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LITERATURE. STANDARD NOVELS. No. CUL —My Cousin .Nicholas. By Thomas Ingoldsby. The Sliondard Novels maintain the high character which has long since been awarded to them, and most assuredly there is no falling off in the present number. Poor Barham, who wrote under the soubriquet of " Ingoldsby," was a genius of no common order. A light and playful vein of hnmour ran through all his productions—fun and comicality were his essential attributes. Like Hood, he possessed the power of ex tracting merriment from any subject to which he turned his attention, although he did not equal him in into his deep pathos which Hood occasional l y infused his writings. " My Cousin Nicholas" first appeared, some twelve years since, in Blackwood, and, like many of its as sociates, was subsequently brought out as a separate publication. It is, indeed , a " lau g hter com p ellin g volume, and we defy the most moody son of care to . rise from its perusal without some degree shaking off the acidity of his disposition and having more of the milk of human kindness about him than on ordinary occasions. Every page possesses something to excite the risible faculties from the avis au lccteur in which the author details his reasons for preserving a strict incognito—" how his maiden aunt," who pos sessed a redundancy of virtues, and 13,0001. in the Three per Cents. Reduced, had not then shuffled off the mortal coil—how she loved green tea, and hated an author—and how he could not find the heart to commit auntycide, or take upon himself the responsi bility of massacreing a maiden possessed of so much property in the funds. All the characters are in admirable keeping, and perfectly sustained throughout. The kind, warm hearted, and irascible Sir Oliver, the beau ideal of the country gentleman of the olden time—eccentric, hot tempered, " with a bad habit of anathematizing," and the most inordinate pride of ancestry, and of his descent from the famed Sir Roger de Bolevainele, the Conqueror's standard-bearer at the battle of Hastings ; but coupled therewith is the most genuine simplicity and kindliness of disposition, that makes him the easy butt of his mischievous son, but gains for him the cordial goodwill and regard of the reader. Then we have that most patient of all possible auditors, Cap tain Pyefinch, a proficient in the noble science of backgammon ; and, moreover, very excellent com pany, seldom interrupting the most long-winded story by any remarks of his own, which of Spartan brevity, " few and far between," just served to convince his entertainer that his narratives were not thrown away on the listless ear of an unobservant or somnolent auditor." And his sister, Miss Kitty, a poetess — her soul all tenderness, sentiment, sympathy, and feeling—is at first wholly devoted to the services of the Muses. After she has become acquainted with the celebrated " Dr. Olinthus Broadback, of the Grand National Institute of Intellectual Chimney Sweepers," although not abandoning Polyhymnia, she coquets much with her severer sister. The latter presides over political economy, becomes a decided Malthusia, speaks with horror of " thought less procreation," and looks forward with alarm to " no very distant period when the world shall be destroyed by its human vermin, as a ripe Stilton is devoured by its own mites." After discarding her flaxen ringlets, laughing at fashion, and learning to smoke cigars, she lays down as an axiom, that those parts of the world, where polygamy prevails, are the most thinly inhabited, and that the only way to prevent ex cess of pepalation is for young men to have half a dozen wives. She at last attains such eminence in the science " that she is grievously suspected by the Bishop of Exeter to have had a hand in framing sundry questionable clauses in the New Poor-law Bill, which are thought to press hard on the comforts of those who love not wisely but too well." The Rev. Josiah Pozzlethwayte is " happy in the possession of a comfortable income, a snug par sonage, and a housekeeper, who delights in cherry coloured ribbons." Then there is Dr. Drench, and the gloomy, mysterious, and eccentric Fortescue, devoted to the memory of his dead love. There is also the amiable Mrs. Stafford, Lord Manningham, and his beautiful daughter, Lady Bullwinkle, "by nature of a social disposition, and sighing in secret for the less dignified but more enlivening entertainments of the ser vants' hall, which she had so rashly abandoned." She " prefers a game of hunt the slipper," or "the mystic rites of the Christmas mistletoe," to all the more refined m e thods of killing time practised by ladies of the rank to which she had been elevated, are all admirable in their way. But the character of the book "My Cousin " himself is superlative. Although a liar, a hypocrite, wholly unprincipled and heartless, with scarcely a redeeming point about him, and every way vicious, you cannot help feeling a regard for him on account of his wit and humour, and cannot but feel regret at his untimely end. The playing oft practical jokes, no matter how severely they may affect others, appears to be the sole end and object of his existence, so that from the time he was eight years old, when " the superiority of his talents had evinced itself in a variety of ways, having put cow-itch into the maids' beds, and brimstone into his father's punch bowl, crackers into the kitchen fire, and gun-powder into the parlour snuffers," he never ceases the exer cise of his ruling passion. We find him on the cele bration of his own birth-day " contriving to fix a large boneet pin so perpendicularly erect in the cushicn about to be occupied by the Rev. Dr. Stur fins, as to occasion much inconvenience and detriment to that learned gentleman, whose agility on the occa sion would not have disgraced Mr. Ellar or the Flying Phenomenon." And, on the same eventful day, "subtracting the chain from the deciduous body of h . is papa's legal adviser, amputating the apothecary's and by the ingenious application of a fishing hook and line, previously passed through the pulley of a chandelier elevation, the flaxen, flowing, and redundant tresses there before the duke decus of Miss Kitty Pye finch , to a situation, emu l a ti ng that of Mahomet's coffin. Ilis after achievements, both at home and at Oxford, are deserving of the early promise he exhibi bited. Whether hoaxing Sir Oliver and taking his me dicine before him—a couple of table-spoonsfull of " Huxham's tincture of bark," a dark coloured fluid, bearing a most suspicious resemblance to cherry brandy—or when his expulsion was certain, appearing before the board at Oxford between Sir Lawrence Thu backes and Mr. St. John Gomenity, the very counter feit presentment of Dr. Pozzlethwayte arranged in his snuff embrowned suit of sables, wig, green gog gles, and pointed toe, perfect in his individuality. The work is net without its moral, as it seeks to inculcate the truths *et " impudence is not humour, nor mischief wit; that levity, if unchecked by principle, may de generate into vice and terminate in crime' The frontispiece is also admirable. It exhibits Sir Oliver falling in love with Eleanor Skillet—the round, plump, and rosy cook—the attentions of the middle-aged and wearied fox-hunter, divided between the attractions of the delicious rump steak and the buxom maid. We heartily commend the work to the perusal of any one who can enjoy a real hearty laugh, and we can assure him that if he takes up the work with the intention of indulging himself therein that he will not be disappointed. " The Tiame," a wild mystic tale of diablerie is added, to make up the volume. We trust that few of our readers will be satisfied with the slight sketch we have given, but that they will take the earliest opportunity of judging for themselves how far we are justified in our commen dations. NOVEL EXPORT TO ALGERIA.