The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-30 00:00:00

NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. T HE NEWEST NOVELS BY DISTINGUISHED WRITERS. PUBLISHED BY MR. BENTLEY. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S HAROLD. 3 Tell. 11. PALGRAVE SIMPSON'S LILY OF PARIS. 3 Vols. 111. TOOTROTTD ; a FItENCHILLN in LONDON in 183 1 Vol. TV. MISS COSTELLO'S CLARA FA E. 3 Vols. HELEN CHARTERIS. 3 Vols. yr. FENDIORE COOPER'S BEEHUNTER. 3 Vole. VII. MISS LYNN'S AISITMONE. 2 Tel& VIII. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S TWO BARONESSES, 2 Vols. IX. HISS KAVANAGH'S 11ADELEIN5. 1 Yid. X. RrGENE SCRIBE'S PIQUILLO ALLLtGA. 3 VoLi. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ME. AINSWORTH'S NEW ROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 Told.. T HE LANCASHIRE WITCHES, ay W. HARRISON AUSWORTN, Esq. Wary CoibQrn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. IVARY EVENING. Commence at Eight o'clock. MORND.TG PERFORMANCES daring The Christmas Holidays, every Monday, Wednesday, and Fri. day. Commence at Two o'clock. HOLIDAYS. -ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ROBERT-ROL - DDT and DUMBOLTON'S SERENADERS will perform en the alternate nights during the Christmas Holidays. THIS IIVENUG (Saturday), Robert Houdin's grand Distribution ; Monday next. Jan. 1, Dumbelton's Serenaders, being positively their last appearance but two.—Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; and at the Box-ollee.—Doers open each evening at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. E. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptoo. The pubUs is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the reeses, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, Mr. Charles Kean; rertia, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, ea Arabian Night's Entertainment, entitled CIMIRAL3AMAN AND BADOURI ; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characteraby Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Morton, and Miss Reynolds. To conclude with a new Farce, entitled YOUR LIFE'S a DANGLE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. reder the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decerated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esc, executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, kc., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded of Mr. Diskens's Christ leas Beek. entitled THB HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Median, Mr. Hughes: the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith; A. Tetterby and Cs., Mr. Wriest ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; ]!illy, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To bo followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a new Parc* called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr, Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Pant Bedford. LOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestal& Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mai he ris. THIS EVENING. Will be performed A PECULIAR POSITION. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and E. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil ham, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Mine Celeman, and Madame Vestris. To eonclude with AN 4rPEAL TO TFTh PUBLIC. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s ; Pit, 24. ; Gallery, L. Ns half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-elreet, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TIIRLTR,E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Solo Lessee and Manager. Mien: the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner by Mr. Ilutwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrangements have been rinks for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the coullort and cenTenience of the audience. TITS ETENTIG, Will be perforated a new liallad Opera, entitled ROBIN . GOOD FELLOW. To coaelade with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BUFF BING ELA.L ; or, IdarleAinin aid the Charmed Arrow. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Ratty. 'Cider the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, kc. Novelties for Christmas Holidays most astoniding in the Metropolis. —A gorgeous Spectaele.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena.—The ♦rabs in their wondrous Performances.-1 new coml. Pantomime. THIS EVENING, Me ear Min will rise at Seven o'clock precisely to the maguilcsnt Spectacle of the WARS or THE JEWS ; or, The Fall of Jerusalem. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE eIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; er, The Pretty White Hers* and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. TA* Celebrated ARABS will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless autheati. cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot b© returned. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFIDIL, DBCIMBEIt 30. THAIMOBLITER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 42; Noon, 37. BIRCMIZTEI, 30.16. WIND N.E.; hazy weather. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON' ERIDGB THIS DAY. Morning .. 39 nth. after 4 I Evenhat .. 56 min. after 4 ."' • ~-,. . . . . ,It . . 'te. ' ,, Mi ', ..'1.5. - ail It ' 4-4 , 4 0 1 ? , 4••_, '''''''''' 0 d• . , ~ ....- .! .apt , ' . 14 A 'N.4, , S 1 -, A W :-. -.. , •..,,, sc4l 0 Nlk s `.....yr: • ilik LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1843. Our annual retrospect becomes, we must acknow ledge it at once, somewhat embarrassing at the close of a year so wonderful in its character and so fruitful in its occurrences as the year 1848—the year which beyond ail otters is entitled to the appellation of the Annus LWirabilis. It has been already christened the Year of Revolutions ; but 1848 is not memorable solely for its political events ; it has proved unpre cedented in almost every particular. The terror excited during the past twelve months by the anarchy looming upon us through the "bloody haze" of in surrection, in which the whole continent of Europe was enveloped, derived a very extraordinary enhancement from the dismay excited by the impending scourge of the Asiatic Cholera. Added to this, the inhabitants even of those countries which were the least affected by the general convulsion found ample cause for lamentation in the scarcity of provisions, in the absence of employment, in the stag nation of industry, in a commercial and financial panic, such as had seldom, if ever before been experienced, in the anticipation of revolt, in the distracting fluctu ations of the money market, in the anguish of a severe and increasing mortality, and in a variety of other strange and bewildering calamities. If, like the earlier fugitives from the first French Re volution, we hurried from the crimes and wretchedness of the more populous regions of the globe, and sought consolation amidst the more un frequented tracks of the ocean, or across the ice mountains of the arctic circle, our sympathies were oppressed with doubts as to the safety of Sir JOHN PRAMILLIN and his companions, or our imaginations were startled by the rumoured re-appearance of the sea-serpent. Sins of a diabolical character were perpetrated in the very heart of the domestic tran quillity of England, which added a new horror to that originating in the catastrophes of gigantic empires. From the miserable concubine who strangled her two children on the Ist of January, in the madness of a momentary paroxysm of jealousy, or from the murder of a soldier 'lb, St. James's-park by a pistol-shot fired by the delicat4, hand of a g - risette, down to the tragical assassination of the Recorder of Norwich and his son, under cir cumstances as melodramatic as any one of the ro mantic incidents depicted by the morbid colouring