The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

On Saturday next will be published, in small 8v L. RUSSIA under; - 1•1 IC HO II A S I. By M. IVAX GOI.OVINE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 111arlborough• street. IMPORTANT AND .INTERESTING NEW WORK ON OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. Just ready. CPT AIN FREMONrS NARRATIVE of the EXPLORI ICI EXPEDITION to the ROCKY MOUN TAINS in the year 1842, and to OREGON and NORTH CALIFOR NI Ain the years 1843-4. By order of the United States Govern ment. Thil work, besides containing the most accurate and authentic in formation, from actual official survey, will be Amid extremely inte testin4 al a graphic deseription of novel and exciting scenes and adventures. Wiley and Putnam, 6, Waterloo-place ; and at all the Booksellers THEATRE ROYAL, DEITRY-LANE. THIS EVENING repeated a Grand Opera, in three acts, caIIecUMARITANA. Ciar'es the Second, Mr. Bgrani ; Don Ctesar De Bazars, Mr. W. li.rr,on Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H.' Phillips ; Maritans, Miss ; '.azarillo, Miss Poole. Ater which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE t L TO PAY, in which.,Mons. Bretie, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri , babas (of ti'e Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. P.o.ne, Mons. Deiferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. M. JULLIEN'S GRAND ANNUAL DAL MASQUE THIS EVENING. GENERAL ARRANGEMENT. The Doors will be opened at Half-past Nine o'clock. The Dancing will commence at Ten o'clock. fine Dances and general disposition•of the Ball-room will be under Superintendence of Fourteen Masters of the Ceremonies, with. -- 'd , ge arrangements the visitorsare respectfully requested to comply. .tefreshments, consisting of Ices, Sherbet, Tea, Coffee, and Carrara 7 " ;ter, will be served during the Evening Supper will be served at One o'clock. An•lience portion of the Theatre will, as before, be set apart ',eciators, whose Seats will be kept the whole Evening. .o entrance to the Ball-room will be at the Grand Entrance in Y-str.et. . ADMISSION. To the Ball•• • • -. • - • • • • • • • • • SPECTATORS. 'els Circles, As.; Boxes, 35.; Gallery Stalls, 35.; Galleries. 2e. Private Boxes, from 41. 4s. upwards .. •• • . 10s. 6d. r. vathan. of le, Castle-street, Leicester-square, is appointed -uniter to the Ball. . it. it is r e spntrully announced that no person will be admitted tie costume of Clown or Pantaloon. . REGULATION'S TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTIONS by CARRIAGES. At COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, THIS EVENING, MONDAY. Dec. 22,. 1e45. BOW-STREET. ILL CARRI ♦GES with Company going to the BALL and Box atran •es in Bow-street, are to enter Bow-street by RUssell-itreet, Id after Setting Down will draw off through Long• acre ; the same ri..ate to be followed in Taking Up. Private Carriages waiting to Take Up in Bow-street, to form a >ouble Line on the East Side of Bow-street frora Russell-street to -iake's-court, with their Horses' Heads towards Long-acre, till called r keeping clear the Crossing In Russell-street, and after Taking Up drive oil• by Long-acre. Hackney Carriages waiting to Take Up in Bow-street, to form in , •ingle Line in the Centre of Russell-street from Covent-garden-mar and along the West Side of Bow-street so far as the Pump, op posite the Pit Entrance, with their Horses' Heads towards Long acre, keeping clear all Crossings, and after Taking Up will drive off by Long-acre. PRINCES-PLACE TO PRIVATE BOXES. All Carriages going to the Private Boxes in Princes-place will enter Hart-street by James-street, and after Setting Down return the same way : tho , e waiting to Take Up, will form a Line in Princes-place, and in the Centre of James--greet, between Covent-garden-market and Hart-street, till called up, and after Taking Up will drive off by way of Hart-street into James-street, &c. &c. No Empty Carriages will be allowed to pass down Bow-street from ' , wiz-acre, from Eleven o'Clock in the Evening until the Theatre is closed. RICHARD MAYNE, Commissioner of Police of thelletropolis. Wilco of 'Metropolitan Police, Dec. 22, 1845. iLEATRE ROYAL. RAYMARKET. THIS EVEffING Will be repeated an Original Cometly, ,called THE MAIDEN AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farrell ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hod ge i ; Mrs. Sarah • Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Orli:went , Wilmot, Mrs. se vniour. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY Br MILES. Goraian Hodson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen ieTton. Miss Seyton. After whieh, A CABINET QUESTION. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLLIDAY. /tOYAL, ADELPIII • THIS FVF.NING Will t,e produced. to entirely New Drama, called Tfl LIONESS OF THE NOR CH. or, The Prisoner of Shlusselbourg Alexis Rom moiled, Mr. Webster; Triptelemus Krost, Mr. Wright; Eliza ben, Madame Celeste. T) be followed by TAMING TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma zostrkiullobia. In which Messrs. Paul Redfotd and' Wright, Miss W2o4.tr, Madame Celeste. &c, will perform. To eunclude with SEEING WRIGHT. • T RE ROYAL, LYE SUM TIHS EVENING WILL DE PERFORMED VIE CRICKET ON THE - A 'FAIRY TAUS OF HOMP. • • - The 1'7'10c10441 Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadows, Mr. F. Keeley, Miss M. Keeley (her second Appearance :45"e), M r s. Woollldge, Miss Dawson , Miss Howa r d , M iss on an , ; , ; . mi?s . T . timer. Forster, ans - . eh, a New Farce, ealted NEXT D OOR. After vt.:'ll NEW GOVERNESS: In which Mr. and To conclude with Gt.- Mrs. Keeley will perform. n:CFOILD-4;TREET litNeli:SS'S • TH EATRE. . THIS EVENTNte Will he performed DON CASATt, DE BAZA.24. Mr. Wallack ; slaritana, Mrs. Stirling. After which. 'wilt be repeated .a , New • Extravaganzi, A NIES, the RAILROAD FOOTUIN of BERKELEY-NLTAn... 1111,3 Plush. Mr. CAmpton. obe followed by a New Grandltaileit,' entitled LE DIABLE • .?,(TATRt. • Don Crier de Anti tied .kATLF.T'S ItoYAI.•AMPtIITM% , 'ATitE. OF ARTS. 1-ROERIETOR A.ND MANAGER. MR. W. RATTY. THIS EVENTS() t'ill be performed the Popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA. Embracing • m hole Strength of, the Company, aided by a Double Stad. zero Acenes of the Circle, combining the talent otthe French and /Ash Artistes. • THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, , ; DEC. 21. ,'nEIiNOMETHER, Lowest, 31; Highest, 41; Noon, 34. BAROMETER, N.W., heavy gale. Morning, light snow and rain ; afternoon, fine. WATER AT LONDOI3-BUIIIGE Tlltti DAT '!nrning 1 minutes after 7 I Evening 27 minutes after 7 fllørnb Ant LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22,• 1845. - .. c. • i t - S- • —i• , 5t ,,,,. • m ,i, . , -0 , 4;. ' A 4 14,,i-'-:: :f..•A''N',':. •.g.4" - -1 -" •i. .. ~?,...,, t -... ... ..t. ... , . _...,.... ;1 aia rt ;..v , t- . ~. .....,•• ~,. .- i: r • mo ,, 4 , ...;• ~:. , . ... . Ik4 ltera - ' . ~....1., , - .., i.,.. RECALL SIR ROBERT PEEL. Lord Jong RussELL has resigned the task of forming an Administration, and Sir ROBERT PEEL Iva been again summoned: The Right lionouraide I3aronet left town for Windsor •t two o'clock on Stith rilay. When Sir ROBERT Pear. declared his inability to carry on the Government, we never doubted that the formation of a new Administration mould devolve up in Lord Jowl RUSSELL. Whether he ct.uld ac complish the task remained to be seen; but the gr.tdullly improving tune of all sections of the la; bora] party gave the strongest omens of success. Up to Friday evening matters went on pros perou.ly, so far as could be judged, but difficulties arose—difficulties, caused by the timidity of some, knd by the pride and obstinacy of others, which have ended in Lord Jostrr Russel...L i s refusal of the prof -7eresl Premiership. We believe that Lord Joule has acted boldly, honestly, and fearlessly ; he has not swerved one p-article from the straight line of public principle - ,-owed by him, and, although he has for the day ex himself from office, the real gain to the Liberal • .use will far outweigh the temporary disappointment. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE, and other political leaders, - !.Allt-d at Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S residence, in Chesham lace, on Saturday morning. The following appeared i❑ our Third Edition, o Saturday Evening : The formation of a Ministry by Lord Joux Rts• SELL i 4, for the present, at an end, and the Court Newsman w•i!1 announce the departure of the mem bers of the might-hove• been Cabinet, for their country seats, instead of chronicling their arrival in Downing. street. With them will go the tribe of sucking statesmen, and expectant placemen, who have haunted BROOKES' and the Reform Club for some days past, full of pleasing visions of power and of self-importance. The break-down of the Whigs, in attempting to form a Government, will, we hope, prove a lesson to the narrovr-minded aristocrats of the LANS DOWNE class, that they cannot move without the aid of the true Liberals and free-traders. The desire to extend the basis of the Administra tion, and to give Mr. CoBDEN a place in it, or rather to orrza hi'n one, with some minor disputes about particular offices, have been the rocks upon w hi c h the wreck took place. Lord JOHN has done his du t y in all, save in dis carding his ancient drags. The Whiggism of 1830 will not do in 1845. The people have gained by the last ten days. I,t'd JOHN RUSSELL may lead the van, but he must not put his iiiii.