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MISS EDGEWORTH'S HELEN. In one vol. matly bound an; embellished. 6s. XXVII. MARRIAGE, INHERITANCE, and DESTINY. In three v neatly bound and emboli's:mt. 1&5. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-L,LNE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Opera. entitled TILE BONDMAN. Marquis de *Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Fjoreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Horneastla ; La Vallierc, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss Ecbeeca Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After the Opera, will he presented a new grand Ballet, called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at th e A cademie Royale' Paris, under th e ti t l e of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlies. Sophie Fitoco, Louisa, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrian, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorsor, Scc. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Jlanagement of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING . _ _ After which an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Holl ; Mr. Brandon, r. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tt. m Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Clover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Forteseue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hariman, Miss Julia Bennett. To cone'.tale with a Comic Drama; entitled USED UP. 'Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbnck, Mrs. Humby. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Areher e ßox Book-keeper. TREATRE ROYAL, UNDER THE DIRECTION or MADAM ADELPGI. E CELESTE. THIS EVENING WiII of LA be performed a grand Fairy S pec t ac l e, founded on the Ballet GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANcEns the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the Drama of THE CABIN BOY. Monsieur Henri, Mr. Worrell; Molisieur Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Coquin Ballandier, Mr. Munyard ; Largarcette, Mr. Bedford ; Julien, Madame Celeste; Clara, Mrs. Emsley. To conclude with a Terpsichorean llurletta, call d POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright, Munyard, Mrs. Matthew, BUSS Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lpssee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will he performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." Ths principal chara'Aers personified by Miss Geerglana Smithson, Mss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, limner, Peren, &c. • After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. To conclude with Gold; mith's Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr. Wynn; Young Ma.rlow, Mr. Vining; Hardeastle, Mr. (;ranby ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Compton; Hastings, Mr. Roxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Ilardcastie, Mrs. Stirling ; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardcastie, Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. VYv Mr. MITCHELL begs to announce, that the Rehearsal of Scribe's Play of BERTRAND ET RATON having been interrupted by th e indisposition of wil e . BROHAN , it has been found impossible to produce that Piece this Evening ; in consequence of which there will be no Performance be'ore Friday next. Wednesday, December 16, ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE . Re-appearance of the celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Ceram, who, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable Entertainment at the above theatre TO-MOBROW EVENING, Des. 17, and of continuing the same every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evening, during the Christmas holidays. The programme will include " Old Joe," " Lucy Neal," " The Coloured. Fancy Ball." "My skiff is on the shore," and the cele brated Ra - lroad Overture. Various Novelties are in rehearsal. The public is respectfully cautioned that the Songs and 3lelodies, as sung by the above party, arc published only at Mr. Mitchell's. Doors open at eight, commence at half-past. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s.—Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mtchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre.—Open from Il till 5. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SUKIZEY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Francs Davidge. THIS EVEN ING Will be performed ABELARD AND lIELOISE. The cha racters will be supported by the principal talent of the Comrany. After which a Comic liallet (I'Actlon, called " L'AMOUR ET LA FOLIE. In whirls 3ldllc. Theodore and the Deulin family will appear. - • The Infant Sable Wonders and Negro Melodists will sing thei r favourite Songs. To conclude with the r opular Drama of LORD DARNLEY. AST LEY'S ROYAL AMPH ITH EA7 RE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Splendid Equestrian and Dramatic - Novelties. Continued success of " The Demon Horse and the Twelve Wishes." The celebrated Dutch Bottle Equilibrist, &c. /THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will appear on their trained steeds. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; or, The Mountain Outlaw. In active preparation, a variety of novelties for the Christmas holidays ; among the rest, will be brought forward a Grand Comic Equestrian Pantomime, produced on a lavish scale of splendour, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Har:equhi and the Rob ber's Cave. flea-oftice open from eleven till tive o'clock.—Doors open at eta ant cmimence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Eroadfoot. • FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT THROUGH THE FROST.—On Saturday morning an accident of a most frightful cha racter took place at the residence of Dr. Dakins, No. 40, Norlane-square, Notting-hill, Kensington. About eight o'clock a female servant was cleaning the drawing-room on the fl - st fl )o:-, she took a rug on to the balcony for the purpose of shaking it, and while doing so, with her arms extended over the balcony railings, owin' , to the frozen state of the bottom en which she was standing, her feet slid from under her, and she fell head foremost over the front of the balcony on the railings of the area beneath. The noise of her fail and her cries were first heard by Dr. Dakhla himself, who ran to her assistance, and on getting outside found her hann;ing with h er h ea d down wards, her ankl es being fixed between the tops of the area rails. She is stated to have been seriously injured on the head, that one o f t h e spearheads of therail pene trated her thigh, and that not the slightest hope is en tertained of her surviving. Wilam PROMOTION IN THE Cunacti.—Th e Rev. Gabbett has been appointed to the ineunabtney of St. Sutton, MacecEfield, vacant b y the promotion George's, of the Rev, John Burnet, LL.B , to the vicarage of Brad ford. MISS AUSTEN'S WORKS —Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mans field Park, Northange: Abbey an Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice. In 3 vols. neatly bound and embellished. 11. 10s. Dy Mrs. IiftU.NTON RAILWAY SILAIZES BY PUBLIC SALE. 31[ESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends cid the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to annomce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c. take place every Tuna)Air and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of C..nancrcx, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to ba addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be &pealed, the day orevious to their being offered; asi adviccs of results will be forwarded by the firit post after the sale, aul the proceeds imme- Ciately dispose;; of according to instmetions. Wet's, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. Will be performed an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled STORY TELLING ; or, N( ♦ei Effects. Dr. Hardenterg, Mr. W. Farrell ; Frederick Vandervelt, Mr. Caulfield ; Raps, Mr. Buckstone ; Grab, Mr. Rogers; Theresa, Miss Telbin ; Rose, Mrs. Rumhy. During the evening the Baud will perform the Overture, " Cheval de Bronze ;" " The Armen" (Polka) ; " Czarina" (Mazourka); " Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture. ' Ti E SUN, LON DON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC EYE 13E11 16 1 1816. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 21; Highest. 29 ; Noon, 28, BAROMETER, 29.45.—W1ND N.E., fine frosty weather, HIGH W,kTEIC AT 1.0N1.0N-BRLDGE THIS DAY. Morning minutes after —. Evening .. 17 minutes after 12. the probability of the criminal charges brought be fore them, by either committing or releasing the ac- I(used parties; we urged the consequent indispensa bleness of haling the magisterial bench, metropolitan and provincial, filled with men duly qualified to dis t charge such grave functions ; and we, at the same time, took occasion to notice the notorious incom petency of the subordinate justices with which the country is afflicted throughout. The evils arising to the 1 State from magisterial incapacityare not to be measured, and cannot, therefore, be lightly disposed of. It is impossible to say how much the feelings of the inno cent have Leen unnecessarily rankled, by their having 11 ,, :en committed for trial, owing to the crassa ignorantia, conceited perversion of facts, caprice, or inattention of the magistrates before whom it was their unhappy fate to be first taken. Where men have not fitted themselves, by education, for the judicial vocation, in the subordinate, yet most im portant and extensive sphere of magisterial action, they are without due self-reliance, and are like Chips without ballast, rolling with every wave. Fre quently, these sage justices of ours are but mere autometa in the hands of their salaried clerks, who compel them to move, and go through the mock ex hibition of criminal inquiry in its preliminary stages, just as the fancy hits them. Others consider them selves too high-bred to condescend to play the part of " dummits ;" and, like young colts, before they have bad the least training, are bent upon showing a pace of their own, when, if their mettle be only well put up, there is no fence of the law they will not clear at a bound. The responsibility of magistrates is, practically, a fiction. There is no redress against any wrongs suffered as the conse quences of any errors they commit, unless such errors can be proved to have been wilful, so that, in effect, the injured party has no remedy. Where ignorant justices will manifest an independence, and not stoop to be counselled by their official clerks, they are prone to fall into opposite extremes, the effects of which are most pernicious to society. Some are so nervous, that, where there is only a shade of a possi bility of guilt, speciously presented, and, it may be, maliciously wrought up, on the one side, whilst, on the other, the evidence preponderates, almost to a certainty, in favour of innocence, they w ill, never theless, - because they have no confidence in their own judgment, and have unfortunately assumed an office for which they are wholly unfit, send the accused before a jury. Others, again, pursue a reckless course in the opposite direction : by imagining themselves to be Solons, before they have read through the preface to " Burn's Justice," they coolly discharge many acri minal from custody who ought to have been compelled to stand his trial. In this way justice is indirectly con verted into an instrument of oppression to the inno cent, and of protection to the guilty. Such per versities will continue to stain our administration of justice until a radical change be effected in the magisterial body. The Government must dispense with gratuitous services altogether. As it is, every squireen aspires to be cock-lofted on to the bench, not because he considers himself in the least qualified for the duties, hut because he wishes to be more on a par a ith his betters in the country. If he happen to be a busybody in politics identical with those of the Lord-Lieutenant of his district, with a little patience and perseverance, his ambition is pretty sure of being realised. Thus, the machinery of justice is prosti• tuted to political purposes, and patronage is loosely dispensed in a service which, of all others under the Crown, should be kept free from the slightest taint or corruption. We have been led to these remarks on account of a desire that has been expressed in some quarters for the abolition of the grand jury. We shall return to this subject to show that such an idea ought not to be entei tained, if at all, till other preliminary refoims have been accomplished. By the Levant Mail intelligence has been received from Constantinople and Smyrna of the 27th, and from Athens of the 30th ult. The following is from the Constantinople paper of the 27th : " The Government has just received satisfactory intel ligence from Diarbelcir and Mossul. Tayer governor of the last-named province, has put to fligl.t and dispersed the rebels of Kurdistan, the majlr part of whom have made their submission. '1 he imperial troops have suffered much from the advanced season, but their constancy has been rewarded by a success which insures the tranquillity of this distant country until the Porte :dm ill adopt broader measures far settling it upon a dur..ble basis. The cholera has, unfortunately, attacked Mossul, but the mortality is not great, and it is hoped that the severity of the weather will entirely deprive it of its malignancy." "On Friday last his Highness the Cheik Liam, Mustapha Assim Effendi, died of an attack of apoplexy. He was upwards of eighty years of age. The Cheik ul Islam and the Grand Vizier arc the two first personages of the empire, be ing the vicars and representatives of the Sovereign, one in spiritual, the other in temporal, affairs. By an im perial ordonnance, dated the same day, Aril* Effendi, Grand Judge of Itoumelio, was called to replace Assim. This eminent man is distinguished for his profound and varied knowledge. All his opinions tend towards reform, which consequently finds in him a powerful support." On the 17th ult. 800 houses wexe burned down at Salonica. The Moniteur Grec of the 29th publishes an official bulletin, signed by six physicians, which states that COLETTI, the Prime Minister, is convalescent. The Prussian' Gazette of the 4th states, that nobody in Berlin supposes that a war in Europe will arise out of the Cracow affair. " England," says this jour nal, " will not be so weak as to allow herself to be again duped by France." Curiously enough, whilst an English journal pretends that the KING of the FRENCII has demanded a congress on the affair of the marriage, the Berlin journal talks of a congress as probable for the termination of the Cracow affair by means of a convention, which will calm all excite ment ; and adds, " If the Cabinet of the Tuileries re fuses to join, it may return to the isolation in which it has already found itself." The change of Ministry, which had been for some time expected in Baden, has taken place. The Mi nister of the Interior is appointed President of the Council of State, and is replaced by M. BERK. The Frankfurter Journal, in a letter from Schles wig of the 4th instant, states, that in the sitting of the Diet of the 30th, the KING'S Commissioner rose and attacked, in ironical language, the Deputies of Galert, Fredeman, and liansee, who had defended the proposition concerning the suppression of the present mode of, levying taxes without the con . sent of the • States. The three Deputies replied warmly to the attack, and their indignation was shared by the whole assembly. The President then communicated to the assembly a letter from the KING'S Commissioner against the petitions sent in on the subject, and came to the conclusion that he Government had struck the blow with which the Diet was menaced ; that, in fact, the right of petition was set aside, and the institutions of the country attacked. "We are not any longer," said he, "either representatives of the people, or indepen dent witnesses of public opinion —we have sunk to the position of a subaltern Government authority! Ile concluded by declaring that the threats of the Commissioner did not cause them any apprehension, and that the Government would find it to be two different thing 3 to show a ferula to children and to beard men ! The Duke D'AUGUSTENBURG declared that, considering the course which the Government was pursuing, he found himself under the necessity of withdrawing his note from the Council of Represen tatives of the people. A letter from Frankfort, of the 6th, states that there is no longer a scarcity of money at the Bourse of that place, and it is difficult to obtain good paper for discount at four per cent. A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 10, says that the payments of the end of the month having been made with facility, it was hoped that the banking-house, about which such unpleasant rumours had prevailed, would continue to maintain its credit. Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived. The elections are going on most favourably for the Progressistas. The return of three of that party/ V:Z., SAN MIGUEL, MENDIZABEL, and LUGAN for Madrid, is considered as certain. The other three representatives of the capital are Ministerialists Ylz., Moc, PIDAL, and the Marquis DEL POVAR. Rumours of a change in the Ministry continued to be rife in Madrid. The Infante Don ENRIQUE arrived in Madrid on the Gth, and was visited by his brother, the King- Consort. The Government contract with the Bank of San Fernando has been renewed by the Minister of Finance. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 7.—The Three per Cents. c!osed at 34; cash, &it-. paper cifered; the Fcur per Cents., 21; the Five per Cants, 21; Debt without In terest, 6i ; and Coupons, 191. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and Sunday. The weekly reception of M. GUIZOT was attended on Friday evening by the Marquis of NottatANnY, Count D'APPONY, and all the other Ambassadors, for the purpose of showing that their absence from the fete given to the Bey of TUNI3 did not arise from any coolness to M. Gum,. We find the following in the Presse, on the subject of the resolution of the BEY not to visit England : " The presence of the Bey of Tunis in Paris app( ars to have seriously occupied the attention of Lord Pal merston, even in the midst of the cares demand( d from this Minister by the marriage of the Duke de Montpen sier and the Cracow aftitir. England is very touchy about all that relates to the Mediterranean ; and the Bey of Tunis, the neighbour ?f Algeria and the ally of France, would have been seen with great pleasure at the court of Queen Victoria, where everything would have been done to snatch him from the exclusive patronage of the French nation. But an obstacle occurred. Scarcely had the Bey arrived on the French soil, when he was treated as a sovereign prince, and England, which has not yet re cognised his right to that quality, was not i nc li ned to consider him otherwise than as a vassal of the Porte. Lord Normanby was, therefore, charged to negotiate this grave affair with M. Raffo, and to p rove t o hi m th at his master had a great interest in showing consideration to Great Britain ; that hitherto the Bey had been animated with intentions equally favourable to all nations, but that he appeared at present inclined to change his policy, and give himself up entirely to France, which fact would be completely evident if he did not con sent to go to England on the conditions propo se d t o hi m . The Bey, not being convinced that he o ug ht t o g i ve up t h e Prerogatives of reigning princes, M. Ralf° informed Lori Normanby of the refusal expr esse d b y h i s master. Lord Palmerston, consult rin2 that he ought not to rest satisfied with his first effort, a few days back sent a dispatch in tended to be read to M. raft , , declaring that if the Bey proceeded to London he should be received with great cordiality, but that the British Cabinet had duties to perform, and obligations to observe, which would prevent it from admitting this Prince to the Queen, unless pre sented by the Turkish Ambassador. The Bey, it said, ought to bear in mind that he has other countries near him besides Algeria, and that he ought not to conduct himself solely with this latter consideration in view. This new advance was not attended with any greater success than the former, as the Bey persists in his reso• lution. It is even announced that lie leaves Paris on Tuesday for Tunic, whither M. de Lagau, the Consul- General, is to acc o mpany him." Tl.e Presse is wrong in saying that the English Government invited the BEY. The BEY expressed a wish to visit England, and was given to understand at once that, in the event of his doing so, he would be received as a vassal of the SULTAN, and not as an in dependent Prince. The following is the conclusion of the article in the Dads .on the subject of tariff reform : " By a decree bearing date the Ist of March, 1793, all treaties of commerce were annulled, and British produce of every description was prohibited. The law of the 10th Brumaire, year 5, was conceived in the same spirit, with the hope of hifl.cting a mortal wound on Pitt and Coburg. For the same reason the National is at pre sent opposed to the application of the principles of com mercial liberty. Napoleon, having been created Empe ror, wishing to prepare the public mind for a continental blockade, and yieldirg to the suggestion of unenlight ened fifeal authorities, instituted by a decree of th e 17 t h Plaviose, yea r 13 , a new tariff. By this measure the duties on coffee, sugar, cocoa, and tea, imposed by the tariff of 179!, were increased fivefold. Some duties on articles of luxury were increased tenfold, and even me dicines were highly taxed. The decree of the year 13 eas about to be converted into a law in 1806, when the Emperor, in a fit of fury against England, without con sulting the legislative body, prohibited every article composed, in any part, of cotton. At a later period, in 1810, Napoleon, when his hatred against Great Britain arrived at its paroxysm, endeavoured to exclude colonial produce altogether by raising the duties. He fixed the duty en raw cotton et 880 francs for 200 pounds weight. The Levant cottons, by favour, paid 4401, and if they arrived by land 1201: ; raw sugar was taxed 330 g. ; tea, 9901. ; coffee, 4401. ; cocoa, I,loof. ; cochineal, 2,200 E, the same quantity of 200 pounds. This was real in sa sity. The consequence of such a tariff was to or organise a prodigious bled of smugglers. The year 1814 arrived,France was invaded, the Imperial throne was levelled, and peace succeeded to war. In that year the tariff was revised. All duties were removed from cot ton and wool, as under the Constituent and the Re public at the same time the duty on iron was fixed at 161 f. for 200 pounds weight. This was four times the amount fixed by the Constituent. Butcher's meat was suffered to enjoy the immunity granted by the .Em pire. In the year 1815 F rance su ff ere d new disas ters, and in 1816 the financial system of the country was c3mpletely remodelled. A duty of 22f. per 200 poun3s weight was imposed on cotton wool, and 31. a head was imposed on oxen. The prohibitionists were modest, they only demanded prohibitive duties for a few years, in order, as they said, to compete with foreign manufacturers. It was thus that during a long peace the severities practised during war were corrinued against the pockets of the consumer, to the detriment of the manufacturer ; and, if we examine the customs laws of 1817, 1818, 1820, - 1822, and 1826, we find a series of uninterrupted aggravations. This system was pursued after 1830. Thus machinery pays heavier duties since the Bill of 1845. The year 1836 alone produced some reduction, and it abolished the prohibition existing on above twenty articles. Thus the general tendency of our commercial l eg i s l at i on s i nce 1791 has been to prohibit, and that in the midst of as certained progress, whilst our manufactures are every day acquiring new strength and even compete with the English in the London market. I s not t h e moment arrived to suspend this prohibitive movement, and to demand a temperate liberty, which must produce ame liorations not to be procured by p ro hibi t i on, even ad mitting that it ever eves indispensable r The following article from the Siecle shows the beautiful working of the protective and prohibitory system : "The Northern Railway Company, a ft er h av i ng at tempted in vain to procure rails in France. has applied to the Government for leave to import 25,000 tons of foreign r ails. To avoid appearing to decide a question of gcneral interest by a private one, the co m p any did not propose to have the iron which it requires admitted free. It merely showed that the N ort h ern R a i lway wanted 23,000 tons of rails for June, 1847, at latest ; that the French establishments could not furnish them ; and that in such a case of necessity it was only equ i ta bl e that it should be permitted to introduce these rails at a are at present wort h i n duty which, joined to the prune cost an d carr i age, would . . to 2501. raise the whole price to 3501.. a to n d e li verable on the pE li a l o i n e g;ia t hn h ad a s t bferionm 240t g the price of the first contracts the corn made. The rails; the transpo r t i s from 401 e to 50f. per ton ; so t h at it was consequently a duty of 501. or 60f. whi c h t h e can furnish, lt knows what andh is aware of atit quantity of company offered the state, in place o f t h e a b surd w and impossible tariff of 2061. now i m p ose d . The Go vernment publishes each year an account o f t h e produc rails Lion of the engagements which the iron -mast ers h ave contracted. Nothing, therefore, was more easy tha n t o pronounce on o f these l n establishments ‘' s and forge. the demand of the Northern Company, and to decide on its own information. But the present Mi n i stry has no more the sentiment of its dignity than of its duties. The iron -masters, brothers-in-law, sons-in-law, or relatives of the Ministers, hold the Government in ward. Could it take any decision without consulting its high and powerful guardians? The demand of the Northern Company has, therefore, been sent to the superior council of forge -masters. They, for the purpose of avoiding the introduction of foreign rails, have not given national rails; for if they undertook the contract, they could not fulfil it. But they have sent in a reply, and the Alinistry, ie order to give itself airs of impartiallity in its slavery, has thought fit to communicate this answer, not to the company itself, but to a member of it, with a recommendation to be discreet. Should the company persist, the forge masters will reply by another state ment, so that the Government will thus become a sort of journal, not public, in which the arguments of the two parties are to come together. Thus discussion will be the order of the day, in the place of action. The Ministry will gain time, and the monopoly will drag on some days additional, which is all that is wanted. We ought to add, that the Northern Company, having treated with the Fampoux Company for the cession of 6,000 tons of rails, hastened to reduce to 19,000 tons the demand which it had addressed to the Ministers. It is said that all the forge-master s are busied in making a subscription amongst themselves to fu rn i s h t hi s quantity, at the exor bitant price of 350 E a ton, whi c h th e y h o p e t o i mpose on the Northern Comp any. Unless the rails ' are fabricated with Belgian or English pig iron, we should like to know how they are to proceed. We may also mention that the Northern Company is still wa i t i ng f or t h e cross i ngs and platforms which our f orge -masters had engaged to deliver. But why should they put themselves out of the way? When one has the Government in one's favour, public censure may be treated with indifference." It is said that the Chambers will not meet until the 11th of January. According to the Constitutionnel, Ann-Er.-TRADER has written to the KING of the FRENCII, making overtures for peace. Algiers papers, to the sth, have been received in Parisi but their contents are unimportant. The Paris papers of Sunday contain no news. They are vi holly t a k en up by reports of the proceed ings at meetings of el ec t ors of the d i fferen t arrondis seßents of Paris, p reparatory to the mun i c i pa l elec tions, which take place on Sunday. The price of cor n continues to rise in all the marke' s of France. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Boure on Saturday at 81f. sc. ; the Five per Cents., 118 E 45c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,267 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 895 f. ; Havre, 652 E 50c. ; Great North ern, 616 E 25c. ; Avignon, 882 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 593 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 5621. 50c. ; Basle, 2201. ; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 481 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 4911. 2.50.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f.; 1403 and Avignon, 48E; Spani,li Three per Cents., 38 1 A ; Ditto Do meinic Debt, 3_1;; Ditto Passives, G. The Three par Cents. were done at Tortoni's on Sunday at 80i. DOe.• BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 14. Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), :f/ t4 —Central of Spain, A—Demerara, 4—Dutch Rhenish, 4?g—ltalian and Austrian, 2 1 / 2 —Jamaica South .4lidland Junction, 1 1 4 — Louvain it la Sambre, I: l 4—Luxembourg, %—Madras, Nel lore, and Arcot, t 4 —.Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted, 101—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 1 6— Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5t4--Sambre and Meuse, 4%. CIVIL WAR IN PORTUGAL. We have been favoured with a copy of a bulletin reccived by way of Vigo, of which the following is a translation: " VALENCA DO MINIIO, DEC. 3. " To-day, between five and six o'clock in the evening, the legitimate Government of her Majesty _the Queen was re-established here. " The enthusiasm with which the liberating force was root ived here is indescribable. It has saved this pro vince from the destructive grasp of the Septembrists and of the Miguelite bands, who, though few in number, would spread wide their desolation. " The words Queen' and Charter' have been every where triumphant. No untoward occurrence has inter vened. The Governor, Jose Maria de Souza, has con ducted himself' gloriously, giving one more proof that he knows well how to combine the duties of the soldier with the loyalty he owes to his Queen. " The important conquest of the fortress of Valenca must shorten the lite of the rebel faction, already strug gling in agony. It is worthy of remark that the Queen's loyal troops have not been guilty of a single excess. The worthless fellows who formed the majority of the garrison of this fortress have been disarm d and ordered to their homes. There was not one of them who did not excite commiseration by his ragged and miserable condition. " By a decret of the 28th of November, Antonia Pereira dos Reis was appointed Royal Commissioner in the provinces of the Minho and Tras•os-Montes. Ile this day accompanied the liberating force, and took possesion of the fortress in the name of her Majesty the Queen. " The gallant division of Tras os-Montos marched from Chaves on the 30th. In the course of a few days the city of Oporto will be cleared of the infamous fac tion which lies harassed and dishonoured it. " We. have intelligence from Lisbon to the 30th of November. Some officers and soldiers have deserted from the n-bel Xavier, weary of the severity which they experiecced from him. The fatal existence of the fac teem is dratsirg to a close. " DEc. 4. This day there has arrived at the fortress upwards of 500 individuals from the neighbouring coun cil jurisdictions, begging to be supplied with arms to defend the cause of the Queen and the charter. A movable battalion is about to be formed. It is destined to liberate Upper Minho from the iron yoke which has oppressed it for several months past. he fortress of Valence may now defy the two bands which have dared to wage war against the best of sovereigns. " N.B. (In MS.) " The town of Villa Nova de Cerveira declared also for the Qieen's Government on the 4th of December." FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. 10.—The Chamber of Representa tives received to-day the retort of M. Dubus, on the budget of the Departments of Justice, the discussion of which was fixed after that of the Interior. The Chamber then resumed the debate on the first article of the project of law accompanying the budget of the ways and means, which was for imposing a light house duty of three centimes per ton, for the expense of the lighthouse at Wielingen. M. Manilius proposed that the duty should be only two centimes, affirming that the eavigeeion of the Scbe!dt was so considerable, that that duty it ould be sufficient for the expense s of the light heuse This amendment was rejected. Articles I. and 11. were pa- st d. Article 111., permitting the Government to issue Treasury bonds to the amount of twenty-nine millions to meet the expenses, geve occasion for an important debate on the finances of the country. The Chambers then adopted Articles 111. and IV. It thus adopted, without a debate, all the articles relative to the regular expenses, which amount to 14,886,000 f. The whsle of the budget of ways and means, and of the regular receipte, was voted by a majority of 69 to 5. The next subject on the order of the day was the pro ject of law regulating the promotion of the Frinses of the Roe al family in the army, which was adopted without a debate, by a majority of 71 to 2. BRUSSELS, DEC. 11.—The Chamber of Representa tives, en i;s sitting to day, commenced the debate on the project (4' law for a vote of credit, 2,000.000 franc., which the central section proposed to increase to 2,300,000 francs, for measures relative to the importation of provisions, to the improvement of the linen manufac tures, and for draining and colonising the Campine. A proposal of M. Orban, to separate from this project of law the sum of 500,000 francs, for facilitating the drain• ing, &c., of the Campine, was the first subject of debate, in which the Minister of the Interior, and several other Members took part, when Mr. Orban's proposal, with some modification, was agreed to. It was expected that the discussion of the project of law would proceed, when a motion by M. Osy gave occasion to a long and angry debate. M. Osy asked the Minister of the Interior if he approved of a letter of the Governor of East Flanders, which treats of the speculation of the merchants, which might cause the prices of corn to rise. M. Osy calls this letter an offence to the honour of the merchants, and affirms that the writer was clearly animated by malevolence and ill will. The Minister of the Interior said that, in his opi nion, there was nothing offensive in the letter to the merchants ; that in pointing out the danger of specula tion, and the frauds which might be committed to the prejudice of the consumer, he thought the publication of this letter might be of service in preventing culpable !reul. After a short reply of M. Desmaisieres, who refuted the imputations of M. Osy, and observed that he had expressed precisely the same opinion as the Governor of the Province of Antwerp. The debate became still more animated, Messrs. Loos, Roget, Verhaegen, vehemently defended the insulted honour, though the Government declared that nothing of the kind was in tended. M. Verhaegen even went so far as to ask whether it would not be possible to bring an action for calumny against the author of the letter, written in June, and which the Government had not published till De cember. M. Verhaegen even said that the letter bad been published solely with the view to excite the people to plunder the corn merchants. The best answer to all these declarations was that cf M. Molou—the letter could not do any harm, but tbis debate might do much. At length, after some further discussion, the Chamber came to the real subject of the order of the day. - MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was in a most excited state, the bisiness being larger than was ever before known in the sane space of time. The sales were 45,000 bales, of which about 26,000 were American on speculation, end 2,500 Surat. There were about 38,000 bales of American sold altogether. Prices ruled at 51d. to 74d. for American, at 4d. to Sid. for Surat, and at lid. to Bd. for Pernam, being id. to id. per lb. advance on last Friday's rates. Shares were firm, but quiet. The sale of Railway Shares, tc-day, at Messrs. La mond and Co.'s, did not go off with much spirit, although there was no great alteration in prices. The following are a few of the principal sales : - Waterford, Wexford, and Va1entia..........£0 3 9 Madrid and Valencia. Great Luxembourg East Indian Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 10 6 Derby, Staford, and Worcestershire,New 0 14 6 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certficate 0 10 0 Churnet and Blythe Manchester and Southampton, 1847. 1 9 6 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Taw Vale Extensio n and Dock Vale of Neath Shropshire Union and Canal North British, New Thirds Paris and Lyons 5 2 6 Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ...... 5 6 London and York, Extension 2 0 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 4 0 It is with very consider able. and increased regret, that the mercantile community find, by the advices received from Liverpool this morning, that the rage for " Time" bargains rapidly—nay, very seriously— increases. The unprecedented quantity of 45,000 bales of Cotton was sold yesterday at the port stated, and the prices of the staple are again higher. Now, it is quite impossible, if matters pro ceed in this way, that the spinners and ma nufacturers can take cottons with any prospect of deriving profit from their own operations. Lacking, therefore, a legitimate demand for consumption, the Bulls of cotton will soon discover their error, and, as referred to yesterday, in the re sult, they must have the satisfaction of knowing that they have been too fast, or, in plain terms, " they will burn their fingers." Other markets, for staple articles, of produce, colonial as well as foreign, exhibit a really healthy aspect. Bond fide purchases were made for consumption, and scarcely a symptom of agitation is necessary to keep prices up to full and - remunerative values. A very neat robbery was committed this morning at the premises of Messrs. A. and B. Savory in Corn hill. The shopman left the premises to buy some thing (leaving the property to take care of itself), a cab is handy, and one of the light-fingered gentry, or a swell•mobsman, enters, and sweeps off watches of the value of 1,0001., or may be 2,0001. The subject has been a matter of much conversation in the City this morning. Consols have been rather flat to-day. The prica for the Account has just receded from 934 to 93i- ex div. There have not been any transactions on special order in Consols for money to-day. Tt e premium upon Ex chequer-bills remains at about its.; the Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are at 95i; the Three per Cents., Reduced are at 94k; and Bank Stock is at 2061. The changes hi the Foreign Stocks have been very light this morning. Mexican Bonds have been done at 231; the Portuguese FouriCents. at 36k; the Spanish Ac tives at 264; the Three per Cents.:at 37 the Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents, at 60k-, and the Four per Cent. Certificates at 924. The only movement of interest in the Railway Share Market is the adjustment of the account. All, as 3et, hras passed off well. With a very few exceptions, prices are steady, us the rates given in the official list will best show. ONE. CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 20 6 1 /2 207 3 I er Cent. Reduced Anns 94 1 3 93% New 3 1 / 4 per Cent. Annuitie s 96 95% 95 % Long Ailli IlitieS toexpire Jan.lB6o 9 15-16 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 9 3 34 93 3 4 Consols for Opening 9 3 1/%% ex div 93 Exchequer Bills, 1000/. 1 1 4 d. ... 11 p 11 p I itto, 500/ Ditto. Small ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES 85 1 /, 95 31 / 19 1 /, 3% 2 it/4 23 1 A 36 1 4 36 2614 5 37% 391/, CRICIS OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ••••••••• Equacior Bonds Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto, Deferred ••• Slexican, 5 I,er Cent. 1846 2 3 14 Ditto, Account . — Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account 37 Spanish 5 par Cent. 1540. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. Venezuela Bonds, 2 p er C en t — Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 2 1 / per Cent — tJutch, 2 1 / 2 pa Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 921 micEs OP BUSINESS DONE CLOSING R.IILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott. ' Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... Armagh, Coleraine, and Poifriish l% Pellast & County Down 4 N ...... Birmingham and Dudley 423. ... .. .... . ..... Birmin. and Gli.ucester..loo Ditto New l7l/i ••• •• • Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 274 — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 228. — Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and,Glouce*ter 3O ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. D.A.__ ..._ Buckinghamshire Caledonian 23 3 / 1 Ditto Half Shares 2 l/i ......... •"". Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 / Clzurnet and 81ythe...... 2 1 1 2 .,.... Chester and Manchester 425. — Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... Clarence lOO Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Cork and Killarney Cerk and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Direct Lincoln, East Ret . ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% —. Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Belfast June. 1.2 1 / ,, Dublin, - Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 16s . . 22% 7 4 2 Ditto New Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... % p... / Do., York Extensio n .. 2 ... 3 Ve 's EastDereh'in andNoech 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 — Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1% — . ......... ....„ Do., Cainb. and Ely.. 214 2 — ............... East Lancashire . l4 - •• •••• ........ Ditto, New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk ).................. Do., do., New Scrip l l /i ~.. ........ .. East Lincolnshire ... •- 11 / 4 ••• ••• ...... East & West of England 1% _. . .............. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......'.....••• Ditto Half Shares ... 10 - •• .... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .. ..,,,, _ . Edinburgh & Northern.. IDA ........ •• Ely andiluntingdon ... 12% ...... 131 ..... E x e t Enniskillen erco v a 1 1 1 , d sc Sligo D or Dorset g iz %, ............ .. i .. Glasgow, Hilmar., &Ayr 50 . ..... __ ...... Ditto, New ......... l5 , ..... ...... Do., i Shares (5 per cent. guar.) . ........ 121/2„,... Goole, Doncaster, &c. _ 2 . Grand Union (N o t t i ng- ..... and Lynn ... ............ 1 % —.. ...... ••••• Great Eastern & Western 2 1 / 2 - Great South. and West. (Ireland) ............. 271/2 — Great _Munster ........... .. 2%, Great North o f Scotland VA..— Great Northof England..loo Ditto New .............. 5 Ditto, New - Ditto, New Great West er . ; Ditto IA Shares ..... .. 50 Ditto IA Shares lO Ditto Fifths ~... Ditto, New Huddersfield & Manches. 13 ...... 17 16 , 4 ...... Ditto, Extension 3 Hull and Selby 5O Do. Half Shares 25 — Ditto 1% Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% — Do., do., and Norwich 21/ 2 _ Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New ... 5 Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedfjrd... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22 1 4 ..• Do., Branch ( Blue) ... 214 — ••• • Do.Extension(Green) N.. ... Leeds and Thirsk l 7 l / 2...... 15 1 /..,. • Ditto, New - ........ ••• Lpool., Mnchstr &N ew ••• castle Junction London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d. BV s Do. New Ditto Extension ~ 7 l /, ' 2...... London, Brighton, and South Coast Ditto, Fans Do. Consul. Eighths.. 10 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 Loudon and Greenwich 12/ 15s 1d 9 IA . •• ••• .............. Do. Preference ...18/17 s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. WE iternloo ......195 .. Do. Quarters .. 2 .... Do., do., New 15 14 1 4 1/ Ditto Fifths ..... .... 5 2 ""•• 19 Do. Shares (G. J.) Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 8 Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 101. (M. & B.) B. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 22 la P 3(1 P 3,) 13% 75 EA 8 !4 15 1 , 58 3 , 47 1 % 144 9 224 14 1 / 2 19 Af f-43 , A. - • k . „ <• t rc , -4 f . 47s - frriffritiltft LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1846. A mutiny when the ship is sinking is not a more pitiable spectacle than the recent secession of the Young Ireland party from the ranks of the Patriot and Liberator of Ireland. However much we may be opposed to Mr. O'CoNNELL in his agitation for the repeal of the legislative union, we cannot but recognise in that Honourable Gentleman the truest friend of Ireland ; we cannot hut recognise in his long and earnest career the toil of one anxious to benefit his fatherland; we cannot but recognise throughout his professional and Parliamentary life the solicitude of a man, devoted heart and soul, body and mind, to the moral, physical, and political re demption of his afflicted country. Whatever may be our difference of opinion as to the mode best calcu lated to effect the advancement of the Irish popula lation, we are satisfied that the Honourable Member for Cork exhibits this pertinacity in his favourite project solely from his convic tion 'that the attainment of his object would ensure the regeneration of the community. He is struggling for the possession of a phantom, but in those struggles be is riving the chains of Ireland asunder. He has already emancipated his fellow countrymen from many grievous disabilities ; he has dissipated many of their sorrows ; he has avenged many of those wrongs which they had suffered during successive generations. Through the instrumentali'y of O'CONNELL the character of Ireland has already, to a considerable extent, been vindicated. By his assi duous exertions she has emerged from a misgovern ment infinitely more onerous and repressive than the misgovernment of the Muscovite or the Lithuanian—a misgovernment not so much of a corporeal character as of a spiritual, not so much of body as of soul, not so much of municipalities as of religion. Much, of course, has remained unreformed, which, with due attention, might have been effected. These oversights, however, are more attributable to the unpropitious nature of circumstances than: to the lack of any individual sagacity. The power exercised by Mr. O'CONNELL ill the advocacy of his native land has been erected upon—what ?—upon the enthusiasm of his countrymen. But how was that enthusiasm gained ? Was it gained by the tactics of a Mohawk ? Was it gained as DANTON gained his victories, by exciting the passions of the mob, by goading the people to acts of insubordination, by a plentiful distribution of pikes and bludgeons ? Was Catholic Emancipation wrung from the Legislature by intimidation, or by the dispassionate weapons of logic ? Was it wrung from Parliament as the fana tical followers of Lord GEORGE GORDON endeavoured to:elicit a " No -Popery" enactment from those august Chambers ? Has not O'CoNNELL's influence been based upon the _solid granite of peace, instead of upon the capricious quicksands of insurrection? Has he not throughout his agitation sheltered himself behind the adamant of the law, and has not that course already obtained for Ireland an inestimable boon ? A dreadful visitation afflicts the island—a visita tion which, notwithstanding their familiarity with suffering, has keen hitherto unknown to its inhabi tants. Famine and winter, disaase and want of employment to millions, combine to render the desti tution insufferable. The perennial barrenness of protection in the landlords is accompanied by an extra ordinary barrenness in the vegetation. A ban appears to pervade the land. Ireland is in a state of national bankruptcy. At this moment of tribulation, when that strength which is the consequence of unity is more than ever rcqui,ite, the ranks of Ireland's avowed leaders are thinned by the defection of certain hair brained dissentients. All the world knows upon what cause this division occurred ; all the world knows that Mr. O'CONNELL maintained the neces sity of striving for repeal only by moral agency and loyal agitation, and that Mr. 'WILLIAM S3IITII O'BRIEN insisted upon the Association infusing treasonous principles into its code, and proclaiming the rectitude of physical force. Since the first se paration of these parties, by a contrariety of views somewhat more striking than that of the Big and Little-endians, immortalised by SWIFT, the public have heard scarcely anything, and, what is more, have cared scarcely anythingabout the redoubtable personages 'yclept Young Irelanders. A casual display of oratorical pyrotechnics in the Rotunda at Dublin has, at intervals, amused the more sober members of the popu lation. John Bull, however, is blasé in regard to those spurious specimens of patriotic enthusiasm. Ile looks at the dissemblers with the scornful nonchalance of a PCCOCURANTE. Meanwhile the condition of Ireland has been gradually becoming more terrible and appalling. Want of employment and dearness of provisions are greater afflictions than hitherto from the severity with which the season has commenced. Murders and outrages are of more frequent recurrence in consequence. Each successive week affords a frightful catalogue of deaths by starvation. Contagious maladies are begin. oing to affect those constitutions, the vigour o which has been already undermined by inanition. At this moment Mr. O'CONNELL makes a final effort to conciliate those who insulted him by their vituperations. He swallows all the selfish instigations of pride, and renders himself liable to every species of obloquy, because of the existing emergency, and because he is more than ever persuaded that the per petuation of such a quarrel, and its consequent heart burnings, can only prove injurious to the national interests. To 115, there is something admirable in this forgetfulness of personal considerations for the sake of a famishing people. There is something noble in this sacrifice of private sentiment to public conviction. One gap was still open in the forum for the salvation of Rome, and CURTILIS immolated himself for the good of the state by plunging into the chasm. Mr. O'CONNELL has dared the jeers and ribaldry of venal tongues and hireling pens because, by his proposition for a con ference with the leaders of the Young Ireland party, he felt he could alone hope to heel all existing dif- ferences, and to battle aieinst the troubles of the country with one unbroken phalanx. Among the many sacrifices which O'CONNELL has made for Ireland, this sacrifice of feeling in proposing a con ference with his traducers is nut the least. The result of this proposition is what might have been readily anticipated. The Young Ireland brag garts have rejected all offers of a conciliatory cha racter. Their wonderful captain—the hero of the coal-cellar—the victor of the tea-and-dry -toast—Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, has emphatically refused the conference. He has virtually spat upon the offer of his more noble- minded adversary. It is rumoured in some quarters that the co-operation of this honour- able malconterit may be ensured on certain conditions. Conditions—pshaw !—the Irish don't care twopence for his co-operation. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN IS not the ATLAS upon whose shoul- ders the fate of Ireland is dependent. He has shown the obverse side of his character. He Las proved that as he is without sterling patriotism, so is he without magnanimity. CGMIOLANUS in the hall of Aurinrus, and TIIEMISTOCLES asking protection from ARTAX ERXES, must be incomprehensible spectacles to Mr. WILLIAM SMITH OTRIEN. We trust that Mr. O'CONNELL may be more successful in his generous negotiations with those whose reconciliation is of some importance. We adverted last week to the paramount im portance, to every civilised country, of a sound body of criminal law ; to the reasons that constituted this importance, and to the duty which men owe to them selves to scrutinise, with the utmost jealousy, the ad ministrati:n of this branch of their legal code. We alluded to the vast quantum of ministerial power that is lodged with the magistracy, who admit or reject COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Windsor Castle on Saturday next, the 19th inst., at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the plan tations of Osborne House on Monday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked and rode yesterday in the pleasure ;rounds of Osborne House. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Earl of Devon had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi dence in Downing -street. The Bishop of Newfoundland had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Engllnd had a committee meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall place. S:r John Pally had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Strutt had also an in terview with the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The The appeal Crawf o rd v . Sp o on e r, f rom Bombay, was concluded. The Queen's Advocate, the Attorney General, Mr. Wigram, Queen's Council, and Dr. Addams, were heard oti an appeal from the Vi ce Ad m i ra lty C ou rt of the Cape of Good Hope, " B aneanc v . t h e the Dom Pedro." Queen respecting The Queen's Advocate W2S heard on a motion respect ing ihe Brazilian vessel " Aquila." Viscount and Vicountcss Melgund arrived at Far rtrice's Hotel, Upper Be'grave-street, yesterday, from St. Lconards-on-Sea. HE CITY.—On Mo n .. THE WOOD PAVEMENT IN T illieVsris of Sewers, the woo d d e , was taken up , f or day, by or d er o f t h e C om m pavement in Queen-street, _ the purpose of having the thoroughfare pa ve d w i th Cheap side, the practice of th e City oil stones. It has b e en latterly riorities to iss no an order that the poor of the neigh. hasf wood been bourhood should be allowed to otardkeer, however,thebloeks o away for their own use. taken advantage of by dealers in wood in Spi ta ld elds and Bethnal-green, who, after cutting the bl oc k s into fire wood, mix the pieces with others in th e b undles they sell. DARING AND DEXTEROUS ROBBERY OF NEARLY 1,000/. WORTH OF WATCHES FROM MESSRS. SAVORY AND Co's.—This morning about eight o'clock, the fol lowing daring and extensive robbery was committed at Messrs. Cox, Savory, and Co.'s, the extensive silver smiths and watchmakers, of Cornhill. The robbery was effected at the branch warehouse, 54, Cornhill. It ap pears that the shopman, according to custom, opened the shop shortly before eight o'clock, and then locking up the door, went to br ea kf ast. It was during his absence that some expert thief or thieves, who had evidently been watching his movements, contrived either to pick the lock, or enter the shop by means of a false key, and swept off trays containing no less than 149 gold and silver watches, of the value of nearly 1,000/. About the time in question a cab was observed to drive away rapidly from the opposite side of the street ; it is sup• posed .that it conveyed away the plunder. Messrs. Savory and Co. are about to offer a large reward for the de!ection of the thieves and the recovery of the property. LORD TIIURLOW ON HIS FAMILY.—IIe had a just contempt for the vanity of new men pretending that they are of ancient blood ; and some one attempt. ing to flatter him by trying to make out that he was de scended from Thurloe, Cromwell's secretary, who was a Suffblk man, " Sir," said he, "there were two Thurlows in that part of the country, who Lurished about the Same time, Thurloe the Secretary, and Thurlow the carrier. lam descended from the last."—Lord Campbell. ondon, extort!, and Ch ltenln. - un ..... ••• ........ Lon 1. t.4.WeAc-rn 41/ 64 10c: 63 61 ............ Do. New ConsoL Bchs 40 Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths ..... .: 215821/2: .. 1- 5% .••.. •. Ditto Ten ha ... ''''' 4 Ditto Scrap Ditto ditto ...... . .... 4 4 l' ...... ...••••• London and York . 2 1 4 — .......... -... Do. Extension London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...... ... ........ 2 q Londonderry& Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis killen 15 Lynn and Ely ..... -...4. 15 ...... Lvnn and Dereham...1.., ;5 Manchester end Leeds_ 82 Ditto L 4 Ai . ( ares D. Quarters Do. Fifths Do. Sixteenths 6..... - ........ 425514 — . . .... ... . P ... •. ..................................... . 11 Do. Extension .. ..... Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 - .. ... • Do. de. Fifths - ~. ........... Man, ie.iter,Buxton,and Matlock Handiest. &Southampt. 4 ; 1. ............ 1 1): ... •. •• : ... .. Midland ........ Do. f ifths Do. N( w •. w Ditto, Ne Do. Birm., and Derbylo 9 o 24 .......... . 3611 / 1 ................. ....... ....... 51idinid Great Western Irish 34 ..... .... Newcastle and, ick 2 1 0 5 B .... .. ................ tAN ........ ..,erwik. 0000000000 . ••• Do. North Shields ... 25 ....... NeweastleandCarlisle...loo - ....... ... 5%%.. ..... Newmrk et &Chesterfrd 5 Newport& Abergavenny 216 — ............ _ ....... .... Newry and Enniskill en 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevcr ..... Norfolk 100 l3 O l / 2•••• "' ... ....... Ditto Half Shares .. 9 ... •••• Do. Extension 11 4 ....... ............. ... Northern Counties Union 21/2 i. 11 North British .. .... ... 25 Do. Half Shares .... ...• . Do. Fifths Do. Quarters ••• ....... Do. Extension - . 5/ ........ Ditto Thirds 1 33 / 4 7i 'i s ... Northern and Eastern ..... Do. Scnp (ised. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 / 2 — ..... ••••• ' Do. New ... ... .. ....... North Staffordshire 5 ...... 8 13 , --. '' . •• No;th Wales Northern and Southern .......... Connecting .... • North Western 2 l /2 ... Oxford, Worcester, and .• ..... Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and .... . •••••• Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% —' ......... ", Preston and Wyre Do. 1 / Shares Reading, Guildford, and .... Reigate 3/. 12s. — die. '. ... ••• Richmond ..... Royston and llitchen ... 1% — ....... Scottish Central Scottish Midland , 121. ••• •'' ....., . •••• ..• Sheffield & Manchester 100 . ...... Do. Quarter Sha res ... 8 .. Do. Lincolnshire Jun e . 1 1 / ............ Do. & Great Grim• by. 10 - ...... ........ 1)o. do. Extensi on 42 5 . Shrewsbury and "Jinn-3 • 4 N 74..... •• •••• .. .••• Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp,, ...... &S, Staffordsl:. June. 2 1 ,, - South Devon SouthStaffordshireJunc. 2 1 / 2 •—„ ~- 8 .[4 •••••• 'ol4th Ea4.1.r0 & Dover. 33% 37'74 - ' . ..... Do., No. 1 26 ...... —, .............. Do~ Ne 2. ..... Do., No 3 Do., No. No. 4 StAlban's, Hatfield,and ...... ...• Hertford Junction .... , Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 % —' . . ....0' ..... • South Wales .... . 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca min•n's Still. C0a1... ....• ..... Taw VaiC! Extension ... ~ Wakefield, Pontefract, & 2 1/38/ ....... ........... " Goole - . . ......... •• .• Waterford and K _.- ••ilkenny 11 . .••• .......... - Waterford and Limerick 272...... --- . Watcrld, IVxlrd,Wicklw, .............. and Dublin - .......... Wexford, by aterford,and . ---......... Valentia .... ..... - ..... Waveney Valley ... 2 ...... ...... ............. W e:sb Midland West Ridi:ig Union 4 2?! 1:2 .. . ..... - .. ............. West Cornwall Wexford and Carlow ... 3 14 ...... --- Wilts, Somerset, & 'Weir . _.. ..• •••- Wey mouth York and Newcastle. . Ditto New 5 ..... -- v... • .. . ..... . 7 Gill• " - Do. Preference ...... 2 ...... Fork and North Midland 50 .... • 4Gili•••• ..... Ditto % 5hare5........ 25 ... • Do. Selby - — ••••••• . • •••" Do. Extension Ditto, Preference ...... 2 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. •• .... .••• 54% soq 92% 12S 1A 7l~) 25y 2 11/i 28 1 , 18 291/2 17 4 2. ,•-• , ...... ..... ". - - GE. - 3 (1 1. ''''''''''''' Gibraltar.. •••• • ' • •,.•• g 6 Leghorn .. • • • • • • • • ••••• Genoa.. • • ••• • • •• ••••,, Milan .. • • • • • • • 40 Venice.. • • • • • • • 1 8034 Naples •••• • • ' • • 0 Palermo, per oS• • • 0 4 Lisbon.. ••• • • • • • • 0 Oporto . • .• ''''' ' .• Rio Janeiro • • ''''' Bahia . Buenos Ayres .• New York, 21dair . 7 00 Phil a delphia • • •I•i/jorl.. a , o / r P RICES OF _,„ ,X 3 h. F ore i g n Gold in 1) °•" • 0 710 Portuga l Gold Coln •• 0 , 4 ) 0 , N ew Dollar's •• •• 0 00 Spaynisihn barsDoubl . o . o . 7l9 .• .. •• 0 Silver Real del Monte Unregd• COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam .... C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 1 3. Rotterdam .... • • 2U. 12 5 Antwerp .......... .... 25 95 Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 12 Al tona . . Parts, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 G 5 Ditto, 3 months...... 25 90 Marseilles • . . • .... 25 95 .. 25 95 Irankfort on Maine.... 121 Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Berlin • • • • •• Vienna, effec.f10...... 10 5 Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 5 Madrid 35% Cadiz .. ........ 36 Bilbao ........ • Barcelona Seville...• . that a Na t il o Oe f lxr t Ei re r a rt rticl m e of ha ~.,f xr.op--------.-----""—oRT.TO ALGERIA:._ eci Frencile extent fr sh o countyamy ,London bn y i de ob to n i sa to f already „r.s been loaded and sailed for G ran , considerable novelty' n00 A : d 'cledll°v 0 Ora tga n ni : iP Pigs:Pelsleiiilt sari fil : territory of Algeria. Several vessels _ther and fou r oe u g of !? .I:lhVeSSf Is are at present loading entire clrioe'i i r ) n o l cks article for that port, say three ins he St. be t Pte, olor,)_ne,rat,nndaomneedattheeoAxl,shion,thneagmeadltath7 Jane t m be arth . ti fa is d 0 make as o d Quay , -sible, the m ego - lel, compressed by macghinoerys•tporweavgioeusastoPesSltipment ~esse, which the trusses are tightly stowed on board t,h'irol, by means of screws. The rate of freight paid is ow d. ; a n n . danswers the purpose of vessels which are o es. pro_e_e e It is to the Mediterranean to Wing home return cs . r . 0 , understood that these shipments are making Wrioct cou s n shows of the French Government, and the 131.,„nch Die .ti d, ,Ant not only the great want of fodder for the .`l b ie eaval s ry in Algeria, but also that it is not procurae fmn Fr-n livered ' Le. OOP_ .._,r, at Oran, must the tote} h. cost of the artic le, " before FROM WARMING THE FEET AT TII .do o, which afterwards on Friday last, in his 60th year, Mr. Jobs ] l'' Os the rear cted landlord of the Swan Inn, Jtowle.Y•,,, ot deceased, deilipg, on the Sunit:3,y week preceding his burned a h large lire, warming his feet, and 5U toe, cester Chronicle. wsahrodisi, mortified,an d rxis edanadbelaisutseerdohnistdheeatgbr.__eattro, f /~ 33 1 4 13,6 IN ”i 614 Anglo- Belgian Barbadocs 1 Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2 1 / 2 Boutogne and Amiens... 16 - _. -- '... .................. .......... . ..... .. ." .. Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 /Lordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie'5)... 2 .. ..... Do. (Espelete's) ,/ Calais, Dunkrk, and West 2 .. ............... Flan& rs Calcutta and Diamond ........ Ho rbour Callao, Lima, and Pacific ....... - „... CCoastl ' ... ... Central of Spain ... .. Ceylon .... / Demerara Dendro Valley Direct Bombay an d ‘ :: 4 Madras Dutch Rheni s h East Indian Fampoux & H aze b rou k 4 -......... _ ....4 43 4 ....................... ....... ..,.........: .:" ..... •• ...... "''. Great Indian P en i nsu l ar ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. '" ............... ..... Great Western Canada... 3q. ..•••• --- ................. .... 116 Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... ... .••••••• - Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 ..... 31 Jersey l ou Nal n . a . . i .. I.einbourg 4 Lyons and Avignon S - ainbrs ....: 6 1 .-.. . ......----- .... ............... '. .......: 4 Madras ... 1 ..-- .. ..... ...,... .0 Madras, Nellore, and , A .,...••• ~ ..... Arcot /0 ...... Madrid and Valentia 2% '-'" ....... '.... '-' 3 l - .... " . . 10 Al zuritius ........ ..-• Namur and Liege - ...... v .. Nn of France Constituted 5 ...... 10 ze ..... . ...." '''. 8 North Jamaica... ..... , 1 ....... '• ... .-- th Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 .., BlB 8 " . ' •••'' 617 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Ly - ons Constituted 5 .. .. . ........•„.• Paris and Orleans; 2O _ •• ••• .. " 3yi Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ... ''' ''.. Constituted ........ ..... Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 10 .... .......... /...... Strasbourg and Bal e ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic fours and Nantes Con- .... •••". stituted ... ...... ...„. 5 .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- ..• ... den, and Hasselt....... 8 ....... Trinidad ...... West Flanders ...... ~.. 6 - ./ JOINT STOCK BANKS. . .• ... •"'' Australasia .... • / .... ••• ~• London Joint Stock lO National of Ireland 22% — ••*" ...... .• - . ....... ... British North American 50 ..... , ."... . Commercial of London 20 —. .. ••••••• „,.. Colonial ...... ~.. / 4 ./ National Prov. England. 35 .... • 0.74 Union of Australia 27 3 % ......... .. London & Westminster. 20 Union of London... 6 161/4 1!4 P, Ili 124 ; 0 4 28S I t v 6 R t a 6 ti 9 1 k vi a ki Ilt