The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDCSN, MONDAY EYENING, DECEMBER 9, 1844.

believe that it will give another serious shock to the
crazy fabric of Monopoly; set poor Mr. BANK ES, of
the Dorsetshire Elysium, quite beside himself with
rage and despair; draw forth new powers of abuse
from the Duke of RICHMOND ; and elicit from the
reluctant, but expediency-guided Premier, a more
explicit declaration in favour of the principle of free
trade than he has yet ventured to make. As we have
observed on more than one occasion, Sir ROBERT
PEEL only bides his time to come round to the
views of the League. He is too observant a
statesman not to see the strict justice of its
demands, but feeling that the Monopolist party
and those who side with them, are yet too strong for
him, he quietly rests on his oars, confidently antici-
pating the approach of the hour when he will have
both wind and tide in his favour. Under such cir-
cumstances, what is the course that the Anti-Corn-
law League should pursue ? It should keep itself
before the public eye more prominently than ever;
persist in its constitutional agitation with a boldness
and pertinacity abundantly justified by the gradual
progress of events; and, above all and before all, not
neglect the circulation of tracts, to the fullest
extent possible, among the inhabitants of the agricul-
tural districts, who at the present moment
are from a variety of causes—not the least of which
is their state of physical destitution—well disposed to
give a favourable consideration to such clear, forcible
arguments as the League, through its tracts, may ad-
dress to them. It is by adopting such a strenuous
course of agitation only that Messrs. COBDEN and
BRIGHT, and the other members of their confederacy,
can hope to bring the Premier round to their own
views, for impervious as he is to conviction, he is,
and has always been, and will always continue to be,
exceedingly sensitive to the effects of the "pressure
from without."

a state of real inferiority, and it is difficult to compre-
hend how such a state of things can be persisted in,
when it adds at least one or two weeks to a passage
of a few days, and this when all nations are deyia-
ing means of augmenting in every possible way ra-
pidity of circulation. These reflections are certainly
just, but they ought, we think, to be applied to matters
constantly passing before our eyes. Every day, nay,
every hour, at the entrances to Paris, there may be seen
vehicles loaded with goods, travellers, and merchants,
obliged to undergo veritable quarantines, and that with-
out any fear of contagion serving as a pretext. A
vehicle, for instance, proceeding from Meux to Paris,
takes about four hours to effect this distance. When
it has so far advanced as to arrive at the Barri(lre de la
Villette, it is detained an hour, and thus its journey is
prolonged a fifth. It is the same, and even worse, for
all the articles brought to Paris each morning. The
unfortunate drivers are obliged to leave home three or
four hours sooner than would- be necessary without
the octroi, and are forced to pass a part of the night
fully exposed to the inclemency of the season, until the
unfortunate moment arrives when it shall please the
octroi-officer to poke his examining lance into the load.
Everymorning several thousand individuals lose in thisway
a considerable portion of their time, and that without
any profit to any one. There is in this a clear loss for
them and for society. Our octroi system, which forces
citizens to stop on the road at the moment of arriving at
the end of their journey, and subjects them to the visits
of a crowd of agents, costing large sums to keep up, will
certainly one day pass for a mark of barbarism, doing
but little honour to our times. There is not a single
observation justly addressed to lazarettos that cannot
be applied with greater reason to these fiscal citadels
established round Paris. Our neighbours, who are cited
as a proof of the necessity of suppressing quarantines,
have perceived that it was absurd to maintain amongst
them the entrance duties which weigh so heavily on our
commerce. It is time to imitate them, and to put an end to
a state of things, the most manifest result of which is to
harass the citizens, to cause a great loss of time, to cause
a prejudice to merchandise, and to offer a premium to
fraud."

The Presse, which has an article on a similar subject,
praises the new tariff, and adds :—" But it must not
be forgotten that measures of this nature are incom-
plete as long as the general legislation of the country
favours the two most powerful navies in the world.
The day on which the evil is to be Irked in its root
the Government must determine to !Eke a more de-
cisive blow. Whilst waiting for this moment, which
we trust will soon arrive, we must applaud every act
of the Government which • indicates a tendency to-
wards that complete reform, and we are certain that
the ordinance published in the Moniteur will be hailed
with satisfaction in all our seaports." The Constitu•

