The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-01 00:00:00

'l' • r! .•2 c C OMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON, -• Loth.bury, sad 6, Hearto4l•44nat. Co•ent.6.dve. DIUMIIIe. CiAimor—RICIIARD WALKER. Di.. M.P. DrrrTT.L'umax•m—JOllN TAYLOR, V... q . .- Moms Samnall. E.g. Jona th an Ilor:toon 9 , F. William Bona' ! ' J, Pr i , M.P. ?Amen . ' Ozentoyd, Eq. r il l i nA ' clt " t " t y4 k l l 4 ' . .. : Jolla :sasoco, !.... q . .I,,ovph ThArnp..nn F.M . istri A:. _ r. Alfred B. Cutbill. . . SoLit ITOOO. LIM 41 Mork. Sewell, and Boor, : and Mean. Norris and Bann . a/ path.. remind and Mpt °nto nisei gereimilly adopeed by current amonsta with Ode Bank hare the ,_.... of any earplug Whom to rig n accoimt • . ki.. Mr !... . t n diergr as .aitssimva on • Burn be WNW .. .): t aecoftieWlllllll/IMed UMW% for auk wheat • , . • .. . . baNrddo:lZ) ~mow. Olt • ~ as p en t ah=aufa yit • - - - .. .. .. Ahhelßildleb. ileißiliket - : ~k *) QUMMSII.I.IIS - ApitTz ilkit r : . 1 .. URES, I taltred by .ibeolon...Vll6l/4. ). /Bdihreley , h. IteWeemre. LK A . ad. Ti•roe, In Meta). Mamie ruble). " Lorda Proper" and "Belief." VIM( Kama (Rodgers' make). STILTVIOTOI (MIOtOotO. GLOM CACR.I3I6II IRlebsr&on * Pl. ) DOCAITMO and Wm. Bums, Bum, pLanag and Beim in OA GT-CILLAIWOOEMOO(1.0. Wood. WINI.TIAT ( Joonce: & Ilettrldgo). Okmee Inkteanisonal. Parana? Brims sad Polio. 13a•vvto Pat 1W0.161.10.i O. POOll Verna Madsen k Nov). DIKONTLI Storrs's, In dime, ke . NAL to Bowt.. Tow sad er. , .• Raid by joreph *lads!!, 12. Old HOL4-1010i. sad all reapoetablu Eftion.—l *Mae abdomen emit on receipt of two pada(' damp. ----- - - - • - COMPOSITE CANDLES, Sid. p er lb.; wax milks, 10. • Omega was, lc 24. • doe Ma.3d. : inapparent Was. lid.: glides, wax, Is. 14.: bust sperm mast. Is. 9d.: otesu csadko. ; "resod wick moulds. 7d. ; Hales' couspalte, 10d.: Price lead. fellow soap, 485., 14M1, nod OCto. per 11'111u. : mottled MOP. lA*. sad 0340. Winches end palm soap, lc 4d. nes racket; brown Wesloor. lc 94.: almond, !lc W. Bohr oil. Jo. 3d. per i goilon : meal. 41. lb.r csoCatlW W. ilErl old lilted o htwe ing , e 3. SluVue. oelsosite 911uschter's Coffee how. CAUTlON.—Unprincipled Shopkeepers, for the sik• of plaint a trifle more profit, reed the moot epaytiew ems. payed, ander the title of " ylntaeaar On." some imder tee to l:Ged metiers of royalty and the goverommt departineato, with dialler atteropto at doneptiou. It to. therefore, imperative oo purelowere to 00' that the words, " Rowlan.l s Moamar Of aro in two ham on th: wrapper of each bottle.—Prico 3e. GI.. Ts. ; family bottles ,ortual to four =MII,IO, tid.; and double that sire. 21, per bottlo.—Sold by thu pro. Pieta*. at 20, llattoo-aardeiL Loudon. and by all reipeetablo chemists Gad perfume'', THE NEW VOLUME of the GIAHDENEES' CHRONICLE sad AGRICULTURAL oAzirrtz. edited by Profftwor Li S WA,. will be ernumesced THIS DAY (Sattlehari. Jan. 3. 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Permanently enlarrol to 24 lame quarto page,. of three co.umns each. Portico intendlna to oonunenoe with Money year Mould order nt onm of any newsagent. THE new postal arntngementa with the French Government having come into operation, the FXPItESS of every afternoon will henceforth con tain news from Paris up to eight o'clock in the even ing of the preceding day, together with other foreign intelligence. LATEST 'INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY, lbur o'Clock. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The despatches of oar Paris correspondent of last ev. fling have arrived, by extraordinary express, and bring intelligence of the DEATH OF THE PRINCESS ADELAIDEor ORLEANS, SISTER OF' LOUIS PHILIPPE. lie, Royal Ilighneaa expired yeeterday morning, at I half-past three o'clock, at the Tuileries, in her 71st year, having been born on the 21st August, 1777. This intelligence was unexpected, for although it was announced some days ago that her Royal High- I nese was affected with the prevailing influenza, the attack was stated to be a slight one. It appears that the illness of Madame Adelaide had not until the day precious become su alarming as to preclude all hope of her recovery. The Curt of St. Roch was sent for about midnight to administer religious succour, and soon afterwards the prineeso breathed her last. In consequence of this erect, all the receptions and other court ceremonies for the new year were coun termanded. Notwithstanding the contradictions given by the ministerial journals of Paris, and reiterated, even so lately as yesterday, by the Journal des Th" Lats, the in-' telligence received from our correspondent, and peb lished in the Express on Thursday, of the armed in terference of Austria in the Italian states, has proved to be correct. We have remised to-day intelligence which throws light upon the notice given by the cabinet of Vienna to the other powers of its intention to augment its forces in Lom bardy. On the 22nd December the city of Modena was occupied by the Austrian troops, cavalry, in fantry, and artillery, consisting of four or five thousand men. Several arrests had taken place. Terror prevailed in the city. The horses of the cavalry were kept constantly saddled and bridled, ready for mounting. Several hundred muskets had been brought into the Ducal Palace, to arm the household. Letters from Parma of the 22nd, say, that on the preceding evening a detachment of Austrian Lancers and a ttain of artillery, occupied that city, mounted guard at the palace, and the cannons were kept con stantly ready to be discharged. The Gazette de Florence announces that on the 25th January a conference is to be opened at Florence, at which 21 persons, named by the government, are to lay down the bases of a new municipal system. In the preamble to the ordonnance published on the subject, it is said that " the reforms relative to the' laws and municiod regulations ought to he in unison ' with those which are to take place in the politico governmental system of the Grand Duchy." It is stated that the federal government of Switz erland have transmitted a note to M. Guizot, demand ing, in formal terms, the recall of M. Bois-le-Comte. The Madrid mail of the 25th, arrived in Paris at al late hour last evening. The Gazette published the royal ordonnanees effecting a change in certain mem bers of the cabinet. The following is the cabinet as now constituted : General Narraex, President without a portfolio; General Figueraa, Minister of War ti M. Beltran de Lys, Finances; M. Sartouns, the Interior; M. Errazula, Justice; M. Bravo Murillo, I Public Instruction ; M. Race di Tougores, Marine. No confidence was placed in the stability of the cabinet thus rseconstitued. No strength is gained by it in the Cortrs, and another and more general change is expected. Another royal ordonnance appoints MM. Pidal and de Andino, Vice-Presidents of the Superior Junta of the Archives. emir. Rerm.s. Dr, ll. For Stoney.—Yew lean, 76 15 ; Three per , - ,n.., ; 3 F,l'rN Ili; 1/el6lro lisrs, tel.., 9e; Do. 1612. 