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• NEW WORK ON INDIA. hi 2 vols., small Bvo., with Illustrations, 21e. bound, A DVENTURES OF AN OFFICER, 4 t, IN THE SERVICE OF RUNJEET SINGH. BY MAJOR 11. M. L. LAWRENCE, Artillery, raffish Resident at the Court of Nepaul, and Late • start to the Political Agent in charge of British Relations • Lahore. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 100 KS FOR PRESENTS. SLAP CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAR WORKS. COOPER'S NOVELS.-The Pilot, The Spy, The Waterwitch, The • ed Rover, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Prairie, Lkmel Lincoln, The Borderers, T'he Bravo, The Headsman, Heiden natter, Precaution, Homeward Bound, The Pathfinder, The Deer slayer, The Two Admirals. Complete In one vol. neatly bound and embellished with Engravings, price 6s. each. THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR.-One vol. post Bvo. with towards of 50 characteristic Illustrations by Leech, price Bs, SIR B. L. BULW.E.R'S ROMANCER.-Eugene Aram, Paul Clifford, Last Days of Pompeii. 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To be had also of all Booksellers. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROTA L. DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FAMILT OF THE LATE MISS CLARA WEB,TER. THIS EVENING,DEa3MBZti 23, Will he repeated a Grand Opera Stria, called THE. DAUf/HTER OP ST. MARK. Lusieuano, Mr. Burdir.i ; Andrea Comare, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrisoin ; atarina ~ernaro, ali, Rainforth eonel Ude with the celebrated Ballet of TIIE PERI. Achmet, li Deeplaces • The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Neurmahal, Sa'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne. rne Box-otfice is OpCll daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six m the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, a Id Tickets may be had ou application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. TL US EVENING, DECEMBER 23, Will he pee , Mimi a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, csl:ed OLD Hi. 4)S AND YOUNG HE 4RTS. Colonel Rocket ;dr. S. rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buskstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; rhe Countess ef I ..n pion. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Ve+tris; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia .:ennett. Alter which will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODYELSE. Hans Moritz, M. Charles Mathews; dlrd.mie Vestrts. I o ^e folLmed by A New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John Jars Pieley, Mr. Buckstone; Mn. Poolev, Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Gaines and a-Half each. P4keta and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, fr-,oa lea till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will Le repeated (by special permission of t:barles Dickens, Esq.) a New Dranui • entitled TftE CH t MES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkln soo ; S,r Joseph Bowley, Bart . Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstalku, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which a New Drama. entitled THE MYSTERIOUS crEttANGER. Coui.t Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. 1 4edson ; Count Jame.. Mr Selby ; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Croquet, Mr. Wright ; ch..hore, Mr. O. Smith. 'To conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, in which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter ilr. Pitt ; Leader of the Pend, Mr. Mellon.—rox— ro ot open from Elevon till Four. Private boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. I H e:ATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE Uoder the Mvnaeement or Mrs. KEELEY ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Will be produced THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Ch,tacters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, Matthews, Cot ier, Finery, Turner. and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Mrs. iVoollidge, Igo; Grove, and elrs. Keeley. If , er which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO Re. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker ; s, Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woollidge. 'Ai conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historic.il, Romantic, l'autornimical. Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Blea , ows, Wigan, Coll.er, furrier, Kinlcch, Yarnold, and Keeley; Mr.. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Nkoollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. - •i,CES OE A DMlSsloN.—iiaicolly Boxes. 4i.; Upper II bites, ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 22•. ; ';'•i'er P.-exec, Is. ; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the ftileony Tier Aling eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Vier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Aei on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea, Box..dlice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc.. flea of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLF.Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23, •% 11l be repeated a New Spe3tacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hon.. and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; lu to during unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox chase on the Stage And in the Circle by living Fot and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of lklr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. l.peom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts Acting and stage-minager, Mr. W. D. Broadfeet. 3 , x-otlice open tom Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by R smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to a'quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Prrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the country, and by spacial desire, he has formed aranvements to pre.. sent, during the Christmas Holidays ' a S.ries of EQUESTRIAN INORNINti FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A NCE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consisting of Batty's S ; .lend id Scenes of Equitation in tie Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place on Monday, Dec.3l, Wednesday, Jar. 2,and Fr dev, Jan. 4. A Grand Comic Christina, Pantomime on Boxing Night. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER WI, Will he produced Two New Dramas, supported by Messrs. Osbal diston, H. Howard,J. T. Johnson, T H. Eliggie, Seaman, Herb rt, Simile, E. Jones, and Watkins; Ws Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. Rigt old. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ' • or, The Little Old Wonsan and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin*; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Vite, THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 23. TUERMOMETER, Lowest, 28 ; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 30, BAROMETER, N.N.E. NorE.—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 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers " Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIOH WATER ♦T LONDON -BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ... 54 minutes after 0 I Evening ... 15 minutes after 1. • qe , Its • ei l to 11 1 70L4 - ' ITAiitaes-N 1-•'411110."V;.: 4-111111' :_jc. SECOND EDITION. eittniag I.ONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1844. The Charitable Bequests Act appears to have created nearly as great a ferment among the Catholic clergy of Ireland as the Tractarian schism has created among the English clergy. The former, for the first time for many a long year, are split into two distinct parties, each of which seems to entertain no very inordinate amount of goodwill towards the other. Moreover, each party has the honour of being headed 1 y an Archbishop, whose zeal in the views which he advocates is of a firm and ardent character. Arch bishop MURRAY is at the head of those who are in favour of the Charitable Bequests Act, while Arch bishop Millais—'the lion of the fold of Judah," as ' Ile is styl e d b y hi s admirers—leads the van of those 7iio eloo d to . , it. Th e l a tt er i s warmly seconded • lle ID his opposition by Mr. O'CONNELL, aided by a majority,-;?f the p r i es t s of Munster and ~ ..., cormaught, ;4 1, d the great mass, apparently, ;A:, :,-:- ..of the Catli ilepealers, all of whom denounce -",",--- if Aci* stion as a piece, not merely of ques .; ...L.