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INTERESTING LITERARY CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Now ready, 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, LIVES of the PRINCESSES OF ENGLAND. By MRS. EVERETT GREEN. Editor of the "Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladl e me s." et com " A valuable addition to the historical library, and forms a panion for the work of Miss Strickland, to which indeed it is an indis pensable addition. The author has executed her task with great skill and fidelity. There is a graceful combination of sound historl sal erudition with an air of romance and adventure that is highly pleasing."—Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ALED ONIAN SOCIETY' OF LONDON. C ALED ONIAN The ANNIVERSARY BALL will take place at the HanoTer square Rooms on THURSDAY, January 31, 1830. k Lists of the Stewards may be obtained of the Hon. Secretary, 15, King William-street, City. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, ;•ele T•essee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIN. C+. Will be performed an entirely new and original Play, entitled THE LOVING WOMAN. Wielfert, Mr. Howe ; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean ; Hermann, Mr. J. Wallack; Max, Mr. H. Vandenhoff; °Willa, Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by a new Comedy, entitled THE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ; Mrs W. Clifford. Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with BOX AND COX. After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To conclude with an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TIIEATEX ROYAL, APELPIII. under the Tlll3ion o f Madame Celeste. EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW .10PSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by an entirely new Extrayaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John G rimly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BIJNBURT'S tPOONS. Mr. Ilighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks, Mr . Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Bunbtary, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Yeetris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed NOT A BAD JUDGE. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. After which HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with RAISING THE WIND. Dress Boxes, 55.: tipper Boxes , 4a.; 25.; Gallery, le., No half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes mast to made to Mr. Aileron, lb, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATILE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corti, Wynn Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne. After which the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude , with A MODEL OF A WIFE. ASTLE CS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVEN NO, Mr. BATTY has great pleasant in announcing that he has sue. mailed in engaging Mademoiselle ANOELE, from the Hippodrome, Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, with her highly trained Steeds, " Senora" and " Bertram." Mademoiselle Angels is the same Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Mare "Angela" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will slprtly make her appearance at Istley's Ampitheatre. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that ho has engaged Madlle. Codoni, the most graceful performer °a the Tight Rope in Europe, who will appear every Evening. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Segel, 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 Creste or the Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear; and a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nelson Lee. Box-elks open from Eleven till roar. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. 111tH WATER AT LONDON BIUDGII. This DAT — , .orning, 2 4 min. after 3 I Evening , 41 min. after 3 T •-Yfonitow —Morning, 37 min. after 3 I ETex , ng, 11 min. after 4 Tli WEATHER.--Sew Onacz, DEc. 16. THERMONETSR, Lowest, 44; Highest, 55; NOON 51 BAROMETER, 30. WIND &W.—Morning, dull ; Afternoon, fine. DEc. 17. TdERMOMETBR, Lowest, 44; Highest, 45, Noon 51 BAROMETER, 29.7. WIND Westerly—fine sunshiny weather. -- - : , -. ••,,.Nt ~ - At le 14 11 : .. .:',,t_,t,'.,. , , -',...., % firilb - ; si,- : .-, ".: .- - 'mY • _.,.. , 4 11.'..._ . ilf• AUMINL ,1- . _ . ' , ...0.1 i, -. 4, -, T' 't 4' . 71 , 1 1.41L111, :1'7••• ' - f,- . . t ' ''' • . 6 ":", 4.-4:-.:1 ~.i..4.. / , ~,,- , ..f-, , ~,,, • • 011 e i b i e L) TIT it 4 LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1849. There is one portion of the prolix and verbose document recently issued from No. 17, Old Bond street, deserving of especial notice. It contains an admission that the proprietors of the soil have not as yet suffered from the adoption of Free-trade principles, that there is still a competition for the occupation of land, which has, in some instances, prevented the reduction of rent. Although we may not adopt the general reasoning contained in the report we are fully entitled to act on the confession of those who, in that particular at least, must be regarded as unex ceptionable witnesses. Rents, then, have not been reduced. The fermi are still retained by their occu pants, and whenever any tenements fall out oflease are otfered for letting. There is a fair demand, nay a strong competition for a preference. It is true, that there is an attempt to qualify this important admis sion. It is said that the "retention of farms by the occupiers is attributable rather to the fear of having to wind up their affair=, and to submit the sale of their stock at the present low prices, and to the transfer ence of their interest in improvements, than to any hope of profitably carrying on their business under the present policy. If, however, the prospect were so gloomy and hopeless as the Protectionist orators endeavour to impress upon the public, would farmers be contented to carry on their business nut only without a hope of gain, but with the certainty of great and increasing losses, by which their entire capital must be speedily sacrificed, without som e determined and combined effort to induce the lords of the soil to reduce their rents in proportion to the general depression of the times. We do not believe that English yeomen are so obtuse and thick skulled as such a statement would imply; were it really well founded they would endeavour to realise their assets at any price, and carry the remnant of their capital,. their skill, and industry to some more favoured land. But it is not merely those who were engaged in agricultural pursuits !previous to the abolition of the " sliding scale" that uphold the present rentals:; there are plenty of persons ready to enter on such occupations whenever a favourable opportunity offers. We are told, however, " that it arises from The abandonment of other trades, under the discourage ment of native industry, which is universally felt, and (they add) it will, in too many instances, be found that the present competitors for farms have neither the experience nor the capital requisite for the pro fitable and continuous occupation of land." All other trades and callings, then, are at least as badly circumstanced as that of the farmer. Persons are ready to enter iato operations in which they have but little experience and inadequate capitals, simply because no other branch of industry opens more favourable prospects. The relief then, which is unanimously acknowledged to be essential for all classes, must be extended to traders and manufacturers as well as to agriculturists. A partial assistance to the latter, which could only be afforded at the expense of all the others, would only increase the competition for land, and drive a larger number even of unskilled persons to the cultivation of the soil. Is this what is required or desired by the tenant-farmers ? Is this the relief for which they are so urgent ? We believe not. It might possibly increase the rent•rolls of the territorial aristocracy, but it would not improve the position of those who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow in any description of indus try. The remedy to be effectual must be general, and must apply to all without exception. It must be such as to lighten the general burden of taxation, and to give abundant and remunerative employment to all who are able and willing to work. Let the