of Ds BALZAC I Nor have these obscure and individual atrocities been unaccompanied by disasters of a wholesale and appalling character. One while the sanctity of the grave was violated, and the dead burnt in their shrouds by the flames accidentally kindled among the coffins in the vaults of St. Sa viour's Church, Southwark. At another mo ment a tremendous conflagration carried de solation and destruction through the streets of Albany. In August, one hundred emigrants were lost in the blazing ruins of the O cean Monarch ; while in December, seventy-three were suffocated in the steerage cabin of the Londonderry. Disease or conspiracy mowed down, at the same time, in the very thick of events, men whose careers were eonspicuous, or whose names had long been recorded in the catalogue of the illustrious. Here the Arch bishop of Canterbury (llowLzr) died in his bed in the fulness of years—there, the Archbishop of Paris (Arleta) perished at the fa , * of a barricade, bearing the olive-branch to the blood-stained rebels of the faubourgs, and dispensing his benedictions over the heads of the very ruffians who had rendered him the martyr of Peace and Patriotism. From the political world of England two men of prominent talents and of opposite principles have been hurried out of the arena of Parliament. One, the leader of the Opposi tion, was struck down by a spasm of the heart in the meadow-lands of Nottingham ; the other, for several years the Prime Minister of Great Britain, breathed his last at his ancestral mansion in Hertfordshire. Among the literary characters of England we have lost, towards the close of 1848, a distinguished critic and biographer in the person of Sir JOHN BARROW; while Europe had to lament towards the commencement of 1848 the demise of FRANVIS RENE DE CHATEALTBRLAND, the panegyrist of Chris tianity. While these casualties have afforded a melancholy illustration of the vicissitudes of fortune and of the evanescence of life—terrible crimes have imparted infamy to the recollections of the people and their rulers. The blood of assassination has polluted the weapons of democracy and of despotism ; the blood of LAMBRRG has descended upon the Hungarians, that of LATOUR upon the Viennese, that of Rossi upon the Romans, that of DUVIVIER upon the conspirators of June, that of the Nea politans upon their SOVISSIGN, that of &um and of MESSENHAUSER and of a multitude of other victims, upon the effete Government of the Austrian dynasty. But if these criminal acts case a gloom over the narrative of the events of twelve months of miracles, the remembrance of the heroic and glorious deeds achieved by the Continental races, and by their gifted leaders, will not be lost to the ad miration of posterity. So long as the sublimities of ♦irtue and the marvels of valour can be appreciated by the human intellect, so long will these things be cherished as the prototypes of true civism and of exalted self-forgetfulness. Ears fighting for the nationality of the Italians in Lombardy—CAßßEßA losing all his ancient ferocity when struggling to power among the cities of Catalonia—KossuTH cheering on his com patriots in the regions of the Danube—Moamar ex erting his intellect and raising his impassioned voice among the crags of Switzerland— LAMARTINB daring death for the sake of freedom, and conquering the diabolical strength of Terrorism by his grand and historical utterances ;—all constitute in themselves a spectacle such as might arouse even the most indolent to ac tivity, and excite even the most apathetic to en thusiasm. Month after month the noise of the " agonies of great nations" has resounded to us across the waters of the Channel—the detonations of those social earth quakes which have subverted thrones, shaken citie s into ruin, driven forth the most powerful statesmen as fugitives, and strewn the earth with the cadaverous relics of civil battle. In January the excitement caused by the reception of ESPARTEEO at Madrid had scarcely subsided when the city of Palermo was bombarded by the Neopolitan Monarch—the Two Sicilies were involved in the perils of an intestine conflict. In February the monarchical system which had been embodied in the younger branch of the BOUREONS was suddenly annihilated, and in a mo ment, as it were, the gigantic form of the Republic rose from the chaos of the explosion—"like an ex halation"—like the palace of Pandemonium. In March the hoary sway of METTERNICH crumbled into dust, and simultaneously the Posenese revolted against Prussia, while the Lombards marched to victory under the banners of Sardinia. In April the Chartist riots evoked from the citizens of London that magnificent evidence of their love for order and of their devotion to the Constitution, which still thrills us with emotions of satisfaction. In May the diplomatic relations between the Cabinets of VICTORIA and ISABELLA were abruptly severed asunder by the ignominious expulsion of our ambassador at the behest of the irritable and insolent SOTOMATOR. In June the streets of the beautiful capital of France were delivered up far four days to the:fury of the demons of insurrection, leaving 10,000 corpses as the attestations of their inhumanity. In July a rebellion, which was attempted by the Irish demagogues, led only to the disgrace of the latter near Ballingarry, and to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in the sister country by order of the two Houses of Parliament. In August a collision again raged in the public places of Vienna between the workmen and the military. In 'Sep tember the efforts of the Magyars to accomplish the labour of their emancipation was renewed. In October .the Austrian EMPEROR was a second time obliged to escape from the Castle of Schanbrunn, and the Viennese held for the time being in their grasp the destinies of several distinct nations. In November, the revolutionists of Germany were silenced by the guns of WIINDISCHGRATZ, and pillaged by the savages of JELLiCHICH ; while Pope Pins IX. was com pelled to fly from the Papal dominions to seek protection from murderers in the Neapolitan sea-port of Gaeta. In December a youth of eighteen ascended the throne of RODOLPH, and the son of HORTENSE BEAUHARNAIS occupied one of the palaces of the Emperor NAPOLEON, in virtue of his right as President of the French Republic. Looking back through the darkness and confusion of these twelTe memorable months, we can well appreciate that thrilling exclamation of MACAULAY, that at moments we are almost forced to doubt whether or not we shall " sacrifice Liberty to save Civilization !" The absolute necessity of a speedy and comprehen sive financial reform is now fully recognised through out the length and breadth of the land. The example afforded by the people of Liverpool has been fully appreciated, and will be followed in all parts of the empire. The information disseminated by the exer tions of the Liverpool Association—the startling revelations that have taken place, the monstrous abuses that have been exposed._ are producing their natural results ; the good seed will not remain barren or unproductive. A peaceful and constitu tional movement is taking place that must even tually lead to the desired alterations. Finan cial reform associations are springing up in different parts of the country, and we venture to pre dict that no free and independent constituency will be without its branch or auxiliary society, to partici pate in the contest, and more especially to bring conviction home to the minds of those anxious for seats in the representative branch of the Legislature. The rise, progress, and ultimate triumph of the Anti- Corn-law League have taught the people the means by which great reforms may be achieved, and the use ful lesson will not he forgotten or disregarded. Al ready it has been acted on in Scotland. A magni ficent meeting was held on Wednesday in Edinburgh, presided over