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To be had of all Booksellers. MR. COLBURN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. vol. xi. of LIVES of the QLTEENS of ENGLAND. By AGNES BTRICKLiND. 11. BURKE'S lILIKPORY of the LANDED GENTRY of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. 2 'Vols. 21. 108. ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS. By J. W. BRODERIP, Esq IN. W. IV. THE HALL road THE ILA.MLIti.T. By WILLIAM HOWITT. 2 Vols., 245. SIR GEORGE SIMPSON'S OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND the WORLD. 2 Vols., with Map, V & c. 31s. 6d. I. LORD CASTLEREAGH'S JOURNEY to DAMASCUS. 2 yolc, with numerous Illustrations. 245. VII. STORY of the PENINSULAR WAR. A Companion to " The Story of Waterloo," with Portraits, VIII. HORACE WALPOLE'S REIGN of GEORGE the SECOND. Second Edition, revised, 3 Vols. Bvo., with Portraits. 365. HOCHELAGA ; or, England in the New World. Edited by ELIOT WARBURTON, Esq. Third Edition. 2 Vols., 21a. COUNT MONTHOLON'S HISTORY of the CAPTIVITY of NA POLEON at ST. HELENA, 4 vols. Bvo. .N.B.—Vols. 3 and 4 may be had separately to complete sets. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. In 3 vols. post sivo., W A It It E N N E, THP, MEDICAL PRACTITIONER , By the Author of " Margaret Capel," Bto.. IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, And may be had at every Library. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. M ' THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un ler the Management et HIS EVEN Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TEVENING M Will be performed Shakopeere's Comedy of MUCH ADO AB NOTHING. Pedro, Mr. H. Vandenhoff ; Don John, Mr. Brindal ; Benedict, Mr. Webster ; Antonio, Mr. Tilbury ; Leonato, Mr. Ro gers ; Dogb=rry, Mr. Farrell ; Verges, Mr. Keeley ; Friar, Mr. Gougk ; Beatrice, Mrs. Nisbett; Hero, Mrs. Seymour. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the razen Waters. Stage Manager, Mr. Fan en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, 5sJ yit.,3ci Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, ls. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to eommenCe at Seven, TBEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Ceieste. THIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; •or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by 3lessrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, illennaire, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, said Madame Celeste. To be fellovved by the Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD ,:the property of the late William Shakepeare), Inquire Within. Cha racters by .31essr.;. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed ford. Mns laws, &c., he. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Man; and POLICIIINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; I'it, 2s. , Gallery, ls. I''ors ot,en at Ilall-past Six, Performance to commence at Seveit ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Managerreut of Madame Vestris. bole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. Tli IS EVENING Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. Damara. Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-prico to any part of the house. The .dew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess•street, Portland• place. Madame ANNA TIIILLON. THIS' EVENING A new Comic Opera, entitled THE AMBASSADRESS. Duke de Valherg, Mr. Bodda ; Benedict, Barker; Fortunatus, Mr. Lef fler; Countess de Fierschomberg, Miss Villars ; Madame Barneck, Mrs. Selby; Charlotte, Miss Anne Romer; Ilenriette, Madame Anna Thillon. After which, a new comic Drama, called MY SISTER'S SECRET. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER. TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, ns. : Boxes, 45.; I'it, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ANTIGONE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated lyrical tragedy of ANTIGONE, from the Greek of Sophocles, with the en tire music of the illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will be produced at ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, - TO-MORROW EVENING, Distribution of the Characters.—Creon, M. Bocage, as originally performed by him at the theatre de I'Odeon, Paris, and by wham the Mise en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; Hemon, M. ech ter ; Tiresias, M. Lemonier ; Le Garde, M. St. Marie ; Le Coryphee, M. Henri Alix ; Antigone, Mme. ltabut Pechter (her second appear .trice this season) ; Ismene, Mdlle. Baptiste ; Eurydice, Mdlle. Berths. Director of the Music...• • •M. Jules Benedict. For the efficient perf_rmance of this celebrated composition the following professors have been expressly engaged, and will consti tute the orchestra :—First Violins—Messrs. Burotte, Deloffre, News ham, Mellon, Thirlwall, Brown, Gothic, and Morris. Second Violins—Messrs. Ella, Payton, Zerbini, Newsliam, jun., Elsniore, and Watson. Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and R. Blagrove. Violencellos—Messrs. Lucas, Pilot, L. Phillips, and Guest. Double Basses—Messrs. Howell, Campanile, Severn, and Griffiths. Flutes—Messrs. ltibas and King. Oboes—Messrs. G. Cooke and Nicholson. Clarionsttes—Messrs. Boole and Maycock. Conti—Messrs. Charles Harper and Callcott. Bassoons—Messrs. Larkin and Winterbottom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas Harper and Handley. Trombones—Messrs. smithies, Ilea.ey, and Winterbot torn. Drums—Mr. Chipp. llarp—Mr. T. Wright. Conductor 31r. Benedict. N.B. A numerous and powerful chorus has alsobeen engaged under the superintendence of Mr Grice and Mr. Lee. A new scene has been painted for the subject by Mr. Muir and assistants, A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. Mitchell's _Royal Library, 33, Old Ilona-street and at the Box-oilice of tha Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, bs. ; Pit, 3s. lid.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 25 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessee, Mn.s F. Dar - idge, 1, DAvidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey THIS EVENING, the perforwances will commerce with the ►elebrated Opera o' TILE DAUGHTER OF 'HIE REGIMENT. Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, Kiup. llornesstle, Rafter, Att wood, M'3lalion, and Miss Poole. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and Nall. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the Principal Librarians ; and at the Box-stlize of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, is. ; Fit, Is. ; Gallery, Gd. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LIGIITERM AN of BANKSIDE ; or; the Drphan of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson. Hicks, Searle, formai', Iliggie ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Burroughcli fie. Atter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled THE WORLD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton anc the Origin of Printing, with woodertul scenery and decorative ap• pointrnents. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor ..‘loliao; Columbine, Mdlle. To conclude with THE RAILROAD STATION. Boxes, is. ; tit, 6d. ; Gallery, 4d. Ne Halt-price to any part of the house. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and _Manager, sir. ‘villiam Ratty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING, The Grand Szectacle of TILE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scents in the Arena, by the talented Artistes the , tstabllsbinent, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitles' HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Denlin, Mdlle. Theo dose, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine. Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and cifect all lormer productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open from 11 till 5 Actin; and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. 11.1.14] WEATIII 4 ;I - t.