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

c4tl,Etenti92bltton

SUN OFFICE Three o'clock

One of the leading features of the Blandford
Agricultural, and of similar meetings, is, the
rewards which the noblemen and gentlemen
there assembled bestow on well behaved agri-
cultural labourers. They are summoned betbre
their masters, like little children at the school
breaking-up, and one receives a new coat,
another couple of sovereigns, and a third
something else ; and a handsomely framed cer-
tificate is given to each to attest how much his
masters are pleased with his patient, toiling, obe-
dient conduct.

After dinner the Chairman has them intro-
duced to the company, in whose august presence
he compliments them, as worthy and deserving
persons; talks of the labourers being the
foundation of society ; assures them that
happiness is very generally diffused over all
classes ; and that if they only do their duty
they will be sure to be happy in their own
station.

Proceedings of that nature may be very
gratifying to tho self,love. of -the noble-
men and gentlemen ; but we submit that
they are not calculated to improve. either them
or the-people. It is, on their part, an assump-
tion of moral and mental superiority,-which by
DO means belongs to theM, and serves to nourish
in them a windy arrogance and conceit. The
very act implies a consciousness, on their part,
of being much wiser and better than the labour,
ers and cottagers, and is a claim to direct the
conduct of other men, who have their own duties
to perform, in their own station. On the part
of the labourers and cottagers, it implies, and it
nourishes, a sense of self-degradation. They are
told that they are not as good as those other men
who advise and direct them. The well-meant
patronage helps to destroy their sense of inde-
pendence, the soul of all greatness and goodness,
and if it refines—which we doubt—it emascu-
lates their mental powers.

What would the noblemen and gentlemen of
England think if the cottagers and labourers
were to form societies for the encouragement of
good conduct in the landlords, and to reward it?
But why should they not form such societies, as
noblemen and gentlemen form them to improve
the cottagers ? They are equally men. Their in-
terest and their welfitre are closely bound up with
the good behaviour of the landlords ; and were
wreaths or ribbons, or stars of honour conferred
on landlords by societies of farmers and labourers
for putting an end to game preserves—for living
in London and never troubling the tenants and
cottagers—for being content with the rent they
could, willingly pay—for carefully abstaining
from asking for a yoke at an election—for respect-
ing their independence—were rewards bestowed
for such good conduct, that might stimulate
some landlords to be equitable and respectful to-
wards their fellow men, albeit they are only
tenants and cottagers. The public did not need
certain recent events to convince them that the
BANKESES, the ASHLEYS, the STURTS, Ci hoc
genus, really require as much moral guidance
and control as the meanest oC.the cottagers who
were patronised at the Blandford meeting.
There is a great deal too much care taken of
the lower classes by their so-called superiors.
Those who claim to take care of them, claim, in'
fltct, to be their masters. They treat the pea-
santry-inore like slaves or children than inde-
pendent men; and they make them childish ity
their dependence. The Liberals are no more
exempt from the assumption of superiority than
the Tories, and are equally prone to treat the
labouring classes like children. This is an 'erro-
neous mode of proceeding. The first 'stefr
to-
wards amendment is for the gentry to trust the
..people, and distrust themselves more. The two
have totally different duties to perform ; they
are placed in totally different situations; and it
is quite impossible that either one can be a rule
for the othcr. Let the gentlemen of England,
then, treat the labourers like free men, and they
will soon be rewarded by finding that the la-
bourers, instead 'of-being, as at present, terribly
degraded, have acquired the Virtues of their
new station.

We had the pleasure of meeting yesterday a
body of men by whose active exertions the pulse
of our commercial greatness is kept in being—men
who embody in themselves the very spirit of
enterprise. Agriculture may have done
much for this country, but commerce bus
done more. 'Without commerce England would
only bz,. a land of cabbages! It is her com-
merce that has raised her to the proud
eminence which she holds—the first nation
for arts, for arms, for freedom—and the
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parent of all, is commerce ! Why do people
say, "He is a very promising boy, but
he should see the world;"--if they did not imply
in that sentence that " seeing the world," is
learning the principles of commerce ? England
is essentially a commercial country, and it gives
us especial pleasure in bearing our testi►.►ony
to the meritorious exertions of gentlemen
travellers who have associated themselves,
for the support of their mutual independence,
by founding a Society which will benefit them-
selves, and be a protection to their families.
Such Societies are well worthy imitation—and
deserve the best support of the public.

