The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

No. 15,6, 36.

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FELONY.—ONE HUNDRED POUNDS R-
E
WARD.—ABSCONDED, on Saturday, 26th Novem-
ber instant, after receiving several sums of money, the pro-
perty of his employers, the London Joint Stock Bank, EDWIN
JOHN JORDAN, about 25 years of age, height 5 feet 11
inches, thin person, fair complexion, light hair, long thin face,
grey eyes, walks stooping, with head leaning forward. Had
on when last seen a dark body coat, and mixture-coloured
trowsers. with boots, black cravat, and hat. The above re-
ward will be paid on the apprehension of the said Edwin John.
Jordan.

PROGRESS OF THE GREAT
LEAGUE FUND.

history to inflict. lam told, indeed, that I am the
minister of charity and peace. Charity ! What charity
is there in starving the poor ? What peace in keep-
ing up party animosity and distraction through the
land, as must ever be the case where monopoly exists ?
I am well aware, Sir, and have not forgotten the fact,
that the laws you are attempting to sweep away were
passed under the sanction of loaded cannon ; and I
:gym aware, too, that it has only been in the midst of
tumults, which nothing but loaded cannon and
bayonets are able to suppress, that those laws have
been maintained. But these are not the weapons you
wield—they are not the weapons you love—they are
not the weapons that could accomplish your purpose—
they are not the weapons you use.—(Hear, hear.)
You have infinitely stronger weapons at command—
stronger arguments—stronger votes—stronger contri-
butions—stronger unity and league—stronger sym-
pathy in the hearts of all the wise and good, and
stronger appeals to heaven in behalf of the needy and
the poor.--(Hear, and applause.) These are the
weapons with which you will go to work.