%;%l artillery inAhe front. Sir KORERT PEEL may fry to govern—he car. only do so by adopting free-trade measures. The.QUEEN has been throughout in favour of the p.,ple and of p?plaF tne . .4res; her words and one have beets.} g, and it is gratifying S to know that a Liberal Administration would have found a firm friend in her MAnnTr. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Sir ROBERT PEEL received this morning a com munication from Lord Jonzs RUSSELL, and imme diately summoned together to his residence all the Ministers hi-town. After the meeting, messengers were dispatched to such members of the Cabinet as are out of town, re quiring their immediate return to the metropolis. As soon as Sir Rosser PEEL returns from Windsor Castle, it is expected a Cabinet Council will be held. The following appeared in our Second Edition of Saturday Evening : We are not at all sorry to find Lord Joists Rus szu. hesitating long before he undertakes the dif ficult task of governing the country. Unless he can see his way clearly, and calculate with tolerable certainty that he can conquer resistance in the Lords as well as the Commons, it would only be a waste of precious time to assume office. .The result of a division in the Lower House on the question of " total repeal" would be at beet doubtful. A gene ral election cannot be much longer delayed, whatever may be the result of the present crisis. The. Tory county Members will, therefore, be anxious to repre sent on a division the sentiments of the constituents that returned them in 1841, and will vote against a rveasure so sweeping and unexpected,. in order to secure their next election. The influence of Peers in county elections is still enormous, and we are convinced that they will use that influence to maintain the corn-laws with the utmost pertinacity, till they find, as in the case of the Reform Bill, the machine of Government stopped, and the country threatened with some dire convulsion. Would it, therefore, not be the more prudent course to allow the obstructive party to form a Government and try their hands at the settlement of this long-agitated question ? Possibly that was Sir R. PEEL'S real ob ject in resigning, for, though he recommended the QUEEN to send for Lord J. RUSSELL, he could not fail to see that a Whig Ministry would have still greater difficulties to contend with than those which he dared not encounter, and that ultimately they would be compelled to come to the same conclusion. Present appearances justify the supposition that- Lord JOHN RUSSELL can make no progress even in forming a Cabinet. Possibly the Marquis of Lams nowsis, and others of the old Whig school, are not prepared to go the whole length ; it is not impro bable, also, that they cannot forget their predilec tions in favour of the landed interest, and dread the infusion into the Cabinet of those principles which distinguish the free-traders of the day, and which, for aught we know, may be as unwelcome to them as to the RICHMONDS and TYRRELLS. One thing, we believe, is certain, that the management of the House of Commons is not the least of the difficulties that sur round the new leader of the Whigs. Unless, there fore, he can , get rid of...the obstructions of: his colleagues, and form an administration, not only unanimous, but enthusiastic in the cause, he would only expose himself and his party to defeat and ridicule. Sir, R. PEEL has evidently. made up his mind on the subject. Let Lord J. RussELL do the same, and at once. The people of this country have already been sufficiently long in a state of anxiety and suspense—they know the real cause, the reluctance of the Peers to give up their ill acquired gains, and they would be pleased to see the task of forming an administration cast upon those men who will neither work themselves nor allow others to work._ This, would bring affairs to a crisis. They could not bold together for six weeks, even with all the abilities eiSTAisLeir, and all the courage -stoic]) and BUCKINGHAM. They hive not one of Ism.- -mons fit to oppose even a third-rate man in the Um... would be opposed to them. speaker of the fifty that. the -last by sixty They would be resisted to Liberal or seventy Irish Members, by the whole of tu... party, headed by Lord Joit-RUSSELL, and , by from eighty to oinety of the moderate Conservatives, under the banners of Sir' R. PEaL. In a few days the question would be settled by a simple process, called the "reductio ad absurdum," and the deeds of _MILES and TYRRELL would form even a more amusing epi sode in English - history than those which broke up, amidst universal ridicule, " Barabone's Parliament " Whatever may be the result of the present crisis however, all the real friends of Lord JOHN RUSSELL are anxious that he should not persevere in his attempts to govern the country without a fair chance of success, and that it would be better to give up the struggle at once than form a Ministry which could not secure itself against defeat. Since the above was in type, we have learned with satisfaction that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has acted the more prudent part, and under all circumstances has declined to undertake the Government. Sir R. PNEL is now with the QUBEN, and as he has no prospect of being able to form an efficient Administration, will probably, advise her MAJEsrir to send for the Duke of WIILLINGTON. The country, in this case, is left at 'the mercy of a leader who never carried any measure without Sir R. PEEL, and who is now within three years of fourscore. We brought before our readers on Wednesday the points in Mr. PARKER'S letter to Sir JAMES GRAHAM which belong to his own case of grievance. There are other points in the letter, relating to the conduct of the Poor-law Comm;ssionere -in the Andover in quiry, which also deserve notice. The Poor-law Commissioners must expect to have it meted out to them with the same measure with which they have meted out to Mr. PARKER ; and they who considered Mr. PARKER'S rec• mmendation of PRICE, in igno rance of his having resigned the mastership of the Oxford:House of Industry, under a cloud, "a great indiscretion, which they must notice in a marked manner," cannot expect gentle treatment for indis cretions of their own. If no fallibility is to be Al lowed to Assistant-Commissioners, the least that we can expect is infallible chiefs. That the result of the Andover inquiry has hitherto been most unsatisfactory, there can be no doubt ; and that the Commissioners are to blame for this unsatis factory result, we think. will not be doubted by any one who reads Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet. The in quiry was commenced by Mr. PARKER on the 25th of August : on the 17th of September the Commis• sioners ordered the proceedings to be suspended, just as the evidence in support of the charges was con cluded, and the master was to enter upon his defence ; then, on the 15th, Mr. PARISH was ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. We will here quote Mr. PARKER : "On Monday, the 15th of September, I had an interview with Sir Edmund Head, who desired me to return to An dover forthwith, and resume the inquiry on the following day. I strongly remonstrated against such an early re sumption of the inquiry, and stated that the legal gentlemen wlio had been employed in the case could not be assembled so speedily. Sir Edmund observed that he did not care about their presence at the inquiry, and I state.: that if I went down to Andover that evening, I thought the witnesses could not begot together by the next morning. I then urged that it would be advisable to give a few days' notice, so that there might to be no excuse afforded for adjourning the proceedings. This suggestion Sir Edmund Head would not listen to. and I immediately wrote to all parties, apprising them of the intention to resume the investigation on the 17th September." . . . If the object of tbe Commissioners was justice, why this hurry ? Natural justice counsels the giving every reasonable advantage to an accused man. On the 17th, then, Mr. PARKER attended to resume the inquiries, and was immediately met by the master's counsel