—buN OFFIcE, JAN. 6. TIitiIItIOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Higiarst, 44 ; Noon, 36 13.4.33.0mETER, 29.32.—W1ND N.N.W.; fine. ;; ;;; viAl'Elt AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tills DAY. ,fornin2'.. .50 minutes after 1. I Evening .. 11 minutes liter 2, il,.iije„.."' .., cikr 1" 0. -"-- 4 -- .- e 0 . Z., 4 .. t, Ate ~, 7 1 fiT - ( --:1 i . 7 ~ i'. ~..f . r .p .- 7:. "t 5; ,a• ~.1, , DIIII) 4:' Cr • moS ' A -,-, 3 . Vie 1 1 illiN It-lt LIINDI,)N, THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1848 THE QUARTZ R'S REVENUE. The Revenue Returns for the year ending on the sth of January instant, which have just been pub lished, afford matter for grave and serious conidcra tion, although, perhaps, they are not quite as unfa vourable as might have been anticipated from tht severe and pressing difficulties to which all classes have been exposed, more particularly within the last few months. A defic iency amounting to no less than 2,217,454/. on the year, and 1,155,3131. on the quarter, cannot however be disregarded even by the complacent Sir CHARLES Woo». The formi dable array of figures ca nnot he so easily encoun tered as the representations of the Newcastle deputation—no assurances, however positive, can displace their testimony, or the too melancholy and unanswerable proofs of national distress and embarrassment which they afford. The deficiency of the Revenue for the year may be partly accounted for by the cessation of some of the extraordinary items, which do not in any de gree depend on the fluctuations of trade, or the con sumption of the people, and cannot, therefore, be looked upon as affording any indication of the na tional prosperity, or otherwise. Thus the Chinese Ransom, the last instalment of which was duly liqui dated in the year 1846, and which, therefore, can na longer be looked for as an item on the credit side of the national balance-sheet, accounts for a falling off of 667,6441. on the annual account, while the repay ment of advances also shows a diminution of 506,3651. On the other side, however, there is a small improvement, amounting to 24,0951., under _ . Athe head of Imprest and Other Moneys, so that, on F.N% Sl' % I' e: l e whole, 1,138,904/. of the total deficiency may be ' < -- "H.:-.- - 11 - r 4 ..c.ti lained in this manner. There will, therefore, - • • . ' r\ '‘ t il f . , , ' \ I C , t remain 1,067,5 401 . as the diminution in the ( i':' : i '.N - . :1*.eY:f.:::;.:")' ..e.„ 4 4 ary revenue, the permanent sources of the na- C.3\ :"; . "..—.-4 1 (.t . ::-.? al income. This, however, entirely falls within :4 ?.0- - - - E2,, 1 )--- "i•"/ two last quarters ; the former portion of the year K. a s presentin s a much more gratifying appearance. We TilE SUN, _LONDON, TitiURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 6, 1848. shall now proceed to examine the various items in detail, and to show where the great falling off has been, and where improvements have taken place. It was well known that the Chinese pay ments had terminated ; the deficiency in that respect, therefore, can occasion no surprise. The repayments of advances, although an extraordi nary branch of the revenue, being merely the liquida tion of debts due to the nation by parties to whom sums had been lent for the purpose of effecting works which it was desirable to have carried on, still may be regarded as exhibiting in some degree the general inability of debtors to discharge their liabili ties. The Crown possesses extraordinary facilities for enforcing payment from its debtors, and if we sup pose that about the same amount of instalments would have fallen due as in the preceding year, by no means an extravagant conjecture, considering the large advances that have been made, the decrease in these payments would strongly indicate the extreme monetary pressure and difficulties under which the country has laboured within the past year. We shall now take the ordinary sources of revenue. The first branch, the Customs, shows the receipt, within the past year, of 18,015,2981., while that of the preceding year amounted to 18,310,8651., thus showing a deficiency under this head on the entire year of 295,567/.; that on the quarter, however, amounts to no less than 402,8591., while the defi ciency on the quarter ending the 10th October last amounted to 374,1911. We, therefore, find on these two quarters a deficiency of no less than 777,050/., while on the former quarters there had been an increase of nearly 480,0001. This may be looked upon as the result of the compulsory mea sures adopted by the Bank to enforce the importation of gold into the country. The Bank returns will show the great increase of bullion that has taken place in their vaults. Under the monetary laws now, unhappily, in force the actual property of the nation must be sacrificed to obtain that specie to lie idle and unproductive in the Bank coffers, while the importation of other articles that would give em ployment to the working classes is checked. The next great branch, the second largest in the amount it produces, the most important of all, as it may be considered the barometer of national prosperity, which indicates the degree of comfort or luxury enjoyed by the great mass of the population, shows a still more painful result ; the falling off on the year amounting to no less than 790,5041., and on the present quarter 361,2721., while on the quarter ending the 10th October, it amounted to 641,980/. ; the deficiency on the last half of the year, amounting to 1,003,2521., while during the former portion there was an increase of nearly 213,000/. The other branches under which deficits may be discovered are the Crown Lands and Miscel laneous; the former showing a decrease on the year of 43,000/., while there is an increase of 10,0001. on the quarter, and the latter exhibiting a deficiency of 132,1641. on the year, and of 17,9111. on the quarter. These, however, are matters of less importance, the two paramount objects being the Customs and Excise. The other branches of the Revenue show a slight improvement. Taxes—an increase of 62,1531. on the year, and 4,8841. on the quarter ; the Property-tax, strange to say, an increase of 55,4101. on the year, and of 12,3481. on the quarter. We fear, however, that this branch of the Revenue will present a less favourable aspect on the next return. The Post office, thanks to the energy and zeal of RowLAND HILL, and the successful results of his system of a cheap and uniform postage is also improved by 48,000/. on the year, and 5,0001. on the quarter ; while Stamps present an increase on the year of 28,1321., but a sad falling off on the quarter of 175,8321., which may be accounted fur by the high rate of interest maintained, and the extreme difficulty of obtaining discounts, which led to a great diminution in the amount of bills of exchange in circulation—another proof, if any such were required, of the depressed state of our trade and commerce. The total income for the year amounts to 48,397,5661., for the quarter to 11,665,3581., to which if the final in,talment of the Irish loan, 575,774/., be added, it will appear that the total income for the quarter is 12,250,729/., while the total charge is 7,207,6321., leav ing a surplus income for the quarter of 5,043,0971., to which if the amount of surplus on the 10th of October of 729,195/. be added, it will leave a gross surplus of 5,772,292/. ; from this, however, the sum of 4,889,7441., being the amount issued during the quarter in part of the sums granted by Parliament for Supply Services, must be deducted; the surplus of cue Consolidated Fund will therefore amount to 882,5481. Satisfactory steps are at length being taken to de monstrate whether or not any denunciations have been uttered from the altar steps of the Catholic Chapel cf Strokestown, by the Very Reverend MICHAEL M'DERMOTT, the Venerable Archdeacon of Elphin. A document, subscribed by twenty- eight respectable inhabitants of Strokestown, and published by our elves in another column, asseverates in the most solemn manner imaginable—distinctly, deliberately, and explicitly asseverates—the