MONEY MARKET and cirle 14:d stirs,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF T/113 DAY.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—It is gratifying to he able to quote from
letters written by distinguished subjects of the United
States, extracts which condemn, in an unqualified
manner, the dishonourable and almost atrocious con-
duct of some of the States, in repudiating or refusing
to pay their just debts. It is out of this feeling, if at
all, that the creditors are to expect to recover what is
due to them. If all Americans were alike callous to
the reproach which attends such conduct, the case
becomes obviously a hopeless one ; but by laying in
time a proper foundation among men of fortune and
influence, it may be brought to bear in time upon
the whole American community. Every merchant
and every honest man throughout the States should
feel it to be imposed upon him as the most sacred of
duties, to contribute his share to the removal of this
great stigma.
An American merchant of the first class, writing
by the Great Western, says—
' There are movements in every section of the
country for the purpose of bringing before Congress
the subject of the State debts. If a people are so im-
moral as to repudiate an honest debt in their legisla-
tive capacity, certainly the same spirit' will induce
them to cancel all private bonds and mortgages on
land and houses. This notion so completely governs
the wealthy men in this country, that they generally
decline taking stocks of any kind, loans of money on
bond or mortgage, or to purchase real estate, deeming
all unsafe until the States acknowledge their debts
and pay the-interest regularly. I cannot believe that
the Anglo-Saxon race can for any length of tune do
wrong, but if they are so disposed, the stand taken by
the principal capitalists on your side and in this
country must soon bring them to their senses. You
have done right in England not to take the public
loan, and you should adhere firmly to the stand taken.
No loans or confidence to any section of the country
until all the States redeem their plighted faith."
This from a native American, a merchant of great
wealth and influence, is manly and becoming lan-
guage, and affords the first gleam of hope that has
passed under observation for some time, that all may
ultimately regain the right course, the path of honour,
and, as in all such cases, the best and safest policy.
Till then the American name must be degraded all
over Europe, and the prosperity of the whole country
retarded.
In addition to the observations made yesterday on
the surplus issue of Mexican bonds, a correspondent
desires that public attention may be drawn to the
fact, that all the bonds contain at foot a certificate by
Messrs. Lizardi and Co., that each bond so converted
is represented, one-half by the new bond of active
debt, and the other half by a deferred bond ; and
that, consequently, as there has been admitted to be
an issue in excess of the active bonds te the amount of
630,0001., each of them contains a falsehood Upon the
face of it. The case is bad enough as it is, and should
not be made needlessly worse. If the agents, in order
to cover this defect, and to give regularity- to the cer-
tificate, had issued the corresponding amount of de-
ferred stock, they would have made a much greater
sacrifice than they have already done, as acting for
the Mexican Government, since the deferred stock,
which involves ultimately an equal charge on the
country, sells for 8 or 9 per cent. only, while the ac-
tive stock is worth above 30 per cent. But for the
irregular issue, and considering that remittances are
sent with tolerable exactness for the payment of the
dividend, the price would have ranged 10 or 15 per
cent. higher. Thus the transaction re-acts with a most
severe retribution on the Mexican Government itself,
and impedes the restoration of its credit.
POST.—A Correspondent addresses us on the sub-
ject of Spanish Stock conversions. He seems to
labour under the misapprehension that, in virtue of
the Gamboa decree of 1840, the Five per Cent.
Active Stock now in circulation might be exchanged
for the new Three per Cents. Such, however, is not
the fact, the conversion being limited to the interest
accrued on the old Active Debt up to the end of 1840.
The capitalisation of the interest accruing on the
same stock since 1840, and the conversion of the
latter from a five to a three per cent. security, are
among the projects laid by Senor Calatrava before the
Cortes; but what may be the fate of the Minister's
scheme has yet to be made known. It may very pro-
bably be passed into a law, but as the laws of the
Spanish Cortes arc not respected even by the autho-
rities of Spain themselves, particularly in matters of
finance, but, on the contrary, violated as the con-
venience of the Executive may require, there would
appear to be no certainty as to the ultimate fulfilment
of their undertakings, nor does it seem to be worth
while to speculate upon the result.
The suggestion of the policy of selling old Passive
ActiVes for the new Three per Cent. Actives would,
na doubt, be generally acted upon could the smallest
dependence be•placed on the stability of the existing
or contemplated arrangements of the Government at
Madrid. The same power which was put into opera-
tion for the abrogation of the Ricardo contract of
1834; and for the substitution of a three per cent. in-
terest for a five per cent., wlthout the concurrence of
the creditor, may be again exercised upon the same
principle. The Three per Cents. of 1842 may, in the
course of a very short time, be melted down to a two
or even a one per cent. stock.
SUN.—There has been an extensive sale of Consols
for Account in the course of the afternoon, to the
amount, it is stated, of 150,0001. The stock, however,
was taken most readily, and the Market left off at an
advance of from to 1 per cent. on the lowest prices
of the morning. There is a feeling entertained in the
Market that the public securities will go higher, not-
withstanding the increased demand for money for
commercial purposes that is now becoming very ap-
parent. -Consols for Account were quoted this after-
noonat 94a
at 93/ to 94 without the dividend, and 4
with the half-year's interest, for the first transfer day
next week. The premium upon Exchequer Bills was
fully maintained this afternoon. Bank Stock left off
heavily.
There was not much done in Foreign Stocks this
afternoon. The only bargains quoted were in
Mexican at 30a ; in Spanish Consols at 18 ; in the
Deferred at 10i ; in Spanish Three per Cents. at 23 ;
and in the New Dutch Five per Cents. at-991.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, the London
and Birmingham, and the South Eastern and Dover
Shares 'receded a fraction or so, late in the day. The
Manchester and Leeds rallied to par. London Joint
Stock Bank Shares were worth 31 premium.
In the Foreign Exchanges there was scarcely any
alteration this afternoon, on a comparison with the
Trieste, 9 58i ;on Frankfort, 1511. and H
rates of last post day. , The quotation for Paris was
25f. 82ic. to 871 c.; on Amsterdam, 12 64 ; on
2, on a m-
burgh, 13 11:.
The Commercial Markets were firm this afternoon.
On 'Change a good deal of animation prevailed. Tea
alone is dull of sale.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 9 'Gibraltar 4O
Ditto, at sight
26 10
Antwerp l2 3 Milan
Rotterdam: .... ....2 U. 12 911 Genoa
31
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice
zel
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 252 perruo; per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 5
26 0 Oporto s2*
Bourdeaux
26 0 Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine ...152 Bahia
Buenos Ayre23i<Petersburgh, 3 Us. ..
Berlin ......... New York,2ldays sight 44i
Vienna, effoc. it. 3 :T.3' Lisbon
Marseilles
0 1 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto . 0 2 PRICES OF BULLION, YER OZ.
Madrid
Cadiz 6i Portugal Geld C0m...3 17
Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNlNG.—ThePicture-
gallery, at Manchester, last night, was filled long
before the time of meeting- commenced, land the
! excitement appeared as great as might have been ex-
pected. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform
were Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., W. Torrens M'Cul-
lagh, Esq., of Dublin, barrister, (author of " The
Use and Study of History") ; Rev. J. E. Giles, of
Leeds ; Rev. W. Bonner, and Robert Bew, Esq., of
Bilston ; Rev. J. Davis, Rev. William Chapman, Rev.
J. Harrison, Rev. William Giles, Samuel Giles, Esq.,
J. Taylor, Esq., of Stroud ; J. Leese, jun., Esq., and
Alderman Brooks.
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., on taking the chair, said,
that, since the last meeting they had received a large
accession to:their numbers—(Hear)—and they had re-
ceived applications for cards far beyond their means
to supply.—(Applause.) The call made by the
Council for subscriptions to the Great League Fund
had been responded to in many districts in a manner
much beyond their most sanguine expectations.—
(Applause.) The large towns of the north especially
were doing their duty ; almost every one of them had
its committee organised, and was prepared to aid them
with vigour. Next week but one the midland coun-
ties proposed to have their great meetings. In Scot-
land, at Glasgow, they proposed having a great de-
monstration—(Applause)—and at Edinburgh prepa-
rations were making, on a!similar scale, not later than
January.—(Hear, hear.) :
Mr. Hiciim, secretary 'IW-Ac 'lka,,,e‘ue; then read
some correspondence of the past weekk, showing the
immense number of towns in which the organisation
was going on, and spreading all over the kingdom.
The CHAIRMAN said he had the pleasure of stating
that a letter, inclosing a handsome donation of 301.,
had been received from a landowner.—(Cheers.) It
was from Edward Holland, Esq., of Dumbleton,
'Worcestershire, high sheriff of the county.----(Hear.)
Mr. COBDEN, who was received with loud cheers,
then addressed the meeting. After giving a grati-
fying account of several free-trade meetings he had
attended in the north of England, and after alluding
to the influence produced upon trade by the late in-
telligence from China and Affghanistan, he continued
—Now, Gentlemen, if the prospect, vague and in-
definite as It is, of an extended demand for our manu-
factures from a nation of whom we know literally
almost nothing, and at the very extremity of the
earth's surface, produces such a -feeling—if such be
the effect of opening five new ports in an unknown
country like that—what would be the effect if we
had a hundred ports opened to us all over the earth ?
—(Applause.) And that we may have if we choose
only to open our own ports.—(Hear, hear.) Why, I
have no hesitation in saying that the impulse, the
moral effect of such a course upon the trade of this
district, would be such as would now appear almost
incredible. Already you have had the opening of
fresh mills and manufactories, and a considerable im-

