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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kensington-road, Surrey. THIS 'EVENING, the performances will commence with the celebrated Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. 111 Count Arnhelm, Mr. Stretton ; Devilshoof, Mr. H. Horncastle ; Arline, Miss Raintorth. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled BATTLEDOOR and SHUTTLECOCK ; or, Harlequin Trap, Bat, and 14a11. A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; and at the Box-elll2e of the Theatre, which is open daily from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.; Gallery, Gd. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE LIGHTERMAN of BANKSIDE ; or, the Orphan of Bermondsey. Characters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson, Hicks, Searle, a omen, lliggie; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and 31iss Burroughcliffe. Alter which, the new grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitled TUE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton awl !he Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Harlequin, M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor Moline.; Columbine, 31dlle. Lu;illi. To conclude with THE RAILROAD STATION. Boxes, is. ; 6d. ; Gallery, 4cl. No Halt-price to any part of the house. Doers open at Six, to commence at Half-past six. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING, The Grand Srectacle of THE CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the ..stablishment, in the various modes et equestration. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled TIARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNTAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, In which those popular artistes Herr Denlin, Mdlle. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Bradbury, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect aid loaner productions at the Amphitheatre, Box-office open trom 11 till 5 Actin; and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. 1111 h WEAILLER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 7. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 36 ; Noon, 36. BAROMETER, 29.57.—W1ND S.S.W.; rain. Hlvii WATER AT LONDON-BRLDGE Tlll6 DAX. Nfornin.. 31 minutes after 2. J Evening .. r 0 minutes 'I ftor 2. Just ready, in 2 vols., post Svo., HISTORY of AURICULAR CON FESSION, RELIGIOUSLY, MORALLY, and POLITICALLY CONSIDERED, among ANCI: .NT and MODERN NATIONS. By Count C. I'. DE LAST EYRIE. Translated, with the Author's Especial Sanction, By C. COCKS, U.L. R'chard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) NEW WORK, EDITED BY W. 11. AINSWORTH, E- Q. Immediately, in 2 vois., with Illustrations, JAMES THE SECOND. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Edited by W. H. AINSWORTM, Esq. Author of " The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. un ler the Management of Mr. Is. Webs Ee l -, sole Lessee. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Beujamin Backbite, Mr. A. Wigan; Joseph Surface, Mr. Creswick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless. Mr. H. Vandenholft ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; 3foses. Mr. Webster ; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Harry, Mr. Caulfield ; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett; Mrs. Candour. Mrs. Glover; Lady Sneer well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Meesent. To conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled THE WOF.LD UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. _ . . _ • tag Manager, Mr. Fan en ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3c. ; Gallery-, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, lc D•orr open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seen. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction o: Maclaine Celeste. TIIIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF THE OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Cullenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, mad Madame Celeste. To be tollowed by a new Farce entitled THE TI L PPERARY E GACY. Turnem Green, Mr. Wright Gills, Mr. Munyard • Lanty Scrimmage , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chubblock, Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman. Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubblock, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIEREOT, the Married 311411; and POLICHLNELLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Pnors open at halt-past Sir, Performance to commence at Sevei, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. bole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be presented new Comic Drama, entitled THE TRA GEDY QUEEN• After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BatAliC 11. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. samara. Dross Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; 25. ; •allery, Is. N. kalf-priee to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland- place. Engagemait o Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport, from America. THIS EVENING Will be presented Sheridan Knowles' Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. Davenport ; Lord Tinsell, Mr. J. Vining ; Julia, Mrs. Mowatt ; Helen, Miss E. Montague. After which, a new comic Drama, called MY SISTER'S SECRET. To conclude with a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATHER TIME; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. D r ess Circle,4s.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. FRENCH PLAYS.—ANTIGONE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the celebrated lyrical tragedy of A NTIGONE, from the Greek of Sophocles, with the en tire music of the illustrious composer Mendelssohn, will loe produced at ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, THIS EVENING, Distribution of the Characters.—Creon, M. Bocage, as originally performed by him at the Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris, and by wheal the Mice en Scene at this theatre will be conducted ; llemon, M. Feel).- ter ; Tiresias, M. Lemonier ; Le Garde, M. St. Marie ; Le Coryphee, M. Henri Alix ; Antigone, 3lme. Rebut Pechter (her second appear ance this season) ; Ismene, Mdlle. Baptiste ; Eurydice, Mdlle. Berths. Director of the Music • • • • ...... M. Jules Benedict. For the efficient perfurmance of this celebrated composition the following professors have been expressly engaged, and will consti tute the orchestra:—First Violins—Messrs. Burette, Deloffre, News ham, Mellon, Thirlwall, Brown, Goffrie, and Morris. second Violins—Messrs. Ella, Payton, Zerbini, New►ltam, jun., Elsinore, and Watson. Tenors—Messrs. Lyon, Glanville, Weslake, and It. Blagrove. Violencellos—Messrs. Lucas, Pilet, L. Phillips, and Guest. Double liasses—Messrs. Howell, Campanile, Severn, and Griffiths. .Flutes—Messrs. Ribits and King. Oboes—Messrs. G. Cooke and Nicholson. Clarienettes—Messrs. Deese and Haycock. Cerni—Messrs. Charles Harper and Callcott. Bassoons—Messrs. Larkin and Winterbettom. Trumpets—Messrs. Thomas Harper and Handley. Trombones —Messrs. Smithies, Ilea'ey, and Winterbot torn. Drums-31r. Chipp. Harp—Mr. T. Wright. Conductor — Mr. Benedict. N.B. A numerous and powerful chorus has also been engaged under the superintendence of Mr. Grice and Mr. Lee. A new scene has been painted for the subject by Mr. Muir and assistants, A detailed prospectus of the general arrangements, and of the pieces which will be produced during the season, may be had at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and ut the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, ; Pit, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 21 etirtalilla rnt LONDON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 7, 1846 Out of a rather entertaining quarrel between the author of an annual publication, called " Statistics of the British Empire," and an intelligent writer in the Westminster Review, the question as to the relative proportions of our manufacturing and agricultural population emerges in a somewhat dubitable condition. The matter still remains unsolved, at least satisfac torily so. Further investigations must