The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

ip* ;, ufM' ■ THE for that negligence in suffering a measure of such importance to pass almost sub silentio, and without any strenuous or decided opposition, they were most decidedly in fault, and we do not desire to shelter them from the censure they merit therefor ; but it is unjust to cast it altogether upon their shoulders, when it was the act of the Tory Administration, they being the oca*pants of the Opposition benches. In fact, a general hallucination en the subject prevailed in the Legislature, and the remonstrances of practical men, of the merchants and bankers, who so strenuously protested against the measure, and so clearly pointed out its probable, we might almost say inevitable consequences, were alike disregarded by all parties in Parliament. The operation of that law, and of the subsequent Act of 1844, its complement and corollary, which in troduced stringent regulations, for the purpose of more stringently carrying out its provisions, is amply sufficient to account for the calamities we have en dured—the extraordinary phenomena we have wit nessed. The bullionists may endeavour to turn our attention from the real origin of our sufferings, to ascribe those sufferings to the Irish famine —railway expenditure--overtrading—or, in fact, to anything that would not involve the condemnation of their favourite system, but the people cannot now be hood winked, and the currency doctors will not any longer be suffered to fritter away the prosperity of the nation. with their theories. Let us look to some of these results, as recapitulated by our Con temporary. We find that the minimum interest of money at the Bank of England had been raised to eight per cent., a rate higher than any that had been known in England for a century and a quarter pre viously. We have seen the income of the country insufficient to meet its expenditure, and a rapidly decreasing revenue at the end of thirty-two years of peace. There has also been a general stoppage of the works on the railways in progress of construction throughout the kingdom, and three hundred thousand navigators suddenly thrown out of employment, and, with their families, consisting probably of at least a million of human beings, deprived of food and reduced to a state of destitution ; and not only the navigators, but also the individuals employed in the various other branches of industry that are connected with railways ; the stoppage of the one description of work necessarily involves that of the 4.,,......... -----------.------- Imme di at ely, in 2 Tols., w ith Portrait , 2 1 e. bound , REMINISCENCES OF FRINGE TALLEYRAND, With LXTRACTS FROM lIIS POETICAL WRITINGS. "teary Coltrarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. - - _ is to every Englishman, especially when the belli gerents evince more than ordinary " pluck," and an almost unprecedented amount of smartness, we are perfectly satisfied that every generous heart in the United Kingdom will lament that such hostilities have arisen at this most inopportune moment between men likeArehbishop 'WHALE and the Earl of Sultawsous r. 9n every account their simnel, their retorts, and their Libmman acerbity have to be deplored. They have to be deplored, because the munificent owner oom f Alton Towers is about the very last person whany o r ecclesiastic, can Roman Catholic, whether layman assail with decency. -His d e votion to the Church which he believes in his heart to be the true one, his signal generosity to its ministers, and his readiness to co-operate in all those benevolent exertions which have recently been made in England for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of his wretched co-religionists in Ireland, should have protected him under all c ircumstances from the inso lence of a R o man Catholic, no matter if the shoulders of that Roman Catholic were covered with the rags of a mendicant or with the emblazoned cope of an arch bishop. Beyond this, the present misunderstanding should fill every bosom with peculiar emotions of grief, because it cannot but tend to confirm those prejudices against the English Government and the English people which have been so long promulgated and so sedulously engendered in the sister island by the lips of fanatical demagogues and the ravings of political incendiaries. To the Irish peasantry the epistolary war between St. Jarlath's and Alton Towers will appear as the representation of the sentiments, the jealousies, and the antipathies rife in the islands separated by the waters of St. George's Channel. The ignorant will see in the missive of the Earl a symbol of that rancorous loathing, and of that intolerable exercise of authority, b een taught to regard as the animus which they have and the practice of the British Legislature. They will recognise, on the other hand, in the response of the Archbishop that patriotic zeal, that indignant civism, and that unyielding pugnacity of opposition which they are told to regard as the only line of conduct worthy of them as the descendants of many Celtic generations. On every account, we repeat it, these recriminations between Dr. APIIILs and the Earl of SHREWSBURY are perused by our selves with profound sorrow. Errors—as in most quarrels—there are unquestion ably on both sides. The Noble Earl was manifestly to blame in writing with such empha , is against Fa ther A.l'Deassorr, and others of the Irish priesthood, for making denunciations from the altar steps, and against Dr. 'WHALE himself, and th I other membnoters of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in relaad, for visiting those subordinate ministers with severe chas tisements of an ecclesiastical character—when the guilt of the priests was unproven and the culpability of the bishops, of course on that account, indisputably dubious. Lord SmaEwsnuar was precipitate in writing so churlishly upon the strength of a rumour. If, how ever,Lord SuREWSSUAT is reprehensible for the rashness and austerity of his accusations, Archbishop 11PIIaLit is singularly and enormously reprehensible for the deliberate scornfulness of his manner and the very dubitable bearing of his statements. Instead of thoroughly explaining the erroneous nature of the charges made against himself, his suffragans, and the missionary priesthood, the Archbishop of TUAM in dulges in one of those philippics against Saxon legis lation, landlord despotism, and individual inter ference of laymen in religious matters, which he is almost miraculously qualified to deliver in language of the most acrid and vehement eloquence. The letter which has just appeared is anything but special pleading ; there is nothing specious about it ; it is not distorted with sophism. It is only too plain. Personal pique, wilful satire, and hideous misrepre sentation, are as visible upon it as the macule upon the disc of the solar globe. Speaking as a Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, the Archbishop re proaches his noble correspondent with all the energy of a DROST and all the grandeur of an ATnANASIUS. " Go, then, any Lord of SHREWfBURT ! " be exclaims, " Go, and, for this grievous scandal against the Church, do penance, and weep between the porch and the altar." Speaking again as one who is blinded by his preposterous hostility to Eng land, he accuses the present Cabinet of tainting itself with the guilt of homicide, and of aiding famine by its economy, when its charity has induced it to saddle us with a serious increase of the National Debt, has engrossed a vast proportion of its energies, has drawn from it the beneficial advantages of a poor law, and the salutary assistance of an extraordinary commissariat ! It were well if Joust, Earl of SHRNWSBURY, had held his peace, and still better if Jolts, Archbishop of TUAM, had maintained si lence. MRS. 110 WITT. Plat ready, In t vole. poe lye.. T UN FRAS,..SA-NIO4ND MS LANDLORD. moil( Tie /MEDIAL ay r, *lbw Bow, Nov louttgtoa-sinet. ItOTIL ITALIAN* OPERA. COVENT-GADEmet perfect ; THEATRE per. iihtabilaboil is 1847 for the purpose of r enderin ß g a Weaanee of the lyric; drams than had hitherto been attained in this 16lintri• The Nobtl4y, °entry, Subseribers, sun Patrons of Muale ere re spectrally lottirmed that the SEASON (1840 will COMMENCE the atilt weak In match, In the new and commodious edifice ecastructed sot yeas. OPERA. Tor the production of the established works by the great masters of evor7 school, for the effective representation of the repertoire of se venteen Operas mounted lag season, end of composit for the