The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will he performed Balfe's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss; Floreville, Mr. Rafter; Morliere, Mr. Ilorricastle ; L 4 Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-6 3 ,pDpos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss ile&Ntt Isaacc After which Will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, be'ng a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes ; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma chidery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey , Mrs . Balls, and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin- endence of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE OF KALYBA. THE ENCIIANTRESS.—Date and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other " Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quite miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling " incog." as," Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, out of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTERIOR OF INFANT Senoot.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half•holiday on the occasion. _ . Scene 3. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN or COVENTRY CASTLE.— The Earl of Coventry (Lord Iligl7ST;;;rdof England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the celebrated " Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters tndrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful nights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the atives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ers Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful t. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his " cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to a ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." Norice.—" Nothings material to our historie " occurring during a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audieace will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYBA'S HOUSE OF CORRECTION !—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, it. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney !) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brola-r champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and an " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom ! Scene 5. Dovra Roans.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations —" the management having, i❑ the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS or THE NlLE.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on Ids way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. :Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came to Egypt to he married--the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not Laving even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves liiinszlf on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND !TALL IN TILE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FlasT, KING OF EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious ailowance of jaw enables him to speak for himself ), Mr. Wielrind. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). ROYAL PROCLAMATION " Who'll kill the dragon ? " Or me he shall gorge ; I I, says St. Geor g e, I'll kill the dragon."--Old MS. Armin-. of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the "Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Seen. S. Tla DRAGON'S HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY.— How MO Aragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " coantry quart4sk ;" how St. George fol!ows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then tall oat. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilling pieces" of England, hut at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GR A 575) HALL o f CIIIY ALA!' . —How St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends in New Characters. Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon.... • Mr. Priorson. I Columbine :Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT LER'S Snop.—lmproved Surgical Instrutnents. "Holding the mirror up to nature." "Families furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint Hies to the Clown's head. Scene I I. CORNeRANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANARY.—MOre ways than one of being "ill clover." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" :n high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff "in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND. —" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortegt notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for " patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TAILOR'S SHOPS.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot ing." Grand Experlmonts in Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas trophe. scene 14. INTERIOR ov BRITISH AND FOREIGN TOY WARELIOUSE.— Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack In the Box and out of It. First-rate teem and turn out. "See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. THE STerra AS IT Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. THE STATUE AS IT Wes ; or, Wellington at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING _ Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, .31r. Rogers; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buck stone; Harwood, Mr. Howe ; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Would,. After which the New Comic Drama of STORY TELLING ; or, :Novel Effects. In which Messrs. Farrel), Buckstone, bliss Telbin, aed Mrs. Hamby will appear. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, Ms Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. Jame., Bland, Miss P. Horto_p Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under tha Management of Mrs. Keeley, THIS EVENING _ _ Will be performed a Drama, founded on floe New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albeit Smith, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal clia vacters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, P. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Wooliidge, 3liss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Mr. J. W. Collier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laid law ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Laud. THEATRE noyAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will 13, performed an original Passaatic Drama, called CO IOIOA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported ty .Ifadaiae Celeste, Mrs. Yates; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, O. Swith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees awl his three Pupils—the Masters Haulons, will ex lilleit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy S P pectacle, founded on the Ballet it IS LA GELLE, entitled THE HANTOM DANCEItS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. I'. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. CallenCord,Madame Celeste, Allss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, anti Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story or Giselle.'"fhe principal characters personified by Miss Georgians. inithson, Miss Ronrke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses :Marshall; Messrs. Letlier„kllen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Ronne:, l'eren, &c. In the course of the evening Professor lIEM\IING and his ta- Inted CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; IT, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; l'antaloon, Mr. Faulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. IL Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flesinore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed L'ECOLE DES MARIS. Sganarelle, M. Carnally ; Valero, M. Langeval; Ergastc, M. Lucian ; Artiste, Frere de Sganarelle, M. Dorgebret ; Un Comini3saire, M. Masquil- Ler ; Un Notaire, M. Pagenier ; Isx belle, Mademoiselle Angele ; /Aeonor, Madame Fouquet ; Lisette, Mille. Rhin. After which (for the last tune), the Vaudeville, called LE CO ZIEDIEN D'ETAMPES. Dorival, M. Perlet. To conclude with MONSIEUR PIQUE ASSIETTE. Pique- Assiette, Monsieur Perlet. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3e. Gd. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that this Inimitable Entertainment will be repeated THIS EVENING, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday. and Saturday ; and, in complianee with numerous ap vications, they will give a GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW (Wednesday), e.ummencing at half-past Two o'Clock. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2a. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pa'ronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, Prineo of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Christm Holiday Fetes. THIS EVENING, a double rotation of Equestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The "Demon Horse ; or, Thu Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit." Herr lieuparte, the great Dutch Bottle Equii thrist. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en ttled THE D DION RORSE ; or, The Twelve Wiskes and the Charmed Bit. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the Grand Ghristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, eltitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and 11:e Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. liar ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffariut ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. , iox-ottice open irom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six sari commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager , Mr. W. kroadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled TIIE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEA FR. The characters will b, supported by the whole of the talented Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, callel THE KING Oi? THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Daulia ; Pantaloon, Herr R.Dettlia ; Columbine, Mdlie. T:ieodore ; Clown, Mrr E. Deulin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. tluction of Prices.—Boxes, Is,. half-price, Ed ; l'it, fid.; Gallery, 3,1 .; Private Boxes, 21. Mr. N. T. Hicks as " Tha Black Doc tor. Great suceess of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin cent, Mrs. O. Lee, Rliss L. l'earce, and Mcasrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed. wards, ird. Searle, Forman, will perform. titled After Which will be pr o d uced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en- A OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin Go-a-llead,'' and OF Miller Ws Men. Clown, .T. Barr pantalon. Sio o,mocale ; and Harlequin; M. Lupin° ; Mr Columbin y e, ; Ile. on. L gn aur r . i a rumou r thanAzir, COMMUNICATION 1,7" u -- ' l 7 .---vAernment have journal speaks of Liverpool it in contemplation to discontinue their Government pc.Aet establishment, and to avail themselves present sailing ne sed tender, made by the West India Royal of the re ply, for the conveyance of th e Southß,okyal Mail Corn nn 1 passengers to Barbsdoes, and for their transmission mails thence to Brazil by branch steamer?, TILE LATE STORM AND INUNDATION S AT ROM E utters from Rome of the 12th state that the disasters occasioned by the overflowing of the Tiber bad caused So much distress, that the Pope has appointed a com . Inittee to open a subscription for the poor. The Pope bas already contributed s awn equal to 20,000 francs *em his privy purge. THE SUN, LON.OON, TUESDAY . _MORNING, DECEMBEIt 29, 1826 WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH AND W. AND G. MEASOM, AND PORTRAITS OF SIR CHRISTO PHER HATTON AND THOMAS INGOLDSBY, THE NEW NUMBER, price Two Shillings and Sixpence, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR JANUARY, WILL CONTAIN:— MISS PERKAPPLE AND THE GOTHICS' BALL. By ALBERT SMITH. With an Il'ustration by Leech. The Wofully Wedded. By Mrs. Howitt. Address to the New Year. By W. B. The Old Cemetery of St. John's, Nuremberg. With Illustrations. The Palmer's Trial. A Legend of the Olden Time. By Captain Bracegirdle. The Moth. By Alfred Crowquill. The Little Match-Girl. A Tale of Christmas. By H. C. Andersen. The Shakspeare Album. Brian O'Linn ; or Luck's Everything. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo." Keeping up Appearances. By Alfred Crowquill. Shots from an Old Six-pounder. By Portfire. The Broken Vow. By Mrs. Romer. Irene of Sestos. By W. G. J. Barker. The Flaneur is Paris. By the Author of " Second Love." The Old Storm King. By J. Linnaeus Banks. Queen Elizabeth and her Dancing Chancellor. By Dr. W. C. Taylor. With a Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton. Poets, Places, and Pensions ; a Gossip with Will!am Howitt. Honest and Happy. By J. Linnaeus Banks. A Sketch of Thomas Ingoldsby, with a Portrait. CAPTAIN SPIKE ; or, THE ISLETS OF THE GULF. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Author of " The Pilot," " The Spy," Sze. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ALBERT SMITH'S NEW WORK. On the 31st instant will be published, price One Shilling, the Fifth Number of T HE STRUGGLES AND ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE, IN SEARCH OF A NAME, A RELATIVE, AND A WIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD. By ALBERT SMITH. With Illustrations by Leech. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. *.* Orders received by all Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom. NOTICE ! On the let of January, with the Magazines, will be published, part 1., to be completed in ten Monthly Parts, price ss. each of A: RE-ISSUE OF BURKE'S' -RISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. *.. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Col urn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW lIISTORICAL NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., gTRAWBERRY HILL. By the Author of " Shakspeare and his Friends," " Maids of Honour"' &c. " Here are no assassins, no poisoners, no Neros, Borgias, Cata limes, Richards of York. Here are the foibles of an age—no 'very bad one."—Horace Walpole. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ILLUSTRATED TALE IN " THE MIRROR," Price Is. On January 1, 1847, Chapters 1., 11., 111., and IV., of THE MISER'S WILL; Or, LOVE AND AVARICE. An English Tale. By PERC Y B. ST. JOHN. The Mirror will continue to be Edited by Mr. St. John, assisted by several eminent writers, and will be Illustrated In the first style of art by Hine, Archer, and Walmsley. Now ready, Vol. 1., new series, price 58. 6d. 11. Hurst, 27, King William-street, Strand. ing the trifling sum of one dollar per month from the owner of each fast-boat plying upon the river, the proceeds of this reasonable im post to be applied to the repairing of the wharves of Macao, and the whole being accompanied with a system of registration, whereby the honesty and re spectability of the boatmen would have been ensured. instead of yielding at once to this excellent proposi tion, the refractory Chinese appear to have availed themselves of the opportunity for the purpose of evincing their animosity to the left-handed domi nation of Portugal. They refuse : his Excellency forthwith captures two fast-boats with their respective crews. A multitude collect together and assail the Portuguese : the Governor instantly calls out the soldiery, and disperses the insubordinate mob killing somewhere about a dozen, burning ten fast-boats and sinking eight others. After divers other attempts to elude the power of the settlers, and to quash the obnoxious edict the subjects of the Celestial EMPEROR are subdued, and Senhor JoAo DO AMABAL is triumphant. Such is the rapid suppression of animosities in India, such is the rapid excitation of hostilities in China. While one portion of the Asiatic race is swallowing its wrath, and bowing its neck to the yoke of its superiors in physical power and political knowledge, another is chafing under the sway of its fortuitous magistracy. In both these circum stances are perceptible a diseased state of intelligence, and a want of a more advanced civilisation. In both are visible the precariousness of their quietude and the uncertainty of their alliance. The sudden submission of MOOLRAJ and EMAUM-00D-DEEN recals to our recollection the proverbs about Indian duplicity. The disturbances of the boatmen at Macao is another testimony of the instability of Chinese friendship. The nearer we approach to the Parliamentary session of 1847, speculation becomes daily more rife, not with respect to the objects of national import, to which the new and principal measures of the Go vernment will be directed (on these heads the public are already tolerably well enlightened), but every surmise is freely canvassed as to what will be the feelings and actual state of political parties in the House of Commons on the 19th of next month. The inquiry is a very natural one, and h certainly of the highest interest, since upon the political combinations that may be formed out of the disorganised materials of parties, which so peculiarly characterised the close of the past session, will the stability of the present Government be essen tially determined. The various on dits appear to us to be entitled to little or no consideration. Many of them are based upon the assumption that Sir ROBERT PEEL will, for a while, cease to take an active part in St. Stephen's, if not altogether retire from public life. Surely this is a very unreasonable supposition. If the latter portion of it were true, there would, in all probability, have been long since issued a new writ fur the borough of Tamworth. Again, that it is the intention of the ex-Premier to refrain from prominently sharing in the deliberations of Parliament, is another rumour to which no credence can be justly attached. It is quite at variance with every sentence that fell from Sir R. PEEL, when he officially announced the resignation of