The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

NEW STORY OF SCOTTISII LIFE. Now ready at ail the Libraries, in 3 *ols., _ IN THI, MR S. MAR- GA RET OF f.,12 . .NN Y . SIDE. Written by Herself. OPINIONS OF THE FRES3. " This work his given us much rile - isute. Mrs. Maitland migl cl 'fn cousinsiiip with the Rev. Mi ah Balwhidder."—Ath nmutn. " Full of great power, and abounding in natural feeling. Its moral will be held precious by all."-Observer. " In every respect calculated to interest and amuse our readers." —Morning Post. The. story creates an absorbing interest by the deep and znetstrly touches of nature with which it atounds."—Ji hn ".Our readers will enjoy this work—its genuine nationality of one aud sentiment, its refined and poetic homeliness, and its strokes of quiet humour. The author may be described as a refined or feminine Galt. In the pathetic element we are hot unfrequently re minded of ' Wilson's Lights and Shadows,' "—Scotsman. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LIFE OF M AIT LA N D, IOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF ►- of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS through out ENGLAND and WALES. Established 1772. PRESIDENT. The EARL of ROMNEY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Lord Kenyon I Rt. Hen. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P. TREASURER—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. AUDITORS —John Pepys, Esq., and Capel Cure, Esq. _ . At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held In Craven-street, on WeJnestlay, the bth day of Dec., 1849, the cases of 16 Petitioners were considered, of which 7 were approved, 5 rejected, 2 inad missible, aed 2 de.erreel for inquiry. Since the meeting held on the 7th of November, SIXTEEN DEItTORS, of whom 13 had Wives and 23 Children, have been Discharged frcm the Prisons of England and Wales ; the expense of whose liberation, including every charge connected with the So ciety, wasi 1351. ss. Bd. ; and the following BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE Tux LAST REPORT :- Sir Richard P. Glyn, Bart. ..... A .£2 2 0 The tlov. sir Joint New port, Bart., per Messrs. Hoare .. A. 1 1 0 The Ex , cutors of Miss Catherine Knox, Legacy, per Trea _ _ _ -...-.: :....... 118 0 1 The Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, under the will of the Earl of Kerry, per Treasurer.. .... •• •• • • 24 1 5 Ditto, under the will of C. A. F. Pleschel,Esq., per Tron- _ _ surer.... • . •............. .. Ditto, under the will of Mrs. A. M Stafford, per Treasurer 97 1 8 Ditto, under the will of Robert Sorrell, Esq., per Treasurer 233 16 11 Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the Treasurer, No. I, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following Bankers :—Messrs. Cocks, Curries, Drummonds, Herries, Hoarse. Verse ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-street. Strand, where the books may be seen by those who are inclined to support the Charity, and where the Society meet on the first Wednesday In every month. JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, bete L493eoand Manager, Old Brompton. _____. EVENIN(:, - - Will be performed TILE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyol . . _ _ . Mr. Chatles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amyott, Mrs. Charles Kean. To be followed by the Farce of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE. Mr. Pennipother. Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. Keeley Jane Briggs, Miss P. Horton. After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an ALLARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket. Mr. Buckstene ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzvvilliam. The Boa-ofilee Is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Irate. 'lllLarltic ROYAL. ADELPIII. Tinder the otreetton of nadame Celestc• THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal char..cters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Gruwley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conelaile with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUITBURY'S SPOONS. Mr. IlliMbetry Barnes, Mr. r. Redford; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Ilighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. ROYAL LYC/ITM THEATRE. 'Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be Nrformed a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN. To be followed by DELICATE GROUND. After which HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. To conclude with RAISLNG THE WIND. 1) ess Boxes 5.. ' ptwr Boxe., 4s. ; Ytt, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No hall-price to any part of the house. Alt applications for ?riven) Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. • riii.NUESb'S '1 tiLAI Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. Tlll3 EVENING, W;11 be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corr], Wyun; Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Loulsa Fyne. After which, the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. ASTLE r'S ROYAL AMPHYTHEATRI. Yrorrietor. Mr. W. Batty. • THIS EVENING, Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has engaged Madile. Cotton!, the most graceful performer on the Tight hope in Europe, who will appear every Evening. The performance will continence at a Quarter to Seven. with the Grand national and magnificent Spectacle of TILE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, in which Mr. Edward Gomersal will appear in his ori;;inal character of Napoleon. Af cr which Bat y's SCENES OF THE ARENA, znlivened by Messrs. T. Barre, E. Jacks -31, and Wheale. To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING, in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveables, i.omprising Omnibus, Baroucke, GO-Cart, and other vehicles, will appear. Box-eftice open from Eleven till Four. e °•!amour. Vr. W. West. TEE AT L02411.)01 4 :11EIDGE. Tars DAY —morning, 49 min. after 10 Evening, 21 min. after 11 To-lieanow—Morning, 49 min. ;`ter 11 Evening. 0 min. alter 0 THE WEATHER.—SUN Oyzicg, DEc. 9. THERMOMEIER Lowest, 33; Highest. 45; Noon, 41 BAROMETER, 29.92. WIND S.E.—fine suushiny weather. DEC. 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29 Highest, 44 Noon 37. BAROMETER, 30.2. Wirrn N.W.—Dull, foggy weather. 1 ''' 4 (i)l.-1' ) 11.: 1: 0 4 4 ' _' ‘.___ • f i , , :t ~ ~#- 1‘ , e , r "") - , ..A . - Jtv tv • ' .4°l - oPilte "N , .47,1114. oNDON. MONDAY DECEMBER 10, 1849. The attention of the public, conscience stricken by the calamities of the cholera, is, for the time being, occupied with the sufferings of the poor—of the poor in general, and of the unhappy needle women in particular. This latter class, says Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Alm has deserved credit by his earnest championship on their behalf, has "an indis putable right to priority—theirs is the most helpless sex, the most intense poverty, the most fearful de. gradation." The miseries of this wretched class have before now excited much public sympathy, and yet those miseries are undiminished. At this day 33,500 women are engaged in the needlework trade, and the greater part of them only earn on an average from 21d. to 41d. a day. Even were purchasers extravagant in their payments and employers generous in their wages, it would be difficult, or rather impos rdble, for so vast a number of hands to obtain ade quate remuneration in one branch of employment. For ourselves we do not, generally speaking, believe in the evils ascribed to over-population. A surplus popu lation, as it is called, is, or should be, an impossibility, seeing that with every additional mouth to consume is, or should he, an additional pair of hands to produce. Thus, if society were rightly constituted, we could never have a multitude of unemployed hands, 1. e. a surplus population. It i 3 idle, however, to dwell upon what might be—let us rather contemplate things as they are, in order that they may be ren dered as they should be. One thing is certain, we have now in this country, practically, a surplus po pulation—the sad effects, of many misfortunes and much injustice The only panacea for this evil which the philanthropist can suggest is—emigration. Beyond the seas there are lands where the labourers are as scanty as here they are numerous—lands where nature requires human aid to develope her abundant riches—lands where the wages are plentiful and the workmen rare. In former times, the children of this country have gone forth, their veins filled with the blood and their hearts fired s ith the energy of an independent race. Pour men, most of them, humble and unaided, they went forth " the world before them where to choose." Like the first man, for tham the earth only brought