The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

SUN, LoNiaaN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16 1 1846 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 16. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 23; Highest. 30 ; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 29.72.—W1ND N.E., fine. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRLDGE THIS BAY. Morning minutes after —. I Evening .. 17 minutes after 12. ' to enforce the immediate payment of his charge, and act in the most harsh and oppressive manner towards his unfortunate debtor. 'We have already (in The Sun of the 4th instant) pointed out the fearful sufferings that would be entailed on the proprietors of encumbered estates, the enormous waste of money in useless and unnecessary litigation, and the serious national injury that would be occasioned by such proceedings becoming general. To that the encumbrancer may reply, how is he affected thereby, and why should he be expected to give up any of his rights ?—that he will give no indulgence, but will enforce immediate payment by every means allowed and sanctioned by the law. We trust there are but few who would use such an argument, and who would seek to exact their pound of flesh under such circntastances; but, as there may be some so utterly selfish, and regardless of every higher consideration, it is desirable to show, that by adopting such a course, they would deprive them selves of the payment of any interest whatsoever for several years, a period much longer than that which would be rendered necessary by the urgency of the distress and the difficulty of obtaining payment if rents throughout the greater portion of the kingdom. Should they decide on filing a bill, a considerable time must be spent in obtaining the necessary in formation to lay before the equity pleader, in order to enable him to prepare the draft. The engrossing, serving subpoenas, and getting in the answer of the principal defendant, would also occasion so great a delay, that an order for a receiver could scarcely be obtained over the lands, under the most favourable circumstances, before next long vacation ; there would then be the time that would elapse while the Master was approving of a fit and proper person for the office ; and, when appointed, the new receiver would be allowed a period of fifteen months to pass his accounts. The Master would then fix a time for him to bring in the balance in his hands, before which period the creditor could not hope to obtain a single shilling on account of interest, on his demand.lHe would also have a heavy outlay to his own solicitor, no part of which could be repaid until the final termination of the suit. This simple statement, showing that between two and three years at the least must necessarily elapse before even any portion of the interest would be paid, may satisfy such a person as we have alluded to, that it is not his interest to throw the property into Chancery so long as there is a reasonable hope of his obtaining payment by other means. might have resort to the cheaper class of carriages, either from motives of economy or necessity. Third - class passengers were subjected to every description of inconvenience. They were conveyed almost ex clusively by slow trains, that consumed double the time in the journey that was occupied by the more favoured ones. They were dispatched at the most inconvenient hours of the day, and in carriages that would seem to have been constructed for the express purpose of ascertaining how great the quantity of discomfort the public could be brought to submit to. The vehicles were wholly uncovered, without seats of any kind; the passengers were huddled toge ther like a flock of sheep, without means of sitting down during the journey, or resting them selves in any way. In summer they were scorched by the heat, in winter they were exposed to the in • clemency of the weather; and at all seasons they had no protection from the cinders or ashes that might fly from the engine, next which they were generally placed, that they might receive the chief danger in the event of any accident. We have no doubt that the seeds of disease and death were sown, in many in stances, on such journeys, and that numerous widows and orphans might trace the loss of husbands and fathers to illnesses originated from such sources. The experience that has been acquired on this topic has afforded the strongest evidence of the erro neousness of the early opinions on this subject. In every instance in which the experiment has been tried, it has been found that increased facilities to travellers, whether by reductions of fares or other ameliorations, have also increased the profits of the companies. Witness the effect produced by the alterations introduced by the North-Western Com pany, by which great advantages were given to the public, and large additional gains acquired by the company. It might naturally be supposed that re sults so favourable to all parties would have induced other companies to have acted in a similar spirit, but such, unfortunately, is not the case : there are some parties so blind that they must be coerced even for their own benefit. But there is another element that must enter into the calculation as well as the pecuniary interests of the company. A vast monopoly has been sanctioned by the Legislature; the ordinary modes of conveyance have been set aside, they could not contend against, or co-exist with, the gigantic power of the railways. The several statutes autho rising their construction, and incorporating the com panies, provided certain rates of fares that should be charged to the different classes, and there was an implied contract, on the part of those to whom these concessions were made, that they would provide suffi ciently for the public accommodation, by taking pas sengers of all classes at convenient times, and by proper vehicles. It was found, however, that the duty to the public in that respect was not fully car ried out, or regarded in that equitable point of view that might reasonably have been hoped for. Parliament accordingly interfered, and by a statute passed in 1844, by which almost every railway company in the kingdom is now bound, provided for the conveyance of third-class passengers by what are termed the Parliamentary trains, such trains to start at hours to be approved of by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council, to travel at a rate of not less than twelve miles an hour for the whole distance, including stoppages, to take up and set down passengers at every station which they should pass on the line ; the carriages in which passengers should be conveyed by each train to be provided with seats, and protected from the weather, in a manner satisfactory to the Lords of the said committee, and the fare ,not to exceed one penny for each mile travelled. There were other pro visions in the same Act for the amount of luggage to be allowed for each passenger, fares of children, &c. Here, then, we have the direct interference of the Legislature for the protection of third .- - class travellers, and a special enactment " that the carriages shall be provided with seats, and protected from the weather, in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Trade." The power of that Board is transferred to the Railway Commis sioners by the Act of last session, and it is supposed that a general control and supervision of all the ex isting railways will be placed in their hands. It is not too much to hope that the Commissioners will use the power in their hands, and see that the carriages are properly sheltered from the weather. A mere I nnvn r: u,.. ; a ..of. ~ •• eg .ai: - ..4.- ....