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THFATItE ROYAL, ADELPitt. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS ETENING Will Be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMB A, THE CORSICAN SISTER. characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Tates ; Messrs. ;Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Hankins, will cx• hiblt their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA. GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wilts Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, alias Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OxFoRD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be per:orrned a Drama, in two acts, called BLANCHE DE LMT. The Characters will be supported by Messrs. Granby, H. Hughes, J. Tining, S. Cowell, Monier; Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. If. Hughes. In the eourse of the eyening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Ater which, a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNI ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Arinincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejarnb,, Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; • ornet arcs4los, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristlelateh, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Ilonner ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Howler, Mucks, Millar, L. 3larshall, Laporte; Ude!, Miss Marshall; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with a Dell. , Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled TI; ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. - Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Lurbidge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Less.e. Mr. John Mitchell. HIS EVENING Will be performed L'ECOLE DES MARIS. Sg7 - inarelle, M. Cartigny; Valero, M. Langeral ; Ergaste, M. Lucian ; Artiste*, Frere de Sgansrelle, 3E. Dorgebret ; L'n Commissairc, M. Masquil tier ; Un Notaire, M. Pagenier ; IsA belle, Mademoiselle Angele ; Zleonor, Madame Fouquet ; Lisetto, Mdile. Khin. After which, LE PARRAIN. M. Durand Rentier (Le Parraln), 32, Perlet. To conclude with MONSIEUR PIQUE ASSIETTE. Pique- Assiette, Montieur Perlet. Boxes, Gs.; I'it, 3s. Gd. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Serer, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announcNl that this Inimitable Entertainment will be resumed TO-BORROW EVENING, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday ; and, in compliance with nu merous applications, they will give a GRAND MORNING PER FORMANCE on WEDNESDAY NEXT, commencing at half-past Two o'Clock.--St. James's Theatre, Dec. 25. Boxes, 4s. ; l'it, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ItOyARE. Proprietor, air. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Pzinee Prinee of Wales, and Royal Family. Grand Christmas Holiday Fetes. TII IS EVENING, a double rotation of Equestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The " Demon Horse ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit." Herr ;euparte, the great Dutch Bottle Equi , ;brist. THIS EVENING. Will he performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en_ titled TUE D MON NORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. New and int change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude w :1 the Grand Ghristmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey; Pantaloon, Mr. Lairarlnt; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. iiox.otlice open iron' eleven till tiva o'clock.--Doors open xi. Aix and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled THE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will be supported by the whole of the talented Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr DeWitt ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Dentin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore , • Clown, Herr E. DeWitt. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Reduction of Prices.—Boxes, Is„ Half-price, 6d ; l'it, 6d.; Gallery, 3d.; Private Boxes, 2s. Mr. N. T. Hicks as " Thu Black Doc tor. Great success of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In Which Miss Vir ent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, wards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. rd- After which will be produced a grand Christmas Pant ,- *[fled THE BIRTII OF THE STEA3 „nirne.t ENGINE ; or, Harlequin Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and ies Men. Clow:, ,y/ T Barry; , r. T. 1-3ntal °" , Slgn')r Osmonde; Harlequin, AI Mdlie. Adele . • , J ;:ipino; Columbine, ADvAirr - A T 6 - ;7__+---•-•.......'07:....,„„,,,............,...............k Irts.?, PORT OF SOUTHAMPTON.-- The Miranda, e a C :f. ji..isin Leonard, trading between London SOUTHAMPTON,-- a the Wes / tt, c ame v into the Southampton Docks, on Wednesday, in eyntfi7istressed state. She was bound to London from inOIIISAPS, .!ulyi4 l g. "Ina 500gre:,.,,laden with sugar and heads on board; and stornay'passage, she was much iffiviueexperi .. erwa4 very r.ri: imottt an d a gtecat part of her cargo damaged, -4 ~: firift.'o is abatis 4 0 tons, and she e. . .oeirlg in such . appears to be a onA-hail iteneL • ~a distressed conditior irivas deeviial - miyisabetalto avail themselves of the safet 2 porei . 3 , 4 0 er 'wax incur the dangerous Passage of this Pound tu-Zcinili 40' she accordingly came into the /1A41,0.4440,0 - ilpt cargo. —liampshir e _lndependent. , , r.‘ TEEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Hornellvtle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss Isaacs. After which frill be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, being If mixture of the Listorical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes ; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Teibin, and numerous as sistants; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma chidery by Mr. It. Sloman ' • the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, sad a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin endeice of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE OF KALYBA, THE ENCHANTRFSS.—DRIE and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have teen discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other " Kalyba (tile Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of "Arithmetic," having quite miscalculated her power), Mr. 11. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. IV, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling " incog." as'" Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, out of l'erseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTERIOR OF INFANT SCHOOL — Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on the occasion. Scene 3. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN Or COVENTRY CASTLB. The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the ce'ebrated "Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; I - lead Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of" arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful nights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the atives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ers Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful t. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and Nearly his " last " appearance ix public on the occasion—how his "Cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to a ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whale brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring dnring a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYBA'S HOUSE OF Coasts:mots !—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, it. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney!) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chaplin), Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his broiler champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"--in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom ! Scene 5. DOVER ROADS.—BOW the Seven Champioas of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations--" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS OF THE NlLE.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on his way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not having even " dipped" in'o the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND HALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, Knee of EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak for himself), Mr. Wieland. How this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only fort Ads the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c (vide Morning Papers) POTAL PROCLAMATION. " Whe'll kill the &ago*? 1 " Or me he shall gorge ; I, says St. George, 1 I'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the "Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Scene •. THE DRAGON'S HansT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY. — Row the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite tlnished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then tall eat. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND HALL OF CIIIVALRY.—How St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends in New Characters. Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, I C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon-- Mr. Priorson. Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT LEE'S Suop.---rinprored Surgical Instruments. " Holding the mirror up to nature." " Famiiies furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint flies to the Clown's head. Scene 11- COANCIIANDLER:3 SHOP AND GnANAILY.—More ways than one of being "in cL:ve•r." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" n high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chair "in both. Harlequin gives Clown" the sack.' Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. SCene 13. SIAMRSE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the xvay, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for " patent elastic India -rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TAlL:t's SHOPS.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot ing.' Grand Experiments In Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas trophe, scene 14. INTERIOR OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN Toy WAREHOUSE.— Toys for to Million. Magic Cards. How to `•cut and shuffle." Jack in ,he Box and 0,,t of it. First-rate teem and turn out. **See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. Tnn STATES As IT Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. THE STATUE as IT WAS • or, Wellington at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL. ILS.I'MARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. Will be THIS EVENING performed a new an t origin4l Drama, called TIIE ROUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Foljambe, M. Struart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. nUC,- stone ; Harwood. Mr. Howe; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fcrtescue; Jenny, Miss Woulds. After which the New Comic Drama of STORY TELLING ; or, Nore! .I;:flects. In which Messrs. Farren, Ilnekstone, Miss relbin, aed Mrs. Ilumby w:II appear. To conelti-le with art Original Grand Fairy Extravag,anza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tram - il: Delights. Principal characters by 31r. James Bland, Miss I'. Horton Mrs. L. S. Buckin;hain, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. IILATICE ROYAL, 1.10 EL. ), Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive perinisston of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albet t Smith, Esq.. cAlled TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha ractets by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Collier; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laid law ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY LEECH AND i whenever the former has imposed a tax, the latter W. F. G. MEASOM, AND PORTRAITS OF SIR CIIaISTOPHER : HATTON AND THOMAS INGOLDSBY, have endeavoured to evade its payment. In this THE NEW NUMBER, price Two Shillings and Sixpence, of BENTLEY'S AIISCELLANY- manner the Gover nor i ssue d an order, requir- FOR JANUARY, ing the trifling sum o f one d o ll ar per month WILL CONTAIN:— from the owner of each fast-boat plying upon the MISS PERKAP r T y L A E L A B N E D RT T S H M E IT G H OT . HICS' BAIL. river, the proceeds of this reasonable im- With an Illustration by Leech. post to be applied to the repai r i ng o f t h e w h arves The Wofully Wedded. By Mrs. Howitt. Address to the New Year. By W. B. of Macao, and the whole being accompanied with a The Old Cemetery of St. John's, Nuremberg. With Illustrations. The Palmer's Trial. A Legend of the Olde n Ti me . B y C ap t a i n system of registr a ti on , w h ere b y the honesty and re- Bracegirdle. spectability of the boatmen wou ld h ave b een ensured. The Moth. By Alfred Crowqrtill. The Little Match-Girl. A Tale of Christmas. By H. C. Andersen. Instead of yielding at once to this excellent proposi- Keeping up Appearances. By AltYed Crowquill. The Shakspeare Album. tion, the refra c t or y Chi nese appear to have availed Brian O'Linn ; or Lu c k' s E very thi ng. B y t h e A ut h or of " Stories of themselves of th e oppor t un i ty for the purpose of Waterloo." Shots from an Old Six-pounder. By Tortlire. evincing their animosity to the left-handed donni- The Broken Vow. By Mrs. Romer. nation of Portugal. They refuse: his Excellency Irene of Sestes. By W. G. J. Barker. The Flaneur la Paris. By the Author of " Second Love." forthwith captures two fast-boats with th e i r respect i ve The Old Storm Kin g . By J. Linnmus Banks. Queen Elizabeth and her Dancing Chancellor. By Dr. W. C. Taylor. crews. A multitude collect together and assail the With a Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton. Portuguese : the Govern o r i ns t an tl y ca ll s out the Poets, Places, and Pension s ; a G oss i p with William Howitt. Honest and Happy. lay J. Lintioeus Banks. soldiery, and disperses the insubordi na t e mo b A Sketch of Thomas Ingold s by, w i t h a Portrait. CAPTAIN B y SPIKE ; oENrIM, THE ISLETS OF THE GULF killing so mew h ere a b out a dozen, burning ten J. FORER, Esq. Author of " The Pilot," " The Spy," &e. fast-boats an d s i n ki ng e i g h t others. After divers Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. other attempts to elude the power of the settlers, and to quash the obnoxious edict the subjects of the Celestial EMPEROR are subdued, ard Senhor Joao DO AMARAL is triumphant. Such is the rapid suppression of animosities in India, such is the rapid excitation of hostilities in China. 'While one portion of the Asiatic race is swallowing its wrath, and bowing its neck to the yoke of its superiors in physical power and political knowledge, another is chafing under the sway of its fortuitous magistracy. In both these circum stances are perceptible a diseased state of intelligence, and a want of a more advanced civilisation. In both are visible the precariousness of their quietude and the uncertainty of their alliance. The sudden submission of MOOLRAJ and EMAUM-00D-DEEM recals to our recollection the proverbs about Indian duplicity. The disturbances of the boatmen at Macao is another testimony of the instability of Chinese friendship. Rymaskiewieg, had been arrested and given up to the Prussian authorities as being a Prussian subject. On the arrival of the prisoner at this place, the president of the police visited him in prison, and discovered that it was an3ther person, who had assumed the name of Rymaskiewieg, in order that he might not be given up to the Russian authorities. It has not yet been decided what is to be done with the prisoner, but hopes are en tertained that he will be liberated." By the Levant mail ; , e have received Athens papers to the 10th, and intelligence from Constanti nople to the 7th. An Athens journal publishes the following note, dated October 20, 1846, from Lord PALMERSTON to Sir ED➢IOND LYONS, in reply to a letter of the 10th September, to which was annexed a copy of a letter from 11. COLETTI to M. Mussums, the Envoy of the Sublime Porte at Athens, on the subject of emigra tion to Turkey. Lord PALMERSTON says— " I set out upon the principle that all who reside in Greece, whether they have lived.there for a long time, or arrive from any part of Turkey, enjoy the incontest able right of quitting Greece when they please. When the three Powers created the kingdom of Greece, they wished to establish a free state, and not a prison. It is natural that the Government should see with an unfavourable eye Greeks preferring to emigrate into Turkey, instead of remaining in the kingdom; but it is the fault of the Greek Government if this preference exists. If the Greek Ministry persists in its system of bad government, and if, besides, brigandage, oppression, and murders increase, because they remain unpunished; if there be no security for the property of peaceful and laborious inhabitants, it would be astonishißg, in fact, if those who can quit the kingdom should remain any longer in it. I desire that you may transmit officially to M. Colletti a copy of this letter." NOTICE! On the lot of January. with the Magazines, will be published, PART I. (with a fine Portrait of Nelson and a fac-simile), to be completed in Fourteen Monthly Parts, Price only ss. each, of A CHEAP RE-ISSUE OF THE 'NELSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES, Edited by SIR HARRIS NICOLAS, " The most valuable gilt that has yet been offered to the seaman— both as an inspiration, and an instructor." —Athenxtn. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. USEFUL PRESENT FOR A LADT. Now ready, in small BTO., 7s. 6d- bound, THE ENGLISH MATRON, By the Authoress of " THE ENGLISH GENTLEWOMAN." In her former work, intended for the preparation of young !adies for society, the author enforced in the most strenuous manner, the imperative necessity of cultivating the mind, and of forming the habits. The present volume is calculated to show in what way the previous efforts are likely to bear upon the happiness of a married life. The illoniteur Grec announces that COLETTI'S health is so much improved, that, he will be soon ena bled to resume his duties. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Intelligence has been received at Constantinople of the death of TAYER PacuA, the Turkish Comman. der-in-chief in Kurdistan. The Government state that he died of apoplexy, but it was reported at Constantinople that he had been killed in an action against the rebels, in which the Turkish army had been completely defeated. NEW WORK BY G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH, ESQ. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and Plates, 28s. bound, CANOE VOYAGE TO Tlit MINNAY SOTOR. With an Account of some Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin; and of the Gold Region in the Cherokee Country, &c. By G. W. FEATHERSTONIIA.UGH, F.R.S., F.G.S. Author of " Excursions in the Slave States." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) The nearer we approach to the Parliamentary _ession of 1847, speculation becomes daily more rife, not with respect to the objects of national import, to which the new and principal measures of the Go vernment will be directed (on these heads the public are already tolerably well enlightened), but every surmise is freely canvassed as to what will be the feelings and actual state of political parties in the House of Commons on the 19th of next month. The inquiry is a very natural one, and is certainly of the highest interest, since upon the political combinations that may be formed out of the disorganised materials of parties, which so peculiarly characterised the close of the past session, will the stability of the present Government be essen tially determined. The various on dits appear to us to be entitled to little or no consideration. Many of them are based upon the assumption that Sir ROBERT PEEL will, for a while, cease to take an active part in St. Stephen's, if not altogether retire from public life. Surely this is a very unreasonable supposition. If the latter portion of it were true, there would, in ell probability, have been long since issued a new writ for the borough of Tamworth. Again, that it is the intention of the ex-Premier to refrain from prominently sharing in the deliberations of Parliament, is another rumour to which no credence can be justly attached. It is quite at variance with every sentence that fell from Sir R. PEEL, when he officially announced the resignation of his Ministry- So far did he appear to be from meditating retirement from public life, that he was at considerable pains to explain to the House the spirit in which he was prepared to act, in his private capacity as a Member of Parliament, with respect to Ireland, the progress of commercial reform, and other matters likely to occupy the attention of the Senate. Since the accession to power of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, there has been neither, by speech nor act, any indication, cn the part of the late Prime Minister, that he contem plates taking a different course from that which he sketched on the occasion to which we have alluded. That sketch evidently implied that he meant to con tinue to lead his political supporters, and, in opposi tion, dispassionately to review any measures which his sucessors in office might think proper to introduce. It appears to us, therefore, that nothing is less probable than the notion that Lord LINCOLN will assume the post which has hitherto been ostensibly filled by Sir IL PEEL, when out of office. The attempt to conjecture, at this moment, what will be the probable position, or combination of par ties, in the popular branch of the Legislature, is alto gether futile. It may certainly be predicated that the angry feelings of the agricultural representatives, as exhibited during the course of the last session, will be found to be considerably mollified, seeing that, since the rising of Parliament both corn and land have obtained high and remunerating prices, to the utter contradiction of their gloomy and oft reiterated prophecies. But the benefit of this improved feeling will, in a party sense, be shared not less—indeed, perhaps more—by Lord JOHN than by Sir ItonEer PEEL. For, if the change in the corn-laws is to work well for the landed interest, as we have all along contended it would, Lord J. RUSSELL has a stronger claim than his political rival upon the gratitude and confidence of the agricultural Members, by rya son of the earlier conversion to which his mind was brought to the policy of abolish ing duties upon the importation of grain, the produce of foreign countries. The futility of reason ing further, as to the continued division of parties on the one hand, or their possible amalgamation on the other, will be best rendered clear, by reflecting upon what are the points which will have the directest in fluence in causing them repectively to decide whether they will uphold, or resist the Government. These points resolve themselves under two heads ;—First, the mode in which the Cabinet have administered the affairs, external and internal, of the empire since the prorogation of Parliament ; and next, the nature and tendency of the measures which the Government shall have prepared for future legislation. Upon the latter point all opposition (if any of im portance should be offered) must necessarily remain in abeyance, or, rather, cannot be legitimately kindled, till the schemes shall have been formally expounded to the Legislature. In regard to the former, and especially as relates to foreign policy and Ireland, very much will necessarily depend upon the views which Sir R. PEEL and the Stanleyites may severally embrace. Until, therefore, their opinions shall have been respectively revealed within the walls of Parliament, the curious and the anxious, con cerning the future consolidation, or the continued disruption of political parties, must, for the present, be content to remain unsatisfied and unrelieved. ILLUSTRATED TALE IN " THE MIRROR," Price ls. On January 1, 1847, Chapters 1., 11., 111., and IV., of THEMISE R'S WILL ; Or, LOVE AND AVARICE. An English Tale. By PERCY B. ST. JOHN. The Mirror will continue to be Edited by Mr. St. John, assisted by several eminent writers, and will be Illustrated In the first style of art by Hine, Archer, and Walmsley. Now ready, Vol. 1., new series, price is. Gd. 11. Hurst, 27, King William-street, Strand. A letter from Rome, of the 12th, gives the follow ing additional details of the late storm in that city:— " Wekitow not how to describe to you the effects of the tempest which has devastated this city for the last four days, and which still continues. We never wit nessed such weather ; the rain fell in torrents, and the thunder rolled incessantly. The Tiber overflowed its banks in the most frightful manner ; one-half the city is inundated by its waters, and the inhabitants of the Corso have five feet depth of water round their houses. All the quarter of the Campo Marva, the Chetto, Ripetto. the Corso from the Place du Peuple to the Place Colonna has the appearance of a large lake. The inhabitants, surprised by the rapidity of the inundation, found themselves prisoners in their houses without food, and several without any assistance being possible. Since 1805 such a scene has not been witnessed. The loss has b( en immense. The shops and the cellars are under water. Yesterday the waters subsided a little. A part of the Corso is free; but boats still ply through the adjacent streets, carrying provisions to those who are still imprisoned. The Jews' quarter has suffered the most, but the extent of the disaster cannot be yet known; the mails no longer arrive, and two or th ree bridges on th e hi gh road from Bologna, and in the Marches, have been carried away." Monsignor GRASSOLINI has been appointed Governor of Rome, in the room of Monsignor MARINI, ap pointed Auditor -General of the Chamber. The Commission of Legislation charged to prepare a new code, continues its labours actively. The Code Na poleon is to form the basis of the new legislation ; but the laws of other countries are also carefully examined, with a view to render the work of the, Commission more complete. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY %HARE 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 Fittnay, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, avours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully equestedto be addressed. All Scrip and Share - Certificates must be deposited, the day 3revious to their being offered ; and advices of results will be orwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Name- Aately disposed of according to instn:ctions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. fHI WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 27. lERNOMETER, Lowest, 30; Highest, 35; Noon, 36, BAROMETER, 30.45.—Wirm E., fine. DECEMBER 28. raERMOMETEIt, Lowest, 25; Highest. 38 ; Noon, 32, BAROMETER, 30.53.—W1ND S.W., foggy. WATER AT I.ONDON-1113.11,t41 , . Tills L. :tfOrning .. 1 minute after 10. Evening .. 