fnelii, spontaneously, weeds and misfits, buL 11k the first man they earned their bread by the sweat of their brow. They wrestled with Nature, and she became their willing servant. From those adventurers, those exiles from their mother land, arose great nations which that mother land now contemplates with admiring pride. In all quarters of the world are the footsteps of our Colo• y' And the young and strong Republic was by these in virtue bred— The young and strong Republic that has filled the witty raine, And with great praise and marvel of the Anglo-Saxon whale." Shall not such things be again ? Notwithstanding the "plethora' of which Mr. HERBERT speaks, the heart of England is still beating with vigorous life; her children, though crushed to the death, are not degenerated. She may lamsnt, and with jus!ice, that r-he cannot nourish them by her own hearth (which, if all her duty had been rightly {ult . fi lea, might have been happdy - accomplished) ; but the past, though it be deplored, c.iri:mt be undone. Let her now p , rforrn the true mother's part - , and send forth the suf ferers for their own good and her glory. L et h er send them forth from death to life—'rem the death of starvation to the life of labour, from the pestiferous odour of the charnel house to the healthful breezes of the wilds. Let her snatch her maidens fro n pollution to become hippy wives and honest mothers. Let her seize the friendless :outh who trembles on the verge of crime, and the wretch who shudders between degradation and despair, and send them out to learn the right use of a strong hand and the holy happiness of an honest heart. The list defies enumeration. The noisome cellar, where deer. pit manhood and wasted infancy languish in idlenees and die of want—the naked garret, where through the long day and by the fading light— " Women sit in unwomanly rags Plying the needle and thread," the corners and crevices of the streets, where the infant pickpockets lurk—the midnight thoroughfares , where thousands of the women of England are driven to sin, not from choice, but— " Oh men with sisters dear, Oh men with mothers and wives!"— from the absolute fear of starvation !—those and a hundred other spots are thronged with human crea tures, whose very presence here infects the social atmosphere, but who, in other climes, might live like men and die like Christians. Let us send them forth for their salvation and our own. Let us send them forth to sow and to reap in (for them) more productive lands, and, realising the happy prophecy of Mr. MACAULAY, to give birth to " those unborn mil4ons who shall cover with cities and gardens the Caffra rian and Australasian deserts." At the same time we are prepared to admit that the remedy is a violent one, and in the natural order of things emigration should be the voluntary act of individuals. But if the remedy be violent GOD knows the disease is violent also. And therefore, while we are especially anxious that, for the future, a more equitable system may preserve us from a recurrence of the present distress, for the time being we cordially concur - in the proposition of those who would give a helping hand to send forth the destitute, the degraded, and the desperate, from , sin and suffering, "to Light, to Liberty, to Life.' Who that has the power will refuse to aid in such a work ? Christians ! these are the missionaries you should send forth—your sending them will be a world-wide attestation of your faith. Legislators ! these are the convicts you should transport—before and not after they are stained with crime, and have laid a heavier burden on your purse and their own souls. Men of property ! here is a true way to pre serve your wealth ; it is easier to convert an idle man into a labourer than to keep him from being a poacher, a rick-burner, or a thief. Mothers and maidens ! here are especial objects for your sympathy—women rendered desperate by the cries of starving children, and girls selling their honour to procure a crust of bread. When we dwell upon these things it appears indeed impossible that help can be withheld by any human hand whose owner possesses a human heart. In a recent impression of this journal, as far as our space and time permitted, we waded through the mazy labyrinths of that stupendous absurdity, " The Report of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland." We went sufficiently far on that occasion to prove the utter fallacy of the charges made against Lord CLARENDON, and to demonstrate by their own testimony that his Excellency neither recognized, organized, nor armed the Irish Orangemen. And we think we can convince all dispassionate and rational persons that the evidence does not go even far enough to prove that Captain KENNEDY armed the Dublin Orangemen as an exclusive body, but as part of an available force of loyal citizens to oppose insurrection and maintain the laws. The simple facts appear to be that the Government expected a threatened outbreak of the disaffected, and confided the defence of the city to Captain KENNEDY in such an event. This responsible duty constrained him to seek the co-operation of the well affected of all political and religious opinions, and it would be strange if he could pass over a set of men who have been eternally bleating forth their exclusive loyalty, their devotions to the house of Hanover and the British Constitution, &c., &c. The negotiations between Captain KENNEDY and the Orangemen were conducted by a Colonel PRAIRE, a gentleman we believe then much in the confidence of the Orangeman, and holding a high position in their society. But whether Colonel PHAIRE was first requested to act .by the gallant Cap tain or by the Orangemen does not appear, but this does appear clearly enough to us, that Colonel PLIAIRE had no mission from the Government, as we think will appear manifest from a communication made to the Colonel by Lord ENNISKILLEN, to the effect " that Lord CLARENDON, in a conversation with him, Lord ENNISKILLEN, had refused to supply the Orangemen with arms, or give a satisfactory reply to their ad ilress." If Colonel PHAIRE had a mission from the Government, it is quite evident he did not require to be enlightened on this point by the Grand Master of the Orangemen. As soon as the Orangemen fancied that they were courted by the Government, as soon as they thought Lord CLARENDON was sufficiently embarrassed to ) field to their selfish demands, they at once manifested the true quality of their lip. loyalty. Instead of standing, in the hour of need, by the authorities, and giving them the generous and spontaneous support of free and loyal citizens, they higgled and huxtered fur their own selfish ends ; they drew up insolent resoltiV.ons, and threatened to present an insolent address, if they did not get arms and everything else they required. But Lord CLARENDON remained firm, they swallowed the address which they dared not to present, because they were perfectly cognisant of the rebuff with whi hit would be met. Had they had th! manliness and courage to present this address, we should never' have heard a word of the silly charges which have been since made, as they would then have been enlight ened as to the true principles on which his Excellency had resolved to administer the laws in Ireland. The important position in which Captain Kss- NEDY was placed, the serious duties is hich devolved on him, naturally made him intensely anxious to secure the services of every !oyal man, orange or green, capable of bearing arms in the city, and, con sequently on his own responsibility, and knowing that the Government had refused Lord ENNISKILLEN to supply the Orangemen with arms, he got up a subscription to purchase arms " for the well-affected amongst the lower classes," and by this means was enabled to supply 500 stand of arms to the brawling Orangemen. Captain KENNEDY'S letter, one would think, ought to have satisfied them on this point. We extract it verbatim from the "Report :" " Dublin, April 22, 1848. "Dear Colonel,—l have set on foot, 14ith others, a subscription for supplying arms to the well affected amongst the lower classes, for the protection of hte and property in the city of Dublin; and I take upon myself the responsibility, as far as five hundred stand, in case the subscription should fall short of that, of furnishing that number. I shall adopt any course yon recommend to expedite the supply of those five hundred stand of arms in the shortest time.