The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

TRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce the following ar rangements for the ensuing Season of French Performances at the St. Jtrees's Theatre: — ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.—MdIIe. Charton, Mdthe lle. Dehauser (pupil of the Conservatoir e, Paris), Chollet (of Theatre de l'Opera Comique, Paris, his first appeaarnce), M. Lac (Premier Tenor of the Theatres Bruxelles and Ghent, his first ap pearance), M. Nathan (Premier Busse of the Opera Combine, Paris, his first appearance), M. Quilly Leroy (pupil of the Conservatoire, Paris, his first appearance), Mdlle. Guichard, M. Baguet, M. Chateaufort, M. Soyer, M. Desvaux, Madame Mancini, Mdlle. &c. FOR. THE COMEDY AND VAUDITILLE.-141. Samson, of the Theatre Francais, Paris (his first appearance in this country) ; Mdlle. Denain, M.Regnier, Mdlle. Nathalie, (artists of the Theatre Francois, Paris) ; Mdlle. Dejazet (who has accepted a farewell en gagement in this country); M. Lafont, Mdlle. Figeac (of the Theatre Dm Vaudeville) ; Mdlle. Page (of the Theatre du Varietes) ; Mdlle. Constance (of the Theatre du Gymnase) • Madlle. Baptiste (of the Theatre de l'Aeon). An Engagement is also entered into with the eminent Trage dienne, Mdlle. Rachel, with whose performances the season will terminate. Mr. Mitchell begs further to submit an outline of the general arrangements :—The Season will commence on Monday, January 7, 1860, by the production of a New Opera, in Three Acts, entitled " Le Val d'Andorre," produced in Paris at the end of last year, and since performed at the Opera Comique, Paris, more than 100 nights, and at the principal Thea'res of France, with the greatest success. The Music by M. F. Halevy ; the Libretto by M. De St. Georges, With the following distribution of the principal qiiaracters:—Stephan (jeune chasseur des Pyrenees), M. Lac; Le Joyeux , (capitaine de milice Franealse et recruteur), M. Chollet, who has obligingly undertaken the part for the more effective production of the Opera ; Saturnin (garde-peche du Gave), M. Quilly Leroy ; JaCques Sincere (vienx cheerier), M. Nathan (their first appearance in this country) ; Theresa (fermiere du Val d'Andorre), Guichard ; Georgette (cousine de Stephan), Mdlle. Cotti; and Rose de Mai (servante de Theresa), Wile. Charton. The second pro duction will be Harold's celebrated Opera, in Three Acts, " Zampa," in which M. Choitet will personate the character of Zampa, as originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris. Subse quently will be Liven, a new Comic Opera, in Twa Acts, entitled "Le Ca'd," by the popular composer, Ambroise Thomas. And also, Auber's last new Opera of " Haydee," the character of Haydec by 31(111 Charton. Other productions will be selected from the following :—Jeannot et Colin, Nicol° ; Le Roi d'Yvetot, Adolphe Adam ; Le Cheval de Bronze, Anber; Le Macon, Auber ; Le Sirene, Anber; Lally et Qui nalt, Nic lo ; La Perruche, Clapissoa ; Le Valet de Chansbre, Ca nals.; Use ?lehul ; with an occasional per ermance of some of the most po?ular operas produced last Season. According to present arrangements the representation of the Opera Comique will be limited to the months df January, February, and March, terminating the season before Easter. At the re-opening of the Theatre, after Easter, on Monday, A pril 1, M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris) will have the honour of making his first appearance in this country, and will per form with Mdlle. Denain (also of the Theatre Francais) in several of the most popular Comedies of the French stage; and subsequently Regnicr and Mdlle. Natballe (both artistes of the Theatre Fran cais) will repeat in several of the most modern and successful Come dies recently produced in Paris. At the end of May, Mille. Dejazet, whose re-appearance at the Theatre des Varietes, after a severe and protracted indisposition, has bee attended with her accustomed and unrivalled success, will ap pear-in several now vaudevilles, as Le Marquis de Lauzun, Le Mou lin A Paroles, La Jeunesse de Lully, &c. The performances of Comedy and Vaudeville will be supported by M. Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), Mdlle. Figetc, Mdlle. Con stance, Mdlle. Page, Mdlle. Baptiste, M. Armand, M. Leon, and a numerous company engagement of Mdlle. Rachel will commence at the end of Junin": by her appearance in M. Scribe's new play of "Adrienne Lecowvreur," a production which has excited more than ordinary admiration ; 31dlle. Rachel will also perform, icr the first time, in HuntitS' celebraf4 play of " Mademoiselle de Bele-Isla ;" and a nep, Pejate Comedie, in One Act, entitled "Le M oineau de Lesb?,;'_hy. Armand 13erthet ; and by the occasional re p resentation, eachf64'ohe night only, of the classical Tragedies of " Phedre," " Les Ilorace, , ," "Andromaque," and " Bajazet," the season w:11 terminate.. - Tlie ORCIVESTIIA will be composed of the same eminent pro fesso-s engaied for the opera last season, including M. Tolbeque, M. Bonrotte, M. Deloffre, M. Newsham, M. Barret, M. Baumann, 31. Pilot, 31. Vaudreland, M. Itemusat, M. Lazarus, M. Nicholson, M. Larkin, M. C. Harper, M. T. Harper, M. Campanile, M. T. Wright, f-ac. 'DPector of the music and Chef- d'Orchestra, 31. Charles Ilanssens. Substribers'ef ail past season are solicited to make known their desire ocrenewing their subscriptions on or before the Ist of January next. Arrangements for season subscriptions may be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; fr. Sams's Library, 1, St. Jarnes., , l reet ; 31e,:srs. Andrews's New Bond-street; Rbcrs's and llookhan's, Old Bond-street. The tlox-otilce of the Theatre will be opened on the Ist of danua THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, t‘eole Lessee and Manager, Old Broniptan. THIS EVENING, W l . l l be performed an entirely new and original Play, entitled THE LOVING WOMAN. tVielfert, Mr. ilowe ; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean; llermr):!, Mr. J. sVallaeh; Max, Mr. H. Vandenhoff; Ottillia, Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by a new Lyric Dramatic Sketch, entitled KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. Kin: Rene, Mr. James Wallack , Count Tristan, Mr. C. Sean ; Sir Geoffrey, Mr. Webster ; lolanthe, Mrs. C. Kean. • M.er which BOX AND COX. To conclude with WHO'S MY HUSBAND? The Box-offise is ander the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. 11 ATitlt ILUYAL, ADEL PIM Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a sew domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW CJPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. 11.. - -ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BITNBURY'S fPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks, kir. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCKUM THEATRF,. " - :•.idar the Dianagemeut of Madam:. Vestri*. Sol.e Lessee, Mr Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be perfor,nci a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. After which lIE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with RAISING Tllr, WIND. Dress Boxes 56: Upper Boat*, Cs. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is., No half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S T HEX]. t. Mr. .1. M. Maddox, Ekole Lessee and Manager. TILLS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Cord, Wynn Mrs. Weiss. and Miss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with the celebrated Opera of DON PA.SQUXLE. ASTLE ROYAL AMPUITREATRIE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENiNG, Mr. BATTY has great pleasure In announcing that he has sac ceeded in engaging Mademoiselle ANGELE, from the Hippodrome, Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, with her highly trained Steeds, "Senora" and " Bertrapa." Mademoiselle Angelo is the same - Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Mare " Angela" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will shortly make her appearance at Astley's Ampitheatre. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that ha has engaged Madlle. Codoni, the most graceful performer on the Tight Rope in Europe, who will appear every Evening. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a Grand SpeCtacle and wondrous Scenes in the Circle. the attractions for the Christmas Holidays will comprise a grand Spectacle entitled The Knight of the Eagle Crest, or the Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear ; and a grand Equestrian Curate Pantomime, by Nelson Lee. Box-office open from Eleven till Tot.r. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGI3 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tits DAT —Morning, 57 min. after 3 I Evening, 15 m. a ftlr 4 o-Moanov —Morning, 30 min. after 4 Evening, 48 m i n. after 3 TUE WEATELER.--Sns OZZICE, DEC. 18. THEAMJIIETEN, Lowest, 40; Highent, 51; Noon, 49, BAROMETER. 29.73. WIND S.W.-dull rainy weather. ...,%, - '-f • ---, : , ... ~. '' .l ' .''' ,e 's - .'. l ';`:•'.-‘ 1 " . 4i. A -•-1. c i , ~.... , li..y,:', •• , mi nt •.i. N. N?-... ~ .i. '_1.44.' >4. *ip --- " .0.7, ~ ...., • 7irmet„Agiek. - .lt , •:-.--i4:, • --..-,,,,i , „, ‘.... 5 .,„ -re- .e r . mc ,,, .:.,....-h....., .. -tvtp ~.. hil - F ~... ' ~,.... --r•-•-,:-* eW : ,•0 ( r , A , v , v A , vi sr . --., 1 11 . i ,. jr 4 4444- U 40-7- --- t...( It -.4v., LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1849, Even among the most captious publicists of France the government of Louis IsTaroeuoN, during the first year of his Presidentship, is eliciting approbation. Under all circumstances, therefore, the policy adopted by that illustrious functionary appears to have been admirably selected in its relations with the new Democracy. Its popularity after a period of such extraordinary agitation, when the responsibility of maintaining the supremacy of the laws has been en- cumbered by so many and such appalling difficulties, is a sufficient testimony that its character has been peculiarly that of elasticity and conciliation. Without a very large degree of elasticity it could never have proved adaptable to a community just recovering from the paroxyms of revolutionary excitement, and swaying to and fro under the influence of antagonistic demagogues. Without conciliation, moreover, and con ciliation, too, of a very remarkable kind, eager without sycophancy, and generous without extravagance, the contending factions could never have been so far reconciled as to admit of a hope of their ulterior amalgamation. Thanks to the bold but tranquillising course pursued by the PRESIDENT, that hope is actually visible in the still flue. tuating but propitious prospective of French Republicanism. His efforts towards effecting a certain degree of union among the incongruous parties in the Legislative Assembly, have proved, even so far as the present time is concerned, satisfactory, inso much that, notwithstanding the differences of opinion which must have been otherwise inevitable in the discussions of that Parliament, its opposite classes may be readily calculated. What must have been, undox a less assuaging and conciliative rule, almost incalculable in regard to number, is now, we repeat, readily to be calculated—the principal divisions being those of Right and Left, Extreme-Right and Extreme Left, the Centre and the Mountain. If only, there fore, for the reasons already given, the administrative scheme adventured upon by the PRESIDENT is emi• neatly deserving of approval, and the adroitness displayed by him in conducting the machinery of the Executive, would have been entitled to our highest encomiums, even without taking into consideration the obstacles thrown in his way by the antecedent turmoils of the Revolution. A conviction seems to be ripening in the minds of the French population that the somewhat enigmatical character of the Government during the commence .''t of Louis NAPOLEON'S career as President, was 7/4,7_77.1 only secure and sagacious preservative of its lity and predominance. For the purpose of de ' 4.4* Onstrating the correctness of this apparently idle 'even eccentric proposition, one of the most enious publicists of the Republic has attempted n analysis of the administration from the election s THE SUN, of the 10th December, 1848, up to the time of its first anniversary. He maintains at the very outset of this analysis that it is necessary for reasons sufficiently obvious to consider the government of the Presidency during that interval in two separate divisions, one com mencing with the 10th of December and ending with the 31st of October, the other commencing with the 31st of October and ending with the 10th De cember, the former opening in 1848, the latter closing in 1849. During the first interval it is intimated that we are to regard the Ministerial functions as entrusted to the electors of the 10th of December ; during the second they were confided, on the con trary, to the elected of the 10th December. The former administration was reparative and conciliative; the latter administration was, in a manner, creative and inaugurative of the working of the new Constitution. How far the definition may be considered as felicitous can be readily estimated by those who have closely watched the progress of affairs at Paris since the establishment of the power of Prince Louis NAro• LEON—from the memorable mornieg when, pro claimed PRESIDENT of the French Republic by six millions of votes, and acknowledged as the elect of the people, in the presence of the Constituent National Assembly, he descended from the tribune and prof fered the hand of friendship to his rival, CAVAIGNAC, recently hurled from the Dictatorship. It was manifestly from motives of conciliation that such a man as M. DUF,kURE was summoned to attend the councils holden by the Imperial Democrat, in the parlour of the Elys4s, even at the time when the conduct of the Cabinet was confided to the hands of M. ODILON BARILOT. It was from motives, moreover, of reparation that the ruins of the law were again, gredually and almost imperceptibly, gathered up with the grasp of a central authority. As is very judiciously remarked in the Journal des Debuts of Sunday - the interval preceding the 31st of October was necessarily and essentially restricted to the labours of reparation and conciliation—" it had not, it could not by any possibility have much to creale, and hence it was that all the larger questions were reserved for the second epoch, the epoch which is now not very long commenced." Unquestionably the truth of this is wholly incontrovertible. After the convulsions of the revolution of February, more especially after the tremendous conflict of June be hind the barricades, a period was required, such as that happily called by the Parisian publicist, " the period of repose and convalescence." Time was re quisite to enable the turbid waters of society to become clarified by the subsidence of the sedi ment of evil passions stirred np from the recesses of the community by the turmoils of the revolutionary outbreak, and particles of which are still floating on the surface. Before anything advantageous could be attempted it was essential that the heats of contention should be permitted to allay their violence ; otherwise no permanent cohesion could be expected to manifest itself between the different powers of the state. That interval was allowed to elapse without any perverse precipitation of events, and Louis NAPOLEON, satisfied that the day of change had arrived with the 31st of October, had the courage to take the initiative with a boldness befitting a BONAPARTE, and at the same time with a loyalty to the popular cause worthy of the elected of December. Since that change in the policy of his administration it has become more and more perceptible that the sincerity of his adhesion to the democratic form of govern ment, inaugurated in February, was in no re spect a pretence merely for the sake of enabling him to conspire for the final assassination of Re publicanism and the abrupt restoration of Imperialism• As recently as the very day of his great anniversary, the anniversary of his spontaneous election by France on the 10th of December, Louis NAPOLEON declared with a gallantry befitting one in his elevated position, as the choice of the " great nation," and as the chief magistrate of the grand European Democracy, in this twofold character, we say he had the gallantry to declare that his aim was not the parody of any future, however august or glorious, but the resolute consoli dation