The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-01 00:00:00

c•fe..eaw - - • ONE HUNDRED POUNDS for PRIZE ESSAYS. NATIONAL CONIXOXILITION for ea Y.QITAULI: AD JUSTMENT of N ATION AL mut LOCAL TAi r tlaii : WI I.LIA II JACZ6O%, Iraq., air, Wilham i lla iok. N . ;.. n w he } Tice. . yiersettes . M.P.. Preidears an* r . 4 " w arta of . Or: mt at °Alit Oetneft 6 . im =t= f ee ,....ke ttga s eeeltie =dz. wis. MI goiallet Peas on the stildeell b liNdlend Smaties. Adjustment ef the same beg to blisise. est he the b id gmow u dim may rendre they will etre • preminr• et I. sad %tee he men. * 4 ti; f o V:ar mat be direded to show. the Wenn of tasielam holt nb4 thutiso - to the otpaztekott ef ewer ea. the c =rty toss to Me slavered wrettate rewerfsee Med Itie beet Nolen each hhllithetl In th United IC me he me.le to tame* toward , the support of %ha /late In ores woe to maar.• : sod ow t. seas.% the beseand met aseneinm mude a collestlea the werameT anneal reverie. gad pri sks soh a th e Beeman sy tem ft Ilrlhl eltl any other A far tbe reorteusward of partite wbu may be Is tate n:, the sh=t. the forkartlng are qoutcd as the 1 the.-ettede. is formed he any out. so far as lissitlea ks eta aimed : 01l res M. That al searmary tamales doll te equitably aljtate.l. and 4 Met. OA That apimaysa,a et blear shall be the beets of asses. _ , The thee allowed for the rec. lie of 0* De m* I. deed for the U. of Notettery. IV.t; and the r ethane,' to whew the nate shall be Admitted will eir, the It dedetwe by aa early elle thereafter. The Pa.:dent, end Lawrence lls yw Eel.. MEd RIMING Evart. r.... II.P awn of lb. t•lewNni.lert.t . ebb three gentlemen oneneetal with awl to tie %violated Ay Me conned, shah be the parties to iehon•JuJ Load the twine win he asbmitted. It b batboy to be ined-entwod that the o mays width say be i:et rained on se the Cad alai awed he* rb.all he the teeperty of she ( * Un- Wont. n, to I. owls not, two of he theml , : b Z e aTy deem aftweary ; but the nines id Um althorn n. all he pot whitest their ow - wet. 'lie rejected ewer. to be &posed ae the wathow may direct. teeh Mat to lase ea In lid or Ater distioevi•Mai wait to We wear, and the nal maw and adder. to I. Coln e't in a ended sondem her. tar ow tide the wive halal or wink. The ineelopeerowaywarb a the ?octet d cartes will wit be owned. bat. Welber with the wears wij be sublet In orders dead with the tattled or newt. All entittnesimtein to be 11.We...id to •he ...Kramer, et the National CaMederallwe Seam Churebetelet, Lireepool. Lherool. Dee. IL that. J. M. MACDONALD. feee _ _ _ MESSRS. WILLIAM LAMOND sad Co.. weA and Aare warn koinan. l i. 0 re diare mei „i nn:n ay as. F el e ad B l l l itad dirartjarha rr a i riULlLW AT Zitit V e... .l Wlt ehenturer ss I for :es sissks. minted sad ad ee.n. guns sell I no, rt.. sont. W. 1. as I Os. also 14 le actroutses .1 nt their intl4., ... 1••••• Ovect Wis. cis" Welnatisr. st 1 obind. st the 11.01 oi Oimmsfres.l4,nct I Lao inn ; , t their sass 4 shkti 1,...,,, all finaar. an as ba f•be.../.—Thisadnicansatran. Lou lot.. As 11.114 a. k:/VF.I.TY en BREAKFAST SERVICES. esel".4? INT 10434LNItt Tilb and 051Pilla SEltYleitti al =MO be= l lC o .ol4o‘ is sttti dill, ham Ile wand/ plaln I. Ina daigsuapll ortaman,s 40 114,0 Asslwhits 1646. 111•01•61 , 14.4 hi Ma prwattof Moors blkswton and Os. and Wed .111. the cafe trv. ticitricy. sis ens 1 4r-r•I Int AY ft aubas stall urcler visi. .....a I tam hoes dcmssilsl but far gre otescro 6.bleved las se .1 Ism plant The. am a. diraMe as Om. e t, ...., 10. n rti ss Ord C •Vite Ist annitkle... ..... . OIT • 6... dn. era ,h,. eased 6i. a- , d). lids iio. stUtre do. dm ........... SIT • 6k . . II • • Nil iesi V . : ii. au+, cnffse pn . s. aiLiedi; . ai iliall 17 sew In otbsr OW) is tba ems prnsatios. Mambo ant lam Foal fi tiLAld S. UV ItTast , tat : Ripple sal Nrtern). 311, 02661strect. sad I. ir .11Tett (corner of Misnosantsrati.—Establibedia Welis amt. I !. TALIAN ALABASTER, black •Marble, Broav, I Der.l4b re ttpur and nttl.m Illinmtut+ for the AnWillit-R.M. Il Ivory sod doing-ewes. 0.14.41, .4 a new alol ekgant awortmout Taw*. t.tonjw, lohntrea Lan.ile-ta.',.. Ohellwtot, Inhikt Ta k•., Parr.. IT.ttelvt.ur:. .rte 4 atwl roantchetare Iby .1 E • N ANT:Ien. Minn.', Clive ..est of swernct n 0.,.. leaw.ww. tiontinAteing the .#t rOlocroloty. of eateito:oey eau Ow wopple.l with a pent earl. ty of inn. rota nbalta and cletnontary eolte^t witk-h will Brady tailltato the ate of .lave t o t n o ,aine te,,no, 4.4 a le.a.„ at two, f. ve. twostW IVO aw net; be. with evntile•Al mu d. !.. blin=b6Dak AC. 14 J. T. , : SAN T. oils .ralow.ol. Oo he; Siltient4.l.o. MIL:. 1,1V.z. PA rP.NT ent()NU WROUUN r tit..Y " noLurAter (101116IINXENT HOOK and ettlif ft rot r1..P•67 Tal.--71nate..6tic..r, by Internal aunanuduelleg and v. ap.ratlng threvis. TM stmt. Tst nee la the world. w.th ha prevnah:v 1,....n and fataudags. Muer* Melt Irtrerwl.tlng P. 4 P. De.... 1 arol Mato Chest, wi thou... of all atom, 60 per on% ehp,,er than lb' above. II .7.0 large um, nf the .1 aortfaetarlax sod conorueral 41,4.....ie 71ileer's ea ... •_ t the dltsent thlekevnen, bare he. ot. Ih. nal hem, from on.. In tneety.rear boon, by the melon tit:, ate.l nth., ..lentllle en.) woolen' madame ; amt le 4001,0elik 0 are:lewd an ..n wbleh the brae , ca. h. deals te... la all the .11,reat 0/4.fr..Y ta4o—Morn In .n C6Oll Wan 4TVIRrS. befell and Woes e1n....:. with th,..1.1.: .41.40ug , 010-1 , 1,a 0.1 errniteht won thaanhered rate% a % te. —hare Lan land t. M 1..... ISiln.aa saw Aar An: htelde them In the Ore. ettetualle n• re lia.t.. ha, ,a.., thew duty. ant broorght rr,t the on .. • ..o.: rr 1.'4. • whits CI ....... d•lnherad. Ince Inmphiel... orcerllO. ma.... s, to ,w had a, ii. rooe, 1 :......was of !II Ilnerh aste• C.loo 0.••• 1,0 .11.. tr., . I ton ith.re pr .about sae, vb.. <l..•*).At fire. Iron, and I..nk a are, a• we '.I .w the co ..crvAti. iv., 0..4 At.% r..... Oa dlOeren a I, told bonito. and Intheenonlantlhiewt.hrttla—MllneeaWeritr.l...nl.droet ant tr.1.k•r0.....t, .6serpooL Noon heater: '..7, keing-ginfer. Leal.: 3.. Jim— e. Mill: 47 C.Aholratreaht. Locales DIV" Ca* W.... 10 ., atrect. lite. LKO . N r F. r ItEQUISITE4, rich or in- Utaw, at X DS' MAVAINAIt OIL le hirtily 'irtr.ttly ship minted toe er :Witt an I umudelna Inuntant tromp.. 20W LAND K I.lr Witt it a preparation t 4 trinatrai Ivied etilestep and heantlfilnit Pkln an I emu t eetion ; tt• hd hr Nati Dtritlriez. is larahtil.l • for It. le.. tra, ntlfy. tar dal welter,' tlee et/ I. nu th. , teeth mid mum Ti,. tidt•Meridat ht our radon• this. a. and the until doverunte" WM. .4 E. fog, ar. erlf C tt.ta th, latap oda nanny i.e., ere Wee mnoval'ne rrohltleot.re ehanteteduri them vitt' p 1,91116.11. .ant ale a thelil ro'ctoity imriralkkel. r. . 1 Radon. '.reit-4, r.eno are offur."l and. r Dm 404 os eI ropJty .at he nt et , . nub MALI, arrant. a' •t cepthin. he oily ...mane .4 4.1 , zh h nr• the tri ne nt"II iWL.I% ^ pro% dile. the a 'e or eh, umiak/ hr them at ilattoip.ar tea, 1...n.:0ra. sad 14 ovary rtmarotabld sod we - mit ohm . t t In Mom MBMA LFE'S ALICALINX TOOTH-KIV/I)ftli .II: he howl t., i. .he hoe Owl hie y , I I. w orohoeil; It am. Who No girl hi. N. I moll low t'ot ...in Joh, I. ' ton, 4 Melia : it reiNov.w the hour iuri all Ino mill,. 