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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1841.

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"'la 'another Dirt of our Paper will be found an
abridged report of the proceedings at Leeds of
tho,Coriference of the manufacturers of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, which supplies additional
evidence of the distress of the people, and of the
decay •of manufactures. We must, however,
own that we are not disposed to dWell much on
such circumstances as reasons for repealing the
Corn-laws, independently of the facts, that many
circumstances may make partictear branches of
traffic decay besides an extravagant price for
bread, such as changes in fashion, which have
heretofore annihilated the buckle manufacture ;
and that the bulk of the labouring classes in
the majority of cases have generally been on the
verge of destitution, we begin to be very much
afraid, from the conduct of the landowners, as in
Berwickshire, and from the doctrines put forth
by their orcrans, such as that the half of our towns
might be destroyed, that they wish to check the
growth of manufactures, and keep down the
democracy, and that consequently every instance
of decay and distress is a proof of the efficacy of
their system, and rather an encouragement to
continue, than an inducement to abandon it. This
is a bard suspicion, which, we do not embody in
this serious statement without due consideration,
nor without being prepared to state some reasons
for our belief. At the same time, as the Govern-
ment of the country, is now completely in the
hands of the landowners, it bodes, if at all well-
ismal futurity for the menu-
founded, thc,most d
fac t u rem, for the.democrae y and for the whole

society.
We quoted yesterday a clear and decisive proof
from the Berwick Advertiser of a determination
to keep manufactures out of that county. poi.
months past the Tory press has poured forth
diatribes against the manufacturing system.
Landlords and aristocrats who never felt for the
cause of the people or of liberty till they could
attack through them the wealthy millowners—
of whom the landed aristocracy are notoriously
envious—have eagerly pressed forward to expose
the evils of the factory system. The gross im-
morality and vice of our manufacting towns have
been favourite topics of declamation, both for the
landlords in Parliament and the clergy in the
pulpit, and both have sounded the praises of
rural life as replete with virtue. It is quite im-
possible, from the nature of the human mind, that
the landlords, and clergy who influence the land-
lords, should:entertain such opinions without en-
deavouring to give effect to them by actions, and
Prevent to the iitmust of their power the increase
°f thqse manullctures which they d Clare to be
Pregnant with vice and niiserv.

The satne train of argument applies to the de-
mocracy. The Tory and landlord Journals in-
variably treat the bulk of the people with su-
preme contempt. They are incorrigible scoun-
drels; 'canaille," " the swinish multitude ;"
not worthy to be trusted with their own affairs;
a " rabble democracy." For them sharp and
stringent laws are made, which never reetch the
aristocracy, The New Poor-law was enacted, as
the Times, Standard, and Herald will testify, on
purpose to beat down their wages, and degrade
their condition: They are first turned out to
starve, and then imprisoned asyagrants. The
whole stream of the policy and legislation of the

andlords, runs to drown the democracy who con-
stitute the working classes. To attain this end they
have plunged the country in war, andhave never
hesitated to decree the most unjust enactments.
Of late years the democracy has made great
progress, and when the Reform Act was passed,
it gave the aristocracy a fright which has never
been forgotten nor forgiven. Now, the aristo-
cracy exult in their power to punish the demo-
cracy for their presumption; and every tale of
distress, every instance of decay, is music to
their ears.

