The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

NEW NOVEL, by the Author of EMILIA WYNDHAM. Just ready, In 3 vols., post Bvo., A NL By the Author of " EMILIA 'WYNDHAM," "TWO OLD E MEN'S TALES," &e. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. OTIC E.-LIEUT. F. E. FORBES'S (COMMANDER N of H.M.S. BONETTA) EW WORK, .1- • FM YEARS IN CHINA, From 1842 to 1847, Ig PUBLISHED THIS DAY, And may be had of all Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom, In Bvo., with a highly finished l'ortrait of the Empress of China, and numerous Wood Engravings, by G. Measom. 15s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, Established in 1847 for the purpose of rendering a more perfect per formance of the lyric drama than had hitherto been attained in this country. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and Patrons of Music are re spectfully informed that the SEASON (1848) will COMMENCE the first week in 3larch, in the new and commodious edifice •onstrueted wet year. °PICEA. For the production of the established works by the great masters of every school, for the effective representation of the repertoire of se venteen Operas mounted last season, and of compositions to be heard for the first time in this country, engagomenls have been already made with the following eminent artistes : PRIMI SOPRANI. Mde. Grist, and Mde. Persian!, Mde. Ronconi, Mdlle. Steffanini, and Mde. Castellan (her first ap.)eara^.ce), WIC Corbari, Mdlle. Angiolina Zoja Of the Scala in 'Mitsui, her first appearance in this country), and Mde. Pauline Garcia Viardot (her first appes.rtutee). CONTRALTO. Mademoiselle Alboni. TENORS. Signor Mario, and Signor Salyi, his first appearance Signor Laved, Signor Luigi iMei (from Scala , in this country), and M. Roger (of the Academie Itoj alo de Muslve, and of the Opesa Comique, in Paris, his first appearance in this country). PRIMI BASSI BA.RITONI. Signor Tainburini and Signor Ronconi. PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI. Signor Marini. (The ratification of the engagement Of Signor Cor gioll-Setti, the celebrated bBass*ASSO, is daily expected). COMIC°. Signor Agostino Rovere. • ALTRI MIMI BASSI. Signor Taglialico and Signor Poforam'. Second° Tenore—Signor Soldi (from the Scala). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. The Orchestra, comprising the distinguished professors of last ' m a ws, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the instrumentalists forming the entire orchestra will be published in:a future prospectus. The Military Band, which hay also been increased, will be reader the direction of Mr. Godfrey, band-master of the Coldstream' *garde. _ _ _ The powerftil and numerons Chorus of last year will be farther strengthened by 24 chosen and experienced singers, and will number •2 voices— namely, 40 ladies, and Sf male voices. Cholas Master— Signor Boncensiglie. Poet and Translator of the Libretti—Signor ldagglonl. Prompter—Signor Monterasi. THE BALLET, The rule which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last Season, that no divertissement should be suffered between the acts of operas, will be strictly adhered to. The performanc2s will terminate with a ballet. During the season the following eminent dansenses Will appear : Mde. Flora Fabbri (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoldine Brussi (premiere dansev.e of the Imperial Theatre in 'Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mdlle. Elizabeth Robert (premiere danseuse of the Academie Royale de Musique in Paris, her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Camille (her first appearance for four years), Mdlle. Thierry, of the Fentee, in Venice (hrst ap pearance in this country), Langher, of the Scala (her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Celest Stephan, Mdlle. Honore (her first appearance), and Mdlie. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance). M. Silvain and M. Bretin (their first appearances), M. Goalie, &c., and a numerous body of Coryphees, Promineusee and Figurantes. Maitre de Ballet —M. Appiani (from the principal theatres la Italy, France, and Belgium). Regisseur ale la Danse—M. O'Bryan. Leader of the Ballet—M. Alfred Mellon. Conaposer—Signor Beletta. The scenery by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin. Premiere Artiste Cos tumiere—Mrs. E. Bailey. Engagements are pending with other distinguished artistee for opera and ballet. A detailed Prespeetus, with the arrangements for the seasoa, will be ready in a few days, and may then be obtained at the Box-office (eorner of Bow-street and Hart-street), and at the principal libraries aid music publishers. royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, Jan. 22, 1848. THEATRE, ROYAL, HAYMARKET. irn kw-the Manwement of Mr. B. Webster. ...le Lessee. MR. AI+TD MRS. CHARLES KEAN'. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled THB WIFE'S SECRET. Lord Arden, Mr. Howe ; Sir Walter Amyett, Mr. Charles Kean ; Jabez Sneed, Mr. Wkbster ; Harrington, Mr. Brix dall ; Brouillard, Mr. Rogers ; Lady Eveline Antyott, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Maud Xis. Keeley. After whi.,h, a sew Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Ifienel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. Te conclude with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled rag WORM) UNDERGROUND; or, the Golden Flute and the Brazen Waters. sue Manager, Mr. Far; en; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web :ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Roses, ss. ; Pa, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doan open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. 1 • THEATRE ROYAL, DELPHI. Under the direction o: Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be presented an entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL EF VEllz OCEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. l'rincipal cha racters by Messrs. Waye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, (;lennaire, gallenford, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. To be followed by a new Farce entitled THE TIPPERARY LE ;ACT. Timm Green. Mr. Wright; Bob Gills, Mr. Munyard ; I.anty Scrimmage, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Chabblock, Mr. Cullenford ; Policeman. Mr. Sanders ; Lizzy Chubbleck, Miss Woelgar. To conclude with an Italian Pantomime, entitled PIERROT, the Married Man; anA POLICIIIN r:LLO, the Gay Single Fellow. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. .I , n.)rs open at Hall-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROTAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE. Vnder the Management of Madame Vestris. bole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING gill he presented now Corals Drama, (indeed THE TRA CADY QUEEN. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. To conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal ("tweeters by Mr. Harley - , Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac. n3rnara. Dress Boxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45."; Pit, le. ; Gallery, Is. No salt--price to any part of the house. The I;ew ilox-ofr.ce, No. 2, Wellington-street, is *pea to the Public every• day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-desi;ned by Mr. W. Dradwell of the Colosseum. PRIIiCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, soleLesseeand Manager, Duchess-street, Portland. place. Zngagemant ct Mre. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport, front ♦aaiaries. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan Knowles 's Play of TIIE Wirt, Ju lian St. Pierre, Mr. Davenport ; Marianna, Mrs. Mowatt. After which, a new Farce, entitled ABOVE AND BELOW. Frank, Mr. Compton 4 Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a new Christmas PalltOrtliitle, entitled OLD FATHER TIME ; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Dress Circle, hs. : Ilexes, 45.