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FRANCE.
(FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.)
The topics that most occupy public attention in Paris
and in France, at the present moment, are the political
trials going on in the capital, at Paris, and at Aix, in
Savoy, to which a fourth series, that of the rioters at
Clermont, will shortly have to be added. Several per-
sons begin to ask of themselves, with no small justice,
what can be the cause of the simultaneous hostility to
the Government, evidenced by this extraordinary display
of legal measures of repression ; whether it be not 'in
some deeply seated, and widely spread disgust of the
whole system under which the country is at present
managed, and whether the hatred of the public will not
one day or other—at no remote period, perhaps—end by
overthrowing the obnoxious authorities. We confess,
that we believe the people with their broad and plain
common sense to be right : that nine men out of ten are
disgusted with the hypocrisy of a Government calling it-
self liberal, and being thoroughly despotic in heart ; and
that they would do any thing to get rid of fxulers of this
kind. The people, perhaps, make little distinction be-
tween the various Cabinets, and they are right. The
differences of political opinions between the public men
of France are nothing compared to what exists in other
nations. The fault lies with, and the blame comes direct
home, to the real head and director of the Government
himself, to the King, the author and inventor of the
present dishonest and deceitful system, the deceiver of
his country, and, at the present moment, its oppressor.
By far the majority. of French statesmen have only one
principle—that of getting into place, keeping in it as
long as possible, and getting as much money for them-
selves, and favours for their relations or friends, as they
can. Thiers or Guizot, Soult or Mole, it is all the
same—they will all profesi and promise, and lie
and cheat, and intrigue one as hard as the other; and
there is no man in France with a grain of common sense
in his head who would take the word of any one among
them for a ten-sous-piece. As for the King his cha-
racter is known, and despised as it deserves. By an
able act of political legerdemain lie shifted his
amiable but weak cousins out of their posses-
sions, wheedled himself in, and is now stopping at
no measures, the most unconstitutional, or the
most dishonest, to retain his ill-gotten wealth •
and power. One of his ablest stratagems has been to
involve so many of the leading men of the country in
the same treachery towards the nation with himself ; he
has damaged so many men's political characters by in-
veigling them into his toils ; he has so •skilfully played
with their ambition, or other passions, that he is as yet
able to make a stand, and to force his obnoxious measures
down the throats of the people. But this cannot go on
for ever, and the whole superstructure of political fraud
and deceit which he has built up with so much pains,
will come clattering down about the ears of his successor,
and will bury the " beloved dynasty," or the " illustrious
race " in its ruins. The trials above mentioned are an ad-
mirable illustration of the manner in which things are now
conducted in France, and afford an excellent measure of
the degree of judicial justice and administrative honesty
whichobscure
of Quenisset,
to be an
en-
tirely an "moire manque," that is to say, the
law officers of the Crown soon perceived that they
had only a set of poor devils to deal with, whose
hunger, much more than whose republicanism, had
urged them to make the mad attempt against the Princes
at the head of a large body of troops. The evidence, as
far as it has hitherto gone, has shown that the idea of
Quenisset, perhaps of the others, was, that they were
going to attack the whole regiment, not the Princes
alone ! The absurdity of tell or twelve men attacking
a corps d'clite, just returned from an active campaign,
shows the degree of intelligence which directed their
proceedings. Government soon perceived that it had
made a mistake in giving cognizance to the Court of
Peers of such a trumpery event, and therefore it was
determined at all hazards to bring somebody of more
importance
The Editor of the Popirlaire, a
therefore arrested—why ?
was
be-
cause his paper, though the law officers of the Crown
had never found a line in it which they had considered
liable to prosecution, was taken in at the wine-shop
where Quenisset and his companions met, and was as-
sumed to be the journal that had put their republican
ideas into their heads. One of the prisoners, too, after
his arrest, had written a letter to the Editor of the paper
to complain of some arbitrary treatment in prison. M.
Dupoty, the Editor, was therefore, some weeks after the
attempt, taken out of his bed one morning to the Con-
ciergerie, and is now on the prisoners' bench before the
Court of Peers. A more arbitrary and unconstitutional
proceeding was never perpetrated in the worst days of
• Louis XV. Not one of the conspirators had ever seen
M. Dupoty : he, too, was totally ignorant of the exis-
tence of any among them until he read their namos