--,'' :: i l a r re;:kp of mischievous policy on the part of the 4 N Government. As for Archbishop MURILAY he, it would appear, is supported by the most temperat- CHM SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENINTO, DECEMBER Qs, 1844 them, an alternative : "Do this for us, or something else must be done by us." The Prime Minister must, ere this, have discovered in his surplus a greater " bore" than the Thames Tunnel itself; but one much more likely to be broken in upon. How can he give up less than his surplus, if he give np any part of it? The claim of B is as good as A's, but that of C is no less so. To concede to A, and not to C and B, is to mak: two enemies where he confirms one friend. How can he give up more than his surplus ? To repeal 5,000,000 i. per annum of malt duties would be a great boon to the poor consumer, a great en couragement to agricultural enterprise, a great de mand for unemployed labour. To remit some two millions of tea duties, a million and a half of sugar duties, two hundred and fifty thousand of duties on cotton and other raw material, six hundred thousand pounds on paper, and a million on tobacco, would be admirable relief; no doubt, to existing distress. But what, meantime, is to become of the service of the State, and the payment of the interest on the debt, which absorb all the revenue short of the surplus pro duced by the income-tax ? We will tell the Premier how to emancipate himself from this dilemma, and satisfy all parties, by a single act. Let him restore the currency to the basis from which he so rashly moved it in 1819. These effects would immediately follow. By means of an expansible circulation, and the principle (if you will retain it) of the convertibility of symbolic money or paper issues being restored to gold at its market value, instead of its Mint price, our manufacturers and producers would be enabled to include the taxation cost, in the general prices of their commodities ; the industrial classes throughout the country would re ceive wages also covering their contributions to any indirect taxation ; property of all kinds would mul tiply its power of representation, and be developed to an indefinite extent with that power; domestic trade and foreign commerce would revive to full vigour and activity; pauperism would rapidly decrease, owing to the enlarged markets opened for labour. The process of reducing the National Debt, which was carried on on so vast and successful a scale between 1815, when peace was established, and 1819, when its natural results were first paralyzed by PEEL'S Currency Bill, would be resumed. Had that reduction of 20,000,0001. of debt per annum been continued till this time (as it well might have been, but for the disorganization and mischief pro duced by that measure), the whole Debt would have been now nearly extinguished ; and of the 29,000,0001. of interest which is the charge upon it, to be annually met, there would have been but a comparatively trifling amount to be provided for, out of taxes and duties, the burden of which would have declined in a natural and corresponding ratio. Does Sir ROBERT PEEL calculate on paying off twenty millions of debt, under his gold currency system, in as many years ? It took but one year to wipe off that amount under our more ancient and legitimate system. To restore the latter would be better for the country than any amount of surplus revenue he can ever com mand whilst the Bill of 1819 is unrepealed ! Madrid Journals of the 15th have been received, from which we learn that more executions and arrests have taken place. The Gazette contains a dispatch from the Captain General of Arragon, dated the 11th inst., announcing that the Sergeant VICENTE LABA.• RUZ, one of the chiefs of the late revolt, and the mur derer of the officers slaughtered on the night of the 18th ult., had been shot by a party sent in pursuit of him. Senor CABALLERO, late Minister of the Interior in the LOPEZ Cabinet, and six of his neighbours, have been arrested at Barraca, half way between Teruel and Valencia, and conducted to the strong castle of Alur viedron, on the Mediterranean coast. The following letter from Vittoria, of the 16th, shows in a melancholy light the atrocious system adopted by NARVAEZ of shooting prisoners without a trial : " Amongst the grounds assigned by the partisans of the Spanish Ministry for the execution of the two sons of Zurbano, it was stated that they had addressed letters to various wealthy persons demanding money, and threatening death in the event of a refusal. Three inn keepers of the environs of Salvatierra have been ar rested on various charges of robbery in the province of Alava, bind it appears, from what has already transpired, that the}• were the authors of the letters bearing the forged signatures of the two Zurbanos." The Three per Cents. closed at 31-1- for cash, and 321 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 221 at 60 days; and the Coupons at 261 at 60 days. We are glad to learn, from the Paris papers, that the Protestants of Switzerland are making prepara tions to resist the encroachments of the Jesuits, and following the example of the laity of England in thei determination to maintain the Reformed religionr On Sunday, the 15th, notwithstanding the se‘erity, of the weather, a meeting, amounting to 3,000 per sons, chiefly citizens of Berne, Soleure, Argau, and refugees from Lucerne, was held at Fraubrunnen, when, after several speeches in favour of liberty, an association was formed to watch the movements of this cunning and deceitful sect. A petition was also adopted, in which the Government of Berne is re quested to place itself at the head of the cantons op posed to the re-establishment of the Jesuits in Switzerland, and at the same time avowing the de termination of the association to support the Govern ment with all their means, in averting such a dan gerous intrusion. It is a singular coincidence that these enemies of liberty should be making almost similar movements in England (for the Puseyites belong to the tribe), in France, and in Switzerland, and that they should exhibit their wicked inten tions in such an open manner as to rouse against them the laity of the three coun tries. This is a favourable symptom of the times, and a proof that the days are gone by when the people were enslaved by the Church, and de barred from all useful instruction for the purpose of keeping them obedient to a selfish and tyrannical priesthood. The state of Spain, however, forms a melancholy exception, for while in other States eccle siastical power is held in check by the Government or the people, it is now daily increasing in that unfor tunate country. For two days the writers in the Paris papers have almost entirely refrained from politics and directed their attention to nobler subjects. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the contraband trade, suggested by a Parliamentary return moved for by Mr. IlumE last session ; and the Journal des Debats has another, on post-office reform, recommending a great reduc tion on the postage of letters. It will be seen from the following extract that it recommends a graduated scale of charges : " The Committee on Postage had to examine the new modes of taxation which were proposed, and to point out that which it considered most advantageous and equitable. In a prudent spirit of reserve it does not think that in such a matter it is proper to make use of the Parliamentary right of initiative. It contents itself with calling on the Administration to speedily pay atten tion to the question, and bring a Bill concerning it be fore the Chambers. It however expressed its leaning to wards a system establishing a uniform charge of 20c. for all letters, except those put in the Paris Post-office for Paris, and in any town for the town itself, the first of which should pay 15c., and the second 10c., as at pre sent. The Committee is of opinion that if the tax were reduced to 20c. it would be well to abolish the present system of sending letters free for official purposes; and, finally, it observes that if England, in place of adopting a tax of 10c. had left it at 20 c ., p os t a l re f orm , i n place of injuring the British treasury, would have given it an in crease of revenue. To simplify communications of diffe rentcrettoa:innlea railroads ottl kinds, aahabnndale sacararet theirodeo dsp a dci e c ohon c nfgew e eat nldhape at la:nAlntseesad.attsinhhl ought e e i aunmangi sides eetr t d:a o tgutocie r aaot e l nnb n sa.fe d uol render smr o r lan7. t t nse h i ds e lmo m tffroi oil rslaai thectodf hn, millions, stin! that mo tive mostaccessible e t ulso that the present stupid system of quarantine w r ill, without without doubt, be soon altered, and undergo the came fate that has visited that of England and Austria. - For the same reason, we hope that M. Conte will be anxious to join his name to a complete modification of the post age of letters, and will respond, as is