The commotions caused by Puseyism are happily
not confined now to the cloisters of Oxford. They
have become general throughout the country, and the
jesuitical, deceitful, and anti-Protestant intrigues of
certain clergymen and Fellows of Colleges, together
with the connivance of the Bishops, and the almost
total silence of the two Archbishops, have excited a
feeling of alarm for the safety of the reformed reli-
gion which does honour to Englishmen. The danger
is unknown, and is therefore probably magnified; but
the symptoms, nevertheless, are such as to warrant
the most energetic measures on the part of the laity
in opposing the tide of Popish innovations, which are
so visible in the Church. A report prevails that
the Bishops have become alarmed at the mani-
festations of public opinion, that frequent
communications are carried on between them
and the Primates, and that the Episcopal Bench
are determined to put down forthwith Pusnr, and
NEWMAN, and WARD, and all the young fry of
Popish imitators. Not the slightest credit can be
given to such a report, yet parties, from a strange
hallucination who have hitherto honestly opposed the
Tractarians, not only place implicit confidence in it,
but recommend that the redress of this unprincipled
outrage on Protestantism should be left entirely in
the hands of the Bishops. Who ever heard of defeated
rebels being allowed to make terms with the Execu-
tive ? ;What rational man would recommend that a
band of thieves, caught in flagrante delicto, should be
allowed to retire to their haunts of infamy, and pro-
pose terms of settlement to those they had
robbed ? Why the Church, and the very nursery
,f our Bishops and Clergy, Protestant Oxford,
have been the cause of all the mischief. The tracts
issued from that venerable establishment, for a time,
not a whisper against them was heard from the Epis-
copal Bench ; 89 appeared, all directed, openly or
covertly, against the Protestant religion, and it was
)nly when the 90th, so outrageous in its character,
tnd so directly opposed to tenets revered by English-
:nen, made a noise in the world that the Bishop of the
iocese, or the Archbishop of CANTERBWRY—We
orget which—intimated to Messrs. FUMY and NEW-
MAN that it would be prudent to stop the publication.
The hint was taken, and this shows what the fathers
of the Church could do if they were serious in the
,natter. But they are not serious. With one or two
honourable exceptions, their late addresses to the clergy
A visitations have been of such a vacillating character,
so vague, and yet so forgiving to the offenders, that all
reasonable men said, if they looked to the Bishops
for support, they would trust to a broken reed.
Their replies to remonstrances from the laity have
seen equally unsatisfactory. These Fathers, in place
of treating the people under their charge as re-
formed Christians who have a dread of change, re-
huke them for meddling with the ceremonies of the
Church, and seem to rejoice when, in the abundance
,of their rubrical knowledge, they can prove that
:hurchwardens and vestries know nothing about the
mportance of the surplice, the beauties of the
4ffertory, and the blessings which will be conferred
on the Church by burning tapers, genuflexions, and
*rankincense. Admitting, therefore, that a conclave
is to be held on this important schism, what beneficial
result can be expected? The two Archbishops are old
glen, one approaching fourscore years and ten, the other
never displayed great activity, and, if report speaks
the truth, is more guided by one of his brethren than
his own judgment. Many of the Bishops take little
interest in the matter ; they love quiet and retirement,
Ind will be led by the two most active, stirring, and
►,aughty prelates on the bench, whose opinions are
well known at Holston and Tottenham. Will the
Protestants of England trust their religious principles
to the decision of such manifest Puseyites ?

tionnel says, it is the intention of Ministers, if chances
are not against them to dissolve the Chamber at the
close of the approaching session, and, among ether
reasons for this step, gives the following :—" The
KING, fortunately, has the strongest health and the
most robust constitution, and his reign will, without
doubt, be prolonged for many years. It is, however,
only a matter of prudence that the Chamber should
always have three sessions to run, in order that, if an
event, which is probably very distant, but which
ought always to be provided for, should bring on a
change in the reigning prince, a sufficiently consider-
able period should elapse before the time of a general
election. It ought therefore, it is alleged, to be laid
down as a principle of prudence, that, unless under
grave circlimstances, the Chamber for the future
should be dissolved, not after the fourth session, but
after the third ; and this rule is, it is said, to be ap-
plied to the present Legislature."