be made as to the distribution of employment before the numerical tables can be properly estimated. Even the occupa tion abstract of 1841, one of the most comprehen -5155 and elaborate Parliamentary Blue Books ever printed, was insufficient fur the permanent settlement of the inquiry : workers were omitted where they should have been inserted, and inserted where they should have been omitted. Too much importance was attached to one particular class of operatives and too little to another. There was evidence throughout the document of the industry of those to whom had been entrusted the la bour of accumulating facts, but there was also mani fested here and there an extraordinary deficiency in the supervision and a perplexing carelessness in the classification. If these faults were perceptible in the occupation abstract drawn up by the impartial toilers of Parliament, how much more so are they manifest in the Analysis of the Occupations of the People," compiled by the pen of a parti zan so prejudiced and en thusiastic as Mr. W. FREDERICK SPACRAIAN I If there were sins of commission and omission in the former arising from an inadequate distribution of attention, there were flagrant perversions of truth in the latter resulting from a spirit of factious pre possession. Wherever farm labourers were over calculated by Mr. SPACRMAN, be sure the miscalcu lation was preference, and wherever factory workers were depreciated, either in efficiency or in numerical strength, be equally sure that the depreciation was - traceable to the same wilful predilection. In contro verting the statistical fallacies of Mr. SPACKMAN— fallacies as ridiculously obvious as any of those ad t luced in the House of C ommons b y Lord GEORGE Bi TlNCK—the Westminster Review has displayed no Insiderable acuteness, hut its merit is merely of a nega Live character. It disproves a variety of errone ous s tements, hut it does not establish a succession of acc urato details—details such as might be ranged in tine pLices of the rejected data. It destroys—it does not rebuild. It has critical subtlety, but is -without smy of those qualifications which are essen tial to con stitute an astute and reliable statistician. The reason why' Mr. SPACRMAN has failed in the co mpilation of a satisfactory analysis of the rela tive proportions of labour, or of the precise distribu. viola of employment in the various divisions of G e , eat Britain, is, that his judgment has been warped by his political prejudices. He has exa mined the question through the distorting lens of part izanship. The reason, on the other hand, why the Westminster Review has in no manner simplified the difficulties of the estimate, is because of its in tignation against the perverse figures of Mr. SPACE MAN and its wrath at the effrontery with which his fallacious numerals are paraded in the broad glare ot experience. Hew far the amazement ot the reviewer has carried him away from the dry circumstances of the discussion into the fruitless excitement of declamation, may be discerned in his comments upon an incidental remark in depreciation of " the inherent principles of origi nality," perceptible in the history of the manufac turing interests. " Did we borrow the spinning frame," says the reviewer, " the jenny, the mule, the fly. shuttle, or the powerloom from other countries ? Perhaps it is an error in our recollection that ARK WRIGHT, and HARGREAVES, and CROMPTON, and KATE, and CARTWRIGHT were born in Great Britain. Or perhaps we must place the biographies which tell us of their patient trials and their final success in the same category with the adventures of Munchausen and Gulliver !" There is room, we will acknowledge, for these sarcastic retorts upon Mr. SPACEMAN ; the opportunity, we will confess, was tempting and almost irresistible. A part of our national glory seemed to he implicated in the allusion of the statist, and there fore we will confess that we might ourselves have been tempted into the indulgence of remarks simi larly scornful. Yet, on dispassionate consideration, the sneers of the IVestminster _Review are altogether as wide of the mark as the idle scepticism of Mr. SPACEMAN. After the jeer has been uttered, how much nearer are we to the actual solution of the pro blem of the proportion and classification of our in dustrial community ? Not a furlong, not an inch, not a barleycorn. To all appearance there is little likelihood (at the outset of such an investigation) of any inducements arising for the display of party feeling. One would imagine, at the first blush, that an occupation ab stract might be made without exciting in the mind of the compiler, or in that of others, any of the bitterness of political antagonism. Experience has shown that such is not only the possible result of such an undertaking, but its nearly inevitable con sequence. The bigotted assertions of Mr. SPACEMAN have proved in a remarkable manner that partialities and antipathies can reveal themselves as plainly in the tables of an arithmetician as in the rhetorical fury of a debater. In a different way, the Westminster Review has afforded an example of the liability of the most sincere inquirer being diverted from his investi gation by the fervour of a laudable truthfulness. Beyond these lessons the discussion has hitherto been null and profitless, and the Parliamentary Blue Book of 1841 still remains—with all its indisputable imper fections—the most accurate repository of facts bear• ing upon our national indu-try. Before its authority can be superseded, the question must be treated by some one more impartial than Mr. SPACEMAN and less enthusiastic than the Westminster Reviewer. After thirty-three years of peace, during whicb period a number of improvements have been intro duced and made available, which should have insured a high degree of national prosperity, when the true capital of a country, its labour, might have been wholly applied to the creation of wealth, and ample resources for every contingency should be easily available, we find ourselves in a position far worse than that in which we were placed at the termination of a protracted, sanguinary, and enormously ex pensive war, in which vast armies had been main tained, and half the European continent subsidised with British gold. During the lattery ears of that conflict an annual expenditure of nearly 110,000,0001. sterling was met without any extraordinary difficulty, of which more than 70,000,0001. sterling was defrayed from the ordinary revenue of the country, and the residue• probably not less than 40,000,0001., was raised by loans, the greater portion of which, if not the entire, was exported from our shores to other lands, and as completely sacrificed fur every useful purpose as if it had been cast into the sea. Still, the indomitable energy of the British people overcame every difficulty, and brought that war to a triumphant conclusion. The person who would then have ventured to assert that an extraordinary expenditure of thirty millions would have paralysed our commerce, closed our fac tories, depreciated every description of property, and reduced our industrious operatives to a state of penury, if not of actual pauperism, would have been laughed to scorn, and regarded as an imbecile driveller. Since that period our population has increased more than 40 per cent., and• the realised property of the country in a still larger proportion ; there are now more than twenty-eight millions of inhabitants in the British islands, with an accumulated capital worth, at the lowest valuation, five thousand millions of pounds sterling, and yet in what condition do we find our selves ? Our merchants and manufacturers have been reduced to the verge of bankruptcy. Many, indeed, have been obliged to succumb under the difficul ties to which they have been exposed. The long established honour of the British name has been tar nished. Our credit has failed in every part of the world, and confidence is no longer entertained in the integrity and solvency of the merchant princes of England. We are no longer enabled to supply other nations with the products of our skill and industry. We have orders in abundance for our manufactures, but, alas ! they cannot be completed, because the scarcity of the circulating