The part taken by the French Consul during
' the insurrection at Barcelona is still involved in
much mystery. Two Morning Contemporaries,
who appear to derive their information from offi-
cial sources, publish statements on the subject
directly at variance with one another---the Tory
journal describing M. LESSEPS as blameless,
while the Whig paper asserts that but for the
countenance he gave to the insurgents, there
would have been no necessity to bombard the
town. When two such judges disagree, we
will not pretend to decide; but we may
observe that one of the Barcelona jour-
nals still adheres to its first accusation
against the Consul, and asserts that his con-
nivance (co-operation) with the insurgents has
been proved beyond a doubt, and adds, " Can
there be a more ignominious recompense than
that derived from the provocation of disorders,
and shedding the blood of faithful soldiers and
misled patriots ?" This important charge cannot
rest without further investigation, and it is the
duty, therefore, of the French Government, as
well as that of Spain, to institute the most rigid
inquiry. There can be no great difficulty in
ascertaining the truth. Were a commission,
consisting ofFrenchmen and Spaniards, appointed
to repair to the spot and examine witnesses,
M. LESSEPS could clear his character at
at once, if he is innocent. For his own sake
he should demand such a course, and convince
not only the French Government but the other
Powers of Europe,„that the Representative of
his Sovereign did not in any way contribute to
such an atrocious and inexplicable revolt as that
which has disgraced Barcelona. We should re-
joice to see such a result, but in the meantime
must entertain suspicions, that there was a party
or parties in France, privy to the conspiracy.
.The false telegraphic dispatches, the exaggera-
tions given in French Government papers, the
lying accounts of the great numbers put to
death by ESPARTERO, and the bitter animosity
displayed by newspapers in the interest of high
personages, excite doubts which cannot be re- '
moved by mere assertion and angry recrimination.

Madrid journals of the 21st have been received.
No day had been fixed fur _the return of the

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REGENT : Pittriote, a Ministerial journal,
contradicts in positive' terms the reports re-
specting.a disunion in the G.:billet, and declares
that, asregardS the decree for the dissolution of
the Cortes, and on all the main principles of
Government, the Ministers are perfectly agreed.
The accounts from Barcelona are Aviihout in
terest, for we attach little credit to the following
statement,- which comes from Perpignan—a place
now celebrated for the niauufacture of lying
dispatches. It appears in a Bayonne paper :
A deputation from the principal inhabitants of Bar-
celona went on the 19th instant to the Captain-Ge-
neral to remonstrate against th 2 war contribution of
12,000,000 reals, which was allotted on the 18th.
General Van Halen replied that those who refused to
pay would be sent to the galleys. The richest
men and merchants, among whom were a great
number who left the town at the commencement of
the rebellion, and whose houses have been destroyed
by the bombardment, have had most exorbitant sums
imposed upon them. M. Xifre, who was in France,
is put down for 10,000 duros (52,500 f.) No one has
yet submitted, and every one seems to be determined
to resist, and even undergo imprisonment rather than
pay. This resolution is encouraged by the unanimous
voice of the Madrid journals against the measures
taken at Barcelona as acts of military despotism. The
municipality has had the weakness to obey the orders
given to it by making the allotment of the 12,000,000
reals, and this want of energy has filled the whole
population with discontent.

The Gazette contains a number of loyal ad-
dresses, forwarded to the REGENT by the pro-
vincial deputation of Majorca, the municipality
of Pampeluna, the National Guards of Almaden,
Benirnodo, La Ronda, &c., on the occasion of the
events of Barcelona.

The Three per Cents. were done on the 21st a
211 at 45 days, and the Five per Cents. at 261
7-16 for cash, and 261 .11-16 1 at 60 days.

