The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

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Hurst, 27, King William street, Strand. RAILWAY SHAIIF.S BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHIRE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support arid patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c. take place every TUESDAY and Feiner. at One o'clock, at the tiall 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 previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be hrwarded by the drat post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Last Night but One of 3lademaiselle SOPHIE FUOCO. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balk's celebrated Opera, entitled TUZ MAID OF AR COES. Marquis de ChaWau Vieux, Mr. Ttorrani; Jules de Montagnon. Mr. D, W. King ; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ; Synnelet, Mr. Weiss; Kinks, 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 Royale, Paris, under the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles. Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrian, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &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 WRONG. 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. After which, an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled STORY TELLING ; or, Novel Effects. Dr. Hardenberg, Mr. W. Farren ; Frederick Vandervelt, Mr. Caulfield ; Raps, Mr. Buckstone ; Grab, Mr. Rogers ; Theresa, Miss felbin ; Rose, Mrs. Humby. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Cheval de Bronze ;" " The Annen" (Polka) ; " Czarina" (Mazourka); " Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture. To he followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. In which Messrs. W. Farren, Stuart, Tilbury, Rogers, Caulfield, &c. ; Mrs. E. Yarnold, and Mrs. Stanley will perform. To conciude with the Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington. Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, sir. Howe ; S.:ereuP, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, foUrciied 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 Albei Smith, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray (his first appearance here), Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May (her first appearance here), Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the laughable Farce of MRS. WHITE. Characters by Mr. Turner, Mr. Oxberry (his first appearance in this company), Mr. 11. Butler ; Miss Arden, 3fiss Villars, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with the successful Comedy of TO PARENTS AND GUA R DIA NS. THEATIIE ROYAL, .',DELPHI. UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded 011 the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; or, the Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. CAlenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Sliss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. Atter which, the Comic Drama of THE MAID WITH TIIE MILKING PAIL. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Selby, Boyce, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND MALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright, Munyard, Mrs. Matthew, M 133 Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. 31. Maddox, sole Lessee ana Manager. THIS_ EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drarha, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Granby, S. Cowell, Henry ; Mrs. H. Hughes, and Miss E. Bonner. After which, a new and original Muiieal Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF 3IUNI ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Arminconrt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejamb,, Mr. I.efiler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; , ;ornet (}rondos, Mr. Campton ; Baron Bristle ach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Honner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Honner, Mucks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte; Uriel, Miss Marshall; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SIZE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr. Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr. Vining; Ilardeasile, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Compton; Hastings, Mr. Roxby ; Dig,gory, Mr. Cowell; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs. Stirling; Miss Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardeastle, Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAM—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Vaudevile, entitled LA DOT D'AIJ VEIVINE. Pierre, M. Dutnery; Jerome, M. Pagenier ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Fouquet ; Felicite, Madame Dumery To be followed by the Vaudeville of L'AMBASSADEUR. Cha racters by MM. Periet, Langeval, Berou ; Mdlle. Celina Fouquet and 31d11... Brohan. • Atter which a new Comedy, entitled LES TROIS CRISPINS ; ou, La Familia Poisson. Ra ; mond Poisson, M. l'erlet ; Marianne, Mdlle. Brohan. To conclude with the find act of Regnard's Play of LES FOLIES AMOUREUSES. Albert, M. Cartigny ; Eraate, M. Felix; Crispin, Mlle. Vallee ; Lisette, Mdlle. Broliali. Boxes, Gs. ; 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 inimitable Entertainment at the above theatre THIS EVENING, Deßeirber 21, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evening, during the Christmas holidays. Due notice will be given of their first Morning Performance. The programme will include " Old Joe," " Lucy Neal," " The Coloured Fancy Ball." " My skiff is on the shore," and the cele brated Ra lroad Overture. The public is respectfully cautioned that the Songs and Melodies, as sung by the above party, arc published only at Mr. Mitchell's. Doors open at eight, commence at half-past. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 23.—Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Iflchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-oflice of the Theatre.—Open from 11 till 5. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pa'rmised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Last Three Nights previous to the Christmas Holidays. THIS EVENING Will he 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 CIRCLE. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; or, The Mountain Outlaw. On SATURDAY next (Bexing•N.glit) a double rotation of Eques trian and Gymnastic Novelties, and aria 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-onice open trom eleven till rive o'clms.—Doors open at six an I commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; LTighest, 45 ; Noon, 46, BAROMETER, 29.84.—W1ND W.S. W., fine. DECEMBER 21. TIERMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest. 47; Noon, 49, BA RONETER, 29.05—a fall of 79. WIND W., rainy. 1110.- WA riC;i AT LONDON-BRLDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 83 minutes after 3. 1 Evening .. 56 minutes after 3. , • 4. 74016 4. 77 ; 4 :: 11010 ' • Torn x s it k Alit 4 LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1846. The multitude of obstacles to the improvement of pasture land, the reclamation of waste land, and the manuring and drainage of arable land in Ireland, have hitherto acted most prejudicially upon the agriculture of that country, and have tended:more than anything else to prevent the peasantry from obtaining employ ment. There has been all along an inexhaustible wealth buried and locked up in the mountains—it has only required an " Open Sesame" to afford the starving population access to those riches. A number of spurious Au BABAS have started up from time to time, crying aloud " Barley ' and so forth, to no purpose. The portals of agrarian wealth have re mained closed. The true talisman has not been dis covered. The land has continued to be undrained, unmanured, and unremunerative. The embarrass ments, both of th e propr i etors and the occupiers, have I ncreased. The people have found a greater difficulty in obtaining work —and starvation and beggary have ex tended in proportion. Knowing the generous and fruit ful character of the Irish so i l , . when properly cultivated, WI d remembering the it is neglected condition of Irish agriouliure, i th m a p t os th sibl e not to be im pressed with the conviction ptio :t is land L possesses the means of its own redem It proved edDtraran's Commission proved this lon , g a go , abundance of nourishment might be extracted from national n:l f thousands upon