The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK.
DUBLIN, DEC. 7.—This case will have the decision
of the Court pronounced to-day.
MURDER OF MR. SCULLY—MEETING OF
THE MAGISTRATES OF TIPPERARY.
The Tipperary Constitution contains the following
report of this meeting:--
' On Friday last a meeting of Magistrates was held
at the Court-house, Cashel, for the purpose of taking
steps for the apprehension of the assassins; and, from
an early hour, numbsrs of the gentry were to be seen
repairing to the place of ifitOng.
At half-past twelve-o'clock' on the motion of the
Hon. C. O'CALLAGIIAN, the Earl of Glengall was
called to the chair.
Ills LORDSHIP then proceeded to address the
meeting as follows :—Gentlemen,' I, as one of those
who felt it.their duty to attend at the house of lii! •
feacle, after the late lamentable catastrophe—the
murder of Mr. Scully—and, in accordance with the
feelings of the other gentry assembled, considered that
no time should be lost in calling together a portion of
our brother Magistrates, in order that we should con •
suit what were the fit and proper steps to be taken upon
this sad occasion, to express our horror at it, and to de..
vise the best means of apprehending and bringing to
conviction the assassins. No one more sincerely de-
plores the diabolical and atrocious deed which has
lately occurred in the South Riding of our county
than I do. A brother Magistrate, in the prime of
manhood, possessing an independent fortune, well
educated, moving in-the most respectable society, has
been singled out and has fallen a victim to the hand
of the assassin. Gentlemen, it is lamentable indeed
.to reflect upon this dreadful tragedy. .We all recol-
lect how short a time has elapsed since an attempt was
made upon the life of Mr. Scully, and how seriously
he was wounded within the walls of his own very
house; and it now strikes me forcibly, that there
must have existed -a deep-laid plot, and a con-
spiracy almost unparalleled, whether we consider ,
the fiendish atrocity with which it dispatched its
victim, or the . perseverance with which it lurked
after lit; until an opportune moment arrived for
the perpetration of a murder as cruel, unrelent-
ing, and ferocious as any that has ever taken place in
this county. After alluding to the recent comparative
tranquillity in the south riding of the county, his
Lordship said : There IS .one subject now to which I
would call your most particular attention, and that is
to the present Arms Act, and I conceive that we
should give our opinions to the Government upon that
very important subject.—(lleac, hear.) It is well
known to 3-ou all, that the unfortunate and various
crimes which have been perpetrated in this county
have been done through the- instrumentality of the
possession of firearms by the lower orders. The Go •
vernment had prepared a Bill last session, but from
the late period in which it was completed, even if
it had been brought forward, it could not have
been passed. If your opinions are in accordance
with mine upon this subject so important to tri
all, I think you will coincide in the prayer
of a memorial which I have drawn up relative
to the registering of arms, &c. I feel.l. would not be
discharging the entire of my duty, if I did not advert
to another point in question. I should consider my-
self wanting in moral courage, were I to pass it by,
feeling, as I do, its importance and necessity. You
have, Gentlemen, all read the various outrageous
attacks which have been made of late upon the land-
lords of this county by a portion of our Press. I am
aware of the abuse that will, in all probability, follow
my observations; but I treat with the most stoical
contempt unmerited abuse. It affects me no more
than does the passing breeze. I allude alone to a
portion of our Press. No one respects or values more
highly than Ido the liberty of the Press. Am I sur-
prised at the murder of Mr. Scully (continued the
Noble Lord) ? No; my only astonishment is that
other gentlemen have not fallen also. When we read
these calumnious and ferocious attacks made each week
upon the-landlords by a-portion of the Press—when
we know that the peasantry, an easily excited class,
see those publications, and read them with avidity—
can we wonder that, should a landlord exercise the
least control over his, property, such should be consi-
dered a hardship by the tenantry ? Are no improve-
ments to take place ? Is 'pauperism to be everlasting?
I know that in almost all cases where tenants hve
ny
beaen, removedlargyei—frroemmiliannerrlsatoeud those removed. Somer gentry have liberally—
gentlemen have actually re-purchased their estates.
Yet, however generously a landlord may act, still
such landlord is held up to the people as a criminal__
no matter what sacrifices he has made—and ven-
geance is called down on his devoted head.—(Hear,
hear.) I consider that the writers, and those who
disseminate such unfounded calumnies, are neither
more nor less than ciders and abbettors of assassina-
tion. His Lordship concluded by reading the memo-
riale: o
toblvigheicdhthoe referred,
fer2,reit,ll.,,eaonii and Captain Roberts ifl by saying that he would
f
they would, in the course of the proceedings, read a
list of the outrages which have recently taken place
in their respective districts.
" Sir John Fitzgerald, Stephen Moore,' Esq., and
other gentlemen, addressed the
meeting, generally
expressing their concurrence in the views of the
chairman.

