier.
"reach 5 per Cent F........... 115 25 ... 116 25 ... 116 20 ... 116 20
4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50
3 per Cents... 8) 20 ... 80 20 ... 80 15 ... 80 15
Loan .
bnk of trance . .......
Laffitte Bank :5,000f. Spares 5065 ...50,5 ...5065 ...5065
,r,vian Rank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 ;ter Cent.., 1840 10233 ... 10'234 ... 102% ... 104,
Spanish Active 24% ... 24% ... 24% ... 2.1%
Passive SY4 ... 5% ... 5X ... 5%
Old Deferred
Neapolitan lO6 60 ... /56 75 ... 106 66 ..,. 106 75
Roman, cx. div....... ..... . 10233 ... 102% ... 102)6 ... 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain 745 ... 715 ... 745 ... 745
VersatiiecilL a
L B ,„,,........ 201 23 ... 201 25 ... 200 ... 200
Rouen 00000000 .................... 455 ... 457 50 ... 455 . 437 top
orrearis . . ..• ....... .....• 460 ... 480 ... 440
.., 480
Strasburg toyale.shares miff 2e3 ... 215 ... 223 ... 222 50
DUT.;tI FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 29.
Money. :Au.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amert Syndic,4 % per cent e9% 99%
4
Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent --•'• •' 91 iil
76%
Commercial Company, 4' 71!
..
Ditto (1535 and IrG7s ee Per eon 15514 155%
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Two months .. 12 0
Hamburgh, One month 35 75
Two months 35 tt)
Dutch Papers, Nov. 311.
BELGIAN ri UNDS—Baussus, Nov. 31
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean. 5 per Cent.............
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
-------- 3per Cent. —
—Thirty.seven-- 72%
----- (1340) lOl%
Loan of City, 1'132, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ... 741
National Society.
Exchange on London (short) —
—Bras:els Papers, Nov. 30.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, NOV. 2).
Five per Cents. Metalliques • 105%
Fear per Cents. ..... . ............ .................
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 15137
-.4llle»itine Zeifung. Nov. 27.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Nev. 27.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... 107% 1074
Bank Shares l6ln 1605
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate , 102% 162%
Inscription, Ist Series 10k.4
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 9th
Series ... .... .......... ........ ....... 9814 98
Ditto in Certificates.....-.
98 4-1 98
Ncw 4 per Cent. (0140) BBl4 h 634
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds -. ....
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent - 76 75%
Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cunt. 111:3% 10.:4
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15%

Lord Brougham has added his name to the
distinguished list of subscribers to the forthcom-
ing " Addresses to Youth."
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
resumed their sittings for the first time this
season this morning to hear appeals from the
Colonies. Lord Campbell took his seat as one of
the Members of the Committee. The other
Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Mr.
Justice Erskine, and Dr. Lushington. Sir Alex-
ander Johnstone and Sir E. East sat to assist their
Lordships in an East India appeal, which was
put down for hearing on the day's list.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL Corrox MA.narr, DEC. I.—The sales to-
day are 4,000 bales, without any distinguishing feature
in the Market.

LIVNItPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. I.—The transac-
tions reported at the Stock Exchange are in Eastern
Counties at 7 ; Grand Junctions, 191 ; London and
Birmingham New Shares, 24i ; London and Brighton,
36; London and South Western, 56; Paris and Rouen, 10i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. I.—We have
had a flat market to-day. Midland Counties Quarters,
201 ; London and Birmingham, 158 ; Ditto, ditto,
Quarters, 22 ; London and South Western, 55f to 56.

THE FUNDS.
The Onverement broker was again in the Market yes-
terday, and effected sales of Money Stock to the extent
of 50,0001., and Consols at one period were done at 884,
they however rallied, and finally closed at 89 to 89i for
Money, and 891 to 84 an improvement of s per cent.,
and opened this morning firm at those quotations. There
is but littit business doing. Three per Cents. Reduced
arc 88 to 88k; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 984 i;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 971 ; BP,uk
Stock, 164 to 163.

