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NEW 'SERIES. Just ready, in One Vol., with Illustrations by Leech and George Cruickshank, price 10s. 6d. THE THIRD SERIES OF T HE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, and OTHER POEMS. With a Memoir of the late Rev. B. 11. BARHAM• Edited by his SON. Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued supp ort and patronage, aud to announce that their Public Sales of Railway shares, &c. take place every TuksDAY and Fan:q.v. at One to o'cl o hich place, ck, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle - stre et, London, w favours, containing Instructions (with a reference), are respecttlilly requeste , l to be addressed. All Scrip and Share t Cerificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; atia advices of results will be forwarded by the first poet after the sale, ani the proceeds Imme diately disposed of ne , ordiwz to instructions. °flees, Hail of Commerce. Threadneedle-street.London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new — Opera. entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morllere, Mr. Horricastie ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet. called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale' Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles. Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, ➢iadrme Glubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ILIYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lesete. THIS EVENING Will be performed 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, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers, ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oidington, Miss Fortesene ; Mary Oddingten, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Operatic Drama, called TUE YOUNG PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker, Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Arrmulale Miss P. Porten. To be followed by the Farce, e.llled SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Roll: SSr Arthur Love', Mr. Howe; tlaoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. tleoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, "Cheri' de Bronze ;" " The Armen" (Polka); " Czarina" (Mazuurka); " Douro " (Walzer) ' and a Iccw Overture. To conclude with the popular Farce, entitled LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Bucks:one ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, 31iss Telbin. DOM. - AIM open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVE NLNG Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA OISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, 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 ; Monsieur Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith ; Coquin Ballandier, Mr. Munyard; Largarcette, Mi. Bediord Julien, Madame Celeste; Clara, Mrs. Emsley. To conclude with a Terpsichorean Barletta, call d POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibhs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright, Munyard, Mrs. Matthew, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. rin NCESTS THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THI.4 EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " The principal characters personified by Miss Ceorgiana Smithson, 3Ess Itortrise, Sara Flower, Miss Somers, ;Misses Marshall; Messrs. I.efltn*, Bodda, Walton, LAM, Honner Peron, &re. Aficr which a RAIN BOWS. In the ecnirie of the Evening the Band will perform The Perlen Waltzes." To conclude with entirely new Comic Draml, entitled THE TWO f THE HEIR-AT-CAW FRENCH PLAYS. ST. JAMES'S THEATICe. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will he performed the fivirwite Comedy of LE CODE DES FEMME:. Paul Fativel, M. Rhozevil ; Mignoriet, M. TOurillon ; , Rontain, M. Pagenier ; M. Priston; Emma, Mdlle.Angele ; Feinrae de Chatntir, M To he fl,llowed by the Ilr3t Act of Mollere's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS • GENTILIIO7,INIF.. M. Jourdain, M. Perlet ; After which a new Comedy, cit:itled LES TROIS CRISPINS ou, .Polssun. P.I/Inuirt Poisson, M. Perlet ; Marianne Mdlle, To conclude iviththe popular Vaudeville of UN MONSIEUR ET ,LINE DA'IE. lira Movsiettr; M. Dumery ; line Dame, Mdlle. Brollan ; Une Auberg!ste, Maclaine Damery. Boxes, Gs.; Pit, 33. ; Stalls, 33.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at nalf-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. I'AVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Le.isee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Mr. J. R. Sf:OTT. the American-Tragedian, In two characters. THIS EVENING Will be performe4 the Play of PIZARRO. Pizarro, Mr. Frede ricks ; Alonzo, Mr. Johnson ; Elvlra, Miss Richardson ; Cora, Mrs. Sav;lle. After which the Infant Sable Wonders and Negro Melodists will s"ng their favourite Songs. To conclude with the Drama of LUKE THE LABOURER. Luke the Labourer, 31r. Saville; Philip, Mr. J. It. Scott; Clara, Mr. Saville ; Jenny, MPs Terry. AST. LY'a ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patrun'seAl by he- Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, and itoyal 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- Cha;nceTiiit."FAltail HORSE; or, The Twelve Wishes and the the Eoucstrian Ladies will appear on their trained steeds. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; cr, The Mountain Outlaw. /New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. In active preparation, a variety of novelties for the Christmas holidays ; among the rest, will be Lronght forward a Grand Comic Equestrian Pantomime, produced on a lavish scale of splendour, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Har.cquin audj the Rob ber's Cave. i 4 ov -orlicc open from eleven till fiv; o'clock.—Doors open at six an I olynmence rt half-palt six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, The success of the reduction of prices of admission at this Theatre Is without precedent, nightly overflows being the result. Boxes, Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3d. Continued success ol the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor." THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Via. cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. It. Barnett, and Messrs. Edwards, Bird, _ Searle, Forman, Sec., will perform. After which, the Barletta of DICK AND HIS DOUBLE. Dick Doubleton, Mr. Forman ; Isabel, firs. R. Bennett ; Isabella, Miss L. Fearce. To conclnde with JACK RANN ; or, Sixteen string Jack, and the Knaves of Knaves'-acre. THE WEATHER.--SIIN OFFICE, DECEMBER 12. TdERNIONETER, Lowest, 24; Highest. 31 ; Noon, 32 BAROMETER, 29.67. WIND N.N.E., light snow. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning, .. 21 minutes after 10. I ETening .. 52 minutes after 10. drof tit , rAt4L,tx, Ritit4 LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 18461 CABINET COUNCIL. Summonses have been issued from the Foreign Office to the Ministers, to attend a Cabinet Council (it is understood) on Wednesday next. Several of the Ministers, now out of town, are expected to return for the purpose of attending the meeting. T (t.., i • m 4. .-----/ ; '• • 4 . • ... . ~• ,,m.,. ~... g ... It ~,• '1 .o.* ~. .* x ,ei t it- I.'" - '611'141:7 .1.4 e,", ,-....,-7774ii&50 i..... R 7 • M.O , ___,,,:' '''..:...,, "t1. 1 .4. . .ir' -• ' .. " .•. -r ," ig - ' 1. ' 4 4.- ' .4 , . • V .irr - I'4 -... ;V p. , ...• - . PRIVY COUNCIL. Her MAJESTY is expected to hold a Privy Council on Saturday next, the 19th inst. At this Council it is expected that the time for the meeting of Parlia ment will be determined on, and a proclamation will be issued, summoning both Houses to meet for the dispatch of public business. We have received information that an order was forwarded, on Saturday to the Tower, from the Board of Ordnance, directing a troop of artil lery to be dispatched to Ireland forthwith. The alarm ing condition of the people in that country, and the frequent recurrence of outrages in many districts, j ustifies the Executive in taking immediate and strenuous measures for the protection of life and the preservation of the peace. Our accounts, published in another column, present a fearful catalogue of murders and robberies; and, from the frightful starvation which is now afflict ing the peasantry, there are no lack of incite ments to insubordination. On Friday, it will be remembered, we published the account of nine deaths from famine, and every additional packet cor roborates the impressions which have been all along entertained a 3 to the destitution in Ireland. We trust, however, that intimidation will be sufficient to restore the population to a sense of their duty, and to an obedience to the law. Everything indicates that Europe is peculiarly at this moment in a state of transition. Popular power may be regarded as at its culminating point. The two paramount forces of the Continent—the repres sive domination of the East and the regenerative con stitutions of the West— the