The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-17 00:00:00

(From the 7'iraes of this day.) "It is an ill wind," says the proverb, " that blows nobody any good ;" and Prussia certainly is making a pretty thing of the war. What contingent advantages she promises to herself when Russia shall become the "sick man " of European politics, when the Western Powers shall be too exhausted to interfere, and Austria only too ready to divide the spoil, we do not happen to know ; but the pecuniary harvest is already begun. What with the conveyance of all kinds of Russian produce, besides sulphur and saltpetre, iron, lead, and everything convenient for the destruction of Englishmen and Frenchmen, all Prussia is as busy as a hive of bees, and the railways, canals, and ports are choked with traffic, Memel has more than recovered from the late conflagration. A new source of profit is now discovered to give the renfiers a turn. A. subscription has been opened at Berlin for the new Russian loan, and the citizens, who but lately had work enough of their own, are now piously and philosophically engaged in supply ing the sinews of war to their formidable neighbour. From all accounts it would seem that, while most other countries are suffering under a pecuniary pressure, in Prussia they are rather flush of money just now. Not only is the carrying trade very prosperous, but the price of bread and meat is most remunerative to the fortunate producers. Hence a slight difficulty of investment, and the Czar, who has found Prussia so glad to supply his arsenals, and relieve him from the pressure of our block ade, is now trespassing on her kindness for one 'store favour in the shape of subscriptions to a loan. At Am sterdam, it appears, a subscription is also opened, but there it must be done under the rose. A t Berlin there is no such reserve. No doubt the best thing a man can to there to prove his loyalty to his own sovereign is to buy into the Russian loan. Nay, on the principles of German indifference to all questions of right, and to liberty itself, he is a benefactor to his country. By sup• plying the Czar with funds to carry on the war, he is helping also the traffic in Russian produce, from which Prussia is now so large a gainer. No doubt the money must return into Prussia as fast as it goes out, while the bankruptcy of Russia would doubtless tell severely on many a Prussian ledger. As to the strict legality of the transaction, we presume that must be left to the lawyers ; and if it be consistent with the law of nations to supply Russia with sulphur, nitre, lead, and iron, it might be difficult to make a case of war out of subscriptions to a loan. We may feel greatly and justly aggrieved that a nation which energetically interferes to prevent one of its citizens, or even one of its sojourners, if possible, from enlisting in the cause of European independence, on the ground of neutrality, should nevertheless in open day supply our enemy with all the materials of war and with money to buy them. But a casus belli and a just grievance are two different things. The former is a state of affairs under which it becomes meanness not to declare war. We cannot say the present position of Prussia imposes upon us the choice between war and dishonour; but this we do say, that if we could afford to add Prussit to the side of the enemy, we should be quite justified in requiring Prussia to desist from helping that enemy, and, in the event of her obstinacy, deelarieg war against her, and blockading her Baltic ports. Under the circumstances, we need feel no delicacy in looking at the pecuniary aspect of the transaction. The interest on existing Russian stock is paid in roubles, which happen at this moment to be greatly depreciated. A specie payment is already suspended, tnd the value of Russian paper must henceforth vary with the prospects of the war ; the King of Prussia himself, therefore, would hardly oblige his imperial nephew with a loan, the repayment and interest of which may assume a very shadowy character. Should the war go on at the present rate for half a dozen years, a bundle of Russian assignats will be worth about as much as the French documents so called at the close of last century ; so, to satisfy the sagacious Ge rma n mind, it is engaged that the interest shall be payable in St. Petersburg, Hamburg, and Amsterdam at a fixed rate of exchange, every half-yearly coupon being reckoned at 121 roubles at the Russian capital, or 23 gulden 60 cents. in Amsterdam, or 26 marks, 10 schil sings, 11 pfenning,s in Hamburg. So long, therefore, as Russia is solvent at all, the lenders are guaranteed their interest in good Dutch and free German coin. The price, how ever, at which the loan is offered, without being very eagerly caught at, shows that even 5 per cent, secured from depreciation does not entirely remove the qualms of the German capitalist. It is offered and but slowly taksn at 86—that is, below the present pric e o f our own Tnree per Cents. ndeed is the present state of our funds, a Five per Cent, stock would be worth 147. The important guarantee gives to the new loan has had the very natural effect of adding to the depreciation of the existing Russian stock, and to the general discredit of that Government. Of course, on sucha question we shall be thought interested authorities, but we do not see why we should conceal a very honest conviction that, after two or three years, the Berliners will never receive either a rouble, or a thaler, or a gulden, or even a pfen ning of their money. Exhausted of money and of men, of credit, and even of order, Russia, will find it by that time quite impossible to pay her creditors any thing but promises. It is, of course, but too proba ble that about the same time, or stilt earlier, the con tagion of the war will have spread into Germany. In this case the wealth which Prussia is now acquiring in the service of Russia will go the way of all spoil ; for the tide of war, as it eddies to and fro across the con tinent of Europe, will sweep Germany very clean. The mass of private suffering this wilt cause will be heart rending :enough, but Germany is "making her own bed, and she must lie upon it." Even if Prussia is satisfied that she is not violating the law of uations, the fact that she is now virtually fighting for Russia might suggest to her the impossi bility of a neutral position. She must, it appears, be either on one side or the other. She must be fur us or against us, and she is against us. To provide against any mistake on the point, she does her utmost# to pre, vent a single German from adding his solitary unit to our side. A neutrality of this sort, which combines the immunities of peace with the profits, and airpareutly the gratifications. of war, may satisfy the German sew) of honour, and fulfil a new political type in German philosophy. To our simple understandings it is some thing monstrous, hateful, and contemptible. It is some thing more. It is a state so contrary to all the con ditions on which society staude that it cannot possibly last long. The day inu.,t soon come in which hollow neu trality will be strict of Es pretences, and have to die. gorge its odious gains. Whateler and whoever now helps Russia helps her ambition, helps her obstinacy, helps her infatuation ; helps her to go on with her desperate game till she has played her last stake ; helps Ler to destroy her population, to reduco her fields to deserts, and her cities to bare walls. It would be the The line-of-battle ship Victoria, 110 guts, built at Pembroke, is to have her designation changed, as a larger and finer vessel, now building at ono of the aouthere yards, is to bear the name of her Majesty. The Vitoria now on the stocks of Pembroke has been ready for launching between two and three years ; but, owing t ) the :_faultiness of her lines, she has not been sent afloat. She is far too short for her beam ; and the only way to render her an efficient man-of-war will be to cut her in two, and make her of heavier rating-in fact, classing ber with the 131's. The Imperieuse, 51, screw-frigate, Captain R. B. Wat son, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Baltic. The flying squadron continued in the Gulf of Finland until the weather setting in with rigour com pelled the senior officer (Captain Watson) to withdraw the ships. Intense frost was experienced in Hango Roads on the 30th tilt. and the three following days, and it was not until they were in danger of being frozen in that Captain Watson gave orders for their departure. The Imperieuse, with the Euryalus, 51, Capt. G. Rant say ; Pylades, 21, Capt. D'Eyncourt ; Centaur, 6, Capt. Clifford, C.B. ; and the Bulldog, 6, Commander A. C. Gordon, left on the 3d inst. The Centaur's sailing was delayed a short time in consequence of some of her ma chinery being frczen ; she was, however, enabled to leave with the Imperieuse, and together they steered out into and down the Gulf of Finland, preserving a middle course, by which means they had tolerably good sea room for the gale which blew on the following day-the heaviest ever experienced since they entered the Baltic. After blowing furiously the whole of the 4th, a shift of wind to the southward allowed them to round the Da gersort, and drawing to the south-east, after they had passed that point, i;hey stood to the south-west, towards Faro, where they arrived on the 7th, in the midst of a snow storm, in company with the Vulture, from Kiel. They found all the vessels of the.squadron there, except the Archer and the Desperate, which were on the coast of Coui land. The Euryalus had lost her quarter davits, with four of her boats. The Pylades arrived on the Bth. The Harrier sailed on the Bth, soon after the departure of the Imperieuse, which made Kiel in 50 hours, took in about 70 tons of coal, and at 7 a.m. left under steam for Spithead, where she and the Harrier, Commander Story, arrived yesterday. The William Jackson transport, Capt. Wemyss, arrived at Spithead on Friday night. She sailed from Spithead on the 10th ult., with detachments of her Majesty's 54th Regiment, the West York Militia, and Royal Sap pers and Miners, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d, and sailed on her return for Spithead on the 26th. The following are the latest movements at Ports mouth :-The Edinburgh, 60, Captain Hewlett, C. 8., sailed on Saturday for Kingstown (Dublin) to winter ; the Edina steam transport, No. 199, left on Saturday for London ; the Imperador and William Jackson trans ports went into harbour; the Hamburg, steam trans port, No. 50, left on Saturday for Grimsby ; the Mar garetta, from Hamburg fur Bahia, and the Vesta from Bogeuse for Liverpool, put in on Saturday wind bound ; the Volcano, floating steam smithery, Lieut. Dyer, went into harbour on Friday evening ; the Dee steam trans port arrived on Saturday morning with machinery from Woolwich ; the Lucifer steam tender left on Saturday fur Pembroke, with riggers, &c. ; the Marlborough, 131, screw, got up steam fur the first time to test her ma chinery, on Saturday, in the steam basin. On the pres sure in the six boilers reaching 201 b. to the square inch (tlie maximum to which the safety-valves are loaded), no symptoms of leakage were apparent, and shortly after 10 o'clock, when steam wars first admitted to her ponderous cylinders, these leviathAS started into motion smoothly, silently, and to the admiration of all present, and thus continued fur several hours, the maximum number of revolutions attained being 42, with steam of 151 b. pres sure and throttle-valves partially open. The engines of this, the largest ship afloat, have been constructed by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, of a similar form to those of the Princess Royal, 91 gun-ship, but much larger in proportion, the cylinders being 82 inches in diameter ; with a stroke of 4 feet, the connecting rods taking imme• diately into the main line of shafting, to which is affixed the screw propeller in this instance of over 19 feet in di ameter, With a pitch of 26 ft. 9 in. It is surmised that in her trial trip, which is expected to take place at the end of the present week, a speed of over 12 knots per hour will be realised, which will throw into the shade even the performances of the great " Duke." Should the num ber of 50 revolutions be attained (which is fully antici pated) the Marlborough's speed will be close upon 13 knots, with steam at 15lb instead of 201 b, throttle-valves half open. She will have steam up again in the basis to-morrow. The nominal horse power of her engines is 800. They weigh, with their boilers, about 600 tons, but occupy less space than those in the Duke. Mr. J. Devey is her chief engineer (first class). The Blenheim, SO, Capt. Hall, and the Colossus, 