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o • •t• PRICES OF BRITISH Palk Stock 22 30 29} theta Act:. 3 per Cent. Red. 94i 11 3 per i'ent. rem*. A,iti tome Acct 951 31 perCeet. 101 i 31 pn Con. Red. 100 j 1011 New 4 per (*en , . 104 Indic Stork 2131 Ihtto Ant. ►Mae Bonds 103 102 1113 pm STOCKS YESTERDAY. Long Ana. South Sea Stock South hes tint it ntrultios South Sea New non iti.s E 1i5,24. 1,0001. 62 65 pm Ditto, 5001. Mut-, Small Ditto, lid. 1,0001. 6! 66 pm Ditto, 369/. Ditto, small PRICES OF FOREION ilinstr:an Benda RR! f Ditto Atet. 954 Bpsaillan Diem & an Ditto Acct. f'S4 R f Ditto Scrip 15/ D. pm Ditto Aset. 154 16 rm Bue , tre Ayres Bonds 944 3 , 4 44 34 4 ex die Ditto Acct. 944 Chilton Bondi. 871 3 Ditto Acct. Valombian Bonds 92f Dit.o Acct. Div° Bonds (11124) 951 5 .4 A ino Account 90 5 1 61 54 54 6 Danish Bonds 152 lOt Ditto Alarke Banco Patch Corn. 4A per Cent. Kacbarge French Renter 103 f. 2k. Exchange 25f. 10c. Ditto Scrip 15 pin fiST ERDA Y. Ditto .Act Greek !loads 54 7 1 4 1: Ditto Acct. 57 lit Mexican Bonds . Ditto cct. 130 80 794 CO3 110 Neapolitan Ilona,' *II Ditto Rood. (132.11 93 Ditto s cr ip 91 pin Peruvian Bonds 02 1 2 14 Ditto Acet. Portugneve Rondt 904 Ditto Acct. 91 94 Prussian Bones Ditto Bonds 118221 94 Russian Bonds t G 4 Ditto Acct. 1164 Ditto Metallic Consols 204 194 204 Ditto 310 Bonds 21 Ditto 170 and 2.'5 Bonds Ditto 83 Bonds 214 PRICES OF SHARES vEsTERnA A.Ol-Mexican 31ine - 1001. Share, 101. paid, 105 101 Milted 31exican Mice - 401. - 10/. - 110 Ariona Iron and Coal Mines lOW. - 51. - 17 16 pm Gn'aininian Mine - 1001. -51. - 40 41 Real dcl Monte Mn,i - 400!. -, 70/. - 1120107 0 /Iranian ine - 100!. - 51. - 28 32 pan 'Go de la Plata Mine - lot/. - 51. - 40 43 pm I 'bilian - . 1001 . - . 35 30 pan Hibernian Mine - 50 1 . - 21 - 64 54 pm Australian Company - 100/. - 11. - 90 Canada Company - 1001. - 51. - 20 19 Equitable Loan Bank - - 11. - General Steam Navigation 100/. - blls. - Pearl Fishery Company 251. - 21. - IS 15 pm Alliance Company - 1001. - 101. - 184 19 Marine Alliance Company 1001. - - 7 4 ontinental Gas Company 1001. - 81. 1 pm Provincial Gas Company . 1:r ited General ditto . 501. -71. - itsth and Bristol Rail-road 50/. - 11. - /*Jutish Rall-rood - 501. -1/. - I,ortlon and Bristol - 505. - - Ipm Birmingham and Liverpool 501. - - Birmingham aid London Railway . 111 pm Zin NritiOtt Preoo. TNEATHE ROY Al„ DRURY-LANF. Thls Es ening. FRI HA V. Jan. 14. will be performed 3.11:11RV WIcES OF WINDSOR. Sr John Falstaff. Mr. T.•. re this first appearance In that character) ; Muter Slender, Mr. Harley ; Ear& Mr. Viallsek. Mrs. Ford, Mb' Stephens ; Mrs. Page ,firet Haul. Mrs. Waylett. After which. HARLEQUIN AND THE T hixtmo BIRD. THE SINGINti TREES. AND noLnr.Nt WATERS. Harlequin, Mr. Auld; Pantaloon. Mr. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine. Min Barnett. To-morrow, The Cabinet. 'Ate eery extraordmarily popular new Pantomime every Evening. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening. SRI nAr. Jan.l4, will be performed . A WOMAN NEVER VEXT: Or. THE WIDOW OF CORNHILL. ptenry the Sixth. Mr. Raker; Foster, Mr. Bennett: Stephen Tooter, Ml'. C. Renible: Foster, Jun. Mr. Cooper; Walter Brown. Mr. Eger lkai : Sir Godfrey Speedwell. Mr. Bartley; blaster Innocent Lambskin. Mr. Meadows; Clown. Mr. Blanchard. Agnes Welsted (the Widow of Coruhilll. Miss Chester; Mrs. Foster, Miss Lacy : Jane. Mita Jones. In Act Y. the Lord Mayor's Show. as It pared through Cl:wayside, la the year 1444. After *width, HARLEQUIN ANII TINE DRAGON OF WANTLIT ; Or. WIRE OP MORE HALL. Harleattin. Mr. Filmma:ldi. Pantloon. Mr. , bl Bariss nes: Cr.lown, Mr. J. S. Gri- Columbine Rome To-morrow. Per Fre..:hutf. The asw Pantomime every kvening. The BO ITINI Pits. commenced publishing yesterdaytnorning at Live o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 184.5. The Paris Papers of Tuesday are filled chiefly with dis ennions respecting the new American States. The oppo sit:mi journals of each extreme continue absurdly to repre sent the British Government as having taken advantage of the f.nancial schemes of M. de V:I.I.CLE, in order to strike this How at the princ;ples of Continental Europe. Every body. however, who has attended to the course of the Bri tish Ministry knows, that the act of recognition is only the consummation of the policy on which they have for years openly proceeded with regard to the late colonies of Spain. The French ministerial journal, the Eloile, sins much less against truth and reason : though it speaks in terms of strong disapprobation of the measure, it reproaches this ccentry with no mean trickery, unworthy of its high diplomatic character. The Flak endeavours only to show that our policy is unwise, both commercially and " The treaties with the new Republics," we are reminded, " will add nothing to what England already pos sessed—namely, the greater part of the commerce of those countries." Has this French jurist then discovered, that in_ ternational treaties, for the regulation of commerce and the protection of the interests arising from the mutual inter course of the States, are of no avail? He admits, indeed, some what lower, that " enormous private interests" have ren dered these treaties necessary. But then he asks, " Has rot England committed an error in thus placing private interests above public ones ?" It is true we have colonies, snare and larger than any Power ever before possessed. Ireland is insidiously mentioned, hut that is au integral part of the kingdom ; and though the Catholics, whom the writer In the Eloile clearly in this passage has in his eye (by no wish