The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-16 00:00:00

Now ready, 2 vels. Bvo., 28s. bound , prin ted uniforml y with the Wellington and Nelson Dispatche s, T HE CASTLEREAGH LETTERS AND DISPATC LIES. "A work of the highest and most universal interest."—Morning Chronicle. " The most valuable contribution to modern history that we know Of."—Horning Herald. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the ►hole re-decorated. THIS EVENDTG, WM be performed THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. Valentine, Mr. Charles Kean ; Julia, Mrs. Charles Kean. To conclude with THE HONEYMOON. The Dake Aranza, Mr. Charles Kean ; Juliana, Mrs. Charles Kean. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq•, executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed ST. MARY'S EYE. A Story of the Solway. Tom Beggs, Mr. Wright ; Madeline, Madame Celeste. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith; Ariel, Madame Celeste. After which a sew Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with JOHN JONES. Guy Goodlnck, Mr. Lambert ; Eliza Melton, Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma he s. THIS EVENING. Will be performed A PECULIAR POSITION. After which USED UP. To be followed by an APPEAL TO THE r ÜBLIC. To conclude with MY FATHER DID SO BEFORE ME, is which Mr. John Reeve will appear. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s: ; Pit, 2 ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington - stye , t, is open to the pablie every day, from Ton till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddbx, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has bees re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner by Mr. Ilurwitz. A new Chan detler has been fitted, and the best arran^..,e manta have been ade for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and tho couiort and convmesience of tas audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD YELLOW. To be followed by a New DIVERTISSEMENT. After which, THE WATERMAN. Toni Tug, Mr. C. Braham. To conclude with a Farce, entitled THE MODE Miss L COUPLE, In which Messrs. Oxberry, G. Cooke , M rs. Selby, and Stanley will perform. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. ROBERT-HOUDIN will repeat his SOIREES FANTAS TIQUES THIS EVENING, to be continued every Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday until the end of the Christmas vacations. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 16. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 51; Noon, 42. BAROXE7MI 7 29.98. WIND N.N.E.; continuous rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 55 min after 5 I Evening .. 20 min. after 6 >.l • Sx, • • ev- 1_ 4_ qf r'lbi( I . = 1 • >lie' 4." ill - holing anit, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1848. Four millions of votes have already been counted out of the urns, nominating the Prince Louis Naro• Loom to the Presidency. Four millions—and only two are required as the absolute majority ! Four millions—and the suffrages from Corsica not yet enu merated ! Four—and the intelligence from Algeria not yet received! There is something woederfuh and most certainly also unprecedented, in this unani mity. Even the opponents of a Bonapartist Go vernment must be satisfied at the circumstance that the imperial candidate being successful at all, his success is one of a triumphant character. A majority only just elevated above the prescribed level would have tended beyond all question to the involvement of the entire nation in a disastrous struggle—a struggle born of jealousies and leading to anarchy. Now, however, that the Go vernment of Prince Louis NAPOLEON is invested with a popularity of this unexampled description, there remains no pretext for hesitation, and the future may at last be awaited with a considerable degree of confidence. That the popularity of the illustrious cause with which the name of the President-elect is identified has not about it, the usual characteristic of evanescence, is proved by two extraordinary circum stances—first, that the votes have emanated spontane ously from universal suffrage, end, secondly, that the sincerity of those votes have been assured by the adop tion of the ballot. The Government of the Prince will consequently be one of the most legitimate on the surface of the globe; and its legitimacy will only enhance its present enormous popularity. To demonstrate the fallacy of the essertion made by the reactionary party, to the effect that the elec tion of Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON is a death-blow to Republicanism, and a guarantee of the ultimate restoration of hereditary monarchy, We yesterday explained the true character of what is called Bona partism, and showed by logical arguments, drawn from the history of the EMPEROR, that the success of his policy is identical with the real interests and the permanent consolidation of the democratic institutions of France. Since those remarks were written additional securities have been obtained by Republicanism in the midst of the electioneering ex citement which prevails throughout Paris and the departments. For the fifth time M. ARMAND MAR BAST has been elected President of the National As sembly ; and thus a strong link will still connect the new administration of Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON with the heroic statesmen and administrators of February. The popular representatives have, by this means, therefore, negatived the assurance implied in the witty exclamation of the Evenement—"The Na tional is dead, long live the Nation !" The patriotic publicists of the National will still continue to influence the measures adopted by the Bonaparte Cabinet, notwithstanding that the candidate of the National, General EUGENE CAVAIGNAC, has received such a sore discomfiture- Beyond which, the Provisional Council of Stater consisting of thirty members, the principal portion of whom are Republicans of the vielle—foremost among them, the great LAMARTINE himself—will exercise an important authority over the movements of the rising Ministry. No ; the Constitution is not with out its self-elected Praetorians—the soldiers of the Young Republic are " ready, aye ready for the field." One amongst them, one of the bravest of the brave men who formed the Provisional Govern ment and th e E xecut i ve C omm i ss i on —M. G ARNIER p AGBS—has already pledged himself to sound the tocsin of a new Revolution in the event of any at tempt at retrogression. The assurance has not been forgotten. The walls of the palace of th e N a ti ona l Assembly hav e scarcely yet ceased vibrati ng w ith those daring wor d s one shall ventur e t o proceed to the Tuileries, I willry myself on that d a y to the Hotel de Ville!" From ay% e, appreciation of these facts, from a sense of th e i r i m a conviction of the dauntless bravery of nacuird from press as L AM ARTINE, as ARAGO, as GARNIER. venerable DUPONT (de I'Eure), as Msaisswr,' a n a t . h h e rest of their colleagues—we await with calm satisfaction the installation of the new Governme n t. The French Republic has little to fear from the coup cli skits of a party of white-livered intriguers like M. TRIERS, or M. ODILON BARROT, or M. MOLE, or M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN—Iike M. TRIERS, who disap peared in some cellar in one of the banlieus during the fighting of the three days of June 1830, and afterwards, during the contest of the three days of February 1848—like M. ODILON BARROT, who " made an appointment with the people on the boule vards and was too nervous to keep it"—like M. Moms, who was dastardly enough to occupy the post of the principal assassin on the occasion of the murder of the immortal nr,—or, last of all, like M. DE GIRARDIN, whose hand is only famous for dealing blows in the dark, for stabbing with a pen steeped in the poison of calumny, and for tearing open with his sacrilegious slanders the ghastly shrouds of the Republicans who have been long since mouldering in