The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

NOTICE. ITOLS. 111. and IV. of the CASTLEREAGH LETTERS and, DISPATCHES, Completing the IRISH REBELLION and UNION, Are now Ready, And may be had of all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13. Great Marlborough-street. pROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Requisit on, duly iigned, a SPECIAL GENERAL ALERTING of the MEM BERS of the BENEFIT DEPARTMENT will be held at the London Tavern, on TNIIRSDIT, the B th February next, at Six o'cicck in the 9 2 " 11111 8. to take into c onsideration the propriety of rescinding Rules and IS, and substituting others in lieu thereof ; and to alter Rule 16 ; and further to tape into tonstderation other matters contained in the said requisition. RICTIA 23 RD 1849. 11E1..RY JONES, Chairman. 42, Moorgate - stree t, January , ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. 110 17DIN'S MATINEE FAI,7TASTIQIIE. The celebrated ROBERT HOUDIN will give his Second DAY PER FORM tNCE on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, commencing at Ralf-past Two o'clock. His extraordinary Soirees Fantastlelues will be repeated on Satur day Evening, Jan. 27. (No Performanee this E ening.) Doors open at Eight o'clock. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes. Stalls, and Ti.,kets for this extraordinary Entertainment may be szcured at Mitchell's Royal LP,rary, :13, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. Tanana: ItOT.AL, FIATMAge.. Mr. B. Webster, No Lessee and Manager. Old Ilrompton. 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. # :Will be performed DON CiESAR DE BAZAN. Don Ctesar, Mr. James Wallack ; Lazarillo, Miss Horton ; Maritana, Miss Bennett. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CANIAItALZAMAN AND BADOLTRA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miiis Morton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. Daring the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the Original designs by Dighy Wyatt, Esl executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Cu Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c. , !cc. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls THIS EVENIN renderedinore comfortable. 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. Tetterby and Cs , Mr. Wright ; the Boy, Miss E. Chaplin ; Milly, Miss Woolgar ; Mrs. Tet terby, Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith Ariel, Madame Celeste. To conclude with a new Farce called SLASIIER AND ?dr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. CRASHER. ROYAL LTCP,UM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madama Vestriti. Sole Lessee,. Mr. Charles Ma he ,4,5. THIS EVENING. Will bo performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST ? After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Barley, John Reeve, Selby, 11. Hal!, Marshall, and 11. 'Marshall ; digs Kathleen Fitzwil 'lam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. i‘lacnanara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and N! adarne Irestris. Te cone/Tao with AN APPEAL: TO 'IN-Ili PUBLIC. Dress holes, b 3.; Upper llomes, 4s. ; Pit, Is ; Gallery, is. No halt-price to any part of the house. The New Ltox-onice, No. 0, Wellingtor- street, is open to the public ry day, from Ten till Sia. PRINC ESS'S T REAT Mr. J. M. Maddox , Sole Lessee and Manager. . - During the Recess this Theatre h as been Ie• decrzated and embel lished a superb and costly manner 1 - y Mr Ilurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, ttra the best at-ran menu , have been mule for Char thee dua 'Ventilation of the Theatre, and Ilia coffuort and convolience et the andlence. THIS EVENING, Will be 'performed a new Opera, entitled MAI lE, TEE FOUND- LiNG ot"ritE LAKE. T o conch:de with a ne w grand P an tomime, entitled MUFF XING HAL; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. l'aulo ; Ciown, Mr. Fiexraore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, :in W. Batty. THIS EVENING, a Grand JUVENILE NIGHT, being the Last. Wader the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his R o yal Ili&huoss Prince Mbert, Ste. Maernious success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding In the Metropolis.--A got‘eous Spectaele.—Miss Woolford on the Tight-rope.—trtlitant Scenes of the Arena.—A new comic PAR LOR:dine. THIS EVENING. Ike curtain will rise at a Quarter to seven o'clock precisely to the munificent Spectacle of the 'WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, Tl.e Fall of Jerusalem. After which, Miss Woolford on the Tight-rope. To he followed by an Inimitable disp!ay of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian taint of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin cpu of Sherwood Forest. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDEIS T 6. go communication can be atton.ded to ui.l?ess autheEti. cated by the name and address 01 the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATIIER.—Sax OFFICE, JANUARY 25. Ts automrrza, Lowest, 46; Highest, 49, Noon, 51 13KROMSTER, 30.17. I WIND S.W. ; fresh gales and squally. 111 GB WATER AT LONDON liltHAIl . Tins DsT — 'corning, 36 rain. after 2 Eveniroy, 55 rain. rain. after afte e r r 2 To-31osuow-31orning, 12 min. after 3 1 Evening, 30 te truing gint LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1849. Mr. RIGBY WASON, whose admirable letters to Lord Jose RUSSELL on the important subject of the reclamation of the waste lands of Ireland, have from time to time appeared in our columns, has forwarded another communication of still deeper and more general interest, which will be found in another part of our impression this day. It is a letter to his quondam constituents, the inhabitants of the borough of Ipswich, in which he submits for their considera tion a vast and comprehensive scheme, which he properly terms " A BUDGET FOU THE MILLION." It is an offering dictated by a grateful remembrance of the connexion that formerly existed between the parties. when Mr. Wasoer was the efficient and faithful re presentative of the borough. A recollection of Mr. WesoN's Parliamentary career, of the many valuable suggestions for the public benefit he has offered through the columns of the public press, and of the many practical improvements which he has effected by his individual exertions, occasions a feeling of regret that such a man should not now possess a seat in the. National Council, that he should be excluded from a participation in those legise latorial labours for which be is a 3 eminently qualified. That exclusion sufficiently proves that there is some thing rotten in the system under which the nation is deprived of such services ; that the people cannot be fairly represented when so tried and faithful a ser vant is not returned us a Member. Mr. WAGON comes forward in the light of a finan cal reformer. He submits views startling for their novelty, and for the magnitude of their conception. He suggests a plan " for paying off in an honest mann er the national debt. To begin this year, and to be completed, as far as taxes are con cerned, before its close:' He does not contemplate any act of spoliation or con fiscation. He appears to anticipate the possibility of such a charge. It is a favourite line of argument with those opposed to every reform, and anxious to perpetuate the existing abuses under which t to he susta' nation n h as g roaned for the last thirty years, and the golden idol which the bullionists have set up It is the bugbear to frighten timid and ignorant persons from from even listening to the arguments of financial re formers. He, however , dis p oses of the objection briefly, but emphatically'. H e says, "I d o not eon descend to say that I propose to kee p faith with the national creditor. Quis vituperavit ? was the proper reply to an uncalled-for eulogium on a heathen god ; and to any shout that may be raised in favour of national honesty, th e proper answer is, 11 ho entertains a contrary opinion ?'' It is, indeed, an astounding proposition, and we can easily conceive