The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRLTRY-LANE. Immense Holiday Attraction. SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with Bird's-eye View of Robinson Crusoe'e Farm. How Crusoe and Co. give the Caribees the go-by-- how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over Mountain," set off in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost In feg, which will account for their not arriving earlier at •• •• SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.I". The premises may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box office, from ten till six. How Crusoe does the honours of his hut to Abe great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his first lesson in " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the jollifica tion within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians fiom without ; in short, how tho appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of the hut, and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young Waterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge. SCENE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison; Remember the poor Debtors; Knockers anl bells versus thieves; Somebody's coming ; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors ; the tables sud denly turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to SCENE 11. Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes; " Ladies of the Round Tub :" Soap at a premium ; Mangling done here ; Arrival of " the trades of London, with their respective young ones ;" The bell invites us ; Wives go to dinner ; Husbands go to bath; Boiling water versus cold water cure ; The washing-tub in a storm, and general confusion. SCENE 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging-house ; " Catch him who can," or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle quin everywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for Harlequin ;" Eight heads better than one ; Patent self-lighting Chandelier. " The happy family we all know so well, " The still happier family we all love so well." SCENE 13. A Stene Quarry ; A monster meeting, with a tail and without one ; How to convert a blockhead into a great man ; Art and Commerce lend their assistance to produce SCENE 14. A most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more extraordinary one, viz., SCENE 15. Grand emblematical and national tableau of her Majesty christening the Royal Exchange. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdinl ; Andrea Comae, Mr florrani ; Monce,:igo, Mi. Weiss • Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison; atarina Cornaro, Miss Weiss; To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlcquinade, calird PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND fiDBINSO.N CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; C'own , Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. 'flu Box-orrice is open daily, from Ten in the Mbrning until Six as the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, celled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S , rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles %lathe s •. Tow Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Yarren; The Countvas of pion. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthort, Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia ~ e nnett. After which, a Gran MOVING DIORAMA; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN S WITZERLAND. To ccisielu:ie;;Vi — SeWGrand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Usoriou.s Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciesa, Miss Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. kiortAt ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On Guinea and a-Half each. 11cketa and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, fr3ria ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will be repeated by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drarna. entitled THE CH NIES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. I'obv Veck. Mr. Q. Smi , h ; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright ; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son ;- S.r Joseph Rowley, Bart . Mr. Paul Be.iford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. S e lby . Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mts. Chickenstalkcr, Mrs Frank Matthews. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilliam. To' conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE ; or, Harlequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. ltelarul; Columbine, Miss Lon.. dale ; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San , ers. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, -,tr Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box—odice open from Eleven till Four. Private B ,xes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will he repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Himo ; Renaud, Mr. Mattacks; Icon, M. Lamer; Hermine, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which will be repeated a New G and Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravag -inn, called JOE ‘i I LLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff. Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravine, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half.price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. aid.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; ; Gallery, NI Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Proses. Lute Boxes, Two tlluineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half. oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-ollice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Dicldear„ F. Matthews, Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss rove, and 'lrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histerical, Romantic, Pantominilcal, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Coll.er, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, bliss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. I, eeley. PRICES OF AOMISSION.—BaIcony , ones, 4., Upper poxes, 3a.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, is. ; UpperlSozes, Is. (Id.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the liolcnny Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Zeus on the Pit Fier (holding six persona), One Guir en. foe Boa-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc t.** of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Lest attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet this Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W RATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race- ilor, and Life's Courn of Man and Steed ; IntrodUcing unequalled Natimal Fete , . Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fo, and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to re a li se th i s nove l pro d uc ti on. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Eque.trian Pantomime, e: fled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GiLPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine. Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Nlr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. Acting anti stag,...tomager, Mr. W ii.iSrosetroot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons lathe Art et Riding by Mr. R. smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compli.nce with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed aranvements to pre. sent, during the Christmas Ho idays, a S ries •f EQUESTRIAN MORNING FEI'ES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. ANCE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three ; consisting of Batty's S. lend id Srenes of Equitation in the Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place en Monday, Dec. 31, Wednesday, Jan. tand Fr day, Jan. 4. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY I HEATRE THIS EVF.NIN'4, DECEMBER 27, Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr Henry Corri (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H Hughes, Neville, R Hoarier, Lewis, Hesiop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. /former, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. %V. Daly, mad Miss Martin. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, ,HILLINGS AND PENCE; or, HARI.EQUIN . Z. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey ; Clown, Mr. T. Rlogway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Mailer. Places a at Private boxes to IN , had of Mr. lierschner, at the Box.. Ace, from Eleven to Four ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 27, Will be performed an Interesting Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, A Tale of Sorrow. Squire Graham, Mr. Watkins; Frederick, Mr. T. H. }Jiggle; Leonard, Mr. Henry Howard ; Mary Graham, Mrs. W. Rignold ; Patty Parrot, Mis E. Terrey Atter which, THE ROAD-SIDE INN. Captain Rambleton, Mr. H Higgie; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Vlen, MissE. Terry. To eonellide with a New Grand Christmas "antomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Vit THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 26. lIMMOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 36 ; Noon, 34. BAROMETER, 30.2.-WIND, N.E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at ¶2 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " at 29; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE THIS DAY. 4rrr.tng ... i 1 minutts after 8 Evening.. 40 minutes atter S. --- , . - _---,_-_ -„, ------ --- A __ ' , i A ritt IJX 4111 t LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1844. Few of our readers but must cave heard of the nam+ of MART GALLOP, who now lies under sentence of *Oh in Chester gaol for the murder of her owl) father, by means of arsenic. The evidence adduced on the trial of this wretched woman puts the questiw. at ber guilt beyond a doubt, and she has since made Now rea COLONEL MAXWELL ' S ADVENTURES. 2 vols. small Bvo., with Portaits, Henry Calburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Dec. 26,wi1l be performed Balfe's grand Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. After which will be produced the Grand Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, Harlequiu and Robinson Crusoi., The principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes, Messrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss Carson. SCENE I. An " Attic " Story. Anther (in distress for many things, bat principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ; Tuck (Envoy from the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro vide the usual Christmas fun for "Children all, both great and small," Miss A. Payne. How Puck gives new life to the author by giving Life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pre raises, and Introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances ; h.)w Messrs. Fuck and Author form themselves into a Conunittee of Taste, and decide in favour of Robinson Crusoe. SCENE 2. Coast of the island on whichCrnsoe was wrecked, with th• ship high an.l dry, the ocean slumbering in the wick ground, the crabs, Esc, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck ; his private olinion of the useful and the useless; how he is astonished by an unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de termines in his turn to astonish them. SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the Caribees, haying a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a passion with everybody else), Mr. T. Matthews; Hankipanki (his club-bearer, an office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince - arramatta, after wards " Friday" (King l'ariboo's young brother, and old rival, con temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ; Princess Tooraloora (intended by Pariboo for himself, but intending terself for his brother), Mr. Johnson. How, preparations being made for a Caribee Pic-nic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley— how Pariboo and ilankipanki jump out of the frying-pan into the tiro, i.e., the water. _ _ . SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy (the celebrated Pacific Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, in hopes of his turning out " a great catch"), Mr. Longswallow. How Pariboo and Bankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how Billy bolts them—how Crusoe and Friday go out fishing—how they have a glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands its two insides—aad how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to SCENE 7. Exterior of Ausie Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs Manufactory ; Duet, in twa flats, tune, " Here we go up, up, up, here *rce go down, down, down ;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladia tor ; a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to play on itself grand discord. SCENES 8 and 9. Curriers and Fancy Leather-dressers,and Throne room in the Palace at Morocco ; how to leather Morocco and how to dress its leather ; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another— a whole skin is better than a skin in holes. - 4 - I . r •l' ..,,, b . . ..- „ ut 4 • 5 .1T11.1..,... ' . ~ '; - ( 11' ' ~ 1!'- . 4 k, - ," ',7= • 1 :4",-Adile f *, - ft • :..-a t Nip O li tilli7.• ' '', 74 '' • - r ., 4111 . 1.LA ,- '.V• f :- "?;• i' V. l-- ,.k.. 1) 1 L it = ..-wwcw - 4 : -:.....e.,.• . 4A 3a illa',>A ! , Z ... 'Tr • lioS ~.. ': • 1,;., ,, :atit t 4 0"1 ~,-' '• ...,, 1 !• •• ~,, a.. ,`'' . t ' t . NW' ' , • • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY AtI.ORNIN . G, DECEM_BER t'f, 7, 1 Fi, 44, a confession, wherein she explains her motives for committing so dreadful a crime, and enters at some length into the urticulars of the revolting transac tion. The following is a portion of her narrative, which we subjoin for reasons which the reader will presently understand :—" I heard my half-sister one day talking of a woman who had poisoned her husband with arsenic, which she had bought under the pretence of killing rats. The idea then first entered my mind of poisoning my fa ther, and I thought I should be at liberty to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased. If I could have opened my mind to anybody, and had received a little good advice, I am sure I should not have committed the crime. I did not think I should be detected." The tone of cool deliberation—we might almost say of nonchalance—that pervades this statement—is truly extraordinary. The daughter, it seems, was instigated to the murder of her father from the mere simple cir cumstance of having one day heard an account of a woman who had poisoned her husband by arsenic ! She needed no further stimulus. The train was already laid, the match lighted, and it only required that it should be applied. But then she adds, if she could only have received a little good ad vice she would not have committed homicide ! What maudlin, self-deceiving cant is this ! How was it possible that she could have applied to any one for advice, as to whether or not it was expedient to murder the author of her being ? The very remark shows the cool indifference with which she regarded the crime of parricide. It was evidently in her esti mation an act to be consulted about, instead of an atrocity to be shrunk from at the very first whisper of the impelling fiend within her. We urge these points from no desire to excite public indigna tion still more strongly against the wretched criminal, but simply because we are anxious to expose the false morality—the hypocritical cant—the whining mock humanity of certain individuals who have decided on petitioning the QUEEN in favour of MARY GALLOP. Among these are to be found the Bishop of CHESTER, the Chancellor RAMIS, and a great body of the clergy and gentry. The reasons which these sentimentalists allege in justification of a commutation of punishment are some of them of the most unaccountable character it is possible to conceive. First, we are told that pre viously to the commission of parricide, the prisoner " had conducted herself as a teacher in a Wesleyan Methodist school with strict propriety." Now, to our thinking, the circumstance of MARY GALLOP having been a teacher of children aggravates rather than extenuates her guilt, for it proves that if she sinned it was not at any rate from brute ignorance, or from any unacquaintance with the rules of virtue and morality. Secondly, the petition states "that the dreadful crime which she confesses of causing the death of her father does not appear to have been long premeditated, but to have been accidentally suggested to her mind by a person in her company." Why, this circumstance, too, which the petitioners allege in her favour, tells most de cidedly against her. 'What sort of a mind must that have been which could have been urged to the com mission of the most awful of all crimes, from the mere casual small talk of a neighbour ? But the fourth reason stated by the petitioners is the most extraordinary—" That should the QUEEN'S mercy be extended• to this miserable woman, she might prove of great use in being employed in teach ing young persons in one of the schools in any place to which she may be transported." Truly, the woman of mature age and decent education who could com mit parricide from no stronger motive than that-- to quote her own words—" I should be at liberty to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased "—is admirably qualified for the sacred and responsible office of an instructress of childood ! With what earnestness and sincerity of heart must she impress on her young pupils the commandment which says, " Thou shalt do no murder." Children brought up at the feet of such a mistress cannot but turn out exem plary members of society ! But the whole affair is of so repulsive a character, that we have no wish to pursue it further. Enough, therefore, to state that the Bishop of CHESTER, and all who have had a share in recommending MARY GALLOP to mercy for the reasons we have just specified, have not evinced a healthy spirit of humanity, hut, on the contrary, a maudlin, dangerous sensibility, that cannot be too severely reprobated. The last accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst. The Chamber of Deputies had commenced the debate upon M. MON'S project of law for the conversion of the outstanding debts of the Government into Three per Cent. Stock. Several members spoke in opposi tion to M. MoN's plan, and M. MoN replied, after which the debate was adjourned.. The Paris journals of Tuesday, in the absence of any stirring aspects to break the monotony of their political horizon, are unusually grave and didactic. The Debats, alone, devotes its columns to miscel laneous features of foreign news, such as that news is. On the subject of Turkish affairs, we find this para graph :—" The Morning Chronicle, for some days past, recurs with affectation to a pretended collision of influences, a rivalry of direction which is said to have recently developed itself at Constantinople be tween Sir STRATFORD CANNING and our Ambassador, immediately prior to the departure of the Baron DE BOURQUENET. The fact itself is as unfounded as the consequences which theM'orning Chronicle de duces from it. France, equally with England, England equally with France, desire the triumph at Constantinople of those principles of mo deration which alone can guarantee the existence of the Ottoman Empire ; and the Ambassadors of both Powers have always laboured together in that mutual good understanding which is based as much upon the reciprocal esteem inspired for one another by their mutual characters, as on their perfect cognisance of the intentions of their respective Governments." The Times having lately announced, on this side of the water, that considerable activity prevailed in the dockyard at Deptford, struck a chord to which the National, as might have been anticipated, is not slow to respond. "At the end of this month," pro ceeds the National, quoting his authority, "a steam war-frigate, of the first class, and of 800 horse power, will be launched. Her measurement will be upwards of 1,800 tons. Another frigate, to be called the Odin, is being built in the same yard. Two war-steamer brigs, of which the Times publishes the names, are at the same time to be constructed at Deptford, and will contribute a new reinforcement to the British navy. Every time that the pre'ss reveals to us the efforts made by our neighbours to increase their naval force, we are compelled io deplore the inaction in which our dockyards, and our building yards fur all classes of shipping, are suffered to re main. This inaction might have accomplished but little in 1840, but, since then, it has accomplished nothing at all. Admiral JOINVILLE might have truly said six months sine•,, that France could not engage in a maritime war oecause we had not a fleet to supply our losses, even in a case of a victory.' He declared in print that our forces and those of England were too much dispr °portioned to risk a contest.' Nevertheless, this disproportion is suffered to increase every day. A tnoraent will, however, come when England, already 4o insolent with respect to us, will forbid us to fish on our own coast, without our being permitted to offer the least remonstrance. Our Ministry, which sends our seamen to the other end of the world to seize all manner of islands and islets, in order that our flag and its best officers may be insulted there, appears to see with pleasure the British navy in creased with new ships, whilst our own does not continue even stationary. Yet, notwithstanding all the deceptions that are practised upon us, we still hope that the Chamber will refuse to succumb, in this particular, to the anti-national action of our Ministry, and that it will, as in duty bound, take into its careful consideration these continual extensions of our neighbours' forces."' On the frightful condition of Spain the National speaks out with much energy and eloquence : " The impudent correspondence which the Spanish Government addresses to the Paris journals, after it has passed under the eye s o f t h e French Ambassador, at tempts to justify the reactors in the atrocities which they have committed. The only answer we shall give is a summary of the list published by El Clamor Publico Hof the victims who have been struck within the last twelve months. This journal has taken only the public documents, and, quoting the Madrid Ga zette, enumerates the persons who have been Put to death by this obdurate Government. The total amounts to 214. All have been shot without trial, except about a dozen. Their identity once estab ished, an have been mercilessly murdered; and that in ~i rtue of no other authority than a royal order. Two hundred and fourteen Spaniards killed in one year for The Bill con fi rming the commercial treaty con cluded by the Belgian Government with the Zoll verein continues to be an engrossing subject of interest in Paris. It appears to have been passed by the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, and is thus noticed by La Presse : " Many persons have been astonished to see that seven voices only declared themselves opposed to a treaty on account of which the Ministry was kept in check during ten long days. M. Devaux, one of the most determined adversaries of that treaty, had previously explained this anomaly by declaring, that if the treaty was again to be made, the Opposition would prevent the Ministry from concluding it ; but that, having been signed and ratified by the King, it imperatively demanded the legislative sanction, and that the Chambers could not refuse that sanction without causing the most deplorable perturba tion in the relation of the country with foreign coun tries. A number of Deputies yielded to that considera tion, and thence the result of the division." Street robbery and murderous midnignt assaultb seem to prevail in Paris with frightful impurity. The somewhat tardy vigilance of the police and the superior authorities, appears to be at length aroused to the serious increase of these crimes. Misery among the poorer classes, too, has attained an appal ling pitch. "The transactions at the savings' banks of Paris on Sunday and Monday last (writes a correspondent of the Times) indicated a considerable falling off. The sums withdrawn exceeded the deposits by upwards of 400,000 francs. Referring to this fact, the Siecle observes, that * the announcement of the unfortunate resolve of M. Lacave Laplagne to deal with the deposits in the savings' banks is producing its fruit.. There is less money de posited and more withdrawn.' The Moniteur states that the investments is the savings' banks of Paris, on the 122 d and 23d inst., amounted to 580,189 francs, and the reimbursements to 893,000 f." " The terror inspired by the audacity of the hordes of robbers and murderers assembled in the metropolis has, it seems, awakened the attention of Government to the defenceless condition of the inhabitants, and occa sioned a display of activity and a means of repression calculated to check those miscreants in their career. The Opposition journals despair,' however, of any pertna nent amelioration so long as the entire military and police forces of the capital and its vicinity are solely oc cupied with the preservation of the King.' " The Three per Cents. closed at 85f. 50c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., at 120 f. 65c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,122 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,045 f.; Havre, 812 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three . per Cents., 38f ; Passives, 61. The Revue de Paris states, that there was no truth in the report that ABD-EL-KADRA had re-appeared on the frontiers of Morocco. The approaching meetng of the Chambers was looked forward to, in Paris, with very considerable interest, but it does not seem necessary to transcribe the conjectures hazarded there about the probable contents of the Royal Speech. THE BOURSE—TuESDAY, DEC. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five par Cents l2O 20... 120 40 .. 120 10 ..'l2O 40 Four-and-a-Half.. 113 .. 113 .. 113 .. 113 Three par Cents.•• .• 55 40 .• 85 50 .. 115 45 .. 85 50 Bank of France 3275 ..3275 2275 .. 2275 Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1115 ..1110 ..1115 5,000 f. SharessoBs ..5090 ..6085 "5090 Belgian Bank.... •• ••• • • • 620 • • 620 .. 615 .. 620 Belgian Fives,lB4o •••••• .• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 1842 • • lO6l .. 1061 .. 1061' .. 106: Spanish Threes...... •• •• •• 38 .. 38f .. 33 .. 3ht Passive Portuguese Five per Cents.. 681 • • 581 • • 58 .. 581 Neapolitan 55 .. 95 .. 95 .. 95 Boman • • 1041 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SPUMES. St. Germain' Versailles, R. 8.... ..... .... 5( 750 .. 507 50 .. 495 .. 495 L.B.— •••• •• 390 .. 390 .. 370 .. 385 Rouen •• •••••• •• •• •• •• •• —1035 . 1045 "1035 •.1045 Rouen to Havre.• • • • • • • . • • • 820 .. 820 • • 815 .. 815 Orleans •• •• ••.•• ••••-• ••••1125 ••1126 25 ..1120 ..1125 Strasburg to Rale•••••••••• 306 25 .. 308 75 . 306 23 .. 308 75 Avignon to Marseilles 920 .. 925 .. 920 .. 925 RAILWAYS FOR TAE ACCOUNT, Jam 3. St. Germain Versailles, 11.11...... L.B.•••• •••••••• 400 .. 420 .. 385 •• 4 , :,0 Rouen 1047 50 ..1050 —lO3O ..j0 45 Rouen toillavre B2O .. 825 .. 805 .. 805 Orleans .. •. ..... ll3O .. 1145 •• l Vl2 10 .. 1122 AO Gltrasburg to Bale• • 310 .• 310 •• 300 301 so Avignon to MarseWes— •••• 925 .• 925 . 917 59 .. .. 917 90 __--- ARIAN.—WREcKs. Wednesday night tee went ashore at . Le: schooner Elizabeth William Thomson, master, ggymenoch, near Pladdg. Lighthouse. yr ' She left A ,nat day, and was boaLa to Belfast. She Belfast, is full of coa t ;, b ut i t i s supposed will ro to ngs t ece pis, as she is up on a roc k y part of the shore. rae men were saved. We have a clear harbour to-day. The vessels sailed hence yesterday morning (Sunday) after a stay, some of them for a month. The wind has prevailed from south to south-east this month, and it was very difficult for vessels to gel out to the offing. It is to the east to-day (Monday)—fine dry weather.—Ayr Observer. THE WEATHER AND CURLING.—On Wednesday last, we had a considerable fall of rain ; and the pros pects of the curler seemed fairly blighted for a period. The wind, however, to the surprise of every one, still kept a hold of the north-east, and by Thursday the frost was as keen as ever. The dams and ponds had never been entirely thawed ; and a few hours' congellation served to put them in admirable condition for the " channel-stane." The dam here has been crowded ever since with curlers, skaters, and sliders. Satur day and yesterday the turn-out was especially large. A great many ladies were among the promenaders, whose presence vastly enhanced the interest of the scene. As our columns testify, numerous matches have been played, both " here and far awa' ;" and many more are on the tapir, in expectation of the frost con tinuing. Amongst others, we hear that the Junior Club of Kilmarnock, with the Earl of Eglinton at their head, are to enter the lists against our Ayr Club, who, it is to be expected, will be led on by Sir James Boswell, Bart. The prize is the gold medal presented by the Caledonian Club, and the contest takes place, we under stand, on Fail Loch, on Thursday first. May the best players win.—Ayr Observer. We understand that Miss Kelly opens her theatre early in January, for the purpose of introducing to the public a young lady of whom report speaks in the highest terms. SUCCESS OF THE PENNY•A-MILE SYSTEM.—The alteration made in the fares and accommodation of the Eastern Counties Railway has been attended with the greatest success. Already two large omnibuses end a coach have started in conjunction with the Company running from Ipswich to Colchester, and scarcely a day passes without every one of them being filled with pas sengers. In addition to these, a number of fast coaches run from Norwich and various other towns in the dis trict, and it is anticipated a few weeks more will see others on the road. The inhabitants of Ipswich look upon this as a surprising change, and no wonder, when it is considered that only two coaches passed through the town some few years back. As the spring ap proaches three or four more conveyanees will be started, and seeing that the experience of the l as t s i x wee k s jus tifies the belief that the passenger traffic will, before that time, have been nearly doubled, there can be little doubt, th©y will turn out profitable speculations. b'laical acts! Such is the exaggerated energy assumed y this moderate Government with whi c h M. Guizot avows his sympathy. Add to these all those who have fled in order to escape vengeance—add the persons proscribed, the men imprisoned or put under arrest, and an idea may be formed of the boasted moderation of these reactors, who have Narvaez for their chief, and De Meer, Breton, Roncali, Villalonga, and the rest for their instruments. They have not been satisfied with killing men—they have sue • ceeded in destroying the institutions. What they have done with the Constitution of 1837 is known; and it is also known that they have left no remains of those gua rantees for the liberty which the Spaniards hoped they had won and secured at the price of their blood. The ancient municipalities have become no more than a vain and empty name; the provincial deputations are made subordinate to the caprices of military authority; the Cortes represent no more than the sentiments of the Government which has nominated them; the freedom of the press is deprived of the trial by jury ; the execu tive power being invested with the right of putting its own construction upon all the organic laws, the monarchy is dispensed in future with annually convoking the Cortes ; the sale of the national property is suspended, and those who have already become purchasers, are threatened with being deprived of what they have bought ; all rights are thrown to the ground, and trampled upon—all interests are given up to the mercy of military despotism, without control, without the slighter check." The National thus continues : " Such have been the disorders which Spain has ex perienced in her political sytsem ! But the disorders she has sustained in her financial system have been, if possible, still greater. The public treasury has lite rally been given up to plunder. Since TORRNO'S Government, its dilapidation has never been more scan dalous. By two mere decrees, the Spanish Ministry of Finance has created national liabilities to the enor mous amount of 750,000,000 rials. All the resources of the State have been alienated. All offices sold by auction, as it were ; all public transactions and busi ness concluded to the detriment of Government, on payment of certain moneys to the Government func tionaries ; and, by means such as these, immense for tunes, shamefully realised, are paraded, from night till morn, without a blush before the public eye. NAR VABZ, who entered Spain with no possessions beyond his sword and his cloak, has thus amassed a fortune of two millions in a few months. Every individual who is connected with this venal power trafficks in every kind, and acquires his share of the booty. Cor ruption ascends and descends through every stage daring, unrestrained, insolent, unblushing. The Go vernment is its spoil. The Siecle says : " The announcement of. the ominous project of M. Lacave Laplagne with regard to the Savings' Banks is already bearing its fruits. Less money is deposited, and more is drawn out, showing the mistrust excited by the proposed measure of the Government. The Savings' Bank of Paris received on Sunday and yesterday, from 3,903 depositors, of whom 449 were new, the sum of 580,189 E, but the amount taken out was much higher, being 893,000 f. The results have been similar for se veral weeks past, and they are evidently becoming more and more intense." SF!EECH•OF THE - KING OF THE FREN CH. We have received from our Path correspondent a letter, dated Tuesday, five o'clock, communicating a very full outline of the King of the French's Speech, to be spoken at the opening of the Chambers this day, and which we hasten to lay before our readers in full confidence of its correctness : " The King's Speech will commence with an ex pression of his Majesty's pleasure at again finding himself surrounded by the representatives of the people. His Majesty will recal to mind that at the close of the last session, in consequence of the instigation of an enemy, Yanquished, but not put down, the French possessions in Africa had been seriously alarmed ; that France had, in this circumstance, given proof of forbearance before she had recourse to hosti lities, but when commenced, victory promptly fol lowed the declaration of war ; and yet again his Government so acted as to afford proof of his desire to maintain peace. The King will felicitate himself and his country that the grave differences which had nearly arisen between his own Government and that of Great Britain had been smoothed away; thanks to the mo deration and goodwill felt by both Governments. " His Majesty will refer to the generous hospi tality with which he was surrounded in England, and to the gracious reception given to him by the Queen of Great Britain. He will express his con gratulations, not only on his own account, but that of his country, that he had been the object of the most cordial and flattering attentions, as well upon the part of the Sovereign of England as of the English people ; and he will add his hope that these reciprocal sentiments of esteem and friendship will contribute to the maintenace of good relations between the two countries, as well as to general peace, that great blessing of humanity. " The King will announce that the state of credit in France is most prosperous, and that the budget will present a surplus of receipts over expenses. "That new projects of law relating to railway will be submitted to the Chambers, while those pre viously submitted will be taken up and advanced. " The King will express his pleasure at the mar riage of his son the Due d'Aumale with a Princess of Naples, and declare his devotion and that of his sons to the interests of France. "The King will terminate with a general expres sion counting upon the loyal co-operation of the Deputies and Peers of France." Our correspondent adds that there will not, as he has learned, be any particular reference to Spain or to Greece. lie further states that M. Billault, already famous as the advocate of the Nantes slaveholders, will be the mouthpiece of the Opposition, so far as relates to tirades against England, about the right of search and occupation of Otaheitie. M. Thiers, holding his peace by virtue of the late French version of the celebrated Lichfield House compact, in imitation of which Lord Palmerston swallows his griefs adminis tered by M. Thiers, as he formerly did Mr. O'Connell's outrages. The Morning Chronicle received in Paris on Mon day rather surprised the public by its peculiar intl., macy with the tactics arranged in the camof the Opposition, and which, no doubt, wer";, described upon competent authority.—Herald "oi yesterday. IMPORTANT• NEWS FROM PERU. BOMB:.RDMENT OF THE GOVERNOR'S T JOUS E BY A BRITISH MAN-OF-WAR. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY NIGIIT. A ♦essel from South America, bound to Liverpool has put into the Cove of Cork, where she is detained by the prevailing easterly winds. Letters have been forwarded on to the owners here, representing that an outrage had been committed on the British Consul resident at Arica, and that the authorities of the town were the parties; the outrage is mentioned as being of the grossest description. The British squadron en gaged in the blockade of Islay had information of the outrage communicated by Mr. Wilson, the insulted Consul, and her Majesty's ship Talbot was imme diately dispatched to Arica. It is said that water was refused this vessel. Our Peruvian Minister, Mr. Adams,happened to be on board the Talbot, and con siderea..:lnes*nnmstanees of the case so flagrant as to demand an immediate apology, which was required in the name of the British Government by the com mander of the Talbot. The apology being refused, the Talbot opened fire on the Governor's residence ; several shells were thrown in, and this was repre sented as being only a beginning, and that the town would be bombarded. This prompt mode of dealing brought the authorities to better behaviour—an ample apology was given, and tranquillity at once restored. It is not mentioned whether any persons were killed by the :shells thrown from the Talbot. All the English residents at Arica were well looked after and taken on board previous to opening fire ; but when matters were settled they went on shore again. FLANDERS MAIL• BRUSSELS, DEC. 23.—We learn from Valenciennes that the masters of iron works in that arrondissement have just had a meeting, and have determined that they cannot sustain the competition with the masters of iron works in the centre and south of France in the present state of the manufacture. In consequence they have resolved to apply to the Government, and to solicit, if not the entire suppression, at least a reduc tion of the import duties on Belgian coals and iron. The Senate is still sitting. Yesterday, after the pre sentation of several reports, the general debate on the project of law relative to the duties on corn was the order of the day, when the President stated that the Minister of the Interior had signified a wish that the debate might be with closed doors (in secret com mittee). Some° objections were made, but in the end the secret committee was unanimously agreed to, and the galleries were cleared, SMYRNA, Nov. 29.--The fatal measures which so suddenly abolished the quarantine for articles coming from Syria begins to bear its fruit. It is affirmed that the plague has broken out on board the ship which arrived yesterday from Beyrout. In 1841 Mehemet Ali abolished the quarantine in his do minions ; on the remonstrances of the Consular au thorities at Alexandria, he hastened to restore it, and well knowing how little the Turks could be de pended oth-he gave the supreme direction of it to the representatives of the foreign powers. Would Abdal MPAschid act less wisely if he followed this example, and does not Smyrna deserve as much care 83 the King of the empire w ith i a popul a ti on o f 15,000 in habitants, and which s the resort of so many men-of war P The Roman Catholic Bishop of Chios, whom the Turk s and Greeks had expelled from the island, has found a protector in Viscount Segure, the French Consul-General here. Thanks to the firmness and influence which this distinguished officer has obtained in a country where his colleagues have lost theirs, he has succeeded in obtaining a firman for the bishop, and leave to return to the island on board Le Cerf brig.' The sight of the guns of this man-of-war has silenced the refractory inhabitants. The real state of Syria" makes a frightful contrast with What the Government • publishes through its organs. According to the unanimous testimony of travellers, that province is a prey to the most atrocious robberies. Scarcely any communication can take except with th e a id o f a s t rong escort, place which even is between places near each other, not furnished by the police or the Government (th ese wou ld i mme di a t e ly t a k e fli g h t at the slightest appearance of danger), but by the man drives (?) of th e country. The Bedouins, led by Abu Gosh, infest the high roads, and no attempt has hitherto been m a d e aga i nst t h ese b an di t ti. W here are the times when, under the protection of the iron yoke of Mehemet Ali, pilgrims and travellers could traverse this province alone and unmolested, where now only weakness is striving for the mastery with the most horrible disorder ? From a letter from Alexandria, received to-day, we see that an Englishman, who attempted to force his way into a bath of the Turkish females, has taken refuge in the house of his consul. Mehemet Ali has intimated to the British agent, that he will do well carefully to conceal his countryman, for that if he is taken he will l ose his head. (Our own letterg, direct from Egypt, make no mention of such a circumstance.) Admiral Turpi n has sailed for Athens. M. Lantivy, the French Consul at . derusalem, leaves to-day for Loan of Thirty Prande. M. Loeve-Weimarg French Consul at Bag dad, is said to be retailed. ) BE AN FUNDS . —RaussaLs, Du. 23. Aetna Deb, % per Cent., • Rothschil's Loan Five "ce '''' ****** . .......-- Three per Cent 7 - 74 , — Thirty-seven Ililliilis ditto _ ._...__2. (NO) ICA 105511 __ in4C”. MIN 11.111.10• ••••••••••••••••••••••••• is Loan of City, 11143 2, Four per ant .-.. 1892 S t— ociety of Com merce, Four and a Half per Cent. Rank of Eelrum, Five per Cent ta lanie of 184 • ** •-•.-..... ..........• -- -Irrulsel7 T;Pert, Dec. 2C A ......_ U5 - . in e v u e r P er ' , -e, nts• Mitalliques • e e.0.m....mw - RIAN FUNDziou, Dec. 16. ~, LOS -Ir - t om ` %mts. •••••••••••••••• 00000 ........... "r• 41}4 .._...reoier Cent.. ••••••••.••••••••• •••••• 35 2 .541.rik Sharer •... 00000 ......- Loan, 41:14..........- ~... 159 Ditto, ltat - 1304 Z4tirlaiyi Loan «.. - RAILWAYS. Tim Northers. or 174 N Gloirthits ••••••••• 000000 ••••••••• M. I 26% Mil_ .an“ . — 43l 4oleine Zeiirng pac.ll, MONEY AND CCJMME RC I CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Business in the English market continued dull up to the close, Consols, however, being 1008 to e, and very firm. The other Securities were precisely the same as in the morning. Spanish Actives left off at 27; 8 ; the Three per Cents. at 38111; Portuguese Converted at 611; Brazilian, New, at 86; Colombian at 14ii and Mexican at 368 1. The additional transactions in Railway Share's have been these;--Bristol and Gloucester were 10; Churnet Valley, 14 ; Dublin and Belfast, 2 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 11i ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), Ge; Great North of England, 30; Great Western, 75; Ditto, Half, 40 to i; Brighton, 1; South-Western, New, 8 ; Croydon, 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 52 ; Ditto, Quarter, 911 Midland, 15 to 14; Newcastle and Berwick, 6 ; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 11 ; Norwich and Brandon, New, 31 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, -a; South• Eastern, 6 H ; Ditto, New, 98 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 7; York and North Midland, 53; Ditto, Half, 26; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 461 to 47; Boulogne and Amiens, 3; and Orleans and Bordeaux, 6 premium. Birmingham and Gloucester have been 4 to 3; and Direct Norwich, e discount. (Frorr The Sun of Last Night.) Yesterday having beea a close holiday at Liverpool as well as here, there was nothing done in the Cuttun or Share markets. There are advicos a few days later from the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and accounts also to Oct. 23, from Rio de Janeiro. At the Cape nearly all the in terest of local affairs is confined to the events on the frontier, and at Natal, where matters seemed to be tolerably quiet, the Governor, after his personal visits, having established regular posts, so as to ensure a com munication direct between himself and the authorities in Kafirland, and appearing at the same time resolved to exact compliance with existing treaties. The improvements going on in the colony afford very de cided evidence of the enterprise and intelligence of the settlers, and the improvement of the navigation of the Kovvie river was a point taken up with much zeal. The Governor had offered a reward of 2001. fur the appre hension of the natives, about three or four in number, who murdered De Lange, the Dutch farmer. Throughout his progress the colonists gave Sir Peregrine a very excellent reception ; and this was the more gratifying, as the thinly scat tered population can support none of the usual establish ments of " the old country," for the accommodation even of the poorest travellers, and private hospitality is the necessary substitute. The Mauritius and Rio papers contain nothing of ge neral interest. The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders are persevering in their endeavour to bring M. Mosquera to book, by obtaining from him a statement of the amount remitted for the New Granada Bondholders, and there are hopes, as Lord Aberdeen has interfered, that the attempt will eventually be successful. The Public Securities have been very quiet to-day, but they are firm, Consols having reached 1004 Ex chequer Bills have given way a trifle, being 665. to 635. premium. Bank Stock has risen to 210 and 210 i. The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. are 103 k to 1031, and the Three per Cents. 1001 to 100}. The Foreign market has been buoyant again, although there is not so much doing. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 21 to 28, and the Three per Cents. 381 to 4. Portuguese Converted Stock has been marked 601 to for Money, being an advance again. Peruvian Stock is 29} to 30. Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. are 64 1 ; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1024. Russian Bonds are 120. There is rather an active market again for railway shares, but prices are fluctuating, as the account day is approaching. The quotations below given will show that some lines have improved, while others have gone back a trifle. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOOB New 3i per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2l Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. lid lid. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 404 Danish, 3 per Cent ... B9 Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted soii Ditto for the Account 604 Russian Bonds .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 271 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds 6 ii Ditto 3 per Cent 384 Ditto for the Account 3B Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... 99il PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Bristol and Gloucester.. 30 Cambridge and Lincoln - Cheater and liolyhoad Churnet Valley Dublin and Galway Eastern Counties Eastern Union Great South and W. (Iri5h).... 5 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares London and Birmingham ...100 0 974 to Londraf and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 51: 1 - Lonuon and Greenwich ...... 124 London and South Western.. 411 ...... 754 76 to 754 London and Croydon London and York .......- ...... 24 Manchester and Leeds 7O l2l Ditto 4 Shares Midland Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 64 North British North Kent Norwich and Brandon Ditto, New . I ... 3; South-Eastern and Dover... 33h Ditto New Trent Valley... ..... 2 ...... 104 York and North Midland... 50 ...... Ditto, Extension — Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux...... 2 Paris and Lyons - to Paris and Orleans . 20 ...... 43i4 .. to Paris and Rouen Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 l2; ,13... to 124 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced New 34 per Cent .. ............ .. ... 103,1 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12h Consols Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1id.... 63 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds 6 aer Cent l 4 ll Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36} Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto 3 per Cent. ___ . SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Churnet Valley, 2 paid Dublin and Belfast Junction, 21 paid 4} Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid Ili Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western, 75 paid l5O Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid soi London and Brighton, 50 paid London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. paid ...... Manchester and Leeds, 70 paid . , Ditto Quarter Shares, 2 paid Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid ...... Midland, 100 paid N ,1, Id Berwick, 1' ewcastle an, —i wick, 1 paid Northern and Eastern, 45 paid Ditto Scrip, 25 paid Nerwich and Brandon, 8 paid — Ditto, New Shares, 1 paid 4 -1 South Eastern and Dover, 33A paid 4O Ditto New Shares, 4 paid I3A Trent Valley, 2 paid loi Yarmouth and IN orwich, 20 paid 27 York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto Half Shares, 25 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid Orleans and Bourdeaux, '2 paid THE LATE EARL OF LIMERICK. LIMERICK, DEC. 23.—The great bell of the Cathe dral has been tolling at intervals, and every shop has been closed here since Saturday last, from respect to the memory of the late Earl of Limerick, whose family have for generations hack been the great pro prietors in this vicinity, and benefactors to the city. The remains of the Noble Lord were brought from England to Limerick House, on Saturday evening, in a richly caparisoned hearse, drawn by six black horses, and followed by a train of carriages. On Sunday afternoon the body laid in state in the great dining room, which was covered with black cloth, and illu minated by immense wax tapers placed in silver candelabra round the bier. It is computed that be tween two and three thousand respectably-dressed persons, of whom many were attired in mourning, were admitted to pass through the apartments to view th© ceremonials, so great is the attachment felt here for this ancient family, by whom some of our first charitable institutions have been originally founded and endowed. This morning, at ten o'clock, a grand funeral ser vice was performed in the Cathedral, the dignitaries meeting the body at the great western entrance, and the full service being chanted by the choir. After the prayers and anthem in the body of the cathedral, the coffin, preceded by a pursuivant bearing the coro net on a cushion, was moved in procession to the Per c y Chapel, in the south aisle, the organ playing Mozart s Grand Requiem, and was there solemnly deposited by the side of the three preceding Lords Glentworth. A great number of the nobility and gentry connected with the deceased noblemen were present, or sent their carriages to attend at this solemn ceremony, amongst whom were Viscountess Glenthworth, Lord Monteagle, Sir Henry Calder, Bart., Sir Peter Pole, Count J. de la Feld, George Russell, Esq., Sir A. de Vere, Bart., the Earl of Dunraven, the Earl of Clare, William Maunsell, Esq., Sir Richard Bourke, Bart., Archdeacon Maunsell, and many others. It is stated that the late Earl has left a bequest of 1,0001. to be distributed amongst the different charities in this city. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 3JubUc eptnton. ht , runt may read.' k*44',.5.•:. , . The French papers of Tuesday last continue to be barren of intelligence, either domestic or foreign, interest in is calcul a t e d t o exc it e much solicitude or in London. They are not without some important notices, however, in the shape of references to passing events, which we have elsewhere transferred into our columns. The condition of Spain, and we fear we must add, the palpable intrigu e s of France in encou• raging the lawless cabals that have led to it, draw down a most indignant and impressive reproof from the National, to which not all the madness of party spirit, and the intense hatred of England that disfigure the lucubrations of that impassioned but able journal, can withhold us from paying the tr.: - bate of our respect. We concur with the writer in his fierce denunciation of that execrable soldier tyranny—unqualified in its harshness, implacable in its vengeance, reckless and unblushing in its means, and its instruments—which now tramples in the vilest dust of scandalous serfdom the once free and mighty Spanish nation. The domestic misery ; the official corruption ; the judicial venality ; the shameless avarice ; the unbridled ambition; the lawless and sanguinary oppression which pa ralyse her energies, demolish her institutions, consume her resources, and hand her over bound hand and foot to the relentless intrigues of an infamous Court and a contemptible adventurer; are among the most hideous pictures that have vet been presented to the world by the most demoralised and the least responsible of Governments. When we recur to the brief but encouraging prospects which the temperate and constitutional conduct of Espartero held out to afflicted Spain, and to her peaceful relations with the other European powers, we are lost in astonishment at the duplicity which can have elevated,.and the shameful cowardice which endures the domination of such a mere Prw torian guardsman as Narvaez. We do not trust our selves to express the feelings of humiliation with which we recur to the ill-considered, prompt, and overwhelming readiness with which our own Ministers, the servants of a Constitutional Sovereign, and a free and freedom-loving people—came forward to record their recognition of that defacto usurpation which had, by a scheme of unexampled treachery and bribery, overthrown the most legitimate of conven tional Governments which a. great people could have installed into the temporary administration of mo narchical power. The downfal and abandonment of Espartero the rise of Narvaez—and, still more, the impromptu acknowledgment of his power and functions by England, are chapters that future history may expound ; but as to which, contempo rary authority is at present strangely uninformed. '4 0 %IV'? -FAMMICI m 4168.11.3 u. Their Royal Highnesses iieDukeana - Duchess of Cambridge and the Hered►tary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, remove to Cambridge House, from the cottage at Kew, at the close of the ensuing week. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Mar quis of Worcester, who were called to town by the unexpected demise of Lady Anne Culling Smith, left Beaufort House on Tuesday, on their return to Bad minton. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertain ing a large party at Sulby Hall, the Noble Duke's hunting seat in Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have a select circle visiting at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are en tertaining a family circle at Barons Court, Tyrone, including Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, Lady Henry Russell, Hon. and Rev. C. Douglas, &c. Earl and Countess De Grey are entertaining Earl and Countess Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, and a small party, at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle are entertain ing a family circle at Quiddenham Hall, and are not expected in Berkeley-square until the end of the en suing month. The Earl of Harrowby, and Viscount and Lady Francis Sandon, &c., are at Sandon Hall, Stafford shire. Earl Fitzwilliam has a large family party at Mil ton Park, near Peterborough ; Viscount and -Vis countess Milton, the Hon. George •Ventworth Fitz william, Mr. and Lady Mary Thompsun, (V., are staying at the mansion. dal.wt)111A16A3,31101171111: On Tuesday night information was received at the various metropolitan police stations of an extensive robbery of plate and jewellery having taken place at the house of Mr. Muddell, No. 6, Little St. Thomas Apostle, Queen-street, Cheapside, the house having been broken into during the absence of the family on the night of the 13th inst. A reward of 301. is offered for the apprehension of the thieves. On 'Tuesday afternoon a young woman of respec table appearance, attempted suicide by throwing her self off Bankside into the Thames, and as the tide was high at the time, and no boats in sight, she would in evitably have succeeded in her rash design, but for the prompt and praiseworthy intrepidity of a coalheaver, named Stephens, who plunged in and succeeded in grasping her by the hair as she was about to sink. A boat having by this time come to their assistance, they were taken up and brought ashore. The dispute between the colliers and their em ployers in the Ashton-under-Lyne districts has been amicably arranged, the men having received an ad vance upon their wages of twopence in the shilling. Coals have been raised in price one halfpenny per cwt., which is thought by the manufacturers to be most exorbitant. Mr. Templeton is giving a series of musical enter tainments in Dublin, from the songs of Burns, and other Scotch poets, and has been cordially and en thusiastically received. For several days past a considerable number of vessels, which have been windbound in the Thames for upwards of a fortnight, have returned to the wharfs and tiers, in order to get a fresh supply of provisions, the stores which they had at sailing having been wholly exhausted. The long continuance of easterly winds has entailed considerable additional expense on shipping. A pension of ON. a year falis into the Civil List by the death of Lady Ann Culling Smith, sister of the Duke of Wellington. 4 t • • WINDSOR, WEDN EsDA T. Tne Queen, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentle' men of the Court, and the domestic household, at . tended Divine service this morning, in the private chapel of the Castle. The lloly Communion was afterwards adrnini" tered. The Ilon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenal officiated. Her Majesty and Prince Albs-rt took their accus- toured exercise in the course of the day. The Rep. Dr. Sleath preached the sermon 01 1 Christmas morning, in the Chap e l R o y a l, St. Jacees 6 The Rev. 1)r. Wesley and the Rev. Dr. Dakins offi ciated at the service. The anthem was "Behold I bring you glad tidings" (Purcell). The Ms" chioness of Westmeath, Lord and Lady WharnclitTe, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, were among the nobility present. WINDSOR THURSDAY.—The Prince Albert, at; tended by Lord Charles Well e sl e y, M r . Anson, 1113 `" • Sir Edward Bo wa t er , wen t t o s h oot i n th e sofa' preserves this morning. ;2 the afternoon her M a j es ty an d th e Prince wa lk e d for some time in the grounds around the Castle. The lon. J. D. Bloomfield arrived at the Castl e to-day, on a ;''Kit to the Queen. The royal dinner party at the Castle included her Royal Highness the DuC:ess of Kent, Lady Fan n y Howard, the Countess Wratistac;', Lord Haddo, Lord Wriothesley Russell. The band of the Royal Horse Guards Wain it• tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band attended in the ere 6" ing, and the Messrs. Distin had the honour of per• forming for the second time before the Queen, Prin c ! Albert, and the royal party, in the course of their t performance introducin g .Priere and Air, " B° l3e ) toi que j'aime," " Robert le Diable " Ofeyerbee t r f Mr. 0. M. Coleman (from America) had also we honour of submitting his newly-invented .. 7 1: 0 4, r1 attachment to the grand pianoforte, on which Benedict performed a fantasia. Her Majesty gn , Prince Albert were graciously pleased to exPr es their approbation of the instrument. The Military Secretary, Lord Fitzroy S o metie t i accompanied by the Adjutant-General, Sir John 0 1 5 donald, visited Captain Siborn's new model ; Waterloo, at the Egyptian Hall, y3terday, and pressed much pleasure while examining the detail Dispatches from the Governor of the Maurint is ' and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good 1 - 1 0 1 01 were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. inn . The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland left House on Tuesday, to join a large and distingui s hes party at Raby Castle. Previous to her departure race (according to her annual custom) di s tribute° a liberal supply of beef, clothing, blankets, coals, s l3 o f money, t..) all the poor inhabitants of the, villages Exelby, Leeming, and Newton. LLO YD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 26.—Wind N.E., light. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Copc o a , Oporto for London. Off, Anna Robertson, Munr° , . dras, left S e pt. 3, C a p e o f G oo d H o p e O c t. 25-I; 4 ‘ ,. ° ' of the Oc ean , L on d on f or ; Portley, Reed, 31 ': o l c tins, sailed Sept. 30 ; Bland, Callan, Calcutta and ,-, left Cape of Good Hope Oct. 23. FALMOUTH, Duo. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Lady nj o sti Lawrence, from Calcutta, left July 25, Cape 0 ' r 40 Hope Oct. 26 ; Constantia, from New Orleans i n F iec tioal' ; days. Sld. U n i verse , L on d o n Great Br • d and Galina, ; Mermaid, Hope, Liverpool to romandel. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind N.E., fret --• Vie' • Flora, Levegne, London, and sailed for Jamaica ; toria, London, and sailed for New York ; Jamaica, er , don, and sailed for Antigua. Sid. Aron stead Southampton, after repairing. lei PENZANCE.—Off, Repulse, Margias, Calcu" Oct. 19, Cape of Good Hope Nov. 2. BRIXHAM.—Off port,.. Vigilant, Steel, Cape of Goa Hope, Oct. 25. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E., 11243de A 1- st. Arrd. Reis E ff endi, Sutherland, Nassau ; Se e ' l , l l , o ' et, Michael's ; Dido, Alexandria ; William N,. 9 ,, — vit y, Africa. 25. Wind S.S.E., light.—Sld. 1 : 1 „,.$ 1 1,% - &- Nicholson, Philadelphia; The Duke, Manger, c irL na sti, leans ; Duncan, Henderson, ; Roger 9 12 — „ d• els Boston ; Victoria, White, Ichaboe. 25. Arrch,_Ll t ifl. Frazer, Rio de la Hague ; Nathaniel Hooper, Cn e '; e er, Charleston ; Roscious, Eldridge, New York Ve st' Dalhousie ; Slater Rebaw, Furze, St. Michael's ; Royal, Calcutta ; Swordfish, Green, Miramic hi 'msin, the Whitney, Savannah. 24. Sailed Wallac e ' s s io, Mobile ; Independence, Adlen, N ew York Bevrout ; Essex, Rice, Azores. r 4 COY' LIVERPOOL, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty's stee o 7,, on morant, with Mr. Pitt Adams, the British bill?"trola board, arrived at Arica on the 2d of Septet:libel' Islay, and, not being allowed to water, fired *hot %, • shell upon the town; after which, permission w as cc' ceded. of TORBAY, DEC. 24.—Off port, Vigilant, Holt, Cape Good Hope; King William the Fourth, Tjilatzop. SALCOMBE, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Albatross, Denia. GUERNSEY, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Isabella, Rio Janeiro. JERSEY, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Ocean, Newfoundland. BRISTIL, DEC. 24,—Arrd. Parmelia, Savannah. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Jupiter, Montreal. SWANSEA, DEC. 22.—SId. Arrieta, Ellis, Culs• Lo put SHIELDS, DEC. 23.—The Brancepeth Castle , 9 back leaky, and must discharge. a s got HOLYHEAD, DEC. 23.—The Nicholas, BOW, " off this evening, and brought into the harbour. 411 6° BLYTH, DEC. 23.—Several ships spars, marke d bosh two logs of wainscot, and a box, containing Zsc., has come ashore near here. brea r e ' i ; DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind E.S.E., steady Arrd. Amelia, Mulholland, Mauritius ,• Ce_ ; et „t A lta Africa ; Brokesby, Thompson, Manilla ; Cabe' 51d. Elizabeth, St. Vincent's; John Willis, Deuscr ers is o bar Flora, Jamaica; Ann, Calcutta; Penyard, Park, go, Town ; Lord W e lli ng t on , N ew O r l ea ns ; Aro c , NO' Hobart Town ; Passenger, Cluna, and Vict or ' s, York; British Isles, Demerara; Arachne, Ichabo e t os, The French brig Modeste, Gauley, from 13 °".; her got entan g l e d i n th e G oo d w i n S an d s , b u t extrica te e self without assistance and proceeded. • MILFORD, DEC. 24. A—rrd. Millicent, Richerd Prince Edward's Island. r• _ WIVENIIOE, DEC. 25.—The barque James Ti er j; bag Scarborou g h, D ove d ay , f rom L on d on t o llartlepooGio, been assisted is here by four smacks from off th e fleet Sands. TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST $4 QUA RANTINE REGULATIONS ABOLIStd-c 4 ri / 0. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TWO Si i "" B P ALERM O, DEC. ,_t Sir,—We have the pleasure to inform you ' all consequence of a royal decree lately publishFc'4o quarantines from Eegland, Gibraltar, and Sr 3D ' o nsei abolish e d i n t h e ki ng d om o f t h e T wo Skillet , c vo ei quently all vessels arriving from said countries sre Yost' admitted t o f ree prat i que on arr ival—We are, Sir" most oedient, humble servants, LLOYD'S Au NEW YEAR'S-DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE TUILERIES.—A singular, and, perhaps, unprecedented event, will take place on New Year's-day. The royal table at the Tuileries, and the royal table at Windsor Castle will both be supplied with portions of the same prize ox, the first of the class at the late cattle show. Air. Minton, purveyor to her Majesty, having become the purchaser, politely offered, through the French em •bassy, to present his Majesty Louis Philippe with a sirloin, a rump, and an aitch-bone, for his festival on New Year's-day. The offer was graciously accepted, and the immense joint, or rather combination of joints, for it is in one piece, weighing 44 stone, or upwards of 3501b5., will leave London on Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet for Boulogne, where it will be received by Mr. Minton's agent, who will transmit it by express to Paris, so as to reach the Tuileries early on Monday morning. REMARKABLE OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION.—The Medical Gazette contains a long article from the pens of Dr. Hastings and Mr. Robert Storks, surgeon, descriptive of a remarkable operation for the cure of consumption, by the perforation of the cavity of the lung through the walls of the chest. It consists in making an opening between the ribs into the cavity which forms in the lung during the latter stages of consumption. The immediate effects of the operation (which requires only a few seconds for its performance , and which causes but slight pain) in the case in question SPORTING INTELLIGE. ,- was the diminution of the frequency of the patient's TAT FERS A LUS—YEsTERDA I ', 00 3111 : ft e pulse, which fell in 24 hours from 120 to 68 ; freedom There were just enough subscribers presen t ~- a sb' t of respiration which had been a very distressing symp- a house," and just enough business to admit c" . 200 as quotation. The principal bets were 1,30 0 ° go thre e times, torn ; loss of cough and expectoration, both of which had been very severe. This operation, which has established Scot's lot • 16 to 1 to 1001. agst Ides ; 1,00 0 t° " 10 00 t° and 1,750 to 50 once, agst Old England ; 1 2 50 t° the possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, ap -25 agst Pantasa; 2,000 to 30 agst Lycurgus pears to have been comps tely successful ; the report of the condition of the patient a month after its perform- 25 agst Cabin Boy; and 2,000 to 20 agst Ftlzb °s * ance being, that he was rapidly regaining his fle•th and CHESTER CUP. strength, whilst his respiration had become natural, his 1000 to 30 agst Winesour—taken pulse had fallen to 80, and his cough and expectoration .10 to 1 agst The Era—taken. had wholly ceased. In the article in the Medical Gazette DERBY. the symptoms of the patient before and after the opera.. 13 to 2 agst Scott's lot—taken to 2001. to 1 0 1, tion are all narrated at length by Dr. Hastings. The opera - 11 t o 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alar m—takei_ 12 to 10 tion is described by Mr. Storks, by whom it was performed. 16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke'a Idas—to'r 2 o to 1 We have heard that this operation was tried many years 18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's liedger--tot e s 20 to 1 ago but with littlesuceess; the invaluable assistance to be 18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pain---t"o l t derived from the stethoscope in affections of the lungs 30 to 1 a g st Mr. A. Jo hustone's Rebecca c ,„ being at that time wholly unknown to its originator. 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England ,cockPe" Laird 0 fallen into disuse when the surgeon had nothing to guide —take 40 to 1 him to the seat of the disease but pain and increase of 40 to 1 a g st Mr . A l ost y n's Pantasa—taken,,eo temperature. 2000 to 30 ag st Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus-.-tr THE Hort. G. H. HUTCHINSON.—At the meeting 1000 t o 10 agst Mr. Coleman's Fuzitos—talas,,s Rid' of the electors of Tipperar, held at Cashel, on Thurs. lOOO to 20 agst Cobweb colt winning Tuese! men. dlesworth, 2,000 Guinea Stakes, and Derby i day, the Hon. George Ilely Hutchinson was wield- ____ e• --- mously named as a candidate by the Repeaters of that Polg 41) ri county to represent them in the Imperial Parliament. , RUNNING MATCH FOR ONE HuNnitED boo% On Tuesday the long pending running Mr. Hutchinson, our readers are aware, is at present on Stewart, of London, and Robinson, mimetle, es° o f Ne_ oroo rse, the Continent, and this selection, therefore, must be especially grateful to his feelings as being made in his off . at Putney-heath, in the presence of ato oe or absence.—Cork Examiner , of spectators. Both men have acquired thu d fr o WAKEFIELD.—A meeting of the friends of free being the most superior runners of . the l on a trade was held in the Music Saloon, on Tuesday evening the amount of stakes and the heavy bettinio . . n' I, Wel l last, to concert measures for putting on the country re- i interest prevailed. The distance the days —it gister as Many free trade voters as possible. J. Alickle thwaite, Esq., occupied the chair, and the meeting was betting, sto 4 were laid on Stewaliv•ta,standwnZrioh call readily taken. Robinson took a sligll lead, , neri t co _.,, addressed by R. Cobden, Esq., UP., J. Bright, E sq ., maintained for twenty yards, when his tu olg' bot h tor.`. M,P., and tether gentlemen • after which resolutions up, and an interesting contest then ri ent__,_ o f or were. passed in furtherance of the above object`—Halifa x exerting every effort. When within thirty Yr..; ran 112 0 .. winning mark Stewart passed his adversary, Am oco 1 Guardian. i INCENDIARISM AT WESTOE.—OH Thursday morn. 1 a occasion. De' ing last, about half-past two o'clock, a fire was di s covered . money were transferred on this . 8 li fi g .., • gallant winner of four yards. Very LLOYD n's.—The business of the Li a burning in an onstead of Mr. Tony Waller's at Westoe. i tit-fore it could be gut under, about twenty tons of hay part and a quantity of potatoes were d•-stroye& F rom Royal Exchange for the fi rst time* r":"'" - _,.1 4 1 04 11 ' oor 10 0 , pearance, the fire must have been caused by an ince ap - n- i rea fur nient of this establishment corantetitlceli._.„..st tr. rtes the transaction of public butde ~ du:ye—Tyne Mercury. be opened to merchants =the lit of 46411.7. To William Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. . „ r pen' Arrivals—Repulse, Marquis, from Bengal , ,", flof zance, sailed March 23, Mauritius May 11, A' B 7,i i inr° , Sept. 4, Table Bay Oct. 21 ; Anna Robertsou , A - 06; from Madras, off Plymouth, sailed Sept. 3, Can v iAoP Bland, Callan, from Bengal, off Plymouth, savc"„,;rigsis 14, Cape Oct. 26 ; Lady Clarke, ' Lawrence, HO ' J ae. off Falmouth, sailed July 31 Cape Oct. 28 ; r ne . lr Clarke, from Moulmain * off Falmouth, sailed 1 : n - ' St. Helena Oct. 26 ; Chilena, Wyllie, from Fe,, n 7.`2 5 the London Docks, sailed from St. Helena t. 18; Rota, Carl, from Batavia, off the Wight sailed Sep o ct• Portly, Reed, from Mauritius, off Pln;outh, op 1, St. Hel ena N ov . 4 ; Vi g il an t, Iloets, t h l s fell. of Good Hope, off Penzance, sailed Oct. 26, Nor. 5. Nov, Arrivals at St. Helena—Commerce, Covi; e, frol and Cath er i ne , M‘Donald, from Ichaboe ; Or'°s'ool' Batavia ; Union, Allen, Nov. 3, from Ichaboe, anwilbr'" sth to Barbad oes ; N e pt une , F err i s , f rom Madras ; I c l39 l)° , e j mina, from B a t av i a; N eva an d Cl y d es d a l e , frool gt o La Perous e , 4th, f rom P on di c h erry ; Henrl'aPerie-st Phoenix, f rom B atav i a ; H e l o i se , f rom China ; 4 : 00 from Ichaboe ; Ann and Kate Nickleby, sth , coast of Africa.