The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

Now ready at all the Libraries, THE NEW NOVEL, LUCILLE BELMONT, 3 vols. post Bvo. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1 - 3, Great Marlboreugh-street. Now ready, in one vol., with Frontispiece, 10s. 6d. bound, MISS BREMER'S CHRISTMAS BOOK, "THE MIDNIGHT SUN." A PILGRIMAGE. By FREDRIKA BREMER. Traulated from the Unpublished Swedish Original. By MARY EOWITT. henry Colburr., Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in Three Vela., poet Bvo., THE LILY OF PARIS; or, THE KING'S NURSB. By J. PALGRAVE SIMPSON, Esq., Author of " Gisela," " Letters from the Danube," " second Love," Ltc. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE SECOND EDITION of MR. MACAU LAY'S HISTORY of ENGLAND will be published on Fri day, January 5, 1849. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. The publie is respectfully informed that this Theatre hits, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the Tragedy of THE GAMESTER. Beverley, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, a new Farce, entitled YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. To conclude with an Arabian Night's Entertainment, entit'ed CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Mica Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ItOYAL, .DELPHI. ruder the direction Madatnc t,eleste During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Eso, , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Chest nuts Book, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Bedlaw, Mr. Hughes: the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tetterby and Co., Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin ; sully, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; PrOspero, Mr. 0. Smith; Ariel, Madame Celeste. Ts conclude with a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crashetford. B.OTAL LYCt.UNI TREAT WE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Ma he s. THIS EVEN S 6, Will be performed A CURIOUS CASE. Characters by Messrs. Parselle, Selby, Charles Mathews, and Miss H. Gilbert. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil liam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with AN APPEAL U.) 'rut: PUBLIC. Dress !"die., Os.; Upper Boxes, :s ; Pit, 3 . ; Gallery, Is. No halt-price to any part of the house. The New Exc-oftice, No. 2, Wellingto , i- st:e is open to the pantie 'Na ry isy, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATI: Mr. d. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and k winger. Pourin; the Recess this Theatre has been re-dmorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr llurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arran menu have been reads tor the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the cont.ort and convenience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Railed Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD FELLOW. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. DI.73IIIOLTON'S SERENADERS. This celebrated Troupe, whose performances have excited univer sal admiration throughout the United States, will repeat a short Series of their popular ETHIOPIAN F.NTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre TO-MORROW and Friday Evenings. The Progranune will include a variety of original Songs, Glees, Sce., entirely new to this country. Doors open at Eight. Mr. ROBERT-HOUDIN will repeat his SOIREES EXNTAS TIQUES THIS EVENING, and on Thursday, and , aturday. The Programme will include numerous experiments entirely new. ' , oars open at Eight. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-•flice. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the P.ttronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Ilighaess Prince Albert, &c. Novelties for Christmas Holidays most astounding in the Metropolis. —A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena.—The Arabs in their wondrous Performances.—A new comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING, The curtain will rise at Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, Tto Fall of Jerusalem. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude vvith a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. The Celebrated ARABS will appear. Box-office open frotn Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. No communication can be attended to up less autheati. cated by the name and address of the writer. !,ejected communications cannot be returned. TRE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 26. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40; Highest, 45; Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 30.7. WIND S.S.E.; dull hazy weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 18 rein. after 2 1 Evening 28 rain. after 2 • 4 , 74tonui • • C4r2 Wi z_ - •i , 2 : so .• 1 4 1 . Am. ; . V g iPktt t .. ~.„ i. t .. , - -. ._•,.. ~...i. ~ ( ...... ....C.,7:11., P. ' Vy. J. ' a . • . ' 4. .. .„..,..: :!.. .. , e . ..V. `4 , . i , ~7 , sy , . ~., : .. e :it4y i ( \ 4rl, -4 4.4„, ti, LONDON, TUESDAY, DE'C'ENIBER 26, 1848. Again and again are we compelled to recognise the insufficiency of the Bill of 1830—that Bill which was expected by the mere sanguine class of politicians to effect a complete reform in the construction of Par liament. Again and again do we perceive that pocket boroughs are still very far indeed from being obsolete. The detestable trade of boroughmongering still thrives ; and, in divers nooks and corners of the country, landlords still traffic unmolested in the votes of their snug and most subservient constituents. It is from a profound sense of the demoralizing in fluence of this system—this system which CHARLES FOX once hoped to destroy, and which CHARLES GREY subsequently attempted to mitigate—that we are disposed to reiterate our demands for the Ballot even more pertinaciously than our entreaties for the dis tribution of the possessors of the suffrage in electoral districts. Without some safeguard against the un constitutional effects of intimidation, without some adequate guarantee for the free exercise of the fran chise, the proportioning of the constituents to the representatives, would be only an idle re-arrange ment of the component parts of an edifice the very foundations of which are rottenness and corruption. First enable the multitude to elect the man whose views coincide with those of the majority, without any respect being paid to the predilections of the aristocracy, and then, if you will, allow those electors the prerogative of sending one or more Members to the House of Commons, according to their own nu merical magnitude. While matters remain in their present anomalous and disgraceful situation, while landlords are per mitted to force their puppets upon the acceptance of their family boroughs, while Peers are permitted to meddle directly and indirectly in the choice of the people to their representatives —so long will the triune structure of our constitution be imperilled. The Crown, the Lords, and the Commons are in the popular allegory presumed to constitute the tripod upon which are burning the flames of our national liberties. To afford security, however, to the pedestal of these liberties the three powers of the State should stand erect in their independent energy. The one should not lean towards the other. The symmetry of their relative positions should be duly regarded as identical with t h e strength and solidit y of the whole. The Lords hav e t h eir Chamber in they Parliament—let them rest satisfied with the enormous prerogative thereby afforded them for participating i r , the labours of legislation. And the only means by which the population may compel them to be contented, and may prevent them from tampering henceforth in the popular elections of Members to the House of Commons, is—the Ballot. We undertake to say that had the Ballot been re sorted to the other morning at King's Lynn, hardly two score of the tickets would have been inscribed with the name of Mr. STANLEY. And yet Mr. STANLEY has been returned for King's Lynn tri umphantly. On the occasion when the candidates stood before the electors upon the hustings of King's Lynn the