the amazement of those to whom it was detailed. And yet it does not appear so very impracticable after all, when the plan is fairly taken into consideration, and regarded in ail its aspects. Mr. WasoN declares " That unless 'w e are pre pared to operate upo n the National Debt, it is not possible for the industry of the country to be effectu ally released from excessive taxation ;" that t, COBDEN proposes to repeal only one-fifth of the burden, or ten millions, while Mr. MACGREGOR does not be lieve it practicable to strike off more than one-tenth, or five millions." He believes Mr. MACGREGOR'S esti mate to be the more accurate, and therefore takes his plan, and not Mr. Counszi's, for the reduction of ex penditure. In accordance, then, with the views of the lloncurable I\lerober for Glasgow, he assumes that and ordnance excenditure might the naval, army, be maintained with full efficiency for 14,`250,000 1 ., and that the civil expenditure would amount to 7,000,0001. in addition. These sums he proposes to raise by retaining the taxes on spirits, both Cus toms and Excise, which last year produced 7,500,000/., t o b ac co (at one quarter the present duties), tea at is. per pound, sugar at half the present duty, wines at lowest duty compatible with highest revenues, legacy duty on every description of pro perty real and personal, unredeemed land-tax, stamps, abolishing lac lobo, tui suggested by Mr. -1-IAcGRzGoa, , , iii , if ' '4. -:—.., I .°.' • s ' e Pt. V d "Cr) ' 4 . i .,,,, i ., , ,.s , ,_, 7 1,0, 4 - 40 , 4 , ,_„ .._ ce A . 0 . ---; - : lke ' *. Aft g atett _t: . ~. ..1,;%., , •)) ‘ !,', At '..-., ~I. s .x., ' '''' , ' ll9l ` ' 4 ' ' 4 4.. i , ,, , i1w:,4:,,," DI t r` , :...) 1.R 4 .T. i '' Z!.., ef:-..,....... v. THE SUN, LONDON, TIITTRSDAV EVENING, JANUARY 25, !MO. the duty on fire and marine assurances, and on car riage=, and equalising and reducing the remainder by one-half. From theF.e various sources of revenue he estimates that 24,700,0001., or 3,450,0001. more than state of the poor little creatures who were famished, and kicked, and general:y maltreated at, Tooting, the sufferings of OLIVER TWIST at the work house, and of ~`',MIRE at the Yoikshire school, were lenient and enviable. We shall now, how ever, witness the destruction of a system productive of agonies derogatory alike to our humanity and our intelligence as a civilized portion of Christendom. Yet this cannot be accomplished by the punishment of a single individual ; it must be the result of a comprehensive reorganization. And for these reasons we would not desire the pronunciation of any severe sentence upon Mr. DROVED: we would rather call for the disruption of a structure of which he is very fur from being the corner-stone. Until this shall have been done the streets of the capital and of the provincial cities will, continue to be in fected by those lazy vagabonds who shrink alike from honest labour and from legal relief, and who lead a merry life in their rags and artificial sores, debauching and revelling in their low haunts upon the loose halfpence flung to them by the cha ritable. For the prevention of so much systematic wretchedness, therefore, we do not look so much to the Court of Queen's Bench as we do to the deli berations of the llouse of Commons. Before the ses sion has far advanced the matter must be brought under the consideration of Parliament. „ . would be required to provide for the:national expendi ture, if:the national debt were out of the question. Mr. WasoN then puts forward three propositions, each of which he supports by sound reasoning and argument. These propositions are— " Ist. That it is discreditably dishonest nat to pay off the national debt. "2d. That it would be very easy to pay it off. " 81 That it would be profitable to pay it off." In sustaining the first proposition, Mr. WAsoet enters into a consideration of the purposes for which the debt was incurred ! The answer thereto, taking it from the lips of those who applied to Parliament for powers to contract that debt on behalf of the nation, was that the money was borrowed to carry on a war with the Continent, which was the means of preventing the invasion of this country.'' That was the only justifiable ground that could have been assigned. It was not for the sake of territorial aggrardisement, or to ccn'rol the liberties of a neighbouring nation. It was to protect the British soil from foreign invasion, and the property of the nation from passing into the hands of foreigners. The end ' was attained, there was no such desecration of our native land, and every Englishman retained posses• sion of the property to which he was justly entitled. Who, then, enjoyed the advantages of these extra ordinary exertions ?—who was benefited by the crea tion of the debt? Clearly and palpably, the owners ea property. They might have lost their possessions—been subjected to forced contributions, rapine, and confisca tion, and they should pay for that protection out of the p operty v‘hich remained in their ov n nands and which would pass to their children. The po• sition of the industrious: classes—of the artizans the operatives, and the labourers—would no' have differed materially from what it is a present, whatever might have been the result. They would, as now, have been compelled to labour hard and severely, t:) be up early and down late, to be contented with a scanty supply of coarse and humble fare, to be badly housed and badly clothed. If England were at this moment a Gallic dependency, co.eld the condition of the multitude be greatly deteriorated ? We fear that it would be impossible. Who then should satisfy the debt ? Clearly the owners of property—exclusively. In fact, every man's property is practically encumbered with its proportion of the National Debt, and it is little better than a national robbery to call upcn the people who have derived no benefit from cur expensive contests, who have no property, to contribute a por►ion of their scanty earn ing towards its liquidation. In his second proposition, it would seem as ii' Mr. WASON, in the hurry of calculation, had fallen into an error. Ike justly assumes the value of the realised property of the country to be 4,400,000,0001., and he says that 5 per cent. on this capital sum would produce more than sufficient to pay off the National Debt. Now, the National Debt, in round terms, amounts to 800,000,0001., whereas 5 per cent , on 4,400,000,0001. would amount to but 220,000,0001. only. It would therefore take about 18 per cent. to ob'ain the required amount. The error in the calculation does riot, however, in any degree affect the principle ; and Mr. W'Asox has shown how the great desideratum may be attained and the nation freed from an enormous debt, which it is positively disgraceful and di-honest to make no efforts to liqui date, when the country is in a state of profound peace and tranquillity. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC After the verdict pronounced upon the master of the Tooting establishment, e may, without any infringement of the laws of delicacy, be permitted to comment in some measure on the treatment of the pauper children by that functionary. Mr. BARTH°. LOMEM DROUET, it is true, will shortly have to ap pear in the Court of Queen's Bench to stand his trial on a charge of manslaughter. Nevertheless, while we should, under ordinary circumstances, feel our selves impelled to preserve silence until the definitive acquittal or conviction of the accused, we conceive that we are justified on the present occasion in pro• nouncing an opinion upon the inquiry without waiting for the result of the trial in Banco. Nor can it be ob jected that in so acting we are guilty of any dereliction of the ordinary duties of a journalist. We speak out because the facts ,of the case have already become so notorious; and, in so doing, we speak simultaneously with many of our contemporaries. Even the counsel who appeared for Mr. DROUET during the proceed ings of the coroner's inquest acknowledged in so many words that that person's conduct " had certainly been most improper." Mr. WAICLET himself, while exonerating from all legal responsibility such indi , viduals as the guardians of the Holborn Union, as the Poor -levy Commissioners, as the Poor-law In spector (Mr. HALL), and as the surgeon to the Tooting establishment (Mr. KITE), decided that the only party who could, be considered as culpable was the master of the pauper institution. In accordance with the view thus taken by the Co roner for Middlesex, the jury impanelled at the Globe Tavern, Gray's Inn-road, unanimously agreed to the verdict " That BARTHOLOMEW PETER DROUET is guilty of manslaughter." Subsequently, on an application being made for a certiorari to re move the depositions into the Court of Queen's Bench, the demand was granted, making the writ returnable at chambers on Saturday. There is this melancholy satisfaction on all similar oecasicns, that althomsh the unfortunate victims of the evil system cannot be restored to existence and coin pensatsd for the misery and sufferings they have undergone, the very circumstance of the exposure of their miseries and sufferings inevitably tends to prevent the too frequent recur rence of the same catastrophes. In the end such inquiries must, indeed, effect a salutary improvement in a system rotten to its very heart's core. Painful, therefore, as the details unquestionably are, it is well that they should be recorded with scrupulous exacti tude and perused with punctilious attention. But for the sudden outbreak of the disease, which is declared by some medical authorities to have been a malignant seizure of Asiatic Cholera, the public would have remained in ignorance of the tortures to which upwards of a thowand poor children were daily sub jected in a single building on the outskirts of the metropolis. Even at the present moment these un fortunate little creatures would have been shivering with cold, from an insufficiency of clothing ; they would have been turning over the potato-peelings and offal in the hog- troughs to satisfy the cravings of their hunger; they would have remained crippled with chilblains, and tormented with a variety of cuta neous or scrofulous affections. As it is, some scores of them (about 150 in all) have been abruptly cut oft' from their lives of wretchedness, and the inquest held over their dead bodies have revealed the cruelties of their condition, and in so doing have prevented the repetition of those cruelties towards the survivors. So far consequently, we repeat, there is a certain consolation in the midst of the anguish caused by these inquiries. Henceforth it will be difficult for boards of guar dians to shelter themselves behind the excuse that they have duly performed their part of such contracts I by paying up with regularity the sum agreed upon for the farming out of the pauper children under their jurisdic tion. Now that the Tooting cala mity has disclosed the parsimony of f un th ie e n se s " Farming Inst itutions, " the will not be regarded as exonerated from blame simply because they pay u p (as in the present each juvenile instancy) uvenile p a the upe r s . t i pu Theylate d will 4 beGd.considered per week sible f o r any misery that may in future be as forre spee_ expe rienced by these poor children, i f the y do not by personal inspection find out whether those poor children are properly cared for. They will hence forth be expected to satisfy themselves by periodical visits, properly conducted, that the inmates of these establishments have sufficiency of room, sufficiency o f clothing, sufficiency of beds, water, venti lation, and provisions. Nothing can be more melancholy than the depositions of the diffe rent surgeons who were reqaired to give in their evidence before the Coroner for Middlesex. Their description of the victims of the late malady, with their laxity of muscles, their emaciated extremities, and their tumid abdomens, was their swollen glands, enough of itself to testify that the mortality, if not caused by the cruelty practised towards the deceased, was grievously accelerated by the impoverishment of their systems by poor living. Compared with the open sea when they refused us all the necessaries ef life, my wife and myself were confined to our bed by sick ness, end unable to rise; no one gave us anything to eat or drink—food and physic were equally unattahiable, and we were reduced to extremities. Our friend, Ber nous, could not procure us any relief. In his despair he addressed himself to some of the passengers, who con sented to sell him a small supply of provisions, and at the end of five days we were both out of danger. When we were able to emerge from our cabin, some monks who were lodged in the forecastle sod us nsarly all the articles that we required, bat our health, not withstanding, was much shattered. The Cabetians threatened to cast us into the sea, but Berneus and my self, armed to the teeth, succeeded in preventirg than from perpetrating the atrocious deed. On cur arrival at New Orleans we found the remains of our first detach ment; all those who hale eseeped death are, more or less, suffering from illness; many are in the hospital. You should have seen the despair depicted on the win • tenances of the men, and the tears ,which suffused the faces of the women ; some hal lost a husband, others a brother, others a son. You hear nothing but com plaints and cries of distress. In short, I cannot better describe our misery than by comparing it to that of the French army in Russia in 1812; I think it still worse in fact, for in Russia the suffirers were exclusively men, whereas here we have half women and one third children. Several of the women are enceinte, the others suckle their children; it is enough to rend one's heart- strings to see them. Thero are 200 or 300 fami lies utterly and irretrievably ruined. As soon as we landed my wife ran to the French Consul and obtained an order for the repayment of some hundred francs, with which we hope to return to France as soon as our health will permit, for we are all ill. We have provisionally hired a small room, 12 feet square, at the rate of 521. 50e. per month. Provisions are very dear—the town is badly built, very filthy, and very unhealthy; meat sells :or the same price as in Paris, but everything else is at least double. We are in a miserable position, but we soon hope to take to the sea again, and to have the plea sure of beholding you all once more, and of living long enough to prove to your satisfaction that I am quite cured of Communism." The Univers, which is an authority on all matters connected personally with the POPE, has the following in the article on Italian affairs, which appeared in the National of Monday:— " The article of the National is partly true and partly false. It is true that the Turin Cabinet, directed by the Abl 6 Gioberti, has protested against the intervention of Spain; but it is false that Pius IX. has claimed the inter vention of Austria. As regards the Sardinian Envoy at Gaeta, he had no occasion to remonstrate, seeing that up to the present moment the Sovereign Pontiff has sot thought proper to receive him in his quality of Envoy." It was reported in Paris yesterday that the Austrian Envoy had givefi notice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic, that it was the intention of Austria to take immediate steps for the reinstatement of the Porz as a temporal SOVEREIGN. Some disturbance took place, on the 18th instant, at llermanville, near Caen, in cons( quence of a body of about 400 persons assembling and raising cries against the Cure, who Was thought to be hostile to the republican government. A Brigadier of Gen darmerie and six men came forward to disperse them, but nut finding the Me or forthcoming . , they were obliged to remain merely in observation, the crowd being too numerous to be coerced. About three in the evening the Mayor appeared with assistance, and the crowd then dispersed. The Brigadier lodged informations against eleven of the most tumultuous of the assemblage. The Union FranCOMEO:Se announces that Count MAUIIICS ESTERHAZY, the Austrian _Minister at the Court of the Netherlands, passed through _Besancon on the 18th init., on his way to the South. It was believed that Gaeta was his destination. The Count travels incognito, and without any attendants. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 45f. 65c ; the Five per Cents, at 75f. 55c.; the New Loan at 751. 20c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7051. Rouen, 4401.; Great Northern, 390 f.; Avignon, 1871. 50e.; Vierzon, 2101.; Basle, 83'. 75e.; Bordeaux, 3771. 50e ; Paris and Strasburg, 3321. 50a.; Tours and Nantes, 3131. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWATS AT TEE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANG, JAN. 24. Northern of France, 7% ex div.- Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 1 4—Paris and Strasbourg, 2% —Rouen and Havre, 10-- Sambre and Meuse, 3A. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. As the French Republic took the initiative in abc , lishing the punishment of death for political offences, so, to its honour be it spoken, it has taken the initiative in reducing its naval end military establishments, thus depriving the opponents of economy in other countries of their stereotyped excuse for extravagance, "France does not reduce her establishments." The Journal des Debats of yesterday publishes the details of the budget which has been presented to the National Assembly, from which it appears that the army is to be reduced by 121,372 men and 8,022 horses, and the fleet to 10 ships of the line, 8 frigates, 18 cor vettes., 24 brigs, 12 transports, end 24 cutters, to be manned by 20,000 men. This budget, it should be remembered, was prepared by the late Ministers. The Constitutionnel, the organ of M. THIERS and the reactionary party, is opposed to any reduction in either the army or the navy, or to any diminution in the budget of expenditure ; it is not the Republican, therefore, but the reactionary party, that party which is supported by end in leegue with the English a: is.. tccracy, that is opposed to disarmament, end anxious, for war. It is to be hoped that this fact will be borne in mind when the question of the reclue;ion of our establishments shall come on for discussion in the British Honse of Commons. The National Aesembly during the sitting of Tues day determined by a majority of 52 that it would take into consideration the proposition signed by 80 Mem bers for the appointmens of a speciel Ccenmittee to examine the budget of receipts and expenditure for 1849. Tee num'sers were—for the proposition, 374; against it, 322. It was also determined that the proposition of M. BILLAULT, which is of a some what similar character should be considered at the same time. When this decision became known it at once occasioned a fall in the funds of 45 centimes ; for should the motion for the appointment of the Committee be carried it would he tantamount to a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, which will probably go out, as the PRESIDENT of the Re -1 public does not, it is said, any longer place confidence in them. The remainder of the sitting was occupied by the discussion on the organic law regulating the Council of State. There was a disturbance at the College of France on Tuesday, at the lecture of M. LuEBMINIER on Comparative Legislation. Some of the doctrines of the Professor were unpalatable to many of the audience, who forthwith began hissing, whistling, and interrupting, and the lecturer was at length com pelled to withdraw. The Government have adopted precautionary measures to prevent the occurrence of such scenes for the future. The Committee of Finance has determined, on the report of M. ACIIILE FouLD, that it would not be expedient that the Assembly should take into its con sideration the proposition for the return of the sums received in payment of the tax of 45 centimes. On Tuesday the following proposition of M. PRADIE was distributed in the National Assembly : " The National Assembly, justly occupied with its situation relative to the country, declares that, in its opinion, the period of the next Assembly cannot be distant, and that in consequence it will hasten to give back its mandate to the country when a suitable moment arrives, without examining whether it has completed the series of labours which it imposed on itself by its Bill of December 11. But it sets aside the various propositions submitted to it as contrary to its own consideration, and to the moral force which it has need of to surmount the grave difficulties which it may have to go through. The Assembly invites its bureau to hasten the labours of the committees, and to submit without delay to its delibera tions the budget, and the various bills which relate to our financial situation." By a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic the number of Members composing the Central Commis sion on Railroads has been increased from 15 to 24. The following are to be the new Members :—MM. Dufaure, N. Daru, Gustave de Beaumont, Lanjuinais, Victor Lefranc, S. Davillier, Greterin, and Jahan.l The Meniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, ordering that the exhibition of the products of national industry in the Champs-Elysées shall open on the Ist of June next, and close on the 31st of July. The Munikur publishes a report from the Minister of War to the PRESIDENT of the Republic, commu nicating the result of the investigation which wits ordered some time ago as to complaints made against the administration of the Hotel des Invalides. The Minister states that nothing has transpired to impeach the honour of the administration, but at the same time he recommends a new mode of organization of the officers of this national institution, as being bet ter calculated to promote its good government and welfare. In consequence of tkis report, the PRESI DENT of the Republic has issued a decree in which, after stating that in future the dignity of Governor of the Invalides may be conferred either on a Marshal of France or a General of Division, he orders a new classification of officers, and declares that the estab lishment is to be annually subject to inspection. The seven magistrates selected from the Court of Cessation to form the High Court of Justice for the trial of BARDFS and his accomplices, are Messsrs. BERENGER, lIARDOIN,ROCIIER, lIELLO, and BOISSEU, as titular judges, and Messrs. PATAILLII and DELA PALM!' as supplementary judges. The five titular judges assembled on Saturday, and chose M. BEREN• GER, lately named President of the Court of Cessa tion, to be President of the High Court. Rename, the man who pronounced the dissolution of the National Assembly, during the invasion on the 15th of May, addresses, through the Reforme, a letter to the Procureur-General of the Republic, in which he protests against the decision by which nine teen persons are accused of a fact of which he states that he accepts all the responsibility. He says, that forced by the necessity of circumstances, he declared the dissolution of the Assembly unknown to his fellow accused. He adds, that he did not constitute himself a prisoner, because he expected a different decision, and that he will not give himself up in order not to cause an adjournment of the trial, and thereby pro long the imprisonment of some of the accused ; but, on the day of trial, he promises to present himself, not to defend himself, but to tell the truth, which has been so hypocritically falsified by the reactionary and Royalist spirit. The Minister of the Interior is preparing a Bill for the suppression or restriction of the clubs, and expects to be able to present it to the Assembly in the course of a few days. The Abeille of Chartres says— " The seditious language attributed to the insur gents who have been pardoned has been denied. We can guarantee the truth of the following words, pro nounced by insurgents coming from Brest, and pass ing through this town. We have them from an ear witness:-4 If things do not go on as we like we shall soon knock down this Louis Napoleon. If we bad held on two hours longer Paris would have been in flames. Besides, we are quite ready to