The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

ITalv ready, la 2 vols. small Bvo., with 21 Illustrations, price 21e. bound, A JOURNEY OVERLAND from INDIA, ACROSS TILE DESERT. .... By MAJOR and MRS. G. DARBY GRIFFITH. "These volumes comprise sketches of Aden, the Red Sea, Lower .Egypt, Malta, Sicily, and Italy. To ladies who contemplate under taking the journey to India by the overland route, the descriptions of the country, and the instructions and cautions supplied by this work, will be really valuable. The former will prepare the mind for view ing the scenes through which they will pass, with advantage ; while the latter will furnish a guide as to what is necessary to be provided Sr '' the journey, and a guard against many andaoyances which may be avoided, or at least mitigated, by foresight. We cordially corn- Inf.nd tb.e work to the patronage and perusal of all who desire to be i'"!fornred of all that is aecessary to be known of the countries through which the traveller passes in proceeding to India by the overland rout.e."—Glcbe. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will be repeated a Grand Opera Stria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARL Ltuignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Comae., Mr. Borrani ; Moacenigo, Mr. Weiss Adolphe de Courey, Mr. W. Harrison ; • atarina Cornaro, Miss katnforth To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, Ti Desplaces The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, )tdlle. o'Bryan ; Ays sa, Mrs. Payne. The Box-orrice 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 EE!siING, DECEMBER al, Wlll be performed a Now and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, cared OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland ' • Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Torn Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren; The Count.-as of I hn , pien, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Uawthoru Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia . - .ennett. ,After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE.. Hans Moritz, M. Charles Mathews; Minnie, idadarne Vestris. To Je foll.,vred by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James T coley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Pi. olev ' Mrs. Humby. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each. C.ckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, tram len till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama. entitled THE CEI , MES. A Goblin Story of Same Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck. !,:r. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. WllKin so ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mr. riudson ; Richard, Mr. Selb Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. y; Chickenstalk2r, Mrs Frank Matthews. After which a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS r ItANGER. Count Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count i'anille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. 'Co conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEM AN. In snick Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, %Sr Pitt ; Leader of the Can,, Mr. Mellon. —Box—odice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST HEEI. _ LFSSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will be 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 ; Renaud, Mr. Mattocks; Iron, Mr. Lefler; Hermine, aidlle. Helen Conde • ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with the New Drama, called DON CA SA It DE BAZAN Don Crsar, Mr. Wallack ; Charles the Secorn , Mr. Walton ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling; Countess ds Rotondo, Mrs. Fosbroke. Dress Circle, bs. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, fmt Private Boxes, Two Guineas .ind One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce. alum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-H.d. Doors to be opened at Half oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. HEATAE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Manalereenrot Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will be repeated a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Turner, Stoker, and Ke:ley, Nlrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. To be succeeded by Paganini's Adajio and Rondo, La Clochette, t - Signor Camillo Sivori. Atrer which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO At ARRV. Supported by Messrs. F. Mathews, Meadows ,and Stoker, Al'ss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. %%cornice. 'Co which will be added Paganini's Theme Burlesque and Carnaval de Venise, by Signor Camilo Sivori. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Jullien's Mazurka and Cellarius Valse will be danced by Sldlles. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mi , s Fairbrother. Ta be followed by THE SWISS COTTAGE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Yirnold, Kueley, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH AND WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. PRICES OF ADM sslo N.—Balcony Boxes. 43. ; Upper Banes, 33.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, la. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the italcony Der ,Folding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (holeLng eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private ;ones on the Pit Der (holding six persons), One Guiren. Box..)tnce is open from Ten to Four o'Clock. under the direct. pen of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds nee This Evenir g, at ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 21, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed; mtroducinp unequalled Natioual Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased hy Mr. Ratty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. The First Week of the extraordinary British Vaulter and Somersault Thrower, Mr. Price, and Master Charles Price, the Little Equestrian Wonder, and other Novelties. Acting ana stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoet. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding t Mr. It. Smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to a^quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and bis r aren't, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the untry, and by special desire, he has formed ar anvements to pre er ii, during the Christmas Holdays, a S ries of EQUESTRIAN 311)RNiNti FECES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A SCE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in the Circle. Tha fiat Three Morning Performances will take place on Monday, Dec.3l, Wednesday, Jan. 2,and Fr.dsy, Jan. 4. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, DEC. 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 30.33.—W1ND, E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the I her,nometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All :!:e other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on P.arometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below :30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-RRIDGE THIS DAY. 2dcrr.leg 41 minvtes after 0 Evening ... 0 minutes after S. parocitur *AUL LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1844. The meeting of paper manufacturers and others concerned in the important trade in that commodity, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on Thursday, were unanimous in the expression of their support to the resolutions submitted to them, calling on the Government to repeal the whole of the existing duty on paper. It must be evident to every observant mind that the necessary tendency of a tax upon paper must be injurious to the interests of even elementary education—and oppressive and pernicious in respect of its bearing on the general literature of the country. It is, therefore, originally vicious in its nature. But when we find it demon strated in the exceedingly able speech of Mr. DICICEN.• SON, the eminent paper maker (who was voted into the chair of the meeting), and corroborated by the personal experience of Sir WILLIAM MAGNAY, the late Lord Mayor, that the duty " at present presses on some branches of the paper manufacture so heavily as to amount from 60 to 150 per cent.," and that for the collection of this revenue, on the one hand, " the Excise regulations adopted greatly im pede trading operations ;" and on the other, " the damages done to packages (of exported English paper) at the Custom-house," by vexatious opening and care less repacking, are such as to cause large parcels to be put aside and sold as w aste and refuse on coming to hand at their destination :—we can scarcely imagine a branch of trade which could establish a juster claim upon the consideration of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. But the case of the paper makers is strong in every point of view ; and we agree with Sir W. MAO NAY, that the entire repeal of the duty offers the " only adequate remedy." The depression of price ac cording.to. the Chairman, "had been occasioned partly by the reduction of duty," (a reduction of lid. per lb., or one-half in the year 1836), " but partly by the evasion of payment of any duty by the fraudulent 'waders." How easily these frauds are practised, and to what extent, can only be judged by a careful notice of the facts detailed in the speeches we have referred to, which .also show the enormous extent of the contra band importations of glazed and other papers from France, under the present defective system. Mr. GAVSSEN said that the revenue derived from the pre sent duty was 620,000/., there having been an IN CREASE of 60 per cent. since the reduct;on of duty in 1836." Can any fact more strongly establish the wisdom and policy of repealing the whole duty ; from which repeal, by parity of reasoning, an increase of just 120 per cent. on the whole consumption of paper, and therewith the immensely extended employment of labour (especially of female hands) in the manu facture, may be confidently anticipated ? We regret to perceive, by the advertised resolu tions of a meeting of bankers, landed gentry, and others, of the county of Lanark, held at the County hall in Hamilton on the 15th instant, the Right Hon. Lord BELLIAVEX in the chair, that there is still an influential portion of the Scottish people whose op position to the monetary legislation of Sir R. PEEL is bawd upon a very limited, and, therefore, very dangerous view of the question. Keenly alive to the impolicy and mischief of endeavouring to substitute for a na ti on al symbolic currency (of small bank notes) a gold circulation of positive intrinsic value (and for that very reason of fearfully fluctuating quantity), the Lanarkshire requisitionists appear to have no sympathy with the sufferings of this enormous portion of the empire. Sir R. PEEL'S fatal con trivance of 1819, with its " complement" of 1843 is all very good, it seems, for England; yet the same Minister's infatuated propensity for tampering in Scotland with the same species of monetary system which those measures have overthrown and extin guished south of the Tweed, is justly denounced by the same requisitionists as an uncalled-for and mis chievous experiment, having for its object to over throw a condition of things under which, for one hundred and fifty years, Scotland has steadily ad vanced in her marvellous career of agricultural, com mercial, and social improvement. We own, with pain, that unless we could imagine the Lanarkshire meeting disposed, at the sacrifice of their own better convictions and practical experience on the subject, to bespatter Sir ROBERT PEEL with eulogies for the desolation and decay which he has brought upon the debtor interest and the enormous masses of the in dustrial producing classes of this country, by a scheme of currency imposing inevitable limitations and restraints on commercial enterprise, a permanent tendency of increasing depression in prices and wages—unless we can imagine the