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ELEGANT LITERARY PRESENT. NOADY. 4 IVES OF W T kE HE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. IrEW and REVISED EDITION, in Seven Volumes, price IVs. CM. each, elegantly bound, any of which may be bad separately. " A valuable contribution to historical knowledge—to yonnd per eons especially. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of Interest, which Industry and research could collect. We have de rived much entertainment and instruction il'om the work."— Athenanim. Hoary Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 46, Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Ltisismano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. forrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. tfarriaan ; t atarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth To conclude with a Grand Comrc Christmas Harlequin.ide, called PUCK'S PANTOMISIE; or, HARLEQUIN AND itOBINsr)N CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; C'own Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. Box-omce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six sr the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, a Id Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, WWI*, performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, vatted OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE ARTS. Colonel Rocket atr.S , rlckland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe• a; To Coke Jr. Webster; Bob, Mr I3uckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of pion, Mrs. %V. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Veetris; Miss Rocket, Misa Julia , Yennett. After which, a Gran • MOVING DIORAMA; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN S vViTZERLAND. To conclude with a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxeriou a Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Grazicsa, Misc Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a_Half each. I , .ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.oftice, trial Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Will he repeated (by special irermissiiin oft harles Dickens, 11l I.) a New Drams, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, ttlr. 0. Smii b Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tughy. Mr. Wilkin. son ; S.r Joseph Bowleg', Bart , Mr. Paul ae.lfora ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby M ggy Veck, Miss Forkscue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank 111azthews. 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 I hristmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin acd the Ki g .of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Colum'ine, Miss Lona. dale ; Clown, Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San iers. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, sir Pitt; Leader of the Rani, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odire open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. 11..4'.SSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX ON THURSD AY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, • Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON ; or, The Four Broth e rs. B a r on d e Beamanoir,' Mr. Walton ; - Olivier Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Juo. ; Richard, Mr. Hiroo ; Renaud, Mr. Mattocks; Ivon, Mr. Leffl.r ; Hermine, Helen Conde!' ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. • After which will be produced a New Grand Romantic, and rather evatic Burlesque Extravapnza, called JOE !I I LLER AND His MEN. Giindolf Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, Mr . Granby; giber, Mr. Corti Goiotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Marina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress Glrcle ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, It. ; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock — Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, FA. Private Boxes, I'wo Guineas end One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Buineas and a -H a lf D oors to b e opened at Half_ oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet on Thursday Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W_ BATTY. ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER Will be repeated a Now Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; Introducing unequalled National Fetes. Heal Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased 17 Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to roalise this novel production. kspsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse.. rnansh ip. To conclude with a G- and Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, o Iled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GiLPIN'S RIDE; or, the Thick Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ,• Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantalo in, Mr. Bradbury. Acting Ann sta,ge.msnagar, Mr. W 0 Broadtoot. Rox-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to a^quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed aranvernents to pre sent, during the Christmas Hwidays, a S ries of EQUESTRIAN iIsORNINt. FECES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A tsCE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three ; consisting of Batty's S.Aend id Scenes of Equitation i n time C•rele. The first Three Morning Performances will take place on Monday, Dee. SI, Wednesday, Jail. 2,anil Fr day, Jan. 4. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE ON THURSDAY EVI. NING, DECEMBER 2tl, Will he produ:ed Two New Dramas, supported by Messrs. Osbal diston, H. Howard,J. T. Johnson, 1' H. tliggie, Seaman, Herb rt, &Wit', E. Jones, ant Watkins; M. Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. Rignold. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Wonsan and She Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columbine, Wile, Le Vite. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 24 rIIXRNOMF.TER, Lowest, 28 ; highest, 34 ; Noon, 3 BAROMETER, 30.35.-WIND, E. S.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 32 ; 55 co 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. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-liRIDOE THIS DAY. Atorr.tng ~. 36 minutes after 1 Evening ... 56 minutes after 1. SECOND EDITION et, .7 ,, , G.... 4 -:',7-'-',47. ,,,, 1* • , i 'CI .. ...1, ~,,, bik- V \ t' ' ''. • ~.i, .A . 14. ' an— - .s, . - • '. ... ' -., .- i' ' N'' d \ ' 1 .• • 1 1.0.‘--..... ~,C • II 0 ..-- ;V ~>0(0'••' . ' " ' .-- 1 11 ' '....• ' . .• vielk . d ../. . 0 b • OIT . 41111:1' !- • • • ' , ..:, .'-- v-trening 211111. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1844, " Ecce iterurn Crispinus, et eat mihi swpe vocandus." Doctor PiiieeroTs is again in the field, and we foresee—as we remarked a day or two since—that we shall be_ often called on to notice his controversial eccentricities—to apply the most lenient term to his present perilous course of conduct. For the third time this bustling, mischief-making Prelate has rushed into print, and his last letter is of quite as incendiary a character as its two predecessors. Like them it concedes nothing, but, on the contrary, is peremptory and exacting to the last degree. In some passages it affects the logical, but its logic is of a most peculiar ;nature, and tells directly against the course of policy which the Bishop is so resolutely bent on carrying out to the fullest extent. Thus, the Right Reverend writer states that previously to the issuing of that episcopal ukase—hie Pastoral Letter, he di rected inquiries to be instituted as to the spirit in which it might be received throughout his diocese, and " was assured," he adds, "by those whom I addressed, of their firm conviction that little or no dissatisfaction—none that would be of serious moment or of long duration was at all likely to arise against an order which might issue from authority." This first step on the part of Doctor PHILLPOTTS was in every respect a judicious one. He acted with sound discretion in endeavouring to ascertain the sentiments of his flock and the strength of their digestion before he crammed the whole Rubric down their throats ; but having discovered that they were averse to the swallowing of such a tough substance, he should— if only in his high capacity of a Christian minister of peace—have withdrawn his obnoxious ordinances, and permitted the Church service to be conducted in the usual fashion. But instead of this, he has insisted on his ordinances being obeyed with a vehemence that has increased in exact proportion to the popular ferment which they have excited through out his diocese! lie abides by them on the very score of their unpopularity. his arguments in their favour are drawn from their notorious inefficiency. Was ever such logic 'yet put forth by one who is in the possession of all his faculties ? But the Bishop of EXETER, we fear, is not in this enviable condition. His starch, overweening notions of authority have clouded his better judgment. His prejudices have overlaid his common sense. He has a sort (A rubrical Monomania upon him. Only ima gine his boasting of his efforts