The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

Scene 3. EXTERIGE ♦ND BARBACAN or COVENTRY CASTLE ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll 1(111 the dragon ? I " Or me he shall gorse ; I, says St. George, i I'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming or St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds a the "Corner," 1,000 to • on the Dragon (taken). " May the heel man win." Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, Clown •• .. Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon..... Mr. Priorson. J Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10, DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT LER'S SHOP.—lmproved Surgical Instruments. "Ho'ding the mirror up to nature." " Kindles furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Iteport on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint llles to the Clown's head. Scene 1 1. CORNCHANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANART.—MOIE ways than one of being "in cl , :ver." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of "chaff" in both. Harlequin gives Claiwn " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS ♦ND NURSERY GROEND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest 'notice. " Get out of the way, Old i)an Tucker," and make way for " patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TAILOR'S Snors.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going oat a shoot ing." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton,. ending in an awful Catas trophe. Scene 14. Pe/Tama OF MINIM AND FOREIGN TOT WAREHOUSE.— Toys for the Million. Magic Card.. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in she Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. "„See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene IS. THE STATUE AS rr Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. Tait STATUE AS IT WAS ; or, Wellington at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEAritc ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. it. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Foijambe, Mr. Stuart; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Itue:s.- stone ; Harwood. Mr. Bowe; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Ff , rtesene ; Jenny, Miss Wcalds. After which the New Conlc Drams of STOiff TELLING ; or, Novel Effects. In which Messrs. Farrel), Buckstone, Miss relbin, aed Mrs. Ilutr.',,y will appear. To concln4e with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Trancitiil Delights. Principal char,tc tern by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton 2lrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynold. , and Miss Julia Bennett. i(oYAL, I.Tt'ECN Under the Mar , aement of Mrs. Keeley. Will be THIS EVENING performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albe , t :Smith, Esq.. celled TilE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal chit- Teeters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining. Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woolblge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime. entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Collier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laid law ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. ---------- TEI EAT?J; ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADA3IE CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will bo performed an original romantic Drsma, called CO -I.OMBA. TUE CORSICAN S;STER. Charac:ers supported by Madcrne Celeste, 31rs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters llanlons, will ex hibit wonderfhl Jeux Gyinnastinues. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of .LA OISELLE, - entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Ethle. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Redford. 3f r. 0. Smith, air. C. Reword, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Ili!' Emir A Ilanling, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Li.ssee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be per . ormed a Drank a, in two acts, called BLANCHE DE LIIT. "she characters will be suOported by Messrs. Granby, M. Hughes, J. Vining, S. Cowell, Homier; Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Itnghes. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN win go through their wonderful performances. Atka which, a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNI :II ; or. The Ghost's Tower. Cot. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejarnts , , Mr. 1 effin. ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; ornet vlvosdos, Mr. Compton • Baron Bristle , ach. Mr. W a lt on; Bumps, R. Mr. Lionner ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, llonner, Mucks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte; Uriel, Miss Marshall; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; or, The One-eyed Gen!. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.— ST. JA3IES'S THEATRE. Lesse. Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed L'ECOLE DES MARIS. Sgartrelle, M CAMPY ; Valere, 3i. Langeval; Ergaste, M. Lucian ; Artiste , Frere de Sganarelle, 3f. Dorgebret ; Commissaire, 3f. Masquil• 'Her ; Un Notaire. 3i. Pagenier ; lea belle, Mademoiselle Angele ; Zleonor, Madame Fouquet ; Lisette, Mdlle. Khin. After which, LE PAL:RAIN. H. Durand Rentier (Le Parrain), 711, Perlet. To conclude with MONSIEUR PIQUE ASSIETTE. Pique- Asslette, Monsieur Perlet. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, Is.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respect:llllly announced that this Inimitable Entertainment will be resumed TO-MORROW EVENING, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday ; and, in complianee with nu merous applications, they will give a GRAND MORNING PEE PORMANCE on WEDNESDAY NEXT, commencing at half past Two o'Clock.---St. James's Theatre, Dec. 25. Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITILEATRE. Proprietor. Mr. W. Batty. Pa'ronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Que prince Alhert. Prinee of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Christmas Holiday Fetes. THIS EVENING, a double rotation of Equestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The " Demon Horse ; or, The Twelve ♦Vishes and the Charmed Bit." Herr Neuparte, the great Dutch Bottle ETU' ;brist. Will be THIS EVENING performed a grand new Magical E ques t r i an R omance, en titled THE Charmed Bit. D %lON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the New and ent change In the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude w !I the Grand Ghristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Her fey Pantaloon, Mr. Laffaxint; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. l ' °x, ornoe open mom e:even till five o'clock.—Doors open at six 315.1 commence at half.past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be perfo rme d en original Drama, entitled THE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEA rfl. The characters will be supported by the whole of the talented Company. To AF conclude with ; a grand fairy Pant om i me , called THE RING THE CASTLE or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. liar 3equin, Herr Deidin ; Pantaloon, Derr It. Deulin ; Columbine, Mdlle. 'Theodore ; _Clown. Iletrr E. Denby. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATR ---- E: -- •----- Iteduetims of Prices.—Boxes, Is„ Half-price, 6d ; rit. 6d• ; GallerY, 3d. ; Priv a t e B oxes, 2s. Mr. N. T. Hicks as " The Black Doc tor. Great success of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. IS EVENING Wlll he perf ormed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin_ went , Airs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed. events, BIM, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE will OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin .1. Go-alead," and Joe Miller and 114 Men. Clown, Mr. T. Baru i :rantatecn, Signor Ozraonde; Harlequin, M. Lupilio; Columbine, ;Mille. Adele Laui. STE ALING Tut ---------------.-- -On Friday info!. was forwarded to the police, ENTIREmatio FURNITURE OP A 110-179 E. street that during the temp oruy n , se_ric e of the inmates of the thbnlew Kent-road, the pre house No. 11, Ayliffe i entire household furni znises had been stripped of lure. It was openly placed d Carried off 1 ntniaioneclue at present mad though a reward has been oftere: can be obtained to the perpetrators of int of nteFriday Seven acres of land, in Hermist on s o l d night last for 951. per acre, and a second res for 841. per acre. The North Wood at In g ilb y , co la ac t ing ninety acres, was sold the same evening for 4,oonor hincoin Mercury. TI!EATRE ROYAL, DEURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's Opra, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morlicre, Mr. Horncastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrisen ; Mal-a-Propos. Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Mho Rebecca Isaacs. After which will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto- Clime, being a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes ; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma chidery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin endence of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. Aeons or KALTBA, TAZ ENcHANTIIS9.—Date and lo flinty not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered "somehow or other," "some time or other," near " somewhere or other " Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Halle, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quite miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horncastie ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March cf Intellect (travelling " mcog." as'." Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intelleet out of Industry, dam by Science, Cut of Perseverance, has never been bea.ten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTZRION OF INFANT SCHOOL.—nehoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on tht occasion. The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the investor of the ce'ebrated " Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel • Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful knights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the natives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ters Coyle, Seven, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful St. George• is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his " cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to s ish hint many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audience will al• low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYBA'S House OF Coaaccriox !—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Part. , St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney 1) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapin.), Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his bro'her champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom! Scene 5. Dom lictris.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." - Scene C. BANES OF THE NlLE.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on his way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came is Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not baying even " dipped" into the question -of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND HALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, Kiwi or EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the D ragon ( a gen tl em an, whose prodigious Allowance of jaw enables him to speak for himself), Mr. Wiehnd. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not oniy forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). Scene 8. THE DRAGON'S ITArNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY. — How the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then tall out. The Battle (fi)r particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND HALL or CHIVALRY.—How St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Fricnds in New Characters. NOTICE! On the Ist of January. with the Magazines, will be published, PART I. (with a fine Portrait of Nelson and a facsimile), to be completed In Fourteen Monthly Parts, Price only ss. each, of A CHEAP RE-ISSUE OF THE NELSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES, Edited by SIR lIARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. " The most valuable gift that has yet been offered to the seaman— both as an inspiration, and an instructor." —Atheneum. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. USEFUL PRESENT 1 , 01 A LADY, Now ready, in small Bvo., 7s. 6d. bound. THE ENGLISH MATRON By the Authoress of " THE ENaIsH GENTLEWOMAN." directors to prohibit this Sunday travelling on the plea of its immorality when the clerks upon their establishment are employed during a consider able portion of every Sunday. A more preposterous or more bigoted act was never conceived by any similar association than this proceeding on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; it is calculated to be prejudicial in a sanatory point of view, and, above all, is inimical to the cause of true religion. In her former work, inie;ciedfortlTt; preparation of young fades for society, the author enforced in the most strenuous manner, the imperative necessity of cultivating the mind, and of forming the habits. The present volume is calculated to show in what way the previous efforts are likely to bear upon the happiness of a married life. It is alike curious and interesting, it is, indeed, useful as well as highly subservient to the ends of morality, to note how frequently sinister objects, in tended to be reached, through the prosecution of schemes skilfully devised and deeply laid, are hap pily crossed and rendered nugatory by incidents, which craft and subtlety, and vigilant circumspection oftentimes fail to foresee. The records of history are replete with instances of the evil machina tions of states having been seasonably sub verted by the most trivial circumstances, and most ordinary events. It is well for the interests of the human race, that flagitious exam ples of national honour disregarded, of solemn treaties contemptuously slighted, with the degrading conse quences they have entailed upon the countries, by which such shameless acts have been authoritatively sanctioned, should be stereotyped on the pages of general history. They serve as great international beacons to warn sovereigns and their ministers against the inimical results of attempting, by a narrow, crooked, and insidious policy, to deceive and overreach neighbouring states, with which they affect to maintain the most amicable and honorable relations. Were history not pregnant, as it is, with such high moral lessons, treachery would be at a premium, and the code of nations nothing better than a sickening digest of Machiavellian duplicity. The Peninsular intrigues to which the wily KING of the FRENCH, in a wary and underhanded manner, has not hesitated to stoop, to effect a Spanish mar riage, not merely for the miserable object of grasp ing a considerable dowry for his son, not merely for the contingency of his descendants mounting the Iberian throne, but also for the purpose of gaining in Spain, through the influence thus nuptially acquirei, in contravention of existing treaties for the conser vation of the balance of European power, a maritime and commercial influence of an exclusive character, — such conduct on the part of Louis PHILIPPE has been deservedly rebuked, and taught us the propriety of keeping aloof from the contaminating ways of his faithless dynasty. The accidental tour in Spain of one individual, in stigated to make it for the renovation of his health, premises to be the simple and efficacious means of thwarting one of the leading considerations which doubtless prompted Louis PHILIPPE to bring about the marriage of the Duke of MONTPENSIER with the Infanta Dona LUISA. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., has nobly sacrificed the repose meedful to his deteriorated health, and voluntarily entered upon a mission the object whereof cannot be too much lauded. The great reputation with which he left his native shore has been, to his honour and their honour, fully appreciated by the mercantile communities of every Spanish province which he has happened to visit. The homage that: has been every where paid to him, has been fully justified, not only by the signal services he rendered to our United Empire and other countries, through the tri umph he achieved this year for the principles of free trade, but also by the enunciation of the soundest data of political economy which, in his own peculiar, for cible, and felicitous language, he has never failed to impart to the various civic banquets to which he has been invited. That a general and profound sympathy exists in Spain with the great cause espoused by Mr. COBDEN is evidenced by the welcome with which his presence has been so enthusiastically greeted in all the leading cities in the Iberian peninsula. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. lutionise the lower classes, and even seduce the sol diers from their duty, by the propagation of seditious works in the barracks." The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 19th, has the following from Posen:—" .Although the letters from the kingdom of Poland announce nothing of the approaching catastrophe, travellers from thence report, in the most positive manner, that on the 13th of next month the kingdom of Poland will cease to exist, and will be incorporated with Russia." A letter from Posen in a German paper says—" It is certain that the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen are not permitted to take any part in elections for Provineial Deputies. The Government has annulled the last election in consequence of some Jews having voted, and a new election bas been ordered. The Municipal Council, however, has resolved to suspend the proceedings for a new election in order to give time for a representation to be made to the Minister of the Interior on the subject." A letter from Berlin, of Dec. 17, says—" For several years past the production of wool has become so considerable in Germany, that this country at pre sent finds itself at the head of all those where this branch of trade is carried on. The states of the Cus• toms' Union possess 21,961,551 sheep, furnishing each year, allowing a minimum of 221 b to 10 sheep, 48,500,0001 b. of wool. The Austrian states produce each year 700;000 quintals of wool, two-thirds of which come from Hungary, Transylvania, and the military frontiers; the other third is produced in Mora% ia, Silesia, Bohemia, and Gallicia. As to the quality, the wools produced in Moravia and Silesia are the best; next come those of Bohemia, Gallicia, Transylvania, and the military frontiers." ILLUSTRATED TALE IN " THE MIRROR," Price Is. On January 1, 1847, Chapters 1., 11., 111 , and IV., of THE MISER'S WILL; Or, LOVE AND AVARICE. An English Tale. By PERCY B. ST. JOHN. The Mirror will continue to be Edited by Mr. St. John, assisted by several eminent writers, and will be Illustrated In the first style of art by Hine, Archer, and Walmsley. Now ready, Vol. 1., new series, price Is. 6d. H. Hurst, 27, King Willlam-street, Strand. Madrid Papers of the 16th have arrived. The Esperanza, of the day before, had been seized for having published an extract from the Pans . Esprit Public. According to the Espanol, the Council of Ministers has as yet come to no decision as to the time of their resignation, although Isrumz, SANZ, and CANEJA, have expressed their positive determination to resign. The elections are nearly over, and the Tierapo gives the'following analysis of the new Chamber MODEI2ADO CANDIDATES RETURNED. •' Members of the Ministerial majority in the last Cortes " Members of, the 9pposition in ditto (Pacheco party) " Deputies who did not sit in the former Cortes " Total Moderados of all shades... 237 Progressistas returned .... " Absolutists " Districts for which pd elections are to take place 29 322 " The total number of Deputies, including the Canaries, &c., is 350." Up to the 16th 163 Deputies had been returned who did not sit in the last Cortes. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Commerce gives the following version of the affair of M. BARBET DE Jour, the French Consul at the Mauritius : " M. Barbet de Jouy has thought proper to quit his residence, and thus anticipate the decision of Ministers, who, it is said, in order not to displease England, have appointed him Consul at Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands. M. Barbet, Mho has been brought up in the good principles of the Conservative policy, knows all its ins and outs, and could not therefore delude himself as to the fate reserved for him by the Cabinet of the Pritchard indemnity, and of the disavowal of Dupetit Thouars. By the Palladium, which has arrived at Havre, from the Island of Bourbon, with letters of the 26th September, we learn that M. Barbet had been for some days at Bourbon, where he was waiting fur new in struetions. We now extract from the Journal du Com merce of Bourbon, the account which it gives of the facts which led the agents of England to put so gross an in sult upon one of' the representatives of France. The account is as follows M. Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul at the Mauritius, had thought that at the levees of the chief officer of that colony there was an inclina tion to refuse him the precedence to which he was en titled by his rank and position, but, as the question was one of mere ceremony, he did not make any remon strance. At an official dinner, given by the Governor on the 24th of June last, M. Barbet was much offended, as he had a right to be, at seeing that the health of the King of the French was given only as a fifth toast, after Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Wellington, and he resolved no more to ex pose his dignity, as representative of the King and France, to such a forgetfulness of what was due to propriety. Another dinner having been given at the same place, in honour of the arrival of Admiral Dacres, M. Barbet was in vited, but would not go. Neither did ho think that, as Consul of France, long established at the Mauritius, it was his duty to pay the firAi visit on the arrival of the Admiral. The officers of the frigate in which Admiral Dacres had hoisted his flag gave a ball a few days ago, to which M. Barbet was invited in his official quality. On the day following that on which the invitation was delivered, M. Barbet received the visit of two effieers of the frigate, who came to declare to him that the invita tion had been sent by error, and that the Admiral not having received from him any manifestation of polite. ness, could not meet him at the ball. Whether this tiejustifiable proceeding was the result of premeditation, or the acci&ntal consequence of the will of the Ad miral, it is in either case a grave offence; or, to use the particular language of Sir Robert Peel, a gross outrage item the functionary who has the charge of the French flag at the Mauritius. All that we can add is, that the sl- p of the face received by M. Barbet has been re turned, and remains." It is evident, from his own account, that M. BARBET DE Jour is a captious and ill-bred person, whose man oars may, perhaps, be suited to the society he is likely to meet with at Honolulu, but who is certainly most unfitted to represent French interests in any civilised community. The Journal des Debuts contains the following masterly reply to the miserable defence by the Presse of the conduct of Russia : " We are aware that for a long time there has re mained to unfortunate Poland only an empty Lame, a shadow of existence, which the treaties of Vienna had desired to secure to her. Russia, we also are aware, has laughed at her engagements, and has forced Poland to endure all that barbarous force can inflict on weak ness. Notwithstanding the cry of indignant Europe, the Pules have been dispersed, their property confiscated, and their children carried off ! Not only have they lost all their political guarantees, but an attempt has been made to make them forget their ancient language, to adopt new customs, to abjure the religious faith of their fathers. It is against these abominable acts of violence that our Chambers protest every year, and their protest, whatever may be said to the contrary, if it des not prevent the fact, maintains the right—the right written down in treaties—the right against which exile, confiscations, and cruelties can do nothing ! No, pro tests are not a vain formality, and Russia knows it well, as her acts prove. The nationality of Poland will still sebsist in spite of all that cunning and barbarity have done to destroy it, as long as there remains in Europe a free tribunal to protest in the name of treaties against the annihilation of that nationality! A day will arrive sooner or later when these protests, which persons now affect to despise, will rise up all together, and constitute a terrible condemnation against Go vernments reckoning only en force ! What is it that the journal which laughs at the protests of France and England desire to prove? 