The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO ARUNDEL CASTLE. ARUNDEL, THURSDAY.—The Duke of Norfolk acted as cicerone yesterday to her Majesty. The ancient keep of the old castle was first visited by the illustrious circle, and it occupied the Queen nearly half an hour in in specting the remains of that famous erection, which for so many ages was the rendezvous of the warlike re tainers of the Mentgomeries, the Albinis, the Fitzallans, and, lastly, the Howards. This ivy-mantled tower is without a rival in this country, and is the most pic turesque object in the entire building. Its principal chamber, now roofless, is inhabited by the extraordinary Australian owls, which are confined within the battle ments by a network, and in the different niches, originally fireplaces, they shelter themselves from the weather. There are five of these birds, and the Queen appeared pleased and astonished at their large size, which more approaches the eagle than the owl of this country. A beautiful owl is kept separate from the rest, and we are informed that the bird was caught while resting in a wood on the domain called the Rewell. It has the singular propensity of killing its kind, atfd. we believe that no other specimen of the species is known in this country, though common to Asia Minor. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort were then conducted by the Noble Duke to the sum mit of the keep, and from the battlements ob tained an extensive view of the surrounding country. The Queen afterwards proceeded down the castle hill to the new dairy just erected by the Noble Duke. The Queen went over the octagon building, which has been fitted up in a tasteful and elegant style, and subse quently visited the cow-houses, the Duchess's apart ments, and the garden attached to that part of the Ducal establishment. Her Majesty and party then returned to the castle. At the usual hour yesterday (eight o'clock), dinner wss announced. The banquet was served up in the same magnificent form as on the previous evening, the domes tics of the Ducal household, in their rich state liveries, being the only attendants. The Bishop of Chichester, and Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham, were the only addi tions to the dinner circle, which in other respects was confined to the guests sojourning at the Castle during the royal visit. The band played the national anthem. Her Majesty retired from the dining-room at a quarter to ten, and went direct to the state drawing-room to take tea. In the meantime the visitors began to arrive at the Castle for the evening party, in rapid succession, and were ushered to the library, in which room the majority had assembled by ten o'clock. At ten o'clock the Queen was graciously pleased to signify her intention to receive several of the leading guests in the state drawing-room. Lord E. Howard, Vice-Chainberlain of the Royal Household, had the honour of introducing a select circle of the guests in vited. Her Majesty, at about a quarter past ten, was conducted by the noble host to the library. The illus. trious party then passed down the centre of the library, the general company having placed themselves on either side of the apartment, her Majesty and Prince Albert returning the respectful salutations of the congregated visitors. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took their seats towards the end of the gallery. The Ethiopian singers were introduced, and immediately commenced their performances, singing some of the popular songs for which they have gained so much public favour, apparently to the amusement of the Queen, as well as to the strangers that had assembled. The Queen and Prince Consort, at twenty minutes past eleven, repaired with a brilliant train to the dining room to partake of refreshments. In the interval the tables in that room were changed, and two extended tables placed at the south end and along the left side of the apartment, on which a superb display of plate was exhibited. The Queen and Prince retired from the fes tive scene shortly before midnight, and immediately after the company departed. This morning, the Qaeen and Prince Albert, and a large party of the distinguished personages, went to Petworth House to honour Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham with a visit. The Hon. Colonel Charles B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie, as equerries to the Queen and Prince Consort, were also in attendance. The royal party reached Petworth about half-past one o'clock, and re turned to the Castle from Petworth House at a quarter to three o'clock, and immediately after lunched with the guests in the dining room. Her Majesty and the Prince in the afternoon proceeded to the lawn beneath the keep, and there planted two oak saplings, in the presence of a numerous circle of the nobility staying at the Castle. After which, the royal party went to the ancient church of Arundel, adjoining the park. The Queen is to leave to-morrow morning, as early as ten o'clock, for Osborne House. COURT CIRCULAR. - A deputation respecting molasses, consisting of Mr. Mulkey, Mr. Barkly, M.P., Mr. Colvile, and Mr. M‘Gregor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. Mr. Kingscote had an interview with Sir George Grey yeat®d at the Home-office. Mr. Williams, M.P., had an interview with tho Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Bo l ard of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office to the Governor-General of the Canadas, and also for the Governfts of the other North American provinces. - Colonel Anson had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 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. Mr. Wigram, Queen's Counsel, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Cholas Duller, were heard on an appeal from the Court of Sudder Dewaany Adawlat, at Bengal, " Mummi Ram Awasty v. Shoo Chunn Awasty. 'The Master of the Rolls gave judgment on the part of their Lordships dis missing the appeal. An appeal from Bengal " Rewun Persad v. Massumat Radha Beeby," was opened by Mr. Charles Buller. The case was adjourned. Sir James and Lady Ann Mackenzie left Farrance's Hotel yesterday for Milton Peterborough. M. DEMPSTiIt, THE VOC A LlST.—This gentleman has just arrived in London from the United States, and intends shortly to give a series of original Scotch ballad concerts at the Princess's Concert Room. Mr. Dempster has had the honour of the patronage of the President of the United States and his Cabinet, and he will receive at his forthcoming concerts the patronage of the American Minister to the Court of St. James. An attempt to blow up the house of Mr. Brit wistle, a - builder, at Bury, was made on Sunday last. It appears that some evil-disposed person pulled up a flag stone in front of the house, and lowered into the front cellar a considerable quantity of gunpowder. Mr. Brit wistle heard a noise, and thinking that some one was trying to get into his house, he looked out of window, when he saw four men in a stooping position; he called to know what they were doing, but they made no answer and skulked away. Before he had time to dress himself, a loud explosion took place, carrying away the front and back windows, driving out several of the floors, destroy ing fuaniture, glasses, and pictures, and very nearly musing the destruction of fifteen persons, at that time on the premises. The house is cracked and shaken from top to bottom. ft appears that some months ago, Mr. Britwistle had a bulk of timber, which his sawyers re fused to cut up. He sent it to Liverpool to be sawn by steam power, and for this simple offence (if offence it may be called), his sawyers turned out, causing all his workmen to burn out with them, and the place has been " picketted " ever since, Mr. Britwistle not being able to get a single hand to do his work. A reward of 100/. has been offered for the discovery of the person who caused the explosion. THE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 3. The Oriental Company's steam-ship Erin, Captain Brooks, left the docks at three r.m. this day, en rouge for Con stantinople, Trebisond, &c. She will take out the East India mails to Malta, thence they will be re-shipped on board the Arid, for Alexandria. The Erin has a very full cargo of bale goods, and above fifty passengers. The West India mails by the Tay may be expected to-mor row. The Gibraltar and Peninsular mails by the Madrid, Captain Bingham, will be due at this port on Saturday morning. ROYAL ENIt EERS .