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The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COSLP.A.NY'S Steamship IBERIA, Captain C. F. BURNEY, will start from Southe on SATURDAY, January 15, at Two P.M., for the above Parts. This vessel has been fitted expressly for First•cla.ss Passengers and their ServMits. iooses'and Carriages taken on Deck. Private Cctiins can be secured by early application. Rates of passage and plans of the vessel may be obtained at the Company's Offices, No. 51, St. Mary Axe, London. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Un ler the ManagementTHISEVENING Will be performed the,Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. Farren; Charles Courtly, Mr. Howe; Mark Meddle, Mr. Rogers ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Tilbury ; Cool, Mr. Brindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Dazzle, Mr. Henry Farren ; Lady Gay Svatiker, Mrs. Nisb:At ; Grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. Humbv. To conclude with a New and Original Durlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the razeu Waters. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webiter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. • Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the dire,ction EV o :Ma ad Celeste. celeste. TIIIS NG Win be Presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters 0' Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Glennaire, Cullenford. and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Min Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be lotlow e d by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE GACY. Uremia Green. Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; L inty Scrimmage, ,Ir. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock, Mr. Cullenferd ; Policeman, 3,r. Landers ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married a nt POLICHINELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. I; u x,s, 45.; I'it, 25., Gallery, Is. Pners ( )perk at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yestris. Solo Lessee, Mr. EVE Charles Mathews. THIS NING ie 'presented new Comic Drama, entitled TIII3 TRA GEtiy Ah o r which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TUE GOLDEN To t oncludoq ith a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. liuckstone, Ulla Mrs. Mac. tusmara. Dreut Box,, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Fit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-pri!* to any part of the house. Thu aSew 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 Cclosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and MaL,iger, Duchess-street, Portland. place. Engagelnant of Mrs. Mow att and Mr. Davenport, from America. Tills EVENLY° Will be presented Sheridan Knowles Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. Cooper; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. Davenport ; Lord Tinsell, Mr. J. Vining ; Julia, Mrs. Mowatt ; Helen, Miss E. Montague. conekde with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER. TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four seasons. Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—KICTIGONE. 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 oi the illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will be produced at ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, THIS EVENING, Distribution of the Choracters.—Creon, - M. Bocage, as originally l'y him at the Theatre tie l'Odeon, Paris, and by whom the se en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; Benton, M. ; Tiresias, M. Lemonier ; Le Garde, M. St. Marie ; Le Coryphee, 1. Henri Alia ; Antigone, Mtne. itabut Fechter (her Brat appear ,nce this season) ; Ismene,'Mulle. Baptiste ; Eurydice, Mdlle. Berthc, - . - - Director of the Music.. • • .. M. Jules Benedict. For the efficient perf.mnance 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, Goffrie, and Morris. iecond Violins —Messrs. Ella, Payton, Zerbini, Newshain, jun., Elsinore, and Watson. Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and It. Blagrove. Violencellos —Messrs. Lucas, Filet, L. Phillips, and Guest. Double Basses—Messrs. Rowell, Campanile, Severn. and Griffiths. Flutes—Messrs. Itibas and King. Oboes—Messrs. G. Cooke and Nicholson. Clarionettes —Messrs. Boose and Maycock. Corni—Messrs. Charles Harper and Cailcott. Bassoons—Messrs. Larkin and Winterbottom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas Harper arid Handley. Trombones--Messrs. smithies, Ilea'ey, and Winterbot torn. Drums—Mr. Chipp• harp—Mr. T. WOOL Conductor — Mr. Benedict. N.B. A numerous and cowerful chorus has alsobeen engaged under the superintendence of Mr (]rice 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 bad at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. usdee. Yr,. F. Davidge, No. 1, I.w/14e-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence witk the ilenrated Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnhelm, Mr. Stretton ; Devilshoof, Mr. H. Horncastle ; Arline, Miss Raintorth. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled EATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and gall. A ylistiact entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had sightly of all the grincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-etll;* of the Theatre, whici► is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed TUE LIGIITERM - AN of BANKSIDE ; or, the Orphan of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson, - flicks, Searle, Somali, lliggie ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Leo, and Miss Burrougheliffe. Atter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled THE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupino ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, 3ldlle. Lai 1111. To conclude with HOUNSLOW HEATH. Boxes, ►s. ; Pit, 6th ; Gallery, 4d. No llalf-pricy to any part of the house. _ _ . Doors open at Six, to commence at llalf-past Six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, i roprietur and Manager, Mr. William Batty Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING, The Grand 4ectacle of CAMP OF SILESIA. Entire.v new Seems in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the L.sfahlishment. in 1.1. c various modes of equestration. To conbluda with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled , HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYN TA X AND HIS DAPPER GREY _MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Denlin, Wile. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect all Wmer productions at th e Amphitheatre. Box - Once open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. WEATHER.