first time In this country, engagemeula h a re been already made with the following eminent artistes : PRIMI SOPRANI. Mile. Grist, MN. Persian!, Mdc. Reticent, Mdlle. Steffanini, Mile Castellan (her first appearance), Mdlle. Corbari, Male. Angiolina Zola (of the Scila in Mllen, her first appearance iu this country)rand }ids. Pauline Gateau Yiarde (her first appearanee). CONTRALTO. Mademoiselle Albont. TENOR'. Signor Marto, Signor Salvi, Signor Lave*, Signor Luigi Mer(frem Ml, his first appearance in this country), and M. Ito4l (o f t he a cage Royale de Musice, and of the Opera Comique, ~ rani, a first appearance in this so t PIIIM.I it kSSI BARITONI- Signor Tamburini and Signor itoncoui. PRIMI BASSI FROIrOIi DI. finguor Marini (the ratification of the engagement eSlgiar Cerredi WV. she celebrated base., is daily expected). BASSO COMICO. Stgnor Agostino Rover.. ALTRI PRIMI BASSI. Signor Tagliafico and Signor Polonini. Seemed° Tenors —Signor Sold' (from the Scala). Diroetrer of the Music , Composer, and Conductor — Mr. . Costa The Orchestra, oomprising the distinguished proles:ors of last Mason, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the instrumentalists f o rming the entire orchestr a will be published in a ?attire ps)epectus. The Military Band, which has also been inereased, will be tinder the direetion of Mr. Godfrey, band-master of the Coldstream' Guards. The powerftil and aumerons Chorus of last year will be farther strengthened by 24 chosen and experienced singers, and will number t 2 voioes—namely, 40 ladies, and S 1 male voices. Chorus Master — Signor Boacon.siglie. Poet and Translator of the Libretti —Signor lir aggionl. Prompter—Signor Monterasi. THE BALLET. The mis which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last Season, that no divertissement should be suffered between the acts of ?coral, will be strictly adhered to. The performances will terminate with a ballet. During the season the following eminent dansenees will appear : Mde. Flora Fablsri (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoldine Brussi (premiere danseuse of the Imnerial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this country), :Wine. Elizabeth Robert -01Ntintero daneeir of the Academie Royale de Musique in Faris, her firs: . a f p o; pear. •IME in this country), Mollie. Casnlile Ozer first appear ance Isar years), Iddlie. Thierry, of the Fenice, in Venice (clhieerr firstrst aapp-- pesirance in this country), >Vile. ',anchor, of the Scala. pearance in this country), Mdile. (I , lest Stephan, Wile. Honore (her tint appearance), and lidlle. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance) M. Silvain and M. Brain (their first appearances), M. Gontie, &c.. Mid a numerous body of Coryphecs, rromineuses and Fignrantes. Maitse de 13ftllet Y. Appiani (trout the principal theatres in Italy, Prenee, and Belgium). ltegieseur is la Deal3for • O' Bryan. Leader of the Ballet—, '..Alfred Mellon. Composer —Signor Beletta. The soenery by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin. Premiere Artlate Ceastumiere—Mrs. E. Bailey. zugsgementa are pending with other distinguished artistes for opera and ballet. A detailed erosPestus, with the arrangements for the aealem, will he ready in a few days, and may then be obtained at the Box-office (corner of Bow-street and Hut-street), and at the principal libraries mid music publishers. loyal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, dan. 22, 1141. others. The great marts of manufacturing industry ar e also in nearly as deplorable a condition, and the mul titudes that will be driven out of bread in them w ill not be less appalling than in the railway departments. Our exports are reduced, because we are unable, from the deficiency of our circulation, and the undue value of money, to execute the foreign orders we have re ceived. And we also have the general depreciation of every description of property and individual ruin. Such are some of the deplorable consequences of our monetary laws. We shall take an early opportunity of returning to the consideration of the views of our talented Coatemporary on this all-important topic. TNI4ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. IPs ter ate Management ef Mr. A. Webster, isle Lessee. MR. AVD liRS. CHARLES THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled Till Wlrv,,s SECRHT. Lord Arden, Mr. Ilews ; Walter Amyett, Charles Kum ; Tema Sneed, Mr. \V ter ; Ilarrin,gton. Mr. Uri,- Sall ; Brouillard, Mr. ROWS ; Lady Kvellne krayutt, Mrs. Charles Kean t Maud. Mrs..Ceeley. After wht - h, a new Farce. called DEAREST ELIZ.kBETH. Mr. Lionel Lax. Mr. Keeler ; Mr. Winch, Mr. losers ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. To aoudads with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle eatitled PMS UNDERGIMUI4I); sr, Ike Gelion Flute as tau Brownie Water.. Wa ag e Manager, Mr. Fa rren ; Acting ki a pager, Mr. F. Web ;ter. J. T. Archer, Itox-bank keeper. Ilexes, Is. ; Pit, as.; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doers open at Halt-past Six, Performance to essmense at Saves. A letter from Berne of the 18th says : " You know that M. Bois le Conte has been at Neufchatel some days, and the new note of which he is said to be the bearer has not yet made its appear ance. I am enabled to give you the following authentic information relative to that additional proof of M. Guizot's friendship towards Switzerland : About the 16th of December last M. Guizot sent to Vienna the draught of a collective reply to the note of the Diet of the 7th of that month, which M. Met ternich found by far too mild. The Nestor of diplo macy then drew up another, and sent it to Paris aid Berlin, where it was slightly modified, and ultimately approved by the French and Prussian Governments. This reply was forwarded some days ago to M. Bois le Comte, but with orders not to present it until the termination of the debates on the Address in both Chambers, lest the text of that new manifesto should become known before the close of the Parliamentary struggle, and impart too irritating a character to the debates." The Gazette de Bale, of the 19th instant, mentions that Sir STRATFORD CANXISO had presented a me morandum to the President of the Diet, recommend ing the Swiss Government, in the most friendly terms, to publish a general amnesty, and to observe the greatest caution in dealing with the revision of the Federal Compact. According to the Anti de la Con stitution of the 18th, M. Boss Le Count intended shortly to return to Berne. M. Boss LE COMTE has transmitted to the Presiaent of the Swiss Diet a note, dated the 18th of January, in which he states that the French Government, acting in concert with Austria, Prussia, and Russia, declares-1. That the cantonal sovereignty, Is hieh is the basis of the Confederation, cannot.be considered to be really subsisting in those cantons which are militarily occupied by other cantons. '2. That it is only when those cantons restored to complete in dependence, shall freely have constituted their re spective Governments, that the Confederation can be considered as being in a regular state and in con formity with existing treaties. 3. That the re establishment on a peace footing of the military forces in all the cantons is the necessary guarantee of the mutual and general liberty ; and 4. That no change can lawfully be made in the Federal pact, save by the unanimous voice of all the cantons composing the we Confede ration. ---..0.--. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction M Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING e !resented at entirely new Piece, entitled tke PEARL OF 'VIZ OCEAN . ; or, the Prince and tko Mermaiden. Pr d l incipal cba , rasters T y Meeiirs. \Yam P. ItedfSrd, Wright, Munyar, ieanalre Calloaterd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Mhe Emma Harding, Miss Wien Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, aid Madame Celeste. To Up followed by a aew Farce entitled Till TIPPMERARY ard ; LE sAcr. Tarns's' Green, Mr. Wri g ht; Bob Gills, r. liany I...anty Serimasege, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chabhlock. Mr. Callenford ; Eolioeinan. Mr. Sanders; Limy Chubblock, Miss Woolzar. Te conclude with an Italian Pantomime, eatitled PIERROT ellow ~ the Married ; and POLICRINI . .LLO , ta e Gay Single F Mixes, 41.