The Sun. — London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD•STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KERN. On Monday, Jsnuary 26th, will be performed Shali.spere's Comedy of the MEIIIIY WIVES OF WINDSOR, and the New Grand Christmas Pantomime of HARLEQUIN BILLY TAYLOR ; or The Flying Dutchman and the King of Raritongo. Tuesday, 37th, Twelfth Night will be repeated as played at Wind sot Castle, by Royal Command, and the Pantomime. Wednesday, 28th, Hamlet, and the Pantomime. Thursday, 29th, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the Pantomime. Friday, 30, this Theatre will be CLOSED, in consequence of the Royal Performances at Windsor Castle. Saturday, 31st, The Iron Chest, with the Swiss Cottage, as played at Windsor Castle by Royal Command, and the Pantomime. ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. Triumphant Success—New Pieces—The Bottle Imp. The performances THIS EVENING and during the week will commence with a CHARACTERISTIC ADDRESS by Mr. Albany Brown. After whieh, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'S ROOM, with Signor Bari Tone's new Scena, The French Commenta tor onShakspere. The grand romantic Spectacle of THE BOTTLE IMP. Ta be followed by the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES YU- ItIOSO. Vocal Wonders by Signora Barbieri Alleni. To conclude with the Last Act of a new grand Ballet, called PAULINE ; or, the Pupil of Nature. With the Foreign Dancers and the celebrated English Hornpipe. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. A Morning Juvenile Performance on Wednesday, the 28th, and Saturday, the 31st, at Three o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Two. Private Boxes, IL Is.; Balcony Stalls, 35.; Lower Stalls, 2s. Balcony, 25.; Amphitheatre, Is. Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St. James's-street ; Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond - street ; a; all the prin cipal libraries; and at the Box-Orrice of the Theatre, Adelaide treat, West Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. First Appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves. THIS EVEN IN G, MACBETH, with the whole of Locke's Music. 3facbetb, Mr. An derson ; Maccluff, Mr. Belton ; Hecate, ivliss P. Horton ; Lady Mac beth, Miss Glynn. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called ll_ RLEgui).; HOGARTH ; Or, The Two London 'Pre ,, tices. Box-office open daPy from 10 to 4. PRICES OF AD3IISSION. The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rate of admission adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society:— Drugs Circle Upper Boxes Pit .. Amphitheatre Gallery .. 25. 6d.. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each cf the following llaces at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. ?t-rmouTH—Wind S.W., storm—rain. ?ooLE—Wind S., hard wind—overcast. lA:MUMS W d S.W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy. S'enzaAaarrox—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. FoLsFsrortF.—Wind S.W., fresh breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDG I—Wind S.W., gentle breeze partially cloudy. GREENWICH —Wind S.S. W., strong breeze—overcast, Srnoon —Wind W., hard wind—overcast. 3wurnori—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. LEIGHTON —Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast. CoLcHEsTEn—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. O AB IBREDGE—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudy. Buvapicoam—Wind S., strong breeze—rain. HOLYIIRAD—. Wind S.S.W., heavy gale—rain. LANCASTER—Wind S., strong breeze—heavy rain. WHany—Wind S., heavy gale—heavy rain. DAII.LUMTON—Wind S. by E., storm—overcast. SNAP—Wind S., hard wind—rain. BisArrocK—Wind S., storm—heavy rain. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Friday morning at nine o'clock Talinume3—Wind N.W., calm—cloudless. BnauNGHAm—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. fioLYHEAD--Wind W.. gentle breeze—tine. LascAnza—Wind S.W. gentle breeze—principally clear. WfurßY—Wind S., gentle breeze—cloudless. 3HAP—Wind S. W.gentle breeze—partially cloudy. , 3EArrock—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless authen ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. 4,111-1 - 111 4. 44, ,; :6?1 , 1 40 0 4 1' 14 . 43fi 1 ?. ; 7 ' •IL D ' S 2 ; V AC s:. PORT PHILIP and COLONIAL GOLD MINING COMPANY. Provisionally registered. Capital 150,0001., in 150,000 shares of Id. each. DIaZCTOas. Air William Foster, Bart. J. D. Powles, Esq. j v c ura rains, Esq. Henry Ranking, Esq. John B. Elin, Esq. C. H. J. Rich, Esq. J. 0. Hanson, jun., Esq. H. W. Schneider, Egg. 'Joseph Hardcastle, Esq. Captain James Vetch, R.E. With power to add to their number. Auditors—George Engstrom, Esq. ; Edward Hurry, Esq. Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co. This Company has been formed for the prosecution of mining in Ike colony of Port Philip, now called Victoria, or any other et the British colonies. The intelligence recently received from Port Philip leaves no doubt of the existence of a large extent of auriferous deposit in that colony, offering amiple inducement to the prosecution of mining enterprise. The opinions of scientific persons have, for some time past, fa voured the belief that the geological formation of Australia would be found the same as of California, an opinion which seems to be now confirmed by practical experience. It is unnecessary here to give a detail of what has been done in laboars of individuals. Australia by the unskilled and desultory Private communications amply confirm the statements which have supeared in the public journals. Mining, like all other pursuits, requires to be conducted with a system and method—with the aid which mechanical skill and experience are capable of supplying—in order that it may obtain its jus remuneration. With these helps the labour of individuals is of isapplied, and the produce ob tained imperfectly and waste ealised. from England the capital, the This company proposes to skill, and machinery necess for the successful prosecution of mining labour in Australia. Mr. Evan Hopkins, who had had considerable experience in gold mining in Spanish America, v4ll proceed to Port Philip, to establish She Company's operations, with a suitable body of persons to carry en the same. The Company's capital will be 150,0001., in 150,000 shares of 11. each, to be paid en complete registration. This Company has been formed by the promoters of the English and Australian Copper Company. That Company is, by its constitution, restricted to the reduction of ores by smelting, or any other process, and it is at this moment engaged in preparing the necessary machines for that purpose to transport to Port Philip. It is believed that this Company may very much promote the objects for 'which that Com pany was formed. They will work in harmonious co-operation with each other; and in order to secure to the shareholders in the Eng llish and Australian Copper Company the opportunity of partaking the present undertaking, if they shall think fit to do so, the pre valence of subscribing to the capital of this Company, will be given .is the shareholders in the English and Australian Copper Company. Each shareholder in the English and Australian Copper Company 4111 be entitled to two shares in this Company for every share held Ay him in the former Company. Ten thousand shares will be reserved for appropriation in Australia. The Directors believe that this undertaking will be not only re munerative to its shareholders, but that it will be highly advan tageous to the colony, by introdncing into it a body of skilful and experienced miners, capable of doing justice to its mineral re sources, The Company will possess the power of acquiring, holding, and disposing of lands in any of the British colonies. Application will be made to the Board of Trade for a Royal Charter of Incorporation. Permission will be reserved to iacrease the capital, if necessary hereafter, with the consent of the shareholders. Applications for shares to be addressed, on or before the 2d of ?ebruary, to the Company's Office, No. 17, Gracechurch -street, or to Xessrs. Laurence, Cazenove, and Pearce, Auction Mart. POEM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directdrs of the Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of One Pound each in the Port Philip and Colonial Sold Mining Company, the amount of which I engage to pay whenever called on by you to do so. I am the proprietor of Shares in the English and Autralian Copper Company, the numbers of which are stated at foot.