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AiefIRAMCIL CCMPANtES. • Alliance BrMAI and Foreign 100 10 Ditto Marine lOO 6 Protector Fire MISCELLANEOUS. British Rock and Patent Salt 10 0 1 General F!enm Navigation lOO 6 BOW Provincial Beek of Ireland lOO 10 Si din Vile alreoo. DRURY-I;44NR THEATRE. 1113 Crenins. MONDAY. Dee. 10. wall be performed Id time) a new operatic mama. raked LEOCADLA- The principal Characters by Messrs. Mercer, Brownn, Horn, and Taylearet Attains Many and !ever. Aftir writes the Extrareganta of OIOVANNI IN LONDON. Dem Giovanni, Was Cubitt t Leporclio, Mr. Hazier. • To sonsiode wits the Orand Historic Pantoalme Drama°, DS LA PEROU4E; Or. THE DESOLATE ISLAND. Payonse, Mr. Noble; Madame Peron's. bliss Smithson. To.naorrow, Der Freischuts, and Faustus. COVENT;GARDE.V THEATIIE. Thlbgreeting. bfO RO Y , BA De; I MV, wi RGOR. !I be performed th e Opera of ACG Rob Rego Yr. Wardel Mesa Dodged., Mr. Ray Vernon ner , Wes Paton; Balllle Nfrol Javrte, Mr. • Earren.. LeVat • After which the Extravaganza of OIrovANNI IN LONDON. . toe Olovaltal, Madame Veer's; Leporello, qtr. Keeley. Te-inorrOW, The Marriage of Figaro, 'Twee I. and The Seape-coat. Th - : RAMON Pates commenced publishing on Seturday morn ing at five o'cl-ck. LONDON, MONDAY, DE ccmßea 19, 1845. Last night we received the Etaile dated Saturday, with the other Paris Papers of Friday : they aupply us with no political intelligence of importance. The French politi cians, of all parties, seem to he agreed in considering the financial operations of M. de VI Ls/ ca as the leading cause of the late panic in the Money Market both of England and France. His friends applaud his sagacity to the Aka for having so dexterously availed himself of the critical moment to carry his plans into cffect, while his opponents, in terns, equally unmeasured, condemn him for having rc- course to so culpable ■n artifice, to the prejudice of those public creditors who relied on the faith of Government. The disputants on each stile are alike in error. M. de Vie.- Laze, certainly, had nothing to do with t)e production of the ruinous alarm which originated in this country and affected t►.e French funds as being a smaller mass of the same kind as our own, and thLrefore, in price, dependent upon them. We even doubt much whether he foresaw the crisis which was approaching. Many better versed than he in the mys teries of stcckjobbing knew nothing of the impending storm till it burst over their heads. The prices on the Paris Stock Exchange on Friday indicated what is called firm ness, in the jargon of Capel-court. The subscription for General Fox's family amounted to upwards of 470,000 francs, almost 19,0001. staling. The Etoile says, that the Attorney-General has finish ed his report concerning the transactions of M. Ouv it A AD. Nothing is stated as to the intended proceedings. The conferences between the Duke del INFANTA Do and the Foreign Ministers are represented to be frequent and earnest ; but no one could guess what was the nature or would be the result of them. The only business in which progress is made in Spain is that of the hangman. No changes impede the regular execution of his functions. The Madrid Gazete ,nyounces that four soldiers belong ing to the Constitutional army were hanged at Grenada on 'he 25th of last month, for having barbarously mur dered some prisoners whom they had to guard. The Journal des Wats states that the off. nee for which really these men suffered, was their having arrested some Roy alists during the days of the constitution, by order of' their officers. A few such judgments as this would place the soldiery in a very perilous predicament: if they obey the orders of their officers they ere hanged for so doing the next politest change; if they refuse, they arc forthwith shot for mutiny. The Greeks, it appears by the advices from Zstite, made, on the lath ult. a gallant sortie from Missolonghi, under KAItAILLA at, and after penetrating to the rear of Rens- CHID PACIIA ' S army, returned into the town with 1800 prisoners. The CAPITAN Penis was on lits way to Missolonghi when this exploit was performed. Misens was following with the Greek fleet. • !From the Rteik dated Saturday, Dec. 171 TRIESTE, DEC. 4. A private letter from %%rite. at 11th Nov. announces that on the 17th the Turkish beet passed that Island, and steered towards Patios. It was believed to be destined against Alissolonglii. Let. tent direct Iron Napoli di Romania, dsted the 17th November, Ws; no n. ws. DECEMBER I The latest accounts from the lonian Islands, which come down to the 21st November, /renounce thnt on the 111th the garrison of Misrolonghi made another sally, while the Greek General Knrafs kaki. coming in the rear of Redsellid radio, placed the Turks between tau tires. The enterprise soeoetaied completely, and Ka raiskaki is raid to have enterad briasolonghi victorious, at the bead of 1.800 men. This event is of the mote importance, as the Capita° Pocha, having been in sight of Zante on the 17th, must h a ve arrived before Mis•olonghi a few days afterwards. The Greek fleet, commanded by bliaidis. arrived at Zante of the 19th.