Lanarkshire meet ing willing to make so unworthy a compromise with the sound principles they advocate, in order to en sure, if possible, the concession of them to the case of Scotland, exclusively, at the expense of England and of Ireland, we cannot reconcile the antagonistic assertions of one resolution with the avowed doc trines of another. Thus, the ninth resolution affirms " That this great success of the banking system of Scot land" (i.e., K ith (special reference to its issue of small bank-notes under 51., long since abolished in England in favour of a currency of gold sovereigns) " has been mainly owing to the perfect freedom of it.e action, and to the absence of ull legislative interference; and, therefore, this meeting earnestly deprecate any intermeddling now with a system which has hitherto worked so well, and has proved so undeniably beneficial to all classes of the country." Now, this was also the condition of things in England when it pleased the present Premier to saddle her with his cruel burden of a currency founded on his own Act of Parliament unaltering price, as to that currency, of a commodity fluctuating from day to day and hour to hour, in both price and quantity, in the open markets of all the world outside of the four walls within which he persuaded Parliament to sanc tion his nauseous nostrum. The embarrassments of 1822 ; the hideous panics of 1825 ; the wholesale de solation of every house connected with our vast trade to the United States, in 1836, extending through 1837 and 1838 ; the downfal of eminent metropolitan bankers ; the paralysing shocks sustained by com mercial confidence ever since the accelerating down ward pressure on prices; the grinding reduction of the wages of labour and industry ; the spread of pau perism ; the thus engendered between the crippled possessors of property and the starving ap plicants for work, which cannot be given to them ; the yearly perishing away of some branch or other of our foreign trade ; the successful competition of the foreign manufacturer with our best and oldest customers ; the despondency of our shipowners who can no longer earn remunerative freights ; these are some few among the more remarkable fruits which the gold standard of Sir ROBERT PEEL has bequeathed to be gathered by his country during the last five-and-twenty years. These are the fruits which, so long as his "convertible paper" is to be payable on demand in gold, at the Mint price instead of the market price, she will continue to be doomed to gather. And it is of such bitter, such poisonous fruits as these, that the resolutions talk in this com mending strain—always on the assumption that the indulgence in such luxuries is not to be extended to Scotland : " That, in return for these certain evils, it has been stated that there is a claim upon Scotland to adopt a gold currency, not for any practical benefit to herself, but that thereby she may contribute her aid to the re served fund of the precious metals which the Legisla ture has wisely provided should be held by the Bank of England for the ratification of exchanges, and of com mercial and other dealings with foreign countries ; but it appears to this meeting that the burden alleged to be imposed upon the Bank of England is for the general benefit of the empire, and in return for important immu nities conferred, of which Scotland, in the shape of taxa tion and otherwise, contributes her fair proportion, and that London, as the great centre of commercial and monetary dealings, is obviously the place where alone the derangements referred to can be rectified, the re inittatie(.s in specie to our merchants being all directed thither. " That while this meeting, therefore, fully appreciates the value of the reserve of the precious metals referred to, and the periodical publication of its amount as an important beacon, alike to the statesman, the banker, and the merchant, they must, at the same time, wholly dis claim the belief that whether the three millions of cir culation in Scotland consisted of gold, or of bank-notes convertible into gold on demand,' any perceptible ab straction could be made from it in aid of that reserved fund, while the amount of circulation is restricted, as at present, to the mere necessities of the country, as a me dium of exchange for its daily transactions." The "reserved fund" of the precious metals " wisely insisted upon by the Legislature," quoad England, forsooth ! If so, why were it not wise to make Scot land a party to the scheme ? The requisitionists know better. Their first resolution declares that the intention of the Government to withdraw from the circulation of Scotland all small bank-notes under 51., has occasioned in that country a degree of alarm which the meeting (notwithstanding their respect for the high authority of those who deem such alarm to be without foundation) do not fully concur in. But the second resolution, as comprehending the chief points of political and social importance in that mone tary system which Sir ROBERT PEEL seems either not to have sufficiently appreciated, or to have strangely overlooked, we give at length : " That the banking system of Scotland, since its com mencement, a century and a half ago, has through suc cessive generations become more and more deeply in terwoven with the whole social system of our country. Its monetary power, now based upon twelve millions of capital, and, at least, thirty millions of deposits, has grown up with the increasing wealth and prosperity of Scot land, in agriculture, commerce, and the useful arts, all of which it has powerfully promoted; and it never possessed the confidence and attachment of all classes of the com munity more fully than at present. That it has alvo exercised a most salutary influence upon the moral and orderly habits of the people ; by the perfect security offered, and by the allowance for the shortest period, and upon sums so small as 5/. or 101., of a reasonable and equal rate of interest, industry, frugality, and sober habits, have been encouraged through all classes, and