The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

MORNING SUN MR. AINSWORTH'S MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. On the .29th of January will be published, the First Number Price EIGHTEENPENCE, of A INSWORT H ' S MAGAZINE. A Monthly Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, and Art. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., And illustrated with Designs on Steel and Woodcuts, By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Containing the Commencement of A NEW WORK OF FICTION BY MR. AINSWORTH, With Two Illustrations on Steel by George Crnikshank ; And Contributions from several of the most distinguished Writers of the day. Hugh Cunningham, Publisher, St. Martin's-place, Trafal gar .square. " Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen. NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., ANNE BOLEYN. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By MRS. A. T. THOMSON. Author of " Constance," &c. Henry Coiburn, Publisher 13 'Great Marlborough-street. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, 111AJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, • having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTION of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (tbough they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain )36, LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, kre now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIE. FItIBU LIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Neat Distributions aay remive. PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains Dl VIDENDS of , C 25,000 5,000 1,500 1,000 800 £6OO 400 200 150 120 £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0007., 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 8001., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 7001. and 6001. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tingham-hire); 600/. to Bideford; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, R ithout delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS. EVENING, DEC. 30, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, horn the Text of Shakspeare. Doke, Mr. G. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassanio, Mr. Andersc,n ; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Nerisia, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ca'led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2e. 6d. Pit :35., Second Price 2.4. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr cc Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 30, Will he repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss rant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomiir.e, entitled GUI EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, lIARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to le opened at half-past Six—the performances to c•Rnmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Secon,4 Price. 2 ; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be ;tad so l .ely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TifE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expense unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING, DEC. 30, Will be acted a New Domestic Mama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written. by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun- Ding, &c. Hulirte ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, .M. Lehmar; Flip,. Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; , Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled Unprecedented; TRIS E'VENINO, DEC. 30, Will be acted, SUS A N°7I4II3PL'EY ; or, I'llE TRIALS AND vicissfruom OF A SERVANT Dean. Mr. E. ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy) After which, RORER T MA CA IRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS. This and Every Evening during the Week, the GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN and ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST, Mr. JACOBS, will astonish, delight, and surprise his au diences. The Feats in Magic surpass every thing of the sort previously witnessed. His NECROMANTIC TEMPLE is gorgeous and costly, and his Ventriloquism is the first in Eu rope: to miss seeing him is losing a treat indeed. In addition to the above, the following excellent performances are given : Herr KREUTZER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DIS SOLVING PORTRAITS; the Classical Experiments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS ; and Mons. ROUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. To commence at Seven precisely. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY SUN lS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. rr - 111E CHINA SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE. SIKTE,NCE EACH. Sun Ofliec, Dec. 30, 184 t • T H E WEATHEIL---NOON, DECEMBER 29. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 39 I highest ...... 41 Lowest 37 Barometer 29.88.—Wi , nd N.W.--Frpezin point 32 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 4 minutes after 3. I Evening ......2G minutes after 3. .' • I .......1: 2 .. * . * ( ft.), ...... . ~. 0 Ak , ~.; • , o V , a" N.l, ..4( ) ,' ' ,l J ~. . ,1,1- 4 ..... - 41.2.-te -24 "11k ~ , 47" '' ~ Abv.,... ; .... V • •• . '....,'''' .• • , i"' .. . VP: 0: & 1,..iii , :fri5...0.,::: . ~..., , , Ca. a t • U .„.4,~... - - , -, ,r ,- 7,,, ti t- 1 ,,.. . ~,,,„,,,,,,„„i , ; :€- ,. 0 T. , 6. „,., ~ .1 - - .4 4 . .. Oite LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1841. We must direct attention to our report, in another part of The Sun, of the meeting of the CHRISTIAN CHARTISTS at Birmingham. It ap pears that they have, in imitation of the Chris tian Chartists in Scotland, obtained a Church in which they perform public and divine worship. They have considerable funds; they have esta blished a school, instituted prizes, own a printing press, and exert themselves zealously and lauda bly, in a Christian spirit, to obtain the People's Charter. They were addressed by Mr. J. STuRGE, who strongly recommended them to abstain from the use of all intoxicating drinks, as a .certain means of obtaining the rights they demand.. They were also addressed by Colonel PERRONET THOMPSON, who is indefa tigable in devoting himself to the people's ser vice. What the landed aristocracy and the clergy may think of this falling away of the peo ple from the old customs of their fathers, we do not pretend to guess, but to us such meetings are, as the Nonconformist describes them, evidence " of the existence of a strong under-current of feeling in favour of political equality. They are the first escapes of steam which aristocratic tyranny has been for some time past generating." We presume the landed aristocracy, and the priesthood do not mean to coerce the people into obedience to their arbitrary will; and if they do not--if they do not design to make a charneh house of our goodly country, the sooner they take the various indications of the direction in which opinion is setting into favourable consi- , deration, the more advantageous it will be for themselves and the community. For many years France has been subject to almost continual political disorders, and has tried almost every remedy without obtaining a cure. Extreme Republicanism, and an Imperial despotism, alike caused bloodshed and tyranny. A temperate and mixed Monarchy ended in re volution, and in the establishment of the dynasty which is now hurrying on to despotism. Before the first Revolution, France had an immense Church establishment, which was the parent of the grossest immorality and the most disgusting impiety. To the same period it was blessed with the uninterrupted and uncontested sway of a long line of Kings, who involved the nation in endless profanity and immense debts, and of their hideous rule the terrible Revolution was the necessary corrective and end. The generation which grew up in Europe, and has almost passed away since that series of events began, was so forcibly impressed with them that it saw neither their causes nor their conse quences, and for a long time treated them as the results of furor or innate wickedness of Frenchmen, subject to no general law, and only to be repressed, like lunacy, by putting the nation under the constraint of strict laws. The student of history is aware, that the terrible ex cesses of the Revolution have some parallels at many antecedent periods in the existence of France, and that they only appeared so terrible to this generation because it witnessed them ignorant of previous excesses, and suffered bit terly from their consequences. Through