•.' tti k• a n,6"-me' -- ten iiiipps' passengers ; they should, as " VIGILANS" states, be divided into compartments, and properly glazed; Make the other carriages as much more luxurious as you please, but see that the health of the poorer classes is preserved from injury. The sanatory condition of the public has attracted the at tention of our Government; there are few points more necessary to be provided for than that to which we have adverted. If the Commissioners possess the power with respect to all the trains that they have in the Parliamentary ones, they should exercise it with but any unnecessary delay ; if they have not, it should forthwith be granted to them. The public comfort and the preservation of the public health must be re garded as well as the public safety. A letter from Athens, of the 30th ult., says— " The opening of the third session of the Congress seems to prove that, notwithstanding the illness of the President of the Council, M. Coletti, the Ministry will not only be strong enough to contend with its enemies in the Chambers, but even to maintain its majority. It is true that the Opposition has succeeded in ob taining the election of M. Anastase, one of its caudi dates, to be a Vice-President of the Senate, but this is rather to be attributed to the fault of the Ministerial party than to the strength of its adversaries. Besides, the Government has got all its candidates chosen in the Chamber of Deputies. The Opposition candidate for the Presidency, M. Flachos, had only 22 votes out of 85. During the last fortnight the health of the President of the Council has been improving, and it is hoped that he will soon be able to resume his place at the head of the Government. On Friday the King visited him, and sat by his bedside for nearly i half a n h our ; his Majesty in formed him that the ding of Bavaria had conferred upon him the grand cross of the Order of Merit. On retiring, the King expressed to M. Coletti's family his joy at the approachingre.establishment of a man so gene rally beloved in Greece. Prince Oscar of Sweden ar• rived in Athens two days ago, and it is said means to make some stay." The persons comprised in the affair of Rimini, and who, after taking refuge at Fiume, on the coast of Dalmatia, had been imprisoned by order of the Austrian Government, have arrived at Ravenna, with passports sent to them by the POPE, who has forgiven their offence, and given them leave to return to their native country. Letters from Rome state that the differences be tween the Government of Spain and the ll°ly See have been adjusted. ' In consequence of the severity of the weather, neither English, Spanish, nor South German mails arrived in Paris on Monday. The Money Market in Paris is improving, the prices of funds and shares have risen, the stock of precious metals in the Bank is increasing, and busi ness in general has assumed a more healthy ap pearance. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 81f. 23c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 E 65c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 E ; Rouen, 9101. ; Havre, 660 E; Great Northern, 655 f. ; Avignon, 892 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 605 f. ; Bordeaux, 5651. ; Boulogne, 438 f. 75c.; Basle, 220 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 485 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 493 E ; Paris and Lyons, 515 f. ; Lyons and Avignon ' 485 E ; Belgian Two and a-Half per Cents., 55% ; Spanish Actives, 33%; Ditto Three per Cents., 382. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 15. Dutch Rhenish, 4'S, —Great Western Bengal, lA—Jamaica South Midland Junction, lA Luxembourg, %—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Vi e —Northern of France Constituted, 1 03—Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Consti tuted. 5 1 4—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 3%. sufferings si SIR, —You t S mi ti U uon u N. i t THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGES . y to ; t fo h r e that reason I hope you will exercise your able and powerful pen to put down the open third-class carriages on railways. I see a poor woman died in one of them the other day, and I have no :doubt that hundreds of others have silently died from the colds and fevers that have been cau g ht i n i nclement weather i n t h ese un• Christian co nveyances. Many poor people may die, and like, Eelhe public none take notice of it. Let the directors put to death one Noble Lord, one Member of Parliament, in the way they have punished to death many of the afflicted poor, and some remedy will be applied. It will then be seen inside that if no open third-class carriages were allowed by law, and second-class carriages were by law divided into s in s g th al e l y th e e o i n r ld p . assen gers, compartments, and glazed and made comfortable, while that the would rl ti de r s s bt t es wofertehem consultedardneibl yw a s amy l uoxrceuorm first-classi o p u a s oi a e s s y s o n u d places being taken, and by numbers having their lives spared to travel again, instead of being killed off, as they now are. In times gone by the coach proprietors went upon the .All the best coaches had cushions on the outside seats ; and they found this system answer. and Christian out, a p s rincip The merciless, unchristian , monopolising railway directors persecute the principle comfortableo of m a k poor by their wicked open third-class carriages, and make the second-class, with great reluctance, tenantable, on the covetous and unhallowed principle of c torture, the poorer to pay more than ompelling, bY and the respectable middling class conveyances. classes to tr ave l b y first- By calling attention to this subject • good, and remedy a n enormous abuse you will do gre a t use of power. Your obedient servant, VIGIL, THEWESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY.—Last night, at eight o' c l oc k , a full meeting of the committee of the Westminst er R eform Society was held at Stannard's Hotel, Upp er W ellington -street, Covent garden, for the purpose of further cons i dering the representation of Westminste r , M r. Geesin in the chair. Several new members ha v i ng b een introduced, and the subject for which the c omm i ttee was convened having been taken into consideration, Mr. Prout propo se d a reso l ut i on to the effect—" That all are resol ve d t o pl ace a candidate in the field who will conciliate all sections of reformers ; and to that end the committee are directing their united attention." Dr. Bainbridge, of St. Martin's, seconded the resolution, which was agreed to unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meet ing separated. Cracow, after it had been drawn up by M. GUIZOT, was submitted by the KING to a secret council of irresponsible advisers, consisting of Count MOLE, the Due DECAZES, the Duc PASQUIER, and some other friends of the dynasty, and was by them considerably modified before M. GUIZOT was permitted to submit it to the responsible advisers of the Crown. We know not whether this is the usual manner in which "they manage these things in France," but we know that if in England the SOVEREIGN were to submit the official documents drawn up by her responsible Ministers to an irresponsible clique, that the respon sible Ministers, no matter to what party they might belong, would at once resign. M. GUIZOT, however, seems rather pleased than otherwise at this manifestation on the part of the KING of want of confidence in his responsible advisers. The following is the article in the Portefeuille:— " The first point was to decide whether the protest was to have the Character of a note or of a dispatch. In other words, was it to be sent directly to the Court of Vienna or to M. de Flahault? The form of a dispatch appeared preferable, because it gives to an able diplo matist the opportunity of employing all the resources or his personal influence. M. de Flahault possesses a perfect tact, uses most conciliatory language, arid his mode of acting is marked by the most perfect polite ness; he enjoys at Vienna general esteem; all the highest society frequents his drawing-room; he is on excellent terms with Prince de Metternich; he is consequently in the best possible situation to make use of a dispatch from his Government. That point being decided, it was necessary to fix the character of the protest. It was meditated at length, all the terms were carefully weighed, and, before being submitted to the approbation of the Council, it under went, we