hereditary legislation of the North, and the elective legislation of the South— are now more than ever endeavouring to counteract the influence of each other. Time has not tended to lessen their mutual antipathy : on the contrary, their sen ti men t s h ave b ecome more than ever embitter e d, th e i r op i n i ons h ave b ecome more than ever estranged. The common alliance which was expected by many credulous persons to render their reconciliation nermanent, has proved only an additional source of animosity. After After a temporary quietude of thi rty . one ea these heterogeneous powers has rs been compact between sudd . enly br o k en; their partial relia nce on each others been utterly disp e ll e d ; the possibility tf any integrity has co rdial cooperation b e t ween them has been rendered more than ever dubious. The consequence of this abrupt disseverance has already evinced itself in the increased distaste of the two divisions of the C:)ntiner.t for each other. The monstrous cruelty, moreover, by which that disseve rance has been alone effected, has afforded additional grounds for the rancour of the cajoled nations. In the annexation of Cracow, Austria, Russia, and Prussia have not merely violated their engagements with the other continental principalities, but they have like wise directly violated the principles upon which the very Governments of the West are based. Those three despotic Cabinets have not merely violated cer tain articles of the treaty of Vienna, they have like wise violated the fundamental laws of humanity and justice. In this latter violation consists their chief offence. Some considerable time has elapsed since the first consideration of this perfidious act by the Northern Powers ; some little time has already elapsed since the seizure of Cracow. It is satisfactory, however, to reflect that decisive protests against this heinous spoliation have been forwarded to Vienna by the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries. The pro test of Lord PALMERSTON, couched in those terms of emphatic indignation which are the more impressive, from their calmness and moderation, has been followed by the protest of M. GUIZOT. This remarkable do cument, which is dsted the 3d of December, has only just (been revealed in the Parisian newspapers; and, if we may estimate its character correctly from the lucubrations of those whose position appears to be some guarantee for the accuracy of their observations, it would appear that the protest could not by possibility have been in language more reso lute and authoritative. It were frivolous to enter minutely into the examination of these singular communications from England and France to the Government of the Emperor FERDINAND; it were frivolous so to scrutinise their bearing before we have weighed the chances of their causing any retractation on the part of that imperial offender ; and, having weighed those chances, the case assumes so discou raging an aspect, that we are fain to tarry upon the threshold of the investigation. Has Poland a hope of revenging her wrongs ?—those prodigious wrongs inflicted upon he; by perfidy, by cow - ardice, by the swords of the imperial robbers and the duplicity of political parasites. Has Poland a chance of emerging from her tomb, of reclaiming her lost existence, of re-assuming her place among the kingdoms of the civilised world? We should rejoice in that sublime resurrection. It would be a day of solemn jubilation to the free nations of the globe. The hearts of the lovers of patriotism would gladden over the sorrowful memory of Koscrusxo. But is there a possibility of effecting any change of this miraculous description without entering upon a campaign of unparalleled bloodshed and of incalculable duration ? Are the despots of Russia, Prussia, and Austria to be frightened into a compromise, or flattered into a concession ? The days of warfare are becoming less frequent with the advancement of knowledge. A battle is becoming an abhorrence to those who have been nurtured under the shadow of philanthropy. The multitude are becoming more averse to the policy by which international affairs have been hitherto controlled. They perceive that the settlement of an international dispute by brute force, by pitting bands of soldiers against each other, by encouraging rapine and pro moting slaughter—they perceive that this mode of arriving at a decision is somewhat similar to the odious trial of criminals by ordeal. From the prevalence of these sentiments the probability of an European war is wonderfully diminished. Nevertheless, the most fastidious opponent of physical force, the most efft• urinate philanthropist, the most resolute opponent of the species of heroics recorded by PLUTARCH, would be chary of maintaining the principles of peace beyond a certain limit. The systematic perpetration of crime by an individual, or a nation, would unquestionably justify even these sticklers fur peace in striving, whether by moral or physical force, for the preven tion of such criminal or criminals. Self-preservation does not more thoroughly warrant a man in attacking his assailant than it does a nation, in the event of any violation of their rights or invasion of their territories. There are other circumstances, indisputably, which umnia authorise a people to engage in war, but the foregoing are the most important :Ana two mnSt prevalent. Does the condition of what was once Poland, does the falsity of our recent allies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, does the occupation of Cracow, and the violation of the treaty of Vienna—does any one of these considerations, or do they all com bined, warrant the constitutional monarchies of Western Europe in protesting against the late proceed ings with a strong arm as well as with a bold tongue ? Without mincing the matter, that is the ultimate question to be decided. The egotism of power in the Northern Courts renders it extremely improbable that any satisfactory arrangement will be effected by diplomatic means. The matter will remain in &Dep.. ance longer than is expected. The favourite argument of those who have hitherto opposed themselves to the abolition of flogging in the army, who have advocated the necessity of a con tinuance of punishments of an infamous and de grading character, ani asserted the impossibility of maintaining discipline and preserving the efficiency of our military service by any other means, has been, that the - British soldier is of an inferior class, and less respectable in his character and conduct than his fellow-subjects ; that he cannot be acted on by the same motives and inducements that influence other men ; and that he must therefore be subjected to the operation of a code of extraordinary stringency and severity, and must be deprived of the rights and privileges to which he would otherwise be entitled. The same persons will loudly eulogise the justice, honour, and liberality of the nation ; they will main tain that the untutored and helpless savage may fear lessly dull with any parties representing our Govern ment ; that no advantage would be taken of his ignorance ; that a full and fair equivalent would be rendered to him for any services he may perform ; and that he may repose the most unlimited trust and confidence in British integrity, and have no fear of being cheated or overreached in any bargain into which he may enter. And such, as Englishmen, we are proud and happy to say has been the character long since obtained, and invariably maintained, by our country. man with the people of other climes, nations, and languages. Would that we could claim credit for acting in a like spirit towards our own countrymen, whose services are required by State necessity, who hare freely shed their blood, and perilled their lives, in our behalf; who have suffered hardships, braved the vicissitudes of every clime, exposed themselves to the dangers of disease and warfare, and in every place, and under every difficulty, have maintained the honour of the British flag untarnished, and raised the interests of their country. To such men sortie thing more is due than the mere payment of the stipulated wages during the term for which they have served. Were the contract into which they have entered one for a short and limited period, there would be some appearance of justice —some scintilla juris, although there would be little of generosity or liberality in discharging them at the termination of their term. But when we enlist them for life— when, as the Irish soldiers express it, we induce them to " sell their wind," it is gross injustice to turn them, destitute and unprovided for, upon the world without the means of obtaining their daily bread, more particularly when they are ren dered unable to earn their livelihood by reason of injuries sustained while performing the duties of their station. We believe that there is not a single member of our Legislature who would suffer any man, who had for a series of years been in his employ ment, who had acted faithfully and efficiently