The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-09 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET. tinder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Farrell ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Lester ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Stuart ; Charles Surface, Mr. Hudson; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers; Meses, Mr. Webster ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Bennett. After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Ccurtington, Mr. Roll ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre tax Clercs," " Clementinen" (Mazourka); "Carnellion" (Galop); the " Esterhazy" (Walzer) ; a New Overture ; and a Fantasia by air. F. Reed, " La Sonnambula." To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST. In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Rumby, Scc., will appear. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Dir. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING _ _ ''IA be performed a gr;irdPaTry 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, Iliss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which the popular Musical Comedy, in two acts, of SWEET HEARTS AND WIVES. Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Selby, Wright, Worrell, Cullenford; Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, And Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OX FOR D-STRE ET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DISC ERS ; founded on the Story or The principal characters personified by Miss Georgiana Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. 1.431er, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner, Peren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen Waltzes." To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE 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 Hardcastle, Mrs. ; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, entitled L'HOTEL G ARM. Cha- Tatters by MM. Langeval, Berou, Cartigny ; Madame Deluc, and Xdlte. Cordely. After which, Moliiire's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS GENT ILHOM ME . M. Jonrdain, M. Purlet ; Nicole, Male. Brohan. To conclude with LE MARI ET L'ANIANT. Col. Saint Leger, • Langeval ; Ernest, M. Berou ; Frontin, M. Dumery ; M. Motus. t. Tourtilion; Madame Saint Leger, Madame Adele Deltic ; Lisette, • Brohan. Boxes, 65.; 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 Havidge. Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Duke of Gloucester, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Earl of Richmond, Mr. E. F. S +vine ; King Henry, Mr. Heslop ; Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Fredericks ; Tressel, Mr. Johnson ; Queen, Miss Richardson ; Lady Anne, airs. Saville. After which a grand Military Ballet of Action, entitled LE REVE DU SOLDAT. The characters supported by Mdlle. Theodore and the Deulin To conclude with the New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE ; ,The Outcast Son. Supported by the principal talent of the lorapany. ASTLEY'SI ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Prronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and itoyal Family. lictwithstanding the present concentration of novelties, and the ex pensive engagements entered into with the most eminent British and Foreign Artistes for the Christmas Holidays, Mr. BATTY has purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leo pards, &c. Likewise in preparation. a splendid Comic FAIRY I'ANTOMI3IE, with other Gymnastic and Equestrian novelties. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE- DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed - Hit. New avd entire change In the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. J :ox-oftlce open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six an I commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. T " To be had at all the Libraries. NEW NOVELS,, BY POPULAR AUTHORS, JUST PUBLISHED KY MR. COLE 'I N. I. C,ESIR BORGIA, an Historical Rv a •ce• B. the Auth of Whitefriars." 3 vols. 11. MEN OF CAPITAL. By Mrs. GORE, 3 vols. THE ROMANCE O.or, The Highlai de • in Spain, 1- 1 3 - JAMES GRANT, Esq., late G2d Regiment. 3 Yd.% IT. MARSTON. By the Rev. G. CROLY, L.L.D.. Author of " Sa 'Mittel." Second Edition. 3 vols. The ROMAN TRAITOR. By 11. W. HERBERT, Esq., Anther " Oliver Cromwell." 3 vols. TI. The CITIZEN of PRAGUE. Edited by MARY HOWITT. Second Edition. 3 vols. VII. ADVENTURES of CAPTAIN O'SULLIVAN. By W. H. MAX WALL, Esq., Aathoc of " Stories of Waterloo." 3 vols. The following are just ready : I. FATHER EUSTACE, a Tale of the Jesuits. By Mrs. TROL LOPE. a vols. IL STRAWBERRY HILL, an Historical Novel. By the Author of 13hakspeare and his Friends," " Maids of Honour." &c. 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY 0. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, ESQ. Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Maps and Plates, CANOE VOYAGE A TO THE SOURCES OF THE MINNAY SOTOR ; with an Account of some Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin ; of the Ciold Region in the Cherokee Country. By G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, F.R.S., F.G.S. Author of" Excursions through the Slave States." 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. take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, 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 nildressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds 'mime distely disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS, EVENING Will be performed the grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL Count Arnheim, Mr. Borraai ; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thadderis ]I r. Rafter ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs. Hughes; Arline, Miss Rainforth. After which, a new comic Spanish Ballet, entitled LA. VERNEN. The principal characters by Messrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, Tell ; Payne, and :Mlle. Dubignon. To conclude with DER FREISCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King ; Caspar, Mr. Stretton ; Zamiel, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Linda, Messent ; Rose, Miss Poole. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. The success of the reduction of prices of admission at this Theatre i 3 without precedent, nightly overflows being the result. Boxes, Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Continued success of the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor." THIS EVENING 'Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin- Cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. It. Barnett, and Messrs. Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which TILE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Mr. Forman ; Sally Scra , gs, Miss Lydia Pearce. To conclude with JACK RANN ; or, Sixteen-string Jack, and the Knaves of Knaves'-acre. Tommy Tape, [HE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 9. TOZILMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 43. BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND N.N.E., fine. Rion W A.T 1.1 it AT LONDON-BitiDGF, 'MIS DAY. Morning .. 1 minutes after 5. I Evening .. 22 minutes :Last fr. 7\f•. -- : t•- • _ * 4.3. - - x • z•-, - •• j .2 ~ i , "Ai '"0-c. ,, . , ..<•, --- -I • ~:, .. ..1 ' ,s,-2-Tio-nzi......:0444.1k,' ~ 'e , i''' , . ''' 101 W 4 Pliak W...i - 3. - " -6) ,, l f ipx *C•I6, - 7;iii. .;:. --:,e, -'' 44 -• r ~„:miacimp'):ll . r "' ' . .X . , ,i,.., , n 7 7 , ... .1 , .1 , b.._ Ar - IKO . ~,,,,, ,0 6 . ‘., , r;11 . 111:: iIE V .. .?1 , ,1'Z ,, 7 . f t .: ' , , , N...., ~, - t- SJ.:CO_ND EDITION. 4 , 44/ . 4 41 t ken= $1 2:7 ' Ma. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER I, 1846. French influence is not only maintained in Madrid it is more than ever predominant. The harvest of the Montpensier marriage is already being garnered. The pear is not only ripe, it is gathered. With th e termination of November a variety of Ministerial changes have set the Spanish capital in a ferment, an d have revealed at the same moment the contintted supremacy of Lous PHILIPPE'S Am. bassadol% The Afrancesados have in all likeli hood bees! striving to conceal the unconstitutional scaffolding upon which their power has been erected. They have, doubtless, been endeavouring most sedulously to screen themselves from the ob loquy which their latent subserviency to the Count DE BRESON would excite against them on its distinct revelation. They have been trying to shroud in obscurity their ignoble connexion with the Gallic Cabinet. In these contemptible endeavours they have been miserably un , uccessful. The very earnest ness of their desire for concealment has con duced to a most unfortunate, and a most complete exposure, just as SHAKSPERE speaks of The dread of guilt, Spilling itself from fearing to be spilt." The circumstances of this eclaircissetnent are peculiar and interesting. A.t ten o'clock on the night of the 29th ultimo the Ministry tendered their resignation. That resigna tion was accepted with apparent alacrity by I4ABELLA 11. At eleven o'clock the Marquis of VILUMA was, a t the instigation of CHRISTINA, invited to .... fo tt rui an ? ut ° ministr a ti on , b u t i mme di a t e ly declined. b se qu en , ly the M arqu i s o f M kFL RBS the Mar quis CA.sx T:tuJo, and others, received similar re quisitions, and th osed. requisitions were successively rejected with similar promptitu Among the numerous ca uses to which these unex pected occurrences are traced, there an only four of ilit - an y i m portance, and only t wo o f n r tLnd eleva That the rumoured retirement of Gu izyoTaprobaby. , Lion of MOLE to the premiership in p abr t iptly destroy a Peninsular Government which h° h lil a d d beet so artfully and so artistically constructed, is marvellously improbable. That the refusal of AR.. MERO, the Minister of Marine, to apologise with due, obsequiousness to the Infante Don ENRIQUE for hi; discourteous behaviour at Cadiz, should have nipped the new-born rose of French domination "i' 111 . e burl," or even have " fed on its d ona:k cheek " in secresy, is equally preposterous. The two principal rumours, however, to which we have referred are much more rational. The first, if correct, reflects dis gracefully upon the Court. On the 30th of Novem ber the salt contract between the Government and M. SALAMANCA terminated. M. Mos; was obdurate in his refusal to renew this grant, and in its renewal were said to be implicated the pecuniary interests of the Duke DE RIANZARES. According to many cre dulous individuals, this obstinacy of the Minister of Finance was the immediate cause of the resignation of his colleagues. According to others, that resigna tion was attributable to a very different and an in finitely more creditable circumstance. Senor PACHECO, the avowed leader of the Conservative Opposition in Congress, and Fiscal of the Supreme Tribunal of Justke, had applied according to an official custom for permission to visit Cordova, for the purpose of personally superintending his re-election by his constituents. That permission had been re fused by Senor CANEJA, the Minister of Grace and Justice, and in consequence thereof Senor PACHECO instantly tendered his resignation. The report was prevalent that it was the disinclination of Queen ISABELLA, at the earnest solicitation of the King Consort, to accept the resignation of E enor PACHECo, which had determined the Minis try generally to resign. Whether these con jectures be literally correct or not, it is certain that the first prejudices of the SOVEREIGN have been conquered, that the resignation of the Fiscal of the Supreme Tribunal has been ultimately ac cepted, that ISTURITZ and his colleagues have been reinstated in office, and that all this has been accomplished through the instrumentality of the Count DE BRESSON. Is anything further wanting to divulge the efficiency of the French representative in the Iberian metropolis ? Are not the manacles which had been concealed by the gala-dress of the Ministers now sufficiently disclosed ? Are not the contemptible Afrancesadcs bound to the imperious and volatile will of a foreign population by the ties of gratitude as well as by the shackels of sycophancy ? Are not the anticipations of England verified in this disgraceful transaction ? Are not the Spanish millions under the arbitrary control of a feudatory lord acquired by marital chicanery ? There is a solitary consolation in these recent proceedings at Madrid ; it is, however, only an antici patory consolation. If the information received is credible, the King Consort has evinced a disposition for independent action, which may be developed in the end to the redemption of the Government. Sup posing that the circumstances which we have described be correct, :his Majesty has displayed a character singularly contrasted with the feebleness of his predecessors. It is earnestly to be hoped that he may not emulate the partial idiotcy of the Prince of the ASTURIAS or the weakness of CHARLES IV., but that he may assume to himself a moral and mental importance most calculated to re dound to his own honour and to the salvation of his native land. We are not disposed, however, to repose much upon the promises cf improvement in the nature of a Spanish Bourbon. This is not the moment, indeed, to indulge in such day-dreams. When the country of the CID is subjected so entirely to the pleasure of a French monarch ; when the streets, which rever berated with the wail of that pathetic lamen tation, Ay di mi Alhama ! are paced by the obsequious parasites of a Gallic Ambas sador ; when the whole of Spain is oppressed with a bondage as entire as that of B•nADIL, it is not the most fitting time to indulge in thoughts which may possibly prove the mere hallucinations of the fancy. The Spaniards must do something more than wonder and conjecture. On Friday we alluded to the statement made by a Contemporary as to the steps that have recently been taken for the purpose of foreclosing many mortgages affecting estates in Ireland. We pointed out the ex- traordinary sufferings that would be theieby oc casioned to many families, the great and unnecessary expenditure that would be thrown away in useless litigation, the evils that would ensue in consequence of so large a part of the rental of the country being locked up in the coffers of the Court of Chancery, and the impossibility of any considerable portion thereof being, in the present state of the law, made applicable to the effecting of permanent and valuable improve ments, the employment of labour, or to those acts of charity that are now so imperatively demanded. The abatements of rent, which every well-disposed land lord is disposed to make at the present crisis, in order to bear his portion and participate in the losses of his tenantry, would be thereby effectually prevented. In fact, it is scarcely possible to conceive a greater national calamity than would be produced by such a panic becoming general amongst the holders of charges affecting Irish property, and pressing with undue rigour, or taking active steps to compel the imme diate payment of the principal of their debts. There is no just reason why such a panic should be originated, and yet the number of cases in which proceedings have been actually instituted, so far beyond the usual average, would indicate that such a feeling is in existence and spreading rapidly throughout the land. Its further extension, its continuance, must be in the highest degree injurious to all parties; and it becomes the duty of every one anxious for the national prosperity, and the welfare of individuals, to expose the groundlessness of such fears and the impossibility of their realisation. We have asserted that the actual payment of their capital would be injurious to the creditors themselves, and at the same time fatal to the debtors. The lattar part of this proposition requires little proof to establish. When it is considered that the whole, or at least, by far the greater portion, of the costs, charges, and expenses of all parties during the entire progress of the suit would fall on the residue that would remain for the unfortunate inheritor after pay ment of every encumbrance affecting his property; that an increased number of such unreserved and Pureed sales would greatly deteriorate the value 01 landed property; that it would become a drug in the market, the supply greatly exceeding the demand, thefear ful consequences to the unwilling and reluc • tant vendor may be easily understood. Those who are old enough to remember the year 1798, and the period immediately following, when, by reason of a panic, an extraordinary quantity of real property was thrown upon the market and disposed of at any prices that could be obtained therefor, can state the amount of such diminution of value, which went to a degree that could scarcely be credited at the present time. We have been assurel that at that period eligible estates were frequently sold at eiwlit or ten years' purchase ; but it is necessary to establish that payment of these demands would also be very injurious to the creditors themselves. The general rate of interest payable on charges affecting land in Ireland may be set down at fire per cent. per annum. That is the highest rate legally chargeable on such securities in England, but in Ireland six per pent. is sanctioned by law, and is in many instance Factually paid on most unexceptionable investments. The Court rate of interest in England is fixed at four per cent., while in Ireland