The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-23 00:00:00

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The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs aed alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT. 'Viola, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, a new Farce, entitled TOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. To conclade with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson. THEATRJ ROYAL, ADELPHI. rnrter 'tie direction o; Madame (7eleste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Dieby Wyatt, Es 0., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Back, added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. itedlaw, Mr. Hughes: the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith; A. Tetterby and Cc, Mr Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; Milly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tel terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Pau Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. Te conclude with a sew Farce called SEAS FIER AND CIiASHEP. Mr. Slather, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. PRINCESS'S THEAT Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and lianager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner t - y \lr Ilurwitz. A. new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best acrart.. men ts ha - re been made 10• the duo Ventilation of the Theatre, and the cohort and convenience el the audience. 0:; TtiESDAT ETENING, Will be performed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD FELLO W. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. ROBERT-FIOUDIN will repeat his SOIREES FANTAS TIQUES THIS EVENING, to he continued every Tuesday, Thurs. day, and Saturday until the end of the Christmas vac 'Hons. The Programme will include numerous experiments entirely new. 1)oors open at Eight. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office. TO CORRESPONDEIN TS. NO communication can be attended to uuless autheati cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot lyi) returned. THE WEATHER,—SUN OFErzE, DECEMBER 23. TuntstoKETzis, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 37; Noon, 3 BAR:. mrrza, 30.37.—W1ND E.N.E.; hazy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAT. Morning .. 22 rain. after 12 1 Evenlll; • • 41 min. after 12 4; • • • Cis • 441t_ i rt,:'-'174. ' **, *4!'4 ."71t - 114 6 :4 ( - • "14 .1 , „ • . :.yjflj IUL LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1848. So! the AUTOCRAT is waking up from his sullen. ness. The sword of Russian despotism is to decide the doom of Europe : and the prophecy of the Im perial Exile of St. Helena is about to be fulfilled— that prophecy which declared that within fifty years the European Continent would be either inundated with Cossacks or transformed into democracies. NICHOLAS is girding on bis armour : he is about to descend from the north into the plains of Germany, and to chastise the rebels who have revolted against his brother of Prussia. The EMPEROR. will march to the rescue of the absolutist of Sans Souci, at the head of 500,000 men, attended by a vast and effective force of artillery. So says, at least, the Frankfort Journal of the 19th instant, and the Frankfort Journal is published in the very heart of Germanic intelligence. Possibly the Potentate of all the Russias hugs himself in the idea, that the people of Christendom will shudder with awe at the advent of himself and his barbarian legions—that the political institutions of Europe, in short, are ready to crumble into ruins at the first stamp of his mailed foot. Let him away, with these silly notions of his omnipotence. The insurgent democracies of Europe are, on the con trary, ripe for the struggle, which seems to become every day more inevitable. Vast and almost inex haustible as are his powers, filled though his treasury be to repletion, the Emperor NICHOLAS will find a different destiny awaiting him than that which wel comed the barbarian hordes of antiquity—the Goths, and the Ostrogoths, and the Visigoths, and the Van dals. When ODOACEH descended into the frightful valleys of Italy, and penetrated even to the golden palaces, and the hanging gardens, and the marble temples of Rome, he found a population enervated by luxury and paralysed by despotism. When ALAEIC adventured beyond the Alps he found his way smoothed before him by the pomps of a patrician race. When ATILLA, " the scourge of Goo," traversed the vineyards of Lombardy, he was preceded by the subjugating influences of refinement. The modern Scythians will find themselves opposed to nations placed in an exactly contrary situation. The BELISARIUS of Europe will not have to weep over the prostrate glories of her capitals. Democracy has strengthened where tyranny weakened. The civilization of the present day has conduced simultaneously to the development of the physical and intellectual energies of the multi tude, whereas the civilization of anterior times tended only to drowse both the mind and the body in the lap of the DELILAH of luxury. Among ourselves, it has evoked the steam-engine and the rinti - press, while it has given birth to a IsTzw i TON g d a Jomesoar. Among the ancients it elicited a4cooalner unguent for the bath, and a softer conch for the symposium, while it was re fl ected in the poeustice of enamelc: of HOIACII, or embodied in th e wanton m Tuktus. Again we say, Democracy h as stren A thened where tyranny weakened ; and i n thi s consisgts the solidity and the security of the democratic insti tutions of the European continent. The Russian Emrznou fails to recognize this great truth; he is even, according to the rumour already mentioned, preparing to act as if the vigour lay in the op posite direction ; and, by so doing, if he be not rushing deliberately on his own destruction, he is at least aiding, very materially, the development and the consolidation of the European Democracies. Tbat in speaking thus we are not guilty of a gross exaggeration, that we are not expressing ourselves in the stilted language of braggadocio, is sufficiently demonstrated by the situation of affairs throughout the continent, and especially on the southern and western frontiers of Russia. Besides which, neither the Parolles of SHAKSPERE, nor the Thraso of TERENCE, nor the Bobadil of BEN JoNsolv can be found very easily, elsewhere than in the courts or in the camps of Absolutism. When we allude thus calmly to the prospective invasion of Germany by the AuTocaxr, our thoughts are directed to the countries contiguous to his dominions. Those countries are ripe for an explosion of democratic enthusiasm. Hungary is already in arms from Peter- Waradin to Presburg. Bohemia is not indifferent as to her independence. Poland is mad for the sound of the WSP.inPsiiiiivhich shall tell o f h er emanc i pat i on . The i =-------. - i E M.) .. ----:-' - ~ 11'i ........, /34 4. ~....„\- -7: ,,,,, 14 2'V ;It 44,.... -6 7 v s :+,,; , 4.;,;.,---- 7 ,- , I. A -...,... ....... . ~.; ., .