1. - hole. a hew :USW AMMO. an I it. "rairaut oeffwile tend. v.... mica ael purify II end Po.. from the rain , port they hue been cetehmt..l 020.111.6 , h ...seem have !owl newowtooltleo ithatorwor to few. o t W .lan tett,. * ..4 It. 4 I Vie on. (OM v ..... v. flat have be 1 brio. :'.l IN , 10a111.... TPlof *re th.o chola.. I cooll.lefitly V. te..winown.l their Poore-or few if olverwil art-offoo—Wheiweile awl reedit at Ai liT. ALF). 1.15.1:.1.1% .1 i:......1 lie oitloiwto lI.IL 111. Pilo e Allort. b. per I...t.—thnti. et The come.. 1... ..lwr will Ay: . the royal aoro Nefolon sl with u....c. of ;1. It. i.. i. loco .tthert. or the 11l of the bow, fool .... th...l.ltuot ow . ruble."... of the fray duo. "Metellfe.ithiele7. Nled Co.. 1 h ........4. ..,...i." NICK, sad BEKTI.Eti. may be elm pl,t,'y EXTIRPATED by TANG 310,4110 I'A CHEMICAL n• I,l'oatt Inlag the netlve In:me-bent in thlt letnnettlon M yonworet Co- • Jareas olt.non, of twine 1. rttnely fro' from danger to htunan Xe. ..o to do, nool ea.: an from It. 'wenn-4r they will not :etr he, nbrnos re . omen., ntel het Ues eat It ha-Iy. nod In Unit Penal. Ith-rarcrne:. Thu tt4.11. 41,14.1 Into ten. for o e- Skiing of .0. at..1,01.11Ca1l In pots nt oh. In., 2.. 11.. sal en 'I, 4 IM Aeon' 'rho or: thr n.-ent• for 1.me!.01 :—ltartle't, W.. Pretharterrare. I....unten ; so.. 3.3. tot tont.treat Eurnell. 11..1r4. 9tm,..1; Cont. U., nu. h.. Aotreet ; Ertricelt,.n. W.. 3. We. 4 Winton : Hann... W. A.. 2, lark ..-1? nee. I-1104ton : Ken:ha. T., 79. Paula hareht.trel; King, C.. 31, nntiarlaretA, Holton Rote.e Willa, eilingtmi Wm I. J., 79. Welloy,oeortrent T.. 24 - e 7 -4Dot Co.rthoo Ilumnol, P. A., 7. Now Chnrebotant.t. Leont emote. Wbolenhe affettin:—N.orc Ilmh:Ent'on ma Town: humor, and 1:01an ; en.l notion NA Co. An aerial Rio hem anganste4 In wary unarhr L. 411 In Krezlntal. Wm* aa4 Neon- Inna—rn.,...t .41 E. H. 31.1::(1t0P, rbemba. /t. dodalanne. l'imn-44 of !Moto lue • of the vote hate haw .old, 004 Hr. flowatio ha. waived an Unto , •no naii.ber of tnithasolaie at the bh-rest reetwe• 0414 FRANCE. Oar Paris expros of Saturday and Sunday has reached us. The cause of the resignation of M. Leon de Malls- I Minister of tho Interior, was more serious. The President, it seem', made an appointment, which pro perly belonged to that department, and M. de Niel's- Tills refuted to countersign it. Prince Louis Napoleon reed him fer the act in an epistle i la Bonaparte, and M. de Malleville accord ingly resigned. On the double resignation M. Barrot recommended that M. Leon Faucher should take the department of the interior. M. Lacrosse was offered the Publics Works, and M. Buffet the de pirtment of Commerce and Agriculture. Both ao cepted, and their names are gaxetted in the Moniker of Saturday. Our correspondent writes " Several rumours are circulated as to the cause of the difference between tie President and ministers. Some of them are un founded, and others mast be purely conjectural. It is said that the President required to have the tele graphic despatches communicated to him, as well as other details of the administration ' which M. Leon de Mall.ville thought it his duty to with hold. The appointment proposed by M. Leal. Bonaparte, asd rejected by M. de Malleville_, was that of Grunt Nieuwerkeike, a distingnished sculptor, to the poet of Director "des bee ux arts." This appointment was understood to have been proposed at the urgent request of the Princess Demidoff. It is fur ther stated that the President demanded from M. 4p Nlelleville three letters which he had addressed to Lotffs Philippe after the affair of Strasbourg, and which re main deposited in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior. These letters M. de Malleville refiestel to give up. I give you these rumours u they circulate. It is also stated that the President addressed a letter to M. de Malleville, informin,e , him that in accepting the erceideney he ad not intend to be a mere inert !Loire end that he did not wish to be n President d ter !ides. M. Leon de .M.deville answered tnisletter by his resig nation." M. de Maleville's resolution to retire from the cabinet, after the explanations and apologies of the President, is disapproved of by his party. This ministerial crisis haspro.luced in the Assembly. as well as throughout the capital, en impression de cidedly unfavourable to the president, and has excited from some qui.rters charges of a disposition to super+ his powers and to aim at sovereignty. The party of the Mountain is overjoyed at this state of things, ands the perties of the reaction hope to turn it to account. M. Lacrosse, who has been nominated to the Minis ry of l'ublio Weeks, vacated by M. Lion Faucher, was a strong supporter of Gen. Cavaignac, but nev ertheless belonged to the moderate party. S me of the journols Ibis morning, and in particular the Di:lsts, give in substance, hut with somewhat Las dee.ll, the circumstances respecting the mirage riot crisis given above. The Dibats says that the President conedstas that the ministry he hey chosen do not appear to consider sufficiently his prerogative. In short, it is I vident that the machinery of government can: of work smoothly, until the respective rights and dutie a of the chief of the executive and his ministers are mere clearly de fine d and better understood. M. 0 11 errot has rtquo , ted that all questions respect ilog the ministerial crisis shall be postponed for a row de's. The Coestiectianpel, this morning, acknowledges that the President of the Republic male praiseworthy efforts to recover a good understanding with M. de Malleville, and to retain him iu office. The &tele, which hitherto supported the govern. meet of General Cavaignse, and (opposed the election of Louis Napoleon, but which was formerly the special organ of M. 0.111:rror, says, in reference to the minis teri .1 crisis, We rrpeat with a nrofound conviction that in the midst ef the difficulties and snares of every hied which in, naps the new government, the on.y means of mf rty (or it is au honuarahlis !wiry, with the last ministry. Ws eni,rt sin a hope that this fasten lei I soon be accomplishod, wi• a the assent or rather order the itippiratiOC of the g ae r es men who so nohly delivered to his succeson the govern ment, alter having h• notated it at home and 'Urged by his wioloms and his evarage. An address has — been signed by all the communes of the department of the Arri4e to their ekVell repre sentativis in the Assembly, in the name of universal suffrage, which concludes as follows :—" We summon the representatives that we have named to retire from the National Assembly, where they have no more to do, de claring to thins that a longer continuance at the Chamber would be considered by us an abuse of con 84ence and a tvurpation of power." The Press* in noticing the announcement of the Toulon journals, that the Pope is expected in France, says that it has reason to beEcve that he will cone oily to pass over to the Balearic islands. 