returning officer proclaimed that the majority of hands had been held up in favour of a Chartist, not of a Protectionist. When, however, a poll was demanded in behalf of the eldest son of Lord STANLEY, that gentleman very speedily distanced his competitor—insomuch that the latter was soon, according to the turf phrase, nowhere. Now, although there were doubtless a numerous body of non-electors among the crowd who declared in favour of the ultra-Radical before the borough hustings, it would he an absurdity to believe other •that the subsequent open-voting at the brought into play a formidable store of Ifluence. That man would be bold should assert that any candidate, ;able his pretensions to the confidence Lents, backed by his Grace the Duke of could have a dubious chance of election. THE SUN, LONDON, As far as efficiency is required, a dummy, a polichinello, or a stable-helper, would be found to possess ample qualifications to represent the opinions (not of the pocket borough, but) of those great mag nates of the land, who hold in their grasp not only the rent-rolls of their estates, but the wills and the consciences of their tenantry. Especially is this found to be the case upon emergencies, when the convenience of a political warming-pan is required. Howbeit, at King's Lynn, the aristocratical nominee is graced with a name illustrious in the records of oratory. The son of Lord STANLEY carries off with a certain air the odium of the villanous system from which he has now derived his Parliamentary initials. Yet for all this, that system is not one jot the less villanous. Neither is the shame of its recollection diminished by the pompous eulo giums with which the maiden career of Mr. STANLEY is inaugurated by the organs of monopoly. We are assured, with a flourish of trumpets, that we are to look for an exhibition of " spotless and chivalrous honour, proud and upright bearing, passionate eloquence, and masterly argumentation," from Mr. STANLEY, the newly elected Member for King's Lynn. Well may that unfortunate young gentleman exclaim, " GOD deliver us from our friends 1" For those friends have raised him to the top of such exalted and attenuated stilts, that he looks small—somewhat. " With the aid of GOD we will at least d 3 good if we cannot achieve great things !" It might have been possible for the French President to have appended a more brilliant peroration to his inaugural address, but it would have been impossible for any combina tion of words to have conveyed more earnest assur ances as to the sincerity and the consolidation of the new Government. The very simplicity of this sen tence gives us confidence in the speaker. In the solemn earnestness of its tones we no longer recognise the voice of the hero of Strasbourg and Boulogne. The new President has not forgotten the meditations of the prisoner of Ham. In his solitary confinement in 1844 the favourite of France in 1848 pondered over the miseries of the poor, as may be seen in his pamphlet on the "Extinction of Pauperism." His reasons for dwelling on such a theme are touchingly told. "In adversity," he says, "it is natural to think of those who suffer." Let us hope that in prosperity he will find it possible also to relieve them. This pamphlet on the " Extinction of Pauperism " (which appeared in The Sun of Thursday) will at the present moment be regarded with peculiar interest. The plan therein projected is, in many respects, practically objection able, admirable as it may appear in theory. The general principles laid down are, however, excellent, and it is much to be hoped that the French President will now bear them in mind—now that he has an opportunity (rarely accorded to a dreamer) of realis ing his once vi.ionary schemes—new that he has that fulcrum for which ARCHIMEDES sighed. For instance, Prince Louis will now do welt to ponder over his own somewhat figurative, but very effective, definition of the word taxation. " The levying of a tax," he says in the commencement of the pamphlet, " may be compared to the action of the sun absorbing the earth's vapours, in order after wards to dispense them back in rain wherever the ground requires water fcr fertility. When this return is duly made, fecundity is the result ; but when the sky pours back the collected vapours in storms, water spouts, and hurricanes the germs of productio❑ are destroyed and barrenness follows, for some receive more than they want and others less than they need . Nevertheless, at the end of a year, the same amount of moisture will be found to have been absorbed and returned. The only difference, then, is that caused by the distribution. Regular and just, it creates plenty ; thriftless and uneven, it produces dearth. So it is with a good or evil administration. If the sums annually raised be employed for unpro ductive purposes taxation becomes a crushing burden : it exhausts the country. But if, on the other hand, those resources are employed in the creation of fresh elements of production, then certainly taxation, as a Minister once said from the tribune, is the best of investments for the citizen." The correctness of the Minister's assertion may be called in question; but there is much truth in the reasoning of the whole paragraph. " Society," ob serves Prince Loins in another place, " is no fictitious being, but a body with flesh and bones, which can prover only in proportion as all its component parts are well and thriving." This is a fact (already ad mirably set forth in the eloquent words of Popz) which is too often forgotten by the political econo mist : Mr. MACGREGOR suggests the following simplifica tion of the taxes upon the more sound principles which he:advocates. He is manifestly desirous that the entire income of the country should in time be levied di rectly upon the rents and profits of all realised property , viz., " the rents and profits of all lands, tenements, houses, constructions, funds, stocks, and shares, includ ing factories, warehouses, docks, shipyards, railways, canals, public funds, Bank of England stock, East India and South Sea stock, and the stock and shares of all companies whose stocks and shares are bought and sold in the market." To this condition we are satisfied the nation must ultimately arrive, and we are convinced that it would be beneficial for all classes, :even for the possessors of property, while industry and labour would be perfectly free and unencumbered. Mr. MACGREGOR does not, however, call for the immediate introduction of the improved system ; his legislation certainly tends towards it, hut for the present those articles which produce the largest revenue would be retained, and all others excluded from the tariff. The Excise L is the most odious of every description of taxation ; its character is necessarily inquisitorial; while it exists " an Englishman's house" ceases to be " his castle." He is exposed to domiciliary visits at all hours of the night or day.. His domestic privacy may be interfered with on no better; foundation than the whispered insinuation of a malicious and anonymous scoundrel, and no redress will be afforded to his well-founded complaints. It is also objectionable, as checking production, interfering directly with the industry of the people, and preventing those experiments in arts and manufactures that would lead to new and valuable Inventions, and great improvements in the processes of manufacture. It also costs more in the collection than any other branch of the national revenue, Gi per cent. of the sums levied from the people being deducted for expenses. It is sated (in the report of the Commission on.