The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

New ready, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, 111)\%1L'I'r , .NEW WORK, " TILE HALL AND THE HAMLET." " This work Is full of delighttul sketches aid sweat and enchanting pictures of rural life ; and we have no doubt it will be read not only at the homestead of the farmer, but at the mansion of the squire, or the castle of the lord, with gratification and delight. In these vo lumes there is more originality, more wit, more humour, more pa thos, than In any which have already issued from the same pen."— Banday Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. M' Just ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., MRS. HOWITT'S NEW NOVEL. • 4 The PEASANT AND HIS LANDLORD." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-strect. PROVIDENT CLERKS' AND GENERAL BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. The FIRST PUBLIC MtETING will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 26th January instant, at Half-past Six o'clock for Seven precisely, to ex plain the objects of the Society and its system of operations, and to enrol Members. Prospectuses and Copies of Rules may be obtained at the Office of the Society, No. lb, Old Broad-street. JOHN WHITEHEAD, jun., Secretary. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Unler the Management et Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mr. Farren; Charles Courtly, Mr. Howe ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Rogers ; Max Harkaway. Mr. Tilbury ; Cool, Mr. Brindal ; Mr. Spanker, Mr. Eaeley ; Dazzle, Mr. Henry Farren ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. NistEnt ; Grace Ilarkaway, Miss Julia Bennett; Pert, Mrs. HumbY. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WORLD UNDE.RGROLIND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. Stage Alauager, Mr. Farren; Ac tin g Manager, Mr. F. Web:ter. J. T. Archer, P.ox-hook keeper. Boxes. ss. ; Pit, se. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is, Doors open at Halt-past Six, Pmlormance to sommence at Seven. -------- THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction o: Madame Celesta. TIIIS EVENING . . _ . Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the ermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Wa.ye, P. Bedford, Wright,%% Munyard, i;lennaire, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Zllen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, mid Madame Celeste. To be soilooted by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE IACT. Turnein Green Mr. Wright; Bob Gills, Mr. Mutiyard ; ,lnty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bell. rd ; Chubblock. Mr. Cullenford ; Policem r,, Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, 31lis Woolgar. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled i lERROT, the Married Man; and POLL:HIN,LLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2u. , Gallery, ls. I , nors o-en at Hall-past Sir, Performance to commence at Sevin. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the NI anase , iieut of ‘:aflame Vestris. Lessee, \lr. Charles Mathews. till• EVLNINO Will b. presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA LIEDY QUEEN. Atter which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TILE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Barley, Mr. ltuckstoue, and Mrs. Mac. Camara. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The ,yew Box-orflce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public es cry day, from 'hen till Six. The Interior of the !louse has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bra.dwe'l 01 the eclosseurn. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland- place. Engagement ct Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport, from America. Tins EVENING Will be performed Shaispeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Davenport; 214ercutio, Mr. J. Vining; Friar Lawrence, Mr. Ryder; Juliet, Mrs. Muwatt. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime. entitled OLD FATHER TIME; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, 0:d Bond-street. THIS EVENING. Will be performed the almired Comedie-vaudeville of LE VI COMTE GIROELEE. After which, ECHEC ET M.T. Le Duc d'Albuquerque, M. Bocage ; Philippe IV., M. Montaland ; La Duchess de Sidonia-Cali, Mahe. Baptiste. To conclude with a new Vaudeville, entitled LA VEUVE DE qiLIINZE ANS. A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produceel daring the season, may ha had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre. which is open daily, trout l l to 5. Doors open at Seven, to commence at half-past Seven. Boxes, Gs. ; pit, 3s. 6d.; Amehitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mn.s F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. Under the Management of Mr. Bunn. 1111 S EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera or THE BOHENIIA.N GIRL. r Count Arnhelm, Mr. Stretton ; Devilahoof, Mr. 11. Horneastle ; Arline, Miss Raintorth. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled EATTLEDOOP. and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Tiap, Bat, and A distinct entrance to the priviite boxes has been made (which pave been re-fitted). Private boxes may he had nightly or all the krinclpal Librarians ; and at the Box-rflize st the Theatre, which Is spen daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit. is. : Gallery, fid. ROYAL VIC FOR THEATRE. THIS EVLS ENG Wilt be performed THE LIGIITERMAN of BANKSIDE ; or, the Irphaa of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson, Hicks, Searle, n'orman, Higgie; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Surrougheliffe. Atter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, eat!tled THE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with woodertul scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; lisr'equin, M. Lupino ; Sprite, Signor Molino; Columbine, Mdlle. LL tlti. To conclude with TILE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. ilox,s, is.; int, ad. ; Gallery, 4(1: No Halt-price to any part the hou,e. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. Az-qLEY':i ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Protrletor and Manager 'tr. willlam Batty. Mr. Batty's nertormirw Elephants. e land Juvenile Night on Thursday next, when the Pantomime will he played first. THIS EVENING, The Grand S . ,,,ectacle et 'FILE CA.111" OF SILESIA. F.nti:,-.y new .Seen. s in the .krena, by than ta:enred Artistes of the ..At•Olk! . rrimt, in ttr. .ariouA modes o eyiestrat on. To conclude with a Gran I Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYN I'AX A ,1) HIS DAPP..rt GREY MARE, in which those popular artiste, Herr Den,in, Mdlle. theo dere, Mr. Anderson, anal Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin. Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in spleadour and effect ail tormer production- at the .Amphitheatre, Box- ,, dice open from LI till 5 Acting and <.a.<e A1411E.,,et, Mr. W West. W EAT a Fa5....--z" , nN UFFICE. JAW. 14 Tlcznnomvran, Lowest, 38 ; iTiOest. 45 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 30 22.—WIND N.W. ; hazy. A 1-ilt AT 1.0141)04-Itk1i)“ , 1)At", Sfernin';. 86 minutes after 7. f rvenintt . 2 •nin.tts , fter $ Otttningtnt Lf)ND O )N, FRIDAY. JANUARY 14. 