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery. Is. Peore epee at lialt-past Six, Performance to commence at levee. _ ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Vndar the Nanagemest of Madame Yeatris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENI NG ~illl be , prooenteel new Comte Drama, entitle& TER TRA GEDY QUEEN. After wisleh, a New Fatty E x t rav aganza, entitled TER GOLDEN BRANCH. To ounoludo with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. itriucipal eharaaers by lir. Harley, Mr. Bucketine, and Mrs. Mac. itAMArI. Dress Boxes, is.; tipper Boxes, 4s. ; Fit, 2e. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The .sew Box-oft:cc, No. 2, Wel l i n g ton -street, is open to the u , .cry day, from Ten till Biz. The Interior of the House has been entirely re -designed by Mr. W. liredwall of the Cclosseum. ---------- PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox , sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-streot, Portland- place. Madame ANSA TitlLLus. 'rats EVENING Ni 1 Its presented a new and original Operetta, entitled The Tot:l7G GUARD. hon Gunnell, Mr. ft,clda; Don Ale trez, Mr. B&Ker ; Donna Dimple, Iti.s Sara Flower ; Estella, Irtiaine Anna T hillon. After which, a new gamic Drama, called MT aISTER'A SECRET. To be followed by a new Comic Piece, entitled THE SULTANA. golymen, Mr. Ityder ; Osnlyn-, Mr. Compton ; Tuseph. Mr. Henry ; Rotalaaa, Madaino Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Villars ; Ismena, Mine Hodson. To conclude with a new Christmas Tantomime, entitled OLD FATME It TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four fiCalleTlß , Dress Circle, 55.: Ilexes, 45.; Pit, er r ;Gallery, Gallery, le. " Thirty Years of Liberal Legislation." Such is the title of the first article of Blackwood for the pre sent month, which contains much in which we cor dially concur, and much to which we are us con scientiously opposed. Differing in many respects from the political views of our contemporary, we have ever acknowledged the great ability with which it has maintained the opinions advocated in its pages. We have respected it as a worthy opponent, and have hailed it as a powerful and welcome auxiliary when arrayed in the same ranks. The writer of the article now under notice starts with the assumption that "for the last thirty years the Liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled direction of the affairs of the nation ;" " that without one single exception all their doctrines have be en carried into practice," and "that the year 1847 ex hibits a fair, and, it may be presumed, average result of the Liberal system when reduced into execution." lie then sets down the various changes which have taken place within that period, and to the operation of which he ascribes the fearful disasters of the past year. These are,- Ist. The Act of 1819 for the resumption of cash payments, by which the obligation was imposed o n the Bank of paying its notes, and consequently of dis charging all its liabilities, in gold. 2dly. The reciprocity system introduced by Hus kisson in 1821. idly. The changes made in the government of Ire land by the concession of Catholic Emancipation, of Parliamentary and corporate reform, remodelling of the county magistracy by liberal Lord Chancellors, the settlement of the tithe question, grants to May nooth, national education, &c., &c. 4thly. The carrying of the Reform Bill, and settling the constitution on a new basis, in 1832. Athly. The changes in our West Indian colonies consequent upon the total abolition of slavery, and the recent reduction of the differential duties in favour of our colonial sugars, and the admission of slave-grown produce, to compete with it, without any protective impost being retained; and 6thly, and lastly, " Free trade and a fettered currency." We shall, for the present, content ourselves with re ferring to the first, second, and last of the measures above enumerated, inasmuch as they alone can have any bearing upon the causes of the commercial distress and embarrassment that has unhappily prevailed in this country. Whatever might have beets the result of th t t he Irish measures on the peace an d tran q uillit y of couutry, they can have had no part in creatin g the embarrassments under which the kingdo m in general . has laboured. Even had they bee n iastru went al in producing or increasing the distress occa sioned by the almost total destruction of the potato crop, and the consequent necess ity for the Govern ment expenditure of t en millions increase of eight millions sterling to sterling, our andnational the debt, the writer himself has proved that such an outlay and increase could have had but a very trifling effect upon the Brit ish resour ces. The West Indio, question, too, is one that should be di • discussed by itself, and which it is at present unnecessary more parti cularly to allude to. Can the Act of 1819, the great cause of all the evil, however, be regarded as a liberal measure' w o think not. It was passed during the reign of the ultra-Tories. It was brought forward by one of the most rising members of the Ministry, from whom it took its name. Unfortunately, the Liberal party did not resist as they ought to have done the introduction and progress of the fatal enactment. The only person who expressed hi s di ssen t th e r e from in either bra nch of the Legislature was Earl G RET, who was certainly one of the most influential members of the Liberal party, and who, on their subsequent accession to power, was appointed to the highest post is the Govern ment. The fault of the Whigs was that of omission ; FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Last Night but Two of the Engagement of Mona. Itocage. I'llls *.IVEN ENG, Will be performed a New Vaudeville, eatitled LES IMPRESSIONS DE MENAGE. Afttn• which will be produced, a New Grand Play, entitled, DIOGENE. Diogeue, M. Beene (as orii s inally performed by Lim at the Thea tre Royal dr l'Odeon); Methlade, M. Feebler hyperboles, M. CRl'- 1101 ; ispaale, Mad. Rebut Fechter ; Lail, Mdlle. Lagier ; Phryne, had. St. Anse. A detailed 'gyro/meets% of the general arrangements, aud of the pi ec es which will be proflueed during the season, may be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bend-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre. which is open daily, from It to 5. Doors *pea ,at Seven, to commence at a Quarter past Seven. Roses, is.; Pit, 74. ild.; Amphitheatre, is. • Gallery, 2a ItOTAL SURREY TIIILATILE. r A mie , J, Xr4. F. Davidge, N.. 1, Ds,vidge-terrace, Kentlngton-read, Surrey. Under the Management of Mr. Bala. ETNNING, the pertormances will commence with the szAelAmiod Onera DAUGHTER OF THE REIHMENT. Characters by Messrs. 11. Phillips, King, ilernemtle, Rafter, Att weed. M`Mation, i s Mlas Ptxlle. To conclutle with a tow Pantom Trap, ime, entaittled and T,ATTLEDOOR ead SH II TT L ECOCK ; or, Harlequin t, liall. A ,11.tiect entrance to the private a boxes hhas d beeningh made (whichhe been re-fitte+.l). Private boxe s may be tly of all t Irrincripal Librarians ; and at the ltox-oflize of the Theatre, which is @don daily frera Ten mail Four.6d. Ilexes, Gallery. ____ ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will lee performed THE LICIIITERNINN of BANKSIDE ; or, the 2rpliaa of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, He a ndersoieso, Uicks, A.earle, o rman, niggle; Miss Vincen t, titre. Lee, nd M Berroughelifle. 1 €4 f o ll o wed by the CROI,g-BOW LIETTER ; or, the Miller of IT me. Kate Carraway, Miss Vincent. To conclude with the xrand scholastic and instructiTe Pant o to m n ime and , ',titled TILE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Cax he Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decoratiyo ap• rntrAonta. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor Moline; Celamblie, Mdlle. •1 Pit, id. ; Gallery, 44 , No 11,.11-price to any part tk. . a " , 11 *pea at 51x, to, corameacc at Half-past si.X. 0 . A 2 - ,•_ 11 ; ?-rki ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE. i.r "' t. , and Manager. 'At'. William Batty. ur• Ratty's performing Elepha nts. Last Brand itILTIC):. r ..Zitht en Thursday Evening next, when the Tremendous hit of 1..,v .0 wit be played first. sawed the Bounding laft,i‘.ter Lee, the renowned double Leaner, cur same {he Evenin g ii ,C ui Thil , greatest Jumper in the world will qiuding kis astounding he '.l! Gymnastic Exercises. In ieled . I , c . ,k. days or the celebrated over twelve horses, a feat unparal• Ireland. Tata ie.v • The Grand spectacle of T i m e LNING, Entirely new Seems in the Art:P",OF SILESIA. ties ,statdia..