fitting, to the en lightened wishes of the Committee." The following intelligence from Belgium appears in the Sieele : " The treaty concluded between Belgium and the Zoll verein, of which the Belgian Cabinet was so proud, has in the end proved fatal to them. It could not support the trial of a discussion. M. I)elhougue, then Member for Ghent, had already exposed its ' anti-French, ten dency in a very able and sensible speech, and the re maindertagofescede d t b h y e debatesruPrussia t o demonstratedßelgium we r t e h that much inferior a vn - to continued those by y universal ßelgium expressions and in a manner calculated t o weary the Ministry n e i d s di . t si r cs y cour itself. stsetn, After a Secret Committee upon the question, in which high words were exchanged between some of the metn bers, had sat, a di v ision m a nifested itself in the Cabinet. The Ministry is now in a state of dissolution, and a courier had been dispatched to Paris to inform King Leopold of that crisis, which will necessitate his presence at Brussels. The character of the parties in the Chamber of Representarives has become more distinct. The tiers parti, represented by M. Nothomb, and which had ren- dered public service, i 3 keeping aloof ; and the Liberal party, now triumphant, will find itself in presence of the compact and well-drilled phalanx of the Catholic party. If M. Guizot were bold and skilful, he would avail him self of the crisis to bring about a re-action in favour of France; but when has the French Ministry taken advan tage of any of the chances which fortune has thrown in its way?" The Journal de Cherbourg says that the Reine Blanche is expected at Cherbourg about the end of thie month or the beginning of January, and that Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS will come by her as a passenger. The same journal adds : " A great number of the National Guards and other citizens of Cherbourg, are determined to go in procession to meet the Gallant Admiral ou his arrival, and at his entrance into the town they will present him with a crown of laurel, preparatory to his receiving the sword of honour voted to him by France. On the Reine Blanche being signalled, the National Guard will at once meet in the market place in grand tenue and under arms." but in English comparatively little is doing, yet the quotations are supported. TALLOW. There is no alteration in this market worthy of par ticular notice. Prices remain steady, and the demand is better. The supply of home Tallow is short compare d with several years past at this period. The price is 40s Gd to 4 Is rid nett cash. LL() YD'S SIIIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 23.—Wind N.E., strong breezes and cloudy. DEAL, DEC. 21.—E. to E.S.E., blowing strong.-22. E., blowing very strong.—Arrd. Warsulla, New York for Dantzic. COWES, DEC. 21.—Arrd. Puma, Kitley, St. Kitt's.- 22. Bcerhave, Vipan, Batavia fur Rotterdam ; Nickeie, packet, Stof kin, Surinam for Amsterdam, leaky, with loss of sails, &c., and must discharge. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 22.—The Emma, Stumble, from Swansea for London, got ashore about half a mi►e to the west waal of this port, 20th inst., but came off yesterday morning, making very little water. SHEERNESS, DEc. 23.—The Hoop of Fortune, from London to Rotterdam, put in here, Bth inst., and still remains. There are now at least 300 sail of ♦essels in this port, windbound, and it continues to blow strong from the eastward. PORTSMOUTH. DEC. 21.—Wind E., blowing hard. 22.—Wind E.N.E. —A r rd. Drie Vreinden, Wyn, Canton, for Amsterdam; Woden, Batavia, for lianaburgh; Volusia, Bartlett, Honduras ; York, Duncan, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Marianne, Rees, Sierra Leone, for llamburgh ; Harriett, Abling, Rio, for Gothenburg, sailed Oct. 4 ; Wilhelmino and Sophie, Datzen, Porto Rico, for Bremen. Sid. Hebden, Ichaboe. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22.—Acrd. Thames (steamer), Hast, West Indies. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Wallace, Miramichi. SHIELDS, DEC. 21.—S1d. Ann, Cape of Good Hope ; Iduna, Havannah ; Grafton, Carthagena and Bombay. Several vessels are reported to have struck the bar last night in going out. Arrd. Swift, Hull, Quebec. HARWICH, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Marjory, Shields, for Ips wich, with damage to bows, &c., having been in contact with the Eleanor, of London. HOLYHEAD, Dic. 21.—The Nicolai Savar, from St. Petersburgh to Liverpool, ashore in this bay, has fallen over on her beam ends, and is waterlogged. CLYDE, DEC. 21. —Sid. Onyx, Charleston. CORK, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Atkinson, Calcutta. ABERDEEN, DEC. 20.—S1d. Robert M'William, Sa vannah. WEXFORD, DEC. 20. —The Jager, Redington, of and from Liverpool, to Calcutta, struck on Blackwater Bank this morning, and subsequently parted her anchors, and went ashore eight miles to the northward of the bar of this harbour, where she remains, and is full of water. BELFAST, DEC. 20.—The Waterlily, from Smyrna (arrived to•day), is ashore on Hulywood Bank, but ex pected of without discharging. HULL, DEC. 21.—The Sylphide, from Batavia to Am sterdam, has put in here lesky and must discharge. The Craigie, Bell, from Riga to Bridgewater, is ashore near North Somercoats, and is expected to become a wreck. OFF WEYMOUTH.—Tar, Langley, Mauritius. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Walde mar, Schmidt, Batavia, for Amsterdam, leaky; Pandora, Bisson, Honduras ; Mary Ann, Duncanson, Buenos Ayres, sails split ; William and Alfred, Culverwell, An tigua. Sld. Isabella, Watson, Port Philip. FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind E., strong gales and squally. 22.—E.N.E., strong breeze and squally.— Arrd.—China, Livesay, and New Zealand, Grey, Cal cutta ; Cecrops, Burrell, Quebec ; Clio, Quebec. BRISTOL, DEC. 22.—S1d. Princess Royal, New Or leans ; Druid, Mobile. PENZANCE. DEC. 21.—Arrd. Scotswood, Hall, Mau ritius. Off, Universe, Ritchie, Bombay. JERSEY, DEC. 19.—The Bolina, of this port, from St. Breux to London, in working out of the bay, twice went ashore on the rocks, having missed stays, and carried away keel, sternpost, &c., and has been condemned ; materials and part of cargo saved, the remainder damaged. Sld. D:adem, Rio. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21 AND 22.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E., light.—Arrd. Queen, Day, Calcutta. 22. William God dard, Potter, Mobile. 81d. Mischief, Mauritius ; Fame, Beunos Ayre. , ; Cantab, La Guayra ; Snowdon, Africa ; Glamis Castle, Barbadoes ; Leligh, Lord Ashburton, and Tamerlane, New Orleans; British Ame rican, Mobile ; Pilgrim, for Ichaboe ; Lucille, Hayti; Cyrus, Havannah; Atlas and Malabar, New Orleans; Burrell, Charleston. The Rhoda, from Messina, aground off the King's Pier, came off on the flood without fur. ther damage. The Independence, for New York, was found to be leaking yesterday, and has discharged. THE FIRE in GUILDFORD-STREET LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY). Workmen have been employed almost unceasingly from the time they could safely venture on the ruins, in removing the burnt embers, but up to the time our reporter left they had not discovered the bodies of the two unfortunate men who were killed by the falling of the roof and the various floors on the morning of the fire. The ruins present a melancholy appearance. The walls are black, and ruptured in several places, and the fragments of a handsome pier-glass over the fire-place of the first floor may be plainly distin guished. The whole of the floors have been carried down to the ground or kitchen floor, and the mass in which the two unfortunate men are buried presents an extraordinary appearance : long joists of wood, many of which are standing nearly upright, chairs, tables, hooks and book-cases, and other valuable property. In the course of the morning a number of articles of furniture, partially destroyed by the fire ; books, some of which are stated to be of extreme value, and irreplaceable ; and deeds and papers, were removed into the street by the firemen The walls of the house are in a dangerous state, being cracked in several places, especially the upper win lows. Hundreds of persons remained about the ruins until about one o'clock, when the police, acting on the instructions of their inspector, caused the street to be cleared, fearing that any sudden falling of the walls might cause a serious disaster. The time for the holding of the inquest has not yet been fixed, and it is probable that it will not be held for a day or two. DUTCH MAIL (RECEIVED THIS DAT.) NIMEGUEN, DEC. 17.