The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL Just , by the Ahor of EMILIA WYNDHAM. ready, in 3 vols., post Svo., By the Author of EMILIA WYNDHAM," "TWO OLD MEN'S TALES'," &e. Henry' Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. N OTIC E.-LIEUT. F. E. FORBES'S (COMMANDER of 11.M.5. BONETTA) , NEW WORK, FITE TEARS LN CHINA, From 1842 to 1847, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY, _ _ And may be bad ofallßooksellers throughout the rnited Kingdom, with a highly finished Portrait of the Empress of China, and Pu .101. - "Vqpd Engravings, by G. Illeasom. 15s. 411chibl Bentley, New Burlington-street. •-(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) ROYAL ITALIA.N OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, Netabll3laeddil 1847 for the purpose of rendering a more perfect per formance or gle Lyric drama than had hitherto been attained In this tinUnt,l7- The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and Patrons of Music are re spectfully informed that the SEASON (1848) will COMMENCE the - first week in March, in the new and commodious alike constructed „at year, OPERA. For the production of the established works by the gr3at masters of (*Ty school, for the effective representation of the repertoire of se- Venteen Operas mounted ISSt season, and of compositions to be heard ipti tile first time in this country, engagements hale been already Vita the following eminent artistes SOPRANI. Mde. Grist, and Mde. Persian% Mde. Renconl, 31dne. Steffanini, and Mde. ;.astellan (her first appearance), WOO. corhari, Mdlle. Angiolina 7.oja (of the Scala in Milan, her first appeal sues iu this country), and Mo. rantisso Qarcia Viardot (her first appearance). CONTRALTO. Madem o iselle Atheist. TENORI. Signor Mario, and Signor Sixty!, irgaar Lcxe&, Signor Luigi Mei (from Scala, his first appearance in this country), and Itprer (of the Academic Royale saran Musique, and Of the ()peas moreigee, in Paris, his first appce in this country), PRI3dI BASSI BARITONI. Signor Tamburini and Signor Roncord. PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI. 'sway martial. (The ratification of the engagement of Signer Cor fgdi4utti, the celebrated basso, is daily expected). BASSO COMIC°. Signor Agostino Rovers. ALTRI PRIMI gigsor Tag(Junco and Signor Polonial. Sewed° Tenors—Signor Soldl (from the Scala). tdentor of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. Viva Orchestra, comprising the distinguished profesiers of last feetimem, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the Instrumentalists forming the entire orchestra will be published in:a Ware prospectles. The Military Band, which has also been increased, will be Mader the direction of Mr. Godfrey, band-masker of the Coldstream The powerfal and eumerons Chorus of last year will be further flarengthened by 24 chosen and experienced singers, and will number ..ices—sartiely, 40 ladies, and 62 male voices. Chorus D(astor— nor l'oet and Translator of tho Libretti—Signor Magglinal. Prompter—Signor .Ilonterasi. THE BALLET. The rule which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last 11010011, that no divertissement should be suffered between the acts of Operas, will le strictly adhered to. Tao performances will terminate with a ballet. During the season the following eminent dansenees Will appear c Mde. flora Fabbirt (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoldine Scum! (premiere danseuse o f the Ipeial Theatre in Vienna, hre er fret appearance in this country), M m dlle. r Elizabeth Robert (premie dasimenee of the Academia moyale de Musique in Paris, her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Camille (her first appearance for pear years), Mdlle. Thierry, of the Fenice, in Venice (her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Laugher, of the Scala (her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Ctlest Stephan, Mdlle. Honore (her fret appearance), and Mdlle. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance). M. Silvaie and M. Bretin (their first appearances), M. Goalie, Ste., and a nnmerous body of Coryphees, Promineuses and Figurantes. Maitre de Ballet—M. Appiani (from the principal theatres la Italy, France, and Belgium). Regisseur de la Danse—M. O'Bryan. Leader of_jpe Ballet—M. Alfred Mellon. Composer—Signor Beletta. The Reeaesy by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin. Premiere Artiste Cos tundere—Mrs. E. Bailey. lengagentente are pending with other distingnished artistes fbr opera and ballet. A detailed Prespeetus, with the arrangements fbr the senses, will Ile reedy In a few days, and may then be obtained xt the Box-Office (earner of Bow-street and Hart-street), and at the principal libraries awl masts publishers. Boys,/ Italian Opera, Covent-garden, Jan. 22, 15451. TIINATRU ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tailor Ike Mftuagement •t Mr. M. Webster. sole Lessee. }[lt. AND MRS. CHARLES KERN. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled TIIII WIFt'S SBCRBT. Lord Arden, Mr. Bowe; Sir Walter Ainyott, '_►ir. Charles Kean • JabeZ Sneed, Mr. Webster; Harrington, Mr. Kris iall ; Brouillard, Mr. Rogers ; Lady Erebus Anlyett, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Maud ,Mm. Keeley. After w6L.13, a new Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. To eouelude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled £lll4 WORLD I;NDERGROUND; or, tke Golien Flute and the Brazen Waters. Stooge 31 au &ger , Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Sexes, 51. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 25. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doan spa at Half-past six, rerlormance to eommenco at iwyea -- - THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction o'. Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING will be presented al entirely new Piece, entitled the PE AXL •F VIA OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaideu. Principal cha hoters by Measrs. Wale, P. Betlfurd, Wright, Munyard, Gleanaire, •alleaford, and Worrell ; Miss WQolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Often ChapLa, Mrs. Laws, aid Madame Celeste. To be followed by a fs.ss Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE %ACT.. - farness Gtven, Mr. Wright ; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; Laxity Scrimmage, Mr. real Bedford ; Chubblock. Mr. Callenford ; rolicearian. Mr. slanders; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclade with an Italian Pantomime, eatitled PIERROT, the blanied 31:4111 , and POLLUItINELLO. the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Fit, 25., Gallery, Is. epee at halt-past Six, 'Performance to commence at ItaTut. ROYAL LYCEUM' TIIEATRE. 'ruder the Al anagemeat of Madame Vestris. !Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Wig le presented new Comic - Drama, entitled T 1 Mk -41131.)11 QUERN. After Walcott, a New Fairy ExtraTas•anza, entitlol T 2 GoLDaN Bit ANC LI. To fistuelado with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal aharasters by Mr. llarley, Mr. liackstone, and Jlre. Mac. 111 , 16,111 C-14. In'ess Bodes, bs.; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 9s. ; gallery, Is. N. self-prtee 1c) any part •1 the house. The hew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to tie Pablio every day, from Ten till six. The laterior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Wr.adwotl et the Colosseum. . TRINCESS'A THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox., sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland• place. Neeearealant et Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. DaYenpOrt. from America. THIS EVENING ....„ Will be performed Sheridan Knowles's Play of TILE WIFE, Ju lian St. Pierre, Mr. Davenport ; Marianna, Mrs. Mowatt. ttlis which, a new Farce, entitled ABOVE AND BELOW. Frank, Mr. Compton ; Fanny, Nliss F,. Stanley. Is conclude with a new Christmas ralltolllllllP, entitled OLD -pm:mak Tim?: ; or, Ilarlequic and the Four Seasons. Dr(Z3 Circle, Al.