For further particulars apply to the Mansion-house, London
and Messrs. Bush and Mullens, No. 7, St. Mildred's-court
Poultry, London.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court
of Chancery, nu ide in a Cause RAMSAY against
FLETCHER, the Cr el. .tors of JOHN RAMSAY, late of
the Angel public.hous( .in High-street, St. Giles's, in tie
County of Middlesex, Li censed Victualler, and who died in
the month of October; LS4I, are forthwith to come in and
prove their debts befc re Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the
Masters of the said Co, irt, at his Chambers in Southampton-
buildings, Chancery-la ne, London ; or, in default thereof,
they will be excluded tl le benefit of the said Decree.
JOHN HU ISH WEBBER, Plaintiff's Solicitor,
3. ( :aroline-street, Bedford-square.
November 29, 1842.

NATIONAL L OAN FUND LIFE AbSUR-
E SOCIETY,

RANTING

LIFE ASSURANCES, i DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 3G, CORNHILL.
Capita .1 £500,000.
Empowered by S 1 )ecial Act of Parliament.
Dl] LECTORS.
T. LAMIE MUTE :.RAY, Esq., Chairman.
Elliotson, M. D., F. R.. S. John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Banter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
.GeorgeLungley, Esq. _ Joseph Thompson, Esq.

PATENT LEVER WATCHES.
MESSRS. HORTON and CO., Watchmakers
and Jewellers, 3fi, 'Ludgate-street (opposite Messrs.
Everington and Co.'s), offer to theii friends and the public
their celebrated PATENT LEVER WATCHES, of work-
manship of the highest class of excellence, capped and jewelled,
maintaining power, &c., at the following prices :
Ladies' Lever Wattles, Gold Cases, and Gold Dtals, 12/. 12s.
to 161. 16s. ; Gentlemen's Lever Watched% Gold Cases, and
Enamelled Dials, 14/. I4s. to 18/. 18s. ; Gentlemen's Lever
Watches, Silver Cases, and Enamelled Dials, 61. 6s. ; the Ho-
rizontal Movement, in Flat Gold Cases, Si. Bs. to 12/. 12s. ;
the Horizontal Movement, in Flat Silver Cases, 4/. 10s. ; the
Vertical Movement, in Gold Cases, 61. 6s. to 10/. 10s. ; the
Vertical Movement, in Silver Cases, 2/. 12s. 6d. to 4/. 4s.

WILLIAM TORRENSMPCULLAGII, Esq., was next.
introduced to the meeting, and received with great
applause. He said he believed that the whole prin-
ciple of " dividing to conquer," and of knocking two
heads together, was never more exemplified than it
had been in the history of monopoly in England and
Ireland—(Cheers)----and he believed the monster was
identical with that which was felt grappling at their
throats and choking them, that was preventing the
culture of their fields so perfectly as they might be,
that was shuttino• out the produce of the foreigner,
which- should taken in.exchange for our manu-

EUROPEAN LI FE INSURANCE COM-
PANY.
No. 10, Chatham .place, Blackfriars, London.
Establish ,ed Jamary, 1819.
PRESIDENT-Sir JAM ES RIVETT CARNAC,"Bart.,
Rook t cliff, Lymington.
VICE-PRESIDENT.—GEO .RGE FORBES, Esq., 9, Fitzroy-
square. Wit h Twelve Directors.
Facilities are offered by ith is long-established Society to suit
the views and the means of c very classo. insurers. Premiums
are received yearly. half-yearly, or quartariy—vr upon an in-
creasing or decreasing scale.
The Insured for life part icipate septennially in the profits
realised.
A liberal commission is all 'owed to solicitors and agents.
DAVID FOGGO, Sec.
N.B.—Agents are wanton" in towns where none have yet
been appointed.

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.