The French Government have finally come to
the resolution of suppressing the manufacture of
beet-root sugar in France. The Moniteur and
Globe (Ministerial journals) have announced the
fact. 'The latter adds a report that the plan
in-
cludes, besides an indemnity to the beet-root
growers, a diminution of the duties on foreign
sugar. The. memorial of . the delegates for the
colonies, which we stated yesterday had been
presented to the Council of Ministers, is signed
by Baron C. DUPIN and M. JOLLIVET for Mar-
tinique;` Dount DE CHAZELLES and, DESMIRAIL
for Guadaloupe ; Admiral BAUDIN and M. DE
LA BATIE for Bourbon; and M. FAVARD for
Guiana ; and concludes thus :
The council of the delegates of the colonies demand
expressly in their name the suppression of the beet-
root manufacture, on paying an indemnity, as the most
suitable means of reconciling in a spirit, of justice
the interests of the colonies and the mother country.
But if it be impossible to carry into effect, the condi-
tions of the exceptional state thus demanded, in that
case the colonies claim equality of conditions between
the two national manufactures, that is, the applica-
tion of the, rules of general legislation with respect to
trade and produce. -
The Debats gives the French Government the
credit of having produced the-late favourable ar-
rangement in Syria. Possibly the other-Powers
had also some influence, for we cannot help
thinking that England has as much authority in
Turkish Councils as France; but a good act has
been accomplished; and we
.do not quarrel with
the French for claiming their share of the merit.
" While the Opposition journals," it says, "were
reproaching the Government with abandoning
the Christians ofSyria, and allowing our influ-
ence. in .the East to dwindle away at Constanti-
nople, the Government was acting with efficacy.
The Porte has at length yielded to wise counsels,
and has seen what are its veritable interests; it
has adopted the only means of putting an end to
anarchy and bloodshed, by permitting the Ma-
ronites and the Druses to have chiefs of their
own nation. Syria, we trust, will at last have
repose, and the inhabitants of this unfortunate
province will have occasion to bless the peace-
bearing intervention of the King of FRANCE.
This is another mission of humanity that we have-
fulfilled. We know well, however, that the Op-
position will not change into compliments and
culogiums the unjust reproaches which it ad-
dressed to -the Government a short time back.
The• Ministry has been successful; -our repre-
SentatiVe; M. DE Bdurkliftis ev; haS attained the
object. of leis mission. His clever efforts have
.triumphed over the prejudices,and the. pride of
the Porte. He has -obtained for the Maronites
and Druses what has been so often refused; the
success is complete.";
The France gives the following statement re-
specting the parties to be elected into the Privy
Council, and the amount of their salaries:— •
We know, from good authority, that the Council
of Ministers, under the presidency of the King, was
engaged yesterday and the day before in deciding
upon the number to be contained in the list of Minis-
ters of State. It is fixed at present that it should be
confined to ten—[the Constitutionnel states twenty)—
and the selection is partly made. The ordonnances of
their nomination will probably appear in to-morrow's
Moniteur. Count Mole will stand at the head of the
elect. He will be followed by Messrs. Thiers, Dupin,
Pasquier, Barthe, Portalis, and .Marshal Sebastiani.
The Cabinet is said to be decided in its choice of the
other candidates. It is much regretted in high quar-
ters that his holding the office of Intendant of the
Civil List of the House of Orleans excludes the Comte
de•Montalivet from being one of the ten. We are
further told that the salary of each Minister of State
is to be 15,000 f., and that a credit of 300,000 f. will be
required from the Chambers for the expenses of the
installation, and the services of the current year."
The' same journal states that M. PIA U, the
Editor of the Commerce, made his appearance on
Wednesday before the Tribunal of Correctional
Police, to answer the charge laid against him of
having violated the laws of the Press, by pub-
lishing a distinct afternoon journal, called Feuille
Commercial,- Supplement au Journal le Com-
merce. He was defended. by M. PHILIPPE
DUPIN, but the arguments of M. GOUIN, the
King's Advocate, maintaining that they were two
distinct journals, inasmuch that each could be
subscribed fur separately, and therefore liable to
separate deposits of caution money, and subject
to all the other provisions of the law, prevailed,
and the Tribunal condemned- M. PIAU to a
mouth's imprisonment and a fine of 200 f.
General BUGEAUD, offended at the doubts cast
upon • his successes in Africa by the Corre-
spondent of the National, has addressed the sub-
joined letter to the Editor :

Your Correspondent denies the results of this
campaign ; he might a well deny that the sun shines
at Algiers in the summer, and that it rains there in
the winter. It is notorious that never was there a
result more complete and decisive, or obtained at a
cheaper rate. Two little combats sufficed to bring
under subjection the Government of Ben Salem, with
the exception of two or three Kabyle tribes in the
mountains of the Jinjura. I have appointed Mahhi-
el-Diu in the place of Ben Salem, and the whole
country has accepted the new chief without hesitation.
Tell your Correspondent, if you please, that if he is
in the least desirous of being made acquainted with
the truth on this subject, he has only to consult the
thousand inhabitants of parts who daily frequent the
market of Algiers. Is your veracious Correspondent
ignorant that almost all the principal men of the east,
to the number of sixty, came to Algiers escorted by
150 horsemen ; that they there received investiture
at the Government palace in the presence of all the
civil and military authorities, and as many other per-
sons as the room would contain ; that since that time
there hag not been the slightest commotion in the Re-
gency, and that an active and daily trade is going on
with it ?

