The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrit. eolo Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, IWill be performed TILE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. Rafter; Polly, Miss Rainforth ; Lucy, Madame Vestris. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. To conclude with IIE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. Dress Boxes Sc.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 15.3 NO half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corri, Wynn; Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Fyne. After which, the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. ASTLE VS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, Mr. BATTY ha 3 much pleasure in announcing that he has engaged Madlle. Codoui, 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. After which Batty's SCENES OF THE ARENA, anlivened by Messrs. T. Barry, E. Jackson, and Wheale. To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING, in which tha whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Baronche, Go-Cart, and other vehicles, will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Fotr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. In the matter of the Joint-Stock Companies' Winding-UP Act, 1848 and 1649, and of the Galway and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Company, IJOHN ELIJAH BLUNT, Esquir e, the Mu al ter charged with the winding - up of this ComaPny, hereb y give' notice, that I shall, at my Chambers, in Southampton-build ings, Chancery-lane, London, on FRIDAY, the 21st day of December, 1849, at Twelve o'clock precisely, or at such adjourned time or places as I may then or afterwards flx, proceed to appoint an Official Ma nager or Official Managers of this Company ; and I give notice that all parties interested are entitled to attend at such time and place, and to offer proposals and objections as to any such appointment. JOHN E. BLUNT. GEORGE and COMPTON SMlTuthampton-buildings, Chancery-lane H , Londo , 5, So n. CHEAP EDITION OF MR. AINSWORTH'S WORKS. Just published, complete in One Volume, price One Shilling, WINDSOR CASTLE. Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen, and at all Railway Stations, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Br°rapt= THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled THE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ; Mrs W. Clifford, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To be followed by an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE PAS DE FASCINATION. The Box-oftlae is wider the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Gramly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith: Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. llighbary Barnes, Miss Brooks. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tllll DAT -2MTrning, 49 min. after 11 I Evening, 0 min. after 0 To-Mraaov —Morning, 14 min. after 12 I Evening, 37 min. after 12 ILL WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Dec. 11. TUEAMOYIETEB, Lowest, 34; Highest, 33; Noon, 36, BAROMETER, 30.19. WIND N.N.E.—Dull, foggy weather. 4/ 1 ?: ,s3 m i l 9 ATA .. %4 . 41. • "" rnt LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1849. Twelve months have elapsed since the people of France, actuated by recollections of gratitude, inspired by an inscrutable anxiety to expiate years of misfortune and forgetfulness, and directed by that spontaneous wisdom of the popular mind which sets at nought the profoundest dictates of philosophy and statesmanship, elected to the presidential chair of the Republic the re presentative of the imperial dynasty. In England the possibility of this election was almost unanimously regarded with derision. As far as the principles of hospitality were concerned, England had afforded to the exile a place of shelter and consolation, influenced doubtless, in some measure, in so doing, by a willing ness to redeem the memory of her turpitude to the EMPEROR. Otherwise the people of these islands seem to have looked down with a feeling of mingled contempt and commiseration: upon the heir to so much glory, the subject of so many vicissitudes, and the adventurer upon so many eccentric and futile expeditions. Having seen him fail so repeatedly it became a conviction amongst us that success, in his instance, was altogether impossible. It was forgotten in the glare of his successive catastrophes that the noblest, the bravest, the sublimest adventures recorded in history have been dependent upon a propitious casualty as wholly beyond calculation as the accidental cast of a die. But for a lucky fog, which concealed from the English fleet in the Mediterranean the vessel bearing the conqueror of the Pyramids from Egypt, the Government of France might have still continued under an effete Directory, instead of passing into the virile grasp of the Consulate, and through that into the vigorous grandeur of the Empire. But for favouring breezes and fortunate currents the return from Elba might have proved a miserable and insane failure, instead of being, as it was, one of the most sublime achievements recorded by ancient or modern annalists. Had Prince CHARLIE continued his march from Derby upon London as he himself projected, but which he was dissuaded from attempting by his more cautious companions, it is the opinion of many able scrutinizers of that epoch that the issue of the campaign would have been rendered more than ever doubtful by the thronging in to his assistance of auxiliaries from lVales and various counties. " Success," NAPOLEON is declared to have said in his " Pensees," "success makes the hero, failure the criminal—a revolt, if fortunate, raises its leader to the throne ; if unfortunate, conducts him to the scaffold." The wisdom of that grand saying is attested by all history, from the records of TAciTus to those of ROBERTSON, from the ago of LIVY to that of THII3AUDEA.U. It has been more recently evidenced in the career, the misfortunes, and the ultimate suc cess of the son of HORTENSE and the nephew of NAPOLEON. llad he hit the right moment either at Strasburg or Boulogne, and been carried triumph antly from the frontiers to the capital, that son of a king and nephew of an emperor would have been regarded as the hero of the age, and his heroic qualities, his sagacity and chivalry would have been eagerly:eulogised by those who were the first to deride his ill-luck. Either he was too late or too soon upon both occasions—the projec tile lost its aim by the richochet of an accident ! For these reasons, the best reasons of all with the world at large, the young Prince, instead of being commiserated for his adverse fortunes, was almost universally sneered at as a downright imbecile, or at the least as a crack-brained adventurer. It was nothing that he had written books revealing no very mediocre capacity, that his scheme for the extinction of pauperism displayed at once a singular goodness of heart and a remarkable clearness of intelligence, or that his " Ilistory of the Cannon " was a military disquisition eminently worthy of a BONAPARTE—we saw him captured as the leader of a riot at Strasburg, and seized as a hairbrained enthusiast by the gens• (1' cynics at Boulogne, and all his meritiwere forgotten in the ignominy of his ill-success. Time elapsed : the heir and imitator of the EMPEROR suffered with unruffled patience an incarceration for six dreary years in the fortress of Ham ; his imaginative and impulsive nature became sobered down by calamities; his energies, nevertheless, still continued in their un abated vigour, insomuch that he was enabled to effect an ingenious escape from the place of his confinement, and to return to his former refuge in e x p a t r i at i on. A sudden revolution having given the popular elements of the French nation freedom to follow the real bent of their inclinations, it was very speedily manifest that the imperial adventurer had not altogether so egregiously miscalculated the strength of his cause as had been previously conjectured. A vast majority, upwards of six millions of votes, collected by universal suffrage and by the ballot, declared to Europe that the name of the great NAPOLEON still possessed its