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C•TTI.t •T WARM :
Brast% I.BBl—Sheep, 4.oBo7Pigg, 140 —f'alvei
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et ... 0:1 to 4. 8J I Pori ...... 4a Od 51 Ad
'%ltitton . 44 Od 4, 61 Lamb Os 0,1 Os (hi
Veal
Hay (pet mold). 1:2. 51. to AI 4.. Clover. £3 3s. to £0 tot.—
Straw, Al 10s. to Al 18s.

NFWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Dec IG.
By the Carcase.—Per stone of M..
Beef, 646 d to 3s. 41 Mutton, 2s Od to as ad. Veal, So 04 to 4.
ad. Pork 2o 104 to 41 4d.

Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, .E 1 15s. to £2 10s. New
Ditto, £2 ss. to £3 ISs. Useful Old, £2 10s. to £3 101. Fine
Upland Meadow and Nye Grass Flay, £4 Ss. to 150.. New Clover
Hay, £2 101 to £3 10,4 Ohl ditto, .C 3 Os. to 465 Os. Oat Straw,
.24 10s. to £1 12.. Wheat Straw, .E 1 12s. to Ll 16.. per load of 36
II VMS.

N EV ENIN4; STAR.

This afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council
i•p•enibled at the Foreign Office, attended by the Luau
It A NCELLOR, Earl GREY, the Marquis of LA NSDOW NE,
Lord DURHAM, Viscount MELBOURNE, Viscount PAL-
r ItsTos, Viscount Gopeiticit, the Earl Of CARLISLE,
Viscount ALT lIORP, Lord HOLLAND, the Right Hun. C.
GRANT, and the Duke of Ricii MOND.

This day deEputches were received from Lieutenant-
Colonel ARTHUR, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman'a
Lund, dated the 18th of August.

Lisbon Mails have arrived this morning to the 3rd De-
cember. They are silent upon the subject of the discontent
and confusion, which are notoriously known to prevail in
that Capital.

Quebec and Halifax papers—the former to the 12th No-
vember, and the latter to the 30th October—are this day
received at the North and South American Coffee-house.
Their contents are unimportant.

By way of Van Dieman's Land we have accounts from
Swan River to the 14th June. The late accounts from
thence appear to have been exaggerated, as the present by
no means confirm the sufferings the settlers were said
to be labouring under. The late shipwrecks had caused,
a new anchorage to be fixed upon about a mile to the south-
ward, called Britannic roads, from the brig of that name
having just entered it, and having rode out the late gale of
the 20th May in safety. Some buoys and beacons for the
guidance of the shipping on Cockburn Sound had been laid
down by Government, and this place they state to be an ex-
cellent and safe anchorage.

The French journals, received by the Estafette this morn-
ing, are, in their contents, peculiarly unimportant; being
principally occupied by the details of the funeral of BEN-
JAMIN CONSTANT, and the eulogies delivered at his
grave. Our Readers will find below, a sketch of
this deputy from the pen of our own correspondent ;
and it would only be loading our columns unneces-
sarily, to the exclusion of other matter, to make ex-
tracts on the same subject from the French papers. The
deceased Deputy, as one of the most rational and con-
sistent supporters of liberal sentiment, in Europe, merited
the honours thus paid to his remains, with the enthusi-
astic profuseness charactei istic of his countrymen. He
was not one of those dazzling meteors which shoot so rapidly
across the political horizon of France,—but his qualities
bad something of the solid and philosophical character
more assimilating with what is reckoned great, in Eng-
land, than what is too often worshipped as great in
France. He was a Protestant ; and there is displayed in
Lis writings on all subjects, a calm sedateness of reason-
ing, well suited to the unadorned sanctity of the religion he
wpfessed.

If our Readers are anxious to study the signs of the
times, our Paper of this day will afford sufficient matter for
meditation. They will find detailed in it some account of
three Meetings, which took place in , the Metropolis, all of
a character, marking strongly a boldness of investigation,
sad corresponding boldness of opinion, which only a few
short years ago, were very unusual.

We attended the lecture of Mr. WILMOT HORTON, of
which an excellent analysis will be found in another part of
oar Paper ; and were particularly struck by the exhibition
it afforded, of the powerful influence of reasoning,
when delivered with the manly eloquence of earnest sin-
(verity. The company were attentive, and seemed to be
convinced by what he said, of the entire fallacy of
much which forms a part and a main part—of
popular political opinion. We allude to the
ge-
oerally received notion, that retrenchment of our expen-
diture, and reduction of taxation, will relieve the dis-
avows of the labouring poor. In the dedication to Mr.
WiLatoT HoaTon, of the published correspondence
between that Gentleman, and a select class of
the London Mechanic's Inatitutioa, from which we gave
some exti acts in a former paper, is the following passage.
It is addroased to Mr. W. Hu RTON, from the class, to whom
he had schmitted his propositions. " They (the class) have to
neknowleige, with the warmest feelings of gratitude.
the deep tense they entertain of your oradosocaolon,• is

