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The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs sad alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT. Viola, \tn. Charles Kean. _ TrtTer;ilTiinew Farce, entitled TOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. I rider the direction of Madame Celeste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Eso„ executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act D rop , an d C handelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENDM Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ.- mal Book, entitled TILE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Redlaw, Mr, Hughes: the Phantom, Mr. O. Smith ; A. Tetterby and Co., Mr Wright; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; Milly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Pau! Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER 11l r. slaAher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. PRINCESS'S THEATi:.# , :. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and anager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-de,nrated and embel - lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr I iurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best airnri men ts have been reads lot the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the colusirt and cenveilence of the audience. Oa TUESDAY ETE.NING, Will be performed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD FELLOW. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Mr. ROBERT-HOUDIN will repeat his SOIREES FANTAS TNUES THIS EVENING, to be continued every Tuesday, Thurs day, and shturday until the end of the Christmas vac ,tions. The Programme will include numerous experiments entirely new ours open at Eight. Boxes and S ally may be s. , cured at Mr Mitchell's Itoyal Library, cd, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authesti cated by the name and address oi the writer., Reiected communications cannot be returned. TUE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE. DECEMBER 23. Trry,RmomETta, Lowest, 27; Highest, 37, Noon, 3 BA iv x?.TEB, 30.37. WIND E.N,E.; hazy. I i It/ Fl WATER AT LONDON _nut. DG li TRIS DAT. Mori:keg .. 22 rain. after 12 1 Evertin; .. 41 min. after 12 V r. “ C W T '...1 • 1117 u•q • fr" '4:4kt.4 , 1 Ta! - *:•` , V • ' , 1101:6t 'g r 41 • ='" . 7- - 4btnta L LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1848. So! the AUTOCRAT is waking up from his sullen .+e a c 711 a wrirri nF . EZ cci an devotism ;s to dania,, the doom of Europe : and the prophecy of the Im perial Exile of St. Helena is about to be fulfilled— that prophecy which declared that within fifty years the European Continent would be either inundated with Cossacks or transformed into democracies. NICHOLAS is girding on his armour : he is about to descend from the north into the plains of Germany, and to chastise the rebels who have revolted against his brother of Prussia. The EMPEROR will march to the rescue of the absolutist of Sans Souci, at the head of 500,000 men, attended by a vast and effective force of artillery. So says, at least, the Frankfort Journal of the 19th instant, and the Frankfort Journal is published in the very heart of Germanic intelligence. Possibly the Potentate of all the Russias hugs himself in the idea, that the people of Christendom will shudder with awe at the advent of himself and his barbarian legions—that the political institutions of Europe, in short, are ready to crumble into ruins at the first stamp of his mailed foot. Let him away, with these silly notions of his omnipotence. The insurgent democracies of Europe are, on the con• trary, ripe for the struggle, which seems to become every day more inevitable. Vast and almost inex haustible as are his powers, filled though his treasury be to repletion, the Emperor IsTicEtoras will find a different destiny awaiting him than that which wel comed the barbarian hordes of antiquity—the Goths, and the Ostrogoths, and the Visigoths, and the Van dals. When ODOACER descended into the frightful valleys of Italy, and penetrated even to the golden palaces, and the hanging gardens, and the marble temples of Rome, he found a population enervated b 1 luxury and paralysed by despotism. When ALARIC adventured beyond the Alps he found his way smoothed before him by the pomps of a patrician race. When ATILLA, " the scourge of GOD," traversed the vineyards of Lombardy, he was preceded by the subjugating influences of refinement. The modern Serbians will find themselves opposed to nations placed in an exactly contrary situation. The BELISARIUS of Europe will not hare to weep over the prostrate glories of her capitals. Democracy has strengthened where tyranny weakened. The civilization of the present day has conduced simultaneously to the development of the physical and intellectual energies of the multi tude, whereas the civilization of anterior times tended only to drowse both the mind and the body in the lap of the DZLILAR of luxury. Among ourselves, it has evoked th e s t eam-engine and the printing press, while it h as g i ven birth to a NZW TON and JoaNsoN. Among th e anc i ents it elicited acooln unguent for the bath, and a softer couch for ther symposium, while it was reflected in the poetic enamel of Hortecn, or embodied in the wanto n M use of CA. TULLI7B. Again we say, Democracy has Streng thened where tyranny weakened ; and in thin consists the solidity and the security of the democratic insti tutions of the European continent. The Russian EMPBII.OII fails to recognize this great truth; he is even, according to the rumour already mentioned, preparing to act as if the vigour lay in the op posite direction ; and, by so doing, if be be not rushing deliberately on his own destruction, he is at least aiding, very materially, the development and the consolidation of the European Democracies. That in speaking thus we are not guilty of a gross exaggeration, that we are not expressing ourselves in the stilted language of braggadocio, is sufficiently demonstrated by the sivation of affairs throughout the continent, and especially on the southern and western frontiers of Russia. Besides which, neither the Parolles of SHARSPERE, nor the Thraso of TERENCE, nor the Bobadil of BEN JoxsoN can be found very easily, elsewhere than in the courts or in the camps of Absolutism. When we allude thus calmly to the prospective invasion of Germany by the AUTOCRAT ; our thoughts are directed to the countries contiguous to his dominions. Those countries are ripe for an explosion of democratic enthusiasm. Hungary is already in arms from Peter- Waradin to Presburg. Bohemia is not indifferent as to her indep,ndence. Poland is mad for the sound of the tocsin which shall tell of her emancipation. The men of P o s e❑ are prepared; the Silesians are cn the alert ; the Moravians have imbibed a passion for liberty ; and the same passion has in- ' toxicated the inhabitants of Styria, of Sclavonia, of Elyria, and of Bosnia, its influence has spread down wards through Gallicia, and Buskovin, and Molda via, and Wallachia, and Servia and Bulgaria— extending even beyond Bukarest and the Danube to the very confines of Roumilia. So soon as the cohorts of the Russian empire shall have passed beyond the Lithuanian deserts, so soon will the flame of revolution become apparent among the numerous divisions of the Sclavonic family. And then also the irresistible current of the popular ambition will burst forth in Germany and Italy—guided in its flow by the presiding genius of the French Republic and backed by the sympathies of Great Britain. Then farewell to the Imperial and Royal ,Crowns of the old dynasties, the dynasties of Hapsburg, and Brandenburg, and Lorraine, and the Neapolitan Bourbons ! Republicanism, and