The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

THEATRE 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. Hoencastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-a-P*l2m Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer ; Grisette, Miss Retrl 4 SPlsaacs. After which will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, being a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes ; the new and ex tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Biamire ; the Ma cindery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin endenee of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE Or KALTBA, Tam ENCHANTRESS.—Date and lo cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other," near " somewhere or other " Kalyba (the Eschaatress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having quits miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horncastie ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. 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 Perseverance, 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. INTritioa or INFANT SClOOL.—Sehoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on tho occasion. Scene 2. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE.— 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 celebrated " Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Alndrew, 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 la public on the occasion—how his " cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to a ish hire many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALYBA'S Houss OF Coaas.cnols l—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. 11. Payne ; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney !) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapino, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brother 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 t Scene 5. Dovsa Roans.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS OF TIIE 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 Paella, 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" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND HALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, KING 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 forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families ofdis- Unction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &e. (vide Morning Papers). ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon ? " Or me he shall gorge ; I I, says St. George, l'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 S. THE DRAGON'S ITACNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLTY.— How the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarter's ;" bow St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then fall out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not Only eleya:es St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilling pieces" cf England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND HAL/. OF CDIVALRY.—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 eVRIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT- Ilut's SlD:W.—lmproved Surgical Instruments. " Holding the mirror up to nature." " Familes furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint ]lies to the Clown's head. Scene I I. CORNCHANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANARY.—More ways than one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best " Britannia Metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff " in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, 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 TAILOR'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. listiratoa or BRITISH AND FOREIGN TOY WAREHOUSE.— Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. Tax STATug AS IT Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. Tay STATUE AS IT Wes; or, Wellington at Waterloo. Look here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. tinder the Management of Mr. IL Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG. Sir Arthur Foljambe, 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. During the evening the Bond will perform the Overtures, "La Bayadere," " Italiana in Alerts," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lonaise. after which the new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Doll ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Air. Howe ; Szereup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Mimi Julia Bennett. _ THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert Smith, Esq., called TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha• *actere 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. I'. W. Collier ; Pantaloon, air. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. TH EATKE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS ITENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs.:Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Ilanlons, will ex hibit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. I'. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss 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 pwormed a Drama, in two acts, called BLANCHE DE YALMY. Iho characters will be supported by Messrs. Granby, H. Hughes, J. Vining, S. Cowell, Honner ; Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. H. Hughes. After which, a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNICH ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejamly,, Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn ; cornet Grosdos, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristlebach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Homier ; Seven Maids of Mu n i c h, Mi sses Sara Flower, Rourke , Z. HOnner, flincks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Arne, Clean Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flesmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Rill be performed L'ECOLE DES MARIS. S ganare ll o, M, Corti ; Valera, M. Langeval ; Ergaste, M. Lucian ; Artiste, Prue de Sganarelle, M. Dorgebret ; Un Commissaire, M. Masquil lier ; Un Notaire, M. l'agenier ; Isabelle, Mademoiselle Angela; )lsonor, Madame Fouquet ; Lisette, Mdlle. Khin. After which (for the last time), the Vaudeville, called LE CO MEDIES D'ETAMPES. Dorival, M. Perlet. To conclude with MONSIEUR PIQUE ASSIETTE. Pique- Aasiette, Monsieur Perlet. Boxes, 69. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, Is.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETIIIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. It is respectfully announced that this Inimitable Entertainment will be repeated TO-MORROW EVENING, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday ; and, in compliance with nu merous applications, they will give a GRAND MOR NING PEE BORMANCE THIS MORNING, commencing at half-past Two o'Clock. Boxes, Is.; Pit, 234 Amphitheatre, 2e. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, Prinee of Wales, and iloyal Family. Grand Christmas Holiday Fetes. THIS EVENING, a double rotation of Eqpestrian and Gymnastic Novelties. The " Demon Horse ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit." Herr Neuparte, the great Dutch Bottle Erg./ ;brist. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en tiled THE DEMON MORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Comic Fairy Pantomime, entitled THE FORTY TIIIEVES ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. tiox-oftice open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Staqe Manager, Mr. W. liroadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be perform e d an original Drama, entitled TILE 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 !icn, Herr Denlin; Pantaloon, H err R . D eul i n ; Columbine, Mdlle. Xtieodere ; Clown, Herr E. Deulin. VICTORIA Red uctiou et Bases,Prlcß es. Is„ Half-price, 6d THEATRE. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, id. ; l'ilvate Boxes, 24. Mr. N. T. Hicks as " The Black Doc tor. Greet success of the new allegorical Railway Pantomime. Will be perf or TIIIS EVENING med THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Mies Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee. Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed ,varcis, Bird. -Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which - will he produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en and', BIRTH E STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin titled ` ~ s, G o _a- Head," Joe Miller and hie Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantaloon, Sig () monde ; H arlequin, M. Lupin; Columbine, x c lli e . Adele La.".".„. DEATH or ANOTITER BRAVESOLDIER. At , aged 69 years 32 of Jed burgh, lately, died Ja.)rnes H . ill and sieges, beaides which ho spent in the 3-d Regiment of Foot. Re'sharei the dangers of eleven general battles j skirmishes without number. At I aropel . .un a he was the Ant to rise on the scaling ladder to surprise the enemy, RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS.LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends Ind the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c. take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Elall 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 orevious to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THE WEATHER—Stm OFFICE, DECEMBER 29. NERMOMETER, Lowest, 31; Highest, 36 ; Noon, 39, BAROMETER, 30.52 —WIND E., fine. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Iforning minute after —. Evening .. 17 minutes after 12. 7., IT ; r te . i . • "at, „01 4404) • „- - - •• •• • Ala tb.s,••••_ larECis grni LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1846 Knowing the confusion of parties consequent upoi the military disturbances in Portugal, we are in n' degree surprised at what would otherwise excite ow r astonishment, namely, the contradictory intelligent, continually arriving from that portion of the penin sula. Groups of insurgents are scattered over thq mountains, bands of guerillas infest the more sylvan, valleys, and regiments of the royalist troops ar quartered in the different towns and villages; beyonl it this, there is a perpetual movement in the dispositioi s and numbers of the popular army, as well as in th.! body of soldiery in the service of the SOVEREIGN. Much blundering is consequently inevitable in th.s information received from the theatre of this civi 1 war. As in every similar outbreak, the most impos sible rumours are prevalent, every moment has its particular report, and those individuals who, from their mercantile occupations are not actually implicated in the struggle, are alternately the originators of some extravagant fabrication or the credulous hearers of the equally extravagant fabrications of their neighbours. In addition to all these causes of uncertainty as to the infbrmation re ceived from Portugal, there is another—perhaps the most important of all—the detestable bondage of the press. When merely a single journal is permitted to. appear by the Government of a kingdom, and when that journal is as subservient to the interests of the degenerated Court of Lisbon as is the Diario do. Governo, it cannot be a matter of amazement that the intelligence contained therein is of a marvellously fragmentary and incredible character. If we discard all the improbable and opposite asser tions of the different Portuguese correspondents, we obtain the following lamentable picture of the condi tion of that country. Notwithstanding the numerous and sanguinary conflicts which have already occurred in that quarter of the peninsula, it would appear that matters are, if possible, farther than ever from any settlement. In spite of the vaunted dispersion of the " rebels " under the banners of SA Di BANDEIRA, the Court party are very far indeed from being triumphant. The accounts ob tained as recently as the 20th ultimo are to the effect that BOMFIM had combined his forces with those commanded by General MustiNuo D'AEBU • QUERQUE, and that, together with a detachment of the soldiers of DAs ANTAS, he had established himself in Caldas. According to the same packet SALDANIIA was hastening towards that stronghold. Oporto was still invested by CASAL, and the question of the suc cess of royalists and insurgents still quivered on the balance. A fortunate calculation of time or of num bers, an accidental selection of ground, or a chance concentration of troops on either side, may bring victory to DAS AsTas and his followers, or to SAL DANHA and his colleagues. Numerically the hostile armies are tolerably well matched, but they have each a number of distinct and very dissimilar advan tages. The soldiers of Queen MARIA are ensured ample rations and regular pay, they are periodically reinforced, their leaders are guided by a council concentrated in the metropolis. On the other hand, the soldiers of the popular party are animated by a contagious enthusiasm, they are recruited by the ardent worshippers of a beneficent legislation, they are inspired by the love of nationality, their cause is the cause of the people, and they themselves are a portion of that people. While the position of the armed belligerents in the provinces is thus precarious and complicated, the state of the metropolis is most embarrassing, and most unpropitious. Commerce is in the utmost torpor, trade is languishing, provisions are gradually rising in price, and the bank- notes are regarded with so much suspicion as to be at a discount of twenty-five per cent. It is utterly impossible that the citizens can continue much longer in this condi tion without some frantic effort being made by the Portuguese to re-establish a really constitutional monarchy, to remove their numerous political dis abilities, to ensure certain municipal reforms, to re invigorate the manufacturing and agricultural industry of the nation, and to restore to Portugal at least some shadow of her pristine glory and greatness- It would be indecorous and ungrateful for any maritime country like England not to regard the prosperity and happiness of Portugal as a thing to be peculiarly desired—Portugal, the mistress of naviga tion, the Carthage of the middle ages, the promoter of international communication, the fosterer of modern commerce ! What Tyre did by its purple dyes upon the borders of Palestine ; what Venice did upon the Adriatic under the rule of its Council of Ten ; what Genoa did upon the frontiers of Italy under the guidance of the immortal D0m..., and aided by the influence of hlr Golden Book, Por tugal did for Western Europe, and through 'Western Europe for the entire world, in the fifteenth century. The enterprise which was germinated at that period in the palace of Prince HENRY, in the harbour of Lisbon, in the hearts of her mariners, and the marts of her commerce, has entitled Portugal to the sterna: estimation of every free and prosperous people. Her troublous position at this moment is, in a par ticular manner, worthy of exciting our sym pathy. The sufferings to which she is now subjected are attributable more to the incapacity of her legislators, and to the undue inter ference of a foreign potentate, than to her own mercantile sluggishness and national degeneracy. Gifted with a fertilising climate and a generous soil, possessing vast internal and not contemptible colonial resources, with the experience of the woes of anarchy in the direction of Spain, of the feasibility of extrication from the most disastrous plights in the direction of Franc?, of the blessings consequent upon a judicious constitution, a gradual reform, and an indomitable industry in the direction of England— Portugal has every means of ensuring her own pros perity, and of keeping pace with the advancement of civilisation and the ;diffusion of knowledge. If ac companied by sagacity and confidence, her present misery may be only the forerunner of her future happiness, her civil commotions at this moment may be only the phenomena of some striking transition in her history, the odious rebellion of to-day may be xansformed into a glorious and commendable revo- ution. MARIA DA GLORIA has within reach the means of investing her name with an enviable im- mortality ; her people have within reach their own restoration to peace and greatness. No