In another letter addressed to the Editor of
the Sleek, lie states that it is not just to express
>;nrprise at a paragraph in his pamphlet, an-
nouncing that for the subjugation of Algeria, a
force of from 90,000 to 100,000 men would be re-

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quired, for he had made the very same statement
in the Chamber of Deputies.

BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28.
First Highest ..owest . Last
Price. Price Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 36. 119 50... 119 35... 119 45
Threes 79 ... 79 ... 78 95.. 78 95
Bank of France, ex tliv 3315 —.3315 ...3305 ...3305
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1025 ..1025 —.1025 —.1025
Belgian Bank BlO ... 810 ... 810 ... 810
Belgian Fives
‘,.. 103 k
1840 lO4l ... 1041 ... 1041 ••• 1041
Threes ......
... 73
Spanish Active. .
...
24
Passive - ... 31 ••• 31, ... 31
Portuguese Fives 33 —• 33i ••• 33 ... 33*
Neapolitan
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 1031 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARES,
St. Germain B4O ‘.. 840 ... 840 ... 840
Versailles, L.B ll2 50... 115 „. 112 50... 115
R.
295 ... 306 25... ri9s ... 306 25
Rouen

Orleans. 633 75... 633 75... 632 50... 662 50
632'50
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50

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" Who runs may read.'

FOREIGN.
A Council of Ministers was held at the Tuileries,
on Wednesday, at one o'clock, at which the King pre•
sided. •

•
A numerous meeting of the Members Of the Cham-
ber of Peers was held on the same clay, at one o'ck.rckt
in the apartment of the Grand Referendary.
The administration of Customs' duties has just
ed
pub'
lished a return of the principal merchandise impor
t
into France during the first eleven months of the pre-
sent year, by which it appears that the duties pro-
duced 90,000,000 f.
The Muniteur Parisien states, that the tenders to,.
supply the French Government with 400,0001b5. of
Virginian leaf tobacco, 7,000,0001b5. of Kentucky' leaf,
4,400,0001b5. of Maryland leaf, and 80,CtOOlbs. a Ha-
vannah leaf, to be delivered at Paris or at liavre, Were
opened before the Minister of Finance on Tuesday
last, when Mr. Brown, a LiVerpool merchant, was
declared the lowest bidder for the three first art:idol
and M. J. P. Peccator for •the Havannah leaf. •
Terradas, who was so deeply implicated in the late
insurrection in Catalonia, arrived last week at Perpig;
nan, from which place he will be sent, by orders of
the French Government to Clermont. Amongst the
other fugitives who have arrived at Perpignan 13 tile
Alcade of Figueras. •
A .grand banquet of the old scholars of the Lye"
N'apoleon and the College llenri IV. was held
Monday at the Restaurant Douix; in the Palais-s°sal'
M. Odillon Barrot was unanimously called to the
chair. Among the guests were M.dePontois, Mon
Salvandy, Larabit, Ferdinand Barrot, Barillon, and
Etienne, Deputies, and many other distinguished men
of the bar, in literature, and the arts.
The health of the French Consul at Barcelona "5,
the great toast of the evening. His brother returnee
thanks.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Post contains the following remarks/ in an
article on the subject of free trade The industre:
people of this nation, as all confess, never lier°
worse condition than they are in now ;
fore, the next thing to idiocy to go on heljaving„tdo
unutteral•ly impudent assumptions of the free
doctors, which experience; has so completely central'
dieted ? They saythe free-trade measures which W;
passed were only half measures. They did 13(4 say
so when they passed them. Mr. Huskisson.prehu •on
with the most fervent plausibility that the ad01593,,d,
of foreign manufactured silk at the duty he preP,°6-i
should stop .smuggling.. Twenty years after Mr. 131,15 i.;
kisson's plans were adopted, Mr. Porter stated .in,fat
evidence before the Import Duties Committee 14'ed
is it net,ithere-
half the foreign manufactured silk now intro due
into this country is smuggled. Mr. Porter sal -on
duties were not made , low enough. Mr. Hua1",55,-d,
then deceived the country, or was ;himself tiece'!-,..
and misled the country. They may now call . the
measures ' half measures' if they please, but ti:°
these half measures they promised the Country alit;
proved state of trade, and now they tell us that t
is worse than ever it was. And to what purse,
they tell us this ? Not that we should consider itilbee"
ther we have not gone too far, hut-that N5...7,LT ItYlp,t
induced to go farther Why not go' back 1Y1,1•7' sl-
at all events, pause and reflect upon our actual
don, and the nature of the legislation -which had
ceded that condition, and has led to it ?''
The Herald thus speaks of the Poor-law cont.- ti,,,
sioners :—" By far the greater share of the bpg°sl .
to the New Poor-law has been provoked by the COnd
duct of the Commissioners, Sub-Conaniissioners,
Secretary to whom its administration has been er
trusted. These personages have endangered the v.ee?ir
existence of the many excellent provisions eont4ll.
in Lord Althorp's Act by their determination to.iegs
force uniformity in parochial government, regara! of
of the insurmountable obstacles thereto arising 011u_,
ever-varying local differences, by their monstra,,
affectation of scientific phraseology in their correspenuto
ence and orders, by their utter imperviousae,ssihe
public opinion, by their general disregard ot.
wishes, requests, and suggestions of the rate-p3l
by their excessive obstinacy in their once-deem
opinions, and above all by their persisting in 41 res° as
don to treat pauperism as a crime and patlPer".,o
criminals: The Act, itself as .passed was defectirs
enough; but the power it gave these Commission
of making- orders wed rules in accordance with lcfier
they might constrile,to be its spirit, and the thann,n,
in which they have misused that power, have .4_(,),1m
creased the defects of the Act, have.so shocked .o
feelings of the people of Enyland, and have acted
injuriously' on the minds tithe working classes, WI:,
by far the most popular amendment wilich Sir J 3,111
Graham could make in the law would be a coin-
change in the personnel- of Commission mil
cretariat."