1 he President of the Republic has appointed gover nor t t his palace M. Tniboutot, commander of the gen darmery of the Eure-et-Loir. A slight reaction took place at the Bourse yesterday, the Threes closing at 43.90, being an advance of 40 centimes on yesterday's urines. A proportionate ad vance took place on the Fives. In the course of the session of Saturday, in the Assembly, the pacation of the amnesty was once more raked, and the promise understood to be given by the President of the Republic was referred to by its , dvoeatts. M. 0. Barrot answered that the irate of the country was not awls as to encourage at present inch a measure, and refused to give any pledge on the subject or to name any day for its diacusaion. The Assembly passed to the order of the day by a lar. e majority. The primers at Vincennes will be brought to trial, for the affair of the 13th May, in the course of the next fortnight. SPAIN. We hare received the Madrid mails of the 23th The news from the provinces were favourable. The country was tranquil. Arrests continue to be made in Seville in conk quence of the late insurrection. Letters from the Pyrenees speak of a Carlo-Pro gressist movement, which was to have broken out on the 21st; but up to the 22nd nothing of the kind WAS manifested. The Herald° says that if, u has been stated in a Paris journal, the ambassador of the republic has ceived orders to negotiate a postal treaty, he will fled every facility from the Spani.h government. The ministers held frequent conferences on, as was • said, the interior affairs of the palace. The insurgents had commenced a bloctivle al Vieb, in Catalonia, and had essaminated the cuuria. ITALY. ROMAN STATES.—The AThu of Florence, of the 24th ult., lays "A steamer from Civita Vecchia has arrived at Leghorn, bringing news from Rome to the 21st inst. The Chamber of Deputies would not vote the electoral law, on tho ground that they were not authorised to do so. The Supreme Junta will pro claim it. home is tranquil. Since Galetti has been appointed a member of the Junta, the ministry has not been yet again reconstituted." II Conlemporanen says "We can contradict the repaid, that General Osribaldi baa been sent from Rome. Ile left yester day to rejoin his legion, who are, it is said, in the pay of our grvernment. It it Equally untrue that Father Gavazzi has been ordered to quit Rome." NAPLES.—II Nasionale of the 24th ult. states that letters from Naples announce that the army of Ferdinand will, within a few days, amount to 120,000 men. The naval armaments.continue. Forced re quisitios s, enrolments, and new levies, are made incmi sandy. Cardinal Bernetti arid Cardinal 0. soli have arrived at Naplee,the former from Rome, and the latter from Gaeta. Letters from Gaeta, of the 16th tilt., announce the departure from that pod of the French steamer 613r°1 TRIED EprrtoN OF JANE EYRE. To be had et eR Ye Illearke. is 3 JANE EYRE, ea AUTOBIOGRAPHY. By °valuta Witt. 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Yn )161MCINK—Merroue en I firer eornolalnte, di rriewle Iftwilores..wii. and Waugh& diw,rlers leers ineursfite, until Mr. loi awn'. oi-owery adapted me well to Infanta, le ewe of conettutlonal 401111 4. ae to the mood eget and Infirm brand, Price 6,1., or 6,1, er.efree • royal , gat, b.; Sc free by poet, (la steam.). rlutb written n i Du BARRY ' S POPULAR TREATISE on IS- Protwrtert awl ; the mew. of sorrowemem, eprofule, Hirer coniplehtt. %hob. their re4lcal remote!. entl,!o,l the " Saturn! Renee. re, Lire re - _this thole).," pareatires or meadow , Nnl by e rPriPle, Savant, vow wnleril. sot Infalhble means. 1 ••, •', I.kweral ' , wrier, with nton•wour maw OW Infante, a. well es 4. •wwnr 're yr, Weedier. imvnionly letwerstley the re.-i r,..6.11 t.. th 3 roo , . feeble , rielonto, or abittered reestitetwin. Parr r d Cn., 73. • w Wei, Lawton ; stow of tlilbtrr, d er; bid al ether boolisollas. Sant pert•freo at the Limo IS 732.] LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 1, 1849. [THREEPENCE. the Vauban. Cardinal Gizzi left the town on that day. The English steamer Odin had arrived, with Admiral Parker and Mr. Temple on board. Marquis Bevilacqua has had en audience of the Pope. The official journal of Naples contains a decree, dated the 18th, for the requisition of 2,000 horses in the pro- vinces beyond the Faro. PIEDMONT.—The Piedown tem Ga:ette, of the 26th ult., says, a demonstration took place at Genoa, on the 24th in honour of order and legality. The population of Genoa paraded the streets, pre ced ed by banner, on which were inscribed " Long live the Italian Constituante ;" "Long live the democratic ministry." A popular orator addressed: a speech to the royal commissioner Buff*, who, in his reply, took occasion to commend the inscriptions of "Long live :the Constitution," and "Long live the Italian Constitueute," ezhor•ing the assembled people to union and order. He then eulogised the army, and terminated with some happy allusions to the device "Live liberty and order." The people, at the close of this address, retired peace ably. On the evening of the 26th ult. (says the Con cordia), about 7 o'clock, some 40 soldiers of the reserve of the guards paraded the Pisrea Nueva, crying 1" Down with the democratic ministry;" "Down with Gioberti ; " "Long live Pintail" These men were so drunk, that some of them, forgettin,l their cue, shouted, " Death to Pinallir "Long live Gioberti," adding, " We wish to return to our homes." These men were at last induced to go to their sun.- ten ; the people occupying the Piazza shouted," Lozg live Gieberti and Buffs!" MODENA.—The Alba. of the 21th ult., sap•, " The National Gaged, en masse, has been diesolved, by an order of the duke." GERMAN Y. PRUSSIA.—Our intelligence from Berlin reach, to the 29th ult. The most prominent topics of con versation in political circles were the alliance between the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian courts, the arti cles of which alliance (it is asserted) will be shortly published; and the approaching departure of General Wrangel for the Rhenish province. "Hare's to the next drops on the beautiful and free Rhine," w. es one of the toasts which the military dictator of Berlin lately gave at a dinner to his officers, after calling on them to fill their glasses to the brim. The gentral will find himselt in good company in the above pro vince, for the troops at present statiuneu therein will be replaced by others from Pomerania and other parts of Prussia celebrated fur the ultra loyalty of the inhabitants. Already Lave some towns in the Rhenish province been deprived of regiments between which and tee chin: a in general the utmost cordiality, as in Aix-la- Chapelle, for example, prevailed. The departure of the garrison from that old imperial city gave rise to Nlemonstrations of regret, honourable alike to both parties. Another proof of the unsatisfactory, if not