—A decided novelty, as au export from this country to a foreign possession, is that of the article of hay, which is now taking place to a considerable extent from London to Oran, a port in the French territory of Algeria. Several vessels have already been loaded and sailed for Oran, and four other British vessels are a t p resen t l oa di ng ent i re cargoes o f this article for that port, say three in the St. Katherine's Docks, named the Albion, the Mahan ' and the Panta loon, and one at C ox ' s Q uay, named the Jane Maria. In order to make as good stowage as possible, the ha . ) , is compressed by machinery pre v i ous to shipment, besides which the trusses are tightly stowed on board the vessel by means of screws. The rate of freight paid is liberal, and answers the purpose of vessels which are proceed ing to the Mediterranean to hung home return cargoes. It is understood that these shipments are making for ac count of the French Government, and the mere fact shows not only the great want of fodder for the French cavalry in Algeria, but also that it is not procurable from France. As it is, the total cost of the article, de livered at Oran, must be very high. THE WOOD PAVEMENT IN THE ClTY—Yester day, by order of the Commissioners of Sewers, the wood pavement in Queen-street, Cheapside, was taken up, for the purpose of having the thoroughfare paved with stones. It has been latterly the practice of the City au thorities to issue an order that the poor of the neigh. bourhood should be allowed to take the blocks of wood away for their own use. This order, however, has been taken advantage of by dealers in wood in Spitalfields and Bethnal-green, who, after cutting the blocks into fire wood, mix the pieces with others in the bundles they sell. ASTLUNt FOR FEMALE ORFElANs.—Yesterday, a general meeting of the court and governors of this cor poration was held at the institution for the purpose of electing ten children out of a list of thirty-four candi dates. William Shadbolt, Esq., chairman. The report stated that, irrespective of yesterday's election, there were 115 children on the establishment, who arc in structed in religion, reading, needlework, and household business, until they are apprenticed as servants in re spectable families. Since its establishment, 2,412 chil eren have been recipients of the great benefits conferred by the charity. Bell's Life in London, Sunday, 20th December. Boxing-day before Christmas ! Grand " Battle Show " between Johnny Walker and S am S i mmons for the Championship of the Light Weights fully and graphi cally described. Price of Belts Life, Sixpence. Average sale, 25,000. T HE WELLINGTON STATEE,—Yesterday workmen commenced preparing footing for the scaffold-poles in the o p e n space Weat of the Horse Guards, for the pur. pose electing a pedestal for th e W e lli ngton statue, al which is to be taken down forthwith, and subsequently p l ace d upon as appropriate resting-place in th e a b ove locality. MRS. TROLLOPE'S 'SEW WORK. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ATHER EUSTACE. A TALE OF THE JESUITS. By Mrs. TROLLOPE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., MEMOIRS OF T HE LIFE OF GENERAL PEPE. Comprising THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY AND POLITICAL EVENTS OF MODERN ITALY. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Richard Bentley, New Burlington , street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majeety.) RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. 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. take place every Tuasuat 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 orevious to their being offered ; and advices of results will be .irwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme eiately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THUi EVENING Will be performed a new Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Yernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Honicastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss Rebecca Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. 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 Mdllea. Sophie Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, MAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TIIIS 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, Mr. Howe; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; 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 first appearance), and Mrs. Humby will perform. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Cheval de Bronze ;" " The Annen" (Polka) ; " Czarina" (Mazourka); " Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture. To conclude with the Farce of HIS LAST LEGS. Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Holl, Tilbury, Mrs. Clifford, fee. Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Boa Book-keeper. THEATRE 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, Alias Marian Taylor, Miss Emma }larding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which, the Drama of THE CABIN BOY. Monsieur Henri, Mr. Worrell ; Monsieur Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith ; Coquin Ballandier, Mr. Munyard ; Largarcette, Mm. Bedford ; Julien, Madame Celeste; Clara, Mrs. Emsley. To conclude with a Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Lam bert, Worrell, Wright, Munyard, Mrs. Matthew, Miss Woolgar, and Miss Brooks. 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 eieerglana Smithson, Mae Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leftier, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Bonner, Peren, &c. After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAINBOWS. In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen Waltzes." To conclude with the Comedy of THE HEIR-AT-LAW. FRENCII PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO .310 It ROW EVENING Will be performed LA MARR A.INE. M. de Jordy, M, Mae quillier ; Edouard, M. Berou; Madame de Norio, Mdlle. Vallee ; Cecile, Millie. Leyder. After which will be produced the celebrated Comedy, entitled BERTRAND ET RATON ; on, L'Art de Conspirer. Li Comte Bertrand de Rantzau, 31. Perlet. The other characters I,y Mdlles. Brolian, Vallee, Madame Grassau ; MM. Langeval, Pascal, Felix, Cartigny, Rhozevil, Px.,enier, Dorgebret, and Masquillier. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3e. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at nalf-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, whose entertainments last season at the St. James's Theatre were so eminently successful, and whose recent performances in the Provinces have been attended with unexampled success, will have the honour of resuming their entertainments at the above theatre THIS EVENING, Dee. 15. and of continuing the same every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings, during the Christmas holidays. The public is respectfully cautioned that the Songs and Melodies, as snug by the above party at the St. James's Theatre, are published only at Mr. Mitchell'. Library, 33, Old Bend-street. None others an authentic. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. J. R. SCOTT, AND HIS LAST APPEAR INCE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Tragedy of BRUTUS. Lucius Junius Brutus, Mr. J. R. Scott ; the other characters will be supported by the acknowledgedtal ant of the Company. After which the Infant Sable Wonders and Negro Melodists will sing their favourite Songs. A grand Pas de Deux by Herr Deulln and Mdlle. Theodore. To conclude with the Play of PIZARRO. Rolla, Mr. J. R. Fcott ; Pizarro, Mr. Fredericks ; Alonzo, Mr. Johnson ; Elvira, Miss Richardson ; Cora, Mrs. Saville. AST t',EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Al , rrt. and itoyal Family. Splendid Equestrian and Dramatic Novelties. Continued success of " The Demon Horse and the Twelve Wishes." The celebrated Dutch Bottle Equilibrist, &c. THIS EVENING Will he performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled TIIE DEMON HOUSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which Mrs. Batty and the Equestrian Ladies will appear on their traimed 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 ldrward a Grand Comic • Equestrian Pantomime, produced on a lavish scale of splendour, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Harlequin and the Rob ber's Cave. 1 duos-ottlee open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six rn an i c ,mence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. 11E WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, DECEMBER 15. T ,F.RmomETEB, Lowest, 21; Highest. 29 ; Noon. 28, BAROMETER, 29.45.—W1ND N.E., fine frosty weather. 111 W A Cr-. AT L0N10),..10a,,G,. vino DAI Morning .. 24 minute after 11. I Eyer.ing .. 53 minutes after 11. . i iiil:ll .., ......" ` I 44 -. 7 4 I . 1 SU.• AI, ''''', 4t .; ,;', It .. . 