40 minutes after 10. The accounts brought from Lisbon, by the Scourge steamer, just arrived at Portsmouth, are to the 14th. At that date SCUWALBACK had advanced against St. Übes, which had been evacuated twelve hours before his arrival, by the guerillas' of DAS ANTAS —their avowed tactics being to wear out the QUEEN'S troops, by harassing them, and to avoid coming to action if possible. In their retreat the guerillas were joined by nearly the whole of the men forcibly en rolled by the QUEEN'S Government as " St. Übes' Chartist Volunteers." During the occupation of St. Übes the guerillas behaved exceedingly well, and manifested no disposition to annoy either foreigners or natives residing in the town. Nothing further has been heard at Lisbon as to the rumoured defeat of LA PA by BOMFIM. The last ac counts represent Bommm as being at Alcobaca and LAPA at Pombal ; with the Coimbra in,,urgents and VILLA REAL'S guerillas in front and BOAIFIM'S 2,000 men in his rear. The Marquis of LOULE, at Coimbra , had 4,ooo:men an d , 14 p i eces of cannon with him. CASA L was advancing against Oporto, and it was said that DAs ANTAs, leaving 2,000 men to garrison Santarem, had marched to its relief. SECOND EDITION. Madrid papers to the 20th have arrived. It appears that the Ministerial crisis is over for the present, and that the Ministry will bold together until the meeting of the Cortes, when, it is not im probable, that an attempt will he made by Senor PAC EIECO to- form a new Cabinet. The Clamor Publico states that he has been consulted by the QUEEN On the subject. General RoNcar,r, it is said, will be the new Governor of Cuba, and General VILLALONGA has been dispatched to the frontiers of Portugal; he is accompanied by his staff and by t wo squadrons of Lancers. The Eco del Comereio announces that the notori ous ALBERNI, upon whose denunciations General PRIM was arrested and banished, has, in his turn, been arrested and imprisoned, but upon what charge is not stated. The same journal, alluding to the report that the Minitry has held a discussion on the means of preventing M. OLozAG A from taking his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, observes that the hatred of the Court and of the Ministry to this gen tletnan is no ground for trampling upon the law , which opposes no barrier to his performing the duties entrusted to him by the electors. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 19.—The Three per Centg, 34 ; paper 331 15-16 cash ; the Four per Cents., 21; Five per Cants., 21 ; Exchange on London, 36g. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Presse of Friday has a long article on the subject of the English alliance, which, of course, is filled with abuse of this country. Our readers will recollect, that one day last week, the National was seized by the Government officers. It now appears that the article on the recal of M. BARBET DE JOUY from the Mauritius, was the one which was con sidered as seditious. On this subject, the National has the following ; " The responsible editor of the National having ap peared yesterday before M. St. Didier, the Judge of Instruction, we at length know what caused our seizure the other day. We, who declared that we knew nothing about the matter, were, it appears, covered with crimes! H. Hebert has, however, had the extreme kindness to take up only three In a rather short article ; but, if he had thought fit to look closely, he could have found several others quite as monstrous as those of which we are accused. The following are the three enormi ties committed by us, without our b e in g aware o f it ; 1, Offence against the Ring's person; 2, Assigning to the King the responsibility of the acts of his government; 3, Adhesion to another forth of government. It is evi dent that if M. Hebert did not hcUuse tis of exciting to hatred and contempt, of provoking to overturn--pro yoking without the proposed effect being carried into execution—t.nd three ct fogt dtfet?de3; the reason is that h e i s a good-natured person, and that he has a secret kindness for the National. As the public is the first judge of press offences, we would willingly take for arbitrators in our case, not our friends, but our daily adversaries. The &bats, for instance, discussed one of the articles of the number that was seized. Had it by chance discovered, we should like to know, in that article or elsewhere, the three offences specified above? What was the subject treated of in the article? We had been reproached with having opposed the policy of the Cabinet with respect to Spain, and of having maintained that this marriage having broken the English alliance, it was desired to re establish it at the price of the most shameful concessions. The punishment which fell on fair Consul at the Mauritius, at the haughty injunction of Lord Palmerston, was a first justification of our views. We showed all the weakness and cowardice that existed in that precipitate reparation accorded by M. Guizot, at the expense of a public functionary represent ing our country, and who bad bitneelf besn gravely insulted. We were entitled to draw the conclusion that Lord Palmerston was seeking for all occasions to annoy the dsp!omatic agents of France, and that Gnizot, following a wretched system, was receiving the law from England now that she was in bad humour, just as he had received it from her when our ally. But is it M. Guizot alone who serves as an instru ment to this system ? Ile once overturned, would France resume her full freedom of action, the authority of her power, and that firm attitude which imposes respect even on those persons whose sympathies she does not ob tain ? What matters the absence of this secondary idea, if the general and superior idea still lords it over public affairs, and maintains the policy of the Govern ment in that order of ideas and effects in which it has been so lung dragging on ? It is not, there fore, any particular man or men that ought to be at tacked, but the ideas, the direction, the ensemble of the polier---,i4 § ward, the system itself. This system, _le new Ambassador of France in Swifterlard> Count DE BOIS LE COMTE, presented his credentials on the 16th to Dr. ZEHNDEE3 President of. the Fe deral Directory. The Ambassador has notified his arrival in Switzerland Iv the following letter, dated the 19th, addre3.Q-,a to the President and Executive iCouncil of ;erne. A. similar letter has been sent to the <tier Canton s :— " Gentl emen ,— Th e R ing, my august Sovereign, hav ing deigned to name me Ambassador to the Helvetic Confederation, I have the honour to inform you that I presented, on the 16th of the present month to their Excellencies the Burgomasters and Council of the Canton of Zurich, the Federal Directory, his Ma jesty's letters, accrediting me with the Confede ration, and with each of its cantons in particular. As the organ of the King's sentiments towards Swit zerland, I am well pleased, gentlemen, to assure you of the care which I shall bestow in keeping up with the Government of Berne the intercourse of union and friendship so happily established between the two coun - tries ; and you can reckon on my very anxious desire to contribute as far as I can to the success of such matters as concern the Helvetic Confederation, and particular]) of those more directly interesting your canton. I seize with pleasure the first occasion to offer you, Messieurs. the assurance of my profound respect, COUNT DE BOIS LE COMTE. 'ARE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, _1846. being detestable, selfish, and anti-national. is com batted by a constant opposition in the Chambers, in the press, amongst the electors, in the muni cipal councils, in the National Guard ; wherever, in fact, a more popular sentiment animates men's hearts—wher ever it is desired that the Revolution of July should not be lost in a wretched abortion. It is, therefore, the sentiment that ought to be opposed and overturned, in order to substitute a totally different order of ideas and facts —another system of policy for that which we have a right to declare not only narrow and insufficient, but hostile to all the principles of the revolution, disastrous to the country, and degradieg to its nationality. This is what we desired to say, and what we said ; and this is wlnit we now repeat ; because if discussion cannot go to such a length, no discussion is possible. What was in criminated the other day, we have written a thousand times, and heard a thousand times in the Chamber, and there is not a single Opposition journal that is not as guilty as we. But do our readers wish to know what M. Hebert pretends ? He says that the system is the King—that to say that the system is odious is to offend the King's person —to declare that the system ought to be attacked and thrown down, is to say that the King ought to be overturned—and that is, besides, to adhere to another form of Government ! This pretension of M. Hebert does appear to us at least strange, and we complain in particular that it supposes that we do not know how to write our language. The King is not a system ; the term system is necessarily a collective term ; if we, by chance, attacked the system of the law- officers of the Crown, relative to the press, that would not mean that we attacked M. Hebert personally ; and if we offend& d against that system, M. Hebert would not be entitled to consider himself ample enough to take the offence to himself alone." On the subject of the recal of M. BARBET DE JOUT we find the following sensible observations in the Epoque, and we believe the version of the affair here given to ba the correct one : " Our readers will remember that we were the first to give details on the affair of M. Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul at the Mauritius. The particulars since received have made no change in our statements, and, consequently, we have but little occasion to answer the Opposition journals, who have treated the removal of the Consul to another post as an act of culpable weak ness. It is already known that M. Barbet de Jouy did not pay the visit to Admiral Dacres on his arrival at the island, although such was the clear and formal rule of etiquette. The officers of the English frigate, vs hich bore the Admiral's flag, gave a ball, and sent an invitation to the Consul. Atter waiting 24 hours in the expectation that M. Barbet de Jouy would perform some act of po liteness to the Admiral, either by a personal visit or by letter, two officers went to his residence and withdrew. the invitation ; whereupon our Consul, who had not yet had any intercourse with ACmiral Dacres, wrote the letter which has been the sole cause of his removal. It has been said that there were anterior circumstances at which M. Barbet de Joisy took offence, and which in duced him net to make the official visit due from him. We admit this; we even admit that the Consul felt sensibly the withdrawal of the invitation he had re ceived; and regretting these coolnesses, which are inju rious to public affairs, we could have well conceived that M. Barbet de Jouy, if he had reason to believe that he was in the right, s h ou ld h ave l a id an explanation before Admiral llacres with all possible dignity and firmness. Unfortunately he did not do this. Instead of a firm and consistent letter, he addressed to the Admiral one filled with insults. Instead of maintaining his rights as Consul, he personally provoked the Admiral in terms unworthy of them both; insomuch that two men between whom such a letter has passed could not meet without collaring each other, or cutting each other's throats. M. Barbet de Joey, therefore, has been wanting in due discretion. Some may believe him to have been only firm; these are in error, for we think he entirely forgot himself, and are fully convinced that he now regrets the exprcs,ions he wed, which were inconsistent with his character as much as with the character of an Admiral. After having written such a letter, M. Barbet de Jouy could no longer remain at the Mauritius without exposing himself to circumstances which must have brought on a personal conflict. He seems to have felt this himself, from his retiring to the Island of Bourbon. What could the Government do in such a case? Support its agent? Impossible ! No official or private intercourse could exist between him and the English authorities. It, therefore, became necessary to remove him to another post. We have reason to believe that in this instance Lord Palmerston has been more moderate than could have been expected from his reputation and situation, and that Lord Aber deen could not have conducted himself otherwise. We cannot sufficiently repeat that Governments ought never to hold themselves engaged, without examination, by the acts of its agents, and that a dispute about etiquette passing at a distance of 4,000 miles never can affect the general situation of Europe. France is governed by her King and Chambers, and these great powers cannot always be guiding Consuls in leading-strings. Let their agents be energetically supported when they are in the right ; this is indispensable ; but they must repudiate their acts when they are in the wrong." The Constitutionnel, after long hesitating between the free-traders and the monopolists, has at length taken its stand as the champion of monopoly. The Journal des Debats, on the contrary, has declared itself the advocate of free-trade principles, but in so doing, it states expressly that it is not to be under stood as speaking the sentiments of the Government, which is not to be considered as at all pledged to free-trade principles, because it has authorised the existence of the Association des Libres Exchangistes, its only object in such authorisation being to enable each party to discuss their principles before the public. It is, however, satisfactory to know that it is the intention of the French Government to modify the Customs' tariff. The following is the article of the Debate The question of the Customs' tariff excites at this moment a certain degree of interest in the country. LA report is in circulation that the Government was preparing to revive a tariff the principal provisions of which date back as far as 1822, or even as the imperial d trees of those of the Convention. Nothing inure could be necessary than this to cause a real or factitious alarm to spread through many of the manufacturing. centres. Nothing couid be, however, more natural, than the belief that a regime which might have been good when our manufactures were in their infancy would not be suitable now that such admirable progress has been made, and that the perfec:ion of our products is so striking; nothing can be more simple than to admit, when one has been enlightened by long experience, what certain exaggerations costs the country—the producer as well as the consumer. The Government might, therefore, in conscience think that the time was come to revise the customs' tariff, without any one being surprised or moved at it. But what foundation is there for the supposition that the new customs law will be subversive, and that the Government contemplates sinister projects against our manufacturing interests ? Up to this time the customs laws which the present Government hive proposed have not been rash ones. Many persons who support the Ministry have even found that they rather tend to a contrary excess, and have declared their opinion that they appear too timid. If the Ministry, which is not fond of adventurous conduct of any kind, were to propose a hazardous customs' tariff. the Chambers have the remedy in their hands. Those who in 1845 voted, for the benefit of what was called national labour, the exorbitant duties which now press on oleaginous seeds, are still very numerous in the elective Chamber, and those who with success in 1841 and 1842 made their deplorable levy of bucklers against the Belgian union do not appear to have lost any of their energy. But, it is said, an association is formed, the name of which alone indicates an object hostile to national la bour, it loudly demands freedom of trade. It wishes to throw down the barriers behind which French industry has hitherto found protection. It is true that a free-trade association exists ; but what is there in common betwen that society and the Government? Why should the latter be responsible for the creed of the former? As far as we have been well informed up to this time, the formal demands of the association have nothing in them to give uneasiness to the manufacturing interests. It has, in fact, appeared to confine itself to pointing out freedom of commerce as an obje c t t o b e attained with time, and under the reserve of fiscal rights which may be indefinitely maintained ; this proposition has nothing dangerous in it. It has maintained that the moment was come to take a step in advance towards commercial liberty, by lowering and simplifying the tariff. In this it has only repeated what many before it has thought and said. But is it the free-trade association which has inspired the Government with the idea of the proposed changes ? Why should it not be as well the rival association, quite as well authorised, which has taken the name of the defence of national labour? But what would be more menacing than the chimerical project of overthrowing our commercial and manufac turing. system, by a sudden transition from the protec tive system to that of free. trade, would be an attempt to prevent the Government from introducing a moderate and wise Bill. If there is any danger which at this mo ment requires consideration, it is that, under pretence of opposing what are disdainfully called theories, a great effort is made to patronize a barbarous and impracticable theory of commercial isolation; it is that, with the ap parent object of guarding against an imaginary evil, some interests abusing their privilege should weigh in the balance in order to paralyse some of our most pre cious liberties, and to intimidate functionaries, private individuals, and the Government itself." The Constitutional says, " We are assured that M. GulzoT intends, on the day following the opening of the session of the Chambers, which is fixed for the 11th, to lay on the bureau of the Deputies the diplo matic correspondence that has taken place on the sub ject of the Spanish marriages. If the Chamber of Peers should discuss its address within the three or four days following the opening of the session, M. GuizoT will be able to explain himself publicly before the English Parliament meets on the 19th." •ar. • ,k • - VT. "1 . 1 ' 4 4 - 4: 1•4F 4 1 . 11&24 , • 1 dal zA, i _r •n o . , 4.. v• . , • vv.