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Nbw ready, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, SAIL SLICK'S NEW WORK, VIE OLD JUDGE ; _ _ _ Or, Life in a Colony. l'Fnll of the Cloekmaker's shrewdness and quaint comlealities."— Examiner. " The style of Judge Haliburton is as familiar to us now in England as Is that of Dickens or Thackeray. The Old Judge contains some admirable flm."—Weekly Chronicle. "There is a flind of wit and wisdom in these amusing volumes. They abound in lively salies, capital sketches of men and manners, Sam Interesting narratives, and amusing an ecdotes, all given in Slick's attractive aid inimitable manner."—Sun. Henri Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 31ariborough-street. NEW NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF " EMILIA WYNDHAM." Immediately. in 3 vols., post BTo., MORD AIJNT HALL; • By t OR, AP he A u thor TEBER of NIGHT. " EMILIA WYNDI A 31," "ANGELA," Ste. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NTLEY S CABINET LIBRARY. In neat Volumes, price Half-a-Crown, Nos. VI. and VII. con tain WHAT I SAW IN CALIFORNIA. 416 Pages. By EDWIN BRYAN T. The Public are requested, in ordering the above work, to ask for " Bentley's Cabinet Library," which contains the only unabridged • Edition of this work. The other Numbers published, contain:— I. The CLOCKMAKER. Ist Series. IL The CLOCKMAKER. 2d Series. 111. The CLOCKMAKER. 3d Series. IV. SEALY'S CHINESE LEGENDS. V. MAXWELL'S CZAR, his COURT and PEOPLE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). RAILWAY. SHARES.—ALTERATION OF PI7BLIC SALES. MESSRS. WILLIAM LAMOND and Co., respectffilly announce that their PUBLIC SALES of RAIL WAY SHARES, &c„ Will take place FORTNIGHTLY this month. The next Sale will take rllaee on Wm:muses - 1 . , the 31st instant, at One o'clock, at their Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle sareet, and will comprise various Lots in all the leading Railway Companies. Messrs. WILLIAM LAMOND and CO. continue daily to act as Stock and Share Sworn Brokers in the Purchase and Sale. by Pri- Tate Contract, of English and Foreign StockS and Railway Shares, and other Property. Threadneedle-street. London, January 19, 1849. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. EVERY EVENING. CHILDREN AT REDUCED PRICES. Extraordinary Performances of the Eqnestrian Troupe from the Cirque National de Paris. Commence at Eight o'clock. MORNING PERFORMANCES, EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. Doors open at Half-past One, commence at Two o'clock. The Performances will terminate about Five o'clock. wens OF ADMISSION. Dress Circle, 4s. Dress Boxes, as. Upper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Arena, and Promenade, Is. 6d. Lower Gallery, Is. Children, under twelve years of age, 8111 be admitted at the fol lowing reduced prices : Drees Circle, 2s. 6d. Dress Boxes, 2s. Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Pit, Arena, and Promenade, Is. Lower Gallery, 6d. - Tickets to be had of Mr. O'Reilly, at the Box-office ; and at Jellien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock, with LE NOUVEAU SEIGNEUR DE VILLAGE. To conclude with the popular Opera Comique, entitled LE DOMINO NOIR. Horace, M. Coudere ; Angele, 11dlle. Charton. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis istoa are determined as follows: — Boxes .. • • ss. •• •• •• Od. Pit • • • • .• •, .. 3s. Od . Amphitheatre .. • • 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's - Maya' Library. 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ! and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. u. 6AT ft tr. ROYAL, 11.1.YMARILI. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Bromptoi. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, usdergone very extensive repairs amid alterations and the while re-decorated. THIS EVENING. Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs Warner ; Ophelia, Mrs. C. Kean. Alter which, an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Frinee. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Morten, and Miss Reynolds. TIIEATRB ROYAL, ADELPIII. r-nder the direction of Madame celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys bem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added t the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrmed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Itedlaw, Mr. Hughes : the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tetterby and Co , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin; Milly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet derby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith; Ariel, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. ROYAL LTCY.IIM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madam! VestriS. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mahe CS. TIIIS EVENI N , Will be perfbrmed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WE° SPEAKS FIRST ? After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, ealby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil- Ham, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with AN APPEAL r 0 THE PUBLIC. Dress isoxes, as.; Upper Boxes, As. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No half-price to any part of the house. The Sew 11°x-office, No. 2, Wellington' street, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATR , I. Mr. T. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a enperb and costly manner l•y 3lr liurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best armrizr men is have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and tho couuort and convenience of tlio audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled MARIE, THE FOUND LING OF THE LAKE. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF XING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Ilexmore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, M r. 'W. Batty. Vader the Patronage of her aj Mesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Metropolis.--A gorgeous Spectacle.—Miss Woolford on the Tight-rope.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena.--The Arabs in their wondrous Performances.—A new comic Pantomime. TII hi EVENING, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, The Fall of Jerusalem. After which, Miss Woolford on the Tight-rope. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin. Cess of Sherwood Forest. The Celebrated ARABS will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPON UN:AM. to communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. Reieewd communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE. JANUARY 19. THERNOMETBR, Lowest, 46; Highest, 47; Noon, 51. BAROMETER, 30.02. WtNt , fine weather. wa•rER AT LONDON BKLDOE. MIS DAT , rninr, 53 min. after 9 I Evening, 29 min. after 10 To-lioasow—Morning, 6:min. after 11 I Evening, 39 min. after 11 ..1 1 4v brtning ._7'l-'AtAts LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1849. The usual monthly meeting of the Liverpool Fi nancial Reform Association, being the last that will take p l a ce previous to the assembling of P ar li amen t, was held on Wednesday evening. A most cheering report was presented respecting the extraordi nary and almost unprecedented success that has attended the zealous and indefatigable labours of the commit tee and other members of the Association. A feeling has been excited throughout the entire country, which will never be abated until the just demands of th e people have been fully recognised by their representatives, whose especial and exclusive duty it is t o l eg i s l a t e on all questions relating to the national income and the national expenditure. The movementhas also spread throughout the s ister king dom, and Scotland is up and doing in the cause of economy and retrenchment. At Edinburgh a public meeting was held, under the presidency of the respected Lord Provost, who, by virtue of his high position as chief magistrate, w as peculiarly qualified to take the lead in a question of national importance. In Glasgow, Paisley, and other manufacturing