or instruction of theirs we hope), may be, and indeed have taken care to make known to the world that they are, discontented, there is as yet no standard of revolt unfurled amongst them, nor unless their leaders be the basest and blindest of mankind, can there be any desire for separation amongst them. In our colonies, properly so called, no wish to cast off our authority ban ever been whispered since the first American war ; and the expe rience of that contest is enough to satisfy us, that if we had colonies in • state of revolt, it is not in either France or Spain that we could confide for an honourable neutrality. I f, through oppression or mismanagement, or the decline of cur greatness, any colony should assert its independence, we much doubt whether the same forbearance and delicacy would be manifested towards us which we have shown towards Spain, during the long struggle of nearly fifteen years, which is now about to close. The two main pillars of our colonial dominion are, the interest the colonies them selves have in our protection, and the power we possess to defend and govern them : these are securities not de pendent on the faith of Princes, and they will be strength cued by the wise and liberal measures of our Cabinet. FRENCH FllND9.—Pears, Jsx. 11.—Five per cents. 101 f. ; for the end of the Month, at three o'clock, 102 f. 73c. ; Nea politan, 89 ; Spanish Bonds, 18.—Etoik,Jan.11. 'V lie progress of civilization is gradually superseding the barbarous principles which used to disgrace the intercourse or nations. Among the expedients invented by that nar row-minded jealousy of foreigners, which is now banished from all but the very lowest and most ignorant classes of the eassvounity,: the most favourite measure of governments was the salute of the property of aliens after their de cease. This inhospitable right ?teen lately abolished ..~ ~`~ •-~ -- in France, where it was known under the name of drca craubuine, and in some other countries on the Conti nent, in which it was generally denominated the jus detract us. In consequence of these proceedings, the Rus sian Government, whose commercial policy is on the whole much advanced beyond the knowledge and sentiments of the peop7e, has at once declared the abolition of the duty hi the:lo levied on the effects of deceased foreigners, the sub jects of the States in which reciprocal justice is now insur ed to Russians dying within their territories. Would that the conferences and labours of the Holy Alliance were al ways directed to objects of the same just and liberal cha racter ! Our attention has been called to two cases that lately oc curred at one of the Police-offices, one immediately after the other, respecting which some explanation really seems to us due to the public. A wretched old man, who had served ten years in the army, was driven by hunger to steal some loaves from a baker's basket. The street-keepers seized him in the act of devouring the bread. On his ex amination before the Magistrate, no one recognised him to have been an offender before. He pleaded the extremity of his distress in palliation of his guilt. Ile said he had not tasted food fur two whole days, and his appearance and behaviour fully corroborated his assertion. The prisoner, however, was committed for trial. Almost the „eery next case, but before another Magistrate, was that of a young scoundrel, who, having a good place, and being supplied With board, washing, and lodging, and wages besides, had, in order to pamper his luxurious appetite, stolen a twelfth cake, worth Sa. 61., out of a public shop, in a well-frequented thoroughfare. Yet this wanton and aggravated theft was suffered to go wholly unpunished ! The previous good character of the ju venile delinquent effected for him what it could not for the aged man, whom want and misery had urged to crime. So at least the cases were represented in all the public newspapers. The young thief owed his escape, it appears, to the lenity, or perhaps the laziness, of the prosecutor. Is it fitting that the Magistrates should suffer the caprice, or idleness, or selfishness, of individuals to prevent the ad ministration of justice? Where the eases are flagrant, it is the duty of the Magistrate to bind the parties over to prosecute without any reference to their wishes. This is sometimes done: why not always? If it was necessary that the stern hand of the law should strike the hungry old soldier, was it right, immediately afterwards, to send away harmless from the very same bar, the dishonest youth, whose greediness alone led him to the commission of a daring crime? We repeat it—some explanation is due to the public. We did intend to have made some further observations to-day respecting the schemes for mining associations, but we are induced to postpone them. In what we have said, it will be clearly understood, we hope, that our remarks are general, and that our object has been to caution the public against those extravagant speculations into which many persons were rushing when we first adverted to the subject It may be that some of the projects d serve the attention of those who are disposed to try the chances of this expen sive, and too frequently ruinous, sort of lottery. We do not confound all the plans that are before the public in one sweeping condemnation. Sonic are represented to us as having a reasonable likelihood of success: some on the other hand are mere bubbles. Three of the projects relate to entirely new mines ; and these, if all be true that we hear respecting them, may yield a fair profit on the capital employed, but many of the schemes were never intended