to restore tranquillity by his Pastoral Letter, when the immediate effect of that most injudicious communica tion has been to bring the clergy into painful collision with the laity throughout the diocese of Exeter! Was this well said or well done on the part of a minister:of the Gospel of Peace ? Was it his duty to throw in the apple of discord, when by a little timely concession—a little show of conciliation he might have ensured the continuance of order among his flock ? But in justification of his proceedings he ob serves—" I see a resolute determination in many parts of England to resist all Church authority ; I see schism in its most mischievous form, tinder the guise of nominal churchmanship, rampant, and of coune intolerant wherever it is seen." If the Bishop really sees this, he must be endowed w i t h most extraordinary powers of vision, for he sees what no one besides himself can see. Never did the Church possess more rightful authority than it does at the present day. Never was its legitimate influence more readily acknowledged. Never were its wishes more cheerfully obeyed. Look at the immense number of new religious structures that have sprung up, as if by magic, in all parts of the country, on the very first expression o f a recommendation to th a t eff.ct by the dig nitaries of the Establishment ! Look at the enormous subscriptions for charitable and religious purposes raised last year in pursuance of the Christian appeals of the clergy to the people ! Are these proofs of a popular determination to resist " all Church authority "—of a refusal to pay further obedience to its wishes ? If the Church be now harassed by dis sensions from within and without, it is the crafty in trigues of the Tractarian heretics that are chiefly to blame for these dissensions; and yet these are the men whose views the Bishop of EXETER is doing all he can to forward ! Strange to say, this un accountable Prelate takes credit to himself fo r having commenced fighting the theological battle upon trifles "There are conditions," he says, "of the public mind, when it is in truth a blessing that in struggling for a principle--the great principle of Church authority, the immediate object to be defended is not in itself worth the trouble, much less the bitter ness and anxiety of the contest. I rejoice, therefore, that we have not to fight fur an object which would give dignity to the conflict." We do not profess exactly to understand the logic of this passage, but so far as we can make out the Bisho'p's meaning, his argument is, that the less true dignity and the more frivolity a religious controversy possesses, the more delighted should those be who take part in it, and the more eagerly and uncompromisingly should they folio , A it up ! Upon this principle a fanatic or bigoted High Church disciplinarian is justified in convulsing a whole community about a matter not worth a Hyde Park. Really the deficiency we speak of is becoming an alarming public grievance. If the parish authorities will not endeavour to remedy it, we hope the Legislature will speedily enforce its remedy. Accounts from Madrid (4' the 16th instant state, that the Chamber of Deputies had resumed business. A communication was made from the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the effect, that GONZALES BRAVO bad been directed to return to his mission at Lisbon forthwith, and it is supposed this step had been taken at the instance of NARVABZ. This BRAY°, it appears, was a great favourite at the Palace, and favourites, of course, are very jealous of each other. The follow ing reports from Committees were laid before the Chamber :—The report of the mixed Committee on the authorisation granted to Ministers to promulgate organic laws by royal decrees. Another on the Clergy Dotation Bill, the majority concurring in the views of the Government; and the report on the con version of the debts proceeding from contracts into Three per Cent. Stock, to which the Committee like wise gave its sanction. MADRID Bouasa, DEC. 16.—Three per Cents. for cash, 32k; 33 for Account. Five per Cents. 22i for cash; 22i for Account. Floating Debt, 77 for 28 days; Coupons, 26 for Account. Some of the Paris papers have comments on the enthusiasm with which Sir HENRY POTTINGER has been welcomed in England, and more particularly on his speech at the Liverpool dinner. The Journal des Debats, however, is silent on the subject, for a good reason. A few weeks since it put forth in the shape of a leading article certain statements respecting the Chinese treaty, but evidently furnished by a corre spondent in the East, asserting that the treaty was a mere nullity, and the English negotiator had been completely overreached by Chinese cunning. We no ticed the absurdity of the article at the time, and the Presse adduces the authority of Sir HENRY POTTIN GER as a proof that the editor of this Ministerial journal had been imposed upon by a correspondent who trusted more to his imagination than facts. " The simple fact," it says, " of the solemn ovations of which Sir HENRY POTTINGER is at present the object on the other side of the Channel would of itself be well calculated to interest France. Another mo tive, however, induces us to direct the attention of our readers to the late banquet at Liverpool. In the speech delivered by Sir HENRY POTTINGER there is to be found information important not only for English merchants, but likewise for those of France. Sir HENRY POTTINGER spoke of China and of the men who preside over her desti nies in such terms that many persons in France ought to regret the levity with which they have often treated that country. One journal related some months since, in the most serious manner, a ridiculous history, according to which the treaty of Ningpo was a mere mystification. According to that story, the Chinese negotiator had bribed Sir HENRY POT TINGER'S interpreter, and, thanks to the complicity of that agent, the written treaty contained stipulations of a totally different nature from those which had been verbally agreed on between the Chinese and English Plenipotentiaries. Not only has the speech of Sir lIENRY POTTINGER reduced this assertion to its just value, but it gives some important informa tion relative to the man appointed by the EmeEnolt to treat with the European Powers. That statesman) KEY-ING, had the charity to inform the British re presentative that the Chinese are a religious people who are scandalised at the sight of a drunken Euro pean, and that if the British seamen who touch at the coast of China continue to lead that dissolute life of which they have so often given an example, the commercial relations opened by the treaty would pro. duce but little advantage. The advice is worthy of our attention, and we trust that French shipowners may take notice of it, until the extraordinary embassy directed by M. LAGRENEE shall have completed its observations, and shall have obtained more direct in formation." The Constitutionnel states that the intention enter tained at one time of bringing forward Bills this session to grant a civil list to the Duke of NEMOURS, in case of his becoming Regent, and also dotations to some of the younger branches of the Royal Family, had been abandoned by the Ministry. The Prefects through out the country bad been consulted as to the opinions of the Deputies on the subject, and the answers from them generally are unfavourable. It appears from the Paris journals that the exe cution of the assassin who attempted the life of the King of PRUSSIA. has excited an unfavourable feeling towards royalty at Berlin, as it seemed hard, after so long delay, to carry the sentence unexpectedly into effect. The Journal des Debals thus apologises for the KING'S conduct : "It appears that the execution of Tschech, and the somewhat strange circumstances that preceded it, hare made a painful impression at Berlin. The long interval that had elapsed since the attempt had naturally corro horated the 'Lotion that a denouement more favourable to the condemned would hare taken place. Singular inci dents also arose which public opinion has commented on in various ways. The necessity of choosing between what he considered a political duty and his religious scruples had thrown the King into the utmost perplexity. It is said that, being desirous to escape that alternative, he had im ag i ne d several odd expedients. He wanted, at first, to delegate his right of pardoning to the Prince of Prussia, who would have decided the question. Ile next had the idea of suspending the decision until his death, and of leaving to his successor the task of pronouncing upon the fate of the offender. Meanwhile physicians and clergymen successively visited Tshech, the former to strive to discover some symptoms of insanity or mono mania ; the latter to kindle in him some glimmerings of repentance; but the efforts of both parties failed. At length the affair was submitted to the Council, 'A hen it was the unanimous opinion of the Ministers that the King owed it to his people, whose affection had been so conspi cuously manifested when the attempt had taken place, and to all Sovereigns who bad been outraged in his per son, not to make justice recede before the obduracy of a criminal. The