—SoN OFFICE. JAM. 5 THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 44 ; Noon, 42. • BAROMETER, 29 67 . -- Vi r m)S.S.E.; rain. N Ai pi , AT L o NIION - Itklli44i, f kith LAI 34,rning.. B minutes after 1. I Evening 29 minutes ifte , 1 1111 14 Itatte n'4o" ,LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1848 Nothing could be more powerful as a rejoinder, m ore bitter as an annotation, or more earnest as a remonstrance, than the communication addressed to the Catholic Archbishop of TUAM by the Earl of Suurwsnutty. The correspOndence is published in another column, and we aro' satisfied there is not a single one of the co - religionists of the Earl, be he a member of the laity or he he a member of the priest 'hood, but must have his opinion of the distinguished writer very materially elevated from the generous in iiviation expressed by 'him against whomsoever shall rofe've the majesty of religion by palliating the vas of the crhnir;al assassin, or by becoming e apologist of th,e still more criminal, be sae more_rm,Tasible, denunciators. Hitherto re ht`.; oeen manifest, both in the speech of Lord ii . MONT and in the letter of the Earl of ARUNDEL SURREY, that reverential submission to their ciastical superior which is in an especial manner laracteristic of the Roman Catholic Church. BEAUMONT spoke strongly and decisively. Lord ')EL and SURREY wrote in the most energetic ,r) impassioned language. Both of these young .en conjured the episcopal authorities of 1 ,0 vindicate the outraged purity of the re -4 to proclaim the inviolable sanctity of its by demonstrating either the cul pability or the innocence of the parties accused, and, in the event of their being proven guilty of the frightful crime imputed to them, to ♦isit upon , their heads the severest punishment which can be in flicted upon an unworthy minister by the most solemn tribunals of the hierarchy. At the same time that this course was recommended with all the forcefulness of natural eloquence, and with all the fervour of men inspired to adjuration by the stress of their most cherished sensibilities, it was indicated with a degree of respectful timidity, such as must have won the admi ration of a prelate possessed of the most ordinary share of amenity. What influence these entreaties had over the imagination of Archbishop WHALE, how far they affected the previous decisions of his judgment, or induced him to reconsider the merits of the mournful and extraordinary occurrences which have rendered so many parts of Roscommon both noto rious and despicable, is already known to the com munity. The public are as familiar with the churlish sophistries of Dr. WHALE, as they are with the fiery apostrophes of Dr. PIIILLPOTTS. Docu ments as unsatisfactory have emanated from Tuam as ever came from the episcopal residence at Exe ter. The apologist of Father MDERMOTT and the assailant of Dr. HaairDEN have alike rendered themselves liable to the tuisappreht nsion—to say the least of it—of all rational observers. Whether the theme is the Bishop Elect of Hereford, or the Parish Priest of Strokestown, the result is as unsatisfactory, the lucubration is as reprehensible in temper, and the statements are as distorted with sophistry. Aft9r the very explicit letter of the Earl of SHREWSBURY, there is nothing, however, that need be remarked in condemnation of the line of argument adopted by the Catholic Archbishop of TuAm. That letter is so explicit in point of fact, so direct and un mistakeable in point of remonstrance, and so unutter ably serious in point of religious allusion, that it renders every further observation super fluous. The solicitude for an investigation is no longer expressed as an entreaty : it has expanded into a demand ; and it is well that such emphatic representations should have been received by Dr. M'HALE from one of the most eminent and devoted of the Catholic laymen of England, instead of from any one of a different faith, whose sincerity might be dubitable, and whose motives might be misunderstood. Lord SHREWSBURY appears to have rendered an ecclesiastical inquiry into the conduct of Father M'DERMOIT absolutely necessary. There can not, to our thinking, be any further postponement of his trial, much less any positive blinking of his enormities, of er the manner in which he has been mentioned by the Noble Correspondent of the Bishop of ELPHIN. " Not only," says the Earl of SHREWS BURY, "not only are we now compelled to believe in the allegations against Father M'DERMOTT, but by his de nial of the 7th instant (December) he adds, the sin of tergiversation to his other delinquencies. Nor," he continues, " can any reasonable man be expected to credit even the most solemn assertions of Father M'DERMOTT as a Christian minister, after the truly un- Christian manner in which—and we have it in his own hand—he behaved to the late Major Maxon." Surely, if the parish priest of StrokestoNsn do not, after this, himself demand an ecclesiastical inquiry into his conduct, with a view to his immediate excul pation, his very quiescence under these damning assertions will be a sufficient evidence of his culpa bility ; and if, on the other hand, Dr. M'HALE take no decisive step towards the punishment of those among his inferior clergy who have rendered themselves amenable to the wrath of their fellow-countrymen, by uttering language unbe fitting their profession as ministers of a religion of charity and worshippers of the GOD of Peace, he will thereby impart a peculiar colouring to the asser tions of the Earl of SHREWSBURY. The next " move" must come either from St. Jarlath's or from Strokes town. For the sake of decency, for the sake of honesty, for the sake of religion, it ought to be the adoption of a manly course, and not the continuance of a contemptible system of prevarication. A great deal of unmerited vituperation has been poured forth on the devoted head of MR. SEYMOUR by some of our Contemporaries. The greatest indig nation has been expressed, not merely for what he has done, but for attempting to defend himself from the erroneous imputations that had gained publicity, and also for having stated his views and opinions with respect to whiit might have been his duty as a barrister, had the statements as to his conduct been really well founded. It might have been sufficient for Mr. SEYMOUR, in his letter, to have shown that in his case the vexota quastio as to the extent of a barister's privileges did net arise ; that at the time of the trial he not only was not satisfied as to the innocence of M'Cane, but that he had every reason to believe that he was a particeps crirninis, and guilty of having aided and abetted REID in the perpetration of the fearful crime ; but we cannot cen sure him for having spoken (although unnecessarily) in defence of the privileges of his profession when they were assailed in his own person, for having fol lowed the example of one who, when at the bar, was regarded as one of its most distinguished members ; who subsequently attained the most exalted station to which a subject could aspire, the highest aim and object of professional ambition ; who has introduced the most valuable improvements in the law, and as sumed the foremost position amongst legal reformers. It is scarcely necessary to say that we allude to Lord BROUGHAM, who stated to the effect (we have not his exact words before us, and can, therefore, only give their purport) " that if the destruction of the world followed from a barrister's defence of his client, he should disregard the consequences—that he might even utter high treason in such a cause." The published letter of \lr. SEYMOUR should alone have been received as sufficient evidence of the truth of the assertions therein contained. He stated that " REID'S replies tended very much to inculpate him self, but did not at all exculpate M'CABE ;" and he further added, "that they were so contradictory in themselves, and so strongly opposed to the evidence for the prosecution, that I did not believe them, and in no single point did I vary the line of defence I had already resolved to follow." That this belief in M'CABE's guilt was fully warranted, we proved on Saturday last, not merely from Mr. Seirmoures letter, but by deductions drawn from a strict exami• nation and an attentive consideration of the evidence which had been adduced on both trials, and yet the attacks on that gentleman have been repeated with in creased virulence. One of our Contemporaries has even gone the length of saying, " that he would have richly deserved to swing from the same gallows." This to a member of a liberal profession, for doing what he believed to be his duty, whether he was right or wrong in his judgment! I ! While another more moderate, " would have preferred to have attributed his conduct—(what conduct? that of which he was not guilty)—to an error of judgment, which it would have been generous to have overlooked in reliance upon those best teachers, age and experience, but for two circumstances. First, the singular coincidence that Mr. SEYMOUR, like Mr. C. PHILLIPS, whose example he has followed, is an Irishman; and, secondly, that he has not confessed the error—(what should he have confessed?)