981 Loan, 922; Trea.ury &Ads, 41. Exchange on L u ndun ;might), 2365. BISHOPRIC OF HEREFORD. Dr. .Nlerewether has addressed a letter to the Times, complaining of the numerous inaccuracies which ap pear in the report, published in that paper of the proceedings at Hereford, upon the occasion of Dr. Hampden's election. If the correction of these inaccumcks were the sole purpose for which the letter was written, the Dean might have sa ved himself much trouble. by simply stating that the report which appeared in the Times, Herald, and Chronicle (it was the same in all) was fall of inaccuracies; and that a correct one had appeared in the Daily News and Express. This ho ought to have done, in justice to us, who sent down a reporter trim London, sod thus escaped three numerous er rors. The tenoning are the only passages in his letter of public intent : it is with exceeding regret that I find myself under this necessity of calling Tour attention to the fact that many inac- eu m ire appear in the sce,unt given in your paper of the 29th asst ,of the proceedings at the election of a Bishop of Here ford. No doubt that amount we. supplied in great baste, an d hence the inaccuracy in several important respects, which has led to interence , not entirely consistent with that position which it war my purpose to occupy on this trying occasion, and which, notwitbstandinr the errs which were made to perplex ate, I assert I did consistently maintain, calmly, but firmly. You haretaken hitherto so just and com prehensive a view of the whole of this painful businew,that I feel certain that y ou will rlo me justice throughout ; and you w ill c l ea rly see that having once determined, as I did, the course to be pursued, I never could, by any half-and-half mea sure frustrate the very ohject I proposed to myself, and ex pose myself at the same time to deserved contempt. Those who were looken on can prove that my conduct was straight. *,ward and firm, whilst it wan calm, and, ea far as might be, deferential to the feelings of others who were brethren of the name community, and had certain privileges which I could not dispute ; above ell, whilst I professed my antious desire to bow to the just d amiaion of my sovereign and 'the powers that be,' to hold fest to the determination to obey first the will of Him by whom kings reign and princes elk tualLsdltslent,' Thet I have donee faithfully and disfater esodly, 1 can call Heaven to witness ; anu I am usiot inxiciiii; if Lord John Russell will perThit me, as I have already ice- mated in my letter to him, to lay before the retold every do turned, whether of correspondence or other communication, wait reference to this or any other occasion in which I have been concerned with the bishopric of Hereford. I maintain that I have made no compromise, and where the words dean and chapter were used by me as the official organ of the capitular body, I distinctly stated that I was dissen tient, and that the expression was adopted as a feces eey form , a majority claiming the electien , against whic h I objected. I would rather have died on the spot than hare betrayed the slightest trace, or have felt the very taimiteet sen sation, of inconsistency or vacillation. And,Whatever maybe the consequences, I desire not to slither myself under any techhieslities or expreesions which the cisiths of 'the chap ter and the (creme of usage or law may have rendered nom • sassy to be used. "• I do not know to what your orpiment; refer where say, What stage of the proceedings the dean_ when lie undertook that. the election ninsous, is not for de* to say ?' Aetite tibn,' I know full well that I have , dietinetion of my order far berpaprfik That few men have on more occasions been _ Rep,. copate, and even of Hereford itself on a Tamer ° l deation, is ' certain, is true ; but because I have not succeeded to that high station no man has ever found me sullenly declining duty and exertion. I can appeal to the people of Hereford whether I have not ' laboured more abundantly than all ' hero to correct abuses, to promote good; and the arch- Bishop of York, who was promoted to Hereford when I was told on high authority that I was to he promoted to that station myself, knows full well that I cordially did my utmost to assist him, by every means in my power, when he cams amongst us. • "As to the restoration of my cathedral, all men acknow ledge that I hare done come service. I hare not been so reckless as your remarks would lead men to believe ; but I have ' done what 1 could,' by my ezerticea. and by my means. Itly maxim, I admit, has been, that where church emoluments and duties are concerned, duty ehould be the first object, enjoyment of emolument should lie secondary. lam sure I need say no morn; I feel certain that you will do me justice, end, where erroneous impresion hat been made„that you will ( rule it I !mid to a few of the inareureeles ' e ' when,re 011 66 • eau T shotiC not be cum dl . Shit I have en h y yti order far befloPe .l. o .lol h e . a • is: - VIENNA, Dsc. 23. Supposing that what is passing here has at the presert moment more than common interest I shall nd you my notes oftener than formerly. The movement of troops towards Lombardy is not thought significative of warlike dispositions in the ministry. An overt attempt to put down the new order of things in Italy would not only be an undertaking of the most dangerous kiad in the present state of pub lic opinion, but, could it at all succeed, would admit of no delay. The truce with the Pope, respecting Ferrara, is therefore unanimously received by . all here as a symptom that the policy of the cabinet is altoge ther defensive, and not offensive. It caneot be de nied that the state of the Italian • provinces is such as to inspire great alarm to the ministry. The incessant pranks and outpourings of Italian wit at the expense of the "Aastriachi" can lead to nothing but a widening of the social breach between the two nationalities. In vain do scribes, from the imperial court and state chancery, fill the columns of the A vs burg Gazette with lists of the benevolent deeds of the Austrians, and how they spent the money they took from Lombardy and Venice, for the special benefit of those tenderly treated provinces. Every sun rises upon enormous " evvivas," written on empty walls in Venice and Milan, and laughing thousands enjoy the perplexity of the police, who have a battalion of mea with whitewash pots, that go about to daub over the expressive but obnoxious apostrophe. The Germans on this side of the Alps laugh with them, and are by no means jealous of a nominal sovereignty that has hitherto only helped to rivet their own chains. As to the interference of the court in the affairs of Modena and Parma, nobody cares in the slightest degree whether the double eagle be their lord para mount or not. The Germans arc jealous of the tab nts of the Italian candidates for office, and had rather (the Bohemians too) have the place all to themselves, where they are at home, and where officials are made much of, than share their comfortable berths with the southerns on the terms of spending half their time in Coventry, in Italian offices ; it being a strict rule amongst the gentry of Italy never to fraternise with Austrian employes. The troops now on their way are Chasseurs, all Germans and Bohemians, "whose places, in all probability, will be filled up by the newly completed Italian levies—a policy - that would clearly be moat questionable were war seriously intended. Still the minister is making every sacrifice to keep the Ilungarians quiet, who have now an oppottantty of resting their constitution upon a firm footing. The Lower Chamber at Freeburg lately voted, without much diffcresce of opinion, the establishment of a paper to record tht debates of the Diet, without interruption on the part of the censorship. The sub ject was introduced by Count 0. Zichy into the Mag notes Chamber, and the speaker made an allusion to the liberty recently granted at Rome to the press, eulogising at the same time the other reforms of Pius IX. This speech was responded to by the Bishop of Lonovics, in a style that gives token of a vast change operated in the sentiments of the intelligent, which (here at 'east) is