therein, and finally been disabled and rendered unfit for any future useful occupation, from an accident that happened while discharging the duties incidental to his situation, to beg his bread from door to door, or to see his family perishing before him for want of the commonest necessaries of life. The case of such a man would act as a living monument of the shame of 11;s ungenerous and heartless master. And yet we daily see instances of that which each individual would blush to be guilty of, perpetrated by the nation at large. The proceedings at Worship-street Police-court, on Monday and Tuesday last, demand the serious consi deration of the public generally. The causes that have led to results so unhappy to indivi- duals, and disgraceful t-.; the nation, should be closely investigated, and the voice of public opinion should loudly proclaim Mat a total change must be effected in the systdo ; that there should be a radical and searching reform, and that measures should be introduce ‘:'-by which the possibility of any of our gal lant defenders, who have faithfully served us in the hour of danger, being driven to mendicancy for the means of preserving a precarious existence, should be obviated. On the first of these days, WILLIAM COTTON, described as a well• made, sunburnt man, dressed in the uniform of the 22d Infantry, was placed at the bar on a charge of medicancy. The unfortunate soldier had put forward no petition, had tittered no word of supplication, had implored no charity, but merely stood with his wife and children, all of whom presented the most deplorable appear ance. The sleeve of his coat was ripped up, exhibiting a disabled arm, which bare the marks of many wounds. On his cheek was the cicatrice occa sioned by a severe sabre cut, and on his breast he wore the testimonial of honourable distinction ac corded to him by his grateful country, for distin guished services on the sanguinary fields of Meeanee and Hyderabad. His entire appearance and de meanour, and that of his distressed and helpless family, appealed with a mute and touching eloquence to the sympathies and commiseration of the bystanders, and some trifling alms were bestowed, which at once at tracted the attention of a police-constable, who took him into custody for an alleged breach of the law. In his justification for the heinous offence of exciting the public commiseration by his appearance, he made a plain and unvarnished statement, that should have procured his immediate liberation, with such assist ance as the state of the court poor-box admitted of. He said, "that he had served through the major part of the campaign in Sinde under Sir C. NAPIER ; that he was present at the battles of Meeanee and Hydera 1, bad , in which he had received several gun•sh©t wounds, which disabled him from further ser vice, and he was consequently discharged." He had made application for a pension for his wounds, but the only recompense he had been able to obtain was a gratuity amounting to a year and a half's pay, and as that " had been long since expended in the support of his wife and child, and as he was nearly crippled, and had no other means of subsistence, he had been obliged to resort to the course complained of, to save himself and family from starvation." He then handed in the cer tificate of his discharge, formally signed by the commanding officer of his regiment, and other docu ments corroborative of the truth of his statement. Mr. BINGII kM, although sympathising with his unfortu nate position, ordered him to be remanded, to enable the officer to make inquiries as to the truth of his story in the proper quarter. On the following day the wife of the disabled soldier entered the court with her infant in her arms, and in groat mental distress applied for assistance. She stated that the scanty and precarious support on which the family had depended had wholy failed since her husband's incarceration, that she was now reduced to the utmost extremity, and had not tasted food since the thy before. She had no means of pro. curing even the most miserable shelter ; and her help less condition was aggravated by her wretched state of health, three weeks only having elapsed since her confinement of the child she carried. She obtained some slight temporary assistance to support her until her claim was admitted by the relieving officer of the parish where she had last slept, to whom she was directed to apply. On subsequent investigation the story turned out to be perfectly correct, save that the poor fellow had overrated the bounty he had received, which was not a year and a half's pay, as erroneously stated, but sixpence a day for a year an I a half-131. 135., paid by instalments ; and this was the recompense for a dis abled arm, a broken constitutiow, and being rendered incapable to gain his bread, which poor COTTON re ceived for his services from his grateful country. He was discharged with an admonition not to be again guilty of exciting the public sympathies. And this, Englishmen, is the condition of one who has fought and conquered on our behalf, who has risked his life under a tropical sun, in an unhealthy climate, against a ferocious enemy. He is dismissed in ill health and helplessness, with a medal for his reward, but coupled therewith is a gaol—the association with cri minals of every class and character for himself, the tender mercies of a union workhouse for his wife and child. Shame, shame that such things should be suffered, that their continuance should be tolerated. By the system adopted we take the best years of a man's existence, and when he is totally unfitted for any other species of employment, disabled by wounds, or with an enfeebled and broken constitution, we dis charge him to linger out the residue of his wretched existence in misery and want. There will, there must be a speedy and effectual alteration. It is not by such means, or for such rewards, that we can hope to obtain a better class of recruits for our army. Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. At that date the ISTCRITZ Ministry was still in existence, but the differences among its members had proceeded to such an extent that it was not considered possible the Cabinet could hold together. MADRID BOMA, DEC. 4.—The Three per Cents. 34 3-16 ; Fives, 21k. Exchange on London, 36g. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The most interesting article in them is the follow ing from the Presse, on the subject of the opening the trade to Japan : " The voyage of Rear-Admiral Cecille to Japan, and the reception which the French squadron there met with, is, in part, explained by a very remarkable fact, of which we had heard before the arrival of the last mail from the Red Sea, but which appeared to us to need con firmation. It is now averred that a short time before the conclusion of the peace between England and China, in 1843, the King of the Netherlands addressed to the Emperor of Japan a friendly latter, having for object the abolition, in that distant kingdom, of the exclusive system practised for the last three centuries with respect to foreigners. His Majesty enumerated with much de tail the events which have forced the Chinese empire t multiply in spite of itself its points of contact with all the nations of the world ; and inferred from this new state ee things that, as Japan, from the vicinity of Hong-Kong and Chusan, could not escape a similar fate, it would be pru dent to anticipate a crisis by means of concessions which would satisfy Europeans and prevent all unfriendly col lision with them. As a n a t ura l consequence o f th i s prudent course, the King of the Netherlands engaged his cousin, the Emperor of Japan, to extend to all foreign flags the faculty, hitherto enjoyed by the Dutch exclu sively, of trading with Nangasaki, and further to open on the same general footing two or three other ports, either the great island of Niphon, or an island of Yesso The letter was sent in the original to M. Beck, the chief of the Dutch factory at Nangasaki, who succeeded, after some difficulties of form, in having it conveyed to Jeddo, the seat of the Court. It is very rare for the communications of the Dutch to be placed under the eyes of the Emperor ; they are regarded as too unim portant for the leisure of so great a potentate ; on this occasion, however, the question appeared to be of too grave a nature fur the Ministers to take upon them selves the responsibility of a solution, and M. Beck ob tained the certitude that the letter of his Sovereign had reached the Japanese monarch. Two years passed ithout any reply being given. It had been remarked, that on several points of the coast the most open to a landing more activity than formerly was displayed in the works of fortification ' • but this was ge nera ll y attri buted to a belief of the Japanese that several English vessels, which had been driven into these latitudes by storms, were come to invade the country. At length, however, the Emperor of Japan has sent to the King of the Netherlands a reply, of which the following is the substance:—' I have watched with attention the events which have brought about a fundamental change in the policy of the Chinese empire, and these very events, upon which you base the advice which you give to me, are for me the most evident proof that a kingdom can never enjoy a durable peace without the rigorous exclu sion of all foreigners. If China had never permitted the English to establish themselves on a large scale at Canton and to take root there, either the quarrels which caused the war would not have taken place, or the English would have found themselves so weak that they would have at once sunk in the conflict. But from the moment when China allowed herself to be touched on one point she rendered herself vulnerable on others. This was the reasoning of my great ancestor when he granted you the faculty of trading with Japan, and, but for the proofs of friendship which you had frequently given to our coun try, it is certain that you would have been excluded, as all the nations of the west have been. Now that you are in possession of this privilege, I am willing that you should continue to enjoy it ; but I will take care not to extend it to any other nation, for it is easier to maintain a dyke in good preservation than to prevent the enlarge ment of the breaches which are permitted in it. I have given orders to my officers,in consequence, and the future will prove to you that our policy is wiser than that of the Chinese empire." We do not place implicit reliance on this statement of the Presse, which, be it remembered, is the organ of the Russian autocrat, who is closely connected by intermarriages with the King of HOLLAND. Holland has always been jealous of any attempts at interfering with her monopoly of the Japan trade, and we doubt much whether the representations were made to the Japanese Government in the manner stated. It is no reason, because the French and Dutch have failed, that the English should not succeed, and we hope that no time will be lost in sending a proper Embassy to Jeddo. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, x 346 . The affair of the French Consul in the Mauri tius is the subject of comment in most of these papers. The Notional says, after quoting the account which we gave yesterday— " Such are the facts as they are reported. Hitherto the offence appears evidently to have been given by an English agent to a representative of France, and yet England has been the first to complain; for we are assured that M. Guizot has received from London a dispatch, couched in very strong terms, demanding the recal of M. Barbet de Jouy, and threatening, in case of delay, to withdraw his exequatur, which is saying, in fact, that he shall be turned out of this land. It is thus shown that Lord Palmerston eagerly seizes all oppor tunities, good or bad, to excite misunderstanding and create a quarrel. But this time neither a marriage nor a dower is in question, and, though he spends his ill humour upon another affair, !leis convinced that be will find M. Guiz as yielding and accommodating as he was haughty, stiff, and tenacious in the matter of 30,000,000 f." The Quotidienne which, like all the Legitimatbt organs, is of course but too happy to have an oppor tunity of finding fault with English officials, com ments upon this occurrence in the same strain, and lauds the French Consul to the skies. In remarking on the demand of Lord PALMERSTON for the recal of M. BAREET DE JOUY, the Quotic&nne says— " The answer to this imperious demand would be easy for other men. Has nut England a consul at Algiers without any regular exequatur, and whose residence there bas been for sixteen years a living protest against the glorious conquest of the Restoration, an insult sub mitted to with marvellous patience ? But it is muTh more in conformity with the temperament'of the systeme to recal M. Barbet de Jouy. His name will be inscribed on the long and honourable list of the disavowed, which was opened with the name of Admiral Dupetit Thottars.', The Debuts has a long article on the affairs of America, in the course of which it rejoices at the fall of Mr. POLE, which it anticipates cannot be much longer delayed. It specks, indeed, of his defeat as of Ittz fait accompli, and adds':— Mr. Polk has been beaten because he deserved to be sO;for entering upon an unjust war, perilous not only for the honour of the American arms, but for the very institutions of his country, and for carrying on this im politic war with great rashness and great want of finan cial foresight." Almost all the journals comment on the wording of NI. GUIZOT'S protest against the annexation of Cracow, which we gave yesterday from the Presse. The Opposition papers all consider it as a very tame affair, utterly deficient in that energy which it was said it would exhibit, and concerning which the organs of the Ministry have recently made such a flourish. - It was rumoured on the Bourse on Thursday that the Spanish Ministry had resigned. Coo RS AUTIIENTIQV F..—PARIS, DEC. 10.—French Five per Cents., 118 f. sc. 10e.; Four per Cents., 105 f. 60c. Three per Cents., 80f. 83c. 85c. 80e. 85c. 90c. 85c. ; Bank Actions, 3,195 f.; Rente de Naples (Rothschild's), 102 f. 50e. ; Romans, 1 .00 ; Belgian Five Per Cents. (1840), 100A,i- ; Five per Cents. (1842), 101; Spanish, 83. Exchange on London— one month, money, 25f. 45c. ; three months, money, 25f. 30c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY:; AT nth LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 11. Anglo-Belgian, 3—Dutch Rhenish, 4 3 4—East Indian, % —Jamaica South Midland Junction, 1 1 4—Luxembourg, 3% 1 —Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Constituted. s—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4—Sambre and Meuse, 1 1 2 4—Teurnav, Jurbise, Landeu, and Hasselt, 6 1 4—West Flanders, 27. g. S WEI)EN. THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE TIIE KING. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 28.—The Aftonblad corrects to thy some part of the statements in the accounts given by itself and other papers relative to the circumstance, connected with the attempt of Von Platen. It was not Colonel Beyron, but an artillery officer, who wrested the first pistol out of the hands of the madman. Tht- King himself came just at the time ‘s hen the assassin was sort ounded and arrested by the gua: d ; and as soon as his Majesty was convinced that no person was in jured, he immediately retired to his apartment, leaving the further investigation to the War Department ; and to hour afterwards took an airing in the droschki. The King had declined to receive several deputations which the elders of the citizens and some other corpora tions intended to send to him, because no personal danger had occurred to him in the affair. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 1.--The day before yesterday their Majesties, with the Duke of Upland and the Princess Royal, visited the theatre, where, after the first - act, • the national hymn was called, and again at the close of the performance, and sung amid enthusiastic exclamations of " God save the King." For some days past the snow has been sufficienth leep for sledges, and we learn from all quarters, even trom the west coast, that the cold winter weather has fairly set in. DEATH OF LIEUT.-GRNERAL SWORTALL.—This officer, who for many years held the appointment of keeper of the powder magazine in the Phcenix Park. Dublin, expired at his residence, in that city, on the 7th instant, at the advanced ago of 86. He entered the Royal Irish Artillery, as second lieutenant, February 12th, 1793 ; and his other commissions were thus dated —lieutenant, August 7th, 1793; captain, May 9th, 1796 ; major, September 25th, 1803 ; lieutenant-colonel fuly 25th, 1810 ; major general, July 22d, 1830 ; and lieutenant-general, November 23d, 1841. The gallant officer served with much distinction on the continent under the Duke of York in 1793, 1794, and 1795. WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—Among the im provements contemplated in the royal gardens around Windsor Castie is the format;on of separate establish ments for the younger branches of the royal family as they grow up. Thin, it is said, Frogmore Lodge (the present residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent), is to bo converted into a separate establishment, or domicile, either for the Prince of Wales or the Princess Royal ; and, in furtherance of that objezt, the Duchess of Kent is said to be in treaty for St. Leonard's Will, so long the seat of the Harcourt family, in the northern district of Windsor Forest. DISTRESS IN THE HIGIILANDS.