—but deliberately j ustifies the proceeding ; " adding, " It is important to the English bar that it should be asserted that the principles enunciated by Mr. SeTmourt are, as it would appear, importations from the other side of the Channel, and are not born and bred and domiciled on our own soil." That Mr. SEYMOUR is an Irishman is certainly a ground of accusation that (although as old as the days of Swrrr) we were hardly prepared to see resorted to and gravely put forward at the present day. It is either ' levelled at the Iris h bar or the Irish nation. It i s eminent Engli s h authority, scarcely necessary that we sho uld enter int o the it. . lArinsh bar, from t a he censure e ca t t h i t o i n s cast of u upon who has filled the highest judicial st a ti on in that country (Sir EDWARD SUGDEN), has recorded his deliberate opinions of the character and attain ments of the Irish bar, when he stated that they might challenge a comparison with any bar or any body of persons in the world. Neither need we recal the long list of illustrious Irishmen who have rendered the most valuable services, and performed the most brilliant achievements. The name of the Duke of WELLINGTON has not as yet been so far for gotten that an Irishman should blush for his country, or be considered as of an inferior race. If the principles enunciated by Mr. SEYMOUR are really importations from the other side of the Channel, and not born, bred, or domiciled on the English soil,, it is not A little surprising that no members of the English bar should have come forward, as such, to repudiate the erroneous doctrines, and to free their profession from the stigma cast upon it. If many of the body felt that Mr. SEYMOUR had stated that which was cal culated to bring his profession into disrepute, many indignant disclaimers would have long since appeared. The Bench and Bar would have vied with each other in declaring his error, and we are justified in presuming from that silence that no such , feelings exist. The Bar have considered the subject , deeply; and they are well aware how very dan gerous it would be to depart in the slightest degree from the broad principle " that the paramount duty of a counsel is to defend his client by the best means in his power from the evidence adduced at the trial," and that if once the belief, or even the certainty, of his guilt is suffered to make any, the slightest alteration in the nature of the defence to be offered, it would be impossible to calculate the amount of mischief that might ensue. This principle is wholly founded on considerations of public policy. The moment a line of demarcation is drawn, that it is said " thus far shalt thou go, and no farther," the en tire of the relations between counsel and client will be disturbed. Whatever is uttered by the former will carry with it greater weight, and inflict a more serious injury on the person whom he may deem it his duty to censure. There would be a total cessa tion of the confidence between the parties that is so desirable. It would be the interest of the client to deceive his advocate, to blindfold him as to the real facts. If he were to act merely on belief, without hav ing the certainty which a candid confession might give, the first privilege of a freeborn citizen that he should be deemed innocent until proved guilty, would be taken away. His advocate, the very man whom he selected to defend him, would be the man to seal his condemnation in consequence of supposing him to be guilty. There are two rules, therefore, which we believe are fully recognised amongst barristers. First, that a practising barrister is not at liberty to withhold his professional assist ance from any person requiring it who complies with the established regulations of the profession, and, secondly, that, having given his services, he must not permit any consideration whatever, public or private, prevent him from doing all in his power for his client's benefit, or to procure his acquittal, if charged with a criminal offence. Many would doubtless desire to escape the weighty responsibility that would be cast upon them when the life of a fellow-creature is at stake, and for which, and for the deep anxiety under which they must suffer, the fee is but a very inadequate remuneration ; but they cannot do so. They must take every case that offers— the bad with the good —and that necessity being recognised, the other will follow as a matter of course ; they must act for their client to the best of their abilities. We may perhaps on a future occasion point out some of the consequences that would result from the introduction of any other principle. A letter from Berne of the 31st ult. says—" In place of a new collective note, which the Conservative journals have been of late threatening us with, a very unexpected communication has arrived from the Vatican. The Holy Father, who only replied in general terms to the demand made by the Catholics of the Grisons, for the recal of the Jesuits, appears to have taken fire when the victory of the Federal troops showed the impossibility of tolerating any longer that mischief-making order, on a territory where its trans plantation has caused torrents of blood to flow. Plus IX. has, in consequence, addressed to the Diet a note which will not be rendered public until that body shall meet again, but of which, it is said, the following is the substance :—‘ The Pontifical Court complains of the sacrilegious acts, which it pretends were committed in the Federal expedition, and of the dismissal of several religious orders, the existence of which in Switzerland was, it says, guaranteed by the com pact.' From the steps thus taken by the POPE it may be inferred that the Court of Rome has re ceived its information from exceedingly suspicious sources. The same sentiments which, in the regions of the Vatican, has caused the demonstrations before the residence of the Swiss Consul by the Roman population to be disapproved of, has certainlilieen the mainspring of the representations which have just been addressed to the Diet." The people of Rome are expecting daily the mote proprio concerning the new organization of the Council of Ministers, and already the principal pro visions of this new organic law have transpired. It appears to be certain that, with the exception of the Secretaryships of State for ecclesiastical and foreign affairs, all the Ministerial departments will in future be accessible to laymen as well as to the members of the clergy. A proposal for a loan has been sub mitted to the finance section of the Council of State. M. CORBOLI Bussr, the Holy Father's Plenipotentiary in all the affairs of the Italian Customs Union, has been commissioned by his HOLINESS to proceed to Naples, and negotiate for the accession of the king dom of the Two Sicilies to that league. The Alba of Florence mentions a report that the Duke of PARMA has expressed an intention to grant every reform which wonld be for the welfare of his subjects. We read in the Patria of Florence, of the 28th ult. : " The arrival of Austrian troops at Parma cannot inspire the least uneasiness, and we are happy to an nounce this to our readers. The Tuscan Govern ment has received official information that a detach ment of llungarian cavalry has gone to Parma, solely for the purrse