of the institutions of his country and the development of its general prosperity and happiness. Many of the most vigilant and sagacious scruti nizers of the new Republican Constitution of France are beginning to manifest a large amount of solicitude as to the consequences which may result from one vast incongruity in its construction—namely, the irre sponsibility to the Assembly of the PRESIDENT, and the indissolubility of the Assembly ! Arid, certainly, unless mutual concessions be, at times, made both by the Assembly and by the PRESIDENT, it is im possible not to anticipate other than a violent col lision between rival powers of such immense strength, and so entirely independent of each other. Hitherto the labours of both have been preparative ; let us hope that the vitality inherent in each, a vitality drawn from the suffrages of the people, may not upon any material point of administration prove directly or indirectly antagonistic. Under the Provisional Government, or rather under the sway successively of the Executive Commission and of the military Dictatorship, France secured to herself the capability of preventing any hostile struggles between the de liberative and executive authorities of the Govern ment. According to the then system, the rulers of the country were drawn from the members of the Assembly, or re-absorbed into the body of the Parliament, in obedience to the wisdom or pleasure of the popular Representatives. By this means any lengthened contention between the Legislative Go vernment and the Executive Government was rendered impracticable. According to the system now enforced by the new Constitution, the PRESIDENT, however at variance with the Assembly, must remain in power until the expiration of the stipulated interval of his supremacy. Besides which he, in his predominant capacity as first magistrate in the Re public, is precluded from any exercise of power such as would go to the dissolution of the House of Re presentatives. Independent, strictly and glaringly independent of each other, drawn alike from the abysses of the popular :will, differing in their origin only in this respect, that the suffrages of the popu lation which, distributed over several hundred individuals in the one instance, are concentrated upon the head of one man in the other, the Assembly and the PRESIDENT are liable to quarrels, for the termination of which (except with the existence of either or both) the Constitution has in no manner provided. Upon this point much anxiety is beginning to be felt by those most generously disposed towards the cause of Republicanism. Earnestly and most profoundly is it to be hoped that means will be adopted for the prevention of any catastrophe in consequence of this incongruity in the structure of the Constitution, and that the rectification of a blunder so enormous may be effected before any calamities may have followed upon its recognition. With the ingenious sophistry usually visible on the part of such unfair logicians, it is beginning to be argued by the leading reactionary journalists of the metropolis, that we are perverting facts for the pur pose of supporting our arguments in favour of the Hungarians. While uttering these accusations, our Contemporaries honour us with a nickname, doubt less regarded by them as singularly opprobrious, but to our thinking one as acceptable as euphonious— alluding to us as among those who may be generically designated Anglo Magyars. As Anglo-Magyars, therefore, we are charged with having frivolously asserted that the crown of Hungary was never settled on the House of Austria and united to its other possessions. Neither to ourselves nor to those few members of the English press who sympathise with the lawful aspirations of the Hungarians, can such a very preposterous and ignorant remark be in any particular attributed. What we have really maintained, and what all the lovers of Hungarian independence are prepared at any moment to demon strate in the face of all the treaties signed before or after the completion of the Pragmatic Sanction, is this, that the crown of llungary has never been united to the crown of Austria. Not that the crown of Hungary has never been settled on the dynasty of Austria—for such an assertion would be nothing less than a huge and incorrigible absurdity. That the diadem of St. STEPHEN has reposed upon the brows of the Princes of the family of Hapsburg i s a fact patent to the knowledge of every schoolboy instructed in the mere outlines of European history ; and to attempt to ignore the existence of such a fact would be as silly as it would inevitably prove ineffectual• Yet, manifest as is the circumstance that the same in dividuals who have worn the imperial crown of Austria have been permitted to wear, in like manner, the regal crown of Hungary, it is equally incontro vertible that the two diadems have, throughout, been entirely distinct, and that, in not one single instance have they been ever known to become amalgamated. Quite as clear is it that our previous assertion, to the effect that FRANCIS JOSEPH is not the lawful heir to the Hungarian monarchy was correct. FRANCIS JOSEPH, we repeat, is merely a pretender to that hereditary rank; his position is this—he is the son of the heir to the royal dignity over the Hungarians. The real King of Hungary at this moment is FERDINAND (the First of Hungary, the Fifth of Austria)—for FERDINAND has never yet abdicated the crown of St. STEPHEN — and supposing he had abdicated it, that abdication has not been accepted by the Hungarians—and supposing it had been accepted by them, the next claimant to the rank of their Sovereign would be the father of the present EMPEROR of Austria. Hence, we repeat it, with the closest and strictest adherence to truth, that FRANCIS JOSEPH, so far from being King of Hungary, is not even the rightful heir to the crown of St. STEPHEN ; he is only the son of the heir to the kingdom of the Magyars. Let him advance his sole right to their obedience, a right already specified by ourselves, the right of conquest. If he must needs call himself King of Hungary, let him designate himself with the candour of a bold usurper (as we have already designated him), FRANCIS JOSEPH, the Red Emperor of Austria, and King of Hungary by he grace of the Guillotine ! The proceedings at the annual exhibition of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Agricultural Association are deserving of more than ordinary attention. Meetings have recently been held in almost every . part of the country, landlords and tenant;, owners and occupiers of the soil, have assembled together to afford practical proofs of progress in the pursuits in which they are engaged, to consider their present condition and future prospects. But the attendance has been limited to a single class. Few manufacturers have expressed an interest in, or taken any part in, the proceedings. The supposed rivalry that existed between those different branches of industry; the unreasonable demands of the farmers, in reqniring that taxes should be unposed on articles of primary necessity, for their own exlusive advantage, have prevented that cordial co-operation that is so greatly to be desired. " Protection to British industry " is, no doubt, a high-sounding phrase, well adapted to attract the attention of those who are enduring difficulties under which the great majority of the people are suffering ; but it is too plainly shown that the farmers are only seeking a partial and one-sided "protection"—a protection which may possibly en hance their own profits, but which can only do so at the expense of the rest of the community. Tt:ey do not put forward or demand the enactment of any great and comprehensive measure that will affect the entire nation, that will improve the pDsition of merchants, manufacturers, and traders of every de scription as well as of farmers, that will provide em ployment for the artizans and operatives of the large towns, as well as for the agricultural labourers. They array themselves in a distinct and separate corps, and they are surprised to find, that their operations are regarded with suspicion, and that they do not receive assistance and encouragement from others, against whom they have committed overt acts of hostility. The manufacturers have hitherto kept