The iollowing is from the Times :---4, Mr. (Yet;
nell's recent letter to the Poor.law Guardians Oflzt.
county of Cork, which will be found in another pel.,
our impression, is ostensibly and primarily a disOrta
.
Lion, first, upon Poor-laws in general ; and, seconno
upon the Irish Poor-law in particular. Ile has, bow
'ever, as perhaps might have been anticipated, oil;
trived to drag into his composition by the head nou,
shoulders as many extraneous inflammatory cluPtiltPo'
as were necessary for the purpose which he seeingre
have had in view in penning his epistle,_vi7., to sect'
if possible, the benefit of the Anti-Poor-law cry
which is obviously rising, and which everYlAY
pected to rise in Ireland, for his own v peal party; ?"-us
to direct it against all who see through the fiLetyl„
insanity of that abortive movemlnt, b 3 they -r°,1.7,'
Whig, or Radical. There is a great deal of very o'T
cibly spoken truth in Mr. O'Connell's obserystiOn,:
upon the principles and practice of the Irish r°l-,
law; there is, in that part of the letter which direel
treats of the professed subj'ect of the epistle, Intl! f
powerful exposure of the monstrosity and cruel*
sti..
the principles upon which the modern Poor-law
tern is based ; and it is shown that in Ireland, ns •"'
infatuation, these principles have been c„ re
re
o ill
an exaggerated form, and with additional and lii,6i,,
vexatious circumstances. And, in admitting' ti'.
which we gladly do, we would alio take the or Ifliv,
tunityof doing honour, and we do it most unfeigll'2%ir,
to the expression by a political oppo7ns.,
of the very Christian sentiment, that private tut .a
giving is the first great duty—paramount to, le
never to be superseded by, the fulfilment of I.
secondary obligation (an obligation enhanced by "'e
al
necessary deficiency and fluctuation of individti,,
charity) of making a public provision-for the poor' 0
The Chronicle says—" In our advertising Cohn° d
will be found a list oftrke names of the noblemen IT,
gentlemen who have alrevicly become members .0f 111
general committee for the metropolitan boroughs,,h,
order to promote free trade by the abolition of "It
Corn and Provision-laws, and all other monopolies.
b.
is announced that a further lift of names will be Pull
lished forthwith. In the meah time, the public "I,
see with satisfaction that man Y of-thh first naTlesr,„l
the country, in point of rank; respeetafilitY, and P-tle
perty have placed thenaselveNg the fika, cf the bat
in
which is now about to be INlNethin gleod. earnest t
the metropolis against the pq`tizaiiif menopoly• ts,
cannot be too often repeateß,4lk\ the monopolised,
though reeling under the bloWs,.th' '''elaave reeei":ol,
will not give way without an obstinatc, truggle•olpip
people must bear constantly in mind th adage
,;',-he
yourself and God will help you.' Eve stolid' ..a;,
hi\
Government be disposed to yield to their just derntinin-,
this pressure from without would not be the leslbeir
dispensable, to enable Ministers to give effect to
Ais,
wishes. But it would appear that the favourable.`..,..
position of the Government has been too lightlr 7
sumed."

