The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-19 00:00:00

F •13 . N D FOR PROMOTING FEMALE EMIGRATION. The sympathies of the public have recently been interested by de tailed accounts of the condition of the poor, and especially of the suf ferings f some of those who are am ,ng the most helpless of their sex—the working women of the country. In the metropolis alone, 33,500 women are engaged In the single business of apparel making. It is estimated that 28,500 of them are ender 20 years of age, and that of these a large portion aro subsisting, r attemptin to subsist, on sums varying from 4%d. to 2%d. a day. Throughout Great Britain the male population is greatly outnum bered by the feinals. By the census of 1841 it appeared that there were 320,000 more women thaa men, and so great has been the amount of stale emigration during the last nine years, that the ex cess of females may be fairly supposed to have reached half a million. In then ritish Colonies, on the other hand, the inequality is re versed : 1847 there were in New South Wales only 41,000 females to 83.000 mates; in South Australia only 13,000 females to 17,000 males. Similar disproportion exists in Van Diemen's Land and other Colonial dependencies. It is proposed to take measures with a view to abate this double vii ; to sqPply the Colonies with the population which is the crying want of sdciety there, and at the same time to redress this increas ing grievance of the mother country, to rescue from penury and mi sery those who emigrate, and , by diminishing the unnatural excess of female labour, to better the condition of those who remain. With these views the following Noblemen and Gentlemen have formed themselves into a • Cosotrrrez. The Right Hon. SIDNEY HERBERT, M.P., Chairman. The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P. The Most Noble the Marquis of Westminster The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle The Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germains The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lonlon The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford The Most Noble the Marquis of Granby, M.P. The Lord Ashley, M.P. Ih Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. The e Right Hou. James Stuart Wortley, M.P. The Ran. John Talbot, Q.C. The lion. Arthur Kinnaird Sir Walter Reckliff Farquhar, Bart. sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. The Baron Lionel de Rothschild, M. 1% C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P. George Carr Glyn, Esq., M.P. John Masterman, Esq., M.P. John Walter, Esq., M.P. William Page Wood, Esq., M.P. C. J. Bevan, Esq. The Rev. Joseph Brown The Rev. W. W. Champneys William CotteE, Esq. The Rev. Thomas Dale W. F. A. Delane, Esq. The Rev. John Garwood William Gregson, Esq. Robert Hanbury, Esq. William Hawes, Esq. M. I. Higgins, Esq. Charles Hoare, Esq. George Jelf, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq, Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. W. G. Prescott, Esq. The Rev. W. Quekett The Rev. B. C. Sangar William :Shaw, Esq. The Bev. J. Sherman The Count de Strzeleckl, C.B. J. I. Travers, Esq. It Is proposed to take immediate measures fir promoting Emigrai Lion to tie British Colonies on an extensive scale. Assistance will, in tie first instance, be extended to the class which, as the poorest and most helpleeo, has a reasonable claim to early consideration—the neediewomen and slop-workers. Offices will be immediately opened, at which such parties may re gister their applications. Care will b 3 taken to select such persons only as are well recom mended, And whose age and habits render them At subjects for emi gration. Such arrangements will be made as will secure fbr them every possible safeguard and care during the passage out. Communisa tions will be opened with the colonies, with a view to the proper re eeption of the emigrants on their arrival ; for their temporary as sistance, aid to afford them facilities for placing themselves is respectable positions. The amount of the assistance, and the form in which it is to be rendered to the emigrants, whether that assistance shall be by way of gift or loan, or both, must depend upon the amoant of contribu tions at the disposal of the committee, and be necessarily regulated by the circumstances of each case. A vast undertaking is proposed, a great and growing evil is to be met and remedied, vigorous action and large means are required ; but the Committee look with confidence to the public for support, doub . ing net that in aland abounding with wealth, and in which there is a self-denying and a Christian spirit, means will be provided for accomplishing so great an end. They venture to remind the nation of the great and grievous all ction which, by the Providence of God, they have just escaped, and they urge upon them the great duty of showing their gratitude to their Divine Benefactor by assisting the most helpless and needy of his creatures. Donations may, if it be desired, be paid in two, three, or four an nual instalments. The following bankers will receive mosey for the fund : Ia the City. It the West-end. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. Messrs. Roams, Fleet-street. Messrs. Glyn and Co. Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand. Messrs. J,.nes Loyd and Ce. Messrs. Ransom And Co., Pall- Messrs. Masterman and Co. l mall. Messrs. Williams, Deacon , and Messrs. }Terries and Co., St. Co. James's-street. A List of Contributions will be published in a few days. WII. T. HALT, lion. secretary. 4, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, Dec. 11, 1849. F RENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce the fbllowing ar rangements for the ensuing Season of French Performances at the St. James's Theatre: — ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.—MdIIe. Charton, Mdlle. Dehauser (pupil of the Coeservatoire, Paris), M. Choilet (of the Theatre de I'Opera Coraique, Paris, his first appeaarnce), M. Lac (Premier Tenor of the Theatres Bruxelles and Ghent, his first ap pearance), 31. Nathan (Premier Basse of the Opera Comique, Paris, h's first appearance), M. Quilly Leroy (pupil of the Conservatoire, l'aris, his first appearance), Mdlle. Guichard, M. Buguet, M. Chateaufert, M. Soyer, M. Dereaux, Madame Mancini, Mdlle. Cotti, &c. FOR THE COMEDY AND TAUDVILLE.—M. Samson, of the The Are Francais, Paris (his first appearance in this country) ; Denain, M. Regnier, Mdlle. Nathalie, (artists of the Theatre Francais, Paris) ; Millie. Dejazet (who has accepted a farewell en gagement in this country); M. Latont, 51dlle. Figeac (of the Theatre Du Vaudevil e); Mdlle. Page (of the Theatre du Varietes) ; Mdl'c. Constance (of the Theatre du taymnase) ; Madlle. Baptiste (of the Theatre de r Odeon). An Enguement is also entered into with the eminent- dienne, Mdlle. Rachel, with whose performances tp sealifil terminate. Mr. Mitchell begs further to submit an outline the general arrangements :—The Season will commence on Monday, January 7, 1550, by the production of a New Opera, in Three'Acts, entitled " Le Val d'Andorre," produced in Paris at the end of last year, and since performed at the Opera Comique, Paris, more than 100 nights, and at the principal Theatres of France, with the great• st sucee,s. the Music by M. F. llalevy; the Libretto by 51 De St. Georges. With the following distribution of the principal char,cters:—Stephan (jeune cha.sseur des Pyrenees), M. Lac; Le Joyeur (capitaine de milice Francaise et recruteur), M. Chollet,,who has obligingly undertaken the part for the more effective production of the Opera ; Saturuln (garde pectic du Gave), M. Quilly Leroy ; Jacques Sincere (vieux cheerier), M. Nathan (their first appearance in this country) ; Theresa (fermiere du Val d'Andorre), Mdlle. Guichard , Georgette (cousino de Atephan), Mdlle. Cetti; and Rose do Mal (servante de Theresa), Mdlle. Charton. The second pro duction will be Harold's celebrated Opera, in Three Acts, " Zampa," in which M. Chollet will personate the character of Zampa, as originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris. Subse quently will be Oven, a new Comic Opera, in Twos Acts, entitled "Le Ca d," by the popular con: oser, Ambroise Thomas. And also, Auber's last new 0, era of " littydee," the character of llaydee by 31(111 . Charton. Other productions will be selected from the following :—Jeannot et Colin, Nicole ; Le Roi d'Yvetet, Adolphe Adam ; Le Cheval de Bronze, .tuber; Le Macon, Auber ; Le Sirene, Auber ; Lully et Qui nalt, Nic lo ; La Perruche, Clapissos ; Le Valet tie Cho.mbre, Ca rat's ; Use Folie, Mehul ; with an occasional per.ormance of some of the most popular operas produced last season. According to present arrangements the representat:on of the Opera Comique will be limited to the months of January, February, and March, terminating the season before Easter. At the re-opening f the Theatre, after Easter, on Monday, April 1, M. garrison (of the Theatre Francais, Paris) will have the honour of making his first appearance in this eouetry, and will per form with Mlle. Denain (also of the Theatre Francais) in several of the most popular Comedies of the French stage ; and subsequently M. Regnier and Mdlle. Nathalie (both artistes of the Theatre Fran eels) will appear in several of the most modern and successful Come dies recently produced in Paris. At the end of May, Mdlle. Dejazet, whose re-appearance at the Theatre des Varietes, after a severe and protracted indisposition, has bee attended with her accustomed and unrivalled success, will ap pear In several new vaudevilles, as Le Marquis de Lauzun, Le Mou lin a Paroles, La Jeunesse do Lully, &c. The performances of Comedy and Vaudeville will be supported by M. Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), Mdlle. Figese, 31dlle. Con stance, Wile. rage, Mdlle. Baptiste, 31. Armand, 31. Leon, and a Dammous company. The engagement of 3ldlle. Rachel will commence at the end of June, by her appearance in 31. Scribe's new play of " Adrienne Lecoutreur," a production which has excited more than ordinary admiration ; Mdlle. Rachel wi l also perform, for the first time, in Dumas' celebrated play of " Mademoiselle de Belle-Isis ;" and a new Petite Comedic, in One Act, entitled "Le Moineau de Lesbie," by Armand Berthet ; and by the occasional representation, each for oue night only, of the classical Tragedies of " Phedre," " Les braces,' " Andremaque," and "Bajazet," the season will terminate. The ORCHESTRA will be composed of the same eminent pro• fesso - s engaged for the opera last season, inc'uding M. Tolbeque, 31. Bourotte, 51. Deloffre, 31. Newsham, 31. Barret, M. Baumann, 31. Pilet, 31. Vaudreland, 51. Itemusat, M. Lazarus, M. Nicholson, M. Larkin, 31. C. Harper, M. T. Harper, M. Campanile, M. T. Wright, &c. Director of the mu-is and Chef-d'Orchestra, M. Charles Uanssens. Subscribers of the past season are solicited to make known their desire of renewing their subscriptions on or before the Ist of January next. Arrangements for season subscriptions may be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams's Library, 1, St. James-street ; Messrs. Andrews's, New Bond-street ; Ebers's an 1 Hookham's, Old Bond-street. The riox-eftice of the Theatre will be opened on the Ist of January. - THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENING, V , ill be performed an entirely new ard original Play, entitled THE LOVING WOMAN. Wieliert, Mr. Howe ; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean ; Hermann, Mr. J. Wallack; Max, Mr. H. Vandenhoff; Willie, Mrs. C. Kean. To be followed by a new Lyric Dramatic Sketch, entitled KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. King Rene, Mr. James Wallack , Count Tristan, Mr. C. Kean ; Sir Geoffrey, Mr. Webster ; lolantho, Mrs. C. Kean. Af er which BOX AND COX. To conclude with an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. The Box-olliiae is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. Mk:Al:Rh ROYAL, ADELI'iII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIal EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. B.:(1- ford, 0. Smith; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Gramly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Gramley. Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BGICBURT'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks, Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. smith; Mrs. lianbary, Mrs. F. Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. PRINCESS'S THHATIOL. -„r. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING will be performed Bellies Opera, entitled LA SOMNAMBULA. Count Redolph, Mr. Weiss; Elvin°, Mr. Allen ; Alessto, Mr. Wynn; Therese, Madame Feron ; Lisa, Miss Julia Bleaden ; and Amine, Miss Louisa Fyne. After Which, the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT. fo conclude with ♦ MODEL OF A. WIFE. ASTLE Y'S ROYAL AhIP IT HEATB.Z. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVEN', Nti, Mr. BATTY has great pleasure in announcing that he has sue• ceeded iq engaging Mademoiselle ANGELIZ, from the Hippodrome, Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, with her highly trained Ste..ds, "Senora" and Bertram." Mademoiselle Angels is the same Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Mare "Angela" over twenty-eight feet of matter. he will shortly make her appearance at Astley's Ampitheater. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure is anneuxeing that he has engaged Madlie. Codoni, the most graceful performer oa the Ti4ht Rope in Europ who will appear every Evening. The performance will commence at a Quarter to Bevels, with a Grand Spectacle and wondrous Scenes in the Circle. 1 he attractions for the Christmas Holidays will comprise a grand Spectacle entitled The Knight of the Nagle Crest, or the Tourney of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear; and a grand Equestrian Illomi• Pantomime, by Nelson Lee. Box-office open from Eleven till Toni -tage Manager, Mr. W. West. ATTEMrT AT SUICIDE AT LONDON-BRIDGE. — On Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, an elderly person named Th omas H a yl or k. a livery stable-keeper, of Red Lion-street, Whitechapel, at tempted to commit suicide, by throwing himself into the Thames, from one of the recesses of London-bridge. The tide at the time was running down very strong, and as he passed under the arch one of the men who were navigating a barge threw out a marlin-spike, and suc weded in dregging him on board. He was subsequently conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he remains in • pm:Arlon" condition. THE SUN, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGT Tn t i ;DAT —Nf °riling, 30 min. after 4 j Evening , 4S min. after 3 T o -Mei:now—Morning, 6 min. after I Evesing. 26. min, aft+.l: 5 THE WEATHER.-BIIN OFFICE" DEC. 19. TEXIMONETER, Lowest, 40; Higherit, 52i, Noon, 43. BAROMETER. 30.13. WIND variable from N. to N.W.—clear card weathPr. 4 z G s. 0: 4 Clike ',- r • IN n‘ • - • Otrienino I.ONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1849. Verily the Protectionists must be hard up indeed in regard to arguments in favour of their principles, when they resort to cudgelling and bullying, the mo ment they find themselves worsted in discussion. A report of the proceedings which took place in the new Corn Exchange at Lincoln, on the occasion of the large meeting convened in that edifice as recently as Monday, will be found i❑ another portion of this evening's impression, and will eminently repay perusal, affording, as it does, some slight indication of the gentleness as well as enlightenment of those very barbarous and cloudy-headed individuals who are alternately whining over their imaginary grievances and bellowing against their supposed wrong-doers. Not very long since we recollect the circumstance of a coroner's inquest sitting upon the case of some unfortuiate crack-brained farmer, who, although his affairs were in a remarkable state of prosperity, committed suicide through a terror of possibly falling into a state of actual destitution. If we are to take the farming gentry of Lincolnshire as fair specimens of the agricultural class throughout Great Britain, the whole of that section of the corn munity must be similarly affected. A more extraor dinary instance of monomania we cannot call to recollection. No matter how well stocked may be the granaries, the cereal produce of the land is de clared to be deplorably deficient. No matter how propitious may be the weather, the skies are repro' bated as pouring down nothing but blight, and causing nothing but scarcity. The number of persons relieved in the different workhouses may be noto riously less than the nuu.ber assisted in the same parochial establishments during last December—yet in spite of the fact the country is pronounced to be degenerating into an enormous district of pauperism. Preposterous speculations in bubble railways may have drained the loose capital of the shopkeepers and minor speculators—the diminu tion of the incomes is nevertheless at tributed, by the farmers in the vicinity, to the deleterious and even destructive influence of free trade, and all its disastrous concomitants. The agri cultural mind, indeed, can compass but one idea, and even that idea one so marvellously minute, as to be absolutely microscopic. Their belief in protection has sprouted forth in such miraculous luxuriance, ❑ourished by the guano of their stupidity, that, as in the instance of Master Jack and the Bean Stalk, they fancy that by its branches they may ascend to the seventh heaven of wealth and happiness. By universal agreement, it has been long acknowledged by the multitude that the intellectual faculties of per ception in the agricultural class are of