-.meat, in tli.. . allows males tae talented Artistes of 'To conclude with a Grand Equestriaxi 44 eptestration. HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX A .,? . :To r arson entlthal ALARM, in which these popular artistes Itetr 3 "PP Eft G HET dare, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Ptradbnry, as harlequin, Mdlle. Th"- Chown, and Pantaloon, W. - Itch will exceed l a .01_e'3?in. Columbine, AL faller prQductlbn, at the Amphitheatre, `" ol, r and effect Box-office open from 11 till 1 ACtilg and Stage Manner, Mr. V./ 'ye ti ,. __.-..................•••••••••••••••••Mm........._ OFIICE, JAL 23 b.A TIs Sox puimonings, L ow est, 27 ; Highest, SO ; Noon,Llit; 13.A.Romn, 30.20. —WIND N.N.E.; slight snow. JANUARY' 24. THXRXOSWTEIR, L ow est, 29; Highest. 30 ; Noon , 32. BAEoMRTER, 30.4.--WINP N.; fine. WATER AT LONDON-lIRIDGF, DAY. )4"*lng- 24 tatutatea aftio 4. I Eye!ting:L6 fl-rwviiir,4'-lc"tter SUN, L N LONDON, MODAY EVEN ING, JANUARY 24, 1845 declared he had proposed as a test of confidence or no confidence in the Ministry, was passed by 148 to 37. In the same sitting Senor MENDIZABAL brought forward his Bill relative to the payment of the clergy, and the maintenance of public worship, but notwithstanding he supported it by a long and able argument, it was, after a speech by the Minister of Finance, rejected by 134 votes to $6. General Nenvmsz had paid a visit to General EBPARTZIO, as had also General FIGUIRNS, the Minister of War, General CORDOVA, Inspector- General of Infantry, and several other distinguished persons. The officers of the garrison also called at the General's home to pay their respects to him. The Journal of Seville publishes the following curious electoral, governmental, and population triumphed in the Chamber. All that this in telligent and powerful country contains of in stincts and greatness, of elevated sentiments of sub lime inspirations, are embodied in M. Guizot, whom the 225 satisfied Members bear in triumph on his shield! The Cabinet may clap its hands; we shall break ours to pieces iu joining in the movement ; if it has songs, we have hymns ; if its heart overflows, ours is inundated ! Long live the Minister Cur tius!' Long live the immortal phalanx of the 215 1' Let the same crown encircle their foreheads 1 Let the same rays of light illumine their august faces! Let them march toget her united and triumphant, like those celestial hosts whose symbolical nudity is adorned rather than covered by the unbound zones of modesty and virtue We bless the heaven of our country for having given us this rare and marvellous spectacle. Honour to M. Guizot, who took into his speculations the affair Petit I Honour to t he 215 who feel confidence !" Even the I)eb,t3 and Conservateur seem ashamed of the task of defending M. GUIZOT, and content themselves with passing general eulogiums on his policy, and declaring that the Opposition are mistaken if they imagine they shall drive him from office. The Presse says—" Yesterday evening there was a good deal of talk of a resolution come to by the whole Cabinet to withdraw from M. Durres—after the vote on the Address—his functions as Procureur- General at the Court of Cassation." The difference between M. Ricnosoo DES Blurs and M. GARNIER PAGES has been settled without a hostile meeting. The general debate on the Address commenced on Saturday in the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber was addressed by M. BaaTILLE, an Opposition Member, M. DARBLAT, a Con servative, and follower of Count MoLE, who gave notice of the following amendment on the paragraph relating to the Reform banquets :—" If the agitation., v,liieh have talson place since the Chambers last met, have produced in some quarters manifesta tions hostile to our institutions and to our social laws, they have proved that the ancient majority of the country, even in the dissentient opinions, are incon testably attached to them;" M. DUCHATEL, who defended the Ministry, M. DesmousseAux DE GIVILT, formerly a staunch supporter of the Ministry, but who declared that he had no longer any confidence in their policy, either foreign or domestic, and M. Ducos, who has always been a consistent Opposi tionist. The general discussion was then declared to be closed, and the discussion on the first paragraph was ordered to be taken on Monday. The Presse says—" For seve h ral days te Bank of France has been extremely circumspect in select ing the bills presented for discount, and has refused ma ny from provincial houses. The amount of its discounts, however, since the beginning of the year has greatly exceeded the average sum." The same j ournal says that Messrs. ROTHSCHILD Brothers have just concluded as agreement with the Messageries to bring from England 600,000 f. or 600,000 f. per day in ingots, and gold and silver specie. The Toulonnais states that, according to informa tion obtained from a good source, it can announce positively that ADD-EL- KADIR is not to remain long at Fort Latnalgue. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Till. LONDON STOCK EICHANGE,,,Lcit. 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 133/4—Northern of P Franceand Roun, , 11 ex int.—Over Tasol, 2— Paris and Lyons, 5 1 / iaris e 34" A —Paris and Strasbourg, 4 1 ,i—Tours and N a ntes, S. OVER statistics :- In Spain, with a population of scarcely 14,000,000 of inhabitants, no less a number than 279,374 viduals are in th e pay o f the Government. It must be observed, however, that under this class are com prised 120,000 soldiers, composing the army, 9,468 under the ministry of marine; 28,884 of the secular clergy, and 9,686 nuns. Amongst the 95,735 i viduals under the other departments of the State and comprised the pensioners, half-pay officers, and monks out of convents. The journalist then goes on to give the following electoral statistics. The 129 total number of the consti tuency of Spain i s 99,, out of a population of 14,000,000, and the number of electors in each province is as follows :- Alava, 300-Albacete, 1,320-Alicante, 2,800- Almeria, 1,574-Avila, 837-Badajoz, 2,256-Ba leares, 1,904-Barcelona, 6.746-Burgos, 1,229- Caceres, 1,999-Cadiz, 2,942-Canarias, 1,040-Cas tellon, 1,250-Ciudad Real, 1,754 -Cordoba, 2,298 -Corunna, 2,795 -Cuenca, 1,675-Geronz, 2,19 g - Granada, 2,698 -Guadalajara, 1,081-Guipuzcon, 659-Jaen, 2,315- 450-lluelva, 1,255 -Huesca, 2, Leon, 2,383 -Lerida, 1,627-Logrono, 2,058- Lugo, 1,639 -Madrid, 6,968 -Malaga, 3.363-Murcia. 1,417 -Navarre, 1,554-Orense, 1,375 - Oviedo, 2,023-Palencia, 2,923-Pontevedro, 1,505 -Sala manca, 1,577-Santander, 968-Segov 730-Se ville, 3,534 -Soria. .498 -Tarragona, 2,267-Teruel, 1,322-Toledo, 2,669 -Valencia, 3,221-Valladolid, 2,382-Vizcay*, 450-Zamora, 1,246 -Zaragoza, 3,613-Total, 99,129. Accounts had reached Madrid from Lisbon to the 10th. The Portuguese Ministry had been com pleted by the nomination of Baron FRANCOIS SOLLA to the War Department. He is a decided Cabralist. The Comte Da THOMAE had refused the appointment of Minister to the Court of France. MADRID BOURSE ON TEE 17TH.--Threes, 27/ Fives, 17 ; Exchange on London, 48 10. We have received the Pais papers of Saturday and Sunday. The affair of M. Payer, in which a corrupt traffic in places was traced directly to M. GUIZOT himself and to his secretary, M. Game, was on Friday the subject of discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. The matter was brought under the notice of the Chamber by M. ODILLON BARJOT, who laid particu lar stress on that part of the letter of M. 131111TIR to M. PETIT, in which he says, " I shall transmit to you the verbal answer of M. GUIZOT, as he could not do it in writing." M. GUIZOT did not attempt to deny his guilty knowledge of this affair, but contented himself with saying that he had received a chequered inheritance from his predecessors ; that such a sale of offices should not happen again ; and that some of the statements of M. PETIT were false, and others insig nificant. He, however, cautiously abstained from giving a direct denial to any single allegation, wind ing up by his usual threat of resignation. There upon M. ()DILLON BIEROT rose, and made the follow ing crushing reply : " He - said—that after the speech which they had just heard from the Hon. Minister, the discussion could scarcely be prolonged. He had long been aware that they could not agree with regard to politics, but he now found that they could not do so on questions of honour and morality.