his Ministry- So far did he appear to be from meditating retirement from public life, that he was at considerable pains to explain to the House the spirit in which he was prepared to act, in his private capacity as a Member of Parliament, with respect to Ireland, the progress of commercial reform, and other matters likely to occupy the attention of the Senate. Since the accession to power of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, there has been neither, by speech nor act, any indication, on the part of the late Prime Minister, that he contem, plates taking a different course from that which he sketched on the occasion to which we have alluded. That sketch evidently implied that he meant to con tinue to lead his political supporters, and, in opposi- tion, dispassionately to review any measures which his sucessors in office might think proper to introduce. It appears to us, therefore, that nothing is less probable than the notion that Lord LuvcoLN will assume the post which has hitherto been ostensibly filled by Sir R. PEEL, when out of office. The attempt to conjecture, at this moment, what will be the probable position, or combination of par. ties, in the popular branch of the Legislature, is alto gether futile. It may certainly be predicated that the angry feelings of the agricultural representatives, as exhibited during the course of the last session, will be found to be considerably mollified, seeing that, since the rising of Parliament both corn and land have obtained high and remunerating prices, to the utter contradiction of their gloomy and oft-reiterated prophecies. But the benefit of this improved feeling will, in a party sense, be shared not less—indeed, perhaps more—by Lord JOHN than by Sir ROBERT PEEL. For, if the change in the corn-laws is to work well for the landed interest, as we have all along contended it would, Lord J. RUSSELL has a stronger claim than his political rival upon the gratitude and confidence of the agricultural Members, by rea son of the earlier conversion to which his mind was brought to the policy of abolish ing duties upon the importation of grain, the produce of foreign countries. The futility of reason ing further, as to the continued division of parties on the one hand, or their possible amalgamation on the other, will be best rendered clear, by reflecting upon what are the points which will have the directest in fluence in causing them repectively to decide whether they will uphold, or resist the Government. These points resolve themselves under two heads ;—First, the mode in which the Cabinet have administered the affairs, external and internal, of the empire since the prorogation of Parliament ; and next, the nature and tendency of the measures which the Government shall have prepared for future legislation. Upon the latter point all opposition (if any of im portance should be offered) must necessarily remain in abeyance, or, rather, cannot be legitimately kindled, till the schemes shall have been formally expounded to the Legislature. In regard to the former, and especially as relates to foreign policy and Ireland, very much will necessarily depend upon the views which Sir R. PEEL and the Stanleyites may severally embrace. Until, therefore, their opinions shall have been respectively revealed within the walls of Parliament, the curious and the anxious, con cerning the future consolidation, or the continued disruption of political parties, must, for the present, be content to remain unsatisfied and unrelieved. It has often been our painful duty to invite the public attention to statements of misery and destitu tion, to sufferings of the most fearful character. Within the last few weeks scarcoly a day has elapsed that a paragraph headed "Death from Starvation" hai not met the eye in the columns of the public journals, but never has it fallen to our lot to peruse a detail so harrowing and revolting to every feeling of hu manity as that which has been put forward by Mr. N.M. CUMMINS, a gentleman of respectability, a magis trate of the county of Cork, who, in a letter to his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, has depicted scenes cf which he has been an eye-witness within the last week. Truth, it is said, is stranger than fiction, and it is indeed almost impossible to conceive a more horrible exhibitions of the effect of combined pestilence and famine than that presented to our notice by this gentleman. Lamentable accounts have from time to time appeared of the extraordinary severity of the distress in the western districts of the county of Cork, and Mr. CUMMINS, who possessed some small property in that part of the country, determined personally to investigate the truth of the statements as to the appalling misery to which that locality was said to be reduced. In pursuance of this praiseworthy ob ject, and it would appear also with the view of afford ing some relief to the sufferers, Mr. CUMMINS went to Skib'oereen on the 15th instant, and visited different parts of the surrounding country; and he cites as an example of the state of the entire coast district what he witnessed on one townland. We shall give it in Mr. CUMMINS' own simple but forcible language. It would be impossible to condense or abridge, to strengthen or add to the awful description. It is not of a strange or distant land he is speaking, nor is he dealing in vague generalities. The locality is fully and accurately described, so that if he has been guilty of any exaggeration, or has in any degree drawn on his imagination, the statement is capable of immediate contradiction. The scene of wretchedness is named South Reen, in the parish of Myross, and it is situated on the eastern side of Castlehaven harbour- Mr. CUMMINS says--- " Being aware that I should have to witness scenes of frightful _hunger, I provided myself with as much bread 2.,; five men c aild carry, and on reaching the spot I was surprised to lind,the wretched hamlet apparently d. set mi. I entered some of the hovels to ascertain the cause, and the scenes that pre tilted themselves were such as no tongue or pen can convey the slightest idea of. In the first, six famished and ghastly skeletons, to all appear ance dead, were huddled in a corner on some filthy straw, their sole covering what seemed a ragged hosre cloth, their wretched logs hanging about, naked above the knees. I approached with horror, and found by a low moaning they were alive—they were in fever, four children, a woman, and what had once been a man. It is impossible to go through the detail. Suffice it to say, that in a few minutes I was surrounded by at least 200 of such phantoms, such frightful spectre s as no words can describe. By far the greater number were delirious, either from famine or from fever. The demoniac yells are still ringing in my ears, and their horrible images are fixed upon my brain. My heart sickens at the recital, but I must go on. " In another case, decency would forbid what follows, but it must be told My clothes were nearly torn off in my endeavour to escape from the throng of pestilence around, when my neckcloth was seized from behind by a gripe which compelled mu to turn. I found myself grasped by a woman with an infant just born in her arms, and the remains of a filthy sack across her loins— the sole covering of herself and babe. The same morn ing the police opened a ,bouse on the adjoining lands, which was observed shut for many days, and two frozen corpses were found, lying upon the mud floor, half de voured by the rats. " A mother, herself in a fever, was seen the same day to drag oat the corpse of her child, a girl about 12, per fectly naked, and leave it half covered with stones. In another house, within 500 yards of the cavalry station st bkibbereen, the dispensary doctor found seven wretches lying, unable to move, under the same cloak. One had been dead many hours, but the others were unable to move either themselves or the corpse." Gracious Heaven, can such things be possible in a Christian land ? Can civilised men see their fel low-creatures suffering the agonies of hunger, endur ing more than the inhabitants of a beleagured city have ever been subjected to ? Are there no ministers cf the Gospel, no relief committees, no persons in any the slightest degree removed from such a state who were capable of telling the sad tale, of demanding instant relief and assistance for the sufferers ? Some time must have elapsed before the unhappy creatures could have been reduced to such extremities. A fearful responsibility rests on all who were acquainted with the facts and did not make them public, when the aid that could be obtained in the neighbourhood was found to be inadequate to meet the crisis. We are aware that two clergymen have been in constant communication-- with the Home Secretary within the last few weeks, and that they laid a melancholy statement before the Right Hon. Baronet that awakened the deepest sympathies for the suffer ings described. His answer to their application has been published within a few days, and most sincerely do we