agriculturists learn this great truth. Let them no longer endeavour to benefit themselves exclusively at the expense of the rest of the community. Let them learn the advantages of union, ofli zealous and cor dial co-operation o f a ll w h o are dependent on their industry for their subsistence. The real source of all their sufferings, the films et orige of the universal ca l a mity, is the want of a sufficient representative and measure of value, a circulating medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the nation. The very life -blood of industry is wanting. ;The extraordinary " appreciation" in the value of money, which has taken place, by which the purchasing power" of the pound is at least doubll what it formerly was, has acted as a check to production. The pressure of taxation and of every fixed payment is increased in the same ratio. The farmer must give one hundred quarters of corn to liquidate a demand which fifty would formerly have satisfied—the manufacturer two pieces of calico in place of one—the labourer a double quantity of work. Grievous injustice has been rendered to " the Many," and the only persons who have prospered are the money brokers and usurers, and those who are living upon fixed incomes. What would a reduction of four or five millions of taxation effect for the country, when a small increase in the value of the precious metals would more than counterbalance any benefit that might arise? The various fluctuations in the value of money—the continued " apprecia tion " in the value of the pound sterling which has taken place during the last thirty years, and which, according to the Times, the great organ and oracle , of the bullionista, is still on the increase, have involved all classes, with a single ex ception, in one common ruin. This, then, is the great grievance to be remedied, the over whelming evil that must be averted. A vast and comprehensive measure of reform in our monetary code must be introduced : money must be produced as well as other commodities. Hitherto the population of the country has been steadily increasing, while money has not only not increased but has diminished very considerably in consequence of the undue re strictions imposed by the Acts of 1819 and 1844. We are therefore scrambling amongst ourselves, each sus pecting that his neighbours have got more than their fair shares. The manufacturer thinks the profits of the agriculturist must be reduced, while the latter reci procates the ill-feeling and will accept no relief save at the expense of his rival. Can they not for once perceive that their interests are identical, and that they are really in the position of the family described by LOCKS, as " pulling a short coverlet," some of whom must starve, " unless the father of the family (the State) provide better, and enlarge the scanty covering." Let all, then, zealousy, energetically, and boldly apply for the required relief. Let them no longer sacrifice themselves and their families to gratify the currency quacks, or witness the destruction of all that renders life desirable, in order that Sir CHARLES WOOD may be enabled to declare that " the currency was never in a healthier condition." Vox et praterea nihil is the very proper definition of most ebullitions of popular enthusiasm. Such, however, we would gladly believe, will not be the nature of that sympathy which, at the present mo ment, the sufferings of the great multitude have so very generally excited. We would fain believe that at last (GOD knows it is time) some simultaneous effort will be made—for without some effectual effort all the fine talking in the world is useless—to render the real practical condition of the people of England somewhat commensurate with that theoretical glory and civilization of which we boast. Since the first outbreak of that awful epidemic which so recently filled the land with mourning we have repeatedly expressed our opinion, that the plague would ulti mately prove a blessing, and such it has already declared itself. Never before have the sorrows of the working classes found such ready listeners in high places—never before have the denizens of squares and terraces cared to inquire about the ventilation and cleanliness of the courts and alleys of the metropolis. These subjects, formerly unmentioned to ears polite, are now the theme of fashionable conversation. At this auspicious moment the Morning Ckronicle has published a series of reve lations of London life—revelations so marvellous, so horrible, and so heartrending, that few histories can equal, and no fiction surpass them. "Honour to whom honour is due," say we, and we cordially congratulate our Contemporary for the good service he has rendered to a cause in which we have always heartily engaged—the cause of the English people, and more especially the English poor. These reve lations, as we have said, are appearing at the right moment. The sorrows of the people are the theme of general inquiry, and here we have those sorrows truthfully and touchingly pourtrayed. The unfor tunate needlewomen, and the yet more " unfortu nate" class whom the sad epithet especially designates, have here—their sufferings overcoming shame—themselves given utterance to their griefs. The account of that meeting of a body of these women to reveal the sad story of their sins and sorrows, to which we alluded some short time back, is wholly unequalled in our experience of historical or fictitious horrors. It is a chapter in the history of our own times which, however much we may blush with indignant shame at its perusal, we cannot but feel thankful has been so publicly revealed. We have already referred to one means which a wise philan thropy has suggested for affording an immediate and effectual relief for this terrible destitution and de gradation,—we mean Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT'S pro posal to promote the emigration of females to the colonies. Here there are so vast a multitude of women with no honest means of supporting themselves save needlework, the labourers so greatly exceed the number actually required for the labour that, as a natural consequence, prices are lowered to the merest fraction. In place of a fair day's wages for a -day's work the hapless sernpstress toils with almost super human industry some eighteen or twenty hours day after day at the gain of a few pence, which will barely sustain life, while a multitude of her less for tunate companions, unable to obtain even such employment, have no choice but starvation or " the streets." It is hardly necessary to recapitulate these horrors, but it is impossible to consider them without concluding that if the claimants for work were fewer the remuneration must be higher. While the towns of England are thus thronged with starving, unem ployed women the colonies are suffering from the scarcity of female emigrants. There are no unem ployed underpaid work women there. Let us then,says Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, redress this unequal balance ! Let us send these idle hands where work is abundant, let us send these starving wretches where food is plentiful, and honest existence possible. The suggestion is so well-timed and so well-adapted to the emergency that it has met with almost unanimous approval. The proposition may, at first sight, appear somewhat harsh—it may appear a cruel kindness to condemn to eternal expatriation women whose hearts, perhaps, cling to the country of their birth, and whose frames are hardly qualified to encounter the perils of emigration. But, be it remembered, it is proposed to send out only voluntary applicants, and can we doubt that such applicants will be numerous ? What unknown privations in the voyage, or " the bush," can compare with the horrors daily experienced here ? No reluctance, we may depend upon it, will he testified by the majo rity. " Anywhere, anywhere out of the world !" is the cry of many a desperate heart, weary of the monotonous misery of life. Many a poor wretch, whose corpse has been taken up from beneath the " Bridge of Sighs," might "have lived to a good old age and died with children's faces round her bed," had some friendly hand, in the yet innocent days of her perilous poverty, done for her what we are now called upon to do for others like her. In the words of the adver tisement, with which our readers are already familiar— " It is proposed to take- measures with a view to abate the double evil—to supply the colonies with