—(Murmurs from the Centre). He had brought forward facts in such a manner, that he believed it impossible for the Government to escape the alternative, of either de claring them false, •or accepting the responsibility attendant on them. But such was not the case. But no,' said the H on. Gentleman, turning towards M. Guiaot, you call these ;acts insignificant, you a political man, raised to the Presidency of the Council, representing the Government in its highest degree, you dare to style insignificant the fact of having sought out a third party, who would purchase the resignation of which you stood in need, and of having repaid that third party with a place in the Finance. Such a fact has taken place in your office, through the agency of him who represents you, and you think n" more of it. The whole Chamber has been already moved, not by an act of direct complicity, but by one of simple tolerance, and when the act of complicity, which we now denounce, is accomplished with your concurrence, with your approbation, and even at your office, after the solemn discussion which had taken place in this Chamber, after the solemn engagement which that discussion dre w from you, w hat signifi the language which you - use to-day P—(Loud appro bation from the Left.) The engagement which you have taken does not doubtless signify that you will not participate in the bargain ; one does not engage oneself to be an honest man and a loyal Minister. — But the members of the Court of Accounts who have accepted these bargains have not participated in the pecuniary sacrifices which the movetnent has caused.—(Hear, hear.) It is a third party who paid for them, and that third party has been repaid with a place which should have been the legitimate reward of old and honourable se. vices--and yet these you call insignificant facts!—(Hear, hear.) Believe me, you will require all your moral force in order to with stand the trials that await you. You entrench your self in your pride ; but when the Government is con cerned, set your person al p ride aside, for it has nothing to do here. Permit me to tell you that you put the majority to a very cruel trial. You buildthat on the confidence you imag ine y ou ins p ire ; but confidence, allow me to tell you, has in it something very insolent.--(Great agitation.) All you Continue to vote for me as hitherto, and ell will be well !'— (Loud approbation from the Left.)" M. Dorm, M. BILLAULT, M. Timis, M. Du- LUCRE, all the ex-Ministers in the Chambers in fact, declared that during the time they had held office no tuch corrupt practices had existed, and that at least they had not left M. GUIZOT an inheritance of cor ruption ; and M. LACITE LEFLAGNII, who was Finance Minister under M. GUIZoT at the time this corrupt sale of a receivership of the finances took place, declared that he never knew of this sale of offices for money, and that if he had been aware of the existence of such a practice he would hare de nounced it. LIIHREITTI9 then moved the following reso lution : " The Chamber, without approving of the explana tions given by the President of the Council, and in reserving the rights which result from the Ministerial responsibility, passes to the order of the day:' Whereupon M. GUIZOT repeated his threat of re signation, and then M. DB PEYEAUONT, coming to the rescue of the Ministry, moved the following order of the day : " The Chamber, relying on the wish expressed by the Government, and on the efficacy of the measures to be taken to put an end to a long-standing and objectionable abuse, passes to the order of the day." M. ID/IMLAY, a form er supporter of 11. GUIZOT, proposed a third order of the day as follows : " The Chamber, afflicted and dissatisfied, closes the debate on the incident , and passes to the order of the day." M. GUMv considered the order of the day pro posed by M. DI.IIILAT as precisely similar to that of M. LUEIMETTS, and rejected it for the same reasons. M. LIIEREETTE declared that he should unite his order of the day to that of M. DARELAY. The Chamber then proceeded to vote on M. DAS SLAT'S order of the day, when the numbers were — Against it • • ... • 225 In its favour Majority .... • -----79 M. DARILAT'S order of the day WAS consequently rejected. That of 11. DE PBTRAIIONT was then adopted by a show of hands. Gilmer has thus gained a nother Trost damaging victory. The Opposition papers are indign against this servile majority, which is willing to vote whatever M. Glamor may command them to vote. The Natiosa/ says— " The 225 satisfied members presented themselves yesterday, 1.4 they did last year, to amnesty the stig matised Ministry. Last year, after an accusation, proved to be true of 100,000 f. exported for a theatri cal privilege, there were 225 satisfied ! This: year, after a complicity in the sale of finance situations had been demonstrated to the world, there were 225 confiding deputies Let France hold up her head with pride I Morality, justice, and truth have DRURY-LANE THEATRE. M. JU WEN. The following letter appeared in yesterday's Sunday Times " TO THE EDITOR. " Sir,—ln the absence of M. Jullien from London, I feel it my duty alike to him and the public to take the earliest opportunity of contradicting certain groundless and malicious reports which have been most industriously and insidiously circulated to his personal disparagement, and to the injury of the grunt establishment over which he presides. " As his personal friend and prof,•ssional adviser, and one intimately acquainted with the real state of his affairs, I beg most emphatically to deny that there is an execution either in Drury-lane Theatre or in his house in Harley- street, or in any oth er pre mises of his whatever. I deny als.a that he has fed to Paris, or left London for any other purpose excepting that of carrying on his ordinary series of concerts throughout the provinccs, which from the very effec tive mode in which they have e verywhere been per formed and appreciated, are certain to prove (as they have hitherto done) highly remunerative, and more than sufficient to countervail any present weekly loss from the scenic representations of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. "M. Jullien, in making his calculations, never anticipated for the grand opera an immediate s uccess in a pecuniary point of view, in consequf the immense outlay for the repairs and decorations of the theatre, and for putting the lyric drama and bal let oa the stage on a scale of unequalled completeness and magnificence. But from the patronage he has already received (and which he has endeavoured most strenuously to deserve) he feels confident that he will ultimately be rewarded for all his labour, anxiety, and expenditure. " May I beg that you, Sir, with your usual can dour and liberality, will give insertion to this com munication, from, " Sir, your very obedient servant, " C. LEWIS. " 9, Grosvenor street, Bond -street, January 21, 1848." lIAYMA.RKET THEATRE. A new, original, piquant, witty farce, intitled Dearest Elizabeth, was produced here on Saturday, with the most deserved success. The dearest Eliza beth, who is the heroine, is Betsy (Mrs. Keeley), s ervant in the household o f Mr. Lionel Lax (Mr. Keeley), who, albeit a married man, sets up as a lady killer, and, like all lady killers, has the g reatest aversion to married ser vants. Bets y , however, has contracted matrimony with Humphery (capitally acted by Mr. Clark) her fellow•servant, and having got hold of a letter of her master's, addressed to " Dearest Elizabeth," she keeps possession of it, and holds it over him in terrorem. He pretends that she herself is the Elizabeth to whom the letter is addressed, and while giving her a kiss, snatches the letter from her.: Humphery becomes jealou4, the letter sets everybody by the ears, and, to appease Humphery, Lax persuades his friend Mr. Winch (Rogers) to declare that the letter had been written at his dictation, to a dearest Elizabeth of his (Winch's) own. At this juncture Mrs. Winch enters, and Lax, to his surprise,: recognizes in her the "dearest Dizabeth'',of his bachelor days—the genuine heroine of the letter. She .is at first outrageous at finding that Winch has been writing to another Elizabeth, but a whisper from Lax calms . her, and the unfortunate letter is burned just in time to prevent Mrs. Lax from being acquainted with the story of " Dearest Elisabeth." The piece was admirably performed. To say how richly unctious Keeley was in Lax, and how de lightfully vulgar and independent Mrs. Keeley was as Betsy, is unnecessary ; every playgoer will know the treat that is in store for him, and as to Mr. Clark all we can say is, that his acting was as perfect, after its kinel, as the acting of the Keeleys—it was perfect. The