• Excise Manage ment) that in a single year no less than 587,917 establishments were subjected to visits or surveys of Excise officers. Mr. MACGREGOR would abolish the whole of the Excise establishment, merely retaining for the ;present the duties on malt and spirits, which he would transfer to the Customs. By these means, and other alterations in the mode of collecting the Customs, the expense of the whole of the present Excise establishment might be saved the country. The •hop duty, a most partial and oppressive impost, charged upon particular pro ductions, which can only be cultivated in certain parts of the country, which is as iniquitous as a tax on wheat, or any other description of produce, and which prevents cheap and wholesome beer—noxious drugs being substituted for highly taxed hops —and also prevents employment to vast numbers of labour- ers— we say prevents employment, for it is well r known that no crop requires so much care and atten tion, or keeps so many labourers in occupation —would be completely done away with. The soap duties and; paper duties: would also be abolished, as well a s a ll th e other vexatious imposts that so strongly excite the indignation of the people. We confcss that we should greatly desire to add the malt-tax to the list, but it is certainly less :objec tionable than many of those that would be retained, according to Mr. COBDEN'S tariff. That gentleman indeed admits that he has not "felt quite free to choose in every instance those items of the Customs and Excise duties which he should himself have preferred to abolish or reduce." We may, therefore, fairly sup pose that it is owing to the desire to obtain general co operation that he has resisted his own impulses and retained many traces of a system which Mr. hfAcaitE (km would abolish in We. On a future occasion we shall allude to the other reforms suggested by the Honourable Member for Glasgow which involve the abolition of the entire Customs' tariff, except on eight articles only, and the extinction of the assessed taxes, except the unre deemed land-tax, and also the exemption of the marine and fire insurances from stamp duty, and an equitable adjustment of the stamp duties generally. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The review on Sunday passed off very quietly. The weather was delightful, and the crowd of spec tators great. Very few cries were uttered—" Vive la Republique," was occasionally shouted ; " Vive Napoleon" was only sometimes heard, but " Vive l'Empereur," not at all ; neither were there any cries for the " R6publique Democratique et Sociale." The only incident of the day was occasioned by the folly of an individual, who while the troops were filing before the PRESIDENT of the Republic in the Place de la Concorde, flew a large paper kite in the shape of an Eagle over the PRESIDENT'S head. By some it was imagined that this kite-flier intended to excite an outbreak in favour of the Empire, by others that he intended to ridicule the Boulogne escapade of the PRESIDENT. The public peace, however, re mained undisturbed. An aide-de-camp of General CHANGARNIER cut the string, and brought the kite to the ground, and the kite-flier himself was arrested and taken to the Prefecture of Police. Marshal BUGEAUD has published an address to the army of the Alps, in which he says he will join them as soon as his health will permit. The Marquis of NORMANDY had a long private interview with the President of the Republic on Saturday, which was of a most satisfactory character to both. The policy of the Government of the Pre sident will b• pacific, and there is every disposition on the part of the President and his Ministers to cultivee friendly relations with England. The Patric says—" Several journals have affirmed that in a council of Ministers, held on the 22d, a de cision relative to the Roman States was come to. The statement is wholly incorrect." M. VAVIN, who was appointed to liquidate the claims on the Civil List of the ex-King Louis PHILIPPE, has written a letter to the journals, re commending the creditors of the ex-royal family not to sell their debts on unfavourable terms, as even tually every claim will be discharged in full. M. DUPIN has also written a letter to the journals, stating that he has received full power from the Orleans family to mortgage their properties, and that he has placed certain funds at the disposal of the Liquidator- General, M. VA.vin, who will; at once make a pay ment on account to the creditors. The Moniteur announces that M. LEON FA.UCHER, the Minister of public Works, has appointed M. FREMY, er-maitre de requites in the Council of State, to be Chef du Cabinet in his department. M. HERMAN retains his post as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department; at the request of M. LEON DE MALLETILLE, he has taken up his resi dence in the hotel of the Minister. M. JOURDAIN, Professor of Philosophy, has been appointed Chef du Cabinet of the Minister of Public Instruction. 'The following officers have been appointed to the personal staff of the President of the Republic Colonel AMBERT ; Chets-d'Escadron PAJOL, EDGARD, NET, and FLEURY ; and Captain Finirrr. M. MocgtuaT has been appointed private secretary of the President of the Republic. The bureau of the National Assembly examined on Saturday the Bill relating to the advances to be made to agriculture. M. TOURRET, the late Minister of Agriculture, demanded a credit of ten millions, destined to aid associations or landed proprietors in forwarding agricultural purposes. The advances the Bill purposes are to be examined by a special com mittee, and the repayment is to be secured by a mortgage on the property to be improved, and the claims of the State are in all cases to take precedence of all others. This last clause was objected to by many others, but in general the tendency of the Bill was considered to be good. The Committee of Finance heard the report of M. I3ARTHELEMT on the extraordinary credit of 600,000 f. demanded for the affairs of La Plata. The Com mittee concluded in favour of granting the credit; but, on the proposition of MM. Davin and GUELLET, the Committee decided that it would demand front the Government the communication of the instruc tions given to the agent of France sent to Monte Video, a return of the expenses incurred, and an ac count of the forces which that city could dispose of. sioned by his proposition should be provided for, " not; by doubling, or rather more than doubling, the present; income , tax, but by the less inquisitorial, and more, direct and equitable plan of an annual assessment in. the pound upon the annual value of all realised pro- perty."—(P. 1303.) This is the true position to 1, assume. It is carrying out one, and by no means the least important, of the objects to be attained by the labours of the Liverpool Reform Assocation, and we trust that body will never relax their exertions or I abandon the cause, however great may be the influence, or valuable the past services of those who recommend. a temporary cessation of their efforts, until the great principle has been fully established and brought into practice. " Still o'er the crash'd the social car proceeds." It is not our purpose now to inquire into the ma nifold causes why this is so, nor to dwell on the yet more numerous reasons why it should net be so. We are merely desirous of calling attention to the opinions of the French President, on one of the most important subjects which can engross the attention of the legislator. Adversity—the adver sity which, according to Prince Louis makes us think of those who suffer—is an excellent preceptor. The meditations of the prison-house often produce goe I fruit. When the great BONAPARTR, in the com mencement of his military career, was on one occasion imprisoned in consequence of the machinations of his enemies, he was found employing his solitary hours in pondering over the map of Italy , projecting the plan of his future glorious campaign, it will be well if the prison-dreams of his descendant meet with similarly glorious realisations, and the ex tinction of pauperism, projected in the dungeon of Ham, be consummated in the palace chamber of the Elyti e 9 Nationale. On Saturday we alluded to the extensive reforms in the financial legislation of the United Kingdom, suggested by JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.P., which appeared to us more desirable than the more recent propositions of the Hon. Member for the West Rid ing of Yorkshi e. It should not be forgotten that, at the time when Mr. MACGREGOR put forward his views on financial reform, he occupied the influential and lucrative situation of Secretary of the Board of Trade—a situation which he subsequently resigned, in order to become the free and independent repre sentative of a commercial constituency. He