° _ _ I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, . Name. ... Address. ..... Reference. * Nos. • (Parties who are not Shareholders in the English and Australian Copper Company will strike out this.) With numerous Illustrations, 2a. 63. each, USEFUL ARTS BM.PLOYED in the PRO DUCTION of FOOD. USEFUL ARTS EMPLOYED in the PRODUCTION of CLOTHING. USEFUL ARTS EMPLOYED in the CONSTRUCTION of DWELLING HOUSES. London : John )V. Parker and Son; West Strand. HALF PINE, Dress Circle Upper Boxes Pit.. • • Amphitheatre Gallery ............Os. 6d. Private Boxes, £335.,-£2 25., and £1 11s Ed. Orchestra Stalls, Ss Is. 6d. Stage Manager, M^. J. M. MORTON. *rector of Spectacle, Mr. W. WEST. The whoje under the management of Mr. BUNN, LESSEE. TREATBE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. HI zi sinlaN Will be performed au entirely new comic Oper, entitled A3IINTA TILE COQUETTE. After which a new Fairy Burlesque, called THE PRINCESS RA DIANT AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by Messrs. Buckatone, H. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark, Flimmeri, Mrs. Fitwilliam, Mrs. Buckingham, and Miss Collins. _ To conclude with the Farce, called. THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnyc.astle, Mr. Buckatone; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Vick mgham. THEATRE ROYAL, ADE -- LPHI. Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. Enormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. THIS EVENING , Will 1-.., Psrformed the Farce of TH ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Mr. Felix Fluffy, lsr. Wright;ul Bedford s ; E MOTHER AND CHILD Emma Harding. ; ht Maxwell, Mr. Worrell ; Emily', Miss To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE PEDLAR ; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hi ra m Dodge, Mr. Sils bee ; Iforiand, mi.. Worrell; Miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma H ardin g . After Winch My P RECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail , Mr. Wright. To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING HOOD, Wolfram, Baron of B mil btirg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scraggenheim, Mr. Butler; Trudehen (ee mara•nlY called Little Fed r Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. _KOVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STILEET. Linde: the Managementot Mr. C. Beal. THIS EVENING , Shakespere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Bartley, Keeley, A. Wigan, Mea dows, Addison, Harley. 3. Vining, C. K ean ; mesdames Winstanley, Keeley, and C. Kean. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra yt ILLY , or kr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Panta- T tl Y art O q ß tlin ; rit'°ng°. Mr. paplo ; and Columbine , Miss Carlotta Leclercq. dOl,ll. LYCh'ILA Under the Maze EVENING, zt e Vest THIS Will be performed VIII GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal char Messrs. C. Math ews, F. Matthews, U. Re Ib Y , B . Baker ; characters by Airs. e Horn, and Miss M . Oliver. To conclude with A new and origina l Fairy Extravaga nza, by J. R. Planehe' Esq., entitled THE PRINC E OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn 1,- `4,“i Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, A,:3 Lanza, Miss Martinda le, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosins Wright,s— mews. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, liorucastle, Butler, and Vernon ROYAL OLYMPIC TIIE.A.TRE Farrell. Loma and Manager, Mr. W. Will be T HIS EVENO TG, H. Farren ; 'ago Mr. Hoskins Performed OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Saville. ; Deadernona Mi ss Louisa HoWard ; Emilia, Mrs. J. F. Fact, Fiction, and To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, inalequin Fancy. Red Rufus, fir, Shalders • Miss Lees. Clown, Mr. Edwa rds; Harlequin, Mr. Forrest ; Pantal oon , Mr. 'Tanner; Columbine, PLAYHOUSEAIM " TIMAT". Lessee. Mr. w, R . COPE LAND, LiVerP °°l ' The Warmest Theatre in Lendon. THIS EVENING. Will be per THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES ' After which, The JUVENILE PARTY. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDA RIN'S DAUGHTER , or, willow pattern Plate. Characters by Messrs. J . Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Egllnten, and Maskell. To conclude with MY SISTER FROM INDIA. The prices of admission are arranged as follow —Orchest•a stalls, 4s, hcaes (first circle), 3 5.; (second circle), 22.. Pit, Is. Doc i% to be opened at „,Half -pa" Biz , and the lerform anCeS to commence at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —nrSt.circle, 2a.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Halt each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. ~YAL A3OIIITUEATItt. ASTLEY' ''''''' 3/..iesty and his Royal HIM.= ct her .., Under tht PatrOnageAlbert. Prince Proprietor and 31 , n ular Theatre in London.Pr n e ager, Mr. W. Batty. The most suceessful and r ns Mr. Batt y begs to inform his Pato that he has entered i n t o an u• BENSOO, the great Rope engagement with Mons. FRAN- . every evening. Dancer, - . out Vienna,who will make Ins appearanceTlLTS EVENDIG , entitled BLUE Q ot acle, Will be Told a m ag nmeent -Pe - ' • BEARD ; or, Fennile Cariosity, allowed to be the most )11011y-trained Elephants, male and female, in which will be introduced a pair of *Jolla pair ever brought into Europe. With itatty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena, combining talent of the highest over, both Native and F regn • 'With the rar:st PePinar and only EquestTia.n Pantomime entitled MX. and Silts. BRIGGS ; or, Lunch's Festival—:Furth,very; in London, pittawi, and Jollity. Harlequin, Mr. Harvey • Columbine, Miss A m in the loon, Mr. Ruclunan; Clown Arthur ' Nelson, who will the a irs on coarse of each evening play a , number of favourite B,ck Harkonicon. A Grand Juvenile Ni g h t on Thursday next, r_t e ra to be lead at uao lies-ofilce nom Eleven till Fotlr daily . .itaze mp 'mrer, Mr. T. Thera:-“ , ~ ,-----.___ ba reiteraetwedpirteoo frequently etpheantatetstoan bility of the British It cannot the various ized parts system t so me rapid and properly or gan .. the establishment of this bond o f un i on, it were t n t i e c r a e its em vast of a c n ° d ni s inu ca so peculiarly, we t d icjil do b t n e i t. n w i e o e n n s . idle to hope for any very protracted continuance of a pow er may even g o so f ar o to sa p , • SO unprecedentedly gigantic and heterogeneous. Di s tributed as our ter ritories are ov er t h e wes t ern , as well as over the eastern hemisph ere, separate d as they are from each other, here by oceans and there by continents, sur- AN TINILE , ISONABVE PRO PDSAL.—A.IIIrish labourer, ! rounded as they are on all sides by enemies who was in the employment of au English gentleman, re- ! puissant as they are envenomed an d a mbitiou3, s idi n g in Ireland, was on one occasion about oing to a fair ! as - held annua lly at a neighbouring village, when his master' i the possessions of liogland are obviously liable at all endeavoured to dissuade him from his design. 4‘ You always," s '' 1 times to the danger of experiencing some tremendous said he, " come back wit,h a brtiken head; now, sta.; at ' ' h is home to-day, Darby, and 111 i merit. Insonnic give `ken five shillings , " I'm i effort at spoliation or encroach for ever an d a ll o bli g ed to your honour," replied ' Darby, • " but ; this necessarily the case, that it is impossible for the his shillelagh I does it stand to rason," added he, ti euris , . no. over t his head, " does it stand to ra ft , ni . , that I'd take five I students in the . Philosophy of History not to detect shillings for the grate bating I'm to get to- c l ay r 1 in the very evidences of our national greatness the germs of our future and inevitable dismemberment. Let us not be accused of assuming to ourselves the character of which we took occasion in our last im pression to speak in terms of the most decisive reprobation. We are by no means alarmists in our temperament. We do not, for example, anticipate any speedy disruption of our empire. On the contrary, we look to that catastrophe as to an event certain to take place in the ordinary course of things during some remote and as yet unimagined generation. To deny altogether the ulterior fall of our supremacy would be to gainsay the truth of the inexorable teachings of the Past. To attribute an in destructible vitality to the power of Great Britain would be to ignore the facts related in the pic turesque pages of VOLNEY and in the luminous volumes of SCHLEGEL. Dreams of any such national immortality would be tokens rather of ignorance than of patriotism. Meanwhile, it must be allowed as readily that the maintenance of the strength of England may be protracted to an almost indefinite period by the adoption of a regular and reasonable system of precautions. Foremost among such precautionary measures is assuredly that of opening up proper and sufficient lines of intercom munication. Otherwise a state, consisting for the most part of an enormous aggregation