of escorting the body of the Arch duchess Maria Louisa to Vienna. The Imperial troops, which have entered the Duchy of Modena, did so at the request of the Duke himself, in conse quence of some disturbances at Modena and Reggio. The Tuscan Government knows also that the Go vernment of Austria has declared anew that it will never intervene in a military way in any state of Italy, unless its aid be required by the legitimate sovereign." Madrid journals of the 30th ult have arrived. The Gaveta publishes an ordinance extending the Act of Amnesty to all such as had been condemned under military jurisdiction, and who were held worthy of this act of grace. The Budget of 1848 had been settled at 1,283,631,396 reals. The Royal Commis sioner of the Bank, Senor HOMPANERA, had accord ing to the Clamor Publico, resigned, because he had failed in an effort to limit the expenses of the esta blibhment to 1,300,000 reals. The Eco del Comercio says that a credit of 40,000 dollars had been opened to General Ros DE OLANO, the new Captain-General of the Spanish possessions in Africa. General RONCALI, Count de Alcoy, had left Madrid for Cuba. General CORDOVA having been nominated director of infantry, in the place of General FIGUERAS, had taken possession of his post. Senor ISTURITZ had arrived in Madrid, and had tendered to the QUEEN his resignation of the office of Ambassador to London, but his resignation had not been accepted. MADRID BOLSA, Dec. 30.—The Three per Cents. 281 c. ; Fire per Cents., 151, paper; Coupon; 104, cash. Exchange on London, 48f. 30c. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. They all of them comment on the surrender of Aun-EL-liAnEa, and some of them have actually the unprincipled hardihood to recommend that faith should not be kept with him—that the terms upon which he surrendered should be ♦iolated—that the solemn word of the son of the French KING, of the , Due D'AumALr, Governor-General of Algeria, pledged to ADD-EL-FADER, should be broken. In his dispatch to the Due D'AUMALE, General LAMORICIERE says —" I have been obliged to enter into engagements. I have en tered into them, and I have a firm hope that your Royal Highness and the Government will ratify them if the Emig trusts himself to my pro mises." In the same dispatch General LAMORICIERE says, " It will be sufficient for me to state that I have only promised and stipulated that the EMIR and his family shall be all transported to Alexandria or to St. Jean d'Acre. These are the only two places which I have named. They were those which he mentioned in the proposals, which I accepted." The Due D'ADMALE, in his dispatch, says, " The EMIR demands to be conducted to Alexandria or to St. Jean d'Acre." The convention, which was im mediately agreed to verbally, was soon after ratified in writing by General LAMORICIERE and towards the conclusion °lbis dispatch he says,-- " An hour afterwards ADD-EL-KADER was iroug to me at Nemours, where I had only arrived that morning. I ratified the promise given by General DE LAMORICIERE, and 1 have the firm hope that the Go vernment of the KING will give its sanction to it." And yet, notwithstanding all these solemn promises, it is now seriously proposed to break faith with the captive EMIR. In the discussion on the Address in the Bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, M. LEON FAUCHER asked M. GUIZOT if the Government pro posed to abide by the terms of the capitulation published in the Illoniteur as having been entered into between AnD-EL-FADER and General DE LAM°. RICIERE, and ratified by the Duc D'AUMALE ? and M. GUIZOT answered in these words :—" The insertion in the 41Ioniteur of the dispatch of his Royal Highness the Duc D'AUMALE does not implyany approbation of the arrangement concluded with ABD-EL-KADER. What would the Honourable Deputy have said if we had garbled the dispatch before publishing it ? He would no doubt have complained that the documents had been incompletely published. We were desirous of laying before the public textually the dispatches relating to this great event. As to the question itself, I reserve my opinion. The Government has not yet decided what course it shall adopt." If anything were wanting to prove the utter ab sence of every honourable principle from the mind of M. GulzoT, this reply would furnish ample proof of the dishonesty of the man's nature. How could any honourable man feel it possible to hesitate in such a case ? how could any honest Government deliberate fora moment as to what course to adopt? The word of a Prince of the Blood Royal of France has been pledged to AUD•EL•KADER, and if that word is not kept, the only course open to the Duc D'AumaLE, as a man of honour, is bound to resign not only his Governor-Generalship of Algiers, but his commission as Lieutenant-General and all his other public employments, and refuse resolutely to serve under any Government of which M. GUIZOT is a Member. M. GUJSOT has already grossly insulted his Royal Highness by his speech of Monday. The Government has presented three Bills to the Chambers,-Ist, the budget of receipts and expendi tures for 1849 ; 2d, a project of law, proposing a re duction in the tax on salt from the Ist January, 1850 ; 3d, another reducing the postage of letters to two, three, four and five decimes, according to the distances, also on the Ist of January, 1850 ; 4th, a fourth relative to the supplementary and extraordi nary credits for 1847 and 1848 ; and, finally, a fifth, annulling, on the grand book of the public debt, a sum of 15,000,000 f. in Four per Cent Stock, in con sequence of the consolidation of a similar sum belong ing to the Sinking Fund. The Constilutionnel gives the following analysis of the Budget : " Notwithstanding what has been asserted by the Minister of Finance in his Budget, it is an incon testable fact, that since 1845, notwithstanding we are in a state of peace, the deficits have increased in an incomprehensible manner. The Minister of Finance announces in a triumphant manner that the deficit of 1846, which had been estimated at fifty-eight millions, will not exceed forty-five millions, but this diminu tion is nothing more than an aggravation of those of 1847 and 1848. If M. Duman, by using his in genious calculation, has found a means to reduce the deficit of 1846, he has not tl.;• same result to offer for that of 1847. We are but just entering on 1848, and we see the deficit increasing. The Minister holds out a hope of improvement, but it is impossible to take such assertion in a serious light in the face of figures which prove the contrary. How is it possible to believe in a promise of equilibrium in 1849, with an excess of a million, when we see former Budgets which have been presented with excesses of three, four, and six, millions, end by deficits of 45, 148, and 48 millions. The scene in the Bureaux of the Chamber of De puties, preparatory to the nomination of the Commit tee to draw up the Address, was very animated. In addition to the subject of AUD-EL-KADER, M. GUIZOT was questioned as to Swiss affairs. He admitted the right of the cantons to alter the federal pact, thus virtually renouncing intervention, but avowed his belief in the justice of the cause of the Sonderbund, and gave that as a reason for aiding the Sonderbund cantons by forwarding them arms. He was also obliged to apologise for the manner in which the reform banquets had been alluded to in the royal Speech. M. DE GIVxE having drawn his attention to the phrase passions ennenties, which he had put into the mouth of LOUIS PHILIPPE, and which bore a marvellous re semblance to the passions coupables which the Prince DE POLIGNAC had put into the mouth of CH ARLES X., M. GUIZOT explained that he had never intended to apply that phrase to