• IVIONEY—TRADE--COMMERCIS° ial
The forty-third anniversary of the Cernm"rc
,:Acat
Travellers' Society was celebrated on WedneScil,l44lsq.
the London Coffee-house. Robert CurfeiL.,.,,, to
presided, and upwards of 100 gentlemen Sat'clo;`7—
.
dinner.
The Anti-Corn-law League party have, -°°' iii
Cobden's authority, their promised 50,000/. altitsihit
hand. The same gentleman states that if he art,
'ht
fellow-agitators, could " divide and subdivide tti"irre..
selves," or be in fifty places at once, " they
ceive 200,0001. or 300,0001., as well as 50,0001?
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. f St.
At a vestry meeting of the rate-payers f° it
Mary, Lambeth, held yesterday in Churcli,sto"
was unanimously decided that portions of eight rosdsBoo
or places in that parish, each averaging about role
feet in length, should be dedicated to the use 0.1.
public.
A self-loading cart, for sweeping the streets- °I,
Manchester, invented by Mr. Whitworth, an Zit
gineer, has now been in efficient operation in'"
town for the last ten months, altogether doing Alva'
with the necessity of sweepers and scavengers.
LAW AND POLICE. • 1 fis.‘
The Jury have found a verdict of "Wilful f
der" against Michael Meaghan, for the murder. °
Thomas Leary in Whitecross-street.
fIY
An adjourned inquest was held on Wednesd%
before Mr. Carttar, at Deptford, on the view of the
body of Elizabeth King, a married woman, vole
was alleged had lost her -life through the inattentio:
ceo'
of Mr. Arthur, the parish surgeon. Theron
considered the case to have assumed so serious a far!

as to demand a post mortem examination. - - -:''
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LITERARY if ND SCIENTXFICi. 'rid of
The late Archdeacon Wrangham „as the , lift
an edition of Plutarch, and an elegant poet, = -
his own and the Latin languages. :
i _ .
7 y
A Bactrian, or two-humped camel, which s o the
il,
species much employed by the Chinese_ in Ipffl;sar Or
riage, and designated by them the Tones-kYitlaect
" camel with feet.of the wind," has just, hc.euvr.l'll'
to the Zoological Gariens in the Regent's. Paric-
COURT-PASRIOINTABLE. . tt,KI
Thu Earl and Countess of lirilton are nut- wiP99

to join the circle at Eaton Hall this season ; they are
_
Me Mowbray.
"The Earl and Countess of Beverley have returned
the Palace at Richmond, from Portman-square.
They intend to remain there until the meeting of
s zarliament. •
Lord Lovaine has joined the party assembled at
4:eddesley Park.
The Countess of Kerry is staying at Bowood, the'
teat of the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Lady and Miss Trotter left Grosvenor-square last
Week for Paris. They are-expected to return to Eng-.
land early in February.

• - Sir Charles and Lady Cecilia DeA Veeux (daughter
of the Marquis of Winchester), have arrived at their
residence in Beigrave-square, from passing the honey-
!root] at the Baronet's seat; near Tunbridge.
The Marquis of Win-chester received a few friends
to' dinner on'ehristnins day, at his home in Caven-
dish-square. The Noble Marquis's eldest son, the
Earl of WiltThire, is at the family seat in Hampshire.
Mrs• L. Fox passed through London last week,
70ralfampshire.
' Lord.. Fredsrick Paulet has arrived at the Marquis
of Winchester's in Cavendish-square, from Quebec.
Air. Court nay has left town for Grimsthorpe Castle.
Lord amt Lady Prudhoe- still remain .at Stanwick
Park. Early in the next month they go to Alnwick
eastlo. - •