— .4agemeive Zeittetei. PA Is, Dec. N. The Mon;teer of to-day contains a Royal Ordinance, convoking the Electoral College of Lisieux (Calvados), for the choice of a Deputy, in the room of Seur Brocket de Verigny, deceased, and of the Electoral College of A'ertins (Aisne), for the election of a Deputy in the place of the late firrta►l Foy. The colleges are both to meet On the Slith of January. We have received the following partitnalan of the arrival of the Eirichi Belchlt, in the principalitk• of 3101d:iris and Wallachia. The Cctnmander of the Turkish caps of Observation, in Wal. laebio, who has lately arrived at B..thurcrt, from Conrantinople, I s named Abratiam Aga. He was frmerly Kispi.biloubachi to the present Grand Viziet, while the latter Wag Kiehl of %Minna. A few hours after liia arr:val, Abram Aga paid his tint visit to the Illespoisr, who ciusrd him to be invested with • pelisse, which is conviderel as a nomination to the office of Daschl Bnchli. The new BatzLi Bac!li A e m atrive.l on the Ist 41. We observe with great pleasure that the financial agita tion in the manufacturing districts of the north has entirely ceased. By the Leeds, Manchester, and Liver pool Papers of Saturday, it appears that the panic was at its height on Tuesday. From that day it had declined, 'and was at the date of the last advice. quite extinct. The prompt, generous, and public-spirited interference of Earl FITZWILLIAM, in support of MOMS. WENTWORTH'S establishment, had contributed materially to this happy result. The Ilfanchester Guardian alludes to the late crisis in the following terms:— " The inhabitants of Manchester and its itninetliate vicinity have at present great cause for thankfulness ; for though there has ne ver. within the experience of the oldest tradesmen living, been a week so pregnant in calamity to the commercial world as that which is now closing, the storm .by which so many districts are agi tated, and some fearfully ravaged, extends not to them. They bear of, but fortunately do not experience, the effects of its terrific violence." The Leeds Mercury also states that the return of con fidence had become general even with respect to the banks which had been obliged to suspend payments. The notes of WENrwortvit's banks had risen to par, and were en tering again into circulation. We extract the following paragraph relative to the banks in the West Riding of Yorkshire. " The run upon the Saddleworth two banks, which was very severe on Saturday. Itlonday, Tuesday, and part of ‘Vednestlay, was met •irk promptitude, and sustained with great firmness. Upwards of 700 of the most respectable merchants and tradesmen of Oldham, A'hton, and Saddleworth, have come forward to express their determination to support these banks." The Liverpool Mercury announces that " very large supplies of money have been forwarded by some of the Liverpool bankers, and by an eminent mercantile house, for the temporary relief of the Yorkshire banks." We continue our remarks ou the SILK TRADE from the British Press of Saturday. The hortentou• crisis to which this trade is fast ap proaching, and, throughout every branch of which, at this moment, the greatest agitation prevails, makes the measure upon which its fate is suspended, of the very last import ance. It is a measure which cannot he discussed upon the general principlts of commercial policy. Applicatio est vita regulo--application is the life of rule. If a great change is to be introduced into the system of trade generally, then may general principhe be wisely resorted to; but %ben any particular branch of manufacture is to be conducted on a new system—a system the reverse of that under which it was fostered from the beginning, and has flourished up to the present hour—we must look to the particular principles which govern that branch of manufacture, and which are alone applicable to it. That Ministers, by repealing the prohibition of foreign silks, and admitting them at an ad valorem duty, hare been governed by a sincere desire to benefit the manufac turers, and by a sincere conviction that they shall benefit them, has never been doubted. Somesacrifice, however— it would appear—is expected in favour of those prin ciples of free trade, the extension of which is demanded by national policy, , and by those great leading interests— agricultural and commercial—to which the single interest of the silk trade must—if found unavoidable—be in a slight degree, and fcr a short season, postponed. If this be so, then let the question be met fairly, and at once, on this ground. Let it