—Though, as we hear, the ice is still standing firm below the city, it is, how ever, broken up here. The water in the river has fallen considerably, and is now clear of floating ice. We fear that that part of the bridge which was car ried away is dashed to pieces. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 20.—The accounts that we have received from Dordrecht, and other places, state that the thaw, which we have h a d f or some d ays, has in general had a considerable effect, and that the ice is for the most part broken up. We have not received to-day either the French or the English mails. Our London news has arrived through Belgium. KONIGSBURG, DEC. 10.— LI contradiction to some accounts from St. Petersburgh, it is stated to be posi tively known, from persons who come from the North, that the Emperor attends to public business with his usual energy, and that no change is observed in his health. He very much wishes to see his favourite laughter contract a brilliant marriage, and only the po sitive will of the Grand Duchess Olga to remain, for the present, with her parents has hitherto prevented her marriage. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS I)AY.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 20.—The Chamber resumed to 4lay, in its public sitting, the debate on the project of law relative to the treaty with the Zollverein. After se veral Members had spoken, the Minister of the Interior addressed the Chamber; his discourse turned chiefly on the state of parties in France. This sitting may be considered as the most interesting of those which the Chamber has dkvoted to the examination of the treaty of the Ist of September. The debate was ad journed till to-morrow (the 21st, at ten o'clock). (N.B.—The Illoniteur Beige, and other papers, published on the morning of Saturday, the 21st, of course contain no accounts whatever of ti.e continu ance of the debate on that day.) Since yesterday a report has been in circulation in the political circles, of the possibility of some Minis terial modification. We refrained from noticing it at first, being unwilling to aggravate a state of things which has excited the regret of all those who were witnesses of the fact. To-day we cannot avoid men tioning it, on account of the results which may be foreseen. A difference appeared in the Secret Com mittee, the day before yesterday, between two Mem bers of the Cabinet, on the explanations relative to article 19 of the treaty. The opinion which seems to us the most generally entertained at this moment, is that the change, if it takes place, will only affect the Minister whose opinion, on that occasion, was found to be in a minority in the Cabinet, and, at the same time, the farthest from that of the majority of the Chamber.—Courrier Beige, Dec. 21. The reigning Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg, and the Prince of Wurtemburg, left the King's Palace at Brussels, to-day, and continued their journey to Germany. A special train will take them to Cologne. The Moniteur Beige publishes the law which fixes the budget of the public debt at 32,057,1281. for 1845, and the budget of dotation at 3,301,258 f. The cold returned last night, and the mercury fell below friezing point. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 26.—His Highness the Viceroy accompanied by some of his officers, arrived here this afternoon at five o'clock, in excellent health. He per formed the journey from Cairo in twenty hours. The steam-frigate The Nile, is to be brought into the new dock the day after to. morrow ; every thing is ready. Some persons doubt the complete success of this great work, while the two engineers are quite confident about it. In my next I shall be able to give you something positive on the subject. ToRQuAv.—A very fine Dolphin, rather a novelty in these seas, was caught at Torquay on Tue:.dly ; and, on IVednesday was exibited about the streets of Exeter, to the_ great gratification of the curious.—Somerset County Herald. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL E S _ _ CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, at very steady prices ; but there was no ad vaece. Sales, 12,000 bales, including 5,000 on specula tion, and comprising 1,000 Pernams. at sd. to 54d. ; 200 Surat, at 24d to 3..1.; and the rest American, at 3d. to sd. per lb.—Shares were firm. :Birmingham and Gloucester, 944; Dublin and Belfast,4i; Eastern Counties, 14 ; Do., Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. 6d.; Grand Junction, 224 ; Ditto, Halves, 112 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, Bahia, at 511. to 4d.; 300 Egyptian, at 5-Id. to 64d. ; 500 271 ; Ditto and South-Western, BS4 ; Ditto and York, 44 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 524 ; Midland Coun ties, 1124 ; North Wales, South-Eastern, 46; Ditto, Halves, 124 ; Trent Valley, 94 ; Paris and Lyons, 3 6-20; Paris and Rouen, 414 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2/. 1 Ss. 9d.; Strasburg and Bale, ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 8. The private accounts received this morning from the West Indies, brought by the Thames steamer, most fully bear out the inforwatian in the papers with respect to the prospects of the yield of the crops. One difficulty only appears to be in the way, and that is the contingency of a lack of labourers when the c anes arrive at maturity. It may, unfortunately, happen that, from an undue atten tion having been paid to the great purposes of immigra tion, at harvest time hands will be more in demand than the supply, and hence very considerable losses may be incurred, as crops of this description brook of no delay in the cutting. There is a healthy tone in the accounts received this morning, and we are glad to perceive that, between the employer and employed, confidence is repre sented to be on the increase. There is not any other facts of importance beyond what appears in another part of The Sun of this evening. The Mexican mail is not brought by the Thames, and we have, therefore, nothing to com municate from South America, except that complaints are made on this and the other side of the Atlantic of a want of regularity in the forwarding of the mail bags to the Sea Board. We are assured that the letters and papers from Chili, Peru, &c., now received by the Thames, might have been brouht by the Avon. From the Mauritius there are advices this morning to September 26th. The state of the crops was very fa vourable, but the colony was not in a very flourishing condition, as money was extremely scarce, the banks having curtailed their issues of notes very materially. As the Colonial markets are now closed for the Christmas holidays, the attendance of merchants and others in the City is very thin at the usual places of public resort—a very short attendance to-day, nor is it expected that, for a week at least, there will be any large amount of business done, except by retail. There was exhibited at Mr. Banister's, the Queen's butcher, the son of the Alderman of Windsor, (the Queen's butcher) portions of the splendid animal, the baron of beef cut from which will be placed on her Majesty's table on New Year's day. The meat has re ceived unqualified approbation. The Funds are a shade lower this morning. Consols for the Account are at 1001 (the only price of the day), and the Reduced Three per Cents. have receded to 1004. The premium:upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 645., and that upon India Bonds to 795. Bank Stock fur Money is very firm at 209. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 34 4- per cent. above par. Business has been very brisk in the Foreign Funds to-day, and the prices are on the advance. Spanish Five per Cents. have risen to 271 for Account, and to 264 for Money, being 2 per cent. above what they were a week ago; the Three per Cents. have touched 381. It is reported that another financial scheme is in operation by the Finance Minister .at Madrid, but the question is, will it be for the benefit of the foreign creditors of that country. We think not. Portuguese Stock has advanced to 60 for the Three per Cents.; Buenos Ayres have been at 354 ; the French Scrip at 14 premium ; and all the other Foreign Funds are firm. A good business is doing in the Railway Shares this morning, and prices are looking up in most instances. The latest quotations are annexed : BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 209 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3. per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 India Bonds, 1,630/. Ditto under 1;0004 77 Consols for Opening . Exchequer Bills. 14{1. 14d. 1,000/. 5001. - Ditto Small Ditto Advertised ..... ... FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent...... 3744 384 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted 59 60 Ditto for the Account 594 60 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 2644 Ditto for the Account Ditto 3 per Cent 3844 Ditto for the Account 3 844444 Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARE. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley Direct Northern Dublin and Galway. Dublin and Mullingar... Eastern Counties Eastern Union Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Great Western Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths 1 London and Birmingham 100 .22759 t0228 Ditto, New Thirds Ditto, New Quarters. London and Brighton 5O . ... 5244 to London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 94 London and South Western.. 414 ...... 754-6 to Ditto, New Loudon and Croydon Ditto, Guaranteed, 5 per Ct.. 2 London and York 24 ... .. 4414 ...... to Manchester and Leeds 7O l2O 1 to Midland lOO ll2 " to 13 1 Newca.stle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 6144 ...... to North British North Kent Norwich and Brandon 8 .. 13 - Ditto New 1 Rugby South-Eastern and D over. .. 4 . 335 Ditto, New . Trent Valley... 2 ...... 1044 Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland... 50 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Extension — Boulogne and Amiens ...... .. 2 Orleans and Bordeaux...... 2 Paris and Orleans 2O ...... 444 ..... to Paris and Rouen MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 21.—We have had an animated market to-day, and a large business has been done at improved prices :—Eastern Counties, 14i ; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2,19 s. 6d.; Manchester and Leeds, 120 ; Ditto, Sixteenths, 4i a ; Ditto and Bir mingham, 514 ; Ditto, Quarters, 4 15-16 ; Midland, 401. Shares, 51 ;• South-Eastern, New Creation, 10 ; Great Northern of France, 375. 6d. premium ; Paris and Stras burg, 3 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junc tion, 6i-; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 3; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 475. ; Churnet Valley, 3- 11-16 ; Ely and Bradford, 1 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manches ter, 5/ ; London and York, 4 , 1 ; Shrewsbury, Wolver hampton, and Dudley, .3 ; Trent Valley, 9} ; West Yorkshire, 6f. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—On Monday last Robert Hetherington, a carman in the employ of Mr. Richard Routledge, of Bishops Mills, by whom he was much es teemed for his industry and honesty, committed suicide by drowning himself in the river Caldew. From the particulars which have reached us it appears that the deceased rose on Monday morning, shortly after four o'clock, and told his wife, who was about to become a mother, th-t he would go among her relations, and try to get some one to nurse her. She never saw him again alive. As he did not return home on Monday, consi derable anxiety as to his fate prevailed, and, a search having been made on the Tuesday, his body was found in the Caldew, about a quarter of a mile from his own house, having taken off his coat and waistcoat before he committed the rash act. An inquest was subsequently held upon the body, before Mr. Carrick, Coroner, when the jury returned as their verdict " That the deceased had drowned himself while labouring under an attack of temporary insanity." After the deceased had left his house on the Monday, his unconscious wife, or then more probably his widow, was prematurely delivered of a child, which still lives, and to complete the melancholy story her delivery took place in the same bed in which her eldest child, about eleven years old, was lying ill of fever. The bereft widow, a poor and very delicate woman, is now left in a most deplorable condition. with four young children, and without the smallest means of support beyond what is conceded by the benevolence of the charitable.—Coilisle Patriot. A CHALLENGE TURNIP.—There has been for some days exhibiting, in the shop-window of Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, seedstnen, here, among other fine speci mens of agricultural produce, a white globe turnip, weighing 251-lbs. imperial. This was raised by Mr. William Moncur, Blairgowrie, and we believe is unprece dented in this, and we may suppose in any other quarter. The field was manured with bones and dung in nearly equal proportions, and the whole crop is generally very large. Pet th Courier. THE BARON OF BEEF FOR THE ROYAL TABLE ON CHarsTmas-DAY.--The splendid baron of beef, which will form the chief dish at the royal banquet table at Windsor Castle, on Christmas-day, is a portion of an extraordinary Scotch ox, fed by his Grace the Arch bishop of York, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. It is of the enormous weight of one hundred and seventy-nine pounds, and measures three feet six inches in length, and two feet eleven inches in width. TURN-OUTS.--A strike of colliers has been avoided at Ashton-under-Lyne, the matter being amicably arranged between masters and men.—The moulders and millwrights at Bury still remain out.—The factory hands at Heywood have given notice to leave their employment unless their wages are advanced.—One thousand miners are out at Oldham.—The colliers who turned out at Tonge-lane colliery, near Rochdale, have resumed their work, the masters having granted the advance asked for. —The principal hands at Pilling and Co.'s and Town meadow mills are still out.— Preston Guardian. It is positively asserted and believed in the best informed etroles in the French capital that her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will visit Paris the ensuing spring. Preparations are even said to be making for the reception of these illus trious visitors at Fontainbleu, and . Versailles. —C ourt Journa4 and rational, but less noisy portion of the Catholic middle classes—men who have not yet sworn undying hostilily to the PEEL Administration, but are ready to accept of "good," even though it may "come out of Nazareth." In consequence of this dissension among the members of his persuasion, Archbishop MURRAY has deemed it fit to address a Pastoral Letter to the Roman Catholic Clergy and Laity of the diocese of Dublin, wherein he explains his reasons for consent ing to take a share in the execution of the Charitable Bequests Act, observing that he should consider it a gross dereliction of duty, were he to fling away any opportunity which this Act—im perfect as he admits it to be—places within his reach of guarding in safety the treasury of the poor, and of securing for the service of the Church whatever property benevolent individuals may choose to vest in the new Board, to be permanently dedi cated to that purpose. The Archbishop then enters into some details respecting the embarrassments by which Roman Catholic charities have hitherto been surrounded. It seems that, in the year 1763, an Act was passed requiring returns of all charitable be. quests in the sister country to be made to the Pro testant Primate and the Bishops of each diocese at their annual visitation; and subsequently a Commit tee of Charity of the Irish House of Lords was ap pointed under an order of that House. By the Act of Union this Committee necessarily ceased ; and, by a law, which has never since been either altered or amended, the present Commissioners of charitable donations and bequests were incorpo• rated, consisting of the Protestant Archbishops and Bishops of Irelamd, the Dean of St. Patrick's, the incumbents of all the parishes in Dublin, and the Judges. The latter, as might be expected, never at tended the Board, consequently it was managed ex clusively by dignitaries and clergymen of the Esta blished Church, who gave altogether a Protestant character to its proceedings. Such being the case, the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ire land addressed in 1840 a memorial to Lord MORPETif, wherein they intreated—and surely not without suffi cient reason !