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NEW NOVEL, BY TDB AUTHOR OF " EMILIA WYNDHAM." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., MORDAUNT HALL; OR, A SEPTEMBER NIGHT. By the Author of " EMILIA WYNDHAM," "ANGELA," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 'M ar lb oro ugh -street. RAILWAY SHARES.—ALTERATION OF PUBLIC SALES. MESSRS. WILLIAM LAMOND and Co., respectfhlly announce that their PUBLIC SALES of RAIL WAY SHARES, &c,, will take place FORTNI GHTLY this month. The next Sale will take mace on WEDNESDAY, the 31st ins dneedle- tant, at One - o'clock, at their Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threa Street, and will comprise various Lets in aU the Lading Railway Companies. Messrs. WILLIAM LAMOND an d CO. continue daily to act as Stock and Share Sworn Brokers in the Purchase and Sale, by Pri vate Contract, of English and Foreign Stocks and Railway Shares, and other Property. _ st. London, January 19, 1849. -__ THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. EVERY EVENING. CHILDREN AT REDUCED PRICES. ibarsordinary Perforluattces of the Equestrian Troupe from the Cirque N ational de Paris. Mme ' of Dueos, Amaglia , &c. —The celebrated Match of 29 Vaulters —Dance Commence the Four Globes, &c. Commence at Eight o'clock. MORNING PERFORMANCES, EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAT. Doors open at Half-past One, commence at Two o'clock. The Performances will terminate about Five o'clock. M. Dejean begs to announce that a SECOND Grand JUVENILE FETE will take place on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, on which occasion the Boys of the Royal Military Asylum with their Bands will attend. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Dress Circle, 4s. Dress Boxes, 3s. Upper Boxes, 2s. Pit, Arena, and Promenade, Is. 6d. Lower Gallery, Is. Children, under twelve years of age, it be admitted at the fol lowing reduced prices : Dress Cirele, 2s. 6d. Dress Boxes, 2s. Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. Pit, Arena, and Promenade, Is. Lower Gallery, 6d. Tickets to be had of Mr. O'Reilly, at the Box-office ; and at Jallien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street. ST . JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances wM commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with LES DEUX VOLEURS. To conclude with the popular Opera Comique, entitled L'AMBASSADRICE. Mr. Mitchell begs also +0 announce that, notwithstanding the in creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes • • • • • • • • .. ss. Od. Fit • • • • 33. Od. A m phitheatre .. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 83, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. THEATRE ROYAL, HAMIARK.Er. Mr. B. Webster, Sale Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING. I Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. Warner; Ophelia, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOLTRA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Trince. Characters by Messrs. Blar.d, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, itc., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, founded on Mr. Dickens's Christ mas Book, entitled THE HAUNTED MAN. Mr. Redlaw, Mr. Hughes: the Phantom, Mr. 0. Smith ; A. Tet Woolgaar terbyand Co , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Cha p lin ; Milly, Miss ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by TILE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; .Prospero, Mr. O. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. ROYAL LYCIAJM THEATRE. Uatier the Management of Madame Veztris. ti!ole Lessee. Mr. Charles M.I• he ,•,s. THIS EVEN IN Will be performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST ? After which, a new Fairy Extravagalaa, entitled TUE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Charact ers b y Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil 'Jam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris, To conclude with AN APPEAL , I'o TUE PUBLIC. Dress ;loxes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, Is. No lief-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Weilin,;to - street, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TIIEAT Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decnrated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best Eurart , meats have been ntade for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the ceuoort and convenience of the audience. THIS EVENING, rAWill be performed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD; FELLOW. Characters by Messrs. Charles Braham, Weiss, Honey, C. Fisher ; Miss Poole, Miss G. Smithson, Miss lieaworthy, Mrs. Weiss, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Wm Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Sec. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Tight- Metropolls.—A op gorgeous Speetaele.—Miss Woolford ew on the re.—B Brillian t Scenes of the Arena.—A n comic Pea. Unnime. THIS EVENING, like curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the 'WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, The Fall of Jerusalem. After which, Miss Woolford en the Tight-rope. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONOKNI6. No communication can be attended to unless authenti. cated by the name and address or the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.--Sun OFFICE, JANUARY 26. Tusastorar r za, Lowest, 45; Highest, 51; Noon, 47. BAROMETER, 29.9. WIND W.S.W.; light breeze, and fine clear weather. 131013 WATER A.T LONDON BRADOE. Tau DAT —Morning, 12 min. after 3 I Evening, 30 min. after • To•3logaow-- onion ,47 min. after 3 1 Evenln, 5 min. after 4 loc r 114 t.. # Z .Vf' _ • 0 511,10 % ' • , Yrek • 110` , ‘ ' .; DIEU 1!, ROII r~r:~a~~c~~ ~~aa~ LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 1349 In another pamphlet, recently published upon the new settlements at California,* it is happily observed that the last memorable year-1848 —beginning with the most sombre anticipations, and progressing with the most violent outbreaks of revolutions, has never theless terminated with visions of the most auspicious magnificence. It was but reasonable that the com mercial world should have some compensation of this character. After the gloom and embarrassment with which it had been so long overshadowed, it was but right that it should receive an impetus of correspond ing importance. And never, we may safely asseve rate, has a more sudden or a more extraordinary in citement been given to the whole mechanism of mer cantile enterprise since that remarkable year-1545 —when the silver mines of Potosi and Zacaticas were first discovered, and when those metallic treasures were shortly a fterwards followed b y th e di scovery of the quicksilver of Guancabelica. In the present in stance, however, the mineral wealth which has been found deposited in the soil comes at a moment infi nitely more opportune, and is calculated to effect an infinitely more surpr i sing change in the two hemis pheres. This, of course, always premising that the rumoured fruitfulness of the gold region is not extra vagantly over-estimated. Taking the different accounts which have, up to this time, reached us from California as correct—and the fact that th e y exhibit no very per ceptible discrepancy, but rather on the contrary, corroborate the assertions of each other —the effect produced, both in the New World and in the Old World, will be more surprising than the most imagi native speculator can conjecture. The aurial riches of the Sacramento will affect society in two parti culars—first, it must materially alter the value of property and the wages of industry ; and, secondly, it must forward, in a novel and peculiar degree, the great ex periment of emigration. A s t o th e oppor tuneness of the d is covery, it is only necessary to bear in recollection that the mines of Mexico and the strands of the Pactolus had alike begun to evince the exhaus tion of the material for the accumulation of which they bad been hitherto worked with so much assiduity. Only one more region was believed to be in existence where the splendour of Dorado and the grandeur o f Cathay were outvied ; but that region was known to be within the very entrails of an impenetrable des potism. Sir GEORGE SIMPSON, only as recently as the year 1847, had hinted at the abundant resources, both in Coin and jewels, flowing into the coffers of im perial Russia, from the golden rivulets and diamond valleys of the Ural mountains. The description of the pomp derived from those inaccessible localities may be found by the curious in one of the final chapters o f the " Overland Journey Round the World," penned by that intelligent traveller. But the gorges of that gigantic chain of mountains are . as much beyond the reach of the speculators of * " Guide to the Gold Country of California. With a Map. By: James Wyld, Esq., M.P. Bvo., pp. 62. strange: London. 