unhe• sitatingly sacrificed his own private interests, and relinquished emoluments which many would consider a handsome remuneration for Parliamentary services, in order to devote all his energies to the removal of those restrictions which his great experience, and sound practical knowledge, convinced him were deeply injurious to his country. He endea voured to promote those sound principles of fiscal and commercial legislation which, if duly carried out, would render England the most flourishing and happiest nation of the world, or, to use his own forcible language, " Far more inde pendent, prosperous, and far more rich and powerful— and with the whole population far less poor, far better employed—more fairly paid for their labour, better sheltered, clad, and fed—and more independent than that, at the present time, of any other country in the world." These are indeed objects worth seeking. How different would be the condition of the labouring classes, under such circumstances, from that which un happily exists under the present system of a fettered currency, and i n di rect taxat i on, a system by which the very life-blood o f i n d u stry--ea sufficient circulat iu a methum—is withheld, and by which production is checked e tn y ianrdesipn:Pcets theded budget of the Hon Member for the West Itiding of Y or k s hi re is borrowed . from the Hon. M em b er for Glasgow. It is true that the latter gentleman does not venture is to sugge s t th e from, however the nati ona l 1 striking off 10,000,0001. te expenditure at a singl e bl ow. ared to advocate every p racticable re ui , par to ed upon the most rigid e conomy consistent with t i the maintenance of the nation a l honour andwth national safety. Wiaen, theref ore , specific reduc tions - are proposed, he will be found, as he ever has been, recording his votes in favour of eco nomy and retrenchment. The extension of the probate and legacy duty to real estate, which Mr. COODEN properly insists on, was recommended by Mr. MACGREGOR two years since. He says (" Progress of America," Vol. 11., p. 1300), " We cannot defend the principle of mak ing personal estate liable to, and exempting real estate from this duty. This requires an equitable Adjustment." Both gentlemen, there ore, sug gest tin cstabl ishrnent" of this new source of income. Mr. MACGREGOR, however, recom mends that any deficiency in the revenue occa- UESDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 26, The Minister for Foreign Affairs has addressed a circular to the various Ministers at Foreign Courts of a very pacific character. M. D'HARCOURT is to be recalled from Rome, M. Bois LE COMTE from Turin, and M. DE RAYNEVAL from Naples. Yesterday, being Christmas-day, the Bourse and public offices were closed. In the Passage de l'Opira some speculators assembled, and the Five per Cents. were offered at 77f. 70c., but not a single transaction took place. GERMANY AND aI7sINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONI: O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. Pia Sn AA?. A.berdeen AWI bvr., .Notting., Boston, &c 44 — to Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 19 .. .. Wirmingnam & Oxford Jwact., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... - Birmingham,Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . 14% to Do., without a guarantee.— 10 Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 13/.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction.. Boston, Stamt., & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds ............ 27% 15% to Buckinghamshire. ; . 14./. 4s — ...... to Caledonian Ditto, Half Sh t 1........ VA .. ... 1%%... to Ditto, New 101..- Illi 7%:... to Ditto. Clydesdale (Inictlan 50 Chester and liolyhead...:. . . ... 50 ..... Ditto, Preference i'larence. .... 7 8 14 - ..... to - Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - • ... to - D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - - Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - ...... to - Direct London & Portsmouth 54 - to - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 Dundallvird Enniskillen ... 20 - East Anglia, 251. L. & E., and L. & D - - Ditto, 18/. E. & H lB Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2%%c to - E tstern Counties Do. Nero Gua rant. 6 per Ct. 10 - - Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - - Do., do N0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... - - Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 - to - Do., 5 per cent. - to - Do., Quarter .... . ...... ...... 12 54 %..... - -- Do., New - to Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Shares) ......... - 25 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 1 - - Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 - - Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 - to - Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 10 ...... 7% to - Ditto, ditto Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% - to - East Lancashire - - Ditto, New .. ........... .... .21 ..... to - Do., New Quarters - Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares - - East Lincolnshire ... 25 - Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - Ditto, Half Shires - - Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 - Ditto, New p0rt.......... - 15 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% l% %s .. to - Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 63.8 d - .. ... to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consolidated - - - ... to - Great Northern ... 19 - Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12 1 ,E 4 34%% to - Do. %B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% 4% to - Do. Extension ... - - Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 42% 24 ..... to - Great North of England 100 - ...... to - Ditto, New 401. 4O - ...... to - Ditto, ditto Ditto, Now 30/. - Ditto, New.ls l --- ..- ..... 14 ...... - • - Great Western .................. 90 Ditto, Half Shares 5O - ...... to Ditto, Quarter Shares - Ditto, Fifths 2O - ...... to - Do. New 17/. - Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .. ... - - Di tte, Thirds lO ...... - Hull and Selby 5O ...... - ..... . to - Ditto, Half Shares 25 ..... . - - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - to - Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - ...... to - Do., ThircLs... lO - - Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 Ditto, ditto - Ditto Half Shares ........ 43 ...... 30% - Ditto Quarters - Ditto Fifths lO - - Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 , 4 ...... - ... - Ditto Thirds (Reg.) Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% - ...... to - Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, - and Goole 5O - Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . - - Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9% - to - Leeds and Bradford 5O .. -. 871 ,4••• .. to - Leeds,Dewabury,& Blanches. 50 - ...... to .... Do., Half Shares - ...... to - Ditto, Blue (scrip) ** 2 % - ••••.. to -- Leeds and Thirsk .. -... 5O Ditto, New - ».••. t o _ Do., do„Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - ...... to Li ve rpool, Crosby, andSouth von.. 3%...... -• .. .. to -- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction. ..... .... 2% - - London It Blackwell ......131.6a. 8d - ... .... to - 22%..,.,, - Do. Extension ...... to - Loud., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 3114 ...... to De. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... - ...... to De. Prof. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... _ .. ... to - Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... - .... t A) - Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... 5% ....... to - London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... - ... .. to _ Ditto Preference lB/ 17 s 2d ... - ..... to - London & North Western.....loo 122 ...... to 1231 Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 - D9. New - % - Do. Fifths 7 B to to - Do. 40r. Shares.....L. & M 25 - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 .... . - Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 ..... 11 - Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 - to - London and S. Western.