nation has accomplished so much in favour of the liberty of the subject as England. Her virtue in this respect has not been confined to empty profes sions, all her public institutions bearing evidence to the sacred value which is attached by Englishmen to the maintenance of the blessing of liberty. In France, highly civilised as she is, her citizens invoke, profess, and dilate upon the privileges of liberty with an im passioned fervour far exceeding, in enthusiasm, the spirit which would animate our own countrymen whilst deliberating upon or contending for the same object; and yet, both in the institutions of France and the actual working of them, there are contained guarantees for the subject's liberty far inferior to THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY_ MORNING, DECEMBER so, 1846. We insert in another column, a report copied from the Midland Counties Herald, of the proceedings at the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Birming ham Institution for the relief of Deafness. Birming ham is, we believe, the first provincial town in which an institution of this nature has been established, and it is highly gratifying to find that it has been the means of benefiting so many deaf persons, who, but for the benefits conferred upon them by this institu tion, must have been totally disqualified for those duties, by the due performance of which,they are alone enabled to earn " day by day their daily bread." It must be a proud and a gratifying reflection to Mr. DurroN, the talented surgeon of this institution, and to whom Birmingham is indebted for its existence, that he has been the means, under Providence, of saving so many of his fellow-creatures from poverty and utter destitution. Few provincial towns are so fortunate as to command the services of a DUFTON, but in every provincial town of any size, surely some surgeon is to be found capable of undertaking the management of an institution for the cure of deafness. Let every pro vincial town therefore follow the example of Birming ham and establish such an institution. The expense of establishing and maintaining it will not be great, while the benefits to_be derived from it will be incal culable. Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the 20th, and from Oporto to the 21st, by the Royal Tar steamer, which arrived yesterday afternoon at South ampton. Baron CASAL, at the head of 2,000 men, was at Matosinhas, three miles from Oporto. It was doubtful, however, whether he would venture to attack the city. SA DA BANDBIRA had 600 regu lars and 3,000 citizens under arms, and had completed the fortifications of the city, so that he is perfectly prepared to give CASAL a warm reception. A number of arrests had taken place in Oporto in consequence of the discovery of a Chartist conspiracy. Six hundred stand of arms and a quan tity of gunpowder were seized, and martial law was proclaimed. The Oporto Junta have seized all the gold and silver coin in the bank, amounting to 12,0001. The citizens are full of enthusiasm, and seem determined to support SA DA. BANDZIRA. to the utmost. SCHWALBACK, with 600 men, was dispatched to regain possession of Setubal, which was occupied by the guerillas under the command of Senor Josh ESTEVAO. True to the guerilla tactics, which are to harass and not to fi g ht, they retreated on the ap proach of SCHWALBACH, to re-appear most probably in some other district. The report of the defeat of LAPA. is confirmed. He has been compelled by Bowl:NI to fall back upon the main body of SAL DANHA'S army. The armies of DAS ANTAS and SAL DANIIA. still occupy the same positions. Bank notes are at a discount of 25 per cent. The Bordeaux mail arrived in Paris on Sunday morning, but it brought neither letters nor journals from Madrid. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Press t devotes no less than five columns to abuse of England and the English alliance. The Prince DE JOINVILLE left Paris on Christmas day for Havre, and embarked the next morning for Cherbourg. He was, however, obliged to put back, in consequence of the roughness of the weather. The Prince then proceeded to Honfleur, and from thence to Cherbourg, to inspect the experiments to be made with the new machinery of the Pomone. The Mooiteur publishes an account of the imports for the first eleven months of the year. The articles cleared at the Custom-house have given a sum of 141,643,385 f., being an advance on the corresponding period of the year before, which amounted to 139,311,73Gf. There has been an increase on almost every kind of article. A royal ordinance h published in the ilfoniteur, whereby the " bureau" of Eu is opened for the im portation and exportation of grain and flour. The Prefect of the Seine delivered his annual speech on Saturday, on the re-election of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, when he stated that, according to the census just obtained, the population of the capital, which was 935,261 in 1841, now amounted to 1,053,907. The Constitutionnel has the following on Spanish affairs— " The Spanish Ministry has already met to draw up the Queen's speech at the opening of the session. It has also been occupied with the choioe of Ministerial candi- t hose which are enjoined and enforced by the modus perandi of the British Constitution. Still, notwith ! tunding the extent to which the principle of til+erty, vital to any nation ambitious of com bining happiness with greatness, is practically enjoyed in this country, and far beyond what runs been realised by any other, the serious infringe ment which is constantly being made upon this highly prized and popular prerogative is matter of astonish ment. This must, no doubt, be in a great measure Attributed, not to any feeling of public indifference, ibut to the general ignorance which frequently pre 'veils as to the vicious or defective administration of zany particular branch of our laws affecting the liberty ,of the subject. This ignorance, again, arises from -the fact, that those who, for the most part, suffer from unjustifiable or unreasonable restraints on their personal freedom, belong to a class who, by reason of their poverty and their want of informa tion as to the means of redress, are the most exposed to imposition and oppression. Our system of police, in its operation, affords very grave and repeated instances of the truth of the fore going observations. The protection secured to the public with respect to property, liberty, and life, by a well-regulated police force, cannot be too highly ap preciated. For these purposes great powers are neces sarily conferred upon the police authorities ; but, at the same time, it behoves the public to be excessively vigilant that these powers be not abused. We have been much struck by considering the excessive punish ment which, by the present system of police ad ministration, is entailed upon a man who happens to get inebriated on a Saturday night, and placed in the custody of the police. It may be that, for the first time in his life, he has suffered himself to be so far overcome with liquor as to have become incapable of taking care of himself. lie may be a man of good reputation, though poor, of honest, indus trious, and hard working habits. He may be married, having a wife and large family. If such a man should be taken into custody, owing to his being under the influence of intoxication, on a Friday night, he would be released by the magis trate early the following morning, after receiving a proper admonition (provided it be his first delin quency), or paying a fine of five shillings; but if the same individual should chance, for the same reason, to fall into the hands of the police on a Saturday night, he may be kept in confinement, in a narrow and comfortless cell, till the magistrate takes his seat on Monday morning, his incarceration having been extended over a period of time, varying, according to the hour when he was taken, from 36 to 40 hours. This is not as it should be. The remedy is simple and obvious, and should be promptly adopted, from a regard to the liberty of the subject, and the harsh ness and injustice of excessive and disproportionate punishment. For the above and