—Your's faithfully,. " J. P. KENNEDY." Surely the English language cannot more clearly or intelligibly express the intention of the writer to avoid all recognition of the Orangemen as a body ; yet they had the meanness to take arms from the man who plaiuly told them these arms were to be pur chased from a fund to be raised by subscription to .apply arms to tha woll affected otatonsat the ?yule,- classes, and not specially for the exclusively loyal heroes of Whitefriars- hall. We have very little sympathy for Captain KEN• XEDY'S spooneyism in allowing himself to be done out of 6001., which would have been much more worthily bestowed on one or more of the many meri torious charities in the city. A little knowledge of Irish political history ought to have induced the Gallant Captain to hesitate before he foolishly ex pended so large a sum in supplying thole heroes with arms. It is not many years since an aggregate meeting was called on some subject distasteful to the Orangemen. Their organs sounded tEe tocsin, and called on the brotherhood through the length and breadth of the )and to attend this meeting, and manifest their strength and gallantry. It was holden in the open air, at a place called the Coburg Gardens. The Orangemen did muster, we believe, from all parts of Ireland ; at all events, from Dublin, Wicklow, and the neighbouring counties. They marched in battle array to the scene, stormed the gates, and made a rush to seize the platform; it was long before the hour of meeting, a:.d but com paratively fe.v were then assembled ; but the patriotic coal porters happened to be present—they attacked and repulsed the Orange heroes, who gal lantly took to their heels, after a few broken heads, and were chased through the streets and alleys by the " black diamonds," to the great amusement of the military, and in a few minutes there was not a valorous Orangeman to be found outside the threshold of some friendly public house or other safe rendezvous. Had Captain KENNEDY been aware of this heroic speci men of Orange chivalry, it might perhaps have induced him to turn his money to better account than purchasing arnal for a set of men who would be much more likely to embarrass than assist regular troops in any military operation. The communications with Sir E. BLAKENEY and Colonel BROWNE prove no part of the case; there is not a tittle of evidence to show that these gallant officers looked on the Orangemen in any other light than as loyal citizens, willing to sustain the Execu tive in maintaining the QUEEN'S authority. The characters of these well-tried and chivalrous veterans are a sufficient guarantee of their incapability to be parties to any act unworthy their fair fame as sol diers and gentlemen. The hearsay twaddle of the sayings and doings of Major TURNER, Captain KENNEDY, and Colonel PRAIRE proves no more than the gullibility of the Orangemen. _ _ The second part of the' Report" just come to hand is as great a failure as its lengthy antecedent. Like a drunken fellow in a row, it hits wildly at all within its reach—Lord CLARENDON, Mr. BERWICK, priests, Papists, and Ribandmen, all have formed one fearful conspiracy to exterminate the gentle lambs of the fold of Enniskillen, and undermine the British Con stitution. " Orange processions were not designed to affront, to intimidate the peaceable of any class, creed, or condition. They were designed to encou rage Protestants, and to warn those who meditate their ruin by a show of loyalty and strength." Yes, they do with a vengeance encourage Protestants, or rather Orangemen, to march like armed bandits through the country ; their gentle warnings are conveyed through their gun barrels, and these peaceful beings exhibit their loyalty and strength by burning houses, wreck ing property, and shooting old women and children• These are the modes in which the Orangemen mani fest their "brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety," and all other Christian graces. We cannot devote more space at present to this sickening nonsense. We have,'nevertheless, carefully examined the whole precious document in a spirit of fair criticism. We owe nothing to the Irish Government, and should to morrow, if we thought them wrong, deal with them as fearlessly and as independently as we have dealt with the Orangemen. But we feel fully convinced, npon their own showing, that the Orangemen have utterly failed to sustain their case. They staked their character on the issue, and have forfeited the stake. They ransacked the valace and the tomb—the living, the dead, the absent—all were put in proof to no purpose. We can account for their giving to the world the evidence of their own condemnation on no other principle than that they were afflicted with that fatal malady which, it is said, precedes destruction. The dread warning of the foredoomed must hare been upon them— " Quem Deus vult penlere, prim dementat." In the name, then, of common sense let them with a good grace put an end to the dark absurdities of Orange craft. Let their silly mysticisms be num bered with the Pagan mysteries of the past, and be remembered but as a myth of their schoolboy days. The exclusive principles of Orangeistn are incompa tible with the enlightened spirit of the age. An imperium in imperio is inconsistent with the whole some administration of the laws. All its tendencies are evil, without one relearning quality of good. What can these Orangemen want ? They enjoy, in common , with al the subjects of the guess, the protection of British law. Tney enjoy without let or hindrance the spoils and alvantages of conquest. Would they still grudge the unfortunate descendants of the vanquished the poor privilege of living in humble industry on the soil of their fathers ? The days of ascendancy and extermination are gone for ever. Let us hope, then, that these misguided persons will merge into a loyal anti peaceful de• nizenship with their fellow-subjects, and, laying aside all bigotry and uncharitableness, remember only that they are fellow-men, fellow•subjects, and fellow• Christians. Since the appearance of the interesting corre spondence relating to the line of defence adopted by counsel on the occasion of the trial of COURVOISIBR, the murderer—a correspondence published and com mented on both in our own columns and in those of our principal Contemporaries—the letters of CHARLES PHILLIPS and SA Mum. WAIIRRN have provoked in one or two quarters a very long, and in some instances a not very well tempered discussion. Neither at present have we, nor in future shall we, have any intention to revive an argument which we cannot but re gard as having been brought to an incontro ivertib!e and definitive concl usion. Our opinion upon the subject under debate has already, we conceive, been expressed in language sufficiently decisive to be unmistakeable in its tendency. What is our object, therefore, at present in reverting to a matter which appears to have originated so much recrimination, is to protest as journalists against a system more or less adventured upon at intervals, whereby the press would be ultimately rendered the medium of the most gratuitous personalities. That a distinguished member of the lolr, like Mr. PHILLIPS, a man who has grown grey in that high and honour able profession, and whose personal probity has been recompensed by his elevation to a post of large judi cial responsibility, a trust reposed upon him succes sively by Chancellor BROUGHAM and Chancellor LYNDHURST, that :a man whose character is endowed with such credentials, and embellished with such an tecedents, should be assailed with acrimony for a defence delivered under circumstances of such tre mendous difficulty, must to every honourable and disinterested mind be a subject of deep regret, altbough (considering the passions likely to be excited by criminal proceedings) it can be no cause whatever for astonishment. But that the course pursued in this transaction by Mr. WARREN should be distorted into an act of hostility against any one, and, more than that, that it should be ♦ulgarly abused as an effort of mere partizanship, is, to our thinking, nothing less than a lamentable and perverse distortion of all that is manly, candid, and generous in the sentiment of friendship. As observers of the discussion, observers alive only to truth, and indif ferent to every consideration in the matter except that of justice, we would protest against such wilful personalities and misrepresentations with an earnest ness in some measure commensurate with our regret and amazement. UNP RIM LDENTED DISPATC El.—A copy Of the Third Edition of The- Sun of Wednesday evening, trans mitted to Mr. Blake, by the manager of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway; was in the AtherreAn last night before eight o'clock, being only about twenty four hours erom the time of its publication in London 1 This we believe to be unprecedented. We observe in the paper an address to Government, signed by about eighty. members of both Houses of Parliament, requesting inter ference for the prevention of further cruelties in Hun-• gory by the Austrian power.