any Member of the Chamber, and it was only levelled at the enemies of the constitutional monarchy. The following Members, all of whom are Minis terialists, were appointed a Committee to draw up the Address:—Messrs. DE BUSSIERES, MURET DE BORD, PLOUGOULM, VITET, COUSTROU, SAGLIO; D'ANGE. VILLE, DE HAUSSONVILLE, and DE HAUIIERSAERT. The opposition to the Address in the Chamber will Ise led by M. TRIERS. The Committee on the Address in the Chamber of Peers has appointed the Baron DE BARANT➢ as its reporter. On the subject of the Bills for regulating the salt duties and the postage, the ConstitutionNel says— " We shall have more than one occasion to give our opinion on the Bills relating to the salt duties and postage. The monopoly of salt is to be re-established, and a whole class of traders are to be suppressed, in order to have a new series of functionaries substituted for them. In the Postage Bill the'system of zones is still preferred to a uniform charge. The Conserva tives themselves appeared dissatisfied with this double mystification, against which the Deputies who have attached their names to the propositions aiming at the reduction of these two charges in particular raise their voices." The Commerce, alluding to the proposed change in the postage system, says-- " We shall just say one word relative to the plan of postal reform proposed by the Minister of Finance. A postage based on distance is arbitrary and uncon stitutional. A reform ought to have two objects —to lighten the charges of those who at present avail themselves of the medium of the Post-office, and cause a greater number of citizens, by the redu c ti on of the posta g e, t o en j oy the benefit of written com munications, and at the same time to augment the circulation in such a way, as, by the development of the receipts, to fully make up for the deficit in the Treasury. The Bill, no doubt, attains the first ob. ject ; a single letter to Marseilles, for instance, will pay fifty centimes in place of a franc; but the second object is not fulfilled, and we are convinced that the reduction is not large enough to produce the admi rabla results obtained in England by the uniform tax. A letter received from a distance of 200 leagues will be still an object of expense to the poor man—an object above his means, and the deficit which the Treasury will experience in its receipts by the dimi• nution of the charge will not, we fear, be sufficiently made up by the amount of the new circulation, too feebly excited. Such is our first impression." The Union 211onarchigue says " We learn that a challenge was yesterday addressed by M. DE MORNY, Deputy, to M. DE GIRARDIN, on account of an article published by the Presse, in which an article by M. DE MoRNT, inserted in the last number of the Revue des Deux-ilfondes, was discussed with some vivacity. The seconds of M. DE MoaNY are, it is said, Marshal BUGEAUD and the Marquis DE L AVE.. LETTE. On his side, M. DE GIRARDIN has chosen the Duke DE REGGIO and M. DE MALLEVILLB. It was hoped that these four witnesses, who belong to the Chamber, would find means in the course of the evening to arrange this affair." We read in the Presse—" It has been announced in the diplomatic world that the Marquis DE DAL !KATIE was about to be removed from the embassy of Berlin to that of St. Petersburgh, and that M. DE KISSELEFF, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris, was to be invested with the character of Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of France. But it seems that this project has failed, from incidents to which the influences of a certain saloon in the Rue St. Florentin were not strangers." Count COLLOREDO and General RADOWITZ have had a conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the affairs of Switzerland. PARIS BOURSE, JAN. 4. The market has been calm to-day, the quotations at the close being within a shade of those of yesterday, Threes leaving off at 75f. 30c.; Fives, at 117 f. 40c.; and New Loan at 761. 15c. for the end of the month. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents. for cash, 75f. 20c., for account, 751. 30c. ; Five per Cents. for cash, 1171., for account, 117 f. 40c.; Bank of France shares, 3,225 ; Neapolitan, 102 ; Spanish, not quoted. 4AILWAT6.—The Share Afarket has been somewhat . , 1.. Z.; .. ._ • ~,, % ,k 4l ._ .. • . 5. ,, "71<-. , v- -,.' f _ . , ,. 4 c f .. ii,*. _ -..; ,' , C2r;a,„ : t.. , - 4 - 4 r - v to , " ',..,',„0-a , , &oil , . ~,, -.- ~,, ....., •-; , _... -" ' ~ • ' '''''-',.. ..., EIVNEgX)A EVglctlfr“il sTANUAITY_ IPA firmer, and closed generally at improved quotations. For cash, Paris and Orleans last called at 1,218 f. 75c.; Paris and Rouen, 907 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 513 f. 75c.; Vierzon, 545 f. ; Strasburgh and Bale, 160 f.; Nantes, 395 f. ; Northern, 551 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburgh, 415.; Paris and Lyons, 402 f. 50c BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LON DON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 4. Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5% — Paris and Strasbourg, 4 1 ,—Sambre and Meuse, 7. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUAI?TER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Sales 3,000 bales, of which 2,500 were American, at 4+d. to 6d. per lb. Railway Shares have been rather firmer, but with very little doing. In accounts received from Newfoundland, painful in telligence is given of the destitution prevailing among many of the inhabitants of the colony. From Placentia Bay, St. Mary's Bay, Ferryland district, Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, and Bonavista Bay, appeals poured in fur aid from the Government, which the crippled re sources of the country would not allow of immediate attention. The Home Government have been at last appealed to. At St. John's, New Brunswick, it is stated that upwards of seventy persons had arrived, throwing themselves upon the bounty of the finances there for shelter during the winter, but it had been re solved to send them back again with such temporary assistance as the Governor had at his disposal. The winter had fairly set in at Newfoundland, at New Brunswick, Miramichi, and places in that direction. The interesting case of " Geach v. Ingall," has led to the publication of suggestions for placing life assurance upon a more satisfactory footing. It is contended by some that a policy once granted by an office should, on public grounds, remain unimpeachable ; or that at least it should be impeached within a year or two, the party insuring being necessarily much weaker than a powerful office. We know that many offices are extremely liberal, but in matters of such importance it is not op tional concession, but defined justice that is needed. The parties aggrieved complain that in the case of " G each v. Ingall"— " The opinions of the directors of the Imperial Life Office are unshaken by the verdicts of three different special juries, and that the highest and most solemn justification of the conduct of Mr. Scott, the most com plete proofs of his integrity which the law of the land affords, does not prevent them from still fixing upon his memory the charge of fraudulent misrepresentation and wilful concealment," after having been told by three juries that these accusations are false. In the spirit displayed by the Imperial Office throughout this litigation, the solicitor for the office appeared before Master Walter, the taxing officer, on the 24th of November last, and used his best efforts to reduce the amount at which the costs should be taxed ; the result is, that the attorney's bills against the pur chaser of the pokey amount to considerably moro than 2,000/., of which the office has