house was crowded. A letter from Civita Vecchia, of the 111th, states that— " The Neapolitan war-steamer Charles 111. had left Naples for Syracuse, where it was supposed that an insurrection had taken place. On the 11th the people of Messina made a maniftestation in favour of the King's attorney, M. Vignale, who had been re moved to an inferior station because he had refused to execute the rigorous measures enacted by General Landi against the population •f Messina with all the ardour that officer desired. In the morning of that day a gigantic allegorical figure, representing the city of Messina in tears, was exposed on the public square. A crowd of inhabitants collected in silence round the figure, when the police brutally interfered, and a partila collision ensued, in which three soldiers were either wounded or killed. This affray oc curred at three o'clock in the afternoon. A few hours afterwards the entire population filled the streets, carrying tri-coloured flags and various other patrio tic emblems, and shouting vivas ' for Italian inde pendence, the . Pope, the Constitution, &c. This demonstration, during which the troops remained consigned to their barracks, lasted until ten o'clock at night, and was repeated at the theatre, with out order being in the least disturbed. In the even ing, when the people were retiring to their homes, two sentinels, alarmed no doubt by that extraor dinary movement, fired upon a group, and wounded two persons. On the following day the city resumed its usual calmness." " The Government, however," observes the correspondent of the Constitutionnel, " should not trust to that apparent serenity, for the irritation of the Sicilians is at its height, and the least spark might produce a conflagration.' The Italia of the 15th inst. announces that the stu dents of the University of Pisa had voted by accla mation an address to the Civic Guard of Leghorn, to congratulate them on their conduct during the recent disturbances in that city. The Marquis Ri- DOM, Minister of the Interior, returned to Florence on the 14th. Leghorn was then perfectly tranquil. A funeral ceremony had been celebrated in the church of the Lombards, at Rome, for the Milanese killed by the Austrians on the 3d. The /bore had permitted that demonstration, which the Austrian Ambassador had vainly endeavoured to prevent. Accounts from Naples stets that Palermo was in full insurrection ; the streets were barricaded, and the people had killed sixty of the troops. An attempt had been made by the authorities to arrest a Sicilian nobleman in the British consulate, and in the scuffle the arms of England had been torn down by the Si cilian authorities. On the receipt of the news at Naples, 4,500 troops were dispatched to Palermo in nine steamers. The Journal dee Debuts announces that letters from Turin of the 18th say that a number of the persons compromised in the recent disturbances at Leghorn have been arrested, and that important papers and considerable sums of money were found in their posse,sion. The papers are said to prove that a foreign Government excited the rioters in favour of the last branch of a dethroned dynasty. The Italia of Pisa publishes a letter from Rome, of the 13th of January, which states that the Cardinal Massimo, the Minister of Public Works, died of apoplexy on the 11th, after an interview with the Pore, in which MASSIMO, as the organ of the College of Cardinals, had expressed his disapprobation of the mole proprio of the Porz of the 30th December. In consequence of the Austrian Ambassador declin s ing to represent the Tusc an affairs in this country, it i said that it is the intention of the Grind Duke to send an Ambassador to our Court. The expediency of this measure is too obvious to need comment. I MP ORTANT JUDGMNNT. — In the City County Court, on Saturday, an action was brought by , s M tilr. Hewitt against .iiessrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., well-known bankers, to recover the amount of a c rossed cheque, on account of Knapp and Co., bankers, of Abi n % don, and who had become bankrupts. T he frbt'nwdon these:—The money had been paid into lai g ntiff, d C I O. The who applied next day to Messrs. p Williams t c a heque drawn Bank, and advice thereof was given to the n plaintiff not applYing evening, a nd t he was in on the stone was not paid ~ by Williams and Co. tiipl;m- tehrBZelves wan " crossud" Spooner and Co. ( I t iv he ir pl m a 1 s u " ff and '6 C b o a . n r k e e f r u s s ) d to rr he honour cheque next day 31- " 5 "'" iia and Co. had become bank on the ground that Knap p h a ving money in , . thebyaud(WwilelirnerncsraeitonddCros..), Hisso f a r ru pt s , and t Honour hat said the evidence bore out th ' admitted fact, but the def thei end r lia ants, by g iving their cheque, had legally bility to pay the amount, and they had also admitted ro li r a t b u l n e a , that if the cheque had been presented before " clearing th h em ad selv il e n s hours" it would have been paid, according to the custsin 1 1 JAN ii 1 :: 4 1 4 . T — } 1 0 8 judgment must be for the plaintiff. t e a l n y d the Ifi ji !i l a N l G bul o ie r tin D s l a il r a i is s u e dA. Z iL.— dailyCo P It u - i consequence of the continued state of the inflammation in the arm, from which his Majesty has suffered for several o ir f AiG b ix, a i; n N k , themselves er' I i n The this case, defend ants made days , The bulletin of ibis morning states—" His Ma jesty has had some hours' quiet and unbroken sleep.:The swelling and inflammation h av e increased,but the foyer continues the same." Lord John Russell, who his been slightly indis posed, will return to London from Richmond, with his family, to-morrow for the season. On Saturday after noon the Noble Lord received a visit from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Their Majesties the King end Queen of the Bel gians are e::pected to arrive at Windsor intendoCSltlei On sit a visit to her Majesty , o n Monday. This dvi had before been announced, but has been unavoidably postponed by the lamented demise of the Princess Ade , !side of Orleans , her liajesty't aunt. Madrid papers of the 16th have been received. The Bill for collecting the texts, which NszvAzz LAND as we have heard of, and the prices of the day ate as quoted :-150 candies Mangal,re, at 81rs. ; 450 candies Compta, at 85rs.; 150 ditto, ditto, at 84rs. ; 100 ditto, ditto, at 84irs. per candy. Sheep's Wool—There have been purchases during th© fortnight to the extent of 400 candies of all kinds, at 105 rs to 107 rs per candy for Khorassan ; 75ra to 80rs for Meckran, and 11Ors to 123 rs for Per sian. The last named description is much mixed this season, and altogether inferior in quality to what it used to be. Opium—None of the new crop is yet here, and the price of the old is quite nominal—say 750 to 850 rupees per chest. MAIL INDIA. AND CHINA. (From the Herald.) We have received by extraordinary express our files of papers arid private correspondence, in antici pation of the overland mail, from Bombay, of Dec. 15 ; Calcutta, Dec. 7 ; and China, Nov. 28. The most important news brought by this ar rival is that supplied from Calcutta, which repre sentm the truly disastrous effects of the late corn• mercial embarrassments in London upon the mer cantile community in that Presidency. Nine highly respectable firms had been compelled to suspend pay ment, and it was impossible to calculate how far the serious consequences of these failures would extend. Credit and confidence," says the Bengal ffurharu Price Current, " were at once annihilated, and buzi tovss in every branch reduced to cash transactions. The acceptances of no European house could be dis counted in the bazaar." The intelligence from Bombay is of no political importance. The Punjaub and Sinde were tranquil. Lord Hardinge was expected to leave Calcutta early in this month (January). Commercial matters bad assumed a more healthy aspect, with an appearance of a gradual improvement. The accounts from China are entirely of a peace ful nature ; and the feelings of the people of that empire towards the English authorities is evidently I partaking of a more pacific character. His Excel lency Sir John Francis Davis had returned to Hong- Kong from his mission to the coast of Cochin Chine, where he had gone for the purpose of accomplishing some commercial arrangements. Trade was in a very depressed condition, and prices had generally declined. (From the Bombay Times, Dec. 15, 1847.) SIM/MARL—A cold season and no wars was till last year an anomaly in our annals. The