with an appieation for an ad journment, to allow him to get together witnesses who were dispersed, and to prepare the defence, towards which nothing had been -done, as they had not expected the investigation to be resumed ; and, with the consent of the counsel on the other side, Mr. PARIEBR granted a five days adjournment. " This adjournment for fire days was acceded to by all parties, and, considering the indefinite character and nature of s,,tne of the charges, it must be acknowledged that an ad journment for five days was not of greater duration than the master might fairly demand. The reasonableness of the ad journment will be apparent, when it is undcrstood that evi dence on the following charge alone—' That lie has fre quently taken liberties with the younger women and girls in the house, and attempted at various times to prevail upon them to consent, to gratify his wishes,' applied to the cases of no fewer than eleven women, and that none of the alleged assaults'were of recent occurrence, and the greater number of them were said to have been committed several years since." But so bent were the Commissioners on haste, and so little mindful of justice, that they overruled this adjournment; and on Mr. Plausa proceeding to Somerset Howe, he was sent hack to Andover, and ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. Mr. PAILEFA eudeavotire 4 to explaiu to the Commissioners the reasonableness of the adjournment —even en treated them not to overrule it ; but all in vain. A letter was written by order of the Commiasioners to the accused master, explaining their reasons for over ruling the adjournment; which letter, to say the least, is a very extraordinary document " The Commissrieners are of opinion, that an officer against whom charges of the kind involved in the investigation now pending in the Andover Union have been made on oath, is liable to be called ea to give an explanation, and enter upon his defence with the least possible delay." At:d this altogether irrespective of the nature of the charges, and of the evidence which may be required to disprove them I Why the falsest charges may be the most difficult to disprove. - The letter proceeds— " The time that has elapsed since the investigation began has been amply sufficient, in the opinion of the Commis sioners, to enable you to get together the materials necessary for your defence,tnore especially as most of the charges relate to facts to be proved or disproved by witnesses on the spot." But the inquiry had been stopped, and it was not expected that it would be resumed. Witnesses that had been got together might have been dispersed again. Besides, Mr. PARKER says that the witnesses generally were not on the spot. There is another feature in the case which makes the conduct of the Commissioners even more harsh and unjust, that they were aware that the master's funds were exhausted. One more extract from the jesuitical letter of the Com missioners : . " Had the Board of Guardians acceded to the recommenda tion of the Commissioners,and suspended you—(a proceeding which would neither have assumed your guilt nor have pre judiced any of your rights)—the Commissioners might have taken a different view of the course they now think it fit to adopt." But how is the master responsible for what the Board of Guardians have done ? Why is he to be treated unjustly by the Commissioners, because the Board of Guardians have not followed their advice ? We trust that this letter will be viewed by the public as at least a great indiscretion, which must be noticed in a marked manner. The end of it was, as our readers probably remem ber, that on Mr. PARKER'S resuming the inquiry by direction of the Commissioners, the master's counsel protested against the decision of the Commissioners, declared he could not proceed in justice to his client, and therefore withdrew from the inquiry, and advised the master to send in his resignation. Mr. PARKER thus describes this conclusion, in which nothing is concluded :—" The conclusion of the Andover case is certainly unfortunate—for no parties are satisfied, whilst much odium is cast upon the administration of the law ; —the resignation of the master, under the plea of an act of injustice committed lay the Com missioners, has secured for him the sympathy of many partiei, whilit the Board of Guardians feel them selves compromised by the vacillations displayed in the course of the inquiry, and, above all, the public mind is not set right." Ths Andover inquiry will inevitably be the subject of Parliamentary investigation next session ; and this cannot be , a very agreeable prospect to the Poor-law Commissioners. The following extract will show—what may have been inferred already—that to do justice was not the object of the Commissioners : they were to set themselves right with the public as speedily as possible,' no matter though an innocent man were victimised : "I had an interview with Sir Edmund Head, touching the conduct of the investigation, when he expressed great anxiety about them, on account of the manner in which the Times had noticed the charges against the master, as well as the complaint respecting the crushing of bones. Sir Edmund appeared to me to be unusually excited by what he had read in the Times, and he expressed. a desire that I should exert myself to bring the inquiry to a conclusion with as little delay as possible, in order that the public mind might be quieted: He 'then informed me he was of opinion that I ought not to allow the master to be present whilst the wit nesses were under examination. This suggestion surprised me as much as his state of excitement, and I replied, I would not incur the responsibility of excluding the master, unless the Commissioners gave me express instructions to do so. Sir Edmund said, ' What responsibility would you incur?' and I answered, The responsibility of acting illegally—the responsibility of acting contrary to the received opinion of the bar.' " The exclusion of the accused would have been, with out question, the most flagrant injustice. A man who could broach the doctrine here ascribed to Sir EDMUND HEAD is certainly unfit to be a Poor-law missioner. We hare Le— pamphlet, that, before of the hone-crushing in the Al.— '-"irnt with surprise, from Mr. PARKER'S the exposure by Mr. WALLET • -lover Workhouse, the ' , stated with Poor-law Commissioners had been rem.— on workhouse labour both by Ma. PAIZY ER and o, the invaluable Secretary of the Commission, Mr. CHADWICK. " I have been remonstrant against the indiscriminate em ployment of the inmates of workhouses in crushing bones ; I think where 'green bones' are used a mill is the proper machine to reduce them to dust,' and that bone-crushing should only be practised when bones of commerce, or bones which have been submitted to some procea by which the fat and animal juices are removed, can be procured. [` Green bones' were used in the Andover Workhouse.] This description of labour in union workhouses hat been the subject of my remarks on more than one occasion, and the in formation communicated by me to Mr. Chadwick respecting it, induced him to make some alterations in a paper, wherein he broadly stated his conviction that grinding and pounding bones was not fit employment for the inmates of workhouses." Nothing was ever before heard of this paper of Mr. CSIADWICK'S, though the practice has been often the subject of animadversion in Parliament. We quit Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet with another remark able disclosure, on the subject of which the public will require some explanation from the Poor-law ommissioners. " In the Rye Lnion it was the practice of the present Commissioners to sanction, as a matter of course, small sums in aid of wages to able-bodied men. in 1842, when the dis trict including that Union was placed under my superin tendence, I inquired into the subject, and I was told in the Commissioners office that I was to overlook the existing compro mises of the' law in that Union, for the population was too deeply pauperised for the poor-law system to work beneficial* there. We have intelligence from Madrid to the 12th The municipal elections were going on favourably for the Government. The Funds were rising, nearly all the Members of the Cortes had arrived, and the capital altogether displayed great bustle and anima tion.. The Gazetts contains a programme of the ceremonies to be observed at the opening of the Cortes on the 15th. The Three per Cents. closed at 36 11-16 for cafrh, and 37 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 24*, at 60 days. The Moniteur of the 18th publishes two royal decrees, confirming the adjudication of the Paris and Strasbourg, and the Tours and Nantes Railways. The Paris papers continue their comments on the Ministerial crisis in Eng land, and though there is little new in the articles, the writers seem to know as much on the subject as the best informed in this country. They know the cause of the late resignations, the difficulties of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and can only guess at the probable results. They generally be lieve, that without a commotion the Whig party cannot succeed. The following remarks appear in the National.