The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-30 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

Tin: HAG LE, DEC. 26.—0 n the this
month the. merchants of Venloo had a meeting for the
purpose of considering of means to prevent the loss of
all the trade with Prussia, and the entire ruin of that
town, by the opening of a road from Kalden-Kirshin
to Steil. It was resolved to petition his Majesty the
King, to suppress the Custom-house at Steil, which
was established two years ago, as useless and, injurious
in its effects to this town. •

The Magistrates of Venloo have solicited the pro-
vincial Government at Maestricht to support their
petition to his Majesty, and it is to be hoped that they
will do their utmost to prevent so great an injury to
our unhappy town.
BATAVIA, SEPT. 13.—1 n our number of the 2d of
1 April last, we gave accounts from Siam of the sth of
February, respecting the preparations that were
making at Bankok for war with the Cochin Chinese.
Five of the largest merchantmen belonging to the
King of Siam were fitted out as men of war, and
accompanied by a numerous fleet of armed junks,
were sent, under the command of Prince Chou Fa°,
to Kangkoo, a port in the south-west coast of Cam-
bodia. We have read in the Singapore Free Press
of the 28th of July, accounts of the result of this ex-
pedition. Letters from Bankok had brought word
that the expedition sent by the Government of Siam
against Cochin China had returned, but not covered
with glory. A great number of wretched men, who
were taken by force and against their will from their
homes to serve in the expedition, have perished by
hunger, and by being exposed to the burning heat ii,i,
the clay and to cold rains at night, being on board 9'
crowded ships, without any sort of shelter. It
the
said that there was no fighting. ' As soon as tut)
brave Siamese came in sight of the Cochin Chinese
fleet, they turned about and fled, while the latter, an
their part, magnanimously resolved to let the enemy
depart unmolested, and to refrain from purauing
them. At the same time we hear that theCeew°
Chinese are employed in making a road •directlf
across the mountains which divide that kingdom from
Siam, with the intention of undertaking at soMe ti?3,,e
or other an invasion of that country.—Jam COgra4,4
BiIiSSELS, DEC. H.—General Joly, PresidaPt,',;
the Belgian Commission for running the boundarY
ri-fit
between Belgian and the Netherlands, has arrived at
Maestricht. The Dutch Commission has likewtii,
arrived there. It may therefore be supposed that be
treaty on the subject of the boundary line will
shortly carried into effect.
The construction of railways in Austria is rooeed;
ing rapidly. A convention has just been concluded.
with the Government of Saxony for the construction
of an iron railway from Prague to Dresden. Thug
the Adriatic will soon be connected with the German
Ocean by means of a railroad passing through the0
Austrian provinces. This affair may be considered a
definitively settled.
The Civil Tribunal of Tournay heard, on the 14t!
and 19th, pleadings in the affair of the Countess I.
Hon, requiring to have her property separated frii) r
that of her husband. The Court decided in e
favour. It appeared that the Countess possesses pr.e.
perty to the amount of between two and three mil-
lions of francs. The Counsel of Count le HOP gb
ac-
knowledged the correctness of the statement made 1
the Counsel of his lady.
The Echo de Renaix says that mendicity
ing in a frightful manner in the environs, and that
015_
is not uncommon to meet with bands of twentyae.r.
thirty beggars, who go to the farm-houses tu_il 0
mand relief for their starving families, acouraPalyif%r
their demands with threats in case of refusal. A e...,
days ago such a threat was partly carried into execu_u
tion on a farmer in the neighbourhood. A haystaca;
was set on fire, and the whole farm was in gre,o
danger of being destroyed.. The damage done was 1
the amount of 300 francs. is spread.:

DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTERDem, DEC. 21.
money. ,
r 2

o.ctual_pet t, 254 per Cent

Ditto, ditto 5 pei cent.
Arnett Svridic,44 per cent 9,
Ditto, ditto, 0% per cent 7l 774 ~,
Commercial Company, 434 per cent 13014. 131
t.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9934.A gg
Exchange on London, One month l2 fy
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 844
Two months 35 6234
Dutch Papers, Dec. 28, _....
BELGIAN FUN - S.—BansseLs, Dna 21.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent,
102
Rothschild's Loan Five per Cent -
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ...
--- Three per Cent. ....
Thirty-seven Milli. ns, ditto ..•.....•••» vie
.......................-... ... (184.)n n **v.. .• •
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. `l
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. „"'",', ri
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent..................
National Society .
. .....
~_
Exchange on London (short) ••••••••••• ..... ••• i
—Brussels Papers. Cr*. 27. '1 '
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Dec. 24.
Bills. {one!.
110
1635
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, C...ertifieate- 1024, ."'"
Inscription, Ist series 14'234
Russian S per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 9734 - .
Ditto in Certificates 97 v 9 ,;
New 4 per Cent. (1840) Bl% r,,
s
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ......... - -
Ditto 5 per Cent. - --
Polish Bonds
New Tickets —
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. —
82.4 -
- 8 •
Spanish, New 5 fin* Cents. ...... --. '
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Binun,llDoc. 21.
Bills. Money ,
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. lO4 10314 q
•
Prussian English Bond;, 1830, 1 per cent. I. 2irLe 1 Yhi
Exchange on Landon ...s 244 t
Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 24.

Austrian 5 per Cents,
Bank Shares

FAILURE OF MESSRS. DUNN A.O)
SON, OF WAKEFIELD.

(From the York Courant)
The failure of this respectable firm, which took
place on Friday week, would have been announced 14
our last, had we not been informed by our Wakefield
Correspondent that there was some prospect of therai
resuming business.
The liabilities of the firm amount to 183,0004
dependent of their extensive colliery engagement''ay.
which are said to amount to 80,000/. more. A- el i 5
position of 4s. in the pound has been offered, and
likely to be accepted.
These gentlemen have been bold speculators in corn,
&c., and Sir Robert Peel's sliding scale is raid to have
hastened their ruin.
STOPPAGE OF THE YORKSHIRE AGRI-
CULTURAL BANK.
We have to state, in reference to this failure, thavt
we called 'at the banking house in York,
give our readers the most correct information. 'lnn
answer we there received is, that nothing has yet hei_e„.
arranged, except the calling of a general meeting ttl
day (Thursday), at which it will be determined wni'l
course to pursue.
4.; n or
All the various rumours respecting a resumption
payment, &c., &c., are, therefore, premature.
THE FAILURES IN THE CORN TRADE.---T
gret to state that the extensive failures in WraKeii-
have been succeeded by others in the Western d's"
in order t°
trict. The stoppage of three more houses was an;
nounced in the market at 'Wakefield on Friday. 91'n.
of the firms offers 6s. in the pound. The following
circular was issued on the same day, and has been 07
subject of much conversation, and, in many instances,
of complaint. We give it without comment ---
"The effects produced by the late very Ilea%
failures, on and connected with this market, have not
as yet subsided, but we are glad to state that t
losses thereby sustained are confined to a very sin%
number of persons, and that the trade generally at
system
not sufferers. It is hoped that the ruinous tance
which has for come time past been in operation hav',
ing exploded, the trade will now be carried on fin,
sound principles, and in a proper manner, and as t
stocks both in consumers' and dealers' hands are poht,
large, we anticipate a fair and regular demand, with
no material alteration in prices fora time. At ti)
day's market there has been a large supply of whe'A' '
which meets a slow sale at about ls. per qr below the
)
rates of last week. Barley, oats, and beans are each
Is. lower. The demand for shelling is very 10aiteA"
and prices is per load lower.
" We are respectfully, your obedient ser:vrmts, "
JAS. HARRISON and SONS'',, •