„s L .:. et A'__J -. ' Posen are prepared; the Silesians ar e on th e r Moravians have imbibed a passion : S The analogy, however, is not complete. It would he so if each family were living in a state of nature, without any supreme power to control their actions, or to afford necessary protection from foreign aggres sion. That protection or defence will be, if not the primary, at least one of the chief necessities of such a family, and every member thereof must devote all his energies thereto. In a nation, every individual may be called upon to risk life and fortune in defence of the common liberties. He must (if required) serve his country either personally or by providing the means for paying a substitute. It might be an unwise and injudicious economy to reduce the na. tional armaments to such an extent as to invite hos tilities, when all the resources of the country would be necessarily taxed to the very uttermost. It is a well known and all but universally admitted axiom, that the best way to preserve peace is to be at all times prepared for war. The adage of the Romans, "ai via pacem, pare bellam," has lost none of its force throughout the successive centuries during which it has been tested. Our military and naval establish ments, more especially the latter, must therefore be preserved in a state of due efficiency, how ever weighty the expenditure, and we must, as we stated yesterday, withhold our assent from that portion of the proposition of the Honour able Gentleman until the several details of the pro posed reductions are submitted for general considera tion. The extension of probate and legacy duty to real estates is an act of mere justice that cannot fairly be resisted. With respect to the reduction of taxation suggested by Mr. COBDEN, a better view may be taken. All the imposts are unquestionably oppressive, and, if practicable, should be reduced. There are many others, however, equally onerous, for exemption from which, similar claims might be preferred. Few taxes are agreeable to the people, and can only be justified by stern necessity for the maintenance of the national honour, credit, and safety. The duty on tea is admitted on every side to be much higher than it should be. A Committee of the House of Commons, long since, recom mended its reduction to the rate proposed by Mr. CODDEN, viz., is. per pound. The present exorbitant duty operates most injuriously on our commercial relations with China. Our trade raight be increased to almost any extent, but they can only pay with a limited amount of silver, and such teas and silks as we may be disposed to accept. Our consumption of the former is limited by the addition of 2s. 2id. per pound for duty. There is scarcely a doubt that double the quantity would be used in [this country if the price was reduced to a reasonable limit. The loss to therevenue (if any) would be made up after a short time by the increased demand for sugar and other articles, so that our merchants and manufacturers would be materially benefited, without injury to any class or body. There can, therefore, be no question as to the propriety of the reduction. confess, however, that we should greatly prefer an ad valorem duty to a fixed one. It is impossible to justify the levying as high a rate of duty on the poor man's pound of bohea, as on a pound of the finest gunpowder, when the intrinsic value of the latter is more than twelve times the former. Every fixed duty is unjust in principle, and operates most injuriously upon the poorer classes, among whom it is calculated to excite a spirit of discontent and dis• affection. We The duties on timber and wood should unquestion ably be abolished ; the approaching changes in the navigation-laws render the abolition of these taxes no longer a matter of choice, but of necessity. The British shipowners may demand it, not as a matter of favour, but of common justice, that cannot be denied. The various smaller items (more than one hundred in all, such as butter, cheese, &c.) should also, if practi cable, be cut off. Nothing can be more vexatious than petty restrictions that cause consider able annoyance and inconvenience without any corresponding advantage to the Fxchequer. Mr. COBDEN proposes to leave twenty articles only in the tariff paying duty. Mr. MACGREGOR, M.P., in his great work, " The Progress of America," sug gests that eight only shall be retained, and we con fess that we prefer his propositions to those of the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Tb, Je arrogant attempts of the Puseyite clergy to reviv e the exploded system of sacerdotal domination, and to ride r oug h- shod over the laity, have at length a spirit of resistance on the part of the lay member s of the Church of England, which ere long will become irresistible. Our modem LAUDS have (Bour bon-like) learned nothing warnin and forgotten nothing: course gs o b f . b history, they notwithstanding th e still pursue that 7 n f, whenever pursued by the clergy o r re b e l o r w and age s a , has invariably terminated in a v o y f England as the l great discouragement " to the Churchhe by law established. By stigmatizing Puritans, they have aroused in the laity the oldalsyiraist of stern resistance to sacerdotal domination') b which Puritanism has ever been disti ngu i shed, and be forey which they will inevitably fall, because the spirit of Puritanism is an earnest spirit, originating in th e keen sense of wrongs inflicted and of rights withheld ; while the spirit of Puseyism is a casuistical self sufficient spirit, originating in the overweening arro gance of a pedagogue, who fancies all the world a school of which he is the head master. As might have been expected, the laity of the diocese of Exeter, in which the spirit of Puseyism is the most rampant, has been the first to protest against the system of 'Every Bishop Pope in his o%‘n diocese, waft evf ry Parson Nuncio in his own parish," which the Pu seyite-Ronianists, with IliiNalr of Exeter at their head, have been for some years past endeavour- I for liberty ; and the same passion has in toxicated the inhabitants of Styria, of Sclavonia, of Illyria, and of Bosnia, its influence has spread down - wards through Gallicia, and Buskovin, and Molda via, and Wallachia, and Servia and Bulgaria— extending even beyond Bukarest and the Danube to the very confines of Roumilia. So soon as the cohorts of the Russian empire shall have passed beyond the Lithuanian deserts, so soon will the flame of revolution become apparent among the numerous divisions of the Sclavonic family. And then also the irresistible current of the popular ambition will burst forth in Germany and Italy—guided in its flow by the presiding genius of the French Republic and backed by the sympathies of Great Britain. Then farewell t. the Imperial and Royal ,Crowns of the old dynasties, the dynasties of Hapsburg, and Brandenburg, and Lorraine, and the Neapolitan Bourbons ! Republicanism, and Republicanism alone, will then be accepted by the nations of Europe. It were well, then, for the AUTOCRAT to pause before he sets forth upon his perilous expedition. Unless he is solicitous to lead to the foundation of a Polish Re public, and of a German Republic, and of a Sclavonic Republic, and of an Italian Republic—he would do better, perhaps, to keep his gold locked up in the cellars of his palace at St. Petersburgh, and to distribute throughout his empire the 500,000 men destined for the conquest of the Prussians. We yesterday explained the manner in which Mr. COBDEN proposes to make the large sum of 11,500,0001. available for the purpose of effecting reductions in the existing taxation of the country• This is to be achieved by equalizing the probate and legacy duty, and by cutting off at one fell swoop no less than 1 0,000,0001. sterling from the national ex penditure, and compelling the Government to main tain the various establishments, and to carry on the business of the nation, with a diminished revenue. It is what every private individual must occasionally submit to. He finds himself possessed of a certain income available either from realised property or from the produce of his own industry, and he must confine his expenditure within the limit of that income, or he will speedily be involved in debt, and ultimately driven to bankruptcy or insolvency. His outlay must be measured by the means at his disposal, and not by the luxuries and comforts to which he has long been accustomed, and the absence of which will materially affect his enjoyments. To use a homely but expressive phrase, "he must cut his coat ac cording to his cloth." A stern necessity exists to which he must succumb, however painful may be the sacrifice or unpleasant the privations to which he may thereby be subjected. A nation should act in like manner. What is true with respect to a single family will also apply to an aggregate of such families, and the same principles must affect the rules of a state that operate upon the master of a house hold " It is within the knowledge of many of us that whil t a large body of the clergy, chiefly young men deeply committed to the Tractarian system, have freely obtained appointments, and are now ministering in the diocese, a considerable number of other clergymen of piety and learning, but not holding Tractarian views —some of them advanced in