1848 Lombardy is evincing its abhorrence of Austrian domination, and its solicitude to take part in the great movement of political reform which is tending so rapidly to the regeneration of the Peninsula. The Italian subjects and the German soldiery of FERDI NAND have at length come into collision, and that, too, in the capital of the Imperial dominions situated south of the Carpathi.in mountains. It appears that a covert effirt at innovation has been recently devised by the Milanese for the purpose of compelling thei r rulers, if possible, to rel ax the rigour of their poli tical grasp, and to diminish the stringency of their social depressi3n. A popular compact was resolved upon by the citizens, by the operation of which compact a powerful influence would have- been obtained over the municipal Go vernment, and ultimately over the supreme Legislature of Vienna. According to this :igreement every one was prohibited from consuming tobacco, with the intention of depriving the Austrian autho rities of one of the most fruitful sources of revenue. Patriotism extinguished every pipe within the boun daries of Milan. Such was the loathing of their oppressors in th e b osoms of its inhabitants, that they readily sacrificed their most favourite appetite for the purpose of trying an experiment which might per chance tend towards their ulterior liberation. Not a nose was titillated by the su b t l e gra i ns o f rappee; not a cheek w.. 5 distended with a miniature coil of pig-tail ; not a canana Rave forth its perfume from the lips of the most venturous c,viliatl; not a spark was kindled in the bowl of a dudeen, or beneath the perforated cap of a inver,chaum. ...00,tcco was under the taboo of the Revolutionists. It was avoided as resolutely as though some new rUEOUA LD had ad in i n i s tered a solemn p led g e against stnil; ng, and had d with all the fervour of a N EN TURA, and all the inspiration of expatiate L ACORDAIRE, again s t the c"- sumption of a weed so often to ind o l ence a n d debauchery. For several days the contrivance was successful ; the atmosphere was nowhere impregnated with the fragrance of even one solitary cheroot ; not a man sneezed from the Piazze Bella Scala to the Plasma della Duomo. The conspiracy against the tobac con i sts, an d , th roug h them, againstthe Imperi a l T reasury, wps so manifest, indeed, that the different regiments quartered in the city resolved to evidence their loyalty by consuming cigars in .the face of the populace. Sundry cases of Havannah, of a very seductive age and condition, were forwarded to the barracks by some anonymous hand, and forthwith the garrison turned out in groups of from 80 to 200 men, and perambulated the Corso and the more frequented promenades of Milan, their cigars blazing with unaccustomed fury under their moustachios. A violation of the popular mandate so flagrant was naturally received with in tense but suppressed indignation ; and the wrath of the Milanese was at length rendered wholly irrepres sible by their organs of respiration being saluted with the odour of their beloved weed—that weed from which they had abstained out of a feeling of exalted ciiism. The soldiers were followed with ' hisses and derision ; and the result of this extraordi nary affair was a--massacre. Besides many who were killed by the swords and bayonets of the Aus trians, one hundred and fifty of the unarmed citizens were conveyed to the hospitals dangerously wounded. Among those who were arrested by the military Was the Podesta CASATI ; and among the victims of the tumult was Counsellor lloNciamat, a man venerable in years, and of exalted reputation. Such has been the beneficent conduct of the police under TORRESANI, and of the Dragoons under RA DETSKY ; such has been the fate of the Milanese, and such the paternal tenderness of the Imperial Govern ment ! Since a sullen tranquillity has been restored to the capital, a proclamation issued by the Arch duke REGNIER, the Viceroy of Lombardy, addresses the people upon whom the soldiers of FERDINAND:haVe but recently practised their skill in butcheries, as his dear Milanese, suoi ddetti Milanesi. Nothing could be more expressive of the hypocritical and insi dious policy of the Viennese Cabinet since the first moment in which it undertook to direct the social and political affairs of the Lombardo- Venetian=. With every pretence of gentle ness in its manner of administration it has combined every rigour and cruelty in execution. If it has secured to its Italian populace a comparative amount of physical comfort and intellectual pros perity, it has done so merely within such limits as are compatible with the retention of its predominant authority—just as a prisoner may be fattened by his gaolers while the bars of his dungeon are strengthened and his manacles made immeasurably more burden some. Already has this policy been persisted in too long. The people of Lombardy are incapable of bowing patiently to the yoke of their unsyrnpathising taskmasters, while southwards the sound of the hymns of liberty are audible from the palace of Florence and the precincts of the Quirinal. A stupendous catastrophe appears to us to be inevitable; and it is impossible for the lovers of freedom to observe the progress of events in Northern Italy without trembling fur the cause of those patriotic civilians who are struggling to effect their emancipation by bearding the representatives of a puissant and military despotism. Thanks to the wisdom and benignity of Pius IX., the Papal states have arrived at the blessings of representative legis lation without one drop of blood being spilt either upon the Monte Cavallo or upon the Piazza del Popolo. In a similar manner the sagacious inno vations of LEOPOLD and the laudable changes effected by CHARLES ALBERT have rendered the revolutions of Sardinia and Tuscany bloodless, without being in any respect insufficient. Lombardy has a more ter rible ordeal to pass through before her people can hope to achieve their independence. The crowned imbecile of Schoenbrun is surrounded by parasites who will not willingly allow this Italian jewel to drop from the diadem of FERDINAND. Before the liberty of Lombardy can be secured, it must, we fear, be baptised in the blood of its population. As Mr. MACAULAY has most eloquently said, the exorcism of the demon of tyranny wracks the body politic with throes and convul sions which sometimes bring it to the very brink of dissolution. Still, terrible as those throes, and appalling as those convulsions may be, it is as suredly better that the demon should be exorcised, even at the risk of such agonies, rather than that a whole race should continue to be abased by its brutalizing domination. Already has the tocsin sounded at Milan, at Como, at Lecco, and at Cremona. Yet a little while, and Lombardy may be free! On Wednesday we directed the public attention to the " History and Exposition of the Currency Ques tion," contained in the TVe,tmiaster Review for the present quarter, to which we promised to allude at greater length on a future occasion. We now pro• teed to the redemption of that pledge. The talented writer tells us that " Distrust strengthens itself in the conviction now widely spread among all classes, that whatever may be the modest self-reliance of politicians and economists in their own judgment, there is something in sound prin ciples of currency' which nobody understands, and that it is therefore just as possible that the terms of the next renewal of the Bank Charter may lead to fresh disasters, as certain that the last settlement' has wholly disappointed the expectations not only of the public, but of its authors." The "sound principles of cur rency " to which he alludes are the doctrines intro duced by the Act of 1818, establishing a fixed price for gold, that the pound of account is always to be liquidated by 5 dwts. 3 grs. of gold, and that although there is not a sufficient uuantity of gold ie the world to satisfy the demand that might possibly be made, if there was a total suspension of credit, and every one insisted on the payment of the debts due to him in bullion, and would accept no other description of satisfaction, still the integrity of the standard must be maintained at any price, although it in volved the sacrifice of our mercantile and manufacturing interests, and the reduction of our labouring classes to the lowest depths of poverty and destitution. The Act of 1844 was merely intended by its authors to afford a greater degree of security for the maintenance of the prin. ciple formerly introduced to insure at all times the convertibility of the notes issued under the former law. The disasters and calamities to which the nation has been exposed from its operation are too well known to require further proof ; and although Sir CHARLES WOOD may still chaunt its praises and declare it to be the perfection of human wisdom, it is possible that the wisdom of the Legislature, assisted