only to pay 646/. " The history of this case involves many very important considerations to the public with reference to the present system of life insurance, and illustrates the following other positions : " That no amount of candour on the part of the assured, or of investigation or precaution on the part of the office before grantitrz a policy, will preclude it from disputing the payment after death. " That an office is at liberty to receive premiums, grant bonuses in respect of a policy, offer to purchase it, end in every other respect treat it for years as a valid policy, and afterwards dispute its validity." There are not any late Colonial advices announced in the City this morning. The news from Paris, by the electric telegraph, caused no variation in the value of the Funds this morning. It is believed that the larger pro portion of the bills which became due yesterday were very well met indeed. Such, at least, is the statement in the City this morning. No more failures have been talked of, though there are fears that some, and not a few, connected with two important trades, are in a weak state. The Consol Market has been very steady this morn. ing, at from 8 Q. For the February Account there has been some dealings at from gto per cent. con tinuation. Exchequer-bills have reached 17s. premium, and East India Bonds are at Bs. premium. Bank Stock is heavy at 187. I❑ the Spanish Five per Cent. Bond Market there has been a rally to 2 o*, and in the Three per Cents to 29k. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 54k, the dividend deducted. For the Mexican Bonds the prices have receded from 18 to 17i for the accounts. Brazilian Five per Cents. have been sold at 80. In the Railway Share Market this morning business has been somewhat confined. The prices have changed but in a trifling degree. At the meeting of the South Sea House proprietors, held this morning, the only business done was the reading of the financial accounts and the declaration of the usual dividend. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 187 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 155Nq New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anne 86%% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 — Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 7-16 India Stock Do. Bonds, 1000/ .. 5 p Ditto under 1.000/ Consols for Account ... Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0001. 500/. Small .. 18 20 17p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 8 per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 17% Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 ... 193 i 20% Ditto 3 per Cent 29 I A Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch per Cent., 12 Guild 54% z d Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates RIIBINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Pia SHAM Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — ...... to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. Birmingnam & Oxford June... 20 -•-- Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . Birniing., Wol., & Stour Val. 101.14,.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Ckeshira Junction 7 34 — ...... t• Boston, Stara., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire lOl. 4s 3 dis.x iut. to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37%..... Ditto, Preference 8 Clarence. Do., let Class, 8 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 3 per Cent... 10 Do., Got. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Doblin and Belfast Junction.. 20 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 16 East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., aid L. & IJ., . Ditto, 18/., E. &II l4 ..... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 2 Eastern Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... 4 dis.... to Do., York Extension ...... 10 ..... ...... to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter 124... .. 12% to D0., New Eastersn Union. .. SO Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12►,4 — Di Thirds . ,13s. 4d — itto., Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... . — East Lancashire Ditto, New .. ........... .... . 13 Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12% - - Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — ...... to . Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% -, Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% — Ditto, New..... ........ ...... 3% _ -...... to Ditto, New port 9% — ...... to Ditto, ditto, New 2 I,A — ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% -- Ditto, New ... Giusg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 68.8 d... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do. '4 Shares (5 por ct. gua.) 12 1 ,E - Great Northern ... 10 1 / 2 _414 % ex int. to Do. London & York Exton. 2% - --- to —. Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 _ _ . . - -- - - Great North of England 100 Ditto, Isle w 404 Ditto, New 30/ Ditto, New 151 6%...... . ... to Great Western BS Ditto, Half Shares SO Ditto, Quarter Shares 17% — ...... to Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 171 ....... 10 ...... 11% to Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. ... g to Dittc, Thirds 8 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares - 121,4 — Ipswich& Bury St. Edmunds 17% — to Do. do. and Norwich _ - Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Cainb. and Ely) 2 1 ,4 ...... to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do.,Thirds . .. - Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares - 38 Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ........... VA...-. Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Hudders. and ShetF.) 33 Do., IVaketield,Pontefract, and Goole 4 7 1, Do., West Riding Union ...41. 25..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto (B) 1 1 / 4 Leeds and Bradford 5O .. ... 93 ..... to —• Leicester and liedford heeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 371 / 2 — Do., Branch li% Shares 12!4 — Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2 1 4 Ditto, Extension (green)... 2 1 ,4 — Do., New Exten. (pink)... `2 l Leeds and Thirak Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 1 / 2 . ...~ Liyerpeoi. Crosby, and South port. Liverpool, _Manchester, and . Newcastle Junction. ... ... . ... DA London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d I ~,... to o Ditto New, No. 1,. Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... . .... to -- Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 .. 1)o. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... __, . Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d... - Ditto Preference London and North Western..loo 149 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 22 Do. do. New ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters Do. 40/. Shares.....L. & M. 15 Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 . ....„ Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7 1 / 2 . .... Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% — to Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Wostern.... 41.. 63 8d... Do. New ConsolidatedBths. 40 ...... Ditto New 501. Ditto New 401..... ..... .. .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 8/. 6s. 8d ... L6ndon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — to Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% Manch, Buxton, & Matlock S Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto % Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, is Shares (No. 3)... 7%...... Ditto Grimsby Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto ..... 