Mr. , APLEor• read the list
of outrages for the
last six, months, which showed a diminution of heinous
offences compared with former periods.
"After some further conversation,
" WILLIAM FENNELL, Esq., said, there is one cir-
cumstances which I think it right to mention, and it
is with regard to the facility with which the lower
classes obtain gunpowder and cartridges in the
vicinity of military barracks. About the Caher bar-
racks, they readily get possession of powder, and I sup-
pose it is the same in the vicinity of all the other bar-
' racks.
"Major PRIESXLEY.---My
Lord and Gentlemen,-I
beg to say that I feel assured the present Government
will pay the deepest attention to anything emanating
from so influential a body; and, for my own part,
nothing will afford me greater pleasure, and I am
'eestcarlinOsh its tranquillity.—(hear.)
iet7Z-operating with the Magistrates
ssltiarteut may add
thana dd
tfflycienr connected
their
effrltisi ttiol
pthreesceoevne-
it ofs
"The memorial
meaxentldeLlitsroii l
was
was also the reward
then signed by all present, as
" A friend stated that the Scully family would give
1,0001: towards the reward,
" The meeting then separated."
ATTACK ON A CLERGYMAN.—.A. shot was fired a
few days since at the door of Kilfitmore glebe, the
residence of the Rev. Richard Catay. That gentle-
man, getting out of bed, and going to the window at
the time, observed three armed men walking on the
road near the house. The firing of a shot at the
glebe-house was pregnant with signification, for a
notice was found next morning lying on the window-
sill, signed " Captain Starlight," and threatening
to visit his body with lead, his house with fire, and
his cattle with destruction, and all because lie had dared
to dismiss an unfaithful steward.—Nenagh'Ouardian

BIRTII.—At 49, Parliament-street, this morning,
the lady of Edward T. Richardson, Esq., of a daughter.
Acevening, as a lad, named Thomas Warne, was
overpro-
ceediricgmT IN
l(nn THE
ing Ft:G.--About seven o'clock lastn..
common with two horses,
his left leg came in contact with a post, and broke it
just below the knee. His cries brought to his assist-
ance police-constable 44 L, who conveyed him in a
e
cab to Guy's Hospital.

GENERAL ANNUITY AND
ENDOWMENT ASSOCIA-
noN.:—The annual general
meeting of this Associa-
tion was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of receiving the Director's Report for
the year. Mr. Parkin in the Chair. The Report
stated that the Company was in a most flourishing con-
dition, and that the present capital of the Association
was 152,0001. Some discussion then arose as to the re-
port of the Actuaries being then laid before the meet-
ing. The Chairman stated that the Committee had
received the Report, but as it had not been examined,
he thought it would be better not at present to
but
meeting would b.! called for the purpdse. A
lay it before thepresSenutebsderi lb)3errs a,
lady
petition was then
died
abroad,
preying for the annuity, but
the petition was not received as the deceased had not
going
given notice of his intention of wlaiosesPelicusia-1
abroad. Mr.
Rudduck was re-elected a Director of the
Association, and the auditors were also re-elected.
From the statement of the accounts it appeared that
136 members had been admitted during the present
year, and that 46 members had been excluded for
non-payment. The sum paid by them was 6,0001.,
which fell to the Association. The total number of
members admitted was 2,879, and the number of an-
nuities 5,367.
....

, Tuesday last, as the workmen were employed in
ELL.—IIU MA N SIE ULETONS POUND.—On
lowering the turnpike road opposite the Dale Inn,
near Whitwell, they discovered two skeletons near to
each other, and about nine inches in the bed of the
gravel. It is impossible to say bow they had been de-
posited there, probably before the road was made.
The new road is in a different direction from the old
andone,
or
moor, rwo-oars,
far f
formerlytro a
na) human habitation.—Don-
n extensive and bleak corn-
mon ,
caster Gazette. _ _

--Mr. Fred. Loder, a
for the firm of
Inn, Spalding,
last by the
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and —geSncutolne:miEnaNll:
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the i 1 i'Soho-square,
Boston mail. He complained of indisposition, and
violent pain in his left side, and went to bed about ten
hei
It,:
ning Harto
fI
o'clock. About half-past twelve o'clock the following
morning he rang his bell, and the chambermaid going
to the room, she found him in a dying state. The
landlord went for a surgeon, but before his arrival life
was extinct. An inquest was held on the body in the
evening of the same day. Verdict, " Natural death."
—Doncaster Gazette.

