The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Alber took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise on the eastern terrace and slopes. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness, de Speth, Lord and Lady John Russell, Hon. Miss Lister, and Captain Lord James Murray (Scots Fusilier Guards). The band of the Ist Life Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle. A deputation from the aggregate meeting of the direc tors of railroads in Ireland, consisting of Mr. Alderman Boyce. Mr. Perry, Mr. Kincear, Mr. Frith, Mr. Layard, Ir. Tyrrell, Mr. Currie, and Mr. Hemmings, had a long interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation was introduced by Mr. George Moffatt, M.P. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. _ _ The Marquis of Lansdowne, (Lord President,) lel town yesterday for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. SURREY THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l make no comment upon the grossly exagge rated statement which appeared in your p a per of last evening relative to the Surrey Theatre, but I feel it my duty to point out the palpabl e f a l se h oo d s w hi c h y our critic has put forth, and I do this that you may see what reliance you can place upon his veracity in the future. The paragraph states, first, " that considerable delay occurred before the rising of the curtain." This is not the fact, the performances commenced rather be fore than after the usual hour. Secondly—" At length the stage manager came forward to apologise for the ab sence of the principal performer of the first piece, a Mr. Hudson Kirby, who had promised to attend at the requisite hour. Upon the question being put as to whether the audience would wait, or have a substitution for the character (Damon, in the tragedy of Ddmon and Pythias), a general answer was given in favour of the former course, which was adopted, and after the lapse of some time the re quired personage made his appearance, apologised, and went througlio his part." Now, Sir, there is not one syl lable of truth in this scandalous statement. No apology was made or thought of for Mr. Hudson (a Mr. Hudson Kirby P.); that gentleman was at the theatre to the mi nute of his promise, and so satisfactorily performed his part throughout as to receive at its termination one of the loudest calls ever heard within the walls of the theatre. Lie upon lie follows in quick succession Yoer critic, correspondent, or whatever the person may he, evidently was not in the house at all. The stage manager did not go on the stage at half-past twelve o'clock, as stated in your paper, for it was only eleven o'clock when I received intelligence of the accident which had befallen Mr. Dough', and I immediately felt it my duty to communicate it in person to the audience. Fer the honour of the British public I am happy to state, that no other feeling was exhibited than thatef cornmisseration for my friend. The line about " more apolegiee" (none having been previously made), is perfectly gratuitous, but the climax is yet to come. The objectionable critig,e winds:up by saying that the pet formance conelwl, a a little bef re two o'clock in the morning. The thca . r..! was cleared by a little after twelve o'clock, an€l theentre perform :nos (with the exception of the change in the parts occasioned by the accident to Mr. Douglas) gave every satisfaction to a brilliant and crowded audience. Every lady and gentleman who had promised to perforiu did so, and it is with peculiar pride and gratitude I eta brace this public opportunity of thanking them for their friendly aid. As regards your correspondent, I hand him over to yourself, confident that you will never allow your columns to be prostituted to the purposes of false hood and malice, for whatever may be the merits or de— merits of the night in question, I alone am rei-,pensible them.—.l am, Sir, yours obediently, FOX COOPER. 17, Walcot place, Lambeth, Dec. 22, 1846. [The account alluded to was furnished by an occa sional reporter, who has been fri qucntly in the habit of supplying us with information. We will cause an inquiry to be instituted as to-his authority fl..r the statements made.] ILLUSTRATED TALE IN " THE MIRROR," Price Is. On January- 1, 1547, Chapters 1., 11., 111., and IV., of THE MISER'S WILL; Or, LOVE AND AVARICE. An English Tale. By PERCY B. ST. JOHN. The Mirror will continue to be Edited by Mr. St. John, assisted by several eminent writers, and will be Illustrated in the first style of art by Hine, Archer, and Walmsley. Now ready, Vol. 1., new series, price ss. 6d. 11. Hurst, 27, King William street, Strand. NEW WOLK BY THE REV. R. COBBOLD. EDICATED BY EXPRESS .PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Now ready, in 3 vols., with Illustrations, 31s. 6d., hound, THE HISTORY OF • MARY ANNE WELLINGTON, :THE SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER, WIFE, AND WIDOW. By the Rev. RICHARD COBBOLD, M.A. Author of " The History of Margaret Catchpole." " In these most interesting volume s we have the stirring scenes of a soldier's life, and the history of his daughter, wife, and widow, under the various difficulties of a situation calligg for the energies of a manly heart, and all the strength and relying love of a woman's unshrinking spirit. They are fill of incidents, narratives of extraor dinary events, perils, and preservations."—Bury Herald. Henry 6;lbuni . , Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. KAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY :HARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support anti patronage, and to annwince that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c. take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the [tall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully •equested to be addressed. _ _ _ All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orevious to their being offered ; and advices of results will be lorwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds 'same diately disposed of according to instmctions. 021 cce, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Last Night but One of Mademoiselle SOPIIIE FITOCO. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's celebrated Opera, entitled TIIE MAID CF ARTOIS. Marquis de Chateau Vieux, Mr. Durant ; Jules de Mentagnon, Mr. D, W. King; Sans Regret, Mr. Burdini ' • Synnelet, Mr. Weiss ; Miss Isaacs ; Isolinc, 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, Mad Nile Giubllei ; MM. Iluguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ILLY MARKET. tinier the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called TIIE 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 Wculds. After which an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Woologs and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashlcigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De "ere, Mr. Hull ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; T m Tilley, Mr. Bucksione ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evenfug the Band will perform the Overture " Cl et it de Bronze ;" " The Annen " (l'olka) ; Czarina" (3lazourka) ; ' Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture. To conclude with Bitekstone's Farce, entitled TILE IRISH LION. Principal characters by 31eigrs. Ji:•indal, Ti:bury ; Miss P. Ilorten, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Ettekin ham, Miss Woulds, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, I.TCEHM. Under the Mannement of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, foumled on tit?. New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheet.,) by Aibe smith, Esq.. c.illed TILE 1;11FLE OF LIFE. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray (his third appearance here),Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Kcetcy ; Mrs. WoollOge, Miss Daly, 3iiss May (her first appearance here), Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. Atter which, the laughable Farce of MRS. WRITE. Characters by Mr. Turner, Mr. Oxberry (his third appearance in this company), Mr. 11. Butler ; Miss Aden, Miss Vitiate, and Mrs. 11 igan. To conclude with the successful Comedy of TO PARENT* AND G CIA D ANS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING _ Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA OISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. ;:mith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Hiss Marian Taylor, Mizri; Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the Comic Drama of THE MAID WITH THE 3.IILKING PAIL. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Selby, Boyce, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a Terpsichorean Barletta, call. d POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tlbbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lain ert, Worrell, Wright, Munys.rd, Mrs. Matthew, Miss Woolgar, and 311,s Brooks. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lesgee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will bu performed a new Vaudevile, entitled LA DOT VAC" VER.' ;NI•:. Pierre, M. Dumery; Jerome, M. Paynter ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Fouquet ; Felicite, Madame Dumery. To be followed by the Vaudeville of L'AMBASSADEUR. Cha racters by MM. Pcrlet, Laugeval, Berou ; Mdlle. Celina Fouguet and Mdlle. Brolian. After which a new Comedy, entitled LES TROIS CRISPINS ; on, La Famille Poisson. Raymond Poisson, M. Perlet ; Marianne, Brohan. To conclude with the first act of Regnazd's Play of LES FOLIES AMOUREUSES. Albert, M. Cartigny; Eraste, M. Felix; Crispin, Mdl!e. Vallee ; Lisette, Mdlle. Brohan. 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 TO-MORROW EVENING, December 22, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa turday evening, during the Christmas holidays. Due notice will be given of their first Morning Performance. The programme will include " Old Joe," " Lucy Neal," " The Coloured Fancy Ball." "My sliff Is on the shore," and the cele brated Ita'lroad Overture. The public is respectfully cautioned that the Songs and Melodies, as sung by the above party, are published only at Mr. Mitchell's. Doors open at eight, commence at half-past. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s.—Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Michell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Boa-office of the Theatre.—Open from 11 till 5. A STI.P.N"s o:l'_A T. _A XT_P_JI/TUR.4 a ktE , Albert, and Royal Family. Last Three Nights previous to the Christmas Holidays. - THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will appear on their trained steeds. .New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of 11013 Roy . MACGREGOR ; or, The Mountain Outlaw. On SATURDAY next (Boxing-Night) ;1 " ClOuble rotation of Eques trian and Gymnastic Novelties, and /Irk 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-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doers open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. THE WEATHER SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 42; Noon, 39 , BAROMETER, 28.8.—WIND E., rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-ERIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 33 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 56 minutes after 3. fact that 300,000 men are at present relieved by public works, used the following language, in the propriety and truthfulness of which every man of common sense must at once concur :—"I am, how ever, de±ous of stating distinctly the conviction of the Government, that they cannot, by any measures within their power, meet all the cases of severe pri vation and distress which are to be found under exist ing circumstances in Ireland." To return to Mr. WASON'S plan. It is as follows —Proprietors, willing to reclaim their own lands, and to mortgage them to the Government, stipulating to repay advances with reasonable interest, at stated periods, to be so assisted by the Government. Next, the lands of proprietors, either unwilling, or inca pable cf bringing them into cultivation, to be purchased by Government, under Act of Parliament, :and resold to capitalists, ready to develop the resources of the soil. Every pre caution is to be taken, un d er th e au th or ity o f . competent persons, that the required outlay will be remunerative, so that the public funds shall not be ultimately endainaged. It is computed that 10,000,0001. would suffice to render Ireland, in an agricultural point of view, invaluable as an integral portion of the United Empire. Such a sum, with the certainty of repayment, is, upon a comprehensive view of the subject, quite insignificant, compared with the great advantages of the revolution, social and moral, it would be designed to effect. Neither will it be presumed, that, if a case can be fairly made out, as we believe it can, to justify the expenditure, Parliament, which so munificently voted 20,000,000/. for emancipating the West Indian, would in any wise hesitate to sanction the required outlay. We rejoice to find that Mr. RIGBY WASON, and that ex cellent Irish landlord, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, are pretty much on a par in their respective views ; and we rejoice all the more in that the Government, by their latest Treasury minutes, have already evinced a disposition to bring the material portions of them, at the earliest moment, into effective operation. Should there, however, be found any men in St. Stephen's indisposed to co-operate with the Govern ment in their benign views towards Ireland, they would do well to con over a paragraph in Mr. SIIAR MAN CRAWFORD'S letter to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with which we shall conclude : "I have shown what the landlords have to answer for. I have no disposition to screen my own class from their due responsibility ; but they arc not the sole de linquents. 1 arraign the Imperial Parliaments, and the ditlerent Governments which Inzve been in power since the Union, with the commis sou t:f hid legislation, and the neglect of good. They knew by the reports of their committees and commissions, both the evils and the remedies ; aid if the landlords of Ireland neglected :heir duty, and the members for Ireland neglected theirs, it does not absolve the Governments and the Legisla ture from participation in the continuation of bad sys tems, and the neglect of the remedies required to amend them." While the public attention is distracted by so many occurrences in different directions—by the accumu lating miseries of Ireland—by the complicated policy of the French Cabinet—by the territorial thefts in Northern Europe—by the approaching sessions in Paris and Westminster—by the disjuncted state of parties in the Swiss Confederation—by the pusil lanimity of Cashmere, the avarice of the United States, the indecision of Mexico, the protracted troubles of La Plata, and even by the paltry squabbles of a Consul in the Mauritius— it is refreshing to contemplate the small and feeble glimmerings of hope by which the gloom of the Peninsula is chequered. But that experience has demonstrated the importance of those indications of the future which are apparently the most insignificant, we should be inclined to dis regard the circumstances to which we allude as un worthy of observation. ALEXANDER POPE IS not the only individual who has indicated " What mighty contests rise from trivial things." All history has verified the fact; all biography has been illustrative of its actuality. Various circumstances have recently foreboded an alteration in the political and social ,condition of Spain. In defiance of French diplomacy, in defiance of internal contention, in defiance of BRESSON, of Louis PHILIPPE, and of CHRISTINA, there have been these consolatory indications. So frequently, however, have there been auguries or a similar character, and so repeatedly have those auguries proved to be mere gleacesc, suspicion on those which have recently made their appearance. We regard theth as indications only of a temporary change, not as forerunners of a permanent reformation. Still, as inaugurative of the most transitory movement, they deserve at the least to he recorded. To these circumstances we shall refer in succession. First, there is a rumour that a serious misunderstanding has taken place between Queen ISABELLA and Queen CURISTINA, a misunder standing so serious as to threaten the destruction of the Afrancesado influence. Some accounts even mention the retirement of the latter from the Peninsula as not an improbable consequence of the disagreement. Lon as this wily and unconscientious Princess has domineered over her daughters, and long as she has thereby fostered the evil influence of France in her adopted country, the period of her power seems to be approaching its termination. It is not—it cannot be a matter of astonishment that a woman cursed with such violent and devouring passions, a woman withont shame for the publicity of her immoralities, and a woman who is estranged by her Neapolitan birth from the king dom of her departed husband, should have little scruple in promoting her own personal interests by sacrificing those of Spain. The character attributed to step-mothers