80, Capt. Robinson, were taken into the old basin on Saturday to refit. The Neptune, 120, Capt. Hutton, returned to Lisbon on the 3d inst., after an absence of 10 days at Passe d'Arcos, where she had been to exercise her crew firing at targets, and in other evolutions. This ship received orders by overland telegraph to return immediately to Spithead, and sailed on the morning of the 9th inst. It is supposed her crew will be tramsferied, with her captain, to the new three-decker Marlborough, now ready fur commission. The paddle-wheel steam-frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. N. Vansittart, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Thursday evening, left Hango on the 2941 ult., when the thermometer was at 3 deg. Fahrenheit, and the ice was forming so strongly on the south shore that the fly ing squadron was forced to retire, and thus raise the blockade, which had been strictly maintained up to that (late. She arrived on the 30th ult. at Faro, where she found the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Retribution, 23, Capt. T. Fisher, flag of RearAdisirat Robert L. Baynes, and the paddle-wheel steauesloop Geyser, 6, Commander R. Dew, two French frigates, and other cruis ire. Here the engineers of the fleet held a survey on the boilers, which were so defective that the Magicienne was ordered home forthwith. She coaled at Fero, sailed on the 2d inst., arrived on the sth at Elsinore, and left for Ply mouth on the 9th. This frigate appears to have been as actively occupied on the enemy's coast as any ship the British fleet. She was engaged ten times with the enemy, and, notwithstanding the diffi culty of the navigation and the absence of local pilots, has sustained no injury -a fact reflecting much credit on her officers and crew. Subjoined is an account of some of the principal services which the Ma gicienne has rendered. On 27th May, in company with the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Merlin, 6, C'e.pt. B. J. Sul livan, at the north-end of Niorko Sound, she captured and destroyed 20 of the enemy's ships. Ou the 28th she saw two gal iota in tow of a war-steamer, gave chase, when the galliots, laden with granite for the Russian Government, were captured and burnt, the steamer hav ing cast them off and escaped into Sweaborg. On 6th June two galliots with granite were destroyed at Kanki ala Light. On the 7th the Magictenne engaged and drove off A field battery of artillery at Maxlax, on which occasion her mooring chain cable was destroyed, and several shots lodged in her stern. On the 14th she destroyed the fort of Rotschenslan, and on the 16th scuttled four galliots laden with granite. On the 20th, in company with the screw steam-frigate Arrogant, 46, Capt. Hastings R. Yelierton, at Kotka, mouth of Kymene river, she burnt a number of barracks sufficient for 5,000 troops, and on the 21st blew up the walls of the fort. On the 23d, in company with the crew of the screw steam-gunboat Ruby, 1, in boats engaged a large body of infantry at Maxlax, and drove them off. 30 th.-Burnt and sank 29 galliots with granite. July 5, at Lovisa dispersed a party of Cossacks. 60.- Burnt and blew up the fort of Svartholen, capable of mounting 122 guns and a number of mortars. 11th.- At Kounder Bay skirmished with a body of Cossacks, who were dispersed by rockets. 12th.-At Pourtisioki Bay destroyed a guard-house and drove away the enemy. 13th.-A boat expedition from the Magicienne and the Arrogant, towed by the Ruby, reconnoitred Trang Sound, and was attacked from a concealed post by a body of troops consisting of artillery and rites, and also by three row and one steam-gun-boat. This action con tained an hour and three-quarters. The boats accom plished the object of the reconnaissanc,e and returned to the shins with one killed and eight wounded, of whom two died subsequently. On the night of the 20th of July the passage into Frederick Sound was buoyed off under fire of the Russian batteries, and on the morning of the 21st the fleet entered, the Magicienne taking po sition 1,800 yards from the guns ; after an engagement of two hours the fort was completely silenced. Although perfectly at the mercy of the fleet, the town was spared. On the 26th and 27th the destruction of the barracks and extensive storehouses of Kotka was finished. At the bombardment of Sweaborg by the allied forces the crew of the Magicienne had charge of four mortars and two gun-boat. Since the bombardment this steamer has been engaged in a variety of blockade duties, and in towing mortar-boats, &c. She was the last ship to make a reconnaissance of Sweaborg, and found the Russians busily occupied in repairing the damage received in tke attack by the united fleets. The Magicienne went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Saturday. Rear-A(1111ml Sir Michael Seymour changed his flag on Saturday from blue to white at the mizen on board the screwatteam-ship Exmouth, 90, Capt. William King Hall, C. 8., at Plymouth, under a salute of 11 guns. The crew of the screw steam-ship Nile, 91, Capt. G. R. Mundy, are to be paid wages at Plymouth this day (Monday), a n d gran t e d t h ree wee k s ' l eave o f a b sence. The cr ew o f t h e screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 84, Captai n W. J . W illiams, bent sails at Plymouth on Saturday. She will leave Hainoaze for the Sound this day (Monday). The screw steam-sloop Satellite, 20, have received her boilers and engines, wee towed front K ey h am D oc k s to the new basin, Devonport dockyard, on Saturday, to be rigged, previous to being put in commission, The screw steam mortar ship Forth, 44, was commis sioned at Plymouth on Friday by Lieut. L. A. Whitupe, of the screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 84. The paddle-wheel steam-ship Hecla, 6, Ports mouth, arrived at Plymouth on Friday. from The paddle-wheel steam troop-ship Dee, 4, Comman der T. C. Pullen, sailed from Portsmouth on Friday for Woolwich. Lieutenant a W. Dalyell, who lost his left aim while serving in the trenches at Sebastopol, on the unfortunate repulse of the attack on the Redan, he being in command of one of the scaling ladder brigades, with seamen who volunteered with Captain William Peel for that service, has been ordered to proceed from th e 'Na te rloo flag-ship, at Sheerness, to join ber Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, now at Portsmouth. Lieutenant Dalyell left on Friday to take up his appointment. The Cheerful, 2, screw steam gun-boat, Lieut. William Hector Rason, commander, arrived at Sheerness at 4 p.m. on Saturday, from Woolwich, having had her com passes adjusted at Greenhithe. She proceeded on a trial of speed and steering qualities. She at present draws under 5 feet water. She is the first of the new class gun-boat, built to be available, with her armament, to consist of two long 32 pounder guns and two 121 b. howitzers. With a pressure of 601 b. on the square inch Dividend t Amount Name of Company, per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. X s. d. £ s. d. British ••••••—•• •• • • i Ditto Irovincial •• .. 71. •20 0 0 20 0 0 23 Brighton •.—..• • • • ~ 51. ' 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 City of London .. •• •• 41. Os. 100 0 0 160 5 0 Continental (4th Cap.) . 50 0 0 20 0 0 Equitable .••••.. •• •• 2/. 10s. 50 0 0 all , 33Y, Great Central ....... 8/ per cent. 10 0 0 all 11.: 1, .,i Imperial .. • • ........ 10/.Bc bouua.i 50 0 0 all . 85 Independent ......... 51. 40 0 0 L0nd0n........'....., 50 0 0 PP ; Do., Pail. Preference Cl. per cent. 25 0 0 OP ' ..--. Pbce •ix ....... •• ..., 41. per cent. 60 0 0 52 0 0 , Itatclitr .... . ....... 51. 100 0 0 16 0 0 ' 16 United General ...... 2/. 10g. 50 0 0 all 1 Westminster Chartered 41 per cent. 1 50 0 0 PP i Ditto, New ........ !50 0 0 10 0 0 II WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. • £ s. d. £ s. d. East London Grand Junction .... • • 4'. per cut. i 50 0 0 all Kent ...... .... .. Lambeth New River Company 21.105. -- Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 893( West Middlesex BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. lliingerfard Southwark Ditto New of 7 p.c. 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 Waterloo ..... Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 1/. I4s. Bd. 60 0 0 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 1/. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 Vauxhall ....., DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. — --- X s. 0. £ s. d. Commercial ........ •• 5/. pr cent. Stock. Stock. East and %Vest India.. i ' 61. pr cent. Stock. East Country 2os. per sh. London ..... , .....• ' si. pr cent. Stock. 100 Ditto 80nd5.... • • • • 41. per cent. St. Katharine , outhampton ...... •• 31. Os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Victoria (F.-out the-Dispatch.) The Concordat arranged between the Emperor of Austria and the Pope has spread dismay among the mob of the Filth of November Protestants. Your Rye. House Christians see in this snolement a prodigious addition to the strength of Popery. Evangelists of the Titus Oates and Protestant Manual order have been smitten with the itch of prophecy. The shadow of Guy Fawkes looms in the proximate distance. They gaze on it as on a vision of coming «vents. They behold the Scarlet Lady shift ing her seat on the seven hills to an ottoman on High gate or Richmond. Because an imbecile autocrat has dyspepsia and religion, they think "the wan of perdi tion" has proved too many for the "children of light." Now our interpretation of these "signs and wonders" is somewhat different from this. Had we paid Pio Nono to do the work of Martin Luther, he could not have per formed it more effectually than by the impetration of this piece of waste paper from the obfuscated weakness of Francis Joseph, It is a Concordat between a priest and his dupe, that is all. It is buying and selling the souls and consciences of a nation without taking the na tion itself at a ll in t o cons id era ti on. It i s di spos i ng o f t h e spiritual action of a people, without recognising them as in any degree entitled to a voice in the matter. A Con cordat between pontiff and tyrant, it will prove a Dis cordat with the latter and his slaves. How could the Emperor of Austria do the work of revolution more effectually than, in this latter half of the nineteenth century, to insult the manhood and intelligence of his subjects by an insolence so daring as this open insult and brazen defiance of the progress of mind, and the slow but measured tread of spiritual liberty ? Is it possible to believe that abject prostration of the German soul at the footstool of the Vatican really increases the power and influence of the latter over it ? Is not Ger many the country of schools, colleges, metaphysics, theology, criticism ? Is not Austria surrounded by Protestant States ? Does it not speak the vernacular of Greisbach and Strauss ? It is not by law that men can be made to believe. Edicts of secular authority hare no efficacy with the conscience. All the policemen in the world cannot catch a soul—no dungeon can darken or prison incarcerate it. The "spirit that is in man" rises and rebels instinctively against all the mere fetters of ' secular authority. Monarchs may inscribe Concordats on tablets of stone, but never on the fleshly tables of the heart. This Papal movement is worse than a crime (for it is a crime against the human mind), it is a blunder. We shall not have long to wait for the proof of it. If the Austrians were the willing slaves of the Vatican they would swear fealty without the compulsion of a legal de cree. If they be not, the Concordat will not make them. The "children of this world" have not, on this occasion, been " wise in their generation." In fact, this is not their generation ; that age passed, and they will not, or—struck with judicial blindness—they cannot see it. In this age the intellect, even of the masses, is too sub tle to be enchained in these clumsy fetters. All Germany is in arms against this daring offence against, at least, the decencies of political life. It finds itself inscribed by its civil ruler upon the nanster-roll of the great spiri tual slave•driver of the world. It sees the nationalism even of its hierarchy ignored. It looks upon its Sove reign as but the roost willing to proclaim his subjection to a foreign authority. It burns with shame and indig nation at this scandalous abdication of national indepen dence. No enemy to Popery is half so deadly as the Pope. Bit do not we, the Protestants, commit the same folly here ? A Popish priest has been prosecuted by a Popish Attorney-General, in Ireland, for what is called the crime of Bible-burning. Well ; he has got off. A boy, Reeking fun at