Office, 49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, Esq.
WILLIAM CABEI.J., Esq.
THOMAS SO:ME:RS COCKS, jun., Esq.
GEORGE HENRY DREW, Esq.
WILLIAM EVANS, Esq.
WILLIAM FREEMAN, Esq.
FRANCIS FIJLLER, Esq.
JAMES HUNT, Esq.
JOHN ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq.
EDMUND LUCAS, Esq.
GEORGE HENRY POLLOCK, Esq.
JOHN BAZLEY WHITE, Esq.
J. CARTER WOOD, Esq.
HENRY WRENCH. Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH, and CO., Charing-cross.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. BICKNELL and LETHBRIDGE, Abingdon-street,
Westminster.
Perfect security combined with moderate rates.
The assurance of a CERTAIN BONUS.
The allowance of HALF the ANNUAL PREMIUM to
remain unpaid for SEVEN YEARS. and TEMPORARY
LOANS to the ASSURED on available security.
EDWARD T. RICHARDSON, Secretary.

A warranty for twelve months.
N.B.—A large stock of new and tasteful Jewellery, Ladies'
Silver Card Cases and Vinegarets, Gentlemen's Snuff Boxes,
and a great variety of other Fancy Articles, at prices consider-
ably below ti.e usual London charges.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,

8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
PIONORARY PRESIDENTS.
Earl of Errol Earl of Stair
Earl of Courtown Earl Somers
Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Falkland
Earl of Norbury Lord.Elphinstone
Lord Belhaven and Stenton
DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
H. DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq.
Hamilton Blair Avarne, Chailes Graham, Esq.
Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq.
Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., As- John Ritchie, Esq.
sistant Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq.
SECRETARY.—Patrick Macintyre, Esq.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the moat perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in
the great success which has attended it, since commence-
ment in 1654.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added 21. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy.
£l,OOO 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4
1,000... 4 Years
80 0 0

Tr HE UNKNOWN. A Weekly Miscellany
written by Self-educated Men and Women. Price Id.
" The Unknown' abounds with amusing tales and good
advice."—Evening Star.
-" We wish The Unknown' success."—British Statesmen.
" The plan of The Unknown' is equally novel and ingenious,
and will become popular."—Essex and Herts Mercury.
London: W. Strange, Paternoster-row; and all Booksellers.

PRE CHINESE BAND MARCH as performed
1 on the glorious ratification of peace with Great Britain,
concluded by Sir Henry Pottinger, arranged for the 'Pianoforte,
by H. B. RICHARDS, with -a
splendid Lithographic Fron-
tispiece, by Brandard, containing. a distant view of Nankin,
price 2s. W.__

A " PIECE of CHINA," comic song, composed by Loo
Cho° Bang Jang Sing Song, with a most Splendacious Litho-
graphic illustration of the Emperor of China and his Court,
price 13. 6d.
London : Published by Leoni Lee, 48, Albemarle-street,
where may be had Hart's celebrated Chinese Quadrilles,
price 4s.

PROFESSOR KIDD'S WORK ON CHINA.
In 1 vol. Bvo., with a Portrait of the present Emperor, and
other illustrations, price 12s. cloth,
HINA ; its SYMBOLS, PHILOSOPHY,
J ANTIQUITIES, CUSTOMS, SUPERSTITION,
LAWS, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, and LITERA-
TURE. By SAMUEL KIDD, Professor of the Chinese
Language and Literature in University College, London.
Printed for Taylor and Walton, 28, Upper Gower•strcet.

BROOKES'S GENERAL GAZETTEER. BY FIND-
LAY. LIBRARY EDITION.

In One very large Volume, Bvo., consisting of Eight Hundred
Pages, closely printed, double columns, embellished by Five
New Maps, from Original Drawings by the Editor, Price
12s. bound in cloth,
AGENERAL GAZETTEER ; or, COMPEN-
DIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, con-
taining Descriptions of every Country in the known World,
with their Towns, People, Natural Productions, &c., and the
various Remarkable Events by which they have been distin-
guished. By R. BROOKES, M.D. The whole revised, and
Accounts of all the most recent Discoveries, the History, Po-
pulation, Statistics, &c., added from the latest authorities, and
corrected to the present period, by A. G. FINDLAY.

London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, and
sold by all other Booksellers.
Where also may be had, price 75., Mr. FINDLAY'S
-Edition of " BROOKES'S GAZETTEER," in Miniature,
printed in pearl type, forming a valuable Geographical Hand-
book for Travellers.

1,000 3 Years 6O 0 0
1,000 1 Year
Every information will be afforded on application to the
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo. place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 46, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

WATCHES by WEBSTER AND SON,
Chronometer Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty,
established 132 years, 3, Birchin-lane. The finest description
of Watches at the lowest prices, consistent with maintaining
that character for superiority of workmanship which has dis-
tinguished their establishment during so long a period. The
Compensated Duplex Watch, upon the principle of their Chro-
nometers, to which Government awarded the prizes three suc-
cessive years, combines perfect accuracy with the utmost ele-
gance, and is not surpassed by the Pocket Chronometer. W.
and on have devoted considerable time and attention to the
manufacture of the Patent Lever Watch, and considerably
reduced the price; likewise the small Horizontal, for ladies.
They can Offer a large selection of Second-hand Watches, at
little above have the original cost. The utmost value allowed
for old Watches, in exchange. The most experienced work-
men in the repairing department are employed on the premises,
for foreign and English manufacture.
WEBSTER and SON, 3, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London.

CIOLD WATCHES. LONDON-MADE.—T.
VII COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, No. 47, Cornhill, Lon-.
don, seven doors from GracechurcbLstreet, submits for selection
a very large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, the whole of
which are carefully examined by experienced workmen on the
premises, and each is warranted for correct performance.
SIZE FOR LADIES.

Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in engine-turned
gold case=, and gold dials, warranted £lO 70
Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed
engine-turned gold eases and gold dials, warranted 12 12
Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four
holes with double-backed gold cases and gold dials,
warranted
SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN.
Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four
holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, war-
ranted
Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in
six holes seconds, double-backed gold cases and
enamel dials, warranted l7 17 0
Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in
six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and
gold dials, warranted 2l 0 0
Either of the Gentlemen's Watches may be had in gold hunting
cases, for 31. 3s. each extra.
N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchanje.

THE LATE GEORGE BUTLER.
WILLIAM JACKSON, formerly with the late Mr.
John Marriner, and now Successor to the late Mr. George
Butler, 93, Cheapside, corner of King-street, London. Esta-
blished 1616.
GEORGE BUTLER'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SAR-
SAPARILLA, now prepared solely by WILLIAM JACK-
SON, is the Compound Decoction of Sarsaparilla of the Len-
don Pharmacopoeia, concentrated to such a degree that a dessert
spoonful dilated with a quarter of a pint of water, is precisely
the same as the Compound Decoction ordered by the Royal
College of Physicians. Purchasers are earnestly solicited to
test by dilution the relative strength of this preparation with
others sold under a similar name; and he feels assured that the
superiority of the preparation made by him and his Predecessor,
its purity, and the great care bestowed in the process of en-
poration, will always ensure the decided approbation and pre-
ference which it has received of the Medical Profession.

W. Jackson is unwilling to refer to the invidious observations
annexed (for obvious reasons) to an advertisement of a similar
preparation by " an individual in the same street," but he is
anxious to maintain the credit of the above justly-celebrated
preparation, and to state that his concern has always been
known as a Medical and Dispensing Establishment, and that
" Turlington's Balsam," " Stoughton's Elizir," and other
nostrums of a like character, have never been sold at his esta-
blishment, with his name attached thereto as the Proprietor of
them.

W. Jackson begs to repeat the caution that there exists no
connexion between this Establishment and any other of the
name of " Butler." Please therefore to observe that the labels
have upon them in full the address, 93, Cheapside, corner of
King-street, London. Established 1616.

pulse has been given to the prices of commodities and
other property. Now let us suppose that at the open-
ing of Parliament the Queen's speech contained an
announcement that the Corn-laws were to be. abo-