the popu lation which is the crying want of society there, and at the same time to redress this increasing grievance of the mother country; to rescue from penury and misery those who emigrate, and by diminishing the unnatural excess of female labour, to better the condition of those who remain." The benefit will not be exclusively conferred on the (comparatively) few who will be transmitted to other lands ; but the condition of those who remain will be necessarily improved. The destructive com petition now going on—a competition productive of starvation and sin—will be materially diminished by the reduction in the number of labourers. The scheme appears so admirably well adapted to the grievances which it proposes to remedy, that we cannot wonder that the committee already formed in its behalf comprises individuals of all politics and parties. In the same list we find Baron ROTHSCHILD and the Bishops of LONDON and OXFORD, Noble Lords of the west end and the merchant princes of the east, the Marquis of GRANBY and Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The name of the Noble Premier is a happy addition to the list—not so much for the Ministerial sanction which it confers upon the scheme as for the happy augury it affords of the good intentions of the Government. If Lord J. RUSSELL and his colleagues, although only in their individual capacity, take part in this benevolent committee of management, we shall assuredly be justified in anticipating from them next session some further official recognition of the crying wants of the community. In the meantime the " Fund for Promoting Female Emigration" appeals to the sympathies of the benevolent ; nay, more, it has claims on our attention for the sake of common justice and humanity. Many have talked largely on their compassion for the poor, many have wept over the lyrics of HOOD, or shuddered at the THE SUN, LONDON, pictured Suicide of CRUIKSHANR, now is the time to put the genuineness of those emotions to the proof. For ourselves, although experience perhaps teaches otherwise, we are disposed to believe well of human nature. We cannot think that suf ferings so appalling will meet with nothing but verbal pity. We cannot believe that in this Christian land—and at Christmas time ! the cry of sorrowful, sinking women will be unheeded in the mirth of social revelry. Business and pleasure may distract the attention of many, but this cry pierces to the heart, and all who have hearts will answer it. Hence we confidently antici pate for the " Female Emigrant Fund" an amount of subscriptions in some degree commensurate with the practical excellence of the plan and its paramount claims on public attention. TEIE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. The debate on the re-imposition of the tax on potable liquors was resumed •in the Assembly on Saturday by M. MAIIGUIN, who spoke against the proposition,; he was followed by M. FowrovL, who spoke in its favour, after which tha debate was, on the motion of M. JULES PAYEE, adjourned to Monday. The Moniteur contains the following official com munication : " Certain writers, whose pens seem to be dipped in gall, display every day the zeal of perfidious curiosity in examining into the past career of persons chosen by the Government for public functions, and on this career they comment with ardent malignity, and too often misre present it by false interpretations of the basest envy. Frankly speaking, however, after three revolu tions in j less than forty years, who is the man, having any experience of public affairs, whose antecedents does not afford a hold to the passion of detractors? as if the simple fact of having served his country under preceding Governments were a crime. These odious tactics will not have the success that is expected. The nephew of the Emperor will remain firm. He has taken for his rule of conduct the words of his immortal uncle, uttered one day in the Council of 1 State:—' To govern by a party, is to place oneself sooner or later under its dependence. I shall not be so caught; I am national. I employ all those who have the capacity, and the will to act with me. This is the way I have composed my Council of State of the members of the Constituent Assembly who were called moderates or feuillants, like Dufermon, Roederer, Regnier, Regnault ; of Royalists like Devaisnes and Dulresnes; and of Jacobins like Brune, Real, and Berlier. I like honest men of all parties.'" The bfoniteur also publishes an official contradiction of the assertion of the .National, that the PRESIDENT of the Republic had written certain portions of General D'llsurrouL'a.circular to the gendarmerie. On Friday the General Committee of Finances terminated its deliberations on the Bill relative to the concession to a single company of the railway from Paris to Avignon. This Bill, which was first pre sented by M. LAcaossE, was accepted by his succes sor, M. BIMINI, who introduced some modifications into it. The sub-committee, which had been charged to hear the explanations of the delegates of the different companies, had proposed the adoption of the Bill, reducing from twenty-two to ten millions the indemnity granted for the passage through Lyons, and diminishing from eight to seven per cent. the interest which the company should receive before the State came into participation of the returns. In the sitting of: Friday the Committee rejected the Bill by a majority of one (1$ to 12). It also rejected the proposition for delivering up to two companies the concession of the above line, one company to execute the part from Paris to Lyons, and the other from Lyons to Avignon. M. Pitosrzu DE CIIASSELOUP LAUBAT was named reporter. On this subject the Constitutionnel says:— " The Committee on the Budget yesterday came to a decision of a grave character, looking at our financial situation, namely, the rejection of the Bill presented by the Government for the execution cf the line from Paris to Avignon. The result of this vote is that, if acted on, the works on the line would have to be executed by the State, which would modify deeply the financial plans brought forward by the Ministry. On the one hand, the budget of public works would be augmented 30 millions, and on the other it would be necessary to renounce the 84 millions which the company takingline would have to pay to the Treasury in the course of the year, and which was to obviate the necessity of a loan. It was said at the Assembly that the decision of the committee might not be definitive ; it was come to by 13 votes to 12, leaving five members absent, who have, it is said, demanded to have the question again brought under discussion. Should this be done, the result of the vote may be changed, as the majority of the absent members belong to the party sow in minority. But even with the ♦ote now given, it remains to be seen it the Assembly will give its sanction to a decision come to by so small a majority." We find in the same journal the follpwing :—" grand reception took place on Thursday at the Ely f 6e. It was remarked that certain Members of the majority, who, since the message of the PRESIDENT, had not been seen at the Elysee-National, were present there on this occasion. Amongst the visi• tors were MM. LABOCIIEJAILUELIN, MOLE, and M. DB MONTALEMBERT. By a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, the six remaining battalions of the Garde Mobile are dissolved. Saturday being the anniversary of the arrival of the remains of the Emperor NAPOLEON in Paris, was observed with great solemnity by the old veterans of the empire. Mass was celebrated at the Hotel des Invalides,: at which they attended. They paid their respects to the Governor of the InvalidEs, JEROME, the only surviving brother of the EMPEROR, and proceeded in procession, attired in the grand costume of the period of the empire, to the Place Vendome, where they deposited wreaths of " im nzortelles" at the base of the EmrEaon's column. There bad been a slight emeute at Marsillarques, but the arrival of 400 troops from Montpellier soon restored order. General GEMEAU, by a proclamation dated the 10th inst., has suspended the publication of the Censeur de Lyon. L'Etoile de Ni.rt, a Legitimatist journal, has been seized by order of the Attorney- General, in conse quence of the publication of an article entitled 11 faut tuer la Revolution. The SentineUe of Toulon of the 12th says : " Several steamers are about to leave this port for Civita Vecchia, where they will take on board about 4,000 men of the French garrison at Rome, and bring them back to France." BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-li.XCHANGE DEC. 15. - B-nlogne and Amiens, 7—Luxembourg, %—Northern of France, 2 die.