thousands of acres, providing ce nt . reasonable facilities were afforded t o the ti husbandry. It showed that a present expendit u r e gooney would thereby produce extraordinary returns repayment to the lender. It proved that there was an assurance of perpetual advantage to the land owners, of increasing remuneration to the leaseholders, of abundant provision both for home consumption and for exportation, of endless emolument to the en terprising, and of continual labour for the unem ployed, providing a liberal but discriminating assist ance were afforded to the agriculturists of Ireland. For years there has been no doubt whatever of this. No one has the temerity to deny the accuracy of these calculations. The facts of the case are too stubborn to be gainsayed, and so are the figures. The only difficulty has been how to afford the necessary assist ance, with any degree of security, without interfer ing with the rights-of property, and without unduly favouring individuals at the expense of the community, Provisions of a beneficial tendency were undoubtedly made by the sth and 6th Vict., cap. 89, by the Bth and 9th Viet., cap. 69, and by the 9th Viet., cap. 4, empower ing the Board of Works to undertake certain drainage works, but those provisions required considerable mo dification before any permanent advantages could accrue. By the enactments Ist and 2d Will. IV., cap. 33, sec. 32, amended by 9th Viet., cap. 1, sec. 6. it was provided, moreover, that loans might be made to individuals for the purpose of enabling them to effect the improvement of their estates for themselves, by drainage, reclaiming waste lands, or other works of substantial improvement. These admirable ar rangements, however, were unaccompanied by any clauses affording sufficient power to the Executive, in securing the return of the moneys advanced, and, at the same time, of not unduly tampering with the rights of individuals. So many complicating claims are associated with land in Ireland, estates there are entangled in such a network of mortgages, the tenure of land is, indeed, so terribly complicated in that island, that the extri cation of the proprietors appears, at a superficial glance, to be almost an impossibility. By a persevering consideration of the matter, however, these difficulties are not so utterly insurmountable as would be at first imagined. By a searching investigation the entangle ment becomes unravelled, and from the "Treasury Minutes" of the Ist ultimo, and the letter forwarded by Mr. TREVELYAN to the Commissioners of Public Works, we would fain believe that the clue has been at last discovered which may guide us from the labyrinth. From these two important documents it would seem that the Government are really solicitous to afford that encouragement and aid to Irish agri culturists which have been so long desiderated. It has been resolved by the Lords Commissioners of her MAJESTY'S Treasury, that the Board of Works •° Shall undertake the execution of such works as are necessary for deepening or removing obstructions in rivers, their tributary streams, or the larger watercourses of the country, by means of which great improvement may be effected in the main outfalls of drainage for considerable tracts of land." This arrangement is unquestionably of a most desirable character, seeing that such enormous works could never be effectually undertaken by any indi vidual. Whatever difficulty might be experienced in consequence of these main drains passing through the estates of many different proprietors is obviated " By the power which the Board of Works possesses of proceeding with the consent of a certain number of proprietors, and of charging the repayment upon the lands drained, even of dissenting proprietors, in propor tion to the benefit conferred upon them." Aware of the numerous delays caused, and obstruc-, tions presented by the undigested clauses of the Act 9th and 10th Vict., cap. 101, it is here announced by Mr. TREVELYAN, of the Treasury, that her MA JESTY'S Government "Propose to submit a Bill to Parliament founded on these principles, embracing and extending the objects of the 32d section of the Act 1 and 2 Was. IV., cap. 33, amended by the 9th Vict., cap. 1, sec. 6, and of the 9&h 4nd 10th Vict., cap. 101." Among the arrangements thereby effected are —that the loans shall not be restricted to drain. age, but shall be rendered available for the pur poses of general improvement of lands, including drain • age, and that to obviate the difficulties arising from the encumbrances upon lands and the multiplicity of interests in estates, a proportionate contribution towards the repayment of the loan shall" be apportioned on the various parties who will derive benefit from the improvement, "the whole principal end interest being payable to the Government by the person who shall be deemed proprietor of the land drained or improved, and the contribution on the part of the occupier being in the shape of increased rent to the proprietor." Beyond this the Government pro pose to submit a separate Bill to Parliament, in which the provisions of the sth and 6th Vict., cap. 89, Bth and 9th Vict., cap. 69, and the 9th Vict., cap. 4, will be consolidated and simplified. As an additional boon to the starving population, the loans are to be made at the reduced interest of four per cent. It is in the concluding paragraph, however, of this letter from Mr. TREVELYAN that the principles of the pro posed innovation are condensed : " My Lords are further of opinion," he writes, " that with the view both of providing security for the repay ment of the advances from the public purse, and of re• lieving entailed estates from the evil of accumulated charges. two powers should be conferred by the measures which it is proposed to submit to Parliament. "First, a power to the proprietors of an entailed es tate to sell for the purpose of repaying the advances for improvements made by the Board of Works, or if made by himself, with the aid of Government money, under the inspection of the Board of Works, any part of the estate so improved, or of other estates settled to tht same uses, in the same manner as a power exists in this country of selling for the redemption of the land-tax. " Secondly, a power to the Government of selling, in default of payment of two consecutive instalments, so much of the land improved or of other estates settled to the same uses, which the proprietor might prefer, as woulm repay capital, interest, and expenses of sale." 'While it is impossible to deny that this will afford the Executive an enormous power, it will be never theless equally impossible to deny that the benefits accruing to the proprietors and the peasantry of Ireland, will fully counterbalance any objections to the proposed plan. Is it not better that they should be driven into prosperity than be abandoned to an independent starvation ? In another part of our paper we publish the Reso lutions of the Independent Committee of the Cor poration, setting forth the insult offered to the citizens of London, through their representatives, by the LORD MAYOR positively refusing to put a ques tion, duly moved and seconded by old and qualified members of the Corporation, in Common Council assembled. As faithful journalists, it is our duty to weigh carefully the arguments adduced by the con flicting parties, and endeavour to arrive at a just con clusion as established by indisputable evidence. Certain inconveniences arise as to the qualification of members of the Common Council, in consequence of " various changes having taken place in the customs and habits of the citizens of the said city, and in their mode of conducting business in the said city, in con sequence whereof many of the most substantial citizens, duly rated in their several wards, and carry ing on trade in, and habitually resorting to their shops, counting-houses, and offices within the city, have nevertheless dwellings for themselves and their families in the suburbs of the said city ;" to remedy which a reference is made to a committee, a report is brought up, it is referred back, with instructions to prepare a bill to meet the case; a bill is brought up, read a first and a second time ; to all of which the Aldermen, as members of the Common Council (and many of them are members of the committee) are assenting parties. Not a word of objection is heard until it has become pretty generally known that another Bill is to succeed this, limiting the power of the Aldermen to draw upon the City purse. Then, and only