leaDrnEeAdTBH.enOtlremSalnß
eAxpLiEr:XdANatDEhRi Csepaot
in Oxfordshire, on Tuesday last,s
of eighty-four years.caller', to the bar lt:
1786, and was for many
Admiralty Court in N,' " ears Judge of the Vice' t,
in 1816, from that judicial
the honourr of..ilrer•' ova Scotia; on his retirern ,
e ia.Heat
lhd ona'o'appointment,a ''
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11
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Inner Temple,
.nhthood, In 1823 he was elected A
al: ULreeri
nosftetrh,
bencher ofrefo-
Lo':d William Fitzg
tl: n teDuked -r
aranbdieinsoclBi2et9y.was al30;
youngest son but one
Ireland, when it exploded, )
on one of his Lordshi
loaded fowling-pieceat Carlton,
on Christmas-eve,
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11,1-0 doing o well. e
middlen dfin. gt en
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d,Wn:ai
dnsdi, ntichnaafluti tcai
inflicted
luystuaet
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t.he;
was skilfully • -
wof'g deemed necessary.. The operation
per orm ... on the following day by y t
, of Gardiner-place, and the Noble pat'en
AGE OF THE ZION. ALBERIC "Iry
LOUGHBY.—On Sunday last the above Hon. Gentle'
man, only son of Lord and Lady WilloupahbY
D'Eresby, completed his majority. Lord and LAY'
Carrington and a family party assembled at Grinls'
thorpe, Lincolnshire, but from the sacred day the r-
joicings attendant on the event were deferred. 11l
tenantry on the family estates in Wales would not le
the opportunity pass of celebrating the event of thef
coming of age of the heir of the ancient house °
Gwydyr, and a splendid dinner was to have taker'
place on Tuesday at Carnarvon, at which Mr. hire
. .3-'
Nanney, Commandant of the Royal Carnarvonsh
Militia, was to preside. There was a public dinner
at Llanrwst on Monday. The Lincolnshire tenantryd
intended to dine together on Tuesday at Spilsby, 3,3
there were to be rejoicings at Drummond ale,
Perthshire, and the neighbouring town of Crieff•
r,
Prince Puckler Muskau, says &letter from G°:'
has just met with a fresh accident. An Arab hors
;
lashed out suddenly and struck hirn_on the head. .1P...
Prince is obliged to keep his bed.

MONEY and COMM E., '4-'4;111, NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
In favour of the warehousing system in America,
, 'which would be a great boon to those engaged in
.the trade, we find the example of England freely
adduced on the other side of the Atlantic, while it is
said that as connected with the' tariff it will he de-
servedly among the first measures which will engage
the attention of Congress at the approaching session,
having been brought to the notice of that body in the
message of the President :—" The advantages reaped
_ from this system in England," says one, " have been
so many and so obvious, that it is a matter of surprise
the merchants of America should have so long remained
without such an arrangement. The sytem was first
introduced at the port of London alone, by the Act
of 1803, on the most important articles of Wrest India
produce, which were admitted to be warehoused with-
out the payment of duty. The power thus imparted
was at first acted upon with the greatest caution.
The construction and situation of the warehouses in
the different ports of the kingdom were such, that it
Was considered inconsistent with the interests of the
revenue to grant them the same privileges that were
extended to the London Docks. The advantages had
also not become sufficiently obvious for the merchants
to make any efforts for obtaining an extension of the
Privilege. In process of time the, merchants, per-
ceiving the great benefit to be derived from it, have
exerted themselves from time to time." The follow-
ing is a list of the ports now enjoying the privilege,
With the dates of their obtiining it:—
London
Liverpool .
12 other ports lBO5 Stockton
5 .. .... 1806 Shoreham
3
Colchester . lBOB 3 other ports in lB2l
2 ports in.......... 1822 ...
Poole
6 ports in Ireland 1824 8 ports in Ireland... 1825
What would the commerce of England now he, if
."eash duties were enforced, and no bonding were
'':allowed ?
The English market lost none of the buoyancy
. Which characterised it in the earlier part of the day,
and tcitheabundance of money, which on stock is at-