—Orleans and Bordeaux, I'aris and Rouen, 22—Tours and Nantes, 4. SPAIN Madrid journals of the 10th have been received. It is ascertained that the true cause of the recal of the Spanish troops from Italy was the refusal of the Holy Father to agree to certain concessions demanded by the Spanish Government, and particularly his complete approbation of the sales of property con sidered as national. A Madrid letter of the 9th says that it was ex pected that all the troops of the expedition to Italy will have returned to Mahon by the present month. The QUEEN showed great repugnance to submitting the precautionary measures necessitated by her inte resting position. MADRID BOMA, DEC. 10.—Thera have been some fluctuations in our funds to day; the Three per Cents., which left off yesterday at 31, declined to day to 30 11-16 for account, which was caused by parties realising; Five per Cents., 131 paper. Ex change on London, 50 30. PORTUGAL. Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 9th, and from Oporto to the 11th inst. The Diario di Goberna of the 7th publishes the following :—" Board of Health, Dee. 6, 1849.—The Board of Health having officially verified that, in the ports of London and Liverpool, the cholera morbus continues, ordain that the said two ports continue to be looked upon as infected ports, and that the other ports in Great Britain continue to be looked on as suspected ports, therefore they continue to be modi fied, as per Edital, 26th November last." By this new Edital, the quarantine from England is again prolonged. ACCJDENT AT TELE; MARTLEBONE THEATRE.—On Monday last the season at this elegant and popular place of re,ort closed, and the management is, we under stand, about to be transferred to other hands, Mr. Watts, the late highly-spirited and indefatigable lesse, having taken upon himself the reins of government at the Now Olympic. To mark, however, his cordial ap preciation of his services of his late corps dramatire, most of whom are re-engaged to go with him to the Olympic, ho invited them all to a ball and supper on Wednesday evening at the Marylebone Theatre. The stage was most tastefully fitted up for the occasion, and a large and happy party met with the exhilarating ex pectation .Jf spending a delightful evening. All went well:until.three o'clock, when suddenly appalling shrieks, and the cry of " Fire," re,ouncled through the theatre. The neat moment a female was seen rushing franticly about, enveloped in flames. The scene that ensued was an awful contrast to the gaiety of the previous scene. Miss Susan Roberts, a member of the corps de ballet, whist walking near the footlights, suddenly turned to speak to sane one passing her; in the act, a portion of her dress swung round, and, spreadirg over some of tate lamp, it instantly caught fire. Every assistance was immediately rendered, but so fierce and rapid was the appalling eh-merit in its progress, that before it c ould be subdued the poor girl was so severely burnt, that her life is now despaired of. Mr. Watts, with that k ind and compassionate feeling which so strongly mfaks his character, has ordered no expense to be spared .in procuring surgical aid, and a subocriptio* has been 7t art fpot. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. We have received accounts from Vienna to the 11th. The Wiener Zeitung of that date publishes an ordinance of the EMPEROR, dated the Bth, by which he has pardoned all the individuals who were con demned to a year's imprisonment and under, for being concerned in the late Hungarian rebellion, provided they have undergone half their punishment, and have well behaved themselves. The National Gazette calls the above pardons a mere mockery, as there were scarcely any of the rebels who were not sentenced to a longer imprison ment than one year. It is said that Pesth is to be garrisoned by the Russians. The court•martial at Arad has just sentenced eight Austrian officers to death for having fought with the Hungarian insurgents, but the sentences have been commuted to several years' confinement in a fortress. At Vienna, on the 9th, a Lieut. KIICHENBACKER was executed in effigy by hanging, for having taken part in the insurrection at Vienna. Such a spectacle had not been seen in the city for thirty years before. After escaping from Vienna KUCHENBACKER served with the insurgents in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and subsequently became a refugee in Switzerland and France. It was rumoured that Count GYULAI', the actual Minister of War, would be appointed First General- Adjutant to the Emperor, and be succeeded in the War-office by Count DARLEN or General HAUSLAB. The Wanderer declares that the report of the advance of Austrian troops to the Saxon frontier is devoid of foundation. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, p 849 . MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Them was a firm market for Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, but the sales were limited to 3,000 bales, of which specubtors and exporters took 500. The trans actions included 120 Egyptian at 64d. to 711. ; and 300 Surat at 41d. to Ofd. per lb.—Railway Shares were dul, and generally at lower quotations. There is no alteration in the Corn trade. The boisterous weather has interfered with the arrival of the mails from the Continent. The Antwerp accounts of Saturday evening, state that a re-organization of the army was expected, and no doubt a great reduction would be effected. Near Vienna, the great machine factory of Tubor, employing 350 men, had been de stroyed by fire. Cape of Good Hope papers of October 27 are so entirely engrossed with the political question of the convicts that we can glean no commercial news from them. Business suffered, as might be expected, but the people were resolute, and still inclined tcrmake further great sacrifices. The great public sales of Wool have been brought to a close, the average advance on October prices being id. to 2d. per lb., and about 26,000 bales of Colonial and East Indian having been offered, besides foreign. Messrs. Daniel Hazard and Son inform us that-- " The attendance of our home buyers was very large, and became augrr ent, d by a greater number of fo reigners than usual. The biddings at the beginning were very spirited, indicating manifest improvement in prices; and as the sales progressed still higher rates have been established; so that (as will be seen by the prices quoted at foot, compared with those in our cir cular on the October sales), a very considerable advance has taken place. Tbis cheering position of things may be mainly attributed to the generally increased demand for manufactured goods, a growing confidence in our political relations, and the very easy state of the money market. " The Sydney wools in general were not of a good kind, and show anything but improvement in character. Those from Port Philip continue to improve, both in quality and condition; and the same may be said of south Australian wools, fewer coming in the grease from any of these ports. Those from the Cape of Good Hope also maintain their advancing character, many being richer grown and in excellent condition, thus ex hibiting care and management as to breeding and getting up the wool for market. The native flocks seem, from the diminished quantity of this kind now imported, fast going out, by crossing the breeds more frequently." The English Funds are quiet, but extremely firm. No one seems inclined at present to come forward and " Bear" Consols, political events being of too unexciting a character to bring about much speculation. Consols have been 96 and are now about 961. The' New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98 to and the Three par Cent. Reduced, 96i to Bank Stock is firm at 202. Exchequer-bills have been 51s. to 545. p. and India Bonds 86a. premium. The tone of the Stock Market is so good that the sanguine fully anticipate a further rise. There is a good deal of life in the Foreign Market, Mexican Stock taking the lead, and having further im proved to 30k 4. The holders are ♦ery confident, and many are increasing their stake in anticipation of the fa vourable explanations which Mr. Robertson will offer at the public meeting on Thursday next. Other parties, however, are deterred from acting by the fear that there will be a great deal of crimination and recrimination be tween Mr. Robertson and the committee, the latter not having thought it expedient to publish all the sanguine statements sent over by Mr. Robertson, but which, as report states, that gentleman affirms he can support by high testimony. Mr. Robertson has written a pamphlet in Spanish, and of which we hope to see an early translation. Great efforts are making to form a special committee for Mexican Bonds only, the debt being so large, and the bondholders should be careful to attend the meeting. Peruvian Stock has been marked 54 to 54i, Chilisn Bonds have been done at par, and Grenada Deferred at 3i. Spanish Five per Cents. have touched lee 1, and the Three per Cents. 