towns, the work of financial reform goes bravely on. The admirable letter which Mr , J. MACGREGOR, the efficient representative of the electors of Glasgow, addressed to bis constituents has not been misapplied. The good seed that was then sown has not fallen upon barren ground, nor will it be suffered to lie waste or unproductive. Even in Ireland, poor unhappy Ireland, where the miseries and sufferings of the multitude might well occupy the attention of the more fortunate few, the tracts and publications of the association have been eagerly sought for, and extensively disseminated. Mr. BRODRIBB, in the course of his address, gave an interesting account of the progress of the move ment. At first the object was merely to obtain a re vision of the unjust and inequitable imposts on tea, which unduly increased the price of an article that has now become one of almost absolute necessity among nll classes. It was felt that the tax, averaging three to four hundred per cent. on the original value of the commodity, fell with peculiar weight upon. the industrious classes, prevented an increased consumption of a wholesome beverage and drove persons from their domestic enjoyments, to the less salutary atmosphere of public-houses and beer-shops. It also materially affected the local trade of the port of Liverpool, and retarded and impeded the due development of our commercial relations with China, which might be greatly extended if we would barter our ma nufactures for tea. For all these reasons, it was considered desirable that the notice of the Government should be directed to the subject. in order that the high duty on the article might be reduced. A meeting was accordingly held at Liver pool, on the 25th of November, 1846, at which the Mayor presided. A deputation was appointed to present a memorial, that had been adopted, to the Government. The remonstrances, were, however, disregarded. The only point of view, from which the Chancellor of the Exchequer could be induced to regard the question, was " how will it affect the revenue ?" The justice or injustice, expediency or inexpediency of the tax were all matters of secon dary consideration. Joni BULL is a taxpaying animal, and it is too ridiculous for him to object to any impost by which so many millions are brought into the Exchequer. This appeared a conclusive argument to our sagacious Minister of Finance, who treated the members of the deputation with the same contempt that he had been accustomed to exhibit towards all those who were not possessed of considerable Parliamentary influence and power to enforce a respectful and atten tive consideration of their demands, if not in the office of the Minister, within the walls of the House of Commons. Accordingly, not the slightest allusion to the subject was made in the financial statement that was submitted to Parliament. The associa tion, however, was not to be so easily silenced. The matter was brought before the House, and the result was the appointment of a special Committee to inquire into the circum stances of the case. After a close and protracted in vestigation that Committee made a report confirming in every respect the statements put forward by the deputation, and strongly recommending, for many reasons, the immediate reduction of the duty on tea to is. per pound. It was hoped that this report would have ensured the desired alteration. Another meeting of the associa tion was accordingly held in the month of January, 1848, and another deputation was appointed to pre sent another memorial to Ministers ; and again the representations of the gentlemen who attended were treated with almost silent contempt. They were told " that it resolved itself into a question of revenue." Ttis was the sum and substance of the only reply that was accorded. In the House of Commons the same course was adopted. Sir CHARLES WOOD ad mitted the hardship of the case ; he concurred in almost every position that the Hon. Gentlemen laid down. But, &c., &c., &c., and then the stereotyped answer was returned, " that indeed taxation was not a blessing, that the same arguments would applyto wine, to tobacco, in fact to all articles on which high duties were imposed—that in place of reducing taxa tion, he rather thought he should have to apply for additional sources of revenue." These arguments, which were so satisfactory to the Right Honourable Baronet, and to which he gave utterance with as much complacency and solemnity, as if they had been perfectly conclusive on the point, did not prove quite so convincing to the deputation. They re flected on the reasons advanced by the Minister, and easily perceived their futility—nay, they carried the matter further, and clearly perceived the necessity of a great and comprehensive change in the entire financial system of the country. Hence the origin of the Financial Reform Association, whose labours have already within a few weeks produced such bene ficial results. The objects of that association, and the means by which those objects are to be attained, are so clearly and accurately set forth by Mr. BRODRIBB in his impressive address, that we can not refrain from quoting his very words. "To unfetter industry," said the eloquent Gentleman, "to unfetter industry, and cheer despairing la bour, is its high vocation. Industry in her opera tions, and labour in its toil, must not be im peded with the weight of taxation. They must labour and work in freedom, that they may be able to pay their fair share of taxation out of their results. Not the tax on tea alone must go, but that on every article of consumption and of use. The whole system must be. changed : Customs and Excise duties must be entirely abolished; direct taxation must take its place. Labour and trade will then be free. The expenditure will then be reduced:; we shall then, but not till then, have a guarantee for permanent retrenchmeLt and wise economy. Every man then will pay according to his means ; and we may then rest safely assured that what is needful .for the honour of the country, the exigencies of the State, and the most exalted dignity of the Crown, will be readily, nay cheerfully, pro vided. But to accomplish this, we must arm our selves with the weapons which the Constitution has prepared ready for our use. We must invoke the constituencies, we must fight the battle in the regis tration courts, we must vote upon the subject, we must be up and doing, we must acquit ourselves like men." These are, indeed, matters worth obtaining. There is no departure from the enlarged and compre hensive principles on which the association started. There is no truckling to those who desire that the great body of the people should bear the entire weight of the burdens by which they are overwhelmed, while the possessors of accumulated and realised property should be comparatively exempted from the weight. It was for the protection of pro perty that the National Debt was incurred. The interest thereof should, therefore, be liquidated out of the proceeds of that property. It is in a great degree for the benefit of the possessors of property that our civil and military establishments are maintained. A due proportion of the expendi ture should, therefore, be supplied by the parties principally benefited. Sad experience has already taught us, that although economy may be looked to for a time, that retrenchments may be effected when the people show themselves determined to insist thereon, that it will be for a brief period only, and that plausible excuses will be found for going back to the old and accustomed outlay. A radical change must take place in the entire system, and then, and not until then, can we hope for permanent economy. The association has declared for two great prin ciples. It does not alone demand economy of the public resources ; but it insists, with equal firmness and decision, " that all necessary taxation shall be equitably adjusted, and shall be direct—and that capitalization of income shall be the basis of assess ment." These points are all of equal importance, and they must be urged with equal energy. If any one of, them be abandoned, the association would forfeit the