Republicanism alone, will then be accepted by the nations of Europe. It were well, then, for the AUTOCRAT to pause before he sets forth upon his perilous expedition. Unless he is solicitous to lead to the foundation of a Polish Re public, and of a German Republic, and of a Sclavonic Republic, and of an Italian Republic—he would do better, perhaps, to keep his gold locked up in the cellars of his palace at St. Petersburgh, and to distribute throughout his empire the 500,000 men destined for the conquest of the Prussians. We yesterday explained the manner in which Mr. COBDEN proposes to make the large sum of 11,500,000/. available for the purpose of effecting reductions in the existing taxation of the country• This is to be achieved by equalizing the probate and legacy duty, and by cutting off at one fell swoop no less than 10,000,0001. sterling from the national ex penditure, and compelling the Government to main tain the various establishments, and to carry on the business of the nation, with a diminished revenue. It is what every private individual must occasionally submit to. He finds himself possessed of a certain income available either from realised property or from the produce of his own industry, and he must confine his expenditure within the limit of that income, or he will speedily be involved in debt, and ultimately driven to bankruptcy or insolvency. His outlay must be measured by the means at his disposal, and not by the luxuries and comforts to which he has long been accustomed, and the absence of which will materially affect his enjoyments. To use a homely but expressive phrase, "he must cut his coat ac cording to his cloth." A stern necessity exists to which he must succumb, however painful may be the sacrifice or unpleasant the privations to which he may thereby be subjected. A nation should act in like manner. What is true with respect to a single family will also apply to an aggregate of such families, and the same principles must affect the rules of a state that operate upon the master of a house hold. The analogy, however, is not complete. It would he so if each family were living in a state of nature, without any supreme power to control their actions, or to afford necessary protection from foreign aggres sion. That protection or defence will be, if not the primary, at least one of the chief necessities of such a family, and every member thereof must devote all his energies thereto. In a nation, every individual may be called upon to risk life and fortune in defence of the common liberties. He must (if required) serve his country either personally or by providing the means for paying a substitute. It might be an unwise and injudicious economy to reduce the na tional armaments to such an extent as to invite hos tilities, when all the resources of the country would be necessarily taxed to the very uttermost. It is a well known and all but universally admitted axiom, that the best way to preserve peace is to be at all times prepared for war. The adage of the Romans, "si via pacem, par. helium," has lost none of its force throughout the successive centuries during which it has been tested. Our military and naval establish ments, more especially the latter, must therefore be preserved in a state of due efficiency, how ever weighty the expenditure, and we must, as we stated yesterday, withhold our assent from that portion of the proposition of the Honour able Gentleman until the several details of the pro posed reductions are submitted for general considera tion. The extension of probate and legacy duty to real estates is an act of mere justice that cannot fairly be resisted. With respect to the reduction of taxation suggested by Mr. COBDEN, a better view may be taken. All the imposts are unquestionably oppressive, and, if practicable, should be reduced. There are many others, however, equally onerous, for exemption from which, similar claims might be preferred. Few taxes are agreeable to the people, and can only be justified by stern necessity for the maintenance of the national honour, credit, and safety. The duty on tea is admitted on every side to be much higher than it should be. A Committee of the House of Commons, long since, recom mended its reduction to the rate proposed by Mr. COBDEN, viz., l s. per pound. The present exorbitant duty operates most injuriously on our commercial relations with China. Our trade might be increased to almost any extent, but they can only pay with a limited amount of silver, and such teas and silks as we may be disposed to accept. Our consumption of the former is limited by the addition of 2s. per pound for duty. There is scarcely a doubt that double the quantity would be used in ',this country if the price was reduced to a reasonable limit. The loss to the revenue (if any) would be made up after a short time by the increased demand for sugar and other articles, so that our merchants and manufacturers would be materially benefited, without injury to any class or body. There can, therefore, be no question as to the propriety of the reduction. IVe confess, however, that we should greatly prefer an ad valorem duty to a fixed one. It is impossible to justify the levying as high a rate of duty on the poor man's pound of bohea, as on a pound of the finest gunpowder, when the intrinsic value of the latter is more than twelve times the former. Every fixed duty is unjust in principle, and operates most injuriously upon the poorer classes, among whom it is calculated to excite a spirit of discontent and dis affection. The duties on timber and wood should unquestion ably be abolished ; the approaching changes in the navigation-laws render the abolition of these taxes no longer a matter of choice, but of necessity. The British shipowners may demand it, not as a matter of favour, but of common justice, thst cannot be denied. The various smaller items (more than one hundred in all, such as butter, cheese, &c.) should also, if practi cable, be cut off. Nothing can be more vexatious than petty restrictions that cause consider- able annoyance and inconvenience without any corresponding advantage to the Fxchequer. Mr. COBDEN proposes to leave twenty articles only in the tariff paying duty. Mr. MACOREGOIt, M.P., in his great work, " The Progress of America," sug gests that eight only shall be retained, and we con fess that we prefer his propositions to those of the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The arrogant attempts of the Puseyite clergy to revive the exploded system of sacerdotal domination, and to ride rough-shod over the laity, have at length roused a spirit of resistance on the part of the lay members of the Church of England, which ere long will become irresistible. Our modern LAUDS have (Bour bon-like) learned nothing and forgotten nothin • notwithstandin g t h e warnings of histor thge still pursue th a t course, which, whenever pursued by the clergy in former ages, has invariably terminated in a "heavy blow and a great discouragement " to the Church of England as by law established. By stigmatizing the laity as Puritans, they have aroused in the laity the old spirit of stern resistance to sacerdotal domination by which Puritanism has ever been distinguished, and be fore which they will inevitably fall, because the spirit of Puritanism is an earnest spirit, originating in the keen sense of wrongs inflicted and of rights 'withheld ; while the spirit of Puseyism is a casuistical self sufficient spirit, originating in the overweening arro gance of a pedagogue, who fancies all the world a school of which he is the head master. As might have been expected, the laity of the diocese of Exeter, in which the spirit of Puseyism is the most rampant, , las been the first to protest against the system of `Every Bishop Pope in his own diocese, and