medium and the exorbitant rate of discount prevent our manufacturers from ob taining the fair and reasonable profits of their enter prise. The condition of the labouring classes is, unhappily, too notorious. They are enduring unpa ralleled privations, obliged to relinquish all their ordinary comforts, and to be contented with a scanty supply of the humblest fare ; and in addition thereto, although we are subjected to an income-tax—that which has been universally looked upon as a war im post—a e have a revenue inadequate to the national expenditure, a deficiency which must be supplied by the imposition of new taxes, or a considerable addi tion to those already in existence. Surely, under such circumstances, it is incum bent on our legislators to remove the causes that have led to such a lamentable state of affairs, that have brooded as incubi over the happiness and welfare of the people. They are by no means obscure, nor does it require any extraordinary acute ness to discover or explain them. By fur the greater portion of our sufferings and disasters may he traced to the operation of our monetary code—to the law introduced in 1819, and rendered more stringent in 1844—t0 the insane craving for gold—the "auri sacra fames," which has induced the nation to sacrifice its prosperity, and the happiness of the people to what is termed the integrity of the standard—that some ten or fifteen millions of bullion, the proper use of which would be productive of the most beneficial results, may lie idle and unproductive in the coffers of the Bank, and that gold sovereigns may pass from hand to hand as the medium of exchange, in place of the smaller denominations of Bank notes. Yes, the curse of Midas is on the country. We emulate the folly of the Lycian Monarch, who desired that everything he touched might be transformed into gold, and too late discovered that be might perish from starvation in the midst of his glittering treasure. The fable contains an instructive moral ; would that our law givers would profit thereby. There are other things more essential than gold. We should not sacrifice the substance in grasping at the shadow. The nation languish es from the want of an adequate circulation. If w e had a national currency receivable in payment of the taxes, and secured, as our national debt or Ex chequer-bills, upon all the resources of the country, there would be the means of keeping every person able and willin g to work actively and usefully em ployed ; but, like Midas, we will touch nothing but g old , and the body politic starves from the inanition old is a moat vie h useful aveo slave, ur rew reward but thereby occasioned. G ,erily, a most tyrannical and despotic master ; we e l evate i t from its true positio n, and, v The Palria of Florence, of the 30th ult., an nounces that a fresh popular demonstration took place at Naples on the 25th. Several members of the aristocracy had been arrested. The Duke of LUCCA, it is said, had secretly arrived at Parma. In the Gavite of Parma of the 29th ult. appears the proclamation of the new Duke. A true Bourbon —he has learned nothing, he has forgotten nothing. He declares he will introduce no change in the insti tutions established by MARIA Loma, whose ex ample he will rigidly follow. Thousands of persons of all classes have signed an address to him, setting Forth the dangers he will incur if he does not grant the reforms demanded by the :people. Preparations ure making in Parma for the reception of a large body of Austrian troops. MARIA LOUISA has left all the jewels presented to her by NAPOLEON to the Emperor FERDINAND, and her furniture, plate, linen, houses, and her palaces in Italy, to the Duke of LUCCA. Madrid papers of the 31st ult. have been received. ESPARTERO had announced to NARTAEZ his inten 'ion of entering Madrid incog., in order to avoid all public manifestation of feeling. The Minister had demanded of the Chamber of Deputies the power of levying taxes to the month of June next. This had given rise to a rumour that it was intended to dissolve the Cortes. The .Heraldo however,ldenies the existence of any such intention. CiolL has been chosen Chairman of the Committee on the Budget. MADRID 130LSA, DEC. 31.—Threes, 281 ; Fives, 15i ; Exchange on London, 48 30. We have received the Faris papers of Thursday. On Tuesday night the King and Queen of the BEL GIANS arrived in Paris, and immediately afterwards set out for Dreux to attend the funeral of the Princess ADELAIDE. The funeral, which took place on Wed nesday, was attenden by the KING QUEEN, and all the Royal Family. After the funeral the Royal Family returned to the Tuileries. The debate on the Address in the Chamber of Peers commences on Monday. The Presse states that the Government has deter mined to ratify the convention with ABD-EL•KADER. A letter from Toulon of the Ist January says— " AUD-EL-KADER still remains in the Lazaretto. lie himself has requested to be completely isolated, so as not to be exposed as a spectacle to the gaze of the public. Strict orders have in consequence been given, forbidding any one to approach the Lazaretto. The ex-EMIR never quits his apartments. No order has as yet been received from Paris concerning him. The bad weather prevents the transmission of tele graphic dispatches." The Constitutionnel in commenting on the excuse offered by M. GUIZOT for selling arms to the Son derbund, says :—" When M. GUIZOT was called on to justify the secret sale of arms to the Sonder bund made by the Government, he contented nimself with reminding the Deputies, that France had often sold arms to friendly Governments, without alluding to the merely secondary circumstances of the publicity of such sales, and of the other conditions by which the law requires they should be accom panied. It was objected to the Minister that the Sonderbund was not a Government, but, on the con -rary, a faction in arms against a Government with which we held friendly relations. That was nothing. (vizor then contended that France had a right - o sell arms to an insurrection against a Government with which she maintained amicable relations, pro vided the insurrection was just, and its triumph in conformity with the interests of France. The cause of the Sonderbund being just in the eyes of M. GUIZOT, and its triumph in conformity with the in terests of the Ministry, the Cabinet was justified in selling arms to the Sonderbund to be used against the Federal Government, maintaining at •.he same time amicable relations with that Govern ment. The theory is ingenious, and the application of it convenient, but it has more especially the merit ~f novelty. We are not aware that any writers on the law of nations have as yet propounded it, and M. GUIZOT may incontestably claim the honour of the discovery. We are curious, however, to learn how the Minister for Foreign Affairs can reconcile it with the usages of civilized nations and with our own code of laws. When two powers are at war, neutrals are strictly prohibited from selling arms or mu iitions of war to either. The simple fact of such sale constitutes a cases belli. France, then, would have no right to sell arms to a friendly power against which the Swiss Diet might have declared war, but it appears that she has a right to sell arms to a fee -1 lion in insurrection against the Diet in Switzerland itself. France cannot aid in a foreign war, but she may stir up a civil war without violating her neu trality. When the English landed arms and emi grants in La Vendee, it was the Republic which was in the wrong." The Journal des Dibats publishes a large portion of the papers relating to Switzerland which M. GUIZOT has laid before the Committee on the Address. Several of the papers publish extracts from the let ters of the Duke of WELLINGTON on the national de fences. They seem delighted at the idea that 40,000 men could invade England with success, but they make no allusion to the measures of defence proposed by the Duke, and which, if adopted, will, we have his assurance for it, be amply sufficient. PARIS BOURSD, JAN. 6 —The market opened with some degree of firmness at about the quotations of yesterday, but reports soon afterwards becoming cur rent of disturbances having broken out at Madrid, prices somewhat gave way, and Threes closed at 75f. 5c.; Fives at 117 f. 20c.: and New Loan, 76f. loc. for end of the month. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents. for cash, 75f. 5c.; for Account, 117 f. 20c.; New Loan, 76f. 10c. ; for Ac count, 76f. 10c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,220 f.; Neapolitan, 102 f.; Spanish not quoted. RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has been similarly affected, and closed, on many lines, lower than yes terday. For cash, Paris and Orleans last called at 1,205 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 90if.; Rouen and Havre, 435 f. ; Strasburg and Bale, 161 f. 25c.; Nantes, 390 f. ; Northern, 542 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 482 f. 60c.; l'aris and Strasburg, 410 f.; Paris and Lyons, 297 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6. Boulogne and Amiens, 14 1 / 4 —Louvain ala Sambre, t ex int.—Namur and Liege, 4%—Northern of France, 12—. Orleans and Bordeaux, 5/ 2 —Paris and Lyons, 5 7 8—Rouen and Havre, 17A—Sambre and Meuse, 7. CABINET COUNCIL—A meeting of the Cabinet was summoned yesterday for Wednesday next, at the Foreign ffice. The Duke of Wellington and the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are expected to return to town fir the season at the end of the ensuing week from Strathfieldsaye. THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The Lord Chancellor is not passing the present season at Torquay. as stated in a paragraph copied from the Western Times into several London journals. His Lordship, who has con tinued at his mansion in Park-lane, is, we are happy to add, much better, and has so far improved within the last three days as to be able to take carriage exercise. DEATH OP THE MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF AILsA —We are sorry to announce the death of the Marchioness Dowager of Ailsa. Her Ladyship died at her house, St, Margaret's, Isleworth, on the sth inst., having been seized with influenza a few days previously. DEATH OF THE HON. LINDSAY P. BuaaELL.— This respected gentleman died on Saturday last, at his seat, Stoke Park, near Ipswich, from an attack of the prevailing epidemic. The honourable deceased, the second son of the late Lord Gwydyr by Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was born in June, 1786. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERA L ALEXANDER BETHUNE.—We 'have to announce the death of Lieu tenant-General Bethune, who expired on Tuesday at 131ebo, his seat in Scotland. The gallant deceased was in the 77th year of his age. His commission as ensign bore date March 14, 1789; lieutenant, June 13, 1792; captain, April 12, 1793; major, April 29, 1802; lieu tenant•colonel, October 25, 1809; colonel, August 12, 1819; major-general, July 22, 1830; lieutenant-general, November 23, 1841. DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.—CONSECRATION OF DR. HAMPDEE.—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, owing to his advanced age and increasing infirmities, will not consecrate the new Bishop of Hereford, Dr. Hampden, but has issued his commission to three bishops (whose names have not yet transpired) to officiate on the occasion. The day fixed for the consecration is Sunday, January 30. It will take place in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. FIRE AT LIVERFOOL.—About three o'clock yes terday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Robertson, Gladstone, and Co., off Sweeting street. The engine of the police, and that of the West of England As.urance Company, were quickly on the ground ; but, notwithstanding every exertion, up to the time of our writing the flames had not been got ender. The contents of the warehouse are fruits, and other in flammable matter. The premises are insured. We cannot as y et say how the fire originated. ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF CARLISLE.—It 13 with feelings of regret that we announce the sudden and se rious illness of the venerable Earl of Carlisle. He was seized with fits on Wednesday, and, according to ac counts received in town last night, was in a dangerous state. Lord Morpeth has been staying at Castle Howard with his noble relatives for some time back. The lion. Captain and Mrs. Howard left last night, on receipt of the unfavourabla intelligence. The Noble Earl is in his 75th year. A FACT FOE FORESTERS.—It is said that Mr. Christopher Macrae, manager of the Applecross woods and forests, planted 140,000 trees at a cost to his I con stituent of only 541. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, at firm rates, but without any advance in prices. Railway Shares were rather better. There are no arrivals to-day with later accounts, except from the Continent. The state of political affairs in Italy is deemed unsatisfactory, but not much reliance is placed upon the assertion that disturbances have occurred at Madrid. We are glad to observe that the vexatious system of sursis, or authorised suspension of payments for a definite period, where a house is in difficulties, has been protested against by several Mem bers of the Belgian Chambers. In time of peace, and with wholesome and effective laws, there can be no ne cessity for the continuance of this, to the creditors', very injurious permission. The stoppage of Messrs. Cotesworth, Powell, and Co., has placed two or three Glasgow houses in difficul ties, as was fully expected, but it is not yet ascertained whether they will receive sufficient assistance from the banks. The West India house, which is said to have been applying fur assistance, is believed to have obtained it. We are not aware that the following extract of a communication from Miramichi has appeared in more than one of our morning contemporaries:— " Mr. Joseph Cunard stopped payment on Saturday last, and assigned all his estate and effects to trustees for the benefit of his creditors, and his establishment is closed. The trustees are, Robert Mc Calmont, his agent in England; lion. S. Cunard, of Halifax; Thomas C. Allan, of the Commercial Bank ; and George Kerr, his attorney. The amount of his liabilities are fearfully great, but the total is not yet ascer tained. His property is immense, and at a fair value would realize 20s. in the pound—but to be wound up by assizes for prompt payment, in these hard times, may not realize ss. in the pound. The result of this failure will be fearful. It will be equal in its consequences to Miramichi, to the great fire of 1825. 111 ( * He is really to be pitied. With so much property on hand, and having sent sufficient new ships and property home to meet his bil l s, now lying unsold in Liverpool, it is really too bad. Mr. J. Cunard is not connected with the Cunard steamers. The Corn Market is quiet this morning. The Public Securities are firm again to-day, although there is not much doing. Consols have been 86i, down subsequently to 86, and are now about 86} Exche quer-bills are firm at 17s. to 20s. premium, money con tinuing very easy. Bank Stock has been as high as 188 and 1891. East India Stock, ex. dividend, has touched 229 and 232. India Bonds are 7s. to 12a. pre mium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 871 to In the Foreign house the dealings are devoid of the slightest interest. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 19i, and the Passive 4} ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 54 to it. Railway Shares generally support to the full extent the improvement of yesterday afternoon, and with a fair business doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 189 1 4 188 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 86 1 4% 3 per Cent. Consols Anne B 6 l /s IA 86 New 31 4 per Cent. Anis. 8 7 14% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B 3 /4 13-16 India Stock 229 232 Do. Bonds, 10001 Ditto under 1.0001 Bank Stock for Account 190 Consols for Account ... 5 4 1 / 13,1 86 Exchequer Bills. ad. 1,000/. 500/. Small ... 19 18p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Spanish Bonds, 6 per Cent, 1640 ... Ditto for the Account . . 