The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

. '- 4 41t... - . ,s MORNING SUN wand for both descriptions has subsided. Smoked and gibbed Herrings are plenty and very dull. FRUITS.—The demand for Malaga is limited, the large sales of last week having supplied the immediate wants of the trade. Sales of 600 boxes good bunch Raisins at 1 dot. 25c. ; and 1,000 ditto ditto, inferior, at 120 c. ; about 3,000 half and a quarter boxes at 70c. for the former and 32c. for the latter ' • 500 ditto Blooms at 110 c., 4 and 6 months; 80 boxes Malaga Lemons, 225 c.; 300 boxes Figs, 31c. ; 70 cans Bordeaux Prunes in glass and fancy boxes at 13c. to 15c., all 4 months. A cargo of new crop Currants, also one of new Smyrna Figs are hourly expected. FLOUIL—Since the arrival of the steamer Great Western there have been 3,000 to 4,000 brls. Genessee Flour sold at 6 dols. 75c. for export to Liverpool, and in addition several thousand brls. are being shipped on owners' account. The article, however, remains exceed ingly dull, and holders are disposed to sell. Sales are making at 6 dols. 621 c. a 6 dols. 69 c., and some are re ported at a trifle less. GRAlN.—Wheat has arrived more freely. The sales have been 3,000 bushels Virginia at 1321-c. for milling; 2,000 ditto Illinois, for export to West Indies, at 140 c.; 14,500 ditto Illinois for milling at 137-ic., and 7,000 ditto ditto at 135 c.; 400 ditto Genessee at 135c.—a1l cash. Rye is in demand with a light supply. The last sales were at 73c., but the article would now command three or four cents more. Barley has advanced, and sales have been made of several thousand bushels at 75c. The ar rivals of corn are light. We quote Southern at 67 to 68c. measure; and Northern and Jersey at 70 to 72c.; Ohio 1,700 bushels sold at 71c. on time, and 1,600 bushels 69c. cash. Oats are now plenty at 51 to 52c. Northern. ITE3IP.—Sales of 300 bales Manilla, in lots to arrive from London and Salem, at 170 dollars, 6 mos. In other kinds there has been nothing of importance done. HlDES.—Within the week there have been consider able supplies of all descriptions, which has caused the demand to fall off. There have been sales of 5,000 Buenos Ayres, on terms not made public. Prices have fallen about 4 of a cent. per lb. About 4,000 remain in the market unsold. There has also been a sale of 800 Monte Video, on terms not transpired. The brig John Enders, arrived last evening, from St. Catherine's with hides. INDIGO.—We _notice sales of 6 serous Caraccas at 125 dollars, 6 - rnos ; and 20 ditto, Guatimala, on terms not transpired. laoN.—There have been no sales of importance this week, the only one we notice is 30 tons English at 36d1s. LUAD.—The market for Pig Lead is not so firm in con sequence or further arrivals. No sales are making. PaavlsroNg.-:!-All descriptions, with the exception of new pork, of which the supply is limited, have come in more freely this week, and the market closed yesterday rather heavy at our quotations. Beef and Pork have been in fair re.quest, but no change has taken place in prises. New Lard is selling, as high as 8 cents.—old at 6 cents. The arrivals of Butter have been large during the week, but there has been no change in prices in con sequence of it. Cheese firm, and prices advancing. Dressed Hogs sell at $1 a 4i. New Hams at 91. Shoul ders 5i a 6 ; and Bacon sides at 61 cents. SALT.—The demand continues, but the supplies of Liverpool are light. The sales have been 1,000 sacks Liverpool Fine received, and 1,645 do. previous to ar rival, on terms not made public ; 3,450 bushels Turks Island, supposed at 28 cents., 4 months. SPIRITS.—Great inactivity has prevailel during the week in the market for all descriptions of Foreign. We have heard of only one sale of Brandy ; 40 half-ppes of Bordeaux, a new brand, on terms not made public ; 10 pipes Gin, various brands, have been sold at 80 a 85 cents. ; 10 hhds. St. Croix Rum, 83 a 85 ; 5 hhds supe rior Scotch (Islay) Whiskey, 2 dol. Domestic whiskey has rather an improving tendency, sales of 400 good western bbls. at 20 a 21 cents. ; 200 States Prison 2 9 1-, 450 New Orleans 201 a 20i. Considerable sales of drudge casks have been made at 21+ a 22 cents. Wooe.—Sales the present week have not been exten sive, and prices remain the same. At auction sale yes terday about 70 bales Buenos Ayres, in the bur, of washed and unwashed, were sold at from 161 a 7i- cents. FREIGHTS—TO Liverpool and London are active, but to Havre rather dull. - - - SEAMEN'S WAGES.—To Europe, 15 dol„ India, 13 dol., South America, 14, Coastwise, 15 dots. a 18. Sea men are scarce, and there is some difficulty in obtain- ing them. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. In compliance with an applioation from a deputation of officers, headed by Commandant Baron de Lahaye, the Minister of War has added to his intended budget for 1843 a sum of 50,000 f., in augmentation of the an nual grant for the 494 officers put on the reformed list in consequence of the events of 1815 and 1830, without previous inquiry, before the law of the 19th of May, 1834, on the Etat des Officiers. This sum, added to the 100,000 E, granted to them in 1839, on the proposition of Marshal Clause], will afford to these officers two thirds of their retired pay. The new pavement at the entrance of the Champs Elysees, from the Place de la Concorde, is laid with square blocks of stone, previously steeped in bitumen, which, by enteringinto the pores of the stone, renders it impermeable - to the wet, and inaccessible to the frost. This process is; said : to: . ,Pe - applicable to most kinds of stone with advantage.„., - Fifty extra pupils, over and above the number lately determined by the annual examination, have just been admitted into the ,EcoleZflytectulique for the special service of the engineers and the artillery. The Prefect of Police has just issued an order, that the persons who take charge of canes, umbrellas, &c., at theatres, public balls, concerts, &c., shall only receive a filed sum, viz., for a cane, umbrella, or sword, ten centimes ; fora cloak or other article of dress, 25 cen times. In public balls at theatres and other places, commencing at a late hour of the night, double the above amount is allowed. The operations for extracting the twisted tube from the artesian well of Grenelle are going on as actively . as cir cumstances will admit. The tube is got up only In frag ments, all of which are strangely contorted and flattened. About 600 feet have thus been brought to the surface, the water continuing to flow all the time in abundance, and much charged with dark coloured sand. As soon as the whole bore is again free a strong iron tubing will be let down into it. A fire took place on Sunday night, between 11 and 1 4 , in the warehouse of a military accoutrement manu facturer, in the rue St. Denis, but by the prompt arrival of the firemen the fire was got under before it had ex tended beyond the warehouse, in which, however, every thing was destroyed.—At about the same hour, another fire broke out in the Marche des Patriarches, in the Passage d'Orleans St. Marcel. In the course of half an hour - a dozen sheds were burnt down, but the fire was then got under. A lion from Senegal, which had been in the menagerie of the Garden of Plants six years, died a fortnight ago, and a lioness, his partner, took his loss so much to heart that she refused all food, and has survived him only a week. Among the animals lately added are a small stag from Brazil, which has never before been caught alive ; a carnal or dromedary with two humps, a species not seen in France for thirty-five years ; and the black tiger, whose landing at Havre we have mentioned, and which has reached Paris in good condition. A considerable number of workmen from Belgium and the northern departments of France, who were employed on the fortifications, have just left Paris to return home, the state of the weather no longer admitting of their being occupied. The soldiers of the engineers corps are now employed in making measurements of all the work hi therto executed, in order that an account of the progress hitherto made may be laid before the Chambers. The following distressing aceident is related in the Journal du Havre :—" The Newcastle collier Julia, Captain Robinson, homeward bound from Rouen, was for a tide moored off the north jetty of Havre. In the night of Saturday she endeavoured to get ' under weigh, but, baffled by the weather, and find ing that she was drifting toward s : a b oiv, , in 4. . pttiloti s s he si p tu u a t ti o o u n t , two anchors and brought up within half a cable's length of thebreakers. Here she lay the whole of Sunday, notwithstandingasst sever a l b oats h a d . ! the dang er of the Julia, gone off to her , an d tendered ht4 ristance, whi c h was declined. In the evenin g several captain s o f English vess els in the harbour , seein g and not knowing what had taken place, expressed their of the Elisabeth, I astonishment, and Captain Nort O P, used some strong terms o f reproach at t h e want- of humanity in the Havre seamen. He was told of the r Robinson,but being still e peated refusals of Captain seep. tical, Martin; the