trust that the recommendation contained therein may be adopted. And we cannot doubt but that our own countrymen will nobly respond to the call made upon them. It is no time for inquiring by whose default this frightful suffering has been oc casioned. It is no thrie to speak of existing laws, or of those which may be enacted hereafter, or at whose expense the people should be fed : there are human beings perishing at this moment, without food or clothing ; there is an opportunity to feed the hungry and to clothe the naked, who, without speedy assist ance, must perish by a lingering and painful death. Sir GEORGe GREY has truly stated that it is impossible for the Government, by any means, to meet all the cases of severe privation and distress which are to be found under existing circum stances in Ireland ; much must be done by individual owners of property and by private charity. Sir GEORGE suggests that means should be taken for raising among the wealthier classes in Ireland, as well as in England, contributions fur the relief of extreme cases of want and destitution, not capable of being met by the existing poor-law, or by the works in pro gress, or to be hereafter sanctioned, and states that he entertains no doubt that if due precautions were taken for securing the proper application of such con tributions to the relief of urgent and severe distress through the local agency which can alone be com petent to the duty, " liberal aid would be afforded by private benevolence in this country," and such will undoubtedly be the case. Englishmen have never withheld their assitance from the sick and needy, they have afforded succour to the destitute in what ever clime or country they may be situated. There is no tale of real distress that has ever been told them in vain. We have assisted the stranger, shall we suMr those speaking our language, united to us by many ties that should prompt a ready response to any demand for assistance, to call in vain ? We have often held out the hand of fellowship in periods o`, lighter trial than the present. Large sums have been remitted in former years, and many lives were pre served by the timely aid so afforded ; but never was there a call so urgent and pressing as that now made. The very season should awaken sentiments of benefi cence in every breast. This is the time of joy and festivity, of feasting and merriment. Families that are separated for the rest of the year are re united at this happy time. Loftier and higher thoughts will arise in many hearts. We commemorate a ;pe riod of glad tidings and great joy to mankind. Suffer not our brethren to be cut off from amongst us. We pray to be delivered from pestilence and famine ; let us strive by- all means to alleviate the afflictions of those who are suffering under their baleful influence. No time is to be lost. Let not the day pass before a sincere resolution is formed by each to do something accord ing to his means, to give up some trifling object, to restrict himself (if necessary) in some particular, and to devote the amount to mitigate the wretchedness we have detailed. We venture to say, a more pure de light has never been enjoyed than that which will fol low such a course. What is to be done must be done at once ; a single hour should not be lost. Englishmen, you have never hitherto been found wanting, and ne ver h as t h ere been a greater necessity for uni versa l exert i on, "Bus dat e cite dat," — a small sum given promptly and readily will be more valuable than a far larger amount if delayed. Expedition is everything; there will be many channels discovered through which your bounty will be faithfully distributed, and mak e glad the hearts of the unhappy and miserable. Recol• lest, too, that the calamity is not restricted to a single locality, the case of South 'teen is but an example of that which is daily taking place in the less cultivated and poorer districts. A single provin cial paper, th-e Mayo Constitution, contains the ac count of no less than eight coroners' inquests, in all of which the verdi , e . t, of death from starvation or from want of sufficient Aod has peen returned. And one of the coroners of th e county has addressed a letter to the Lord-Lieutenant, stating that seven more human beings (different (from those to whom we have alluded) had fallen: victims to hunger 'since his last report, and yet this county Mayo contains no less than 800,000 acres e waste land, of which, according to the report of Mr- :RICHARD GRIFFITH, the eminent civil engineer, published in 1845, no less than 170,000 acres might be improved for cultivation to produce corn and green crops, and 300,000 acres might be drained for pasture. Indeed, Mr. GRIFFITH says of the waste land in thi3 county, that a large portion of it presents unusual ff.:edifies for reclamation and cul tivation; and, be it .rQmembered, that his report is made with reference i;o the provisions of the Ist and 2d William IV., c. 33:, which requires a certificate of a skilful engineer or surveyor that the improve ment, when complete d, would increase the value of the lands in the propor lion of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the sum propc , sed to be expended thereon. We find the followirrg in the Augsburg Gazette, o the 20th, under the head' of Silesia : " We learn from a source worthy of credit that the application made to Austi in. by Prussia, on the subject of the trade of Prussia wits Cracow, has met with in surmountable difficulties. M. de Kamptz had several conferences with the Pres:eent of the Aulic Chamber, but it appears that he employed so disagreeable a form of discussion, that the arfai . sr took a decisive turn. The demands of Prussia had fer object to exclude Cracow and its territory from the operation of the Austrian cus toms, and to leave them tier ancient privileges; but that was impossible. Ever 3 tLing that is possible, how ever, will be done in favour of Prussia. The tariff of transit will be maintained, :and an entrepot at Cracow for Prussian commerce will b, tolerated." A letter from Posen of thE. 16th, in the Post Anipt Gazette of Frankfort, has t'ie following 66 The Austrian police has ji tst suffered a strange mys tification. It was announced' that the Polish emissary, Rymaskiewieg, had been are ested and given up to the Prussian authorities as beim.: a Prussian subject. On the arrival of the prisoner at this place, the president of the police visited him in pri son, and discovered that it was anther person, who had assumed the name of Ityrnaskiewieg, in order that be might not be given up to the Russian authorities. It has not yet been decided what is to be done with the prisoner, but hopes are en tertained that he will be libe rated." Graz )t, at the expense of a public functionary represent eur etatiory, ;see who had himself been gravely insulted. We were entitl, d to draw the conclusion that Lord Palmerston was seeking for all occasions to annoy the dsp'onaatic agents of France, and that M. Guizot, following a wretched system, was receiving the law from England now that she was in bad humour, just as he had received it from her when our ally. But is it M. Guizot alone who serves as an instru ment to this system ? He once overturned, would France resume her full freedom of action, the authority of her power, and that firm attitude which imposes respect even on those persons whose sympathies she does not ob tain ? What matters the absence of this secondary idea, if the general and superior idea still lords it over public affairs, and maintains the policy of the Govern ment in that order of ideas and effects in which it has been sa long dragging on ? It is not, there fore, any particular man or men that ought to be at tacked, but the ideas, the direction, the ensemble of the policy—in a word, the system itself. This system, being detestable, selfish, and anti-national, is com batted by a constant opposition in the Chambers, in the press, amongst the electors, in the muni cipal councils, in the National Guard ; wherever, in fact, a more popular sentiment animates men's hearts—wher ever it is desired that the Revolution of July should not be lost in a wretched abortion. It is, therefore, the sentiment that ought to be opposed and overturned, in order to substitute a totally different order of ideas and facts—another system of policy for that which we have a right to declare not only narrow and insufficie .t, but hostile to all the principles of the revolution, disastrous to the country, and degradieg to its nationality. This is what we desired to say, and what we said ; and this is what we now repeat ; because if discussion cannot go to such a length, no discussion is possible. What was in criminated the other day, we have written a thousand times, and heard a thousand times in the Chamber, and there is not a single Opposition journal that is not as guilty as we. But do our readers wish to know what M. Hebert pretends ? He says that the system is the King—that to say that the system is odious is to offend the King's person—to declare that the system ought to be attacked and thrown down, is to say that the King ought to be overturned—and that is, besides, to adhere to another form of Government ! This pretension of M. Hebert does appear to us at least strange, and we complain in particular that it supposes that we do not know how to write our language. The King is not a system ; the term system is necessarily a collective term ; if we, by chance, attacked the system of the law officers of the Crown, relative to the press, that would not mean that we attacked M. Hebert personally ; and if we offended against that system, M. Hebert would not be entitled to consider himself ample enough to take the offence to himself alone." On the subject of the recal of M. BARBET DE Jour we find the following sensible observations in the Epoque, and we believe the version of the affair here given to be the correct one Our readers will remember that we were the first to give details on the affair of M. Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul at the Mauritius. The particulars since received have made no change in our statements, and, consequently, we have but little occasion to answer the Opposition journals, who have treated the removal of the Consul to another post as an act of culpable weak ness. It is already known that M. Barbet de Jouy did not pay the visit to Admiral Dacres on his arrival at the island, although such was the cheer and formal rule of etiquette. The officers of the English frigate, w hick bore the Admirers flag, gave a ball, and sent an invitation to the Consul. After waiting 24 hours in the expectation that M. Barbet de Jouy would perform some act of po liteness to the Admiral, either by a personal visit or by letter, two officers went to his residence and withdrew the invitation ; whereupon our Consul, who had not yet had any intercourse with Aemiral nacres, wrote the letter which has been the sole cause of his removal. It has been sail that there were anterior circumstances at which M. Barbet Joay took offence, and which in duced him net to make the official visit clue from him. We admit this; we even admit that the Consul felt sensibly the vviehdrawal of the invitation he had re ceived; and regretting these coolnesses, which are inju rious to public affairs, we could have well conceived that M. Barbet de Jouy, if he had reason to believe that he was in the right, should have laid an explanation before Admiral Dacres with all possible dignity and firmness. Unfortunately he did not do this. Instead of a firm and consistent letter, he addressed to the Admiral one filled with insults. Instead of maintaining his rights as Consul, he personally provoked the Admiral in terms unworthy of them both; insomuch that two men between whom such a letter has passed could not meet without collaring each other, or cntting each other's throats. M. Barbet de Joey, therefore, has been wanting in due discretion. Some may believe him to have been only firm; these are in error, for we think he entirely forgot himself, and are fully convinced that he now regrets the exprcs-ions he used, which were inconsistent with his character as much as with the character of an Admiral. After having written such a letter, M. Barbet de Jouy could no longer remain at the Mauritius without exposing himself to circumstances which must have brought on a personal conflict. He seems to have felt this hiinelf, from his retiring to the Island of Bourbon. What could the Government do in Such a case? Support its agent? Impossible ! No official or private intercourse could exist between him and the English authorities. It, therefore, became necessary to remove him to another post. We have reason to believe that in this instance Lord Palmerston has been more moderate than could have been expected from his reputation and situation, and that Lord Aber deen could not have conducted himself otherwise. We cannot sufficiently repeat that Governments ought never to hold themselves enoagad, without examination, by the acts of its agents, and that a dispute about etiquette paseing ut a distance of 4,000 miles never can affect the general situation of Europe. France is governed by her King and Clambers, arid these great powers cannot always be guiding Consuls in leading-strings. Let their agents be energetically supported when they are in the right ; this is indispensable ; but they must repudiate their acts when they are in the wrong." The Constitutionnel, after long hesitating between the free-traders and the monopolists, has at length taken its stand as the champion of monopoly. The Journal des Debats, on the contrary, has declared itself the advocate of free-trade principles, but in so doing, it states expressly that it is not to be under stood as speaking the sentiments of the Government, which is not to be considered as at all pledged to free-trade principles, because it has authorised the existence of the Association des Libres _Echangistes, its only object in such authorisation being to enable each party to discuss their principles before the public. It is, however, satisfactory to know that it is the intention of the French Government to modify the Customs' tariff. The following is the article of the Debats : " The question of the Customs' tariff excites at this moment a certain degree of interest in the country. A report is in circulation that the Government was preparing to revive a tariff the principal provisions of which date back as far as 1822, or even as the imperial d trees of those of the Convention. Nothing more could be necessary than this to cause a real or factitious alarm to spread through many of the manufacturing centres. Nothing could be, however, more natural, than the belief that a regime which might have been good when our manufactures were in their infancy w ou ld not be suitable now that such admirable progress has been made, and that the perfection of our products is so striking; nothing can be more simple than to admit when one has been enlightened by longexperience, what certain exaggerations costs the country—the producer as well as the consumer. The Government might, therefore, in conscience think that the time was come to revise the customs' tariff, without any one being surprised or moved at it. But what foundation is there for the supposition that the new customs law will be subversive, and that the Government contemplates sinister projects against our manufacturing interests ? Up to this time the customs laws which the present Government have proposed have not been rash ones. Many persons who support the Ministry have even found that they rather tend to a contrary excess, and have declared their opinion that they appear too timid. If the Ministry, which is not fond of adventurous conduct of any kind, were to propose a hazardous customs' tariff. the Chambers have the remedy in their hands. Those who in 1845 voted, for the benefit of what was called national labour, the exorbitant duties which now press on oleaginous seeds, are still very numerous in the elective Chamber, and those who with success in 1841 and 1842 made their deplorable levy of bucklers against the, Belgian union do not appear to have lost any of their energy. But, it is said, an association is formed, the name of which alone indicates an object hostile to national la bour, it loudly demands freedom of trade. It wishes to throw down the barriers behind which French industry has hitherto found protection. It is true that a free-trade association exists ; but what is there in common betwen that society and the Government? Why should the latter be responsible for the creed of the former? As far as we have been well informed up to this time, the formal demands of the association have nothing in them to give uneasiness to the manufacturing interests. It has, in fact, appeared to confine itself to pointing out freedom of commerce as an object to be attained with time, and under the reserve of fiscal rights which may be indefinitely maintained ; this proposition has nothing dangerous in it. It has maintained that the moment was come to take a step in advance towards commercial liberty, by lowering and simplifying the tariff. In this it has only repeated what many before it has thought and said. But is it the free-trade association which has inspired the Government with the idea of the proposed changes ? Why should it not be as well the rival association, quite as well authorised, which has taken the name of the defence of national labour? But what would be more menacing than the chimerical project of overthrowing our commercial and manufac turing system, by a sudden transition from the protec tive system to that of free. trade, would be an attempt to prevent the Government from introducing a moderate and wise Bill. If there is any danger which at this mo ment requires consideration, it is that, under pret ence of opposing what are disdainfully called theories, a great effort is made to patronize a barbarous and impracticable theory of commercial isolation; it is that, with the ap parent object of guarding against an imaginary