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THEATRE ROYA MrLJAMDERUY LANE.- Lessee and Manager, . S AN R DERSON. The Lessee respectfully begs to submit the following scale of Tricot of Ada:lBsl:n for public approval:— Private boxes, 31. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11 . Ils. 6d., and 11 . is. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND rumE. Boxes - -4 0 Boxes - -2 0 - - - Fit - - 2 0 P it 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 INo Half-price to Upper Gallery. THIS EVEN ING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Comedy of THE ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. Dornten, Mr .Basil Baker; Harry Dornton, Mr. Anderson ; Mr. Sulky, Mr. Wa vidg,e ; Mr. Silky, Mr. Emery; Goldfinch, Mr. F. Vining; Widow' Warren, Mrs. Winstanley ; Sophia, Miss Baker. After which (sth Time) a New Grand Historical, !Metaphorical, Allegorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by the awn ,r or " Bluff King Hal,' to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BaSi ; or, Mi.KRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, " Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied round about their necks so fast, Would gubble up a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. 0 t the golden days of Good Queen Bess, Merry be-the - memory of Good Queen Bess."—Old Song. The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by N 01)00- knowswho, assisted by Mozart, Bishop, Rossini, Ware, Handel, Rod- well, Haydn, and the Ethiopian Serenaders. The Rounds are the composition of a select Circle. The Catches are by Locke. The Ballet Department under the superintendence of Madame Louise. The Scenery painted by Messrs. Brunnlng, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, aid Assistants. The Properties, Magic Tricks, and Transformations invented and executed by Mr. W.Blamire. The Costumes by Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. The extensive Machinery by Mr. Adams. The whole produced under the Direction of Mr. T. Thompson. IMMORTALS. Christmas, Mr. S. Jones; The Spirit of John Bich, Mr. blade ; The Spirit of High Tragedy, Mr. J. Parry ; The Spirit of Punch, Miss Ennice Spirit of Mother Goose, Gulliver, Baron Manchausen, &e., &c., by &c., Ecc. Moazat..s. Goof Queen Bess, Mr. R. Romer ; Any Robsart, Mr. G. Watson ; Her Lovely Babby, Master Butter ; The Great Earl of Leicester, M. Deulin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. Henry; The Unspeak able Lord Burleigh, Mr. Johnson; The Hasher Lord Bacon, Mr. Barry; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chapin: Maids of Honour, Pages, Beefeaters, Guards, Morris Dancers, Jesters, Wildmen, Dragoons, and other Bores, by the rest of the company. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, Bat although he comes in snow, he still hopes to meet with a warm rece ption—but where is he going? Why , to pay his yearly visit to the Spirit of John Rich, in the GHOSTLY CITY OF DEPARTED- FUN. This city is composed of the Tombs of the by-gone Pantomimes— " Who's dat knocking at der door ?"—Come and see—" J. Andersen's my Joe, John," and " I am Rich," Chat's more than every one can say ; we wish they could—How to make a Pantomime I.—" that is the question"—but the answer, it is hoped, will La satisfactory— Poor Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, se we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HALQUEEN BE E SL IN T ALACE OF GOOD We sow come to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at Astley's would say, " Let us be serious." It is an historical fact, that the Earl of Essex loved, or pretended so, Good Queen Bess, therefore he hated the Earl of Leicester, and thence arose a conspi racy—Sir Walter Raleigh fears his pipe will be put out—Bacon gets quite in a frizzle, and Lord Burleigh shakes his head—but there's nothing in that, whatever they may say to the contrary. It is an historical fact, that Good Queen Bess was assisted at her toilet by many of her noblemen, therefore the GRAND PROCESSION OF THE TOILETTE is introduced, in which the Royal Wig! the Royal Raff ! ! the Royal Blushes ! ! ! and the Royal Petticoat I ! 1 1 will make their first appearance on any stage, and trust to the " usual indulgence of a British Public." These are followed by B GOOD QUEEN ESS en deshabille, as she is represeuted is a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly E follow—andN BES Sth will be seen GOOD Q en in all her royal splendour.—lt is an Historical Fact, that Good Queen Bess, like " Young Susan"—" had lovers so many that she scarcely knew upon which to decide"—and it is an Historical Fact that the following were a few of them. THE REJECTED ONES : Philip of Spain, Prince Rupert, Prince of Sweden, Doke of Anjoa, Prince Alsngan, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Henry of Navarre, Archduke Charles, Earl of Arundel, Sir William Pickering, Charles Blount, and the Earl of Arran. Good Queen Bess appoints a meeting of these " woaderous proper men" at Kenilworth, but declares, that on her way, " A hunting she will go" —and having got on the " High Horse," the story gallops on to CUM SOR BALL BY MOON LIG - AT —Wilson. "Coming events cast their shadows before"—" Rest thee, my darling "—Ketchy, ketchy, ket aly—" Put out the light, and then "—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to Kenil worth— He stops at Love's half-way house, the Ilobsar Arms—" Oh, Susanna," or rather " Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, "he raakes no bones about it "—They part, " more in sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is herself again ' despair," to say, a rather jealous young lady, who in her " deep introduces her Lovely Babby, to whom she sins the following t athetic stanza : " Come my babby, come along with me We'll go to far-famed Kenilworth, 'Your naughty dal to see." And so they do KENILWORTH CASTLE As it appeared on the occasion of Good Queen Bess's Royal Visit. For further particulars Inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori cal fact that Good Queen Bess paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and ' paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, hall ruined him ; there fore we pity his fate, but must admits his wondrous generosity, for all he ever hoped for in return was—half-a-crown. The Earl fore stalls Shakspere, by discovering " that tin course of true love never did run smooth," for here he meets with some twenty " oompeti tears," and to him they do come " petit ears," for they prove per fect bears, or, more proporly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel on a grand scale, a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which, although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destruction of THE SPANISH ARMADA By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has now done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war eontinues, proposes a*" Peace Congress," and brings all to a °lose by making them all change their clothes — The Earl of Leicester puts on the motley garb of Harlevin, M. Devlin. - Lord Burlelgh that of Pantaloon, M. J. Denlin. The Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt, And Amy Robe Art dons the Robe d'Amoar of Columbine, Madile, Theodore. All we hays further to say. for Good Queen Bess Is—lli-at Regina, and off she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'tis Ion; since we met I" " Here we are I' " How are you?" PRRSBRVR AND PICKLE' OFFICE. WAREHOUSE, AND RAILWAY Cupid and Clown—Butter and Butterflies—Hungarian Knock-'em- Downs, and German Toys—War to the Knife, and Terrine Explo sion—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares at a Discount—Clown Co .ks Accompts, and Railway Xing in Tribu lation—Change to INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS! SIMPSON'S DIVAN AND TAVERN, Strand. The most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes himself Welcome—the Waiters at fault—a 'Transformation—Clown Puzzled —Calf S Head for One—A Kitten Wanted—Save the Credit of the Eitablishment—Police ! Police !—and Change to EXETER HALL. - Meeting of the Peacc Co Tress—How to get up a Row—Prosylites lieware—Humbug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, and Domestic Tableau of the Happy Family, POULTEREK'S AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bilis, in cast you should Kill Sweet William. A DOWNRIGHT "HOBBY DANCE." Men 1s Win the Prize. • SMITHFIELD. Pota•ces all Hot —Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and Bread, for One Penny—A Mad Ball—Pork versus Tabbies —♦ Re port for Enlarging Smithfield Market --Holoway's Purifying Pills— N.w Tariff—Gin t4reatly Reduced—Warranted not to Produce Spon taneous Combusifon—Puff, the Order of the Day—Punch and the City Nuis ince—Go it, Bricks—and Sudden Transformation to A SALUBRIOUS SPOT. STREET AND 'LO:4GING4HOUSES. What will be seen here is of little use to those who have no eyes. —" Lend me your ears"—" Oh, what a falling off, my countrymen, w en you, and I, and all of us, fell down."—Shalu;pere. BED-ROOM IN LODGING-HOUSE, Comfortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars —Clown's Notion of Warns and Convenient Arrangements--Good Night—Late Visitors—A Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an intruder— Novel Mode of Expelling same—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan taloon in Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General Chamber Polka. CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND. What's to be done ?—Buy the Lady's Newspaper. • FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES. Ice Soup—Temperance Hotel, J. Frost.—N.B. Iced Champagne Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England !—Sports of the Glactarum— " Plalsirs d'Hiver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get Skate, which he finds rather tough ; it won't go down, though be does. FATHER THA LIES' RETREAT, I , Thblyball's Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door 'and Gingerbread Knocker. General " Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm—Summoning of the City Abominations—Arrival of the Resident Director of tke " Silent Highways"—Fearful Resolve—Marshalling of the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tableau of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH ♦BSSZL For California or anywhere else. GRAND MOVING DIORAMA, designed and painted entirely by I:running. Illustration of Tier Most Gracious Majesty's Tisit to Ireland, showing the following points of interest : —Departure for Osborne—Passing Cowes and approaching the Needles—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth—The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moonlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred more 1 Scene the Last. THE PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Andersen. Acting Manager, Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dann. Musical Director, Mr. G. H. Rodweli. Leader of the Band, Mr, J. W. Thirlwall. Billet Mistress, Madame Louise. Scenic Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. Decorative Artist, Mr. W. iiiiam&e. — Machin i st, Mr. W. Adams, Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville, Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HATMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, :S.te Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new aid original Play, entitled THE LOVING WOMAN. Wielfert, Mr. Howe ; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean ; Hermann, Mr. J. Wallack; Max, Mr. IL Vandenhoff; °Willa, Mrs. 41. Kean. After which THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean; Dunna Violante. Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with THE NINTH STATUE; or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Mtmyard, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckirgham, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. Under the direction of Ms,lame Celeste THIS EVENING Wlll be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW 'OPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, ?. Bed- And, 0. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which FRANKENSTEIN ' • or, The Model' Man. Franken stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It? 51r. P. Bedford; Lamle', 51r. 0. Smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddlewinaa, Miss E. Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; Undine, Miss E. Harding. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. It UNBURY'S POONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, _yr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0 . S mith ; Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. P. Matthews ; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madam:. Vestrls. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. . THIS EVENING, Will be Performed HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. ♦fter which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To con ludo with A PRACTICAL MAN. D ess Boxes 54.: Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, la. ; Callery. Is. \"o Galt-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, ow:Bond-street. PRINCESS'S TIIEATL.I.. 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. llarrison, Weiss, Cord, Wynu:; Mrs. Weiss, and M iss Louisa Pyne. To conclude with KIND JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex. more ; Columbine, Alias Fawcett. AST LE Y'S ROYAL AM PIM UEATRE. • Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. T lls EVE NIN Mr. BATTY has great pleasure in announcing that he has sue. seeded in engaging Mademoiselle ANGELE, fruin the Hippodrome, Paris, and who is the first rqurstrian of the doy, with h er highly trained Ste 'its, " Senora" and. " Bertram." Mademoiselle Angels Is the same Lady that r o d e the elebrated English Steeplechase Mare, I " Angela" over twentw-eight feet of water. She will make her ap pearance at Astley's Ampitheatre This Evening. Reappearance of Madlle. Cadone. A Grand Juvenile *light on Thursday, commencing with the Pantomime. Thu performance will, commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of TIIE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST; or, The Tournay of Love, in 'which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear. To be followed by a brilliant display of Batly's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel son Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, pho came to Town upon his little Pony.. Boa-office open from Eleven till Foer. 'cave Manager, Mr. W. West. RETIREMENT OF M. BouFFE.—The habitues of the French plays will regret to hear that Iluuffe, the favourite actor of the Varietes, has been ordered by his physicians to retire from the stage at present. THE SUN, NOTICE Now ready at all the Libraries, in'3 vols. post Bvo., T HE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON'S NOVEL, " COUNTRY QUARTERS." With Portrait, and Memoir of her Ladyship by her Niece, Miss Power. Also, now ready, MISS PARDOE'S FLIES IN AMBER. 3 vols. NAPIER'S SOUTHERN AFRICA. 2 vols., with numerous Illustrations. " fhe fullest, clearest, and most satisfactory account of everything relating to, er connected with, the Cape, that we have yet seen." — Naval and Military Gazette. William Shoberl, Pub'isher, 20, Great Marlborough-street. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce the following ar rangements for the ensuing Season of French Performances at the St. James's Theatre, which will commence on MONDAY EVENING NEXT, Jan. 7, by the production of a new Opera, in Three Acts, entitled LE VAL D'ANDORRE. Principal characters by Madlles. Charton, Guichard ; Messieurs. Chollet, Lac, Killy Leroy, and Nathan. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.—MdIIe. Charton, Mdlle. Dehauser (pupil of the Conservatoire, Paris), If. Chollet (of the Theatre de l'Opera Comique, Paris. his first appeaarnce), M. Lac (Premier Tenor of the Theatres Bruxelles and Ghent, his first ap pearance), M. Nathan (Premier Besse of the Opera Comique, Paris, his first appearance), M. Killy Leroy (pupil of the Conservatoire, Paris, his first appearance), Mdlle. Guichard, M. Baguet, M. Chateaufort, M. Soyer, M. Desvaux, Madame 'fancied, Mdl.e. Cot% &e. FOR THE COMEDY AND TAUDVILLE.—M. Samson, of the theatre Francais, Paris (his first appearance in this country) ; Denain, IL. Regnier, Jidlle. Nathalie, (artists of the Theatre Francais, Paris) ; Mdlle. Dejazet (who has accepted a farewell en gagement in this eountry); M. Lpfont, Mae. Figeae (of the Theatre Du Taudevil e); Mdlle. Page (of the Theatre du Varietes) Mdl e. Constance (of the Theatre du Gymnase) ; 51 adlle. Baptiste (of the Theatre de ('Odeon). An Engagement is also entered into with the eminent Trage dienne, Mdlle. Rachel, with whose performances the season will terminate. Mr. Mitchell begs further to submit an outline of the general arrangements :—The Season will commence on Monday, January 7, 1850, by the production of a New Opera, ii Three Acts, entitled "Le Val d'Andorre," produced in Paris at the end of last year, and since performed at the Opera Comique, Paris, more than 100 nights, and at the principal Theatres of France, with the greatest success. The Music by M. F. Halevy ; the Libretto by De St. Georges, With the following distribution of the principal characters :—Stephan (jeune chasseur des Pyrenees), M. Lac ; Le Joyeuz (capitaine de milice Francaise et recruteur), M. Chollet, who has obligingly undertaken the part for the more effective production of the Opera ; Saturnia (garde-peche du Gave), IL Kill. Leroy ; Jacques Sincere (vieux chevrier), bi. Nathan (their first appearance in this country); Theresa (fermiers du Val d'Andorre), Mdlle. ituichard ; Georgette (cousins de Stephan), Mdlle. Cetti; and Rose de Mal (servants de Theresa), Mdlle. Clairton. The second pro duction will be Harold's celebrate d O p era, in Three Acts, " Zampa," in which M. Chollet will personate the character of Lampe, as originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris. Subse quently will be given, a new Comic Opera, in Two Acts, entitled "Le Caid," by the popular composer, Ambroise Thomas. And also, Amber's last new Opera of " Maydee," the character of Ilaydee by Mdlt'. Chartea. Other productions will be selected from the following :—Jeannet et Colin, Nicol° ; Le Roi d'Yvetet, Adolphe Adana ; Le Cheval de Bronze, Auber; Le Macon, Auber; Le Sirene, Amber; Lally et Qui malt, Nic le; La Perruche, Clapissoa ; Le Valet do Chauabre, Ca rata; Une Folic, Mehul ; with an occasional performance of somas of the most popular operas produced last season. According to present arrangements the representation of the Opera Comtism) will be limited to the months of January, February, and March, terminating the season before Easter. At the re-openi”g of the Theatre, after Easter, on Monday, April 1, M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris) will have the honour of making his first appearance in this country, and will per. form with Mdlle. Denain (also of the Theatre Francais) in several of the most popular Comedies of the French stage; and subsequently M. Bernier and Mdlle. Nathalie (both artistes of the Theatre Fran cais) will appear in several of the most modern and sueoessfill Come dies recently produced in Paris. At the end of May, Mdlle. Dejazet, whose re-appearance at the Theatre des Varietes, after a severe and protracted indisposition, has bee attended with her accnstomed and anrivalle:; !access, will ap pear in several new vaudevilles, as Le Marquis de Lauzun, Le Mou lin a Paroles, La Jeunesse de Lally, &c. The performances of Comedy and Vaudeville will be supported by M. Latent (of the Theatre des Tarietes), Mdlle. Figs ac, Mdlle. Con stance, Wile. Page, Mdlle. Baptiste, M. Armand, M. Leon, and a numerous company. The engagement of Mae. Rachel will commenee at tke end of June, by her appearance in M. Scribe's new play of " Adrienne Lecouvreur," a production which has excited more than ordinary admiration ; Mdile. Rachel wi I also perform, for the first time, in llamas' celebrated play of " Mademoiselle de Bele-Isle ;" and a new Petite Comedic, in One Act, entitled "Le Moinean de Lesbie," by Armand Berthet ; and by the occasional representation, each for one Meat only, of the classical Tragedies of " Phedre," " Les Heraces," "Andromaque," and " Bajazet," the season will terminate. The ORCHESTRA will be composed of the same eminent pro fessors engaged for the opera last season, including 31. Tolbeque, M. Bourotte, M. Deloffre, M. Newsham, M. Barret, M. Baumann, M. Pilot, M. Vaudreland, M. Rerausat, M. Lazarus, M. Nicholson, M. Larkin, M. C. Harper, M. T. Ilarper, M. Campanile, M. T. Wright, &c. Director of the must* and Clief-d'Orchestra, 31. Charles lianssens. Arraagements for season subscriptions may be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. SAMS'S Library, 1, St. James-street ; Messrs. Andrews's, New Boud-street ; Ebers's and Hookkam's, Old Bond-street. The Box-ofilee of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. .iltitl v , iATEIi AT LONDON Tins DLT — , orning, 48 min. atter 2 I Evening, 13 min. after 3 To-N'ouaew —Morning, 40 min. after 3 1 Lr•oaia<, 6 mr. Wl , ' 4 TUE WEATHER.—Sur OFFICE, DEC. 30. CHERMOMETEII, Lowest, 28; Highest, 34; Noon, 30. BAROMETER, 30.22. WIND, N.N.E.—cold fine weather. DEC. 31. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 27, Highest 34 Noon, 32, BAROMETER. 30.61; still ri.ing. WIND N.N.W.—fine frosty weather. LONDON, inaugurated their government with the sublimest acts of beneficence, returning the glaive of revolution to the scabbard at the first gleam of good fortune, end marking the era of their propitious des tiny by the formal abolition of capital. punishments. In the other cse, the sovereigns have celebrated their return to the sway of the sceptre by the scourging of women, by the imprisonment of children, and by the destruction of hecatombs of warrior prisoners. The weapon of their beneficence has been the knout, the instrument of their magnanimity the guillotine. The blood of females has been the libation poured out by them on the scene of their successes in homage to the GOD of battles. The shrieks of the relicts of Patriotism have constituted their Te Deuin for their vietories. In obedience to their mandate the nations have been again moulded into subordination by the bloody hands of the executioner. This has been the nature of their proceedings on the resumption of authority, and this it is which has deprived their rule of vitality. The gore reeking down from the scaffold and flooding round the foot of the re•erected thrones, has infused the principle of decay into their very foundations, has infected the very atmosphere respired by the continental monarchies with corruption , Their demoniacal passions, their lust for slaughter their insatiable appetite for vengeance, while clothing them with the sackcloth of opprobrium, and strewing their heads with the ashes of infamy, are drawingdow n upon them inevitably the inexorable blade of their Nemesis. So confident are we upon this point, that we feel assured the approaching year will not have expired without unfolding the horrors of their ulterior expiation—their expiation for treachery and barbarity, for women tortured by the lash, and heroes hung on the gibbet, for the devastation of whole provinces by invasion, and the desolation of great cities by bombardment. Throughout all the principal territories of the Eu ropean Continent, these sanguinary battles of the Counter- Revolution have raged with almost equal fero- city ; and, alasj that we should say it, have proved almost in every case equally advantageous to the reactionists. In Franco, happily fur the new-born Republic, order has in 1849 been re-established without any infraction of the new Constitution, or without, indeed, any, disloyalty to the Demo- cratic Government. The honesty and capacity o the President Louis NAPOLEON, aided on the 29th of January and the 13th of June by the mili tary genius and civier audacity of CHANoARNIER, preserved Paris from a recurrence of those sanguinary engagements which, in the preceding summer, had threatened the revival of infidelity and terrorism. In Prussia, the royal faith was successively broken with the Local Legislature of Berlin and the Central Par liament of Frankfort-on-the-Maine. In Portugal the revival of the Casual, Ministries, and in Spain the perpetuation of the NARVABZ Administration, have threatened the Peninsula with a re lapse into the calamitous miseries of in • ternecine battles. In Italy the hopes of the restoration of Italian independence and of the accumulation into one concrete nationality of the various states of that classic peninsula, have gradually evaporated—owing, we most profoundly believe, to a lamentable and (in the first instance) a causeless misunderstanding between the people and their patriot princes —out of the general misfortunes arising such supreme calamities as these, the flight and exile of Pio Norio, the abdication and death of CARLO ALBeRTa, the expulsion of FERDI• NAND SECUNDO, the defeat of Sardinia, the conquest of Sicily, the subjugation of Lombardy, the sorrows of Leghorn, Parma, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Bologna and Florence, the panic at Turin and Mantua, and the terrific bombardments of Rome, Genoa, and Venice. In Schleswig-Holstein the lawless incur sions of Prussia led to the heroic defence of Frede ricia, and enabled the " crimson wing" of conquest again to flutter the royal banners of Denmark. In Germany, from one extremity to the other, the roar of war was audible until the revival of a kingly coalition brought about the investiture of Landau, the overthrow of Radstadt, the seizure of Baden, and the simultaneous paralysis of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. Nevertheless, horrible and numerous as are the misfortunes already enumerated as having befallen the European continent, in consequence of the daring exploits of the Counter-Revolution, the chief cause of sorrow to all the lovers of Democracy, in their remembrance of 1849, yet remains unmen tioned, namely, the downfal of that illustrious race whose feats of arms, whose constancy of purpose, and whose magnanimity of goverment have been the admiration' of the world, not only now-a-days, but during many bygone generations. Crushed by an overwhelming superiority of numbers, and delivered over into the grasp of her adversaries, by a detestable traitor, Hungary has afforded us reason to weep for the greatness and the stress of her national calamities. The siege of Comorn and the storming of Buda, the attack upon Temeswar and the bombardment of Peterwardein, were occasions on which the last blase of Magyar glory became visible in all its pristine resplendence before the treason of GEORGIST had placed the victory is the hands of the Austrian EMPEROR and the Russian AUTOCRAT, abandoning the orphans of Hungary to Ilinsau, and her widows to PASKIRWITCH, driving her bravest and noblest sons into banishment, and directin the thunderbolts of the CB AR against the unprotected Cabinet of the SULTAN-CALIPH. Now that the brute force of Despotism has temporarily succeeded over the moral strength of the opinions of Democracy, it is insinuated by the apologists of the regal terrorists of the Continent that Hungary was cajoled into her recent movement by her demagogues. In the name of that sacred and sublime cause in which KOSSUTH raised the standard of the Hungarian Revolution, by the memory of the glorious patriots, their brethren, who fell in the struggle for the emancipation of the Magyars, for the sake of BATTIIYANNY shot, and of all his renowned companions butchered on the gib bet, we appeal to the survivors of the conflict— calling upon them to require, from the people of that great but unfortunate country, a demonstration that the late rising was no contrivance of a few conspira tors, but the general ebullition of a popular yearning for independence. Thus, before Milan, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Flo rence, and Buda-Peath has Revolution been overcome by brute force : thus, in Germany, in Italy, and in Hungary have the nations been compelled to bow for a time before the recent hurricane of Counter-Revo lution. The proceedings in the Portarlington case, before the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland, afford the strongest illustration of the practical working of the new law, not only as to the facilities given for the disposal of the estates of the em barrassed, but as to its effects on the interests of the legal profession—barristers and solicitors on the other side of St. George's Channel. Any person at all acquainted with the tardy and enormously expensive nature of Chancery proceedings will be surprised to hear that an estate producing a clear and well-paid income of no less than 32,0001. per annum, and charged to the extent of 700,000/. sterling, has been ordered to be sold within a period of less than two months from the time of filing the original petition which brought it within the jurisdiction of the Court, and at an ex pense of less than the one-fourth-hundredth part of that which would inevitably have been incurred in obtaining a final decree in the Court of Chancery, and that on the application of a puisne incumbrancer, whose only claim consisted of a judgment debt for 366/. 16s. Gd., with an arrear of interest which in creased the claim to 5781.--in other words about one sixty-fourth part of the annual income of the property, and about one fourteen- hundreth part of its actual value. It is perfectly clear that in the olden times such a person could never have succeeded in obtaining a decree for sale without sacrificing many times the amount of his debt. But, although all persons having early charges, those who come w,ithin the first .500,0001., were perfectly willing that the sale should be postponed until there was a prospect of better prices being realised, and although Lord PORTARLINGTON himself, who not only represented the inheritance, but was himself a creditor to the extent of more than 220,0001. sterling, opposed the prayer of the petition, the conditional order was made absolute at a single sitting, and at an expense not exceeding the costs of a common motion in the Rolls' Court, not the one twentieth part of what a motion respect ing the same estate cost, before Chief Justice t o it, 4 4,44 \ 4 6 -- • _ , • . . .. c r 04,.., p iiorrl';' -4.- - , t ." — W t 1. 1 0 eq 2. • 4 li; i. .. ..... . ebtningufl LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1849. Another year being now en the eve of its comple tion, a political panorama of profound intricacy and extraordinary magnitude naturally reveals itself to the corr,d , ieration of the reflective journalist. Two perspectives of enthralling interest spontaneously present themselves for our contemplation—one shall to day be the theme of our comments, the vista of the past; the other being reserved for remark to-morrow, the vista of the future. In estimating the character of 1848 we had to designate it the Year of Revolu tion—in estimating, at the present moment, the character of its successor, 1849, we have to regard it as the Year of Counter-Revolution. Almost everywhere throughout the European continent the war of races and castes has raged with terrible ferocity and persist ance. During the last twelve months, nations and classes have been arrayed against each other ; and after a temporary success on the part of certain heroic nationalities, the peoples of Europe have found themselves ground down under the heel of military despotism. In reality the contest has been out car ried on between brute force and opinion, between the soldiery and the populace. For a while the victory has remained with the former ; for a while the holy cause of Democracy has been vanquished by an unholy Coalition ; for a while, owing partially to the concen tration of large bodies of armed men upon diffe rent points of the movement, and partially to the enervating remorse consequent upon certain unhappy excesses committed in the first paroxysms of popular vengeance, the evil vigour of tyranny has been predominant, and the development of demo cratic institutions retarded. Flushed with the grandeur, the brilliancy, and the magnitude of the achievements gained by them in 1848, the people of the continent doubtless opened to their adversaries the opportunities inrari Ably consequent upon over.confi deuce. Their rapid acquisition of power induced them to believe possibly that its retention was too secure to give them a moment's cause for anxiety. They had drawn the sword of freedom, and the mere terror of that glorious brand had palsied the arms of their antagonists. They had raised the gorgon-buckler of Democracy—with a LAMARTINS for their PERSEUS and Liberty for their ANDROMEDA — and the pomp of royalty had been frozen by the spectacle of that golden elgis, the shield of civilization. They had lit the torch of Republicanism, and the last fragments of the old feudal constitutions had melted away like wax before the names of Freedom, Such was the progress of occurrences during the Year of Revolution ; since then, namely, during its successor, memorable as the Year of Counter-Revolu tion, the Reactionists hare risen again, slowly, fiercely, and resolutely, and, after a struggle, which has proved as bloody as it was ferocious and pro tracted, have beaten back their conquerors with the overwhelming and tremendous strength imparted to them by the inspirations of despair. The blow stricken by Liberty against Despotism has recoiled, it is true, yet terrible as its impetus has proved it is, happily, in no respect comparable in energy to that imparted by its originators. On the 31st of December, 1848, the Democratic move ment was still triumphant, and its success was of a nature so complete and effectual that, though for a time it might be baulked in its efforts at ulterior conservation, the forces of feudality could never again acquire their ancient prestige and superiority. On this the 31st of December, 1849, the Aristocratic movement is glorying in the recollection of its victories, though, thanks be to the Gov of heaven, its triumph is only of the most partial end evanescent del , cription. If for no other reason the vanquished peoples are stronger in defeat than the successful despots in the hour of their ovation, for the mere virtue of their contrasting remembrances. The conquering republics of 1848 will go down to future ages with the memory of their moderation and mag nanimity. The conquering monarchies of 1849 will be doomed to everlamting reprobation and abhorrence from the knowledge of their stupendous turpitude and diabolical inhumanity. In the one case the peoples MONDAY EVENING, BLA.CTIDURNE, when Master of the Rolls, some six years since. Baron Rictrvans, the senior Commi , sioner, in pronouncing judgment, declared, with the full con currence of his Learned Brethren, that the Couit " had no jurisdiction to interfere and prevent a boat fide creditor from trying to have the property disposed of under the Act." This broad rule will show that any person having a legitimate claim, no matter how trifling, in proportion to the value of the estate chargeable therewith, may institute proceedings for a sale, and that at an expense so mo derate that it cannot deter any party from obtaining effectual redress. After the conditional order had been made absolute a new question arose as to the person to whom the car riage of the order andthe management of the sale should be intrusted. The solicitor who obtained the carriage of a decree under tbe Court of Chancery, respecting a property of such value, would have realised enor mous profits. The question was, therefore, frequently contested with the utmost energy, and heavy expenses incurred, which were generally made what was termed " costs in the cause," or, in other words, would be thrown upon the uncortunate inheritor. There had not as yet been any practical experience of the working of the new tribunal, and con sequently the carriage of the order was stoutly litigated—the solicitors of four different parties contesting for the prize, viz., Lord PORTARLINGTON, in his double capacity as inheritor and creditor ; Mr. BLOUNT, who represented debts to the amount of 400,000/.; Colonel DAwsoN DAMER, who was the devisee of one of the estates producing about 3,0001 per annum, and who was also a creditor for a small judgment debt of 3181., of which he had obtained an assignment, after the conditional order had been made; and, finally, the petitioner, to whom about one • fourteen - hundredth part of the value of the estate was due. After consi derable argument the carriage of the order was given to Mr. BLOUNT, Lord PORTARLINGTON having withdrawn his claim, it being his Lordship's intention to bid for the estate at the sale. Although the motion was important to the parties themselves, and as indicating the future practice in similar cases, it was only rendered interesting to the public by the observations that fell from the Learned Commissioners in delivering judgment, which show their full deter mination to prevent the accruing of any large or unnecessary costs, so that the entire proceeds of the sales that may take place will be availab!e, with very trifling deductions, for the benefit of the cre ditors and proprietors. Baron RICHARDS declared that he "could state that the costs to be incurred in the execution of the Court would be, indeed, very trifling, for the Court would not allow the accumu lation of any costs that could be avoided." Dr. LONG' FIELD, however, entered more into detail. He said, " He wished it to be understood that there was no such thing as giving the whole of the carriage of pro ceedings in court to one person, as in Chancery. Who ever had documents which would facilitate the sale should brirg them in, whether be had the carriage of the order or not. In that case everything necessary had been done by Mr. Blount's solicitor (Mr. Palmer) or those acting for Lord Portarlington, so that if the peti tioner got the carriage of the proceedings the costs in the transaction would not amount to twenty pounds. — (Laughter.) In fact it was the Court who had the carriage of the order, and after that was made the Com missioners were similar to the sheriff who had to sell property under execution. He could demand informa tion on the subject from any one who could render it. Ile might employ any person to conduct the sale, if he thought he could do so most advantageously, whether he had interest in the estate or not." And Mr. Commissioner HARGRAVE fully concurred in what had been stated by the Learned Commissioner "as to the costs and keeping down of expense in carrying out the order for sale." Under such circumstances it is clear that what has hitherto proved a great source of emolument to the legal profession in Ireland will henceforth be removed. If the carriage of the proceedings for the sale of an estate of 32,0001. per annum can now be conducted at a cost of 201, which formerly would have amounted to nearly as many thousands, it is manifest that the goose with the golden eggs has been destroyed, and that the emolu ments of the Irish bar will henceforth be restricted within very narrow limits. If the proposed extension of the jurisdiction of the assistant-barristers should ba adopted next year, a further reduction of profits will take place, so as to render the profession not worth following by nine tenths of the present praetitionem Under such circumstances, then, we ask, is it not a matter of justice, as well as of expediency, that an amalga mation of the professions in both countries should take place, and that Irish barristers and Irish solicitors, in return for the advantages of which they have been and are about to be deprived, should be permitted the privilege of practising in all parts of the United Kingdom ? And we fearlessly ask the par ties more immediately concerned whether those who advocate the full and complete amalgamation are not actuated by a more sincere desire for their true interests in demanding forensic reciprocity than the so-called nationalists, who would still desire to keep them in a state of paltry provincialism, and to debar them from any chance of obtaining the high prizes opened in this country to every man of merit, industry, and learning ? AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING. The North American mail steam ship Europa has arrived with advices from Boston to the 19th instant. The Hermann arrived at New York on the 15th from Southampton, and the Hibernia on the 17th from Liverpool. The repeated failures to elect a speaker continued to prevent the organization of the House of Repre sentatives ; consequently no President's Message had been delivered. On the 15th instant the 47th ballot took place, but, as on each former trial, a suffici-nt majority could not be obtained to secure election. The Free Soilers, who hold the balance of power between the two great leading parties, refuse to vote for a candidate who is not pledged to their views on the que'tion of slavery. The contest has produced great excitement, not only in the contesters, but through out the coun'ry. In the progress of the struggle several remarkable scenes have occurred, arising► out of the excitement under which many of the members laboured. The Senate have announced to the President that they were ready to proceed to the transaction of business, so far as was in the sphere of their separate capacity. The reply of the President stated that a communication would be made to that body on Monday, the lrth. This communication does not, however, appear to have been made on that date. The coroner's jury in Boston, on the remains of Dr. Parkman, have rendered their verdict, declaring that be came to his death by the hand of Professor 'Webster. We have received papers from Mexico to the 29th ult. A proposition had been made for Congress to adjourn on the Ist of December, and passed prepara tory readings, but had not been discuss.-d, owing to the failure of Deputies to attend. It had been very difficult to get a session of the Chambers, and it was said that this frequent absence of the Deputies was intended as a plan to discredit the Republican system. The Minister of Finance had been authorized by the two Chambers to negotiate in advance 1,500,000 dollars on the American indemnity due in Hay next. The discount, it is said, would be 2 per cent. The reception at New York of the Hungarian exiles had been most enthusiastic. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 18.—The failure of the House of Representatives to elect a Speaker has had a depressing effect upon the stock-market, the uncertainty as to the wants of the Treasury, and course of policy likely to be Pursued by Congress, causing capitalists to retire from the market. Government securities and the leading stocks have not, however, suffered to any extent, as will be seenupon reference to our quotations :—United States Sues of '6B have stood their ground, and closed at the same rate as noticed by the last steamer. The non-arrival of the Hibernia until this evening has diminished the business in foreign exchange. By this packet the exchange on London is drooping, and cannot be quoted over 1071 to 1081, the latter paid for choice bills; cn Paris, 5 3u to 5 271; Amsterdam, 40; Hamburgh, 35 to 35k; Bremen, 78 to 78k. Cotton—Sales since our last, per Canada, of the 1 1 th inst., amount to 3,225 bales. The business done has been chit fly for home use, shippers preferring to wait the advises of the Hibernia. As yet her accounts have nut transpired, though the telegraph this morning repot is her arrival at Halifax on Saturday, at 10 IPC Prices have been unsettled throughout the week, ar sales effected at a decline of on the quotations las advised. Indeed, it is very difficult at the present moment to give correct quotations. A decline to to l is anticipated by the Hibernia, and also by the steamer of the 15th inst., consequent on an increased estimate of the crop advised during November, and the heavy re ceipts at the shipping ports. Occasionally extreme esti mates-2,300,000 to 2,400,000 bales, are still advised, but the majority agree on 2,200,000 to 2,250,000 bales. DECEMMER 31, 1819 We quote this day PS foilows:—Tho inferior, 92 to 9i; ordinary to good ordinary, 91 to 10 : 1, 9 to 10,1; Inaldling to good middling, 101 to 101, 10i to 10 ; middling fair to fair, 11 to 101 to 11; fully fair to fine, 111 to 111. Freight3—To Liverpool, 3-16; to Havre, cnt. Breadstuff —The market has been generally steady, with fair aetivi'y. The navigatiox of the Erie Canal is closed, and supplies are nearly all at band. Some re• ceipts will come to hand eluting the close of the naviga tion by the Erie Railroad. Western Canal flour is 4 dolls. 62ie. to 5 dolls.; southern description, 5 dolls, to 5 dolls. 25c.; Indian corn meal, 3 dolls.; Indian corn, 58e. to 60:.. per bushel; wheat, 115 e. for good white; southern 123 e. to 126 c. for Genesee; Canadian, 105 c., in bond. Corn is in moderate supply, and very firm. Wheat is not plentiful. excepting Canadian. Freights are rather dull. To Liverpool. cotton, 7.32; flour, Is. 6d. per barrel; grain in bulk, 41d. to 43d. per bushel. To London, 2s. per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion. To Havre, cotton, ie. per lb. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 16.—The sales of cotton yester day were barely 1,300 bales. Prices were steady. Rio coffee moved to the extent of 1,090 prime new, at 12c. Whisky has improved, with sales at 251 e. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday. The Committee on the Bill for the re organization of the Garde Mobile having proposed certain alters tions in it on the subject of promotion, and the Assembly having at the invitation of General BEDEAU adopted those alterations on Thursday, General n'limrrouL, the Minister of 'War, at once declared that he could not accept the measure, and called on the Assembly, after having passed every one of its clauses separately, to reject the Bill; and on a division the Government had a majority of 379, the numbers being, for the Bill 115, against it 494. The result of this division demonstrates more clearly the great strength of the PRESIDENT and his Ministry in the Assembly than any event that has occurred of late. None but a Ministry conscious of strength would have ventured to have called upon an Assembly to at once rescind its own decision. On Friday and Saturday the Assembly was occu pied in discussing the La Plata question, and the dis cussion was adjourned over to Monday. On Satur day the Minister for Foreign Affairs explained that the intention of the Government was to endeavour to bring the affair to a pacific termination by enter ing into negotiations with Rows. It would require, he :aid, an expedition of at least 10,000 men to drive ORIBE out of the Monte-Videan territories, and, having driven him out, was France prepared to occupy Monte Video ? If she were not ORIBE would return immediately after the departure of the French, and the present state of affairs would be renewed; and if they permanently occupied it they would have another Algeria on their hands, and he, therefore, proposed to endeavour to obtain concessions from ROSAS by means of negotiations. The Courtier Francais says---" 'We are assured that Admiral DUBOURDIEU, appointed to the com mand of the French force at La Plata, in place of Admiral LE PREDOUR, has also been named envoy extraordinary of France to the Argentine Republic. lie is to unite in his own hands the direction of the military forces and the widest diplomatic powers." It was rumoured in Paris yesterday, that the Spa nish chieftain CABRERA had been arrested on Saturday, while attending a secret meeting of Legitimatiat conspirators in the Rue de Sausy. M. TRIERS has been appoin►ed president, and M. M. BOCUER secretary, of the Committee of Inquiry into the circumstances connected with the tax on fermented liquors. The Committee w ill sit three times a week. The iloniteur publishes a decree for calling out 80,000 men of the class of 1849. The Earl of ABERDEEN has arrived in Paris. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LOZ , JDOIN STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 7%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 131 A— Luxembourg, 25 Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3N —Paris and Rouen, 22k. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were over 10,000 bales, nearly hull of which were taken on speculation. The market was firm, end full prices were ;•:.id. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 3,000 arszl, at 6 3 81 to 6d; 400 Egyptian, at 64d. to 80.; and 2,600 Surat, at 41. to 413. per lb.—Railway Shares were dull, and prices have further declined. The demand for English Wheat in Mark-lane has been steady to-day at is. to 2s. advance. It is stated upon the subject of the iron trade in Aria' Birmingham Gazette of to•day as follows: We are informed that the proceedings of the late preliminary meeting of this trade, held at Wolverhamp ton last Thursday, wore characterised by perfect unanimity of opinion, and resulted in a determination to abide by the present nominal scale of prices, namely, rods and bars, 61. per ton ; hoops, 61. 10a. ; sheets, 71. 10s. per ton. " Much of the excitement that prevailed about a month or six weeks since subsided when it was understood that the leading houses would not en courage any attempt to advance prices ; and it then soon became apparent that the increased inquiries resulted more from an expectation of what might take place than from any actual lonia fide im provement of demand—a feeling encouraged, if not created, by the representations of astonishing progress in the amount of exports. Of the correctness of these reports there seems no room for doubt, as they are obtained from official sources ; and yet we are far from enjoying the corre sponding advantage here that might naturally have been expected. The most active branch of our trade is still that of rcds and small rounds, for the use of the chain and nail manufacturers in our own districts; while the demand for more bulky descriptions, of which the chief of our exports consists, is comparatively languid. Had it been equally lively, there would have been very little hesitation in adopting a different course at the late meeting. In rails but little is doing, as the low prices of Welsh con , tinue to attract the chief attention, notwithstanding their supposed inferiority. We are sorry to acknow - - ledge that, both in rails and merchant iron generally, much room has lately been afforded for complaints of quality, as regards the produce of Stafford shire. Against this error, however unavoidable in the present system f competition, repeated cautions have been given, and, if persisted in, it will eventually be found the most injurious to the inte rests of the districts, if not the entire destruction of its prosperity, for the only rivalry that can be successfully maintained against our more fortunate neighbours ecu slats, not in cheapness of production, but in the supe riority of our metal for strength and durability. "In reviewing the transactions of the past year, we are sorry that we cannot offer a more congratulatory report, but have upon the whole to chronicle a retro grade movement, iron being now of less value than in January last. At that time our prospects seemed brightening, both as to the home consumption and increasing opportunities for foreign business; 61. 10s. was the nominal price of Staffordshire bars, and before the end of the quarter an advance of 20s. was adopted, and confirmed at the preliminary meeting in March; but unfortunately this advance was not Kell supported, nor very punctually insisted upon during the April meetings, and, therefore, was followed by unfavourable effects; indeed, from that date a depression began to set in." There are numerous arrivals from the colonies, in cluding Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, &c., but the dates are not later. Accounts from Antwerp state that the number of emigrants who have left that port during the present year is 10,260, in 61 vessels, of which latter 43 were American, 3 English, and 7 Belgian. There were 55 destined for New York, and 6 for New Orleans. In 1848 11,075 persons left Antwerp. The commercial markets at Antwerp were tolerably active last week, considering that it was so Bear the close of the year. A statement of the foreign trade of Belgium shows that there has during the first eleven months of this year been a great increase in the imports of raw cotton. The exports show a decided augmentation in the quantity of iron manufactures, glass, cotton, and woollen goods. There had been very high tides at Antwerp, and an exceedingly heavy fall of snow. We learn from Hamburgh that the firm of Meinhold and Co. had suspended payment. This house did a large business, and enjoyed considerable credit, and it is feared will involve other parties. An idea of the extensive operations entered into may be gleaned from the cir cumstance of the losses during the present month alone having amounted to 200,000 mares banco. The steamer Europa has arrived, but the letters are not yet delivered, and there was still no Speaker elected for the United States Congress. In the Amsterdam Bourse on the 29th inst. business was not so animated. Mexican were higher. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 55 5.16 to At Vienna on the 25th inst., the Metallics had risen to 95i, and con currently there was a fall in the exchange on Frank fort, Hamburgh, &c., which makes the rise the more decided. Although the Stock market is exceedingly quiet, it has improved upon Saturday's rates, and an influential broker has bought to some extent. Consols have been 96 to I, and are now 961 ; Reduced Three per Cents. 96 to i; rind New Three-and-a Qaarter per Cents. 97i to 971. Exchequer•bills have been 595. to 615.; and ledia Bonds 88s. premium. Very favourable anticipa tions are formed of the forthcoming revenue returns, and money is so abundant that the Lombard-street firms have serious intentions of further reducing the allowance for money on call, which they wculd do to a very sensible extent but for the impression that the Bank of Eng land would still fellow in their wake, and actively com pete with them. Bills of the first class can ba discounted now at 2 and 21 per cent., and as a proof that the glut of capital is not confined to the metropolis, we find the Sheffield Bank availing itself of a clause in its deed to retut n no less than 10/. a share to its proprietory. In the Foreign Market there has been a sudden rise in Peruvian bonds, which have touched 575 and 58. Mexican, on the other hand, are flatter, having receded from 294 to 281 and 29. The reason assigned is the alleged difficulty of getting a sufficiently full Congress to transact business, and probably the sittings would be postponed until January. Authority had been given to the Government to borrow upon the security of the next instal meat of the American indemnity money 1,500,000 dollars, but this cannot affect the foreign creditors, as there are 4.500,000 dollars to be paid next May. Brazilian Small Bonds have been quoted 88. Portuguese Four per Cents, have been marked 361 to 1; Spanish Three per Cents. have been 384. Russian Bonds have been firm at 1104. Railway Shares have been a shade better, but not much has been doing. ONE ,i1..,:-)ING pule • q 4 RlTliiii iUNDS EO'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Arm... 96 96 , 4 96 New 3% per Cent,. Anna.......... 97%% 97% Gong Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o B% 8 9-16 India Bonds,l,o001. Consols for Account 96 96 1 4 96% Exchequer Bills. I'4d. & 2d 1,0001. June Small. June 59 61 p 61 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE (MORIN 9 O'CLOCK. PRICES. Irazilian Bonds Ditto, Small 513xican, 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. Ditto, Account . 3 61 % 36% Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto. Passive. 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 ,,i per Cent ... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 84 3 / 4 PRICES OF ,BUSINESS DONE CLOSING AILWAY SHARES. PA "'" AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen 5O Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 3 4 A yrehira and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 28 Berks & Hants Esters. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per cZ.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 Wolverh'ton, and Dnelley, calls duly pd, cr with guarantee 10 Do. s about guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s tiirkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June-- 20 ...... ........ ...... Filistol and Exeter 92 •••••• Ditto, Thirds .....•••• 284 6 uc ki ng hamahlre• --- 17 1 Caledonian Ditto, New 10 1 . Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester end Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference ls Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Pactx mouth ... Dublin and Belfast June. 40 Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% — East Anglian, 25L, L & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 31. 108., Pref... 3% Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . Eastern ..... 20 ••• 6 % 3 / 4— Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 . Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... p.......... Ditto ditto, No. 2.-61. 13s. 4d... .....•..._. Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent 5O Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Date, Class A, ditt 0.... 6 Do., Class B& C 25 Do. Scri (6per cent.) 20 ... ........ East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 614...... .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 4 •••••• ••• • East Lincolnshire ...... 25 ...... 28IA .. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shane ... 25 SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. The evening ministerial journal the Popular has the following on the alleged differences between Spain and the POPE :—" We have already stated that the insinuations of certain journals respecting an alleged difference between the Sovereign PONTIFF and the Government of the Peninsular were totally devoid of foundation. We repeat that the best pos sible harmony has rot an instant ceased to exist between the Roman Cabinet and ours ; that the nego tiations relative to a concordate between our Ministry and the Pora's Nuncio are proceeding satisfactorily, and that no circumstance has occurred to authorize the Court of Rome to Show itself unreasonable, unjust, and inconsiderate." A Madrid letter of the 22d states that seconds had been named for a duel between M. SARTORIUS, Minister of the Inteior, and M. SILYA, owing to the violent attack made by the latter in the Chamber; but it was hoped that the affair would be arranged. In the course of his speech M. SiLvA said that the Alini4try had employed men who had filled low positions, and he referred to a deputy, who, he said, had occupied the humble situation of colecierge. In the sitting of the 22d, M. CoNsaco, private secretary to the President of the Council, said be was the person referred to ; it was true that in the days of adversity he had been compelled to take the place of concierge, but he had done so to give bread to his mother. The speech of M. CorhEco excited great emotion in the Ckarnber. and drew forth marks of sympathy from all parts. M. SiLyA himself ascended the tribune, and made public excuses to that Hon. Deputy. Some Members, however, signed a proposition for passing a vote of censure on M. Sinva, and this had been referred to the bureaux. MADRID BoLsA, DEC. 22.—The Three per Cents. were done at SOf for paper; the Four per Cents, at 12k; the Five per Cents., 13 for cash; the Debt without Interest, at 4, for paper; and the Coupons at $, for cash. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Duke of BORDEAUX arrived at Vienra on the 22d by railway. During his journey he fell from the carriage and knocked out several of his teeth. On this subject the Gazette de France says : " We know that a letter written by the Prince him self arrived on Thursday in Paris. lle states that in going to the railway he fell on the ice, and received some contusions on the lace; but Monsiegneur adds that it is only a alight accident, which will have no disagreeable result." Letters from Vienna of the 21st, in the Breiau Gazette, state that great agitation prevailed in Syrmia, the Banat, and Bacska. _ _ In the military hospitals of Prague, Graetz, and Klagenfurt, the typhus continues to make great ravages; in the latter town it has been necessary to prohibit all communication between the hospital and the inhabitants. According to the Cologne Gate* the CZAR has written to the Emperor of AUSTRIA recommending him to treat the German question amicably with Prussia. P R USSIA. It was rumoured at Berlin, on the 30th ult., that Prussia had been invited to interfere in the affairs Mechlenburgh. BAVARIA. The Amnesty Bill received the Royal assent on the 20ch. DENiVIARK. A letter from Hamburg, of the 24th, states that part of the Danish army, 15,000 or 16,000 strong, with a formidable artillery, is concentrated on the island of Alsen, and that another corps is on the Schleswig frontiers, under the orders of General DB MEZA. ITALY. The Giornale di Roma publishes a notification of the Provisional Municipal Commission, dated the 18th, in which, after reminding the people of Rome of the gratitude they owe to the French, and other foreign troops that had contributed to the pacification of the country, it is stated that the Municipal Commission has neglected nothing to procure the foreign troops every possible comfort, but that the enormous expenses it has hitherto incurred oblige the Commission to im pose new taxes on the citizens for that laudable pur pose ; that it has therefore been decreed, with the content of the superior authorities, that the land-tax shall be increased by 15 centimes, except on vine yards; that wine, vinegar, and beer, shall pay 56 centimes per barrel ; brandy, spirits of wine, rum, and liquors, shall pay at the rate of sf. per barrel; and that the three mineral waters called Vergine, Felice, and Paolo, shall be subjected to double their present tax ; these measures to be put in vigour on aLd from the Ist of January. Advice have been received from Turin to the 24th. The Chamber of Deputies had been completely occu pied up to that date in verif3ing the returns. The case of MAMMIANI had not yet come on for die d I cussion. We are authorised to state that Parliament will meet for the dispatch of buiiness on the 81st January, 1850. - APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of the Hon. Sarah Elizabeth Copley, eldest daughter of Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr. Selwyn, only son of Mr. Cr. Selwyn, of Down Hall, Essex, are to Le so lemnized in the course of the ensuing month. EtiiLburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 ..... ... & Dorch 25,g Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Girr,:ow, liumfrivs and Ct,rlLsio ••• . filasgow,Kilmar.,Sz Ayr 6q .... . - Do. Preferenc e Consol. - - .....•..• • . 4.1 memo Gloucester & Dean Forest 11 ...... ~rest Northern - Do.- '.-. A Deferred 12 1 ,4_.... -- 0., .'ig . .• • - ,_ Do., 14 2 B 6 per Cent... 7%. 5 .. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 'ireat south. and West. ( Ireland) Great North of England•loo ...... ...... ......... • Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto 35 - Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto. New,ls/... ...... 15 .. Great Western 100 ...... SPA ....• ...... ... i 654 Ditto, 1 4 Shares 5O ...... ... . —. Ditto, ii Shares Ditto, Fifths Ditto, Now 171. ..... 15 ..... .... ..... Hull and Se;by ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half - Shares ... 25 Do. Quarter Sharea... 12% ...........«.. Lancaster and Carlisle 50 . ..... -" Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo Ditto, ditto Ditto, t 4 Shares ...... 49 ... .. - Do. Quarters ..-..... 23% — .. ..... ...... 11 Do. Fifths..- ........ ... 10 Do. Thirds ..--. ....... 16% — .... Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. lO - Ditto ( Huddersfield and Sheff.) Do. ( W. Riding Union) 10 Do,(Preston& Wyre) 25 DO. % Shares (A)... 10 Loads And Bradford 5O lOO ..... Leeds and Think - Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%...... 1 , 0.. do. No. 2 7%. — Do., do. .....No. 3 5 . .... ... ........ --. io., Pref. Quer., 1843 9 ...... Liverpool, Crosby ~nd Southi,ort L)ndon &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... ...... --' L )ndon, Brighton, ana South Coast... .. . 100 - Do., New Si., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 ...... Do.Guareut. 5 per et.. 9 ...... Do, Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditt0...... 1852 50 L. n don and Greenwich 12/1584d... ... ..... . Ditto. Prefe- ~,.. .. - 9.0 -- - _...tto, 'refer.. .. . ~ I.)nd= And N. Western 100 lOB 107% 108% 1 09 iiitto, New Quarters.. 12 Di tto, Fift :. .-- .. ... 7. .. 7% 1 4 ...... —.... 714 Do. 40/..Shares(L. M.) 35 Do. 10/. I $1.;& B.) C. 1 ..... IVA...—. Lond.4 S WvstQrn .....100 .. 59% 60 Ditto, New 50/. ..... 42%...... Do. New 401. Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 - •• •• ******* ••• ...` Londonderry &Coleraitie 25 Do. 1 / Shares ....... ..... 5 !,ondoncterry and Ennis ki ki,...... ... .... _ . ..... 25 Do. 14 Shares Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... Ditto (6 per ct.) M an& (3,tcr.Buxton,and Matlock Nl•Anc hctst er, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 _ — ... .... Do. Quarters _(No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 . _ Do. 1 / g Shares (No. 3) 12% Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 7 % Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... SO Ditto ditto . ......... W - .............• Ditto ditto .. 12% — ...... ........ Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 2.5 ... — Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. — Midland ... .. ..it(' .. .. 43% 42% 48 ... Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., .50L Shares 30 ... .. 7V I 7 ..- Do. Birm., and Derby ICO Do•Consol Bristol and 124 Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ..... 124 ...... .. -.. Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ....- ditto ... Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan- ..... nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .... Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ...... ... Do. quarters ~.. N.v,market .... . 23 Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, ~nd Hereford 6 •••••• ... m. Newry and Enniskillen 7 Sewry, Warrenpoint, .... and Rostrevor eo.. Norfolk -,......... ..... ....100 -- Do. New 201. ... l5 ...- Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 .... Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ..• N orthern Counties Union 4 ...... ..- North British ... .... ... 25 ..... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds 81 Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17% 7AI North Wales . 3% North-Western ..... 13% kixit,ird, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Iteading, Guildford, and Reigate lip yston and iiitchin 4 % Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Shrew 6 bury and Rims l2 ...... Ditto ditto. Class B 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and ilereld. b Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) lB Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... Ditto Uswe.stry ...... 186 - • Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Lihropshire Union south Devon iJo. Preference South Staffordshire B li — ....... south Et stern Do., N 0.2. Do., No. 3 .• 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 , Do. Scrip No 4 Setith Wales ... si.uth Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole l2 - 3h Wield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 161,4 •••• •••• •••• „or 15% Do. do (Sou. Div.) ••• 5 —..•••• 000000 .vans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. Coal. .. law Vale Extension ... 8 Ikames Haven Dock and Railway 00000 tale of Death .. lO Waterford and Kilkenny 20 ......... Waterford and Limerick 47 1 ,4 Naterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. ... 25 •••••• ••• ...... •••••• Do. do. d 0.... 15 .• ••".••• West Cornwall ..... 6 hitehaven & Furness 1S W indsor, Staines. and South Western........ 14 W ilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Pieiercnce 8 ••• « . ...... ....... Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 York anil rth Midland 50 Ditto Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Angl,. Italian (late Its Ban and Austrian). ... • Boulogne and Amiens... 20 7% ..... Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara ........ 171 ,4 ............ ... ',add it n katish 8 ... East Indian ...... Ditto ..... 20 Great Indian Peninsular i Do. Do. ... 10s. Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 1 ,1 — ............... Luxembourg .. Ditto ..- Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege 20 ... ............... Northern of France...... 14/. 8s l % a,4 dis ....... Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 .........• ••• Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris suid.Rouen 2O ...... •• ...... Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ..- — ..,.........• Sambre and Meuse 2O «... ••• ..... • ..... Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt 20 West Flanders 8%.. •-• ............... MINES. BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 ...... 11 ...... • Do. St. John Del Key 15 ._... ........... Cobre Copper . .... 40 ...........•••• General Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Ditto ... Santiago de Cuba... lO ............ •• United .ilexican -0. 10 f °j o g LORD BROUGRAM.—A letter from Canve-f o f 19th, in the Moniker du Soir, says:—" Lord fitllig b i has been making some interesting experiment° O lt o f here, which are just terminated. At night on the 14th, four members of theßoyal London gave to our population a ravishing sPe c "" r e to l ,4 the top of the towers of the Noble Lord the aP11„10 0 ;„ the electrical light was placed, and at the saw , `L l err e 'l f luminous point shone from the Ile Sainte ki°,lo ti,jo and its brilliant rays displayed to all eyes the e '';: r oo l , 4 that enchanting site. The same rays were ,a 1 , 1.- 04 9 : 0 ; directed oa the magnificent scenery of the tl, D 6 r ho " ( 1,, • and on the picturesque roadstead of Agai• d'cei/ at such an hour was so beautiful that apPir, ne, denly broke forth from all ,parts. The next 0./ee,. Brougham, in the midst of a numerous and ebooelYor gave a detailed and very interesting Mount Of Ili° riraenta on light.", 18T H 4 38% 28V. % P 28% 27 "i% 7* i;i4 io% 1 014 0 li ... ..., l'i g~ / 1 iy,~ / ''LLII LL® YD'S LONDON, D bre, z, and DEAL. DEC, blown% a gal , snow. Ar rd. Queeo.bery, York. A rrd. South Wales; Z LIVERPOOL, Cowper steam York; Eglint4 Lima; Ann, ] ilayti; Joseph Penn, Philad New York. W HITSTa B] took fire this cabin and cab RAMSGATE, Sesham to Lc morning. A crew drowned MILFuItD, 1 N. to N.N.W. Albert, steam pumps choked overboard. BRIDLINGT reported to hi last night. T on the beach Lion. Tne beach, eight n corny a wreck yesterday at r the N.E. A the coast. It washed up ab PORTSMO 'attunes, 1 - ittt,r gamic, OsterlN PLYMOUTH, Boddington, Nestor, Chili GLOUCESTE DOVER, D don, wu run morning, by t to the water's lying near, a► with six feet v GRIMSBY, drove on shor 28th of Pecan been got off, I RAMSAY, I Ranter, Lim struck hekvih LOWESTOr at N., with sn baying been i latter procee E.N.E., the C field Flats, an ISCARBOROC Dundee for during a heav schooner, sup day near the to pieces. OFF DOVE Philip. OFF THZ PILL, DEC leans; Pollee PWLLHELL night lust wz( Two logs of ) and iron boll yesterday. SHERRINGI " Geo. Clubb, up here. MARK CORN- Malting Chevalie Malt—Suffol folk.. Brown . Kingstoi Clover last week': currencies ply of wh place. C Turnie.Whi! lteCt aid Mustard, B 1 White Taxes, New Old .. Canary, per Rya grass.. Clover, Reg White Foreign Trefoil .. .. The to last repot and 25 di Wool at is small, what ext a sluggis for the in The s produced foreign a arrival, i has amt ponding period it From Vigo ... Rotterda Antwerp Ilatling( Ostend.. Total Correspc week iu Same w 1847. Scarcel, outport With f day; n' up to ( fed Be while ance o' all bre, tations 432 d The pi from t Sheep the wi full p: eluggi Inferia Second Prime Prime Large , Prime auckth Inferio WOfffr ,~