of colonies, must, we repeat again and yet again, be liable at any moment to the calamity of dismemberment. Lieutenant WAGHORN, though grievously ill re quited in a pecuniary sense, obtained, even before his premature death, the thrice-noble recompense of being regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most conspicuous amongst the ranks of our national benefactors. His enterprise had carried out the magnificent scheme of the overland route to Hindos tan. Thanks to his very remarkable exertions, we have since then been, at intervals of a few weeks, reaping the advantages of a rapid interchange of correspondence between London and Calcutta. Hitherto the line stretching across Europe into the very heart of the Asiatic con tinent, and down to the southernmost extremity of the Indian peninsula, has remained open to the British couriers to and fro, their course along the overland route having continued up till now uninterrupted. Nevertheless, it has been manifest from the very outset that such could not possibly be the case in the event of any misunderstanding between ourselves and the continental Powers, or, in other words, in the event of an outbreak of an European war. Under either of these contingencies the overland route to India would be, of course, at once and effectually ob structed. Thereby, of course, as assuredly in these days cf railroads and electric telegraphs, our power in Hindostan would be subject to very grievous de triment. It is consequently evident that perhaps the principal want of the empire at the present junc ture is that of some route across seas and over the surface of our own dominions, connecting together uninterruptedly our numerous and remote possessions. Already we have repeatedly insisted in these columns upon the advisability of directing the national enterprise to this end in a westerly instead of an easterly direction. Either across the territories of the United States, or farther to the north across our own provinces in the same continent, a route might, we feel satisfied, be opened such as would conduct us most readily to our acquisitions in Asia and in Aus tralia. The route by way of the Isthmus of Panama has long since been set aside as impracticable for a variety of reasons, not the least among which is the dangerous 7.avigation of the Gulf of Mexico, and the enormous increase of distance to be tra versed by following a direct course along the ex tended line of the equator. Not so the projected route across the North American continent, either through the United States or through our own do minions. As far as distance is concerned, the route by way of the United States is of the two unques tionably preferable. As far as our national predilec tions are involved in the matter, it must ha admitted that es e should rejoice more earnestly on the adoption of the route by way of the British possessions. In the latter event the golden fruits of the traffic, as well as of all ulterior advantage?, would flow into our own pockets instead of into those of Brother Jonathan. Naturally, therefore, we should prefer the construc tion of a grand trunk railway via Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Hudson's Bey territory, opening up a direct line of communication between the Pacific and the Atlantic, and rendering North Ame rica the high road between the Asiatic and European continents. Feeling this, as we have often before in timated, we are gratified to observe that a subject to which we ourselves have already frequently directed public attention, and which we have long considered to be one of most vital importance to the stability of our empire, has been formally brought, within the l as t f ew days, under the consideration of the Geographical Society by Captain SYNGE, of the Royal Engineers. At an early opportunity we shall take occasion to specify the nature of the arguments adduced upon the matter under considera tion by this intelligent traveller : at present we can merely allude to the circumstance of his recent ex ertions in the advancement simultaneously of science and of commerce, as to a fact which has afforded us, as one of the original upholders of the project, the sincerest and liveliest gratification. There is, perhaps, none of the great questions of Parliamentary reform on which so little is known re specting the Ministerial intentions as that relating to the future "duration of Parliament." On that point we are completely in the dark, and there are few data to assist us in forming a satisfactory opinion. We know that a distinct and positive pledge has been given by the PREMIER himself respecting the " property qualification for Members." "It needs no ghost to tell us" that the total abolition of that impolitic and unjust restriction on the privileges of constituencies has been finally determined, and that no substitute will be offered in its place. We are also aware that there will be con siderable extension of the suffrage. There may be much speculatioa as to the nature and amount of the concession. Some may suppose that the voter's qualification may be in some degree lowered ; others, that the proposition of the Hon. Member for East Surrey, on which the Ministers have already been so signally end ignominiously defeated, will be adopted. Many think, with Mr. E. BAINES, that the Parliamentary will be assimilated with the municipal franchise; while the more sanguine indulge in the fond hope that "house hold suffrage" will become the law of the land—that every man who is subject to direct taxation, or rated to the relief of the poor, will at length have the right of being heard, through his representative, on the application of that taxation. Whatever weight may be attached to these various opinions, there can at least be no doubt that the registry will be materially enlarged, and that we shall no longer find so large a proportion of political cyphers as at present. The St. Albans inquiry and many other significant indications show that the smaller boroughs, whether returning the nominees of the aristocratic patrons or of " the Mr. EDWARDS" of the locality, will not escape notice. There may not be a complete equali zation cf the districts, but there must be a more equitable distribution of electoral power than at pre sent, so that the representation may be better propor tioned to the wealth and population of the several con stituencies. Y. The decisive defeats end the questionable triumphs on the all-important subject of "the ballot"—the number of persons connected with the Ministry who have advocated, and that in the most unequivocal terms, the propriety of affording some protection t o the voter from the corrupt influences that have but too frequently been brought into operation, ' lead us to hope that the Government will avoid an other conflict with the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Bristol and his faithful and consistent supporters, of which the result must be deeply pre judicial and may possibly be fatal to them selves. O n each and every o f th ese impor tant point s , then, w e . h a ve something to enable us to f orm an opinion respecting the long-promised and anxiou s l y l ooked -for Reform Bill, the, first fruits of the ab an d onment of the " finality" which was so strenuously asserted by the First Lord of the Trea sury until the necessity of fuither progress was too clearly indicated to admit of further delay. But nothing of any practical importance is known as to the feeling of any members of the Cabinet on the ques tion of the duration of being Parliame n t, or the probabi lities Proposed on the existing that Reformers systenl o i f any therefore, essential TIE S N, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DIT —Morning 0 min. after 5 I Evening 18 min after To-Moattow—Morning 35 niin. after 5 Evening 52 min after THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 25. THERMOMETER, IX THE SHADS. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 45--this day, at noon. BAIIO3IErER, 29•88. WIND S.W.—fine mild breeze, with sunshine. it rained heavily yesterday afternoon, and during part of the night. MONDAY, JANUAR , " 26. Trizituota=Es, IN ITER Snaps. 46—highest since noon yesterday. 32—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day, at noon. BARom=NB, 30.12. Wpm S.W.