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. TRENCH FLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TREATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, 0!t1 Bend-street. Last Night but Two of the Engagement of Mons. Bows. Ou FRIDAY EVENING, _ Will he performed LA TAR. TUFFE. La Tar Tuffe, M. nocage. After which, LES DEUX MENAGES. Bourdeuil, M. Bocage. A detaiied 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 at the Box-office of the TheWre, which is open daily, from 11 to 5. Boxes, 6a.; ?it, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 24 ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. F. D7vlll-;;;Sie;.7l,--117.4vccirge---ter-race,Kensington-read, Surrey. Under the Management of Mr. Bunn. TRE3 EVENING, the pertor.naneen will commence with the sacUreted Opera 0. THE DAUGHTER OF THE REUMENT. Characters by Messrs. H. Phillips, king, Ilorneastle, Rafter, Att wood, M`Mahen, and Miss Poole. To conclude with a new Pantomime, entitled rATTLEDOOR aid SHUTTLECOCK; or, Harlequin Trap, rat, and A •ii,t.act entrance to the private poxes has been malc (which h,ve been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the ',ll:pipit' Librarians ; and at the Box-ottize of the Theatre, which is (teen kia.Py from Ten until Four. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ROYAL VIMORIA THEATRE. THN EVENING Will be performed THE LIGHTERMAN of BANKSIDE ; or, tide lrphan of Bermondsey. Cntracters by Messrs. Dale, Henderson. Hicks, Searle, t'orman, Higgie ; Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Burrougheliffe. After which DEAREST JOHN. To conclude with the grand sehoiastie and instructive Pantomime, entitled TIIE WORLD OF WONDERS; or, Harlequin Caxton and he Origin of Printing, with wondei fol scenery and decorative op pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. ; ilar!equin, M. Lupin° ; Sprite, Signor Molino; CAtunhine,Morelli 3tdtle. Wahl. Beau, Is. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 4d. No Half-price to any part et the house. Doors open at Six, to commence at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'aI ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Prometor and Manager, Mr. 11 illiam Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. loot timid Juvenile Night To-Morrow Evening, when the Pantomime will be played first. Tremendous hit of Lavater Lee, the renouned double Leaper, sur named the Bounding Rath —The greatest Jumper in the world will sPPea revery Evening in his extraordinary Gymnastic Exercises, in eluding his astounding double leap over twelve horses, a feat unparal leled since the days or the celebrated Ireland. The Grand Spectacle of THIS EVENING, TUE (LAMP OF SILESIA. new Scents i n the Arena, by the talented Artistes of Entire: y the Kstat , iiihment, in the various modes of equestration. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLEQUIN DOCTOR SYNrAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY MARE, in which those popular artistes Herr Dentin, Mdlle. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Ilradbu 1 7, as Harlequin. Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, which will exceed in splendour and effect ail fOrmer productions at the Amphitheatre. Box-office open from 11 till 5 Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. 111 b; WEATHER.—Srn Orticn, JAN. 26. 24 ; Highest, 30 ; Noon, 24. TIISIMOMETER , Lowe st, BAROMSTER, 30 15.—WIND E. by N. ; fine. iiio Li WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning. • 27 ninutee after 5. f Evening .. BS minutes alt er 5. t _ _i--------_ 4 > l4 ,` ( I tt 4, 1 7 , . . 4 ,, f GNI • Acrze. ,. d g4 Qr ~. A : r.; .. 41 _1.,..r., s ' 0 - I 4' , nt 4 .P 4T•310• '. Dion L ...., . 4 1E I: , ' is .7 , S .-. ' 7 l?igning L°Sl3l - ) N. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 26, 1838 --- Negotiations still continue actively in progress be . tween the Cabinets and Plenipotentiaries of England, France, and Switzerland, for the purpose of ensuring, if possible, the immediate tranquillity and permanent prosperity of the llelvetic Confederation. The Vorort is still agitated with discussions and interviews. The Supreme Diet, while affecting a perfect reliance upon the edissequences of its late victories, is, in reality, more than ever vigilant, a n d more than usually dis posed to the adoption of 'a prudential course of pro- NE w .. eldi \ ng ; 1. , Each of the landsgemeindes betrays the imue_Aegter4 of solicitude and watchfulness, and the , .„~-"' hip the eouneilf the Federal Go v er nment s h are to a (----- 14, -K - . 7.,* ;? i if4ike - --extepi- e in the anxieties experienced by the local .: 7, i= 4 * : Adlni . niistft,t#ns. In the midst of th ese h opes and 31 - 7- - !p4l_o4tiaf'§ir STRATFORD CANNING, us the IV II II ST sentative of Great Britain, preserves, with a profound impartiality, a sincere yearning to witness the amicable adjustment of the affairs of Switzerland, the judicious re-organization of its constitution, and the solid and dispassionate vindication of its na tionality. _ _ Nothing, we are satisfied, can tend to produce any beneficial results to the confederates which does not ensure to them in an extraordinary manner --in manner admitting of no subsequent misunderstand ings upon the point—a perfect Cantona l Sovereignty. Without this, the pacification will be m erely tempo rary—the liberty of the Swiss will be an illusion— theirseveral independence will be restricted in instance 3 to a fortunate minority, with whom success will inevitably lead to cruelty, and power to despo tism. In the many and voluminous documents which have recently appeared having reference to these negotiations, the policy of England has been very signi ficantly expressed. It is a pol icy eminently worthy of her character, and calculated to enhance in a peculiar degree the reputation of the Russell Govern ment. From first to last—from the first outbreak of the late internecine warfare to the last capitulation of the cities of the Sonderbund the policy of Great Britain has been consistent, her purpose has been inflexible, and the pathway marked out by her di plomatists undeviating. Notwithstanding all; the disingenuous hints uttered by M. GUIZOT, it is now certain that the schemes of Lord PALMERSTON at this moment, in regard tof i the arrangements to be entered into with the Diet (now that its cause has proved triumphant), are identi cal with those entertained by him when he first adventured upon this friendly interference (when the fortunes of the Radicals were altogether unde cided). There has been no double-dealing in the communications forwarded from Downing-street, and no inkling of chicanery in the different documents transmitted to the Foreign Secretary by the distin guished negotiator to whose sagacity these very deli cate matters have been confided. There has been plain speaking and plain writing enough even for the fastidious mind of the Hon. Gentleman the represen tative of Stafford. Of this negotiation, as conducted by the Noble Viscount, her MAJESTY'S Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the very key note has been the demand of some rational assurance of Can tonal Sovereignty. Lord PALMERSTON has recognised in Cantonal Sovereignty the only true security for the maintenance of the freedom of the confederates and for the preservation of their venerable and glori ous:nationality. Let any one consider for an instant the character of the federal.republic of Switzerland—the exquisite balance of interests for which it is remarkable—and the calamities which have invariably resulted from any infringement of the regulations of the Pact—and it will be manifest that without Cantonal Sovereignty the Helvetic constitution must prove a nullity and a delusion. What, let us ask, would be the natural consequences of such a legislative erasure ? They would be as multitudinous as they would be destruc tive ; they would be as interminable as they would be pernicious. Factions would triumph, demagogues would acquire puissance, minorities would ensure to themselves an irresponsible and alarming authority. The national cause would droop before the storms of insurrection, and wither under the heels of rebels. The memorable axiom of SIEVES would be reversed—Power would not come from above, nor would Confidence come from below. Foreign bayonets would enforce the mandates of a few insensate incendiaries, and the light of that Hel vetia which had dawned amidst the gloom of feu dalism would be extinguished by the hands of her own treacherous and traitorous offspring. One can ton would fall under the treasonous blows of its neighbour; force would usurp the place of reason; and freedom