public confidence. But such will not be the case. Th e sent i ments pu t f orwar d b y M r . B RODRIBB, and the manner in which they were re ceived and responded to by the meeting, affords the most complete and satisfactory evidence that implicit reliance may he placed in the political honesty and firmness of purpose of the leaders of the great finan cial movement. The Anglo mania, which affected the Parisians to wards the close of the eighteenth century, never went to such lengths as the California mania promises to do among the Europeans. We have already Com panies to:promote the scheme of gold-digging; we have journals to record the doings at San Francisco; N%e have maps to delineate the geographical peculiarities of these regions of metallic wealth; we have pam phlets commenting upon the probable consequences of the discovery; we have narratives of its origin, and guides to its most favourably situated localities ; we have books and pictures of California, and, to cap the climax of popularity, we observe this morning a face tTiohues advertisement efieet, announcing that in a few days will be p u bli s h e d an i nge nious composition en titledthe " California, or Gold-Mine Polka !" indeed, has been altogether that of a veritable tarantella. Speculators are already dancing to perdition at a pace that would have rivalled the movements of poor WIELAND in the Diable Boiteaux. Nor is there any prospect yet awhile of the passion for emigration to the valley of Sacra mento subsiding. The hope of accumulating a sud den fortune through the medium of a shovel and a wicker basket is the vogue, and the vogue it will con tinue to be, in defiance of all argument, until insol vency has driven the.multitude into a etate of pies * " The Gold Regions of California, with exclusive Authentic Particulars, and a coloured Map of the Country." Bvo. pp. 79. London: Baily Brothers. 1849. " California, its Situation and Resources ; from Authentic Documents ; with a few Practical Hints to Emigrants." Bvo. pp. 31. London Letts, Son, and Steer. 1849. " Guide to California, with a Map ; containing an Account of the Climate, Soil, and Natural Productions of Upper California." 12mo. pp. 36. London: Effing ham Wilson. 1849. •• 1 ~ co t • so 4 • t .. „4. yi E 011 1 / 4 • • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JAN UARY 19, 1849 cense. While this feeling is at its zenith, it will be rather worth while we conjecture to take two circum stances into consideration. First, the accuracy or in accuracy of the statements made as to the riches abounding in the new territories of the United States; and, secondly, the effects which must be produced in the two hemispheres, supposing that these high-flown anticipations are only partially realised. Making a vast allowance for the exaggerations to which the sanguine temperaments of the Americans are liable on these occasions of excitement, we can not but rest satisfied that the accounts received from the country lying west of the Sierra Nevada are not altogether without foundation. We cannot have the assurance to give Colonel MASON what Mr. SAMUEL SLICK, the Clockmaker, would call "the barn direct." We have a wholesome disinclination to rile up the dander of Lieutenant-Colonel FREMONT, or of Mr. J. S. FoLsom, or of Brigadier- General JONES, or of Lieutenant EMORY. The official reports trans• mitted by those gentlemen to the Government at Washington, without being to us exactly what the myths of Cambria are to Sir BULWER LYTTON " Beloved as fable, yet believed as truth," contain, at the least, sufficient evidence of the ho nourable sentiments with which they have been dic tated. And the descriptions derived from other and miscellaneous authorities tend in a great measure to c,groborate the assertions made by these distinguished citizens of the Union. One writer in the American Journal of Commerce depicts the natives as running over the country picking up knobs of gold here and there, " just as a thousand hogs let loose in a forest would root up ground nuts." Another, in the Wash ington Union, mentions the receipt by the Secretary of War of " a caddy containing about 3,000 dollars' worth of gold, in lumps and scales." Another, in the Californian, while speaking of the metallic fruitful ness of the gold regions, dilates with admiration upon the orchards abounding there with " the almond, fig, olive, pear, apple, and peach." One assayer declares the golden grains of California to be at the rate of 45 cents. in value for 104 grains—being, says he, " 24 carats fine, within half a carat of the quality of English sovereigns or American eagles, and is almost ready to go to the Mint." Another in the columns of the Tribune, cries out in an ecstasy, " We are on the brink of the Age of Gold !" In addition to all which exhilarating expressions, one of the latest cor respondents from New York concludes his epistle thus—" Emigrants, therefore, from your side need not hesitate to venture thither from any fear that, when they arrive, the extensive localities of this modern El Dorado shall have become enfeoffed by Anglo-America, and permission to work only be obtained by charter or letters of license." Such are specimens of the encouragement afforded to these who are constitutionally predisposed to plunge into the current of speculation. Such are the gorgeous hues, prismatic like the rainbow, and fluctuating according to the fancy of the speculator, which have coloured this magnificent bubble. For that thus, in many respects, the venture must be designated, we are convinced, notwithstanding the gold-like "ground nuts," the overflowing "caddy" received at Washington, and the glittering visions of the future, indulged in by the Transatlantic news papers. Those visions remind one of the complexion of the two Floridan savages whom CHATEAUBRIAND has mentioned as the prototypes of his Atala and Celzda, "a complexion over which a shade, as of a light orange coloured mist, seemed cast." In the latter instance the imagination of the poet was distraught by the bewitching scene in which those two Flori dans were beheld—when " the azure vault of heaven seemed to melt away into a sea of diamond and sapphire, in which the sun, half sunk, appeared to dissolve"—when "the earth, in adoration, seemed to offer incense to the sky, and the perfumes exhaled from it returned upon it in a refreshing dew, as a prayer returns on the head of him who prays " when a last ray of the sun, " glancing beneath the tree tops, glittered like a set carbuncle on the dark leaves "—when " fire-flies glittered among the shrubs, and were eclipsed when they issued into the moon beams "—when the " gentle, murmuring flow of the lake fell on the ear, with an occasional splash of a gold fish, or cry of a wild duck "—and when, with the same intoxicating sensations, he recalled to mind the moment when he " ascended the Parthenon with the dawn, and saw Cythera, Mount Hymetus, the Acro polis of Corinth, the tombs and the ruins, bathed in a transparent golden mist of light, reflected by the sea, and floating like a perfume on the zephyrs of Salamis and Delos." It was while beside himself in the core of these re splendent beauties, it was while he felt himself,accord ing to his own delicate phraseology, " living and ve getating with nature in a kind of pantheism," that CHATEAUSRIAND saw over the complexion of the Floridan savages what seemed to be a shade " as of a light orange-coloured mist." Had he seen them in the cold atmosphere of reality, we doubt but that he would have declared them to be decidedly sallow and possibly cadaverous. It is precisely in such a moment as this that the eyes of the san guine are directed across the Atlantic to the banks of the Sacramento. Intoxicated with desires for a plenteous harvest of riches, the speculators can only recognise California through a, " transparent golden mist of light," like that which appeared to RENE, as " floating like a perfume on the zephyrs of Salamis and Delos." Against the dangerous fasci nation of such hopes we have already warned the public; and we have a particular satisfaction in re peating our advice now that the same tone is