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Last Night but Two of the Engagement of Mons. Boeage. Oa FRIDAY EVENING, Win he performed LA TAR TUFFE. La Tar TufTe, M. Docage. After which, LES DEUX MENAGES. Bourt!cull, M. Ilocage. A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of tee piocea which will be produced during the raccoon, may be had at Mr. Miteh ll's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-eflee of lice Theatre. whirl is open daily, from II to b. Yeses, la. ; tit, 34. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3e. ; Gallery, Ss ROYAL gUItTtEY TIIILATItE. Wayne, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Dayl4e-terry." Nenstagtok-road, Surrey, Under the Management of Mr. Blum. 'MIA EVENING, the performances will commence witk the Iblebrated Onera to' THE DAUGHTER OF MR RESIMENT. Claaractess by Messrs. 11. Phillips, Kier, ilorneastie, Rafter, Att wood. It‘litthen, and Miss Poole. to conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled EATTLEDOOIt and BIRITTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, gait, and A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been male (which Ame been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the strinolpal Librarians ; and at the 13ox-rtrize of the Theatre, which is co..en daily from Ten until Four. Boxes. 2s. ; Pit, is.; Gallery, Gd. ' ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING WUI be performed THE LIGHTERMAN of BANKSIDE ; or, the erphaa or Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Hendersoa, Bias, Searle, Vorman, Higgie; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss ilurrougheli After which DEikREST JOHN. To conclude with the grand scholastic and Instructive Pantomime, entitled Tlll4 WORLD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton and he Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap riniments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring; Pa ntaloon, Mr. Morelli; ar!equio, M. Lupino ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, Mdlle. . It ".e. , Is. ; pit, ed. ; Gallery, 4d. No Half-price to any part of the house. ____ Doers epee at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'SI ROYAL AIPIIITHEATRE, Vr , )Trletor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. Mad eland Juvenile Night To-Morrow Evening, when the Paatornirne wit: he played first. Trernendens hit of Lavater Lee, the renouned double Leaner, cur t:earned the liourding ],tall, —The greatest Jumper la the world will apnea ever,' Evening is his extraordinary Gymnastic Exercises, in eluding his astounding double leap over twelve horses, a feat naparal bird since the days or the celebrated Ireland. THIS EVENING, The Grant Spectacle of 'rlIE CAMP OF SILESIA. wietrely pew Sconce la the Arena, by the talented Artists' of Ste gsta'lishtnest. In the various modes of equestratiou. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLII:QUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY' AgAithi, in which those popular artistes Herr Dentin, Mdlie. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, ei u wa. and Pantaloon, which will exceed in spleadovir and elect i a t wiles productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open from 11 till 5 A.ctilti and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. TEE WEATHEIL—Stm OmcE, JAN. 26 THRIMONITER, Lowest, 24 ; Higkest, 30 ; Noon, 24, liAllo3lrrEll, 30 15.—WIND E. by N. ; fine. ;,,ii WATEIL AT LONDON-11XIDGE Tins DAT. klorainii.. 27 rniuutes after 5. Evening .. 53 minutas fitter g. k`Vt, r. 4 .• # , ipot , al , 0 , „„ lir ientn rq_y rzo LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1313 Negotiations etill continue actively in progress bv tweeu the Cabinets and Plenipotentiaries of England, Prance, and Switzerland, for the purpo , e of ensuring, pos,sible, the immediate tranquillity and permanent prosperity of the Helvetic Confederation. kThe Vorort IS still agitated with discussions and interviews. The upreme Diet, while affecting a perfect reliance upon the consequences of its late victories, is, in reality, more than ever vigilant, and more than usually dis posed • to the adoption of a prud en ti a l course of pro ceeding. Each- of the landsgemeindes betrays the same degree of solicitude and watchfulness, and the Radicals delegated by them to participate in the councils of the Federal Government share to a like extent in the anxieties experienced by the local Administrations. In tke midst of these hopes and perplexities, Sir STRATZORD CsoiruiNG, as the repre sentative of Great Britain, preserves, with a profound impartiality, a sincere yearning to witness the amicable adjustment of the affairs of Switzerland, the judicious re-organization of its constitution, and the solid and dispassionate vindication of its na tionality. Nothing, we are satisfied, can tend to produce any beneficial results to the confederates which does not ensure to them in an extraordinary manner—in a manner admitting of no subsequent misunderstand ings upon the point—a perfect Cantonal Sovereignty. Without this, the pacification will be merely tempo rary—the liberty of the Swiss will be an illusion— their independence will be restricted in several instances to a fortunate minority, with whom success will inevitably lead to cruelty, and power to despo tism. In the many and voluminous documents which have recently appeared having reference to these negotiations, the policy of England has been very signi ficantly expressed. It is a policy eminently worthy of her character, and calculated to enhance in a peculiar degree the reputation of the Russell Govern ment. From first to last—from the first outbreak of the late internecine warfare to the last capitulation of the cities of the Sonderbund the policy of Great Britain has been consistent, her purpose has been inflexible, and the pathway marked out by her di plomatists undeviating. Notwithstanding all; the disingenuous hints uttered by M. GUIZOT, it is now certain that the schemes of Lord PALMERSTON at this moment, in regard to the arrangements to be entered into with the Diet (now that its cause has proved triumphant), are identi cal with those entertained by him when he first adventured upon this friendly interference (when the fortunes of the Radicals were altogether unde cided). There has been no double-dealing in the communications forwarded from Downing-street, and no inkling of chicanery in the different documents transmitted to the Foreign Secretary by the distin guished negotiator to whose sagacity these very deli cate matters hare been confided. There has been plain speaking and plain writing enough even for the fastidious mind of the Hon. Gentleman the represen tative of Stafford. Of this negotiation, as conducted by the Noble Viscount, her MAJESTY'S Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the very key note has been the demand of some rational assurance of Can tonal Sovereignty. Lord PALMERSTON has recognised in Cantonal Sovereignty the only true security for the maintenance of the freedom of the confederates and for the preservation of their venerable and glori ous:nationality. Let any one consider for an instant the character of the federal republic of Switzerland—the exquisite balance of interests for which it is remarkable—and the calamities which have invariably resulted from any infringement of the regulations of the Pact—and it will be manifest that without Cantonal Sovereignty the llelvetic constitution must prove a nullity and a delusion. What, let us ask, would be the natural consequences of such a legislative erasure ? They would be as multitudinous as they would be destruc tive ; they would be as interminable as they would be pernicious. Factions would triumph, demagogues would acquire puissance, minorities would ensure to themselves an irresponsible and alarming authority. The national cause would droop before the storms of insurrection, and wither under the heels of rebels. The memorable axiom of SIETES would be reversed—Power would not come from above, nor would Confidence come from below. Foreign bayonets would enforce the mandates of a few insensate incendiaries, and the light of that Hel vetia which had dawned amidst the gloom of feu dalism