menacing aspect of affairs in Sleswick-lielstein, or rather perhaps in Denmark l'roper, is afforded by the arrival of lianoveriaktroopa on thePressian territory, on their way to the north. The official ground for the extraordinary arrest of Her Temme, the president of the supreme tribunal of NVeetphslia, is that " he is suspected On Verdnekt eche) o. haviegeo-operated in taking steps to carry into execution the decision [of the National Assembly] respecting the non-pay ment of taxes." The government do not dare to arrest the ex-members of tho National Assembly on the open charge of having acted illegally in voting the susotesion of the payment of tax‘e, but get up a shabby actusation, to the effect that the sending of circulars to the provine , a, announcing the above reso lution of the A-sembly, was a criminal proceeding. Meantime, Herr 'femme has protested again t the com petency of the supreme tribunal of Webtilalia and of its so-called crimin .1 senate, inasmuch as by their addressee to the king &maiming the conduct of the Nat ional Assem b. y as traitoroes, his colleagues hi those tribunals would he, at one and the same tim: (in case they tried him), his accusers and his judges. In fact, the IVestphalia and Berlin tribunals went farther than the government riew venture to go—the former boldly muse/ring as illegal and criminal the very vote respecting the nun-payment of the taxes, and the latter only grounding their charge of criminality upon the alleged or " suspected" attempts to carry oat that deciseon. The Breslau Gazette astounds its readers with the information that Captain Kudriaffsky,a the Austrian navy, had arrived at Vienna, en route for Frankfurt, whither he had been summoned by the central execu tive, in order to have the command of the " German fleet " conferred on him. It is asserted that : p aean, as well as Wirt( mlyrg, has declared in favour of the election of the King of Prussia as Emperor of tsermany, and that all objec tions to the aeceptatce by the Chevalier Bunsen of the post of ambassador (at the court of St. Janxes's) from the central executive in Gamany, are now re- moved. The legislative chambers of Sleswick-lluhrein re assembled at Kid on the 27th ult. It is thought that, besides voting the ordinary taxes for the year 1819, they will declare in favour of • war-tax, no hopes of an amicable termination of the di-puts with Denmark being entertained. There are some faint rumours respecting a note, said to be addressed to the Danish government by Lord Palmerston, demanding the evacuation of the island of Alsea, which the Danes have now rendered all but impregnable. Letters from Hamburg state that much apprehension talks respecting the state of affairs in Sleswick-Hdreen, and that there is very little desire on the part of the inhabitants of that free city to embark again in the cause of the duchies. their endeavours, • republic was impossible inhale, so long as Austria's might on the Po and the Ticino op posed their measures; and that, upon that ground, the party alluded to endeavoured to bring about a war between the Holy See and Austria. It is further set forth that the affair at Ferrara was p asse d over by Austria, which did not forget that the h ea d of the Roman states was also the bead of the (Roman catholic) church. Encouraged by that indulgence on the part of Austria, the Roman agi tators offered— to the deep regret of the Pope—great indignity to the imperial flag suspended orer the Austrian embavy. About the same time the papal troops, contrary to his wiabta, crossed the •Po, and fought against Austria. Under these circumstances— and seeing that tae Holy Father had been deprived of all power in his own states—the Austrian govern. ment had recalled their amba,sador. Matters had now gone so far that the Hole Father had taken to flight, and had declared all the acts arising from the criminal proceedings of the 16th of Nov. null and void. The proclamation concludes by 'stating that diplomatic relations with the Pope, at Gaeta, will be resumed. FRANKFORT.—Dates from this city are to De . 28. The comrr.ittee on the Austrian question was to resume its sittings on the 29th. No business of ge nerel importance was transacted in the National As sembly, which adjourned till the 3d of January. AUSTRIA.—We have advice, from Vienna up to the 27,11 ult. According to a proclamation, issued by the governor of that capital, it appears that Wiedioch grata had, on the 26th, moved his head-quarters to St. Miklos, near Hochstrasse, so that his advanced pets were half a German league from limb. It is added, that the imperial trove were kindly received by the inhabitants. Colonel Horvath's column had I advanced from Oldenburg Kspuvar, whereby a junction had been effected near Goma with the right wing of the main army. Another portion of an army Corp., under! Lieut-ColorielLAlthans, was premed ling, riii Guns, to Steinamanger, in order to join I the troops of Count Nugent, which were ad vancing from the frontiers of Styria to Knrmond, ow Lovo. It is asserted in the proclamation that the enemy ere busy plundering the state treasuries, and that a certain " rebel leader," named Schrotter, had taken away 53,000 florins, C.M., from Oedenbnrg, and replaced them by Hungarian bank-notes. It is also stated, that, on the 17th, the new Berrien , way wode, General Sapplicaz, had defeated the Mag yams, who were attacked at the same time in their rear by Colonel Blomberg. The severity of the weather had greatly impeded the junction of troops in the Carpathian mountain.. A portion of the in surgente, near Silein, had somewhat retired, because the troops of General Siinou'ch threatened the upper valley of the Weag. 6imnnioh himself had taken up a pesition in frontof thesmalllortress of Leopoldstadt, in order to bombard it. The railway communication between Vienna and Tyruau, and between the former and o..elenbarg had been re-established. The recent proclamation of the Emperor to the Saxon race inhabiting certain portions of Siebenbar gen, clearly shows that the Austrian governmert are resolved to ab,lishthe "Kingdom of Hungary," to merge it into Hungary Proper (na anticipated in a recent number of this joarnal), and to establish a diet or legislative assembly, composed of deputies from the various portions of the empire. In the lately . p.iblished imperial proclamation re lating to affairs in Rome, it is stated that, at the ac cession of his present Holiness, the necessity for comprehensive reforms in the government of the states of the church was generally , felt ; that the Pope entered upon those reforms amidst the approbation of all Europe; that amongst his msot enthusiastic admirers were the adherents of a party who bad chosen the Mien peninsula as the theatre of their misdeals activity; the, in spite of IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ditc. 31. A requisition to the Right Rev. Dr. Delany, from a krge number of the Rol** Catholics of Cork, has induced his lordship to &avail, a meeting of his spiritual subjects fur Tuesday Lext, to cor.sider the