1 amongst the list of persons to be placed on their trial,
and he had no more to do with the plot than the man in
the moon. The Populaire is a journal professing very
ultra opinions, no doubt; but if these opinions are cul-
pable, why not prosecute it for them : otherwise, if the
law can find no fault with them, why arrest its
Editor for publishing them ? and why implicate
him in a plot of which he was totally ignorant ? The
Commerce and the National were taken in by the con-
spirators, as well as the Populaire. 'Why then not arrest
their Editors also ? Merely because Government was
afraid ; this would have made rather too much noise -; it
would have been too absurd : and besides, one Editor
was as good as a hundred for what Government wanted ;
so M. Dupoty was selected. Hitherto the trial has gone
no further than the public interrogation of the prisoners—
in itself a most unconstitutional and arbitrary one, but
justified by the atrocious principle of French criminal
law, that a prisoner should be made to inculpate him-
self
as much as possible, and that every one is assumed to
be a malefactor until 'wean be proved innocent (an honour-
able compliment this, by the way, to the opinion which
Frenchmen entertain of their own characters). This in-
terrogation, however, as applied to M. Dupoty, has un-
veiled the most arbitrary and atrocious disposition on
the part of the Crown lawyers—that is, of the King.
Many of the articles published in the Populaire have
been read in court, and declared as seditious and inflam-
matory in the highest degree ; several articles found in
the Editor's basket, where he had thrown them after re-
jection from various correspondents, and which, of
course, had never been published, were also read, and
urged as ermines against M. Dupoty ! And even some
verses, which he wrote a long time ago—a sort of para-
phrase of one of Beranger's songs—written, we believe,
during the rumours of-war last year, and which, if a war
had taken place, would have been lauded up to the
skies— these • very verses are alleged as a crime
against poor M. Dupoty ! . lie has defended
himself with great presence of . mind and abi-
lity ; having, by the way, one of the most
easily defensible positions that any one can well be ima-
gined to have; and has protested against this a posteriori
incrimination of articles which in the eye of the law were
perfectly innocuous. But what, it may be asked, have
all these documents to do with the showing that he was
concerned in the plot ? Nothing at all : but what does
that matter to the Crown lawyers ? M. Dupoty has
been arrested : some charge or other must for decency
sake be brought against him ; and if no constitutional
matter can be found, why something unconstitutional
must be resorted to. There is only one opinion in Paris
as to the illegality of this proceeding : but Government
will carry this point. M. Dupoty will be found guilty,
not of what he is tried for, the having encouraged Quenis-
set to make his attempt, but of something else he is not tried
for, and that something happens in itself not to be illegal.
This is the way inwhichjustice is administered under

the " best of republics." The speeches of old Pasquier,
the President of the Court, are disgusting as usual. lie
keeps lecturing the prisoners on the extreme sinfulness
of conspiring against Government ; the old perjurer who
has cursed himself fifty times over by all his gods—if
indeed any of the inhabitants of Olympus would own
such a weathercock—if ever he would forsake Napoleon,
if ever he would abandon Charles X., and, now, if ever
he will cease to lick the dust before Louis Philippe—
cujusque addictus jurare in t'erba magistri. The trial
before the Court of Peers presents a melancholy spec-
tacle. First, that there should be found such misguided
wretched men as Quenisset and his accomplices, to
make so absurd or so dastardly an attempt ; and
next that the Government should have so little regard
to Constitutional morality, as to violate for its own pur-
poses all the principles of common equity—to say no-
thing of law. Thus France is constituted : such is its
political condition, and the occurrence of this affair just
before the opening of the Legislative session is, no doubt,
considered as a God-send by the King, upon the strength
of which he can continue to demand of the Chamber of
Deputies a good round sum of secret service money.
The prosecution at Pau shows the unconstitutional
proceedings of the Government in another point of
view—in the actions of its subordinate agents in the de-
partments. The rioters at Toulouse have been trans-