for any purpose but to bolster up the fortunes of desperate insolvents, the "the neck-or-nothing men," as they are styled in the expressive phraseology of the Stock Exchange. His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief left York House yesterday morning, on a shooting excursion. Mr. Canning slept at Oxford on Wednesday night, and is expected in town on Saturday next. Earl Bathurst was expected to arrive in town yesterday evening, from his Lordship's country seat at Cir e n ces t er . Lore Liverpool is expected to arrive in town tomorrow, from Bath. Lord Francis Conyngbam, the Foreign Under-Secretary, takes the title of Lord Mountcharles. This is a refutation of the report that any valid marriage had been contracted by the deceased Nobleman. Mr. Wilmot Horton arrive(' in town on Wednesday night, from Blithfield, in Staffordshire, where be had been on a visit to Lord Bigot, and transacted business at the Colonial Office, Downing-street, yesterday. The Council of the Prince Primate of Germany, the Archbishop of Ratisbon, lately submitted to him a project relative to the law of sacrilege. The punishments were rendered unnecessarily Percre k but the Prince said—" I will have no such law. lam an Archbishop, and not an executioner. Let those who commit sacrilege be shut up in madhouses, and let than be cured ; but I will not allow them to be killed."—Conatitutionnel. When Mr. IVilberforce was candidate for Hull, his sister, an amiable and witty young lady, offered the com pliment of a new gown to each of the wires of those free men who voted for her brother; on which she was saluted with the cry of " Nliss ilberforce for ever !" when she pleasantly observed, " I thank you, Gentlemen ; but I cannot agree with you, for really I do not wish to be Mill Wilberforce for ever." Mr. Hume has intimated, in a letter to the Secretary to the Manchester cotton-spinners, that he has received regu lar notice of an attempt to be made, in the ensuing Session, to re-enact the Combination Laws.—Liverpool Paper. 'We can state from authority, that the report which has been circulated, of Mr. Wortley, one of the Members for this County, being about to be created a Peer, is untrue.— Ea 'Packet. Lord and Lady Frederick Ilentinck have arrived at Cut. tesmere, Rutlandshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, from the seat of the Duke of Portalnd, beck, Notts. The Attorney-General has sailed for England.—Daiblin Paper. We have authority to contradict the statement of the death of the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Kildare, which has appeared in several papers. iVe are assured that the statement respecting Mr. Staines and the Star newspaper, which was published in this and several other journals, was wholly unfounded.—Daddin Freeman's Journal. Last week, the Rev. Mr. Disney, Rector of Slane (Ire land), received from Mr. Dean, by order of the Marchioness Conyngham, 501. to be distributed among the poor of the parish ; and la for the widows of her Ladyship's list. Whilst improvements arc being made in ull other quar ters of the Metropolis, we are surprised that that part of Westminster where Tothill-street stands should have been so long ore:looked. It has for years past been only', a receptacle fur basket women, thieves, and females of , loose ciaracter: it is in fact impassable for any decent per son. No longer since than Friday last, Mr. Northoot of the Kent-road, passing through that street, was knocked off the pavement by a party of drunken soldiers and loose females, and in falling had the cap of his knee so much in jured that he will probably be lame for life. There was formerly" market near the Abbey, which was pulled down, when improvements were making there, and it was then understood that another was to be established in the vici nity in lieu of it. It would he a great improvement to the neighbourhood, and a conaiderable accommodation to the inhabitants of that part of Westminster, if that disgrace ful sink of iniquity called the Ahnonry was cleared away entirely, and a market-place erected on its site. ~._~. - - 1,71 `IS. • ' THE BRITISH PRESS. FRENCH P.4PERS. [From the Etoile, dated Wednesday.] PARIS. JAN. 11. We have no hesitation in repeating that England, by lending, If not her hand, at least her name, to accelerate the total separation between the Old and New World, has taken a very grave step, and one, all the consequences of which she has probably calculated ; the same as every Cabinet in Europe, being duly apprised of her intentions, has also calculated them beforehand. But these consequences have a future, not an immediate, refer ence ; and we arc bound to say, no power is so much interested as England herself. in ;miscuing, untouched, the principle of legiti macy—witness Ireland. Inslia, and the West Indies. IVhat England has done. therefore, is. as we hare already said, either a commercial or • political act. In a commercial point of view, the treaties with the new Republics add nothing to what she already possessed. namely, the greater part of the commerce of those countries. IVe may easily suppose that she will not pretend to stipulate for exclusive privileges beyond those of other nations ; for, notwithstanding what the A riff argue says, the French Ministry would never give its sanction to so hue as abandonment of its interests and its honour. Considered in a political point of view, England may be regarded u having committed a dangerous act, by the example a hich a thus given to her own Colonies; an act, too, which cannot be really beneficial to the repnblicans of Colombia, but in proportion as it may be