ev il, some interests abusing their privilege should weigh in the balance in order to paralyse some of our most pre cious liberties, and to intimidate functionaries, private individuals, and the Government itself." The Constitutional says, " \Ve are assured that M. GUIZOT intends, on the day following the opening of the session of the Chambers, which is fixed for the 11th, to lay on the bureau of the Deputies the diplo matic correspondence that has taken place on the sub- The new Ambassador of France in Switzerland, Count DE Bois r.n ComTr, presented his eredontials on the 16th to Dr. ZEIINDER, President of the Fe deral Directory. The Ambassador has notified his arrival in Switzerland by the following letter, dated the 19th, addre3sed to the President and Executive Council of Berne. A similar letter has been sent to the other Cantons:— . " Gentlemen,—The King, my august Sovereign, hav ing deigned to name me Ambassador to the Helvetic Confederation, I have the honour to inform you that I presented, on the 16th of the present month to their Excellencies the Burgomasters and Council of the Canton of Zurich, the Federal Directory, his Ma jesty's letters, accrediting me with the Confede ration, and with each of its cantons in particular. As the organ of the King's sentiments towards Swit zerland, I am well pleased, gentlemen, to assure you of the care which I shall bestow in keeping up with the Government of Berne the intercourse of union and friendship so happily established between the two coun tries ; and you can reckon on my very anxious desire to contribute as far as I can to the success of such matters as concern the Helvetic Confederation, and particularly of those more directly interesting your canton. I seize with pleasure the first occasion to offer you, Messieurs, the assurance of my profoundrespect,_ COUNT DE 1301 S LE COMTE. By the Levant mail we have received Athens papers to the 10th, and intelligence from Constanti nople to the 7th. An Athens journal publishes the following note, dated October 20, 1846, from Lord PALMERSTON to Sir EDMOND LYONS, in reply to a letter of the 10th September, to which was annexed a copy of a letter from M. COLETTI to M. Mussuais, the Envoy of the Sublime Porte at Athens, on the subject of emigra tion to Turkey. Lord PALMERSTON says— " I set out upon the principle that all who reside in Greece, whether they have lived there for a long time, or arrive from any part of Turkey, enjoy the incontest able right of quitting Greece when they please. When the three Powers created the kingdom of Greece, they wished to establish a free state, and not a prison. It is natural that the Government should see with an unfavourable eye Greeks preferring to emigrate into rurkey, instead of remaining in the kingdom; but it is the fault of the Greek Government if this preference exists. If the Greek Ministry persists in its system of bad government, and if, besides, brigandage, oppression, and murders increase, because they remain unpunished; if there be no security for the property of peaceful and laborious inhabitants, it would be astonishing, in fact, if those who can quit the kingdom should remain any longer in it. I desire that you may transmit officially to M. Colletti a copy of this letter." The Aloniteur Grec announces that COLETTI'S health is so much improved, that he will be soon ena bled to resume his duties. Intelligence has been received at Constantinople of the death of TAYER PACHA, the Turkish Comman der-in-chief in Kurdistan.' The Government state that he died of apoplexy, but it was reported at Constantinople that he had been killed in an action against the rebels, in which the Turkish army had been completely defeated. A letter from Rome, of the 12th, gives the follow ing additional details of the late storm in that city:— . " We know not how to describe to you the effects of the tempest which has devastated this city for the last your days, and which still continues. We never wit nessed such weather ; the rain fell in torrents, and the ,htinder rolled incessantly. The Tiber overflowed its banks in the most frightful manner ; one-half the city inundated by its waters, and the inhabitants of the Corso have five feet depth of water round their houses. Na the quarter of the Campo Marzo, the Chetto, Ripetto. the Corso from the Place du Peuple to the Place Colonna has the appearance of a large lake. The inhabitants, surprised by the rapidity of the inundation, round themselves prisoners in their houses without food, and several without any assistance being possible. Since 1805 such a scene has not been witnessed. The logs has le en immense. The shops and the cellars are under water. Yesterday the waters subsided a little. A part of the Corso is free; but boats still ply through the adjacent streets, carrying provisions to those who are still imprisoned. The Jews' quarter has suffered the most, but the extent of the disaster cannot be yet known; the mails no longer arrive, and two or three brides on the high road from Bologna, and in the Marches, have bees carried away." Monsignor GRASSOLINI hari been appointed Governor of Rome, in the room of Monsignor MAumr, ap pointed Auditor-General of the Chamber. The Commission of Legislation charged to prepare a new code, continues its labours actively. The Code Na poleon is to form the basis of the new legislation ; but the laws of other countries are also carefully examined, with a view to render the work of the Commission more complete. The accounts brought from Lisbon, by the Scourge steamer, just arrived at Portsmouth, are to ' the 14th, At that date SCIIWALEACIC had advanced against St. Übes, which had, been evacuated twelve hours before his arrival, by th,a guerillas of DAS ANTAS —their avowed tactics being to wear out the QUEEN'S troops, by harassing them, and to avoid coming to action if possible. In their retreat the guerillas were joined by nearly the whole of the men forcibly en rolled by the QUEEN'S Government as " St. Übes' Chartist Volunteers." During the occupation of St. Übes the guerillas behaved exceedingly well, and manifested no disposition to annoy either foreigners or natives residing in the town. Nothing further has been heard at Lisbon as to the rumoured defeat of Lars by BOMFEIi. The last ac connts represent BOMFIM. /IS being at Alcobaca and LA.FA at Pombal ; with the Coimbra insurgents and VILLA REAes guerillas in front and Bostrises 2,000 men in his rear. The Marqui's of LOULE, at Coimbra had 4,ooo:men and 14 pieces of cannon with him CASAL was advancing against Oporto, and it was said that DA,s ANTAS, leaving f!,000 men to garrison Santarem, had marched to its relief. ---.11111..-. Madrid papers to the 20th have arrived. It appears that the Ministerial crisis is over for the present, and that the Ministry will hold together until the meeting of the Corl. , !s, when, it is not im probable, that an attempt will be made by Senor PACHECO to form a new Cabiiiet. The Clamor Pablico states that he has been consulted by the QUEEN on the subject. General RONCJIM, it is said, will be the new Governor of Cuba, and General VILEALONGA has been dispatched to the frontiers of Portugal ; he is accompanied by his staff e.nd by two squadrons of Lancers. The Eco dcl Comercio an nounces that the notori ous ALBERNI, upon whose denunciations General PRIM was arrested and ban ished, has, in his turn, been arrested and imprisoned,, but upon what charge is not stated. The same ;journal, alluding to the report that the Ministry has !aeld a discussion on the means of preventing M. Ot•UZAGA from taking his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, observes that the hatred of the Court and of t he Ministry to this gen tleman is no ground for tr ampling upon the law, which opposes no barrier to I pis performing the duties entrusted to him by the elect ors. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 19.- --The Three per Cents. 