position of toe Pope, and to concert and adopt such measures as the deprivation of the temporal resources of the Pontiff would seem to call fur. The extent to which the Catholic religion prevails in Cork— the numbers, wealth, and importance of the body of its professors there, would stem to point to it as a !king locality in which to originate a movement such as the position of the spiritual head of their church on earth, would seem not unna turally to call for. The little steps taken upin the sub ject in Du'Mn have been a failure. It remains to be seen whether a similar result will follow thae now to be taken to Cork. It is understood that a pecu niary contribution will form one of the proposi tions to ho submitt. d at the intended meeting. The county of Monaghan has been th e tt etre of a couple of outrages this week, such as unusually disturb its quietude. One of them was perpretated on a memberof that much disrel:shed class—tno land bailiff. In the other case, the object was a Mr. Kerr, an extensive butter buyer in the local markets. The object was plunder, but although Mr. Kerr had over 2601. on his person, the robbers could only discover 111. They b-at Lim severely. A new workhouse is about being built at Bere haven, Cork. DIRECT AND INDIRECT TAXA TION CONTRASTED. A LET : TER has been addressed to Mr. (2.4blen by the secretary of the " National Confederati , n for an Equit. abl - Adjustment of National and Local Toxati.m,' hich, with some few omissions, we now publish. The principles which the society is formed to carry cut are, ler, that ell nec.ssasy taxation shall be t goit aril), adjusted, and be direct. 2, That capitelis of income shall be t.e basis of assessment. 3. That economy and retrenchment in the public expenditure be enforced. " It is quite easy to conceive, that if a :ma of the middle or wurkiug classes were told, and understood, ' that while ureter the indite et system of taxa ion, ho pays from twenty-five to fify per cent. of hie earnings to support an extravagant system of government, while the man of wealth pays not above five percent., he would, under a system of direct taxation, pay only in proportion to his means, the wealthy man doing precisely the same, to then would require no maim far dein eu of instruction to convince him of the justice and advantage of a system of direst taxation; and so of the millions who are similarly cireum sfanced luke the attempt to increase the income-tax lost. year as an instance; the nation was at once up in arm., because it saw at a glance the magnitude of the contemplated infliction. The historian's panegyric is the hilosapher'a con demnation, and pel•tical economists are but too often the waypoes which do not point out the right road. Wheu Alison undertook to record facts, he was under no necessity to violate common sense in his illustrations; end when M'Culloch informed us that we were a heavily-taxed people, we could have been van d the irony conveyed in his assurance, ' that it was to our advantage we should be so. It is evident that if direct taxation have no other dis advantage attending it than that described by Alison, and if indirect taxation have no other re commendation than that which he volunteers in its favour, then his censure is praise, and his praise censure. Speakis g of direct taxation, he says, " Mille the indirect taxes, which are paid without being felt, or for.otten in the enjoyment of the ob jects on which they are laid, it (direct taxation) brir.gs the bitterness of taxation in undisguised nakedness to every individual, and produces, in con sequence, a degree of discontent and exasperation, which nothing but the excitement of continual war fare, or a Renee of uncontrollable necessity, can in duce a nation to bear." From this it would appear that the morality of the principle of indirect taxa tion, or of the amount levied, is secondary to the question of facility of exaction, while the direct system is condemned, because a man is made aware of the precise amount of his obligations while he is in his sober sense 4! There could nut be a more bitter satire on the folly of the people who submit, or on the selfishness of the powers who inflict. How truly he pourtrays the character of the stimulaies which are necessary to make taxation popular, and no questions asked ! But the practice of drugging, with a view to robbery, is in the category of crime. Discontent end exasperation would be the consequencee, he says, but for the excitement of continued warfare. No doubt of it ; this holds enod of either eysten, when it becomes oppressive. Wars have been crrried on to substrve special interests, and the people have now to pay for them, and so will generations yet unborn; and when wars cannot be got up, then we have rumours of' wars and prospects of invaeion, which ere considered the second best means whereby to keep up the " excite ment," so that the army is increased, the navy is in creased, and aristocratic necessities are thereby pro v:ded for. And then there is the affair of the national defences, with the supplementary episode of " the continental complications," all intended to keep up that very excitement which Mr. Alison so much de siderite, that the people may not see " the bitter ness of taxation in undisguised nakedness." But Mr. M'Culloch does not condescend to offer any each apology for the one or the other system of taxation. He at once proclaims that our burdens are a blessing, being calculated, as he facetiously ex presses it, to draw out our energies; and, according to him, the more heavily taxed, the more happy ought we to be. There can be no limit to our pros perity, according to him, so long as a soffieient weight of taxation is placed on the industry of the country. Mr. M'Culloch tells us that "even the magnitude of our rational burdens, which, to a superficial ob server, might appear to be a heavy drawback on our exertions, has really been a means of adding . to their efficiency. Had they been oppressive, their opera tion, no doubt, would have been very different ; bat it was seen that they might be met by increased exer tions, and these have been made; they have, in fact, operated on the public like an increase of the neces sary expenses of his family on a private individual, and occasioned efforts of industry, economy, and in vention that have more than counteevailed their in fluence, and which we should lave in vain attempted to produce by any Issip powerful means." But Mr. M'Culloch forgot vp state how many who have started on the meekly. failed by the way, weary and heart-broken • how many have reached the pnson, how many the poor-house; how many have died early, how many have suffered late, or what the sum of human misery which human ear has never heurd of, all as the fruits, the bitter fruits, of these same na tional burdens of which he seems so much enamour:. And Porter is found to support the same doctrine. He rye, speaking of Kee schemes to raise money by a tax on income, "Indeed it has always excited dissatisfaction on the part of the public to be called