be admitted—as in patriotism and in justice it ought—that if the protective system hitherto extended to the silk trade is found, by experience, to be opposed to the great commercial interests of the country —and if the public good requires that this special guardian ship should be withdrawn from it—let it, we say, then be ' I admitted that the opening afree trade in silks is a legislative measure, called for by that public expediency to which all minor interests n.ust yield, and that the immediate attar ers—the silk manufacturers—must find consolation for their individual ruin in the tnagnitude of the national be nefits to which it has cleared the way. In this view, the case is braced within a small compass, since the only ques tion at issue between the Government and the silk menu factitrers is this—Will the admission of foreign wrought silks into this country be productive of this overruling ad vantage to the nation_ or will it not? This then is the point which we shall now proceed, candidly and tempe rately, to investigate. In the first place, whatever benefits may be intended by this measure, it his never been shown that any will be deri'•ettl from it. If it could be made appear, that although the trade might suffer in some particulars, it would Le at the same time compensated by certain other advantages—in this case, there would be something, at least, in the way of set-off, which the complainants might be reasonably required to take into the account. But there is nothing here of mutual concession; if foreign silks are admitted, they will come into our market at a price at whichin spite of the ad valorem—British silks will be excluded. The manufacturers are not, therefore, called upon to acquiesce in this measure on the ground of any equivalent reserved to them. Neither lies it been shown what good is to accrue from it to the nation at large; on the contrary, while the evils that will arise out of it are tremendous and certain—the good is, at best, pro spective and experimental. We have already insisted that the securing the means of comfortable subsistence to the great mass of the population should ever be the end of all public measures, and the aim of all public men. Every regulation, whether of comusamatir of fltiNsce, is wise and useful, in proportion it tend to augment the comforts and remunerate the insiltatry of the working classes, and it is bad exactly in the degree in which it produces the oppo site effects. The number of our unemployed poor is already terrific. Eight millions and upwards are annually levied upon the national industry for their maintenance, and the greater part of this compulsory contribution is drawn frcm !AMISS ()V BRITISH STOCKS ON BATURDA Y. of November at lastly, with 18$ Delilis. Kutehuk Achmet depart Beak Stock 992 201 Long Ann. 19 1811 19 ed on the sth with 150 men. The others, to about the same number, P7o die k/ AS* IN , Iwili 70 80 a-leeek are to remain in 141oklavis. Adding ths 189 Dahlia aho came with pee (;eat. Red. 791 i 78t 791 Ditto Bends 3 per Omit. Cow ' Ex. Bills 1 id. 1,9901. 49 co 66 Osman Aga, the whole Corps of Occupation will be the same as Dia* AI, lit i4i I i Sadie heretofore. The Treasury will continue to supply bread for tire pie M L Ditto, 50 01 . 36 65 dis hundred men. ii_ ('t Mild. 87 844 Ditto, Small 10 20 dis A filehmandor of the Prince attended Kutchuk Achmet to the pßicKs or Ton mtiN griNlK* ON SATURDA li . frontiers. When °amen Aga was presented to the Prince, he was Amiable Roods 921 14 U Di Me tto Kies ßo n o ßLV, 2 s s s ) 7 68 i i 79 le invested with a sable pelisse. Otto Acct. Chkan Boods 48 8 9 8 1 The wordage of the Prince's daughter with the son of the Ditto fleet 61 Ditto Acct. asi 7 1 981 74 8 9 Treasurer Demitraki Ohika was celebaated the 30 th Oct. T wo Colombian Heeds 68 818 1 llfatade Coco" were set up, each with a handkerchief at the top Ditto Retttle(lB92) 66 1 161 6 Neapolitan Ronda ( 1 6 94 ) 7 2 '7 6 p enis = Bonds 49 containing 180 p i asters . His Royal Highness himself threw upon Ditto At. Ai 44 6 7 6 Portuguese Bonds 76 i the Bo y ards and on the Ladies about 144 roubres (small gold coin Owlet Honda 102 Prussian Bonds 811 91 90 worth three piasters). The 3letropolitan and the two Bishops of Myr Users Basso 954 100 Ditto Bonds (ion) 90 Roman and Hooch each received a sable pelisse. The fetes non. DittoBoeillo(18111) 68 Russian , Reads (111911) 66 31 1 frewebßentes3 perCi.6lf.ezdis it 1 9 1 2 tinned three days. Ilitchalvenr. 19e. Ditto A cot. 98 6 14 44 The English frigate, which landed at Smyrna the two Pachas Greek floods Spenieh Cons. 13/ 14 13 from the Mores, who hare been prisoners of war since the cool- - Ottellomalo•Rende 84 Ditto Acct. 181 erieneetneat of the insurrection, fired a salt:s in thiir honour when ' PRICKS OP SHARES ON SATURDAI. they left it. This frigate, which is to go for dlr. Stratford'Can- MOICS. ' : • Share. Pahl. Premium per Share. ming, hoisted a yellow Sag at thz mainmast, and immediately west l ea ...4 4i102 6 1 dis into quarantine. - • •............