Prince of Prussia is stated to have said that to all these reasons he had one to add, which was personal to himself, namely, that he could not accept the share of inheritance it was contemplated to leave him. Fresh scruples then arose in the mind of the King, who asked whether his people, whose affection had so warmly displayed itself when the attempt on his person had been made, still persisted in the same feelings ; and his Ma jesty reverted to the notion that, if he clearly saw his duty as a King, he had also his duty as a Christian to fulfil, and could not prove himself severer than Provi dence which had saved him. At length, overcome by the entreaties of his Ministers, he resigned himself to signing the warrant of death ; but his emotion was so deep that, after doing it, he fell into deep dejection, and shed abundant tears. In signing the warrant, he stipulated that M. de Kleist, First President of the Chamber of Justice, should attend the execu• lion, and be the bearer of a pardon in the event of Tschecb, at the last moment, evincing some repentance. Lastly, the King left Charlottenburgh, which is on the road from Berlin to Spandau, in order to spend a few (lays at Potsdam. On his side, Tschech, who had two days before been apprised of his noon, had continued deaf to every exhortation. Doctor Gerlach, the Court chaplain, having again been sent to him, on the last evening, Tschech roughly repulsed him, persisting in glorying in his crime, and in rejecting religious assist ance. He separated in the same way from his daughter, expressing to her the hope that they should soon meet again. At Spandau, at the fatal moment, M. de Kleist atire,sed him for the last time, and asked whether, in presence of eternity, lie did not feel some repentance ? He replied, with wore resolution than ever, that he did not, and that, on the contrary, he had done a great action. He began a speech, but had not time to finish it. It was then half-cast seven, Two or three hundred persons at the utmost were on the spot." The French Three per Cents, were done at Tou TONI'S on Sunday at 85f. 65c. moment's serious consideration ! Verily, we repeat, the Bishop of EXETER is a most extraordinary logician, but, to the credit of his consistency be it said, that he practices what he preaches I We are accustomed, in this country, to take credit to ourselves for this especial excellency in our social institutions—namely, the tenderness they manifest for human life. It is the beautiful theory of our law that this tenderness appreciates as highly the value of ex istence to the meanest and most abject, not only of our fellow-subjects, but of our fellow-creatures (for its sympathy is not bounded by considerations of mere nationality), as it estimates the value of exist ence to the wealthiest, the most ennobled, or the most powerful among us. Pity! that this theory should be marred by occasional exceptions in practice; and the more pity, because it is easy to perceive that, according to the spirit of those institutions and of that law, this humanity of intention was meant to be ho nestly developed in their practical working. But the practical exceptions we speak of are neither few, nor trifling, nor simply accidental, nor limited in kind, nor venial in their principle, nor unpernicious in their example, nor undestructive in their consequences. Tenderness for human life is not the positive charac teristic of the scheme, nor the crowning glory of the administration of our New Poor Law, and of our Model - Prison-and-Penitentiary-Silent -systems of dis cipline. It is not a power which withdraws the poor labourer from the hideous employments with which the calculating recklessness of cupidity too often tempts the uncalculating recklessness of poverty. It permits the famishing artisan, who heeds more the claims of his wife and his family upon him for the immediate demands for subsistence, than the deleterious influence of the occupa tion which is to provide it on the vital functions of his own frame, to labour in white-lead works for certain para lysis, visceral disorganisation, and speedy death. It encourages, by its apathy or its silence, the devotion of others to other labours, the mechanical processes of which are known to entail, inevitably, on all who en. gage in them, the visitation, within periols more or less brief in their duration, of maladies that destroy the sight, cripple the limbs, vitiate the palate, ruin the digestion, or ulcerate the lungs. This tenderness of our law, unhappily, omits to set itself in action in re ference to a dozen or two of what are called by the gentle, yet significant name of "unhealthy trades ;" such as many departments of foundry, smelting, casting, distillation from noxious mineral substances, the ge neration of certain gases, the composition of some chemicals, &c. Its solicitude for human life forces one, perhaps, out of a score of the owners of works set in motion by powerful in-door machinery, to pro tect the operatives employed under the same roof by the erection of galleries, or screens to ward off the fatal contact of revolving wheels, and shafts, and spindles. These are the excepted cases to prove the same theory ; unhappily the rule is rather established against it by a majority of appalling accidents, occa sioning a vast amount of bodily suffering and violent deaths. We might, if we chose to descend into our mines, or to explore our colliery pits, or to intrude even upon the privacy of the work-rooms of many of our principal dressmakers and Court milliners, mul tiply the examples in which the sacrifices of health, And even of life itself, to the excitement of trading competition, or the selfish importunity of vanity and fashion —every week or every month of the year. But there are some domestic calamities, the awful frequency of which we must rather reckon by every day of every week—that tear from us, in the heart of this great capital, their unhappy victims to mutilation, agony, and death of the moat frightful kind, without either the " tenderness" of the theory of our law, the sym pathies of our common nature, the influences of a salutary fear, the warnings of experience, or the loss of property accruing from sueh incidents, arousing us, their survivors, to the duty of making well-organised and efficient provision, to the utmost practicable ex tent, against the recurrence of such disasters, or for the mitigation of their extent and severity when they happen. We allude to that class of accidents which we have so constantly to announce under the heading of "Destructive" fires, " attended with loss of human life." These terrible cases have been, of late, over whelming from their extent, their number, and their fatal termination. We need not pause for a moment except to notice, by name, the last we have had to an nounce—namely, the fire at Mr. FAHEY'S, in Guild ford-street, Russell-square. It will occupy, however, a melancholy prominence on the list of these casual ties, for its destruction of life as well as of property. On the present occasion we advert to it simply to point our question—Why is not an adequate, and effi cient system of fire-escapes organised in this metro polis? Shall we talk of our " tenderness for life" while whole hecatombs of human victims perish annually in this manner at the shrine of that bad deity—whatever it be—which is the impersonation of parochial carelessness or apathy, stupidity or parsimony ? An unfortunate youth, of high promise it may be, in the profession into which he has just been instituted, shall be consumed to ashes, it seems, for want of some external means whereby he might have escaped from his dormitory at the top of the house in which he slept into the street ; and active officers, appointed for the conservation of the peace and property of the residents within their appointed district, perish beneath the flaming ruins below, for want of the same assistance in carrying out their spirited design of rushing to the relief of those above. There can be awarded no praise too great to such a body as the fire brigade, or such a public servant as their admirable superintendent, Mr. BRAIDWOOD; but if a competent, vigilant, prompt, and mo,t effec• tive force can be thus organised, equipped, and main tained for 'extinguishin g fires, why not a body, equally well appointed, for the higher object of rescuing the lives which these fires put in such eminent jeopardy ? Hitherto all the machines prepared for the purposes of escape from fire have proved comparatively use less, in the very small and almost fractional number of cases in which they have been employed —or even thought of. This result we are not disposed to at tribute to such causes of inefficient working as their incompetent structure, their inadequate height, or strength, or application, which CHARLES DICKENS THE PANTOMIME AT THE SURREY THHATRB.