years—beneficed—and serving in this and the neighbouring county of Cornwall, have been from time to time rejected by the Bishop as unfit to re ceive institution or license, ' by reason, as his Lordship has alleged,' of their holding doctrines contrary to the true Christian faith. " This practice having been extensively pursued by the Bishop, has been necessarily attended by the twofold effect of attracting Tractarians to the diocese, and of de terring a clergyman of opposite views from accepting appointments within it, so that patrons and incumbents of evangelical sentiments can with difficulty procure ministers and curates whose doctrinal principles shall be congenial with their own. " A great and cry i ng ev il h as thus arisen. The minis terial care sad o vers i g h t o f l arge bodies of the people, especially i n our popu l ous towns, have been committed to clergymen, t o w h ose teach i ng and ceremonial practices the p;ople at large entertain a well-grounded aversion, and who consequently withhold or withdraw attend ance at their churches. Thus the intentions of the Legislature in making provision for the spiritual desti tution of the people, the liberality of the public in con tributing to the erection and purchase of churches and the special purposes of a Church, as a national establish ment, have been in these cases alike defeated. " We beg also to call the attention of your Grace to an event which has recently much increased our alarm, on account of the prevalence of Romish doctrine in the Church. `• We refer to a sermon preached on the 12th of Au gust last before the Bishop and clergy at Totnes, by the Reverend William Maskell, the Bishop's Domestic Chaplain. We will not trouble your Grace with any comments on this work, but we venture to accompany our memorial with a copy of it (your Grace's perusal of which we respectfully solicit), together with the corre spondence which has since its delivery taken place be tween the Bishop and some of the neighbouring clergy thereon, by which it will appear that the Bishop has failed to admonish the preacher, and still retains him in his dice, facts, which in our opinion, imply a strong sympathy on the part of his Lordship with the general sentiments of the author of a discourse, believed by us (notwithstanding its pretended argument with Fortions of the Homilies and Liturgy) to be replete with Romish doctrine. " Your Grace will obser►e that the correspondence to which we ha►e referred contains his Lordship's reply to the protest of the clergy against the tenets of Mr. Maskell, and as the reply has been published with his Lordship's sanction, we ha►e not deemed it becoming in us to address his Lordship regarding matter on which he has already pronounced his opinion. " We now submit this statement to your Grace, under a hope that a remedy may be provided for the evils of which it treats, and particularly that the attention of the Legislature may be directed to subjects in►ol►ing matter, as we believe, so solemn and momentous, and the neg lect of which will in our opinion terminate in a wide spread defection from the Church of England, and be j perhaps productive of other and ulterior results still nore calamitous." We respectfully submit to the memorialists that they have not here proposed the proper remedy for the state of things of which they complain. If, as we believe, and as they believe, Tractarian doctrines are contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England, and contrary to " the true Christian faith," and if as they believe, and as we believe, HiNRY, Lord Bishop of EXETER, holds those doctrines, then the proper remedy is to request the Archbishop •f CANTERBUR Y to cause Sir HERBERT JENNER to make anxious in quiries after "the soul's health" of the said HENRY, and to call the particular attention of the said anxious inquirer to the verdict of the Special Jury in the case of the QUEEN V. LATIMER. Considering the great anxiety which Bishop PHILLPOTTS has manifested to ascertain the state of the "soul's health" of Mr. HEAD and Mr. SHORE, we think the Archbishop of CANTER BURY need not be over delicate in the matter. We trust that this is only the commencement of an agitation on the part of the laity of the Church of England which will never cease until the Church shall be purged from the presence of those wolves in sheeps' clothing who preach Oxford but mean Rome. A conscientious Roman Catholic we admire and respect, but we have the utmost contempt and abhorrence for those who, holding the doctrines of one Church, receive the wages of another. In the meantime we warn all those who are opposed to Puseyite doctrines to abstain for the present from subscribing one farthing towards the building of churches, or towards Church extension in any way. The Bishop of EXETER is at this moment raising sub scriptions to build four churches in Plymouth, to which, when built, he will present four Puseyite priests, and which churches will, in consequence, be without congregations. W hr e .ave been informed on unquestionable au thority, that six of the most eminent physicians in this country have recently examined Mr. Dyce Sombre, and that they unanimously reported on his P erfec t sanity, and that his conduct since his return to able. We Lond on last month, has b een w h olly unexception believe that this report will be verified on affidavit, curd will for m the tioround of a new si ppi en n to 6 1' Lord ClCanct:llor ezrls- In Hilary tcr,,,, fur a supersedeas of the commi.tsion o f l unacy issued against him, ing to forces down the throats: of the long-suffering laity. Our readers doubtless remember the perse cutions to which the Evangelical clergy of that diocese have been long subjected, and the Episcopal favours show ered upon—the almost immunity for the commission of offences contra bones mores granted to, Puseyite priests . They cannot but remember that while that plow aid exemplary clergyman, the Rev. ERSKINE Hx.a . ..n, was prosecuted with all the rigour of the law, and suspended from his ministerial functions for three years for differing from his diocesan on some theoretical point of theology, a Puseyite priest of the county of Cornwall, convicted on his own confession of having been seen in a state of unmistakeable drunkenness in the public streets, to the great scandal of the Church, was let off with an admonition ; they cannot forget, either, the persecutions to which Mr. SHORE was subjected, the controversy between the Bishop of EXETER and Lord SEYMOUR ; the part taken in that controversy by Mr. L.A. TIMER, of the Western Times, the criminal prosecution instituted by the BISHOP against Mr. LATIMER for libel, the plea put in by Mr. LATIMER that the assertions he had made with regard to the Bishop were true,: and the verdict of the special jury acquitting Mr. LATIMER, and finding that his plea of justification was made out, that what he had said of Bishop PHILLPOTTS was to the letter true. These things have at length produced their effect, and on Tuesday last a meeting of the lay members of the Church of England inhabiting Plymouth, Devonport, and its neighbourhood, was held at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, to take into consideration the propriety of memorializing his Grace the Archbishop of CANTER BURY in reference to the present alarming state of the Church of England, and of that diocese in par ticular, and to adopt such other measures as might he then determined on. The meeting was called in consequence of some recent Puseyite doings of the Bishop -appointed priest of one of the newly erected district churches in the neighbourhood of Plymouth; but allusions were made in the course of the discussion, and also in the memorial agreed on to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, to the Puseyite doings of the Bishop and his proteges for a series of years past, so that the meeting may be considered as a solemn protest on the part of the laity of Plymouth against the detestable system of sacerdotal tyranny which it is the aim and object of the Puseyite priests to establish in every parish in England. The meeting was at tended by at least 1,100 persons, and would have been more numerously