••..• 6O 3 111 • P eroirten Potosi, IA Par, sad Peruvian 50 lb 31 dis 661.7 k :closed at 96f. 60c. ; Thre7 per Cents. opened at 62f. 75e.; • Ttlelipluie. 25 3 9 closed at 62r. 457.; Bank Stock, 2,0591. ; Neapolitan Rents. , 761. ; Tlalpuxahoa. 4OO 20 40 Royal Spanish Loan, 494 f. i Haytian Loan. 7951. Exchange United Mexkan flan New ... 40 10 641 on London—One Month, 261. 20c. ; Three Months, 23c —Cost s Aa Walsh Iron and Coal 26 28 61 6 die Hentique. —.........__ PRESS. a class of persons who rrquire rather to be relieved them selves than to be taxed to the support of others. The having already so much misery to deal with ought surely to make: a Government pause—and long and fearfully too — before it finally resolves to enforce a law that will have the effect of putting down a fLurishing manufacture of our own, in favour of foreigners, and throwing hay a million of industrious woi kmen out of bread, and this too at an eventful period like the present. when the country can least bear any interruption to its industry, and is least prepared to encounter any fresh convulsion. Such is at this moment the stagnant state of the silk trade, arising from the expected ruinous operation of the new law, that when the stock of materials now in the hands of the operative weavers is worked up, no manufac turer wiil give out another ounce of silk fur any fresh sup , ply of goods not on order. What a wide spread mass of distress must be the result! Can it be a question whether such a calamitous crisis should be permitted to arrive if• by any human means, it can be averted? There never was a subject which it was of more importance that the public should fully understand than the one here before it. We arc most anxious that all its bearings upon the situa tion of the country should be fully known. Let no man consider it as a question in which he has no concern. No indifference can be more fatal. We are not here reasoning upon hypotheses. In a few short weeks what we are now stating will be no longer matter of reasoning, but of reality. That the public may form their judgment upon it prac tically we will go a little into detail. Mutter of fact carries its own warning with it. We will take the city of COVENTRY and its vicinity. The following is not a con jectural and off=hand t , :mate ; it is a statement the correctness of which may be depended upon, and which will therefore warrant the conclusions which every reflec tive reader will draw from it. _ The amount paid in wages WEEKLY to the riband weavers of Coventry is twelve thousand pounds. The va lue which this labour adds to the material upon which it is emplcyed may be truly stated as equal to three times its own amount. Thus tLc value of the ribands manufactured — including the workmanship and material—amounts to ONE HMI lON eight hundred AND SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND Pot; 24D5 per annum. Allowing—which is as near the fact as possibk—that twenty shillings is paid for manufacturing one pound and a 'quarter of silk—or one shilling each ounce—the annual consumption of raw silk is 780,000 pounds weight : which, at the average cost of hurteen shillings per pound, amounts o 66.3,0001. Now, if we deduct this 663,0001.—i1ie prime cost of the foreign raw silk—the value of the ribatids produced by the labour employed upon them is DICE LION TWO HE NDRED AND NINE THOUSAND POUNDS per annum. It must be here remembered, that a quantity of British good.. to the value of six - hundred and silty-three I s thousand pounds must have been exported in exchange for this amount in value of raw silk imported. We here see in a short compass what is paid in wages to the operatives of a single district, and the value added by it to the raw product. The above account does not include the profit of the manufacturer, of which, from a variety of causes, it would not be possible to give an ac curate estimate. Let those who have nerve enough look steadily at the consequences to the country of destroying all this pro fitable application of capital—of annihilating so valuable a branch of our manufactures—for annihilated it actually will be—and turning adrift this whole number of operatives —men, women, and children—who earned collectire&, by their Ilonat and well-directed industry, twelve thousand pounds a wed:, and throwing them—helpless and starving— on the parish rates! We have confined our statement to tha riband-wearers only ; we have said nothing of the hundred thousands em ployed in the manufacture of !road silks. The picture would be too appalling to contemplate. We again repeat, that we are not here enumerating evils which may, but which inevitably will ensue, if the