their graves. Against the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of these men, the statesmen of February will only have to op pose their vigilance. With a President elected by universal suffrage, and a National Assembly elected by uni versal suffrage, the French Republic may now look forward with confident anticipa tions. hitherto the different Governments which have succeeded each other since the overthrow of the Monarchy of the bourgeoisie, have had to struggle onwards through a haze of uncertainties. Those uncertainties must soon be dissipated by the attitude assumed by the first Cabinet of the first President• And, as if to assure us that that attitude would be indicative of vigour, the rumours that CAVAIGNAC is to be made a Marshal of France and the Governor of Algeria, that CHANGARNIER is to be nominated to the command of the army of the Alps, and that BITGEAIJD is to be placed at the head of the National Guards of the metropolis, are accompanied by whispers to the effect that the Vice-Presidency of the Republic will be entrusted either to M. DE LAMARTINE, or to M. GARNIER PAGES, or to M. ARAGO. For our own part we should learn more gladly that LAMARTINE had received the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, that GARNIER PAGES had been declared his colleague in one of the other departments of the public service, and that ARAGO had retired from the late political episode in his existence to the more congenial retreats of abstract science and natural philosophy. As yet, however, the most contradictory conjectures can alone arise from the numerous expectations resulting from the sudden and almost unanimous election of a BONA.. reßaz to the Chief Magistracy of the Republic. It has been said that there is "nothing new under the sun." This assertion must, however, be taken with some modification. Had the philosopher lived in the 19th century, and witnessed the various matters affording increased comfort or safety to man kind, he might have altered his opinion, and acknow ledge that although inventions were rare, the new ap plications of old principles were at least of daily occur rence. A remarkable illustration of this fact may be found in the advertisement of the Metropolitan Coun ties and General Life Assurance Society, which appears in another part of our impression this day. The society, it appears, have decided on opening a new species of life assurance, in which all persons may participate on advantageous terms. The young and the old, the healthy and the infirm, will alike be guaranteed at a moderate premium from loss of life arising from accidents while travelling by railway. No delays will be interposed be fore the completion of the policy. It may be effected on the day of application, and will remain in force during the entire term of life without renewal or further payment. A single payment of 10s.Ewill secure to the family of even a daily passenger by railway the sum of 1001. in the event of the party assured being deprived of life by any accident while so travelling. Many persons who could not afford Lthe pre mium required for a general insurance against every description of casualty, who confidently rely on a continuance of health and strength _until their circumstances improved so far as to enable them to make provision for those dependent on them, would yet desire to guard, at a cheap rate, against the disastrous consequences of accidents:to which the nature of their daily avoca tions render them peculiarly liable. The large and influential body of commercial travellers, of those who spend a portion of every day upon the road, and who seldom sleep a second night in the same town, will find this novelty in life assurance peculiarly applicable to their cases, and their minds may be relieved of considerable anxiety by the certainty that those dearer to them than life itself would be pro vided for, in the event of any untoward result. Persons who have availed themselves of the facili ties afforded by the introduction of railways to reside with their families in pure and wholesome air, and who daily travel backwards and forwards to their usual places of business, will doubt less hail with delight the introduction of a system so simple and so beneficial. A. single payment of 101. would place the sum of 2,0001. at the disposal of a person of this class, in the event of a fatal accident by the rail. The company have not as yet, we believe, deter mined upon insuring against the consequences of accidents not resulting in the loss of life. We trust, however, that such a cou.rse will speedily be adopted ; it would indeed, if introduced, render it an imperative duty on all railway passengers to take so obvious and necessary a precaution. We doubt not that a body who hsve shown themselves so fully alive to the pub lic wants, and who have exhibited so laudable an anxiety to meet the wishes of the community, will be prepared to enter into all necessary arrangements to this extent also, and that they will, in return, be re warded with that general patronage to which their spirit and enterprise so eminently entitle them. It may be well to mention that railway accidents are on the increase in a, ratio far beyond that which the additional mileage opened to the public, or the larger number of passengers carried on the various railways, could account for. To whatever cause this result may be attributable, whether to the increase of speed, or the greater number of trains, the fact itself is indisputable. Thus we find that the numbers killed, or seriously injured by causes beyond their own control, amounted, in 1843, to only six persons. In 1847 the number had in creased to 106 ; while in the first six months of the present year it amounted to 66. We thus find that serious accidents during the present year have increased in more than a tenfold ratio when compared with the year 71843. And when it is borne in mind that a person who travels twice daily, as is the con stant habit of many, appears in the list 730 times within the year, it will be manifest how very mode rate is the rate at which the company have offered to accept the risk, viz., 10s. per cent. in one payment for the entire term of life. In our impression of the Bth instant we offered some observations on the memorial that had been pre sented to the Lords Justices of Ireland from the rate payers of the Westport Union, and the reply of their Lordships thereto. We regarded the facts elicited in the course of that correspondence as affording the most conclusive evidence of the extremity of the dis tress, and the poverty of the resources of the district, and clearly establishing the absolute necessity of prompt and energetic action on the part of the Government. Unless something be done, and that speedily, all classes will be involved in one common ruin. The entire property of the union is not sufficient to feed its poverty. It is easy to say that it is the duty of the rate-payers to support their poor, but if the task be beyond their power, if their utmost strength should prove insufficient to sustain the burdens imposed upon them, it would be but a short-sighted and unwise policy to suffer them to perish for want of some slight temporary assistance and then to be compelled to expend far more in saving the people from actual starvation than would now suffice, if judiciously applied, to enable the pro prietors of the soil to encounter the :difficulties by which they are surrounded, and eventually to escape from their arduous position. It is not, as we have already repeatedly stated, by lavishing large sums in maintaining the popu lation in unproductive idleness it is not by taking upon ourselves the task of feeding a large body of persons without requiring any return therefor, that this great desideratum can be attained. The enormous sums that were advanced during the year of famine effected little permanent benefit for of the the peopl e . I t is true that thousands were preserved from lingering and painful deaths by the benevolence British h dently nation, and