by the LORD PROTOST, at which it was unanimously resolved, that "it was expedient to form at Edinburgh a Financial Reform Association, which, acting independently of party, and without aiming at organic changes, shall adopt all lawful and constitu tional means for effecting a thorough reform in the national financial affairs." The principles laid down at the meeting, as well in the resolutions that were submitted for consideration, and the language of the several gentlemen who addressed the assembly, proved that there was no desire to " clip and pare down the men who really served the country, or to effect reductions" inconsistent with the maintenance of the establishments which are essential to the 4 ' r etY, the dignity, or the integrity of this great em Pl're• As the Lord Provost stated in his opening address, " there can be no doubt that the country has been stricken with a fit of thrift. From one end of th e land to the o th er the calling out, y had p eo pl e or later,and Economy ! economy !' and sooner a larg er or smaller extent, they would have their hum ours out ;„ but w , ld h t " their demands will be reasonable —they will prune the overgrown branches of the State with cau tion—they will ask for nothing that :night tend, even by implication, to weaken the faith of the nation, nor yet to injure in any way the great institutions of the State." His Lordship also added, and the sentiment was enthusiastically responded to—that " he had a strong feeling that those gallant men who had fought our battles by land and by sea ought to be honour ably and liberally rewarded." This is the true feeling that should be encouraged—" the labourer is worthy of his hire," and there is no necessity that the nation should be guilty of mean or niggardly conduct, which might in the long run prove a very unwise and injudicious eco nomy. Those whose services are required should he riot only fairly, but liberally remunerated, but war to the knife should be proclaimed against the drones, who prey upon the resources of the country without affording any benefit in return. The esta blishments should be suited to the wants of the nation, and all unnecessary employes sent to earn an honest livelihood by their own exertions. Ateliers Nationaux are not to be maintained for pauper sprigs of nobility, in order that the entire patrimony may descend un incumbered to the head of the house. These are the abuses that must be swept away, and that speedily and completely. One of the first objects to be attained is the sim plification of the national accounts, the obtaining of clear and unvarnished statements, that will be acces sible and intelligible to every tax•payer. All stop pages in transitu, all deductions, of any de scription or on any account whatsoever, before the sums collected are paid into the Exche quer, must be abolished. Many of the most objectionable items of expenditure are veiled from public notice by this ingenious device. Hereditary pensions, expenses of various legal establishments, salaries and compensations to officers, are in this manner attempted to be placed beyond the control of Parliament, and the same item will frequently occur under various distinct heads, so that the amount actually paid cannot be ascertained without con siderable labour. The entire system must undergo a radical change. The gross amount collected must be paid into the national treasury in the first instance, and then the expenses of collection, the salaries, and compensations of officers, and—if needs must— the pensions, if any just or sufficient grounds can be shown for their continuance, may be paid. Why, we ask, should quarantine expenses be defrayed out of the Customs ? What connexion is there be tween the tax imposed on various articles of mer chandise coming into the country, and the establish ments which are erroneously supposed to keep out disease, but which only impose difficulties and re strictions upon our trade and commerce, and on the free intercourse which it is so desirable to maintain between the several nations of the world ? If money is to be expended for sanitary purposes—and we would be the last to oppose any judicious outlay for such a purpose—could it not be applied in a more beneficial manner, with greater advantage to the public, and with far less inconvenience and annoyance to individuals ? By the present systeth the charges are not brought under the express notice of Parliament, and are, consequently, exempted from that control that should be exercised over every branch of the national expenditure. Again, why should the expenses of the Scottish Courts of Judicature and of the Sheriffs be paid out of the Customs revenue, be fore it has been deposited in the Exchequer ? The charges may be perfectly fair and reasonable, but for that very reason they will bear revision, and no inconvenience can arise from the fullest publicity. It is, perhaps, to shelter more objectionable items that would, if possible, be involved in obscurity, that the system is continued. It (may be to protect his Grace of GaArras, who is in receipt of 11,9461. per annum 8,6391. from the Excise revenues, and 3,4071. from the Post-office). These payments have now been continued for no less than 175 years ; and if they had been accumu lated at compound interest it would appear that the maintenance of this single peerage has cost the country more than twelve hundred and sixty millions of pounds sterling, or one-half more than the entire national debt. Surely, it is unnecessary to adduce an additional argument against a system under which so iniquitous a job could have been perpetrated for such a time. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The new Ministry has been again signally defeated on the question of the salt tax, in the National Assembly. After the amendment of M. ANGLADE had, as we stated yesterday, been adopted, an attempt was made by the Ministry to get rid of its effect, but unsuccessfully. It was incorporated in the Bill as the second article, and then the Bill thus amended was voted by a majority of 372 to 363. The effect of this division, so far as the salt tax is concerned, will be to reduce the tax to one-third its present amount, on the Ist of January, 1849. M. GOUDCEIA.UX spoke and voted in favour of the Ministry. The Gazette de France says, M. PASS; Minister of Finance, immediately after the result of the division became known, announced his intention of tendering his resignation. His resignation will, it is believed lead to that of the entire Ministry. The Censtitutionnel says that M. PASS"; notwith! standing the remonstrances of several Members of the Assembly, declares his intention to resign, and that should he not alter his intention, he will be suc ceeded by M. AcniLLE FOULD. The Constitutionnel attempts to disguise . its anger and disappointment by endeavouring to prove that the majority by which the Ministry was defeated is composed of the most heterogeneous materials. "It consists," it says, "in the first place, of timid men, who are preparing for their re-election, even at the price of confusion to our finances, and who imagine that that which is most necessary for France is to abo lish a tax, oven at the risk of rendering soon inevitable the adoption of some much heavier impost. In the second place, there are the adversaries of the new regime, who are numerous in the Assembly, and who avenge themselves on the budget for the check which the coun try gave them in the election of the President of the Republic. Lastly, the majority is completed by the group of Montagnards or Socialists, who perceive a chance for their ideas in every public embarrassment and in every financial disorder." The true cause, however, of the anger of the reactionaries of all classes against the National As sembly is the dread they entertain of the imposition of an income-tax, which would affect the old hunkses of the