aloof. The nation has been divided into two great parties, who have mutually looked upon each other as mutual enemies, and seemed to consider that no measure was worthy of acceptance, or could prove beneficial to themselves, unless it inflicted a " heavy blow and great discouragement " upon their rivals. Birmingham has, however, taken the lead in pro ducing a healthier feeling, in bringing the opposing parties together, and teaching them that their inte rests are not so very dissimilar, as they have hereto- fore seemed to think. At the dinner of the association last week, held in the metropolis of the Midland Counties—the great town that for so many years has occupied so prominent a position in the cause of reform—agriculturist and manufacturer, Protectionist and Free-trader, were seated side by side, enjoying the festivities of the occasion. The healths of " The Members of the Borough" were received with the most unanimous approbation and enthusiastic applause, while the toast of the evening, "The Agricultural Interest," was entrusted to Mr. Munrz, who had long been one of the most zealous Free traders. As Mr. SPOONER justly remarked, "It was the first time that the attempt had been made practi • cally to demonstrate the great truth that agrimlture and eommek were twin sisters, born at a birth, and, whenever buried, would lie in one grave." Their interests are, indeed, identical, and neither could be in a prosperous condition unless the other were also flourishing. Mr. MUNTZ clearly showed that what were termed " the protective laws" did great injustice to the ma nufacturers ; that it was an isolated, partial, and unjust protection, and never even protected the far mers themselves ;" that the latter were in ruin and misery even when in the full enjoyment of the prac tical monopoly which the bread-tax afforded. He instanced the years 1822, 1835, and 1836, when the agriculturists were " holding meetings in all quarters of the country, and declaring that they were all going to perdition," and drew the ob noxious conclusion that the restrictive law did not serve those whom it was intended to protect," and he declared himself to be "an advocate for that protection that woula protect all classes equally, fairly, justly, and honestly"—" that would equally pro tect the manufacturer and the agriculturist." Mr. MUNTZ did not, however, explain the nature of that protection, although no person was better qualified to do so, or could more fully have exposed the enormous evils resulting from our monetary code. He did not develope the vast advantages that would arise from the adoption of a currency adequate to the wants of the country, that would apply a stimulus to every branch of industry. It would, indeed, be of the utmost importance that the question should be fully and fairly brought before the nation on every possible opportunity, that both parties be taught the only remedy that would extirpate the disease which pervades the entire system. Although we regret being compelled to differ in any respect from so consistent a Reformer as Mr. MUNTZ, we cannot pass over the concluding part of his speech without protesting against the adoption of any additional duty, fixed or otherwise, on corn. Such a duty would be essentially " protective," and for the benefit of a single class. It would take out of the pockets of the people far more than would find its way into the national Exchequer. It is not merely the corn purchased from the foreigner that would be enhanced in price, but every quarter purchased in the home market would undergo a similar change. It would practically be a subsidy paid by the entire nation to one class. A duty may be imposed for revenue purposes merely on tea, tobacco, wine, coffee, sugar, and other articles that cannot, under any circumstances, be produced in this country, but whenever it is placed upon a commodity pro duced at home, as well as abroad, in which there can be a competition between the native and the foreigner, it must operate as a premium to the former, and injuriously affect the interests of the consumer. There is, perhaps, no form of protection that would be more objectionable, 'and we must emphatically warn the Free-traders against giving any sanction or encouragement to a proposition in every respect so mischievous. RUGBY SCHOOL —BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY.—The Rev. E. M. Goulburn, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, was this day elected Head Master of Rugby School, in the room of the Rev. Dr. Tait, now Dean of Carlisle. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor entertained at diuner last evening—Mr. Alderman Humphery, M.P., Governor of the Irish Society; the Deputy-Governor, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence; Mr. Sheriff Nicoll, Mr. Under-Sheriff Millard, Mr. Under-Sheriff Wire, the Chairmen of the several Corporation Committees (pro viom.ly to the expiration of their office); the Masters, Wardens, and Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers (his Lordship's company), and several private friends. From the auspicious commencement it may be readily inferred that during the present Mayoralty there will be no diminution of the ho'pitality which generally distinguishes the career of tLe chief magistrate. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The council of this college have decided that candidates for fcllowsh;ps shall be examined in the French language. Professor Brasseur is the examiner elected for that purpose. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1819 rEtiE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. It is said that M. FERDINAND BARROT, the Minis ter of the Interior, is engaged in negotiations fur the purpose of throwing open the electric telegraph to the public. Under the monarchical regime, and before the application of electricity to telegraphic purposes, the.telegraph was a monopoly in the hands of the Government, the various members of which used the information thus obtained for stock-jobbing purposes, and it was not until the Ministers and their friends had completed their bargains that the telegraphic dispatches were made public. On the in vention of the electric telegraph the Go vernment still endeavoured to keep the monopoly of political intelligence, but as the directors of the railways also had a right to use the wires for the conveyance of messages, they practically became sharers with the Government in the monopoly of telegraphic information. M. FER DINAND BARROT, who has always disapproved of the dishonest use made by some of the Ministers under the Monarchy of this monopoly of telegraphic infor mation, has determined to throw the use of the electric telegraph open to the public, a plan which, if adopted, will effectually prevent future Ministers from the enjoyment of any undue advantage in thei stock-jobbing speculations. It is said that M. Fr BARROT meets with obstacles from the railway. authorities. M. FERDINAND BARROT is also busily engaged in carrying out the plan for the abolition of passports. The great difficulty in this case is how to provide compensation for the numerous public functionaries who will be thrown out of employ by the abolition of the passport system. Among other schemes it is proposed that a compensation fund shall be raised by levying from the captain of every steamer head money for each passenger he brings over. The Three per. Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 561. 25e.; the Five per Cents. at 911. 70c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 755 f. ; Rouen, 531 f. 25c.; Havre, 2401. ; Great Northern, 4611. 25e. ; Vierzon, 331 f. 25c.; Basle, 106`. 25e.; 13ordeaux, 4051.; Paris and Strasburg, 3621. 50...1.; Tours and Nantes, 278 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOOK.-.EXCLIANGE._Dmc.__I7._ 13'. - ,ulogTie and Amiens, 7—Dutch Rhenish, —Luxem bourg, 1 / ‘—Namur and Liege, OA—Northern of France, 17 dis.