magical influence over the land which he had adorned with the evidences of his grandeur and invested with the glory of his vic tories. The people " whom he had loved so well," having reclaimed his august ashes from the distant rock of the southern coasts of Africa, already THE SUN, began to verify the most touching and the most beautiful of all the golden ballads of BELANGER. The memory of the EMPEROR, cherished under the cottage thatch, raised to the supreme post of Republi can President the representative of his historic dynasty. Never before had the world witnessed a more spontaneous and decisive testimony of the homage of a great nation to the fame of a great ruler. Upwards of thirty years bad elapsed since his footsteps had trodden the country rendered more than ever re nowned by the magnitude of his achievements, a new generation had sprung up, possessing only the traditions of his glory, and yet the nation, as with one voice, unbribed, unsolicited, in the teeth of contend ing parties, in spite of the efforts of contemporary ambition, in the face of the Revolution, in the view of all Europe, pronounced its inalienable attachment to the great man's memory by elevating the exiled heir of his renown to be the chief magistrate of the Republic. It was a magnificent retribution for all the petty injuries in flicted upon the Conqueror of Europe, when that conqueror became a captive, and when the terror of his name induced " the most just and the most generous of his enemies" (I !! ) to break through all the prin• ciples of public faith and national magnanimity, to wreak an infamous vengeance upon ONE MAN. Yes, it was a grand expiation of:those cruel and dastardly insults forced upon him in the days of his calamity, when they called the anointed Sovereign with whom, as Emperor and King, they themselves had a roade so lemn treaties, " General BONAPARTE," forgetting that what they intended as an expression of shame, was nothing less than a perpetual reminder of his real greatness. "I appeal to history," was a say ing continually uttered by the Esti-Elton, when his acts were assailed and his fame vilified. History has already responded to that appeal ; and she has spoken in language that cannot be misinterpreted. The election of December 10th, 1848, and the anni versary of that election on the 10th of December, 1849, are facts for the biography of the Emperor NAPOLEON. They are syllables in his epitaph. • They are keys to unlock the enigmas of his genius and character. While commemorating the circumstances of this memorable selection of the representative of the Napoleonian family as the first PRESIDENT of the French Republic, it is impossible not to speak in terms of the warmest admiration of the capacity, the sagacity, the prudence, the courage, the temper, the resolution, and the truthfulness displayed by LOUIS NAPOLEON—a chieftain whose very name seems to be a significant blending of opposite forces,! com bining the name of the legitimatist.with that:of the revolutionary dynasty, yielding to France as a talisman of peace, strength, and reconciliation the name of— was entirely lost. The prices were, indeed, enor mously increased, but not so the profits of the manufacturer. The demand was diminished in an inverse ratio to the price : " The rich purchaser expended so much less money in the purchase of other articles. The middleman was obliged to content himself with using one-half thecloth he had formerly used, while the poor man soon beeame only half•clothed. Additional pauperism followed, and rates increased from the same cause. In the end the duty had to be withdrawn altogether, and efforts were made to restore it, but public opinion was so strong against it that it was not attempted, and cloth became cheap from foreign competition. The consequences of the withdrawal of the duty were pretty near the same as the consequence of the withdrawal of the duty of corn in this county had been." There was, as we have already stated, one excep tion, and one only, to the harmony and unanimity of the evening, to which we shall not now allude further than to state that the " Jeremiads" of Mr. MILLINGS, M.P., were more suited to the taste of the Reigate farmers than to the manly and independent yeomanry of the Cotswold Hills. LOUI3•NAPOLEODi. It is quite refreshing to find that common sense has not altogether departed from the agricultural dis tricts—to refer to a meeting of farmers, at which the great majority exhibit a firmness and manliness of bearing becoming English yeomen, who are not prepared to abandon all exertion because the rest of the community are no longer subjected to a most oppressive and unjust impost for their peculiar benefit, who are enabled to perceive the true nature of their position, and the absurdity of looking for a return of a system that has been for ever abolished, with the full consent and approbation of the great body of the people, who are determined to meet their difficulties fairly, and boldly to enter into competition with their rivals. The annual meeting of the Cirencester Agricultu ral Association is worthy of notice, as exhibiting a practical proof that the condition of the agriculturists has not deteriorated in a greater degree than that of the other great interests—trading or manufacturing— after a crisis of unparalleled intensity, in which all classes suffered deeply and severely from the monetary pressure, and also as affording some cheering prospects for the future. :" The Cattle Show in the morning was above the average merit, and there were more sheep exhibited than had ever been brought together on any former occasion ," while, with a single exception, the speeches subsequently addressed to the meeting were of a cheerful and encouraging tone. The true mode in which the farmers should act during the present emergency was pointed out, and the advice was the more valuable, inasmuch as it recommended the employment, of additional labour, by which the produce of the land would be mate rially augmented, and a large and deeply afflicted class—the farm.labourers, would be enabled to sup port their families by their own honest industry, in place of being driven to the tender mercies of the union workhouse. The proceeding would thus be " twice blessed," to the giyers as well as to the re ceivers, the employers and the employed. _ The address of the Rev. H. Cansre was peculiarly appropriate. It contained no gloomy vaticinations —no prophecies of universal ruin, and na tional bankruptcy. It hinted not at the restoration of protection, or at any minor remedies, but it showed the means available to every man throughout the length and breadth of the land, where labour is cheap and abundant, of opportu nities for which our Australian colonists are pining, and for the possession of which they would willingly pay an enormous price. The Rev. Gentleman said— " For himself he did not care a farthing about pro tection. He had sold wheat this year at 101. per load, and had got as fair or even a better profit than he had got last year at 151. He was not afraid of the times. There were many present with a larger capital and more experience than himself, who had spent a large sum in manure and feeding. He had never spent a farthing, but had confined himself to in creasing his labour, and he had iy that means made taw crops grow where only one grew before. He advocated an increase of expenditure in labour on farms instead of reducing the labourers' wages. They all lived in luxury. What was considered a luxury when he was a child was looked upon as a necessary now ; it was only the poor man whose comforts were measured by the quartern loaf. He believed the remedy for agricultural distress was in their own hands. From his experience, as chairman of the board of guardians of the Cirencester Union, ho could say that he had seen families of labourers driven into the workhouse, at a cost of 501. a year, who might have been kept out for 50s. If the wages of those men had been raised 2s. a week, they would have been kept off the poor-rates. There were such persons in the poor-house at that moment. lie contended, there fore, that those who improved their land by the employment of labour were doubly benefiting themselves. However, they had this