affording an almost isolated example of a gentleman
in your rank in life, familiarly communicating va-
luable information, to a class consisting principally of ope-
rative mechanise, and patiently passing through the kind of
catechetical ordeal, to which you have voluntarily submitted.
But if those who move in an elevated sphere would more fre-
quently mingle with the humbler individuals who constitute the
great bulk of the population—if, as you have done, they would
freely impart the knowledge which affluence and leisure have
enabled them to acquire, and would thus avail themselves of
opportunities of ascertaining, by personal observation, the pro-
gress of intellectual developement, amongst their inferiors, in
the gifts of fortune, there is groat probability that a mutual
benefit would result from such inter-sommunication,—that
the rich would form a more accurate opinion of the senti-
ments, feelings, and capabilities of the middling and
lower classes,—and that, in the minds of the latter, real
respect would be substituted for i.s merely exterior mani-
festation."

We have extracted this passage because we deem it im-
portant. It is not the people that are to be fearcd, if the
people be instructed properly in their interests. For a long
period, the notion, that iu ignorance there is security, was
too generally entertained by the influential classes
of society in this land ; and the few years that a kind of half-
light has been admitted to beam upon the people—a half-
light often the very cause of optical illusion—they are
likely from hunger, and other circumstances, to be awakened
into a fearful conviction of their irresistible strength, and the
equally fearful, because it will he found erroneous, conviction,
that they possess a correct knowledge of their interests.
Well was it last night said by Mr. HORTON, that the ope-
rative classes are co-partners with the wealthy—and joint
will be their sufferings, should violence destroy their present
relation in the organisation of Society.
Some of the corn-ricks of Mr. B v n, M.P. near Barnet,
were last night burnt to the graund. We regret to hear
such intelligence; for a more tried and steady friend to the
rights of the people, has never taken a seat as a Repre-
sentative in Parliament.

The business in Parliament last night was confined to the
presentation of Petitions, and Notices of Motions, for
future consideration. In the House of Lords, the Regency
Bill, with amendments, was brought from the Commons ;
and, after Petitions were presented on the Truck System,
Redress of Grievances, and Parliamentary Reform, the
House adjourned at an early hour.
In the House of Commons, there was no debate, the
Honourable Members being occupied, for the brief time
during which they sat, with petitions and notices of motions.
Mr. ROBERT GRANT said, that he would introduce his bill
for the emancipation of the Jews, on the 15th of February.
The questions of certain Sinecures, and the Magistracy of
Ireland, came in for a share of attention ; and about seven
o'clock, the Houso adjourned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE-EXCLUSIVE.

PARIS, Dzc. 14.

SIR—On Sunday last, I attended the funeral obsequies of
the deeply-lamented Benjamin Constant, and surely never
was a ceremony more imposing, or grief more apparent. His
death at the age of sixty-five, although he had long been
an invalid, was unexpected immediately, and a general
gloom was to be observed, as the melancholy intelligence
circulated through Paris. In the minds of the people, he
was associated, with every recollection of what is great and
good; and for many years past, he has been their uncom-
promising advocate. Born in Maeda, and descended from
a French family, expatriated for their attachment to the
doctrines of the reformed religion, he was, throughout hie
useful and varied life, the bitter foe of Catholic intolerance,
and both in his writings as a publiciste, and as an
orator in the Tribunal, he was the intrepid defender of
the moral and political liberties of mankind. He was
educated at a German university, during his younger years,
but it was in Scotland that he added the superstructure to
the foundation laid at Gottingen. While pursuing his
studies, be acquired the friendship of the late Dugald
Stewart, and our eloquent historian, Sir James Macintosh,
who will sincerely deplore the loss of a valued correspond-
ent. During his first visit to Paris, in 1787, he became
acquainted with the Encyclopedists, who reigned at a pe-
riod, when philosophy was all, and morals but little re-
garded. His penetrating mind saw through the factitious
brilliance of their tenets, and his better nature led him to
reject their sophisms, however decorated by wit or elo-
quence. After the stormy period of the Revolution in 1789
he occupied a distinguished place among the political writ-
ters of the day. Principles so uncompromising could not
be supposed to flourish under the Empire, and Napoleon
honoured him with exile. He passed this period in travelling
through Germany, accompanied by Madame de Stahl Hol-
stein, and many traces of this association may be observed,
in the brilliant dialogues of Corinne. He shortly after-
wards married a German lady, and retired for some years to
Gottingen, where, by his studies, be laid the foundation of
his work upon religions, one of his best literary productions.
The fall of Napoleon, was the signal for his descent into
the arena of politics, and as an ardent lover of liberty he
took a distinguished part, in the discussions upon the
Charter in 1814, combating every attempt made
by the newly-returned Bourbons to regain their ar-
bitrary power. On the return of the Emperor from Elba,
be saw the destruction of representative government fast ap-
proaching, and although not devoted to the Bourbons, united
to Lafayette and the patriotic party, be called upon the na-
tion to defend their lately-acquired liberties, and rally round
the Throne. The call was unheard; the spirit of military
glory had not subsided, and Napoleon was borne upon the
shoulders of his army to the Tuilleries. The Bourbon.
fled—an European coalition threatened the Frontiers, and in
common with many other excellent citizens, he transferred
his allegiance to the Emperor, thinking, no doubt, that to
avoid a dismemberment of France, was the imperious duty