terred from the scene of events—where all the respect-
able inhabitants are hostile to the Government—to a quiet
country-town where there is a Royal chateau with a cer-
tain number of persons in direct dependence on the Crown
for their salaries ; and where the Jury is known to be
generally tolerably 'subservient to the wishes of the
authorities. Here, however, the forms of law are observed
more or less ; nearly all the persons arrested are tinkers
and tailors, caught flagrante delicto breaking lamps or
windows ; and here can be no hesitation in condemning
them for a breach of the peace. But among them there
is the Chief Police Commissioner of Toulouse, a man
named Lenormant, whom the Government have been
forced, by the turn of events, to arrest, and who is
proved to have been the main instigator of the riots. It
was he who sent men into the • streets to cry
out against the Prefect and the Procureur du Roi,
and it was by his orders that lamps were broken
and the troops opposed. The Procureur du Roi, and
the Prefect, who both ran away from their posts, and
the Lieutenant-General who commanded, and has been
also dismissed, all these functionaries have made their
depositions, and they do nothing but accuse each other
and the Government. On the whole it is a most dis-
gusting affair. The trial at Aix in Provence is less so:
it concerns some more pot-house conspirators, arrested
at Marseilles, and other towns in the South of France ;
and the evidence hitherto adduced has shown that seve-
ral Secret Societies for the spread of Republican opinions
exist in that part of France, though few, if any, overt
acts of rebellion can be proved against them. We repeat
that all those judicial proceedings are considered, by re-
flecting people, as unanswerable indications of the un-
settled and unhealthy condition of France.
'We understand that there is not much likelihood of the
Ministers being weakened by the result of the Session :
and that, contrary to the universal rule since the revo-
lution of 1830, Marshal Souk's Cabinet is likely to con-
tinue in office throughout a second Session. The fact
is, that the King dares net take Thiers into office
again ; and that Count Mole, without Thiers, is not
strong enough to oust M. Guizot, from what he is
dying to obtain again. Between the policy of the pr?-
sent Cabinet and that of one under Count Mole, there is
not a shadow of a difference, the only thing is that
Mole would job for other people than Guizot does ; but
in foreign policy, and it is in that that England and Eu-
rope
are most interested, their line of conduct would be
identical, and decidedly pacific. If M. Thiers were
to wriggle himself into office once more, and
he would do so if anything were to happen to the crafty
old despot at the Tuileries, he would sooner or later
bring up his war project again, and he would make a
desperate dash at securing a few good bags of five-franc
pieces in the universal scramble which would ensue. It
is very possible that the young Duke of Orleans, sooner
than be driven from the throne, will consent to a war ;
and we can almost predict that Thiers will be his first
Prime Minister. General Bugeaud is coming home from
Africa ; this is the principal news of the day ; and it is
possible that he may not return. If the Deputies talk at
all loud about the expenses of the war, which is said
within the last twelve months to have exceeded all former

limits, the King will not hesitate a moment in sacri
ficing the General, any more than he would any other
of his friends. It is not a sign of strength on the part
of the Cabinet, but yet there does not seem to be any
well-founded ground of apprehension, that most of the
foreign Ministers who are deputies should be ordered to
return from their post to give their votes on the address.
It looks as if Government were likely to be hard run on
the occasion ; and yet there is nothing commonly known
to justify the expectation.
The National has made an assertion which we are
surprised none 6f the Court papers have dared to an-
swer : it declares that one of the persons engaged in the
administration of the propertyof the late Duke de Bourbon
now belonging to the Duke d'Aumale has been detected in
peculation to a considerable amount ; that the circum-
stances of the case have been laid before the King, but
that orders have been given that no notice shall be taken
of the affair, and that the guilty person shall be main-
tained in his post. This the National hints is caused
by the circumstances of the party in question having
been the confidential agent of the Duke de Bourbon's
Intendant, and that if any offence were given him, he
could disclose secrets as to the transmission of the Duke's
property, which are of a rather startling nature, and
would affect not the least inconsiderable personage of
the kingdom.
The Council of Ministers have agreed, after a rather
sharp discussion, to postpone any further negotiations
for the Belgian Treaty of Commerce with France until
after the opening of the Session. The Treaty will
amount to nothing, even If it should ever be made.
French manufacturers are by no means inclined to admit
any thing like a system of reciprocity, and the Belgians
are not such fools as to give free admission to French
goods for nothing. It is of much importance „to Europe,
that Belgium should not degenerate into a mere depen-
dency of France.
The Toulon papers state that a squadron of four sail
of the line and other vessels is ordered to the Levant.
We' doubt the accuracy of this assertion ; we believe
that the ships in question are intended merely for aiding
in the further interchange of troops between France and
Algiers.
The last accounts from Syria and Greece are decidedly
pacific. As for Spain, Ma foi! ou l'a oubliee

