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" In these most interesting volume s we have the stirring scenes of a soldier's life, and the history of his daughter, wife, dnd widow, under the various difficulties of a situation calling for the energies of a manly heart, and all the strength and relying love of a woman's unshrinking spirit. They are full of incident., narratives of extraor dinary events, perils, and preservations."—Bury Herald. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.. RAILWAY SI-LkitES BY PUBLIC SALE, 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 addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orevions to their being offered ; and advices of results will be torwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-L ANE. Last Night but One of Mademoiselle SOPHIE FUOCO. THIS EVENING WIII be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled THE MAID OF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. I3orrani ; Jules de Mentagnon, Mr. D, W. King; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss ; Ninka, Miss Isaacs; Isoline, Madame Anna Bishop. After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royaie, Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear 3ldlles. Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Teil ; Messrs. Howell, Prlorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF Wi?.ONG. Sir Arthur Fo!jambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buck stone ; Harwood, Mr. Howe ; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds. Atter which an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddiugton, Mr. W. Darren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. lludson ; Mr. De Vere,.. Mr. Holt ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howes Mr.llardraan, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Ckidington, Miss P. Horton : Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture " Cheva] de Bronze ;" " The Armen " (Polka) ; Czarina" (Mazoarka) ; ' Douro " (Walzcr); and a New Overture. To conclude with Buckstoue's Farce, entitled THE IRISH LION. Principal characters by Messrs. Hudson, Brindal, Tilbury ; Miss P. Horton, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Buckin,,hain, Miss Woulds, &c. • THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. tinder the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be 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 Albert Smith, Esq.. called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray (his third appearance here),Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, bliss DalY, Miss May (her first aprearance here), Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. Atter which, the laughable Farce of MKS. WHITE. Characters by Mr. Turner, Mr. Oxberry (his third appearance in this company), Mr. H. Butler ; Miss Arden, Miss Villars, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with the successful Comedy of TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. ---------- THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER TUE DIRECTION OF 3IADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENINO Will be peranmed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA OISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedtbrd. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. OillenPird, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, iiss Einina Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the Comic Drama of THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Characters by Must's. Wright, Selby, Boyce, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. 'Po conclude with a Terpsichorean Barletta, callAl POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright, Munyard, Mrs. 3fatthew, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. FRENCH PLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Jetta Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be perf orme d a new Va.uderi le, entitled LA DOT D'Al.l VERriNE. Pierre, M. Dumery; Jerome, M. Pagenier ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Fouquet ; Felicite, Madame Durnery. To be followed by the Vaudeville of L' I 3IBASSADEUR. Cha racters by MM. Perlet, Laugeval, Berou ; Mdlle. Celina Fouquet and Mdlle.Bruhan. After which a new Comedy, entitled LES TROIS CRISPINS ; on, La Famine Poisson. Raymond Poisson, M. I'erlet ; Marianne, Mdlle. firohan. To conclude with the first act of Regnard's Play of LES FOLIES AMOUREUSES, Albert, M. Carti;my; Eraste, M.Felix ; Crispin, hfdlle. Vallee ; Lisette, Mdlle. Broiler'. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeating their Illimitable Entertainment at the above theatre TO-MORROW EVENING, December 22, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa turday evening, during the Christmas holidays. Due notice will be given of their first Morning Performance. The Coloured progranune will includ e " Old Joe, " " Lucy Neal, " " The Fancy Ball." "My skiff is on the shore," and the cele brated Ralroad Overture. The public Is respectfully cautioned th a t th e Songs and Melodies, 23 sting by the above party, are published only at Mr. Mitchell's. Doors open at eight, commence at half-past. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre 2 5.—Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaed at Michell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-officeg of the Theatre.—Open from 11 till 5. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Last Three Nights previous to the Christmas Holidays. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will appear on their trained steeds. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CHICLE. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; or, The Mountain Outlaw. On SATURDAY next (Boxing-N.ght) a double rotation of Eques trian and Gymnastic Novelties, and brat night of the Grand Comic Fairy Pantomime, written by Nelson Lee, Esq., entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Har: equin Ali Baba and the Robbers' Cave, in addition to the present successful Spectacle. Box-otlice open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE WEATHER—StrN OnacE, DECEMBER 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 40, BAROMETER, 29.12.—W1ND W., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 33 minutes after 3. Evening .. 56 mtnntes after 3. 4 .1 1 . 01 . , Vair , , _so Mit' in` • t - tk":=.l : "A.- 11 k r 40 . t 4 i tiimrib x • bit - at - •" ' 0 #fi~~x~nar~t u' m LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1846 Unfortunate Cracow ! unfortunate Poland ! but most unfortunate France! If the late Ministerial proceedings of France may be regarded as an accurate indication of the political condition of that country, then have all the dearest aspirations of LAFAYETTE been unfulfilled, then have the dismal and bloody ordeals of the Great Revolution been in a vast de gree ineffectual, then have the National Assembly, the Convention, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Restoration, and the Constitution of " thirty," been merely the forerunners of her more peculiar and unprecedented abase ment. After waging alNar of liberalism against the despotism of the European continent, France now assumes to herself the character of a nation capable of truckling to that same despotism, of conniving at its iniquities, and of pandering to its pernicious ambi. tion. In this respect France is the most inexplicable of all phenomena. The Sphinx was nothing to it Comparing the position of France at the present mo ment with the acts of France during the last seventy years, we see in the national will nothing but a monstrous anomaly, and in the French Government a continual antithesis. M. GUIZOT has, in'his recent note respecting Cracow, transmitted to the Foreign Ambassadors in Paris, and to the French Ambassadors at foreign Courts, fully divulged the degenerate nature of the policy o la grande