tainable at 11 to 2 per cent, may be in part attributed
the firmness both of the funded and unfunded debts,
l'fhe latter, in addition, being said to be rather scarce
to-day: ReduCed Annuities were again taken by the
Government broker. Consols for the opening were
!'done at-938 to g 4; Exchequer Bills touched 595. and
.tr 60s. premium; India Bonds 50s. to 525. premium.
e Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced were
=
steady at 104 to 1011. The Canada Guaranteed
Pebentures improved to 14 premium.
The Foreign market was rather brisk this after-
noon, and for the new account there appeared to be
some disposition to advance the quotations. The
Spanish Account is said to be bearish. The
Five per Cent. Bonds realised 181 to and the
Three per Cents. left off at 24k. Portu-
guese Converted were at 34i for the 16th of January,
and the Three per Cents. at 24 to 24k. Mexican
Stock was worth 311 to 32 ; Colombian 22; Peruvian
19 to .1s- ; Buenos Ayres 25 ; and Brazilian 71i, being
all a shade higher. Belgian Bonds realised 1011 ;
Russian 114 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
624 to 53, being firmer.
Some disposition was manifested to effect sales in
Railway Shares, and this caused them to have a less
firm appearance. The bargains this afternoon were
in Eastern Counties debentures at 21 premium, in
Great Western at 241-, in the New Ditto at 13-I to
131, in the Birmingham New at 31i, in the Northern
and Eastern Scrip at 4* to 5, and in .the Paris and
Rouen at 6to * premium. Brighton were 131, and
lilackwall 11* discount.
In the advices by the Columbia steamer, as re-
ceived in the City this afternoon, there is nothing of
particular interest beyond what appears in another
Part of The Sun, as the private letters have not yet
been delivered. The navigation was on the eve, of
elosing in Canada, a number of vessels having left
Quebec in company, to one or two of which accidents
had occurred.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
_ _

The Cotton-market at Liverpooc was animated'
again yesterday, and the sales were extensive,
amounting 8,000 bales, at full quotations.—ln Rail-
Way Shares Brighton were in demand, but others
hot; so good. Birmingham and Gloucester Scrip
Tealiied 13; Great Western, 90; Birmingham, 189;
Brighton, 361; Manchester and Birmingham, 20 ;
Paris and Rouen, 261 ; and South Eastern, 18.
There are no arrivals to-day from any quarter, ex-
cept by the usual continental mails.
,The Belgian budget bas been adopted- in its en •
trey by the Chambers, there having been only one
dissentient voice.
„Aizcounts from the Havannah, indirect, state that
the Government had sent vessels, well armed, to clear
the.neighbouring seas of the numerous pirates that
infested it.
The Public Securities have been very firm to-day,
and an advance has taken place in the value of Con-
sols, which have touched 93; to 94. The very
different tone of the French journals, and the
dezni-official explanations given this morning
through tbe columns of a Morning Contem-
porary, of all the , charges brought against
the
.French Consul, has helped to strengthen our Stock
market. Exchequer Bills have also risen, the price
fhaving got up to 535. and 595. premium; East India
'''Monds have realised 495. to 50s. premium. The Re-
duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have improved to
_lOl3 and 1013, and the Three per- Cent. Annuities
' have been advanced to 943 and 941. The Canada
Guaranteed Debt has advanced to 13 premium.
• In the Foreign house there has been less doing.
The rise of the last two days in the Spanish securities
has, as we anticipated, brought forward sellers, and
A.etives are not quoted higher than 181 to 183, while
the Three per Cents. bring 241 to 241. Portuguese
Converted Bonds touched 34 to 3 and a pamphlet
that has just appeared, translated irom the Dutch,
and recommending investments in this security, has
led some credulous people to risk their money,
taking the chapter of accidents. Mexican Stock has
been at an improvement to 311 and 313 ; Buenos
Ayres Bonds are 26 ; and Peruvian, 193 ; the Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 523 ; and
the Five per Cents. at 1003 to 101*.
In the Share Market the transactions have been
v limited. Brighton are 131 dis.; Edinburgh
`and Glasgow, 2 dis.; Northern and Eastern, 10 dis.;
-Paris end Rouen, 4 to 4/ prem.; and South Eastern,
271
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 27.
Three pet. Cent. Consols..
Ditto, New, 1830....
Rank Stock • • . 174
MANCHESTEIt STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 28.—We
have had a good inquiry for the Rail way Shares, and a fair
business would have been done if the markets had not
been so bare of stock :—Manchester and Birmingham,
20 ; Huddersfield Canal, 103; South Eastern Scrip,
173 to 173; Midland Counties Fifths, 6s. to Bs. prem. ;
Veweastle and Darlington Junction, 43 to 43.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds ....... 52 pm
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 6o>m
Ditto BOW.—
Ditto Small
Bank Stock fur Acct.
India Stock for Om—
Consols for Opg. ...... 94
V FUNDS.
!Ditto,
5 per cent.
iDitto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pei cent...., 113 i
Ditto, Aletallic .....
Spanish, 5 per cent...... 181
Ditto Deferred.... .
FrerA, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f. —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dad), 2i per cent. 53
Ditto, 5 per cent. 100 L

