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LAMOND and Co.,- RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., t.the place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; ami advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to instmctions. Offices, Ilall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. TPLEA.TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu's new Opera, entitled LORETTA ; A. Tale of Seville. Don Carlos, Mr. Rafter; Ferdinand, Mr. King ; Philippo, Mr. Rorranl i Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Fiorinda, Miss Poole ; Gaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. 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 Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubllei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 13. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING - . -- Will be performed an original Comedy, — entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP ; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Holl ; Mr. Brandon, Rr. Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Portescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hardman, Miss Julia Bennett. After which the petite Comedy of PERFECTION. In which Messrs. Tilbury, Holl, Clark ; Miss Reynolds (her firs: appearance), and Mrs. Humby will perform. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Pre aux Cleres," " Clementinen" (Mazourka); " Camelllon" (Galop) ; the " Esterhazy" (Waizer); and a New Overture. To be followed by a New Operatic Drama, called THE YOUNG PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker, Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Davy, Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale, Miss Horton. To conclude with a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtington, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Love], Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, Miss Julia Bennett. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELFHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed 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. P. Bedford. Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, \i iss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which the popular Musical Comedy, in two acts, of SWEET HEARTS AND WIVES. Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Selby, Wright, Worrell, Cullenford ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss 31. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." The principal characters personified by Miss eieergiana Smithson, Mss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Alen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Homier, Peren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. In the course of the Evening the Baud will perform " The Perlea Waltzes." To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SITE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.. Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr. Vining; Hardcastle, Mr. Granby ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Compton ; Hastings, Mr. Rosby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs. Stirling; Miss Neyille, Mrs. Hughas ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbrolte FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy, entitled L'HOTEL GAIrSI. Cha racters by MM. Langeval, Berou, Cartigny ; Madame Deluc, and Mdlle. Cordely. After which, Mollere's celebrated Comedy of LE BOURGEOIS GE NT ILIIOM ME. M. Jourdain, M. Periet ; Nicole, Mdlle. Brohan. To conclude with LE MARI ET L'AMANT. Col. Saint Leger, M. Langeval ; Ernest, M. Berou; Frontin, M. Dumery ; 31. Motus, M. Tourtlllon ; Madame Saint Leger, Madame Adele Deluc ; Lisette, i%fdlle. Brohan. Boxes, 65.; Pit, Is. F,d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, Is. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Duke of Gloucester, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Earl of Richmond, Mr. E. F. Saville; King Henry, Mr. Heslop ; Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Fredericks ; Tressel, Mr. Johnson ; Queen, Miss Richardson ; Lady Anne, Mrs. Saville. After which a grand Military Ballet of Action, entitled LE REVE DU SOLDAT. The characters supported by Mdlle. Theodore and the Detain Family. To conclude with the New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE ; The Outcast Son. Supported by the principal talent of the rompany. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and itoyal Family. Nctwithstanding the present concentration of novelties, and the ex pensive engagements entered into with the most emineit British and Foreign Artistes for the Christmas Holidays, Mr. BATTY has purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers, Leo pards, &c. Likewise in preparation, a splendid Comic FAIRY PANTOMIME, with other Gymnastic and Equestrian novelties. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE; or, Tha Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. Box-of - lice open from eleven till live o'clock.—Doors open at six an I c•mmmencc et half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Shst success of the reduction of prices of admission at that Theatre is without precedent, nigh& overflows being the result. Boxes, Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3d. Continued success of the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor." THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vie mt. Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs. Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which THE STAGE-STRUCK LOVERS. Tommy Tape, Mr. Forman ; Sally Scrag s, Miss Lydia Pearce. To conclude with JACK BANN ; or, Sixteen string Jack, and the Knaves of Knaves'-acre. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 40; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 29.75. WIND, N.N.W., fine. Bain in the night. DECEMBER 7. TdERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest. 40 ; Noon, 39. BAROMETER, 29.95.—W1ND N.N.W., fine. WATEK AT LONDoN-liitti)(D.:Till6 DAY. Morning ~ 25 minutes after 4. J Evening .. 43 minutes after 4. • 4 ' • ' 4 % . , 2'o t., 1 -",-W:71141k ••• °. • 14.11LICOr, la' timing • LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1846. Within a few weeks Parliament will re-assemble. The session of 1847 will commence under circum stances as unprecedented as those which were inau gurative of the memorable and glorious session of 1846. On the latter occasion the opening of our august Houses of Legislature was preceded by Ministerial fluctuations of the most extraordinary character. GO the former occasion the arrival of the hereditary senators and the popular representatives at St. Stephen's will have been immediately pre ceded by % series of' occurrences which threaten to destroy the talisman by ‘;'hich the tranquillity of continental Europe has been so long preserved. In 1846 • the Parliamentary session commenced with the most astounding revelations and the most gigantic propo sitions. In 1847 the Parliamentary session will un questionably commence with revelations no less astounding, but those revelations will be of an inter national, rather than an internal interest. In 1446 the attention of Government was directed to matter s .appertaining more to the Chancellorship of the Ex ci:iequer than to any other of its departments - the Prime Mi n i ster and his colleagues then en deavoured to effect a remarkable expurgation of the revenue by th e abrogation o f certain unnatural im posts; they w ere d es i rous of emancipating the people from a si;atutory thraldo m, . rather th an lintoolAlfirptihexertions m their bond ...s4ti:* ",, - . •rgy of the Administration ;. c ., -- '. -; '2 • s ,- ' , first of all, to the embarrass ments Isurrounded neces our fore' I>* qil - - • 'f r - ' ' - 'fore' policy; r': *Meta bave,nt y .-- ~,, :, ; :hre will b(3, !g nece;sity for immediate and candid 4.-.-- ex p -- I A -Itation :14 to the course 1 \.... c which h .;-:- b e j. 