dimensions sufficiently narrow to admit of their being surveyed at a glance, and without much call for the employ ment of any sort of metaphysical theodolite. Small as they have been, small as are their moral powers of hearing and seeing, every particle of those same powers has of late been engrossed exclusively by one only object, they have bee❑ entirely impinged upon one idea, the lonely examination of which has rendered the farmers deaf and blind to everything else—blind to the most glaring facts, deaf to the most cogent and unanswerable reasoning. In testimony of the artificial stupidity engrafted on the natural stupidity of the agricultural intellect, nothing more striking or more conclusive could by any possibility have been adduced than the report of the occurrences which transpired at Lincoln on Mon day last, in a numerous assemblage of the intel ligent and amiable farmers of Lincolnshire. After Mr. CHRISTOPHER, one of their most oracular sym• pathisers, had chaunted a Jeremiad of unusual length and tediousness—according to which some would have assuredly regarded England as going to the dogs, inasmuch as "the flag that braved a thousand years," &c., is, from his account of it, being little better then draggled in the kennel—an honest draper of the good old city of Lincoln, one JOHN NORTON, makes his appearance on the platform fur the purpose of telling the claques of Mr. C IIRISTOPHE2 one or two very home truths. It would seem from the passion of ferocity in which the meeting indulged itself by yells and other discordant vociferations immediately Mr. NORTON was recognised as a claimant for atten tion, that he is already tolerably well known in that neighbourhood for his plain-speaking. Howbeit, known or unknown before, he cannot henceforth in that locality be so very readily forgotten. Like CORIOLANUS at Corioli, " Alone he fluttered the Volscians" of Protectionism ! 'With this generation at least the draper•orator of Lincoln must rank as the boldest man in the United Kingdom. Ilis gallantry is little short of being insanity, and altogether the man stands before his fellow-countrymen as affording a rare and incomparable example of the " pluck" of a regular Britisher. He beards the British Lion in its den—to wit, a hall-full of i Lincolnshire Protectionists. He shows up successively the folly of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, the falsities of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, and the mingled dogmatism and sophistry of Mr. CHRISTOPHER. How are these "home truths received" by the agricultural intellect ? Mr. NORTON says he has a few facts to tell them. "We won't hear 'em," is the plump response of the dunder heads. Mr. 'NORTON shows them that the union work house of the locality, instead of being overstocked with paupers, has a lesser number of inmates than it had this time twelve months. " Ironical cheers and laughter" greet the announcement ; though the irony of the reply is as invisible to us as the delicacy of Billingsgate, the rhetoric of Cockaigne, the judgment of Colonel Miami, or the humanity of Harreau. Throughout the whole of the daring speech deli vered by Mr. N ORTON the same complacent pig headedness was displayed by his auditors; until driven at last to the very verge of madness by the stubborn and crushing descent of his overwhelming arguments, the farmers drew forth their cudgels and made a simultaneous rush at the one man, almost sacrificing the unfortunate reporters in the blind precipitation of their onslaught. A downright scrimmage" was the result of the simple logic ad dressed to the agricultural intellect the only conclusions arrived at by their discussion, as to the truth or fallacy of certain prin ciples, were broken tables, dusty garments, scattered pencils, spattered ink, and broken heads. One blessing in regard to the last mentioned frac ture is this, that not many brains can have been spilt among such learned and sagacious disputants. As far as Mr. NORTON was concerned . throughout the transaction we cannot but consider him as having been guilty of a most wild and extravagant act of heroism ; while, with reference to his audi tors, it is impossible not to recognise their bewitching suavity, exemplary fairness, and incomparable intelligence. For ourselves, we close our allusions to the transaction in a spirit like that with which WILLIAM CowrEE terminated his ballad commemorative of JOHN GILPIN'S ride through Edmonton ; alluding to the redoubtable draper of Lincoln, instead of to the famous draper of London, we utter our final aspiration, that "When he next doth speak that way, May we be there to hear 1" Instead of acknowledgic g themselves in error, after the indignant and conclusive rebuttal of their charges by one of the aides-de-camp of the ex-Governor of Hungary, the calumniators of Louis KOSSUTH are following up the exposure o f one s l an d er b y t h e promulgation of another. Proved in the face of the whole country to have published fallacies in reference to the great but unfortunate leader of the Magyars, the "foreign correspondents" of the re actionary ne wspapers of London are endeavouring to bolster up their dilapidated reputations by dissemi nating other atrocious and equally baseless rumours as to the dander of the illustrious administrator now in LONDON, exile at Shumla. Previously he was accused, by these veracious assailants, of having purloined the regalia of ST. STEPHEN; and when it undeniably appears before the world that those jewels have never once been seen by him, much less come into his possession, the baffled detractors of the expatriated charge him with a crime of a still more flagrant nature—namely, with having " gambled away a sum of money belonging to some orphans, which (the money, we presume, not the orphans) had been deposited in his hands." Now, be it remembered that KossuTu is a man of such large renown that his whole life is before the world—has been, in fact, for some long time past before the world—scrutinized with earnest attention, and printed, and published, and read in all the different languages of Europe ! Be it remembered, also, that the individual who makes the charge referred to has, within a very recent period, been exposed to the gaze of England in his true colours as a slanderer Be it remembered that this calumniator is still screening himself under the shadow of the anonymous ! that in bringing forward his present accu sation he finds it impossible to authen ticate it by a single name of any one of the parties said to have been concerned in the transac tion ! and that the statement is nothing more than a scrambling translation of a paragraph picked up by a German penny-a-liner, in some hole and cor ner, and inserted, still and ever under the mask of the anonymous, in the columns of a cer tain Bohemian newspaper. It is the old story im mortalized by GOLDSMITH, of the cat being frightened by tha splintering of a china chimney-jar, struck by bullet that glanced off at a right angle through the parlour-window, and hit the postman, who was just then coming round the corner with a double letter from Yorkshire. This crowning testimony of ill will towards the brave but fallen leader of the Hungarians speaks for itself; it requires no comment from us in token of its matchless magnanimity. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The largeness of the majority by which the Minis ters carried their measure for the re-imposition of the wine duties has astonished all parties, and none are more suprised at the result than the Ministers themselves, who had, before the commencement of the discussion, calculated their majority at less than 100. In the course of the discussion on Monday M. PASSY, who spoke in favour of the Ministerial mea sure, admitted that many defects existed in the mode of collecting the duty, but expressed a hope that, by the Parliamentary inquiry which would forthwith take place, means might be devised by which those defects might be remedied. The Committee on the Government measure, pro• posing to give to Pref6ts the power of dismissing the masters of primary schools, has resolved to recommend its adopticn as a provisional measure only, until the organic law on public instruction shall be passed by the Assembly. The Constilutionnel says that it is assured that a courier arrived the day before yesterday in Paris, with the news of the conclusion at Constantinople of a treaty putting an end to the Turco. Russian dispute, and that, after being signed by MM. TITOFF and STURMER, it was sent for ratification to Vienna and St. Petersburgh. The llloniteur contains an announcement that " the salons of the Elys6e being too small to contain the great number of persons who present themselves on the Thursdays, it is necessary to repeat the notice already given, that, with the exception of the mem bers of the diplomatic corps, the representatives of the people, and