similar light offences, the magistrate should be directed to attend his office on the Sunday mornings. lie might sit early, say from half-past eight or nine o'clock till half-past ten, so as not to be himself disabled from attending divine ser vice. If it be said that this would be breaking in upon the Sabbath, we answer, first, that many of those who officially serve the ends of Government, which is alone constituted for the public advantage, have to continue the discharge of their functions on the seventh as well as the preceding days; and, secondly, that the duties they would be called upon to perform, would be all on the side of morality, benevolence, mercy, and religion. The magistrate would have the satisfaction and delight—for such it ought to be es teemed—of releasing from a tedious and painful im prisonment many a poor and worthy man, who, for the first time, perhaps, during a protracted life, had been unguardedly led into temptation. Ile would restore him to the bosom of a distressed family, whom the discharged prisoner might be disposed to accompany the same day to a place of worship, and thereby afford the best evidence of his repentant sense of the error he might have thoughtlessly com mitted. We hope this subject will meet with the at tention of the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and the above, or some other equally effi cient system, be speedily embraced for remedying the serious grievance to which we have adverted , All the journals, with the exception of the Russian Presse, express their approval of the spirit exhibited by all the London papers, without exception, in peotesting against the usurpations of the Northern Powers. The National, in an exceedingly well written article, proves that the great culprit is the Emperor NICHOLAS, and that Austria and Prussia are merely his vassal states. The article in the National, after stating that NICHOLAS represents the barbarous idea of brute force, which he wishes to reign paramount in the west of Europe, thus con cludes :—" He is Emperor, he commands brute legions, he holds in his hands the life or the death of 50,000,000 of human beings ; the unity of empire is in his person, he is at once legislator, judge, executioner, and pontiff. He believes he has a mission, he has given himself one at all events—it is to regenerate by an infusion of Cossack blood the civilisation of the west, grown luxurious and corrupt. It is with him then, above all, that we must come to a strict ac • count, and if this barbarian power is not checked in its progress our own generation will perhaps find itself compelled to make the choice which NAPOLEON prophecial at St. Helena it would one day be the fate of Europe to • make—to become Republican or Cos sack." The Council-General of the Bank of France has ust affixed its dividend for the second half-year of [646 at 79f. The French Three per Cents. were exceedingl firm on Sunday in the Passage de l'Opera, at 80 90c. buyers. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 28. Boulogne and Amiens, 15%—Great Indian Peninsular, % Jamaica South Midland Junction, VA—Luxembourg, % Namur and Liege, 3 1 4—Northern of France Constituted, 1034—Orleans and Vierzon, 14 1 4—Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 8 1 / 2 —Paris and Orleans, 49 1 / 2 —Sambre and Meuse, 4 1 / 2 —West Flanders, 3. TREATMENT ofJE WS in HANOVER IN 1846. An act of barbarity has recently been perpetrated in Germany against a Jew, which, to a certain extent, is unparalleled in modern history. We call it unparalleled, because it did not proceed from a frantic mob, but from a deliberate Government—because it did not originate in a heated populace, but was executed under corer of the law. We abridge the melancholy particulars from Der Jude:— " Shulm Moses, a Jew about fifty years of age, was a native of Germany, but his father having died in his infancy, and he himself having with his mother (who married a second time) led a wandering life for many years, he could never ascertain his birth-place. He subsequently settled in the kingdom of Hanover, married, and became the father of three children. Having in the spring of last year come under judicial examination, he could not prove his country, and thus became, as it is termed in the German law, homeless. Shulm, after a fortnight's imprisonment, was released, receiving orders to leave the country, and under penalty of corporeal punishment, never more to enter it. No regard was paid to his representation that having been settled in the country for nearly half a century, and not knowing his native country, the neighbouring Governments would send him to the states when ce h e came , v i z., H anover. He was first sent into the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the authorities of which immediately sent him back to Hanover. Having thns, though involuntarily, returned into the country, the penalty of corporeal punishment was inflicted, and he himself then sent into the neigh. bouring duchy of Brunswick. The authorities returned him again into Hanover, and the poor wretch underwent a second time the degrading punishment for an involun tary act. Upon this he was sent i n t o P russ i a, b ut again returned, and was again punished. It was a heart rending scene to behold the miserable Shulm in the midst of the winter, on foot, laden with the few things he still possessed, hunted about by the authorities from place to place, and followed on foot by hi s w if e , w i t h a babe at her breast, and two little children, one of five and the other of four years old. At last, when no coun t ry would receive him, he was kept in custody at Hoya, in Hanover. It was in vain that a humane lawy er , Opper man, applied for him to the Diet of Frankfort : he re ceived no answer, and equally unsuccessful at first was the application of Shulm to Gover nment f or means to enable him to go to America. His benefactor then opened a subscription, when the public showed itself more humane than the Government. Th e l atter, however, at last came forward, and the miserable wretch was enabled to embark at Bremen for Am er i ca . Throughout the whole transaction it is not the people of Hanover, but the Government, that has behaved most inhumanly." —The Voice of Jacob. STORM AT GENOA.—A. letter from Genoa states, ;hat on the 12th instant a violent storm suddenly rose in that neighbourhood, and caused considerable damage. About four in the afternoon the commandant of the port, perceiving the mercury to fall sudd en l y , an d t h e w i nd to change from north to south-west, sent word to the various vessels to make all snug for a storm. Scarcely had the intimation been given, when the tempest com menced, and raged for some time with dreadful fury. The waves broke over the two moles and the quays, and even sent their spray into the neighbouring streets. The vessels lying in the harbour were driven violently against each other, and in several cases injured. Three were driven from their moorings and lost. One was a Greek merchant brig, which was dashed against the coast, and in five minutes was in pieces. The other two were Sardinian craft, one a three -master and the other a brig. The crews of the three vessels were saved, with the exception of the three men belonging to the Greek brig. Prince de Carignan, who exercises at Genoa the functions of admiral, was busied for some hours on the quays organising means of conveying help. Thirteen men perished at Genoa, and the accounts from the coast are terrible. The Dante steamer was at one time in great danger, but fortunately escaped. WOOLWICII.—SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN WOOL wicrt DOCKYARD.