The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

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BI as eftlifialli If • the %Assn.:so boils BI ewe to tbe Mg VW 11:473 Valt IMAM of Adel ad osse Is Imilli Kai /dad ol Ith ahouwl so To be bad ell IL Pain•Adwerow : Osnethek Ilt Illest. ..... , ', kn .. oik : Nolo., ,ile Rat Wall ; Or area team Ibisailve. 10. A Lemat.4llloL LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY, o' Clock. As all that has reference to the appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, is at present exciting .r. much attention, we append some selections, which ' will be perused with interest. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Trentham, December 18, ' widsb kis grace the Duke of Sutherland has ad , iremed to the Rev. Dr. Bowled, vicar of Stanton ; . Lacy. His grace, after expressing his great malaise ' non with the appointment of Dr. Hampden, says: I happen to have moans of knowing that when LordOres rill* appointed Dr. Hampden to St. Mary Hall, he was not sequinted personally with Woo, but collected to the beet of his power the opinion of the varsity at that time, when , Dr. Hampden's lectures had already been for some months ' before the public. The preponderance of opinion was greatly in his favour. Some of those who have since been moat bitterly violent then recommended him. I believe that no disapprobation was expressed until the paldisetion of his pamphlet in favour of the admission of die '." NOM is the urivenity. ' I have written this from feeling sure that it will be liter ' alai to you to know the opinion of such an authority as ' End Grenville, and you may make any nee of the informa tion I am thus able to give you that may seem desirable. Very truly yours, SUTHERLAND. The Rev. J. Bowles, D.D., Stanton Lacy, Ludlow. We annex some extracts from a letter recently ad dressed to the Convocation of Oxford: The proposed actclress nom the clergy and laity of Oxford to Dr. Hampden (which has been sent to me), the printed papers accompanying it, and the general language used by kis advocates, appear to me to place the University in a posi tion most painful to contemplate. The plain, manly, straight forward course to have pursued at the present juncture woad, in my judgment, have been to say, whatever may have been the ophoons of Dr. Hampden in 1836, or when , his Hampton Lectures were preached or puplithed, the views he has maintained and the statements he has made in his seherquent teachings and writings, prove to our satisfaction that he is round in the faith. The condemnatory statute of 1836, by the clause, " donee 'liter Univereitati placuerit," Beall contemplates the possibility or probability of its . spoil. Let it now be repealed. I, for one, voted, Mil did more than vote, for its enactment, in justice ~ to the church and university, and I will now gladly . VTits repeal, in justice to Dr. Hampden. A vote nation is the legal, authorised, and customary ex of the opinions of th e university, and must' • reg a rded ie as the solemn and authoritative declaration of its judgment and will, and as such binding upon all its mem bers—just as • law enacted by a majority of votes in parlia ment ia binding upon the whole realm ; and individual members of Convocation are bound by honour and duty (not to change their own opinion', but) to submit their own will and judgment to that of the University, and to seek a change in that, if they think it ought to be changed, by legitimate methods. But what do we now awe ? Members of the University uniting to cry down i 6 authority. proclaiming - neuenewidesmer ails to bus solemn mockery, labouring to render some of Its highest powers a mere nullity, and to prove that its praise and amsure are both utterly valuelege— ton et prefer= nail. • • • • The advocates of Dr. Hampden are now arguing Wke wards, and from his recent teaching, and from events owl movements which time and circumstances have Woos tio. veloped, are drastiog unjust inferences, in order to fin a stigma on the proceedings of 1836, and on ell who took a part in them. Bet is Dr. Hampden infallible? And busies hen now right, does it follow that he was always right ? Wu not the subject of his Hampton Lectures an obscure subject? Did his mode of speaking sever partake of that obscurity? Wee there no possibility that his own views might then have been far from clear ? May not fresh light have since broken in upon him ? Might not others, then, have perceived snot or danger where he did not perceive it ? And if these things be se, what disgrace would it have been to Dr. Hampden.-- would it not rather have won for him the praise of a humblifl and noble spirit, to have confessed that he might have loft 1 wroug, and to have made at leant a conditional of what (though unintentionally and unconsciously on ' rule" part) wen false or erroneous in the judgment? Ho boo effect said, " I do not hold any opinions at variance Vl the fundamental truths of Christianity u taught is tits authorised formularies of the church of 'England, nor did I' ever intend to impugn them." How easy it would have been to have added, " If to the mind of any candid inquirer I appear to have done ao, I solemnly disclaim such opinions, and retract every statement which may convey such a meaning, as far at the meaning is concerned." And if Dr. Hampden would yet act in this manner, as instead of saying, as ho still does (in 1837), " I see no reason for changing a single opinion, or retracting a single state. meat" I am persuaded it would do more to allay the present I ferment, to inspire confidence, and give peace to the church, than all the other words and acts of clergy and laity, or even ministers of state, spoken and done in an opposite spirit ad thus would his elevation to the episcopate be rendered a source of comfort and honour to himself, and usefulness to the church, such as, otherwise, it cannot be. • • CHARLES RICHARD CAMERON, M.A., Ch. Ch. December 21. The annexed petition to her Majesty, from the clew and laity of Hereford, is at present in the course et signature : We, the undersigned clergy and laity of the diocese of Hereford approach your Majesty with mingled veneration end attachment, to express oar alarm at the efforts which are now being made to interfere with the free exercise of the royal prerogative in the ancient and undoubted right of appointment to vacant bishoprics. We believe that this most insidious attempt to destroy per Majesty's free agency se head and supreme ruler, under God of the national church, is pregnant with danger, whethit; considered in respect of its immediate and avowed object, ter in regard to its collateral consequence' on the fundamental laws of our church polity. We are unfeignedly impressed with the vital importunes of maintaining our church government in its entirety, mod we therefore deeply deplore the conduct of those amongst the hierarchy and inferior clergy, whose present proceed bogs are calculated lb first suspend, and then abolish, that branch of the royal prerogative to which the church owes its security, lied the uncontrolled exercise of which is mess tial to the protection and preservation of the union of church and state. We are the more alarmed because the originators sad abettors of the opposition to your Majesty's appointment et Doctor Hampden to the see of Hereford belong principally t i o t. a . J.ara, ils ni t a t i l ly of ose who m m h f ave 7 y eed re e m d a t in o f n ho t ain c r bi ch of arch of England are noted for their attachment to Romisk doctrines, rite., and ceremonies, and seek to revive the - stem of intellectual despotism and degradation which the Reformation was the great instrument of undermining and demolishing. We, therefore, humbly pray your Majesty not to be in fluenced by those who are endeavouring to convulse and disorganise the church by appealing to prejudice and mis conception, and who seek to " Darken counsel by words without knowledge." According to the Morning Post, a memorial against the appointment of Dr. Hampden, pur porting to be from the clergy of the diocese, was on Tuesday presented to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; and