—" In the abusive language directed against Sir R. PRE!, by the high Tories, there are great injustice and great passion; but it was, how ever, with those prejudiced men that Sir ROBERT had his majority of one hundred votes in the Commons, and it was these men who followed the Duke of WELLINGTON to the House of Lords ; it was with them and through them that he rose to power; and to sum up all, in a word, they form a body of 200 in the elective Chamber, so that, these votes failing, Sir R. PEEL cannot do anything but by the ail of the whole Opposition. Fur a length of tim the Baronet guided this hot-headed party by check ing them ; but for that he required the aid of Lord STANLstr, and, still more, of the Duke of WELLING TON. If the latter would at once renounce his resist ance, and employ his authority, Sir ROBERT could, no doubt, resume power, and go on governing as he has dose, realising the measures of the Whigs. But without that he can do little. The only real master of the situation at present is the famine which menaces, —the bread, which is rising in price—the people, who cry—the middle classes, who, if further resistance is offered, will pass from the agitation .of meetings to the agitation of the streets. The hand which can calm this tempest is the only one that can assume the reima of power. This is what common sense points out; but common sense does nut always prevail over interest; common sense cannot prevent resisting in terests from having, in the present organisation of Parliament, a formidable power.!' "We learn from a certain source," says the Courrier Fs= fais, "that a confidential memorandum has been addressed to the principal cabinets of the Germanic Confederation by Prince de Metternich. It appears that the state of Germany; in his opinion, is anything but. satisfactory. After having ex posed the gravity of the situation, he recommends the Ger man Governments to immediately inquire into the wishes of their people, to satisfy as speedily as possible their real wants, material and :moral, in order to anticipate, by such means, the complaints which the Opposition would not fail to make. The storm which threatens us.' says M. de Mettertuch in terminating, 'cannot b. conjured away but by large conces sions !" The French funds were more firm on Thursday : The Three per Cents. closed at ISlf. 35e. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90e. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,1721. ioc. ; Rouen, 957 f. 50c. ; Northern, 7221. 50c.; Havre, 765 f. ; Avignon, 1110 f. ; Vierzon, 6421. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 6151. ; Boulogne, 5021. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 4351.; Basle, 237 f. M.; Fampoux, 4901. ; Spanish Actives, 36. . - The following are the quotations for other blies:— Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 6 premium ; ditto Xslon), sf. 50c.; Union, 13f. ' • ditto (Ganneron), 5 5f: ; ditto (Lapinsoaniere), 4f. ; Sud Est, 3f. ; Ardoin, 3f; Re ceveurs-Gearaux, 4f; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 2f. 50e. ; ditto (Becket), If. 50c.; Tours and Nantes ( Mac kenzie), 5f.; ditto (Drouillard), sf. ; ditto O'Neill, 51. ; ditto (Carette), sf. 50c.; ditto (Lefevre), 5f.; Lyons and Avignon (Talalsot), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe), If. - 50 c, ; ditto (Corn pagnie Meridional.), 500 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken zie), 500 f. ; ditto ( Espeleta), 6f. 53c.; Creil and St. Quen tin, par; Charleroi (Kysaens), 495 f. The Lyons Definitive Shares sold at 75f. premium ; Strasbourg ditto, 20f. ; Tours and Nantes, 41f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 19. Anglo-Belgian.. — Madrid and Valencia... Barba does Boalogne and Amiens.. 8 Namur and Liege Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Touleuse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 9% Do. (Mackenzie's) OverYsael Callao, Lima. and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) citic Coast Central of Spain .. — Ditto (Caloa's).... - Ceylon . — Ditto (Sud Est) 2 I A3 Demerara Dendre Valley ... Paris and Rouen Dutch Rhenish ... 7 l /g Paris and Strasburg Dieppe & Paris Janet. (Ganneron's) Dijon and Malhouse Do. (Compe de L'Est) East Indian ..... • IVg Do. (Aymard's) Fampeux & Hazebrauk Paris and St. Quentin — Grt Northern ot France Rouen and Havre-- Constituted IS Royal North of Spain. Do. Pepin le Hallear — Sambre and Mime 4 1 / 2 Great Paris and Lyons — Strasburg and Bale Great Western Bengal Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada 3 3 / 4 den, and Hasselt JamaicaS Mid. Junction Tours and Nantes Do. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) 4y, Do. Extension Jersey — Do. Louvain and Jemappe — Trinidad Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Anemia — Luxembourg THE WEATHER.—The barometer has fallen to 28 . 9, lower than it has been for a long period. The weather is hazy, with occasional sunshine, and bois terous ; but we fear, from the very low state of the mercury, that the accounts from the country will be less favourable. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, ELEVEN o'cLocg.—The Forth, Royal Mail steam-ship, Captain Chapman, arrived this morning at half-past nine o'clock, with the usual fortnightly mails. This not being a gulf steamer, of course she brings no news from Mex►co. The Furth brings dates down to the following periods Jamaica, Nor. 23; 'Deinerara, Nov.' 19; • Trinidad, Nov. 20; Barbadoes, Nov. 24; Grenada, Nov, 25; Sr. Thomas, Nov 30; and Fayal, Dec. 13. She brings in freight, 240 ounces of silver, 419 bales of sarsaparilla, and sundry shipments of coffee, nut • megs, succades, bees' wax, tortoiseshell, &c., &c. The - Forth also brings home a great number of emi grants from the American emigrant ship Robert Isaac, bound from Liverpool to New York, which the authori ties of Fayal corid.nnned as being unseaworthy. John Burns, second mate, and Charles Clarke, seaman, were also brought home prisoners, on a charge of mu tiny on board the Harriet, of London.. They will be handed over to the authorities here. They were taken on hoard at Fayal. The whole of the emigrants are in excellent health, although, as a matter of course, they.have undergone inconvenience and privations previous to having been shipped on board the Forth. The Forth brings home but a few passengers. The Jamaica papers (the only file which has yet come to hand) are barren of intelligence Tile railway to Spani h Town was opened on the 21st.' The rain had set in, and the forthcoming crops pro mise well. The Forth has had a good passage. and had it nol been for detention at Fayal to take in the emigrant►, would gave arrived last evening. THE LATE LORD WHARNCLIFFE . . The deceased Lord was the second son of James Archi bald Stuart, second son of John third Earl of Bate, K.G., who married, in 1736, Mary, only daughter of Edward Wort ley Montague. Colonel Stuart, on the decease of his mother (Bareness Mountatuart in her own right), succeeded to her Ladyship's great Yorkshire and Cornwall estates, and as sumed in January, 1795, by sign -manual, the additional sur name of Wortley, and subsequently inheriting the extensive landed property in Scotland, of his uncle, the Right Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, assumed, in 1803, the name and arms of Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh. Mr. Wortley in early life entered the army, and served in Canada and the Cape, but having little relish for a military life he sold out in his twenty-sixth year. In the year 1802 Mr. Stuart Wortley was returned to Parliament, by means of his family influence, for t`:e borough of Bossiney, in Cornwall ; but it was not until the year 1812 that he rose to any de -e of political notoriety. In the spring of that year n'-. -al was assassinated, and the lengthened nego- Mr. Pere.- ar . ib from n ett, so utterlyexhausted hos iie owo n thetar there - tiations, not very e . spectieg the formation of a - - , rt unity was thought a patience of the public, that the ou t - r'eart Wortley to good one for a rising youna man like Mr. . that he move an address to the Prince Regent, praying " would form a strong and efficient Ministry." This WAS introduced by a speech which every one acknowledged to have been remarkable for its tone of honest independence and high public spirit. Mr. S. Wortley continued to repre sent Bossiney till 1818. On the let of March in that year Col. Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, the father of Lord Wham-. cliffe, ended his days, and his , son, the late Lord, succeeded to his large inheritance. For Yorkshire, therefore lie wa returned jointly with Lord Milton, now Earl Fitzwilliam, at the general election in the year 1818. In two years from that period the demise of George 111. led to another election, at which Mr. Stuart Wortley and Lord Milton were again returned for the great county of York. and the subject of this memoir continued -to sit for that important elec toral district till the Parliament died almost a natural death, on the 2d of June, 1825. In 1826 he was raised to the peerage. In 1828, when the Duke of Wellington succeeded Lord Goderich, Lord WharnclitTe took office under the Noble Duke, and displayed much tact in business. On the introduction of the Reform Bill, by Lord Grey, in 1831, his Lordship strenuously opposed that measure on various grounds, which he stated with great force and eloquence, and moved an amendment for the purposeof throwing it out, but the Bill was carried by a majority of 41. In 1834, during Sir Robert Peel's short tenure of office, Lerd ‘Vharncliffe took the office of Lord Privy , Seal. In 1841 , when Sir Robert Peel suc ceeded Lord Melbourne, the Noble Baron became Lord Presi dent of the Council, and continued in that office up to the recent resignation. On the formation of the Peel Cabinet in 1841 Lord Wham-- cliffs secured the representation of that district for his eldest son, defeating Lords Milton and Morpeth, the numbers on that memorable occasion being ar follows :—Hon. John Stuart Wortley, 13,165 ; E. Denison, Esq., 12,780 ; Lord Milton, 11,080 ; Lord Morpeth, 12,031. His Lordship is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, who has, represented the West ?tiding of Yorkshire in Parliament for the last four years, and whose -accession to the peerage will therefore lead immediately to a new election in that county. The present Lord Wharncliffe is in the 45th year of his age. He graduated B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1821, when be was in the first class ma thematics, and second class in classics. About twenty years ago he married the third daughter of the Earl of Harrowby, by whom he has three sons and two daughters. His Lord ship is Lieutenant-Colonel of the South-West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry. COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Saturday a Court was held f or the dispatch of ousiness, when Alderman FaimnaurtiEft made some observations upon the subject of t he c orn - laws ; he hoped that when the Corporation should go up with the ad dress to her Majesty, it would be r e presented as the ad dress of the Mayor and Aldermen in their corporate, and not in their individual capacity- life wits desirous if denouncing, in the most indignant and contemptuous terms, the cry which had been raised that a farnine was approaching. It was cruel and mischievous to countenance such a report. There was, on the contrary, abundance of corn in this country, and the failure of the potato crop was greatly exaggerated. Alderman WOOD expressed his surprise that the sub ject should now be brought up again, when there had been a proper opportunity for speaking upon it at the late Court of Common Couacil. at which Alderman Farebrother had attended. He denied most strongly that any misrepresentation or e xaggeration had bei a made in respect of the approaching scarcity of The accounts were daily more appalling, and the abun dance spoken of by Alderman Farebrother had no exist ence in fact. Alderman HIIMPITERY 5140 said he could see no reason why the statements respecting the scarcity should be characterised as false or cruel. The evidences were suf ficiently palpably to warrant the statements that had been made. Here the conversation dropped, and other business was proceeded with. The Lords of the Tratvury having directed that the port of Aldborough, on the Suffolk coast, should, in con ,sequence of the decline of revenue business there, be reduced to the position of a creek within the neighbouring port. o. Woodbridge, and of a principal coast. officer only being sta tioned at the former place in lieu of the establishment hi therto maintained there, it has been determined that the re duction of Aldborough shall take effect from the sth January proximo. APPRMIENSION OF A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR AT Norrrectram.—On Tuesday morning, Superintendent Raynor and Inspector Wilkinson went to the house of a sweep named William Wakefield, residing in Balloon-court, Mount-street East, who had long been suspected of being accessory to a great many of the burglaries which have been lately com mitted. They found concealed in different parts of the pie mises property which had been stolen from the houses of Mr. Roberts, cotton agent, Castle- gate, Mr. Tennant, of Car rington-street, and Mr. Bearden, of Carrington-street; and buried under some ashes in the coal place, they found two silver table-spoons, half a dozen teaspoons, and other articles, with the initials of Mr. Bradbury, of New Radford, from whose house they had been stolen early last Friday morning. Raynor and Wilkinson apprehended W. Wakefield and his wifs Ann; and about eight o'clock the same morning, In spector Meld rum wen t t o the house of William Wakefield's mother, named Dorothy, in Crown-court , San d y -lane, and having discov ere d som e stolen property, he apprehended her and her son Ab ra h am . The whole gang were brought before the borough magistrates on Monday, and removed to the olitity gaol. They were examined on Wednesday concern ing the property stolen from the house of Mr. Bradbury, New Radford. The two men were committed for trial at the sessions; but the . woman was again remanded f o r fu rther examination befo r e the borough magistrates yesterday, when she was discharged.—Noqingham Journal. Canning's Ministry was twenty days in completing --Wellington 's tivettptbur days—Greats six doe. w• , . ,;,-y AMERICAN PAPERS. DEATH OF PROFESSOR DOD, OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY. We regret to learn, by the last steamer from America, the death of Professor Dod, of Princeton College—a gentleman well known by repute in this country. Pro fessor Dud was celebrated for his conversational talents, which Here little, if in any way, inferior to those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We copy the following tribute to his memory from a Boston paper : Professor Dod, of Princeton, is dead. He breathed his last yesterday afternoon (Thursday), at a about half past four o'clock, after a week's illness. The College of New Jersey, of which the deceased was a distinguished professor, will long mourn its irrepar able loss—the Church'; of which he was a learned and eloquent minister—the country, of which he was an intelligent, patriotic, and faithful citizen—the friendly and the family circle, of which he was the hope and the ornament—each will mourn a dispensation—so little anficipated—so inscrutable, so overwhelming. Albert B. Pod had reached his fortieth year, and was, therefore, in the vigour and promise of life ; with all his faculties bent to the accomplishment of the great trust to which he had devoted himself—that of advancing and perfecting liberal education. His department in the Colltge was mathematics, but bis intellectual grasp comprehended all the kindred sciences—and his thirst for knowledge, combined with a discriminating taste, led him to the cultivation and appreciation of the classics and belles lettres. He was indeed a fine illustration of an accomplished scholar and Christian gentleman—showing in all things the liberalising influences of good studies upon an ingenuous nature. In his intercourse with the students of the College, Mr. Dud was most happy in conciliating their regard, while exciting their emulation. He taught them to value knowli dge, as much by his example as his precepts, and he, in like manner, taught them, too, that neither talents nor knowledge are valuable, or to be 'valued, except as founded on and strengthened by good principles and good conduct. Of his social and domestic qualities, we will not trust ourselves to weak—for what to those who knew him not in those relations might seem exaggeration, would, to the friends that toted him, sound like faint and feeble praise. But he is gone. Muftis ille bonis flebilis occidit, Nuili flebilior quam mihi. OREGON.—The origin of the proposition to which allusion has been wade, far the adjustment of the Oregon question, appears to be indicated in the following para graph from the Totonao Banner .