—Between seven and eight o'clock on the evening of Christmas-day, one of the police con stables on duty in the dockyard, when near the great chimney of the foundry, thought he perceived a spark ascend from a place where about 300 tons of coals were stored for the use of the foundry and boiler-makers' department. On proceeding to the spot, to ascertain whether there was any fire or not, he discovered that a large quantity of the coals were in a state of combustion, and from the quantity converted into coke it was evident they had been burning some time. An immediate alarm was given, and the crews of the vessels in the basin and harbour were brought on shore to assist in quenching the burning coals. A number of convicts were also brought on shore from the Warrior hulk, and continued at work until three o'clock on Saturday morn ing in removing the coals from the place where the fire originated. It is not known by what means the com bustion began, but it was evident that it must have been spontaneous. Some imagine the fire took place from the coals having been placed on the wooden blocks of the floor of the shed when in a damp state, and became heated; others are of opinion that the spontaneous com bustion originated from the water of the coals passing betwixt the blocks to the concrete, as that substance was quite hot, and the outer sides of the wood deeply charred, as if the fire had ascended from the concrete betwixt the blocks. A full report of the circumstances has been forwarded to the Admiralty, to be investigated. STOPPAGE OP DISTILLERIES AND BREWERIES IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Belfast was held in the Town Hall, on Thursday, to consider the propriety of memorialising Government to suspend the use of grain in distilleries and breweries while the exist ing scarcity of food continues in the country, when the following resolutions were agreed to : " That the present high price of provisions, and the amount of distress prevailing in this country, require every attention to the economising of food, and that for this purpose measures of an extreme nature should be adopted." "That with this view the meeting is of opinion that all distillation from grain in these kingdoms should be forthwith suspended." " That it is the opinion of this meeting that brewing from grain in these kingdoms should also forthwith be suspended." It was then agreed that a memorial should be presented to the Lord Lieutenant, and a deputation appointed to wait on the Irish Government, and urge the necessity of the immediate adoption of the measure. AMUSEMENT AND GENEROSITY.— On Wednesday Lerd Eglinton, with a rink of Kilwinning curlers, played on Craufurdland Loch, against Reginald H. Crau turd, younger of Craufurdland, and an equal number of Fenwick men, for two loads of meal and a cart of coals, to he given to the p ,or of the winner; parish. After a keenly contested game, victory declared for the Fenwick Evening Post. dates for the functions of President of the two Chambers. There appears a sort of wish to deprive the Marquis de Miraflores of his post as President of the Senate, as he has been reproached with entering into relations with some Members of the Opposition. In the Chamber of Deputies it appears certain that M. Bravo Murillo will be put forward for the Presidentship ; an opponent will, however, be found in the ranks of the Ministerial party, as the Deputies devoted to Narvaez intend giving their support to M. Castro y Orozco, who can also reckon on the votes of a certain number of personal friends. The candidate of the ' Puritans' will be M. Pacheco; and of the Progressists General Evariste San Miguel. The feeling of rivalry which exists between M.. Murillo and M. Castro y Orozco is an additional proof of the want of accord which exists in the Spanish Cabinet, and which must lead to a speedy modification of it. The Ministry had for a moment adopted the idea of refusing a passport to M. Olozaga, to prevent his taking his seat in the Cortex, but it gave way before the scandal which it was feared such a step would cause. Another plan was devised, which was to sound some of the Deputies who were in favour of the exclusion of M. Olozaga, and get them to promise to bring forward a proposition to that effect, when the electoral returns were being verified. The Ministry hoped in this way to get the man excluded without causing his direct proscription. The result of the elections put a stop to this plan. The Progressists expected, at most, to obtain forty votes in the new Chamber, and the Ministry did not think their number would be even so great. The electors, however, have sent about one hundred Opposition Members, and in addition all the eminent speakers of the Progressis' party have been returned. The proposition to exclude M. Olosaga would, therefore, give rise to a long discus sion, in which the Ministerial orators would not have the best of it. The Ministry would undoubtedly obtain the majority, but all the scandal of an arbitrary measure would rest with it. It is, therefore, probable that the Ministry will not call forth a debate which would turn to its own confusion." There have been but a very few bargains made in the Foreign Funds this morning The Peruvian Six per Cents. have been sold at 40 ; the Portuguese Four per Cents. at 381; Spanish Consols at 261; the Dutch Two and•a-Half per Cents. at 604 ; and the Four per Cents. at 931. The - market for the Shares and Railway Scrips has been heavy to day. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .205 206 206 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann 5........ 94% 94 94 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities...... 95% 96 95% 95 5 , Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 7 / 8 9 15-16 India Bonds, 1,0001 — Ditto under 1,0001... .... 16 p 16 p Consols for Opening ' 94 93 3 % 93 3 / 4 Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1%d.... 12 8 11 p 11 p Ditto, 500/ Ditto. Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES Brazilian Bonds Granada Bonds, 1 per Ceat. — 19% Ditto, Deferred .— 3 5 / 8 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — 24 1 4 Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4O 40 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Russian Bonds ...... 111 111 1 ,4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditt• 3 per Cent. ...... 3$ Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 1 4 93 1 4 PRICES OF BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Abe:doen Amber., Lott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... 3 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush — Belfast & County Down 4% — Birmingham and Dudley 425. 6 1 / 4 p.. . Birmin. and Gleucester..loo Ditto New Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2% — . Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. 2 1 / 4 .-- Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares 2 l /4 2 l / 4% Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 27 1 / 4 254, Claurnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clarence lOO Do. let Class, 6 per Ct 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Cork and Killarney 21/ s Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 / 4 Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 1 / 4 — Direct Lincoln, East Ret- ••• 6 % P ford,and Shoffd. June. 2 5 / ,', Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12 1 ./ Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 165.... .. . 23% Ditto New l2l 165 Ditto Perpetual, 5 par Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2... GI. 13s. 4d... %',4 p Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3.? ) , EastDereh'm andtior'eh 1 Eastern Union Ditto Quarter Shares 10 Do. Exten.(Harwich) 174 — ......... ..... Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% — East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... Do., do., New Scrip l l4 ..... ... ... ......... •• East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1X...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 •••••• ...•••.••••• " Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 1214 ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% — ............••• Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% — Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 ; ...... Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2% ...... Glasgow,Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 •••••• Ditto New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per , cent. guar.) ... Got , le ' Doncaster,_&c. Great Eastern &Western 2%.••••• ........ ... .. Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great Munster ... 