all this long series of events, and pro tracted existence of great social evils, the theory has been professed and acted on, that the law, be it what it may, must be obeyed and enforced. Whether the law expressed only, as in the period antecedent to the time of Cardinal RICHELIEU, the brutal will of the Seigneurs, tempered some little by the doctrines of religion, and the cun ning resistance of the men of law growing gra dually into power; or whether it expressed, as subsequent to that period, the somewhat more refined and statesman-like views of the Monarchs and Ministers of France, it was, through all the ages of French history, rigorously and even terrifically enforced. France is the country of Europe where the law—whether it emanated from the Court or the Parliaments, considered as the antagonist and the curb of the popular will which had neither meetings nor institutions to give it voice—was pre-eminently the rule of society. Everything was regulated and everything ordained; and, till the beginning of the Revolution, the popular turbulence of England, in contra-distinction to the well-regulated and suppressed popu lar feelings of France, was a standing theme of reproach to our great and growing community. France has long been a monarchy par excellence, and at no period of its history has any portion of its people been capable of disputing the power of the law, or in any way resisting it, except by a violent revolution, or rushing into civil war. The result has been ages of disorder and of tumult, ending as the latest event in the attack of QUENISSET on the lives of the Royal Family, and its consequence forboding another period of anarchy, in a collision betwixt the Government, intent on administering and maintaining a bar barous and inefficient law, and the Press. Nor have the periods of greatest internal tran quillity, when the law was completely supreme, been free from dissasters. Louts XIV. was obeyed unresistingly in every part of his dominions, or he enforced his will by the sword. His success ful tyranny excluded religious liberty from France, and deprived her of some of her best arts and of her best citizens. It was the precur sor, also, of the financial and moral disorders of the Regency and of the reign of Louts XV., which so terribly embarrassed the reign of Louts XVI., from its commence ment, and brought him, far less deservedly than CHARLES 1., to a criminal's end. The internal tranquillity which generally prevailed during the short sway of NAPOLEON was accompanied by a most terrific waste of blood and treasure, by fos tering a military spirit which could not save France from conquest, and has, ever since his fall, been a source of unquietness, trouble, and expense. Such a brief bird's-eye view of the condition of France through many centuries, contrasted with the present condition of the United States, where the progress of society surpasses whatever was before known, while the peace and prosperity of the people are uninterrupted, is calculated, we think, to make the considerate and wise men, who now stand at the head of affairs in France, such as M. GUIZOT and his friends, and whom, we believe, to be animated by the best inten tions, suspect, and even doubt, the truth of their favourite doctrine, that society can be made pros perous by laws, and that nothing but obedience is wanting in France to promote the national hap piness. The Communists, and the clubs of Oitvriers Egalitaires, may be wrong; we believe they are ; but it is plain, from all experience, that M. GUIZOT and his friends must be wrong. Their system of governing France by coercive laws—of putting down what they call the bad Press, or what they consider dangerous opinions, has been tried through a series of ages, under a succession of Kings, during the dis orders of the Republic, and through the stillness of the Imperial despotism, and has invariably failed. It has led, as we have shown, to great and continual disorders. Common sense now imperiously dictates a different medicine. The whole of the institutions of France are monarchical. Political society there cannot now, by any possibility, be otherwise organized ; but those institutions should, by the Administra tion, be tempered towards liberty—biassed towards Republicanism, not hardened towards slavery, and twisted into an Imperial Crown. The Re volution of 1830, founded on a popular principle, embodied in it the instinctive wisdom which grows from experience. The popular sentiment expressed by the phrase, a CITIZEN-KING, or Republican . institutions with a Monarch,'appro priately expressed the wants of France and the institutions adapted to the age and the country. By that principle, and to attain that end should the statesmen of France now guide their conduct. M. GUIZOT has served both under the old Mo narchy and the empire, let him therefore reflect whether the mental habits which he then formed may not have more influence than present cir cumstances over his judgment. At least, if he Pursues his present career, the democratic part of society will not fail to convict him of being much better adapted to be a Sub-Prefect under NAPoLmoil, than a Minister of a Republican Monarchy. A scientific theory of Government is much more likely to be erroneous, let us t e ll M . G U IZOT, than such a pop u l ar sentiment as was em bodied in the principl es of the Revolution of °. Ti l t ia o. It is the h and of s p o ntaneous growth of the h i i n S is s 3 t c in n cntdsoiftn is the man, and of th e c i rcumstances of nature guiding • him in his course , while the ot h er is the hand Asof ainrt 'FactingFrance from n l 83 o v , esrn in England y im perfect knowl e do• at this day, the great popular demand for more liberal insti tutions and more open trade, is founded on ex tensive experience, influencing the hearts and minds of men. It confirms the assertion that such popular instincts are more to be relied on, fbr every Government must conform to them, than what are called scientific theories of government, which involve hostility to the people, and can only be maintained by re straint and coercion. M. Guizor, therefore, and his friends, would do well, in our opinion, to over haul their theories, and, instead of forcing the monarchical institutions of France towards des potism, to temper them with republicanism, arid so reconcile the power of the Throne with the Li berties of the people. We have a stronger motive for making these reflections than any expectation that they. will influence the conduct of M. GUIZOT. Our Tories share his error, and would fain make society swallow their injurious nostrums. They are continually at work to harden our institutions THI-41 SUN, " LONDON.( TFIURSDAY, DECEMBER 30; 1841. into despotism. They bawl with one discordant ' throat for coercion to enforce submission to bad and barbarous laws. They aim at Imperial rule. They would exact for a PEEL, supported by his motley crew of monopolists, the reverence which was voluntarily paid to a BONAPARTE at the head of his legions, though they can neither endow the blind, shuffling gin -horse of a politician with the talents of a great man, nor invest his selfish CALIBAN followers with the attributes of a victorious soldiery. They demand for a mer cenary aristocracy and a selfish priesthood the consideration which is due alone to self-sacrificing patriotism. The people do not agree with the Tories; the Press questions the utility of the laws which the aristocracy have passed to enrich themselves, and stigmatises obedience to such laws as a co-partnery in crime. The Tories, therefore, like the mistaken M. GUIZOT, demand rigorous laws to put down what they call the bad opinions of the bad Press, and they would, if they could, establish a tyranny over opinion here such as prevails in France. In pointing out the error of M. GUIZOT our main object is undoubtedly to read a lesson to our Tories and to our own people. We would earnestly put the latter on their guard against the supposition, disproved by the whole history of France, that exacting a rigid obedience to laws can secure national happiness ; and we would make them ready, therefore, if it be in our power, to resist the encroachments of the Tories, who are prepared, we know, to imitate that rigour in LOUIS PHILIPPE'S Government which they admire and praise. We do not ex pect that they will be convinced that the object of their admiration is a grievous error, but we may, perchance, influence the public to believe that to adopt it here would inflict as much in jury on England as it has inflicted on France. We learn with pleasure from the unequivocal testimony of the Tory Journals, that out of Corn