'latterly adopted in regard to has jollfbeelxnelitBin4g7 1 1 1:fR SUN', LONDON * MON DAY EV.ENIXt}, DECEMBP,R )1440. faithless and insidious nations with which we have hitherto maintained a credulous alliance. So great has this necessity already become, that we are most solicitous as to its consequences. We are solicit ous not so much as to the capacity of our statesmen to cope with those of the continent, not so much as to their readiness to compete with external cajoleries, or their ability to uphold the dignity and honour of the British empire, as we are solicitous that these deplorable misunderstandings with our neighbours may not retard to an indefinite period questions of the utmost importance to our population. Let us glance for a moment at the nature of those international differences to which we have referred, and the almost simultaneous recurrence of which will necessitate such prolonged explanations in Parlia ment. These differences may be speedily enume rated, and their enumeration will at once testify the reasonableness of our anxiety. Our friendly relations with France have been scattered to the winds by the disingenuous machinations of his Majesty King Louis PHILIPPE. The cincture by which the bundle of sticks was bound together has been broken ; the entente cordiale has been destroyed; the alliance of Albion and Gaul, like the alliance of ALLADIN and the sorcerer, has continued only as long as the inte rests of the latter rendered it convenient. Our friend ship with Spain, in like manner, has been cooled by the shameless hypocrisy of ISTURITZ and Queen CHRISTINA. With Portugal, again, we have become in some mea sure implicated on the occasion of the late insurrec tions. Our negotiations with the sanguinary chief tains of the Rio de la Plata have signally failed, and our emissary, Mr. HooD, has returned homewards without having effected a single compromise. In India the quietude which had been so dearly bought by the carnage of Sobraon, by the deathful struggles of Ferozeshah, and the blood of Sir ROBERT SALE, has been jeopardized by the temporary incapa city of GHOOLAB SINGH, by the instability of the Durbar of Lahore, and by a fanatical revolt in Cash mere. Fortunately, however, these difficulties have been prematurely dissolved,:and an Oriental tranquil lity is again rendered feasible. In the forcible seizure of Cracow, however, consists the principal obstacle to the perpetuation of European peace. By that flagitious act our reliance upon the faith of King FREDERICK WILLIAM, of the Kaiser FERDI• NAND, and of the Czar NICHOLAS, has been utterly dissipated. In that violation of the treaty of Vienna we recognise the fact that the volcano has only abated, that it has not been extinguished—that we have been slumbering during thirty-one years among the deceptive verdure which has sprouted up upon the crater—that beneath that verdure the ashes of the last eruption are yet warm, and the latent elements are still struggling to accomplish another catastrophe. Upon the merits of these unfortunate occurrences the national repre sentatives will have to decide. Her MAJESTY'S Minister for Foreign Affairs will have to shrive him self to the Parliament, and through it to the people ; and the nature of the measures thereupon to be adopted in each particular will require an instant decision. Before any permanent and satisfactory peace can be arranged in Europe the recent proceedings of the Courts of Paris, of Madrid, of Lisbon, of Vienna, of St. Petersburgh, and of Berlin, will have to be defi nitively accounted for; and, beyond this, the indepen dence of the German principalities, the general re forms which are being effected in the Papal States under Pope Pius IX., and the compromise of the sectarian squabbles in Switzerland, will demand a serious investigation, and, if necessary, a cordial assist ance. "Until these advantages, or, at least most of these advantages, be effected there will be no reasonable hope of an enduring friendship among the empires and principalities of Europe. On their settlement the progress of civilization would be won derfully expedited ; the humanizing influence of com merce would extend to the furthermost limits of the globe; it would embrace the most distant of the South Sea Islands as well as the most northern of the whale fisheries, it would penetrate the interior of China, it would expose the riches of Japan to the competition of the most enterprising, it would termi nate the troubles and enmities of Itafirland, and elicit all the agricultural and mineral wealth which yet remains dormant in Australia. Mexico might then aspire to safety from American avarice, it might awake to a consciousness of its own capabilities for power, it might advance with the advancement of knowledge and the diffusion of happiness. In the present condition of affairs such anticipations are undoubtedly little better than Utopian, but ultimately, under the guardianship of a free Commerce, an accessible Knowledge, and'a generous Morality, mankind will be in a fair way of reaching that most desir able goal. Meanwhile we are solicitous as to the imme diate effect which these European disagreements may have upon ourselves ; we are solicitous that whilst Lord PALMERSTON is striving to heal the wounds recently inflicted by the duplicity and self ishness of our psuedo-allies the admirable political programme of the noble Premier may not be injudi ciously postponed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has guaran teed to the citizens of London, and consequently to the electors of the United Kingdom, sanatory and educa tional measures of the highest importance. We would see nothing interfere with the introduction of plans so earnestly desiderated. We would see the miseries of Ireland abated, the ignorance and the physical wants of the community transformed into knowledge, and health, and cleanliness. If there was a necessity for dispatch and exertion in our repre sentatives during the session of 1846, there is a yet greater exigence in that regard during the session which is approaching. Numerous deputations from the influential meet ings lately held in our leading cities and towns, in favour of a reduction in the duty on tea, had an inter view on Saturday with Lord Jonsi RUSSELL and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the former. Whether we regard the number of the deputations, the importance of the places they severally represented, the extent to which it is likely to affect the commercial, manufacturing, and shipping interests, as well as the views, social and moral, which are necessarily bound up with its considera tion, the proposed diminution of nearly 100 per cent, of the existing tax upon tea is as grave a question as can well be propounded for the reflection of the Go vernment. The united voices of Liverpool, Edin burgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, Leeds, Black burn, and Norwich, were echoed on Saturday in Downing-street, on behalf of an immediate and ex tensive approximation towards establishing freedom of trade in tea. What power, influence, and intelli gence were here represented ! Whatpublic bodies more competent to suggest and advise with the Government upon fiscal matters ! We had not here the mere representative of numbers, which Mr. COCHRANE, in his recent interview with Sir G. GREY upon the question of opening the ports, seemed to think the one essential for forcing the Executive to adopt any measure ; but we had the concentrated intelligence of our leading marts of commerce, indicating, under the auspices of moral force, "an extraordinary ne cessity, by a certain class of statistical facts bearing on the condition and circumstances of the country." That the Premier felt the pressure of the argument built upon the mass of figures brought under his notice, is evident from the short reply which he made to the memorialists. His Lordship was "fully im pressed with the importance of the subject, and pro mised it should have the early consideration of the Government. More he could not say, nor could it be expected of him." A more favourable response could not, we admit, have been reasonably anticipated, veing that concession to the desired reduction must be mainly influenced by the interests of the revenue. Had we no other guarantee than the Minister's promise, upon which we place every reliance, that this question shall have the early reflection of the Cabinet, we should find a sufficient one in the present state of our trade with China, which is deplorably reduced. Few can forget the universal joy which was diffused throughout our mercantile community by the announcement of the masterly treaty which Sir POTTINGER effected on our behalf with China at the conclusion of the late war. The liberal tariff which we thereby secured with the Chinese was hailed as the harbinger of unprecedented prosperity. Why has this tide not set in ? Simply because we (have maintained such an extravagant duty upon tea, that all commercial reciprocity became nipped in the bud. The folly of our fiscal proceedings is rendered glaringly manifest in this : that whereas, by our own arms, we placed not only ourselves, but other nations, upon a most favourable footing with the Chinese, in regard to mercantile intercourse, America, for in stance, and other countries, where either no import duties on tea prevail, or only in a very moderate de gree, are prosecuting a flourishing commerce, whilst our own is seriously declining. Were there any probability of regularly obtaining teas from China at lesser prices than what our merchants now pur chase them for, a ray of hope for commercial im provement, of a very mitigated character, might be let in ; but this, we know, is not the case. An ex tract from the observations of Mr. HORSEALL, of Liverpool, to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, will be service able, as