—fine sunshiny weather. It blow a strong gale last night, with a heavy fall of rain. fOrt , ro, 40. itirtirtfai 2", u (34--).: t, • _ _ LUNDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 26, 1852. Rumours, assuming the aspect of authority, render it highly probable that the Law, under whatever name designated, is destined to be a prominent feature in the coming session; and if the subject be taken up and prosecuted in an enlightened and comprehensive spirit, it will go far to redeem the Whig Government from the heavy load of suspicion of its sincerity and competence, which now weighs upon it. Hitherto Lord JOHN RUSSELL appears to have been more in tent upon strengthening the machinery of the courts by the creation of additional judges than by recur rence to measures calculated to simplify the law, and to ensure its prompt and inexpensive administration. The extinction of a decayed borough, the enlarge ment of a mercenary constituency, the political birth of a rising town, are judicious steps in the onward course of Parliameusery reform, and in no w a y t en d to impede the eventual consummation of a wider sys tem of representation. But with the law the process ought to be far different ; a meddling spirit is a per nicious evil, and bespeaks an utter ignorance of the great principles upon which an enlightened system of jurisprudence should be reared. The justice of this remark is strongly and strikingly enforced in a letter, just published, from Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in which he insists that " whatever is done must be done vigorously and compre hensively, evincing the calmness of the philosopher and the practical wisdom of the statesman," and with great skill he divests his Lordship of all pre text for delay upon the score of unwilling or over worked colleagues. "No Minister," observes Mr. HARVEY, " was ever so sustained in the cause of kn• provement by the appliances at command, and which await your bidding. The benches of our Common Law Courts are filled with learned men, who owe their position, not more to their profeesional preten sion than to their party adhesion. These venerable functionaries can no longer plead the pressure of their engagements as an excuse for inaction ; for it is well known that the County Courts, whose useful labours are daily extending, have well nigh stranded their elder brethren. The tide of business is so rapidly receding from Westminster Hall, as to render the Courts of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and the Exchequer little else than the seats of ermined ease ; and assuredly no scheme could be better devised, whereby to divert the public censure from these scenes of learned leisure and extravagant emoluments, than the engagement of our judicial sages upon the great work of law reform." In past times, when de votion to abuses and a hatred of change were the eagerly sought and easily secured qualifications for public employment, and in no direction more so than in the law, to have attempted the enlistment cf the senior judges in the cause of legal regeneration would have been to bespeak their decided and suc cessful hostility. In this respect all things are hap pily changed,; and the benches of our superior courts are now cccupied by men who are bound to the Government by the force of principle and the ties of party to aid the cause of reform in every depart ment of the State, and especially of their own, where of all others it is most needed. The letter of Mr. HARVEY abounds in useful suggestions, and insists that the country requires from the Government a wisely conceived system of laws, to be administered uprightly, " with speed without precipitation, and with economy untarnished by parsimony." As it might be expected from the pen of a man who has been more cruelly injured than any public character within our memory, Mr. HARVEY con tends that the benchers of the inns of court and bar risters ought to be made responsible to the law, and he points at a simple and efficacious plan to make them so. We have been much struck . by the letters which now appear, for the first time, from several eminent Members of Parliament of all parties, who express, in the most unmistakeable language, their deep sense of the great injustice which has been done t th oone of th e mos t di s ti ngu i s h e d o rators of the Bri isSenate, and that, too, at a time when pre-emi nence was appointed to more difficult to attain. Mr. O'Cortriuna, who w as the indefaclaims to be ca ll ed to the bar e incluire ti in g t a o bl a e n c d h r airman of the Committee con duct of the benchers as a p c o h r a t r u a p c o t e n r M i s e r H s. the eR ereTs first-rate tal en t s have been extent, and e f a ' ase conspiracy by which highest order ha ve been prevented p re o v a e l n i t 3r ec r i o f b ro b to from reaching rea a o n incal culablebyhingthe w hichretensions of the very elevation of public station to which they were and are suited and naturally intended." So writ es a man " m hi g hly qualified to jud ge , upon the uc r t . o H f an HARVEY Y ir responsible power, whose overthr ow co considers as an indisp ensa b le condition in any plan AR justly which merits the appellation o f L aw Reform. %Ve the less re g ret the wan t of space to insert th e el PEEL, M r . letters of S ir LYTTON BULWER, Colonel liodE, Gener al EVANS, and others, as we can with etter. con fidence refer outireaders to Mr. HeavE 's I A C I N - I) 0 N, MON UA EYENINGy J AN LTA ItY 26, 1852. should speak out without any further delay, that they should emphatically declite e that " septennial Parliaments" but too frequent ly induce Members, with so long a term before them, to disregard the wishes of their constituents, and go in direct and undisguised opposition to those whose sentiments they are supposed to express. We have never known a sincere Reformer who did oof acknowledge that Repeals to the country should be more frequent than under the present systeel, and who could not perceive the incalculable mischie fa arising from a dif ference of opinion between the Legislature and the people of a country. Indeed,, if any d ou bt cou ld have existed on the subject, resient events in France would remove it, and prove the imperative neces sity of more frequent appe el s to public opinion than have hitherto been resorted to. What, then, should be the alteration ? annul Parliaments are as clearly too short as septenn;ial are too long. The young Members cannot get accustomed to their work in a single session—there is too much talking and too little doing, on the assembling of a new Petr- I liament, after a general electie o . The e x citem en t m u s t wear away: before measures of great practical utility and temperately. can be calmly discussed. An inter mediate term has therefore been advocated, and three, four, and five years have each their respective sup porters, although we believe that the triennial period has a decided majority among Reformers. There is another suggestion which is, however, worthy of calm and deliberate consideration. It has been asked, why a certain number of Members, say one fourth of the entire House, should not r e tire at the [end of emery session ? The parties thus sent to their constituencies would be selected by ballot or Other ise, as might be deter the privilege of being re mined, and would have elected. There would then be the certainty of o a beneficial infusion of new blood. And if the voice of public opinion should be adverse to the existing Ministry, the election of 154 new Members would afford too miellUivocal proofs of the general feeling to be slighted or despised. Without pro nouncing absolutely in its favour, it is at least worthy of being considered in all its bearings before it be rejected. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. The Patric of yesterday has the following part graph, dated at one o'clock in the morning : The tete given this evening by the President of the Republic is magnificent. At the hour at which we write an immense crowd is pressing into the apartments of the Tuileriel, which are decorated in a splendid manner. The richness of the uniforms, the beauty of the toilettes gives to this solemnity an unaccustomed éclat. The Pre sident, on entering the ball-room, was received with un accustomed enthusiasm." The Monitcur publishes n decree by which the decree of the Provisional Government, dated the 29th of February, 1848, abolishing the ancient titles of no bility, is repeal e d. The effect pro d uced by the publication of the decrees confiscating the Orleans property has been most unfavourable. The only journal which attempts to justify the act is the ratr;e : even the Constitu tionnel is silent upon the eubiect. It is now certain that General ST. ARNAUD and M. Ducos opposed the confiscation, and tendered their resignations. On this subject the following note appears in the . oniteur : The Minister of War and the Minister of Marine offered their resignations, but withdrew them on the solicitation of the PRESIDENT of the Republic." It is said that several persons of influence who had consented to become members of the Senate have, in consequence of the publication of these decrees, with drawn their consent. ItL. DE PERSIGNY, the DOS , Minister of the Interior, has just named M. THEOPIIILE DE MONTOUR his Chef de Cabinet. The Minister of Police will have under his direc tion six Pr e f ec ts of Police, who will