the high functionaries of the State, no person can be received who has not a card of invi tation." The journals publish a communication from Signor RONCONI, contradicting the report that he had retired from the management of the Italian Opera in Paris. The National publishes the following extract from the report of the Committee on the Bill for the com pletion of the EMPEROR'S tomb, in confirmation of the account it gave some days ago of the charges made in that report against M. DUCHATEL In respect to the second sum of 1,311,980 f. 60c. ex pended beyond the original credit, the Committee pill recal to your recollection, gentlemen, the conservative disposition of the fiaancial laws of the 25th March, 1817, and the 24th of April, 1833, and the 14th article of the royal ordounance of the 31st of May, 1838, for the general regulation of the public accounts, and which declare that no expense or en gaL;einent on the part of the administration should take place, unless they be covered by a regular credit. These dispositions hav e been set at nought. Such se rious infractions cannot be justified, even by former ad ministrative habits, nor by that general facility with which assemblies and public opinion formerly absolved Ministers for having authorised such inexcusable extra• vagancies. Your Commission thinks that the Minister under whose orders the directory of Fine Arts In.s com mitted such faults, and caused such injuries, is responsi ble, and that a civil action should be instituted pgainst him in the name of the itate. And even if, which we cannot believe, Ministerial responsibility be so illusory that a former Minister cannot be forced to reimburse expenses illegally made with his approbation, yet the severity of the blame which you will pronounce on so deplorable an abuse of administrative powers will show that you wish to create a remedy for so inveterate, and until now so incurable an evil, The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 56f. 25c.; thefFive per Cents. at 91f. 60e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7601. ; Rouen, 550 f. ; Havre, 242 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 461 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 331 f. 25c.; Basle, 1081. 75c.; Bordeaux, 406 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 301 f. 25.3.; Tours and Nantes, 2781. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDOIs STOCK-EXCHANGE. DEC. 18. Boulogne and Amiens, ? 3 A—Central of France (Orleans and Vieraon), 13—Narnur and Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 1 3 ,E dis.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 , 4—Paris and Routn 21 3 4—Rouen and Havre, 914. SPAIN. Madrid journdla of the I Ith have arrived. Three prjects of law were presented to the Cham ber of Deputies on that day relative—first, to the importation of iron; second, the adjustment of the debt; and third, the electoral law. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 11.—The money market continued very firm, the Three per Cents. closing at 30 11 16 for paper ; tbe Pour per Cents. at 121 ; the Five per Cents. at 13k; the Debt without Interest at ; and the Coupons at 8. The following is the proposed law for the ar rangement of the national debt : Art. 1. The public debt of Spain shall be reduced to one sole class and denomination, which shall bear interest, for the future, of two per cent. per annum. Arts, 2. The payment shall take place at Madrid, at the office of the National Debt Department, and shall be effected every half-year, commencing with the Ist of January, 1850. Art. 3. In the course of a year, commencing with the publication of this law, ail securities now in cir culation shall be presented at Madrid for conversion, whatever be their present category or denominotion, foreign or domestic. _ _ Art. 4. In return - for documents thus called in, there shall be issued nominative certificates from the great book of the debt, in which shall be expressed the amount of the capital, the interest due, and the person or corporation, or establishment in whose favour it is made. Art. 5. The capital represented by these certifi cates is inviolable, and their owners shall enjoy them with entire liberty, without being incommoded in any way. Art. 6. Foreigners possessing certificates of the inscribed debt shall enjoy the privileges conferred by the preceding article, and shall ever receive their interest punctually, even should there be war with the nation to which they belong. Art. 7. Neither the capital nor the interest of the public debt can ever be subjected to taxation, loans, uor duties of any kind whatsoever. Art. S. The certificates belonging to the New Two per Cents. shall be divided into two classes, the nego tiable and the unnegotiable. Into the first shall be converted all bonds payable to bearer and other stock which at present can be alienated. In the second, all credits which, according to the present laws, are not transferable. Art. 9. The capital which shall be:transformed into the new debt shall be in the following proportion : Three per Cent. Stock shall bear its full value of capital. The Four and Five per Cents. shall be fixed at 75 per cent. and the interests due on the Four and Five per Cents. at 50. The debt, with interest, at 5 per cent. on paper (a papel), 33i per cent. The Provisional Debt at 25 per cent. Unconsolidated Stock at 331 per cent. The debt without interest 25 per cent. The Passive Debt, 25 per cent. The unpaid interest on the Five per Cent. (paper), 16f. Art. 10. All credits waiting for liquidation shall be allowed in future certificates at 2 per cent., with the proportionate reduction which the documents on which they are grounded would have had to submit to according to the former system. Art. 11. Special debts incurred by treaties with foreign nations shall remain in their present state, and not be affected by the decrees of the present law. Art. 12. According to the 78th article of the con stitution of the state, a commission composed of three senators And three deputies, chosen by vote in 00011 of WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1849 their respective bodies, shall have the power of inter ference in all operations necessary for the purpose of carrying this law into effect—first, taking note of all documents presented for convewaion ; secondly, making what they shall consider the fittest arrangement, in order that the said documents shall cease to be of value as soon as they shall be exchanged; thirdly, taking part in debate and by vote with the director of the fund and the high functionaries named by the Govern ment for all emissions which shall be effected belong ing to the new debt, decreeing what they consider most useful for carrying the present law into force; fourthly, one senator and one deputy signing each of the new bonds, in which formula each of the six individuals composing the said commission shall take his turn. Art. 13. The conversion treated of by the present law is obligatory for the Three per Cent. Stock. The holders of other descriptions of securities may choose between the conversion and their present condition. Art. 14. For the payment of instalments not yet effected for the purchase of national property, if the payments are to be made in Two per Cent. Stock, an account shall be struck of the proportionate value of the old credits, and the rates at which they were converted, in order that neither the purchaser nor the nation may sustain injury. Art. 15. The interest of two per cent. is a tem porary measure, in order to effect a settlement of the debt in a manner conformable with the present capacity of the Spanish Treasury ; with respect to which the Government shall give an account to the Cortes in the following session of the state of the conversion, and the sum to which the interest shall amount, in order to effect as soon as possible the pay ment of three per cent., the ultimate amount to which the public debt of Spain is intended to be raised. (Signed) MANUEL SANCHEZ SILVA. Palace of the Congress, Dec. 3, 1849. GEItAIAN Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Austrian Lloyd's says that the King of SAXONY has granted ,Field Marshal RADETZET, and Field-Marshals 1 - 14Trisu and JELLACHICIJ, the Grand Cross of St. Henry. 'This order, continues the Lloyd, was founded as a reward for the highest military services, and such careful selection is made in its dis tribution that not even the KING himself is a mem ber; and of living contemporaries, the Duke of WELLINGTON is probably the only person who is at this moment decorated with it. The King of Sazortx has insulted the Duke of WELLINGTON by thus conferring the order of St. Henry on Pandours and Brigands, and we trust his Grace will show his sense of the insult by imme diately transferring the Saxon decoration to Mr. CAL CRAFT, the brother in hemp of the hangman HATNAU, and consequently the only Englishman who can now wear it without degradation. The order of St. Henry is the oldest in the world; the first Knight CAIN wore its insignia on his brow that all men might avoid him, the last Knight HATNAU wears the insignia on his breast for the same reason. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull and heavy, and Friday's quotations were barely sup- , ported. The sales did not exceed 2,500 bales, all to the trade.—Railway Shares were flat, at a further decline in prices. The letters and papers from the United States and Canada were delivered in due course this morning. After all the fuss made about the cotton crop, it is evi dent that it will even exceed what we have for some time past assumed that it would be, and that it will prove adequate to the consumption of the world; but this does not or should not lessen in the slightest degree the exertions requisite to cultivate the staple in India. The day will come when short crops there must be in the common course of nature, and an extensive failure would paralyse the whole of our manufacturing in terest. The report before us from New York states:— " The average date of a killing frost, for fourteen years past, is the 30th of November. Thus we have two full weeks over the average date for the growing season, by throwing off from the calculation all that the short-crop writers claim as ' last in the spring,' which we think ample. It is known that the picking season extends up to the planting season ; and that in conse quence of the low prices ruling in February and March of 1847 and 1848, at least 200,000 bales were left un picked in the fields, and ploughed down. Now, at high prices, every thing will be picked out, and if we have a dry winter and an absence of storms, we do not see a limit to the crop much under 2,700,000 bales. This may be a startling assertion to such as have been operating on the short-crop and early-frost' stories; but a little sober reflection will show it is well grounded. The crop of 1847 would have been 2,850,000 bales, instead of 2,347,000, if present prices had ruled that season. Allowing that the bolls do not yield as much as that year, and that they are not as numerous on the bush, which is claimed by these parties, although we do not admit the correctness of either assertion, we will throw off 150,000 bales for that, and yet have 2,700,000 bales, provided the picking lasts to the Ist of April. From that figure our readers may deduct the days lost by wet weather, and the de struction that we shall hear of by hurricanes, &c., and we think the crop cannot be reduced, by all these con• tingencies, more than 200,000 to 300,000 bales, which would place the final yield, with a bad picking season, at 2,400,000 to 2,500,000 bales, which will be an ample supply for the consumption of the world, as heavy fabrics are still a glut, both in England and the United States, and with fine numbers' the quantity required will be reduced. To the planters we would say, as before, sell freely." Great efforts appear to have been making by manu facturers in several of the Northern States, for the pur pose of operating on the approaching Congress, in favour of raising the present tariff of duties on a variety o' staples. We learn from Mexico, if the American accounts are to be relied on, that two changes had occurred in the Ministry. M. Iturbide had succeeded M. Gutierrez in the department of Finance, and he in turn was succeeded by Don J. Elorrisgo. The English Funds have been extremely quiet this morning, and on the whole not quite so good. Consols. 964 and 96k, and now 96i New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 98k to and Reduced Three per Cents. 96i to 4. Bank Stock is 202 k to 203. The premium on Exchrqu. r-bills has been 525. to 555., and on East India Bonds 87s. to 89s. There is no life in the market. Foreign Securities are also dull, and Mexican have fallen upon the uncertainty regarding the issue of 0-morrow's meeting. The great contest will be upon the attempt to get a new committee appointed, and this accomplished, it is the very general opinion the Bonds would rise several per cent. on that score alone. There are, however, far more important considerations. The Mexican Debt is worthy of a separate committee, and undivided atten tion may bring about most important results. When once a tangible arrangement is agreed upon, Lord Palmerston will not be lukewarm in insisting upon its fulfilment, should there be any backsliding ; and the bondholders want such an executive as will at all times afford them the earliest informa tion received from Mexico, or upon any mea sures adopted here. Some of the members of the existing committee are said to be merely nominally so, seldom or ever attending; one or two are particu larly active, and they of course carry everything their own way. A selection of the eligible members, and the adding of a few energetic individuals to them, would probably be popular with the bondholders, and not objectionable to those members of the committee who ne longer care to serve, while the undue ascendancy of one or two parties would bo swamped. Mexican Bonds opened at 30 to but have declined since to 29i t. Spanish Three per Cants. have been 37} to 514, and the Five per Cents. 19 to being a decided rally. Railway Shares are very dull, and at about former prices. P 11 ES (r PrEDS ank Stock ...... OWE CLOSI2 . G O'CLOCK. TRICII F. 203 202 4 2024 :3 per Cent. Reduced Anne. 9 6 1, 4 34 q 96 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna.-- ... . 9 3 34 1 / 2 1 „j, 9 8 3 e li dia Bonds,l,ooo/. Ditto under 1,000/... ...— B7 89 p 90 p Consols for Account ixcbequr BilL. I 54 - d. - & 2d 1,0001. June 52 55 p 500/. June ............ 52 55 Small. June 52 55 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. - GLOSIN rßicEs. 88 53 p 53 p 53 p ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds BB 513.xican. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons- - Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent - - Ditto, Deferred S p rush 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive. - 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account . - 33 Dividends on the:above payable in London. f etch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 56 56 ti 56 1 A PRICES OF rAID. :BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen ... 50 Do. Preference - di5....... - dis. Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 614 - -•• ••••• - Ayrshira and Galloway.. 7% - - Belfast & County Down 28 ...... - - Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6 - Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 - - Birming. Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, er with guarantee 10 .• ... - Do. without guarantee 10 - Birming„Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... - ' •• - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire .func 20 - ........ •••••.. - Bristol and Exeter 92 ... .. 55 Ditto, Thirds .........28i - - Buckinghamshire ...... 171,4 - - . Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 - Chester and Holyhead... 50 - Ditto, Preference l5 - Clarence - Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 - Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth ....• 5% - Dublin and Belfast June. 40 --- - Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% -- East Anglian, 25/., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 - Do. 181., E. & H.... 18 - Do., 31. 108., Pref... 3% ..... - Ditto, 71.175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 .....- Eastern Counties........ 20 •-•.• 6;ii••• .... •• Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 ...... 1114 1 ,a Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1. 61.135. 4d.... - ... .. Ditto ditto, No. 2..:6/. 13s. 4d... par ......... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New 43 - Eastern Union, Class A . . (late E. U. Shares) 25 - Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 - ••.. •• ..... •• Do., Class B & C 25 - Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... - Esst Lancashire 25 - ..... •••_.. •• Ditto, New - ......... ...... Ditto, New Quarters 6 %...... - .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 E 4. 7- --••••• East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... - .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. _ ....... ...... Edinburgh and Northern 25 - Ditto, Newport l5 .• ... - Exeter.Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 5 , a - Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. - ... Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... -8/.65. U... - ... Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... - - Do. Preference Consol. - - •• . ... .- Gloucester & Dean Forest 11 •••••• - .• - Great Northern Do., ! it A Deferred ... 