lisped, and what would be the effect, think you?
Why, I will undertake to say that the very post
which brought that news to Manchester would be the
signal for setting every mill and workshop in motion
l oo
pver
Li
—(Hear)---that it would be followed by an advance
in the value of your fixed property here of' at least
25 per cent. : that the shipping in would be
increased in value to the same extent; and that the
p
poor-houses would be emptied of the unemployed la-
bourers—(Hear, hear)—and that the now pallid faces
of the idle would be lighted up with joy, at the pros -
pect of their bones having some flesh put upon them.
(A
should be
pp lause.) .! Ve l
dispelled
by
l ,lam sorry that even a gleam
of hope
anything that I can
say, but I must confess that I think theee is a prodi-
gious deal of delusion about the prospect of increased
business with China.—(Hear, hear) And I .will tell
you whence this delusion springs. It is IVhiggism
and Toryism that has misled usoory again.—(Applause.)
peace.. Pia 1111.1
parottyhosret\svrtihteesbleilplst
to
—(Applause.)
iTchheorsee
ihsasthbeeehnonaonurotattucdry in the. ne:vsPaPT
its mighty consequences. One
ringing and says, "I did it ;" the
the newspapers and says, "I did it; 'and there is
such 'a mighty pother betweenethe two factions that
"
the merchants and manufacturers think there must be
something great and good to be had, and they rub
their hands and fancy they are going to have a glo-
rious trade.—(Applause.) Now, how long shall we
continue to be deluded by such hallow expedients as
this ? Cannot we resort to a little common sense?
Have we not the slightest share of reason or judgment
to fall back upon ourselves 'P
—(Applause.) Why, we
regard this peace as though it was going to restore to
us a trade that had been destroyed by war. It would
seem as if this country and China had both been mu-
tually ravaged by war, and that not only had trade
•
been interrupted, but that the harvests had been im-
peded, labour had been checked, and production stop-
ped by these wars, Nothing of the kind. The trade
with China never had been interrupted by the war.
It was put forth by Sir Robert Peel, in the House of
Commons, as one plea for the bad state of trade, that
the China war was the cause of it. He stated some-
thing of the same kind at Tamworth; but it was
settled by Mr. Hastie, the
Member for Paisley, who
has a great trade with that part of the globe—(he
is a very plain man, and scarcely ever speaks at
all)—but he came down to the House that night
after Sir Robert's argument about China, and he
and showed that instead of our trade having unmanageable figures,
brought some of these ugly,
dimi-
nished, it had increased during this war; and Sir
Robert Peel admitted that it had.—(Applause.)
Well, you have had no interruption to the trade
with China ; there has been no great amount of deso-
lation or damage committed upon that country; we
have sacked and ravaged a port or two, but the har-
vests have never been impeded; there has been no
prosperityuffered in the trade with
of the country; and
rtotnra;daenicims
give us ? An increase of trade, we are
what
,is it that this peace
check
China by
to
wo
e the tihl
awe
vaer.not
1 h Then,
n,
is going to
told, in consequence of five ports being opened in that
country. But we have had already an open trade to
w e
gone m
throughust not
Canton,supp o se
hallCoaun
therefore all the goods which we have sent to China
have been consumed at that extremity of the empire.
We know very well that the goods which we sent to
Canton have traversed the whole of that empire, by
that, China
because thrug
means of the canals and rivers which render transit
so easy there. How, then, are we to have an increased
trade by the opening of these new ports ? We are
told that there are 300 milliens of people in China.
That is true; and if there were 3,000 millions of
people, you could not trade with them, unless you had
something to take in exchange for the goods you are
going to send to them.—(Applause.) Now, what are
you going to take ? China can send you tea and
silks. Do you think the consumption of tea has
greatly increased within the last year or two ? If so,
what accounts for the falling off of all our customs'
duties? Do you think that the middle classes, with
the Income-tax lately put upon their backs, are in a
position to increase vastly the consumption of silks in
this country ? Well, there's the measure of your
exports to China;_ what tea and silk can you bring ?
__ _(Applause.) There cannot be any possibility of
our getting on a right footing, until the people of
this country will understand the first and fun-
damental principle of trade, that it is barter, and
that unless they receive back, they cannot send
out their commodities.—(Applause.) The Honour-
able Gentleman continued—The democratic party
in America are free traders—(Rear, hear)—and
they have annual elections in America; they can
test public opinion every year, and the elections which
have taken place there within the last month, have
decided the fate of monopoly in America.---(Applause.)
They say they won't be taxed to benefit these manu-
facturers, they won't allow a high
duty of imports to
oblige a few manufacturers, and cotton printers and
spinners.—(Applause.) Well, we say—the Anti-
Corn-law League say—we won't be taxed for the be-
nefit of a few landowners in this country.—(Loud
cheers.) Now, if the Americans and the English will
only keep to their work, as their forefathers have done
when they had great principles to carry out—if they
will only put down their monopolising manufacturers,
and we put down our monopolising landowners here,
when our election time comesewe will lay the Missis-
sippi valley alongside of Manchester, and we will have
a glorious trade then.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. J. E. GILES, of Leeds, was then called
on, and was received with much applause. He ob-
served—lf England expects every man to do what is
called his duty—but what Ido not call his duty—in
times of \ear, for the destruction of its enemies—
(Hear, hear)—much more, Sir, may England expect
that a Christian minister will not skulk from the offices
of peace, for the salvation of 'his countrymen and of
his country from a calamity.' more extensive and more
horrible than all the armies that ever have marched
for her destruction—than all the navies ever launched
against her have been enabled, in any period of our

PROMENADE CONCERTS, ENG-

LISH OPERA HOUSE.

These delightful concerts commenced at this theatre
last evening under the able management of M. Jul-
lien. We were at once pleased and disappointed at
reading M. Jullien's programme—pleased to find that
the series of concerts is to be an annual one, disap-
pointed at learning that the series for the present
season is to be confined to twelve concerts only. How-
ever, as the house last evening was crowded to suffo-
cation, and as there is every prospect of its continuing
to be so every evening during the season, we are not
without hopes that M. Jullien may be induced to re-
consider the matter, and to give us a second and a
larger series of these delightful entertainments. These
Promenade Concerts have done more to advance the
taste for good music in England than any other single
cause. They have not only formed an immense musical
public, capable of appreciating good music, but, what
is of infinitely more importance, intolerant of bad ;
and the progress of the science is forwarded more by
driving bad music out of the field than even by the
introduction of that which is excellent. The feature
of last night's performance was the real Scotch
quadrille, in which M. Jullien introduced an admi-
rable imitation of the Highland bagpipe. The airs
chosen for this purpose were the popular melodies,
" The Campbells are coming," and " Tullochgorum,"
and so exact was his imitation that the Mac-
callum Mhor himself might have been deceived by
it. The instrument which he used was apparently a
flageolet, but we presume it must have been fur-
nished with the mouth-piece of an oboe or a bassoon,
or some reed must have been introduced to break the
current of air—at all events the imitation was' com-
plete, and the performance was loudly encored.
Among other melodies introduced in the course
of the Scotch quadrille was that exquisitely beautiful
one—" Ah ! where, and ah! where is my Highland
laddie gone." The manner in which NI. Jullien has
set this pathetic air, and by his orchestral accompani-
ments has elaborated and carried out, as it were, the
intentions and feelings of the composer, do equal
honour to his taste and to his science. It is one of
the most exquisite things we have ever heard ; the
audience were enraptured with it, and at its conclu-
sion enthusiastically called for its repetition. In the
first part, M. Pilet gave us a solo on the violoncello in
a style unequalled since the days when Linley was in
his zenith ; and in the second part Mr. Lazarus per-
formed a solo on the clarionet with exquisite taste and
judgment. The house was crowded to excess, and
everything promises a good season. We hope that
the public patronage will be such as to induce NI.
Jullien to make a long season also.