followed by an efficacious intervention, and we perceive that the English Courier strongly disclaims all intention of this kind. What, then, is to be concluded from the conduct of England ? That the enormous interests of private individuals have imperi ously demanded these treaties. English commerce has already embarked from four to five hundred millions in loans to tilos.; countries. To that most be added the working of the mines of Mexico, of Colombia, of La Plata, the Pearl Fishery of La Plata; and we behold a mess of British interests, too important in every point of view to remain without that protection which will neces sarily grow out of the relations now about to be established. Has not England, then, committed a fault, by thus placing private interests above public ones? We think so, and the future will teach Ragland so. With respect to the reproaches addressed to the French Cabinet, why are they not equally cast on the Cabinets of Austria, of Russia. and of Priate, whose principles, as well as ours, are at variance with what England has done? We repeat it, France, Europe, have not been taken by surprise. And while Frenchmen, too forgetful of the glory of their name, delight to represent France as a stranger to the Councils which re gulate the destiny of nations, there is not • country on the face of the globe where the Monarchy of Louis XIV. has not regained that eminent rank from which the Revolutionists alone were able to drive it. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The Chamber of Deputies met in Bureaux to-day, at oneo'elock, end proceeded to examine the preparatory laws concerning the in demnity of the emigrants and the reduction of the renter ; but their labours were not terminated, and they adjourned at live o'clock. ST. DOATINCO...-The Ilaytian Government has published all the documents relative to the recent negociations with France. These documents, which form a small volume, are preceded by • Proclamation from the President Boyer to the llaytians, in which he explains conduct. CONSTANTINOPLIC, DEC. 2. The Internuncio received yesterday an estafette front Mol davia, announcing the evacuation of that province by the Ottoman troops. The evacuation of the Principalities harirg been notified to the Ambassadors of all the European Powers. M. Minziackr, the Russian Minister, presented to the Reis Effendi his credentials on the 11th December. It is ?Armed that Chosrew Pacha has sent 20,000 piastres to Ghalib Pacha. Aga :llustapha, the Persian Charge d'Affaires, died of the plague on the 26th of November. Ile lost his brother in the summer. About the middle of November his son, fit tree Buker, fell ill, and died in his presence. This voting man, who was Its or 16 years old, was soon to return to Persia to be married. The Capitan Pacha is said to have expressed a wish to resign the post of Admiral, declaring at the same time that no one was more fitted to succv.td him than the Schengel Oglou, wiaihas been made Rear-Admiral, in consequence of the praises of his Commander in-Chief, as a recompense for his bravery in the late actions, in which his frigate was always the most exposed. There has bem several Councils this week : one at the Porte, one general one at the residence of the Cheikhaleilam, and another at which the Sultan himself was present, with some Ulemas, at a country house beyond tlyub, above a league from his Palace. The news received front the fleet, couriers from Mehemet Ali, and the evacuation of :lloldavia, re the causes of these frequent Councils. The Pache of Joannina has sent to the Porte ten heads of Greeks taken near Prt TCII.I. it is said that the Servians are endeavouring to exclude all 31usselmans from their province, and for that pur pcne are buying all landed property belonging to the Turks. Naeokt bt ROMANIA, Nov. 27. The siege of Patras has long been carried on in a very negligent manner. It is painful to are, that after the expense bestowed on this army, the provinces of Patras and Gastouni are ravaged by the Turks trom the forums. Lettere from Oastouni say, that the enemy In a late sally advanced to the Bishopric, plundered and massacred the inhabitants, ravaged the country, and re-entered the fortress without loss. . _ _ Dissensions hare lately arisen in the province of Arcadia. The Government, watchful for the general tranquil:fly of the people, has sent troops to reduce the refractory to their duty and restore order. We hope to be able in a few days to announce the re-esta blishment of tranquillity in Arcadia. _ _ _ [From the fifonitessr of Tuesday.] The non-o ffi cial part gives some extracts from the speech of the President of the United States of North America to the Congress. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 29. The Ring has written to the Emperor of Russia, to express to his Imperial 31&;esty the grief which he has felt at the disastrous catastrophe of the 19th November. Notwithstanding the advanced season, several cargoes of every description of articles rhieh may be supposed to be welcome at St. Petersburgh, hare been despatched from our port. !RCN, JAN. 3. Letters from Bilboa of the 2d state, that the French Battalion of the 9th regiment of the line, which was in garrison in that city, left it on the Ist to proceed to Pampeluna. A line of military posts is maintained front this city to % ittoria : the detachments are placed at Astiraga, Tolosa, and Vittoria. The letters from the interior continue to speak of the bands of robbers that infest the roads. These malefactors will soon be chas tised, either by the French troops that remain in our country, or by the Spanish