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Whatever may be our difference of opinion as to the mode best calcu lated to effect the advancement of the Irish popula lation, we are satisfied that the Honourable Member for Cork exhibits this pertinacity in his favourite project solely from his convic tion that the attainment of his object would ensure the regeneration of the community. He is struggling for the possession of a phantom, but in those struggles he is riving the chains of Ireland asunder. He has already emancipated his fellow countrymen from many grievous disabilities ; he has dissipated many of their sorrows; he has avenged many of those wrongs which they had suffered during successive generations. Through the instrumentality of O'CONNELL the character:of Ireland has already, to a considerable extent, been vindicated. By his assi duous exertions she h as emerge d f rom a misgovern mentinfinitely more onerous and repressive than the misgovernment of thelluscovite or the Lithuanian—a misgovernment not so much of a corporeal character as of a spiritual, not so much of body as of soul, not so much of municipalities as of religion. Much, of course, has remained unreformed, which, with due attention, might have been effected. These oversights, however, are more attributable to the unpropitious nature of circumstances than: to the lack of any individual sagacity. The power exercised by Mr. O'CONNELL in the advocacy of his native land has been erected upon—what ?—upon the enthusiasm of his countrymen. But how was that enthusiasm gained ? Was it gained by the tactics of a Mohawk ? Was it gained as DANTON gained his victories, by exciting the passions of the mob, by goading the people to acts of insubordination, by a plentiful distribution of pikes and bludgeons? Was Catholic Emancipation wrung from the Legislature by intimidation, or by the dispassionate weapons of logic ? Was it wrung from Parliament as the fana tical followers of Lord. GEORGE GORDON endeavoured to:elicit a " No-Popery" enactment from those august Chambers ? Has not O'CoNistELL's influence been based upon the solid granite of peace, instead of upon the capricious qui%iksands of insurrection? Has he not throughout l' is agitation sheltered himself behind the adamant of the law, and has i:ot that course already obtained for Ireland an inestimable boon ? A. dreadful visitation afflicts the island—a visits- , tion which, notwithstanding their familiarity with suffering, has been hitherto unknown to its inhabi tants. Famine and winter, disease and want of employment to millions, combine to render the desti tution insufferable. The perennial barrenness of protection in the landlords is accompanied by an extra ordinary barrenness in the vegetation. A ban appears to pervade the land. Ireland is in a state of national bankruptcy. At this moment of tribulation, when that strength which is the consequence of unity is more than ever requisite, the ranks of Ireland's avowed leaders are thinned by the defection of certain hair brained dissentients. All the world knows upon what cause this division occurred ; all the world knows that Mr. O'Copussu. maintained the neces sity of striving for repeal only by moral agency and loyal agitation, and that Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN insisted upon the Association infusing treasonous principles into its code, and proclaiming the rectitude of physical force. Since the first se paration of these parties, by a contrariety of views somewhat more striking than that of the Big and Little-endians, immortalised by SWIFT, the public have heard scarcely anything, and, what is more, have cared scarcely anythingabout the redoubtable personages 'yclept Young Irelanders. A casual display of oratorical pyrotechnics in the Rotunda at Dublin has, at intervals, amused the more sober members of the popu lation. John Bull, however, is blasé in regard to those spurious specimens of patriotic enthusiasm. He looks at the dissemblers with the scornful nonchalance of a POCOCURANTE. Meanwhile the condition of Ireland has been gradually becoming more terrible and appalling. Want of employment and dearness of provisions are greater afflictions than hitherto from the severity with which the season has commenced. Murders and outrages are of more frequent recurrence in consequence. Each successive week affords a frightful catalogue of deaths by starvation. Contagious maladies are begin ning to affect those constitutions, the vigour of which has been already undermined by inanition. At this moment Mr. O ' CONNELL makes a final effort to conciliate those who insulted him by their vituperations. He swallows all the selfish instigations of pride, and renders himself liable to every species of obloquy, because of the existing emergency, and because he is more than ever persuaded that the per petuation of such a quarrel, and its consequent heart burnings, can only prove injurious to the national interests. To us, there is something admirable in this forgetfulness of personal considerations for the sake of a famishing people. There is something noble in this sacrifice of private sentiment to public conviction. One gap was still open in the forum for the salvation of Rome, and Cuanus immolated himself for the good of the state by plunging into the chasm. Mr. O'CONNELL has dared the jeers and ribaldry of venal tongues and hireling pens because, by his proposition for a con ference with the leaders of the Young Ireland party, he felt he could alone hope to heal all existing dif ferences, and to battle against the troubles of the country with one unbroken phalanx. Among the many sacrifices which O'CONNELL has made for Ireland, this sacrifice of feeling in proposing a con ference with his traducers is not the least. The result of this proposition is what might have been readily anticipated. The Young Ireland brag garts have rejected all offers of a conciliatory cha racter. Their wonderful captain—the hero of the coal-cellar—the victor of the tea-and-dry-toast—Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BatEN, has emphatically refused the conference. He has virtually spat upon the offer of his more noble- minded adversary. It is rumoured in some quarters that the co-operation of this honour able malcontent may be ensured on certain conditions. Conditions—pshaw !—the Irish don't care twopence for his co-operation. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN IS not the ATLAS upon whose shoul ders the fate of Ireland is dependent. He has shown the obverse side of his character. He has proved that as he is without sterling patriotism, so is he without magnanimity. CORIOLANUS in the hall of AuFintus, and THEMISTOCLES asking protection from ARTAX EREES, must be incomprehensible spectacles to Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN. We trust that Mr. O'CoNNELL may be more successful in his generous negotiations with those whose reconciliation is of some importance. We adverted last week to the paramount im portance, to every civilised country, of a sound body of criminal law ; to the reasons that constituted this importance, and to the duty which men owe to them selves to scrutinise, with the utmost jealousy, the ad ministration of this branch of their legal code. We alluded to the vast quantum of ministerial power that is lodged with the magistracy, who admit or reject the probability of the criminal charges brought be fore them, by either committing or releasing the ac cused parties ; we urged the consequent indispensa laleness of having the magisterial bench, metropolitan and provincial, filled with men duly qualified to dis charge such grave functions ; and we, at the same time, took occasion to notice the notorious incom petency of the subordinate justices with w hich the country is afflicted throughout. The evils arising to the State from magisterial incapacityare not to be measured, and cannot, therefore, be lightly disposed of. It is impossible to say how much the feelings of the inno cent have been unnecessarily rankled, by their having been committed for trial, owing to the crassa ignorantia, conceited perversion of facts, caprice, or inattention of the magistrates before whom it was their unhappy fate to be first taken. Where men have not fitted themselves, by education, for the judicial vocation, in the subordinate, yet most im portant and extensive sphere of magisterial action, they are without due self-reliance, and are like chips without