generally is proverbially odious. CHRISTINA, by every act of hers during her widow hood, and subsequently, as the wife of the Duke DE RIANZARES, has been a worthy representative of the genus. her cruel domination over Queen Isanenna and the Infanta Donna LUISA promises now, how ever, to close with her contumelious banishment. Such, at least, are the surmises most prevalent in Madrid, and those surmises are said to be deduced from the fitful appearance of the Camara, though we are fain to regard that Camara as a mere vehicle for the reflection of the variable and passing opinions of the day, and as, in more significations than one, a mere Camera Obscura. Secondly, there is a rumour that the Spanish throne is no longer in a fair way of being occupied by the INFANTA or her descendants. It must, of course, still continue to be a sort of " contingent remainder" to those members of the Royal Family, but it will be a remainder of a scarcely attainable character. The assertions which have recently been so frequent as to the pregnancy of her Majesty Queen IsarteLLA are now being uttered with confidence; and, in the event of that assertion proving correct, an inestimable blessing will be as sured to Spain, and a fearful misfortune will be simule taneously prevented. All the perils which have been courted by Louis PHILIPPE Rill thereupon prove fruitless. The guile of M. BRESSON will he recom pensed by—nil. The marriage of the Due DE Morn , PENSIER, with the exception of the magnificent dowry of his bride, and her possible offspring—nil. The rupture of the entente cordiale with England—nil. In every respect the labours, and troubles, and dangers of the recent machinations in the Tuileries will have been commenced in selfishness and consummated in disappointment. While these various reports are being bruited about the Spanish Court, while the capital instrumentci te men t s ofof Peninsularelectioneering, and the provinces are engaged in all the ex citements t h regenerationere a ployed—a solitary pilgrim- 1 str is stively e another r_ anger— an English manufacturer—a member of the British Parliament. Unnoticed by the contentious squabblers for place, Con- DEN is travelling through Spain on his mission ofjustice and humanity. The Apostle of the new Age, be is dis seminating throughout that country the principles which must not only produce commercial freedom and monetary prosperity, but must ultimately secure to mankind the benefits of political advancement and the blessings of international cordiality. From Madrid to Cadiz, from Cadiz to Seville, from Seville to Barcelona, the ConTueror of Monopoly has already p rocee d e d , and his presence has been everywhere acknowledged by the 'welcome of the more enl i ghtened Spaniards. HIS words have been listened to 'at the • banquet-tables, and distributed from the printing-offices, of the southern provinces, and the cause of Free Trade has already advanced in consequence among *lt‘.lß.l the inhabitants, of the Peninsula. Little as the Legislature of Madrid may regard these proceedings, little as they may think of the enthusiasm evinced towards the iltustrious Englishman, there is a mighty engine at work among the middle classes of that people, rooting out the prejudice of centuries and planting in their stead the seeds of Reason and Truth. The reception of RICHARD COBDEN in Spain is no idle ovation. The state of Ireland it is now universally admitted will form the chief topic of diScussion during the ensuingsession of Parliam en t. M easures o f t h e mostn introduced; means will be t a k en to prov id e f or t h e ela s r e gand comprehensive character will be adequate employment of the labouring classes, and to compel the proprietors of the soil to provide for the support and maintenance of th e popu l at i on o f t h eir several estates. The doctrine " that property has its duties as well as its rights," will be recognised to the fullest extent, and enactments will be passed for the purpose of enforcing the d ue per f ormance o f t h ose duties, of obliging the landowner to perform his part of the implied contract which the original grantee, the person front whom he derived his title, entered into with the State when obtaining the property in the lands. That property was granted to him for the national benefit, it was conceded to him that he might use it, and not suffer it to lie waste and unproductive. Every man is so bound to act with respect to his pro perty that others shall not suffer either by his acts or omissions. With respect thereto he is as much an offender against the law, by omitting to do anything which the common good requires, as if he committed a direct act tending to the public annoyance. Com munities or individuals may be indicted for not repairing a highway, if the duty is cast upon them of so doing rationc &maw!, by reason of the possession of property which is responsible therefor. Why may not the principle be extended, and every person in possession of lands be bound to improve them and make them productive, or to part with them to others who will have both the ability and the will to do so? We do not desire unduly to interfere with what are termed the rights of property, but it cannot be con sidered either just or reasonable that the interests of those who fully and fairly perform all that can be required at their hands should be sacrificed and made subservient to any delicacy or scruple with respect to the negligent and careless proprietor, or an unwiiling ness to go to the very root of the evil, and to remove the real causes of the national distress by the most active and efficient remedies. In order to form a correct judgment as to the measures that may be necessary for the welfare of Ireland, it will be desirable to investigate the sources from which by far the greater portion of the present calamities have had their foundation and origin. Why is it that in a country of extraordinary fertility, possessing the greatest natural advantages, the soil should be left unimproved, or not half cultivated, un drained, fenced only with rude banks of earth, with out suitable farm-houses, or offices necessary for the proper management of the land ; large portions of that land covered ssith rushes and weeds, remaining idle for a series of years, while the remainder is exhausted by scourging crops ; rivers, and water-courses, that might, by a trifling expenditure, be turned to the greatest advantage, overflowing their banks, and con verting rich and profitable meadows into useless and unproductive marshes; the produce, such as it is— not half; scarcely a quarter of that which might be obtained under more prudent management—exposed to the weather, and insufficiently secured, while the labouring classes are insufficiently employed, in sufficiently fed, insufficiently paid, a burden to the resources of the country, instead of being the pro ducers and creators of national wealth? In entering into this investigation we shall, as far as possible, abstain from any discussion of those abstract political questions on which there will necessarily be conflict ing opinions, and inquire into the state of the law and practice as to the occupation of land in Ireland, and the causes which lead to that want of proper cul tivation of the soil, that inadequate employment rf the population. Perhaps the chief causes now in operation, by which these lamentable results are produced, may be stated to be the "insecurity of tenure" and the thraldom in which real property is bound, the restrictions by which its free transfer is fettered, what may be termed the ”.. 