—The title of this Christmas piece of amusement is Pounds, Shillings, and Pence ; or, Harlequin, L. S. D. It has been got up with great care, and at considerable expense ; and, it is presumed, will produce to the spirited lessee a hundred per cent., and to the public amusement equal at least to twice that amount of ♦alue for the price of admission. The whole of the pantomime has been in- vented and written by Mr. Nelson Lee, and will be pro duced under the direction of that excellent manager, Mr. R. Honner. somewhere puts, in his sarcastic manner, into the mouth of a Professor "No-go," for some of the machines we have seen are simple, and cleverly adapted enough. But there is no one establishment for them;—no stuff for such an establishment. When half-a-dozen people have been burned to death in one of these devouring fires, we may, perchance, see half-a-dozen charity boys exemplifying the merits of the last new invented " escape" in safe descents, at broad noon, from a two or three story window into the street of some tradesman, who speculates on the sensation produced by the recent calamity to dispose of a few score yards of questionable bed-ticking. But for any purposes of practical escape—the inmates of any house, on fire, that very night, in that very street, would have as little chance of saving them selves by TILE "escape" which had that afternoon amused the passengers who had had leisure enough to look at the young exhibitors in it, as a skater tumbling through the ice of one of the Hampstead heath ponds would find of being helped out again, by vociferating for the Humane Society's men, or their dragS, or their skiff, stationed on the Serpentine SUPPOSED CASE OF POISONING AT HOLIIECK.- During the last few days a great deal of excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood of Ilolbeek, arising out of the fact that a married woman, named Illingworth, bad met with an untimely death. Deceased was the wife of William Illingworth, a clock and watchmaker, residing in Ifolbeck-line, and a leading Socialist, who had also living iu his house another woman, named Simpson, by whom he has had two children. The co roner's jury has sat twice upon the body, and at the time our paper was p u t t o p ress t h ey were s i tt i ng a th i rd time ; the result of the investigation, therefore, cannot be stated in our present edition, but from what has come to our knowledge there is ground for very strong suspi cion that the wife has been wilfully poisoned.—Leeds Mercury. SEASONABLE GlFTS.—Yesterday, in the parish of St. Bride, Fleet-street, forty tons of coals wore chstri buted, under the direction of the parish authorities, amongst 570 poor deserving families of the parish. The gift i► paid for by subscription among the inhabitants. There will be a second distribution of the same quantity on the 21st of January next, .r .E NUN, LONDON, TITESDAV EVENG. DECEMBER 24, 1344. • MONEY AND Ci OINIERCIAL i.; S CITY, QUARTER TO TH - R.EE. A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes terday at full rates. Sales 14,000 bales, of which specu lators took 4,500, comprising 1,000 Egyptian at sid. to 60., 1,000 Pernam. at sd. to 54d., 600 Maranham at 4kd. to 3,000 Surat at 20. to 31d., and the rest American at 3ed. to 51d.—Shares were active, and at higher rates gem rally. Birmingham and Derby, 83i ; Caledonian, 44 is. Gd. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 34 ; Churnet Valley, 3k 4 ; Eastern Counties, 14i, a ; Eelin burgh and Glasgow, 64 ; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto, Half, 112 i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 102} 103; Ditto Half, 514 51 ; London and Birmingham, 229; Ditto and Brighton, 524 ; Ditto and Croydon, 17k ; Ditto and South- Western, 83i ; Manchester and Leeds, 120 i 121; Ditto, Half, 52i ; Midland Counties, 1124 1131 ; North Union, 147 i; South-Eastern, 40 I; Ditto, New, 13k i; Trent Valley, 11 ; Paris and Lyons, 3i ; Paris and Rouen, 414 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 84 ; Bou logne and Amiens, si. The speech of the Queen of Portugal on the closing of the Cortes at Lisbon, on Ih4 14th instant, is not con sidered so very satisfactory to the mercantile interests as it may be held in other quarters. To a certain extent it is true that the management of the public finances has most materially improved, and that the interests of the foreign creditors have been thereby advanced. Her Majesty, therefore, may congratulate the members that the steps that have been taken to improve the revenue will powerfully concur to establish a complete organisa tion in this department of the State. But not one word is said in this royal document on the subject of any alterations in the tariff of duties as effecting British manu factures. Great Britain has made concessions in favour of the wines and other produce of Portugal. The Government of Portugal seems doggedly disposed to make no: return. This unquestionably is a bad feature, especially to an old ally, and one who, at a very vast expense, has protected the interests of the Portuguese nation, not only by cash, but by vast expenditure of British blood. At the same time, from all we hear, there is a rising disposition among the nobles and rich men of Portugal to liberalise the tariff, but for this simple reason, that they begin to think that it will be for the interests of their own country. Unquestionably, both Purtagal and England would be favourably influenced by an extension of the trade now carried on between each. There have not been any colonial arrivals this morning. The additional correspondence that has takea place between the Chairman of the Committee of South Ame rican Bondholders and the Financial Agents of the Mexican Government here is anything but satisfactory. The Committee require full information as to remit tances, the sum in hand to pay the dividends, and whe ther any further instructions upon matters concerning their interests have been received by the last packets. The Messrs. Lizardi and Co. to these natural inquiries, thus cavalierly reply .--- "26, Austin Friars, Dec. 21, 1844. "Sir—We have to state, in reply to your letter of the 19th instant, received yesterday, that the public 'are always informed of the amount received by each packet, on account of the Mexican Government, and that we have no instructions to give any further in formation on the subject.—We are, &c., "F. DE LIZARDI AND CO. " Per procuration Manl. J. De Lizardi. " G. R. Robinson, Esq." The importance of Southampton as a port for the dis charge of cargoes of a perishable nature has bet n fully deinonstratt d by two cargoes of oranges, ex Quiver and Heroine (bringing together upwards of 1,200 St. Michael packages), being landed there yesterday, to be sold to-day, at three ,'clock, by the selling brokers, Keeling and Co., in London, just in time to supply the holiday consumers, which, under other circums :mem would have been, by the easterly wind, shut out from the market. The Railway and Dock :)irectors have made a further reduction in the carriage, the shipowners have reduced the freight consequent upon the vessels discharging at Southampton, therefore a greater inducement is held out to the merchant to pre ter the latter port to that of London. The vexatious question respecting the dispute with the Customs as regards the measurement of the boxes still continues by the seizure of the various cargoes as they arrive, and the increased duty is paid by the brokers under protest, pending the decision of the Lords of the Treasury : and it is this overstraining for fiscal duties that will eventually accomplish more for free trade prin ciples than all the arguments that can be possibly ad duced. The Funds have been steady this morning, and but little business doing. Consols for the Account have only fluctuated from 100 to 1004 ; the Reduced Three per Cents. from 1004 to 1001 • the New Three-and-a-Quar ter per Cents. from 103 f to 1031; and Exchequer Bills from 635. to 665. premium. India Bonds are at 808. premium. India Stock at 286 for Account, and Bank Stock at 209. In the Foreign market business has been very brisk, though the members are "taking wing" to the country for the Christmas holidays. Spanish have reached 28; the Three per Cents., 384 ; French Scrip, li- to 2 pre. mium ; Danish, 89 ; Belgian, If premium ; and Portu guese Converted, 60k. Dutch, 988. Mexican Five per Cents, remain steady, and so do Colombian. The Railway Share market is rather heavy to-day. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 35 per Cent. Ann u ti es Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2h 1-16 Ditto 30 years, Oet.lo, 1859 ll India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001 BO Consols for Opening - Exchequer Bills. lid. 14d. 1,0004 5004 Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ........ -- FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted 594i Ditto for the Account 6O 59i 604 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 27414 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds ••• 6 i till Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 3854 Ditto for the Account 3844 38 Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Churnet Valley... Direct Northern Dublin and Galway Eastern Counties Grand Junction 100 227 London and Birmingham ...100 228 London and Brighton 5O ...... 51* London and Croydon London and York... 24 ... .. 444 to Manchester and Leeds 7O Ditto 4 Shares Midland North Kent Norwich and Brandon 8 ....... 134 ...... to South-Eastern and Dover... 334 Ditto, New... Trent Valley... ............ ..... 2 ...... 