CENTRAL AMERICA.
ARREST OF FIVE BPITISEI SUBJECTS.
The following statement we extract from the Jamatca
Despatch, of Oct. 28. The fact of the arrest and
im-
prisonment of our countrymen is confirmed by the papers
received by the Great 'Western.
We content ourselves at present with calling public
attention to the following statement :-
46 r. Bell, from the Mosquito shore, and Mr. Lee,
from Belize, both the bearers of despatches for our Go-
vernor, had iong audiences with his Excellency yester-
day, and we understand the matter thus—that owing to
the superintendent of Belize having visited the King of
the Mosquito territory in July last, the despatches brought
by the above gentlemen were connected with each other.
As far as we can gain information, we understand that
Col. M‘Donald went there in the Tweed sloop-of-war,
to deliver a message to the King from the British Go-
vernment, and while there at North Bluefields, he joined
the King in proclaiming the freedom of all slaves in the
Mosquito territory, and, at the same time, formed an
alliance with him, after which he and the King pro-
ceeded in the Tweed for Saint Juan de Nicaragua, Salt

-PRICE 5d

Creek, and Boco del Toro, to claim those ports and
their vicinity, as Mosquito territory from the Guatama-
lien; or Central American States—they having unlawfully
taken possession, and enforced taxes, &c., from the inha-
bitants. The Commandant at St. Juan withstood thii
act, and said he would use force. From this he did not
desist -until he saw the British sailors, marines, and
guns on the beach, at the sight of which he at once
submitted ; but having declared publicly that upon the
Tweed's departure he mould murder the British and
other inhabitants there, who were not Spaniards,
Colonel McDonald was requested to take him prisoner.
This he did, we believe, and carried him to Belize. While
all this was going on, some British merchants and others,
acting for an association of merchants in London, were
concocting an expedition up the Bluefields river into
the Spanish territory, for the purpose of opening a com-
mercial communication with the Commandant and other
Spaniards of note on the border, who had often solicited
direct commerce in British goods from the inhabitants of
Bluefields, and who all speak English as their mother
tongue and consider themselves as British subjects. The
Company intending to colonize the lands which they had
purchased at Bluefields, sent a Director of their own body,
alone, with a surveyor and other gentlemen, to spy out
the fend and search for commerce, and as we have already
hinted, they went up the Segovia or Bluefields river, anti
arrived at Acuyapa, where they had been many
days in friendly communication with the Spaniards,
when, unfortunately, the news of the acts of Colonel
M'Donald, reached there, and in consequence our coun-
trymen, five British merchants, were arrested, and
marched off into the interior under a file of soldiers, with
threats of being shot on arrival at the commandant's
quarters.. The despatches are relative to these matters,
and may lead to important results, as the stupidity, con-
fusion, and political absurdity c . the central American
States may lead them to acts' which may cost them
dearly before finished with, as the imprisonment of
British subjects in the performance of legal acts and
laudable commerce is an aggression on the rights of our
countrymen, which will not be submitted to without
proper satisfaction is rendered to the British Govern-
Jnent, and indemnification paid to those injured by the
waste of time, and the arrest of the persons and goods.
" We cannot believe these Spanish savages will be
mad enough to inflict death on any British subject ; but
we fear the consequences of confinement in a close pri-
son, a hot climate, a wet season, and a supply of coarse
provisions, may occasion death to some of the party.
The imprisonment of one man (Mr. MtLeod), in America
has raised a storm bordering on war ; therefore we shall
see what will be done when five British subjects are
found to be consigned to a Spanish dungeon, in conse-
quence of the acts of the British Government, through
Colonel M'Donald, the British superintendent at Belize.
We understand that, for the last five or six months,
Col. M'Donald is obliged to act under our governor."