five per cent. is allowed under similar circumstances. Generally speaking, one per cent. more is obtainable there than here on securities of equal character, and, although of late years many loans , have been effected in Ireland at four and a half, or, in some few instances we believe, even at four per cent., those for which five and a half or six per cent. are paid exceed them in number and amount, and the average rate may fairly be set down at five per cent. Now this is far beyond the rate that can at the present time he obtained even in Ireland on satisfactory security. Were it not for the heavy expenses attendant on the transfer of the charges, the loss of time, the delays incidental to a full investigation of title, and the other difficulties which the law interposes, that makes it not worth the debtor's while, to endeavour to effect a new loan, there is little doubt the creditors would have to accept payment of their principal money, or to reduce the . - interest thereon to the extent of from one-half to one per cent. throughout the country. If they had their capital, and were now seeking investments, they would be contented with less interest, and would in cur a certain expense to their own legal advisers, a loss of interest, w hile their capital was lying idle and unpro ductive, pending the investigation of the title, and a certain risk as to the validity and sufficiency of the security they were about to accept. I, therefore, ap pears manifest that those who have well estabished and sufficient encumbrances charged on land in Ireland would be seriouly damaged by the present satisfaction of their claims. The only rational grounds for such a panic would be the following, viz. :—a fear that the Legislature might, by any enactment, compel the mortgagees or owners of such charges to contribute or bear any portion of the extraordinary burdens that may be imposed upon lands by reason of the Labour-rate Act, or such other measures as at any time hereafter may be introduced for the purpose of enforcing adequate employment for the labouring population of the country ; or that the landlords, whose properties are involved, and who are paying heavy interest en out standing liabilities, may not be able to meet the de mands for interest, in consequence of the present dis tressed state of the country. We hope to be enabled to show that there is no sufficient foundation for either of these contingencies. The first of these fears was in some degree occa sioned by the insane conduct of some of the proprie tors themselves, who, without consideration or re flection, demanded that the Legislature should com pel the mortgagees and encumbrancers, and all per sons drawing any incomes derivable from, or posses sing charges affecting lands, to participate in their burdens, and to bear their proportion of the new rates that are to be levied on the real property of the country. Those persons were only desirous of shift ing some portion of the extraordinary expenditure off of their own shoulders, and thought little of the abstract justice of transferring it to those of any other part of the community. Neither did they consider the consequences to themselves as the owners of such encumbered estates, that must inevitably be the result of such an in equitable transfer. In the first instance, a charge on land is in its nature essentiallydifferent from the land itself. However prosperous the times may become, however greatly the value of the lands may be enhanced, the possessor of the charge can reap no benefit therefrom ; he can only demand the stipulated interest or pay ment of his principal money. The discovery of a mine, the bringing the soil into better heart, improved methods of cultivation by which the produce may be quadrupled, would not increase the amount of his demand by one single farthing. As, therefore, he cannot be benefited by the increased value of the land, so likewise he cannot be injured by its dete rioration. It is not just that such should be the case; there is no reciprocity whatsoever. The capitalist, who lends his money on landed security exchanges the prospect of an increase in the value of land for the certainty afforded to him of receiving the original sum he has lent without any possibility of diminution, while, on the other hand, the proprietor of the land hopes that it will still become more valuable, and that he will have a larger surplus applicable to his own purposes at a future period, after payment of the interest of his debt. Were it otherwise, he would sell such a por tion of his land as would produce a sum sufficient for his exigencies, and hold the residue unencum bered, in place of borrowing a sum of money on the security of all his lands. One of those parties specu lates for a rise in the value of land, the other in the value of money, and neither, against whom the balance for the moment may happen to incline, has any right to complain, or to call on the other to bear any portion of the consequences of his own error of judgment. He entered into the speculation with his eyes open ; he must abide the result. We must con clude for this day, but we shall resume the con sideration on an early occasion. The due administration of justice is one of the first objects of a civilised community. To the just and efficient operation of the criminal branch of it, the public naturally look with greater jealousy than to that of any other portion. Life and liberty are affected by our criminal code. The privilege of liberty is undoubtedly subject to serious curtailment under the influence of the civil law ; but this is trifling in comparison with the powers conferred by the criminal law for depriving the subject of his liberty. Where transp9rtation for life, with all the dreadful incidents of slavery—rendering the punishment to many it worse than the loss of life itself—may be the sentence, following conviction of a criminal offence, the public would be wanting to themselves if they did not scrutinize, with the utmost jealousy, and in all its bearings, the entire structure of our criminal jurisprudence from the foundation to its very apex. It is but just that man should act in this wise. As a member of a social community, he is called upon, and is considered, by implication, to have abandoned his natural rights in exchange for the conventional ones, secured by the State. By virtue of this requisite ex change, the first law of nature, that of self-defence, the most primitive of all rights, is placed under most rigid restrictions. Man is prohibited from taking the law into his own hands. It is ruled, that any injuries he may receive shall be redressed through the appointed tribunals of the country ; and, it is presumed, that the wrongs he has suffered will be beneficently repaired. When, then, so much of natural prerogative is, as it were, per force completely resigned, mankind at large, wherever civilization prevails, will sternly require from their respective rulers, that all laws, where life and liberty are concerned, shall be both justly framed and equitably administered. Righteous laws are plants of the slowest growth. They must, to be effective, necessarily vary with the artificial develop ment of different communities. To modify and ad just them, so as to correspond with the ever-changing phases of society, is a work of the nicest art, and demands the influence of the highest order of in tellect. It is by reason of the difficulty of accom plishing this task, enhanced as it has been in every age, by, at one time, the turbid passions of powerful and selfish subjects; at another, by the tyrannical disposition or insatiable ambition of a monarch, and the other innumerable deranging accidents of the social system, that justice has been frequently precipitated from her seat, and the keenest miseries entailed upon the human race. In our land, the criminal law is first officially set in motion by the fiat of the magistrate. It rests with him to commit or discharge the prisoner. In this way, his powers are enormous • far greater, indeed, than his responsibility, which is, in fact, next to nothing. For years, however, has our magisterial bench been left in a most inefficient condition. Even our metropolitan magistrates, who are well paid for their labours, are constantly committing egregious blunders, as evidenced by the repeated censures which they get from the Secretary of State for the Home Department So much has this been felt, that we believe the Government have resolved upon filling up every vacancy by the appoint ment of a person who shall be qualified, by study and practice, to discharge these grave functions. But, if this be determined on, and, as we think, wisely, why not adopt the same system with the provinces, and sweep off the legally-unenlightened Dogberries, who so uselessly and perniciously crowd