innocence of the ac cused clergyman. " We hereby declare," says this document, " we hereby declare, without fear of con tradiction, and hold ourselves in readiness to confirm this our solemn declaration by our sworn affidavits in any court of justice, that we have been invariably in the habit of attending at Mass on all Sundays and holy days in the year, in the chapel of Strokestown—that we have a distinct recollection of ,ur having heard mass in the 'chapel of Strokestown, on Monday, the let day of November, called All faints' Day, being the day before Major MAHON \vas murdered, and that the Very Rev. MICHAEL ArDERMOTT, our parish priest, did not open his lips to address one word to his flock on that day. We (Luther unhesitatingly declare that we never heard the Very Rev. MICHAEL. M'DERMOTT, on Sunday, or nolyday, or saints'-day, or any other day, on which he ever addressed his flock from the altar, to denounce the late Major Mairosi, or to express the words attri buted to him in the reported speech of Lord FARNHAM, or any such words, or any words of a ,imilar import or meaning." This is precisely the contradiction which has been desired by Lord FARN LIAM himself, required by Lord BEAUMONT, solicited by Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY, demanded by Lord SHREWSBURY, and which ourselves and our Contem poraries have, again and again, insisted upon as essential to the cause of truth and justice, and as necessary for the removal of a frightful stigma from he whole of the devoted priesthood, and the dis tinguished hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. A definite charge was made against the Archdeacon of ELPHIN ; he was accused of having made an incendiary alusion to Major MAHON the very day bef ,re that lamented gentleman's ass ssina zion ; he was reported to have denounced that land. lord to his peasantry before the very altar consecrated to the rites of Christianity, and while he himself was still clothed in the vestments of his religion ; nay the very syllables he was said to have articulated were declared to have been these—" This man is worse than CROMWELL and yet he lives !" Here therefore was a plain and even detailed accusation ; it required a simple and decisive refutation before the parish priest of Strokestown could be exonerated from all indirect participation or moral complicity in the dismal and atrocious crime which had so recently rendered the locality notorious. Instead of this, Father M'DERMOTT on the 7th ultimo pens a letter of such a violent character, that Lord FARNHAM i 5 induced t o o b serve on the 16th ultimo, while address ing, the R ouse of Lords, that the reply appears to him , mtuordebrrTbted s he co t r h r r o ou o g r h a out the that hes letterpiritof incitementno wis by th to e document signed by twenty-eight parishioners of Strokestown, we can perceive the full force of the emphatic declaration of Mr. MiDaamorr—"l have now to assure the public, by the most solemn asseve rations a clergyman can utter, that the late Major MAHON was never denounced, nor even his name mentioned, from any chapel altar in Strokestown, or within twenty miles of Strokestown, in any direction, on any Sunday before his death." It must be ac knowledged that throughout this deplorable contro versy Father AI'D Balton . has had a bitter enemy against him, but that enemy has been—himself. He it is who rendered even this solemn asseveration inef fectual, he it is who imparted an additional colouring of probability to the assertions of his accusers, he it is who rendered his own innocence more than ever disputable by using language so peculiarly intemperate and inflammable that such a man as the Earl of SHAEWSBURT is forced to say, when writing to his episcopal superior, the Bishop o f ELyntri, that, in his opinion, Father M'DEMMOTT, by his denial, " adds the sin of tergiversation to his other delinquencies." How different was the re joinder of the Rev. Mr. HUGHES, the priest of Castle bar—a rejoinder which instantly silenced the voice of his calumniators, and attested his innocence beyond all denial We are far from implying that enough has been done to substantiate the accuracy of the Archdeacon of ELPHIN'S contradiction, merely by the publica tion of the letter signed by twenty-eight of his parishioners. So much has been said and written upon the matter, that something more has become requisite. Even the accused himself, we should imagine, would be solicitous to court that investiga tion which has been so earnestly yearned for by Lord BEAUMONT, by the Earl of SHREWSBURY, and, most of all, by the Noble Lord the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY. Some judicial, or, at the least, some ec clesiastical inquiry has become necessary for the honour of Strokestown, for the re-establishment of the good fame of the Archdeacon of ELrniN, awl for the glory of the whole body of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. Letters from Berne, of the Ist January, state that Russia has absolutely refused to take any part in the diplomatic congress about to be assembled on the affairs of Switzerland. The elections for the Grand Council of Valais are over. The majority of the elected are Liberals. The Ultramuntane party are completely prostrate. M. MAURICE DE BASMAN, a Liberal, has been elected first deputy to the Diet for this canton. The canton of Unterwalden having paid up its contribution, has been evacuated by the Federal troops. Madrid papers of the 30th ult. have arrived. The Espanol says, that SALAMANCA alone of the late Ministers will be impeached. ESPARTERO, who has written a very friendly letter to .NAavexz, is expected in Madrid in the course of a few days. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 30.—The Three per Cents. closed at 28k at 50 days, and were 27 13-161 buyers, sellers for cash after the close ; the Five per Cents., were done at 15 5-16 cash, and were 151 buyers after the close ; Passive Debt was done at 51 cash, and was 41 buyers after the close; Coupons were done at 101 cash. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The case of ADD-EL-KADEIL is the subject of com ment in all of them. The organ of M. GUIZOT hints that the Government ought not to ratify the conven tion—in other words, that no faith is to be kept with the Mussulman. M. GUIZOT is an apt scholar, and has soon put to profit the instruction he has received in the school of his Jesuit friends of the Sonderbund. The Presse, to its honour be it spoken, unhesita tingly declares that the Government has no choice, but is bound by the convention entered into by the Governor-General of Algeria. A letter from Toulon, of the 81st of December, says, " ABD-EL-KADER is confined in the Lazaretto, under the guard of a company of the 3d regiment of Infantry of the Marine. Ile is expecting orders from Paris. The Emir hopes that the Government will consent to send him to Egypt, but this appears to us very doubtful." The C'ow,titutionnel, after urging the Government not to ratify the convention, although it says such a course would gravely compromise the Due D'AumaLE, thus proceeds : " It is however, said, that the Ministry on this question, as on so many others, wants the courage to adopt a straightforward open line of conduct. We are informed that the Ministers have decided that ABD-EL-KADER shall be for the present detained in the fort of Lamalgue, at Toulon ; that a negotia tion shall be opened with the Pacha of EGYPT for the transference of the Emir to Alexandria. But, ac cording to the manner in which certain influences may tell on the Chamber, according to the disposition which may be manifested by the majority, this nego tiation will have for its object, either to obtain in reality of the Pacha a promise to guard our prisoner for us, or secretly to urge MEHE MET ALI to refuse to accede to our request. Then ABD..EL-.KADER will be forced to remain in France, and our Ministers will have had the appearance of having wished to carry into effect the promises of the Governor-General." There is every probability that some