The peaceful demonstrations of the war party in
France, which are responded to by one of the organs
of that class in England, has afforded the Journal des
Debate an occasion for a humorous article. After
noticing the reconciliation, it says :
"Del;ghtful harmony ! Behold our politicians, our
journalists, who, during the last four or five years, have
been exhausting themselves in looking out in the dic-
tionary for, ano using all the polemical terms they could
find, and sometimes others much stronger, for their
mutual accusations of lightness, stupidity, ambition, and
thirst for war ; who, were we to have listened to them,
would have made us believe that not only Europe but
the world was on the point of being put to fire and the
sword. Behold them, suddenly taking the fancy to re-
Elect and discovering—shall we not say to their own great
surprise--that they are not so malignant as they were
thought to be. ' What would you have ?' says one
party. We thought you were going to play the part of
Napoleon—that you intended to take Antwerp, the left
bank of the Rhine, and even, perhaps, Ireland I On
hearing you roar so loud, we were afraid you wanted
to eat us up !" No, no,' replies the other, ' Don't be
afraid, we do not wish to hurt you. We certainly
now and then sing the Marseillaise, but it is all in
joke. In the ebullitions of our eloquence we retain
our knowledge of the world and its affairs; in the bile of
our pamphlets there is always a sentiment of truth. We
thought you wished to thwart and humiliate us. It is
no such thing. Let us come to an understanding. Give
its your hand, for we now know what you mean. We
often find in certain fabulous romances, how two knights-
errant meet in a fog, or in an enchanted forest, with their
visors lowered, and without even taking time to demand
their respective names, or to regard their device or
escutcheon, they blindly attack each other, and engage
in mortal combat, and then, during a moment of ht site-
tion, they raise their visors, look each other in the face,
and find that the two fierce combatants are brothers in
arms, the best friends in the world—Orestes and Pylades,
Damon and Pythias, Nisus and Euryalus—upon which
they embrace, execrating their mistake. Such an ad-
venture or mischance has, it appears, occurred to- M.
Thiers and Lord Palmerston. During four years Europe
was a spectator of the battle of those two champions. The
two Parliaments resounded with the heroic blows which
they dealt each other. But a fine day arrives, the fog clears
off, the two champions wipe their eyes, and regard each
other. M. Thiers recognises Lord Palmerston, and
Lord Palmerston recognises M. Thiers. There is a
moment of surprise ! The encounter lasted so long, -it
was so rude, in appearance at least, that the unhappiness
of the two hampions may easily be imagined. But let
us not feel any alarm ; neither of the knights have been
killed or wounded. The innocent public alone were de-
ceived, who believed the knights were fighting seriously.
The simple people believed it was a tragedy, whilst it
was only a comedy in five acts. It appears that we are
now witnessing the fifth act, and that tne piece ought to
conclude, like every well-arranged comedy, with a ge-
neral explanation and reconciliation. An explanation
is made,.the mystery is cleared up, and all parties em-
brace. This is the spectacle which we are now witness-
ing. The two great statesmen of 1840 are lavishing all
kinds of endearing epithets on each other through the
medium of their respective organs."
TILE BOURSFSATtrapsy, Dnc. 7.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price
French Five per Cents.— •• 120 80 .. 120 30 .. 120 25 120 25
Fours....
Three per Cents..... 83 35 .. 83 55 .. 83 39 .. • "3 40
Bank of France...." 3200 .•3210 .•3200 —3205
I. ante Bank, I,ooof. Shareslloo ..1100 • .1100 • • 1100
5,000 f. SharessoBo .•8080 ..5080 .6080
Belgian 8ank........ •• •• 590 .. 690 .. 590 •• 59
1841....••••.1100 ..1100 -.1100 Iwo
Belgian Flves,lß4o
teal
Two-and-a-Half...• 61 85 .. 62 • • 61 85 .. 62
Spanish Threes.. •• ..
Portuguese Five per Cents• • 354361 • • 56 .• 554 • • 56
Neapolitan•• •• .• •• • .. 98 90 58 90 98 50 58 50
Dutch Two and-a-Half 644 -- 644 •• 641 • 641
Ronan
RAILWAY SHARES
Versailles, R. 8....... •• •• •• 453 5n .• 457 50 .. 456 25 .. 488 25
L.B.•••••••••• .• 327 60 •• 328 75 .. 325 .• 325
Rouen...••• ••••••••....•.1030 • 1030 ..1930 .•1030
Rouen to Havre....
Orleans •• •• ••••• •• •• •••• ••1066 25 -.1067 50 —106.5 ••1065
Strasburg to Bale-- •• • • 292 50 .. 295 • 292 50 .• 292 50
Avignon to Marseillea•••••• 927 50 .. 927 50 •• 927 .4 .• 927 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. Dac 16.
St. Germain... •••• .• •• •• 980 .• 988 75 .. 980 .• 980
Versailles, R. 8.... •
457 50 .. 462 50 .• 457 50 .. 457 50
L. 8.......••• 327 60 . 330 .. 325 .. 327 se
Rouen •• •••• •••• • 1030 -.1030 ..1025 ..1037 50
Rouen to Havre.. • • • • • • • • • • 793 75 793 75 .. 791 25 .. 791'75
Orleans • • .• •• 1067 50 ..1070 .•1067 60 .1065
Strasburg to Bale—. 291 24 .. 295 .. 291 25 .. 293 75
Avignon to Marseilles.. •• 927 So .. 930 .. 927 50 .• 927 50

Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re-
ceived, from which we regret to find that the mur-
lerous system of shooting men without trial is still
persevered in by the NARVAEZ Gorernment. FELI-
CIANO ZuaneNo, the eldest son of General ZURDANO,
was shot at Logrono on the 28th, along with Captain
BALTANAS, ZURBANO'S secretary, and a third person,
whose name is not mentioned. These unfortunate
victims had surrendered voluntarily. The Govern-
,nent, it was believed, had decided on bringing to
court-martial General BAYONAS, Captain General of
Burgos; and General ORIBE, Commandant of the
province of Logrono, for not more promptly executing
the orders they had received for the execution of such
of ZURBANO'S band as might fall into their hands.
MADRID BOURSE ON THE 30m.—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 30; for Account, 30 1-16; Five per Cents,
for Account, 21i.