by the pressure from without, may compel him to consent to a revision of the law. But we can scarcely hope that a free trade in money will be at once conceded ; other regulations, perhaps equally injurious, may be substi uted for those which have proved so great a failure, and the ruin of the nation may be occasioned by the mistakes of those who cannot be induced to abandon their "sound principles of currency"—while anything remains to be toq—until the sufferings and misery of the many lead to a general convulsion, in which every descrip tion of property is swept away and destroyed. The fallacy of the bullionists and the triumphant demand " What is a pound ?" is well met by the re viewer. He shows that it is founded on a dictum of LOCKE'S, which has been received as an axiom without examination, in deference to his authority. That great philosopher lays it down that " men in their bargains contract not for denomi nations or sounds, but for the intrinsic value." This was the foundation of the theory of the Bullion Com inittee of 1810, which was the fountain and origin of all our subsequent calamities, and the chief sup port of the assumption that a contract for a pound sterling is a bargain for the delivery of 6 dwts. 3 grs. of gold, and nothing more. This is really a gross misapprehension of the real .meaning of the great metaphysician, which has led to much injustice. It is a strict adherence to the letter of a contract with out any regard to its spirit. We shall let the writer speak for himself on this point. He says— ° I'he quantity of gold in a pound sterling never, or but rarely, enters into the calculation of either buyer or seller. What buyers and sellers mean by a pound is not 5 dwts. 3 grs. of yellow metal, but that com mand over the necessaries and comforts of life which was conveyed by a sovereign or a one pound note, in the average of the transactions in which they lave st en it employed. This view of a contract most materially affects the argument, for the reader need not be very profoundly read in ethics to discover that the pay ment 6 . dwts. 3 grs. of yellow metal does not satisfy the equity of t h e case, unless the metal convey the same P ur chasingpower over an average of commodities cn whic htrac was absetewoneetentnthPleatntewd•a lo , y ee b ne o l t u h ded. partieslf the wh metal nt t t a ie l convey a less purcha s i ng power than was mutually agreed for, then the deb tor takes an r u iam n tr j e u to st , nadiisvattui purchasingtpa g o n e of the creditor. If it convey a g power, then the creditor, supposing he an adherence to the letter of his contract, takes an unjust advantage o f his debtor. " This places the question on its true footing. N eed we ask which side has obtained the undue advantage within the present year ? Has the manufacturer been able to satisfy his debt by an equal quantity of goods, the produce of his industry, that would have been adequate for that purpose when the debt was contracted ? It is well known that the depreciation in the value of every description of manufactured article was so great that it would have required fully 30 Isr cent. more to bare ben ea• changed for an equal amount of money, and therefore the industrious and productive classes were injured to that amount by the unfair appreciation of the value of money. Away then with the argument, that in justice would be committed on the fundholders and creditors generally by the introduction of a currency which would not be subjected to those repeated fluctuations in the value of money which occasion such injury to the industrious classes. Not the least valuable part of the paper is the com parison between the possible or probable conse quences of an " appreciation" of the value of money on the one hand, and a depreciation on the other. We can scarcely hope, for some time at least, to attain a perfect monetary system, and it is therefore highly desirable to know on which side it is least dangerous to err. Any very great depreciation would probably be injurious to the non-productive classes living on a fixed income. Appreciation, on the contrary, would act as a total check to production. The benefit to the landlord or fundholder would not be uncon ditional, it would only last while the goose which laid the golden egg was dying. The end of a country burdened with a heavy debt must inevitably be a " national bankruptcy and universal con fusion." " Depreciation " and " appreciation " therefore, mean injustice to " the few" or injustice to " the many." Although it would be desirable to avoid either alternative, it requires little argument to show which would be productive of the most inju rious and calamitous results. In one case an idle gentleman, living on a fixed income, may have to re linquish some useless luxuries, or even to exert him ' self in order to earn a livelihood ; in the other, the industrious and skilful operative may starve in the midst of his family, although able and willing to work, or seek the means of supporting a wretched existence in the tender mercies of the union work house. We are informed by a Copenhagen letter of the 6th that in the afternoon of that day the King of DENMARK, on returning from a carriage drive, sud denly found himself so unwell that his physicians considered it necessary to bleed him immediately. A grand ball, which was to have taken place in the palace in celebration of Twelfth-day, had to be post poned. We learn from Malta, Dec 31, that when Captain MEREDITI, the chief of the rebel troops at Patras, was embarking with his men in the boats of the Spitfire in pursuance of the convention with the foreign Consuls, and by which he ha I consented to accept 32,000 drachmas instead of the 60,000 which be had levied on the town, the secretary of the numarch, M. RONDOPOULON, arriving with a force of 200 to 300 men, and ordered a volley to be fired on the Insur gents, by which four or five were killed, and fifteen wounded. Some of the balls struck the boats, and Lieutenant MACDONALD, of the Spitfire, considering the act as an indifferent requital for the services he had rendered, entered a formal protest against the act of the Greek functionary; the Spitfire reached Malta on the 24th ult., with 54 of the revolutionists. The Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands had refused permission for them to land at Corfu, but the Governor of Malta permitted them to land there. We have received the Athens Journals to the 29th ult. The Courrier d' Athenes contains a number of documents relative to the late disturbances at Patras, but they add little to the information brought by the last mail. It appears that the foreign consuls, parti cularly those of France and Austria, exerted them selves with great energy in their efforts to send away the rebel soldiery, according to the convention between them and the civil authorities, and to induce their commander to reduce the amount of the sum which he had stipulated to receive as the condition of his ceasing hostilities and evacuating the town. The Courrier Athines, however, complains that no sooner had the civil authorities recovered from their panic than they recommenced a system of persecution and misgovernment. The last accounts fram Turin state that the King of SARDINIA. has become somewhat seriously indis posed. The Duchess of SAVOY, hereditary Princess, is in such an alarming state that it has been considered necessary to offer up special public prayers in her be half. The Princess, though an Austrian,has made herself very popular, in spite of the prejudices which exist against her country. The Porn lately conferred on her the " Rose of Honour." The Patric of Florence of the sth announces that Pontretnoli has been formally delivered up to the Duke of PARMA by the Twican Comndssioners, and that the peace of the town had not been disturbed. Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived. A letter from SALAMANCA was read in the Chamber of Deputies on that day, stating that his health was so bad that he could not be present, whereupon GON ZALES BRAVO declined addressing the Chamber. The proposition for bringing SALAMANCA to trial was carried by 128 to 39, and a committee was appointed to draw up the impeachment. The Eco del Comercio, in a special supplement, announces the arrival of Esrearaao in Madrid on the 7th. The Herald() gives a formal contradiction to the rumours in circulation as to the unsatisfactory state of the QUSEN'S health. Notwithstanding this con tradiction, however, it was universally believed in Madrid that the QVIEEN was suffering from an organic disease, which, although not necessarily of an imme diately fatal character, yet, from its nature, could not but give rise to the most ominous forebodings. A letter from Malaga of the 2d says—" Lieutenant- General SERRANO arrived at Malaga some days ago. From his arrival it was rumoured that a military ex • pedition was being prepared, for nothing less than planting the flag of Castile on the Cheffarine Islands, near to the Spanish presidio of Melilla, and posted in face of the mouth of the Maulonia, which divides the French possessions from the empire of Morocco. At present this supposition has become a reality, and the preparations for this campaign, which are being pushed forward with extraordinary vigour, cause it to be presumed that it is to be accomplished without delay." MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 7.—Threes, 26i- ; Fives, 161; Exchange on London, 48 30. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The speech of M. GUIZOT in the Chamber of Peers on Wednesday, in the course of the debate on the Address, is important, as containing an exposition of the policy of the French Government with regard to the movement now going on for the liberation of Italy. It is to encourage all the Italian Princes to grant nothing to the people which they can possibly withhold—to frighten the POPE by con juring up a phantom of revolution and infidelity, and thus to endeavour to -bring - him into accord with Austria, and to justify Austria in "taking precau tions"—that is to say, in overrunning Italy with troops to put down the reform movement, if it cannot be put down by any other means. It is, in fact, the old " willing to wound and yet afraid to strike" policy, of which M. Guam. has always been the representative. He said—" He believed that in most of the Ital ian states persons were to be found who pushed matters to ex tremity. He was decidedly of opinion that the conduct of these persons was founded on erroneous views, and that if persisted in it would lead to anarchy. What the French Government desired to see, and would always promote, was the establish ment in each of these states of a preponderating party of moderate and prudent reformers, which might direct the agitation now existing and bring it to a safe issue. If his dispatches on Italian affairs were examined, it would be evident that this was strongly insisted on as absolutely necessary, Much had no doubt been already effected io Italy, without any very injurious perturbation ; but he could not conceal it from himself that the future looked lowering. Ile could not contemplate the probable course of events in the Italian states without a certain disquietude, and principally on account of the unsettled state of the popular mind. They seemed to have no fixed object in view, but demanded vague reforms, as if, because they ought to call for something, something more than a mere aspiration after liberty or reform was required to obtain them ; the mode was complicated, and involved a number of requisites, which the Italian states seemed to have overlooked. But though he thus spoke in a certain manner despondingly of the general prospects of Italy, he, however, must declare that he was not without hops when he, looked in the .; t.*.i, , ~ 4 1 6 1.. "W . y, ' e i, -- ; au, •t. -, -;'ot ip . 4k•i \ i caf.•-_,•i . 4 ,40A* ,k,.....4 = '.' :S. ":. VO L ' 7,*‘ , :iii l V 4 ' 4111. ,'..,,..• -4 , ...~Tib,4*.• 47 , • '______,a," .... - •'..%"..., • ' ,1 ' if .44,t(, 'i.... ' 0 ~"' .T. '1,. . ',t•!... ' ' DIE I ...,-. •41z.. ~, , , ~.,•,., THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY .EVENING, JANUARY J 4, 1849, direction of Rome, and considered the character of the POPE.—(hear, hear.) His aim was evidently to introduce domestic reforms in his states, and it was likely that his efforts would be crowned with success, from his possessing two eminent qualities essential to every reformer—a clear decided aim, and a power of resistance to all impul sion corning from abroad; he seemed, in fact, to have in view a certain point crnrret, which would prevent his going too far. The POPE also was perfectly aware that factions existed, and was sagacious enough to take into account the opposition which they might produce to his attempts at reform. France had every reason to support the efforts of that eminent man, and would do so by very constitutional means. She considered herself bound also to forward the views of the Italian states in their efforts at reform, but not if they aimed at violent measures. It was asserted that France was friendly to Austria, and opposed to the Italian states which were under her rule. The latter part of the assertion was not the case ; no doubt France was on good terms with Austria, and believing that that power was threatened in her rule, considered that she was justified in taking precautions ; but France went no further. He even felt convinced that if the reforms aimed at in the Austrian states in Italy were carried out with tranquillity and propriety, Austria would not offer any opposition. The Honourable Minister here read a dispatch addressed in September last to Count Rossi, which he declared was strongly cor roborative of the views which he then expressed. In it he had, he observed, directed the Ambassador to firmly support the head of tho Catholic Church, which it was the interest of Europa to see placed in an honourable position. France was on good terms with Austria, and would endeavour to remain so. For Austria to take up arms, would be alike disadvan tageous to Europe and Italy ; and, in consequence, the French Government hoped to be on good terms with her, but that would not prevent him from giving every encouragement and support to the Pore, who, he trusted, would pursue the course which he had so admirably commenced."—(Cheers.) We also trust that the POPE will pursue the course which he so admirably commenced twelve months since, yet his recent acts incline us to doubt whether he has not sunk the reformer in the PONTIFF ; and the fact that he has incurred the praises of M. GutzoT would lead us to fear that Count Rossi has been but too successful in persuading him to adopt the doc trine of finality, which is but another word for re trogradation. The discussion on this paragraph of the Address terminated by the Government giving its consent to the introduction of a a passage expressive of sym pathy with and encouragement to the Pore to pro ceed with those reforms which had given so much satisfaction. The Presse complains that the arrangements under the Postal treaty are so badly managed at the French side of the, Channel, that the mails rarely arrive in time for the railway trains, and consequently too late in Paris for men of business. Galignani s Messenger says :-" Some sensation was excited this morning in the Passage de l'Opiira among the stock-jobbers by a report that the KING was taken ill yesterday whilst at dinner, and was obliged to be bled. The Three per Cents. fell to 74f. 41c., but at the time of our going to press had recovered to 74f. 30c. to 50c. We are happy to learn on inquiry that there is not the slighter ttruth in this report ; his MAJESTY has for a few days been labouring under a cold, the effects of which are so slight as not to prevent his MAJESTY from attending a Cabinet Council, which is now being held." PARIS Bounsa, THURSDAY, JAN 13.