army, the re-organization of which is almost terminated. [From the Journal des Lek!, of Tuesday.] MADRID, DEC. SO. The Charge d'Affaires of France, who has been doing all in his power to prevent the re-establishment of the Inquisition, has at length succeeded. It is but fair to add that hl. Zea contributed materially to this happy result. The immense scaffolding which has been raised for the restoring this terrible tribunal fell to the ground on the 20th instant. The delegates front the generals Laguna and Olaneta ore about to return to Pall, with the decorations and titles which his Ma jesty has conferred upon those Generals. They will be also the bearers of despatches to them, announcing that his Majesty is satisfied with their conduct and loyalty. Father Martinez has accepted the bishopric of Malaga; hut although this see is one of the richest in the kingdom, the wining- Lion is nevertheless regard as a disgrace. Among the acts of grace granted on the feast of the Nativity, we remark the liberation of the ex-deputies, Just Garcia, and Martel, who were imprisoned in Salamanca on account of a conspiracy, in which they were said to be implicated PARIS, JAX. 10. The ministerial writers confirm, by their invective and abuse, what we have already advanced relative to the want of foresight in M. de Videle, with regard to the attars of South America. The temper of these gentlemen abundantly proves that the Pre sident of the Council had foreseen nothing—had adopted no system, and had taken no part in foreign affairs. Whatever may be said, the situation is one of difficulty—the 31inister has to choose between the politic of the continent and the politics of England. Spain increases the difficulty; for it' abs he angry at the part which the Cabinet of St. James's has taken, what game are we to play there ! Portugal at 'he same time escapes front us; for the departure of our Ambassador gives up. without a struggle, the Court of Lisbon entirely to the English influence. In addition to all this, we are framing injurious financial regula tions—we are disturbing people's minds and fortunes—we are handing over three or four millions to the benevolence of 3letairs. Rothschild and Co.—we are mortgaging the rents for five years, for a particular service ;—and thus the works of genius are ac complished. [From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.] PARIS. JAX. 10. The Qttofidizwee observes, t oday , as an impottant fact, that Mr. Stratford Canning did not p to St. Petersburgh until he had held some long conferences with the Austrian Cabinet. This jour. nal concludes therefore, that the destinies of Greece depend on England, Austria, and Russia, It remarks also en passant, that this Minister did not think it necessary to come to Paris. We understand that the Officers ofJt. • ice employed to pursue the robbers of the Stirling mail coach, along the western road to London, have returned unsuccessful.— Murray, therefore, is the only one of the supposed gang who is in custody. That person continues to preserve the appearance of good spirits, and is quite indignant at his confinetnent.—Cakdonian Mercury. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.--A correspondent states, a abort time since, u two women were returning home tiom R friend's house, in crossing a field belonging to the Burton Arms Inn, Llandegley, Radnorshire, the night being dark, they deviated from the foot-path, and the one accidentally stepped into a bog and lost her patten : the next day her husband went to look for it, when to his great surprise he discovered ■ human skull and several other bones. A co roner's inquest was held on the remains, and an eminent surgeon was present, who stated his belief that there had been a murder committed on some person unknown, but how long since or by whom appears to be enveloped in mystery —Hereford Parer. GERMAN PAPERS. PETEII . IBURGII, DEC. 24. The Emperor has issued a decree to the folsing effect : " Desiring to give our faithful subjects a now proof of our wish to lighten the taxes, and to protect t 'mmtree, manufactures, and all kinds of Industry, we have thought fit to grant (from the corn. mencement of next year) a considerable diminution of the dues paid by the several cisme' of merchants, and likewise to approve the subjoined additional regulations of the organization of the guild, and of the trade of the other classes, which more precisely determines the rights and obligations of the commercial bodies. 'tie are fully convinced tha. our faithful subjects of these classes, profiting by the favour which we grant them, will strictly confima themselves within the bounds which these regulations essign to each, will re double their efforts, and fulfil our dearest hopes, by contributing to the progress of commercial activity. " ALEXANDER. " Petersburgh, Nov. 20, 18'24." The Minister for Foreign Affairs has exchanged with the Ministers of several foreign powers declat Pitons relative to the abo lition of the duty ea:lodises daruclus. fly virtue of these declara tions, which ensure, in every particular, a perfect reciprocity to Russian subjects, the duty hitherto levied for the benefit of the Imperial Treasury on thi exportation and trampler out of the Em pire, of inheritances, and other property, belonging to foreigners, is abolished in favour of the subjects of Bavaria, Virurtenthurg, France, and Mecklenburg Schwerin, and this abolition shall have its entire effect, not only in all future cases, but in those in wii:ch, up to the date of the signature of the declarations, the said duties have not been actually levied. The river was frozen over on the 18th. The navigation of the Neva has not been open so late since 181)1 ; it was only interrupted during pan of the 17th—Frankfort Joso - nal, ODTBSA, DEC. 13. According to the letters from r,onstantinople of Dec. 7, it was generally reported that the Capitan Pacha, who has at nll times shown great attachment to the Sultan, would obtain an office about his person. It seemed that the Sultan entertained some apprehen sion, as he had ordered his Blinisters always to attend him in future in the Mosque. and had issued at the same time ordinances to keep the common people in awe. No servant or slave was to appear in the streets after nine o'clock In the evening. These pre.citutione excited some sensation. A conference between the. 