19% Ditto Passive Bonds 4 1,4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 ,./ 2 per Cent., 12 Guild 54 54 x d Ditto far the Account 54% Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY MIRES AT ONE O'CLOCK PAID. tez kberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. Ayrshire and Galloway - to - Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. .. - Birmingtam & Oxford June... 20 - Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . - Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 10/.14a.... - - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Ckeshire Junction-, 7% - ...... to - Boston, Stara., & Birming... 4 - ...... to - Bristol and Exeter - Do., Thirds - - Buckinghamshire.. - ...... to - Caledonian - Ditto, Half Shares - ...,.. to - Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 - to - Chester and Holyhead... 37%...,. 17% to - Ditto, Preference 8 - Clarence. - ...... to - Do., let Class, 6 per Cent lO - . ... to - D0.,2d Class, 3 per Cent... 10 - to - Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 - to - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 16 - to - East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., arid L. & D., . 25 - Ditto, 181., E. & II lB - Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 2 - to - Eastern Counties - Ditto, ditto (B) - Do. Perpet., 5 per et. No. 1,61. 18s. 4d... - - De., d 0....... N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d... % dis to - Do., York Extension - ...... to - Do., Northern & Eastern._ 50 Do., Quarter .... . ...... ...... 12%... - ‘s Do., New • Eastern Union .... . 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12 1 ,¢ - - Ditto., Thirds ...135. 4d - to - Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.)... - . - - East Lancashire Ditto, New - to - Do., New Quarters - East Lincolnshire ... 12%...... 12 - Edinburgh and Glasgow - ...... to - Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - Edinburgh and Northern. 22% - - Ditto, New..... . ....... ........ 3 3 / - ...... to - Ditto, New port 9% -....... to - Ditto, ditto, New 2 1,4 - ...... to - Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch es t er 2% Ditto, New - to - Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 65.8 d... - to - Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... - - Ditto, New - Do. !,4 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% - .. to - Great Nortkern lO% 4 1 4 ex hit. to - Do. Loudon & York Exten. 2% - ...... to - Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35 - Great North of England 100 - - Ditto, Ntw 401. 5 - Ditto, New 301 ... 30 ... .. - .. ... to - Ditto, New 15/.... . .. 6%...... 22%. ... to - Great Western - Ditto, Half Shares - Ditto, Quarter Shares 17% - - Ditto, Fifths 2O - to - Do. New 171 lO ...... - Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. ... - Ditte, Thirds 8 - to - Gull and Selby 5O lOO - Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17% - Do. do. and Norwich - to - Do., do., Extension Scrip (late (Camb. and Ely) 2%...... - - Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 - - Do., Thirds lO ...... - - Lancashire and Yorkshire ~. 93 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto - Ditto Half Shares ...... , - 38 ...... 33 - Ditto Quarters .. ........ 14% - to - Ditto Fifths - - Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6 1 4...... - - Ditto Thirds (Reg. ) ... 10/. 4s - - Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34 Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 33 - - Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% - Do., West Riding Union _4/. 25..... 2% dis to - Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 - to - Ditto ditto (B) 1 1 4 - Leeds and Bradford 5O .. ... 93 1 / 2 .. ... to 94 Leicester and Bedford - Leeds, Dewsbury, & M anc h es. 37% - ........... to t - o - Do., Branch % Shares 12% - ...... to - Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% - Do., New Exten. (pink)... 21% - ...... to - Leeds and Thirsk ........ 36 Ditto, New - Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%„ ~.. - ...... to - Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. - to -- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% - ...... to - Lonnon & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d - - Ditto New, No. L. - Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... - . .... to - Do. Extension ......... 17% - ...... to - Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 - Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 - Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... - - _Do. Pref. Cony. 5 p er C ent. 50 ...... - - vitto, ditto 18.52 50 ..... - - London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... - - Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... - .._ to - London and North Weste rn ..loo lsl Do. Quarter ......L. and B. 22 - Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths - Do. Quarters - .. ... to - Do. 40/. Shares L. &M. 15 ...... - - Do. 40/. Skares...M. and B. 40 .._ - De. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7%..... - - Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% 11 1 ,2 to - Do. 10/.... M. and B. (C.) 1 - London and S. Western.... 41.. 6s 8d... 53-% to 54 Do. New ConsolidatedBths. 40 . - to - Ditto New 50/.......- ....... 32 1 ,4...... 29 - Ditto New 401. .... ..... .. .. 26 - ..... .to - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 - - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - Ditto, Thirds 8/. 6s. 8d ... -- ...... to - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil I% - ...... to - Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% - to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 23:j 4 — ..... to Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 3 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - to Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, I A 3 Shares (No. 3)... 7% — - to Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditto, •••• .I. a w Ol k :4v , 4F4pi I 1 Ayr t , • 11 ,, • U . 4:4!•W 4? * •••,: :•:** • • THE St 7 ig, LONDON, FRIDAY tiVE,NING-. 34/4tlAlt Y 7 . ,, ,litif42 Ditto, ditto ... Ditto, Sheffield, and Linc. . to Manchesteranci Southampton 24 — to Midiand 100 ll2 ..... to 111 Ditto, Consol. PrefeTence...100 Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 15 .....13%x. int to Midland. !firm., and Derby...loo 85 Midland, Consoh Bristol and Birmingham 6 pc? cent.... 10() l2O Midland, Bristol and (Bone. 36 Ditto ditto 11/. 38.6 d. .. Midland, Leices. and Swan- ningtol (8 per ct.gua.)....100 . Midld. Great Western (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle Ditto Quarter Shares Newmarket and Chesterford 18 1 ,4 _ Ditto Extension Newport Abergy., and Heref. II Norfolk Ditto New 201. 5 ...... t• Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. WaTeney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen ,\ cwry, Warrenpoint, and Rost revor _:orthern Counties Union North British , . Ditto Half Shares, l- "' /2 Do. Quarters 4 34 — - Ditto, Extension ... .s ii — .. ... to Ditto Thirds ... .......... ..... 2 - North Staffordshire... .. ...... 7% 7 l / 4, to sorth Wales North Western Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% — ... .. to Royston and Ilitehin ......... 1% — ...... to Scottish Central Scottish Midland .. ... 17% — ...... to Ditto, New lO Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole 5 - , hrewsbury and Birmingham 6 Ditto, ditto, Class B. 8 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto 8 ..... .... to Ditto, Oswestry Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cant. Prof 5 Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 Shropshire Union . 4 ...... South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 Ditto, Preference 2O ...... 17 South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33% Ditto, New, No. 1 ✓itto, New, No. 2 .. 17 Ditto, New, No. 3 ... 13 Ditto New, N•. 4............ 7% 6 South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 [lames Haven Dock and Railway l 7l caw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3 1,4...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 40 ... .. Waterford, Wexford, W icklvr, .... and Dublin West Cornwall 4 - Whitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western Wilts, Soinerset,&Weymouth 80 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . .. ... to Do. Original New & Bor'ell '25 .. Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. .. Do. Exten.No. I (Y. & N.) 10 Do. do. No. 2, New & B. li Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 Vork and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference • I. Ditto East and West Riding Extension ...... ... .. ...... 20 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... ...... to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain ... Ceylon .... ss. Demerara. Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..... ~,ointlay anu ....L.-- Dutch Rhenish East Indian Great Indian Peninsular ss. ..... . ...... to Italian and Austrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con. stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege........ Northern of France. Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4138 4d , Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Rouen .......... Paris & Strasbourg ........... 8 Rouen and Ilavre 2O Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 8 - Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell West Flanders JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock London and Westminster. .. 20 National Provincial of Engld. 35 Ditto, New National of Ireland 2 2 1,4 — ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — t• Astrian Mining Company ... 11 Australian Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 60 Bolanos Scrip British Iron ilian Imperial ..... ..... 21 Utlyanized Iron Ditto, N4IW Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. 13 1 to LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind S.S.W., moderate breeze, and hazy, with rain. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Wind N. to N.N.E. and N.N.W.— Arrived Calypso, Charleston. Arrived from the River and sailed Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales; Branken Moor, Sydney, New South Wales ; Thomas Blyth, Mauritius ; Brutus, Nassau ; Evergreen, Sa vannah, and Argo, St. John's, New Brunswick. FALMOUTH. JAN. 6.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Penguin packet, Madeira, Teneriffe, and Brazils. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Wind N.—Arrd. Fortuna, Tay lor, Islay ; Agnes, Gillies, Demerara ; John Cadmus, Connell, New Orleans ; Pearl, Henry, Prince Edward's Island ; Herald, Warren, Newfoundland ; Carnatic, De vereux, New Orleans ; Kent, Miramichi. Poarsmouni, JAN. 6.—Wind N.—Sld. Waterlily, Ja maica ; Hendrick Hudson, New York ; Irvine, Aguillas. PAPDALE HOUSE (KIRKWALL), DEC. 31.—The Henrietta, Jackson, of Sunderland, from Riga to Mon trose, was wrecked on the Start, Sunday, 19th instant; crew drowned. The Elsina Catrina, Rubiass, of Will scholen, has put into Otterswick (Sunday) with foremast sprung and other damage, and cargo (rye and barley) shifted; she will have to discharge. The Fairy, Rene. dorn, of Memel, for Barcelona, has been on shore at Rive Shoals, but came of after throwing over her deck load, and has been brought into Otterswick, with very little damage. and will proceed. WHITBY, JAN. 6.—The fishing smack Severen, Blan chard, of Greer ock, foundered on the Dogger-bank, 3d ultimo; crew saved. 'SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 6.—The Scheverdorft, Croes, from Shields to Dunkirk, has been assisted into this harbour leaky, having struck on the Limox Sand. HULL, JAN. 6.—The Clyde, Harrow, hence to New Orleans, which pat back 4th instant, after having been on shore off Hasborough, has received damage. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat coast wise have been to a moderate extent; yet the show of samples here to-day was small. The few fine qualities on offer sold at Monday's prices; but to effect sales of the out of condition sorts a decline of is per quarter must have been submitted to. The imports of foreign Wheat have exceeded 13,000 quarters. That article was ♦ery dull, at almost nominal figures. Although the supply of Barley was not large, the trade was exceedingly heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. In Malt so little was doing that the currencies were almost nominal. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn were a mere drug. Flour moved off slowly at late rates. Wheat. English ••• • • • 4,060 qrs. Irish..• — Foreign .•• • • • 13,310 ARBITALS. Barley. Oats. Fleqr . 1,930 qrs. I 4,160 qrs. I 1,480 + k.. 1 1 5,120 1,590 f 1,300 Malt. 610 ara. SMXTHIMILD, Although the supply of Beasts on offer here this morning was very moderate, both as respects number and quality, the Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's quotations. There were in the market 96 Beasts, 680 Sheep, and 13 Calves from Holland, as also 60 Scots from Scotland. With home•fed Sheep we were scantily supplied. Prime Downs sold at lull prices, but all other breeds were heavy, at a decline in value of 2d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was small, were in steady request, at last week's currencies. In Pigs comparatively little business was doing, yet prices were supported. Mulch Cows were heavy, at from 141 to 1 7/each, including their Small Calf. Yerelbs. to sink the offal. s: d. to s. d. s. 1. to s. d Ynterior Beaste..... 8 4 3 8 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4 iecond quality ••.. 3 10 4 4 Coarse•weelled ditto 4 6 b 0 Prime la4e Oien• • 4 6 4 8 Southdown Wether I 2 i 4 ?rime Scots •• • 410 ti 0 Ditto out of the wee Large coarse Calves 4 4 410 , Large Hogs ......4 • I 4 6 Prime small ditto .. 5 0 i 4 Small Yorkers •• .. 4 0 8 2 suckling Calves .. 20 028 0 Quarter old rigs ..20 28 0 liferior Sheep .. . 2 6 210 Lambs •••••• • • • • • ° SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheets. I Calves. I PIP. 887 3,260 168 280 NEVTGATE ATM ME.EIDI:NIIA./. 1 .. We had a very inactive trade, on the following terms : w the Carcase. AA per atone s. d. to s. d. s. d. to 3. d. 13eef,inferior 3 4 3 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 2 3 2 - middling - prime large .. 4 0 4 2 prime • ... 4 a 4 0 - prime small .. 4 2 4 4 Pork, large. .• • 3 8 4 6 Veal ........ 4 0 5 41- small Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. HOILOUGH HOP IVIAELHET. Several ,pi.eulatne purchases having been effected this week, our market has assumed a m , :ire healthy appear ance than for some time past. The best colour) sam ples of new Hops have sold in some instances at an ad vance of 2s per cwt. All other kinds are in moderate request at last week's prices. New Hops :—Sussex Pockets, 21 16s to 31 ss; Weald of Kent, ditto, 31 to 31 10s; Mid and East Kent, ditto, 316 s to 5/ 14s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAII—An increased business has been doing in British Plantatioa descriptions, both for grocery and refining purposes. Barbadoes, by auction, has realised 46s for very fine yellow, 395 Gd to 41s 6d for good mid and good, and 39s 6d for low. West India brown is generally at 34s to 355, and yellow at 36s to 45s per cwt. EAST INDIA. Bengal has rtalised 33s to 335 6d for middling greyish strong yellow. Madras is in moderate request at about the previous rates. Mau ritius, 7,663 bag., 239 casks, 48 barrels, sold at 39s 6d to 43s for fine yellow ; at 34s to 35s for low ; at 32s to 33s for fine brown ; and at 29s to 29s Gd for mid; low and mid grey 33s to 36s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.-300 cases Bahia were taken in at 37s to 38s 6d for low to mid brown, and at 39s to 395 6d for good. Java, in bond, 763 baskets, sold at 17s 6d to 21s for low and mid grey and yellow, at 22s to 26s for good and fine, and at 15s to 21s for washed. Damaged yellow Havannah went at 398 to 41s 6d for mid and good. COFFEE.—There has not been much doing in British Plantation. Some Jamaica by auction sold at 40s to ills per cwt. Ceylon has been sold at 32s to 33s for good ord Native, having rather a downward tendency, but Plantation Ceylon is better, as regards fine samples. Best 70s to 80s per cwt. Madras has been taken in at 51s per cwt. In foreign sorts very little has been done. SPlOES.—Pepper is in request, and firm. Pimento is supported a: Sid to 4id per lb, and Cassia Lignea is quiet. ItleE.—There has been a fair business done in Ben gal, low white at lOs to 115, and at 12s Gd to 13s Gd for good mid and good. Madras pinky white 9s to 9s Gd per cwt. Cocoe.