reside at Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Strasburg, Bordeau x , an d Lille. The Patric says :—" It is announced that M. PIETRI, Prefect of the Haute Garonne, has been ap pointed Prefect of Police, in the room of M. DE MAUPAS." The Minister of Commerce has addressed the fol lowing notice to the various Chambers of Commerce : " Gentlemen,—A decision come to by the sanitary council of Constantinople, in August, 1851, prescribes to every vessel arriving in a Turkish port to display a yellow flag, until declared to have a clean bill of health. As some French vessels have experienced difficulties from not having, onformed to that measure, I have to request you to make it known to all shipowners and captains trading to Turkey." The Moniteur the Loiret has the following :- 1* MM. Martin, Michot, Peliere, and the three other prisoners of Orleans, whose transportation has been ch•Anged into exile, are still in the fort of Brest, where they are closely confined. Al. Pierre Lachambaudie, the Socialist fabulist, who came with them to Brest, in the Canada, and was confined with thern in the fort, has been removed to Paris. There is reason to expect that a similar measu re will shortly be adopted with regard to the others." The Ceurrier du Bas .Rhin says that M. Hoch man., ex-representative, who is included in the de cree of banishment, has received a passport for Ame rica, to which cou n try he will proceed via Ham burgh. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, J. 24. B ou l ogn e and Amiens, 11—Cent ra l of France (Orlmns and Vierzon), Indian, 2 03 / 4 19] , [4 ex in. —Dut c h Rhenish, 3Lz i ex in.— ex in.—Luxembourg,3—N or th e rn of France, I , 7>v ex in.—Orleans and B or d eaux, 7 % ex i n . -- East Paris and Lyons, B—Par's and Rouen, 2514—Rouen and 3 74 21 —Tours and N a ntes, 8 % Havre, 10—Sambre and Meuse, SPAIN. Madrid iournals of the 19th have arrived. A number of files are to b e g i ven by the QUEEN during the month of February. 111ADRID BOLSA, JAN. 19.—Threes were at 3 8 k to 3Si. GERMAN Y. _ . The Prussian Gazette of Berlin of the 21st states that the King . of Puussia has received from Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON an autograph letter announcing his re-election. The Cologne Gazette states that there is to be a meeting of the representatives of the states of the Zolverein at Berlin towards the end of the next month. A Vienna letter of the 19th states that an English engineer has passed through that city on his way to Belgrade, to open negotiations with the Servian Go vernment for the construction of a railroad from Alexinac to Belgrade. We learn from Munich that the King of B A TAILIA. has authorised a collection in kingdom, in aid of a fund all the churches of h i s for building a Catholic Church and a Catholic C ollege at Athens. I TALY. The commission named in March last by the Chamber of Deputies at Turin to consider the ques tion of transferring the Government navy to the Gulf of Spezzia, and giving up the dock of Genoa to the commercial shipping interest, has presented its re port, in which it declares itself unable to decide, de mands explanations on several points, and recommends that one million of francs be in the meantime ex pended in 1852 on the improvements called for in the port o f G enoa. i m periously About a year ago, the proceedings of the R Campagnia di — an Paolo, at Turin, a corpo rate body, which control has hitherto had the unli mitedof all pious legacies and funds belonging to the Church and to the charitable establishments of Piedmont, excited some mur mure, on account of the secrecy which involved all their op erat i o pretty ns, an d rumours of malver sation were generally circulated. This led on the part of the G overn m e nt to a proposal to the company, a d v i sing th em to annex to their body se veral other members to be n amed by the Municipa lity, in order to silence the adverse rumours in circu lation. The company having refused to submit to this arrangement, the Minister of the Interior has addressed a report to th e XING, followed by a decr e e published i n t h e Piedmontese Gazette of the 21st, enacting that the administration hitherto under the control of the " Compagnia di San Paolo," shall pass entirely into the hands of a commission of twenty five persons named by the Municipality. By another decree, the Alarquis D E /VIONTEZEMOLO, Senator of the Kingdom, is nam e d President of the new Admi nistrators. The latter have elected their vice-presi dent in the person of Count SICCARDI, the well known author of the law abolishing all ecolesiabtieal privileges, which has led to the present coldness be tween Sardinia and Rome. A Cabinet Council was held Saturday at the ri-office,------- on Foreig e . - , Downie s treet. The Ministers p resent were Lord .John Russell he Lord Chancellor, the Earl of l into, Sir George Gre Earl Grey, Earl G ranville, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right lion. Henry L a b ouc here, the Right Hon. Fox Mauls, - and Lord Seymour. The Council sat two hours and At. a ,.. • u THE WEST ERN 41 \ JAE - L IGHT COMPANY.—The Wes tern Gas-light Company have put the whole of their lamp lighters in uniform, consisting of green corduroy jacket and trousers and gl azed hats w ith the words, ~ Western Gas light Company," painted' in red letters on the front. The men present a very orderly appearance. FIXING BALCONIEs. A few inches of straight iron inserted into the brickwork is altogether insufficient for their security. I can see no really secure method but having arms carried through the walls, an d fastened to a plate or bar ill. *We by A tCZONT."-•• Correspondent of the Builder. LATEST FROM PA RIS. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPJ PARIS, MONDAY MORNING, 8 o'( The illoniteur publishes the Organic deer ea on the Council of State, divided into 10 sections. M. Laroche is appointed Vice-President, and is to preside in the absence of the President of the Re public ; M. Maillard is named President of Commit tees of Debate ; M. Rouher, of Legislation Justice, and Foreign Affairs ; M. Delangle, of the Interior, Public Instruction, and Public Worship ; M.. Pain), finances; M. Magne, Public Works, &c.; Admiral Leblanc, Military and Admiralty. There are 34 Councillors of State, MM. B oulay de la Meurthe, De Thorigny, Waisse, and Lull in cluded. TlP:re are to be 20 Masters of Requests of the first class, 20 of the second ; 16 Auditors of first class, and 15 of the second. The Ministry is definitively constituted as follows : —MM. Abattucci, Justice; De Persigny, Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce ; BinF au, Finances ; De Saint Arnaud, War ; Ducns, Marine ; Turgo, Fo reign Affairs ; Fortoul, ri;olic Instruction and Wor ship ; De Maupas, Police ; Casabianca, State ; Le febvre Durufie, Public Works. The Monileur announces that Government will not require exceptional measures to maintain tran quillity. MM. Nerode, De Mortemart, de Montalembert, de Mouslier, A. Giraud, Andre, Mathieu, Baudet, Desrobert, and Hallez Chaparedi, tender their re signations as members of the Consultative Com mission. M. De Falloux refuses to be appointed to the Legislative body.—Tines. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING. The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Harrison, hts ,, just arrived from New York direct, with dates from that city to the 1 , 1(h instant. She brings above 600,000 dolls. specie on freight, and 51 pasengers. Shortly after leaving New Turk the Africa passed a steam-ship, supposed to be the Humboldt, last from Southampton. _ _ _ The screw steam-ship City of Pittsburg, from Liverpool, before reported as having arrived at Phila lort her propeller on the third day out, which accounts for her prolonged run. Kossuth had left Washington on a tour through the Western States. The Austrian Minister at Washington, M. Hulse mann, had written a letter to the President of the United States, remonstrating ag.;iinst the speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, at the Congressional ban quet to Kossuth. Webster was preparing an answer. it was expected that Hulsemann would receive his passports. The report that Lord Palmerston had forwarded a communication to the American Government in the Prometheus affair proves to have been un founded. A letter received by the Hon. Mr. Webster from the American Minister at this Court notifies the change in the Foreign Secretaryship, and that Earl Granville ba►d personally - assured the Hon. A. Law rence of his desire to be on the most friendly footing with the United States Government. A false alarm of fire at an emigrant boarding house in New York had been attended with fatal results to six persons ; severnl were injured. Thirteen persons had been killed, and numbers wounded, by the explosion of the steamer Magnolia, near the Isthmus of Darien. At Philadelphia a girl of only thirteen years of age had been convicted of the murder of an infant by cawing it to swallow pins and needles. A 13111 for establishing a line of steamers to Galway has been laid before Congress. Terrific storms had swept over Louisiana, inflicting great damage. There had been unusually heavy snow storms at New Orleans and Buffalo. The ac counts from all parts of the Union represent the weather as intensely cold, and the rivers as being blocked up with ice. Dates from California are to December 15. 