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London, England, 1842-01-20 00:00:00

greater evils. At present the ministers of re

gion who denounce the Corn-laws aro only
threatened with prosecution, and with whipping
at the cart's tail—let the Tories gain head in
Parliament, and let them fancy themselves safe
in their tyranny, and these threats will speedily
receive their execution. At present the barracks
are only building—let the Tories believe that
they can without danger fill them with soldiery,
to overawe the people, and free public meetings
will be at an end for ever. The Tories are yet
smarting under defeat. It is understood, as is na-.
tural, that the leading man of the ultra Pro-Corn-
law party is Lord STANLEY, and the former ca-
reer of that Noble Lord assures us that he will

spare no exertion, and stick at no means, to give

fu-11 swing to his own lordly will.

Nor must the constituencies be idle at this
period. The Liberals of Lambeth take a deep

•
interest in the sufferings of the people of Stock,

port and Manchester, and they must give their

representatives to understand that compromises
now, for any party or personal purpose, cannot
be tolerated. The bread•taxed martyrs of Shef-
field must plainly inform their Member that
their all is at stake, and that he must not risk
the loss of Corn-law repeal, because Sir R. PEEL
says he is favourably disposed to the emigration
crotchet. The half-starved electors of Leicester,
whose trade has gone to decay,, must intimate to
those whom they send to Parliament, that if they
mean to ask future support they must merit it.
At Edinburgh, Mr. STURGE emphatically
warned the people against traitors in Parliament,
and the constituencies may prevent treachery, by
at once signifying to their representatives what

they must do, or resign their trust.
The Liberal party, we believe, would prefer
for a leader that Noble Lord who has already
ably served them in that capacity ; but if family
interests and party ties link him too closely with
the bread-taxer&, the Liberal party will look out
for another. Some one, probably, may be found
of equal experience and of equal eloquence to
the Noble Lord-(none can surpass him, we be-
lieve, in meaning well), who is not se Much

We call attention to an able and excellent
article in the Westminster Review, of the pre-
sent month, the principal points of which will be
found extracted in another part of The Sun,
under the head " Claims of Prerogative and
Wrongs of the Subject." It relates to the case of
the claimants for losses in Denmark, and clearly
illustrates what we believe to be the fact, that it
is much more easy to obtain justice, in some par-
ticular cases, in the most despotic nation in
Europe, not even excepting Turkey, than it is to
procure redress from the Government of this
country, unless some private job or interested
motive of some one or more of the Ministry be
not connected with the concession of it. The
delay in granting relief to the sufferers by the
Danish reprisals after the repeated favourable
decisions of the House oil Commons, to whose
arbitration the matter was expressly referred by
the Government, is a great cruelty, more espe-
cially as the case has now become a constitu-
tional one, involving the privileges of Parliament,
and even of the Crown itself, whose authority
the Chancellor of the Exchequer virtually
has, according to precedents shown by the
article referred to, for paying these unfortunate
claimants.

shackled by family and party ties, and who will
be willing to place himself at the head of those
who are determined to achieve the con-
quest of the Corn-laws. Whether the Noble Lord
be the leader of the party, or any other peison,
it is certain that the whole of the Anti-Corn-law
party will only support bold and just measures;
and it is equally certain that no man can be the
leader who does not take a bold and decided
course on the opening of Parliament.

The series of articles which have appeared in
the Morning Post on the discomforts of the fac-
tory system, all end in the conclusion that our
manufactures must be curtailed. Out of its affec-
tion to the factory operatives, therefore, the
Post would put them out of existence, or pre-
vent them from rearing families, who should,
like themselves, find continually extending em-
ployment in increasing manufactures. This is
extremely kind in the Post and the Tories,
and cannot fail to recommend them and their
schemes of policy to the support of the operatives.
The Anti-Corn-law men would repeal all the ob-
structions to their getting a living, and allow
them to take their chance, and fight their way
in this world which has been given to us all.