the bon-fire, was prosecuted also—elevated, in the year of his first pair of breeches, into the dignity of being an enemy of the State of Great Britain, Ireland and their dependencies ! He has got off too. Was ever se bold and extravagant a farce? What, have we not Bibles enough that we can not spare some as a holocaust to the rampancy of Mile sian theological zeal ? Father What's-his-Name has at least made more work for the printers. The Bibles were his property—may he not "do what he likes with his own ?" Commercially we would call Protestant pr:Svo cations to this arson of the Scriptures a sort of " spoil ing the Egyptians." The more the holy father burns the more he will have to pay—his p oc k et w ill tire of the job touch sooner than the Queen's printer. After ail, what harm is done by kindling a fire with paper smeared with ink, and bound in calf ? Because the paper was peculiarly smeared, with types speoifisally arranged, is that any reason for the virtuous indignation of Mr. At tor es'-General ? The Bible I le iftswelef wisonrsohtibpurreolitc,sb—ecifatwisee a Popish priest invests some fire shillings i n th e confla gratiori of a COPY of it. attach such peculiar sanctity to the mere symbol of evangelism —we ourselves are rushing into the very heresy of Romanism. In this case tire thing burnt was hut a type, a s ymbol of a reverential idea, no proper subject for the veneration of that Protestantism whicli asserts, that "the letter killeth, and -the spirit alone maketh alive." There are worse uses made of the Bible than burning it. This canting rogue snivels out its itoexts, and thereby picks your pockets. That oily hypocrite " steals into widows' houses" by it, "leading . captive the minds of silly women, led away of divers lusts." So when yonder sot crawls to "my anele"'with " the big ball Bible once his father'S pride,". he pawns it s. for gin, and gets drank with the proceeds. Why should the Attorney-General pretend to patronize Christianity ? Why should not religion he left to protect itself without being "countenanced" by the law? If the Bible cannot protect itself from profanation, can a. policeman do it ? Were we actuated by the mere motives of a Protestant Polemic, we would secretly pay these Irish idiots to make a parade of their hatred of that book from which Protestant and Catholic alike claim to derive, the one his faith, the other his authority. If the object of these hot-brained iNliles;an Blunderbores be to proselytise the heretic, what chance have they by be ginning their work by the awful blasphemy of desecrat ing what,lieliolde in the deepest reverence. If they de sire to preserve their own flocks from straying into for ' bidden pastures; they do hope to do it by insulting their peaceable and friendly neighbour's religion, or by dis playing their fear that the plain construction of the Word of God condemns their own religious profession ? What is an unsophisticated Romanist to think when he sees his priest afraid of the Bible ? What a weapon does he put into the hand of a Protestant missionary when he plainly confesses by his own acts that he dreads free in quiry ; that he expects that hie people will fall away from Catholicism if they are permitted to read the Scriptures Is it not possible to expose what the Popish priest regards as the niistranslations, the uncanonical character of seine, the spuriousness of other parts of the authotised version of the Bible calmly, learnedly, and charitably, without shocking, by a crew of crazy Milesian polemics, the most sensitive of all feelings, that of vene ration of sacred things, by open dishonour of the books held holy by five-sixths of the people of this country. If ft e a ee ti c P i r - i n e i s t c l o y u f l o d o w p o ro u h ld ibi l t e t a n d e , 'There et the thinkls, muddled m w e t h , t t h h e e y fumes l o a f be Hibernian s absolutely consequences n to o la wwhich this e o their un t f r o y l I to people from persevering and open ridicule of Popish worship. The mass book may be set to doggerel, high mass itself may be introduced in a pantomime , and a clown substituted f o r a cardinal before the altar. Th e host may be borne in mockery through the streets of Dub lin, and the sacred devices of Rome transferred to the Surrey or Atitley'si. Nothing but the good sense and the good feeling of the Protestant population saves our Catholic countrymen from these outrages on their sense of piety—why should Papists living in such glass houses venture to throw stones ? It is not Protestantistn that is endangered by these Peche rine pranks—it is religion itself. If Protestantism is not secure against outrage from Papists', how can they claim protection for their common Christianity against the blasphemy of Socialism, or the ridicule of the Atheist ? Cardinal Wiseman might be serenaded by the De pro fundis adapted to the air of the "King of the Cannibal Islands,' and the " Lion of Judah" hunted from Saint Once plant a wrong and you may be perfectly cure that it will bear a plentiful crop of its own kind. At the death of the Duke of Wellington, the colonelcies he had o s op p po r r e t u eminentl yoccurred earned for becomingmaking Prince Albert the ndthe Duke of Cambridge the chiefs of the aristocratic regi ments. Prince Albert never ceuld earn a colonelcy, it was never intended that he should have the chance, and the Duke of Cambridge at that period had never seen a field of battle. Since that period his own courage and good nature, and the equal good nature of the soldiers and the public, have made up for the Duke a military reputation, one, however, which minified to Royal blood, would never have placed him in the position which he holds. We protested at the time, in language quoted almost throughout Europe, against the sharing of the old lion's spoils among those who had shown no token that they were of his race, to the disparagement and the de nial of those who had seen service and shed bleed for ho• pour and command. But this discouraging unfairness was not the only evil seed sown. The Prince and the Duke became attached not so much to the army in general as to the privileged part of it ; and now that we are all striving, as for the salvation of our country, to make merit and reward go hand in hand throughout the forces, we find the parties promoted by mere favour, by the mere accident of rank, assuming all the authority of their gratuitous position to give weight to the claims of the exclusive body they are attached to against the rights of the army in general. Worse than this, Prince Albert, if he exerts any influence in the military administration (and we cite the Times as asserting that he uses much), constitutes himself judge in his own concerns. He is invested with a property which he ought never to have had, for in his case army command assumes the nature of mere property :more than in any other, and he has means of asserting the interests of those allied to it, his subalterns and proteges, which the worthiest veteran has not. A memorial, signed by the officers of the Guards, and headed by these two Colonels, has, it is said, been presented to the Queen, representing the injustice of a recent regulation by which all Lieutenant-Colonels, doing effective duty as field-officers for three years, become full Colonels. The Guards' Captains are, by a most unjust regulation, Lieutenant Colonels in the army ; and as only two of these Captain-Colonels do a pirallel duty to the Lieutenant-Colonels in the line, the new method of promotion interferes with the exclusive claims of the rest of them. Such we understand to be the state of the case, stripped of professional technicalities. We find that the Guards solicit an "equality with their more fortunate brethren of the line," that is, we suppose, that all their Captains shall become full Colonels by three years' bona fide service as Captains. This is, in deed, " too bad." Not to go into the accidental statis tics of the army list, we put this to thearistocraticGuards men :—Here is one of your Captains, who went as such into the Crimea 13 months ago, or less, and, having never before seen an enemy, he is now the Commander in-Chief of the largest army England ever mustered in the field. Will not Sir W. Codrington's a,dvanCement show that you have, at least, fair play? Is not the English public at this moment ominously silent upon this selection, as hesitating between the fear of doing an injustice to a pre-eminently capable man, and the doubt that some unfit influence has been used to bring about this unprecedented rise ? Let the aristocrats, and their princely patrons along with them, be sure of this, that what is gained for the efficiency of the Army is gained for ever, and that to attempt to take it back is to raise such a spirit as will soon settle the debate about privi lege in general. But it ie alleged that this memorial has been got up " secretly. The reliance, it is asserted, is upon the inflUmice of the signatures. Wo most earnestly protest against this presumed influence. If Priece Albert signs the memorial as a Colonel, he must be treated only as a Colonel. If lie is " two gentlemen is one," and draws a distinction between the Queen's.hus band and the officer, we must insist upon it too. Ho must be treated as the Hon. Colonel Snooks would be. The one thing which this public will certainly not bear is, thatht German Prince shall ally himself with an aris tocratic caste and have the opportunity of secret govern ment in its intetest. The marriage of Queen Victoria had no :Rich meaning in the eyes of any British citizen. The government of this country is conducted through the Queen's responsible Ministers. They have difficulties enough to encounter in wresting the conduct of the Army from ra dtheready to d,e misrule e i a rsvve o ytt f ht:h t ete : e iatenho o denir l t i eni g h aoorsc,tewh shallwye i h b li,c e b E h :D p e w o r r i y irl i i l en ) p n . : e ee d ,e o l sr in f sua l e sr s t n iel t i ya s s , placed of our own knowledge that the ranks of the Army aro deprived ofthe presence of energetic young . men iu the middle-class of life, because there is a stigma which prevents the private from rising in the ordinary way to the rank of an officer. A young man of an emulative temperament (and such are the material for soldiers) will not enter a service in which he is told he shall not rise beyond the grade of a eerjearit. If he, by miracle, gets a commission, he is tolerated, not welcomed, and his position only becomes an embarrassment by the habits of the Moneyed and caste oligarchy about him ; and while he remains iii the ranks he is one of a pro scribed class, weighed down by the consciousness that he is looked upon as having no possibility in him of be coming the equal of the marl who commands lime This must be changed, an-I the Ministers are answerable to the people for effecting this change in full. Sooner or Liter the day of reckonino , will come, and many like our selves stand pledged and determined never to cease call ing for it. Lords Palmerston and Panmure, and possi bly Lord Hardinge, have to settle the affair with the Parliament. A reformed one may dispose of it. Those about the Court may be private gentlemen if they please, no one envying them. But if they give counsel it must clearly be in the general interest unmistakeably under stood ; and if they step out of their household sphere, the very act must renounce the other advantages; of their position. Prince Albert has lectured the people of Eng land upon Parliamentary government in war times. Let him be its ready to learn his own constitutional position in the same arduous conjuncture. A slitn 3.:.01dh; 93'71. p. ct. 145 Macclesfield. 100 21. 108. 51 BarnslPy.• ••11601 Neath .• •• • • 100 161. Brkiik,tAbrg 150; 41. ; ; Oxford.. •• • • 100 Birmingham ; 401 41. ; 90 Peak Forest. 78 51 Os. 76 Coventry.....loo; 251. Regent's •• • • 30 Il 14 Derby • •... 1 100' 6/. 15e. 84 Rochdale ...• 85 11. 10s. 76 Ellsnire&Chs; 69 2+3 p. ct. Sornrset Coal 140; GrandJanctn,loo 31 pr. et. 37 Do. Lk IdSt 12j Do., 6 pr. Ct.! 10 61. pr. ct. 11% Strird &Wore 14 0, 28/, 420 Grand Surreyj 1001 41. Shrewsbury.. 125 1 Grand Union' 100! 11. Os . Stonrbridge.. 145 1 127. 290 Kennt & Avni 39 1 6s. Od. 63. i Severn and 1 „y . 28 Lancaster ...100 - Wye Rail. 5 261- Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 470 Warwick & 7 Leicester.... 100 A/. 4934 Binning. 5 1001 2/. 2.5 Lcicstr &Nth 83 Warwick & Lought,orogh 142 701. 550 Napton.. 5 1001 21 ' 10 Mornnouthsh 100 1 I worcstr & j „.,1 Mittginerysh 100 j Binning. ' 5 l 21. 21 Nleltn.llwhry 100; Wilts & Itrks' —' 10s. Od. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. I £ s. CI. £ a. d. Albion .... - .... •... 3/. 10s. ,500 0 0 50 0 0 83 Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 14s. 61.