We are glad to find the Paris Opposition journals
daily displaying less animosity against England, and
directing the attention of the French nation, more
especially the trading community, to the decayed
state of their mercantile navy, the commercial treaties
firmed by their neighbours in a spirit of peace and
equality, and the necessity of a more liberal system,
both foreign and domestic, to place the commerce of
France on a footing with that of Germany and Eng-
land. This is noble rivalry, and infinitely more ad-
vantageous to the glory and greatness of France
than hundreds of victories, which only waste human
life, and in a few years generally leave affairs as they
were at first. The Constitutionnel of Saturday has
en article on the commerce of Prussia, Holland, and
Belgium, as compared with that of France; and after
showing the vast increase which has taken place in
the exports and imports of the latter country, adds :
Thus we are menaced and outrivalled on all sides.
Treaties are concluded without our concurrence, and
we daily see our neighbours coming into redoubtable
competition, without its being possible for us to be-
come participators in any just proportion in this
movement, which interests in so high a degree the
produce of our country, that is to say, the prosperity
of our manufactures and commerce,"
The,,. iztional too has an excellent article on the
obstruction .to trade in France, among which

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR DECEMBER.-- BETA..
.ey closes the year with the same spirit and talent, and
genuine humour as it began with. The leader of the
corps comique and pathetique is Albert Smith ; and we
now look in vain amongst the contributors to the vari-
ous monthlies around us, for anything approaching the
style of rich: and natural humour, mingled with heart-
stirring pathos, which pervades his writings. " The
Fortunes of the Scattergood Family" will, we are satis-
fied, be as much the favourite of the public as the best
of Diekens'sfacetious works. " The Tempted" is a
well-written tale, powerfully worked out, and would well
repay the trouble of dramatising. "The Physiology of
London Life—Life in Lodgings," is 'cry amusing.
Miss Louisa Stuart Costello, in her " Sketches of Le-
gendary Cities," gives us " Shrewsbury," and displays
' both research and good taste. Our Shropshire friends
cannot do better than lay out a Christmas half crown
and purchase the magazine. " Benefits of Snuff-taking"
is a laughable story, and tho "Post Bac, or Eccentric
Correspondents," by B. B. Peake, is highly entertaining.
There are two first-rate poems, " The Genius of Theo-
critus" and " Tribute to Anacreon :" the first is one con-
tinued flow of golden thoughts—we do not recollect a
poem in Bentley, from the commencement of the maga-
zine, of such rich beauty. There are several other
papers, to which we have not time to refer. Let us
not, however, emit a word of praise to John Leech,
whose illustrations are superb.--Shropshire Conservative.
GREAT LEAGUE MEETING AT LE.Ens.—One of
the most enthusiastic meetings of free-trade electors ever
held in Leeds, took place at the Music-hall on 'Wednes-
day evening. Alderman Stansfield in the chair. The
object of the meeting was to hear addresses from Richard
Cthoebbdeesn Esq.,
t,
meais M.b
fl. and John
adding
',
to
the
en strengthßright,
fthe. ,
free-tradeM. l., o
' i
party in the West Riding. The meeting was convened
ly
the Free-trade circular, signed
tee ; and notwithstanding cobmy
Committee
Stansnfioeltd,iEssq.,ninCdhaig rman
of that
only such persons as were most likely to qualify for the
West Riding were invited, the extensive saloon, the
largest public room in Leeds, was completely filled ; and
judging from the enthusiasm which prevailed during the
eunciation lof the plans of the League, in the eloquent
speeches of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, we cannot but
infer that a most important stimulus was given to the
cause of free trade in this district. —Leeds Mercury. •
Sir William Middleton has let 20 acres of land
among the cottagers of Great and Little Livermere, the
rents varying from U. to 21. an acre.

reckons quarantine, and the octroi duty (town dues,

and, it might add, the obnoxious and useless system
of passports. That journal thus vividly describes the
injury done to French commerce, and recommends
the Government to imitate the example of Eng-
land :

" Three days back some just reflections were given in
a Conservative journal on the quarantine system, which
is so rigorously applied in our ports, and which causes a
considerable prejudice to our maritime relations with the
East. It is very right, without doubt, to fear the plague,
and to take precautions against it ; but those which we
take are exaggerated, and the neighbouring nations, who
have profited better than we by the advance of science,
are gradually obtaining exclusive possession of the Me-
diterranean, for the simple reason that a long preventive
imprisonment is not required in their ports as in ours.
Therefore travellers and goods coming from the
Levant prefer the line of Trieste to that of Marseilles,
and, strangely enough, the journey from Alexandria to
1 ranee is sometimes effected more quickly by passing
t
England than by landing at Toulon. This places us in