nation. We are aware that the authen ticity of the document has been in a manner denied by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, but this denial is ostensibly a very paltry prevarica tion. It is already notorious that the pro• test forwarded from Paris to the Northern Courts, in allusion to the recent incorperation of the Cracovian Republic with the Austrian empire, has been remarkable for its courtesy, or, more strictly speaking, for its subserviency. It is well known that that protest has been nothing more than a most amiable remonstrance. Aware of their late shortcomings in regard to what is called the inviolability of treaties, the Ministers of. Lis . Maj es t y Ki ng Louis Pumpru have evinced later emb arrassment in commenting upon the' ,i.er . crim e of the three Governments, already odious .I.y.th.eir partition of Poland. They have felt that in isisting upon the culpability of Austria, Rucsia end Prussia, they have been thereby acknowledging ledging' their own criminality. In speaking of Galicia, they Live unwillingly implied the Peninsula. In alluding tg, Cracow, they have virtually referred to liadrid. Their violation of the solemn engagements o: PHILIP of Orleans, has been the counter -part of the violation of the compact of the Allied Sovereigns, the remarks uttered by the Guizot Administration upon the Treaty of Vienna, the Treaty of Utrecht has been, what grammarians would define, the ablative absolute. According to the France, however, the note transmitted by M. Guizor contains this preposterous observation :—After maintaining that " no power can enfranchise itself from treaties without enfranchising the other powers by the same act," it goes on seriously to assert—" France has not given any similar example of an attempt against the policy of conservation and peace;" and again, " It is she (France), who, above all, is occupied in the maintenance of the rights required by others, and in respecting their independence We can scarcely credit the report that such sentences are literally contained in this official document. We can scarcely credit that any Prime Minister could have the moral impudence to propound such ridiculous arguments. What ! France has maintained the policy of conservation and peace! Has she so, indeed ? With one of her Royal Highnesses tra velling through Spain, attended by a pacific retinue of chasseurs and artillery! With insurrections fomenting in the northern and eastern provinces of Portugal ! What ! France has continued to respect the independence of others ! Is it possible that any Minister of LOUIS PHILIPPE could utter this as sertion while BItESSON and DIETZ are among the living, without a blush ? other projects, by private persons, have teen put for ward, some of considerable value, and others quite impracticable. It will be our duty to examine such of them as appear calculated to produce beneflci.l results. Some excellent suggestions have been offered in an anonymous pamphlet, entitled " Observations on the Evils resulting to Ireland from the insecurity of Title, and the existence of Real Property, with some Suggestions as to a Remedy," many of which are de serving of attentive consideration. The evils are boldly and well exposed, and the proposed remedies are, at least, steps in the right direction, on which useful legislation may be founded. The country is deeply interested in the pure administration of justice. There is no one thing the English regard with greater pride or jealousy—pride, from the belief that the meanest of her MAJESTY'S subjects is not left without redress for any injury he may receive—jealousy, lest the laws, by which their sacred rights are guaranteed should not be strictly adhered to, or lest those intrusted with their due enforcement, and impartial administration, should, by levity of conduct, loss of temper, or from an over weening sense of their judicial excellences, weaken the confidence with which the people of this country have ever regarded our system of judicature. It was owing to this innate love of justice, by which the English are especially characterised, that there was spread such heartfelt satisfaction throughout the empire when GEORGE THE THIRD rendered the judges of the land independent for life. By rendering these grave functionaries, when once appointed, only removable from their high and dignified offices by joint addresses, condemnatory of their conduct, from the Lords and Commons, a step was taken by that Monarch which gained for him golden opinions from all ranks. The nation re joiced to think that the legal personages of the realm had herein had secured to them a position which placed them in the discharge of their important duties above the breath of suspicion, and in which they could fairly be presumed to be free from any bias of authority, how influential or supreme soever such authority might be. No English Sovereign ever commenced his reign with an act more dignified, more gracious, or more wise, or with one that was mare enthusiastically welcumed by his liberty-loving subjects, than (lid the grandfather of Queen VICTORIA, in freeing the judges from any sense of servile de pendence on the Crown. Good laws are of the first consideration ; the next is, that they be righteously administered. Both of these are blessings of inestimable value ; but they must stand or fall together. It is almost just as futile to expect beneficial re sults to flow from righteous laws, perversely exe cuted, as to anticipate ought but the worst possible results from the faithful administration of a vicious and tyrannical code of law. Looking to the nature and expense of the education which candidates for the English bar, for the most part, receive ; to the toilsome career which they must run for years, exhi biting talents of the highest order, before they can obtain pre-eminence as advocates; to the moral cha racter and independent spirit which gentlemen of the long robe maintain as a body, and to the responsi bility of Ministers whenever they recommend an in dividual to be raised to the bench —all these are points which, coupled with the knowledge that the judges are appointed fur life, cause the people to repose im plicit confidence in their integrity and ability. It is rarely that their confidence is abused. Whenever a judge should, in an unguarded moment, disappoint public expectation, and display an unfitness for his office, public opinion has generally been found to be' a sufficient corrective, and the intervention of Parlia ment is now-a-days never required. We have been induced to offer these preliminary observations in consequence of a remarkable scene which took place last week, in the Court of Exche quer, between the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. COCKBURN, Queen's Counsel. We blush for the Chief Baron ; we admire Mr. COCKBURN. In the case of GOLDICUTT v. BRAGIN, which was an action for breach of promise of marriage, a verdict had been obtained last Hilary Term for 3001. The action was tried at Guildhall before the Chief Baron. A rule nisi for a new trial was granted on the ground of sur prise, and was subsequently made absolute. On Thursday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, Mr. COCKBURN, engaged for the defendant, inquired of his Lordship, whether he would take the case up at that advanced hour, and intimated that he should have to examine witnesses at considerable length. The Chief Baron decided that he would not, expressed his surprise at the parties intending to try the question over again, and stated his recollection to be clear that, when the rule was granted, there was a distinct un derstanding that no second trial should be had, the object being to afford time to the parties to come to an amicable arrangement. Mr. COCKBURN informed the judge, that between granting the rule nisi, and making it absolute on the usual terms (the defendant paying all the expenses of the first trial), his client had offered to marry