2% ...... ...... Great North of Scotland 2%...... GreatNorthof England-100 Ditto New Ditto, New . ••• -- Ditto, New Great Western B5 129 Ditto % Shares ...... . 50 Ditto 1 4 Shares.... 10 Ditto Fifths ............ 20 Ditto, New .......... ... 2 Huddersfield & Mooches. 13 Ditto, Extension ...... 3 Hull and 5e1by............ 50 Do. Half Shares 25 Ditto 1 4 Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 ~.... Do., do., a n d N orw i ch 5 LAncaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New •••• ••• Leeds and B ra df or d 3O Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22 1 % Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% — •••••• Do.Extension(Green) 2 1 ,2..... Leeds and Thirsk 17%...... 16%..... ...... ... Ditto, New 5 ........ •••••• Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — Do., Mactistr & New castle Junction 2 l/4 `"AZ : 3Oii ..... L )ndon and BlackTraU. 16/. 133. 4d 8% MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were abont 14,000 bales, including 8,000 on speculatioe. The mar ket was more active, and *d. per lb. higher th an on Friday last. American sold at 50. to 7*(l, and Surat at 4id. to 50. per lb. Shares were higher generally. Although the market generally was not so strong, yet a.good business was done at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares to-day, at steady prices ; and buyers came forward with spirit for the bitter descrip tions of stock. The following are a few of the prin. cipal sales : East Indian ... South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 7 6 Great Luxembourg ... Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia 0 4 6 Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 12 6 Manchester and Southampton, 1847 1 12 6 Newport and Abergavenny Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 10 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Shropshire Union and Canal (scrip) 1 17 0 Shrewsbury and Hereford London and Manchester (Remington's) 0 9 6 Madrid and Valentia The formation of railways in the colonies, as is well known, is a very different affair to the same course here, the scattered population being one obstacle, and the cheapness of land an advantage which partly counter balances this. A most interesting meeting, which will serve to illustrate the singular points of difference be tween railway construction here and in the colonies, had been held in Port Phillip, according to advices received to-day. The committee appointed report that— " Although railroads in Great Britain and on the Con tinent of Europe are intended merely to afford the means of cheap and rapid conveyance of goods and pas sengers between the great centres of population in thickly peopled countries, it appears to your committee that they are not only applicable to the circumstances of a new and unsettled country like the western district of Port Phillip, but capable of being made available, in the highest degree, for the settlement of such a country, with an industrious population ; for as the land in this district is almost exclusively the pro perty of the Crown, and by the Crown Land's Act of this colony, shall not be sold for less than a certain minimum price per acre, provides that one-half of the proceeds of the sale shall be appropriated towards immigration while the other may be appropriated in any way to render the land available for its future possessors, it appears to your committee that the construction of a railway in this portion of the territory, with a portion of the funds to be derived progressively from the sale of such land, will prove conducive, in a remarkable degree, to the speedy settlement of this most promising district, with an industrious and comparatively virtuous population. " With respect to the cost of a railway in every respect suitable for this country,yourcommittee are of opinion that the indigenous timber of the country, which is easily procurable, of the first quality, along the whole line is admirably adapted for the purpose, without the addition of iron rails, and they have ascertained that a railway of such materials, suited to the wants of the population (i. e., consisting, in the first instance, of a single line of rails) could be laid down at a cost of 1,000/. per mile. There is a wooden railway of this kind on Tasman's Peninsula, in Van Dieman's Land, which your committee are credibly informed answers the pur poses of its construction perfectly. " The sub-committee appointed to report on the sub ject of revenue have had great difficulty in arriving at a correct estimate of the revenue to be derived from the amount of traffic along the line, because there is no established mode of transport in the district, every settler at present being obliged to cart his own goods, a system universally admitted to be most expensive. They have ascertained, however, from official returns, that the quantity of general stores landed at Geelong last year, amounted to 5,100 tons ; two thirds of this goes into the interior, and it may fairly be presumed, therefore, that 2,000 tons will go along the railway. The quantity of wool shipped from Geelong, exclusive of what may have come from Melbourne, for the last year, was 8,122 bales, one half of which wonld come along the line, to which may be added 2,000 bales taken to Portland, and 1,000 to Port Fairey." The revenue of Port Phillip, according to the advices received this morning, has reached over 95,000/., but a very considerable amount is to be devoted to the Sydney district. Business was good at Port Philip. Consols for the Account have been flat this morning— the prices having receded from 94 to 934 ; the Three and-a•Quarter per Cents. have ranged trom 96 to 95i ; the Three per Cents. Reduced from 941 to 94 ; and Ex chequer-bills Bs. to 12s. premium ; Bank Stock is firm, at 206. ' Do. New Ditto Extension London, Brighton, and - South Coast ...... ...-. 50 .. .. 58% Ditto, Fifths Do. Consol. Eighths.. 10 - ••• • De. Gnarant. 5 per ct. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 196 Do. Quarters ... 2 Do~ do., New Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 Do. 4 Shares (G. J.) 5 Do 40/. Shares (L.M.) Do. 40/. M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 Do. 10/. a & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham ... 1%.• ... Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 63 De. New ConsoL Bths 40 — Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ....... .... 4 London and York 21,(, 2 % 34 reg..., Do. Extension 2% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...... ... ........ 2%...... — , Londonderry& Coleraine 15 — Londonderry and Ennis killen Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds 82 Ditto 1 4 Shares . ... 38 Do. Quarters Do. Fifths ....... - 6 . . 11% Do. Sixteenths 64 — Do. Extension 42s. l% p.... .., Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 Do. do. Fifths 1 — Man. hester,Buxton,and Matlock 423....... 1 1 4 p Manchest. & Southampt. 2 Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derbyloo lO5 Midland Great Western Irish l5 — Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle andCarlisle...loo Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 Newport &Abergavenny 2%...... ••• Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor 5 — Norfolk ......... ......... -.100 - •••• ..• ..•, Ditto Half Shares .. 9 Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk... Do. do. Waveney Val. — Northern Counties Union 2% - North British Do. Half Shares • ••• Do. Quarters Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 ... .. 3% Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New North Staffordshire 5 ----• 91 / 2 1 4 North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting North Western. 211,4 — ... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham..„ Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre 25 Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate ~ 31. 12s. — dis. Richmond Royston and Hitchen ... 1% — Scottish Central Scottish Midland 12% — „ ._ Sheffield & Manchester 100 .• ... .. Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 4 — Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 Do. do. Extension 425. Shrewsbury and firm... 3 .... Ditto ditto, Class B. 1 1 4 — Shropshire Union South Devon... 