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THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready, at Al the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Svo., (PUB PALAIS ROYAL. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By the Author of HENLI QUATIZE ; Olt, THE DAYS OF THE LEAGUE." }lorry (74 , 1 burn, Publisher, 13, Grew, Marlborough-street. NOW READY, AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, r e 35., handsomely bound, with Thirty-four Illustrations and Portrait of the Author, T HE FEMALE BLUEBE . ARD ; or, The ADVENTURER. By EUGENE SUE. Author of the "Mysteries of Paris," " Wandering Jew," &c, " We must say this is the most perplexing, mysterious, exciting, and curious of all Sue's many extraordinary romances."—Sunday Times. " This is by far the most curious and exciting work from the pen of Eugene Sue."—Brighton Guardian. Complete for 6d. ; sent Post-free, 6d. extra, THE GOVERNESS ; or, The French Pocket Handkerchief. By J. F. COOPER, author of the " Pilot," " Spy," " Red Rover," &c. London : W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; and al Booksellers. NEW ALMANACK and DIARY for 1845, Copied from the HOURS of ANNE of BRITTANY. Published this day, imperial dvo., bound in an appropriate oniamenta .. . cover, price 2/. 2s. THE ILLUMINATED CALENDAR and DIARY for 1845, embellished with Twelve large Designs, one - ppropriate to each Month, illustrative of Manners and Customs of e Fifteenth Century, carefully coloured by hand, and enriched with gold. The Title-page is' ornamented with Fruits on a Gold Ground ; and each pige of the Diary has an Ornamental Border, composed of Natural Flowers, and printed in Gold and Colours, by Owen Jones. The whole copied from the Kalendar in " The Hours of Anne of Brittany." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Will be repeated a Grand Opera aria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burstni ; Andrea Corner*, Mr. Borrani ; Nonce •igo, Mt. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, M. W. Harrisim ; ,atArina Lornaro, lli<s fts. , ntorth. To conclude a ith the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, N. Desplaces; The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, aldl e. O'Bryan ; Aysba, Mrs. Payne. Tne Box.otrice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Willl3e perrormcd a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, caked OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE ARTS Colonel Rocket Mr. S. rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe s Torn Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Count as of a 4,,• pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthor,. Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia . ennett. After which. will be produced a New Coml.- Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Merit; M-. Charles Mathews; Minnie, Madame Vestris. l'o e tolLwed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Pooley. Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Bliley ' Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and Oa: Guinea and a-Half each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.ottice, from fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 5, Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled SIDONIA DI MOLINA ; or, Ruse de Guerre. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Selby, Wright, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. Atter wh ch, a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. CouLt Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Vanille. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. O. Smith. To conclude with NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. Prompter, Mr. ballot; Principal Painwr, dr. Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odiie open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Wi 1 repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE OF AYMON •' or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir, Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun. ; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Mr. Mattocks; Ivon, Mr. L6111,r ; Hermine, Nldlle. Helen Conde] ; Gertruee, Mrs Fosbroke. To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Di ector, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. The intelligence which continues to reach us from two European countries now sunk in the depths of political turpitude and degradation, though they suc ceeded to an inheritance of historic recollections more glorious than can be boasted by almost any other two in the family of nations this intelligence is calculated to excite in British bosoms the liveliest emotions of indignation, contempt, and pity. But the great social lesson which it teaches is one of such infinite moment to the welfare and prosperity of other States, who, thanks to a long enjoyment of happier institutions, and to the salutary influence of these upon their people, still preserve the noble pre eminence they have attained, that we cannot do wrong in endeavouring to impress upon our readers its singular force and application to a community nearer home. Of all the nations of antiquity, Greece may justly claim to have transmitted to posterity the most precious inheritance. In the divinest exercises of pure intellect—philosophy, poetry, and metaphysics, in logic and history—she has bequeathed exemplars of such matchless excellence as to have served, through the lapse of more than two thousand years, for the models, hitherto unrivalled, of our reverential admiration—as the guides, whom it has not yet been permitted us to overtake, of our most ennobling studies. If it be the just and gratifying pride of modern times to have far surpassed our great in structress in the physical sciences, and the arts of civil economy—to have measured the whole visible field of infinite space, divined the laws and ascer tained the ellipses of planetary motion—to have cal culated the most eccentric orbits of the most remote comet discernible from our own system, and to have proved and established the revolutions of the satellites that revolve around other solar centres, we must ac knowledge our obligations to Greece for those ele ments of political government under which, alone, that ancient civilisation could have been attained by her from whence we derive, at this day, the benefit of her profound principles of domestic polity, and the guarantees provided by them for the maintenance of individual rights and public liberty. This is not the place to speak of those all but miraculous embodi ments of Grecian genius, in which the Hellenic mind almost thinks and speaks and acts to us, in marble and in bronze ; but the refining and exalting influences which these productions of a sublime antiquity still exert upon our intellectual develop ment, must never be forgotten in any estimate of the debt of gratitude which the Europe of our days owes to the Greece of classical antiquity—its generous rebublics, and their more renowned citizens. The attacks made by Mr. O'Coseaterse last week on Let us turn to another nation. If old Greece handed Louis PHILIPPE, the French press, the University, down to us the theory, Gothic Spain re-established M. TIMES, and other leading men in France, 'has and vindicated to us the practice, of free institutions. excited replies from the Paris journals of a very emus- When other European communities were humbled in ing character. The writers having had sufficient the dust beneath the incessant aggressions of feudal provocation speak their minds rather freely, and cer tyranny--now vexed by the despotic cruelty of their tainly do not come off worst. The Constitutionnel sovereign princes, now tormented still more grievously which takes up the cause of M. TRIERS, says—" The by the insatiable rapacity of the still more powe f 1 r u conduct of O'CoNNELL sets all calculation at defiance; nobles, the people of Spain, with indomitable per- he has an object in view which he pursues with an ad severance, contended for, and exacted from successive mirable perseverance; it is the great point aat,his rulers, large and ample popular privileges. Through- character, and his life; but setting aside his stedfasi out the different kingdoms between which their noble ness of purpose to a sacred cause, if we examine 'the. country was divided, the same bold and independent means set at work, we shall find, in all the acts and all spirit asserted itself; now successful in forcing the the words of the old agitator, an absence of fixity, a establishment of deliberate assemblies in their Cortes mobility of ideas, which despairs and alarms ;" and af and their Municipal Councils, now wringing humble terwards adds, "but we must pity the errors and the reluctant heads of hereditary oppressors the fueros faults of a great man." of the maritime provinces. To Gothic Spain must The Journal des Deka, animadverts on his speech still be ascribed the solid glory of having success- rather in raillery than anger. " There is Mr. fully devoted herself to become the bulwark of O'CONNELL again, who appears in the horizon decked Christianity in Southern Europe, and of having, on in a cap of blue velvet embroidered in gold, with gar repeated occasions, turned back the invading tide of lands of shamrock. We are really grieved that the French ambition and aggressiveness. The discoverer air of his mountains