The Pro-Corn-law men have such a desperate
love for the operatives, and such a horror of
their deplorable and uncomfortable existence,
that they would put an end to it by suppressing
the factory system. Pious priests of political
Moloch ! their intense love for the people make
them sacrifice the operatives, that they may no
longer live in the squalid misery of manufac-
turing towns. They are like monomaniacal
mothers, who murder their children lest they
should want food. With all deference to the
Post, we cannot believe that the factory opera-
tives will regard the Tories as a loving mother,
or be willing to suffer annihilation at their hands.

We direct attention to the additional evidence
we publish elsewhere, from the Leeds Times and
the Manchester Guardian, of the still increasing
distress. It will hardly be now supposed by any
classes that the Corn-laws keep up wages, but if
there still be such a wild visionary in existence,
we hope, if he can read, that he will study the
account from Wigan of mill-owners announcing
that they must lower wages, or shut up their
mills. In fact, while the duty on corn is up-
wards of 20s. per quarter, wages are everywhere
falling to the level of the wages of the lumper-
fed agricultural Irish. The deepest distress per-
vades the working classes throughout the whole
empire. There is no spot, we believe, exempt.
It is for the working classes, who at Norwich,
Wolverhampton, Bath, and other places, have
declared that they want justice, not charity, to
consider how they can remove the dire plague
which smites only them. This is for them a
question of life or death ; and, as they now de-
mean themselves, so will they obtain relief, or
be thinned down to the exact numbers which
will suit the avarice of the law-makers. The
times are critical; but we have been informed
that a plan will shortly be laid before them by
which they may probably extort from the Tories
that justice which the Whigs so unadvisedly de-
nied them. Their success, we believe, will
depend on themselves, for it is only by their
errors or their consent that they can be com-
pelled to remain the half-starved slaves of the
landowners.

THE WAR IN SYRIA.—The public will be
happy to learn that the Gallant Commodore Sir
Charles Napier has written a history of the late
war on the coast of Syria, which may be expected
to appear in a few days. Having himself been
the life and soul of the expedition, which
drove Mehemet Ali out of Syria, and filling
the rank of second in command, no per-
son can be so competent to supply all the
details of that brilliant campaign as the
Gallant Commodore. Moreover, it was by Sir
Charles that peace- was negotiated with Me-
hetnet Ali ; and it cannot but greatly
interest the public to learn all the details
of a negotiation between two such extraordi-
nary diplomatists. The future historian of our
Naval annals will owe a deep debt of gratitude
to our fighting- Commodore Napier.
It is announced that Lord Ashburton is to
leave London on the 28th, to remain three
months at Washington, then to visit Philadel-
phia, and return to England about the end of
July. This is a nice arrangement for a party of
pleasure. It looks' very little like business.
How can Lord Ashburton and the Tories tell
whether he may transact all the affairs, for
which he is going to Washington, in three
weeks or six months? Is he to stay three
months at Washington, and then travel into
Pennsylvania, whether the American Govern-
ment will negotiate with him or not ? Such a
nice arrangement, so suitable to enable the
Noble Lord to visit his transatlantic possessions,
seems very like a nefarious job. Lord Ashbur-
ton is to visit America at the expense of the
country.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and
Prince Albert enjoyed equestrian exercise this
morning for some time, in the new riding school,
attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, and Colo-
nel Bouverie. _