1549. THE SUN, London as the streets of Peterwaradin are removed from the familiar haunts of the Esquimaux. Hence, it was always with a kind of apathy that the public perused the narrative of those researches on the con fines of Siberia which were principally interesting to the assayer, to the geologist, and to the lapidary. It is exactly the reverse with the republican colony of the United States. There the apples of the New Hesperides are not guarded by the Dragons of ty ranny. They can be plucked without molestation. They are ripening, not in the gardens of Absolutism, but in those of Democracy. Whoever can pay or work his passage over to San Francisco, can take his mattock and his basket and pick up the treasures lying about the ground for the possession of the first comer. Those treasures are said to exist in some places in the form of minute flakes of the precious metal, and in others in lumps of gold as large as pig nuts and as solid as pebbles. They belong, moreover, not, like the waifs and strays of England, to a Sovereign or a Lord of the Manor, but to whomsoever might be fortunate enough to rake them out of the sand, or to sift them from the sediment of a running stream, or to extract them from the fissures of the rocks. They are the wages paid by the boun teous hand of Nature herself to those who will toil at the agreeable task of their collection. Those who are discouraged by the reflection that the speculators from the United States can reach California much more rapidly that the speculators from England, should re-assure themselves by a few very simple considerations. From New York the journey to San Francisco cannot be accomplished, by way of Terra del Fuego, under a period of six months, by Chagres and Panama under two months, and, across country, by way of Santa Fe, under very nearly the same time as the one last mentioned. From England the gold region can be reached in less than fifty-four days—starting from Liverpool to Chagres, thence across the isthmus to Panama, and onwards between the coast of Guada lasara and the Revillagigedo Islands to the Sierra de Nevada. It is idle consequently to maintain that the population of the United States have in this particular an advantage over the inhabitants of the United Kingdom. Of all the consequences of the gold discovery in California, however, the most remarkable will inevit ably be the extension of the settlements on the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean. Before half a century has elapsed, the result of the movement of the Anglo-Saxon race to the extreme confines of the Western hemisphere, to those confines which imme diately confront the opulent Spice Islands of the Indian seas, will be perceptible in the predominance of their sway over the archipelago of those oriental climates. The effect will ultimately be to enable the wealth of the Asiatic races to flow eastwards as well as westwards—the nutmegs and pimento of Japan the precious stones of Golconda, the indigo and crape of the Chinese, the musl ins of Bengal, the scymetars of Oude, and the variegated raiments of Cashmere. While new markets will be thus opened for the luxuries of the East, a double source of civilization will act upon the opposite flanks of the oriental races. The liberal institutions of Europe, and the beneficent influences of Chris tianity, will act together upon the effete but ductile intellect of Asia. And by this twofold impetus bar barism and despotism may be alike exercised, and the worshippers of BUDDA and the disciples of Islamism may both be admitted into the family of Christendom Nevertheless, it is not alone in these more exalted anticipations that we can recognise the benign influ ence which will inevitably flow from the establish ment of great settlements in the regions of California. Emigration to that country will tend of course to re lieve ourselves from a large portion of our redundant population. It will besides lead as a matter of neces sity to an increased demand for our manufactures. Even supposing that the descriptions of the mineral wealth of the gold regions should prove to have been grievously exaggerated—which is by no means im probable—the natural fertility of the soil, the ex quisite geniality of the climate, end the healthful incitement to exertion on the part of the colonists, cannot fail to render their position anything but irksome. The individuals who have already migrated to the precincts of the river Sacramento will inevitably —even, as we have just hinted, in the event of the gold mania turning out to he a bubble— prove the germ of one of those mighty settlements which have from time to time changed the relative capacity of different empires, and accelerated the progress of the human race in the paths of civiliza tion. It is principally, if not entirely, from these considerations that we are disposed to regard, with a certain complacency, the rage for removal to Cali fornia which is now agitating the masses both in England and the United States. In many instances, doubtless, the passion of cupidity will lead the more blindly avaricious to ruin, but in the majority of cases the effect of the excitement must prove beneficial. A lottery to some individuals, Cali fornia will prove to others a secure and remunerative investment. Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON has formally with drawn from the contest for Leominster. He is no longer a Candidate for the honour of representing a constituency so dubious and irresolute. So many of the electors were unable to decide upon the conflict ing claims of the candidates—to determine whether they should array themselves under the banners of PEEL or LlTTON—that the latter gentleman lost all patience, and, in pursuance of a previous inti mation, cut the Gordian knot, and afforded a very summary solution to the existing perplexities by altogether withdrawing his pretensions. The contest, at one time so exciting, might thus have been brought to a very tame and commonplace conclusion, but that another candidate has already entered the field, and for the aecend time solicited the " most sweet voices " of the electors of Leominster. Mr. PHILLIIIORE had offered himself as a candidate for the representation of the borough as soon as the acceptance of the Governorship of British Guiana by the late Member, Mr. 13,taimr, was publicly an nounced. He was undoubtedly the first in the field, and the views and opinions which he put forward on that occasion were such as should have commanded the suffrages of the Liberal electors. He claimed their votes as a thorough and unflinching Reformer, determined to attack the existing abuses with the most determined energy. He declared him self a Church Reformer, and a legal Reformer, in the most extensive signification of the phrases. Although the ground was thus pre-occupied. Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON subsequently came forward on the Liberal interest, while Mr. PEEL, son of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, an nounced himself as a candidate on the free trade Conservative principles. Mr. PILILLDWORA immediately perceived that any division in the Liberal camp must have insured the triumph of the Conservative ; h e accor di ng l y wa i ve d hi s unques tionable priority, and with the most praiseworthy disinterestedness—a total absence of personal feeling —retired from the contest, " in order" that the Li beral interest might not be divided. Sir E. B. LITTON having, however, recently resigned , and the cause that had induced M r . PRILLIMORE to withdraw his claims being no longer in existence, that gentleman has again come forward, and pub. lished a manly and straightforward address to the electors, a copy of which will be found in another part ofimpression. M r , rnL day'slo refers to his the egpress`o former address n b a i u l e s s e . this iLn a rr n i d llo p u ri s and declares that " is o f s h. pl i t s e fe f n s g e n u elis u spiteful depreciation , he does not mean to retract or qualify them ; that they a re principles which have ennobled the most illustr io us names in modern story, and that by them he is content to stand or fall." He also states his opinions that " the large revenues of the Chu rc h o f E ng land are not distributed in the manner most calculated to promote the spiritual wel fare of th e i n h a bi tants o f t hi s coun try." We believe that there are few of the overworked and underpaid curates of the Establishment—men who labour zea lously, and indefatigably for a pittance insufficient to maintain their families in the situations to which they have been accustomed, who will dissent from that opinion. It is these who receive their thousands per annum for doing nothing, the d rones in the spiritual hive, that will view the declara tion of Mr. PHILLIMORE with alarm, and oppose with all their energies a man 50 hostile to their craft. The Church in Ireland also falls under his lash. He terms it (how justly we leave it to the electors of 11317:minder to decide) " a mockery of all religion, nu outrage on all justice." The supporters of that monster grievance will undoubtedly render their unflinching support to his Conservative opponent. He speaks in equally decided language against the enormous abuses in the administration of the law, that render the obtaining of justice a matter of mere , chance. He says—" I repeat that the law in its present state is, from the systematic advantage it gives to chicane over substantial right, a disgrace to a civilized country. That the French, Belgian, and generally speaking the German systems, are free from the dreadful evils so obstinately defended in our own; and that recent alterations have inflamed and aggra vated these evils, which it was intended by the Legis lature to suppress." He also speaks clearly and unequivocally on the subject of free trade. i will add," he says, " that I am an uncomproMising advocate of Free Trade, for I am convinced that by giving every country a direct and visible interest in the pros perity of every other, by teaching nations to rejoice in each other's prosperity, and to regret each other's misfortune,. it knits manhood together in links of bro therhood, which tyranny, corruption, and caprice will soon find it impossible to destroy." There is nothing equivocal in these declarations — there is no loophole out of which it may be possible to escape should it appear expedient to advocate other views. Mr. PHILLIMORE is manifestly sincere and earnest in his convictions. He discovers abuses, and forthwith they are exposed in all their naked enormity, and denounced with vigour and determina tion. He sees what is not merely a matter of policy, but of equity, that monopolies of every description are but legalized methods of plundering the people—that every principle of justice and expediency declares that trade and commerce should be perfectly free and un restricted, and he forthwith proclaims himself an ardent, enthusiastic, and uncompromising free-trader. It is not for the first time that he has come forward as a legal reformer. In 1846 he published a pamphlet in which he ably exposed the evils of the present system of special pleading in civil cases, of special pleading in criminal cases, of judicial legisla tion, of the game-laws, and of the courts of quarter sessions as they are now constituted. Many glaring examples were then cited of substantial justice being defeated through legal technicalities, and of the untoward consequences resulting from the mis chievous skill of those who were taught "to make the worse appear the better reason." These are points in which he will be sustained by the great majority of the people, who are heartily sick of legal quibbles, and desire that every cause should be decided on its real merits, that the result should not in a great degree depend on the subtlety and acumen of the respective pleaders, thus rendering Justice blind indeed, and the decisions of the Courts matters of chance in place of being perfect certainties. We have thus detailed Mr. PIIILLIMORE'S claims We do not, however, desire to depreciate his adver sary. 'We cannot forget that Mr. PEEL is the son of the Minister who deliberately sacrificed place, power, and party, to what he believed to be the national advan tage, who manfully acknowledged his former errors, abolished the mischievous monopolies under which the nation had so Lng groaned, and removed the taxes on food. Should Mr. PEEL be elected, we trust that he will perceive the necessity of following out the doctrines of free trade, and carrying them to the fullest extent, until, eventually, the entire system of taxa tion be revised, and indirect imposts abolished, where ever practicable; that he will perceive the errors of the monetary code, and induce his father to join in giving to the country a currency adequate to its wants and exigencies. He may be enabled to achieve great things, if he look rather to ame liorate mankind than to further the interests of a party. We shall now dismiss the case, leaving to the Leominster constituency the task of deciding between the conflicting claims of the rival candidates. We only trust that their decision may be correct, and that (in the language of the ring), " the best man may win." It is with feelings of gratification that we perceive the public attention is at length directed to the question of a reform in the manner of assessing and levying, and expending the local taxation of the country; and, as in the case of the free. trade agitation the commercial reformers directed their attacks against the corn-law, as the giant monopoly, the de struction of which would entail, as a natural conse quence, the fall of every other minor monopoly, so, we are rejoiced to find, have the reformers of our local taxation fixed upon the county-rate as the monster injustice to be remedied, the reform of which will include a reform in all other branches of local taxation. In this instance also, as in the instance of free trade, it is to the exertions of Mr. Holm that we are primarily indebted for an accurate knowledge of the extent of the evil and of the nature of the re medy. The labours of Mr. HUME'S Committee on the import duties rendered the advocates of commercial reform invincible, by affording to them an unanswer able authority to which they could appeal whenever their adversaries dared to dispute their facts, and Mr. HUME'S Committee appointed to consider the report upon the manner of collecting and expending the county-rate, has rendered the advocates of a reform in our local taxation equally invincible. The manner in which the county-rate is assessed