MEETING OF PAWNBROKERS.
A numerous meeting of the pawnbrokers of Lon-
don was held last night, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-
-street, Blackfriars, for the purpose of having laid be-
fore. them a Report of the Parliamentary Committee,
appointed some years ago, to watch over the interests
of the trade. Mr. Neate presided. The Report de-
tailed at some length the Parliamentary services of
the Committee, which appeared to have been essen-
tially beneficial to the pawnbrokers generally. The
Committee, at the conclusion, recommended that as so
much good had arisen to the trade from local exer-
tions, a general association of the pawnbrokers of
Great Britain should be formed, for the purpose of 1
obtaining full and particular information concerning
all measures, legislative or otherwise, affecting pawn-
brokers, whether of a local or general nature,. to pro-
mote any li•hich might appear to have a beneficial
tendency, and vigorously to oppose all such as
might • appear oppressive or injurious. Also, to
collect correct reports of all decisions affecting
pawnbrokers, and copies of all such cases and opi-
nions as might have been obtained by local societies
or individuals upon the laws relating to the trade, to.
gether with all such other information as can be oly
tained, for mutual advice, assistance, and protection
and to promote measures, legislative or otherwise,
for the suppression of the daily increasing class ol
persons who, under the denomination of" dolly shops;
" wee pawns," and "little goes," most grievously (in
the language of the Report) oppress those who deal
with them, and at the same time inflict the greatest
possible injury upon the legitimate pawnbrokers, both
by depriving them of their business and, by continual
delinquency, prejudicing their reputation. The Re-
port having been adopted, several addresses were de-
livered upon the great advantage which must neces-
sarily flow from a general association of the trade.
The Parliamentary Committee was then dissolved,
and a Provisional Committee formed, for the purpose
of drawing up rules and regulations to form the basis
of such an association. The meeting then adjourned

NIGHT SIGNALS FOR THE LON-
DON STEAM-PACKETS AT BOULOGNE.
We are indebted to Captain Tune, of the steam-
packet City of Boulogne, for the following copy of
night signals for the guidance of the London steamers
frequenting Boulogne :
" When the Captains think their vessels within
sight of the harbour (Boulogne), they will burn a
blue light, and hoist a light at the foremast head.
"It there is sufficient water for the immediate en-
trance of the steamer into the harbour, the only signal
to be made from the pier-bead will be a blue light at
the east pier-head, and a red lantern, to indicate the

same.
" Should a steamer come in sight before there is
, sufficient water for her to enter the harbour, a rocket
will be sent up from the pier-head in answer to her
signal ; and a blue light will be shown, with the red
lantern as above, when the tide is high enough for her
to enter.
"Should a steamer come in the roads after the tide,
and when the water is too low for her, or when env
other impediment may prevent her entrance into the
harbour, the rockets will be sent up successively from
the pier, as a signal to keep off.
" After the above signal, should a boat be required
to land passengers or dispatches, the steamer to send up
a rocket, and to show another light under the bowsprit.
" And should a boat be allowed to from
to the
steamer, a rocket will be thrown up the pier-
head." DAY SIGNALS.
" A blue flag shown at the head of the East Pier,
will indicate that the steamer may come into the har-
bour, shaping her course according to the signals
made to her by inclining the staff.
" Should:" steamer come too late for the tide, or
should there be any other impediment to her entrance,
no signal will be made to her.
" Should a boat be required on board to convey
passengers on shore, the packets will hoist a flag half
mast at the fore.
"N.B. The above signals are intended to enable
the packets to avail themselves of the whole of the
time during which there is a sufficient depth of water
for. them at Boulogne, before the usual tide lights are
shown, and after they have been hauled down ; for
while these have been exhibited no other signals arc
necessary."