consolation, that at present the depression was alike in all trades, and with regard to the remedy, it must be found in their own exertions. Tho remedy which he suggested was, that they should farm no more land than they had capital to cultivate, and that they should snake the most they pos sibly could out of it." These are sound and wholesome truths, worthy of being recorded in letters of gold. Let the croakers and alarmists take a lesson from one who, like themselves, is deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity of agriculture. Let them cease to feed cattle and begin to feed men. Let them learn that it is cheaper to keep able-bodied labourers, who are both able and willing to work, out of the workhouse than in it. Let them abridge some of their own luxuries—luxuries which were never thought of by their forefathers, and bestow, not grudgingly, but with a kind and liberal spirit, some additional comforts upon their dependents. Then, indeed, they may rest assured that they will not be defrauded or their interests neglected, but that they will receive a full and ample equivalent from the grateful peasantry. It will become a labour of love to their workmen to render every possible service to kind and benevolent masters. The work will not be carelessly or negligently performed, but every man will endeavour to benefit him from whom he receives reciprocal advantages. The poor-rates will be materially diminished, while the produce will be more than doubled. If the aphorism of the philosopher be true, which declares that "he is the greatest bene factor of mankind who makes two blades of grass grow where one only formerly grew," Mr. CRIPPS, and those who follow his sensible and judicious re commendations, may be regarded as real philan thropists and patriots. The speeches of Lord VILLIERS, of Mr. E. HOLLAND, formerly M.P. for Worcestershire, who, we trust, will speedily again obtain a seat in the Legislature, and of Mr. MECHI, were also of sound . practical character, and deserving of the highest commendation. A spirit of " hope" was apparent in every sentence. Mr. HOLLAND pointed out the almost inevitable consequences of " protection" in the sketch which he gave of the cloth-making county in the far west, which placed a prohibitory duty upon foreign cloths. The spirit of self-reliance," of honourable emulation, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The following announcement appears in several of these journals : " The President of the Republic rode out on horseback yesterday, and as he passed through the Champs Elysbes, which, owing to the fine weather, made a dis play of equipages nearly equal to what was seen before the revolution of February, received numerous marks of the public satisfaction at his recovery from his recent indisposition." On Sunday M. Durni, the President of the Na tional Assembly, gave a grand dinner to the PRESI DENT of the Republic. The principal members of the Assembly, the presidents of the courts, the ambassa dors, &c., were among the guests. At the second course, M. DUPIN proposed the following toast : "To the President of the Republic ; to the union of the public powers, for the strengthening of order in the interior, and the honourable maintenance of peace and good relations with other nations." To this toast the President of the Republic made the following reply :—" It is a happy augury for peace at home as well as abroad, that the first anniver sary of the 10th December is feted in the midst of a great number of tbe members of the Assembly, and in presence of the diplomatic corps. Between the As sembly and myself there is a community of origin and a community of interests. All of us being the issue of the popular suffrage, we all aspire to the same end—the strengthening of society and the pros perity of the country. Permit me, then, to repeat the toast of your president, 'To the union of the public powers;' and let me add, 'To the Assembly— to its honourable PRESIDENT.' " Lord NORMANDY was absent in consequence of the death of the QUREN DOWAGER. M. TRIERS was sufficiently recovered to attend. After the dinner there was a grand reception, at which upwards of 1,000 people attended. 'The Evenement has the following on the subject of the re-organization of the National Guard : " The Council bf State, charged by the Minister of the Interior to examine the Bill for the re-organization of the National Guard, has, it is said, addressed its report to the Minister, and, in all probability, the Bill will in a few days be presented to the National Assembly. We are assured that the Bill only excludes from the ranks of the National Guard, in addition to persons who are incapacitated by legal condemnations, those citimns who live in furnished lodgings and have no fixed domicile. Qne of the clauses of the law compels the National Guards who have not a complete uniform to provide it within a short delay, failing in which they are to be struck off the list. It is r ffirmed that orders have been given to all the mairies of Paris immediately to take:a census of the new National Guard. It is also said that the Bill suppresses the artillery and cavalry of the National Guard, but gives to the Government authority for a squadron of cavalry in each of the legions of the banlieue, if this should appear necessary." The .Reforme and the National state that the following circular has been addressed to the colonels of the gendarmerie throughout France by the Minister at War. Both these journals express great indigna tion against General D'lairpouL for having issued such a document, and the National suggests that he should be impeached. The following is the circular _ _ " Paris, Nor. 12, 1849. " Ministry of War, Cabinet of the Minister. Most con fidential. " Colonel,—At the moment when the President of the Republic, perceiving the necessity of taking a more direct part in the management of the affairs of the country, has formed a new Cabinet, and confided to me the portfolio of war, I consider it my duty to appeal to the devotedness of the gendarmerie, and to claim from them a co-operation of a novel kind, which will power fully assist the Government in the energetic course it intends to pursue, in order to arrive at the complete re establishment of public tranquillity. " I have had too long occasion to appreciate the ser vices which the gendarmerie render daily to society, not ' to know all that can be expected from their zeal and pa triotism under existing circumstances. " The revolution, by creating a crowd of new func tionaries, has excited passions of every description, and roused culpable ambitions, which threaten order and society by their subversive doctrines. In order to avert those dangers it is necessary for the Government to be immediately informed of what is pass ing in the country. It is of importance that it should be made acquainted, not only with the events and material facts, but also, and particularly, with the moral situation of the localities; and that the observations be not subordinate to events, but precede them. " The gendarmerie must not wait for agitation in the public mind to remark upon it; they must observe it in its habitual state, and calculate the influence that may be exercised in each locality were the enemies of order to attempt to disturb it. It is particularly indispensable to watch the acts and tendencies of the agents of the Government. I consequently desire that the officers of gendarmerie, and even the commanders of brigades, should directly address to me a series of reports (not periodically), containing the remarks they may think proper to submit to me, and all the facts they consider necessary, that I should know, according to the above indications, to enable me to combat So cialism, to arrest its progress in the rural districts, and to insure public security, more by the prevention than the repression of disorders. "It is not possible, I know, to require from the stab officers commanding brigades complete reports, respond ing to ray views and those of the officers, but I never theless require from them those direct reports, because I wish to be in possession of every fact. Their investiga tions, however, should be conducted with caution and prudence: you will have to direct