Scotland has thus enjoyed, for many generations, the benefits which have been only conferred at the present day upon England, by the establishment of savings' banks." The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth resolutions, like wise point to these invaluable, and assuredly indis putable results, after describing the economy and security of the Scottish banking system, the perfect efficiency and competency of its scheme, and its ope ration for all the purposes proposed to be accom plished by it. But will Scotland be at once so unjust and so unwise, so unreasonable and so short-sighted, as to desire that England should continue to groan under a burden of which she herself so well under stands the oppressiveness, in order that she may enjoy a fancied exemption from it ? Can she forget that England is the great mart for that produce which her hitherto undisturbed system of a paper currency has enabled her to raise with so much benefit to herself? Can she be blind to the fact that when England sinks under that burden, as she will assuredly do in a very brief space of time, if she do not succeed in indignantly throwing it off her shoul ders, Scotland must sink with her ? But we will not believe that the proceedings of the Lanarkshire meeting represent the sense of a majority of the Scottish people, on a subject in which they have such ample reason to take a deep and honest interest. A public meeting—the first annual one that has yet taken place—of the Association for promoting the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, was held on Thursday, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The report which was read at this meeting, gave, on the whole, an encouraging account of the prospects of the Society, for it appears, that within the ten months which have elapsed since its organisation, upwards of fifty new societies have been formed, for the visitation and relief of the poor at their own dwellings; and upwards of a hundred societies, in different parts of London, have been brought into connexion with the metropolitan Association. Moreover, nearly a thou sand visitors of the poor, have been called into exist ence since January last; and, with scarcely an exception, the whole of the most destitute parts of the diocese of London is now under a course of visiting, mo re or l ess per f ect, b y soc i et i es suppl i ed with the means wherewith to meet the temporal wan ts of the poor. The Bishop of LONDON-WhO, by the bye, is far more usefully employed in advocat ing the objects which this Association has at heart, than in advocating the erection of new churches in the metropolis, v6en the old ones are only half•filled —observed, at the meeting, that the fundamental and most excellent feature of the Society in question was the system of district-visiting which it had established —a system every way calculated to induce the middle and upper classes to overstep the chasm which di vided them from the lower, to descend from their elevation into the vale of poverty, and hold out the right hand of charity to their distressed fellow-crea tures. "It was undeniable," said his Lordship, "that the present age was sadly deficient in that intercourse between these classes which once prevailed through out the country, and which was so conducive to good feeling towards one another." No one can doubt the strict truth of this remark, or fail to perceive—if he be endowed with only ordinary faculties of observa tion—the lamentable results that have ensued from the gradual haughty estrangement of the higher and middle classes from the lower. Of late years the mischief has been .one of rapid progress, and its fruits are now before us in the increasing demoralisa tion of the poor, and their conviction—a eonviction which tends to increase their recklessness and sense of degradation—that those who, from posi tion and circumstances, should be their guardians and benefactors, are utterly indifferent to their interests, and careless whether they be in a thriving condition, or rot and die in cellars, garrets, or workhouses. But within the last year or two a more generous and Christian spirit has begun slowly to develop itself in the upper and middle ranks of society. The sig nificant warnings thrown out by " Swing," by "Re becca," and by Chartism, have not been without their effect ; and it is now at length discovered that the vast masses of the overworked and underfed poor are no longer to he neglected with impunity, for the iron has entered deep into their souls, and if they can feel a kindness, and be grateful for it, they can with still greater acuteness feel a slight, and sternly bide their time to retaliate. But it is not enough, in the anxiety to benefit their condition, simply to relieve their temporal wants, and toss alms to them with an air of supercilious commiseration ; the kindly in tercourse, the encouraging smile, the word of friend liness and sympathy spoken in season ; the frequent visit paid in an unassuming spirit to their cottages or, it may be, their hovels—these are quite as effective instruments in their way for doing good, and are even more likely to raise the poor and destitute in their own esteem, and win them back to the classes from whom they have been too long estranged, than the mere act of coldly and ungraciously subscribing to public associations for their relief. "The rich," said the Reverend T. DAIS at the meeting to which we have been alluding, "had no idea of the mine of moral wealth to be found often in the dwellings of the destitute, nor of the noble traits of character which were constantly displayed by them in their conduct to wards each other." Numerous instances of this inherent nobility of nature; flashing out in the gloomy depths of squalor and destitution, have from time to time been recorded in the columns of the public Press, and surely a class, large bodies of whom can be capable of such conduct as Mr. acts hints at, are well worth conciliating, even at the cost of some personal trouble and inconvenience to their superiors in station Madrid journals of the 12th inst. have been received, but they add nothing to the intelligence which we have given from the Paris papers. MADRID BOURSE, DECEMBER 12.