law Repeal agitation a great political agitation is arising. This is what ought to be, and what we long ago predicted would be, the consequence of the crying injustice committed by the Legisla ture. We told the landowners, years ago, that they were exposing their property, and all the institutions of the country, to danger by levying an augmentation of rent in the shape of a tax ordained by the Legislature on the people's bread. What do we now find? The Corn-law Repealers, says one furious Tory Journal, are bellowing for a land-tax. The repeal of the Corn-laws, says another, is not merely a fiscal or commercial question with the Corn-law Re peelers; its ultimate object is essentially a poli tical one. So the selfish aristocracy will be paid off in their own coin. They passed the Corn laws to enrich themselves, and keep down the de mocracy ; and those very laws are now stimulating the community to demand an exclusive tax on the landlords, and impelling the democracy to require a complete change in the Constitution. The greediness of the upper classes has com pelled the other classes to look into the founda tion of political power, as well as examine the existing right of property, and the present result is an extensive agitation against the political , power and property of the bread-taxers. There is only one course which these gentle men can now consistently pursue. If they are resolved, cost what it may, to maintain their tax on the people's bread, they must follow up this gross and palpable act of injustice by further acts of tyranny. If their will be sufficient to take away the people's bread and stop trade, it must also be sufficient to annihilate their liberties and take away their lives. The landlords dare not leave so many people in existence to com plain, nor leave them with their present means of organizing either complaint or resistance. They must, for their own safety, diminish the number of people, and diminish their liberties. Whatever the votes of the electors may decide, n whatevermay be the majority in Parliament, the.,continuance of a bread-tax places the land. ! , lOtd, witihiattility with the bulk of societ.:",They cannot' belt mid-way, and must go on and de stroy, or be destroyed. They may retreat and save themselves, and save the country, but that the landowners declare they will not do; and if they will not give up their scandalous injustice, their only consistent course is to become the avowed destroyers of the lives and liberties of the people. With folly and ambition, which are quite un equalled, these men institute agricultural so cieties, promote agricultural improvements, study labour, and give rewards to produce corn cheaper, and at the same time they pass laws to keep corn at the same price. By the introduction of improTred processes, including new manures and new crops, the produce of agriculture has been increased, on the average, not far short of the whole increase of the population, or 56 per cent., since the beginning of the century; but in the same period the agricultural population has not increased 20 per cent. The increase of the agricultural produce is therefore obtained by less labour; any proportionate quantity of it costs less than it did at the beginning of the century, or at any intervening time between that period and now, and yet the landlords make laws in order ,to keep up the price. What would they have said of the possessors of spinning mules had they required a law to keep up the price of cotton as high as before the mules were invented ? The landowners try, in fact, to accomplish in compatible things, namely, to produce corn at a less cost, and yet to obtain for it the same or an equal price. It is true they have not succeeded; for every successive law they have passed or proposed, they have been obliged to lower the pivot at which they could permit importation. How could they ? It is not more certain that bodies on the surface of the globe tend to the centre, than that lowering the cost of production lowers the price of a commodity. The folly of the landlords is shown in their attempting to accom plish incompatible things—their ambition in attempting to counteract a law of nature—their folly and their ambition are now as palpable to the meanest man of the community as their in justice, and they must subvert the laws of nature before they can come successful out of the ter rible agitation against their political power and their property, which their folly, injustice, and mad ambition have provoked. The Madrid Journals received are of the 21st instant. The only news they contain is that there was no prospect of the differences between the French Ambassador and the Madrid Go vernment being settled before the arrival of despatches from the Cabinet of the Tuileries. The protest of the French Liberal Press against the sentence of the Court of Peers, find ing M. DUPOTY guilty of a moral complicity of treason, for editing a Journal read by conspi rators, occupies the leading columns of the Paris Journals of Monday. The publica. tion of this document at the opening of the Chambers will greatly embarrass the Go vernment, and prepare the way to very important changes in France. The Peers threw down the gauntlet, and the Liberal Press has picked it up. Mutual deflances are exchanged. The Peers struck the first blow, but the heavy interest with which the Press has returned it, is asyet incalcula ble. English readers will peruse with pleasure the dignified masterly rebuke of the conduct of the Court of Peers administered by the Liberal •.Press of France. An attempt at highway robbery was made on the night of the 17th inst.. on the road front Dreux to Nogent-le-Roi, when two carriers' carts were tried to be stopped by a man, who demanded of the drivers their money or their lives. 'The 'latter plied their whips and got off, and the robber fired'fbur or - five shots after them, but without effect. - • - A few days since, says the Feaille de Cambrai, an in habitant of Briaaqe,named Delporte, who had left his home at six o'cloek in the morning, for Solesmes was found on the road an hour afterwards quite dead, having been robbed and murd ere d . ,The journal adds that there has been great frequency of crimes lately in that district. A shoemaker of Forbacsit, in th e M ose ll e , w ho had long been given to habits or drinking, quarrelled, while intoxicated a few days since, with his eld es t so n, and seizing one of his cutting-knives, stabbed him to the heart. , His second son, who came to assist his brother, received , several bad wounds. The wretched man has been arrested. A few days - ago, a cart.apparently empty was stopped at one of the barriers of Cambrai by.the officers, for the usual formality of inspection. The driver, as soon as he had stopped his vehicle, took to his heels, and the officers, on looking into the cart more closely, discovered that the bottom and the sides had tin cases concealed in them, in a very skilful manner, containing 360 litres or 88 gallons of spirits. The cart and horse have been confiscated; A few days ago, two journeymen t a nn er s a t M on t reu il, on the Calais road, died of the glanders, which they caught , from .a horse killed by the disease, and which they hiul flayed. • The . Journal de Rouen announces that a lady in that city was, a few days ago, made a great-great-grand mother, by the birth of a little girl, making the fifth ge neration living in regular descent from herself. A letter from Nice states, that a few days ago, the bridge of the Var was carried away for the second time within three months. The.engineer in chief of Nice was engaged with nine workmen clearing away the trees which obstructed the passage of the water through the arches when the bridge gave way, and they were swept off by the current. The engineer and one of the work men were drowned. The others were saved with great difficulty. Dispatches from Avignon announce that, on the 23d inst., the Rhone again overflowed its banks, and that se veral quarters of the town were again flooded. The Marseilles Journals represent the Rhone to be still very high ; the lands dear Arles, Boulbon, and Tarascon, being still under water. The road between the latter place and St. Remi is from three to four feet under water, but public carriages continue to run on it. A proposition has been addressed to the Council-Ge neral of the Calvados for converting the small port of Porten-Bessin into a harbour of refuge. From the pre sent state of currents, along that part of the coast of Norinandy, the project would be both easy and advan tageous. A considerable slip of earth took place, a few days since, at Tourville-la-Riviere, on