1 hat for fifteen years Russia, by her violence and attacks, more or less plainly manifested against treaties, has placed herself outside the pale of public right and civili sation? We allow this without any difficulty. In fact, all that could be destroyed of Poland has been destroyed, its constitution, its Chambers, its army. There is, how ever, a last step to pass, and that step is to all appearance something, since Russia, notwithstanding all the desire she feels, has not taken it. Poland has lost everything; there only remains to her her name; but that name has not yet been ventured to be taken from her; and the day on which Russia shall declare that there is in the world a Russian province the more, and a kingdom of Poland the less, it will be seen whether right is nothing, even when violence has reduced it to a vain shadow, a mere word. The republic of Cracow for a length of time had only preserved an almost ridiculous shadow of inde pendence. Its Senate trembled under the authority of the lowest Austrian or Russian officer. There is more freedom at St Peteraburgh than there was at Cracow. The republic of Cracow was only a word ; every one knew it ; and yet the day when the Northern Powers scratched out this word, this vain word, all Europe felt deeply shaken; Treaties were being eluded ; they were openly and audaciously violated ; and there was not a free man in Europe who did not consider himself attacked in his rights by the same blow I One power alone can rejoice at these attacks ti;;;ainst the kith of treaties and against civilisation, and that power is Russia. Pot the Etc:tall plishment of her projects on Poland Find tlgoahere she wants Europe to fall into ufiiiiergai Ciihtiititift; ilia that fotto should rule over right. For Prussia and Austria the destruction of Cracow has been an enormous fault— for Russia alone It is tl. e vital lathlike ; the finishing touch of'stiC;cess 1 She wanted accomplices, and she hes tlieth. There are no more treaties -z-so uitieh the better 1 that is what litt4aiii Watited. Lint it Is, Aloe to L.Tilhat France and England should not draw closer to each °the.. The alliance of these two free nations is the only obstacle that she seriously dreads. The day on which France and England should have fallen out irre parably, Russia would utter a cry of joy—she would have attained the height of her wishes—civilisation and right would have lost their rampart ! Should the Rus sian alliance be worth to us a province, we should never forget that such presents are not received from such a power, but by becoming its feudatories ! Cracow will cost dear to those who have accepted such a present 1 We think that the tactics of the partisans of the Russian alliance amongst us ought now to be understood ; to separate France from England irrecoverably, and to dis turb everything in Europe. Such is their aim I It ought also to be comprehended why, notwithstanding a temporary difference with England, we teman firm to Our columns of to-day contain a report of a grand entertainment to the Member for Stockport, at Ma laga. His speech will be re td with interest. An entire perusal will alone do it justice. He again enforces the broad, intelligible, and sound principle, that for the purposes of revenue only, and not for the exclusive benefit of classes or private individuals, ought custom-house duties to be imposed. "The custom-house," observed Mr. Conocm, "is alienated from its legitimate object when it is maie use of for the purpose of rendering more l ucrat i ve t h e under- taking of any private individual, and preventing others from following the same trade. The sole'and unique object that can justify the creation of taxes and duties, is, as I have said, the provision of a reve- nue or resources for the state. This is the basis of all our present operations in England." Mr. COBDEN happily, and with becoming modesty, adverted to the generous and confident spirit in which England has led the van in favour of commercial liberty. He ex horted his hearers to promote the discussion of freedom of trade, which was certain of being successfully adopted wherever the people were en lightened, and he expressed his conviction that the mind of the Spanish nation would soon be animated by a due sense of the inestimable advantages attendant upon unfettered mercantile intercourse between all nations of the earth. "Free trade," exclaimed Mr. Connasi, " is the presage of peace be tween nations; this magic word, peace, expresses in a thousand ways the progress of humanity and civili sation; and you, the people of Spain, will see, with us, that the dearest interests of the great family of the human race are involved in our prin ciples !" These ennobling truths were ap plauded to the echo in Malaga, as they were in Madrid, in Cadiz, in Seville, and in Barcelona. We rejoice to receive such gratifying intelligence. With the spread of free-trade principles in Spain, under the luminous auspices of Mr. COBDEN, the crafty schemes of Louis PHILIPPE, for rendering the commercial interests of Spain exclusively instru mental to the augmentation of those of France, will be completely vitiated. The King of DENMARK has dissolved the Diet of Schleswig. In the sitting of Dec. 14th, the Royal Commissioner read the following letter from his MAJESTY : "From the minutes of the proceedings of the Diet of Schleswig, I have seen with regret that th e sa id As sembly, in pl ace o f being occupied with the Bills earnestly required by the country, and with those proposed by the Diet its,lt; has discussed certain propositions contrary to the Act of Nil) , 28, 1831, and which hnd to change completely the constitution of the Duchy of Schleswig, and to bring about its separation from Denmark. Al though the Diet has several times been informed that it, is incompetent in this respect, it has not paid any atten tion to the information. The Commissioner having re ceived an injunction in conformity with paragraph 50, not to accept the petitions of the Diet, the President maintained that the right of petitioning was there by suppressed. There was every unwillingness to attack in any way this right ; and if the Diet had pro posed changes on the subject of the interpretation of paragraph 50, regard would perhaps have been paid to them. The President, however, insisted that the order of the day should be changed—the Commissioner for that reason was unabl e t o accept t h e pet i t i ons, which decided the majority to quit, without any sufficient reason, the hall where the sittings were held. This proceeding by the majority, contrary to its duty, and the illegal con duct of the President, which has incurred our disappro bation, rendering all further discussion impossible, we hereby declare the present Diet of Schleswig dissolved. Pained as we are to find ourselves obliged to have re course to this sad necessity, we shall always be most ready to give our dear and faithful subjects of the duchy of Schleswig proofs of our unceasing paternal solicitude, and to protect the independence of that duchy, its union with the other parts of the monarchy, the rights estab lished, the Danish and German nationality of its in- , habitants, and to labour for well-being of each by useful measures. With such views we commend it to the sate keeping of God." A Frankfort journal of the 21st states, On the au thority of a letter from Vienna, that the Austrian Cabinet had not decided as to whether the answer to the note of Lord PALMEESTON on the Cracow affiir shall be given in its own name alone or in that of the three Courts. It was supposed, however, that a col lective answer would appear semi -officially in the Austriun Observer. The Nuremberg Correspondent, of the 17th, has the following from Berlin :—" The judicial proceed ings which were commenced in consequence of the late arrests are going on actively. The affair has taken a very serious turn, and new arrests are made every day among the upper classes. It is asserted that several towns of the kingdom are compromised`' Amongst the new prisoners is one who is believed to be an agent of the poet H—. Paris and Switzer land form the, central pointf,of the machinations 2 These criminal attempts have had for object to revo- 1 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, i 846 our old faith of the English alliance. The English alli. ance or isolation ! We know of no third position ho• nourable for France." The Bey of TUNIS arrived at Lyons on the 20th, and left it next day on his journey to the south. " The responsible editors of the Epoque, the Com merce, the Journal des Villes et Campagnes, the Gazette de:France, the Echo Francais, the Esprit Public, and the Drat, had to appear before the Tribunal of Correc tional Police on Tuesday, to answer a charge of offend ing against the law, by inserting the advertisements of foreign lotteries. The chief defence set up was, list the parties had disposed of their advertising pares to persons who had contracted for them by the yea!, sad that they could not, without a violation of their c«ntriot4 refuse to publish the advertisements which were br( seat to them, unless they could have shown that they welt acting in defiance of the raw. The Tribunal. it old that the defendants might be able to plead a corpigli.m as a sufficient ground for refusing to publish such auyer tisements, found them guilty, but inflicted, as punish ment for the past, only a fine of 10 francs each, and his proportion of the costs of the prosecution." Algiers papers to the 15th have arrived. They contain no news. At that date the colony was in the enjoyment of uninterrupted tranquillity. CoultS AUTITENTIQIIE.—PARIS, DEC. 24.—French Five per Cents.. 11Sf. 85c. 50c. 60c.; Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. 