such course will be adopted. It is the course of all others the mo,t likely to suggest itself to the mind of such a perfect master in the art of equivocation as A. GUIZOT. The remains of the Princess ADELAIDE were re moved from the Tuileries on Tuesday morning to Dreux. The Dukes of NEMOURS and of MONTPEN. SIER accompanied the funeral procesiion. The affair between M. DE AIORNY and M. EMILE DE GIRAMDIN has been settled without bloodshed, through the intervention of the seconds. The four seconds met in the evening, and, after a conference of two hours it was unanimously agreed that there was not sufficient grounds for a hostile meeting, and this resolution being communicated to the two prin cipals, they both assented to it, and the affair pro ceeded no further. The following document was drawn up by the seconds " The seconds of MM. de Morny and Emile de Girardin having mutually considered the altercation which has arisen between these two gentlemen, con cur in thinking that there has been a misconception of their reciprocal intentions, and that, in fact, there are no grounds for a meeting. Submitting to the opinion of those in whom he had placed his confidence, M. de Girardin has declared that he did not intend to offend M. de Morny personally; that he meant to confine himself within the bound► of polemics, and was willing to withdraw such expressions as might be deemed offensive. On this candid declaration by M. de Girardin, M. de Morny declared that he withdrew from his letter everything that was offensive and hostile. " Marshal Duke D'ISLY. " General DE PREVAL. " LEON DE MALEVILLE. " DE LAVALErr E." " Paris, 4th January, 1848." By the Coriolan, which has arrived at Havre from La Plata, with accounts to the 30th of October, we learn that RosAs was making preparations for another attempt upon Monte Video, hoping to obtain posses sion of it before the arrival of the new French and English Plenipotentiaries. PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 5. The market has been today in a perfectly quiescent state, and at the close the quotations varied but little from those of yester day. Threes were last called at 75f. 25c.; Fives, at 117 f. 30e.; and New Loan at 76f. 15c. for the end of the month. The market closed as follows : Three per Cents. for cash, 75f. 10c., for account, 75f. 25c. ; Five per Cents. for cash, 117 f. 20c., for account, 117 f. 30c.; New Loan, 761. 15c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,225 f.; Neapolitan, 1021. ; Spanish, not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has also been dull and heavy, and the closing quotatioas a shade lower than yesterday. For cash, Paris and Orleans closed at 12f. 15c.; Paris and Rouen, 905 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 435 f. ; Vierzon, 545 f. ; Strasburgh and Bale, 161 f. 25f.; Nantes, 392 f. ; Northern, 550 f.; Bor deaux, 487 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburgh, 412 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 400 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAW. 5. Boulogne and Arniens, 14% —Dutch Rbeni,h, 2% — Namur and Liege, s—Orleans and Bordeaux, SA. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE EUSTON -SQUARE STATION OF THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COM. PANY.--(Tins DAY.) —This morning, at about half-past ten o'clock, au accident, which might have been at tended with very serious consequences, occurred at the North-Western Railway Station, Euston-square. Our readers are probably aware that, for some time past, there have been erecting at the station extensive ranges of new buildings for the use of the company. These buildings are being erected by the Messrs. Cubist, and are now approaching their completion. This morn ing suddenly the whole of the side wall of the newly erected vestibule, which is nearly completed, gave way, and fell with a terrific crash, burying in the ruins eleven persons (men and boys) who were employed in its erection. Assistance was immediately procured, and the unfortunate sufferers having been extricated from the ruins, were at once conveyed to the hospital. Three of them were injured so slightly as to be able at once to proceed to their homes, the remainder were taken into the hospital; but we are happy to say, that only one -is considered to be at all dangerously injured. NERVOUS DOCTORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—lt is certain that nervous patients are con e antly drugged with the vulgar "hoaxes," opium a nd cantharides, to bewilder and humiliate them. ;very method is used to heighten their indisposition to business; to discover any superstition or scruple t hey may have inherited from grandmother or nurse ; t ;o irritate the irritable, to insult the high-minded, and laully the mild-tempered; to construe every struggle or remonstrance into a sympton of disease, and call the disease a crime; to indulge.thetn with unwhole some food, the malady being dyspepsia, and absti nence the only cure; to exaggerate or invent pecu niary embarrassments, and by threats compel assign ments of large sums; with the crowning infamy that their children, who should soothe them, are tempted lay promises of independence—that is, of money—to desert and defy them. These remarks apply to all such establishments, especially to private houses ; here the physician is supposed to be a cheek, but how can that be, when he " goes snacks" with the amiable host, taking the lion's share ? The attendants, excepting illness, are almost as much to be pitied as the patient, though far superior to their principals ; they are bribed and counter-bribed ; they commonly administer in public asylums, simply by order of the housekeeper, with out any reference to " skilful men," an immense quietus of morphine in food or drink. " Dura quiete prectsi a ferreo sonno." This tyranny has a strong analogy with the other tyrannies which The Sun combats with so much honesty and success. Any hot•headed Peer might wish to silence an individual, to have the manage ment of his property or possibly the care of his daughters. The sufferer feels as if nothing but death, which he intensely desires, can relieve that erethisin of nerves from continued loss of sleep and appetite, compared with which all other maladies are trifling— his reasoning faculties never were more sound, but his agitation cannot always be concealed—he fondly imagines that some of his friends will take care of his business at whatever loss, and restore him to his family if ever he should recover. The nobleman rings his bell, the footman summons the medical or legal adviser, these gentlemen's religion is to serve themselves and their emplLoyer; they ascertain his wish, and give it as their opinion ; he gives their opinion as his authority—p er hunceirculum eurritur ; the victim has a gag, the executioner has a mask. It is probable that George 111. was never insane. In his private letters to Mr. Pitt he mentions having broken the key of a red box, perhaps from want of selt-command, and the importance he attributes to this accident, with reference to his own state of mind, may show that he was misled. Lord Eldon "refused to sanction measures which might induce the malady they assumed." Compare this with Lord Eldon say. ing, " I never could imagine why George IV took such a fancy to me." The King could not silence the Chancellor. Compare this also with the treat ment of Queen Caroline. Also, if there were any irregularities in that family, the scrupulous conscience of George 111. might expose him to the sting of rep • tiles who had only the power—of betraying. So that no rank of life is safe from nervous doctors, unless the unshackled portion of the press is determined to overawe them. I am, Sir, &e. AMERICAN NEWS. Intelligence has been received of the arrival of the packet-ship Zurich, Captain Thompson, at Havre, on Tuesday, the 4th inst., at noon, bringing files of New York papers to the 19th of December—three days later than the advices by the Liverpool steamer. The political and commercial advices are not of great interest. The money and produce markets were dull. LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP AVENGER. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packet Pacha, Captain Olive, has arrived from Malta and Gibraltar, bringing the melancholy intelligence of the total loss of her Majesty's steam frigate Avenger. The Avenger was on her passage from Gibraltar to Malta, and on the 20th of December struck on the Sorelli Rocks, thirteen miles south-west of the Island of Eoleba. The Pacha, on her voyage from Malta to Gibraltar, was met by a French war steamer coming out of the bay of Tunis, the captain of which gave information of the wreck, and offered to proceed with the Pacha to the disaster. On the arrival of the two steamers at the Sorelli Rocks, on the 26th, the reef was found covered with fragments of the wreck, but no vestiges of boats or the crew were discernible. The crew of the Avenger, consisting of 270 persons, including officers and supernumeraries, are supposed to have perished, with the exception of five seamen and three officers, one the surgeon, who had reached the African coast in one of the Avenger's boats. The Avenger is a steamer of the first clam of 1,444 tons and 650 horse-power. She was built by Sir W. Symons, at Devonport, in 1845, and was put into commission for the Mediterranean station on the 20th of last November. We subjoin a list of her officers :—Captain C. E. Napier (son of the Admiral) ; Lieutenants Hugh M. Kinsman, Frederick Marryat (son of Captain Marryat), Francis Rooke ; Master William Archer; Second-Lieutenant of Marine Artillery IL S. Baynes; Surgeon James H. Steele; Paymaster and Purser Valentine A. Haile ; Assistant-Surgeon Ber nard Delany; Second Master William Betts; Clerk Henry J. S. Walker. The Jupiter is expected here every hour from Gibraltar, and she may, perhaps, bring additional intelligence. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWZ". CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market has closed steadily. Sales 4,000 to 5,000 bales, of' which . 3,soo were American, at 41d. to 6d. per lb. Railway Shares were more active, espe cially Midland and Dover. The accounts received by the electric telegraph to day have not influenced in any way the Public Securi ties. Froth the colonies we have not had any arrivals. Among other interesting reviews of the state of corn mercial affairs during the year just concluded, we may notice the following paragraphs, as part of a statement by Messrs. Franks and Millard. They observe— " The commercial disasters have been even of greater magnitude than during the memorable years of 1825 and 1826. There is scarcely an article of the least import ance but which merchants have been selling at a severe loss; even manufacturers also have been compelled to press their goods upon the market under the cost of production, in consequence of the decreased demand, and the difficulty of obtatning money to enable them to carry on their business. " It is calculated that merchants will be sufferers upon the importation of goods and bread stuffs to the enormous amount of nearly eight millions sterling for the year. What a contrast this is with the previous onel It cannot be denied, however, that our system of cur rency tended to produce the unfavourable state of affairs, for there has this year been a vast increase in the arrivals of produce from all quarters of the world, whilst a great demand prevailed for cash to carry out railway schemes and other undertakings in the United Kingdom. Still our currency is placed under the same re strictions as when our imports were of less magnitude•than during 1847. There can be no doubt', however, that the numerous failures, combined with the low and unremu nerating prices, will operate against shipments of nearly all articles to this country in the ensuing season, and as we shall not want a supply of bread stuffs from abroad there will, in a few months, be a vast accumula tion of cash, and the rate of interest cannot fail to rule low, as the demand will be less than it has been this year. It is calculated by parties well versed in mo netary affairs that the rate of discount for first class bills will be under four per cent. That we are on the eve of a better order of things is quite apparent, as the time is not far distant when there will be a material increase in the demand for colonial produce, and some thing like remuneratung rates must prevail. For goods, the result of British industry, the time is fast approach ing when export orders will be large, and an advance will take place in the value. Thus will the mills that are standing idle be enabled to resume work, which, coupled with our excellent sanitary regulations, will be the means of providing employment for vast multi tudes; thus creating a large demand for goods and manufactured articles, and placing the country in s state of prosperity nearly equal to that of 1846." A very considerable amount of business has been transacted in the Public Securities this morning, as pri vate tralisfers are allowable, at the ordinary fee of per cent. until the books are regularly opened. Consols for the Account have advanced from 85i to 85k, Ex chequer-bills to 19s. premium, India Bonds to 10s. pre mium, Bank Stock to 189, and the New Three-and-a- Qulrter per Cents. to 861 is There has been a rather better demand for the Foreign Stocks to-day. The Portuguese • Four per Cents. ad vanced to 24k, the Spanish Five per Cents. to 201 the Three per Cents. to 294, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. to 54i and the Four per Cents to 85k. In but a very few instances have the Railway Shares improved to-day, as the official list will best show. BEITtSIi FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B5 %, 7 4, 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 85%;34 5 x d New 3% per Cent. Anas New 5 per Cent. Annuities lOB% x d Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 6 3/ ll-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 B% India Stock 227 x d Do. Bonds, 10001 .. 10 p Ditto under 1.0001 South Sea Stock 93 x d Consols for Account Exchequer Bil Ls. 3d. 1,0001. •.. 18 16 19 p 500/. Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, New, 1843 Equador Bonds Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 24% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Ditto Passive Bonds 4% % Ditto 3 per Cent 2 9 3 /4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 54 %% x d Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates RUMNESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. YAM. Pia Slums. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% —....— to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingham & Oxford June— 40 Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . Birntin , Wol & Stour Val. 10/.145.... , •P Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 7:Y a ...... to Boston, Stand., & Binning... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds ... 20 Buckinghamshire lOl. 45....2% dis. x int. to Caledonian Ditto, half Shares Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37% Ditto, Preference 8 - Clarence. _ Do., lit Clam, 6 per Cent... 10 • •.. to -- Do., 2d Class, - 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Got. Loan,l per Cent. 10 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... la ...... East Anglia, 251. L. & E., sad L. & D Ditto, 18/., E. .lk II Ditto, 31. 10s ,E. & 11... 2 R.astern Counties . .. 2O .... 15% to Ditto, ditto (1i) ... Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,61. 13s. 4d... Do., d 0....... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., York Exteusion Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter .... .. ..... . ..... 124..... Do., New East earl Union. Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto., Thirds ...135. 44.1 — Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 13 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 124 - Edinburgh and Glasgow Dittl Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares l2th. — Edinburgh and Northern ... 