has not better soothed his bile ; The disputes that have lately arisen in the Church and planter of a new world, however, can wan t no and if we wer e no t aware th a t grea t men h a d their of England on unimportant as well as important other blazonry to distinguish her "escutche on o f p re - weakn esses , an d th a t even t h e most accomplished matters, and that are still in active progress, being e tenc among the powers achieved by the nat ura l comedians can no t b ear cr i t i c i sm pa ti ent l y, we s h ould carried on in many places with more zeal than chivalry of Europe. be as t on i s h e d a t th e t ransports o f rage i nto wh i ch this charity, have induced the Bishop of EXETER to IVhat is the present condition of these St a t es , so iras c ibl e p ersonage i s th rown b y t h e most moderate summon a general Chapter of the cathedral of that illustrious by their past associations ? A con diti on obser va ti ons . Mr. O'CoNNELLon that day was in of social misery, of civil degradati on , o f p o liti ca l full v e i n f or a pplyi ng ep ith e t s . H e w i s h e d to g i ve us diocese for the purpose of obtaining the benefit o f their united deliberations. At this Chapter, which perfidy, of civic treachery, of royal duplicity, of our share, and we do him the justice to acknowledge was held a few days since in the Chapter-room, all Ministerial profligacy, of arrogant favouritism, of that he placed us in good company. For this reason parties, it seems, agreed in lamenting the dissensions hopeless corruption in high places, of venal faithless- we do not bear him any malice, and to prove it to that now prevailed, and in apprehending still more ness in low ones, of successful faction, of defeated him, we republish most accurately the abuse with serious ones, if some timely check were not applied. patriotism, of triumphant intrigue, of pro- which he honoured us. Mr. O'CoNNELL when he scribed integrity, o f a wea l t h y few, and a a b uses i s sure to have the upper hand. He has such They were by no means unanimous, however, in advising what that check should be ; but pauper people ;—of unprincipled chiefs and tur- richness and fecundity of picturesque expressions, bulent followers, u n d er w h ose d i sorganising quarrels that unless we had at our service the catechism at length, after an animated discussion of nearly three hours, more than two-thirds and rapacity agriculture decay s , t ra d e l anguishes, which is sold in the streets during the Carnival, of the clergymen assembled agreed in opinion confidence expires, and love of coun t ry s l eeps the sleep and in which we are taught the manner of ro f death. These are conditions common t o the pr e - plyin g t o p ersona liti es w i t h out f a lli ng i nto a pass i on that the only proper and effectual remedy appeared to ° be, at once to restrain all undue change, and look to S • sent aspect of both -Fain and Greece. OTHO is faith . w e cou ld not reasona bl y endeavour to contend w i th' the law as the best and surest guide of action. In less to his constitutional oath ; ISABELLA. tramples him. F or thi s reason G OD for b id that we should under foot, at the instigation of CHRISTINA, the con- atte m pt it. W e m i ght well permit him, moreover, conformity with this opinion the Bishop of EXETER inunediately issued a Pastoral Letter to the clergy of stitution which both have, over and again, sol emn l y t o ca ll us 'i ncredulous,' for it is certain we do not his diocese, which faa lean just published by Mims- sworn to uphold. ISABELLA and OTHo receive into be lieve o ne wor d h e says, and that it is that makes RAY, and which on the whole is more moderate and and , their respective councils, protection, him so furiou s . E very one may have seen in the rational in its tone—though occasionally betrayin g the avowed enemies of the liberties of the coup- public squares a mountebank , who • begins by twisting men who the ne bird , ck of a and then tries they severally govern. The , places it on a table, say to. expect fi om so strict and unbending a High have laboured, and fought, and bled to tokens of a jesuitical spirit—than- we were prepared uphold ing, I will restore him t o lif e i d' l ' mme late y. He then begins to tell anecdotes, whilst he • making his the vs his Lordship. But it is evident from those liberties, they hand over as meet sacrifices to the , . in is his • collection the meantime. Those among the • the general bearing of his letter that the Bishop ha s , bloodthirsty hatred of the adventurers who have assassi- i ~ spec become weary depart, quite ta ors w ho. will persuaded at length taken alarm at the rapid progress of the , nated freedom, and set up in its stead a ghastly idol of i 1 that the bird recover; but there are others who dissensions in the Establishment, and seeing that the tyranny attired in some of her habiliments. Is there, i I ! have the indiscretion to remain and awa it th e m i racle. more zealous and ardent party in the Church h ave then, it may be asked, no people to interfere, either in oarried matters with so high a hand as to rouse h os ti- ' Spain or in Greece, in order to vindicate their own i Those persons are the most troublesome, and it i s i those that the operators love the least. It is thus that lity rather than induce conviction, he has come to the rights, to reconstruct their own privileges, to pre . Mr. O ' CONNELL proceeds. He commences by promis wholesome conclusion, that it is expedient to practise scribe their own form of government, to control the ! the soothing system, and a bat e some thi ng o f the pride delinquencies of those who govern ? If the aristocr a cy ing and assu m pti on o f th e c l o th. U pon no ot h er pr i nc i ple ' o f th e f ormer , or th e c hi e f s o f th e l atter, st ill l ac k t h e months. He then passes to another subject. He speaks of the four quarters of the world; of the can we acc oun t f or th e a l tere d tone t h at pervades the 1 energy or th e means to right themselves and the laws, ; emancipation of the g , ne roes • of the French journals ; Bishop's observations, which —se far as our memory are there no true man, of the humbler classes, to inter of the impious university; et de quibusdam alii.f, serves . us—are at variance with the spirit that was pose and wrest the downfal of their tottering States ? , . manifested in his recent judgment in the : whilst his audience listen to him with their mouths Alas l the long prescription of defective Rev. WALTER BLUNT , of the oful case institutions, customs, ' open.somebunglin g spectator should But if de insists on a rigid observance Holston. ston. He no longer or abused have so utterly abased, and so butall the obsolete usages enfeebled these humbler, though far more numerous, mand news of repeal, he would do well to quit the touched upon in the Rubric ° the duty of the laity as laid do wn in th is e es " regard s secti ons o f th e peop l e , th a t t h ey can accomp li s h ring as quickly as p oss ibl e . Thi s i s near l y w h a t h as Rubric, that nothing of themselves, although they groan and happened to us. We are unbelievers because we do a very cautious and forbearing tone be adopted. Th e writhebe of under the bitter ness o f th e i r bondage, the not believe in O'Coairseee's word. We are atheists shame Offertory he, in a great measure, gives up ; imit a ti ng, their degradation. Then why not make because we have no faith in his miracles, But if Mr. be in this respect, the exam p le of t he shrewd, dis- common cause (it may * Raked) with their lords or O'Coszeem. cares so little about us as he asserts, wh y erect CHARLES JAMES LONDON, who, when h e their leaders, their chiefs oris - their nobles? Shall we he so angry ? `Wh y does there enter so . much found that his air of arrogance and menace produced no i venture to answer for them 2 Because nobles eaadchiefs i gall into the soul of a devotee ?' In truth, when we We have accounts, by the Levant mail, from Con stantinople, to the 13th ult., Alexandria the 20th, and Malta the 24th. The news from the Turkish capital is without interest. MEIIEMIT ALI still remained at Cairo in good health, and displaying great activity in business. A telegraphic dispatch was received at Alexandria on the 20th, announcing the arrival of the Overland mail at Suez, on the 19th. The steamer Liverpool, had arrived at Alexandria to convey the mail to Marseilles. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galle Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. tid. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 641. Private Boxes, l'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half pait Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Bex-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions far the Season to be had at the Theatre. HZATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA- HOU'SE. Ucder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Wig be repeate I an Original Drama, entitled HOME AGAIN; or, The Lieutenant's Daughters. Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, Craven, and Keeley, Miss Fortescue and Mrs. Keeley. To be followt,l by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSIN GEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, "taeton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke ley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in wtich Jull.en's Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will he danced by Alcilles. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mi s Fairbrother. To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASS.ONS With entirely Nee Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal Characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr. t raven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli lire, Mrs. A. W.gan, Miss Turner, Mi ,s James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes. 4t. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Prico—Balcony Boxes, ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the It:living 'net (raiirig eight persons). Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Pier (bolding eight persons), One Guinea and a.HaIL Private boxes on the Pit tier (holding six persons), One Guirea, I'he Box-,Clice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc ti n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. We have received Madrid journals of the 25th ult: According to some of them the Council of Ministers have very frequent meetings, but the public are kept in ignorance as to their objects, though they are sup posed to have reference to the late attempts at insur rection. It was said that ORM!! had been dismissed from the military command of Logrono, because he had not taken sufficiently energetic measures against ZURBANO'S band. A deputation from that town had arrived in Madrid, and addressed a petition to the QUEEN in favour of Zuariamo's son, but we feat: too late, for accounts from Bayonne of the 28th announce that BENITO ZURBANO, aged twenty-eight years, and ex-Lieutenant-Colonel in the Spanish service, toge ther with CAYO Muao, ZURBANO'S brother-in-law, and two other insurgents, were shot at Logrono on the 25th. The Funds continued to rise. On the 25th 'the Three per Cents. closed at 344 for cash, and at 31 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 20/ at 60 days; and the Floating Debt at 67, for the 11th instant. Great attraction every Evening— Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTI. EY'S ROYAL AMPHi'I HEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Kill be repeated a New Spe:tacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, l'he Race_l lore and Life's Course of Mau and Steed ; introducing unequalled Natiot•al Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased b► Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel productim. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horseruanship. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Conscripts Acting and stage.rn snager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding iv Mr. R. Smith daily. By the steam-packet Queen, which arrived at Southampton on the 2d inst., we have intelligence from Gibraltar to the 24th, and Lisbon to the 27th of November. We regret to state that a most lamentable fire had broken out on Wednesday last, at Lisbon, in the Rua Magdalena, by which 13 persons had been burnt to death. It appears there were no ladders at hand, and neither the police nor the authorities could render any assistance. A Bill of Indemnity had passed the Chamber of Peers by a majority of eight in favour of Ministers. The muni cipal elections were also going on in their favour. A meeting of the English residents, for the pur pose of electing a British Judge Conservator in that city, took place on the 22d inst., when Doctor SILVA PEREIRA was elected by a large majority. The Al bion, 90 guns, had returned to Lisbon, after a cruise. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY I'IIEATRE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 4, XIII he te;eated a New 'rams, 'entalmi THE SEALED SEN TENCE, sup , orted by t'essrs. Hughes, N. T. Hicks, Vale, Johnsoii, Morrison, Mrs. tt Honner, Ma. Lewis, &c. An Ethiopian Entertainment by the REAL AMERICAN SOU I HER N MINSTRELS . To be followed by CRAMOND BRIO, in which Messrs. N. T. Hi ks, Neville, Fitzjamrs, M , s W. Daly, and M.ss Terry wil l sustain the principal Characters. After whio'i, an entirely New Drama, THE SISTERS OF CHA. TILLON, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, R. Shephard, Vale, Johnson, Heslop, Mars. R. Hoarier, Mis. Terrey, Mrs. H. Vining, &c. will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER—Strw OFFICE, DEC. 3 THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31; Highest, 38; Noon, 35 BAROMETER, N.N.E. Yors.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the h-ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is ugually p!aced opposite 30, and rain at 29. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY. M I g 51 minutes after 7 I Evening ... 30 minutes after Q. 4 - .4 e J • ' 3l " s .wr I • - - •";4.4 -r- - • • r aet, , .0 , -.•• DRosr- ujng2),lll3 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1844. The remains of her late Royal Highness the Princess SoPHIA MATILDA will be interred in the family vault in St. George's Chapel, at Windsor, on the evening of Tuesday, the 10th instant ; and, in compliance with the wishes of her late Royal Highness, the ceremony of lying in state will be dispensed with, and the funeral will be conducted with as much pri vacy as is consistent with the rank of her late Royal Highness. effect, at once lowered his pretensions, and adopted the conciliatory system. "In every church," says Doctor PHILLPOTTS, " in which the congregation in general is prepared to regard the Offertory as the exercise of a high Christian privilege, there I advise that a collection be always made. But wherever the pervading tone and feeling are not yet of this high order, be patient, strive, but strive gently, and with prayer to GOD, to raise your people to a better mind; and till they have attained to it, shock not their prejudices, irritate not their selfishness, it may be their worldly-mindedness." The spirit of this passage is in every respect to be commended, with one sole exception—namely, that we do not think that the words " prejudices," " selfishness," and " worldly-mindedness," are exactly the fitted terms to apply to those who from some pressing cause or other may be unable to oontribute to the plate which is to be handed round among the congregation just as often as the officiating clergyman may deem expedient. Parishioners have already quite as many burdens laid on them as they can well bear, and if they contribute handsomely to charity sermons, &c., we do not see why they should be taunted with " sel fishness," because they refuse their subscriptions to a regular weekly offertory, in addition to their other voluntary and involuntary contributions. 0» the unimportant subject of the surplice—which, frivol ous as it is, has caused no slight diversity of opinion —the Bishop is explicit and positive. "The law,'' he observes, " beyond all question which can now arise, requires that the surplice be always used in the sermon, which is part of the Communion Service ; and as to all other times, whenever a sermon is part of the ministration of the parochial clergy, there is so little reason for question, that I resolve the doubt by requiring (as it was required in the diocese in which my own ministerial life was passed) that the surplice be always used." The parenthetical allusion to the diocese in which the Bishop's earlier ministerial life was passed, at once explains the cause of his fondneFs for the surplice, for he cannot but remember that he was "required" to wear it in those happy, prosperous days when he was in the full enjoyment of the fat, rich Rectory of Stanhope, which he strove hard to retain when promoted to the see of Exeter, but which, alas, the unfeeling Whigs compelled him to resign, notwithstanding his melting supplications, which might have " drawn iron tears down Pluto's cheek," though they failed to touch the obdurate heart of Earl Gaily ! On the whole, Dr. Plum, POTT'S pastoral letter—if we except one or two am biguous remarks—deserves praise for its temperate and conciliatory tone. leaders and lords, have NOT made honest cause with them. Because wealth has been willing to see them sa crificed to the treason or cabal of the day, provided only it could secure and retain its own possessions. Because rank and power have abandoned the natural and legi timate claimants on their protection, in their own hour of aggrandisement and recurity, in order to secure their own slippery footing in the halls of capri cious despotism, and to rivet still more tightly on their own serfs or dupes the chains which their supe rior tyrant has permitted them to forge for that pur pose. What wonder, then, that the compatriots of HARMODIUS or of PELAGIO, born and nurtured as it were in the long descended hatred of royal oppression and foreign authority, should look on with apathy at the unbridled career of desolation and infamy which both the one and the other are spreading headlong over Spain and Greece in these their unhappy times ? But there are yet other and greater States, still un cursed by foreign influence, still uninsulted and unpro voked by any movement of royalty towards despotism; enjoying a general condition of extreme prosperity, with certain modifications of extreme poverty and misery —abundant in their free institutions, and enjoying the free working of them—there are yet States of the first rank and most signal power which exhibit some fearful symptoms of internal derangement and dis eased