GRAND JUNCTION CANAL
COMPANY.
On Tuesday the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors
of this Company was held at the Crown and Anchor Ta-
vern, Strand. The chair was taken by Thomas Poyn-
der, Esq. From the report of the Managing Committee,
read by Sir Francis Head, it appeared that the net ton-
nages for the half-year ending the 30th of June amount-
ed to 56,927/. 13s. 11d., being 7111. 16s. 10d. less than the
previous six months, which was occasioned by the severe
frost in last January and February. and besides decreas-
ing the Company's receipts, created an expense for ice-
breaking of nearly 1,0001. Last Augast the London and
Birmingham Railway Company completed their experi-
mental culvert for conveying water from their deep cutting
at Tring into the canal summit level, the result of which
is to be brought before the arbitrator. The Committee
have, since the last meeting, effected great reductions in the
ordinary expenses of the canal by the discharge of ineffi-
cient servants, and by substituting as lock-keepers a num-
ber of the Company's carpenters and bricklayers, who
still work as mechanics, without extra wages; and by an
alteration in the system of dredging, the annual pay-
ments for labour, lock-keepers, and dredging have di-
minishedtothe extent of 5,000 L The consolidation at

14 Wharf, Paddington, of the workshops and store-
houses at fourteen different parts of the canal, is ex-
pected to effect a saving of 5,000/ a-year, making, on the
whole, a reduction in the Company's ordinary expenses
of about 10,0001 annually. Under these prospects a
dividend of 31. 10s. per share was recommended. The
cash account was as follows :—Net tonnage, 56,9271. 13s.
11d. ; singleboats, 704/ 4s. ; wharfage, &c., 2251 135.5 d.;
rents to Midsummer, 5,8061 Bs. 4d. casual receipts,
869/. Os. 2d., making a total of 64,532/. 19s. 10d. Out
of which the various payments amounted to 23,4871
14s. 5d., leaving a balance of 41,0451. ss. sd. The ex-
penses incurred by the Company through the inunda-
tion last January amounted to 1,021/, and the amount of
unclaimed moneys to the 30th of October, 1841,*was
15,447/. 125.1 d. The report was unanimously adopted,
and a vote of thanks was passed to the Committee of Ma •
nagement, when the meeting adjourned.

GENERA". DISTRESS.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
If the inhabitants of some other planet were to visit
ours, and to vouch that the laws were there framed and
administered upon a principle which made the idle
wealthy and the industrious poor—which made the mass
of the inhabitants dependent upon their own skill and
industry for the means of existence, and at the-same time
so narrowed the field for the exercise of that skill and
industry, as to leave thousands in want and destitution—
which dealt with poverty as a crime, and bestowed
honours and distinction upon wealth, howsoever acquired
and howsoever expended—which drove the virtuous to
acts of desperation and madness, and then stigmatized
the lifeless bodies of the victims of the law's injustice
with the brand of shame and disgrace—if all this
were avouched to be the state of tings in another
planet, what would the "humane and intelligent" inha-
bitants of our own " favoured" land think of the com-
munication ? One of two things, undoubtedly ; either
that the narrator dealt in fiction, or that the race of beings
to whom his communication had reference, were not one
remove from those fallen beings, whose malign hostility
to the beneficent intentions of their justly-offended Maker,
induced the blasphemous resolve—
" To do aught good never will be our task ;
But ever to do ill our sole delight."
What would startle and confound us, as a revelation
from another sphere of existence, passes before our eyes,
however, as a matter of course, awakening no astonish-
ment, and exciting no apprehension of those fearful judg-
ments which the religion by law established assures us
must follow upon national injustice and the oppression
of the poor.