Hank stock
3 per Cant. Red. ...., 94A
3 per Cent. Cons
311 per Cent. Red ..... lOl%
""w 3i per Cent —
'9w 5 per Cen'
1-qng Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860...
3ct, 1859
an. 1660 —

POREIG

tstrian, 5 per cent
11e'lgian,rs per cent loli
Brazilian Bonds... 7l
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 25
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 22
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent —
Danish, 3 per :ent
Creek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 32
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Pernvian,lB2s,ll per et. 191
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... 481
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ... ••
Ditto Debentures ( paid) lOl
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ..• ... 48
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
London am" Brighton (50 paid) ••• •• 36i
London and .111ackwall ( paid) .......... 54
London and B+.-zningharn (90) ...... ........
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..... • 33i
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 62
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) • 10
N '.h Midland Railway (400)

_lord didlana ,
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover. (50 paid) 22A
Ditto Scrip naid) . l7i

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 24, 11842
Passengers
Merchandise 5lO 0 2

£1,332 7 8

Corresponding week last year ..,.1,200 0 9
Darlington, Dec. 28. W. O'BRIEN. Secretary.

LETHENDY CASE.—The action of damages, at Mr.
Clark's instance, against the majoritv of the Presby-
tery of Dunkeld, for refusing to take him on trials,
&c. which was set down for trial by a jury in the first
division of the Court of Session to-day, has been dis-
charged. The Lord President, after communicating
for a few minutes with the Dean of Faculty and Mr.
:Rutherford, stated yesterday publicly from the bench,
that the Court, with consent of the counsel for the
parties, deemed it proper to postpone this trial. The
recson for this we understand is, that three other
ilppc; rtant causes, involving much of the law which is
- appliec\ble to this case, are expected to be heard and
decided immediately after the Court meets ; and
hence th s Lethendy case will not be tried till the
Spring sits qns's.—Scotsman.

4
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410 kti

AND
Vtablic ottlon,

" Who rung may read.'

rom.ErGN-.

Great commercial distress is felt at Paris at present.
In the course of last year there had been a great di-
minution of the exports, which ais mainly attributed
to the financial crisis in the United States, and to
the elevation of the American tariff, which has had
the effect of restraining the commercial intercourse
between France and North America. -
The French Cabinet, it is said, have agreed to a
plan for suppressing the manufacture of beet-root
sugar in France, and granting a compensation to the
manufacturers.

The Council-General of the Bank of France had
fixed at 72 per share the dividend of the last six months
of 1842.