synonymous I with influentoi/, Roman catholic priesthood. The bishop stated that he had resided at Rome, and there I had opportunities of convincing himself of the neces sity of reforming the abuses which were notorious in that state, but which it was the business of Italians, and not of strangers, to point out and remedy. lie rejoiced in the reforms introduced by the Pope ; and as for liberty of the press, he conceived that under the extraordinary privileges with which the members of the two chambers, as legislators, were clothed, they could only be effectualy controlled by the free ex ercise of reasoning, satire, and humour on the part of the public through a free press. The favour able impression which such sentiments are likely to make out of the house may be easily conjectured. Yet a spontaneous move of the nobles, subjecting themselves to taxation for the county budgets, is likely to be even a more popular subject, and there is little doubt that the measure will pries in the present session. I alluded in my last to the land tax, the obnoxious impost, a dread of which has hitherto kept the nobles from submitting to taxation of their estates, under any pretence. In England no one knows the nits! qucatiorts that are mixed up v,ith taxation on the eon tuwut, m.l which, instead of making it a pledge and guarantee of freedom, render it a means of under mining all privileges without a concession of rights. Thus the land tax in the Austrian provinces (Bohemia, Illyria, &c.) is based on an imperial de cree stating that the lu'.d is under an obliga gation to pay to government one-third of its pro duce, it being in another paragraph established that one-third covers the cost of cultivation, and that one third is enough for the landlord. This decree, and 'another giving the property in the soil to the occupy ing peasants, have weighed hard upon Hungary. From the promulgation of the " fixity of tenure ' law by Josseß IL, the Hungarian landowners allowed no cottages to be built on their estates, although the richest land is everywhere in consequence waste and almost jungle from the uncontrolled vegetation : stables, with farm servants who dared not even culti vate a garden, were substituted for tenants' houses, and a large portion of the population has been condemned to a nomadic life, by a law that was esteemed to be the height of phi lanthropy by the Germans. The fears have been calmed that long prevailed, partly by the recognition of the landlords' property in land let on lease, but still more by the acknowledgment of the peasant's right to hold land in his own name, which allows him to purchase. There is therefore little risk attached to the nobles' submitting to taxation for county rates, and their coming forward to pro pose it themselves is a proof of the spread of intelli gence amongst all classes. But the attempt to convert this concession into a claim on the part of the em peror to raise a tax like that levied in Austria, would true) the nobles united with the peasants to resist it. In my last I pointed out the probability of the go vernment's raising a much larger sum by relaxing the existing restrictions on trade, than it could possi bly levy by extending the land-tax. In Galicia a sort of relief measnic is now carrying out, but it is to be coupled with a railroad. GENERAL POST-OFFICE AIIsMANACIEMENT.—We have so many complaints of the mi.imanageuicnt of the General Post- (Jiro with respect to newspapers, that we must n guest the attention of the authorities to the subject. It is not limply that newspapers ate delayed, lout that they often never r.sch their destination. An occasional delay might be excusable ; but when the same person in a country town has to complain that about once a week on an average his paper intrusted not arrive, ind the fact of its having been regu larly intrusted to the care of her Majesty's postmaster- I general is ascertained, it is difficult not to suspect that his losses are attributable to something beyond mere aweless nese —Times. o. 419.1 LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, J IN. 1, t 848. [3d. SotrruAlirrou, DEC. 31.—Tbe Duke of Victory I arrived here last evening front town, gad slept at the Royal Hotel. This afteenomathe Spanish steamer Herida arrived from Herrn, having Phi% in cargo at that port , a nd, about four o'cloek, li sp , hie secretary, and two friends, em barked on issued lawrifor Spain. His arrival and departure were eeedamett y. The vessel is bound for Corunns, but ale will guisbeu Spaniard at Santander, ' and ha will - to Madrid to take his seat in the Cortes, having tented as a representative for his native place. u n• 'WRECK AT 'llllf OF THE ISLE Or WIGHT. • --Cowie, FRIDAY , ay morning information was 1500 brought to the ratidaett -tweets that a large ship was on shore iretteiHopaghLbecje of the island. Parties immediately t,' when it proved to be the barque Lion eyiiti bec, laden with a cargo of timber. It is : late she went on shore at half-past one, cm., and there is little doubt but she will become a complete wreck, her stern being stove is, and she fall of water. To-day it is reported that two of the islanders wore drowned ie attempting to board her. [TIIE NEW PRISONS.---We (Plymouth Journal) un derstand that the Secretary of State, Sir George Grey, has r given his find approval to the plans for the Plymouth pri aoqs. Hitherto there hos been considerable difficulty in ob taining the assent of the government, owing to the endea vours of our neighbours at Devonport to effect a junction of the three town,' for the erection of one prison, on terms that should be sstisfactory to them, but which were not agreeable to the town council of Plymouth. Now that the plans are approved of, we suppose that there will be no delay on the part of the council in commencing the work. At present a portion of our prisoners are sent to Tiverton, and anther portion remain here in a place oat fit for the confinement of any human being. This state of things will doubtless soon be remedied, as the local authorities have, for a long time past, been most anxious to obtain a Welding more suitable to 11.6 east" sod seqelsemaants of the age than that which therat present peewee of Barley ; malting, 325. to 365. Oat!, 18a. to 25a. Begat, 42a. to 645. ; old, 565. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.-A limited quantity of Flour and Oatmeal from Ireland, with a ecanty supply of grain coast wise, and of Wheat, Flour, Indian Corn, and Corn Meal from abroad, comprise the bulk of arrivals into this port during the last thr e days. The advice. from America to hand this morning, lead to the expectation, that, in come-' quenco of mild, open weather, the continuance of supplies by internal navigation will admit of larger immediate ea ports than had been calculated upon, sod which the enhanced value et money there would tend to facilitate. The trade here has ruled firm, but rather quiet since Tueeley ; the extent of deliveries from the growers in the counz markets preveneng an advance an prices. As u at the close of the year, very few buyers appeared at our Corn Exchange to-day, and, in say department of the trade little business was practicable ; holders of Wheat. not withstanding, adhered steadily to the current rates of Tues day, which, in the limited sales effected, were fully main tained ; while to all descriptions of Flour similar remarks see precisely applicable. The few small lets of gialtiag Seeley snit Malt specified below, are reported to have been sold at our late quotations; and, both being wanted by consumers, equal prices are anticipated for the next arrivals. In Beans, the oily transaction noticed today, is a cargo from Egypt, at 30.. per 480 lbs. In Peas no change was apparent. Oats, although in moderate request, were slightly depressed in value ; and Oatmeal scarcely supported late prices. Indian Corn and Corn Meal exciting little attention, were easier to purchase. Tho following are prevent prices : British : Wheat, per 701 b., English, red, Bs. 3d. to Bs. 6d.; extra, Bs. 6d . to Be, 9t1.; white, Si. 6d. to Bs. 9d. ; extra, Be. 9d. to 95. 