British silk trade is opened to foreign competition. his not upon the silk- manufacturers, as a body, that this extremity will fall They can retreat for a time upon their own resources, and, for all beyond, the course is open to them. It is upon the workmen thrown out of employ that the weight of distress will fasten. In the Silk Trade there arc nine thousand stern hundred looms in active work. Of this number stern thousand are the property of the operative weavers. The moment French goods are introduced, these looms will be thrown idle, and n hen it is seen how great a pcoportion of them is the property of the workmen,it is easy to imagine not _ _ only the irreparable loss which the manufacturing industry of the country must sustain by the breaking up of all this weaving machinery, Lut how greatly it must swell the ag gregate of the pauperism which is already the fruitful parent of to much crime and calamity. Upon what ground, we 'maid here ask, do the silk- Factors—the party who solicit the repeal of the prohibition— upon what ground do they large its removal, or upon what principle do they proceed to prove that it would be of l'ene lit to the public? To what extent the motives of philan thropy or of patriotism may govern them, is a matter upon which we offer no opinion; but thus much we will tcll them, that they are sadly short-sighted, if they imagine they will promote their own interest by advocating the intro duction of foreign silks, since it is manifest that the ready resonree which offers itlelf to the silk manufacturers, and to which they will, no doubt, resort, will be immediately to employ their capital as rectors instead of manufacturers, and the former will thus find, to their cost, that their trade will be suddenly over-run with competitors which their mistaken policy has forced into the field. It will be too late for them to tread back their steps when they shall have discovered the error of their calculations; but that they nial discover their error, in the end, is certain. Our limits will not permit us to say more at present. We shall resuine the subject very shortly, and our deep conviction of its importance will induce us to return to it till we have left no statement unurged that may, in the end, produce conviction. No efforts were spared during the late panic in the City to extend its sphere and aggravate its pressure. Malignant insinuations were first the instruments with which the alarmist patty worked. Ai these failed of effect, recourse was bat to direct falsehoods. The wicked zeal, and rids ebietous activity, of this party can hardly be conceived by those who have not watched its proceedings. Since the agitation has begun to subside every nerve has been strained to excite it afresh. Daperate means must he used for a desperate end. Falshood was necessary ; and false lwed, therefore, was sent forth in abundance. A few pa ragraphs, published as recently as Saturday lost, will show the cltanieter of the machinations to which we refer. In one of the accounts purporting to come from the City, in the Mcrniag Herald of that day, the following statement occurs:-- The ileeting of the Merchants and Traders, anti their Resolu tions, are not considered here to be Of the value or one straw in his eventful mica/. Parties want something more than mere •:.•* meetings and resolutions. Firm pmtesfationa of confidence will rot satisfy the man who wants the money with which he is to nice his engagements. We went to the Mansion-house several time to day, but we certainly had not the good fortune to see any person at tending to sign the resolutions, end its the course of conversation with the different merchants, they one and all declare 'that they trill not sign it, because they do nor like to subscribe their names to that which they do not believe to be true. The Hebrew interest is de cidedly opposed to it. Now what was the fact ? In order to insure that none but respectable signatures should be attached to the Re solutions agreed to at the Mansion-house on Wednesday, only eight gentlemen were admitted at a time into the room appropriated to sign them. There was consequently no bustle such as ordinarily prevails at places where the sig nature of every individual is eagerly sought for. As to the tliinelittation of the merchants to affix their signatures, " because they do no believe" " the Resolutions to be true," let the advertisement in our front page of this day strike the vile calumniator dumb. The same baud endea vours in another passage to arouse the suspicions of the weak and timid part of the public with regard to the abi lity of the Bank of England to continue cash payments. These arc his words : " The panic this day has taken a new turn ; the holders of notes began to straggle rather thickly into the ballot rffice of the Bank, :Mere gold is obtained fur notes—crowding and