assumed by several of our influential Contemporaries, jour nals which formerly endeavoured to enhance rather than to mitigate the mania about the gold region, at the time when we remained almost,isolated in desig nating the chief part of the El Dorado of California as a delusion. When further accounts, beyond those contained in a handful of intelligent pamphlets,* shall have been received, we may then be enabled to pro nounce more decidedly upon the mineral wealth of the Sacramento; and when we have so decided we may safety begin to calculate the probable effects of the discovery upon commerce and finance, upon coin as a circulating medium, upon the elevation of labour, and upon the depreciation of property. LATEST FROM IRELAND. THE QUEEN v. GAVAN DUFFY. JUDGMENT ,AGAINST THE CROWN. DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVBNING. - Mr. Justice Perrin, at the sitting of the Court this morning, delivered judgment, on the application of the Attorney-General to have final judgment on the partial overruling of the indictment, on the authority of Servas's case in 1845, and of the precedent in Rastell. He decided that the application must be refused, and that the prisoner must be allowed to :plead over. His Lord ship then ordered the Commission to be adjourned to the 6th of February, on the ground of the state of business in the court and of inconvenience to the jurors. • Sir Colman O'Loghlen applied for permission to admit the prisoner to bail under the Irish Habeas Corpus Act The Court refused to entertain the ap plication, which was urged by the prisoner in person with much earnestness. The Court stands adjourned accordingly. An application will be made at the Queen's Bench to-morrow to admit Mr. Duffy to bail founded on affidavits. The judges on the next commission will be Mr. Justice Ball and Mr. Justice Jackson. CHEAP GAS MOVEMENT.—At a meeting of the Committee of the Gas Consumers' Association of the Ward of Farringdon Without, held last night at Ander ton's Hotel, a Sub•committee was appoint e d to cooperat e with the other wards of the City of London, f or th e purpose of forming a general committee to carry out the object of the cuixens ; and it was resolved th a t de putations from the several wards s hould wait upon their representatives in the Court of Sewers, to request them to continue their exertions to obtain a cheap supply of good gas to the city of London. The Government contract for .50,000 gallons of rum, for the navy, was again taken yesterday, by Messrs. Lemon Sart and Son, of 59, Fenehurch-street. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. During the sitting of the National Assembly yes terday, M. LEON FAUCHER, the Minister of the In terior, read a decree signed by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, nominating M. BOULAY DE LA MEURTIIB, General BARAGUAY DaHILLIERS, and M. VIVIEN, as the persons from among whom the Assembly is to choose the Vice-President of the Republic. M• VIvIEN will in all probability be the person chosen. At the close of the proceedings of the National Assembly on Wednesday, M. ODILON BARROT pro posed to the Assembly to adopt a Bill in the following terms : " The President of the Republic orders, &c. " Art. 1. The authors and accomplices of the attempt of May 15th, now ordered, on January 16th, for trial, by the Court of Appeal of Paris, are sent beiore the Na tional High Court of Justice. " Art. 2. The National High Court of Justice shall meet at Bourges in the month fbllowing that in which the present Bill is promu'gated. " Art. 3. The Minister of Justice is charged with the execution of the present 8111. _ _ _ " Given at the Palace of the Elysee, on this 17th of January, 1849." The Minister then proposed, and it was agreed, that the Bill should be sent to the bureaux, which would name a Committee to send in a report on the question of its urgency. Yesterday the following representatives were nominated by the Assembly members of the Com mittee :—MM. A. Dubois, St. Romme, Mais, Bonnin, Labodere, Jean Reynaud, Dupin, Flandin, Corne, Vernher, Aubry, Bauchart, Baroche, and General Poncelet. The Committee met immediately after wards to consider the subject. The Presse has a " communication" on the subject of the mission of General PELET to the Court of Turin. After stating that General CAVAIGNAC had refused the request of CHARLES ALBERT for pervnis sion to have a French general placed at the head of the Sardinian army, the Presse thus proceeds : " As soon as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected President of the Republic, Count Martini was sent by Charles Albert to offer his congratulations, and at the same time to repeat the request which had been made in vain to the Government of General Cavaignac. Count Martini, in his conversations with the President, alluded to a promise made by General Cavaignac, that he would give permission to General Pelet to proceed to Turin, in order to assist the King in the re-organization of his army, and the President respecting this promise con sented to sending General Pelet. In order, however, that no misrepresentation or ill-founded hopes should take place, he insisted that the mission of the General should be invested with a diplomatic character, in order that no one should imagine that a French General had been allowed, even temporarily, to enter the service of a foreign power. " It appears to us essential to give these details at a moment when the Turin journals are stating as positive facts, that General Lamoriciere and other officers are about to enter into the Sardinian service. A great nation like France should only promise what she can and will perform. We consider it our duty to state this truth to the Italians, in order that the illusions which are held out to them may not hereafter be transformed into unjust accusations against our Government by those who have been told of promises which have been never thought of." The same journal contains the following open avowal of the designs of the reactionary party. Speaking of the dissolution of the Assembly, the Presse says— " Let us go direct to the point. The', real motive why the National Assembly is divided on the question of dissolution is, that one-half trembles for the existence of the Republic, while the other does not — such is the truth; it may be veiled, but however thick the veil thrown over it, the eye accustomed to examine the secret feelings of parties cannot be deceived. Are those disquietudea about the durability of the Republic without foundation? We shall not make any affirma tion to the contrary. Yes, the representatives who have voted against taking into consideration the proposi tion of M. Rateau are not wrong when they persuade themselves that the same spirit will not preside at the next elections that there did when the elections of April were made. But do they think that postponement will tend to give durability to the Republic? It they do they are strangely deceived. The longer they delay the more will the Republican edifice be shaken, for the more will resistance extend. On this account General Ca vaignac and Ledru Rollin ought to have voted for dis solution, and MM. Berryer and Thiers against it. Every delay with respect to the dissolution of the As sembly is manifestly so much gain to the monarchical idea. All the late partial elections show it. If we are to credit our own letters and communications from the most opposite points, the opinions and interests repre sented by MM. Thiers and Berryer are making the most rapid progress, and their triumph in the next gene ral election will be the more marked and certain accord ing to their postponement." Here we have an open avowal of the existence of a plot to disturb the existing Government in France. If any of the parties concerned in this intrigue are at present residing in England we trust the British Government will do its duty, and not hesitate to put in force the provisions of the Alien Act for the immediate deportation of all those Rho abuse the hospitality of England by plotting to overthrow the Government of a neighbouring state. These reactionary intrigues are producing, as