3d. ; Irish, red, 711.6 d. to 84.1 d. • extra, Be. Id. to Bs. 3d. ; white, Bs. Id. to Ba. 64.; extra, Bs. Bd. to Ele. 9d. Seeley, per qr., Engleh. 33a. to 365.,e Chevalier, 365. to 37e. ; Scotch and Irish, per 601b..,3.. 9.1. to 4s. Malt, English, per qr., pale, 58.. to 64e. Oats, English land Scotch, r 451 b. eld, 3e. 64. toWelsh, old, 3a. 4d. to 3e. 64.; leitih, fine sorts, sew, 3e. 4d. ta 3a.5d. old, 3a. 6d. to 3s. 74. ; general, new, 3s. to Is. 4441 old, 3a. 4d. to 3.. 6d. Bea n., per qr., English, new, 42e. to 45e. ; old, 461. to 60s. ; Scotch and Irish, per 4801 b., new 401. to 425. ; 425. to 445. Peas, English, per qr., white , new, 465. to 501. ; ditto and Irish, grey, 36e. to 38s. Flour, per 280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 39a. to 40s. ; superfine, 425. to 445. ; extra, 461. to 46e. Oatmeal, per load of 240 lb., Irish, new, 28s. 6;1. to 295. 6d. ; old, 265. 64. to 26a. 6d. ; Canadian, old, 251. 6d. to 265. 6d. Bran, per 241 b., Is. 11. to Is. 4d. Present prices of Foreigu : Wheat, per 701 h., Canadian, red, 7s. Bd. to Bs. ; white, 83. 4d. to to. 8d.;• United States, red, Bs. 2d. to Be. Bd. ; white, Bs. 10d. to 9s. 2d. ; Dantsic, mixed and red, Ss. 2d. to 83. 61. ; high mixed, Os. 6d. to 10.. ; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, Be. 24. to Bs. 6d.; white, Ba. 84. to 9s. ; Riga and Petersburg, red, 7.. 2d. to 7s. 6d. ; Archangel, 6s. 10d. to 7s. 21.; Odessa, common, red, 7s. to 72.4.1. ; Polish. 7e. 64. to Ts. 9d. ; French, Spanish, and Italian, red, 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ; white, 7s. 9,1, to 8.. 3d. ; Bennet and Mariannpoli, red, 7a. 44. to 746 Rgyietian , 4e. 3d. to 41.9 d. ; Mediterranean, tic., hard, red, 6a. 6d. to 6a. 9d. Rye, per qr , Baltic, &c., 335. to 365. Barley, per 6131 h., 4s. to 4s. 3d. Oats, per 4.51 b., 3.. fkl. to 3s. 94. ; Russian, 2.. ltd. to 3.. Beans, per qr., European, 42... to 465. ; Eeyetian, per 4501 b., 31e. to 325. Peas, per qr., Baltic, &e., white, 4,55. to 435.; Canadian, 361. to 40 s. Indian Corn, per teeth e 345. to 38s. ; Indian Meal, per barrel of 196ib., to 16e.61. Flour, per MI. of 1961 h., Canadian, sweet, 29.. to 30.. ; United States, sweet, 29e. to 31s. ; United States and Canadian, sour, 235. to 26e. Arrivals into Liverpool and Runcorn, from the 28th Dec. to the 30th Dec., inclusive: Wheat, 2,613; Barmy, 405; Malt, 1.115 ; Oats, 297 ; Beans, 293 ; Peas, 121; Indian COTE, 2,450qr5. ; Indian Corn Meal, 2,491 barrels; Oatmeal, 1,402 sacks; Flour, 2,051 lacks, 1,566 barrels. MANCHESTER, Dee. 31.-East winds keep out supplies to Liverpool and Runcorn, whilst from the interior, York shire and our own east coast, they are moderate. Fresh arrivals of Flour of suitable quality have sold steadily during the week at slowly improving rates; and for ell articles there has been a lair sale, at prices rather tending upward. New Year's-day being observed here more closely as a holiday, than perhaps in most business towns. our market again falls out of course. Fine samples of Wheat bring rather higher 'Flees. Upon Flour the advance of the week is about Is. per sack. Oats and Oatmeal Leith rather dearer. All °tate articles firm at the rates of our Wt; for each there is it fair demand fir censumption. The current prices ; Wheat, per bushel of 701 be., English, white, Bs. 6d. to 9s. ; red, 8•. to Be. 61. Irish, white, Ba. to Sc. 6d. ; red, 7.. 6d. to Bs. Barley, per bushel of 601b5., grinding, 3s. 6d. to 4.. Oats, per bugled of 461b5., English, Scotch, and fine Irish, 3s. 54. to Is. 74. ; Irish kiln-dried rano, 3s. 2d. to 3e. 4,1. Beans, per qr. of 6011b5., English, small, 435. to Me. ; Tick, 41s. to 425. Peas, per 8 imperial bushel+, white, boilers, 445. to 46e. Flour, per sack of 2801 be., English and 16th, fine, 40s. to 41e. ; super fine, 42a. to 435. ; extra, 445. to 461. Oatmeal, per load of 2401b'., English and Irish, 295. 6d. to 304. 6.1. NEWMARKET; Dec 28.-We have had rather a dull at tendance. A fair supply of grain to-day, with but little dis petition to purchase, at a decline of about In. per qr. on Wheat. The Barley trade continues flit, and the little bu siness treenseeted has been at a reduction of from le. to le. 641. per qr. RIPON, Dec. 30.-We had a moderate supply of Wheat at to-day's market. The Wheat trade was very inactive, and only for superior samples could the previous week's rims be obtained In Barley and Brans no alteration. Oats rather degree. Wheat, white, 7s. to 7s. 9d. ; red, 6s. 3d. to 7s. 6.1. Beans, 7s. to Bs. per bushel. Barley, 335. to 3,55. Oats, 21s. to 30.. per qr. RYE, Dee. 29.-A very large market, and a great deal of business dune in Wheat, at rather better prices than last week. Oats aid grey Peas a better supply, and rather lower prices. Other kinds .f grain about the same as last week. SOPTHAMPTON, Dec. 31.-The attendance at our market to-day was more numerous than is usual at this season of the year, and there was a very moderate supply, both of Wheat a..d Barley, from the growers ; the coudidon, however, in many cues, being very indifferent. The farmers are looking for high. r price., which checked business, and prices cannot be queted higher than last week. Sr. Neor's, Deo. 30 -Wheat and Barley la. lower ,• other grain dull. Wh. at, 295. to 335. Peas, 295. to 31s. Beans, old, 30.. to 32a. ; new, 2es. to 241. Barley, 295. to 325. Oats, 18s. to 265. WAKEFIELD, Dee. 31.-Our arrivals of grain decrease. We exeerience great firmness in the Wheat trade, and sales are made at fully lest week's prices. Barley more plentiful and very fins, heavy sorts quite as dear, otter descriptions sell slowly. Oets anti Shelling dull sale, at previous rates Bean and other snicks as before. Prices : Wheat, per qr., 601 b. to the baahel, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red, new, Me. to 565.; extra, 67e.; white, 565. to 583.; extra, 60s. Norfolk and Hunts, red, 535. to 5404 extra, 66..: white, 525. to 555. ' • extra, 675. ; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , red, 50s. to 53a. ; extra, 655.: white, 51s. to 535. ; extra, 565.; Yorkshire, red, .5.4. to 635.; extra, 565. ; white, 63e. to 54.. ; extra, 665. ; Dantsic and Konigsberg, white, 524. to 6444.; extra, 605. ; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 50s. to 62e.; extra, 645. ; Mediterranean, red, 40a. to 445. ; extra, 50.. Old, red, 465. to 624. ,• extra, 645. ; Barley, per qttarter imp., Norfolk and Snffollt, 335. to 34.. ; extra, 365.; Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, 335. to 315.; extra, 36.1. ; grinding, 23e. to 30s. ; foreign, 29a. to 30s. ; Beane p r gnawer. 6311,. to the hu.hel, smell, flee, new, 40e. to 435. ; old, 665. ; Ticks, new, 395. to 40s. ; old, 535.; foreign, new, 38e. to 40s. ; old, 525. Oats, per stone, meal iug, Ild. to 12d. ; new, 13d. ; feeding, I Id. to 111. ; extra„. 131 ; foreign, Ild. to 124.; extra, 1244. Shelling, per Iced of 2611b'., 30s. to 31e. ; extra, 325. Malt, per load of 6 hostels, 40s. to 41e. ; extra, 425. Peas, per imp. qr., blue end white boilers, 48.. to 422. • extra, 415.; grey and feed, 36.. to 405. ; extra, 425. Rape seed, per last imp., English, 261. to 281. ; foreign, 261. to MI. Linseed, per imp. qr., 43a. to 47.. Imports during the week: Wheat, 7,095 qrs.; Thrley, 3,144; Oats, 1,610; Beans, 710; Peas, 144; Lin geed, 29; Shelling, 450 sonde. HOPS. Boaotrcu M Mews. Pattenden and Smith, market remains the same. New '1134, K Kent., 41. a toSt. 12 New weal of Kent. 2 14 too 0 New 5ege:........ 