of thought, whether in regard to religion, politics, or philosophy, would never henceforth be tolerated in the land which was once the very home I of Liberty. England has perceived this from the commence ment of her efforts at mediation. The paramount importance of Cantonal Sovereignty has been ex pressed in every dispatch penned by Lord PALMERS TON, and in every syllable articulated by Sir STRATFORD CANNING. The fact, indeed, is becoming so manifest, that we are disposed to be sanguine as to the result of the negotiation. After what has been so repeatedly pressed upon the consideration of the Diet it will be scarcely possible for either the Radicals or the Ultramontanists to thwart the intentions of Great Britain. Cantonal Sovereignty must constitute the text of the reforms introduced into the Federal Com pact. There can be no evasion of this conditional point in the settlement of the affairs of Switzerland. However astute the political authorities of the Vorort may be, they cannot disappoint, upon so essential a particular, the skilful and practised diplomatists of France and England. With a sound and candid co-operation between the two latter countries, we count with all confidence upon the ultimate realisation of the dream of Lord PALMERSTON—a dream which, without representing M. OCHSENBEIN as shooting a ribston pippin in the market-place of Berne, nevertheless, identifies with the success of liberal ideas the victory of those great principles of freedom of which 'WILLIAM TELL was of yore the redoubted champion. In all the vicissitudes of those negotiations, it must be a solace to the Foreign Secretary to reflect that in the person of Sir STRATFORD CANNING he has secured a plenipotentiary of singular integrity, intelligence, and resolution. The favourite assertion of the bullionists that the calamities of the past year, and the general distress and suffering that was experienced by all classes, but more especially in the commercial districts, were oc casioned by the railway expenditure and the Irish famine, is ,well exposed in the article in Blackwood, to which we alluded on Monday. If we are a miser ably poor people who have eaten up our resources, and are consequently unable to bear the strain that has come upon us, it is our own absurd laws that have made us so. The evil is entirely of our own creation. A comparison between what had been done before the integrity of the standard was restored, and while the circulation of the country was carried on with inconvertible rags, as they have been termed, and that which has so recently reduced the nation to a state of destitution, although the cur rency was never in a sounder state, will show how absurd it is to ascribe our embarrassments to the amount of the outlay which has taken place under those heads. The period selected for the comparison cannot be said to afford any advantages to the anti bullionist side of the argument. In the years 1813, 1814, and 1818, when, according to our Contempo rary, " the miserable poverty-stricken people were at the close of a bloody and costly war of twenty years duration, during which they raised 585,000,000/. sterling by loans to Government, and on an average 60,000,000/. annually by taxes, from a population,.in eluding Ireland, not amounting to 18,000,000 of souls," advances and contributions were made to the Govern ment for the public service, which appear from PORTER'S Parliamentary Tables to have amounted to giving no less than 212,093,3781. raised by taxes, and 298 ,464,4281. by debts contracted, funded and un funded,a grand total of payments into the Exchequer within these three years of 510,557,8091., ornarage of over 170,000,0001. per annum. These exhausting enormous contributionsathe resources o u r l do over-taxing a x b i e n gm the ee energies without corn which has been ' of the British nation • June, but we find that the value of the ?imported into the country from e t r h i . od of 15 months, being while the capital the only time during extraordinary im portation amounted • 33 ,s 63 33,563,0001. sterling, took l bso i r n be l d B4 i 6 n in round terms to railways amounted in 1845 to 14,000,000 a/. to 35,000,000/. ; and in 1847 to 63,000,000/. If we suppose that during the same period the average revenue collected by taxation amounted to 52,000,000!. per annum, we shall find that the whole amount col lected from the nation within the last three years for railways, for the importation of foreign corn, for taxa tion of every kind, and for the Irish loan of 8 , 0 00,0001., did not altogether amount to more than 31,000,0001., or about three-fifths of that which was collected from 1813 to 1815. It should also be borne in mind that the money expended on the construction of rail ways was not sent out of the country, but that, on the contra ry , Britis it was altogether applied in stimulating Britishindustr y , and affording a vast quantity of ern!' plOyment to that labour which'would otherwise have remained useless and unproductive. Some other THE &UN, LONDON, causes of our distress must therefore be assigned than the amount of the national expenditure. But it may be said that the nation was wealthier in 1815 than in 1847—and that therefore so great a pressure on our resources could more readily be en countered at the former than at the latter period. The income-tax returns will, however, show that such was not the case, but that, on the contrary, the increase in the wealth of the nation more than kept pace with the increase in the population. In 1815 the income-tax was ten per cent. on all incomes ex ceeding 601. per annum, and it produced 15,000,0001 sterling; in 1847, the year of greatest pressure, when the chief absorption of capital in railways and for corn was taking place, it amounted, to 5,395,3911. at 21. 18s. 4d. per cent., although it was not levied on incomes lower than 1501. per annum, perhaps we might practically say less than 2001. per annum, so that, without taking into consideration the apprecia tion of the value of money, if a similar rate was now levied to that which was enforced in 1815, we should find that a much greater amount of realised and ac cumulated property now existed in the country—that we are, in fact, a far wealthier people. _ _ The property of the nation has been calculated to amount to more than five thousand millions sterling. It would be easy to show that this calculation is rather under than over the mark, if we took into our consi deration the value of our real property, producing 105,000,0001. per annum, and which alone may be fairly estimated as being worth upwards of three thou sand millions sterling. We have in addition our funded property, amounting to 800,000,0001.. The railway and banking property, the capital invested in tom merce, manufactures, and agriculture, the deposits in the several banks, the value of the agricultural stock, the millions of horses, oxen, cows, pigs, sheep ; the implements of husbandry, the articles of comfort or luxury in the various dwelling-houses, which would make us the richest nation the world ever saw, even had we not a single ounce of gold in our cof fers. And yet with this enormous capital we are brought to the verge of ruin, because we have seat away thirty-three millions for foreign corn, and expended sixty-three millions on railways, in adding to the facilities of transit, in saving time and money to the traveller, and enabling the farmer to obtain new markets for his produce, and thus materially increase the value thereof, and have advanced eight millions to relieve our starving brethren. IVould an individual worth 5,0001. consider himself ruined because he had expended 1001., the fiftieth part of his capital, for such purposes ? Most assuredly not- Neither can the British nation acknowledge that it has been ruined by what has taken place. The great cause of all our sufferings is the contrac tion of the circulation, the not having a currency which is a representative and measure of value sufficient for the wants and exigencies of the nation. The Act of 1844 rendered that contraction inevitable, and thus disabled our manufacturers from carrying on their operations to the usual extent. All the panics upon record have arisen from the abstraction of:gold in unusual quantities, and have been cured by the issue of a corresponding amount of paper. Sir R.