it is added that the de putation who brought up the memorial were most courteously received, and were assured that " the dean and chapter deeply felt the importance of the subject, and were resolved on dealing with the ques tion in a manner which they had no doubt would be generally accept able to the church." From this me morial we annex some extracts, remarking, however, that the Post does not profess to give the actual docu ment, bat says that it was " to the following effect": To the Very Rev, the Dean, and the Rev. the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, the following me morial of the clergy of that diocese is humbly submitted : "The church is looaing anxiously to you, and cannot with hold its prayers that you may be enabled in this, as in all other caws, to exercise that right judgment in all things which the trying circumstances of the day demand on your account. A more fearful crime for the safety and integrity of your venerable body than the nomination of Dr. Hampden to the vacant throne in your cathedral has not ooeurred since 111, feu 1721, when your predecessors in Otos acquiesced /,, , . Bishop le tt e rtattatat of E • oy Hoak, to the what dims* of H PP The ausatial next pleads the Oitlard censure on Dr. the Hanyise, and then gently suggests martyrd oms to You t i e lli rer;al twelve days for the eaulderatioa of this anteletaatati. sal twenty for poeseliag to the election. Ao a etaller el elelleedes eor anadates sake, the law beet inpaides spa yea to .is 111 h usenime, ace to pto Dew dank anymisurpu dean eat they the reel Late, that yea thew Dr. Itai ! The taw haves yes lose le lillii AS eisiskess ffiatess--esiew ghee per stardsaso a slarreare, Wei di Sot diesels 1 eepostamire—lt ghee yea ea spdsa, ft doss sot Wyss a i sessolty. The team h tagards - g what will the data sad tiepin , do ? Will the sessud - wad desire, and elms ma& mostly the ~. 'deem. to tint with the staiwat i university easems, dbauslilsatisa, eM want of esedidoese ? Or will day all, or artless. into shoics et the alter. native to la essissssi ream flea spin fill their throne with a seesaw to Mho. _H•ellay, intone theology ete is the ddles. to Ode ana Emelt a imamate standing aware in the fade ltristi lryn any do gna t' ' for the chur c h un d er an im . _ ./)--? datepmedilitg view atent wb bit most mem without a con. animism trbisk b amMeneginte, Yam may hell , ker; many came ber end a wit stnititede other sons and servants by one act of limner in your stage of the pro ceedings which remain before Dr. Hampden can become a bishlt becomes one duty, as the clergy of the diocese over which Dr. Hampden Is nominated to preside, to urge most respectfully upon you the duty you owe to the church in this important mins. It is an occasion of the utmost solemnity- -a matter of the highest importance—and the r m il: i m p look to you for the maintenance of these great less , which, in the present time, ought to be firmly M t y i ttir memorialists will ever pray, &c. • meeting of the clergy of the archdesoonry of Notting. .barn was held yesterday in that town, for the purpose of con sidering the best steps to be adopted under the present exi gency. About seventy clergymen were present, including the archdeacon (Dr. NVilkins), who presided. A motion was made by the Rev. W. J. Brook, vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham, to the effect " That this meeting does not con sider itself called upon to espiess any opinion with regard to the appointment of Dr. Hampden ;" which wee seconded by to. Rev. C. Meyer, of Booth ()cantina. On the other band_, an amendment was reposed by the Rev. B. P. Denis, of Cliftes, and esertsdat by the Rev. J. Butler, meter et St. Nicholas, Nottingham, stating , " 'hat this meeting, without presuming to express any condemnation of Dr. Hampden's theological opinions, wonld ;egret if his appoint ment to the bishopric of Hereford should be completed before the remonstrance of the protesting bishops should be vrith drawn." After a smart discussion tke amendment was car ried by a majority of 54 to 26. THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S PASTORAL LETTER. Rev. and dear Brethren,—There is every reason to expect, as far as human judgment tan look forward to coming events, that the cholera, that fearful sad mysterious disease, which is again traversing the surface of the globe, and tracing, in characters which even the careless can hardly fall to read, the power of God and the helplessness of man, will before long make its appearance on our shores. It is stated in the first report of the metropolitan sanitary commission, which has just been presented to parliament, that, according to information received from the English consuls abroad, this pestilence is steadily advancing upon precisely its former track in 1832. It appears to me that the near approach of this fearful malady, while it gives to all • solemn warning, suggests certain duties of a special kind as proper to be undertaken by the ministers of religion, in addition to what may be deemed the more peculiar functions of their spiritual office ; and it is to these that I shall, in the first instance, request your attention. As, on the one hand, it is clearly one of your first duties to impress upon the minds of your people, what ever be their condition in His, the necessity of an implicit trust in God, and of an entire submission to his will, se ea the other hand you will discharge an office of real piety lad charity in urging upon them the importance of removing aII those physical causes which invite the approach of anassit and aggravate its malignity; and in endeavouring is r e. spade them that, while we may not look for a blessing upon the resources or contrivances of human skill if they are sot employed in bumble reliance upon the power and goodness of God, so neither, if we neglect to use all probable and practicable means of prevention and preservation, ham we any reason to expect that He will especially it team ao rescue us from the consequences of our own negligence. It is abundantly clear, from the inquiries which have been made during the last few years, that the most powerful pre disposing causes and aggravations of disease amongst the poorer inhabitants of our great towns VP, in the first place, a want of cleanliness, and, in an inferior degree, intempe rance and an insufficiency of wholesome food. With respect to intemperance, no fact was more clearly proved than this, during the prevalence of the cholera in this country, th at it found its readiest and most helpless victims amongst the votaries of drunkenness and vice. But as a preservative from this, or from every other epi demic dimities, cleanliness is even more important than tem perance; more important, because the want of it is more extensively mischievous. The intemperate man is rendered liable, by lila Tide, 10 fall an easy prey te &aeon The evil nits short his single life, and is so far personal only. But it is the property of uncleanliness to propagate itself, and its injarions conssersessoms A drynkord tom. be rsedgthe cause of Ids gown untimely death, and than the mortality ends ; but an uncleanly person will live in an un cleanly habitation ; and that person, and that habitation, will be each a lamas of disease sod infection, when sick ness comes • a centre of contamination and death to a whole neighbourhood • and with this additional and fatal peat lianty, that Uncleanliness speedily converts the milder forms of disease irate the more malignant. The dirtiest neighbourhoods were in every ease those where the cholera first appeared, and where it assumed the mat fatal type nor were instances wanting where it broke out to all ap pearance spontaneously, with no discoverable existing cause but that of extreme filth. It is stated by the autitan commissioners, that whereas, " when it previously visited this country it was believed that the moot powerful predisposition to this disease is in duced by improper or deficient food, and that for this reason its chief victims are found amongst the poor. it is now uni versally admitted that a far more powerful