In former cases of national distress, some at-
tempts were Made to relieve it. Loans were
granted or Exchequer bills issued, and at least
inquiries were immediately instituted but
on the present occasion all relief has been denied,
all inquiry postponed, and the decay and suffer-
ings of the manufacturing classes have been
rather mocked at than otherwise by the journals
of the landlords. They have been told the em-
pire could do without them, which is tantamount
to saying "Go and perish." The evidence of
their distress has been denied. Proofs of un-
timely deaths have been disregarded. The meet-
ing of Parliament has been unnecessarily put off
as long as possible. Everything which could
tend to succour the distressed artisans and give
hope to the master-manufacturers, has been de-
ferred, in order to consolidate the power of the
Tory aristocracy..
Finally they are preparing to transport the
people, whom they cannot subdue, and will not
allow to live in the land of their fathers. They
mean, it has been pithily said, "to commute into
transporfation for life, the sentence of death
which their restrictive legislation has passed on
the operative classes." In these and similar cir-
cumstances we see conclusive evidence of the
determination of the aristocracy to retain their
own superiority at all hazards. As that is in-
compatible with the growth of the democracy,
and the increase of manufactures, it seems useless
or even absurd to press on the aristocracy the
evidence of the distress of the democracy, and
the decay of manufactures, as reasons for altering
their conduct.

Belgian and German Papers of the latest dates
have been received this morning. We give the
following extracts from them :
BRUSSELS, DEC. 12.---The Monitenr Belge of this
morning publishes five conventions concluded and signed
at Berlin on the 19th of May, at Hamburgh on the 25th
of June, at Brunswick and Berlin on the 15th and 17th
of July, and at Wiesbaden on the 16th of September,
1841, between Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Saxe
Weimer, the city of Hamburgh, the Duchy of Bruns-
wick, and the Duchy of Nassau. These conventions re-
gulate, by formal stipulations, the rights of the inhabit:-
ants of the respective countries in regard to the trans-
mission of property.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 14.—Several Belgian journals have
spread a report of purchase of arms and powder, and of
the enlisting of men, stated to have takenplace at Eisohe,
in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and which was con-
nected with the plot at Brussels. It appears from pri-
vate accounts and indubitable information that there have
never been at Eisohe either muskets or ammunition or
enlisting of men, except in the brains of the individuals
who announced this news in a letter addressed to a per.
son in the Belgian army, who was already udder arrest.
The Moniteur publishes a commercial convention be-
tween Belgium and Denmark, concluded at Copenhagen
on the 13th of June last.

The Chamber has voted to-day the budget of tke
Marine department, amounting to 960,849 francs.
The Chamber of Commerce of Maestricht has sent
a petition to the King of Holland, not to renew the
convention concluded with Luxemburg on the 31st of
Dec., 1840, which expires on Jan. Ist next.

The French Journals of Tuesday continue to
report at much length the proceedings of the
Court of Peers, which has not yet done with the
QUENISSET affair. It is labour lost. Nobody
in France seems to care half a farthing about the
trial, or what becomes of the vagabond QUE-
NISSET. Were DUPOTY discharged, as he
ought to be, the Court might sit hearing the ridi-
culous rhapsodies of that pliant tool of tyranny,
M. HERBERT, the Procureur-General, till the
evening of doomsday, without provoking an in-
quiry out of doors.

We confess we are surprised to find the Oppo-
sition Journals rather satisfied than otherwise
with the reduction of the French army. The Go-
vernment, we suppose in anticipation of a storm of
dissent, published on Tuesday a Royal Ordinance
for increasing the Native Auxiliary troops in
French Africa. The new corps is to consist of .20
squadrons of cavalry and three battalions of in-
fantry. These battalions are to be kept up on
such a scale as to allow of the admission of any
of the infantry of the three colonies who may
choose to join them.
Of political gossip, we find nothing of any in-
terest in these Journals. Even the reported no-
mination of M. DE LAMARTINE to the Presidency
of the Chamber of Deputies seems half forgotten
already :
M. de Monicault, Prefect of the Eure, is appointed
Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, in the room of the Vicomte
de Germiny, and is succeeded by M. Zede, Master of
Requests.
A Toulon correspondent writes :—" The steam-boat
Tenare, which went ont with sealed orders, and was be-
lieved to be bound for Tunis, has returned, and, as we
now learn, has been to Monaco. It appears that the
demonstrations of the people of the principality were so
serious, that the Prince of Monaco called to the frontiers
a body of Piedmo se carbineers, in virtue of the trea-
ties of 1815, by wh the principality was placed under
the protection of Saitlinia. What was the object of the
French Government in sending the Tenare, we cannot
tell. It is said that an interposition was to have been
made between the Prince and his people, if they had come
to a collision ; but this is scarcely credible."
A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, says:—
" Th© reduction of our artillery does not go to the ex-
tent of 16 batteries. It is to be only 11 for Italy, Galli-
cia, Hungary, Transylvania, Upper Austria. and the
Tyrol. In Austria two batteries of foot and one of horse
artillery are being suppressed. In Moravia, the reduc-
tion is one foot and one horse battery; in Lower Austria,
the same reduction is to be made."