attended had the room been capable of containing a greater number of persons. Colonel DUNSTERTILLE was in the chair, and the re quisition calling the meeting was signed by persons of all classes. The signatures of officers in the navy from admirals to lieutenants, of officers in the army, of members of the legal and medical profession, of magistrates, of town-coun ciilors, of merchants, of bankers, of shopkeepers, are to be found attached to the requisition ; so that the proceedings of the meeting may be regarded as the proceedings of all classes of the laity of the Church of England. The first resolution was to the following effect : " That it is the opinion of this meeting that principles and practices repugnant to the truth and simplicity of the Protestant, faith, as taught by the Church of Eng land, have obtained wide prevalence in various parts of the realm, especially in this diocese, and this meeting respectfully, but firmly, records its opinion that those principles and practices receive encouragement from the Lord Bishop; and that the time has arrived fir memo rializing the highest authorities in the Church, with a view to the redress of the alarming evil." The memorial to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, after setting forth the evil of Puseyite doctrines, thus proceeds— THE FRE P ÜBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Assembly has adjourned to Tuesday, the 29th, on which day it is expected that M. ODILON BARNOT will present the programme of the new Ministry. The Democratic Pacifique says--" It was stated yesterday, in the National Assembly, that the Pre sident of the Republic is in dissension with his Ministry relative to the amnesty, which his Cabinet does not desire, but which he wishes to demand from the Assembly. We are assured that he entered into a formal engagement to do this in a recent interview with Citizen THEODORE BAC. It is this difference of opinion which has caused, it is said, the adjournment for four days which the Assembly has just made, in order to give to the first magistrate of the Republic the time to concert with his Ministers on the point." M. EMILE DE GIRIRDIN, the disappointed one, is preparing to go into opposition. The Presse ex presses its dissatisfaction with the new Cabinet, which will not open its eyes to the transcendant merits of General GIRIRDIN, or its doors to the loud,knocking of , his son. It really is very hard upon poor EMILE, after having done all the dirty work of the re actionary party, to be left with only the dirt for his pains. The Debate says— " We shall wait to see the Ministry at work, without malignity, and rather with the desire to applaud their efforts. They will have our support as long as they shall be faithful to the line of moderation imposed upon them by public opinion. For eighteen years M. Ochlen BarroE was our adversary, and yet we never refused to do justice to his talents and his character. How then can it be difficult to praise in him, if he gives us cause, the devoted, courageous, and capable Minister ? When we shall see France tranquil and prosperous, if we shall still have regrets, they will not at least render us unjust towards those who shall have devoted themselves to the glorious task of re-establishing order and tranquillity." The Constitutionnel says—" M. DE MALLEVILLE on Wednesday evening took possession of the Ministry of the Interior, as was natural on the part of a Minister charged to watch over public tranquillity. The other Ministers installed themselves yesterday morning." The installatinn of the President of the Republic in the Elysee Bourbon gives a certain animation to that quarter. Numerous visitors have been to inscribe their names. A deputation from the Invalides yesterday waited on the new functionary. Two sen tinels have been placed at the entrance of the palace. Workmen are putting down pipes for lighting the building with gas, and statues are being placed in the garden. _ _ M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is to go to London as Envoy to announce the installation of the President of the Republic. General CHANGARNIER has informed all the officers in garrison in Paris that any military man attending the clubs will be sent away from the capital. The Moniteur announces the following appoint ments : " Baroche. representative of the people, to be Procureur-General in the Court of Appeal of Paris, in the place of M. Come. " M. Edouard Thayer, Director-General of the Post. office, in the place of M. Etienne Arago. " M. Adouille, formerly Inspector General of Fi• nances, is restored to his office. " M. Chappuis, formerly Inspector of Finances, is ap pointed Inspector-General of Finances. " M. Legrand (de l'Oise) is appointed, provisionally, Director of the Personel and Secretary. General of the Ainister of Finances. " M. Dubost, the Administrator of the Post-office, is restored to his functions." The papers contain no news. Paris is perfectly tranquil, and the accounts from the departments de scribe commerce as improving. BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY', DEC. 22. THREE O'CLOCE.—The French Rentes opened higher than the closing prices of the preceding day, but after wards gave way, recovering, however, towards th e middle of the B ourse, an d closing with a considerable advance on yesterday's quotations. The Five per Cents. opened at 75f. 90c., went down to 751. '25c., and closed at 76f. 25c. The Three per Cents. opened at 451. 75c., and after remaining at that quotation for some time, began to mend, and closed at 46f. 75c. The Loan was weak, and but little negotiated, closing at 75f. 50c. The market, on the whole, must be looked on as firm not withstanding the partial decline. The calls for the de livery of stock were insignificant, only 6,000 f. being dis counted in theTive per Cents., and 1,5001. in the Threes. No rumours of any kind were in circulation. Railway Shares have varied but little, and the amount of business transacted in them was not very considerable. For the Account the French Three per Cents. have risen If. 85c. ; Five per Cents., 95c.; Loan has fallen, 25c. For Money, the Three per Cents. have advanced if. ; Five per Cents. lf.; Loan has fallen 25c. ; Bank of France Shares have risen 201., closing at 1,740 f. ; Belgian Five per Cents. have fallen I, but the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have risen closing at 75f. ; Spanish, not quoted ; Roman is unchanged. Exchange ou London (30 days), 25 37} ; ditto (90 days), 25 271. Railway Shares for the Account, settling of Dec. 3 :—Rouen have declined 121. 50c. ; -Orleans, sf. ; Northern are un changed. For Money, Orleans, and Versailles (Left Bank) have fallen 5L ; Nantes, 21. 50e.; Bordeaux and Strasburg, 11. 25c.; Havre and Boulogne have advanced sf. Versailles (Right Bank) and Vierzon 2f. 50c ; Northern are unaltered. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 22. Boulogne and Amiens, i—Nam ur an d Liege, 514 Northern of France, 7 %—Orleans and Bordeaux, 21 / — Rouen and Havre, SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 17th. have been received. The following have been elected Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of the Congress :—Vice Presidents Romero, S. S ilt Lafuente Al can t ara, ada, Simo n R osa , an d T M . M j . l G er o ia nz ; ale s s R ecrri Tasara, De Huelves, and G. Canero. There was no Bolsa on the 17th. GE IVI A N Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES, A USTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 17th states that FRANZ Fizri, of Silesia, aged flfty-four yea rs , h as b een sen tenced to:twelve yearsimprisonment, for participating in an armed riot ; and that FRANZ NOLLE, of Styria, in the artillery, has been condemned to eight years hard labour, in heavy irons, at the fortifications, for desertion and participation i n t h e revolt. The Wiener wing parti cu l ars respecting ng which! wily be read w t Z h i e e t i h i ill-fated u te c r e o s n t t a "As various erroneous reports are in circulation, L i n E s ss th E e Nn fo A l u lo sEn, l 2 which are inserted both in the national and foreign jour nals, respecting the property of M. Messcnhauser, we give