showing the high sense of honour by which our merchants are uniformly characterised : " We had secured for other nations the same advan tages in China that we ourselves possessed; but whil-t iu no other country was tea charged a higher duty than 6d. per lb., and in some it was entirely free, our con sumers had to pay 2s. 21d. per lb. He then pressed on the Government the injustice of our forcing upon the Chinese a tariff, the lowest of any nation with whom we trade, whilst we impose on the principal article of their manufacture so exorbitant a duty. It was contrary to the feelings of Englishmen to oppress the weak, the powerless ; and he hoped that so great a blot on our national character would soon be wiped away." Again, in the memorial of the East India Associa tion of Glasgow, adverting to the point of the pre sent duty being at variance with the principles on which the commercial relations of our country are now based, it is happily observed, that the duty is " so inconsistent, indeed, as must induce the suspicion amongst nations, whom it is desirable should follow our footsteps in free trade, that the principle of reci procity is only to be practised when not interfering with the Exchequer, and to be laid aside when dealing with a vanquished and comparatively weak nation." In their promised revision of these duties we hope the Executive will not be unmindful of the unfair manner in which, by the principle on which they are at present levied, the poorer classes are oppressed. At this moment the affluent and the needy pay the same rate of duty on what they consume, whatever be the difference in the value of the tea which they respectively purchase. This is the reverse of justice. Neither would it be politic to adhere to this leviable rule. The Exchequer must suffer a temporary loss whenever a reduction is sanctioned. We have advo cated that the reduction should be a large one, because, although the deficiency in the public finances would in the first instance be thereby increased, it would nevertheless, by the extended demand for tea, be more readily supplied. Any reform, then, of the tea duties should be an ad valorem. It is in this way only that the Government can look successfully to invite the humbler orders to use an article to such an extent as that they may safely face all apprehen sions touching the revenue, consequent upon a con siderable abatement of the existing noxious duties. Mr. O ' CONNELL has often asserted that "he is the best abused man in the kingdom." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman might have added, not only in the kingdom, but in the world, and his claim to the title would long since have been fully established. There is no form of calumny, no measure of invective., that has not from time to time been freely poured forth upon his devoted head. If a public meeting was held of his political opponents, good, hearty, unmiti gated abuse of Mr. O'CONNELL was sure to form the chief subject of debate; it usurped the place of reason and argument; if sufficiently gross, it was sure to be received with the most rapturous applause. The widest scope was afforded to the fancy of the orator ; it was not at all necessary that his arguments should be founded on facts ; the most ridiculous, the most absurd non sense, was swallowed with the greatest avidity. If Mr. O'CONNELL was made the hero of the tale, there were no bounds to the credulity of the hearers. A statement that the speaker had heard somebody somewhere say that he would not be surprised if Mr. O ' CONNELL had formed certain projects, was forth with looked upon as " confirmation strong as proof of holy writ." Of late years, however, though still the butt at which many shafts were aimed, there were not so many direct accusations hurled against him. The triumphant vindication of his character, by which he so often exonerated himself from every foul imputation, and heaped shame and con fusion upon his slanderers—the more perfect know ledge of his true conduct, character, and the motives by which he was actuated—the generous and disinterested assistance which he was ever ready to extend to the injured and oppressed, no matter what might be their creed or politics, removed in a great degree the bitter feelings of personal hostility with which he had been regarded by many ; the improved tone of society, the greater degree of liberality which has existed of late years, has made such accusations less acceptable, and justice has been rendered even to O'Comearx, and some proof has latterly been demanded of the authenticity of the charges before general credence has been given to them. The direct and positive charge has, there fore, generally speaking, been abandoned, but it has been replaced by " The shrug, the hum, or ha! these petty brands That calumny cloth use;" and scurrilous insinuations are thrown out, and hints whispered that are almost as injurious to the reputa tion of the venerable patriot as the more direct and tangible aspersions of former times. One of the chief grounds of attack, at all periods, has been an alleged mal-administration of the funds of whatever association Mr. O'CoNDIELL for the time has been connected with. In olden times, " when GEORGE the FOURTH was King," it was openly as serted that " the Catholic Rent" was entirely applied to his private purposes, that the National Fund was pocketed by him with the most undisguised and un blushing effrontery. The same story was told of every other fund, by whatever name it might be des signated, that was collected from the Irish people for political purposes. The winding-up of affairs, the final auditing of the accounts, the satisfactory explanation of every expenditure, and its end and object, that was invariably afforded, crushed the falsehood at the moment ; but scarcely had it been suppressed when another of a similar description, of equal virulence, and equally unfounded, sprung up, like another head of the fablel hydra. Within the last few days a like in sinuation has been promulgated with respect to the funds of the Repeal Association. The organ of " Young Ireland," of the " physical force phalanx," has backed and supported the organ of the ultra- Tories in the hints which it has thrown out with respect to what it calls the " missing funds" of the Association. A prompt and ready justification of the Learned Gentleman was at hand. Even at the moment that the poison was wafted on the wings of the press throughout the length and breadth of the land, the antidote was in readiness. The accounts were made up, the books posted, the vouchers, not only for the present year, but from the time of the very foun dation of the society, for the most trifling and in significant sums, were retained, and were open to the inspection of any member who wished to see them, The accounts, as the Learned Gentleman stated, might challenge a comparison with those of any mercantile house in the city, nay, with those of the Bank of Ireland itself. Every item, even to the amount of three halfpence, had its corresponding voucher, amounting in all to no less a sum than 73,3481. sterling. All the documents were to be seen posted in the books, numbered, dated, and easily referred to. Here is a plain and distinct statement, susceptible of immediate contradiction if anything erroneous has been asserted. Surely "Young Ireland"has the means of testing its accuracy in the most satisfactory manner if any part of it can be cavilled at or impeached. They have clearly proved that they do not want the will to injure the man to whose extraordinary sagacity, sound judgment, and indomitable perseverance they owe the liberties, the privileges, they now possess—the man who had, as the acknowledged head of the party to which they themselves until within a few short months belonged, during a period greater than that ever previously enjoyed by a leader of the people, been placed in circumstances of the most extraordinary difficulty, and who achieved a bloodless victory, a social revolution, a total change in the condition of the people by moral force alone, and has not in his hale and vigorous old age to reproach himself as being the cause of the spilling of one single drop of blood. If, therefore, the statement remains undis puted, it may be 'ascribed to the want of ability to controvert it. The Learned Gentleman also refuted another dale petty and vexatious attacks that was made upon him . It was a matter insignificant enough in itself, and one would think scarcely of sufficient importance to form the foundation of a weighty accusation ; but anything appears to be considered fair in the guerilla warfare that has been carried on against him. The gravamen of the charge was, that on a former occasion, some twelve months since, Mr. O'CONNELL had been invited to a dinner by " the Reform Club" of Dublin, of which be is a member, and that he then refused to attend unless " the repeal of the Union" was given as a toast ex cathedra, but that