-. Eb - leitins *nit - - LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1846. A str;king contrast is visible in the Indian and Chinese intelligence received by the overland Calcutta nail. The numerous disturbances which had latterly ilreater:Ed much bloodshed in the territories sur r,unding the British possessions have all been al :,tyed, while the tranquillity which had recently been remarkable upon the frontiers of the Celestial Empire has been signally interrupted. These circumstances, however, merely furnish us with an additional proof Hof the uncertainty of Oriental affairs, of the impossi bility of calculating either upon the obedience or dis obedience, the friendship or enmity, the pacific en peration or the bellicose antagonism of our Eastern neighbours. It is satisfactory to perceive that the portents of a sanguinary campaign in the Cashmerian valley are altogether dissipated. , By the determination evinced on the part of the Governor-General to cause the various stipulations of the treaty of Umritsir to be ''ulfilled, and by the alacrity with which the English forces abetted the Maharaja GuooLAB SINGH in his operations against the rebellious Sheikh EMAUM-00D. DEEN, the latter has been reduced to a compromise, and the domination of the former has been ensured. Matters indeed have assumed so propitious an aspect in this quarter, that there is every reasonable pro bability of the entire withdrawal of our troops from Lahore before the commencement of the approach ing-January. Until then the victories achieved under the immediate command of Lord GOUGH, the judicious mlicy of his Excellency Lord HARDINGE, the slaughter of Ferozeshah, the fortunate prowess of Aliwal, and the murderous charges of Sobraon, Will have been comparatively ineffectual. Their triumph will not have been consummated until our soldiers have evacuated the subdued dominions. That period pro mises to be simultaneous with the commencement of 1847. Besides the pacification of Cashmere, there is another cause for gratulation to the inhabitants of India in the settlement of the differences which had hitherto estranged the Dewan of Mooltan from the Durbar of Lahore. MOOLRAJ has not merely con sented to liquidate all those debts owing to the Durbar, from the postponement of the pay ment of his tribute to that Government, but he has likewise submitted to many additional exactions. He has quietly yielded up one-third of the country heretofore under his solitary influence, to the command of a newly -appointed ruler. Be yond this, the Dewan is henceforth required to pay , a tribute of 25 per cent. above that previously de manded. The thirst for warfare, the readiness for insubordination, and the loathing of anything like political servitude on the part of the lesser chief tains, appear to have considerably diminished. Those who formerly contrived to be turbulent are now, like the weaver in Midsummer Night's Dream," roar ing like any sucking -dove." Their spurious valour has evaporated —their independence has been ex changed for the most complete subserviency —their obstinate d'efiance of authority has been followed by their utinost submission to their more formidable antagonists. From insolent rebels they have dwindled into obsequious parasites. Nevertheless, what is thus degradation to such men as the Dewan MooLRAJ and the Shiekh EmAux-oon-DEEN, is comparative happi ness, because positive tranquillity, to many thousand:, of the Oriental race. While these fortunate ehanges have been taking place in L a h ore and the -adjacent principalities, a sin gular and som e what unfortunate disturbance ha s occurred upon the bioundaries'of the Celestial Empire. Thisdisturbance, Nr:hich has been long brewing between the Portuguese resident at Macao and the indigenous Chinese, has at length broken out, and has excited no little attent:ion and ori g i na t e d no li ttle inquiry. Those children of the Brother of the Sun who live within the ab ( lve-mentioned settlement have perpetually opposr..d. the authority of his Excellency the repre sentati-fe Of MARIA DA GLORIA. With an amusing icalvasy they have refused to obey any one, raving V•itir - own M an d ar i ns . O n the other hand, the Portuguese Governor, Senhor JOAO MARIA FER REIRA DO AMARAL has regarded himself as one invested with a serious and imperative responsibility. He has looked upon himself as the conservator of local prosperity, the guardian of local rights, and the source of local juris diction. The sanatory condition of the inhabitants of Macao, their mercantile necessities, their mu nicipal privileges, their social organisation, have pos sessed for his Excellency a peculiar interest, and have all, more or less, led to some exhibition of his provi dence. In proportion, however, to the interference of the Governor, so have the passions of the Chinese residents increased in intensity; whenever the former has issued a decree, the latter have striven, with the greatest earnestness, to render it ineffectual; We find the following in the Augsburg Gazette, of the 20th, under the head of Silesia 66 We learn from a source worthy of credit that the application made to Austria by Prussia, on the sufice , of the trade of Prussia with Cracow, has met with in surmountable difficulties. M. de Kamptz had several conferences with the President of the Aulic Chamber, but it appears that he employed so disagreeable a form of discussion, that the affair took a decisive turn. Thc demands of Prussia had for object to exclude Cracow and its territory from the operation of the Austrian cus toms, and to leave them their ancient privileges; but that was impossible. Everything that is possible, how ever, will be done in favour of Prussia. The tariff of transit will be maintained, and an entrepot at Cracow for Prussian commerce will be tolerated." A letter from Posen of the 16th, in the Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, has the following : " The Austrian police has just suffered a strange mys ti4cation. It was announced that the Polish emissary, health was calculated to create al,:rm. On Saturday, however, it was believed that there was no foundation whatever for these rumours. Mr. HARDWICK committed her for trial at th© Mid dlesex sessions. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) Henry Moss, a middle-aged man, dressed in d ar k clothes, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing two great coats, the property of Mr. Saxton, of Albion place, Blackfriars-road. The prisoner is suspected of committing several other robberies by the following stratagem : A servant girl in the complainant's house st a t e d th at on Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, the prisoner called, and, producing a bottle of dark-looking liquid, said that he had . been sent fro m N o. 14, Ludgate-hill, and at the same time handed a receipt for 2s. 6d., for a bottle of ink, signed W. 13. Moseley. He then said that he would wait in the hall while she took the bottle and receipt to her master, and she then proceeded to the room, and had scarcely entered when she heard the street-door shut. She immediatel) returned to the hall, with her master, when the prisoner was found to have left the house, taking with him two great coats which were hanging up in the hall. The complainant hastened after the thief in the direction of 13Iackfriars-bridge, where he was secured with the articles in his possession. The police-inspector said that information had been received at the station-house that a man, answering the prisoner's description, had succeeded in committing seve ral robberies of a similar character on the south side of the river. The MAGISTRATE (Mr. Seeker) said the prisoner's appearance favoured the deception he had recourse to in effecting his purpose, and asked him what he had to say in answer to the charge ?—The prisoner, who looked very desponding, said that at present he declined saying anything on the subject.—He was remanded to give other persons plundered by him an opportunity of attending. George Bryant, a tall young man, was charged with being found within the railing of Rowland Hill's chapel for an unlawful purpose. A policeman stated, that about one o'clock on Satur day morning he discovered the prisoner within the rails of the above chapel, with an iron crow-bar, lucifer matches, and a piece of candle ; suspecting he was about to break into the chapel he apprehended him. The prisoner said he was drunk, and went over the rails to lie down ; that he knew nothing about the crow bar, or how it came into his possession. When asked to give an account of himself he said, that he was a journeyman carpenter, in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, and worked at the Houses of Parliament ; that he was no thief, and had good wages. Mr. SECKER said that appearances at present were certainly very much against the prisoner, the fact of a housebreaking implement and other articles being found in his possession favoured the presumption that his in tentions were to break into the chapel and commit He has also, it is said, caused to be printed for circulation among the Members of both Houses, extracts from speeches sur les relations de la France et de l'Espagne, delivered :I'v him within the period comprised between the 18th 4' November, 1840, and of showing that 25th of May, 1846, w i t h t h e o bj ect his languag e , re l a ti ve t o t h e d eternu :: ation of his Government th a t F rance wou ld never conset:. t to the marriage of the Queen of SPAIN with any other t1:-.71 We have authority for stating that the cotton waste per week -'inners of this to wn h ave unan i mous ly agree d t o a Bourb on , h a d b een un if orm l y consistent. bk. Once four days —Stockport Ad- Rumours had been c i rcu l a t e d i n P ar i s, during nomn, workin g - • ' • Thursday and griday, that the state of tho KIN 'r vertiser. sacrilege. The prisoner, however, declared that it was all arising from intoxication during this holiday time. Mr. SECKER said that, notwithstanding the prisoner's asseverations of innocence, he should not part with him until minute inquiry was made respecting him.