-A consider able degree of sensation was caused on the Bourse to-day by a report that the KING waa seriously ill, and Threes before the opening of the business were done as low as 74f. 10c.; as it was, however, soon after ascertained that the rumour was without any foundation, the payments opened at 74f. 40c., and after going up to 74f. 60c., closed at 74f. 50c., being, however, lower than yesterday. Fives are also below yesterday's closing quotations, having been last called at 116 f. 70c., and New Loan 75f. 30c. The market closed as follows :-Three per Cents. for cash, 74f. 50c.; for account, 74f. 50c.; Five per Cents. for cash, 116 f. 45c.; for account, 116 f. 70c.; New Loan, for cash, 7,5 f. 25c.; for ac count, 75f. 30c.; Bank of France shares, 3,190 f.; Neapolitan, 102 f.; Spanish Threes, 29#; Spanish Fives, not quoted. RAILWAYS.-The Share Market has been also affected, and the closing quotations are again lower than yesterday. For cash, Paris and Orleans, 1,183 f. 75c.; Paris and Rouen, 8931. 75c. ; Nantes, 380 f.; Northern, 5311. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4031. 75e. ; Paris and Lyons, 387 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. JAN. 14. Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Namur and Liege, 43y—Weet Flanders, 1%. . THE AVENGER. Admiralty, Jan. 14, 1848. Letters have been received to-day at the Admi ralty, from Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, dated Malta, January 4, reporting the return of the " Hecate," to that port, after a close but fruitless search for any survivors from the wreck of her Majesty's late ship Avenger, and reporting that scarcely a vestige of that ill-fated ship could be found on the rocks and islands adjacent to the scene of wreck. No hopes are, therefore, entertained at the Ad miralty of any lives being saved, except those of Lieutenant Rooke and the three other persona landed from the Avenger's cutter on the Barbary coast. SANITARY REFORM--(THIS DAY. ) A very numerowdy attended meeting of the rate payers of St. Martin-in-the-Fields was held in the Vestry•room of this parish to-day, to consider the propriety of supporting Government in any compre hensive system of sanitary reform which they might introduce. Mr. DAWKINS (churchwarden) was moved to the chair, and stated that the meeting was called in corn. pliance with a very numerously signed requisition of the rate-payers of the parish. Mr. COCII - RANE moved a resolution to the effect that a committee be formed to co-operate with the Board of Guardians and the Paving Board in carrying out sanitary improvements, and aff;)rd every assistance to Government in effecting that object. Mr. Rumroau seconded the resolution. Mr. BROOKES proposed an amendment to the effect that such committee was unnecessary. Mr. STAUNTON seconded the amendment. After a protracted discussion, a resolution of ad. journment till after the introduction of the Ministe rial measure was carried. The meeting then separated. Das.aorm. Flas.—(Tuts DAT.)—A few minutes before five o'clock this morning, a conflagration took place on the premises of a coachmaker, near Southamp ton-street, Camberwell-green. When first discovered, a small quantity of water would have arrested the pro gress of the flames, but no supply could be obtained. Several engines were soon on the spot, but as only a little water could be procured from a ditch, barely suffi cient to supply a garden engine, the firemen's exertions were fruitless, and the whole range of workshops, tools, stock, &c., were quite destroyed. Nothing was known of its origin, and the loss is estimated at between 500/. and 600/. The property destroyed is insured in the Royal Exchange and Sun fire-offices. The Centenary of the Aberdeen Journal was'eele brated on the sth instant by a dinner given by his fel low townsmen to Mr. Chalmers, the proprietor. Up wards of two hundred gentlemen were present at the festival. BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITETION.—Last even ing the annual meeting of the supporters of this charity was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. Sharpe in the chair. The Secretary read the report, by which it ap peared that the income of the society had increased during the past year by 2001. W. Collins, Esq., had left them a legacy of 1001 5501. had been invested last year, making their funded stuck amount to 10,4381. 10s. Five men and three women had been, at the last election admitted to the benefits of the institution, out of twenty nine candidates, leaving twenty-one unprovided for. The total number of pensioners was 131. The last year's aguregate income was 2,177/. 15s. 84. and the expenditure was less by 5021 2s. 81, leaving that balance in the bankers' hands. FATAL RAILWAY . ACCIDENT.—O❑ Tuesday an in quiry was held at the Sussex County H .spital, on the body of Michael Brenan, "switchman" at the Lewes Railway station, aged 30. On Monday evening, on the last train arriving from Brighton, the deceased came out of the switch-box and mounted on the steps of one of the carriages to ride to the terminus. While the train was still in motion, deceased jumped from the step to the platform, in doing which he fell, and before he could re cover himself the step of the carriage caught hold of his boots and drew him between the carriages and the plat form, where he was jammed and crushed in a frightful manner, particularly at the lower part of the body. He was conveyed to the hospital, where he died at two o'clock on Tuesday morning. " Accidental death."— Br ightoti Qtagtie. . ' • v • MONE Y and COM:VIERCIAL NEWS. CITY. QUANTIM TO 7'IIREE. In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday the sales were 4,000 biles.—Railway Shares were firm. The state of the weather this morning being so ex tremely unpropitious, the market for grain at Mark-lane has been very heavy to-day. There are bad reports in circulation relative to the dividends which more than one or two suspended establishments will ultimately pay. By the letters that have come to hand this morning from Brussels, it is stated upon competent authority that the Treasury of King Leopold is about to be strengthened by a new loan. It is nut represented with Anything like certainty what amount will be required. The contrast will, in all probability, be taken by capi talists in Paris. The correspondence relative to the Peruvian Debt, which has recently taken place between the agents of the Committee of Spanish American bondholders at Lima and the Peruvian Government, relative to the claims of the bondholders, is considered so tar satisfac tory, that it is to be referred to the Congress of Peru, that the course adopted by the Government of Chili, in settling with its creditors abroad, should bd fol. lowed by the authorities of the former. It would further appear that there is no disinclination of the Ministry of Peru to recommend that such a pro cedure was most proper to be followed. We have not heard of any failures of importance this morning. It was noted under this head yesterday afternoon, that the Court of Directors of the Bank of England had not, as anticipated would have been the case, made any alteration in the minimum rate of discount. The policy of this course of proceeding is questioned by speculators and other " go-a-head" people. Careful men think that, for the necessities of the day, the value of money is now low enough upon good bills and se curities. At the commencement of business this morning there were many buyers of Consols for the Account, and the price reached 88. Some realising then occurred, as the value of the Rentes on the Paris Bourse came over lower. The reaction here was to 87i, at which a large amount of dealings took place. For im mediate transfer there were the same changes. The premium on Exchequer-bills advanced to 275. Bank Stock, from the advanced point of 196 f, has fallen to 194, and East India Stock from 236 to 233. Scarcely half-a dozen bargains were made in the Foreign Stock market this morning. Brazilian Bonds ent back from 83 to 61; Mexican rallied from 17-1 to 18i. The Datch Two-and-Half per Cents. opened at 54i, and are now at 541. Ths Spanish Three per Cents. remain steady at 29k. The market for the Railway Shares has been pretty good this morning. The reason of the fall in the Rentes at Paris, as com municated, is that Louis Philippe has really had a very severe attack of illness. Notwithstanding a direct con tradiction had been given to the report, the French speculators placed some reliance upon the assertion. Bill iSH EUNDs THIS DAY AT ()NE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 88 1 h 87 3 / 4 3 per Cent. Consols Anna B6 87% 3 / 4 1 h New 3 1 4 per Cent. Amts. B9ll rB% Long Atinuitie,, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 3 13-16 15-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8% India Stock 236 233 India Bonds under 1,0001 .... lO 14 p South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities 84% Consols for Account ... BB 87% 4xchequer Bills_ 3d. 1,000/. 