jostling by hundreds et a lime, &c. We pass over the gross ignorance of this City agent, who evidently knows not the very localities of which he is speaking, nor probably the difference between cash and bullion. Whatever else lie knew not, at any rate;he must have known that his assertion that " that hundreds were crowding and jostling" to obtain gold at the Batik sa absolutety without foundation. Bat we have not yet done whit the malignant falsehoods of this Paper. On the faith of a correspondent, it is alleged that "an eminent West India house in the City, the leading partner being an M.P., stopped payment to-day. Another house, extensively en gaged in the South American trade, has also stopped." These statements, again, are purely malicious fabrica tions. Nothing has occurred which can in the dightett ' degree justify them. Vague and sweeping assertions of this nature, howz-ver, are not all : individual calumny is deemed ' advisable. This is supplied in the following shape:— " A constant reader of the Morning Herald begs to assure the Editor that Mr. Irving, who made so grand a speech at the Man i sion-house respecting Sir Peter Pole and Co.'s affairs, kept cash at that !liaise, and his firm (Reed, Irving, and Co.) were the fir.t to withdraw their balance.—Lloyd's, Friday Morning." Will it be credited ? This statement, so boldly and broadly advanced, is wholly the invention of the writer ! Words are insufficient to express our indignation. The only proper answer would be, tl:e scourge of criminal justice. CITY, SATERDAY EVENING._ The transactions of this morning, and the general ab sence of all mischievous reports that had any semblance of credibility, confirm our former statements, that the panic is fart subsiding but it can scarcely be expected that so great and extensive a convulsion as has recently been experienced in the Money Market call entirely pass over without several returns of depression and agitation. Indeed the accounts that must daily arrive from the country, describing the effects produced there by the ruinous alarms of the past week, will necessarily, to a certain extent, cause some re-action In the metropolis, and we doubt not that any relapse of this Nod will be eagerly taken advan tage bf by that party whit t has already done so much to aggravate the evils of the late financial dirtress, and used as a stalking horse to promote their further objects. Bu be the recurrence of agitation more or less, and the most sanguine must expect some return of it, the public may rest assured that the worst is over, and that any sudden consternation that inly hereafter arise, is otdy the nature result of that morbidly semitive state of the Money Market, from which it has not yet, perhaps, absolutely recovered. Considerable sales of Money Stock were effected this morning, principally, as it was understood, in order that the proceeds might be transmitted to the country for the purpose of upholding the credit of the provincial bankers. The price of Reduced Annuities fluctuated between 791 and 78f 9, which was the concluding quotation. Consols opened at 814 f, and closed at the same price, having once in the morning reached I. Exchequer Bills were 40 60 56 68 .discount. The Foreign Market possesses little or no interest at present; the prices were rather lower than yesterday. Colombian Bonds were S6i 2; Mexican Six per Cents. 381 I ; Guatemala Scrip 1.5 18 discount; Spanish Bonds 13); Greek ditto 15 16; Danish ditto 67 9; and Bra zilian Scrip 20 18 discount. The issue of email notes from the Bank of England is, we find, generally regarded by the Monied interest as a precautionary measure of great importance and utility. It will immediately provide a secure circulating medium in those distant places where a temporary want of confi dence in the local bankers may prevail, and thus, in the first instance, check, and, probably, destroy the alarm which otherwise would soon produce, particularly in the moufacturing districts, a train of , evils which it is fright ful to contemplate. The large supply of cash could not, with all the exertions of the Mint, have been prepared for immediate transmission ; and as bullion would neither have been acceptable nor useful to the multitude amongst whom the panic would most dangerously operate, the issue of small notes by the Bank of England was the only effec tual remedy applicable to the perils of the moment. The whole conduct of this great corporation, throughout the late crisis, has been such as reflects infinite honour upon the 11)ard of Directors.. We statcd yesterday that we had reason to believe that the very respectable film of EVERETT, WALKER, and Co. did not intend to resume their business. It appears that we'were correct in that announcement, as the following circular has been•forwarticd to all their custonters-: Itte.scs. Everett, Walker, and Co. respectfully announce that, not having obtained the desired assistance, the house will not be a bl e to resume Its business; they are making arrangements to sub mit a statement of their afftira w their creditors, aad to liquidate all their debts and engagements. Dec. 17. As far as the London banking houses are concerned, the most perfect confidence seems now to exist. iVe hear not eves a whisper against one of them. Ttir CraaCN CY.