them in that respect, to enlighten them, and give them instruction s i n accor d with their intelligence and the degree of confidence you may place in the discretion of each of them. " I need not tell you, Colonel, that those reports, in tended to make known to me, without delay, events which occur out of the ordinary line of the service, must be essentially confidential. They shall not, consequently, be communicated to anybody. They are to be indepen dent of those addressed to the functionaries of the judi ciary, civil and military orders, agreeably to the 45th and 82d Articles of the Ordinance of the 29th October, 1820, which shall continue to be sent as usual. Those new reports, however, will dispense you with forwarding those which hitherto were addressed to the office of the general correspondence on political events and the situ ation of the public mind. They must be transmitted to me under a doable cover; the one enclosing the dispatch being blue, and containing this address—' For the Mi nister alone;' and the other, the external envelope, will be directed as usual. This correspondence will be copied in a separate book, which every officer and sub-officer must preserve and carry with him, even when he changes his residence. " Such is, Colonel, the delicate mission I confide to the gendarmerie. I am alone to receive the above in formation. It is in my private cabinet the matters con nected therewith shall be transacted, and I alone am to confer on the subject with the President of the Republic. " Bear in mind thei period at which Marshal Moncey, the first Inspector-General of the Gendarmerie, was the chief of a police much more efficacious than that of M. Fouche. I require from the:gendarmerie activity, vigi lance, and devotedness. I will be happy to solicit for them the just recompense which the President of the Republic is d isposed to grant them, as I will punisti with prompt Justice those who, unconscious of their duties, should not becomingly fulfil the important mis sion I confide to them. Remember that the gendarmerie is the advanced sentinel of public order, " You; will appreciate the importance of this con fidential letter. I request you to a c k now l e d ge i ts re ceipt, and to acquai▪ nt me with the measures you have adopted to ensure the immediate execution o f my or d ers . You will also furni▪ sh me with an account, nominally and under your personal responsibility, of the officers and sub-officers of your legion, to whom y ou h ave thought proper to communicate part or the whole of the present instructions. (Signed) " D'HaterPom.." The Bonapartist Club has removed its sittings to the Palais National. M. D'HAuTrour„ formerly Bishop of CAHORS, and uncle of General Itetrrour., Minister of War, died at Toulouse on Tuesday last, in the 86th year of his age. Yesterday was the anniversary of the election of the PRESIDENT. The day passed off in Paris quietly. It is said that M. LEON FAUCHER will be ap pointed Ambassador to England, and M. BUFFET to Vienna. General CASTELBAJAC has refused the Embassy to St. Petersburgh, which will it is said be offered to M. LAGRENEE. PARIS BOURSE, DEC. 10.—Latest Prices—Five per Cents., 90f. 90c. ; Three per Cets., 56E; Bank Actions, 2,425 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Dzo. 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 13—Luxembourg, 2—Northern of France, 2 dis.—Orleans and Bourdeaux, Wi t —Paris and Rouen, 21 —Rouen and Havre, 9% Sambre and Meuse, 2 WINDSOR THEATRICALS.--We understand that in consequence of the lamented decease of the Queen Dowager, the theatrical performances at Windsor Caste are postponed. LONDON, TUESDAY 1 EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1849. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 4th have been received. A proposition was made to the Chamber of Depu ties by SENOR MORON, declaring that all Members of the Chamber should be rendered incapable of holding public office. It was rejected by a large majority. The Committee on the Budget has not yet made its report. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 4.—Three per Cents. 291 for the account ; Five per Cents. 114 paper. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was very firm, and prices of American wero l. per lb. higher. The sales were estimated at about 8,000 bales, 2,500 of which wore taken on speculation; the transactions comprised 6,500 American, 600 Pernam and Maran • ham at 614., 700 Surat at 4d., and 40 Sea Island at ls. Old. to ls. 2d. per lb.—For Railway Shang the market was dull and heavy. The guessing and rumours that are going on in the City would be well calculated to excite uneasiness, if we could believe them to be correct, and that a return to even modified protection was really contemplated. In Mark-lane, not only among the factors, but also the farmers, there has been a very general discussion upon the subject of the impo sition of a is. or an Bs. duty, in respect to whiob the many recent Cabinet Councils are believed to have been held. We need hardly say that we attach no credit to this supposition, but we should be pleased to learn that there is some truth in another statement, viz., that substantial and more legi timate means of relief for the agricultural inter est are now under consideration, and especially in connexion with a remodelling of the land-tax. Some of the particulars given by the farmers who were yesterday at market would astonish the uninitiated ; the gross injustice of a heavy burden resting upon the occupants of land in one parish, while the agriculturists in the next, though cultivating a better soil, pay, probably, a mere nominal sum, being specially cited. One party made the assertion that by spreading the taxes equally upon all land, the relief would be most important; and we would ask upon what ground protection is asked, when other and equitable means of relief are: at hand and untried ? One thing we may truly affirm, viz., that there is a growing feeling of interest and anxiety in the City to ascertain what may really be the intentions of the Government, and whether. a division does exist in the Cabinet, as the opponents of free trade delight to assert. The Hamburgh mail of Friday brings the quotation for the exchange on London at 13 10, and the price of gold at 437. Bills were in request. Owing to the closing of the navigation, business generally was very quiet, but at Dantzic there had been a thaw previously to the 3d instant, which allowed of the shipping getting to and fro. At Vienna on the sth instant, Austrian Metallics were 93k. The Amsterdam prices of the 9th instant are scarcely so high. The English Stock Market has been exceedingly buoyant, and the transactions have had reference chiefly to the arrangement of the account, which closes to. morrow. Buyers of money stock came in early, and at once gave a further impetus, the value of Consols being run up to 971 As the Bulls, however, begin to close accounts the parties dealing on the other side make good their privilege, and by declining to " continue" they bring the speculators for a rise at once to book, produce an unfavourable impression on the market, and leave the said speculator to buy again if he chooses for the new account, which, however, he does not always do until there has been a partial rally that restores his good opinion of prices. We are precisely in this position now, and at the moment of our writing, Consols are not worth more than 96,1 or per per cent. worse upon the extreme advance. We may expect more fluctuation yet. Bank Stock is firm at 202 to 203. Exchequer-bills have been 50s. to 53s , and India Bonds 84s. to 87s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 97i to 98k. In Foreign Stocks not much is doing, but prices aro well supported. Mexican are 28/ to 29. Portuguese Five per Cents. 361. Russian bonds 109 k. Spanish Three per Cents. 381 4, and Venezuela 29k. Shares are firm generally, but there is no bouyuncy in hem, and very little is doing, if we except the French ines. ONE O'CLOCK. cLosI - 0 ,•Er.cr.s or I , RITI3U FUNDS PRICES. 3ank Stock :3 „et Cent. Reduced A-'3IIS . 96L 95%:96% 95% i per Cent. Consols /km - mites 97 97%% 97 Sew 3 1 4 per Cent. Arms.— . 