500/. ... 24 27 p Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Grenada, 1 per Cent. . Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cant l7 %s 1814: Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 29 % Dividunds on the above payable in London. Dutch 2t per Cent.,l2 Guild 5 4 14% Ditto 4 Der Cont. Certificates BUSINESS DONse IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWATB. nap. ris Sm•Kic. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2s Ayrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. Birmingham & Oxford June-. 20 Wol., & Dudley 10 ... . Birraing., Wol., & Stour Val. 10/.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 7% ...... to Boston, Staml, & Birming... 5 ...... to Bristol and Exeter Do. Thirds - - Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and Holyhead... 37%..... D Ditto, Preference Clarence. .... _ .... Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10' - Do., 2d Class, .5 per Cent... 10 Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 16 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., and L. & D. .......... ....... 25 Ditto, 181., E. 1 11 Ditto, 31. lOs ,E. & 11... 2 - Eastern Counties Ditto, ditto (B) ... Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... Do., do N0.2,61. 13s. 4d.. Do., York Extension Do., Northern & Eastern 5O Do., Quarter .... ...... 12%... „ — Do., New East ersn Uni0n....,........ .. 60 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto., Thirds .. ........ ..13s. 4d — ...... to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. )... . — East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12% 1 2 3/i to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% — Ditto, New ..... ... ..... ...... _3% — ...... to Ditto, New port l2 Ditto, ditto, New ... 2 1 ,i t Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2 5 / i4 — ...... te Ditto, New - Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle 8/. ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... . to Ditto, New Do. 1 / 4 Shares (5 per et. gua.) 124 ..... to Great Northern lO4 4 to Do. London & York Exten. 24 — .. to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 Great North of England 100 Ditto, t., tf 40/ 5 Ditto, Now 30/ .. 30 ... .. .. ... to Ditto, New 151...... ... ...... 61,4...... . ... to Lireat Western Ditto, HallShures ...... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O Do. New 171 9 1,4 . ... 103 Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. ... Dittc, Thirds.. ... 8 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12iX, -77 _ . _ Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17q 8 to Do. do. and Norwich Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2% l% Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO - Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares - 38 Ditto charters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ..-....... VA...—. Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — De. Liverpool and Bury... 38 .__ Do. (liudders. and Shift) 33 Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and G001e...—. .. ....... 47% — Do., West Biding Union —V. 2e..... 23i dis to Do., Preston and Wyss ... 25 Do., do., Ralf Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ... ..... ......(B) 1 1 4 Leeds and Bradtord 5O ..... 13 ..... to Leicester and Bedford Loeds, Dewsbury, & Manchus. 42 1 ,4 — Do., Branch % Shares 1 2 1,4 ...... Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — ...... to Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 36 Ditto, New Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... ...••• to Liverpool. Crosby, and Seut h port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction ...... -.. 2% — to London ga Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d....... to Ditto New, No. l e . Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 18s. 441.... Do. Extension ........ ...... 17 1 Gond., Bright., & South Coast 50 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . ..... De. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...••• Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ...... to London h North Weatern..... 100 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 22 Do. do. New ..-.. .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths .. ............. 2 ..... ...... to Do. Quarters ......... G. J. 25 Do. 401. Shares.....L. & M. 15 7%. .... -- Do. 40/. Shares... M. and B. 40 ~..„ to Do 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 Do. 10 101 1. 1 1 ( 0 )1 / . .... : ,1 sad andand B. ( (t .. )) 71 5 ...... to London and S. Western.... 41.. 6s Id 54% to Do. New Consolidated Rh& 40 — to Ditto New 501. ......, .. 13 2 14...,.. to Ditto New 40/. ........ .. - 26 - Do. Tenths (Consolidate 4) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 81.65. 8d ... Landon, Salisbury, & Yeovil I% ...... Londonderry and Colerr ine... 27% — So Londonderry and Enniskillen 23% Manch, Ettutton, &Matlock 8 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto t Shares (`o. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) Ditto, IA Shares (No. 3)... 71/i — Ditto Grimsby ... Ditto, ditto. Ditto, ditto . Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7 1 ,E _ ManchesterandSouthampton 2i, ...... Nlidoind 100 ll 3 Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo ...... Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 15 Midland. Birm., and Derby...l(s.) Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 3fi ...... Ditto ditto 11/. 35.6 d. .. Miuland, Leices. and 5 wan nington (8 per ct.gua.)...,100 .... . Al hild. Great Western (Irish) 85 Newcastle and Carlisle IOU ...... Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Cheziterford 18 1 / 2 Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Ileref. 6 Norfolk Ditto New 201. ...... _. ...... to Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 1)o. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 Newry, Warren point, and liostrevor ;ortliern Counties Union 4 .. .... forth British Ditto Half Shares Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 to - - Ditto. Extension ... .. 4 a ..... to .. .... Ditto Thirds ... - 2 . to North Staffordshire..... 7'/ 7IA VA to North Wales 3 IA, ..... , .... to North Western Oxford, Worcester, and Wol- yerhamyton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7%...., 7%..... to Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... ... 20 Ditto, New lO Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole ihrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Ilin.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. ..., t. Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) 1 __. ,. ..._. _ Ditto 8 per Cent. Prof 8 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 - Shropshire Union . South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O ...... South Staffordshire ... south Eastern and Dover 33% Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 Ditto, New, No. 3 2O Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 7% 5 % 3/ xi to South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole ";wans. and Loughor and Ca meron'a Stm. Coal .. 4 - ['names Haven Dock and Railway 17% — t• raw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny l 3 l / 1...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. VI ... . Waterford, Wexford, Wieklvr, ,nd Dublin West Cornwall Nliitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western... ............. Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 80 ...... to ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 . 