1 . -- airoarrassinelits and peCimiary difficulties by which a large number of the landlords are encumbered and oppressed, and prevented from applying the value of the produce of the soil, or any portion thereof, in the improvement and better cultivation of the soil from which it is derived. If the first of these causes was removed, if what Mr. STEW ART has happily termed "a free trade in land," could be fully obtained, the others would be removed in process of time. Capital would be freely invested in the acquirement and improvement of land, a class of small proprietors the most valuable for the nation would spring up, cultivate their own lands for their own sole profit bringing all that energy and steady perseverance' which men will apply when they know that they are working for their own profit, that there is an absolute certainty that they themselves, or their families, will have the full and entire enjoy ment of the fruits of that industry without hindrance or drawback. In confirmation of the accuracy of this opinion we may quote the report of the Land Commission, which says— " We believe that there i s a l arge number of persons in Ireland possessing a small amount of capital, which they would gladly employ in the purchase and cultivation of land, and a still larger number, now resident in different parts of the count ry, and holding land for . of uncertain or limited terms at a rent, who would most cheerfullyrietors. The gradual t e introd u ctionopp ortti riitY of such a class of beco m i ng pro . p men would be a great improvement to the social condition of Ireland. A much larger proportion of the population than at present wuld become interested i n the pre gainingno peace dod order, and the of admi ssis class of smalllandowners would often stimulate the renting farmer to increased exertion and persevering industry." We must reserve the consideration of the means by which these causes may be removed to a future day; we are satisfied, however, that they can be fully and entirely done away with, and that the most be neficial results to our sister island may be looked for under an improved law of real property. A letter from Hamburgh informs us that the Senate of that city has, on the application of the Consul- General of Austria, issued an order, by which the author of any publication criticisin g the Austrian Government is to be fined 27 rix.dollars (87f.) It is added, that an application was also made for the expulsion from Hamburgh of M. CUUSELKA, who has written a pamphlet against Austria, and of 111. RONGE, who has founded there a German Catholic Church, but this demand was rejected by a large majority. A letter from Lubeck informs us that the Danish Government has at length, on the representations of the Austrian and Prussian Governments, and to pre vent an appeal to the Germanic Diet, consented to permit, on reasonable conditions, the Lubeck and Hamburgh Railroad to pass through the Duchy of Holstein, without which permission the railroad could not not have been completed. The Revue dc Gey---17;7:;7wmth states that the report of the committee appointed to draw up a plan for revising the constitution will be shortly termi nated. Mr. JAMES FAZAY has been named reporter. The following are to be the bases of this document : —First, an extension of electoral rights, as several classes of citizens who, after the consti tution of 1842, were omitted, are now to be in cluded; secondly, the direct election, by the whole of the electors, of the Executive Council, which is to be for the future composed of seven members, and the faculty for the electors assembled at a general meeting to dissolve the representative council, and to proceed to new elections in case of disagreement be tween the two councils; thirdly, the re-organisation of the municipal constitution, so as to place it in accord with the new political organisation, based on the recognition of the principle of popular sove reignty in its widest sense. In addition, the question of the eventual revision of the constitution is to be submitted every fifteen years to an assembly of the electors. The Grand Council of Berne held its first sitting of the winter session last week. It was opened by a speech from the President, in which he expressed at some length his disapprobation of the conduct of the Northern Powers in the affair of Cracow, and his sympathy for the Polish cause. A statement having appeared in one of the Swiss journals rela tive to an interview which the President of the . 404 . N.. 10 48E11 ' 4 * * l \V .T 4- 1. 441 , m COEUT 'R ;IT „ yet* • I‘. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: .• . Stn,—We have had our attention called to a paragraph which appeared in the third editifli of your last Mon day's number, containing a report cf the trial of the action " Mitchell v. Moore," in which it was sought (unsuccessfully) to fix the defendant as an alleged Pro visional Committee-man of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway Company, with a heavy liability. It is there stated that " Mr. Henry Owen, the company's solicitor; Mr. Few, Mr. Alpine, and Mr. parties con nected with the origin of the company, were severally ex amined, &c." Now, inasmuch as a portion of this state ment is erroneous, Mr. Few never having been in any way connected with the company or its origin, we h . ave to beg the favour of your correcting the above mistake (which was no doubt purely inadvertent) by the insertion of this letter in your next number. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, FEW and CO. Attornies for the defendant, Major Moore. Covent-garden, Dec. 23, 1846. DEATH. FROM STARVATION IN LIVERPOOL.— An inquest was yesterday held on the body of yartinFin eaige-to rolnthrdilerTeliar about a fortnight ago. They appeared to be in a very destitute state, and got their living by begging. The wife and children left the home on Friday morning, about nine o'clock. He went out along with them and did not return until nine at night, when he was brought home by four men. He then ap peared very ill. lie was put to bed and died about two o'clock the next morning. No surgeon saw him until after his death. During the time he was living in the cellar he had not sufficient food, and had nothing but what he procured by begging. His wife had applied at the parish-office, and had been relieved twice with bread, but the deceased had had no relief. John Connor, al police-officer, found deceased, on Friday night, in Standish-street, about ten o'clock, standing against a wall. Witness thought that he was drunk and went to him, but found him sober, and hardly able to stand or to speak. On the way to Bridewell witness ascertained where he livod, and two men took him to convey him home. Witness saw him dead on Saturday night. Witness asked him some questions, but could not under stand what he said. He appeared to be in a state of destitution and starving. Mr. Kifner, surgeon, when he was called, found deceased dead. On a post modem ex amination he found that death had been caused by disease of the lungs, and the want of sufficient food combined. The want of food was the principal cause of death. The jury returned a verdict to the effect stated —disease of the lungs, and want of sufficient food. The cellar is a most miserable place, and the body was stretched on a litter of straw. The mother (who is very ill) and the childr,en have been taken to the workhouse. In the same house in which the poor creature died there are no fewer,than eight sick persons.—Liverpool Standard of yesterday. STATISTIC 1L SOCIETY.—The last meetirg for the year was held on Menday evening, at its rooms, in St. James's-square, when the chair was taken by Colonel Sykes, F.R.S. A paper was read by Dr. Guy, on the longevity of sovereigns and rulers in different parts of the world, which contained some very interesting par ticulars. Amongst the most long-lived m onarc h s were the Emper ors o f Chi na, of whom the average of the deaths of 64 was at 601 years, and next in succession to them were the Emperors of Rome, the caliphs of Aleppo, the Dukes of Brunswick, and the electors of Wurtem burgh, a great predominance for longevity being seen in the ducal houses of Germany, whilst the shortest lived sovereigns were the Kings of Scotland and Denmark, the Sultans of Turkey, &c. The Kings of England stood comparatively well in the general average. In an incidental discussion which followed, some curious state ments were made, from which it appeared that whilst at 30 years of age a general estimate was made from the members of benefit societies at Liverpool, that their lives were of 30 years' v a l ue ; th e hi g h est average of the lives of su ch persons who were not so provident was but 27, whilst at Glasgow an indolent population would only re present 24 years as the average of life. REMOVAL OF WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—A prelimi nary meeting of several of the principal inhabitants of , Westminster, interested in preserving the present site for a new bridge, was held on Monday, at the King's Arms, Palace-yard ; Mr. W. Page Wood, Queen's Counsel, in the chair. Great surprise was expressed by the meeting that the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c., should have authorised the erection of a new bridge on a distant site, in direct opposition to the recommendation of the Committee of the House of Com mons of last session. It was urged by several of the gentlemen present that a measure involving such ruin ous loss of trade and and property to so large a body of individuals on both sides of the river could only be justi fied by overwhelming public necessity ; that no such necessity exists ; and