-- 50 .. Ditto, New 501-- „..... 42% - ...... to -_- Ditto, New 404.- ..... .. •• 84 - ...... to - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 - ...... to - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 to - Ditte.Thirds ... . ....... 13/. 6s. 8d 4%34• di s , to -. Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and 5 per Ct. on Calls 5 . ... - ..... to - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% Londonderry and Coleraine... 28% .. :. . .... . - .. to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 27%...i - ..... to - Lmestott (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 - ..... to - Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 - ...... to ,s , .lanch Lit, .0. ,, n, g. Alnt:wg , 4 - ~. . _ . Manchr, SikeLiteld, gild Line. luu - - ... 10 % to - Ditto, ditto (Ne. 2) 25 ...... -- - , MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. At Liverpool, as in the metropolis, yesterday was observed as a strict holiday, consequently, we have nothing to report concerning the Cotton or the Share markets. The prevent being a time for pleasure rather than business, people are engaged chiefly with calculations of the past stud considerations of the future. Of the result of this year's business, for it may be said to have closed now the holidays are on, the matter for congra tulation is rather that so much has been done, fcr the influence of revolutions abroad and excitement at home could not but be expected to prove injurious. We have had a year of vicissitudes, and we seem now to be on the thireshold of improvement. The Funds are re covering gradually to a better price. The Bank bullion stores are more amply replenished than for a long time. Money generally is abundant and cheap, and confidence grows stronger. Although many firms, large and small, merchants tend retailers, still feel severely the effects of the panic of October, 1847, the manufacturing districts are becoming more active, and the stocks of goods in foreign parts are becoming reduced. These form the ground for pleasant prognostications of the future, and relieve the more sombre feeling produced by the de pression existing in the West India colonies as an inevit able result .of the changes which have been judiciously made in oter commercial policy. The Haraburgh mail brings the exchange on London 13 9 with bills in request. The satisfactory advises from France have produced a favourable impression here in the Stock Exchange, al though yes y little business has been done. Consols have advanced to 88i . The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 89 to 4-, and the Three per Cents, to 88i f. Exchequer -bills are 38s. to 41s. prem. . The Peruvian affair excites still a great deal of atten• tion, and no doubt the bondholders will be assembled in public meeting to decide upon it. Whatever the Peru vian Consul-General may say, and we obeerve that ho has written to an evening Contemporary on the subject, the belief is general that the Peruvian Government has for a long time past been obtaining, both by the guano contract payments and by qu i et purc h ases, a arge amount of its own bonds at most depreciated values. The dividends in arrear amount to more than the original debt, if our memory serve us righily, and it is now fennel when proposals for a settlement are made, that the Mock is exceedingly scarce, and that, conse quently, he Peruvian Government would have not the slightest difficulty in carrying out even better terms. The creditors, however, are so thoroughly tired out that it would c of surprise us to find them submitting to great sacrifices. The Fesreign Stocks are very buoyant. Mexican have touched 2.4 for Account. Peruvian have ranged from 44 to 46. Brazil Bonds have been 74 to 754. Spanish Three per Cents. are 274; and Portugnese Four per Cents. 24 to i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 49i i. A duty of 5 per cent. is to be levied on the Coupons paid in Holland. Railway Shares are rather quiet. Caledonian, Mid land, Great Western, Great Northern, and some others, are higher. Eastern Counties and North British scarcely so good. BRITISH FUNDS Tll 1S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- ..... 38 1 ,i 3 i Now 34 per Cent. Amts. B9 89 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8% 11-16 India Bonds under 1,000/ Consols for Account .. 8 6 % 1/27/ 42d. Exchequer Bills. 2 1 / 2 d. March. June. 1,000 7 . 500/ 3B 42 p 37 p Small 3B 42 p 41 37p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Equador Bonds ... 2:-3,i % Grenada, 1 per Cent. . .... ... 134 % Ditto Deferred ... Mexican Bones, 1846, 5 per Cent 24 Ditto for the Account .... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent ... 44 46 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent 244 24 24% Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account ...... Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 27% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49% Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates Ditto for the Account ....... 1848 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 11U...... - - Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 ... .. - ... . to - Ditto Grimsby .. - - Ditto, ditto. - - Ditto, ditto ... ..... . ..... ... 8% - to - Ditto Sheffield and Linc. 15 - - Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 20 - to - Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41 25.... - - Mid1and........ lOO - Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo - to - Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 20 Midland, firm., and Derby...loo ... - - llidland, Consol. Bristol end Birmingham, 6 - per cent.... 100 122 - Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 ... .. - - Ditto ditto 141. 185... - - Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct. gua.)....100 .... . - - sLidld. Great Western (Irish) 45 - Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. - to - Newcastle and Carlisle . 100 ..... - Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. - - Newmarket ...... ..., ~...,.. .. 20 - - Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s - - Newport Ahergy., and Here. 6 Newry and Enniskillen ...... ' 4 ' Newry, Warrenpoint, an d liostrevor ..... .........,.... 20 - ... .. to Norfolk: ...... lOO - to - Ditto New 20/. . Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct. 20 - ...... to - Do. Do. W s per cent - Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 - „„„. to ...- Northern Counties Union ... 4 - to - North British - Ditto Half 5hare5........... 12% - - Do. Quarters 6 - .. -. to - Ditto, Extension Ditto Thirds ... ......... ....- k i ....... 41%... to - NTorth and South-Western 2 North Staffordshire..... l 5 - North Wales - ..... to - North Western lO Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton - . 5O - Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 10 ...... - - Royston and Ilitchin ..... .. 2 ...,.. - Fto - Scottish Central - zicottish. Midland .... ....... .... 25 Ditto, New... - to - .'heflield, Rotherham, and Goole lO - ...... to - Do. do. (South Div.) 4 - to - hrewsbury and Birmingham 9 - Ditto. ditte, Class B. 5 Ditto, New Guaranteed 6 - Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Kin.) - ...... to -- Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8% -. . ... to - Ditto, Oswestry 1 7 34 ...... - - Ditto ,New)... - - Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 - - `' . .hropshire Union 4 ..: .. ..- ...... to - South Devon .. - • to - Ditto, Preference 25 - South Staffordshi re 6% . to - South Eastern Ditto, No. 1.... ........ ...... 24 - Ditto, No. 2. 22 - ... to - Ditto. No. 3. .. - Ditto New, No. 4. Thirds 10 - South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole 5 'v'ans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 6 - to - law Vale Extension ..... ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17% - ...... to - Vale of l‘ieath Waterford and Kilkenny l 7 l /2 ....... - ...... to ly Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47 i••• .. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall 6 - West London Ditto, First Class ... 