the following particulars from an authentic source, which will show the actual state of the case:—lt appears, from the will of Messenhauser, which has been published by our magistrates, that he left 200 guilders in cash in the hands of the magistrates, besides linen, wearing ap parel, books, and literary Works. Among the latter is A Tale of Antiquity," in 10 vols., a romance, Modern Argonauts,' and a drama, in five acts, Gold has its Weight. These works are all in manuscript, and are complete; there are also various unfinished literary pro ductions, the value of which will be decided by some future historiographer." The want of mom 1 15 most sev ere l y f e lt, an d:i t i s said the head s of the var i ous convents and monasteries in the Austrian dominions have been summoned to Kremsier, where an attempt will be made to induce them to contribute some portion of the immense wealth possessed by those establishments to supply the wants of the State. It was rumoured in Vienna on the 17th, that JEL LACHICH had gained a victory over the Hungarians, but as no particulars are given, we conclude that this is as apocryphal as the various othervictories stated to have been gained by JELLACHICH. Theee is &split between the Ministers andWINDISCII GRATZ, the former protest against the exercise of dictatorial power by the latter, and are anxious to put a stop to the military executions which are daily taking place in Vienna. The Diet has authorised the Ministry to raise a loan of 50,000,000 of florins. A letter from Vienna of the 16th says—" The want of money is immense ; not only are the one guilder notes cut into eight parts, but private persons issue paper notes to the value of 10 and 20 kreutzers. Unspeakable confusion will inevitably result from such a system. Every merchant now writes upon a piece of paper Valid' for 10 or 20 kreutzers, puts his seal t o i t, and then gives it to his creditors as current. How these papers will avert or amend the confusion is an enigma too hard for solu tionl and will puzzl e th e most c l ear -h ea d e d financial ist. In the Ministerial report, presented by the Committee of Finances on the 16th, signed by the President, Joakript HAGENAEUR, and the Reporter, S. ZABEL, it is proposed—first, that the Ministry be empowered to contract a loan to the amount of 50,000,000 guilders; secondly, that this loan be met by Treasury Bonds; thirdly, that a loan be con tracted by the State, open to competition. Baron ROTHSCHILD has been here for some little time, and his presence is, of course, connected with the intended loan. On the 14th Prince WINDISCHGRATZ established his head quarters at Pischament. Baron JELLACHICH came to visit him from Hainbourg. It is thought he will cross the Danube at that place, and operate on Presburgh. The Bohemian Gazette says, under the head 011- mutz, Dec. 13,-- " A Cabinet Council has been held here under the pr(sidency of Prince Scbwartzenberg, to deliberate on the one hand on th e f u t ure relations of Dalmatia, and &la vorna and C roa ti a; and on the other, on the state of the Servianm. The Ministers purpose coming to a definite e::,!..chici on this afternoon r , ii both tile,: ! ts, and ti!,: deputation frow to 1« cdve a &fi nite reply to-morrow. It is expected that the desires of the Servians will be fully complied with, Ind on this account the Bolavonian Deputies of the Constituent Diet TJRDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1848 intend giving the Servians a grand partingjeast on Thursday evening." SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. KIEL, DEC. 17.—We have just ascertained from undoubted authority, that the King of Prussia, by a Cabinet order, dated the 7th, has given leave to those Russian officrs who entered our army for an indefinite period (for those only had been recalled), to renr_in here till the Ist of April next; at that time they are to declare whether they intend to return or resolve to remain definitely in the clileswig-Holstein service. The Prussian officers now here must be divided into three categories; some have already entered the Schleswig-Holstein army definitively, others have permission to re-enter the Prussian service at the ex piration of two years, others entered our army for an indefinite period; and to the latter alone, therefore, the rec a l h as any re f erence. This recal was not occasioned by the occurrence of the recent irregula rities in our army, but because some arrangement is about to be made in the Prussian army respecting the great number of officers who are absent on fur lough. GLUCKSTADT.—The Baden regiment entered yes terday, forming a strong escort, with Luttermersk, the soldier, who has now been consigned to the prison of this place.—.Harnburgh Borsenhalle, Dec. 19. RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. The Frankfort Journal of the 19th says, that Russia is making great preparations to decide the fate of Europe by the sword. This is the reason of her forces being concentrated on the frontiers of the empire. The EMPEROR is reported to have said he would not permit the people to revolt against his brother of PRUSSIA, and is prepared to march 500,000 men to his assistance. Should this be the case, the war of opinion will then begin in earnest. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament has referred the Minis• teriar programme to a Commthee, the majority 0] which is opposed to the new Gagern Ministry. 2d. June. 39 40 37 p - ........... 9O ..... ...... to Ditto, Half Shares...... 5O ...... Ditto, Quarter Sharei ...... 21 Ditto, Fifths .................. 20 Do. New 171 — ...... to Huddersfield and M anc h ester 30 ... Ditto, Thuds .................. 10 60 Ditto, Balt Shares ...... 25 ...„. 49 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds.. I. ancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ..—...... 6%...... ... Ditto Thirds (Reg.) 1)o., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% — ...... to . Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 Do. (Rudders. and Shelf.) 43 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Do., West Riding Union.— 7 .... . Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9% — • to Leeds and Bradford Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches Do., Half Shares Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 2% — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ...—... ...... 50 Ditto, New ...... ... ...... 35 . Do. ,do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3% --...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and South- port. - Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2 IA — ..... ,to London & Blackwall ......13/. 6s. 8d — Do. Extension .. Loud., Bright., & South C oas t 50 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 .....• Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... .. Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... ...... to Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... ...... to 1 ,ondon and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d... ... .. to -_ Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ...... to London & North Western.....loo 123 ...... to 122 Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 DI. New Do. Fifths ..... to Do. 40i. Shares.. .L & M 25 ...... ..... to Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 .... . ...... to Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 ...... -- to -- Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 8 to London and S. Western.-- 50 .. - .• • .. ...... to Ditto, New 50/........ .. ..... 42 1 / 2 ._ Ditto, New 40/...,..... . Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... Do. Tenths (Consolid a t e d) 40 ..... to -- Ditto. Thirds . ....... 131. 6s. 8d Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and 5 per Ct. on Calls .. 5 . ... ..... to Lsndon, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 / 2 — to Londonderry and Coleraine... 2834 Londonderry and Enniskillen 27 1 / 2 — ..... to L. - .vestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 ...... Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 4 .11 anchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 4 Shares ( No. 1) ... 