would be extinguished by the hands of her own treacherous and traitorous offspring. One can ton would fall under the treasonous blows of its neighbour ; force would usurp the place of reason ; and freedom of thought, whether in regard to religion, politics, or philosophy, would never henceforth be tolerated in the land which was once the very home of Liberty. England E has perceived this from the commence ment of her efforts at mediation. The paramount importance of Cantonal Sovereignty has been ex pressed in every dispatch penned by Lord PALMERS TON, and in every syllable articulated by Sir bTRATFORD UANNING. The fact, indeed, is becoming so manifest, that we arc disposed to he sanguine as to the result of the negotiation. After what has been so repeatedly pressed upon the consideration of the Diet it will be scarcely possible for either the Radicals or the Ultramontanists to thwart the intentions of Great Britain. Cantonal Sovereignty must constitute the text of the reforms introduced into the Federal Com pact. There can be no evasion of this conditional point in the settlement of the affairs of Switzerland. However astute the political authorities of the Vorort may be, they cannot disappoint, upon so essential a particular, the skilful and practised diplomatists of France and England. With a sound and candid co •operation between the two latter countries, we count with all confidence upon the ultimate realisation of the dream of Lord PALMERSTON+—a dream which, without representing M. OCIICSNDEIN as shooting a ribston pippin in the market-place of Berne, nevertheless, identifies with the success of liberal ideas the victory of those great principles of freedom of which WILLIAM TELL was of yore the redoubted champion. In all the vicissitudes of those negotiations, it must be a solace tc the Foreign Secretary to reflect that in the person of Sir STRATFORD CANNING he has secured a plenipotentiary of singular integrity, intelligence, and resolution. The favourite assertion of the bullionisrs that the calamities of the past year, and the general distress and suffering that was experienced by all classes, but more especially in the commercial districts, were oc casioned by the railway expenditure and the Irish famine, is . well exposed in the article in Blachwood, to which we alluded on Monday. If we are a miser ably poor people who have eaten up our resources, and are consequently unable to bear the strain that has come upon us, it is our own absurd laws that hare made us so. The evil is entirely of our own creation. A comparison between what had been done before the integrity of the standard was restored, and while the circulation of the country was carried on with inconvertible rags, as they have been termed, and that which has so recently reduced the nation to a state •f destitution, although the cur rency was never in a sounder state, will show how absurd it is to ascribe our embarrassments to the amount of the outlay which has taken place under those heads. The period selected for the comparison cannot be said to afford any advantages to the anti bullionist side of the argument. In the years 1813, 1814, and 1813, when, according to our Contempo rary, " the miserable poverty-stricken people were at the close of a bloody and costly war of twenty years duration, during which they raised 585,000,000/. sterling by loans to Government, and on an average 50,000,0001. annually by taxes, from a population, in eluding Ireland, not amounting to 18,000,000 of souls," advances and contributions were made to the Govern ment for the public service, which appear from Pon - cures Parliamentary Tables to have amounted to no less than 212,093,3781. raised by taxes, and 29 8,464,4281. by debts contracted, funded and un funded, giving a grand total of payments into the Exchequer within these three years of 510,557,8091., or an averag e o f over 1 7 0,000,000 / . per annum. Th ese enormous contributi ons cou ld th en b e ma d e w ith ou t exhaustin g the resources or over-taxing the energies of the British nation ; but we find that the value of the corn which has been imported into the country from t J h t e i p o e n , 1 1y 84 t 6 i , u t l o e 0 d c u to r b i n e g r h 7 i , e a n p e t r n i i o s d o e f x l t s r a m u r o d n i t u h a s r y be i i i n u g . portation took place, amounted in round terms to 33,563,0001. sterling, while the capital absorbed in railways amounted in 1845 to 14,000,0001. ; in 1846 to 35,000,000/. ; and in 1847 to 63,000,000/. If we suppose that during the same period the average revenue collected by taxation amounted to 52,000,000/• per annum, we shall find that the whole amount col lected from the nation within the last three years for railways, for the importation of foreign corn, for taxa tion of every kind, and for the Irish loan of 8,000,0001., did not altogether amount to more than 31,000,0001., or about three-fifths of that which was collected from 1818 to 1815. It should also be borne in mind that the money expended on the construction of rail ways was not sent out of the country, but that, on the British industry, estsl a a n ab d nodu a r ffo uv. r i :l hp i n ireo g icit contrary, it was altogether applied in stimulating r p e l m oy ai n u ie e i d it t u o s t ti .l l l a l rc vo t a i u v s otherwisea S n o ti m t 3 of other causes of our distress must therefore be assigned than the amount of the national expenditure. But it may be said that the nation was wealthier in 1 1815 than in 1847—and that therefore so great a pressure on our resources could more readily be en countered at the former than at the latter period. The income-tax returns will, however, show that such was not the case, but that, on the contrary, the increase in the wealth of the nation more than kept pace with the increase in the population. In 1815 the income-tax was ten per cent. on all incomes ex ceeding 601. per annum, and it produced 15,000,0001 sterling; in,1847, the year of greatest pressure, when the chief absorption of capital in railways and for corn was taking place, it amounted to 5,395,3911. at 21. 18s. 4d. per cent., although it was not levied on incomes lower than 1501. per annum, perhaps we might practically say less than 200/. per annum, so that, without taking into consideration the apprecia tion of the value of money, if a similar rate was now levied to that which was enforced in 1815, we should find that a much greater amount of realised and ac cumulated property now existed in the country—that we are, in fact, a far wealthier people. The property of the nation has been calculated to amount to more than five thousand millions sterling. It would be easy to show that this calculation is rather under than over the mark, if we took into our consi deration the value of our real property, producing 105,000,0001. per annum, and which alone may be fairly estimated as being worth upwards of three thou sand millions sterling. We have in addition our funded property, amounting to 800,000,0001.. The railway and banking property, the capital invested in com merce, manufactures, and agriculture, the deposits in the several banks, the value of the agricultural stock, the millions of horses, oxen, cows, pigs, sheep ; the implements of husbandry, the articles of comfort or luxury in the various dwelling-houses, which would make us the richest nation the world ever saw, even had we not a single ounce of gold in our cof fers. And yet with this enormous capital we are brought to the verge of ruin, because we have seat away thirty-three millions for foreign corn, and expended sixty-three millions on railways, in adding to the facilities of transit, in saving time and money to the traveller, and enabling the farmer to obtain new markets for his produce, and thus materially increase the value thereof, and have advanced eight millions to relieve our starving brethren. Would an individual worth 5,0001. consider himself ruined because he had expended 1001., the fiftieth part of his capital, for such purposes ? Most assuredly not- Neither can the British nation acknowledge that it has been ruined by what has taken place. The great cause of all our sufferings is the contrac tion of the circulation, the not having a currency which is a representative and measure of value sufficient for the wants and exigencies of the nation. The Act of 1844 rendered that contraction inevitable, and thus disabled our manufacturers from carrying on their operations to the usual extent. All the panics upon record have arisen from the abstraction of gold in unusual quantities, and have been cured by the issue of a corresponding amount of paper. Sir R. PEEL has, however, instructed us in the currency, contracting it when gold is scarce, and expanding it when gold is abundant. The nation has, however, paid dearly for this instruction. Letters from Copenhagen of the 18th state that on that day the life of the King of MINDIARK. was despaired of. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 6th, Athens to the 9th, and Smyrna to the 7th instant. The friendly relations between Turkey and Greece had been resumed. M. MUSSURUS was about to leave Constantinople for Athens. He had his audience of leave of the SULTAN on the 3d. He is to proceed to Athens in a Turkish frigate.:GLAßAßts, the Greek Mi nister for Foreign Affairs, has addressed a note to the representatives of the five Great Powers at Athens. in which he denies that any shots were fired at Patras at her MAJESTY'S ship Spitfire. The Contemporaneo of ,Rome of the 15th mentions a report that the Neapolitan General, LANDY, who is at Messina, had opened a dispatch of the English the taaauk_tn W 116 Embassy at Naples, and that k about to demand reparation, and the dismis.._al of General LANDIr. Letters from Naples of a subse quent date, say that the Neapolitan Government has acceded to the demands of the English Ambassador, and that General LAND"! has been dismissed. It is said that Calabria and Salerno are in open revolt. A letter from Turin of the 20th announces that in consequence of the events at Leghorn, the advoca'es PELLEGRINI, LIIGHORN, and 13iszo, have been arrested at Genoa. The papers seized at their residences prove, it is said, that they acted in concert with the advocate GUERRAZZI, promoters of the late disturb ances at Leghorn, and with the chiefs of the Young Italy party in foreign countries. A letter from Civita Vecchia, of Jan. 16, says— " The inhabitants of Palermo in the outbreak of the 12th fought from four o'clock to eleven, and proved victorious ; several soldiers were killed ; and the arrival of the inhabitants of the surrounding country decided the troops to retire, and shut them selves up in the forts ; a provisional government was appointed. The English Minister at Naples sent his yacht to Cagliari, where the English squadron is now lying, with orders to send two frigates to Palermo and two to Naples, to protect the English residents. A revolutionary proclamation has been circulated at Rome, but it produced no effect. It was considered as an act on the part of the enemies of the present progress. It is confidently asserted that the Council of Ministers has approved of the regulations of the Consulta, relative to the publicity of voting and to the publication of the proceedings at the sitting. The Consults is at present busy in preparing an address to the Roman people for the arming of the State." The Swiss Diet met on the 22d. No opposition will take place to the revision of the Federal Pact. The Courrier Suisse announces that on Sunday, the 16th, the people of Zug accepted the new consti tution by a majority of 1,206 to 663 votes, or just two to one. In Lucerne the Grand Council is pur suing its discussions on the project of constitutional reform. It has decided, amongst other things, to reduce the number of Councillors of State to nine (from eleven), and to substitute the departmental for the collegial system, as at Berne. Several of the Swiss Jesuits have attempted to take refuge in Bavaria, but the KING has issued orders forbidding them to remain longer than three days in his dominions. It is said that Prussia and Austria have proposed to blockade Switzerland. Wirtemberg and Baden concur in the proposal, but Bavaria opposes it strongly. Letters have been received from Vienna, which con vey important intelligence. For the first time during the whole of his official career Prince MErrEaxrcu has received a check. He has been opposed in the Council of State and outvoted—METTERNICK wished to carry things with a high hand in Lombardy. Ile would hear of no concessions being made, insisted on punishing severely the authors of the movement, and wished to remove the Archduke RAINER from the Go vernorship, as too much inclined to concessions, and too feeble to be trusted with the cares of government in troublous times. He proposed also to increase the army to 100,000 men, and to make the young Duke ALBERT, a rash, headstrong, high• spirited, but imprudent, and by no means talented, young man, Governor of Lombardy, in the place of the Archduke RAINER. Those propositions were strenuously op posed by Count KOLOIVRAT, who has long been the rival of METTERNICH, and by the:Archduke Lours; and for the first time in his life' .MET THENICII was compelled to give way. In stead of adopting his propositions, the Council of State resolved to dispatch Captain MATER to the Archduke RAINER, recommending him to exhibit more energy against the leaders of the late move ment, but at the same time sanctioning his proposi tions for introducing certain reforms into the Ad ministration of tie country. A number of German functionaries at Milan are to be removed, and to be replaced by natives, and the provincial congregations of Lombardy are to be permitted to address their grievances direct to the EMPEROR. As if to render this check for Prince METTERNICH the more marked, the EMPEROR has addressed a most flattering letter to Count lior.owßAT, and has conferred on him the grand cross of the Order of St. Stephen. It is con sidered that after this there will be no more talk of Austrian intervention in Switzerland. The chief supporter of an armed intervention was Prince MET TERNICH, and the threat of the SIN iss Diet to march an army into Lombardy, in the event of Austrian intervention in the affairs of the republic, has opened the eyes of the more prudent members of the Aus trian Cabinet to the dangers by which they are surrounded. Madrid papers of the 19th, have arrived. The influenza seems to have brought everything to a stand-still in that city. Pour members of the Cabinet, viz., NARVAEZ, SOTOMATOR, BELTRAN DE Lis, and SARTORIUS, are confined to their beds, and 122 persons have died of it in one single day in Madrid. The Moderado candidate has been returned for Santiago. The Duke of GLUCKSBURGH and the Danish and American Ministers have called on General Es- PARTERO. MADRID BOLA, JAN. 19.—The Three per Cents. were done at 27i at fifty days; the Five per Cents., at 16 13-16 for cash, and at 17 at fifty days; the Debt without Interest at 5i fur paper; and the Coupons at 41i for cash. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. There was a grand reception at the Tuileries by the QUEEN on Monday, the first that has taken place since the death of the Princess ADELAIDE. All the Royal Family were present, and among the distin guished personages assembled to pay their respects to her Majesty the Queen of the Faexcn, was the Count of SYRACUSE, the brother of the King of NAPLES. All the Foreign Ambassadors attended. The discussion on the second paragraph of the Ad dress, which relates to the financial condition of the country, was commenced on Monday, continued on Tuesday, and had not finished when the post left. The debate was commenced by M. DE LEYSTERIE, who after denouncing the system of constant loan contracting, alluded to the large reforms which had been last year promised in the salt duties and in the postage on letters, and observed that the gravity of the present financial position would only permit trifling changes to be effected. Since 1840 the present Ministry had expended 2,400,000 franca more than the ordinary budget had amounted to when they had entered on affairs. When anything was said against such a lavish expenditure, what was the answer ? " Look at the railways I" But how much had that great source of expenditure called for ? Not more than 550 millions. Out of the rest not less than 1,400,000,000 f. had been expended in augmentation of salaries and extraordinary expenses of various kinds. The Minister of Finance defended the conduct of the Government, and while admitting the existence of a very serious deficit expressed a hope that the time would come when the deficit would be covered, and the receipts would equal the expenditure. The debate was resumed on Tuesday by M. FouLD, who declared that the financial condition of the country had been getting worse year after year ever since the accession of the present Cabinet to office. This brought up the Minister of Finance to complain of the exaggerations of the preceding speaker, and then M. TRIERS rose and declared that in his opinion the financial condition of the country was not such as to warrant the hopes held out by the Government ; but that, on the contrary, it was surrounded by difficulties. The Hon. Deputy was speaking at the hour the post left. There were various rumours rife in Paris on the subject of the affairs of Naples. One rumour which was current in the Chamber of Deputies, and which obtained extensive credit among the Mem bers, was, that on the withdrawal of the troops from Naples to Palermo, a revolution had broken out in Naples, which had been completely successful, and that the King of NAPLES had been compelled to take refuge on board a British ship of war. The Presse states that a dispatch had been received from the King of SWEDEN, warmly complaining that as one of the parties of the treaties of Vienna, he had not been invited to take part in the negotiations opened by France with the three northern Powers, on the subject of Switzerland. The Itionifeur publishes the returns of the imports and exports of France in 1847. The Customs duties eAntnit a diminution of 10,641,1t6C. 7 as coin pared with those of 1846, having only amounted to 134,117,730 f. The number of French vessels which entered the harbours of France in 1847 was 7,836, measuring 916,951 tons; the foreign vessels, 13,303, measuring 1,896,938 tons: in all 21,139 vessels and 2,813,889 tons. The French vessels which cleared in 1847 were 5,425, measuring 674,341 tons; the foreign vessels 7,514, measuring 825,720 tons : in all 12,939 vessels and 1,500,061 tons. As compared with the naviga tion of :846, there was a decrease in 1847 of 348 in the number of French vessels which entered the har bours of France, but an increase of 37,143 tons; and an augmentation of 1,190 in that of foreign vessels, and of 216,648 tons. The number of French vessels which sailed from France also pre sent a diminution of 170, whilst the foreign increased by 891. Four companies have made application for the con cession of the Lyons and Avignon Railroad. They are the Paris and Lyons Company ; the company formed by Messrs. LAFFITTE, BLOUNT, and Co.; that formed by Messrs. BLAQUE, CEARTAIN, and DROUIL 'LARD ; and the Marseilles and Avignon Company, which last, however, requires only the line from Avignon to Valence. The Lyons Company calls upon the Ministry to adopt the line of the left bank of the Rhone. Messrs. LAFFITTE, BLOUNT, and Co , for the right bank, with private arrangements for following, as far as Gisors, the St. Etienne line, and having at Lyons a station in common with that railway. M. DROUILLARD, who is the owner of large iron works, which would probably be called upon to furnish supplies to his com pany, is also for the right bank, but, as his con ' ditions, he demands the giving up as a subvention of the deposits paid to the Government by the old com pany of Lyons to Avignon, augmented by those of the Bordeaux to Cette and Fampoux to Hanebrouck companies, the shareholders of which would be ad mitted into his company, and the amount to which each would be entitled, if his share of the deposit were to be restored, could be taken on account of a first instalment upon their shares. The Marseilles Company proposes to follow the left bank, and to adopt the plans already prepared for it. It is quite ready to undertake the work at once, and the recent completion of the section from Avignon to Valence would enable it to turn to account the implements, &c., which were used for the making of the Avignon to Valence section. On one point all the competitors are agreed, viz., calling upon the State to guarantee a certain rate of interest upon the capital to be em ployed. The Prince and Princess DE JOIN MLLE are to embark immediately on board the steam-ship Cuvier, for Algiers. The alleged reason of this visit is the health of the Princess (by birth a Brazilian), who suffers much from the intense cold which prevails in Paris during the winter months. Don ENRIQUE and his consort left Bayonne on the 1 21st for Toulouse. Three per Cents. for cash, closed on the Paris Bourse yesterday at 73f. 70c.; the New Loan. 741. 75c. ; Fire per Cents., 115 f. 90c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,1711. 25c.; Rouen, 892 f. 50c.; Havre, 442 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 627 f. 50c.; Avignon, 5521. 50c. ; Vierzon , 505 f. ; B o rd eaux , 472 f. 50c.; I3oulogne, 365 f. ; Paris and St ras b urg , 406 f. 25c.; Tc urs and Na ntes, 3831.; Paris and Lyons, 391 f. 25c. MARSEILLES.—MarseiIIes and Avignon, 547 if. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TLIE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.. JAN. 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 13% —East Indian, ?4—:Northern of Freace, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, s—Paris and Lyons, 51,4,. SUDDEN DEATH OE A LICENSED VICTUALLER.— Mr. Baker held an inquest this day on the body of Mr. Thomas Betts, landlord of the Marquis of Lansdowne Tavern, Thomas-street, Kingsland-road. It appeared that Mr. Betts, had for some few days past complained of slight indisposition, but continued as usual to attend to his business. On Sunday night he retired t o res t with his wife, at about a quarter past twelve, but had not been many seconds in bed when he ejaculated, " 0 my God," and died. Air. Wallis, surgeon, of the Hackney road, was instantly sent for, and promptly arrived, but life was found to be quite extinct. The deceased had died from an affection of the heart. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the testimony given. The deceased, who was deservedly much respected, has left s wife and wine children to deplore their low THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN i N(), JANUARY 26, ; t'4B, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. Cr! Y, QUAI?TER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, only 2,000 bales being sold at about the previous rates. Railway Shares were quiet. We have no intelligence yet of the West India mail. The accounts received from the Continent attract considerable attention here, and there is more anxiety respecting the affairs of Italy, and the policy that will be pumed by Austria, which, as long as Prince 'Met ternich rules, is Lot likely to be of a yielding chs - racter, The letters from the manufacturing districts are not of a satisfactory tenor, and there is evidently much depression in trade. This will restrict the consumption of excisable articles, and affect the revenue, though it may rcnder money cheaper than ever. The Funds are much the same as they were yesterday afternoon, with a moderate business doing. Prices opened better, but have gone buck a little since. Consols were 883 to 89* for transfer, since 884 to 89, and are now 883 to 89*. For January the rates are also 883 to 893. Exchequer-bills have realised 275. to 30s. pre mium, and India Bonds 20s. to 235. premium, Bank Btock keeps at 1983 to 200, and India Stock at 2393. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 893 to 903, and the Three per Cents. 89 to 3. The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Spanish Bonds aro merely nominal. Portuguese Four per Cent. Stock has been quoted 26, and Brasilian Small 843. Danish Bonds have been 833 to 843, Belgian Four-and a-llalf per Cents. 91, and Dutch Two-and•a•Half per Cents. 