20 Ditto, Second C1*,....520 Whitehaven and Furness l4 ... .. ..... to Windsor, Staines, and S ou th Western Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ...... Vork, Newcastle, an d B erw i c k 25 Do. Original New & Ber ck 25 Do. Exten. No. 1 ( Y. & N.) 15 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 15 3 3 / 4 to Do. G. N. E. Pur. or ki.ef. 8 York and North:Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and W est Riding Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Aastrian Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 8% 1 / 2 ... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) .... Ceylon ..... 1- A — Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... . Deitch Rhenish 7 l /2 to East Indian Great Indian Peninsular l4 Louvain ala Sambre . ..... ... 7 1 / 2 — ...... to Luxembourg - - Ditto madrid and Valenti* Namur and Liege 2O Northern of France l2 ...... 8 ...... to Orleans and Bordeaux_ 7 ?aria and Lyons Do. Do. Paris and U' Irfeans... 2O Paris and Houen Paris Sr Strasbourg ..... ..... 9 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre .. and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 ... to Tours & Nantes ... . .. 9 Tcurnay, Jurbise, Landes, and llasselt . West Flanders B 3 /4 to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 Colonial .... - .. 28 •••. • •.'. • •• to .... Commercial ot London London Joint Stock ..... London and Westminster... 20 ..... National Provincial of Engld. 85 Ditto, New National of Irel an d .. .. to Provincial of Irel an d Ditto, New lO Union of Australia ...... ...... 25 Ditto, New Union of London ....... . ..... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo liexican lOO ...... to Asturian Mining Company 14 ..... to Australian... 2% • ••• ••• to Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 60 Bolanos Seri° British Imp Brazilian Imperial •• 2 44...... ••••• to Ditto Coutes and Cuialta... 30 Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 16 .. to to Cobra Copper ......... 40 General Mining ....... .... 20 Real del Monte, Unregistered ... to Do. Black Debe n t ures — .. to Do. Red Debentures..,, — Santiago de Caba ..... ..... to United Mexican ..... ........ 28% — LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEG. 26.—Wind this this day at noon S.S.E., light breeze and dull hazy 'weather; greatest pressure of wind, since noon 23d, 4k lbs. Barometer 30.8, ther mometer, 49. WIND AND WEATHER, THIS DAY, 9 A.M. Glasgow Edinburgh Newcastle S.E., very cloudy. Hull Southampton S.S.E., rainy. Liverpool DEAn, DEC. 25.—Wind S., fresh; P.M. S.S.W., mode rate.—Arrd. from the river, 23d, Highbury, Walker, Jamaica. Arrd. from the river, and sailed, William Forster, Killick, Algoa Bay ; Manchester, Brown, Mo bile; Eiizabeth Ar c h er , Cobb, Sydney, New South Wales; T. J. Roger, Robinson, Charleston ; Gipsey, Gibson, South Seas. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd., 23d Mary Bannatyne, Ficken, Whampoa ; Natalia, Nielson, Surinam, for Amsterdam. Sld. her Majesty's ship Driver westward, to relieve the homeward bound. RAMSAY, ISLE Or MAN, DEC. 23.—The Columbine, of Glasgow for Liverpool, drifted ashore at Point Ayr this morning. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—The Marchioness of Bute, Cardiff, to this port, was in contact, 20th instant, off the South Stack, with the Lady of the Isles, hence to the Azores, the former lost cutwater, bowsprit, &c., and sprang covering board ; the latter was dismasted and taken in tow till the 22d, when she bore away with a fair wind for the Isle of Man. Sld. Venture, Africa ; Superb, Buena Ventura ; Peruche, St. Domingo; Switzerland, New Orleans ; Caroline, New Or leans ; Princeton, New York ; New W or ld , New York ; M. A. Keming, Newfoundland. Off port, American, Susquehana, Parag o n. A rr d . 23, Ashling, Harding, New Orleans ; Harriet Au. gusta, Robinson, Mobile; Isaac Wright, Marshall, New York; Orleans, Bogart, ditto; Columbus, M'Cowan, ditto. 24, Lancaster, M'Lillard, Demerara. 25, Bark. hill, Collins, Newfoundland. Sld. 23, Allerton, Hong- Kong; Hannah Salkeld, Calcutta; St. Ann's, Sierra Leone; Maria Jane, ditto; Selma, ditto; Columbas, Per nambuco. 24, Secret, San Francisco; Astra, Mobile. 25, Navigator, Buenos Ayres; Commodore, Mobile; Historian, New York; Caroline, St. Lucia; England, New Orleans; Viceroy, ditto; Governor Davies, ditto; Cumberland, Apalachicola; Defence, Charleston; Me flora, ditto; Piscator, Newfoundland. MARGATE, DEC. 25.—The Sophia, Cobbledick, from Gibson to London,which was on shore on Foreness Rock, was got off this morning, and brought into the harbour. NORTH FORELAND, DEC. 23.—The Lady Hilda, of and for Jersey, from London, is on shore under the North Foreland light; crew saved. WEYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Joseph Bushby, Sparks, China, for London. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind S.E. by E.—Arrd. Jo seph Bushby, Sparks, China. SCILLY, DEC. 21.—The Arietes, of Baltimore, Ame rica, was passed, dismasted, full of water, and abandoned on the Ist ult., in let. 32, long. 76, by the Wannan, arrd. off port. BRISTOL, DEC. 26.—The Hope,' Liverpool, to this port, was run down by the Eugenia, Calnest, from Liver pool to Mobile, on the 21st inst., thirty miles off Holy head; crew saved. 11A 11.1.29: , ,T1M POINT, Pw.c. 24.—Tht L' dy of T-1, s 1.1::itc11 00 ,core this morning. Is eXpliettll Ulf V,1.11- out material damage. TA.RBERT, DEC. 21.—The Hydros, of Barnstaple, THE NORTHERN STATES AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 20th publishes the official announcement of the abdication of the Hungarian Crown by the Emperor FERDINAND. This official document is dated the 2d December, but was not published until the 20th, that is, not until after the Pesth Assembly had published its proclamation, in which it declares that it was only made acquainted with the EMPEROR'S abdication through the means of the public prints and private information. The fact is, this document was not drawn up until after the publication of the Pesth protest, and then the honest Ministers concocted it, and ante dated it to serve a purpose, and yet it is such forgers as these that the people are called on to trust. What faith can be placed in the promises of such men? The news of the surrender of Presburgh is con firmed, but it cannot be considered as any advantage gained by the Imperialists over the Hungarians, inasmuch as the latter had long since determined to evacuate Presburgh on the approach of the Imperial troops, and to concentrate their forces at Raab and Comerin. It is more than a month since they dis armed the National Guard of Presburgh preparatory to evacuating the place, which the Imperialists oc eupied without resistance. The finances of Austria are in such a desperate condition that KZAI6B, the Finance Minister, has resigned his office in despair._ VIENNA, DEC. 19.—The Wiener Zeitung of this day contains three army bulletins of Prince WIN- DrscriGnwrz, dated the 17th and 18th, giving an ac count to his MAJESTY of the progress of the Imperial troops, before whom the insurgents everywhere give way. Prince WINDISCBGRATZ removed the outposts on the right bank of the Danube, just opposite Pres burg, on the left the second corps d'armee occupied Stampfend witho u t an y res i s t ance , an d th e avant guard were ra nge d b e f ore P res b urg . Intelligence is, of course, continually arriving that Presburg has surrendered, but no official communica tion to that effect has yet been received. The Aus trians have lost several men and officers. The en gagement at Kerchare especially was attended with considerable loss. At Tzered the Imperial troops capturfd six field. pieces, a quantity of arms, a standard, 48 horses, and made 768 men prisoners; the remainder fled in all directions.