GOD forbid that we should reproach th e not as do nors because their bounty was and beneficially applied as it might have be en , But having done so much, having in the Westport Union s alone supplied rations to no less than 26,000 Persons, s h all those t o per i s h w h o we de s i s t f rom all their v and suffer vast outlay w hi ch we then so owe l exertions , ies to the ff cheerfully took upon ourselves. We cannot anticipate so lamentable a falling off. We will not do Bo foul injustice to the English nation, or to the Engli sh Government, as to suppose the possibility of such a result. Assistance will, und ou b tedi be rendered, but, guided by past experience, we will shun the errors into which we have hitherto fallen, and follow a wiser and more judicious course in our future operations. A letter which has just appeared from the Mar quis of SLIGO, in answer to the animadversions of a morning Contemporary, affords a remarkable corro boration of the views which we then put forward, and exhibits the conduct of the landed proprietors of the union in a better point of view than might be supposed from a Moll' perusal of the reply of the Lords Justices. The Noble Lord states that " the rates paid in the union up to August, 1846, amounted to 3,1511. ls. Id., and that from the failure in August, 1846, till the end of last May, the sum paid was 5,5211. 6s. 5d., making in all 8,6711. 7s. 6d., and not 4,1151. as mentioned in Mr. REDINGTON'S letter." If this be so, and we cannot suppose that his Lordship would state deliberately that which, if untrue, could clearly and easily be contradicted, it is hardly fair to speak of the average rate collected as being but 5d., or even 10d., in the pound. It would seem more reasonable to inquire what has been paid since the enactment of the new Poor-law for Ireland, which imposed new burdens and new duties upon the land. owners in that country. Very few Irishmen, we regret to say, made provision for a season of emergency, or accumulated savings to provide for 'uture contingencies. When the Irish Poor-law came into operation it found the nation completely im poverished. It had passed through a season of the deepest distress—it had undergone an ordeal of the utmost severity. Many—we believe the great majo rity of the landed proprietors—had voluntarily re linquished a considerable portion of their.claims ; in deed, it would have been utterly impossible to have collected the rents to which they were entitled. They ad also incurred additional debts and embarrassments for the support of their families and dependents. The new law then found them in a peculiarly dis tressed position, and not prepared to meet new and heavy demands. Since that time, according to Lord Suao, the rate in the electoral division of Westport " amounted last year to 7s. 6d. in the pound on the old valuation, which would be at least 15s. in the pound on the present real value ; and this year a rate is collecting of 3s. 4d., equivalent to a rate of at least 6s. Bd. in the pound in ordinary times, as far as regards the difficulty of payment." These rates have been struck, not as the amount necessary to support the claimants for relief, but as the utmost that by a possibility can be collected from even the most solvent. It should be borne in mind that annuitants and other incumbrancers are not required to contribute any portion whatsoever to the poor. rates. The whole burden falls upon the landlord's surplus, ;and little, in deed, is left for his own support, or that of his family, after providing therefor. Under such circumstances, is it not apparent that assistance must be rendered, and that if the union be left to its own resources alone, myriads must perish by famine ? THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Journal des Debats, which was published yes terday morning, gives the following as the gross re sult of the examination of the voting papers, up to Thursday night : M. Louis Bonaparte ... 2,300,000 General Cavaignac ... 620,000 The examination was continued by the Committee during the whole of the day (yesterday), and it was understood that, at the hour at which the post left, it had been ascertained that M. Louis BONAPARTE had polled 4,000,000 votes, and General CAVAIGNAC 900,000. The following is the official return of all the votes recorded in the Department of the Seine, as proclaimed on Thursday at the Hotel de Ville . Louis Napoleon Cavaignac Ledrußollin .. .. 198,484 .. .. 95,567 .. . . 26,648 .. .. . . 15,871 ... ... 3,838 66 58 28 20 16 Raspail Lamartine Changarnier .. Bugeaud ... Bedeau .., Louis Blanc .. Arago .. Barbi.s ... Larochejaquelin ... ... 3 Berryer ... ... .. 2 Dupont (de I'Eure) .. .. 3 The voters inscribed were 433,632 ; the number who voted were 341,829. The following is the return from the department o the Indre and Loire, as officially announced by the Committee of the National Assembly : Louis Napoleon ... Cayaignae Ledru Rollin ... Raspail Lamartine Blank or doubtful votes 536 The overwhelming majority by which Louis NA POLEON has been returned has surprised and annoyed many of his supporters even snore than it has sur prised and vexed his opponents. The President who has been returned by such an immense majority must be accepted as the choice of the nation, and can there fore afford to be independent. Hence the Leg itima tists who calculated upon the necessity under which Louis NAPOLEON would be to obtain their support, and who had determined to make him the "planche Napolionienne" over which the Comte DE CHAMBORD was to walk to the throne of France are grievously disappointed, and al ready seek to undo their handiwork, and to depreciate the effects, which cannot but ensue, from the vastness of the majority, which they themselves contributed to swell. " The name of Louis NA POLEON is but as the urn in which the suffrages are recorded," falters the Union. Had the name, however, been any other than it is--had it been CHAMBORD, for instance, or JOINVILLE, the proba bility is that General CAVAIGNAC would at this moment have been President of the French Republic. This overwhelming majority is the homage which France pays to the memory of the great man who was the incarnation of her first revolution, and France has chosen Louis NAPOLEON as the incarnation of her second revolution. May he remember the words addressed to him by CHATEAU-. BRIAND at Arenberg; in the presence of Queen Hon- TENSE—" Remember, Prince, that you possess the greatest name in the modern world—lt will always be a rallying point for France, and the surest guaran tee for the progress of free institutions in Europe." The new Ministry is nearly formed. M. HIPPO LYTE PAESI', as we announced yesterday is to be the Finance Minister. He accepted the portfolio of the Finances only on condition that M. ACHILLE FOULD should be appointed Minister of Commerce. M. DE TRACY will also be a member of the Cabinet. General OEDINOT, it is said, has made some diffi culties about accepting the War Ministry ; General PRBVAL is now spoken of as his substitute. Marshal BUGEAUD has accepted the command of the army of the Alps, M. REBILLOT is to be the Prefect of Police, M. JEROME BONAPARTE Governor of the Invalides, and General PETIT Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. These appointments have all taken place by the advice of M. TRIERS, M. MOLE, and Marshal BUGEAUD, who appear to'have got the ear of the Prince. The old Bonapartists complain that they have been neglected in these arrangements, and that BUGEAUD and TRIERS and Mous are merely preparing for an Or leans restoration. It is somewhat remarkable that ... 64,566 ... 9,136 1,684 ... 239 these three should have been long since proposed, as the Council of Regency for the Comte DE Penis. If it be for their interest to be true to Louis Nero- LEON, they will faithfully serve him so long as it shall continue to be their interest so to do, but they will betray him, or any other person or party who trusts in them, the instant they fancy any thing is to be gained by such betrayal. It is said that the Vice-President will be either M. DE LAMARTINE, M. F. ARAGO, or M. GARmEa PAGES. Marshal BUGEAUD took his seat in the Assembly on Thursday. The following was the result of the Ballot on that day for President of the Assembly : Voters • •• ••• • •• ••• 599 Absolute majority ... ... 