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 .1654 Ditto Marine ....... 61. p.c. & bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 42 Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5 0 1 0 0 - Atlas 1••••1•tis Life ....... .. • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - rtritish Commercial .. 71. 10.9, 50 0 0 50 0 6.? 4 / Clericl.Ated.& Gen. Life spr ct. & ha. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21% County .....,, „ ~ .., ~ 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 120 Crown .... .. -.•• • • • 178. Cd 50 0 0 50 0 18!‘, Eagle . - Equity' and Law...... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5% European Life :.. .... 1/, 20 0 0 all 18% Genera 1...... .• ....., 64 5 0 0 ~ 5% . . .., 51. per cent. Stock. ~ Globe 10G Guardian ............ 5?. per cent. !100 0 0 47 5 0 51 Imperial Fire......... 12/. per cent, 500 0 0 , 50 0 0 , 340 •. 1 Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... li3s & 3/, 100 0 01 20 0 0 77 Law Fire ...... .• - Law Lite............. - 100 0 . 10 0 0 r• 9 Legal and General Lilo - 50 0 0 2 0 0 sii London London Ship • . • 10s. & be. 25 0 0112 10 0 - Marine.... • .......... 18s.per share 100 0 0 28 0 0 40 Med. irvlid& Gen. Life 4% 4. pet et.' 50 0 0 2 0 0 3N Mtheeva • ..:,..... •• .. sp. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 2 0 0 6 Monarch' ••••• .. .. •• '. - 5 0 0 1 0 0 - National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 Palladium Life... l'elican - - - 45 1 „i l'hceithi. - - - 180 ProfesBional Life...... 51. per cent. 5 0 010 0 - Provident Life .... 1/. 58. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 '', 38% Rock Life.: .......... I 7s. 5 3 0 I 010 0 - Royal Exchange ...... ,'lOl. per cent. Stock. all 230 • Sun Fire ...... ' 6/ 10s. - PI -- Ditto Life . .. I/ 14s. - If 55 United Kingdom .... 4/. p. ct. & bs.l 20 0 0 4 0 0 - Universal Life ......•• 54 per cent 1100 0 0 10 0 0 - bl. per cent. Victoria Life ... ... -- _ _. .-_,_-_ - 412 6 5% • MISCELLANEOUS. • Dividend Amount Name of Company. per .. 1 of Pall Price. Annum. Share. -_--- . .' X s. d. X s. d. Assam •fea Aueti.n Mart•• •• -• • 2' per cent.' 50 0 0 - - Australian A.2rtculturl It . . Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 - Australian Trust .. •• 81. pet cent. - 25 0 0 - .Australian Royal Mail 5/, 10 0 0 all 4U ' An 10-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 15s. - 40 0 0 - Canada ... ••,....... 61. percent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 103 Do. 5 per cent Bonda 5/. per cent. - - - Ditto. 6 per cent. .. 61, per cent. - - 010 Pity N4vigation Bonds - - - - vilectric Telegraph .. 6 per cent. 25 0 0 24 0 0 21U Ditto ..... - - - - Equitable teversior.ry 71 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Ditte New .... - ..., 50 0 0 I 17 10 d Gen. Revers. & I nvest. sp.c. & bs• 100 0 0 100 0 0 G.. steatnNavigation 10 p. ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 - Hudson'a 8ay..., ~ .. _ - - M Stock. Efungerford ......... 2/, 58. 100 0 A 100 0 0 - London Institution ••• - - - London Reversionary 5/per cent 15 0 0 all - Russell Institntion- - - - 12 10 0 - P , riee's PatentC an d . Co' 10/. per cent, 20 0 0 17 10 - Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 , 100 0 - IZoYal Mail -Hearn.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0. 60 0 0 76 South k ustralian Land 6/. per cent 25 0 0 all - Trust and Loan Cemp. 1 Upper Canada ..•• 1 - 20 0 0 5 0 0 - part of a true friend t o b r i ng R uss i a t o reason, if not-by a more active protest, at least by a real neutrality. Had Russia possessed such advisers in her immediate neigh . bours it might have saved her the loss of honour, pro bperity, half a million men, and half a century of pro • gress. But hitherto all her neighbours have done has been to watch for some miserable private gain out of her difficulties and distresses. The one has sidled into the Danubian provinces with the hardly disguised inten tion of staying there till driven out ; the other has got some traffic and an investment for its profits. Is it the Jaw of Providence that selfish interlopers shall always succeed, that the baser end shalt always be obtained in place of the higher, and that the noblest actions shall be frustrated and sp , ilt by ridiculous episodes ? We trust that Prussia will one day find it is not. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT-HEREFORD, DEC. 15. FORGERY BY A MIIRVEYOR. George Drury, a young man of respectable connoxionß ' was charged with forging a cheque fur 37/. 89., upon Messrs. Hoskyns' bank, at Hereford, on the 16th June last. Mr. Matthews and Mr. Cleave prosecuted, and Mr. Skinner defended the prisoner. Mr. Hughes, cashier At the City and County Bank at Hereford, deposed that on the above-mentiored day the prisoner presented a cheque signed "R. T_Tuderwood " for 371. Ek, and that he cashed the cheque for him. Wit ness at the same time cashed a second cheque for him, drawn by his employer, Mr. Stephens. Mr. Stephens proved that the prisoner cashed a cheque for him on the day in question, and the deposition of Mr. Underwood (who was ill) was put in, and which proved that the forged cheque had not been signed by him. Proof was also given that the middle leaf of a blank cheque book had been abstracted from the office of Mr. - Underwood, and that the numbers upon the lost cheques corresponded with those upon the cheques produced. The prisoner, it seems, had occasionally been in the offiCe wh ere t h e cheque book wag kept. _ The jury f ound him guilty, and he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. THE HEREFORD MURDER. der again s t The grand jur ei y has just th rown out t h e bi lls for mur th manslaughter. eeight navig a t ors, and found true bills for NORFOLK CIRCUIT —N-(1 Joseph Underwood, an agrieliiirral lab ourer , was fellow workman. fcil, DAC. 15. u charched with the manslaughter of Rob er t G reen, a The case afforded another instance of the frightful re sults of the present system of "harvest homes," On Saturday, Sept. 22, the deceased and some other men were at the King's Arms public h ouse at Ca7s ork. ° near Great Yarmouth. The deceased was sob er, and the parties were all quiet till 12 o'clock, when the house wa s • shut up. The prisoner had not been in the house, and after the deceased and his companions had left it they stood outside for a little time. The prisoner and his two brothers came up to the spot where they were standing, and one ofthem asked for a Lucifer, A light was given, but from some unexplain e d cause there ensued a little J an glintr—to use a expressive and comprehen- Sive No r f o l k word. Al v in e Zt immediately afterwards the d hi e l c u ea_se 2 l o,eu was t k n ()eked d own b y the pr i soner, w h o s t ruc k was t ": ii it en tea blow house on th e b ac k of the right ear. H e close by i n an i nsens ibl e state, an d died th e f ollowin of quarrelsomeintca:x(i)carntiinogn The pris oner was i n a s tate when he s t ruc k th e d ecease d, indeed d ur i ng day he the had been i m bibi ng t h e a l most incredible qu an ti ty of 20 pit The prisoner was sentencedus o t r o b s e iexr.months' imprison writ. Samuel Lain, a small farmer, was charged with cut ting and wounding Phoebe Lunn, a servant in his father's house, with intent to murde r her. On the morning of Sunday, the 12th of prisoner, who had been out drinkin g all thAu gust, the iii4ht, returned to his father's house a t yy" preceding o t ndham, and went into the kitchen. The girl Bunn was in the kit c h en a t the time, and a ft er makin g s ome coarse ITle coarse llusions to her, the prisoner went to a drawer, took out EGGS.—From 1835 to 1846 the annual value of eggs exported from Belgium was only about 170,000 fr., but in 1847 it began to increase rapidly, and in 185:1 amounted to 800,000 fr., in 1853 to 1,200,000 fr., and in 1854 to 1,40,000 fr. L arge quan ti t i es o f P or t uguese eggs are imported into England by the Peninsular mail-packets. A short time since eggs were sold in Lisboa for 4s, a hundred. They are now selling there for 11d. each, or 12s. 63. a hundred. CROSSING CHEQUES.—The Econonti/t suggests that, if Inure security be required than the present practice of crossing cheques affords, it is ea-uly obtained, and now at, a mere nominal cost, by drawing a cheque to order in the form of a bill of exchange requiring endorsement. Bills on demand require now only a stamp of one penny for any amount, and there can therefore be neither diffi culty nor hardship in adopting this more secure mode when greater safety is required. The trading community have au easy and cheap remedy in their own bands, withdlut going to the Government, as has been recom mended. Jarlath ; :s by a vesper edition of "Isonnobis" to the tune of " Pop goes the weasel." Already in Manchester saloons are opened on Sunday, where, as a blind to the rake, roalms and hymns are set to "All round my hat," and sung to " Vil'ikins and his Dinah." Oa all sides there is in this business but a congeries of charac teristic Irish blunders. We call o❑ Government to let THE LATE ANSELM ROTIISOIIILD.—The Swabian Mer cury contains the following from Frankfort :—"The fortune of Baron de Rothschild, who recently died; has been valued at 40 to 50 millions of florins. A sum of 1,200,000 florins is destined to continue the alms which the decdased was in the habit of distributing every week, as well as for the di,tribution of wood to the poor in winter. The fund for giving a dower to Jewish maidens receives 50,000 florins ; the fund for the sick as well as the Jewish hospital, 10,000 florins each. The Jewish school, 59,000 florins. Sums of 3,000 florins are be stowed on several Christian establishments. The clerks who have teen more than twenty years in tho firm re ceive 2,000 florins, the others 1,000; the juniors from 300 to 500 florins, Many legacies are left to servants." the Bible alone. It can protect itself. Nobody else can. Leave its venerable sanctity to the guardianship of public opinion, and to the good sense of the people. By prose cuting those wbo insulted it, the only result was to ex cite the prejudices of the populace against it, and drive them to the side of its traducers. We desire to drop into desuetude the principle on which this prosecution proceeds. The burning of the Douay Bible would not be an offence, but the dishonouring of the authorised ver sion would. Now, that version ie full of mistranslations, perversions, no meanings, interpolations, downright for geries. Its canon is fixed on the authority of a Popish 1 - tik Tii k gli“ . 1 4 1, LOl4 li IC M ION D A Y 11 1 -: VI4II 1 N , . 13 143 CEMII E It l7, iAS ii; ____ -----------......--_-- = AND SHA O B TH E E S R COM , -e....,,r,...M. va,,rernitir'..M1.419100V01PM117.7..11.1.0.011.1fti..41.5. Pe...". "4 , ..rea , r,magar, - meseemotemaiingier#4 , ll.ol.., a razor, and made a dreadful wound on her neck eight • Naval and Military Int ellagoric e. she made 216 revolutions per minute, obtaining a speed i Council of Trent, and its adopted books are selected on l l A C S:U ' I S Z A T.(:CPE,O ottatry Markets. PRU,SSIAN PERFIDY. inches loeg, and nearly an inch deep. At first it was of 7 - 07 knots per hour. Her steering qualities are ad- no sound principle. Why is Ecclesiestiens left out, and ....-..-................ . thong,ht that her life would be sacrificed, but she ro- znirehle ; she turns perfectly round within her own the Song of Solomon 1--pt- in 9 V , lly is T - ibit ornittt - .1, ae.. , : . 1.., T0 hit STOCK. HADDLNIGTON CORN MARKET-DEC. 14: ( From, the Times of this clay.) covered after an illness of two months. - The line-of-battle ship Victoria, 116 gnus, built at l cne th a nd is capable of carrying her full armament andand Revelation:; ? We are Christians, not • blows • e preverb, " that . blows 'as ; ' ' Pembroke, is to have her designation changed, a _ stores at, a very light draught or water. Jews. We see in Christ a great Jewi h Reformer, leneaT. I BARLSY I Oars. inseNe o ill wind," says the Aar. Eeans, who appeared for the prisoner, submitted ______.