action, manifesting themselves in the same ex- . tremities—namely, the lower orders. Let them learn, betimes, the memorable truth which the close proxi mity of excessive opulence and abject destitution ; vast accumulations of capital and every phase of poverty; horrible want and magnificent profusion— ought never to proclaim in vain.. The few, in order to uphold even the most perfect and favourable of human institutions, must depend on the many; and since the many can have no common interest with the few in supporting establishments under which they derive no fair proportion of common advantage, property must come to the aid of poverty. The unequal distribution of wealth is an incident which cannot be prevented ; but the pressure upon those whose portion of it is absolutely, or but next to, privation, may be relieved by property's placing a ge nerous and enlarged construction upon its own duties: Let us secure the alliance of those who want not only present relief, but timely confidence and encourage ment. There are political and social, as well as moral benefits, of the most invaluable kind, to be secured by the upper and middling classes who shall thus avert the chances of such estrangement of the lower from the higher orders, which now leaves Athens and Attica a prey to Bavarian bad faith and mismanage ment—and humbles the pride of the Castilles and the pomp of Madrid beneath the base intrigues of CHRISTINA and her minions, or the arrogant brutality of such an adventurer as NARVAEZ. see. the sad position in which Mr: O'CoNsuaLt is plated, aria the extravagant tricies he is obliged to play before the public, we feel but commiseration for his). IVe - must take into consideration his embarrassments. Ile can only speak. He has already fioished the Tories and the IVhipt, Who, however, are not the worse. At present it is the turn of the KING) of the FRENCH, and of the University f and of that immoral French press, which has had the cruelty to refuse to believe him,to be serious." The National defends itself and Ma OmLott BA/PROT and taunts Mr. O'Coartatt: with want of courage in eternally talking whilst he should be acting. After stating that M. BARROT has nothing to do with the National, it says : " We should be happy to give assistance to the people of Ireland, as we should to every people sighing for in dependence. Stripped of its soil, reduced to a condition of frightful misery, deprived of its most precious rights, ever trerted as a conquered race, the Iftple of Ireland exhibits to us the most painful and palpable instance of the violence and cupidity of British aristocracy. And, when that people is struggling under the weight of so many chains, When it has neither bread nor an asylum left, it appears to us that O'Connell, armed with a power so great, could do better than eternally speak of him self. It appears to us that a man gifted with so much talent, if he had a particle of feeling, would not confine himself to act the part of a citizen advocate. We stigmatise as a cruel mockery the conduct of a' mountebank who delights in throwing an entire Famishing population into a state of sterile agita tion. A good Christian should not assume an atti tude so contemptible, nor everlastingly deceive by his falsehoods a people ground down by their misfortunes. It appears to us that a man, placed at the head of 7,000,000 of an ardent and almost desperate population, and receiving from them a liberal civil list, exposes him self to the contemp'uous disdain of honest men by hold' ing out to that people from year to year, Froth month to month, the prospect of' repeal, which he knows to be im possible.. Such are our sentiments. If O'Connell does not understand them, we are certain that they will be understOod by the sincere men who surround him, and who address him in secret reproaches similar to those with which we publicly assail him. They have not the advantage of being crafty jurists, eloquent orators, and narrators of puerile trifling stories ; but they ardently love their country, they share all the sufferings of the people, and they spurn the idea of making Ireland, bleed ing from all her pores a pedestal for their own renown. If amongst them are citizens who have not the courage to sacrifice their lives for the liberation of their country, they will no doubt leave to others the honour of placing themselves at the head of those who shall take field. Command in such a country like Ireland is both an honour and a danger. No one ought to accept the one when he has not the courage to incur the other." The Gabe, a Ministerial journal, thus ungenerously, We think, exults over the helpless condition of the Duke of BOURDEAUM, and indiscreetly places the policy of Lone PHILIPPI! in a very equivocal light : " His Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale has just married, at Naples, the Princess Caroline of Solerno. Princess Caroline is the Duke de Bourdeaux's cousin. Thus the revolution of 183 a finds alliances even in the Pretender's family. This must make the Legitimists reflect. It must make them reflect the more, as, while the Duke de Aumale finds an alliance in the very family of the Duke de Bordeaux, the Duke de Bourdeaux can find none anywhere not even among the princely famili es that are hostile to the Revolution of July—so true it is that the eldest branch is considered by all, even by those who regret it, as a dead branch. The living may weep over the dead, but do not enter into alliances with them. " It is a strange thing—the policy of Lewis XlV.—the policy of alliances by and between the members of the Bourbon family is, at this moment, being realised in southern Europe. It is a Bourbon who reigns at Naples, and_ who has just formed an alliance with a Bourbon of the younger branch, which reigns in France. Spain, by the marriage of Queen Isabella with a Bourbon, is about to re-enter the bosom of that eminently French fanilly. Thus are three European royalties established On this noble and ancient basis. _ _ " This is not the mere effect of chance. The King of the French, with that instinct which in him is genius, has admirably understood that the alliances of France must be of two sorts. Owing to her past and her pre sent position in Europe, France must have monarchical alliances. Owing to her ideas and institutions, France must have liberal alliances. The King of the French makes those two sorts of alliances go together, and whilst he was fraternising in London with the Consti tutional Government, issued from the Revolution of 1688, he was concluding at Naples a monarchical alli ance with the house of Bourbon. This is sound and grand policy." The French Three per Cents. continued firm, and were quoted on Sunday at 83f. 66c. for the settle ment, and at 83f. 80c. for the end of December. INDIAN MAIL.—A letter from Marseilles, - dated Nov. 28, says—" Yesterday the French steamer Caire entered this port from Alexandria, which place she quitted — on the 20th. By her we learn that on the 20th a telegraphic dispatch was received, announcing the arrival of the Bombay mail, at Suez, on the 19th. The steamer Liverpool entered the port of Alexandria, to fetch the Indian mail, on the morning of the 20th. Advices from Malta to the 24th November state, that in all probability the Sydenham, and not the Alecto, will bring the Indian mail to Marseilles." Pan' Y COUNCIL.—Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe, and other Lords of the Council, had a meeting yesterday to resume the hearing of the petition from- Guernsey, praying for the confirmation of a project of a reform in the constitution of the States. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. I.—The Chamber terminated yester day the debate on the budget of ways and means, which was agreed to without modification by a majority of 6 - 1 to 4. ,A sudden change has taken pl ace i n the aff.sirs of St. Thomas's. Among the Members of th e Ch am b er w h o , f or these three days have taken a malici o us pl easure i n de. at St. Th omas, crying the colony there are some who would be very glad if they could recal their words while they were talking of a ruinous combination and iskpor titre, and at the moment when it was least expected a change has taken place, and the English have taken it up. What does this mean ? What has happened ? Why, the English have said, " You will not give three millions to a company com posed of your own countrymen ! Well, we will give them. You will not have your countrymen e with their labour and their capital, to fertilise the virgin soil of' St. Thomas's ; well, we will send ours. You will not found Ainericau empire for your glory, and for the future splendour ofy.Qur industry; well, we will found an empire which shall equalAnglo-America. Everybody will `Wetontented, because you will get rid of all affair which annoyed you ; and we, because while seeking an oppor tunity to employ our capital to advantage, we at the same time always bear in mind the territorial aggran• disement and the prosperity of the manufactories of our country." We hope, however, that the Belgian Company will not be completely transformed into an English one. Undoubtedly those who give three millions to the ' Company have reserved to themselves some rights of su perintendence and control. We may therefore expect that some Englishmen will be joined with Belgians in the twelve Directors of the Company : we shall see Eng lishmen take part in the advantages which the peculiar situation of St. Thomas's offer to the commerce and ma nufacture.of Europe: we still hope that Brussels will continue to be the seat of this Company, that Ostend and Bruges will not lose the promised opportunity of sending their ships and receiving the returns. All these, how ever, must soon be cleared up,—Courrier Beige. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausans. Nov. 30. Aetna Debt, 334 per Cont., . Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cert * Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. Titres per ----Thirty-seven Hillis ns, ditto ...... 77 1t3% 101% Loan of City, 1843, Four per 183 4 lOl Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bask of Belgium, Five per el% ..—BrusseTs7a—per"--s:"IieTT.------- AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—llizxxe, Net 25 . Five per Cents. Metalltquee 169 15-18 Four par Cents• 00000 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MO% Three per Cents. 000000000000000 '75% y _Bank Sharp •• 00000 Mem. 0. •••••••• •••••• 1018 DittAd r ian, 1 13UZ...... 000000 0000000000 o, Rsterbasy's Lean ..... —AU:maim 2.4otang, Nov. 28. DUTCH 1 , UNUs.—Anwrianaw, Net. 22. Money. Bills. A etual Debt, 1 214 per Cent..................... 623( 112 3( Ditto, AIM; s per Cent. ... 75 4 754 Ditto. ditto, 4 per Cent........ 97 117% Ditto, ditto 5 per seat. Amo Mi t Syndic, 44 per cent Wayi 99% Ditto, ditto, 34. per cent............•••• Commercial Company, 4y., per cent 1474, 148 Loan 1837, 4% per cent. ...........«.«.«.»« —. Exchange on London, Onemonth Two months .... 12 G 734 At sight... ..... ...... -- Deilek Papers, Now. 26. TO THE: EDITOR OF THE SUN. reply to the arttcle in your paper of this day, headed " Transfer of Licenses, Exorbitant and Illegal Fees?' I beg -to inform you that the next meeting of magistrates for the Tower Division, will be held at the Court-house, Osborne -street, Whitechapel, on Monday, the 16th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon pre cisely ; and that I am prepared to meet any charga Mr. N. or any other person may think proper to bring against me on the subject. Yours, &c. THOMAS REYNOLDS, High Constable. No. 208, Brick-lane, Dec. 2. 1 - HER MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS.--A small field, numbering between 40 and 50, were at the meet, on Mon day, at Brick -bridge, where the stag was uncarted be tweeti eleven and twelve o'clock, going away to Thatchen end, nearly to the windmill, whence it doubled back to Brick bridge, on to the Hayes, making for Hay-hill, Hawthorn-hill, a n d W ar fi eld Churc h , to Winkfield-row and Hatchet-lane, and was taken at Sawyer's-gate, near Sunninghill, after a run of little more than au hour. It was all road hunting to the take, after leaving Wink field. The inset on Friday will be at the One Pin, at Hedgerley. We regret to state that th e E ar l o f Li mer i c k li es _...... . dangerously ill at South-hill Park. His Lordship is attended by the moat eminent of the faculty. THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY MORN ING, DECEM itER 4, 1844„ t MONEY AN)) CoMMERCi AL S (Irv, sfuts;3.il• Eth,Atto. Consols closed well, being 1004 to 101 for Money, and 1014 4 for Account. 'File other securities were quoted the simile as in the morning. The Foreign )34inde Bopp rted foil rates Spani.h Adtlves 21t I ; dna IhB thfeB P!_iF D. , :fts4 Mexican were 36i; Colombian, 14 1; Chilian, 103; Bel gian, 1011 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63k. 'The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these - ;--Chester and Holyhead were 4 ; Great Western, - HA 37 to ; South-Western, ; Croydon, ; Ldtidon and 'fork ; 1 . 11 ; Matioh€-Ater an Le,eds j 44 ; Net castle dint Darlington, 36} to 37 ; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 101 to 10 ; North Kent, ; Richmond and West • End Junction, ; South-Eastern, 34 ; Ditto, New, 61 *; Trent Valley, 6 to *; B ailog,le and Amiens, 31* ; and Orleans . and Vierzon 94. to * premium. Origo nrd Etotbl' btch Caletfttnian, 1; Eastern Counties, 11A ; Blackwall, 9 ; and Brighton, 14- discount. Direct Northern were* discount to par ; ind South Wales discount to premium. Australasia Bank Shares were 41 t , ) 4 ; London Joint-Stock, ; and National rtovihoial of Ellgland, 5 pretiiittill. • The Foreign Exchanges . were very firm as regards Paris, Arnaterdam, and Trieste ; Antwerp was steady ; and Frankfort and Hambiirgh were a shade lower. •The folloWing is the official return of the exports of bulb ~ti frofil the port of London foe the week Ending Thursday last:— _ _ Silver Coin to Rotterdam Silver Bars to llamburgh 35,300 ~ The was a rumour this afternoon that one or two of the Loaoi notes stolen from Messrs. Rogers had been presented at the Bank of England. (Frer. The Sun of Last Night.) Tho sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 to 4,000 bales, including 400 tittles Perhattibitco, at Bd. to Gid. ; 156 Egyptian, at 51d. ; and 300 Surat, at lid. to 3d. ; 150 Maranham, at 4kd. to sd. ; and the rest American, at 3d. to 50. per lb.—There was an active business in Shares at firm prices t--Birmingham and Gloucester, 9t i Brietol and Uketteater, 361 ; Cale donian, 41,1 4 ; Direct northern, 21 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 ; Grand Junction, 215 ; Ditto, Halves, k ; Great Western; 142 ; Hull and Selby, Halves, 14i ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35 34} ; London tint York, 85s. 83e. 9d ; London and Brighton, 481 ; London and South-Western, 79 ; Ditto, New, 27 ; Manchester and Birmingham 51f ; M anc h es t er , olton, and Bury, 123 k ; Manchester and Leeds, 1141 ; New castle and Carl isle, 105 k ; She ffi eld and Manchester, 941 95 ; Paris and Lyons, a* ; Paris and Rouen, 39f Sambre and Meuse, 3 ; Tour *hd Nantes, 2f ; B ou l ogne and Amiens, 5 41. The affair of Zurbano, according to the advises re ceived within the last few days, will soon be reckoned among the mere petty emeutes which so frequently dis tract, without revolutionising, Spain; and, as in the his tory of most 'countries, for a time at least, the Govern ment of Narvaez appears to hays acquired in the eyes of his countrymen increased solidity and power. The effect of a strong Governmen - t in Spain might, it is ac knowledged, prove highly beneficial, were its efforts directed to the preservation of the constitu , anti ; but, as is generally the case, and as was particularly exemplified in the fate of Espartero, men who hesitate at strong measures, are generally those who hare most at heart the welfare of their native land. _ There is not a syllable of news In the City, that may be depended upon, relative to the robbery of Ilogtrs and Co. That a strong desire exists to learn the mode in which the delinquency was committed in certain, but we think that no clue will be publicly given as to the trans action. Has negotiation is said to be out of the ques tion, whether for 4,0001. or 5,000 L to return the whole amount, the detective principle will be strongly exerted. The loss'ef the Liverpool line of packet ship Elisa beth, Captain Paton, has caused an expression of great regret by - a numerous class of parties in the City. The veteran Commander was well known, not only at the out-port above named, but also in the port of London. Captain Paton, we are induced to believe , has for years had the means of enjoyin g hi s Whom cunidignatati—but he could not bear a state of inactivity. The Commissioners took this mornigg Three per Cent. Consols for Money, at 1001, and the•rilw Three-and-a= Quarter per Cents. at 1021—in all, about 15,0001. were bought. Consols tor the Account have been quoted at 1011, and for Money at 101*. The premium upon Ex chequer Bills continues to fall. Sales have been made as low as 555. premium. South Sea Stock has advanced to 116 and 116 i. India Stock has reached 290, but It is now 2 per cent. lower. Bank Stock is 1 per cent. under yesterday's prices. In the Foreign Funds there has been a good deal of speculation going on to-day. Spanish Three per Cents. have advanced to 37 ; and the Active Bonds to 25 ; but the market is now a shade lower. Portuguese Con verted Bonds have been sold at 554 ; Brazil ran at 89 ; the Dutch Four per Cents, at 97 ; the Five per Cents. at 99; Colombian at 14i; and Mexican at 364 The Share market has been rather heavy to-day ; and business somewhat slack at our latest quotations. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the (Meal List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..... 100 1 ; }6 3 per Cent. Commis. Anna ............ 10134 100% 100 101 New Mi per Cent. Annuities........, ..... 10034 j( Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 12 1-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 ...... 11% India Stock .." .......... ....... •••••• ......... •••••••••• 290 986 South Sea Stock ..... .. 1111% 118 Consol. for Account 161 U Exchequer Bills. IL ._ . 0001. •••••••••• 5855 Pin. attM•a• 110”,•••••••••••••11.110. 58 55 pan Ditto Sla 00000 58 55 pm. Ditto Advertised:"... — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK . Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 88% 89 Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 Columbian Bonds. 144 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 36 141 3 4 Ditto Deferred Stock..... ...... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 0000000000000000000 55% Ditto for the Account . ....... ...... 