that, therefore, it becomes the duty of all those who are interested to oppose, by every means in their power, a measure fraught with loss to hundreds and almost ruin to many. A committee was immediately formed, for calling a public meeting, di rectly after Christmas, on the subject, and a requisition was forwarded to Sir De Lacy Evans to take the chair. Instructions were given to the committee to cause the meeting, when fixed, to be extensively advertised, and to solicit the aid of all influential parties to join in opposing the Bill for the removal (by counsel if necessary), in the Committees of the Houses of Parliament. DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOAIEN'S SOCIETY. Last night a full and fancy dress ball took place at the Han over-square Rooms, in behalf of the Society for the Protection and Relief of Distressed Needlewomen. This very appropriate method of benefiting the meritorious class, for the relief of the necessitous and deserving members of which the society was established, was sug gested by some members of the Middle and Inner Temple, who acted as stewards of the evening. The ayrangements were tho se o f a pr i vate party, and were of the most efficient and delightful character. Among the e zre t :were the Ri g h t H on. the Lord Mayor, the Lady ss, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, p res id ent o f t h e society ; L. J. Mansard, and about 300 visitors, includ ing several familie high di s t inct i on. Dancing was commenced about great animation g ha o lf• P ast ten, , d and was continued with until tlock we] suer wa announced. A rnunitlwceonot flounced from L. H ansard, ?innaattlhn en o of th 1001. P eas an s - of the fund s o f t h e society, and we are g l ad to hear that th s id e e r a f h a i l l ae d a s tec o e f s s t i h o i n s m eritorious charity w ill receive a con from the proceeds of the h 5 ll, After an ele n dancing was resumed with new spi r i t to thegexhil.retit)ttinstg, strains of Adams's band, and th e company did not b rea k up until a late hour. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1846. L''brtl4lllll 24tit LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1846 Perplexed as the Government have been, and still continue to be, with the complicity of Irish affairs, they cannot but feel grateful for the disinterested manner in which many individuals, public as well as private —men of figure and of considerable ability—. have come forward from time to time, and submitted, in the shape of public letters, the various views and schemes which they severally entertained as the best the Executive could adopt for extricating Ireland from her unhappy condition. Among these patriotic and intellec • tual contributions, we have been favourably impressed with a series of letters which have been addressed by Mr. RIGBY WASON to Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Inde pendently of the excellent simplicity with which he handles a momentous subject, viewed either as to the principle he advocates, or the statistical details he furnishes in support of his recommendations, the value of his advice is enhanced by the consideration that he has himself experimented, extensively and successfully, in the reclamation of waste lands. A similar territorial redemption in Ireland, it is now universally conceded, would go further than any thing else to restore to her the: blessings of pros perity. Any advice, then, emanating from such a source should be seriously reflected on. This gen tleman's counsel is tendered to us in the most favour able manner, because it is practical and upheld by the fruits of his own individual experience. Apart from the good service of suggesting a sound, economical, and reasonable plan for the steady and sure amelioration of the present distracted social con dition of Ireland—not in its entirety (for that, it is admitted, can only be expected to be effectuated by a series of well-digested measures, acting in harmo nious combination), but to a prodigious extent—Mr. RIGBY IVAsoN has felicitously demonstrated by actual figures, that Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S scheme is quite impracticable. He shows that the limited sum of 2,000,0001., proposed by Mr. SCROPE to pur' chase the fee-simple of lands, and to bring into cultiva. tion the waste tracts, amounting to 3,000,000 o acres, would not even suffice to meet the expenses ol enclosure. At first we were disposed to review with becoming calmness any suggestions of Mr. SCROPE, unsound as, at the very outset, we described them to be; but the violent tenor of his subsequent produc tions has completely changed this disposition. 'When he descended to unseemly vituperation, and because the Premier, forsooth, did not think fit to embrace his own peculiar policy, solemnly averred he should hold Lord J. RUSSELL responsible for every death occasioned by starvation in Ireland, we could only regard Mr. SCROPE as a vicious ranter, and one whose counsels might be safely suffered to pass un heeded. Sir GEORGE GREY, in his recent letter to the Poor-law Union of Skibbereen, after noticing the Grand Council held in Paris with M. GUIZOT, he declared that the interview was not connected with any mission from the Grand Council, and that he could not without indiscretion say more of what had passed than that M. GUIZOT had convinced him of his kind intentions towards Switzerland, and his desire to see the country - preserve its inde pendence, but that he did not conceal the fears that he entertained as to the intestine divisions that existed. It was announced at this sitting by the Director of Finances of Berne that the budget of 1847 shows a deficit of 800,000 Swiss livres (1,184,0000 The judges of Lucerne have set at liberty, after twenty months' detention, the Advocate SCIINYDER compromised in the late events. Captain PrirrEn has also been liberated, but both are to pay a fine to the State; that of the latter gentleman is 6,000 L Madrid papers to the 13th have arrived, and letters have been received bringing intelligence front that capital to the 15th. Of 274 elections, the results of which were known, the Moderados had gained 195, the Progressistas 56, and the Pacheco party and Absolutists 22. It was confidently reported tLit Senor MoN would be appointed President of the Council. The account of the renewal of the contract with the Bank of San Fernando is confirmed. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 12.—The Three per Cents. were done on the 12th at 34b for cash. • We have received the Parit; papers of Monday. We yesterday published a paragraph from the .211oniteur Parisien officially denying the accuracy of the version of M. GuizoT's circular note on the affairs of Cracow, which bad been published in the France of. Saturday. In allusion to this denial the France of Monday says— " We read in the Moniteur Parisien—` The France has published a note under the title of Circular 2V to of M. Guizot on tile A tTair of Cracow. We are authorised to de clare that this note is altogether inexact and incomplete.' We will remark, in the first place, that the official journal does nut deny the note; it ni.rely dec!ares it to be inexact and incomplete. We have an explanation to offer in order to remove this double reproach, which appears to us to be a miserable subterfuge. The copy which was cora municated to us was drawn up ha,tily, and several phrases were rendered unintelligible by abbreviations. Wo were therefore convelled to guess at stung and to aid others; SO much for the inexcetitule. As to the reproach of having published an incomplete &ea ment, we have nothing to say, except that as two p`lra.ms from the badness of the writing were not clear to us, we suppressed them. But in its ensemble the document has h?en neither changed nor mutilated. M. (.1:1;.Z9L publis'i the original, and the pubhe will see in what points it differs from the copy, which was communicated to us from a good source." The France then goes on to state that an attempt had been made at Vienna to induce Lord PONSONBY to unite in a protest with the Pi - ench Ambassador, hut, as might have been expected, Lord PONSONBY was too astute a diplomatist to be caught in such a clumsy trap. In the same journal we find the following account of the more than Bourbon baseness of the Infant lion ENRIQUE : " We believe we can affiten that in consequence of counsels coming simultaneously fleets Paris and Madrid, the Lifant 1)on Henry (Hive:red up his whole corre.. spandence with several members of the Progressist party to a diplomatic perscnage of Bruesels, and that it was forwarded to Paris and Madrid. The Spanish Secre tary, who accompanied Doe Henry in his journey, haVing attenuated to rersuade this weak prince from acting in such a manner, received, on the express de mand of the Prince, as the General Gazette qf Prussia confirms, an order from the Belgian police to quit the country forthwith.