are assured, considerable modifications. We believe that we can even affirm that some high person ages, admitted within a sanctuary closed to vulgar eyes, were consulted. Their experience, their age, their ele vated functions—the part they have taken in the affairs of the country—rendered them worthy of such confidence. They all, it is said, approved of the changes effected in the language and spirit of the protest. We believe we can also state that two eminent members of the diplo matic corps were allowed to see it when modified; and probably M. Guizot informed them of nothing: new when he read it to them. The wording in its corrected form received the approbation of the Council of Mi nisters. We are well pleased that the matter pissed in this way. If the sentiments of which the Presse had made itself the imprudent organ had prevailed, who could say what the consequences of the protest might be? We have already hinted at them, and we persist in saying that in a m enac i ng p rotest , part i cu l ar l y in the present state of our relations with England, there would be both folly and weakness. Let us be grateful for the prudence which knew how to preserve France." According to the Esprit Public, M. TRIERS was asked to join the secret council of irresponsil:les, but he very properly declined to do so, alleging as his reason that, " should he feel disposed to criticise it before the" Chamber of Deputies, he would rather do so on the assumption that the document in question was the work of Ministers." The remarks which have appeared in the English papers on the reception given by France to the Bey of Turas seem to have caused considerable excite ment in Paris. The France seems to be of opinion, that M. Gurzor will have to pay dearly at Constan tinople for his petty triumph in Paris : " The reception of the Bey by the French Govern ment has already roused the susceptibility of Great Britain. Our jealous neighbours seem disposed to be angry at the very slight satisfaction which M. Guizot has given to himself. One London journal has even laid hold of the circumstance in order to launch out into absurd declamations against us. According to this journal, it is a great liberty on the part of the French Government to receive the Bey with the honours due to a sovereign prince, when the other Powers, par ticularly England, refuse, out of respect for the Porte, to give him that quality. These scruples do not come very well in the present circumstance. We know, thank God, that the English are much less scrupulous when it is their interest to be so, and we shall take care not to advise the French Cabinet to give way to the reproaches which are addressed to it. But, at the same time, ought we not to fear that the offi cial manifestations of M. Guizot towards the Bey of Tunis may become for France a sorry recommendation at Constantinople? England will take care to turn this circumstance to profit, and to ruin the little influence which we may still retain with the Porte. In our opi nion, it would have been easy for the French Cabinet to have avoided this disadvantage, It might have given to its reception of the Bey of Tunis a less official charac ter, and have shown less vanity in its petty triumph. The result would have been the same; the conduct of France less significative, and foreign susceptibility less lively. Successes, however, with the Cabinet of the 29th October are so rare, that it cannot afford to pass them over in silence, even at th e risk of showing its incapa city and its ignorance.' The meetings in England on the subject of Ota heite are evidently producing a great effect on the public mind in France. On this subject the Con '''-'irvitloWlioar lime importance is to be attached in general to these declamations. The orators of English clubs do not observe much reserve in their expressions, It is not rare, for instance, to hear the nigrophiles ex press themselves in terms still more violent, if pos sible, in speaking of the owners of slaves, without distinction of rank or character. But, under existing circumstances, these meetings, which take place with a strange simultaneousness on so great a number of points, indicate new efforts. The Protestant missionaries wish to turn to account at Otaheite the rupture of the friendly relations between France and England. They have proposed, amo , gat other means of forcing us to quit Otaheite, (no which would consist in making a desert of the island by favouring emigration. The population would be distributed amoung the other islands of the Archipe lago, particularly Raiatea, where Pomare has her re sidence. The Missionary Society is rich enough to be able to carry this project into execution, if it ha s on ly the tacit consent o f the English Government. If it should be executed, not only should we have to support all the privations of our isolation at Otaheite, but also to dread the continual incursions of the refugee popula tion of the neighbouring islands. Our Ministry would then have to expiate the fault that it committed in re nouncing the extension of the Protectorate over these islands, which have always been inhabited by a warlike people." BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Paz Swam. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — - Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 1% — to Belfast and Ccunty Down .. 4 3 / 4 .• .. Birmingham and Dudley ..... 425. ... . 5% pto Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ...... Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.).. 17 1 / 2 ...... Birmingham 8; Oxford Junc... 2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 2 3 /4 — •• Boston, Stara, & Birming... 228. - ••• Bristol and Exeter Do., New Bristol and Gloucester... 3O Bristol and Liverpool Junc... 21A •• • Buckinghamshire B4s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25 Chester and Holyhead... 27% — ... Churnet and Blythe.. ...... .. 2 •• I Cli eStejLand MAP Cl i irAta -- - A9 4 ' ..., .. ... ... Clarence. .... 100 ... Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 ••• Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - •... Cork, Blaekrock, & Passages 225. Cork and liillarney Cork and Waterford 1 1 /2 Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ...... ... 2% ..... .... Direct Lincoln, East B e tf or d, and Shieflie:d Junction 2% •••• Direct Northern Direct Norwich 1 ••••, Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 /. üblin and Galway 4 ••••1 Dundalk and Enniskilh ~. to .. to .. to -. to .. to ... to .. to .. to ~. to ~. to ... to •• to to to . to .. to .. to .. to ~ to ..-., .en ... 10 ...... - Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 22,' .... .to Do. New l2/. 16s - • to Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - • . to Do., d 0.... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... A, pto Do., York Ext ens i on East Dereham and Norwich 1 - Eastern Union ... .. .. 35 Ditto, Quarter Shares - Do. Extension to Harwich 1%...... - Do. Cambridge and Ely... 21 / 2 - to East Lancashire Ditto, New - to Do. ( late Preston &Omsk.) 5 ... ... - to Do., do., New Scrip ...... ... 1 1 4 - East Lincolnshire ... 1 1 4 2 l /9 to • East and West of England... 1% - ...... to • Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - Ditto, Half Shares ..... _ , .. ... to • Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% lB% to • Edinburgh and Northern ... 12%...... -• .. to : Edinburgh and P er th - .... o Ely and Huntingd on - • to Enniskillen and Sligo 2l/ - ••• ••• to . Exeter Yeovil, & Dorch es t er 5% - ...... to . Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - ...... to - Ditto, New - ..... to - D 0 . 14 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ••••• -., - ••• to - Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 2 Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 16 - ••• - to - Great Eastern and Western... 2 t /2 Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% - ...... to - Great Munster 2% - ..... . to Great North o Scotland 2% - ...... to - Great North of England 100 ......227 ... to 2; ......... 