DEATH OF A FEMALE AND HER INFANT FROM
WANT.—Yesterday afternoon a lengthened investiga-
tion took place at the Paul's Head, Crispen-street,
Spitalfields, before Mr. Baker, Coroner, on view of
the bodies of Catherine Leary, 26 years of age, and of
Mary Leary, her infant child, five days old. Mrs.
Maria Ridley, midwife to the Royal Maternity Society,
stated, she attended the deceased (who was the wife
of a labourer) in her confinement. She was in a state
of great destitution, and could not provide the usual
necessaries for herself and her child. Witness re-
commended her to apply to the parish for relief, but
she did not do so. No one attended to her after her
confinement, and the child died on Wednesday morn-
ing last. Mr. Atrell, the relieving-officer of Spital-
fields, upon hearing of the case on Monday, imme•
diately supplied the deceased woman with proper
necessaries, but she died on Wednesday morning.
Mr. Byles, surgeon, stated that the deceased was
labouring under disease of the lungs. She told witness
she had had no nurse since her confinement, nor any
nourishment until she had been supplied ,by Mr.
Atrell. Witness gave her some medicine with arrow
root and wine, and attended her until she died. The
husband of the deceased did not pay much attention
to her. I am of opinion the child died from want of
proper attention and cleanliness, and the mother from
diseased lungs. The Jury, after some consideration,
returned a verdict of " Natural death in both cases,
accelerated by want and destitution."
NUMEROUS DEATHS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
At a late hour last night Mr. Baker held no fewer
than four inquests at the London Hospital. The first
was on the body of Elias Levi, 75 years of age, em-
ployed at the Jewish Synagogue of the late Chief
Rabbi, Dr. Herschel, situated at No. 5, Bury-court,
St. Mary-axe, who, whilst in the act of descending
the stairs on the night of Monday last, fell from the
top to the bottom, pitching upon his head. He was
taken up in an insensible state, and conveyed to the
above hospital, where he died yesterday morning. The
second was on the body of William Cruickshank, of
No. 8, Back Church-lane. In this case the deceased
was in the act of lifting a kettle from the fire, when
his pinafore caught. He was severely burnt all over
his body, and expired in a short time after
his admission to •the hospital. The third was upon
William Duck, 78 years of age. The deceased was
employed in unloading a timber waggon at Plaistow,
in Essex, on the 13th of October last, when a large
log of timber fell upon him and fractured his left leg
in a shocking manner. He lingered until Wednesday
last, N't hen he died at the above hospital. The last
Was on the body of a man named Joseph Roberts, a
shipwright, 30 years of age, in the employ of Mr.
Filcher, shipbuilder, Liniehouse. On Monday, about
twelve o'clock at night, the deceased was about to
proceed to his work on the Clyde steamer, then lying
in the dry dock, when he missed his footing and fell
to the bottom of the dock, a depth of thirty feet.
When discovered he was quite insensible,.an d his
skull fractured. He died soon after his admission to

the hospital. The house-surgeon stated that in all the
above cases death had been caused by the effects of
the injuries received, and the jury in each case re-
turned a verdict of "Accidental death."

STREET one of the wandering minstrels,
who earn a precarious livelihood by vocalising in our
public thoroughfares, was pursuing her wonted calling,
on Wednesday week, a young urchin thus addressed
her at the close of a Very elaborate shake :—" I say,
missus, do you sell that by the yard r The woman,
highly incensed, thus retorted :—" If you don't move
on, you young rascal, I'll give you a foot for nothing."
STAPLE Imr.—Chambers are about to be erected
for the occupation of the taxing-masters • they are to.
be built in the Elizabethan style of architecture, and
Will, when completed, be a great ornament to the Inn.
Tenders have been received from 12 eminent builders
for the erection. Mr. Grimsdell being.the successful
competitor,his tender hasbeen accepted, and the building
will be forthwith commenced, having to be entirely com-
pleted, ready for the occupation of the masters, by the
month of September in next year. The tenders were
as under :—Messrs. Grissel and Peto, 7,500/. ; Messrs.
Mansfield and Sons, 7,500/. ; Mr. %Vinsiand, 7,448/. ;
Mr. Cubitt, 7,4401.; Messrs. Woolcott and Son,
7,423/. ; Messrs. Piper and Son, 7,297/. ; Messrs. Lees,
7, 164/. ; Messrs. Bridgers, 7,080/. ; Messrs. Hicks
and Sons, 7,0201.; Messrs. Pears°, and Guerrier,
6,987/. ; Mr. Jackson, 6,9651. ' • Mr. Grhnsdell, 6,9451.
IMPORTATION Or BONDED CORN.—The following
notice regarding the importation of bonded corn, Sce,
for home consumption, has been issued by order of
the Commissioners of Customs :—" Whereas, by the
sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 47, certain allowances

for natural waste are to be made upon the
entry for home consumption of wheat, barley, rye,
and oats; and it appearing to the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Customs that much inconvenience
would arise to the trade by insisting that such allow-
ances should be ascertained at the time of the entry of
such goods for home consumption, and that it is
reasonable that further time should be granted for
ascertaining such differences, notice is hereby given
that the said Commissioners have granted and
allowed eight days after the entry for home con-
sumption of any such wheat, barley, rye, and oats,
for ascertaining any such deficiencies; and that, un-
less such deficiencies shall be ascertained within such
period by the merchants, in the warehouse in which
such goods have been deposited, according to law, the
trade will not be allowed the advantage contemplated
by the Act before mentioned. By order of the Com-
missioners. (Signed.) C. A. SCOVELL, Secretary."
INFANTINE lOURNING.---" No school to-day !no
school to day !" exclaimed a merry yoUng master,
"with a shining morning face," skipping gaily into
the play ground,"'no school to-day—master's dead,
and he's going to be buried."