Lady Louisa Percy had returned to IVelbeek
rriorv, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Portland.
Lady Charlotte Dennison is entertaining a select
party at Ossington. Nottinghamshire.
. IVIZSCELLAANTEOUS.
At the meeting of the Birmingham Suffrage Con-
ference, held in that town on Thursday, a series of
resolutions was proposed, in which a Bill, prepared
Under the auspices of the National Complete Suffrage
Council, was set forth as the basis of discussion. An
amendment was proposed by Mr. William Lovett,
that "the Charter" should be substituted, which was
'seconded by Mr. J!eargus O'Connor, and carried by a
kajority of 99. The consequence is a division of the
Issi!ty.

The weeping -willow on the grass plot of the garden
Ott Walmer Castle has been grown from a slip pre-
knted to the Duke of Wellington by a gentleman,
Who cut it from that overhanging Napoleon's grave
lit St, Helena.

14LOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY)
''LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this day at noon, light
Westerly airs and cloudy.
.DEAL, DEC. 29.—A.M. Wind S.W., fresh.—r.ai.
n•IV. moderate.—Arrd. Hinda, Bowman, Jamaica;
'Clyde, St. John's; Arethum, Hull for Boston. Arrd.
!tom the River Devonshire, for Batavia ; Stag, Ma-
.(tras ; Lancashire Witch, Bahia; William Forster,
'mu; Switzerland, New York.
CORR, DEC. 27.—Arrd. New City of Cork, Barnet,
.Idarbadoes ; Wakefield, Quebec ; Sarah, Quebec.
COWES, DEc. 29.—Arrd. Helena, Altona for Bahia ;
bane, Lockhart, London for Dominica.
PLYMOUTH, DEC: 29.—W ind S. W.—A rrd. Julia,
"41- eihuish, and Eliza Ann, Gosling, Newfoundland.
lIRISTOL, DEC. 29.—Arrd. Champlin, New Orleans.
GLOUCESTER, DEC. 28.—Arrd. Dromohair, Payne,
Bt. john's, N.B. ; Alice llaviland, Miramichi.
Poarsmourit, Dtc. 29.—Wind W.N.W., strong
and squally.—Arrd. Ocean, London for Sierra Leone.
.':PALMOUTII, DEC. 29.=-Wind W., fresh breezes.-
4114. Catharina Dorothea, Boghatin, Buenos Ayres,
11114 sailed for Antwerp.
)111

ONE Y aid COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
'2,7llAe:Liverpool Cotton-market was good yesterday,
the sales having been 6.000 bales, at former prices,
Teluding , 500 bales of American on speculation.
`The Sbare.Market was firm. Eastern Counties New,
3519 d.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4711 • Grand
sounctien, 190; Great Western, 90; Brighton, 36i;
kid Paris and Rouen, 269.
There does not appear to he much news in the let-
ers from the United States brought by the Columbia
.Monetary and commercial affairs were not in an encou-
lip^. in state, and languor pervaded most departments.
The finances of Virginia appear now to be in an unsatis-
atetory state, but Ohio was improving. The Legisla-
r°e Session ',`of Illinois having commenced, it was
Ped some provision would be made for the interest
ql the debt.
, are sorry to hear bad accounts of the state of
Fade in Canada, partly owing to the panic produced
Q. the alteration in the timber- laws, and also from.
the general depression in the Mother country. No
doubt matters. will improve next year. • It is stated in
,aleommunication froM Kingston, dated Dec. 2, that a
Pneral want of money is the prevailing sensation.
'rho necessaries and luittries of .life are cheap and'
'Plentiful, but the means to purchase them are lament-
'ably deficient. The farmers have their barns and
:/granaries filled to repletion, while they can hardly
eottimand sufficienb ready cash to buy their wives a
`l4l* gown. Whrat is selling in country places at
'three shillings per • bushel, while no other kind of
Stain can be sold for cash at any price. A country,
izinnot be called badly oft; when it has sufficient to
e upon and to spare ; but it cannot be termed
•'Prosperous, while the farmers suffer,' and every kind
''°f trade and commerce is at a stand still.
'lt is also mentioned in our advises that the capital
•t 4 Prince Edward's Island bids fair to become in tithe

‘l_4l3lace of some note. .The situation is beautiful, and
' ;'llvirtg. a rich and well cultivated country around it,
'4'n can see nothing to retard its growth. The pro-
-gresg of the island-generally depends upon circum-
.4ances. No country ever thrived equal to its re-
sources that had, a large body of absent landowners
Withdrawing from it a yearly portion in the shape of
rent. The Colomial Herald says, that no less than
buiklings of various classes and dimensions, ex-
clusive of stables, have been erected during the pre-
sent year. Several of those buildings are said to be
commodious and elegant, and would do credit to places
bf far loftier pretensions ,than Charlottetown. The
trade of the port is stated to be rapidly on the
increase. Nearly. 200 vessels entered during the last
quarter, including the dullost portion of the business
eason.