is in direct con travention of the great constitutional maxim which declares that " taxation w ithout representation is tyranny." It is assessed upon the inhabitants of each county by the magistrates sitting in quarter sessions, such magistrates being appointed by the Crown, irre moveable save by the Crown, and irresponsible to, and unconnected with, the rate-payers of the county. These irresponsible magistrates not only assess the rate, but they have the exclusive control over the expenditure of the rate when it is collected. They have the sole appointment of the officers, who are paid out of the county-rate, the sole power to fix the duties and the emoluments of those officers, and also the most dangerous power of increasing the number of those officers, and consequently of in creasing the county expenditure to any extent they choose. The Committee of 1836 justly observe, " the administration of this fund is the exercise of an irre sponsible power entrusted to a fluctuating body," and Mr. Hums, in his evidence before that Committee, after stating that he has devoted his attention for twenty five years to the investigation and consider. ation of the county-rate system generally, solemnly declares—" I consider the principle so vicious that no efficient reform can be effected without a radical change in the principle and the system." It would appear, at first sight, extraordinary that a system so denounced in 1836 should be existing in full vigour in 1849, but a little consideration will easily account for the apparent anomaly. The Members of both Houses of Parliament are almost without exception, we believe we may venture to say absolutely without exception, magistrates of quarter sessions, and how desirous soever, there fore, any individual Member may feel of seeing this tyrannical method of taxation abolished, and this temptation to jobbing removed, it is too much to expect of him that he should voluntarily come forward to denounce a system of which he him self is part and parcel, and to offend the self-love of colleagues with whom he is every day in the habit of acting. Under the peculiar circumstances of the case, it is to the pressure from without alone that we can look for the remedy of this evil ; and public attention was too much engrossed by the free •trade agitation, during the ten years immediately succeed ing the presentation of the report of the Committee of 1536, to be able to attend to the reform of local taxation. As has been shrewdly remarked by Mr. COBDEN, " we are nien of business, and we like to do one thing at at a time," and this is the secret of the success of all agitations. Had the county magistrates been content to go on as usual, the question would, probably, have still continued to slumber ; but, fortu nately for the cause of local responsible government, they have not been content to do so in many coun ties. In Lancashire, for example, the county-rate has in many districts been raised, during the course of the last ten years, from 1141. to 4001., and the costs of prosecutions have increased from 15,0001. to 18,000/., while the number of prosecutions has diminished. Jobbing to an enormous extent of works havingextentappea beentorsalso paid an have tak in e c n o p m la e ce of ; a surveyor 701. a year for surveying, the outlay upon which amounted only to 431. 6s. Bd., while a bridgemaster was retained at an annual salary of 101. to superin- LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1849: tend an outlay of 6; - . 61. We are not surnris.d these things, and we are almost tt, IC to the Lancashire mcgis`rates, for not having been more prodigal with the money of the rate-payer , :, seeing that they had the irresponsible power of being so; but we are surprised that the subject has not long since attracted the attention of the contributors to the county-rate, and that it should be left to the rate-payers of 1849 to commence an agitation on the subject of a reform in our system of local taxation. That agita tion has, however, been begun, and well begun too, seeing that the men who have put themselves forward as leaders of the movement are the energetic, the un tiring, the unconquered men of Lancashire. A meeting of delegates from nearly all the boards of guardians of Lancashire was held a few days since at Newton-le-Willows to discuss the question of county-rate expenditure, and the best means of effecting a more economical administration thereof; and the remedy proposed by the delegates was that " the constitution of county, financial, and adminis trative boards be composed of magistrates and elected members from each board of guardians." Sin cerely do we hope that the example set by Lan cashire will be followed by other counties, and that the agitation thus commenced may never cease until the rate-payers shall have procured complete and efficient control over the assessment and expenditure of the rates, and over the nomination of all those em ployed in the county administration, until, in short, this unconstitutional system of " taxation without re presentation " shall ba utterly destroyed and anni hilated. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. At the commencement of the sitting of the Na- tional Assembly, on Wednesday, several of the re actionary Deputies presented petitions, praying for the dissolution of the Assembly ; and not content with the presentation of them in the ordinary.manner, these gentlemen wished each to ascend the tribune, and to make a speech on the matter. This was re sisted by M. CLEMENT THOMAS, who, however, de clared that if this defiance, on the part of the reac tionaries, were continued, he and those with whom whom he acted were perfectly willing to accept it. A scene of great confusion followed, several of the reac tionary party insisting on presenting their petitions, and in speaking on them. After these petitions had been laid on the table, a host of petitions of a contrary character were presented, and this difference was remarkable between the two sets of petitions. Those which thanked the Assembly for what they had already done, and urged them not to separate until they should have passed the organic laws, all pro ceeded from some recognised and organized body (as for instance the National Guard of St. Flourers), so that an examination of the signatures would at once .determine the question as to genuineness of the petition, whereas those presented by the reactionary party, praying for the dissolution, invariably pur ported to be from the inhabitants of some Depart ment, the signatures to which, therefore, might be those of women and children, or even altogether fictitious; and when we remember that those who , are the most active in presenting and getting up these petitions were the intimate friends and associates of M. TESTE and General CUBIERES, we cannot but suspect that they would not stand upon such a trifle as forging a petition to attain the object they have in view. The discussion on the Bill for the organization of the Council of State was then resumed. The office of Commissary - General of the R e p ublic was ordered to be suppressed by a large majority. The appoint ment of the Finance Committee was postponed, as there were not a sufficient number of representatives present to make a house. The PRESIDENT of the Republic, while riding in the Champs Elysees on Tuesday, was thrown from his horse ; fortunately he sustained no injury. The Committee appointed to examine the question of a suitable Chamber for the sittings of the Assembly has had its report drawn up by M. BUREAUX DE PUZY. The Committee proposes to make use of the old Chamber of Deputies, with some changes calcu lated to give more room. The number of places thus afforded will, it is estimated, be 762. The cost of the alterations will be 766,160 f. The National says :—" Some days ago, at one of the sittings of the famous Falloux Committees, of which M. TRIERS is President, M. TRIERS said that France was not sufficiently rich to give instruction to all her children, and he added many other things equally generous. M. Cousni, who far some time had shown evident signs of impatience, interrupted him all at once,---' M. TRIERS,' said he, lam sorry to remind you of it, but you forget you were boursier (a pupil educated partially or wholly at the public expense). As to myself, who owe the same gratitude as you to my country, I shall always re member it. II France had not been rich enough to pay the expense of our education, we should neither cf us, perhaps, be what we are.'