18 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, 1 4,, Shares (No. 3 )... 11 1 4 — Do., New 10.. P re f erence.. 10 ... .. ._... . to Ditto Grimsby 4O — Ditto, ditto. ..... ....... ...... 13 Ditto, ditto ... ..... Ditto Sheffield and Line. 15 ...... Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 20 f'i t to, 2tLin. ,1 ,. :: Lin. Union 44 .2,),. ~. -- - ii,11.11:(1 •• • l OO Q.), „. r, 33 Ditto, Coosa i're.erenee 10u Ditto, 50/. Shares-- ...... 20 - Midland, Birm., and Derby...100 ... MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CitY, Q IJA RTE.'? TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool this week has been very active, and the sales have been large at rather ad vanced prices. Railway shares were in request yester day and well supported. The weekly balance sheet of the Bank of England, made up to the 16th instant, is in all essential points the same as the previous one, only greater in degree. The bullion had further increased, as also the amount to the credit of the Government, and the unemployed notes were larger than, we believe, they ever were before. The active note circulation and the other securities were again reduced, a proof that the Bank is not in creasing its business. The following are the results of a comparison with the previous week:— Notes issued 27,982,125 Increase 248.390 Rest . ... 3,376,688 Increase Public Deposits 7,908,643 Increase .. 847,441 Other Deposits 9,249,649 Decrease Seven Day and other Bills Decrease Government Securities Other Securities Increase Notes 11,246.410 Increase Bullion .. 14,789.872 Increase Active circulation Decrease The letters and papers by the Great Western, from the West Indies and Mexico, state that the weather had been rather too dry in Barbadoes, but, subsequently, rain fell at Georgetown, which it was hoped had been general. There are no complaints of the weather in Ja male s, but commerce is represented as being very inactive. The condition of the other colonies remained much the same as per last ad vices. Of the large amount, 2,200,000 dollars, brought by the steamer, part is on mining ac count, 70,000 dollars being for the United Mexican Mining Association, part for merchants' account, and 37,300 dollars for the dividends on Mexican Bonds. The continental advices received this morning are generally satisfactory, and the letters from Liverpool and other towns in the country state that the markets close well, though business was being gradually wound up for the holidays. The Funds are very quiet this morning, as the at tendance of members of the house is not numerous, and there is an indisposition to enter into fresh trans actions. Consols are 88- .1; New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 884 i; and the Three per Cents. 881 i. Ex chequer. bills have realised 38s. to 425. premium. The Foreign Securities have been very steady gene rally, but very little business has been done except in the Peninsul ar St oc k s. M exican Bonds have been• 23i to 24i, a further rise. Peruvian have not been higher than 46 to 47/. Equador are 2* 1.. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. are 491.. Shares are firm, and without any material change. BRITISH FUNDS TIHS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, ("From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arms 8 8 % .3a Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% India Bonds under 1,0004 „.... 39 p Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 2 1 / 2 d. March. 1,000/. 5001, 42 38 p Small 42 35 p 40 37 41 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Equador Bonds 2 % 3% Mexican Born4s, 1846, 5 per Cent 23N, Ditto for the Account .... 24 23% 24 237 24% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent ... Ditto for the Account 46t/ 47% 46 Russian Bonds, 1822,5 per Cent lO2 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49 , U , INESB DONE IN RAILWAY MARES Al' ONE O'CLOCK RAILIVAy3. PAID. PCs SIJAHP. Ue-rcleen Atubm, Notting., Boston, &c 4 14. .. I.yr.qiire and Galloway ieelfast and County Down .. 19 .. .. 6irmingnam & Oxford Junct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., withouta guarantee... 20 ~ .. - Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . Do., without a guarantee... 10 Firming., %Vol., & Stour Val. 13/.145.... - Birkenhead, Lanca s hi re , an d Cheshire Junction Boston, Stamt., & Binning- 1 5 i r stol and Exeter Do., Thirds .. 27% Buckinghamshire l4/. 4s ...... to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, New 10/. Preference 7% 73%... to Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 -to Chester and Holyhead 5O ... Ditto, Preference t.. , larence. .... Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10 Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 ...... to Direct London & Portsmouth 5 1 4 — to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 Dundalk and E nn i s kill en ... 20 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., axd L. & D. Ditto, 18/., E. & H lB Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2% •.to E istern Counties .... 2O ..... 12% • to Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do.Perpet.,sperct.No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., d 0...—. ......... N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d... Lo., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cent. 34 Do., Quarter 12%... .. Do., New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 - Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 - Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 - Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 10 . — . - Ditto, ditto ......... ......... 20 ..-.. ... - Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% — • to - East Lancashire - Ditto, New ... . 21 - Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares 6 14 — East Lincolnshire ... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Half Shares Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 Ditto, New port Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...,. t o Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B46e.Bd — ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consolidated ...._ .... .... to Great Northern ... 19 ...... 8 X 1 4... to Do. % .. A Deferred ..... :.. 12% ...... 4 %... to Do. 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% ...... ...... to Do. Extension .. - ••• ..... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42% ...... "••• to Great North of England lOO ...... ...... to Ditto, New 404 ............ Ditto, ditto to ... ........... 25 .. '•"' .. Ditto, New 30/ ...... do Ditto, New 154...,, ... .. -' ...... to ..„ ...... 14 ..... Great Western ....to --- I Midland, Consol. 13ristal and Birmingh am , 6 per ccia....100 12 1 1(.,.... to -- Midland, Bristol and Giouc. 38 ... - Midland, Leices. and Swan.. . nington (8 per ct.gtia.)....100 .... . illidld. Great WeBteru (Irish) 45 Middlesbro' and R e d. - - ..edcar. 6 per cent. guar. .... ..... ... 50 - Newcastle azid Chi'lll N lOO .....• Ditto Quarte r Shares . .... 25 ... .. to .... to to •-•• Newmarket ...... .., ..... Ditto Exten s i o n Scrip... 2i,, !2.. .. . Newport Abergy., and Herat. 6 - Newry ;met Enniskillen 0 -••• .....• to -- Newry, Warrenpoi n t, an d Lostrevor ... ............. 100 - 20 Nortolii Vino New 20/. - Ditto Guar an t ee d 5 per ct 2O ... to --- Do. Do. 5 1 , per cent....... 5 ... to -- .. Do ..,•.. t o -*- do. Waveney Valley... 2 Northern Counties Union ... 4 - North British .. - ..... to -- Ditto Pali Shares, -... ..... 12 1 / 2 6%..._. o-- Do. Quarters .... 6% 3U ..... to Ditto, Exten5i0n............ ..... to - - w• Ditto Thirds ..-. ....... -...• '11 „i North Staffordshire... .. ...... 15 - North Wales ............ 3% . ..... , .... to North Western ................. .... 10 ..... .... to -- ixtord, Worce s t er , and Wol- ~ .v ol verhampton ... ............ 50 ' 22A to -- teading,Guildid., & Reigate 10 ...... - Scottish and Ilitchin ..... 2 ...... 1% t o Central cotti3ll Midland ... ........ .... 25 ..... - Ditto,New... ..... .. ........... 17% ...... -- - qiefiield, Rotherham, and Goole ...... ... ............... lO D »..