The Government at Lisbon, in consequence of the
Vefusal of the holders of the Portuguese-Brazil Bonds
10 accede to the terms offered them some time since,
as come to the resolution to make a new proposition,
nut it will be time to comment thereon when the
feeling of the Bondholders upon the subject shall have
been more clearly ascertained. It is at least some sa-
tisfaction that an offer should have been made, since it
"laces a desire on the part of the Government to come
to some settlement.
The-English Securities remain very firm, and the
-1111 party gains strength. The Commissioners for
the Sav:ngs Banks were compelled to make their
usual iurchwe in the Reduced Annuities at 4 per
ae.vance this morning, viz. 94k. The Unfunded
'''-ucbt is rising still, from the abundance of money,
and the scarcity of this investment. The premium
''.,"as.been 58s. to 625. East India Bonds participate
!'n the rise, having been done at 51s. premium. lie-
'itloced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 101* to 1011,
.i4nd Long Annuities 12 9-16. Bank Stock is steady
14 1728. The Canada Guaranteed Debentures have
touched 2 premium.
The settlement in the Foreign Market has made
Spanish Stock worse, the. Actives being down to 181
and 183, and the Three per Cents. to 248 and 241
eortuguese Converted Bonds have been marked 344,
'Which is about the 'same. Mexican have been sup-
ten'ted at 314 to 32 ; Columbian at 221 to 22i • the
Dutch Fiveßer Cents. have realised 101 to 101.
Railwaykhares are rather firmer. Edinburgh and
Glasgow realise 2*; Bristol and Exeter, 21i ; Brigh-
ton 31; Midland Counties, 381; and South Eastern
21 discount. Great Western, New, are 14 ;
Liiirmingharn, Quarter, 244 • Manchester and Leeds,
,2i ; Rouen and. Havre, ; and York and North Mid-
New, 18+ premium. London and Westminster
bank were 17, premium.
1, PRICES- OF SHARES' THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAI LW A TS. Paid. Per Share.
'Bristol and. Exeter 7O .....
Xdinkurgh and Glasgow
t Great Western
Ditto New
,London and Brighton .... 10
'London and Ilirmingkam•
Ditto Shares
--
tau and Leeds 70
hlidland Counties... 100
uutli Eastern and Dover...
Ditto Strip.. ...
York and N-trth Midland SO
Ditto New Shares...
_ JOINT sroex. BANKS.
"Bion:and Westminster .... 20
FOREIGEN FUNDS.
- . Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the ;:count
Ditto-Three:per Celt+.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 29.—The
iniirket continues firm, and without any material alte-
ration in prices :—; South Eastern Scrip, 174 ; North
621 to 631 Manchester and Birmingham,
20 to 201 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 31* to 32 ; South
Western, 62 to 621 ; •Manchester and Salford Bank,
.10 15-16.

DEATH or Loan Es.—We regret to learn
that this able and eminent Judge expired at Leaming-
ton on Saturday afternoon.
GRR A T WESTERN RAILWAY. —POOR-RATE.--A
Petty Session was held at the Lamb and Lark Inn,
Keynsham, on Friday last, when an appeal was
brought by the ,Great Western Railway Company
against the amount for which they had been
assessed in respect of that portion of their line
".. Which passes through the parish of Keynsham. Mr.
P. Ward and Mr. Knapp attended on behalf of the
Company, arid_ Mr. J. L. Simmons supported the in-
s.; tkrest of the parish. After healing the arguments of
-,:both' parties, the Magistrates dismissed the appeal„
confirming the rate as claimed by the parish, namely
1,200/. per mile for three miles, in the present in-
' ttanee amounting to 901., or nearly one-fourth of the
Whole rate. We understand that the Company.inteml
further to .appeal to the Somerset Quarter Sessions.—
.66th Chrottkle: