The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

7*,tir:g . PEEL stion i, delio aal, t° THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E'VENJ NG, ECE MEER 80, 1845. prone.rty which he holds himself, he pays them, not out of the ilitee pq• cent., but ( - Jut ui the profits of the farm. The fact is, that he pays no wages at all out of his three per cent., except to domestic servants, grooms, gamekeepers, and other s personal attendants—none of whom are 125.-a-week labourers. Neither is it true that Mr. COBDEN snakes 1,6001. per cent. His capital cannot be less than six times, and is most peobably ten times, the amount at which Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has assumed it, and while in some years he may make a profit of 6,0007._ in others he may incur a loss of a similar amount and therefore it is necessary to make some allow ance for risks. But let that pass, and let those to whom Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has ad dressed his letter ponder well upon the admission made in this question as to the rate of wages of la bourers employed. in agriculture. That rate is twelve shillings per week. We believe that there • is not an unskilled labourer employed in manufac tures who is paid less than eighteen shillings a week, We have heard Mr. COBDEN say, in the House of Commons, that no unskilled labourer in his employ ment received less than that sum. It is admitted by every one that, with a repeal of the corn-laws would come an extension of manufactures, and an ex tension of manufactures, to the unskilled • labourer, means 18s. a week, and yet the monopolists have " the modest assurance" to assume that this law, which keeps down the wages of the agricultural labourer to 12s. a week, and prevents the extension of manufactures and manufacturing wages (18s. a week) into the agricultural districts, • is enacted for his especial behoof and protection. Out upon such barefaced hypocrisy ! The Madrid papers of the 22d had not reached Paris at the departure of the mail on Sunday. ; r : • 7 The intelligence from Paris of Sunday gives a fa- vourable account of the stock and share-market on the previous day, both of which continued gradually to rise from the commencement of business to the close. The effect produced by the KING'S Speech was favourable, and the want of confidence which had so long prevailed on the Bourse, may be said to have entirely disappeared. The papers of Sunday are chiefly occupied in` - discussing the KING'S Speech, and in remarks on the election of President of the Cham ber of Deputies. To those of the Opposition it of course appears very defective on many points, such as the affairs of the Lebanon, Greece, Spain, Mexico and Madagascar, and abounds too much with flattery to England. The Constitutionnel especially is offended with the multiplied professions of "friendship, affection, mutual confidence, pacific and earnest assurances, good and intimate relations, and cordial co-operation with which the entente cor diale between France and England is acknowleged." The writer admits the advantages of the good under standing between the two countries, and is anxious for its continuance on reasonable and equal terms, but still thinks that it is obtained at too high a price. " Our readers," says that journal, " know well how anxious we are for the maintenance of pacific rela tions between France and England. The English press almost unanimously has done us the justice of acknowledging our spirit of loyalty and impartiality. But in truth, by the language which is held, and the attitude which is imposed upon us, we might be driven into feelings of a directly contrary descrip tion. We blush to see this humility and these transports of gratitude. Would a short and precise phrase not be sufficient ? Why, then, always down on our knees ? Do you think the subordinate position which you give yourselves gains you the esteem of our proud neighbours, and will place France in the position which belongs to her in the affairs of the world ?" From all accounts, M. SAUZET will be elected President of the Chamber by a vast majority. On that subject the Siecle says : " On Monday the Chamber of Deputies meets to elect its President. The candidate adopted by the entire Opposition is the Hon. M. DUFAURE. The two fractions of the Left and Left Centre will sepa rately assemble to-morrow, to agree upon the choice of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, who will be una nimously supported by the Opposition. The nomi nation about to take place would have a great political signification, if all the Opposition Deputies were at their post. Unfortunately, the absence of many was noticed to-day. We trust that the absent will feel the responsibility which they incur by neglecting their duty. Last year some of the Ministerial can didates only carried their election by majorities of three and four votes. The situation is now morally worse, and the negligence of the Deputies of the Opposition would restore to the Cabinet a confidence of which its faults had deprived it." The Ministerial journal states that the whole of the Conservative party will vote for M. SAUZET, and reckons upon certain victory. RI. DUFAURE, selected by the Opposition, it considers a bad choice, and asserts that the national candidate of the Left should be M. ODLLON BARROT. ." If it be true," continues the writer, as a morning paper states, " that a close and indissoluble alliance will hereafter exist between the two great fractions of the Opposition, the league should have chosen, to try its strength, a more signi ficant name than that of M. DUFAURE. But it mat ters little; we accept M. DUFAURE with the mean ing which the suffrages of the Left and Left Centre would impart to his election. We shall see on what side the majority lies. Nevertheless, that indissoluble Opposition was so often dissolved by the first shock, after having been proclaimed with as much eclat as on this occasion, that we are inclined to predict the same fate to this alliance of the Left and Left Centre. We, however, invite the Conservatives to remain united, as if an elliance actually existed among their opponents." President POLK'S Message also furnishes topics for the remarks of the journals, of which we give the following summary from Galigvani:— " The Ministerial organ, Le Journal des Danis begins by observing that the Message does not show that the spirit of conciliation forms a leading trait in the character of Mr. Polk, and that he talks much about moderation without displaying any in his language, which, says the Debats, is such that if it were used from Government to Government, a war must be the consequence. Our Con temporary then enters upon an analysis of the entire Message, with a running commentary. The facts of the case are stated with great clearness, and with an evident desire to appear impartial in the estimation of their Merits, but the writer appears nevertheless to have an impression unfavourable to the claims of t he American President. At any rate it is quite certain that the Debats regards those claims as unseasonable. Our Con temporary considers a war between England and the United States of America probable, if Mr. Polk's demands be approved of by the Senate, but it has great doubts of this result. The Debats says:—' From what we have said it must not be inferred that we regard a rupture as probable, even after this Message. The House of Representatives may vote offensive measures, and there is every reason to suppose that it will do so when excited to such a course by the first magistrate; but there is reason to hope that the interests of peace will find refuge and support in the senate, of which the most illustrious men of the country are members, and in the interval the misled people may return to reason.. It is not, how ever, to be denied that the President seeks to excite war, and in this respect his Message is a novelty, even after those of General Jackson.' " Towards the conclusion of its article the Dibats becomes more animated, and remarks with more seve rity upon the conduct and language of Mr. Polk, whom it regards as a man pushed on by democratic ambition to a course which may be fatal to him. The absence of the usual courtesy towards foreign powers is particu larly noticed and censured, and Mr. Polk's mode of alluding to France on the Texas question is warmly condemned. Instead of attempting to imitate the dig nified language of his illustrious predecessors (says the Debats), Mr. Polk places himself on a level with the rude cultivators of the valley of the Ohio, in whose opinion Eu • rope is a collection of degraded beings, groaning under the weight of monarchical principles, and over whom As Union would obtain an easy and sure triumph. • Our tostemperary vindicates the French Government with great energy against the 'Accusations of Mr. Polk, and declares' that it is as anxious to promote true liberty as he can la', but that, unlike him, it is actuated by con siderations' for the sacred principle of justice. Our readers may' judge of the anger of the Debats by the fact that, althoughit studiously seeks to hold the scales with an equal hand es regards the dispute between England and the United ,States, it cannot refrain from telling Mr. Polk that, in sp s salting of the Texas and Mexican af fairs, he expresses' himself in terms of detestible hy pocrisy. The Conselntionnel indulges in a few com ments on the Message, but in the little that it does say it differs greatly from the Debats. Far from finding in the language of Mr. Polk ,the tone of insult and defiance so apparent to the Debats, if regards it as soft, consider ing what had been published in the American journal tiL e Union, and which is regarded as Mr. Polles erg an. The allusion of the American President to France al so finds a certain grace in the eyes of the Constita tionnti, for it regards it as a happy hit at the policy of M. Guixot, rather than as an insult to the French nation. The Pi esse allows that the Message is rather menacing than conciliatory, aad admits thas the president has set up pretensions greater tileme those of his predecessors. These, obsesses the esse, must be abated, tsut brig:and en her side must also show moderation. Aecording to the Presse, the state of things stands thus:—Mr. Polk, by ;11, - ; 11 , !;131 , '.. NW r 1 0 ,171 few pegs in their claims; the Senate will refuse to sanc tion the extreme views of the President ; and the two Governments thus restrained, the one by fear of the hostile attitude of the United States, the other by the prudence of the Senate, will again negotiate and at length come to a good understanding. The Presse evi dently calculates more, however, upon the fears of Eng land than upon the prudence of America. The National expresses its regret that want of time and space prevents it, for the present, from saying all it thinks of the Message. It must, it says, confine itself to remarking that the language of Mr. Polk is clear, firm, and decisive, and that there is no longer a door left open for compromise. This journal seems to think that when the President of the United States lays down his opinion thus decisively, it must, as a matter of course, be approved of by the Legislature, and that nothing is left for England but to withdraw her pre tensions, and accept peace with the United States on the terms offered by the President. The Courrier Fran cais observes that the Message is very warlike in the terms used, but really very pacific in spirit, and ex presses its belief that the dispute will he arranged. Our readers are aware of the view taken of this ques tion by the Courrier, it is that neither France nor England has any right to the Oregon territory. The Courrier coincides with Mr. Polk in what he says about the French Government and the question of the Texas, and attacks M. Guizot warmly for putting himself at the service of England." • The Emperor NICHOLAS arrived at Florence on the 19th, after remaining five days at Rome. A letter from that capital of the same date says The Pope, in separating from the Emperor for the last time, said, lam an old man, who will soon appear before God to give an account of my actions in this world. You are young, but you will one day appear there also. Think of that ! I trust that God will en lighten your conscience. and will make you change your conduct with respect to your subjects of the Catholic communion.' " On Sunday the Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S at 82f. 85c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 29. Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... 1 Barba does Boulogne and Amiens.. 11% Namur and Liege Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 10 1 / 2 Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel ••• Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris &Lyons (Laffitte) cilic Coast Central of Spain .. — Ditto (Caloa's).... -- Ceylon . Demerara Dendre Valley ...... Paris and Rouen Dutch Rhenish ..... 8 3 / 4 Paris and Strasburg Dieppe & Paris Junct. (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse ... IDo. (Compe de L'Est) East Indian ........ Do. (Aymard's) — Fampoux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin — Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre — Constituted 1 4 3 /4 Royal North of Spain. Do. Pepin le Hallear — Sambre and Meuse .... 5 3 / 4 Great Paris and Lyons 2% Strasburg and Bale .... Great Western Bengal -- Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada 3 3 / 1 den, and Hasselt ... Jamaica S. DI id. Junction Tours and Nantes Di. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) Do. Extension Jersey — Do. (O'Neill's) Louvain and Jemappe.. 2 1 4 Trinidad Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Ancona 2 Luxembourg THE MINISTRY.—We noticed a few days ago the statement that Lord Ellenborough would be appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Lord Haddington. It is now very generally rumoured that Lord Had dington will not leave Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, but will take another office in the Administration. Lord Stanley is said to be assuring his friends that he does not disapprove of any measure contemplated by the Government. What does this mean ?—that Lord Stanley is a free-trader, or that Sir Robert Peel is not ? IMPERIAL PARL LAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) This being the clay to which Parliament was prorogued, on the 16th, the Commissioners attended for the purpose of its further prorogation to the 22d January, according to the Order in Council just issued, at two o'clock, the usual hoar. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Haddingtun, and Lord Dalhousie. A few minutes past two o'clock the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack, and commanded Mr. Pulman to summon the'Commons to the bar. Immediately after, Mr. Henry Lee and the other officers of the House of Commons appeared at the bar. The Clerk then read the Royal Commission, when the Lord Chancellor, in conformity with the powers therein conferred, further prorogued Parliament to the 22d of January next, then to meet for the transaction of business. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO TIMER. The - sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 7,000 to 8,000 bags, 2,000 being on speculation, and all at very full prices. There was a good business done is shares, and a con siderable advance took place in prices. The commercial accounts which have been received from India and China are considered to be of a satisfactory tenor. The current of trade between the British and the Chinese ports, which have been opened by the treaty with the Em peror of the Chinese, had become more steady, and the great desire previously existing for extensive speculations in goods appears to have given place to a more wholesome and regular description of business. Still, however, there were many difficulties yet to be overcome before an entire and free intercourse will be had with the Chinese. The mode in which the merchants having exclusive privileges heretofore transacted operations, especially as regards the Chinese, appears to be incompatible with a free trade, and old prejudices will take a long time ere they be swept away. Still, however, the private accounts we have seen are full of hope that a few years will afford ample proof that the Chinese merchants must give way to the necessary forms for conduct ing business, and that as much confidence will be placed in individuals of British origin trading with them, as was so eminently displayed towards the representatives of the East In dia Company, down to the very moment when that establish ment ceased to be a commercial community. It isunderstood that shipments recently made to Chinese ports have turned out well, thus making up in some measure for the heavy losses which many of our merchants sustained by overloading the markets of China with goods when the trade was first opened. There are no la - ter accounts of importance from the co lonies to-day. The advice given yesterday, under this head, that the Metropolitan bankers should take into due and liberal con sideration the severe labour imposed upon their clerks during the railway mania, and by which the bankers themselves are such large gainers, may be extended we think with even greater force to the sharebrokers. In the majority of cases these have been overwhelmed with business, which, night and day combined, scarcely sufficed to bring them comfort ably through, and a very ample " Christmas-box" may not probably cover the injury done to the health of those in their service. At present, it is true, the hours of business are greatly circumscribed, and muchl more like those for merly observed by stockbrokers, but they must not on that account, forget that they have had the gingerbread, and now refuse to give those who zealously assisted them, a trifling portion of " the gilt." The Public Securities have been moderately active, and the quotations are pretty steady. Consols have been 95 to 94% for time. On Exchequer bills the premium has been 255. to 285., being higher again. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 97 97%, :and the Three per Cents. 95 to %. Bank Stock is 203 1 / to 204%, having given way slightly. The prrrnium on East India Bonds is 38s. for those under 1,000/. Portuguese Stock has been rather lively, but it seems to be rather on account of sellers than purchasers. The Four per Cents. have realised 59 1 h to 60%. Mexican Active Bonds have been steady at 31%, and the Deferred at 17% Chilian Stock is worth 99; Spanish Bonds are flat, and quite neglected ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 61 to %. The Share Market has been very buoyant again, and prices are nearly all better, both for English and Foreign Scrips. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ... 203% 204% 204% 3 per Cent. Reduced New 34 per Cents Long Annuities to re Jan.lB6o 10% 9-16 10 9-16 India Bonds, 1,0001......•• ...... -- Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 27 25 28 pm. '26 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES, Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 41 41 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.. Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred —4% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 3 15 31% Ditto, Deferred 17%% 17 3 / 4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 40% 42 42 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Converted 60 3 /4 60% Ditto, 4 per Cent Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent 4O 40 Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c. Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93% 94% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Banff, &Elgin 2% Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & County Down 2% Bideford andTavistock... 1% Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New 17% Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct 42s. Boston, Stanifd, & Birm. 225. Bridgewater &Minehead 425. ... .. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New 1 Bristol and Gloucester 30 ....... 54 ... ...... Bristol and T iver. :Envie 2 14...... Isuckin - i.ali,siiiie Caledonian Ditto Extension ... Cambrian & Grand June 42s Cambridge and Lincoln 14 3 5/s% Do. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — Canterbury and Dover.. l Central Kent Chelmsford and Bury Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junct i0n..... 5 Cork :Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 4 — Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester l l4 — Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Derby and Crewe — Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby ... 1%...... Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford .. . 2%...... Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's) 5 14...... 4 1 4 Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh l% .... . Dublin and BelfastJunc 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2 1 / 2 Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 22 1 4% 22% ~ Ditto New 6/. 16s. B l /2 1 , • . Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d.... — ., Ditto ditto, No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... % p EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union Ditto, Quarter Shares 3% — Ditto Extension Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 — Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 2% Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... ... Ditto Half Shares ... 5 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,E ...... 18% , Ditto, New 7% . Edinburgh & Northern- 1 1 4 — ••• Edinburgh and Perth... 1 1 / 2 . — Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 ...... Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Essex and Suffolk .• ... 1% — Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorset 2% Glonc.,Abelystwith,and Central of Wales 1%...... ••• Goole and Doncaster .. 425. Grand Junction 100 — Ditto Half Shares 5O Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union... l% — Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ••• •• GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension ...... 12 1 4 — Great Munster 2% Great North of Scotland 2% Great North of England..loo .213 216 Ditto New 5 — Do. New .... - ........ 2 ..- .meat Western BO 163 162 Ditto % Shares 5O Ditto 4 Shares 2% lB Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'in, Ports. 5 ... .. ilarwich Elull and Selby Ditto 1 / 4 Shares Do. Half Shares 2 — Inverness and Elgin 1 - ••.. Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth Irish North Midland l% — Isle ofAxholme 2% Killarney Junctions 1 IA Kendal and Windermere 1 1 ,6 Lancaster and Carlisle... 30 Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena 2% Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction •• Leicester & Birmingham 225. Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 425. — Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... .. Do. 1 / 2 Shares Do. Quarters 25 Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 2%,; Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Lcndon and Birminghmloo 221 223 Do. Thirds Do. 1 4 Shares —• ..., DittOFifths Ditto Extension ...... 1 i; 1 London and Blackwall. 16/. Ms. 4d. 9% Do. New Ditto Extension 3 ........ Condor. and Brighton... 50 Do. consolidated Bths... 40 Ditto, Sixths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22 1 / 2 1 ,4 23 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... Do. Preference ...18117s 2d Londen Hounslow. and Western Lond. & S.Western 411 68 10d 77% 77 Do. New Consol. Bths 20 Do. New Do. New London & South Essex 2 3 4 London and York 2% 4 14 London and Windsor ... 1 London, Warwick, and Kidderminster ... 2% ••• 00000000 "•• London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry&Colerains 5 Londonderry and Ennis killen 5 — Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham 5 — Manchester and Leeds... 76 135 Ditto 1 /, Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 8 Do. Sixteenths ... 5 1 4 — Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction Manchester,Buxtoia,and Matlock 42s. ...... 3 2 f p... Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .. ... — Manchester and Rugby Direct - .....•........ Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ..- 3 14% Midland 100 .....157 156% 15714 Do. I' itths 2 Do. New Nlidland,Birm., Derby...loo Midld. & East. Counties 2% Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo 2%.... ..... ii,. Newcastle and Dar' ton Junction 25 ...... 59 ...... ....-.. Do. New Brandling 2O Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newport& Abergaveany 2 1 / 2 — New Ross and Carl0w... 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2 1 / 2 ..... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... Norfolk Extension 2 North British .... 17% 2 5 14 26% . Do. Half Shares ..... 3% 8 7 1 4..... Do. Exten. to Carlisle 1 1 4 Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25 Ditto ditto North Devon North of Norfolk .., 2 3j4 - ........ Northern and Eastern... 45 Jong- Do. Scrip Do. Quaiter Shares... 12% — ..... Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%..... WA._ .. . ..... North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 4% 4 p North Wales North and South Wales and Worcester 1 .....„ A Northern and Southern Connecting Norwich and Brandon-. 16 Northampton, w tenh ß am anbury, D an i d tt o c N h e e i - ........... ••• ............ 2 Nottingham and Boston 1% l% 214, ............. Not tingm., Erewsh.Val ley, and Manchester... 1% — Nottingham and Mans- ••" ........... field — ............... Oxford, Gosport, Ports mouth,& Southamptn 425. — 3 3 / 4 ................ •••• ............. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and ............. Cheltenham.... Perth and Inverness ... 2% ~... -...... Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ~ ..... P or tsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre • .. ..... Do. IA Shares .. Reading, Guildford, and ..... Reigate Ri c h mon d 5 •••••• Rugby, Derby, and Man - c heater ........• • 2% , ............. Rugby and lluntingdon 2 Rugby, Leamington,sed Warwick Rugby, Warwick. and Worcester..... ...... ... 428. Scottish Central Scottish Midland Do. Extension ... 1% — . Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrevvsbury and Bina... 2 1 /,1•••• • 5 •• ••• ..... .., Shropshire Mineral 425....... Shropshire Union Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp., &S. Staffordsh. junc. 2% — Sligo and Shannon ~.,,. I% Soinersetshire Midland 2% South Davon 25 South Midland 428. 4% 3.i t 44 p... I south & Midlands June. Us. — 1 /•2 P 3% 3% 3~s 16 1 / 2 2 2 1 , 8 1 /.2 P _ N P 2% - 18% 17 1 / 2 0% % P 21 24 1% 9% 77 1 , 2 ...._ 194 4% 71,4 78 12% 3% 157% 31% 2% 26 1 4 7 1 A 2% 6% 3% 2% 15% 1714 P 28 4 p ••• South Stafrordshirejun c . 2% — !. outb Fa , t-rc & Diwr,r 33 , 2! 4d... 38 39 Do., No I l2 .... ra Do., N. 2. ... 10 1 4 Do., No. 3 Do.. No. 4 Southampton, Manches ter. & Oxford Junction 425....•••425....... St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... Staines and Richmond ... 1 ...... 2%. ..... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 4 — South Wales 2% 4 3:14 Taw Vale Extension ... ...... ••• •• •-••• Tean and Dove V a ll ey 1 % ... ... 1% . Trent Valley Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke ............ 54-- Ulverstone and Furness 21/ 2 ...... Vale of Neath ... ........ 2 - Warwick & Cheltenham 1% Warwick and Worcester 425. — Waterford and Kilkenny 3 •-•••— Waterford and Limerick 7 1 / ...... - Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wi c kl w, and Dublin .......... 1%..... ....... ••••• W aterford, Wexf or d, an d Valentia Waveney Valley ...... ... 2 - Welch Midland West Cornwall West Yorkshire WestLondon,Old Shares 20 ..... West End and S out h ern Counties .. l% Wexford and Carl ow ... 2V, — Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ........ ... ...... 2 1 /, Worcester,llereford,Ross, and Gloucester 42s. Worcester, Tinbury, and Ludlow ..... . ............ 2 3 ' ... Worcester, Shrewsbury, /4... and Crewe Union ..... 1%..... Worcester and S. Wales 425...... Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 — Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2 34 24 ...... ........ York and Lancaster 2% York and North Midland 50 Ditta % Shares . 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 - ••• ...... .•••• Do. Selby Do. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 10 - .. .. ...... Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 ..... .. Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 Central of Spain ... Ceylon Demerara 2% ... . 2% Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse 6.. 2 •-• .. Dutch Rhenish 5 East Indian .6. ..... .... ss. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2 Great North. of France Constituted... .. 5 Great Paris mid Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... ss. — Great Western Canada... 3 1 4 ...... Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Do. Extension 1 Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . Lyons and Avignon 2 Luxembourg... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mauritius .6. 1 Namur and Liege North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ... Over Yssel 413 s 4d — Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2 Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's)... Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... Paris & Lyons (Sud Est) 2 --- ••• ...... ••••• Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Do (Avmard's) Paris and St. Quentin Rouen and Havre Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse 6 ...... 5 1 4 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt. 4 Tours and Nantes (Mac kenzie's) .......... ..... 4 Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2 Ditto (O'Neill's) 2 Trinidad Verona and Ancona... 3 West Flanders .. 4 10 1 -4 ••• ."" 2', • •• ..... •• • lt% ••• ... •• 1% ... 1814 3 3 / 1,34 310 3 4 IIN 11 1 2A 1,2 31 /s 1 1 h - 401/2 31 1 / 1 - 534 MINES. Real del Monte Unregd. LLOYDS SHIPPING-(THIS DIY.) LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. by S., squally. Pia-mount, DEC. 29.—The Providence, Vivian, of Sal combe, has been lost off Cape St. Vincent ; crew landed here by the Danish ship St, Thomas, from Palermo. BEAUMARIS, DEC. 28.---The Sarah and Mary, Edwards, from Poole, at this port, is upon the sands filling with the tide, having overlaid her anchor. LIMERICK, DEC. 27.—The Mountaineer, Davies, was in contact with the Governor, during a heavy gale, and lost jib boom, Sac. YARMOUTH', DEC. 27.—The Cicero, Cara, of Sunderland, got on the Cockle Sand last night, but was assisted off and proceeded. BANKRUPTCY.-{THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SIIEPHERD.) IN RE JOHN LOVEGROVE. This bankrupt who had carried on business as a barge-builder at Rotherhithe, came up for his last exa mination, and was opposed by the official assignee and Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the trade assignees, on the ground that his accounts were very unsatisfactory. Mr. BAGLEY said that the accounts were so unsatis factory that justice could not be done if the examination was public. lie therefore trusted that it would be ad• journed in order to hold a private meeting. The bank rupt had filed a petition in insolvency, and his schedule on that occasion was so materially different, that both could not be true. Mr. COOKE, for the bankrupt, contended that the present schedule was correct, and the bankrupt was entitled to present examination. The Learned COMMISSIONER agreed, but observed that the bankrupt came with a very bad grace to swear that the p resent one was correct, after having sworn to the truth of the other. There were such discrepancies that there were strong grounds of suspicion. The bank rupt would be examined, but if he did not answer the questions in a satisfactory manner he would be com mitted. The bankrupt then said he had began barge building with a Mr. Young. in 1843, and on his own account in August, 1844. The partnership debts were paid, ex cepting U., an d his accounts were correct. Mr. Gr a h a m (the official assignee) sa id, th ere was only on e b oo k, a nd he had strong suspi c i on th a t t h at was fabricated. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he could not ad journ the examination to maka it private, but he would adjourn it for a few days in order to hear evidence in support of the opposition. The case was accordingly adjourned. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A man named Reed was charged before Mr. Burrell with a violent assault upon Miss Pretty, the daughter of a tradesman living in Camden-tow n . The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Pretty on the previous day, and tendered a bad half-crown in payment for some goods. It was refused, but unfortunately not detained, and the p risoner han ded it over to his wife, who just then came in, and who w ou ld h e sa id g i ve h er g(l g e a d n ul g ofoneloj The prisoner then left th e s hop an d j o i ne d a four others outside. Miss Pretty then refused to let the woman have the goods. Sh e h a d h ar dl y sa id so when the p risoner ran in, and without further provo cation struck her a violent blow on the left ear ; the girl fell insensible from the effects of it. Her earring was broken, and there was a painfnl wound on the ear itself. Th e prisoner was fined 11., or one month's imprison ment. cpatienitYerAßßlVAL AND DEPARTUR E OF MAIM—SMITH- Amr ros, DEC. 29 . — The Oriental Company's steam-ship, Great Liverpoo l, arrived in t h e docks this morning, from the Mot h er bank, and landed her passeng ers , fif ty - seven i n num ber, her mails having been forwarded to London by the mail tra in this morning. The Liverpool l e f t Alexandria on the 9 t h instant, Malta 15 th, and Gibraltar 22d. Sh e h as a f u ll cargo. The same Company's steam-ship, the R o y a l T ar , Cap tain Evans, came into the docks l as t even i ng f rom Gib raltar, and landed her mails, which we re f orwar d e d to Lou. d o n by the mail train ; her dates are Gib ra lt ar 17th i nst., Cadiz, 18th, Lisbon, 20th, Oporto 22 d, and Corunna 24th. She has a full cargo and eight passenge rs . Th e next W est India Mail will be take n out in the Thames, o n th e 2d prox i m o, and the East India in the A c hill es on the 3d. Nor a Th e late Sir Robert Crawford P o ll oc k , B aronet, of p o ll o ck, Renfrewshire, and of Frederick: s t ree t, Edinburgh, later p p 4iedrionerty rth in ß En itain, and bachelor. Hi s f un d e d an d , within th e p rov i nce o f u m n a d t e d t w ato me nature, a testamentary , which is beyond his e ff ec ts in Scotland. Amongst the p apers of the late Ba ronetmade in conformity with th e law of Scotland, and as such were duly recorded in Edinbur g h i n t h e b oo k s o f Council and Session as probative writs, an d reg i stere d th ere o n the Bth inst., and were expressed ne ar l y i n t h ese wor d s — the first dated Oct. 25, 1844 :—" 4,500/. to my friend, Mr. G or d o n Forlong, for the particular a t tention and kindness he has shown to me and my affairs whil s t li v i ng w i th me an d tl b l u er r e y, were is es f t o i gl studying for the law." The other paper, dated Jan. 25, 1845 —"To my man servant, 112/., because he has been tole rably fair considering," Of the rest of his property the tes tator has made no 'disposition, or appointed any executor. He has left a sister surviving, who is his only next of kin, and the sole person entitled to the residue, to whom the Pre rogative Court of London has granted letters of administra ti.on with the will annexed, as contained in the said two papent, BRA zLLIAN FINANCE S. The establishing improvieg th e " C urrency " and . at Rio de J ane i ro , on a solid basis, was laid before the Cha , - nber of Dep u ti es on t h e 10th of July last, by his Excellency Senhor Manoel iiig " plat. r iar for Alves Branco, the Brazilian Minister of Finance, ana submitted to a Committee of that Chamber, who re , „sted on it the 29th of the same month, recommending ft; -,40,ti0n. It will, accordingly, be discussed by th e Body- in their next session, which wßill r commence in May next, and very little doubt ca n be entertainer of its aucption, and, finally, of its lie complishment. #.4 TUE GOTtliNkEkT PROPOSAL. Article 1. The circulation of notes from five to 500 milreis, shall be limited to a district of one or more pro vinces, the Government being authorised to u n it e ' or that purpose those that have one common port for; the whole or a part of their commerce. 2. provincesT henote vs s ,h n i o ch now mayc urrbenetuninitetdhetomiejoshpo.:!ie exa is and in the mined and marked only, and put again ti circul a ti on ; those of each of the other provinces, or union, shall be substituted by other notes, distinguished from each other by a different stamp, which shell indicate the union in which they are to pass, signed by two respectable per sons resident in such union, 3. The notes shall be distributed amongst the provinces or unions, in proportion to the revenue, public and pro vincial, collected therein ; the counterparts, or coupons, of the new notes, remaining in the respective provincial treasuries where they were issued. 4. The regulations contained in the law of the 6th of October, 1835, are applicable to the present operation, the Government undertaking the remittance of the re quisite funds, by means of bills of exchange, drawn by the respective provincial treasuries on each other, or on the national treasury, and vice versa, cancelling imme diately the notes received by the province which draws, and issuing others in the one drawn upon ; one per cent. on the amount thereof to be paid by the parties for can celling and replacing the same. 5. On this operation being completed, no further sub stitution of notes shall take place, except that which is established by this law, namely, the gradual one of notes payable at sight, in gold or silver coin, at the option of the holders, the Government being authorised for this purpose : Sec. 1. To establish a new system of gold and silver moneys, whose denomination and fineness shall be the same as those now extant, bat the weight of which shall be the following:—viz., those of gold, of 5 and 24- " oi ta vas ;" and those of silver, of 4 and 2 " oitavas," respectively ; but without any fixed value. Sec. 2. To establish, in the metropolis of the empire, a bank of circulation and deposits, the capital of which may be raised to 15,000 contos of reis, in shares of 500 milreis each. • 6. So soon as this law shall be duly passed, the Go vernment shall announce the sale of the shares, which shall be effected, in the first instance, through the me dium of the public treasury, or by a commission consist ing of at least three merchants, appointed by the Go vernment; and the choosing of directors shall take place whenever 1,500 contos shall have been raised, in paper money, from the sale of such shares. 7. The directors shall consist of three chosen by the Government, and six elected by the shareholders, who shall be called together for that purpose by public ad vertisement and individual summons. 8. The above nomination and election may take place at any time, but afterwards it must be renewed on the first Monday in the month of January in the next and every succeeding year ; for the purpose only of chang ing three of the directors every year, one of those ap pointed by the Government, and two of those elected by the proprietary, to be determined by lot, until such time as it can be established by rotation, according to seniority. 9. The directors must be Brazilian citizens, or fo reigners having a fixed residence in the empire, share holders not being employed in any other bank, nor Members of the Imperial Legislature, whether general or provincial. 10. In case any impediment should occur to the elec tion taking place on the day appointed by the present law, it shall be done so soon after as such obstruction shall have been removed ; the former directors con tinuing in the mean time to act ; any vacancies that may occur between the elections, shall be filled up, ad interim, by the remaining directors. 11. The directors shall elect a president from among themselves, and select the officers, clerks, and servants from able and reipectable citizens ; as also agents re quisite for the out-door department, granting them reasonable salaries. 12. On the president and principal officers being ap pointed, the Company of " the Bank of Brazil" shall be considered completed, and as such fully authorised to receive and to manage the capital, income, and any pro perty the Bank may at any time have in its possession, and to enjoy all the powers which can, by law, be con ceded to such companies, even to the making rules and regulations for its internal management, being not con trary to the laws of the state. 13. The Bank being constituted in the manner above prescribed, the Government shall enter into treaty with it, for the cancelling of the paper money now in circula tion to the amount of 45,000 contos, in a period not ex ceeding twenty years, on the following terms, viz,:— Sec. 1. The Government shall not issue any more paper of a forced circulation. Sec. 2. The Government shall take on the national ac count, shares in the Bank, to the amount of 5,000 contos at any time within th e fir s t t en years, the dividends on which shall be ex clusively appropriated to the cancelling its paper now in circulation, or to payment of the interest thereon during the existence of the Bank. Sec. 3. The Government shall pay into the Bank, in the first ten years of its establishment, 1,500 contos in paper money, including the amount of divi dends due to the Government. The Bank shall add to this an equal amount of notes, which it shall purchase from the produce of the sale of shares ; and reserving therefrom 500 contos, shall publicly burn the remainder, issuing directly 2,500 contos, by loans or discounts, in (its own) notes, payable in gold or silver on demand. Sec. 4. In the following ten years the Government shall raise its contribution to 2,000 contos, annually, together with the dividends to which the Go vernment may be entitled, and the Bank shall, in like manner, retain 500 contos from each of ' these payments, burning the remainder, and issuing an equal amount in (its) notes, as above stated, by loans and discounts. Sec. 5. The Bank shall, employ the SOO contos annu ally reserved in the purchase of gold and silver, which they shall convert into coined money, of a new die, at the Mint, and deposit them in its coffers, in order to form a fund for the discharge of its notes, payable to bearer on demand. Sec. 6. From and atter the twentieth year the annual contributions of the Government shall cease and determine, and the Bank shall apply the divi dends accruing due on the shares of the Govern ment to the payment of any debt which may be due from the latter to the former, on the expi ration of the last period of ten years. The accounts shall be adjusted for the mutual and definite indemnity of both parties. 14. The Government shall likewise give the Bank credit for one per cent. commission on the amount em ployed in exchange for the precious metals, and what further may be required beyond the 500 contos in paper money, to realise 500 contos in gold and silver during the first years of the operation. 15. The following items of income shall be applied, exclusively, over and above the dividends arising from the Bank-shares held by the Government, to the cancel ling of its paper money, via.:— Sec. 1. The produce of all lotteries which may take place in the empire, exclusive of those already granted, being comprehended therein, not only the existing impost, but moreover the part which appertains to those to whom the grant is con ceded. Sec. 2. The produce from the sales of all national pro perty not required for the public service, as like wise that arising from gold raised, and any other minerals, including the revenue derived from the diamond district. Sec. 3. The produce of 3 per cent. deducted from the Bank dividends, from the exclusive privilege of playing-cards, and from any new impost which may for the future be derived from the manu facture and consumption of snuff. 16. In case the receipts above indicated shall not amount to the sum of 1,500 contos in the first ten, and of 2,0001. in the last ten years, that sum shall be made good by a grand annually in the Budget Law. 17. No authority whatsover, from any motive, nor on any pretext whatever, can or shall alienate the funds destined for cancelling the Bank paper, nor shall the Bank be a party in any transaction which may hinder or delay the cancelling the same, under pain of the greatest responsibilty. 18. So soon as the Bank shall commence issuing its notes, no payment shall be made in the several public departments connected with the receipt or expenditure of the empire, which does not consist in the first year of one-twentieth part in notes of the Bank, or in gold or silver, in the second year, of two-twentieth parts, in the third year of the three-twentieth parts, and so on till it amounts to twenty-twentieths. The Government ordering that the " oitava" of gold I of twenty-two carats, shall be received or paid at such public offices, at the rate of four thousand reis and that of silver at 250 reis. The Government during the first years, and particularly in the remote provinces, may authorise the entry or omission of these quantities in paper money with the agio of the day, or which they may fix on the commencement of every financial year. 19. The following shall be fundamental rules and re gulations of the Bank, viz.:— Sect. 1. No proprietor yr shareholder shall vote who does not hold five or more shares, and no one shall have more than ten votes, let him hold whatever number of shares he may. Sect. 2. No power of attorney of more than six months' date, nor granted by any shareholder residing out of the country, or by any one employed in the Bank, shall be considered valid. No one person can hold powers of attorney for more then 300 shares, nor refuse to exhibit his powers; and shall, on its being required by any other shareholder on tendering his vote, swear that he believes his principal to be Fiona fide possessed of such shares. Sect. 3. All agreements relative to the transfer of Bank shares shall be null and void, which may not be paid in full, as likewise those entered into by persons whose names are not inscribed in the Bank-books ; and no share shall entitle its holder to vote, or to receive any dividend due thereon, who has not been in possession thereof for 150 days previous to that ou which the divi- purchased , except the share shall have been Sect. 4. Five mer _afore the first election takes place. being r -4 "aers of the direct or y, th e pres id ent ese, r " 41- e of the number, must positively be pre press' the discussions on an y t ransac t ions: t h e .dent may nominate any other director to - .pply his place, in case of illness or any other Sect. • impediment. 5. Si xty shareholders or proprietors, possessing 'retween them 1,000 shares or upwards, only, can call a meeting of the proprietors or share holders, for taking into consideration any matter for the good of the establishment ; making public their reason for calling such meeting, at least three months previous thereto, in two public prints. Sect. 6. Every clerk or cashier of the Bank shall find two or more sureties for fifty contos of reis at least, subject to the approval of the directors, for his good behaviour and faithful discharge of his duties, before he can enter on the exercise thereof. Sect. 7. The Bank Corporation cannot, directly or rectly, possess any landed property, except those necessary for its accommodation and the carry ing on its business ; or such as may have been mortgaged to them, or in satisfaction of any debt previously contracted in the course of busi ness, or declared theirs by public auction, in consequence of any sentence obtained by them on account of such debts. Sect. 8. The Company cannot directly nor indirectly trade in anything but bills of exchange, gold or silver in bars, dust, or coin, diamonds, produce or lands by virtue of an execution, or taken beau fide in payment of any debts, or merchandise the produce of its estates; it cannot make pur chases in the public funds, nor charge snore than 9 per cent, interest on its loans or discounts. Sect. 9. The Company cannot make any advances to the General or Pro%icinal Governments for a longer period than 180 days, and evea so, not in such sums as may alter the relative proportions esta blished by this law, between its realised capital and its issues. Sect. 10. All bills or notes issued by order of the Com pany, signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier or chief clerk thereof, payable to any person or persons whatever, to their order or to the bearer, although they may not have the Company's seal or emblem, the Company shall be liable for the same as if issued by any one of its members in their private capacity ; those made payable to any person or persons or to their order, shall be endorsed in like manner as bills of exchange, and those payable to the bearer shall be transferrable. The bills and notes so issued shall be payable at sight. Sec. 11. Once every year the directors shall lay before the proprietors or shareholders at a general public meet ing, far their information, an exact report of the debts outstanding, after the time of payment had elapsed ; as likewise an account of all their transactions and of their profits, after deducting the losses, if any have arisen. Sec. 12. The directors shall establish branch banks of discount and deposit, in such provinces as the Imperial Legislative Assembly may direct, on the representation of the Provincial Assembly, setting forth that the pro vince already possesses, or is ready to take shares, to one-third the amount, at least, of the paper money cir culating therein. They may, moreover, establish like branches wherever they may think fit, assigning them regulations, and appointing to each from one to three directors, removable at pleasure. Sec. 13. The Inspector-General of the Treasury may demand, every week, information respecting the state of the Bank, and may inspect or order all the books, documents, and accounts, including those of the divi dends, to be inspected. A statement of its affairs shall be published monthly, in such manner as the Minister of Finance may order. The Bank shall be at all times open for the full and unrestricted inspection of a com mittee from either Legislative Chamber, of a committee of the proprietors, and to all and every one of the directors. The Minister of Finance, or a committee of either of the said Chambers, or any person authorised by the one or the other, may order a notice to be given for the examination on oath of the directors, officers, cashiers, agents, &c., of the Bank, touching any matter relating thereto or to its transactions : any one of whom refusing to comply shall be fined 100 milreis. Sec. 14. No paper shall be discounted, nor any loan granted, for a longer period than 180 days ; and no written obligation, bill of exchange, debt, nor proof of debt, of what nature soever, shall be renewed by any agreement with the Ba n k, a f ter t h e term h as exp i red for wich it was negotiated. Sec. 15. The Bank shall make no payments in the notes of any other bank, nor in any other thing than lawful coins, bars, treasury notes, paper money, or its own notes. Sec. 16. The notes which are to be put in circulation as money shall be prepared at the central banks, duly signed as above described, and payable at the Bank in the metropolis, or at any of its branches of discounts and deposits, as specified in the note. The Bank is not, however, prohibited from passing orders payable at other banks or commercial houses, of fifty milrcis or upwards. See. 17. The notes and bills of the said corporation, althon,h made payable at a certain place, may, never theless, be received at any branch for discounts and de posits, whenever they may be tendered in liquidation ur payment of the balance of any debt. Sec. 18. The Bank shall not lend any money to any of its officers or agents, nor discount any bill or note, of which any one or more of them may be the passers, drawers, endorsers, acceptors, or a party to, on any ac count what( ver ; this provision does not, however, in clude the directors, unless they may be serving as a salaried officer. or agent. Art. 20. The Bank Corporation shall not be owing snore than double the amount of the paper moneys, Treasury notes, deposits of gold and silver, coins of the precious metals, bonds of the public debt, or landed pro perty mortgaged for half its real value ; nor discount any bills, or otherwise extend its loans, whenever its notes in circulation shall exceed five times the amount of the precious metals contained in its coffers, on pain of becoming responsible individually, as well as the direc tors of the Bank collectively, who, being present when such excess of liabilities over assets was ascertained, should not immediately acquaint the Government there with, and also the proprietors duly summoned to attend a general meeting. 21. The Bank dividends shall be paid half-yearly, de ducting therefrom, besides the three per cent. appro priated by Clause 3 of Article 15 to the cancelling and exchange of the paper money in circulation, two per cent. more for a reserve fund (rest), which shall likewise be employed in loans and discounts for tho benefit of the proprietors. 22. The Bank shall deposit in its vaults, or transfer from one place to another, the Government securities, delivering them over to the public creditors on the pre sentation of " cheques" from the treasurer of the public or provincial treasuries, by order of the Government, without charging any commission or difference cf ex change on such transactions. 23. Should the Bank neglect or fail in making any payment in due time, the party to whom it is due shall receive twelve per cent. premium for the delay : except in case of any extraordinary occurrence which may threaten the existence of the Bank ; in which case, a previous representation to, and a resolution of, his Im perial Majesty in Council, for a limited time, will be requisite. 24. The Bank shall continue in operation for thirty years, and two years more for the liquidation and settle ment of its affairs ; during the whole of which period it shall'possess all the rights above enumerated, and enjoy the following privileges, namely :- Sec. 1. The Bank Shares shall have the same privi leges which the bonds of the National Debt now have or may hereafter be granted them. Sec. 2. The paper imported, as also the machinery for stamping it, required by the Bank, shall be free of duty. Sec. 3. Those in the employ of the Bank, throughout the empire, shall be exempt from all military service, whether of the National Guards, or of the army or navy. Sec. 4. The Government shall cause to be essayed, smelted, and refined, all the gold and silver sent by the Bank for those purposes, free of expense. Sec. 5. The Government shall provide at all times and places within the empire, the necessary protection fur the funds of the Bank Corporation, and convey them gratuitously, by vessels of war or steam-boats belonging to companies having Government contracts. Sec. 6. The Government shall give the Bank prefer ence, on equal terms, to any other party, as to the dis count of its bills, Custom-house notes, or in making re mittances to foreign countries, and in other operations which it may be lawful for them to undertake. Sec. 7. The Government shall cause to be kept in the offices of the Company, and of its branches in the pro vinces, a hook, in which shall be registered the ordered to be made by the law of the 21st of Oct. 1843. 15. All the conditions contemplated by this law may undergo such modifications as the Company may pro pose, and the Government consider proper to be adopted, so as that the cancelling the present and sub stitution of other paper, convertible in gold or silver, at the option of the holder, shall be accomplished in twenty years; those, however, which may be attended with any additional expense to be subject to the approval of the legislative body. 26. As it will not be possible to organise one national or public company which shall solely undertake the can celling the paper throughout the whole empire, the Go vernment may endeavour to effect similar establishments in some of the provinces, or union of provinces, consign ing them in proportion to the amount to be cancelled by them, not only the funds appropriated to the purchase of shares, but likewise of those destined for the annual con tributions. 27. Those who may forge the notes of the Bank, the current coins of the empire, or other securities issued by the Government or Bank, of what description or nature soever, shall be condemned to the galleys (hulks) for life, at the Island of Fernando ; or in the naval or mili tary arsenals of the provinces in which they may have been tried ; independent of the fines prescribed in the criminal code. 28. Those concerned in producing or circulating counterfeit money or forged paper, shall be condemned to the galleys (hulks) for ten or twenty years, besides the above fines. 29. Those who may let or allow their premises to be occupied by forgers, or makers of counterfeit money, or paper, for the purpose of forging the same, as also those who shall h ar b our or afford any assistance what ever to the forgers or circulators of false coins or paper. or shall in any wise facilitate the accomplishment of the crime, or shall conceal it, or aid the escape of the guilty parties, after they have been discovered and pro secuted, shall be punished as accomplices. 30. The chief of the police and the Judges de Direito in all the parishes of the province in which the false coin or paper shall be found, are the magistrates who shall take cognisance of the above-mentioned crimes., gnu before whom they shall be brought to t r i t a. 31. Two or more processes) br prosecutions, may he formed i different parishes of the §amc province, fur tIAYMARKET THEATRE. Romeo and Juliet was produced at this theatre last evening for the purpose of introducing Miss Susan Cushman (sister of the Miss Cushman, who acted the part of Romeo), to an English audience. Had we not, many a time and ofr, been delighted—delighted is not the word—carried away—by the acting of Miss Cushman in Shaksperian characters, we should have hailed Miss Susan Cushman as the greatest actress of the day. True, she is as yet unformed— true she has some of the technicalities of the stage yet to learn--yet, her Juliet, taken as a whole, is more true to Shakspere than any Juliet within our remembrance. There is no conventionality about— she takes the text of her author, and gives us her own interpretation of it; and genius interpreting genius can never be far wrong. Her genius is essen tially tragic. In the earlier scenes there was, per haps, a want of that abandon which tutored actresses throw into the part, and which is, after all, conventional ; but when the girl becomes the woman, an impassioned, loving, self-sacrificing woman, Miss Susan Cushman was very great. The balcony scene was given with an intensity which we should look for in vain in other actresses. It was evident that she loved—loved earnestly ; her whole soul was in love with Romeo ; and this intensity was kept up throughout. Her acting in the scene in which the nurse tells her of the result of her interview with Romeo was very fine. There was no trickery about it. It was evident that her love for Romeo absorbed every other passion ; and instead of showing herself off as a comic actress (which is too often the case with debutante Juliets), she made no effort to disguise her impatience. Love was the all-absorbing passion of her soul. The scene in which Friar Laurence gives her poison was magni ficently given. She hung upon him, and seemed greedily to devour his words as though they were the words of life and death. Horror, at the part she was called upon to act, was depicted in her every look, her every action, and when at last her love absorbing and overcoming every other passion "screws her courage to the sticking place," she was magnificent. The soliloquy before taking the draught was very fine, and her look and action, as her imagination conjures up before her the frightful visions of the charnel-house, was thrilling. There was a dead stillness throughout the house, which was crowded, and there was not one of that vast assem blage who did not feel with her and for her. Taken as a whole, Miss Susan Cushman's debut is the most deservedly successful which we have witnessed for years. There is an impassioned intensity about her acting which carries the spectator along with her, and almost paralyses criticism. But what shall we say of Miss Cushman's Romeo ? Many a time and oft has Romeo been murdered, but never, since the youthful days of Charles Kemble, has Romeo been acted on the English stage until last night. It was a bold attempt for a lady, even for Miss Cushman, to attempt the part of Romeo, but faint heart never yet won favour, and the bold attempt succeeded. Would that this gifted lady could in fuse some of her spirit into our actors, who eschew Romeo as an uphill part. It is their own cold blood that makes it an uphill part. They lack " that quick spirit ;" that intensity, that passion, that pathos which is required to bring out all the beauties of the character. These did Miss Cushman infuse into the part. Ay and there was no lack of manly bearing and daring courage ; she was the very Romeo that Shakspere drew. So true is it that genius is of no sex, that none would have discovered she was a woman. Her wooing was overpowering. Her passion, when, condemned to banishment, she learns the doom in Friar Laurence's cell, was irresistible ay, as irresistible as the terrible earnestness of her attacks of the fiery Tybalt and the courtly Paris. The Misses Cushman were called for at the conclu sion of the tragedy, and greeted with rapturous and well-deserved plaudits. The nurse of Mrs. Glover, and the Friar Laurence of Mr. Stuart, were both admirable. We cannot say as much for the Mer cutio of Mr. Holl ; the Mercutio of Shakspere was a finished gentleman. T R. - ,ISLEYS.—We have had a great number of equilibristes of late years, who have attempted a class of feats which in some cases have become popular; but we are in debted to Professor Risley for introducing an entirely novel style, which is extremely pleasing in its effect, and which shows the true poetry of motion. Professor Risley and his two sons made their first appearance at Drury.lane Theatre last evening to one of the most crowded houses of the season. They were warmly greeted, and received enthusiastic ap plause throughout their performance, which was remarkably clever. The feats were all accomplished with much ease and grace, and reminded us of the same schoolof artistes to which the ferial Taglioni belongs. Bouquets were thrown upon the stage (from the private boxes, and the Risleys retired amidst deafening applause from all parts of the house. The annual present of fruit to the Lord Mayor from the Fruiterers' Company, was sent last Thursday. It consisted of twelve bushels of the finest apples that could be selected; one bushel was also presented to the sword bearer. AQIIATICIL—During the last season there were 112 boat races, 67 sailing matches, and 54 regatta. On Saturday last, J. D. Llewelyn Esq., and a party of three or four friends, in a sporting excursion on the Penllergare estate, bagged seventy-four head of game in th-.t course of a few hours.—Cambrian. BANKS AT BANBURY. —The old-established bank ing firms of Messrs. Cobb and Messrs. Gillett and Tawney have announced their intention of retiring in April next, the business being merged into one chartered banking company. The London and County Joint-Stock Banking Company hava announced their intention to open a branch at Banbury.—. Oxford Journal. Messrs. Ditchburn and Maire, the celebrated iron steam-boat builders of Blackwall, have just completed theit extensive improvements in their press-shops and other de partments of the building, the whole of which work has been executed by Mr. Chapman, of Lambeth, on whom it reflect:. great credit. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — The fame of Holloway's Pills, in the cure of headaches, dimness of sight, deranged stomach:, and disordered livers, as likewise in restoring strength an 3 vigour in cases of debilitated constitutions, is so great, that even in the East Indies the different castes and natives are . taking but little other medicine than these famous Pills. Ono native agent in the Presidency of Bombay sold lately, retail fifty-three dozen boxes in fifteen days. The extraordinary cures performed by these Pills, when all other means fail, is truly wonderful. Females will find this a most admirabe medicine.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway 3 establishment, 244, Strand, London. The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Plymouth has received a letter from Lord John Russell, acknowledging tl. e receipt of the me mor i a l f rom th e inhabitants t o h er M ajesty; praying f or t h e a b o li t i on o f restr i c ti ve d u ti es on the impor tation of food, informing them that ho has t ransmitted :t to the Secretary of State for presentation t o her Uajesty Devonport Telegraph. THE QUARTER OF A MILLION Lt AGUE FUNDF UND. Since our last--that is, during Wednesday and yesterday, for Chriol - nas-day was a general holiday here—in two days, 'ten, the subscriptions to this fund have been increased Ly upwards of three thousand pounds, the total amount, w hi c h on Tuesday evening reached 61,895/., having been aug mented yesterday to upwards of 65,0001. Manchester Guardian. dead falls due; y the same offen ce ; b ut t h e Judges de Direito, who m s e have commenced the s a id processes, after the same shall ha ve b een conc l u d ed, whether sentence may b passed or n o t, i n case t h e d elinquents may not have been apprehe n d e d, s h a ll transmit them to the chief of the police of the same province, who shall unite them all into one, and adding thereto what further investiga tions or discoveries may have been made, and thereupon decide in what manner, according to law, the prosecu tion shall be conducted. 32. In the processes which the said judges may form, they may examine, without limitation as to the number, all the witnesses that they may have any knowledge of, or that the public accuser ma y indicate, or any other person or persons, and may delay the proceedings for thirty days. 33. In case the Government should consider it neces sary, they may appoint a " Desemburgador " (a judge of the highest class) or any other magistrate for the pro secution of this crime, in any province, appointing spe cially to assist him a notary public, with authority to proceed with the case, as well in the capital of the pro vince as in any parish or district thereof, as shall appear to them most convenient. 34. On the proceedings being brought to a close, they shall be immediately submitted to the jury of the capital, if then assembled, who shall proceed with it, giving it a preference, and if not sitting, they shall be summoned to an extraodinary and special meeting for this parti cular case. 33. All laws and resolutions to the contrary are hereby revoked. (Signed) MANOEL ALVES BRANCA. Rio de Jaueiro, 10th July, 1845. MR. mACAULAY. (From the Scotsman.) Tho following short note from Mr. Macaulay will ho read with interest. It was written in reply to one from the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, transmitting :la memorial from that body to the Queen, in favour of opening the ports : " London, . 22 1845. "You will ha ve h ear d the termination Dec of our , attempt to form a Government. All our plans were frustrated by Lord Grey. I hope that the public interests will not suffer. Sir Robert Peel must now undertake the settlement of the question. It is certain that he can settle it. It is by no means certain that we could have done so. For we shall to a man support him ; and a large proportion of those who are not in office would have refused to support us. On my own share in these transactions I reflect with unmixed satisfaction. From the first, I told Lord John that I stipulated for one thing only—total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws ; that my objections to gradual abolition were insurmountable ; and that if he declared for total and immediate repeal, I would be, as to all other matters, absolutely in his hands ; that I would take any office or no office, just as suited him best ; and that ho never should be disturbed by any personal pretensions or jea lousies on my part. If everybody else had acted thus, there would now have been a Liberal Ministry. How ever, as I said, perhaps it is best as it is. " I do not think that, if we had formed a Government, we should have entertained the question of paying the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland. I cannot answer for others ; but I should have thought it positive insanity to stir the matter. " I will send your petition to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, as soon as it is clear that the Goverment is settled. " Ever yours truly, " I'. B. MACAULAY. " J. F. Macfarlan, Esq., Edinburgh." 1 , I con: ire al ) gual ering of si rei prof the s ondit Per of Loy J‘ le re