our quarter-ses sions ? An unpaid body of men never answer—that is, they never fully act up to what is required of them. Previous habits of life, and special ignorance of the judicial vocation, prevent their doing so. No one can enter a country justice-room but what he is sure to see the justice completely led by the nose by the clerk of the court. Is not this enough, where matters of imminent import to the subject are hourly handled, to bring the blush to the patriot's cheek ? Would not common sense dictate, that, if no better substitute could be found, the clerk and the magistrate should change places ? The present system cannot last ; we are literally dis graced by it. Motives of economy cannot be suffered, for a moment, to war against our recommendation. Justice should be pure and undefiled. Too high a price cannot be paid for the acquisition of such a blessing; and whether the stream of justice be diverted by corruption, negligence, or ignorance, the effect is not the less baneful to the citizen. Better to have one sound lawyer on the bench than fifty leaden-witted squires. We have perused the report of yesterday's pro ceedings at the Surrey Sessions with great dis satisfaction. First, on account of the magis trates having sentenced several prisoners to be privately whipped, and next, on account of the inexplicable disproportion of the different sentences. THE SUN, LO.N JON, WEDNESDAY EVEN IN DECEMBER 9, Three persons, aged respectively 18 years, 23, and 24, having slept one night in Kingston workhouse, the next day stole three loaves, in the hope of being sent to prison. The Chairman ordered them twentb. one days' solitary confinement, and a private whip ping. Supposing they sought the shelter of the prison, on account of its better fare, instead of the work house, is not 21 days' solitary imprisonment, of itself, a commensurate punishment for stealing one loaf? Why aggravate the sentence with the degradation of corporal torture ? For anything that appears in the report, the prisoners were not old offenders. What can the magistrates expect will be .the issue ? These men will, in all probability, leave the prison degraded and hardened, and bent upon committing some felony, which will send them out of the country. It is a vulgar error to conceive that, in awarding punishment, the law regards merely the prevention, in future, of the like offences. It has another, and a higher aim, at least, it should have, viz., by the effect of the punishment, to reform the character of the offender. It is against human nature to suppose that men of twenty-four years of age will be reformed by bodily laceration. Again, a boy aged seventeen, pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing a Dutch cheese. He had not been in the workhouse, like the others, above alluded to , neither, as they, did he plead want as an excuse. His sentence was fourteen days' solitary confinement, and a private whipping. He therefore got a milder sen tence, by one week, than the others, between one of whom and himself, the difference only a year. To a considerate imainda,ge was a week's solitude in a prison is a severe ordeal to pass through. Yet the worthies of the Surrey Sessions weigh these matters so indiffer ently, that, it seems, in their judgment, as light as a feather in the scale, and appears to be quite hap hazard whether the heavier offence, rebus sic stanti bus, receive a more lenient sentence, or vice versa. We sicken at these legal incongruities. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort has the fol lowing from Berlin, dated the 29th ult. :—" Our Minister for Foreign Affairs has just received an energetic protest from Lord PALMERSTON against the suppression of the republic of Cracow. M. DE KAMPTZ has received instructions to proceed without delay to Vienna, to regulate there the commercial relations with reference to the incorporation of Cra cow with the Austrian monarchy." According to a letter from Galicia, in the Augs burgh Gazette of the 2d, the last royal decree in fa vour of the peasantry, and by which the obligation of forced labour is still further diminished, has diffused much satisfaction among that class of the population. In the same letter it is stated that the incorporation of Cracow has inspired so much confidence as to the future tranquillity of that town, that house property has risen one-third in value. Madrid papers of the Ist have arrived. They are wholly taken up by the discussion of the late Minis terial crisis. This crisis is important, as showing that the Queen of SPAIN supports with impatience the yoke of the Afrancesado party, and that Senor ISTURITZ and his colleagues are not in reality the Ministers of the Queen of SPAIN, but the Ministers of the ICING of the FRENCH, forced on the reluctant QUEEN by the French Viceroy, Count BRESSON. The War-office was completely destroyed by the fire of the 29th ult. " The magnificent edifice," says the TiemFo, " which was formerly the palace of the 'Prince of the Peace,' and has since served as the re sidence of most of the Secretaries of State, is, at the present hour (December 1, three at night), but a heap of ruins. The papers, valuable furniture, silver articles, and coffer of the Minister of War, have be come a prey either to the flames or to the avidity of those who could not reach places usually impene trable to the applications of misery—a sight both mournful and shameful ! At present we cannot enter ino further details." According to the Clamor Publico the loss sus tained by the fire amounts to above 30,000 piastres. The accounts from Portugal are to the 25th. At that date no action bad taken place between the troops of SALDASUSA and those of DAS ANTAS. The Marquis of LODLE, it is said, was endeavouring to induce DAs ANTAS to give battle without delay. MADRID BOLSA., DEC. I.—The Three per Cents. 34f at the close, paper offered ; Four per Cents. at 21; Five per Cents. at there is money; Debt, without interest, 6:1; Paper Coupons 19k, there is money. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. - - There is a controversy going on among the Minis terial journals as to the wording of M. GUIZOT'S note to the Northern Powers, on the Cracow affair. The Presse stated a few days since that the note of M GUIZOT expressly declared that the violation of the treaty of Vienna by the Northern Powers had placed France at liberty to violate it whenever it should be her interest so to do. The Portefeuille, on the con trary—which paper is the organ of the Foreign-office —denies e aretot assuredthis the is that the revolutio n o f July statement,was and Gu s a3 i ' z s o — t, after directi n g at teUtioNn' effected in hatred of the treaties of 1815 ; that the most energetic and the boldest portion of the victorious party wished to tear u ;o o f andptht eh thatei King t g r t, ( : , : c t i i r e s, declared Government violation ownatshet op:,ratteohf ma intenance ; that France h as re li g i ous ly re spectedostvaenr t t thheoti them nt h na t the three Courts is so much the less comprehensible that it was not necessary to the security of their possessions. t r b G inliguceizi as published by the Presse, But (adds M. Guizo9 France will not imitate the ex- M. ample given to he a. r i : ci l t i . e o.. r r„i G ie o r v v e a r r n t mf Lit e c w o a n s ti d n e u e e i s de t d o nruet gard the treaty of Vienna as the basis of the balance of says that the note was originally but hints that it was subsequently modified in com pliance with fears not shared in by the Minister ps l b, u rty r iot o drawn ipno wrieanyre way u n himself. We find the following quoted by the Journal des Djbats from the Revue Diplomati que , on t h e su bj ect of the absence of the Foreign Ambassadors from the fete given by M. GUIZOT to the I3ey of TUNIS •. " To prevent false conclusions being drawn from the absence of the foreign Ambassadors from the late fete given at the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it is important to state fully the facts. When the King's Government, on the Bth of August, 1830, entered into the treaty of commerce with Ilussein Bey, the title given tohimi issue nitwa of was 'Prince ri bloodo)ancQ of th. the , People, Chosen o f th e Grandees, brilliant from marks the most brilliant, and for the most sublime virtues, Hussein Bey, Master of the kingdom of Africa.' The same titles have been acknowledged by Sardinia and Belgium ; one, in a treaty of the 22d of February, 1832, and the other in a treaty of the 14th of Octo ber, 1839. Upon these precedents it was quite natural that the Bey of Tunis, on arriving at Paris, should be received at Court as a Sovereign Prince. Never theless, the Turkish Ambassador, on the day after the reception of the Bey by the King of the French, showed a disposition to demand his passports ; but, reflecting