every Parson Nuncio in his own parish," which the Pu eyite-Rornaoists, with lizNar of Exeter at their ;lead, have been for some years past endeavour- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1848, ing to force down the throats_ of the long-suffering laity. Our readers doubtless remember the perse cutions to which the Evangelical clergy of - that diocese have been long subjected, and the Episcopal favours showered upon—the almost immunity for the commission of offences contra bones mores granted to, Puseyite priests. They cannot but remember that while that pious and exemplary clergyman, the "Rev ERSKINE HEAD, was prosecuted with all the rigour of the law, and suspended from his ministerial functions for three years for differing from his diocesan on some theoretical point of theology, a Puseyite priest of the county of Cornwall, convicted on his own confession of having been seen in a state of unmistakeable drunkenness in the public streets, to the great scandal of the Church, was let off with an admonition ; they cannot forget, either, the persecutions to which Mr. &tone was subjected, the controversy between the Bishop of EXETER and Lord SEYMOUR ; the part taken in that controversy by Mr. LA TIMER, of the Western Times, the criminal prosecution instituted by the BISHOP against Mr. LATIMER for libel, the plea put in by Mr. LArIMaR that the assertions he had made with regard to the Bishop were true,' and the verdict of the special jury acquitting Mr. LATIMER, and finding that his plea of justification was nude out, that what he had said of Bishop PHILLPOTTS was to the letter true. These things have at length produced their effect, and on Tuesday last a meeting of the lay members of the Church of England inhabiting Plymouth, Devonport, and its neighbourhood, was held at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, to take into consideration the propriety of memorializing his Grace the Archbishop of CANTER.. BURY in reference to the present alarming state of the Church of England, and of that diocese in par ticular, and to adopt such other measures as might be then determined on. The meeting was called in consequence of 'some recent Puseyite doings of the Bishop-appointed priest of one of the newly erected district churches in the neighbourhood of Plymouth; but allusions were made in the course of the discussion, and also in the memorial agreed on to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, to the Puseyite doings of the Bishop and his proteges for a series of years past, so that the meeting may be considered as a solemn protest on the part of the laity of Plymouth against the detestable system of sacerdotal tyranny which it is the aim and object of the Puseyite priests to establish in every parish in England. The meeting was at tended by at least 1,100 persons, and would have been more numerously attended had the room been capable of containing a greater number of persons. Colonel DUNSTERTILLE was in the chair, and the re quisition calling the meeting was signed by persons of all classes. The signatures of officers in the navy from admirals to lieutenants, of officers in the army, of members of the legal and medical profession, of magistrates, of town-coun ci:lors, of merchants, of bankers, of shopkeepers, are to be found attached to the requisition ; so that the proceedings of the meeting may be regarded as the proceedings of all classes of the laity of the Church of England. The first resolution was to the following effect : " That it is the opinion of this meeting that principles and practices repugnant to the truth and simplicity of the Protestant faith, as taught by the Church of Eng land, have obtained wide prevalence in various parts of the realm, especially in this diocese, and this meeting respectfully, but firmly, records its opinion that those principles and practices receive encouragement from the Lord Bishop; and that the time has arrived for memo rializing the highest authorities in the Church, with a view to the redress of the alarming evil." The memorial to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, after setting forth the evil of Puseyite doctrines, thus proceeds— " It is within the knowledge of many of us that whilst a large body of the clergy, chiefly young men deeply committed to the Tractarian system, have freely obtained appointments, and are now ministering in the diocese, a considerable number of other clergymen of piety and learning, but not holding Tractarian views—some of them advanced in years—beneficed—and serving in this and the neighbouring county of Cornwall, have been from time to time rejected by the Bishop as unfit to re ceive institution or license, by reason, as his Lordship has alleged,' of their holding doctrines contrary to the true Christian faith. " This practice having been extensively pursued by the Bishop, has been necessarily attended by the twofold effect of attracting Tractarians to the diocese, and of de t.reing a deem/man of opposite views from accepting appointments within it, so that patrons and incumbents of evangelical sentiments can with difficulty procure ministers and cu ra t es w h ose doctrinal principle s s h a ll b e I congenial with their own. " A great and crying evil has thus arisen. The minis terial care aid oversight of large bodies of the people, especially in our populous towns, have been committed to clergymen, to whose teaching and ceremonial practices the people at large entertain a well-grounded aversion, and who consequently withhold or withdraw attend ance at their churches. Thns the intentions of the Legislature in making provision for the spiritual desti tution of the people, the liberality of the public in con tributing to the erection and purchase of churches and the special purposes of a Church, as a national establish meat, have been in these cases alike defeated. "We beg also to call the attention of your Grace to an event which has recently much increased our alarm, on account of the prevalence of Romish doctrine in the Church. "We refer to a sermon preached on the 12th of Au gust last before the Bishop and clergy at Totnes, by the Reverend William Maskell, the Bishop's Domestic Chaplain. We will not trouble your Grace with any comments on this work, but we venture to accompany our memorial with a copy of it (your Grace's perusal of which we respectfully solicit), together with the corre. spondence which has since its delivery taken place be tween the Bishop and some of the neighbouring clergy thereon, by which it will appear that the Bishop has failed to admonish the preacher, and still retains him in his office, facts, which in eur opinion, imply a strong sympathy on the part of his Lordship with the general sentiments of the author of a discourse, believed by us (notwithstanding its pretended argument with portions of the Homilies and Liturgy) to be replete with Romish doctrine. " Your Grace will observe that the correspondence to which we have referred contains his Lordship's reply to the protest of the clergy against the tenets of Air. Maskell, and as the reply has been published with his Lordship's sanction, we have not deemed it becomin4 in us to address his Lordship regarding matter on which lie has already pronounced his opinion. " We now submit this statement to your Grace, undo r a hope that a remedy may be provided for the evils of which it treats, and particularly that the attention of the Legislature may be directed to subjects involving matter, as we believe, so solemn and momentous, and the neg lect of which will in our opinion terminate in a wide spread defection from the Church of England, and be perhaps productive of other and ulterior results still morel calamitous." We respectfully submit to the memorialists that they have not here proposed the proper remedy fcr