384 1. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 36f French Three per Cents. are 55 50, with the Exchange at 25 50. Belgian Four and-a-Half per Cents. are 874. and Dutch Two- and-a- Half per Cents. 56k to 56i. Russian have been 109 to f, and Danish 98} to 99f. Railway Shares have been extremely heavy, and the fall in the old lines is 10s. to 11., and in the case of the Midland 21. North Stafford and the minor shares are low in proportion. ['moms or MN - D:5 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Alms. New 3M per Cent. Anna-- . 9B 98 1 4 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001... Consols for_Opening Exchequer Bills. I%d. & 2d 1,000/. June 500/. June ........ 54 51 p Small. June 54 51 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS oifE O'CLOCK. •VZ O'CLOCK. CLOSI • 9 PRICES. 202 96N 98',4 - p 86 p 96% M.OSINO ?WOE 15. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 Ditto, Small Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ....• Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. Ditto 5 Der Cent ... 91% 981 96% Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... Ditto, Account Peruvian' Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto. Account Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent Russian Bonds ..... IC9 1 / i 109 109 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive — 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 A per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London French 3 per Cent Exchange Beligan, 4% per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 56 1 4% 1 4 563„ Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certifieittes WA 8434 PRICES or rAID. :BUSINESS DONE CLOSING PAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES . Aberdeen Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 3 / 4 — Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 28 ...... Berks & Hants Extens. (Grt.West. Per.s per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Didley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Vi r olverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s .. . Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno.— 20 Bristol and Exeter 92 ... .. Ditto, Thirds 3uckinghamfhire Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 -hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 10 Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 — Dundalk & Enniskillen 27 1 ,4 — East Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. & 18 Do., 31. 103., Pref... 3 % Ditto, 71.175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . .... Eastern Counties........ 20 7 Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 ...... Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/. 13s. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 135. 4d... % p par Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent 5O Do. New 43 — Eastern Union, Class A _ (late E. U Shares) 25 , - Ditto, Class A, ditto.- 6 Do., Class B & C 25 — Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... Eiat Lanc,ashire - 25 ..... 11 3 ,fi .... ...... .. Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — .. - Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... VA: ...... East Lincolnshire .....• 25 eldinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. .. ..... •••••• ••• Edinburgh and Northem 25 — Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... • Exater.Yeovil, & 5 Dorch. 2 itt 134 Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... —B/. 6s. 8d.... .... ........ Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester & Dean Forest 11 Treat Northern Do., l i t A Deferred ... 12%...... Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent.. 7 1 ,x . — .. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. ID Great South. and West (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ......230 ...... Ditto, New, 401 40 Ditto, ditto 35 - ..• • •••. — Ditto, New, 301 30 Ditto, New ,15/ l5 .. .. Great Western 100 ...... 58 57% 3 / 4 ...... 53 1 4 Ditto, 1 ) i Shares 5O ...... .. . — Ditto, 1 4 Shares ..., 23 .. ... 11 1 A ll4 Ditto, Fifths ..... ....... 20 - ...•••• •• Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 7 .... ..... ...... 7 Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... ..... — Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 ,E 2 1 3 /4 2 1 3 /4 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... .... Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo , Ditto, ditto . Ditto, 1,4 Shares ...... 49 ... .. Do. Quarters ......... 23% — .. -. — Do. Fifths.— ........ ... 10 Do. 'I hirds ......... 1 6 1,4..... 51 / 2 5!4 Do. New Guarantied 6 per Cent .......... 10 - Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff. ) Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 ..... "... Do.(l 3 refitAileg Wyre) 25 ~.... PRUSSIA. The Cologne Gazette states that the reply of the Prussian Cabinet to the protest of Austria against the convocation of the German Parliament is couched in very energetic terms. This journal says that the Bavarian Minister in London having observed to the English Cabinet that it was the duty of the Euro pean powers to protect the little states of Germany against the encroachments of Prussia, that Cabinet replied that it saw nothing which imposed on Euro pean powers either the right or the duty to meddle in the affairs of Germany. The same journal publishes a letter from Berlin, of the 13th, which says that the last note of Austria to the Prussian Government was written at the re quest of the four Kings of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Hanover, and Saxony ; and that protests of a similar tenor would shortly follow from their respective Governments. Another correspondent of the same journal, writing on the 13th, says a note from Ba varia, dated the Bth of December, adhering to the contents of the Austrian note, had arrived at Berlin on the 12th. The Prussian budget for 1850 calculates the re ceipts at 91,302,353 thalers, and the ordinary ex penses at 91,293,140 thalers, extraordinary expenses 4,934,213. HAN OVER. In the sitting of the Hanoverian Chamber of De puties on the 11th, the report of the Government on the negotiations relative to the German question was read. It stated that Hanover and Saxony would adhere to the treaty of 26th May, for a restricted federal state, provided an attemklt should be seriously made to promote the unity of CTermany ; but that it appeared to the Hanoverian Government that thus far that had not been done. BADEN. The Prussian Government has just charged M. DE SAVIGNY to demand from the Grand Duchy of Baden 3,000,000 florins for the expenses of the intervention against the insurgents. The Baden Government will submit the application to the Chambers on their meeting, as the demand for intervention was addressed direct to the King of PRUSSIA ; but with respect to applications for indemnities which have been made by Nassau, Wurtemburg, &c., the Baden Govern ment has declared that they fall to the charge of the Central Government of Frankfort. HOLLAND. The King of HOLLAND has just conceded gratui tously, to the Maestricht and Aix la-Chapelle Rail way Company, for a term of ninety years, the large coal mines which he possesses at Kerkrael. Thanks to this royal munificence, the works of the railway will be immediately commenced on several points near Maestricht, and pushed on with the greatest ac tivity. Preparations have already been made for forming an embankment in the valley of Eyckthal, accross which the railway will pass, and, according to the proposed plaza, unite together all the principal towns of Limbourg. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 14.—The first import of Cali fornia gold was brought into our market to-day by the Netherlands Commercial Company. The two, which together weighed 600 ounces, contained 882-1,000 fine gold to 110.1,000 and 111-1,000 silver. TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople of the 28th ult. have been received. It is said that the Austrian Envoy has expressed his determination to support the Porte in its opposition to the new and extravagant demands of Russia. The Russian Envoy has expressed himself satisfied with the explanations offered on the subject of the entrance of the British fleet into the Dardanelles. The fleet was in Bashika Bay on the 28th. Russia has 31,000 men and 48 pieces of cannon in the Danubian Principalities in direct violation of the treaty of Balti-Limen. ITALY. A letter from Rome, of the 7th inst., states that the Pore appears to be inclined to look to the Emperor of RUSSIA for support rather than to submit to the French. It was believed that his nomeass would not return to his capital for some time at least. A letter from Turin, 10th inst., in the Debate, says—" The elections commenced yesterday through out the whole kingdom of Piedmont. If they con• tinue as they have begun, the KING and the Ministry will be secure of having a strong majority, and there will be some hope of seeing a regular constitutional state established here. Twenty-four nominations have been already made known, out of which eighteen may be regarded as purely Ministerial; three belong to what are called the Left Centre, and three only to the Radical Opposition. The Opposition has already lost seven. Three Ministers have been al ready elected, M. D'AZAGLIO, Minister of Foreign Af fairs ; M. SANTA Rosa, Minister of Commerce ; and M. GALVAGNO, Minister of the Interior. The nomina ton of M. PINELLI, ex-Minister of the Interior and whom the Ministry had been obliged, or believed themselves to be obliged to sacrifice to the exigencies of the Opposition, is very significative. 111. PINELLI has been elected at Turin itself, although it is cer tain that he will be also elected in the provinces. At Turin, which is divided into seven colleges, the Conservative party has gained a complete triumph; no uneasiness had however been ever felt as to the result of the elections in Turin, from the fact of but few voters abstaining from the exercise of their rights ; if such were to be the case throughout the country, it is certain that the Chamber would be very Conservative. But Turin is, in the first place, the capital where the greatest political movement exists ; in the next place it is a city where electors can pass through paved streets to the polling places, while in the country districts it is not so convenient, particularly in weather like the present. For the last week the cataracts of heaven appear to have been opened, and, with but little prospect, at present, of their being closed. The communal roads in this country are abominable, and become almost impassable after a few days' rain. Added to this, the electoral law has fixed the chief town of each district as the place of voting, so that the country voters have some of them several leagues to walk to give their votes. Another impediment also exists, in the mode of taking the votes, which compels the elector either to return on the following day or stop two days in the place, a sacrifice which few are inclined to make. It is for that reason that, notwith standing the result of the nominations already known, a hasty opinion must not be formed as to the final returns. There are 204 nominations to be made, and only twenty-four are yet known. Everything, however, looks well. P.S. It has just been announced that the five elections for Chambery are all in favour of the Constitutional party." The Concordia, the most democratic journal of Piedmont, states it as its opinion that the democratic party will be left in a minority at the present elec• tions. Tip to the 11th the elections known at Turin were 44, amongst whom 21 State functionaries. The Left had lost eleven deputies in that num ber. According to the Concordia the proportions are as follows :—Ministerialists ' 22 ; Opposi tion, 16 ; uncertain, but probably Ministerial, 6. The Corriere Mercantile has the elections of Genoa and the coast the majority belong to the Left Centre. M. PARETO has been elected at Genoa, M. RADICE at Vercelli, and M. SANGIIINETTI at Chiavari. The Courrier des Alpes gives the elections of Savoy up to the l2th, the result are nine Ministerialists and three Oppositionists. The L(gge of Turin states the numbers (not including Savoy) at 35 for Ministers, 22 for the Opposition, and 3 for the Left Centre ; to which, adding the 16 of Savoy-, hitherto known, the numbers will stand as follows :—Mi nisterialists, 47; Opposition and Left Centre, The Osservatore Romano of the 4th says that there is an intention of restoring the order of Knights of Malta is it was formerly constituted. D 0.% Shares (A.;... 10 ...... 16 Leeds and Bradford 5O Leeds and Thir3k ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% ..... Do., do. No. 2 5 Do., do. ...... No. 3 5 . Do., Pref. Quar.,lBl3 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Lmidon &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... London, Brighton, anu South C0a5t....... 103 ...... 79 Si 7 9 1 A Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent 100 130 Do.Guarant. 3 per ct.. ti ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 - ••••• - Ditto ditt0...... It 52 50 ..... London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... ... ..... . Ditto, Preferprxp .. . 20 L •ndon and N. Western 100...111 110% 111% 111 111 Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ...... 12)( ... 12% Ditto,Fifoe 7 ... .. 8 Do. 401.Shares(L.M.) 35 ... .. .. — Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...... Lond.& S. W, storn ..... 50 ..... Ditto, New 501...... 42%...... Do. New 401. .. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 ..... Londonderry &Cuieraine 25 ........ Do. 1 ,4 Shares ......... Londonderry and Ennis ki len Do. 1 4 Shares...... ...... ...... Lowestoft*. guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... Ditto (6 per ct.) ..... 13 11anclac4ter,Buslon,and Matlock 5 Slanchepter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (go 2)... 25 Do.%Share's (N0 : . 3) 12 Do. 'Slew 101. 'Pref..... 10 ... .. V l / 4 I A Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 60 Ditto ditto . ...-.... 20 ...... Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . ... - Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ..... . - Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 4/. 2s — .• ••• Mi Hand ...100 ......47 45% 46.,45% 45 3 / 4 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... .. 7% 3 / 4 ... ..... Do. Birm., and Derby 100 - 23 Do. Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6per ct.... 100 Ditto,Brist. Fs Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto ... Do.,Erew ashYal.,P ref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per et. guar.100 Midland Great W estern Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carliale.loo ...... Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk ............ ......... 100 Do. Now 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ..... .. ern North British ........... 25 ..... ..... Ditto, Halves .. : — Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds ........ ffi .. - Ditto Preference 5 North Staffordshire ... 17% 7% 5,0/ 4 ... ..... North Wales . 3% — North-Western .... Oxiord, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Beigate .. Royston and Hitchin ... 44..... ..... ......... Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Birm— 12 Ditto ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ditto 9 ...... Ditto Osweetry ...... 18% — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO t3bropshire Union .South Devon Do. Preference South Staffordshire B% o— ••••• ....... •• South Eut t ru Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 ..... 30 ...... ....•. Do., Registered No. 4 10 ...... Do., Scrip .No 4 aied ... 43 ........•... es South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Uuols l2 eflield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 & Loughor Et Ca meron's Sun. C0a1.... 7 raw Vale 6atention ... 8 ikarues Haven 1. ()WE and Railway. ........ gale of Neath .