begin again. It appears that at Chartres the people are not Republican, so we were told, gape a vous burgesses of Chartres I if we were only fifty, the cathedral, the bishop's palace, and the prefecture would soon be blown up. Wherever these wretches pass they hold the same language. How could the Government think of re storing them to liberty ? It is adding to the dangers of the capital." The Onstitutionnel publishes the following letter from one of the dupes of M. CARET, who was' so stupid as to emigrate to Texan Icaria: — " New Orleans, United States, Dec. 15, 1848. "Dear Brothers,—When I left you, on the 29th of October, I was far from foreseeing all the misfortunes which were so soon to visit us. As for the voyege, it was a prosperous one, for we errieed in 35 days ; but it was ve ry difli rent as regarded our expedition. Al that s' t out with us, was only the bare truth. We suffered you told me on the subject of Cabet, end the men who much at sea from their brutality. When al d l our bag. gage was embarked, our passports vises, an d was the poesible to go hack, Cabet and hisecel of their wetches, their of their hawk's g us i ; e ti u m p y their pencil satlrlippthede mthoenewymialennd valuables .. , iv e 17 made aboutus chains, their earrings, their wedding rin h tf, ccaloseths,esantd s N il o v erarstuicuifor- boxesy—Tloritiaes egsocianrgetao say the eyes of these hungry harpies. I alone resisted their ra pacity, and insiste on retaining possession of my pro perty, but my obstinacy nearly cost me my life, and that of ray beloved partner, We bad scarcely gained the SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 18th have been received. The Chamber of Deputies had on the preceding afternoon adjourned sine die. General PRIM, late Captain-General of Porto Rico, has arrived in Madrid. General CONCHA arrived at Vich on the 1 lth ; be hal been detained at Genoa five days, in consequence of the heavy rains. The Carlists had, it was rumoured, blockaded Ma mesa. MADRID BOLSA, J.N. 18.—Three per Cents., 191 buyers, sellers ; Five per Cents., 9i to 10; Passive Debt, 3i to 4; Bank Shares, 54 buyers, 56 sellers. Exchange on London, 49 10. It i 3 said that Austria is desirous of marching an army into the Roman territory for the restoration of the Port; to his temp , .)rH. sover,ignty, but that she vv not do so - without the content of France and England. ONE. CLOSING ice. .t , nu' sli.ll:l3ri FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRIG LS. ank. Stock , ..er Cent. Reduced Anna 9 0 % 3 /4 903 3 1",•3r Cent. Consols Annuities 9O k i i% th . ‘ 903 k 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 . — 8 8 74 N,w SIA per Cent. Anu5...... lion g Anns. to expirn Jan.lß6o Ditto, Oct. ' 10. 1859 ..... -16 8 9-16 India Stock for Account... ..... 243 243 1,615. Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under LOOM .. ...... 48 45 p South Sea Stock • Ditto New Annuities ... 8 7 1,4 Consols for Account 9 0V141458 Exchequer Bills. 2V 2 d. & 2d. 1,0001. March ... 43 p 1,0001. June 43 46 p 5001. Match.. 500/. June Small, March .. 46 43 p Small. Jun© PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS LO °NE O'CCK. 45p 90 7.8 46 p 48 p 46 p 45 p 43 p 48 p CLOSING ?RI(! Es. 79% 25 Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... ... Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 26th 25 Ditto, Account Erinador Bonds Grenada londs, 1 per Cent. iii.oxican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2614% Ditto, Account 6 %5 ,814 Portuguese 5 per Cents. 73 72 Ditto,4 per Cent — Ditto, Account 27 Spanish 5 per Cent. 16 40 . -— Ditto, Account 1 5 % 1/04% 15 1 / 2 Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, Account . 2 8 14 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild — Ditto, Account 4 9 14 5 / 8 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 78 1 4 Ditto, Account t) • r- _ Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3LA 3 1 In•ec••• a+•.+• Neweast It J tine r 3 1 / 4 15:14 26% 26% 27% 28 1 4 79% ...... 49% 28y 78% LondonB6Blackwall...l3/.6i.8d.... 5 Do. 22%•.•-n L't ION E Y told COMMERCIAL NEWS. London, Brighton, and Coat 5O ..... 351 e %, 35;1,1 CITY, QUARTER TO THR EE. South Co Do. Guarant. 5 per et, 9 The Cotton Market atLiverpool, yesterday, was higher Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 .. ... 50 sad 5O x.d. for American sorts. Sales 10,000 bales.— Railway Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 Shares were buoyant and a good business was dune. Ditto, New 5/., guar. The accounts received from France have 6 per cent. .. 5 given much satisfaction. The prospect of an London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — •••••• ....... extensive reduction in the military force Ditto, Preference .. .`A of that kingdom is hailed as encouraging London and N. Western 100 135% 135 131%. to our financial reformers, and the example will not be e.: ! ) Que!ters (L. 6.13.) 1 Ditto, l'stv lost, it is hoped, upon other countries groaning, like let te i , e she ..... .. .. 2 ....... 8% ourselves, beneath the weight of taxation. The c heck Do ii.,1.8, 1 ,„ ( 1 4 .,,,L ) tee sustained by the French Ministry seems to be scarcely thought or. Do. 101. (M. s'e. B.) A. 1 0 Do. 101.(.11. & B.) B. 10 • The following is the position of the dried fruit trade, Do. WI. la & B.) C. I ••• •• 41 /••• as regards the article of currants, aecerding to the re- L ee eee se Western ...... s ') port of Messrs. Witherhy and Henson, London brokers :-- lee Nees 501. • ... ..... 42%.. " The arrivals here from the date of our last report to Do. New 40/.......... .. al the 22d instant inclusive, have consiAcd of eleven car- Do. Tenths (Cancel.) 50 •••••• 3 )%•• •••• -- goes, making the total quantity imported since the corn- Ditto ditto ..... 4O mencement of the season, by fi tly. nine ships, 7,532 Ditto. Thirds.. •••••••!. 15 butts, 7,004 carroteels, 9 , 032 barrels, and about 500 Do.. New Scrip, 184 e, Pref. 7 per Cent. on cases, or 9,100 tons, against 5,928 ' butts, 5,175 cer- Deposit, and 5 per rottels, and 9,382 barrels, or 7, 400 tons , to 20th Cent. on Calls ...... 5 - January, 1848, and 7,300 to the like period o f London,Saliebury, aid 1847. We shall require at this port 3,000 tons Yeovil ..... ~... ." ne. 1 ;‘•••••• more to make our importation equal to that Londorelerry&Celersline 30 ...... ....,......- of the whole of last season, From the 31st January to eondonderry and Eruus- 10th of September of 1 8 48 and 1847, were received kei e ...... ... here from 4,800 to 5,000 tons. At Liverpool 300 tons Manehester,Busetotnand more have been received than to this period of al at i ck 1848, but 300 tons less than in 1847. The clear- Mancheste Lincolnshirheffield, and loo ances for home consumption at this port from Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 . — .• - _the 19th ult. to the 18th instant , have been 564 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 2e - . — - tons against 550 tons during the like period of 1848, and Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 11 1 4 ..... . ......•. ~ ... 230 tons mei 290 tons in 1847 and 1846. A great in- Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 ...... 11:1.t creaso in the consumption is evidently going on in the Ditto, Gt.Grimsby ... 40 manufacturing districts in the north, the clearances at Ditto ditto . ...see. 13 Liverpool during the five weeps ending 17 t h instant Ditto ditto 8% ,..... 409.1 •• having reached 635 tons against 515 tons in 1848, and Ditto Sheffield and 260 tons and 265 ions in the two preceding years. " Lincolnshire l 5 . There are numerous ship arrivals from different parts Do., Grimsby Dock... 20 of the world, but the letters and papers which they bring D 0.,. Manches . ter and 4 _ 2s Lincoln Union. .... /., have for the most part been anticipated by previous • Midland .... ..... ........1a) •• ••• 95 ....... .....,.. arrivals. Do. Consolidated Pref.loo The mail steamer from the West Indies has been tele- Do., do., 504 Sheeeba. 