9 7 14%% 981,r 97% Long Anns. to expire Jan.l860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 pearl, Jan. 5, 1860 8 13-16 8 13-16 India Stock — India Bonds, 1,0001 ....... ...... Ditto under 1,000/... South Sea Stock . 87 p 84 p Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account 974, 97 97%Vi :17 Exchequer Bills. I%cl. & 21 1,0001. June 5O 53 p Small. June 54 50 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ONE O'CLOCK. 53 p 50 p CLOSIN 0 PR ICES. Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. — Ditto 5 Der Cent. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... Ditto, Account ... ............ Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent... Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, Converted, 1541 3 6 lj 36 1 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 3 per Cent... ..... Russian Bonds .... 1094 i 109 BpaniAl 5 per Cent. 1840 — Ditto, Account Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account ..... _38% Venezuela Bonds, 2;,i per Cent ... 29% Dividends on the above payable in Lyndon. Beligan, 4% per Cent. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55%70 55X Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates Bl 83% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen el. 50 18% 38% 38% 29 --- Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6%...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% Belfast & County Down 28 ...... ...... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 - Do, withoutguarantee 20 - - Birming, Wolverh'ton, .„. and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 20 — Bristol and Exeter 9O ... , Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamihire Caledonian .. ..... .. 50 Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence - Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ..„ — Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% — - East Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do. 18/., E. & H. ••• 18 Do., 31. 10s., Prof... 3% „... Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . .... Eutern Counties........ 20 ...... 7% IA .... Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 Dltto,Extension, 5 per Cent., N 0.1.. ..... 6/.135. 4d.... ... ..... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. ......... 50 Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New 43 Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 Do., Class B& C 25 — . — Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... East Lancashire 25 - Ditto, New ...... ...... 25 ...„ — .........».... Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 ,4...... ..... East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ••• --- Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. ....... ...... Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport Exeter:Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 5 , 5 , — ..... ......... Exeter and Exmouth... 2Is. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... -81.65. 8d.... Glasgow,Bilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... -- Do. Preference Consol. - Gloucester & DeauForest 11 Great Northern Do., i , 2 A Deferred Do., %B 6 per Cent... 7 1 ,4 — .. Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10 ...... _ Great South. and West. (Ireland) .:._ _ 50 16 1 4 11X Great North of England.loo ...... ... Ditto, Now, 401 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, Nsw,ls/ l5 .. .. Great Western 100 ..... Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 5O ...... Ditto, U Shares Ditto, Fifths ..... ....... 20 Ditto, Now 171........ 15 ... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... Do. Quarter Shares... 12th — ..... .......... Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo Ditto, ditto , . ••••• Ditto, % Shares ...... 49 ... .. Do. Quarters .... ..... 23% — ..,,,... D. Fifths Do. Thirds ...... ........ 16 1 4 — Do. New GuaranUed 1t..1 t 6 per Cent... Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.) 9 Do. (W. Riding Union) 19 ...... ••••• • . — 59% - 1134 48% 3% Do. (Preston& Wyre) 25 D 0.% Shares (A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradford .50 Leeds and Thirsk Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 8....... ..... .... Do., do. No. 2 5 Do., do. No. 3 5 Do., Pref. Quar., MS 9 — Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . f.ondon & Blackwall...ll4 68.3 d... •••• London, Britton, and South Coact— ..... 1.00 Do., New Si., guaran teed 6 per Cent.....1C0 l3O Do. Gunrant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 ... ~. 55%,,... EO l D:tto ditt0...... 1852 50 .-- ...... LoodonandGreenwich 12/15s 4d ... ..... .... Ditto, PreferemoP .. . 20 Loadon and N. Western 100 113% 114 ll3k Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifths 7 ... .. ...... ........ . . Do. 401.8hartj (14. M. ) 35 . , Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...,.. 2% Lond. &S. Western ....• 50 ..... 31 1 A% Ditto, New 501. ...... 42%...... Do. New 401. 34 — Do., New Scrip, 1843, Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londonderry &Coleraino 25 ,„,,, Do. IA 5hare5.......,.... 5 Londonderry and Ennia kblen 25 ...... •••• Do. IA Shares Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... Ditto (6 per ct.) Manchester•Buxton,and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire... 100 Do. Quarters (Ne. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12% ••• Do. New 101. Pref..— 10 ...... 9% .. Ditto, Gt.Grimsby ... 50 -- •• Ditto ditto . ......... 20 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . •. Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 ..... _ 31% 9% . .. .... • - ._, Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. —. Mialand ...... .. ....... —lOO ...... 50 6014 Do. Consolidated Pref.100 .... _ _ . Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... .. 9 E o.Birtn., and Derby 100 --• .•.... — Do. Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6;perct.•..loo Ditto,Brist. Na Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto 22/. is... ... Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 —. Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. 5O Newcastle aml Carlisle.loo Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 •••••• Newry and Enniskillen 7 — Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Norfolk .......... ....... ....100 Do. Now 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 %pc. 5 '....... ... ......... ..!..; 1 0.-.. Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... North British ........ ... 25 .... . ..... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters - Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 8; .. Ditto Preference 5 - ••• North Staffordshire —117% 8%.... ..... North Wales . 3% North-Western . 13%...... Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 4 y 2..... . ....... ...... - Scottish Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New - .• •••. ........ Shrewsbury and Bins- 12 • .. .... Ditto ditto, Class B. 8 Ditto, Now Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Hercfd. 5 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. 5.1 in.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 17% ........ $ IA 15% Ditto Oswestry Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO - ......... •..•• Eihropshire Union 3outh Devon 5O — Do. Preference Eoith Staffiirdshire B lh — ... Scuth Eastern .. 3 B l, x► 1.0V4...... ...... Do., No. s. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 ..,... Do., Registered No. 4 10 1)o., Scrip No 4 Scduth Wales - South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Uoole Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 ...... . 'l , rans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stu. C0a1.... 7 ..... 19% raw Vale Extension ... 8 Llamas Haven Dock and Railway ..... 17 1 ,4•••••• Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 20 Waterford and Limerick 47 1 ,1 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... Do. do. do. 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 .. ..... ~... West Cornwall ..... 6 W hitehaveu & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western..,..... 14 W ilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. ......... 25 ~.... 174 l7'4 Do. Newcastle Exton, 20 ...... 