• PEEL has, however, instructed us in the currency, contracting it when gold is scarce, and expanding it when gold is abundant. The nation has, however, paid deady for this instruction. Letters from Copenhagen of the 18th state that on that day the life of the King of DSNMARIL was despaired of. Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 6th, Athena to the 9th, and Smyrna to the 7th instant. The friendly relations between Turkey and Greece had been resumed. M. MUSSURUS was about to leave Constantinople for Athens. He had his audience of leave of the SULTAN on the 33. He is to proceed to Athens in a Turkish frigate.,GLAzaxis, the Greek Mi nister for Foreign Affairs, has addressed a note to the representatives of the five Great Powers at Athens. in which he denies that any shots were fired at Patras at her MA3EsTr's ship Spitfire. The Contemporaneo of Rome of the 16th mentions a report that the Neapolitan General, LANDY, who is at Messina, had opened a dispatch of the English Embassy at Naples, and that the Ambassador was about to demand reparation, and the dismissal of General LANDY. Letters from Naples of a subse quent date, say that the Neapolitan Government has acceded to the demands of the English Ambassador, and that General LANDY has been dismissed. It is said that Calabria and Salerno are in open revolt. A letter from Turin of the 20th announces that in consequence of the events at Leghorn, the advoca‘es PELLEGRINI, LzonoaN, and Bisio, have been arrested at Genoa. The papers s?ized at their residences prove, it is said, that they acted in concert with the advocate GUERRAZZI, promoters of the late disturb ances at Leghorn, and with the chiefs of the Young Italy party in foreign countries. A letter from Civita Vecchia, of Jan. 16, says— " The inhabitants of Palermo in the outbreak of the 12th fought from four o'clock to eleven, and proved victorious; several soldiers were killed; and the arrival of the inhabitants of the surrounding country decided the troops to retire, and shut them selves up in the forts ; a provisional government wak, appointed. The English Minister at Naples sent his yacht to Cagliari, where the English squadron is now lying, with orders to send two frigates to Palermo and two to Naples, to protect the English residents. A revolutionary proclamation has been circulated at Rome, but it produced no effect. It was considered as an act on the part of the enemies of the present progress. It is confidently asserted that the Council of Ministers has approved of the regulations of the Consulta, relative to the publicity of voting and to the publication of the proceedings at the sitting The Consulta is at present busy in preparing an address to the Roman people for the arming of the State." The Swiss Diet met on the 22d. No opposition will take place to the revision of the Federal Pact. The Courrier Suisse announces that on Sunday, the 16th, the people of Zug accepted the new consti tution by a majority of 1,206 to 663 votes, or just two to one. In Lucerne the Grand Council is pur suing its discussions on the project of constitutional reform. It has decided, amongst other things, to reduce the number of Councillors of State to nine (from eleven), and to substitute the departmental for the collegial system, as at Berne. Several of the Swiss Jesuits have attempted to take refuge in Bavaria, but the KING has issued orders forbidding them to remain longer than three days in his dominions. It is said that Prussia and Austria have proposed to blockade Switzerland. Wirtemberg and Baden concur in the proposal, but Bavaria opposes it strongly. Letters have been received from Vienna, which con vey important intelligence. For the first time during the whole of his official career Prince MErrxxxicu has received a check. He has been opposed in the Council of State and outvoted—METTERNICE wished to carry things with a high hand in Lombardy. He would hear of no concessions being made, insisted on punishing severely the authors of the movement, and wished to remove the Archduke RAINER from the Go vernorship, as too much inclined to concessions, and too feeble to be trusted with the cares of government in troublous times. He proposed also to increase the army to 100,000 men, and to make the young Duke ALBERT, a rash, headstrong, high-spirited, but imprudent, and by no means talented, young man, Governor of Lombardy, in the place of the Archduke RAINER. Those propositions were strenuously op posed by Count KoLowEAT, who has long been the rival of METTERNICH, and by the:Archduke Lours; and for the first time in his life' MET.. TERNIC R was compelled to give way. In stead of adopting his propositions, the Council of State resolved to dispatch Captain MAYER to the Archduke RAINER, recommending him to exhibit more energy against the leaders of the late move• ment, but at the same time sanctioning his proposi tions for introducing certain reforms into the Ad ministration of the country. A number of German functionaries at Milan are to be removed, and to be replaced by natives, and the provincial congregations of Lombardy are to be permitted to address their grievance s direct to the EMPEROR. As if to render this check for Prince METTERNICH the more marked, the EMPEROR has addressed a most flattering letter to Count KOLOWEAT, and has conferred on him the grand cross of the Order of Si. Stephen. It is con sidered that after this there will be no more talk of Austrian intervention in Switzerland. The chief supporter of 'an armed intervention was Prince MET TERNICH, and the threat of the Swiss Diet to march an army into Lombardy, in the event of Austrian intervention in the affairs of the republic, has opened the eyes of the more prudent members of the Aus trian Cabinet to the dangers by which they are surrounded. Madrid papers of the 19th, have arrived. The influenza seems to have brought everything to a stand-still in that city. Four members of the Cabinet, viz., NARYAEZ, SOTOMAYOR, BELTRAN DE Lis, and SARTORIUS, are confined to their beds, and 122 persons have died of it in one single day in Madrid. The Moderado candidate has been returned for Santiago. The Duke of GLUCKSEURGEI and the Danish and American Ministers have called on General Es- VARTERO. MADRID BOLSI., JAN. 19.—The Three per Cents. were done at 27f at fifty days ; the Five: per Cents., at 16 13-16 for cash, and at 17 at fifty days; the Debt without Interest at 51 for paper; and the Coupons at 41f for cash. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1848. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, tj 11 A R:TE R TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, 1 only 2,000 bales being sold at about the previous rates. Railway Shares were quiet. We have no intelligence yet of the West India mail. The accounts received from the Continent attract considerable attention here, and there is more anxiety respecting the affairs of Italy, and the policy that will be pursued by Austria, which, as long as Prince Met- I ternich rules, is not likely to be of a yielding character, The letters *inn the manufacturing districts are not of a satisfactory tenor, and there is evidently much depression in trade. This will restrict the consumption of excisable articles, and affect the revenue, though it may render money cheaper than ever. The Funds are much the same as they were yesterday afternoon, with a moderate business doing. Prices opened better, but have gone back a little since. Consols were 884 to 89 1 4 for transfer, since lifq to 89, and are now 88i to 894. For January the rates are also 884 to 894. Exchequer-bills have realised 275. to 30s. pre mium, and India Bonds 20s. to 235. premium, Bank Stock keeps at 1983 to 200, and India Stock at 2394. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 894 to 90k, and the Three per Cents. 89 to 4. The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Spanish Bonds aro merely nominal. Portuguese Four per Gent. Stock has been quoted 26, and Brazilian Small 843. Danish Bonds have been 834 to 844, Belgian Four-and , a-Half per Cents. 91, and Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 534 to 544. Railway Shares are upon the whole rather firmer again, but business is by no means animated. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5........... 89% 89 3 per Cent. Consols Anns.. ........ _BB% 85% 88 3 4 $9 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus. 944 Wi 90% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8 15-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8 11-16 % India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 Ditto under 1,0001 South Sea Stock 97% Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account 89 883 k 89% 88% Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 500/. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cen t B 3 l /2 84 Mexican 80w,!..5, 1846, 5 per Cent lB Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 26 Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable iu London. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 537i 54% 53 3 / 4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ROSINESS DONh IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PIS SIIAAN• Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — to Ayrshire and (willow ay • 2%. Belfast and Ccunty Down .. 10 .. Birmingham & Oxford June-. 20 Birmingham, Dudley 10 ... . Binning., %Vol., & Stour Val. 10/.145.... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction 7 3% Boston, Starlit, & Birming... 5 Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire l2l. 4s — ..... to Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares 3 34— .. to Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50. Chester and . Holyhead-- ... 37%..... 20 Ditto, Preference Clarence. Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent lO Do., 2d Class; 5 per Cent... 10 . . . Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmou'h 3% — to Dublin and Belf.4st Junction.. 2.5 - Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 17% — to East Anglia, 251. L. & E., aad L. & D. Ditto, 18/., E. &H lll ...... Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H 2 ...... ...... to Eastern,Counties Ditto, ditto (B) Do. l'erpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 135.4 d... Do., d 0....... N 0.2,6/. 135.4 d... par Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., Quarter ... ..... 12%... Do., New East ersn Union. 5O Ditto, Quarter Sha_es ...... 12% — to Ditto., Thirds .. ......... ...13s. 4d — ...... to Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... 10 . — East Lancashire Ditto, New - De., New Quarters East Lincolnshire 12v2...... 13 - Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — . . to Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Edinburgh end Northern ... 22% — Ditto, New..... ... ..... ...... _3% — ...... to Ditto, New po-t l 2. - ...... to Ditto, ditto, New 24 - ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% • Ditto, New . Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-8/. 648 d... .., to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. l /. Shares(s per ct.gua.) 12% ..... ..... to Great Nel them ... 10% 4% to Do. Loudon et York Exten. 2% — ... .. to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 37% Great North •f England 100 235 Ditto, N 1 w 40/ 5 Ditto, New 301 ...... 30 ... .. 71 1 4 .. ... to 70% Ditto, New 151 Great Western Ditto, Halt Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares . 17% 1 9 3 / 4 1 4 3 /4 to Ditto, Fifths Do. New 171 Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. ... Dittc, Thirds... 8 Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17% B% to Do. do. and Norwich - - Do., de., Extension Scrip (late (Carob. and Ely) 2%...... ~..„ to Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds lO - Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters 14%...... 12 Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ......................64 ...... to Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.4 s — Do. Liverpool and Bury... 38 Do. (Huddera. and Shetf.) 33 Do., W aketield, Pontefract, and Goole 47% Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2a..... Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 Ditto ditto ..............(B) 1!‘ Leeds and Bradtord - Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches 42% to Do., Branch % Shares l2l, . ..... ...... to Ditto, New Branch (blue) 2% Ditto, Extension (green)... 2 1 / 2 — Do., Now Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to Leeds and Thirsk ...—... ...... 36 Ditto, New 110., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... Liverpool. Crosby, and South port. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% ...... to -- London P3r Blackwall ...131.65. 8d 5% to Ditto New, No. 1.. Ditto New, No. 2 4/. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ..... 43% to 424 Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...... Do. Pref. CODY. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... Ditto Preference .........181 17s 2d... London & North Western.....loo 152 Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 22 Do. do. New ..—.. .... ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ... G. J. 25 Do. 40/. Shares.....L. & M. 15 Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 ...... 61 Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7%. .... Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% — ' to Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western.... 41.. 6s 8d... Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40 Ditto New 504 . .... 32 1 / 2 .. 29% to Ditto New 401. ........ - .. 26 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 Ditto, Thirds 81.65. 8d ... London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — ...... to Londonderry and Coleraine... 27% — ......so Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 3 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 7% ...... Ditto Grimsby 25 — to Ditto, ditt0....... 7 Ditto, ditto ... 4% — to Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%.. .. .. M anc h es t era nd Southampton " 24 — ... to Mithand 100 ll6 ... .. to Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto, 40/. Shares Ditto, 504 Shares... Midland, Birm., and Derby...100 _. Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.... 100 126 Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 36 Ditto ditto 11/. 33.6 d. .. - Midland, L&ces. and Swan siington (8 per ct.gna.)....100 .... . NI idld. Great,W estern (Irish) 35 Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... __ Ditto Quarter Shares ------ Newmarket and Chesterford 1/1 1 Ditto Extension - Newport Abergy., and lieref. 6 Norfolk ,.... • 100 Ditto New 201 Ditto Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, N. of Norflk 2 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 Newry and Enniskillen N every, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor _letthern Counties Union - to - North British Ditw Irish' Shane. " .. 12 % .... 12 !-4 —... to -- We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. There was a grand reception at the Tuileries by the QUEEN on Monday, the first that has taken place since the death of the Princess ADELAIDE. All the Royal Family were present, and among the distin guished personages assembled to pay their respects to her Majesty the Queen of the FRENCH, was the Count of SYRACUSE, the brother of the King of NAPLES. All the Foreign Ambassadors attended. The discussion on the second paragraph of the Ad dress, which relates to the financial condition of the country, was commenced on Monday, continued on Tuesday, and had not finished when the post . left. The debate was commenced by M. DE LEYSTERIE, who after denouncing the system of constant loan contracting, alluded to the large reforms which had been last year promised in the salt duties and in the postage on letters, and observed that' the gravity of the present financial position would only permit trifling changes to be effected. Since 1840 the present Ministry had expended 2,400,000 francs more than the ordinary 'budget had amounted to when they had entered on affairs. When anything was said against such a lavish expenditure, what was the answer ? " Look at the railways !" But how much had that great source of expenditure called for ? Not more than 550 millions. Out of the rest not less than 1,400,000,000 f. had been expended in augmentation of salaries and extraordinary expenses of various kinds. The Minister of Finance defended the conduct of the Government, and while admitting the existence of a very serious deficit