34 ; paper 33i 15-16 cash ; •t;he Four per Cents., 21; Five per Cents., 21 ; Excha: ;e on London, 36g. We have received the Paz i s papers of Friday and Saturday. The Presse of Friday h a.s a long article on the subject of the English alliance, w hi c h, of course, is filled with abuse of this cou iltry. Our readers will recollect, that one day last week, the National was seized by the Government of 13cers. it now appears that the article on the recal of M. BARRET DE JOEY from the Mauritius, was tb e• one which was con sidered as seditious. On th is subject, the National has the following: — "The resp day before onsible editor of !lie Nation a l having a peared yest er p- M. A A. Didier, the Judge of Instruction, we at length knee r what caused our seizure the other day. We, who declal •ed that we knew nothing about the matter, were, it appe 9.rs, covered with crimes! Hebert has, however, had tine extreme kind ness to take up only hree in a rail( 'r short article ; but, if he had thought fit to look do. sely, he could have found several others quite as monst; rous as those of which we are accused. The following r are the three enormi ties committed by us, without ( 12r being aware of it I, Offence against the King's person; 2, Assigning to the King the responsibility of thi ) acts of his government; 3, Adhesion to another form of government. It is evi dent that if M. llebert did not accuse us of exciting to hatred and contempt, of prove king to overturn—pro voking without the proposed e ffect being carried into execution—end three or four ( idler slight offences, the reason is that lie is a good-nat; mod person, and that he has a secret kindness for the N ational. As the public is the first judge of press offen ees, we would willingly take for arbitrators in our case, not our friends, but our daily adversar:es. The 'Mai 3, for instance, discussed one of the artieLes of the numt ,er that was seized. had it by chance discover:a, we sh ould like to know, in that article or elsewL ere, the thret offences specified above? "What was the subject treated cif in the article? We had been reproached with having opposed the policy of the Cabinet with respect to Spam, ald of having maintained that thig marriage hay ing broken the Enghsh alliance, it was desired to re est; thlish. it at the price of the most shameful conces-ions, The pun 4 Lshment which fell on cur Consul at the Ma uritius, at the haughty injunction of Lord Palmerston, was a tirst: justification of our views. We showed al 1 the weakness and cowardice that existed in that precipitate reparation accorded by M. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c. t eke place every TL Erns and Feiner, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully •equested to be addressed. ill Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day ore vious to their being offered; and advices of results will be orwarded by the first past after tho sale, and the proceeds Jaime- Jiately disposed of according to instructions. Oftizes, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. IHE WEATHEIL—Strx OFFICE, DECEMBER 27. CHERMOMETER, Lowest, 30; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 36, BABA:METER, 30.45.—W1ND E., fine. DECEMBER 28. r lERMOMETER, Lowest, 25; Highest. 38 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 30.53.—W1ND S.W., foggy. !Will WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 13 minute after 11. Evening .. 47 minutes after 11. 5. , .. 4 , `1>;;;;:r.-1, 1, 9!,- A Z 4 ,•,. xid . ....- 1 ...-.:,,, _ - ' - .. ,, : -41 14! : V.:l-„-t r eft:,: . - ~,..„..0 14. 4 7, .-,...,4 1•11, A. :. „..._., ~,,.."..- - , -4-k. ...,.. ,i.,,, ~......,,t , ,,, , ,,-, • mo .... ,:, ...,-,..' -(z .",,...--',,--: . • .....,,,,,,, M grid LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1846, A striking contrast is visible in the Indian and Chinese intelligence received by the overland Calcutta mail. The numerous disturbances which had latterly threatened much bloodshed in the territories sur rounding the British possessions have all been al layed, while the tranquillity which had recently been remarkable upon the frontiers of the Celestial Empire has been signally interrupted. These circumstances, however, merely furnish us with an additional proof of the uncertainty of Oriental affairs, of the impossi bility of calculating either upon the obedience or dis obedience, the friendship or enmity, the pacific co operation or the bellicose antagonism of our Eastern neighbours. It is satisfactory to perceive that the portent' of a sanguinary campaign in the Cashmerian valley are altogether dissipated. By the determination evinced on the part of the Governor-General to cause the various stipulations of the treaty of Umritsir to be fulfilled, and by the alacrity with which the English forces abetted the Maharaja GHOOLAB SINGH in his operations against the rebellious Sheikh EMAUM-OOD DEEM, the latter has been reduced to a compromise, and the domination of the former has been ensured. Matters indeed have assumed so propitious an aspect in this quarter, that there is every reasonable pro bability of the entire withdrawal of our troops from Lahore before the commencement of the approach- in,g January. Until then the victories achieved under the immediate command of Lord Gooch, the judicious policy of his Excellency Lord HARDING E, the slaughter of Ferozeshah, the fortunate prowess of Aliwal, and the murderous charges of Sobraon, will have been comparatively ineffectual. Their triumph will not have been consummated until our soldiers have evacuated the subdued dominions. That period pro mises to be simultaneous with the commencement of 1847. Besides the pacification of Cashmere, there is another cause for gratulation to the inhabitants of India in the settlement of the differences which had hitherto estranged the Dewan of Mooltan frum the Durbar of Lahore. MOOLRAS has not merely con sented to liquidate all those debts owing to the Durbar, from the postponement of the pay ment of his tribute to that Government, but he has likewise submitted to many additional exactions. He has quietly yielded up one-third of the country heretofore under his solitary influence, :o the command of a newly-appointed ruler. Be yond this, the Dewan is henceforth required to pay a tribute of 25 per cent. above that previously de manded. The thirst for warfare, the readiness for insubordination, and the loathing of anything like political servitude on the part of the lesser chief tains, appear to have considerably diminished. Those who formerly contrived to be turbulent are now, like the weaver in Midsummer Night's Dream, " roar ing like any sucking-dove." Their spurious valour has evaporated—their independence has been ex changed for the most complete subserviency—their obstinate defiance of authority has been followed by their utmost submission to their more formidable antagonists. From insolent rebels they have dwindled into obsequious parasites. Nevertheless, what is thus degradation to such men as the Dewan MOOLBAJ and . the Shiekh Eataum-oon-DEEN, is comparative happi ness, because positive tranquillity, to many thousands of the Oriental race. While these fortunate changes have been taking place . in Lahore and the adjacent principalities, a sin gular and somewhat unfortunate disturbance has occurred upon the boundaries of the Celestial Empire- This'disturbance, which has keen long brewing between the Portuguese resident at Macao and the indigenous Chinese, has at length broken out, and has excited no little attention and originated no little inquiry. Those children of the Brother of the Sun who live within the above-mentioned settlement have perpetually opposed the authority of his Excellency the repre sentative of MARIA DA GLORIA. With an amusing jealousy they have refused to obey any one, raving their own Mandarins. On the other hand, the Portuguese Governor, Senhor JoAo MARIA PER.. IZEIIIA no AstARAL has regarded himself as or,• invested with a serious and imperative responsibility. lie has looked upon himself as the conservator of local prosperity, the guardian of local rights, and the source of local juris diction. The sanatory condition of the inhabitants of Macao, their mercantile necessities, their ma- nicipal privileges, their social organisation, have pos sessed for his Excellency a peculiar interest, and have all, more or less, led to some exhibition of his provi dence. In proportion, however, to the interference of the Governor, so have the passions of the Chinese residents increased in intensity ; whenever the former has issued a decree, the latter have striven, with the greatest earnestness, to render it ineffectual; whenever the former has imposed a tax, the latter have endeavoured to evade its payment. In this manner the Governor issued an order, requir• , jet of the Spanish marriages. If the Chamber o Peers should discuss its address within the three or four days following the opening of the session, M. GUIZOT will be able to explain himself publicly before the English Parliament meets on the 19th." He has also, it is said, caused to be printed for circulation among the Members of both Houses, extracts from speeches sur les relations de la France et de 1 'Espagne, delivered by him within the period comprised between the 18th of November, 1840, and 25th of May, 1346, with the object of showing that his language, relative to the determination of his Government that France would never consent to the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN with any other than a Bourbon, had been uniformly consistent. Rumours had been circulated in Paris, during Thursday and Friday, that the state of the KriteCe health was calculated to create alarm. On Saturday, however, it was believed that there was no foundation whatever for these rumours. Accounts have been received by the Ministry of Marine 'from Sydney, dated August 14, of the loss of the corvette La Seine, on the 4th of July, on the coast of New Caledonia. The details are not known, but it is certain that the officers and crew were saved. As soon as the loss of the vessel was known at Sydney, everything was done by the British authorities in aid of