on for the payment of any tax from which they have net the power to protect themselves by abstaining hues the nee of the taxed. eqpimotty, It u . the consideration which has always made our finance mi misters prefer indirect to direst taxation, and which led, during the progress of a long and expensive war, to the imposition of duties that weighed with destruc tive force upon the springs of industry." " la the following December an income tax was imposed, at the rate of ten per antupon all in come aoroar.ting to 2001. and upwards, with diminishing rates upon smaller incomes, down to 601. per annum, below which rate the tax was not to apply." In March, 1802, this income tax was re pealed, " and, at the same time additional taxes were imposed on beer, malt, and hops, and a con siderable increase was made to the assessed taxes ; besides which, an addition, under the name of a modi- fication, was made to the tax on imports and export', previously known under the name of the convoy duty." There is fallacy after fallacy, and too close an adhe rence to mere official truth, in this statement of Mr. Porter's. A tax must be assumed to be necessary before it is imposed, and it then-fore can be no object of Parliament to confer the power to avoid the pay ment of that tax by abstaining from the use of the taxed commodity. The converse cf this position we must hold to be the correct one; so that the resort to indirect taxation from direct, must have been suggested by some less scrupulous motive. We have the solution or the difficulty in the simple fact that the landed and monied interests of that day found it of advantage to themselves to throw their own prover liabilities on the shoulders of every man,woman, and child in the country, and that—with the desire to prevent the " bitterness of taxation being brought in utdisguised nakedness" before the pzople, was the consideration which induced Pitt and other minWers after him, to prefer indirect taxa tion. The landed and monied interests were their masters, and they had but the alternative of obedience or discharge. As will be observed, up to 1802, par ties of certain income had to meet the amount covered by the income-tax ; but they were powerful—they were the electors,—the landed, the monied, and re spectable trading interests, who could, with facility, tarn out a ministry. They had to be conciliated, and this was done at the expense of the unenfranchised millions, who, deemed unworthy of the distinction of freemen, could yet consume the taxed beer, and could pay for it ; •ho could consume the taxed articles im ported, and could pay for them. That I believe to be the true reading of Mr. ' Porter's laboured apology for ir.direct taxation, past and present. Let me turn to a more grateful task than that of criticism. Under the operation of the direct system of taxation, the law-makers and the Government would be economical for their own sakes. When they spent they themselves would pay, and pay largely. To the man of twenty or thirty thousand pounds a ytar, who may now, if he chooses, pass oil on a payment of 1,000!. per anntimeto the state, er less if he has a mind, it is of very trifling moment if threepence or sixpence be placed on a :pound of tea ; he votes for it for the sake of supporting the state, as he says, but he is in the way of receiving a double advantage from this exercise of his patriot ism. 'Thor: is the army, the navy, the church, the colonies, and not a few commissions at home. He has a brother, a son, or some other relative, who, of course, is qualified for either, as the vacancy may happen to arise; and then, if real danger there be to the country, he gets his property, which yields him his 30,0001. a-year, protected and sustained iu value, at an additional cost of an increase ion his tea of 3d. or 6.1. per pound ! But that would not cover the proportion ot increased expense for protecting his property ; and as ho does not pay for its protec tion, ',me other person must; and that other Per ron, and the millions in the same station of life, are the parties who, out of their soauty earnings, chit fly support the state and its reckless extravagance, in dustry paying, in one way or other, little short of fifty millions, ettoinst the balance of four millions, or so, paid by real property. Direct taxation would, by equalising the burthen, place on the shoulders of each man his proper share, and each man would pay precisely according to the stake he had in the country, and would know what the government cost him. If we want economy, there is the course to ensure it, and to ensure it effectually and permattently. Again I must repeat, make your law makers and rulers pay their just shares of the public bnrthens, and their own sufferings and necessiti.3 will make them economical. In their very selfishness the country will have a guarantee for protection, and industry a guarantee for the enjoy ment of its reward. Had my limits! permitted, I should have endet vourcd to show how the industry of the country is borne down by the indirect system of taxation, and how it would be benefited by the adoption of the direct. but it is the purpose of the Na Tonal Confederation to enter into a consideration of the whole 106(.0 . . There are a few facts on the surface which can at once be appreciated. The cost of the necessaries of life would be rt dnced by the change, not to the ex tent of the duty alone, (witness the case of salt, which bare a 30s. duty, with a selling price of 40.. but wilieh fell when the duty was taken off, rot to 10s.' b.t to 3s. 6d.,) but from twenty-five to thirty per cent. beyord, on an average, which is now added to cover profits on duties and other out lay', ocersiontd by tee existing system, so that a man could live in this country as comfortably on moderate meats as he could in any other country in the world, while now his existence is but ono con , ticued struggle between state-created poverty and his desire to maintain a respectable position. Mer chants and tradesmen could carry on their present business on one-half the capital now required, or do double the business on the same capital. The salvation of the country from a state of pro. gressive paurerism, and the laying the founda tion for a new order of things which shall convert a scene of desolation into a field full of promise and hope, are purposes which the Council of the Con federation feel assured will enlist the beat aid and the warmest sympathies of all leading men, whether in parliament or out of it, whose highest ambition it must be to contribute ti the realization of so glorious a consummation.—l have the honour to be, sir, yourr, very obediently, J. M. NiACDONALD . , Secretary. Liverpool, Dec. 28, 1848. ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT. DICEMBIR 1848. _ _ _ The following report is extracted from the Juurnal of Agriculture of the Highland Society : The year IBM will effurd a memoiable page in the history of Europe. While many elation have been distracted by political convulsions, Britain hes only been visited by meteorological eccentricities. What the ultimate effect of those c , mvulrinns may be, produe_d as they have been by the unbridled passions of men, we cannot anticipate, but the offsets of atainspherical disturbance, however eccentric, rosy be estimated, because produced'-by the ree ignised laws of asters. . . . January was cold and dry, indicating a good approaching seed time. February proved fresh and very wet, interfering with the spring wheat and bean seed time. March was drier, though cull wet and fresh, and unfavourable to a good oat seed. April, still drier, and higher in temperature, and favourable for the barley seed. May proved the driest, warmest, and meet beautiful month of the season; and, indeed, its three weeks of fine weather constituted the only summer we enjoyed. The sudden heat and drought after the rain rendere d the land hard to work ; on which account the Swedish turnips by no means received a favourable seed bed. A severe thunder storm in the early part of June, broke the spell of the fine weather, and immediately after, June proved a very wet and cold month. July, though not so wet or quite so cold, was equally unseasonable. The rain and cold increased in August considerably. September was as dry as January, and the temperature was about that of August, and allowed a large pert of the crop to be carried in good order. October, usually a bright and pleasant month, proved wet, and the fried became intense for several days in succession. The heat of May tended powerfully to raise tee average thermometrical terns perature of the tenon, though the weather was always cold to the feelirge ; but its character was decided throughout for extritordmere wetness, the tall being in the ratio to hil -1 year of 49 99 inches to 3.5 inches. Now, ne difficulty exists in indicating the effect of such a season, at thus characterised, should have upon the crops. The heavy rains of Februsry rendered the land very wet from the commencement of the so Bing noon ; and March, which is usually a dry month, contributed more than tho average monthly quantity of rain. In these circumst in; es, spring-wheat, beans, and oats were sown in en uufavoiyably wet etc e of the ground—quite the opposite of last year. April was better for the finishing of the oat seed, and the commencement of the barley seed; while the drought in May effected the braird of both oats and barley—the former hiving been attaceed by the gruh, and in the latter the ger mination was partially checked in embryo, as was also the case with some of the Bwediidi turnips, of which that braitded in the drought MP attack, d by the Ay, and' ceased the crop, is inlay cases, to be re-sown. The rain of June, while it brought forward all the brairie, interrupted the continuants of sowing of the white and later turnips. Notwithstanding the d,ll cold days of June and July, the vegetation of all.the earlier crops of grain, and even the tor nips—thonah then late, and frequently interrupted is the singling and hoeing-I,u rapid out lull, Ind secured abuta aide. Of La3er. It was reasonably apprehended that the harvest would be a late one; but, contrary to all surmises, the wheat was ready to be cut by the middle of August. This early matu rity was no doubt greatly to be merited to the for. iur of the elaboration of the sap by the beat of May; and the plant having then been pulsed prematurely forward in that state of Its growth, same more rapidly into ear and towards matu rity than was expected. The swarm:is impaited to the ground in May, and the retention of the heat in it in eonse queue of drainage, tended strongly to rer.th r the wheat of fine/ quality in the best class of soils ; while the late sewn spring wheat, and that on coarse sods, proved inferior in quality. The barley, having been rapioly brought f +rward, proved good ; and a. Ottll absorb a ?role deal of moisture, they have also yielded a good crop. The erld sharp air In October rendered the straw so apparently dry in the stack to induce many farmers to carry it into the stack yard before it war entirely won, and heated stacks was the core. quence in many cases. The weight of grain varies very consirerstily this season. _ Potatoes, thriving in mohture, have produc , d a large yield. The dime appeared amongst them again to a couai derable extent, but in what proportion we cannot say—a/- though we hid more difficulty in this than in last ye tr of procuring a good potato for the tabl... We stopi-ct that the farmers are less disposed to complain aloud of their loss, from this crop, than in former years. They most now see that no drpindance can be placed on the potato as an article of food, or as an easiipraised prolific crop. Still a great reluct ance exists agains. banishing it from the tier's; and sa the early sorts have escaper!, comparatively, from disease it is passible that morn attention wily , in tuturo, he given to them than to the later kinds. Some farness have already planted early potatoes in the field with saccess—that is, without disease; and twin; ready for an early market, the return realised by them his been coasiderablo. Perhaps the ash-seated kidney is the best early potato for the fl. hi; and although not a prolific variety, it will yield a sufficient quantity for all tha purposes to which the potato should be used by the people for their own consumptien—namely, as an accompanying or alter nating vegetable to more substantial fare. Until the custom of depending on the piruto as the sole means of subsistence is abandoned by the work.piople, famine will never cease from the land. ti4tu;niiaare en unequal crap, being, in many parts of the country, mall and bearing little eating, and in other parts th , y are excellent. The disparity cal be easily ace , unted tor. Those who sowed early and ts:aped the He have a goad crop ; and these who had to rearm or sowed late have one of small bulbs. The smallness of the bulb+, however, is not a consequence of the late sowing, for there was plenty of time for the crop before November to grow to a proter size : it was occasioned by the dry weather iu the end of S. p+emb.r, which occasioned a little mildew ; this was followed firm by cold rain, and then intense frost in October, the very period in which the turnip bulbs swell to in t:urdy—both ceases stinting the growth in the best season. The hay crop was much superior to that of last year. The moist March promoted the early growth of the grasses, and the bright weather in May enab:ed much at the hay to he stacked without a shower. For ilia same re +sons, the pas ture was good and continued to grow through the season, and perhaps the hill pasture was never hotter. The demand fur abet p, 'n more than fair condition, front the south, hes been very great. The smthetn counties were cleared of all their draft stack . 