a na tural consequence, counter-intrigues. " Is it true ?" asks the Assemblee Nationale ? " That a new secret society, more numerous and more threatening than any that have preceded it, is now form ing throughout the whole of France? " That in Paris and the suburbs it is being organized into legions, battalions, and companies, similar to the National Guard? " That its members meet very frequently and in small numbers, at the wine-shops of the capital, when they make all their arrangements? " That the central committee, which was at first in stalled in the Rue Montmartre and is now on the Boule vard St. Denis, has established corresponding committees in each chief town in the country; that each of these committees have subcommittees in the smaller towns, and that the latter, in their turn, have agents in all the communes? " That if the men at the bead of this association do not come into the Ministry by legal means—that is to say, by circumventing the President, near whom one of their members has been introduced—the agents of the society will content themselies by causing the removal, by means of reports made of their conduct, of all func tionaries suspected of moderate ideas. " That in case the Government shall be the price of a coup de main, or of a fresh co nques t, these same agent s will be immediately installed in office. "And that in fine these chiefs, who have taken care of themselves in case of a d e f ea t, h ave a l re ady pr ov id e d themselves with passports to leave the country, and that in order to remedy difficulties which might stand in the way of the escape of the conspirators, they actually took from the Prefecture of Police, on the 20th December last, the jeuilles de route which might be necessary for them." The reactionary party may create emeutes, and may bring destruction on themselves, by exasperating the people, but we have no fear for the ultimate safety of the Republic. General Zuccut has arrived in Paris. l'Ve read in the Patrie " The President of the Republic has, since his ap pointment, received one hundred and forty thousand letters from Paris and the departments. Most of them contain applications for places or relief; more than 5,000 contain duplicates of the Mont-de-PiA,6, sent by unfortunate workmen without occupation, in the hope that Louis Napoleon will redeem the pledges. The President has given orders for the redemption in favour of the most necessitous; but, with a budget of 600,000 f., it is not possible for him to relieve every misfortune. The narrow means of the first magistrate of the Re public were discussed to-day in the lobbies of the Na tional Assembly, and there was a talk of a proposition to be made by several representatives for increasing the civil list of the President to 1,000,000 f. per annum." M. FALLOUX entertained the PRESIDENT of the Republic at dinner on Wednesday. Amongst the numerous guests who had been invited to meet the PRESIDENT were the Archbishop of Paris, Marshal Bugeaud, Generals Changarnier , Bedeau , Baraguay d'Hillier s , and Lamoriciere ; MM. Marrast , Thiers , Mole, D e Noailles, Victor Hugo , Berr y er, Laroche jaquelein ; th e C ur e of the Quinze-Vingts, who re ceived the late Archbishop of Paris when wounded at the barricade; M. Cuvier, the Protestant pastor; M. Cerfbeer, of the Jewish Consistory ; and the heads of several learned and scientific societies. During the course of the sitting of the Assembly on Wednesday, the President stated that the prepara tion of the organic laws was going on most actively, and that n o t an hour was lost. BOURSE.—PARIS, THURSDAY, JAR. 18. THREE O'CLOCir..—The French Funds:opened to-day with every appearance of a further rise, but after aslight hesitation they suddenly gave way , and closed rather below yesterday's prices. There was no news of any kind. Exchange on ;London (30 days) 25 37i ; ditto (90 days), 25 27g. BUSINESS DONE IN FOR EIGN RAILWAY S AT THE LONDON STOCK - EXCHANGE , JAN. 18 . Boulogne and Amiens, 8 1 / 5 ex exchange—Luxembourg (100, 2 5 4—Northern of Franee, 7 3 A ex div.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% ex div.—Paris and Rouen, 18—Paris and Strasbourg, 23—Rouen and Havre, 93A. SPAIN. The Comm an d e rs of the Carlist expedition in Na varre are S OTELLO , I T URUEUDI, SADALETTA, and the Curate of Allo. They arrested on the 14th the courier between Pampeluna and Tolosa, and were on the 15th at Yzerdan within three leagues of Pampe luna. The detachment which entered Guipuscoa was immediately joined by 200 . of the pea san t ry ; General Emo was on the frontier, and SALAMANCA was at Bay onne on th e 15th. The Mad r id j ourna l s which have been received are to the 12th. Th ey con tain no particular news. MADRID B OLSA , j&N. 12.—The Three per Cents. are quoted at 19 11-16 / buyers, 13-16 sellers; Five per Cents., al buyers, 10 sellers; Coupons, 6 sellers; Passive Debt, 31 buyers, i sellers; Bank Shares, 54 buyers, 56 sellers ; Discount on Notes, i per cent. ; Exchange on London, 48 85. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Advices from Vienna have been received to the 12th January. In the sitting of the Diet at Kremsier on the 10th, the fundamental law, against which Count STADION had protested, was rejected by a large majority. According to the latest accounts from Pesth, the hospitals and numerous private houses were filled with sick soldiers, who had greatly suffered from exposure to the inclement weather. Prince WINDISCHGRATZ had taken up his residence in the fortress, JELLA CHICH in the house of Count KARroLI, and General Prince LICHTENSTEIN in KOSSUTH'S. Numerous arrests continue to be made, including that of Count SZAPARY, one of the leaders of the insurrection, and the head of a distinguished noble family. The postal communication between Vienna and Pesth has been completely re-established. It appears that the troops of JELLACHICH were the first to penetrate into the immense entrenchments of Pesth, but they found only six spiked pieces of artillery, the remainder having been taken away by Kossuzg. The Austrian Bank has announced a half-yearly dividend of only 25 florins, instead of the originally declared 45 florins. It is believed that SCHWARTZENHERG and the present Ministry are the mere puppets of Prince METTER , NIGH, who, from his safe retreat at Brighton, has during the whole of the last summer, in conjunction with certain notorious foreign refugees, and certain members of the English Tory aristocracy, concocted and conducted the reactionary intrigues which are now in the course of development throughout Europe. A Hanoverian paper says— " The head seat of the Austrian Government is esta blished at Brighton, where Prince Metternich resides." VIENNA, JAN. 13.—Generals HRABOWSEY and MOGA, and subsequently Generals DIETRICHT and MAYER have been brought here prisoners from Hun gary. The two former, it is said, will be permitted to remain under arrest in a private dwelling-house— on parole. General MoGA delivered himself up to Prince WINDISCHGRATZ, and General lIRABOWSKY has been confined to his bed at Ofen for some time, when the Imperial troops advanced to Pesth and Ofen. The Hungarian Count GEORGI KAROLY has also been taken. PRUSSIA. The magistrates of Berlin issued on the 4th inst. the regulations for the approaching elections. There are 270 polling places appointed in Berlin. The National thus denounces the intrigues and manoeuvres of the reactionary party—. " The reactionary party, well informed of what was intended before the 9th of November and sth of De cember, formed a firm phalanx, in connexion with the landholders, patriotic and military unions, and sup ported by the bureaucracy. The land was, and is, inoculated with reactionary publications, which are disseminated through the medium of the district authori ties and their journals. Free-thinking local journals are either bought up, or their printers punished, by withdrawal of the usual assistance (by the publication of local documents). Numerous facts are there to prove our assertions. But this is not all. Another medium is employed, and this is the denouncing of all liberal-minded men who are suspected of being