BARCELONA.

__-
According to accounts received from this place at
Paris, dated the 2d instant, the Regent was still at
head-quarters, and nothing but an unconditional sur-
render would satisfy him. He had notified this to
the insurgents, and at the same time announced, that
if his demand was not complied with in the course of
that evening, fhe bombardment would commence in
the morning of the 3d. The gates of Barcelona were
Opened, by an orassr of the Junta of the Government
of the 30th ult., for lall persons except armed men and
soldiers.
The vessel, the Formislable, has been set afloat by
the Gassende and Etna steamers. The. Rodney has
also arrived. Both have furnished ammunition to the
fort of Montjuich.
In Barcelona there are many proposals of despair.
Some would hoist the tri-colour flag on all the forts ;
others are for proclaiming Christina Regent. But
there seems no alternative hut submission.
The drums beat to arms and the tocsin rings. They
are going to re-arm the corps Francs and make a
desperate resistance. It is said that the Regent has
signified his determination to bombard irrevocably, if
the town did not surrender by ten o'clock to-morrow
morning.
We find in the Dcbats of Wednesday the following
summary of the proceedings towars:s the close of the
rebellion :
" The last days of the insurrection were very
stormy, but with Out giving rise to any great excesses.
In proportion as the crisis of submission became im-
minent from the impossibility of sustaining a siege
without exposing the town to utter destruction, the
parties began to load each other with recrimiriations
and reciprocal reproaches of having lost the esmse
which they pretended to defend. The .21foderats108,
who were opposed only to the military despotism alai
to the introduction of English cotton goods, accused
the Republicans of having alarmed the rest of Spain
by their revolutionary principles, and thereby caused
Barcelona to be left to bear the brunt alone. The
Republicans retorted that all had been lost entirely and
solely from want of decision, and that a republic
should have been at once proclaimed, upon which the
Catalonians would have all immediately rallied
under its banner, instead of remaining shut up
within their walls. The popular Junta had dispersed ;
the new Junta, composed of wise and oonsiderate
men, with the Bishop among them, had no other task
to perform than to obtain the best terms for their
fellow-citizens. It commenced its negotiations with
"Van Haien on the 27th, and by judiciously temporis-
ing kept off for four days the bombardment with
which he threatened the town. His first stipulation
was the disarmament of the paid free corps, Ni hick
formed the main strength of the insurrection. They,
however, refused to disband, and insisted upon a
formal amnesty guaranteed by France through her
resident Consul. It may be at once believed to be
impossible for Van Halen to suffer the intervention of
any foreign Power in his own political conduct, and
that the Consul himself must feel that he had no right
to interfere in the internal affairs of any other Go-
vernment. All that was in his power he did—he re-
ceived on board the steam-boats, and placed under the
protection of the flag of France, the fugitives of all
parties; first, those who fled before the victorious in-
surgents, and next themselves, when they, in their
turn, wished to escape from well-merited vengeance.
At the same time he gave shelter to 1,200 Frenchmen
either on board the King's ships cr on board mer-
chantmen, hired at the expense of the State ; he like-
wise saved 1,200 Barcelonese. The Regent, on his
arrival, ,confirmed the order to dissolve the paid Na-
tional Guards. As soon as his arrival was known,
these seditious bodies could not remain on foot any
longer. But whilst the pacific Junta wasted its time
in efforts to persuade them -to yield, the Republicans,
in their ranks, endeavoured to prolong a state of revolt
which had then degenerated to a vain and noisy meet-
ing. The Junta had one of the Republican leaders an
rested and imprisoned in the Atarazanas, which is
occupied at present by the National Guard, who have
submitted. Nevertheless the national troops had not
entirely dissolved themselves, for out of six battalions
three were obstinate enough to resist, and impede the
negotiations of the Junta. The Junta repaired to the
Regent on the morning of November 30, and pro-
posed as conditions—' That the new garrison should
be composed of regiments different from those who
had come into sanguinary collision with the people, in
order to avoid the causes of animosity which might
produce new quarrels ; that the institution of the Na-
tional Guard should he maintained in the town; that
the Captain-General should be changed on account of
his arbitrary proceedings against the Barcelonese, and
as having causes of animosity 'Against the inhabitants ;
that the political chief shoo also be changed ; that
General Zurbano, odious to persons of every line of
politics on account of his brutal despotism, should not
enter into the town ; and, lastly, that no person should
be prosecuted for his conduct during the troubles.'
The Junta also asked for guarantees in favour of
the cotton manufacture, against the introduction of
English tissues, the principal caure of discontent in
Catalonia, and of disturbance at Barcelona. The Re-
gent listened gravely and patiently to the enumera-
tion of these conditions, and replied in moderate terms,
but without consenting to one of them The law,'
he said, of which he was the organ and the defender,
could not admit of any conditions with illegality and
revolt; the battalions of factious insurgents must im-
mediately lay down their arms, and the National Guard
evacuate the citadel and the forts ; it was for the
guilty to er if they could, from the weight
of the law, a not for the law to guarantee their
safety; no Government could allow the choice
or the exclusion of its public functionaries or gene-
rals to be dictated to it; and, lastly, as to the ma-
nufactures alluded to, the Cortes were to deliberate
on the interests confided to it, and he should him-
self, at a later period, consider what he should deem
useful for the welfare of Catalonia.' The Regent
terminated his reply, by repeating the threat of mili-
tary execution and bombardment. The first thing he
did on his arrival was to visit the fort Montjuich, and
inspect the batteries placed in the town. The even-
ing before the Regent's arrival, an unexpected cir-
cumstance had caused much irritation amongst the
people, and gave the Republicans a pretext for in some
degre-i re-animating the angry feeling of the people.
This was the sudden appearance of the English line-
of-battle ship the Formidable. Immediately it was
rumoured that this vessel was loaded with Congreve
rockets, to burn the town with all its manufactories ;
and when afterwards they beheld this colosSus go
aground at the mouth of thelsislobarne
nothing more than a powerles
s and a sluggishand ben7aisnse,
they declared that Providence punished the cruel
mission on which she was sent, and the imprecations
which had greeted her arrival suddenly changed into
transports of joy. Thus, the English, in their turn,
were loaded with the curses of the Barcelonese. In