then, they come forward with a protest read by the Recorder, declaring that as the Bill alters certain " usages and customs" of the City, they canno t sanction it, and in discussion declare that without their assent the Bill is of no avail; nay, more, they claim the privilege to originate all matters brought before the Common Council. We find presumptuous assertion here—we find no argument. What says the Bill as proposed ? "And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, any freeman of London being a householder, and any freeman of London, though he may dwell out of the city of London, shall be capable of being elected to be a member of the Common Council, provided at the time of such election he is, and for twelve months pre viously he shall have been, the occupier of a house, shop, counting-house, or office, situated within the ward for which he shall be so elected; and provided that he is, and for twelve months previously he shall have been, rated in his own name to the Consoli dated Rate in respect of any house, shop, counting house, or office within such ward; and also provided that during the time of his being so rated as aforesaid he shall have resided in such house, or habitually resorted to such shop, counting-house, or office, for the purpose of carrying ou any art, mystery, trade, profession, or occupation therein, any act, order, or ordinance, custom or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding." What custom or usage does this violate ? It is and has been the " custom and usage" to have Com mon Councilmen ; they are retained. They must be freemen, having premises within the City and within the ward for which they are elected, and be voted to certain rates. This is still to be the case. 'We repeat, what custom or usage does this violate ? None ! It simply and prudently defines a qualifica tion which the old term " householder" left vague and uncertain, being liable to bear, almost any construction anybody might put upon it. • It is quite clear that this Bill is not the bone of contention. No, no ; it is that which is behind ; and rather than the Aldermen—a body elected for life, consequently irresponsible—should have any inde pendent control over the City funds, the responsible representatives of the citizens are determined to go to Parliament and dissolve the Corporation, so that it may be remodelled to meet the spirit of the age, and he in harmony with the advancing intelligence of the times. These are not the days for individuals or small cor porate bodies to attempt to claim irresponsible power. We advise the Aldermen, as those who much respect the Corporation, to listen to reason. The Common Council have liberty, right, and progressive policy on their side, which must prevail. So long as the Corpora tion continues to modify its rules and regulations so as to render them assimilate to the necessities of the times, they will endure; but so soon as they become obstructive their doom is sealed.. It is consistent with proper representation that the properly elected and responsible body should control the expenditure ; and for an irresponsible, life-elected body to claim such a power seems monstrous ; and for my LORD MAYOR to refuse to put any question duly proposed and seconded, is to gag the mouth of the Com mon Council, and prevent free discussion. We protest against any such assumption ; and if the citizens of London succumb to such a dictum, they are made of different stuff to what we ever thought them, and truly their ancient glory has departed. Accounts from Italy state that the sth of December; the centenary anniversary of the expulsion of the Austrians from Genoa, had been observed as a day of rejoicing throughout almost the whole of the north of Italy. The Sardinian Government would authorise no public demonstration, but many private assemblages were held at Genoa, in which the toasts of the "Independence of Italy," and "Down with the Austrians," were drunk with great enthusiasm. At night, in the same moment, bonfires were lit on all the mountains surrounding Genoa. Similar bonfires were seen I:lazing along the whole line of Appenines, in the direction of Florence and Bologna, of Rome, and of Naples. At Florence two large bonfires were kindled in the two large squares, and the - 04s were covered with placards, on which were priuted-in red ink, "Death to the Germans." One ot!4feie placards was affixed to the hotel of the Austrian Minister, before the gates of which a body of4ingers chanted a de profundis. No outrage was coitimitted on persons or property. Madrid papers of the 10th and 11th have been received. Up to that time the result of 103 elections had become known, of which 78 had been gained by the Moderadoes, 17 by the Progressistas, and 8 by the Puritans and Absolutists. Senor OLOZAGA has been returned for Albacete. MADRID 130LSA, DEC. 11.—The Three per Cents. were done at 34h for cash ; the Five per Cents at 214; the Vales at 8a ; the Passives, at 61 ; and the Coupons, at 19k. We hare received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The most important article of news contained in them is the following literal transcript of the dispatch on the subject of the annexation of Cracow, addressyd by M. Guizo-r to the French Ambassadors at Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh. It is as follows : ‘• Sir,—The Austrian Charg4 d'Affaires has commu nicated to me the dispatches from Prince Metternich, announcing to the King's Government that.the incorpo ration in the Austrian empire of the free town and ter ritory of Cracow is resolved upon by the Courts of Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, and they explain the motives. I transmit copies of them. I have laid them before the King in Council. His Majesty's Go vernment has experienced from them a great and pain ful surprise. We received in February and March, a , we did in 1836 and`lB3B, assurances that the occupation of Cracow by the troops of the Three Powers was a measure purely military, and not political, commanded by necessity, and which should be at an end wit!: that necessity. Now it is said that a temporal.) occupation will not • suffice, and that the measure adopted by the Three Courts is indispensable to guarantee definitively in their states order and peace, which have been incessantly disturbed by insur rections, of which Cracow had become the permanent focus. But since the suppression of the small state 01 Cracow is to put an end to those disorders, its existenc , must have been their unique, or at least, their principal cause. This supposition is inadmissible. The so fre quently recurring fermentation of the ancient Polish provinces has arisen from causes more general. The scattered members of a great state, destroyed by vio lence, still continue to agitate and rise. Treaties which recognise such facts do not cause to disappear at once the social wounds which result from them; time, equity, kindnesq, and prolonged good government can alone suc ceed in it, for these are the only means which the cation of Europe now renders possible. The sovereigns and the statesmen, assembled at the Congress o, Vienna, thus considered it. They wished at the mo ment, even when Europe united ratified the partition of Poland, to give to the Polish nation and to the conscientious feelings of Europe, which were disturbed by this partition, a constant moral satisfaction. They had at the same time towards their Polish subjects perspective views of amelioration for the interns government of the country. Serieus disturbances ma) interrupt the course of that policy, at once wise and generous, but not cause it to be entirely abandoned el abolished. Nothing compromises a Government more than to declare itself unable to fulfil, even slowly and ie course of time, the promises and hopes which it has itsel• given. The destruction of the petty State of Cracow may deprive the spirit of Polish conspiracy of some means of action, but it may also keep up and even irri tate the feelings which obstinately give rise to these de plorable enterprises. It weakens throughout all Europe on this painful question the principles of order am conservatism, to the profit of blind and hateful passions. Article nine of the treaty of Vienna imposes on the Republic of Cracow the obligation of removing con spirators from its territory, and the Three Protecting Powers had doubtless the right to demand the accom• plishmeut of his obligation. But had they not, in order to attain this object, no other means than to abolish the