—Sambre and Meuse, 21A. GERMANY AND nu NORTHERN STATES PRUSSIA. The reply of Baron SCIILLINITZ, the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the Austrian protest against the convocation of the Erfurth Parliament, is published in the Prussian journals The main points are the fol'owing. It is addressed to the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna : " The Austrian Ambassador at our Court, the Baron Prokesch d'atten, has read to me a dispatch of his Government, accompanied by a project ~of eventual protestation against the establishment of a restricted federal state and a convocation of a Parliament of those States which adhered to the treaty of the 26th of May. The President of the Council of Ministers is still in doubt, aqcording to the wording ot that dispatch, wheth9r it is the serious determination of the Imperial Government to take at present the measures therein in dicated. Howsoever, we never made a secret of oar in tentions, and the Imperial Cabinet will well understand that the Government of the King has taken an engagement, be it towards the country, be it towards the Government, his allies, by decla rations of so solemn a character that retraction would be a breach of faitb, of which no Government could render itself guilty. The Government is also per suaded that the path upon which it has entered responds to the urgent necessities of the present times, without infringing upon its obligations. Thus the Pre sident of the Council of Ministers cannot evince any as tonishment that the Council of Administration should, in the sitting of the 17th, on the proposition of its Presi dent, have declared that the elections of the Erfurth Par liament would take place on the 31st January next. " The President of the Council of Ministers cannot, under these circumstances, underrate the step taken by the Austrian Government. I wish to express myself as clearly and precisely as possible, to leave no doubt upon the intentions of the Government in the present circumstances. It is only by frank and candid language bearing upon the question without secondary consider ations, that misunderstandings and complications can b' avoided, and a settlement rendered possible. This kill be attained if the Imperial Cabinet does not misconstrue what duty, honour, and her own convictions command us, and what an imperious necessity exacts. " If Austria wishes to protest in this sense that the concertations of the Parliament with the allied Govern ments is a breach of duty towards the Germanic Confe deration of 1815, we will not, we cannot make any ob jection. We recognise the right of Austria to do so. " NVe recognise Austria's right, and on our part will engage ourselves to make it our mission and our duty to organise the restricted federal state in such a guise that it shall never interfere with a reorganization ot the federal constitution. But if, on the other hand, Austria (as the dispatch would seem to imply) proposes pro testing against the formation of a restricted federal state, and against the convocation of a Parliament con sisting of the allied states, we should feel it our duty to oppose formally such a protest, founding our disavowal on incontestible right," The Berliner Nachrichten of the 15th contains the following :—" A report is current here that the EMPEROR of Austria has written a note to the KING of Prussia, which entirely does away with any appre hension of a conflict resulting from the recent unsatisfactory interchange of correspondence between the Cabinets of Austria and Prussia. The EMPEROR stated positively that Austria would go hand-in hand with Prussia in establishing order and tranquillity in Germany. ITALY The elections in Piedmont have, it is said, secured to the Ministry of the Marquis D'AZEGLIO a working nnjority. The Tuscan Monitore of the 9th states that dis turbances had taken place at Arcidosso, and a detachment of gendarmes had been dispatched to that place by the Government, to remain there until tran quillity was restored. The reactionary movement in Italy, now entirely under the yoke of the priests, has assumed the character of a fierce persecution of Protestantism. In Rome Dr. ACHILLI is incarcerated in the oulbettes of the Inquisition, solely on account of his religion ; while in Tuscany tisa priests have commenced prosecutions against two printers of Florence for having, under the government of the Republic, printed a translation of the New Testament in Italian. The Nazionale of Florence expressly states that these booksellers ere accused as a crime of having published the Gospel in the vulgar tongue, so that every one may be enabled to read it. The priests sent officers to the printing-offices, and seized the whole of the sheets which had been printed. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 5,000 bales, including 4,000 American, 200 Pernam and Maranbum at 6jl. to qd., 100 Bahia at 68d. to 64c1., 100 Egyptian at 70. to 81d, and 200 Surat at 44d. to 4:41 per lb.—Railway Shares were dull. The outline of the American news per telegraph will be found in another column of The Sun, and we have no further information here. The letters will be delivered to-morrow morning. The continental advices received this morning furnish nothing beyond the quotations. At Frankfort on the 14th inst. Austrian Bonds were 85i, and at Vienna on the 13'h the Metallies were 94, with the Exchange on London at 11.15. The Berlin quotation of the Three and-:-Half per Cent. Prussian Bonds was 88 on the 15th inst. At Amsterdam on Sunday a good deal of business was done in Mexican Bonds, and at marked improve ment in pricas, but not much in other securities. It may bo interesting to psrties who hold Mexican Bonds to state what is likely to come forward at Thurs day's meeting, independently of Mr. W. P. Robertson or the committee, neither of whom have been consulted in the matter, and for obvious reasons. Resolutions will be proposed, and we understand that they will be advertised to-morrow morning, for the appointment of a new committee of bondholders, which shall alone take cognizance of the Mexican debt. It is felt that as the foreign debt of the Republic amounts to ten millions sterling, it must be worth the while of the parties interested to form an association that will devote its attention exclusively and diligently thereto, cs!ahlish an open office where all can obtain reasonable information, with a paid clerk or secretary constantly in attendance, act freely with the special Envoy of the Mexican Government, Colonel Facio, and possibly secure the cc-operation of some member of a highly influential firm. This will require but a small fund, and there should be no difficulty in getting it. The English Funds opened higher this morning, Consols being 94, but the paucity of business caused them to rule flitter subsequently, and they have since been 964 • a . The French mail brings a slight advance. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98,1- to 981, and the Three per Cents. 964 to 964. Bank Stock is firm at 203. Exchequer-bills have been 51x. to 54 ;., and India Bonds 565. to 88s. premium. In the Foreign Market there is not so much activit) . Spanish Five per Cents. arc 194 1-, and the Three per Cents. 384. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 364 and Brazilian Small Bonds 88. Venezuela stock has been at 29, end Peruvian at 544. Mexican, after t , uo 304 have receded to 304,- 4. Danish Five per Cents. have been quoted 984, and Dntch Four per Cents. 84i to 85. _ Rai.',Tay Shares have been without any particular movement. Caledonian have improved a little, Eastern Counties have declined, Great Western are much the same, and &so North-Western. Midland have been very heavy apin. South-Eastern and Brighton are held for fuller rates, und the York lines are cull, hit not lower. South-Western are barely so good. In the foreign market, Boulogne and Amiens have Chen a taken a sudden start, being up to 7i t. ONE CLOSING P 1 ,- E8 Cr t , RITISII IIINDS O'CLOCK. rlt(ok ts. ,ank Stock 3 1 ,e. Cent. Redo.ced Arns ....... 96%764 96% per Cent. Consols Annuitie-s 'iew 31i per Cent. Ann 5......... ~.ong.Anns..to extireJan.1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 yearr, Jan. 5, 1860.... 8 11-16 8 11-16 r.clia Bonds, 1,0001„ .... .. B6 88 87 Ditto under 1,000/... ...... - onsols for Opening. 'il•.cchega-r 11111 s. _ —14 d. & 2d 1,000:. Jun". •• 5l 54 5001. Jane Smsll. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. :razilian Bonds Ditto, Small Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ...........98 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent — Ditto 5 Ler Cent. Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. OLOSIN PRI ~ fB I A Ditto Deferred - &ley ican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... 1:0% 30 Ditto, Account Peruvian:Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account ... 36% , 36 1 A Russian Bonds panish 5 per Cent. 1840 3 i l 19 'A Ditto, Account Do., Coupons... ...... — 9 1 A Ditto, Passive 4 4 4ys Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account . Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Deitch 2 1 h per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates B4 85 PRICES OF :BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN, RAILWAY SHARES. PAID * AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE. Aberdeen 5O — - 3 Do. I'reference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 3 / 4 ....... Ayrshira and Galloway.. 7 1 / 2 — Belfast & County Down 28 Barks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per cp 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Jima., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 Binning, Wolverh'tcn, and Dadley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 Do. without guarantee 10 Biming.,Wolvulfpton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s — ,.. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 20 Bristol and Exeter 92 ...... ... ...... Ditto, Thirds -'Bi 6uckinghancßhire Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale Jane 50 ...... ilester 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- _ month Dublin and Belfast June. 40 Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% Eaat Anglian, 25/., L. & E. and L. and 25 ,13 Do. 181., E. &IL 18 Do., 3!. 105., Pref... 3% Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 • Eastern ..... 20 Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 61.135. 4d.... ......... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 138. Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. ...... 50 ...... Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 •.•••• •• ...... Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (lateE. U. Shares) 25 _ • Ditto, ClAss A. ditto... 6 Do., Class B 8: C Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... E ;.st Lancashire Ditto, Now Ditto, New Quarters 6t4 ...... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6IA ...... East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ....... Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport Exeter,Yeovii, & Porch 2r!,,, — Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester Dean Forest 11 Great Northern Do., A Deferred Do., %B 6 per Cent... 7% — Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. I 0 reat South. and West. (Ireland) re at North of England 100 Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto. Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto, New ,15/ l5 .. Great Western 100 ...... 57% 58 ... 27 Ditto, Shares 5O ...... Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 7 Hull and Selby ...... 50 ...... --- Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — ••• Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo ......... Ditto, ditto • Ditto, 14, Shares Do. Quarters Do. Fifths... ......... 10 Do. Thirds ... 1 6 1,4••••• Do. New Guaranteed 6 rer Cent..... Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.) 5O Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 .. ••• ... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. V 2 Shares (A)... 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O Leeds and Think ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. De., do. No. 2 5 Do., do. ...... No. 3 5 ............• Do., Pret. Quar., 1815 9 Liverpool, Crosby and South} ort lO Lutdon & Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d - •••• London, Brighton, and South Coast... —.lOO ...... Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent 100 1 3, 1,4 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditto.— 1852 50 .. LondonandGreenwich 12/15s 4d... ••• Ditto, Prefer , r-^. .. . 20 L inclon and N. Weaern 100 lll 1111 110% Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifth , 7 8 1 / 8 8 Do. 401.Shares(L.M.) 35 ...... ...... Do. 10/. (M. Sc B.) C. 1 2 1 4 ............. Lond. &E. WFstun 50 ..... 30 1 / 2 31 Ditto, New 50/. ...... 424 . .............. Do. New 401 2 % . D0., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 38% k'J L/.) MIA 85 - dis, 132 1 LA 110% 8 211 301/4 ,A.ndonderry &Coleraine 25 Do. J,4 Shares . .. 5 Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 ...... Do. % Shares 5 ...... guar. 4 per ct 20 Ditto (6 per et.) ‘lanclicst.z.r,Buxton,and .......... 5 Aar& ester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo ...... Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Do. i/ % Shares ( No. 3) 12% — Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ... .. Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . ‘z - Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . ... Do., Grimsby Dock 25 ..... Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.28. — di Bind .................100 45 1 / 2 46 45% Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 504 Shares 30 ... Do. Birm., and Derby 10P Do.Consol. Bristol and Birming., fifper ct. -.100 .124 ...... 124 Ditto, Briat. & Glocstr. 42 - ELA 45% 7% Ditto ditto .. . 22/. 78... Dc.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 - Ditto, Leieest.i; Swan nin gton, 8 per et. guar.loo qidland Great Western Irish 11:ddlesbro' and Redear, 6 per cent. guar. Seweaetle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters ';.,wmarket ...... . 23 Do. Extension V. 125.... Sewport, Abergavenny, ..nd ilereford 6 .•«.• -- Jewry and Enniskillen 7 • 017 ry, Warrenpoint, and Itoe,trovor .. 20 IMMO )rorfolk ....... 100 Lie. Ner 201. .. Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 - ... Do. Guaranteed 51A pc. 5 Do. do. W aveney , al. 2 ...... ,rthern Counties Union 4 ...... g '3rth Briti..ll ........ ... 25 .... , ..... Ditto, llalves .. Ditto, Quarters - Ditto, Third.* . Ditto Preference orth Staflordahire ... 17k. orth Wales . ... 3 1 / 6 =MP ''. Or 01 V; , Stern - Oxford, Worcester, and 7•% ~ ..,,, , ,r,..m., . . . do Heading, Guildford, and r.eli,uca... .oyston and Hitchin ... 4 %,..... ........ ...... cottk h Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New ' tirewt bury and Lima... 12 ...... Ditto ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 - ....... •• ••••• orewsbury znti Herefd. 5 .ihrew:ibury et. Chester (Nor. W. Isiin.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ....., Ditto Oswestry ...... 18% — Ditto New Do. 8 p(a. Cent. Pref lO ihropshire Union oath Devon 50 — Do. Frofercnce ,o,;th Statfordihire B% — --nt'.. EastAlT. 03, N 0... ! Jo, , No. 3.. ..... ..... 30 ...... Do., Registered No. 4 10 ...... 6 1 A Do., berip No 4 ic.uth , Wale; ... 43 ....•• - .•..... ..... AN ,uth Yorkshire, Don ,:astor, and Goole l2 h Afield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 wane. ts Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 7 ...... 6 law Vale Extension ... 8 -- dames Haven Dock and Railway ..... ;ale of Notith .. 10 aterford And Kilkenny 20 aterford and Limerick 47% /faterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw aul Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50 ...... Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 ..... ... ~... Yfct.t Cornwall ......... 6 ..... •-• ..... hit.l , :v.-. ,, FA Fume.. 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 14 ...... ...... A, , ilt,6uraerbot,e. W ey mouth f ork, Newcastle, and Berwick..... ......-.- 25 Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 ...... I" or: and North Midland 50 ...... 17 .. Ditto Preference FOREIGN RAILWAY - b. knglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5%...... .... Joulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 7 1 4 3 4 N 7% Central of France (Or leans and Vierz0n)... 20 Demerara 1 7 1,4...... - Dutch Rhenish .S • • *veil 8 ..... .- East Indian - Ditto ... 2O Great Indian Peninsular a - Do. Do. ... _....10x.. Louvain is. la Sambre ... 7 1 ,4 — Luxembourg Ditto - vladrid and Valentia 2 ....... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. --6 3 / 4 Northern of France l4/. 