master oght f a tug-boat, offered to taie Captain 'Northop on board the Julia, that he mi ascertain the truth of what had be en told him. The boat was launched, and reached the collier, but, resist ing the remonstrances of Captain N . orthop, who went on board, Captain Robinson again declined moving from his station. The boat, in returning, was upset near the pier. Martin and three of 11. s men got safe upon some piles, but seeing one of his companions struggling with the waves, Martin fastened a rope round his body, and, leaving one end on shore, swam out again. He - caught - the drowning m hauled safe to land, holding the other by the hand. and was and. They were both senseless from exhaustion, but are recovering. Catain Northop and two other men were drowned. The body of the Captain was washed on the beach, and all the English ships in the harbour hoisted, their flags half maif hi g h, i n sign of mourning for his loss. The Julia Was brought into harbour yesterday." Mattet, a refractory recruit of the class of 1838, as we mentioned some time ago, being hard pressed by the officers in search' of him, prevailed upon Conor, an associate, to re present him, and surrender himself in his name. In June last Coner went to the gendarmerie barracks in the Marais, and constituted himself a prisoner, signing the name of Maret. He had not been long in confinement before one of the gendarmes recognised him as an old ac quaintance, but 'Conor, with a grave countenance, denied all knoWledge of him, and even of his own wife and her sister, whom the gendarme knew, and brought to the- barracks. The , wife, who knew Maret, and where - he was, betrayed his retreat, thinking thereby—to release her husband ; but, when the real recruit was b rou gh t , t h e y were both d e t a i ne d, an d brought befor e th e c,i nit of Assizes, for the offence of signing a false name to a public document. They were tried yesterday and convicted. Conor was sentenced to imprisonment fur two, and Maret, fat three years. A sailor of the French bit; of war, Cygne, stationed at Monte Video, having fallen from the tops on the deck, and been killed some time since, his comrades with great generosity, raised a subscription: among them selves of 1,000 fr., for the benefit of his widow. The statement that the exhibition of the painting of M. Paul Delaroche, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, was to be closed on the 15th, appears to be erroneous. The exhibition will remain open the whole of this month. In repairing the tower of the church of St. Etienne du-Mont, the old dial of the clock, which is near the summit, is being changed for one that is transparent, and it will be illuminated at night. A few nights since, three whales of the kind ()ailed " blowers," or " bottle-nose whales," were fowl(' on the ~~ . \ -- - shore near Morselines, in the Manche. One of them was sixteen feet long, and they weighed together nearly a ton and a•half. A violent hurricane was experienced at the beginning of this month at Bagneres, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, and in the surrounding district. A great quantity of farming produce was destroyed, and 133 habitations have been severely damaged.—The Toulouse Journal has accounts from Sengowagnet, in the Haute Garonne, stating that on the Ist inst. the valleys in that part of the coun try were visited by a, violent hurricane which uprooted trees, carried some to a considerable distance, and blew down numerous barns and dwelling-houses. As a proof of the force of the wind it is stated that a slate weighing 81bs. was torn from the roof of a stable to which it was strongly fastened, and carried with all the force of a cannon shot against the house of the Cure at a con siderable distance. Here it was driven through one of the windows into the opposite wall, which was cased with strong cement. At Milhau a hay-loft in which several men slept was unroofed, and the inmates with the hay blown completely out of it. A fall took place at St. Adresse, in the Seine-Infe rieure, at the end of last week, of a portion of the cliff 600 feet long at top, and 1,200 feet at the bottom, and about 60 feet in breadth. Three men, who had been working on the shore underneath the cliff, had removed from the spot on an alarm being given from above only a few moments before. . A few Sundays ago a grand ceremony took place at La Chapelle-Blanche sur Loire, near Tours, where the body of the martyr St. Honore lately brought from Rome by the Cure of the Parish was transferred to the shrine of the Church with the usual solemnities. The Archbishop of Tours and a great number of clergy were present. A similar ceremony has also recently taken place at Chinon, where the body of St. Probus was enshrined in the church. According to a decision of the Minister of Justice " the Man without a Name," who has for so many years been constantly confined and discharged from the prison of Aix as a vagabond, is again released, and given the range of the whole town for his residence, but without liberty of going beyond it. Another instance of the danger of a too precipitate interment in France is mentioned by the Pilote de Calvados. An inhabitant of Caen, engaged in carry ing wood and charcoal from Rouen to Paris, slept one night last week at an inn he constantly fre quented. Next morning the people of the house found him, as they believed, dead in his bed, and a medical man, called in by the authorities, 'confirmed the con viction. He was laid out, and a coffin brought, but as he was being put into it signs of life were perceived. Means of resuscitation were used, and in a short time he re covered his speech, declaring that he had only been in a state of epilepsy, and had heard nearly every thing that passed around him. A short time afterwards he was again occupied in his bnsiness. An unfortunate accident occurred at Radon, in the Ille-et-Vilaine, a few days since. A gentleman and his wife, with their niece, aged 16, were in a cabriolet driving along the river side upon a causeway partially flooded. The horse got out of the right line and went into the river, where the vehicle was overturned. The gentleman and his wife supported themselves by some willows till assistance was given, but their niece was drowned. THE GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS Subsequently to inserting the Report of the Meeting at Leeds, from the Manchester Guar dian, we were favoured by a more extended re port from the office of the Leeds Times, of which, though we regret that we cannot now insert it, we shall make considerable use. We are glad to observe, from the remarks of our Contem porary, that half measures will not suit the suffering and energetic men of Yorkshire. The Leeds Times says : " The report which we have given of the pro ceedings will show that statements of the utmost importance were made—statements developing a series of extraordinary and startling facts, whiciL must open the eyes of all to the fearful depres sion of trade in this district, and the consequent deplorable condition of the masses of its inhabi tants. It will not be forgotten, too, that these statements were made on the authority of men of unimpeachable character, of rigid integrity, of extended means of knowledge on the subject, and to whom trade in all its ramifications is fami liar. These, too, are the men—the most practi cal and best informed men—who are the most uncompromising in their opposition to the Corn laws, and will be satisfied with nothing less than total and immediate abolition. The marked dis satisfaction with which, towards the latter part of the proceedings, the timid, hesitating, step by step, inch by inch doctrines of Messrs. Aldam and Holdsworth, the representatives of Leeds and Wakefield, were received by the assembled deputies, and the bold, earnest, energetic, and unanswerable replies of Messrs. Plint and Forbes, expressing, as from the enthusiasm with which they were received they evidently did, the feel ings and opinions of the meeting, will be subjects of congratulation to all who feel anxious for the progress of the cause. It is not-by the inch-by inch progress advocated by Messrs. Aldam and. Holdsworth, that the people of this country can hope to extricate themselves from the mass of misery in which they are now involved, and which is every day closing and deepening around Clem." It is only by bold measures that success can be commanded, and we believe that the landlords will not give up their prey till they are terrified from it by a distinct declaration on the part of the manufacturing classes that they will not sub mit to be plundered by and for the landlords. GRAND REFORM FESTIVAL. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] STOIE-UPON..TRENT, WEDNESDAY.