independence of this petty state, and to sup press the state itself ? The narrow limits of the Re public, the immense erength of the three great Powers, by whose states it is hemmed in, all tend to induce the belief that measures carefully combined would have ben sufficient to counteract efficaciously the evil, without having recourse to extreme means, which involve som e perils in the prospect of frequently creating fresh two more serious evils. It was in all cases the incontestabl: right of all the Powers who were parties to the treaty of Vienna to take part in the deliberations and the decisions of which Cracow might be the object. If Prince Metter. nich means in his dispatch that the three Courts had b) themselves created the small state ofCracow,and that the) afterwards presented to the Congress for enrolment the convention they had passed between themselves, the King's Government could never admit of an assertion so contrary to the principles, and even to the language of great trans actions constituting the public law of Europe. Inde pendent powers are never called upon to enregistet deliberations or acts entered - into and passed withou: their participation. In so far as regards Cracow and Poland, the sovereigns and public men say that long discussions between the representatives of all the Powers preceded the conclusion of the special treaty of May The very text of the treaty of Vienna demonstrates that the fate of Poland was regulated after a deliberation of all the representatives of Europe. Articles 1, 2, 3,4, and 5, define the share which each of the three Powers was to have of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. There is not the least difference between these articles and those which give to Prussia a part of the states of the King of Saxony. The foundation of the republic of Cracow is placed on precisely the same ground as the stipulations which formed the other states, even the most free, which have created the Germanic Confederation. The Government of his Majesty, therefore, has used only an evident right, and at the same time fulfilled an imperative duty in protesting solemnly against the suppression of the Republic of Cracow —an Act positively against the letter as well as the meaning of the treaties of Vienna After the long and redoubtable agitations which have shaken Europe, it is only by paying respect to treaties and those rights which they have made sacred that she maintains herself. No power can enfranchise itself from them without enfranchising the other powers hv the same Act. France has not given any similar example of an attempt against the poli c y o f conservation and peace. France has not forgotten the painful sacrifices imposed upon her by the treaties of 1815. She might rejoice at an act which would authorise her in just re ciprocity to consult henceforth none but her own in terests, and it is she who calls for the faithful observ ance of treaties by the Powers who have derived from them the principal advantages. It is she who, above all, is occupied in the maintenance of the rights acquired by others, and in respecting their independence. (Signed) " GUIZOT." In commenting on the very guarded language of this dispatch, and comparing it with the " big words" of the newspaper organs of the Government and the boasts of what great things M. Gl:lnca was to say THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1846. at 41 do, the Legitimatist France sneeringly observes— " It will be remarked that M. Guizot, while proclaim ing the violation of the treaties of 1815, while protesting against the annexation of the republic of Cracow, care fully guards his words from bearing the character of a menace. Supple and polite in his ill-humour, he de plores in lengthened terms what has barn done; he sighs heavily over the scattered fragments of the treaties of Vienna ; but his despair does not lead him se far as to be willing to declare that he also is freed from these con ventions. His courage fails him when he draws to a conclusion, and says what France will do in face of these violated treaties of 1815. If, then, ss everything tends to make us believe, the protest of M. Guizot is con ceived in the same spirit as his circular note, the French Government must have greatly modified its violent atti tude."' The National of Friday was seized at the Post office ; why, it professes to be unable to tell. Pro ably, however, it was on account of an article on the Spanish elections, in which it stated that CHRISTINA, alarmed by the attentions paid to the Count DE MONTEMOLIN in London, was anxious to enter into some sort of compact with the Progressistas, as it was felt that if a Carlist outbreak should take place, BRESSON and Mos would be found insufficient. The Arab prisoners, who were to have been ex changed, have been returned to their prison in the Ile St. Marguerite. The Constihttionnel says-- " M. Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul at the Mau ritius, whose recent dispute with Admiral Dacres has been made known, is said to be about to be removed to Honululu, in the Sandwich Islands, a newly-created consulship. It is stated that among the papers of the Nfinistry there has been found an application for a change made by M. Barbet himself before the affair oc curred at the Mauritius." We also find in the same paper the following:- " The British Government has lately received in formation, from its agents on the western coast of Africa, of a frightful occurrence, which, however, is not novel in the annals of slavery. A negro chief having 2 000 slaves upon his hands, and being unable to dispose of them, had them all killed before his own eyes. The French Go vernment has also been made acquainted with this hor rible massacre. We are assured that the Cabinets of London and Paris have resolved to join in punishing with severity the cruel chief." The Presse states that Oporto has been taken by the QUEEN'S troops. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur day at 80f. 85c. ;' the Five per Cents., 118 f. 70c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,265 f. ; Rouen, 910 f.; Havre, 660 f. ; Great Northern, 648 f. 75e. ; Avignon, 897 f. 50c. • Vierzon, 612 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 562 f. 50 c . ' • Boulogne, 4421: 50c. ; Troves and Montereau, 350 f. ; Bas:e, 2181. 75c. ; Dieppe, 3801.; Paris and Strasburg. 4871. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 497 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 512 f. .50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 490 E ; Bordeaux and Cette, 445 f. ; Spanish A c ti ves , 34 ; Spanis Three per Cents., 384. MAR.SEMLES, DEC. 14.-Marseilles and Avignon, 8871. 50c. ; Northern, 645 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 19. Dutch Rhenish, 4 3 4-Northern of France Constituted, 10 3 4-Orleans and Vierzon, 13 3 / 4 -Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 1 / 2 -Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5 1 4 ex int.-Sambre and Meuse, 4 1 / 2 -Tours and Nantes Constituted, 4%. CITY OF LONDON ELECTIONS, Yesterday being St. Thomas's Day, wardmotes were held in the several wards for the election of members to sit in the Court of Common Council. LIME-STREET WARD. A wardmote was held in the Ward Schools, St. Mary axe, Alderman Farebrother in the chair. After the precept had been read, and the inquestmen fur the ensuing year returased, Mr. G. Rawson was re-elected ward beadle. A letter from Deputy Mitchell was read, resigning his office. The worthy Alderman and several inhabitants bore testimony to the faithful manner in which Mr. Mitchell performed his duties. The following gentlemen were then elected to serve as Common Councilmen for the year ensuing :—Daniel Cork, Thomas Budge Simpson, Thomas Symonds, and William 'Fanner ; the two last are new members in the room of Deputy Mitchell and Mr. Corse, resigned. BISHOPSGATE WARD. In addition to the former members, Messrs. Tagg and Gilpin were proposed, and a poll demanded. COLEMAN-STREET WARD.' At a wardrnote, held in the Ward Schools, London wall, Alderman W. Hunter in the chair, the following gentlemen were elected Common Councilmen :—Messrs. Allen (deputy), Hall, W. Hall, Davis, Johnson, Phillips, Bracher, and Perkins. WARD OF CRIPPLEG ATE WITHIN. The election of Common Councilmen for the ward of Cripplegate Within took place yesterday, at the School rooms in Philips- lane. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS presided, and gave the names of the following candidates:—Mr. R. L. Wilson, Mr. D. Dewar, Mr. J. Lart, Mr. William Cash, Mr. William Brass, Mr. B. Brown, Mr. H. J. Smith, Mr. James Hoole. Mr. Alderman Challis inquired if any gentle. man had any other candidate to propose. Mr. LIGNIS proposed Mr. Francis Bennoch. Mr. BARTON seconded the motion, and said that in his opinion Mr. Bennoch was the gentleman most likely to bring about that reform which was so much needed in the Court of Common Council, and which was the only body of its kind which had not been reformed. Mr. 13Exivocu said that it was some time since he had stood before the Livery of the City, and he hoped that he had faithully discharged the promises which he had made to them last year. He felt that there were many grievances which it would be necessary to endeavour to remove. Amongst these was the duty upon tea: many re forms had latelytaken place, but he, and many others, felt that these duties were of a na t ure ca l cu l ate d to lecrease instead of increasing the revenues of th 3 Exchequer—(Hear, hear)—and more likely than otherwise to press heavily upon the consumer. He had observed with pain and regret that many evils had arisen from the deficient supply of water to the poorer classes of the metropolis, and would do all in his power to abate so crying an evil. He had also observed L fact in connexion with railways. The commission for inquiring into the proposed railway from Vauxhall to London bridge had reported against the central metro politan terminus, and he felt that their representation was 'ikely to cause the most serious inconvenience to the inha bitants of London, and he, for one, should do his utmost o ()Flange it. With reference to the great dispute be tween the Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council, he felt that there was not a body which re quired reform more than the Court of Aldermen. What .vas the use of any resolution that might be adopted by :he Court of Common Council when the Court of Aider nen had, or assumed, the power of checking them at will? That Court assumed the power of drawing money st will, and without the control of any other portion of the corporation, and he felt that the time was come when s serious reform in the whole system of the Corporation 4 the city of London was necessary, and he, for one, .hould support it. There was one great and crying wil which had long existed in the Court of Aldermen, ind that was, that its members, being elected for life, were tot responsible. In his opinion, they should be made :esponsible by an annual election, or even a septennial election. Such a course was most likely to lead to an .xtensive reformation of the system. He, for one, would upport every measure calculated to bring about so de .irable an event, and on these grounds he asked for the support of the Livery. Mr. Bennoch then submitted the following resolutions, to be proposed by him in the Court of Common Council, to the meeting : " That the assembling of the Court of Common Council at one o'clock in the day is most inconvenient to members engaged in business. That it has the ten lency to exclude from this Court merchants, bankers, Ind professional men, to whom the early part of the afternoon is all-important. That it prevents the due ,lonsideration of questions brought forward for discus. sion; and therefore it is expedient that all Courts of Common Council be held at four for five o'clock in the afternoon. or such later hour as may be considered more convenient. •• That the state of education in Great Britain and [reland is confessedly deficient and lamentaly defective. Chat the existence of so much ignorance is a reproach to the nation, and greatly to be de plored ; inasmuch as poverty, destitution, misery, and crime are—if not the consequence of it—seldom found dissociated from it. As the means hitherto em ployed for the increase of knowledge among the people have proved insufficient for the necessities of the popula lon, the assistance of the State becomes an imperative necessity. It is not only an act of justice and mercy, out also to the interest, safety, and security of society that no subject within these realms should longer con tinue without the opportunity of mental enlightenment as a means of moral elevation and physical improve moat, ‘• That an humble address, based upon the foregoing considerations, be presented to her Majesty the Queen, praying that she will be graciously pleased to exercise every legitimate influence vested in the Crown to urge forward in the ensuing session of Parliament such mea -urea as shall provide for the general education of the people."—(Loud cheers.) The various candidates then addressed the meeting, most of them complaining of the power assumed by the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS assured the gentlemen pre sent that the Court of Aldermen were quite as desirous of a reform in the Corporation as the Court of Common Council, and the mo ment the Court of Common Council took any steps in the matter, they would be joined by the Court of Aldermen. With regard to the sums of money drawn by the Court of Aldermen, and the complaint made about it, he thought that "those who lived in glass houses should not throw atones," for, forevery penny drawn by the Aldermen, a pound was drawn by the Court of Common Council. He did not say that those sums were mis applied, for the members of both bodies did their duty to the utmost, but, as many complaints were made, he thought that any reform or inquiry would be beneficial. The poll was then proceeded with, when the num bers were, at the close of the first day — Mr. Smith, Deputy 17 Ur. Brass Mr. Bennoch ............ 17 Mr. Cash l5 Mr. Hoole ............. . 17 Hr. Lart l5 Mr. Brown .............. 17 11r.Wilson* Mr. Dewar ............. 16 *Conservative. Other business having been disposed of, the wardmote separated. BILLINGSGATE WARD. A wardmote was bejd at the Fellowship Porters' Hall, St. Mary-at-Hill, when the following gentlemen were proposed for Commo n Councilmen for the year entll4. ing :—Messrs. Curling, Old, jun., Bower, Knill, John ston, Roberts, Phillip, Williams. POIitSOKEN WARD. A ver* strong contest is expected in this ward, the electors of the Jewish persuasion being determined to oppose every person who voted against Mr. Saloma❑ when he stood for Alderman of the ward. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) The Cotton market at Liverpool was quieter on Satur day. Sales 3,500 bales, of which 1,000 were on specu lation.—Shares were rather firm again. There have been very numerous arrivals from the colonies to-day, from the West Indies, from New South Wales, the Cape of Good Hope, and other colonieN Generally speaking the advices from the West Indies are of a satisfactory character. Also from the Cape of Good Hope, as well as from Sydney, the letters are of an improved •tenour. At the Jerusa lem Coffee-house, late accounts have been received from Graham's-town. Reinforcements were rapidly arriving. Colonel Somerset had been very active on the frontier. His Excellency had made overtures to the Gaika chief. First, that all the tribes should lay down their arms; secondly, that all the cattle, &c., seized, should be given up; and, thirdly, that all the country as far as the River Kel should be ceded. It is represented that Mocoma was disposed to accept the terms, but there was this difficulty, that many of the cattle had died of fatigue, or been killed for food, and compensation for which did not exactly suit the feelings, or perhaps the means, of the chief. The forces under Colonel Somerset had recaptured about 1000 head of cattle, very many guns, and stores. All was activity at Cape Town in forwarding military stores to the frontier. A most important association has just been formed in the city of London, at a private meetin g held at the close of last week, to ex t en d th e e ffi cacy of the registrations in the Liberal cause in the capital of England. It is headed by a phalanx of well-known admirers of liberal principles and practically-experienced men, who are, it would appear, resolved to carry all before them at the coming general election, thus serving as a beacon and a guide to the numerous constituencies in all parts of the United Kingdom, " to go and do likewise." If the official announcement of the formation of this powerful body be not advertised in this days Sun, it will, no doubt, appear in our columns in a day or two. The principal feature in the English Money Market this morning has been a constantly fluctuating premium for Exchequer Bills, the range taken for which has been from 9s. to 13s. In some quarters it is represented that Government are about to add a trifle to the rate of i.tmest per diem. The value of Cansols for the Account f:as remained at 93i ; for the Three per Cents. Reduced 94; and for the Three-end-a• Quarter per Cents. 