The subscription opened for erecting a bronze
statue of the Duke of Orleans on the Royal-square of
Algiers amounted on the 15th to 42,219 f.
A crowd of people from Lampurdan, with the Al-
calde of Figueiras at their head, have sought an asylum
in France. M. Manuel Carsy, the, President of the
insurgent Junta, had arrived at Marseilles, where he
was preparing for the press an account of the insur-
rection of Barcelona.

Two aides-de-camp and the physician of the Re-
gent of Spain were sent by him on the 19th to visit
the wounded lying in the military hospital of Barce-
lona. They presented, in the name of the Regent,
two dollars to each soldier, three to the sergeants, and
a month's pay to each officer.
A soldier, belonging to the provincial regiment of
Barcelona, convicted of having stolen a pair of ear-
rings, valued at 20 dollars, and four dollars in silver,
in a house where he was billetted, was sentenced to
death, and executed on the 20th.
The following appears in the Courrier de Goieve
of the 24th instant :—" It is pretty publicly declared
that a conspiracy has been formed against the State,
and that the insurgents intend acting by night and by
surprise ; they intend, as is declared; to arrest the
members of the Government, to seize on the Hotel de
Ville and the gates of the town, to form a provisional
government, and to act afterwards as may seem fit."
The hundredth anniversary of the birthday of
Prince Blucher was celebrated at Dusseldorf, on the
15th instant, by a brilliant entertainment, at which
not only many comrades of the deceased veteran, but
nearly all the officers of the garrison, were preseut. '
In almost every large city in Prussia, the day appears
to have been celebrated in a similar manner.
The Carlsruhe Gazette states that, notwithstanding
the reports to the contrary, the negotiations for a
commercial union between Franee and Belgium were
still continued, and the French Government, in order
to obviate the objections made by the European
Powers, had proposed that the existing French tariff
should be maintained for some years to come, that the
same tariff should be adopted by Belgium, and that
the protection of the frontiers should be confided to
Belgian Custom-house officers.