—Aberdeen Banner. The first volume of Eliza Cook's Journal is com pleted, and the second is progressing with fl)ing colours and every sign of triumph. This periodical may be considered as having now established for itself a high position in public tavour among the cheap publications, and the success is deserved, for it is conducted with considerable ability and judgment. Most of the original writing is very good ; the tales are well told, generally conveying a sound, if homely moral, and o: ten dis playing much literary talent; while the poetic contribu tions of the editress herself are alone worth the price of the whole publication.—Morniny Chronicle. A MONTH OF REJJICINGS.—The present month promiies to be one of the merriest in the calendar in the northern counties. On Wednesday, the 19th, the Mar quid of Staff,rd, eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland, attains his majority, when the happy event will no doubt be celebrated in the extensive county of Sutherland, and over the other wide estates of that noble family. On that occasion, also, will be celebrated the union of the house of Sutherland with the cld and noble house of Cromertie, in the marriage, solemn'ael some months ego, of the Marquis of Stafford and the Hon. Mi ss flay MackerCe. Two days afterwurds, none ly on the 21st, comes the not less happy day when the Hon Simon Frazer, Ma,ter of Lovat, attains his majority. From the popularity of Lord Lovat and the Muster of Lovat, who constantly resident, take the greatu , t interest in th , ,ir tenantry and in the iaiprovement of the family esta'e, there is no doubt th 3 many a b eifire win bl.iz from the heights of the Levet county, ani that n) mark will be ()mired of the attachment of the people. The occasion will be observed, we understand, early in the week following the 21st, which falls on a Fr.day.— Inverness Goes ier. BALFE.—Our popular countryman is at present at Berlin, sup( rinteniting the production of his opera, the Bondman. After this .Keolanthe, another of his op'ras, will be product d. B.alfe's most ardent well-wishers could not &sire for him a heartier ri ception than he has for the si cond time 4. xp , rienced in Germany. Ills works will be played at the Grand Opera—not at the Lalian Theatre, as some have said, of which S:geor Orsini is the musical director, and which is of infl rior size, resowo , s, and importance.—Musical World. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles Marryat, Mr. M'Chlery, and Mr. M‘Gregor, had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. We , have received the Paris journals of Saturday and of yesterday. The review Which was to have taken place to-day, the anniversary of the election of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, has been postponed. The Petrie and the llioniteur du Soir publish the following official communication : " The President of the lt , public has recovered from his indisposition, but the state of his health will not yet permit him to be cxposed for five or six hours to the temperature of the season. The review of the National Guard and the army cannot, therefore, take place on Monday next." The National Assembly on Friday rejected, by a majority of 399 to 188, the proposition of M. FAURE to vote a sum of money to assist associations of work men. On Saturday M. SAVATIER LAROCHE brought forward his motion for the abolition of the punish ment of death in all cases. The motion was warmly supported by M. COQUEREL, the Protestant minister, in a logical and eloquent speech, and was opposed by M. CASABIANCA and M. MONTIGNY. The motion was rejected by a majority of 400 to 183. The _National of S tturday has the following para graph : " At the commencement of the sitting of yesterday M. Ferdinand 13arrot withdrew, in the name of the Government. the Bill demanding a credit for the com pletion of the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon. This Bill had been referred to a committee charged to exa mine, at the same time, the account of the expenditure which has been hitherto incurred fur the same object. The committee has terminated its labours, and was to have presented its report yesterday to the Assembly. A rumour became current during the sitting, that among the conclusions of the report was one which laid to the charge of Count Duehatil, Minister of the In:erior of the ex-King Luis Philippe, a sum of 1,300,000 f It was on this account, anil - to prevent exposure, that the Government has, after some hesitation, come to the re solution to withdraw its Bill. The Minister of the In terior will understand, that in such a case, his honour imperiously calls on him to furnish immediately cate gorical explanations as to the motives which have led to so sudden and so strange a determination on the part of the Government." It is said that M. TRIERS has been of late suffering so severely from a disease of the palate of the mouth that he will probably have to undergo a severe opera tion. The Courrier Francais, however, says that " the indisposition of the illustrious orator is not of a grave character, and that it is hippy to be able to assure his numerous friends that after a few days of repose he will probably be able to resume his seat in th 9 Assembly." 'A supplement of the Moniteur Algerieu, just re ceived, gives the following details of the taking of Ziatcha " ALGIERS, Disc a " We have just received the account of the taking of Zaatcha. Oa the morning of the 26th of November, at eight o'clock, tho three breaches had been made practicable by the cannon, and the same were carried with enthusiasm by three columns of eight hundred men each, having at their respective heads Colinels de Barrel and de Canrobert and Lieutenant Colonel de Lourmel, of the Bth Regiment of the line. A fourth column, under the orders of Commandant Bourbaki, completed the investment which had not b,en before finished. If the bravery of our troops was admirable, the resistance made by the Arabs was quite what we might have expected from the obstinacy which had kept us for six weeks before the walls of the place. In less than an hour, however, the street: and the terraces were completely occupied; but the capture of the place was rot thus completed. It was necessary to attack house by house, and to besiege the ground floors, in which our desperate enemies hsd entrenched themselves. Many of the houses could not 1).2 taken but by blueing them up, with all who were in them. These partial combats cost us as many men as the assaulr. Four hours after the occupation of the town shots were tired from under the ruin:, During this time Csainsandant Beurbaki kept up a very sharp engagement with the inhabitants of Lichara. The Goums and the cavalry, on their side, kept in cheek the m .veteents of the natives of Tolgu. Not one of the fanatic follossers of Bon Zan demanded quarter, all, to the last, man, died fighting. More than 800 bodies were left on the ground, as a proof of the desperate struggle of which Zeetcha has been the scene. Bun Zan, his two sons, and the Cherif Si Mousse, the old agitator of the south of Medeah, who had entered the place, were pursued from house to house, and at last entered that of Bun ban, where they made a most desperate resistance. A mine at length enabled us to penetrate into their retreat, where they all met their death. In order that no doubt should remain in the minds of the Arabs as to the well merited fate of those instigators of the insurrections, their heads were exposed in the camp of General llerbillon. We had on our side from 30 to 40 men killed, and 150 wounded. Amongst the killed are M. Lapeyreuze, of the native tirailleurs; M. Rosetti, sub lieu:eusnt of the Spahis; And M. lhynac, lieutenant of the Zuuaves. The officers wounded are Licut.-Colonel de Lourmel, slightly ; Captain Toussaint, of the Ist Spahis, seriously; De Laurences, chef de bataillon of the Zmaves; Captain Berthicn, 38th of the line; Lacroix, captain of the Z maves; and Levuillant, sub-lieutenant of the 8!h batta- Lon of the Foot Chasseura." The following were the prices of the Funds at the Passtge de l'O,ura y. sterday : —Five per Cents., 9if. 95c.; Three per Cents., 56f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK-11..XURANGE. Disc. 8. Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Central of France (Orleans and Via!zon),l2,—Luxembourg, %—Namur and Liege, 6—Northern of France, 2 dis.