Faubourg St. Germain, who at the time of the revolution put down their establishments, and deprived themselves in many instances of the com forts of life for the avowed purpose of creating dis tress and misery among the working classes. The Dibsts exposes the true reason of the opposi tion to the reduction of the salt tax in the following lamentation : " Will it be said that the taxes which it is proposed to establish--that the tax on property, for instance, will be less odious or less bardensome to the people, than the tax upon salt ? For our parts, we do not fear to say that the projected tax upon revenue would be the most ♦exatious of all taxes, and we doubt if the Government will succeed in establishing it in France. Every one can judge of this question, and can ask himself it it would be agreeable to expose before a commission the balance sheet of his fortune—to say what are his resources, his gains, &c., to show his books, and to suffer the investi gations of the fiscal agents into his affairs. Without professing absolutely the opinion that the established taxes are the best, it is nevertheless in conformity with good sense and with science, to sustain that the existence of a tax is already a motive of preference in its favour, and that it is better to preserve that which exists than to establish that which is new. The suppression of old taxes, or their reduction, never profits entirely the con sumer." When the vote of the Assembly became known on the Bourse the Funds fell 5 per cent. The Credit states that M. LEON FAUCHEE, the Minister of Public Works, has been compelled to withdraw the sum of 8,000,000 E, allocated by the National Assembly for the completion of the works of the Lyons and Avignon Railroad, in consequence of Count D'ARGOUT, the Governor of the Bank of France, having refused to lend the sum required— excusing himself on the plea that a Minister fre quently makes promises which his successor does not feel bound to perform ; and that 8,000,000 f., advanced for the construction of the Lyons and Avignon Railroad, might in three months hence be expended in the formation of a corps of lancers or sharpshooters. The PRESIDENT of the Republic has, it is said, sent for his cousin, the Grand Duchess Snug:time of Baden, to do the honours of the palace of the Elyse. National, where he intends to establish a sort of Court. Marshal BUGEATII) is confined to his house by illness. In the Committee of the Assembly appointed to prepare a project of law for the organisation of the national force, General CAVAIGRAC made an ad mirable speech advocating economy in the finances, and a reduction in the army. Ho said, that in his opinion a republican government ought to direct all its efforts for the establishment and maintenance of a general peace, and that France should set the example to other states, by a large reduction of the armed force. Sentiments similar to these ware expressed in almost all the bureaux, and there is every reason to conclude that the French army will speedily be organized on a system totally different to that which has prevailed hitherto. The Moniteur publishes an account of the imports RDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1848, and exports for the first eleven months of 1848, with comparative accounts of the imports and exports for the same period of 1847 and 1846. From this account it appears that the duties received upon im ports for the first eleven months of 1846 was 141,643,385 f.; and for 1847, 123,573,5321.; while for the eleven months of 1848 it was only 80,447,893 f. During the month of November, 1846, the duties received were 13,1192,924 f. ; and in 1847,11,960,169 f. • while in November, 184 8 , they were only 8,532,090 i The accounts of the exports are rather more favour able than they were last month. A Cabinet - Council was held yesterday, at which several of the Ministers tendered their resignations. M. HYPPOLITE Plssr declared he should retire on account of the vote of the Assembly on the salt tax. M. Bin° tendered his resignation because the PRESIDENT of the Republic refused to grant an am nesty, and M. LEON DE MALLEYILLE for both reasons, and also on account of a certain letter said to have been written to the Constitutionnel by the PRESI DENT of the Republic. After some pressing MM. PAsar and Bum agreed to remain, but M. Lxors . DE ➢IAI.LEVILLE remained obstinate, and it was only when the PRESID➢NT of the Republic, Marshal Bu (MAUD, and General CLIANGARNIER were sent for, and solicited him to remain, that he gave way and withdrew his resignation. The sitting of the National Assembly yesterday was stormy, as the subject of the salt-tax vote was revived. M. GRANDIN demanded the revision of Art. 3 of the law. M. GoupcuAux demanded that, to remedy as much as possible the excitement produced by the vote of the preceding day, Tuesday be fixed for the discussion of the financial laws. M. Durnv reminded the Assembly of the power given to the PRESIDENT to propose the revocation of a Bill passed. M. DUPIN, in conclusion, said, that even under the most absolute monarchs on appelait de Philippe ivre a Philippe a jean. As might have been expected, the use of this ex pression gave rise to great tumult, in the course of which several Members addressed the Assembly. The tumult, however, was stilled by the Minister of Public Works, who declared, amidst loud cheers, that the vote of the preceding day, notwithstanding the embarrassments it might give rise to, h a d no t shaken the courage of the Minister of Finances, and that, when the.law on the finances should be put to the vote, the Ministry would know how to establish a balance between receipts and expenses, without compromising itself or abusing its powers. He agreed with M. GOUDCHAUX, that the financial laws should be discussed as soon as possible. The Assembly s h a red this opinion, and the matter dropped. The Prince DE LA MOSKOITA has been appointed Ambassador to Berlin in the room of M. EADIANUJIL ARAGO. BOURSE.—Pais, FRIDA.Y, DEC. 29. TRIES o'CLocc—The division of yesterday in the National Assembly, against the salt-tax, had, as might have been expected, a depressing effect on the Bourse of to-day. The French Bente* fell upwards of 2 per cent.; the Bank of France also gave way; and the Railway Shares participated in the general fall. So considerable a source of revenue as that of the salt-tax being all of a sudden taken from the Government, will, it is feared, create great embarrassments to the Ministry, and pro bably produce a change of Ministry. In Foreign Stocks the business done was very limited. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THB LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 29. Boulogne and Amiens, TA l —Northern of France, 7 Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Paris and Rouen, 18 4—Rouen and Ilene, 93(. Week ending Dec, 24 23 24 23 23 23 21 in possession of the Magyars. It is equal in extent to the kingdom of Bohemia, and comprehends the duchy of Synnia and the counties of Peterwaradin, Barz, Baranya, and the Banat. llnnuisi, the commander of the volunteers, who had joined the Austrian troops, was defeated on the 18th, and taken prisoner by the Magyars. PRUSSIA. Berlin journals of the 27th h av e arrived. • The National Zeitung states that HERR Scau- BERT, a gunmaker of Berlin, in easy circumstances, has been arrested on the charge of having armed several of his workmen with rifles, on the day after the proclamation of the state of siege, and told them to shoot certain high personages, whom he named to them. The Burgher Guard Congress, which assembled at Breslau, has separated. The number of Deputies did not exceed sixty-five. Among the resolutions passed was one declaring the Burgher Guard inviolable— that is, declaring the Burgher Guard cannot be dis banded or suspended, in whole or in part, without its own consent. At a meeting of the Democratic Club of Treves, on the 20th, a M. OTTO, an ex-Prussian deputy of the Extreme Left, stated, as an official fact, that a secret alliance had been entered into between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, for the purpose, of course, of enslaving all Europe; and further, that this fact was not known to him (M. OrTo) and his political friends until too late to found a motion thereon in the National Assembly. It is said that in consequence of the remonstrances of the Emperor of RUSSIA (who has always regarded the prospect of German unity with dislike), the King of PRUSSIA has determined not to accept the Central Chiefdom of Germany e►en should it be offered to him. NAME OF RAILWAY. Aberdeen ........ Amiens and Boulogne . • • •• • • • • • • • • • • Belfast and Ballymena •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Caledonian—. ......... .......... • • Chester and Holyhead •• •• •••• .. Cockermouth and Workington.... • • • • Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown ...• • • • • • • • • • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • • • • • East Ang1ian........................ lidinburgh and Glasgow. •• • • • •• • • • • Edinbnrgh and Northern • • • • • • • • • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • East Lancashire .. • • . • • • • • • • • Eastern Union • . •• • • • • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • •• Glasgow and Greenock— •• • • •• • • • •• Great Southern and Western .• •• • • •• Great Western, Scc •• • • •• •• • • •• •• Kendal and Windermere • • .... • • • • • Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • • - • • • • • • Lancaster and Carlisle • . •.. • .. ..... Liverpool, Crosby, and Soutliport• • .. Londonderry and t.nniskillen ....,... London and North Western, &c. London and London and Brighton London and South Western Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle .... Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Monklands .•• •• •• • ... Newcastle and Car 11813.:....:::.. Norfolk.• • • • • • • • • North British .. • • ...... Paris and Rouen ........... Rouen and Havre Scottish Central ........... Shrewsbury and Chester South Eastern and Branches • • •• • ... South Devon.. TafT Vale .... •• Ulster . ........ Waterford and Limerick............ Whitehaven Junction ..... • • ....... Wishaw and C01tne55........... York and Newcastle . ........ . York and North Mid1and........... Last week. 1,270 850 8,728 1,372 75 670 724 3,080 1,66 r, 15,748 1,750 1,210 2,326 811 121 11,134 2,015 116 45,741 8,679 10,213 2,1'82 23,636 1,157 856 2,394 5,348 2,353 823 1,605 8,139 1,330 - 352 •,; 0 RI :-; E. 4m 0 ~,,,, U ji 1,084 680 3,260 591 14,714 830 1,203 2,000 922 1,990 21,367 . , 100 B,SS2 1,129 108 40,396 722 7,707 8,606 1,903 22,976 754 2,090 0,875 2,296 527 7,754 767 !,646 652 185 ,4,155 7,955 "Nc% THE BRITISH TARIFF, BY EDWIN BEBDELL, OF THE OFFICE OF EXAMINER AND PRINCIPAL CON* TROLLER OF ACCOUNTS, CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON. —This new edition of Beedell's British Tariff; has been considerably extended and improved by the addition of the Customs Warehousing Act, list of the principal officers of Customs at every po r t, su b -port, and creek, in the United Kingdom, list of the names and !stations of the receivers of Admiralty droits, likewise the recently passed Act for ware housing British spirits, the North Am erican Passen gers' Act, and a practical and comprehensive exposi tion of the regulations affecting the export branch of the Customs business. Mr. Beedell's book should be in the hands of every person who has Customs business to transact. WEBSTER'S ROYAL RED BOOK FOR 1849.—This useful compendium of fashionable information, which is to the fashionable and professional world what the " Directory" is to the mercantile and trading world, still maintains its high character for accuracy of information and facility of reference. Com bining as it does a comprehensive street guide with an alphabetical list of the nobility and gentry, of the Members of both Houses of Parliament, of the Baronets of the United King dom, of the ambassadors, consuls, bankers, army and navy agents, hotels, and clubs, it may be truly styled a microcosm of the metropolis. The seeker after in formation with regard to the Court or fashionable life will be certain of finding what he seeks in the pages of Webster's "Royal Red Book." LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—HandeI's oratorio of Judas Maceabceus was performed here last evening, by the London Sacrfd Harmonic Society, under the able direction of Mr. Sur man. The principal vocalists were—Miss Birch, the Misses Williams, :Mr. ,Sims Reeves, Mr. H. Phillips, and Mr. Benson. Sims Reeves was in superb voics, and sang magnificently. He was enthusiastically en cored in " Sound an Alarm." The performanc e as a whole was most creditable to the society. The hall was crowded. • MONEY and COMMERCIAL. NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Liverpool Cotton Market this week has been without change as regards prices, being firm. The crop is estimated at 2,500,000 bales. The sales yesterday in cluded 5,700 bales of American taken on speculation, and 750 for export. In the Railway Share Market business had been done at 2 discount for Great Northern. at 124 for North-Western, 85} for Midland, 44 for North Stafford, and at corresponding rates for other shares. The more ready employment for money in the Dis count Market, and the willingness of the brokers and bankers to take in a larger amount of cash on "call," has at last had its effect on the Bank of England, and the increased advances upon securities, both public and mercantile, have allowed of some addition to the note circulation. With a further increase of more than 270,0001. in the bullion and paper available in the Bank " till," a much larger demand for money must arise, ere any sensible influence can be exercised upon them, but the dividend payments will soon lead to the ordinary though material changes. The Treasury account looks very "respectable," and we hope may stand higher ere the quarterly charges come upon it. Compared with the previous week, the changes are as follows: Notes Issued 28,184.795 Increase ... 202,670 ••• ••• ••• ... 3,380,302 Increase ... 3,614 Public Deposits 8,572,063 Increase ... 663,420 Other Dcpssits 8,951,073 Decrease ... ... 298,576 Seven Day and other Bills ... 967,455 Increase 2,649 Government Securities ... ... 13,484.162 Increase ... 155,150 Other Securities ... 10,814,515 Increase ... 144,819 Notes 11,309,335 Increase 62,925 Bullion ... 15,000,676 Increase 210,804 Active Circulation 16,875,460 Increase ... ... 139,745 Besides the gold discoveries, the Americans, up to the date of the last accounts, continued actively to pro secute their copper mining operations. The Northern Mining Company at Lake Superior was making great exertions. An account in a local journal states : " The Pacific brought up last week the engine and stamping works belonging to this company, which are to be erected at their mines in the course of the winter. From Mr. Bacon, their energetic superintendent, we learn that his force at the mines have, since the Ist of December last, sunk a shaft of 155 feet, and extended a level or drift 223 feet—the drift commencing on the main shaft at 65 feet from the surface. At present operations are confined on a winze 85 feet south of the main shaft, at the 95 feet level, and on another winze 100 feet north of the same shaft and on same level, having in the former winze a rich load of stamp and barrel work. There is at present raised to the surface, over 200 tons of good stamp work, with the ground suf ficiently opened to take out in the course of next year, with 20 miners, at least from present appearances, full 2,000 tons of good stamp work. "Since the organization of this company, the total amount of