—lt is very probable that the immediate effect of the increased value of money will be to reduce the price of grain and other agricultural productions. Either the Jews or Gentiles have already begun to sweat the gold coin, and out of 250 sovereigns received in payment the other day from Ireland, not fewer than 30 of them had been under this operation. We hope that we shall never again see the time ►when paper money will tot be con vertible into gold at the will of the holder, but we should be very reluctant indeed to have the cumber and the trouble of a circulating medium altogether metallic.—Leed,, Mercury. . _ _ A set of swindlers are going about the neighbouring villages, persuading the country people that all the Not tingham banks are going to break, and kindly offering to purchase their notes. This humane ofer has, in many instances, been accepted ; and our correspondent a dds, t h a t "one of these swindling scoundrels, it is supposed, realized more than 50/. in a few hours."—Lerls Jfercur:, CONSULTATIONS OF HIS MAJESTY 's MINISTERS. As we stated on Saturd ay, the meeti ng o f tome of Cabinet Ministers, particularly those most eoneenint the subject of finance, the Governor, Deputy-Goerm some of the Directors of the Bank of England, and so , of the Commissioners for the reduction of the national de was of very great importance; so much so t h at it thought necessary to summon a Cabinet Council to Meet the shortest possible notice, at the Foreign Office, at id o'clock the same evening. The summonses for that pt pose were not issaied till near half-past six o'clock. Th were present, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lie the Earl of liarrowby, the Chancellor of the Eitel* Viscount Melville, Mr. If uskisson, Mr. Secr e t ary 1, Mr. Secretary Canning, and . Mr. Wynn. Th e Duke, Wellington also arrived in nine to be present; and 6 1 Bexley, for whom a meescnger had been despatched, rived at half-past nine o'clock, from his seat, North C I The Council continued in close deliberation tin bi two o'clock. The Cabinet Council again aosembled at three o'ela on Saturday afternoon, at the Earl of Liverpool's hou se 111iite but whether it was an adjourned meeting the important discuesicn on Friday night,or another cols cil, was not known, as no summonses were issued for sembl4r , '' it. In some instances , under simi!ar c i rcet stances, Ministers assemble by verbal agrrement. The Lord Chancellor and the tame mantas were pi sent as on the preceding night, and continued in delibei tion till near four o'clock. Ark r the hteaking up of the Connell, Mr. Canning 3 Mr. Huskissou remained in deliberation with the Ea r l Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a co siderable time. TV I .VD3011 ) Su ND AY. DEC. is. Divine service was performed this morning it the Re Lodge by the Rev. Dr. Sumner. ROYAL HURT . — A fine deer was turned out of the c: on Farnham Common, on Friday morning, for the fb diversion. A numerous field of sportsmen were al f ,i bled ; the deer showed great sport, taking across the cou try towards Bulstrode, and crossed the Uxbridge rci whence he ran with great speed, making several tm through the enclosure, where, after three hours' good spo he was at length taken near Watford, in Hertfordshire. The Duke of York paid a visit on Saturday to tl Imilitng erecting for his future residence in Stable-rat St. James's. • The Duke of York attended divine service yesterday the Chapel Royal, St. James's, and heard a sermon tqt Rev. Mr. Banks. Friday, being the birth-day of Prince Leopold, t Duchess of Kent entertained a select party to dinner her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington. Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and Prince Leopold, n•e of the party. In the evening Prince Leopold I . :turned Claremont. After the breaking up of the Cabinet Council on San day, about five o'clock, the Chancellor of the Exchecp left town for his house at Beckenham. On Saturday evening Mr. Huskisson transacted budm at the Foreign Office. Mr. Gou!Wane, Secretary for Ireland, transacted I , til ness yesterday at the Secretary of State's Office for F reign Affairs, previous to his leaving town for Ireland. Mr. Strangways, attached to the embaray at Turi arrived at the Foreign-Office, Downing-street, on Sate day, with despatches for Mr. Secretary Canning. Lott] Strangford arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 9 ult. with a numerous and brilliant suite. RLPRESEN TA TIVE PE. ER AG h OF lilL•ND.