—Sambre and Meuse, 2; i — W&t Flanders, 1 ( ,4 ex int. Ti-IE FRENCH REPUBLIC ' ' insomuch as by the simult aneous di sso l ut i on 0 the German Diet the very organiz Jinn of Cue Con eciore don was dissolved; 11:.une the Central Power only be considered in the light of an authority, ore ated from the momentary necessity of a direction of ae gf coral affairs, and provisionally recognised; hut of otherno more extended signification, ev( n if, by its monarchical form, it was not unfit to be the expression of tho Confederation, that is to say, of an association of indkpendent statGe, enjoying equal rights; and if de prive.l of the foundations of its existence by the disso lution of the German National Assembly, it had not, de ju.T, ceased to exist. According to the reasoning of M. de Bodelschwingh, it is not the federal right, as de prived: of its organ it perished with it, but solely the effects. still subsisting from that right, as well as the conscience of forming part of one common whole, which mast tained the states in a community, and pre served Germany from a complete disorganization." (This dispatch, which is of great length, then enters into a refutation, point by point, of the declaration made by M. DB BODELSCHWINGH, and continues then) : "It is quite evident that the existence of the Federal Constitution, consequently of the Confederation irseif, is not subordinate to the existence of the German Diet; that it has been practicable, by universal consent, to replace the latter by a new organ representing the COTl tedtrAtion in its totality; that the institution of such an organ is a duty incumbent upon all the members of the CAdederathn; that each of them has consequently the light of demanding such an institution; and, finally, that there is the possibility of obt,ining, by the individual f xpr ess i n of the will of each, a en mitestation of the will of all. •"This would suffice to prove that the Federal Consti • tution was not abrogated by the dissolution of the German Diet, and that the Confederation itself remains undissolved. In support of our assertion, we may quote the resolution of the Diet of the 12. h July. 1848, as also the Convention of the 30..11 Sept. last. By the resolu tion in question, the exercise of all rights and obligations passed by co,urnon consent of all the states to a Central Provisional Power. It is, thAtelore, inexact to affirm that, in cost quenee of the dissolution of the Diet, the Constitution was without an institution to represent it in its totality, and which could be regarded as the con stitutional organ (Zits will and of its acts. This institu tion was created by common consent, and according to the conditions exacted by the Constitution, it was to remain in vigour until the thfioitive solution of the ques tion of the now Constitution of Germany. " By the convention of the 30th September, Prussia recognised the Central Provisional Power as the sue cessor of the German Met, legally invested with its rights and obligations." " After these explanations we may express our con viction:— " I. That the federate state projected by Prussia may find itself in contradiction with the Federal Constitution wbieh still exists de jure. " 2. That it is inadmissible to draw a distinction be. tweeu the Federal Constitution and the rights and obli gations resulting from the federal act, as they are inse parable from it, as they reciprocally balance each other, and that such a distinction can be based only on an erroneous conception of the Federal Constitution, a substitution of the form for the essence, "3. Th it, consequently, all rights and obligations resulting from the Federal Constitution, insomuch as they do not refer directly to the primitive form of the federal organ, and are not, therefore, applicable to the given circumstances, have an olject. " 4. That it does not suffice to reserve to the states not included in the alliance of the 26th of May their rights and obligations guaranteed by treaties, if that alliance, by its practical consequences, should endanger those same rights and obligations. " Cmsequently, it is our duty arnestly to desire (Wir Ynu.oen dater dring•nd wunchen) that the prin ciples enounced by the Minister of State, Bodelschwingh, in his official capacity, be rectified by the Prussian Go vernment., insomuct, as we could nev, r permit them to be carried out (da wir dieselben nicht zur Geltung yclangen lasses lonnert). Your Excellency will transmit a copy of ti is dis patch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and request him to induce his Government n pal - attention to our just desire.—Vienna, Nov. 12, 18)9." The Cologne Gazette states that the energetic reply presented to the above by Count BERNSDORFE on the part of Prussia, has elicited a formal protest on the part of Austria, which was presented to the Cabi net of Berlin on the 4th. It coincides in all respects with the prospective announced by Her VON PRO KItiSCEI (the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin), when he communicated the contents of the much spoken of dispatch of the 12th November. It is rumoured that Count BRANDENBURG was about to resign the Premiership of Prussia, and that Ile would be succeeded by MANTEUFFEL. SAXE-GOTHA. The Diet of the Duchy of Saxe Gotha having been summoned by the Ministry, was opened on the 31 instant, but after a sitting of a quarter of an hour it was dissolved. THE SUN, LONDON EVENINtik, DECEMB Lft 10, 1849. SPAIN Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived. The Popular of the 2(1, tays that, as a special mark of favour to General NARVAEZ, the KING and QUEEN communicated to him before any other per son the intelligence of the latter being enceinte. General O'DONNELL had presented General NAR• vAia with a magnificent sword, in the name of the infantry of the Spanish army. The Government had, it was said, resolved to undertake important works for completing the Aranjuez railway and im proving the navigation of the Douro—the latter in conjunction with the Portuguese Government. The Minister of Finances was labouring to procure funds for paying the half-year's dividends, and had had a conference with two English capita'ists on the subject. The Herald() publishes a letter from Paris, which it refers to, without however completely confirming it, in which it is asserted that, at the suggestion of Austria, the Pupil had applied to the Spanish Govern ment for the further continuance of the Spanish troops who were to occupy Rome in conjunction with a Neapolitan force; and that Queen ISABELLA. had acceded to the lively instances of the Holy Father, and consented that the Spanish troops should remain in garrison at Rome until the Papal army was corn. pletely re organizA, and order and tranquillity assured. The Bolsa was closed on the 2d. GERMANY AND rHE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The following is the text of the dispatch addressed by the Government of Austria to that of Prussia, protesting against the assembling of the Federal Parliament at Erfurth. It is. published in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of Leipsic • The royal Government of Prussia has expressly deduced from Art. XL of the Federal Act the right held good by Prussia to enter into a special alliance with different members of the German Confederation ; on all occasions it has given the most positive assurance that it will never cease to respect the treaties on which the German Confederation rests, founded in 1815, and to reset ve, with respect to those States that should not be disposed to accede to the restricted federation pro jected by Prussia all rights and priviltges resulting from the said treaties. The guarantees given to us by those solemn declarations constituted the bases of the negotiations which we have carried on with the Prus sian Government since the month of May, and relying upon those guarantees, we awaited the accomplishment of the promise, according to which the treaty of the 26th May was to be interpreted in conformity with the federal right, the undiminished vigour of which P:ussia had acknowledged. " We never disavowed the difficulties of the task. But, as ils accomplishment had been promised to us in so formal a manner, our doubts gave way to the assurances we had received. To our great astonishment, the Prussian Moniteur of the 22.1 October gave us explana nations of a most astonishing and surprising nature, o' the view now taken of this important question by the Prus.tiau Government. This view is expressed in a declaration of the Minister of State, Bodelschwingh, made in the bitting of the Council of Administration of the 17th of Oetober. The principles exposed and developed by that d ec l a r a ti on are in open contradiction w:th those hitt erto proclaimed by the Prussian Govern mast. The consequences thereof are so important that it is our duty to reply to them by the most explicit pro test (des wir uns dagegen auf dos entschiedenste verwehren mu:sen) To this end we shall k ncleavour to pass briefly in review this fine-si::un specious legal deduction, that we may be the better able to form a correct judgment of its intrinsic value. " M. de Bodelschwingh affirms that the Constitution of the Gilman Confederation has legally ceasod to exist, the cLssoltri.)ti of the Diet ty.ving teen not only tho