on a step so serious, and which could not be taken without express instructions, his Excellency confined himself to delivering a verbal protest to M. Gjizot, reserving future proceedings till after he had re ferred to the Sultan. In the meantime, the Bey, having intimated his intention to appoint a day for a reception of the diplomatic corps, the Ambassadors, Lord Nor manby among the first, declared that, as Hussein Bey was only the vassal of the Sultan, he was bound to make the first visit to the Ambassadors. To comprehend the full bearing of this expectation, it must be remembered that Ambassadors represent the person of their sove reigns, and that upon this ground even Princes of the Blood, when they arrive at a foreign Court, always pay the first visits to Ambassadors. his Royal High ness the Prince of Salerno, father of the Duchess d'Aumale, recently conformed to this rule of etiquette. The Bey of Tunis, notwithstanding his desire to respect the diplomatic etiquette of Europe, conceived it neces sary to refrain from a step which might be construed into a renunciation of his claim to be an independent Sovereign. This circumstance is the cause that, at all Court entertainments, care has been taken that the Bey should not come in contact with the diplomatic corps. The Minister of Foreign Affairs wished in his turn to testify to the Bey the esteem which the rare qualities o f his Hi g h ness had so generally acqu i re d i n F rance . But the previous announcement of th e i nten d e d pres ence of the French Pr:nces at this Jae appeared to the Ambassadors to be au imperious reason for their confining themselves strictly within the laws of etiquette, according to which they would be bound to claim preccdenc: of the Bey. To avoid a dispute, which would have been so much to be regretted, they deemed it would be prudent to abstain from appearing at the entertainment. At the same time to prove that their absence was imposed upon them by their official duties, and not from any personal feelings towards either the Bey or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, they sent their wives and the other members of their families. From all this it results, that the absence of the Ambassadors had no other motive than the am biguity, in their eyes, of the political position of the Be y —whether he is to be considered as a Sovereign Prinne, or as a vassal of the Sublime Porte. It appears that, in consequence of this point of etiquette, the Bey has suspended his preparations for his journey to England." The state of the money market ocntintlea to excite great anxiety in Paris. The price of corn is rapidly rising throughout France. A - letter - from Ai.AzaviANDRE D LIMAS, dated on the road of fever. M. de Cognard alighted, and held me in an embrace for a quarter of an hour. He then told me to regain my boat, for fear the Arabs should in tend to play me false. I replied that I would remain, being resolved to take him and his companions back with me, or to remain a prisoner with them. Au Arab was then taken on board to convince him that we had the money. Some difficulties were made, but finally we brought the prisoners to Melilla, and yesterday after noon they left, with M. Durande, in the balancelle for Djemma-Ghazaouat. We did not (continues the officer of the Veloce) stop longer than to shake hands with Captain Coppa, and on our arrival at Djemma-Ghazouat found that Durande had landed all the prisoners. An instant afterwards we had the satisfaction of shaking hands with M. de Cognard, Dr. Cabasse, and the other officers. We did not find M. Durande, for he had had the courage to perform twenty-seven leagues in his poor balancelle, for Oran, to announce the success of his mis sion to the General. In the evening there was a grand banquet at the camp, at which 120 officers sat down, in honour of the prisoners. As soon as it was over the Y6loce left for Algiers." In reply to the questions put by the National on the subject of the purchase of corn for Algeria from M. ROTHSCHILD, which we published on Saturday, the Moniteur Parisien says that the hostilities in Algeria at the end of 1845 had prevented many of the tribes from sowing their seed in time, and that this circumstance, with the visitation of locusts and long drought, had considerably reduced the native pro duce; that the war department has, in consequence of the dread of scarcity in France, acted wisely in obtaining a supply of corn from abroad, and that to do so the Minister had applied to M. ROTHSCHILD, as he would apply to our merchants ; that at a later period considerable purchases having been made elsewhere, at advantageous prices, for Algeria, the corn destined for that colony has been delivered at Marseilles for internal consumption ; that the Minister had not invited competition, as, by showing the want of corn by the French Govern ment, it would have led to a rise in foreign markets ; and, finally, that the Chambers only have a right to be informed by the Minister of the price at which he purchased." The Constitutionnel has the following from Brest :- " There is nothing new in naval movements ; but the scantiness of our stores is such, that there has been the greatest difficulty in fitting out the Minot frigate. Th( re is not enough of flour and wine in store to supply three months' provisions for the Boussole corvette, bound to the Antilles on a pressing mission. It is unheard of that, on the departure of a vessel from the first port of France, her captain should be told-' You are to take in at Mal tisique the wine necessary to complete your stock, and which we cannot give you.' Some time back there was not enough of coals for the Flambeau steamer, bound for Cherbourg. The stores' department at last succeeded in supplying what was wanted." The Bourse opened on Monday with some degree of firm ness at the closing quotations of Saturday, but some heavy sales to realise profits had a tendency to I;ring down prices; and at the close both Threes and Fives were quoted lower, the former at 801. 75c. (the Coupons on this stock are de tached to-day); and the latter at 118 f. 10c. The market closed as follows :-Three per Cents., for cash, 801. 85c. ; for Account, 80f. 75c. ; Five per Cents., for cash, 118 f. 15c ; for Account, 118 f. 10c. ; Bank of rance Shares, 3,505 f. ; Neapolitan, 1021. 50c. ; Spanish Fives, 33% ; Ditto Threes, not quoted. RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has also shown less firm ness to-day, and at the close of the day the lines were generally called lower. For cash-Paris and Orleans, 1,250 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 8851.; Avignon, 8801.; Vierzon, 5901. ; Strasburg and Bale, 218 f. 75c.; Boulogne, 4451. ; Northern, 6401. ; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c. ; Montereau, 340 f.; Fampoux, not quoted ; Paris and Lyons, 507 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4821. 50c. ; Nantes, 490 f. ; Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, DECEMBER 8. Boulogne and Amiens, 13 3 / 4 -Luxembourg, 3 / 4 -Namurand Liege, 31,-Northern of France Constituted, 10 1 / 8 -Orleans and Bordeaux, 7-Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5--Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 414. Lord John Russell arrived in town this morning from his country scat, for the purpose of receiving diffi rent deputations. DEATH OF LADY CAROLINE DRUMMOND.—This benevolent lady expired on the 4th inst. at her residence, in Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square, at the advanced age of 80, after a lengthened illness. THE ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOClETY.—Yester day Lord Palmerston received a deputation from the Aborigines Protection Society, charged with presenting a memorial, craving his Lordship's persuasive influence with the French Governmei tin favour of the natives of the Georgian and Society Islands, and more especially that the acknowledged independence of the latter might be permanently secured. The deputation, consisting of Samuel Gurney, Esq., the president of the society, James Bell, Esq., its treasurer, Dr. Wright, D.D., Henry Christy, Esq., S. Woolmer, Esq., E. Martin, Esq , and several other gentlemen, received a cordial assurance that his Lordship's sedulous attention would be given to the subject. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednes day morn ing, the body of a man was found, in a literally roasted state, in the hot ashes, at Mr. Dixon's works, Gov Govan. It appears that the ashes, as they fall fro m the furnac e, sink into a bed of successive layers, form ing n a g mass, ri sate, which is constantly in a heated, if e n( d t e s e m a L d lu was a poor, houseless emitting noxious gases. The a foreigner, and oi houseless creature, supposed tT is known. He had, whose name or n othingconnexi ons sseen about the works, and it however, been frequent ly. t the ash heap his appears was in the habit bed, having no place of s eit f er ma , a k n i ti ng finding comfort in its warmth. It seems en probable that, on the occasion in overpowered, perhaps suffocated, question, he had by the gas from the be rubbish, after laying himself down, and, while in a state of stupefaction, or rather, it is to be hoped, after life had totally ceased to exist, th e b urn i ng of t he .ts body had gone on by a s l ow process, until f oun d partially c onsumed state, with the integ uments , i t inis l said, crumbling to the touch. A more shocking and deplorable result of destitution has seldom occurred.-- Glasgow Railway Journal. FOOT-RACE FOR 1001.—Yesterday, the walking match between East, of London, and Powell, of Hamp ton (two well-known pedestrians), to contend over six teen miles of road, came off near the Dog and Partridge, at Bedfont. Powell took the lead, and performed nearly seven miles in one hour, and ultimately won, he cover ing the sixteen miles of road in less than two hours and a half, at a fair toe and h ee l wa lk. ROYAL BOUNTY.---The overseers and churchwar dens of Windsor have received a communication from the lion. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, domestic chaplain to the Queen, that her Majesty graciously intends to place in the hands of the parochial authorities there the sum of 2501., to be distributed amongst the needy and distressed parishioners on New Year's-day, in meat, bread, coals, and blankets. The objects of the royal bounty are to be selected by the parish officers, and the distribution is to take place in the New Riding. school at the Royal Mews, in the presence of her Majesty and the Prince Consort. A jolly Jack Tar, having strayed into a show at a fair, to have a look at the wild beasts, was much struck with the sight of a lion and tiger in the same den. "Why, Jack," said he to a messmate, who was chewing a quid in silent amazement, " I shouldn't wonder if next year they wer e to carry about a sailor and a marine living pea - ceably together t 4 Ab e " said his companion, "or ,a man and wife 1" N Algiers 30th November, which appears in the Presse, MO F Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. . says— CITY, QUARTER TO THPEE. " You have, without doubt, heard that our priseners, The Cotton market at Liver pool yesterday was active re,pecting whom there has been s 9 much anxiety for the again. Sales 20,000 bales, including 10,000 American last fourteen months, have just been restored to -„, on spec u l a ti on , a t an a d vance o f id. per lb. compared There are ten, including a woman who was eight years with last Friday. Shares were rather flat. ago captured at the gates of Otan. The follor„i ng are The sale of railway shares, yesterday, at Messrs. their names. Render several families happy Hy publi-1- Lamond and Co.'s, did not go off so firmly, and the ing them as soon as possibie—Lieue-Colowel Court)), d e general aspect of shares was not so satisfactory as it was Cognard, Lieut. Larazb, Sub-Lieut. Thomas, Dr. last week. The following are a few of the principal Cabasse, Lieut. Morin, of the 15th Light Infantry ; sales : Merdchal-des-logis chief Barbut, of the 2d Hussars ; Barbadoes .... £o 6 6 'I Carp, a hussar ; Trott& a chasseur of the Bth bat- Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0 talion ; Michel, of the 41st of the line ; and TLC ese Shrewsby., Wolverh., and South Stafford 3 9 6 Gilles. Lieut. Hillerin, of the 41st, died on the eve of Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certficate 0 10 6 the liberation. It is M. N Great Luxemb ourg who was charged with the whole of the enterprise, and Manchester and Southampton, 1847 - llO 0 who has conducted it so well. M. Durande, an enseigne Shropshire Union and Canal de vaisseau, received the prisoners in his balancelle, and North British, Extension . conveyed them to Djemma-Ghazaouat,where w e l e ft them Great Northern .. in good health." ' Madrid and Valencia 1 0 0 Eastern Counties, Y or k E xtension ...... The following interesting account of the manner Shrewsbury and Birmingham ... .. 412 6 in which these unfortunate persons were restored to Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 14 6 Paris and Lyons their liberty appears in another letter from Algiers, .5 0 0 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorset . 0 14 0 published in the same journal : The West India files of papers seem to afford a "About a month ago a letter from M. de Cognard satisfactory report from most quarters of the state of reached the Governor of Mililla, informing him that for the weather, and the progress of sugar making, a sum of 30,000 f. the person who had charge of the pri- though we have the old complaints of the Coolies, soners would consent to their evasion. As such a sum who are certainly not favourites, and therefore was not to be found at Melilla, a letter was forwarded not likely to be sought for much longer. to the General at Oran, who immediately sent for the A suspension of Coolie immigration, if only by reason Commandant and a discreet officer. Durand, a young of the heavy expenditure it occasions, appeals to be enseigne de vaisseau, was the person designated. At Oran thought by no means improbable. The sugar cases of money were put on beard the Viloce for Me- question had led to one or two meetings being lilla, at which place Durande took the command of a held in Jamaica, but we find nothing new in the argu balancelle (a small fishing vessel). The Veloce was merits, though there is doubtless much to com sent to Cadiz to be placed at the disposal of A. Dumas, mend in the recommendations for economical and the French artists who accompany him. We management, and the adoption of central fac left Oran on the 14th, and returned to Melilla on tories. There may be some idea formed of the 27th, having passed a few days at Cadiz, Tan- the present value of West India property, from the giers, Gibraltar, and Tetuan. Hardly had we cast circumstance that two estates in Guiana, amplyprovided anchor when a Spanish officer (Captain Conna, with machinery, labour, and water power, and situated of Melilla) arrived in a boat, and announced the in most favourable localities, having been let for 1.0001. deliverance of the prisoners, and the departure in the a year each. balancelle of Durande. I tree scribe the recital made The state of affairs in Mexico, as mentioned in these by the Spanish officer to M. Dumas, and which, with the accounts, differs but little from what was represented in aid of an interpreter, M. Dumas wrote down under his the American advices. If anything, however, the dictation. The day before yesterday, Nov. 24, two Arabs position of the United States volunteers is de arrived with a letter, announcing that the prisoners were scribed as being even worse than we might at four leagues from the point of Bestinza. The signal suppose, and the navy was not very efficiently manned. announced for the following day was a great fire. I It is to be feared that the intelligence of Santa Anna set out for the point of Bestinz:t, which is four leagues having seized upon the conducta with three million of from Melilla, in a Spanish boat, with M. Durande, and dollars, intended for Europe, is but too true ; a report to we waited at the distance of a pistol shot from the that effect, prevalent at Vera Cruz, being brought over shore. At first we saw four cr five men arriving on by the steamer. horseback, and who made signals. I then landed alone, The Stock Market is rather dull again. We shall and approached them with the Arabs who had brought have the transfer books for some of the leading invest the news. They told me that the prisoners were only meats closing in a day or two, and this serves to show half a league off. Three-quarters of an hour after- that there is a slight preponderance in the opinion of par wards they arrived, ten in number, including an old ties as to the markets receding, or at least as to money woman, who had been eight years in captivity. They becoming scarcer, prior to the re-opening in January. were on horseback, and the men were dressed in the The sales, at the same time, have not been extensive. remains of their uniform. The eleventh had died Consols realise 954- to 953 for present transfer, and 953 to 95i for time. Exchequer bills have been marked 12s. to 9s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents have been done at 96i I, and the Three-per- Cent. Reduced at 94i i l. Bank Stock is worth 2076 to 2061. The Foreign investments have been quiet. Mexican have improved, however, their value being at 22i to 221 for the Active. Spanish Five per Cents. are 26i ; and the Three per Cents. 