—The supply is larger, and the demand is not brisk. Trinidad partly sold at 41s to 47s per cwt. Rtot.—Leeward Islands has been lower: proof', Is bid ' to Is 7d per gallon ; Jamaica, fair and mid, 30 to 36 per Cent over, 3s 6d to 3s 8,1 per gallon ; East India proof was at is 5d to is 6d per gallon. CorroN.—The demand for this staple has increased, and prices are better. TEA.—The business doing is becoming brisker, and prices have a firmer tone. Black and green have been in good des:land; sound common Congou 9d per lb. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 45s to 45s 3d per cwt on the spot, and town 49s 6d. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN RR JOHN EDWARD PTE, This bankrupt, described as of Berkeley-square, milliner, came up for his certificate. _ _ Mr. Robson said he appeared as solicitor for the assignees, and, although perhaps the bankrupt was deserving of censure in consequence of having given his acceptances by way of accommodation, they did not oppose the present application, as the bankrupt had behaved extremely well in endeavouring to pro tect his creditors, for immediately that he discovered that the parties in whose favour he had given his ac ceptances were not likely to take them up, he called his creditors together, stated the facts, and offered to assign his property for their benefit, and to pay ten shillings in the pound by instalments, He (Mr. Rob son), who attended for large creditors, however, ob jected, and the present fiat was sued out, by which the assignees had realized in four months sufficient to pay one dividend of eight shillings in the pound, and there was great probability that there would be a further dividend of 2s 6d. or Ss. His HoNoun said that it was for the benefit of all parties that the Court should be applied to, for if the trader was honest he obtained a full indemnity, and if not he was justly punished. Under the circumstances stated by Mr. Robson, he granted the certificate with great satisfaction. SECONDARIES.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) CURRIE V. CURRIE AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover the sum of 2001., the penalty on a bond, given by the defendant, to secure an annuity to the Plaintiff. The defendants having suffered judgment to go by default, the plaintiff's attorney submitted that he was entitled to a verdict, without giving any evidence, and he did ,not consider it necessary to address the jury. The Learned SECONDARY asked whether the attor ney had been advised on that point, and was an severed, that it was the opinion of the Special Pleader that as the bond, was fully set out - in the declaration, the default of plea entitled the plaintiff to a verdict. He then told the jury that, although the defendants had admitted the facts set forth in the declaration, yet it was necessary to have a 'verdict, before judg- ment could be entered up for the penalty on the bond, which would entitle the plaintiff to enforce the payment of the annuity from time to time, as it became due. The jury accordingly gave a verdict for 2001. KILBY V. WARD. This was an action to recover the sum of 201. 55., for nursing and attending on defendant's mother, deceased. The case appeared to be entirely a family quarrel, to get a general settlement of accounts, and of no interest to any but the parties concerned. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Beforo Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice MAULE). ARSON.—The case of the youth:Middlebrook, agains whom a true bill has been found for arson, was post. poned to next Session, as was also the case of Rolland Scroggs Herring, who was charged with embezzling and stealing 9s. 2d., and other sums, the moneys of John Clark and others, his masters, being trustees of a society. CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Thomas Jones, 27, a labourer, was indicted with feloniously cutting and wounding Elizabeth Connor, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Parry defended the prisoner. From the statements of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution it appeared that, on the 14th of Dec., the prosk cutrix and her sister were in a public-house called the Noah's Ark, at Deptford, that the latter there saw a person who owed her money, and upon his refusing to pay she said he was no better than a thief. It led to a quarrel, when that took piece which constituted the present charge. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault, but acquitted him of the charge of feloniously cutting and wounding. Mr. Justice PATTESON sentenced him to four months' imprisonment, and hard labour. FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING WITH A SWORD-STICK. —John Robinson, 52, a respectable looking man, was indicted with feloniously wounding Edward Hodges, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Baldwin de fended the prisoner. From the statements of Mr. CLARKSON, it ap peared that the present prosecution was instituted by a society which the licensed victuallers had established for the purpose of protecting each other from fraud. The prisoner at the bar called at the house of the pro secutor, who keeps the White Horse, Poplar, on the morning of the 29th of December, and ordered a glass of rum and half a pint of beer, and was leaving the house without paying for it, when the pot•boy called to his master, who on attempting to stop the prisoner received a wound in his thigh from a sword which the prisoner carried in a stick. The wound was but slight, and the prisoner was given into custody. The prosecutor and his pot-boy were called to prove the charge against the prisoner. Mr. BALDWIN addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, submitting that it was clear there was no feloniously wounding. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. Mr. Justice MAULE summed up. The jury sound the prisoner Guilty of an assault. Mr. Justice Menial sentenced him to one month's imprisonment. Helen Farr, aged 49, was indicted with feloniously cutting and wounding William Farr, her husband, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. It appeared that the prisoner had been out drinking on boxing-day, from two o'clock till twelve o'clock, and that upon her returning home in liquor, after abusing the prosecutor she struck him a viojent blow on the head with a pewter pot that was on the table, w hich caused him to bleed profusely, and ultimately rendered it necessary he should be sent to the hospital. The prosecutor was a coal d ea ler, carrying o n busi ness in Peter-street, W es t m i n ster, and appeared to have been blessed with a partner who, judging from her looks and acts, was a regular virago. Mr. Carteen conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Horry was counsel for the prisoner. After the prosecutor, the policemanon behalf of the who took the prisoner into custody, and the house surgeonofWest minster Hospital had been examined prosecution, Mr. Hoanv addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Several witnesses gave her the character of a peaceable and sober women. Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up ; and The jury not being able to agree in the box, retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of about an hour they returned into Court, and found the pri soner Guilty of a common assault. Mr. Justice PATTESON sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. NE IV COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman JouNsoic.) FAECOCIOUS Cltimz.