factures, and that left the mass of their farmers
tenants-at-will, or rather tenants-at-ill-will----(Great
laughter, and "Hear, hear")—and at the mercy of
their landlords. When a friend mentioned to him, a
few days before he left home, that there was some
anxiety here to know what was the opinion of men
across the channel, on this question of free-trade, he

was looking over a book that had more to do with their

OXFORD, DEC. I.—A correspondent writes:—
Yesterday evening, as the Rev. Wm. Bathurst was
delivering his customary Wednesday evening lecture
at St. Giles's church, his bands by some means ma-
naged to get caught in the flame of the candle lighted
at the side of the pulpit. Immediately, to the great
consternation of the congregation, his face was enve-
loped in flames. Many persons rose simultaneously
from their seats to offer their assistance, at seeing the
imminent peril in which the :Rev. Gentleman was
placed. Fortunately, however, he had the presence of
mind to envelope his face in the velvet hangings of
the pulpit, which immediately had the effect of ex-
tinguishing the flames, not, however, till his neck-
cloth had also caught fire; and I regret excessively to
say that his face was dreadfully. .burnt. Prompt as-
sistance was given, and the Rev. Gentleman conveyed
out of church. The sensation produced by this un-
happy occurrence was extreme—several of the con-
gregation fainted, and shrieks were heard in all parts
of the church.

The German journals
.give the following explana-
tion of the difference winch has arisen between the
Duke de Bordeaux and the Duchess d'Angouleme.
The Duke thinks that he ought to take advantage of
the present discontent in France, arising out of the
treaties on the right of search and the commercial
union with Belgium. The Duchess d'Angouleme, on
the contrary, considers that it would be imprudent to
attempt any movement in France until Louis Phi-
lippe's death.

- THE FORTRESSES OF THE CONFEDERATION.--
FRANKFORT, Nov. 22.—We hear that the expense of
erecting the new fortresses at Ulm and Rastadt is
estimated at 30,000,000 florins. This sum will be
paid by the several States of the Confederation to the
Treasury, according to their population, and in pro-
portion as it may be required : the amount of the por-
tion of the French contribution, which was placed at
interest in the house of Rothschild, and which was At
that time 22,000,000 f., is to be deducted.
The Commissioners of Inquiry into the Customs
had a meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, White-
hall. Mr. A. Pringle, Mr. Mimes .Gaskell, and other
Commissioners, attended the meeting.

history than it had to do with that of Ireland. The book
he referred to was D'Ewes's Journal of Parliament;

and it occurred to him that there were some facts in

it which would be of interest to them, and which,
therefore, he had taken the liberty of making
a note of, for the purpose of submitting them to
their consideration.—(Hear, hear.) And he did so
for this reason, that it had been thought this question
of free trade was a new question—that it was a dis-
covery of modern science, and that the world had
never seen anything so effectually done for the libera-
tion of commerce, and the setting free of industry
before. Now he did not believe that ; for he believed
that in England, by English hearts and hands, the
same fight was made near 200 years ago against the
efforts of monopoly to throttle the industry of the
country—(Hear, hear)—and he only asked them to
listen to a report of the proceedings of the House of
Commons, from a journal taken of its proceedings in
the time f Elizabeth, in support of this opinion. He
dared to say that as they thought they were getting
older, so the aristocracy thought they were growing
more subtle in these matters than when they were
mere schoolboys at it.—(Laughter.) Excuse him
for not talking of Whig and Tory aristocrats—they
were just the same.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever they
might think of their power, they were Englishmen ;
and the mass of Englishmen, nor Irishmen neither,
had a right to aubmit to wrong inflicted by them.—
(Hear, hear.) But as he was saying about tyros in
_

the craft, he found that at • the time referred to each
great lord had a particular trade under his protection.
The great joint-stock principle on which they acted
now was not in vogue then—they were not such pro-
ficients in their business.—(Laughter.) Not that
they knew anything of the trades under their
protection, but the object was topromote the revenue,
and they were allowed to purchase a patent to pro-
tect any particular trade they might think proper.
Well, the trade was better taken care of almost every
day—(Laughter)—till at length, it had almost died
of the kindness bestowed upon it.—(Renewed laugh-
ter)—and then there arose a set of Leaguers—(Hear,
hear)—the Cobdens, and Brookses, and Brights of
these days—(Applause)—and they set the kingdom
in a perfect commotion.—(Hear, hear.) There was
not a very full history of their proceedings, but thank
God they had the whole of the debates in Parliament
on the question, and they were full of instructive
matter to those similarly engaged in the present day.
Mr. APCullagh then adduced a variety of amusing
instances from the proceedings in Parliament during
the time of Sir Robert Cecil, of various English com-
moners who had expressed themselves, even at this
early period, in very strong terms, upon restrictions
upon trade in any shape. He then continued—
But the best part of this history, from the Journal of
the Parliaments of Elizabeth and James the First, was
to come. It appeared that when the list oi patents,
granted to monopolies at that time, was read out,
there was a man of his (Mr. M'Cullagh's) profession,
and there was not much to be said for them generally ;
however, there was a man found amongst the lawyers
of those days who had a heart in his bosom. His name
was Hakewell, and when the list of patents had been
read over, he got up and said, "Is not bread among
the number ?" " Bread !" said one ; " bread!" re-
peated another. _ Well, however, be said, " If care