THIS DAY'S NEWS

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

PRIVY. COUNCIL.--(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge
of the Admiralty Court.
The further arguments in the part-heard case of Jones
v. Goldnett, which came before their Lordships upon
appeal from the Prerogative Court, occupied their Lord-
ships the whole day. -

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in Lincoln's Inn Hall
shoitly aftei eleven o'clock. His Lordship heard ap-
peals to-day, after disposing of some short petitions;
but no case of interest came before his Lordship during
the morning.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the
whole day with motions, continuing the second seal from
Saturday.

cOII.N--EkeliANUt—lVloNnAv;

(Before Sir J. BRUCE.)
liis Homoun sat for s short tint in Bankruptcy, as
Chief Judge of the Court of Review, hut the cases on
the paper were ordered to stand over. His Honour then
took motions in equity._ •

(Before Sir J. K. WIGRAM.)
LSE v. PAIN.

This case was before the Court.. in March last, the
question being one of the construction of the will of Mrs.
Waring, late of Stockwell, leaving property to the
amount of 100,0001. She died in November, 1826,
and after leaving legacies to several individuals, she
gave 1001. to each of the following Societies :
Highbury College, the London and Church Missionary
Societies, the Bible Society, and the Female Peniten-
tiary at Pentonville. By codicils she gave many other
legacies, some of them repetitions of the former ones.
The-question is; whether these bequests by codicil are
additional or not ? The executors allege that if they
are so held they will far more than exhaust the whole
estate ; they therefore pray fOr the direction of the
Court, There are four exceptions in the case, and these
have already occupied the Conrt two days.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(TRIS DAY)
Lord DENMAN sat at nisi prius this morning, at the
Guildhall, with .a London common jury. Several unde-
fended causes were disposed of during the early part,
affer4hich the Court proceeded to try common jury
cases. No case of any public interest came on during
the morning.

During the week ending on Saturday, the arrivals of .
English Wheat and Barley were tolerably good; while
the imports of. Foreign Barley and Oats were on the in-
crease. Of all other articles of Grain the receipts were
•comparatively, small. Fresh up,. a fair average quan-
tity of horilt-groiVti Wheat eattib td hanki, Oaetvvio as
well as by land carriage and sample, from Essex, Kent,
and Cambridgeshire, consequently the show of samples—
in which, arising from the present seasonable weather, a
great improvement was noticed; was, on the whole good. .
Ilaving a large nun:Wet tif bilyets In attendance, a slight,:
improvement was noticed in the demand for all kinds Ot .
English Wheat. The best kinds were held at somewhat ,
more money, but the general value of that description of '
produce remained about stationary, at which a good
clearance was effected. On a comparison of quality,
the quotations were more ilk favour of the growers.
There was only a moderate quantity of fine foreign
Wheat on offer. Waders, as for some time past, were
very few, and would net sell except at very full cur-
rencies, which were paid in the fear . transactions re-
ported. In Corn under lock very little was doing,
yet the prices were quite as high as last week.
Notwithstanding the great increase - in the supplies
of Barley, both English and foreign,; that article,
especially the best malting. kinds, was in better request,
but we can notice no alteration in the quotations.
Nearly the ' whole of the. late arrivals from abroad
have been. entered for home consumption at the
-3s.' duty. The quantity of Malt • brought for-
ward was small. In Chevalier qualities a fair busi-
ness was doing, but all other kinds were very dull.
The supply of Oats was again limited. As most of the
large dealers, are short of stock, the best potatoe parcels
as, indeed, • most.other,kinds, Were in ready request, at
a trifle more money. Otir Irish fetters state that the
shippers in.ireland are still demanding, extreme rates.
Beans and Peas,. the supplies of which were moderate,
moved off sleWly at previous currencies. The Flour
trade was heavy, at the late decline, in value. Linseed
and Rape cakes were in active request:: In seeds next
to !lathing 'Web-lashing.
CURB CY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Arnavr—Paiserk Kent, ildavr-Xhevalicr... ... . . 618 to OS
red.." 40a to Ha -Oars—Yorkshire and
Ditto, whitoe as to 568 Lincolneh:, feed ... 22a to 23a
Norfolk and Lin- rotatpe q 1.66666166 24. a to 558
• coin, red • O4B tb Si Tonglifill and Coat;
iLlittd White" .....
_... . ... . ila to 06
Irish, red......." —a to —is Cork, white"........22. to 23s
Ditto white ....
BYR—Old 3os to 34a.Baaws Tick. 3sa to 37s
New .... ... '. . .
SaacaT—Grinding '468 to 311 PEAR-,- Grey . ~...6666...... Mt to 371
Malting. ...,,,r 3ls to Ito 8iapt•'....,...., ...... ads to 40s
Chevalier."
Mata—So.flbiltanciNor . oiler 5....
folk . 588 to 621 Ft-ono—Town made
Brown • 56a to 6081 Suffo'k ....., " 33a to 35s
Kingston and Ware 63a to 640 , Stockton &Norfolk 33a to 351
1-• FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR, IN-BOND.
Wilawr—Dantzic 66066 321 to 1161'Bwass ....... 66661664.6 ....... 6 24a to 49
Hamburgh .........: 303 to ...1 pals." • 2lll to as
BARLEY ..66....66........... 278 to 291 FLOna;—American
OATS—New ....... ..... Ils to 18a- Baltic ' •
I
206 to —a
Feed ........ ......... 15. to 17s