Have our readers read the particulars of a late
" dreadful case of murder and suicide," which occur-
red at Leigh, in Lancashire, where a poor woman, of
whom one of the witnesses on the inquest said, " there
was not a more hardworking woman in Leigh, or one
who strove harder for a living "—where this poor crea-
ture, having three young children dependent upon her
for subsistence, and being " unable," as she had declared
to a companion, "to get a meal for them," although,
sometimes by washing and sometimes by weaving, she
managed to obtain from two and sixpence to two and
ninepence a week—a penny a day for each in the family,
even supposing it to be all expended in food !—where
this poor creature, in a fit of desperation, destroyed her
infant and herself, " being unwilling," as the Coroner's
Jury put it in their verdict, "to leave her infant child
behind ; " and for this double crime of " murder and
suicide, was ignominiously consigned to a felon's grave,
without the usual rites of the Church 7 "
Betsy Thompson was one of the hundreds of poor
creatures whose lives have been rendered wretched, and
whose deaths have been accelerated by the instrumen-
tality of the Corn-laws, and the barbarous bastardy
clause of the new Poor-law. She was, as we have seen,
an honest and industrious woman, but she had three ille-
gitimate children, whom our thoughtful and sensitively
moral Legislature, in its deep anxiety to elevate the
moral feelings and condition of the people, threw upon
their mother for support, while it set the father free from
all obligation ; or, what amounts to the same thing, en-
forced the obligation by means so inadequate to the
_purpose, as to render them, according to the evidence
of the relieving officer, an object of defiance and deri-
sion with those whom it is pretended they are framed
to
e of the evidence, in point of fact, concurred
" remarkably industrious,"
Tahffeec whole
that though
food
for
her children ;and that a
sensesi in
et
could
0o
of
ld points
their
not
obtainsufferings,:
upon a susceptible and
impaired mind, acting
induced her to precipitate herself and her
infant
nity.bodily suffering of Betsy Thompson,
T h e into
mental e t end
and her three helpless children, is no solitary case.
At the Conference of Ministers just held in North
Wales, G. Evans, Esq , of Mueyspandi, Merionethshire;
stated that the small farmers in his neighbourhood were
'totally unable to give employment to the labouring popu-
lation, being scarcely able to provide food for their own
families ; that meat seldom appeared at their tables
from one end of the year to the other ; and that distress
grew worse and worse among the population. The Rev.
0. Thomas,
of Talsarn, stated that the distress of the
working people in his neighbourhood was very great, and
that the people in the parish where he resided were actually
starving.
Ile stated, amongst other things, that he knew
an honest working man who had nothing for his break-
fast but the tea-leaves given him by his neighbours, and
vegetables collected from the fields ; and a woman who
had lived for one whole week upon potatoe-peel. Dr.
0. 0. Roberts, of Bangor, stated that " his avocation as
a medical practitioner gave him abundant opportunities
of knowing the real condition of the poor, and that their
distress was of the most heart-rending character. •In
the Bangor Union a poor woman, who had lain ill for
five weeks, had scarcely any clothes during the time he
had attended her. She had only one shirt, which, having
washed, and having no fire wherewith to dry it, she was
obliged to put on whilst wet. She had no bed. She
was in a condition not fit to keep a pig in. Her misery
was horrible to look upon."
Everybody had supposed that the life of a hand-loom
weaver exhibited the grand climacteric of human wretch-
edness ; but we have lived to see that notion refuted
for the Blackburn Gazette states that the condition of
even the hand-loom weavers of that town has been affec-
ted for the worse ; and, of course, that " their sufferings
appear to have reached the last stage of human en-
durance."

In the town of Paisley, the number of those living upon
Id. per day, doled out by the hand of charity, had in-
creased from 6,500 to 11,100 ten days ago ; and there is

/ .MORNING SUN.
good reason for thinking that by this time the number of
uch persons reach I2,ooo—much more than a fourth of
the entire population
At Leeds, where, as we last week stated, 5,576 per-
sons, out of 19.936, who had been visited, have no vi-
sible means of existence, while the average total weekly
income of the whole is less than lid. per day, the pres-
sure of distress, and the extent of suffering, are stated by
the Leeds Mercury to be much on the increase.
At Bolton, as we learn from a resolution passed at a
public meeting held there, "the distress is as unparalleled
in its severity as in its duration."
At Nottingham " hundreds," says a Correspondent of
the Globe, "are starving on straw beds, without food,
fire, or covering • and these are the people who would
work if they could get it. Each day parties of men,
with starvation in their looks, and dressed in absolute
rags, have been parading the town in processions of two,
three, and four hundred, carrying a board, and which is
printed in large letters, 'Distressed and out of work.'
Other parties; to the number of thirty or forty, drag
carts, loaded with .sand, through the streets, and beg
from door to door. The relief list at the Union work-
house contains 3,600 recipients. The house itself has
900 inmates crammed within its walls. * * * Be-
sides those receiving parish relief, upwards of 2,000 are
starving. Distress and gaunt misery haunt the whole
town."