60c. 55c. 60c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,490 f. ; Treasury Bonds, 3% 1 3 m., 34 3 6 m. Obligations of the City, 1,387 f. 50c. 1,355 f. ; Neapolitat (Rothschild's), Detinitives, 103 f. 25c. ; Romans, t 01; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 101 f. 100%f. 1011. ; Belgian Five per Cents. (1842),. 102 f. ; Belgian Tivo-and-a- Half per Cents. 55 3 / f. ; Ditto, Bank, 930 f. Exchange on London—one month,paper, 25f. 32%c. ; money, 25f. 32 1 c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 22 4c.; money, 25f. 22% c. POTATO ROT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ripon, Dec. 22, 1846. SIR, —Some time since I saw addressed to farmers generally, who stored their potatoes in pies, to cover tern well with stable manure, to secure them from frost, which I have no doubt would be the case, but it would destroy the crop for next year, as I am sure not one half would ever. grow ; therefore I advise those who have done so to lose no time in uncovering them, and to take off carefully a foot thick of those on the outside, for house use, as I believe! it will not injure them for use. It would not be unadvisable to take care of some of the outsides, to satisfy themselves as to the result by planting them next spring. • I am, Sir, yours, &c., Q. C. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton this morning, accompanied by the Princess Royal. The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise on the Eastern-terrace and Slopes. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentle men of the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended divine service this morning in the private Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess off Kent also a tended the service. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving. The Equerries in Waiting, the Hon. Colonel Phipps and Co lonel Bouverie, attended on horseback. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Viscountess Forbes, and Mr. Vaughan, the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Hon. Miss Lyttleton, Miss Pole Carew, the Lady in Waiting to the, Duchess of Kent, the Ba roness de Speth, Lord James Murray, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir George and Lady Couper, Captain Francis Seymour, and Mr. Glover. The Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle. WINDSOR, SllNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk. The Royal Family took pony exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterd ly morning. The Prince was at tended by the Earl of Listowel, the Hon. Colonel Phipps Mr. G. E. Anson, and Major-General Bowles. This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked on the eastern terrace of the Castle. The Royal Family took their accustomed walking and pony exercise. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle. men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine Service this morning, iii the private chapel of the C tstle. The Hon. and Hey. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Vane. The Countesses of Listowel and Charlemont, Lady Leveson Gower, Lords W. Graham and Mark Kerr, were among the nobility present. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From Me Sun of Saturday Evening.) In the Liverpool Cotton market this week there have been sold 21,310 bales. Prices are fairly id. per lb. lower, and in some cases more, as compared with Friday last. Stock, 424,600 bale►, against 890,200 bales at this time last year. There was, of course, no Share market at Liverpool yesterday. The return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of England for the past week gives the following changes • Notes issued Increase 2,265 Public deposits, increase €62,272 Rest, increase Other deposits, decrease 7 Day and other Bills, decrease Other securities, increase. . . Notes, increase Bullion .... 15,162,623 Increase The directors of the Bank of England are pur suing, in this respect, the same course as for some weeks past. They diminish their note liabilities, although their bullion and securities are increasing. On the other hand, however, they have to meet the continued withdrawal of other deposit s , which, although balanced by the present increase of public deposits will not long continue so to be, inasmuch as the dividends end official salaries will soon trench upon the latter. The year, however, is expected to close without any pressure for money in the discount market, and soon after tha open ing of the New Year we shall have money perhaps more abundant. The importance of the railway interest renders the eighth edition of " Tuck's Railway Manual" a most ac ceptable work for " city " men, because the constant changes in railway property necessitate periodical cor rections. The statistics given of the traffic, receipts, prices of shares, &c., are so ample, that it is almost use less to attempt extracts. We may observe, however, that about four years are expected to elapse before the Bills sanctioned in 1846 can be completed, and that the ex penditure will be about 25 millions per annum. a part of which amount will actually be obtained by the employ- ment of the surplus capital which quick communication affords, considering the rapid circul a ti on o f mone y p a id away for wages, Ste., there cannot at any time of the year be a million unemployed in the coffers of the bankers receiving " calls" for the various companies. Consols for the Account have been very steady this morning at 941, the Three per Cent. Reduced at 94 , the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 96, and Exchequer bills at I2s. to Bs. premium. The attendance of dealers and jobbers to-day is extremely thin, most of them keeping the holidays. Abcut a half a dozen bargains were made in the Fo reign Bonds this morning. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted only at 374, the French Rentes at 118, Exchange 25f. 50c., the Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 61, and the Four per Cents. at 924. In the Railway Share Market there has not been any movement of importance to-day. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 944 1 4 94% . New 34 per Cent. Annuities 96% 96 96 L.ongAnnuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9% WS ; Consols for Opening 9 4 1 /8 94% Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 id.... 912 8— p 8 p ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES 24% 24% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ' Ditto. Account ..... ••• ........... 37 :3 4 , Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account . — Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto, Account — Dividends on the above payable in London. French, 5 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 70c. 25f. 50r. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, Account..... — 61% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 3 / 4 93% PRICES OF vAm. BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES - AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Not., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... :2 3 / 4 3 3 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Belfast & County Down 4:y 4 — . Birmingham and Dudley 425...... 6% p 6% p Birmin. and Glencester..loo 1291 /2 129% Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 / 4 . Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. % p Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. 2%...... Buckinghamshire Oaledonian Ditto Half Shares 2% 2%.... ..... ..... Ditto, Clydesdale Jenc 25 Cheater and Holyhead... 27% 25%. Churnet and 81ythe...... 2 Chester and Manchester 425. — Chelteeham and Oxford 2 Clarence lOO Do. ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. . _ _ Cork and Killarney ... 21,4 Cork and Waterford ... 1% — '7ornwall • 5 LL Dlv, 11.1( ch.r.q ... 214...... . % ....... Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford,and Sheffd. Jtmc. 2% --. Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% — Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 23% 23 Ditto New l2/. 16s 7l/5/ p . Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d — Do., York Extension.. 2 3% 3 / 4 EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 4O •• ••• _ . _ _ Ditto, Quarter Shares 10 Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% — Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21,4 East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk),... Do., do., New Scrip It L; Anshi- - 11- East ,ineolnshire ...... A ...... .. ....... I..aA & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 78 Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 124 ...... 19 Edinburgh & Northern.. 124 l6 15 1 ,4 ..... -.. 154 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... Ely and Huntit;zdon ... 12 1 / 2 — ..... . — 1 / 2 Enniskillen and Siigo ... 