—WOOLW IC ix, DEC. 3.—We regret to have to announce the death of Captain John Hodges Pipon. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Forty-two fine young men arrived at Woolwich yesterday, from Lisburn, in Ireland, as recruits for the Royal Artillery. Thirty-two snore were at Lisburn at the time they left. Lieutenant Jas. Clarke, who presides at that station, has sent to head quarters upwards of 500 recruits during ,the present year. Amongst the recruits that have arrived are many who have been in rery respectable circumstances; in fact, the general standard of recruits, in a moral point of view, is far higher than it has been for years past. REDUCTION or TEA DUTIES.—On Wednesday the inhabitants of Leeds, in public meeting assembled, E. Baines, Esq., in the chair, resolved unanimously to memorialke the Queen for the immediate reduction of the tea duties, aed a deputation was appointed topresent the memorial. A resolution was also passed to solicit the Members for the county and the borough for their zealous co-operation. MODEL LODGING-HOUSES pox FEMALES.—One of these, in Newton-street, Holborn, has been opened for the reception of females. The inmates are principally. servants out of place, persons who obtain a livelihood by needlework, artificial flower-making, clear starchers, and workers in fancy paper, &c. The accommodation is far superior to what might be expected, and the greatest order prevails throughout the establishment. Each lodger is provided with a separate bed. On the basement there is a kitchen, with every requisite for cooking, a good fire, and two boilers, with water boiling every morning by seven o'clock. Round the kitchen are small cupboards, with different locks ; one of these is Rprsated to the use of each lodger. On the ground oom s a work room, for persons a t nee dl ework; there is also a washing room, with every convenience. The charge is e" Aghteenpeace a week. As this system has been found to work welt, the promoters intend to con struct establi sh r m t i e o n n t s of in the poor reside. where the industriou s all neighbourhoods Died, on Sunday l ast, Mr Society." Be of " Origin of Man and the I; All en Davenport,author , o b f ut he bore his had been much afflicted for some menecterd, resignation. delicate severe illness with remarkable pati By trade he was a shoemaker, but health, be found much pleasure in the nasui4 diffusion of the liberal principles he 11,d eairtlyan"dn thef sincerely adopted. He was much beloved ; manners as a child, and of a most amiable disposition. His remains are to be removed from the Hall of Science, City-road, on Sunday next, fer interment iu Bonsai green Cemetery. 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. -THE NELSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES AIIE NOW COMPLETED, By the Publication of the Seventh Volume. Subscribers are therefore requested to complete their sets without delay. N.E. Any of the Volumes may, for the present, be had sepa• rately. _ __ Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in Bvo., with Portrait, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, K.G., Vice -1.7 Chamberlain and' Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. In cluding his Secret Letters to the Queen, and the Correspondence of the most distinguished Statesmen and other eminent persons of the period, now first published from Original MSS. in the State Paper Office and British Museum, and his own " Letter Book." By Sir N. HARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., ake place every TUESDAY and Fulmar, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectAdly requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; aad advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA ; Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Rafter ; Ferdinand, Mr. King ; Phllippo, Mr. Borrani ; Provost Marshal, Mr. Rowell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, Miss Poole ; Gaetano., Miss Rebecca Isaacs. 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 Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will De 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, Br. Howe; Mr.Hardruan, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; glary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which an original Operatic Drama, called THE YOUNG PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker, Mr. Buckstone; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, 3fr. Braid ; Davy, Mr..Coe ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale, 3(iss Horton. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre aux Clercs," " Clementinen " (Mazourka); " Camellion " (Galop) ; the " Esterhazy" (Walzer); and a New Overture. To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstono ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Tour ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. ENDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE, THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, 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 original Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. 3larmaduke Magog, Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. GA3IP'S TEA AND TUItN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in thrse parts, entitled TIIE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss (leorgiana Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Ilonner, Peren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. Iw the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen Waltzes." To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SIZE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.. Wynn • Young Marlow, Mr Vining; Hardcastle, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Compton . Hastings, Mr. Roxby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss llardcastle, Mrs Stirling; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S, THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed Regnard's celebrated Comedy of LE LEGA TAIRE UNIVERSEL. In which Mdlie. Brohan will perform. After which, the Comedy of L'IIOMME DE 60 ANS ; on, La Pet to Entetea. Saint Julien, M. l'erlet. To conclude with LE COMEDIEN D'ETAMPES. Dorival, M. Perlet (who will sustain four different characters) ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Amalie Khin. Boxes, Gs.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakipere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. J. R. Scott, who will be supported by the principal talent of the Company. To conclude with the favourite Nautical Drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Messrs. Heslop, Webb, Johnson, Lewis, Phelps, Pelham, Neville, Saville ; Miss Terrey, Mrs. Daly, Lee., will support the principal characters. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert. and Royal Family. Mr. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public that, in addition to his present extensive Establishment, he has purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leopards, &c., being the same beautiful animals that the cele brated Mr. Carter, the American " Lion King," performed with in all the principal towns in England and on the Continent. TH IS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. New and entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and cimmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE SUN, LONAON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1846 of inhabitants. They admit our commodities at the low duty of 5 per cent. on the estimated value. Our trade with them has been materially falling off, and this year it has diminished, it is said, to nearly one third. We have only to liberalise our tariff in respect to their chief article of export, to revive and extend our intercourse with this important race of people. By an enlarged consumption of tea we should secure a great stimulus to our manufactures, and, conse quently, in a variety of ways, increased demand for the exertions of our labouring classes. The time cannot be distant when the tax on tea will be as hap pily revised by Parliament as have been those on corn and sugar. It has been stated in a respectable Irish newspaper, the Freeman's Journal, that within the last few months, in fact, since the real extent of the calamity