the officers and crew, 173 in number, and arrange ments were made to convey them back to France. Colonel BARON BORT ST. VINCENT, honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, and member of several learned societies, has just expired, aged sixty .. six. Under the Empire thi s o ff ic er was engaged in many of the great battles then fought, and was suc cessively aide-de-camp to Marshal NEY and Marsbal SOULT. The deceased was author of several scientific works of great merit. The Bulletin des Lois publishes an ordonnanoe, modifying the system of customs at present in for! e in Algeria. Pitch, and all kinds of bitu m inous su p . stances, as well as fresh table f ru it s , mated free of duty. Bark f o r tanning is not to e allowed to leave the colony f o r an y o ther destin ation than France. are to be ad The Courrier Francais says " We mentioned a few days since that th e Bey °I Tunis had manifested an intention of establishing th in the principal ports in Al ger i a . It is said that it plan bas been partly realised, and that the post Consul-General at Algiers has just been conferred un one of the personages who accompanied him into Fran ne i ' In order to show the advantage of this measure, sufficient to mention the commercial movement Ot L" last few years between the Regency of Tunis, between and France. The total value of exchanges France and Tunis was, in 1836, 2,497,000 r. ; in ~1 837: , 3,373,0001.; in 1838, 3,865,000 E; in 1839, 3,131,000 h; 1 1840, 4,167,000 f. ; and in 1843, 6,006,000 f. The corn.: mercial movement between Algeria and Tunis amour in 1836, to 379,0001. ; in 1843, to 3,401,0001. Thud great increase merits particular notice." Algeria. A their Algiers journals to the 17th have arrive- ; - contents are unimportant. 26. BOURSE, PARIS, SATITR IP AT, _ L r TnnEE o'Caocic.-Great fi rmness was the characte r istic y! the day's proceedings. The Three per Cents. op ened at ELU,. 75c., and after touching for a moment 801. 95c. , c losed at t. 85c. After the Bourse they w e re dcne at 8 01 . 874c. a ilwaf an' of France Shares con ti nue t o d ec li n e gradually. R Shares were firm, particularly those of the Havre and Rouen lines. For the Account, the French Three per risen 20c. ; Five per Cents., 10e.; Loan not quoted. For Dloney. the Three per Cents. have risen 15c.; Five per Cents 10c. ; Loan not quoted. Bank of France Shares have fallen 7f. 50c. ouin Bank I,ooof. Shares and Gan neron Bank Shares are unaltered ; Belgian Bank Shrrf Cents. have not quoted • Roman and Rothschild's Recei the latter being quoted at 103 f. 25c. • Neapolitan Bonds and pts are tin" eu: Portuguese Five per Cents. not quoted. Exchange on Lon.. don (thirty days), 25f. Vic. ditto (ninety dayaN 224 c. Railwa of January 3:-Rouen to Havre have risen 12f. 50c.; Orle ans to Bordeaux, 7f. 50c.; Northern, 61. 25c.; Rouen andortvig shares for the Account, settling non to Marseilles, sf. each ; Lyons, 3f. 75c. ; Paris to i f. 25e. and Orleans to Vierzon, 21. 50e. each ; Nantea'Rotten each ; Cette and Strasburg are unaltered. For Cas h, have risen 12f 50c. ; Paris to Orleans' Northern 6f. Havre and Orleans to Bordeaux, 7f. 50c.; 25c.; Lions, 3f. 75c. , Versailles (Left Bank), 2f. 50c.; 10f. •, Rouen to Strasburg, if. 25c. • BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECIMBER 26. Dutch Rhenish, 4%-Northern of France Constituted, 11-Orleans and Bordeaux, 8-Paris and Lyons Contio tuted. 814-Sambre and Meuse, 44. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took walking exercise this morning. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, his Excel lency the Chevalier Bunsen, and Sir George Grey, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her .'Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Sir George Grey, and Capt. Francis Seymour. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's wards attend. private band will after' Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, at his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hickleton Hall, Doncaster. Sir George Grey left to wn yesterday a f tern oon for Windsor Castle. a fternoon di i e - -s T an h Y e SPORTING IN TELLIGENU-r" w ii; TATTERSALL'S—MoNDAY. .2 not The business tran sac t e d y es t er d ay by any means heavy, nor did t h e quota tions material favourit extent from th ose p u bli s h e d last we! lc. e ach es, principal outlay wa s on th e th ree D er by about in the course of the da having been backed for et 2001. at the prices quoted, Epirote with the strong; r party. The following bets. besides others of 51 °,, li ni c amounts, were also laid:—C,l 9 s to 25 agst Conyng"nit„-; 50 to 1 to 501. agst Bingham, - similar odds to a P o - do agst Christopher, and in scores agst the Liberator, 2 ? °i s to 25, 500 to 8, and 1,000 to 15 t three times tt ''' War Eagle, 1,000 to 10 agst wo Clarendon,or and, in 00.(). bet, 1,000 to 20 each asst The Liberator, Christophti and Conyngham. Sla' der and Clenaentin wer e ba ol 7: at 10 to 1 each, the first for a poriy, and the latter tot 1251. 13 to 1 was the high( st offer agst The Foli o Daughter. Planet and Gentilt were backed for t ut 2,000 Guineas Stakes at 5 to 1, in hundreds, and a r , b° , half a dozen blows were struck on the Chester Yr ti fie . The following list shows the average at the close 0 ' room:— TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken. CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Griffith's Newcourt—taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Hill's Punch—taken 1500 to 25 taken about Mr. Dleiklam's Diomed, W ith entry—taken 300 to 10 agst Sir John Gerard'a Mermaid & lkiorOCC,o-' DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Scott's lot 6 to 1 agst John Day's lot 15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken - - 1000 to 60 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale 33 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port 33 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanota 40 to I agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Martin colt 40 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile 45 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken 45 to 1 agst Sir It. Pigot's Conyngham 50 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Bingham—taken 50 to 1 apt Mr. W. Scott's Christopher—taken „. o f. 50 to 1 agtt Mr. O'Brien's The Liberator—t. and 50 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's The Reiter Of. 66 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle —t. and 100 to 1 agst Mr. Ford na Clarendon—taken. OAKS. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Slander—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Clementine er-"' 12 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Farmer's Daught er take 14 to 1 • 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's t_ laribel. SKATING ON THE YE.—After a lapse o f nine t years the deep water of the Wye, from the bridge this city to Belmont, was last week frozen suffleie et ` i hard to render it perfectly secure for skating and slidinfr opportunity of enjoying the healthy Numerous parties accordingly availed themselves of tne interesting to witness the evolutions of some experienc''' skaters. The Mayor very considerably directed. ellt police to be in attendance, and several of them w at ; t exercise, and it on the banks every day with ladders and ropes to a55.„.. 5 0 persons to the shore if an accident had occurred• 04 did not, however, hear of a single immersion. Saturday, however, to the great sorrow of the partaker, in these healthy recreations, a complete thaw connencn, and continued till Monday evening, when there W.. sharp reaction in the shape of frost.—Hereford Journa l CREWKERNE.—WHOLESALE SLAUGHTBR OF SHEET BY loos.—On WedriPsday, the 9th instant, some dog or dogs entered a field at Misterton, and drove an worried upwards of 60 hog sheep, belonging to gr. Newbury, of Kimmeridge, Dorset (late of Mistert on). On Thursday morning they were feund underneat h 0 small bridge near themill; only 14 out of the 6 0 W ere alive, and even they were bitten. The carcases Wer e sold at from lid. to 2d. per lb. to the poor. And, c )e Sun Clay night last, a flock of lambing ewes , belonging te Mr. Stephens, of Seaborough, was attacked by dogs! which drove 39 of the flock into a quarry, ware 21 weru, found dead the same night. In neither instance has any trace of the dogs yet been discoverer'. —Bath Jcurnal SHIPWRECK FROM FAIR WEATnER.—There 11 recently been an instance of shipwreck caused by fa i ., weather. When the L e a i s ag i tate d, it always breaks 0 : the rocks lying at th e mout h o f t h e Ch a rente, and sail er , can thus avoid them. But one night lately the sea 011 4 so cairn th a t, by t h e li g ht o f th e mo on, no syncipt Ann , peril could b e p erce i ve d, an d th e E ng lish b r i g the 0 proceeding from England to Charente, came right _, the rocks and w a s wrecked. Fortunately the crew escaped. „, The i n conan nts, ib il Y l -Ithdr rail aw eingenee whii eeivi te w Prop four kilo