4O South S taffordshi re June. 2 1 / 2 — South Eastern & Dover. 33% 4O Do., No. 1 20 Do., Nc , 2. Do., No, 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction -. 425. — Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — South Wales Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 Taw Yale Extension -. 3 Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract. & Goole 22% ••• Waterford and Kilkenny 11 • .... .. Waterford and Limerick 27% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wexford, W aterford, and Valentia Waveney Valley ... 2 Welsh Midland West Riding Union 42s. West Cornwall Wexford and Carlow Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York and Newcastle. . .. 25 — Ditto New 5 124% .. ...... Do. Preference ...... 2 7%% York and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares ..... ... 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension 2O •• ..... ••• Ditto, Preference „.... 2 Do. East and West Rid- • ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes 1 Belgian Eastern Junctn. 21 % Boulogne and Amiens... 18 ...... Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulou.se, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 .... . Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... .. ....... , Central of Spain ... ~ Ceylon .. ..- ss. Demerara 2% ... . Dendre Valley .. .. 4 Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular 5s Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... .. Jaraaica S.Mid. Junction 1 • . ...... -...••. Jersey ...... .. . Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... . ••"'" ....... Luxembourg. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 ..... Madras 1 111 Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % — ..... . ....... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn of France Constituted 5 .. ... 11 ............... North Jamaica... ...... Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 .....____ _ 4/ 3s 4d ..... ; --- ....... ...... Over Yssel Faris ' stituted 8 .. I .... -- 20 ...... 49 Parrs Paris and Strasbourg a ri s and Bc a n i' d Y ß O " o r l s e u C e a n n i i s Constituted Rouen and Hayre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ...... 10 .... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tours and Nantes Con stituted ... ...... ...... 5 Tourna •• y, Jurbiso, Lan den, and Hasseit....... 8 Trinidad ................... 2 1 , 1 West Flanders ...... .... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. EIMATUM.—In yesterday's List, read North British, Hal Shares, 15% 1 ,,, instead of 13%14. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) imsterciain ...... C.F. 12 4 Gibraltar.. ........ Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Leghorn Rotterdam .... • . U. 12 4% Genoa • • Antwerp..,,,,,,,,.... 25 85 Milan . Llamburgh M.B. 13 10% Venice.. tona .............. Naples ............. . 4014 Paris, 3 days' sight .. . • 25 55 Palermo, per oz . 120% Ditto, 3 months .. 85 Lisbon.... •• . . Marseilles ....... 25 90 Oporto . 80urdeau.x......... • • 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine.... 121 B a hi a . Petersburgh, 3 Us.. •• Buenos Ayres Berltn .... .• • • New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec.fio.... • • 10 5 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto. • . 10 5 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Madrid .............. 35% Foreign Gold in bars...C3 17 9 Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 36 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 10% Barcelona Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Seville.. ••.• • . • ...... . Silver in bars •.•• 0 5 0% At about six o'clock on Saturday morning flames were seen issuing from the Paris station of the northern railroad, and considerable alarm prevailed in the neigh bourhood. The fire, however, was confined to a small out-building, and, with the assistance of the firemen and the military of the neighbouring barracks who were rapidly on the spot, it was extinguished before much damage had been done. Nov EL IMPORTATION.—The American line-of packet ship Hendrick Hudson, arrived from New York, has brought, in addition to a very extensive and varied cargo of provisions of every description, the production of the United States of America, thirty barrels of pork suet. We are not aware that an importation of the article so named has before taken place from the United States, or any other foreign country, and therefore the mention of it will not be unimportant or devoid of in terest in the present instance. % P 3% 2% 21 1 / 2 - 144 2 1-/ 164 514 2% 8% .% P 741/8 par 29 2% 2514 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace of tbr Castle and slopes. The Royal family took their accustomed walking pony exercise. 5S 34 19 15! I/2 p P 1:34 L3O 6 054 347 k 11 4 35 1 155,.7 3g 30 9' His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein and Sir George Grey, and attended by the Earl of Listowel and Colonel Bouverie, enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. Lord Edward Howard is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day. on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner pnrty at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lord Edward Howard, Sir George Grey, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Capt. Francis Seymour. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Ifighness the Duchess of Gloucester, yester day, at Gloucester House. Mr. Samuel Palmer, of Great Yarmouth, had an in terview, yesterday, with the Right Hon. Thom" M. Gib son, at the Board of Trsde. Dispatches were r ece i ve d yesterday, at the Colonial . office, from the Governo rs o f Hong-Kong and Gibraltar. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial office, for the Gov e rnor of the Mauritius. The Earl o f Elgin, Governor-General of Canada, and the Countess of Elgin, arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Belgrave-street, yesterday, from Lauabton Castle. IRELAND. DESTITUTION IN DONEGAL. DUBLIN, DEC. 27.—1 n this extensive northern county there are no manufactures worth naming, and pauperism is as ge nera l as i n some of the worst c ircumstance d districts of the south and west. On many of the largo estate.- farms are minutely subdivided, so that • large porti on o f t h e occupiers are mere cottiers• holding from one to five acres. It is upo ern,hl lass that the destruction of the potato crop has o pera most severely. They have lost their usual means of sub sistence—their little oat crops have either been sold to pay the rent, or eaten by their families to stave off sta r " there are few resident gentlemen to form - ration, and they are in consequence utterly destitute, al mittees, or otherwise to promote measures for relief an employment. re 656 Belfast Vindicator contains the follovving. district 111 that sentations respecting the condition of one county:— olio ~ The memorial which we subjoin, from the Cath a relief comii and Protestant clergy of the ari of Inisnaaesaint, in the barony could scarcely credit, were it not so respectably shoat ticated. Distress was so urgent, that a presentt_n,enr. of Tjrhugh, discloses a fact which one sessions was held in Donegal, for the barony of . 