by which Ireland has been visited has become fully known, that no less than 1,200 notices have been lodged in the proper office in the Four Courts, in order to foreclose mortgages on Irish estates. We suppose that our Contemporary means that 1,200 bills of foreclosure have been filed for the purpose of com pelling payment of the money lent on the security of the several estates. Such proceedings, if instituted, must entail a fearful amount of suffering on a vast number of families who have hitherto lived in com parative comfort and affluence, and who will be little enabled to brave the ills of poverty and destitution. The cost of each of these bills may be averaged at 1,0001. sterling at the lowest computation ; in several cases, where . there are many different incumbrances, or persons having charges affecting the land, all of whom must be brought before the Court, and who will be entitled to have their costs out of the produce of the estate, it may be taken at five or even ten times that amount before the mortgaged premises can be transferred to a purchaser, and the fund in Court distributed amongst the several parties who have established their title to payment thereout. By this means, therefore, no less a sum than twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling will be abstracted from the exigencies of the country, and wasted in useless and unprofitable litigation. This, however, will be by no means the extent of the evil. The first step that will be taken in the vast majority of cases, immediately on getting in the answer of the principal defendant ad mitting the validity of the mortgage, and that a certain amount of interest is due on foot thereof, will be to obtain a receiver over the lands. As this receiver cannot be called on to account for fifteen months after his appointment, and subsequently thereto only once in every year ; and also, as when he has so accounted the balance in his hands must be paid into the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the cause, from whence it will take a considerable time before it can be released and distributed amongst the parties entitled, a great portion of the income derivable from land will be locked up, and remain idle and unproductive, at a time when all the resources of the country should be brought into active operation. Again, it is only in the cases of minors and lunatics, who are the wards of the Court, and for whom the Court is entitled to act in such manner as in its discretion it may conceive to be most advantageous for their real interests, that reduc tion of rent can be made, that improvements can be effected, that labour can be employed, or subscriptions given in aid of the destitute poor belonging to the property, save with the consent of the inheritor of the estate—a consent which there will scarcely be a possibility of obtaining. The whole amount (in case of such consent) would fall upon the scanty portion which would remain for the nominal owner after pay ment of the full amount of charges and costs. He would have no interest in the future prosperity of the property, or the improvement of its soil; he could not be expected to contribute to the public charities when, in a brief period, himself and family might themselves become objects of charity, and he will, therefore, refuse his assent to any reduction being made in the rent, as well for that reason as because he will hope that a higher amount of purchase-money may be obtained in proportion to the magnitude of the nominal rent-roll. The late Lord Chancellor (Sir EDWARD SUGDEN) wrote several letters to Lord DEvoiv and his associate Commissioners, when conducting their inquiries into the laws relating to the occupation of land in Ireland, pointing out the great evil of such a state of things, and urging that the Lord Chancellor for the time being should be permitted to deal with all lands brought in any manner under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery as fully as if they belonged to wards of the Court. Such an enactment, which would appear to be just and reasonable, and which, in the hands of a person of such sound judgment, enlightened liberality, and enlarged and compre hensive views as the Learned Judge who now holds the Great Seal of Ireland, could not fail to be in the highest degree beneficial to the country, and would go far to remove the national injury which must result from the present proceedings. Many months must elapse, however, before such a measure can obtain the legislative sanction, and during that period a fearful amount of mischief may be inflicted which cannot possibly be repaired. It may be worth inquiring into the causes that have led to such effects—to inquire how far the mort gagees and incumbrancers are justified in taking such a course, and what foundation there is for the panic that has evidently set in, and which has induced pro ceedings injurious to the persons taking them, and fatal to the proprietors of the properties in question ? We hope to be enabled to show that there is no just grounds for such a panic —that estates in Ireland are still as sufficient securities as ever for the sums charged upon them—and that whatever may be the consequences of the failure of the potato crop, and the distress resulting therefrom throughout the country, whatever burdens may be imposed upon the lands fgr the relief of that distress, and the employment of the labouring population of the coun try ; and, however severely it may press upon the proprietors of the soil, the mortgagees and incum brancers cannot be affected thereby more than the recipients of equal incomes arising from any other description of property or security. If this can be satisfactorily established, we trust that it will calm l bids grievancest h iyd e stapprehensionshuoss those from groundless rmou that en ndt will entering rsi s o nf fears. o ea onr this has class,soio pro of, a Our re d n s pd s pace bc eu thet this hw remove n eso t t hd shallea h ry e for classroeer turn to the subject without any delay. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have been received, It is rumoured in Madrid that serious differences have taken place between the QUEEN and her mother, and that CHRISTINA will most probably retire into France. It is said that a reconciliation will take place shortly between Queen ISABELLA and the Pro gressista party. The Progressistas have Rominated as their candi dates for Madrid, ESPARTERO, MENDIZABAL, and OLOZ AGA. It seems that the accounts of the desertions of the troops of FLoass are very much exaggerated. General FLORES has arrived at Santander at the head of a very considerable force. As might have been expected, the Afrancesado Ministers have dismissed the Judge who dared to give a decision against Count BEESSON in his affair with the Tiempo. The Herakio states that a serious increase of price in provisions generally has taken place in the capital, and many other towns in Spain. It attributes this state of things to three causes—the increase of the population, the deficiency of the harvest in many points, and the defective mode of taxation. MADBID BOLSA, Nov. 26.—A scarcity of money was felt on the Stock Exchange of Madrid. The Thrce per Cents. closed on the 26th at 34-1 offered ; there was subsequently a decline of 1-16th. Four per Cents., 2of ; Five per Cents., 211 ; Coupons non-Consoli dated, 194. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The Moniteur publishes three royal ordonnances, in virtue of the law of 1836, which permits the im portation of foreign products for manufacture and re-exportation ; allowing colza seed to be imported duty free• in French bottoms, for conversion into oil, and exportation in that state within a delay of six months ; madder root to be received duty free, for grinding and exportation, on the same conditions ; and tartar its its rough state, to be received in a similar way, and under the same conditions, for conversion into cream of tartar or tartaric acid. The Constitutionnel has an article, which may be considered as a reply to the articles of the Minis terial. press on the subject of England, an expression of the Alegre of the party of which a Tuaits is the ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Immense success" of the alteration of the prices of admission to one general level, so that all parts of the house shall bear a just and liberal proportion—viz., Boxes, Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 2d. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs. Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which THE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Tommy Tape, Mr. Fm - man ; Sally Scraggs, Miss Lydia Pearce. To conclude with THE SHIP OF DEATH ; or, The Children of the Deep. THE WEATHER—►SUN ONTICE, DECEMBER 4. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest. 36 ; Noon, 36, BAROMETER, 29.85.—W1ND W., fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Slorning .. 28 minutes after 2. I Evening .. 40 minutes after 2. v .,... •-i /•-•,•• . VI '' •.: ' I ‘ V• " 1, 04 ' - ' • q 4 '' 0 ..& - 4 •d -,: fiIZZN,I4,II I -J..' , •-; ' 1 r•-•......• • plik,•` .7. • ue- , ... , ...,..• •I. . "...." - ••4;t' • •,,...• .1116 .1, ', ~....,,arz, ,f , A ni i i.,_ A : , 1 / 4 6 % ~ - --.04r.• „ ~.s tA t illelik* r ....._ ___,...,.--) t, d ~,, : Almelo Am , ~,.". lei, m1irct......--:i r L I) Mtn Int .-- LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1846. There is a coincidence in the indignation of the different kingdoms of Southern and Western Europe at the execrable crime recently committed against the last vestige of Sarmatia, which will impart a peculiar force to the protests of England and France, and of the other constitutional monarchies. The spoliation of Poland is consummated in the seizure of Cracow ; but in that consummation Russian despotism is exposed to the wrath and execration of civilised millions. In conniving at, or rather instigating, the Austrian occupation, Russia has drained the goblet to the bottom, but there is poison in the dregs ; it has riven the oak asunder, but its hands are imprisoned in the aperture. It is quite certain that Austria has in a great measure been seduced into this monstrous violation of faith, parti ally by the intimidation, partially by the voluble suavity, of the Government of St. Petersburgh. The Administration of the Kaiser FERDINAND possessed all the inclination to destroy the independence of Cracow, but it lacked the courage to appease its covetous aspirations : it looked with especial abhor rence upon the liberal institutions of that miniature republic, andresented the fact of its existence in the im mediate neighbourhood of so many absolute and gigantic powers, but it feared to incur the displeasure of those western nations whom it dreaded for their prowess, and whom it loathed for their magnanimity. It re membered that when the imperial diadem girdled the brow of the paternal FRANCIS, thrice had it continued to exist as a state by tie sufferance of France ; it remembered how its capital had been taken and re stored ; how its regalia had been dashed into the mire and replaced in the hands and upon the fore head of its emperor ; it remembered the con cessions of Campo Formic , and the ford of Wagram. Cherishing an intense hatred of that poli tical emancipation which had so frequently perilled its existence, it preserved, nevertheless, a repressive recollection of the dangers consequent upon arousing the politics of Western Europe ; and while it yearned for the abasement and injury of those Governments, it was cautious of evoking their rage or of incurring their violence. Those were the conflicting sentiments of Austria ; they held possession of her since the treaty of 1815 ; her covetousness and her cowardice, her malice and her pusillanimity, her hope and her trepidation racked her with a thousand different emotions. She vibrated between an obsequious tranquillity and an insolent display of despotism. Her fears, however, still continued predominant. Her awe of the en croachments of the constitutional Governments still preserved the mastery. Nevertheless Russia has striven unceasingly to remove her objections, to dis sipate her scruples, and to conquer the caprice s o f her conscienc e , an d the volatility of her passions. Russia has at length been successful in tbese in- sidious endeavours. She has persuaded Austria baldly to consummate, in one flagrant catastrophe, the envy and indignation of years; she has adroitly im plicated Prussia in an act by which the ruggedness of the road to Constantinople is smoothed. Austria undoubtedly possessed all the will to incorporate Cracow with her dominions, but Russia has shown her the way and given her the courage. As in all the former annexations of Sarmatian territory, so it is in the last infamous violation of the rights of in dependence—the miseries of Poland are all traceable to the council-chambers of St. Petersburgh, the sub jugation of Sarmatia is mainly attributable to the lawlessness of Russian ambition. Circumstances, however, have followed the seizure of Cracow which are indicative of a new spirit, not only among remote kingdoms, but even among the subjects of the offending Power. Lord CASTLERBAGH in 1815 stipulated for the respect which was owing to the last remnant of Poland as forcibly as Lord ABER DEEN could have done in 1845, or as Lord PALMER STON has done in 1846. But neither in the first dis memberment of that kingdom, nor in the forcible seizure of the Duchy of Warsaw, did anything occur so indicative of the peril of such proceedings as the recent resignation of Count KOLOWRAT. By resign ing his Ministerial office, and seeking immediate re pose among the mountains of Switzerland, he is sig nificantly protesting against the violation of treaties and the piecemeal destruction of an un offending nation. It is preposterous to assert that Austria is op posed to absolutism, or to the prcpagation of ultramontane principles. Those are a por tion of her very vitality. The locofocos have no such upholders among the citizens of the United States as the absolutists and ultramontanists have in the Cabinet of the Kaiser. It is, therefore, peculiarly remarkable when a Minister can oppose, in a manner so decisive, the wishes and views of that tyrannical Government, as Count KOLOWRAT has just done, by his resignation immediately after the annexation of Cracow. Beyond this, the various states of Germany are roused to indigna tion by the very reflection of the incertitude of their own existence henceforth. It is manifest to them that if the sixth and ninth articles of the Treaty of Vienna are thus violated those other articles may be ac; easily set at nought by which their independent existence was guaranteed. A stern and obdurate hatred is therefore roused throughout those Govern ents—a hatred none the less stern or the less obdurate because it is based upon selfishness. By the recent crime of the Northern Powers Poland has gained a multitude of sympathisers. Will their sympathy, however, be profitable or► unprofitable ? Will Cracow be abandoned to the possession of Austria, amidst the p'nsillanimous lamentations of the rest of Europe ? Are treaties to be eternally violated with impunity ; are protests to be answered by impertinent sophisms ? The criminality of the French Government, in break ing the Treaty of Utrecht, is essentially different from the criminality of Austria in breaking that of Vienna. The former is a violation o-AF faith, the evil consequence of which is, at; the most, a mere contingency ; the miseries rtrsulting from the latter are immediate—they Ewe already experienced by the helpless Sarma tinns. The elevation of an Orleans Prince to the I'berian throne is dependent upon the possible sterility (LE ISABELLA IT. ; the freedom of Cracow is de pendent upon nothing—it is already wrested from it 3 population. Let it be remembered that this is no ti me for cavilling over remote causes of hostility and supposititious grievances. In the occupation of Cracow are implicated the interests of liberty and ci viilisation. The corn-laws, being virtually abolished, with what rapid succession is the public mind addressing it Self to the extinction of other large monopolies. Vhe breath was scarcely knocked out of the body of ti, tie agricultural leviathan, before the disciples of free ti,ade turned round, and, with one blow, prostrated onther powerful enemy that preyed upon the vitals 0.7 commerce. The pernicious fiscal distinctions he t\ been the produce of free and slave-grown sugar were instantaneously swept away. The monopolies ol!' tea and salt are now being attacked with the like gour, especially the former. Neither is it, to be wondered at that these several o,:.sets are being thus promptly made gainst such formidable restrictions on commerce, :hey