The French Journals of Monday have a.
reached us. They are unusually barren of poll
tical news. M. DE SALVANDY, the noted diploma-
tist, was expected to take his seat in the Chamber
of Deputies on Tuesday. The letter of M. CHAM-
BOLLE, the Deputy, avowing himself the writer of
the article in the Siecle, was read in the Chamber
of Peers on Monday, but no further notice was
taken of it. The responsible editor will there-
fore have to bear all the brunt of the Chamber's
wrath.
The debate on the Address of the Deputies, in
answer to the Speech from the Throne, was com-
menced on Monday, but it presented no feature
of interest. The Right of Search Treaty was
generally condemned by the Deputies. The in-
terest will begin with the Spanish question.
The Echo du Nord mentions the following unexpected
circumstance; resulting from the bold defence made by
the widow Boulanger against the two robbers who as-
sailed her in her lonely cottage at Beau Marais, near
Calais, and of which we gave a full account at the time.
" On New Years-day, while the good widow was enter-.
taining her family and friends, an elegant carriage drawn
by four horses drove up to her door. A servant in
handsome livery got down, opened the carriage, and
a gentleman with a lady and two ydunger ladies
alighted and entered the humble dwelling. The gen-
tleman, announcing himself as Lord Gainsborough, told
the widow that, having heard of her heroic conduct, he
wished, on coming over to France, to view the theatre of
her siege and defence, and express to her his admiration
of her courage. The widow Boulanger then related to
the noble family all that had passed, showed the broken
door and windows, her ditch tilled with water over' which
she had to make her way in her escape, and then said
that the arm chair in which his Lordship was seated was
for a considerable time occupied by one of the robbers.
Lord G. replied that he wished to reward her presence
of mind and resolution, and begged her to accept a couple
of guineas as a testimony of his admiration. One of the
young ladies, as a token of her satisfaction, took off a
valuable shawl, and threw it over the shoulders of the
old cottager, whom they then left, overcome to tears by
so much condescension and kindness."
The Prussian State Gazette of the 11th instant an-
nounces
officially that M. de Geissel, Bishop of Spire,
has taken the oaths as coadjutor and administrator of
the Archbishopric of Cologne with the right of succes-
sion. The same Journal also publishes a letter to the
Archbishop, Baron Droste de Vischering, relieving him
in direct terms from all imputation of having used secret
revolutionary practieee. The new Coadjutor will return
to Spire till next month, and then go-to Cologne.
The Correo Nacionatstates that while Rubini was at
Madrid he sung in a .concert given by a society for the
relief of distressed religious sisters and military invalids.
The receipts amounted to more than 16,000 reels
(4,000 fr.), and Palafox announced, in the name of the
invalids, that, with the genuine spirit of Spanish gal-
lantry, they gave up all their share of the profits in fa-
vour of the religious sisters.
The Borsenhalle of llamburgh mentions the death of
the father of the student Frederic Staps, who twice at-
tempted to assassinate Napoleon. The old man was a
Protestant Minister, and was aged 84.
A Toulon letter, in the Constitutionnet,
says that
Admiral Baudin, the Maritime Prefect, has just caused
several persons, employed in the dockyards, and various
departments tinder his control, to be arrested on charges
of fraud.
The Saone at Lyons froze so suddenly the other day,
from the stoppage of the floating ice, that seven barges,
six of which were empty, were caught in the ice, and the
loth inst.;'
were crushed and sunk.
prAessugreenbdeairnmgee, excessive, were
on duty at Maulevrier, in the
Maine-et-Loire, a few days ago found a poacher armed,
who fled at his appearance. The gendarme pursued him,
a Report
sayssultphielurCcomomnptearncye,h(ecldthae
but he turned round when on the point of being taken,
and discharged his fowling-piece point-blank at the gen- 14 On the
darme. The latter was killed on the spot, and the mur- Shareholders of the Sicilian
derer, though immediately followed by two other gen- general naeeting, and declared the Company dissolved,
. Majesty in
darmes, who were at hand contrived to escape. M. A. Taix, one of the responsible managers, in The press in Belgium h'as during several years been which much interested the meeting, gave just eulogiums
increasing in productiveness. In 1837 it produced 180 to the energy of the King of Naples, in °PPusing the
original works, in 1838 210, in 1839 290, in 1840 320, . pretensions of Etiand in this affair. Re also paid due
and in 1841 348. They were . divided as follows : homage to the high probity of his Sicilian
General history 5, history of Belgium 43, literary his- executing the :Convention which followed-the decision of
tory, philology, and bibliography 6, literature 52, bio- I the French Government, after it had in as a
graphy 16, fine arts 11,
.grammar and lexicology 10, mediator. M. A.,Taix then mentioned the- satisfactory.
juridical and legislative sciences 13, medicine and stir- condition of the Company, and alluded to the zeal shown
gery 17, travels 3, theology and-philosophy 7, commerce, by
.the Duke de Montebello in its behalf. Before sepa-
industry, and administration 7, botany 3, political, reli- rating, the meeting, after having expressed its eatisfac-
gious, and other pamphlets 57, public instruction 7, nu- , tion at the
voted
mismatics 3, mathematics and meehonics 6, statistics and : thanks to the Ifrench bas actor for 13,10 able as..,
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political e°n°ll/7 2' acaderak essays 41, ];dry 1, gen.- 'I sistauce." •
Aoble conduct of the King of Naples,