former exception now promises to become. the rule. We have at present around us the bright spectacle of peace and contentment throughout all our domi nions. The Punjaub is as quiet and peaceful as any of our own provinces, and more prosperous than most of them. The Seikh Government has determined to give 30,0001. a year for the construc tion of roads, and double this sum as soon as they can afford it. The lesser of these is more than twice what is bestowed by Government on roads throughout the whole of the Bombay and Madras Presidencies together. At Lahore, y ardena have been laid down by the European soldiers ; these will supply them at once with recreation and with food, and become schools of instruction for the Seikh Cultivators. Colonel Lawrence left Lahore on the 2d December, on his way to Calcutta, from which he embarks with the Governor-General. Sinde is tran quil. One regiment is to he withdrawn from it, leaving betwixt 16,000 and 17,000 troops behind. Colonel Dundas, commander of the forces on the Indus, is at present on a tour of inspection. The order for the formal annexation of the country to Bombay has arrived from England, but has not as yet been pro mulgated. Mr. Clerk, Governor of Bombay, pro ceeds to Sinde about the first week of January. He will remain for some weeks with the Com missioner, when considerable changes are ex pected to occur. Till then, matters will remain probably much as they were under the late Admi nistration. There are still some disturbances of no great moment in the Goornsoor country, and the usual amount of clamour from the Niaam's capital, Hyderabad. The story about the Nizam's brother having built up his wife and her slaves in the palace, with a view of starving them, seems one of those fictions which gain currency from time to time when a native chief is in bad odour, and there seems some prospect of his territories being appropriated. Such things afterwards form the grounds on which war and conquest are justified ! The late commercial intelligence has proved most calamitous in Calcutta —in Bombay only one house has fallen, and that through no blame of its own ; no other failure here is apprehended. The festivities at Lucknow in honour of the Governor-General are over, and his Lordship himself by this time in Calcutta. lie leaves early in January. Lord Dalhousie is expected to spend a neck with his relative the Marquis of Tweedale at TONNAGE. Freight has been, and is scarce, and with some arrivals of vessels since our last, rates have receded to all parts. By going ships 41. has been paid for small quantities to Liverpool, but in vessels to receive cargo in a week hence tonnage can be had at 81. 12s. 6d., at which a small quantity has been engaged. To London, 41. 10e. was paid for dead weight in the early part of last week; but since then an engage ment has been made at 41., and cotton is now to be had at this rate. To China the rate is 16 rupees per candy, at which a vessel has been taken up. EXCHANGI. The local binks;redia;ing upon London at i s . 9d. for two months, ls. 9id. three months, and Is. 10d. six months sight; whilst what is considered unexceptionable mercantile paper is to be had at Is. 100. for the latter usance, and which are the rates fur this read. Bombay Times (Nice, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1847. Freights—To London, 31. 135. to 41.; to Liver pool, 3/. 12s. 6d. to 31. 155. per ton; to China, lars. per candy. Exchanges—London, at six months sight, per rupee, Is. 100. to Is. lOid. ; at three months' sight, Is. 94d. to ls. 9d.; at one months sight, Is. 81d. China, at sixty days' bight, per 100 Sp. dolls., 210 rs. Madras, at thirty days' sight, 904 rs. Cllcutta, at sixty days' sight, per 10Ors., 910 f to 994r5. ; at thirty days' sight. 99irs.; at sight, 100ini. Prices of Bullion—Sovereigns each 11 rs.; i annas.; sovereigns, dragons, each 11 rs.: 2 annas; Bank of England notes, per pound, II : 4 annas.; Spanisl d liars, per 100, 2224 ; German crowns, per 100, 2 6; Sycee silver, per 100. tola, 1034 at 104; gold leer, per tola (range of quality) 16! at 17f. Bank Shares—Bombay Bank, 364 rs. per cent, pm.; Oriental Bank, 1,000 re. each (500 paid up) 174 rs. per cent. pm.; Commercial Bank, 41 rs. per cent. pm. ; Agra Bank (500 rs.), 39 rs. per cent.pm.; 1 Bank of Madras (1,000 rs.), 11 per cent. pm. Government Securities.—Five per cent. transfer lean, 110 rs. per 100 sicca nl.; five per cent. loan 1825-26, 1024 rs. per 100 siccar five per cent loan 1829-30, 103 k rs. per 100 sicca; four per cent. loan 18t2 33, 894 rs. per 100 sicca; four per cent. loan 835-36, 86 rs. per 100 co's.; five per cent. loan 841-42, 994 rs. per 100 co's.; four per cent. loan 842-43, 86 rs. per 100 co's. CALCUTTA. • - (From the Bengal Ilurkuru of Dec. 7.) At Calcutta during the past fortnight there has .' been little to distract public attention from the effects of the commercial disasters in England and the anti cipations of further evil on the arrival of this mail of the 25th of October. Up to this morning, however, little had transpired beyond what we hinted at in our . last—namely, the suspension of payments by some seven or eight firms which we did not then consider it proper to name. These were Messrs. Saunders, May, Fordyce and Co., Cockerel' and Co., Lyall, Matheson and Co., Church, Lake and Co., Lake, Ham mill and Co., Shearman, Mullens and Co., Hughes don Brothers and Co., and Euing, Aird, and Ander son. It was publicly stated that Mears• Smith, Cowell, and Co., had also stopped payment ; but it was subsequently announced that they had resumed business, and at a meeting of creditors held since that time, it was resolved that the house should be allowed to carry on business under inspectors the' appointed. Yesterday the Haddington was announced with the snails of the 25th of October. and the greatest excite ment prevailed throughout the town. It was only this morning, however, that the news arrived, and that by the Bombay Expreas, which came in about eight o'clock. The intelligence thus received is dis astrous enough, and likely to cause further casualties here, but as yet, of course, it would be quite unsafe ,o predicate its effects. Madras. A disastrous fire occurred at Matagon on the evening of the 13th, and destroyed the contents of an extensive woodyard ; this is the second time within this ten mouths that the same sput has been the Fcene of conflagration. MILITARY INTELLGENCE. Ca%ualties by death in the armies bt India, reported since the departure of the mad of Ist December. MADNtAS.—Brigadier J• Blair, Nixam's Army, a t Feu, on the 12th August. THE BOMBAY MARKET. FROM THE 15T TO TOR 14TH nEcEmnek, 1847. We had the pleasure, in our last, of reporting on a very steady market for imports, and we have now the further satisfaction of advising increased briskness, with every prospect of a gradual general improve ment throughout the season. The ved here only Overland this morning, and although the accounts are less favouralsle than we had hoped for, still there is nothing in them that can in the least degree affect COMMERCIAL REPORT. (From the Bengal Hesitant Price Current of Dec. 7.) The effect of the home commercial crisis on our • mercantile community has been most disastrous. Painful as had been the previous rumours, and gloomy the forebodings generally indulged in, the reality exceeded the worst anticipations. Nine com mercial firms of this city have been compelled to suspend payments, though in some instances not with out a confident expectation of being enabled nide • metely to meet all their liabilities. It has been deemed desirable for the present to hay, the affairs of most of these housee vested in trustees, for the benefit of the concerned. Such extended disasters—involving so many is terests, and so widely spread in their effects—have, of course, been productive of the most serious conse quences to the whole commerce of the country. Credit and commerce were at once annihilated, and business in every branch reduced to cash transactions. The acceptances of no European house could be dis counted in the Bazaar. The whole mechanism of out trade, internal and external, was for the time alike un hinged, and all engaged in business endeavoured to curtail their operations. There were serious apprehensions of tke crisis ex tending to the Bazaar. It is, however, satisfactory to state that the effects there have been lees important than might have been expected from the discredit at taching to all agency drafts, and the loss and incon venience experienced by the holders of paper