% The National has a long article on the Cracow affair, in which it affirms that both Lord PALmEns- TON and M. GUIZOT were some time since offi.:ially informed of the resolutions to which the three Powers had come. The communications made to these Ministers, says the National, were on the three following points :-Ist. The incorporation of Cracow. 21. The destruction of everything that could recal a recollection of the ancient existence of Poland in the Russian dominions. 3d. A. new pact of alliance between the three Powers, to defend the actual state of things, and also whatever they may hereafter believe it useful to accomplish in concert. The National then goes on to trace the present disorganised state of affairs throughout Europe, the troubles in the Austrian dominions, the uneasy state of Prussia and Germany, the between England and France, the disturbances in the Peninsula, eventuating, as those disturbances most probably will, in the re-appearance of Don and of the son of Don CARLOS, to the in trigues of Russia. " The Holy Alliance," says the National, "is reconstructed, or, rather, it has again assumed the offensive." The Bey of TUNIS has found a sturdy champion in the Commerce, which thus defends his claims to be treated as an independent Prince : " Great Britain refuses to recognise the independence of Tunis, which she regards as placed under the guar dianship of the Forte ; and it appears that the greater number of the other powers of Europe, with respect to this Barbaric state, share the opinion - of Great Britain, if we are to judge by the absence of the diplomatic corps from the concert given to the Prince at the hotel of Foreign Affairs. The independence of the Bey of Tunis, however, does not appear to us contestable either as a matter of light or as a matter of fact. The family now reigning has been on the throne since 1705, when it succeeded that of Mirad a No intervention of the Porte took place at its accession. The succes sion to the throne, which remains amongst the members of this family, is not regulated by any fixed law ; the Bey during his lifetime designates as his successor one of his near relatives, who ap pears to him most adapted for the task of government. Ahmed, the present Bey, has, in this way, named as his successor Sidi. Hamds, one of his cousins. The Bey of Tunis pays no tribute to the Sultan ; he merely seeds him presents, as a sort of homage rendered to a su• premacy purely religious. The regency is governed by its own laws, emanating from its own a u th or i ty, and not by the legisl a ti on of- the Divan. The Prince coins money, and consuls of foreign nations are accredited directly at his court. It is, no doubt, allowable fur the Porte to regard as proof of the dependence, the annual presents sent by the Bey of Tunis ; but in the intercourse between him and the European Powers, it appears to us that this species of feudal homage ought to be completely overlooked, and to lose all signification, in face of the very positive and very real political independence of Ahmed Bey. In the point of view of international right, what is a dependence which is manifested by only a simple and sterile offering of presents, and which does not prevent a state from existing under its own laws, from having en army of 25,000 men, considerable naval forces, and from acting on all occasions, both at home and abroad, according to its own good pleasure and intent? And can the sovereign power of a family handing down the throne to its own members for up wards of a century, be considered a mere vice-royalty? The little fit of the pouts, therefore, which England and the Ambassadors of the continental Powers exhi bited a few days back, cannot be justified by any serious reason." The Courrier Francais says that the BEY is about ;o appoint a Consul-General for Algiers and consular agents at Oran and Bougia. In the same paper we find the following amusingly ridiculous exhibition of spite at England : " As soon as the Bank of France is suspected of hav ing need of the Bank of England, John Bull is unwil ling that this service should be claimed on the score of reciprocity. He pretends to have all the merit of aiding us, and will not hear of having ever been obliged by us. Never, since Waterloo, has more insolence (outrecui dance) been seen in attributing to one's self a usurped glory. Every one knows the pretension of the English to claim the victory at the battle of Waterloo the morning after the battle. The movement of retreat on the Brussels road, the terrible charge s o f our Cuirassiers breaking into and sabering the English squares, careering for two hours in every direction over the high ground of Waterloo, in the midst of the Eng lish army at their wit's end—the tears of despair shed by Wellington at the sight of this frightful carnage, the most terrible that history makes mention r — t a h l l e b t a h t i k. w e They s, not w t a b s e lresrs of—t he miraculous arrival of the Prussians to snatch the victory from our hands, and who alone saved the English army from the most assume the merit of our defeat ; and it is as a usurped glory that Waterloo is dear to them. Their monuments, daystru c t a i f o t n e their streets, their quays, are so many commemorations of Waterloo ! They have Waterloo-bridge, Waterloo gcoomttepnletethede place, Waterloo Column ! This habit of attributing to themselves a usurped glory is indeed one of the dis tinctive signs of the English character ; and why, there fore, should it be astonishing that they refuse to the Bank of France the honour of having rendered a service to the Bank of England ?" We hope that '' the tears of despair shed by INTEL LINGTON at Waterloo " have been preserved in a phial ; they certainly are worthy of a place in Punch's Cabinet of Curiosities. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Mon day a:; 80f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 55c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,261 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 905 f. ; Havre, 660 f. ; Great Northern, 6461. 25c. ; Avignon, 878 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 6071. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 561 t. 25c.; Boulogne, 4421. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau, 3501. ; Bas!c 218 f. 75c. ; Dieppe, 3701.; Paris and Strasburg, 486 f. 2ac.; _tours and Nantes, 4901.; Paris and Lyons, 510 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4901. ; Bordeaux and Cetfe, 415 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 381 i ; Spanish Do . re.Aic Debt, 32.. --- 11fAnsEmt..Es, Disc. 16.—Marseilles and Avignon, 8771. 50c.; Northern, 648 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 505 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 22. East Indian, %—Luxembourg,li—Paris and Lyons Con stituted, 8 1 —Peril and Rouen, 354—Tours and Nantes Constituted, OA. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was very tame ; sales 2,500 bales, of which 1,200 were American on speculation. Shares were firm. The sale of Railway Shares, yesterday, at Messrs. ' , amend and Co.'s, went off very well ; a good business was done, and previous prices were obtained. The fol lowing aro a few of the principal sales : East Indian Great Luxembourg London and York (scrip) ... 2 6 0 Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia 0 4 0 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, Old 0 9 6 Madrid and Valencia.. 1 0 0 Shrewsbury and Hereford Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 10 Paris and Lyons 5 5 0 Shropshire Union and Canal Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6 Great Indian Peninsular Louvain ala Sambre 1 17 6 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 5 6 Northern Counties Union Ceylon ..... ............ The decision of the jury in the case of Newton and another v. Stewart, in the Court of Queen's Bench, yes terday, has been the topic of much conversation in the City to-day. Various as have: been the decisions of juries, vtieo have followed the dicta of judges upon the point of law, whether a provisional committee. man was liable for expenses incurred in the for mation of a scheme, the decision in this case under review is held to be most wholesome. How the de fendant could expect a decision in his favour, after hav ing paid a sum of money as his share of the " expenses of formation," seems to all who are connected with business matters, a pure novelty. Much cavil has been raised by parties connected with railway schemes which have proved abortive„"at the cost of the advertisements. It is in periods of adversity " time and labour " appear to be very little regarded. In all cases where advertisement agents have given credit upon the faith of " good. names" inserted in a prospectus, surely a right of action ought, in equity, to exist on the part of bonafide creditors to claim for expenditure, on behalf of the provisional or the managing eomeattnes, whether for advertisements or services actually rendered. Accounts have been received from the Cape of Good Hope this morning to the 15th of October. It is satis • factory to find, by papers received at the Jerusalem Coffee-house and the North and South American CofFee-hou2c, that not far short of 8,000 of the stolen cattle had been recaptured. The state of the military forces was good. Nothing had been settled as to the establishment of a permanent boundary line.- That an attempt at fraud has born committed by somebody connected with Mexican Bond conversion transactions, has lung been suspected. The fact is now established beyond a doubt, the McsArs. Schnieder and Co. have publicly anmunced the circumstance, that bonds to the amount of 97,5001. have been circulated, and that too without the It ast authority. The occur. rence is butts renewal of the 7-lendizabal notorious project, but in the present case the some success has not resulted as that which followed the late 'cute Financial , Minister at Madrid. A very firm market has prevailed for Consols and the other public securities to-day. The value of Consols for the Account has ruled from 93/ to 931; the Three-and- R-Quarter per Cents. from 95a to 95i ; and for Reduced Annuities from 94 to 941 ; Exchequer-bills remain at Bs. to I Is. premium. Bank Stock has fallen about 1 per cent., viz , to 205. Business is extremely slack in the Foreign Stock Market to-day. Mexican Stock has been quoted at 23i; Spanish Thiee per Cents. have been sold at 38 ; the Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 601 ; and the Peruvian Six per Cents. for the Account at 38i. The Railway Share and Scrip Market is active this morning. The North Staffordshire Railway Scrip has been in excellent demand, and has improved to 94, or 44 premium. Nearly all the trunk lines are favourites for investment at the present moment. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF IM IR ITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94% 94 94 1 4 94 1 4 Now 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities 95 3 % % 'lt 95% Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o Ditto 30 y - ears, Oct. 10,1859 9 11-16 3 / 1 9 3 (1 , Bank Stock for Account ... ...... . 206 A Consols for Opening 9 3 % 34 94 Exchequer Bills, 1000/. I%d. ... 811— p 11 p Vitt°, 500/ Ditto. Small oxE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto, 4 per Cent 3 B l /2 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2'4 par Cent Ditto, Account Ditto: 4.per Cent. Certificates -- . .. ......r, VI: PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING I E*ILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES, Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..... 2 1 / 2 .% Armagh, Coleraine, and Bortrash 1%..... relfast & County Down , Ij,j ...... Birmingham and Dud ley 425. ... .. 6 p.. . ...... Birmin. and Gl,;ucester..loo 1291/ Ditto New l 7 l /s 32% ... ... ..... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2: 1 4 . — Boston, Stamld, & Birm. 225. % p Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New .. . Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Bristol and Liver. June.. DA...-. Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% 2IA ... 2% Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 27% —•i — Cizurnet and Blytho 2 - ••• •••••• ..... '' Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ...... • — Clarence 100 Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 p er Ct. 10 Do. Government L oan , 4 per Cent. Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... 1% Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2% %%... ..... .... i Direct Lincoln, East net ford, and Shedd. June. 2% -. Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. 22'ji 3 23 Ditto New Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d... - Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... . i - Do., York Exten s i on .. 2 ... ••• 3 % g EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union 4O ...•. ••• ........ .. - Ditto, Quarter Shares 10 - Do. Exten.(llarwich) 1% — ......... ..... _ Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% — ............... . East Lancashire Ditto, New - .•.8% ............... Do., do. (late Preston and Orrnskirk)... ............... Do., do., New Scrip l l4 ............ .. East Lincolnshire ... ••• 11 / 4 , 214.. ............ East & West of England lA__ ............... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......... ... .. Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / .............. ..._ _ ..... ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 121 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .. ..... .... Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorset 5% Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 — Ditto, New __ 15 . — ...... .. ...... Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) . 1 2 1...... Goole, Doncaster, &c 2 Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ........ ••• Great South. and West. •• (Ireland) Great Munster ......... ... 2% — Great North of Scotland 2 %...... Great,North of Engl an d..loo 238 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . . Ditto, New ti, eat Western B5 127 128 Ditto 1 7 2 Shares Ditto .;„ 1 /, Shares Ditto Fifths Ditto, New ... 2 Huddersfield & Manches. 13 ...... 17 Dino, Extension 3 111111 and Selby 5O I'o. Half Shares 25 Ditto IA Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 Do., do., and Norwich 5 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford... 16s. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% — .. ........ .... Do. ' Branch (Blue) ... 2% — Do.Extension(Green) 214.. ... • Leeds and Thirsk l 7 l /2 l6 Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% .5 Do., Mnchstr &New castle Junction .... 2%...... L ndon and 131ackwall. 16/. 133.4 d 814 Do. New Ditto Extension London, Brighton, and • South Coast % . .............. Ditto, Fifths ...... ............ Do. Consol. Ei g hth s Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - London and Green w i ch 12/ 15s 4d --••• ••• .. •••............. - Do. Preference ...18/17 s 2d _- .. ............ .. - London, Hounslow, and Western - ...... ... Londonand N. Westernloo ...... 195 194 • 194 Do. Quarters .. ...... , 9 ...... Do., no., New ......... 2 Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ...... Do. 14 Shares (G. J.) 5 , Oh p 129% 3214 24 .... 761,i 27% 54!4 126 74 17 1 A 294/, 17% 13 1 / 2 4% 4% 8 1 4 14 1 A 1 4::;4 19 Do. 401. (F. & B.) ~. 40 Do. 10/. (AL & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.)13. 5 ...... _ _ Do. 10/. (M._ kB.) C : 1 ?4- London, Oxford, 'and Cheltenham ... 1X..... ... •• ••• .. Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 634 62% ...... De. New ConsoL Bths 40 — ............ ..• Do. Ntw 22%.. .. 2634_, ............ 2, Do. Now .--,. Ditto Tenths ..... .. 5 q l , ; Ditto Tenths ... . . ... 4 - L Ditto Scrip ; Ditto ditto .. ..... . .... 4 L , ndori and York 2 14 2%. ........ •••• 2 Do. Extension ' 2% — ... ............ ‘ London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... .... ..... .. 2% — .............. .... Londonderry&Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis- --- kijlen Ey, n and Ely .....»..... 15 ....•__. Lynn and Dereham l5 — ............... . _ ganchester and Leeds... 8238 .... .. 107 .......... ... .. .. .... .. 1; y Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 ..... 6 ..... """ ... 10 . Do. Fifths 5 .. . 10• A ...... ~ ........ ..... Do. Sixteenths 614...... .... ... ........ l ie Do. Extension 425....... PAN p ......... s Do. Liverp. and Bury 24 ...... 2834....... •..• .. .._ Do. do. Fifths Mandiester,Buxton,and Matlock Manchest. &Southampt. 42 2 3. .. .. .. .... 111Lig p•••••••• . .... .. . 1 121 4 Midland lOO ...... 128 127... . . ....... ..... Do. Fifths 2 ...... ... ............ .., Do. New Ditto, New . 0 : Do. Birm., and DerbylOO ...... ........ ''. .... Midland Great Western -- • Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 ...... Do. North Shields ... 