recently he consented to preside, and gave from the chair the toast of " Prosperity to Ireland," with out in any degree alluding to the repeal of the Union, from which, they asserted, it clearly followed that he had abandoned the policy to which he had pledged himself in the most solemn manner. Now, we are no advocates for the repeal of the Union ; we are honestly and conscientiously opposed to any proceeding by which the integrity of the empire— the national strength—might be impaired or dimi nished; but we give full credit to the honesty and sincerity of those entertaining different opinions, and who do not dread the dangers which we fear would result if the project was carried into execution ; and we should deeply regret to see anything which could take away from the respect we entertain for Mr. O'CONNELL, and which his great and important services to the cause of freedom entitle him to. He himself fully explains the causes of the refusal on the first, and the omission on the last occasion : the first was a dinner proposed to be given to himself, a tribute of honour to his political character. He refused to accept that honour unless the toast of "Repeal" was given. The pro priety of the dearest object of his life was recognised, as he felt that no entertainment would be a compli ment to him if it was not drank. On the second occa sion, he attended as an ordinary member of the Club; he could, of course, make no stipulation as to the toasts that should be given ; nor could he, with pro priety, as chairman, give a toast likely to occasion differences in the convivial party over which he was invited to preside. We congratutate Mr. O'CONNELL on his triumphant refutation of these, the latest calumnies by which he has been assailed. The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 30th ult. says there is reason to believe that the French Government was not kept in entire ignorance of the intentions of the Northern Powers respecting Cracow, and quotes the following from the Mannheim Jour nal :- " If the incorporation of Cracow did n•ot take place with the consent of the French Ministry, it was at least, if we are correctly informed, apprised of it before hand, and the Russian Cabinet undertook to convince the French Government of the necessity and propriety of the measure. This appears to have been perfectly successful, for Louis Philippe and M. Guizot have made reservations and objections merely for the purpose of sheltering the Government from the attacks of the Op position. Russia is said to have given the French Go vernment to understand upon the conduct of France in this affair would depend that of the three Powers re specting the Spanish marriage." A letter from Cracow of the 23d ult., says— " Five Polish women have been just arrested. In Galicia the peasantry are more closely watched than ever. An ordonnance from the Austrian Govern ment forbids every peasant to leave his dwelling after sunset, to hold any communication with his neigh bours, or to attend any assemblage. The whole country, in fact, is militarily occupied, like a place in a state of siege." A Frankfort journal states that great financial difficulties exist in Electoral Hesse and the Duchy of Brunswick. In the former the Ministry has exceeded the budget voted for the army, and the States have refused to allow the excess. In Bruns wick there is a deficit of 230,000 crowns in the budget of 1845. There is said also to be great want of money in Wurtemberg, and that a loan is impracticable. A letter from Berlin, of the 28th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says—"lt is confidently stated that the Provincial States will be soon convoked. A sort of fundamental law, it is said, has received the assent of the agnates of the Royal Family. According to this law, the Provincial States are to be convoked every three years, like the States-General. The budget and all important organic laws are to be sub mitted to them, but they will only have a right to give advice. It is beyond a doubt that this constitu tion will be considered as a gift from the Throne, and that it will not be permissible to discuss it, or to examine if it ought to be accepted." The Universal German Gazette gives the following as the composition of the present Russian Ministry : Minister of the Imperial Household, General Prince Volchonski ; Foreign Affairs, Count de Nesselrode ; War, General Prince Tschernitscheff; Marine, Ad miral Prince Mentschoff ; Interior, M. Perowski ; Public Instruction, Count Uwaroff; Finance, M. Wrontschenko ; Imperial Domains, General Count de Kiselew ; Justice, Count Paniz. The statements published in the Russian papers of the defeat of SCRAMYL are contradicted by letters which have been received from Talk is and Trebi sond. In fact it impossible to place the smallest reliance on anything which appears in the official journals of St. Petersburgh. These letters state that the cholera, after ravaging Bagdad, was progressing towards the north. Madrid papers of the and 29th ult. have arrived. The Gazette of the 29th contains the following letter from Don EN RIQUE to the QUEEN, dated Brussels, Nov. 19: "Madam, --Desiring on the one hand that my conduct may cease to appear obscure, and on the other to give to your Majesty on the day of your fete a testimony of respect and attachment, of patriotism and profound de votedness to the constitutional will of your Majesty, and the decisions of the legitimate representatives of the nation, I have resolved of my spontaneous will, free from all influence, and yielding only to the impulse of my conscience, to annul solemnly my protest signed at Ghent on the 9th September last, so that it may at no time have force, or produce the least effect. Deign, Madam, to receive with favour the expression of my sentiments of devotedness, and the respectful homage of the attachment and fidelity of your affectionate and sub missive cousin, who kisses the feet of your royal Majesty." The Progressistas will return about forty Deputies to the Cortes, and the Absolutists six or eight. There will be an increase in the number of the Deputies be longing to the Moderado Opposition, but, notwith standing all this, the Ministerial majority in the new Cortes will, according to El Tiempo, be immense. MADRID BoLsA, Nov. 28.—The Thrae per Cents. closed at 34 9-16ths ; the Four per Cents. at 21 ; the Five per Cents, at 21i ; and Coupons not Capitalized, at 19i. The 29th being Sunday the Bolsa was closed. idcba t oinus fr riP rt er o T th ro r . m s a r e We have received the — Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The French protest against the annexation of Cracow to Austria was dispatched to Vienna on Thursday. The Presse publishes the following as the substance of it : h_ afd e rt pro testiloymfu wwo feit lthat Caabrtr o eea f col. io t f l i I dwto IFryadrs dispatchede informed, s n e c n h tt Cabin e t ooffß etor Palmerston, Berlin hnii sea a indnn g noda a acs i Su:). document yesterday, and secr t tnh h eetr e t tdehari willa n ys _t - , more explicit than those used by the English G overnment. The quest i on of necess i ty w ill be found di scussed in it by M. Guizot, without neglecting that of right, on which the Minister princi pally insists. Th e i ncorporation was not necessary f or the tranquillity a n d security this, it is a manifest viola tion of the possessions of the thre e Courts; and putting aside of the treaty o f V ienna. Suc h are sa id to be the two points insist e d upon by M. Gu i zot. W e may add that the Governm ent has considere d , as w e do, that this act of the three Courts gives henceforth to Fra nce a com plete freedom of action occasion arise, i t may s turn greatly to her adva nta g e. T his is stated in the clearest terms in the foll owin g and most importa n t passage of the protes t :--‘ The Cabinets of Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh , h avin g ceased to hold themselves bound by the treaty of 1815, as is the manifest result of the incorporation of Cracow with the states of Austria. France from that moment considered herself released from the oblig a ti o ns of the same treaty; and should any case occur in which her interests should make her dispo se d to act as if t h e y w ere abrogated, she would not hesitat e to d o so. ' " The Constit u ti onnel o f F r id ay journals, again reiterates its assertion, notwith stan di ng t h e d en ial of the Minis terialthe interruption o f th e entente co rdiale with England, endeavoured to ge t up an a lli ance with the Northern Courts, and wa s that the French Governm ent, a f ter prepared to sacrifice the cause of liberty in Europe t o t h e f orma tion of such an alliance. After speaking o f th e M on tpensier marriage as a fault, it thus continues : • " Once that the fault was committed, you turned t towards the friendship of' the Northern Powers. It is in vain that you deny this ; to your formal dentesation we oppose an energetic persevering, and