—M. THIERS did not reply. M. TRIERS has completely ratted from all his former principles, and is become more obscurantist than the Jesuits themselves, who were formerly the subject of his ridicule. He is now decidedly opposed to all gratuitous education for the working classes, even to having them taught to read. "To preserve order in France," said he in the Falloux Committee a fe days since, "we must either have a war, or abolish the primary schools:' The funeral of Colonel REY, the late Commandant of the Republican Guard, took place yesterday. A large multitude assembled to do honour to the de ceased, which created some alarm in the minds of the Ministers. M. LEDRU ROLLIN and several members of the Mountain waited on the PRESIDENT of the Republic at one o'clock, and assured him there Ras not the slightest intention on the part of those en • gaged in the funeral procession of disturbing the public peace, their only object being to do honour to the deceased Colonel. The Ministers, however, had the military posts doubled, and the troops in readi ness. There was, however, no need for all these pre cautions, as the people behaved with the greatest order and decorum. The Moniteur contains the following : " Several journals have repeated from the Estalette a report spread yesterday at the National Assembly on the subject of a letter said to have been received by the President of the Republic from the Prince de Canino, his cousin, and in which the latter declared that if France should intervene in Italy, for the purpose of replaeing Pius IX. on the Pontifical throne, he would publish let ters written by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, which would do much injury to their author. We are authorised to declare that this report is entirely devoid of foundation. The President of the Republic has not received any let ter from the Prince de Canino, nor has there been any thing that can serve as a pretext for this assertion." The Moniteur also announces that the Minister of the Interior has caused SALAMANCA, the ex-Minister of Spain, to be removed from Bayonne into the in terior of France. It also publishes a long list of Cr leanist prefects appointed by M. LEON FAUCHER, and publishes a decree, signed by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, and countersigned by the Minister of the Interior, for the reorganisation of the National Garde Mobile. By this decree the Garde Mobile is to re tain its present number of men, but it is to be con solidated into twelve battalions, and the number of officers is to be reduced in proportion. There are several modifications also made in the pay and in the mode of selecting the officers, which hitherto has been in tlae uncontrolled hands of the men. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE districA : rue undor L;eiltr-wlnt Field-M•Arsvlal ; second, under Gero \iVRLINA (pronounced Wurcu), with his head-quarters at Buda ; the third, under Major-General VON Bueucs, with his head-quarters in Ocdenburg. Lieutenant Field• Marshal ESOEICH, commisioned, with eight battalions, six squadrons of cavalry, and thirty-six field-pieces, to pursue the flying column of the rebel chief GORGEY, in the direction of Ipolysagh, over Leva, and to push on for Schemnitz, came up with them on the 15th, while Major-General GOTSCS column was advancing towards Neusohl and Krem nitz. The insurgent leader MEsz4Ros holds out in the neighbourhood of Erlau. Major-General OTTINGER'S brigade drove the enemy back to Szolnok on the 13th, took possession of the town, and a magazine containing 98,000 bushels of corn. The inhabitants of the adjacent district, and those of Ketskemet, are well disposed, and received the Imperial manifestees, so long kept from them, with loud acclamations. From all parts of the country already in the hands of the Imperial troops, depu tations and loyal addresses are constantly being sent to the EMPEROR at 011mutz. Colonel HOR VARTH'S column garrisons Vesphrim and Stuhlweis senburg. On the 15th, at two o'clock, that under Count ALTHANN surprised a rebel division of 800 men, under MEDNIANSKY and VIHAR-ANDER, who have taken to the Bakony Forest. Ten men were killed, several others made prisoners, and instantly shot. An officer and a private of the army were wounded. Honourable mention is made of Captain Itorrivem, who led the attack on this occasion ; also of Lieut.- Colonel ALTHANN, for the abilities and courage he displayed in this engagement, and throughout the campaign. SZELA, who was employed by the Austrian Go vernment to organize the massacres in Gallicia two years since, has been employed to act against General BEM and the Hungarians. The Augsburg Gazette of the 20th states that the peasants had risen in insurrection against the Aus trians at Csorna and Kapuyar, and were marching on Raab. A deputation from Presburgh has waited on the EMPEROR, and has been favourably received. The following is the first paragraph of the Consti tution, as ultimately carried in the Kremsier Diet "All (staatsbiirger) citizens are equal in the eye of the law. The Constitution and the law decide on what conditions Austrian citizenship is obtained, exer cised, and lost. The collective body of citizens forms the people. All privileges of rank are abo lished. Titles of nobility, of whatever kind, will neither be granted nor acknowledged by the State. All public offices and State service are alike eligible to every citizen duly qualified. Foreigners are excluded from civil service, and likewise from taking arms in the nation's defence, subject to exceptions, which specific laws shall determine. Personal merit alone au thorises public marks of distinction or rewards; no mark of distinction is hereditary. Official titles are not to bo granted as mere honorary titles." The Diet have called upon the Ministers to declare explicitly whether or not it is their intention to ob serve the freedom of the press unimpaired, as guaran teed by the Emperor FERDINAND in March last. HONEY awl C ( ' ''''" ---.=,..--- CITY, QUA R TER TO THREE. The Cotton awl Share Maikets at Liverpool yester day were very buoyant. The most interesting arrival to-day is from the West Indies and South America. We hare gone carefully through the various files of Colonial papers, besides ob taining from private sources all the information in our power, but we find the usual difficulty in determining whether the good or bad predominates. That we should receive from the West India coloeies an account of pros perity, no one in these times could possibly ewe, nor do we find that there is anything worse than what we have been accustomed to. Trade is depressed, as a matter of course, and money is scarce, but there are some of our possessions in which greater commercial activity was apparent, and Barbadoes was an example. The shipping in port was more numerous, and the business done was larger. The weather had been most auspi cious, and the excellent growth of the canes is warmly spoken of, though in one or two districts there might have been rather too much moisture. The temper ature, previously dry, had undergone a most delightiul change. _ _ The Honduras papers are to December 9. They add very little to our previous accounts