4% Ditto, Sheffield, and Linc. 7%...... . to Manche,sterand Southampton 2 1 4 — .. . to 51idiand 100 109% 109 to 110 Ditto, Consol. Prefe:ence...loo Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... 10 ..... 8 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. Midland, Consul. Bristol and Birmingha►n 6 per ceit....100 ll9%x.int to Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 86 Ditto ditto ill. 38.6 d. Midland, Leices. and Swaa aington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 . to Midld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chestertbrd 18 1 ,( Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Norfolk ........ ...... ........... 100 Ditto New 20/. 5 ...... t• Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Aorthern Counties Union 3erth British .. ......... ..... 25 .. ... 25 Ditto Half Shares, l 2 l /9 — Do. Quarters 4:11 4 IA t• -- Ditto. Extension - ..... t• Ditto Thirds ... .......... ..... 2 - North Staffordshire... .. ...... 714 7 ...... to North Wales 3 1 , 49 -- ..... to North Western 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% -7% .. ...... ..... : to to o o ; Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland ..... ... 17 1 / — ...... to Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. . Ditto, Oswestry l2 Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cant. Prof 5 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O ..... South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33% t• Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 l7 Ditto, New, No. 3 ls Ditto New, No. 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal .. 4 [lames Haven Dock and Railway l7li — raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 13%...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall 4 - Whitehaven and Furness l2 ..... Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts,Sotnerset,&Weyinouth 30 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 .... 34 Do. Original New & Beeck 25 ~ ... ..... Do. North Shields Purchase '25 .. .. Do. Exten. No.l (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 16 Do. G. N. E. Put. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 ...... Ditto, Preference II Ditto East and West Riding Extension .... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O .... . 14 1 4 to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... . Ditch Rhenish 7 ...... '2 ...... to East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 55......• ...... to Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain 31a Sambre ......... 7 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4138 4d — to Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O Parts and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg Rouen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. $ I'ournay, Jurbise, Linden, and Hasselt ... ... .. 16 ...... ...... to West Flanders - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 60 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock . ..... 10 London and Westminster. .. 20 ...... —. - National Provincial of Engld. 35 - - Ditto, New National of Ireland . 221,4 — •.• .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2I AR — Union of London ........ •••••• 10 Union •f Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 ...... Australian Blaenarvon Iron :Lad Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 21 Galvanized Iron - Ditto, New to Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 17, to COURSE OF EXCHANGE. amster.lam • 12 Ditto, at sight ••• • • • 12 3 Rotterdam .... 12 6% Antwerp.. 2G 10 llamburgh .... • .31.11. 13 15% Nails, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 65 Ditto. .. • ... • • 26 0 Marseilles •• • 1t0urdeaux......... Frankfort on Maine 123% Petersburgh, ••• • Leghorn •• • • .......• 31 40 Geaoa ...... •• •• 26 15 Milan ...... • • • • •• Venice Naples •••• • 39 1 ct Palermo, peroz.. • • .• ••• • 1 1 9 Lisbon .• .• •• 52 Oporto •••••• •• •• • • 52 % Rio Janeiro • • •••• • • •• Bahia .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ................ Buenos .. •• • • • • New York. 21 days'slght Philadelphia .... • • •, FILICEO OF BULLION, TEA OE. Foreign Gold iB bars.. X 3 17 9 .:•:•...•• •••• - Vienna, effec. no.. • lO 20 Trieste, ditto.... • 10 20 Madzid 46% Cadiz 48% 8i1ba0.... • • .. • • .. — Barcelona — Saviile...• •• •• • . • • ••.• itTa;• Dollars ••.• • • 0 4 914 Portugal Gold Cola .. 0 • 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver 1s bars ......•• 0 4 11% LLOYD'S SHIPPING—.(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN . S.S.E., light airs and dull hazy weather with drizzling rain. CLYDE, JAN. 3 —Arrd. Hamlet, M‘Laren, Demerara; Europa, Boyle, ditto. Sid. Mary and Ann, Trinidad ; St. George, St. Vincent ; Collooney, New York. Coax, JAN. 2.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Herald, War ren, St. John's, Newfoundland. HULL, JAN. 4.—Wind S.—Arrd. Fanconis, New York, for Hainburgh, with lower masts sprung ; Argyle, Davidson, St. John's, New Brunswick. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 4.—The strong southerly gales continue, and several small colliers have taken shelter here with slight damge. SHIELDS, JAN. 3.—The Galatea, Young, from Lon don, has arrived here with starboard bow stove, d ec k s all started, and cargo damage d, having been in cont ac t, 25th ult., with a steamer , wh ich lost boats, and is sup posed to have been otherwise damaged. The Union, Jurvey, of and from this port for London, was in con tact off Darlington, Ist inst., with a loaded schooner, and was soon after abandoned, the water having reached the cabin—crew saved. 4th.—The Bellona, M`Lagan, of Dundee, coal laden, sprung a leak about the New Quay„ North Shields, this morning, and filled, supposed from having holed with an anchor. PoNEGaL, JAN, L—The Lady Dombraine, 13rown, frnin Sr.john's, New Brunswick, to Ballyshannon, is dis. charging at Millinasole. CORK, JAN.:.—It blew a hard gale last night from the south, and has continued to do so al! dad•. POOLE, JAN. 3.—The l'embr.ke Castle, Cardiff, for Limerick, was passed dismusted and abandoned in lat. 50 N., lon. 10 %V. The hull appeared in good condition, the rudder preserved, and the tiller shipped, the bowsprit was on deck, and the fore and after hatches battened, by the Juno, Green, arrived here. PLYIIOUTM, JAN. 4.—The Kalmia, Gilpin, which ar rived here 2d inst., from Odessa, was struck by a sea in the Mediterranean, which filled the vessel abaft, and ren dered it necessary to throw part of cargo overboard. YARMOUTH, JAN. 4.—The Unanimity, Haddon, of and for Southampton, from Sunderland, got ashore on the beach last evening, but was assisted off this morning, after throwing part of cargo overboard, and is now riding in the roads. DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind, 4 o'clock A.m., S.S.W. ; S.S.E.—Arrd. Prima Donna, St. Michael's. Sld. 4th, Bolton, Adelaide, South Australia ; Hendrick Hudson, Pratt, New York ; Achilles, Muller, Hamburgh. Arrd. from the river and shl., Daphne, Thompson, St. Mi chael's ; Nonpareil, St. Michael's ; Emilia, Gorordo, Cadiz ; Lusitania, Dring, Oporto ; 11. M. S. Bonetta, westward ; Himalaya, Hobart Town ; Tamar, Hobart Town ; Mount Stewart, Elphinstone, Hobart Town ; Janet Wilson, Batavia; Mary Louisa, Singapore; Parsee Merchant, Ceylon ; Primula, Cape of Good Hope ; Maria, Callao ; Fidinzate, Pernambuco ; Clio, Deme rara ; Sandwich, St. Lucia ; Sir Charles Napier, Now Orleans ; Swan, New Orleans ; China, Charleston ; Merchant, Charleston. OFF THE NosE, JAN. 3.—Etheldred, Bradford, Mou1• main, for Chatham. RAKER:UTE, JAN. 4.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Sibeni, Igartus, Havannah, for Bremen. PILL, JAN. 2.—Arrd. Recovery, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 4.