—This afternoon a public dinner was given at Burdem, at the Bedford Arms Inn, in honour of Mr. Ricardo, the Liberal Member for the borough. Richard Heathcote, Esq., formerly Member, and proposer of Mr. Ricardo, was in the Chair, supported by J. A. Wyse, C. J. Mason. John Ridgway, William Harding (Coroner), Esqs., and a great number of respectable householders. About 200 were accommodated in the chief apart ment, and 700 in others who joined the former after the cloth was removed. The apartment in which this ma nifestation of Liberal principles was made, was hung with drapery, and large festoons of ivy and laurel, with a profusion of rosettes of the colours used by the Libe rals. The tables were well supplied with venison, game, &c., from the parks at Trentham, the preserves of Ape dale, Whitmore, Clayton, and Fenton, the farms at Longton. Hanley, Shelton, and the Grange. The ad joining premises, lately occupied by the Bank, were kindly allowed to be used for the gentlemen to assemble in, prior to entering the apartment for the banquet. The desert had been collected from the numerous con servatories of the Liberals in the district ; the wines were of the most choice excellence. Burslem never witnessed before such an assemblage of real talent and high respectability. Many speeches suitable to the occasion were made, and the Company did not break up till a late hour. ORDINATION. On Sunday, the 12th inst., the following gentlemen were admitted to Holy Orders, in the Chapel of Farnham Castle, by the Lord Bishop of Winchester:— Deacons.—John Charles Ryle, 8.A., Christ Church, Oxford; James Meyrick, 8.A., Queen's, Oxford; Thomas Coulthard, 8.A., Queen's, Oxford; James Henry Jan voin, 8.A., Oriel, Oxford; Samuel Clarke, 8.A., St. John's, Oxford; Hatfield E. Petman, 8.A., Trinity, Ox ford; Edwin Trevelyan Snith, 8.A., St. John's, Cam bridge; Richard C. Hales, 8.A.,' Magdalen, Cambridge; George Edward Tate, 'B.A., St. John's, Cambridge; Christopher renry Goal( Bulson; 8.A., Magdalen, Cam bridge; 'Hugh • Hettry - Moleswotth, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge, 14 let. dim. from the Lord Bishop of Exeter; Robert Cooper, 8.A., Watlham, Oxford, by let. dim. from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Priests—George Hadow, 8.A., Balliol, Oxford ; John 13 u 1 :01Durell, 8.A., New Inn Hall, Oxford ; Charles Stephe n Grueber, 8.A., Magdalen, Oxford ; .William henry cope , M.A., Magdalen; Oxford ; George Wil liam Cockereil, M.A. Queen's, Oxford; John Compton, 8.A., M e r ton, Oifor:d ; Thomas Goodwin Hatchard, 8.A., Bra zonnose, Oxfor d ; William Hizel Le Merchant, niversity, oxfo r d Exeter, Oxford • Carston • firs Kebbel, B.A. ; George De Carteret Guille, 8.A., Pembroke, Oxford ; John Hawksley B.A. St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford ; Christopher Heath, 8.A., ' Jesus, Cam bridge ; Frede r i c k Fisher, B A Magdalen, Cambridge • Stephen Stock G ower, B.A. * St " John's, Cam bridge. an early hour, a the :narne picture-frame Donaldson, who r. - SurclDE.YeSte r d av _ ~, him concerning young man of sided with his father, a f-destruction in the all night drinking; York street, Westminster,_conunittede-fsreape maker in York- Nl o wing manner. He had be eu , esse e s ing a young he e g hmouasne;:ef?towed by his his fat:4er quarrelled with t m o ' o o k m ial ; to whom he was paying his addr onward until carried his hat and walked out of the father at a distance. The young Invisible he came to the water-side, when, nearly facing the Peni tentiary, 31illbank, he threw himself into the river, an d before his father could get up to him he w as down with the stream and perished. DEAFNESS. -- Sound Magnifiers, a n d Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an ad vanced age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to join in genera , conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low sp eaker at a public assembly; they are the size of a very small g o ld seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, they are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable th en having a small piece of fine wool in it s p lace ; they are composed of a metal to collect sound, peculiar to the Messrs. S. and R. Solomons themselves ; and although they are so extremely smal: yet they . enable those afflicted with extreme deafness, and those who are only slightly dull of hearing to hear in every respect equal to those of most acute hearing. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York' Hotel, and 76, King William.street, City. Newly-Invented Spectacles, immediately, they are placed before imperfect vision, either by day or candlelight, that mist and dullness whjch appears before the eyes is at once removed, every object beccming clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective eye.siglit be comes bright and brilliant, and is brbugbt to its youthful, natural and original state. Those Valuable inventions have gained the abovenumerous of f high members distinction, patronage of the Royal Faintly; and the unquaafied approbation of inwedhoic havea l profession , been ggreatly benefited by their use. . 39, Ajbcmarle - • .street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 7fl, Kin g W' a a t n i d y iLliam.street, City..7—No connexion with persons of the same name. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. TEE DERBY.—Ballinkeele had a strong party, and for want of better odds the twenty-fives to one were taken so eagerly, that long before the close of the betting the cur rent offers on the part of the layers did not exceed 20 to 1; it is still the prevailing opinion that he will become English property. Chatham, Robert de Gorham, the Dirce colt, and Wiseacre, were in favour at pretty nearly the averages of Monday last, and a few bets were laid to small sums against outsiders, without leading to any fluc tuations worth mention. No offers on the field. THE DERBY. 25 to 1 agst All the mares 11 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Chatham—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Maher's Ballinkeele 22 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness 25 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham—t. 33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dirce colt—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor 50 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Plxenix—tak. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ramshay's Moss Trooper 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Dixon's Honest John—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Dixon's Lord George—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Connop's The Oneida Chief—tak. 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Morgan's The Agreeable colt—ta. 500 to 15 agst Honest John and Wild Duck colt—tak 500 to 25 agst Ballinkeele winning Derby and St. Leger, and Passion the Oaks—tak. THE OAFS. 6 to 1 was laid to a small sum against Passion and afterwards offered GERMAN RAILWAYS, INCLUDING THOSE COMPLETED, BEGUN, AND CON TEMPLATED. 1. The Kaiser Ferdinand's Nordbahn, from Vienna, by way of Lundenburg (side -railway to Brunn, 8 Prus sian, about 38 English miles long), Hradisch Prezau (again side-railway) hence to Olmutz, 14 English miles long, Ostrau, (whence a side-railway to Troppau, about 17 English miles long), thence to Podgorze and Cracow to Bochnia. There is also another side-railway in the direction from Linz to Stockerau complete for about 12 English miles. The whole length of the main line is about 60 German miles (about 280 English) ; of these 26 are completed to Leipnic. The side-lines are together about 20 German miles long, and those to Stockerau, Brunn, and Olmutz are finished, while a similar one is contemplated to Presburg ; the 23 miles from Vienna to Brunn have cost 3,765,000 rixdollars. The first portion of this railway to Wagram was opened in 1837, and the side-line to Olmutz on Oct. 17, 1841. 2. Vienna and Raab Railway, by way of Baden and Nieukirchen, finished for 8 German miles ; the 10 miles to Glognitz (68 of which hare double rails) are to cost 4,550,000 rixdollars. It was opened to Nieukirchen in October, 1841. 3. Badweis and Linz, 17 German miles; from there to Graunden, 11 German miles, worked by horses. This cost 1,680,000 rixdollars. That to Linz was opened in 1832, the division to Graunden in 1836. 4. Prague and Pilsen Railway, 14 German miles long. is now complete to Lena, is 68 miles, and has cost 210,000 rixdollars. This is also worked by horses. 5. Berlin and Potsdam is 3i miles long, cost 1,378,000 rixdollars. Opened on the 30th October, 1838. 6. Berlin and Anhalt, by way of Wittenberg and Dessau to Kothen, about 20 German miles long ; cost 4,200,000 rixdollars. The first part opened in Sept, 1840; the whole length in Sept., 1841. 7. Berlin and Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 10i- German miles long; computed cost 2,200,000 rixdollars ; not yet finished. Most likely will be complete towards the end of 1842. _ 8. Berlin and Stettin, 18 miles long ; computed cost 3,028,000 rixdollars ; will be finished in 1843. 9. Magdeburg and Leipsic, by way of Kothen (where it meets the Berlin and Anhalt line) and Halle, is ,to the Saxon frontier, 141 German miles long ; and cost 3,020,000 rixdollars. The whole line was opened in August, 1840. 10. The Upper Silesian Railway begins at Breslau and goes by way of Ohlau, Brieg, Oppeln, &c., to Neuberung, on the Weischel, where it is intended to unite with the Kaiser Ferdinand's Nordbahn (or North Railway). It will be 28 German miles long, already far advanced towards Oppeln ; i. e., 104 German miles, which will cost 1,467,000 rixdollars. 