85... dis I7 dos Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 3 1 4 ........ .. earis and Orleans ...... 20 ..... .... ...... - Paris and:Rouen 2O ...... 21:3 4 ..... 21 : U Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 - ...... ..••• -- aouen and Havre ...... 20 ,ambre and Meuse 2O ... .. - ::,trasbourg and Basle ... 14 ...... - .... ['ours ond - Nantel fournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders MINES. 1674 1 3h LA 16Y 0A Do.' St. John Del Hey JOINT STOCK BANES. Union of London.— ..... 10 ...... — „. Wit 1214 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 18.—Wind this day at noon S., mode' rate brevz and dull hazy weather, with drizzling rain., DEAL, DEC. 17.—Wind W.N.W., very s t roug .—Arro. Peter Senn, Ritchie, Penang; Sir Robert Sale, BrowilF China; Jane Morrison, Muir, Moulmein; Emma, C lll. vin, Calcutta; Lady M‘Naghten, liebbert, Madras; Co' milli's, Sprague, Demerara; William Metcalf, Clad" St. John's, New Brunswick; Susan Crisp, Holdsworth• Mauritius; Warrior, Thomas, Jamaica. Arrd. from the River Trafalgar, Adelaide, South Australi a ; Sussel' Barbadoes; Lady Sarah, Bayly, Jamaica; Victoria New York. It is blowing very strong, with heavy 6qualls at N.N.W. The mast bead of, apparently, t t slo•T is to be seen at low water off the North Foreland. The Arindne, for Barbadoes, the Miranda, for Trinidad , and the Fairy Queen, have received some d a mage t° their spars, having been in contact; and the Mini:lo lB ' Portuguese schooner, for Portsmouth, with several plio l° stove in and other damage. _ _ LivEnrooL, DEC. 177—Wind N.W., blowing hard.", Arrd. Prince of Orange, Bo m b a y ; B e dl am Cas tle' Bray, Pernambuco; flottingeur, Bursley, New Yo rk; El Dorado, Morrison, St. Andrew's, New Brunswic k; Colchester, Foley, St. John's, New Brunswick; hiA„r garet, Pickering, Halif ax; I sa b e ll a Harriett, Whih" Calcutta; Matilda, ditto ; Kathleen, Mather, Afrient left Fernando Po 11 th Sept.; George Dean, Spring,' Sierra Leone; Elvira, Graham, Dem erara; Crorawe lu Baker, New Orleans; Niobe, Soule, ditto; Washington, Wilkie, Mobile; Carnatic, M'Kenzio, Savannah; Cony brook, Maguire, Charleston; John Carrier, Knapp, ail"); Susquehanna, Dunlery, Philadelphia; Brothers, Sullivn l3 ' New York; Roscius, Eldridge, ditto; Earl of Claremont' Gardner, St. John's, New Brunswick; Woodman, Gee d ' manson, Wallace, Nova Scotia; Messenger, Bruce' Quebec. Off port, Duke of Wellington, Calcutta; WOO , Juno, Fanchon, and Guy Mannering. Tuoory DEC. 15.—The William H enr y, o f D un dalk' went on shore on the Banassee Sand. HARTLEPOOL, DEC. 15.—The Emilie Ross sehoone r Windau to Hull, found ere d to -d ay, H untciff Fort benril/',,, N. ten miles; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—The Chebar, London to W ill i bay, has put back from let. 46, long. 10, with loss .°b cutwater, having been in cont ac t, on t h e 1 4t h inst., Wil° the Hilda Charlotte, of and from Sto c kh o l m t o Rio u o Janeiro, which was totally dismasted, and otherwise 6 much damaged as to render abandonment necessary' crew (except the master, who was crashed to deal" saved. Aar PASSAGE, EAST WATERFORD, DEC. 16.—The .. f tralia, Ceylon to London, put in here yesterday leaky, has been surveyed and recommended to discbeg part of cargo immediately. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 17.—The Nymph, of this Y"., was in contact with a schooner off M a ld on yesterda y and received slight damage. 0 1 SCARBOROUGH, DEC. 17.—The Providence. t bs Ipswich, was in contact last night, off Whitby, with Kezia, of London, and sank; crew saved. of YARMOUTH,: DEC. 17.—The Good Intent brig? hot Sunderland, got on the Scroby Sand yesterday , (08 was assisted off, and brought up in th e R oa ds. ' ri d, Good Intent, of Whitby, also got on the Scroby , 51 ;, 0 r and was assisted off end into the harbour. Tb• de Marie, Newcastle to C k tie, has been hove off s bor.7,a HARTLEPOOL, Dec. 17.—The Dauntless, Sunder to London, and the Thyatira, Sesham to Lynn, ._1:0 been WARS off shor. ° if WORTH, e DEC. 17.—The Jane has been V t shore. Lc °. Sr. IVES, DEC. 16.—The Ayre, Live rp ,o 1 to T , 0 3. don, has Iv; in leaky. and the Cecilia, Levtlle to don, also leaky, and must discharge. tb ; MUMBLES, Prc . 17.—The Effort. of Yaf op 0 f; Trcdegar, of Gloucester; Charlotte Maria, of -r°'; 13 0 1( and the ilerolue, Dungarvcn, hare all been shore. at O . ARDROSSA.N, DEC. 16.—1 t blew a hurricane , o ft night of the 14th inst. The Isabella smack w ell " shore. , r kert OFF MARGATE, DEC. 17.—Margaret Evans, -- New York. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 17,•••Wil- d —lr e steamer, West Indies. rT,X4couvi, DEC, 17.—WindW.—The ibliol"1121' HANOVER. In the sitting of the First Chamber on the 15th, the resolution of the Second Chamber on the Schleswig-Holstein question was on the order of the day. The Minister, Count BENNIGSEN, declared that conformably with the wishes of the Chamber the Government had demanded information from the Stadholdership, as to whether the letter published as having been addressed by it to the KING of Denmark was authentic. The Stadholdership had replied in the affirmative. The Government had also desired to be furnished with the communications on the negotiation!, which were refused, rs these negotiations were a profound secret. The Chamber then adopted the following motion : —" 1 Irit the Government endeavour to obtain for the Duchies that legal state which they enjoyed pre vious to the Danish ordinance of the 24th of March; and that, in case of the partition of Schleswig, regard would at least be had to the nationality of the northern part." AUSTRIA. The Archduke JouN is about to retire from public In, and to take up hit permanent residence at Gratz. It was reported in Vienna on the 12th that Prince SCHWARTZENBERG WAS about to retire from the Mi nistry, and would be succeeded by Count COLLE REDO. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES General DUHAMEL, Plenipotentiary of the CZAR in Wallachia, has set out for St. Petersburgh. He passed through Warsaw, where he had several interviews with PASILIEWITCIT. TURKEY. Letters from Constantinople of the 28th state that the following conclusions have been come to as re gards the question of the refugees. As the internal dissensions of Austria, notwith standing they have been appeased, have not been settled, the refugees who have sought Ottoman hospitality are to be located, for a term not ex ceeding one year, in some distant province of Tur key, 'whereas such as are furnished with foreign passports will be free to quit the country imme diately. The Poles who have embraced the Mahome dan faith are, according to the sense of treaties, screened from expulsion ; but they are to be with drawn from the province of Rumelia, where their presence near the focus of their recent intrigues might be dangerous to Austria. Syria is proposed for the former, whereas the latter will be employed according to their capacities, either civil er military, nearer this city. This arrangement, suggested by Sir STRATFORD CANNING, has, it is said, been provisionally accepted by the Austrian and Russian Ministers, and for warded to Vienna and to St. Petersburgh for their approval. The Wanderer of Vienna publishes the following from Constantinople of the 28th ult. : " Since the arrival of the last Russian note nothing new has occurred in the affair of the refugees. M. Sturmer does not seem to have bound himself uncondi tionally to act in accordance with Russia, and the ac ceptation of the note intended for Austria does not depend on the decision of the Russian Government. He nevertheless deemed it essential to require the dctentioa in arrest of. Generals Kohlman, Stein, and Kmety, who had assumed the turban—in this respect going hand in hand with M. Titoff. What the Porte refused to Russia was of course not ac corded to Austria. The subsequent demand on the part of the Allied Powers that all of the Poles, not in• eluded in the Hungarian category, who had become Turks should be disqualified for receiving rank or office —a semi-official - demand—was likewiso negatived. None of the Polish legion, except Bens and suite, have apostatized, but numbers of Poles and Italians, who happen to be here, many of whom arrived at the termi nation of the war in Italy, have renounced the cross for the crescent." MILFORD, DEC. 17.