25 - NewcastleandCarlisle...loo - .............. -" Newmrket &Chesterfrd 5 - ' Newport & Abergavenny 2 1 A .....• .......... . . '•-• Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, -- . •••• and Rostrevcr 5 ...... —• .. ......... Norfolk 100 ...... --- ••••• -* .... --- Ditto Half Shares - . • ... " - -- Do. Extension . . Northern Counties Union 2 6 % ........ ---- .. .. ... ............. 36 df ri North British . ....... 36 : !‘i ............ I.• Do. Half Shares Do. Quarters Do. Extension as .....• 1% X'•............ 3 , Ditto Thirds l' ..... 3 3 1 s 4.•! .... ...... Northern and Eastern 5O .. ...... ‘.. ...... Do. Scrip (ism a 015.) 40 ...... --"' ............ .--- Do. Quarter Shares 12% ..... --- .......... :: ..... • 17 ,;•ii Do. New 1 -- . % ......... North Staffordshire 5 . 8 % 9 . -. . ..... ....... . North Wales Northern and Southern ............ . ConneCting - ..... ...... North Western 2% — ...... . 0 Oxford, Worcester, and .. Wolverhampton ...- Oxford, Witney, and ...... .... .Cheltenham..,. - ........ . .........•... Portsmouth Direct 3 3 A ...... •• ......... Preston and Wyre - ............ ~ Do. I X, Shares - .......... i• Reading, Guildford, and ' .... ••• . Reigate 3l. 123. ...... di& ... • ••-• Richmond .. Royston and Hitchen Scottish Central Scottish Midland..., 12% ...... 15 • •••• ..... Eheffield & Manchester 100 ...... -• •• ...... Do. Quarter Shares 8 - ••• .. .... Do. Lincolnshire June. 114..•••• —• ................ Do. & Great Grim..-by. 10 - -• ...... : ....* Do. do. Extension 425. - ........ . ...• Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 •••• • 5 'is ..... ...-• Ditto ditto, Class B. 1 1 4 Shropshire Union South Devon South Staffordshire June 4 2 0% ............ 3 - 21 A ... ........................ :.:outh East:,rn & Dover 33%...... 39 1 4.. ....... Do., No. 1 2 Do., NG . 2. .. .............. .. -- . •• •:.:::.:, .......... Do., No. 315 __ ••• Do., No. 4 - ••• ... ' St.Alban's, Hatfield,and ... .»•• Hertford Junction - ........... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2%.••••• --- ........ ......... South Wales..... -.... - .... Swans. & Loughor & Ca- . ... meron's Stm. Coal. - •" ... Taw Vale Extension - .. ..... Vale of Neath 2 2 Wakefield, Pontefract. & 21A .. ....... ... = ........... ... ••,,,.•....... • Goole •• ... Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . ...- .......... -•• 32 4 ,29,4 , 2% Waterford and Limerick 271 A••••.. Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, .. •• •• and Dublin Wexford, 1.1 , aterford, and Valentia g Valle- 2 . _ 1 % ............ ..........••••••'•"" ••• ..... ..... Welsh Midland 24. ................. ... West Riding Union ...••• 425....... ... ........... West Cornwall ....... • Arexford and Carlow Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth York and Newcastle. . ..... F 2 B:- A <,........ 1 ::::: ........................ Ditto New 2 ..... . 7V,i ........... Do. Preference ..... Vork and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares-. - ... 25 Do. Selby 4O Do. Extensioy Ditto, Preference ...... 2 , Do E p t sarbd ).V .- .at 12; inglxtension FOREIGN RAILWA YS. Anglo-Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2 I ,E Boulogne and Amiens... 18 ...••• 4 15 3 / % Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. - ••••.......••N Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour ....... ..... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coastl '• ••• ... .„ ........ Central of Spain ... .... 2 Ceylon •• .... ss. ...... ............... Demerara 2% . ..... ... ............ ..., Dendre Valley ....... .. Direct Bombay and .1 4 Madras 53• ...... —. •.....•• •• • . ~, • FEDamasuttcphionuxßdihaescrin7az...eb rouk 554 6 . - ..... _4:g .................................. :...- GGGrrreeeaaattt Western l l v n e s d Indian mPeninsular 5 5 a s i: .-- ................................................ . . ...... ..... ••••41••• , - Italian and Austrian.... 4 - - •• Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1 . ..... Jersey ...... .. . ..... ... 1 Luxembourg .. * .. '" .. ..... ... Lyons and Avignon Madras ...... Madras. Nellore, and I Arcot Madrid and V a l ent i n 2 %... .. --- . ........................................ Mauritius .. Namur and Liege 3% ...... Nn of /4 .. France Constituted 5 ONorth J ama i ca ... 1 rleans and Vierzon ... 10 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ....- ••• "" ... ... Over Tssel 4l 3 3 4d .......... Paris &Lyons Consti t u t ed 8 Paris and Orleans 2O . Paris and Rouen ... ..... 20 - ...................... Paris and Strasbou rg .... Constituted Rouen and Havre ..... Sambre and Meuse .... .. . Strasbourg and Bale St. Laurence & Atl ant i c fours and Nantes Con stituted ... ..... -..... 5 ......... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt. ...... 8 ............... ... Trinidad ...... West Flanders ...... .... 6 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia ....... Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of London ....... British North American 50 Commercial of London 20 7 -3 ................................. El MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. "AY.t LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS m'ithic' LONDON, DEC. 23.—Wind EN E l ight breeze, and . , ~ ha OFF weather. 111 d iSi y rF MARGATE, D EC . 22.—Bl ac k Cat, Daniels, — all 10 . RAMSGATE, DEC. 22. Wind W.N.W , light. -- Normand, Ducamier, St. Domingo, for Havre.. A p r ste . : DEAL, DEC. 22.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W , 01 , ° "j e stta: Arrd. Gilmore, Maw, China ; Tartar, Gregso . n, ua rirleel l ," Wilsons, Campell, Matanzas; Carolus, Stour, New ',.: 141 0 : for Bremen ; Ann and Mary, St. Jat in ,;; lie: Brunswick, for Stockton ; Isabella, Veale Cunningham,t. Andre- ' 13 0 c." Brunswick; Pleiades, Bell, North America;' Claud , old. B w u el e l k , ii ? z u h e a b in ec s h i A re t , la ii s, vG di r t e t g o o c , M ß ab o e m l, b A a n y d ; u.t. Joha t t ri laaf IS'andert ' p lop; Barbadocs; Thomas Arbuthnot, Thomson, Port ; W' l Kingston, Ka rwoo d, Ad e l a i de ; Amelia Mulholland, Tin kinson, Mauritius; Martha, Woolle • Al .oa rest St. oat cent's Planter, Ryan, Sierra Leone, -I w ' ith the f the ward-bound, except her Majesty's steamer ElphißsW a t i ge, LIIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.—Wind W.N.W.—Arr d ' — kal e ' Smith, Calcutta; Paragon, M'Gowan, CarnarvonAhrwal, Donley, Rio Janeiro; Windsor, Pepper, Para ; Joe. "Ever Close, Maranham ; Santas, Mniatigui, Havanna. ) ; toll pool, M'Lellan, New Orleans ; Conqueror, Barr Chart 0.; Victoria, Hatthson, New York; Eliza, St. ' Ja hr ti o . .lar l4 . Samuel, Leighton, ditto; Belmont, Grant, ditto;. , alaa a• Brown, Prince Edward's Island ; Jane, Na lrain goer e ' Sailed, Queen of the Tyne, Jamieson, Bahia; Joha ms d e ro, Withycombe, Bombay, Majesty, Knowles, Africa; Died Bimet, Bimet, Rio Janeiro; Sisters, Vickers, St. Thomas; a loe; Chipmarr, Bilton, New Orleans. Off port, Wilson, 1 4 11 ` t ol Abigail, ditto; RO3CiUS, Isabel, Commodore, Eare e ' Christina, , • epd t PORTSMOUTH, DEC.22.—WindN.W , fine.—Arrd. MU Leonard, Antigua, leaky. p ace BIDEFOR D , DEC. 20.—Arrd. Damaris, Thompson , • Edward's Island; Lady Sale, Richards, Quebeci B ate' CLYDE, DEC. 20.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Galileo, ~ , -- , l ns id, New York; Calloa, Warrens, ditto; John S. de Vve1' , ..,,,g, St. John's, New Brunswick; Widow Goran, ditto; 31 0 76 . ;".. Shanks, Bay Chaleur; Athol, Currie, Quebec; Sir 11. P A old, T ger, Reed, ditt o; L or d B yton, T o dd, ditt o; Bellona, i sa , ditto; Emigrant, Price, ditto; Prince of Wales, Wilson, ~„li, ritius. Sld., Clydesdale, 11.1•Farlane, Trinidad; CheV" Stork, ditto; Morcellus, Young, Antigua. cbarlOtte' DUBLIN, DEC. 21.—Wi n d N.N.W.—Arrd. Campbell, St. John's, New Brunswick; Medium, ditto...nes- DUNDALK", DEC. The Rebecca, Holmes, a Ga.. 5t ,,, town, from Miltown to Liverpool, was abandoned, 14th ' ll off Scilly; crew brought here by the Burnam, Patton. , th i s SUNDERLAND, DEC. 21.—Th e Th ern dale, Wilkie, o f s port, was in contact off Robinhood Bay, 18th inst ., vr " — vessel, name unkown, and received damage. wash. KINGSTOWN, DEC. 21.—Arrd. St. George, Poole, Pug w ith GREENOCK, DEe. 20.—The Tug steamer, Conqueror, straw' cargo, from the Superb, from New York to the Clyde, etr iw ' in, the sound of Harris, has been destroyed by tire. 24 1 4 38% 6 0 3 / s . fi 3A 11 1 / . 4 1 / 2 P 74 61/2 - 3 -l i 12 s 3's Vi 51 4 Is - 'ISX ...or IS .• ..- 01 41i ',.iB 5 34 II elle4 be 1 em i did, villi be co ln toe; *er ( r equ the p H; Ae rF ~i ~ m CL 4II