the, preceding insurrection all the invectives had been
against France. The presence of the Formidable
must not, however, be regarded as extraordinary,
when we know that the French man-of-war the
Jemappe, of one hundred guns, had been at once
sent from Toulon for the same destination. She was
retarded lq the southerly winds, which favoured the
progress of the Formidable coming from the south.
The steamers and packets dispatched from Toulon and
Marseilles were also delayed by stress of weather.
The French Consul, who. was anxious to place his
countrymen in safety, was obliged to freight seven
merch;nt vessels, into which not only they, but such
emigrants as thought fit to present themselves, were
received. Our own letters are dated the evening of
November 30, and the packet which brought them to
Marseilles left Barcelona, Dec. 1, at five in the morning.
They state that during the whole of the evening of the
30th there was considerable agitation amongst the paid
National Guards, a part of whom still refused to lay
down their arms. The news of some of them having
shut themselves up in one of the forts with provisions
and ammuniticn, threatening to hold out to the last
extremity, is confirmed; the place where they estab-
lished themselves was Pio Fort. It was not sup-
pose( ILthat they would persist in their wild project of
resistance. It was rather feared that those men for
the tn6st part exceedingly dangerous would perpetrate
excesses,
the only ones committed during the insur-
rection. Violence, or even pillage, was dreaded from
them for the next day, as these men might reckon on
their obscurity to escape from the pursuit of justice.
The apprehensions which were caused by this band
.appeared likely to hasten the entrance of the Regent's
troops, which the Junta and the rest of the population
would be obliged to call on to re-establish security ;
so that the Republicans, after having so dangerously
compromised Barcelona against the Government,
would snatch away from the town its last chance--
that of obtaining some conditions which might, per-
haps, be granted, if it were not forced by the threaten-
ing attitude of the mutineers to yield precipitately and
at discretion."

SMITHFIELD CATTLE-SHOW..-alw sale of the fat
stock progressed rapidly yesterday, and few animals
remained unsold last evening. The ready communi-
cation now afforded by railway to all parts of the
kingdom, has had its effect in a striking manner in
their disposal. Many purchases have been made by
butchers from remote country towns, and some of the
oxen will return to the localities in which they were
fed. • Two of the finest in the exhibition have been
purchased by Mr. Newton, a cattle-salesman, of Jer-
sey, to which island they will be shipped from South-
ampton on Saturday next. In pursuance of a resolu-
tion of the Committee, passed at, the last annual
a silver medal will
meeting, be awarded to the
butcher who expends the largest sum of money in the
purchase of animals from the exhibition yard.
The birth of a son and heir to the Noble Lord
Lieutenant of the county, Lord Lyttelton, was cele-
brated by the tenantry and tradesmen of his Lordshir
by a dinner at the Lyttelton Arms Inn, Hagley, on
Monday fortnight, and the gentlemen of the neigh-
bourtiood also commemorated the auspicious event by
dining together yesterday week at the same house.—
Worcester Chronicle.