104 Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux... .« 2 Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen. Strasburg and Bale MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 23 —We have had a brisk market, and a good business has been done at advanced prices. Eastern Counties, 14~ ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. 6d. ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 37i premium ; Manchester and Birming ham, 52 ; Midland, 401. Shares, 5i ; Birkenhead, Man chester, and Cheshire Junction, Gif ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 3/. 19s. ; Churnet Valley, 3i ; Hudders field and Manchester Rail and Canal, 4 5-16 ; Liver pool, Orm3kirk, and Preston, 2 1-16 ; London and York, 4 7-16 ; Manchester and Buxton, 38s. 6d. ; West Yorkshire, 61 ; Manchester and Salford Water works, 56i ; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, INNOVATIONS IN THE CI-MECH.—We have been informed that a meeting of noblemen and gentlemen took place on Friday, to consider the propriety of adopting some active measures with respect to the pre sent disturbed state of the Church on those matters which have recently been so much the subject of dis cussion. The meeting, which had been convened by private circular, took place, as we are informed, at Lord Howard's, in Belgrave-square. The proceedings were all preliminary, but a committee was appointed to draw up for approval a memorial, to be addressed either to the Queen or the Archbishop of Canterbury, as may hereafter be determined. It was agreed that there should he another meeting, as we understand, at which some definite course will be determined upon; but at the time the meeting was held it was supposed that there was to he a meeting of the Bishops, to consider the state of the Church with respect to the recent innovations. As it is understood that the meeting of the Bishops will not take place, the further proceedings of the parties who met en Friday will not now be delayed to await its result. DARTMOUTH ELECTION.-DARTMOUTH, MONDAY'. —A public meeting of Mr. Moffatt's friends was held at the London Tavern on Saturday evening. At a few mi nutes before seven the chair was taken by Capt. Bulley, the Chairman of Mr. Moffatt's Committee, who an nounced the satisfactory progress of their canvas since the last meeting. Mr. Moffatt addressed the meeting at some length, amidst continued cheering, lie refuted the charges that had been brought against the Liberal party by their Tory opponents, and assured them that there was no doubt of their ultimate success if the constituency were only true to. each other, and resisted, as they hitherto had done, the improper interference of their opponents. Mr. Nicholls afterwards spoke on the sub ject of free trade. Copy of an application, verbatem et literatum, made on Monday last, for permission to serenade the good people of Newport, Monmouthshire, by a modern Orpheus :—" Honoured Sir I applis to yer ilonur meself and three other Musishuners as well-known for our Slap up mussic in Bristul for an allowance to pl■y our hinstruments waties for this here Crismus ferstifal in Newpurt hand hinvironses. We has a fidle a Strumbone, a base Vilinlshilo and a Clarynet, and we plays the Polkats, and psalmes with other new hairs No malersta tion for money, until arter the ferstifal I ham your honers Obadint Survent Time Brian." --- A young woman at Rouen lost her life two days ago by the following fatal error. Intending to put a spoonful of orange-flower water into a tumbler of sugar and water, she took up by mistake a bottle of nit rous acid of mercury, and put in a quantity suffichmt to pro duce immediately all the symptoms of poisoning, which acted with such violence that she expired in a very few minutes.—.Galignani. SUMMARY OF NEW AND 4jutUtt Optnton. " Who runs may read." POR.EXOI2. The Queen of Portugal prorogued the Cortes in per son on the 14th. Very destructive storms had taken place off the Portugne coast, by which several lives had been lost. In the Spanish Senate the report of the Constitution Reform Bill was brought up on the 16th, the Archbishop of Toledo having been elected president of that com mittee. The committee approves of the Bill. The Castellano mentions the departure of M. Gonzales Bravo for Lisbon. A letter from Logrono, of the 16th, expresses the hope that the prosecution instituted against General Iturbe, M. Gamboa, Colonel Bousingault, &c., will end in the royal mercy being extended to them. It was also expected that, in a day or two, the proclamation which had proclaimed Logrono in a state of siege, would be revoked. A letter from Turin states, that considerable sensation had been produced in that city early in the present month, by the violation of the Sardinian territory by a body of French gendarmes, douaniers, and other armed soldiers, who arrested some Sardinian subjects, and car ried them prisoners to Grenoble, to answer for alleged thefts committed in a furest on the French side of the frontier. Accounts from Constantinople announce that Dr. Wolff had arrived in safety at Teheran. His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchtenberg has returned to Munich from Eichstadt, where his Imperial Highness has been enjoying the sports of the field. The Duke purposes to be in St. Petersburgh on New Year's day, which, according to the Greek calendar, corresponds with the 12th of January. The Obserrateur Suiesse contains the following from Lucerne :—" The Central Government was seized with the greatest alarm on learning that numerous meetings had been held at Fraubrunnen and Zofinger. It immediately called out the Landwehr and for warded troops from Schwyz towards the frontier of the canton, in order to be able to enter Lucerne at the first signal. Numerous attempts at incen diarism have been made in the canton of Lucerne. The Pope's Nuncio has congratulated the Director of the Vorort on having overcome the party opposed to the Je suits." The Messager Suisse, after complaining in bitter terms of the apathy of the people of Lucerne, expressed indignation at the want of energy evinced in the execu tion of a plan of operation skilfully combined, and at the absence of the assistance promised by other cantons. 141100 aIVD IOLICA. In the Court of Exchequer an,action was brought by Mr. Holman, " a Lloyd's surveyor," to recuver com pensation from Mr. Brightman and another, representing the British Maritime Assurance Company, for a libel, imputing to him neglect, indiscretion, and misrepre,en tation in a report made by him respecting the condition of a vessel called the Brutus. Verdict for the plaintiff' —Damages, 501. More than one-third of the number of prisoners tried at Stafford were totally uneducated, included among whom are the two youths, Downing, 19, and Powys, 19, who are condemned for the murder of the gamekeeper. At Bow-street, Ebenezer Paron Ilingston, the pro sector to Dr. Todd, at King's College, Somerset-house, was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing from a cupboard in the porter's room at that place a coat and other articles, the property of Mr. John Farmer, of 11, Wellington-street, Strand. The prisoner was further remanded, to allow of other cases being inquired into, but the witnesses in. three cases were bound over to prosecute. COVILT PABUICONILIESSIM. The Hon. and Rev. gr. and Lady Elizabeth Grey have arrived at Castle Howard, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, who purpose receiving a select party there during the Christmas holidays. Lord and Lady Grantley have left town for Wonersh, near Guildford, for the Christmas recess. Lord and Lady Louth have left Louth Hall for Brigh ton, where they purpose residing during a few months. 2111.11307111LAINfaCIVS. At most of the Police-offices considerable sums have been received for the relief of the poor. The sitting Magistrate at Clerkenwell announced on Monday that he had received from Mr. C. Dixon, of Stansted Park, a cheque for 10/. ; T. li., 101. ; the Members of Stock Exchange, 51. At Union-hall, a donation of 10/. had been received for the poor-box of that Court, from Mr. Charles Dixon, of Stansted Park, Suffolk. The annual dinner of the Northumberland Hunt Club was held at the Assembly-rooms, Newcastle, on Thurs. day evening, Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., occupy ing the chair, and Edward Riddell, Esq., of Cheeseburn Grange, in the vice chair. Sir Charles Morgan's annual cattle show took place at Newport, on Wednesday last, when the venerable Baro net gave thirteen silver cups as prizes. Sir Charles pre sided at the customary dinner after the exhibition, when his sons, Mr. Charles Morgan, M.P., and Mr. O. Morgan, M.P., and a number of the local gentry were present. The Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company have given 500/. to Captain Ferguson, of the late ship " Ceylon," as a testint,nial of his exertions in saving a box containing 6,000 sovereign s from the wreck of that vessel, with directions to remunerate such individuals of his crew as he may think deserving. The feeling of the Devonshire people (says the Western Times) with respect to the Bishop's dictatorial and tyran nical pastoral, increases in fervour. Nearly every parish has met in Exeter to remonstrate against the haughty and overbearing spirit of the Bishop, and at least nine teen-twentieths of the churchmen of Exeter have, through their vestry meetings, pronounced their deter mination to resist episcopal dictation. The example so promptly set by Exeter has been widely followed throughout the county, and we have no doubt that every considerable parish will, before long, have delivered its opinion on the question. On Monday three persons were killed at a colliery near Morriston, in Wales, by an explosion (Jf foul air. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." The coroner's jury which sat at Greenwich on the bodies of the men drowned by the collision between the Sylph and the Orwell steamers, have returned a verdict of " Accidental death." They attach, however, certain blame to the captain of the Sylph, SOUTHAMPTON DOCK CO MPANT.—Yesterday a special general meeting of this Company was hold at the offices in Bishopsgate-street Within ) to receive and con. , sides' the engineer's plans and estimates for the con struction of a graving dock, and for receiving the draft of an amended Act of Parliament to be obtained in the ensuing session. The chair was taken by Col. Barlow, who said the docks were fast improving in public estima • tion, which was mainly confirmed by the price of the shares, which had risen from 101. to W. each. Be I alluded to the subject of the graving dock, which he said was absolutely necessary to render the docks com plete for the public accommodation. The sum required he had no doubt might he obtained as low as 4 per Cent. The report was read by the Secretary, and stated that the dock would be for the accommodation of large steam and merchant vessels. The site for the graving dock was selected by;Mr. John Stansfield, C.E., whose report, with that of Mr. Alfred Giles. was read to the meeting. The length of the dock would be 202 feet, and the cost of construction would be about 42,0001., to which must be added a bridge of ten feet in width, which would cost an additional 1,500/. The Directors being authori. ed to raise 150,000/, begged the sanction of the meeting for raising 50,0001. for the purpose of making the graving dock, and for applying to amend their Act of Parlia ment. After some discussion, power was given to the Directors to raise the sum required, to whom and the Chairman a vote of thanks was passed, and the meeting separated. FORMATION OF A PUBLIC PARK AT CLIFTON.— The Society of Merchants have lately purchased a large piece of ground in the centre and principal part of Clifton, in order to preserve it for the benefit of the public. 'The purchase was made at a higher price than the land was worth, but it was paid rather than let the around be sold for building purposes. It is intended to lay the ground out in a tasteful and park-like manner, so as to make it conducive to the public recreation, and to preserve the view of a fine and noble terrace, lately erected at a considerable expense. It is probable that the munificent public spirit displayed in this instance will be followed by other acts of similar liberality. One noble minded gentleman has already offered to give up a valuable piece of ground adjoining the land so pur chased, and leading to and from Saville place to Rich mond-terrace, in order to give easier access to the road leading to Clifton Down, ilotwells, Brandon-hill, &c., thus combining convenience with delightful drives and scenery. This gentleman, a short time hack, gave the sum of 1,000/. towards the new church lately erected.— Bristol paper. Lady Cowley gave her second and last reception soiree last Tuesd a y, prev i ous to entering more seriously into the gaieties of the approaching season ; but the death of Lord Cowley's sister will now inevitably cause a postponement of the fetes projected at the embassy.— Court Journal His Grace the Duke of Cleveland has announced his intention of giving 100/. towards erecting a Mecha nics' Institution at Barnard Castle, as an express memo-. rial of the late H. T. M. Witham, Esq. Subscriptions are now making to carry out that project. The Lord Chancellor , accompanied by Lady Lynd hurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, left George-street, Hanover-square, on Saturday, !or Turvile Park, near Henley-upon• Thames, where his Lordship is expected to remain until Thursday, the 10th of Januar), when the Christmas vacation will end. Viscount Sandon has joined the circle assembled at the Earl of Harrowhy's seat in Staffordshire. The Earl and Countess of Harewood have been enter taining a succession of guests at Harewood house, near Leeds. Earl Talbot, who has been on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, has returned to In gestre Hall. The Dowager Countess of Mansfield and Lady Eliza beth Murray left Scone Palace, near Perth, early in the last week, for the south, intending en route to make a sojourn in Yorkshire, where the Earl of Mansfield's youthful family are residing. The Duke of Buccleuch has arrived at Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, for the holidays. The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Devonshire House, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Granville at Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Haddington had a select circle at dinner on Saturday last, at the Admiralty. The Noble Countess came to town from Tynninghanae at the close of last week. THIS DA lt" S N Fi.:: NV s; CROOKHAVEN.—Arrd. Bencoolen, Manilla ; Provi dence, Ford, Ichaboe ; Brockett, Valparaiso ; Mersey, 111‘Beth, Quebec; Lavinia, Kellar, Newfoundland. OFF CA5n. -- .llAvEx.—Mary Ann, Laguina. OFF CORK.—Princess Royal, Boodless, Calcutta. GLANDORE, DEC. 2 o.—Arrd. Star of Belfast, Africa, for London. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY. HAY INL&RXETS. SMITHFIELD.—COarge Meadow Hay, 31 105 to 41 lOs Useful ditto, 41 12s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand, at full prices. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 41 15s; Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5155; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s to 5/ 12s ; Clover Hay, 4l lOs to St 18s; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 168 ; Wheat Straw, 1/17s to 2/ per load. Supply rather limited, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 16s to 4/ 15*; Useful ditto, 41 16s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to Si 103 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ 2s; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 18s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. COLONIAL SUGAIL—The markets being closed for public sales, we have only to report as the additional transactions since our last on Friday morning, sales of Barbadoes Sugar at 52s to 681 for low soft to fine bright yellow ; and in Mauritius at 523 to 61s 6d, for good greyish brown to fine yellow. Large arrivals of the new crop of the latter are coming in. A cargo of brown Bahia (about 600 chests) has been sold afloat at 188 6d, deliverable over the ship's side in London, for refining in bond, the buyer paying landing charges. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 32 hhds, and there were taken for home consumption 841 hhds 109 trcs 216 brls. The stock in the same places is 9,071 hhds 1,123 trcs 1,666 brls. COFFEE.—CeyIon privately has been in good request, pale good ord broken to fine ord brownish at 50 s to 545, and iu t good ilt._ oTridieaqtusa2nstittoy d s la t6 e d d plaesrtc:.etek the East and . West India Docks was 15 puns 1 hhd, and there were taken for home consumption 335 puns 43 hhds, and ex ported 326 puns 79 hhds. The stock in the same places is 10,735 puns 1,179 hhds. Corros.—Owing to the greatly increased demand at Liverpool, the article has been more sought after here, at fuller rates. TEA.—There has been a good business, and at rather higher rates in some instances. Common Congou, 11d per lb ; end low yellow-leafed Twankay, is 3d per lb cash. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. in rather quiet at 40s 3d to 40s 6d per cwt on the spot. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West Hartley, 25s ; Carr's Hartley, 25s ; Charlotte Main, 25s 6d ; Holywell Main, 27s 6d ; Morrison's llartley, 22s 6d ; Old Pontop, 20s Gd ; Ord's Redheu,gh, 23s ; Old Tanfieid. 2ls ; Ravensworth West Hartley, 23s 6d ; South Pontop, 20s 6d ; Taylor's West Hartley, 24s 6d ; West Wylam, 25s ; Wylam, 23s 6d ; W. E., I3evricke and Co., 27s 6d ; W. E., Clennell, 25s ; W. E., Norton, 25s ; W. E., Urpeth, 24s ; W. E., Woodefield, 19s ; Eden Main, 265; Lambton'e Primrose, 255; W. E., Belmont, 25s to 25s 6d ; W. E., Braddyll's lletton, 26s 6d ; W. E., Hetton, 26s to 27s ; W. E., Lambton, 265, 275, 30s ; W. E., Morrison, 27s 6d ; W. E., Rich mond, 26s 6d ; W. E., Stewart's, 27s ; W. E., Caradoc, 26s ; W. E., Heseldon, 26s ; W. E., Trimdon, 27s ; W. E., Adelaide, 27s to 27s Gd ; Coundon Tees, 26s ; M`Lean's Tees, 25s ; North Durham, 235; Richardson's Tees, 26s ; South Durham, 26s ; Seymour Tees, 27s ; Killingwortb, 25s 6d.