17 the tot of September. The demand may have arisen partly from a weal aftermath, and partly, we suspect, from tite effects o& the epidemic now felt, of two or three years since, when severe losses were sustained in flocks. A new t.:isease amongst sheep, the smelt-poz, has been impored from abroad ; end no great has the alarm been created of title disease, that leoislative mea sures have been passed, with a view to prevent the circula tion of marked cares of disease. The season in Enrlind has not been so favourable for the crops as in Scotland; and the consequence has been in teriority of quality, end defiverey in quantity of the cereal crops, especially in the south of England in th, great wheat districts. The English farmers there are so little act us tooted to interruptions in harvest, that who n s bad reason occurs, they are unskilled in expedients to avoid iti injurious effects. Barley and rats in the swath, have then a very poJr chance of escaping irrep.krab.c injury. Oeta being the prat civil crop in lrelaud, a chipping season is always tavoureble to their crowth. . . Notwithstanding the acknowledged deficiency in the crop in England, the price of wheat is moderate, 51.. per qr. The import duty being only 4s. or ss. per quarter, the Lao im portation that has already taken place trom abroad, has out been bonded h•at entered for home consumption. The im portation will DO doubt continue, and, wfoet is remarkable, the Deltic has not yet been blocked up with ice, and what is farther remarkable, the cargoes .1 wheat of last year's crop, after having been detaine d by embargo, by the Danish go vernment, in COM queues of its war with Germany, r here ranch larger prices than *heir owners would hovo taken for them had they been allowed to proceed to th• it destine tinn at once—verifying once more the old proverb, " The colley only drives the hare to its meat." SUDDEN DEATH OF EARL AUCKLAND. It is with regret that we announce the sudden death of Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admi ralty. On Thursday evening last hi s l or d s hi p l e f t - . Lon don, in the enjoyment of perfect health, in order to join a shooting party at Lord. Ashbnr tou's seat in Hampshire. Oa &tardily; accom panied by Lord A.hburton and a number of other gentlemen, Earl Auckland spent the greater portion of tLe d.y in shooting ; but between three and four o'clock in the afternoon he was seized with a fainting tit, and almost immediately tell to the ground speechless. Assistance was promptly rendered, and his lordship was carried to Lord Ashburton's house, whole medical aid was instantly procured. His lord ship lingered until seven o'clock this morning, when he breathed his last. The deceased earl was born in 1734, and succeeded his father as baron in 1814. lie was Gdvernor•Gene ral of India from 1835 to 1811, and afterwards filled the offices of President of the Board of Tiede, Master of the Mint, and First Lord of the Admiralty. liis brother, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, and late Vicar of Battersea, better known by his name of the lion. and Rev. RThert Eden, and who was born in 1799, bucceede to the earldom. SHIPPING. OVERNFIZT. Dee. 28.—The Ancona, from New Orleans for Havre, was totally wrecked this morninz, on a rock, half a mile from the north shore ; the cargo (cotton) floating about in all directions many bales have come an shore ; crew and passengers save d. Duro:yr, Dec. 28.—The wind vo red to N.W. yesterday when nearly all or all tha outwari-hound YouostAL, Dec. 27.—The Speculator, of and from Swar.- sea, was totally wrecked near this place on the 24th inst.; crew saved. COMMERCIAL k MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & Ul l'Y INTELLIGENCE. Iwo o'Clock.—Without much business doing wo have still a firm and advancing market. Console have been done at 891, but have now receded to 881 to 9, ex dividend for the opening, with good buyers. The Reduced Threes 88; to 9. Three• and-a-Quarter per Cents., 891 to 1. Exchequer Bills, 40s. to 43e. premium. Bank Stock, 1891 to 1911. We have a strong foreign market, with prices generally better. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 471 to 81 ex-dividend; the Fours, 741 to 51. Belgian, 74 to 6. Russian, 101 to 3. Danish, 66 to 9. Spanish Fives, 141 to ; the Threes, 281 to 1 ; Passives, 31 to I. Portuguese, 254 to 61. Mexican, 241 to 51. Peruvian, 48 to 51. New Grenada, 13 to 14. Brazilian, 74 to 6. Chilian, SO to 8. Buenos Ayres, 23 to 5. Venezuela, 18 to 20. 1d140L11 , 11 Hoak Stock. 1895914 I 31ore.f:oo. for A.... 8849 3 per Ct. 1t00..5an.., 84.; 9 .3 per (onto., t 94 g 3 par Oi Ooos. Amok. oho' , kleboquarbilN. 40& to 43k prem. --- - - russet) per Ot .Alwerlaa floseh. 4* per Ct. Cen ht.. ele. W . ade. 718 22 per .IMO — Ditto Ct. Urselltan 1143..716 Ditto New. 73 5 Car a. Hamm Amp 8d... O s Ditto a .11111 m ,868 Ditto Calcine Def. 13d.r., Columbian Laluader BAL. 21 1 3 per Ct. Thai* MA.. t 4 9 21 per Ct.bateti Ms, 171 81 Si 41v 4 ~cret. Dutch Out.., 71* 51 FUND& 1 per Cent. Grenada 1141., 11 14 Grenada Deferred Fide,. 2S IS ear Ct. Mealeon, 1448. 2.4 5t 6 per Ct. Ptwurian MA.. 43 58 Yours. 354 6 4 l arr u &nteee. Dd.., 141 3 Ditto Stealth 11.1 e., 141 if 3 Fer Ct. Ppentsb 2111 Dretolah Deferred Me.— Ditto. Passive Dd.., 33 3 pc , Ct. Venritte'n nen.. 18 !O Venezuela Deferred 8d... to RAILWAYS.—The share market is very firm this morning, and good purchases are being made steadily by the public, more for investment than speculation. North Staffordahire bare attracted a good deal of attention, and are better at 31 discount. Caledonian Preference have been u high as to prem., but rule now 4 to a prem. French shame steady. SALES EFFECTED UP TO TWO 17118 DAT IN LONDON. (*.Murders priors will be found in lad page.) . Aberdeen. 171 London and Blackwell. I Bina., W.,lser., & Dudley (with Manch., Shel...nW.. 10 a guarantee). 151 Do. New 101. Prat„ ll 1 Bent. and Eaeter Thirds, 134 171 Midland. 113 7; Odeuonian, ne 4 Do. SOL Omni Pref., 1111 131 Do. Qrs., 11 ex int Do. New 101. Pref., 8 North British, 164 10 Chester a Holyhead Pref., 13) Do. Halves, 7 Dublin 5c Beat June., 21 31 Do. Qrs., 31 E. Amine° U. 11.. 6 per Cent. Do. Thirds, 44 A Pre( , 214 N. Staffordshire, 104 114 Eastern Counties, 12 111 Beading, Gulklf., and Reis., 101 Do. New Qrs., 341 5 Scottish Central, 24 E. Lan:. New lie Shrews. and Wu= (A), 31 3 Do. Qna c , o : i t Do. (Et), IL ?mar. Y & Dorn., 11 In. New Guar., 9 A U Porthern, 9 1 IL Eastern, 231 41 Dn. A Mimed. 1111 1 Do. No. 2, It/ Ile Do. Id, 6 per Oast, 41 1 DJ. No. 3, 16 Great Western, St Do. Thirds, No. 4, ie Do. tars , 18 South Wales, 6, 3 ex Int. Do. New In, 11 York, Newc., & Beg w. ( Orig. N. Lane. & Carlisle, 53 0 St Her.), 271 1 Lane. and York. (Jr.., 1 2 4 Do. Eaten. No. 1 (York and Do. Fifths, 61 71 Newt.), 151 141 Do. Thirds, Beg., 51 Do. Ex. No. 8 (New. 'Nana.. •,__\ : ;'. .. Do. New Guar. 6 rer Cent... 84 144 .... . ;..).%I.7F.'"‘ a 1:0). Wtst Biding Union, 2t I I Do. G.N.P. Par.. Il i r 1 1 1 1 ,:..:4 F -7 1,, i.; to. and Bradfurd ! 9 York and N. Midland ~ . • .;!, ~..',. y i LA/L. Brighton, end :;. C., 324 2 Do. Pref., 1.1 lex 0 ..) s% ...'..) c e, , •?. o'v 1 IDo. New Guar. 6 per sent., 51 Do. E. kW. B. =eh -'' '- . ''t .. -.:.. :7; .. ... ..!. 1 . , Pi t te-•:?- -' 4 ' .. •' ' .f.:7f i: -- • . ' q —re