MONEY MARKET and GiTYNEWS.
FROM THE MORZCING PAPERS OR THIS DAY.
CITY, THIJRBDAY EVENING.
POST.--The exultation of the'New York money
dealers at the arrival of a small pbrtion of gold from
Liverpool, may well be excused. It could be very
conveniently spared, and there can be no question that
it was sorely needed as a means of propping up, for a
season longer, the rotten and tottering banks scattered
over the face of the Republic.
The Philadelphia papers, in speaking of the strange
position of Pennsylvania, in relation to money mat-
ters, the authorities of the State being adverse to the
issue of small bank notes redeemable in specie, mention
as one of the consequecces of that policy, that so
pressed are the people in the country for currency,
that many of them not only make use of the " re!ief
notes," but even cut them in pieces; find employ thetif
as substitutes for half dollars.
The Afontreal Gazette, of the 15th of November,
states that, notwithstanding the receipt of advices from
England, to the effect that Canada beef and pork
were rapidly getting into consumption at from 3:td.
to 4id. per lb., realising to the retailer
,5535. 4d. to 7:55.
sterling per barrel on the first and least favourable
samples, the Montreal market, though votive for prime
and prime mess of both descriptions, bad not adysoced
materially in the rates. Shippers had been deterred
from making large purchases, by the unusually ligh
charge for tonnage which prevailed. The quantity
sent to England between Oct. 28 and Nov. 10, inclu-
sive, was 2,815 barrels of pssk, and 636 barrels of beef.
• TIMES.—The commercial letters from Madrid:
adverting to the affair of Barcelona, consider its issue
highly favourable to the trading interests of this
country, inasmuch as the insurrection is to be as-
cribed chiefly to French intrigue, in conjunction with
parties who benefit by the contraband system, and
who appear therein to have made their last great effort.
fhe Spanish Govetnment are said to possess proofs of a
mealitated outbreak in the course of last year, but
which was frustrated by the mismanagement of the
parties concerned in it, among whom there appeart
to have been all along a great want of concert and
judicious arrangements. Hence it is hoped among
the merchants, that they may inow see the treaty of
commerce, so much desired, make a business-like
progress, and the Ministry take courage to put it
into shape. Nothing but decisive conduct, however,
en their part and that of the Regent is likely finally
to dispose of it; and the question is, whether they
will venture to execute such a treaty of them-
selves,
committing the country with England on the
issue, and trust to their influence with congress to
obtain an indemnity afterwards. This is 'deemed the
only safpapurse, as the Cortes, who would resist the
measure in' session, were likely to be reconciled to the
act when done by the advantages sure to follow it to
the finance and the credit of the country generally.
One of the arrangements talked of as likely to form
part of any commercial treaty with England is the
rather delicate one of allowing the duty on cottons to
be collected in this country—an admirable protection
against smuggling, but calculated, unless very adroitly
managed, to wound the pride of Spain, With this is
connected the further project of making a ,portion of
the proceeds of such duties available for the payment
of interest to the English bondholders of Spain. Al-
together, whatever turn affairs may take in these re-
spects, there is something like a gleam of hope derived
from them of a change for the better, especially if Es,
partero should maintain himself in power, upon which
everything depends.
By the New York papers received to-clay, it ape
pears that an Act palsed by Congress last session for
the armed occupation of the uncultivated portions of
Florida, is beginning to attract the attention of the
northern States of the Union, and surprise is ex-
pressed that it was not more noticed at an earlier .
period. The object of the Act was to encourage
emigration to Florida from the north, and it . seems
to have the political purpose of increasing northern
influence by forming a population which should not
have the same interest with the landholders and
cotton-growers of the south. A "quarter section"
(160 acres) of land is given to every emigrant, but he
is to plant it for four successive years, before he re-
ceives the deed conveying it from the Governments
For his wife and every adult son he receives an addi-
tional piece of land of the like dimensions. The Bill as
it was originally drawn by Mr. Burton lent each emi-
grant a musket and cartridge-box with ammunition
and rations for a single year, with the dZisign of ren-
dering the project as useful as possible to the poorer
classes, who would have been thus provided with arms
and sufficient sustenance while raisng their first crop.
To save expense-to the Government, the deed was not
to be given till the arms were returned. The clauses
allowing a grant of arms to the emigrants have since
been removed, which those who are most in favour of
the project seem to regret, as they consider the esta-
blishment of an armed population would be the first
step towards the removal of the Indians from the ter-
ritory. There are not, it is supposed, more than 100