'leis Effendi and a European Minister was spoken of, which did not promise any favourable result of the negotiations with the European powers. - TRIESTE, DEC. 26. _ Accounts from Zante, of the 13th of December, say' that Coloco troni (the son), who had again excited some disturbances in opposl. tion to the (heck Central Government, had been executed, or, as others say, had been killed in an action with the troops . the Go vernment. Private letters from Hydra, of the 2d December, say that since the naval action fought off ('andia, there had been ano ther engagement near Rhodes, in which an Egiptian frigate was burnt, and several transports taken. The last news is brought, with trifling variations, by a ship that has arrived here to-day, in twenty-one days from Tchesme Zeihing. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of York left town ye.terday, for Broadlands, II Hants, on a visit to Lord Palmerton. i. Royal Highness is expected to honour the Duke and Duchess of Bedford with a visit on San day next, at Woburn Aliticr. Lady Jones has arrived at her house in South A udley-street, from her scat, Wortin Houu, Hants. George Byng, Esq. M.P., and Mrs. Byng and family, have left town, for their sent, Wrotharn Park. Sir George Robinson, Dart. has left his seat, Cranford, North amptonshire, nn a tour. The lion. Colonel Lygon, 1t1.P., has left town far Glouces tershire. Lord Selacy has left town, for West-Dean, Sumex. Captain Ricketts left town yesterday, for Brighton. Departores from Fentnn's Hotel. Mt. James 's -place :—Captain Hyde Parker, for the scat of Sir William Parker. Bart., Alelford HO, Suffolk ; and A. F. Norris. Esq., for his seat in Hants. Arrivals at the Bath Hotel Arlineton.sireet: —Mr. and Mrs. Smith, from B:.th ; Sir Henry Webb, Bart.; and Mr. Harris. from • tour; and Sir Norris Ximenes, Bart., from Berkshire.. Depar. tures :—Coloncl Vaughan, and Mr. and Mrs. Foreman, for Itrighton. The Rev. Mr. and Airs. hopper arrived yesterday at Blake's lintel, Jermyn-street, from their seat in Norfolk. Departures Mr. and and Mrs. Grayson, for Oxford ; and Captain Pechel, for Suite:. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street Godfrey Webster. front Brighton ; the Rev. 1. 13illington ; J. Vaughan, ; Ward, Em., from Bristol; C. Sanders, Esq., from Devon ; I. rage. Esq.. from Kent; Sir James Hope, from Iltighton ; and W. B. Legros, Esq., from his seat, St. Albans. BRIGHTON, J. 13. The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley have arrived. Among our arrivals are Lord Alvanley, Captain Knox, Mr. Moratt, Mrs. and the Misses Carr, Major Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Lewell, Mrs. Laing Weir, and Mr. Warden Sergison. . _ Mrs. Fitzherbert gives a grand ball on Tuesday next at her Steyne mansion. Lady Shelley, Regency-square, gave a ball last night. The company was numerous, and consisted of the leading fashionables. The supper was excellent. We understand that many of the fashionable families at present here will leave in about a fortnight, after the balls and parties which are now in preparation. ‘Ve regret to state that Sit David Scott, Bart. still con tinues seriously indisposed. Mr. Liston hu been performing some of his best charac ters during the week, to fashionable and crowded houses ; and his benefit last night was a bumper. Ma. KKAN.—We were:much disappointed last week in an expectation we had formed of a visit from Mr. Kean to our theatre ; and. under all the circumstances, we think our manager has some reason to complain of Mr. K.'s treatment of him. It appears that Mr. Munro was in treaty with this gentleman to play a few nights at Kilmar nock, about the close of the season in that town. Prom some cause or other Mr. Kean put off the final arrange ment of the engagement from time to time, until Mr. Munro missed, the best opportunity of opening our theatre '—daring the visit of the Earl of Lonsdale and family; and, in fact, Mr. Keats. did not appear at Kilmarnock at all, nor did he assign any reason for breaking off the treaty. Under these circumstances, it was but reasonable to sup pose, that he would take the earliest opportunity of lending his powerful assistance towards repairing the injury which his former neglect (whether intentional or not) hail done' to the season in this town. His kppearance in Carlisle last week was considered a favourable opportunity for engaging him hero. He was accordingly written to, and the answer returned was, that the state of Mr. Kean's health would not permit his appearance in IS'hitehaven. Now really, without at all entering into the details of the case, we think Mr. Kean has not shown in this instance that atten Lion to the interests and feelings of others, for which he has been so much praised in the newspapers.