the Paris and Rouen Railroad. Five men were buried under the fallen mate rials, but were got out after some time without any serious injury. The Directors of the works gave a gra tuity on this occasion to the men who helped to rescue their companions; but a very bad use was made of their generosity, for the workmen got intoxicated in the even ing, and in a violent quarrel which ensued several among them wounded each other dangerously with their knives. The Council-General of the Meuse has voted 1,000,000 of francs towards the formation of the Paris and Stras bprg Railroad. The Municipal Councils of Bar-le-Due and Commercy have voted 200,000 fr. and 30,000 fr. re spectively, for the same purpose. " It appears," says the Memorial Bordelais," that the railroad from Paris to this city is to be included among the lines which Government intends proposing to the Chambers." The Municipal Council of Toulouse has refused to allow indemnification claimed by several inhabitants for damage done to their property during the late riots there, on the ground that the Prefect, M. Mahul, held the sole municipal authority in his hands at the moment of the disturbances, and that the Municipal Council was at that period deprived of the means of repressing them. The Gazette des Tribunaux relates a gross instance of ingratitude towards a poor but kind-hearted female of the working class. She had given shelter and food to a girl with whom she had formerly worked, but who had fallen into great distress, and, on her return home the other day from her work, found that the girl had stript her of everything portable that she possessed. Fortunately some neighbours had seen which way the thief went, and a pursuit being set up, she was discovered, and taken into custody whilst in the act of selling the stolen property. The waters of the Seine have fallen so much within a couple of days, that it is expected the navigation of the river will soon be resumed as usual. The water now marks 4 1-5 metres, or 13 feet 9 inches ; by the scales at the bridges. The Bordeaux papers mention that at a recent meeting cf the creditors of the house of Balguerie and Co., the temporary syndics of the bankruptcy, Messrs. Alauze and Furbeyre were confirmed in their functions ; and, on the demand of several persons present that a third syndic should be appointed, M. Emile Galos, of the house of J. Gales and Son, was named by a large majority. A journal of this morning has the following article:— " The reports which have been circulated on the rejec tion of the petition for mercy to Quenisset, Brazier, and Colombier have no foundation. This question has not been brought before the Council of Ministers ; we be lieve that the Council will not be able to attend to it in less than a week, unless the King should spontaneously exercise the finest right which the Chamber has given him. Till then there is a respite, and this respite is a proof to us that the unhappy culprits will not have ap pealed to the royal clemency in vain."—Constitutionnel TOULON, DEC. 22.—The news brought by the Alger (of the line) are really important. If General Mustapha has not ebtained the absolute submission of the Aga of the Trara, including the great tribes of the Oulassa, he has been able to promenade as master on the left bank of the Tana, among tribes which have 3,925 houses, and which are protected by 300 horse and 9,000 foot (the Kabyles generally fight on foot) the brav est troops in the western part of, the regency. As for the tribe of the Bordja, which Genera/ Bedeau has just chastised, and from which he has ,taken 6,300 head of, cattle and 750,horaes and beasts cpf,Ainiden,',At :is part of the eastern region called: Clinelc, 'and :cannot defend itself, not having more than 200 Combatants- The Phaeton steam-boat has arrived from Tunis and Bona, which it left on the 17th with some despatches and 37 passengers. All was tranquil at Tunis and Bona, when it left those places. The Bey of Tunis had left the Goletta and returned to his palace after having inspected all the batteries.— Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 27. _ first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Frit'. Price. french 5 per Cents .......... ll6 60 ... 116 65 .., 116 50 ... 116 55 4 per Cents lOl 05 ... 101 05 ... 101 05 ... 101 05 3 per Cent:. ex div 78 50 78 55 ... :8 49 ... 78 40 Bank of trance :'39o ...2390 „ mo o ...539e Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sharer 1012 50 ...Pea 50 —lOO2 50 ...1002 50 Koloan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Centl., 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 10 . 3 ... 1(13 Spanish Active 94% ... 24% ... 24% ... 1'4% Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5). ... 5% Old Deferred Neapolit.th Portugueses per Cents. rumen.... 10.2% "' 112% ... 102 j, RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830 Veraai Iles. L.b l9B 75 ... 198 75 ... 1,7 50 _ 197 50 B. B 323 75 ... 3 .43 75 ... 32.3 75 ... 323 75 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 Orleans Montpellier to Cette 250 .., 250 ... 250 ... 150 Strasburg to Bale 225 ... 225 ... 223 75 ... 225 AUS LILIAN FUN DS.—ViEwws. , DEC. 18. riveper Cents. Metalliques .„.,.... 106% Fob: per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• ....... ••••••• 99% Three Fr Cents. ' s. . . ' 75% Rank Shares ... ..... ..........4..........4..•...... —illikenteine Zettung. Dec. 22. We gave a paragraph on Tuesday, furnished by a Correspondent, setting forth the high opinion some Aldermen had formed of the New Police Act, the vigilance of the Commissioner and the constables, and attributing the boasted " City sobriety," during the holidays, to these combined circumstances, but chiefly to the closing of pub lic-houses on Christmas-eve and Saturday night. We looked upon all this as " mere moonshine," and so the upshot has proved. One of the " vi gilant" constables let the secret out on Tuesday at Guildhall. " The police," said he, " received instructions not to take any charge of drunken ness unless compelled to do so, but to pass the drunkards'home from one policeman to another." Wag this notable scheme got up because the ditirikards were too numerous for the receiving 'houses, or was it contrived by Commissioner Harvey to protect stray Aldermen who might happen to be wandering home at a late hour re markable for anything but " City sobriety ?" THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS UPON HER TRIAL.—So say the Tory papers. The truth, however is, that she has been upon her trial for upwards of two centuries, and has been found guilty of inefficiency, want of Christianity, and rapacity. Any sentence pronounced on her at Oxford,-will. - only - be the parental condemnation of a vagabond whom the Magistrates have, doomed to destruction. Ps° S Vlll , V i a S AND Vutatc Optttion. " Who runs may read." rO3IZEIGN. The whole of the Paris Opposition press, with one exception, devote their usually leading columns to the publication of the protest of the sixteen Journals against the conviction of M. Dupoty. The single exception is• the Constitutionnel, which, however, contains a clever article denouncing the sentence of the Court of Peers. The protest of the Journals created a much greater sen sation in Paris than the King's speech. " Sir Robert Peel," says the National," has written to King Louis Philippe a letter in extremely pressing and flattering terms, to request that M. G uizot may be kept at the head of affairs."—What nonsense shall we have next? The King of the French's Speech was followed on Monday by a fall in the funds of a quarter per cent. The repressive threatenings which so delighted the poli tical rats round the Throne produced far other sensations in the bosoms of the financiers. Never before was a Throne Speech of Louis Philippe followed by such a result. Mehemet Izzet Paella has been appointed President of the New Turkish Cabinet. A more incompetent person to fill such an office could hardly be found in the Otto man Empire. Advices from Erzeroum of 20th ultimo, in the Leipsic Gazette, state that Sir H. M'Neil has been received in a splendid manner at Teheran, and that 10,000 persons came out of the town to meet him. At the gate he was complimented by the Prime Minister of the Shah, and afterwards resived a valuable horse from his Majesty. Such is the result of Lord Palmerston's firmness. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post contains a lengthy leading article suggested by some remarks in the forthcoming Number of the Church of England Quarterly Review, wherein . our Con temporary strives hard to prove that the late Ministers were a mere squad of " Shuffiers," whose policy it was to do every thing that they should not have done, and exhibit nothing but inconsistency on the question of the Corn-laws. In an article discussing the question of the heavy deodand with which the Jury accompanied their verdict on the inquest lately held on the eight persons who were killed on the Great Western Railroad, the Herald de fends the justice of that deodand, observing that the accident was undoubtedly caused by the negligence and inattention of the Great 'Western Railroad Company," and that the " evidence adduced fully establishes a case of great carelessness against them." Referring to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the sub ject of the Corn-laws, the Chronicle is of opinion that that speech is a good sign of the times, evincing some improvement ; and adds, that "it indicates that there is some change in contemplation ; that the Government dares not take its stand on the perfection and immuta bility of the present Corn-law ; but that the whole sys tem is to be thrown open to full discussion by those who have heretofore refused to hear evidence, answer argument, or permit debate." The Times has an article on the King of the French's speech on the opening of the Chambers, in which our Contemporary observes that the greater part of the do cument is occupied with domestic affairs, of which the King.speaks " with a straightforward and characteristic manliness, which indicates a very considerable degree of confidence in the stability of the existing order of things." The Times adds that all Europe must "hail with satisfaction these indications of a strong Govern ment in France." The Advertiser observes, with reference to the late great Anti-Corn-law meeting in Dublin, that the enlist ment of Ireland in the efforts to procure a repeal of the Corn-laws, is " another heavy blow and great discourage ment to the landed oligarchy." We take the following from the Dublin Pilot : " There is no people on the face of the earth on whom kindness has such influence as on the Irish. No greater proof of this can be given than in their reverential affection for the Queen. They know that she is kind and just, and they consequently love her, because she has not, like others, resorted to coercion, and because she can, with out cruelty, preserve orders in this country, and win an obedience as unbounded as that of the Queen Bee." The North Devon Journal say s:—"The suffering poor naturally look to the Government for relief ; and al though no legislative enactment can entirely remedy the complication of evils which have conspired to produce so wide-spread a state of distress, yet it is certain that the immediate attention of Parliament must be directed to the subject ; and we would encourage a hope, that the statements of wretched destitution which have pervaded the public prints for months past, may have engendered sympathy in the bosoms of the powerful class to whose interested legislation it is attributed, and induce the landed proprietors to consent to forego the injurious pro tection which they have too long enjoyed." Alluding to Mr. Christopher's late speech on the Corn laws, the Tyne Mercury observes as follows :—" We mentioned the general terms of the new sliding scale ; Heaven knows but that before we go to press another sliding scale may have been invented 1 We have always been opposed to any sliding scale ,at all ; but this sneaking, paltry, ridiculous sliding scale, above •all others, we strenuously repudiate, Its be ginning at 45., as we ,stated, „WA., week, and ending at 18s., is enough to nooiviiaufriMoe ta its fully, as well as its impropriety. Tho lowestitiltosibei,ag 4a. (Mr. Christopher in his derni-official speech, makes it 55.,) . will not maintain an equilibrium, in the mind of any person at all acquainted with commerce, with the ex treme duty of 18s." The following appears in the North Staffordshire Mer cury :—" The Church-rate question is again vexing the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. After the experience of the past, in the trial of the relative advantages of the compulsory and the voluntary system, it does surprise us that the professed friends of the Church should so far stand in the way of their own comfort, and the credit of the Establishment itself, as to seek to extort another rate from the unwilling hands of their fellow-parishioners." CO URT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked as usual in the New Grounds and Terrace. Her Majesty afterwards rode out in a pony-carriage and four, attended by the Countess of Sandwich and Lady Stanley. In another carriage were the Hon. Miss Lister, the Hon. Miss Murray, Earl of Aberdeen, and Admiral Sir Robert Otway. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was on horseback, attended by Lord Stanley, Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Arbuthnot, Viscount Sydney, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. George E. Anson, to wit ness the uncarting of the deer in the Great Park. The Chevalier Bunsen took his departure this morn ing, and the Earl of Aberdeen and• Lord and Lady Stanley left the Castle in the afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princvss Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Lady Augusta Somerset, left town on Tuesday evening for their residence at Kew. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in towa yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Despatches from the, Governor of St. Helena were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord and Lady Stanley returned to their residence in St. James's-square 'yesterday afternoon from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Chevalier Bunsen, his PruSSian Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, on a special mission, arrived in town yesterday from a visit to the Queen ht Windsor Castle. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.--It must be exceed ingly gratifying to those who exert themselves to im prove the morals of the working classes to know that the number of persons, chiefly mechanics, who .visited the public institutions on Monday (boxing-day), which is generally a holiday, far exceeded that of any former similar period. The National Gallery on that day was visited by 15,000 persons, the British Museum by up wards of 14,000. The Adelaide Gallery, and the Poly technic Institution had 'their share—the former near 9,000: Greenwich HoSpital was visited by an immense number, as was also the Royal ArAenal and Rotunda a t Woolwich. Such a thirst for intellectual and rational amusement was nut.before known to exist to such an ex tent amongst the working classcs, particularly on the oc casion of a universal holiday ; indeed, in many populous neighb9urhoOds, the gin shops were nearly deserted, and the robee state that there were no more cases of drunken ness, 41,91 e street on Monday evening than on ordin ar y OCCILSIOIIS. ' ' MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The Sugar-question Conference of the Germanic Cus toms Union has terminated. The duty on lump sugar is about doubled, and conies. in force on the 16th of next March. The large house Of Van Nooten and Hagwood, at Demerara, according to Trinidad papers, has failed to the amount of 90,000/. Of the produce shipped from Trinidad for the last year, there has been a decrease in cocoa and coffee, but an increase in sugar and molasses. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Among the items voted by the Belgian Chambers for the support of its various institutions and their respec tive members, assistance to necessitous teachers without employ, and schoolmasters' widows, is set down at 10,000 francs, for salaries to schoolmasters 250,000 fr. and 75,000 fr. for school-houses. A third pier is about to be erected at Gravesend, upon the completion of which the present Terrace Pier will be pulled down. It is to be a handsome structure of iron, and will cost about 8,0001. 