1 5 1 51, ::: .:: 5 7 ; 1 4; . ::: to -- Ditto, New Ditto, New Ditto, New t . ..... '''''' ••• .. t 0 - Great Western - 50 ...... . - ...... to - Ditto, pitto' H Qu a a lt r S te h r a S re h s ares - Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... ... ...... to - 2 ..... --- - ... to - to t e o r N , sfi ew el d Extensionand M mi! t . e . r 13 ...... _ ...... - Hull fluDDd:dt. and Selby .................. 50 ..... . ... - Ditto, Quarter Shares..... - 12 1 / 2 ...... - - Ditto,Half Shares .......... 25 ...... - - Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 11% l O l /2 tO - Do. do. and Norwich ...... 2 1 / 2 Lancaster and Car1i51e....... 50 - -- -- ...... to - Do. New ....... ............. 5 - •..... to - Leeds and Bradford ............. 30 - ....... to Leizester and Bedford ......... 225. Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 22% - to - Ditto, Branch (Blue) ...... % - . ... to -- Ditto, Extension (Green). 2% - " to .... Leeds and Thirsk 1 4% x n. to 17 1 / 2 - Ditto, New .... . . Do., do., P refer., 6 per Cent - •• •••• - - L iverpool, Man c h ester, and - Newcastle Junction 2% - ""•• t o - London 5• Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d - Do. New .......... . to - .• 3 - ...... to - Do. Ext ens i on 7% - Lond., Bright, & South Coast 50 - Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40 - Do. Consolidated Eighths... 10 - ...... to - Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . - - London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... - - Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... - ...... to - L ondon,Hounslow.&Western 2 . .... - ...... to - London and North Western..loo ......195 Do. Quarter Shares - ...... to - Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths - Do. Quarters Do. 401. Shares.....L. &M. 8 .....• - ...... to - Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 - ...... to - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . - - Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 - to - Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 - to - London, Oxford, and Chel tin. - - to - London and S. Western.... 411.6 s 10d 62 63% to 62% Do•NewconsolidatedBths- 40 - to - Ditto New .. .... 22 % ... - 26% ...... to - Do. New lB ...... to Ditto Tenths 5 ...... 5% to - Ditto Tenths 4 - ...... to - - Ditto Scrip 5.. ... 5 3 / 4 to - Ditto ditto - Ditto Extension - ...... to - - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2 1 /2 - - ..... .to -- Londonderry:and Coleraine l5 ...... - ....•. to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 .. - ...... to - Lynn ancizEly - Lynn and Dereham -"..... - Manchester and Leeds B2 ..... - - Ditto Ralf Shares ...... - 38 ...... - Ditto Quarters ......... 2 Ditto Fifths ...............1.. 5 . , - ...... to - Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6 1 4 - - ....- to - Do. Extension ............... 425. - p...- to - Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 Do., do., Fifths .... ........ 1 Blanch, Buxton, & Matlock 42a. - p .... MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 12,000 bales, including 4,000 American on speculation, 800 Pernam and Maranham, 500 Egyptian, and 2,500 Surat on speculation. Tho market was not so animated as on Monday. Shares were duller. The sale of Railway Shares, yesterday, at Messrs. La mond and Co.'s, did not go off with much spirit, although there was no great alteration in prices. The following are a few of the principal sales : Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia ...... £0 3 9 Madrid and Valencia.. 1 0 6 Great Luxembourg East Indian Eastern Counties, York Extension ..... 310 6 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire, New 0 14 6 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certficate 0 10 0 Churnet and Blythe Manchester and Southampton, 1847 1 9 6 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Taw Vale Ext ens i on and Dock .. Vale of Neath 1 9 6 Shropshire Union and Canal North British, New Thirds ...- Paris and Lyons 5 2 6 Worcester, Warwick. and Rugby London and York, Extension South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and G001e... 2 4 0 A most interesting discussion was anticipated at the East India House to day, on a motion that it be re ferred to the Court of Directors, to make better provision for the Native Army in India, as a reward for past services, and with the praisworthy ide a o f advancing them to that high position which they most unquestionably deserve. The notice of motion, however, was declared, by the chair man, to have been adjourned, pursuant to the request of Mr. Sullivan. The subject, however, will not be lost sight of. The Cotton speculations at Liverpool are progressing at an awful rate. There must be a settling day, and long " time " bargainers may rue the day in entering upon such extensive operations as have been noted of late. Truly, it may be said, the spirit of speculation has departed from the vicinity of Capel-court, and centred in the cotton market of Liverpool. llowever, time will, questionless, unfold a tale in this, as in other rash and reckless business trans actions, from the result of which a moral may again be gleaned. There are not any late arrivals announced from the colonies to day. Accounts have just been received of the arrival of the Hamburgh mail. We do not hear of any very parti cular information, except that in Sicily great destruc tive inundations have been reported to have occurred. The weather was extremely severe in all parts of Ger many and Holland. The navigation by canals was all but closed. Consols for the Account have been rather firm to-day at 93i to 93i ; the Reduced Three per Cents. have just dropped from 94A- to 93k. Exchequer-bills are at 14s. premium. Bank Stock at 207, and the New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. at 954. This is the pay-day in the Share Market, and the settling and pay-day in the Foreign Funds. Little business has, consequently, been in progress, but , the receipt and liquidation of differences. There have been bargains in Buenos Ayres, at 42 ; in Mexican, at 231 i; in the Four per Cents. Portuguese, at 37; in the Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., at 544; and in the Four per Cents. at 92g. The prices of railway shares and scrips are pretty firm to-day. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 207 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93% 94 1 ri, 93% New 314 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Jan. stb, Expire 1860 9 15-16 '% South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities 9 3 34 Consols for Opening 93 1 / 23g% .exchequer Bills. 1 1 / e d. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small KICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, New, 1843 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 42 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 23V /5 Portuguese 4 per Cents 37 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 2 1 / 2 per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... 92% • • 0 1* u v rl,4,. ifiii:t.l-4F - = eb....A • •. . , - -./ 4 • mo''' SECOND EDITION. eartnin MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND UNDER THE HOUSES OF NASSAU AND HANOVER. Ry J. H. JESSE. Three vols. Bvo. Portraits. 2/. 2s. bound. Second Edition. MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN OF THE STUARTS. By J. HENEA.GE JESSE. Few vois Svc. with Engrayings from Original Paintings. Z. I6s. bound. Second Edition. XII. MEMOIRS OF THE JACOBITES. By MRS. THOMSON. Two vols. Bvo. with Portraits. 21. 2s. bound. XIII. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS ; or, Mirth and Marvels. By THOMAS INGOLDSBY. Two vols. post Bvo. with Numerous Illustrations by Leech. (Either volume separately, price 10s. 6d.) XIV. ANECDOTES OF DOGS. By EDWARD JESSE. Esq. Small 4to with Numerous Illustrations. 11. Is. bound. xv. MEMOIRS of GRIMALDI, THE CLOWN. Edited by " HOZ." With additions by CHAS. WHITEIIE CD. With Portraits an 12 humorous Illustrations by Cruikshank. 6s. neatly bound. ThitE Edition. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DF,CEMBER 16, 1846, CABINET COUNCIL A Cabinet Council was appointed to meet at half-past two o'clock this afternoon, at the Foreign office, Downing-street. Lord JOHN RUSSELL arrived in town this morning to attend the Council. Lord CLARENDON also arrived from his country seat in order to be present at the meeting. Most of the Cabinet Ministers were expected to attend. Since our observations upon the temporary resig nation and speedy reinstatement of the Isturitz Ad• ministration, a variety of changes have occurred at Madrid. The present Government could not be in a more precarious condition. By the tergiversation of its leader; by its subserviency to the wishes of King LOUIS PHILIPPE ; by its acquiescence in the odious marriage of the heir presumptive to the throne ; by its truckling and unconstitutional policy, the present Ministry has estranged itself from the hearts of the Spaniards. Nothing can re-elevate it to the confidence of the community. It has fallen as irreparably as ever did the Humpty Dumpty of the nursery rhyme. Among the non-electoral as well as among the electoral members of the population it is abhorred. In the districts to which the franchise has not yet extended, as well as in those districts which are entitled to a representative, PIDAL and Mois, are regarded with detestation. The slight con fidence which was originally reposed in the President and Minister of State has been frittered away by the readiness with which he connived at the Montpensier alliance, and the jealousy with which he has been subsequently regarded is increased by a multitude of collateral circumstance. Little doubt is now enter tained throughout the Peninsula that the days of this obnoxious Administration are numbered. There is not, indeed, the slightest probability that a much longer retention of office will reward Senor ISTURITZ and his colleagues for their nefarious proceedings during 1846. Never was a Cabinet composed of more brittle and fragile materials ; never was an apparent homogeniety produced from more hetero geneous particles ; never did statesmen act more entirely upon the execrable principle of expediency. It is satisfaction, however, to reflect that such a shameful abuse of authority is on the eve of receiv ing its invariable recompense. It is some sort of consolation that the power which the Minis ters have endeavoured to retain by so many atrocious acts, is about to be torn from their unwilling hands. ISTURITZ and his associates have aide-I in the destruction of the Spanish nationality, hut in doing so they have precipitated their own dis el.:iture. It is LA FONTAINE'S fable of the rat and the tree all over again. After a feverish enjoyment of authority the Afrancesado Administration will be driven into obscurity ; the members of that Adminis - tration are pursued by the avenging spirit of the na tion ; their NEMESIS is the People. During the last fortnight intelligence has reached us at intervals from the Peninsula, clearly indicating the approach of some Ministerial catastrophe. Every packet has brought fresh:omens of a portentous cha racter. The shadow of coming events was clearly discernible, and from the outline of that shadow it has continued to be manifest, during many days, that the Spanish elections will be the ad vent of a new epoch. Those elections are being carried forward with considerably enthusiasm, and their results are, in a vast majority of instances, proving inimical to the existing Govern.. ment. Even in the capital itself, where the Cabinet is presumed to have its stronghold, and who, fem , c_-_--uuria ti e rigour of th e Administra tion is shown to be a mere phantom, and that phan tom is betraying symptoms of its evanescence. In the six colleges of the metropolis—in Maravillas, in Prado, in Lavapies, in Vistillas, in Barquillo, and in El Rio—the want of influence to the Government assumes a negative and sometimes a positive appear ance. On the evening of the 6th ultimo the majority of votes in the first district was 81 in favour of the Progressista ; in the second, a majority of 113 for the Progressista; in the third, a majority of 83 for the Progressista; in the fourth, a majority of merely 13 for the Ministerialist ; in the fifth, something like a majority of one for the Ministerialist; in the sixth, a majority of six for Don PEDRO JOSE PIDAL, the Minister of the Interior. By the dis patches of the following day, just transmitted tows, it is almost a matter of certainty that three Progressista candidates will ultimately be returned for Madrid. Accounts from the provinces are of a similar descrip tion : the' Ministerialists are being discomfited in all directions, and the Progressistas are gaining a marked ascendancy. The consequence of this is ob vious : the Cabinet must succumb to the torrent of popular sentiments. With the tide running against them, and their oars broken, they must yield to the current and be drifted away at its pleasure. If we discovered any si g ns of the diminution of Fr , Aich influence in the Peninsula, we should ..t thi, int vit4hle dismissal of Isr c RITZ, (,1 ".Z. CANEJA, and of their partners in tho zsdniieistration. The contrary, however, is in di-Mutably the case. LOUIS PHILIPPE has forged the ch ains of Spain with too many precautions, and with too much art, to admit of their being shaken off so readily. They differ from fairy gold only inasmuch as they are changed in character after a time, instead of disappearing altogether. They are transformed from hymeneal chains into poli tical chains. The transition is graduated with in finite adroitness, but it is perceptible notwithstanding. With the retirement of the present Ministers the Afrancesados will not have been subjugated, they will not have lost one jot of their influence at Court; the royal couple will still continue to be cbedient to the directions of the Count DE BRESSON. A number of incidents have very recently disclosed the prepon derance of French influence not merely in the palaces of Madrid and Lisbon, but in the bosoms of the most dissimilar personages. The communication dispatched by the King. Consort to his brother, Don ENRIQUE, and the reply of the latter thereto, have shown very significantly the power of per suasion possessed by his Gallic MAJESTY. The cen d s. attained Those by h ntic INFANTE has fallen f rom t h e elevated situation which aiaboipldateanddgrindependentphriom edwho will have been marvellously disappointed by the sud den alteration w hi ch has been effected e b the R 1 o . ya logician of the T u il er i es. Don Esau QUE has forfeited his very enviable popularity for the Court life, for the luxury of a palace, for the softness of ermine. He has thrown away an opportunity but seldom granted to so young a Prince. Re was the idol of the Spanish population in his banishment; be has returned to Madrid, and he is a mockery and a de rision. Spain must look elsewhere for the means of extricating herself from her present abasement. Never was she so degraded ; never were her children more faithless to that nationality for the preservation of which their forefathers fought and bled ; never was there a greater necessity for the advent of an in. corruptible patriot. There is a whisper abroad that Nairvaez will be restored to authority on the resig nation of ISTURITZ. Unless the nature of that ruth less soldier be completely metamorphosed Spain .ald avoid his domination as a curse. We have asserted that estates in Ireland are at this moment as good securities as they have ever been for the several sums advanced upon them, and that the greatest inconvenience that any prudent encumbrancer can be subject to, is the affording of a temporary in dulgence to his debtor, and allowing him a prolonged period for the payment of his interest, -an incon venience which is less in amount than that which he must sustain if he shouldfortikwitikile The sufficiency of the security must be estimated by the value of the estate, and the amount that could be obtained therefrom, when brought for sale into the market. The latest public sales of property that have . taken place will fully establish that neither the