• .. lO aterlord :aux Kilkenn) 20 Waterford and ',muerte): 47% — N ate' fl, W.xif d, icklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ...... 50 Do. do. do. ... 25 ...... 25 251 ...... Do. do. do. ... 15 ...„, W est Cornwall ...... 6 ... N hitehaven & Furness lil Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 14 ...... W fits, Somerset, ez Vi - mouth 1 ork, Nowc,.s.le, and Berwick..... ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Exton, 20 Do. G.N.E.Preferonce 8 3y 2 Do. Hartlepool Dock ana Railway .. 100 York and N orth nd 50 Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYb. Angle Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and,Yierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% — ••• Dutch Rhenish 8 ..... 103 .......... East Indian ....... 3 Great Indian Peninsular g ..... Do. Do. ... 108. Louvain I la Sambre ... Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ...6t,1 6 Northern of France l4/. 85... die l% Ma Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ..... ........ Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... Paris and Rouen .... 2O Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 Rouen and Havre ...... 2U Sambre and Meure 2O ..... 2% Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes "13 Tournay, J urbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 West Flanders fd 8 % • ••• MINE& BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba :10 ...... Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... 10% Cobra Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Ditto ... Santiago de Cuba lO United Mexican JOINT STUCK BANKS. Australasia National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New... 10 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DE.. 17.—1 t blew a violent gale during the night, but moderated towards daylight. Noon— Wind S.W., moderate breeze and fine clear weather. DEAL, Dec. 15.—Wind W.S.W. fresh; 16th, W. to W.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Emma, of and for Bremen, New York; Windsor, Pryce, Calcutta; Eliza, Scott, Jamaica; John William Andrew, French, Boston. Arrd. from the river f or, Belle Vue, Ceylon; Lady Valiant, Mauritius• ' Jane, Algoa Bay; Princess Caro line, Charleston; Eliza, Hobart Town; Sea Queen, Adelaide, Sout Australia; Amity, Hall, ditto; Aurora, Port Philip; Ariel, Calcutta; Catherine, Eisen, Buenos Ayres; Venilia, ditto; Alka, Rio Janeiro; Rose, River Gambia; Assam, Demerara; Ariadne and Liebe, Bar badoes; Miranda, Trinidad; Ontario, New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, DEL 16.—Wind S.S.E. light.—Arrd. Lively, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Lucy, Parsons, Bombay; George Glen, Parry, Para; Jane Brown, Childs, New Orleans; Shenandoak, West Philadelphia; Minerva, ditto; De Witt Clinton, Funk, New York; Jenny Lind, Card, St. John's, New Brunswick; Anandale, late Morris, hliramichi; Abercrombie Louttet, Montreal. Sid. Cambria steamer, Boston ; D i do , Africa; Serafon, Havannah; Henry Ismay, La Guayra. The Neptunus, Heinsen, from Nieustadt to this port, and not the N. p tune, Harrison, as reported on Saturday, is on shore on the Main, and dries at low water; crew saved. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 16.—Herald, Vertue, Madras. EAMEGATZ, DEC. le.—The Aberfoyle, which was on shore et Deal, has been assisted in here, and is dis charging; and the Potentate has been got off shore near Kingidown, and brought in here. FALMOUTH, DEC. 18.—The Venus, of and from Guernsey for Newport and Havannah, struck on the Manacle Ricks 14th inst., and sunk; crew saved. CARDIFF, DEC. 15.—The John, of and from White haven to this port, struck on Breaksea Point 14th and is likely to become a wreck. SWANSEA, DEC. 15.—The Mary Jones, of and from Pugwash fur Liverpool, came on shore last: night, and is expected to go to pieces. HOLYHEAD, DEC. 16.—Tho Rienzi, Liverpool to Co quimbo, was abandoned in lat. 48 deg. 40 min., long. 10 deg. 8 min., very leaky; crew saved. KENSALE, DEC. 14.—The Santa Trinidada, of and from Syra, last from Queenstown for Dullin, has been wrecked here in a heavy gale. HARWICH, DFC 16.—The Gustaf Adolph, Konigs berg to. Liverpool, has put in leaky and with cargo shifted. EXMOUTH ' DEC. 16.—The Anna Maria has been put on shore full of water. 51 p 51 p 51 p 88i,4 - 3% 25% 11% 814 9% 11% 13 / 4 - 714 1 6 99 3 4 81/t B; LF,•ST, Dec. 14.—The Chester has been got ol shore. DuNBAn, DEC. 15.—The Happy Jane, of .Arbroath, Port Dundas to Sunderland, stranded on the Tyne Water Rocks last night; crew saved. SHIELDS, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Sarah Swan, Madras. It blew a hurricane here from N.N.W. be between midnight and tour o'clock this morning.'Several piers of South Shields broke adrift, and many of the inside vessels grounded, but have come off with consider able damage. WHITBY, DEC. 16.—The Louis, of this port, is in the roads, leaky. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind W.—Arrd., Fortitude, GeAam, Rio Janeiro and Falmouth, and ed. for Ham burgh. A boat marked " Minerva lof Arundel," was a ashed on shore, on the ith inst., at Fort Cumberland. DUNDEE, DEC. 15.—Wind S.E., with raiu.—Arrd., Queen, Gellatly, Calcutta. KIRKWALL, DEC. s.—For the last ten days the winds hare been Easterly, with a very heavy 'sea, preventing all communication with the main land and the Islands. 10th, the wreck of a vessel, bottom up, has come on shore on the Island of Copinshay. She appears to be new, and built of foreign oak. Her stern is open, and a great part of her cargo, fir spars and oak staves, has " washed out. The spars are marked with a cut crown, and the staves marked W. S. A board has been found with the word " Argo," raised and gilt, marked upon it. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 15.—The William and Nancy of Whitby, lately stranded here, has been hove off and brought in. PLYMOUTH, DET. 16.—Wind W. to S.W.—And., Durango, St. John's, New Brunswick. DUBLIN, DEC. 15.—1 t is reported that a large timber lad( n vessel has been wrecked on the Kish Bank. Several deals have washed on shore within the last few days, and the headboard of a large vessel, marked " Earl of Lisburne," was picked up at Kincoal on the 12th inst. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Letters from the principal country markets, held on Saturday, stated that rather more demand was expe rienced for the best parcels of both English and Foreign Wheat, at very full prices. In the middling and inferior kinds, only a limited business was transacted. Malting Barley, and the best Oats and Flour, ware quite as dear, but all other articles were neglected. Our foreign ad vices, generally, are to the effect that very little•has been doing in any grain on English account. Up to our market last week, the arrivals of all English grain were small. The imports, from abroad, were liberal, viz: 15,962 quarters of Wheat, 25,266 ditto of Barley, 17,046 ditto of Oats, 95 ditto of Rye, 225 ditto of Beans. 6,504 ditto of Peas, 1,378 ditto of Tares, 2,5110 ditto of Linseed. 110 ditto of Rapeseed, 36 ditto of sundry seeds, 5,557 barrels, end 3,348 sacks of Flour. The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to F l our market to•day coastnise from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, and all other quarters, was very moderate. By land carriage and sample the receipts were small. The stands were rather scantily filled with most desariptionas owing to which, and the full attendance of both town and country millers, the demand was steady, especially for selected parcels of both red and white, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, and at which a good clearance was effected. The quality of the Wheats was by no means first-rate, arising from the humid state of the atmosphere. A large portion of the late extensive imports of Foreign Wheat having been placed in granary, and the arrivals last week being good. there was a considerable increase in the totelsW ply brought forward this morning; nevertheless, as theimporters evinced no anxiety to press sales, as a fall• ing off in the foreign receipts is generally expected, fine wheats sold to a fair extent at full rates of currency. In the middling and inferior kinds only a limited business was transacted at late figures. There was no demand for floating cargoes, the prices of which were nominal. With English Barley we were but moderately supplied , but the quantity of foreign was very extensive. The best malting parcels moved off somewhat steadily, at full prices. All other kinds were a slow sale; but we have no actual decline to notice in the quotations. Malt, the supply of which was very moderafe, sold slowly. In its value, however, we have no change 1 0 report. Tht re were less Oats offering than for some One past. On the whole, the Oat trade was steady, and prices were fairly supported. Beans were a very sio r ' sales at barely late rates. Peas moved off heavily at, 115 some instances, a decline of is per quarter. The best Flour was held at high prices. The inferior kinds, 0 well as Indian Corn and Meal, were neglected. CURT.:ENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier :... 