expenditures, including the supplies now on hand for six months, with engine, &c., has been 35,000 dollars. During the winter, the working force will consist of about 30 men, and the expenditure of the company will average about 800 dollars per month. An intelligent gentleman who has just come down from the Eagle River district, in forms us that he considers the North American location " second to none but the famous cliff." The firm of Robert M'Clelland and Co., linen mer chants, in the north of Ireland, has suspended payment, and such is the state of affairs in the sister island, that there are great apprehensions of further similar occurrences. The Russian heuses which were placed in difficulties during last year's panic, are paying better dividends than any other. Messrs. John Thomas, Son, and Lefevre, have liquidated their engagements in full. Although the French Funds come 2 per cent. lower, owing to the defeat of the Ministry, the excellent Bank returns have buoyed up the English Stock Mai ket, and there have been some good purchases by influential brokers. Consols have been done as high as 88i and 89, and are now 88,i to The New Three and a Quarter per Cents. have been 89 to t a and the Three per Cents. 88i is Bank .Stock has been up to 1911. Exchequer-bills are 40s. to 435. premium. The Foreign Securities have been very quiet. Spanish Five per Cents. have, however, been firmer at 14 to i s Por tuguese Four per Cents. are nominally 25 to 26. Mexi can Bonds have been done at 241- to 24i. Peruvian have risen to 47 and 49. In Dutch there have been no Rest bargains. Railway Shares have been very buoyant again, and advanced prices have been realised for some of the prin oipal lines. Eastern Counties and Caledonian are, how ever, still flat, and French shares lower. ONE P;t WES Ur 152.1TJ4t1 FUNDS. o'cLocz. Bank Stock 19 1 1,6 3 per Cent. Reduced A-..ns 8 8 34 5 / f a % New 3 1 4 per Cent. Ann 5.... . India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001. . Consols for Account. 83% 89 88 3 4 Exchequer Bills. 24d. & 2d. 1,0001. March 1,0001. June 5001. March. 43 p Small. June CLOSING FRTCES. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. _ _ CLOsth PRICES, Ecuador Bonds lies.;can, 5 pr.r Cent. 1846 211; Ditto, Account .. 24 1 / Ly.6 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto, Account 49 48 47 49 Russian Bonds Bpanigh 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account l4 14 1 A ' 14 Ditto. Passive Dividends on the above payable in London. PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7 1 ,2 — Belfast & County Down 19 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 ... Wolverh'ton. and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. withoutguarantce 10 B.:ming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jam.... 10 ...... Boiton, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ..• Bristol and Exeter 9O Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire... 14/. 4s. Caledonian ...... Ditto, Half Shares .. 8 Do. New 101. Pref..... Vitto,Clydesdale J une 50 I.hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 •• Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ...... Do. 2,1 Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 35 Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 Livt Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D. .. ... 25 ...... Do., 181., E. & 18 ...... D0., 3/. 10s Eaztern Couxties... Do. .New Guaranteed 6 pee . Cent... lO ...... 11 1 ,4 ll V Ditto, Exienbion,s per Cent., No. 1 6/. 13..!. 4d.... p Ditto ditto, No. 2-61. 138. 4d... Do. .North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters 1214 Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class B (I. & and B.) 2O _ . Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . .... Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. &E.) guar. 5 per ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 614 — East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares Edlnburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .. Exeter,Yeovit, & Lurch 2 5 /8 — Glasgow, Damfries, and Carlisle ........ —Si. 6s. Glasgow,Kilmar.,.& Ayr SO Do.Preterence ColiSal. Great Northern ......... 19 Do., is A Deferred ... b% 5 Do., 1,4 2 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ..... 6 1 ,4 • 4 , Do. Extension 2 1 72 -- ;I•eat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 Ditto, New, 40/ 4O i' P . 8 li 5 Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New, 151— l4 •• •• 25 1 ,4 Great lirestein 9O Ditto, J 4 Shares pia°, IA" Shares ' 21 Ditto, fifths ...... ...... 20 79% 17 3 % 10% Ditto, New 17/... 13 ... 10 1 ,4 Huddersfield and Manch. 30 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half shares Ditto, . 1 4 Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ..... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, Shares Do. Quarter Shares 171 .2 — Do. Fifths... lO Do. SixteeAths 6 ,4 — Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... ......... Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 71 ,4 Liverp. and Bury 43 Ditto (late Hud dersfield and Shell.) 43 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte trAct, aud 50 6314 6 % 84 SPAIN. M74rid journals of the 22d have been received. ..Zl: 3 :"•;Tiblish a letter from Gerona of the 16th, wr-X . .410ces the defeat of the QUHEN'S troops by the fii% Ca;.:47 - ";bana on the 18th. The following is an extrkrtr. " • ',his letter : " is.fi - to accounts received yesterday from Figuerallit t, column of Colonel Vega has suffered a serious cat; city in the streets of Albana. Estartus was posted in that town with his people, knowing that Vega thought of attacking him; but as Saragatal and his band were only an hour's march from that place, the latter chief received an order from Estartus to put himself at °ace in movement, in order that both forces might operate together against those of the queen. " Vega was innocent of the position of Saragatal (and by the way there is no commander of a column who can pro cure for himself a moderate espionage, and thus they are mostly obliged to operate in the dark, and without know- ing Where — the enemy is), and, carried away by his valour attacked Estartus, who, fortified in the houses of Albano, resisted obstinately, giving time for the arrival of the other band, which took place. Vega, then per calving how he had compromised himself, sought to fall back in the best order possible, which he effected with difficulty, after suffering a considerable loss. It was solely the serenity of Senor Vega, and the valour of the preference companies of the Figueras and Las Nava's battalions, that prevented the dispersion and confusion, which for some moments were introduced into the rest of the troops, composed of recruits and raw soldiers for the most part. "As soon as this event was known at Figueras, all the troops and carabineers there set out, carrying with them a number of beasts to bring in tho wounded, who amount, as we were told, to four officers and about eighty soldiers. There were twenty•se►en killed. The Carlists sustained also some loss, though less than ours, on account of their being under cover in the houses." The Espana says that the combat lasted till night fall, under shade of which the Carlists abandoned the town, having suffered considerable Joss, the troops also sustaining "some loss," and having two officers killed, and four wounded. CABRERA was at Videa on the 16th, having sta tioned some forces in Plaza de la Calms to watch CONCHA'S movements. TORRES was at Guisona. with 800 men on the 15th. The TRISTANIS were on the same day at Tora with 400, and shortly after they left, ARBONEI, alias RAMONST, entered with his hand, 700 men and 40 horses, on his return from Upper Arragon. A band of Carlists which had appeared in the pro vince of Valladolid has been dispersed. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 22.