predisponent is the habitual respiration of an impure atmosphere ; that the highest degree of susceptibility is produced where both these conditions are combined—that is, where people live irregu. laxly, or on unsuitable diet, and at the same time filthily; and that, in places in which a great degree of cleanliness is maintained, the poor as well as the rich enjoy an exemption from this disease. That on an examination of the actual state of the back streets, lanes, courts, and alleys of the metro polis, it is found that in general little or no improvement Les taken place in their sanitary condition since the preva lence of cholera in 1832 ; and that were this disease to break out again, in the present state of these localities, there is no reasonable ground to suppose that the pestilence would not spread as extensively, and prove as fatal, as on ifs former visitation." These statements, which are borne out by abundantly. sufficient evidence, appear to me clearly to point out a line of duty for the p arochial clergy, in which they may rendm themselves eminently useful, and which is surely in class correspondence with the mature of their office as the miniature of a gospel of love ; for if to visit a sick parishioner and to minister to his recovery be one of their plainest duties, it is a still more blessed work of charity to rescue, under the blessing of God, whole maws of their poorer brethren from the inroads of disease. Suffer me, then, reverend brethren, to urge upon you the duty of an active personal co-operation with the authorities of your respective parishes, or district', in carrying out every practicable measure of sanitary precaution and Improvement ; and of calling their attention to the sub ject, and inviting them to form local committees for that purpose, where you perceive a want of knowledge or of activity. Your own share in this work of real bene ficence will, for the most part, bo the not very easy task of convincing those who are its objects of the advan tages of cleanliness; and of persuading them, by motives of the most powerful personal kind, to adopt the suggestions, and to submit to the regulations, which are intended to pro. mote their safety and increase their comfort. You possess, from the nature of your duties, a larger experience than almost any other persona of the actual state of the dwelling s of the poor, and of the nature and extent of that evil, which is sometimes, no doubt, the result of theirown ionorance or carelessness, but much more frequently, at least in the metropolis and other great towns, of deficiencies, which they have no means of eupplying, and of obstacles to cleanliness, which it is the duty of other persons to remove. The poor of this country are not by nature, nor inclination, indisposed to cleanliness on the contrary, it is almost al ways found, that if its means and appliances be placed within their reach, so as to be aeceseible without much cost ce trouble, they gladly avail themselves of them ; and it is never to be forgotten, that if thousands and tens of thou sands of our fellow Christians are at this moment living, and that too in the very neighbourhood of our most sump tuous palaces and hall, in the extreme depths of physical, social, and moral degradation, and expend to the most imminent danger of perishing by disease, that is not entirely, often not at all, their own fault; but the fault of those 'rinse duty it is, not only to teach them the benefits of cleanliness and decency, but to do something towards furnishing them with the means of being cleanly and decent, which, under their actual circumstances, is nothing less than I SD impossibility. Intemperance and filthiness are too frequently the results of want ; and unless something be done for the relief of ex treme indigence it will be an empty mockery to tell those who are borne down and crushed by its weight that they would bo less miserable if they were less filthy. Your wealthier parishioners should be reminded that their poor neighbours are, in too many cases, exposed to the clanger of perishing by want, as well as by disease; and that if it be a work of charity to protect them as far ,s human means can protect them, from the inroads of pestilence, it is a still more sacred and urgent duty to rescue them from death by starva tion. But this is so obvious a truth that a passing allusion to it will be sufficient. The extreme closeness and inconvenience of the miserable tenements or apartments occupied by the poorest classes, at rents the excessive amount of which cripples their means of comfort and cleanliness; the inadequate supply of water; the want of all provision for ventilation; the absence of all convenience* for personal ablution and house hold washing—these, and the disgraceful state of the sewer age in the most crowded parts of the metropolis, are causes which engender or aggravate disease, and hurry great numbers of our fellow-creatures and neighbours to an un timely grave. Ido not hesitate to express my opinion, that such an amount of practical and personal attention to the removal of these evils, as may not seriously interfere with the discharge of those duties which are of a more purely spiritual kind, may be not unreasonably looked for on the part of those cJ L~t~~~ _ G Torms THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 23, 1817. [3d. whine saw binds them W story exertion of charity, by whkk Sir soy pawls lie ![scent and eternal well-being of **people eamillei W Asir care. I lay the greater tens lipia b t s tet, sews It is certain that persons m imed fa rtitsry and filth sre for the moat part insomniao In the motive, and the emoolatioas of the gogel. Let it them be one obleet of yeer vats to observe the sale at the pose non's ▪ with ne= e both to its Manua sermensy, end Oaths elks precincts. Call the attention of *sp▪ umes isle" to each cases as may appear to require their layelreass ; and rep mind those members of your flock , whom Providence has entrusted with the moans of alleviating the misery of their fellow-creatures, that a portion of their charitable expendi ture can hardly be more safely or profitably directed than towards defraying the expense of cleansing and ventilating the miserable abodes of those by whose labour they are directly, or incidentally, benefited; and yon may add, that • very moderate outlay, judiciously made, will accomplish a great deal in the way of such improvements. There is another point connected with this subject, re specting which it is most desirable that you should instrwet and enlighten your parishioners, especially the poorer clamsc s seeing that ignorance or misapprehension of the real state of the case may lead, as it has heretofore led, to a neglect of the most obvious duties of humanity, and to a grievous ago ravation of all the horrors of an epidemic disease. I allude to the mistaken opinion as to the suppoeed contagions nature of the cholera, to which the sanitary ooramissioners refer in the following terms : " When cholera tint appeared in this eountry, the gene- I nil belief was, that the disease spreads principally, if net entirely, by communication of the infected with the healthy, and that, therefore, the main security of nations, cities, and individu al, connate in the iso lation of the infested hem the uninfected—a doctrine which naturally led to the enforcement of rigorous quarantine regulations; the establishment of military and police cordons, the excitement of panic, and the neglect and often the abandonment of the sick by their relations and friend,. Since opportunities have been ob tained of • closer observation of the character of this disease, and of the mode in which it spreads through continents, na tions, cities, towns, and families, facts have been ascertained which are incompatible with the foregoing view of its mode of dissemination ' and of its prevention. They are of opi nion that the dis ease is not, as it was then generally sup posed to be, contagious, and that the practical application of that doctrine did no good, but wet fraught with much evil." . . • It is stated by Mr. Greenbow, as quoted by the commis sioners, " that when