958 to Bank Stock is at 206. In the Foreign Funds not much business has been passing this morning. The dividends upon the Portuguese Four per Cents. having been announced for payment on the Ist January next (with the deduction, most unfair in principle as it without qnestion is) has led to some purchases this morning, at an advance from 38 to 40 for the Account, end to 39 for money. Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds were flat at 37a and the Deferred at 17. Mexican Bonds are lower, having been quoted at 23g. The Dutch Four per Cents. are at 93. In the Railway Shares and Scrips the operations have been few to- day. The market is not firm. The ac curate quotations are annexed. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICES. Bank Stock ........ ..... .200 208 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94% 94 94 New 3% per Cent. Annuities 95 3 / 4 %% 95% Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 —9% Consols for Opening 93% 93% Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 1 Ad. ... 10 13 912 p 12 p Ditto, 5001 Ditto, Small ntICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 Ditto, Account . 2 3 3 /t Portuguese 5 per Cents. B3 Ditto, 4 per Cent 39 Ditto, Account 4O Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto Deferred l7 Ditto 3 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2 1 A per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 ONE CLOSING O • CLOCK PRICES PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..:... Armagh, Coleraine, and Porirtish Belfast & County Down ...... Birmingham and Dudley 425...... 6 5% 6% p.. Birmin. and Gleucester 100 129 Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June 2 3% — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. 75 p Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liver. June- — Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 1 42,..„......., Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 27% -- Ckurnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham 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 ... 2 1 ,E Cerk and Waterford ... 1% Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% — .. • Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford,and Sheffd. Jane. 2% •-- Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 22% Ditto New l2l. 16s 714% p 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... 5, p Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3 i iAv 2 EastDereh'in andNoech 1 eastern Union 35 _ •• ••• Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 4 — Do. Exten.( Harwich ) 1% Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 4 — East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... Do., do., New Scrip East Lincolnshire ... - 14...... 2 1 4 3 East & West of England 1X...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..0.. 75% ......... ... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Edinburgh & Northern.. 12 1 / 2 — ... ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% Enniskillen and Sligo ••• 2 1 , Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 5; 4 - Gaslgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 — Ditto, New .. 15 Do., IA Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Goole, Doncaster, 8c... 2 Grand Union (Notting and Lynn IN .. ...... ..... Great Eastern .3c Westeru 2 1 ,i ....... .... .. Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 21 / 2 .. Great North of Scotland 2 %...... ....... GreatNorthof England..loo 2.37 233 238 Ditto New 5 — •• Ditto, New . l5 .. 51 Ditto, New Great Western B5 129 127 127 Ditto % Shares. 5O — Ditto IA Shares lO _ 173/41/2 Ditto Fifths 20 Ditto, New .. 2 Huddersfield &Manches. 13 .. ... Ditto, Extension 3 Hull and Selby 5O Do. Half Shares 25 — ••• .........•• Ditto 1 ,4 Shares __ _ 12 . 1 4 Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. Ilg 1 3 14 Do., do., and Norwich 4A% . , . Lancaster and Carlisle— 50 — Do. New Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s M dis l4 die . Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% — •• ......•••••. Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% Do. Extension( Green) 2 1 ,4.. ... --- Leeds and Thirsk ......... 17%...... 14% 15 ....... Ditto, New ............. 5 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% Do., Mnchstr &New castle Junction .... 21,4 _ ...... ..... ... London and Blackwall• 16/. 132.4d: ............. .. Do. New ••• .• ...... •. " ••• Ditt o Extension ....... ..• London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 .. .. 58% .. ......... .... Ditto, Fifths .....40 •••••• _ 5 8% Do. Consol. Eighths.. 10 ••• .. ......... Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - ••• •• •• London andGreenwmh 12115 s 441 9 ***** Do. Preference ...18/178 2d —• London, Hounslow, and •• Western ........ ....... 2 London and N. Westernloo 194 195............ 195 Do. Quarters .. 2 Do., d0., New Ditto Fifths Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 5 Do 40/. Shares ( L.M.) 8 Do. 40/. (51. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (51. & B.) B. 5 ... ... Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and, Cheltenham ... — •• ••• ••• ........ •• Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 63 De. New Consol. Bths 40 — •••••• ..... ..•• Do. New Do. New ~......... .. 18 ... • Ditto Tenths ....• .. 5 Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ...... . .... 4 London and York 2 1% — - Do. Extension 2% 2 •••• ..... ...... London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... .•• II • 0 , • 2%•.11.t. ..... ~.. 16 1 VA 93 14 3 4 1834 27 1 4 5% - 214 Londonderry& Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis- - 1 lkillen Lynn and Ely ..... -..... 15 Lynn and Dereham l5 Manchester and Leeds .. 82 Ditto 1 4 Shares I 'Do. Quarters Do. Fifths 5 . .... 10% 3 / 4 l O 3 /4 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Extension 42s. l% p l% p Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 Do. do. Fifths ..... -.. 1 -• Dlanchester,Buxton,and Matlock 42a....... 1 p Manchest. & Sonthampt. 2 ...... ••• Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 Newport& Abergavenny 2%...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk ... lOO l3O .... ... ...... Ditto half Shares .. 9 — Do. Extension Northern Counties Union 2% North British . ....... ... 25 Do. Half Shane ll ...... 16 15% .. ...... Do. Quarters Do. Extension %...... 1%54 Ditto Thirds 1 Northern and Eastern... 50 34% 36 3 4 15% 4 1% 3 % Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. Nov North Staffordshire 5 ...... 8% 5 i .. North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting North Western 2.4 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3:4 — Preston and Wyre 25 Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3f. 12s. — dis. Richmond 15 Royston and Hitchen ... 1% l 3 /4 Seottish Central ...—... 15 ...... 21% Scottish Midland 12% l5 . Sheffield & Manchester 100 - .• Do. Quarter Shares... 8 _ . 1 3 / 4 2114 15 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 428. Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... Ditto ditto, Claw B. 1 1 4 2% Shropshire Union South Devon 40 — South Staffordshire June. 2% — .. South Eastern & Dover. 33% 3 8 3 /4 De., No. 1 20 Do., Nc. 2. Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 4% 2A 1 4 dis 88 3 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield,and Hertford Junction ... 425. — Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — South Wales Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 ••• •••••• •• Taw Vale Extension ... 2 - yes •• e• 000000 Vale of Neath 2 Wakefield, Pontefract. & Goole 22% ............ .. Waterford and Kilkenny 11 Waterford and Limerick 27% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, Iry aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 425. West Cornwall Wexford and Carlow ...... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York and Newcastle. 25 ..... 38 1 74 Ditto New 5 ...... ........ 1)o. Preference York and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares ..... 