25 ..... :10% 20 graphed as having arrived at Southampton, but we have Do. Birm., and Derbyioo no details yet of the news she brings. DteConsol.Bristol and The Bank of England, notwithstanding the rumours Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 ...... of its intentions, has made nu alteration to-day in its Ditt,o,l3rta. SuGlocar. 40 - - ..... ......• ... terms of discount. Ditto, Leieesas Swan- The duty on Foreign Wheat is still 10s. per quarter. nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo . — The Funds have been in a most buoyant state this Michaud Gaeat A stern Irish morning, and there is an active business dt.ing for both 111iddlesbro' and Itedca ,- , money and account. Consols hate realised 90:11. The New 6 pe,. cent. guar....... 50 Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 91? i -i. How cor- Newcastle and Carlisle.loo -•-• e-•• ••• reef our remarks were in respect to the general tone of Do. Questers 25 as some might Nswmareet - • .... . -•••• ftelieg not having in the least altered. .20 have concluded because of the temporary flatness, two Do. Extennion .........21. 125.... —........ ~... days since, this morning's report will sufficiently prove. Newport, Abergavenny, Bank Stock has touched 192 and 193. India Stock is and Hereford ...swey and_ Enniskillen 7 ...... at 243. Excht quer-bills have realised 435. to 465. prem. .. eviry,. vv arrenpomt, • -..• In the Foreign Market the transactions have been sna tteetrevor .. 23 more extensive. Spanish Five per C ents. are 151 to ft, Nei - folk . , and the Three per Cents. 28 1 . Portu g uese Four per Do. New 201. .. l5 Cents. era at 27. Mexican Stock is worth 20 2 - to 1. tat. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20 Grenada is 15,i to 16. Dutch Four per Cents. are 78.1 , Do. Guaranteed seepc. 5 Railway Shares have taken a further start, especielly Do.Lowestort(4leerct) 20 a. the old lines. Ditto (6 per ct.) - ..... ''" •' De e do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... N rthern Counties Union 4 North British ........ ... 25 Ditto, Halves .. . 1214 — ... Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Extension O% — •........• ... Ditto, Thirds .... .... 8 1 74 .. North & ' South-Western 2 — North Staffordshire.-- 15 ...... ... North Wales . ••• 3 %•• eorth-Western .... 11% S'ii 4 42 31 1 A 39 1 A - 1154 15 94% co. .2... MINI 16% lye 4 L~ i 25 oxierd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ... . , I 0 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate ... ..... 12%..... 13 12Ys ex. int. 123 x.i. Royston and Hitchin ... 2 Scottish Central Scottish Midland 25 - - Ditto, New - .. ... . ....... Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (Nor. Div.) 91,E PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 5O - ... ... Amber. Nott., Bosten, and Eastern Junction 4A...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% Pelfast & County Down 20%...... • Berks & llants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 5 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... ........ Do, without guarantee 20 ,‘ ... 25M 25 x. i.... 25 x. 1, Birming, Wolverlfton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 153 Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 13/. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 10 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ... .. - Bristol and Exeter 9O - .. .. 69 Ditto, Thirds ......... 27% .... iluckinOanizhire... 16/. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares llg — Do. New 10/. Pref..... 7%... , B 54 i 3A .. .. Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto,:Preference l5 .. Cl arence 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. 35 ...... 5 , ! j .. Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% — - East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ....• • -- Do., 18/., E. & 11.... 18 Do., 3/.105. - 2 % 1 ,4 2l Eastern Couldies... ..... 20 ...... 11%.. ~ 11.), Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. . ... Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do., 5 per cent. Do. Quarters Do. Nev ... 43 - Eastern Union, Class A "late E. U. Shares) 25 .. — 15 3 / 4 - 81i 23 10/8 l A P .......", ad ....,- _ Ditto, Class B (L & and B.) 2214 Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . — Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent,— ...... 2%,., East Lancashire Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 ...... - Do., 6 per Cent- Pre ference Quarters ... 6 1 4 ...... ... .. East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42 1 / 2 43 Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. Edinburgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport l5 .. ..• Exeter,Yeovil, fs Dorch 2% - Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Illa,%gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ;lasgow,Kiimar., & Ayr 50 — 18% 26% d___Jgolri,- . Do. Preference Consol. -- . .. , ... G r eat Northern Do., ? , , 2 A Deferred ... 12%...... 4% sxi Do., % B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ... ..... 6% ~.... 44% .. ... Do. Extension......... 2% — ••• treat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England 100 ..... Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto 25 - ••• Ditto, New, 30 7 3O Ditto, New, 151 Groat Western 100 ...••. 97 .••••• Ditto, 4. Shares 5O ...... ......... ...... Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ..... Ditto, New 171— ..-. 15 ... .. 14 . II lddersfield and Manch. 30 - Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... tiOi 50% Ditto, IA Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5O .. .• .. Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... • — ...... .... . Do. Quarter Shares... 171,2 — • Do. Fifths... ... 10 ...... 6X, 7.. ... Do. Sixteenths 614•••••• - Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 ..... - . . EA .... Do. New, Gua. 6 per et 7% ...... 9 1 A 3 r..i.......... 9 x Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ...... ~„... ........ ' 'l, Ditto % (late Ea" dersiield and Shelf.) 43 ...... .. ..... ~,.. IVA 11 33 3 / 4 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte - clad, and-Goole) ... 5a- Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ••• Do. (Preston 84 'Wyre) 25 - Do. % Shares ( A)... 914—.0 - Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO% 100.... ••• 10 Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 ....• • Do., Half Shares 25 Do., (blue) Serip...... 2%••• „. Leeds and Thirsk Ditto, New ... ...... .... 40 ~ •• 4a vt. .. Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 8 1 / 2 - -. . •e Liverpool, Crosby and Southport ...... 5 1 124 Australasia British North American 50 .•• London Joint Stock lO ... .. MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 14 Australian. 3 ~''~' Do. do (Son. Div.) ... 5 Shrewsbury and 8in8... 9 Ditto ,_ditto. Class B. 5 -• ••• Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... Shrewsbury & Cheater ( Nor. W. Min.) lB - Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... .. ... ..... Ditto Oswestry ....... 18 1 / 2 — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 Shropshire Union 11 •, - ;eutn Devon 5O ...... Do. Preference - as. , •••• •••• ...... 'outh Staffordshire 7 IA — -- South iiasteru .. 33% 251 2i 1) 0., No. 1.....- ........ 28 D0~::NO. 2. Do., No. :3 ....... ~.... 30 Do.. Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Uoole ‘'swans. ti Loughor & Ca- • la neron's Stru. C0a1.... 6 - , ~aw Vale Extension 8 ••• .••••...... Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 % z...... ............... Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 17%. Waterford and Limerick 47 1 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... tO Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do: ... 10 ..... ..... West Cornwall _ 6 West London Do. Do. Ist Class ... 20 Do. Do. 2d Class 20 W hitehaven & Furness 14 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 12 W ilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth fork, Newcastle, and Berwick. ....... ..... ... 25 ..... 29 ... ..... Do. Original New and Berwick Do. Extension No. 1. 20 „' 2 1 ,4 . Do. do. 2......... 