5. - A Spanish Bonds, Five per 'Cent 24 % % Ditto for the Acc0nnt...............•—• ..... Ditto Passive Bonds 64 % Ditto Three per Cent. 36% ti Bitte for the Account „«.«.........»..« 3 6% 37 36% Dutch-2% per Cents...... ....... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.... 87 Dutch 5 per Cents...". . . . . . 99 ritlCEs OF SHARE:s ." AT ATONE ........ RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SWAB. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO to 97 Bristol and Gloucester........ Direct Northern 2% 2% to Etstern Counties •••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ••••••••• 13% ••• •• to Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 62 to IR Great North of Eng1and............ 100 ll 9 Great Western 75 142%....., to . Ditto % Shares •.... •••••....... 50 ••••••••• 87 •• • to London and Birmingham. lOO .........219 to 220 London and Brighton .....»........ 50 ......... 49 London and South Western 41% .....„ - . 803fi Ditto Eighths 1 ... ...• 2% •••••• to 3% London and Croydon ........ ..... 16%A to .. Londen and ....... 1111144•6114 g %U. ..... N. to Manchester and Birmingham 40 to Midland- .. ... ... 100 . to 108 INd. I%cl. Newcastle ind DarlingtonJunct. 24 63 ..... 62% Norwich Ind Brandon 8••••• •••• 12411 •••••• to South Eastern and Dover ..... 3:1,4 ... 3iK to S 7 Trent Valley , York and North Midland Ditto Scarbore' Branch 10 -4, Boulogne and 2 ........ 5 ... to Orleans end Boutdeaux 1 ~..,«.. 4...46. to Paris and Ly0n5....... . 2 ... .. tti Rouen and Havre. «........ 12 .... to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, IJEC. 2.—We have had a large amount of business' doing to-day, without any material change in prices: —London and York, 4I 4 ; Churnt,ts, 735. 6d. af ; Sheffield and 345. ; Preston and Wyre, guaranteed, 261 ; Birkerilattogatichester, and Ch es hi re J unct i on, 6i I ; %Vest Yorkshite, 6i; London and Rugby, 1i; Manches ter and Birmingham, Quarters, 31`-'ll3-40 Accringtons, 2 15-16 ; London and Birmingham, .219 218 ; London and South Western, (average,' 78} ; Manchester and Birmingham, 52/ ; Midland, 40Z Shares, 84s. 4 3-16; Paris and'Lyor.s, 3 ; Huddersfield Canal, 194. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bask 5t0ck............ex dlr. 207 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Red ....... ...... 190% Ditto under £1,009 r Cent. Cons. ............ 101 South Sea Stock 116 per Cent. Cons lUL South See Stock .w...., 116 per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities .., 3% per Cent 102% Ditto New Annuities... New 5 per Cent........... Long Annuities to expire Ditto W. ....... 54 pin. Jan. 12 1-16 Ditto .... 56 pm Oct. 111 Bank Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860 • C onsols for Act. ..... 101 A Indian 5t0ck.....,,....... 293 India Stock fer Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Russian 5 per Cent............ Ditto,Metallic .... Vanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 24% Ditto, 184 1..«.«.«. «.„.„.. Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, 1843...—...------ Austrian, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl% Brazilian Bonds .....• ,.... w Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent - Cuba 80nd5,.6 per Cent - Chllian, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish,.3 per Cent - Ditto, 3 p er C ent ... ....... ..... 36% Greek, 184, 5 per Cent - Venezuela Bonds ; 2 per Ct... - Mexican,s per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct - French, 3 per Cent.... -f. -c, Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent - Exchange .................. ....f. Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct 25 Dutch, 2% per Cent .•« ...•• 63% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct - Ditto.;s per Cent...". ..... 99 3 i SHARES . • Aberdeen 234 solid Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Caledonian (5 paid)' 434 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Direct Northern, 2 34 paid ........... .....- .. Eastern Counties (2 5 p a id) Great Western (75 paid) - Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid London and Blackwell (161. 13s. 4d.) 7 - Lonieit and Brighton (50 paid) , London and S out h Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid ) B2 London and Croydon .. .. • London and York, 2% paid 4 lg Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ............ Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 24 paid . 6l Northern and Eastern (45 paid) - Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35 North Kent; 2% liaid . Richmond southtAste a r ri n d an W d el ) t o E ve n r d (3 .l 3 un 2s cti 4d on, p lip: t a ) id 38 1 ! Ditto. New Shares, 4 paid... .............. South Wales, 23%, p - aid.... .. 2 Trent Valley, '2 paid B% Beidogne and Amiens ' 2 paid .... .......... ..... Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid ... 1134 FUNERAL OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA OF GLOUCES TER. —The remains of her Royal Highness will be de posited in the same vault, at the west end of the south aisle of St. George's Chapel, which contains the remains of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who died in 1805, of the Duchess of Gloucester, who died in 1807, and of the Princess Caroline o 1 Gloucester who died in infancy, in 1775. &LOCKING DEATR.—Last week two women had occasion to go up Llangattock mountain (Breconshire) and one of them took her little girl with her, who, by some means or other, unfortunately got separated from her mother,-ead. on account of the density of the fog, the night passed without any trace of her being discovered. On the following morning, however, she tViis found in a sitting posture, with her hands crossed over her bosom, quite dead. Monmouthshire Merlin. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY.—We understand that the adoption of the Patent Metallic Capsules, by the Messrs. Betts, of Smithfield-bars, as a means of protect ing their Patenttrandy, when bottled, has been attended with the most perfect ,success. Public confidence has been thereby, uni v er s ally es t a bliih e d, i n t h e pur i ty , healthfulness, and general superiority of this native pro duction ; irrespective of the enormous saving in price, as compared with the only article that can fairly rival it —the best Cognac. SUMMARY OF NEWS flublir i ptittoit. " Who runs kiay ;tad:" FORSIONi. On Saturday Louis Philippe, accompanied by severa Officers ; left Bt. Cloud for Versalles, and returned at seveii oUobit: A heavy fall of snow took place in Paris and its vici nity on Sunday morning, and continued at intervals throughout the day. The Moniteur publishes the returns of the prices of *bun in the different markets of France, which sold on an average at Toutotisv, Dray ; Lyons, and Marseilles, for 19f. 83c. ; at Marans and Bordeaux, for Ifir. 82c. ; and at other places for considerably less, at Charlevills., for instance, at 15f. the hectolitre (2i iinpt rial bushels). A Psyonne letter of the 20th ult. announces the exe cution of the soil tiftd brother in law of Zurbano and two officers at Logrono. There is no positive intelligence in the Madrid journals of Zurbano. _ _ _ Th; ianA mail had arri , ,ed without bringing any advices from Upper Afragni which had been inter cepted at Ayerbe by a small armed baud, in the valley of Ana°. The chief of the movement in that quarter Wall M Fernando Mad(); the brother of the Deputy. The discussion tht 13. form Bill was proceeded with in the Chamber of Deputies, but the proceedings were not of much interest. Several articles 11*(10 fOopted• ILAVir AND POLICE. At thtiNtJwC9urt, Old Bailey,T. Taylor was conviet , d of stealing ten looking-glasge3 ttnd a large quantity 0 japanned articles, croAery, drapery, &c., *alto !.+9l. and upwards, the property of John Taylor. Ile was sen tenced to six months' hard labour. Captain Arthur Wheliy Owen was indicted for as saulting Edwin Davis, on bard A tt.sgel called the Fairy Queen, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, on the 22d of June, and on the lath of July last. The jury having consulted for some time, prayed leave to retire. After being absent for more than an hour, they came into Court and delivered a verdict of" Acquittal," accompanied by a hope that Captain Owen would be more cautious in future. The Court at its rising adjourned to the 16th. William Latham and John Simmonds, two respectable looking men, were charged at Union Hall with refusing to pay the difference between Ist and 2d class fare from Kingston to Nine Elms, and the former defendant was also charged with using indecent language in the station house. whereby he incurred a further penalty of 40s. Both defendants said that with regard to the charge of defrauding the company, they had no such intention ; that as they were not in the habit of travelling by rail way, they went into the first-class carriages, thinking they were the right ones. Mr. Traill said that it was most improbable they could have mistaken first for se cond•nclass carriages, and that they were bound to have known or to have paid the difference in the fares when it was demanded of them. The Magistrate then inflicted a fine of 20s. each on the defendants for that offence, and an additional 20s. on Latham for his indecent conduct in the station-house. f.lotraT-- r :.sratzonr.axms. The Duc de Richelieu, Viscount Canning, and a select party have been on a sporting visit to the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, at Heron-court. The Due de Richelieu left at the close of last week, on his return to the Continent. Baron Brunnow entertained a distinguished circle at dinner on Sunday evening at Ashburnhatu House. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Augusta So merset, his Excellency Baron Nieutnann, his Excellency M. Dedel, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Count E•eterhasy, Baron Bremer, Sir Wm. C. and Lady Geor giana Codrington, Dr. Quin, M. Lotnonoff, &c., were among the guests of the Noble Baron. Earl and Countess Grosvenor and Ladies Grosvenor leave Motcombe House, Dorset, next week, for Eaton Hall ; Cheshire, to visit the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, iidth Ithtlm a large family party will pass the approaching festive season. The Earl and Countess of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy are about to leave Portman-square for Brighton, where they purpose sojourning until the close of next month. . The Earl of Ripon is residing at his villa at Putney Heath, where the Countess and Viscount (Joderich have arrived from Yorkshire. Lord Bloomfield, and his lixcellency J. A. D. Bloom field, our Minister at the Court of Russia, left the Com mandant's residence at Woolwich, last week, for Brighton. The Marquis of Salisbury has, during the last w eek, entertained a numerous party at Hatfield House, Herts. Among the guests have been the Marquis of Douro, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord Brooke, Sir William and Hon. Lady Middleton, the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Oust, Right Hon. Henry Pierrepont, &c. The Marquis of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Fitz mauriee have left Lansdowne House, Berkelcy-square, for Bowood Park. The Earl and Countess of Shelburne are expected to arrive at Lansdowne House on Thursday, from Bowood, to remain in town until after her Lady ship's accouchement, which is expected shortly to take place. The marriage of his Excellency the Baron de Nieu mann with Lady Augusta Somerzet will take place on Thursday next, the sth inst., first according to the Ro man Catholic rites, at Chandos House, and subsequently at Beaufort House, in the form prescribed by the Church of England. COURT CIRCULA.B. WiNnsoit, TUESDAT.—The Queen. Prince Albert the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Goth and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, walkid 1": Castle Terrace and in the pleasure-grounds some OP this morning. find At noon their Royal Highnesses the Duke no Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and the 1 , Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by the Baron Alvensleben and Baroness de Wangenheim, left, t ;1 Castle, to pay a visit of condolence to their 1 10 Y 4 Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CambriciiP," Kew. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales al! the Princess Royal walked on the Terrace and. the Slopes for some time during the forenoon. • Ilis Excellency M. Dedel had an interviewye ste day with the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley Doan A deputation from the Waterford and Kilkeni Railway, consisting of the Hon. Samuel Butler, M.PI Mr. Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P.; Mr. Edm, Turner, M.P.; Mr. Alfred Ricketts, Mr. Godltire" Greene, Mr. John Greene, Mr. Mathew Leahey, John Valentine, C.E. ; and Mr. Francis EdwsP7, solicitor, had an interview with the Earl of Dalh ousl° yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A The Ecclesiastical Commission for England b k ,°' meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in ii r lu t ti e ; hall-place. The Commissioners present were . Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Ripon, the:B i° l of Salisbury, the Chancellor of the Exch e il le o i the Earl of Devon, Lord Ashley, and the DO! Westminster. A deputation from the Kilkenny Junction way, consisting of Mr. I'. S. Buller, M.P., 1 1 :5 1,, J. Thompson, Mr. Leahy, acting engineer,- 1,0, Mr, 13illtu secretary and London agent, had 0 : terview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. The Lord Chamberla;:l had an interview with: James Grah:m yesterday. A deputation from the Newark and Sheffield , way, consisting of Captain Salmond, c hairman; f r; Burnel, vice-chairman; Mr. Montagu Scott, d ire :4 , Mr. Gibbs, engineer; Mr. Saunderson, surveyor; io , Denniston, secretary; Mr. Bean and Mr. Nort out do licitors, and Mr. Ellicombe, had an interview' T" the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. Dispatches for the Governors of Ceylon, —14,4' Kong, and South Australia, were sent off on M° evening from the colonial-office. 41 A deputation from the Cornwall and Devon CP33lv Railway, consisting of Mr. Edmund Turner, X To , Captain Plumridge, R.N., M.P.,. Mr. Wm : d o; Chaplin, Chairman of the South Western Rallwofi, Mr. John Masterman, jun.; Mr. Jas. Oliver gs!,d, Mr. T. B. Chanter, Mayor of Ilidet;: 4 Gara, Mr. Humphrey Williams, Mr. Joni; 11°1, 1 Mr. Richd. Taylor, Mr. Richd. Thomas, engicri: Mr. T. H. Tilley and Mr. Francis Edwards, sT i o c h o Mr. FAT or , tors ; Mr. Thomas Harvey, secretary ; Mr. '',„4 Ellicoml,e, solicitor, on behalf of the Exeter South Western Junction Railway (Exeter to Yel'r e ' f ; and Mr. Thos. Whittaker, surveyor, had an inter with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. Dispatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Govet°ool General of Canada, and also for the Governors or i o other North American Provinces, were sent off: evening from the Colonial-office. 'lCe Lord and Lady Portman and family left Far ri ti Hotel, Belgrave-street yesterday, for their seat, anston House, Dorsetshire. The Lords Cotnmttee of the Privy Council f° 1 ; t118 ,,,, affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday, uP 4 sumed the hearing of a petition from the Statf s .o o Guernsey, praying her Majesty's confirmation - , project of reform in their constitutior. • 1 ; l i g The Hon. James Wortley, Q.C., concluded C , address in support of the petition. Mr. Hill, 4 e i was heard in oppofition. Their Lordships adj9 o the case for further hearing until Saturday next. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 3.—Wind Northerly, fresh bre'"? cloudy. *Ni /4 DEAL, DEC. 2.—Wind N.W. to E.S.E.—Arrkay , Anderson, Arica; Paragon, Berbice; Emma Hogan, Prince Edward's Island; Palemon, Sandc 14, Quebec. Sld. Black Nymph, Batavia; Grace Pclitf Madeira. Übe Everetta, Brown, from St. John's, ,01 Brunswick, to Hull, got on the Goodwin Sand ° th. morning, but has been got off, and has proceeded 01140 North Foreland (she has gone to Marge* roadolso loss of anchor and chain, which have been supP li " her). 00 IiAMSOATE, DEc. 2.—The Anna Agatha, in g° ll) 7 the patent slip to-day sprung her mizen-mast. Or DovER, DEC. 2.—Mary, Randall, St. d.jii' N ew B runsw ick; Employ, ditto for Hull; Ocea n ' chardeon, Ichaboe. A_ ‘0; PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Wind wing, Stewart, Miramichi, fur Hull, leaky ; v Quebec, for Hull. ..14 111h TORBAY, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Hope, Elliott, St New Brunswick, for Bridport. PLYMoUTH, DEC. 2.—Wind S.E.—Off port, lington, Chadwick, New York. ei egl OFF SEAFORD, DEC. f or B EC. I.—lsabella, Rio, r Creole, St. Domingo, for Bremen. PoRTLEvEN, Nov. 30.—A cask marked " Ship rine ship-stores and provisions," and a large 13e 0 ;104 parently belonging to a ship of 400 or 500 tons,ll°' inthe water, have been picked up near here. A :Mt PORTCULLEAN, Nov. 30.--The Elizabeth an d Charles, of Kithielly, which was driven ashore benpto the 4th inst., was got off on the 28th, and brow,b' the pier, with damage. LIVERPooL, DEc. 2.—Wind S.S.E., modertue. hel British Queen, Antigua. Std. John GrayA. l „, cm „poA Unicorn, Gulf of Mexico; Wonder, Calcutta; New York. CLYDE Nov. 30.—Sid. Tay, Lengraill, Ifobile.rof 'SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Queen (s.) , Gib ,p FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind E.S.E. fresh bre e* OFF THE WIGHT, DEC. I.—Orlando, Quebe c ' upd er CORK, Nov. 30.—H.M.S. Resistance, in getting .1," weigh this tnorning tailed upon the ground to thl d ,or ward of the for., and remains for the tide. Tbrviifer out yesterday there was a dense fog , and Otto steamers were prevented running. .todaylll string at S., with rain. • bel l° 0 0 YARMOUTH, DEC. 2.—A boat marked ``",.. Stonehouse," with some oars and pieces of wr ev ` f• washed ashore between Winterton and Palling. fir THE TO THE SHIPPING IN 0, ; foir d 11,:.."nc THE RIVER PARAMA OPENED TO A r r;.,''' UNDER THE BUENOS AYREAN FLAeilel Office of Committee of Privy Council for Whitehall, Dec. 3, 1844. . te e ( Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Conn'i l . t o Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you, for formation of the merchants trading to Buen °s— o r f 0 16 : 1 that her Majesty's Government have received in ',4oe" tion that the Government of Buenos Ayres hS S °rvrel'.l the River Parama to vessels under the Buenos g flag, upon security being given against their tOOl/1° any place in the Province of Corrientes. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ,014 (Signed) J. MAC GRE G W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. We /Ire THE LATE FATAL COLLIERY E X PLOSION. ---. ', authorised to state that the explosion which Wl'39' last week in Cwm Avon collieries was attended Tips' loss of three lives, and not fifty, as stated in th e . mouths/tire We understand that Col. Hodder and part)? shes.l' ides Hoddersfield, yesterday, 32 couple of woodc ock ' ', a quantity of other ga:ne.—Cork paper. Caw. CON.—The lovers of scandal are liked be gratified by the details of a case of the above entered ' tion at the next assizes. Proceedings have bee° efeo against a young gentleman who is sonsetimea...s;tioo our Corn Exchange for having alienated the a,;_tpa e of a young lady from her lawful spouse during tlifkot. the latter was confined in prison for debt. The b a d for it is said, took the lady to a house whic h he "Doi° nished for her accommodation, and sh e still teneteeo under his protection. She is said to be only 13 , 1 .boa years old, tall, and handsome. The hus band twenty-four.—Liverpool Albion. • 1 .111 o il CONVERSION OF A WHOLE CONGREGAW''.OOIU Bishop of Chester consecrated a new church 'lt o. Tv" on Sunday, under somewhat peculiar circuinstOc.gethei building was erected in 1822 for the use of theed oil (list new connexion, and was always 11 at,,,7 e 5eb,,,, P we account of the learning and eloquence of the r o rei. About four years ago the minister and CO tion held several meetings, the result of w il b l e btisb P. that they determined on conforming to the s''`i t Church. Since that period the building has he r e c b. pied as a chapel of ease to the parish eht z district has been assigned to it under th e a en de r sions of the 6th and 7th Victoria , c. 3 9, I L I/ b, Ol g ta being consecrated it became a parish chu', 0 P OO , the name of Christ Church. The building „erse„, brick structure, accommodating eight hundr e d and is Atuated in the poorest and m ost „sP o oe v i l y e; destitute part of the town. To fit it for O A to c r , of the Church a chancel has been erected, all:horar'of the exterior something of an eelesiastical ivlattioo4oo the west front has been improved, and the a noble doorway of elaborate design, CO fr",, receding arches, executed chiefly in terra c'witirlor„; The 1 ' the Ladystone works near Bolton. l i g hts , as which had semicircular . heads and sash Inc styletel been replaced by elegant windows in the s° oo , o ea ti tot the doorway (Norman), and a bell gabl e 00 th e ,,,, by an appropriate cross. has been placed 0n th e A large number of persons assembled at the c he pi* t he consecration. The petition was pre. by the Rev. James Slade, vicar of the p ioo , service having been performed, the usual PV, o cCo g il e, Church, and those specially appointed frt.bi were read, and a sermon was preael eu The P„,„; Henry Raikes, Chancellor of Chester. 003 bae v " licensed the Rev. Thomas Berry to the in col lect ' • the new parish. 0 , 50. - THE OFFERTORY.—This peculiar pla i t ,a Alt _ ro om entedartni bt, ocif ing money for the poor, is now adoPtn r t he s' iss orf Church in this town. Immediately at a i c liOu r ' eti ong when the audience are expecting the !II .406 oi; blessing. the clergyman descends iron tr o V o , 1,11 . 1 .rc h to the communion-table, and readiin CPI o%e:, whilst every pew and every person visited by ecclesiastical tax-gatheres w'''sorciiror b e n the hinai to the end of a long stick. W t he c pockets, the borrowings, and landigs, afore 611 f th e thkagl e silver and copper, and the tread 0 ast oroe --itherers, are all over, then st ;• shire fnri, a . n . c , l ,nd th e e n p e. ainfully protracted de par t`` l'lntOClßXX.ftifleo"US. On Friday the Rut of Lincoln, in company with Mr. Brunel!, Mr. Page, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Cubitt, inspected the river, from Vauxhall bri+lge to Battersea-bridge, preparatory to introducing a Bill into Parliament for the purpose of the Thames embankment. The various new lines of street which have been sug gested in the west and east ends of the metropolis, to effect which above six hundred houses have been dis posed of and taken down, are now nearly ready for the erection of the houses. Workmen have commenced operations fur forming the Victoria Park, The subscription now in progress at Carmarthea for erecting a monument to the memory of General Picton is going on favourably. In addition to the donations of Lord Dynevor and the Hon. Colonel Trevor, M.P., 50L each, Major• General the lion. H. Lygoe, M.P., Sir John Mansell, and Mr. D. Morris, M.P., have contributed most liberally towards that object. At the Surrey December sessions, after the annual reports of the visiting magistrates bad been read, the Court proceeded to te election of district surveyors, Wider the New Metropolitan Building Act, when the following gentlemen were elected ;—Camberwell, Mr. Stow ; Streatham, Mr. Mul!ens ; Clapham and part of Battersea, Mr. I'Anson ; Wansworth and Tooting, Mr. Iliscocks. There were ten candidates, nine of whom went to the poll. There was no case of felony before the Court of the slightest public interest 4 The anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held on Saturday last, at the Society's apartments in Somerset-house, the Marquis of Northampton in the chair. The Royal gold medals were awarded to Mr. G. Boole, of Lincoln, for a mathematical paper, entitled " On a new method in analysis ;" and to Dr. Andrews, of Belfast. for a paper, " On the thermal changes of basic Substitutions." The gold Copley medal was awarded to Professor Matteucci, ofPisi, for his researches in Animal Electricity. A meeting of the tenantry of the Marquis of London derry was held in„Newtownards, on the 21st ult., for the purpose of considering the propriety of inviting that nobleman and Lord Castlereagh to a public dinner, pre vious to their departure from Mountstewart, and a reso lution to that effect was unanimously and most enthu siastically adopted. It was also resolved that an address should be presented to Lord Londonderry. ROYAL VISIT To STOINE.—We are enabled to announce that her Majesty has signified her intention of honouring by an early visit his Grace the Duke of Buck ingham, at his princely mansion in Buckinghamshire. The precise day is not yet fixed, but we believe we may state that the Court will leave Windsor for Stowe either'eluring the week before or the week after Christ mas. We are not aware that the melancholy decease of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia will make a change in these arrangements, which, however, we should add, were completed before that event took place. —Post. VICTORIA PARR.-011 Monday the workmen com menced laying down the oak posts and railings on the boundary adjacent to the Grove-road. The line of road has been struck out for the new iron ornamental bridge, j which is to cross the Regent's Canal at Bonner's-hail, and a circle has also been made for a handsome carriage drive to the chief entrance from Bethr,al-green. The improvements on the Old Ford-road, which partly runs through the site of the park, have been nearly completed. PAISLEY.—STATE OF TRADE.—We are • glad to notice that the preparations for the spring shawl trade are now pretty actively set on foot. The goods likely to be made are of the richest description that have ever been manufactured in the country ; and as an article of dress fur the first circles, they are likely to supersede those various classes of goods which the wove shawls have for some time had to contend with.—.Renfrewsldre Reformer. MARINERS' REGISTER TICARTIII.....Monday was the first day of granting register tickets, according to the Act of Parliament 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 112, sec. 20, to merchant seamen, at the London station, 2, Ham met-street, Tower-hill. To prevent the inconvenience that might arise from the assemblage of a larger num ber of applicants for tickets than could be given, they were taken alphabetically, beginning with those whose surnames commenced with the letters A, B, and C ; to day they will take 1), E, F, G ; to-morrow, 11, I, J, K, L ; on Thursday, M, N, 0, P, Q„ R ; on Friday, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z ; and on Saturday, without distinc tion of letters, those who have neglected to avail them selves during the week of the accommodation afforded by this arrangement. This preliminary delivery of tickets will be continued until the Merchant Seamen's Act comes into operation on the Ist of January, 1845, on and after which register tickets will be furnished daily to all applicants entitled thereto, without distinc tion. This excellent arrangement gave general satis faction to the numerous applicants. The same has been adopted at the different Custom-houses at the eutports. The port of London is fuller now of seamen titan has been known for a long time, who will take advan:`age of this regulation. TRADE IN MANCHESTER.—There are now no fewer than fifteen warehouses in the course of erection in rw..tsta cheater, and a dozen of them are of what may be called the first class, and which, on an average, are deem en' worth 3001 each per annum. This is an extraordire try contrast to the state of things in 1841-2, when not 14 ! single building of the like description was in course. 0 I erection.—Maccleifield Courier rte.; Ztdo ß, L st Alt fa - 1.1131. 0 1 'non toti • the 'a °se o thPr, tr avo ti o " n to ,• P- _ 1 ' 'rest utisinel ke t Nvo. 01)s teri for htt not 11 8' 44