suppression of a Corm, but of the most essential organic iosti:ution of the Confederation, without any indieHual member having the tight to chtnand its reconstru::Con. lie thence deduces that the new pre j cted federal state cannot bo in con , radiction with a federal consti•ution which no Luger exists, whilst the rights and obligations of the trea.ies of 1815, insomuch as they still hold good, are in no manner violated by the constitution of the new federal a a•e, tni tho e duties and obligations were ex pressly reserved. "As au anticipatory reply to an anticipated objection, M. de Bodeb!ch Ningh expresses the conviction, which he derives from Art. VII. of the final Act of the Concrete of Vienna, namely, that, for the will and action of the Confederation as fur thu application of the federal right, there can be no other organ than the German Diet, of which the Central Power, instituted on the 12th of July, 1848, cannot be considered the sue. SAXONY. On the 4th instant the Second Chamber voted, on the proposition of Lieutenant MULLER, the raising of the state of a:-ige at Dre:idon and Cruminetzichau The Ministry were defeated by a majority of 48 votes against only 7. The First Chamber in its sitting on the sth instant complained that the Ministry had not yet informed it of the present state of the negotiations relative to the German question, and called for explanations. HAti 0 VEIL Her Royal HighrieFs the Crown Princess 0: HANOVER was safely delivered of a Princess about wid-day on the 3.1 inst. A salute of 50 guns an• nounced this event to the inhabitants of the city of Hanover. OLDEN BURG. The Diet of Oldenburg has refused, by 22 votes against 19, to ratify its adhesion to the Federal State. The Ministers have all tendered their resignations, and the GRAND Dui has prorogued the Diet to the 28 th of December. HOLLAND. TUT HAGUE, DEC. B.—The sitting of the First Chamber of the States General have been adjourned to the 17th. It is stated that the late Minister of the Colonies, M. VON BOSCH, is to be appointed Commander in- Chief of the naval forces in the East Indies, a post which he formerly occupied. TURKEY. The Journal des Pebats publishes the following letter : " Constantinople, Nov. 17. " In consequence of tho news from St. Petersburgh, which arrived here on the 3d by way of. Odessa, M. de Titoff sent a note on the 6th to the Porte to make known t►he intentions of his Cabinet. As I have announced to you, this answer was pacific. The Emperor desi.ts, it is true, from his demand tor the extradition of the Polish refugees who took part in the rise in Hungary; but he introduces two new demands, which have given, and will still give, occasion to long and laborious negotiations. Thus, ho demands the imprisonment at Diarbekir of General Bem and the other Polish refugees who have (mbraced Islamism, and the expulsion and inter diction from the Ottoman territory of all Polish emigrants, and even of those who are natural. :zed, or who are furnished with foreign passports, if the naturalization has been granted without the consent of the Emperor. M. de Titoff has announced at the same time that he would not resume relations until the Porte should have given on these points, an answer which would satisfy his Court. 11. de Sturmer, who had, in the first place, announced that ho would resume relations as soon as the place of the imprison ment of the Hungarian refugees should hare been fixed upon, has since stated that he will not do so until Russia shouid have done so also. An incident which it is well to mark is, that Count Zamoiski and General Dembinski are claimed both by Russia and Austria. The latter demands their imprisonment, and the former their ex pulsion. The Porte will wait till they have settled the question between them. Both Zimoiski and Dembinski are provided with French passports. " I announced to you, in a former letter, that the English fleet had arrived at the Dardanelles. As the roads of Besika are not very safe, and the south wind was blowing with great violence, the English penetrated into the straits, and advanced beyond the point of Bar bier, outside the forts, but sufficiently near to exchange salutes. The Russians considered this an infraction of the treaty of the 13th July, 1841, on the closing of the straits; and M. de Titoff sent a protest to the Porte, in which he declared that he would not resume his relations with the Porto until the English fleet had retired. This incident, however, has not gone further; for the English fleet had already returned to Besika before Admiral Parker was aware of the step taken by Russia. The Fre itch fleet is at Ourla. " M. de Titoff has had several conferences with the Grand Vizir and the Minister of Foreign AfT.irs, rela tive to the question of the refugees ; so alio has M. de Sturmer ; thus the rupture of relations is not strictly observed. The Sultan has even sent as a pre sent to M. de Sturmer a snuffbox set with diamonds of the value of a thousand pounds. M. de Stunner ac cepted it, on one condition, it is true, namely, that the authorities of the Mint should take back the snuff-box, and give him its value in money, in consideration of the hardness of the times. " The Porte replied, some days ago, to the note of Russia about the refagees. It seemed disposed to send away from its terri oiies all those who hdt Hungsry to seek refuge there ; there can be no diffi cu l ty upon th i s point. As to the demand of bhuttirg up iu Diarbekir Ben and those of his companions who have embraced Ishimistc, she Porte, rts.rietrig herself to the terms of the treaty of Ku:chuk Kiartiaji, repels it in the most formal wanner. The indiv:dual. included in this category arc protected both by treaties and by religion; they are new subjects of the Sultan. The Porte no longer knows a General Bern, but only Alurad Peal ; and if at any future period the conduct of this subject of the Sultan may give to Russia any legitimate motives for complaint, the Government will take the matttr into consider_tion, and will take such na . ..asures as may seem props r. "As to what concerns the expulsion from the Ottoman territ,ry of all the members of the Polish emigration who may happen jo be there, and the interdiction of that territory to persons of the same category—as they are all furnished with foreign passports, especially English and French passports—the Porte cannot. without some other motive than the wish of the Emperor, undertake a measure which will attack the rights of those Powers. That, then, is a point on which Russia must come to an understanding with those other Powers, and especially England and France. But if individuals who are sub :eat to the Sultan, foreigners, Poles, or others, residing on the Ottoman territory, render themselves guilty of acts contrary to the relations of friendship which exist between the Porte and Russia, the Porte does not re nounce its right of poli ce; an d Russia has only to point out those acts--to produce the proofs of them—and she will hasten to send away those individuals from its territory. " I do not know whether this answer will satisfy Russia. However, it is certain that M. de Titoff, who is to resume his relations as soon as the Porte shall have given an answer of a nature to satisfy his Cabinet, has not as yet resumed them. He has not even answered the above note; and alleging the rupture of relations, he has infermed the Porte that he was going to transmit the note to St. Petersburgh, and that he would comma cate the reply. " Thr re is nothing besides of any gravity in the pre sent state of affairs. They have negotiated, and further negotiations will take glace; but the question has lost all its gravity, and one may be sure that no serious com plication of a nature to compromise the peace of Europe will result from it—at least, unless Russia, awaiting a Letter opportunity, should wish to keep the question open till the spring, in order to do then what her inte rests may prompt. We live in an epoch fruitful in changes, and some event may arrive before spring which will permit Russia to resume her menacing attitude without meeting the same obstacles. " General Aupick has sent the Severn° to Smyrna, with dispatches for the commander of the Fredch fleet. This steamer returned the day before yesterday. "Sir Stratford Canning has left for the Dardanelles, on board the Dragon ; he has gone to pay a visit to the fleet. " The packet boat Telemachus, expected on the 12th, arrived only on the 16th, This delay has been caused by the bad weather which has continually existed fn the Mediterranean. She brought only the news of the 29th Oc,ober ; but an English steamer which arrived later, brought news from Paris up to the Ist of No vember, and, consequently, the President's manifesto and the composition of the New Ministry." ITALY. General BARAGUAT