the plaintiff, which had, how- I ever, been refused. The Lord Chief Baron rejoined in:these words : " Taking all:the circumstances into ac count, it seems little short of insanity for the defendant to proceed with this second trial now, and exa mine witnesses after the verdict already given." Mr. COCXBURN, feeling naturally that such observations falling from the Bench, would very much prejudice his client, hereupon observed, " with the most pro found respect, that he felt it his duty there publicly to protest against the practice of any judge prejudg ing a case, especially in the presence and hearing of the jury whose duty it was to try it." The Lord Chief Baron replied, that he felt sure the jury would not be prejudiced by his observations—that he had merely remarked upon the prudence of the course about to be taken by the defendant. The next morning Mr. COCKBURN pressed to have the trial postponed, in consequence of the Chief Baron having used the term "insanity" in the way already mentioned. The judge refused the application. The foreman of the jury warmly reprehended Mr. COCKBURN for suppos ing they would be influenced by what had fallen from the Chief Baron, and designated such a supposition as " discreditable." Mr. COCKBURN at once disposed of this shameful scene by stating, that he " best con sulted the interests of his client, the proper adminis tration ef justice, and his own feelings and judgment, by withdrawing from 'the conduct of the case." Having bowed to the Bench, he immediately quitted the Court. The trial then went on in the absence of counsel for the defendant; the Chief Baron summed up emphatically in favour of the defendant. The jury, notwithstanding, gave 4001. damages, being 100/. more than was given upon the first trial ! Such is the outline of this remarkable exhibition in a British court of justice. It is almost needless to comment upon it—the facts speak for themselves. The dignity of the bar was well upheld by Mr. COCKBURN. The rebuke he administered to the judge was richly merited. Technically speak• ing, when a new trial was granted, the litigant parties stood in court, just in the same position as though the merits of the case had never been pre viously gone into; and the judge was bound to bring his mind to the judicial consideration of them with the like impartiality as if he had never known any thing of the incidents of the case, excepting as they should be then and there developed to the Court and jury. What would be thought of Lord DENMAN, if, upon the opening of a trial to-morrow morning, of the merits of which he might have happened to have become casually informed, he were to brow beat the counsel, telling him that both he and his client were mad for attempting to submit their case to a jury? Such conduct could not be suffered for one moment without producing severe remonstrance ; and how childish would it not be thought fur the Chief Ju.itiee to contend that such monstrous extra judicial remarks could not have any weight with the jury ! Men are but men ; and it is notorious what an influence is likely to be imparted to the minds of juryraen by judicial, or extra-judicial dicta. It was very honourable in the foreman to reject the belief that; the verdict of himself and his colleagues would be in any degree swayed by what the Chief Baron had let drop. Still, the foreman could only answer for himself; and the very vehemence with which he expressed himself argues the probability that he was not in a frame of mind dispassionately to discharge the impartant duties the law had imposed upon him.. The fault lay with the judge. That his Lordship meant well is not to be doubted ; but that a greater legal indiscretion was ever manifested on the bench, it is almost impossible to ay.mise. What But the " note " is on the whole a masterpiece of politeness. It insinuates its displeasure with the most apologetic tenderness. Its words of remon strance are sugared with leniency. From the tone of the note it is certain that France would infinitely prefer assailing its enemies with a shower of bonbons, as the ladies do in the Roman carnivals, to attacking them with the " leaden rain of bullets." Meanwhile the Austrians are treating France after the most supercilious fashion—they are speaking of France with the utmost contempt ; they are treating her tmilitary and naval power with the greatest contumely. To this unenviable position the French Government have driven themselves by their own faithlessness. They have dug their own pitfall, they have forged the instrument of their own castigation. The position which the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland might have filled with so much credit to themselves and advantage to their country, upon the partial suspension of the 14th general rule, but which it was forced to abandon in consequence of the resig nation of many of its most influential members, will at length be o2cupied. The urgency of Irish affairs, the difficulties, and exigencies of the country ; the certainty that measures of the most enlarged and comprehensive character, deeply affecting all those in any way interested in land, will speedily be submitted `O' Parliament for its sanction and approbation, and the vast importance of communicating to the Govern ment, through some efficient body, full information as to the state of the country, and offering such sugges tions as the measures about to be brought forward, may render advisable, has quieted the fears and mutual distrus', and appeased the petty disputes and differences that have so long unhappily prevailed, and which have hitherto prevented that cordial co-opera tion amongst Irishmen of all creeds and parties, that is so essential to the welfare of their fatherland. It now appears to be the wish of men of all shades of politics that a meeting of landlords should be held previous to the meeting of Parliament, in order to. devise measures which shall, if possible, receive the unanimous support of the Irish Members ; and at a most influential assemblage of landed proprietors, at tended by representatives of every class of political feeling, it was resolved that a committee should be formed for the purpose of collecting suggestions to be laid before the Irish Members of both Houses of Parliament, as to the measures that ought to be brought forward during the ensuing session. This is as it should be, and if the happy commencement should be followed up, as we hope and believe it will be, by a total abstinence from all such abstract poli tical questions as must necessarily lead to the expres sion of opposite views and feelings—if their discus sions are restricted to the points by which the des titute and famishing peasant may be fed, the distress removed, the vast quantity of labour now remaining idle and unproductive, turned to the most useful and beneficial purposes, and the agricultural capabilities of the island fully developed—it is impossible to over rate the national advantages that may be derived from the proceedings of such a committee. I here is now little time to be lost. Within a few weeks Parliament will be convened, and the first measures that will be laid before the Legislature will undoubtedly relate to Ireland. The circular of the Board of Works points out in some degree the nature of the Ministerial propositions ; it demonstrates that public works are to cease, and others of a reproductive character to be substituted for them; it indicates that works connected with thorough draining and sub soiling with the spade are chiefly to be resorted to and that they are to be executed by task-work, each individual labourer having a portion allotted to him sufficient for a fortnight or three weeks ; he is to be allowed to avail himself of the assistance of his chil dren, wad if by their aid he is enabled to complete his task in a shorter period than that appointed, he will have earned a sufficiency to support his family, and will be enabled to devote