In the west of Scotland the state of the labouring
classes is equally appalling. " The city missionaries,
secretaries of the different charity societies, and clergy-
men of populous districts in the suburbs," says the Glas-
gow Chronicle, " are all soliciting aid of every descrip-
tion, to relieve the distress they daily come in contact
with. The calico-printing business is in the most hope-
less state ; and we are certain we do not exaggerate
when we say that in the west of Scotland one-half of the
workers are idle, and that the same number of masters
would be bankrupt had they not capital to fall back
upon. As to the weaving population, they have for so
long been reduced to a state of misery, and we have so
frequently had occasion to show the helpless state they
are come to, that we do not feel inclined to say more
about them. The distress is now taking a general direc-
tion, and it is to this fact that we wish particularly to
direct attention." How much this distress will be ag
gravated by the resolution to which the ironmasters of
Scotland have come, under the pressure of " (Are neces-
sity," to blow out for six months one-fourth of their fur-
naces, we leave our readers to conceive.

We migivt proceed to multipl.y these evidences of
human suffering to an almost unlimited extent, but it is
unnecessary. The facts we have given furnish a fair
sample of numberless ones that might be adduced in
illustration of the frightful state of society, brought about
by class legislation and commereialmonopolies.
Oh, the wealthy can eloquently expatiate upon the de-
moralization and vice of the "lower orders!" These good
folks—we mean the sleek and simple creatures of this
wicked world, who, from the sanctity of their drawing-
rooms, preach the Christian necessity of a life of unremit-
ting toil, and somehow see their cash account flourish with
their principles—these excellent people are ever prone,
when the text can be wrested to their purpose, to unclasp
their family Bible, and read therefrom tile apt denuncia-
tion of the prevailing wickedness. If it poor creature,
plunged into the very depths of human misery, and,
like Betsy Thompson, " feeling what wretches feel," per-
petrates in the Threnzy of the moment what, under other
circumstances, would be as high a crime against her own
feelings as against Heaven, these Christian expounders,
armed with the law of God, come forth, brand the me-
mory of the unfortunate with the crime of murder, and
throw him or her into the earth like a dog.
This cannot last long. The bonds of society must
snap asunder first. It is the result of no necessity, na-
tural or social, but of unrighteous legislation, under
which neither industry, steadiness, nor frugality, nor all
combined, can keep Poverty and Wretchedness from the
homes of the poor. The language it breathes to the poor
is this :

"I'll manacle thy neck and feet together ;
Sea water shalt thou drink—thy food shall be
The fresh brook muscles, withered roots, and husks,'
and even worse than that !

The Tories may strengthen the bands of their parti-
san magistrates—they may multiply their inland for-
tresses—they may increase their soldiery and their po-
lice, but all will be in vain to maintain the existing state
of things. There is " a sure word of prophecy" which
points out the end of all such attempts. Let those who
present Bibles and bayonets to the poor, instead of food,
ponder well upon it :—" Woe unto them that join house
to house, and field to field, till there be no place [for the
people], that they [the monopolists] may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth. Therefore hell hath
enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without mea-
sure ; and their glory, and their multitude, and their
pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. As
the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, .so their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust ; because they have cast
away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel !"

THE MARKETS —YESTERDAY.
CORN EXCHANGE.
There have been few arrivals of Corn since Monday.
Wheat firm at last prices, with some demand for foreign.
In other grain no alteration, and very little doing. Flour
met a rather better sale.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Prices were firm, and a fair amount of business was
transacted by the home trade, but the shippers were
cautious in their proceedings. The imports were fair.
Raw Sugar in good request, and stiff rates were paid.
The deliveries large, and arrivals small.
TEA MARKET.
There was a fair business transacted in Free Trade,
and prices were firm. Company's Congou, ls. ofd. per lb.
cash, and the lowest rate of Free Trade common Congou,
cash, was is. 01-d.
TALLOW MARKET.
A good demand, and prices firm, at 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d.
on the spot, and 48s. for delivery up to the end of the
year. For spring months 495. was asked.
SPIRIT MARKET.
The demand for Rum was good, and a fair business
was done at ls. 01d. to Is. 10d. for proof Leewards.
Brandy firm, and wanted.
FRUIT MARKET.
The grocers were eager purchasers of New Fruit.
Valencia Raisins at 365., and Currants 565. to 61s. per cwt.