2`2 1 j 2 ...... Ditto, New....... ...... ...... 3:r 4 ...... to Ditto, New port.. ... ........ 9 1 / .1 — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New ... 2 1 4 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to Ditto, New Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. ... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12 1 % ... to Great Northern.... .......... 10 1 / 2 4 1 4 ex int. to Do. London & York Exten. 2 1 / 2 to Gt. South. & Wiest. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 230 Ditto, IN t. w 40/ 5 Ditto, New 30/ Ditto, New 151...... ... ...... 6%...... 22% . ... to -- Great Western Ditto, Half Shares ...... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 17/ Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. ... Dittc, Thirds 8 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .... ..... . Ditto; Quarter Shares 12►,% Ipswich - SL - Burr St. Edmunds 17g B' to Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2 1 ,4 l% ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do.,Tlairds Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths . Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6A.-- ...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s 5 dis.... to Do. Liverpool sad Bury... 34 Do. (Hudders. and Sheff.) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% — Do., West Riding Union ...41. 25..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ... ••••••(B) 1 1 / 1 Leeds and Bradford Leicester and Bedford Leeds Dewsbury, & Mulches. 37% — , Do.; Branch rh Shares 121,4 Nr Branch (bb 2t/ Ditto, New _ A (blue).. A Ditto, Extension (green)... 2 1 / 2 — Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2 1 ,E — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 36 Ditto, New ...... ... ...... .. 20 . Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... ...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and Sout U pon. ., . Liverpool. Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% to London 5 Illackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d — to Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 138. 1 4d.... . .... to Do. Extension ........ ....... 17 1 , 2 — ...... to Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ... Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... 46 1 / 2 t o _ .. . to Ditto, ditto 1 852 50 .. ... 200 London and Greenwich... 112/1 7 . 1 1 5s s . 2d... 4d... Ditto Preference London and North Western..loo 149% t o 149 Do. Quarter ... ..L. and B. 22 Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths ... 2 ..... 11% t, Do. Quarters Do. 401. Shares....A. & M. 15 to -- Do. 401. Skares...M. and B. 40 ...... OS - Do. 101.... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 / 2 . ....•• to Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% to ) Do. 101 . ... M. and B. ( (C., 1 — — ...... to London and S. Western.... 41.. 6s 8d 53 Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 501.......—. Ditto New 404 ..... 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds ... B/. 6s. ..... . to L,,ndon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 ,4 — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27 1 / e — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% w ganch, Buxton, & Matlock 3 .`•! anelir, 3hefliele, and Line.100 Ditto Shares (Nu. 1) 13 ...... to Ditto, ditto (No: 2) 2s_ ...... to -- Ditto, 1 Shares (1.0. 3)... 7% ...... to --- Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ... 4% — to Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%...... AI ancheiter and Southampton 21,4 — -- to NI ithami lOO llO 109% to 110% Ditto, Consul. Preferenee...1 00 ._. ....,,,, Ditto, 401. Shares Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 10 ... .. 8 'Midland. Birm., and Derby...l o o ... .. Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 ...... Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 36 Ditto ditto 11/. 38.6 d. .. Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.)..,,100 .... . Ntidld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and ChestertOrd 18 1 A — Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and lleret. 6 Norfolk ....... ..... ....... ..... 100 Ditto New 201. Ditto Extension Do.Serip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 :\ ewry, Warrenpoint, and Rost revor _4prtliern Counties Union .... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares. Do. Quarters 4 3 24 ..... to Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds North Staffordshire... .. ...... 71 ,4 7%%..• to North Wales 3 l/e ••••• • •... to North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% Royston and Hitchin ... l% — ...... to Scottish Central ... 20 Scottish Midland ..... ....... ... 17% — •••..• to Ditto, New lO .iheflield, Rotherham, and _ , . Goole Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cent. Prof 5 ...... ...... to Shrewsbury and Hereford Shropshire Union . South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O South Staffordshire South Eastern and Dover 33 1 ,/ e Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 Ditto, New, No. 3 15 Ditto New, No. 4. ... .. 71,i — South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole - 2 Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 (lames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l/ ^ to Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny l 3 l / x...... --to Waterford and Limerick 9O ... .. Waterford,Wexford, Wicklw, _ . and Dublin West Cornwall Whitehaven and Furness l2 ... Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick '25 . ... to Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. ... 30% to 31 Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... 31 Do. Exten. No. I (Y. & N.) 10 ~ 1 3 1 4 1,4... to Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 Do. G. N. E. Par. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 14,4...... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Dutch Rhenish 7 East Indian _ _ 1 1 4 Great Indian Peninsular - Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 - Louvain ala Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con- . stautcd) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 _. Over Tssel 4l3s 4d I'arix and Lyons Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen .. Fazis & Strasbourg ........... 8 liouvn and llavre Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ~. .. ...... .. 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Landon, ._ and Ilasselt West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North North American .... 50 Colonial. Commercial of London London Joint Stock London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of lingld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland ... 2 2 1 /.i — ••... to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2l¢ — Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo /lexicon .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 Australian Blaenarvon Iron amd Coal ... 50 Bolaros Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial 21 ...... Galvanized Iron Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . 1 3a to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.W., light breeze and fine cleur weather. DEAL, JAN. s.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W ~ strong.—Arrd. Smithalnaley, Jennings, China; Nautilus, Thomas, Cal- cutta; Elizabeth Hughes, Hallin, Berbice; Charles, ditto; Brohtes, Curtis, Matanzas, for Antwerp. Arrd from the river and sailed, Rio packet, Cape ; Coast Castle, Whampoa, Demerara. Put back, Himalaya, for Hobart Town; Tamar, ditto; Bolton, Adelaide, South Australia; Parsee, merchant, Ceylon; Primula, Cape of Good Hope; Maria, Callao; Sandwich, St. Lucia; Sir Charles Napier, New Orleans, and others. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. S.S.W. to W.N.W., squally.—Arrd. Johannes Hoge Rio Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Wind W.N.W.-4. Arrived Richard Cobden, Leadbetter, Bombay; Mary Campbell, Camaroons; Rima Mouney, Callao; Carens, Woodman, Barbadoes. 