—He was then remanded. Accounts have been received by the Ministry Of Marine from Sydney, dated August 14, of the loss of the corvette La Seine, on the 4th of July, on the coast of New Caledonia. The details are not known, but it is certain that the officers and crew were saved. As soon as the loss of the vessel was known at Sydney, everything was done by the British authorities in aid of the officers and crew, 173 in number, and arrange ments were made to convey them back to France. Colonel BARON BORY ST. VINCENT, honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, and member of several learned societies, has just expired, aged sixty six. Under the Empire this officer was engaged in many of the great battles then fought, and was suc cessively aide-de-camp to Marshal NEY and Marshal SOULT. The deceased was author of several scientific works of great merit. The Bulletin des Lois publishes an ordonnance, modifying the system of customs at present in force in Algeria. Pitch, and all kinds of bituminous sub stances, as well as fresh table fruits, are to be ad mitted free of duty. Bark for tanning is not to be allowed to leave the colony for any other destination than France. The Courrier Francais says— " We mentioned a few days since that the Bey of Tunis had manifested an intention of establishing agents in tie principal ports in Algeria. It is said that this plan has been partly realised, and that the post of Consul-General at Algiers has just been conferred on one of the personages who accompanied him into France. In order to show the advantage of this measure, it is sufficient to mention the commercial movement of the last few years between the Regency of Tunis, Algeria, and France. The total value of exchanges between France and Tunis was, in 1836, 2,497,000 f. ; in 1837, 3,373,000 f.; in 1838, 3,865,000 f.; in 1839, 3,131,000 f.; in 1840, 4,167,000 f. ; and in 1843, 6,006,0001: The com mercial movement between Algeria and Tunis amounted, in 1836, to 379,000 f. ; in 1843, to 3,401,000:: This great increase merits particular notice." Algiers journals to the 17th have arrived ; their contents are unimportant BOUSE, PARIS SATURAY, DEC. 26. THREE O 'CL OC K .-Grea R t firmness , was the R characteristic of the day's proceedings. The Three per Cents, opened at 80f. 7.5 c., and after touching for a moment 80f. 95c., closed at 80f. 85c. After the Bourse they were dcne at 80f. 87%c. Bank of France Shares continue to decline gradually. Railway Shares were firm, particularly those of the Havre and Rouen lines. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have risen 20c. ; Five per Cents., 10c.; Loan not quoted. For Money. the Three per Cents, have risen 15c.; Five per Cents. 10c.; Loan not quoted. Bank of France Shares have fallen 7f. 50c. Gouin Bank I,ooof. Shares and Gan neron Bank Shares are unaltered; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted ; Roman and Rothschild's Receipts are unvaried, the latter being quoted at 103 f. 25e. • Neapolitan Bonds and Portuguese Five p er C ents. not quoted. Exchange on Lon don (thirty days), 25f. 321 c.; ditto (ninety days), 25f. 22ic. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of January 3 :-Rouen to Havre have risen 12f. 50c.; Orleans to Bordeaux, 7f. 50c.; Northern, 6f. 25c.; Rouen and Avig- non to Marseilles, sf. each; Lyons, 3f. 75c. ; Paris to Orleans and Orleans to Vierzon, 2f. 50c. each ; Nantes, lf. 25c. each; Cette and St ras b urg are unaltered. For Cash, Rouen have risen 12f 50c.; Paris to Orleans, 10f.; Rouen to Havre and Orleans to Bordeaux, 7f. 50e. ' • Northern, 6f. 25c.; Lyons, 3f. 75c.; Versailles (Left Bank), 2f. 50e.; S trasburg, If. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 26. Dutch Rhenish, 4%8-Northern of France Constituted, 11-Orleans and Bordeaux, 81/ 2 -Paris and Lyons Consti tuted, 8%-Sambre and Meuse, VA. MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) William Howland, a beardless youth, was charged with smoking in one of the West end omnibusses, and vio lently assaulting the conductor. John Evans, omnibus conductsr, No. 1,466, said he was driving along Oxford-street last night, about half past seven o'clock, with his full complement of pas sengers, when one of the gentlemen inside complained to him of a person smoking in the omnibus. He put in his head and saw the prisoner with a cigar in his mouth lit, which he requested him to put out. The prisoner refused, and complainant therefore stopped the omnibus and went inside and requested the young man a second time to put the cigar out, and was answered only with oaths and language of a disgusting description. Com plainant told him he must either put out the cigar or leave the omnibus. The prisoner swore he would do neither, and struck complainant several blows about the face and head, completely smashing in his hat, and knocking him out of the omnibus, down the steps, into the street. Complainant, as he could not get him out of the carriage, shut the door, and pro ceeded on his way till he met with a policeman. lie called the constable, and wished him to take the pri soner into custody, but be became so violent, striking the constable, that, at the policeman's advice, they pro ceeded fuother on with the omnibus till another constable was got, and the prisoner was then given into custody. Police-constable 153 D confirmed this evidence. William Meeking, 101, East-street, Manchester square, said he was one of those in the omnibus last night, having entered it immediately before the prisoner in Edgware-road. From the place where the prisoner got in in the Edgware-road to Oxford street he conti nued smoking, notwithstanding the entreaties of several ladies who were in the conveyance, and even of the lady that was with himself. One of the ladies had a child on her knee, and the smoke caused the child to cough without intermission. The witness then spoke to the attack on the conductor and the police-constablee, and confirmed the previous evidence. The prisoner said he was a gentleman's valet, and that he had put the cigar out when told to do so ; only the manner in which the conductor told him to do it, provoked him to forget himself. lie hoped the magistrate would treat the case with leniency. Mr. 1-lAnowlcx, after giving him a severe reprimand, sentenced him to a tine of 50i., or one month's imprison ment, for the assault on the police-constable, and 505., or one month, fOr the assa u lt on t h e conductor, in all 51., or two months' imprisonment. Jane Muckle, a respectable-looking elderly woman, was charged with entering a house in Windmill-street, early on Sunday morning, and stealing several articles therefrom. Police-constable 107 C, said he was on duty in Great Windmill -street, about a quarter-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, and seeing the private door of the house No. 22 open, he turned his bull's-eye upon it, and saw the prisoner standing in the passre, with the b as k e t, which he p ro d uce d in Court, in her hand. She put down the basket, and he asked her whether she lived in the house. She said she did, and in the second floor. He knocked at the parlour door, and the landlord came out, and said he knew nothirg whatever about the woman, and the things she had were his. He therefore took her into custody. James bedeham, bootmaker, No. 22, Great Windmill street, identified the basket and the things which were in it as his property. He had left them about half an hour before in the kitchen. She prisoner was a stranger to him. Donations Of one sovereign from C. S. K., and 5/. through Messrs. Coutts and Co., anonymously, were re ceived in aid of the poor-box. OtiE 3/ and Co_IiAtERtIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTEI? TO THREE. Saturday was observed as a holiday in the Liverpool Cott-m and Share markets. The absence of many speculators from town at this season prevented a large business being done at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares on Saturday, but prices were all very firm. The following are a few of the principal sales : ' Great Inman Peninsular . Vale of Neath 1 8 0 Great Luxembourg Northern Counties Union Derby, StaTord, and Worcestershire, Old 0 10 0 Louvain ala Sambre -- 1 16 0 Manchester and Southampton, 1847. 1 12 0 Madrid and Valencia 1 0 6 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 6 0 London and Blackwall, New . 4 6 0 Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0 Newport and Abergavenny 0.15 0 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension ..... -. 3 11 6 Taw Vale Extension and Dock There ale later accounts from the United States, vise to the 4th inst., but the intelligence is not of particula! importance, and the chief matter of interest now looked. for is the rece i pt, per C a l e d on i a steam er, o f the President's Message. There was a fair prospect of the supplies of grain for Europe continuing abundant, a cheering circumstance in our need, and see ing that prices continue to advance here. To-d9' wheat is full 2s. per quarter dearer. Referring to UT, matter of corn supplies, the " Circular to Bankers, th ough affording some interesting calculations, is rath e r _ warped by prejudiceagainst the last Currency Bill of Sir Robert P ee l, and anticipates a decided pressure from this necessity of importing from abroad. The writer askst: "What amo un t o f current money or cap i ta l w ill b e take from its ordin ar y uses i n general trade f or this grea t, . new, imperative t ra ffi c i n f oreign corn ? I n France a:: England co m bi ne d , we b elieve not muc h l ess than millions ste r li ng . A great proportion of this large amount will pa ss out of the possession of these pc . o countries, into the h an d s of Russ i a an d tbo 'Tha States, to enrich an d strengthen them. In Franc e and fn; England a grea t er amount of money is req uire , 1.. ., circulation, because of the enhanced value of almost 1 . 