present distress of the country, nor the heavy sums presented at sessions, under the Labour-rate Act, nor the state of the Money Market, have had any effect in depreciating the value of real property in Ireland. Take for example the prices realised for parts of the estate of the late Earl of BLESSINGTON, which were sold under the decree of the Court of Chancery, within the last few weeks. The sale commenced on the 23d ultimo, and was continued, by adjournment, until the 7th instant. It would be impossible, therefore, to contend that every circumstance of the times that could awaken the fears of purchasers were not fully known, and maturely considered ; and yet we find that some of the property in the county Tyrone produced no less than from 35 to 39 years' purchase, a rate as high, we venture to say, as almost any that had ever been obtained in Ireland. Scarcely any were disposed of at less than from 25 to 27 years' purchase, and it is said that several of the sales will be opened by over-biddings. Whatever, therefore, may be said of the unfortunate condition of •,the landed proprietors, and the ruin that awaits them, it is manifest that it has not had the effect of deterring capitalists from investing their money in the purchase of land. In order to show that they have not formed a rash judgment, it will be necessary to inquire into the circumstances of the people, and the burdens that may be placed upon real property by reason thereof. It is now generally admitted on all sides that the able-bodied poor must not be allowed to become destitute, but that a sufficient quantity of employment must be provided to keep them in constant occupa tion. The landowners themselves admit the claim of the labourer to a maintenance out of the lands on which he was born, and to which he belongs; they r - CEat . the labour may be expended on the cultivation of the soil, in works of a beneficial and reproductive character; they seek that they may be permitted to direct the exertions for which they must pay into the most favourable channel. This is a moderate and _reasonable request, and there is no doubt that it: will receive the attentive consideration of the Legislature. Within a few short weeks Parliament will re- assemble, and Ireland its affairs and prospects, its exi gencies, and the means necessary to overcome its difficulties—will assuredly form the most prominen topic for discussion. The measures that will be in troduced for the employment of the people will not be of a similar character to the Labour -rate Act of last session. We have the assurance of the Noble Lord at the head of the Ministry that the provisions of that Act were carried into execution in a spirit totally different from that which was contemplated by the Ministry when bringing it in. It was intended merely as an auxiliary to private exertion—it was made the chief, if not the only source of occupa tion. The embarrassed and badly -disposed occupiers made it an excuse for withholding the scanty and in adequate quantity of employment which they had been in the habit of • affording, and permitting th e i r l ands to get , it' possible, into a s till more disgraceful state than usual, while those who were willing to perform their duties faithfully, and to provide the quantity of employment that would fairly be chargeable against them, were unwilling to bear a double portion of expense, and to be taxed for the negligence of their neighbours. They, consequently, in many instances, discontinued the works they had commenced, and cast their la bourers also on the public fund. Such a state of things could not continue, and the very magnitude of the evil will, to a certain extent, be valuable, as it will serve as a beacon light and a guide to the Senate, pointing out the dangers that are to be avoided in the new enactments that may be introduced. The public works that have already taken place, and which may be carried into execution before the introduction of the new system, cannot be considered as injurious or unprofitable, or as entailing any very severe burden on the land. The amount already ex pended may be taken in round terms at half a million, and if we allow a further expenditure of one million and a half sterling, which would provide occupation for 400,000 labourers (representing about two millions of people), for a period of fifteen weeks, by which time the new measures will be brought into operation, it will amount to less than one-sixth the rental of the kingdom, but, as the payment will be spread over a period of ten years, the stun to be levied will be some thing less than threepence-halfpenny in the pound, or one and a half per cent. per annum on the rental of the country. There is nothing so very formidable in this to fright the isle from its propriety, or to in duce persons to occasion real danger, in order to avoid a phantom. It is less than half the charge for income-tax which many persons in England are ob liged to pay, and from which Ireland has been exempted. The s alue of those public works that are now in progress, and the other benefits to the land fawners, far exceeding the responsibility to which they will be subjected, we shall show on a future occasion. I We invite the public attention to a letter signed " VIGILANS," which appears in our columns this day. The subject is one of paramount importance to a vast body —to all pos.essed of slender means, who are not enabled to pay the higher fares demanded by the railway companies for the conveyance of first and second-class passengers. A great improvement has of late years taken place in the accommodation afforded to the less wealthy portion of the public by several of the better managed lines, but much remains still to be done, and we are convinced that the best interests of the companies themselves will be pro moted by due attention being paid to the comforts of all classes. On the first iutroduCtice of the railway system an erroneous idea' appears to have prevailed amongst the directors, that it was necessary, by every =gm izt their power, to discourege all parties who We read in a letter from Warsaw of the sth— " The ukase relative to the dress of the Jews has produced a great chang e in their social relations. A great number of the Jews of this city are much pleased with the ukase, as it enables them without dread to assume the modern costume. Many of them retained the old dress only out of deference to some members of their families." A letter from Tarnow (Austrian Galicia), in a Frankfort paper, states that several bands of armed peasants have been formed near Mount Feilra, with the famous SZELA. at their head. Intelligence has been received at Vienna that M. DEMBINSKI, chief of the insurgent Poles, who had disappeared after the defeat of the nobles of Galicia, near Lissa, has been arrested at Cilly (Carniola). He had been concealed in Hungary, and by means of a false passport, was travelling with a lady when arrested. The Universal German Gazette mentions a report that the Duke DE BORDEAUX intends in the spring to fix his residence at Troves. The Police Gazette of St. P eters b urgh, o f t h e Ist, contains an order i n the name of. the EMPEROR against the making o f explosive cotton by private indi viduals, on account o f the dangers attending the pre paration, and also against all experiments with this authorities. new substance, except b y special permission from the We have received the Paris papers of Monday. They contain long a ccounts of the elections of the mayors and assistant- mayors of the different arron dissements of Paris, w hi ch were then proceeding. On Monday morning M. BARBET, the friend of M. TRIERS, was at the head of the poll. His election will be considered by the Opposition as a great triumph. 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Ilardcastle, Mrs. Foshro::e. FRE.NCII i•LAYs. -ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. lIITCHELL begs to announce, that the Rehearsal of Scribe's Play of BERTR NND ET RATON having been Int,rrupt e d b y the aidisposition of Mdlle. BRO HAN, it h 58been found Impossibl e io produce that Piece this Evening ; in consequence of which there Will be no Performance be:ore Friday nest. Wednesday, December 16. ETHIOPIAN . SERENADERS, ST. .J.VMES'S THEATRE. Re-appearance of the celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, who, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable Entertainment at the above theatre TO-MORROW EVENING, Dee. 17.