2 Ex eter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2% Glasgow, Kil mar., ei Ayr 50 -......— Ditto, New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ' Goole Doncaster, Isc. .. 2 Great Eastern &Western 2 1 / 2 — ....... Great South. and West. _ (Ireland) Great Munster 2 % ....••• Great North of Scotland 2% — •••••••......•• Great North of England..loo Ditto New......... ...... 5 Ditto, New .. l5 ...... 55 ... ........ Ditto, New Great Western B5 ...... Ditto % Shares Ditto li Shares lO Ditto Fifths Ditto. New Huddersfield & blanches. 13 Ditto, Extension Hull and 5e1by............ 50 - .. ........... Do. Half Shares Ditto 1 4 Shares - ............... 231/ Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 ~..., — ............... 4 Do., do., and Norwich 5 — 4% Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New - - 10 Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... ... —— .* 75% Leicest,:r and Bedford l6s. Leeds, De:vsbury, &c.... 22% 3l ..• •..... Do., Brancb (Blue) ... 2% — ••••• Do. Extensiot:( Green) 2%.. „., —. Leeds and Thirsk 17% — ' Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% 5 Do., Itnchstr &New castle Junction .... 2%...,. 24 8 % London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d 8% Do. New - ...... •• •• ... Ditto Extension London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O .. .. 59% Ditto, Fifths Do. Consol. Eighths lO Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - ••• •• •• ..••• London and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western - •• •• • ..... •• •• -- London and N. Westernloo 195% 194% 194% Do. Quarters • 2 — 59 47% Do., do., New 2 Ditto Fifths 2 ...... Do. lfi Shares (G. J.) 5 Do 40/. Shares (L. M.) Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. & B. 5 15% Do. 10/. N. & B.; 1 London, oxford, 'and Cheltenham .. 1%..... ... ........ .. Long. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6 3 14 Do. New Consol. Bths 40 Do. New Do. New , lB ... . Ditto Tenths ..... Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ....... .... 4 London ant: York 214 2 3 /4 1 / 2 ••.. Do. Extension - London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ........„ ........ 2% Londonderry &Coleraine 15 Londonderry and,Ennis killen l5 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l5 — Manchester and Leeds 82. Ditto '4 Shares .... ... 38— Do. Quarters 2 ..... 7 ..... ......... 7 Do. Fifths 5 .. . 11 10% Do. Sixteenths 6 14 7% 7 Do. Extension 42s. 1 1 4 1% p l3 p Do. Liverp. and Bury 21 — Do. do. Fifths ..... .... 1 Manchester,Burton,and - I j blatl94 424. .... p ra. p 634 - 6% - 17IA RAILWAY sLIAJCES 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. take place every TUESDAY and Fainar, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. ill scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; sad advices of results will be orwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds 'suite giately disposed if according to instrzctions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. IHE WEATHER.--Stim OFFICE, DECEMBER 26. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 30; Noon, 34, BAkomETER, 30.29.—WniD E., fine. HI, H WATLii. AT LONIAM-Isitlimi, Tfilb DAY. Morning .. 1 minute after 10. f Evening .. 40 niinntes after 10. 4_7" • - " ks,%t , Marvin ._. nu. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1846, When it was originally proposed by the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to discon tinue Sunday travelling upon that line of communi cation between the metropolis of Scotland and the most populous manufacturing city in the United Kingdom, we took occasion -to condemn that pro ceeding in the most emphatic language we could command. Little time has elapsed since the appear ance of that proposition, but it has been sufficient to enable the public to indicate their opinions upon the question, and also upon the principle which is in volved therein. Scotland is too enlightened to yield to the delusions of fanaticism, and hence the indigna tion which was expressed by every unprejudiced joernalist has been responded to in a marked and significant manner by the population of that portion of the . British empire. It was self•evident that the board of direc tors to any public company, to any company deputed to promote the advantages and facilitate the inter course of the community, was exceeding the powers entrusted to it by Parliament, in the extraordinary way above-mentioned. Having been enabled by the Le gislature to interfere with individual rights, to cut through private domains, and to purchase perforce different portions of private property situated between Edinburgh and Glasgow, for the purpose of construct • ing their railroad, the directors of this, as of every similar company, were simultaneously invested with a responsibility which, by their recent decision against Sunday travelling, they have not fulfilled. The com pany was enabled to carry out its original intentions solely upon the implied understanding that it would faithfully perform its duties as an instrument of public good. It was virtually held responsible, on its in corporation, for the continuance under its novel auspices of all those innocent and lawful advantages hitherto enjoyed by the localities at its termini. The mail bags, which had previously been carried by coaches upon the highway, were to be conveyed hence - forth by the steam-engines of the company. Passen gers in like manner were to be granted similar privi !eges as heretofore upon the new line of transit; there were to be second and third-cla:is carriages, instead of the outside places of a stage coach or an omnibus ; there were to be first-class carriages instead of the inside places of stage coaches; there were to be luggage trains instead of earriers, vans, and waggons. It was naturally expected, indeed, by the community that the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway Company should give them ample compensation for the loss of those vehi cles which were removed from the ordinary road by the arrangements and engagements of that company. That was the tacit understanding between all the parties concerned in these transactions. It was just that the population should exact so much : it was the bounden duty of the company to ensure so much. Everything has prospered with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; the speculation has proved remu nerative ; its system has given universal satisfaction; the board of direction has afforded all reasonable facilities to the people; the people have reposed every confidence in the board of direction ; there has been a mutual cordiality between the company and the public, for whose benefit the former was instituted. Matters have continued in this satisfactory condition ever since the formation of the line, when everything is suddenly thrown into a state of the most miserable confusion by the spurious morality and religious fa naticism of four sapient, and, doubtless, very excel lent individuals. At their instance alone, the usual means of communication between Edinburgh and Glasgow is denied to the inhabitants on fifty-two days in the three hundred and sixty-five. For the gratification of their own saturnine piety, the thou s inds 11,ho have toiled from Monday morning to Sa turo.ay night, are, on the only day afforded them for the relaxation of their exhausted bodies, compelled to remain immured in the unwholesome byways of the cities, and are, by that unnatural imprisonment, incited to debauchery and drunkenness, It affords us the highest gratification to observe that the Town Council of Edinburgh has considered the recent adjudication of the directors sufficiently important to warrant its particular interference. On the occasion of the last meeting of the Town Council we observe that a long discussion ensued upon the pro position of Mr. C. B. TAIT, to the effect that the city authorities of Edinburgh should, before Parliament, protest against the tyrannical enactment the merits accepted by of th e d irectors. After a somewhat bitter colloquy upondemerits of the affair, th a t pro position was a majority of thirteen in a room of twenty-seven. The right of the corporation of the Scotch capital to interfere in the manner pro posed was justly maintained by the Lord Provost after it had been Hiscredited by one of the Bailies. The right, indeed, is manifest nay, th e Town Council h as no t merely a right to protest, it has a po s iti ve d u t y to perform in uttering that protestation. By stopping the Sunday trains more injury is inflicted upon the industrial population, than that of a simple interference with their conve nience. In the prevention of travelling on every seventh day, the health, the probity, the sobriety, the very morality of the people are