the surplus time to farm labour, or to any other occupation that may prove most beneficial. This is a most admirable regulation ; it holds out an inducement to exertion and industry that must be turned to account. The Irish labourer may be lazy, and inclined to skulk, as his detractors allege, but give him a motive for industry, and the opportunity of exerting'it, and neither Englishmen nor Scotchmen will surpass him in close and patient toil, frugality, and providence ! So says Mr. NIMMO, the eminent engineer, whose extensive acquaintance with the labourers of the three countries enables him to form an accurate judgment on the subject, and who appears to give a preference to the Irish labourer. Is it not confirmed by our own experience ? Who that has seen the amount of harvest work performed by- them during their annual visits to this country, but will admit that, if adequately remunerated, no men can toil harder or more efficiently ? The Land Commis sioners say, " If you show to him in what manner the application of that labour may be rendered most con ducive to his own comfort and permanent benefit, and assist him with money or materials, which his labour cannot supply, you will generally find the Irish pea sant ready to co-operate with you in effecting im provements beneficial alike to himself and to the country." And again, "When we consider this state of things, and the large proportion of the population that come under the head of agricultural labourers, we have to repeat that the patient endurance which they exhibit is deserving of high commendation, and entitles them to the best attention of the Govern ment and of Parliament." The foregoing authorities speak in the strongest manner of what the labourers will do under proper regulations, and the proposed plan appears well calculated to stimulate them to, the utmost degree of industry. District inspectors of drainage are to be appointed, whose duty it will be in the first instance to examine the site of every work presented for, to determine the extent of land to be drained, and mark its boundaries on the Ordnance plans ; to lay out the works con nected with the main or open drains ; to determine the depth and all the details belonging to the covered drains ; to estimate the cost of the drainage per acre ; to value the land in its present state, and give his opinion as to the increased value which will result from the drainage, and report on the whole to the Commissioners This is an extended and important sphere of duties, ind will require the assistance of able and intelligent men ; but every one acquainted with the state of Ire land and the habits of Irishmen will at once concede the necessity of a strict surveillance being kept over the expenditure of the money and the due and proper execution of the work. The increased value of the lands, in consequence of the drainage and other works, in proportion to the cost thereof, will afford valuable data to the board to enable them to form iound conclusions as to the profitable nature of other works of a similar character. The!relief-inspecting of of the Board of Wczks is to fix the number of, and nominate the labourers to be employed on each work,from the list of the destitute re siding within each electoral division or barony, as is now usual for the road works. The landed proprie tors, farmers, and stewards, connected with the works, are invited to scrutinise the list of the destitute, and to insure that none who have other means of support be employed. As the land is to be assessed for the works, it is the interest, as well as the duty, of the rate-payers, to prevent the admission of labourers who are not really fitting objects of bounty. Many I THJ SUN, LONDON, WEDNES.:JAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1846. MACS the matter worse is, that a letter has since been published by the solicitor to the defendant, alleging that, but for the extraordinary conduct of the judge, they meant to have called Vt itnesaes who had never appeared at the first tiial, and whose testimony would have given a different complexion to the entire case. But, of course, they naturally enough considered that any evidence would be of no avail for the purposes of a fair trial when they had been stigmatised in the outset, in open court, by the presiding judge, as being little short of insane. Even without this evidence, the report runs, that the judge summed up emphatically in favour of the insane parties. This, of itself, was a piece of judicial conduct highly inconsistent, to say the least of it. If it were meant as a sort of oc aniende," it signally failed ; the mischief had been irreparably committed; the jury heeded not the judge, but im mediately gave increased damages. We resign this subject with feelings of deep regret that the Chief Baron should have suffered himself to lapse into so serious an error. Distinguished an advocate as Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK proved himself at the bar, it is much to be lamented that he has shown himself, at times, to be grievously deficient in the high qualifications indispensably necessary to con stitute an efficient judge, particularly where he is appointed to be the chief of his court. If Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK be desirous of standing well in public opinion, we recommend him to dispense largely with that dogmatical loquacity for which he has already acquired an un env i a bl e di st i nct i on. A grave and dignified deportment is of no mean account in a ,judge; but the habit of fre quently interrupting the counsel, by bawling out desired ine demeanour.stntorian to If tones, will never conduce to the d Sir FREDERICK P OLLOCK be er e ambitious of improving himself, let him turn his eyes to the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, and he will be readily supclied with a model he would do well to imitate. It appears that the ambassadors from the Northern Powers to the Swiss Republic have determined to quit Berne for Zurich as soon as the Government of the former enters on its directive duties. This is re garded as a protest against the new Bernese constitu tion, and as a prelude to intervention in the internal affairs of Switzerland. The English Ambassador will, we are happy to say, remain at Berne, but the French Ambassador accompanies the northern diplo matists to Zurich. Under these circumstances, the following passage from a letter written by the Neuf chatel correspondent of the Journal des Debuts, is somewhat suggestive :—" An erneute of a somewhat grave character has recently broken out in the Ber nese Jura, on the occasion of the installation of a new prefit. The general desire of the inhabitants of this portion of the country, particularly in the Catholic localities, and where French is the language spoken, is lobe separated from the canton of Berne." Is Swit zer!znd to be treated like Poland, and partitioned among her snore powerful neighbours ? Is France to take, as Ler share of the spoil, the Jura provinces, where French is the language spoken ? If so, we can understand why it is with wily "bated breath and whi:Tering humb!eness " that M. G UIZOT protests against the annexation of Cracow. Madrid papers of the 14th have arrived. The last account of the elections gives, out of 171 elections, the results of which were known, 127 to the Moderadas and 44 to the Opposition. Among the Moderados returned were M. Donoso Cortes, ex- Secretary to the Queen; M. Gonzales Bravo, ex : President of the Council, and now Spanish Envoy at Lisbon ; M. Mayans, ex-Minister of Justice ; M. Benavides, ex-Political Chief of Madrid ; and General Joke de la Concha, Captain-General of the Basque provinces. The Progressistas had returned at Seville their principal leader, M. Cortina; and M. Antonio Gonzales, .who was President of the Council under Regent Espartero, had also secured a seat in the Cortes. M. Salamanca had been returned in the province of Alicante. The election of M. Olozaga, whose conduct towards the Queen in 1843 seemed to be most resentfully remembered by the Court, had given rise to the meeting of a Cabinet Council. According to the Espanol, no thing would be ',decided as to the admission of M. Olozaga into the Chamber of Deputies " until the dispositions of the new Moderado majority were better ascertained." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) The Cott:ln-market at Livercool y( sterday was very quiet. Sales 3,000 bales, half of which was on specula tion. Prices were -id. to id. per lb. lower than last Friday. The sales included 2,000 bales American at sd. to 73. ; 200 Pernam at Bd. to 81d. ; 100 Bahia, at 7.4 d. to 813. ; 100 Egyptian at Bid. ; and 400 Surat at 4d. to CO. per lb. Shares were firm, but Birmingham and OxfJrd Junction did not advance quite so much as here, b!ing 9 to 91. premium. The sale of Railway Shares, to-day, at Messrs. Lanioud and Co.'s, went off very well ; a good business was done, and previous prices were obtained. The fol lowing are a few of the principal sales : East Indian Great Luxembourg London and York (scrip) ... 2 6 0 Waterford, Wexford, and Va1entia......... 0 4 0 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, Old 0 9 Madrid and Valencia 1 0 0 Shrewsbury and Hereford Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 10 0 Paris and Lyons 5 5 0 Shropshire Union and Canal Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6 Great Indian Peninsular Louvain ala Sambre -• 1 17 6 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 5 6 Northern Counties Union 1 3 0 Ceylon ..... It would appear from the accounts received yesterday from Portugal, that the financial affairs of that country are:more favourable. The value of the Portuguese Stock has consequently rather improved At a meeting of the General Committee for the relief of the sufferers by the great fires at Quebec of 1845, the Treasurer laid before, the Assembly the amounts received which were 160,3131.95.8 d.• the amount expend e d i s s t a t e d at 150,240/. 3s. 5(1. The balance in the treasurer's hands is 10,073/. Gs. 3d. It was resolved—" That the president of this committee shall make a report to the General Committee on the petitions of the different public charitable institutions, informing them that, since the receipt of their petitions they are unable, in consequence of the various sums voted by the General Committee to the ministers of the different religious denominations in this city, to grant the assistance requested in their petitions, and that it is the opinion of this committee that a portion of the monies, so voted by the general committee, should be employed in restoring the efficiency of the said public charitable institutions through the instrumentality of those who have been chosen by your committee to hold the said monies in trust and to distribute them at their discretion. The :Public Securities have been firm this morning. Consols for the Account h ave j us t b een quoted at 93,1, and the same for Money, with the half year's interest taken off. The premium upoa Exchequer.bills is some. what heavy, at 83 l ls. Reduced Three per Cents. bass been sold at 94i; India Stock for the Account at 25.14; and Long Annuities at 9 15-16. A few sales have just been made in the Old Portu guese Five per Cents. at from 82 to 83. The Four per Cents. are at 38 to 38i. For Spanish Consols the value is 26 ; for the Three per Cents., 37i 38 ; for Dutch Four per Cents, 93 ; and for the Two-and-a-Half per Cents , GOi. There have not been any alterations of importance in the Railway Shares or Scrip-market to-day. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns...—.. 94% 94 94% New 3 1 4 par Cent. Annuities ..... . 95% 3 % 95 3 4 Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9i B 15-16 9 15-1 s Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 9 11-16 India Bonds, 1,000/ Ditto under 1,0001. ...... 20 Consols for Opening (0% 3 % ex div India Stock for Account... ..... —254 3 / 1 ex div Exchequer Bills, 1000/. I%d. ... 811 p Ditto, 500/ ... Bll p Ditto, Small llt i. 3 rumoured that the Ministry, alarmed at the unexpected successes of the Progressistas in se►eral districts, notwithstanding the persecutions and op pressions directed against them, is meditating a coup d'etat against MENDIZADAL, OLOZAGA, ANTONIO GONZALES, and several other Progressista leaders. The following, the only intelligence from Portugal contained in these papers, appears in the Clamor Public° : " We have seen a Lisbon letter which records one of the most atrocious crimes that can be attempted, but one which is, fortunately, of rare occurrence in the annals of nations. It appears that the Cabralists, unable to con quer their enemies by the sword, have determined upcn committing a fearful crime in order to get rid of them. Secret agents have been sent to Count Das Antas's head quarters, with the mission of blowing up the powder magazine and poisoning his troops. Count Das Antas happily detected their project in time to save the lives of his unfcrtunate soldiers, to whom 5,000 poisoned loaves had already been distributed. What a horrible deed '." We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Moniteur Parisien of Saturday evening, which has succeeded the defunct Messager as the autho rised and acknowledged Ministerial organ, has the following, respecting the circular note of M. GEJIZOT cn the subject of Cracow, a translation of which, from La France, we gave yesterday :—" The journal La France publishes, this morning, a note, entitled Circular Note of M. GUIZOT on the affairs of Cracow.' 11re are authorised to declare that this note is altogether inaccurate and incomplete." The Nat onal has a furious article against M. GUIZOT, for having removed M. BARBET from the Mauritius, and accu!es the Government of having cowered before " the insolent menace of Lord PALMEMSTON." In commenting on the seizure of the National of Friday, by the Government, the Constitationnel cha racterims it as an attempt on the part of the Minister to excite a personal attack upon himself from the Opposition, uncle: cover of Which he may escape from the necessity of giving any explanations as to the state in which he has brought the affairs of the country. "He agitates himself," says the Constitu tionnel— . "Ho dec:aims, he assumes an air of arrogance and of violence, lie makes a great noise to deceive his friends, to deceive himself; as to the gravity of the situation in w fac h t i s cli sp le has etakplaipnla plainly, and have eno tife n n ee r d tu e n v a e t n el c y ,f f a orhim com mentary. France is isolated, an ! will, most probably, so remain for a long period of time. The Cabinet which represents France has quarrelled with all the great Powers of Europe. The Liberal cause, which is the cause of France, has experienced an immense check at Cracow, and all the addresses of our Chambers have been flagrantly and cruelly belied. The policy of our Governraent,based upon the English alliance, has been de stroyed in 24 hours by a coup de tele. The system of peace, of the peace of minds, as M. Guizot, defined it, is destroyed. The only hope of our Cabinet is, that at some future period, more or less distant, the Absolutists may conde scend to accept of its assistance to perpetrate ingsome country or other, in Switzerland, for example, some new crime against liberty. 'We may at any hour see revived against us a coalition, at all events a diplomatic coalition of all Europe. In the meantime our pecuniary resources are engaged for the next ten years, the financial crisis perpetuates itself like a slow fever, and we are so far from enjoying either glory or grandeur, that we have not even prosperity or security," The writer concludes by recommending the law authorities to impeach the real authors of these mis fortunes, the Ministers, instead of getting up legal Proceedings against proprietors of newspapers. The severe frost which had prevailed for some days in the French capital had been succeeded by a rapil thaw. The Three per Cents. were done at Ton. Tom's, on Sunday morning, at 80f. 80c., but, on the arrival of the London papers of Friday, announcing increasing firmness on our S tock -Exchanges, prices rose to 30f. 92,jc. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 21. Luxembourg, Vii--Namur and Liege, 3% —Northern of Frame Constituted, 10%—O rleans and V i erzon, Paris and Strasburg Constituted,•lV.. TAU E COI DE DE Mox/Emor.m.—The Conde de Montemolin left town at ten o'clock on Monday morning, nd proceeded to llie-hclere, on a visa to the Earl o Carnarvon. The Conde is accompanied by his Excel lency the Marquis de Villafranca and General Don Juan Montenegro, and is expected to return to day. 20 93 3 4 254:A PIIICES OF FOREIGN EUNDS. Buenos Ayres Bonds. 6 per Cent. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 3 3 / 4% Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent 3B Dr tto, Account 38% Russian Bonds lll Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account . — Ditto, Passive ' . 5 5 /8 Ditto Deferred l7 Ditto 3 per Cent. - Ditto. Account ..... ... ..... Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 3 / 4 93 93 PRICES or PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SILARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen - ...• .. ....... Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush 1%... Belfast & County Down 4%....., Birmingham and Dudley 40e. ... .. 6% p.. . Birmin. and Gleucester..loo 129 Ditto New 17% 31% ... . Birmingham and O x - ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 234 - ••• Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — .. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 —.. 49 Bristol and Liver. Junc.. 21/.,,..„.. Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 % 2% Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 27% — Claurnet and 81ythe...... 2 Chester and Manchester 425. ••• ..... Cheltemhani 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/ u , _ ih ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRIC ES 43 2334 83 38 39 Cork and Waterford 1 1;4 • Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% — ••••• Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% —. Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% — Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .... . Ditto New l2/. 16s 7I A 1 ) ••• ••••••• Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d As 1 / e p Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3i. EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% Dd., Camb. and Ely.. 2%...... East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... Do., do., New Scrip East Lincolnshi re ... 11 4— ..• 2 /8% East & West of England 1A...... Edlnburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 1 ...... ... Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% .... Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .... ..... ••• . ... Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% — Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 / 2 — Ex eter, Yeovil, & Dorset 51i — Gaslgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glagow, Kiimar.,&Ayr 50 — Ditto, New -.. 15 Do., 1,4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... ...... 12 1 / 2 ..4... Goole, Doncaster, &c... 2 Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ... .. Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2% — Great North of Scotland 2 1 / 2 — Great North of England..loo Ditto New Ditto, New . . ... Ditto, New Great Western B5 127 Ditto 1 4 Shares Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto, New ... 2 Huddersfield & Mulches. 13 ........ .... .. Ditto, Extension ...... 3 Hull and Selby 5O Do. Half Shares Ditto U Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% l 3 l /2 Do., do., and Norwich 2%...... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% B2 .. ........ .... Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% — ...... 26 1 4 26% 17 ~.. 6 3 p 31% % P 29 21/2 25 1 / 2 - 71 / 8 P % P 31/2 17% 2% 127 75 17v, 29% 64 106 1 4 13% Do. Extension(Green) 2%.• ... Leeds and Thirsk l 7 l / 2- 15 1 4 Ditto, New 5 Do, Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% Do., Mnchstr &New castle Junction .... 2%...... 2% ........... London and Blackwall. 161. 133.4 d ............... Do. New ...... • ••• Ditto Extension ~—. 71'...••• .. ........ London, Brighton, and ••• South Coast Ditto, Fifths , 40 ...... _ 10 754 15IA 4q .. _ Do. Consol. Eighths.. 10 ...... .._ ... ....... Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 ..... _ . .. ..... ....... London and Greenwich 1211554 d... Do. Preference ...18/178 2d .•• London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo •...... 194 1 /. 2 194 2 Do. Quarters ......... Du., Go., New ......... 2 Ditto Fifths Do. 1 4, Share 3 (G. J.) 5 .. Do 40/.Shares(l4.ll.l.) 8 ...... ... 40 Do. 404 (M. & B.) 75 Do. 101. ( 31. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 Do. 10/. (M. /iz 13.) C. 1 ..,..• .. • London, O x f ord, and Cheltenham - ••• ••• ........ •• Lond. & S.West ern 411 tis 10d — 63 Do. New Consol. Bths 40 — Do. New ll B..... 21% Ditto Tenths ..... .. 5 Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 %4 Ditto ditto ...... ... 4 London and York 2% ...... --- .•• • •• • • 18% 26 3 A 21 5 ' 54 4 1 4 5 74 Do. Extension London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Lculonderry & Colerainkt 15 . — .. — Londonderry and Ennis killen l5 Lyon aid Ely Lynn and Dereham l5 Manchester and Leeds... 82 ......105 3 4 lO5 sa Ditto ib Shares Do. Quarters 2 ... Do. Fifths . . ... ........... 5 . . Do. Sixteenths ..... .... 6 1 4-- Do. Extension 42s. l% p Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 Do. do. Fifths ... 1 Manehester,Buxton,and Matlock 42 s . Manchest. &Southampt. 2 Midland lOO 1274 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo 103 Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 Newport& Abergavenny 2 1 ,4...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 - •• ..... , Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevcr Norfolk .. Ditto Half Shares .. 9 Do. Extension Northern Co 1 11, Jrn Jun ties Union 2 1 / 2 North British ..-.... ... 25 Do. Half Shares %.. ...... Do. Quarters Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 7 3 3 %% 4,,,,,,,,, Northern and Eastern 5O Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New North Staffordshire 5 ...... 8% North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting North Western. 2 lh — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre 25 — Do. 1 / 2 Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3/. 12s. — dis. Richmond l5 Royston and Ilitchen ... 1% — Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% — ... Sheffield & Manchester 100 •• • Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 ...... Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Ditto ditto, Class B. 1 1 4 2% Shropshire Union South Devon 4O ... .. South Staffordsbi re June. 2% — .. t.'outh Eastern & Dover. 33% — Do., No. 1 2G Do., Nc, 2. Do., No. 3 Do.. No. 4 •• • St.Alban's, Hatfield ,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — South Wales 5 ...... 3 1 4 .... ... Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ••• ...... •• Taw Vale Extension ... 2 ''' - ''' ..... Vale of Neath 2 Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole Waterford anti Kilkenny 11 . Waterford and Limerick 27% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, b aterford, and Valentia . l% Waveney Valley 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 425....... %Vest Comwall A r exford and Carlow Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York and Newcastle. ... 25 ..... 38 Ditto New Do. Preference ...... 2 i ork and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares-- ... 