300 M. A. Marrast ... .. ••• 361 M. Lacrosse ... .. 129 General Bedeau .•• ••• 48 M. de Remusat ... .. 3 1 M. Lamartine ... ... ... 2 It is considered probable that there w ill be a general election in the month of March. Yesterday was the anniversary of the funeral of NAPOLEON at the Invalides. The usual funeral ser vice took place on the occasion, but the members lof the Bonaparte family have announced that in order to prevent all pretext for inopportune manifes tations, the whole of them will absent themselves. 114 I°ll° Wing appears ill the, Journal des Debars ;--. " We have been requested to announce that M. Lou. Napoleon Bonaparte, as likewise all the members of the Bona?arte family, have determined, in order to deprive those who would excite turbulent manifestations of every pretext, that none of them will proceed on Friday to:the Hotel of the Invalides to commemorate the anni versary of the removal of the mortal remains of the Emperor." It seas rumoured on the Bourse yesterday after noon that M. ACEIILLE FOULD had refused the Ministry of Commerce. BOURSE-P ARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. l5. THREE o'CLocx.—There was a considerable rise again at the Bourse to day, in consequence of the composition of Louis Napoleon's first Cabinet. The Bourse was ex ceedingly steady all day. For the Account, the French Three per Cents. have risen If.; the Five per Cents. lf. 50c.; and the Loan, 50c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have advanced 90c.; the Five per Cents. 65c.; and the Loan lf. on yesterday's prices. Bons du 6sor not quoted ; Bank of France Shares have risen 15f. ; Belgian Bank Shares and Belgian Two-and-a- Half per Cents. each an advance of per cent. Roman have risen If.; Rothschild's Receipts not quoted. Ex change on London (30 days), 25 42k; ditto (90 days), 25 30. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Drc. 15. . . Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Luxembourg (7 I. ), I% Northern of France, 7 1 / 4 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Paris and Rouen, 16—Rouen and Havre, 8. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. The Herald() says—" The Minister of Finance yesterday gave orders to remit to London the funds destined to the payment of the interest of the Spanish Three per Cents., which fell due in January. The announcement of the payment will be made in London on the 15th, and will tranquillize the creditors of Spain in that capital, if the false ru mours that have been current in Madrid have reached them." It is said to be the intention of the Government to propose a great modification in the tariff, and a large reducticn in the import duty on cotton goods. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 9.—The Three per Cents, were done at 201 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 101 . the Debt without Interest at 4, for paper, and the Coupons at 51 for cash. — GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. According to official returns, the exports and im ports of the Zollverein in 1847 in various articles were as follows :—Raw cotton, imported, 445,849 cwt. ; exported, 114,545 cwt. ; transit, 54,298 cwt. ; sulpher, imported, 139,199 cwt. ; exported, 5,776 cwt. ; raw iron, imported, 2,340,247 cwt.; exported, 25,859 cwt. ; cast and other iron, rails, &c., imported, 1,106,158 cwt. ; exported, 42,852 cwt. ; transit, 43,586 cwts. The population of the Zollverein, in 1847, amounted to 29,461,712 souls. The following reply was made by the KING to a deputation charged to deliver one of the addresses from the rural districts, who were admitted to an audience : "It is impossible for me to express the pleasure which your arrival has given me. I have the pleasure, gentle men, of being personally acquainted with several of you, and know the sincerity of your words. It is as you say. The subject of Breslau is not calculated to give me much pleasure—quite the reverse.' It gives me much concern. And, gentlemen, believe me, Ido not grieve for my own sake; for, unbappily, I am accustomed to ingratitude; but I grieve for my people. The address from Breslau is, probably, the most wounding address ever presented to any sovereign. "Yet, notwithstanding the asperity of its form, and to which I consider it right to reply with kingly dignity, I granted its requirements; for its repulsive form did not prevent my giving it duo deliberation. But, gentlemen, you may well be.ieve that an address like that which you have this morning presented to me is very grateful to your Monarch's heart. " I know that in Silesia there are excellent men, but there is a want of energy; and this it is which has enabled a small body of crafty men, unworthy of the name of Prussians, to get the upperhand. It has been in Breslau as in other large cities; and oh, how gladly would every true patriot efface the deeds of the last few months from the page of history! " What, with God's blessing, has supported and con soled me amid recent trials, is the faithful attachment of my people of the country. Yes, gentlemen, everywhere the country has put the cities to the blush; in Pome rania, in Prussia, in Silesia, especially in Westphalia, and on the banks of the Rhine, in the March and Ra vensburg, the rural districts have displayed a spirit which has more than indemnified me for the sorrows I have experienced. Not only have the rural population been proof to every bribe or threat—nay, they rose in a body to fly to the aid of their King, and entreated that they might be permitted to crush the enemies of their Sovereign. "But, God be praised, we had no need of their loyal succour; for, by the help of the Lord, my foes have been vanquished. And these foes were not the ancient Prus sians: the ancient, the,true Prussians, are ready this day, as they were in 1813, to rally round their Sovereign and respond to his call. " Gentlemen, I beg you to convey my heartfelt thsnks to my brave and loyal rural subjects. My recent act is intended for the wslfare of the whole country. " By the grace of God, we shall for the future get on better. Let us expect it, and let us act up to this expec tation. Again, rest assured that your friendly conduct towards me has filled me with the liveliest pleasure." AUSTRIA. An insurrection of peasants has broken out in Beckownia, beaded by KOBELITZKA, who had been returned as one of the peasant Deputies to the Diet. Great excesses have been committed by the insur gents. All intercourse for couriers and travellers through Hungary is intercepted. The Hungarians are said to have stopped all the mails, and destroyed the letters of the last month; and travellers have now to perform a difficult journey through Hermanstadt, thence to Orsova, and across the Danube to Semlin, thence to Agram and Vienna, the only post route now open to the principalities. VIENNA, PEC. 'O.—The Wiener Zeitung an nounces that Felnwitz, the inhabitants of which have always manifested great hostility to the Imperial standard, has been reduced to ashes. ALEXANDER VON LESZEMSRY, lately a lieutenant in the Austrian service, who was condemned to death by a sentence of the court-martial, has had his sentence commuted into twelve years' confinement with hard labour, at the fortifications. This young man had been guilty of joining in the recent insurrection. A simi lar sentence has been passed upon the manager of a ribbon manufactory for a similar offence. The Wiener Zeitung of this day likewise contains a notice that all persons who shall be guilty of making inflammatory speeches ( w hi c h h as b een o f f req uent oc c u rrence within the last few days, especially in low public-houses) shall be brought before court-martial and punished with the utmost rigour, whether they be natives or foreigners. Events have taken place at Vienna within the last few days which may not be spoken of openly. An officer was killed by a gunshot, :which was fired from the window of a house in Josephstadt. The same evening one of the patrols was likewise fired at. Attempts of this nature are, unhappily, not rare, and we may readily conceive that under such circum stances it is not probable that the city will soon be relieved from the state of siege. BACH and STADION continue to desire it, and are endeavouring to effect it, for as matters now stand all freedom of action is paralyzed. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament on the 12th the Ministry was asked what measures had been taken to protect the eastern portion of the frontiers of the empire against the dangers caused by the as sembling of Russian forces on the frontier ; and whether the Ambassador of the Central Govern ment in Italy had received orders to protest against the extortions and other cruelties committed by Marshal RADETZIEY. The replies were post poned. The rest of the sitting was devoted to the articles of the Constitution. An attempt was made by the Left to deprive the Upper Chamber of an absolute vote, by rendering a repeated ♦ote of the Lower House sufficient to impart to a Bill the force of law, notwithstanding its rejection by the former. This motion was rejected. The budgets and all money Bills are to be treated as in England, the Upper House being required to pass or reject them in the aggregate. The debate was adjourned on the question of the right of veto to be accorded to the head of the Central Government. SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN. The Government has issued a notification of the change to take place in the Ministerial departments of Justice and Finance. The department of Justice under BARDENFLETH is subdivided into three branches, each under its respective superintendent. The de partment of Finance is subdivided into five branches, viz. : 1. Central Control of Finance (again sub divided into eight departments). 2. Tolls, Quaran tine, Sound and River dues. 3. Post-office and Transport-office. 4. Central Control of the Colonies ; and 5. The Audit-office and geral revision of the Fi nancial department. In the sitting of the National Assembly on the 9th, the proposal was submitted to the Minister of Religion and Public Instruction, that the Episcopal sees should be abrogated, and the funds applied to public education. The Minister replied that it was utterly impossible to introduce any Bill of that nature before the settlement of the fundamental law : it would strike at the very root of existing institutions, and be subversive of all legal order. lie would ob taiu the views of the Church on the subject. 0 A Week Last 2. 11 ending NAME OF RAILWAY. En O. week. e . 1., C.) o bo = ''''"""""" ••••••••-• X A Deo. - Aberdeen ... ..... .. • ..... •• .. ....• - - 10 Amiens and Boulogne. • ... 1,157 80 9 Belfast and Ballymena • • .......... - 351 - 10 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 664 514 9 Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 3,529 - 9 Chester and Holyhead. • ... .. - 9 Cockermouth and Workington........ 94 101 7 Dublin and Drogheda.. .... ......... 602 631 12 Dublin and Kingstown ............ • • 721 287 9 Dundee, I'erth, and Aberdeen... - .... 968 709 10 East Anglian....... •............... 668 - 9 Edinburgh and Glasgow • ... ........ 2,847 2,702 9 Edinburgh and Northern •••• • • • • .... 1,630 528 10 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13,857 :12,266 9 East Lancashire .• • • ................ 1,461 805 9 Eastern Union .•••••••••• • • • • • • • . • .• 1,180 1,119 9 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • . 2,406 2,112 9 Glasgow and Greenock. •• • ..... •• .• 834 859 9 Great Southern and Western •••• • • .. 2,872 1,444 10 Great Westernokc ••••• • • • • • ........ 17,100 16,523 9 Kendal and Windermere. • .....• •• • • 131 85 9 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ••••• • • • • • 9,547 8,372 8 Lancaster and Carlisle •. • • .... 10 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. •• • 59 - 9 Londonderry and t nniskillen lO7 96 10 London and North Western, &c. 3 6 ,011 33,721 10 London and Blackwall.... -- .• 9 London and Brighton ......... • 7,105 6,411 10 London and South Western . 9 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,435 '1,809 - Maryport and Carlisle - 9 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham 19,644 18,255 10 Midland Great Western (Irish) 9 Monklands .........., „ - - Newcastle and Carlisie•••••••••• •• - - - Norfolk.. ••.. • .... ..... - -- 9 North British .. ........... •• • • ....• 2,264 1,665 9 Paris and Rouen . 9 Rouen and Havre ...........••• •• ~ 2,067 2,177 9 Scottish Central .................. . 643 - 10 Shrewsbury and Chester ........ •• • . 1,213 531 9 South Eastern and Branches ...... - 6,787 6,961 8 South Devon ........ .•..•.•.. .• . • • . 1,060 601 9 Taff Vale •• • ............... ••• • • • 10 787 665 2 Waterford and Limerick....... ••.• .• 283 - 10 Whitehaven Junction - Wiehaw and Coltness. -.•••.. .. - - - -- 9 York and Newcastle . 9 York and North Midland SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, DEC. s.—The last accounts from Finland state that the cholera has again broken out at Lovisastadt. The Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry at Helsingfors, Dr. LITSEN, has died of it. BAVARIA. MUNICH, DEC. 9.—The last number of the official journal contains the statement of the formation of the Ministerial department of trade and public works. The Government Director of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, M. VON BEVER, has been appointed first Ministerial Counsel in that department, and the entire management of the inland branch of that department assigned to him. The portfolio of the Ministry of Trade and Public Works is confided pro tem. to Count BRAY. It is generally whispered here that our Government is decidedly averse to the nomination of the King of PRUSSIA as head of the German Government, and that, in conjunction with the Hanoverian, and other Governments, intends to make a protest.—Allge meine Zeitung, Dec. 12. ITALY. The Milan Gazette of the Bth inst. publishes the following order of the day : " Head-quarters of Milan, Dec. 8. " Soldiers,—l informed you yesterday of the sublime and generous act, in virtne of which a powerful Emperor descended from the thone through affection for his people, because he considered that in such difficult times the reins of the State should be held by younger hands. I now communicate to you the sovereign letters, addressed to me on that solemn occasion by their Majesties the Emperor Ferdinand and the Emperor now reigning, Francis Joseph. I hesi tated an instant in that resolution. My modesty was shocked at the idea of proclaiming to you and to the world the too flattering expressions they contain. But the good graces of my Emperor are not my exclusive property—you share them with me. The splendour which, like the beams of the setting sun after a bright day, spreads over the evening of my life, is your work : my achievements are due to your valour. Soldiers, re tain firmly in your loyal hearts the words of your Em peror. Recollect them well. I will remind you of them if the enemies of our country should again compel us to draw the sword. (Signed) " Marshal RADETZKY." " Dear Marshal Radetzky,—l leave the throne of my ancestors with the re-assuring conviction of not having willingly neglected anything calculated to contribute to the welfare of my people. My present resolution, which has been maturely weighed, was founded on that sentiment. At the moment of executing it, I wish to address a few words to the man I am directly indebted to for being able to transmit the monarchy in its integrity to my beloved nephew and successor. Atter the important services which, during upwards of half a century, and with a constant loyalty and an indefatiga ble activity, you have rendered the State at the head