—Three per Cents. 321 cash, and 32f at sixty days. Fire per Cents. 22 1-3 at sixty days. Floating Debt, 78 at sixty days. Coupons, 26 at fifty-seven days. Ex change on London, 37 5-16. The two leading Ministerial journals of Paris have taken different sides in regard to the affairs of Spain and the conduct of the present Government ; the one, we suppose, with a view to conciliate the CHRISTINA party at Madrid, and the other to screen the Court and Cabinet against the attacks of the Opposition in the Chambers. The Globe expresses great admira tion of the conduct of NARYIEZ in pardoning the persons lately condemned to death, and asserts that he was only waiting for an opportunity to show clemency, without at the same time compromising his duty to the throne and public order. This is carrying flattery too far. While NARTAEZ could do nothing less than spare the life of REUGIFO, without exciting universal execration, he has obtained his banishment for life, and his agents in the north are carrying out his murderous system to his heart's content. The journals announce that three more of the unfortunate men taken at Hecho and Anso had been shot at Huesca--a striking proof of the cle mency of the Spanish Government I The Journal des Debats, on the other hand, denounces the atrocious system, and calls upon Spain to take warning from the melancholy example of France during the Revo lution. "Wo have declared a hundred times," it says, " that we are not the enemies of the present Spanish Government. On the contrary, we desire to see it gaining strength, realising its promises, and producing order and prosperity in that unfortunate country. If, to arrive at that end, it is absolutely necessary to reform the Constitution, be it so. But we cannot have two weights and two measures ; we cannot laud in General NA.RVAEZ, or cover over with an indulgent silence cruelties which, with all well-think - ing persons in Europe, we have stigmatised in General ESPARTERO. The blood of ZURBANO'S sons, shed without trial, and for their father's crime rather than their own, has not cried more loudly to our ears than the blood of the un fortunate DIEGO LEON. The first principle of our politics is humanity; without it, all the fine names which parties give each other are only odious lies ; without humanity, there is neither liberty, nor progress, nor veritable order. What is it we de mand from the men who at present triumph and govern in Spain ? To justify their title of Moderadoes. What sort of moderation is that which would effect its objects, like tyranny itself, by placing beyond the law, and by executions without trial. We are re minded that France has passed through these acts. No doubt she has, and it is that which renders us more severe towards those who, with our cruel ex perience before their eyes, have neither sufficient good sense nor heart to imitate us in good, in place of imitating us in evil. Yes, we have had re volutionary prevotal courts, placing men out of the pale of the law, and executions en masse. We, alas! left nothing to be invented in these points ; all our parties have reciprocally shot, banished, guillotined each other. Blood has flowed in torrents, at one time of the Royalists, at another of the Republicans. Yet, what party has saved itself by such execrable means ? The Convention killed enough, and did it not perish in its turn ? But we have also given another example to the world. Was not the first act of the Government of July to save the lives of the Ministers who had issued the ordi nances; and who can tell what blood that first act of courage and humanity has spared our revolution ? Blood is not arrested by blood, but by clemency. Such is the example which we propose to Spain and her Government ! As long as the Government shall shoot in Spain, it will have to fear being shot. As long as it shall act revolutionally, revolution will threaten it. A pardon granted to ZURBANO'S SODS would arms,orh have e oul e d haveaused their stern him ternfat t h he father to drophis execration f the whole world ; a t present h e i s an unfortunate man, whom it is difficult not to pity." One of the Opposition journals at last adverts to some of the grievances to be discussed in the ensuing session, but unfortunately they are already stale. Most of them have been brought forward repeatedly in the Chambers, and the journals have written about them till even French readers have become nauseated with the endless repetitions. Our readers, of course, will presume that these subjects are the affairs of Otaheite, Morocco, the right of search, and the royal visit to Windsor Castle. The Krie, by a royal ordonnance, dated Dec. 16, has conferred the title of Duke on Baron PASQUJER, Chancellor of France, and President of the Chamber of Peers. The National thus ironically points out the services of the Noble Peer, which entitle him to this distinction : " This morning's Moniteur contains great news. Baron Denys Etienne Pasquier has just received the title of Duke ! Most people will laugh ; as for us, we think it woful. Devote your whole life to notoriety—court the muses and danseuses—become the favourite of Cambs.