the state of things of which they complain. If, as we believe, and as they believe, Tractarian doctrines are contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England, and contrary to " the true Christian faith," and if as they believe, and as we believe, liimar, Lord Bishop of EXETER, holds those doctrines, then the proper remedy is to request the Archbishop •f CANTERBURY to cause Sit. HBERERT JENNER to make anxious in- quirias after " the soul's health" of the said HENRY, and to call the particular attention of the said anxious inquirer to the verdict of the Special Jury in the case of the QUEEN V. LATIMER. Considering the great anxiety which Bishop PHILLPOTTS has manifested to ascertain the state of the "soul's health" of Mr. HEAD and Mr. SHORE, we think the Archbishop of CANTER- Buzz need not be over delicate in the matter. Wo trust that this is only the commencement of an agitation on the part of the laity of the Church of England which will never cease until the Church shall be purged from the presence of those wolves in sheeps' clothing who preach Oxford but mean Rome. A conscientious Roman Catholic we admire and respect, but we have the utmost contempt and abhorrence for those who, holding the doctrines of one Church, receive the wages of another. In the meantime w e warn all those who are opposed to Puseyite doctrines to abstain for the present from subscribing one farthing towards the building of churches, or towards Church extension in any way. The Bishop of EXETRR is at this moment raising sub scriptions to build four churches in Plymouth, to which, when built, he will present four Puseyite priests, and which churches will, in consequence, be without congregations. IV e have been informed on unquestionable i au thority, t h at six of the most eminent physiciansn this country have recently examined Mr. Dyke Sombre, and that they unanimously reported on his perfect sanity, and that his conduct since his return to London last month, has been wholly unexception able. We believe that this report will be verified on affidavit, and will form the ground of a new applica tion to the Lord Chancellor early in Hilary term, for a supersedeas of the comruhsion of lunacy issued against him. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Assembly has adjourned to Tuesday, the 29th, on which day it is expected that M. ODILON BARROT %%ill present the programme of the new Ministry. The Democratic Pacifigue says—" It was stated yesterday, in the National Assembly, that the Pre sident of the Republic is in dissension with his Ministry relative to the amnesty, which his Cabinet does not desire, but which he wishes to demand from the Assembly. We are assured that he entered into a formal engagement to do this in a recent interview with Citizen THEODORE BAC. It is this difference of opinion which has caused, it is said, the adjournment for four days which the Assembly has just made, in order to give to the first magistrate of the Republic the time to concert with his Ministers on the point." M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the disappointed one, is preparing to go into opposition. The Presse ex presses its dissatisfaction with the new Cabinet, which will not open its eyes to the transcendent merits of General GIRARDIN, or its doors to the loud,knocking of his son. It really is very hard upon poor EMILE, after having done all the dirty work of the re actionary party, to be left with only the dirt for his pains. The Debats says— " Wo shall wait to see the Ministry at work, without malignity, and rather with the desire to applaud their efforts. They will have our support as long as they shall be faithful to the line of moderation imposed upon them by public opinion. For eighteen years M. Odilon Barrot was our adversary, and yet wo never refused to do justice to his talents and his character. How then can it be difficult to praise in him, if he gives us Cause, the devoted, courageous, and capable Minister ? When we shall see France tranquil and prosperous, if we shall still have regrets, they will not at least render us unjust towards those who shall have devoted themselves to the glorious task of re-establishing order and tranquillity." The Constitutionned says—" M. DE MALLEVILLE on Wednesday evening took possession of the Ministry of the Interior, as was natural on the part of a Minister charged to watch over public tranquillity. The other Ministers installed themselves yesterday morning." The installation of the President of the Republic in, the Elysee Bourbon gives a certain animation to that quarter. Numerous visitors have been to_ inscribe their names. A deputation from the Invalides yesterday waited on the new functionary. Two sen tinels have been placed at, the entrance of the palace. Workmen are putting down pipes for lighting the ' building with gas, and statues are being placed in the garden. M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is to go to London as Envoy to announce the installation of the President of the Republic. General CHANGARNIER has informed all the officers in garrison in Paris that any military man attending the clubs will be sent away from the capital. The Marciteur announces the following appoint ments : "M. Baroche. representative of the people, to be Procureur-General in the Court of Appal of Paris, in the place of M. Coyne. " M. Edouard Thayer, Direet•z-General of the Post office, in the place of M. Etienne Arago. " M. Adouille, formerly Inspector General of Fi nances' is restored to his office. " M. Chappuis, formerly Inspector of Finances, is ap pointed Inspector-General of Finances. " M. Legrand (de I'Oise) is appointed, provisionally, Director of the Personal and Secretary. General of the Minister of Finances. _ " M. Dubost, the Administrator of the Post-office, is restored to his functions." The papers contain no news. Paris is perfectly tranquil, and the accounts from the departments de scribe commerce as improving. BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 22. THREE o'CLocK —The French Rentes opened higher than the closing prices of the preceding day, but after wards gave way, recovering, however, towards the middle of the Bourse, and closing with a considerable advance on yesterday's quotations. The Five per Cents. opened at 75f. 90c., went down to 751. 25c., and closed at 76f. 25c. The Three per Cents. opened at 451. 75c., and after remaining at that quotation, for some time, began to mend, and closed at 461. 75c. The Loan was weak, and but little negotiated, closing at 75f. 50c. The market, on the whole, must be looked on as firm not withstanding the partial decline. The calls for the de livery of stock were insignificant, only 6,000 f. being dia.- counted in the'Five per Cents., and I,Boof. in the Threes. No rumours of any kind were in circulation. Railway Shares have varied bat little, and the amount of business transacted in them was not very considerable. For the Account the French Three per Cents. have risen If. 85c. ; Five per Cents., 95c.; Loan has fallen, 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have advanced lf. ; Five per Cents. if.; Loan has fallen 25c. ; Bank of France Shares have risen 201., closing at 1,740 f. ; Belgian Five per Cents, have fallen , but the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have risen lif., closing at 751. ; Spanish, not quoted ; Roman is unchanged. Exchange on London (30 days), 23 37} ; ditto (90 days), 25 27i. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of Dec. 3 :—Rouen have declined 121. 50c. ; Orleans, 51. ; Northern are un changed. For Money, Orleun., and Versailles (Left Bank) have fallen sf. ; Nantes, 2f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Strasburg, If. 25c.; Havre and Boulogne have advanced sf. Versailles (Right Bank) and Vierzon 2f. 50c ; Northern are unaltered. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Dec. 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 3—Namur and Liege, 5 1 4 Northern of France. 7 %—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% — Rouen and Havre, 111f3. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 11th have been received. The following hare been elected Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of the Congress :—Vice Presidents MM. Gonzales Romero, S. Tejada, Simon Rosa, and T. Heria ; Secretaries, MM. Lafuente Alcantara, Tamara, De Huelves, and G. Canero. • There was no Bolsa on the 17th. G E 101 A N Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES, A USiRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 17th states that FRANK Fizra, of Silesia, aged fifty-four years, has been sen tenced to:twelve years imprisonment, for participating in an armed riot ; and that FRAN 2 NOLLE, of Styria, in the artillery, has been condemned to eight years hard labour, in heavy irons, at the fortifications, for desertion and participation in the revolt. The Wiener Zeitung contains the following particulars respecting the ill-fated MESSENIIAUSER, whichl iII be read with interest : "As various erroneous reports are in circulation, which are inserted both in the national and foreign jour nals, respecting the property of M. Messenhauser, we give the following particulars from an authentic source, which will show the actual state of the case :—lt appears, from the will of Measenhauser, which has been published by our magistrates, that ho left 200 guildt.rs in ca,ll in the hands of the magistrates, besides linen, wearing ap parel, books, and literary works. Among the latter is A Tale of Antiquity," in 10 vols., a romance, Modern Argonauts,' and a drama, in five acts, Gold has its Veiglit. These works are all in manuscript, and are complete; there are also various unfinished literary pro ductions, the value of which will be decided by some future historiographer." The want of money is most severely felt, and:it is said the heads of the various convents and monasteries in the Austrian dominions have been summoned to Kremsier, where an attempt will be made to induce them to contribute some portion of the immense wealth possessed by those establishments to supply the wants of the State. It was rumour e d in Vienna on the 17th, that JEL LACUICH had gained a victory over the Hungarians, but as no particulars are given, we conclude that this is as apocryphal as the various otherAvictories stated to have been gained by JELLacnicu. Theee is a split between the Ministers ancllVlNDiscri- G!tATZ, the former protest against the exercise of dictatorial power by the latter, and are anxious to put a stop to th e m ilit ary execu ti ons w hi c h are daily taking place i n Vi enna. Th e Di et h as aut h or i sed the Ministry to raise a loan of 50,000,000 of florins. A letter from Vienna of the 16th says—" The want of money is immense ; not only are the one guilder notes cut into eight parts, but private persons issue paper notes to the value of 10 and 20 kreutzers. Unspeakable confusion will inevitably result from such a system. E very merchant now wr i tes upon a piece of paper ' V a lid' f or 10 or 20 kreutzer s, puts his seal to it, and then gives it to his creditors as current. How these papers will avert or amend the confusion is an enigma too hard for solu tion, and will puzzle the most clear-headed financial ist. In the Ministerial report, presented by the Committee of Finances on the 16th, signed by the President, JOHANN lI•GENIEurt, and the Reporter, S. ZABEL, it is proposed—first, that the Ministry be empowered to contract a loan to the amount of 50,000,000 guilders ; secondly, that this loan be met by Treasury Bonds; thirdly, that a loan be con tracted by the State, open to competition. Baron RornscniLD has been here for some little time, and his presence is, of course, connected with the intended loan. On the 14th Prince IVINDiscuGnATz established his he ad quarters at Fischarnent. Baron JELLACHICH came to visit him from Hainbourg. It is thought he will cross the Danube at that place, and operate on Presburgh. The Bohemian Gazette says, under the head 011- tnutz, Dec. 13,—. " A Cabinet Council has been held here under the pr( sidency of Prince Schwartzenberg, to deliberate on the one hand on the future relations of Dalmatia, and Scla vonia and Croatia; and on the other, on the state of the Servians. The Ministers purpose coming to a definite conclusion this afternoon on both these subjects, and the Servian deputation from Kremsier is to receive a defi nite reply tomorrow. It is expected that the desires € , f the Servians will b e f u ll y comp li ed wit h , In d on this account the Sclavonian Deputies of the Constituent Diet intend giving the Servians a grand parting feast on Thursday evening." SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. KIEL, DEC. ir.—We have just ascertained from undoubted authority, that the King of Prussia, by a Cabinet order, dated the lth, has given leave to those Russian officrs who entered our army for an indefinite period (for those only had been recalled), to remain here till the Ist of April next; at that time they are to declare whether they intend to return or resolve to remain definitely in the Schleswig-Holstein service. The Prussian officers now here must be divided into three categories; some have already entered the Schleswig-Holstein army definitively, others have permission to re-enter the Prussian service at the ex piration of two years, others entered our army for an indefinite period; and to the latter alone, therefore, the recal has any refer ence . Thi s recal was not occasioned by the occurrence of the recent irregula rities in our army, but because some arrangement is about to be made in the Prussian army respecting the great number of officers who are absent on fur lough. GLUCKSTADT.—The Baden regiment entered yes terday, forming a strong escort, with Luttermersk, the soldier, who has now been consigned to the prison of this place.—liamburgh Borsemialle, Dec. 19. RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. The Frankfort Journal of the 19th says, that Russia is making great preparations to decide the fate of Europe by the sword. This is the reason of her forces being concentrated on the frontiers of the empire. The EMPEROR is reported to have said he would not permit the people to revolt against his brother of PRUSSIA, and is prepared to march 500,000 men to his assistance. Should this be the case, the war of opinion will then begin in earnest. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament has referred the Minis terial programme to a Committee, the majority o! which is opposed to the new Gagern Ministry. ITALY. The Council of State of the Kingdom of Naples having been presented to Pope Pius IX., at Gaeta, on the Bth, and delivered to him an address by its President, his HOLINESS replied : "It is with great gratitude that I r, ceive these testimonies of affectionate devotion from the Council of State of the only kingdom of Italy which still gives an example of order and respect for the laws; things which may be said to be sisters, and ever go hand in hand. I pray to God that, in the midst of the effer vescence of passions, you may preserve these two princi ples, without which there can be no hope. We bless, with all the effusion of our heart, the members of the Council of State; may they unweariedly aid by their energy and courage a good and pious King, who has shown himself full of zeal for the well being of his country ! We have received hospitality, we have found all our wants and desires anticipated, when we were far from thinking that we should have need of an asylum. To-day, when the passions are