- and of continuing the same every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evening, during the Christmas holidays. . The programme will include " Oki Joe," " Lucy Neal," " The Coloured Fancy Ball." "My skiff is on the shore," and the cele brated Ra 'road Overture. Various Novelties are in rehearsal. 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, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2 s. —Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Michell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre.—Open from 11 till 5. iJAVID4.3I.I' , ROYAL stritßEY IHE ~T RE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. Will be THIS EVENIN G performed ABELARD AND HELOISE. The cha racters will be supported by the principal talent of the Company. After which a Comic Ballet d'Actlon, called " L'AMOUR ET LA TOME. In which Mdlle. Theodore and the Deulin family will appear. The Infant Sable Wonders and Negro Melcallsts will sing their favourite Songs. To conchuic with the popular Drama of LORD DARNLEY. ASTLE Y ')I 1..A1 RE Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, and Royal Family. Splendid Equestrian and Dramatic Novelties. Continued success of " The Demon Horse and the Twelve Wishes." The celebrated Dutch Bottle Equilibrlst, &c. Will be THIS EVENIN G titled THE DE performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en- ON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. InM which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will appear on their trained steeds. New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the popular romantic Drama of ROB ROY MACGREGOR ; or, The Mountain Outlaw. In active preparation, a variety of novelties for the Christmas holidays ; among the rest, will be brought lorward a Grand Comic Equestrian Pantomime, prod uce d on a lavish scale of splendour, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES or, Har:equin and the Rob ber's Cave. Box-office open from eleven till flva o'clock.—Doors open at six ant c ) mmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. 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LAM()ND and Co., .itziLIVAT SHARE AUCTIONEERS. beg to thank their Friends and the Public fo r their continued support and patrosiage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway shares, &c. take place TUE4DAY and Famar. at One o'clock, at the [ Tail of i'4 . rlmerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, conttining instructions (with a reference), are respectfully tequested to bo addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day Previous to their being offered ; ani advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, an t the proceeds imme diately disposed of according, to instrt:ctions. Odlccs. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter; Morliere, Mr. Horncastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Gall ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-s. Pr opus, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss-Romer ; Grisette, Miss Eebecca Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Ilughes. After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed, at the Academic Royale' Paris, under the title of " Betty:') In which will appear !Sidles Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Iluguct, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING .10H71rq.-,e.-ricaaentirelv now c. 0.... During the evening the 1 - 3 - arid - de Bronze ;" " The Annett " (Polka); " Czarina in tazourica); Douro " (Wal V zer); and a New Overture. nrr After which an original Comedy, entitled LOOK. 13 ' A ' nE : LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. oddngton, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; 3te. Vere, S . Holl ; Mr. Brandon, 5 , r. Howe;Mr Hardman,,mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster; T( m mr. unastene ; Miss Brown, Mrs Glover; Ciaribel Oddfrigton, DatssFortescue; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hartman, Miss Julia Bennett. To conc4zde with a Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady Clutterbtzek, airs. Hamby. Ilox-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Boa Book-keeper. • THEATBE ROYAL, ADELPIII. 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, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and. Mrs. Laws. After Which, the Drama of TIIE CABIN BOY. Monsieur Henri, Mr. Worrell ; Monsieur Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith ; Coquin Ballandier, Mr. Munyard ; Largarcettc, Mi. Bedford ; Julien, Madame Celeste; Clara, Mrs. Emsley. To conclude with a Terpsichorean Burletta, call d POWDER AND BALL; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright. Munyard, Mrs. Matthew, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. . to ..... .............. vrsTOP NGE.—(.-- •••• 3Gtielibglarhnalorst .... .. .............. 0,40 Genoa .• ..... • .."' Venice.. ..... • Naples •• • • •,,' ...• • • 53 Palermo, Per °•"• 63% Oporto ••• • " • • .... • •••• Rio Janeiro • • .••• Bahia .. • ..... • • „ •••• Buenos AYre' • 'egght N ew York, 21 Jai •• • OA Philadelphia •• ,/ 9 ForePlVicsoldri:buiT,,.4o3 jO 4 0 9 0 Portugal GOid COP. 0 0 a , New Dollars 0 030 SSllparveirsihnllbarour.oo.n.....•. 0 n itc li ueDLbr L aoaEr. O NAa DL; A, Y O LNr, re, DcatDEC.S 8 16 H. — I W P i n P d r 4 P . al)* clear frosty weather. Ari .d. s_ .. ..bi lti e DEC.. df r l eo s rin: — L t 7 huet i 15.—. Wind R d , Ni N vee . I NV ry a . on t rd o l e N saan . ils b e. Y: l tt e. .. 4 13 E: 3 ; 4 INNN9I7--(hTighilb`r-6 and - OFF DoVER, DEC. 14.—Tino, Sawyer, COWES, DEC. 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd.S Wan' eff , Havannali and Portland, N. H. A „cl, gecs' v WEYMOUTH, DEC. 15. Wind N.N.E.- -- '" -- lei Graham, Miramichi. ri d St. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind N.w. ---A--. ;t e 0. 1 se Martin, Rio Grande,with mainmast and bevall - "star I Bianca., DEC. 15.—Wind N.E., fresh.- 514•1•••-1 . .Sid' chard, New York. dente. o f 1 Livxilroot„ DEC. 15. Wind N.N.E., In° BO he! ' Speed, l'ringle, Manilla • Nereides, Hostiles , jso - Dery s ; Zephyr, Kirtley, Africa; iarker, Risin, GriffithF, Antigua ; Themis, Leighton, New Or leen :L, ais Thomas, New Orleans ; Victoria, Cornisb, Sor e h il- the, P o o BALLYWATEIC, DEC. 11.—A head board, : with mo d, " Duntroon Castle," in gilt letters on a blue b.- et picked up here yesterday. b o ß p d H 1, BALLYCONNELL, DUNFANAGY, DEC. • .i.''. A ec gale , ' ofl went on shore on the island of Innishafen during :0010 remains. A bucket and two handspikes have 0• • shore, marked " Friend." terred4l6l WELLS, DEC. 15.—A boat, about 12i feet loekeen pi side and out, but without mark or name, ha s b St . ' up here. Gor til* CORK, DEC. 12.—Wi n d N.—Arrd. Widely, itr John's, New Brunswick ; Elizabeth, ge , „,,. . Moses, port r chaw - LIMERICK, DEC. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrd . J essie, St . Miramichi. # GRANGEMOUTH, D EC . 10.—Arrd. Hamp t o n,dGrallArjh itto. , John's ; Retreat, Allan, Quebec ; Onyx, H°gg' - QUe be iAC BRIDLINGTON BAY, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Reindeer, , (we; HULL, DEC. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Richebuct°ollEiga id fro , c ' s - 0 0 OP WIYENHOE, DEC. 15.—The Dwina, Hodge, London, got on the Gunfleet Sand 13th instant, 101 last night after discharging. ..#4. NOTICE TO MARINERS. , ,„ th e Pi The following has been received at Lloyd's, ire' - ' , drographic-office:— isTG .I, l°ll' "COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA.—REVOLVI- - Es t ON BEAVER ISLAND . s outh ~ "A revolving light has been established on the _. 