—" Mr. Buchanan, late British Consul at New York, has proposed a plan for preventing collision, which has betn submitted to both Governments. It has b:-en noticed by the New York papers, and suggr sts a Board of Commissioners mutually chosen. If this board does not agree, it proposes that a portion of. the territory shall be set aside as mutual ground till 1860, or till it shall have contained 100,000 inhebitatits for the five previous years: that then, if two-thirds of these inhabitants agree, it will be open to them to become an independent state, or to annex themselves to Britain or America, us they see fit, reserving to both countries equal rights of trade. The worthy ex-Consul's plan may be a very good one, but it would be better that every question between our belligerent neighbours and us were settled at once. It is impossible, however, to think that the formidable preparations fur defence of the English coast, are dic tated from fear of an American war. The British Cabinet must have information, that, in such an event, France will be likely to take part with the United State.,. The value of the Oregon territory is not great, in itself, but our. Government will not allow herself to be bullied out of what is conceived to beloag of right to the British Empire." The Washington correspondent of .the Charleston courier thus writes :—" It is, I have -uo doubt, the wish of the people of the United States to treat Mexico ge nerously and liberally in this matter- 7 more especially since she has offered us the olive branch. We ought to be - willing to grant her an ample equiva lent for the boundary which we propose to take, or rather have taken. This is the proper time, also, for pur chasing the Californias of Mexico. /ler hold is exceed ingly weak on that State, and she must relinquish it to England. Would not our people do well to take Cali fornia, with its fine harbours and fertile lauds, while they can be got for a few millions, instead of marching an army across the Rocky Mountain to conquer from the British some wild and worthless lands on the Pacific North of Columbia River ? This is the time to settle this matter." WELL DESERVED . TRIBUTE.—The following is a copy of a letter addresstd, by T. G. Grattan, British Consul for Boston, Massachussetts, to Capt. Up ton, of the ship Governor Davis, one of Train's Line of Liverpool Packets : " H M. Consulate, Boston, Oct., 17. 1845. " Sir—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, accompanied by one frOm Captain Salter, of the British ship • Glenview,' detailing the particulars of your humane conduct, in rescuing, at crest risk, from the wreck of that vessel, the master, officers, and crew, consisting of twenty-two individuals, and your, having provided them with clothing, subsisted them on board your ship for three weeks, and treated them throughout with the greatest kindness. " For this conduct I beg to offer you my cordial thanks, and to assure you of the gratitude of the persons who owe their •lives to you. Such instances of gene rosity and humanity are by no means uncommon in the American merchant service ; and I shall have great pleasure, as I have had on similar occa-ions, in rer.rt• ing the circumstances of the ease for the consideration of her Majesty's Government. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. C. GRA TTA N. "Captlin Upton, ~1 the American ship Davis. Heston." Mr, oretau is tne well-known author of " HtiwAys and Byeavaa a." The Marquis and Marehiors, SA of Douro are ex pected to return to this country on the 15th or the ensuing month, from Rome, after a tour of nearly six monZilm in Germany and Italy. They were to leave Rome for Naples this month, and thence to Florence. THE NORTHERN Com.r.GE.--We are enabled to state that the Vice-Principalship of the Northern College has been conferred upon Dr. Thomas Andrews, of this town. This reponsible situation was tendered to Dr. ThompAon, of Glasgow, and by him refused. Dr. Andrews is a gentleman of high scientific - attainments, and is at present Professor of Chemistry in the Medical School attached to the Belfast In stitution.—Belfast Chronicle. GLASTO3BURT.—FREE-TRADE MEETING.—In this benighted, Tory and priest-ridden town, the seeds of free trade have at length struggled through many impediments ani brought forth fruit. On the evening of Thursday se'n night a public meeting of the inhabitants and its neighbour hood took place. to try the strength of free trade with pro tection, and it is with much pleasure we state that the'opinion in favour of opening the ports was unanimously expressed.— Somerset County Gazette. 131WERLEY .- EPS, ESENTATION - Owing t o the un certainty which prevails as to the course which Lord John Russell will adopt, no positive announcement has yet been made as to the intention of the two parties in Beverley, but we understand the Liberals will be fully prepared with two " good men and true," should an election take place.—Uuil Advertiser. • SALE OF • A CURIOUS COLLECTION or BLACK LETTER BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS.-011 Friday a sale by auction, of a curious collection of black-letter books and manuscripts, forming a portion of an episcopal library, re ceived from the Continent (commenced on Thursday), was resumed, and concluded at Mr. Fletcher's rooms, in Piccadilly. The following, from their rarity, are deserving of notice : " Biblia Germanica," without date, place, or printer's name, but printed in 1462. This book (the catalogue stated) is A first edition of the German Bible, and of the utmost rarity, being alluded to by De !Jure, Clement, and Vogt, in their works. It consists of 404 leaves, each page having two columns, each column containing 6 0 lines. The book sold for 15 guineas.. Two copies of the first edition of Lu ther's Bible, with wood-cuts after designs by Albert Durer and Lucas Cranach, sold respectively for 51. 2s. 6d. and 8/. 15s. The autographs of the various German monarchs fetched very low prices, the highest price being 1/. 4s. for the autograph of Charles V., Emperor of Germany. An auto graph of Napoleon fetched only 95., and one of Charles XII. of Sweden but 18s. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—THREE PERSONS KILLED. — An inquest was held at Aspull, on Saturtav last, before Mr. Henshall, deputy county coroner, on the bodies ofJohn Shep herd, agerl 44, William Shepherd, his son, 13 years of age, and William Butterworth, aged 18. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the unfortunate individuals, who were colliers, were at work, on the Thursday previous, in a coal-pit at Aspull, belonging to Earl Be!caries there was some foul air in the pit, which came in conduct with a lighted candle, and caused an explosion to take place. Another man, named Thomas Seddon, who was working in the same level, was also so dreadfully injured that he is not expected to recover. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death in every case; and the coroner severely reprimanded the over looker of the pit for not using greater caution in examining into the state of the pit, as to the existence of foul air in it, and also preventing the men from working with lights that were not properly guarded _Liverpool Mercury. CHRISTMAS BOXES.---Tile Corporation of Colchester have taken the necessary steps to prevent the police, town sergeants, and other paid officers, from receiving Christmas boxes.—Essex Standard. WRECK OF A COLCHESTER VESSEL.—It is OUT painful duty to record the total wreck of the brig Mercury, of this port, with the loss of three lives, viz., Captain Nunn, jun., and two of the crew. She was on her passage from the north, coal laden, and on Thursday afternoon last, whilst off Whitby, encountered some rough weather with a very heavy sea. About six o'clock she shipped a sea over her stern. which carried away the . jolly boat and stove in her stern frame, with all the bulwarks to the main rigging. The crew then hove to till about nine o'clock, wile', another tremen dous sea went over her, washing away the long boat and breaking in the main hatch ; the fore bulkhead also gave way at the same tim-, and the ship began to settle down by the head. On sounding the pumps between four and five feet of water was found in the hold, so that the only chance of the crew saving their lines was to run her for the shore, upon which about eleven o'clock she struck. At this junc ture the captain's rope broke and he was washed overboard, but the rest of the crew took to the rigging, where they re mained nearly four hours within a short distance of the beach ; the sea, however, was so heavy that the life-boat could not put cff to their assistance; but by means of a rocket a rope was ultimately passed over the vessel, by which four of the crew, named M'Nieh, Ezekiel and S. Ben nett, and J. Baker, were pulled asliose. Robert Barrett, another seaman, unfortunately lost his hold of the rope and was drowned ; and a third, named Joseph Humm, who was in the fore-rigging when the ship parted, met a similar me lancholy fate. The body of Humtn was picked up the fol. lowing day, but neither the captain nor Barrett had been found.