on the houses that have been compelled to suspend payments . The healthy action of the trade with the interior has for the time been impeded ; bat should the accounts by the steamer at all tend to the revival of confidence , the interruption is net likely to be otherwise than temporary, unless the money market should become much more tightened, It was nearly a week after the receipt of these e vent , ful tidings before the excitement which they . pro • duced allowed of almost any resumption of business. The export trade was dull, and holders being naturallf rather anxious sellers, the market tended to a lower scale of prices. Latterly, however, there has bees more inquiry, although business has not been rewrite(' • to any considerable extent, and the demand Las been confined to a few staples. The inquiry has beet' chiefly for remittance purposes, and would probabli have been more considerable, were it not for the scarcity and dearness of tonnage. The indigo season has scarcely opened, only Os sale of consequence having been made. Sugar hes latterly engaged more attention, a slight decline il l prices inducing remitters to purchase more freeli . Silk remains neglected,;and Corahs, though now lace in stock, find no buyers. Saltpetre is taken freelio for America, and sales for England and France t o moderate extent have also been made. There is s ome o demand for tonnage for the new rice crop, but ,litt,; • of the grain has yet coma to market. Jute Sel't largely. Linseed is rather higher. T here is a fss demand for America for other staples, as lac this market. Our Produce Market is in a state of great depression, and must continue so until more settled intelligence comes forward from Europe. Cotton Piece Goods —The re month opened with a pretty general demand for lacye goods , amount of business which has been well sustained s ince ; a g having been done, and a further advance on prices of such description.; as have been more particularly sought after established; and and 1 again consist of shirting, m addapolam and jacconet, of low to medium qualitythe ' advance on the first named being annas 4, and on the other two 2 or 3 per piece, low quality in maddapolam, and medium in jacconet having the advantage. Long clath for dyers' purposes, as well as coarse heavy domestic, continue to be inquired for at full rates • but the finer ma kes of the latter are still somewhat of s drug in the market. The same may be said also of 36-inch of all makes. The inquiry for shin in n a g m ed em braces 45 as well as 40- inch of the qualities , and the former has also participated in the improve ment equally with t h e ot her. Higher qualities, though occasionally inquired for, do not in either widt uch h com mand any advance. Bleached goods are m the sa me r s before. Shirting steady in pr i c e, and low qua lity only sought after. Of jacc one t the same may be but for the latter better said, as also of maddapolam ; the better qualities of all prices are offered , whilst are neglected. In fancy goods there has been a fair inquiry for book muslin, as also for pine dresses, and dyed mulls ; but la-ppets, mulls, and Swiss lappets, dull of sale. The demand for p l a in cloth and are twill in T ur key red dye has been good, and advanced prices are now offered for both descriptions in all widths. Prints, as before, dull of sale. Cotton Yarn—Again we have to report a quiet market for grey with limited sales, but prices are stea dy, and for 303. mule, an advance of k anna per lb. has been obtained. Orange dye is in request, and holders are demanding higher prices. The best qua li`y of Turkey red is also looking better, but infe rior is quite neglected. The following com p rise s uch transactions i n a ll ki nds as have com e to our knowledge. 20 bales water twist, No. 20, at As. 7 per lb. 155 ditto mule, in 3001hs. bales, No. 30 , As. No.. No. 50, 40, As. 7i ; As. 9 ; No. 60, As. 9i per lb. 20 bales mule, in 201 b. bales, No. 30, As. 7i per lb. Woollens—Still very diffieult of sale, and with the exception of a small parcel of lost . .scarlet save list cloth, at a slight improvement in price, we have heard of no transactions. Cochineal—No arrivals of this article have taken place since our last, and the price quoted is, therefore, quite nominal. A fair supply appears to be on the way out. Saffron —The only transac tion reported is one of 751 b., at rs. 12 per lb. Beer—No supp l y here; cones uen tly nothing doing q hides, ginger, gunny, bags, &.c. The first opium sale of the season was held on the 29th November, and passed off very quietly,.affo rui ing a remarkable contrast t o the p roceedin g s at tb° opening sale of last year. The drug sold dearer the had been expected, the average of Patna bei ll t 1,020r5., the lowest price it has been sold at ip Goverment sale since June, 1842, when the avereb was 881 rs. The market has since been quiet. 10 The import trade has been inactive. The wil°o system by which the commerce of the interior, 0 carried on is disorganised by the general prostratl. ° o° of credit. There has als o been a natural expeotati,,, that holders would in so me de g ree be compelled ; force their goods on t he market, which has not, h°ll'l4 me, as yet been the c ase. For cottons the deoo,i has been languid, but rather more dispo 1$ sition to b .. ,w e h a s latterly been appare nt. Of mule twist some 1), sales were made soon after the arrival of the 0:3, and for the season a fair inquiry has been maintaiobto II Woollens are in rather less requ est. For metals `l3, demaml has been less brisk, and sales have bean imlortant. tst s It is a favourable circumstance in the present Ito. of affairs that the money market is still in a coire fr ioa tively easy position. There is, however, much cisn'oot shown on all sides, and no disposition to loan It funds except on undoubted and tangible se tur d, The Bank of Bengal rates of busine ss are unsite' ye and it has been announced that loans would 0 granted by the Bank on deposit of opium scriVelito practice now revived after having been some in disuse. The position of the Union Ban k in *iett flexion with the r e cent failures created much sn%-icP and was the subject of many rumours. Shares 41 . 1 0 1 ‘ under the pressure of a run u p on the bank 10 3 ; c 1 $ 9 to 200 to 250 rs. per share , have since adlanc" 170 to 300 rs. per share. %te Exchange transactions have been limited in e o and though there is still a considerable rOgoorti quotations, the rates have latterly been rather, s i b settled at about the following for six m onths lid paper :-Ist Class with clods., ls. 101 d. to 1 1 ' per rupee; lst ditto without ditto, ls. 11(1.0 ls• , ditto ; Baring's Am. credits, ls. 11 id• to le. il3 ) g li; ditto. Tonnage has been scarce, arrivals tort Di a e l , slowly. The rates of freight have consequent`Jo 7 I well maintained. For sugar awl rice 0. 10 * have been paid to London and Liverpool. in it. ether are we enabled to report Marine Stores —Ni any transactions under this head ; prices are much the same as before. Spirits Brandy continues dull and difficult of sale; and in the absence of transactions, the price is quite nominal. IXPOITS. Cotton Wool—The dull and declining state of the market for this staple, reported in our last, has con tinued through the fortnight, though we have had somewhat more doing in it, the decline in prices and rates of freight that have taken place having induced parties to operate to a limited extent both for England and China. The stock in the place is as yet moderate, and the range of se lection confined, but large supplies are looked for from the Compta districts, which, yhile they will add to the former, will not increase the latter. 'lb. following is a list of soh purchases ..,... .. -. ~;.-„ ~ `* :.;,.. 'tt,, • ? t.:-: • -,, ~•-c,.., . ...,-,t, t ,..i1Ax , -, ; .,..-v i i.lt, t' , `0, , ,-. - -- - v -.w.,?../.. 1--- yr i.,.1;9 4 :- ..,, ......4-- op*. ,- - ,;,-,-. -.....7-•,.... • , ,". --#4 Jx - - -1.:.A NomiiiMIMIINIIIA .0 )- LONDON. MONDAY, JANITART 24, It4g. Lord SIIIRWSItIIIT ' S severe and caustic letter to Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tos.st has eli cited a rap i }y as remarkable for its sarcastic bitterness. Whether considered in regard to its length or its spirit, the communication of Dr. INlar.l must be regarded as a masterpiece of sacerdotal scorn and episcopal vituperation. Every sentence must exco riate the tender conscience of the good Earl—every word is a missile—every syllable hea its sting. In ereSting as a contest, either intellectual or physical, 1~