all rest upon the same foundation. The argu r. sent runs upon all fours with every one of them. I f the free-trade propositions in favour of extinguish i. the duties upon corn were sound, they must be e (wally so when applied, for the same purpose, in ✓ egard to sugar, tea, salt, and other articles of general c onsumption. But the data of political economy tell ✓ rich more than equal force in relation to the corn n todities just enumerated than they do in connexion w hit foreign grain. The people must hare bread, wl dch is the indispensable staff of life ; hence, the ma in argument of the landed monopolists consisted in t inadvisability of allowing this country to become dep en dent upon foreigners for their daily food. This oft reit mated fallacy has been completely exploded. Of this ti le' corn-law of last session is the best practical proo f.. Articles of the first necessity, as sugar, salt, and ttea unquestionably are at present with the peopl ift, still they are not so, to the same degree, as cur n. If the principles of unfettered commerce can b a safely resorted to .in respect to the latter, a fortio.r i can they be successfully applied in regard to the fc.t mer. It was this consideration that wisely deterr n fined the League to confine their exertions to the al a ogation of the corn-laws, because they knew that, after their downfal, all other mono polies would speedily vanish. It was their thoro a 1 ;h conviction of this that decided the Leagi at 3 upon grounding their arms the moment they had a R.: hieved their signal victory. What remained to be ane ? they knew well enough the nation would mane : p 3 for itself, without the help of any gigantic organ is ation. A sharp lesson had been read to all public x nen, who, it was justly conceived, would not be prc me to repeat their former errors. The moral force vt .hich the League brought to bear upon all their I Sri )ceedings, could not fail of its effect with suc ceeding. Ministers whenever the country should display an anx iel ;y to urge upon the Government any concession of simi !al c import to that of the corn. laws. This effect was in di cated when Sir R. PEEL, in retiring from office, de :dared in Parliament that he was ready, in any fi it ure public capacity, to progress with the princi of commercial relaxation. Ano ti aer important meeting, for memorialising the Goveri x ment for an immediate reduction of the duty on tea„ was held at Leeds, on Wednesday last. The questic ri was very ably treated, and appropriate reso lutions in furtherance of the object of the meeting were u x animously passed. The whole question turns upon i a hether a reasonable case can be made out to the Ch a .ncellor of the Exchequer that, by sanctioning the de 5i red reduction, the revenue will not suffer so as to end a, nger the national credit. From the statistics already furnished, there seems to be no doubt that this assurane e can be conveyed to the authorities of the Treasur3 and more, that the public finances will be much im proved by the proposed alteration. This beneficial 1 result will be attained with the greater cer tainty, p rovided the diminution of duty be made a consither able one in the outset, viz. from 2s. 2kd. to is. per- lb. If it be said that the consumption of teas, and pa et icularly the black, within the last ten years, has n( t corresponded with the cheapness of their prices, .compared with what they obtained before 1834, 3 t must be remembered that the average tax up o 3 i tea is still two hundred per cent., and, also, 0: it the humbler classes have not been in the condition in which, it is hoped, they will shortly "be, by reason of our improved tariff, to com mand t 3 means of purchasing tea. Wherever tea has bee n . admitted on more favourable terms than we enjoy, t le consumption has been considerably aug- mented.. In Jersey, Canada, and Newfoundland the consult - tion averages 4klbs. per head per annum, in -lustre lia, 7ilbs., whilst in England it is not more than 1 Ib. The cheaper we render tea the more we shall ( )nsume, and the further we increase its imports 0 don the quicker will the deficiency in the revenue, be covered. The returns of our national income. since the bold reductions effected in the tariff by Sir IR. PEEL, short as the interval has been, have been ma% t encouraging, and warrant our persevering in the san ie course. But it is not merely the direct advantage, s to the Exchequer accruing - from these seasonable reductions of taxes, the indirect are likewise of infinite value. China contains 350,000,000 head to renew the English alliance. The following is the article to which we refer : " We have not for several days entered into the dis cussion on the new position in which France is placed. Her situation indeed is a very lamentable,one. It pre sents to our contemplation none but disastrous conse quences. To add to the too real evil, it remains for the press only to make bitter reflections, and for these we have little taste. We shall find time to pass judgment upon what has been accomplished. We have, besides, considered that before ent:_ring upon a too easy polemic, a duty was imposed upon us, and that duty we have ful filled. When at the moment of the annexation of Cracow, made in odious abuse of power, and threatening the independence of Europe, we found that England and France was divided, we performed our part of good citizens by recalling to the two countries the high and permanent reasons they had for renewing their concord. We persist in thinking that, in the present state of the world, an accordance between France and England is the most powerful guarantee for peace and liberty. We believe that in England, as in France, the great majority of the men who turn their minds to poli tics are, in the bottom of their hearts, of our opinion on this point. We judge so even by the manifesta tions of the English press, although in its vivacity and vehemence it does not always, as it seems to us, represent exactly the opinion of the country. It is against our Government that exclaim all the most resolute adversaries of all common protest and of all immediate re-establishment of the good under standing, but all at the same time express an appa rently honest and sincere sympathy towards the French nation. There are in the general policy of Europe but two great questions only to which all others are subordinate—the progress of moderate liberty, and the uncertain existence of the Ottoman Empire. Which will gain the day—absolutism or liberal rule ? TO which shall belong the empire of Constantinople if it should fall ? All the affairs of Europe are resolved into these two problems, as debated between ideas and am bitions. Will Switzerland, will Italy enfranchise them selves ? Will Prussia at last keep the promise which she has so long ago gave, and enter gradually within the pale of constitutional governments ? Who will be master of the mouths of the Danube and the Straits of the Dardanelles ? These are the essential points to be settled—sooner or later—between the nations of Europe; and in all these points the interests of France and Eng land are confounded. All England comprehends this." That a revival, or rather a continuation, of the al liance between the two nations (for as far as the na tions are concerned the alliance has never been inter rupted), is ardently cissired by the great majority of both is not to to be doubted ; but most assuredly it is not to be desired that such an entente cordiale as that with the phantom of which M. GUIZOT bamboozled poor Lord ABERDEEN should be again renewed. Over and over again we have had loud assurances from Lord ABERDEEN that France, in attacking Mo rocco, in extending her conquests in Algiers, in inter fering in Spain, sought not the exclusive aggrandise ment of her own interests ; over and over again has Lord • ABERDEEN expressed his faith in the disinterestedness of the love of peace pro fessed by Louis PkimprE and his Minister, and in the honour and trustworthiness of both M. GUIZOT and his master; and Lord ABERDEEN be lieved the professions of M. GulzoT and Louis Pus- LIPPE ; and on the authority of Lord ABERDEEN, the people of England believed them too, and stigmatised those who ventured to hint a doubt as to the sincerity of the man of Ghent as " firebrands"—" stirrers up of strife"—" the war party ;" yet these " firebrands '' were right; LOUIS PHILIPPE and M. GulzoT were during the whole of