expressed a hope that the time would come when the deficit would he covered, and the receipts would equal the expenditure. The debate was resumed on Tuesday by M. FOULD, who declared that the financial condition of the country had been getting worse year after year ever since the accession of the present Cabinet to office. This brought up the Minister of Finance to complain of the exaggerations of the preceding speaker, and then M. T BIERS rose and declared that in his opinion the financial condition of the country was not such as to warrant the hopes held out by the Government ; but that, on the contrary, it was surrounded by difficulties. The Hon. Deputy was speaking at the hour the post left. There were various rumours rife in Paris on the subject of the affairs of Naples. One rumour which was current in the Chamber of Deputies, and which obtained extensive credit among the Mem bers, was, that on the withdrawal of the troops from Naples to Palermo, a revolution had broken out in Naples, which had been completely successful, and that the King of NArLss had been compelled to take refuge on board a British ship of war. The Presse states that a dispatch had been received from the King of SWEDEN, warmly complaining that as one of the parties of the treaties of Vienna, he had not been invited to •take part in the negotiations opened by France with the three northern Powers, on the subject of Switzerland. The Moniteur publishea the returns of the imports and exports of France in 1847. The Customs duties exhibit a diminution of 19,841,178 f., as com pared with those of 1846, having only amounted to 124,117,730 f. The number of French vessels which entered the harbours of France in 1847 was 7,836, measuring 916,951 tons; the foreign vessels, 13,303, measuring 1,896,938 tons : in all 21,139 vessels and 2,813,889 tons. The French vessels which cleared in 1847 were 5,425, measuring 674,341 tons; the foreign vessels 7,514, measuring 825,720 tons : in all 12,939 vessels and 1,500,061 tons. As compared with the naviga tion of 1846, there was a decrease in 1847 of 348 in the number of French vessels which entered the har bours of France, but an increase of 37,143 tons; and an augmentation of 1,190 in that of foreign vessels, and of 216,648 tons. The number of French vessels which sailed from France also pre sent a diminution of 170, whilst the foreign increased by 891. Four companies have made application for the con cession of the Lyons and Avignon Railroad. They are the Paris and Lyons Company ; the company formed by Messrs. LAFFITTE, BLOUNT, and Co.; that formed by Messrs. BLAQUE, CEARTAIN, and DROUIL LARD; and the Marseilles and Avignon Company, which last, however, requires only the line from Avignon to Valence. The Lyons Company calls upon the Ministry to adopt the line of the left bank of the Rhone. Messrs. LAFFITTE, BLOUNT, and Co., for the right bank, with private arrangements for following, as far as Gisors, the St. Etienne line, and having at Lyons a station in common with that railway. M. DROUILLARD, who is the owner of large iron works, which would probably be called upon to furnish supplies to his com pany, is also for the right bank, but, as his con ditions, he demands the giving up as a subvention of the deposits paid to the Government by the old com pany of Lyons to Avignon, augmented by those of the Bordeaux to Cette and Fampoux to Haaebrouck companies, the shareholders of which would be ad mitted into his company, and the amount to which each would be entitled, if his share of the deposit were to be restored, could be taken on account of a first instalment upon their shares. The Marseilles Company proposes to follow the left bank, and to adapt the plans already prepared for it. It is quite ready to undertake the work at once, and the recent completion a.the section from Avignon to Valence would enable it to turn to account the implements, &c., which were used for the making of the Avignon to Valence - section. On one point all the competitors are agreed, via, calling upon the State to gUarantee a certain rate of interest upon the capital to be em- ployed. The Prince and Princess DE JOINVILLE are to embark immediately on board the steamship Cuvier, for Algiers. The alleged reason of this visit is the health of the Princess (by birth a Brazilian), who suffers much from the intense cold which prevails in Paris during the winter months. Don ENRIQUE and his consort left Bayonne on the 21st for Toulouse. Three per Cents. for cash, closed on the Paris Bourse yesterday at 73f. 70c. ; the New Loan. 74f. 7'sc. ; Five per Cents., 115 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,171 f. 25c.; Rouen, 892 f. 50c.; Havre, 4421. 50c. ; Great Northern, 5271. 50c. ; Avignon, 552 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 505 f. ; Bordeaux, 472 f. 50e. ; Boulogne, 3651. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Tcurs and Nantes, 385 f.; Paris and Lyons, 391 f. 25c. MARSEILLES.—MarseiIIes and Avignon, 5441. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. JAN. 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 13 , 4—East Indian, 34—Northern of France, NlX—Orleans and Bordeaux, s—Paris and Lyons, 5%. SUDDEN DEATH OP A LICENSED VICTUALLER.— Mr. Baker held an inquest this day on the body of Mr. Thomas Betts, landlord of the Marquis of Lansdowne Tavern, Thomas -street, Kingsland-road. It app( ared that Mr. Betts, had for some few days past complained of slight indisposition, but continued as usual to attend to his business. On Sunday night he retired to rest with his wife, at about a quarter past twelve, but had not been many seconds in bed when he ejaculated, " 0 my God," and died. Mr. Wallis, surgeon, of the Hackney road, was instantly sent for, and promptly arrived, but life was found to be - quite extinct. The deceased had died from an affection of-the heart. The jury, returned a vsrdict in accordance with the . testimony given. The deceased, who was deservedly much respected, has left le wife and nine children to deplore their Lem Do. Quarters 4 3 /4 — to Ditto. Extension Ditto Thirds .... ........ ...... 2 ....„ North Staffordshire... .. ...... 10 North Wales 3% -- ..... to North Western . 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol , • verhampton Reading, Guildfd., .fc Reigate 7k Royston and Hitchin ... Scottish Central Sc. ttish Midland .... ... 20 Ditto. New... Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goble 5 ...... . to _ :t.hrewsbury and Birmingham 7 Ditto, CU., Class B. 4 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ~.. _ Ditto Halves, ' Ditto 8 ... .• . ... to Ditto, Oswestry l2 Ditto (New) 1 Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2 ' — ...... to Shropshire Union South Devon ....... ...... - to Ditto. Preference 2O ...... -- - South Staffordshire 4 South Eastern and Dover 33 1 Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, N 0.2 Ditto, New, No. 3 ... 20 Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 71,4 — ... .. to Loth Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's•Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 l'harkies Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1,4 — Taw Vale Extension Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 1 3 14...... - Waterford and Limerick..... 40 ... .. _ Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw, and Dublin West Cornwall Nhitehaven and Furness l2 ... .. Windsor, Staines, and South Western ...... 525. - ..... to Wilts,Somerset,&Weymonth 80 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 34 3 4 to Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. ... ill 1 4 Do. North Shields Putcllase 25 .. ... Do. Exten.No.l (T. & N.) 15 19 1 ,4 to 19 Do. de. N.. 2, New & B. It Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 3 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference Ditto East and West Riding Extension ...... ... .. .. . ... 25 FOREIGN RAILWATh. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ..... 13 3 / to Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Central of Spain Ceylon ... fia. Demerara. ..........- ........ ... i Dendre Valley Direct Bombay and Madras is. .... . Dutch Rhenish -- East Indian - Great Indian Peninsular bs. •••••• -- ...... to --. Italian and Aastrian Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 - Louvain Ala Sambre Luxembourg Lyons and Avignon (Con stituted) Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege......... l6 ...... 