20 ..... Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ..... 9 Oa 9 . fork sansi North Midland 50 ...... 57 56% ...... Ditto, Prefereme lO - Do. East and W est Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ikliglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... 5 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzou) ... 17 Ceylon 15 • - 12 Demerara Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras ss. • --- Dutch Rhenish . East Indian 3 1,4 . Great Indian Peninsular -LA Louvain a la Sambre 7% Luxembourg 7 % Ditto ..• .......... ....... 10 Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege 20 ... 3 , %.°- Northern of France...... 12 Orleans and Bordeaux.- 7 2 "ti) ex.div ...... 2% °' 59 %9 ~ .; Paris and Lyons ll ..... - Do. Do. . -.- Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen ... Paris and Strasbourg ... 9 -- Rouen and Havre, 2O . 3 .'44 Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. 3 1 4_%... .• JOINT STOCK BANK. .. - 6 1/41 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS D.AV L O NDON, JAN. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S . ‘' ' ; fresh gales and squa ly. with dry weather. It big ( very heavy gale last night, with tremendous squalls. t, SUNDERLAND, JAN. 24.—The Gleaner, of this Pl r a l from Konigsberg to London, has put in here w" damage. DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W.N.W. to W„ strong<re,./81 Arrd. John Cobbold, Handley, Mauritius. Arrd. tr°- 0 , the River, Roscberry, Young, Port Philip; O. c i , Winn, Bombay; Amwell, Longridge, Mauritius Sinclair, Pernambuco; Adele, Demerara; Reward , •L'„v s ; nard, Antigua; Remittance, Marshall, New Orl e61 " Switzerland, Fletclaer, New York; Nautilus, e ,, 0 0/ SHEERNESS, JAN. - 24.—The Johannes Mations , 'L e a Batavia, which was on s h ore n e ar Dungeness, has Ps.' assisted into this harbour in a leaky state this dal: to DOVER, JAN. 23.—The Ti g ris, Linton, from Ce.Y' °- his London, which was strand e d to the westward of t of harbour yesterday, has broken up, and the remain tl : fi r ot. the cargo (except the co c oa nut oil in tanks) washe d ° r• CARDIFF, JAN. 24.—The Jessie, from Troon for .'l,ll deaux, put into Penarth Roads 23dinst., leaky, and loss of 'leaf, bowsprit, jibboora, &c. L() sir NEWCASTLE, JAN. 24.—1 t still continues to heavy gale from W.N.W. The Mary (brig) (3„' et port, after heaving out her ballast yesterday reere":,7 e re Souter Point, was driven off the Land ; her masts" cut away, and has not since been seen. r at . ° SALCOMBE, JAM. 24.—The Dorcas, which Bel le s e cil terday, hes put back with loss of rudder, having struck by a sca. b e cP Yeamotrrn, I. W., JAN. 24.—This clay it b 35 ? fir blowing s'r,ng gale from W.S.W. with every 81 1 1 at tt!le of a ditty night. All the wind-bound vesse' riding saR?. - - • to HULL, JAN. 24.—The Unicorn (steamer) b e ,nl O , Antwerp, sank off West Capel (Seimlde), 00 t- h e instant, having been in contact, dual 2le vi'l' :eV Rob Roy (steamer), from Antwerp ato-adtill ; C. -of s e by the latter vessel—arrived here, ZLV d • W ith It 3ss g ot . bowsprit, head, cwwater, &c. The Helen Mog,tcli (steamer) has arrived lhre from Gluckstadt,' ---?,,g place she left on the 21st inst,mt, and repoyts, e a ll ye i ri found much ice below Gluckstadt, and expellent, heavy weather. A Globe, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Wind W,S W..-...Arro• n - o •cf, Ward,Calcutta; Flora Muir, Stebon ditto; Choice' n't l et" Buenos Ayres, and not the Chance, as reported Ye'"v-er day; Swiftsure, Bonny. Sid. Nov. 94, end frcra "O l e m.nd.) Po 1.4:c. 1., Arglo-Aincri , .!ar, Kiri:,, 13 `-'' ''''. 1 4 , ( 4 i;utt c 13.:, CR. fiugs art: hoisted at the entrance' i of etie l Y `,; ( c ) re as a notice toots not to enter, and unt il one of : 0010 a the flags i c e hauled down th® inymol bQuo 1" GERAIANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Prussian Stoats Anzeiger publishes the follow ing declaration from the officers of DON MIGUEL'S regiment who deserted from the Hungarians to the Imperialists. It is dated Karlowitz, Jan. 10 : " Inspired with unalterable lore and devotion to bis Majesty the Emperor, we expected to receive an intima tion from our superior officers in order to carry cut our wishes and return to our duty. But in vain. We found in our generals decided opponents to our views. All the rescripts and proclamations of his Majesty and of Prince Windischgratz were not brought to our knowledge, but were craftily kept from us. At length we received through an extraordinary channel from the commandant of the Karlowitz camp, Captain Milekich, a friendly summons and a notification that his outposts would, on our arrival at Peter-Wardein, give us a friendly reception, and thus we arrived happily at Kar lowitz. We consider it our duty to return our warmest thanks to the Servians of Karlowitz, for the friendly re ception which they gave us," The reign of terror continues throughout the f whole of the Austrian dominions. The Croats continue their daily system of plunder and murder, persons are arrested and shot without form of trial on secret denunciations, all letters, even those of the Mi nisters themselves, are opened et the Post-office, and a system of the most horrible espionage is re gularly organized. The rule of ROBESPIELME was one of freedom, and of mercy, and of justice, in comparison with the atrocious reign of terror which at present prevails in Austria. home idea may be formed of the state of things in that unhappy country from the folloTA ing extract from the letter of a tra veller " who is enabled to write those things which the Austrian Post-office will not suffer to pass," which appears in the Cologne Gazette : " You can form no ides of the state of things in Austria; the dispatches of everybody are opened; nay, to such an extent is the blind zeal of those in authority carried that even the letters ird.;ressed to the Ministers are not excepted. Wait till Hungary is reduced, and you will hear strange things. I wish I were safe and sound out of the country. The Diet is at this moment less free than it ever was at Vienna. If I were not afraid of my life I could give you, as well as many others, de tails that would surprise you. But the voice of truth will, in the end, be heard; for it is utterly impossible that things should remain in their present state.' PRUSSIA. M. AUAGO had his audience of leave on the 20th. The 22d was fixed for the elections, and no journals were to be published on that day in consequence of the elections. This sounds rather remarkable to English ears ; here the day of election would be marked by greater energy on the part of the proprietors of jour nals to procure and publish the earliest intelligence of the electoral results. Accounts frcm Breslau of the 19th say, the cholera has reappeared here. Yesterday the number of cases amounted to sixty, and to-day to seventy. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. The Bureau of the States of Schleswig-Holstein resolved, on the 16th, to convoke that Assembly at Schleswig, for the 26th. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBUEGIIt JAN. 11.—Ilis Majesty the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH I. of Austria has been nominated chief of the Grenadier Regiment of the Emperor FRANCIS 1., which is to take the name of the regiments of the Empire of Austria. —Journal du Commerce d' Anvers. ITALY. The French Constitutionnel publishes some intel ligence from Lombardy, by which it appears that Marshal RADETZKY had tri ed to force the nine pro vinces composing the la te Lombardo-Venetian kingdom t o name each a deputy to the Diet of Kremsier ; but that hitherto the Congregation of Brescia had been the only electoral college that had obeyed the summons of the Marshal, and named M. SALER', who nevertheless had resigned on the ground of the incompetency of the Provincial Con gregation of Brescia to name a representa tive to the Austrian D iet of Kremsicr Upon which the Provincial Congregation, re cognising th e va lidity of the reason adduced, had declared it would net proce ed to a second elec tion. Como, Milan, and Pavia persist, according to the correspondent, in a similar refusal; the news of the election of Messrs. LITTA and NAGAIS is, there fore, false. orders, Marsln consequence o f this resistance to his hal RADETZKY is said to have declared that, as the Italians will not proceed to the nomina tion of their representatives of the Diet of Krem sier, he would name the nine deputies himself, and have them escorted from brigade to brigade to their deatiption. GREECE. ATHENS, DEC. 31.