Indian warriors now in Florida, but even these, it is
thought, could not easily be removed by a • regular
military force, but only as the Indians of the 'Western
States, by the steady increase of armed white labour..
ers. East Florida, when its resources are developed,
is not expected to become a great cotton-growing
country, but to be chiefly fitted for the cultivation of
tobacco and fruit. As the produce of the soil will.
therefore be principally of a kind in which free
labour is profitably employed, the Anti-slavery party
look upon the scheme with considerable favour.
CHRONICLE.—The movements in Jamaica,
evincing the consent of the agriculturists of that
colony to allow the Government to deal with the
sugar duties, attracts much interest in the produce
markets. The Jamaica House of Assembly could
not be mistaken in their interpretation of. Lord
Stanley's dispatch regarding the sugar dutiet ? We
put that question because doubts have been &pressed
upon tliesulibjoeucsteb::f
Assembly
forwarded a memorial
one of the newspapers this morn-
ing. The
to her Majesty last spring, against the admission of
foreign sugar to the home consumption, which Lord
Stanley laid before the Queen, and in communicating
the fact to the Jamaica planters,' his Lordship re-
quested the Governor of this island to draw their at-
tention to the new tariff. "As far as it relates to the
important articles of sugar and coffee," and to the cir-
cumstance that in giving relief to the labouring
classes, by a reduction of the duties "on coffee," the
interests of the planters had not been disre-
garded. His Lordship then explains the causes which
had influenced the Government in not reducing
the duties on sugar when they reduced those on cof-
fee, but holds out no reason to expect that those causes
are to be longer relied on. The Jamaica agricul-
turists took the hint at once, and although, we have
not yet received the papers, with a report of the de-
bate which took place in the House of Assembly on
the subject, we have got the result, whieh was the
appointment of a Committee of their number to me-
morialise her Majesty—not, as formerly, to maintain
the prohibitory duties presently levied on slave grown
produce—but only such a differential duty; on admit-
ting it for home consumption, as shall afford due pro-
tection to the IVest India planters. Under theth cir-
cumstances, it would seem impossible for the Govern-
ment to refuse to admit foreign sugars into the home
consumption next session of Parliament. There
is no other rational interpretation open to Lord Stan-
ley's dispatch. He says, in answer to their memorial,
" You have asked the Queen to keep up the prohibi-
tion on foreign sugars. I have laid your request be-
fore her Majesty, but I bid you attend to what we
have done under the new tariff in regard to coffee.
We have lowered the duty on that article of consump-
tion to relieve the labouring classes, although it be
tainted with slavery, because that is an old established
sin, which it is no harm to continue. We have dill.•
culty, however, in making new vices and in giving
fresh encouragement to slavery. But mind you, that
difficulty too may be got over, and therefore you had
better look sharp and prepare for the coming change:
That is the reading which the Jamaica planters gave
words; and coupled
wtoitlhiis
hLiosredusihoigpisumlab3o-nrin3tihr.ofnflunsekisson.B
policy,
and
read
some
hi of his suright. ccessors, it seems pretty clear that they
m
SLR N.—With no particular activity in the market,
we continue to notice the same steadiness in the value of
he public securities. Consols were 95 to 953 for
Money, with the dividend, and 933 to 94 for Account,
and ex-dividend. Exchequer Bills were 475. to 495.
premium ; and India Bonds, 42s.premium. Bank Stock .-
was rather higher, being 1723 to 1733; Reduced
Three per Cents, were 943- to 94i ; and Reduced
Three-and-a-Half per Cents, were worth 100,3,0t0 101. The Foreign Market left off with tolerable firm= ;-,
ness, in the absence of any further news. Spanish 4
Actives were 183, and the Three per Cents. 23.3,- A
Mexican 304 to 303 ; Colombian 213; and Brazilian
693 to 70. The Portuguese Converted Stock was
worth 323, and the Three per Cents. 221. Danish
Bonds were firm at 83/, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents, at 523 to 53.
The Share Market continued good, though the quo-
tations at the close were barely so high as in the morn-
ing, being these :—Great 'Western were 243 ; London
Paris and Rouen, 53; York :.
1119,944 and the New, 181 premium.
aßtnnrddistNlolloirrth:fin
:3:lli:deter were 24 ; North Midland, 3813 and
South Eastern Scrip, 23 discount. London Joint :.
Stock Bank Shares were 3 to 33 premium, and Na-
tional of Ireland li discount.

PROTECTOR LIFE ASSURANCE.—Yesterday the
annual meeting of the Proprietors of this Association
_X
was held at their office, in the Old
,Jewry, George
Richard Robinson, Esq., the chairman of Lloyd's,
presided, and, after entering into various details, con-
gratulated the assembled Proprietors on the favour- --
able progress made by the Society. A Report was
read and adopted. W. Blount, Esq., and Robert
Hugh Innes, Esq., were elected Directors for the en-
suing year, and Thomas Boddington, Esq., was again
chosen as an auditor. After a vote of thanks to the
Chairman and Directors, the meeting separated.