2 10 tot 1 6 Fornbautt .... 4 4 to 6 12 [ARKET, 7h'. o' Clock. Hop factors, report that the Ye:trans Rente.p• 21.10 to V. 0 Yearling Sweet „ 7 sto 3 3 Old lloto ..... 1 10 to 2 0 WORCESTIR, Dec. 31.—The hoiden are not disposed to take the pre.ent low prices, which keeps the market thinly supplied. The following is the number of pockets of Hoi.s that have 'ward the public scales between Christmas 1846 and 1847 :-1847'5, 1,03.5; 1346'5, 2,981; 1843'5, 29; 1844'5, 26 ; by auction, 260. CATTLE, &C.—BIRMINGHAM, Dee. 30.--Our sap ply of Beef was short, and mostly of inferior description; the best quality was in fair demand, at about 7d. per lb.; infe rior, 41c1. and upwards, hut not a brisk sale. Mutton was in better supply than last week, and the demand was good, at last week's priers; good Wethers and Theatres from 7d. to 71d. , inferior Ewes, from 61d. to Md. • and a clearance was ttfecied in good time. Pigs were in short supply, at a little advance in price fur all descriptions for killing; good bacon Pigs from Os 3d. to 95. 61; Porkers, Bs. Gd. to Os. ' • and all sold out early. Store Piga were very scarce, and but little in demand. ROTHERHAM, Dec. 27.—We had an average number of Beasts, and short show of Sheep. The general number of buyers attending, all the Beasts were sold, but a few of the Sheep were turned out unsold. Beet', 70. to 70. 6d. per st. ; Mutton, 6/d. to 7d. par lb. SALPORD. Dec. 29.—The oho's, of Beasts was fair today, though the quality was hardly an average. The demand for prime Beef and Mutton still good, and prices are fully sup ported. A number of inferior Beasts and Sheep driven away unsold. WAKEFIELD, Dec. 29.—We had a obi& supply of stock at market this morning, of both defaiptions with a good attendance of buyers, for the market after Christmas, and all was veld. Beef, 6s. fid. to 7s. per stone. Mutton, 61d. to 7d. per lb. Draws, Dee. 30.—The supply was limited, especially of good Cattle and Sheep, which sold high, the former at fronr 64 .. . to 60s. per cwt., and the latter 61d. to 7d. per lb. There was no alteration in prices from the previous week in ordi nary kinds of Beef, which sold from 40s. to 505., and of Mutton from 61d. to 6d. The number of Pigs were also fewer than usual, and prices lower,. 401. to 43e. per cwt. being the run for bacon Pigs. o COVENT OARDEN.—TAis Mornerig.—Th• mar -1 kat cowing,. to be well supplied with Vegetables. Winter Fruit also is plentiful, but trade is dull. Pine-apples are abundant and good, and Grapes are sufficient for the de mind. Pears and Apples see plentiful, considering the moon. Of the former, specimens of (flout Mormau, Ne Plus Meuris, and Winter Nelis may be bought at from fie. to 4s. per dozen. Oranges continue to immure in quality. Nuts are sufficient for the demand. Filberts (etch 6d. per pound. Walnut, are wane, bat Obeetwobs areerreenielit abundant. Lemons ere riarient for the demand. Of . Vegetables, Cauldlowers sad Broccoli are plentiful, and Asparagus and Seakale may be obtained at last week's prices. Carrots and Turnips are good in quality. Potatoes realise good prices. Lettuces and other **lading are suffi cient for the demand. Mushrooms are cheaper. Out Flowers consist of Heath', Pelargoniums, Gardenias, Chry santhemums, Camellias, Fuchsias. Moss and other Roses. ntrITS. Pine Apple. per lb., 3s to Se Lesions, per dos., Is to fa Gropes, hothouse, per lb., Ss to Is Lemons, per 100, es to 144 Portugal, per lb.. la &kneads. par pores Melees, thArml.h. per dos., 30stogis Sweet A !woods. per lb., to lb Apples, &wort. per bioh., hs 6. Walnuts, per bush., 124 to las kitchen. ditto. la lid tamed ti ate, Barcelona Per A. We to 3E. Pram, per ht.sre., 'is Wlk Filberts, per 10(Pri., 901 toil.. Oranges, per doz., Is to 2s Cob. per 10011 e., XS to H's per 100, 4s to its Ilrsrll, p:r bush., 12s to 14 -: bitter, per 100, 16. to lk Chestnuts, Ia to 61 per peck VEGETABLES. Asparagus, per 100. ts to Ts Shallots. per lb., 61 told 6.0)., per dos., 44 to Is tar lb.. ad to Is Cabbages, perSplnaeh. per Pliit. 1. le le . id Bed, per dos., la to 30 Peakale, per pu per ,punnet, 6d to .4 6d Greene, per dos. b., la 6d to Its 6tl Artichokes. Jerusalem. 11 , 1*.e. Cauliflower., per dos., Ss to es is to la 64 Broccoli. per bundle, Sd to lb Lettuce. Cab.. per wore. bl to N Brunel, Sprouts, p.b.ave. lotols6d Coo. Per wore. tb W Sorrel. per hal/Were. ad to 9d Endive. per aeon, 1, to la Potatoes, per ton, 19 a to lets Radishes, pur doz. bands. is per ern., 6s Woe Turnip, p. dos. boulha Id kola per Mabel, 2s rid to en Mushroom., per pottle, 9d to Is 3d Kidney, per b., 3•64 to Is Rhubarb. jar bundle. is , al to Sa Turnip,. per domed, Is tid to Is eel Small Salads. Per Poinset. Ed to 3d Red Beet, per dos- 94 to le Cd Fennel, per bomb, 2d told Rona Heald), per bundle, la to 4. Savory, per bomb, 3d to 4d Cucumbers, each, 1. to Ps Thyme, per hunch. 24 Leeks. per di...314,6d to Is Water e r es , p. 12 entail bu.Ad to6d Celery, per bund le, 641 to le 61 Parsley, per balfeieve , 1. to Is 6d Garrote. per doe. bombes, to 44 loon., per band.. Is to Is 6d Onions, per bushel. M El to 4s Mint green. per bunch, 441 to 111 Portugal, per dos. Is to 4 Marjoram, per bunch, Zd to 4d pickling, per ht. sieve, Ste Is for YesterdaVi 'larlaate see Mal Image. SHIPPING. - _ MAILS ARRIVED.—Dublin,3'; Waterford,2; Donaglades, 1 ; French, I ; Flanders, 1 ; Hamburg, 1. LONDON, Jun. I.—Wind this day at noon, E S.E., light br,eze, fine wea'her. Pankow" Koons, Dee. 30.—Arrived John Hutchins, of Bideford, Bt. John's, N.B. OFF ROLTHEAD.—losbella Hulett, from Calcutta. SCARBOROCCH, Dee. 31.—The Ybuog Charles, of and for Flushing, has foundered off this port; crew saved. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Arrived: Coquette, Palermo. H.M.S. Columbia, from Plymouth yesterdsy. 9 a.m., off Portland, fell in with the barque Mary Caroline, of St. John's, N. 8., from Hull, with has of foretopmem, maintop gallant mast, fore-yard, and bowsprit, having run down a brig the night before, off the Snit, and Lou the crew on beard; took her in tow till 2.30 poen.; she then making better way, not her off; saw her this morninif 5 miles to wiralward, with a pilot. boat alongside, making for the Needles. The Nunn, of Sunderland, outward-bound, with lose of mizenmsst, was spoken on the 25th Dee., in lat. 49, long. 7, by the Coquette, arrived here. CAMPBELL Town, Dec. 29.—The Olive, of Cardigan, has been cut ashore at Cockney, twelve miles south of this place. Bowttnovon, Dec. 30.—The Oak sailed from Newcastle for Lowestoffe on the bth inst., and has not since been heard of. DEAL, Dee. 31.-8.8. W. to W.N.W., A.m. ; E.S.E., P.M. —Arrived: Dillon, from St. John's, and sailed for Shields. Arrived and passed to the river: Oriental Queen, from Mau ritious ; Heise, from Mediterranean ; two brigs (names un known), from Alexandria; Brick, from St. Mi hael's ; together with Japans, and Lsdy Ashburton. Arrived from the river and sailed: Governor McLean, for Africa • Cran ston, for St. John's • Azoriap, Ace of Trumps, Ilrosper and Kate, all four ?or St. W heel's; Water Lily, for Ja male ; John Calvin, for Hobart Town ; Julians, for Algoa Bay; Blonde, for New Orients ; Gertrude, for New York ; Charles Kerr, for Cardiff and Cape of Good Hope; Una, for Cardiff and Sierra Leone. Arrived from the river and re- mains : Fame, for Honduras. FALMOUTH, Dec. 31.