- cores—rise, under the protection of an imperial wing, into the prefecture de police—tumble down under the hand of Mallet—then be ready to salute an invasion, and to order the Emperor's statue to be torn from the top of his column—let the hands of the Austrians and Prussians raise you again to power—be a fluent orator, an elegant teller of trifles, an inevitable Minister, a De puty, a Peer, alternately President of the two Legisla tive bodies, and an unexpected member of the French Academy—weather every storm by seasonably lowering and rai.ing your head—serle nine Governments in fifty years—keep a store of compliments ready for every dynasty, aid sugar-plums for every royal christening -- exhaust yourself to attain glory and mater fortune, and when years shall have frozen your blood and weakened your faculties, a man shall take you at random and make you a duke. Poor Denys Etienne Pasquier !" The same journal contains some unwelcome intelli gence for Spanish bondholders. The Madrid cor respondent of that paper says— It appears that the foreign creditors of the Spanish Government are to share in the ruin that is being effected by the (lovernment; whilst despotism is insured to the country, bankruptcy is imposed upon the State creditors. You have seen by the late decree relative to the Three per Cent. Stock, that no notice is taken of the old Five per Cent. Debt, which principally affects foreigners. Now, on the one hand, there is no longer any payment of interest ; and, on the other, the securi ties which were to guarantee the debt are destroyed. It is clear, therefore, that the interest augmenting the capital, and no resource being created for this augmenta tion, the stock will fall to a low price, and the holders of bonds will have in their hands only so much waste paper. Is this what had been stipulated ? Certainly not ; the Cortes and the Crown had solemnly pledged themselves in the face of Europe to make national pro perty the guarantee for the creditors. By the fol lowing table you will sea how they have been deprive.l of this guarantee. The securities taken away from them are :—lst. 1,200,000,000 reels, the estimated value of the property of the secular clergy. 2d. 300,000,000 reals, the value of the nunneries which remain unsold. 3d. 200,000.000 reals, the value of the convents of the monks remaining unsold. 4th. 800,000,000 reals, the amount of the censos of the secular clergy, and of the religious orders of both sexes. Total 2,500,000,000 reels (25,000,00QL) Here then is a total guarantee of ' 2,500,000,000 reals taken from the creditors of the State, and particularly the foreign creditors. With this sum, and by respecting the mortgages solemnly appro priated by the Cortes to the public debt, there existed rs off in a period of eight yea thousand five hundred millions th t e he cum means of se o y f en wiping of reels (1,875,000,000 f.) By the dispositions of the law regulating the sale of national property, a third of the passive debt, at the rate of fifty per cent., was admitted in payment of national property ; and two-thirds of the active debt, the first third not bearing interest, and the second a debt bearing interest at four or fire per cent. By this means, then, and by continuing the sale of na tional property, admitting foreigners as well as Spaniards as purchasers, and the law making no distinction between them, Spain might in eight years have com pletely paid off her old debt, and have had no other bur den than her three per cent. debt. The advantages of this sale of national property were so considerable, both for the State and the purchasers, that since 1836 there have been disposed of in Spain 210,000 properties. The sale is now suspended, to the prejudice of the treasury and of the public auditors, and to the exclusive profit of the counter revolution. Now look at the difference which is made between the various creditors. Spaniards who had contracts with the Government during the civil war are paid with three per cent. rentes, at the rate of 32, 35, and 40 per cent. But foreigners, who lent to the State in 1834 and 1835 400 millions of reals (100,000,000 f.) at 60 per cent., and who have not had any interest since the end of 1836, are now offered three per cents. in payment of the interest due to them, but are required to receive the stock at par. And are their interests guaranteed for the future ? No. All that is proposed is to pay them in this way fur what is due from 1836 to 1840. They are at the same time de prived of the mortgages which had been granted to them of the only means which they possessed of one day re , covering their capitaLw TILE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18. rirst Highest Lowest Lest price. Price. Price. Price. french Five per Centa•••••• 120 115 120 20 120 .. 120 15 Three per Cents.— 84 25 .• 85 84 90 .. 55 Nevr Loan .••.•••• 86 40 •• 86 40 .. 86 30 .. 86 30 Bank of France 1275 —3275 3270 ..3270 Lailitte Bank. 5,000 f Shares.so92 59 —5091 50 —5085 ..5089 Belgian Bank.... Belgian Fives, 1840 .......• 104 •• 104 104 .. 104 1842 •••••••• 106: .. 1061 .. 1061- •• 1061 Twe-and-a-Half.• 62 60 62 60 •• 62 60 •• 62 60 Spanish Threes.... Active ..•• •••..... 331 .• 334 •• 334 •• 33/ Passive.••..•.•.... 6 •• 6 .. 6 .. 6 Neapolitan.••••-•••• • • 98 65 •• 98 70 .. 98 65 .. 98 70 Ronan ... •••••• • , , i ' 4 " •-- - . Q . is -1 4 . i . . 1, i k ~114.,,,,..• ,---- 7 -. ) . v • . c'.•(. - re(INF vsq....:—, 0;4 ,, .., ~ . . 1 ~ A... • . 411 0 0:7„...t . 1 :! b 4.. - 4 , ~.v • • a . . Af. ,i 0 r ,.." :.1.110 . *... Air `y THE STTNI LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBIM 21 4 1444, RAILWAY SNARES. Versailles, R. 8......• . 515 .• 500 • • 500 L.B.— •• •• 400 .. 400 .. 392 50 .. 392 50 Rouen •• • • •• • • ..........1040 • 1010 ..1034 75 • .1038 75 Rouen to Havre Orleans .•• Strasburg to Bale ..... 312 50 .. 316 25 . 312 50 .. 312 50 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• .. 920 •• 930 .• 920 .. 927 50 WIN r;Y AND CuNIMEtt CI AL NE vi S CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. An improvement occurred again this afternoon in the English Stocks, Consols being 1001 The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have maintained the advance to l ; and the Unfunded Debt remained at 58s. to 60:i. premium. Spanish Active Bonds were 25 ; and the Three per Cents. for Account touched 37i- to 38 ; Mexican were 361- ; Buenos Ayres, 37 ; and Belgian, 1021. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these : —Great Southern and Western (Ireland) were 54- ; Great Western, half, 41 to 401 ; Brighton, 2i ; London and York, 2 ; Lynn and Ely, 1 ; Man chester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 24 ; Midland, 12i; New castle and Berwick, 6/ to 6; Northern and Eastern, 121; Ditto Scrip, 1011; North Kent, ; Norwich and Brandon, si; Richmond and West-end Junction, 1i s ; Rugby, ; South-Eastern, 6- 7 8 - to s ; York and North Midland, 52 ; Do., half, 26; Paris and Orleans, 231; Paris and Rouen, 214 ; and Paris and Strasbourg, 1 premium. Blackwall have been 94, and Greenwich 3 discount. Colonial Bank Shares were 10 discount, and London and Westminster 6i _a premium. The rate of Exchange on Amsterdam, Frankfort, and Paris, was a shade higher, and on Hamburgh there was a slight declae. (From The Sun of Last Night.) A very large business was done in Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, and the market had a lively aspect, but prices were not higher. Speculators took 3,500 bales and the entire sales amounted to 100,000 bales—viz.. 1,100 Pernam, at 48d. to 54d.; 100 Bahia, at 50. ; 300 Maranham, at 43d. to 5-4-d.; 200 Egyptian, at 53d, to 6d. ; 400 Surat, at 21d. to 24d.; and the rest Ame rican, at Sid. to sd. per lb.—Shares were steady. Bristol and Gloucester, 373- ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2f ; Eastern Counties, 1474 ; Grand Junction, 223 ; Ditto, Eighth, 17 ; Liverpool and Manchester, half, 102 ; Ditto, Quarter, 571 ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 27 ; Ditto and South-Western, 83k ; Ditto and York, 41 1 - ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 52 ; Mid land Counties 112 k; South-Eastern, 387-, ; Ditto, New, 12; Lyons and Avignon, 21. 14s. ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3s. ; Ditto and Rouen, 4011 ; Strasburg and Bale, 121 ; Tours arid Nola( s. 2 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5i ; Cen tral of France, 11f. There are various additional accounts in town today from the Cape of Good Hope, but we do not learn that they contain any information of interest. It may have been observed that the Commissioners of Emigration have taken steps to ascertain the names of those parties who are entitled to the bounty, and to lots of land on their arrival out in the colony, which if not attended to soon, the privilege so afforded will cease. The present dates from the Cape are to the 25th of October. Some additional vessels had left the Cape for Guano, at Ichaboe. A very strong feeling is expressed among the mer chants of the City in favour of the repeal of the duty upon raw cotton. Those connected with the export trade with the United States believe most confidently that the result would be to increase the demand for our manufactures, even in the Republic, to an enormous amount. A meeting of the merchants interested is, it is said, in contemplation, in order to memoralise the Government upon this most interesting subject. The reduction of the duty on paper, it is also hoped. may be accomplished if strenuous exertions ars made by the manufacturers. We are informed, on the authority of a letter received at the Hall of Commerce this morning, that the Precur sor steamer had arrived out, after a passage of 45 days. In the Consol market not much business has been transacted to-day. The price for the Account is firm at k to f per cent. above par ; Reduced Three per Cents. have been quoted at 1004 A rise in Exchequer Bills has taken place to 605., and upon India Bonds to 755. premium. The new Three-and-a-Quarter p©r Cents. have advanced to 31 per cent. above par. Bank Stock is at 205. In the Foreign Stock market the principal opera tions have been in the Dutch Securities, the Two-and a- Half per Cents. having fluctuated from 63-1 to 64f, and the Four per Cents. from 97i to 91. There has not been any transactions in the Belgian Bonds to-day. Spanish Consuls are steady at 254 4; and the Three per Cents at 374 a. The New French Scrip has been in demand at 14 premium. For Mexican Stock 36 and 36i have been the quotations, and fur Portuguese Converted 58 to 58i. A very firm market has ruled to-day for all the princi pal Railway Shares, and in some instances advanced prices have been realised. The Real del Monte Miae Shares, unregistered, have beenquoted at 44 per share, PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock for Account ..... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............... ...... 100 New 314 per Cent. Annuities. ........ .... ....„ 103 i. India Bonds,l,ooo Ditto under 1,000 Como! for Opening Exchequer Bills. 75 1001iM RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAY 3. St. Germain ...• •• •• ••1022 SO ..1022 50 .•1016 25 ..1016 25 Tersathes,R.B..... L.B .. 400 .. 400 .. 392 50 .. 395 Rouen.... •. Rouen to;Havre•• Orleans .1112 sn ..1127 50 ..1112 50 ..1123 75 iltrasburg to 13ale •• —•• .• 312 50 ..• 312 50 •. 312 50 .. 313 75 Avignon to Marseilles.-- 922 50 .. 932 50 . 922 50 .. 927 50 DRURY-LANE THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. you allow me !o avail myself of a place in your columns, to express my astonishment at the Editor of the Times having admitted into that paper an attack upon the management of this theatre, on the mere report of an anonymous correspondent. There has never been the remotest idea of repeating The Revolt if the Harem, that ballet having been withdrawn from the playbills by Mr. I3unn's express orders, immediately after the late mourn ful circumstance.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, J. COOPER, Stage-Manager. Theatre Royal Drury-Lane, 12 o'clock a.m., Dec. 20. MADAME MICHAU'S JUVENILE BALL. BEINHITON CFIXT-CMAT.