--_ I First 9ls 6d 41s Cal 33s Od 54s 0-3 largor and finer vessel, now building at ono of the ' The Buffalo (late Baron Humboldt steam transport, again and again, flatly contradicting the letter et the Yoe(' ;" and Prussia certainly is making a that he was tipsy at the time he came home, and that I Second 7ss lid 1 41s ld 30s 4d 47e 4d southern yards, is to bear the name of her Majesty. The purchased by the Government) has adjusted her con- . " beggarly elements of the better dispensation," ex- From the Official List. What contingent advantages as he was incapable of forming any fixed resolution, he Thin.' of the war. Vitoria now on the stocks of Pembroke has been ready passes et Greenhithe, and proceeded, laden with stores ' plodine "thin shard toe lunderstood " • 1 stl , the ge , mata e. . .9 PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. Total quantity of wheat in market, 698 qrs., 631 soli to herself when Russia shall become the was only guilty of the offence of unlawfully wounding. for lau 1•❑ between two d three •• • nc nog an eeats ; but, (Mine , ~, and provisions, for tie Crimea, ignoring the scope and spirit of ritual and legal Ju• barley 1110 qr5.,1065 sold of European politics, whenthe Western t. the :faultiness of her lines, she has not been sent Th e Amphion and Driver arrived yesterday afternoon deism in which the Old Testament is obviously con- LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1855. 1, I, ft oats 517 qrs., 444 sold and he sentenced to two ' . • PP PP Pi be too exhausted to interfere, and Austria afloat. She is far too short for her beam ; and the only at Sheerness from the Baltic. 1 ceive I. There are those who see in the earlier writings beans 78 qrs., 58 sold __.- -4, PI PP ly to divide the spoil, we do not happen to NORTHERN CIRCUIT .- Y ORK, D ec. 15. way to render her an efficient man-of-war will be to cut G enera l L or d S e aton, th e C ommander of the Forces in l of the Pentateuch the m eanes t concep ti ons o f t h e Al - PER IMPE fp RIAL QUARTER. her in two, and make her of heavier rating-in fact, Ireland, has arrived in Dublin from the camp at the Cur- mighty. Why is a mythology thus felt by many to be GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Wheat, W. 15 11 1-12ths 1 Barley, _2l. 1 1 9.l2ths the pecuniary harvest is already begun. (Before Mr. Baron Martin. _ classing her with the 131's. ragh, tee severity of the weather having forced his lord- childish to be perpetually held up to the reverence of the the conveyance of all kinds of Russian THE TICKET•OF•LEAVE SYSTEM. The Imperieuse 51 screw-frioate Captain R P.. Wat• e , R. ship to di scon ti nue his field days until the ensuing spring, people by the protection of the law, in place of being Name of Company. Dividend t Amount , William Renton, 26, and John Clark, 26, were in- - . , , per of Paid. ' Price. ; 1 aides sulphur and saltpetre, iron, lead, son, C. 8., arrived at Spithe a d y es t ea y morning from when it is his intention to open the season by a course honestly subjected to the attrition of public opinion and Annum. Share. ABERDEEN-DEC. 14, and dieted for a burglary in the dwelling house of Mr. Job ;onvenient for the destruction of Englishmen Heine., at Knestrop, on the 20th of August last. Mr. the Baltic. The flying squadron continued in the Gulf of practice in artillery and Minis rifles • critical disquisition, and separated from sound theology X s. d. .£ s. d. ' Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od 401bs per bushel men, all Prussia is as busy as a hive of bees, Blanshard and Mr. Wheelhouse were for the prosecution. of Finland until the weather setting in with rigour COM- Li eu t. Wile Bell, 64th Regiment, ha s leave from the as chaff is from wheat, by blasts which truth resists, but p i I Common oats oGs Od to 27s Od lways, canals, and ports are choked with • of burglary,whichmarked b The particulars the was y palled the senior officer (Captain Watson) ts withdraw leth j es t, until he retires from the s erv i ce on hi s appoint- ' which blow away the false and extravagant ?It was the Ditto Provincial •-• :: —• 20 - 0 0 20 0 0 23 71. Dere Barley 39s Oil to 40s Od 39s Od to 40s Od 1531bs mel has more than recovered from the lated determination on the part of great coolness anthe ships. Intense frost was experienced in Han go Men tto the Adjutantcy of the sth Middlesex Militia.. ' maxim of Dr. Chalmers that a compulsory provision of ee Brighton -....•• •• ~ 51. ' 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Wheat, red (spring)6ss Oct to 68s Od a. A new source of profit is now discovered the prisoners (who held a conversation with the pro- Roads on the 30th ult. and the three following days, C a ptain Henry S. Bawtree, 87th Regiment Royal the poor was apt to dry up the voluntary activities of Cityo Londonit.ofentai 6.. ••• . .. 41. lig 0 0 0 150 2 gO O , ___- „ white ...• 7os Oct to 78s Od 1621 be „ renfiers a turn. A subscription has been secutor in his bedroom, with a view to find out where and it was not until they were in danger of being frozen I r i s h Fusiliers, has joined and assumed th e command of Christian charitable endeavour. To hand over the pro- G rea t . (4th.• •• .. a n 2/ - os. 50 0 0 all ! 33% Oatmeal 2s 6d to 23s 6d per boll. in that Captain Watson gave orders for their departure. his depot, Chatham. tection of religion to the Attorney-General, is apt to Great Central ....... 8/ per cent. 10 0 0 all 1 1.e.,i Flour 62s Od to 63s Oct per sack. Berlin for the new Russian loan, and the his money was), have been already reported in our kn. The Imperieuse, with the Euryalus, 51, Capt. G. Rant- The Commandant of theProvisionalßattalion,Chatham, blunt and dull the spontaneous zeal of pious impulse. Imperial .. •• ) but lately had work enough of their own, pression of the sth instant. ..............Si. 40 0 0 PROVISION MARKET. 151 y and philosophically engaged in supply- ALLEGED MURDER AT CLAYTON. say ; Pylades, 21, Ca t, D'Eyncourt ; Centaur, 6, Ca t, on Saturday, ordered 9 sergeants and 66 rank and file to Public opinion, the prog.ress of society, tho gradual L ndependent '"••"' .. ondon- ......'...... - 50 0 0 •• ; - Beef, per lb (id to 9cl I Butter, p lb. Os 10d to s llel ws of war to their formidable neighbour. James Wharam, 29, was indicted for the wilful mur- Clifford, C.B. ; and the Bulldog, 6, Commander A. C. be exempted from their daily ordinary duties, for the growth of religious knowledge and intelligence, are the Do., Pail. Prefer enc e el. per cent. 25 0 0 n ! - Mutton, per lb 6(1 to 8d ) Eggs, p doz. is Od to is 61 curate it would seem that, while most other der of Jeremiah Wherein, at Clayton West, on the Ist Gordon, left on the 3d inst. The Centaurs sailing was purpose of receiving instruction, under Ca t. Wm.Nott, best and only proper safeguards of the decencies of re ve- Pt.:m.4x ....... ••..... 41. per cent. 1600052 0 0 : - Veal, per lb 6d to 9d Hens, p pair 3s Od to 3s fel delayed a short time in consequence of some of her ma- 83d Regiment, in the Enfield rifle at that station. rents fur Divine things. They form self-regulating l u tat . c i li d tr G -- •• •• •• • ,) 5/. 100 ; 0 0 16 00; 16 Pork, per 5t...5s 6d to be 9d Chickens do Od to 2e 6d i suffering under a pecuniary pressure, in instant. Mr. Hardy and Mr. Maule were for the prose _ _ l2 l. 100. 50 0 0 all 1 - chinery being frozen •; she was, however, enabled to On Saturday 59 invalids arrive iat Ch a th am f r om the agencies which gradually purge the national faith of w ! e u st e ininWe=a7t . e . re7t 4 Salniou, per lb Os to Os Ducks, do. 2s Od to 2s 6.1 are rather flush of money just now. Not cut ion ; Mr. Price and Mr. Shepherd for the defence. l or cent! 50 0 0 leave with the Imporieuse, and together they steered out East in medical charge of Surgeon Cha s . A. I nnes , M.D. those mythological excrescences which it is in the true Ditto, New ........ - !50 0 0 10 'ii 0' 11 Grouse, per brace Os to Os Ducklingselo 2s Od to 2e. 6d arrying trade very pr os p erous , b u t th e price The particulars of this case have also recently ap- Tallow, p stone, 6s9d to 7s Od Turkeys,each4s tal to 58 Od into and down the Gulf of Finland, preserving a naiddle Instead of their being inspected at th e station, a ,. hith e r.. interest of "pure religion before God, even the Father," meat is most remunerative to the fortunate peered in the Sun. Prisoner and deceased were brothers. Potatoes, pr peck, 6d to 7d Geese, do., 3s Gd to 4,s od Hence a slight difficulty of investment, and There was a quarrel of long standing between them, course, by which means they had tolerably good sea room to, Assistant Surgeon C. I'. Abbott, M. 8., h a d instruc. to detach and dismiss from the category of national faith WATER-WORKS. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.Bos Od to 841 to has found Prussia so glad to supply his and they never met without angry words arising on each for the gale which blew on the following day-the Cons to proceed with them to Brompton, whe n 25 were and worship. When the authorised version of the Scrip- Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen . 9d to -(1 heaviest ever experienced since they entered the Baltic. ordered into the hospital, tures is acknowledged, by a.ll Biblical critics, to abound Dividend Amount l relieve him from th e pressure 4 -,f our block- side. Some three weeks previously, a quarrel having Name of Company. - per Paid. Price. After blowing furiously the whole of the 4th, a shift of The reserve battalion of the 91st Regi men t, recently in errors, interpolations, and questionable passages- Annum. Share. RETAIL PRICES. respassing on her kindness for one more takea place between them, prisoner was heard by several wind to the southward allowed them to round the Da- arrived at Chatham from the Cape, ha s b een fo r m e d into when the canon itself of Scripture is subject to grave • Flour —3 Ott to 3s 4d I Barleyflour,l4lb.Os to 1810c1 shape of subscriptions to a loan. At Am- persor s exclaiming, "by - I'll stick him." Ou the X s. d. .X 8. d. Oatineal,l4lb. 03 01.1 to 2s .5d 1 „ dust, Os toOs 10d. ,ppears, a subscription is also opened, but eight of the fatal encounter deceased and pr i soner h a d gersort, and drawing to the south-east, after they had a six-company depot, Lieut. Frederick Bechin e r, o f the question-where the impurity of the text is the subject of East London - Beremeal ..OsOd to ls 10d 1 , per lb 2d to 21_,;(1 tbe done under the rose. A t Berlin therit been drinking at an inn, but not together. The deceased Passed that point, they stood to the south-west, towards same corps, being recommended for the paymastership, yearly challenge in the House of Commons -is it not Grand Junction ...... 4'. per cm. 50 0 0 all - Peasemeal ... Os Oct to 2s 8d 1 Si:ls, Sel serve. No doubt the best thing a man can when the house wow crowd, was turned out with his Faro, where they arrived on the 7th, in the midst of a By the exprese desire of her 'Majesty s i x easy chairs of rather intolerable that a free people, jealous of their tell Kent ...... .......... 4', per cut, 100 0 0 - 784 4-Ib. 10af...10d. i 2-Ib. 10a.f...5d. wove his loyalty to his own sovereign is to companions, and as they went home they came to where snow storm, in company with the Vulture, from Kiel. the newest construction have been forward e d to Mr. G. gious liberty, should be liable to criminal prosecution for New 111 11alb P e i t t li •er • C • 'On . • • .3. • • • 21.-10 s 100 0 0 - - ..__ Cheese, per imperial stone, 3s. 6d to 4s. They found all the vessels of the,squadron there, except Russell Dartnell, at Fort Pitt, for th e wounded under venturing to say of such a conapilation what they think ? sou thwa rk V il a . l •l 51. per cot. Russian loan. Nay, on the principles of th e prisoner was standing, who tauntingly called out to 100 - 0 0 7- eew .........1 ifference to all questions of right, and to deceased, "Go home, old shoddy." Prisoner went back, the Archer and the Desperate, which were on the coast his charge, am acknowledgment of whi c h R o yal present Is not the whole question far too delicate for the West Middlesex ...... 5/. per cent. 61 0 0 - 91 ,heis a benefactor to his country. By sup' an d a,scuflle ensued. D ecease d was s t a bb e d i n t en pl aces , of Com land. The Euryalus had l os t h er quar t er d av its, was yester d ay f orwar d e d b y that gentleman to Colonel clumsy, unalterable, stereotyp e d canons o f th e l aw ? SEABORNE MAILS. ce !zar with funds to carry on the war, he is an d di e d i n a m i nu t e or two afterwar d s, with four of her b oa t s . The Pylades arrived on the Bth. C. B. Phi pps. If the Roman Catholics think, which they sincerely BRIDGES. the traffic in Russian produce, from which Th e jury found th e pr i soner gu il ty o f mans l aug ht er The Harrier sailed on the Bth, soon a ft er th e d e p ar t ure . do, that the Protestant ve rs i on of the Bible is hetero. (N signifies that the mails aro sent from th e G enera l Po s t oatee ------- Dividend Amount By the night-and Si by the morning---despatch.) of the Imperieuse, which made Kiel in 50 hours, took in dox, and that its canon excludes some inspired books, )w so large a gainer. No doubt the money un d er aggravated circumstances, and he was sentenced BIBLE BURNING. Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. about 70 tons of coal, and at 7 a.m. left under steam for and includes what is not only not inspired, but is psi- , into Prussia as fast as it goes out, while the to be transported for life. Annum. Share. Day when l o s e,n F ree , ee l, e , i When Spithead, where she and the Harrier, Commander Story, ------0--- of Russia would doubtless tell severely on tively the work of the Devil, are their priests not to be COtT.NTRIE2, in General t- Port I due • n ---...-. £ s. d. £ s. d. arrived yesterday. ( Front the- Dispatch.) allowed to warn their people against t?i They say, andoffice, London.* Dispatche. 1 En e tand. ssian ledger. As to the strict legality of the SOUTH LANCASHIRE-LIVERPOOL, Dec. 15, Hun '' eer.ord --- - - - - - 12 _______ ......_ --.----••• we presume that must be left to the lawyers ;The WilliainJacksontransport, Capt. Wemyss, arr i ve d The Concordat arranged between the Emperor of quite conscientiously, that it is not the Word of God, eithwerk ... .•• - 100 0 0 - (Before Mr. Justice Wighttuan.) - America(byßrit.pack)N Avery Friday .. ••• Liverpool Dec. 17 ionsistent with the law of nations to supply at Spithead on Friday night. She sailed from Spithead Austria. and the Pope has spread dismay among the mob Is it dot a dangerous principle to declare that they have So polo ::r e w of 7t' - , e p.c. 1/. per cent. 00 0 - kmerice. c by united Sts., , MANSLAUGHTER. i sulphur, nitre, lead, and iron, it might be . - - 100 0 0 - - packet) ~...,.,,.NI •••• •• -•• i Liverpool Dec. 24 Pa?)nck Connolly was arraigned, on the coroner's in- e • • o4th Regiment, the West York Militia, and Royal Sap- Christians see in this wmeement a prodigious addition to odium theologicum t This is to stereotype religion and to i t ) ) i it ti t o o .,,,v d ditAnn.to of of 7 81 1. . 1 1 1 /. 1 1. 0 4:. 4 8 d d. ; 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - tmeriea (by U. Stabee nake a case of war out of subscriptions to a uisit on, for the manslaughter of Ambrose Danlevy, on - packet) - ........N I e. •• - - -ISouthampt•• Dee. 15 nay feel greatly and justly aggrieved that a the 6th f December by ;tabbin him to the heart -With pers and Miners, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d, and the strength of Popery. Evangelists of the Titus Oates abandon the first doctrine of Protestantism, that inquiry vau e h a n .. „„ ...... 96 5 , 70 10 3 -_ 21 Amstralia. (via South-1 ! i energetically interferes to prevent one of • k ' the g • H 1 Buck- sailed on her return for Spithead on the 26th. and Protestant Manual order have been smitten with is free, arid that men are to be themselves the judges of amp-on) ..........; •••••••••• .•!Southepton 1 an American rifle, near American ote , the following are the latest movements at Parts- the itch of prophecy. The shadow of Guy Fawkes looms the faith they are to profess. No discussion is, in ou r DOCKS. Ditto (via Marseilles) NI •• • •••• •• • • :Dover .... or even one of its sojourner if possible, stone street, mouth :-The Edinburgh, 60, Captain Hewlett, CB., in the proximate distance. They gaze on it, as on a vision view more valuable more essential to the religious pro- Ditto (via Cape of Good: g in the cause of European independence, on H0pe...........N I ....... • • • • ... Uncertain Mr. Brett was for theprosecution; and Mr.As • 11 pine , sailed on Saturday for Kingstown (Dublin) to winter; of coming «vents. They behold the Scarlet Lady shift- gress of society, than that which involves the genuine- Dividend Amount i of neutrality, should nevertheless in open Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. erica (west Coati.) ..14,2.3d of the month. Plymouth .. Dec. It with whom was Mr S' s for the defene 1 w, . Delon,. was .e. the Edina steam transport, N o . 199, left on S a t ur d ay ing her seat on the seven hills to an ottoman on High- news of the text, the soundness of the canon, and the Alexandria ........ Ng, 9, 24. &30 of m • .l Dover .. - I rue enemy with all the materials of war and Annum. Share. , It appeared that on the night of the 6th of December for London ; the Imperador a n d William j ac k", trans • gate or Richmond. Because an imbecil e a utocr a t has fidelity of the translation of the Scriptures •; and he is no Alexandria ..........BC4th & 215th of mon. Southampton • to buy thetn. But a casus belli and a just Bateunas ...........511ith of the month'South=iptor ( 71. last the ca ed was at the house of Mr Mahon, a üb x S. e. , £ S. d. pores went into harbour; the Hamburg, steam trans- dyspepsia and religion, they think "the man of perdi- true friend to the principles of the Reformation wh o see k s Belgium ....... _ _N,Daily...... __ _ 3:ievcr ...... elle •e two different thing.. The former is a Afton, • Liverpool, - 1 . t 1 George ' li ckenzi a ' farmer Stock, stock. - rs under which it becomes meanness not to can, in iver l foL d wi i to la l to e r port, No. 50, left on Saturday . for Grimsby ; th e M ae . tion" has prov e d t oo many f or th e . children of light.." to guard the authoriAel version of the Bible from the 'l n t ' l e ,TVe's't';„ * (ii * ;. * : s6'l: ,P,ir. Tit BBB.Zil ..............ril 9th of the menth.•, l Southamptoi. Jan. 15 Du euenos Ayres ....., ..eeeth of the month ..leouthaney•tor, Jan. 15 We cannot say the present position of from as d S : a i g o od, Mackenzie comeL .erpoato Bagatelle, emigrate. - garetta, fro m Hamburg fur Bahia, and the Vesta from Now our interpretation of these " signs and wonders" Is c inflict of opinion by surrounding it with the defenc e s of Ea s t o eeiary '2os. per she - - when - 100 Cape of Good Hope ..NI Various port lUueertele Bogeuse for Liverpool, put in on Satu r d a y w i n d b oun d ; somewhat different from this. Had we paid Pin Nono the law, London ..... .•••••• ' eL pr cent. Stock, ioses upon us the choice between war and ceased ca • t w he ere playing kept public Ditto 80nd5.... •• •• et. per cent. - - - Cape of Good Ilope ..Ni _ _ Caps de Vgirds .....,N I 9th of the montlykuthamptor Jan. 15 but this we do say, that if we could afford house in Liver in with l, l prisoner, who oo of arge custom and called the the Volcano, floating steam smithery, Lieut. Dyer, went to do the work of Martin Luther, he could not have per , into harbour on Friday evening ; the D ee s t eam trans- formed it more effectually than by the impetration of __a . St. Katearine ........! 4 per cent. Stock. ; - - Ceylon (see India) si t to the side of the enemy, we should be American Il v o e t r e l l ) Al the party were sober, and playeu rt arrived on Saturday morning with machinery from this , piece of waste paper from the obfuscated weakness PRINCE A , LBFRT AND TILE GUARDS. , o . uthanipton ...... •. 131. Os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Victoria .......... - I 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 ! _ Ceylon ..............N ' -d in requiring Prussia to desist from helping at b Chaneei isles-. - ..N MOTl.,W ed. , PcFrlk.liouths.ropton;Tn.The at agatelle. There wee some argument about the ,Woolwich • the Lucifer steam tender left on St d of Ifrancis J , . aur ay oseph. It is a Concordat between a priest and, in the event of her obstinacy, declarieg , . , Chili.... • • • • ........M 2d & 17th of menthAouthampto• d d dff d b btM• h uest player, an eceasee o ere to et, u aon fur Pembroke, with riggers, &c. ; the Marlborough, 131, and his dupe, that is all. It is buying and selling the JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Chinn ... .. Once a month- "I 'Jan. 4 her, and blockading her Baltic ports, (From the Weekly Dispatch.) said he would not allow bets in his house. Deceased r the first time to te4 r - souls and screw, got up steam fe . he ma consciences of a nation without ticking the na- Constantinople ......e, 8,13,18,23,5428 ot miDover ...... ,' circumstances, we need feel no delicacy in Once plant a wrong and you may be perfectly sure Dividend Amount Constantinople __ _ _ 4th Se 20th bimbo. !Southampton I maid he did not care a - for Conn 11 and Connolly 0 3', . . chiuery, on Saturday, in the steam basin. On the pres- tion . itself at all into consideration. It is disposing of the the pecuniary aspect of the transaction. that it will bear a plentiful crop of its own kind. At the Name of company. per of Paid. Price. Cont. of Europe 154 & N Twice daily .... • . ;Dover ..... Twiei daily said he did not care a -fur him ; they made it up sure in the six boilers reaching 0 0 , b to .. . . the square inch Tint ual action uf a people, without recognising them as Annum. Share. Egypt (see India) t on existing Russian stock is paid in death of the Duke of Wellington, the colonelcies he had alter and were good friends before they left. When • (the maximum to which the safety-valves are loaded), n o in any degree entitled to a voice in the matter. A Con- --; ich happen at this moment to be greatly NI hon's h for the ni ht Mackenzie deceased, so pre eminently earned becoming vacant the insidious £ B. d. £ D. d. Gibraltar ..........M , 4, 7, 17, 20, 27 efm.Southampton, a use clos ed e g of symptoms of leakage were apparent, and shortly after 10 cordat between pontiff and tyrant, it will prove a Dis- . • f making g Albert andthe & • A specie payment is already suspended, and • t opportunity occurred .or naaeine• Prince latter, and prisoner went to the house the sat o'clock when steam w . "fi , aal rst admitted to her ponderous eordat with the latter and his slaves. How could theßritish NerthAmerican 1 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 65 ikeytown ........ „Be 2nd & 17th of mon.lSouthempten re of Russian paper must henceforth vary Duke of Cambridge the chiefs 'of the aristocratic regi- ~ down in the parlour to have some drink. Deceased and cylinders, these leviath+ started into motion smoothly, Emperor of Austria do the work of revolution more , 2 o o l i n ot m ie , i at tl of London. 1101. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 302 1 ,;; Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday!Loudon ...... aspects of the war ; the King of Prussia • s'tu'n uarrelled, some angry words passed, and merits. Prince Albert never eauld sewn a colonelcy, it refore, would hardly oblige his imperial fi t r i i: l o t : o r e(7 a le y (whose conduct was deposed to as silently, aud to the adallratiol3 of all present, arid thus effectually than, in this latter half of the nineteenth was never intended that he should have the chance, and lonia l n d ...:ll ••••• • • • • : V l .. At: c e c e i n a t : 11;1 . ( 5 ) 0 0 0 25 9 - Havannah -_,,_ _ el 2nci , of the month Southampton Dec. IG. 0 - Holland ..,... _„ „ m Dai.y.. ...... ....,Dover ..... - i f eilly contirmed fur several hours, the maximum numb e r o f century, to insult the manhood and intelligence of his ha:. il • k • . • c • f • A • u • s. I - 20 0 0 all 016 Honduras ..........st 17ta t 'the month. ion IGthoftnoe h a loan, the repayment and interest of having been provoking), v struck the prisoner and knocked the Duke of Cambridee at that period had never seen a Lo ad revolutions attained being 42, with steam of 151 b. pros- subjects by an insolence so daring as this open insultl, ,, o o n n d i o n n a r d d4o s u t nty .. ! le:. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - India (viaSouthampt.)M 4th t 20th of mon.Piymouth .. Dee. 20 assume a very shadowy character. Should him t:wards the bar. According to the evidence of Mac field of battle. Since thatperiod his own courage and sure and throttle-valves partially open. The engines of and brazen defiance of the progress of mind, and the ion .roint-Stoncln,3.t.r ;141. percent. igg 0 0 e i g 0 0 0 4814 I n di a (pia m arse in co m 9th& 2,5 th of nacinthiDover ......! n at the present rate for half a dozen years, kenzie, the deceased went a few steps into the bar, ap• good nature and the equal good nature of the soldiers Lon, 0 3 i lonian Isies se Indie.)-7 , 1 : 7, a' 27 of moo Dover.... • • Russian assignats will be worth about as dtake omethin thence, and then rushed after this, the largest ship afloat, have been constru c t e d by slow but measured tread of spiritual liberty ? Is it g dki ' ' - - '• • Provincial of Ireland. 1 81 per cent 100 0 0 520 0 54 Ireland .........Si. &N . Twice daily peare to . s g __ , . .Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, of a similar form to possible to believe that abject prostration of the German au • Ditto New.... .: 8i • per cent. 10 0 0 all - Lisbon.. ___ _ _ „Nil, 9, 17, &27 of tinlSou • thamplon Jan. IS French documents so called at the close of goner into the etreet. There was a spring sour in the reputation, one, however, which unallieil to Royal blood, N for •••' of Ireland.... - 1 6 '• per cent. 50 0 0 Madeira .......... _Ai ;9th of the trionthiSouthampten! so, to satisfy the sagacious German mind, e p r :I wo, which Mackenzie did not understand, and about a those of the Princess Royal, 91 gun-ship, but much larger soul at the footstool of the Vatican really increases the would never have placed ' him in the position which he Nat. Provincial of n , al. per cent. 100 0 0 2 3! i g ° O -- i that the interest shall be payable in St. nainute passed ere he could get out. When he got into in proportion, the cylinders being 82 inches in diameter ; power and influence of the latter over it ? Is not Ger holds. Weprotested at the time, P languagequoted , against in ‘, Ditto, New ........ , 81. per cent. 20 0 0 la 0 0 -- .4ne a ir ( %. ;i;,,iii,;; „.. N '23(.1 or month •• • •'Liverpool ...1 Hamburg, and Amsterdam at a fixed rate of the street he found prisoner and deceased scuffling, and with a stroke of 4 feet, the connecting rods taking irnme• many the country of schools, colleges, metaphysics, throe almostghoutold Europe the sharing of the Orients; Bank Corpora. ,10. p. etAbs. 25 0 0 all 39 Malta ...... ___ . N 8,18, &28 of mon. Dover - - Doc. 20 I eery half•yearly coupon being reckoned at rushed up to them. He did not see any blow struc, but diately into the main line of shafting, to which is affixed theology, criticism I Is not Austria surrounded by' South lion's spoils among those who had shown no token that Australia .. ~.. 'IV p.ct.& bs. 25 0 0 Union ofAustralia.... '3O/ per cent 23 0 0 - Mauritius (see India) 14th of the mo th Mauritius ..........N ; n , ‘301 •1 it: 2 i'o 0 " Mexico ..........-114,2nd of the month Soathampten Dec. 16 at the Russian capital, or 23 gulden 60 the prisoner called out that he was killed. Mack n • the screw propeller in this instance of over 19 feet in di- Protestant States ? Does it not speak the vernacular of of - the they were his race, to the disparagement and de- Ditto .............. '' '' "er "1 t 50 - 0 msterdatn, or 26 marks, 10 schil iings, 11 caught hold of Connolly 'e and heard ezie arneter, with a pitch of 26 ft. 9 in, It is surmised that in Greisbach and Strauss ? It is not by law that men can service and shed blood for ho• nial of those who had seen , Union of London ..... /0 . per eon . 0 10 0 0 - Naples .... ........Ni s thlhth 2 sthofmon.:Dover _., „ Hamburg. So long, therefore, as Russia i s arm,. Tsomethingir her trial trip, which is expected to take place at the end be made to believe. Edicts of secular authority have noUnion of Madrid ...•• I - 4 O 4O 0 0 all - New Granada • ...... !,' •2i & 17th of monthlSouthamptor i l drop from his hand, on tothe grating below. he pc) ice nour and command. But this discouraging unfairness was - New Zea1and......., ~,By private slip I Various port Uncertain 1, the lenders are guaranteed their interest thou of the present week, a speed of over 12 knots per hour efficacy with the conscience. All the policemen in the en came up. was found lying on the foot • not the only evil seed sown. The Prince and the Duke Papal States ........N,stlllsol2Athotmon.lD over ....... ch and free German coin. The price, how- Deceased will be realised, which will throw into the shade even world cannot catch a soul-no dungeon can darken or CANALS. peninsula ..........ei rthlith27thofmon.'Southamptonl Path, mortally wounded by stabs in the chest and became attached not so much to the army in general as ich the loan is offered, without being very - prison incarcerate it. The "spirit that is in man" rises sere .............. m 1,1 & '27 tti of mOti. ,,4 outhampton' stomach.. Prisoner also had a wound in hie thigh, but to the privileged part of it ; and now that we are all . ;ht at, shows that even 5 per cent, securedher of 50 revolutions be attained (which is fully antici. and rebels instinctively against all the mere fetters of Dividend Port Natal .... .... ..N By private ship.,.lVarious portsUncierm - Dividend Names of 'I; not a serious one A large hunting krofe o e r was r due striving, as for the salvation of our country, to make _Names . of ~,2 i Price , Heil ,„ .......„, _ N sthlstll2.sthofrndinlDeve r .... .1 lotion does not entirely remove the qualms ' • gated) the Marlborough's speed will be close upon 13 secular authority. Monarchs may inscribe Concordats awes. _es per Companies. e afterwards picked up by a policeman on the grate over merit and reward go hand in hand throughout the forces, c o mp .: Annum. Price ' Tuscany ...........././1 5 thlethe 5 tholmon. Dover ..., „ I ,an capitalist. It is offered and but slowly knots, with steam at 1511) instead of 20Ib, throttle-valves on tablets of stone, but never on the fleshly tables of the sse I Annum. ie Vonezuels ...,_ _ .. 51 120 Se 17th ofmonthSouthamptoell &16 mod the hotel cellar. When the police eame up they ar- we find the parties promoted by mere favour, by the e.— - - 1 -that is below the present price of our own half open. She will have steam up again in the basis' heart. This Papal movement is worse than a crime (for Van Diemen's Land (se- I rested Connolly and Mackenzie, and told them whatever mere accident of rank, assuming all the authority of . X , X Australia) -_ _ . !' 1 enta. indeed ia the present state of our to-morrow. The nominal horse power of her engines is it is a crime against the human mind), it is a Wunder. Asian &Oldh 93 71. p. ct. 145 Macclesfield. 100 2/. 10s. 51 , ielfs 17th o niontb l Southampton 1& 16 mad the said would begiven in evidence. Connolly, point gratuitous to give weight to the claims of their ve t eslndies . . - B•irnsley• •.• ;160,1 - - Neath .• -• • 100 161. - e per Cent, stock would be worth 147. The • g y to M . ickenzie said " The man he calls Dunlev exclusive body they are attached to against the rights • the - . Oxford.... • • 100 - - iarantee given to the new loan has had the stabbed l)- ' ', ' . Y but occupy less space than those in the Duke. Mr. J. tho Austrians were the willing slaves of the Vatican they me, but I don t know who stabbed him. There • of the army in general. 'Worse than thin, Prince Albert, Birmingham ' 401 41. 90 Peak Forest. 78 5/ Os. 76 When any of these dates fall 011 a Sunday, the mails will !,f de. effect of addinc , to the depreciation of the Devey is her chief engineer (first class). The Blenheim, would swear fealty without the compulsion of a legal de- • • was a man in company with us who bad a light coloured . ,. if he exerts any influence in the military administration Coventry--!100, 25 /. - Regen t's ••• • 30 ti 14% ipatched on the following day, with the exception of the Indik Cri s salon stock, and to the general discredit of e Ball, d C ' 110, Capt. an the Colossus, 80, Capt. Robinson, crap. ' If they be not, the Concordat will not make them. ~ - ~• ,), Derby •- - 100 6/. 15s. 84 Rochdale ..•• 85 It 10s• 76 rn.lthampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched u • jacket, but he is gone sway," (anu we cite the Limes as asserting that he uses panel e aient. Of course, on sucha question we shall were taken into the old basin on Saturday to refit. The children of this world" have not. on this occasion, Ellsmre&Chsl 69 2s-i p. ct. - Somrset Coal 14 0 preceding day. Mr. , As • " pmall, on behalf of the prisoner, said there was The Neptune,l°o C II .., , apt. Hutton, returned to Lisbon been " wise in their generation." In fact, this is not constitutes himself judge in his own concerns. He is GrandJunctmloo 31 pr ct. 37 Do. Lk IdSt 1 1 - - ........-- aterested authorities, but we do not see why pol e 6 pr. Ct.! 10 61. pr: et. 11% Sttird &Wore - ( 5 ) 1 28/. 420 no proof that he had brought a knife out of the bar, n or invested with a property which he ought never to have SHARE MARKETS. ,nceal a very honest conviction that, after on the 3d inst., after an absence of 10 days at Passe their generation •; that age i 8 passed, and they will not, Grad eurreyi 1001 41. - Shrewsbury.. 1• 51 _ that he had used one. Thecould not tell to whomhad, for in his case army command the . assumes natu re to years, the Be r li ners w ill never rece i ve . j ur yd'Arcos, where she had been to exercise her crew tiring or-struck with judicial blindness-they cannot see it. of ' . Grand Union' 100! 11.0 s. - Stoerbridge.. , 1 45 121. 290 the knife belonged. There was such doubt about themere property •!more than in any other, and he hes xennt & Avn! 39 1 Os. Od. 63-ii Severn and j ' 1- 1 LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15. de or a thaler or a . gulden, or even a Om. at targets, and in other evolutions. This ship received In this age the intellect, even of the masses, is too sub- 2/ 28 case that his client must be acquitted. means of asserting the interests of those allied to it, his Lancaster ..100 - Wye Rail. 2 / 3 - ' STOCK EXCHANGE.-The tone of the market has been Exhausted .r money. of money and oforders by overland tele„graph to return immediate) tie to be enchained in these clumsy fetters. All Germany Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 470 Warwick & 1 , His lordship having summed up, subalterns and protegcg, which the worthiest veteran his 2/. 2,5 again quiet, at a slight decline on yesterday's prices. lit, and even of order, Russia, will find it to Spithead, and sailed on the morning of the 9th inst. is in arms against this daring offence against, at least, Leicester.... 100 A/. 49% Binning. 5 100 i The Jury, after a short consultation d , returned a verdict 1 • not. A memorial .. d - igne by the officers of the Guards ' , Lcicstr .'eNth 83 - - Warwick & Lancashire and Yorkshire, 761 ii- Seuth Eastern, 171. i quite impossible to pay her creditors any- of contv ti s supposed her crew will be transferred, with her the decencies of political life. It finds itself inscribed and headed ' ,s by these two Colonels, has, it is said, been Lought ro eO,, i 142 701. r 5 N into 100 21. 10 is. 3d I-London and North Westerns, 93 1 4- rout ;,__ . •P ft 7ounises. It is, of course, hot too proba genten.ce ' • --20 years transportation. captain, to the new three-decker Marlborough, now by its civil ruler upon the nanster-roll of the great apiri really for entrlTTll.llofl . Presented to the ()neon rer0,....,+;,,,,. +I- :..:....,:-.. _r .. ‘c-.:,-L,«,...,, os. - a ° --'- I 'V I 1 i at the same time, or still earlier. the eon. lasi' OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. ___ Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .....---- X s. d. X s. d. British Linen. Companycent . 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 9 3/ 0 per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 182/ 0 81.er 10 0 0 2 - 8 7: 1.. per cent. 10 0 3/. Dis hank :51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11118 s city of , 11a5g , , ,, 1 5%1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 2 15s Clydesdale B auk •• •• / per cent. 550 0 0 100 0 0 21G1Ps C 'mmercial Bank .. 7 . ..........Cl. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10/19s Eastern Ban Edinli &G 1 .a.sgow.. 3%1. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 1/. I9s Exchange It iik of Scot.. ....., C P :l n e k ,lo o n f la S : 4 lL:k d ... 1: 1 National V. _ink ...... 6% per cent. 'lOO 0 0 10 0 0 174/Ps Nortlaof 1-:,•c tiand Bank 51. percent 20 0 0 210 0 It. IGs Royal Bank. of Scotl. .. 51, per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 13310 s Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. percent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 921 he Western lien lc•• .. .• .• U. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75/15s ' Si. 6/. p e e r r p cent. 50 4 .lllance IN re and Life.. 8% /. pr cent. 100 e 0 11 0 0 181 2s British Go erantee ... 41. per cent. 111 0 0 2 0 0 1/. 8s Caledonian Fire, Instil.. 10 t .per cen t . 1 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 95/ Os 0 0 2 0 0 41. 10 8 50 0 0 1 0 0 V. 5s Edinburgh L' fe Insiir. Gl. oer c en t. 1 00 0 0 15 0 0 26110 s ColonialC iCity of ilia`L lfe , 1; : 7 l ,l . 1e . , Eng. & Sco 1, 4 - ~,t , ) Life 51.,1er cont. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41. 8s Life Ass‘4c. c f , 3cetiand 61. per cont. 10 0 0 110 0 , il 10e Nations/ ?'i r e and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 0 21. Cs North Britis 11 Insur... 71. per cent. /00 0 0 20 0 0 131 Cs Scottish MO On Insrlic. 7M i . prccnt . 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 7s Standard 1. 1 , fe ...• ..