via New York. The differences between the British authorities and the Go vernment of Nicaragua had not been adjusted, and it is doubtful whether our naval force on the station will not proceed to extremities. The navigation of the river San Juan is the point in dispute, as the English autho rities are 'resolved to support the rights of the King of Mosquito. We claim also with some urgency, the payment of a portion of the debt due from Nicaragua to British subjects, and as the amount is not large, no doubt the claim can be met, provided the will exists. Cape of Good Hope accounts, of a week later date, afford no news of interest from the frontier. The produce markets have been very firm this week, and a good business has beeen transacted. Holders have withdrawn their goods where they found an indis position to give the prices asked. The Stock Market has been remarkably buoyant. The rise since ye s t er d a y morn i ng i s a b ou t 11 per cent. At the close yesterday afternoon, Consols were 911, and to day they are 911 1. The business doing is not very extensive, but stuck is scarce, and buyers therefore must pay higher rates. Exchequer-bills. June, have been 495. premium, and India Bonds 475. to 50s. pre mium. Bank Stock has touched 195. The New Three and-a• Quarter per Cents. have been 92 to In the Foreign Market Mexican Bonds aro not so good, the dividend remittance being only 25,000 dollars,. The prices have been 26i to j. Spanish Three per Cents. are 28i to 29, and Portuguese Four Cents. 27} to t. Brazil Stock is worth 79 to Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. are 49i to t. Railway Shares continue to advance. Almost every line is higher, and notably North- Western, Midland, North-British, South-Eastern, Brighton, Great-Western (done at par), and the York lines. The French Shares are rather better also. _ ---- _______ ----- ---- ONE CL,,P.OIkO P , l: k_ts ,If ~.rCITIdu FUNIMI O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 195 196 3 I,or Cent. Reduced Anna.. 91%% 91% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 1 / 2 1, 4 4 X 9 1 I New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus...-. . 92 92% 92 1 ,a Long Anns. to expire J an. 1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 9-16 % 8% India Stock — 240 India Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0001... south Sea Stock — -- Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities ... 8 9 3/ 89 3 / 4 Consols for Account 9 1 3 / 41,4% . 9138 Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. 1,0001. March ...... 1,0001. June 49 p 46 p 5001. March 43 42 p 42 p 500/. June Sine, March .. 45 43 46 p 46 p Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS mrE CLOSIN G O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Bue,nos Ayres Bonds, 6 Der Cent 26 Chiliwi Bonds 6 per Cent... • — Ditto 3 Der Cent — 52 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 26 X 26 3 / 4 Ditto, Account ............ Peruvian Bonds 6 per Cents — 43 Ditto, 3 per dent Ditto, 4 per Cent 27% 27% Ditto, Account 27% 27% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account l6 15%% 15% Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ...... 28% 28% Ditto, Account . 28% 29 29 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49%% 49% Ditto. 4 tier Cent. Certificates 78% 1 A 78 1 4 Ditto, Account 78% 78% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING AID. RAILWAY SHARES. P AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 5O . .... 22% 23 22 22 Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 4 1 4 ...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% Belfast & County Down 20%...... Berks A Hants Extens. (GLW est. Per.s per ct.) 5 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... 110, withoutguarar: tee 20 Birming. Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 .. ... Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 145... ••• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 10 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ' Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. 70 Ditto, Thirds ..„ ..... 27 1 % 19% 19% INuckinghamshire... 161. 4a. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 11 1 A ...... •„•.. Do. New 101. Pref 7%...... 9 8% ... ... 8 1( Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 ...... 23% 23 Ditto,:Preference Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per CL 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports- mouth Dublin and Belfast Junc. 35 ...... 5 5 , 8 % 6 Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D.....: 25 ...... 4% . Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 D0., 3/. los. Eastern Comities 2O ...... 11% % I I 3A Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. ... lO ...... 11% % ll% Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters ......... 12% — . ..... ...... . Do. New Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% Ditto, Class B (1. & and B.) Ditto, C.lsiss C, ditto... 20 . "..... Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 Ditto (C. iSc E.) guar 5 per cent 2 l,x ~ ,_ East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New _ Quarters 6 1 4 Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 l- A t ...... East Lincolnshire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 — Ditto, Newport — I , :xeter,Yeovil. & Dorch ”,,, Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. I.4lagow, Dun tries, and Carlisle ....... ... ..8 /. 6s. 8d.... ..... Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ..... . - DO:Preference ConsOl. - Great Northern Do., 1 / 2 A Deferred Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ... ..... 6 1 h. 4% 4% Do. Extension 2 j..... ireat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ... .. -- _.. ._ . Ditto, New, 40/ — 40 Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 30/ 3O Ditto, New,ls/ l4 .. .. ....«......... Great 'Western 100 ...... 98 100 lOO Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 14% 1 4 14 Huddersfield and Manch. 30 Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... Ditto, 1 4 Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto. 1 /i Shares ...... 43 ... .. 81 Do. .Quarter Shares... 17. 5 l3 .. Do. Fifths... ... 10 Do. Sixteenths 6 l /4 - - Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... Do. New, Gua.6 nerct. 7 1 x,i Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 Ditto IA (late Hud dersfield and Shoff.) 43 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte tract, and Goole) ... 50 Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... 2 3 j q 3 3 Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 1)o.14 Shares (A)... 9 1 .4...... .. — Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO4 100.... ... 100 1 / Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . — Do., Half Shares Do., (blue) Scrip-- 2 1 4..... Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 Ditto. New refer ....... 40 Do., , Prefer. 6 per CL 3% — _ . — . . . Liverpool, Crosby and Southport 3 142 _ - L iv erp., Manchster, and Newcastle Junction... 2 1 A — __ . - London &Blackwall...l3/. 6s. ad.... 1)o. Extension ..... , London, Brighton, and _ South Coast 5O ..... 36 36;% Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ~.... , _ .. .. Do. Pret. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ... 49% x.d. 49; x.d, Ditto, ditt0...,.. 1852 50 Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. .. London and Greenwich 1 2 / 1 6s 4d... -- 12 1 m, 12 12 1 ,4 tv Ditto, Fifths Do. 40/.Shares(L. ;11„) 25 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 10 Do. 101. (21. & B.) B. 10 Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..... & S. Western 5O Do. New 50/. ... ..... 424.. Do. New 401 .. 34 Do. Tenths (Comoi. ) 50 Ditto ditto .... 40 Ditto. Thirds .... 