534 to 543. Railway Shares are upon the whole rather firmer again, but business is by no means animated. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock ... 200 198 1 200 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced Anna B 9 l /2 83 89 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 88% 89% 88 3 4 89 88 3 4 New 3% per Cent. Anns 9 0 ,1A 89% 90% 90% Long Anns. to expire Jan.1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 11-16 % 8% India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001.. .. 20 p 20p South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account B9 88% 89 1 / 2 88% 88 3 4 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,0004 500/. .... ONE O'CLOCK. 27 p 28 p CLOSIIs G nucEs. RICES OF FOREIGN FU:s.ZDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B 3 l /2 844 84 , A Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto, Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 lB Ditto, Account . lB Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account 26 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 / ,,i per Cent... Ditto Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent ~ .. 91 91 Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent., .12 Guild.— 53% 54 1 5:3?4 53/ 4 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 85 1 ,4 85 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAIL WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PIIICES Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junetion Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 , /i . Belfast & County Down 10 ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction .... ... 20 Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 10 Binning.,Wolverlepton, and Stour Valley 10/. 145... •••..• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire .Tune.... 7 3 % ..... ••••••••. Boston, Stanafd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire... 12/. 45. ..... Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. 3N — .• Dit to,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 3714. 20 ... 2O Ditto, Preference l2 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports- ._ . motull •••• ..... •••• Dublin and Belfast June. 25 Dundalk & Enniskillen East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and 25 ...... 12 Do., lfq., E.& H.... 18 Do., 31. 105.,E. &It 2 .•• Eastern Counties........ 20 Ditto (13) Ditto, Extension,s per Cent., No. 1...... 61. 13A. 4d.... ..... Ditto ditto, N. 2...0e. I•Ss. 4d... par ... Do., fork Extension.. 10 Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters ......... 12. 1 4 — Do., New Eastern Union 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares 1214 — . _ Ditto, Thirds .......135.4d•• — Do. (guar. 6 per cent.) 10 East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 334...... East Linco!nshire ...... 12 1 / 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ••• Ditto, half Shares ... 15 .. .. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 /, ll Edinburgh and Northern 22 1 7 2 — Ditto, New.. 3 :%4 — Ditto, Newport l2 Ditto, ditto, New 2 l/ ExAer,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2. [ - i — Ditto, New Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow,lcilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... ..•• Ditto, New ... ... 40 Do.Preferenee Consol. 12 ,) Great Northern Do., London and York 2 1 / 2 — ...... ... - fireat South. and West. (Ireland) - Great North of England.loo ......235 237 237 Ditto, New 40/ 5 Ditto, New 301.......... 30 Ditto, New, 15/. Great Western 9O Ditto, Shares 5O ..... Ditto, 1 % Shares Ditto, Fifths. 20 —u, Ditto, New 171 . 9%.•• 10,k; % Huddersfield and Manch. 24 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm 171%2...... 8% Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & El)) 21,4 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do. Qiia - rter Shares... LOA l2 .. ..... Do. Fifths ... 8 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 45...... -- •••••• Do. Livery. and Bury 38 ...... Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.(Waketield,Poate fract, and G00k).... 47 1 ,4 Do.( W. Riding Union)4/. 25... ..• .. ......•••• 2% die. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A)... 9 ...... Ditto ditto (B) ... liA Leeds and Bradford 5O ... 94 1 4 94% Leads, Dewsbury, &c... 42 1 ...••• •.. Do., Half Shares l5 .. Do.Nevrßranch (blue) 2 1 ... Do. Extension (green) 2, Do. New Exten.(pink) 2% Leeds and Thirsk ...... 36 Ditto, New ...... ....... 22% — ....... Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 3% — Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. 2 Liverp., Alinchstr &New castle Junction 2% London &Blackwall...l3/. 68.6 d.... 5% Do. Nerr, No. 2 ... 4/. 13s. 4d.... .. Do. Extension ... 17% London, Brighton, and South C0a5t......... 50 • Do. Consol. Eighths. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ...... Do. Pref. Con.s per et. 50 .. ... ...... ......... • Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 — London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d ......... - 6 543 --- Ditto, Preference... 18117 s 2d... 153 Loudon and N. Western 100 152 153... Do.,Quarters L. & B. 22 — Do., do., New Ditto Fifth., ..... .. .. 2 ..... . ........ Do. 14 Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 ...... 1)o. 40/. OW & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7%•••••• Do. 101. (M. & B.) B. 7% — .......- ..... . Do. 10/. ( 51. & B.) C. 1 Lon '. & S. Western ... 41 /. 6 s. 8 d.... Do. Now ConsoL Bths 40 Da. New 50/. ... ..... 32%..... 29% Do. New 40/ Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto ............ 40 Ditto, Thirds B/. 68.8 d.... ......... ...... London, Salisbury, and - Yeovil ..... ~... ........ 1%...... ....• ... Londonderry&G,lerainn 27% ....... ........ Loadonderry and Ennis killen 2B •••••• ••• ..... ••••• ...- Mtutchester,Buxton,and Matlock Al A 3 / 4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% — Ditto and Grimsby.— 25 Ditto ditto . ......... 7 - ••••••••• •••••• .... Ditto ditto .. Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire.. 7IA ~.. .., ...."'•"""' Manchest. & Soutfikanpt. 2% — rilildano lOO 116 Do. consolidated Pref.100 Do. 401. Shares Do. 501. Shams ls Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Midiond Consol. Brist. . Burning., 6 per et,. ...100 ......125 Alidlnd, Brist. & Gloestr. Ditto, ditto ...... 11/. 3s. 6d... ...... Midlnd, Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per et.guar 100 MidlAnd Great Western Irish N eweastle and Carlisle 1(X) Do. Quarters 25 Ntwinrket &„ Chesterford 181,4, Do. Extension ...... ...2/. 128.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Ilereford 6 ...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor l 2 l /2 — •• .•••••.••••• Norfolk ........ .. 1(0 Do. New 20/. ... ...... 5 Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norf01k... Do. do. Wavency Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 North British ... .... ... 25 Do. Half Shares Do. Quarters 4. Do. Extension ...... ... % — Ditt , Thirds Nortt Staffordshire III ...... 10%%.• .. ...... North Wales North Western 6 - ,••••• ••• ...... 'Word, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 35 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Ilitchin ... 1% — ... Scottish Central Scottish Midland 22% . .... Ditto, New 10 Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Birth... T Ditto ditto, Class B. 4 - Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. )fin.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ...... „. „... Ditto Oswestry ...... 12 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 Shropshire Union South Devon 4O ...... Do. Preference South Staffordshire South Eastern & Dover. 33% — Do., No. 1 24 Do., Nc. 2. Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... 2 0 - Do~ No. 4 South Wales .. .. 18 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 3 - - swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's &fn. C0a1.... 