34 3 4..... to Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 31 1 / 2 % IA to Do. North Shields Purchase 25 ..... is Do. Exton. No.l (Y. k N.) 10 13 3 / 4 ...... to 14 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 15 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. S - to u rk and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension ..... ... .. ...... 25 FOREIGN RAILWA I's. doulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 14 Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... Ceylon.... 53. Dqinerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... i)atch Rhenish 7 East Indian ... - f;reat Indian Peninsular Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 • -- ..... to Louvain :1 la Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) - ••• •• to Madrid and Valentia .. 2 Namur and Liege......... l4 ...... ... . to Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 - Over Vasa 4l3s 4d . ..... to Paris and Lyons - ..... to !'aris and Orleans... 2O - Paris and Rouen .. Pa:is & S.:rasbourg ........... a Ketten and Havre Sambre and Meuse ,trasburg and Bale ['ours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. S rournay, Jurbise, Landen, . .. and Hassel t • 16 ...... ...... to West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock ... lO London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engin. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2lh — Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican .. 100 Astrian Mining Company ... 11 ...... Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... i 0 -- Boleros Scrip British Iron . Piazilian Imperial .... .. ... 21 Ualvanized Iron Ditto, New Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 15 1 . to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON. JAN 14 and, this day, at non, N.W. Light bre ze with thiek hazy weather and drizzling rain, DEAL, .JAN. 13.—Wind, N. to N.N.E., .try ng and Arrd. iron) the river, and sailed, Arab Mau ritius ; Helen Tobays, Scourtield, Jamaica; Sophia, ditto; Catherine, Savannah. RAMSGATE, JAN. 13 —Wind, N.E., strong —Sid. Lenhori, Santa Martha. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind, N.—Sld. Northum herlan.i, Madras and Calcutta: COWES, JAN. 13.,-Wind, N.—Acrd. Jenny, Senike, Nrw York. FALMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind, Wannon Rio Grande; Anwrican La -8, Sirrra Le , }ne. OFF PENZANCE.—A.deIP, Pelham, Madras. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 13.—Wind. Aquindo, Manilla; Starlingshire, Maranham; Daniel Grant, Oporto sod Chili ; Ivanhoe, Havana; Ellen, New Orleans; B. njamin lleape, Savannah; Mouongehila, Philadel phia; Roetus, New York RAMSGATE, JAN. 13.—The Brig Edda, of Newcastle, Shields to Constantinople, sunk on the Goodwin Sands this morning. Crew supposed to be saved. LIMERICK, JAN. 12.—The Resolution, from Liver pool, stranded near the quay, on the Bth instant ; has made some water, and partially damaged her cargo. LERWICK, DEC. 28.—The Clarendon, ll'Far lane, of Leith, from Miramichi, was totally lost on the Island of Fettoe, on the 19th instant. Crew, and part of the cargo in a damaged state, saved. ABERDEEN, JAN. 11.—The Gebrmders, Dantzic to Rotterdam, is on shore to the north of Newburgh, i❑ a precarious situation. DUNDEE, JAN. 12.—The Industrious, of Whitstable, has been lost at the entrance of the River. WELLS, JAN. 13.—The Friends, of and from Sunder land for Whitstable, sank yesterday, ten mtles to the northward. Crew saved. BRISTOL, JAN. 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Cassiopea, Mauritius; Gilmour, Carter, St. John's, New Brunswick. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 13.—Wind N.—Arrd. Bulivar, White, St. John's, New Brunswick. Conn, JAN. 11.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Emigrant, New 'fork. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 12.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. belle, St. Andrew's. Hum., JAN. 13.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Julianne, Quedens, Porto Rico. Sld. Mary Miller, Valparaiso. GRIMSBY, JAN. 13.—Wind N.—Arrd. Sylphide, Eol lenbeck, Sierra Leone for Hainburgh. CARNAnvoN, JAN. 11.—The John and Ellen, of Pwll heli, has been assisted in here, in a sinking state, having grounded on the South bank on the Bth inst. PETERHEAD, JAN. 11.—A boat marked inside " George Duncan, master, Dundee," and several barrels of tar and some wreck, have been picked up on the coast. SHIELDS, JAN. 12.—The Emma, of Ipswich, has been laid on shore, making a great deal of water, having pricked upon an anchor. MARKET NEWS._ (THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDA Y. The arrivals of English Wheat for our market during the present week have been mo derate, and several fresh runs were received up this morning. Owing to the dampness of the weather, most of the samples were greatly out of condition. The few fine parcels or. o ff er told at Monday's prices; but all other kinds were heavy, and, in some insta n ces, the turn in favour of the b u yer s . The show of foreign Wheat was not large; yet. that grain was heavy, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. For Barley—the supply of which was good— the inquiry was inactive. In prices we have no change to report. Malt was in moderate supply, and sluggish demand, at barely late rates. The supply of Oats being small, the Oat trade was steady, and prices were well supported. Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn were Leglected. Fine parcels of Flour were quite as dear. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. 1 13arlAy. I Oats. I Flour. English ...... 4,730 ers. 9,140 qrs. 2,930 qrs. I 4,124 sks. trish. ... ..... - -- 860 1 -- , 4 ~„...., Foraigu I .6.6 7 0 I - 31 1 .14 b , 791 411. SMITHFIELD. For the time of year the supply of Beasts here to-day was tolerably good, and we have to notice a slight im provement in its general quality. The attendance of buyers being small, and the weather very unfavourable to slaughtering, the Beef trade was heavy, at a decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. There were on sale only 47 Beasts and 600 Sheep from Holland, in fair aver age condition. The numbers of Sheep were very limited, yet the Mutton trade was exceedingly heavy, at almost nominal curr..ncies. For Calves the demand was firm, at prices fully • gull to those paid on Monday last. Pigs moved off slowly, at late rates. Mulch Cows were a mere drug, at from 141 to 171 lOs each, including their small Calf. Per albs. t 4 81 s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 3 2 3 6 second quality .• . 3 8 4 2 Prime large Oxen.. 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots ••• • • • 4 S 4 10 Large coarse Calves 4 6 5 0 Prime small ditto .. 6 2 5 6 ink the offal. s. d. to s. d• Second quality alit° 4 o 4 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 8 5 Southdown Wether 5 2 5 4 Ditto out of the w•ol Large Hogs • ..... 4 e 4 e Small Porkers • • . • 4 8 5 • ettives ..20 0 23 0 itferior Sheep . 3 6 310 Quarter old Pigs —2O 0 26 0 Lambs •••••• •• •. 0 0 0 I SUPPLY AT MARKET. 14easts. I Sheep. I Calves. 94'J 2, 8 60 128 NEWGATE AND LEADENELAZ la. Pigs 310 All kinds of meat were in good supply, and heavy de mand, at barely stationary prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I I. J. to s. I. Iteei.inferior.....• 0 4 3 6; Mutton, inferior •• 3 4 3 6 middling .. •- 3 8 3 10 middling.. 3 II 4 0 prime large .. 4 0 4 2 prime •• 4 E 4 6 prime small .• 4 2 4 4 Pork, large.. •.• . 3 6 4 6 ‘ - eal •••••••• • • • • • • 4 4 5 6' small ——•. . . 4 6 S 2 Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The supply of really fine colony Hops, on show this morning, was comparatively small, and a fair businei was transacted in them, at full prices. With all other qualities we were well supplied, and which met a slow sale at last week's quotations•—New Hops, Susses pockets, 21 15s to 31 55; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 to 31101; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 6s to 51 14s per cwt. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) His Lordship did not sit today till eleven o'clock, and %%as occupied with motions of no interest. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND ) WHITTINGTON V. WHITTINGTON. This was a bill filed by the plaintiff for the appoint• went of a new trustee: in place of one of the present trustees, who was going to China. His HONOUR said, he did not think being about to leave the country was cause sufficient to release A trustee from his duties. The matter was referred to the Master. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before the LORD Carty JusTic* and Justices PATTESON, COLERIDGE, and ERLE.) TIIE CONFIRMATION OF DR. HAMPDEN. TLIE REV. MR. HUNTLEY AND OTHERS V. ARCHBISHOT OF YORK. On the Learned Judges taking their seats on the bench this morning, Sir FITZROY KELLY rose to move the Court for 0 writ of mandamus calling upon. the Archbishop of York to show cause why he should not direct the Court, recently apppointed by him to confirm the Rev , Dr. Hampden, to hear the parties who, on a public citation being made at the recent confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Dickson Renn Hampden, at Bow Church, calling upon all parties who had any objet' tion to urge against the said confirmation to appear and state their objections, did appear in con formity with that citation, but were refused to be heard. He said he moved on behalf of the Rev. John Huntley and two other clergymen, who believing the teaching of the Rev. Dr. Hampden to be unorthodox, appeared on that occasion to oppose his confirmation, but were refused a hearing, and adjudged " contu macious," though all persons having any objections to urge were twice publicly cited to appear. It would be necessary for him to refer shortly to the facts. A conge d'elire was issued by her Majesty, directed to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, calling u pon them on pain of praernunire, to elect Dr. Hemp den Lord Bishop of the diocese, and he was accordingly elected to the vacant see, and on the Bth of the present month letters patent were issued calling upon the Archbishop of York to proceed to the con• firmation of the Bishop elect, and on the Ilth of the same month the Archbishop's vicar-general and cons" missioners appointed by the Archbishop, appeared in Bow Church to fulfil their duties, and to induct the Bishop elect into his office. The affidavits on which he moved stated that all persons who had any ground to urge against the confirmation were cited to appear: that the vicar-general and the commissioners, Dr , Burnaby, Dr. Lushington, and the others, having consulted in a room adjoining the hall at Doc. tors' Commons, proceeded to the said church , and that after some preliminary proceedings the cite' tion, to which he had already referred, was read. It was proclaimed by the apparitor general, he having been called upon to do so by the v ic ar • genera l ; a nd he prayed the attention of their Lordships to the words used, which appeared to he the same as those adopted uniformly, he might say, without a single exception, for many centuries—certainly, however, since the revival of the Act of Henry VIII. in the reign of Elizabeth. The parties objecting to the confirmation replied to the citation by their proctor, Mr. Townsend ; but the court, thus constituted, re' fused to hear any argument at all except upon the preliminary question—whether they were entitled to appear and be heard at all. The court heard the arguments on this point ; and without hearing the arguments on the other aide, it determined that by the recent Act of Perlis' ment the court had no discretion nor power to heel' any parties either by or in the shape of mere allege' tions, or by arguments in support of them. Such was the opinion of two out of three of the commis' sioners, the third having some doubt of the legality of rejecting all opposition, and thereby denying all parties objecting a hearing, and the confirmation of the Bishop was proceeded with. He had to But-alit to their Lordships upon the autharities on the matter to whom he would refer, that under the statute of Henry VIII. the plaintiff—he would not say notvviths standing that statute—hut under it, and in accordance with the canon and common law of the realm, that the ceremony of confirming a Bishop was a regular judicial proceeding; and that it is a necessary and essential part of that proceeding that the Archbishop or his vicangeneral should St once proceed to examine and inquire into, among other things, the fitness and qualification o f the Bishop elect, and must enter into any evidence or objection which might be offered and made by any person present who came forward to do so in accord ance with the proclamation and citation ; they m ust hear them, he apprehended, if they made their objec tions in due form of law. And if they refused to enter upon that inquiry, the parties claiming it having the right and privilege of being heard, as was evident from the citation, and consequently deni e d th em jus tice, he contended that their proceedings were incom plete, and, therefore, null and void. The Learned Counsel then referred to Burns's Ecclesiastical Law (article Confirmation), and having read the clauses, said the writer held that all things at a confirmation must be done according to the canon law, and laid great stress upon the citation of opponents. He also referred to " Gibson's Collex," who, he held, thought the citation an important part of the pro ceeding ; and yet it was contended that the pi°. ceeding was useless ; though it had been in cons stant use for 300 or 400 years, it was deemed mere useless form, which could not be complied with. When the citation was uttered the court was prayed to call all persons who had been called upon to come forward and " they should be heard." When the proclamation was read was the proper time for parties having good arid sufficient grounds of oppo sition to come forward and raise them ; and they did so in this case, but were at once told that they c ould not do so. Nine articles had to be complied with--- citation, and the making up of a certificate that the Bishop so confirmed was sufficiently qualified, by his age, knowledge, learning, orderly life, sobriety, piety, and fidelity to the King, being amongst them. There is, further, a declaration that the Bishop elect had given proofs of these things; and was it to be said that those who had a deep interest in the matter must Lot bring counter proofs if they were in a condition to do so, though expressly, and in unambiguous terms cited to appear. Burns said, that the proclamation was to be made a second time at the door of the church, so that they had the fact, that after the petition of the bishop had been put in, and after the proofs of his fitness for the office with which he was being con firmed had been adduced, a second proclamation was to be made, calling upon all opponents to come for ward, and that " they should be heard." He believed this case was the only one of the kind, with the exception of one, which had occurred; but as the opposition was not made in the form prescribed by law, the opposition failed. The confirmation of Montague, who was appointed to the see of Wells in the translation of Laud to Lon don, was opposed by a bookseller named Jones, who charged him with popery, but for the reason he had stated his objections fell to the ground; the objec tions were not given in writing, and were not signed by an advocate and presented by a proctor. Parlia ment took cognizance of the matter, and an inquiry was instituted, and Dr. Rivers, an eminent divine, celebrated for his learning, before whom the case came, admitted that the opposition was good and valid if it had been legally offered, and Parliament being satisfied, abided by that opinion. It had been said that these precedents were to be found in troubled times ; but this was a mistake, as the decision in the last case was come to in 1628, when there was nothing in the nature of the times calculated to overcome the judges in the strict discharge of their duties. The last proceedings in the business of confirmation was what was called the " definitive sentence," and then the bishop was decreed -.:. ~-