ballast, rolling with every wave. Fre quently, these sage justices of ours are but mere automata in the hands of their salaried clerks, who compel them to move, and go through the mock ex hibition of criminal inquiry in its preliminary stages, just as the fancy hits them. Others consider them selves too high-bred to condescend to play the part of " dummies ;" and, like young colts, before they have had the least training, are bent upon showing a pace :of their own, when, if their mettle be only well put up, there is no fence of the law they will not clear at a bound. The responsibility of magistrates is, practically, a fiction. There is no redress against any wrongs suffered as the conse quences of any errors they commit, unless such errors can be proved to have been wilful, so that, in effect, the injured party has no remedy. Where ignorant justices will manifest an independence, and not stoop to be counselled by their official clerks, they are prone to fall into opposite extremes, the effects of which are most pernicious to society. Some are so nervous, that, where there is only a shade of a possi bility of guilt, speciously presented, and, it may be, maliciously wrought up, on the one side, whilst, on the other, the evidence preponderates, almost to a certainty, in favour of innocence, they will, never theless, because they have no confidence in their own judgment, and have unfortunately assumed an office for which they are wholly unfit, send the accused before a jury. Others, again, pursue a reckless course in the opposite direction : by imagining themselves to be Solons, before they have read through the preface to "Burn's Justice," they coolly discharge many a cri minal from custody who ought to have been compelled to stand his trial. In this way justice is indirectly con verted into an instrument of oppression to the inno cent, and of protection to the guilty. Such per versities will continue to stain our administration of justice until a radical change be effected in the magisterial body. The Government must dispense with gratuitous services altogether. As it is, every squireen aspires to be cock-lofted on to the bench, not because he considers himself in the least qualified for the duties, but because he wishes to be more on a par with his betters in the country. If he happen to be a busybody in politics identical with those of the Lord-Lieutenant of his district, with a little patience and perseverance, his ambition is pretty sure of being realised. Thus, the machinery of justice is prosti tuted to political purposes, and patronage is loosely dispensed in a service which, of all others under the Crown, should be kept free from the slightest taint or corruption. We have been led to these remarks on account of a desire that has been expressed in some quarters for the abolition of the grand jury. We shall return to this subject to show that such an idea ought not to be entertained, if at all, till other preliminary reforms have been accomplished. By the Levant Mail intelligence has been received from Constantinople and Smyrna of the 27th, and from Athens of the 30th ult. The following is from the Constantinople paper of the 27th : "The Government:has just received satisfactory intel ligence from Diarbekir and Mossul. Tayer Pacha, governor of the last-named province, has put to fligtt and dispersed the rebels of Kurdistan, the major part of whom have made their submission. The imperial troops have suffered much from the advanced season, but their constancy has been rewarded by a success which insures the tranquillity of this distant country until the Porte shall adopt broader measures for settling , it upon a durable basis. The choleraihas, unfortunately, attacked Mossul, but the mortality is not great, and it is hoped that the severity of the weather will entirely deprive it of its malignancy." "On Friday last his Highness the Cheik ul Islam, Mustapha Assim Effendi, died of an attack of apoplexy. He was upwards of eighty years of age. The Cheik ul Islam and the Grand Vizier are the two first personages of the empire, be ing the vicars and representatives of the Sovereign, one in spiritual, the other in temporal, affairs. By an im perial ordonnance, dated the same day, Arif Effendi, Grand Judge of Roumelio, was called to replace Assim. This eminent man is distinguished for his profound and varied knowledge. All his opinions tend towards reform, which consequently finds in him a powerful support." On the 17th ult. 800 houses were burned down at Salonica. The Moniteur Grec of the 29th publishes an official bulletin, signed by six physicians, which states that COLETTI, the Prime Minister, is convalescent. The Prussian Gazette of the 4th states, that nobody in Berlin supposes that a war in Europe will arise out of the Cracow affair. " England," says this jour nal, " will not be so weak as to allow herself to be again duped by France.' Curiously enough, whilst an English journal pretends that the KING of the FRENCII has demanded a congress on the affair of the marriage, the Berlin journal talks of a congress as probable for the termination of the Cracow affair by means of a convention, which will calm all excite ment ; and adds, " If the Cabinet of the Tuileries re fuses to join, it may return to the isolation in which it has already found itself." The change of Ministry, which had been for some time expected in Baden, has taken place. The Mi nister of the Interior is appointed President of the Council of State, and is replaced by M. BExx. The Frankfurter Journal, in a letter from Schles wig of the 4th instant, states, that in the sitting of the Diet of the 30th, the KING'S Commissioner rose and attacked, in ironical language, the Deputies of Galert, Fredeman, and Hansee, who had defended the proposition concerning the suppression of the present mode of levying taxes without the con sent of the States. The three Deputies replied warmly to the attack, and their indignation was shared by the whole assembly. The President then communicated to the assembly a letter from the KING'S Commissioner against the petitions sent in on the subject, and came to the conclusion that the Government had struck the blow with which the Diet was menaced ; that, in fact, the right of petition was set aside, and the institutions of the country attacked. "We are not any longer," said he, "either representatives of the people, or indepen dent witnesses of public opinion—we have sunk to the position of a subaltern Government authority ! He concluded by declaring that the threats of the Commissioner did not cause them any apprehension, and that the Government would find it to be two different things to show a ferule to children and to beard men ! The Duke D'AUGUSTEIIBURG declared that, considering the course which the Government was pursuing, he found himself under the necessity of withdrawing his note from the Council of Represen tatives of the people. A letter from Frankfort, of the 6th, states that there is no longer a scarcity of money at the Bourse of that place, and it is difficult to obtain good paper for discount at four per cent. A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 10, says that the payments of the end of the month having been made with facility, it was hoped that the banking-house, about which such unpleasant rumours had prevailed, would continue to maintain its credit. Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived. The elections are going on most favourably for the Progressistas. The return of three of that party, viz., SAN MIGUEL, MENDIZABEL, and LUGAN for Madrid, is considered as certain. The other three representatives of the capital are Ministerialists, viz., Mos, PIDAL, and the Marquis DEL POVAR. Rumours of a change in the Ministry continued to be rife in Madrid. The Infante Don ENIUQUE arrived in Madrid on the 6th, and was visited by his brother, the King- Consort. The Government contract with the Bank of San Fernando has been renewed by the Minister of Finance. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 7.—The Three per Cents. closed at 34; cash, 34*, paper offered; the Four per Cents., 21; the Five per Cents, 21; Debt without In terest, Gi; and Coupons, 19i. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and Sunday. The weekly reception of K GUIZOT was attended on Friday evening by the Marquis of NORMANBY, Count D'APPONT, and all the other Ambassadors, for the purpose of showing that their absence from the file given to the Bey of TUNIS did not arise from any coolness to M. GUIZOT. We find the following in the Presse, on the subject of the resolution of the BET not to visit England : " The presence of the Bey of Tuni s i n Paris appearsto have seriously occupied the attention of Lord Pal merston, even in the midst of the cares d emanded from this Minister by the marriage of the Duke de Montpen ,ier and the Cracow affair. England is very touchy about all that relates to the Mediterranean ; and the B e y of Tunis, the neighbour of Algeria and the ally of France, would have been seen with great pleasure at th e court o f Queen Victoria, where everything would h ave b een d one to snatch him from the exclusive patronage of the French nation. But an obstacle occurred. Scar ce l y h a d t h e Bey arrived on the French soil, when he was treated as a sovereign prince, and England, which has not yet re cognised his right to that quality, w as not i no li ned to consider him otherwise than as a vassal of the Porte. Lord Normanby was, therefore, charged to negotiate this grave affair with M . Baffo, and to prove to him th a t interest his master had a greatin showing consideration to Great Britain ; that hitherto the Bey had been animated with intentions equally favourable to all nations, but that he appeared at present inclined to change his policy, and give himself up entirely to France, which fact would be completely evident if he did not con sent to go to England on the conditions proposed to him. The Bey, not being convinced that he ought to give up the prerogatives of reigning princes, M. Eatfo informed Lord Normanby of the refusal expressed by his master. Lord Palmerston, considering that he ought not to rest satisfied with his first effort, a few days back sent a dispatch in tended to be read to M. Raffo, declaring that if the Bey proceeded to London he should be received with great cordiality, but that the British Cabinet had duties to perform, and obligations to observe, which would prevent it from admitting this Prince to the Queen, unless pre sented by the Turkish Ambassador. The Bey, it said, ought to bear in mind that he has other countries near him besides Algeria, and that he ought not to conduct himself solely with this latter consideration in view. This new advance was not attended with any greater success than the former, as the Bey persists in his reso lution. It is even announced that he leaves Paris on Tuesday for Tuni s , w hi ther M . d e L agau , t h e C onsul- General,is to accompany him." The Presse is wrong in saying that the English Government invited the BET. The BET expressed a wish to visit England, and was given to understand at once that, in the event of his doing so, he would be received as a vassal of the SULTAN, and not as an in dependent Prince. The following is the conclusion of the article in the Debuts on the subject of tariff reform : " B . y a decree be ar i ng date the Ist of M arc h, 1793, all of every descripti on treaties of commer ce were annulled, and B r i t i s h p ro duce Was rohibited. The law of the 10th p Brumaire, year 5, was conceived in the same sp irit, with the hope of inflicting ' a mor tal wound on Pitt and Coburg.For the s ame re a son the N a ti on al is at pre sent opposed to the application of the principles of com mercial liberty. Napol eon , having been created Empe ror, wishing to prepare th e üblic mind for a continental blockade, and yielding to the suggestion of unenlight ened fiscal authoritie s , i nst i tute d b y a decree of the 17 th Pluviose, year 13, a new tariff. By this measure the duties on coffee, sugar, cocoa, and tea, impo sed by the t a riff of 1791, were i ncreased f i ve f o ld. Some duties on a rticles of luxury we re i ncrease d t en fold, and even me dicines were highly t axe d . Th e d ec ree of the year 13 was about to be con ver t e d i nto a l a w in 1806, when the Emperor, in a fit of fury a ga inst England, without con sulting the legislative body, prohibited every article c omposed, in any part, of cotton. .At a la ter period, in 1810, Napoleon, when hi s h a tred against Great Britain a rrived at its paroxy sm , en d eavo ured to exclude colonial produce altogether by r a i s i ng the duties. He fixed the duty on raw cotton at 880 f ranc s for 200 pounds we ight. The The Levant cottons, by favour, paid 440 f., and if they arrived by land 120 f. ; raw sugar was taxed 330 f. ; tea, I 990 f. ; coffee, 4401. ; cocoa, I,loof. ; cochineal, 2,2001., the same quantity of 200 pounds. This was real in• sa )ity. The consequence of such a tariff was to or organise a prodigious baud of smugglers. The year 1814 arrived,France was invaded, the Imperial throne was levelled, and peace succeeded to war. In that year the tariff was revised. All duties were removed from cot ton and wool, as under the Constituent and the Re public at the same time the duty on iron was fixed at 161 f. for 200 pounds weight. This was four times the amount fixed by the Constituent. Butcher's meat was suffered to enjoy the immunity granted by the Em pire. In the year 1815 France suffered new disas ters, and in 1816 the financial system of the country was completely remodelled. A duty of 22f. per 200 pounds weight was imposed on cotton wool, and 3f. a head was imposed on oxen. The prohibitionists were modest, they only demanded prohibitive duties for a few years, in order, as they said, to compete with foreign manufacturers. It was thus that during a long peace the severities practised during war were continued against the pockets of the consumer, to the detriment of the manufacturer ; and, if we examine the customs laws of 1817, 1818, 1820, 1822, and 1826, we find a series of uninterrupted aggravations. This system was pursued after 1830. Thus machinery pays heavier duties since the Bill of 1845. The year 1836 alone produced some reduction, and it abolished the prohibition existing on above twenty articles. Thus the general tendency of our commercial legislation since 1791 has been to prohibit, and that in the midst of as certained progress, whilst our manufactures are every day acquiring new strength and even compete with the English in the London market. Is not the moment arrived to suspend this prohibitive movement, and to demand a temperate liberty, which must produce ame liorations not to be procured by prohibition, even ad mitting that it ever was indispensable ?" The following article from - the Slick shows the beautiful working of the protective and prohibitory system : " The Northern Railway Company, after having at tempted in vain to procure rails in France, has applied to the Government for leave to import 25,000 tons of foreign rails. To avoid appearing to decide a question of general interest by a private one, the company did not propose to have the iron which it requires admitted free. It merely showed that the Northern Railway wanted 25,000 tons of rails for June, 1847, at latest ; that the French establishments could not furnish them ; and that in such a case of necessity it was only equitable that it should be permitted to introduce these rails at a duty which, joined to the prime cost and carriage, would raise the whole price to 350 f. a ton deliverable on the line, that being the price of the first contracts the com pany has made. The rails are at present worth in England from 240 f. to 250 f. ; the transport is from 40f. to 50f. per ton ; so that it was consequently a duty of 50f. or 60f. which the company offered the state, in place of the absurd and impossible tariff of 206 f. now imposed. The Go vernment publishes each year an account of the produc tion of mines and forges. It knows what quantity of rails these establishments can furnish, and it is aware of the engagements which the iron-masters have contracted. Nothing, therefore, was more easy than to pronounce on the demand of the Northern Company, and to decide on its own information. But the present Ministry has no more the sentiment of its dignity than of its duties. The iron -masters, brothers-in-law, sons-in-law, or relatives of the Ministers, hold the Government in ward. Could it take any decision without consulting its high and powerful guardians? The demand of the Northern Company has, therefore, been sent to the superior council of forge-masters. They, for the purpose of avoiding the introduction of foreign rails, have not given national rails; for if they undertook the