—Brussels Papers, Dec. 24. The Austrian papers of the evening of the 19th instant contain a short bulletin of Prince WINDISCII GRATZ, dated Presburg, the 18th instant, in which the Prince informs General WELDEN that he had just entered Presburg, which had been completely evacuated by the Magyars. He adds that ha should advance his head-quarters the next day to Carlburg. These papers also announce the occupation of Wieselburg on the 18th inst., after a sharp action by the Ist corps of the army, under the command of the Ban JELLACIIICII. PRUSSIA. The Prussian Government has, it is said, given orders to concentrate an army of 120,000 men in the provinces of the Rhine on the frontiers of France. This is no doubt intended to be the advanced guard of the re-actionary faction. Prussia is to restore royalty in France, while Russia keeps Germany in obedience. The KING, in reply to an address, presented to him the other day by a Rhenish deputation, said, in allu sion to the election of Louis NAPOLEON, " There is no doubt that Germany is menaced, and I hope that should I call my people to arms, they will show them selves worthy of their fathers in 1813 and 1814." The words of the Duchess of ORLEANS, who has been in constant communication with the Prussian Court since February, afford a pregnant commentary on these military preparations. " The time to work for a restoration," said the Duchess, " will be when Louis NAPOLEN shall be elected President of the Republic." The French Republic will, .no doubt, be prepared to give these foreign reactionaries a warm reception ; but it would perhaps be as well that the President of the Republic should not appoint any more Orleanist Generals to important commands. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament on the 22d, Simrsos t __of, Koningsburg, the n ew P res id ent, took his seat - its'' for the first time, and delivered an inaugural address, in the course of which he passed the highest eulogium on his predecessor GAGBRN. The Parliament afterwards proceeded to discuss the report on the budget. POLAND. The Russian Government has established a cordon of watchmen, extending from the vicinity of Thorn, round the whole of the Prussian frontier of Poland. These watchmen are in companies of five each, eta. tioned at short distances from each other. Each company has a hut, and the men patrol constantly to the next hut and back. They stop every traveller, and send back all whose papers are not en regle. They keep a journal which is sent every day to the superior officer, whose duty it is to make a rename of these: journals, which is daily transmitted to Prince PASERWITCH at Warsaw, who, having perused it, sends it on immediately to St. Petersburgh. ITALY. We learn from the Pensiero Italiano of the 20th that the Roman Ministry has resigned e7l masse. The ATha of Florence quotes a letter from Bo logna, announcing that Senator ZUCCHINI has refused to form part of the Provisional Government, and at the same time has sent in his, resignation as Senator. The consequence of this act has been an address of the national and popular clubs to the Roman people, censuring in strong terms the conduct of M. ZUC CHINI. M. CAMPELLO, Minister at Rome, has answered General Zt.iccul's letter to him in the following terms : —" General CARLO Zucenr, your words are unworthy of a man of honour. I pity you, and excuse your age He is vile who betrays Italy." The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 15th, con tends that, before leavin g R ome, the P ore was not, even for a single instant, a pr i soner in the Palace of the Quirinal. On the contrary, General GALLIENO went to him to assure him that the post of the civic ready to retire if its pr esence was displeasing to his guard Holiness. the palace was purely a guar d o f honour, The Speranza of Rome asserts that the POPE has made up his mind to reside temporarily at Civita Vecchia, under the protection of an Anglo-French fleet; and that in such case he would name a new Ministry, composed as follows :—Cardinal ANTO• NELLI, President of the Council ; MONTANARI, Inte rior and Police ; Rosidim, Public Instruction ; Mar quis BEVILACQUA, Finance; Marquis Ricci, Com merce ; General Z UCCEI , W ar . I t i s said that this determination has been suggested by the English Minister at Naples. The French fleet is expected in the Adriatic. The Venice Gazette, of the 13th, publishes two decrees of the Provisional Government, the first or dering the formation of a legion of Chasseurs of the Alps, composed of the inhabitants of the Cadore, Bel lunese, the province of Feltro, and the seven com munes present at Venice ; the second ordering the formation of a Dalmato-Istrian Legion, composed of inhabitants of those provinces. Mr. TEMPLE and Sir WILLIAM PARKER went from Naples to Gaeta on the 17th to pay their re spect to the Pore. Nothing further had been done by the negotiators with regard to the affairs of Sicily. THE POST MAGAZINE AIMANACK.—In addition to the usual information contained in an almanack, the Pest Magazine .41manack gives us an Insurance Directory, a Trades Directory, a useful resuntJ of the Laws r egu l at i ng F i re an d Lif e I nsurance Com panies, and much useful advice to parties desiring to effect either fire or life insurance. It should be the • insurer's vale mecum. OLIVER AND BoYD'S THREEPENNY ALMANACK.— Considering the immense amount of information con tained in this almanack, it is certainly the cheapest we have ever seen. It is neatly printed and ad mirably indexed, so that the information desired can be fuund in a moment. SHIPWRECK AND NAEROW ESCATE OF A DOVER PILOT.-0.1 Tuesday night, Mr. Gutsole, Cinque Ports pilot, was shipped from Dover, by a Deal boat, on board a Sicilian brig, from Pernambuco fur London. The wind blew strong from the eastward, and on arriving off Sheerness had increased to such a degree that the pilot was compelled to let go his anchors in Manson hole. The gale still continuing, the brig drove with her anchors, and at four o'clock ran on the sands. The crew launched the long boat, which they entered; but the painter broke adrift, and the captain and Air. Gutsole were left on board, where they remained in a most perilous situation till nine o'clock, when they were taken from the rigging a French fishing boat, and landed at Boolar,tle. Yes t« relay morning they arrived at Dover by her Majesty, 's packet Undine. The brig has since become a total wreck, her topmasts on being vibiboe. a near that the crew in the long boat succeeded in landing at Sheer • ness.—Dover Telegraph.. DEAL, DEC. 2 4.—Strong breeze and fine, Pon" cloudy.—Arrd. Barman, Guthree, Penang; Douglas' Douglas, Quebe c . DUNDEE, DEC. 22.—..5id. Vera, Porto Rico. MARGATE, DEC. 24.--Wind S.E.-- The Hamburgh ship lost on the Tongue Sand has become a total wreck. BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, DEC. 24.—Wind quantity of wreck has been picked up here: a case o Plate glass, marked " Glas, B. H., B. Oden," and soma broken cases, marked A. 1, an d N o. 83. A . Z. 8 ., IV. COWES, DEC. 23.—Wind E.—Arrd. Lewe Van I"Te . gestein, Siekins, Batavia, for Amsterdam. PORTSRIOUTII,:DEC. 23.—Wind S. to S.S.W., hazy` Arrd. Juli a , f rom N ewport, for .Bridgewater, leaky, an d with pumps choked. PENZANCE, DEC. 24.—1 t blew a tremendously severs gale yesterday and last bight at S.E. with a heal ground sea. The fleet all more or less sustained damage' and had to get under weigh. SCILLY, DEC. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Emma a nd Louise, Haesloop, Batavia. SWANSEA, DEC. 24.—Wind Sld. William Nicholson, Cuba. DEC. 23.—Wind E S.E., moderate.--Th a Gazelle, of and from Port Madoc, for Newcastle, was in contact l as t n i g h t off St. Ann's Head with the Sdnei, also of and from Port Madoc. The latter sank imr o "' diately; crew saved by the former, which sustained con siderable damage. --------- MARKET NEWS. —(THIS DAY.) MILT itatin=i:TS. SmuItHELD.