IRISH MARKETS.
DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the Week ending DEC. 3.

M 7 Wheat,per barrel 'zt. stone....
Bere •••........••••••••• 16 stone....
327 Barley l6 5t0ne......1
415 °Ms l4 stcne
0 Flour, per cwt.... S stone
312 Oatmeal S stone
Sold to Bakers only.
7,989 Cwt. Flour
Average price Jf Wheat and
Receipts of Flour, 14,894
Sccois.:s
Gales of Do. 9,480 Thirds ~

From
23 0
15
16 6
9 6

Is i

To
35 0
16 A
19 0
13 0

14 6

A veragc.
'29 7
15 5
17 6
10 9

13 3

I 10 0 I 25 0 I 22 5%
Flour W 8d per sack.
from Vs. Od to 25s 0(1
from ISs. Od. to 213 .0d
from 10s. Od. to 15s Od

PRICK or BREAM
Quartern I.oat 1 Half Quartern
CORK MARKETS.—Dec. 2.
d.eatlutfrdper._cwFt.re),h
Buttes,
Wheat (per 205t.)183 Od. to 355. Od. vats (per 145 t.... 58.01 to 13s. Od.
Barley (per ltlst.)10 0 18 0 IFlot.r (per cwt 8e
0d di 23 6
Beef, 6d. to 6.1-I.—Mutton, sd. to • .
Pd.lreoalll444d to bd
12d
PRICZ OF BUTTER.
Ild. to per lb.
Pork,Oa 47
To the Merchants. To the Country,
First Quality... 79s
Second ........«••••„•»•».•••»•. 35
. 77 •••••,••••••••••••••••••• r•• OS
Third •.• .........
Fourth ..... r 0
Fifth 00000000000 ••••••••••••• •••••••• 60 ••••••••••••••••••• 00000 51
Sixth 5O 4O
CLONMELL Al A et KETS.....Deo. 2
Per Cwt.
s. d. S. d. s. d. S. d.
N.w Butter .........98 oto c 9 0 Hides tt 24 0
0atmea1...... ..... 0 14 6 Bacon Pig 5...,.,,.., C 46 0
Rendered Lard 0 52 0 Heads 'J 0
Per Bag,.
Fleur, Second — 0 40 ki I Flour,•lliirtia., 0 0
--.Household U ZiB 0 1 ---.. 10urtn5......18 0 0
Per Barrel.
Rapeseed. 20 0 -- 0 1 Barley 0 13 0
Bere 1 lC,als •'
KI LK ENNY MARK
Wheat,perbarrel)2Bs.od.to ats. . Beef {per Os. Od. to Os. Od.
Barley doer
12 0 19 0 Mutt0n....... 0 5 0 8
14 0 15 0 Pork . 0 4 0 7
Flour (per bag).,, .24 0 59 0 Veal 0 6 0 7
Butter (per cwt.) 0 0 10x 0 r rest, Butter..... 0 0 1 0
Bacon Pigs .•.,,, ,45 0 46 0 Salt Ditto 0 6 010
Coals
TS.

MARK

Barley, Mecklenburgh ;62 to 192
Magdeburgh 192 to 204
----- Holstein lBO to 192
Summer 144 to 17
Oats, Eider 99 to Ik6
Mecklenburg
I---- Holstein l3B to 150
I- East Friesland lO9 to mg
Pease, Mecklenburg
Beans 258 to 2FB
Buck Wheat. 231 to 265
Rapeseed, Hanover
Malt
Tares ..............».».» 991 to /58
L'ON.
Marrnham
I Madras

Surati.......

ON to 7%
5% 5%
4% 5
5 tiq

Domingo .....

E
I Domingo

00000

t 04%
4% 7%
5% 7
4% 7%

Porto Ifico

haVannah

Discount.)
Bahia, 2% I ^
Brown 174 2%
Pernambuco, White 2% B
Brown l%l
qt. 2; to 234