let loose and inflaaled throughout Italy, who can foresee the termination of such convulsions? Many, it is true, talk of independence, but although there may b 3 ten millions of men enter taining the same feeling, we are sure that we should not find two of them in accord as to the means of oh tamping this independence. We can with truth compare Italy to a sick man tormented with fever, tossing a•ul turning from side to side without finding relief. God alone can, in his clemency, grant a remedy for so great an evil, Let us, therefore, humbly pray to him to dis sipate the darkness which surrounds mankind, and cause his light to shine in their hearts. You aro cow making new laws, and we, on our part, are meditating some for the benefit of our good people. With the help of God, the due execution of theme laws will suffice; for all that is required are prudent modifications, and not fundamental transformations." The POPE, it is said, intends proceeding to France when he receives the news of the election of President. The Opinione of Turin informs us that the Minis ters have reduced their own emoluments, and sup pressed the title of "Excellency." It is reported that the English Ambassador has sent a note to the Tuscan Ministry, stating that England will not allow the constitutional law of Tuscany to be violated, and that if such an event occur England will blockade the port of Leghorn. IRELAND. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER. THE QUEEN V. DUFFY. DUBLIN, FRIDAY, THREE P.M.—The Court to-day, at one o'clock proceeded to give judgment on the plea of abatement. Judge PER IN, at considerable length, went into the law of the case, and expressed his opinion that the plea was bad. Baron RICHARDS followed, and said that he fully concurred in the judgment of Mr. Justice Perrin, and that in his opinion the plea was bad both in form and substance. The Clerk of the Crown then called on Mr. Duffy to plead to the indictment, upon which Mr. Butt applied to the Court to quash the indictment against the prisoner in the county before he was called on to plead to the present one, which was in the city. The Court refused to do so. Their intention was not to allow the prisoner to be harrassed by both, but as soon as he pleaded to the one in the city to quash the other. The prisoner being again called on to plead, Mr. Butt handed in the general demurrer to every count in the in• dictment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL immediately joined in a demurrer, and said he was ready to argue it, and was determined, if it should in argument be ruled against the prisoner, to press for final judgment upon it. To-morrow morning was fixed for the argument. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TsArric.—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:— NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Aberdeen .....• • • • Amiens and Boulogne •••• • • • ••• • • • Belfast and Ballymena ••• • • - ••• • • • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Chester and Holyhead. • • .. • • • • .. Cockermouth and Workington • • • • Dublin and Drogheda• . •• • • .• • •• • • -• Dublin and Kingstown • . • • • , • • • • • • • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • . • ... East Angi1an........ •• •• • • • • •• Edinburgh and G1a5g0w............ Edinbnrgh and Northern • • • ......... Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire Eastern Union .. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Green0ck,........ Great Southern and Western Great Western, &c .... Kendal and Windermere.........- Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ Lancaster and Carlisle.... • • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... Londonderry and London and North Western, &c. London and 81ackwa11.......... • London and Brighton . , . • • • • ... London and South Western ......... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) Menklands Newcastle and Carlisle North British ...................... Paris and Rouen. • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • .. Rouen and Havre .. • • • • • • • • • • • • •• Scottish Central •••••••• . , . , . • • • - . Shrewsbury and Chester .. ~ •. • ..... South Eastern and Branches • • • • • South Devon.. • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Waterford and Limerick... • • • • • • • ... Whitehaven Junction .• • • • • • • • • • • , Wishaw and Coltness . • • • • • •• •• York and Newcastle . ........ • • York and North Midland . Last week, 1,210 673 1,709 1,235 70 595 597 653 3,103 1,519 13,621 1,564 1,122 2,412 7;io 3,335 18,661 111 9,956 1,810 116 37,767 513 7,326 7,727 2,644 20,463 1,046 896 GA °mt.: 1,09 T 2,286 4,687 2,169 552 3,082 537 13,149 805 1,110 2,104 885 1,620 18,006 77 8,126 1,014 Sl7 1,309 7.169 1,123 1,552 767 267 163 36,697 737 6,758 7,369 1,878 18,662 1,7811 r,582 2,022 542 7,743 672 1,685 577 3,403 7,32 i 172 10,88 y 7,14 LIGHT PASSENGER STEAM•C ARRIAGR. The " Fairfield" steam - carriage left P a ddi ngton at eight •'clock yesterday morning, and went down to Reading at the rate of 45 miles per hour. She went easily and pleasantly, and every one in her appeared to be gratified by her performance. From Reading she proceeded with the great part of her passengers on to Bristol, whence she was to depart that afternoon for Exeter. She will then be handed over to the board of managers of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and it is expected she will commence her regular trips on the Tiverton branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway to-day. Among the gentlemen present on this journey were Mr. Rowland Hill, of the Post-office; Captain Simmons, Government Inspector of Railways; Mr. Valentine, Engineer of the East Anglian Railways; Mr. Gregory, Engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ; Mr. Chapman, of the East India Railway; and a number of other individuals connected with railways, who all expressed themselves satisfied with the result of this trial trip. It, when this steam-carriage gets better into work, it should go at the rate of fifty miles per hour, with 50 passen gers, consuming about eight pounds of co k e per mile, and weigh only 14 tons, including passengers, motive power, fuel, and water, which it is confidently believed will be the case, what a triumph it will be for the prin ciple of combining motive power and carrying power in the same vehicle (upon six wheels), over the old method of employing a locomotive, tender, first, second, and third class carriages, and parcels van (making six vehicles on 36 wheels), and weighing some 56 tons, con sinning 45 pounds of coke per mile, and costing more than double what this steam carriage does, which will do the same work in the same time, at a greatly dimi nished first cost, expense for fuel, tke.l Hitherto, on many branch lines, trains as above composed have been employed to carry 15, 20, 30, or 40 persons, thus making "much ado about nothing," but eating into the pockets of shareholders. Hereafter we hope to see a better adap • tation of means to ends, and not to employ an elephant to do the work of It donkey. 2azeitax MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool this week has been very active, and the sales have been large at rather ad vanced prices. Railway shares were in request yester day and well supported. The weekly balance sheet of the Bank of England, made up to the 18th instant, is in all essential points the same as the previous one, only greater in degree. The bullion had further increased, as also the amount to the credit of the Government, and the unemployed notes were larger than, we believe, they ever were before. The active note circulation and the other securities were again reduced, a proof that the Bank is not in creasing its business. The following aro the results of a comparison with the previous week:— Notes issued 27,982.125 Increase 248,390 Rest . 