—Esser Standard. A MtsEa.—A few days ago, died wretchedly in a garret at Boulogne, a woman who had attained her eighty fifth year. Her relations, when they examined her chamber, found concealed in a closet money to the amount of 1,730 f. She was the owner of a farm, and also of a house, at Bou logne, both well let, and yet had the audacity to beg in the streets. She had when found by the tenant of her farm who came on business, been dead, as declared by the medical men called in, at least thirty-six hours, and probably from starva tion, as not a morsel of food was to be found m the room. The property of this mistral* creature is stirdated at 42,0903 e MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Rvening.) The Cotton Market at. Liverpool yesterday was without any . change. Sales, 3,000 bales.—ln Shares everything re mained very dull. At Messrs. Larnond and •Co's sale of Railway Shares yesterday the following prices were realiseds : London, - Bristol, and South Wales ... 42s East and Wert of England Junction... 1% Oxford, Gosport, Porten., and Southtn. 42e Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Madrid and Valentia East Dereham and -Norwich ... Ditto ditto ... Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Northumberland and Lancashire ... Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries Great. Kent Atmospheric ... Ditto East Dereham and Norwich Boston, Stamft;rd, and Birmingham Ditto ditto Leicester and Birmingham ... . Ditto ••• ••• • East Dereham and Norwich • Ditto ... ..„ Northampton,Banbury,andCheltenham Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock ... Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries Grand Trunk „., Rugby, Derby, and Manche.ster Great Welsh Central ... Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... Leicester and Birmingham Ditto ditto ... Sheffield and Macclesfield N. Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries Lincoln & Wainfleet Haven and Boston Ditto ditto. South and Midlands Junction Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Ditto ditto ... Direct London and Exeter ... Rugby, Derby, and Manchester . North Staffordsh., Churnet & Potteries Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries Ditto ditto ... Calcutta and St. George's Point ... Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... Leicester and Birmingham Ditto ditto Tring, Reading. and Basingstoke ... M anchester, Midlands, and G. Grimsby Shropshire Union and Canal Ditto ditto Sheffield and Manchester Direct ... Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... Leicester and Birmingham Ditto ditto ... - N. Staffordshire, Churnet,and Potteries Ditto ditto London and MancheSter (Rem.) Essex and Suffolk ... Calcutta and St. George's Point Ditto ditto Great Western of Bengal ... Ditto ditto ... Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) 3 Madrid and Valentia ...• 2 Irish North Midland ... Southampton,. Manehester, and Oxford 42a Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 Ditto ditto ... .•. Line. and Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% Ditto ditto ... Ceylon . • ••• North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42s Grand Union ... „.. 1% Nottingham, V. of Belvoir. & Grantlini. 1% Northampton. Bedford, and Cambridge 42s Manchester and Southampton ... 2 There are no later accounts from the British colonies to day. 016 0I O 13 6 1 0 0' 1' 0 0 012 6 I 1 0 0 O 6,6 i O 6 0' 019 0 1 3 0 O 15 0 1 12 6 1 12 0 0 '6 0 O 19 0 O 19 0 1 0 6 1 0 6 O 6 0 0 6 0 2 3 0 4 10 0 0 9 0 0 15 6 0 -18 0 1 5 6 1 2 0 O 18 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 16 6 4 16 6 1 10 0 ••• 1 10 0 423 1 3 0 423 1 5 0 42s 1 0 0 1 0 0 1% 0 5 0 2% 1 5 6 42s 4 16 0 1% 0 15 6 - 0 16 0 73 0 8 0 -0 8 0 22s 0 19 0 22s 1 1 0 -1 0 0 105 A 2 15 0 1% 1 7 6 423 1 10 0 - 1 10 0 5s 2 42s 42s 1% 2% , ••• --- ... ... 223 1x ... 42s 2% 42s 22s 22s 425. 423 423 1 5 0 225 0 18 6 225 1 1 0 • 1 0 0 42s 4 16 0 4 15 0 ... 2 3 4 113 0 0 16 0 ... 7s 0 8 0 —0 8 0 IA 0 8 6 0 8 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 15 0 1 0 0 0 9 6 0 9 6 1 9 6 1 9 6 0 13 0 4 16 0 1 6 0 1 19 6 1 5 0 2 11 0 Mite return from the Bank of England relative to its opera tions this week show an increase in the circulation to 26,626,3501. or by 85,870. An increase in the Rest of 6,2021. or to 3,215,5961. An increase in the Public Deposits of 573,9731. or to 8,684,374/. An increase in the other deposits from 9,022,0191. to 9,089,705/. A decrease in the seven days bills of 611,880/. •in increase in the not es in the banking departirent of 560,5051 'or to 6,506,3451. . . The amount of bullion now held is given at 13,268,7711., showing an increase of 201,4211. • In the promissory notes of the various country banks there is to be noted a general hut not an extensive increase since the previous statement was made public. Consols for the Account have been verb• firm to-day. Consols for the next settlement are now at 92%. The Reduced Three per Cents. are at 92 3 / 4 %; and Exchequer bills at 18e. premium. Bank Stock opened at 201, it is now at 200. A fair share of business has been transacted in the Foreign Funds this morning. Brazil new Stock are quoted at 78 ; Chili= Deferred at 52 3 / 4 ; Grenada at 21; Peruvian at an advance to 41 ; Spanish Five per Cents. at 28%; and the Dutch Two-and -a- Half per Cents. at 60 1 4. The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn ing ; and where business has been d•ne rather advanced rates have been paid, as our list of corrected prices will show. ONL CLOSING RUMS or }MUSH FUNDS. 4'CLO 4 ritieLs Bank Stack ..... ..... ...... 01 200 200 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 1 4 per Centft - 94%4 A 1/. '2 94% ...ong Annuities toexpire .1 au.1860 10 5-16 % 10:34 Conto4t4for Account ....... 92 4%% 92% xehequer Mills. 1,01 XV., 1%d.... 18 pm 18 Ditto 5(X)!. Ditto Small ONE cLOKIN: O'CLOCK P E, egICES OF 1 , 011EIGI: Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839. 78 9 14 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent...... ..... Ditto Deferred Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 2l 21 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — 1) M. Account • 3O 30 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4O 41 41 Portuguese Bonds. 4 - per Cent Ditto, Account 59 . , Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cnt. 1840 Ditto, Acooont " • 2 8 34 2811 Ditto, Deferred . I6I/,. 1 6 .. 2 Dividends on the above payable in London. - latch, 2/g per Cent Ditto. 4 . per Cent. Certificates 93 93 ritte ES OF T „ BUSINESR DONE cLostNG - a ILW l'S' SHARES PA `" •AT O.Nir. O'CLOCK. PI:IcE,:. ALerdren Aberdeen, Banff, k Elgin 2 1 / 2 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% - Belfast & County Down 2 1 ,c — Bideford andTavistock... 1,6 - Binnin and Gb,ueester. 100 Ditto New 1 7 14 Birmingham and Ox- Jard Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct 425. Boston, Stain cl, & Birm. 226. Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... .. ;'•rist,,! and Exeter 7O Ditto, New Kristoi and Gloucester._ 30 ...... ... ~ Bristol and Liver. June . 2 1 ,4...... Buckinghamshire ~.aledonian Ditto Extension ...... 214...... 2% .. .A i 97 9 Cambran & Grand June 42s Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 .4 27 1 3... ......... ... 31g .:.)o. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% Canterbury and Dover.. 1 Central Kent .......• 2 1 / .,i Chelmsford and Bury ... 1 38 - Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. — Chelteehain and Oxford 2 - •., ...... Clydesdale Junction ..... 5 Cork Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2 1 / 2 Cork and Waterford ... 11/ 2 — ••• (:ornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester l l4 Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter 1 , erby and Crewe — — Derby, Gainabro', and Great Grimsby 18...... Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford ... Direct Manchester ( Remington's) Ditto (Ilastrick's) 54 .• - Direct Northtrn Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh Dublin and Belfast June... 5 Dublin, • Belfast, and Coleraine • 21 ,4 Dublin and Galway... 4 Dudley, M a d e 1 y, and Bruseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2 1 / 2 Eastern Counties let. 166 l9 l / 2 3 /4 iiitto New 6/. 16s Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1...„...61.. 13s. 4d.... I)ktodi tto. No. 2 .. 41. 13s. 4d... East Derelesu andNor'ch 1 astern Ditto, Quarter Shares 3. Ditto Exterhion Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 21,4 - _Do., Camb. and Ely.. D A __ East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... i , ,dinburgti and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / ...... Ditto, New Edinburgh & Northern.. 1 tj t — Edinburgh and Perth... 