3E:LECTIONEERING. The death of Mr. West, Queen's Counsel, occasions a vacancy for the city of Dublin. It appears he died of an ulcerated sore throat, and has left a large young family. He was in his 54th year. The Irish papers of both par ties pay a high tribute to his goodness of heart and gene rous disposition._ NAVAL AND MILITARY. A division of the 6th Regiment, which has been sta tioned in India twenty years, arrived at Rochester on Monday. During that period they have been stationed at Bombay, Cutchbough, and Coletabourn. The regi ment is ordered for Canterbury. LAW AND POLICE. A journeyman tailor, named John Cross, was charged at Lambeth-street with attempting to murder his step daughter with a spring clasp knife. Love, it appears, was the cause of the mischief; the girl had promised to marry him, but finding another lover more to her liking she " left her Johnnie," and married his rival, upon which Johnnie to be revenged married her mother, a woman 60 years of age. Not liking his bargain, he still harrassed the young woman with his importunities, which she strenuously rejected, and he therefore, ac cording to his wife's account, made one attempt to take away his own life, and seemed determined also to mur der her daughter. The tailor, who wept bitterly, said it might be all true, and was ordered to find bail. Tuesday, at Queen-square, seven men and six women inmates of St. Luke's workhouse, Chelsea, charged with riotous conduct in that establishment, . were committed to prison for twenty-one days. Whilst evidence was given against one of the women, named M'Bride, by a female inmate, but not one of the . party convicted, for . threatening to take her life, the prisoner rushed at the witness, and struck her a violent blow on the head. She was removed in a fainting state, and bleeding much. Evidence of this outrage committed in presence of the Magistrate, was then given, and Mr. Burrell sentenced M'Bride to pay a penalty of .51., and in default of pay ment to be kept to hard labour for two months, and find bail for her good behaviour for twelve months. On Tuesday a pretty young girl, about 14 years of age, was brought before the Brentford Magistrates, having been found by a policeman on the previous after noon in a back lane, utterly insensible. It appeared that She had gone to a pawnbroker's in Old Brentford, to take out a pledge for her grandmother, where she had been supplied by the shopman with gin, and had drank five or six glasses. The poor girl remembered that she had been dragged into the passage of a house by two young men, and had been ill used, but she could give no description of the place. The Magistrates regretted that the person who had supplied the gin was not brought before them, and directed an officer to wait upon the I pawnbroker, and state the facts. FINE ARTS. The Royal manufactory at Sevres is to furnish the painted 'glass for the'windows of the chapel of Henry IV., at the LouvreiwhichiS now to be restored to its original ecclesiastical uses: When Rubini went to sign his' name as a member of the Lyceum, at Madrid; of Willett he , had been elected, the directors placed " beftite ' him: for twat purpose a splendid inkstand, surmounted with his own bust, which they afterwards requested him to accept. Fifteen thousand people, a: multitude of whom were young persons, visited the National Gallery during Monday and Tuesday. Three thousand persons visited Westminster Abbey on Monday, and almost as many on the day following. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Tuesday night the members of the London Mechanics' Institution observed the eighteenth anniversary of their foundation. In honour of the late Dr. Birkbeck, the theatre was hung with black cloth, and most of the com pany were in mourning. A Queen Elizabeth's shilling was lately dug up in a garden at Shatton, in Carlisle, after being 273 years under ground. THEATRICAL. Rubini sang for the last time on the 21st at Madrid A magnificent pin, in the centre of which was a splendid brilliant, set round by rubies, has been presented to him by the Duke of Ossuna. Cerito is at present gaining golden laurels at Vienna. She has appeared in all her favourite ballets, and is fol lowed as much as Taglioni. SPORTING. A few days since the iticejj'fiuccleuch's hounds met at Kelso-bridge, and after a most perilous run across the borders, the fox was killed near Middleton Hall, after a chase up the tremendous cliff of Newton Tor. The fate Earl of Westmoreland, like his contemporary, Lord Chancellor Loughborough, was excessively devoted to English pastimes. The latter has been known, on hearing of a boxing-match, to doff his wig, and ride 25 miles without stopping, to see his favourite athletes " come to the scratch." COURT—FASHIONABLE. The marriage of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy is put off to the latter end of January, on account of the death of the bride's grandfather, and the delay of the departure of his Serene Highness Prince Paul. Her Excellency the Countess de St. Aulaire is ex pected in London early in the ensuing month. It is ex pected that she will be accompanied by some portion of her numerous and distinguished family. A rumour prevails of the marriage of a French diplo matist, well known in England, the Marquis de la Va lette, and Mrs. Wells, the widow of an American mer chant, lately resident in Paris, who left his belle male a fortune said to be of 25,0001. per annum. 'Ford Fitzgerald and V esci arrived in town on Tuesday afternoon, from a visit to the Duke of Beaufort, at Bad minton. Colonel Churchill has left town on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye. The dinner to the Duke of Buckingham, which is to be given by the English agriculturists, will, we learn, take place on February 11. A vacancy in the Governorship of the Charter House occurs. by ,the death of the Earl of Westmoreland, who was a Carthusian. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday, in 1680, Lord Strafford was executed, an event which almost broke the heart of Charles I. Lord Douglas Gordon Hallybnrton, late M.P. for For farshire, died on the evening of Chtistmas-day. He was half-brother to the present Marquis of Huntly. His Lordship's remains are to be removed for interment to Scotland. The new skating room of artificial ice, in Gloucester place, New Road, has been appropriately christened the Glaciarium. A palace for the Archbishop of Paris is rbout to be rebuilt on the site of the old one, to the south of Notre- Dame. The estimates are laid at about 75,0001. Government has offered two large rewards, one for the apprehension of the murderers of Emma Evans, of Bromsgarth, Salop; and thd other for those of Mr. Henry Grayson late of Rainsford, Lancaster. "In the island of Scilly," says a Morning Contem porary, "at this season, the inhabitants exercise a kind of gallantry, called Goose Dancing, where the women are dressed up for young men, and the young men for women,"—A goose dance in Downing. street would be a very appropriate amusement in such a locality, at this season of the year, more especially if the Ministerial par ties engaged in it were all to be dressed up for old women ! Many of the Ministers are now staying at Drayton Manor, on a visit of condolence to Sir R. Peel for the approaching alteration in the Corn-laws. RUMOURS OT THE DAT. Preparations are already making amongst Ministerial and diplomatic personages for the reception of his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Corporation of London, it is expected, will likewise show its hospitality in a manner becoming to the greatest Protestant Prince of the Con tinent. In the event of a vacancy in the representation of Clare County occurring, through the resignation, from indiffer ent health, of Major M'Namara, it is generally rumoured that Sir W. Fitzgerald, of Carrigoran, will start on the Liberal interest. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Stock Markets are steady to-day, and the quotations generally were fully supported, in the ab sence, however, of any extensive transactions. Consols for the opening were 88* to 89*, and for Money, 90k. Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 14s. prem. ; Bank Stock was steady at 1651 to 1651, and Reduced Three-and-a half per Cents. brought 99 to 99h. The Foreign Market evinced no animation for any security but the Mexican Bonds, which were dealt in, both the Active and Deferred, at improved rates. It is supposed the dividend will be forthcoming. The Actives were 26k to 27, and the Deferred, Bto 81. Brazil Old Bonds were "at 64, and dull. Spanish Actives were steady at 24 to 241, and Russian at 114. There is very little disposition apparently to speculate in Penin sular Stocks. The recent accidents on the Railways have not had the effect of checking the improvement in Shares, and there was again to-day a good deal doing. The nearest rates were these :—Great 'Western, 21 to 212 New Ditto, 10 ; London and Birmingham, 80 ; the Quarter, 20 ; and .the York and North Midland, 42 prem. Brighton Shares were 101 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1 ; Midland Counties, 15 ; and South Eastern and Dover, 212 dis. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 2 prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) layEaroot. , Co-I -rots MARKET, DEC. 28.