3,376,688 Increase Public Deposits 7,908,643 Increase Other Deposits 9,249,649 Decrease Seren Day and other Bills Decrease Government Securities Other Securities Increase Notes 11,246,410 Increase Bullion Increase Active circulation Decrease The letters and papers by the Great Western, from the West Indies and Mexico, state that the weather had been rather too dry in Barbadoes, but, subsequently, rain fell at Georgetown, which it was hoped had been general. There are no complaints of the weather in Ja maica, but commerce is represented as being very inactive. The condition of the other colonies remained much the same al per last advices. Of the large amount, 2,200,000 dollars, brought by the steamer, part is on mining ac count, 70,000 dollars being for the United Mexican Mining Association, part for merchants' account, and 37.300 dollars for the dividends on Mexican Bonds. The continental advices received this morning are generally satisfactory, and the letters from Liverpool and other towns in the country state that the markets close well, though business was being gradually wound up for the holidays. The Funds are very quiet this morning, as the at tendance of members of the house is not numerous, and there is an indisposition to enter into tresh trans actions. Consols are 88k i; New Three-and-a. Quarter per Cents. 881 i; and the Three per Cents. 88k I. Ex chequer bills have realised 38s. to 425. premium. The Foreign Securities have been very steady gene rally, but very little business has been done excel t in the Peninsular Stocks. Mexican Bonds have been 23i to 24, a further rise. Peruvian have not been higher than 46 to 471. Equador are 2i 4. Dutch Two-and-,L Half per Cents. are 494. Shares are firm, and without any material change o E. P.?l, CUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 ;.er Cent. Reduced Arms 8 1 ,n% New VA per Cent. Anns.... . i,ong Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o India Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0001. . .. 39 p Consols for Account. 83 % 1 14 el -Killer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. 1,0001. March ........... 42 3S p 1,000/. June 39 40 37 p 5001. March.~ 5001. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS PRICES. 881 88'P R 85,1, oNE CLOSth G O'CLOCK. PRICES. Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — 13 Mexican, .5 per Cent. 1846 237 233/4 Ditto, Account 24 23% 24 237 e 241 A; 23% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 45 Ditto, Account ..... ... ..... flussian Bonds ... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent — 20 Dividends on the above payable in London. _ Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49% 49% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. A berdeen 5O .. .. 16 17 16 1 4 16% Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 4%...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 19 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarautee 20 Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 145... ........ Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno 10 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter 9O ......56 55 Ditto, Thirds Nuckinghamshire... 14/. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... Do. New 101. Pref..... 7%..... % Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto,:Preference ls Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast Junc. 35 ...... Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 ...... East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 10s. Eastern Counties........ 20 12% Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. ..... 10 ...... 11% Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61. 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1 Ditto, Class B (L & and B.) 20 Ditto Cliss C, ditto 2O . .... .......... Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 10 ...... ...... .. .. Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 .............. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 5 1 4 — ~. .. East Lincolnshire ...... 25 - ••• Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport 16 Exeter,Yeevil, & Dorch. 2% Gla.gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 6 'lasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 .... . Do. Preference Consul. - . • ••• Great Northern Do., -' / . 2 A Deferred ... 12 1 / 2 4% .... ... Do., I/ 2 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ... ..... 64 ...... Do. Extension 2;2 Great South. and West. (Ireland) ... 42% — ......... .. ... Great North of England.loo ... •• Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New, 151......... 14 .. Great Western 9O ...... 3 die. 2i 1 4 P 1 4 P 67% Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares 5O ...... Ditto, 14 Shares — Ditto, Fifths ...... - Ditto, New 171— ..... 13 ... Huddersfield and Manch. 30 Ditto, Thirds [lull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ..-.. 49 Ditto, M Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, 1 / 2 Shares - Do. Quarter Shares... 17 1 / 2 — ••• — Do. Fifths... ......... ... 10 Do. Sixteenths O4 Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 ..... 4 3 / 4 . 4 Do. New,Gua.6 per ct. 7 1 ,x ...... Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ...... Ditto 1 / 2 (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 43 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte tract, and Goole) ... 50 Do.( W. Riding Union) 7 -- ... ..... . Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. t,4 Shares (A)... 914 — Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . Do., Half Shares 25 Do., (blue) Scrip....., 214... Leeds and Think Ditto, New .............35 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 ,4 — Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. Bi t _ I.iverp., Manchster, and Newcastle Junction... 2 1 4,,...„ London & Blackwall...l3/. 65.8 d.... Do. Extension ~.. ... 22 lA .. ......... London, Brighton, and South Coast 5O Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ...... Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50 .. ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. . 5 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — . ... .. Ditto, Preference... 18 , 17s 2d — London and N. Western 100 123 122... Do Quarters (L. & B.) 22 Ditto, New D;ito, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 Do. 40/.Shares(L. fit.) 25 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 9 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 9 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ... .. 3 ..... .... .•• ••• on:l. &S. Western Do. New 501. ... ..... 42 1 ,4.. Do. New 40/. ... 34 Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto - Ditto, Thirds.. ......131. 6s. 8d... ... 4% dis. Do.. New Scrip, 1848, P. el. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls_ 4 6 ......, —,.. 8074 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..... Londonderry&Coleraino 28 3 /i — ....... ....... . Londonderry and Ennis kill: n. Lowestoft (4 per ct.) Ditto (6 per ct.) Mancheiter•Buxton,and kianchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln3lUre...loo Dv. Quarters (No. 1) 18 - •.. Ditto ditto (.No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto N -' 1/ auto (No. 3j... 11 1 / 4 Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 - .•., Ditto, Ut. Grimsby ... 40 Ditto ditto . ... ..... 13 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire l5 . ... . Do., Grimsby Dock... 20 Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.2 s — Midland ....... ......100 .• Do. Consolidated P re f.loo - Do., do., £Ol. Shares._ 20 ... .. ..... ... ....