—In reference to the distress in the West Highlands, the following is a touching and melancholy fact, given on the authority of a medical gentleman of extensive practice and long ex perience:—" A woman, with a sucking infant at her breast, came on board the Free Church schooner to beg for a handful of meal. I looked to her, and the sight went to my heart; the natural nourishment for her in fant was clean gone. She held in her hand a small piece of the flesh of a salted eel. Masticating this, she applied it from time to time to the mouth of her babe; it was all that she had; she did what she could as a mo ther; the infant shrunk, but tasted it." Who can read this.; hort but pitiful tale of misery, and not sympathise with a people on whom adversity is pressing so severely. —Greenock Advertiser. THE Sun-MARINE EXPLOSION S IN THE TYNE.— On Tuesday we mentioned rzonie sub-marine operations which were conducted at the mouth of the river Tyne, on Monday, for the purpose of blowing up the wreck of the Lady Feversham. On Wednesday the operations were resumed. Four charges of 1701 b. each were de posited under the bows of the vessel, and as soon as the necessary preparations were completed, were fired--on this occasion with success. A tremendous report accom panied the explosion, and the vibration reached both shores. An immense column of water was blown to a great height, accompanied by coals and timber; and in a few minutes the whole surface of the harbour was covered with pieces of wreck, including the bowsprit and one of the masts. Deafening shouts rose from both sides of the river, and innumerable boats put off to profit by the occurr,nc.?. SUICIDE BY A MANlAC.—Friday night Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of John Skeate. aged 84. The deceased, who lived at No. 7, King-street, St. Luke's, was a pensioner of the East India Conirany, from which he received a shilling a day, and he received a similar sum from the Govern ment. A few days ago he was found in his room with his throat severed in two places, and two razors were in his hand. lie was immediately removed to the above institution, where another wound was found in his sto- mach. Deceased observed that he inflicted the wounds as he hai a pain in his chest which he wanted to get rid of. He had been married three times, the last time seven years ago. While at the hospital he was constantly insane. Vercrct—" Temporary insanity." THE SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER Hr'/SAND.—On Friday evening Mr. W. Payne resumed and concluded the inquiry at the Three Tucs, Red Cross street, Barbican, on the bidy of Eleanor Elizabeth Wright, aged 34, who died under the suspicious cir cumstances detailed in The Sun of yesterday. The inquiry had been adjourned to afford time to analyse the contents of the stomach, and yesterday evening Mr. Thomas Taylor, surgeon, of New Bridge-street, had ap plied every t est i n order to detect the existence of poison, but nothing prejudicial to life was found, and there was disease of heart and lungs sufficient to account for death. The coroner summed up the evidence at great length. The jury returned a verdict of natural death, caused by diseased heart and lungs. EDINBURGH AND PERTH RAILWAY.—The prelimi naries for the formation of a new company to carry out this undertaking are proceeding most satisfactorily. Public meetings have been held during the past week at Perth, Kinross, Milnathort, &c., supported by the lead ing landed proprietors on the intended line, and at Perth presided over by the Lord Provost, and countenanced by most of the magistrates, manufacturers, and bleachers of the town and neighbourhood. At the town council meeting, on Monday, power was given to the Lord Pro vost in his official capacity to act on a provisional com mittee, and a d ec i s i on upon the propr i ety o f encourag i ng the undertaki ng was, as required by the rules, deferred to another meeting.—Perth C our ier. MYSTERIOUS DEAT X A T THE RESIDENCE or EDMOND WOBEHOUSE, EsQ., M.P. FOR WEST NORFOLK. —A sad affai r transpired at the residence of E. Wode house, Esq., M.P. for the West Division of Norfolk, on Monday last. Mr. Wodehouse resides at Thorpe, by Norwich, and in the service of his lady were three sisters. One of these (the lady's maid), on Monday night, was found a corpse in a private part of the pre mises, with her throat cut in a most dreadful manner, and only a few minutes after she had dressed her mis tress, and had been observed to be in good spirits. An inquest was h e ld t h e next day b e f ore Mr. Pilgrim, one of the county coroners, but at which none of the re porters of the public press were present, when the verdict of the jury was, that the deceased had cut her own throat in a Siete of temporary dpranffernellt. EAST AND WEST YORKSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY —The first sod of this line was cut on Tuesday last on the grounds of the chairman. LATEST FROM MEXICO, THE UNITED STATES, AND CANADA. ATTACK ON TABASCO. IMPORTANT RE-ACTION IN THE AMERICAN MARKETS. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING. The steam-ship Great 'Western, for whose appear ance the rogues in grain, and the speculators in cot ton so anxiously sought, reached this port before eleven o'clock last night. She had a limited number of passengers on board, and brings eleven days later news than that previously received. The Great Western arrived at New York on the I6th ult. Her passage home was completed, although the weather was unfavourable, and the wind ahead, in alitnat sixteen days. The Royal Mail steam-ship Acadia arrived at Boston on the 15th It should not be omitted to state that the famous packet ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, which sailed from Liverpool on the 2d ult., reached New York on the 18th, after the very short passage of sixteen days. This, be it observed, is another of the many proofs which we have of the first-rate sailing qualities of the Yorkshire, awl the almost unparallelt d capabilities of her Esuecesful Commander. Captain Bailey, may well feel proud of this great achievement We Believe it to be unequalled in the annals of trans atlantic packet ships; but hope it is not the last quick trip which, both the , ship and her commander, will make to and from Liverpool. Although the intelligence conveyed in the papers by this arrival, extend over the lengthened period of eleven days, we do not find any matter of importance. The position of affairs between the United States and Mexico, still cintinued warlike. The naval forces of the former had made a successful attack upon Tabasco and captured it, but strange to say, none of Jonathan's forces—regular or volunteer—had ventured to retain possession of the fruits of that brilliant achievement. Commodore Perry had won laurels—but did not assay to use them. Like the old veteran, rough and rea ly, General Taylor, he seems to have allowed the enemy more quarter than the Mexicans would have given him or his. The following are the details of the affai as reported to the secretary of the navy at 'Wash ington : United States, Ship Cumberland, Off' Vera Cruz, Nov. 5, 1846. Sir,—Herewith is transmitted a copy of a letter from Com. Perry, accompanied by copies of other cotnmuni eations, giving a detailed account of his operations with a detachment from the , quadron in the river (1 Tabasco. The objects of the expedition have been fully aceotn olished, and by the destruction or capture of all the enemy's vessels, a check has been given to a Nmmerce. by which munitions of war were, no doubt, introduced nto Mexico from the neighbouring province,af Yucata”. Much praise is due to Corn. Perry for the skill and judg ment manifested throughout the whole expedition. The department will learn with regret the death of Lieut. Charles W. M wris, which took place on the l-t instant, on board the Cumberland, from a wound received it the town of Tabasco on the 26th ult. He was ao officer of great promise, and his loss is a most serious one to the service. I am, very regretfully, Your obedient servant. 1). CONNER, Commanding Home Squadron. Hon. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, Washington. A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEED INGS OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER MY .COMMAND ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF MEXICO. I left the anchorage of St. J ,hn Lizardo on the even ing of the 16th October, with the steamer Mississippi, having on board a detachment of 200 officers, sea urn, and marines, under command of Captain French For rest, and in tow the steamer Vixen, and schooners Bonita, Reefer, and Nonato, respectively commanded by Commander Sands, and Lieutenants Commandant Benhani, 'Sterrett, and Hazard, and the schooner For ward, and steamer M‘Lane, commanded by Captains Nones and Howard, of the revenue marine. The next morning at daylight I captured off the bar of Valverde the American barque Coosa, found in trea sonable communication with the enemy; and the same clay the Vixen chased and boarded' the American shooner Portia. The Coosa was dispatched to this place as a prize, and tha Portia was permitted to proceed, her papers having been endorsed. From the day of our leaving Alvarado (the 17th), up to the 22d, we had a succession of very bad weather, which gave me much trouble in keeping my little command together. During the interval, however, we captured and sent in the 'Mexi can schooner Telegraph. On the 23d, all the vessels, with the exception of the Reefer (pruviously separated in a gale) reached the bar of the river Tabasco; and having determined on attack ing the commercial town of Frontera, at the mouth of the river, and the city of Tabasco, situated seventy-four miles higher up, I placed myself on board the Vixen, leaving the Mississippi in command of Commander Adams, at anchor outside, and taking in tow the Bonita and forward, with the barges containing the detachment under command of Captain Forest, I crossed the bar, the Nonata following under sail. The Vixen, with this heavy drag, steadily ascended the stream against a four knot current, and arrivin r near to Frontera, I discovered two steamers (of which I had received previous information) firing up, doubtless in the hope of escape, but w e were too close upon them. Casting off her tow, the Vixen proceeded ahead, followed by the other vessels and barges, and at once the town, the steamers, and all the vessels in port were in our pos session, excepting only the schooner Amado, which vessel, attempting to escape up the river, was pursued by Lieutenant Commander Benham in the Bonita, and captured. Desirous of reaching Tabasco before they would have time for increasing - their defences, the detachment ut der Captain Forrest was placed on board the largest of the captured steamers, the Pctrita, and she, with the No nate, the Forward, and the barges in tow; and the Vixen, with the Bonita, left Frontera at half-past nine the next morning, Lieutenaet Walsh being left in com mand of the place. After :learning all night, and encountering various incidents arising frcm the rapidity of the current and the circuitous course of the stream, we arrived at nine the next morning in sight of Fort Aceaehappa, intended. to command a most d fficult pass of the river. On our approach the men employed in preparing the guns for service fled, and we passed it unmolested, lent I was careful to cause the gun to be spiked. Anticipating serious resistance at this place, arrange. ments had been made for landing Captain Forrest with his detachment a mile below the fort, to march up and carry it by storm. At noun, all the vessels anchored in line of battle in front of the city in half-musket range, when I immedi ately summoned it to surrender, the boats meanwhile being employed in securing five merchant vessels found at anchor in the port. To my summons, sent by a flag with Captain Forrest, a refusal to capitulate was returned, with an invitation to me to fire as soon as I pleased. Suspecting, as I did, that this answer was given more in bravado than in earnest, and being extremely reluctant to destroy the place, I entertained the hope that a few shots fired over the buildings would have caused a surrender. Accordingly, I directed the guns of the Vixen alone to be fired, and at the flag staff, sending an order to all the vessels to avoid, so tar as possible, in case of a gene -1 ral fire, injury to the houses distinguished by consular Hags. , At the third discharge from the Vixen, the flag dis. appeared from the staff. On seeing it down, I ordered the firing -to cease, and srnt Captain Forrest again ashore to learn whether it had been cat that it had not down by our shot, or purposely struck. The reply been shot away, and the city would be surrendered. I now directed Captain Forrest, with the in eunder his command, to land and take a position the city commanded by our guns. This movement brought o n a scattering fire of musketry from various parts of the city, which was returned by the flotilla. Perceiving towards evening that the enemy did us but little injury, though openly exposed .. on the deck s o f the small vessels, and thei r balls passing through our slight bulwarks, and apprehending from the proverbial heed lessness of sailorf, that should they and the marines be attacked in the narrow streets after dark, they would be but off by sharp shooters from the houses, I ordered the detachment to be re-embarked. In this position the vessels remained all night, the crews lying at their quarters ready t..) return the fire of the artillery - of the enemy, which it was supposed they would have had the courage to have brought down un der cover of the night to the openings of the streets op posite to our vessels, but they left us undisturbed. Learning that the merchants, and other citizens or the city were desirous that a capitulation should be made, but were over-ruled by the governor, who, regardlsss of consequences, and secure Cirnstlf against attack, w.,s content that the city should be destroyed rather than surrendered, I determined from motives of humanity, not to fire again, but to pass down to Frontera with my prizes. In the morning, however, the fire was re-commenced from the shore, and was necessarily returned, but with renewed orders to regard the consular houses, so far as they could be distinguished. In the minst of the fire, a flag of truce was displayed on shore ; on perceiving which, I caused the firing again to cerise, and Captain Forrest was sent to meet its bearer, who submi•ted a written communication addressed tome, a copy of which, with a copy of my reply, marked B and C, will be found inclosed. As an assurance of my sincerity, I now hoisted a %hite flag, and directed the prizes to drop d,,wn the stream, intending to follow with the flotilla ; but, in violation of the_ understanding implied in the the before mentioned correspondence, the enemy, in disc ivering that one of the prizes had drifted a-bore in front of the city, col keted larvv kv . :ottt Co, iows4:s is At viei.i ;s , ant ! u.iinnter.er , i. fl flui , nts fir:2 upon her. Liwf. Parker, of this ship, in command of the prize, defended her in the most gallant manner, and ultimately succeeded in getting her again afloat, having one of her men killed and two wounded. It was in carrying an order to Lieutenant Parker that Lieutenant Morris was wounded. He had been of infi nite service to me from the time we left Lizardo, and, conducting himself during the engagement with remark able deliberation and coolness, he approached the prize in a line to cover his boat ; and though apparently re gardful of the safety of the officer and men of the b-at, who were seated, l e stood erect himself, and the bail struck him in the throat. No one can deplore the fate of this very valuable young officer more than myself. His loss is irreparable to the service and to his family. It may well be suppose:l that on perceiving the attack upon the prize, I re-opened upon the city, which again silliced their fire. I now priceeded with the flotilla and prizes down the river. One of the prizes, a small schooner of little value, having grounded in a clang, rous pass, and knowing that it would be difficult to extricate her without causing inconvenient delay, I ordered her to he burned. We arrived safely at Fr ntera on the evening of the 2Gth, the Vixen having towed down the river five vessels and several barges. From Frontera I despatched my prizes to this place; ind after destroying all the vessels and craft found in the river or tie little value to be manned, I proceeded on the 31st to rejoin you, leaving the M'Lane and Forward at anchor opposite Frontera to continue the blockade of the river, and to afford protection and shelter to the neutral merchants, residents of the place, who professed them selves in apprehension of v;olence from the Mexican soldiery should they be left unprotected. On our way to this place the prize steamer Petrita, in company and in sight of this vessel, captured the Ame rican brig " Plymouth" found engaged in landing a cargo upon the enemy's coast. M. C. PERRY. P.S. I omitted to mention that while lying off the bar of Tabasco, this ship boarded the Campeachy schooner Fortuna, and the French brig Jenne Arnadee, on the papers of both of which a notification of blockade was endorsed. In regard to the Al'Lane I propose to make a special communication. List of vessels captured and destroyed during the late expedition to Tabasco, under Commodore M. C. Perry. MANNED AND SENT IN American barque Mexican schooner Telegraph. " steamer " steamer .. Tabasqueno. " hermaphrodite brig " schooner Laura Virginia. ' schooner Tabasco. " schooner American brig BURNED. Mexican sloop brio. Rentville. " tow. boat - " sell oo , :er - Mexican sloop D. sada returned t;) the Captain, in consequence of his excellent conduct when his vessel was attacked while in the charge of Lieutenant William A. Pallier. M. C. PERRY. List of persons killed, wounded, and drowned during the expeditio' to Tabasco. KILLED. Charles Raimond, seaman, of the Raritan. WOUNDED. Charlos W. Morris, Lieutenant of the Cumberland, iince dead. John Sutherland, seaman, of the Raritan. George Pearce, seaman, of the Raritan. DROWNED. Richard W. Butler, ordinary earnin, of the Raritan Benjamin Mlienny, seaman, of the. Cumberland. M. C. PERRY. San Juan Bautista de Tabasco, Oct. 26. 