561 2# 386 Red, New.... 371 to 446 Oats— Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 405 485 Lincolnsk., Feed. 14s 1 Norfolk and Lin- Potato • . 171 coin, Red..... 38s 40s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • • • als 44s Black ....... 131 Irish, Red •••• • • • • 38s 4 1 1 Cork, White..... 140 16. Ditto,White... •• • 408 43s Scotch, Feed..... 188 Rye--Old •• • • • • 24: 25s Beans—Tick . 261 3 : New... •• • • ...... 24s Si, Pigeons 303 3 ! Barley—Grinding. •• .. 20s 215 Peas—Grey .„.. • 261 3 7, Malting ..••• .. • • 21s 26s Maple... • ....... 271 Chevalier •• •• 261 30s White..... 3 `,' ‘talt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ......... 29s folk 535 56s Flour—Town-made... 35$ 4 ", i; Brown . ..........448 47s Suffolk .... • ..... acs Kingston and Ware 558 563 Stocktn & Norfolk 201 3 'P sraan We had a steady solo for Clover seed to-day, at full,' last week's quotations. All other seeds, including ca kes. moved off slowly. Up to the Bth inst., duty was peti.rn 136,037 cwts. of Clover seed, against 97 , 219 ditto ennui; the corresponding period in 1848. Turnlp,White, per bush. les to Ilt Carra, ay .. lied mad Green.. • • les 11s Coriander 16, 22 5 Mustard, Brown—. . 9s 12s liernpseed, per quarter 32s 3 .?. 5 . White ••••• • • • .. 6s 9s Linseed, Lng. 4owlng.. 54s a l :: Tares, New Winter.. 55 ca 5s 6d Cru:hing ........ 408 4 1; Old •••• • • • • .... •• 4s ss. Baltic •• 38e 4 :: Canary, per quarter .. 78s 88s Odessa .......... 428 4 " Rye gra55.......... 20s 21s Linseed Cake, pr. 1,000 Clover, Rea Em,. (cwt.) 35s 50s English ...• .91 Os 101 IV White 358 50s Foreign, per ton 610 s 31 , Foreign Red...—. 32s 42s Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 5s 4 ; White.... 30s 4ts Rapeseed, New, prist 28105 2 91 " Trefoil .. •........... lls 18s THE GREAT CHRISTMAS CATTL: MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) Although it has been our pleasing duty for a /ori e l of b ears past to report the proceedings in this market (se in doing so we have invariably endeavoured to do justice equally to the grezier, salesman and butcher, as al accuracy of our furnished statements respecting devise' and value fully testify)— we, from the number of rumo ur afloat in various quarters during last week on the sub . ject of the supply of Beasts expected here this morning to form what is termed the Great Christmas Marke 4 have seldom felt so much curiosity to ascertain tb ° , numerical strength and quality of the stock exhibited n' on the present occasion. Ardent admirers as we ar e f the wonderful perfection to which stock has been brougn; in most parts of the United Kingdom, through Sl', instrumentality of the extraordinary exertions of toy ; grazing community, we cannot but admit 0 2 11/ the show to day exceeded our most sanguq lo expectations. Almost every county and c 1 , 1 , 5; trict in England appeared to vie w it h each other for the palm of excellence, and, as might expected, we had not a few wonders from Scotland; wit! Ireland, as well as Holland and some other continen countries, poured in a portion of their superfluous stool" Such was the extensive nature of the "movement" Y eg i terday, that the various railway companies, notwithstand ing their vast locomotive powers, experienced no ordr nary difficulty in forwarding the Beasts and Sheep elell their different lines. Devonshire did its best to outr ife d its more stately friends, the Herefords; the well-built b e e powerful shorthorns were, from this being the heiglAf e their "season," by no means second in the race; tP 6 men of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex showed themseic e i fully alive to this most interesting exhibition; those (so Sussex contributed some " ancient wonders," and the s i in the midland counties forwarded stock of a first-re' e class; Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, and e /e„ „" Westmoreland were, thanks to rapid communiestie' well represented. Aberdeen, Perth, Dundee, a n d oil parts of Scotland, sent their bl ac k an d mo use - coloni c sleek and healthy-looking animals. Years since seldne: was any di ffi culty experienced in determining, almos t s e a glance, the actual quarters whence the beasts s or b derived on any given market day; but matters are Ins i . e n a altered now. The Devon breeds, which at the above 1' 01 ; were chiefly to be met with only in certain locali ti e s e , have spread themselves almost over the whole cou nt s . ); and it is a well ascertained fact that nearly, or quitn, e r many, shorthorns and Herefords are now fattened !°ll this market in Norfolk and Suffolk as Scots, for sch sc , latter breed these two countries have long stood P ro , eminent. The Herefords and short-horns have, th el fore, almost entirely taken the place of de far far e , e r homebreds, very few of which have arrived hither In some considerable time past. A reference to the offi c .:l ° f returns at foot will show the great ext en t o f th e 51.0;4 here to-day. That its quality, weight, and sylnmet"( i exceeded to some consid era bl e extent t h e ex hibition e l former periods, has be e n a d m itt e d by a ll practi c o men. It was therefore somewhat difficult for us to 0 %; ajust comparison of th e di ff eren t b ree d s . After Is 113 . ° ,4 careful examination, we have arrived at the folloW1_," conclusions :—The general supply of short-horns 7• ceeded anything we eter before witnessed in every P a so ticular, combining number and qui By) the Def ° , l o stood next. Quality alone consider d, ad ad to ' be weight of a limited number, the Hee ford migh t classed with the first-mentioned breed ; and so ioui, e t might be the Scots. The Durh..ms, runt. and all n!' ec t stock were unusually good. It will therefott be p Nol o that the arrangement of quality—taking v eight 10, 5 ,0 into consideration—has been beset with diffieueeres, W ac o resulting solely from the evenness of the aggrekof supply. The arrangements made for the receptionded stock were as perfect as the limited space affu r o st admitted; but we much regretted to see such a ~„f e amount of property so packed together, as was the ;led on this occasion. Extreme were the diffictullif and risk in getting among the beasts, I n c i ll o ir of which, though sold in the early part of de ,00 could not be removed till a late hour. It is here nec et ic nary for us to explain that the great market WS ) b et was held a week earlier,. viz., on the 11th of Deer ° bet This will account for the great difference in the ne, l o l of beasts shown this morning and the same Per' „ of 1848. The annexed statement shows the numb er on beasts exhibited, and the prices obtained for th eP " the " great days" during the last ten years :-- Years. Beasts shown. Prices..l s. d. 19 - 1839 1840 1841 ... 4,600 1842 ....... 4,541 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 The appearance of the market, long before the.l),r in of day, was very . remarkable. Lights were Inovtilb D° all dlrevtions, ja order th%c the ;took pig" rot An Ost ila: Nie oth( hurl of I. L , in fertor "v, .cortcl 4- ritne Mme ? Larg e .4 itne si S tleklin j hlrerior Since Meat I convey 12 . 0 00 13 , 1 ind, aught E'od, I - mad I tendrn( teer,int ."-- mid ---- prii --- prii real.... Th© Prices ( Mince 11 !strived Inapt ov, eompri, : 39 fro, fr om gr. gme the den u: NEn ac at uncle Y or k . R Ditto Si `cote, Ditto nn Ditto , • Pink CyLincol n isb ezi ritt o K. melYeast The ery f The finco te t r ivate 0 1der y L i n Price kmi es 12 dittc Our ow Year, 3 z 1, 41 ' cwt u te T4110 1 ,,, 1 Sib s, lest. to • r EN ek thi Prie, of beti v bitti r y Art fr.a r l o tt 0 fro P rice or "taci 84 =MO 7 3A 14% 44 6 1 % 25% 31% 16% 11% 3% 17 6IA .... % 2% 10% - Vii - 36;(2