11% 12 ..... 12 Do. G.N.E.Preference ... 4- Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 ...... Yo:k and North Midland 50 Date Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAIL'WAY D. Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5%...... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 7 6 7 8 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara 17% Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ..... East Indian Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... Do. Do. ... ....... 10s. Louvain 1. la Sambre ... 7% — Luxembourg Ditto ... ••• Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. —_ 18% 61i ,-- 6% 13 1 / 4 3% -% Northern of France l4/. 85... 1% 1 ,4 dis • 114 chs Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... ........ 3 1 ;4 Paris and Orleans Paris and.Rouen 2O •••••• 2? Paris and Strasbourg ..••• Rouen and llaYrs ...... 20 ...... Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... 214 2( Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes l3 ••• ... .... Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and llasselt ...... 20 West Flanders B 3 /i .• ••• •••• MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian.... — Bassora Range .... ... 28s. Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... .... -- ... British Iron ..... l2 ...... Brazilian Imperial .._ ... .._ _.. . . _ BrazilianCoeies&Cuiaba 30 ...... Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... ex.div lo3ix.d Cobra Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Ditto ... Santiago de Cuba... lO United Mexican 2 B l /2 STOCK BAN KS. London Joint Stock.-- 10 Union of London... lO 12 1 / 2 ....... )74 12,A3 LLOYD'S SNIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 11.— Wind this day at noon N., light airs, and dull hazy weather.—The General Palmer, Port Philip to London put into Port Nicholson very leaky, with damage and part of cargo thrown over board was surveyed and declared unfit to proceed. RAMSOATE, DEC. 10.—S1d. Geoekauf, Monte Video. DEAL, DEc. 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. John Brooks, Cull, Jamaica. Arrd. from the river, Dudbrook, Sydney, New South Wales. And. from the river and sld., Elizabeth, Sydney, Now South Wales; Eleanor, Russell, Cochin ; Alexandrine, Algoa Bay:; John Panther, Rio Janeiro; William Brandt, jun., Bahia; Jenny, West Indies; Onine, ditto; Sylph, Barbadoes; John Pink, Jamaica; Anne, Mobile; John Fielder, Apalachicola; Yorktown, New York; Charleston, Mary Muller, Cadiz and Buenos Ayres. Arrd. W. and M. Brown, Bamton, Colombo. Sid. Lady Nugent, Now Zealand; Statira, Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Lady Elgin, Icons, Quebec; Ondernerring, Riekonors, Santas, for Antwerp, leaky, &c. Sld. Memory, Ascension and Falkland Isles; Flora, Cape Madras and Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Achilles Sanglois, Bun°. Sid. Odel, Thomas Mellor, Pernam buco; Augustus, Lord, Baltimore,; Warwick, Owen, Calcutta, left St. Helena 31st October; Bland, Ho.ken, ditto; Ursula, Ridley, Bombay; Patriarch, Miles, ditto; Topes, Gibson, Valparaiso; Elizabeth, Smith, Maran ham, sailed 25th October; Silas, Greenman; Spencer, New York; Dombrody, Montreal. Std. Helen, Rio Grande. Off Port, William Penn, Philadelphia. LOWESTOFT, DEC. 10.—The Axel, of and from Goth enbourg for Bristol ran upon the Holm Sand last night, and remains with loss ofi rudder and part of deck load thrown overboard, and is expected off next tide should the weather continue fine. The Ophelia, of Whitby, struck upon the Newcome Sands, and remains, but is expected off at high water. PLYMOUTH, Thsc. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Resolu tion, Deprose, Quebec. Sid. Sovereign, King, Natal. WiivErinoz, DEC. 10.—The Rapid, of Shields, went on shore on the Gunfleet Sand, Bth inst., and came off again, but afterwards sunk in deep water off the West Rocks; crow saved. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 9.—The Columbine, Villanovalto London, has put in here to-day leaky, with damage, and deck load thrown overboard. CARDIFF, DEC. B.—The Sussex Lass, Bristol to Car diff, arrived in Peoorth Roads, 6th inst., drove from her anchors on the 7th during a gale from S.E., but is ex pected to be got off heat spring tides. BELFAST, DEC. B.—The Whitehaven steamer, of and for WhitehaYen, got on shore on the night of the Bth inst., and remains, but will receive no damage. The Diadem, of and for Belfast, from Maryport, struck on the Oyster Bank in the Lough yesterday, during a gale, and is half full of Rater, has received damage, and must repair. SHIELDS, DEC. 10.—A boat, marked " Goodwill of Lynn, was washed on shore on shore, on the Llerd pond, on the Bth inst. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) 1187 NEANNETO. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow Hay, 2/ 51 to 31 10s; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 112 s to I/ 9a F. er load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBEItLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 12s; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 73; and Straw, 11 3s to 1/ 9s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. WIIITECHA.PEL. Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 10s; Clover, ditto, 3/ Os to 41 10s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 118 s per load. Trade dull, at our quotations. COLONIAL. Suont.—British Plant_ttion continues in request, the sales being 450 hhds at rather higher prices. Mauritius has been in good demand privately at full rats s; 300 hats Bengal sold briskly at 36s 6d to 33s for mid to yellow date kind, and there have been several transac tions privately at very stiff rates; 400 bags brown Madras brought fully previous prices, viz., 29s 6d to 31s 6d. There was no British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks ; but there was taken for home consumption 1,515 hhds 155 tres 380 brls, and the stock in tho same places is 13,905 hhds 1,997 tree 4,193 brls. COFFEE.—The market continues extremely firm, with buyers of good ord Native Ceylon at 51s; the better descriptions are also more actively inquired after, and holders require a further advance. 89 casks and 540 bags Plantation Ceylon sold briskly at 56s 61 to 68s for fine ord to mid, and 50s for triage, being higher prices. Rum.--The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was only 18 hhds; there were taken for home consumption 322 puns 123 hhds, and ex ported 11 puns, 3 hhds. The stock in the same places is 22,143 puns 1,980 hhds. RICE.-1,580 bags Bengal were withdrawn above the present market value, viz., 10s 6d to 11s for low to good mid white. SPICES.-870 bags Malabar Pepper realised 3id to 3d 3-sths per lb for half heavy, being a slight advance. 200 chests Cassia Lignea sold at 94s to 102 s 6d for coarse to good mid. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is aBs 91 to 39s per cwt on the spot, and Town 41s. TEA.—The market is steady, and the deliveries are good. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Accounts from Vienna state that the Minister Baca has resigned. The Bohemian army has received orders to hold itself in readiness to march. PRUSSIA. The Prussian answer, in reply to the Austrian protest, states that the only method of securing the permanent tranquillity of Germany is to satisfy the legitimate demands of the people. Lubeck has acceded to the Prussian Central Fede ral Union. The King of PRUSSIA, the Emperor of Russra, and he Emperor of AUSTRIA, will meet at Warsaw in he course of the present month. SAXONY. The Government has presented to the Chambers a Bill for the revision of the 'constitution of Septem ber 4, 1831. The most important changes are the following :—The Members of the First Chamber will be chosen by direct election ; and those of the Second Chamber will be chosen by the electors. The pri mary electors for the Second Chamber are to be all citizens of the commune ; the electors for the First Chamber those who pay not less than 25 thalers of direct taxes. POLAND. The exportation of wheat from the kingdom of Poland is prohibited after Ist December. TURKEY. The Wanderer has letters from Constantinople of the 21st ult., stating that Russia insists on her former demand for the removal of BEM and•the other rene gades from the frontier, on their being excluded from active service, and on their being kept and treated as prisoners. The reply of the Porte to this request is simple and firm: The Porte declares that the persons in question by embracing the Mahomedan faith have not only become entitled to Turkish protection, but that they are now Turkish subjects, and that the . Porte, as an independent power, has an exclusive jurisdiction over them. This reply was at once communicated to Messrs. TITOFF and STURMER, the Ambassadors of Russia and Austria. Baron TITOFF returned his copy of the note, with the following remarks : " The Polish refugees are not to be removed; they are to be expelled." "We must insist on this ex pression being made use of in the decrees, notes, and publications of the Porte. We must insist on the Porte consenting to the expulsion of those Poles who have passports from other states, as soon as Russia shall have convinced those states and the Porte itself of the revolutionary intrigues of which those Poles were guilty in Russia—BEM and the other renegades must be confined and strictly guarded. The latter is a condition on which the Court of St. Petersburgh must insist." Baron Titoff declared that if these remarks were received into the reply of the Turkish Government he would consent to forward the note to his Court ; but if they were not received he must decline for warding it. The Turkish Minister declared that these demands were inadmissible; and the note, ac companied by a copy of Baron TITOFF'S remarks, was sent to VUAD EFFENDI to St. Petersburgh, with instructions to that diplomatist to endeavour to re concile the Court of St. Petersburgh to the non acceptance of Baron TITOFF'S remarks and the de mands of the Russian Cabinet. In consequence of this step of the Porte, Baron STEMMER, the Austrian Ambassador, declared that he could not enter into diplomatic negotiations with the Porte so long as the official diplomatic relations between the Porte and Russia remained interrupted. The same letter states that tke city of Kutaga is spoken of as being destined for the accommodation of the Hungarian and Polish refugees. The French fleet was still lying off Vourla, while the English squadron lies at Besica. The rumours that the Russian fleet was being paid off proves to be un founded—on the contrary that fleet is still lying off Sestapol, and great activity is being displayed in the docks of Cherson and Nikolajew. Russian troops have been dispatched to the Cauca sus and Georgia. The Turks are fortifying the cities of Rustchuk and Chers. They have seat officers to the Anatolian army at Ereroum. The corps of Irak and Arabistan are being placed on a war footing. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 80th ult. state that in consequence of the representations of General BARA GUAT D'HILLIERS the POPE would return to Rome on the Bth of December. M. DE FALLOUX has arrived at Naples, and has been received by King BomsA in the manner in which it might be imagined the eulogiser of the massacre of St. BARTHOLOMEW would be received by the organiser of the massacres of MRSSINA and CATANIA. M. DE FALLOUX was introduced to the POPE, who bestowed his blessing on the worthy defender of the Inquisition. The Papal Court is entirely without funds. The municipal body of the city of Lucca has been dissolved. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. On Monday, the 10th inst., being the eighty-first anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a general assembly of the Academicians was held at their appartments in Trafalgar•square, when the following distribution of premiums took place, viz. :- To Mr. John Alfred Vinter—For the best histo rical painting, the gold medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Edward James Physick—For the best historical basso-relievo, the gold medal, and the Dis courses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Arthur Allom—For the best Architectural Design, the gold medal, and the Discourses of the Presidents Reynolds and West. To Mr. Ferdinand Pickering—For the best Painting from the Life, the silver medal. To Mr. Edmund Eagles—For the best Drawing from the Life, the silver medal and the Lectures of the Professors Fuseli, Howard, and Flaxman. To Mr. Charles Holt—For the next best Drawing from the Life, the silver medal. To Mr. Leonard Charles Wyon—For the next best Drawing from the Life, the silver medal. To Mi. William Jackson—For the best Model from the Life, the silver medal. To Mr. Alfred Francis Young—For the best drawings of the south portico of St Paul's Cathedral, the silver medal. To Mr. Charles Rolt—For the best copy made in the Painting. school, the silver medal and the Lectures of the Professors Fuseli and Howard. To Mr. Samuel Bailing Clarke—For the next best copy made in the Painting-school, the silver medal. To Mr. Arthur Hughes—For the best Drawings from the Antique, the silver medal, and the Lectures of the Professors Fuseli and Howard. To Mr. Charles Wright—For the next best Drawings from the Antique, the silver meal. To Mr. William Short—For the next best Draw ings from the Antique, the silver medal. To Mr. Charles Summers—For the best Model from the Antique, the Silver Medal and the Lectures of the Professors Fuseli and Flaxmast. In consequence of the continued indisposition of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the president, the premiums were distributed by George Jones, Esq., the keeper, who delivered a short address to the students. The general assembly afterwards proceeded to appoint officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Archer Shee was unanimously re-elected president. Council—New List.—Richard Westmacott, jun., Daniel Maclise, William Frederick Witherington, and Solomon Alexander Hart Esqs. Old List—Charles West Cope, William Dyce, Edwin Landseer, and Richard Cook, Esqi. Visitors in the Life Academy—New -List—Abra ham Cooper, John Rogers Herbert, Patrick Mac Dowell, William Frederick Witherington, and Richard Westmacott, jun., Esqq. Old List—Charles West Cope, William Dyce, Frederick Richard Lee, and Charles Landseer, &cis. Visitors in the School of PAinting—New List — William Mulready, Charles Lock Eastlake, George Jones, and Thomas Webster, Esqs. Old List—Abraham Cooper, Charles West Cope, William Dyce, Frederick Richard Lee, and Charles Landseer, E3ql. Auditors re-elected—William Mulready, Esq., Sir Richard Westmacott, and Philip Hardwick, Esqs. We are informed that the Government have ordered the Enterprise and Investigator to be refitted with the utmost dispatch, iu order to another expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, by way of Behring's Straits. REPRESENTATION OF SHOREIIIII4I.—Mr. Shelley ha 3 retired from the contest, and Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, third son of the Duke of Richmond, is there foie likely to walk over unopposed. LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL—(THIS DAY). (Before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, Lords Langdale, Campbell, Lansdowne, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Mr. Pemberton Leigh, Mr. Baron Parke, and Dr. Lushington.) GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. This was an appeal from a decision of the Court of Arches, in which judgment was given for the Bishop of Exeter, the present respondent. It will be remembered that some time ago the Lord Chancellor presented the Rev. Mr. Gorham, the present appellant, to the living of Bamford Speke, in the diocese of Exeter. Before, however, the Bishop of Exeter would consent to the Rev. Gentleman's induction to the living be insisted upon his undergoing an examination before his Lordship, on certain smatters touching his religious belief, conceiving that Mr. Gorham, since his former examination before his Lordship, on being pre sented to the living of St. Just, in Cornwall, had held and inculcated doctrines at variance with some of the car dinal articles of the Church of England, particularly that he held unorthodox views with regard to the effect and efficacy of baptismal regeneration. The cause came on for hearing before Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, in the Arches' Court, in the summer of this year, and, after an elaborate and very learned argument, which lasted severed days, the Court pronounced judgment in favour of the Bishop of Exeter, in August last. From that judgment the Rev. Mr. Gorham now appealed to this tri bunal. Long before the doors of the court opened a cone siderable crowd, among whom we noticed several cler gymen, had assembled in the lobby adjacent to the en trance ; and at half-past ten, when the doors were thrown open, a tremendous rush for places in the court took place. Within the bar we noticed several noble men and dignitaries of the Church. The Earl of Car lisle, Sir Edward Ryan, and the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth were among the number. Mr. TURNER, Q C., immediately proceeded to open the case of the Rev. Appellant. He began by adverting to the great importance which attached to the question now before the Court in its relation to the Christian Church. He then referred to the career at college of the appellant which reflected the highest credit upon him, and to his subsequent presentation to the living of St. Just, in Cornwall, on which occasion he had undergone an examination before the Bishop of the diocese, who had given him the usual certificate of the appellant's fitness to minister in the Church of England. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state the circuits' stances attending upon the appellant's presentation to the living of:Bamford Spoke, his subsequent examination before the Bishop and its results, the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court below, and their issue, which we bave detailed briefly above. He con tinned to say that a proceeding on a question this had not been had in the ecclesiastical court for many centuries before, until it had been mooted in this case. The Bishop of Exeter had charged the appellant with unsound doctrine in regard "to that great and fundamental doctrine" of the Church is reference to the rite of infant baptism, in that ho held that infanta were not regenerated thereby, and made the children of God, according to the teaching of the Church of Eng' land. He would state to their Lordships what he con ceived to be the doctrine laid down by the Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court. It was the doctrine of the Church of England that spiritual regeneration was given to all, unconditionally, in and by baptism, and that was the position laid down by the judge in the Arches' Court. That is a doctrine deduced by the Learned Judge infer entially, as he should conteed, not from the articles , but from the services of the Church of Eng land. Ho (Mr. Turner) could not collect what was the view of the Learned Judge as to what spiritual rags: neration was from his judgment. In one place he called it a change of nature; in another part he spoke of it so a change in condition, and not a change of nature; in another place ho described it as something almost amounting to justification. But whatever the Learned Judge's judgment might be as to the effect of kaptisnit he therein laid it down that it was the ddctrine of the Church of Etgland that all unconditionally wer e regenerated by the rite of infant baptism. He would now state the views of Mr. Gorham as to what infant baptism was. He said spiritual regeneration was ° change of nature, and not of the condition of man; ch it it may be given before, or in, or after baptism, a s the Almighty chooses; that if infants receive baptism rightly they must receive the grace of G od before or in baptism. But if infants do 11 ° $ receive baptism lightly, Mr. Gorham said thei r baptism had no immediate spiritual effect. He also maintained those doctrines to be proved by the Chur ch of England, and by the structure of the service of th e Church of England, requiring as it dues, in adults, fo it A and repentance, and in infants the promise of faith a n repentance. The first question proposed by the Bishop to Mr. Gorham was, to prove from Scripture that bap' tism and the Lord's Supper were severally necessary 1 salvation. Mr. Gorham answered, in terms, that he (1 ,, not find in Scripture that baptism and salvation were s o absolutely laid down as in the interrogatory. The e i. x; amination then proceeded to the consideration of 01 , general effect of baptism, apart from it s b e i ng a b s olute ly necessary to salvation, and the app e ll an t a d m itt e d tha t baptism was generally necessary to salvation. T he questions proposed to Mr. G o rh a m were th en t a ken fr°` , the services of the Church. The Bishop asked if t"; Church of England had, and if Mr. Gorham held, th l / 1 every child to whom baptism was given by a le ,. % minister was regenerated and made a child of God 0° an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Anotlioel, r question was whether the appellant held, and whe the r the Church held, that children so baptized were born water and the Holy Spirit. Mr. Gorham replied to thes e questions generally, that those propositions undoubtee ll f. might be held by many members of the Church with , good conscience, if taken with some just and favour ab l e construction, that construction being founded on a coin' parison of the formulas with the articles of the Chu reb ; The articles, Mr. Gorham said, laid d own with great precision the absolute necessity of both sacraments, 1 1 0 that, with respect to baptism, no di s ti nct i on wa s v 39 ` t i in them between adults a n d i n f an t s . Th e ar ti c les sari there was no bestowment where there was no wor t . P r reception; but in the formulas there was a distinetWe, made between adults and infants, faith and repentanc e being stated to be the conditions on which regeneratly,‘f was bestowed in the case of adults, whilst in the cas e Le y t infants no such conditions were laid down. In 0 1 , R ,,, words, the regeneration was stated to be conditional 7, to adults, but absolute as to infants. The Bishop thf o l pressed Mr. Gorham as to the effect of the spon g ' r :h. promises within the meaning of the articles of the Chu rl ' s , Mr. Gorham answered the questions generally in stiles ner unsatisfactory to the .Bishop. Now, the que s n o n before the Court was, whether spiritual regenersl4, was a change of nature or of condition; and r ev ; ther the doctrine of spiritual regeneration of the in baptism, as laid down by the Judge 11:I ,. of Court below, was in accordance with the doctr ine o, the Church of England. To determine this guest doctrine s t he the first point to consider would be, to what extent ha gs of Church of England declared her views on the efff:%vg. baptism ? How were the articles of the Church 0 land and her formularies of equal effect to deterr v e this question ? Ile (Mr. Turner) contended tha t her articles were her doctrines, and her Prayersb° ° • l e s I code of devotion. What was the title of the s ad It was " Articles agreed upon by the Archbiehopsio, 13ishops, and the whole Clergy, in the ConOle tt e of holden at London, of 1562, for the avoidall,F Coo s diversities of opinions, andifor the establishment 01,..f the 000, sent touching true religion." What could be nioreo elusive to show that those articles were the whol e Dell doctrines of the Church of England ? The l i i welA Counsel then read portions of the Act of riridea which followed that convocation, and which p r o . v iog (inter fella) that the cause of deprivation of . 0 4, to should be the elergymse's holding doctrines cOnallntiec the articles of the Church of England. Alid, ° b i s tion he was required to rend, r an account ot . _ 4, nu not with reference to the formulas of the Colf, o ll, the articles of the Church of England, thenesneodeoo agreed to in convocation. He (Mr. Turner) ea th e that the reasonable inference from the artic les wee Church of England agreed to in that convccor'ef de; that those articles should be regarded as the c 0 0 ___ t b . votion of the Church of England. WW 1 : 0 7;11o v intent of 2d and 3d Edward but to Pr The 1 411, ] Mr. to-day Mr. counse ThE whole The the itt Com m IPPeal V I( 14 , ade erro ( ‘. mo t Wh o, Poss e hush ; Perty th e • th e c Pers c ands tot s tq Co traitt( Liam Th OilBe i Th hre e e( Ci (Sitt