1214...... - - Do., %B 6 per Cent- 7%. - .. - Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. IO Great South. and West. (Ireland) Gnat North of England 100 ...... Ditto, New, 40/. 4O - Ditto, ditto 35 - ...•• ••• 16% 11% Sig 6 T s 1 1 IA P par --• • 2 8 1% 29 Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto, New ,151 l5 .. Great Western 100 . 58 594 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares ...... 23 ..... II Li ll4 Ditto, Fifth 5............ 20 , Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... .. 6%.... .... Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 ,4 — ..... „„, L incaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshireloo Ditto, ditto . Ditto, 14 Shares „.... 49 ..... Dn. Quarters ......... 23% - a• ••••• ...... - Do. Fifths - 10 - •• — I ) 0 . Thirds .... ....... 164.... Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent........... 10 Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheff.).. 5O - •• Do. (W.Riding Union) 10 ...... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 D 0.% Shares (A)... 10 Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Think ...... 60 6 3 4 3% Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. Do., do. No. 2 Do., do. No. 3 5 . ........ Do., Pref. Quar , 1813 9 .. ... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . ......... .. 10 London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d — London, Brighton, and South Coast... ... 101 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent 100 Do.Guarant. 6 per et.. 9 ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditt0...... 18:,2 50 .. Lon don and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... Ditto, Prefere. , o .. . 20 London and N. Western 100 lll 111 3 / 4 lll% Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ...... 12% I 2 IA Ditto, Fifns 7 ..... 8 .. .... ..... ... 8 Do. 40/.Shares(L.M.) 35 — _ Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ... .. Lond•& S. IV estgrn ..... 50 •• ... 000000000 • 3 0,4 Ditto, New 50/. ..... 42%...... Do. New 40/. ... 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, ref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 Londonderry &Coleraine 25 Do. % Shares . .. 5 ' ondonderry and Ennis kiden.. Do. 1 4 Shares Lowest( ff, guar. 4 per ct 20 ...... - Ditto (6 per et.) V anehe,•tcr,buxton,and Matlock-. ..- ....... ... 5 IdAnchtster, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 . — Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 1 A — _ _ _ _ _ Do. New 10/. Pref lO 13A Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . 0 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 25 . Do., Grimsby Dock 25 .... Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union..... 41.25. — Mi iland .................too Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... 8 Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6.per ct.... 100 124 .••••• •..•• •• I'4 Ditto,Brist. & Glocutr. 42 Ditto ditto .... Do.,Erew zshVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leicest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.lW Midland Great Western Irish 4 7 1 /2 00000 .. •• . ... .... Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ....... Do. Quarters Newmarket Do. Extension ewport, Abergavenny, .nd Hereford 6 ..•••• Sewry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warronpoint, and Rostrevor 2O - Norfolk ......... ...100 Do. New 20!. .. . 15 Do. Guaranteed 5 p et. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 / 2 pc. 5 ... Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ...... worth British ........ ... 25 ••••• Ditto, Helves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... 8i 3IA Ditto Preference N orth Staffordshire ... 17 1 / 2 .orth Wales . North-Western .... mterd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 60 teading, Guildford, and Reigate itoyston and Hitchin ... 41A..... ,icottish Central - ...... .......„ -- Scottish Midland Ditto, New ' 22t,i... .. ..... Shrewsbury and Biria... 12 Ditto ditto. Class B. 8 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 shrewsbury and llerefd. 5 ...... Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) lB Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... Ditto Oswactry ...... 18t — Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Shropshire Union ' 6'A ..... 'oath Devon Do. Preference south Staflordshire 8 1,4 — •••..• :south Eastern Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 ..... 30 Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 BGuth.. W ales .. 43 ....•• ••• ••.. 00000 " south Yorkshire, Don castor, and Goole l2 Sh Afield, Rotherham, 8s Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16% — Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Still. C0a1.... 7 raw Vale Extension ... 8 I'hames Haven Duck and Railway ..... IVA — Vale of Neath .. lO N aterford and Kilkenny 20 . Waterfbrd and Limerick 47% Nateill,Wilrd,Wicklw ling Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ...... LO Do. do. do. ... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 ',Jest Cornwall ......... 6 hitchaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... 14 N ilta, Somerset, & Wey mouth fork, NewcasAti, and Berwick. Do. Newcastle Eaten, 20 Do. G.N.E.Pretercnce Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 .... York and North Midland 50 ' 17 ... ICP,t,tv Preferenoq FOREIGN RAILWAYD. inix;,. Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian).... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Demerara l7 %..... Dutch Rhenish ..... 8 East Indian ..-........... 3 1 4 — Ditto ... Great Indian Peninsular 6 Do. Do. ... 10s. Louvain Ila Sambre ... 7% — Luxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege Northern of France l4/. 88... dis Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... Paris and Rouen 2O ... - 22 Paris and Strasbourg ... 12 Rouen and Harm Sambre and Meuse 2O Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes ......» :13 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt 20 W est Flanders 8 34 ... Anglo-Mexican lOO Asturian Mining Com... 15 Australian... Baesora Range ... 28s. Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... British Iron Brazilian Imperial Do. St. John Del Rey 15 BrazilianCocao&Cuiaba 30 Cobre Copper General 2O Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Ditto Santiago de Cuba... lO United Mexican 28% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial 2.5 .•••.• ..• Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock lO London & Westminster. 20 LLO YD'SSHIPPIN G- 7 ( THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEe. 19.--Wind this day at noon W.N.W., fresh breeze and cloudy. DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind W.S.W., strong. --Acrd. Orissa, Calcutta; Oriental, Taylor, Bombay; Zoe, Sbaw, Colombo; Irene, M'Donald, Brazils, for Antwerp; Laura, St. Jago de Cuba; Saluttus, City Point; John Hawks, Richards, Boston; Soldan, New Orleans. S:d. Trafalgar, Adelaide, S. A. . - COWES, DEC. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Corfu, Shaw, Pernambuco. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington, Hargrave, Calcutta; Christina, Craig, Singapore; Dido, Brass River; Irlam, Savanilla; Fa- Dentin, Pike, New Orleans; Sunbeam, ditto; Austria, Borland, ditto; Thomas Wright, Babbidge, ditto; Ame lia, Agry, C harleston; Harriet and Jeasee, Connor, ditto; Guy Mannering, Edwards, New York; Levant, St. John's, New Brunswick; Caledonia steamer, Boston. A large ship was seen on shore six miles south-east of the Little banes on the 15th ult. with all sails set. RAMSGATE, DEC. 18.—Wind W.S.W. fresh.—Arrd. Betsey, Milner, Charleston. FALMOUTH. DEC. 18.—Wind W.S.W. fresh gales.— The Jane of Bristol, Cardiff to Wilmington, N.C. was in contact with:a large ship, supposed to be American. out ward bound, 14th inst., lat. 49, lon. 7 21, and foundered on the 16th inst.; crew saved. GUERNSEY, DEC 15. The Li ttlo Brown of Penzance, struck on a rock off Laucressa Rag this morning during a gale, and sunk in 12 fathoms; crew saved. LEITH, DEC. 18.—The Joseph and Mary of Sunl land, hence to Stockton, was wrecked on lochkeith, 14th inst. ; crew saved. SCILLY, DEC. 17.—Wind W. equally.—ArrO. Sam a . ritan, Allen, Maranham. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 18.—The Mary Dick, Har tlepool to London, was in contact off the Dudgeon, 16th inst., with the Caminha of Dundee, and was abandoned; crew saved, and landed hero by the latter, which received trifling damage. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Lady of the t, Scott, Prince Edward's Island. CARDIFF, DEC. 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Lightfot, Rostigouohe. PRUSSIA. Accounts have been received from Berlin to the ,sth inst. The Second Chamber has finished the revision of he amendments proposed by the Upper Chamber in the Constitution. The motion for the exemption of the Duchy 01 Posen from the election of Members to the Federal Parliament of Erfurth has been rejected. 