67i ... . to Northern of France. lll ...... Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 Over Yssel 4l3s 4d...... .. .., to rants and Lyons rams and Orleans Paris and Rouen .. Paris & Strasbourg ..... ...... 8 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Meuse zdvasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... Tournay, Jurbise, Landon, and ilasselt _. . West Flanders 81 4 - ...... t; JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American .... 50 Colonial Commercial of London London Joint Stock , lO London and Westminster... 21 National Provincial of lined. 55 Ditto, New National of Ireland provincial of Ireland Ditto, New lO Union of Australia Ditto, New 2% to Union of London ... 111 Union of Madrid MINES. Anglo Mexican lOO — Astrian Mining Company ... 11 ...... Australian Blacnarvon Iron and Coal ... be Bolanes Scrip Britiale Iron ttazilian Iraperiel ..... 24 7 Galvanized Iron . Ditto, New Real otol Monte, Unrorcietoreel .... 130 t o COURSE OF EXCHANGB. Amster !am •• •• 12 5% Mbraltar.. •• ......•• Dlt.o, at sight ••.... 12 2 Leghorn.... Rottcrdain ••.... 12 6 Genoa ............ •• 26 10 26 10 Milan ................ ilamhurgh ......M.B. 13 15U Venice........ •• .. .... Altona • • ........ •• Naples .............. Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 GO Palermo, per 0z.... Ditto, • . •........... 25 95 Lisbon.— Marseilles •..•• • • • .... 2G 6 Oporto •..... .. 26 10 Rio Janeiro .....• •• Frankfort on Maine 123% Bahia ................ Petersburgh, Sil. Itble • • Buenos Ayres ........ Berlin • • New York, 21 ditys'sight Vienna, effec. ilo •• .. 10 19 Philadelphia .... • • .... Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 28 PIICEB Or BULLION, PIR OZ. Madrid 46 3 4 Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9 Cadiz ............. 48 New Dollars .... •• • 4 9 1 4 Portnal Gold Coln • o' Barcelona •• •• • • •• •• •. 5ay(11e........ •. •• ••.. Spanish Doublooni .. Silyer hit bars ........ 0 4 LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind E. by N., fresh gale and squally; fr,'st. PLY3IOUTII, JAN. 25.—Wind N.E. Arrd. 'Venus, Holm, St. Domingo, for Copenhagen; Osiris, Da Jonge, Batavia; Franklin, Abbott, Mauritius ; Cordova, Cline, Va'paraiio, for Havre ; Magdalena, Andrew, Rio Janeiro, for Harnburgh ; Mungo Park, Leask, St. John's, New Brunswick, for Aberdeen. Sid. Wm. Stuart, Port Philip. FOwEY, JAN. 24,—Wrind N.E.—Arrd. Mary Ellen, Inglis, Mauritius. FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind E.N.E., strong.—Arrd. Vrienchap, Schuchard, Batavia. Off port, Edouard, Batavitl. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.—Wind E.—Arrd. Druid, Lynch, Sydney. Sld. Richard, New Orleans ; Majestic, Calcutta ; Kathleen, Blampoed, Africa ; William Rush ton, Vera Cruz ; Magistrate, Mobile ; Champion, Phi ladelphia ; Emigrant, Baltimore. Off port, Blythwood, Callao. The Princess Helene, Carruthers, drove foul of the Martin Luther in Madras Roads, 6th ult., and both received damage ; the former put out to sea. The George and Francis on West Hoyle, Bth inst., has been raised and taken into Harpake. CORK, JAN. 23.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Sarah, of Liver pool, Callao. GLAWOW, JAN. 25.—The Maid of the Mill, Trinidad to the Clyde, on shore in Cloughy Buy, 23d inst., in a dense fog. ARDROSSAN, JAN. 22.—The Senach Mary, of Ram say, has been got off Sjltcoats, with little damage. On' PLYMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Elizabeth, Muir, Calcutta. NEWPoRT, JAN. 2.5. Wind N.E.—Arrd. 23d, Chris topher Columbus, Trick, New York; 25th, Chieftain, Scott, Singapore. PORT TALBOT, JAN. 23.—Wind S.E.—Shl. 24th, Monmouth, Evans, St. Thomas. Arrd. Clyde, 24th, Rolla, Watson, Nassau, N.P. DUBLIN, JAN. 22.—Arrd. Sarah, St. John's. FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—The Lawsons, Ewart, from Taganrof, arrived here to day, with part of cargo thrown overboard, having been on shorn near Trapane. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY On the whole a fair average quantity of English Wheat has come to hand this week coastwise, and by land carriage. The show of samples to-day somewhat exceeded the wants of the buyers. The finest qualities were in moderate request at full prices, but the middling and inferior kinds were a slow sale. No foreign Wheat has arrived since Monday. That grain moved off slowly, yet previous rates were well supported. Barley, the supply of which was moderate, was in fair request at last week's quotations. In Malt next to nothing was doing, and prices were almost nominal. Oats, B eans' and Peas, as well as m ost other articles, includin g Fl our' were very dull, I Wheat. English .. Irish. ..... • •• Foreign ARRIVALS. IBarloy. 2,970 Irv. Oat,. I Flow. !?20 qrs. I 2,8h0 sk6 '4- 970 I 3,960 Malt. 1,851 (are. WHITECHAPEIL. We hail a very firm trade this morning, and prices had an upward tendency. Beef from 8s 4d to 46 4d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 46 6d; 'Veal, 4s 4d to bs 4d; and Purk, 33 8d to 5s 2d per 811,3 by the carcase. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY) The Lord Chancellor sat to-day at elered o'clock. COONE P. LOWNDES.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which was argued a considerable time since upon appeal. The case is totally devoid of any in terest, except to the parties concerned, and the ques tion relating to the law respecting copyhold estates. His Lordship directed a reference to the Master. DAVIS V. CHANTER..- - JUDGM ENT. His LonDsuir also gave judgment in this case, which came before the Court upwards of twelve months ago upon appeal from the judgment of the Vice Chancellor of England. The chief portion of the case was whether limited letters of administration were sufficient to pass property. The original bill was fi'.2d in the year 1834, upon which a decree was pro nounced in 1837. A supplemental bill was subse quently filed, and proceedings taken in the Ecclesi astical Court. Upon that bill coming before the Vice-Chancellor of England, his Honour thought the parties were not sufficiently represented, and ordered the case to stand over, allowing the appellant to renew the hill, and from that order the parties ap pealed. His Lordship thought the estate was suffi-. ciently represented in the supplemental bill, and reversed the Vice-Chancellor's decision. KIRK V. THE BROAILEY lINION.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment ir this case, which came before his Lordship some time since, upon an appeal from the deci• sion of the Vice-Chancellor, overruling a demurrer put in by the defendants to the plaintiff's bill. The bill was filed by the architect of the Union Work house at Bromley, to compel the guardians of the poor of the union to pay him for certain alterations in the original plan, made at their express suggestion, and through the interference and desire - of their agents. By the contract between the partie3 it was expressly stipulated that no alterations in, or deviations from, the original plan, were to be, paid for unless.the in structions for that purpose Were given to the plaintiff in writing. The plaintiff by his bill alleged, that the instructions given for the alterations in question were tantamount to a written order, and that although he could wit recover for them at law, he had an equitable claim which the Court would enforce. The Vice- Chancellor thought there was a fidr.eqtitable- claim, and directed the defendants to answer; and from that judgment the defendants appealed to the Lord % Chan& cellor. His Lordship was clearly of opiniOn that the overruling of the demurrer by the Vice-Chancellor was wrong, and ordered that judgment to be reverted, and the demurrer allowed. This judgment has the effect of putting the plain. tiff's bill out of court. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. TAB BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY COMPANY. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal motion were then resumed, and occupied the Court the remainder of the day. SECONDARIES'.--('HIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) LOSSES ON RAILWAY SHARES.