DiiILLIERB left Rome for Portici on the 28th, for the purpose, it is said, of announcing to the POPE that if during the course of the month of December his Holiness does not return to Rome and grant a full amnesty and a constitution, the Commander of the French forces will depose the Cardinal triumvirate, and assume the reins of Go vernment himself. A petition has, it is said, been got up at Bologna to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, praying him to incorporate Bologna and Ancona in his dominions a request to which the Austrian Government, notwithstanding its hypocritical protestations against been supposed to entertain any ideas of territorial aggrandisement in Italy, is.understood to be by no means unwilling to accede. The Nazionale of Florence says in its correspon dence from Rome of the 29th ult., that the last Spanish troops were to leave the Roman states on the Bth inst. The most contradictory reports were current as to the probability of the speedy return of the Popz. Cardimil MATTEL was daily expected at Rome. The finances were in a worse condition than ever. The Treasury refused to pay bills of a greater amount than 150 f., and the Mint was at a stand for want of silver and copper. The Austrians were concentrating forces at Ancona. _ _ The Farina Gazette of the 26:h ult., publishes a Ducal decree respecting iniarances. By Art. 4„:all contracts stipulated by Parmese subject with the in surance companies of Milani Trieste, or any other, whether legally recognized or not, shall be considered null and void on and atter the 31st December, 1850, and any new contracts signed after the promulgation of the present degree are declared to be null from their commencement. By Art. 2, a general associa tion of all landlords and proprietors of the Parma() states is established for the reciprocal insurance of their property against damages by fire. Art. 3 fixes the Ist of January, 1850, for the commencement of this General Mutual Association for all those who are not bound by other contracts. By Art. 4, all landed proprietors, including the Duke himself, shall pay an annual tax, in order to form a reserve-fund to be applied to the purposes of the association. Art. 5 fixes the tax for 1850 at five•thousandts of the annual revenues. The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a Royal decree appointing a commission to examine into, and report on tie demands for naturalisation made by the people of the province united to the kingdom, according to th , laws of May 27th, June 16th and 21st, and July llth and 27th, 1848. The ICING will review the Na tional Guard of Turin on the 210th of December, the day appointed for opening the Climbers. COUR!' CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SATURDAY. The Queen and Prince took an early walk this morning in the grounds at Osborne. His lto.yal Highness the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. Lord John Russell left Osborne this forenoon for London. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince, and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household, attended Divine service this morning at Osborne. The Rev. J. Protherue, chap lain to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, officiated. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness and the younger members of the Royal Family, walked this morning in Osborne Park and grounds. Sir James Clark arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and left this morning for London. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday. His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse paid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester on Friday, at Gloucester House. Th; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left town on Saturday on a visit to Earl Spencer, at Al: horn Park, Northamptonshire. Lord John Russell returned to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, on Saturday afternoon, from Os borne, ISle of Wight. Dispatches froM - the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received on:Saturday, at the Colonial •office. Dispatches were also received on Saturday at the Colonial. office, from the Governor of Malta. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.—SATURDAY. TIIE PUPPY STAKES. Deciding Course. Mr. Rendell's Renown beat Mr. Inskip's Pathfinder, And won the stakes. THE ALL AGED STARES. Deciding Course. Mr. Buckworth's Bridesmaid beat Mr. Holmes's tAttler, and won the stakes. TUE NEWMARKET PUPPY STAKES. Deciding Course. Mr. Gillett's Glauca beat Mr. Buckworth'd Beeswing, and won the stakes. THE BOTTISHAH EITAXES. Deciding Course. Mr. Dobode's Doran beat Mr. Buckworth's Baron, and woe the stakes. THE CHIPPENHAM STAKES. Deciding Course. Mr. Fyson'3 Fortuneteller beat Mr. Jenner's and won the stakes. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Cheltenham Stag 'lds., Tues., Birdlip; Fri., Clecve Village. _ Al6righton Hds, Tues., Himley; Thurs., Chetwynd park ; Sat., Sutton Maddock-10i. South Berkshire Hds., Tues., Thatcham Gate; Fri. Bradfield-10i. Sir John Cope's Hds., Wed., Farnborough Station; Fri., Lock's Farm-10}. Craven Hds., Wed., Minal Borders; Fri., Crowood, Sat., Lily-10i. Mr. N. Fellowes's lids., Wed., Twitchen Villiage; Sat., Knowstono Village-101. Hambledon lids., Wed., Westraeon Hut; Fri., Pre shaw-houie—loi. H. H. lids., Tues., West Tisted; Thurs., Nui thiagton Down; Sat., Windmill-hill-10i. Lulow lids., Wed., Ashford-bridgP; Sat., Stanton Lacy. Mr. Lushington's lids., Tues., Sharsted-house ; Fri. Leeds Castle-11. Surrey Union, Thurs., Crawley Common; Sat., Kennels. Vine lids., Thurs., Malshanger-house; Sat., Pine Colonel Wyndham'` sd s ., Wed., Littleworth Wood; Fri., Flaken-park-10i. reconshire Hans., Wed., Upper Chapel; Fri., Pont Alltarnog— 10. Mr. Okeover's Harre., Tues., 13a'Edon. Dumfrieshire lids., Tues., Mossknow; Fri., Clears field. ' Hartingdyn; ELL Tim ROYAL CRAPE HOOD.—The recent order for general mourning must have created some curiosity amongst those unacquainted with courtly forms and customs, more particularly that portion which refers to the " crape hood," the antiquity of which is very great, being mentioned by Chaucer and Froissart (1350 to 1400). Although the crape hood is alone worn as a matter of command by those immediately within the circ!e of the Court, it is singularly worthy of notice that the cloak, which was its accompaniment at the period referred to, is now the leading attraction in the salons of the Meters. Jay, in Regent-street, and is appropriately termed " the Margarite," having been rendered with great exactness from the one worn by the Countess of Richmond, the mother of King Henry VII., and copied from an illuminated scroll of 1493.—P05t. Dr. PETRIE.—We announce with a gratification, that is only alloyed by a consideration of the smallness of the boon, that at length a pension of 1001. per annum has been conferred by her Majesty upon George Petrie, LL.D., the distinguished artist, antiquarian and author, as a recognition of his cervices to arts and Lterature.— D üblin World. MOISEY and COMI%IERCIAL CITY, QUARTEI? TO THREE. Ti:e Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was rather firmer. and prices were fully supports d. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales including 1,5G0 on ' speculation.—l n Railway Shares only a limited business was done, at rather lower rates, ' In Mark lane to-day grain was steady, and at full prices. Respecting the condition of the Staffordshire iron trade, we have the following in Aria' Birmingham Gazette of this day:— " An impression seems to be prev a lent that the new year will usher in better prospects for the iron trade. Whether or not it may be deemed expedient to declare any advance in prices at the approaching preliminary meeting, great a c ti v ity i s con fid ent l y expected in whal , is designated the spring trade, and an unwonted bustle has already been excited among the consumers of pig iron to supply themselves with stocks of that material. In consequence of the late disputes with the colliers, pigs are rather decreasing. both at the furnaces and in the yards of the varicus mills and forges. and higher prices have been demanded. Some sales have bee' ) sifected at from 2i. ad. to ss. advance, and in wrought iron business a'so has been done on improving term , • Though it is evident that the general demand for ha is, upon the wh o l e , grow i ng more l i vely, many o f t.ur larger works do not appear to be so well supplied with orders as those of smaller pretensions. During, the period of railw a y hil ar i ty , t h e steady but Jireite° resources of our district consumption were neglected for the more sweeping and lucrative productions of the sheet mill and the rail mill. The demand for OW' especially the latter, is now dormant, and