—Ships arrived, 68. Good-service money has been awarded by the Commander-in-Chief to Lieutenant• General henry Monckton, and Major-Generals Alexander Thomson and Wm. Alexander Gordon, the former of whom is to receive 177/. per annum, and the two latter 1001. each, from the 7th of the present month. The grant of these pensions has been followed up by the selection of Major- Generals H. G. Hare Clarges and )Y. F. P. Napier, for the increased daily rata of pay of 255., the first from the 3d inst., and the second from the 7th..—United Service Gazette. DEPARTURE OF AN AMERICAN LIN ER.—OH Satur day last the beautiful new ship Victovia, belonging to the regular line of packets sailing between London and New York, left St. Katharine Docks for - the latter place with eighty passengers, the majprity .of IA ho m were agriculturists. The above line ves.7el is 938 tons bur then, and has taken out a very unit 11 cargo of fancy gooeis. She took out 300 tons of chalk •as ballast. FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—In eom. - equence of the gross irregularities which have been recen. tly discovered in the St. Katherine Docks, four otlicet, s connected with the vaulting and delivery department . have been suspended, and a rigid inquiry is going on, seb. ich it is expected will lead to important disclosures, • _ .. . _ . THE FIRE in GUILDFORD-STREET LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.) The greatest excitement continues to prevail in the neighbourhood of the lamentable occurrence, and hundreds of persons, apparently strangers to the locality, visited the place in the course of the morning, and con tinued viewing the ruins for some time, regardle: n of the intense frost which has prevailed for the last few days. During the whole of yesterday a body of work men n ere actively engaged in clearing away the rub bish. At an early hour this morning they resumed their labours, and a great portion of the rubbish—for in truth the valuable contents of the house are nothing else— were removed into the street; but up t.) one o'clock, though their exertions were not ruluxed in the least, the bodies of the unfortunate men who were buried in the ruins have not been discovered, nor is it likely that they will be found until late in the afternoon or evening of to day. The delay in the discovery of the bodies is mainly attributable to the iternense heap under which they are buried, and the difficulty in removing it, a great portion having to be removed almost piecemeal. The two large fire-proof iron safes, which are of im mense weight, and which contributed in a great measure to accelerate the falling of the floors, and the consequent catastrophe, were got out in the course of the morning, by the combined exertions of upwards of twenty men. Their contents, which consist of valuable plates and drawings, and other property of considerable ♦alue, were found uninjured. An immense quantity of books and plates, all of which are stated to be of extreme value, were also removed and conveyed to the new resi dence of Mr. Farey, in Regent-square. The exertions of the workmen have been mainly directed to the re moval of the burnt embers immediately adjacent to the door in the vicinity of which the bodies are believed to lie ; and they have cleared them away to within a couple of feet of the ground. A body of the E divi sion of police, under the direction of Inspectors Medley and Bell are in attendance, and found much difficulty in keeping the crowd out of the roadway, and from retard ing the labours of the workmen. Several ellows are hawking about a spurious account of the fire at the " small price of one halfpenny," to use their words, which meet with a ready sale to the lovers of the mar vellous. The first dozen lines relate to the fire, but the remainder relates to the late accident on the River, al though they are closely combined. It was stated in some of the newspapers of yesterday, that the firemen found a man in an insensible state of intoxi cation in the wine cellar, T . and it was surmised that he had accidently set the premises on fire. A stretcher was obtained, and he was conveyed to the station-house, suffering from the effects of the smoke and heat, and he was taken before the magistrate at Clerken well Police-office yesterday, but as it appeared that lie accompanied some of the firemen into the house, for the purpose of aiding them in their endeavcurs to get the tire tinder, but having accidentally obtained access to the cellar, and having imbibed some of its contents, and be come insensible, his life, but for his accidental discovery by the firemen, would have paid the forfeit of his fully. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) Commissioners Evans and liolroyd sat this morning but no case of any importance came before them. IN nE JARVIS. The insolvent, a builder, in Kennington-lane, applied for his interim order, and was examined by a solicitor, who appeared for several of the creditors. The Hon. Commissioner EVANS dismissed the peti tion, as the insolvent would not swear positively, or to the best of his belief, whether credit had been given to him in a certain account for payment of a 15!. bill of exchange. L- ,OYD'S SHIPPINti—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, I).Nc. 24.—Northerly breeze and cloudy. Orr PLYmouTu.—Louise, Hultman, Rio Janeiro for Gothenberg. OFF SEAFORD, DEC. Klean, Havannah for Amsterdam. RYE, DEC. 22.—Put back, Friends of Liberty, for London, with damage, having been in contact with a large schooner. OFF DUNGENESS, DEC. 22.—John Willis, Willis, De merara; Sultan, of Halifax, Quebec, out 26 days. NORSTON, NEAR BLAKENEY, DEC. 22.—The stern of a boat, marked " Etheibert, of London, Charles Moor," has been picked up on Clay Beach. SPALDING, DEC. 22.—The Diligent, Pain, of this port, caught fire, but did not receive much damage. HULL, DEc. 22.—Arrd. Wolga, Rio Janeiro for Ham - burgh, with sails split. WELLS, DEC. 23.—The Ouse, Hendry, of this port, in coming in, 21st inst., struck heavily and is making water. INVERNESS, DEC. 19.—The Farmer, of this po r t, f rom Liverpool, was totally l os t off Whitenhead, 6th inst. OFF CORK, DEC. 18.—Romana, Charleston for Li verpool. WHITBY, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Heroine, of Honfleur; Example, of St. Vacot (coal laden), both with slight da mage, having been in contact. NEWPORT, DEC. 22.—S1d. Marquis of Bute, Jamaica; William Wright, Ascension. DEAL, Disc. 23.—Wind E., moderate ; S.E.—Arrd. Charlotte, Kramer, Valparaiso, Hatnburgh; Walvisch, Schut, Batavia, for Amsterdam. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind N.B. to N.—Arrd. Broederstrow, Batavia, for Amsterdam. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Montrose steamer, Gibraltar, left 14th inst. COWES, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Peter, Coiling, New York, for Hamburg!). FALMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Courrier de Mole, Croerde, Port Republican, for Havre; Elizabeth Holderness, St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 23. —Wind E.S.E., modcra!e.—Arrd. Adelaide, llanaah, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed Primrose, Charleston; Express, Bombay; William Peile, ni Buenos Ayres; George Canni ng , M aran h am ; I. 0., Tri dd FLANDERS MAiL• (RECEIVED THIS DA 4 - 0 Bausssm, DEC. 21,—We ha re s p o ken vague Ly 0 a difference which has manifested itself between tei° members of the Cabinet in the Secret -Committee en, Wednesday. We mus t a dd th a t thi s diff ere nce did not relate to the main point under discussion. The Minister of Justice has made two declaration s —the first on the sense to be given to the nineteenth nrticle of the treaty ; it was commor; to the whole Cabinet. The second, which was his own, personally related to the consequences in case of a neglair answer from the Court of Berlin. The Ninieteri . f f announcing that for his p a rt h e ma d e it a case , Ministerial responsibility, desired to give the Cher": a proof of his entire conviction. The difference wr only on the q ues ti on w h e th er th e guarantee (;fietr _i l by the Minister s h ou ld b e i nserte d i n the journals° the Chamber. It is asked, what - answer will the Cabitiet of Berlin make to the explanation required from Brussels ? We shall not h ave t hi s answer b e f ore the Is''. January, but Messrs. Mercier and Dechampe hav e announced the interpretatio n g i ven i n th e Belgian Chamber to Articles 19, as maintained by Ber n d'A mim and by Mr. Helmenlag, the Russian CO? missioner. We have received to-day a letter which confirm s what we have before said—the commercial nerd,'" tions between B e l g i um an d F rance are resu niew' After the vote of the Chamber on the 21st, approving, by a majority of 77 to 7, the treaty with the Zollre• rein, several projects of law, chiefly relative to Toth of credit for different branches of the public servic e ,_: were passed, and it was d ec id e d th a t th e Cham be r should adjourn to the lath of January next. Alt putation was cho sen t o p resen t th e respects t Chamber to the King and Queen on the Ist Januar& CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 4.