—N.E., light, fair.—Arrived : Eliza beth, Marianypoli, and nailed for Cork; Otto, Kertch. Sailed: Elizabeth, Constantinople ; General Sir W. Nott, Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Dee. 31.—Sailed: William Bonham, Sierra Leone. BataroL, Dec. 31.-11.N.E., fresh.—Sailed: Samuel, Africa; Otorge, St. Vincent's. Nownoter, Dec. 31.—N.E.—Arrived : Janet, Miramlehl; Urania, Quebec. MUMBLES ROADS, Deo. 30.—Arrived: Alexander flat- Teba fiII C L .' ;ORD, Dec. 30.—N.N.W.—Arrived: Hannah, Que. bee, and sailed for Mumbles. WM/SHAVEN, DCc. 30.—N.W.—Arrived: Sarah Rayne, St. John's, N.B. CROOKHAVIN, Dec. 26.—Imbella, of Pince Edward's Island, arrived front Charboth, fur Cork; Sprionflower, from Quebec, for Cork , with loss of bu.warks. 2 7th, the Hannah, from hlirenuchi, for Mumbler, has pot in here baying sprung a leak 'during, a, heavy ale, and lost bul warks, Jib-boom, dm, god Mks been put on the mud to step the leak. HULL, Dee. 31.—S.E. to S.S.L.—Arrived: Andromache, St. Andrew's, N.B. ghe erpregg._ MAILS The Went India Mail*, excluding Bermuda, Kaman, Havana, Llunduras, New Oilcan*, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and Including tbove for Madeira, Jacmel, Within; Manta Martha, Chaem, Panama, Weet Coast of South America, and St. Irian-de- Nicaragua, will he made up on the coming of the let January. The overland mode for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton sill he made up on the morning of the 3rd January. The malt. for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernem. the* Bahia, Madeira. and Buenos Ayres, will he mad. ap on the greening piths 4th January. The awls for Vigo, ()port°, Lisboa, Madeira, Cadia, and Gibraltar will be made up on the mormog of the 7th January. The overland clouts mail% cis Maryville*, to the Mediterranean cgypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, ate, will be mad* up on the adenine of the 7th January. Tt v mail. for Itntith North Ameries, &emeriti, and the United will I e made ap on the craning of the 14h January. The mails for New South Wain, Van theasen's land, aad New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st January. To COIMESTON MINTS. ••• Advermestats lateedod Pee "Me Esp.'," loodeft rerulsg par, ...t M at the oleo. kloaveri.etnet. in Two o'clock so ol yobhcatioa. HMI MATES LT LOPIDUN St:WOE. Tu. Dat—liaralAL 43 win. put ft: Anaracee. 1; mm. past 10. T.-31434454-114535 1 43., 52 Ws. 4445 IS Afton.... i .10. P.. 11. LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 1. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN had little to recommend it. That year was one of neither glory, nor prosperity, nor plenty, nor discovery, not wisdom. It was productive of nothing, be yond the saddest aid strangest materials for ex perience, materials too, which, sphynx-like, even oow more perplex than enlighten. Never was a year during which a statesman could have less liked to wield power; the consuls, who affix their names to 1847, have purchased that honour in heart-and-head throbbings incalculable. The melancholy year, of which we seek to write the epitaph, followed a year of • very different aspect, a year of great promises and great achievements. 1646 had its Irma enwreathed with the laurels of the Indus and the olive branch of the Oregon. It was great in war, magnanimous in peace; whilst its parliamentary achievements were not less striking or less glorious in having established the principle of free trade in the great necessary of life, which so powerful a body were interested to mono polise, and the setting free of which must prove as imports t is social as in economical results. 1847 could come but as a dwarf to creep after the stride of such a giant predecessor. But the dwarf was not a common dwarf. It distinguished itself in its own way, by an extravagance of misery, a luxury of woe, by squalor, want, and disease. It was the ideal of mendicancy, the very poetry of indigence. The men and the ministers of 1847 have at least one feat to record, one virtue to boast. They faced this famine with determined, vigilant, lavish humanity. It may be said that little profit came of the expendi ture—that the magnitude of the charity aided in the disorganisation of Ireland—and that in providing for the subsistence of the day but little thought was taken of the state which was to ensue .on the morrow. It is, however, something for an age to have shown itself greatly humane; and providence may be ex pected to send wisdom wherever men find charity. The miseries of 1847 were however not confined to the lower classes, or to one region of the empire. The year was equally trying to the carers for private' fortune, as to the managers of the public weal. Fate seemed to have broken in every man's hands the peculiar staff upon which he leaned. If the Irish peasant found rottenness iu lieu of his potato, the English manufacturer found the material of his in dustry beyond his reach, the commercial man found his credit dwindle to a reed, which to lean upon was to break, and all men had become traders, for the savings of all classes, of the wealthy landlord as of the poor mechanic, had gone into the great ma chinery of speculation, to be ground and returned tenfold. Here, too, political wisdom was at fault, and institutions, richly endowed and paid for the mainte nance of credit, were turned irate instruments for its annihilation. The mission and duty of 1848 seem to be to solve the difficult problems that the disasters of 1847 have bequeathed. It has Ireland not merely to terrify and castigate, but to organise. It has some new laws of credit to devise ; for it surely cannot go on, as at present, creating and encouraging credit in prosperous days, merely for the sake of crushing it at the moment when credit is most re- quired, in adverse ones. We need not enumerate the other tasks of 1848, all pacific, reflective, deliberative ones. The mind of the epoch seems well fitted to such tasks. It is singularly calm, unusually tolerant, l oblivions of party, contemptuous of passion. The ravings of Irish orators fill it with disgust. Bate- TINCI'S party speeches are out of place. STAN LIM'S rancour, meal welcome in the Lords, would be led at in the COMMIS& Aad even the eloquence et 1848, if such mist, must be of the ratiocinating kind. Another characteristic of the time is the greet power of government, or of those who , look on things from the point of view of a government. The union, however tacit, between the great political leaders of moderate toryism and moderate whiggism, renders any such meaeares, es both shall resolve upon, quite itresistible. And, strange to my, the ultra-liberal party of the House of Commons has considerable confidence in both one leader and the other. Thus the very semblance of a liberal opposi tion has disappeared from parliament, and renders the consideration and discussion of great domestic ques tions likely to be resolved in a spirit of truth and justice, not, as usual, in a spirit of temporary expediency. All this betokens, if not a brilliant, at least a profit able year. We fear, indeed, the resolution of too many questions in too governmental a sense. We fear to see the currency settled and taxation in creased more according to ministerial ideas of exi gency than to the rigid notions of public and popular economy. This makes us regret the absence of what might call itself a popular party. Bat we have still great confidence in the thoroughly liberal spirit of the Premier, as well as in the equally liberal and en lightened principles of the greater number of his colleagues. This hasty retrospect and