—The Three per Cents. were done at 21i for cash, and were 1-16 buyers, * sellers, after the close ; Five per Cents. 10 i 1 ; buyers, sellers ; Coupons, 6 sellers; Passive Debt, 3i buyers, 4 sellers. Exchange on London, 48 40. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The debate in the Diet in Kremsier on the demand of the Austrian Minister for the additional credit of 80,000,000 florins, which was voted by a small majority, presents a melancholy picture of the financial state of Austria. BABOUSICI, in opposing the grant, presented a table of the receipts and expenditures of the last few years, to demonstrate the diminution of the former and the graduated increase of the latter. Florins. In 1545 the receipts were 193,307,639 In 1847 ... ••• ••• 144,872,466 For 1849 they are estimated at 101,969,403 Being a diminution in the space of three years of ... ••• ••• ••• ... 92,033,236 In 1846 tho expenditures were 169,099,996 In 1847 ... ••• ••• • 176,325,993 That is to say, in two years an increase of 7,225,197 In 1846 the deficit was 22,577,727 In 1847 ... ..• •.• ..• ... 31,453,527 In 1849 it w ill amount, perhaps, to 60,000,000. The extraordinary expenses amounted in 1846 to ••• •• In 1847 to ... In 18 " bey .-- ... 15,2045,48 ... 17,212,692 .049 they are estimated at 51,000,000 He declared that the national debt of Austria, com pared with the revenue, was greater than that of any other country, and that it almost amounted to half the value of the monarchy. The national credit was vacillating; paper money had almost a forced circu lation ; gold and silver had disappeared; and it might happen that, one fine morning, a national bankruptcy would ensue. Such an event was not yet unavoid able; but it must be guarded against. The future Finance Minister would have to exclaim, " My pre decessors ought to have acted economically, and avoided useless wars." He concluded by moving that the Government be empowered to raise a loan of half a million of florins in the course of the year 1849, and to stop the interest of the national debt in case the receipts of the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 were not sufficient to cover the expenditure. Another Polish speaker gave a melancholy account of the present condition of Gallicia, taking care to refer to the atrocious conduct of Government in exciting animo sity between the Polish and Ruthenian races. Amongst the Czech members (who were unani cnouslr in favour of the full grant), JONAK distin guished himself by his warm support of Ministers. Another Ministerial speaker (MATER) observed that the threatening aspect of affairs in France rendered it doubly necessary for Austria to show itself as a great nation. The Finance Minister remarked, towards the conclusion of the debate, that there must be money procured in one shape or the other for making pre parations for war, and possibly for a European war. There must be either taxes or loans. A just system of taxation in Hungary would throw on that country an equitable portion of the debt. Ile further stated that contributions would be levied in the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, the junction of which with Aus tria was advantageous for both. The Diet, after voting the eighty millions, adjourned till the 3d of January next. The EMPEROR received a deputation from In apruck on the 17th, who presented a loyal address, to which his MAJESTY returned a gracious answer. No further intelligence has been. received in Vienna from the army of Hungary. Letters from the Hungarian frontiers of the 20th state that tho victory of the 'Magyars over the Ser vians on the 9th was complete. The Servian army was annihilated, and the whole Waiwody of Servia, creAted At 011mutz on the sth of this month, is now ITALY. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa contains intel ligence from Rome to the 20th. Great agitation had been reigning there for some days past, which was increased by the presence of the well-known Radical TORRES, and by the refusal of the Ministry and Chambers to convoke a Constituent Assembly, on the plea that they had not legally the power to do so. The Ministry, it was said, had insinuated by its organs that the cry for a constituent assembly was raised by foreign Italians, for the purpose of hasten ing the moment for a reactionary movement. Mean time addresses were showered upon the Chambers from all sides, the last received being from Bologna and Ancona, of so pressing a nature as to force an immediate decision. The Executive power, on the other hand, excited the people against the refugees of Lombardy, declaring them to be the sole cause of the agitation. On the 18th, at four rat., the generale was suddenly heard. An hour afterwards the Civic Guard was assembled in the Piazzi SS. Apostoli, with two pieces of cannon. The line was on the Piazzi di Venezia, with cavalry. The remaining artillery was ready on the Esplanade of Fort St. Angelo, and strong patrols paraded the city. Meanwhile some Civic Guards had drawn up an address to their General, declaring that they wished for a Constituent Assembly as the basis of every operation. At seven o'clock the General him self appeared in the square, and heard every one call for a Constituent Assembly. The Ministry, who had not resigned, immediately met in council, and, after the lapse of two hours, STERBENI ap pealed on a balcony, and, after a flattering speech to the Civic Guard, he concluded by saying that the Junta of State was composed, and that its first mea sure would be to propose a Constituent Assembly to the Chambers. He added that, to adhere to the wishes of the Civic Guard, they would expel from Rome those persons who were believed to be the perturba tors of public tranquillity. The troops and Civic Guard then retired ; it was ten o'clock. Some per son:, whom public opinion had long marked out, such as CERNUSCHI, DE-BONI, &c., were immediately ordered to quit the town. At three P.M. of the following day the generale was again heard, and the. Civic Guard assembled to maintain order. A rumour was current that the Ministry who had resi g ned the day before, would remain in power. The Chamber did not sit, it being announced that the Junta of State had ac cepted. The Junta is composed of MM. Comm, GALETTI, and CAMERATA, and is to remain in office till the Constituent Assembly shall have been convoked. On the 20th the Junta published a proclamation, in which, after declaring their insufficiency for the difficult task imposed upon them, they promise, with the assistance of the other Powers, to maintain order internally, to aid the development of free 'institu tions, to restore prosperity in every class, and to co operate by every means in the establishment of national independence. But they declare, at the same time, that they will only continue in office till a Constituent Assembly of the Roman States shall have pronounced itself on the question of the political form of the State ; and they will hasten as much as possible the moment whoa such an Assem bly shell meet. Signor ROSSELLINI has arrived at Leghorn, charged with a mission to Florence and Rome for the pur pose of concerting measures for the convocation of the Italian Constituent Assembly. Cardinal BER xErrf arrived at Naples on the 16th ; Marquis BE VILACQUA, of Bologna, a member of the commission named by the Pontiff, had arrived there on the 13th. Prince CARIATI hastily spt out for Gaeta on the 16th, notwithstanding a severe indisposition. It is said that General Zuccai has left 8010 gna for France. RAILWAY RETURNS RLILWAT Taarric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year Do. (W. liidir.i; Un,..:1) 7 2. ... ...... ...., Do. (l'i estou &. %V' yrs) 25 1)o. 1 / 2 Shares (A)... 914 - Leeds and Bradford s(l Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 Do., ilalf Shares 25 - ......... Do., ClAtiz) Scrip ..... . 