•• 5/ per cent. 50 0 0 1 7 0 0 20 Os Unite d Doi% Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 1 0 0 TnE 131 llousE APPEAL. —On Saturday, at the quarter F flibiollti for the City of London, before the Re corder, t' ie case of the appeal of John Cooper, the keeper of a beer- shop, 112, Fleet-street, against the conviction of Mr. Aid erman Finnis and other City magistrates, for knowing' y and wilfully permitting the use of a room in hone, > for the purpose of betting, came on for hear• in 7. Ms Huddlestone appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Ryla ,nd and Mr. Lush in support of the conviction. After bee ring the case, and the arguments of the learned counsel, t Recorder gave his judgineut in favour of the convict ion ; but, upon the application of Mr. hind dleeton, -nutted it to be delayed, subject to an appeal to the Com tof Queen's Bench. Mr. J. C '. Scott was promoted from second to first class eler t in the secretary's department of the Poet- Post-offie ; by Lord Canning, on the unanimous recom mendation • of the secretaries, in room of Mr. Teesdale, who has g of the charge of the post-office at Exeter. Mr. Scott, who was private secretary to Lord Clanri cerde and Le r rd Canning, is continued in the same office by the Duke of Argyll., POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 15. HANSION-HOUSE.— Berman Land graf, a German, was charged with haviug deserted from the Foreign Le gion at Shornclitfe, and with baying stolen several medals and gold coins. Spittle, the detective officer, found in his possession a Chinese war medal, two other medals, half of a medal case, a silver box, a silver watch and guard, three gold seals, and a quantity of other property. The other half of the medal case be dropped in the street, on the way to the station-house. The prisoner was ordered to be taken before tbe ma gis.tr►te4 at Dover, within which district, the offence was committed. BOW-STREET. —George Lynch, a boy about eight years old, was charged with having in his possession a horse and cart, supposed to be stolen. It was stated by policeman C 75 that, being on duty about two o'clock that morning, in Chapel-street, Soho, he found a horse and cart standing there, apparently un attended. Looking into the cart, ho wever, he found the prisoner coiled up in a sack, fast asleep. He woke him, and interrogated him as to how be came there, and pri soner replied that he was waiting for his father, who got his living by singing in the streets, and who had that day received the horse and cart as a present from a c„fr , icer, in Westminster. The cart bore the name and ad dress of "Aaron Smith, Crocken-taill, Eynsfard, Kent." Witness took the prisoner to the station-house, where ho learned that information had been previously received of the loss of the horse and cart. Prisoner] was well known at Marlborough -street Police -court. James Smith, son of the owner, said he came up to London to dispose ef a few " things" at Covent-garden market, and to purchase some provisions, &c., to take borne. About noon on Friday, he left the horse and cart for a few moments in the market; and on his return he " found it gone." He at once gave information to the police. He had seen the horse and cart since the pri soner was taken, and missed frOm it a parcel of tea— about honey, and a pumpkin, and sundry baskets and flour bags were still safe. The prisoner stated that on Friday afternoon the cart was driven into Charles-street, Drury-lane, where he him self lived, by a lame boy, known as "Hoppy" or " Crutchey." It was full of boys, all of whom he could point out. Hoppy, after selling the tea and the " big thing like a cow-cumber," for 2s. to a woman who hap pened to be passing, declared his intention of going to the play, and went off with his companions, leaving the prisoner in charge of the cart. Not knowing what to do with it, he drove about till he was tired, and then lay down to sleep. Hoppy had told him that he found the cart in Covent-garden, floppy " went a picking pockets." Mr. Henry said it was quite clear the prisoner could not have stolen the horse and cart without help. The police had better inquire into the truth of his story. A constable of the F division said that floppy was well known in the neighbourhood as an associate of thieves and as a suspected pickpocket. The prisoner was remanded for further examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—John .s.'immonds was committed for trial, charged w ith extorting money from Mr. John Gossett Hill, of St. James'e-sqaare, Russia merchant. _ _ Mr. Hill said he was a Russia merchant, n i carr gon business in the City. In August last ke was carrying in the Albany, and on the 7 th of that month the prisoner came to him as a servant. The prisoner remained two nights. On the afternoon of the the second day, the pri soner came to him and said be should net stop there any longer, becau.e he (complainant) came into his bed-room the previous night and committed an indecent assault on him, and that if he did not give him a sum of money, he should put the case in the hands of the police. He told the prisoner that he wondered ha was not ashamed of making the charge ; and being much frightened at its nature, be gave the prisoner a sum of money amounting to 451. Since that time he had received two communi• cations from the prisoner, and this had obliged him to put himself in the bands of a solicitor, who gave him di rections how to proceed with the prisoner. On Friday week the prisoner called ou him, the complainant having stationed an officer where he could hear all and not be seen. The prisoner said unless he had some money given to him he must consult with his grandfather, and place the matter in the bands of a lawyer. He asked the oils° ler why he had applied to him. The prisoner said "You know why." He said to the prisoner, "Is it a re i petitiJon of that horrible ch arge y ou b roug ht against me_e askn the summer ?" Th e p r i soner rep li e d , " Y es , s i r ." td the prisoner what charge he intended to make This was in order that the constable should hear into it. mTyn,e He bed-room asked er said, " Why you know you came r he prisoner aptri l and a tternpted to take indecent liber saosnternahmow much2ol He acid he the prism rhe s u p posed he must give ed him . a cheque for ioniler ta p k o e s n se ii s t a i o n e n c h u e s q t n o custody pi i :and having drawn abnyd the Landed constableit to h tl i i m at th su e with the el .eque in hie Police-se: jeatit Gideon Cr ocken . corr . obnrated the above, beard the prisoner promise not to trouble and said he prosecut er a gain if be gave him the 201. The pr ier said he liwlawit beforeesstoprohvee received y ive i d t was he h .I‘ fr. Hill, and this was the 451. Mr. Fisch am asked the prisoner if he had anything to say to the charge of goiug to Mr. Hill's house and threaten ialg to Inaku an exposure unless he received a sum of no j oey The pr isoner replied he had nothing to say. The L ? risoner was then fully committed. Ml6:non When any of these dates fall on a Sunday, the malls will m de' patched on the following day, with the exception of the 'mil* (YIP Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatched U preceding day. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15. STOCK EXCELANGE.—The tone of the market has been again quiet, at a slight decline on yesterday's prices. Lancashire and. Yorkshire, 763 3 South Eastern, 1Tl• ls. 3d., 3—London and North Westerns, 93i—Great Western of Canada, 243 4—Eastern Counties, 84 .3. — Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford, 7. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the market has been active to-day, at prices rather improved upon yester day's. London and North Westerns, Jl—South Staffordet 21 to 3,i- die.--Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed Stock, Gq—Sltropshire Unions, 42A. MANCHESTER, DEC. 15. STOCK EXCEL...NM—The market to-day has been steady', but the business was limited. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 2! ii—Midlands, 63/ i—South Eastern a nd Dover, 74—Great Western, 51I—Lancashire and York• shire, 76 7 6 7. LEEDS, DEO. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a firm business to-daY• and prices about• the same as yesterday. Leeds Northern Fifths, prom.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 23—Sheffie1d and Rotherham, 36g. DUBLIN, DBa. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols (shut), Fat Ditto for Account, Jan:B, 88i ;3—New Three per Cent. stock, 88r t—Ditto, for Account, Bth January, 88.; a Gt. Wes';ern and Royal Canal, (501. paid), 48i —Great Southern and Western, 51i—Ditto, 6 per cent. Prof.,R —Na.tiont d Bank (221. 10. paid), 32—Royal Bank , '2oA,—Dublin and Wieklow, R.—Waterford and Liinorick, 20—Gran ti Canal, 3'—Bank Stock, '22s—City' of Dublin Steam Co, shares of 1836, 2.51. [ADVIUITISEIRNT.]—S KIWI/ AND MAR ING, —Dearxma DEFECTIVR VISION RELIII VED.— Messrs. S. and B. Solomons• opticians, 39, Albemarle -street, Piccadilly, Observes--opP°' site the York Hotel. Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful, small, newly' invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anytt ing of the kind that has been, Or probably ever can be, produced. Being of tho same colour as the skin, is not percoptible ; it enables deaf persons to hoar distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the un' pleasant sensation of sin; Ling noises in the cars is entirely re' moved; and it affbrds all. the assistance that possibly could be desired. —Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great' est transparent power. ' The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired 1% preserved and strength fined, and very aged persons aro enabled to employ their sight at the most minute °eery pation--- can see with those lenses of a much less magnify" jug power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects . of further powerful assistance. ber Majesty's Royal Caters Patent for valuable and, extraordinary improvements in th e mos t powerful. and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and per. spective Glasses, to knoir the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, and others. These telesoopcs possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye' piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rind, and the double stars ; will the same telescop e can ue seen a person's counteusnee three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 I wiles. They are of larger and all sizes, with increasing power a accordingly ; while their vary' ing from 4 to 6 inches enal le us to discover more than the above, and the Georgian, witl r his 6 satellites, Stc.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—Valualds, newly-invented, very small, powerful waistcoat-pocket p lass,the size of a w a l nu t, by which a person can he seen and known 1. miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, iiL a t r i g!d clearly eor .. s t e a e l n at k g 8 , to yachting, sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, an d t our i s t s . O pera , Troy t a rY reu e v n a e l ry na , invaluable ships• race-course, camp, and pornpective gismos, with wonderful miles. ; power.-39, Albemarle-strati% Piccadilly. Observe--opposite the York Hotel. li 1 :ft T 11 S. OP A BON. On the 14th inst., at Weed-green-oommon, Totten ham Mrs. Lowis On the 14th inst., at Berkhampstead, Herts, Mrs. Fred• Stretton. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 15th inst., at 9, Cleyeland-gardeze, Hyde-park, the wife of Edgar P. Stringer, EN. On the 15th lost., at 24, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the wife of R. F. White, Esq. MARRIED. William Hoary Griffin, of Mayfair. Tt 1; On the 13th inst., at St. George's, Hsnsver•square, Mr. J o o f h t n he ltzd te fo m rd r ,.o l f v M ah ay H fa u i r r or , fy, to Harriett, second daughter On the 13th inst., at King Lon, Esq., son of John Palk Griffin, Esq., of Clapham-riser Surrey, to Louisa Mary, eldest daughter of the late Miles Marley, Esq., surgeon, Go:k-street, Barlington-gar• dens. DIED. On the 13t h u i e n n s r t y . , K a e t y su e o vi,ClootrtgEe 3 , 1 b q., l i a o t n e - r o o f s d, Lloyd's,Stoe l aN i ge i o e : i vi n e i r n Ee s l:4 P . , m i . n A s o urch-street, Croydon, Thomas 6 h•tat Ch ~ aged Oa the 13th inst., James Martin Knight, Esq. of 1 ,, Brunswick-terrace, Walworth, an d 83, Gracechurch-street, aged 61, On the 12th inst., at West Dingle, near Liverpool, JO' B. Yates, Esq., sled 76. On the 12th inst , , ,at Edinburgh Walter Dickson Egg' , W.S., aged O. On thu 14th inst., at 6, i tanhope-street, Hyde-park' gaidens, John the 11th P inst nrose, son of the Rev. Baden Powell. On ~ at Flint-street, Walworth, Patrick 110 0103 ' Esq., late of 125, Sh a d, Th ames . Ou the 11th inst., at Leicester, John Nedham, Esq. , aged 66. On the 10th lost., Mr. E. M. Foster, surgeon, Wooliviall• aged 33. LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO you's° of No. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Strand, in the Precinct of th e S avoy , i n the county 0 Yiddleser, Monday, Decan er 17,.1855. No. 112, ib COT Gen 'Tel take *it} Rep] it x A Pi Lau MI: to p Cot! 3110( mu wee and Wit of effe G 133 i cl