—that the Board of Irish Charities might be rendered more generally useful and popular by the introduction of Catholic Commissioners, and by some othermeasure which might have a tendency to place their charities upon the same footing as those of their Pro testant fellow -countrymen. " The recent Act," says Dr. MURRAY, "appears to have been intended to grant all that we then sought. It admits to the Board of Charity Catholic Commissioners in sufficient number to check any adverse influence which might be attempted regarding the application of Catholic charities ; and it takes away the dangerous power enjoyed by the former Board of alienating, under certain circumstances, Catholic bequests from the known objects contemplated by the testator, and of applying them to purposes w hich, if living, he would abhor. So far our prayer has been granted. The state of insecurity in which our charities were placed has been removed ; and had the Act stopped there, we could not, without the greatest inconsistency, utter one word of complaint against it." The Archbishop then goes on to point out the leading defects of the Act in question, but takes care to add that, not withstanding the partial blemishes which tend to render it unpopular, no one can look into it with an unprejudiced eye, and not see that it confers advantages on the Catholics of the very highest value, giving them, among other things, the power of vesting property, without trouble or ex pense, in perpetual security, for procuring glebes for their clergy, and for building, enlarging, and up holding or furnishing their places of worship. Not withstanding the violent opposition raised among certain parties in Ireland to the Charitable Bequests Act, we incline to regard it, despite its admitted de fects, in the same favourable light as Dr. MURRAY, and to consider it as a step in the right direction. When Mr. HUME, deploring the wasteful impro vidence of the Tory Administrations, of which the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL were successively at the head (we speak of that Govern ment which terminated in 1830, and of that which, being established in December, 1834, on Sir Ro- BERT'S return from Italy, closed its brief career in April, 183.5)—when Mr. HuME used to avow his regret that there was a surplus of public income over public expenditure—his avowal was listened to in the House of Commons with surprise and incredulity. It was to little use that he explained his meaning to be, that a deficient revenue would, to a cer tain extent, compel a greater thriftiness on the part of the Ministers of the day. This last was a mere hypothesis. In the condition of circumstances assumed by it, the result lie con template.l might or might not occur. It would be " time enough to think of that," whenever the facts fell out. But to regret that a Government should have a surplus of income—to deprecate so positive, palpable, power-giving, an advantage, as that of an annual balance of supplies over disbursements, to consider it possible that "money in both pockets" might be an evil ; this was a political heresy so novel and startling, that the merest tyro in vulgar arith metic—green as transplanted from the halls of Ox ford into St. Stephen's Chapel—turned up his eyes with astonishment at its enunciation; looked grave, or affected to sigh over the waning powers of the veteran calculator. Nevertheless we have lived to see the hypothesis of the Hon. Member for Montrose verified by facts. The theory has found, if we do not greatly mistake, an exponent in no other than the Premier himself. Thanks to his wholesale drafts on national credulity or timidity, he has re established, in the six-and-twentieth year of profound peace, the most especially constituted war-tax ; and in the third year of its levy, his " metallic tractors" have conjured so vast an amount of money out of the pockets John Bull that he has a very large surplus on the aggregate of income over that of expen diture. Now so long as the former was only the equation of the latter—so long as the Charges of the State absorbed its Receipts, Sir ROBERT must have been comparatively happy. No " good natured friend, in the shape of some influential land owner, could look in upon him at that inopportune moment when he was just chuckling over the re dundant receipts of his Exchequer, and hint to him significantly that he might find it very expedient to remit a portion of the heavy malt duty. No hawk eyed Manchester Conservative could then ruffle his equanimity, and ruin his breakfast, by a morning call before office hours in Whitehall-gardens, with the view of drawing the Minister's attention to the eligible opportunity which had at length arrived, enabling him to remit the import duty on raw cotton. There were, then, no outcries from the poorer and the poorest classes for the remission of the tea duties. The Excise was not assailed by a run of popular demands upon the extinction of this duty, nor the Customs invaded by the concentrated appeal of thousands for the removal of that. Coffee and sugar, less loaded with fiscal liabilities, continued to be accessible to the rich, but to decline the con sumption of the poor, whilst they netted a handsome yearly return into the coffers of the Treasury. But now all this state of things is changed. There is a surplus. A great fact, this, and the cause of a great sensation. How shall it be appropriated ? A great difficulty, and the subject of the most conflicting re commendations. Friends supplicate; enemies threaten; the Minister is utterly perplexed. " Take off the Malt Duty," cry the farmers, "in the very first place, or we, who placed you where you are, will help to remove you to the position from whence you came." "Repeal the duty on raw cotton," say his county-kindred and political supporters, "or else-" " Hold!" exclaim the in dustrial classes, whose contributions represent as much as two-thirds, at least, of the whole indirect taxation raised in this country, " you have lowered prices by your legislation to a point which disables our employers from giving us remunerating wages. We get less money but have more taxation to pay ; the charge of which is no longer covered in our scanty wages. We work longer hours to earn diminished pay. Make cheaper, therefore, to us, by the remission of the duties you take upon them, those articles of which we are the largest consumers." And then come trooping in a regiment of demands for repeal of duty on tobacco, and beer, and tea, on coffee, and sugar, soap, and raw cotton, and even on paper. What is Sir ROBERT (poor man) to do ? The " suggestions" of one body of his friends are expressed so emphatically, that they are like the petitions to GIL Ba ss for charity—enforced by the accidental eloquence of a disbanded soldier's carbine. The " hints" of another, somehow or other, have, all of THE BOURSE.-SATURDAY, DEC. 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Trench Five per Cents...... 120 80 .. 120 80 .. 120 55 .. 120 65 Four-and-a-IIalf..•• 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 Fears •••• ...... •• •• 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25 Three per Cents....• 84 35 .. 85 50 .. 85 30 .. 85 40 Bank of France 3275 ..3275 .•3275 ..3275 Lai:Cate Bank, I,ooof. Shareslll2 50 ..1115 ..1112 50 ..1115 8.000 f• Bluiresso93 —BO9O —5095 .•5090 Belgian Bank .. ••••• • • • • • • 655 .. 655 • • 640 • • 640 1841 1831.. Belgian Fives.lB4o .... •• • • 1041 •• 100 .. 1041 • • 1041 Bpanlaii Threes •• • . ••• • • • 38 .. 38 34 Active •••••• • • • • • • 33i • • 331 .. 33f • • 331 Passive Neapolitan •••••••••• •• • .. 88 • • 98 .. 98 . • 98 g o . = •.•. 1041 •• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain .•••••••••••••1030 ..1030 ..1030 ..1030 \Tarsalilea, R. 8.•. L. 8.•• •• •• •••• •• 395 .. 398 74 .. 395 .. 396 25 Rouen ••• ..•• Rouen to Havre.• .... 825 .• 832 50 .. 825 .. 832 50 Orleans ••• __ Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 317 50 ..:.318 75 . 317 50 .. 318 75 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• •• 940 .. 941 50 .. 940 .. 942 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. Jlq 3. St. Germain .....••• •• —1027 50 ..1031 25 ..1027 50 ..1031 25 yersainsa, R. B. • • •••• • • • • 515 . • 520 . • 515 • • 520 L. 8....... •• •••• 395 .. 400 .. 395 .. 400 Ronen —lOB7 50 ..1080 •• Rouen to Havre.. Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale.• •••• •••• 318 75 .. 320 .. 317 50 .. 313 75 Avignon to Marseilles...". 935 .. 942 80 . 927 30 940 THIS DAY'S NEWS QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings ut Nisi Priam, at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a London Common Jury.) THOMPSON V. BLURTON AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of exchange, given by the defendants as far back as the year 1840, for coals supplied to the Buckingham Club. The defence wr s that the bill in question was held by Joseph Parker, to whom it had been paid by plaintiff, and that plaintiff had consequently no right to sue on it. The jury found for plaintiff—Damages, 241. ss. Counsel for plaintiff, Mr. V. Lee ; for defendant, Mr. Knowles. This is the last day of the present sittings. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY (Sittings in London.) PRESCOTT AND ANOTHER V. BARBER AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the eminent bankers Prescott, Grote, and Co., against the defendants, as partners in the late joint-stock bank, the Birmingham Borough Bank, to recover the amount of the balance due to them as London agents of the Birmingham Com pany. It appeared that the bank stopped payment in February, 1840, but that the affairs are not, in fact, as yet wound up. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL conducted the case of the plaintiffs, and put in the usual evidence of the partner ship, and the debt, proving that the defendants were shareholders in 1839. Mr. HILL, Q.C., for Mr. Warden, the only one of the defendants who contested the question of their liability this day, addressed the jury at very great length, and submitted that as Mr. Warden's shares were forfeited in the early part of 1839, when the affairs of the bank were flourishing, he ceased to be a partn€r before this balance accrued, and therefore was not liable. k utyT PTICAYING.) BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) A number of trifling country insolvencies were pui down for hearing, but none of them were of the slightest importance to the public. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Since this day se'nnight, up to Saturday, the arrivals of all Grain, especially Irish Oats, were, owing to the contrary winds, extremely limited, yet a decided im provement was apparent in the general condition of the samples Fresh up, very little Wheat of home produce came to hand, coastwise or by land carriage, conse quently the stands were rather scantily supplied. Al though we had not to say a large attendance of buyers, the demand for all kinds of English Wheat was some what active. In some few instances the rates of the finest parcels were more in favour of the sellers, yet we cannot quote any actual improvement in them. The middling and the inferior parcel; were likewise held at very full prices, which were obtained by the factors with out difficulty, and a good clearance was effected. The show of fine foreign Wheat was small. All kind: commanded a ready inquiry, and some rather extensh e sales were concluded, at extreme currencies. Many of the holders have withdrawn their samples for the pre sent. Bonded Grain was heavy, but not cheaper. Malt ing and distilling Barley, both English and Foreign. was taken freely, at prices quite equal to those paid on Monday last, but grinding sorts were rather dull. In Malt more business was doing, and the quotations were fully supported. The show of Oat samples was un ucually small, owing to the non -arrival of the vessels. The trade, therefore, was firm, and an alvance of 6d per quarter was obtained in nearly every instance. Beans and Peas were in sluggish demand, at late rates. In Flour rather more was doing, but without alteration in value. Linseed Cakes sold briskly, at the late advances. - ----- . , CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wismar—Es sex & Kent, 1 MALT—Chevalier......! 61s to 115. red 406 to 50s, OaTs--Yorkshire and Ditto, white ...... 466 to 56s Lineolrish., feed ... 225 to 236 Norfolk and Lin Potatoe .... . ....„.. 24a to 256 coin, red Ditto white 4 st• 50s: black Irish, red..— ........ --s to —a' Cork, white ... Ditto, white -a to — s ' S cotch, feed . ..... ... 23s to 246 Rvs—Old 3os to 34s BEANS—Tick.......... ..... 35s to 376 New 3ss to 365! Pigeons BARLEY —Grinding „.... 26s to 31s, PEAS— Grey 3ss to 371 Malting Chevalier 386 to 40s White 36s to 38s Matt--Suffolk and Nor- 80i1er5....... 3B, to 43a folk 586 to 65 FLeua—Town made ... 40s to 451 Brown 56. to 608 Su6o k...... .......... . Xis to 3:4 Kingston and Ware 636 to 6U Stockton &Norfolk 33s to 35 -FOREIGN GRAIN A. Wurar—Dantric Hamburgh 303 to —3l BARLEY ...... .•..•. ...... ••• 276 to Oil OaTa—New Feed 153 to 17:. ID FLOUR IN BOND. BRANS ..............» 24s to "as T.As 2Bs to Sr FLOUR—American Baltic SMITHFIELD. For the time of year, considering that the great market was held last week, we had a full average number of Beasts on sale, in the general quality of which there was nothing calling for particular observation. A: might be expected, the attendance of both town and country buyers was very limited, owing to which, and most of them having previously purchased their Christ mas supplies, the Beef trade was very dull, at a decline on last week's quotations of; 2d per 81bs, the very highest figure not exceeding 4s 4d, and at which a clearance was not effected. The fresh arrivals were extremely small from all quarters—the Bullock supply being chiefly composed of those portions turned out unsold on Monday and Friday last. Theimports of live stock under the new tariffsince out last have been very limited, only eight Beasts and twenty Sheep being on sale this morning from Rotterdam. Comparatively speaking, we had a good supply of Sheep offering, and which, being more than adequate to meet the wants of the butchers, met an unusally dull sale, at barelyi in some instances a trifle beneath last week's quotations. Scarcely any Calves were at market, yet the Veal trade was dull, and prices were with difficulty supported. In Pigs exceedingly little business was doing, yet the rates were about stationary. - Per ftlbs. to sink the offaL a. d. to s.d. s. d. to ca. Inferior Beasts 2lO 3 t . Second qualityditto... 3 6 3 5 Second quality ditto 9 2 S 6 Coarae.woolled ditto— 310 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Southdown Wethers 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 5 4 4 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0 3 g Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small P0rker5........ 3 5 4 0 Suckling Calves, each OSe 0 Quarter old Pigs,eacide 020 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep, Calves. Pigs. I 1 , 3 19 1%3,420 17 1 250 sgEWISATBII7ITD LEADENRAI L. Notwithstanding the immense supplies of both town and country-killed Meat offering in t these markets since our last, and the general improvement in quality, we have to report a very active demand, and good clearances have been made, at in most instances higher rates. The show of Meat for Christmas consumption has been seldom equalled, certainly never excelled. At per stone, by tae Carcase. s. d. tot d. I. d. to 2. d., Beef. inferior.... ..... 3 0 3 2 Mutton, inferior 9lO 3 4 middling ......... 3 4 36 —. middling 9 4 5 6 prime large ..... 3 6 5 8 -- prime ..« 3 8 310 .-- prime saiaU..... 3 8 910 Pork, large 2 8 3• Veal ..„.».......»........ 3 6 4 4 --small ..... • 3 6 4 0 ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Ca/Yes. Pigs. Scotland ........ .... . 100 700 800 ......... ........ . Yorkshire Norfolk .........., 60 210 100 Suftblk .. ............. ......• 40 180 120 Cambridgeshire ......"., Essex ... ........ ..... (110 100 100 200 Surrey 2OO 300 200 3(0 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts .. . ....... Total... ..... ......... ..... "" 1,060 2,951 550 2,f40 several cargoes Previous week's arrival ........... - - - Difference since our last 619 290 331 2 13 BOROUGH AND SPITA.LPIELDS. The cont rar y w i n d s hav i ng pr e vented the arr i val of are small f or th e t i me of year, owing to waich, and the of Potatoes, the supplies offering here increased consumpt i on, the demand is active, at higher prices. The present rates may be considered as varying from a to 41. per ton. BOROUGH HOP MAREZT. As might be expected, our market is in a very inactive state. However, holders are firm, and will not sell ex cept at very full prices. We aro looking forward to higher rates. WOOL MARKET. The imports of Wool since this day se'nnight have been chiefly composed of 1,000 bales from Launceston and Hobart Town. The best qualities of foreign and colonial Wools are in steady request, at very nll prices ; 311MRIANY OF NEWS A 1(1 L 7 OPtittnit. " Who runs may read.' Portmcorir. On Saturday evening the Duke de M o ntpeu sie . o : accompanied by M. le Comte de la Tour du 1;4 honoured the performance of Othello by the E° 11'• company with his presence. .a M. Gamier Pages, l a t e ly r es idi ng at Madrr 4 declared that he intends to make a vigorous acts upon M. Guizot's policy in Sp a i n i n the imPen A ul do i debate on the address. M. Gami e r Pages has a t: to that he has so large a number of " monstrous" allege before the Chamber of D e puties that the le clear sighted cannot resist his evidence. The Putrie states that the Mi n i s t e r of MeXl ne . h r s ° l received an official notice of the arrival of A d11 : 1. to Dupetit Thouars at Rio Janeiro, on his vis ' te ii , France, where, add s th e P a t r i e , h e i s daily exP ec , 1 An earthquake of som e vi o le nce was felt in °II 3 / during the night of i th e 10th i ns t an t. At 110 0 0 and Chautagne the furniture i n th e apartmen ts , L A so shaken that the glasses and other articles tables were thrown down. At Chambery, h c4e , e rf it was so slight, that it w as p e r ce i ve d by only • few persons. „ e pti A letter from Nismes of th e 17th in s tant rePr e '' bf that town as being kept i n co ns t an t comun°t °- ( lit% conflicts between the ri va l com p agnon s of tu ,.l e m pe' ferent trades. On th e 12th u p war d s o f eighty 11 "0, 8 cutters caught three or four bakers' men ne e 'citli Place du Grand Temple, and, assailing them, " t o stones, would have probably killed them but Ic)r timely interference of the police. gel' M. Dar* editor of the Legitimatist journal .