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales
and the Princess Royal are in excellent health.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
Mr. Lucas with another sitting, for a full length
portrait, to-day.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended
by Colonel Jones, took their departure yesterday
from the seat of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir
Castle, Leicestershire, to honour the Earl of Car-
digan with a visit at Dean Park, Northampton-
shire.

Lord Ashburton and Mr. Hume had interviews
with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Beverley, as Captain of her Ma-
jesty's Guard of the Yeomen, of the Guard, has
appointed Mr. Ellerthorp, 'the Clerk of the
Cheque, as his Secretary.
The Cabinet Ministers dined last evening with
Sir James Graham at his residence in Hill-street.
Lord Ashburton transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office. Despatches were also re-
ceived from the Governor of Ceylon.
Despatches for the Governor of West Australia
were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office.

-
LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
MANCII[ESTER,4tvEsDAY EVENING.
The attendance this forenoon was superioito anything
previously seen during the winter; and the room might,
indeed, be called crowded. The business gone through
was, however, much less than might have been expected
under such circumstances.
THE CHESTER TRADESMEN'S PLATE.—The accept-
anceshloansgbeerelnayh•
ela2rttoilyl ahgacahinescti
stilnieceSoquurirehiastt.whsiocoh
to be declared on the Ist February. No one
fil%g'ilulreanhje.
to 30 was offered against any other. Galaor was backed
at 500 to 20, and also at 500 to 15. Una at 40 to 1
and afterwards
.at 35 to l't the taker would have gone
on. Bellona appeared to us to be second favourits ; an
influential gentleman being open to accept our quotation.
Rory O'More, Rodanthe, and Cormorant are " close up."
As well as we could glean, the average prices against the
horses most in force to-dat were as follows :—The field v.
any thirteen for 1001.—offered several times, take fifteen.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's lot—off
12 to 1 agst The Marquis of Westminster—off
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire—off
200 to 11 agst
' Any
other—of
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Bellona—no layers
20 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Cormorant—off
20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More—off
20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Rhodanthe—off
25 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Galaor—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Mustapha Muley—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. 'Teen's Una—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's Ruler—taken.
Sleight-of-Hand, Lanercost, and Cruiskeen, were not
backed. We should say 25 to 1 would be laid v. any of
them ; 200 to 10 was offered v. the Young-un and Poten-
tate, coupled.
T" DERBY.—Nothing was done direct on the lead-
ers; 23 to l was offered v. Robert de Gorham, but two
points more were wanted. Auckland would have been
backed in several quarters, but the outside offers of 500
to 20 did not exactly suit; 2,000 to 30 was taken upon
Baronet, and then offered ; 450 to 10 was laid v. The
Artful Dodger ; 500 to 15 bid v. The Meteor-40 to 1
wanted ; 1,000 to 25 agst Johanna offered ; also 40 to 1
agst Defier—takers of 50 to 1 ; 25 to 20 on Attila v,
Chatham—taken.