several member, of one family have beta attacked, it has usually been either so precisely or nearly at the same point of time, as to forbid the belief of one having communicated the disease to another. And - that the true principle of the occurrence of such plurality of cases is to be found in the common existence of predisposing causes, natural or acquired, and a common exposure to the efficient cause of cholera. " That in the hospitals of Newcastle and Gateshead, where, were there any such agent u contagion, it must have been present in its most concentrated form, no case has oc curred of illness arising from attendance on the sick, either in the persons of the nurses, the resident apothecaries, or the attending, or numerous suocession of visiting, members of the medical profession. "That the notion of persons being infected by the dead I bodies of cholera patients appears equally unfounded, since ' such suspected casts are referable to other causes, and those most exposed to contact with the dead, as medical men, in pursuingpost marten' examinations, have not, in any in stance suffered." Other evidence of a striking kind, to the same effect, is produced in the report of the commilaioners, who add, that " the witnesses concur in stating their belief that the belief in contagion operates unfavourably both on the sick and the attendant," " I daily see," says Mr. Hoover, " the pernicious effects of their belief in contagion. I see patients affected with typhus and other epidemic dis eases, neglected, and even abandoned, sometimes by relatives and friends, and always by neighbours, from the appre hension that they themselves shall become the subjects of the disease." _ . I do not Presume to hazard an opinion of my own as to the much °imputed question of contagion; but I am sure that the deliberate judgment of the sanitary commissioners, grounded upon the evidence of able and intelligent members of the medical profession, and apparently borne out by facts, ' may well be considered to justify you, as friends and advisers of the poor, in labouring to relieve their minds from an ap prehension which is calculated to chill and repress. their natural sympathies at the very moment when they are most needed, and to make them neglect the discharge of those rional officm,of kindness to their sick friends and neigh bour', which ardtben most urgently required, to seoamkthe exertions of medical skill. With respect to your oet dnty in this particular, I feel that it would be something worse than superfluous to offer anything in the way of advice or exhortation. The fearless and untiring charity manifested by aill• patea . Li . lli clergy daring the former prevalence of cholera, in visiting and consoling their sick and dying parishioners, is too well known to require from me a single word of commendation for the past, or of direction for the future. I proceed now to offer some suggestions with respect to what may be more strictly termed your spiritual duties at the present crisis; and if these suggestions come last in order, it is not because I deem them less important than those which I have already made in the former part of this letter ; but because it seemed to me to be more necessary to invite your attention to the necessity of those charitable exertions which are only indirectly, as it were, and coatis gently, a part of your duty, than to those which are obvi ously bound upon you by the very nature of your office. If I advert at all to these, you will consider that I do it only in the spirit of friendly counsel and encouragement, and, u the Apostle says,—" To put you in remembrance, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth." I have before said that we have no reason, humanly speaking, to expect an exemption from a second viitation of the cholera ; and that it is our duty to use all the precau tions which science and experience have suggested for mitigating the terrors, and checking the ravages, of that fearful disease. Bat we are not to forget, that all events are in the hand of an Almighty and merciful God ' • that it may probably be His good pleasure, contrary to all human expectation, to spare us that infliction, and that whether it be so or not, it is our plain and unquestionable duty to throw ourselves upon His mercy, and to implore His pro tection and indulgence. I would therefore suggest to you the importance of earnestly and affectionately exhorting your people to increased degrees of seriousness, and vigilance, and self-restraint ; and of frequency and fervour in prayer to God, that it may please him to avert from us that calamity, which we most justly have deserved ; or, that if it should seem fit to Him, in His inscrutable wisdom, to lay the scourge upon us, we may submit ourselves with all humility and meekness to His fatherly chastisement, and have grace to turn it to our profit. la urging upon the people committed to your charge this most important duty of deprecation and intercession, you will have many motives to suggest, which it cannot be need ful for me to particularise to those who are conversant with the promises of God contained in Holy Scripture; but I would remind you of one topic which appears to me to fur. nish a special ground of encouragement to the performance of that duty on the present occasion. Yon are, no doubt, aware of the remarkable fact, that when, 15 years ago, this deadly malady was stalking through the land unchecked, baffling by its novelty and sudden forte all the resources of human skill, the day of public fasting and humiliation, on which the nation proclaimed its dependence upon the power and goodness of God, while it earnestly besought Him tostay the plague—was immediately followed by a sensible abatement of the disease; and that, in • very short space of time, its entire disappearance called forth the voice of thanksgiving and joy. Now we do not presume to assert that this happy change followed from, though it followed close upon, our public acts of humiliation and prayer; but certainly the solemnity I and apparent devotion which marked the observance of the day of fasting, were not more remarkable than the speedy decline and cessation of the disease ; and I hold it to be much more unreasonable for one who believes in God's providence to deny the connexion between the two, than it is to admit it, and to regard the deliverance which God then wrought for us in the light of a distinct answer to prayer; affording solid grounds of thankfulness for the past and of hope for the future. _ . _ If the effectual fervent prayer of one righteous man availeth much—if the intercession of Abraham would have sufficed to rescue from destruc'ion the devoted cities of the plain, bad ten righteous men been found therein ; who shall , presume to set a limit to the efficacy of those prayers which ascend to the mercy-seat from the lips and hearts of a peni tent and humbled Christian people? Seek, them, to impress upon the minds of those whim you are appointed to teach, that by earnest and persevering sup plication. in their private devotions, in the offices of domestic piety, and in the public worship of the sanctuary, made effectual by lII§ intercession in whose name end merits they are offered, they may do much towards the safety and hap piness of those amongst whom 'they live, as well so their own. Teach them to look upon the warnings and visitations of Almighty God in the light of solemn calls to repentance and amendment, and of invitations to strengthen their trust in Him, and to animate their piety; according to the Apostle's exhortation, " Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear; for our God is a consuming fire." Admonish those who Sr. sta tioned en the vantage-ground of life, that after the most strenuous exertions of benevolence on their part to avert the threatened scourge from their brethren, they themselves may fell under it ; and that the best preparation for all classes is to do their duty, and to put their trust in God. I need hardty remind you, that while you endeavour to impress upon your people the duty of a special attention to prayer ; they are also to be admonished, that no prayers