214... 14 , 2.eus and Tuiria Ditto, New ...... ..„.... 35 Do., .i'refir,r., 6 per t.t. 31.... Liverpool, Crosby and Soutiiv;rt . 3 ll — . Li rerp., 'Manchster, and Newcastle Junction... 2 1 A — London & Bluckwall...l3/. 63.8 d — Do. Extension..... ... 22 i ii — L ou.; on, Brighton, and South Coast 5O ..... 31 7 y ...... Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ...... ~. .• De. 1 - !rel. Con. 6 p ur e t. 50 _ ... ~. Ditto, ditto...-. 1652 50 — Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. - London and Greenwich 12/15 3 4d ... Ditto, Preference...-. :X London and N. We: lie .124 125 1 A......... ii:: Li:iaritr: (L. oL B.) ::a Ditt,, Aew ....... ..... 7 Ditto, la i±ths ~.. , .. ::: ....... 6 1 72 Ai Do. , lut. , Sliztres(L.k ".) 25 .:30. 101. (Id. & B.) A. 9 Do. 10/. (kl. & B.) B. 9 ...,.. 11 li ......... .1. , 0. ltg. t 21.. & B.) C. 1 ...... ..... Loma. & ~. V./ ~ .stern ...... 5U 1>.,. 1“514,501. ... ..... 421 i.. Do. New 410. . 34 i.:o. Tenths (Consol.) 50 se.• D:tto ditto Ditto, Thirds.. .... 15 ............... Do., New Scrip, 1848, P. et. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls 5 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...... ... ........ 114 — Londonderry-&Colerai ne, 28%. — Londonderry and Emus- ..„_. kid,n 27%...... —. ... •••• •••• Lowestoft (4 per ct.) Ditto (6 per ct.) Manchester,Buxton,and 1 , 1 a t 1 ock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo D). Quarters (No. 1) 18 ...... Ditto ditto (No. 2"" ....)... 23 Ditto ditto (No. 3) ~. 11/4 — ..... ..••• Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 .. ....... 10% Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 40 Ditto ditto . .... —l 3 - Ditto ditto •. ..... -- Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire l5 . ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 20 ..... Do. .' , lanchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. Midland .. . 100 ..... 84 Dv. Consolidated Pref.loo ...... Do., do., fj/..Shares._ 20 ... .. 12 1 4% zr..int De. Birm., and 1)erby100 Birming., 6 per ct. -.100 12214 123. ...... . 123 Ditto, Brist. &Glecstr. 38 Ditto, ditto ... .. 141. 188 — ..... ...... .. Ditto,Leicest. So Swan- nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish .. 45 Michllesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Newel:sucanaearlisle..•loo Do. Quarters 25 Newmaris et -- -• •• .•. •• • •• 20 ..... Do. Extension .........21. 128.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 and Rostrevor 2O - .. Noriolk . ~.. I/o. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 41 pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 orthern Counties Union 4 .—... ortti Britvh ...... ... 25 ...... 15% 16 ... Ditto, Halv es .. ..... 12 1 / 6 ' - iii% Ditto, Quart ers - Ditto, Extension o . .. — Ditto, Thirdi .... .. North & S out h -W estern 2 North Staflore.shite ...omit Wales . 3V.I. North-Western . Oxt*rd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. Royston and Hitchin ... 2 Scottish Central Scottish Midi, ........ •...••• - ..and.. Ditto, IN ew Sheffield, itothertia- & --, - ..,nerharn, Goole (Nor. Div.) ... 10 Do. do (Sou. Dir.) ... 4 ...... Shrewsbury anu Bina-. 9 • 2 1 ,ii i;itto ditto. Class ...... B. 5 ..... . Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 - ... Shrewsbury and Herein. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. kin.) l7 - Ditto Halves ... ditto 81 2 ..-.. ....- - Ditto Oswestry ...... 17;% — Litto New - Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO Shropshire Union South Devon 5O ••• Lio. Preference -ouch Scatlvrdshire 61:z...... ...... ••• S ..)11 to E:iSkrra . ... Liu., Isio. 1 24 Lo., 1:.:0.2. Do., No ' ••• Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 South 28 ...... South Yorkshire, caster, and Goole 5 Swans. & Loughor & Ca- ............. 4 meron's Stat. C0a1.... 6 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 l'hatnes Haven Dock and Railway 17 1 / 2 Vale of Neath ...... 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 17 1 / 2 . Waterford and Limerick 47 1 / 2 Waterid,Wxfrd,lVicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 ........ per Cent. Guaranteed .. 5ll Do. do. d o . Do, do. dc J. .o. 10 .. Vest Cornwall West London Do. Do. Ist (Nam ... 20 Do. Do. 2d glass .-20 A Mb:la:wen & Furness 14 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 12 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ..... 40 York, Newc a stl e , and Berwick. Do. Original New and Berwick .. ... ... 25 .... . 27 1 4 27 il Do. Eaton s i oa No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2., lb Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York:An4 North Midland 50 53% 54 1 4 Ditto, Preierence ...... 10 t)t,..Eat and Westßid . In i , txteusiou ...... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... b ...... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of Franc e (O r - ..... leans and Vierzon)... 17 Ceylon .. Demerara 1 5. . ... . Dendre Va11ey...... 4 Direct Bornba- td , y an Madras ........ .. ss. . ..• ...... ••••• Dutch Rhenish N..... .. ...... .... East Indian 34 — . O .O •••• • Great Indian Peninsular '4 — Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 1 / ,' 2 — Luxembourg Ditto lO Madrid and Valenti n 2 ...... Namur and Liege Northern of France-- 12 ... 7% Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 11 .•• .. Do. Do. . lO — Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... Paris and Rouen ...,..... 20 ..., ..... •••••••• Paris and Strasbourg ... 9 - ...... ••••-••• Rouen and Hay& 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O ..• .. Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes 9 ...... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan dau, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders ..... . ...... 834.. „.. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia ............... 40 - British North American 50 Colonial 25 - g• • . ••• MD • ••4 - Commercial of L on d on 20 — - Londou Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. 20 National Prov. England. 35 Di tto, New .. National of Ireland 22% —•—• ........ ••• Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 - Union of Australia ..... 25 Ditto,New ..... 21,1...... . — Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... Union of Madrid 40 MLNES. BoTones Scrip ...... Real Del Monte, Unreg. ....• ..... 3 THR COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOL.—We are anxious to correct an error into which we fell in our report of Mr. Moore's speech at the anniversary, re pottted in our paper of Thursday. What he said was, that the firm to which he had the honour to belong employed perhaps a ,urger number of travellers than any other, and that it was therefore the more incumbent upon him to give the school a liberal helping hand; and not that his house was the most " distinguished " in the world. S ounr AUSTRALIAN COMPANY.—A half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday. The re port of the directors was satisfactory. The profits of the company now produce a rental of upwards of 12,000/. per annum. The accounts received from the colony were encouraging. It is intended, in order to facilitate emigration, to make allotments of land at moderate rates. The Australian Agricultural Company have at length received Irorn the Crown the title deeds of its grant of 1,000,000 acres of land, situated in the colony of New South :Vales proper, and flee from all quit-rents, im posts, and reservations.. The company purpose throwing open the whole of its territory for sale, in allotments of all sizes, to suit the views of capitalists, with the privi lege annexed of commonage for their sheep and cattle oa the company's waste lauds. t 1 8 ', 7 < i 89% 41 p 40 p 881 i 43 p 40 p 43 p 40 p 24 [ :, 1 21A ..._ 7% 31% 49% 49% 5% 1256 11 1 A 11;4. 4014 10 48% 16 6% 1 in s 26 14 12% 24 ii 7 1 4 - BIA - 9% q.b4 "‘'