-OLDUAII ii. RIDOR. The plaintiff in this action is a sharebroker at Manchester, and the defendant is also a sharebroker in the City. Tho claim was for 461. 17s. 6d., the difference on sale of fifty shares in the North' Staf fordshire Railway Company, the shares haring been purchased by plaintiff at the request of the defendant, but which defendant afterwards refused to accept, and 11. 16s. 6d. for commission on the original purchase. The defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, it was only necessary to prove the value and resale of the shares. Mr. Jes. E. Oldham, the son to the plaintiff, was called, and proved that, a letter was reoeifedlrom the defendant, dated the 4th of September, 1646; re• questing the purchase of the shares mentioned, and they were accordingly bought, at a premium, for 4961. 17s. 6d. Defendant not taking them up, they were resold at a loss of 461. 17:, 6d. The Learned SECONDARY directed the jury that the plaintiff was entitled to the full amount of bis claim; and a verdict for 481. 15s. was accordingly entered. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) George James, a private in the Royal Artillery, was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with steal ing a silver watch, and a picture, the property of his uncle, James Boxam, King's Mews, South-street, Grosvenor-square. It appeared that the prisoner was on a furlough in the month of December last, and was staying at the prosecutor's. On the 22d of that month, while the prosecutor was in bed, the prisoner took the -isptor tunity of stealing a silver watch, and a pi c tu re , Aith which he decamped. Information was forwarded to the police with a description of the prisoner, and last night he was taken into custody. Police-sergeant John Gray, 10 C, said he took the prisoner into custody yesterday evening at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. He told him of the nature of the charge against him, when he (prisoner) admitted stealing the articles, and said ha had pledged the watch for eighteen shillings, and sold the ticket for three shillings. The picture he had sold to a publican for three shillings. 'The prisoner, who admitted the charge, was' re manded. 39;4 1181 4 Al% FLANDERS MAIL. Biel:mm.B, JAN. 24.—During the week, from 15th to 20th January, there entered into tiv port of Antwerp not a single vessel laden with corn. His Majesty has received from the King of Wur temburg a letter, announcing the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, consort of Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, in consequence of which his Majesty has put on mourning for eight days, dating from the 22d January. The funeral of Count Von Rodenback, who expired suddenly, ifrom an attack of apoplexy, in a coffee house, a few days ago, took place yesterday after noon with great solemnity, amidst an immense con course of spectators. A' funeral oration was delivered, speaking in high terms of this hero of national inde pendence, who was at the head of the Flemish volun teers, and who was devoted to the welfare of his country. ANI;VERP.—The mortality here, as in other places, has been excessive, as compered with that cf pre ceding years. The report of the week; from the 15th to the 21st instant, announce 81 deaths and only 51 births, being an eess of 30 deaths. The Messenger states that the mortality in Ghent, from the Ist to the 22d of this month, exceeds the number of births by nearly one half. During these 22 days there have been 318 deaths and 188 births. In the civil hospital especially the mortality is fearfully great. If this state of things continues it might not be difficult to point out the time of the total extinction of the popu lation of our city. HAsimineti.—The Hamburgh Allow Telegraph, during the year 1847, announced the arrival of 3,847 vessels, viz. 27 from the East Indies, 130 West Indies, 64 South America, 114 Brazils, 39 North America, 14 Africa, 7 Canary Islands, 50 Spain, 22 Portugal, 56 Mediterranean, 115 F rance , 1,665 Great Britain and Ireland, 101 Belgian, 343 Holland, 334 Bremen and Weser, 86, Denmark and the coasts of the North Sea, 88 Sweden and Norway, 8 whalers and seal vessels, and 411 steamers.—Brussels Papers, Jan. 24. DUTCH PAPERS. THE lIAGoz, JAN. 19.—111 s Alajesty yesterday granted a private audience to Chevalier de Brazo, • Chamberlain to her Majesty the Queen of Spain. This diplomatist placed in the hands of his Majesty his letters of credence, which accredited him resident Minister of the Queen of Spain at the Court of the Netherlands. His Majesty has granted permi.sion for wearing the different orders sent by the King of Sweden and Norway to Lieutenant-General de la Serraz, Minis ter of State to the Counsellors of Legation ; to M., J. F. Mazel, Secretary in the Department of Foreigh Affairs ; and to M. C. Clerk, of the same department. JAN. 20.—The anniversary of the birthday of his Majesty was celebrated with much festivity. All the troops of the garrisons were exercised. There was a family dejeuner and dinner at the Palace Noordeinde, and a gala ball in the evening. The illuminations were very beautiful, especially that by gas outside the Palace; and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the streets were crowded. The Government has just published its budget of receipts and expenses for the year 1848. The extra ordinary receipts amount to 11.67,734 96, and the ordinary revenues are estimated at 11.721,648 87, making a total of f 1.780,685 24. Thus the budget for 1848 presents a surplus of fl 8,698 61k. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 21.—Yesterday a new steamer was launched here, from the docks of Messrs. Paul, of Flushing, and D or d ro k, o f H a ll, f or th e use o f t h e steam-boat company, to be employed in towing vessels on the Rhine, between Frankfort and the towns on the Upper Rhine. It was a most singular and interesting sight to see two vessels launched at this season of the year, notwithstanding the in clemency of the weather. The river was covered with ice, and it was a curious spectacle to see the steamer launched into the basin, the ice of which had been previously broken up, and which had thug been rendend navigable. THE HAGUE, JAN. 20.—The anniversary of the birth of her august Majesty our beloved Queen, was celebrated here with every usual demonstration of loyalty. All the troops in garrison were reviewed, and a grand entertainment was given at Court. There was a brilliant, gay illumination, in the evening, and, in spite of the intense cold, the streets were crowded, and every one participated in the general feelings of joy at the auspicious anniversary of the birthday of a Queen who, by her great benevolence, has endeared herself to her people, and whose name is blessed by all the poor and afflicted. CASSEL, JAN. 11.—The so-called modification oom mission for the alteration of the constitution is again to be dissolved. Hence it is probable that the constitution will remain as it was. After a long discussion to-day, the States did not arrive at a eon• elusion as to the admission of the second deputy from the Residence to the Diet, M. V. Waltz, of Escheu. 'she sitting was broken up after a very stormy debate, and the continuation and conclusion Will probably take place at the next sitting. HILDESHEIM DASSAL, JAN. 12.—Yesterday even ing, at half-past nine, a fearful fire broke out at Dassal, in the principality of Hildesheim, which, in the course of a few hours, destroyed 24 dwellings, besides outhouses and barns. There was no possibi hility of extinguishing the fire as the water froze in the pipes. —Dutch Papers. A SHORT BUT SENSIBLE PETITION.—The follow ing petition to the House of Commons is at present in the course of signature in Zetlund :—" That your peti tioners profess the religion of Christ, which enjoins upon them, as one of tho principal duties, to do unto others as they would that others would do unto them. That to exclude from any civil rights any of their fellow subjects, who conduct themselves as good mem bers of society, and contribute their fair proportion to the burdens of the State, merely because they worship God in that mode in which they have been educated and consider to be right, is not to treat others as we would that others should treat us, and is therefore unchristlau to well se tuJuit."—lnverness Courier.