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid ing Extension ..3 1 / 4 23' 7 83 is P 39 3 4 393/8 37% 0 3 4 92% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 61 ,i p 129 1 4 P 75 28 3 4 2% Anglo- Belgian 4 _ Barbadoes 1 Belgian Eastern Junctn. ••• Boulogne and Amiens... 16 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... . Calais, Dunkrk,andWest Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ....... . 78. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast. 1 » Central of Spain .... 2 Ceylon Demerara ~ 2 1 / 2 Dendre Valley ...... .. 4 Direct Bombay and Madras w .. ss. Dutch Rhenish 6 East Indian ... .... ss. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 ...... Italian and Austrian. 4 ... Jamaica S.Mid•Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ....„ Luxembourg...... ..... .. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Madras ... 1 Madras, Nellore, and •• Arcot Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mauritius Namur and Liege Nn ofFranceConstituted 5 ...... 10% 3 A North Jamaica ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris tiLyonsConstituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O . Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse lO ... ... Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atlantic lours and Nantes Con stituted 5 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt. 8 Trinidad West Flanders .. 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of L0nd0n......... 10 •• • Union of Australia Australasia 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 34 10% 3';A % P 3% 3% 2 1 / s 75% Real del Monte Unregd. ...... 3%..........,. 17% 614 13;4 43i A heavy . commercial failure has taken place at Sunderland, in the bankruptcy of Mr. Richard White, a large ship and coal owner. His liabilities are consider able, and it is said the assets of the estate will be of trifling amount, the property of the bankrupt being- ex tensively mortgaged, or otherwise secured to parties who have made advances upon it. Mr. White is an alderman of the corporation of Sunderland, and was mayor two or three years ago. He is also in the commission of the peace for that borough, an d f or the county of Durham. MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE Fuoco's BENEFIT AT DRURY-LANE.—The benefit of the youngest of the Deesses de la danse is fixed for Wednesday next at Drury.lane, and there cannot be a doubt but that those who have hitherto paid their devotions at her shrine will feel it a duty to offer her their homage on this the last occasion which will he offered to them for some time. We say some time, for although a benefit is usually a last appearance, yet when we consider the merited and unbounded popularity of Sophie Fuoco, we cannot but feel convinced that she will appear again and again before an English audience, and that she will grow in favour every season. Not the least of the obligations under which the admirers of the chereogruphic art are to Mr. Bunn is the introduction to the English stage of Mademoiselle Sophie Fuoco. EXPORT or HORSES.—The celebrated race horse Sir Robert Peel, with a thorongh-bred mare, and a showy entire horse, purchased by Mr. Benson for a Hungarian nobleman, were shipped yesterday evening from Hamilton's livery stables, Carr-lane, on board the Rob Roy steam-ship, for Hamburgb.-1/1111 Packet. DISTRESS IN MARYLEDONE.—On Friday last the overseers were engaged until ten o'clock at night in dis tributing relief to the out-door poor. The average monthly distribution of bread amounts to 8,000 loaves. A BITER BlT.—Last ;Thursday night (the frost being very intense), I thought I would make some ice in my garden; I accordingly placed a :basin full of straw berry and cream on the snow. In the course of an hour I ordered my servant to go for it, thinking it would be by that time sufficiently frozen. He returned with a smile on his face, informing me that the basin was en. tirely emptied. At this I was rather surprised, but it soon struck me that a cat must have been the thief. I therefore replaced the basin, with more cream in it, con cealed my::elf behind a bush with a gun. In the course of a few moments, I may say, I heard —mew, mew, mew, which cries were shortly followed by a female cat and a tribe of little oues. I was not more than ten :yards off the basin, the moon being very bright, I was able to see plainly. When they were seated round the cream in the midst of their enjoyment I let fly, end bagged the mother and two of the little ones, one or more making escape.—From a Correcpondent. TIIE WEST-END REFUGE POE, THE HOUBELEBS POOR.—In consequence of the severity of the weather, this institution, situate in Market-street, Edgeware-road, has been thrown open for the nightly reception of 200 poor. Each is furnished with a supper of bread and half a pint of beef soup, a comfortable bed, and breakfast in the morning. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting, the lion. Colonel Phipps, Equerry in Waiting, and Mr. George Edward Anson. Lord and Lady John Russell, and the Hon. Miss Lis ter, arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. Viscount Palmerston left the Castle to-day. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include Lord and Lady John Russell, the Hon. 31155 Lister, the Rev. Mr. and the lion. Mrs. F. Anson, and Sir Henry Wheatley. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards Wend in the evening at the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridgevisited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterdal• The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ms. jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, had a m eetin P g yesterday at the Council-office. The Lord s p rese o e were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, t Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendl.• the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Son. B. Macaulay. Mr. Dempster Hemmings and Mr. Henry Chan:l had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesteritsPl the Board of Trade. The Earl of Devon had an interview wit h Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Lord and Lady John Russell left their residenceilo Cbesham-place yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Cas t y tle: Mr. Mosquera, Minister of New Granada, transac • business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Despatch received yesterday at the Coloni the Mauritius, from es the were Governors of New S o uth Wale s ' the Mauritius, and Cape Coast Castle ; and al so from Governors of the West India Colonies. bed anoir. Georg Frederick Young, and Mr. D u nbar, a 5, nt rview e yesterday with the E a rl of Clare ndon, the office of the Board of Trade. story, The EU M THEATED , ne w C e if r h e T i r n t ih i p a n et r m g ove not also firstevening, when Ls the hTekKdeterhßaemiatabttleeisctof—veLwrifsaiset sparuirewiadikoleoegni4reos her ii: minute umteosatnacloyms analysis had t h e work; and Mr. Albert Smith, the adapter, us- ?I to ihe good taste loeftethseuerleoeYtsssin.opened for the se ourW We noticehave as close followlf each original and the good sense to keep aspossible. The successive se enes . best other t o i f ol en t sh ofe in the same order as in the book • an 8 11 t h e t descry dialogue. Dickens—such for instance, 01;13iirera.di jxigte;veenn, is preserved, while the Val ° . deo of as his deseriPire in. calaterawmovaennynei nr t o e trhlei possible.diao g h uA e e r l bo e ef l r b tth o ew Smith p iece in he h r e clr e m 0 5 I s .4a r n c e t I s °f is tbe 1 3 1 — . . ons tie adaptation pters, for he has to admirably " built" this 1 " one of the- Battle of Life that t° i g ht ignorant of the existence of Dickens's' Boa' it :ited consj idle . well seem an original and an admirably drama.._r The following is the cast:--Doctor Jeteigb Murray_ Frank Matthews; Alfred Heathfield, gr'sfichsel his first appearance at this theatrek; .4;dows; Warden, ( Mr. F. Vining; Mr. Snit hley Mr. " i i,, e leit I G l r r a . e C e r. aggsllr. Turner • Ben.'amineßrit'sin,_Mi% P. 14105. J odie', L „,, May m (her first Jeddler , a pMpeiasraaEnclie'eantEgthjailsyt;heMatarrei)°;ll gra. S ia s it s c r ri t ; j a, rs. Woollidge; Mrs. Craggs, Miss Grove; Aun t Te ee lei• Miss Foster ; Clemency Newcome, "Bill* 'l, t he The Dr. Jeddler of Mr. Frank Matthews is searc e t J er of Dr. D Jeddler of the author. In drawing the char t° i n to Dr. Jeddler, Dickens has xhibited a greater epths of character, as e ' lo s i gllC is the d perhaps, any character that he has hitherto dra.:id e by, ,N modified by . Pickwick, his Weller, his Squeers, his Ralph I "Far loYe • ~1. ; .' h" Fagin, his Quilp, his Chester, and his recksnlisori,,,• :1/4 been representatives of genera, of classes •—hl, if'. l o ° fa , ‘1,4:', 4 an small ' VI ividual; or it a representative,the re presell tat ; w hiX 1, " any one at all acquainted with the social life of r e ho le -,' rural districts will at once understand. He i : / , ; l e and • ' a h nd hearty and healthy man • and, like sll bp le *arty and healthy men, he ' has a warm an d 5 heart—the ncracieso Mens sana in corpore sano, and wherever there is the corpus sanUin , a t Dr. (loth the mens sana take up its habitation; i.s . bee p Jeddler, relegated to a remote country vi . l . lig__ , _ ° so b 0 ,' compelled to associate either with chila l :7 , are i n tel- Grace, Marion, and Alfred, or with men 7 1 Cragg a ' lectually his inferiors—to wit Snitchy u . I :_ ll . he gad! Therefore hath he sought refuge from ena bi l o i e " ep ` hy . 