-We have had a mod.,rate detnaild for Cotton to-clay, the sales comprising 4,000 bales, 500 of which have been taken speculators. Prices are firm. IdlTEnt'ool. SHARE MARKET, DEC. 28.—The tran :sactions comprised Grand Junctioq,' 195 . ; Half Ditto, 978 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 242 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 561 ; North Midland, Thirds, 16¢ ; York and North Midland, 914, MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 28:—Our Mar ket to-day is firm, and prices continue to improve. The sales are :—Manchester and Leeds, GSI and 67. ; Ditto Halves, Ditto Quarters, 31. 155., 31.1165., and 31165. 6d. ; North Union, 764 ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 214 ; South Lancashire Bank, 4/. 7s. 6d. ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10k. The President's Message, which we published in our Paper of yesterday, was read with an unusual degree of interest in the City, but it was not, upon the whole, re ceived with satisfaction, and Consols fell about 4 per cent. The opening price to. day is 888 89 ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89i ; Exchequer bills, 12 14. Spanish Active Stock 244; Passive, 52 ; Deferred, 118 128 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 324 334 ; ditto Threes, 191 20. There has been but little business doing in either the English or Foreign securities. The prices have, however, improved. Consols are 89i- for the Account, and some business has beon done for money at M. Three per Cents. Reduced are 89ii ; Three-and-a-Half do. 99-1-, ; Bank Stock, 1651; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem. In the Foreign market Brazilian Bonds are quoted at 64; Mexican, 261; Russian, 114; Spanish Active Stock, 240 _ A - further advance has taken place in Shares to-day. London and Brighton are ; Great Western, 861 ; ditto Fifths, 10; London and Birmingham, 170; ditto Thirds, 571; ditto New, 29; Manchester and Leeds, 69; Midland Counties, 85; York and North Midland, 91. The Markets are all firm. Consols are now 89i 1 for the account; Spanish, 241 Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 ; Consols, for the Account, 89i- 4 ; Mexican, 261 a; Spanish, 241 1 1-. With the prevalence of such changeable, and, at the same time, unseasonable weather, the Corn and Bullion Markets again become the object of attention in the City. It is well, perhaps, that our stock of bullion is strengthened periodically by arrivals from South America, or the ex ports of silver that have taken place this year might prove very inconvenient to us. From London alone this year, a circumstance that will no doubt excite the surprise and attention of many of our readers, there have been shipped off nearly ten million ounces of silver. The exports of gold have been under 25,000/. in value. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 165% India Stock. • ••• --- 3 per. Cent Red. B9& , Ditto Bonds — Pm 3 per Cent Cons — Ditto Old Annuities ... - 3i per Cent Red 98% ;Ditto New Annuities... New 3% per Cent — i Ex. Bills, 1,090/....2id 12 pm New 5- per Cent - ' — I Ditto 5001.... l2 pro Long Annuities to expire i Ditto Small. 12 pm .Jan 1860 ... 12% 'Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 18 5 9 Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, b'per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgusn, ti. per cent Ditto, New Ditto --• Brazilian Bonds. 64 iPrussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per COIL --• IRu ssian, 5 per cent ll4 Chilian, 6 per cent.... Ditto, Metallic , Coloinbian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24% , Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred . Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 27 French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 Dutch, 2% per cent....... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 67% Great Western Railway( 65 paid) 86% Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Anniversary Dinner of the commercial gentle men connected with this Institution took place at the London Coffee-house, on Monday last, Robert Currey, Esq., in the Chair. After the usual loyal toasts were given, the CHAIR MAN said he was about to p ro pose a toast that came home to the interests of all p re s e nt ; and it was to him a source of high gratification to be enabled to assure the meeting that the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society was a safe, prosperous, and flourishing Institu tion. He was gratified in being surrounded by so nume rous an assembly of commercial men, within whose means and ability it was to render the Society one of the first class and importance. The present m oment was neither the time nor place to enter into the details of the financial progress of the Society ; hut at a proper time it would be submitted to the Proprietors, and would doubtless be high l y satisf actory. After some judicious remarks on the advantages and progress of the science of Life Assurance, the Chairman concluded by proposing " Prosperity to the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society. "The Health of the Chairman," " The Board of Di rectors," " The Actuary," " The Medical and other Offi cers of the Institution," followed, and the meeting separated. DUBLIN ELECTION.--A gentleman named Vance, son of a merchant who resides in Bridge-street, has, we understand, signified his intention of a contest vgainst the Conservative candidate. Mr. Vance was a candidate for Bandon some time since. MORNING SUN HAYMARKET THEATRI• Mr. Stuart, from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, mac f a very successful debut at this theatre last evening► 10 that most arduous part, lago. ffe know not in the whole range of the drama any character more difficitlt of per sonation than this. In the very commencement of the play Shakspeare gives an inkling of the difficulties neces sary to be overcome by the aspirant, by putting into the mouth of logo himself words which serve as a key to the whole character— , " When I am what I seem, L• It shall not be long after I will wear My heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I seem." To say, therefore, that any actor has made a succoe ful debut in a character requiring such careful study to comprehend, and such varied powers to e mbody the fruits of that study, as does the' character of Ingo, is at once to assign him a high place in his profession, and a high place unquestionably Mr. Stuart has a right to claim as his own. Nature has done much for him ; his voice is powerful and sonorous, not unlike -in quality the voice of Macready ; his features flexibl e and expressive, his eye good, and his person well formed. He is evi' dently a gentleman and a scholar, and his provincial practice has made him thoroughly acquainted with the business of the stage. His opening scenes with Roderigo were very good, and the passage which we have quote d ,. above was exceedingly well given. The s ne er with win e ' he gave the celebrated line in the second act— " To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer," was quite Mephistophelian, and was deservedly In the jealousy scene, he seemed to be at times suffering from nervousness ;as lie warmed in the scene, however, he became himself again, and gave the words, " Oh ! what damned tortures tells he o'er Who doubts, yet fears, suspects, yet strong loreds,st with a quiet beauty which elicited applause, e n In once seemed to restore to him his full self-possess ion ' his the short scene with Desdemona, in the fourth ° et ' compassionating manner of giving the line, "Be sure, my lord is very angry," suffering from fi ' r h act was the very perfection of hypocri s y. I n the t h he was admirable. The sneer of fiendliketriumtlihe with which he contemplated his hellish work, told glance of contemptuous malice, revelling in the luxury of revenge, with which he regarded Othello, as he Inah ith his final exit, were perfect. Mr. Stuart brought u p v b s e him a high reputation from the pro v i n ces, and he n a proved himself w e ll worth] o f it. Let him d e P e b e solely on himself—let him trust solely to t os promptings of his own genius, and he ee; ne n fail to achieve for himself fame and for' ll- t e. He was called for at the fall of the curtain and lond l Y t ri; plauded. Wallack was the Othello, and to say thathri c e the best Othello now on the stage is barely doing ict to the merits of one of the most beautiful P ieces T l 'ery ing we have ever witnessed. It is faultless. -ts v e i t perfection as a whole renders it impossible in detail. A more perfect piece of acting the stage 61 %, not possess. Wallack