—M. Von TiboW Bujukdere last week, and to the astonishment t, everybody, took up his abode on th e ground-floor the new Palace of the Legation at Pera, which O s , originally intended f o r th e servan t s . The fancfc' the public is busy in conjecturing what may be destination of the empty state apartments and sr cicala saloons in the upper stories of this truly spie r did palace. Sir Stratford Canning has returned from his I!: cursion to the Dardanelles, to his country hotiSs Bujukdere. It is said that Abdullah, Pasha of Trebisond' alarmed by the order of the Porte, to justify hit; self, has offered a large pecuniary indemnification . '' the ill-used Greek. The Pacha is said to be SIP threatened with an address to the chief Turks of Trek bisond to the Porte, repres en ti ng th e t yrann y whi' makes him hated by all classes, and earnestly desira that he may be removed. Dr. J. Wolff writes from Teheran, that Mg is chiefly indebted to the . support of the Persian bassador for his deliveratee—from the hands rapacious and murderous Bochaiiirts ; it las on% his protection that he succeeded in returning I$ Teheran. Several Turkish passengers were f rozen t o death the last steam-boat for Trebisond. Our thermosi ter is at zero (Reaumur), and the roofs were cove with snow. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 4.—The apprehensions e , breach between Sir S. Canning and the Turkish .°`:, nistry are happily not confirmed. Sir Stratfokd ser . with great moderation, and seems t o be quite coo; dent that all his demands w ill b e gran t e d. I n his i l excursion he visited the coast of Troy.: • - . DUTCH FUNDS.—AsurrEnasm, Dec. 20. ~ Money.," A etuial Debt. 4 2;4 per Cent ••••••••••••••••• 64 6414 Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent. ..... ....... ...... 79% 79 Ditto, ditto, 4 per Cent. ..."•.... 28 1. 4 D.A.. ante 5 pet cent. • ...... ... 99% l' - ,•inet't Svndic,4% per cent ............... SON 100 Ditto, ilitto, 3% pe.r cent .........«,..... 2i % 9.. 1 4 Commercial Company, 4%, per cent......... 14'7% b. Loan um, 4% percent. ... . . ................;.• ..- IK:change on Landes, Onemonth ........ 12 17ti Two months..., 12 12 At sight .......i Dutch Papers, Dec. 21. PANORAMA OF NAPLES-1' 0 „ , Mr. Burford has just brought out a grand pod ramie view by moonlight of the City and BO' 0 Naples. The b eau t y o f t h e b ay, w i t h its nurnsf e w , islands, and the grandeur of Vesuvius during an tion, are well known, and in this new work are hi fully and strikingly represented. Th e v iew is il Ac t i from th e b a y i n f ront fof the' isolated rock on` it'm the the Castle del Uovo is erected. From this polo W' two semicircular curves which form the bay Is C ; 00 1 mended throu g h ou t by th e e y e o f t h e spec tator, ip• every object of interest or importance is take e gins i On the left hand is the long line of 'the Msri' d Chiaja, and i n th e b a ck are seen th e palace* si " x i it hills, the villas, groves; vineyards, &c., tw ee, were, in terraces, and forming the middle cu s v i nio whilst further backwards the fort of St • x'. ew , and the Convent of St. Martino bound the i l l the The richness of the city to the west, Ana, IA background of hill s are a l so seen . O n the rig s are the Houses of Charity % the Royal Palace of C 5 di Monte, and the Castle Nuovo, the mole, and lir., house, dm During the eruption th e R oya l Palac e was censidered in imminent - danger, and his Neap°' litan Majesty withdrew to a safer abode. The Cele orated Isle of Capri, the infamous retreat ofd Roman tyrant, is seen in the distance of the pict_a r :r: Virgil's tomb is also introduced; and, in _ nothing seems to have escaped the eye of the of the or to have been omitted in his representati° e tstor or scene that can in a n y manner delight the sP ee einti ry rouse the recollections of the scholar and o'l is The general appearance is very imposing; th er dt h great grandeur o f e ff ec t an d magn ifi cen t bre& and the shadows. The water is well painted. W e reg o this as o ne o f th e fi nest o f a ll M r. B ur f or d's V it a. rous production s , an d we wou ld recomme nd all day people to take advantage of the opportunityj or see Napl es by moon li g ht, w hi c h th ey can do shilling. , TAVERN CHARGES AT DO VER .—" Waiter I /lO W much is my glass of brandy-and4ater 1—" The 21. Sir."—" Wh at ! 10 3 . G d. ?"—" Y es, S i r, brandy?' eye never charge less."—" Well."—" Sugar, 6d. ; n o t. charge less."—" Go on."—" Wantilights and d1L 5. 0 merit, ss."—" Why, I h ave on l y b een h ere fi ve —" That's not our fault, Sir ; we never charge lib' t 5, "Go on."—" S ervants , 2s."—" What !"—" 'not and chamb erma id ; never c h arge l ess. "—" Well, / c o .. next ?"--" The use of plate, glass, and linen, ls- ad " What d o y ou mean ?"—" T ea - spoon, tum bler, table-cloth ; never charge less ; but—we makes Y° l ' oet • present of the baling w a te r ."—" V er y we ll, there's 10s. Gd. and I shall write to the Ti mes ."—" Yes,. h's pen, ink ' , and paper, is ; n ev e r c h arge less."—run- E r ,„ Ahnanack. bd iel A Voice FROM THE g ood • by' should grow his own mutton. This is easily don e . palcing your c u st o m ers ' l egs i n a row , accor ding te L i , g e Having purchased the smallest le g y ou can find, e i liot it for o ne o f t h e b a ki ngs w hi c h i s a li tt l e l arge r :04 again s h ou ld ta k e t h e p l ace o f t h e next b u lkier,ll o and so on unt il you arr i ve at t h e l argest. Y ou can / or s walk off with your leg. A good crop of baked, tt i o, may be got by di gg i ng one ou t o f eac h custom er's —Punch's Almanach. part i ' Naw C URE FOR WHITLOW.—The suffer i ng „ t i t 's to be moistened with water, and then touched nitrate of s il ver , till t h e spot b eg i ns to b e di s colotlPl when it is to b e s i m ply covere d wit h li nt an d bandsg f e c i, If the complaint is of recent date, probably, on th! t be lowing day, all pains will cease, and, on the thirli cure is effected ; if of longer duration, the skin 1 / I t ie, more thickened, and, after acting on it with the ca u r det it must b e remove d with the scissors or knife,jf to give free exit to the collected matter undernest':° o of swelling an d re d ness are st ill present, t h e app liestto , :0 , the lunar caustic is to be repeated, till the tu mour w ei b i t , appears, an d t h e spot b ecomes f ree f rom pa i n. If ~etoer low happ ens on ca ll ous p ar t s o f t h e h an d , it will be I tt •fe to remove thin l a y ers o f th e ca ll ous s ki n w i t h the e ed before the caus ti c i s use d. W arm f oment i ons of lill s are likewise useful in such cases.—Medical Times. 10 0 FATAL A CCIDENT THROUGH THE I NC AC , ' HANDLING OF A G UN .—A n i nques t was h e ld o n Se tl y / ,,,. s . of W last, bef o r e M r . T. Ili ggx, C oro b er for the Dtle-dtbe Lancaster, at the Black Horse, Enfield-highway, , ° 7- r ord body of Ri c h ar d M oses, age d e i ghteen, who die° fol• the effects of a gun-shot wound, received under al i o, lowing ci rcumstances : —Si mon Brown, of Totte n . e of said he kn ew th e d ecease d, w h o h e was in the serv ic es! , of Mrs. B ergen, a mar k et gar d ener, res i ding near wi,tnedgs On Tue s d ay wee k l ast, h e was b y the side o f a he which s e p arate d hi s groun d f rom Mrs. Bergen's, 'oleos saw the deceased with a g t un. Hll He asked him if h e he shooting sn ip es , an d he replied " Yes." Witnes s e el looked at the gun, which was a very good one,. ou r returned it to deceased. Witness said here eorceVi e b, mi. tress, an d d ecease d hid t h e gun amongst some r w he dge. consistin g o f tw i gs, stopp i ng up a gap i n the as Mrs. Bergen did not come towards them. As s ° _,, e le of she wa s out o f s i g h t d eceased took hold of the siu'l o X the gun, an d d rew i t towar d s him, when it wel l . t he Witness saw sm o k e come f rom t h e trow sers 1 f the ° deceased, wh o exc l a i me d t h at h e was shot. lie ntlf taken to Mr. Moon, a surgeon, and was subsea on , removed to hi s f a th er ' s at E n fi e ld. M r J. 1 3 0 surgeon, wa s ca ll e d to atten d d ecease d , an d foun t he wounded in th e upper p art o f hi s r i ght t hi g h, nea r lo hip. lie went on favourably at first, but ery a w r h ieli supervened. O n W e d nes d ay lock j aw came on, „ pied caused his d ea th the same nig ace dentally Verdict — . ce i. from lock jaw, produced by a gun-shot woun d, dentally received." Viscount Villiers, 111. P , has given WO/. for the P111:f chase of bl an k ets and warm ' clothing for the Fo r Cirencester. :f THE EUTERPEON SOClETY.—liandel ' s o.•t° rio e . the Messi a h was per f ormed last even i ng by the "3190' hers of this society, at the British School-room , mark-terrace, Pentonville. The band aid V. consisted of about 150 performers, led by li f i'ider - Blagrove, and under the able direction of Mr. I . o sar a ness. The solo parts were sustained by Mis s fear e. Flower, Mrs. Newton, Mr. Leffler, and Mr. net' w ith The tw o l a di es were i n excellent vo i ce , an d sang esre d much ta s t e and judgment. Mr. Leffler (who ar ed to be suff er i ng from the effects of a cold) was in " Why do the nations so furiously . rdge• _ re st choruses w ere a d m i ra bly g i v e n , and reflect t o o credit on th e society . Th e com pany Wa3 num" and respectable. of th e a , An iron bridge laid across the Senne, in o ne e t sutlilunr bosb nobody upon Brussels, i twhen th fellonte accident heletb. oFccorurtnrent jit w