concerned. By denying the poor artisans their innocent privilege of beholding GOD'S creation on the Sunday, of breathing a pure atmosphere at rare and precious intervals ; of visiting the sick and dying on emergencies, of joining their parents in worship in the village churches, with which all the recollections of their childhood are associated, their self-opinionated, religionists are ear ' rying out their bigotry to an unbearable excess. Employing vehicles themselves upon that seventh day, they are indignant that the poorei classes should be desirous of purchaaine ; sixpenny railway tickets. Looking to the religion of the thing, it is calculated that several hundred i'adividuals have been hitherto enabled to attend the churches and chapels of Edin burgh, or of Glanso.v, who, without the assistance of a railway, would b e a lt oget h er deprived of religious i nstruction. Again, it is preposterous for the l LITERATURE. A TREATISE (IN THE STAMP LAWS. By Hugh Tilsley, Assi taut Solicitor of Stamps and razes. IVr. haw , . innoh pleasiiro in nsUir, b tlic atteutitnA of our professional readers to this publication, by a gen tleman peculiarly qualified, by his official position and experience, to render a work of the kind valuable to meii of business. The a l mos t en dl ess pa i nts o f practice which arise daily in the offices of solicitors, and which are generally the subjects of inquiry and consultation at Somerset House, evince the necessity for such a work by a competent hand. The book before us appears to embrace the whole body of the law of stamps, comprising statutes whose name is Legion, and a review, very full and elaborate, where any importance or difficulty seems to re quire it, of all the cases which have from time to time occupied the attention of the different Courts. The constantly recurring subject of probate and legacy duties is treated somewhat copiously, the present state of the law ralating to it, so far as it may be said to be developed by legal decisions, being lucidly deduced and explained. The work, generally, by its classification and arrangement, is peculiarly adapted for facility of reference, a cir cumstance in no slight degree enhancing its value and utility to practical men. The tables collate the whole of the present duties payable in the United King dom, embodying in the most convenient form, particu lars both as to duties and exemptions, collected, and heretofore to be sought out from a host of Acts of Par liament to which references are made. The care and labour bestowed upon the work can have been of no ordinary amount, and the result cannot tail to be highly acceptable to the profession generally. DREADNOUGHT SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.—The soli citor of this noble charity has recovered a legacy of 6001, of which the society had no information until three years after the demise of the benefactor, a captain of a mer chant ship. —Nautical Standard. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER.—We are enabled to announce that the directors have finally abandoned all intention of attempting to raise this ill-fated vessel, hay ing seen a letter to that effect, addressed to our talented townsman, Mr. Matthew Stead, in which the ingenuity of his plan was acknowledged, Captain Claxton, at the same time stating it to be the 412th received by them.— Ten Towns Messenger. DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD PACEETS.—.The Dublin and Holyhead Railway Company are about to build four steam-packets to run to and from Dublin, in conjunction with the railway. Tbey are to be of first-rate designs, and in order to encourage competition, and secure good vessels, they have most liberally determined to offer a premium of 1,0001. to the builder of the boat which, in the course of twelve months, makes the quickest passage with the smallest amount of repairs. Of course the boats will be of iron.—. Nautical Standard. WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—This being Christ mas-day, Divine service was performed in the private chapel of the Castle, by the Queen's private chaplain, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Prince Alfred, with all the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, attending, After the service, the beauty of the day induced her Majesty to ride out; and an open phaeton, with postillions, being sent round from the royal stables, her Majesty, attended by the Marchioness of Douro, and escorted by the lord and equerries in wait ing, drove through Old Windsor, as far as the Bells of Ouseley, and then returned by the same read to the Castle. In the meantime the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales in his hand, walked across the Home b P e a r rk or e to Fo their r g n in o y o , and H ig h v n i s e i s t s e e d s t l h e e f t Dt the e c h l e o s d s g o e, f I t i t) e e n y t , e a x nd a. mined the state of the ice on the lake of the grounds of Frogmore. This afternoon, about three o'clock, the Queen again rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince Consort driving. They again took the road through Old Windsor, with intent, it was supposed, of entering the great Park at Bishopswate, and so returning by Spring Hill and the Long Walk to the Castle, but from s , me CiititlV., or other they returned to the Castle by the Old Windsor road, anti After having been put little more than three-quarters of an hour. LOSS AND RECOVERY OF ONE HUNDRED AND sbi.hw r y sovNagiGNs.—On Thursday, the proprietor of a public-house reo actur n oten t eri h tteeh e aeanewvi r n tvi oben i gpua g igigi b te,tht b shhe o epween u l hhatfi r i ncei h orcidois o n: nts o goee d no: hh.bet o i ihee f oeeteff D hoot hepr r t tgahe u hgcnoe r a y i et set - od- sovereigns :kv a t egntat sat eaal take paid attracted t foenao ndstrt to the receiving-clerk of a brewer 170 sovereigns, secured ti d s d i vi ah h n ii i el i s : rt t A ti h e h s ,a o r, il dra i etd te i:rni iit a ; b gi ei ut pi tlt ta n ws t Shor tl y after his departure a poor woman e to the barman, milting him to change it. The barman, aware of her poverty, said that she must have robbed some one, when she became confused, and attempted to conceal the bag under her meagre clothing, which at tracting the barman's attention, he discovered the bag of sovereigns which he had just paid away. While he was taking it from her, the affrighted clerk returned, and was highly delighted at having thus recovered the bag of money. DEATH OF ISIS HIGHNESS PRINCE ROHAN GUEMENEE._The illustrious head of the noble house of Rohan Galatea& died on the 10th instant, at his chateau in Bohemia. Prince Vie:or Louis was in his 81st year, having been born on the 20th of July, 1766. He was Prince of Guftenia, Duke of Bouillon, and Duke of 14Quibizon. Manchest. & Southampt. 2 - 1* Nlidland lOO 129 128 129 1 , 2 ... 1291% Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derby100 ~-.. Midland. Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 3 4 3 /4 34% Do. North Shields ... 25 - Neweast le an d Carlisle...100 Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 Newport& Abergavenny 2%...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 — Newry. Warrenpoint, ...... . ,-- • and Rostrevor 5 - -- -- Norfolk .......... ........ ...100 129 .... ... ...... 1 29 Ditto Half Shares .. 9 Do. Extension Northern Counties Union 2% 1 4 1 1 North British .....25 Do. Half Shares ll ...... 15% A........... 13 3 Do. Quarters ...... Do. Extension Ditto Thirds Northern and Eastern 5O - ......•• .... . . -- Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 . 7% ......• mama Si. , ••••• i 54 % — ;ria 40 2415. ~ 's~ ~~ ei • , ~ ;,- i\ ~ ~~ ~, ~ ,r~ ~~. r: f'~ `~, ~:: .4.i; '' #';'--:‘) - :-, ,( , .1 1 . 1 1.- - ... ''-,.„-" - 7., • Do. East and \Vest Rid- '. • ~,,,, ~ ,-,1 . i ,,v. . ing Extension , :;: ' , ''' *;:•,' FOREIGN RAILWAY, ~,Y,,,c.. „:•. ~. 1 0. ,,,<,...,.. .., Anglo-Belgian 4' Barbadoes . -1 ****** -- 000 ~ o .••,5.42‘1244.- 41 :,,,,,:,, Belgian Eastern Junctn 2 1 4 - o•• '•'•,' -' - . , .- , Y.;;;-• tiourogne and Amiens.... 18 .4 — ..... .• . i'• ..- Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and .... Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ••• -- ...... ...... Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... • -- ..... '.. Calais, Dunkrk, and West ........... Flanders Calcutta and, Diamond .......... ...,. Harbour ....... ....... . 7 5 . ..... . ...... ..... Callao, Liina, and Pacific •.......... Coastl ..... ... ............ -- Central of Spain ... - ........... Ceylon .... - .." 55 " ...... --- . _ .......... . .., Demerara 2 % •••-• ... .... • Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and • ..... • .. • . Madras - .. ' Dutch Rhenish . . - East Indian. ............ .• . - Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. _.. Great Western Bengal...- ss. Great Western Canada-. 314 - Italian and Austrian..:. 4 - ..-• Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey bouv - ain ii la Sambre ... 6 —•— ••-•• - :.• Luxemb0urg............. 4 - Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras ...... Madras. Nellore, and Arcot I A — .. 0... 11adrid and Valentin.... 2 ... - Alguritius Namur and Lie - - ' NnofFranceConstituted 5 ..... 10% .11 ......... 11 North Jamaica... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 .....• . Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 - 8 %••• •••• .. , . ' Over Yssel. 4/ 3s 4d ....--.. -. LB' Paris &Lyons Constituted 8 . ..... 8%%••• . .... Paris and Orleans ... Paris and nouen 'aris and Strasbourg . Constituted Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ...... 10 .... 4% ....... • ... ... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 .•,,t. Laurence & Atlantic fours and Nantes Con stituted ... ..... -..... 5 ' — . ............ Tournay, Jurbise, Lan clan, arid Hasselt.. ... .. - 8 •• rrinidad • ''-•* •' 214 West Flanders ...... ~.. 6 • ..., ...... ~' r ~ f, : '.~. ~,. ... 4% f 4% Jr. , MINES. . Real del Monte Unregd. .... ..... stA ROYAL P OLYTECHNIC INsTrrunoN.--to a hat ) glance which we were ena bl ed to give on Satßr a tlY fi o d this splendid temple of science, we were delighted t° , that it was crow d e d to excess. There are many "pr. ties in th e di sso l v i ng v i ews, and in the lectures of so Ryan and P ro f essor Bachoffner. Important as all theme are, they appear t r i v i a l i n comparison to the "g re o fact," th at there are so many thousands in Londc°LeA were seen th ere on Saturday, capable of that hig" oo , enjoym ent, the utit dulcie. The institution was ope n .. Saturd a y even i ng, b e i ng the first Saturday since i ts el" . blishment. ACCIDENT.—An. aged man (name unknown), SUP; posed to be a resident in Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge , on Friday night run over by a cab, the driver of Wh i „ C o turned out to be as l ee p at t h e t i me . Th e i n j ur ed 1 ° - was passing song Maiden-lane, and the horse wag . pro d • ceeding at the moment of th e acc id en t at an unco ntrox f pace of 12 miles an hour. M r . B en j am i n G ar dener, Kensington Gravel-pit s , h a pp en i ng to b e pass i ng at tl3OO time, in - company with his wif e , w it nesse d t h e accidene . and pursued and overtook the cabman who seemed t i t conscious of what had occurred . The injured man, fro m whose mouth blood gu s h e d p ro f use l y , was p l ace d in t h e cab, and convey e d i n a s p eec hl ess state to t h e n ear°g accident hospital. There was no policeman near. CITY IMPOSITION S .—At a recen t mee ti ng of the Ward of Bridge, it was stated that any person landing below London-bridge from foreign steam-boats " i s obliged to pay Is. the inst an t h e p u t hi s f oo t o n W e s shore. This imposition w as sa id t o h ave t h e e ff ect o f driving passengers to land at Blackwell. All 'the mem bers of the Court of Common Council for the ward Pro" mired to do their best to put an end to it. RAILWAY TRANSIT A REMEDY ron THE Scsucar, OF MILK IN THE M ETR O POLIS . — Th e great scarcity o f milk among the milk dealers in the metropolis at Christ mas has for many years been much felt; but by ar rangements made with country dairies, great quantities of milk were yesterday' imported into London by rail' way, and a very plentiful supply of milk was had from Essex, Hertfordshire, and Hampshire; large cans of milk are daily transmitted to , the metropolis by the various railways. We read in a letter from Rome of the 11th "We have just passed a dreadful night. The rain fell in torrents, with lightning and thunder. The Tiber overflowed its banks, and inundated the city in many parts. In the vicinity large quantities of corn are de stroyed, whole flocks have perished, and several persons are said to have lost their lives. The waters of the Tiber are now returning to their bed." Tau COLOSSEUM.—The division of prices at tills delightful exhibition is a great boon to the public, and a great advantage to the proprietor. A great boon to the public inasmuch as it enables an individual 'for one shilling to see any one portion of the exhibition. For instance, the Museum of S cu lpt ure an d t h e P anorama e f, LondoubyDay may be seen for one shilling. The Con servatory, Aviary Views, .and Swiss ScenerT may be • seen for a similar sum ; or if t h e v i s i tor i s desirous, like Richmond, of penetrating " into the bowels of the lane for his shilling, he may visit the Stalactite Caverns at Adelsberg. It is a great advantage to the proprietor because, like a diminishing duty it brings with it an increased revenue, and for the same reason. Many who really cannot afford to pay more than one shtlling at a time have hitherto been kept away from the Colosseum. These visitors pay their shilling, and delighted with what they have seen, return again some months afterwards and see another portion, and a month after that, return and seo the remainder, bringing with them a party each time. These visitors are, however, few in number, compared with those who enter the Colosseum determined only to see one shilling's-worth, but who are so delighted with that that they are tempted to pay another, and do not leave the building until they have seen the whole. The Colosseum was this morning crowded with visitors' of this class, and so delighted were they with what they ; saw by day that not a few of them audibly expressed their determination to revisit the Colosseum at night, id_ order to see how the various objects look when Mud' nated by artificial light, and they are right. The day and the night exhibitions are perfectly distinct; they no more resemble one another than clay resembles flier, - and no one can form an idea or the _wonders of lone= who bee not seen both. Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ......... •.. ••• Do. New North Staffordshire 5 .....• 9 1 4 1 ........ .._... North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting - ........... 4 i•• North Western 2% ... .;.. -- ••• •••••••"7 . ' Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3:Y 4 ...... -- •• ...... •••..• Preston and Wyre - ..... .. ........ Do. %Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3/. 12& ... ... dis. •• • * OH •• • Richmond 15 ...... -- ........... Royston and Hitchen - .......... •.""' •• Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% - • •••" Sheffield & Manchester 100 - •• ....... 4 " ... Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Li n colnsh ire Junc. 1 1 A..» - ........ ..i!... Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Ditto ditto, Class B. 1 1 4 - ............... Shropshire Union South Devon 40 South StaffordshireJunc. 2% - ••• ......... .. south Eastern & Dover. 33% - •• ....... ..-.- Do., No. 1 2O ~ Y. 1... ...... Do., Ne 2. 12 . — ........ . .. Do., No. 3 - •••• •*" ...• Do., No. 4 .••• ...... St.Alban's, Hatfield ,and Hertford Junction ... 425. Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — ....... ".. . ... South Wales ..... -.... ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Vale E .. xtension ... 3 Vale of Neatly.- .. ...... 2 ..... Wakefield,fontefract.& Goole Waterford and Kilkenny 2 1 2 1 % . .. .... --- ... ..... ............... . --•••••••••• '•; -, -•-• - - .............. .... •• • Waterford and Limerick 27% — ........ ... .-. - t - a: Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin __, ~,., .. , Wexford, ‘v aterford, and • .. Vilentia - .............. .... Waveney Valley ..... - 2 - ..... •••••••• .. !f ....... :, . Welsh Midland - ............... ' 2% P. .. West Riding Union 425. - ---1- :" 7 West Cornwall 2 ••,„ ~,, ...... ..... ......... t , .... :.,. , Nexford and Carlow - ''l'' .'" '' Wilts, Somerset, & Wey - ~ ' -, mouthls ~ Fork and Newcastle. ... 25 - - • Ditto New 5 ...... •• •r , -.• • • '.' :?. --•-;- -,:, . 7 .'' ,.,,,,, Do. Preference '-2' 7I %... 7, l e-- . .:._ - 2,. - . .' ork and Norte Midland 50 Ditto % Shares ..... ... 25 Do. Selby ..... ... -. ... ... 41 - i Do. Extension ' ~. 20 .. . . ~-' ;•• ',l , ' Ditto, Preference - 2 . ... . . 14% 14 ' r- s/flekl'f'-' , - ' ' . 26 3 A 38 11 5 A 3 3 A P 1 / 8 P 29 3 / 4 2% 25 23 7 % P 2% 284 17 1 4 6% 31 7% 5 1 ,4 2% B*, 44 NEW WORK BY G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, ESQ. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and Plates, 28s. bound, A. CANOE VOYAGE TO THE MINNAY SOTOR. With an Account of some Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin; and of the Gold Region in the Cherokee Country, &c. By G. W. FEATHERSTONI-IMIGH, F.R.S., F.G.S. Author of " Excursions in the Slave States." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)