6 - Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... Vale of Neath ... .. W aterford and Kilkenny 13% — .. — Waterford and Limerick 40 - Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, - 3i 26 3 / 4 12 tAi lo p and Düblin West Cornwall 4 ... IV'hitehaven & Furness 13 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 52s — W 8t.% Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do. Original New and Berwick Do. North Shields Pu r. 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2...... ... 10 Do. G.N E.Preforence 8 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 14 Central of Spain .. Ceylon Demerara 5 Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... l l /1 Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Austrian.... 4 Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1 Louvain Ila Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg 6 Lyons and Avignon.. 5 Madrid and Valentia... 2 Narvur and Liege 16 ... 6% ••• F_rance lO Orleans and Bordeaux o Over Yssel 413 s 4d...... Paris and Lyons lO 5% Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ..... 20 Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 ...... •••..••• Rouen and llavre Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Basle Tour,: and Nantes 8 Tournay. Jurbise, Lin den, and Ilasselt ...... 16 West F1ander5........... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial London & Westminster. 20 MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Brazilian Cocaes& Cuiba 30 British Iron Bolonos Scrip ...... -- Galvanized Iron ...... 10 Ditto, New Real Del Monte, Unreg. l% .• LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS I)AY.) LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind E. by N., fresh gale and squally; frost. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind N.B. Arrd. Venus, Holm, St. Domingo, for Copenhagen; Osiris, Da Jonge Batavia; Franklin, Abbott, Mau ritius ; Cordo va , Cline , Valparaiso, for Havre ; Magdalena, Andrew, Rio Janeiro, for Harnburgh ; Mungo Park, Leask, St. John's, New Brunswick, for Aberdeen. Sid. Wm. Stuart, Port Philip. Fowwr, Jaw. 24.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Mary Ellen, Inglis, Mauritius. FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind E.N.E., strong.—Arrd. Vrienchap, Schuchard, Batavia. Off port, Edouard, Batavia. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.—Wind E.—Arrd. Druid, Lynch, Sydney. Sid. Richard, New Orleans ; Majestic, Calcutta ; Kathleen, Blampoed, Africa ; William Rush ton, Vert Cruz ; Magistrate, Mobile ; Champion, Phi ladelphia ; Emigrant, Baltimore. Off port, Biythwood, Callao. The Princess Helene, Carruthers, drove foul of the Martin Lutlior in Madras Roads, 6th alt., and both received damage ; the former put out to sea. The George and Francis on West Hoyle, Bth inst., has been raised and taken into Harpake. CORK, JAN. 23.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Sarah, of Liver pool, Callao. GLASGOW, JAN. 25.—The Maid of the Mill, Trinidad to the Clyde, on shore iu Cloughy Bay, 23d inst., in a dense fog. ARDRORSAN, JAN. 22.—The Senaoh Mary, of Ram say, has been got off Saltcoats, with little damage. OFF PLYMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Elizabeth, Muir, Calcutta. NEWPORT, JAN. 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. 23d, Chris topher Columbus, Trick, New York; 25th, Chieftain, Scott, Singapore. PORT TALBOT, JAN. 23.—Wind S.E.—Sld. 24th, Monmouth, Evans, St. Thomas. Arrd. Clyde, 24th, Rolla, Watson, Nassau, N.P. DUBLIN, JAN. 22.—Arrd. Sarah, St. John's. FALHIOUTII, JAN. 25.—The Lawsona, Ewart, from Taganrof, arrived here to day, with part of cargo thrown overboard, having been on shore near Trapane. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY On the whole a fair average quantity of English Wheat has come to hand this week coastwise, and by land carriage. The show of samples to-day somewhat exceeded the wants of the buyers. The finest qualities were in moderate request at full prices, but the middling and interior kinds were a slow sale. No foreign Wheat has arrived since Monday. That grain moved off slowly, yet previous rates were well supported. Barley, the supply of which was moderate, was in fair request at last week's quotations. In Malt next to nothing was doing, and prices were almost nominal. Oats, Beans, and Peas, as well as most other articles, including Flour, were very dull. AIRITALS. I Barley. Wheat. Buglisk • • • • • • Irish. • • • • • • •• Foreign •• • • •• 2,610 qrs. I 8,9?11-qrs. Oatq. Ylear . 120 qrs. 12,8 i) skt. 1 ;70 . I 3,960 Malt, 1,8511 WHITECHAPSIL. We had a very firm trade this morning, and prices had an upward tendency. Beef front 8s 4d to 4a 4d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; 'Veal, 4s 4d to Is 4d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per gibs by the carcass. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day at eleven o'clock . COONS V. LOWNDES.—JUDGhtiI3T. The LORD CRANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which was argued a considerable time since upon appeal. The case is totally devoid of any in terest, except to the parties concerned, and the ques tion relating to the law respecting copyhold estates His Lordship directed a reference to the Master. DATIS C. CHANTER.-4,I3D4SXBIST. His LORDSIIIP also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upwards of twelve months ago upon apkJeal from the judgment of the Vice Chancellor of England. The chief portion of the case was whether limited letters of administration were sufficient to pass property. The original bill was filed in the year 1834, upon which a decree was pro nounced in 1837. A supplemental bill was subse quently filed, and proceedings taken in the Ecclesi astical Court. Upon that bill coming before the Vice-Chancellor of England, his Honour thought the parties were not sufficiently represented, and ordered the case to stand over, allowing the appellant to renew the bill, and from that order the parties ap pealed. his Lordihip thought the estate was suffi ciently represented in the supplemental bill, and reversed the Vice-Chancellor's decision. 4 18 18 393/4 30 1 ,4 10% - 60 lAi - 16% 21 1 i4 13 I,ii 4 70% 19 3 , 4 / 23V 2 101/i 8% 117 i 7% KIRK V. THE BROMLEY innort.--fUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before his Lordship some time since, upon an appeal from the deci• sion of the Vice-Chancellor, overruling a demurrer put in by the defendants to the plaintiff's bill. The bill was filed by the architect of the Union Work house at Bromley, to compel the guardians of the poor of the union to pay him for certain alterations in the original plan, made at their express suggestion, and through the interference and desire of their agents. By the contract between the parties it was expressly stipulated that no alterations in, or deviations from, the original plan, were to be paid for unless the in structions for that purpose were given to the plaintiff in writing. The plaintiff by his bill alleged, that the instructions given for the alterations in question were tantamount to a written order, and that although he could not recover for them at law, he had an equitable claim which the Court would enforce. The Vice- Chancellor thought there was a fair equitable claim, and directed the defendants to answer; and from that judgment the defendants appealed to the Lord Chan cellor. His Lordship was clearly of opinion that the overruling of the demurrer by the Vice-Chancellor was wrong, and ordered that judgment to be reversed, and the demurrer allowed. This judgment has the effect of putting the plain. tiff's bill out of court. THR GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. TAB BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY COMPANY. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal motion were then resumed, and occupied the Court the remainder of the day. SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) LOSSES ON RAILWAY SEEARES.---OLDHAM V. RIDGE. The plaintiff in this action is a sharebroker at Manchester, and the defendant is also a sharebroker in the City. The claim was for 461. 17s. Gd., the difference on sale of fifty shares in the North Staf fordshire Railway Company, the ahares having been purchased by plaintiff at the request of the defendant, but which defendant afterwards refused to accept, and 11. 