A correspondent at Hanover :writes to the Borsenhalle
of Hamburgh :—" We learn the motive which decided
M. Christiani and other Opposition Members to with-
draw from the Second Chamber of the States was, that
on their arrival, which was duly announced to the
Count de Nyphausen, Vice-Marshal of the kingdom,
that officer replied that, as he had not received the ne-
cessary powers from the Cabinet, he could not allow
them to take their seats. When the Chamber was about
to proceed to the election of the candidates for the Pre-
sidency and Vice-Presidency, a member moved for a
suspension of the operation until the absent Deputies
could take their seats. His motion was negatived, upon
which the mover and twenty other members seceded."
A letter from Christiana, in Norway, states that the
Storthing was again, for the third time, about to take
into consideration the question of granting to the Roman
Catholics of Norway the free exercise of their religion
within the kingdom. If the Storthing again votes for
this liberty of conscience, the King, who has twice re-
jected it, will, according to the terms of the Constitution,
be obliged to sanction it.
Advices from Athens of the 27th ult., quoted by the
Augsburg Gazette, state that on the 25th a general meet-
ing of Shareholders of the National Batik was held under
the presidency of the Ministers. The Minister Petralis
delivered a speech, in which he enlarged on the import-
ance of the Bank in promoting the prosperity of Greece.
A Provisional Directory was then named, with M.Bromes,
an Hungarian, at its head. The Bank will commence its
operations on the 13th January, and a circular letter has
been addressed to tho Shareholders, calling upon them
to pay up their shares before that day.

THE
MARKETS.—(THIS
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COLONIAL MARKET.
DAY.)
Prices were steady,i3eati a fair business was transacted
tri;ie2Tortation the operations
, rwoerreth
eex throe
4 Raw Sugar stationary, j imports were fair. Prices
,vere few buyers. Price .of
Spicesoyee held firmly, but there
(lull, but not cheaper. In on the decline. Rice
rates. Rum not cheaper, but fic:ersold slowly,
at lower
TEA MARKET.
Little were few buyers.
Little business done in Free Trade
were firm and low. Congou could Tea, but prices
Is. 9d. per lb. not be had under
TALLOW MARKET.
The market firm, with a fair demand. P. Y.
on the spot 48s. ad., and 48s. for delivery try . Candle
to
of the year. the end
WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET.
The supply of Hay and Clover was good, the best
,tualities sold quickly, the middling and ordinary sorts
:wavy on hand. The supply of Straw was but middling,
the demand good, with an advance of full Is. per load,
glover, 3/ to 51. 13s. ; Hay, 21. to 4/. Bs. ; Straw, IL gs.
to lt 13s.
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CORONER'S INQUEST.—At the inquest on the
body of Peter Dolan, murdered at Drogheda, the evi-
lence against Patrick Hamill, who endeavoured to prove
in alibi, and whose shoe-tracks had been distinctly traced
in deceased's garden, the Jury returned a verdict, "That
,leceased came to his death in consequence of wounds
inflicted on his head by some person or persons unknown;
tit that from circumstances which have transpired dur-
ing the investigation, the Jury are of opinion that Pa-
trick Hamill was concerned in the transaction." Hamill
has been committed to prison on the Coroner's warrant.
lie is about 25, stoutly made. and about 5 feet 7 inches
in height.