will be effectual but those which are dictated by truly penitent heart', sad seconded by godly, self denying charitable lives. Increased fervency in prayer will be vain and profitless, if there be not a oorresponding increase in the fruits of the spirit—love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. If, as is but too probable, the visitation, which we apprehend to be drawing near, should actuall come upon ue, it will be speci ally needful to incu lc ate upon those who axe connected the tics of family or neighbourhood, the duty of acting f ully up to the spirit of the Apostle's precept, which indeed relates to the sins and weaknesse of erring brethren, but Is not less applicable to their bodily wants and diseases, " NW ye one another's burden, and so fulfil the law of Christ." Trusting that the peculiar circumatanoes of the present trials will be thought to justify me in addressing to you the foregoing suggestions, and earnestly praying that the hands of my feDow-labonrers in the ministry may be strengthened by larger sauenres of grace to meet the increased and /n -uts:inn difficultiu of their gamed calling, 1 remain, reverend and dear brethren, your affectionate friend and servant, C.. 1. LONDON. Fulham, Dec. 10. ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN. PARRINODON WITHOUT. FINAL CLOSE or VIE POLL.— (16 members.)— Thep lling was resumed this morning in the New Court, Old Bailey, at 11 o'clock, and finally closed at two, when, the numbers being as follows, Mr. Lees was returned in the room of Mr. Prendergast. Mr. Battled Bernard Purser 26.3 ' —re= Wwiama 314 Prendergast Taylor Ituekatester 179 Anderten 3lO COLEMAN-ST FINAL CLOSE.—(B mem this morning, In the Ward-scl closed at two o'clock, when th Mr. Atka 133 11all Hide Obbard 33; &OW 981 Bata 278 Hadpon 269 Lr 269 Walter 289 (IW:Wm lB2 264 FLEET WARD. ben.)—The poll re-opened ooh, London-wall, and finally numbers were: Mr. Bracher NM= ... 137 12 151 Daum l4O l The d Mona ist eight were then declared daly elected. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Tate DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Baton Mr. Oceushaioner Evans. Ix as KitAPP.—TSI ADIXODON BARK.—To-clity wu appointed for the last examination of this bankrupt, who had carried on business as • banker at Abingdon, under the style or firm of the Abingdon. Bank. On the first meeting for the choice of sniper the bank rupt did not surrender, but had dose dose so, and was now in attendance, but no accounts had yet ban Sad. A great number of proofs were admitted, principally a sates of the bank; and, after some discussion, the examinatiamwas adjourned until the bastion-sheet is filed. The debts ere stated to be about 70,0001. or 80,0001., but the amount of the dividend is very uncertain. THE POTATO CROP. A farming correspondent, writing to the Montrose Standard, in a letter dated from " Braes of Angus, Deo. 13," giving a history of his present year's potato crop, says: "I planted nothing this year but the round reds, and 1 got them put in the ground on the 21st of April in what I considered excellent order, having them dunged with farm yard manure, properly prepared, and had them hoed about the middle of June; and a fine, strong, healthy plant they appeared to be. Nothing occurred with them worth noticing until they were secured in the pits, for when the cry about the beginning of August, concerning the ftirre of the potatoes, I examined mine, and found not the least appearance of anything wrong. I was just situated like many more, or I may say like all, this season—that is, afraid to risk much breadth of land with them; therefore I only planted five bolls altogether, or about the sixth part of my usual quantity. I had them all removed from the ground on the 4th of Octo ber, in most excellent condition, and had them pat into a pit, covered with dry turf, both quantity sad quality being good. I thought froper at tint only to oover them slightly with earth, and do it by degrees. I opened the pit in dif ferent places, and at different times, to see if they were keeping well, which I found they were to my entire satin faction. Thinking all uses now right, I gave myself leas trouble about them for some time, until about two weeks since, when I beard it afloat again that the potatoes were all wrong. I immediately open , dmy pit, and found the dis ease had commenced with all its former rigger. I resolved to have them turned, and the bad ones picked out, but was prevented from doing so by rainy weather. Last week, however, I observed about three yards of my pit sink down. The weather was still rainy ; but I saw that there was not a single moment to low in trying to preserve a quantity for wed; and, to my sad mortification, I could not find more than fourteen bolls anything like good amongst the whole tasty bolls that I put into the pit. I do not expect the one-half to remain sound, and perhaps none at all. I may remark that one of my farm servants, who has a house on the farm, had about four bolls of pota toes, from different seed, put Into a small pit about the same time` and I Teel° exuaine,them also. and, found them equally bad ;consequently, the - large qutity'put a together wee not the cause of their going wrong. Allele farmers that I have been conversing with about them, for some time bete, say that their potatoes are all gone, or nearly so. I was present, on three neighbouring farms, at the examina tion of their pita, and found them all as bad as my own." We regret to learn, says the Rosa-shire Advertiser, that the pitted potatoes in Stornoway are rapidly decomposing, which has been the case on the west coast generally. Those pits in our own locality that have been lately opened, we are glad to state, have been found free of any further de composition. MADRID, Doc. 16. The sitting of Congress yesterday was most im portant in more than one point of view. It was distinctly proved that a parliamentary majority may act with as little regard for the fundamental laws of a constitution, with aa little conscience, as the most arbitrary despot that ever breathed.. The case which elicited this featare in the mode ; nide majority of Congress, and brought out that party in their true colours, was the question whether Arrazola, mi., Mater of grace and justice, was subject to re-election. The logic and equity of the business lay in a nutshell. The 25th article of the constitution of '46 was thus : " The deputies who receive from the government or from the royal house . hold, pension, employ, which is not a step of promotion in ; their corresponding career, commission with pay, honours or decorations, remain subect to reelection." ' The preceding rule does not comprise deputies who ere appointed ministers of the crown. This clause, introduced at first with the view of a separate and special arrangement re garding ministers, which was never completed, although quite negative, has been assumed to except ministers from the necessity of re-election. The motive for adopting so ques tionable an maga was to avoid the appearance of disrespect towards the crown, in case an electoral body shoald think proper to throw out • ministerial candidate. Now Senor Arrazola was a member of the council royal, with • salary of 50,000 reels. He was then appointed fiscal of the supreme tribunal of justice, with an increase of pay amounting to 10,000 Teals, and ceased of course to be consciero-real. Now, as the step front the consciero-real to the fiscalship was not a step of promotion in Senor Arrasola's career, although his pay was thereby in creased, it follows that he fell under the law of the constitu tion, which submitted him, as • oortes deputy, to re-election. The posterior feet of his becoming a minister of the crown evidently could not, by a retrospective action, exempt him from the obligation of having recourse once more to the electoral urns ; for that would be equivalent to the crown appointing a deputy, • prerogative totally oppued to the notion of representative government. Well, in the face of this reasoning, as demonstrative end incontrovertible as the truth of Euclid's first theorem, the Congress decided