of my heroic army, you have victoriously delivered the em pire from the invasion of an enemy numerically superior. The monarchy will eternally be grateful to you for those deeds, and at the moment I commit the reins of government to younger and more robust hands, accept my profound and reiterated thanks. (Signed) " 011mutz, Nov. 30, 1848." " My dear Marshal Count Radetzky,—Honoured by his Maje3ty the Emperor, my most august uncle, with a confidence I have not yet been able to justify, my strength, as yet, untried, requires the advice and assistance of the men of experience, who have deserved well of the State. You rank among the first, and, in that conviction, I now appeal to you. The short time I served under your direction has proved you to be the chief beloved and honoured by my heroic army, for which you are an example of every chivalrous virtue, whose spirit you vivify, whose loyalty you confirm, and whose valour you exalt. I appeal through you to the attachment of my brave troops, and request you to tell them how dearly I appreciate their merit and bear them in my heart. My dear Count, I pray you, as a man of honour, to assist me by your de votion and sincerity. I stand in need of your advice and your services. " 011muts, Dec. 1, 1848." " FERDINAND. (Signed) " FRANCIS JOSEPH.. The Roman Chambers met on the 4th, and the Ministry offered, through Memum, to resign their power to the Chamber. The Chamber, on the motion of the Prince DE CANINO, refused to accept their resignation, as their energy was requisite to adopt measures for the imme diate calling together of the Italian Constituent As sembly, 'which should be the sovereign umpire in all Italian questions. The PRINCE demanded of the Ministry the immediate recognition of the indepen dence of Sicily, the Deputies from which island, together with tho s e from Tuscany and Venice, would form the nucleus of the Italian Constituent Assembly. MOROCCO. The Governor of Gibraltar has published the sub joined extract of a letter, received from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General in Morocco, announcing a reduction of import duties on seve ral articles of merchandize entering the Imperial ports : EXTRACT. " Tangier, 24th November, 1848. "I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency, for the information of the commerce of Gibraltar, that an order from the Sultan has been received at the various ports of the empire, reducing the export duties on the following az tidies : Okheats. Okheats. Bee%t' Wax, preTious duty 160 reduced to 120 Hides, ditto, 53 reduced to 36 Watht d Wool, ditto, 72 reduced to 54 Halloeali 001, ditto, 48 reduced to 36." RAILWAY RETURNS ELILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail: ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : JENNY LIND AT EXETER ALL A performance of Mendelssohn's oratoria of Elijah took place at Exeter Hall last night, for the benefit of the foundation of the Mendelssohn's musical scholarships, and on this occasion Jenny Lind appeared and sang for the first time in English. She astonished everybody by the purity and clearness of her English elocution, and gave quite a new character and effect to several of the finest passages in the oratorio. Her most splendid effort was the scene in which the Widow implores the prophet to save the life of her child—a scene which brought her dran,atie as well as her vocal powers into action. The burst of joy with which she exclaimed, .‘ The soul of my son reviveth!" must have struck to the very heart of every one in the hall. The fine air which opens the second part, " Hear ye, Israel," was magnificently sung. The audience had till then re strained their desire to applaud, but this air produced a burst of enthusiasm quite irrepressible; and, the ice being broken, everythin g th a t J enn y Lin sang was ve hemently encored. This, in particular, was the case with the exquiste unaccompanied trio for female voices, " Lift thine eyes to the mountains," and the equally beautiful quartet, " Holy, holy, holy is God the Lord. The performance of the whole part has added fresh laurels to the wreath of this transcendent singer. In the choral and orchestral departments the performance was magnificent. EARLIER DISPATCH OF INDIA MAIL VIA MARSEILLES. Notice.—The next mail for India, via Marseilles, will be closed at the Post-office on the evening of the 23d inst. This alteration has became necessary in consequence of tho 24th (the usual day for the dispatch of this mail) Wag on Sunday, and the day following being Christ mas-day. HULL, FRIDAY EVENlNG.—Captain BTONVII, of the Harlequin, which arrived here to-day, from St. Peters burgh, states that he is in advance of a fleet of 100 sail, which were off the Island of Bornholm, on the sth inst. GEORGE GILFILLAN AND THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—The recent lecture, delivered at Exeter Hall by the eloquent and accomplished critic George ;. (,f the E a rly i: , (;:si . tion, was su fully tttaided, that .Mr. Gillil,aa La.,, we are happy to perceive, been induced to prolong his stay among us, and to give another lecture in aid of the foods of this excellent society. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was active. Sales 10,000 bales. During the week, the market has been very firm, and both the trade and speculators have been buyers. The prices have tended upwards. The Share Market was again better, and a good business was done. The weekly account of the Bank of England to Sa turday last is of the same character, in every essential respect, as the returns which have recenly been pub lished. The assets are still greatly accumulating, but the business would appear not to increase, for we have both the circulation and the loans upon securities less in amount. The great addition made weekly to the Go vernment deposits must, however, be taken into account, as throwing back upon the Corporation a good deal of its paper. The changes that have occurred in the Bank accounts, compared with the previous week, are as follows : Notes issued 27,733,735 Increase 317,895 Rest . ... 3,374,251 Increase Public Deposits 7,061,202 Increase Other Deposits 9,567,966 Decrease Seven Day and other Bills Decrease Government Securities Other Securities Decrease Notes 10,771,720 Increase Bullion Increase Active circulation Decrease There are no arrivals in the City to-day with late news of interest, and the wetness of the day interferes with out-of-door business. The Mining Share Market this week has not been quite so brisk either for home or foreign undertakings. The quantity of silver shipped from London this week has been considerable—over 300,000 ounces; and 1,320 ounces of gold have been sent to France. In the Funds there have, this morning, been renewed speculations for a rise, and Consols are up to 8711. The further advance in the French Rentes, and the good Bank returns have stimulated the dealers. Ex chequer bills (March) are 403. to 425. prem., being also rather higher. Tne New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 87k to 88k, and the Three per Cents. to 87i to 871. The Foreign Bonds are generally better also. Span ish Three per Cents. have touched 26 upon the adver tisement of the dividend. The Five per Cents. are 12k. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 241 to 25. Mexican Stock has been 22 to 22i. Dutch'two-and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 481. Railway Shares are all in the ascendant, and the im provement is general as the list will show. The chief business, however, has been in Great Northern, North British, Midland, and Boulogne and Amiens. BRITISH FUNDS - THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 8 7 % 1A % New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arms. 87% 88 1 / 2 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 India Bonds under 1,0001.. Consols for Account exchequer Bills. 2 1 / 2 d. 2d. March. June. 1,000/. Small 37 41 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent . 85 Mexican Bona, 1846, 5 per Cent...... 22 Ditto for the Account . 