—Wind S.—Arrd. Helena, Berrell, Richibucto. LivitapooL, JAN. 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Petit* Cartine, Havannah; Harriet Augusta, Robinson, New Orleans ; Belle, Pryde, Pictou ; Aurora, Clarkson, Tatmagouche; Templeman, Ellis, Callao; West Point, Allen, New York, sailed 15th ult. with 10,0001. specie on board; Memnon, Benjamin, New York. Sld. Anna Mary, Cape of Good Hope; Standard, Demerara; Orbit, New Orleans; Jane, Savannah; David, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Rimoe, Richard Cobden, Carona, Chapinous, and St. George. WHITEHAVEN, JAN. 2.—Arrd. British Queen, Wise, Antigua. CARDIFF, JAN. 3.—Sld. Cleymene, Callao. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. This week's arrivals of English Wheat have been on a moderate scale, and, for the most part, of very middling quality, arising from the damp weather. To-day se lected parcels of both red and white were in fair request, at fully Monday's quotations; but all other kinds were dull sale, at barely stationary prices. Upwards of 13,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come to band since Saturday. For that article we had a very slow inquiry, yet late rates were mostly supported. All kinds of Barley were heavy. In value, however, we have no further decline to notice. The Malt trade was in an inactive state, at barely previous currencies. Oats, Beans, and Peas were a dull inquiry. Indian Corn, Meal and Flour, were quite as dear. ARRIVALS. Barley. I Oats. I Flaw.. 710 qrs. 2,8110 qrs. I ITS skis 4,820 I 1,510 1 Wheat. English .. Foreign Va.lt. 440 qrs. WHXTECHAPEZ. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with each kind of Meat. Generally speaking the demand was in a sluggish state, on the following terms:—Beef from as 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, 4s 2d to Ss 4d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN.) IN RE COLUMBINE. This was a meeting by adjournment for the last examination of the bankrupt, who was solicitor to the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company. The case was adjourned on the last occasion, under an order of the Lord Chancellor, until a petition then pending before the Court had been heard. Mr. Columbine now said that the petition had not yet been heard, and it had been agreed on between the solicitors on both sides that a further adjourn ment should take place, in order to complete some arrargeinents to compromise all matters in dis pute, and to supersede the commission. The SOLICITOR to the assignees said Mr. Colum bine was quite correct on the subject. His lloNoun inquired whether the accounts had been now perfected, as those given in previously were incorrect. _ _ _ Mr. COLUMBINE said they had been deposited with the official assignee ; they had been very carefully prepared, and extended over a period of six years. It was ultimately arranged that the meeting should be adjourned until the 10th of March next. In a former report, founded on the old accounts, an error was made by which the Earl of Aylesbury and Viscount Cantilupe were made debtors, they are in fact creditors, the former for 1,245/. 7s , and the latter 1,4901. The Duke of Buckingham is also a creditor for 1,1001. On the other side the London and Exeter Direct Railway Company are inserted amongst the " good debts," for expenses and services, 2,8121. 10s., and for bill of costs 3501. Sir C. Oxenden, Bart., 2,3811. The Earl of Mexborough, 550/. The lion. A. Capel, 1,6001.; and railway shares value 2,0001,, &c. The total amounts of debts to creditors amount to 17,3641.55. 6d. Profits 11,6001. Losses, 13,6371. 17s. Id. IN RE RAINY. In the case of this bankrupt, an auctioneer, in Regent•street, Mr. Cooke applied for a day to be named for the consideration of the certificate. The case had been adjourned pending a suit between the assignees of Messrs. Coutts and Co., but it had not yet been heard. The case was adjourned for two months. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice MAULE.) The second edition of the calendar was issued this morning, by which it appears that 52 additional pri soners have been committed sinee the sessions com menced, namely, 12 from London, 33 from Middle sex, 1 from Essex, and 6 from Surrey. • John Jenkins, 29, a hair-dresser, and Joseph Welk a smith, were placed in the dock, charged with a nameless and disgusting offence. The two prisoners were very respectable in appear ance. The charge broke down during the examina tion of the first witness, a policeman, who, it appeared, induced the prisoner Wells to make a statement which, under the circumstances, the Court would not receive. The jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, Acquitted both the prisoners on the capital charge. Mr. Ballantine appeared as counsel for the prose cution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prisoner Jenkins. John Jenkins was then again indicted with an as sault in attempting to commit a nameless offence. Two witnesses were examined in support of the charge. After some consultation with Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine, it was agreed that the jury should find the prisoner Guilty of a common as. sault ; and The COURT sentenced him to twelve months' im• prisonment. 13uaGLanz.--John PhilUpson, alias Wilson, and George Anderson, alias Alfred Fear, the former a tailor, and the latter a shoemaker, were indicted with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Oliver Bright, and stealing two dressing-cases, one ring, two purses, one bracelet, two sovereigns, and other moneys of Major-General Fleming. Mr. PAYNE conducted the prosecution, and stated the case to the jury. From the statements of the Learned Counsel, it appeared that on the 17th of last month the two prisoners were discovered in the house of Major-General Fleming, in Baker-street, by one of the servants, of the name of Mary Fitzsimon. Sh e instantly alarmed the inmates, and the prisoners ran off. Mary Fitzsimon identified both the prisoners, as did two other witnesses, as the parties in the house. The policeman who took Phillips into custody dis covered upon him a large black bag, a lucifer box and other things. The lady of Major-General Fleming having heard her maid cry out, ran down stairs, upon which she encountered the prisoner Anderson, who ran off. W as certain of his identity. Knew nothing of the other prisoner. The policeman who took Anderson into custody at a coffee-house, founctupon him among other things, a key that opened the area gate of the house in Baker street, where the robbery was committed. Witness had known Anderson for two years as Alfred Fier. Several witnesses were called, all of whom swore to the prisoners. Major-General Fleming identified the property produced as that of his lady. Mary Bright, the wife of Mr. William Olive Bright, the proprietor of the house No. 11, Baker street, corroborated the evidence that had been given relative to the robbery. None of the persons in her employ ever went up the stairs to the General's apartments in an evening. Any person attempting to get into the house by way of the area must have passei through the kitchen, where there were two servants, who must have seen them. Both the prisoners strongly denied the robbery. Phillipson said that he heard the cry of "Stop thief," and on going to see what was the matter, he was taken into custody. Ile had been to take some things home he had been repairing as a tailor. Anderson said he had be — en in a coffee-house, kept by a person named Rowbottom, in Portland-street, Newport-market, on the 17th of December, from six o'clock to twelve, and called the waiter at rhe coffee house to prove it, but on cross-examinatigi a he failed to do so.