1846. Sir,—The undersigned, foreign merchants establishei in the port of San Juan Bautista de Tabasco, in conse quenee of the very seem us injury suffered in pert of their pry perty by the firn g n this city yE:terday afternoon, tak,• the liberty, as ',morals in the present differences between the United States and Mexico, and in friendly relations with the former power, to represent that a con tinuance of similar destruction of their property will lead to their ultimate ruin. We are induced to address this communication to you, it being affirmed that unless the military force here sur rendered this city up to you, you felt it your duty to cont;nue hostilities, even to reducing the city to ruins— a hard case, indeed, for the parties who have now thy honour of addressing you, almost the whole commerce of the place being in their hands ; and who, confiding in the protection affirded to suhj cts of f,,reign nations at Metamoros, and in the march of the United States army up to Monterey, and in the declaration of the Commo dore commanding the United States squadron off Vera Cruz, hale not prepared for such measures as you have threatened to adopt to educe this place. We thus beg most respectfully to call your attention to our position, and the positive ruin we shall suffer should this city be destroyed, trusting you may have it in your power to take the same into your favourable consideration, and mitigate such very disastrous results to our several interests. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient humble servants, LABACII and CO. WATSON, CIIABOT, and CO. British merchants. RODRIGUEZ Y CR, ASENICO DE ASAGAN, PUTIEWOZ SAGERDRUMIN Y LA, MANI. R. SOLET, Comerciantes Espanol. ARRUEGON D. JON GODAY. MAN'L. R. SOLET. United States St€amer Vixen, at anchor in front of the city of Tabasco, Oct. 26, 1846. Gentlemen,—ln consideration of the representations made by you in your communication to me of this morn ing, and verbally through Captain Forrest, I shall ad here to a determination resolved upon last evening, not to fire again upon the town unless the fire should be re commenced from the shore. I regret the injury already produced, but have the consolation of knowing that it was altogether caused by the extraordinary conduct of the people of the town. I am, gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant, M. C. PERRY. Messrs. Labach & Co., and others, Foreign Merchants in Tobasco. United States steamer Mississippi, St. John Liz ardo, near Vera Cruz, Nov. 3,1846. Sir,—lt seems r,...t0 be just and proper, and it is cer tainly a gratifying task, to make known to you for the information of the department. the excellent conduct of the officers and men who served under my command in the late expedition to Tabasco. The enterprise and spirit displayed by them, on every occasion, gave suffi cient evidence that in scenes more sanguinary they would do full honour to the corps. I was particularly indebted to Captain Forrest for his promptitude, cheerfulness, and judgment in carrying out my instructions. To Commander Sands, and officers and men of the Vixen, to Commander Adams, ni Lieutenants Com manding Benham, :•;terrett, and Hazard, anti their re spective officers and men ; to Captain Eds, , n, and Lieu tenants Gift, Winslow, Wal-h, Hunt, and Parker, and their detaei , ments—in a word, to all and every one—l am under lasting obligations for the zeal and energy with which they snonded my plans. I am, Sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, M. C. PERRY. Commodore David Conner, Commander in-Chief United States naval foreps, Gull of Mexico. Nothing more has been done by the division of the army under General Taylor. It is said that Santa Anna is con centrating his forces at San L u i s P otos i , and that he intends to remain there until the United States force shall have been weakened by detachments being ordered to Tampico. It is stated that General Scott has been ordered to take command of the army in Mexico, and that he has left Washinvon for that purpose. The New York Courier and Inquirer says—" It may be stated with some confidence that all present prospect of peace between the United States and Mexico is at an end. " All parties in Mexico are embarked zealously and with national feeling in the war, and the idea of con senting to the Rio Grande as the boundary between the two countries, or of ceding Upper California, does not appear a possible one to any faction or party in Mexico; yet with lesa than that, it is not perceived how the Government of the United States can be satis fied. "In this state of affairs very vigorous efforts will un• doubtedly be made by this Government during the winter months, to bring Mexico to terms by the sword." ERCIAL. - The most important part of the news by the Great Western is that usually classed under the above head:— A New York paper of the 26th ult., says:— " Since the arrival of the last steamer with dates of the 4th inst. our markets for bread stuffs have drooped and are drooping, in the face of falling prices in Europe, and increasing stock here. " Up to this time the canals hive brought down to tide water in this state, mote than 800,000h16. flour more than in the previous year, turtling the excess of Wheat into Flour, at five bushels to the barrel. Of Indian Corn, almost the whole quantity sent to market by this route, is a new article of export, and principally of the last crop, the growth of this crop being yet too green to be safety shipped. The quantity thus far is about million bush is. There were only 30,938 bushels of this grain brought down last year. As yet the frost holds off and supplies pour down. Vessels are in great d, mand and make very advabtage ous freights. In relation to our remarks on Cotton by the steamer of the Ist inst., in which comments were made upon what we considered the exaggerated estimates of crops made in a Savannah circular, we have received a letter from the house issuing that circular, which we subjoin, because we desire no:: even to appear to do injustice. We must remark. however, that we named no particular house, and that abhough our figures were taken from one c:rcular, there were others, as we understood from Savannah, leading to the same erroneous conclusion, as we de med it. As to the immunity claimed for a circular on the ground of its being a private letter, it seems to U 3 simply ridi culous. If, however, the writer of that to which re ference is now made, consider their circulars private, they should at least instruct their corrtspondents to use them as such. If we recollect rightly, the figures in cur artielc• of the Ist inst. w-re t .k a !ro• - •: a e )pr Iyitl7 3 opt n t') ;*J r ; . ! icr the of the trade, or any others who chose to look at it. 1 Our money market is in a sound state, with some tendency just now to higher rates. Exchanges 6 0 „ 11 /. .. rep , - are tafling-61- per cent. upon England, and 5 . 4 1' t on France, being about the highest asking these 1 ates specie may flow hither without leaving" h°oo ever, any great inducements to ship it. Eve n ti 1 1e ....: rates, however, are only commanded by the first hil and therefore those not well known as bill drawers. ,viuto have sut plus funds in Europe, may perhaps 6 L 'i d l o t i r their interest to bring them here is specie. ni,_eji;lit ton hetween the import of specie and 60 days u"" 101 rniy h- thus illuqrated : .-- L e r. Brit:sh sovereigns of full weight, will produce 00. 4,54 dols, eac'h, rates. ;,;„ which is equal to ...... 109 per ce Ent the chargos en the importatio:i of sr.er!io to he d , doet. , d are : loss of in terest during fifteen Cap passage per steamer 1 per cent. Freight A f 1 46 1,25 Insurance.. ..,- _,- Nett .. 107,75 iv A To a bill at 60 clays on London,... . . ''' ...................... - '' Is t) be added the interest of 75 days to its mg" 1,55 turity, equal to 1 per cent., or .................. ............. Thus 1 • • mony m b a e .{ b i r n , g iug l i t it a ba Nn ci tr i tt n e. .... p .o. e . Ci . e in. o .d. r i.fr. d .e r .r a .e., it -f.ow;h•in'et6lloeral°7°S;b7; bills. But as the ordinary rate of interest not exceed 4 per cent., the difference between tb: st , to s ott l y rive of 6 per cent. may tempt English caPila 11 p pecie. - t he a aj to # THE COTTON CROP.