—A diminutive boy, ,named Thack:Tay, aged 12, pleaded guilty to robbing hh father, who seemed to feel acutely the painful position in which he was placed. It appeared that the prisoner, though young in years, was old in crime. The offence to which the accused pleaded guilty was stealing his father's trousers (his only pair), and of course the money they conTained, and %Nbic.:ll v.as all he possessed, from under his pillow, whet., he had placed them for security, so little faith had he in the honesty of his own child. The father stated further, that the prisoner, on one occasion, robbed his mother of all the money she had, and the consequence was that she had been compelled to go without food the whole day. A constable proved that the child had been thrice convicted of felony. On the last occasion he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for robbing 0. child in the street. The RECORDER said the depravity of the prisoner rendered it impossible that the Court could take his youth into consideration in the sentence he was about to pass. That sentence was that he be transported for ten years. Another youth, whose age and offence were not unlike those of his predecessor, also pleaded guilty, and expressed a hope that a sentence of transporta tion would be passed upon him, as he was so mixed up with a gang of boys who subsisted upon plunder, that he considered he could do no good here. Two previous convictions having been proved against the prisoner, The RECORDER complied with his request, and sentenced him to seven years' transportation. Prisoner—" Thank you, my Lord, I am much obliged to you." The lad was then removed. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John Edward Jones, who has been several times re manded on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, was brought up for final examination this morning. On one of the former examinations ➢lr. Henry had said that if the Mendicity Society would prose- cute the prisoner, he would not commit him for trial, but deal summarily with the case. It having been intimated this morning that the Mendicity Society were unwilling to go to the expense, Mr. HENRY ordered him to be imprisoned for two months. He hoped that on being liberated the pri soner would turn to some more honest mode of getting a living. The prisoner said he hoped something would be done to enable him to do so. Mr. HENRY had little doubt tbat if the prisoner conducted himself properly in prison something would be done for him. The Mendicity Society are daily receiving com munications from different quarters respecting the prisoner, and their officers expect to substantiate other charges against him at the expiration of his term of imprisonment. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) George Stewart, a young fellow with a very wo begone cast of countenance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with robbing his ready-furnished lodgings. Mr. Charles Tomlin, 25, John-street, Fitzroy square, said about three months ago the prisoner and his wife, accompanied by their mother-in-law, took furnished apartments in his house. After they had been there some little time his suspicions became excited that all was not right, and he determined to keep a sharp watch upon them. He subsequently demanded the key of the rooms, which the prisoner declined to give up, and in a few days after the whole of them absconded. As they did not return, or send the key, he broke open the door of the bed room, and on looking over the things, discovered that various articles of bedding and furniture, worth about 2/., had been taken away. He gave informa tion to the police, who succeeded in apprehending the prisoner last night. The prisoner, in defence, admitted pledging the goods, but pleaded in mitigation that he was literally starving. Mr. HARDWICK remanded him, for the purpose of allowing the constable time to find out where the property was pledged. BENEVOLENCE.—A sovereign was sent for the use of the poor-box at this court, by a member of the Travellers' Club, who stated that he had found the .ime some time back in one of the rooms, the owner of which has never been discovered. SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. The following is a translation of the Royal Speech upon opening the Cortes : " Worthy Peers of the Realm, and Gentlemen Deputies of the Portuguese N ation— " With the greatest satisfaction I see you today re-united around my throne, to occupy yourselves with the important measures which the interests of our country claim from the legislative body. " After the violent political troubles which for the last two years had shaken the country, your re•union in this place is a secure proof that Divine Provi dence deigns still to think of this brave and faithful nation. " Public and private calamities, a necessary effect of civil wars, have for a long period afflicted all classes of the State, and have injured or ruined establish. ments of every kind. I confide in your wisdom and patriotism that you will at onse occupy yourselves with the necessary steps for ameliorating such evils. " The Governments of Spain, England, and France, concluded with my Government a conven tion, which was signed in London on the 21st of May last year, for the purpose of putting an end to the civil war. " As all Parliamentary labours were interrupted for a time, extraordinary measures were necessarily adopted by the several Ministries. My Government will give a full account of all those measures, in order that they may be duly examined by the legislative corps. " During the critical situation in which the king dom was placed, the guarantees secured by Article 145 of the Constitutional Charter were necessarily suspended ; my Ministers will explain to you the use that was made of that suspension, in order that you may deliberate upon it in such manner most conve nient and just to you, as you may desire. " I have much satisfaction in announcing that the Most Iligh has deigned to favour my family, and blessed me with two Princes—the Infantes Dom Fernando and Dom Augusto. "I continue to receive from the allied Sovereigns the most positive assurances of friendship. Espe cially it is fitting that I should mention to you, that, in consequence of the late unhappy events, I received from the Sovereigns of Spain, England, and France, such powerful assistance as aided in the more speedy termination of the war which desolated the country. "By the respective Ministers will be presented the state of the public revenue and a budget of the receipts and expenses for the coming economic year, with the estimates necessary to provide for the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the State. " I trust you will examine this important subject with the care which it demands, and that you will enable my Government to comply with the obliga. tions which weigh upon it. " Most cordially do I congratulate you on the ter• mination of the public disturbances which for so long a time have so profoundly afflicted the country. I entertain the most lively desire that the horizon of our country will announce the splendour of a new era, and that we shall again have peace, order, and the union of the Portuguese family. May your lights, your zeal, and your patriotism, provide wise. and useful measures. This is the important object which the nation confides to you, and such are the inmost and warmest wishes of my soul." DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANY.—The January dividends will be in the course of payment to the public on next Saturday morning, the Bth inst. The dividends at the South Sea House and East India House will also be payable on the same day. The undermentioned transfer books will open as follows at the Bank :—Con. sols, Three per Cents., on Tuesday, the 18th inst.; Three - and-a•llalf per Cent. Annuities, 1726, on Tues day, the 11th inst. ; New Five per Cent. Annuities, ditto; Annuities for Terms of Years, on Friday, the 14th. The transfer books of East India Stock will be opened ou Thursday, the 13th inst., and South Sea Annuities on Friday, the 14th inst. Marie Taglioni, who created so great a sensation last season at her Majesty's Theatre, is turning the heads of the German amateurs. Her success, say the German papers, is unprecedented, and her improvement:; quite extraordinary. ART LOTTERIES.—It appears, from a statement, the Art- Union Journal, that legal proceedings have te em instituted to arrest the progress of art-lotteries , „ v it t, having been issued for penalties in the form of actions. for debt and costs. CHRISTMAS BOUNTIES.—We understand Viscount.: and Viscountess Cosnbermere have, according to their annual custom, distributed beef, bread, rice, blankets... and clothing, among at least 300 of the cottage tenantry on his Lordship's estates at Wenbury, Newhill, Aston s ., Firth, Dodcot, Wilkesley, Burleydown, Combermere, , Audlem, &c., in Cheshire; and in the Woodhouses,, parish of Whitchurch, in Shropshire.