— What-haven Gazette. Mr. Nfacreatly, we are sorry to bear, still continues dan gerously ill. He was seized suddenly and violently with pains am , weakness during the last scene of the Fatal Dowry, on Friday night, was somewhat better on Sunday, but became again worse on Monday. His complaint is a rheumatic fever, caused, it is supposed, by his having taken cold behind the scenes. He had a simgar, and very vio lent attack two years aince at Naples, from having, in the beat of the day, gone into the cold air of the grotto of Pausi lippo, near that city. A clergyman in Lincolnshire was requested by the master of a charity school to lecture a stupid lad whom he could not make learn the letters of the alphabet. After remon strating with him for some time, and blaming him with proper severity, the lad replied, " I does know 'em, meastar, by their . Paces,but I doesn't know 'em by their ?warm's." The following will show the advance in the price of Mining Shares in one mouth : Dec. 10. Jan. 11. £££ £ £ £ Anglo Mexican 100 10 paid 33 pr. 158 115 125 Brazilian 100 10 paid —los. d is. 68 70 44 pr. Colombian 190 10 paid 19 pr. 82 62 69 Real del Monte 400 70 paid SMI 1 , 350 United Mexican 40 10 paid 35 155 115 125 BANt or I muss xn.—The Bank have reduces! their dis count from five to four per cent. on English bills, and will give bills on London, payable at the Bank of England, at 511 days date, instead of 30. Great advantages must result from this arrangement, both in regard to mercantile con , venience and the rate of exchange. About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, a lire broke out at the paper-mills at Horton, near Windsor, be longing to Messrs. Tipper and Fry, of London, whic h were completely entisumell, with another adjoining, for the ma nufacture of mill boards and brown paper. Three men went to work at the mill at four o'clock that morning, and it is supposed a lighted candle dropped unknown among the paper in the upper part of the mill, where the fire origi nated, which was not discovered until too late. Prompt assistance was rendered, but the buildings being all wood, with such a quantity of paper, all attempts to save it were mulcts, and they were consumed. A third mill, adjoin ing the ether two, was savisl, haring a party wall. THE COMBINATIO.V LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. (Continued from our Paper of yesterday.) When the cotton-spinners struck work in Lancashire and Lanarkshire last year, the average wages of good work man were YSs. weekly, those of inferior 16s. to Iss., and those even of women from Bs. to 10s. When the colliers !told out for an advance in the west of Scotland, at the same titre, and on the approach of winter, the average of their wages was 30s. weekly for good pickuien. The wages of the cotton weavers, I admit, were not so promi s i ng . B ut from the numbers of workmen of every shade and degree of merit in that trade—from the different and opposite de grees of attention, labour, and talent, which the vari ous cotton manufactures require, it is extremely difficult to tell the exact average wages of the weavers. And even this average, if it could be ascertained with perfect accuracy, would give us but an uncertain estimate of the wages of good workmen. Of all the trades under heaven, there are none so easily learned as some branches of the cotton weaving, and none so difficult as others. From the ex treme of the mere machine to that where superior mental and manual skill are requisite--from the rude strength and attention of the lazy lubberly boy, up to that of a man in the prime of life, of steady habits, and indefatigable appli cation, there is corresponding employment for all. Hence, when an average is given, there mt.st unavoidably be in. eluded in it the long hours and close application or the in dustrious, with the half days and weeks of the indolent, and the misepent tune of tlie truant and playful boy, not forgetting also the time devoted to other employment,. There are many weavers who do anything but weave con stantly. Some keep shops, and vend small wares; others, in country villages, plant and dig their own roots and pot herbs, and assist in the harvest. Many, since the pewee, are pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea; and there are not a few who, no doubt from superior " intelligence" and political sagacity, do at all seasons prefer a stinted allow. slice of food and clothes, and a more liberal portion of idle ness, to better cheer and harder labour. Consequently, when we see average rates of wages of weavers, we ought to make ample allowance for the discrepant nature of the t-aterials of which they are composed, that so we may pre cisely understand the reasons why that average is generally lee, than that of any other class of operatives. But whatever might be the average rate of wages to good cotton weavers, one thing is plain, that on this last occa sion they did not combine to defeat any combination on the part of their employers. Whatever their wages were, they might be low from a redundancy of manufactures, from the cheapness of provisions ; or they might be low when compared with the high price of provisions —but whatever they were, they were clearly not depressed by collusion on the part of the masters. To prove this, it is only necessary to review their conduct towards an em ployer in Glasgow, of the name of Hutcheson. The very fact that this individual paid a lower rate of prices than others in the trade did, or were said to do, was of itself conclusive that no combination among masters existed. Wherever there is collusion, the equality of prices among the body of employers would be evidence of it. But while much blame it attributable to the