--Meadow flay, 2i 85 to 3/ 13s ; Clover ditto, 31 10s to 41 14s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per load. A fair aYerage supply, and a sluggish demand. CustsERLAND,--Meaciow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 1 58 Clover ditto, 81 103 to 41 12s ; and Straw, 11 53 to I/ loz p , r load. Supply very moderate, and trade dull. ‘l . J ECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 1451 Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 51 ; and Straw, 114 s to 11 10s p ;0!1. Trade dull, at the above quotations. ---- MARLBRO'-STREET—(THISDAY.) Mary Ann Bradford and Ann Johnson were brought before Mr. Bingham charged with having stolen from the person of Mr. George Gibbins, tobacconist, 38, Queen street, Edgeware-road, a silver watch, value 5!. Tho prosecutor deposed that on Sunday morning about one o'clock he was proceeding along Carlisle street, Soho, when the two prisoners came up and importuned hi m to go further up the street with them. He refused and was proceeding on Ws way home, when the prisoner Bradford made a snatch and pulled his watch from his pocket, and ran sly* He followed, and seised her before she had proceeded many yards. The other prisoner ran away as fast es she could, and witness called out "Police," and "St°P thief." A con s t a bl e s h ortly came up, and 'witness gav e the prisoner Bradford into custody. The prisoner John' son was subsequently detained by another constable in Wardour-street, and the watch was found down an area close by. Police-constable 178 C said about a quarter past one on Sunday morning he was on duty in Dean-street , Soho, when he heard the cry of " Police!" He pro' ceeduil to the spot and saw a person standing in the street, who pointed to the prisoner Johnson, who was running down the street, and said, " That is her; she has thrown something down the area." Witness put sued her and took her into custody in Wardour.street; He subsequently went to a house in Dean-street and found the watch produced in the area. A witness of the name of Hartwell proved seeing th e prisoner Johnson running from the direction of Car lisle -street and throwing something down the area of • house in Dean -street. He met a constable and informed him of the circumstance. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. THE RECLAMATION OF WASTE LAND IN IRELAND. LETTER VI. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, nr• My Lord,—l believe that I have now clearly established two of the objects which I proposed in writing these letters to your Lordship. First, I have shown that those members of the Cabinet whet are opposed to your Lordship's views on this subject have acted unwisely. Secondly, I have shown that the parties on whom your Lordship relies for infor mation on this subject have given erroneous advice. I now proceed to my third object, to show to the. public and to your Lordship a plan for the reclama . tion of waste land, involving as little interference as possible on the part of Government, securing the state from the loss of a single shilling, and employing the people in adding to the resources of the State instead of feeding them in idleness. The plan I strongly recommend is to place at Lora Clarendon's disposal 1 50,0001., with power to accept the proposal already made, upon proper security' being given, and upon such terms as hie Lordship shall think proper. Persons of enlarged views and sound judgment wild immediately 'see that the interest of all parties 1 $ precisely the same. Neither the State, the paiY effecting the reclamation, the labourer, or the limo , could possibly receive a benefit or an injury withou t , its being shared by the others. This plan would be far better than introducing Bill upon the subject. Such a man as Lord Garen' don would require nothing which was. not essentially necessary for the security of the State; but if an:Act of Parliament were passed, his Lordship would he, bound to adh ere t o i ts very l etter, although he might be satisfied that doing so would be injurious to aJI. Who will object to this plan ? Assuredly not those in whom the public place confidence as the guardians of the public purse. These men look at figures and facts. They see the Government at the present time obliged to collect rates in many union s —to advance money—and to distribute rations to the people without giving them employment. 'These men act in public as they would in privat e life —seeing, on the one hand, an evil daily increasing , and which, if left to itself must increase in intensity —and, on the other the loss for a few years, of the interest of the ou tl ay 5,0001. per annum, they Wow' not hesitate to give the plan a fair trial. But will there be no objectors ? Oh, yes. Al l " One eked men" —all red tapists—all ;Irish :land lords who are desirous of having their estates cleared at the public expense ; all colonial speculators who are anxious that their property should be improved by a Government outlay for emigration ; all those wie, have long lo o k e d f orward to the reclamation of wear_ lands a s an e l ys i um of places for themselves, tile' friends, and connexions. On the other hand, the proposal will be approved of by the wise and good of all parties, by all those wh o are capable of appreciating the inevitable demoralize' tion of the people, consequent on feeding them in idleness. Such men will gladly hail any mestsure which shall give a fair prospect of staying so fearful $ calamity with so little cost to the public.' Without at all presuming to say or even to think that the plan I have proposed is perfection in all its details, 1 en t er t a i n no doubt that the principle is cor rect; that principle being for the Government to do as little as possible in direct, operation—no other can profitably succeed for the reclamation of waste lands. Give the plan 1 have proposed that fair play which it would receive at the hands of your Lordship or Lord Clarendon, and I believe success to be as certain as is consistent with human operations, and if success ful the example is sure to be followed. In my second letter I said, that any partial applica tion of the national revenue to clear estates of Irish landlords would inevitably be attended with jobbing, never yet equalled, both in selecting the estates to be, cleared, and the colony to which the emigrants wea' be sent. Since that period it has been announced in the public prints, that Lord Monteagle, better known ag Mr. Spring Rice, has had an interview with your Lordship on the subject of the emigration of persons from his property on the Shannon. Lord lionteagle is known as opposed to the poor law; Lord Alonteagle is known as a great supporter of emigration at the public expense. I trust that he received no encouragement from your Lordship ° thee important points— if he requires a loan of monel from the State on the security of his property to as' silt the labourers to emigrate, by all means let hiul have it. But lend no money to unions for this or any other purpose, or your Lordship will indeed be sowing dragon's-teeth. Money lent to individuals on seen rity of their property is safe; money lent to unions upon the security of the rates may be considerqd as lost. The wit of man could not devise a more effectual means of reviving the cry of the repeal of the union, than for the Saxon to lend money to every union In Ireland on security of the rates. I have the honour to remain, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, RIGBY WASON. Corwar, Dec. 22, 1848. CHRISTMAS DINNERS FOR POOR DEBTORI3.—Yes, terday the whole o f t h e prisoners confined in the Debtors. Prison, Whitecross-street, were provided with a sub stantial Christmas dinner, consisting of beef, bread, and porter, by the Sheriffs, Alderman Fiunis and J. E. Goodhart, Big. At florsemonger. lane Gaol and the Queen's Bench, the poor prisoners received meat, the gift of J. Capell, E N ., and bread, the gift of the Dra pers' Company. A SINGULAR CRAB.--T O the list of marvellous things is now to be afided a lull grown crab, bearing on its buck, in addition to its natural burden, no less ('S t whok. I; lo tiny Illk:11 a, though than they were a proper part of it. This curiosity was shown by one of the Hull fishmongers. , Limerick, to Liverpo )1, has put into West Tarbert Lech' with pumps choked, and will probably have to discharg e part of cargo. FALMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind E. to E.N.E., fre sh ,, gales. 2 4.—E.5.E,, trong gales.--Arrd. Hamburg' racket, Kinner, Robe, Porto Plata. Sld. C ar li s l e , Now York. 25.—W.5.W. moderato breezes.—Arrd. A u ' gusto, Ehmeke, New York for Amsterdam. It blew a violent gale yesterday from S.E., moderate during the night, rainy to the southward and westward, Tb ° shipping rode Well. FOWEY, DEC. 25.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Comet, Straw, Charleston. ha. ha' 4 it set he of tra we Bu luc col an( an( nit pai