15 Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ••••••••• 1%...... Lon&nderry &Coleraint- 30 ...... Londonderry and Ennis- Anl,ll Mancheqer.Buxton,and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 ••• Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 11M x.i..... Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 _ ll% Ditto, Gt.Grinisby ... 40 Ditto ditto . ..... ~.. 13 9 1 ,; 2 •..... 4 3 31 1,4 5 44...... 1 3 / 4 2al 2 x.i. Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire l5 . ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 20 Do., Manchester and hicoln Union. .... 4/. 2s. Midland lOO .. 97 .• Do. Consolidated Pret.loo Do., do., 50i. Shares:.. 25 20 1 / 2 21% ...... Do. Birm., and I.lerbyloo ...... Do. Consol. Bristol and ißirming., 6 per ct.... 100 126 Ditto, Brist. & Gloc tr. 40 ...... ..... Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo Midland Great estern Irish Kddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. nuar. Nelk castle and Carlisle.loo Do. quarters 25 Newmarket ...... . 20 Do. Extension .........21. 12s — \ cwport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpomt, and Rostrevor .. 20 Nufolk 100 ...... — Do. New 201. .. l5 Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 / 2 pc. 5 Do. Low eaton (41 rci) 20 Ditto (6 per et.) ..... 13 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 N rthem Counties Union 4 ...«. North Britiq, 25 16% 3 / 4 ••• Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quartersj 6 IA 3%% Ditto, Extension O% ..... Ditto 4 Thirds North & South-Western 2 North Staffordshire orth Wales ... ...... -.. 3 I/ 2 North-Western .... Oxford, Worcester, and _ 51 1 ,4 97% 2 1 IA :126 16% 3% 4% 12% . . Wolverhampton ...... 50 Reading, Guildford, and , Reigate ... ..... 12 1 4..... 13% 13 ex. int. 13 xd Royston and Hitchin ... 2 Scottish Central Scottish Midland... Ditto, New Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (Nor. Div.) Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 ...... ...... Shrewsbury and Birni... 9 Ditto ditto. Class B. 5 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... 'shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Alin.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... ..... Ditto Oswestry ..... 18.6 -- Ditto New - Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 6hropshire Union "j :south Devon 5O ...... ••• Do. Preference ' with Staffordshire 7 41 4 % 34— ...... 4% South Eastern 33 1 ,E 26 I /2 uo., IN o. 1 2B -••• Do., N 0.2. .. 22 Do., No. 3 ............. 30 22 1 4 22 1 ,4 x.i Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do~ Scrip No 4 South ales ....... South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 6 Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Star. Coal. ... 6 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ..... 17%.....• Vale of Neath . 6 Waterford and Kilkenny 17 1 ,x Waterford and Limenek 47 1 / 2 — Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... 50 Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 10 ..... ..... West Cornwall 6 .. West London Do. Do. Ist Class Do. Do. 2d Class 20 hitehaven & Furness 14 Windsor, Staines, and South Western........ 12 .... Wilts, Somerset, & W ey- mouth 4O York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... .... ....25 Do. Original New and Berwick ...... .. 25 ..... 29 Do Extension No. 1. 20 ...... 21(4 3 4 Do. do. I\ o. 2......... 20 Do. G:N.E.Preference 8 ..... 9 1 4 1 ,1 i .. York fins North Midland 50 ...... 57 ...... Ditto, Preference ...... 10 I.o.East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. _ _ 29 29 1 / t 21%8 2 1 ' 1 / 4 9,4 57 1114 Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... 5 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 8%3s ex.. exch. 81A, x.e Central of France (Or leans and Vierzou) ... 17 Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley... 4 Direct Bombay and Madras ss. . .” Dutch Rhenish ......... 7 1 ,E..... .. ...... .... East Indian 3 14 — Great Indian Peninsular 1 4 Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 1 ,1 — Luxembourg 7 ih — Ditto .- 10 . 251•2- Madrid and Valentia... 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... Northern of France...... 12 ...1.. 2 th 8 x.d (.irleaus and Bordeaux... 7 - ex.div 2% x. d Paris and Lyons ll ... .. Do. Do. . — Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen ........ 20 ..... Paris and Strasbourg ... 9 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 - Sambre and Meuse 2O .... 3%.. MINES. Anglo-Mexican Asturian Mining Coin l4 •••• Australian. 10 34 s/ LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W., light bret ze, and fine clear weather. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Albion, St. Andrew's. SWANSEA, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Jenny Jones, Valparaiso; Harriet, Cuna. WATERFORD, JAN. 23.—Wind S.W. to W.—Sld. Margaret, Trinidad. ABERDEEN, JAN. 24.—The Elizabeth, Mlienzie, of and from this port to Leith, and the Dahlia, of New castle, which were stranded on the beach, the former on the 101 h, and the latter the 11th inst., hare been got off, and assisted into the harbour. ST. MONANCE, JAN. 24.—The Nancy, Davidson, bound to Leith, was wrecked on the island of May 21st inst., one man drowned; little is expected to be saved of vessel or cargo. _ . _ PORT LOCaN, JAN. 22.—A water cask painted yellow, a dog-house, had colour, and a binnacle painted green, two handspik(s, besides several pieces of bulwarks, painted green inside and black outside, were washed ashore to day in the bay. MAR/PORT, JAN. 23.—A schooner went on shore this morning on Beekioot about nine miles north-east of this port, supposed to be the Warrior, of Yarmouth, from Pentewan to Liverpool, and lies in a very dangerous position. _ _ MAnsaTE, JAN. 25.—The John Cobbold, Handley, from Mauritius to London, has been supplied with as anchor and thirty fathoms of chain from this place, having lost them off the Tongue Light. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25. Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. 24. Agnes, Crony, Nassau, New Providence; Sophia, Soley, Pugwash. 25. Nith, Tinley, Madras ; Countess of Sefton, Callao; Feticiana, Francisco, Macoa; Andover, Hay ton, Ceara ; Ada Mary, Laguna ; Julius Ca,nr, Fleming, New Orleans; Herbett, Hallett, Now Orleans; Corsair, Halifax ; Luise, Naples. Sld. Sarah Sands► (S.S.), New York. Put back, 25. William Carey, for Calcutta; Golden Fleece, fur Pernambuco; Elizabeth , for New Orleans. FALBIOUTII, JAN. 25 —Wind W., squally-. Arrd. 24. Henry Imlay, late Park, Rio Grande, and sld. 25, for London. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25. Wind W.S.W. Arrd. 2 5 • Ilt.r Alajesty's ship Espiegle, East Indies, and sld. for Poltsinouth. Tonumr, JAR. 25.—Wind W.N.W.—Put back, 24 ' Edmund, BiAtord, .or Sierra Leone, with loss of An' char and eh .in. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 25.—Arrd. 25, Teviot, steamer' West InCies. . . _ DEAL, .TAN. 25.—Wind W. strong.—Arrd. 25. G ra' titude, Popham, Mauritius ; Ada, Amy, Mauritius; Cruili 4 / a tik, Sayers, Demerara. Arrd. !rem the River' 25. Nile, Mill e r. P e r n amb uc o, &c. P u t back, 25 ' Emma Eugonia, Sydney, New South Wales. CAHIRCIVEEN, JAN. 23,—The Alexander, from Oporto to Cork, with maize, got on shore at iJegnis blanu, Valentia Harbour. 22d inst., during a gale, and become a w., ck—crew saved ; a great portion of the cargo saved in a daningea "c! state. A ledge barque '° seen off the Skelligs, under close-reefed topsails, run ning E.N.E., 21st in , t., and some casks of rum have come into Valehtia Harbour ; it is much feared the barge e ,. , his foundered near the coast, and that rum formed pa-1 of her cargo, is likelY LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE , JAN. 25. Northern of France, 7y s ex div.— Orleans and Bordeaux, 2% ex div.