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice

TINDAL,and a London common jury.)
The Court was occupied the greater part of this morn
ing with. an action of debt, which was in no way inte
resting to the public.

BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.)
The cases put down for hearing this morning were a'
of the-most uninteresting character.

, sAirrlirszzah
U the.—grfat-Christmas market will be held on Mon-
day'neXt, elltiotity,Was tnahifested by gratiets
and butchers to ascertain the-1111/ity of_the stock exhi-
bited for sale to-day, by way of a criterion to regulate
their future transactions ; but with the exception of
there being a few well made-up Devons, Soots, and
Itunte amongst the Bullock
.supply, a very great
and almost unprecedented deficiency of quality was
apparent ; in fact, at least a moiety of it was less than
halt fat. From the numerous attendance of butchers,
and the near approach of Christmas, we were led to ex-
pect an improved demand ; but such was not the case ;
still, however, the priciest Beef wto ih good:request, at
fully last week's quotations, viz., from 4s to 4s 4d per
81bs ; but in all other kinds exceedingly little was doing,
and ,in some instances, the rates had a downward tendency.
The imports of live stock from abroad during the past
week have been again liberal, they having amounted to
105 Oxen and Cows, and 60 Sheep at Hull ; and 93
Beasts, together with 163 sheep into London, the whole
being from Rotterdam by steamers. The supply on show
to-day consisted of 44 Oxen and Cows, and 104 Sheep.
With respect to quality of the former, we may observe
that it eXhibited a slight improvement compared with
previous importations, while the latter were in excellent
condition. The Beasts found purchasers at from 161 to
191, and the Sheep from 39s to44s per. head. We find that
the foreign Beasts are still in good favour amongst the
butchers, while the Sheep are somewhat eagerly sought
after. The bullock droves from our northern grazing dis-
trictsconsisted of about 1,800 short horns. From Norfolk,
Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgshire- we received 380
Scots, &c.; from the Western and Midland counties, 600
Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of
England, 700 of various breeds ' • from Scotland, 200
horned and polled Scots, and from Ireland, via Liverpool,
40 Beasts—the remainder of the supply being derived from
the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The supply of
Sheep was somewhat on the increase, and of fair aver-
age quality. Prime old Downs were in good request
at full prices ; but all other kinds were with difficulty
disposed of at late rates. In Calves exceedingly little
was doing, at previous currencies. We had on offer
144 Pigs, by sea, from Ireland. All descriptions of Pork
were heavy, yet prices were supported.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY )
.robs Williams, a very powerful young man, was
placed at the bar on the following Charge
Police-constable, No. 36 of the A division, stated that
between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night he was
on duty in Pall-mall in plain clothes, and saw the pri-
soner accost several gentlemen and solicit alms of them,
and to the last one he heard the prisoner say in a
menacing manner, " ll—n your eyes, give us some
money, for I must have some. ' Witness directly seized
him, but he broke from his grasp and commenced a most
furious attack upon him. He also struck a gentleman
who was standing by, and he "afterwards repeatedly as-
saulted another constable who was assisting in secur-
ing him.
Mr. HARDWICK said this was a new feature in
mendicant audacity, and closely approached to inducing
persons to give alms by threats of vio!ence. If such
things were permitted the public would not be able to
walk the streets in safety. He wished it to go forth that
all such offenders would be punished with the utmost
severity; and, as an instance of it in the present case,
he should commit the prisoner for three mouths to hard
labour.