the recovery of old connexions is found a matter of difficulty; hence it is asserted that the leading manufacturers of Stef' fordshire show no hesitation in accepting contracts Id present prices, and that even upon such terms merchant s are not anxious to purchase, that they will decidedly set their faces again ;t any immediate advance, as cafes' lated to blight the hopes of securing steady and Pro: gressing prosperity; vvbile the reports that have reecho us from Merthyr, of notices given at the,Plymouth en d other works for reduction in wages, augur ill for apt exhibition of firmness among the manufacturers there. To this is opposed the decided advance that has beep established in Scotch pigs, the assurance of improve' went in Welch merchant iron, both at the wo rks in Liverpool and in Manchester, the unexampled progrer sive increase in the export trade, the reviving attentiol to railway investments, the abundance of capital, and ease of the Money- m a r k e t, th e di sastrous exper i ence 0: former attempts to cont ro l an ev id ent ten d enc y 0; feeling, and the unsoundness of the policy _that would foster improvement by throwing cold water upon ill incipient symptoms. " Under such ceeflicting representations it would h . ° . rash to offer a decisive opi n i on , an d i t seems prof:WA that the ensuing fortnight will be pass e d in o ,' r most similar uncertainty. No doubt the event will considerably depend upon the briskness of demand in the meantime. Some alteration is acknowledged 0 0 , all hands to be imp era ti ve ly ca ll e d f or; e i ther the cos t of production must shortly be reduced, or the value of il?. improve, since, low a s our p resent rate of wages are , is a matter of notoriety that in no stage of its manufe°: lure does iron at present realise more than its bare_ COo of production. " We have noticed an unexpected importation of pif, iron from China. A s f or t h e resources or facilities f 0; production in the Celestial Empire, we are at press en' much in the dark; but the reported quality of the sampl e received is not such as to create just fears of competition , though the fact may serve to .correct over sanguine es pectations of un extensive market for English iron 10 that quarter." The accounts from the Continent state that trade 11.; rally was steady. At Antwerp the commercial markel f were becoming somewhat duller. The Protectionists 0 Belgium are looking with great interest to the p os sibi; lily of the rest orat i on o f a d uty on corn imported lolp, England, their own agr i cu l tura l commun i ty being 101,4 depressed, while th e G overnment of Leopold leafn. towards the introducti on o f f ree tra d e. T he B e lgol journals affect, indeed, t o cons id er a d uty of Bs. on w bee so certain in England, that th e y appea l to the assu med intention of Lord John Russell as a proof that oa r Ministers are more national and patriotic than their owe The report of the stock m ar k ets a b roa d states t h a t Amsterdam on Saturday an extensive business was dop e in Dutch Bonds, s e ve ra l p urc h ases b e i ng ma d e , English account. The Twc-and-a-Half per Cents. we/ 54k. Spanish Three per Cents. were 29g. At \Tien?' on the 3J, Austrian Meanies were 93k, and at Ber bi :', on the 7th, Prussian Th ree • an d- a -H a l t per C ents . wet 89k. We understand that th e B an k o f E ng l an d clerkB.l,l to be liberally comp e n sa t e d f or t h e a b ol i t i on all', Christmas - box system, an d a l so f or i ncrease d la b our ill/ will be called upon to perform, by being allowed ell one half.an- hour for di nner . Th e m iddl e o f t h e dilY„ l , so valuable for business purposes that the n ecestav of a change in this respe c t h as no d ou b t b ecom e td' perative. Much satisfaction is expressed: at the announced tention of the Board of Admiralty to promoter: s ra extended system of steam communication that w ensure more rapid conv e y ance f or pauengers an d ql.o to the Pacific. The re has not been a great deal done in Public Sel; rifles this mornin g , b u t t h e tone o f t h e mar ks exceedingly buoyant, aw l th ere i s an ent i re recntel ' from the temp orar y d e p ress i on o f S atur d ay, oc c a sioned by the report of a renewed misunderstanding betvre e , Russia and Turkey, but ari s ing, p e rh a p s , i n reality, frt.; the natural desire to cl ose accounts at to end of the week. The " continuation " January has been very high again, no 11 then to 7-16ths p e r cen t., s h ow i ng a strongly tendency. It is this feeling which would induce map to pay even a larger rate of interest, and the gap broker having appeared again as a buyer directly I market opened, caused it at once to assume an elssil: appearance. Consuls have been 961 to97f for Transfe r ' and 96f and 971 for Wednesday. For January 97j .: Exchequer-bills h ave b een 53 5 . prem i um. Th e P% Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. Lave been 96i to 97 1; and the Three per Cents. from 95} rose to 96g. 13' Stock has been 2011 to 203. isb The Foreign Secu r iti es are l oo ki ng up again. spo Five per Cents have been 181 to 181, and the Three p ar Cents. 38t to 39k. Mexi can h ave touc h e d 28 i 281 pg time. Peruvian have b een 53f to 54. Equador has been at 31 to 4, and Venezuela at ' 29. Breit,4, Bonds are firm at 84. Russian Stock h as b e en 1(1 Belgian Four-and-a H a lf p er C ents . are 87, an d DO Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53/ to 56. Railway Shares have been firmer, but with rather,: quiet market. Foreign Shares are also held at r*l fuller rates. BRITISH FUNDS Tills DAT AT ONE o'CLOC I ‘' (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 203 203% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities d ' 8 per Cent. Consols Anne New 3 1 4 per Cont. Anne. 96:54 97% „ Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 11.461 1 /8 D 0.30 Years, Expire Oet. 10, 1859 B4 . Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 lii4 Consols for Account S6% 97% _ _ It:xchequer Bills. I%cl. March. 1,069/. 5001. Small Id. Jun& 53 p 53 p 53 50V RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOLI I Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Bs Equador Bonds ... ... 3% 4 Grenada, 1 per Cent. . . — Ditto Deferred Mexican Bomb, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent 109% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,l840 Ditto Account . ...... .... Ditto Passive Bonds 3% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3 6% Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 ,& per Cent. Dutch 2 per Cent.. 12 Guild Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificate s 1114INESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONI O'CL Oeg RAILWAYS. PAIL Pia SNARL Aberdeen . .... . 5t Ditto, Preference Bi -dis. to •-"' krub.r., Notting., Boston,&e. 6% .— .... . to tyrshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down .. 23 .. .. ... Jerks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet.s per ct.) 6 "'' ..... to Birmingham & Oxford Junct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 '' WON to Do., without a guarantee... 20 ." iiirmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ..... Do., without a guarantee... 10 Birosing., Rol., & Stour Val. 131.14 s - 'to ". dirk enh sad, Lancashire, and Cheshirs Junction.~ aristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Buckinghamshire..• 1714 1 6 14 W ;aledonian Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 Ihester and H01yhead......... 50 ... . . Ditto, Preference to ' larence. _ Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 D0.,2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 51i — ...... to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 40 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 274 ...... east Anglia, 25/. L. & E., sad L. & D Ditto, 18/., E. & H lB ... .. Do, 3/. 135.,6 p. Ct. Pref. 3% — Do, 71. 175., 7 por Ct. Prof. 2 Eastern Counties - W Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13a. 4d .. I : x p . .. i l a ri t • l i I t ; i Do., do Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cent. Ditto, New - 43 ..... ..•••• to '... Eastern Union, Chios A (late ...,.. E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25 Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto G , ...... to ....," Ditto, do, Class B & C...... 25 ...... ...... to _ Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 . — .. .. to •-• to ••• East Lancashire .... ... ...... 25 Ditto, New ... ...........•.. • 25 ..... ..... Do., Now Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference ... Quarter Shares 6 F, 4 ....... ...... to .... East Lincolnshire ......... Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto, Half Shares ........ ..... ..... to ... Edinburgh and Northern Ditto, Newport lb -