500,000 dolls, in gold had been received during the week. The mining accounts were good. The Indian difficulties had been settled. Jamaica advices are to the 2d of January. The cholera was making fearful ravages. From Nicaragua we learn that Munoz was still at liberty. The latest intelligence from Mexico reports Cara van' as repulsed but not defeated. The commercial advices from the United States generally do not differ in character from those latterly received. Money is somewhat more plentiful, and accessible on more easy terms. Stocks and public securities are dull, at former prices. Inactivity is the leading feature of the breao.stuffs market. Prices unaltered. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dolls. 624 c. per brl.; Genessee prime wheat, 1 doll. Bc. to 1 doll. 10c. per 601bs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 66 to 68 cents per bushel ; Indian meal, 3 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls. 37ic. per brl. In cotton there has been a tair amount of business doing at New York, and f ormer quotations were s teadily maintained. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 9ie. to Sic. per lb.; Upland and Florida m id. fair to Lair, 81:: to 81c. per lb. P.•ovisions firm in prig , , with moderate sales. Freights continue to be quoted very kw. There is little doing in thew. Exchange on London, 110 to 110 i, in moderate demand: Pdria, 5 14; ihiriburgb, 364- to 361; Bremen, Mk to 78k. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending Jan. 24, 1852 ... £7,754 9 4 Traffic—Week ending Jan. 25, 1851 7,927 7 6 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 31,033 12 6 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 32,063 17 8 Total number of Passengers—Week- ending Jan. 24, 1852 ... 46,410 Passengers ... X 5,887 13 10 Goods ... 1,866 15 6 Total... £7,754 9 4 Total miles open, 1852, 173► i ; ditto, 1551, 1711.1. London Terminus, Jan. 26, 1852. HURRICANE IN THE CHANNEL.—On Saturday night it blew one of the most fearful gales in the English Channel ever known. The new West India steamer Ori noco, on its passage from London to Southampton, expe rienced its full fury. The gale came on just as the Orinoco passed Dover. The sea washed over her funnels, and for three hours, although her engines were going at full speed, she was enabled to make but little way ahead. She took eight hours in running the twenty miles from the Foreland to Dungeness. Not a person on board ventured to retire to rest during the whole night. She proved a splendid sea boat, or she could not have lived out the gale. She came up Southampton water yesterday afternoon after her fierce en counter with the hurricane of the preceding night in splendid style. It is feared that there must have been a great loss of shipping and life in the English Channel. At Southampton it blew with tremendous fury the whole of Saturday night, so much so that the French mail boat from that port was un able to put to sea until yesterday evening. FORMATION OF A RIFLE CLUB.--We find that several active gentlemen in the Stock Exchange have agreed to form a club, on the principle of eneiling members at their convenience to practise rifle shooting, it being under stood that although each gentleman will suit the time of his attendance to his own convenience, he will, as a member, be pledged to become expert in the practice. Mr. Charles Mitchell, of the Stock Exchange, has been appointed hon. secretary, pro tern., and Henry Tudor, Esq., treasurer. The , authorities at Woolwi c h h ave consente d to p l ace a t the club s disposal space at Woolwich for practice, to be exclusively used used by members at stated times, so as not to interferemembers the regular artillery exercise. The subscription . will be 21. 2s. per annum, of which 1/. i i s e t . o o fi te g a e p b p e r r o a - 1 appro priated to prizes for the best shots, andl an ex d pe t n o se p s a . y f E br ac s h uc m b e a m m b m er un i i s tie t b o a p e rov b i e de may use. himself with T b ea rifiericom mitteees a t w a i l m e e n d g e a r g e e t e a n cost,eminentabd competentr m aker instructors supply membersallowedwhenrequired.Nr seeffiinnec butei et attend. The club to be ma natgee by friends may ordinary practice, but meetings will be whenixed bep selected by the members. present at the a committee yes terday morning preached t before the Lord Mayor, Thomas ST. SEpULCHRE' Sepulchre's, Skinner-stree , o f London church of S t e rr s sermon os Bishop t the pan, ..,u er he Ward, and a numerous congre- Cotterell and Richard Swift , Esqrs., the ir She d ritls sb ; e S ri i i r rs J ; am tb e e s Duke, Bart., Alderman, M.P. ; the Common Councilmen oft gation, in aid of the funds of the parochial Boys' Scho o l. The Right Rev. Prelate took or his text the words of s lsai a h, chap. 55,v. 1. H , t fir one that thirstest come ye t o th e w a ters, and he that both h e a n t d h tb no ilk mo w ne it sb o ; u c t r n im io e n ; se and bu Without y and eat; price." And ; yes, come, buy wine at the conclusion of his discou rse, t h e subject 'if which was the b l essings of the gosp e l, w hi ch was freely offered to all, he strongly urged the nece,,sitv of increased exertions for the diffusion of the Gospel, at a time when the em issaries of Popery and infidelity were showing redoubled exertions, and urged the importance of ameliorating the state I of society and improving its moral condition by a careful training of the rising generation, arm which would have a ino3t importaiit nail'. in a social and religious point of view. The Parochial Boys' School has existed for 152 years, and educates 101 boys. After the sermon a collection was made in aid of the funds of the school. LOUIS NAPOLEON IN LONDON.—Lotii3 .I.Napoleon was in London, on a flying visit, on M onday last. We have good authority for stating the fact, incredible as it may ap pear. He went back, as he came, in disguise, his business being of a strictly private nature. What that business was, we are of course unable to say. We can only conjecture — from the romantic attachment known to subsist between the Prince President and the Marquis of Normanby—that the recents desertion of that nobl eman has deeply affected the heart of his bosom friend, and that he found the impu l se t o follow him irresistible. Wh ether Pylades and Orestes me t , and if so, how they met, s h ut ton heyo arced, "this depo nent ottith 12 9ts"""'sfairt Bull, BRITISH RAILWAYS. Ra:iwaya. Paid. Nominal Prices, Abordeon.. Ambergato, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Binning., Wolverhamp., and Stoic Valley Birkenh., Lan., Chesil J one., late 33/. (3s. ad Do. Chest. Si: Birkenhcl., 0/. & 231. Con3olidated Do., do., 20Z. Bristol and Exeter.. •• Caledonian • • • • • • Cheater and Holyhead .. i3ublin and Belfast Junet. Dublin and KilagStOWE.. Daudalk and Eaniskillan Dundee, Perth, and Aber- le©n Junction .. • • Do., New •• • • East An (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • •• Do. (181.. E. & IL) •• Eastern Counties .. Lmtern Union, class A, :ate E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. • .. 1)o. do., B & C shares' Eat Lancashire • • • • I 7 t. Note quarters • East & West India Docks and Elm. June. .. East & West York. Junc.l Edinburgh allot Glasgow' Ellin., Perth, and Dundee' Glasgow and South-West. DO. do. G. D. St C.st;el; Groat Northern • - . • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per et. l Great 6outhern and s , . _ _ Western, Ireland Great Western Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. •• Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and) orkahir e Do. quarter slmres Do. fifths .. • .. Do. West Riding Union' Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and' Southport London and Blaekwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighten, and South Coast .. • • London and N.-Westarn Do. do. quarters Do. lifthi Do. 101. ah., Ai. & 1 (e) London and S.-Westara Do. new 501. Do. new 401. .. •• Manchester, Balton, and Matlock .. Manchester, Sheffield, St Lincolnshire Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • .. Do. 501. shares .. • • Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. Weot. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carliale• • De. quarter hare •. Newmarket •• •• •. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford .. Newry ant Enniskillen.. Newry, Warreupoint, & Ro,strevor NortClk Oc. New 201. shares.. Northern Ceuntlea Uaien North itritish.• North Devon .. • • North Staffordshire • • North-Weatern North& Sth.-West. Jur e. Orford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. lieotttuh Central .. Scottish Do. n•'w Shrews. Birm., Class A 1)0. Class 8.. •• •• Shrews. & Ilersford., Old Do., do., Now .. Shrewsbury and Cheater {Nor. W. Do. Halves Do. OsTest:y .. .. Do. Now.. Shropshire Union • • • . Do., A, B, C, &D, ftilly paid up at per cent •• South Devon South-Eastern .. • • 8(1 uth *Wales.. iiouth Yorksh. and Elver Dim .• •• WI., Roth., avil South Division and D nfermline Stockton and Hartlepool Taft Vale .. .. • • •• , Taw Vale Exteaeion Thames Raven Peck and flew ay .. • • vale of IN.Zeath Yiraterferd and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wax., Wick. suet Dub .. West Cornwall •• Whitehaseu and Furness. York, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension Ditto G.N.E. I,urchase York and North Dtidland THE SHARE MARKETS. 10% to 11 4% —4% s$K, 10% .. -- .. d. .. .., .. 83 85 14% 15 19 18% 91 —lB d. 6 - 7 ayy— — 2% o% 4 -4% 3 -3% 15% - 16 49 -50 26 -27 4% - 5 17% - 111% 55, -5% 13% - 13% 86 - 36% 84 - 84% 75 -80 7 -8% p •• - •• 60 - CO% 8 —7li d. 6N 84 d. 14y, —15% 6% - • 7 97 - 98 114% —ll5 2%--2%p. 2 —2%p. 1% 84% 654 dis. l 6 53fi 2% .- 2% 29 -3O 54 —5434 •• —•• dia. 26 —2B • . • - • 7% - 8 .. —•• die. .. -- .. dlis. - 23 18% db. • 3 ails. • 7 —G dig. • 9 die. dig. P 14% - 15 14 -14% 8% - sq 8 6% -6% 44 -4% - 3 3 (118. 13 ..- 15 8% .-. 734 Hi -11 .• dig. 334 d. i -1 5 I9N - 2 0 % 29 -30 3% -2% 4. .. •••• •• .. - .. 150 - 152 •• -- .. die: 16 —l6 die, • • a. 334 434 •• •••• •• die. I€si - 17% 8 -7%4. 37 -Z%4. 20% -gl% 17 fi 16% 12% 11% 12 ak 21 i 2034 A LINES LEAS: AT FRED IN TALMO. Leasing Business Itallwa Y s ' Companies. Paid. Nominal Prices. done to_day. Bcdf. & Blotch ley . • • Lon. & N.W. all .. - Binning: & Ox ford Juncion, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 2914 -3034 Do., without a guarantee .. De • • all 2814 -29 Wolver., & Dudley, gua ranteed •• Do .. all 29 -30 Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • .. all 28 -29 Buckinghameh. Lon. & N.W. all 1714 -18 x.d , z.d Clvdoadale June Caledonian all 42 -• 44 E. Lin., Guar. 6 Der Cent. G. Northern all 88 •-• 33 33M, Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 1 -2 p x.d Elartlepl Docks Yrk, New" 1 and Railway 2. an 1 Ber.s all •• -• • Hull and Selby :Yk, &N. M. all 106 - 108 , Do. Y Shares all 53 -84 6314 Do. 4 Shares Do all 25 -26 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 102 - 103 102 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11% - 124 Do., Pref. .. Do .. .. all 24 -26 204 % Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk .. all 14 - .15 De.. 6 per cent all ".. Middlesbro' and Eedcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all •• •••• •• N. & East, 6 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all .. - Do., 5 per cent. Do. .. all 56 - r 58 Do. New •• Do • • • • 43 56 -58 Preston and S L. &N. W. wr , o t&La.&Y.} all 44 - 46 Do. SharesA Do .. .• 11 84 -916. p Read., Guild., and Reigate • • G. S. E astern •• all 224 -- 224 224 Roy. & Ilitchin G. orthern 64 84 - 0,14 Do. Shep. Ex• •Po •• • • all 8 - 814 Shef., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lane. & York isll S South Stafford*. Mr. M'Clean t3s 1% -14 dis. 1 - X Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gun. • • Stook.& Dar. all Do. do. •• Do • • • • 25 28 -29 Do. do. .. Do •• •• 25 .. . Wilts &Somers, (at. Western 100 91 -93 x.d 92 Atrz: INC: SNARES. Hailtva.Vs• I Paid. I Nominal Prices. 'Busin da ess doze to-y. Aberdeen Aberdeen. No. 2.7 pr. et. Caledonian 10/. • • Chester and Holyhead . • Dared. Per. & Aber. Jane. East Anglian (31. 10a.) 6 per Cont. .. • • • • Eastern Counties Eaton., 6 per cent. No. 1 • • Do. No. 2 • • • • • • Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. • • East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. IL &W. York. Junc. sths Edin. Per. Pc Dun. 51 p. ct. Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. Gt. Northern, IS per sent. Do., 5 p. c. Redeem. Scrip Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. Gt. Western Clerks and Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) Lancashire and York shire, F. SOL Do. 6 per ct. Stock • • Leeds Northern, 6 pet cent., No. 1 . • • Do. quarters. 1848 •• London, Brighton, and S. Coast, guar. 5 per et. Do. pref., 8 p et. 5k,1651 De. new guar., 6 per at. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. •• London & S.-W.. new • • London. & Ennis., % Sha Mauch., Sheffield, and Line., quar. shrs.,No. 1 Do. new, 101. •• • • 1,;:, Midland Con. 6 P.O. stock Do. Consel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Glonces. Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. Do., Preference .. Norfolk Extenslou Do. guar. 5% per cent. ]forth British Oaf. Wor. &W 01. 1 5L 6 p.c Shrews. & Bir., new guar. Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon .. South-Eastern, 4% p. ct. York, Newc., and Berri., Gt. N E.Pur. York and North Midland and S. Parch. .. Boulogne and Amiens •• Central of France.(o.l l7 ') Dutch Rhenish • • East Indian .. •• •• Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Peninrnia•• D itto ditto •• -• Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg •• •• Ditto (Railway) .. Ditto (Canal) • • • • Maria Antonia • • .. Ditto, New • • Namur and Liege Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Lyons „ Paris and Orleami Paris and Rouen .. Paris and Straasourg Itonen a nd Havre .„ Sambre and Moue St. Andrew's & Quebe Tears and Nantes IrOarnay, .Turbine , •• ion, and gandt AN% Flanders tik 1% -- 1 X db. 7% 7% 166 17 1 —34 d. 2 -2% li p x,d 4 P 11► - 11% 10 ..-10% .. ... •• 1 M. 13%- 14 '- % 7% - 7Y • • -.• p. _ 1 dis. x.d „. "••• .. ••-• •• P ••• •• .. - 145 ..•160 2 -2% p. 7 - 8 11 - 11% 12 1 4 •••• 12% .... •• 131 13 3 X.d • • OM. .. dis. 16 16 x.d 5 10 log dli 15% —l6 11 —l3 •• • •• 15% 16 3% 4% 1 dli. rozziosr. lo —s all 19 19% x.I 8 4% 434 dlr. xi IS 236 3 p. % - % p. x.i % - y P. xi 3;4 -3% 2%, - 1 4 tt(i-17% 3% at! , t 3 p m.l l l 4 1 25 —26 2% iiidis. 9% 10 3% —3% 8% —8% dia. •• 3 2% 7% % /IA 16% 100 100 8 6 8 11 13 4 473 100 100 42% 4 2 0 100 100 47 all 15 t% " 25 0 % 17% 19 ;.14 all 16 2-1 126 9}i 27/638,1 8% sll isuaLtierm 000 L, to-day. Agra Fria Anglo Californian : 2( -2% p %- % P 3 % 3 Yi % Asturica ........ Australian ...... Ave Marla M - dia par X 1 0% Blaenarvon Iron & Coal British Iron Brazilian Imp, (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Culaba 131. ss. 24% 1 34 2 5 22% 23% Sal l 40 14 4 33% —. 34% 2 % % - % all 9% 10% 1 Dar % p 9 3% 4 10% 4% —% P 7 9 —lO all '2% —2% I I / dls. par bTOCZ BargiCS all 38 39% 50 463{ 49 25 11 34 12% 20 24 -- 25% 10 18% 17% 20 283( 29% 35 10 De. St. Jobn del Roy.. Cobre Copper • .... Copiapo -• • . • • Eng. & Australian Copper General.... • • Gold Mountain •• • • •• •• Mesican& B. American NGuveau M0nde...... •• 6antiago de Cuba Tin Croft .. • • •• .... .. United Mexican........ West Mariposa 3% %Mt 1 %114 % JOIN' _ Australasia ............ British North America.. Colonial Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. D. New National of Ireland Oriental Bank Corporat. Provincial of Delano.. • • Do. New .. ••• • • . Union of Australia Do. New ..... Union of London ...... Union of Madrid 17% 17 30 31 1 4 x.d 43% —45 15% —16% 35 36% 3 31. 14% 15% Canada ..... Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam ...... Settling days for the mont Shares, 14th and MEL: 32% 14 LANNIOUS. 48 49% 27% 28 70 —7l x.d 17% - 18 17% 77 78% wary—Ticket days for Registered :count days, 15th and 30th. Lie errors of the Official Lists, an d correspondents.] th of Jam 29th ; Ac; tblo for ti; intorestec fWe cannot be answers will not be influenced by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. The r,ales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American and 500 F.surat were taken for export, and 700 American on spe(Julatiou. The market closed firmly at previous vises. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 400 Egyp tian, at 51d. to Bd.; 1,300 Surat, at 3d. to 4d.; and 40 Sea Island, at Is. 3d to Is. 8d per lb.