• Do. Birin., and Derbyloo Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 l2 l l, Ditto, Brist. & Glecstr. 38 ...... Ditto, ditto ... .. ...... 14/. 185.... Ditto,Leicest•Ss Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo . ...... . . Midland Great Western Irish Aliddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. N,wcasticanci Carlisle...loo . — Do. Quarters 25 ....., --- Newmarket ........ ... 20 Do. Extension ...... —V. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, ... and Hereford 6 • •••••• ... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, VVarrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 20 Nirfolk - ••• •• Do. New 201. .. l5 ....• Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 2U .... --• Do. Guaranteed 51,,,pe. 5 - Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... - N:ortliern Counties Uni on 4 „..... North British ... .... ... 25 .....~ Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12 1 ,4 6% . 6 53 Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Extension O% ... .. -- Ditto, l'birds .... .. Nerth & South-Western 2 North Staffordshire orth Wales . 3% North-Western . . • Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton..,.. 50 :22% .••.. •• ..... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 2 ...... 1% Scottish Central Scottish Midland.. ...... 25 - -• •••••••••• Ditto, New .. . Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (Nor. Div.) ... 10 Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 4 Shrow.ibury an.1,13inn... 9 f Otto ditto. Class B. 6 Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 Shrewsbury and Heretd. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Hal-res ... ditto 81 ,2 •••••• •• ••• Ditto Oswestry ... .. 17 3 / 4 — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO Slzropshire Union ...... 4 ...... ~ f intli Devon,.., 5O ••• Do. Preference ‘ iwith Staffordshire 6% — ...... ..••••" S , uth j -, T, , st- , rn i. , 0., No. 1 Do., No. 2. ~ 22 Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 25 Do., No. 4 Thirds ... 10 South Wales ... .. S , uth Yorkshire, Don oftster, and Goole ,:,-.... & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 6 - ••• ••• •••• Caw Vie Extension ... 8 ... ... ..... ... """ names Haven Dock and Railway .......... 17% — -• Vale of Neath ... .. Waterford and Kilkenny 17t,%., — .• -- WateriOrd and Limerick 471. E — Watertd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin ..... ...... 3 ..... -* Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. SO Do. do. do. ... 25 - Do. do. do. ... 10 ..... - ... ..... „ --• West Cornwall ...... 6 ... .. - West London ....... . ... 20 - Do. Do. Ist Ulass ... 20 Do. Do. 2d Class ... 20 - ,i , hitehaven & Furness 14 South Western..... ... 12 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth - fork, Newcastle, and • Berwick. .... .. 25 2B 2714 ... ..... 27% Do. Original New and Berwick .. ...... ... .. 2,5 Do, Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2. Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 York'enti North Midland 50 Ditt®, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension 251 i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... i - Boulogne and Amiens-. 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 17 - Ceylon - - Demerara — - Dendre Valley 4 - Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish ..... .... 7%..... .. ..... ."" -'' East Indian ..... - .... • -- Great Indian Peninsular 1 4 ._..... Louvain ala Sambre ... 7% — - Luxembourg Ditto 2 14 • Madrid and Valentia... 2 ..... Namur and Liege ...... '2O ... .. -. -- Northern of France...... 12 Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 Paris and Lyon s ll ..... --•• Do. Do. . Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen ... ..... 20 •••-• ...... .... Paris and Strasbou rg ... 9 ...... • .... ••••••• Rouen and H avre Sambre and Meuso 2O ••• .. ....., Strasbourg and Basle - Tours and Nantes 9 ...... Tournay, Jurbi se , Lan den, and Hassell ...... 20 - West Flanders... 8 34 MINES. Anglo-Mexican .........100 Asturian Mining C0r0... 14 Australian 2t Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... ...„ 2% British Iron Brazilian Imperial ...... 24% BrazilianCoeaes&Cuiaba 30 Do. St. John Del Rey 15 Cobra Copper .... . ..... 40 General Mining ...... Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Deb en t ures .. ... Do. Red Di tto ... Santiago de Cub a... lO ... United M exican 2B %..... . L LOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 23.—Wind N.N.E., light breeze, and fine cold frosty weather, greatest pressure of wind since yesterday noon 51b. Barometer, 30.40. Thermometer,3 6 . Colchester, this day, 9 A.M. E. by N. fine. Gloucester ... ... North frost. Gosport ... N.E. sharp frost. Hull S.E. by E. very cloudy. Liverpool N.E. foggy. London ••• ... E. sharp f ros t. Portsmouth ... N.E. sharp f ros t. Southampton ... W.S.W. frost. WIYENHOE, l)Ec. 22. The schooner Eliza Stop.' Bremen to London, was assisted in here to-day, i(vitil less of rudder; a great portion of cargo thrown over board; the remainder nearly all damaged, having heal on shore on the Gunfleet Sand. LOWESTOZTE, DEC. 22.—1 t blew a gals hero the whole of yesterday and to.day, from E.S.E. The Hector, from Hamburgh to London, ran on the Holm Sand this morning, and has become a total wreck; crew and part of materials saved. CROORHAVEN, DEC. 20.—The Saguenay, of Cork, was fallen in with in a sinking state, and with loss of boats, and some of the crew washed overboard, 14th inst., having experienced a hurricane the night before, and twenty-one of the crew taken off by the Forest King, arrived off this port. Some boxes of oranges a nd lemons, sacks of dye-stuff and shumao , apparently not long in the water, have been picked up off this place. WATERFORD, DEC. 21.—A foreign brig, in coming up the river last night, got on shore on Drumroe-bank, and remains. WEXFORD, DEC. 21.— The Francis Mary, Bennett, of Chester, is on shore on the Ballyvaloo Strand. PORTSOKAIG, DEC. 19.—The Amity, with palm oil, and the Susan, in ballast, both of Liverpool, went on shore near this, 26th instant, but may be got off. Also, the Union of Alloa, from Sligo; Clydesdale of Glasgow, cotton laden—the hull of the former is below water, and the latter is a complete wreck; part of crew drowned. GREENOCK, DEC. 21. The David, from Campbel town has been towed in here very much damaged, hav ing struck on Skipness Point, in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Arran. MARGATE, DEC. 22.—The remainder of the cargo of the Sophia, from Gijon to London, which got on shore on Pureness hock, 20th instant, has been landed In a good condition, but the vessel is in the same situation. WHITSTABLE, DEC. 22 . —About 100 cases and packages, part of the cargo of the Barens, Matsen, from Ham burgh to New York, wrecked on Tongue Sand, have been brought in liere; a further part expected in next tide. FALMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Wind E.—Sld. 21st, Now Phcenix, Sierra Leone. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.—Sld. Gulterus, Batavia ; Ma zeppa, Africa ; Mercutio, Buenos Ayres ; Andes, Brazils ; Taymouth Castle, Brazils ; Commerce, Trini dad ; United States, New Orleans ; Malabar, Mobile ; H. G., N ew Y or k ; Sunbeam, Boston. TORERMORY, DEC. 17.—A very severe gale from S.E. was experienced here on the 17th instant, during which the Fox, Tait, drove on shore, and carried , away her rudder. The Jock Howe, from Limerick to :gas put in h ere , w i t h l oss of bulwarks, &c., having ex periencA a severe gale on the lbth instant ; she has been beached, having grounded on a sunken rock in coming in. 36p 88% 38 p 40 p 42 p 42 p 41 p 2 1 4 12 11A 12t IA - 8 174 ; - '''-- 104 121 1 / 4 22% li 26% 2A '4B - VA to 6d is: 3d to: