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A.STLE VS ROYAL AIciPIIITHEA.TiM. Proprietor. k: r. W. Batty. THIs EVEN NG, Mr. BATTY has great pleasure in announcing that he has sue ceeded hi engaging Mademois,dle ANGELE, from the Hippodrome, Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, w ith her highly trained Ste, - Ale, "Senora" and "Bertram." Mademoiselle Angelo is the same Lady that rode th e c elebrated English Steeplechase Mare "Angela" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will shortly make her appearance at Astley's Ampitheatre. Sir. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has engaged Cocloni, the most graceful performer on the Tight Rope in Europe, who will appear every Evening. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with the Grand national and magnificent Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, in which Mr. Edward Gomersal will appear in his original character of Napoleon. Ater which Batty's SCENES OF THE ARENA, anLivened by Messrs. T. Barry, E. Jacks:.4l, and Wheale. To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING, in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveable=, comprising Omnibus, Barouche, Ge-Cart, and other vehicles, wP I . appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Fur. Sta.✓.e Mrnager, Mr. W. West. EL l'Z A - COOK'S JOURNAL. No. XXXIII. MATURDAY, December 1.5, 1319. CONTAINS The Founders of Ragged Schools. Human Hopes. The People's College, Sheffield. By Silverpen. Eccentric People. Home for the Holidays. By El'za Cook. Poems :—rhe Heart that loves us still—There is Something ye May do—The Household Words of Kindness, &c. Lilly Watson. A Tale. Musical Language. Geological Outlines. Diamond Dust, Paragraphs, &c. London: J. 0. Clarke, 3, Racquet-court, Fleet-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, 24ele Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENLNO, Will be performed TIIE HOUSEKEEPER. Sidney Maynard, Mr. C. Kean ; Felicia, Mrs. C. Kean. After which THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean; Donna Violante, Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To conclude with WHO'S MY HUSBAND ? The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TI: ATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI - the direction of Madams Celesta. TIM EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith; 3liidame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To bs followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Gramly - , Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with a ncw'slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S WOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith: Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL 1,1CM511 THEATRE. ri'ider the Martagemeat of Madam:. Vestals. Levice, I4r. Charles Ma'hews. THIS EVENING, Will be Da - formed METIITNKa4 I SEE MY rATIIER. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. After which - HR WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with RAISING THE WIND. D, 033 Boxes 3r. 48.; Pit, 2S. ; Galley. la.. No ball-price to any part of the house. Ali applications for rrivate Boxes :nest be made to Mr. Aileron, 15, New Bond-street. TiIEATK M. J. M. Mad•lox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA Principal characters by Messrs. W. ilarrison, Weiss, Corri, Wynn; Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne. After which, the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. A Tlllll AT LONDON BRIDMI. THIS DAT 38 min. after 1 I Evening, 57 min. after I TO-MORDOW —)S3r, - ,:ag, 15 min. after 2 i Evening, 35 rain. atter 2 Txrnm. WEA 3 hIY. ...---Be,r Oyncz, DEC. 14. :tivrEit, Lowest, 30; Highest, 44; Noon, 47. BAtOMETEA, 20.92. WIND S.S.W.—drizzling dirty waath2r. , i 4 • ..4 ' • 14 tv..,N77 1 M - - -§". • '4'" - : 4 1 .• "'"*.,* k Vanring gitit LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 184,. Emigration is beginning to be regarded as the only remedy for the reduction of pauperism. Now, with out disparaging the reason of those individuals who are the most conspicuous in advocating this system of improvement, we must be allowed to protest against the adoption of it as the-sole means of repara• tion. To our thinking, the panacea, if taken by itself, is of such a violent nature, that while affording a temporary and even instantaneous relief, it renders ultimate enervation inevitable. Altogether the scheme appears to us to be too slovenly to be effectual. Be sides which, it stands to reason that the very units of the population sent out of the country are the identical portions of the community most required for its preservation and advancement. No one dreams of emigrating who is either totally destitute, or so broken down by disease as to be actually bedridden. Those who are sa situated are compelled unwillingly, by those very circumstances, to remain at home a permanent burden upon their fellow-countrymen. It is only the hale, the energetic, and those possessed at least of some slight funds wherewith to make a commencement ; who adventure upon the somewhat daring exploit of seeking their fortunes beyond the seas. While, therefore, a considerable number of those most enabled to aid themselves are retained as a continually increasing burden upon the State, en equally numerous portion of the community empowered by nature and circumstances to participate in the toils, and to join in the speculations of the people, are expatriated at the time when their energies are more than ever desirable. It was some time back very felicitously remarked by a distinguished public disputant, with whom we are not usually in the habit of coinciding, that when a vessel laden with emigrants, carrying out to America or Australia their little stock of thews,: intellect, and furniture, leaves the port, say of Liverpool, and another vessel immediately afterwards enters that port conducting to England a ship-load of emaciated Irish . labourers, who have crossed St. George's Channel for the purpose of saving them selves, if possible, from starvation—it is as if so much wealth had been carried a little way out to sea and sunk beyond the possibility of being reclaimed. The remark demonstrates, in a glaring manner, the folly of the present system—a system which appears to bo3 East m ):e, than: evee in vogue —namely that of depending exclusively upon emigration as a means of regenerating the United Kingdom. As a means, not as the only means, as a part of a system, not as ; constituting an entire plan of itself, the scheme of large emigration to some of our more remote, and at the same time, more fruitful colonial possessions, is eminently worthy of approval and en couragement. Yet it should likewise be borne in mind that with emigration other simultaneous and very different efforts should be made to diminish the extent and to allay the virulence of that gangrene of society—pauperism. What our allusions are tending towards must be very manifest to all those in any degree acquainted with the resources, for the maintenance of the unem ployed and ill-fed, still remaining dormant among us. A few very simple facts will demonstrate the force of the observation. When it is remembered that there are at this time lying uncultured in the United Kingdom no less than 15,000,000 of acres of land capable of cultivation, besides 15,871,463 of acres incapable of cultivation, it must be sufficiently evident that a vast amount of strength and wealth is thrown away at the identical time in which we are inducing our fellow-creatures to seek the means of acquiring sus . tenance in our distant colonies. It has been calcu lated moreover by men of a very matter-of-fact tem perament, men [by no :means gifted with highflying imaginations, that those same 15,000,000 acres of cul tivateableland would at a mcderate estimate produce, if properly attended to, no less than 15,000,0001. instead of 5,000,000/. annual returns, as they do now-a-days and as they have done hitherto. How acceptable this addition would be to the national income may be easily conceived when it is remembered that no less an amount than '7,941,778/. were expended in the shape of poor-rates in the United Kingdom during the year ending March 25th, 1849, relieving paupers to the number of 3,561,382. Surely the additioreof 15,000,000/. to the annual property of Gloat Britain would go very far towards enhancing the prosperity of the empire if elicited from a quarter previously yielding only 5,000,0001. The surplus amount would not only cover the sum supposed to be requisite for the relref e 'of pauperism --a sum ranging yearly from 7,000,0001. to 8,000,0001. sterling ; but it would afford an invigorating and moralizing em ployment to those unfortunate beings who, from the fact of the overstock of the labour market, have been up till this period reduced to an enervating and demoralizing, indolence. By the adop tion of such a system as the one here indicated, none would henceforth require the assistance oft alms except those prostrated by extreme physical suffering, or by 3ry advanced years ; or, again, by such vaga bonds as are only reclaimable through the united aid of the turnkey and the schoolmaster. In illustration of the advantages derivable from this alliance of emigration with the cultivation of waste lands, and thereby, of course, the employment of our paupers, a very able little volume has just appeared from the pen of Mr. SIDNEY SMITH, already well and favourably known by bis admirable guide-book to emigrants. The work, to which we would particularly direct public attention,* is of a character demanding the most serious :consideration of all, seeing that, more or less, it affects our own fortunes, convenience, and competence. It is the necessary companion to its predecessor, the blending of the two ingredients which, if taken separately, would prove prejudicial, but if combined would inevitably advance the general interests of the community. Now that the intelligence of the population is alive to the wants of the time, it must he a matter of some importance to every member of it to recognize some channel through which those wants may be satisfied. The bane is painfully perceptible, the next object is, therefore, to discover the antidote. " The Mother Country; or, the Spade, the Wastes, and the Eideu Son. An Examination of the Condition of England." By Sidney Smith. Pp. 164. Kendrick, London, 1849. As we recorded yesterday, the Metropolitan Asso ciation for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes held a meeting on WedneEday last at their new buildings in Spitalfields. Nothing could be more encouraging, and at the present moment espe- cially, more consolitary than the accounts given by Lord CARLISLE, the chairman, of the working of the model•house in Pancras-road. This establishment, which has now been open for nearly two years, has accommodation for 110 families, and during the above period of the sum of 2,4181. due for rent, there is at present only 71.. 10s. in arrear, and only; one gal debt of 11. 19s. 7d. Thus, in a financial point of view, the spe culation has been more successful than is cus tomary with new undertakings, while, as regards the comfort and health, moral, mental, and physical, of its inhabitants, the model house is above commenda tion. Here, for instance, is one of those stubborn facts which there are no gainsaying :—" During the prevalence of the late epidemic not a single case of cholera took place in the Model Lodging house, although at Paradise p!ace,near.thern,it prevailed to a formidable extent." Whatever may be said of the influences of atmosphere, &c , this case may assuredly he taken as a very fair evidence of the beneficial effects of cleanliness, ventilation, proper drainage, good water, &c.—matters so vitally important to all, and yet so deplorably deficient in the homes of the great majority. When we reflect upon these things—when we call to mind not the naked poverty only, but the loath some and health-destroying character of the " homes" of so many of our English people—when we think of the stilling cellar, that no fresh breath of air ever ventilates, the chill garret that no genial fire ever warms, the crowded sleeping rooms, full of filth and vermin, where numbers nightly congratu late themselves on obtaining even sueh a lodging— when we enumerate a few only of the miseries of the dwellings of the poor, without glancing even at the awful depth of moral degradation and mental depravity inseparable from such physical evils, we feel, indeed, that no words can too highly commend and encourage the labours of those who are effecting a better state of .things. The Eng lish language boasts of the almost exclusive posses sion of the word " home," and the English people pride themselves on their peculiar appreciation of the meaning of that holy word. If an Englishman's house is his castle, an Englishman's home is con sidered to be a synonyme with purity, and peacefulness, and piety. It is in the homes of individuals that the germs of patriotism are nurtured—there the infant warrior imbibes those feelings which in after years and in foreign lands nerve his arm to heroic deeds, at the cry " For our homes and our altars !" In that "Family Picture" recently pourtrayed with such exquisite verisimilitude by a master hand, there is no thing so attractive as its endearing homeliness. It exhibits with felicitous truthfulness the happy effects of that home-education which should be the portion of all, from the highest to the humblest—an education not instilled by exordiums, but imbibed like the air we breathe—the education of example and association— not learned by laborious study like some foreign dialect, but acquired without effort and without in tention, like our mother tongue in childhood. Is this, let us ask ourselves, the education of the children of London in the nineteenth century ? They learn, it is true, for the mind of children cannot remain vacant, but whit do they learn ? Even supposing (which is devoutly to be desired) that every child, how ever poor, were daily receiving some school education, of what avail would any book learning be to an inha bitant of the filthy cellar or crowded sleeping-room, wkere immorality and infidelity are inhaled with the noxious air ? Schools, him the public college to the humble ragged school, are of an immeasurable im portance, but even more important than schools, even more essential to the mental, moral, and physical health of the community are fit dwelling-houses for the people—dwellings which, however poor and humble, may be worthy of the name of home. Such dwellings the society above mentioned are doing their utmost to provide, and their efforts will, we trust, be doubly beneficial. They will not only actually provide homes for a few, but encourage, by the happy example held out by those few homes, a simultaneous effort on the part of high and low to promote the domestic comforts of the people. At this season of the year more especially, when those possessed of a home more peculiarly appreciate its blessings, the subject of the improve. ment of the dwellings of the poor most appropriately claims public attention. All you happy owners of happy homes, who are now preparing Christmas festivities, you may take our word for it that if anything can add to your happiness at this season—if anything can give a brighter glow to your holly-decked hearth, and a sweeter music to your returning children's voices, it will be the thought that, not selfishly satisfied with a home for yourself, you have given your mite to furnish homes for the homeless. Another guarantee of good government has just been afforded by the PRESIDENT of the French Republic perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most practical assurance of liberal policy that he could have given—the abolition of the system of Passports. Our Foreign intelligence contains the particulars of the announcement of this great reform by the lip. of Louis NAPOLEON him self, on the occasion of his granting an interview, at his Palace of the Elysee, to a deputation of the shareholders in the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. While congratulating those *gentlemen upon the extraordinary feat accomplished by them the other day in travelling to Paris from London in nine hours, a journey of scarcely credible rapidity, the Prince in formed them of the wonderful reform upon which his Government had adventured, namely, that of completing the emancipation of the Republic by abolishing the passport system altogether. Immense credit cannot fail to re dound to the honour of the first magistrate of that great European Commonwealth for taking the initiative in an improvemertt more important in many respects than any that has been attempted since the creation of the Code Napoleon. A. boon such as this is the noblest token of his loyalty to the cause of freedom that could have been given by Louis NAPOLEON on the anniversary of his election as the first democratic President. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM THE BURSTING Or A Crox.—As Sir C. E. Scott was shooting last week, at Sundridge-park, with a pair of Messrs. Deane's new steel barrels, the left, although only loaded with the usual charge, burst in a most fearful manner. It was ripped and torn open, from the breech upwards, for several inches, the locks blown off, one to the distance of fifteen yards, and the stock broken off and splintered in every direction. The escape of Sir C. E. Scott, without loss of life or limb, and with merely a slight cut and bruise on the hand, was one of the most wonderful on record, and is only at tributable to the circumstance of the metal fortu nately giving way on the right-hand side of the barrel. The remains of the gun have since been examined by an experienced and scientific gunmaker, and pronounced to have been most dangerous and defective. Letters - from Canada state that Sir Allan M'Nab was lying very ill at Toronto. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The speech of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, at the banquet at the Hotel de Ville, on Monday, ap pears to have given great satisfaction to all parties, except to the members of the white-red coalition, the extreme Legitimatists and the extreme Socialists, who have united together, as in the days of June, 1848, for the purpose of producing disorder, as it is through disorder alone that the parties to this strange coalition can ever hope to put their subversive and anarchical theories in plactice. With the exception of these persons, who constitute a very small minority, the speech of the PRESIDENT appears to have given great satisfaction to all:; and considered as a supplement to the message of October, the speech cannot but be gratifying to all those who wish to uphold the Constitutional Republic. Those persons who have of late been fearing or affecting to fear an intended coup d'etat, may re-assure themselves when they read the following words of the PRESIDENT : " It is no paltry copy of any past whatsoever that we have to make; what we have to do is to call together men of heart and intelligence, to consolidate some thing greater than a charter, and more durable than a dynasty the eternal principles of religion and morality, as well as the new rules of a sound policy. The City of Paris will comprehend a line of coriduct, which, in following the strict line marked by the Constitution, yet allows to be opened a vast horiz of hope and security." These words containing a dis tinct disavowal of any intention of attempting to revive any past whatever, be it empire or monarchy, and at the same time giving a pledge to follow the strict line marked by the Constitution ; have had the most happy effect in tranquillising the minds of the French people, while the emphatic announcement of the PRESIDENT in the former part of his speech, "We will advance instead of standing still," has given satisfaction to all who wish to see re forms introduced into the administration, as those administrative reforms which all desire to see effected have a better chance of being carried out now that the PRESIDENT, who is his own Prime Minister, has taken the initiative, than they could have whilst he remained what his former Ministers endeavoured to make him, the slave rather than the master of the Cabinet. The Pattie says " We are requested to state that there will be no grand ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides, on the 15th of December, the anniversary of the entry of thb remains of the Emperor into France, as has been announced. There will only be a low mass. The great ceremony has been reserved for the 15th of May, the anniversary of the death of the Empfror." The ceremony has been deferred for probably the same reason that the review was postponed, which it had been intended should take place on the 10th of December. It was di: covered that several of the Legitimatist and Socialist coalition had conspired to raise a cry of "Vive L'Empercur" during the progress of the PRESIDENT along the lines, in order, if pos sible, to create an idea that a coup d'etat was intended, and thus to raise an emeute. The review was in consequence put off, and several of the con spirators arrested. The majority of those arrested are Legitimatists. The rumour of the approaching publication of a general amnesty for all political offences committed up to the present moment is revived. It is well known that the PRESIDENT is extremely desirous that such an amnesty should be proclaimed with as little delay as possible. _ _ In the National Assembly on Wednesday the debate on the re-imposition of the duty on potable liquors was resumed and again adjourned. M. DE MONTALEMBERT was to open the debate yesterday. The Afoniteur contains 40 more nominations to the Order of the Legion of Honour. Amongst them is that of Louts LUCIEN BONAPARTE (brother of the Prince of CAanio). His discoveries in chemistry, and the services generally rendered by him to science during his long exile, are stated as the grounds on which his nomination has been made. It is said that General CASTELBAJAC has at length definitively accepted the Russian Embassy. Eighty-three of the insurgents of June, who were transported to Belleisle, ani who have been pardoned, arrived in Paris on Wednesday. ABOLITION OF TUE PASSPORT SYSTEM. Messrs. WRIGHT, IVTLEALE, and POTTER, and Capt WARREN, a deputation from the shareholders in the Boulogne and Amiens Railway, had, yesterday, an interview with the PRESIDENT of the Republic at the Elysde, at ten o'clock. They were received with much courtesy and with marked kindness. The moment the PRESIDENT saw them he said, "I have excellent news for you, gentlemen—an im portant communication to make to you, in the an nouncement that passports will be discontinued." After a conversation which lasted some time, and in which the PRESIDENT was highly complimentary on the late feat of travelling, the gentlemen above mentioned proceeded to the hotel of the Minister of Public Works, with whom they also had an interview, and by whom they were received with courtesy. They paid a visit afterwards to M. THAYRR, Di rector• General of the Post-office, with whom, and with M. PIRON, Deputy Postmaster• General, they also had a long conversation on the comparative merits of the Calais and Boulogne routes. M. THAYER expressed his admiration of the feat they had just performed, and gave a decided preference to the Bou logne route. The Three per Cents. closrd on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 56f. 30c.; the Five per Cents. at 91f. 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 757 f. 50c,; Rouen, 551 f. 250.; Havre, 2421. 500.; Great Northern, 4581. 75c.; Avignon, 2201.; Visraon, 3301.; Bale, 1051.; Bordeaux, 4051.; Paris and Strasburgh, 361 f. 250.; Tours and Nantes, 276 f. 50e. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. DEC. 13. B( ulogne and Amiens, 6%—Great Indian Peninsala, —Northern of France, 114 die. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The Vienna papers contain the following decree, suspending the publication of the Presse news paper : Tho wicked tendencies of the Presse newspaper, and the very malicious article which it contains in its number of yesterday, are such that the authorities, on whom it is incumbent to execute the exceptional state, would violate their duties if they were to allow that newspaper to enlarge its sphere, and this the more, since its persisting in causing the mea sures of Government to be suspected appears as a defiance of those frequent exhortations which the Go vernment has condescended to bestow on the editors of sc viral journals, and the nonconsideration of which has already led to the suppression of the eaid journals. The Military Governor has, therefore, thought proper to suppress the Presse newspaper during the continuance of the state of siege. " WELDEN, " The Civil and Military Governor. " Vienna, Dec. 8." The " malicious article " alluded to by WELDBN was on the German question, and advocated the views of Prussia. The Government has determined that the Central Hungarian Railroad shall become the property of the state. The principal ;conditions made between the directory of the railroad and the Austrian Govern. went were—" The shareholders to receive 4 per cent. State bonds instead of their railway shares, which have a nominal worth of 8,000,000 florins (800,0001) 2. The bonds to be paid in eight yearly instalments. 3. The interests at present due on the railway shares to be paid in ready money by Govern ment. It is said that RADETZIT has tendered his resigna tion of, and has recommended Hess as his successor in the Government of Lombardy. The Constitutional Journal states, upon good autho rity, that the Government intends to issue the patents for the convocation of the Diets of the different Crown lands in the course of next week. It is contemplated to remove the privileges hitherto enjoyed by Venice, of being a free harbour. The Minister of Commerce considers this measure impe • rative for the suppression of smuggling. The Austrian Exhibition of National Industry is postponed to the year 1852, because the exhibition which is to take place in London of specimens of manufacture from every part of the; world is fixed for 1861, and which will therefore clash with our exhibition. PRUSSIA. At Koning3berg the jury have acquitted JACOIII of the charge of treason brought against him for having, while a member of the German Parliament, joined the section which opposed the Central Power, and pro claimed a Regency of the Empire in the month of June last. His defence was that, as a representative, he was irresponsible. ITALY. The POPE has refused to return to home, alleging the inclement state of the weather as his reason for refusing to comply with the remonstrances of General BARAGUAT D'HILLIERB. The dissatisfaction among the Roman people is daily increasing. The POPE, it is said, is determined not to return to Rome until he shall have raised a loan, a feat of impossible accom plishment unless he gives security on the Church property. Lieutenant Lynch, of the United States navy, has volunteered to heed an expedition in the ensuing spring in search of Sir John Franklin, if the Government will sanction the expedition. Lieutenant Lynch commanded the late "Dead So Exploring Expedition." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet, but stcady. The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales, mostly to the trade.—Railway Shares were dull, at rather lower prices. Tho business done this week in the Produce markets has been above the average, and all the principal staples support very full prices. The report of Wednesday's Bourse at Amsterdam is favourable. The Funds have been fluctuating, but are again higher. The quotation for Account is now ex dividend, the Transfer-books being closed. Consols have been specially transferred at 971 to - l b including the January interest. For January and ex interest they hale ranged from 96* to 96i. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97i to 981. and the Three per Cents. 96g to Bank Stock is firm at 203; Exchequer-bills are 51s. to 545. premium. Consols now are 96i I. In the :Foreign market, Mexican Bonds have started up to 288 and 291. Equador Stock is firm at 4, and Peruvian at 541. Yens zuela Deferred are 9. Dutch Four per Cents. have been 841 to 85. Spanish Five per Cents. are 188 1019*, and Portuguese Four per Cents. nominally 33* to 36. The following completes the railway receipts :- 1849. 1848. Eastern Counties York and North Midland 5,842 7.125 York, Newcastle and Berwick 11,615 13,738 Lancashire and Yorkshire .. 11,485 9,547 Blackwall Great Northern ... ... 2,565 - - - Railway Shares have been very quiet, and with no itaticab!e variation in prices. North Stafford are worse. B ,ulogne and Amiens have risen. ONE O'CLOCK. CLosls G mcrs OF AtITISU FENDS PRICES. Sank Stock 3 der Cent. Reduced Ana 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 97%% 97% Sew 34 per Cent. Arens 98% 98 98% 97; 97N Consols for Opening, Jan. 16.--56% 5,144 xd. 16( xd. 1 1:xebec:tiler Bills. 144 d. & 2d 1,0001. June 5l 51)9 54 p 5001. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS arse CLOSIR O'CLCCK. PRICF.s Brazilian 3onds ... ........ . ..... 0. — £B% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ... 98 98 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent....,:— 73 Ditto 5 Der Cent. Equador Bonds :. _. . 4 Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... ..... . 28 3 / 4 294 28% 291 Ditto, Account ... ............. Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred ... 18 1714 1714 Bp_ansii 5 per Cent. 1840 — Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account . — 3 1% Venezuela Bonds, 2is per Cent Ditto Deferred - Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 24 p r Cent., 12 Guild. .. Ditto. 4 par Cent. Certificates 84% 85 85 PLICES OF PAID. ,BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RA.IL44 AY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. MCI S. A.berdeer Do. Preference 8i A.mber. Nott., 80-ten, - and E.a3tern Junction 6 3 4...... A.yrshirs and Galloway.. 7 1 ,E — ..... Belfast & County Down 28 Perks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6 l'irmingham and Ox- ford Xunct., calls duly paid, or w ith a gua.ran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 ...... Birrn;nc„ Wolverh'ton, and li.ulley, calls duly pd, et .vith guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 "1 - Arming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14.3 ... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc.... 20 Bristol and Exeter 9O ••• •• Ditto, Thirds ... 2 7 1,4 — .. l5 Uuckingham;hire Caledonian ...... . ...... 50 Ditto, Now 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,ClydcsdaleJunc 50 ...... Lhe2ter and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 Clarence Do. Ist Cla3s, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, .5 par Ct. 10 ...... Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Port': • mouth ..... - - Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... Dundalk & Enni3killen 27% — .. . east Anglian, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. Sc. IL ... 18 ... Do., 31. 10e., Pref... 3% -... Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . — . . — Eastern Cour.ties... ..... 20 •••••• ••• •••• •••••• 7 1 4 Do. Now, Gua. 6 per et. 10 Ditto,Emtension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... ... ... ..... ... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... D. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New /2 Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Clas3 A, ditto... 6 Do Clays B & C 25 — Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... East Lancazhira - Ditto, New - ......... •••••• - Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 ...... .. ... ,.... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... ... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. ....... ...... Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .. ~. ... _ Exeter,Yeovil, & Porch 25,,, Exeter and Exmouth... 2Is. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle .... .... ... —B/.65. 8d.... ..... _ Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ..... Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester &Dean Forest 11 Ureat Northern Do., I A2 A Deferred ... 1N..... Do., IA B 6 per Cent... 75 Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 ...... 7% 8. Great South. and West- (Ireland) 5O (;rlat North of England 100 Ditto, New, 401 4O ....... . Ditto, ditto . 35 .... ... . OMB Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto. New ,15/ l5 .. .. Great Western 100 Ditto, % Shares Ditto, 1 ,.i Shares Ditto, Fiftbl ... 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... ..... Do. Quarter Shares... 12% Llncaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire100 Ditto, ditto . ......., . Ditto, % Shares ...—. 49 ... .. Do. Quarters .... ..... 23% — .. ..... ...... Do. Fifths... ....... ... 10 Do. Thirds ..--......• • 16% Do. New Guarantied 6 ler Cent. • ••• ...... 10 .••••• 1 2 %•••........•••• 12% Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.) - .• •• — Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 ...•• •..•• . . -- Do:(Preston Wyre) 25 - - D. V 2 Shares (A)..; 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O Leeds and Think ..... . 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 ,4-- Do., do. No. 2 5 — Do., do. No. 3 5 ...... ... ........ .. Do., Pref. Quar,,lBlS 9 ...... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport ... .. .. 10 London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d London, Brighton, and _ .. South Coast... ..... 103 Do., New 51. , guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 — ••• . Ditto ditto.-- 1852 50 .. ... Le nden and Greenwich 1211584 d... 10%... ~.... . Ditto, Preferarra .. . 20 London and N. Western 100 ....• 113 1 4 112% Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifth, .. 7 ... .. 9% Do. 40/.Shares (L. M.) 35 — Do. 101. (11 & B.) C. 1 ...... 2% ... 2% Lond.& S. Western ..... 50 ..... Ditto, New 501....... 42%...... Do. New 40/. .. 84 - •• ••• •••• Do., New Scrip, 1848, ref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londonderry &Coleraine 25 - Do. 1 / 2 Shares ~... 5 Londonderry and Ennis kilen 25 ...... Do. % Shires Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... Ditto (6 per et.) - ..... •••••• •• .... MancheAcr,Buxton,and Matlock.... Ma nctlester, Sheffield, . and Lincolnshire...100 Do. Qnarters (No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12%y...... Do. New 104 Pref..... 10 ...... Ditto, Gt.GrimAy •—•••• ...... Ditto ditto . — Ditto ditto •••••••• Ditto: Sheffithi and Lincolnshire 25 • ••• Do., Grimsby Dock .. 23 ..... , DoDo. ILLachester and ~ Union..... 41.25. — . illinarici •••••• ...... —IGO ...... 49 48 3 4 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 11 3 / 4 % aye Do. Rum., and Derby 10P Do. Como'. .Iristol and Birminp;., 6 per ct..• •100 .... 123 .•. as. •••• • •• Ditto,Brist. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto 221.7 s — ... Do., ErcsrJshVal.,Pref. Ditto, Lekest.& Swan.- nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo ...... Midland Great W extern Irish ..... ..... 472, ..... .••••.- Middiesbro' and 14. c Icz.r, 6 per cent. guar. Neyrca*tle and Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Sem. ort, Abergavonny, and Hereford a 6 •••••• - Newry and Enniskillen 7 — Newry, Warrenpoint, and Roetrever Norfolk .. 100 Do. New 20!. Lo. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,-tpe. 5 Do. do. Wavensi Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... ......... North ........ ... 25 _._. ._ ..... 121,4 — 14 es •• .••• Ditto, —alavrters 81 - " " Ditto, 'Thirds Qu ".. .. Ditto, Ditto Preference . North Staffordshire ... 17 1 71 7%....... ..... 7% North Wales . ... 371 — North-Wsstern . 13% — Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ..• 471..... Scottilh Central - Scottish Midland Ditto, New St)rowEbury and Bina—. 12 - • •.•• •• 00000 Ditto uitto. Claw B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 zyhrewl;bury and lleretd. 6 ..... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto HalTes ... ditto 9 ...... Ditto Oswestry ...... 18t/ 2 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cont. Pref. 10 rkihropshire Union ...... 6 1 / 2 — .outtl Devon Do. Preference - ..•. •••• •••• ith Stailordthire B l/$ .. 004 •••• South Esotorn Do., No. Y. - Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 ...... Do., Regietered No. 4 10 .. ... ** ••• --.. _ _ Do., Scrip No 4 SGutli~ W Aiez South Yorkshire. Don- calter, ar d Goole l2 Rotheroam, ex. Goole (N. Div.) Gua- ranteed 5 pct. cent. ... 16%. — Do. do (Sou. Div.) .. 5 Swans. & Loughor &Oa- meron's Stni. C0a1.... 7 Caw Vale Extenciou ... 8 ••• •.. ..... F tames Haven Dock and Raitway ... 17% ...... falo of N3ath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 . ..... Waterford and Linitna 47 1 A Vat. fi,Wx.frd,W iekiw and Dabbn Wear Valley 6 per Cant. Guaranteed :.• •- ***** 50 ...... -- Do. dc., do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 .. West Cornwall ... 6 ... hitehaven & Furness IS Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 14 iltt,3,;naers,:t,& W ey- mouth .. _ «.... 45 Voik, Newcastle, and Berwick. ...„ ... ....... 25 - 17 1 4 Do. Newcastle Eaten, 20 Do. G.N.K.Preference:;a i ... ... , — Do. 11.4rtlepool Dock '.nd Railway .. 100 ...... York and North Mai , nd 50 ...... 17' 1 / 4 . 17 1 .6, _ _ Dttos Preleencq ...... to FOREIGN RAILWAit... ,tnen Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5% 13oulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans andYierzon)... 20 Demerara Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 .. .. East Indian .......... ..... 3 1 4 Groat Indian Peninsu ar i ...... ... — Do. Do. ... -.- les. - ••• .•• ••• ..... ...... Louvain ila Sambre ... 7 1 , Luxembourg Ditto lO - Madrid and Valentin... 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. Northern of France Hi. as... dis .— dis Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen 2O ...... Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 - Rouen and HaTre ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O ." " ... ........... 2 1 A Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes Tourney, Jurbise, -and Hasselt ...... 20 ___ Lan don, - W est 'Flanders 8 34 .. lIINEIS. United Mexican 2 8 1 A4 6 i lA.. ...... ... 53i JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock lO •174 2 %A v ..... 2 3 4 . Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... 1 t 1 /g M . 12% LLOYD'S SHIPPIING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 14.—Wind this day at noon S., light breeze and dull hazy weather, with rain. DEAL, Dec. 13.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Arrd. Hindu, Prince Edward's Island. Arrd. from the River, Samuel Boddington, Sydney, Net► South Wales; Allendale, Cape of Good Hope; Ruckers, St. Vincent. The Aber foyle, Calcutta to London, is on shore in a very had state, and must discharge. PORTBMOUTH, DEO. 13.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Acrd. Ilenrietta Sophia, Parkwood. Quebec. The Pallas, Surinam to Amsterdam, has been towed in with loss of foremast, bowsprit, sails, &c. _ LITEarooL, D.Ec. 13.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. Thetis, Bel ze Pakeuham, Port Philip; Philip Laing, and the Duke, Calcutta; Flora M'Donald, Bombay; Pasha, Santa bluartha; Orleans and Princess ißoy al, New Or leans; Atala, ditto; Lady of the Lake, Charleston; Empire, State, and Garrick, New York. PLYMOUTH, Disc. 13.—Wind S.E.—Sld.,Lady Nugent, New Zealand. OZB PENZANCE.—Wchard Thornton, Batavia. PILL, DEC. 13.—Wind S.S.E.—SId., Glenelg, St. Vincent. _ _ _ WESTPORT, DEC. 13.—The Olive Branch, of Glas gow, Sunderland to Lisbon, on shore Bth inst., has re ceived damage, and must discharge. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 13.—A ship's cabin ladder, made of pine, and painted green, was picked up this morning off the harbcur. _ _ MUMBLES, DEC. 13.—The Lord Willoughby, of Con way, and the Eren, of Teignmouth, have floated off shore, and the former has sailed for Liverpool. CARBOROUGH, DEC. 13.—The Rye, from Newcastle, has bees got off shore, and brought into the harbour. DUNDEE, DEC. 12.—Sld. Helena, New York. CARDIFF, DEC. 13.—The Sussex Lass has been assisted off shore, and into dock. DUBLIN, DEC. 12.—1 t has been blowing a gale at S.E. and S.S.E., with every appearance of increasing and continuing. Several pieces of American timber have washed on shore from Wicklow to Greystones. The Wanderer, on shore at Greystones, has broken up. HARWICH, DEC. I3.—The Helena has been got off the Cork Sand, and brought in with loss of rudder and mainmast, and waterlogged. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat for our market coastwise has amounted to 2,430 quarters, chiefly frum Essex. By land carriage the receipts have been very moderate. To-day the show of samples of both red and whits was small, yet it was quite equal to the wants of the buyers, whose attendanee was far from numerous. In prices we have not th• slightest altera tion to notice. Nearly 15,000 quarters of foreign Wheat ha►e come to hand, mostly from the Baltic. Really fine qualities sold at .Monday's quotations; but the inferior qualities were very dull, at barely late rates. The show of English Barley was small—that of foreign large. Malting parcels sold at full prices; but inferior grinding sorts were somewhat easier to purchase. Not withstanding that the supply of Malt ready for delivery was trifling, that article moved off heavily, at the late decline. Good :sound Oats were quite as dear as on Monday. The middling qualities supported previous quotations. Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn, were very dull. Fine Flour was scarce, and quite as dear. ♦RRIVALS THIS WEEK. Flour. Malt. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Qrs. Qrs. QTs. Qrs. Sacks. EngHsi ••.. • • 2,410 2,570 860 1,490 2,060 Scotch.... •. • • Irish ........ 1,350 Foreign ...... 14,510 17,550 13,660 smiTurEcLu. As the great Christmas market will be held here on Monday next, tke supply of Beasts on sale this morning was considerably on the increase, aid of full average quality, even the time of year considered. Owing to the change in the weather, the Beef trade was in a slug gish state. In prices, however, we have no change to notice, the primest Scr,ts producing 4s 2d per 8 lbs. Although the number of Sheep was considerably on the increase, the demand for that description of stock was firm, at, in some instances, a further improvement in the quotations, the primest old Downs selling at 45 4d per 8 lbs, and a good clearance was effected. Calves were in good supply, and fair inquiry, at late rates. Prime small Porkers produced full currencies ; other wise, the pork trade was dull. Mulch Cows were quo ted at from 141 to 181 lOs eacb, including their small calf. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. a. d. to s. d, s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts— 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 6 3 8 Second quality • • 3 0 8 4 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 10 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 6 310 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots .. Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Large Hogs • ••• • 3 4 3 Prime email ditto ;Italica Calves lB 0 27 0 Quartar old Pigs •• 18 0 22 0 Inferior Sheep • • • 3 2 3 4 Lambs 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY Beasts. Sheep. I 2, tlO 5,930 FOREIGN I Sheep. 810 SCOT Beasts. I Sheep. 12 CO NEWGATE AND AT MARKET. I Calves. I rigs. 291 260 surrr., Y. Calves. 1 rigs. 160 1 Pigs /Rasta. 200 I Calves. MEAD ENZA.I.L. Theae markets were tolerably steady, and prices ruled somewhat higher than last week. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. j E. d. o s. d. Pee f o ' nferlor .. 2 4 2 6 Hutton, inferior •. 2 8 210 - middling .... 2 8 210 --middling.. 3 0 a 4 primelargo .. 3 0 3 2 prime •• •• 3 6 310 - prime small 3 4 3 8 Perk, large• •••• • • • 2 6 3 4 Veil •••••••••••••• 3 0 310 -- Email .••• 3 6 4 2 POEOUGII 710 P MELEKET. The supply of all kinds of good and fine Hops on sale here is very small; hence the demand for them is steady, and last week's prices aro well ;supported. In the middling and infericr qualities, very little is do. ing : New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 61 10a to 12/ Os; Nt w Weald of Kent ditto, 61 5i to 8/ Os; New Sussex ditto, 5/ 15a to 6/ 151 ; New Farnhams, 12l to 13/ Os; Yearling Rents, 31 Os to 4/ 12s; Yearling Sussex, 21 83 to 31 17s; Oki Hops, 1/ Os to 410 s. COXONIAM. SUGAR.—The British Plantation mai ket has been firm, and there has been a good business done. For best re fining sorts, rather fuller rates have been obtained. Barbadoes at auction brought Ed advance, low to fine yellow being 37s to 41s 6d. St. Lucia sold at 37s to 39s for good and fine yellow ; at 34s to 35s for ord to fine brown; and at 35s to 37s for grey. REFINED.—Fair grocery has improved to 49s 6d and 50s. Mauritius has had a good sale ; fine yellow, 398 6i to 41s ; mid to good, 37s to 395; grey, 34s 6d to 38s 6d; and low to mid brown, 30s to 32s 6d ; Bengal has been rather dearer; strong yellow 40s to 435; brown S6s 6s to 375, and mid and soft yellow Benares 35s 6d to 36s 6d per cwt. Pernambuco has been held for 36s to 37a for mid and good yellow, at 38s to 42s for low to good white. Yellow Havannah has been held at 40s to 42s 61 for go •d and fine, and washed at 38s 6d to 41s 6d. Porto Rico sold at 37s to 38s for low and mid yellow, and at 40s 6,1 to 42s for fine. COFFEE.—FuIIer rates have again been obtained for rrcst sorts. Plantation Ceylon, fine and fine fine ord greyish has realised 53s to 58s, low mid and mid 59s to 655, pen- berry 63s to 65, triage 47s to 50s. Native Ceylon sold at 52s 64 to 545, for good and,real good ord Costa Rica went at 51s to 565, for good and fine ord. Padang has been held fur 458 to 465; and Tallicherry has sold at 59s to 59s 64 for grey. Jamalca and other kinds are firm. Elm—Madras has been at full prices; good and fine pinkey white 9s 6d to 101, and low 8,6 d per cwt. Emu- F. al has ranged from 6s to 103, the finer sorts being taken in at 103 6d to 11s. Jaya sold at 6s to 7s 6d. SPICES.—Back Pepper has been at fuller rates. Aieppi aid to aid 13-1. lb. White has realised 442 d for ordinary dingy. Cassia Lignea, out of condition, went lower. Cloves have realised is 6d to is 7d, and Mace 2s 4d to 2s 8d per lb. Saco.—Pearl Sago has been sold at 22s 6d to 23s 6d for good, and Sago Flour at 23s 6d to 24s per cwt. Coco.:..—The demand has been good, at full rates. Trinidad good red, 465. 6d. to 475., and grey, 405. to 425. 6d. per cent. TEA.—Privately a moderate business has been done, and at auction 11,070 packages passed, of which abeut 3,000 sold without alteration in prices. COTTON.—There has not bean a brisk market. Rum.—The demand has been better; Proof Lee wards is 4Ad to is 51 , 1, and East India is 30 per TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 38s 9J to 391 per cwt on thespot. GREEN FituxT.-A brisk demand exists for all kinds. The moderate price of Oranges is in favour of consumption. Two cargoes from St. Mi- chael and two clrgoes from Oporto, sold at public sale by Keeling and Hunt, went at prices averaging those obtained last week, and as the Chri,t inns holidays are• approaching the market will improve. Spanish Nuts scarce and wanted. Chesnuts in request, and none in first hands, and an advance in price has taken place. Barcelona dull of sale. Brazil selling more freely. Lemons in moderate demand, without alteration in price. LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE; OF TILE PRIVY COUNCIL—(THIS DAY.) (Before the Archbishop of Cant( rbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Marquis of Lans &wee, Lord Langdale, Lord Campbell, Mr. Berea, Parke, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Dr. Lush ington, and Mr. Pemberton Leigh.) GORIIAM V. TIRE BISHOP OF EXETER. The argument in this case was resumed on the re assembling of the Council this morning at ten o'clock. Dr. ADDAMS proceeded with his address which had been interrupted by the rising of the Court on Wednesday evening. He said there was no doubt from the appellant's expressed opinions that he denied baptismal regeneration altogether, and to substantiate that ['reposition the Learned Civilian proceeded to refer to the answers given by Mr. Gorham to the Bishop numbered 9, 14, and 15. Dr. LUSHINGTON (interrupting) said he wanted to know wleat was the meaning of the word prevenient? Dr. ADDAMS replied that it was antecedent; at least, that was the sense he toe k it in. Dr. LUSUINGTON—In the sense of going before? Dr. ADDAMS replied exactly so. Mr. TURNER raid, he also understood the word to mean in the sense of going before. Dr. ADDAMS continued to say that there coull be no doubt that the sentiments held by the rev. appellant were entirely opposed to the doctrines of the Church of England. The Learned Civilian then adverted to the examination of Mr. Gorham by the Bishop, and con tended that the Bishop had that right of examination un doubtedly-, according to the statute of 9 Edward 111., c. 43, published as far back as 1315, which was declaratory of the common law by which it was held that the examination b.longed to a spiritual judge. The Articles of the Church of England originally were only ten in numb, r, but between the years 1552 and 1562, certain additions were made, and eventually the number was increased to thirty-nine. These Articles were adopted by Parliament in 1571, and constituted what Mr. Turner was pleased to call the code of faith of the Church of England. The Learned Civilian proceeded to contend that, according to the general construction of those Articles, as put upon them by eminent commenta tors, in the case of adult baptism the regeneration did not depend on the due administration of the rite, but upon the worthy reception of i t; b u t t h at i t was otherwise with respect to infant baptism. In that case there could be no worthy reception, inasmuch as infants were necessarily incapacited for such worthy reception, and the regeneration, as it respected them, depended on the due administration of the baptism; and the question was whether any prevenient grace was necessary to make infants worthy recipients. Bishop Burnett held that the virtue of baptism, according to the doctrine of the opus operatum, was conveyed to the souls of the reci pients unless they themselves put a bar to its reception by some mortal sin. The doctrine of the opus operatum was that, provided there was no bar to stand in the way of it by some mortal sin, the sacrament of baptism was beneficial, ex opere operation to the parties receiving it, whether it was rightly administered or not. And in the ease of the mass this doctrine was, as to adults, that its benefits depended on the right administration of it, quite irre spective of the conduct of the party receiving the sacra ment; he might be amusing himself, or be otherwise improperly occupied, yet by his very presence at the sacrament, and by his being the subject of the litanies and prayers offered up thereat, ho received the benefits of the mess. In the case of infants it was not in the power of the infants to place any bar to the benefits conveyed at baptism, and therefore the benefit did not depend on the worthy reception of it by them, and that was not upon the principle that they did not put say obstacle in the way of the reception of the benefit, but that they could not put any obstacle in its way. Then he (Dr. Addams) contended, that according to Bishop Burnett's exposition of the Articles of the Church of England relating to baptism, the doctrine could not be maintained that had been contended for by Mr. Gorham. That must have been the doctrine of the Church of Eng land, undoubtedly, as expounded by Bishop Bur nett; and if their Lordships departed in this instance from the doctrine of the Church of Eng land it would be the only instance that had occurred since the Reformation. No whisper of doubt had arisen that baptism was regeneration, and that regene ration was baptism. So far back as St. John it was said that infants were regenerated by baptism, and from that time till the commencement of the Reformation the doe trine had never been doubted. There was an eminent bishop of the Church of England, whom he would not name, who bad said "It may sa"ely be pronounced of any expression of the Articles which cannot be reconciled with the plain language of the offices of the public Liturgy that it is not the doctrine of the Church. The opinion which denies baptismal regeneration may possibly, though not without difficulty, be reconciled with the language of the 27th Article ; but upon no stretch of human ingenuity, and no latitude of interpretation, can it be brought to agree with the plain and unqualified language of the office of baptism and confirmation. . . . . That regeneration does actually take place at baptism, is most undoubtedly the doctrine of the Church of E gland." Now he (Dr. Addams) contended that unless that was the doctrine of the Church of England, the Church of England bad departed from the principle on which she proceeded in every other instance, and upon which she conducted her Reformation. There was once a conference between Archbishop Laud and Fisher , the Jesuit, in which Laud maintained that, according to Scripture, infants should be baptized, and that theycould not creep into the communion of the Church in any other ordained way, and that was the doctrine held by all the primitive Christians. Could any one pretend t o say t h at t h e Catholic fathers did not collect out of the Scriptures the doctrine of baptismal regeneration? Could any one dispute that fact for a single moment? But all that their Lordships had heard from the Counsel for the ap pellant was, whether that was the case until the assembly of the Council of Trent. The Learned Civilian then adverted to a series of Bampton Lectures of Bishop Lawrence, delivered and published in 1604, with the view to show that Archbishop Cranmer had always held the doctrine that baptismal regeneration was necessary to salvation. Though that work had been impugned, he (I)r. Addams) had the opinion of many eminent con temporary sad subsequent writers that it was an un doubted authority. It was well known that Cranmer was first a Catholic, then a Lutheran, and then a Sacra mentalist; but it,was an incontestable fact that be was always consistent in his opinion on the doctrine of bap tism. Upon that subject ho never altered his opinion. He (Dr. Addams) would rust the whole matter now at issue upon the assertion that Cranmer never altered his opinion on the matter of baptismal regeneration. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) COSIAION PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the day in trying the case of Hallcoat v. Archbishops of Canterbury and York, which was brought to recover compensation for Ln in terArerce by a railway compny of a proprietary church, and wchurchyard and rehool, in the diocese of Chester. The plzinliff was the rector us well as the owner of the church, and the real defendants were the railway com pany; but as the only question had reference to the dis• puted value of the property interfered with, the case was only of interest to the parties immediately concerned SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) AN ACTIN TO RECOVER A FRENCH DEBT.—HARCHA P. ANDREWS. Tits w ar an alien to r• cover the sum of 131. 5-. for bier, ine, sp . rits, &c., supplied to defendant. attorney stated, the case, from whici appeared that plaintiff had for seventeen years can' on business as a coffee-house-keeper at Honfleur, France, but was compelled to leave in cons( quer,c( the French revolution. D( fendant, who was a Capt in the Hon. East India Ccmpany's service, also rest( at Honflcur, and contracted the debt in 1846 and 18. Plaintiff had sinco opened a public-house in End( street, Long•acre, and defendant resides at Southampt , Evidence was adduced to prove the delivery of t articles. The defendant said he had not pleaded, for he cc ten?ed that as the debt was contracted in France, wry plaintiff was naturalized,:and the articles were sold 1 der French licences, the debt could not Le recovered anti English court. • The Learned SECONDARY said that defendant T mistaken in his law. Defendant said that it was the opinion of legal u that the law was such as he had stated, and he had doubt the Judges woul I SD hold. The Learned SECONDARY—He should direct the j' that the debt was recoverable in England. A verdict was then given for the amount. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GoiIL)IIRN.) IN RE IIORRISON. This bankrupt was a clerk in the firm of Denni and Co., bankers, and was declared bankrupt ale builder, and now came up for his certificate, which / been adjourned until he had paid his creditors 6s in the pound out of his salary. The late Mr. Denn . hating loft the bankrupt a legacy of 5004, the assigt contended that the property ought to be taken by assignees independently of the dividend. His Hon' how' yer, did not consider this fair, but as the leg would cover the dividend the creditors were entitles bo paid at once. Mr. GRAHAM now reporting that he had recei the legacy, His Horoua granted the certificate. The Solicitor to the assignees asked of what class? His lloNoun said there was some doubt as to whe' the Act should be taken to operate retrospectivel the penal clauses, and he would grant the certificate the old form if bankrupt thought fit; but his Hun questioned whether it would be valid, as it would not in the form in the new Act. Mr. STURGEON, for the bankrupt, took the old for certificate. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAYS) A labouring man named Smith was charged under following circumstances :—Police constable F 98 at that last night he was on duty in Duke-street, Adel and had charge of some vacant premises which r boarded up. About six o'clock be went inside boards to see if a valuable leaden cistern was all s when he heard a noise, as if some one was trying to over the boarding. It was, however, dark, and he w not see clearly, but he called out; he received uo ans , but n . portion of the boarding giving way at the ins! the prisoner fell down, when he was seized by a ti party, who now made his appearance, and fora dragged through the adjoining house. Just as prisoner was about to drop from the window the house into a beck street, anothtr ofl came up and prevented his escape. It was then discov , that the cistern had been cut up into portable pieces a saw, which the prisoner was observed to let fall Dukc-street while endeavouring to scale the boardin, The prisoner denied all knowledge of the second p who had effected his escape, or of the saw, and said got over the boarding to relieve a case of nature. Mr. JA RDINE did not believe this story, but comrai hint to the House of Correction for six weeks. The prisoner was then removed. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DA' GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENT.— A y . red Norm" ti dical stude❑t, waa brought before Mr. Hard wick, char, with: asaaulting Ann Itussell, the wife of a coal.'" chant, in Dentnark-street, Soho. Complainant stated that last night, about seven o'clr she was standing at her door when the defendant er up to her and inquired if she had seen Mrs. John pass. Witness replied that she did not know su( person, and was about entering her house when prisoner seized hold of her, and assaulted her in a big improper manner. Oa her remonstrating with him ir such ungentlemanly conduct, be struck her Bev times over the head and face with a thick stick which had in his hall& Her screams attracted the attend° , a constable who happened to be passing, and who et and took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, in defenoe, said be was very drunk the time, and had not the slightest recollection of a' thing that occurred. _ _ Mr. HAanwics. considered that the prisoner had C . muted a very gro.s assault, and fined him 51., or months' imprisonment in tho House of Correction. PORT PRILLM—REFUSAL TO RECHVB ExIL --The Randolph, 664 tons, W. Dale, from Wool" 28th April, with exiles, and a detachment of the and llth Regiments, arrived at Port Phillip on the ii , stant, and notwithstanding an order bad been given Mr. Latrobe that no convict Teasel should pass the Bet the Randolph was anchored at Town. Int' genco has arrived via Launceston, that public den strations had been made against their landing, an( was reported that 5001. bad been subscribed to del the cost of conveying the exiles elsewhere, and that ship was to proceed to Sydney. During the passag' the Randolph from England to the Cape, the surg superintendent, in a tit of insa n ity, t h rew himself oi board and was drowned. She put into Simon's Bay water, and got another surgeon from the guard-ship Hobart Town Courier, Aug. 18. . „ MADAME TussAuD's EXIIIDITION.—Last night immense concourse was attracted to this splendid ea bition; indeed, we never saw the rooms so much cro even during the Easter or Christmas holidays. Napoleon room was in great favour, but the Chaw of Horrors was the centre of attraction; th e crush and crowding to gain admittanc e w as t err ifi c . Math Tussaud's Exhibition, from it s s pl en d our , w ill att' immensely during the festive season just approaching . CORNERS.—Corners have always been popul The chimney-corner, for instance, is endeared to heart from the earliest to the latest hour of existo The corner-cupboard! What stores of sweet things l it contained for us in youth—with what luxuries shelves have groaned in manhood!—A snug corner tI will! Who ever objected to such a thing?—A corner a woman's heart!—Once get there, and you may command the entire domain. A corner in the Temple Fame! Arrive at that, and you become immortal Eliza Cook's Journal. COLLIERY EIPLOSION.—About three o'clock the afternoon of Friday last, the neighbourhood of ' Moss, near Ms xham, Denbighshire, was l scene of unusual excitement, in consequence an explosion which took place in a pit a r e ihe property of and worked by the Brymbo liery Company. In this pit ebuut forty men well work at the time of the explosion. It appears that so of the mt n cut through into the level of some old WV ings filled with foul air, which rushed like a flood the pit where the men %sere at work, and there by s°l means ignited. Three of the colliers immediate made their way to the bottom of the shaft, ° sigeallect the engine men to wind them which Le did after some delay in the fright. By t' time the b: es 4 was ascending the mouth of the and whilst being drawn up the poor fellows' cloth cameo, fire and th7y were dreadfully burnt ; tvif them receiving such serious injuries that they D e since died, and the other man now lies so precarious a state that he is not expected to cover. The other men in the pit with great presence . mind crept through an aperture into an adjoining E which was the m r en s o f tav i eg t h e i r l i ves. The I', blszed for two d a y s to the height of tea feet above mouth of the pit, roaring like a blast furnace. W itf ` has been let into the pit and the mouth had been steep up, but up to this time (Wednesday) the fire condo° to burn with considerable fury. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ON CLARDAM COMMON' MIV.ACULOUS EtOAPE OF A WHOLE FAMILY.- - Ye! ti j day (Thursday) morning, shortly before three o'cle c as a police-constable of the V division wes P,7 hog along his beat, he discovered that " premises belonging to Mr. Harvey, a confectiop e No. 1, North-side, Clapham Common, were on 15f.i At that time Mr. Ilarvey and his family, consisting ,` several children, were in their beds a s l ee p. Th e con stab after much trouble, succeeded in arous i ng the nolrereCf. inmates, but so fearfully had the flames progressed the interim, that M r . H arvey was o b liged to ru" -se children out of their beds and drop them into the °P hO road. The premises of Mr. Harvey were burned to t ground; the whole of his furniture was also d e suroY ‘ c (r , and the we ar i ng a p pare l of t h e f am il y consumed. IPto Harvey, who is thus reduced to the greatest distress , IT not insured for a single penny. r oe Winatv COURT.—Lord Ward and party hads ° . oo fine shooting on Friday and Saturday. The diver se O f Wr.B confined to the covers in the immediate victioiti oe , the Court, and these, having been strictly preserved Of l, yie.dcd a plentiful supply of game, so th a t in the t ea l da) s 426 head were killed, making in th e wee k a tc „ t 6, of 709 head, including 16 woodcocks, with pheas t liy rabbits, hares, and wild fowl. On Friday evening Lr rdship entertained a select party with a ball. f t he LORD MAYOR'S Couaz.—A special sitting 0 Is Lord Mayor's Court was appointed for Wednesday' 10 order that some long-pending compensation cease!' he which the City Corporation are defendants, migh t 11; brought to trial; but in consequence of an attack °, 1 ;`, 4 0 ness—not, however, of any serious character—the J° 01 of the court, the lion. C. E. Law, M.P., Becor u in ' de' London, was unable to attend, and the sitting - finitely postponed. Vol llllitao NRWSPAPERS.—In the Bloomsbury . C 0 Court, on Wednesday, a case came on for trial, 1 13 , 1 ! to Ole the plaintiff, a newsvender, claimed 2/. 18s. 10d., for ifs hire of nee spapers ' &c. Defendant did not tIPP e e hod person, but pleaded by a solicitor, first, that no 01 1 oco , applied for the money; secondly, that the 23d o' e fs• 111., cap. 50, declared it illegal to lend neWll34o 00 Plaintiff produced 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 76, iv, , " Act it is declared that so much of the first-mention ed rePe ll "as in any way relates to newspapers" ss O w. The Judge ordered payment of the amount with : CO New ZEALAND.—Yesterday ass pubb,s es iod, further series of papers on the affairs of Neff b, re y containing the correspondence with Governor yr 1848 and 1849. It covers a space of 126 pages%„ l , o o 0 If a person, employed in telling money, r' or k tel 3 hundred pieces in a minute, and continue to vv r _ 4o ,o* hours each ea y, he will take seventeen days to e r c `i oi e million; a thousand men would take 45 yeara to r billiOn,—.l - iamilton on Arithmetic.: THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER l4, 1849. E P A ve appe: waft Wrec persi hush imps win, strol By an a, lucid will fullo selve Cric or 1 TH ~