candidates, especially all ex-Liberal representatives. This has occurred in several places. But the reactionary party are not satis fied with this. They carry their machinations down to the lower social grade. In summer when a day labourer ad dressed himself to a landlord for preference (engagement for work), the invariable answer was, ' Address yourself to your electors, to your representative.' At Michael mas all the electors were privided with labourers, and as none of the great landlords would give the poor men employment, thereupon arose the accusation against labourers for refusing to work. In many instances, also, landlords, on leasing new farms, made it a condition that tenants should vote for candidates named by the former." The Prince of PRUSSIA is one of the candidates for Berlin. The supreme tribunal of Paderborn has declined to undertake the trial of HERR TEMME (one of the presidents of the supreme tribunal of Westphalia), upon the ground that the Minister of Justice has not the rigs t, according to law and the new constitution, to transfer any case from a tribunal, the competency of which was denied, to another which was not de clared competent by law. A dreadful collision occurred on the 12th inst. on the Silesian Railroad, between the Austrian and Silesian trains. There was a great destruction of life and property. THE CHOLERA. The official reports of the kingdom of Poland give the following data respecting the cholera, from its first appearace to the 6th of December:— Warsaw-4,036 cases, 2,445 recovered, 1,623 died. Government of Warsaw, inclusive of the capital -11,804 cases, 5,547 recovered, 6,145 died. Go vernment of Lublin-15,355 cases, 8,625 recovered, 6,627 died. Government of Radom-4,607 cases, 1,092 recovered, 2,380 died. Government of Plock--7,316 cases, 3,233 recovered, 5,010 died. Government Augustowo-8,046 cases, 5,217 recovered, 2,776 died. Total, 51,214 cases, 26,985 recovered, 23,560 died.— Wiener Zeitung, Jan. 13. Letters from Constantinople, of the 31st December, say that Mr. ASIIBURNIIAM, Secretary to the British Ambassador, has fallen a victim to the cholera at Constantinople. This scourge is committing fearful ravages in Albania, and has likewise re-appeared with redoubled violence in Epirus and Thessaly.—Augs burg Gazette. FRANKFORT. The Hanoverians have determined to support the pretensions of Prussia to be supreme head of the em pire, in opposition to those of Austria. It is reported, on good authority, that the Saxon Government has declared that since the most im portant of the southern States of Germany appear to consent to it, it has no further objection to make to conferring the Imperial crown on the King of PRUSSIA. But in case any serious opposition to it should hereafter be raised by the southern States, the Saxon Government would then desire the Imperial crown to be given to the King of PRUSSIA, but not to be hereditary. HOLLAND. TUE HAGUE, JAN. 17.—The communal authori ties at the Hague have just published the budget for 1849 as sanctioned by the provincial states. It ap pears from this document that the extraordinary re ceipts are estimated at fi. 110,555 58, and the ordi nary receipts at fl. 632,173 191 ; total, fl. 761,722 77k. The ordinary expenses are estimated at fl. 666,540 05, and the extraordinary at fl. 94,297 49i ; total, fl. 760,828 441, being an excess of receipts fl. 890 33. The population of the city of the Hague is estimated at 69,492 souls.—Journal de la Haye. The Stoats Courant contains a circular of the Minister of Justice, addressed to all the magistrates and officers of the judicial administration, on occasion of the approaching election of members for the Second Chamber; and also to the provincial estates, calling upon them to maintain the observance of the laws. It concludes by saying that the best security of the general welfare is that which results from the united efforts of well disposed citizens, and they are there fore invited and encourged to support the execution of that justice which is their safeguard. The same journal also contains a Royal decree, appointing a committee charged to lay before his Majesty a detailed report of the instruction in all the 'universities throughout the kingdom, to indicate the defects, and the causes whi c h ma y have led to them, as well as the remedies for their future improvement. The committee is specially charged to present a pro ject of law on the faculty of medicine in the univer sities. The committee is to hold its sitting at Ha arlem and to terminate its labours and make its report before the Ist of September, 1849. The committee consists of members of the Second Chamber, and cu rators and professors of the several universities. The English Ambassador at the Hague, Sir ED • WARD DESBROWE, gave;a splendid ball on the 17th, which was honoured by the Royal Family and the members of the diplomatic body. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 17.—The official report of the Minister of Marine shows that the Royal navy of the Netherlands consists of two ships of 84 guns, five of 74, two of 60, one of 54, eleven of 44, two of 38, six of 28, seven of 26, two of 22, one of 20, ten of 18, nine of 14, four of 12, one of 8, five of 6, four of 4, three of 3; thirteen war steamers of 7 and 8 guns, four iron steamers of 1 mortar and 3 guns, thirty-five large gun-boats, and 30 small gun-boats. In 1848 1,972 vessels entered the harbour of Amsterdam, being 782 less than in 1847. That diminution is attributed to the interruption of the Baltic trade by the Danish war.—Dutch Papers, Jan. 17. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 9.—To-day the Diet voted on the famous address with 26,000 signatures appended, presented by WITH, in which it is stated that the Danish people have lost neither the power nor the courage necessary to defend the honour of Denmark to the last extremity. The Diet rend e rin g all praise to the patriotism of the parties sign ing the address, passed to the order of the day on the address, by a majority of 111 votes. The journal Flyweposter says that a note has been received from the new Government of France, giving the assurance that it entirely shares in the favourable views as to Denmark of the former Government on the Schleswig-Holstein question. According to the latest intelligence from Schles wig-Holstein, the number of Danish troops still sta tioned in the island of Alsen ranges from 12,000 to 16,000. In Sonderburg alone there are 4,000. The Danish Government have established quarantine on all the Norwegian ports and harbours. HAMBURGH. HAMBURGH, JAN. 14.—A heavy thaw has set in, in consequence of which all the snow has disappeared from the Elbe, and the whole surface is covered with water, about a foot high. The transit is therefore rendered extremely difficult, and it is almost impos sible for foot passengers to cross. As far as can be ascertained, the icy surface of the Elbe is still firm and thick. JAN. 15.—A mild frost has again set in; the water on the surface of the ice has congealed ; the sledge roads are clear, and the transit is easy.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 15. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a steady but rather dull market for Cotton at Livirpool yesterday. Sales about 5,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was firm, and even rather higher in some eases. The Government rum contract was taken yesterday afternoon by Lemon Han and Co., the quantity being 50,000 gallons, but the exact price has not yet been al lowed to transpire. These matters are usually kept secret until 'Change hour of the following day, and sometimes longer. The St. Katharine Docks Company have made a favourable statement, all things considered, although the tonnage was necessarily smalleialast year than in 1847. The dividend declared was 2 per cent. for the half-year with the income-tax paid. In the American papers received to-day there are later advices from Mexico, the dates being Dec. 6. The country, according to these advices, was rather un settled, but there is no mention of anything very serious; the predatory bands would, no doubt, be soon dispersed. A conducts was to leave Mexico on the 2d of December, for Vera Cruz, and it is hoped will bring some amount for the dividends. From the Cape of Good Hope papers of Nov. 22 have come to hand. All was quiet on the frontier, and the colonists were chiefly occupied with meetings to resist and petition against, the introduction of convicts. The produce markets have, during the present week, been very well supported. Sugar has rather improved, and in most articles the dealings have been good. The Funds have gone back a little. Consols for Transfer have realised 89i to 90, and for Account 894 to 90. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 90i I f . Exchequer-bills have been 435. to 445. premium. The market now is merely lulled after a rise, and there has been rather an increased supply of stock. In Foreign Bonds the transactions have been much more limited. Spanish Five per Cents. are 151 4, and the Three per Cents. 284 to 29. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 264 1 to 27*. Mexican 26} to 27, and Brazilian 78. In _Railway Shares there has been a good business doing, and the quotations are firm for the principal lines. a , F. ..1,...1NG Fit , L-. , aki : RITIBII r'IJNDN. .)'( :LOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock lB9 190 3 .er Cent. Reduced A. , :ns 9O 85.74 90 90 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9O 89%% 89% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anu5...... .ong Anns. to expire J an. 1860 .• • 8 3 / 13-16 8% Ditto 30 yeare, Jan. 5, 1860 8 9-16 8 9-16 In tia Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001... South Sea Stock Consols for Account xchequer Bills. 2 1 ,4 d. & 2d. 1,0001. March ...... 1,000/. June 4B 44 p 5001. Mai ch 43 42 p 500/. June Small, March... .. .. 43 42 p Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS azrE O'CLOCK. 42 p 46 p 42 p 43p 42 p 43 p CLOBLNO PRICES• Brazilian Bonds — Ditto, Account . 7B 78 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... Ditto 3 Der Cent — 49 Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent., — -- Ditto Deferred —3% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account 2 6 3/ 26 3 / Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 49 49% 49% Portuguese 5 per Cents. —..— Ditto, 3 per Cent .... — 26 Ditto, 4 per Cent 2 6 3/ 27 Ditto, Account 27 lA / 27 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. - Ditto, Account 15 % 3 /4 15 3 4 Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 / 4 per Cent — -- Ditto, Deferred —6% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto, Account 773/4 77g% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. HAILWAY SHARES. -- ._ ......____ _ Aberdeen Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 4% ...„,, _ ,Vrehire and Galloway.. 7 I , elfast & County Down 20 1 / 2 ...... —. _ __ Berks & Hants TExtens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 5 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarantee 20 Birming. Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc 10 ••• Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ...... -.. - Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. Ditto, Thirds - 2 1 1 1 % dis... . . 2% d ig '..'uckinghanashire... 16/. 4s. Caledonian ... Ditto, Quarter Shares 11 1 / 5 l /8 $ Do. New 101. Pref 7 %... .. 8%•.. ... ... 8 7° Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 ~ .hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 35 ..... 4%........... ... Dundalk & Enniskillen 221 ,E — Last Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and i 1...... 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31.105. Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 11%14 •••••• • •111 4 1 4 24 24 104 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. Ditto,Extension, 5 per 4 Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... - Do. North. & Eastern 50 54 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters ... 12% — . ..... ...... • ....-• Do. New 43 — -- Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... B'/ Ditto, Class B (I. & and B.) 22% — Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . .... 181/2 ... lB/ Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent. East Lancashire Ditto, New - ... 21 ...... ......... ..... ..... Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 ...... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference .... Quarters ... 6 1 4 — ... ....- ..... 0 5 East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 0 ..-.. 411 / 2 43 Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. 15% Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch l2 ~.... ......... .0. Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. ... tila4gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow,Kilmar ,& Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consol. -- . ....... • ... ~. Great Northern A &I' Do., - 1 ,0 A Deferred ... 12%...... 5 x.i.... ...... - Do., % B 6 per Cent. , ,i -guaranteed ... ..... 6% 4% x.i......... 47N $4 DO. Extension 2 1 ;2 l ie Treat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ......238 237 238%... Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New, 151 l4 .. .. 9 54 Great Western 100 ...... 96% 95 97...... 9 1 4 5 , 9 1 rA 1 9- 14 Ditto l ‘ ¢ Shares 5O ...... , •••••• Ditto, 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Huddersfield and blanch. 30 Ditto, Thirds iiull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Halt Shares ... 25 ...... Ditto, 4 Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... .... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do. Quarter Shares 17% — .... ..... Do. Fifth5... Do. Sixteenths 6 14 5 14 Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. i%...... 8% 9 x.i Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ...... .. Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Shetf.) 43 Do.(Waketield,Ponte tract, and Goole) ... 50 Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... 2 %:,,,i ...... —. •• Do. (Preston & Wyfe) 25 Do. % Shares ( A)... 91, l4 %.. Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO . .... ••• Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . — Do., Half Shares 25 •..••, .•............. Do., (blue) Scrip ..... Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 4 — Liverpool, Crosby and Southport 3 1 .2 — ..............• 1. iverp., Mancisster, and Newcastle Junction... 21 ,4 — ..... .. ........ Londoik&Blackwall...l3/.65.8d — ..........•.••. IS 50 9t , 1' 147 990 Do. Extension ..... 22 1 / 2 ... ..............• London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 . .............. Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ............. Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. 5 London slid G ei,nwich 12/15s 4d — • .............. T ) itto, Preerence . 20 London and N. Weitern 100 Quarters (L. & B.) 22 l -5 0 1, e2 .. 29 % .... 1 ..•... Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths ..... .. 2 ..... 8 8........... Do. 40/.Shares(L.M.) 25 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 1 0 Do. IW. (M. & B.) B. 10 Do. 10L ( & B.) C. 1 ....... &S. Western 50 Do. Nev' 50/. ..... 42%.. ........... Do. N ew 40/ .....• .... Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto Ditto. Thirds.. ....—... 15 Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Coils r i4 is!iA TURKE Y. Letters from Constantinople of the 27th December say that winter has at length set in with violent storms, which did much damage to the shipping, both in the harbour and out at sea. The cholera still prevails, and indeed is on the increase, especially in Seivas, Ephesus, Scala Nova, and Tarsus. NECRULLLH BEY, Chief of the Kurds, and , Gover nor of KAKIARI, has planted the standard of rebellion. —Allgemeine Zeitung. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 9th state that some troops had been sent to Orvieta in consequence of some disorders occasioned by the publication of the excommunication of the Assembly by the PorE. General PETE has demanded 8,000 men of the Roman Government, and 6,000 men of the Tuscan Govern ment, in order to recommence hostilities in conjunc • tion with CHARLES ALBERT against Austria. Count DE PENAFIEL DE SILVA arrived at Gaeta on the 2d, as Envoy Extraordinary to the POPE from the Queen of Portugal. SPORT IN G INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. The handicap for the Chester Cup not having reached town, business was almost at a stand-still; we haw, therefore, only to quote the prices at which a few small sums were invested:— CHESTER CUP. 40 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar 40 to 1 agst Mr. Lillie's Great Western 40 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestun's Fuglenaan 50 to 1 agst Lord How th's Peei,o'-Day Boy 50 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Chanticleer 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Quin's Farewell STOURTON STEEPLECHASE. Victim and The Doctor at about 4 to 1 each, but no business done. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 15 to 1 agst Captain Maddock's Proceed 20 to 1 agst Captain Little's Chandler 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Elmore na British Yeoman The above bets were laid to 101. each. DERBY The only bets, to our knowledge, were 5 to 1, in fifties, agst The Flying Dutchman, 7 to 1, to 401., agst Tadmor, 400 to 10 agst Elthiron, and 500 to 10 agst Chatterer. Offers to lay 25 to 1 each agst Nunnykirk and Strong bow, or to take 30 to 1. CHESTER SPRING MEETING, 1849. Handicap for the Chester Trade Cup. at lb st lb Projoctile. 4 yrs.- 6 9 Parable, 4 yrs Amazement, 6 yrs Pillage, 5 yrs Pantomime, 5 yrs lodine, 4 yrs Tophana, 4 yrs 6 8 Teresa, aged 6 6 Chemistry, aged Maynooth, aged Sneraton, 6 yrs Tom-tit, 5 yrs 6 6 Resolution, 5 yrs 6 6 Prince Charley, 4 yrs 6 6 Voyager, 4 yrs 6 6 Sunnyside, 4 yrs Maid of my Soul, 4 yrs 6 6 Lord Saltoun, aged Avenger, 6 yrs 6 4 King Hal, 5 yrs Rothersthorpe, 5 yrs 6 4 Milford, 5 yrs 6 4 Good Boy, 4 yrs 6 4 B c by Auckland, out of Delusion, 4 yrs 6 4 Wbizgig, 4 yrs 6 4 Cheapside, 6 yrs 6 2 Honeycomb, 3 yrs Garendon, aged Portrait, aged Auricula, 6 yrs 6 0 Bedlam, 5 yrs Reality, 4 yrs Ferry Hill, 4 yrs 6 0 Chevreuil, 4 yrs Tuscan, 4 yrs Sis. to Sstirist, 4 yrs 6 0 Tiresome, 3 yrs ~ 5 13 Miss Nipper, 4 yrs Marlow, 5 yrs 5 10 Acomb, 4 yrs Comet, 4 yrs 5 10 Pi imrose, 4 yrs 5 10 Gratis, 4 yrs Conquest, 4 yrs Cast-off, 4 yrs 5 8 Garrick, 3 yrs Abbot of Meaux, 3 yrs 5 8 iWestow, 3 yrs 5 8 Velox, 3 yrs 5 7 Cauriri, 3 yrs Montague, 3 yrs Windermere, 3 yrs 5 7 b c by Sir Hercules, Chanticleer, 6 yrs 9 9 The Hero, 6 yrs 9 7 War Eagle, 5 yrs 9 3 Cossack, 5 yrs 9 1 The Cur, aged Surplice, 4 yrs 8 12 Ellerdaie, 5 yrs 8 9 Inheritress, aged Flatcatcher, 4 yrs 8 6 Impostor, 5 yrs -. . 8 5 Peep o'Day Boy, 5 yrs 8 5 Limestone, 5 yrs Wanota, 4 yrs 8 5 Mogador, 5 yrs 8 3 Planet, 5 yrs 8 3 1 Jovial, 5 yrs Shylock, 4 yrs 8 2 Lady Wildair, aged 8 0 Glendower, 4 yrs 7 13 Dough, 4 yrs The Dart, aged 7 12 Executor, 5 yrs 7 12 Swiss Boy, 4 yrs 7 11 Dulcet, aged 7 10 The Conjuror, 6 yrs 7 10 Halo, 5 yrs 7 10 Foreclosure, 5 yrs 7 10 Vampyre, 5 yrs 7 10 The Tartar, 5 yrs 7 8 Fugleman, 4 yrs Blucher, 4 yrs The Admiral, 5 yrs Pavilion, 5 yrs ...... . Gwalior, aged . 7 6 Finvaragh, 6 yrs 7 6 Radulphus, 6 yrs 7 6 Clermont, 5 yrs 7 6 Blaze, 4 yrs 7 6 Cymba, aged Distaffina, 4 yrs John Orridge, 4 yrs Victor, 4 yrs The Stinger, 4 yrs 7 6 New Forest Deer, aged 7 5 Maid of Lyme, 6 yrs 7 5 Keieshea, 3 yrs Sponge, 4 yrs 7 5 Troica, 4 yrs 7 5 Fireaway, aged Sagacity, 5 yrs Backbiter, 4 yrs 77 4 4 ! King of Kildare, 4 yrs 7 4 Athelstarle, 4 yrs 7 4 Laundry-maid, 6 yrs 7 2 Sir Peter Laurie, 5 yrs 7 2 Ballinafad, 5 yrs Wyke, 5 yrs 7 2 Corsican, 4 yrs 7 2 Attraction, 4 yrs Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs 7 2 Woodcraft, 4 yrs 7 2 Dacia, 4 yrs 7 2 John Cosser, 4 yrs 7 2 1 Sylvan, 4 yrs 7 2 Vesta, 5 yrs Bingham, 5 yrs 7 0 Fernhill, 4 yrs Idle Boy, 4 yrs 7 a; Ellerslie, 4 yrs Great Western, 4 yrs 6 13 ; Do it-again, 4 yrs 6 IX. Crazy Lad, 4 yrs 6 13 1 Giselle, 6 yrs 6 12, 1 Geraldine, 6 yrs The Swallow, 5 yrs 6 12 Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs 6 12! Taffrail,4 yrs 6 12; Escape, 4 yrs 6 12 1 , Gaffer Green, aged Tom 'rough, aged The Baronet, 6 yrs Joc o'Sor, 5 yrs Chat, 5 yrs 6 11 Cockermouth, 4 yrs 6 11, Jest, 4 yrs 6 11 Lola Montes, 4 yrs Hagley, 4 yrs 6 11 Pius the Ninth, 4 yrs Self-defence, 4 yrs 6 11 The Widow, aged 6 10 Rathmines, 5 yrs Ribaldry, 4 yrs 6 10 Ch c by Harkaway, out of Diana, 4 yrs 6 10 Farewell, 4 yrs 6 10 Malton, 4 yrs 6 10 Deerstalker, 4 yrs 6 10 Bacchanalian, 4 yrs 6 10 Egret, 4 yrs Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs 6 10 Sesostris, 4 yrs 6 10; Lamb's-wool, 4 yrs Elemi, aged The Premier, 5 yrs To declare on or befor; out of Empress, 3 yrs Henry of Exeter, 3 yrs 5 7 Bun mot, 3 yrs 5 7 Wensleydale, 3 yrs Lammermoor, 3 yrs Ada Mary, 3 yrs Pelham, 3 yrs . General Sale, 3 yrs B o by Colwick, oat of Concertina, 3 yrs Melody, 3 yrs 5 5 Do-tht-Boys, 3 yrs ( Lavender, 3 yrs 5 2 I The Arab, 3 yrs Pyrland, 3 yrs Andalusian, 3 yrs 5 2 Cigarette, 3 yrs 5 2 ,Orphan Boy, 3 yrs ,Cotton Lord, 3 yrs 'Slashing Alice, 3 yrs Sr f by Sir Hercules, out of Peeress, 3 yrs 5 2 Raby, 3 yrs Cashier, 3 yrs Didsbury, 3 yrs 5 0 l lmperatrix, 3 yrs 5 0 Rodney, 3 yrs 'Thornhill, 3 yrs i lthesus, 3 yrs. b c by Don John, out of Meal, 3 yrs 4 10 Sawter la Coupe, 3 yrs 4 10 Lugar, 3 yr 5..... Swaledale, 3 yrs Loupgarou, 3 yrs 4 10 Solon, 3 yrs Rowland, 3 yrs 4 10 Essedarius, 3 yrs 4 10 The Clothworker,3yrs 4 8 The Swift, 3 yrs Clifford, 3 yrs Emily (late Alders gate), 3 yrs Burghley, 3 yrs I Dahcotah Chief, 3 yrs 4 4 I Snowdrop (late Miss Fish), 3 yrs Hector Cawroush .e the Ist of February. REPRESENTATION OF THE CARDIGANSHIRE BO ROUGHS. —No other candidate to oppose Mr. J. S. Har ford for the representation of these boroughs has yet come forward. Mr. Harford contested the representa tion with Mr. Pryse at the general election of 1841, when he was defeated by a small majority only. It is, how ever, asserted that the Hon. George Laurence Vaughan, brother of the Earl of Lisburne, intends to declare him self a candidate on the Liberal interest. The Dissenters are desirous that Mr. Edward Miall should come for. ward as their candidate, and it is said by the organ of that party that Mr. Miall is ready to be announced whenever a respectable requisition may be forwarded. However this may be, it is certain that a large body of the Liberal electors :are anxious to secure the services of Mr. W. Williams, late M.P. for Coventry. This gentle man lately addressed a long letter to his countrymen, urging upon them the necessity of erecting colleges for the education of schoolmasters in Wales, and offering the munificent sum of 5001. in aid of the object. It is not now at all probable that the Conservative interest will be divided. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE ELECTION. WOLVLZ. HAMPTON, THURSDAY EVENING. Up to yesterday the only candidates named as likely to be brought forward, were Mr. Forster and Lord Lewisham, son of the Earl of Dartmouth. This morning, how ever, it became generally rumoured amongst those ac quainted with electioneering movements that the Hon. J. Talbot. Q.C., brother of the present Earl, and the emi nent Parliamentary barrister, was likely to como for ward. Saturday will, in all probability, see the candi dates in the field HOUSELESS POOR ASSOCIATION.—In the early part of this month the severity of the weather and the num bers of miserable starvelings in the streets induced the committee of the Houseless Poor Association to open two of their asylums—their funds being too reduced to open their third asylum without further assistance from the public. At the two asylums, which were opened on the 4th inst., 2,934 persons have received 9,451 lodgings, and 20,954 rations; of this great number much above one-half are Irish. The third asylum, in Ogle-street, which had been prepared for the reception of inmates, has been temporarily granted to the guardians of the Strand Union, to remove their healthy children into from Drouet's establishment at Tooting; and so well aired, warmed, and ventilated have the premises been found that only one casualty has occurred.