In the Foreign nutlet there is but a limited business
doing. Spanish stock have declined, being now heavy
at t 44. ; Passive, 54 ; Deferred, 124 4 ; Portuguese
Stock no alteration, the Five per Cents. being last quoted
at 334 344- ; and the Three per Cents, at 204 4-; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52k; and Five per Cents. Hi.
HALF-PAST TWO.
The English market continues firm, with an upward
tendency. Consols, for Money, are now 894 and ror
the Account 89i 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88+ ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 97i ; New Three
and-a-Half per Cents., 99 ; Exchequer Rilia, 8 to 10
premium.:_

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock have
fluctuated 1 and 4 per cent. during the morning, hav-
ing been dotty as high as 24k, and as low as
2341, they may be now quoted at 23i 24 ; Passive, si.
The other securities remain without alteration. Portu-
guese Five per Cents. 33:1 341, and the Three per Cents.
20i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521 ; ditto, Five
per Cents. 09i ; Columbian, 20i.
The transactions In the Share Market have been upon
a very limited scale. London and Brighton aro flat,
35 1; London and South Western were last done at 56i.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT!ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
London and Brighton 5O ...... 35i...... to
London and South Western 3Bi s6i to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia .......................... . 40 ...... 53 .., to
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. €9 .
3 per Cent. Consols ...... 88 !Bank 5t0ek........ ... ...... 170
Three and Half Stock..... 97h 'Grand Canal Stock ...
I
Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... 8.4
Ditto New 1830,„. ...... 971 Ditto 4 per cent. ... "
i 3 per Cent. Debs. ...... 94 i Royal Canal Stock —

The French Government appears to think
that the Turkish expedition menaces Tunis more
than Greece. Should such be the case—which
we do not believe—France will be placed in a
position of considerable difficulty. She has
pledged herself to support the Bey of TuNis ;
but, were a naval force sent against him, she
could not do this without countenancing the
rebellion of a vassal, and thus justifying the
joint interference of England, Austria, Russia,
and Prussia, who are bound by the Treaty of the
13th July, to maintain the integrity of the
Turkish empire.
The Courrier Francais has, with astonish-
ing naivete discovered that Mr. BANKIIEAD,
our Ambassador at Constantinople, is the author
of the correspondence published in the London
papers, attributing to France the attempt to em-
broil Turkey in a quarrel with Greece. The au-
thor of this ingenious discovery will he telling us
next, we suppose, that Mr. BANKHEAD Was the
author of Madame DE SEVIGNE'S Letters, and
that Count DE PONTOIS assisted PASCAL in the
composition of his thoughts !
It is affirmed that the Council of Ministers has been
efheneg Raged during several sittings in discussing a law on
gency. This very important question is, in fact,
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dot hutenhge2wi7ntothme
noadfne tdohf
mi sra
The marriage, which was to have been solemnised on
Tuesday last, did not take place. or rui
Ha monthigee.
The Barcelona Journals which we have received are
to the 23d ult. It was said that the -tate of Leige would
be continued till after the re-organisation of the National
Guard. • M. Valdes, formerly Chief Magistrate of Bar-
celona, and M. Gisherge, Deputy of the ex-Junta, having
been summoned to appear before the Military Commis-

Qu.
Consols, Money, 89
Spanish, 24*,;

RTER TO THREE.
itto Account, 891 sellers

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THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
A fair amount of business transacted, and prices were
generally firm,
o
the home trade were the principalperators. The imports were fair.
TEA MARKET.
The market was dull, but prices were firm, and Com-
pany's Cengou could not be purchased under Is. 93(1. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices firm, with a good demand for P. Y. Candle, at
48s. 6d. on the spot, and 48s. for delivery up to the end
of the year.

The supply was middling;
OIL MAIIKET.
A limited demand for Oils, but holders were firm, and
Cod Oil was not to be purchased under 311. per tun.
sale. Clove, 31. to 51. 18s.;
WHITECIIAPEL HAY MARKET.
best qualities; the middling and ordinary sorts heavy of
the trade pretty fair fur the
Hay, 41. to 4/. 10s. ; Straw,
I/. 12s. to I. 14s.

GREEN PARKLODGE.—The sale of the effects
of the late Lady William Gordon was commenced yester-
day by Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, preparatory to the
demolition of the edifice by order of the Woods and
Forests. The green dining-room, where the sale took
place, was crowded to excess, and a party of the C
division of police attended by direction of Superinten-
dent Baker, to protect the company from the depreda-
tions of the swell mob, of whom several sought ad•
mittens,

THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1841.