1 T A L Y• The French army will not quit Rome immediately, as the contract for provisioning it has been renewed for three months. The Spanish troops will have evacuated the Roman territory before the com mencement of the new year; 4,000 of them em barked at Terracina on the sth for Spain, and there are now only 3,000 remaining in Italy. The "result of all the elections to the Chamber of Deput les of Piedmont (with the exception of those of the Island of Sardinia) was known at Turin on the 14th, and there is now no doubt but that the Azeglio Ministry can command a large majority. LONDON' INDISPUTABLE LIFJ POLICY COMPANY. Yesterday a meeting was held at No. 24, Con naught-terrace, Edgeware-road, to consider a plan for securing to the district of Paddington the benefits of life assurance, by establishing a branch of the above company. The Rev. J._ S. Boosts, of St. John's Church+ Paddington, presided, and in the course of a forcible and eloquent address, stated that the project of form ing a branch insurance company for this large and important district was suggested so long ago as the month of July; and whoa the question came to be considered with which existing office the promoters should connect themselves, they selected the Indisput able Life Policy Company, because it was bated upon the soundest principles which skill and prudence could dictate, and because it bad been attended with the greatest success. He need not say that the parish was quite large enough for such an institution as was now contemplated—a parish in which there were above 30,000 inhabitants, and between 4,000 and 5,000 houses, and in which an annual rental was paid of more than 300,0001. He thought the present pro ject was well calculated to supply the deficiency which now existed, inasmuch as the establishment of a district office would bring the subject more com pletely and forcibly before the attention of the inha bitants, and save - them the trouble of going in quest of an insurance company. The Indisputable Life Company was established upon mutual principles, and it was believed that sooner or later all companies must come round to those principles, which were un questionably the most advantageous to the interests of the public. He was convinced that the principle of indisputability was one which ought to be advanced and encouraged in every possible way. The sound ness of the plan was apparent. It was most unfair to refuse ,to survivors the amount of a policy, provided the conditions of the insurance bad been fulfilled by the payments of the stipulated premiums. Under all circumstances he was not only most anxious that this branch-office should be established, but he was very sanguine as to the success of it. He would ad vise all gentlemen interested in the undertaking to exert themselves to the utmost of their power towards making the principle known throughout the district. He was quite sure that by so doing they would confer great and permanent benefits upon the inhabitants of this large and increasing district. G. YOUNG RonsoN, Esq., barrist e r, an d severa l other gentlemen addressed the meeting upon the expediency of the plan proposed, and the value of the feature of indisputability peculiar to the company with which they were to be connected; and the fol lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted : " That life assurance being now an acknowledged ad vantage to the community, it is desirable that so exten • sive and influential a district as Paddington should possess a local life assurance establishment for the benefit of all classes of its numerous inhabitants. " That to secure to this district all the benefits de rivable from life assurance, it is expedient that a branch office in connexion with an established company, founded upon the most approved principles, be formed in this locality. "That a communication having been opened with the London Indisputable Life policy Company, founded upon the well-tried "and now most approved plan of complete division of the profits amongst the assured themselves, and the long-desired principle of indisputa bility of policies, and that company having consented to open an office in Paddington with a local board of direc tors selected from that district, this meeting highly approves of the proposed undertaking, and pledges itself to promote the success of an institution eminently well adapted to confer great and permanent benefits upon all classes of the community." Mr. 10BERTSON, as the representative of the gene ral board of directors of the Indisputable Life Policy Company, said he was authorised to state that having given the fullest consideration to the various commu nications submitted to them by the promoters of a Paddington establishment for Life Assurance, the board were prepared to carry out the plan in the most efficient manner, so as to meet the wishes of the pro moters, and secure for that district a share of the success which had attended the parent company. A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman and the meeting separated. BARKEEL v. GODDARD.—We have been requested to state, in reference to the report of the above case which appeared in the The Sun of yesterday, that the plaintiff was Mr. C. Barker, of Birchin-lane, not Messrs. Barker ; that Harvey was the projector of only one of the lines of railway, and that Goddard, the defendant, was not a promoter but purely a com mitteeman, and in every way adopted the acts of the officers of the company, both ,by the resolutions of the meetings and his own letters. We are authorised to state that a copy of the agreement entered into on the 23d of August, 1849, between the Society of Arts and Messrs. Munday, for securing the execution of the proposal of his Royal highness Prince Albert, to establish an Exhibi tion of thelndustry of all Nations in 1851, may be in spected at the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi. We understand that a large and influential body of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cornhill have requested James Wyld, Esq., M.P., to offer himself as a candidate for the Aldermanic gown, should a vacancy occur. We had entertained a hope that we should have seen the name of our old friend Notter announced in the bills of Drury-lane Theatre, as box book-keeper, which o ffice he filled for upwards f twenty years with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public); but we regret to find that he still is, and has been for a long time, out of employment. We sincerely wish we could hear of some occupagm. for SwANsEA, DEC. 18.—M ind W.S.W.—Aral Commo• dore, Crawley, Cuba. Sld. Cuuntris of Bi e:ive, Ber muda. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 18.—It blew a gale lAst night at south-west. YARMOUTH, DEC. 18.—The John Fox, of Stockton, St. Petersburgh to London, was assi.,ted in to-day, having bee❑ on Hensborough Sand. lIA - itwica, c. 18.—A largo fleet of loaded ships is reported to be at anchor off the Cork Sand. LOWESTOFT, DEC. 18.—The Isabella Collings w: sin contact last night with the Virgil, of Sunderland, and sank this mornirg at her anchors ; er..w (except mate and boy) saved, and lar dad here. The Hoppet, London to Gothenbcrg, hat put in with damage, havir g been in contact with a large laden brig elf Ordfordnes.., and the Starling, from Middlesborough to Dover, under eitnilar circumstances. The Speck, Middlesborough to Exeter, was in contact with the Dart schooner, of Whitby, oft Flainborough H. ad, and has receivtd damage. CARDIFF, DEC. 18.—The John, of and from White haven, which struck on BreAsea Pond, 14th init., has gone to pieces. FLEETWL OD, DEC. IS.—Arrd. M‘Donnell, Aitkins, Dalhousie. DUBLIN, DEC 17.—Wind S.S.W. to W.N.W.—ShI. Wanderer, Trinidad. MARKET NEWS.-(TIIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY Although the sill ply of English Wheat here to-day was very limited the demand for that descrip ion of produce was in a sluggish state. As, hofiever. the factors were firm Monday's prices were supported in every instance. Only 1,720 quarters of foreign Wheat have reached us since Saturday. Fine parcels were in moderate revest at fully previous rates. In all other kinds only a limited business was transacted. Fine malting Barley, the supply of which was small, sold steadily, at full currencies, but grinding and distilling sorts ruled dull. Malt was in short supply and fleas) , demand, at late rates. A very limited quantity of Oats was brought forward. Most kinds were in fair request at fully last week's prices. Beans and Peas ruled dull ; but there was rather more doing in Flour. •RRITALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Malt. Flour. English ...... 5c0tch........ Irish ........ Foreign ...... Qrs. I Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. 320 140 b4J 710 Racks. 