11. Rhenish Railway, from Cologne by Duren to Aix la-Chapelle, is 9 4-10ths German miles long from the latter place to the Belgian frontier, 1 9-10th German miles long. Has cost to Ai.c-la-Chapelle 5,000,000 rix dollars, and the continuation will cost 1,567,000 rix dollars more. The whole line to Aix-la-Chapelle was opened in September, 1841. 12. Dusseldorf and Elberfeld line is 3:1 German miles long ; cost 1,620,000 rixdollars ; was opened in its whole length in September, 1841. 13. Nuremburg and Furth, 1 German mile long ; cost 124,770 rixdollars ; opened in December, 1835. 14. Munich and Augsburg line is 81, German miles long, cost 2,334,000 rixdollars ; opened to Augsburgh in October, 1840. 15. Saxon and Bavarian line from Leipsic, by way of Altenburg and Plauen, to the Bavarian frontier at Hoff, which is 19 German miles ; will have a side line of 1 mile from Werdan to Zuickaw : is now in progress of construction, and is computed to cost 6,000,000 rixdol tars. ItivilL afterwards be extended over the frontier to Bamberg and : Nuremburg. IG. Eeipsie and Dresden line, by way of Wurzen and Mesa ; is 17 miles long ; cost 6,000,000 rixdollars. Opened in its whole length April 1839. 17. The Baden line, between Manheim and Basil, and is intended to pass Heidelberg, Carlsruhe, Rastadt, Ap penwier (whence is a 1 mile long line to Kehl on the Rhine), Offenburg, Freiburg, and Mulheim. The cost of this line, which will be 37 German miles long, is com puted at 9,698,000 rixdollars, with one rail ; but at 13,138,000 for double rails. The distance from Man heim to Heidelberg was opened in September, 1840, is about two German miles long, and cost 693,000 rixdol. 18. Taunus Railway, between Frankfort and Wies baden, has a side-line worked by horses to Biberich ; is 51 German miles long ; cost 1,831,000 rixdollars. Opened in April, 1840. 19. Brunswick and HarzbUrg Railway, by way of Wolfenbuttel ; is 54 German miles long, with a side line from Vienerburg to Goslau. Opened October, 1841. The side-line not yet completed. The 1 3-sth mile to Wolfenbuttel cost about 250,000 rixdollars. 20. The Hamburgh and Bergerdorf Railway will be opened in 1842 ; is 2 1-10th German miles long, and is to cost 750,000 rixdollars. It appears from the above that Germany has already 175 German miles of railway completed, and 166 Ger man miles in process towards completion. The first cost 38,940,000 rixdollars—i. e., on an average for the mile 222,000 rixdollars. The latter, it is expected, will cost 43,357,000 rixdollars. • , 11. RAILWAYS, THE BUILDING OF WHICH APPEARS THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1841 PRETTY CERTAIN. 1. Magdeburg to Oschersleben, about 6i German miles ; cost computed at 1,700,000 rixdollars. Company already formed, and shares taken. 2. Oschersleben to Wolfenbuttel, about 64 German miles long. To be built at the expense of the Brunswick Government ; will cost the same as the former. 3. Breslau and Freiburg Railway, with side-line to Schweidnitz, 81 miles long ; will cost 2,000,000 rix dollars. 4. Rhine and Weser Railway, from Deutz (near Cc logne), by Elberfeld, Westhofen, and Ham, to Minden, will most likely be built, as it is a highly necessary one; will be 34 German miles long, and may cost about 6,120,000 rixdollars. 5. Bonn and Cologne Railway, 4 miles long, will cost 750,000 rixdollars ; has already gained the permission of the Government. 6. Nuremberg to Bamberg and Hof on the frontier continued ; one of the Saxon and Bavarian lines. Th e expense of this line, which will be about 20 German miles long, is computed at 4,667,000 rixdollars. The part from Nuremberg to Bamberg is 7 German miles long, and will cost 1,226,000 rixdollars. 7. Frankfort, Darmstadt, and Manheim, will be built at a cost of 2,880,000 rixdollars ; will be 8i miles long. 8. Chemnitz and Zwickau will join the side-line of the Bavarian and Saxon Railway, which is about 6 German miles long, and cost 1,400,000 rixdollars. A part of the Company wish to build it as far as Riese, which will cost in all 3,500,000 rixdollars, and be 15 German miles long. 9. Brunswick and Hanover Railway to Minden.— This forms a part of the grand line from Magdeburg to Minden. A treaty is already made between the various Governments through which it passes for its erection. The divisions to Magdeburg, Oschersleben, and Wolfen buttel are already mentioned. The Hanover division will be 17 miles long, and cost 3,230,000 rixdollars. Uncertain whether the Government of Hanover will build it or a private company. 10. The railway from Altona to Kiel appears to be the most likely for the joining of the North Sea with the Baltic ; it will also be the most profitable line. A company already is formed and privileged. It will bo 13 German miles long, and the cost is computed at 2,794,000 rixdollars. The line mentioned in this division will have a gross length of 124 German miles, and the cost in round num bers will be 27,240,000 rixdollars. 111. RAILWAYS WHICH ARE SERIOUSLY CONTEMPLATED, ALTHOUGH NO COMPANIES HAVB BEEN FORMED, AND THERE IS NO CERTAINTY AT PRESENT ON THE SUBJECT. (Herein are mentioned only the greater and national undertakings.] 1. Dresden, Bautzen, Lobau, Gorlitz, and Liegnitz, to Breslau, 33 German miles. 2. Frankfort-on-the-Oder to Breslau, 32 German miles long. _ 3. Augsburg, by Donauwortb, to Nuremberg (pretty certain), 17 German miles. 4. Augsburg to Lindau, 18 German miles. 5. Munich to Salzburg, 17 German miles. 6. Dresden to Prague, 20 German miles. 7. Itirlin to Bergerdorf, 30 German miles. 8. iVismar and Schwerin to Boitzenburg, 12 German miles. 9. Vienna, by Schlotswein, Gratz, Laybach, Podlige, Loitzeh, Adelburg, Prewald, St. Veit, Montfalconc, and Duino, to Trieste, 80 German miles. 10. Frankfort, by Friedberg, Giessen, and Marberg. to Cassel, 21 German miles. 11. Cassell, by Ilulhausen, to Halle, 26 German miles (or by way of Eisenach, Gotha, and Erfurth). 12. Cassel, by Carlshaven, Litstadt, to Hamm, 18 German miles. 13. Heilbronn, by Stutgard, to Ulm, 16 German miles. 14. Ulm, through the Illenthal,. to Leutkirch, thence by Wagen to Friederickshaven, 14 German miles. This division comprises 363 German miles of railway, the cost of which would probably be about 80,586,000 rixdollars. N.B. A German mile may be• considered equal to 41 English. Mm War,,, '" a ' n ' d autho r o f t h e "History of the Major-General l r 'r. P. Napier , brother of Com Peninsular War,, is placed on th e li st of General Officers rewarded for distinguished servic e . - a o j cl o o r r - e G NEW BOOK OF TRAVELS, at ALL the LIBRARIES. , NOTES of a HALF-PAY in SEARCH of HEALTH ; or, RUSSIA, CIRCASSIA, and the CRIMEA, in 1839-40. By CAPTAIN W. JESSE, Unattached. J. Madden and Co., 8, Leadenhall-street ; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh ; Cupaming, Just ready, in 2 vols. Bw., with numerous Illustrations, A PILGRIMMAGE TO AUVERGNE, FROM PICARDY TO VELAY. By MISS LOUISA STUART COSTELLO, Author of " A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines,"&c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 17, . Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURI AND ClTY.—Captain Dangerfield, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. W. Farreu ; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hector Rumbush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning ton Mr. Cooper ; Humphrey Rumbosh, Mr. Harley ; Lady Whiffle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett; Lady Dangerfield, Mrs. W. West; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, the New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Enclid Barn. Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to be opened at half-put Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2s. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with Charles the Twelfth. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Brilliant success of Shakspere's Tragedies, powerfully cast— Mr. Gt thaw, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Hughes, and the whole ta- lent of the Company. THIS EVENING, DEC. 17 Will be acted Shaksp(re'• Tragedy of JULIUS C,ESAR.— Marcus Brutus, Mr. Graham ; Caius Cassius, Mr. Phelps ; Marc Anthon, Mr. H. Hughes ; Portia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Airs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Another week of continuous success has added fresh laurels to the brilliant career of this now magniffcent and favourite establishment. Third week of " The Locksmiths." THIS EVENING, DEC. 17, _ . The TWO LONDON LOCKSAIIT HS ; or,the BANKER, the THIEF, and the WlLL.—George Davis, Mr. E. F. Sa ville; Murray, Mr. Dale; Burl, Mr. Seaman , Tom Lively, Mr. Gardner ; Barny Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. After which, THE WONDER.—Don Felix, Mr. Osbal diston ; Violante, Miss Vincent. To conclude with BLACK EYED SUSAN.—William, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Susan, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.— Galley} , 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, The Locksmiths, with Simon Lee, and The Floating Beacon. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TUE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 17, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter from " J. 5.," Bayswater, is under consideration. THE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 16. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 41 Highest 46 l Lowest 37 Barometer 29.43.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. H riling 22mInutee after 5 I Evening 37 minutes after 4. Whit --,AVIL LONDON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1841. The religious fermentation is not confined to the University of Oxford. It agitates Germany, and troubles even the ruffled waters of the United States. The most untiring Bible readers are growing dissatisfied with the administration wiiinicsitli claiming to be tution, has a of p t o h l e i tiCcahluarcsl:voelfl religiousEasnglad, con tributed nothing to the social welfare and moral improvement of the working classes. Every where the Church of Rome is exercising an in. fluence hitherto unfelt since the period of the Reformation. The New York papers loudly complain that the Roman Catholics in that State regulate all their political movements by the direction of the Catholic .Bishop, who, under the plea of watching over the education of children, or . advancing some religious object, contrives to wield an immense political power. In Prussia, two Prelates set the laws of the Monarchy defiance for upwards of two years, and in the end; were almost more than a match for the Sovereign:: In Bavaria, the Bishop of Passau has not only disobeyed the commands of the King, but read his Majesty a theological lecture, which there is no danger of his speedily forgetting. The Queen Dowager of BAVARIA universally respected for her great kindness to the poor, and her many other virtues, recently died as she had lived, in the Reformed religion. The King ordered a solemn funeral service to be performed for her in all the principal churches of Bavaria. When this mandate, dictated by filial piety, was com municated to the Bishop of Passau, that proud priest addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy of his diocese, of which the purport may be gathered from the first paragraph, which is as follows : " A desire may be felt by many intrusted in our dio cese with the cure of souls to know what description of religious ceremony ought to be performed on the occa sion of the lamented death of her Majesty the Queen Dowager Caroline ; we therefore ei ,acquaint and command the entire clergy of the diocese of Passau to abstain in this present case from Church religious observances of every kind, such, according to the prescriptions of our Holy Church, being only usual in cases of the decease of members incorporated in the same. We especially for bid the offering of the sacrifice of the mass, under pain of suspension, and the putting up the prayers usual in the Catholic Church for its deceased members." The Church of Rome does not pray for the souls of -dead heretics. This, in the fewest words, is the sum and substance of this pastoral address. As Reformers deny the efficacy of prayers for the dead, it would have been as well had such a Royal mandate not been addressed to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Still, having been so addressed, the bold defiant attitude assumed by the Bishop in rejecting it, savours of Rome in the pahniest days of her power. The Archbishop of VIENNA has addressed a pastoral letter to his clergy, forbidding them to celebrate any marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant, unless the parties first agree to educate their children in the Catholic faith. It is further stated to be the bounden duty of the Roman Catholic husband or wife to make a con vert of her or his heretical helpmate. Here is food for more troubles in Germany, for the Ger man Lutherans are never slow to retaliate any blow coming from Rome. There, too, Mysticism —a sort of German Puseyistn—is at work ; and hardly is there a single university in the German States in which Mysticism has not. made exten sive inroads. Some of them regard the Bible as a book of symbols ; and, by the majority of them, many of the traditions of the Roman and Greek Churches are held to be co-equal in authority to the precepts of that sacred volume. The mind of a great part of Europe is fast losing its moori ngs b oth i n re li g i on an d politics. Safe anchorage for the soul, the Oxford divines teach, is not to be found within the pale of the Church of England; and the condition of the working classes of this, country is such as to take away from them all confidence in the wisdom and beneficence of an Administration not directed by themselves. It is a singular phenomenon in the history of.the world to see Oxford re-robed in superstitions- too 'dark for the cloisters of Sa lamanea—to see - , the,, chain with which Popery bound Imperial Spain, but which that nation has volily burst antr.cast from her, attempted to be rivetted by a knot . of recreant priests upon-the neck of Protestant England. And yet such is the spectacle now presented to astonished Europe. The Journals of the landlords have of late taken to abuse the millocrats, as the Times calls the intelligent men who plan and arrange, each in his sphere, the whole manufacturing system, and direct the exertions of numerous bodies of workmen. Their great and recently acquired wealth is made a reproach to them. They are charged both with neglecting and oppressing their labourers. They are held up to odium as extortioners, mere money getters, who think of nothing but how much toil they can extort for the smallest possible reward. They are accused of tasking infancy beyond its powers, and of al lowing it no holidays, of withholding adequate wages from the able-bodied, and denying solace and relief to those whose toils in their service have caused premature decay. Some of these charges, and, in individual cases, perhaps, all of them, are true. It cannot be de nied that, amongst the millowners, though some are as mild and benevolent as Mr. STRUT; there are others who are insensible to all generous feelings. They share, to a large extent, it must be admitted, the general vice, and steadily pur sue their way to wealth, whatever may be the cost to humanity. Public events, as well as private circumstances, have proved that many swollen and bloated cotton lords have surpassed. the lords of the soil in arrogance, rapacity, and pride. The complaints of the Truck, and Tom and-Jerry shops which were noticed in the Legis lature, still find an echo in various parts of the country, and prove that some masters are more intent on getting wealth by plundering their workmen, than by improving the arts, and reduc ing the cost of the articles they manufacture. They have undoubtedly been too prone to imitate the rapacity of the landlords, and, in gathering in their own bountiful harvests, have not only left nothing for the poor to glean, but have some times carried off their share of the crop, and re fused to pay them for their toil. For several years there has been an avowed contest in England between capital and labour, and the advantages,which have generally been on the side of the former, have not often been used with moderation. The combinations or unions amongst the workmen, against which the masters have said so much, have completely failed to prevent excessive competition, and to keep up the rate of wages. The present condition of the labouring classes is a conclusive proof, that the efforts of the labourers to defend them selves and improve their condition, have not been successful. If their combinations could have effected that object, which we believe they could not, every reflecting man would regret their failure. But as they have failed, and as the capitalists have been almost uniformly suc cessful, it is clear that the labourers have been in the long run at their mercy, and must have accepted the terms their masters chose to offer them. In saying a few words in defence of the millocrats, as the Times calls them, we are far from intending to become their champions as against the labouring classes, but rather wish to contrast their conduct and situation with those of the landlord, and show how much more they deserve of the community than the landed aris tocracy. If the millocrats have enriched themselves, as the Times reproaches them with having done, they have also contributed very much to enrich the landowners. The rental of the country, par ticularly in the neighbourhood of the towns they have called into existence, has been amazingly increased. An elaborate account was some time ago published in a pamphlet, called " A Plea for the Total and Immediate Repeal of the Corn laws," of the rental of 100 parishes in Scotland, which had increased, in the forty-five years pre ceding 1840, from 287,139/. to 744,2731 i Now, whatever portion of that increase AttlitrrtAtitit . fi arisen from the industry of die t eBfiMpititho; and labourers, it is clear thai'We:nielicjinypers and receivers of the rent, as such, did, , ,llothing 'whatever to promote the: increaseTlybich was , mainly due to the stimulus given by the progress of the manufacturing population. The landlords have been enriched by the labours of those millo •crats whom these Journals now most ungrate fully reproach with their wealth. Amongst the millocrats are to be-found a nutn ber,of ingeniOus inventors, and one and all of them plan,,,arrange, and carry into effect the vastioperations of which they are at the head. They do not enrich themselves without creating a great quantity of employinent for the people, and in all the new arts they have brought for ward wages have necessarily : been, higher than in the old arts. They have thus.' - conferred great benefits on the public, while they have enriched themselves. The recipients of rent have only lived in splendourOn the fruits of other men's industry. The millocrats have no especial protection from the Legislature, farther than the common protection given to all property. They have passed no laws to tax the people for their ad vantage. They have grown rich by their own exertions, with the exertions of the people, whom they have organized, instructed, and employed. The landlords, on the contrary, have had special protection, and exemption from taxation ; they have passed laws to tax the people for their ad vantage ; they have kept their wealth, or added to it, by oppression ; and have only plagued the community by passing a number of bad laws in in return for the wealth the community has be stowed on them. Moreover, the millocrats are under no obliga tion to the State for their wealth ; they have ac quired it by their own exertions. On the land lords the State has bestowed the land, and has coupled the gift with conditions for the advan tage of the public, which the landlords have evaded. Without therefore, entering into any defence of the millocrats, as the Times calls them, against the people, we can unhesitatingly assert, that, as contradistinguished from the landlords, they are as light to darkness. The wealth of the one is mainly the result of honest industry, the wealth of the other is the offspring of disho nesty and extortion. Belgian and German Papers of the latest dates have been received. We give the following ex tracts from them :-- BRUSSELS, DEC. 12.---The Monitenr Beige of this morning publishes five conventions concluded and signed at Berlin on the 19th of May, at Hamburgh on the 25th of June, at Brunswick and Berlin on the 15th and 17th of July, and at Wiesbaden on the 16th of September, 1841, between Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimer, the city of Hamburgh, the Duchy of Bruns wick, and the Duchy of Nassau. These conventions re gulate, by formal stipulations, the rights of the inhabit- . ants of the respective countries in regard to the trans mission of property. BRUSSELS, DEC. 14 . —Several Belgian journals have spread a report.of purchase of arms and powder, and of the enlisting of men, stated to have taken place at Eisohe, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and which, was con nected with the plot a t B russels. It appears from pri vate accounts and indubitable information that there have never been at Eisohe either muskets or ammunition or enlisting of men, except in the brains of the individuals who announced this news in a letter addressed to a per- son in the Belgian army, who was already under arrest. The Moniteur publishes a commercial convention be tween Belgium and Denmark, concluded at Copenhagen on the 13th of June last. The Chamber has vot.edrto-day the budget of the Marine department, amouriting , to 960 ; 849 francs. The Chamber of Coretuercw of-Meestricht has sent a petition to the , King .of .Holland, , tribt' to renew the convention concluded with ,Ltizernbilig on 'the 31st of Dec., 1840, which expires on .1 - ttn.litt next. The French Journals of Tuesday continue to report at much length the proceedings of the Court of Peers, which has not yet done with. the QUENISSET affair. It is labour lost. Nobody in France seems to care half a farthing about the trial, or what becomes of the vagabond QUE NISSET. Were DUPOTY discharged, as he ought to be, the Court might sit hearing the ridi culous rhapsodies of that pliant tool of tyranny, M. HERBERT, the Procureur-General, till the evening of doomsday, without provoking an in quiry out of doors. We confess we are surprised to find the Oppo sition. Journals rather satisfied than otherwise teibl • , • -. k t 00 fi r` ' u ' 4 4 'lwiterk" , k w' 'l"f`tt •Ag n **.; .-..-A1061,,i1.---2sl with the reduction of the French army. The Go vernment, we suppose in anticipation of a storm of dissent, published on Tuesday a Royal Ordinance for increasing the Native Auxiliary troops in French Africa. The new corps is to consist of 20 squadrons of cavalry and three battalions of in fantry. These battalions are to be kept up on such a scale as to allow of the admission of any of the infantry of the three colonies who may choose to join them. Of political gossip, we find nothing of any in terest in these Journals. Even the reported no mination of M. DE LAMARTINE to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies seems half forgotten already : M. de Monicault, Prefect of the Eure, is appointed Prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, in the room of the Vicomte de Germiny, and is succeeded by M. Zede, Master of Requests. A Toulon correspondent writes :—" The steam-boat Tenare, which went out with sealed orders, and was be lieved to be bound for Tunis, has returned, and, as we now learn, has been to Monaco. It appears that the demonstrations of the people of the principality were so serious, that the Prince of Monaco called to the frontiers a body of Piedmontese carbineers, in virtue of the trea ties of 1815, by which the principality was placed under the protection of Sardinia. What was the object of the French Government in sending the Tenare, we cannot tell. It is said that an interposition was to have been made between the Prince and his people, if they had come to a collision ; but this is scarcely credible." A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, says:— " The reduction of our artillery does not go to the ex tent of 16 batteries. It is to be only 11 for. Italy, Galli cia, Hungary, Transylvania, Upper Austria, and the Tyrol. In Austria two batteries of foot and one of horse artillery are being suppressed. In Mnravia, the reduc tion is one foot and one horse battery; in Lower Austria, the same reduction is to be macle." A correspondent at Hanover writes to the Borsenhalle of Hamburgh :—" We learn the motive which decided M. Christiani and other Opposition Members to with draw from the Second Chamber of the States was, that on their arrival, which was duly announced to the Count de Nyphausen, Vice-Marshal of the kingdom, that officer replied that, as be had not received the ne cessary powers from the Cabinet, be could not allow them to take their seats. When the Chamber was about to proceed to the election of the candidates for the Pre sidency and Vice-Presidency, a member moved for a suspension of the operation until the absent Deputies could take their seats. His motion was negatived, upon which the mover and twenty other members seceded." A letter from Christiana, in Norway, states that the Storthing was again, for the third time, about to take into consideration the question of granting to the Roman Catholics of 'Norway the free ocercise of their religion within the kingdom. If the Storthing again votes for this liberty of conscience, the King, who has twice re jected it, will, according to the terms of the Constitution, be obliged to sanction it. Advices from Athens of the 27th ult., quoted by the Augsburg Gazette, state that on the 25th a general meet ing of Shareholders of the National Bank was held under the presidency of the Ministers. The Minister Petralis delivered a speech, in which he enlarged on the import ance of the Bank in promoting the prosperity of Greece. A Provisional - Directory was then named, with M.Bromes, an Hungarian, at its head. The Bank will commence its operations on the 13th January, and a circular letter has been addressed to the Shareholders, calling upon them to pay up their shares before that day. DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT ARABIN.—The de cease of the above Learned Gentleman took place yesterday afternoon, at his residence, MO Beech, after a painful illness of some du ration. The deceased gentleman was sixty-six years of age, and held the following lucrative appointments :—One of the Judges of the Cen tral. Criminal Court, Deputy Judge-Advocate, one of the Verders of Epping arid Hainault Fo rests, besides various other smaller appointments, from which he derived an income, it is stated, in the aggregate, of 10,0001. per annum.—Evening Paper. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. There seems to be an impression in favour of an improvement in the Funds, but it would be premature to calculate much on this, until it is knoWn what President Tyler says in his next message to Congress on the subject of the " lit tle" matters of Right of Search and Boundary, and what the Government here will do to im prove tbe resources of the country. Consols for the opening and 'ex. div. were marked I per cent. higher, viz. 89 to 89k, and for present de li Very, under special transfer, at 90k, the market closing well. The premium on Exchequer bills was steady at 10s. to 12s. ; East India Bonds were Is. to 3s. ",ficern.; Bank Stock advanced again, being at to 1651 ; the Reduced Three awl-a-Half ver Ce`nis. touched 981 to 99, and the Three per tents. 891 to 891. The Foreign Market presented a listless ap peaiance, hitt prices were not lower generally. Active Spanish BOnds were quoted 24 to 231 i ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were a trifle better, being at 32 to 32k, and Colombian Bonds were worth .401. The possibilir 'of a p,robabl i e renewal of hostilities beti4en'Taas aoi'Mexieo. , has no particular effect upon the Stock or the latter country, which was marked to-day at 261 to 26k for account; Russian Stock - has been firm at 113 a ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent.' BOnds have been at 51k. The Shares have been higher. For the, prin cipal lines the nearest quutations are these : London and Birmingham, New, 24; York and (North Midland 39; Great Western 19} to 20; Gosport Junction 6, and South Western, 188 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby Shares 43; Manchester and Birmingham, ill; and North Midland, 27 dis.; London oint Stock Bank Shares were 21 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 15.—We have had rather a dull market to day, the sales comprising about 3,000 bales, wholly to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 15.—A limited business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange to day ; Grand Junction, 198 ; Eastern Counties, 8 ; North Midland, 70A-. In Bank or miscellaneous Stock nothing doing. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.—There is much animation in the Share Market, and prices are progres-ively advancing. The sales are, London and Brighton, 36 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28* ; South Eastern and Dover, 18 181- ; ditto, New, 30s. prem. ; North Midland Thirds, 151 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 6/. 11s. 3d. By the arrival of the packet-ship Hendrick Hudson at Portsmouth, and the Roscius at Liverpool, papers from New York to the 28th ultimo have been received, being lour days later than the last advices. The papers do not contain any political news of the least interest. Exchange on England is last quoted at 94 10. United States Bank Shares are not quoted at New York, but at Philadelphia they are quoted at 44 per share. A further advance of 4 per cent. has taken place in Consols this morning ; they are now quoted at 89i 4, for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced have also im proved to 894 4. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 244 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 33. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 14. 3 per Cent.. Consols Three and Half Stock 97/ ' Grand Canal Stock. .... —..— Ditto Reduced ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent—. Ditto New 1830... 9Bl Ditto 4 per cent .. 3/ per Cent. Debs. 001 Royal Canal Stock I The advance which took place in the English Securi ties is , fully maintaipeO, Consols being still quoted at 894 894 • Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 89/ ; Bank Stock, 166; • Exchequer Bills, 10 12 ; India Bonds, 1 - 1651 2 , premium. There has been bat:little doing in the Foreign Market. The brokers being principally . engaged in settling the half'monthly account;' t winch is going on without tiny' difficulty. Spanish Active Stock is now quoted at 24; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 514. Very little doing in Shares. London and Brighton has advanced to 374; London and South Western are 574; Great Western, 844. Consols, 894 4 : Mexican, 26i ; Spanish, 244. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1651 India Stock ......... 3 per Cent Red. B9/ Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 9O/ Ditto Olal Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red 99 Ditte 'New Annuities... !slew 3/ per Cent 991 Ex. Bills, 1,000/..:21d 10 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/... Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. 14 pm Jan I 1860 .. 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Aect... Oct 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. lConsols for Acct 891 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. *— Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 32/ Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ares, 6 per cea -- Russian, 5 per cent ll3/ Chilian 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 23/ Ditto, 1824. 2Ol Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange --f. —c. 51i Mexican, 5 per cent.... 26 FDrlcitzeichh,23ipporercceenntt. —f. — c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 -- Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. per cent. Birmingham and D S e H rb A y ßD ß Ei a tS i t l o. w , a ,s .y (100 pd) 57 h e a s m t e rn and Gloucesterß a ilway( 65 paid)Ra.l7 a v (100 p) 646 B G i r r e m at in W g Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9l Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 3B L on don and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) io Ditto New Shares ( paid) 61 London and Birming ham ( 90 ) ......... ... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid 26 London and South Western Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... .. 281 North Midland R a i lwa y ( 100 ) .......... 73 Di t t o Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 89 ACCIDiNT%--On' Thursday night last, two men and a boy were at work in a pit at Heysyche Old Hill, near Dudley, and in the night, by some means, the pit fired, and the two men and the boy, and five horses, were-burnt to death. The horses were worth 40/. each —Staffordshire Gazette. „rs ineii; to di ~„, SUMMARY OF NEW AND Vitbitt Optinton. ” Who runs may read." )1 11 v it FOREIGN. sib The French Journals of Tuesday, co ntrary to our ev e li e pectation, for the most part approve of the reductiottelfi ; e l, the French army. ib The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes a Royal Ordinanco,ll;,,ii for the better organization of the auxiliary native trooPll,, t ea of French Africa. That force now consists of 6,500 111 1 i,, s ei 4,000 of whom are cavalry. This force is to be increases' ,hoe to 9,352, under the general name of Spahis. T he native e,uos costume is to be worn by the men, but the Europ e idled uniform by all the officers of this corps. • 0 01 The last accounts from Bayonne, says the .Ik/egi r i e ,e, feel! Parisien, state that the state of siege has been raiseaPejelot the Basque provinces, that the military commissions ha" e pt been dissolved, the collection of the rest of the war fine , 1; is interdicted, and the sequestrations taken off. r His Excellency Lord Burghersh, British Arnbassado at the Court of. Berlin, had his first audience of the Ktng of Prussia on the Bth inst., and delivered his credenti' Advices from Hanover state that a seizure of a c olle . c' tion of political songs, termed Songs of a Cosmopolite, have just been made in the capital by order of Gov e r.n: went. The town of Hamden having elected M. Chlos. tiani, an opposition member of the Second Chamber, (-1.. A vernment has withdrawn the garrison, by whom a g °t " . deal of money was spent there. • A new theatre, fitted up in the style of the Rena' s : Isr sauce, has just been opened at Dresden. On t his Oc TO sion the plan of attaching a saloon to the theatr e for v sy 4;0 ne company to walk in between the acts, and which is ~off to Germany, has been adopted. A splendid new theet a r' 'se with asaloon, and with a cafe and restaurant a 11 Fri caise, has been also opened at Breslau, the ca p ita Silesia. At Semarang, the second town in the Island of 3",al there exists a species of matrimonial lottery, vr n o le p eeer n gives rise to many singular speculations• aeltsZ brought children, rich as well as poor, are 0 - i s brought up in a -priblic establishment. Th e i f, is ' lllllj profound silence as to the fortunes of these childr i eThe ee enjoined to every person employed in or about the . " - ent , tution. These fortunes are placed under the nianage ni n o f of persons at Batavia, on whom a similar injunet!o secresy is imposed. The female orphans are kep t Irises establishment until their marriage. Every man Pes'aey, ing an annual income of 730 florins, or two florins the t he is at liberty to choose a wife from amongst them, 141 t ill amount of her fortune is not made known td several days after the marriage. A servant o f th„ thes e tary hospital at Semarang lately selected one 0 ' g ood damsels with a fortune of 65,000 florins. Since his ase luck, the application for wives from the asylurnd 1115 1 become 'very urgent; for a report has got ab on w ith there is a marriageable girl still left, who will bring her a prize of 200,000 florins. PUBLIC OPINION. n i ce ' 5 The Times gives the following sketch of Mr' , efr. case, and his Cornish mining speculations ,-- fi eblie Thomas Saunders Cave, was originally a clerk% nerolier office. What were the leading features of his e on' career, and what combination of circumstan ces it , the tually rendered him such a distinguished proficie n , t a ire. art of bubble projectorship,:we do not care to la t l et to Our knowledge of him begins with his first atteslare, set himself up as an extensive dealer in min e ha ving and it appears that about seven years ago , . he arranged his plans with consummate addresso,oraer suddenly presented himself as the princiea l n in. of the Rospeath and Wheal-Bolton mines—tw-corlt valuable possessions in Cornwall, for the profitable; Own ing of which it was said to be necessary that II gees resources should be extensively, assisted by a la r g e e t e e tary , sion of co-proprietors. To obtain this new . 