—Paris and Strasbourg, 2 1 4—Sambre and Meuse, 11%. SPAIN• -- --- Madrid journals of the 19th have been received. The Espania complains of the supineness of the new French Government in permitting the Carlist expeditions into Guipuscoa and Navarre to cross the frontier. The Fomento of Barcelona of the 15th states that Gen. NOUVILLAS went on the 14th to attack CABRERA at Amer, but that the latter refused the combat and took to flight. Colonel Ruiz, however, it is added, subse quently fell in with his band, and completely dis persed it. CAB RERA then sought refuge in the almost inaccessible mo u n tains of Monseny. sellers jA ; N .I}9,i.—veT per Cents., 91 to 10 ; hree per Cents., 191, 13.16 Coupons, 51 buyers, sellers; Passive Debt, 3i buyers, 4 sellers. Exchange on London, 49 25. GERMANY' AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Accounts have been received from Vienna to the 20th. The floods still continued, and great apprehen sions were entertained that the inundations would be as formidable a s th ey h a d b ee n in 1838 and 1847, more especially a t P est h an d a t Presburg. The Minist er of the Interior has su mmo ned depu ties of all the severa l communes o f Lombardy to meet at Vienna, to tak e i n t o cons id era tion measures of mu nicipal reform. General WELDE N has published a 16th bulletin from Prince WINDISCHGRATZ, the substance of which is as follows: Up to the 15th, the Prince Field-Marshal had taken measures f or garr i son i ng th e greater part o f Hungary, dividi ng the country into three military PRUSSIA. The elections were going on in Berlin when the last accounts left. The city was tranquil. Arrests and trials for political offences are so multiplied throughout the country, that the pri sons and fortresses are crowded to such an extent that judges do not know where to send condemned prisoners, and commandants of fortresses declare they have no more room vacant. In one or two in stances whole villages have been prosecuted. This, for instance, occurred at Dahme, in Saxony (Prus sia), where 198 inhabitants have been condemned to divers terms of imprisonment, for having forcibly eicp3lled the Alaycr, who, in his turn, has been ac cused of had conduct, and judicially ejected. The great prison of Moaht, erected upon the Pentonville principle, is filled to overflowing ; so that, if the sys tem be pursued, they must part or camp these pri soners. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament on the 22d, the question as to whether or not the headship should be hereditary, was discussed. The debate was adjourned. ITALY. In the sitting of the Tuscan Chamber of Deputies, on the 16th, the Minister of Finance presented a Bill for the emission of Treasury-bills to the amount of 14 millions of lire, bearing interest at 6 per cent., and reimbursable within 18 months. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the lath, quotes a letter from Bologna of the 11th, stating that the Roman States are menaced with an invasion by the Austrians, who are concentrating their forces on the left bank of the Po, with the head quarters at Ariano. The Provisional Government Commission of Rome has issued a decree, dated the 13th, in which, after declaring that the convocation of a National Assem bly has been called for by the universal desire of the people, that any attempt to prevent its convocation is an open attack upon the rights of the people, that without the Roman National Assembly it would be impossible to convoke the Italian Constituent Assembly, destined to ensure the indepen dence of Italy ; and stating that a reactionary party is employing every means, however odious, to excite civil war ; it is provided that every public functionary attempting, directly or indirectly, to prevent the convocation of the Electoral Colleges, or seeking to excite civil war by advising the people of the army to disobey the constituted authorities, be declared a perturbator of public order, an enemy of the country, and punished according to law ; for which purpose a Commission of Public Safety, pre sided by the Prefect of Police, is instituted at Rome. Every Provincial President is directed to form a similar commission in his province. The Tribuno of Rome of the 15th announces that a small army of 8,000 men, consisting of Swiss, Neapolitans, and Spaniards, is corcentrated at Capua. A rumour was current at Rome that Cardinal ANTO NELLI had had a violent dispute with Cardinal FER RETTI, who had gone to Gaeta to induce the POPE to give way. Cardinal BALIIFFI, chief of the diocese of Imola, has published a circular, dated the 13th, rembaaing the people that the protest of the Holy Father, of the Ist of January, forbids any one to take a part in the election of the Constituent Assembly, under pain of the censure of the Church. The Costituente Italiana of Florence, of the 17th, quotes letters from Rome of the 15th, stating that several country curates are actively engaged in para lysing the electoral operations. To counteract their influence, commissions are sent from Rome to instruct and persuade the people. At Gonsano, a town of about 6,000 inhabitants, the curate had the encyclic letter of the POPE posted up, but it was immediately torn town. At Fuligno a brawl had taken place between three soldiers and a citizen, in which the latter was killed. The people, incensed at the out rage, were preparing to revenge themselves on the troops, when the officers interposed, and made them reflect that it would be unjust to make the troops responsible for acts of three ruffians, whom the whole company disavowed. The people were eventually appeased, and fraternised with the soldiers. A letter from Venice of the 13th, in the Pensiero Italians of Genoa, states that the Provincial College of Treviso has refused to name a national deputy for Vienna. On the provincial reporter observing that the Spielberg still existed, the unanimous reply was, "We know it." The College of Pavia has also declared it could not name a deputy. 11IELAND. CASE OF MR. DUFFY. DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.--- An application was made this morning in the Queen's Bench to admit Mr. Charles G. Duffy, of the Nation, to bail. It was made by Mr. Napier, Queen's Counsel, who was followed by the Attorney-General on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Butt, Queen's Counsel, was then heard for the prisoner, after which the Chief Justice, without hearing the Attorney-General in reply, gave judg ment against the application. He said it was ad mitted that the question was altogether one of dis cretion, as the Habeas Corpus Act was not applicable, the prisoner having neglected to comply with its pro visions, and as a matter of discretion he would say that within a very long experience he never knew a case in which the Court was ever called upon to lose that discretion in refusing the motion. It was made ten days before the sitting of the Commission of Fe bruary, in the middle of term, by a man who at tempted to break gaol, and who had prevented the Crown from trying for more than six months by quirks and quibbles. The meeting of Irish Members, adjourned from Tuesday last to this day, was held at the Mansion• house, and, as before, proved a wretched failure ; only 1 I Members present. After a brief discussicn, a resolution was passed calling a meeting of Irish Members in London, on the Ist of Feb . nary, imme diately after the delivery of her Majesty's Speech, to consider the best means of enforcing their views in the present state of Ireland. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 25.—Her Majesty's steam frigate Dragon left the harbour at two P.M., to assist and tow in the American ship Waghirgton, from New Ozleans, which had lost her foremast, and was at anchor five miles S.E. of Br..yhead. - Captain Hall succeeded in bringing her safe into harbour. 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