--rpo mine, has been condemn e d f o r libel on the Gc' ve bre e rnent, by the Court of A ss i zes a t Nantes, to t months' imprisonment and I,ooor. fine, notwithe ts9 ing an able defence presented by M. Berryer• Prince Gaston de Montinorency has addr es i l ,eit letter to the Gazette de France, which it pu, b '' er s. declaring that as he is convinced that the urbiin, ment is determined to have a judgment again he had resolved not to appeal against that val l , c- „, 5 e1l been pronounced upon him, but will content ko." with leaving his conduct to puislic opinion. cptorrei The title of Duke, whi c h h as j us t been eon.- 14 • by the King on the Chan c ell or o f France,. I s Ai ffret transmissible to his nephew, M. G a ston d'At i ""„ftbe According to a recently-publi s hed statemen l n t of Bureau de Bienfaisance of the first arondissto, it Paris, which is considered as one of the wetilt",!:oo appears that the number of it s i n di g ent lob o tb d ' has increased, and is still increasing. Fr °rll lies l official returns in 1835, this Bureau had to re jo 1,645 families, comprising 3,599 individu ill y , 1841, the numbers w e re 1,742 f am ilies; i n w eir there were 2,127 families; and in 1843, ther e f ik 2,245 families, comprising 5,242 individU,,al s icl s ; 1,097 men, 2,065 women, 1,025 b o y s , a nd 1,,,,vv1r50 A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 8, in the Ll: l 'i n til e German Gazette, says—" We understand that , ;la course of next year, Prince Frederick will 111 ; str ios voyage to China. It i s r e p or t e d th a t the 44 ; dgja Government is not averse at pr esen t to acknow ie Queen Isabella. . 10 C oll' General Prim had arrived at CAdis, and fined in the fort of St. C a t a li na , w h e re he l to tl s main till a ship of war happ ens t o be g 0 ' 135 Philippine Islands. that tbt The Progress du Pas de Calais states ports of Calais and Boulogne are on the point °, o f Ol e ing to a friendly understanding on the subj ec i c , Or ( northern railroad. Calai s , it s ay s , is resdY,d ri g 1) ,; cede to Boulogne wh a t it h as b een demsnl - i c li'' , 4 five years, in exchange f o r th e a d va ntsge, it competitor, now become its associate, soliorailk7 accept. Calais assents to the system stis ts ' n - te Boulogne in 1842—th e un iti ng o f a ll the se% Cosl: in consideration of the Amiens and Boulog; P `olol pany 8 continuing that line to Calais, and lu il° too t) the same fares to and from Paris and Calais 65 from Boulogne and Paris. .• COVNT—PLUIZZONALIBAX. tif t l3 ! Her Majesty, it is under s t o od, will hen Duke of Buckingh a m w ith a v i s it at StoW e 'g t ail'' the 7th of January, a n d a ft erwa rds pay $ .„ compliment to the Duke of Wellington at fieldsaye. N b The Marquis and Marchioness of Normatilliiit have returned t o th e Cl aren d on Hotel, from e% l Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, petted to pass the holidays with Lord and LS' merston, at Broadlands, near Romsey. (P:, The Marquis and Marchi o ness of D o uglas , gi s 'Ito; cess Mary of Baden) h ave re t urne d to 11° , f ienu / Palace, after paying a round of visits to. !hifecirbiorif!,6l° in the north. The N o bl e M arquis and ilia are expected to come to London e ar l y i n th e year. nob e ° The Duke of Cleveland has r e j o i ne d the at Raby Castl. His Grac has recentl gi ven • o tt s t to the fund for e erecting a e y: mechanics' instituti Barnard Castle. ton, on a visit t o th e E ar l a nd Coun tess of G The Duke of Devon s hire has let town for- r ß t r v i i g i His Grace does n o t re t urn t o London until a Christmas rec. The Duke of ess Manchester has re turned to hi bolton Ca s tl e , H un ti ng d ons hi re , from Lisbon, _1:,°.0 the Noble D u k e accompan i e d the Duche ss and Olivia Monta g u, w h o are p ro ceeding to Cadiz f'lnertlh: the view of benefitin the Duchess's health. ctso iel Lord Stanley, echo is staying with LadYe'perbfl and family on a visit to the venerable Earl 01 acted at Knowsley Park, during the holidays, is ° ripes t to return to St. Jam es ' s - sq uare at the close of nest bio week. The Nobl e L or d will, we believe, "of the seat in the House o f L or d s o n the first dsY,trilellt session, the Parliam en t ar y business of hi s dePs'Bli • being, it i s un d ers t oo d, intrusted to Mr. Ger, r t : n bev . Hope, the J o int U n d er -S ecre t ar y with Mr. o,`„ of The Marquis of Northampton has le ft t° sal es Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, where out° party will assemble thi s w e e k for the Chi. holidays. $ The Countess of Portmore has gone to ..-s:„e the the intention of residing in that - city dur '"' eP t winter. rri f The Earl and Cou n t ess Brownlow have S he so Belton Hall, near Grantham, from visiting milt sr° quis cf Salisbury, at H a tfi e ld H ous e. t. The Earl and Counte ss o f Li s burne a ° ' - berr . pass ng th e w i n t er a t C rosswoo d P ar k, neat Ot ed with. iv The Earl and Countess of Amherst have Or Knowle Park, the Countess's seat, from tovia' seasozzLAßrsolni. The contest for th e re p resen t a ti o n of the an bob of Dartmouth i s p rocee di ng w i t h vigour n si ot sides. The precept was received by th e f t 10'111 the 20th inst.; and three days' n otice '; ;Og i "; required previous to the el ec ti on , the nomins,:coo,A; not take place until Thursday, the 260,1; quence of Chri s t mas -d a y b e i ng on Wednesus'l Tl t hi polling will be on F r id ay , th e 27th. fro m The wind has now continued so long 01 1 1 b e eastward, that many hom ewar d-b ou nd yogi s t collected at th e e n tra nce o f th e Channel; t ° c h °l'j Admiralty last week gave directions to di- f re l ' e oti small vessels unemployed t o procee d to th e r l i e ili e ) Mr. O'Connell left D u bli n ver y unexPen" 16„°-01 Friday evening, t o s p en d hi s Ch r i stma s St "'Villa Abbey. The Monitor states goo. t that the e It fie' man made his exit in a downright "hint the signal failure of his parish agitation a gain t he h oe quests Bill. Oi t , The most pressing of the Irish , t difficul ti ,ll l (7 , 11 136 present moment would seem to be the agr'"" aof ' break, which is rapidly extending from one ectioco; country to the other. Th e ou tb rea k assum es a tr im ' ratter more of an insurre c ti on th an of isol ste pee' and is rapidly i ncreas i ng i n i ntens i ty , lust"- o ing to have met with any check. t ti'dost The Hague wa s li g ht e d b y gas f or the first few days ago. The journa l s o f th a t pitte e c e the gas work s , a lth oug h on a very e xten 6l. o and combining all th e mos t use f u l i m p r ovetne ° have o f o f been introduced into the manufacture tli tv were executed in the al mos t i ncre dibly shor t ` , efi t five_ . months, including the laying down °f t l3e tire miles of pipes. ;I I fori li jof The splendid baron of beef, which lv"' 1 11 1 , 0 " chief' dish at the royal banquet-table ble A f t gi % e% tl r o ; Castle on Christmas-day, is a portion o' Afe - hbO t De ordinary Scotch ox, fed by his Grace the ; e of York, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. It , (s tr ol a ti , enormous weight of one hundred and sere fea pounds, and measures three ft et six inches in ti' and two feet eleven inches in width. te 4 ter tti The . subscriptions towards the Mancheti- i na, ( o )t n t l i a h l g t e o r, th ij e .c ß .B ig . ht Hon. Major-Genera l th S r i e e e , now amounts to about v sand pounds. jel eot er . re ST. JAMES'S CHURCIT, Amorningsgr(W, Musgrove, this church,re -(olp eA nt re .d ,VrAthihe Alderman Lord m ha a n a longjssiiadynboeerye, nir)Astibegcff,ry.) pairs, (th e m ri o ti attending, The serm on was pr e ached by t . 0 1 . in !°lOl t lle Rev. Dr. INl‘Caul, whose installation to of Saint Paul's was recorded in The 5u%b0b.., 1 0 Tuesday. Th e c h urc h i s s i tuate i n a locahti ii / oe r o r almost exclusively by Jews, several of whet°, c s oo t he converted to th e Ch r i st i an f a i t h s ince Pr. 3 ' r vice s bi pointm en t to t h e i ncum b ency. During th e se o paew sacred edific e was crow d e d i n every part , a itioo of pers ons b e i ng attracte d b y t h e c ivic peg.e.„cot collection was made, to which the Lord Al" Sheriff's liberally contributed. n je., The Duke o f N or f o lk the Earl of Artl 019 a Surrey, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Alorpeth, , ba il the Hun. Stuart Wortley, ALP , IL G. Ward, Mond id, and Colonel Full er t on , are the patrons of the eo ti or to take place in Sheffield on the 9th o f th' be to month s the whole of the proceeds of which fire d. progziated to tho Mechanics'-hall Building