contract, th e y could not fulfil it. But they have sent in a reply, and the Ministry, in order to give itself airs of impartiallity in its slavery, has thought fit to communicate this answer, not to the company itself, but to a member of it, with a recommendation to be discreet. Should the company persist, the forge masters will reply by another state ment, so that the Government will thus become a sort of journal, not public, in which the arguments of the two parties are to come together. Thus discussion will be the order of the day, in the place of action. The Ministry will gain time, and the monopoly will drag on some days additional, which is all that is wanted. We ought to add, that the Northern Company, having treated with the Fampoux Company for the cession of 6,000 tons of rails, hastened to reduce to 19,000 tons the demand which it had addressed to the Ministers. It is said that all the forge-masters are busied in making a subscription amongst themselves to furnish this quantity, at the exor bitant price of 350 f. a ton, which they hope to impose on the Northern Company. Unless the rails are fabricated with Belgian or English pig iron, we should like to know how they are to proceed. We may also mention that the Northern Company is still waiting for the crossings and platforms which our forge-masters had engaged to deliver. But why should they put themselves out of the way? When one has the Government in one's favour, public censure may be treated with indifference." It is said that the Chambers will not meet until the 11 th of January. According to the conslilutionnel, ABD-EL-KADER has written to the KING of the FRENCH, making overtures for peace. Algiers papers, to the sth, have been received in Paris; but their contents aro unimportant. The Paris papers of Sunday contain no news. They are wholly taken up by reports of the proceed ings at meetings of electors of the different arrondis sements of Paris, preparatory to the municipal elec tions, which take place on Sunday. The price of corn continues to rise in all the markets of France. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 81f. sc. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 45c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,267 f. 50c.; Rouen, 8951.; Havre, 6521. 50c.; Great Northern, 6461. 25c.; Avignon, 8821. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5931. 75c.; Bordeaux, 562 f. 50c.; Basle, 220 f.; Dieppe, 3521. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 481 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 491 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 510 E ; Lyons and Avignon, 485 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38;4 ; Ditto Do mestic Debt, 32 1 / 2 ; Ditto Passives, 6. The Three per Cents. were done at Tortoni's on Sunday at 80f. 90c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECE3IBER 14. Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), .%—Central of Spain, %—Demerara, 4 1 4—Dutch Rhenish, 4% g —ltalian and Austrian, VA—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 1 1 4 — Louvain A la Sambre, 1 3 4—Luxembourg, %—Madras, Nel lore, and Arcot, 4—Namur and Liege, 3% B —Northern of France Constituted, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, Bt Paris and Lyons Constituted. 5 1 4,—Sambre and Meuse, 4%. CIVIL WAR IN PORTUGAL. We have been favoured with a copy of a bulletin received by way of Vigo, of which the following is a translation:— " VALENCA DO MINHO, DEC. 3. " To-day, between five and six o'clock in the evening, the legitimate Government of her Majesty ,the Queen was re-established here. " The enthusiasm with which the liberating force was received here is indescribable. It has saved this pro vince from the destructive grasp of the Septembrists and of the Miguelite bands, who, though few in number, would spread wide their desolation. " The words Queen' and Charter' have been every where triumphant. No untoward occurrence has inter vened. The Governor, Jose Maria de Souza, has con ducted himself gloriously, giving one more proof that ho knows well how to combine the duties of the soldier with the loyalty he owes to his Queen. " The important conquest of the fortress of Valenca must shorten the lite of the rebel faction, already strug gling in agony. It is worthy of remark that the Queen's loyal troops have not been guilty of a single excess. The worthless fellows who formed the majority of the garrison of this fortress have been disarmed and ordered to their homes. There was not one of them who did not excite commiseration by his ragged and miserable condition. vV "By a decree of the 28th of November, Antonia Pereira dos Reis was appointed Royal Commissioner in the provinces of the Minho and Tras-os-Montes. He this day accompanied the liberating force, and took possession of the fortress in the name of her Majesty the Queen. " The gallant division of Tras•os-Montes marched from Chaves on the 30th. In the course of a few days the city of Oporto will be cleared of the infamous fac tion which has harassed and dishonoured it. " We have intelligence from Lisbon to the 30th of November. Some officers and soldiers have deserted from the rebel Xavier, weary of the severity which they experienced from him. The fatal existence of the fac tion is drawing to a close. " DEC, 4.—This day there has arrived at the fortress upwards of 500 individuals from the neigh d bouring coun cil jurisdictions, begging to be supplie with arms to defend the cause of the Queen and the charter. A movable battalion is about to be formed. It is destined to liberate Upper Minlio from the iron yoke which has oppressed it for several months past. " he fortress of Valence may now defy the two bands which have dared to wage war against the best of sovereigns. " N.B. (In MS.) " The town o f Villa Nova de Cerveira d ec l are d a l so for the Queen's Government on the 4th of December." DARING AND DEXTEROUS ROBBERY OF NEARLY 1,000/. woRTH OF WATCHES FROM MESSRS. SAVORY AND CO s .—This morning, about e i g h t o ' clock, the fol lowing daring and extensive robbery was committed at Messrs. Cox, Savory, and Co.'s, the extensive silver smiths and watchmakers, of Cornhill. The robbery was effected at the branch warehouse, 54, Cornhill. It ap pears that the shopman, according to custom, opened the shop shortly before eight o'clock, and then locking up the door, went to breakfast. It was during his absence that some expert thief or thieves, who had evidently been watching his movements, contrived either to pick the lock, or enter the shop by means of a false key, and swept off trays containing no less than 149 gold and silver watches, of the value of nearly 1,0001. About the time in question a cab was observed to drive away rapidly from the opposite side of the street ; it is sup. posed :that it conveyed away the plunder. Messrs. , Savory and Co. are about to offer a large reward for the detection of the thieves and the recovery of the property. LORD TRuRLow oN nls FAMILY.—He had a just contempt for the vanity of new men pretending that they are of ancient blood ; and some one attempt ing to flatter him by trying to make out that he was de scended from Thurloe, Cromwell's secretary, who was Suffolk man, " Sir," said he, "there were two Tburlows in that part of the country, who flourished about the same time, Thurloe the Secretary, and Thurlow the carrier. I am descended from the last,"—.Lord Campbell. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.' CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was in a most excited state, the business being larger than was ever before known in the same space of time. The sales were 45,000 bales, of which about 26,000 were American on speculation, end 2,500 Surat. There were about 38,000 bales of American sold altogether. Prices ruled at 50. to 74d. for American, at 4d. to 54d. for Surat, and at lid. to Bd. for Pernam, being Id. to id. per lb. advance on last Friday's rates. Shares were firm, but quiet. It is with very considerable, and increased regret, that the mercantile community find, by the advices received from Liverpool this morning, that the rage for " Time" bargains rapidly—nay, very seriously— increases. The unprecedented quantity of 45,000 bales of Cotton was sold yesterday at the port stated, and the prices of the staple are again higher. Now, it is quite impossible, if matters pro ceed in this way, that the spinners and ma nufacturers can take cottons with any prospect of deriving profit from their own operations. Lacking, therefore, a legitimate demand for consumption, the Bulls of cotton will soon discover their error, and, as referred to yesterday, in the re sult, they must have the satisfaction of knowing that they have been too fast, or, in plain terms, " they will burn their fingers." Othermarkets, for staple articles, of produce, colonial as well as foreign, exhibit a really healthy aspect. Bond fide purchases were made for consumption, and scarcely a symptom of agitation is necessary to keep prices up to lull and remunerative values. A very neat robbery was committed this morning at the premises of Messrs. A. and B. Savory in Corn hill. The shopman left the premises to buy some thing (leaving the property to take care of itself), a cab is handy, and one of the light-fingered gentry, or a swell-mobsman, enters, and sweeps off watches of the value of 1,0001., or may be 2,000/. The subject has been a matter of much conversation in the City this morning. Consols have befit rather flat to-day. The price for the Account has just receded from 934 to 93i ex div. There have not been any transactions on special order in Consols for money to-day. The premium upon Ex chequer-bills remains at about I ls.; the Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are at 951; the Three per Cents., Reduced are at 94k; and Bank Stock is at 2064. The changes in the Foreign Stocks have been very light this morning. Mexican Bonds have been done at 234; the Portuguese FouriCents. at 36k; the Spanish Ac tives at 261; the Three per Cents.:at 374 4; the Dutch Two-ard a-Half per Cents. at 60k, and the Four per Cent. Certificates at 921. The only movement of interest in the Railway Share Market is the adjustment of the account. All, as yet, has passed off well. With a very few exceptions, prices are steady, as the rates given in the official list will best show. ONP, CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ••••.. 206% 207 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns....- 94 t; 93% New 34 per Cent. Annuities 96 95% 95% Long Annuitiestoexpire Jan.lB6o 9 15-16 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Consols for Opening 9 31 %% ex div 93% Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 1 / 5 d.... 11 p 11 p Ditto, 5001 .. ll 14 p 14 p Ditto, Small ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES 85% 95 19% 3' 23 1 4 23% 36'4 36 3 A 26% 37% 391,4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ...... Equador Bonds Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto, Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 3 14 Ditto, Account . Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account B7 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, 2 1 , per Cent — 504 Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 1 4 92 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%..,... Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Belfast & County Down 4% . Birmingham and Dudley 425. ... .. .... ...... ... Binnin. and Gleucester.. 100 Ditto New 17% — ••• ••. ...... -- Birmingham and Ox- - ford Junction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 / 4 — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New ..... ..... 5 . Bristol and ; Gloucester... 30 ...... Bristol and Liver. June.. 2%...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2% Ditto, Clydesdale June 25 Chester and Holyhead... 27% Churnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clarence lOO Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Cork and Killarney C6rk and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Direct Lincoln, East Bet ford, and Shetld. June. 2% — Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% — Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dahlia and Galway Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 16s 22 % 74 22% Ditto New Ditto Perpetual, 5 par Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d... % p... Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%% EastDereh'm andNoech 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 8 3 / 4 — Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 7 4 1 — ......... •—• Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% — East Lancashire Ditto. New Do., do. (late Preston and Ormskirk)... .. 5 - ..... 8 3 / 4 .... 77 2 : 3i 25% 1% 3' /4 3% p 9 IA 83 4 i 2 :!,' 4 21/8 Do., do., New Scrip... 1 1 4 East Lincolnshire ..... 1 1 4 — East & West of England lA.._ Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 74 ......... Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 , .......... . Edinburgh &Northern.. 12% — ......... 13% Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ...... ...... .. Ely and Huntingdon ... 12 1 / 2 .... 13% Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 54 -- Glasgow, Kilmar.,&Ayr 50 .....• .... Ditto, New Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per cent. guar.) Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 2 ...... ....- - Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2 1 / 2 .... ........ ... .. ..... Great South. and West (Ireland) Great Munster ......... Great North of Scotland 2 4...... ..... " ........ ...... Great North of England 1 00 ••• ........... ••••• D D i i t t t t o o , New Nevr ; .............. ....... 1 5 5 . ... . . ............ .. . Ditto, New ............ 11 / 2 — .............. 85 Great Western — ............... Ditto 1,4 Shares. 5O ..... . • ............... Ditto 14 Shares Ditt o Fifths Ditto, New . 2 ...... Huddersfield & /Handles. 13 17 16 3 / 4 ...... . 174 Ditto, Extension ...... 3 Hull and Selby SO Do. Half Shares ...... 25 Ditto 1 4 Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11 1 / 2 Do., do., and Nor w i c h 2 % - Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 L Le c i ep e ds :t aN e n r ed a wE nd r.a. it ib d r. f d : ;di.. 3 1 0 6 5 5. —5% •••• •• •• Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% —** ...... ''''''' Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2 1 4 — Do. Extension(Green) 2 1 / 2 . ••• Leeds and Thirsk 1 7 1%...... 15%. Ditto, New Lpool. Mnchstr &New castle Junction London and Blackwall. 161. 135.4 d. 8% Do. New Ditto Extension ~ 7 % ...... - ........ London, Brighton, and South Coast Ditto, Fifths Do. Consol. Eighths.. 10 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - ...... 751/2 8 14 - 151/.'2 58% 47 1 4 14 1/2 - 9% London andGreenWich 12115 s 4d... 9 1 4 Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — •• London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 195 Do. Quarters Do., do., New Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 Do. 1 4 Shares (G. J.) 5 Do 40/. Shares(L.M.) 8 Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 London, Oxford, and Cheltenham - ••• 00000000 •• Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 63 GI Do. New Consol. Bths 40 — Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths ..... , Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ............ 4 London and York 2 1,4 — • Do. Extension London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry&Coleraine 15 Londonderry and Ennis killen l5 Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 15 Lynn and Dereham l5 — Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto 1 4 Shares DO ! Quarters 2 264 51 / 2 O A 5% 4% 6 16% - 64 DO. Fifths De. Sixteenths 6M — ..... .. ...... Do. Extension 42s. Do. Liverp and Bury 2 t Do. do. Fifths ...... ... 1 .. Manch ester,Buxton.,and Matlock 425....... 1 p ............... Mancbest. & souttiampt. 2 ...... 1%......•••.. ... Midland ......100 127 126............ Do. Fifths Do. New Ditto, New Do. Birm., and Derby - 100 Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 20 Do. North Shields ... 25 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newmrket&Chesterfid 5 Newport& Abergavenny 2% - -5% %. ..: : .. ....... .... : : N••wry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevcr Norfolk ...... ..... . 100 ...... 130%.... ... ...... .. ... Ditto Half Shares .. 9 ...... ......... Do. Extension . 6 ...... .. ............. Northern Counties Union 2% ...... 1M ............... North British ... ..... ... 25 Do. Half Shares Do. Fifths Do. Quarters Do. Extension Ditto Thirds 1 ...... 3 3 / 4 308 ....... Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ............. . Do. New North Staffordshire 5 --** ea %.