yester day, by a majority of 113 votes over 43, that Senor Ane mia should not be subjected to re-election. Olosaga made an excellent speech, in which, with the suave irony that points his massive arguments, he put the facts and rights of the case with irresistible clearness, It was more important, he said, to exercise a certain vigi lance ' in discussing these cases of re-election, as he found that through the prodigality of the government towards the de puties of the nation, these oases amounted to the insprece. • dented number of 60. IHe drew • powerfal contrast between the severe rigour with which some deputies had been sub jected to re-election and the exemption of others in defiance of all rule. Senor Lloreute, because he had had the impru dence to accept a high civil office one day, of which he had been deprived the next (Lloreute was one of Escoeura'e governadore ssenerales) had been subjected to re-election. Arrazola was not present. " I regret that that minister is not present," said Olosaga, with one of his timeliest smiles, "as I should have liked to hare addremed these arguments directly to him. We have lung lived together as good col leagues, end I have bad many occasions to admire his discern ment. Perhaps his absence at this moment is not altogether casual, as I think, if he were present, so accomplished • logician would hardly maintain that he was not subject to , re-election." It is impossible to render the effect which ' Olozsga's peculiar style of speaking produces upon the house. . . A special commission hag trim appointed by the crown to draw up a project of law on the trade in corn. A circular has been despatched by the Minister of the Interior to the custom-houses, modifying the arrangement made by Sala manca, when he abolished the Internal Adusnas (customs duties). The amount of Senor Orlando's estimates of ex. penditure for the year 1848 is said to exceed fourteen hundred millions of reels. SlAM.—lntelligenoe ban been received from Bangkok to Sept. 16th, by the King of Siam's trading barque Lion. His majesty still continued on good terms with the English merchants, and bad expressed himself favourably disposed to an extension of trade. The sugar crop was very abundant, the bulk of which will find its way to Singapore in the king's vowels. The war with Cochin- China for possession of Cambodia (the gamboge country), still continued with the weariness which has marked it for years put. By the Lion, the King of Siam sent a deptita lion, with a letter to the Singapore executive, which wsa presented in due form on Oct. 19th, to the Hon. Mr. Church, the resident councillor. The letter, which was written In English, was enclosed in a decorated box, and presented on a Siam made wooden platter or tray. From what has transpired, the contents of the letter were of a friendly na ture, and had reference chiefly to the king's wish to main tain trade on a footing even more liberal than heretofore. Before trade can be satisfactorily carried on, a British con sul moat be appointed, to afford protection to British sub jects ; for at present they hold their heads at the will of the king, whose power is absolutely despotic. At Bangkok the market was abundantly supplied with British manufacture. from Singapore ; sales were effected at rates scarcely remu Inman. 411.] LONDON, 1 A„ NORTH WESTERN BANK or INDIA.—The draughts of the North-Westent Bank of India were to-day refused acceptance by Mesas. Glyn and Co., their Loudon agents, until the arrival of the utit mail. This is a joint stock bank, established at Meerut, in 1842, with a paid-up capital of 300,0001. It has paid dividends at the rate of 12 per cent. per annual, and its deposits and other liabilities are supposed to range between 100,0001. and 150,0001. — Morten, Paper. Massa& Hums AIID Huremem—lt ia arranged that the first instalment of ss. is the pound, sal, as thek composition effected by Maas. Hattie cad HMeldees, who failed in the grain trade oa the 10th of Septemberg i s s r ar le , paid to the creditors in ths Mat fe MEN Ma w days. it will be remembered, nub terms to pay 15s. in the pommel, and, simultaneously milk the prassat distribution, bah are to be given (or the rassabokie al the amount in the following proportions : ss. at four amen, 2a. 6d. at Wins months, and 2.. 6d. at fifteen smiths. SUPERFINE PROOFS.— A Proof of Kindnen.— Getting any one to accept an Art-Uniim engraving. A Proof of Gratitude.—Getung a person, not only to accept one, but actually to say " Thank Too," and afterwards to frame it. A Proof of the latter is exceedingly rare, and would, we are confident, fetch a very high price amongst connoimenrs.—Purick. TALLOW.—The market steady, at 465. dd. as +he spot. CORN.-BASINGSTOICE, Dec. 22.-A full market; trade brisk for dry samples, at an advance of 10s. per load those out of condition at last week's prices. White Wheat, 141. io 161. per load ; red, 131. to 134 15s. ; inferior, 121. 10s. to 131. Floor, at an advance of 21. per seek of 2801131. • Breed, 12d. to I3d. the gallon loaf. Best Chevalier Bans; was Is. per qr. dearer; grinding and others at the last quotation; fine Chevalier, weighing 541hs made 355. per quarter; second quality, ; hiferier, 3(4. New Malt hem 6e•. to 60s. per qr. ; old, 58e. to 62.5. Oats in good de nand, at a trifling advance, the best Poland., weighing 421bs. ' mule 275. to 28s. per qr.; good feed, 235. to 255. Beans rather scarce, some old, weighing 86th.., reached She. per qr.; moderate, 48s. to 501. Peas, best boiling, 48e. ; grey and maple, 42a. to 445. per qr. Rye at 16e. to 17s. per auk. Winter 'Tares, 6s. Bd. to la. per seek. BOSTON, Dee. 22.-Having a very large supply of Corn at market to-day prices of Wheat were no higher, and some quantity remains untold. There was rather more disposi tion to take Oats and BMAs at late prices. Whim., red, 445. to 50s. ; fine, 525. to 54e. • white, 465. to 52a. ; fine, 535. to 565. Oats, 16s. to 21s. Beans, 365. to 38s. Cuicvnterna, Dec. 22.-We were largely supplied with all descriptions of grain to day. Wheat met with a steady 'sale, at en advance of Is. on the prices of lam market. Other 'articles moved off slowly, with little variation in prim. Wheat, 50s. to 645. Barley, 28s. to 335. Oata, 225. to 25e. Beane, 40s. to 44e. Peas, 365. to 38s. Flour, 395. to 40s. Enema, Doe. 22.—This was a well attended market, and a larger stroke of business was done in English Wheat, at an advance of a very decided character. Foreign Wheat wee in large supply, and in this also no little business was done, with sosething of an advance in price. Foreign Wheat, red, 60Ibs. per bush., was sold at 60s. per qr. ; Danteic, at 60s. ; good descriptions of foreign, at from 53a. to 665. • Turkish, 461. to 48a. • Odessa, 535. to 6.55. Ame rican b a rrel Flour, 30s. per b arrel. HALIISWORTH, Dec. 21.—The condition of the Wheat on offer was materially improved, and sales were made at the figures of our bat without any advance. Barley in good supply, and a lively demand was evinced at our quotations. Weather clear and frosty. Wheat, per quarter, 481. to Ma. Barley, 265. to 32a. Beans and Peas, 386. to 42e. Oats, 246, to 30s. Nawerrrtz, Deo. 2L—A pest deal of rain ham again fallen since Saturday, but to-day the air is much drier, and with a tendency to ft,at. At our market this morning we had a good supply of Wheat from the grown, and the arrivals coastwise u well as from abroad (more especially from the latter source) being liberal, any advance was resisted by our millers but at the rates of Saturday a tolerable clear ance was effected; the best south country red makiisg 69a.; choice new foreign, 58s. ; and Danish qualities, 660. to 67a. per qr. ; all weighing 631 b.. per bushel. Far Flour there wee • steady inquiry; favourite marks of households be seleable at 406. to 416., and other sorts in proportion. Gf American our market is pretty well cleared. Rye excites little attention, 346. being an extreme value for tine con ditioned Norfolk. Malting Barley in fair request, but the turn lower, and the same may he said of Malt Beans and Peas without change. Oats rather firmer. ROXPOILD, Dee. 22.