16s. 6d. for commission on the original purchase. The defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, it was only necessary to prove the value and resale of the shares. Mr. Jos. E. Oldham, the son to the plaintiff, was called, and proved that a letter was received from the defendant, dated the 4th of September, 1846, re questing the purchase of the shares mentioned, and they were accordingly bought, at a premium, for 4961. 17s. 6d. Defendant not taking them up, they were resold at a loss of 461. 17:s. 6d. The Learned SECONDARY directed the jury that the plaintiff was entitled to the full amount of his claim; and a verdict for 481. lis. was accordingly entered. MARLBRO'-STREET—( THIS DAY) George James, a private in the Royal Artillery, was placed before Mr. Hardwick, eharged with steal ing a silver watch, and a picture, the property of his uncle, James Boxam, King's Mews, South-street, Grosvenor-square. It appeared that the prisoner was on a furlough in the month of December last, and was staying at the prosecutor's. On the 22d of that month, while the prosecutor was in bed, the prisoner took the oppor tunity of stealing a silver watch, and a picture, with which he decamped. Information was forwarded to the police with a description of the prisoner, and last night he was taken into custody. Police-sergeant John Gray, 10 C, said he took the prisoner into custody yesterday evening at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. He told him of the nature of the charge against him, when he (prisoner) admitted stealing the articles, and said he had pledged the watch fur eighteen shillings, and sold the ticket for three shillings. The picture be bad sold to A publican for three shillings. The prisoner, who admitted the charge, was re' gianded. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSMILS, JAW. 24.—During the week, from Isth to 20th January, there entered into the port of Antwerp not a single vessel laden with corn. His Majesty has received from the King of Wur• temburg a letter, announcing the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, consort Of Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, in consequence of which his Majesty has put on moaning for eight days, dating from the 224 January. The funeral of Count Von Rodenback, who expired suddenly, [from an attack of apoplexy, in a coffee house, a few days ago, took place yesterday after noon with great solemnity, amidst an immense con course of spectators. A funeral oration was delivered• speaking in high terms of this hero of national inde' pendence, who was at the head of the Flemish voluir Was dcv ()Lea to the welfare of his country. Aniwair.—The mortality here, as in other places, has been excessive, as compared with that a pr ceding years. The report of the weeu, f rom th e 15 111 to the 21st instant, announce 81 deaths and only 6 1 births, being an excess of 30 deaths. The Messenger states that the mortality in Ghent, from the lst to the 22d of this month, exceeds the number of births bi nearly one half. During these 22 days there haYe been 818 deaths and 188 births. In the civil hospit 4 . 4l especially the mortality is fearfully great. If this state of things continues it might not be difficult to point out the time of the total extinction of the rope' lation of our city. HAAteuaoit.---The Ilamburgh Altona TelegraPX during the y ear 1847, announce d th e arr i va l o f 3,84 7 vessels, viz. 27 from the East Indies, 190 West Indict ), 64 South America, 114 Brazils, 39 North Americo, 14 Africa, 7 Canary Islands, 50 Spain, 22 Portugal' 56 Mediterranean, 115 France, 1,668 Great Britai° and Ireland, 101 Belgian, 343 Holland, 334 Bremen and Weser, 86, Denmark and the coasts of the North Sea, 88 Sweden and Norway, 8 whalers and seal vessels, and 411 steamers.—Brussels Papers, Jae. 24' DUTCH PAPERS. The 'lions, JAN. 19.—His Majesty yesterday granted a private audience to Chevalier de Bra!zh Chamberlain to her Majesty the Queen of Spill"' This diplomatist placed in the hands of his Majesty his letters of credence, which accredited him resident Minister of the Queen of Spain at the Court of the Netherlands. His Majesty has granted permission for wearing, the different orders sen t by th e Ki ng o f S we d en and Nom ay to Lieutenant-General de la Serraz, Minis' ter of State to the Counsellors of Legation ; to Dl' J. F. Mazel, Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs ; and to M. C. Clerk, of the same department . JAN. 20.—The anniversary of the birthday of hi 6 Majesty was celebrated with much festivity. All the troops of the garrisons were exercised. I here was family dejeuner and dinner at the Palace Noordeindeo and a gala ball in the evening. The illutninatiope were very beautiful, especially that by gas outside the Palace; and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the streets were crowded. The Government has just published its budget of receipts and expenses for the year 1848. The extra' ordinary receipts amount to 11.67,734 96, and th e ordinary revenues a r e es timated at fi.721,648 81w : making a total of 6.780,685 21i. Thus the budge t for 1848 presents a surplus of 6.8,698 61i. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 21.—Yesterday a new steame r was launched here, from the docks of Messrs. rsul , of Flushing, and Dordrok, of Hall, for the use o f,the steam-boat company, to be employed in towing vessels on the Rhine, between Frankfort and th e towns on the Upper Rhine. It was a moot singula r and interesting sight to see two vessels launched at this season of the year, notwithstanding the in; clemency of the weather. The river was covered with ice, and it was a curious spectacle to see the steamer launched into the basin, the ice of which he° been previously broken up, and which had thus bee° rendered navigable. THE HAGUE, JAN. 20.—The anniversary of the birth of her august Majesty our beloved Queen, N ab celebrated here with every usual demonstration 01 loyalty. All tie troops in garrison were reviewed' and a grand entertainment was given at Court. There was a brilliant, gay illumination, in the evening, and, in spite of the intense cold, the streets were crowded! and every one participated in the general feelings 01 joy at the auspicious anniversary of the birthday of a Queen who, by her great benevolence, has endeared herself to her people, and whose name is blessed hi all the poor and afflicted. CASSEL, JAN. 11.—The so-called modification corn' mission for the alteration of the constitution i 6 again to be dissolved. Hence it is probable that the constitution will remain as it was. After a long discussion to-day, the States did not arrive at a oon . elusion as to the admission of the second deputy from the Residence to the Diet, M. V. Weitz, of Eschew . The sitting was broken up after a very stormy debate , and the continuation and conclusion will probably take place at the next sitting. HILDESIIEIM DASSAL, JAN. 12.—Yesterday even: ing, at half-past nine, a fearful fire broke out at Dassal, in the principality of Ilildesheim, which, in the course of a few hours, destroyed 24 dwelling! , besides outhouses and barns. There was no possiby' bility of extinguishing the fire as the water froze 1° the pipes.—Dutch Papers. A SHORT BUT SENSIBLE PETITION.—The folios!' lag petition to the House of Commons is at present I' the course of signature in Zetland :—" That your pet l ' tioners profess the religion of Christ, which enjoir ls upon them, as ono of the principal duties, to do un t° others as they would that others would do unto then?' That to exclude from any civil rights any of th° lr fellow subjects, who conduct themselves as good mti bore of society, and contribute their fair proportion t ° the burdens of the State, merely because they worshif God in that mode in which they have been e ducaVu and consider to be right, is not to treat others as sv a would that others should treat us, and is therefore uachristiau as nil as unjust."--invernm courier. 4k 13 1 / 88 3% 34 3 / 4 314 12% 9 e ii 167 13% 6% 5% - 17i