graphy 1, periodical miscellanies 29, annuals and alma-
nacks 12, the scenic art 4, and various other works 11.
The number of journals remains very nearly the same,
for though some have ceased to appear, others have
come forth to supply their places. The reprint trade has
assumed a great extension in Belgium, being occupied
in nine-tenths of its business with French works. Thus
a Belgian Company is now selling for lf. 40c. the same
work which M. de Balzac sells in Paris for 7f. 50c., and
which other Companies in Belgium self for 3f. There
are 2,000 subscribers to the works issued by this Com-
pany, and they receive a volume every week at the price
of 70c. Another Company is publishing, under the
title of Tresor Historique„the best works of French con-
temporary historians, at lf. 25c. for the octavo volume.
Thus Thiers's History of the Revolution, which sells for
40f. or 50f. at Paris, and for 20f. or 30f. by the larger
Belgian Companies, is sold by the Company in question
for 12f. 50c., and it is illustrated with 10 lithographic
portraits. There are 2,000 subscribers to this work, and
it has returned a profit of 2,500 f. in ten weeks. The
historical works of De Barante, Mignet, and Villemain,
have been equally successful.
The Cardinal Prince de Croi, Archbishop of Rouen,
has just given 3,000 f. to the poor of that city.
The Augsburg Gazette has the following from its Paris
Correspondent :
" Notwithstanding the persevering efforts of M. Hu-
mann, and the considerable reductions in the army ex-
penses made by Marshal Soult, the Budget about to be
presented to the Chambers will show a deficit of
30,000,000 f. If we reflect that, during the last year,
Algeria alone cost 130,000,000 f., a deficit of this extent
considering the state of derangement in which the Ad-
ministration was found on the accession of the Cabinet of
Oct. 29, will not appear to be so very great."
The following is from a letter from Vienna of the Bth
of January :—" Since the sth of this month, Henry of
France (The Duke of Bordeaux) has been out every day
in a carriage, and descended (without being carried) the
staircase of the palace which he inhabits. These trials
have restored to the muscles the strength and pliability,
which a state of forced repose had made them
lose. Dr. Wattemann seems to be certain that
by the end of the month, the Prince will be able to
walk, with the assistance of only one person. He conti-
nues to receive many marks of attention. The Emperor
sent one of his aid-de-camps to compliment him on the
new year. All the Archdukes have visited him, as well
as Prince Metternich and the members of the diplomatic
body."—Gazette de France.

It was affirmed yesterday at the Foreign-office that
the Cabinet of the Tuileries had addressed to the Spanish
Government a note relative to the French resident in the
Peninsular.—Coastitutionntl.
The English Journals have not arrived.
The concession of the right of search creates a great
sensation in the journals, the most inclined to optionism,
which have preserved the least spark of feeling
for the national honour. Thus the Americair pub-
lished at Brest, the port which saw Duconedie return as
conqueror, but paying with his life for his victory over
the English flag, cannot allow that such a stipulation
has been agreed to. The refusal of 111. Guizot to com-
municate the treaty may already prove to the Americair,
that its hopes are ill-founded. What is honourable is
not concealed in this manner. The Moniteur has said
that the treaty was not ratified ; this is.an additional rea-
son for examining it, since it is still time.—Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 17.
Hest Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price.
Drench 5 per Cents ...... 117 90 ... 118 ... 117 85 ... 117 95
4 per Cents lO2 20 ... 1.12 20 ... 102 21 ... 102 `.'o
Lo 3 peran Cents .«.. 70 90 78 90 ••• 78 as *•• 78 85
79 35 ... 79 35 .. IS 35 .. 79 35
dank of France
.... 3360 .
3,6
Laffitte Rank 5.000 f. Shares 5025 ...5025 —5025 ...5025
4eienin Rank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cents., 1940 105% ... 105%
... 1054 ... IVS,
St
ipanish Active ..... y 7) ... 254 ... 5
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% 5 '
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Neapolitan . lO7 60 197 60 ... 107 60 ... .07 60
................... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARER.
810 ••• 840 ... 810 ... 848
Versailles. K. B 337 50 237 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50
L. 8..... .......... 213 15 ... 206 15 ... 206 15 ... 206 15
%mien ........ "•..
Orleans ....... 513 75 ... 515 513 75 515
itrasburg to Bale, 232 50 ... 232 50 2.10 230