• ......... North Wales .. 3% _. . ....... Northern and Southern Connecting North Western 2IA — .......... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3 3/ — ... ......... • 4 Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and 61 / 2 ......... Reigate 3/. 12s. — di ' . ....... Richmond 15 - .... ........ 60. Royston and Hitchen ... 1% .— .......... ..• Scottish Central 12% - • •••• Scottish Midland ..... ... Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Share5... 8 ..... Do. Lincolnshire June. 1 1 ,4 — ............. Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 .• .... ... Do. do. Extension 425. .... ..... '... Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 Shropshire Union ..,, 42s — ...... •••• ••• Shrews., Wolverhamp., .% .• &S. Staffordsh. June. 21/2 . . - .... ~.•••• South Devon ...• South Staffordshire June. 2% — -.,,,••, L " ........ South Eastern & Dover. 33% 37% 30 A. .. Do., No. 1 2G Do., Nc ,2. ...... Do., No. 3 Do., No. 4 St.Alban's, Hatfield, and .."' Hertford Junction ... 425. — ........ Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — ......... .... South Wales ..... ...... ... 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- • ** meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 .... ... ..... ..... Taw Vale Extension ... 2 .... Vale of Neath Wakefield, Pontefract. & . ..... .• " .. Goole - " ......... Waterford and Kilkenny 11 Waterford and Limerick '47% - .......... Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, ...... and Dublin Wexford, it aterford, anti .••• Valencia alentia Waveney Valley Welsh Midland ____-- .... . ............... ............. A • ... • .. .... West Riding Union 42s. - ..••• West Cornwall ...... 2 ... .. --. • .............. •Vexford and Carlow ... 3% - ...... .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- .. ...... ... mouth ...... York and Newcastle. ... 25 Ditto New .. 5 ...... -- •"*. ....... Do. Preference York and North Midland 50 ...... -- ...... Ditto Shares 25 ...... 46 1 ,4••• ..... ...,0 Do. Selby 4O ...... -- ....... .....' Do. Extension 2O ...... • .....••'' Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid- ...... ing Extension - ••• • FOREIGN RAILWAYS' ..... Anglo-Belgian 4 ...... --- •• .......... ...... Barbadoes 1 ...... ---....... ...• Belgian Eastern Junctn 214 ...... --- .............. Boulogne and Amiens l6 ...... --' ................ . Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 ...... --- . Bordeaux,Toulouse, and ............... Cette (Mackenzie's) 2 .. ••• -- ......... -- ..... Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West ..,,..••'•••". Flanders Calcutta and Diamond Harbour •••••.. Callao, Lima, and Pacific .--. ................ Coastl .. ... —. ••• • ... Central of Spain ... -- ........... Ceylon ...... Demerara 2 1,4 ....• • •••••• . . .. "•••• ••••"••" Dendre Valley Direct BoMbay and Madras Dutch Rhenish 6 ...... 4 3 % .............. East Indian rs ..... .. ..... Fampoux & Hazcbrouk 4 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Great Western Bengal... ss. Great Western Canada... 3 ...... Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ••• .• - Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jersey Louvain ii la Sambre ... 6 ... . .....• ........ Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon ilacl ras ..... 1 Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % Madrid and Valentin.... 2 ... Mauritius .. Namur and Liege Nn of FrauceConstituted 5 8 . ....... .. 1 - 0!4 N ... .................... North Jamaica... ...... ..•• Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 .•••• • ... ......... •.' Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Over Yssel 4l3a 4d .. . ... ......... ...... Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 ..... 8 1 /ii ........ ••'' Paris and Orleans 2O .. .... -- .. ............... ...• 0 Paris and Rouen 14% ••••• .. Paris and Strasbourg ........ Constituted ... -• .. • Rouen and Havre ...... 20 - .... ...' ..... .0 Sambre and Meuse ..... 10 .... ............ . ..... Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 - ... .. ..... ...... St. Laurence & Atlantic ...... Tours and Nante s C on - .. ...., ... stituted ... ..... ...... 5 .......... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan _. ............ den, and Hasselt....... 8 ... Trinid a d - .... ......... West Flanders ...... .... 6 - .... JOINT STOCK BAN g ..... 0 ....„ •. . • • Australasia ...... "... ." London Joint Stock lO - ..... ...... . National of Ireland 22% --" ... .... British North American 50 Commercial of London 20 - ..... ...,.... . ••• - Colonial 25 . ... National Prov. England. 35 - .. Union of Australia Provincial of Ireland ... 25 London & Westminster. 20 . Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ....• 11%4 ... MINES. ".... ..... Real del Monte Unregd. 3l/4 _ ........ ••". ..... ...... 1? > 1% INP 126 6y. 11A 5% ii - 04 .... psi 0. o• ... 4% 00 5 ri ;',4 / ~„ A / . 0% lii 94 —____--------- p , ,„ C fl l in L a e,:c o l t e t Y a e r , , D fro ' s s ty B w H eat i h P er. LONDON, DEC. 15.—Wind W.N.W., nie —red p. - P Elf G.---cr2 e 11# 6 ,44 . n odeslbil ije DEAL, DEC. 14.—Wind N.W. to W.N. 0%, ~00, - Launceston.Drury, FALMOU Or d. . ..... 011/ Quebec. Sld. Robert ilatt'" , xii, DEC. 14.—Wind E. mod e m CO d S lfo 3 t r o th d p , da u r b t lin Q , u le e a b k e;, , f a o n r d S ptoucinktposnhoEkdevord, i g° ' .e. sl ` l' te• fo r nw ders ri ale, LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14.— Wind N.N•E'P cs ge b d• rgs _a Speed, Grundell, Savannah, and net ''' ile i , f Manilla, as reported. Margaret, liortou„,, .., yori" , A y Turley, Philadelphia; Garrick, Trask, 1 "" „„ise"L r e," ' rick, Gower, St. John's, New Brunswick. ~..4 0 07i10" WHITSTABLE, DEC. 14.—The .Friends' ii: fo ot _,, came off the main this morning without OP P " t o bv; and proceeded for London. arr ig l/1 1°' NEWHAVEN, DEC. 14.—The Otto, Bank * f f r oif ed _,.., 0 from Rotterdam, was in contact 10th ironotil At Castle, with a schooner, name unknown, an ‘,,ioP_,,'" damage. , if ittiE IOPV FALMOUTH, DEC. 14.—A brig, waterlog", • 49 ,•' - tet. ii gone, and stripped, was passed 25th ult. in - Yf O r 17 W., by the Carron, arrived here. ST IVES, DEC. 12.—The Marquis of 14°r°' ST aground on the Western Spit. ~ of o boe' PADSTOW, DEC. 13.— Th e long-boat of the ' l° oo 4 .. i. pool, with six living and ten dead men in he r ' rtv 0 0, to-day near here. peril , t erdN if MILIoRD, DEC. 12.—The Mary Rolperts, .nit ye! "le , port, from Cork, struck on the Block Llouse ' ./0 101 0 ', sOe and sunk ; crew saved. The Pekin, from St•oesthe'' Brunswick, arrived here, experienced severe 0 4 1 tet ober passed through quantities of wreck. ~, 0a ip. bc4eat YARMOUTH, DEC. 13.—A mast, wii.. . t ., 0 .., ship's boat, bottom up, were passed, llth 01 : m ,, 00. ringham, by the Penelope, arrived in the Do por t ' Pr PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind N.N•Vir•-- slioll' pendence, Bractish, New York. AA. IDI V OFF THE WIGHT, DEC. 13.—Androme,...-, 9 ,0 1 Hamburgh. Off e ll ' h ie' CORK, DEC. 12.—Wind N. to N.N.E. -- at. Jo America. chater, '' of YARMOUTH ROADS, D EC. 14.---Me x, fig New Brunswick. , with s/ $ OOO DUNTANAGIIY, DEC. 12.—A large s choeue'.: n i,foo o9 ,.. 0 distress flying, is on shore on the island of 1,.,,,,i sP it 0 f e a r ed be the seven miles to the west of this town, and AO Ol e become a total wreck. rt d 01 ' — tb• ade GRIMSBY, DEC. 14.—The brig r e p o - -e 8 to L el ',- Margaret, of Newcastle; the schooner belong_ Nor folk', Air ISet;,Jfarcoomb,sDhoonrleahlannisk);,ohNenecwectaostriv toihneel,,,,o„,,rai,soo demon, bound to the north, have lost one rx. pl T 81 cbmussitAl3oElsKA; NpazDErdr-- Hay, 21 56 per SMITITFIELD.— -Are;olrWElV2g.is3(6s:lolsll.4llS; dull, at late rate s . Cl° a. 4/ ; lord. ditto, 31 r • Straw, wadolvri 2/ gs pet J 5 to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 10s to 11 100 fel Supply m od erate, CIO _A wHITE and trade firm. to ig; ditt full 3/ 5s to 51 ; and Straw. 1/ 8s to 11 A average supply, and a sluggish detnand. gsnatyo,ll Ils per Ice C.PloAit;vd.l:4o, a id mere, and The breed of foxes in Wrestinorempu 1 . lo• t o b ° • A's considerably daily, and on the increase. In Withersiatbe the mountainous districts, they gtr e ,, 0 4 00 many of the adjacent hen roosts Dv. , • greatly from their depredatips.--Corti,ilefairicit 4 tt ti., t 4„ k k°