1 1 / Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 / Essex and Suffolk 1% — Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeoyil, & Dorset 2J/ 4 Glouc.,Abelystwith,and Central of Vales 1%...... Goole and Doncaster Grand Junction . 100 -- • .. Ditto Half Share's 5O Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union Great Eastern &Western 2 1 ,4 GreatGrimsb y and Shef field Great South. and 'Nest. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Minister ... 2% Great North of Scotland 2 1 4. . •••• 00000000 -- Great North of England.. 100 Ditto New Do. New .. Grreat Western BO Ditto LA Shares 5O ...... 86 Ditto 1 4 5harte........ 2% . .... 00000 soluaa as 16 Ditto Fifths 'iuildford, Fare'm, Ports 5 ..... Harwich . Hull and Selby - 5 O 5O Ditto 1% Shares Do. Half Shares 2 Inverness and E1gin...... 1 Ipswich; Norwich, and Yarmouth Irish North Midland l% Isle ofAxholme. ... ... 2% ' Killarney Junctions ...... 114 -- Kendal and Windermere 1 1 4 — Lancaster and Carlis1e... 30 Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 225. Leicester and lie-dfitrd... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 425. — Livert.. and Mauchester.loo _ .. Do. % Shares - Do. Quarters Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction London and Birminghtnloo 213 212 .. 212 Do. Thirds Do. 1 4 Shares ••• - Ditto Fifths ..... ..... 2 ... .. Ditto Extension ...... 134 — -t London and Blackwell. 161. 13a -id. 8% B l,l Do New Ditto Extension . .... :3 ...... 3 3 L odor and Brighton... 50 Do. consolidated Bths... 40 1 1 ,4 Ditto, Sixths London and Croydon, 13/. 15 s . od. 20 1 4 20% 1)o. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. ••• •• .• •. •• Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford - - .. London and Greenwich 12/ 15i 4d... Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — London Hounslow. and Western I. n. 4. & -,. Western 411 4. 1011 Do.. New Consol. Bths 20 ito New Do. New London & South Essex 2% . od.t, A , ind f oil% 'Pi , * Al 3% London and Windsor ... 1 London, Warwick, and Kiitie, minster - 2 1,4 — London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ....... ... . 2% Londonderry& t.`Oler,ti.o.- 5 .. Londonderry and Ennis- kale') — 5 - Lynn ...lid Ely Lynn and Deroltani . 5 — Manctrest.e.r and Le.:Nis 76 . Ditto 1,. Shares Do. Quarters 2 — Do. 'Fifths .. 1 Do. Sixteenth. ..... ... 414 — Manchester 411(1 .Birmin. 40 Do Quarters 4 ...... ...... .. ...... Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction - Manchester.auxton,and Niatlock 425.......— Manchester, Birm., and 42 17t p iIY 3 1 4 sill Mout : Junction .. ... Manchester and Rugby •-• Direct . . 42s. .... , ........ 1 Manchest. &Southarnpt. 2 Midland. .... ..... 100 ... - Do. I ifths 2 Do. New , 1 micilalid,Birm.;Derby...loo ll2 ............ ..• ..., Midld. & East. Counties 2% — ............... Midland Great Western ..- (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo 2%.. .. ••• • • .... S . ewcastlo and Darling- 53 ton Junction 25 ...... 52 53 ............ 47 , Do. New Brandling 2O .N . esevas I( - and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Newport& Abergiveany 2 1 / 4 - --101 ...................................... 1:. ... .... -.-1:11 New Ross and Carlow.. 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2 1 A — •.•. •• Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. .. Norfolk Extension ••• - orth ,lritisb ..... ...... 17 1 / 2 ... Do. _Half Shares ..... 31 / 4 ........ .• ... Do. l.xten. to Carlisle 1 1 4 — ............ .. Do. Ext. to Dolkeith 25 ..... .......... q 1 Ditto ditto __. North Devon... - ...... **" ..... --- North of Norfolk . - ........ 65 •Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip ...... Do. Quarter Shares..- 12% — ............. 17 Do. New ...,_ N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 / 2 ..... .•• ' - ''. 2 : %4, 3 1 ? NOrth Sta ff ordshire...... 425. North Wales 334 .......... ..... North and South Wales and NVorcester Northern and Southern Connecting - ... ...... .... B . .. '-orwick an.: Brandon-. .. . 16 - ........ , Ditto New 3 ...... -- Northampton, Banbury, ... ..... and Cheltenham • 2 ...... ......... Nottingham and Boston 1%....•• Nottingm., Erewsh Val ley. and Manchester 1%...... -- ••• ........ Nottingham and Mans field Oxford, Gosport, Ports mouth, & Southamptn 423. - .• ......... ••' Oxtord, W , rcept.T, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Watley, and Cheltenham.. ,c Perth and I ttVertieSS 2 % l'ilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 tiortstimuth Direct ...... 3% — ......... PreAton and Wyre. 50 .... 30 1 ., ...... . ...... Do. 1a Spar..e ..... ... 2 1 / 2 ...... •••• Reading, Guildford, and Reigote 9 -- RleNti. , ...nd .. 5 ...... 1 ...... - ... •.. / -- 30% _ 0,4 Rugby, Derby, and Man- ............ the-ter ... • ...... ............ hug-by and lluntingcliat 2 ...... Leamington,aal Warwick Rugby, Warwick. and ...... .... .... W ore( st cr... - cettisti Central Scot t i•th Sheffield & Manchester 1(10 1 4 00 27551 A; .................. ................ ... ... ............ Du. Quarter Shares 8 ••••• •• Shrew: bury :0 - 4••• *********************** Shropshire Mineral 425....... ••" ******** Shropskire Union ***** hrewsbury & Eiteretord ******* Shrews., Wolverhamp , &S. Statforthb. Junc. Sligo and Shannon Somersetshire Midland 2 1% % .... .... 23 . ... . .. ........ South Devon South Midland South & Nlidlands June, 425. .......... "'",/ South Staffordshire J nue. 2 1 • • ...... ........ 35i 1 / 2 . „4 ,-- f , ~• : , onto Ea,-1,,r0 & D -” over3:l/ 2s 4d 3 3:-/2 .• 1 4 D o ~ No. l Do_ N..., 2 Do., No. 3 i bo.. N, 4 Southampton, Manches ....... ter. & Oxford Junction 426. ...••• ........ St. Alban's, Hat field, and Hertford Junction Staine:i and Richmond .. 1 •••••.. ....... Staffordsh. & Shropshire 21,i --.. u , .. Or 3,414..... ..... ..• 21 2 • '' ... .... Taw Vale Extension lean and Dove Valley 1% — 173 3 .......... ... .I .:I.: " ... ..... ........................... -164/ t rent Valley - ~... Trent Valley and Holy- .„ .... head Junction 'Tring, Reading, and ........ Basingstoke - - 514 - — ............ Ulverstone and Furness 2%...... . .......... .. -• ' Vale of Neath ... .. 2 - ••• .... .•• Warwick is Cheltenham 1A — •••... .... ....... , Warwick and Worcester 428. . ......... atertord and Kilkennv 3 ...... .............. Watertbrd and Limerick 7 1 / ....... ---- ........... Watertd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, . ...••• and Dublin ...... ...... 1 1 A.... . ....... .1 at erf, )111, Wexford, and Valentia 1 ...... --• ......... Waveney Valley ... 2 .. ..................... kV el; li Aidland 13 , ........... - /4 ... • , West Cornwall ..... 2 , ... .. .......... ...... . West Yorkshire - .......... West London. Old Shares 'lO ..- West End and Southern Counties Arextord and Carlow 2 1% 1/ .....•_ ---- ........................... 5. 4 •••• -; Wisbeich and St. Ives... 2 ..• ••• Wilts, Somerset. and Ix , 1% Southampton Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth _ _. 2 1 A ...«......• ... ; Worcester,Hereford,Ros , ,, and Cloucester 42s. Worcester, Imbury, and Ludlow Worc4.,ter, ;•St,r , .-wsbury, ..... and Crewe Union .. ............ Worcester and S. Wales 425. Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Yarmouth and Sorwich. 20 Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2 3 / 4.„ ...... -••••• York and Lancaster 251 ............ uris .).2•t :01 tip Midland 50 Ditt. 14 Share-, .. 25 Ditto Scs.rboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Du Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS- Anglo. Belgian Barb ,dues 1 ...... .............. • tiolilorne anal “nleflB 8 ...••• .............. Bordeaux & Niediterran t..,ordeaux, Toulouse. and ....... Cett, ( 'Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ••• ••• ..... ( Espelete's) .... 2 •••• • ...... " .... Calais, Dunkrk,andWest IN 505,4 5] ... ........... Flanders .... .. .. - •••••• .... ............. Callao, Lima, and Pasifte .•••• Coastl - ••• ... . .......... ..... Central of Spain ... ..... Ceylon ...., Demerara ... .. ..... . Dendre Valley ..... .... .. 2 Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 ... „ — ......... • ••• „...• Dutch Rhenish 5 - ............... East ln,lian ... ..... .... 53. .... Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2 1 / 2 . 0 , Fampoux & Ilazebrouk 2 . G.-eat North. of France 13; Constituted . .. 5 Great Paris and Lyona 2 ..... ..• .......... ..••• Great Western Bengal... 5a — ............... „,.. Great. We•uernCanadi... 3 1 4 ..., Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 ...., Jamaica North Midland 1 - ...... .. ....... 40 Do. Extension•••www.w. 1 •0• • i • ..... ............ "' l 10 . Jolley .. ..... . fru 4sl ISMS 4 0104, MO IsisiMellen• .... , ~ THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY MORNJNO, DECEMBER 22, 1845 c ' " b a an - ( ranc del m k ti