prospect over the past and the coming year would not be complete, if exclu sively confined to these countries. The fate and for tunes of Europe are too closely interwoven with our own, for us not to cast a look as to how and whither they are progressing. And what we see, upon directing our view towards the continent, is of a nature most powerfully to excite interest and awaken sympathy. Europe has often struck us, as one of those large asd frozen manses which mariners encounter in the northern seas, and the formation of which has pro bably been the work of ages. Examining the surface, one finds that the only portions of the iceberg which seem to feel the sun, or which show symptoms of dissolving and of assimilating to a milder element, are the extremities which jut into the sea. So has it been with Europe. The only countries of it, on which liberalism has hitherto had any sensible infbience, aro the extremities, the islands and peninsulas., which stretch into, or are surrounded by, the ocean. Ancient civilisation melted the two great peninsulas cf Greece and Italy, long since refrozen from their proximity to the great icy centre. In modern times the western shores of Europe have alone felt the genial ray ; but with the exception of our own ocean-girt isle, the melting of despotism even along that western line has been slow interrupted, and unsatisfactory. • The grand diteolution of the mountain of ice is, indeed, not to be achieved by the mere seftenir ; of the extremities. It is when the centre begins to clack, and when the sun's rays and the rising temperature begin to tell upon the body itself—it is then that we may expect to see the great mass break up, sever, crash, and finally disappear. It is impossible now to look at central Europe, and listen to the sounds which come from it, without perceiving the symptoms of the great break-up, and hearing the cracks, which portend the final rending asunder of the ice of despotism. From the Baltic to the shores of Sicily, athwart and in the midst of the very centre of Europe, the whole surface is now in motion; one continued earthquake communicates its shocks from north to south, and from south to north. Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Bavaria, all the southern German states, are breaking from the despotic system. Switzerland stirs more energetically still ; and Italy, need we depict its state ? That Austria should start, panic-struck, at what is taking place ,does not eery: hie us; but that France should be alarmed, and e' mild show repugnance, is indeed startling. It only peeves that the men who rule the destinies of France are not alive even to the great phenomena of their age, ald that, shrewd in small things, they are idiots in great. This is the curse of selfishness. Absorbed in petty objects, avaricious graspings, party trinmphs, the court and cabinet of Paris seem blind to the signs, ' and with their faces set against the current and the events, of the times. We will do our own cabinet the justice to say that they seem fully aware of the critical pushier of Europe, and that our minaters have wisely and ' liberally judged the attitude which it behoved Eng land to take. We are not for intermediling or in terfering, but the moral countenance of this courtly is of great power. And it is the more important, both to our own honour and to European progress, to bestow it justly and liberally , at a time, when countries calling themselves constitutional, and even revolutionary, are found, like France, tied to the tail of despotism, and playing the basest and most treacherous part. In despite of such treason to the best and most sacred of causes, the new year opens full of hope for Europe, and of peaceful glory for England in relation to it. WE have little pleasure in recurring to the HAMP DEN disturbance, which has been proceeding with fresh vehemence during the last week. The Dean of HEREFORD'S letter to Lord Joins RUSSELL will have gone far to deprive him of the sympathy which his conscientious scruples may in some quarters have ob tained for him. The memorial to the Queen was drawn up in a temperate and formal manner, which gave a legal colour to the utter miaappreheasion of the law involved in the dean's hesitation to obey the condo d'llire. We have already shown that the formal election of bishops by the chapter is, as the statute of EDWARD VI. observes, mere shadow, colour, and pre tence : that the nominal electo-s are ministerial offi cers, with no more right to discuss the merits, of the appointment which they are required to carry into effect, than a sheriff pessysSee to criticise a judgmeat on which a fi. fa. or ca. sa. directed to him is issued. Scruples of conscience, as we observed before,wiil not stand against a mandamus. No man has a right to feel scruples in obeying a compulsory law. Church-rate martyrs mistake their duty ; but decanal martyrs mistake it more unjustifiably ; for all who have properts must be rate-pavers—but no man need be, or need remain, a dean. The English church is exceedingly Exastiau by constitution, as well as by character ; bat it is not for her dignitaries to affect horror at the power of the crown, when it happens to be exercised in a manner of which they disapprove. Dr. MEREWETRER took his deanery subject to all the legal liabilities of deanship; of which one of the most con spicuous is the duty of obeying a rongf d'ilire issued by the moat heretical or anti-ecclesiastic minister, in favour of tho most unpopular of divines. his very well for the clergy to amuse themselves with a fictitious belief of their own importance, as in the twaddling dialogue quoted by the dean, between two old women, who, assuming the dramatic names of Philmbaus and Ortlughaws; agree that " if the King do nominate a worthy person, according to oar laws, as oar kings have used to do, and give them authority to choose him, there is no reason why this may not be called a free election, as there is no force or violence used." The only question is, whether there is any use in calling an election free, which is absolutely dictated by a superior authority. U clergy or laity, however, take plea.ure in talking nonsense, let them enjoy their pastime. It is only when they act on false assumptions that the public has a right to complain. The inconclusive and incoherent character of the dean's reasoning is shown by his first argument, which is actually drawn from his matriculation oath at Oxford, which bound him to observe all the sta tutes and customs of the university. It seems there fore that, independent of his character as dean, he is bound to resist Dr. liestroEsi by his casual idle giance to a corporation wholly unconnected with Hereford Cathedral, and without any authority in the church : and that as the university once declared that it had no confidence in Dr HAMPDEN ea its Rev . Professor, he interprets the decree to mean that . HAMPDEN shall not be a bishop. If Dr. MERE wrrnER had a vote for the borough of Tamworth, we presume teat he woi.ld be prevented by the same matriculation oath from giving it to Sir ..... 