of all. This act of his life has subjected him to many calum-
nious remarks, but he did not consent to serve the individual,
whom he had every reason to call his personal enemy.
As a member of the Council of State, he was
instrumental in procuring, " L'actc additionel" a constitution
not executed, but of which the provisions were even more
liberal than the charter itself, and if some errors glided in,
we know that they were combatted by this intrepid cham-
pion. In May, 1815, be published his " Principes de Po-
litique," in which he freely exposed its faults. This will
clearly show, that his adherence to the Imperial government
was equally honourable and disinterested. Since the restor-
ation not a public act has taken platy in which he has not bees
conspicsous, and the distinguished part he has taken in
French politico must be familiar to your readers. Hostility
to England seemed t• be a lading hature of his character,
and he sever Ammo bs adhesion to the Holy AWanoe,

which he considered parricidal in a free country. Since
the glorious days of J sly, when be rose from a bed of sickness
to put himself at the head of the patriotic band, the general,
generous sympathy which Great Britain has displayed towards
the new government, altered his seemingly invincible dis-
like ; and it is pleasing to reflect, that be contemplated in
his last hours the possibility of France and England making
sommon cause against the dispotic sovereigns of Europe,
and that the grasp of friendship should supersede the deadly
encounter. Happily for him, like Moses on the Mount
of Pisgah, he saw, ere his death, the sacred flame of the
goddess he had so ardently worshipped, gradually en-
lightening the continent of Europe, and every day burst-
ing into vigour. He might have been rich, but he died
poor. A subscription has been opened for a monument, and
another for his widow. The ceremonials of his funeral you
will see by the journals. He reposes in the cemetery of the
East Pere le Chaise, until the anniversary of the 29th of
July, when his remains, with those of Rochefoucault,
Liancourt Manuel, and Foy, will be dignified with a sepul-
chre iu the Pantheon, again to bear its former inscription,
"Au grands howbeit, la Petrie reconnaisante." After the
discourse of a Protestant Minister, Lafayette, Odillon Bar-
rot, Lusa* Baleen*, and Delaborde, pronounced eloquent
orations over his grave, which is near that of Mumma.
Upwards of 20,000 National Guards assisted at the cere-
mony, and at least 100,000 people were present, who be-
haved with the greatest decorum. The latter part of the
procession was illuminated by innumerable torches, pro-
ducing a fine effect.

I am, Sir, &c.

.1. H.

P.S. We are still without later intelligence from War-
saw, but the German papers, although under a restriction,
give every reason to believe, that the Polish revolution will
not be easily put down. To-morrow commences the trial
of the ministers. Paris was never more calm, even animo-
sity roems to be at a stand. Tho publication of the evi-
dence has done much to effectuate this ; and whatever may
be the result, the Government has no reason to fear any
disturbance or riot. The preparations made are admir-
able. J. H.

CITT. ONE O'CLOCZ.

Little or nothing is as yet doing in Consols, which left
off yesterday at 82j, for the Account, and opened this morn-
ing at 824. at present they are 820. The reported Revo-
lution in Prussia, at Konigsburg, has caused some anxiety,
fearing it would extend further. Further accounts on the
subject will be highly interesting. In the Foreign Market
nothing as yet.

The- letters from Paris to-day are of a gloomy descrip-
tion, in regard to the commercial distress of that country :
money is exceedingly scarce there; there is also a great
want of confidence. I stated, that some further accounts
are in town from Poland, and that the insurrection has
become general through Poland,
The Account of four English frigates having appeared off
Ostend has caused some excitement in the City, by a hich,
it is thought, that if the Kin; of Holland should still refuse
to comply with the request of the Powers, England and
France will cause a free Navigation of the Scheldt.
Consols, which were in the previous part of the morning
821 for the Account, have, within a short period, receded to
821 ; at present they are 82} , with little doing.
The Foreign Market continues without interest, and
prices much the same a yesterday.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
Accounts from Alexandria, in Egypt, of the 22d Oct.
state, that the timid conduct of the European agents to-
wards the Turkish Authorities, produces daily sad cons*
quences. Three Frenchmen have been assassinated ; also
an Englishman at Damietta. Both the English and French
Consuls hare remonstrated to the Pacba on the above hor-
rid deed.

We have just heard that Mr. Hunt was ye sterday re-
turned Member of Parliament for Preston, by a majority
of 411.

The books at Lloyd's contain this morning a further long
list of losses, and the underwriters hare generally been very
severe sufferers throughout the year.
The Leeward Island and Jamaica packet is detained until
Saturday.