this time deceiving Lord ABER DEEN by a wholesale system of " enormous lying " unparalleled in the history of diplomatic mendacity. They now avow that during the whole period of the en tente cordiale they nel er allowed their own free right of action to be restrained by this alliance; that during the whole time M. GUIZOT has been in power he has been working to obtain for France an ascendancy in the Mediterranean, to the exclusion, if possible, of England, and that the Spanish marriage is the crowning act of this great system. Such are the statements made by the Journal des Debuts, in reply to the accusations of the Opposition papers, that he has sacrificed the English alliance to an interest merely personal and dynastic. The Siecle has the following, which may be con sidered as the programme of the accusations which M. GUIZOT will have to answer when he meets the Chambers : " Let us," says that paper, " enumerate M. Guizot's diplomatic conquests ; let us see how we stand with Europe, beginning with our allies. A few days since it was said, • Spain is for us,' but for whom will she be to morrow? On all sides we have rumours of a civil war. The British Government must revenge itself, and pro bably it will as soon prefer taking its revenge in Spain as anywhere else. How do we stand with England her self? So far from being willing to protest jointly with us against the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian monarchy, the Whig Cabinet has accused us of having secretly acquiesced in the measure. The Journal des Debots admits that the accusation has been made against us, and the Presse does not hesitate to say that Lord Pal merston is the author of the charge. His Lordship finds it quite natural, that having been iniquitous ourselves in Spain, we should elsewhere be the accomplices of the iniquity of others.' To this point has come the entente cordiale which M. Guizot congratulated himself on hav ing restored at the price of such painful sacrifices. The ends he sought for in Switzerland are well known ; and assuredly it is no fault of his if that country is not now. wholly in the hands of the Jesuits and Austria. In Germany, the last act of the Northern Powers shows us clearly what sense was to be attached to M. Guizot's return into the European concert. He has now AO other option than that of choosing to be reproached with being their dupe or with being their accomplice. This is a sad alternative ; but he must submit to it. We need not say that he has lost all influence in Italy, where (as in Switzerland) he has been wholly devoted to Austria, who has not left him long without proof of her gratitude. At home a partial scarcity of grain, which might have been foreseen, pro duces disturbances that might have been prevented. Our expenses increase without end, without reason, and without bounds ; our resources are mortgaged for the next ten years ; the Legitimatist party again rears its head ' • the Radical party says to the ultra-democrats, ' Theday is near at hand, be up and stirring!' Thus the Minister of the reign, it is evident, has not given the lie to his appellation of Conservative." The Journal des Debats has a long article in favour of free trade. It says— " Liberty of commerce must take its place by the side of the other liberties, from which the men of the power ful and glorious generation, to which we owe everything, never separated, and, like all public liberties, it will be imperishable. For our parts we shall always support it heartily, because it is for the Journal des Debats a pro found conviction, already a thousand times expressed— in a word, one of the most precious traditions be queathed to us by the two eminent men who founded this journal half a century ago. But we shall never for get that this cause requires to be served with the mo deration always necessary in the affairs of great states, and with that spirit of conciliation which we always endeavour to adhere to." The Funds opened on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday with much firmness. The interviews of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN with Lord PALMEESTON, having occasioned observation, and large sales of stock and shares having been made, a very consider able reaction took place. The Three per Cents. fell 30c from the highest point. Northern shares, which had reached 640, fell to 632. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on ' Wednes day at 81f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen, 865 f. ; Havre, 63 3 f. 75 c. ; Great Northern, 632 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 867 f. 50 c. ; Vierzon , 575 f. • Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 432 f. 50c. ; Bese, 218 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg , 478 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 487 f. 50c. ; Paris and L yo n s , 500 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 48if. ; Bordeaux and Cette , 475 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents. , 54 i; S p ani sh Three per Cents., 37i ; Ditto Domestic Debt , 33. o n n i s s t l i i t „ 54-Nam ur uted, BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIG N RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 3. 10y. and ß o L ul i o eg gn e, e a 3 n x d_A N m o ie r n th s, er i n 33 A Orleans and Vierzon, 12 1 / . 4-Orleans eßche and Bordeau x , 7y;::: o /,43/-Dutch r u a t n c c h Paris and Lyons Constituted. 5-Paris and Strasbourg Con stituted, 41A-Sambre and Meuse, 414. Lord John Russell is expected to arrive in town this afternoon from Arundel Castle, where the Noble Lord has been staying with the distinguished circle invited to meet her Majesty. WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING. —There have been no fresh arrivals at Frogmore to-day ; anti Connt Augustus Mansdorff, who arrived with the Duchess of Kent, from Cashiobury, on Tuesday afternoon, leaves Frogmore to-morrow. The Duchess of Kent has not left the grounds of Frogmore to-day. Her Royal High ness has a small dinner party this evening. THE CAPE OF GOOD HoPE.—The new Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, Sir H. Pottinger, will sail for the seat of his government to-morrow afternoon, from Southampton, in the Oriental and Peninsular steam ship Haddington. LEITH...—. EXTENSIVE IMPORTATIONS. -- Foreign produce continues to flow into our port ; timber, tallow, and grain in great abundance, During the last four days upwards of 10.000 quarters of grain have been entered for landing. A vessel from Dantzic has, among other commodities, no fewer than 1,700 k egs of b lack beer. The advanced period of the season shuts out the hops of many more cargoes arriving from ports influenced by the frost. As we formerly stated, however, no year has been marked by such an influx of foreign stores as the present. Bonded vaults, warehouses, and timber-yards, are full to overflow. —Scotsman. LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STON E 01' A NEW CHURCH IN MANCHESTER.—On Wednesday morning the foundation-stone of a fifth church, to be erected in the Manchester. Ten Churches' Association, was laid by the Venerable the Archdeacon. The site of the new church is in the midst of a large and poor population, in Butler street, Bradford-road. The church is to be a large one, and is to be called St. Philip's. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was again very firm. Sales, 12,000 bales, of which 8,000 were to the trade, the rest being on speculation. American, 5/d. to 7d.; Maranham, 61d. to sid. ; Egyptian, 7-id. to Bd.; and Surat, 4d. to Ofd. per pound.