—The Minister of the Interior has presented a project of law, ter;ding to favour the development of the colony of Ip:Jist , s, at Ertril, in the island of Eubcpa, by granting various privi leges to the settlers; a second project of law, re lative to the beat method of repairing the port of Karyota; and a third project of law, demanding power to raise a loan of 80,000 drachmas from the city of Athens, for the construction of aequeduets and the erection of two model establishments for the preparation of wine and oil. THE PENINSULAR. MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.—The Pe ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's ship Pacha, Captain John `Weeks, arrived here at midnight with the usual Spanish and Portu guese mails in charge of Lieutenant Langton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are—Gibraltar, Jan. 16 ; Cadiz, Jan. 17 ; Lisbon, Jan. 19; off Oporto, Jan. 20; Vigo, Jan. 21. The Pacha did net communicate with Oporto, owing to the heavy swell on the bar, but found the Oporto mail waiting at Vigo. She brings 41 cases eggs, 907 boxes oranges, 9 cases leeches, 15 casks dates, 15 casks beef and pork, 30 packages sundries, and 65 packages specie, value 18,0001. sterling. By this steamer we have letters to the 191 inst. from our correspondent in the city of Lisbon. Portugal remained perfectly tranquil. The debate in the House of Peers upon the address in answer to the Queen's speech closed on the 13th, and the address was adopted unanimously. A ministerial crisis had arisen out of the contract for farming the city dues at the rate of 726 contos a year, and which M. Falcao maintained could not be creditably rescinded after having been adopted by a Council of Ministers. Rio Tinto subsequently offered to cancel the contract, which was at last agreed to by the Minister of Finance upon the express condition of the opponents of the measure finding other equally efficacious resources for supplying the Treasury. The pecuniary necessities of the Government were very great. Every exertion was being made to get up a loan of 500 contos from the Bank of Portugal upon security of the decimal taxes guaranteed by the ecte casas, or city du, s ; if nothing could be done, Falcao seem deterniincd to abide by the contract, insisting upon his dismissal, as upon a vote of the Cortes the whole Cabinet would be upset. Our cor respondent thinks it doubtful that the shareholders of the Bank of Portugal would sanction a new loan to the Government; out of . its own resources it might perhaps be enabled to borrow the required amount for the Government. 'fla projected loan caaeeda run for change of the bank notes, which was well met. It was probable, uotwithstergling the crisis which continued up to the sailing of the packet, that the Cabinet would find means eventually to conquer its difficulties arising from the sete casas contract. In exchanges little was doing in Lisbon, and paper remained over on London, the quotation for which, at three months, was 5:7- ; Paris, 535; Anisterham, 421 Hamburgh, 48* ; Genoa, 530. Portuguese Stocks had risen a little ; the Five per Cents. were 46g. Four per Cents., 38 to 39. There was no de mand for Bank Shares, which were nominally quoted at 40 discount for Bank of Portugal Shares, and 40 premium for Oporto Shares. Lisbon Bank-notes 42 per cent. discount. Sir Charles Napier's squadron, consisting of three ships of the line, a sloop, a brig, and four steamers, left its moorings in the Tagus on the morning of the 18th, and sailed for Gibraltar. The fleet was spoken at noon of the same day by the Pacha off Cape Espichel, steering south, wind N.E., moderate, and fine. Captain Weeks informs us that the steamers Stromboli, Rifleman, Reynard, and Plumper were all under sail without.the assistance of their steam- power ; and maintained their stations admirably. Previous to his departure from Lisbon, Sir Charles Napier gave the men a day's field exercise, and reported the probability of his return to the Tagus early in February. The American frigate St. Lawrence, 44, Captain Paulding, arrived at Lisbon on the 12th inst. in nine days from Southampton, and performed the usual quarantine. The Brazilian steam-frigate Affonso sailed on the 13th for Rio Janeiro. Our advices from Gibraltar, of the 16th, quote the rates of exchange as follow :—On London (at ninety days) 49f.; Paris, sf. 25c.; Marseilles, sf. 26c.; Genoa, sf. 28c.. At eighty days' sight : —On Ma drid, 3 dis.; Cadiz, dis.; Malaga, / die.; Seville, dis.; Alicante, a dis. ; Valencia and Barcelona, par to / dis.; Spanish dollars, 1 per cent. prem. The British schooner. Competitor got upon the rocks at Punta Male, but was assisted off and taken into Gibraltar Bay. Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus was at Gibraltar. The steamer Iberia was spoken on the 21st by the Pacha, off Cape Finisterre. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Lord• Lieutenant held his first levee for the season this day. It was very numerously attended. QUEEN'S BEN Cll.—Tms DAY. GOGARTY IN ERROR V. THE QUEEN. In this case, which wts argued yesterday, the Chief Justice pronounced the judgment of the Court. He said, that he and his Learned Brethren were clearly of opinion that the indictment was bad in every count, because of its omitting to specify the exact nature of the offence charged in the words of the Act of Parliament ; that therefore the sentence must be set aside, and the convict discharged. This decision not only procures the prisoner's liberty, but that of fifteen other parties who are under sentences of imprisonment. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER S. —This morning, between three and four o'clock, an ex tensive fire broke cut at a li,•ens, , d victualler's, in Bun hill-row, St. Luke's. Tho family effected a hasty re treat to the house of a neighbour. Several engines of the Brigade were in a minutes on the spot, bat not half en hour had elapsed before a portion of the bar and its contents were destroyed, and the stock of the cellar damaged. The proprietor is believed to be insured in the Sun Offiee, and the less may be estimated at between 3001. and 4001. The cause was not ascertained. OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The Domino Noir again attracted a large and distinguished audience List evening, amongst w !tom we noticed the Duchess of Inverness, the Conde de Montemoliu and suite, hii Royal Highness the Du ke of Brunswick, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow 'and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the Marquis of Donegan, the Count and Countess de Jarnac, Miss Foley, Lady and the Misses Doraville, Burl of Cardigan, Mrs. Mount joy Martyn, Lady James Stuart, Lord Cranborne, Count Bark, Hon. Mr. Vaughan, Mrs. Charles Hammersley, Sir William Ball, &c. FINANCIAL REFORM.—Mr. C. F. Barber has en tered a notice calling the attention of the town council of Boston to Mr. Cobden's measure for financial reform. A fire, believed to have been caused by an incen diary, occurred on Sunday last at Mr. J. Teesdale's, Frampton-fen, Lincolnshire, which destroyed nearly 1,0001. worth of property The Britannia and Acadia steamers have, we learn from Liverpool, been sold ; but to whom, and for what purpose, has not transpired. Meanwhile, two new steamers are being laid on the American station to supply their places. Do You TAKE A NEWSPAPER ?—lf you don't I will mention some of the advantages that will certainly accrue from your taking one. 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