410 1,7 - 20 1 2,9-30 BOUOUGII BOP MARICZT. Fine Hops, both new and old, are in fair request, at Fun prices. In all other kinds only a mcderate business ,s doing, yet late rates are we'l supported. VZHITECNAPEL. Our market was well supplied, to-day ; yet the gene ral demand was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s Od; Veal, 3s 4d to 3* 10d; and Pork, 3s to 4s 2d per Sibs, by the'carcase. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Baron ROLFE ) Henry Bathurst Monkhouse, aged 27, described as a mariner, was indicted for feloniously *hooting at John Farmer Monkhouse, his own father, with intent to murder him. The prisoner's countenance wore the same ruddy hue of health that was observable en the occasion of his first examination before the police magistrate, but still his restless movements in the dock clearly indicated that he was deeply sensible of the awful nature of his position. He seemed to be very much agitated while his father was in the witness-box, and was moved to tears by the address of his Learned Counsel. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine, with vi hom was Mr. Huddlestone, defended the prisoner. Mr. BODKIN having briefly opened the case, shortly detailing the facts disclosed by the evidence, he proceeded to call the following witnesses:— The first one called was William Anderson, the cab man, who stared that the prisoner hired him in the Minories, on the night of the 4th of October, about eight o'clock, to drive hien to Chiswick. The prisoner agreed to pay him 145., and he rode down on the box of the cab. On the way they stopped at several public. houses and had something to drink. It was about ten o'clock when they got to Chiswick, and turned down a lane; the prisoner directing him to puli up at a house. • He did so, and then the prisoner directed him to get down, and go and knock at the door, and say a gentle man from town wanted to see Mr. Monkhouse. lie obeyed his instructions, but while he was speaking to the girl who answered the door the prisoner got down and entered the house. Soon afterwards he heard the report of what he conceived to be firearms, and the pri soner then returned, directing him to drive to the Bell, at Ealing, for which he intended to increase the fare to a sovereign. He did so; but no sooner had they got there than the prisoner wanted him to drive to his brother's house, which he did. The prisoner, however, did not obtain admission, and they again returned to the Bell, where he asked a person behind the ber to pay biel a sovereign. This person said he knew better what to do with his money, and declined to give it. The pri soner then walked into a back room, and almost imme diately after the police came in and arrested him. The witness was shortly' cross-examined by Mr. DAL-. LANTINE, with the view of showing that the prisoner was drunk on the occasion in question. El . z lbefh Bsines stated that she was in the service of Mr. Monkhouse, the father of the prisoner. She re membered on the night of the 4th of October answering akmck at the door. She found a cab there, and re ceived a message from the cabman, which she Was returning to deliver when she met her master. She told him what the cabman had told her, namely, that a gentleman wishi d to see him, and he directed her to ga out again and ask the gentleman's name. She was about to do so, when the prisoner rushed by her saying, "lam a Monkhouse, and will see him." He then put his hand upen his breast, and afterwards she saw him fire at her master, and heard two reports. The prisoner was close upon her master. After firing, the prisoner turned round and pass: d out, saying "There." She wa s so struck that she could neither move nor speak, but when she recovered from the surprise she saw her master crawling along the passage of the hall into a parlour. The witness was not cross-examined. Mr. John Farmer Monkhouse, examined by Mr. BoD• KIN—I am the father of the prisoner. I have six children. five by my first, and one by my second wife. On the night of the 4th of October I remember hearing a knock at my door, and upon going to see what it was, my son. the prisoner, rushed up and shot at me. No w ords passed between us before ho did so. I heard two reports. One of the shots took effect upon me in the neck. I fell down almost immediately afterwards. I had seen the prisoner before, about a week previous to this occurrence. He came to my house, but nothing particular passed between us, except that I told the prisoner that he should not sleep in my house that night. I was, not on good terms with him. He is a sailor in the merchant service. He is 28 }ears of age. Cross-c xsmined by Mr. BALLATINE—The pri• sonar I am sure is 28. His mother died in 1881, and I believe she died of a brain fever. I was formerly in the navy, but not as a common sailor' The prisoner had returned from sea about a fortnight, and I believe he bad been away about a year. nis mother was a gentlewoman, but not a woman of fortune. She had a small property. By the COURT—The reason I told my son that he -should not sleep in my house was because he bad refused to make an apology for his conduct before he went to sea the last time. . He examined by Mr. BODKIN—The property I am ill possession of I derived from my grandfather. Henry Reason, examined by Mr. BODKIN—I pm 0 policeman, and I remember, in consequence of some in' formation I had received, going, on the night of the 4th of October to the Bell, at Ealing. It was about 12 o'clock' I found the prisoner walking up and down a room 0 ° the ground floor. I asked him if his name was Monk' house, and he said " No." I told him he answered the description of the person I was in search of, and I notieC take him into custody. I did so, and took him to the station, which is about fifty ; yards from the Bell. ll ° had been drinking a good deal. At the station I iearched. him, and found the pistol I now produce. The barr el was separate from the stock. I found also some bullets which fit the pistol—some powder, and a small quantity of caps. On the Sunday following, the 7tb, I went to the Bell again, and received the powder and pistol. which I now produce, from Mr. William" the landlord. The pistol was the fellow to the one I Lad previously found on' the prisoner. The one 1 found on him appeared to hav e b een recent ly di s charged. ' At the station house I found some paperson the prisoner ' with his name IN ritten on them, and on his perceiving' ~ this the prisoner said to me, " It I had a brace of load ed pistols I would blow my own brains out." This witness was not cross-examined. - Mr. Williams, the landlord of the Bell, examined by Mr. Bonxis—l remember the prisoner coming to 1 3 1 house about half-past eleven on the night of the 4th 0 October. He produced some pistols, and I told him to be careful how he handled them. I was shortly afte r ; wards called away to the bar, where I found the officer_ waiting. One of them went into the room where t he prisoner was and arrested him. some day or two 101 . lowing I found a pistol and some powder iii the dowel of the table in the room the prisoner had occupied, M s ' handed them over to the police. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE— The e Lie pri : so r , ne, walked up and down the room, and appeared excited. ,'" did not observe his — eyes sufficiently to be atter - to Ai that they rolled about wildly. Mr. William Chamberlain Perfect, examined by -M r ' BODKIN—I am a surgeon at Hammersmith, and reniel l l ber being called in on the night of the 4 , 11 of October' about half- past nine, to see Mr. Monkhouso. I ib u o s him in a fainting state, and I expected every mer ee t b that he would die. He was holding a basin to his molly, and vomiting blood into it. I induced him to sit clo o , and then I took off his neck - tie and found blood flow l d ; from a gunshot wound. The bullet was found in t he : be It must have pass( d in at the centre of the neck it! 'g front and have met with some resistance so as to div e s t its course, and passed out just above the cellar-bone• was a dangerous wound. This witness was not -exmined Mr. Belford, another cross surgeon, a who bad been 1 .0 th e habit of attending the Monkhouso family, spoke t o nature of the wound, and to the fact of his having ", tended upon Mr. Monkhouse until his recovery. bad On cross-examination he stated that his part ner once attended the prosecutor for delirium tremens. f t This was the case for the prosecution. the d Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jury fe r . e t he fence, otservieg that although he could not dispu:.4,.if fact of firing the pistol, he was yet prepared to I s ed 10 not to prove, that it was not with the intent a' r g f _ o e the indictment, namely, to murder or do g Iv: no . bodily harm to the prosecutor. Drunkenness fa* 81 19% li% 31,2 167 67, 7 3 / 4 El 4 odai 21 3 4 th Pro m first ( , s 7 rit , B t 4t , o r f aas sv Wai thro e the ( Where neSi a