22U Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto for the Account 3 9 1 /2 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto for the Account l 2 l /2 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Cent Ditto for the Account 26 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cent.,l2 Guild 48% JUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SLIAREK AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Psa Basis. Aberdeen \ mbar., Notting., Boston, &c. 4 1 4 l 4 .Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 19 .. Birmingnam & OxiordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 te 3irminghain,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . Do., without a guarantee... 10 Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.145.... dirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 dristol and Exeter . 9O Do., Thirds ...... ... ..... ... 27% — ...... to duckingliamshire— Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, New 101. Preference 5 Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 ~)hester and Holyhead 5O ..... Ditto, Preference larence Do., li.t Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to Do., 2d Class, 5 par Cont... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 5 - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 20 ...... East Anglia, 251. L. & E., am' 1.. & D ... Diao, 181.,E. &11 Ditto,3l. 105., E. & H... 3% — to _ _ astern Counties .... Do.. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 - - Do. Perpet., 5 per ct..N o. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - - Do., do N0.2,61. 13s. 4d... - - Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 - to - Do., 5 per cent. - to - Do., Quarter 12% .. .. - - Do., New - to - Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 , - - Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 - to - Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per cL) 10 . - - Ditto, ditto ......... 20 ...... 17%% .. to - Ditto (C. & E. ), 5 per ct. 2% - to East Lancashire - to - Ditto, New Do., New Quarters - to - Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares East Lincolnshire - Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Halt Shares - - Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... - - Ditto, New port l5 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% - ..... to Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 6s.Bd - ..... to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 - to - Do. Preference Consolidated - ..... - to - Great Northern.... .......... ... 19 Do. 4 A Deferred ..... ..„ 12% 4 A ...... to - Do. %B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% - to - Do. Extension ... - - Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42% 23 '' to - Great North of England 100 - - Ditto, New 40/. 4O - ...... to - Ditto, ditto .... 25 - ...... to - Ditto, New 30/. 3O ... - - Ditto, New 151...... ... ...... 14 ...... - . - Great Western 9O - Ditto, Half Shares 5O - Ditto, Quarter Shares 2l - Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171. l3 .. ... 10;,‘ to - Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .. ... - - Ditto, Thirds lO - to - dull and Selby 5O - to - Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ...... - - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - to - Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - Do., Thirds ...... lO - to - I. ancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... - 'to - _Ditto, ditto - - Ditto Half Shares - 43 - to - Ditto Quarters - to - Ditto Fifths 9 - to - Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6i,i...... - ... to - Ditto Thirds (Reg.) - ...... to - Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 5 - Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 - . ... to - Do. (Hudders. and Shelf.) 43 - ..... to - Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and G001e....... .. ....... 50 - - Do., West Riding Union-. 7 .... . - Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... - .. - Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9% - to - Leeds and Bradford 5O .• ••• - ••• •• to - Leeds,Dewsbury,& Manches. 50 - Do., Half Shares - - Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 2% - to - Leeds and Thirsk ...-.... ..... 50 Ditto, New ....- ..... .. 35 . .... - ...... to - Do.,do.,Prefer , 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - ...... to -. Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. ... 3% - .. .. to .verpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% - ..... to - London& Blackwall ......13/. Gs. 8d 4% t o _ Do. Extension ........ -..... 22%- ll ....- to - Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 - Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 - to - Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ..-.. - .. to - Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... - - Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... 5%. to - I ondon and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... - ... Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... - ...... to - London ts North Western.....loo l2O . ... to - Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 - D 7. New - to - Do. Fifths - - Do. 40i. Shares.....L. & M 25 ...... - - Do. 10/.... 51. and B. (A.) 9 .... . - . ••••• to - Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 - to - Do. 101... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western...-. 50 .. .., - - Ditto, New 501.............. 42%..,.„ - - Ditto, New 401............. 84 - to - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... - - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - - Ditto. Thirds -.- ...... 13/. 6s. 8d ... - - Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and 5 per Ct. on Calls --I/. 13s. 4d.... - - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% - to - Londonderry and Coleraine... 28% - to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 27% - - Liwestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 - - Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 - to - Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 4 - to - Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - to - Ditto 1;,4 Shares (No. 1) ... 18 ...... - Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 - to - Ditto, 4 Shares (No. 3)... 1 0 . ..... - - Do., IN'evi M., Preference.. 10 ..... 10 - i'•:!ti (.:1-i ~..by - Ditto, ditto. .. l3 - •••••• to - Ditto, ditto - ...... to - 'Ditto Sheffield and Linc. •15 - ...... to -- Ditto, Grimsby Pock ...... 20 -.. Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41.25.... Midland.. ... _ Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 501. Shares ~... ...... 20 Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 119% to 120% Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 ... .. Ditto ditto 14/. 18s. .. Midland, Leices. and Swan ning-ton (8 per ct.gua.)....109 .... . Midld. Great Western (Irish) 45 Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. ............... 50 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. Newmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12e. — Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .......... ........ 20 , — ... .. to Norfolk: ...... IOO Ditto New 20/. l5 ...... to Ditto Guaranteed 5 per et. 20 - Do. Do. 5% per cent 5 .• ••• Do. do. Waveney Va11ey... 2 Northern Counties Unien ... 4 North British Ditto Half Shares. ..... Do. Quarters 6 IA 314 % i ii i to Ditto, Extension - Ditto Thirds .... ........ -.... k 4 IA to -- North and South-Western... 2 North Staffordshire-. - ...... 16 North Wales - • •••• to ... _ --- North Western . 10 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton ... Reading, Guildid., & Reigate 10 ...... 9 3 / 4 % to Royston and Hitchin ..... .. 2 ...... Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 25 Ditto,New.. - Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 7% — ...... to Do. do. (South Div.) 4 ..... Shrewsbury and Birmingham 9 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 5 Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2 Shrewsbury and Cheater (Nor. W. 'Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto 8 1,4..... . ... to Ditto, Oswestry 1 7 34 — to Ditto ,New)... Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....—. 10 Shropshire Union 4 ... .. %...... to South Devon - Ditto, Preference South Staffordshire 6 1,4 — .. ~, t o South ;Eastern Ditto, No. I. - Ditto, No. 2. Ditto,_No. 3._ T 25 _ _ ••• Ditto New, No. 4. Thirds 10 South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole 5 - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 6 - Taw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17% to Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 17%...... - Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47%... .. Waterford, Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed - Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall West London Ditto, First Class ... .. 20 Ditto, Second C1a55......... 20 ...... to -- Nhitehaven and Furness l4 ... .. ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western 9 1,4 Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 ...... 25 1 Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New &18. 15 - Do. G. N. E. - Par. or Pref. I York and North:Midland .. 50 ...... 51 .. - Ditto, Preference :10 - Ditto East and 11' est Riding Extension ... .. ...... 25 - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Asstrian Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 7, , 8 3 / 4 ... to -- Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) ... - Ceylon ....... Demerara. ..........- ........... 15 . .... to -- Dendre Valley _ _ _ . 4 ... .. - Direct Bomb - ay and Madras ss. .... . . --- ---to -- Dutch Rhenish 7 14 — East Indian - Great Indian Peninsular Louvain ala Sambre ... ..... 7 1 / 2 — ...... to -- Luxembourg - Ditto Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege... Northern of France l2 - Orleans and Bordeaux :... .. 7 Paris and Lyons .. H.. Do. 1.50. Pans and Orleans... 2O - Paris and Rouen .. 2O - Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 9 ...... - Rouen and Havre ........ -..... 20 - Sambre.and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... . .. 9 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt .. ... .. 20 ...... ...- •••••• to -- West Flanders B% - ...... to -- JOINT STOCK RANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 60 - Colonial ' 1 • ••• 25 ••••• . ••!te ••••'' Commercial of Loudon London Joint Stock ~... ..... 10 Loudon and Westminster...; 20 - National Provincial of Engld. 85 - Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 1,E — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland ......... 25 Ditto, New lO ..... 9 3 / ......:to -- Union of Australia 25 - Ditto, New . Un ion of London ....... . ...... 10 Union of Madrid 40 MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO ..,•••• -- Asturian Mining Company... 14 ...... - Australian 2% 4% to .-- Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 - Bolauos Scrio - British Iron - Brazilian Imperial ...,. .. ... 241( — ..... to -- Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 Cobre Copper General Mining ....... ..r.... 20 - Real del Monte. Unregistered .. .. ... to .. ---' Do. Black Debentures ..... to --- Do. Red Debentures ... Santiago de Cuba - United Mexican ....... 28% — ...... to •-• COURSE OF Amsterdam •• .. 12 3 EXCHANGE. Gibraltar • Leghorn ...• •• •. • ..... 32 26 90 IGenoa•••••••••••••••• Venice...............• 4014 Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Rotterdam .... • ... • . 12 3 Antwerp • • ............ 25 85 Hamburgh •.111.8. 13 12% Altona— •• •••• • • Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 50 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 774 tifarseilles 25 774 80urdeaux......... . 25 774 Frankfort on Maine 121 N Petersburgh, 36 Vienna, effec. flo ...... 11 24 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 24 Madrid •• • • •• •• • • • • • • 47% Cadiz • • ••••••• • • • • •• 48% Bilbao .. •• •• .. •• •• •• •• Barcelona sevUle•••••••••• •• •• Naples ...... ••.. • • 11736 Palermo, per0z.......• i b Messina ..... ••••• • • • • 15116 Lisbon.... • • .........• 5 2 Oporto.. • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... Rio Janeiro •. .. ••• • • . Buenos Ayres ...... • • 7 New York. 21 days'sight Philadelphia ........ •• PRICES or BULLION, rir., Foreign Gold is bars.. £3 1 2 0 Portagal Gold Coin .. 0 • a Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 " 4 4 New Do ll ars ...... 0 • : 1 34 Silver in bars 0 4 *" LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS A LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind N.N.E., moderate bree'-' and dull hazy weather, with rain. b o PENZANCE, DEC. 14.—A schooner, supposed w t.. foreigner, was seen at daylight, standing to the W i ', ward, from under the ea s t ern l an d, an d a t e i g ht o'clu d y er was endeavouring to w ea th er th e Will oc Sh o als, ti e „d. a press of sails, and w h en a b reas t o f th em s he was denly capsized, and went down in deep water, an d o f hands must have perished. There was n o possibilq i4 rendering assistance. Broken staves, beams, bullth e mn g ladders, &c., have been washed onshore, but net " - o ut whereby her name can be ascertained. A vessel O nos Nantes to this port, with grain, is due, but hae„,i i k made her appearance. It is blowing strong from St " a heavy sea running. BRISTOL, DEC. 14.—The Aspacia, Caimans, .fl'vett here from Syra, was struck by a heavy sea in lat. 4 ' long. 13 W., and threw part of cargorerboard. of DOUGLAS (ISLE or MAN), DEC. 13.—The Whitehaven, has put into Ramsey harbour in a Pifl or . state, having been in contact on Bth inst. with the row, of Whitehaven, it blowing a gale at the time. g o TRURO, DEC. 14.—Tbe Peggy, of and from Ol e o I for Irvine, became water-logged and foundered, oh ° fe d. quarter of a mile off this port, yesterday; crew bhe lies with her topmasts above water. , fro° WATERFORD, DEC. 14.—The Jeune Alexanaretmo Normatier, with wheat, went on shore in Trarnorer but hopes are entertained that the cargo will be 15$0`'' not the vessel; crew saved. fo to MARGATE, DEC. 15.—The Diadem, from Ante:, e ,l of Liverpool, has put into these roads, making $ water, much strained, and with pumps choked, n ‘ ee? been obliged to carry a press of sails last night 1 !„ $ clear of the sand in the North Channel, and tril'" surveyed. COO DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. RoolterY.„ tbd Mauritius ; Herald, Vestal, Madra s . Arrd. fre'" h oliti River, Duke of Manchester, Dell, Jamaica. ru! hoot. 15th, London, for New York; Afrika, f o r Cape Hope. 00 MILFORD, DEC. 14.—The George of Cork, 1 . / 0 ~ , be to Cork, drove on Habberstove Poi n t, ex p e cted tha t would be got off this night's tide. a dens HOLYHEAD, DEc. has blown a trelne- e s' gale the whole day from S.S.E. to S.W., with 1 3 51,,.10 ther. A barque and a b r i g try i ng to work up htt,"lolr harbour, were obli ge d to b ear off; the latter ha d $ head pilot on board. N e A YouonaL, DEC. 14.—The brig Growler, of orh iP York, for Wat er f or d , went on shore last night, in el* ing Bay; crew saved. The schooner Falcon, of Gie s v ce fi went on shore last night at Ballycotton; crew (e l one) saved. ; BELFAST, DE C . 14.—1 t h as b een (bl ow i ng a- W gale from the south all day, and still C 0126111 1 01 die' earn well, of this port, has been assisted in her e t t, io HULL, DEC. 15.—The Buccleueb, from Le' lt ",:iite, coming up the Humb er l as t n i g h t , got i n c ontact 0 1# the William (coal laden) for L on d on , r idi ng in Gra- ROI clan Th( Mao] from pore Be 33 1( Bc Veal Ti to 5d 6d tc 13 2( 3d tc to is lien OL cies dull T 1 from 4lbs Ms 721 b, 801 b ditto to .k Oa; 3s 4d Sit ditto load. Cr Cloy 1/ 10 demo w Clove per 1 Ti Lino appel Noth ship, T 1 mon caso Corb TI this bavit Com: °coo] petiti teres T 1 Hirai mon Ti this 1 eith bad vrot sent of (