• Per Bibs. to sink the oftaL
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 6 2le Second qualityditto.. 3 4 3 6
Second qualityllitto 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 8 310
Prime large Oxen.* 3 8 4 t. Southdown Wethers 4 0 4 2
Prime Scots, &c; 4 2 4 4 Ditto out' of the wool
Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs ....... 3 0 3 6
Prime small 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers.-- . 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calves, each DI 0 32 ti Quarter old Plgs,eacikl6 0 20
Inferior Sheep ..... ..11;iftLy3A2r 0 0 0
ÜBeasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
4.120 30,140 90 413
XI ClaTa AND LEAD Hal
Since this day se'nnight a fair average time-of-year
supply of slaughtered meat has been received for our
markets from Scotland and different parts of England,
in good condition. Although the qmintities of,London-
killed meat offering have been larger, the general de-
mand has improved, and the best qualities of Beef and
Mutton have found buyers, at somewhat improved rates.
In the value of other qualities' wethave no alteration to
report. Several carcases of foreign Beasts and Sheep
have sold at fair prices.
ARRIVALS DURING

THE PAST WEEK.
—Juts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs.
Scotland 0000 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 30 380 420
Yollshira •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 23 400 •••• 4CO
Norfolk 00000 ...••••••••••••••••••••••••• 12 . /50 SO
Sufilblk 00000000000 •••••••••••••••••••• 00000 . 16 100 ..... 60
Cambridgeshire ..................... - 10 60 40
Essex ••••••••••••••••••••••••••14•••••••• 22 :80 40 80
Surrey.... 000000 •••••••••••••1•••••••••••• 30 250 60 200
Devonshire; ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 14 20 .-- 20
Wiltshire ••.•.....•..... 0000000 ••••••• 16 100 30 80
Other parts ..........................20 • IGO 20 100

TOtal....”.•woomooomosee.. 178 1,640 150 1,40
treviota week's arrival 228 1,700 • 150 1150
--
50 60 34,0

Difference since our last.

At per stone, by the Carcase.
a. d. to s. at. s. d. to $. ul.
..... 2 6 210 Mutton, infe.rior 2 8 3 0
- midd1ing......... 3 0 3.2 middling 3 2 3 4
•--- prone large ...... 3 2 3 4 ---- prime 3 6 3 8
-- prime small ..... 3 6 3 8 Pork, large 2 6 3 4
Veal ........ 3 4 4 0 --small 3 6 4 0
BOROUGH HOP BEARIEBT.
Since our last report exceedingly. little business has
been doing in packets, either new or old; yet the quota-
tions have ruled about stationary. The supply of bags,
of the present year's growth, is moderately good, while
the sales effected ire mostly at full currencies.
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
Full average supplies of Potatoes, have arrived at the
water-side coastwise during the week; while the imports
from abroad have consisted of about ninety tons, the
whole of very inferior quality. The demand for most
kinds is steady at our Quotations.
•
WOOL MARKET.
All kinds of foreign and colonial Wools have been in
improved inquiry since this day se'nnight, and prices
have been steadily supported. English Wool is also in
better request, but we can notice no alteration in the
quotations. The insports for the last week have been-
-333 bales from Seville, 100 from ilamburgh, 10 from
Calcutta, and 385 from Odessa.