•• to --- Lo. do. (So u th Di v.) 4 - 3‘. --- I iitto, di tto, Class B. 5 to --- Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 Shrewsbury and Hereford. . ... to -- 2 -- ••• .. to --- If Shrewsbury and . .......... 10 - i)itto East and %v est Rid: Extension -- FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian to ...... to Boulogne and Amien s 2O ...... V is ...... Central of Franc e (O r l eans and Vierzon) ........ 17 Ceylon .... Om eerara. ..... to Dendre Vall e y •• •• . to ...... to Direct Bombay and Mad. 5; .ras Js. .... • ••••• East to Dutch Rhenish .. 7 1 , ..... . ...... to -- East Indian Louvain ala t'ambre „ 7 l /2 ...... ...... to Luxembourg Ditto ...... . lO - ... .. to : ,, ladrid and Valentin NTamur and Liege... - cge Northern ot France l2 ...... .•• ••• to Orleans and Bordeaux .•• Pari,• and Lyons • .. •• 117 Do. Do. n 10 .... Pae and Orlean s .... .. 20 t• Paris and R ouen 2O - Paris & Strasbourg ......... 9 . ..... - Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse .-Arasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... .. ..... 9 'Uournay, Jurbise, Landers, Wand Hasselt - ..... to est Flanders .................. 8% ...... ..... to -- JOINT STOCK ZANKS. Australasia .... ........ ..... .. 40 ..... ...... to -- CColonial North American .... 50 olonial ..... ......... ........ 25 ..... —... to Commercial of London. ....... 20 - London Joint Stock ~.. ..... 10 ...... London and I •Vestminster. .. 20 ..... National Provincial of Engld. 85 National of Ireland ...... ...... 221'4 .. to ... Provincial of Ireland ......... 25 ..... UDitto, New ............. .. ..... 10 — ......:: to - nion of Australia ......... ... 25 . ..... Ditto, New..... 4 ...... —. Union of London ... 10 ...... •••••• is to -- to MINES. Union of Madrid . .... to Anglo :' , lexicau lOO ...... ...... to Asturian Mining Company l4 ...... -- ..... to Australian... ... Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Britishßolanos Scrip British Iron ................... 12 - ..... to azilian Imperial ..... ..... 2 44 — •.... to Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 Ditto St. John Dei Rey ... li GeneralCobre Copper z ••••• 46 ...... --- .••,.. to --' Mining ...... ~... 29 ...... ...... to Beal del Monte, Unregistered .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures...... ...... ...... to Do. Red Debentures ...... ... -- . ..... to Santiago de Cuba......... 10 . United Mexican ... ....... 28 1 4 COURSE OF , ..... Amster:lam • ...• •• • • 1 2 2% M% t. at sight .... • • 12 1 , Bottcala'n —..•• • • • • 12 3 Antwerp •• .• •••••••• 25 80 llainburgh .. •. • • 31.8. 13 12 l' , .ris, 3 days'sight ...• 25 45 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 78 rilarvtilles •• ...• - • • 25 75 13,tirdeaux.... ••• • , • 25 75 Frankton on Maine., ... 121% Petersburgh, Si!. Rble.. 37% _ ._Vienna, epee.. flo —•• • • 11 27 Trieste, ditto.... —•• •• 11 27 Madrid .. —.•—• • •• • • 47% Cadiz .• • ..........., 483 , -- 3iibso.. •• • • . • • • • • ... '. Barcelona .... • EXCHANGE. ( Gibraltar.... •• .. Leghorn •••• • . 32 0 Genoa..... •••. • . „, 26 15 Milan .. •• . •••• • • • • Venice Naples • • •• • • 40 Palermo, p0r0z....... • 118% Messina .. •..••• • •• • •119 Li5b0n.......... MIL I Oporto • • 52 $6 Rio Janeiro •• . .• • Buenos Ayres •.• • • New Tork, 21 days'sight Philadelphia ...... • • • • •—• PILICICS it EmmoN, PE OS Foreign Gold hi bars.. #3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish DouWooss 0 0 Now Dollars • • ••• 0 4 9N Silver in bars •• •• 0 4 1136 Seville, -- I LLOYD'S SHPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 23.—Wind N.N.E., light breeze, and fine cold frosty weather, greatest pressure of wind since yesterday noon 51b. Barometer, 30.40. Thermometer,36. Colchester, this day, 9 A.M. E. by N. fine. Gloucester ..• North fro s t. Gosport ... .. N.E. sha r p f rost. Bull .• • "'S.E. b Liverpool y E. very c l ou dy. London •• • ... N.E. foggy. •.• ... E. sharp f ros t. Portsmouth ... • N.E. sharp frost. Southampton ▪ W.S.W. fro s t. WEVENHOE, DEC. 22. The schooner Eliza Stone, Bremen to London, was assisted in here to-day, with loss of rudder; a great portion of cargo thrown over board; the remainder nearly all damaged, having been on shore on the Gunfleet Sand. LOWESTOFFE, DEC. 22.—1 t blew a gale here the whole of yesterday and to-day, from E.S.E. The Hector, from Hatnburgh to London, ran on the Holm Sand this morning, and has become a total wreck; crew and part of materials saved. CROOKHAVEN, DEC. 20.—The Suenk, was fallen in w i t h i n a sinking statea,g and a w y, ith of loss Cor of boats, and some of the crew washed overboard, 14th inst., having experienced a hurricane the night before, and twenty-one of the crew taken off by the Forest King, arrived off this port. Some boxes of oranges and lemons, sacks of dye -stuff and shumac , apparently not long in the water, have been picked up off this place. WATERFO RD, foreign brig, in coming up the river last night, got on shore on Drumroe-bank, and remains. WEXFORD, DEC. 21.—The Francis Mary, Bennett, of Chester, is on shore on the Ballyvaloo strand. PORTSOKAIG, DEC. 19.—The Amity, with palm oil, and the Susan, in ballast, both of Liverpool, went on shore near this, 26th instant, but may be got off. Also, the Union of Alloa, from Sligo; Clydesdale of Glasgow, cotton laden—the hull of the former is below water, and the latter is a com pl ete wreck; part of crew drowned. GREENOCK, DEC. 21.—The David, &ern Campbel town has been towed in here very much damaged, hav ing struck on Skipness Point, in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Arran. MARGATE, DEC. 22.—The remainder of the cargo of the Sophia, from Gijon to London, which got on shore on Pureness hock, 20th instant, has been landed in a good condition, but the vessl is in the same situation. WIIITSTABLE, DEC. 22.—About 100 cases and packages, part of the cargo of the Barens, Matsen, from Ham burgh to New York, wrecked on Tongue Sand, have been broughtin h ere; a further part expected i n next t i de. FALMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Wind E.—Sld. 21 s t, N ew Phoenix, Si erra L eone. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.—S1d. Gulterus, Batavia ; Ma zeTpa, Africa ; Alereutio, Buenos Ayres ; Andes, lirazAs • Taymouth Castle, Brazils ; Commerce, Trini dad ;United States, New Orleans ; Malabar, Mobile ; H. G., New Yorl; ; Sunbeam, Boston. TOBERMORY, DEC. 17.—A very severe gale from S.E. Was experienced here on the 17th instant, during hwhich the Fox, Tait, drove on shore, and carried away er ruthier. TLC Jack Bowe, from Limerick to Bristol, lo here, Nit!) loss of bulwark, having periee ce d a severe gale on the 15th instant ; she has been beached, having grounded on a sunken rock in coining in. , nester (Nor. %c. ..:_in.) ............ 17 to •—• Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 1 4._ .. •. to -- Ditto, Uswestry .............. 17,' i ...... - Ditto ,New)... ............. Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 . ..... 133 i to Shropshire-- Uni0n............... 4 ... .. Ditto, Preference ........ ... 25 South Staffordshire..., 6 1,4 &Rah Eastern ... to ... to -- . • Ditto, No. 1. ... Ditto, No. 2. 22 —. ...... to Ditto, __ No. 3. .._ 25 Ditto New, No. ..... to 4. Thi r d s 10 South Wales South Yorkshi re , D oncaster and Goole - to meron's Stm. Coal ...... . 6 - law Vale Exten s i on Thames haven Dock and Railway ..... . Vale of death to Waterford and Kilkenny ................. 171/2 4 ...... - ...... Waterford and Li mer i c k ... .. 47 1 / 2 ... Waterford, Wexi or d , W ieklw, I.•nd Dublin . ••••' Wear Valley 6 per Cent Guaranteed Do. do. -- do. ......... 25 Do. do. d o. West Cornwall West L0nd0n.................... 6 20 - Ditto, First Cl ass — ...... to 20 . Ditto, Second Cl ass 20.. . . ...... Nhitehaven and F urness l4 Windsor, Staines, a n d S outh Western—, .......... ...... to -- Wilts,Somerset,&Woymouth ork, N!wcat.3tle, and Berwick 25 27% Do. Original New & Ber ck 25 Do. Extfm. No.l (Y. &,N.) 15 Do. do. N o . 2, N ew & B. 15 l3l to 1 ,4... Do. 'J. N. E. Pun or nef. 8 York and N or th .. .. to :Alidland .. 50 . -- Ditto, rreterenco - .. ling I NAME OF RAILWAY. s. Aberdeen ...........