—Wheat about Is. dearer. Barley Is. cheaper. Beans, Peas, and Oats the sane. Wheat, 48s. to 61s. Barley, 304. to 334. ; grinding, 2.6.6. to 295. Beans, 32a. to 40s. Peas, 36a. to 455. Oats, 225. to 30s. Bye, 30s. to 32. Rre, Dec. 22.—Our corn market this day was well at tended. A great many samples of Wheat offered, and a good trade done, at full 2.5. per qr. higher than last week. Oats rather cheaper, say Is. per qr. Other kinds of grain , about the same. White Wheat, Ma. to 54a. Barley, 60s. to 52a. Oats, 26e. to no. tiru.Dreto, Dee. 22.—Our supply of Wheat only moderate at day's market. Farmers are firm in their demands; prices have had an upward tendency. Dry samples Is. more money; others at full price.. With Oats the supply heavy, at a decline of 6d. per qr. Beans, new, Is. lower; not many showing. Red Wheat, 601 b.., 48e. ble ; 631b5., 51s. to 63a.; white, 601te., 49a. to 622. ; 631b5., 625. to 661. Oats, 10d. to lid. per stone. New Beam, 66elbs., 375. to 40e. DUBLIN, Dec. 24.—Our supplies still continue very small, and, in some instances, an advance of 6d. on Wheat and 3d. per barrel on Oats was realised. Indian Corn ' also, was la. Der qr. higher. Other articles wore a ready sale at the currency of Friday. Wheat, white, 275. to 335. ; red, 26e. to 311. per 280 Th. Oats, 10s. to 13a. per 1961ba. Barley, 14s. to 17s. per 22.41 be. Indian Corn, 28e. to 395. per qr. of 480 lbe. Oatmeal, 13s. to 14s. 6d. per cwt. Seconds Flour, in gecko, 16s. to 17e. per cwt. American, 291. to 30s. per burst. HOPS. BOROUGH MARKEY, The o' C7ock. Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, Hop factors, report that the market continuo p the same. Neer If kE. Ken 41. 0 tont. 12 Yearling leaate.P.mt. 141 U. l Wl6 to 4 0 Yeartlng game ~ 6to 1 1 3 New Bur: . 2 10 to 310 Old Hoge „ 1 10 tot I BetinrOeroite, Dec. 22.—Trade improving ; best Fern hams, 61. per cwt. •, old, 41. lbe. ; Alton., 41. ; Bentleys' 31. lbs. ; Oolikams end other Sussex, 31. to 31. be. Woncserna, Dec. 22.—But little business has been transacted. We do not expect anything like a renewal of the trade until the spring. HAY.-SIOTHYIELD, Two o' Clock-Yew& Cooper and Davis, Hay and Straw stigmas, report the following yy nee r4l.oe Ileadolv 66t. to 7114 Roma Ma to 68.. I Straw.. 2:.A. t• 18% Inferior Ws. to Otia 1 Clover. S.. . 70a. to 146. CATTLE, Le.-CructrasTEß, Dec. 22.-The 'ap ply of fat stock was scanty to-day, being so soon after the Christmas show market, and busies. proved dull. Beef, fat and prime, per stone of Mts., 4s. 4d. to 4a. fid. Mutton, 4s. Bd. to ss. Veal, 4s. to 4s. 2d. Pork, 41. 6d. to 41.8 d. Fat Hogs, 4s. to 4s. 2d. Young Porkers, 4s. 411. to 4e. 6d. Store Pigs, 14s. to 18s. each. Sides of Pork, (or salting, 41. Bd. per stone. Exams, Dec. 22.-The supply of fat Bullocks was small, but they were generally of a good,and in some Instances supe rior description, and not only cold, bet with a firm suppert of prices. The quotation. must be stated at from 565. to 70s. per cwt., or 10s. to 12s. 6d. per score. Butchers' Calves were from bid. to 6d. per lb. Ike show of Sheep WY very large, and some were remarkably fine. The quotations mast be stated at from 51d. to 7d. per lb. Of store Sheep, a lot were sold at 38s. each, sad a lot at 38s. Cows, Calves, and store Cattle may be q noted at from 91. 91. to 151. 10s.. or from 411 6d. to about 495. per cwt., or from 71. 40. to Bs. 101 d. per score. With respect to Barrenen and Heifers, varied as thee* were in condition, some of those in a fleshy state fetched 40s. per cwt., or 7s. per score ; and some of those fresh, and what may be termed meaty, 37. 6d. per cwt., or 61. 6d. per SOM. For articles that were poor, however, there could not be obtained above from 30a. 6d. to 345. per cwt., or Se. Bd. to 6s. per score. - - • - - LIIDIWILT.—At this fair there was a very small show of Beef, which readily sold at from 6ed. to lid. ; higher figures were asked but mold not be obtained ;'a few useful Oxen for grazing were readily disposed of at good prices. The show of Sheep was small, but of good quality , and sold at 7d. But few Pigs shown, and nothing doing is the Hone fo'r. LOBOS, Dee. 22.—There was scarcely an average supply of fat Beasts at our cattle market this morning, yet those shown did not meet with very brisk sale, u the butchers butchers were not disposed to give the prices asked , although many were of superior quality. Of Sheep the show was not extensive, and they met with but dull sale at prices rather on the decline. Sournstt, Dec. 22.—We had • short supply, and hide heavy. Beef, per stone of Slb., sinking the offal, 2s. 104. to 68. Mutton, 41. to 6e. 6d. Veal, 48. 6d. to 61. 6d. Pork, 3s. 10d. to 4s. Sd. For Yesterday's Market* ass toot page. SHIPPING. HAILS ARRIVVD.—DubIia, 3 ; Waterford, 2 ; Dsnaghades 1 ; French, 1 ; Flanders, 1. LONDON, Dec. 23.—Wind this day at noon, 8.5. E., light aim, and dull weather. DEAL, Dec. 22.—E.N.E.—Arrived : Euphrates, for New South Wales ; Royal Shepherdess, fir Ceylon ; Montes, for Monte Video ; Amy, for Sierra Leone ; Charles Brook, for St. Vincent's; Blanche, for Jamaica. Sailed : Anne Mil ne , Port Philip; Mary Rowe, Cuba; Britannia, Mobile; Thetis, Bt. John's; Emily, Marseilles; Gloria, Trieste; Richard Mount, Spa. DOVER, Dec. 22.—E.S.E.—Arrived : Lind, for Osterlep ; Rio Janeiro, for Bremen. HOLYHEAD BAY, DEC. 21.—Arrived: Mary, for Newfound land, from Liverpool. Daerr.azooL, Dee. 21.—S. by E.—Arrived Patriot, Mirimachi. RAMeIOATII, Dec. 22.—N.E.—Sailed: Ariel, Mauritius ;. Mathilda, Rio Janeiro,_Constitution, New York. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. *LB.—N.B., weather Soc.—Sailed : R. J. Knight, New York. Arrived: Nunez, Rio Nunez . ; Weatherall, Odessa ; Napoleon, Nouvelle, and Societf, Cherbourg, DTBLIN, Dec. 21.—B.E.—Sailed: 20, Palendcr, St. John's, N.B. FALMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Sailed: Isabella, Sierra Leone; Creole, Dominica ; Eleanore, Port-au-Prince ; Orline, St. Thomas; Joseph, Messina; Monarch, Leghorn; Acadia, London. Arrived: Fawn, Gibraltar ; Isabella, Alerandrie. Put in : Brig Cawton, Sierra Leone, lost 'Unctuous, bul warks, caboose, stern shaken, &c. ; barque Saguenay, Mo bile, leaky. Sailed Dido, Charleston ; Peter the Great, Marsei Iles. WATERPORD, Dec. 21.—N .E.—Arrived : Jessie, Quebec. WHITBY, Dm. 22.—The Ann Gales has been got off shore, with little damage. The Mary and Jane (steam tug) struck against the pier in assisting the above, and became leaky, end sunk. Fowix, Dec. 21.—A long-boat, 19 feet long by 8 feet broad, painted black outside, with a red ribbon, was brought in here to-day. BKIBBRIARRN, Dec. 20.—The name of the timber-laden vessel wreaked itiossoao, to seam by have gone . able to find the name , bulwarks w Cotton, with DHOOHEDA, bottom and 'line south-east FLYKOUTII, Matthew, P- Arabella, novas, don to Cape 27th ult., weal.. harbour, with co. larrti HAMM on shore to the 'ash. I brought into harbour. 'eked at Gun Point, Cape Clear, is the Mary Jaae. ORD, Dec. 21.—The water-logged barque brought r by some fishermen off the Saltees, is supposed to e down, as the boat sent in was na- nd her. She had a carved • _l_ _ • , and commenced with the letter ••-• was buff colour, a ri t th oA a , l;' ' .inluted Dec. 2l itri a . P. — Two shi • nd blue sides, were .• " ten iisids • it of Arklow Lights, by arrived bu m . IVTR, Dee. 21.-84110 d: " , Mawridlta , Paintbauf; hamlet, ••‘ ' • Baltimore. Deo. 22.—The Vika= I ps CoastCaatle, which was gran. • • • 7 was this day got off, and towed into • •• e with aompara ti little damage. I HAMPTON, Dee. 20.-11te Atalanta, which was to the eastward of this place, has been got. off, and COMMERCIAL k MARKETS. MONEY MARI(ET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Two o'Clock.—We have had a firm market, with Consols, alternately buyers and sellers, at 851, for the opening, until within the last half-hour, when the report became current that no deviation would be made in the Bank parlour, to-day being the weekly board-day, from the minimum rate of discount, nor in the basi - nese arrangements of the establishment as respects loans on stock and Exchequer bills. Upon this report Console underwent a slight decline, and are now quoted 851 to for the opening, but with transactions of little importance in the house. The near approach of the holidays will have the usual effect of indis posing dealers and speculators from active operations, unless in the case of some existing political event. Reduced Threes, 841 to 6. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 861 to Exchequer Bills, Be. to lls. pm. Bank Stock, 1861 to 81. Money is reported to be in demand, and obtaining higher rates. This may probably result from the disappoint , ment in obtaining that loan accommodation on easier terms than the Bank minimum rate, which had been calculated on in some quarters. We have little change to note in foreign securities. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. come from Amster dam, where they continued in favour on the 20th instant, at 55 7-16 ; here they remain quoted oat to to 61 ; the Fours, 851 to 6. Spanish Fives, 18 to ; the l'hrees, 30 to ; both improved rates. Portuguese, 22 to 3. Mexican, 171 to 18. Danish, 82 to 4. Peruvian, 29 to 31. It was reported yesterday, but apparently without sufficient authority, and is reiterated to-day, that Messrs. Lysaght Smithell and Co., whose temporary suspension was announced on the 9th inst., have re °rived advices from India, by the mail yesterday, of so favourable a character as may probably lead to their resumption of payments at an early period. Quarter-Fitt Two.—lt has just been notified at the Bank that the minimum rate of discount is reduced to 5 per cent., and that advances will be made on stock and Exchequer Bills at the same rate. Console, upon this intimation, have advanced to BSI to for the opening. ENCILL3II FUNDS. Bask Mak. 1/116 G 1 per Ct. Cosa. for Ac., 351 f 3 pot 01. le& Atm.. Mt 6 3e pot (oto. set l por Ct. Oatit. A.m . shot lixdotquao Milk as to Ito. F. vop!Tori Fus 65. 6 pee Ct. AgAPAINS 3011;:arl 1 per ait. Grenada Edo, 18 11 49 pa Ct. 8•744.7kad5‘1111 91 Wanda Deferred Bds., 3 9 34 pot OM. et* 6 per Cl Merano, 1846, 174 15 6 %le t N a ir &V an ' 75 li I P 66"1. P6r o rt66 eir .... R6 Ade,.i2l " 4 per Ot Damn Arial Ns., 24 10 6 p wr Realms isdo, 106 8 Ditto Chill= lido, Il i g m I I>isto Bpaninig Bd., 18 4 Ditto Colin:ob. D4f. 8 per Ot. 613acia. Yd., 30 i columet._ Studer 110.. 5 swab& Warred BAL , 11 11 Ipa Ct. D• 41111 Ma. OS 4 I Smola, Ponta Ede., 39 ke *per Ot. Datelt Di., 14 59 3 por Ct. Yampa& Ida., 34 4 4 put Cl. Gera DO* 469 6 Visioosla Deterred Ids., 9 11 • RAILWAYS.—There was a much better feeling in the market to-day, and at the opening all shares ral lied with the improvement in Consols, but became again doll on the report th►t the Bank had not re duced ,iti4 rate. In French shares the rise is more apparent, and the Northern of France are 21 to pm. --- - - SALES PEITZTED UP TO TWO THIS DAT IN LONDON. (Yesterday's prime will be round In oat pegs.) Bir. & Oxford lon., 224 4 Man., Bur , and Mgt., 1 Boaklnghanalstre, 613 4 Midland, 1041 7 41a Cal= 3r t 4 2 11 779 . 501 , 6 3 7 k I Camden 13 1 4 Do. Rea s. soma Derby, 401 Do. Ra. 6 pee Ct. No. I, per ILldkalDis.ll6la& Mr . 4 per Ct., Lin. and oWrow Halves, 123 119 ite Greet Northern, 41 N Ot. North of England. 233 14!=11111114A 6/ Gt. Western, 93 4 Biwa. OWIL. and Reigate, 71 Do. Halves, 66 koala Oislol. 21 D 0.104, 161 16 6. E. & Dewy, 203 I Do. Plfths, 23 De. girds. No. 4, 61 I Do. New 17L, II Bout& Woks. 6 Hun k Dolby, 94 Pork, Nom , &Bar., SS 21 Laneedor k Qtr., 34 Part lb N. MANY, 72 lons. end Tort !Vika 74 De. E. /6 W. Mak. E=.,171 4 Do. Frisks Is Wyre Halves Hookups awl Rakes. 141 1 Leleitr l i Bsdlord, 1 d D N.etlbm ill 7aL Lon. and N. Western, 14 6 64 Orlesninal 6I Do. !litho, 101 Perin Inict i li4 Do. 10L, Y. & R. (C), 41 Parks 4l Lou. and & W. New Uniolida Led Bamako nal lierra Eighths, 374 LIVERPOOL BALM Dents U. P&L, Lena & Chest. (Isho Chest. rook Is Mask Pref , 334 9d. and Birkenhead), 13a Issimike.W4otern Nov Think, & 1 Edinburgh Northern Glasgow & Dninhiat, 7 Pref., 131 IGO Lane. St d York. Fifths (latell. and D u o. HAWN. . 401. sb.. 411 444 1 B.), 14 Innetat. et Culla* 63 S. E. & Dow New, Uri k N. Wen., 146 Do. Na 4. it/ 4 Do. New Qrs., 41 1 Whitelsaven and Pnrsens, 64 41 MANCHESTER SALES, DIMES= 33. Bolloo,Zlaekbors, —.... 6:llF. York D.. f. (B), d Feet lenesselre Neer, 1 d Fleet-, Pres., end W. B. In., 4f d Rad. & Ilan. R.& C., d Do. Thirds.lld N. Iltederdelgre, I 11-let YORK BALM York. Hl;*„ ... H. It 11„ 10d Do. W. B. II„ Sj d Mao, &a t, 110. Mrs, No. 2 , Do. 8 1 m(. Lba, d 8. E. R Dover No. 1, 211 d Tort, Non., and Her. Latio, (No.2),tylD Darman 22. great Northern, 4i Leicester and Bedford, 111. 3d. N. Belden Thirds, U. 9.. le Do. Qr.., 4 7;17 i10rr.72; Ber. No. t, Do. G.N.E. Pur., York & N. Mid. Pref., 14+ PRODUCE.—MiNerNo-LAys, Half-past Two.— The Sugar market has been steady ; and the market is closed until Tuesday, the 4th January. Relined, standard quality, 635. 6d. to 6411.—The small parcels of Coffee brought forward in public soles did not alter general quotatianc—Rice: 1,800 bags East India, broken and inferior white, sold at 10s. to 10s. 6d., which wsa its full value.—Pepper : 1,100 bags 1 Eastern black sold at previona rates, 21d. to 21d.—Pimento : 1 100 bags sold at 31d. to 4d., which were previous prices. No transactions reported in Rum or Cotton. The attendance of buyers in the market was very limited today. - - PRICES 0 HARNEY. fiveik, pie cwt. MTV ran. Pigs, No. 1. its 10... 5 1 R. Indis.Ti P.bera.33e. 04.34 04 Hoops ll 0.- 0 Yellow &Os ... $4 0...40 Cargo at Cardliftsr 7 13." 0 FS .... -- .. 41 0...47 Owed .h ll 5.- 0 IL M'S% irown... 20 0.. 34 Ism, at per tea. Yai10w.......- ..... 33 0...38 Fig, beet lll 0...101 Tine. 39 1...43 YN.d, abaft l9 3.. . 0 Bengal &Moths*, b. 39 o_3l Ben 3l 0... 0 Yellow 34 0...37 Palest Sot . . ... .... 21 0... 0 Width 39 0...46 red or minium ... 19 10-.30 r bOTWL 37 0...31 Svelter l9 0... 0 °1Z433 0.-36 0 1... x. 252 im P* gal' 4.p. Grey and white- 37 0...43 Flah, pale 19 9... 0 Bodiad, Hasibro . .. OS 0..10 draw 27 0 0 Laps /2 0..15 brown k Slow- 15 0.. 26 Ours In Bead. West Lis, ordl- Had Matter :: : . ...83 teary l5 0... 10 0 Ost ... ....... SS 0...131 Good. - 26 1 e... 3 2 1 Plea 7O 0...100 0 Olin,Oallipoll,pla 44 6... 0 Ceylon, ;Nod art- Ores. Nut MI 0..13 nary .. - . ..... ... 33 6... 34 0 eked, Baps, pale, Ms ordinary- 14 0... 31 0 par tca...... Pine 33 0...73 0 Linseed l4 0... 0 Idocba, good tom NI 0... 00 0 Pastas; par est. Costa Irks, ash- Buttee-Ourk, la lO 0...92 nary to Ins 33 0... 03 0 Bed 0 0 0 Sumatra and Ps- SI 0 0... 0 clang l3 0... 17 0 Dublin, Ist. 0 0... 0 Yes, at per M. Limerick, do O6 0..90 Congonoommea. 0 1i... 0 II Carlow, la-- 90 0-109 Bug at per ern- Newry Ist 0 0.. 0 Bengal white l3 0... 16 0 Watalord 90 CM Carr) 9 6... 10 II Beef, India, per Java l4 0... 15 0 tineso 0... 0 Paths, cleaned Carobs 3s 0... 32 0 Pork, prime mese- SO 0...92 Snares. Bacon-Park, [auk 167 . •"'"' Rem at per gall. Ds., Belfast..... " i Leeward Island Bacon, Waterford, Proof. Bs z i ewt.... ..... 64 C-118 Demerara, 26 to 30 per . OW 3 41 ... 3 3 Isid,Bo Waterford limakeirtrk 54- 0-70 O.P. .... ..... . do_ Jamaica, 60 to . SAI Ditto ISIS per centliennican,duty p 5O o_lB Favourite marks 4 4 ... 5 0 Extras, On and Cow, at per lb. Brandy, Ist brands '4 7 ... 6 0 B. A. and M. Video, British spina, d.p. To • ... 0 0 z ed Scotch Irish lO 6 . 0 0 Brasil, dry • 4g...0 6 FLAX, per tea. Aryans, ..... Riga, P.T.R. t 47 0.-64 0 Bin, dry 0 41...• si lik. Petard:our, 9 Umak Talp. dry 0 3 ...0 6 head 0 0... 0 lb West India, dry.... 0 4 ...0 6 Dutch and Mai& 53 0-13 0 Belted -I 0 : 4. ..1 101 Fiiesland HMO', at per too. 2. I .. Aze, dry 0 7 ..0 • St.Peterabarg,eleenC3l o_l 6 0 catsbot Wicks _.. IS 0...60 • Ws - 5 11 8 - - . .._ RaT, Era .. 37S =tact SS 0...76 pr lamina last Ina. lama Deastay l6 0... b 103. In.. at per cwt. Bum $4 0... 0 Strata Cam. a biota 3.3 C.. 0 st pa tat. • Bus al 14 £9 lean* ditto e ... I S DTZ WOOD', at per tam. 1.0=1 . 407.4104 14 0 0 0 4 10... 1 0 Onaptaohy 7 0... • • Past* J 4704.274 I 10... 0 10 Niaarsana large sad 70114 111 0...1• • 11 0...10 • Us& 111 10 It II ROOM .... 12 • .17 • add Ilaadas 10 LAS 0 1'