25 Do. Selby Do. Extensity= Ditto, Preference ...... - 2 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadocs 1 Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2% •• Boulogne and Amiens... 16 ...... Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... -- Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Central of Spain ... Caylon .. ..„ ss. Demerara Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular 5s Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3% ... . . . Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ..• .. Jamaica S.Mid.Ju.nction 1 Jersey ...... .. . ... 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ... Luxembourg. ... Lyons and Avignon 2 — Madras 1 Madras. Nellore, and Arcot Madrid and Valentia 2 ... .. Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ... .... Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Lyons Constituted 8 Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre 2O ••••• ......... Sainbre and Meuse lO .•• . Strasbourg and Bale _St. Laurence & Atlantic Tours and Nantes Con stituted ... ...... 5 Tommy, Jurbise, Lan den, and llasselt. 8 Trinidad West Flanders ...... .... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of London Union of Australia British North American 50 Commercial of London 20 — Colonial 25 ... . ... ...... London & Westminster. 20 London Joint Stock National of Ireland 22% — ....... ..... .. National Prov. England. 35 MINES. 1% p 2t:q4 I p I'3 1271 X-, 34% 5% 36V, 157 f, 3 % 11/2 1414 16% 2% 38 1 4 12 1 A, 7 VA ...._ 35% Real del Monte Unregd. EIitRATUM.—In yesterday's List, read East Lancashire New Scrip 2% instead of 3%. BELGIAN FUNDS. — BRUss2I4, Dle. 16. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ....... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • . • Ditto Three per Cent.. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto .. Ditto,ditto,lB4o•.... Ditto,ditto, Ditto, 1844.......... Ditto, 1836.. Ditto, 1838 •••••• • • • • .. 72% Ditto of the City, 1832 . Ditto, 1843 . Bank of Belgium.• ......• •• •• —Brussels Papers. Dec. 17. .AUSTItIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 7. 5 per Cent. Meta11ique5.......... • • • • • • • . 108% 4 per Cent. ditt0............ •• .• •• .• •. 99% 3 per Cent. ditto Loan, 1834 • • ...• .• •• 157% Ditto, 1839 •• • Bank Shares .............• • .• •• • • •• •. 1590 Esterhazy's Loan •• • "" " 100% •••• ******* 101 -- • - RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand •••• • • •• • • . 176 k Gloggnitz ........ . • • • • • • . -............. 129 Vienna —Milan • • • • • • •• •• Leghorn ...... •••• • • • • 95 Sienna ........ 75 Cirosetto . • .............. 94 Oldenburg . • Pestoja • .... Pesti' Bridge • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Apenninen .. • ..... • •Allgemeine Zeltung, Dee. 10. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 15. money. hills Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.......... •59 59% 3 % , Ditto, 3 per Cent • • .............. 7134 71% Ditto, 4 per Cent... 92 92% Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent ••••• • • • • • Commercial Company, 4% per C en t .. 173% 174% East India Loan, 4 per Cent •••••• • • • • Exchange on London, at sight .....• • • 11 97 Two m0nth5......... ••• • • • 11 90 On Hainburgh, at sight .. • . 35 62 Two months... ••• • • • 35 25 On Paris Two months. . Dutch Papers, Dec. 16.1 COURSE OF EXCHA: Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 4% Antwerp• 25 85 Hamburgh .... • • ALB. 13 10% A1t0na.......... • • Paris, 3 days' sight ... • 25 55 Ditto, 3 months...... 25 85 Marseilles .. •.. • • 25 90 80urdeaux......... • • 25 90 Frankfort on Maine.... 121 Petershurgh, 3 Us .• Berlin • • • • • • • • •• Vienna, eflee. flo• •.. • • 10 Trieste, ditto.... •• .. 10 5 Madrid •• .••• • • . • 35% Cadiz • • • : •• • 3634 Bilbao... ..... Barcelona •.... Seville qGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Leghorn .....•••••...• 30 55 Genoa.. •• •••••• ..••.. 25 90 Milan•••••••••••••• •• _ ...•••• Venice . ...••••• —..... Naples ........ •• • • 4ON Palermo, per 12013 Lisbon ......... 53% Oporto .•• • • • • 53% Rio Janeiro .. . • • • 26 Bahia . Buenos Ayres .. . •• • New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia ••. • • • PRIM OP BULLION, PLE 02'. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... 0 4 10% Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in bars ........ 0 5 0% William Russell, Esq., of Brancepeth Castle, and William Standish Standish, Esq., of Cocken Hall, have accepted the office of stewards of the next Durham races. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUMDAY.—fIer Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise on the eastern terrace and slopcs. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening Will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness, de Speth, Lord and Lady John Russell , H on. Mies Lister, and Captain Lord James Murray (Scots Fusilier Guards). The band of the Ist Life Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle. A deputation from the agoTerTate meeting the dirce tors of railroads in Ireland, b coEsisting of Mr. Alderman Boyce, Mr. Perry, Mr. Kincoar, Mr. Frith, Mr. La y ard, Mr. Tyrrell, Mr. Currie, and Mr. Hemmings , ha d a long interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer YIP terday at his official residence in Downing street. It 43 deputation was introduced by Mr. George Moffatt, Dtf; l ,' Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview yesterday low" the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis of Lansdowne, (Lord President) lea town yesterday for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord Campbell left town yesterday for liartrigge House, Roxburgshire. —-- 1-I.A.MBURGH ITVIAIL. THE lIAGuE, DEC. 16.—Accounts ',f ro m Aruhein i a yesterday aounce that they were e m p lo y ed in taki m ag up the bridge of b oa t s o ver the Rhine, because quantitiee of drift ice were comin g down the river. The sanie WO the case at Westervoort on the 1 5 th, w here carriages could no longer p w iss. Drift ice was be g inning tone r paar on the Blal and the Maese ; the water was in gen e ral falling. Th e Maine, the Lahn, an d the Nape g enre frozen over. ' ANTWERP DEC. 15.—The Scheldt beeps to kin! down much ice. The mail from Holland arrived yea,!,t day, in a s'm lge, at five o'clock in the afternoon. .-tem; road from Antwerp to Breda is impassable bY C ari see Mo AMSTERDAM, DEC. 16. —The present wint er t icy likely to be distinguished by the extraordinary Venni of snow, of which we have had scarcely an? , el arp r 6 b y to de ll f It has fallen in such quantities as consi era , ater i the mails. Or city is in the complete dries of iv, moteo diaalnrldetchtteihoen hones,ssledges._D s t e t r iat e rp e e t a s p , de a r,i. nd trees are covered willi S v : ln D g e. h l r9° . Ugh ___.—.....--- ___,,the streets SOUTH ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER A— --erj noon to TaIVERPOOL, MONDAY EyEN/NG.--ShOlily Bltere wo day it was reported that the steal:net Antelq s age entering the river from South America", , 11 ,,i e p r o P agen ts ' up the river excited great interest. , t he fol , Messrs. AP Tear and Hadfield, us with " , favour . lowing : red " Th ' • e auxiliary steam-ship Antelope, has just 11 it, Her owls a here from the Brazils, having left Rio on the 2d e u hs Bahia, the 13th, and Pernambuco, the 19th• Sh but on been retarded on her passage by easterly winds, . a oeePY ll lO thewhole her voyage is very satisfactorY• period of three months and eight days out an d " a nd calling at the ports both ways, and discharging a nd taking in full cargo. She brings fifteen passengeAilla voluminous correspondence. The Emperor a . oing honoured the Antelope with a visit previous to her le yery Rio,_ aci and enjo) ed a sail in her round the WO „Abo t. lity and encouragement has been given by th e " - ti ielt rities in Brazil, who are most anxious to promot e h op ed communication with this country, and it is to be o our own Government will be influenced by this sueono• experiment. The Antelope does not apPear to 1 7 0 7, thepolitical news of importance, either from Bra!,„ 1 0 so River Plate; but there has scarcely yet been P. " analyze the rapers rt ce:ved." ---- CAPE OF GOOD BORE' t act Cape of Good H o p e p a pers to the 11th of Oeste, have been receiv e d. Tn e followingintereging b' o7) „, ment forms the " postscript" of the''South Afikan mercial Advertiser of the 10th of that nit-nth OST:z CHI PT* The Frontier Post .trr . I last night, having been detained . -1 ; v i e' rain 3. from the Graham's Town Journal ea ' of October 3d, is 11/15 tily ex tracted:— " The records of the ast week, though they death of two more of ot p ir unfortunate fellow•colonisht o.e: the hand of the treacherous Kafir, are, good service in the field, encouraging. Colonel Somerset has seen again doing u pon the w.. 0 . 