—The Share market has been quiet, but in most cases was steady. It is not an unimportant fact to notice that the ac counts from the country grain markets are almost unanimous in stating, the supplies were coming in most abundantly. Hence the probabilities that present prices cannot be maintained. In a " ship" that has been sent to us, we find the following remarks upon this subject ; it is from the pen of a competent authority, and worth quoting in all the journals of the country, particularly those published in the manufacturing districts, so that the " famine cry" set up a short time since by interested parties may be dis sipated. It is correctly remarked thus Our readers will see that the view we have, for some time past, taken of the state and prospects of the Corn Market is in course of being fully confirmed. Prices are decidedly, although slowly, declining, and a more considerable fall would ere this nave taken place, had it not been partially counteracted by interested parties keeping back supplies, and encouraging their country friends to hold on for still higher prices than those now current. Meanwhile we are receiving continued and large supplies of all kinds of foreign grain, maize, and flour ; and as duty is paid immediately on impor tation, it is to be presumed that the whole is going into consumption, in preference to home-grown corn. Supposing then, that the last crop was deficient to the extent of one month's consump tion, we may consider that the quantity already received and delivered, has more than made up for that deficiency, and that the quantities shipped, and on the way to this country, added to those which are in course of shipment, will not only secure us against high rates, but reduce prices to a moderate rate during the whole of the next year." There have not been any late colonial arrivals an nounced this morning. The Funds are scarcely so firm as they left off yester day afternoon. Consols for the Account, have just been sold rather largely at 95k, and at 95k for trans fer. It is probable that money is rather more tight, but then we find that Exchequer-bills have realised from 7s. to 10s. premium. The Reduced Three per Cents. have receded from 94* to 93i ; and the Three-and-a quarter per Cents. from 96 to 95i. India Bonds are flat Lt 17s. premium. The market for the Foreign funds is very tranquil to day. The only fresh prices given are for Granada bonds, 19k, for Mexican Five per Cents. 2241, for Portuguese Four per Cents. 39k, for Spanish 264, and for the Three per Cents. 37/ 4. A steady demand for Shares exists. The corrected prices given this morning are annexed. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94 1 / 5 93% 94 3 per Cent;Consols Annuities 9 5 , 4 1 /a 95 1 A 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 34 per Cent. Annuities 96 95% 96 Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 15-16 9 15-16 India Bondi, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... 17 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Opening, Jan. 15 Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 1 %d.... 710 p 10 p Ditto, 500/ Ditto, Small CLOSING PRICES 19% 3 % 22 1 / 2 39 % 38% oNE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 1 9 14 Ditto, Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 2 1/ Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account .. 26% Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... 2% 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Belfast & County Down 4% — Birmingham and Dudley 425. ... Birmin. and Gleucester..loo 129 128% 128% Ditto New 17% 31% ... ... ...... 31% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June 2% — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 --. Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. 2 1 ,4 ...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% 2 % 14 ... Cambrian & Grand Janc 42s ' Chester and Holyhead... 27 ,4 25 Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 1 ,E Cork and Waterford ... 1% _— .. Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2% — Direct Lincoln, East Rot ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% — Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% — . Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 23% 227,i Ditto New l2/. 16s 7% p ex d. ...7%p x d Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d % 3 /4 p 3 74 p Ditto ditto. No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... AI P Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3 %%3 3 / 4 EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 /4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% 214 East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... East Lincolnshire ... ••• 1 1 4 2 14 2 2% East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...••• .....•...••• •• Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 121 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ... . Ely and Huntingdon ... 1214 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil,&;Dorset Glasgow,Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New .. 15 .............. Do., Shares (5 per cent. guar.) _ _ 12 1 / 2 ............... Glouc.,Aberystivith, and Central of Wales 1%...... 42s- T o n n in c n ast ( e N r, n k u c in . g .... and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2 ... % ........ ... .. GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) - .... .......... - Great Munster ... 2% — ........•••••• Great North of Scotland 2% _ ..... . ....... ...... . Great Northof England..loo 234 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New • Ditto, New ...... _. Great We5tern............ 85 ...... _ Ditto % 5hare5......,.. 50 ...... 77 Ditto 1 4 5hare5......... 10 ...... 18% lB% Ditto Fifths ...... 20 ...... 31 Ditto, New . ........ ... 2 ... 7,81 A Huddersfield & Mauches. 13 .. . . 17 3 1 1 Ditto, Extension ...... 3 .. 50 Ditto 1,4 Shares ... 121 Do. Half Shares ...... 25 Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2% 3 AY B 2% Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New ............... 5 Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester and Bedford 22s. — Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 22% — ' Do. Branch (Blue) ... 21 /s — - Do.Ex ten sion( Green) 2 1 / 2 .. Leeds and Thirsk 17% 16%14 16 Ditto, New Lpool., Mnchstr &New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury ... 24 .. ... Luidon and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d. - Do. New - Ditto Extension - 7 % ...... - London, Brighton, and South Coast ... 50 .. .. 59 Ditto, Fifths Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - ••• •• -41. e. ••• London and Gr een w i ch 12115 s 4d 9%18 Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — London, Hounslow, and 33 1 / 2 16 5 /4 % 21 Western - ad. •••••••••••• London and N. Westeraloo 193 195 195 Do. Quarters .. 2 Do., do., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths ••••• •••• 2 •••••• - 15% Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% Do., Nee , !,4 Shares (G. J.) Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 8 Lomt. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6 3 1 /2 x n 63%xn De. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. NOV Do. New Ditto Tenths ..... Ditto Tenths ... _____ 4 ...... OA ............ Ditto Guaranteed...... 5 Ditto ditto ...... . .... 4 L endow and York 2 ... Do. Extension London and Windsor . 1)6... . London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .., ........ 2 1 / 2 ...... Londonderry& Coleraine 15 L'.nlonderry and Ennis killen l5 Lynn an 1 Ely Lynn and Dereham l5 Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditte 4 Share; 16% ii% • Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fiftli. 3 Do. Sixteenths ..... • .... ............... ••••••••• .. ru l p Do. Extension 42s. IIA p ............ 76 Manchester and Birmin Do. Quarters (A) 5 ...... ••• ........... Do. Quarters (B) - ........ Do. Quarters (C) 1 \lamthester,Buxton,and Matlock 4'28......• p ............... Manchester Birm., and ...., Mould Junction .•... .....• —b ........ " ..... IN Manchest. & Southampt. 2 .... 14 ........... ' " 127 Midland ......100 .....130 127... ........ Do. Fifths 84 Do. New Ditto, New . 2 ..... 7 613/4...'.. " 106 Do. Birm., and Derbyloo lO6 .. . ..... .. ..... - -.... Midind& East. Counties 2% ............ ... Midland Great Western ..... Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 ...... Do. North Shields ... 25 ..... Newcastle and Carlisle...100 .... . Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 ...... Newport& Abergavenny 2 %•••••. ************** ...-- Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. Norfolk ... Do. Half Shares Do. Extension Northern CountiesUnionlol6o92s/81: — ... -----• : : ::::::::::::::::1 ;::: 2 North British ... ..... .25 Do. Half Shan s ll ...... 15 1 AN 2 Or ds " --% Do. Fifths Do. Quarters - Do. Extension 5 -- ........... r Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... • 12% — ............... ISA Do. New North Staffordshire 5 ...... 8% 44 9 834*** •••• North Wales .... Northern and Southern Connecting Oxford, Worcester, and 2% ............... ...• Wolverhampton .... Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... ....... _ Portsmouth Direct 3% — .. • .... ........ •-.... Pr( ston and Wyre 25 Do. 1 / 2 Shares .... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3/. 12s. Richmond 15 ............... ... .•••• Royston and Hitchen l% — ......... •• % Scottish Central .. 13 .... Scottish Midland 12% — • •••'•' .•••• Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe... IY' — •• •• .... • ..... 8 ...... go. heffield & Manchester 100 ........ ~. Do. Quarter Shares... 8 -•••• ....... ~.. Do. Lincolnshire Junc. 1 1 4 — •• •• ...... .... Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. .... .... "" . o it Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 ... . 5 1 / 9 5•••••'• •••• ; Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. June. 2 1 /, - ••••••••••••"":::... ....• ...• Sligo and Shannon l% ............. .. South Devon... 4O __ .. ........... 3 8 South Staffordshire June. 2 1 / 2 — •• .......... • ......, -outh Eastern & Dover. 33% 3B ............. ..... 10 0 Do., No. 1 26 ... . ..... Do., Nc .2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 ••••• St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. -• ............ ••• Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 A — ........... •••• south Wales ..... ..... ... 5 .•-• Swans. & Loughor &Ca- .. ..•• meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 -- ... ..... .. . ..... Taw Vale Extension ... 2 Vale of Neath ... .. "'• ....., . Wakefield, Pontefract. & .. .... .. ....„ Goole 22% ••• ....... •••• Warwick and Worcester 425. -, ................. .•-• Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . ••" ' .. •• • - • .... " Waterford and Limerick 22% — ....... .•••• Waterfd,Wxfrel,Wicklw, ltd„ .. . "'• J• .... and Dublin Wexford,' " aterford, and V alentia 1 Waveney Valley ... 2 % ...... --- ....... .......... ...::: *; 11 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42 5 %. ...... 2 p:::: ::: :" " :1 . ..• ---- West Cornwall Vexford and Carlow - - -Z . .. .. .. ............ .... 94 Wilts, Somerset,& Wey- ......... mouth Worcester,Warwick,and ..... ......., Rugby - ............ 371 York and Carlisle 234 .-- ........ 12 / •............ York and Newcastle. ... 25 Ditto New 2l ....... ~, 5 ..... . .. Do. Preference ......2 . 7 1 18 i ............. ' 4 York and North Midland 50 ...... --- ~./ ...... •" Ditto % 5hare5........ 25 ..... 451/e74" ....... 38 .... . Do. Selby 4O . .. 1 ..... 11 a --• ..... .„. Do. Extension 2O ..... 3, ' / 2 ** 1174••* Ditto, Preference . ....- 2 :.:. .... Wig 1 - 4. 171/4 Do. East and West Rid- • .0. ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS . 4 — .. .. ....... 1 ' 6 —- ...................................... ... .. Anglo- Belgian.— Barbadoes Belgian Eastern Junctn. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux & Mediterran 13ordeaux,Toulouse, and 2 Cette(lSlackenzie ; s) 2 .. .... ........ Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders 2 ...... ............... Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ....... . is. Callao, Lima, and Pacifie Coast 1 .. ••• ••• •• ......... Central of Spain ... . Ceylon Demerara . ..**** —...—• ......... Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish ... 6 ... . .......... ........................ East Indian ... ..... .... ss. ...... - Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 ....... Great Indian Peninsular ss. - •• ..... • ...... Great Western Bengal... ss. - •••• ......... Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... ~ 2.• ..... ......• .... . Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1 .. •.... ...... .. Jersey Louvain it la Sambre ... 6 ... • "'.... ••". ... • Luxembourg... 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 ...... -- •. •• .... Madras ' 1 - .. Madras, Nellore, and .. •..- ... Arcot % ..... .. ~,, .... Madrid and Val en ti a .... 2 ... Mauritius .. - ......... ............... Namur and Liege Nn of Fran ce C ons tit u t e d 5 ........ Or' ..... '.. .... North Jamaica 1 - ......... O or r l l e e ans ans an an d d ß V o i r e d r e z a o u n x. ..... 106 - - iiisc ................ ...:: Over Yssel 4l3s 4d ...... --' ... •• Paris &L 5 5 ............. Paris and O r l eans 2O .....• -- •• Paris and Rouen .... Paris and Strasbourg .... . ......... Constituted ......... Rouen and Hav re ..... 2 5 7 S ..... ..." Sambre and M euse lO .... -- ................. Strasbourg and Bale - .... ...... St. Laurence & Atlantic ..... --- Tours and Nantes Con stituted ... ..... -. 5 ...... •-- ' - ... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- ... ....... .. den, and Hasselt 8 ...... -- ........ • .... Trinidad - ............. West Flanders ...... JOINT STOCK BAN I ...... ..‘''' 40 ...... 21 • MINES. Real del Monte Unregd ...11 / 1 14‘ ioi , L , if• ~.....'".. Australasia 31 4 ............ '. if) SDf/f gifo LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Trx' if , ' o af LONDON, Dim. 4.—Wind, this day at 0 re ye e light breeze, and fine. te b his. o der* DEAL, DEC. 3.—Wind N. to N.N.E., 01 ,..•tb, LI .gior Arsymrdo, Symonds, Valparaiso. v t a h l e pa ß r i a v is e o r . and sailed, Gambia , ° " .. m.rd• ' I'm...llocm, DEC. 3.—Wind N.E., fresil.--4- glivi 1 Il e e; in ~lle t , LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3.—Wind N.E.--Ar ru 'r jl ,o -e os . - Sormg Quebec. Sld. Hopewell, Seattle, Sierra .4.--0::..11.1.-; Wallace, Rio Janeiro ; Berager,Moa_rnv,orni:4;4-0 pigto;-1 Broomhead, Virginia ; Aregon, Heron, n,_ ./‘ Air' Hutton Savannah ; Sophia, Collins, St. Jou l li Tie , P d wick. Off, New William, Mexico ; lilarX,,,leton•A )0,". Agenoria, John Begg, Indefatigable, and M'u„, 5013r0w - CLYDE, DEC. 2.—Wind N.E.—Aird. E ll 4l,cen t ' ~4 1 treal; Agnes, Gillies, Newfoundland. Sld 1 " do w - Demerara; Halivard, Putts, Grenada- -Aori Jobl il d l i t ,, # E .xmount.—Arrd. Prowler, Coytb, Labrw - 1.10 1 Nelson, Le Bas, Patagonia. SHIELDe.—The Rhine, Telford, from P,t4 le oprii tvl Brunswick, which arrived here yesterday, is lea I L6I r k t, lost part of her bulwarks, having been in c° l3 ,,ldi Debi' l with the Enighetin, of Bergen, for Ireland_i_, Inbe most immediately ' foundered ; crow sav7., wroc‘ ~ed Fenwick, from Grangemouth to Shields, W"''' ult., at Holy Island ; crew saved. t , 9 , 0 Aoki_ ill y r. 0 hjc.e. r S taf T n. . bdpy A .Lt G 3h. ll 3ce, E . s, i nNaov. diamond, 3o.—Three pieces it. n . j O . f ivi r . :p g: so l 3 ' d b:ro a ' tax h b e12:............. en picked up near liausi•g„ MARKET NEWS.—CrUA`' oet .dcoe'looreig:4o,,,r. _ sp p tl r ee e as s d e hy n e t rs eweekale A Y• ---"l."------ ...s.fp,„. tile to-daya th Monday's v w e a b s e not e n CORN EXCHANGE.---FoLt jorilifr The arrivals of English Wheat for our Inarketaie an" In free 00 d .1 a. i . v m e , Yet tb e , r ipiellit e t a good business was doing, at late rates, bu.' la rge w" boa say v ci t e o u ry o t i ex t l i a:r n n g s s e . commanded very little attention. We had a d T wice 00 0 Barley, owing to which the trade was dull, aniorsi,, Aide downward tendency. The Malt tradewa,lit, ! tag '.", oil alteration in value. The supply ofgn vit ro cjeo ''" r while the sale was slow, at la te rates. Othe Monday. 1 rioliP ARRIVALS. pate I 6, 7 ,1 : 4 f E r n is g h ush .. .... .... .... 12761110"q;S. 11584.3,900a3:2010a1eir4. 5, 2„ 40 411 '1 5,3 00 014 Foreign ... 8.580 22,10 0 Malt, 7,24 9 cirs. 0 Although the supplylnof IllellasrtsZtrerift;dnVatsgls'osC large, and of improved qualit the Beef t d r (.:; 0 recede or: fully Monda3's quotations. Yrcan a bl lvith She e r' of fla Beasts, 880 Sheep, and 20 Calves. a , cr iptio o , „,.. . scantily supplied ; yet the sale for th t ?ie.oriary pricirifie was in a sluggish state, at barely , Itersto , w,D3 u 1 Calves, a steady business was doingtat a . , :ich Co . _ 0 were quite as clear, with a fair inquiry. , , I ,l ng Oleg very dull, at from 161 to 181 acb, inclut" Calf. the ow l ' to sink ; : wianoinris uality ditto. : e s: 4 0 , t 0 4 :11 4 6‘ in e fe o r n i d or Beasts .... 2 5. dB. ;.101. second qUalltel•tro 28 .11 ' t] lU Prime smeahlealeldvpietst.o. 138 4 100 4 t t) o r 81b 3 s. 4 Prime large Oxen.. 363 10 Southdoivniiretof4 4 Prime S cots ..... 40 4 4 Ditto °eta the 3 t ; Large coarse Calves 38 4 2 Large .. • l9 ft( nfe %h i it ‘ll Sheep. surrL 3l Quarter pv.l.d..r.i .. .. .... 0 ris o crook 1. 197 2,76 0 410(1,c, Sm~►ll gold 0 0 0 Beasts. 1,082 17 p 26 3 / 4 5A 3714 92 1 % 23% 214 2 1,8 _ A P 1% P • ..........