5. Celt, Wilson, Laguna; Kingston, ditto; Chspmans, Aitken Bahia; Greenock, M'Kay , St. Do mingo an d Bermuda; Selina, Hamilton, Berbice. Off port, Ann Best, CLYDE, JAN. 4.—Arrd. Leguan, Brown, Demerara; Hudson, Doan, New York. BELFAST, JAN. 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived Mary Hannah, Mailers, Porto Rico. SHIELDS, JAN. s.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Teddell, Richardson St. John's. HULL, JAN. s.—Wind S.S.W., fresh.-4. Arrived Achilles, Taylor, Quebec; Indus, Morris, ditto; Hype rion, Rich, ditto. 3. Sid. Conquest, St. John's. 4. Put back, Clyde, Halerow, for New Orleans, having been on shore near Yarmouth. PWLHELI, JAN. 4.—The Christian, Sterling, from Demerara to Liverpool, came on shore this morning near Port Gylan, six miles to the westward of Portynllen, a derelict, and will probably become a total wreck ; part of stores, and a few casks of rum landed. Her Majesty's steamer Avenger, from Gibraltar to Malta, was lost on the Sorelli Rocks, near the island of Eloeba, 20th ult. • crew supposed to have perished, with t he exception of five seamen and three officers. DEAL, JAN. s. —The Isabella (ship or barque), of Liverpool, was passed dismasted and waterlogged 26th ult., in lat. 46 N., long. 22 W., by the Broites, Curtis, in the Downs. _ _ LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—The Luizia, from Rio Grande, had put into Bahia previous to the 17th November, leaky ; had discharged, and was hove down. W EXFORD, JAN. 4.—The schooner Pilgrim, of Water ford, from Cardiff, came on shore at Bagan-qhr, near Fithard, yesterday morning. SHIELDS, JAN. 4.—Some more vessels have put back to-day, having struck on the bar, while proceeding to sea. sth, a sloop or schooner is sunk a few miles to the southward of this place. HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 4.—The Queen, which arrived here yesterday from Cronstadt, was in contact. Ist inst., oft Bridlington, with the Heart of Oak, Jones, Irons Cronstadt to Lynn, when the latter foundered; crew saved. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 4.--The Friends. Thompson, of and from Sunderland, which arrived here yesterday very leaky, has been put on t h e ground. HULL, JAN. s .—During last night and t o -d ay i t h as blown strong from the southward, the wind has suddenly got round to the north-west. ROYAL ARTILLERY AND ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The General Palmer, hired transport ship, embarked detachments of the Royal Artillery at the Royal Arsenal yesterday, for a passage to Malta and Corfu. Second Captain W. B. Gardner embarked at the same time to join Captain Shone's company, Bth battalion, at Malta ; and First Lieutenant II J. W. Jervis, to join Captain Stow's company, 6th battalion, at Corfu. The 3d company of Royal Sappers and Miners embarked in the same vessel for a passage to Corfu, under the command of Captain Ogle, and large detach- Lents also to ewe iu the companies at Gibraltar, 1 , 1 ARKET N'EWS.--: (THIS' DAY.) 7:3 El G T ar;D 1.2-411.DENHA.2.1.. We had a very steady demand here to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4,, 6d; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 5s 2d per 8,b4 ny the carcase. LATEST PARTICULARS. The only document relating to the loss of this ship that had reached the Admiralty up to one o'clock this day, is the following letter, addressed by Captain Du I'enhout, captain of the Lavoisier, French war, • steamer, stationed at Tunis, to the captain of the Pacha steamer, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company, and forwarded by that company to their Lordships : TRANSLATION. "At sea, in sight of Galiti, on board the steam corvette Lavoisier, stationed off Tunis, 11.30 A.m., Dec. 26, 1847. " Sir,—l begin by thanking you for accompanying me. We are now at the most two miles from the Rocks of Sorelli, according to observations and soundings. " The particulars given to me by the Vice- Consul of France at Goletta gave the place when the steam-frigate Avenger, Captain Napier, was lost on the 20th December, according to the declaration of an English officer, arrived at Tunis with four men, to the British Vice-Consul, there were six men (of whom two were officers) drowned in the boat, in which that officer came, in taking the shore. An English sailor told the French Vice- Consul that when the boat left the frigate the latter was dismasted of her lower masts and her boats broken, which induces the belief that this unfortunate accident is complete, the crew not having any means of escape. I think after our search you may continue your voyage. The Lavoisier shall pass by the north of Galiti, and I will not leave that island without the certainty of there not being any of the survivors there. " I beg that you will make use of these accounts by making them public.—l am, &c., (Signed) " DU PENHOUT, Captain of the Lavoisier steamer. " P.S.—lt;was by mistake that this letter did not reach you." We have great pleasure in announcing that Lord Auckland has, in the most flattering terms, offered the naval command of the North American and West Indian Stations to the Earl of Dundonald. The veteran Ad miral has accepted the command, and will thus, in the evening of his days, enjoy an honour, too long deferred, to which his unrivalled exploits have so justly entitled him.-7 Imes. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—MF. Arnott has been elected into the Court of Examiners in the room of the late Mr. Linton. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. GLASGOW, TUESDAY EVENING.—This afternoon Mr. Mure, of Caldwell, M.P., who recently succeeded, or rather supplanted Lord John Russell in the office of Lord Rector of the Univer sity of Glasgow, was installed into office. The formal part of the proceeding took place in the Senate-hall, where the new Lord Rector was clothed in the robes of office. He then proceeded to the Common-hall, accom panied by the Earl of Eglinton. Lord Robertson (one of the judges of the Court of Session), Sheriff Alison (the Historian of Europe), the Principal, and almost all the Professors. The hall was crowded by students, citizens, and many eminent strangers from a distance. The galleries were occupied by a gay assemblage of ladies. After prayer by Principal Macfarlan, the Lord Rector delivered his inauguration speech, and the pro ceedings concluded. A PLEASANT REMEDT.-A stiff tumbler of egg flip, as a eight-csp, is -said to be a cure for Wiens% MEAT MAILILETS. SOUTHALL, JAN. 6.—Prime Beasts and Sheep were in gond rvquest, at tull prices. Otherwise the demand was in a slo ; -gish tate. Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d; V..al, 4s 2d to 46 10d.; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d p r Sib to sink the offal. Bo:groan, JAN. 6 —We had a moderate trade here to-day, and prices were mostly supported. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 10; Mutton, 33 8d to 5► 2d; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per 81bs; Suckling Calves, 18s to 27s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 235; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 14/ to 161 each. HArtsztAsf, JAN. 6.—We had a fair sale for stock this morning, at full prices. Beef, from 4s to 4s 10d; Mutton, 4s to ss; Vesl, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, JAN. s. —Beef, from 3s 8d to 44 8d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s *1; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 10 , 1 per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a slow trade. CIIICNESTER, JAN. 6.—Beef, from 33 Sd to 4s 8d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s to 43 4d; and Pork, 4s 8d io 5s 4d; per 81bs. Quarter- old Store Pigs, 16s to 203 each. EAT blikit3LETS. SMITNFIELD.