—We have nothing to-, o tes. yield rather r r a p th it e .k r ie fa g remarks of we have heretofore made respecting tue vs of . the crops. So far as we can gather, the estr a ises• W e had reason , han os circular (from llh w a s more 1" - • a te, Savannah) i sa i a tvco n aonrb r i ntisalnelh. continued ed , w a lti w aht the i ci t r. h ea s ta 2 n , d i i , n: th a i e e r: tie o .e 000 estiol,.t to be sent by the same steamer an d fti t h r e '" re- h ' ibit ro such an estimate was very common naturally, therefore, seized the figures as nil e , g s scle nat. of the way in which such a quantity' ht - g iste 01 But we did not think it necessarycl or rigl3. to seass.i name, nor were our remarks intended so 11/ ) , e atirs it ; in LondootV personal, hut rather applicable to Savanna- not Pa' we aidrealist* in i t n he general. In truth, when we wrote framers of that circular had written 11 to it. 1845 ; or if we had ever seen it, we had, fa , i i r t ioW nr ti t t seemed to us a great error, on sno"r a a t so elms subject, to place the crop at 2,175,000 bale' at so stori A " a period as the 24th of October, when fr n° iiclrt mght still n et-rially curtail the quantitf Pr e journ !ia this very backward season. And 9 ,5 P li f b lOttOnt an I f sts,. reporting the state and prospeotsann•nciert.sagerlite; a 'tng estimates of upwards of ,5 0 ,vv - d pror 3 r e ally sent from Savannah, it seemed right 0 to o Oli e aution our European readers against Plat o 9 i n t teo confidence in them. Public opinion bears ti% ea tisi p % 0 view of the imprudence of making such the y bss w ‘ .. *,), 1 0, at so early a period-; for although the weat'iay tO .l O generally favourable for the crop from ha t day we do not yet find any general confidellnei' even 2,050,000 bales, C pi , . OURT CIRC UL.A yol o' ol The Queen and Prir:ce Albert and tbetl.'wollts li• took their usual airings on Saturday 01 0109 rides of Osborne House. , „ s e 00 , n iog. Sir James Clark arrived at Osborne racy rsev-d on a visit, and took his departure en Satur or rit l o i i r The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie CourtensYetir of J i S n a. 2.l t , u te r hi c e i t a: rr ' do) ny he ) :i r b rc o l r e n a e t H di o n u n s e e ri. an h d h u ad oy th tt e i 11 : 11 v i dt ro 4 l, , Consort Majesty and Cr early in the pleasure grounds. yv i aeS• t oo Their Royal Highnesses the Prince 0. 5 Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prin ces ,oa airings in the forenoon. I)s di" ster , and t - -F a vire i t % s lis The Queen and Prince Albert. Gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine, S t i e - y. da) in Osborne House.. The Hon' o°l COUrtetiay , }ffieiated. a pleb e . of Their Itr, al HiiAnesses the Duke agerroderi C:lmbridge, and his S. rene Highness I'o° p p on returns d to Kew on Friday eveningiol Sir Dudley Hill had an interview wit h ba d Saturday, at the Colonial office. En gle 4 wi l itre The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for rA c e in Committee meeting on Saturday, at the with hall- place. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth had as interview the Grey on Saturday, at the Home eOice;. , yesterstssoo At the Chapel Royal, St. Jo°,' Te j o lore t he t e e Prayers were read by the Bev- Tr; union'Seryte the by the Rev. Dr. Knanr, an the v e- i °l preached hireoe9 the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The serni ct ,P,, w ,, s le c seY , C° . °llz ir Rev. C. Moore. The Marquis of S a ud o re' of Wilton and Listowel, LOrds Wilte n ' he n obili t i l ; pn towel and W. Graham, were ainntl,g: s l ei w ill pro'. seiit. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist '4" .3 . , e s 's. Sunday next in the Chapel Royal, St. '- . c ,NTS WILSON'S ENTERTAIN:n-1' tit er , CR OSBY HALL. f his e e a ; Mr. Wilson is at present giving a series a °la ° lai c ' tainrnents on the Songs of Scotland , in this fi t) •p foo they are given on the Tuesday and Friday c iveli„ e is are to extend to seven, he having alreadf eeriePAl We were present on Friday night, and, with ev o terwiof ff the well-filled hall, enjoyed a rich treat. h e n - eAL went comised "An hour wi' Burns," and Se p 4 Miscellaneous Songs ;" in the former we 111 ' - ng e a ' I ' the finest lyrics of the great peasant poet, st 1. 4110 1) ,;j r 0 Wilt-Ain can sing them, and we had , 6 Tara, ° , 'ar t -e ft besides, given in so excellent and so WI: 4 %f/0 9 ' way, as to call down the most hearty plar*„."o.d point of the poet was given with great trutn , - a do - 0 journey, and his mishaps by flood and field , v#l o '6 l l9to with great humour. Wilson's reading o f TAT t0 r, 0 0 13 0 is a tr, at of no common kind. In the seconNb A te r was a judicious selection of those FOP II has rendered so popular, such as " Wb s , % 01 '70 0 : Herring ?"—" Come under my plaidi e o u t fo' gorurn," &c. The audience was as heart/hood o re A rt' astic as ever. In the peculiar walk he has but arbe,;ii himself Wilson has had many followers, ," 0 , s' et 0 0 they ?—vanished in* obscurity, and he fr on e ti l o na• public c delineator of th~~ üb r l e ic ei tv d a our s it and cteedly the c lef t ' a .scb ., , UNIVERSITY INTEL L OXFORD, DEC• 11 ' fc to el ) CLASS LIST, IN DISCIPLINIS MATIIOIO- CLA.SB I alliol o°ll ege. Bastard, Edmund R B " CLASS IL Coilege. Freeborn, John W., Worces,te;College. Palgrave, William G., Trin"ti • CLASS If. • t 1/ I + . Fitter, William P. J. G Chr"college' Goode, Charles W. Brasenns,e,„ Collee Lirnbton, Henry H. Universtvicollege' Morris, Joseph L., Worcester Thrupp, Horace, Exeter College. ROBERT WALKER, rr Eta JOHN A. ASH WOV" GEORGE BIJCIall' arl" At a Convocatio ji n U h ß ol l it A n A a l' t the Grov e ode r inn A tt . : e of 9th h :its) Christ t C ., h t u h r e ch l , le o v x . IF.orrded;eriiiccAn rrkfriidcl;eilegs,efiv, CO o ° ' gall, 8.A., of Corpus hristi; Collc'ei,enabrol‘;sdeor.were John Alfred Lumb Airey, A Calnlitheripdgroef,.eswsoerreopfrGesreeteiecd aanbad.:andenasitoilleidopibLotebt:(!lirje. • nominated by the Warden, and a pprov e e ",he „ f f to be examiners in theA gy, in place 01 - 13,1%.,(5 0 .; e, 8.D., and the Rev. ' C:. A. lleurt'eY' A grace was passed to permit Hatfield'. 0111 a student in theology of Bishop ' come a student in Arts. COWES ------------ , ISLE OF 1,, ) v il s e l l: l „,;e s -------;-,-.1 0 (PROW OUR OWN CORRRSPON.-- I. v t o iiv lO e eete4t i g OSBORNE PALACE.—The Royal Fs 4ll ' ' o t e%POP,iI for Windsor on Friday next, a c himTo II .11 moreEntiinand ore 0 1 fee pis 0 vi return till February, when the s eason eP ev of B as 'rel.' They have planted an immense nurnp er og ees si I .# shrubs this autumn. The new palace IS P r tick rapidly. '0 P r ee l° • aOf tbi thig el k* EAST COWES CASTLE.—The furnitur- tia e . 00 .- 4 edifice has been disposed of by public nu e 0 sOc t i tio ase e Mr. John Nash's valuable collection of W o ol re pri 0 his splendid orange and lemon trees, with s e r oeli, o o ll t li co valuable plants,go to the hammer next. Thcf e otta i nr oclt .he tor then proposes to pull down the etn', l ns sel! l i iS d materials, absurdly thinking that the rul':te age i 0 " admiration of all who have seen it'" -- PS to ,gootin,izolsce;mbeofhufoatlnit, the beautiful P h i nt the. of the tradesmen of this tollatre,eayt ethaersirseirivec.-erbelibsll3tritille.;%ll4°: enjoy their glass, proposed to subscrl, _...,0 ,00 a per week to form a fund for the relief of G ra ' o it be l : i i ll i i occurring within the town. From thi s . ! r ise' t hat b e the present compassionate fund took I h t it ' b itoet 50 ) IS er f now subscribed to by almost every il 3 re thi s d ot ) 3 the meant; and from it 1:)0 families wf,, ow e fai t o 0,, plied with coals, and that number of vviti.,,ith bre pe,, , c i of the deserving poor will be relierer,sotbs. _bete% coals fortnightly during the next thre e lytouobers;ostfo'ro recipient must pass a strict scrutiny ed; ° l3cl b i3 sOr lPti od means, but no deserving object is reins, the so . 0 41, e0 , need even apply—it is sent unasked; 0 0 ' 4 00 , 0 in yet still is but sixpence per week. Nn 1 Tile n d Pe should be without such a society Of r ile o ll c ietyr P " nut to be behindbnnd, have a Dorcas s 0 /114 week give away 300 garments. __.... o° 40 ,0 1 -- -.— P'i REPRESENTATION OF IMANCIIESTAP• . L .. s , , , FRIDAY. —past evening John Brigh s t - 1 " ' hotel , sTi! l er' cie bi d' his general conamittee, at liayward' o _,, re el _„,iti A mustered in considerable strength", on ii , "vq,, f i e :6l o ' o with great enthusiasm. George I VVI isttces 1 )11)e fOtof The chairmen of the various cornr? . t he cit! ci t ir o g give in their reports as to the resn' s b ' the y, cah ° flew far as it had gone. Mr. Bright wa _ w ee. 4 004 I P enr ;: 'e nc iP i l s e b : : : 6 :: :1 ; and was received with enthusiastro.t. , Pr rr. Vr. kiro, addressed the meeting at o i ::in ti e , worth wished to put a question. b_iieno: o f th e f lifeff o ; from Mr. Bright himself, bly, whether or not, how far, in Li P otion s ' c l ue lie d 0 0 from Mr. Cobden on such great n orig ht reP so it 0 now eecupy public attention. to be claij i6e oll, this was a difficult question to of. _ A a di op ip4 r , known that even the best friends r• i . e h othe r l o f) ; ail' arriving at a correct estimate or e e,a _ t ~,,b1 e ,, 0_ 1 ; upon scme questions. He observ4l:l-10;15. ToyeraPiy, liament, during three years, they ° vav eonv, e re :,0 ferent lobbies once, and that on the _ . - c f n ies! I: 0 ' . ',01 and from all he knew of Cobden 's Pr)"._rwilleP ve P o , : .„ t , t e, r, e }111 ,, , -- ~.,tiO , any infi•! ,. . ~- =, ; 11,% +,r t , , - ..., re ,too (p 140 Cobden a candidate for an} r, t' s . L . 004 c ) he sir lila i,(4 cii,:p -,..;,-,1 :0 11,-- i- . .,, r ii i n cw- - . 0 tiriliA ,:‘,l:w m 3, it. , c tiluAL he 5i,44.11,1. I ' . '_ ,liefrg The meeting gave three enthuslastiu = Bright, and then separated. A4l d