PUBLIC OPINION.
We find the following in the Chronicle :—" It is
tolerably clear that the great Tory landowners have
been applying the screw to Sir Robert Peel. The
time is fast approaching when it will be known
whether he will be allowed to' consult the welfare of
the country, or whether he will renounce the princi-
ples he professed last, session, and become the passive
instrument of a short-sighted and mistaken avarice.
We say short-sighted avarice, for on what can agri-
culturists depend for prices but the ability of con-
sumers. It the returns from foreign trade fall off, the
inanufacturers have less with which they can go to the
market for food, and prices must come down. Prices
were high during the war, because the manufacturing
population received high wages, and. rapidly increased
in numbers. There was no hindrance to importation,
for the duty was nominal, but prices remained high
here, because the people were able to pay them. Had
the scarcity, which continued for some years after the
beginning of the revolutionary war, occurred during
a period of unprosperous trade, a great part of the
population must have been fed as paupers.'
In reference to the state of affairs in Spain, the
Times observes :—" It is the first wish of the Brltish
Government to see the whole policy of the SpaniSh
Cabinet continue to be conducted on those fixed prin-
ciples of international truth and justice which can
alone maintain its moral dignity and establish its
claim to the whole support of Europe. England
ceases not to express her readiness to afford to the
fullest extent all the support which she has already
given to Spain in various former emergencies : to that
support she attaches but one condition—namely, that
Spain will act on principles which England may her-
self avow. She espouses the cause of Spain, not for
the purpose of establishing British influence in the
Peninsula, still less for that of offering a captious and
irritable resistance to the supposed designs of France,
but with the hope that her alliance may tend to check
unwise councils at home, and to ward off aggressions
from abroad. With these views, the present Go-
vernment of this country has nothing to fear from a
comparison with those who make their artificial en-
thusiasm for Spain the cloak of their own political
passions, and who have even stooped to the propaga-
tion of statements as false as the imputations they
profess to draw from them."
The Herald thus alludes to Lord Manners's late
Puseyitp pamphlet :—" It is pleasant and gladsome to
have tho attention diverted from the squabbles of
party politics, controversies about tariffs and customs
duties, disquisitions on cheapness, and discussions on
pauperism, to the consideration of happier and more
joyous means of national improvement which are to
be found in the observance of those holidays which
our forefathers rejoiced to keep, and in the restoration
of those sports and pastimes for which England was
once so famous. Lord John Manners has caused this
diversion, by his agreeable little essay, entitled ' A
Plea for National Holidays,' reprinted in Monday's
Herald, and we thank him for it. If Lord John be
a Puseyite, his Puseyism has taken a very delightful
turn ; and the realisation of his object would again
make the Church of England the church of the poor.
For just as Puritanism, Calvinism, and democracy
have soured the temper, injured the manners, and
deadened the kindliness of Englishmen, have the
happiness of the people the brotherhood of all classes,
the generous and confiding connection and dependence
between employed and employer, and, above all, the
affectionate regard between the priesthood and the
people, declined. If Puseyism will aim at the revi-
vification of old English social feelings, respectful
loyalty, and veneration, every sound. thinking and
right judging man in England will willingly accept
the appellation of Puseyite. '
The Advertiser has the following remarks on the
working of the new Insolvent Act :—" It is highly
expedient that the creditor shall enjoy the best means
of obtaining the payment of his just demands, which,
in other terms, may be stated to be the recovery of
his own property. The present law, while it affects
to facilitate this object, causes the dissipation of the
debtor's substance in unnecessary expenses preparatory
to going into the Court, and in his subsistence while
prevented from pursuing that business by which alone
the debt could be paid. In addition to this positive
loss for the profit of a third party, unconnected with
the principal transaction, that is, the attorneys, the
creditor, in above nine cases out of ten, has to pay the
costs of the action and arrest. It is not possible to
conceive anything sore iniquitous, that is at the same
time so ridiculous, as this procedure for the recovery
of debt. The law is so far inefficient, considered as
a measure for obtaining justice in the recovery of pro-
perty from a man who declares himself insolvent,
that the dividends declared from this source do not
amount in the average to one farthing in the pound. The
creditor, therefore, obtains nothing'; but in order to
place the debtor in a state of imprisonment, he is
obliged to undertake a process at law, of which
the expenses fall upon himself, and add to the original
loss. At the same time the debtor, in order to pro-
cure his release, is obliged to expend money on the
third unconnected party, which, with the charges of
his subsistence in a state of inactivity, might have
gone toward liquidating the debt. The powers of the
Commissioners of the Insolvent Court are contrary to
the Constitution of the country, and detrimental to
the interests of both debtor and creditor. By com-
mitting the decision of cases to these persons, both are
deprived of the benefit of the trial by Jury, under tho
direction of a competent and independent Judge ;
while the law which regulates bail, inflicts a term of
imprisonment considered unnecessary in criminal
eases, the adjudication of which is of greater import-
ance to the community than civil transactions. It
places the debtor in a worse situation than a criminal,
and by its absurd requisitions as to the kind of bail
to be accepted, has the effect, in very numerous in-
stances, of preventing debtors from pursuing their
occupations, from the success of which the creditors
might entertain hopes of recovering the whole or a
portion of the property sunk in the debt. This is the
only Court in Europe in which property is not
deemed a sufficient representative of property, and in
which the recovery of the value of a thing lost is pre-
vented by the refusal of its eqinvalent in favour a
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doubtful pledge of appearance. These are
of the arguments which have been urged at different
times for a revision of the laws of debtor and creditor;

but any one Of&nlis—suficient to cause a man to
admire, at the force of that professional prejudice
which maintains that a system disfigured by iniquity
and monstrous folly, is well enough, and requires no
correction. A fellow-feeling for the only party who
benefit by the plunder of both debtor and creditor,
may reconcile some men to tolerate any species of
abuse; but if we may judge from the sympathy ex-
pressed for poor prisoners in general, an expectation
prevails that Lord Cottenham's promised motion for
the abolition of arrest for debt should receive Parlia-
mentary sanction:: 4