• •••. • • .. 17 Amiens and Boulogne 16 Belfast and Ballymena •• • ••••• • • • • • 17 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 16 Ca1ed0nian............. • • • • 16 Chester and Ilolyhe a d. •• . • 16 Cockermouth and Workington........ 14 Dublin and Drogheda• • • •••• • • •• 19 Dublin and Kingstown ••• • • • • 16 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen ••• . • • 17 East .Anglian.... ••• • • • • • • 16 Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• . . • 16 Edinbnrgh and Northern • • 17 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 16 East Lancashire .................... 16 Eastern Union ...... .............. II Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 16 Glasgow and Greenock.... • • ... 16 Great Southern and Western ........ 17 Great Westeni, &c .......... 16 Kendal and Windermere" 16 Lancashire and Yorkshire.... ••• • • ... 15 Lancaster and Carlisle 17 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 16 Londonderry and I nniskillen 17 London and North Western, &c 17 London and 81ackwa11........ 16 London and Brighton 17 London and South Western 16 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle 16 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 17 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 16 Monklands ......... •• • • • Newcastle and CarliSle.• •• • • ... 16 North British ........ • 16 Paris and Rouen . ••• • 16 Rouen and Havre 16 Scottish Central ................. 17 Shrewsbury and Chest er .. 16 South Eastern and Branches •• • • 15 South Devon.. .••••••• • • • • • • • 9 Waterford and Limerick..... ••• • • 17 I'Vhitehaven Junction ..• •. • • •••• Wishaw and Coltness. —••••— ....... [6 York and Newcastle . .... ........ .6 York and North Midland. •......... 1,210 34G 673 3,70, 1,235 70 595 653 3,106 1,519 13,621 1,564 1,122 2,412 3,335 18,661 9,956 1,810 116 37,757 513 7,326 7,727 2,644 3,082 537 13,149 20,463 1,048 896 805 1,110 2,104 885 1,620 18,006 77 8,126 1,014 36,697 737 6,758 7,369 1,878 - 8,552 ,3,403 7,32 i 1,783 b,582 2,022 543 7,743 672 1,685 577 0,881 7,14 LIGHT PASSENGER STEAM -CARRIAGE. --- The " Fairfield" steam-carriage left Paddington at eight o'clock yesterday morning, and went down to Reading at the rate of 45 miles per hour. She went easily and pleasantly, and every one in her appeared to be gratified by her performance. From Reading she proceeded with the great part of her passengers on to Bristol, whence she was to depart that afternoon for Exeter. She will then be handed over to the board of managers of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and it is expected she will commence her regular trips on the Tiverton branch of the Bristol and Exeter Railway to-day. Among the gentlemen present on this journey were Mr. Rowland Hill, of the Post office; Captain Simmons, Government Inspector of Railways; Mr. Valentine, Engineer of the East Anglian Railways; Mr. Gregory, Engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ; Mr. Chapman, of the East India Railway; and a number of other individuals connected with railways, who all expressed themselves satisfied with the result of this trial trip. If, when this steam-carriage gets better into work, it should go at the rate of fifty miles per hour, with 50 passen gers, consuming about eight pounds of coke per mile, and weigh only 14 tons, including passengers, moti ve power, fuel, and water, which it is confidently believed will be the case, what a triumph it will be for the prin ciple of combining motive power and carrying power in the same vehicle (upon six wheels), over the Old method of employing a locomotive, tender, first, second, and third class carriages, and parcels van (making six •vehicles on 36 wheels), and weighing some 56 tons, con- Burning 45 pounds of coke per mile, and costing more than double what this steam carriage does, which will do the same work in the same time, at a greatly dimi nished first cost, expense for fuel, &c.! Hitherto, on many branch lines, trains as above composed have he un empl , yr.d to carry 15. 20, 30, or 40 persons, this: ,king .4 much 0(10 aiwitt nothing," lout ,tltin t i n t o t i„, re k,. ts of shareholders. Hereafter we hope to 4.te a better adap tation of means to ends, and not to employ an elephant to do the work of a donkey. ITALY. The Council of State of the Kingdom of Naples having been presented to Pope Pius IX., at Gaeta, on the Bth, and delivered to him an address by its President, hi s HOLINESS replied : "It is with great gratitude that I receive these testimonies of affectionate devotion from the Council of State of the only kingdom of Italy which still gives an example of order and respect for the laws; things which may he said to be sisters, and ever go hand in hand. I pray to God that, in the midst of the effer vescence of passions, you may preserve these two princi ples, without which there can be no hope. We bless, with all the effusion of our heart, the members of the Council of State; may they unweariedly aid by their energy and courage a good and pious King, who has shoe himself full of zeal for the well being of his country ! We have received ho , pitality, we hive found all our wants and desires anticipated, when we were far from thinking that we should have need of an asylum. To-day, when the passions are let loose and inflamed throughout Italy, who can foresee the termination of such convulsions? Many, it is true, talk of independence, but although there may b 3 ten millions of men enter taining the same feeling, we are sure that we should not find two of them in accord as to the means of ob. taming this independence. We can with truth compare Italy to a sick man tormented with fever, tossing and turning front side to side without finding relief. God alone can, in his clemency, grant a remedy for so great an evil, Let us, therefore, humbly pray to him to dis sipate the darkness which surrounds mankind, and cause his light to shine in their hearts. You are now making new laws, and we, on our part, are meditating some for the benefit of our good people. With the help of God, the due execution of these laws will suffice; for all that is required are prudent modifications, and not fundamental transformations." The POPE, it is said, intends proceeding to France when he receives the news of the election of President. The Opinione of Turin informs us that the Minis ters have reduced their own emoluments, and sup pressed the title of "E xce ll ency. " It is reported that the English Ambassador has sent a note to the Tuscan Ministry, stating that England will not allow the constitutional law of Tuscany to be violated, and that if such an event occur England will blockade the port of Leghorn. IRELAND. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER. THE QUEEN V. DUFFY. DUBLIN, FRIDA Y , THREE P.M.—The Court to-day, at one o'clock proceeded to give judgment on the plea of abatement. Judge PERRIN, at considerable length, went into the law of the case, and expressed his opinion that the plea was bad. Baron RIOHARDS followed, and said that he fully concurred in the judgment of Mr. Justice Perrin, and that in his opinion the plea was bad both in form and substance. The Clerk of the Crown then called on Mr. Duffy to plead to the indictment, upon which Mr. Butt applied to the Court to quash the indictment against the prisoner in the county before he was called on to plead to the present one, which was in the city. The Court refused to do so. Their intention was not to allow the prisoner to be harrassed by both, but as soon as he pleaded to the one in the city to quash the other. The prisoner being again called on to plead, Mr. Butt handed in the general demurrer to every count in the in. dictment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL immediately joined in a demurrer, and said he was ready to argue it, and was determined, if it should in argument be ruled against the prisoner, to press for final judgment upon it. To-morrow morning was fixed for the argument. RAILWAY RE TURNS RAILWAY TEAFFIC.—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:— Last Week. t 0 = Da la age dal larg trey sect ghu troi in a of },T , tl free and port