37k. There is solSe doubt yet as to the precise position of the Ministry at Madrid, and whether M. Isturitz has had matters so decidedly his own way. Portuguese Four per Cents., have been marked 39 ; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 95 to 94.. The share market looks flat again, and prices are slightly in favour of buyers, both f or the home and foreign lines. Northern of France have been down to 4- premium. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 207 1 4 206 1 / 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94% V s % 3 per Cent. Consols Anns ... 95% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 - Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 lO 3-16 South Sea Stock 1054 Ditto Old Annuities 94% Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1,0001. - pm. I RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. 22 3 / 4 Ditto for the Account .. 22% 22 22% Portuguese 4 per Cents ... - Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent lll4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 2 6 1 /2 Ditto for the Account 26% Ditto Passive Bonds 5% Ditto 3 per Cent... 37% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent 95% 95 Dutch 2 1 % per Cents - Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Psi saaaa. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2%...... 2% to Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% to Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. .. Birmingham and Dudley ..... 425...... 13i; mingham and Gloucester..loo ......127 1 / 2 to I IDo. New (iss. at 7 1 % dis.).. 17 1 / 2 3 l l /2 Birmingtiatn-to Oxford June... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2% — ..... to - Boston, Statnf, , & Birming... 225. - ...... to - Bristol and Exeter Do., New - to - Bristol and Gloucester 3O - to - Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% - to - Buckinghamshire B4s. Caledonian - ...... to - Ditto, Half Shares - - Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425. - - Chester and Holyhead 2 7 1/ .. 251 to - Churnet and Blythe 2 Chester and Manchester 42s. Cheltenham and Oxford - Clydesdale Junction - Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225. - - Cork and Killarney - Cork and Waterford l% - Cornwall - Ditto, Half Shares - ...... to - Cornwall and Central Devon 2% - Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and Sheffield Junction...... 2% - to - Direct Northern - to - Direct Norwich 1 - to - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12% - to - Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 h. --; to - üblin and Galway ...... - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ...... - - Eastern Counties l4/. 16s 22% .... . to - Do. New l2l. 16s 7% p... to - Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 133. 4d - ... .. to - Do., d 0....... N 0.2,6/. 135. 4d % p... to - Do., York Extension 2 ...... 3%%... to - East Dereham and Norwich 1 - to - Eastern Union ... .. .. 35 - Ditto, Quarter Shares - Do. Extension to Harwich 1% - to - Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% - to - East Lancashire - Ditto, New Do. (late Preston &Ormsk.) 5 ..... 9 1 4 to _.. Do., do., New Scrip ...... ... 1 1 / 1 2% to - East Lincolnshire l l /4 2 l / 4 1 / 2... to - East and West of England... 1% - to Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 - ...... to - Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - ...... to - Edinburgh and Northern ... 12% - ..... to -. Edinburgh and Perth ......... 3 - to Ely and Huntingdon - Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% _ ...... to Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 5/q _ ...... to - Gl asgo w, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - ...... to -. Ditto, New - ..... to - Do. 1 % Shares (5 per ct.gua ) 12% ...„ __ •.... to - Gl o uc.,Aberystwith,andCen of Wales - - . to - ..... to Goole,Doncaster,Sheffid., Sic. 425. ..... . 1/ Sheffield 2 1 7 0 1/2 ..... 28% 4 P to Grand Union (Nett. & Lynn) 1,8...... Great Eastern and Western... 2%..... - -. to - ...... - to GGtr.eastouGtrhi.irscsblyveasntd. (Ireland) r h e e l - Great Munster ..... . ......... ... 2% to - Great North o Scotland...... 2% . ••••• to - Great North of England ...... 100 ...... 2 - to - Ditto, New .................. . 5 ...... 35 - Ditto, New .............. .. .... 15 - to - Ditto, New.. ... - ,- - - •• ••• to - ............... 11,i, • 19% to - Great Western ...... - ' ............ 85 Ditto, Half Shares i• - ........ JO - to - Ditto, Quarter Shares lO Ditto, Fifths .. - - ................ 20 Do. New - 2 ... 7 ... Huddersfield and M anc h ester 13 Ditto, Extension - 3 4 to - ..". to - - Hull and Selby 5O 107%..... to - Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 1 / 2 - ...... to - Ditto, Half Shares I • . pswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11% - Do. do. and Norwich - to - Lancaster and Carlisle 5O - Do. New 5 ...... - - Leeds and Bradford 3O - to - heeds and Carlisle - - Leicester and Birmingham... 225. - ...... to - Leicester and Bedford 22s. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 22 1 / 33 - Ditto, Branch (Blue) ...... 21/ Q 94%... to - Dia°, Extension (Green).. 2% - . to - Leeds end Thirsk l 7 l /2 I S 3A to - Di tt o , New ..... ...... ..... .. 5 . .... 5 - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction ... 2% 23 ; . 1 4 1 /2 to - Liverpool and Bury 24 - to London a: Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 8 % 14... to - Do. New .. 3 - to - Do. Extension ...... 7 1 / 2 - - Load., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 58%% to - Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40 - to - Do. Consolidatad Eighths... 10 ...... 14 . to 15 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... - - London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... - - Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... - - London,Hounslow.&Westem 2 . .... - - London and North Western..loo ......193 1 / 4 to 194 1 / Do. Quarter Shares ... 2 - to - Do. do. New .......... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths - Do. Quarters Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 8 - • to - Do. 401.1Shares...M. and B. 40 „, _ ...... to - Do. 101.... M. and B. (a,) 5 . - Do. 10/. .. M, and B. (B. 5 - Do. 104 ~, M. and B. (C.) 1 - London and S. Western,... 41/.63 10d 63 Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 - Ditto New .. ..... 22 1 / 2 . .-.:. - Do. New 4NI ~•••• - - Tenth; Ditto Th .././. / .. . 6 ...... 6,,Vh to -, Ditto Tenths - Ditto Scrip . ,.., 6 ...... 5 1 ,06... to - PittQ ditto.... . - t9 -... London and Y0rk........ 2% ...... ..... .to •••• Ditto Extension - • l% •l% ..... ...... 0 --. London and Windsor ... London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21 . 4 ...... -- ...... to --• Londonderry and Coleraine... 1 5 ...... 8 ...... to LondoLderry and Enniskillen 15 ...... ...... to --. Lynn and Ely ..... _. ...... to Lynn and Dereham 15 82 ..... _ 16 IA ......... ... t o Manchester and Leedstol6'lll Ditto half Shares - , . 38. .. Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths - Ditto Exteenths ... Do. Extension - P••••'• to -- _. -- Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 . ••• -- Do., do., Fifths danch. Buxton, & Matlock 425.....•. 1 1 41 P • to Manchester,Birmingham, and to. •-• MouldJunction — ...... —• ••..• 1,4) --' Manchester and Southampton 2 ...... ...... 126 Midland to .-- Ditto Fifths to Ditto, New 24 ..... 31 3 / 4 1 h••• 100 ......127 2 ...... 6 1 AN I A Ditto, New ...... to to to to Midland, Birm., and Derby... loo .•• •• ...... Midland andEasternCounties 2 %....• to --• Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15 ... ... -- ...... Newcastle and Berwick Do North Shields 25 .....• -- •'—' t° -- to "'." •• Newcastle and Carlisle l OO ..•• -- .... ' . Newmarket and Chesterford 5 - ...... - to -- Newport and Abergavenny. . 2 1 / 2 .. to "" Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 - •••*" Newry, Warrenpoint, and . to Rostrevor - " to •••• Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1%...... --- ••"" . to 10 --. \Torfolk - ." ..... to Do. Half Shares .. . .... .. "'"' Ditto Extension - .. 1 ; . ..... ... #,.. Northern Counties Union - North British - .... to ...- Ditto Half Shares... ...... - • ..... to ... Ditto Fifths 5 ...... -- ...... to .... Do. Quarters l l4 ...... 3 1 4." •• to ... 1 5 4 ..." - Ditto, Extension % ...... • . to ... Northern and Eastern 5O ...... .... to ... Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) 45 ..... --• ... :to •-• Ditto Quarter Shares - .... to ... Ditto New North Staffordshire...... .....• 5 ...... 72 ".. to North Wales 314 - .to ... 2/A .—. ...... North. & South. Connecting , • •••• - .... to North Western . 2% ...... -- .. Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- to ''''' verhampton - .... to Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 313/ ... . .... .. . --__ .......... to_ •-:. Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre - . ..... to ...- Ditto, Half Shares - ,;•••• •.. 0 ... Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 3/. 125...• --' ° -15 ' . to ••• Richmond l5 ...... -- .... to ... Royston and Hitchen Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... ....... 1 1 2 21 : 1 / 4 2 ....... 7 . * . :. .. 1-731/2•:"...•*" ... . to Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Pot teries, and Crewe Sheffield and Manchester - 100 1%. ........ ... ---- ......... t .t t i Ditto % Shares 8 ...... --- .... to ... Do. and Lincolnshire Junct 1M.•«•• -- ...... to Do. and Great Grimsby - ...... to •'' Do. do. do. Extension 425....... -- ...... to .." Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 •••••• 4 3A IS" . to 34 Shropshire Union . 42s. ...... die.. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, AL . t 0 ".• and S. Stafiordsh. Junction 2%..... 31 4 7 r ... to --- Sligo and Shannon - •• to .0 South Devon ....... ...... „, 35 ...... ...• ..... _ .... South Midland 42s. ...... --• •••• .to ~. South and Midlands Junction 425. ..... --- " .. ' . to •-• South Staffordshire Junction 2% ...... -- ... .to ••• South Eastern and Dover - .to Ditto, New, No. 1 - ....... to .... Ditto, New, No. 2 l2 ...... --- •• '. to ..... Ditto, New, No. 3 l5 ...... --- . to Ditto New, No. 4. 2% ...... 3 ..... St. Alban's, Hatfield, and .. to '' Hertford Junction - •' to •"" Staines and Richmond.— - • " .. to •-• Staffordshire and Shropshire 2%...... -- ... to •••• -- ...... South Wales Swans. and Loughor and Ca- . to '"". meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 2 ...... -- ...... .to w •••• Taw Vale Extension - .... .... ..... .. Tring,Reading,& Basingstoke 54 ..... -- .. to ••• . .• ••• Vale of Neath - Wakefield, Pontefract, and' .... .. to '' Goole 22%..•••• -- ~. to Warwickshire and London 425......• --- . .... to •"'" Warwick and Worcester 425...»•• --- . .... to ••• Waterford and Kilkenny ll •••••• -- ...... to •••• Waterford and Limerick ... - , • to . Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw, man Dublin - •• Wexford, Waterford, and ..... t. -.. Valeutia - ...... 0 .... ..- to --- Waveney Valley ••• 2 ............ ...... Welsh Midland 2% ...... 1 - % D „, to ' to West Riding Union 42s. ...... ..... ...... West Cornwall 2 ...... ..... ...... to -- ••• West London, Old Shares Wexford and Carlow "-- .. --' Wisbeach and St. Ives 2 ...... to ... Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 15 •••••• .-- . ... to -... Worcester,Warwick, & Rugby 425....... --" . .... to York and Carlisle 2 3 /1 ...... --- ...... to --' York and Newcastle ....... Ditto, New 5 •• ••• --• ..... to _ .. ....6 Ditto, Preference 2 .. ••• 7 ... to York and North Midland ••••• Ditto, Half Shares to Ditto, Selby Selby to ..... Ditto, Extension Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding s/ • ta ... Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. .0 Anglo-Belgian Bar badoes Belgian Eastern Junet r ion.. Boulogne and Amlens l6 ...... 13% -to '''.. ..0 Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Mackenzie's) Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette .... (Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders 2 ..... ...• Calcutta & Diamond Harbour i s . .... Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 -....... to Central of Spain ... 2 -...... to --.. Ceylon .... ss• - .... to - Demerara. Dendre Valley - ' .... to Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... • ..... to "" Dutch Rhenish ... 6 ..... . --., ..... t o ."** East Indian - ...... to 5 Fampoux and Hazebrouk 4 ...... .... to Great Indian Peninsular 55.....•• Great Western Bengal 55.....•• . ...• Great Western Canada ...... . ........ to Italian and Austrian - .. 50 3smiLyonsJamaicaiaaddLouvainrr aa Madras, , and S a . l 2t Aa l vs id iagn l m an bo d nre Junction 1 ...... -- .... to Jersey 61 •••••• to ...... - 1 .'.. ..... ..... to t° .........--• 1:4 ... to Luxembourg .-- " .to 2 ..... .-• •"" .to --' Nellore, and Arcot l% ............ .---- ............ to o ----... Madrid and Valentia 2 1 to to .... N N M n a a m . u o l u . f i rtFivarsnadn France im t . i . t . u .. t . e . d ..... :. 8 1 .................. ":104::::: : : to ...... -- 95 Orleans s J a a ri m a a ß ic o a rdea ..- to Orleans and •Vierzon ParisßP,:.l3 Parisaoa v rur e e r ss no&a l a nan n n d s d e L i H y d o v n r s eConstituted üßordeaux .. 4 1 .13 56 5 4 d? l . 1.1 :• :' ." - ••• ..... .•• ... :. tt t . tl o --- 20 ...... ..... ..... 0 .... dd St ßO ra ro s lue b ea g nn . s Constituted 205 ......... .. ....--- ••• .... to "...... 20 ...... Sambre and M euse .. ..-. Strasburg and Bale l4 . ........... ..,,, St. Laurence and Atlantic — ...... --- .....• t p Tours & Nantes Constituted 5 ...... ...... Toarnay, Jurbise, Landen, id 11, to .. •••" to '' Trinidad.. .a . s 5 . e . 1 .. t .. .. ... 2% ...... • t4:O West Flanders Australasia JOINT STO 4 C O 6 K i . i . A . .... 1. ,! .. .. "-S * .......... to ~...... British North American - ..... to ''''. Colonial - .. to Commercial of London London Joint Stock .... ......... : t o t ..... -1 London and Westminster 2O ...... -- .• ". to ...., National Provincial of Engld 35 . ..... --- ...• t° ~... National of Ireland 22% --. ..... to ............ to .... Provincial of Ireland - Union of Australia 2 Union of London ... 10 5 ...... . ..... ---- ...... t° to ..... 34 ...... ;,thkf• ) NGE.—CrEST r '''[... so $.5 Gibraltar •• •• •'::..•• 16 b Leghorn •••• ' • .. •• ' '''' Milan .. ...... • •:,••• 403 1 ; Venice ...• .•• • ' .., • , 2 0% N a pl e s •••• " •• ' •,.• '0 P a l er mo, per cg •• :: .. $O 4 Lisbon.. ••••••' • ~ •• •• 0 Op o rto ••••• • • " ' ..• .... Rio Janeiro •• •• '• •• .• ...• Bahia .. •.•• • • •• •••• ••• • • •••• Buenos Ayres • • ~ig h t New York, 210.11 •• e s, Philadelphia o r • •,,,..,• ' 1 . 0 . 0, iff pawls 0/ °•":3 0 Foreign Gold Coin •• 0 i 04 Portugal Gold • 0 ; 0 New Dollars •....••• 0 o)i Spanish Doubloo.• :: 0 _ - - I Silv ink • .... nit y.) LLOYD'S SHIPPIN tor G.--7ro--( I S Yv( LONDON, DEC. 9.—Wind this day at noon, .1%. " • derate breeze and thick weather. d•CorsAirtbeCo DEAL, DEC. 8.--Wind E.N.E. fresh. Arth-a'y ; Qu e Kitt, Lima. Sld. Royal Alice, Hopper, B° sl-- _,, of Willi 1118 ' New York. M ort Dovmal DEC. B.—Wind E., strong. Ar rcl ' ..,- lesl‘f.o' , Hartlep 01, Liverpool, for London brought in le "' OO P " PORTs3IO UTII, DEC. B.—Wind N'.N.E. Sld. Queen, China. itle Beckeshal* OFF THE Wle Tr, DEC. s.—Sophi a, Jarei 0 ,„„ OW DAETHOUTIT, Dec. B.—Wind E. And. Bec A)Ve ''' ' ham, Miramichi, for Weymouth, leaky. or b fiBr PLYMOUTH, DEC. B.—Wind N. Arrd. St. naman, Sydney, New South Wales. FALMOUTH, DEC. B.—Wind N.E. f re sh. i gardo rA BRISTOL, DEC. B.—Wind E.N.E. ' A r rd. ROW , ' .. A. Quebec. LIVERPOOL, DEC. B.—Wind N.N.W. to NY- , Pg i tile il ; ... t* Majestic, Africa ; Margaret Skelly, (supposed? _ortut" Sld. The uke, Carson, Calcutta ; Ambassadress, aleorstPl New Orleans; Alan Kerr, Gray, Mobile' Aberdssn•Su.por Savannah ; Lisbon, Fisher, St. John's, New Brun i; WATERFORD, DEC. 6.--Wind N. to N.N.E••••• boroc.y, Balwin, Savannah. ~dosP CoRK, DEC. 6.—Wind N.N.W.—Sld.Xarifa,el3s_7oo•llll4 CROoKIIAvEN, Dac. 3.—Arrd. Sabina, Rob rtsoo from Cork. n WC' rrhoolo, 1.411 0 11.1 OFF NORTH FORELAND.---Williain and ..... e t a • SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 8.--Arrd• Tay, at ealtter, ,L4 P . 10 r t Th°ll3-- Ver' Vera Cruz, left Ist ult.; Havannah, 11th ; S • . , __ o f sr Bermuda, 21st ; on freight 600,000 dollars a c e! Ir: _,-,,estP, 140,000 dollars in gold- dust and gold, two pa gr''' I "' r _ Teslbs. of Pina silver, and 661bs. of old silver.r_ ioes . sot' , CLYDE.—SId. Cape Brant!, Murray, Ba nr ' I , Nicol, Penang ; Royalist, Beveridge, New Yoric..o_,,,ecjr_t KtricsTowx.—Arrd. Monroe, Fos, PrVannahtlyerw'p'ort, to DUNMORE EAST, DEC. 4.--Y-ary, Taylor, 1, it ol3/ St. Domingo, leaky. OFT C4M GIZA-74, DEC. 2.—Atbol, C? ° . 1 ....,,D e ' Qi.gebeel Granamouth. jolt Dolton, ditto; fig lirry w" 1 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... 2 U l2 5% Antwerp.............. 26 0 Hamburgh ......11.8. 13 1256 A1t0na.:..... Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 70 Ditto, 3 months...... 25 95 Marseilles • ..... ..... . 26 0 80urdeaux......... • . 26 0 Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Petersburgb, 3 Us—. •• Berlin • • ..... ..... • ..• Vienna, effec.flo• • •... 10 6 Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 10 6 Made •• •• ........ 35% Cadiz .. •.. : ........ 36 Bilbao.. • • • • .. •..... Barcelona • • ........ Seville... .... •• • I S:v i of, Re, Vil Watt to 4 ; 814 Ti toe*lt 4, A T ho • 4 4 4%4 Co t