workmen, it must be confessed that the conduct of the masters has not been altogether unexceptionable. I do not allude to any collusive acts on their part to reduce wages, for I believe this to be altogether impracticable; but to the many and oft-repeated conferences with the operatives to discuss and adjust the matters in dispute. Such modes of inducing the men into obedience, have a suspicious appear ance, and must have a tendency to persuade them, that the masters are ready to acknowledge the fairness of their demands in principle, though from interest unwilling to admit them in practice. The operatives claim not only a higher rate of wages, but they also demand a Standard of Price:. In small communities, where a fancy trade is carried on, by a comparatively limited number of work men, fcr he produce of whose labours there is a steady demand, a standard table of prices, arranged according to the various kinds of work, may practically be adopted and adhered to. The principle, nevertheless, is bad, except among a very scanty number of hands, and even among these, such a law is neither more nor less than a combina tion by their: parties against the rest of the community. But it is vain to attempt to make any such table or standard applicable to cotton manufactures generally. The very inclination on the part of masters to listen to such a plan, or give effect to it, shows that they are themselves ignorant of the principles by which their trade is regu lated ; cr, if they are better. informed, they are only cajoling the workmen. Nom ithstanding this, it appears by the Newspapers that a meeting took place recently in Paisfey, a town containing nearly fifty thousand inhabitants, all weavers, or de pendent on that trade, at which meeting the Chief Magis trate was in the Chair, when certain resolutions were adopted to facilitate the plans of the operatives—that is to say, to temporise with them, and induce them to postpone their exactions pro loci et tempore. I say this was likely to be the real interpretation of the resolutions, because I am unwilling to believe those gentlemen to have been in earnest ; but if they were sincere, then certainly there was unfair collusion against all employers who dissented from the sentiments of the meeting; for, unless the whole body of masters resident in that town had acgiiescd in the resolutions, the object must have failed, awl the acts of the meeting would have been act: of conihination and col. lusiou to the prejudice of the dissentients. Is the compact to be all in favour of one side only ? Is combination only to be tolerated when it is favourable to the " intelligent classes ?"—and because certain of the masters, for certain ends, are pleaied to sanction and adopt their plans, is every employer who secedes, and yet cats find workmen willing to accept his terms, to be excommunicated by the orator of a manufactory, and held up to popular indignation ? Upon the whole, the repeal of the combination laws is a measure which will require in the ensuing Session of Parliament to be reconsidered. For the last six months and mare, they have led to distressing results in Scotland. Thousands of families have been reduced from comfortable circumstances to the utmost want and privation. Hundreds of well-dispased and industrious females, who were able to earn a subsistence, have been forced to seek relief in public charity. It has been injurious to the workmen themselves as a body, and to their families ; and has led to numerous breacpes of the peace. It has produced strife and heart buntings between themselves and their t maloyere, without any cause. and has even engendered much ill-will amongst one another. The public peace should net he thus ilia turbed; the industrious should not be thus interrupted in the earning of their bread ; the vitriol regime should be abandoned ; and of course all confederacies for enhancing the rates of wages should be again declared illegal. London, Jan. 10, 102.:. 111* The parishioners of St. Giles. Cripplegate Without, assembled on ‘Veltiesday, to take into consideration the propriety of acting with the City of London, in the 1-I.om-sl ings upon the Bill intended to be brought into Parliament to put a stop to the exorbitant claims of the Clergy, now made in some parishes, by virtue of the Act of the 37th of Henry VIII. Mr. Newell proposed several Resolutions, tending to co-operate in the proposed purpose with the City of London, hut many gentlemen thought them too strong. The discussion terminated with the unanimous adoption of a simple Resolution, accepting Cu.. offer for the City of London, to co-operate with the other parishes in a general Bill. RAI: WA necessary steps are now taking, spiritedly but deliberately, for the establishment of a con tinuous line of railway communication between Liverpool and Hull—from the Irish Sea to the German Ocean. These great public works will be tfFected by three Com panies—the Liverpool and Manchester, the Manchester and Leeds, and the Leeds and Hull Companies. The first of these bodies has been formed several months, and they will have the honour and the trouble of contesting the point in Parliament with the fourth estate of the realm. by which name the inland Navigation Companies, from their immense pat liamentary influence, has sometimes been de signated. The contest will doubtless be arduous, but of the final result we have uo doubt ; we say the final re sult, for it is quite possible, we will add not improbable, that the Bill may not pass into a law during the next Session, though the approaching dissolution will* in its - our.—L: ecrpeol AdVerti4Cr. I I I •