TALLOW.
There is no alteration to notice .ip prices again this
week. The demand has been a little better, and is now
expected to continue so, therefore no further decline is
anticipated for the present. Home Tallow is not quite
so abundant : the nett price is 415.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIING.—(THIS DAY.,
Loat)o/t, thic. 9.—Wind N.k., fresh breeze, and
cloudy. The& was a slight fall of snow at 10 p.m. on
Sunday night;
DlitAti, DM. 7.—Wind E.S.E., strong breeze, ii. E.,
strong,—Acrd. Caroline, Lovett, St: John's, New Bruns-
wick. Sld. Jane, Cape of Good Hope ; William Bryan.
Sierra Leone ; lady Sarah, Bailey,,Jamaica.
lam Pateronlia, Ii C. 7.--Wilid El, fresh breeite, A. —..,_
E.N.E, fresh breeze.—Arrd. Bangalore, London, and A gentleinan of Newcastle lately undertook, for a
Mauritius and Bombay. wager of 50L, to walk three miles on the race-course
SOUTHAMPTON, near that town, in thirty minutes, and yesterday
HAMPTON, DEC. 7,—Arrd, Iberia steamer , Malta. se'nnight he accomplished the task with ease in 27 min.
Avteirotrillt, DEfj. B.—Wind k.N:t;, strong,—Arrd,and 30 If Durham Advertiser.
Brboltsby, Thtlialson, ltahilla, With, and Caroline 'Mt sec.—Durham
fOR THE DESTITUTE.—On Saturday
Orwell, New Orleans ; Diadem, and Barstow, Charlel
atoll, both for.Havre. night, in pursuance of a resolution c,f the Committee of
the Society for the Refuge of the Destitute, which met
NEWHAVEN, DEC. B:—The Theodore • Reline, from
pantibi IVldbli Skis itsh.oks to the t!itstikafel Of 11e tier; the same day at their office in Threadneedle-street, in
consequence of the extreme severity of the weather, the
itli nisi., has been got oft; and into the harbour without
apparent damage. Arrd. Hymen, Callao. Sld. Prins Asylum in Playhouseayard; Whitecross-street, which is
capable of containing between 500 and 600 persons, was
Carl, Cape and China ; Lochlibo,.New Orleans. for the first time this season opened for the reception of
FALMOUTHI Dp.,. 7 f.ND fl,—Wind B, fresh gales and houselees poor, males, females, and children. There
lltitially.Aricl. gambler, Hutchison, Icinahoe and Pet, wet% 197 names entered in the book, being a much
nambuco ; Queen, Watson, St. John's, New Brunswick, larger number than was ever admitted on a first night,
for Hull. Sid. Linnet packet, Madeira, ism. Off, Stokesby, the most of whom appeared in a melancholy state of
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Asia, of London, Quebec ; destitution.
Britannia, of London; Green Island. ‘...
Oir
THE VERY REV. TIIE NAN OF GLASSGOW.—We
t' Tilt Laißil, Dhe. s.L—Glenlyon, Nett,. Okleatta. afe happy to legal that this much GilthNsar, DEC. 7.-Sid. St. George, Demerara.respected clergyman
has recently rkitiVAd ett Additional testimony of the es-
LIVERPOOL, Disc, 7.-4 direlect timber-laden barnue,
disniasted ,-- "withand bows store!
with the lettersl baptismal
re
..tirnation in
inwhich he is held by the members of his con-
ligation, the shape of a very beautiful
----cell," on the stern; supposed to Wong to Aber= „tit, which has been placed in his church in Paisley, by
toteeN was pasaed lu the lid olt.kin hit. 30; Iph;i2t id.Y. ti; 10 liartsri of Castle Semple, and which com-
ne tOofatia Milted licae. gth. The Saucy data, i'rom
M ntreal, was in contact last night off the Crosby light- worship. The font is of grey freeitone, from the neigh-
pletes the interior' tetiulsitPs of their beautiful place of
ship, with an outward bound steamer, lost bulwarks, bourhood of Troon, and is of an octagonal form, resting
head eutwater; and the steamer lost her mainmast. on a triple base, and ornamented at the top by a range
Montezuma;- toarber, New York 1" George, Finch, St,
John's, New Brunswick: *Bl6. -I, l'xrer, Bombay ; Eying, the whole of the interior ornaments of the
of quatrefoils. 'This mark of regard is the more grati-
as
,Helen and La Belle Barbetie, ichnimii. Wstrillet church sire the gifts of private individuals.—Edinburgh
Moiste Video ; Eliza ,Kincard, Rio Janeiro ; genantl; Ms ?Tyr.
Clara, Chieftain, Laucal Victor and Warren Hastings,' PC
, y, New Orleans......EFEAL ,?.!
; Helen and Henry Gardner, Mobile •• '•eeists of Sarrey, was held at the
Jupiter, Charleston - Margaret, Newfoundland. 3. Si; meeting of the agricin.... _
«nose of taking into con-
THE MALT-TAX.—OH Saturday, a
Henry Hardinge; Calcutta ; Stirling Ichaboe ; Xanifa Town-hall, Cio-ydon, if;:r the 1),!" -d Mng measures to ob-
Barbadoes ; Pallas, New Orleans; Satellite, M b'l l sideration the melt-tax, and or .:. °P", Laresent were C.
o 1 e ; _ • its
Howard, Savannah, Off, tam i repeal. Among the gentleni‘n .r: 0. Rowland,
Leila.
GazENotx, DEC. 7.—A violent shock, as if from an Bleanden; Esq., of Coulsden (chairman) , •ao; T. L.
earthquake, on striking on a rock was experienced on q. Cox,
the 21st ult., in lat. 42, lon. 29, by the Talest •, gstpi of Cotilsden ; Mr. Wines ; Mr. Clutter V, .
Robinson, Esq.; Mr. Week, of Woodcotel Mess. T,
rived in the Clyde. • LIS, ar-Washbourn Turner, Streeter, Stunning, Beynsm, I
Triune, inballast, laden LOWESTOYE, DEc. B.—The Tri ' Ella= ; Messrs. W. and J. Russell, Mr. J. Drummond,
with barley, went ashore- on
Ness Point this afternoon and a number of the other principal farmers of the dig-
~
and 'is expected to become a wreck, Th Albion,par 8 u
trier. 4esolutions to petition for the repeat of the malt i h
Wotilner, ashore on Gunton Beach, has fallen put to tax were adopted.
: patronage
seaward, and it the present Weather continues (a violent Neidgrmayer's new opera of Marie Spurt was : attended aim*
i gregations, 4 '
gale at 844T.E.) will probably go to pieces. ,
~,... produced at the Grand Opera. in Paris, an Friday nigh!
. " I with OM ouocess.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEc. 7.—The
market continues good, with little variation in prices:—
Accrington, 3 ; West Yorkshire, 6f ; South Eastern,
New Creation, 7j; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Cana], 4*; Leeds and Dewsbury, 6; Man-
chester and Birmingbatn, 58 521; Ditto and Liverpool
District Bank, 10 11-16; Churnet, 81.