11 a „ ind certainly all the principal—commodities to he !i re fated by the agency of money. And the system of __. rency prevailing in France and England, forbids the e .`. l largeinent of their monetary circulation for their internal traffic. This describes the "fie old countries will, we fear, find themselves wi r t o i l b ro ys in which th o s e the next six months. Payments for calls on foreign so hire by British subjects will certainly not amount stocks, a sum as the investments by England in '', A- t h e year and other securities of the United States , i n 1638, and immediately preceding years. Thee naive ly of continental railways must be regarded eon l P B ,..„tion as unimportant; or not a highly important, li gg •- r b e nce of the existing evil of monetary distil ____,.... and the drain for them must be principallY for Fra ca a ti ; s4 , a common sufferer with England from the sa,w e 1: ,;. the Austria and Prussia will take care of therasel yee ,,i, e WI free use of paper-money —however temporarY T a t ou of itension use—and by the direct patronage and identifi their Governments with the railway adventur er t ou td be Whatever Austria and Russia may do, w e Laws. sorry to see England copy them in their Par r " - tro wel,' The English Stock Market is firm, although e x oa d.a• quiet. Consols realise 94i -I, the New Quarter per Cents. are 96 to lib-elee pe r i , an d the .1 "; t 2 06. Cents. 941 to i. Bank Stock has been firm : ra ther Exchequer-bills are Bs. to I Is. premium, h ein g ne until heavy. There is not expected to be much do the dividends are paid next month. • li e " In the F o r e i gn S toc k Exchange th e transactions been on a very mo d erate scale. Spanish Five perfiCousenitey.• have realised 26i k, being ccarcely so good as, P r t ra i n an Portuguese Four per Cents. have risen to 3 8 1• m ' e d , g ; Stock is quoted, 24k; Grenada, 19i• the Defer re d , are and the Equador, 3k; Buenos ' Ayres 13° . n m ost at 42 to 43, and Peruvian at 39k, befog p l i t is 391• instances about previous rates. Venezuela oku' re d to 61 Dutch Two•and-a•Half per Cents. have imp ro ved - and 61-. Th e accounts from Lisbon are almos t as on w hat finite as ever, a n d i t i s not easy to d e termine ground the b on d s h ave i mprove d . to -day , and i n The Share Mark e t l oo k s we ll again to ' - in t h e some cases th ere h as b een a slight advance n a to quotations .—Birminham and Oxford 114; Caledonian, 30 * to 297; Direct Northern, a t a t Eastern Counties, 23 k ; Great Western, North 21) 4 British, Western, 633- ; London and York, 21 s ; Junction, _a t _ h Centr al ' 22 36 k ; North Staffordshire, 9i 1 ; Newcastle,and Meuse, 4 i Great Northern of France, 11 ; Sambre 3 8 i 1 and d i ; vcr S e o s u t t E I i Flanders s 7 5 , .40 ; York onSdeottis BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONEO 'CLOCK' (From the Official List.)_._ Bank Stock ......•.. ..7?!!„,/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. ........ ... . 17 :flig 7 1 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities .... . ::::, 0 u ;i , Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire leo South Sea Stock ............................... —___‘, Ditto Old Annuities ................•••• 94 ZI A 3 Consols for Opening ...... - ..............• l i hd. Exchequer Bills. 1,000/. - PIL 500/. pm. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O 'CLOCIr•• Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 42 43 Equador Bonds 3% Granada, 1 per Cent. . .... ...... Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 24-i Peruvian Bonds, 6 per C en t 3 9% Portuguese 4 per Cents Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto for the Account 2 6 1A% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 39% Do. Deferred Dividends or the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates BITSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCg RAILWAYS. PAID. Paz &max. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2%. .... to 5 --- Armagh, Coleraine, &P or t rus h 1% — to Belfast and C oun ty D own .. 4% -••— - Birmingham and Dudley ..... 425.... . 6% p .!_t •-• Birmingham and Gl ouces t e r.. 100 •••••• •••••• to Do. New (iss. a t 7% dis.).. 17%•••••• 7 - 3 i 1 o ~., eto Birmingham 8, Oxford Junc... 2 ... 11 A li,iis Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 225. ...... 'Yt At P to -- Bristol and Exeter . 75 - ...... Do., New to ....--. Bristol and Gloucester... - 2 3 / i ...... •—•._ . 5 . ... to _7 ...... t o ..... Bristol and Liverpool June-. 2% ..... -- ...... to --, Buckinghamshire-- B4s. ...... Pa r ,'" ..... to 29111 Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25 Chester and H01yh ea d..„..... 27 1 / s ..... -- ... ... to •"" Churnet and Blyth e Chester and Manchester 4 2 1. - ..... . to --• Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ... .._ •••••• t• Clarence. 100 to --- Do., lit Class, 6 per Cent... 10 ..... , ••• . to --' Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 to --• Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 . to --. Cork and Killarney 2%•••••• -- .... to --• Cork and Waterford . ...... 5 h to --' Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ..... Direct Lincoln, East Retford, to --• and Sheffield Junction.-- 2% ...... ~ ~,,. to --- Direct Northern .. to -- Direct Norwich 2%...... 2372 1 — Dublin and Belfast Junction_ 12% ..... ••• Dublin, to "'- Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2% — ...... to --- Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 ... Eastern Counti es l 4 /. 16s 231,E to 2i •••• to ..... Do. New l2l. 16s 7% P•to -- Do. Perpet., 5 per c t. N o. 1 , 6/ . 1 3s. 4d — ...... -.- Do., do. N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d — - ..... to . to .... Do., York Extension East lereham and Norwich 1 ' Eastern Union 4O Ditto, Quarter Sh ares - Do. Extension to Harwich 1% — - Do. Cambridge an d El y ... 2% -- ...... to -"" to -- East Lancashire Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 5 to ••••• Do. ( late Preston & O rms k.) 5 Do., do., New Scrip ...... to -- East Lincolnshire 1i....... 2%,...... to -- East and West of E ng l an d IA — ...... to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - Ditto, Half Shares 10 ....• 21 .. ... to Ditto, Quarter Sha res 12% lB% to --" •••• Edinburgh and Northern ... 12% 15% to •••• Edinburgh and Perth to 14 Ely and Huntingdon .. to Enniskillen and Sligo 2% — ••• ••• to _- Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 29g — •••••• .to Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5 Glasgow, --- Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 -- ..... to -- - ...... to -- Ditto, New - Do. IA Shares (5 per et.gua.) 12% ...,. V . , to •-` Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 2 ...... 2%78" to t• - • Great Eastern and Weste rn 2% — ... to .. 11, to -- Cs' t. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% — .• . -- Great Munster 2 % .... to to -- Great North o S co tl an d 2 l /2 ......... 2E B Greet North of England 100......23-9 Ditto, New 5 — ...... to -- Ditto, New l5 ... .. _ ~. ~„ to •-• Ditto, New 1%...... -". to -- t _. Great Western Ditto, Half Shares 5O ..... . to -- Ditto, Quarter Shares lO - •••••• to -- Ditto, Fifths 2O - Do. New ... „,,,,. to Huddersfield and Man c h es t er 13 Ditto, Extension ..... to -- Hull and Selby 5O 106 ..... to -- Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — • ..... to ' Ditto Half Shares - Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 14 - --- Do. do. and Norwich Laocaster and Carlisle 5O - __ Do, New Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford o —I I Leeds, Dovsbury, & Manches. 22 1 ,4 31% t ...... • .... Ditto, Bisznch (Blue) ...... 2% --...... • t .... Dit to, Exteosien (Green).. 2% — • .... Leeds and Thirsk ........ 17% 163/1%-. to „, Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 pot Cent. 3%. .... PA to -- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction. ...... ... 2 % to ses ie. London iv Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d - • ••• •' 10 Do. New • 3 ...... -- Do. Extension ......... ...... 7% — to -- London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... Ditto Preference 18l 17s 2d... ...... to -- London and North Western.. loo ...... -- to . Do. Quarter Shares • 2 - Do. do. New .......... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 8 Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 ...... •••••• to -- Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A. 5 . .... ...••• to .- Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 - Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 - viori Mort Itort Nort Oxfc Ye .1,-Pfd rort ?re s t Read ) Rich] ' toy s !cotta moo ffitt mhe Ne Ns ] . No; T Not Not