14 .13ERT PEEL, because in 1829 the University declared its want of confidence in its former representative. The doctrines of Dr. HAMPDEN, according to the dean, will be peculiarly formidable to those who " by reason of use have not their senses exercised to dis cern both good and evil,"—in other words, to those who are incapable of understanding them; a body of judges so competent to decide on the merits of abstruse theological propositions, that we shall not venture to dispute their authority : but we really cannot under stand how the dean is bound to resist Dr. Ileurenine Wit` 1, e . l • •• - • 4%. atilie4 9/ , <--, 11 143 teSS r 0 COMMERCIAL er MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Ttco o'Clock—We have no particular feature in our stock market this morning. Consols are dull, and alternating between 85 buyers and sellers, their present quotations being 85 to J. Reduced Threes, 84: to 5. Three-and-a-Uuerter per Cents., 86 to Exchequer Bills, 9s. to 12s. premium. Hank Stock, 166 to 8. Foreign stocks are rather more iu demand, and prices of some descriptions in advance. Dutch come better from Amsterdam on the 29th ult., when the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were quoted 54 15-16, after some active purchases. Here, also, they have recovered somewhat from their recent depression at 541 to I, ex-dividend ; the Fours, 851 to 6. Spanish Fives are now called in advance, 181 to 191 ; the Threes, 29 to 4, ex-dividend. Portuguese, 23 to 4. Mexican, 17,i to 18. Buenos Ayres have improved to 30 to 2. The intelligence of the death of the Princess Ade laide, sister of the French sovereign, communicated in second editions of the morning papers, is considered in Stock Exchange circles to 1.).; likely seriously to af fect the health as well as the mind of the sovereign himself, over which she was known to exercise much influence, and in that sense is supposed to have con tributed to the present depression of the funds. It may be mentioned here, on competent authority, al though in opposition to the account given in Galignani, that the lamented princess had been in an infirm state of health for some years past, and so lame that she was obliged to move about in a wheel chair. Reports arc current of some important failures in Frankfort. The name of one, a banking house of repute, has been freely mentioned, but, until further verified, need not be alluded to more distinctly. The suspension, yesterday, of the great house of Cotes worth, Powell, and Pryor, in the South American and West India trade, with liabilities about 350,000 t.; and of Durand, Mackenzie, and Co., American mer chants—refered to without names under this head yesterday—continue to be the subject of interest and conversation in City circles. ENOLIBII FUNDS. Beak Block, 1813 8 3 per Ct. Cow. for Ac., 85 4 3 per CL Rel. Anne, 8.11 3 II per Cent". 3 Per CL Con. Awns., .hut Exchequer BR* 1014 to 12L p. FOREIGN FVNDEL 3 per CL Austrian Bosch, IR 8 1 per Cent. Orenwin 8d... 18 39 if pivriil it toso, SI 81 Orenudu Deferred DE- 3 j at Pre SE Try St. Irtto Sew. DI 8 Fora ver tgr i l u e . onv. :l a :, an 4 6 Vrtt e n t (l ß Arn " Bal tir" .. 811B9t" 3O " 1/sto titnenir 1114., 141 ° 14 D•tto Dd. 3 per Ct. Sum:o4lllß, 2‘. 4 ex. thy. Columbine. &putter 21 / Spaeleh Deferred MIL. 11 12 3 per Ct. Thtntlh 114,, 62 4 Itperdeh Peelve Mx., 4 / 21 per CL Dutch 1241-. 541 ex.dir. /per Cl. Veneruela 114,, 31 6 4 per et. Cuts Dutch . , 464 Vesesuels Doferrc•l We., 9 11 RAILWAYS.—In the share market hardly any thing as been done to-day beyond winding-up the accounts of the settlement. North Staffords, , '4 to 4 dis. ; Caledonians much the flame as yesterday. SALES EFFECTED UP TO TWO THIS DA Y IN LONDON. (Yestenlay'a prices will he found in last page.) Bir., Wol.,and Dudley, 144 I London and S. Western, 511 504 dueloairhanishirr, 31 d Dn. New Cm. Eigidhs, 381 E. Anglian 3L 10k, 11 1)0. New, 50!., 27 E. I.:aunties, 151 6 13, New, 407., 21 Do. Ex., 3 per Cent, N 0.2, 1 d Norfolk Eat. 5 per Ct., 13 Do. York Eaten., 71 N. linnet, Eaten , 1 E. Lancashire, 21 N. Staffordshire, 7 Do. New, 91 Oat,rd, Wor., & Wnlver„ 181 Gt. Northern, 4 1 Reading, Guild., & Reigate, 71 Gt. 8. & W. (Ireland), 21 9. E. Si Dover, 30 Gt. Western, 931 2 Do. Thirds, No. 4, 34 4 Do. I/Arm 541 6 York. Newt, & Ber. Eat, No. 1 Do. Qrs., 161 i ( York and Nemesis.), 121 Do. Infils, 221 Do. No. 2 (New. & Bor.), 114 Do. New 171., 8 Do. 0.31 E. Par., 9 Ige & Bury St. Edmund's Eaten. York &N. Midland, 73 Sc. (lair ltimb. & Ely), 11 Iln. Pref., 151 Lan. 94 Ynrksh. Thal, Neg., 51 d Do. E. &W. Riding Ea., 281 Leeds and Thirsk, 19 Soutanes and Amiens, 141 Lon., Bright., & S. C., 421 2 Cen. of Prance (OrL & Vier.), 151 Ism. and N. Western 149 8 Detten Rhenish, 24 Do. 101. oh., 38. and B. (C), 41 Namur and Liege, 5 Iliilland, 109 Pals & Lyons, 511 Do. Con. Brie. & Bir. G per Ct., Rouen and lime, 171 1 120 .... .ES, Drcrwarat 31. N. Union. 203 S. Ea-tem & Dover, 291 Do. (No. 1 , , 11 York. Newe., & Sem. (N. & B. Kern., No 2), 11 Ambersate Jo., 1 5-16 11..r,5, Damming 31. M no change of prirm, thnneh next account. The Stock 161- LIVERPOOL MI Bilk. & Lane. (late C. & B.), 13) Lane. & York. (lite B. & B.) Do. 321. eh, 51 d Land. & N. West, 148 9 Do. New Qrs., 31 Midland Halves, 2/ mANEIDOrrEI. ct There was a flit market, sri higher rates were oft red for I change adjourned till Monday. E. Lancashire New, 4 d North Staffordshire, 9.16 7-16 d Great Northern, 61 d S. hi. & Dover, No. 4, 1 13.16 I d Lane. and York. Vifths, Id York. Newcits., and Berwick Ex., Do. W.R.U. 201., 3 3.16 d No. 2, II p BIRMINGHAM SALES, DTZMUSA 31. This market was very languid; but, although only a limited business was transacted, towards the el me prices showed symptoms of improvement. New. and Bor. G.N.P.., II p Shrew, and Bir.ll, 43n. 9d. d Wolv„ & Stour Val., 33e.9d.d s brat). Union, 46,0 d. 2) d N. Staffordshire, 4 d 8. Staffordshire, LEEDS SALES, MCII3IIsAI 31. The share market was very inanimate, and prices bad rather a deterinrating tendency. Leeds & ablest, 17) t d North Western, 41 d N. Maifordsuire, 15.. 12, el d IN. British Thirds, 7e. d New Berwick, 40e. p BRISTOL. SALES, Damon& 31. The market remains flat, as indeed is usual at the Clan of the year. Gt. Weetern Halves, 61 p IN. British, I d • Do. tars., p Do. Eaten., I d Do. New G 7. sh„ 15-16 1 p YORK SALLS, CECEMBEs I^s, it Sury St. lldraunq'a, it Sark, N o w., Iter. , No. (late North Sritl4l3 'Mira., IL 13e. New lier.), 111 Clra, 41. IL 3d. Da. G. N. E. Put., 91. 311. 9d. PRODUCE.—ANTWERP, Dec. 30.—Coffee : Prices are firm, hut trap shone of no importance. Ahout 1,600 bags Brazil, of ordinary quAlity, found buyers at 201,..; ell prrior s eta of Bread are wanting. A few lots of St. Do- =lngo sold at 221,c. ; Jaws are neglected.—Cottcn : There is rather more demand. A few hundred bales American have been taken hy a epecolator.—Hides : Pe.ces 3re lower. 2,000 dry and 3,000 salted Buenos Ayres ha v, h e n dme during the week. Supplies have been rather extensit e, and the market has been heavy.—Pimento : The stock continues very small, and 300 bags, just arrived from New York, will, no doubt, find ready buy ers.— Sugar : The market is very dull. Several cargos have arrived from Havannah ; 260 boxes yellow Havar.nah sold at 135. Nothing has been dune in Brazil Sugar.—Rice is neglected, and we have no transactions to report.—Prices are nominal.—Tobacco : Prices arc firm, but no transactions of moment hay , r taken place. TALLOW.—There is a good demand for consump tion. Price on the spot, 4.5, 3.1. CORN.—ELT, Dec. 30.—The supply of grain at our market to day was quite equal to the demand ; the trade in general doll, and prices little varied from last week. EXETER, Dee. 31.—We have had a small market to- ,. ay, and we con note no alteratian in the v.due of any kind of grain since I..st week. HEMEL TIEMPSTILAD,II 4 ‘e. 30.—01 d Wheat, 355. to 38.. per load of 5 bushels; new, 30s. to 355. Beans, 275. to Ms. Peat, 28s. to 30s. Barley, 235. to 255. per qr. Oats, 20s. to 2as. Ltweotx, Deo. 31.—We had a large show of Wheat at our mark. t to.day, which was taken off readily at last week's ; prices ; red, 50s. to 68s. ; white, 545. to 61a A pull 'how