—Railway Shares were very depressed at lower prices. In the West India advices, received on Saturday, the following statement is made concerning a storm expe rienced a; Carthagcna, Grey Town, and Chagres. The river Chagres had risen suddenly and done considerable dam age : "It appears that early last month the wind suddenly commenced blowing very heavily, and continued so for some twenty-four hours, blowing off the roofs of several houses in Chagres. The river, meanwhile, had risen full sixty feet, carrying away several dwellings at Gorgon& and Cruces, also doing muc h m i sc hi ef to the railway stations et those places. Two of the houses came down the river, and carried away to sea four vessels, the names of which have not reached us. The loss of property is estimated at a very large amount; but , there was not supposed to be any loss of human life." The merchants of Jamaica have made a strong move ment for the putting of screw steamers on the route be tween Kingston and the Spanish Main. Great dissatis faction prevailed at the deficient - accommodation provided by the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company was a strong insert' n exertion, and it was hoped the Legislature would &mist by an annual grant of 4,0001 Kingston was merly a great entrepot for the neighbouring mar-, kets, but is now rest losing this. A committee of busi ness men, appointed to report on this subject, state that, " Painfully eviceut as this must be to ail who have re flected on the subject, it may not, perhaps, be so gene rally understood that eaactly in proportion as our pro perty has been disappearing, the rival market—St. Thomas—in our neighbourhood, indebted as it has been to the partiality of the Royal Mail Steam Company for privileges and advantages of an important and exclusive nature, has been diverting from Jamaica a considerable portion of the foreign trade which she formerly possessed, and thus steadily advancing while we have been retrograding. With this painful fact evident to all, it was natural to expect that the parties so seriously injured by this unnatural exclusion from their share of the advantages derivable from the direct communication formerly granted to this island would have given expression to their feeling of disappointment, and accordingly, on re peated occasions, have remonstrances and memorials gone from this island, not only from its public bodies, but also from the commercial and other classes assem bled in public meeting. It appears unaccountable that these well-founded representations have been treated with neglect and indifference, and have altogether failed to produce any remedy, but without stopping to renew remonstrances which have proved so unsuccessful, the moment appears to have arrived when a combined effort ought to be made by parties in this island to avail them selves to the extent of their own resources, relying upon their own enterprise to obtain the assistance which there really app ears no pro s p ect o f getting from t h e M a il Company.' Tfie American advices by the steamer Africa are good. Money at New Yurk was plentiful, and the prospects_ for the spring tr a d e are f avourable. The amount o f bullion arrived from California was extraordinary, and the Chagres steamer, over due on the 14th inst., Wa s expected to bring two or three millions of dollars. Th e abundance of cash is demonstrated by the circumstance that bids for eight millions of Erie Railway bonds were received where only three millions were requirea• As the season advances capital, it is said, will become still more abundant, and speculation more extended , while legitimate trade will probably increase very we ell ' The demand for foreign exchange had been actiTe• Au alteration Wa3 contemplated in the silver currency` which by law was circulated below the valued n Europe• In the state of New York last year there were 244 banks doing business. The Californian advices are a few days later again' ;- and continue very favourable; indeed the mining in . telligence is highly encouraging, and the P re- spect Lever was better for an increased PT!' duction. Abundant rains had fallen in the au"' ing districts, and this winter, owing to the superior , accommodation enjoyed and the formation of villages and hamlets, there will not be the usual susp en sion o! labour. W e are told that some Spaniards took 300,01:7 , dollars out of ()se hole a few fe e t square in a week , the southern pl acers, and that a fortnight afterwar d s 1 several thousand persons were there. The canal in t h e Great Bear valley was to be finished on the Ist instant. and would add enormously to the products of the state' the San Francisco dates are December 15. The opera tion of the quartz crushing machines had been w esfr • successful, and th e resu l t is likely to be greater than the most sanguine had anticipated. Whatever expectation have been f orme d h ere or elsewhere, relative toth supply of gold p ro d uce d i n and exp i orted from Cali fornia during the p resent year (1852), it is said there s little doubt but that they will be realised. In the Amsterdam Stock Market, on the 23d inst..,. prices dr oope d , ow i ng to the fall at Paris. F renc h an d Austrian Stocks were lower but closed at a slight rally- Thewi Stock Market is looking an extremely limited business doing: been 96 to i fc,r disposition to speculate. Consols6h have I- The French Transfer, and are now called t 9 voaneurthhearte is an in.. to excite unease- ' news i 5 still of a charactheer ranks of Louis Napo ness, and the falling off from The New Three-and-a- Quarter per 96 _ Cents, h ave . !eon's adherents checks the rrestorationof confide b n o c e : and East India Stock has been imp -98 to A-, and the Three per Cents. Ii• Bank Stock has been dull at 216, . _ , Exchequer-bills are sas. to 58s.premiurat • Securities have been very quiet. Mexicali to i The indeumill Foreign ported at 261. o h n e d e a n 6B 4 s u . o to te 7 d 2s 2 . 9i Bonds and Ind h i a a v ß e money is said to have been voted by the United States Congress. Brazil Stock is worth 93 to 93k, and Chili° 101. Peruvian is not higher than 93k, Portugues e Four per Cents. are 334. Sardinian Bonds are worth 88i only, and with very little doing at that. Russia? Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at par, French Five per Cents. at 101 k, with the Exchange at 25 30 1 Belgian Four -and- a H a lf per Cents. are at 92k, IT: Dutch Two -and- a -H a lf per Cents. at 58 to 45915- Three per Cents, have been neglected at 41. The Five s are nominally 23 to i. Railway Shares have been weak again, and mostly at a decline. Th e French lines aro slightly down. in Mines a gbod deal has been done, and prices generally are firm. NG', oNE CLOSI P RICES OF BRITIBI3 FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICEFG 216. 216 Bank Stock 9 a% 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna. 9656 98 /8 98 1 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 I t a , New 3!41 per Cent. Anna— .., Jan 18.6 - 0 .. -16 7 1- 16 ong Anne. to expir e - - ' India Stock ...... •• ........... - ..... 69 68 70 I 4 p 72 p India Bonds, I,OCiOl. 96% 96 96% -ousols for Acco unt 154 d. ,„bequer Bills. 55 P Ditto under 1, 0004 e -se . 69 72 p 72 P 1,0001- 5001. Small. .. ONE P RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS . O ' CLOCK. nuogg. o r azilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... ..... 93 1/, 937, Ditto (Rothschild' s ) 94 94 Chilian Bonds 6 pe r Cent lOl 101 7 Danish 80nd5,1825 ,3 per Cent. 0 6 3 Ditto, 5 per c en t . 103 CL08114143 3 / 4 Equador Bo n d s 30 1 4 1 1 .13xlean, 5 p er C t., ex Jan. Coups. 29 5 ,08 '4 9331 Pe ruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent... 93% 1 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, ..-- 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account 3 33 ...- Russian Bonds ... WO Ditto, 4 1 4 per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. -- Spatuish ) per Gout. 1840 s3i Ditto, Passive 4074 Ditto. 8 per Cent 4l Spanish Cora. Cert. Coup. not funded 1 il4 per cent' Dividends on the above payable in London qv , French Rentes, 5 per Cent lOl f. 50c. , 1011. i. 0 ..,. Exchange Belgian, 4% per Cent ......... 92% 58% Dutch 2 1 % per Cent. 12 Guild 5B 3 90SI Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates - - RENT GUARANTEE SOCIETY.--The formation of this society was celebrated by the shar e h o ld ers and fri er ', till at a public di n ner, held at the London T avern , on Saturusif evening last. Mr. Cuthbert '„Wm. Johnstone, chairraa n the board, presided , and was su pported by most of h is brotbe directors. ie ROYAL AESE NAL.—A new invented musket b e ing cast in the shot department, which, if found to sti ce ed, will supersede those in present use, and be more fg; i n its effect- A number of boys are to be entered this We, in the carriage department, to complete orders received fro r the Board of Ordnance.—Kenti s h Mercury. -ball Business dcne to-day. 10% % 83 83 14% % 19 18% 19 24% 34 6% % 1 5 % % % 5 % % 36 84% 84}4 % 60 % %MIS% 5 1 1 4 la% 14 13% 97% 97 % 114% % M 94% M 14 % % % 84% 85% 84% 29 80 29%3 54%%3gM 54 6% % 34 % 83 % 14 X 30 197 20 1 7%% Z.I 3 % % X.l a.l tf4 74 17% 5i ix, Li 7N % x.l B!4‘ 97 $ 3% 8% itsrzrzsß. Paid. I Nominal Prices. l'iltll 1 % % 414 %g e l blot I ti . e ka4 4 1 4 Das a Pie 11 (14 Tur, ~~i Ti e Ca li ; 4 Ye Cloy, l'ridi Dort Dark 185 and Roti Ant oat(