—The Nelson, Whitehaveri to Cardiff, and the Wee Tattie, for Cardiff, have been in contact, and received damage. iICILY. Accounts from Palermo state that the arbitrary arrests continue, that many are every day shot by orders of courts-martial, and that the prisons of Pa lermo being more than filled, several hundreds of un fortunate persons have been transferred to the citadel _ _ of Messina. It is evident, however, that King I:3OMDA feels himself insecure, and by his recent conduct he shows that he is aware he is only an usurper, that the only legitimate government of Sicily is the Par liament, and that, as the decree of the Parliament has deposed him, so he can never be legally King of SICILY so long as that decree shall subsist. He has, therefore, endeavoured by threats and cajoleries to induce the Members of the Sicilian Parliament, who remain in his power, to sign individually a repeal of the decree, forgetting that such signatures, even although he could obtain the signatures of all, must be without forcr , , inasmuch as none but a Parliament solemnly assembled can repeal the acts of a Parlh ment. The Members of the Sicilian Parliament v%ho are at present in ex.de in London and Paris have published the following protest against these attempts to surreptitiously set aside the decree of deposition : PROTEST OF •THE SICILIAN DEPUTIES AND REFUGEES. ‘. The Neapolitan Government having by threats of imprisonment and of exile, endeavoured to obtain from divers members of the Chamber of Peers, and of that of Commons of Sicily an individual act of repeal of the decree of the 13th April, 1848, of the General Parliament, by which is declared the forfeiture of the Sicilian throne by 14'erdinand of Bourbon and all his dynasty ; d..cree was voted spontaneously, freely, and unanimously by the two Chambers ; " Which also obtained the explicit adhesion of all the Communes of the island in particular, and of the people in general; " Which decree is founded on the imprescript- able rights of the people, and not alone on th, written right of the Constitution of 1812, to b 3 found in the chlpter relating to the succession to the throne ; "The undersigned representatives of the Sicilian peop' the only Sicilian representatives at pre sen t c, actually residing in France awl in England protest before God and before all civilized nations against this new act of illegality; they protest against every species of violence which their colleagues in Sicily may be called upon to suffer; they protest against any force or value which the Government of Naples may attempt to give to an act which is abs 3 lutely null and incapable of producing any effect whatsoever, and they are persuaded that their col leagues of the emigration will do the like whensoever they shall receive intelligence of this additional act of perfidy and tyranny. " Paris, 26th November, 1849. (Signed) " The Prince DE GRANATELLI, Deputy. GUISEPPE LAFARINA, Deputy of the City of Messina. 7311cuELE ANARI, Deputy for the City of Palermo. MARIANo STABILE, Deputy for the City of Palermo. BENEDETTO VENTURELLI, Deputy. LUIGI CALIA, Deputy. " The undersigned composing the Sicilian emigra• tion actually residing in Paris and in London, fully adhere to the above protest of the representatives of the Sicilian people. (Signed) " The Baron DI FRIDDANI. GIACINTO CAR/NI, Colonel in the Ist Re giment of Cavalry. ALFONSO SCALIA, Major in the first Bri gade of Artillery of Piazza. CARMELO AGNETTA, Captain in the 3d Battalion. FRANCESCO VENTIIRELLI, Captain attached to th• General Staff. FRANCESCO STABILE, Ist Lieutenant cf the 6th Battalion of the New Guard. ANTONIO GRAVINA, Captain attached to the General Staff." AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The British and North American Royal Milli! Steam• ship Caledonia, which left Boston on the sth: and Halifax on the 7th inst., has just arrived in the Mersey with the usual weekly mails from the western world, and a fair complement of passengers. She reports the arrival at New York of the Canada. The Europa, which left this port on the 24th of November, had called at Halifax previous to the Caledonia arriving there. The principal item of intelligence is the meeting of Congress on the 3d inst., at Washington. ,The Senate was organised, after which an adjournment took place. The House of Representatives met on the same day, when a ballot took place for the Speakerehip For this post there appeared Mr. Winthrop on the Whig, and Mr. Cobbe on the Locofoco interest. After three unsuccessful ballotings, the numbers stood —for Winthrop, 96 ; Cobbe, 102 ; Scattering 23. In conscquence of no decision on this point, the House could not be organin 1, and the President did not therefore deliver his Message. There is nothing new of interest in our advices from California or Canada. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The commercial affairs of the union, by this arrival are represented by our present advices as being favourable. The money market is still easy. Money at New York was very plentiful. Treesury Notes 1111, Pennsylvanian Fives 89k. The market for bread6tuffs was inactive, and prices are without change. Western Canal flour, 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 87ic.; Gennessee prime wheat, 1 doll. 22c. to 1 doll. 24c. per 601 b.; Southern wheat, 1 doll. 12c. to 1 doll. 14c. per 601 b.; Indian corn (round - yellow) 60c. to 62c.; ditto (flat yellow), 60c. per bush. ; Indian meal, 3 dolls. to 3 dolls. 121 c. per barrel. In cotton there has been a fair amount of busi ness doing at New York, former quotations being steadily maintained. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 10i to cents. per lb. Uplands and Florida, 11k to 11 cents. per lb. Provisions have advanced in price. Mess pork to 114, prime 8i to Freights remain unchanged, asking rates being— Flour to Liverpool ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per brl.; grain to Liverpool 4id. to sd. per bush.; cotton to Liverpool 3-16 d. to id.; cotton to Havre kd. to fd. Exchange on London 108! to 109, steady. On Paris sf. 27c. Sales small. On Hamburgh 35 to 35,-f. On Bremen 78 to 78i. Tins LATE ACCIDENT OFF TnE TYNE.—Her Ma jesty the Queen has presented 100 guineas towards the relief of the bereaved families of the unfortunate pilots who were drowned at the mouth of the Tyne, in at • tempting the rescue of a vessel wrecked on the Herd Sands on the 4th inst. The corporation of Newcastle have also forwarded 100 guineas, and the Master end Brethren of the Trinity-house have subscribed the same sum. With respect to the melancholy occurrence, it may not be generally known that the life-boats of the port of Newcastle, stationed at tie entrance of the Tyne, in North and South Shields (the latter being the place where the life boat was wrecked), have for about sixty years been instrumental in saving the crews of vessels unfortunately stranded at the entrance of the port, and although no correct account has been kept of the exact number so rescued from danger previous to the year 1841, the committee appointed to receive subscription; have it in their power to state that since that period 466 persons have been brought safe on shore from 62 stranded vessels. Most of the pilots who perished on the occasion in question were married men. In all 17 widows and 46 children have been left to lament their loss. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.—Yesterday offi cial communications were forwarded to the represen tatives of the various rail Way companies who attended the meeting on the Bth ult., to the effect that, in order to give further time for the collecting the opinions of railway shareholders on the outline of the proposed Audit Bill to be submitted to Parliament next session, the adjourned meeting appointed for to-morrow (Wed nesday), is further adjourned to the 16th of January next. T ht In Orni Not eV ery the pr have i nVOl, Sig n , tneinb, bunt o nce C drsiral iurin g znentai tones from t fitted %geed The tit Ch eotdin . Lori prev4 tort. Ind vrl (Lord t o• It Ada m t he gri et notio qtleatit "T Welo , .:1 1 Witho t teCene - 4'.%-~C, Ali Pi( Pig 44 5 firm wee bet" 30s chip: 303 Barr bei n land 517 F°nB In Lb Jtjj Pi (130f0 YO, (10%, rill iogi