—MeadowII;IT, 2110st1 3/ 125 ; Clover, ditto, 31 lOs to 41 I3s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 11 lOs per load. Supply tolerably good, acid trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 8/ 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41125; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a moderate demand. WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2110 s to 3/ 12•; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 155 ; and Straw, 11 45 to 11 9s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Jan. 5, 1848, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eaglend and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATI. RYE. I DRAWS. I PEAS. PRICE .. 1 53 s 10d 315 8d 20s 7d 295 lld 385 10d 44510 d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) FORGERY.—SamueI Uriah Sloter, aged 38, de scribed in the calendar as a s h oe maker, but who, it appeared, had been a letter-carrier in the General Post-office, was indicted with feloniously forging an order for the payment of 551., with intent to defraud :Messrs. Alastermans, the bankers. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Wilde conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. Mr. BODKIN stated the case for the prosecution to the jury, from which it appeared that the prisoner had been in the General Post-office as a letter-carrier on the Kennington district. On the 23d of July last Messrs. Masterman received a letter, purporting to be signed by Helen Hedloe, requesting them to favour her by cashing a cheque, which was inclosed, for 551., and which purported to be drawn and signed by Mr. Robert James, a respectable solicitor in Ely-place. The letter requested that Messrs. Masterman would forward to the writer, at Spring Cottage, Kensington, one 401. • and three 51. notes. On the receipt of this letter Messrs. Masterman forwazded the halves of the notes, and on the 26th of July the receipt of them was acknow ledged, and requesting the other halves to be for warded, which was done. On the 28th of the same month a letter was sent to Mr. Marshall, the chief cashier of the Bank of England, purporting to come from a person named Wingrave, who resided at West minster, enelosing the notes, and requesting that gold might be given to the bearer of the letter for them. Mr. Marshall, after putting several questions to the • boy who brought the letter, desired him to go and tell the person who sent him to call himself, but neither the boy, nor the person who sent him, calling, the notes were detained by Mr. Mar shall. Upon subsequent inquiry it was found that there was no such place as Spring -cottage in Kensington, or any person of the name of Helen Hedloe living there, and that the cheque was a forgery. The prisoner Leing the postman of the Kensington district, suspicion fell upon him, it being the practice of the post-office when letters were ad dressed to Kensington, and the party to whom they were addressed being found not to reside there, to send those letters to the Kennington district. This suspicion was strengthened by the boy who had carried the bank-notes to Mr. Marshall, who, on see ing the prisoner at the post office instantly identified him as the person who desired him to take the notes to the Bank. The prisoner was then immedi ately taken into custody. It appeared also, the clerk of the Holborn union was in the habit of sending cheques for small sums to a Mr. Smith of Ancram, N. 8., for a female named Hedloe. Many letters marked N. B. were sent to North Brixton by the Post-office, and it was supposed that a letter written by Air. James, inclosing a cheque for Mrs. Hedloe for 3/. 155., had been sent to North Brixton instead of Ancram, North Britain; and, having been so, it would get into the hands of the prisoner, as th e letter carrier of the Kennington district, and thereby enable him to know that Mr. James banked at Musterman's, that he wrote cheques in favour of a female named Hedloe, and also enabled him to discover the manner in which Mr. James signed his cheques. Under these suspicious circumstances the present prosecution was instituted. A great number of witnesses were examined (among whom was Mr. Marshall, the chief cashier of the Bank of England) in support of the prosecution. The boy who took the notes to the Bank was also exa amined, and he again identified the prisoner, who sent him with the notes, and gave him 2s. for his trouble. Evidence was also given as to the belief of the witnesses that the letters which hail been written to Messrs, Masterman and the Bank of England were in the prisoner's handwriting, as was also the body of the cheque. BALLANTINE addressed the jury at some length on behalf of the prisoner. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. Mr. JUStiCe:PATTESON summed up. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of uttering the cheque, but not forging it. Sentence deferred. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) A FATHER AND DAUGHTER.—Frances Richer, a girl aged 15, was charged by her father, Daniel Richer, with stealing a number of blankets and sheets, two gowns, and four quilts, the value of all being estimated at 201. The father, "who seemed to feel acutely the painful position in which he was placed, stated that his daughter hafl pawned a considerable quantity of his property, and robbed him of money during the last eighteen months, and that he was totally ignorant of the way in which she expended the produce of her plunder. Before the time in question the girl con ducted herself in a becoming manner; since then she had behaved most improperly, and he feared she had made acquaintances who had induced her to plunder him. He allowed hei 55.. a week for tea and sugar, and bought all other necessaries himself. He gave her ls. or ls. 6d. a week for her own use, and what ever additional money she asked for she immediately obtained from him. The girl said her father gave the ss. to buy tea, - sugar, coals, and candles, and many other things, and the sum being insufficient, she pledged the ar ticles in question to obtain more. In reply to questions from the Recorder, the father stated that he had been a widower thirteen years ; that the gowns belonged to his sister, and that his daughter and he occupied but one room in a street running out of Holborn. He had forgiven her many robberies she had committed, but being unable to do anything with her, he had been compelled to bring her before the Court. He had never given her any permission to pawn the things. He believed that a woman in the same house, named Williams, had led her to commit these depredations. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. She said she was very sorry for what she had done. The persons in the house had told her that by doing what she had done she would not be doing wrong; and further, that she had always been accompanied to the pawnbroker's by the person mentioned. The RECORDER deferred passing sentence until the next session ; and directed, in the meantime, that her father should have free access to his daughter, in order that he might endeavout' to find out from her the parties who had induced her to commit the rob beries, for it could not be permitted that those par ties should go unpunished. WORSHIP -STREET.—(THIS DAY.) William Press, a decently looking mechanic, was charged as follows : Folice-constable 256 K deposed, that he was on duty at about seven o'clock last evening in plain clothes, in North-street, London-fields, Bethnal green, when he saw the prisoner passing through the fields, in a direction from the Eastern Counties Railway, with a number of boards upon his shoulder. The latter, however, perceiving that he was being watched, threw down the boards, and walked on. On witness coming up to him, the prisoner acknowledged having stolen the boards, and said, he "could not think what had induced him to do so, but he was going to make a pigsty." The prisoner, crying most bitterly, in which too he was joined by his wife with an infant in her arms, besought the Magistrate to have mercy on him for the sake of his wife and five children. The prosecutors did not appear to wish to press the charge, and the prisoner was ultimately fined 505., and it was in the course of an hour paid by his , em ployer, and he was liberated.