000 0,, part of the outer Bearer Island, on the coast , of .Nt . . •- c h it I I ; w re j o utillirj The light revolves every two minutes, during " visible one minute and a half, and invisible the so d Of half minute. It stands 70 feet above the se a t ifo ith therefore be seen 15 miles. building: Iv 10 0 "The lighthouse is a rectangular white , 11 isti black balls painted on its seaward face. It stan us t i o f 60 11. 44 deg. 48 min. N., and lon. 62 deg. 20 min. , Ices at 0. with. •de //r• 1 • • "The light bears from the Outer Bird 1,9 , u 0 0 et (May), 4A miles ; from tho Beaver Shelf NAV ., i i i ; Ve ' front the Yankee Jack E. 3 / 4 N. , 8 miles • f r°nl ' lee . , ,„, 3 raj_ .0 house Black (or tortHarbou Rockbears ,71. R bould__, I P e , " Vessels intending un for Beau IlarUvU. o f A w. " the Lighthouse Island a berth of three-quartal _are' to avoid a rock which projects from it to the eacoyD. t, SOUTH-WEST LIGHT ON ST. PAVI- I , o , n die 0 0 „ e .f' ' A bell has been added to the S.W. Lg"'" -- 00 414 " Paul's Island, and is tolled during the continuact weather. DO' iri• COAST OF NORWAY AND SWE niiITG- let LIGHTS AT HOUGE SOUND AND AT lay ou th e The Swedish Government has given notice, , 09. of December A fixed light, liable in all clisocti°° Manchester and Southampton 2 1X•••••• 1261 to ' Midland lOO 127 ..... • to - Ditto Fifths - ...... ~ .to " Ditto, New 24 ..... 3 1 72 ...... w -- Ditto, New Midland. Birm., and Derby 100 .....103 ...... . to Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15 - ... ••• %N 34 ° Newcastle and Berwick .. to --- Do North Shields .. 9 5 •••••• - ** ... to " Newcastle and Carlisle lOO •••••• --,,, ... to -- Newmarket - and Chesterford 5 Newport and Abergavenny. . 2 1 / 2 ...••• --...... to -. Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 - 0 Newry, Warrenpoint, and .to Rostrevor - ••• •• to .... Vorfolk 9 ....., -- ...... Do. Half Shares -- Ditto Extension 6 ...... -',',/* . ' I - • 4 ..... to Northern Counties Union North British Ditto Half Shares, .... to " d r Ditto Fifths - ... ,to 0 Do. Quarters . 5 8 Ditto, Extension ...... 1%70i" to 4 1 3% 4A ... Ditto Thirds ... .......... ... ... Nerthern and Eastern 5O ...... - .. to ..... .... Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) 45 ..... --- ... to Ditto Quarter Shares - ... .„ w ...- Ditto New North Staffordshire 5 •••••• 8 4 . .... to -- .. _ North Wales 336 ..... "-• to " :;orth. & South. Connecting 2%. .0. .-- ......... to North Western - ... Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- . to ' ..... verhampton - . t 0...• Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham 1%•-••• *-- ...... to Portsmouth Direct - ...... to •••• Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 5% ..... .. .... -- to . ....... : ... to .... Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 81. 128.... `""' to ' Richmond l5 ...... --- .. to , ... .. ...• Royston and Hitchen ... 1%••••'• --- .„...... $0 ~.. Scottish Central .., to Scottish Midland .... ........ 12% ...... -- ..... to Sheffield and Manchester -.100 ...... -- ..•••. to '- Ditto Shares Do. and Lincolnshire Junct 1 4 8 1 /4 ....... .. .. ----- ........ ..r° 5 Do. and Great Grimsby - ....... `" 5 Do. do. do. Extension 428......• 7i, g „.„ , Shrewsbury and Birmingham 3 .••••• m ... ° -- ... Shropshire Union ... 425....••• . to ...- Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, ,„, .. ...-• •••". to and S. Staflordsh. Junction 234....• -- .. South Devon ....... ....... 35 ...... ...„. 0 „„. South Staffordshire Junction 2%.....• ;i ..... t t ; - 'south Eastern and Dover ... 33 1 3•••••• ae ...... ••••• Ditto, New, No. 1 - . 1..570 . to Ditto, New, No 2 l2 ...... ,•• ...., Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4 St. Alban's, Hatfield, and 125% ............ : ..:": r o t° s• Hertford Junction ....,. „„, Staffordshire and Shropshire 2%...... -- ...... South Wales Swans, and Loughor and Ca- 5 ...... ...- meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... : .. .. to „....... •-• " to Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract, and 2 ...... -- ' ...- .... • to Goole to - Warwick and Worcester 425..•"•• „--. ...... to ~.• Waterford and Kilkenny ll •••••• _ .... Waterford and Limerick ... - tO ... Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, __ ~.. • to and Düblin Wexford, Waterford, and ....• .••• • t o Valentia 22 1: .................. __"„ ................ :: ....; Waveney Valley Welsh Midland ••••• .. to West Riding Union 42s. .......... .• ...- .. to West Cornwall 2 ...... ___, „,...0 to .0 Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives 2 .• ••• -- •-• . o to „ Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 15 •••••• ...... . 377 , York and Carlisle 2:y s ...... -- to .... "' - . York and Newcastle 25 ••• • _ ...... to 7 Ditto, New ~., '. " ..... '*. Ditto, Preference 2 •• •• : 6 % . ..... to •••• to F ork and North Midland Ditto, Half Shares ..- .. to Ditto Selby ___ ...... to ...• Ditto. Extension Ditto, Preference W °. 44 Ditto East and West Riding 17% '- Extension 5 ..... . • tO FOREIGN RAILWA YS ', .• to .- 4 •••••• ;:•''. to Anglo-Belgian ..... Barbadoes 1 ........ ...- . to Belgian Eastern Junction 2% ••••" __. ..... to "'" Boulogne and Amiens l6 •• •• ...- Bordeaux and Mediterranean 2 ...... to '... Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette - ...... (Mackenzie's) • 2 •••" to --• Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ...- "" .to --- 2 to ( Espelete's) - • ..... ......... Calais, Dunk, &W. Flanders 2 --- .. to __, Calcutta & Diamond Harbour 7s• "..... --- ..... to --- Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 2 1 ....... -- ...... to --" Central of Spain ...... •-• .'. . to -"' Ceylon- 55. ........... ..... Demerara. ..._ ...... to 0 , Dendre Valley - ...... to " Direct Bombay and Madras 5t ••••: „,.. ....... to .•••• Dutch Rhenish East Indian Fampoux and Hazebroulc 5 m 5 ' 3 5: .................. ----__ ....................... t o to :....-- Great Indian Peninsular 55. ...... -- to Great Western Bengal Great Western Canada Italian and Austrian . . ... ° - 7 ... .. .. t to - Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 ...... - ...... to - - Jersey 0 _... Louvain ala Sambre ..... ..... 6 - • .... to '- Luxembourg 4 -0... - ..... to - Lyons and Avignon tO ...• , Madras - Madras, Nellore, and Arcot... % - ...... t° .••• Madrid and Valentia - ...... 0 ...• to Namur and Liege ..... 8 ...... to Nn. of France C o n s tit u t e d ... 5 ...... 10%%' to to North Jamaica 1 --•••to Orleans and Vier : on - ..... o ...• Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... - ..... to " Over Yssel 413 s 4d..... - ... . ( i to Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 Paris and Orleans... ... 20 ...... to t• „,_ - _ Paris and Rouen .. - Paris & Strasbg. Constituted 5 - ..... to ". Rouen and Havre 2O - Sambre and Dleuse - .. to '...' ..... ... Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 ..... ...••• ;: o .' St. Laurence and Atl an ti c .... - Tours & Nant es C ons ti tu t e d 5 (0 ...• Tournay, Jurbise, Land e n, ,••• and Hassell ...• ••••• Trinidad.. ...... .. ... 2% ...... -- tO West Flanders ...... 6 ...... -- ••••• ... British Aiistra JOINT STOCK BANNS, to •-• ... to 40 . •••• Australasia American 5O ...... .....-- :••••." tt: - Colonial nmdmoner c j i o a:l n o t f s L t o o n ek don . 25 ........... „ - London Westinins;e :. ; 214:1 .................. 17% ............... tor: - and National Provincial of En dd. 35 .... -- ' •" to - National of Ireland 221 .. .." ....... to Provincial of Ireland - Union of Australia - to ............ Union of London 8 . 1 . 1 . 15T 1 E 0 S. ...... --. Real del M on t e , Unregistered , COURSE OF EXCHA . Amsterdam •. . . C.F. 12 .1% Ditto, at sight ....„ 12 1% Rotterdam ... •• • 2U. 12 a AntWerP ••••••• . • • • • .. 25 95 Barnburgh —.. • • M.B. 13 12 Altona • ....... ••• • • • Paris, 3 days' sight ... • 25 65 Ditto, 3 months .. 25 90 Marseilles ....... . Bourtleaux .•••• • • • • • • 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3 Us .... Berlin .. • .. . • • Vienna, etrec.flo.... • • 10 5 Trieste, ditto lO 5 Madrid .... •• . ••• • • • 35% Cadiz - •.. : .... •• - 36% Barcelona ......... 5evi11e...........