be not taken of these others, 'bread will soon be
among the number." He (Mr. M'Cullagh) thought
there was some around him now who could tell that
bread had been among the number long ago.—(Hear,
hear.) Well, Elizabeth coming to know of these
things, was a woman of too good heartedness—
though she possessed, in common with others, her
share of faults—she had too much good sense not
to see that it was no longer safe to risk the glory
of her reign by denying justice to her people, and
•unexpectecily she came down to the House and made
a speech—such a speech !—he did not wish to make a
pretence to prophesy, but he should rejoice then if he
could hold out the hope of such another speech from
another, and yet the brightest of English Queens.—
(Hear, hear, and loud applause.) She told them her
notions of her prerogative, which she esteemed as the
chief pearl in her diadem and the choicest flower in
her garden, and, in her speech, she said she valued
her subjects' love above all revenue or treasure.—
(Hear.) It would be too long to read the whole—
(Cries of " Go on")—but there was one point in the
speech he could not consent to deprive them of, and
it was where she called God to witness "that she
never put pen to any of these grants, but upon the
pretext and semblance made to her that they would
be beneficial to her subjects in general ;" " but," she
said, "the contrary having been found by experience
she would never sign another." And then she turned
round to those people whom she had before been
taught to regard as the enemies to her crown and
dignity—(Hear, hear)—but whom she now found to
be the best safeguards of both, like the free-traders of
the present day—(Applause)—and thanked them
for " having drawn her attention to so great an evil."
She grew indignant. " Varlets," he thought she
called those who had visited
r,he_eshys
ee
(tar
think
—(Laughter.)
t:aunlgadehus
been tgceharp
et. )e r
un-
punished)r_lt
was a term which would, perhaps, in these days, be
thought
vouagr et t s
that
tne phsaaarvildei
thus
eunst
"shalloa rpyp
t'
sNp eco t 1 s s o of
assuret h e; ir ownl
desire d u t duty
thata n d
thethe Queen's
oppression
Ministers)
ißut
a uu tgh ho odhrnu)oaor—n:
now
punishment.et tsiag a(thein
ssbheyee
h(lsdi theselen o
et
escapeovnartil
ne
condigntuse—d)("
continued)—that
h aa
ey
dealt with me like physicians—(Hear, hear, and
laughter)—who,' ministering a drug, make it now
acceptable by giving it an aromatic savour, or when
they give pills—(Renewed cries of " Hear, hear,"
and " Tanaworth doctor")—or when they give pills
do gild them all over."—(Roars of laughter and ap-
plause.) Well, it was encouraging to think that there
was a time in our history when monopolies, like
those that now bore down our trade, were overthrown.
—(Hear, hear.) On looking hack we found it clearly
established that a system of monopoly once existed of
the most oppressive kind before, that there was a time
when they were thrown overboard, and then that
there was another time at which the monopolists
gam.
s_ mounted(r, andrepziti
recollected
tphaattenotn:
p u
of the first acts they did was to exclude Irish cattle
ra u gh
t er) their _
a horseshd
from the English market.
well
(The meeting had not concluded when the reporter
left.)

A NOVEL INFORMER.-At a trial before the Cor -
rectional Tribunal of Montpelier, on the 22d ult., that
proverbially stupid animal, a mule, turned out to be a
most sagacious witness. A cart coming one day into
the town, drawn by this mule, and loaded with char-
coal, it was discovered by the officers of the octroi, or
town duties, that in the centre of each sack was a
small barrel of brandy, intended to be thus surrep-
titiously introduced without payment of duty. The
driver was arrested, but denied all ownership of the
cart, or its contents, and pertinaciously refused to de-
clare to whom they belonged. The officers having
their suspicions, conceived the idea of verifying them
by means of the mule. At night they led the animal
to the entrance of the village of Laverune, a short dis-
tance from Montpelier, and there letting him loose, he
at once galloped off gaily till he reached the door of a
farrier, named Palary, where he stopped a minute, and
then walked quietly round to the stable. To strengthen
this proof, the officers forced the animal from this spot,
and he went to a watering-place in a retired spot at
some distance, and having slaked his thirst, returned
again to his stable. This evidence was so conclusive,
that Palary was unable to resist it, and at length con-
fessed his delinquency, in confederation with others,
whose frauds were so extensive that they brought
down upon them an assessment of fines amounting to
upwards of 12,000E—Galignanis Messenger.

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.—A correspondent having
sent two newspapers to the Post-office for Van
Diemen's Land, which were posted without the
postage being paid, called next day at the Foreign
Post-office and paid it, and he was much surprised to
find they had a great many papers which had been
posted in the same way, none of which would be for-
warded. Now, this, as in his case, might be merely
accidental ; but from what he learned at the office, he
has good reason to suspect that in many cases the
penny is pocketed by the boys and porters sent to post
them. It was suggested by a gentleman in the office,
that by affixing a post-label on the newspaper, such
frauds and consequent disappointment would be
effectually prevented. It should also be known that
newspapers for foreign parts cannot be posted after
6 o'clock, P.M.