3g . laugh, on the 26th of last September, an d t T"' the were then voted, to give immediate emploYnl eD i e i li b e. e_n i parish of Inistnacsaint, yet not one shilling has met eorta& expended in that parish. We will let the speak for itself:— L . otiGno " ' TO MIS EXCELLENCY JOHN EARL OF li' - ' °l l LIEUTENANT-GENERA L AND GENERAL GO`.. - NUR Olt IRELAND. " ' The respectf u l M emor i a l o f t h e C a tholic and Pr°,:g testant Clergy, p ar i s h o f Inismacsaint , barony w• Tyrhugh, and county of Donegal, " ' Humbly showeth extent, prevails in this parish; that one-third, at least, , That distress, to the of the inhabitants have patiently subsisted, during 1 to last six weeks, on one meal a day, expecting dal y z poneY . r . be employed on public works ; and although Crates and associated cesspayers, an alarming to the amount of 2,8001., had been voted by the Mog i :, sessions, held in Donegal on the 26th of SePte alber the for the purpose of giving immediate employment tiso,erhka distressed of this parish ; yet, for want of the b e en having been put into operation, not one shilling has has been received by afforded in all the neighbouring parishes• at the presentngs.t " ' Your memorialists further state, that Milward, one of the officers employed in this co of the Board of Works, called here an the course of th t i: week; but his stay being short (owing, we stiPP" e ' lvas pressure of business in other parts of the county), t to only calculated to add discontent and disappoint.menase. Lieutenant the alarming distress that already prevailed, in co . quence of his not giving employment to more that sati of our poor parishioners. " ' Your memorialists, deeplycoa poor distressed flocks, and alarmed at the awfulherde sequences that must necessarily ensue from furt aur Ex. lay, beg le ave most respectfully to request y se public cellency to issue such instructions as willcau sympathising with our Parish, that will works to be put into operation be calculated to give em ploy d will distress ; and your memorialists, as in duty bound will ever pray. employment all who h are in B. KELLY, P.P., Inismaesaint, ' F. KELAGHAN, C.C., ditto, JOHN DUNBA.R, Minister of th e Perish. ti Dce. 12, 1846.' " ANSWER. " Dublin Castle, Dec. 17, 1846. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant tote quaint you, for the information of the parties s i g n l the memorial forwarded by you on the 12th instant, 0 11 the particular attention of the Board of Works has bee called to the state of the destitute in the parish of Ines' macsaint.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " T. N. REDINGTON. " Rev. B. Kelly, P,P., Ballyshannon.' " A reverend gentleman, writing to us from this parish, states—' The people here are in great distress. From almost ev( ry barony and parish of the count'', complaints against the neglects and delays of officials reach us. In the town and neighbourhood of Barael ; ton there are over seven hundred families in a stat e e; misery and destitution, and only one hundred an d eighteen individuals have as yet received employment 00 the public works !' Nine weeks ago presentment se.s sions were held i n l3 un crana, yet not one individual in that locality has obtained employment. The cense' quence is that in one week twelve deaths occurred, Vie' cipally from want of food ! To render this most una:e countable delay in the pu blic work, not only in Ennis howen but Tyrhugh, more intolerable, to those who ay suffering by them, the works in the - adjoining counti es are prosecuted with vigour." ploy - In the Barony of Tyrhugh, above referred to, e m O , ment will soon be come genera l, so far as the estate the Earl of Arran extends, that nobleman having re the the necessary arrangements for large advances from Board of Works under the Summary St the improvement of his property. Drainage Ac Lt. r mans, also in the same barony, is ab °et nonce Mr. kle milwn ' to iraPrietors operations under that Act. It the inn" — •t x , to ava il themselves of its provisions, the g o t generally had had the prudence and forethoug— h a ve peasantry been employed everywhere u d on pro uctive agricui Yiag works, and there would have been an iteltense Sa of expenditure for useless road making. THE GUN TRADE reds* There has b • b'evons been a good deal of most arse 1 fire representation on the subject hase °f of the pure the r e°s arms by the peasantry. It now appears from been c authentiinformation, that the purchases have rota made alm os t a l together by the gently and farineres,ti( tute an app re h ens i on of attempts at plunder by the 9 „ t her peasa n t ry. This " gun trade " is, in fact, 01 11 1 a-- evidence of the terrible condition of the ro°r* The Drogh e d a A rgus thus disp oses o f a re--n t 5 about the " sale of arms" in that town:-- n th e We e perceive that the Times has published, e mme nt authority of the Drogheda Conservative, a s ta. •" — t n, 5 that two cart-loads of fire-arms were sold by t ile ; A ° s the the fair in this town, on the 17th inst , and suc h n Thyitli avidity with which they were sought that ... ree- 51 0 . 1 sea-cely a coat to their back became purcbasen„., 33 s ez" are gross falsehoods. The whole quantitY hi be posed for sale was contained in a box which - th u cart lifted by one man. It was certainly placed an d th e the upon which the auctioner stood as a platform, fou r entire number sold did not, we believe, exceed ro; pieces, of which the purchasers were small Wi rth(' certainly not one was bought by any Fer3oll 0 pauper class, as th e C onservat i ve wou ld vilely . i n sintlate• " The ales made by the respectable hardware mer chants of Drogheda (three of w hom out of fo ur Conservatives), h ave b een to t h ose w h o have proper t y': defend, and to respectable persons for sporting purpose " We notice this matter because the natural case: five, of the foul calumny, published by the Concert's" five, would be to prevent all persons at a distance fr . o h contributing towards the removal of the destitution wil ie r . unfortunately prevails in Droghedaand the icebb°ll - hood around." EMPLOYMENT OF THE NAVY IN TIV PRO VISION TRADE. ffia l, The Northern Whig, a moderate and sensiblejetl— a thus earnestly urges the employment o f s hips of 01;1110 the conveyance of grain from America, to suPP l l ee ks great deficiency in the mercantile marine. S° Kne er since the Dublin Evening P os t an d th e M er cantile 4 — : t he tiser suggested a similar st e p, an d more recen t l y coinul en. committee of landlords have f o ll owe d u p the re dation : " If the suspension o f th e nav i ga ti on l aw s, in so far as_, the present emer genc y requ i res , s h ou ld no t be sufficiee u t t all the avail a bl e resources o f our navy oug ht to hej" in requisition. Already Government ships have en used for conveying provisions to several parts of Ireltnl and why should they not be used for carrying provisteur; from America, for instance, where the sen zie l;: e n greatest? It need not be required that they be gratis. Indeed that would not be thought of unless 111 8 8 Government were to become importers, which they bel l properly declined. Let a number of Government vess el s be made available to merchants, to be chartered at the ordinary rates; and in this way the treasury will sta i d iC ! nothing, but rather gain som e thing, whilst the pub 0' will be benefited by the more abundant importat ion . provisions. If the chief purpose of our great navy D. e ' to form a defence of our country, it will be legitimately m ost ter he - employed in aiding to protect us against t TWO rible enemy by which we have ever been assailed. other remedies are obvious, and have been repeatedly pressed upon the attention of the Government. TWO are—first, the opening of the por ts, and, second, the ad mission of foreign articles for t he use of distilleries and breweries. Other remedies will be suggested. The Government must, and will do all th e y can ; and, all having been done which men can do (if we will 01.2,q stand up, worthily, and not crouch and grovel, and whin' like spiritless creatures) we must make up our mi nds to stand or fall, as may be, but as becomes men; --we nia e not have it in our power to escape the scourge of fareiV but we may at least struggle manfully, and bear vit courage." 2;f i p 38 IA 12% 7% 82 1 4 The Archdeacons y of Derby has been conferred on the Rev. T. K. Hill, 8.D., Vicar of Chesterfield. The reverend gentleman has also been appointed chaplain the Right Rev. Walter Shirley, D.D., Bishop of Sod° !lad Nan, formerly Archdeacon Of Derv. - 4 die 264 45 1 4 NEW WORK BY G. W. FEATHERSTONHAUGU, ESQ. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and Plates, 283. bound, CANOE VOYAGE TO THE MINNAY SOTOR. With an Account of some Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin; and of the Gold Region in the Cherokee Country, &c. By G. W. FEATHERSTON/LAUGH, Esq., F.R.S., &C. Author of " Excursions in the Slave States." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)