certain atlirma- Hen. Let us be told, in fact, if a phrase of the Emperor of Russia, pronounced on hearing of the marriages, has not been announced as if a piece of political news com mented on, and repeated with joy. What has not been said, in the same sense, of the language used by the Russian Minister at the official reception of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier ? Let the negotiations entered into with Austria relative to Switzerland be borne in mind ; let the provincial Ministerial journals be referred to, proclaiming us they did, under the inspiration of the Government, that the time for new alliances had ar rived; it will then be seen if it is possible to deny the ad vances made to the Northern Powers. We direct attention to these facts, not to add to the embarrassment of the Ministry, but because we are forced to do so. Finally, in order that this policy may be completely judged of, let us recal to mind in a few words what an internal situation has been produced for France, at the very time that she has been isolated from the rest of Europe. Was not the Government warned of the risks that our finances and credit must incur, from public works being commanded, as they were, without measure, and from the money market being loaded with such masses of =hares ? It paid no attention to these warnings. At present the Northern and Lyons railways are only at their second calls, and yet a crisis is declared ; capital is withdrawing ; public credit is shaken ; the companies are abandoning a great number of railway lines, and by their withdrawal condemn you. The disasters of the weather complicates the situation. It is not certainly your fault if the harvest is bad ; yet not long since you reckoned the fertility of the country amongst the merits of your policy. But what is a just cause of complaint against you is that you paid no attention to the counsels of foresight and prudence, which were so lavishly given to you both in the Chambers and by the press. Thus then, by your own acts, a financial embarrassment is added to scarcity of food ; and both coincide, in point of time, with the most serious of political positions—the isolation of France." The financial crisis which is evidently at hand in France, and which seems to have taken the French Government completely by surprise, is now attracting the attention of all political parties, and will ere long, probably, engross it entirely, to the exclusion of questions of foreign policy. The following extract from a long article on the affairs of the Bank, which appears in the National, represents the monetary affairs of France in a very gloomy light : " We, a few days ago, mentioned the great projects of the Bank, and we had hoped not to have had occasion to return to the subject. Yesterday, however, the directors, continuing under the influence of the same panic, enter tained the question of raising the rate of discount. A few days since they debated as to whether they should not limit their discounts to bills having thirty days to run, instead of three months, as at present. Plans abandoned and resumed, fatal agitation, which, coming from the Bank itself, throw difficulties in the way of business and lessens credit—this pri vileged establishment, whose principal duty is to create security, produces fear, uncertainty, and distrust. She ought to have foreseen, more than three months ago, the effect to be produced in Paris by all the causes which she was acquainted with in common with every one else. Is the shortness of crops a new fact? Was it not known that a certain quantity of specie would be applied to the purchase of wheat and other grain? Was it not known what a weight the railroad shares would be on the market? As for us, we called attention over and over again to these subjects. All other circumstances which at present exercise their influence on credit were as well known then as now. The Bank ought to have taken measures and been prepared for all contingencies, for she is in possession of all means, and is richer than necessary. If she had been sufficiently foreseeing to render her capital available, she would not now expe rience any inconvenience. What does she do now? Frightened at the increasing diminution of bullion in her cellars, she wishes to limit her transactions and reduce the amount in hand of discounted paper. She ought to prevent, but she creates a crisis. Whence arises this panic under which she labours? Have speculations been carried to excess? Is production beyond measure? Have we had here the counter-shock of those great crises with which the trade of other countries is sometimes visited? Have we seen in France the imprudence of production create those perturbations which shake the strongest house: and overturn the rotten? Nothing of the kind. The quantity of specie in the hands of the Bank is reduced ; it does not exceed 80,000,000 of francs. The quantity has never been so low ; and as the decrease goes on the Bank gets frightened, and threatens to make the trading public victims of a state of things which has been caused solely by her imprudence, and which is daily increased by her indecision. She has been more than a week negotiating a loan of 50,000,000 francs from the Bank of England, and nothing is done. If there is so much fear it is time to come to a decision. Nothing is so fatal to credit as these fluctuations of fear, and, instead of coming quickly to a conclusion, they shuffle, they discuss upon gold or upon silver ; the Bank does not see that the most im• portant and urgent thing is to quiet the mind of the public and her own. They do not see that when the Bank has 50,000,000 more in her cellars she will have no occasion to touch them, and that she will soon see her stock of specie doubled. Is it by acting with _timidity that a great establishment is to be conducted ? Is it expected that little means and digging little gutters will bring money back to the only reservoir of credit ? Is this the way in which the directors understand the importance of an exclusive privilege, and the obligations it imposes ? Many causes have been mentioned as ac counting for the disappearance of specie 4 the amount rt quired for the purchase of wheat has been greatly exaggerated, but it has not been said that for several months French money has been been going to Bavaria, ' Prussia, and Austria, to be employed in support of the projects of our enemies. Nothing is said about the loan of 80,000,000 of florins contracted at Vienna with the house of Rothschild ; nothing has been said of the specie taken from the bank by M. d'Eichthal for a similar pur pose. No notice has been taken of our five franc pieces converted into bars, to supply the wants of Germany, which was exhausted. Our confiding and blind country looks with indifferenbe on the warning givenby the press in days of quiet ; and like the swallow in the fable, only believes in danger when it is come." The prosecution of the three Polish journals has been virtually abandoned, the Court having deferred giving judgment sine die. On this subject we find the following remarks in the Constitutionnel of Saturday : " The trial of the three Polish journals is over. The Court has not delivered judgment, but has contented itself with deferring it au premier jour (in other words sine die). The public Minister, in fact, abandoned the prosecution. This is an act of good sense, upon which we congratulate the magistracy. We, indeed, always thought that in this affair it did not play an active part. It is now quite evident that the magistracy is too clear sighted not to perceive that it is too late to punish for a pretended offence a periodical publication which has ex isted for ten years, and every number of which has been deposited at the office of the Procureur du Roi. If, in the course of these ten years no prosecution has been insti tuted, it certainly must have been because no infraction of the law was discovered. These journals, written in the Polish language, and confined solely to giving the news from Poland and to discussing the acts of the Russian Government, ought to participate in that exceptional position which our legislation has made for the Polish refugees. Was it reasonable, was it just, to subject to the most impitiable exigencies of the fiscal law exiles deprived of their fortunes, and to whom France granted succour ? Would it not be much better to leave to the Poles, scattered over all Europe, journals in their own language, forming a common tie between them, as a last souvenir of the country they have lost ? It is evident that this prosecution of the three journals at the moment when the Government was endeavouring to conciliate the Northern Courts was a purely political measure. It was wished to make a public reply to some friendly expres sions fancied to have been received from the Emperor of Russia. The events of Cracow have spoiled these petty tactics, as they have falsified many other calculations, and, when too late, it has been found that the unlucky . moment had bee n chosen for persecuting the journals of the exiled Poles." The Russian Presse is, of course, outrageous at finding that both the Journal des Debats and the Constitutionnel admit the necessity of an alliance with England, and differ only as to the means by which it may be renewed. The accounts from Algiers are to the 30th ult. A telegraphic dispatch, received from General DE BAR, states that eleven French , prisoners who had remain e d in the power of AD:tEr , KA DER had been liberated by order of the E and conducted near to Melila, I where they were admirably well received by the Spanish authorities. They were embarked on th e 27th at Djemma-Ghazahouat. Nothing was known of the movements of Ban -3.IAzA. ABD-.EL-KADER was at Ain Z o b ra. A letter from Bordeaux of Nov. 30, states that the Marquis DE VALDESPINA, Colonel Mvizsito, and the ecclesiastics GONZALES and Jinni, Spanish refugees, whom the Government had confined in the citadel of Blaye, have obtained permission to leave it. The Moniteur publishes a report to the KING, from the Minister of Commerce, recommending a modi fication of the duties on corn in the French West India Colonies. The report says— " Our Antilles and the island of Bourbon usually obtain their corn from France.. This is rather an important market for our agriculture, and the tariffs have been applied in such a way as to preserve it by taxing at a high rate the foreign corn imported into our colonies. But under existing circumstances, the mother country having in the first instance secured a supply for herself, that of the colonies would become difficult if the present duties were not reduced until a new harvest shall permit the corn trade to resume the regular course of exports. I have therefore the honour to submit to the approbation of your Majesty the draft of an ordonnance substituting, provisionally, simple duties of control for the taxes es tablished on the Antilles and the island of Bourbon upon wheaten flour, and also upon Indian corn (mais), and dried vegetables." This report is followed by a royal ordonnance, fix ing the duty on wheaten flour at if. the 400 kilo- grammes, on dried vegetables 25c. ditto, Indian corn in grain 50. ditto, in flour 10c. The decline in the price of wheat and flour in the Paris corn market has received a check, and prices are again rising. The Presse accounts for this in the follo‘ling manner : " Exaggerated fears first caused all species of corn to rise beyond their real value, but a sudden change in public opinion, caused by the circular published by the Minister of Commerce, produced a panic in a contrary sense, and then the price of wheat fell suddenly 3f. and 4f. the hectolitre. The panic seized several large growers, who endeavoured to realise the current prices, as the circular of the Minister left no doubt as to France being sufficiently supplied. But unfortunately this panic was but momentary ; and, after a few days' reflection, it was discovered that the Minister's circular was not correct, and the fall in prices was checked. At Provins, for example, it lasted but one day, when it was found that buyers came from the department of the Aube to supply themselves. At Paris the millers have raised their prices in consequence of the want of flour in the department of the Marne. At Marseilles the price of corn has risen, and in Germany prices have risen at Dantzic and at Mentz." It betokens on the part of 'the Minister of Com merce great carelessness, or something worse, to have issued an incorrect circular on such a subject. Coupling this admitted incorrectness of the Ministerial circular with the rise in price, notwithstanding the recent large importations of corn into France, it would appear as if there were some foundation for the following " Questions to the Ministers," which appear in the National of Saturday:— " Is it true that Algeria, in consequence of razzias and bad government, is at this moment suffering from famine? Is it true that M. Rothschild has been engaged to provide for the provisioning of Algeria, and that one of the conditions imposed on him is, that he shall cause all his ships to touch at Marseilles before proceeding to the Algerine coast, the object of this manoeuvre being to deceive the people of France by fictitious importations of foreign corn?" The Patrie has the following : " Several journals have alluded to a species of conflict which has arisen in the Mauritius between the Consul of France, M. Barbet de Jouy, and the English Admiral Dacres. According to the Cerneen, a journal published in the island, the following are the circumstances : On the 15th of August last the French Consul received from Captain Stanley-and his officers an invitation to a ball on board the frigate President, bearing the Ad miral's flag, but commanded by Captain Stanley. On the following afternoon two officers of the frigate, in uni form, presented themselves at the French Consulate, and withdrew the invitation, which they informed him had been sent under the erroneous impression that the Consul had paid a visit to the Admiral. Surprised and in dignant at such a proceeding, M. Barbet de Jouy had great difficulty in suppressing his feelings. He returned his ball-ticket to the officers, after having given them his opinion of the nature of the message which they had taken upon them to deliver, and reproached them with having extended the principle of passive obedience be yond its natural limits.' Notwithstanding appeals to the Governor upon this outrage, it does not appear that, at the date of the last accounts, M. Barbet de Jouy had received any reparation. The Governor of the island of Bourbon, on being made acquainted with this incident, sent the steam-ship Crocodile to the Mauritius, which came to an anchorage outside the space covered by the flag, and her boat went into the port to hold a communi catian with the Consul, but did not salute either the forts or the English ships." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 82f. 45c. •, the Five per Cents., 1181. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,258 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 8951. ; Havre, 6551. ; Great Northern, 648 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 8901. ; Vierzon, 590 f. ; Bordeaux, &571. 50c.; Boulogne, 445 f. ; Basle, 221 f. 25c. ; Dieppe, 355 ; Paris and Strasburg, 4831. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 4921. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 50Sf. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 492 f.; Bordeaux and Cette. 475 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 55%; Spanish Three per Cents., 37/ 2 ; Ditto Domestic Debt, 32%; Ditto Pas sives, 5%. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 5. Direct Bombay and Madras, %—Luxembourg, —Na%. mur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France Constituted, 10 lA —Orleans and Vierzon, 12 3 %—Orleans and Bordeaux, 73, —Paris and Lyons Constituted. 4% —Sambre and Meuse, 4%4 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE.-HONDA Y During last week the arrivals of English wheat, barley, and oats for our markct coastwise were on a very extensive scale ; but a large portion of the former article went direct into the hands cf the millers. Fair average supplies of oats were received from Scotland ; but the only arrival from Ire land was 900 quarters of barley. The imports of Foreign wheat and flour were only moderate, but those of ba:ley and oats were unusually large. Taken collectively, the receipts of grain in the port of London were very great. Fresh up, the receipts of English wheat, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample, were seasonably good, and of fair average quantity. Notwithstanding the actual quantity of wheat of home produce on offer was large, the trade with that article was by no means so heavy as might have been expected, arising chiefly from many of the larger millers being rather short of stock. Still, however, the sale must be considered inactive, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath, the currencies obtained on this day se'nnight. Although several purchases " were effected for the Irish markets, a clearance had not been effected at the close of business. Very little Indian Corn was on show, and as much as 625 per quarter was paid for a very superior lot of American. We ware by no means heavily supplied with free Foreign Wheat. Selected parcels of both red and white moved off steadily, at fully last week's prices; but all other qualities were a mere drug, though we cannot call them lower. In Corn, under lock, we have very few sales to report. In the currencies no alteration took place. Owing to the immense influx of Barley, both English and Foreign, the Barley trade was excessively dull, at a depression in value of quite Is per quarter. Although we had a large quantity of Oats on show, the Oat trade was tolerably firm, at full prices. In Beans, a full average amount of business was doing at late rates The sale for Peas was steady, at previous quotations. The Flour trade was dull, yet prices were supported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier...... 733 to 745 Red, New.... 52s to 628 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 598 71e Lincolnsh., Feed. 27s 282 Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe 3ls 34. coin, Red.. •• . 55s 598 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White.... • • 565 64s 81ack....... 258 26s Irish, Red .. • • —8 —s Cork, White ... • . 24s 328 Ditto, White ••• • • • —s —8 Scotch, Feed. •. • • 29s 318 Eye—Old • . . 39s 41s Beans—Tick New... •• .. Barley—Grinding ....• 328 36s Pease—Grey . ........ 438 45s Malting . ........ 378 42s Map1e........... 453 478 Chevalier .... • • 438 448 White........... 53e 58s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ......... 605 64s folk •..•• . • . • ... 64s 698 Flour—Town-made... 54s 568 Brown ..... 538 56s Suffolk •. • . 44s 488 Kingston and Wars 708 72s Stocktn & Norfolk 448 468 SMITHFIELD. The following is a statement of the imports of foreign stock into London during the past week: — Whence. Heifers. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Boulogne . 30 Lambs. Calves, 252 Rotterdam 57 ... 270 .. 1,179 ... New Deep ... 32 ... - 517 ... Total 3O 57 ... 309 .At Hull about 180 Oxen have been landed from Rotterdan t .. 2,023 .. 252 40 s t o o o Bl s 10 Sheep, pp,e chiefly 11 headl ll We had on sale about s and Hamburgh. At Yarmouth 100 head of Beasts and S heep, and at Plymouth 2 0 Heifers have come to band from France,` and were disposed2oo Beasts ofat andfrom 51 from Holland. As is almost invariably the case on the Monday immediately preceding the great Christmas market, which will be held on Monday next. The supply of home. fed Beasts on show this morning was very extensive, though not of very first-rate quality. Comparatively speaking, the Beef trade was in a very inactive state, still, however, the primest Scots were mostly disposed of at last week's prices; but all other kinds of Beef suffered a decline of quite 2d per Sibs. Th e northern droves comprised 2,200 short horns; while, from the western and midland dis tricts we received 1,000 Herefords, Runts, Devons &c. ; and from other parts of England, 1,200 of various kinds. The numbers of Sheep being considerably on the increase, and of very superior quality, the butchers held off, and would not purchase except on easier terms. The Mutton trade was, therefore, exceedingly dull, and it was with diffi cu lt y the very primest old Downs realised 5s 2d per 81bs., being 2d lower than on this day se'nnight. Half-breds and Leicester's, as well as other breeds, were 4d per 81bs. lower. The supply of Calves was small ; yet the Veal trade was dull, at barely :ate rates. In Pigs very little was doing at our quotations. Per bibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. • Inferior Beasts .... 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto s 4. d o , to 4 2 . d. Second quality ditto. 210 8 2 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 4 3 8 Southdown Wethe.. 410 5 2 Prime Scots 310 4 4 Ditto:, out of the wool Large coarse Calves 38 4 2 Large Hogs ... •38 4 4 Prime small ditto •• 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers ... • 4 6 4 8 Suckling Calves • .18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 19 0 Inferior Sheep .a 8 310 Lambs ...... .0 0 0 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. yeasts. I shee p. I Calves. I Pigs. 4,608 27,900 103 250 NIIIVIGATE AND LEADENHALL. A considerable increase has taken place in the arrivals of country-killed Meat for these markets during the past week, while the supplies slaughtered in the metropolis have been seasonably good. Still, however, the general demand has ruled very steady, and, in some instances, the primest Beef and Mutton, owing to the favourable state of the weather, have realised a trifle more money—the value of all other kinds of Meat being well supported. Nearly 1,100 carcasses of foreign Beef, Mutton, and Veal have been disposed of at fair quotations. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. Cl. to s. d. - 1. d. to s. d Reef, Inferior -- middling •. —2 10 3 0 middling.. 310 4 2 prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime —•• 4 4 4 6 prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, largo • • ... •• 3 6 4 0 Veal.... Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. ZIOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. Several cargoes or Potatoes have arrived from France in the past `reek, and about 20 tons from Russia. Coastwise, the receipts have beer. moderate ; but the metropolitan markets have been fairly supplied by the various railways. The de mand must be considered steady, at extreme quotations. York Regent's, 130 s to 160 s per ton ; ditto Shaw's, 120 s to 140 s per ton ; Cambridgeshire Regent's, 120 s to 1408 per ton ; ditto Shaw's, 120 s to 140 s per ton; ditto kidney's, 100 to 130 s per ton ; Kent and Essex Regent's, 140 s to 180 s per ton ; ditto Shaw's, 120 s to 140 s per ton; ditto kidney's, 140 e to 160 s per ton ; French white's, 1008 to 120 s per ton. noziouGH HOP THARICHT. There is rather more business doing in Sussex and Weald of Kent pockets, at a trifling advance in the quotations. Bags of all kinds are in steady request, at full prices, although the supply on elrer is large. WOOL. The imports of Wool into London, in the past week have been very trifling, viz., 400 packages. The public sales are progressing steadily, with a full average attendance of buyers on each day. Fine qualities of colonial have pro, duded a trifle more money. In the value of the inferior and secondary descriptions, no change has taken place. Nearly the whole of the foreign wools: have been withdrawn. The sales will be brought to a close this week. OW, Prices for Y. C. Tall TALL both on the spot and for for• ward delivery in the spring months, are tolerably steady, especially considering tho heavy arrivals for several weeks Ipast. There are now on l y 3,000 cas k s to arrive from St. etenbargh, Ton Tam 493.6 d. to 5011, net cub. .1,-...;•Aft; ' 1 '''''''''t-••vc'-?4fz4,,,RW. ..40woraw,....aws-v-wit, .t•-ele4l--4;,--- N . EVE 6 ' M C.) ISi r .lE le . and COMMEItCf.A.L i. „, A large business war pool on Saturday: sales, 12.000 at half tc! 'Pe'_',,, i Q ag U a d in /i d T o E ne ß in deal doing tors, and the rest to the trade, Shares were much the same, and not A great.a, ..,00 Notwithstanding almost all the more influent! j i g , 0 candle bodies at Liverpool, at Manchester, e1P.,.1000 Scotland, including the various chambers otrdrigisto in all the principal localities of the provin`"'l,_ 1 , o f the have commenced a vigorous agitation in fe" 1 "., 0 Os T C ° o t t Tilal:t .1.7 i iir: reduction of the enormous duty upon tett ! kw iS .A Pirol6 l at fully previous tab.; London merchants still hang aloof from l'" the movement. At the combin... Joy Bile from all the places named, to Lord L ,..„ 8 apes sell, on Saturday last, to press the s uu J` . ..; of tb . the attention of the Government, not. r ib , PO influential firms in the City connected with the India and China trade appeared. In short,. toTtorr, to be a belief here among the trade, that sne . e.' u bo oc ? I l i the ' e o gr re ndoe Ill ; duction in the duty take place, importations maw received in the port f to / 00 1 0 be so distributed among the outpats f those //II materially to damage the interests 0 the cos i : now deal so largely in the leaf in is u nder tnercial walks of the metropolis• n b o ll ; P r ; stood, however, that a requisition is of big Do 0 pared to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose .1 . ..., 11 , o p° . ship's convening a pub!ie meeting of the cltlfr eit i niloh this very important subject. It is a M atter 7: t i le bot if carried out, do good to the gee tnercet'etropsil and to the middle and lower classes of th Z ero oe! and certainly they ought to men3orialieetes,wo wellowi in favour of a reduction of the duty or r ia t is COO li ;l e t,Los their provincial fellow -countrymen- - h e deP ll "" r ad• evident, from the reply of Lord John to t. .„ os ide , " of Saturday, that the matter will be seriousre otiod,,`" And why not commence progressively le l ' uo tios.7o reduction ? Practical men think, and no t 1 „,„ r 11). j , rattly, that were the duty reduced to 1 5 . 1 1 ;: rg e 1 :; $ all qualities next session, no, I L li n eated i l ,. 6 , 1 , dition to our imports could De 'Li t be ' - j o si• season of 1847-8. Let, then, the du ty age (with the 5 per cent. additional) till the l ob o 1 0 7j c i quoted year, and let the Is. duty be V ee l e tiel e ,,, re' after the commencement of 1849. 1 1) 0 0 0gl i r i jiaj thus be given to the Chinese growers 91 1 the ir pare for a most important increase il l 40 operations. c tie Sfe ° IP As yet there are not any tidings o• tits steamer. o c ea fro°: , There are not any late advices no i n°, -11 British North American Colonies today' in the ki n v ene l Business has been comparatively bri3',,,,00nt,0011 Market this morning. The price for th eme ri ge d. ( A 5 l _to firmly at 951, but now only 951 can be A d fro° 9 frol e for transfer to-morrow have just 951, and the New Three-and-a- reced_,, i Ceo°'. 6 le 96i to 96. The premium upon Exche t i t l it er i St 44/ ‘ 10s. ; upon India Bonds 21s. ; 11 ° 11 - 0 1 01‘ tof i realised 2061. Q u arter I"' i ; i ii a is i li p 00 1- al $ In the Foreign Funds a considerable 1 o isbo „ al p and 261 for the Five per Cents.; ness has been transacted, principally he i n the 1 '' a, a .W., Or at 381 to 371 i ; in the Dutch V * l. 091 I Ids Cents. at 601 i ; in the Four per Cen tik i n the °l. `o ,oi Portuguese Four per Cents. at 391 40 ; ""t tO 451 , „ t 2/ Bonds at 20i ;in the Buenos Ayr es - a - 4 , ~. Or i in the Brazilian Fire per Cents. at 8 5 Z: Alf 0/1 1: . g' In the Railway Share Market the aolcurate 11 1 00 been considerable this morning. or : s um Cl g r ie prices realised is annexed, but we ne. l6 _„:" n ghs lllo '- in North Stafford, Shrewsbury sad 13 1 "r„7 .00 ton, North-Western, and Eastern C° llllt ` e- clj° Cs l. 0 1 1 01.1_,Z , PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLDL'" O 4 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced An ... 0 9 112 94 9 6 3 per Cent. Consols Ann 't . a il .• New 3 1 , 1 ,4 per Cent. Annu n i t ti i e e s s *****• 96 1/ /. 96 ...... is 1 0 Exchequeri 3 aDn Bank t s o to 3 c O k ye ars, Bfoilrls, A ccountl J ooo an. i 5,. :. .............. 1 7 0 7 Li lo ......... Pr 9v M e Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6 o --- 1 1, 0 1 1_5 : P? South Sea Stock Consols for Account ...... -. 95 1 /4 0 % .... p P it:o, 5001 TO Ditto. Small AO - voiL oic 4 .5 8 5 IIIICES OF FOREIGN fUNDS OsC AS Brazilian Bonds . ... -N. 45 Ditto Small ........... ................. . - - ",,, j z, 43 Buenos Ayres BonTs .. .. n - e • .. • Cent. ;5 1, 7 Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. .••••' 204 Russian t r 1 u e D s x s i i t i c a t Ditto, n , 40, B , A 5 O enc p do e su r Cent. nt . . . .1 . ....... ................ ..- - -'• - 40 Spanish Ditto,Dit P ortuguese to,sA pc Passiveec or Bonds, unt. . Cent.. . . . 4 .. 1.. per .B. 4.. .0..... .. Cent ...,... ...................' ....' .... 112 3 .22 4 6 ; 40 0 1 Ditto. Account ........... 5510 i 04 310 Ditto 3 per Cent. ............. 38 ! 4 370 - Ditto, Account ........ Dividends on the above payau ~ / a 59 Belgian 434 per Cent ................ 9072 .................... kl : in Lon don. 04 Dutch, 234 per Cent . ........... 61 , ,-; . 60 3 4 Ditto, Account 95 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% Ditto, Account 93 PRIUES or BAILW4Y SHARES PAID. AT 0.N16 °TOO"' Belfast a n d lk Eastern coun'JunctiontCounty p Down w . n . Aberdeen Ambe?.. Not., Boston, --- ............... Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Bir ' mingh am aud Dudl 4 ... - 7.‘ . p .......' :: Birmingham and Ox ford 2,). Biii • nin. and Gleucester 100 *** ** 5 ' - - * •••." . • ° Birkenhead, ford Ditto New 12 2 2:1 % 0:314 .. 13 . 1751 ....3_ 1: 2 8 E ; i5 5 4 ......... 7 .... ..... ° ........1 1'7 ... ... ' . ................ ,. . ,. . 4r° / / 1 19 1 : ancashire, 2 and Cheshire June Birm 2 2 2 3 4 --: ........................................... 5/ Boston, Stamfd, & Bristol and Exeter •75 s* BB ruD D icaki i tt t oit t ilol o ga, , u: N adam e l G f w ss l h o hi u ra c er e e s s t . e . r . ........ 30 .... .......................................... /li 5 cc ia am l u e rn d b o re n i Bristol and Liver. June 2 1 ,4 •••••• - ".•........ ...... ill ' 84s. t a i a n a n n & d B G i r y a t n h d e. J . anc 25 42 /2 s .. ..... ..•:::: C C h h e e s e t t e e r r and aiad Holyhead... Manchesteril yhe a d... 4 2 2 7: , -- • 11 "' ... s " ..... "" Chelteieham and Oxford 2 • Clydesdale Junction. ... 20 - ..... .................... :: co Co r r k k, ar ß .d ia K ek il r l o a c r k, ney and ..... tA l :rk ass a a n g d es W . aterford ...... 222 1 L 1 1, 4% - -'" -..... . ................................. ": # oi D rn i w tto all H ..... ............. 2 5 1/ - . __ ..an & d a C ß e e n S if t as h l a t D r j e e s un v 12 2: 2 . ..1 .-. :.*: ..... .. Cornwall East Ret- . • Direct ford, a Direct Norwich Northern ... . . - A' -/ ° ... ............. ... ..„ Direct e ........ .......... 24- 2.... and ..... ...... ............... ... .. ......... 2 ...... A ...... u p u U b h ' and .............. .... C° Dublin and Galway._ .... ............ Dundalk - 4 ... • . a & Enniskillen 10 .. ---3 /.... ...... .. E stern Counties ...... 22 p•S ........ 14/. 16s. ................. Ditto New Ditto 121. 16a.....•• -- Perpetual, 5 per w D ........ Cent, N 6/. 13s 4d... 1 • ' l l :: ..,..‘. Ditto °. 1.-- ditto, No. 2.. 61. 13 .4d g 1i. 5 ,6 -1 ; ..... Do., York Extension.. 2 5. ... -1 " 141 4 .......... EastDereh'm andNoech 1 •••". --- .......... ...... !i... ....... ~. astei a Union 35 ~ ... 53 ..... Ditto, Quarter ...... ~.' Shares 8N ...... -- .... '. • •••• Do E t _ 0. . _x en.(Harwich) 1%.....• --- ......... East East D DD ioatB,ll. Lancashirei tli a el ino d Cr d % *' & v o a o Nni . ndeße m wb t S . (late so h f e' i n E ff r d k d n . )g E . Preston a lJune,. . n 5 25 1 2 % 15.4. .. ..... ..... .... .......... :11L4 : • 2 • ' ..: •‘.. '... .....: .:' .. :' ... .. .. . ' ... 14 ...... 18%../••'...,,,... d gh Quarter and Glasgow Shares h a r es Edin t b t u o i: Do., do , New Scrip l4 ..... 3 ..•••• ~•••....••• East Lincolnshire . 11a..... 2 1 / 4 1 4 .'' Ditto Half Shares Edinburgh & Northern 12% ..... --• ' ........... Edinburgh and Perth 3 . •-• ''..•... .. '.• Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo Exeter, Ycovil, & Dorset 5 1 4 .... "--• Glasgow,Kilmar ,B‘A r5O ... .. ..• ""' .............. Ditto, New • Y 1 5 . ..... -- . ........ Do., x, Shares (5 per cent. guar.) .., ...... 12%...... ,„, ....... Glouc.,Abetystwith and ....... .* ... Central of Wales ' 1%...... --•",,, . „''. ~•••'' Goole, Doncaster, &c... 425. ...... 7111 r' Grand Union (Notting- .... ''..; and Lynn .„.. • Great Eastern &Western .2 1 .... ....... / GreatGrimsby and Shef- A••••• • o ,o ' op field 10 ...... Great South. and West. ....... " (Ireland) Great Munster .. 2% ... •-• .... ~,.•••"'' 9 6 P Great Northof Scotland • ... 2% .... .--./••• ........ .... Great North of England..loo - S6W ........ - . 194 ..... Ditto New 5 . --- ''. .... •••• 0 Ditto, New ...... ............ i 6 Ditto, New 9t4 ...... 5120%::::: --lui.: . .......... ....... 1% ...... 1 ,-„ • ........ 1 ,, 1 7reat Western B5 .. 132 le' ... " •'' y 0 ;_,,. Ditto % Shares. 78 1 / 4 ........•",.... 9v Ditto I A ( Shares ...... . 185,4 ............... / 10 .. .... s o% 30 ... , 11 Ditto Fi ft hs 7 1 / 1 Ai"' 0 * Ditto, New -.. 2 ...... 13/.. ....., Huddersfield &blanches. 13 .. • 1 4 1 4:' ••• •••• / Ditto, Extension - ......... / ' ...... . ........ / Hull and Selby 5O .... ••-• • ...... . -- ......... . Ditto 4 Shares Do. Half Shares 25 ...... -- ••• ' ....... • ,:i 12 1 / 4 1 4 ....... ••• r'l Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11%.••••• Do., do., and Norwich 2%...... 2% 3 ...... '..“,, 10 Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... 68 ......... .... / Do. New ••' .. ,„ / Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... --• ..- ........... / Leeds and Carlisle Leicester 13c Birmingham 225. ...... --• "' ......... " •'" Leicester and Bedford 22s. ...... -- ...... .... ~,,.. / Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 2 2 1 /4 ...... 33 1 / 4 79 ...... .....• •',.. Do., Branch (Blue) - , ........... • Iva 9;e Do.Extension(Green) 2%. .. -, , .... ............ Leeds and Thirsk 17%...... 1 6 . ' , l " . ...." iL 5 ...... 53 ....... 97 Ditto, New Lpool., Mnchstr &New 24 •••-• 21/4 ................ si‘ castle Junction Bverpool and Bitu , 24 . ... -- ,•• ............. 4/9; London and Blao - kwall. 161.138•4 d. 8715•• . ....,.. Do. Noce ............ . - „.... 4% ...... ..... OS ' •. ...... Ditto EY.tension London, B • Brighton, and ~ 6 8 3 / 4 ...... •"' Soilth Coast ..... .. 9 1 ii tlitto, Fifths ......... 40 ...... ......, „.. _.., Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 ...... -- ii ............ ..... London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... 9 A ...... .*. ..., 0 Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d ...... -- .... .. 1 954 London, Hounslow, and • •• ' ... .. ••• 234 4 Western . ........... ... 2 ...... . _ ........... Lnndon and N. Western 10 ...... 194% . ....,„. 1. ... ...... ... Do. Quarters .. ....... 2 ...... 15%.. , ~ ...... .......... ..• ...., Do., on., New ......... 2 ...... 0 .. --- • . ...• /V Ditto Fifths ... -..-• '''' ...- .......... .. ~...••• Do. 3 Shares (G. • 3.) " ...... .... ..... Do 40/.Shares(L.BL) $ ...... 25 VA P 111 6