111 of books, and, above all, in books; ° i f Pthe theory.-- there be sure these books he has met w' t v t b a t he adoßts that the world is a farce. Is it surprisemagtes 4 to Bocc e " in the theory? The world, as far as /, i t r ba d a n sorrows-- life, has gone well with him. He ..415 no trials. He has seen none about h ham sorrows alf and trials, save, and except, suc h s can sha ke ° sham trials as a mens sana al corpore sari o that he becomes and laugh at. What wonder then . ,_ dsu oter but when tits a Democritus—a Voltaire, come up bun leaves him, when real trials and real sorrows . oils a te . suffering sorrow! him, then is Dr. Jeddler an altered man ; a d g h e ro] , ration ought to be marked by the actor, an d . 0 _, A brie F. Mathews failed. In the earlier scenes he sh o Why made of Dr. Jeddler a Voltaire, with a spice of wog of mie, his bonhommie breaking through the PL 4 , 13 itt false philosophy ever and anon, as °l l i' thia spite of himself. In the last scene a a t he should have been completely reversed, se. beet renunciation of the false philosophy should ba", 11 11)4,, made all the more heartily, and the mere path s et of and the more intensely, because it was the conge`i t sd the heart over the head, and because, albeit, the herd had ruled for years, yet it had not ruled with Lindley sway, the heart having ever and anon protested 02, 0 e s „ g b e e w r mently against its rule. Instead of this Mr. F. al lt a ta se• made the Doctor the regular conventional stage °" - tv erds He utter, d his sneers at the world, because the ;1 , the were set down for him ; but there was no sneer : u sl manner or in the tone—on the contrary, the manna; viol the !one belied the words—and if a per son ige e Wo o the language had chanced to have seen him, o , ea tle have put him down as a jolly, comfortable, old;arid': man, who considered the world a very excellent, 0 jest: far too excedent to be made the subject e s r_ . ., na rtq The other characters were admirably . t u si r i f so: Had Dickens drawn the characters of 8r, 1 ., at O g g Clemency for Mr. and Mrs. Keely, he coula ite " bf fil o more admirably fitted them. Meadows 's 51 1 11:85 sl! e , t quite equal to his Gruff and Tackleton ; and ' .11 Mr., Daly • were a ll and Miss Mhy, as Grace and Marion, do i , it Dickens could have desired. The piece 104,, r isel er , put on the stage, and, at the conclusion, all r e r a claPt ba artists, including Mr. Albert Smith , t b e fore t were called f o r, an d ma d e th e ir appearsnee curtain. d S ay P r - st ;: a T r ß vt / es l r T furs :T i um I N E a i SPORTI N G t , sm u t a c gra: be ts c , r iy b : e n I l : ......"'" T E ____-- -- ' fA Li. , 6 . 17 CO. The eiliS tin° S t h s A h e iL o c N w L o ' r S n a . e — r y e ' Y. ' r ru I s r i :i 11 : r : . Y was an exception ;t heterdanum ber '' ,„-- a bo" : "¢" present, and the amount of business transarc,, leech% harm_ backedte s were fo l : cari t , b ta re ..ael e tino O e r t ohs 1 `,:r.";0 TO PIr f considerably exceeded the avera , e. at 15 de t c o id 2 ed a l n y d in 18 at t ur hundred pounds, Epirote at 14 and 1 0 ,r f o r th 4 ,"l„ n et four 18 and 20 to 1, and Glentilt at 25 to 1 COD . 0 , i ' -- 3 0 t r hundred pounds at the least. Of this select;,ooo to t and Epirote were most generally in deniac', Red 115 f„; was taken about Lansdale, 1,000 25 abOW 'gilt - to 00 ei at 900 to 20 twice about Co 1 000 to - . A bO Ilynghatr, t nn tWiCe. Ale, ten times about the Liberator, 1,000 to '-' rroJe',: 0 Montpensier, similar bets about Christopher' , 1 000 " 6 :0 e and Bingham, 2,000 to 30 about War Eagl e ' ' a nd 0 ' e r e planter, 5 ach other abet sbout in Bedl small am er amounts. and West I osi ndia The rice..... clng,Po9 : In most instances governed by these tranciftlo CHESTER CUP—(Name or not./ 50 offered on the field of. 50 agst Mr. Dawson's Crim Con—offered , an d sa• - 1250 to 25 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen--';,:',; 2000 to 30 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free -43' 1000 to 15 agst Mr. H. Hill's Punch—taken ken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Griffiths's Newcourt—ta 1000 to 15 apt Mr. Wall's Crown Prince--takee' TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAgrjh sto 1 offered on the field. DERBY. 15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van TrOcIP 14 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote 17 to 1 agst Mr. M ' r. ostyn s Planet , 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—takell n. 28 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sis. to Cobweb Co 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale--taken 33 to 1 ag ,,t Mr. Wracord's Old Port 3 5 to 1 33 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanotatake co 0 15 35 to 1 agst Mr. 11 Guy' s Allertonian i gait' to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Be" and afterwards offered. a g tO l 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mathematician a , t , 4- 40 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Martin Ow' 45 to 1 agst Sir Pigot's Conyngham --takell 50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator —taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—taken tiattil 50 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Montpens?,lBo 50 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Bingliam--"Li"-keo ,ori 50 to 1 apt Mr. W. Scott's Christophe--ts,'-,,taii d 1000 to 15 agst Lord Strathmore's Galvanic gin -~tea s 111 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle' t afterwards offered. 100 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam 100 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter' _ Ito 1 ast Mr. ost O nt " Slander. WO' 15 to 1 agst Sir J. Haw y ley's M iami—taken to t and 15 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Farmer' s Daughter ---ta o the Th m e e p ss r r e s m ß is o es nd i , n St. afterwards offered. 20 to 1 agst. Captain Harcourt's Ellendale--341(.e...,111ed Of have j been am e 3 Turf Club, al of which about seventy noblemen and gent] have co in a few days. members; the substchreiptrieontlen'ell ..,- target from the Ist of January. Mr. Hargrave's horses will leave Richmond for ~..40 'st-askterenetb,yformerly oTiycoroied will be to the Metropolitan Handicap, as we P redicted' 11l u 5001. An immense ent_r.j - 22 . L .......-IticiPated. --- - .r GOLDICUTT v. BE a G 114%, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUL:* our . 0 SlR,—The report of this case, contained into journal of the 18th, is inaccurate in one particular, ; Mr. Cockburn did not, as stated in your papery ti P P postpone the case on Thursday evenin, a g nor , were t he ffidavits read ; but there was much confusion S o the time, and your reporter may, have easily mistak.„ereli object of Mr. Cockburn's application, which 'To hiS to ascertain whether (it being then past four o clo c Lordship would take the case that evening or tist . bo ye 10 Requesting the favour of your insertingdient s the g et 006 y ou r next number, I am, Sir , y our very obe _, THOS. FRAS. JUSTICE , Defendant's trot 17, Bernera street, Dec. 21. 13 01e' Campagne) says a letter from Bask, The wife of ------------- an inhabitant of Armelinger ildreo in m the course of the present year. In the earl,' P., de , March she had twins, and a few days ago she wi c ipat re 5611 1 ~, •The twins a livered of three children. • woro but the last three children, who came into the tither before their time, bavo died. has had iiire Cbot of i 61 t' t 4 •