0 1 _. T a he e f n ol ° lo 'c w illci ry d unceasing convince the colony of the zeal, gai l " s "'' 51' activity of this officer, made by the Gaga Overtures of peace have been -- tell of the chiefs." The Governor's terms in sub ' and with s tarneeseu w l e r w e c . h m a y rnl_ • Ist. That these tribes should lay down their a e_ e 2d. That they should give up all the colonial cattl_ _ 3d. That the country - as far as the Kei shonldt_ placed under British control —those who remain On 1 ,. ) 0 1 . 9 . side submittinz to such regulations as may be made their future government. " Afacomo, it is said, seemed disposed individually t...° agree to these conditions, but by the o thers they o: entirely rejected. They stated they nev er heard of ; conquered people being required to give up the ir arras 0 that most of the cattle were dead, and that they w ph& tired of the war, and they were determined not to g any moosrme.ighTthgeny to were th3i r un k d r e a r ais ou w r ith fe n e u t t , and an y Ol4l f ; d on their part, but that to give up their guns wasres out " l the quert on ~ Such is affirmed to be the substance of the reP ll given to his Excellency the Governor." Summary of Colonel Somerset's proceedings, extrac t 4 from his dispatchesto his Excellency th e Governor " Sept. 22, 1846• 11 " Shot 4 of the enemy, took 4 prisoners, 15 horses, 1 14 head of catte, and 3 ;;utis, belonging to Seyolo's tribe. Sept. 24, 18-If'so Captured 1,100 head of the Gaika cattle, an" horses, and shot 5 of the enemy. " Sept. 2 9 , 1 - P446. of " Secured by mid-day on the 27th, 3,000 ilea& superior cattle, mostly colonial, and a few horses. we " In these operations twenty-two of the enemy fallen, but without casualty on the side of the troops' 10. Commercial Advertiser•office, Saturday morning, OA (From the same Journal.) Mr. Deputy Commissioner- lei Mr. Palm er ,. the Simon's Bay on Thunday in the Inflexible, nisei.. Thunderbolt , as inadvertently stated in last 'du et for ono Government is now procuring mules and wa,gg w via service on the frontier. As it was reported ' ll force' day or tw© ago, that one of the returned Mr. Metcalf, of Swellandam, barg lier m the f Th . underbolt, in Simon's Bay, in a state °` 1;107 in a ermg and debility, and left to find his °" l , - ,, InditarY hospital, strange place, being refused admittance into4l";uthoritli &c., it is proper to state, on g o f waif, lig , that before leaving the Thunderbolt, Mr. x e • b e ' an order for admittance • into the aval / I ° e P lta 'verf preferred the hospitality of a private family, w k ile fi re gh e' a fr was ISLldeed,trferssOs as attention and kindness was shown to him, t:. n e '°•ncilf at r i happily in vain, as he was in the last stage of able complaint. It is difficult to come at the ° i t' otlhi l " in such case s , and in the pre sen t s tate of t ue . t kice e ' mind, justly exasperate d b y many pa i n f u l circum'Aly te' the version th a t i mp li es most b lame i s m ost reau l cei ved. SPORTING INTELLICiENC 21A PEDESTRIANISM. OI L MAXFIELD AN D DAVIS'S G REAT M I LE R ACE i -r, i f long 100 Sovs. A SIDE, NEAR BATH.—This event, nn clif deferred, and anxiously expected, came off 011 r vias over the Lansdowne Racecourse. The mustso the numerous, and the betting ranged from 5 t 0 re tilt North Star (M ax fi e ld) to evens. The star t was r,.1:0011‘ effected, Maxfic.id making the r unn i ng at an ex , " - b e att• nary pace. For the first quarter of a mile he led ards• tifully, having an ac:vantage of from two to three n l o is, The pace, however, seemed to tell on him, and, „.. a sel who ran self-co n t a i ne d, s h ort l y a f ter collared and r - r sea him. At th e h a lf m il e t h e W c l sh Ch i c k en had reY e his position, and led by about the same distance as competitor had previ ous ly a t ta i ne d. lie P - the ally increased the i n t erva l, an d on entering io ta straight running beyond the houses, and cooi n g fcl the straigfit running tuwards the Grand Stand , ne arCY* pretty and indisputabl e advantage of twenty ; „Y leg Maxfield was now clearly outpaced, and at the vr—ftbe post Davis was first by thirty yards. The cheer s ° v on Cambrian party at th e t r i ump h o f t h e i r cotat' r f t , r ee, must be left to ima g in a ti on . O wen S w ift, the re f was saved all question as to the winner. for 51. CSDAY AND METCA LF .—Th e 120 yards race, .„ l id aside, between Metcalf ( t h e St. John's-wood Nolc e) f j o, Day, was run on Mcn :ay, near the Wellingto n Highgate. It was nearly fo ur o ' c l oc k b e f o re W e ., eo tf started, which they did we ll an d l eve l . After yards Day got the lead, kept it, and after a yel l ' r race, came inga winner by a yard. n iStig 11. ORANGE AND T. D ANCE. —Th e match between the se men d epen di ng upon au f ;-„ g e event, was lost by D ance , a l t h oug h h e ga ve n one minute start, an d over t oo k hi m i n three, '" ge beating his m an by one m i nute an d a hal' f or had, accordi ng t o art i c l es, to walk a second onelP;a the like distan ce , or f or fei t t h e sta k e. Thi s be fail giving up at the second mile. DETENTION OP THE MAIL g jOll S.—Our citizen s, - lig 0 wits their b re th ren i n a ll parts of the cou ntritiqh f e been much put ab ou t b y t h e protracte d d eten tion e' mails. W e d o cons id er t h at the Post-office author,i; might have don e b etter b y t h e pu b l i c i n t his meta for example, the mail from London might have that iS sent vul C ar li s l e , as t h e communication b y this reehat open. As examples of irregularity, we may state did the mail which leaves London on Saturday morningtho not arrive till t en on T ues d ay morn i ng, b ein g more 'ciel forty-eight hours beyond its usual time. Oa Ther s do o night, at twelve, no fower than five mails from L ee were due. The mails horn the north have been exer - ere lngly irregular in arrival. In their case, however, Op are difficulties and impediments, which we cann ot to h for granted in th a t of the London mails.—Edin burg Evening Post, Th e TELEGRAPH ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY:" ads electric telegraph on th e Mid lan d R a il wa y was °I" -- for public use on Flic'ay, so that communicationmfes, now be made t o an d from Leeds, Normanton , borough, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Lie ces Rugby, Burton, Tamworth, Birmingham, Notting ha; Newark, and Lincoln, at the following rates, noal e lase Under ten words, Id. p er m il e; a b ove ten, etl,a %let twenty, at lid. per mile ; a b ove t we nty, and 11- tea thirty, at 3d. per mile; and for every additional, re , words, one halfpenny per mile. A messenger, 11 50 . quired, may be dispatched from any of the above rib tions, on foot, at Is. per mile; or if by postchaise' De reasonable remuneration. In case of any messag e a f ,„„t ing through the defect of the instrument, or neg' e d. the company's servants, the money will be retura.be Messages relating to luggage lost or mislaid by company'' Pervanta, will be eat fpaQ Qf chorge. 1 1 12 U O C