—State the poll on Tuesday night— Lord Farnham - 42 Lord Mountraahel - - 42 There were no votes tendered for either of the Candiclat yesterday ; there are yet 18 peers to vote. Lord Wellesle it is said, has voted for Lord Mountcashel, and the Mateo of Lanslown for Lord Farnham.—Dublin Morning Riga ter, Thursday, Dee. IS. The house of Sir C. Scott, Williams, and Co. of Hd lea -street, Cavendish-square, resumed business on Saturd and it is believed the house in Birchin-lane will soon folll their example. It is stated that the head of the firm of Vifiliatas and (1 heard of the failure of his house when travelling to don in the mail-coach, as a casual piece of news among passengers, the messenger sent down to acquaint him w the circumstaoce having passed him on the road. Am the various tales now circulated is one of an old servant this gentleman, who had commenced business in a lit shop, and had accumulated 950/. which he left with old master, running out of the banking-house, and no ducement whatever could make him re-enter it, nor we he receive any explanation that the money wsonot Irani A meeting was held on Thursday 'at York, the Ri, Hon. the Lord Mayor in the Chair, at which the respectable merchants, traders, and others, in that ci were present, and expressed their determination to rem' in payment the notes of Messrs. Swann, Clough, a Co., and these of Messrs. Tweedy and Co., to any a being perfectly satisfied of their stability. A banking firm in a neighbouring town, in order to certain whether their notes, if re-issued, would be r paid in again, marked seventy one-pound notes, which th allowed to be circulated indiscriminately; and it so happer that they were all returned to the bank the same day. is necessary to add, that this occurrence took place wit the panic was at its criaia, and to say that s similar t mailer now would probably be attended with a different suit— Leeds Pa wr. We have lately seen in the Colombian papers that Ge ral Bolivar hail made a second remittance of 20.000 doll to Mr. Joseph Lancaster, in order to promote the establisi ment of schools in C olombia; but it is not general known that Mr. Lancaster was first introduced to Goner Bolivar (then Colonel) by the late General Miranda in ti year 1810, and that it was at the residence of the latteri Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, that he first explained at demonstrated his system of education, having taken wti him two of his pupils for that express purpose.—Erenip Parer. . _ It is in the contemplation of Government to render t convicts sent to Botany Bay as serviceable as they are board the hulks at oolwicb, Chatham, &e.; for win purpose about one hundred and fifty superintendent; now getting ready to sail at the end of this month, on salary of about 200/. a year. We are glad to Mutt several non-commissioned o ffi cers, on half-pay, have be engaged. We sincerely rejoice at this new feature in e criminal jurisprudence, for it has long been notorious tl transportation has been to the most part of the convicts matter of choice, because on their arrival out they bees free and at liberty, while on board the bulks at homed labour on compulsion is matter of dread. From this tin. however, transportation will also become a real punii) :neut.—Sunday Paper. A scene of the most appalling description occurred in II city yesterday noon, between twelve and ore o'clock. Jo. Ward, the private belonging to the depot of the 47th 1. whose commitment to Westgate.gaol we lately noticed, f breaking a pane of glass in the shop window of Mrs. J 3 silversmith, on the Parade, and stealing therrout t watches, which he afterwards returned, has since his cot mittal shown evident symptoms of insanity, and was, cone quence of his making a great noise in the night a disturbing the other prisoners, confined by himself ; wht the gaoler took his dinner to him yesterday, on his °peter the door of his cell, IVard immediately s nrung past hi and, going to the top of the tower, threw himself over battlements, on the north-west side, when, dreadful to n late, his brains were dashed out on the pavement of t bridge, and he was instantly deprived of his existen One of the other prisoners happening to be on the tower the time, and seeing what he was about to do, caught he' of his foot as he was throwing himself over, but ffitffir .that he was endangering his own life, he was compelled let go his hold. A lady that was passing at the time 1) a vary narrow escape, as the heels of the unfortunate ceased struck her bonnet. A Coroner's Inquest was lel on the body yesterday, before Mr. Nutt, Coroner of tl city, when, after a patient investigation, a verdict of " sanity" was returned.—Kenfisk Gazelle. Per: co 1 F whi diet Phi A — ls ms thi Bu nit Ulf anc lov fie(