was also called for at the conelit, sion of the piece, and led forward Miss Helen F eu s d e . who was a very pathetic, tender, and graceful Decd mona. The new spectacle followed, to the great to critic!! es enter tainment of the juvenile portion of the audience. CHRISTMAS FOLLIES• SIR-A most disgraceful hoax has, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM. wit , days, been played otf upon arespectable 3 °- `" highly resp lady, residing in York-place, City-ro d. a bout On Christmas-day she was surprised at receiving eighteen notes, accepting an invitation to an eve and party, to be given by her on the Monday following,n; ber upon inquiry, found that cards had been issued name by some unknown person. s hops On Monday evening a young man called at the „ of several tradesmen residing in the vicinity of 11 0° and Finsbury, and ordered various articles to be sent to , h' the last few the above-named house in the evening. AceordingiY, a seven o'clock the door was literally besieged of persons, with innumerable articles in Wl' e t h r ey , trays, &c.; and it was with considerable difficul t yAt were induced to believe that they had been duP ew ,.,, .in nine o'clock a quadrille band arrived; and at ten 2 ",,; s , with a I t , , forcemeut of green grocery, porter, spirits, rain c e e c i r o -e d tripe, sausages, oysters, jellies, &c., were annoy need, e of of course refused admission, to the great disconifitur the parties who had been thus entrapped. • n cled Such proceedings may be sport to the weak-131! persons who can be amused by them; but they oreV a ea opinion, scandalous in the extreme; and it is to be withr that, if the parties can be traced, they will meet their deserts. pan By inserting the above in your widely:circulateu you may perhaps be the means of putting tr adesme o ,_. their guard, and will greatly oblige, Sil o diently, C. •Li York-place, City-road, Dec. 28, 1841. u.ri.rsLoustisu: . - Tile country TO THE EDITOR OF a c ountry Szn,—l cut the inclosed out of s a lawye r, paper about a month since, and, :. feeling the immense importance 5 f a hint for a it conveys, I forward it to You a you Plea se °Il conspicuous paragraph, or What y the subject. g te . Scc. S 4 e. , Murders, threats of assassination, y,ro to Y in criminal proceedings 'and clues t i r neg perty and persons, &c: proceedings, Ste., hdve at dto been owing to post marks externally, a ° o r means of identification internally, existing' 0 11 % , in correspondence, and written documents: .its t he a dvice cuse the trouble I give you, and believe me, your obe di ent servant, PRECISION' _ _ ._ Tempki, 'Dec. 26, 1841. " Letter enveliipes are liable to one serious n o bjection' as at present generally employed. In the event of the e: velope being either separated from the letter, or by ac ci ; dent lost, it would, in the first place, be difficult to Flo lr , that the letter which the envelope enclosed was actual l y second impossible. This remark applies addressed, by the writer to the recipient ; and in t those instances only where the . name and address of t 1;, recipient are not written at the foot of the letter itsent as well as upon the superscription. But the practicethofe not writing these on the latter is almost universal; hint contained in this paragraph is therefore not 11 0 . , called for. The elegant medium of the envelope 51 I to still be used, but the letter itself should be a coinP_ e ., s o document—lT SHOULD CONTAIN THE MEANS OF ITS ow of course a IDENTIFICATION.' WESTMINSTER ABB EY " TO THE EDITOR OF THE SC . . h SlR—Having had my attention called to a Perag r " P a speaking of Westminster Abbey, in your lated paper of the 21st of the present month, eli t d f il t h e as an extract from an American publication , StP e r o f stionao. New York Evangelist, I beg, for the inform your numerous readers, to give it the most entireotioad unqualified contradiction, and I can have n o hesir tau , in asserting, that either the whole is a wilful 0 1 ? -5 . 0 e d went, or, that the writer has been most g rosslY ' °ll 9 d to the upon by the party who may have contribute Evangelical publication. with an ass n ' T • rusting to the insertion of this letter , • i t iog on yell!' visadic. ranee of my willingness to prove to yoU, Widely cir ca the Abbey at your pleasure, the truth of cnY ow . m ost Or ton of these " American Facts" —I am, Y dient servant, (til e FOSTER OWEN, Chief Superintenda4 ° Abbey, and High Constable of Westminlier' Chester-terrace, Eaton-square, Dec. 29, 184 1 . ne t P.S.—The Abbey is open at this season six del tl f r o . week for the admission of visitors, from the cles_ i , - ) cond Morning Service (about a quarter before c' e. : until half-past two, p.m., the Afternoon Service °III; contr . meneing at ; three, and the fee for viewing the °Vte 6 nh d luy . rac e rh a e c i h ss e oeppne seen, n s p on . —oe, Poet's , s. Cornet 3 o d . . w h b e ti c i , o t , : O r , ,II I ways° afTrne4demwlTransepts"h' e w h e n t c h " e oisc TOWER HAMLETS. ' A . . (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) reap- requisition, very numerously and most resr - 0 .,. signed, was, on Thursday last, the 23d insiiin t ' „ P ith seated to the Commissioners of the Court of Recit e - e t, then in attennance at the Court-house, Osbornlid , Whitechapel, for the use of the Court -house to. bo ld meeting for the purpose of publicly coogrs tui r at qalso , Majesty on the birth of a son—the Prince °' iv such meeting to be held in the Co &c. The Commissioners promptly refused to 1 . 4 .., hayed with the greatest rudeness to the gen lle o cr who presented the requisition. The requisitioo gir tained the signature of one, if not more , of 6 .'1 ° 0 0 trates of Middlesex, together with soinelver most_ respectable inhabitant householders of 046 : A -bough Hamlets : yet they refused the Court-house, 11-signed urt-bouse, and a great number of their brother Commission ro om roo m. the requisition to them for the use of th e isrife -.4 . to b e d r Will those respectable Commissioners nesbuir. p resen t on the first day th e C o urt will be boille2Lft o is the holidays, when the same requisition wiliTZ7 up presented to the Commissioners ; or wil l shelve 811(I with such insults to their Queen, their n ei g hbour', themselves? signatures to therequisition , . L ee ch The number more than 256 ; and will, when present ed again, mon have many more attached, though men ol c o® . _. 0 ,. sense . can require no more on such a subject, m der existing circumstances. on varioursu ea RUNAWAY LO P NITEs MATCH OF THE , LATE ~t i i. TMORELAND.—I - lis Lordship was -twice married, 9115 his first union was a runaway match.. Ile had Pai d l e f , addresses to the only daughter of. the wealthy banker 0 Temple Bar, Mr. Child. This gentlewan bow,' Nob to the match, and not to be persuaded to it, S e Nob suitor, possessing the lady's affections, determined to 11 away with his bride. In consequence, p. pest chaise and four nu beau matin carried away the confident pair , . o f the atrair haying reached the papa's ears, another pair t,,, postillions and two pair of fleet horses were soon 10 richr quest. Stimulated by the lavish promises o the p ostillions' banker, lost time was compensated for by the ‘ and the gay Lothario soon had the desespoir of beholdiniir; Mr. Child's equipage neck and neck wiLli his ovv i !', o t this crisis of fate, however, his presence of mind do of forsake him, and drawing a pistol, he shot dead on e ,„ the leaders of the pursuing post-chaise. Before the hor s „ could be detached from the harness and.a substitute Pr..°o cured, it was too late to pursue the fugitives, who ive! rt quickly married by the grimy high priest of" Gretna. -1 is by inheritance from this first wife of the late. Bari th at .,„ Lady Jersey enjoys so noble a fortune; . and isi-leelllnil' partner in that banking-house of which her Peen t ' less than herself, was " the child." The Duke of Leeds, after visiting the D° c l , l4' , yard at Portsmouth, has returned to H or nley Ca " stle , 1 Grace's old baronial seat in North Yorkshire. se( sh fet ful thi tad desi r , Tt 'nevi M pro t . p( ' Y4eeti t:, ;!, it the th ey hid t eccor °aeon MI IPeec teeth politi, aUre tadezpri ,• toed those 011;c were H 'fully ,(Che Pleas the tL jth*ii estai 'cord i sd : equa istatic I,74;riFle h 'binat ad U r , 01 Iv 6 %%top .1 r slin . iti ls " 46 4‘ 1°P 6 8 Ptine 4 trtal what the (6114 tro L it, th at Uted 11 attnOt St., • drib' 6;(1 trtain rlt, 7eq t and lftv„, - p e ep abl e Poop Was allud He ti ae betel refus prov irc o 1 41 i:Powl ,thap Phys co, ti ° our ever Ot 4 'if!, 13 e lit , 511 to , th %I d foi sib „, ni Jot for gri Hz