1 3 , 1*° ria l otaa s and their corresponding advance of capital , Nl' e tpe" Saunders Cave betook himself to a series of artfa tba dients, unprecedented, if we mistake not, both 1 the ir audacity of their character, and especially i n . 131 seductive influence upon many infatuated (W es t° the means of the most fraudulent representations as _sots productiveness and profits of the mines — r e e ve bee n lions which no prudent capitalists could W i „ a eiri expected to confide in, without satisfactory ,i'"yerl —the indefatigable share-seller succeeclea speedily in inducing 54 persons of talent's 01 ' t een and respectability to subscribe no less a t hese 368,000/.' The respective amounts invested u.): 41 e irs subscribers varied feom 5,0001. to 20,000/. Printer as are culars, embodying the most glowing lures, sp c ...ete! ). often resorted to by colonial land companies, wetrossers• sively disseminated by Mr. Cave's hired n e re ss es ' Pipes of wine, outfits to India, costly rel /e v h ie pre money accommodations, and all sorts of acceeta_ his iv sents were profusely given by him as baits .00.0iyaer tended victims. Nay, the enterprising In',rinations even employed a foreign traveller whose pereteneecl in hawking his glittering ware, actually e on, vi al far as Algiers. Ten per cent., at the lowest fl ow ers* ? the promised profit. Respectable people, in ;tir e loaLs'rrti straits, were drawn into his net by pecan' ;0 0 .0 4 .' 1 0 One particular friend of his mortgaged a, veil c en . eir liciesr property for the sake of being admitted to a I - ft e s esece i t s,jsl , tion in the promised spoil. Meanwhile,- in the of any'actual dividend, his credulous co-partner',,, $1, 9 4,4 assured, even when Mr. Cavo knew his bubbles Iv e- te stP the eve of bursting, that these ' magnificent iet e ", be 1- 1 yielded a large remunerative return, which would s e ‘', o - be Is', realiied, and might be stated in: round nurahers n . „‘sc,, worth from two or three millions of money. Ocf - re after what we tare mentioned ; the signal fa" P t o ur these' projects will oceailon no ;surprise ; e h . ‘ , t i n etlY readers will hardly expect to learn, What was distinctly the announced by Sir Charles Williams, that w,lterbole bankrupt's splendid chimeras hai ended, a bout 4,1 balance was, in one "case, 11. 4st, and in aac n ha t be P large • 41. and a fraction ! The consequence ise t oetwltt el ' number of respectable persons, whose ava r ' e t i ee pover l :Y; their prudence, are eitherreduced to c overt" Oa' or irretrievably ruined. Now, this extrileedinarY to osur which certainly administers an instructive I°ss'°ser els!' countrymen, is in truth only one of a " En cha racte r l is ; exhibiting, more or less, precisely the sam e o f sita. l tics. To comment upon particular instances ue. valg h , kind, still in progress and not yet blow n i r' to•du be both invidious and dangerous. Sala ° , Wu °. serve in general, that there are, at presealtigreti4' rable schemes afloat, partly referring r h e like and partly to home investments, whi s e f" e ' d i e seic Cave's Cornish mines and the West l'iu• d e eeta re t surance Company, and sundry more special ° t ee W i s e that might be mentioned, habitually Par a r scea ri r inveigling snares, but cannot furnish a bit bette_ uic h SI for success, than the wretched imposture which e%.". 'Charles Williams has so powerfully and sealneuntiesan:: posed. , As long 'as monied men or intende t t es efht e can be found so wholly devoid of ordinary. f°` . . jth sr, to . perlt their funds in such crazy speettlatOn! o f c or) l % it is absurd to complain of the extensive wal;:i . Per ot deuce now subsisting in the mercantile Wor' th i s p nl o f tious investors, - whose lamentations tW ell ie f cau se are always loudest, are themselves the ch . , 00 , bl. e a. - 'the evil they deplore. Let them learn wisu for swi u n oa perienee ; and then the existing faciliti es . /1 be s ee . ling, so injurious to sound commerce , " l f thi n g ' ay superseded by a more healthful state ° in. t e This singular case is another instance of lio‘vfo loot. be done by a clever, scheming projector, wh o Cave the world's notions of res p ec t a bility gah . einnee 3 e r d r ' eury i :etiref s c u tt e b e ti e h t ; care to cultivate a-well-to-do: air ; From appearing to want nothing, he It was not so much the plausibility of hi s P ie jetion` re enabled him to turn it to account, as t he C 0 that the the part of those who had faith in hi w' + i ll i ii was a man of substance—one whit stood h is g Cl n y Money-market. , pictures—his w ines 50 113'1v di nners — a nd seasonable presents--were u o aoti, vouchers for his respectability. Wh° co , o eld glb. e e' the character or capabilities of a man whO his four or five courses, and exhibit an in 3 P e ",,, t his s i n '. ll, vice of plate? We draw from Mr. Care's ee o f v ference, namely, that wealth, or the apn ea ! which is much the same thing, is, in the worstait',,. tion, virtue, integrity, station, talent, and saPi e e ek i biel .s ''! different would have been this gentleman's l e ! 0 11:‹ ir , sceemed or speculated in a coat out of lee ehi ,oste, Though his projects might have been twice.r, r da wit,P; they would then have been universally crtZ ve n ot e l ; s , preposterous. We heliestly confess that w? l ity . 4 slightest sympathy for those who have lost Di provoked, and have deserved their fate. sinafercnr4e The Post, still harping on the Derby wo'.(l, says :—" Some mortified political flatterers 0, ' icos ferr o ' r , dealers in cotton and woollen hose n who ssieelf ore the other day at Derby, appear to b e exce about ro at whit we have taken the liberty of say log who t net said Conference. We always suspect Pe s in but re rs annoyed when plain truth is spoken in a P an o ie te discourteous manner. We thought that m ocati cah o c lll assembled at Derby entirely mistook their V 1. 0 00 A , we said so. But we said nothing harshlY i ? n , tee var' . .; of those persons. We have no angry, fe e I o °v -- them. We believe they are very unwise to 0 1r,71 t r y . selves about matters they do not underst, lerisiato.S, lose time in attending to the business eltte'slog which might well be employed in their own business of stocking acei°"the delegaia' As the Post is so bent on giving ad to _ our Co o at the Derby Conference, we will in return gi ve a temporary a little advice. Let him cease, hats 0-oistrjtill: questions of political economy, of which he P ad to 0 1 11 , slightest knowledge, and confine himself inste c . rouic in . is; ters more congenial to his nature, such es n. r ! is ,i n g fashionable arrivals and departures, an d th P rc i er earliest and most authentic information of wrines et ings at the last party at Buckingham Palace v ht „ 3 pt t al o Castle. Here he is quite at home, and dis s e to e to cte ati and industry infinitely to his credit. But a ettlee o * ; h e of trade or finance, he has as much aceaa i g uee of them as a lady's maid has with the doctrines announced TheH erald a says i 011 Puseyites. more :ew e suns tion of Puseyism, was on the deel o li nce e on that infected places of Oxford were becoming Couldtie mwieschhaievvegc;isent:sc__ol-41/I:l°l(Piii. venerable metropolis ; her antiquity an w p 13 should oand ourhe healthful,—and tli ful Establishment, an dth i a v t a s t h o e n p e r o m t e o s r t e a n s u t p r dr e e fo rs r ue rn r ii e tny " riheroten' : .i : 001 1 : lenged—her authority unimpeached, OOOOOl,O have felt ourselves justified in againpressing ajLcussio public attention a subject so distressing e ; ;r: e an r e protracted. But the evil has becomone_ extinguished though retarded fire, 'Y cincres , eus" virulent and dangerous from thelina path must still be trodden over of rior which, as yet, have been app sos,' until the sense of the Prelates thef n'aPtela of our Protestant Universities, and o re aired s o t io of the British public which has hitherto e onficl en tir ee the pale of that Church, (satisfied with f e l te d i nch W its protection)—shall have been 11:IfSll0 gose mode sufficiently emphatic and decidedb been so per ver not last sparks of the schism which has e d o es . 00 t the Chuici. 0,0 lighted up."—The reason the e te actively bestir its in the question of rte Y detqouatiet. chdooeieuor, IVIORNING SUN