—The following very pretty lines we find in the Briphton Guardian of Wednesday:— A SONNET. On seeing Elise, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Robins, a little girl between five and six years of age, dance the Cracovienne at Madame Michau's Juvenile Ball on the 10th inst. I gaze upon the beautiful, "And my mind responds to the inspiration." Sweet infant I Dancing is thy soul's delight, Like an embodied joy just sprung to earth, All hearts cling to thee for thy sportive mirth. Thy laughing eyes with happiness are bright, In innocence so pure, it charms the sight Of old and young alike, who smiling gaze With looks of love that speak the fondest praise, While admiration fain would claim the right To clasp thee like a parent to her breast. Thou elfin sprite, thus bounding in the air, Some witchcraft has thy little feet impress'd. Kind Nature, too, with more than usual care Bestows on thee a treasure and a grace That paints true feeling is thy cherub face. F. L. THE CHURCH. The following is a list of dignities which have fallen to the gift of Sir Robert Peel's Government : Preferment. Cathedral. To whom presented. Canonry Worcester ......... Rev. J. It. Wood Deanery.. Bishopric Ditto ... ChicheE ter .... Rev. Dr. Gilbert Canonry Bishopric ... Meath .....,.. ... Rev. Dr. Stopford Deanery Ferns ........... ... Rev. Dr. Newland Ditto Ditto Bishopric .... . Deanery Ditto ... ..... ... Dublin Pakenham Ditto Bishopric Canonry - St. Paul's Deanery Llandaff Rev. K. Bruce Bishopric Ditto Archdeaconry Canonry...... Westminster Rev.Dr.Wordsworth Deanery Killala .. Rev. Dr. Collins Ditto Carlisle Ditto ... Ditto . - Vacant Canonry Windsor Ditto N.B. The vacancies occurred in the above order. STABBING AT TWICKENHAM. —On Wednesday afternoon, between tt.ree and four o'clock, two men, named John Hurst and George Passey, were drinking in a beer-shop on Twickenham Common, when they quarrelled and got up to fight. Passey snatched up a table-knife, and stabbed Burst in two places in the thigh. The blood flowed in profusion, and Hurst was taken to the surgery of Mr. Litchfield, of Twickenham. The surgeon dressed the wounds, one of which is two inches in depth ; after which the woundt , d man was taken to his father's residence, at Hounslow. Passey made his escape before the police became acquainted with the occurrence, but they expect speedily to hare him in custody. Hurst is said not to be in a dangerous state. He admits that he is as much to blame as Passey ; and says, if the latter is taken, he will not come forward. A CANDIDATE FOR TRANSPORTATION.—A curious incident occurred in the Central Criminal Court on Teurs day. The Recorder was trying three youths for theft. Several witnesses were called, and the case was distinctly proved against all three. The eldest prisoner, aged 18, was sentenced to ten years' transportation, as it was shown that on a previous occasion he had been convicted at Maidstone assizes. The two younger prisoners were sentenced to three months, with hard labour, in the House of Correction. One of the lads then proceeded to the front of the dock, and having attracted the atten tion of the Recorder, said, in a clear and decided tone, " My Lord, I have been convicted before, and I should like to be transported with my friend." The Court was convulsed with laughter, but the wish of the candidate for transportation was net complied with. SIGN OF A SEYBRE WINTER.—Mr. Baker, currier, of Sherburne, last week shot a bittern in the meadows adjoining the town. The bittern is a bird but seldom seen in the vicinity of the abodes of man. It is styled by zoologists " almost a bird of desolation," hence its appearance in the neighbourhood of a large town indi cates that approaching severe and inclement weather bad forced it from its usual places of retirement.— Sherborne Journal, I%cl. 14d. 59 80 pm. 00 S 8 prn. 80 58 plc Ditto Small. Ditto Advertised......... ....... ..... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent Mexican Bonds, 111137, 5 per Cent. ....... ..... Ditto for the Account. 2 6 14 Ditto Deferred Stock.... ....... ....... ............ . 16 k kir Portuguese Bonds 5 per Cent ... ........ Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account ••....•••• ll4 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25% Ditto for tne Account...—. ....... . ....... . Ditto Passive Bonds ..... ..... ............. Ditto Three per Cent...„.„.„.......„.„ 5734 Ditto for the Atteount 3i% Dutch 25 per Cent*. ..... .........«.............. 6.06 1 4 63% DI% Witte tor the Account ... . ... ..... ........... -. 6 4 ,4 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . ........ ...... 9714,06% Dutch 5 per Cent 5........................ ...... ....... 9956 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SWARD. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ........ 0234 to ..... ; Bristol and Gloucester Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead.... Chur. , et Valley' 2 ........ 3 36 Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... 236 ...... 4 Dablin and Galway Eistern Counties ....... 25 ....... 14%% to Great Southei n and Western] b 10% (Ireland) Great Western .................... 75 .... ..... 151% 152 to 151% Ditto Fifths ...... .................. 12 ........ 28 London and Birmingham...„..... 100 London and Brighton ........ ...... 50 London and South Western ..... 41% London and York ..... .............. 234 4 86 ... to Midland ..................-............ 100 ... 112 Birmingham and Derby ... ...... 100 ......... 84 ... ..... to Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 24 ....„.. 81 62..... to 61 Northern and Eastern 45 .... ..... 47% South Eastern and Dover ..... -.. 33% Trent Valley-.... ............ .......... 2 ....... 9to 10 York and North Midland ........ 50 ........ I,S Boulogne and Amien5...„„......,. 2 ........ 5% Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Itourdeaux . ..... .... 29 ..... .... 7% % Paris and Ly0n5........ ..... ....... 2 Paris and 0r1ean5................. 20 ..... .... 4 • %34 to Parisand R0nen........... ......... . 20..„.„.. 40% to 41 Strasburg end Bale ......... ...... 14 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 19.—We have had a fair business doing at steady prices, with a good demand for Shares generally :—Eastern Counties, 14 1-16 i; Lancaster and Preston, New Quarters, 4i; London and Brighton, 51i ; Ditto, Loan Notes, 12;1; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 2 5-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, 119; Ditto and Birmingham, 51 . ; Ditto, Qua r t er Sh ares , 4 15-16; So ith Eastern , 38• 4 1 ; Ditto, New, 12; Ditto, New Creation, 10; Cambridge and Lincoln, 21; Churntt Valley, 31 7-16; Trent Valley, 9; West Yorkshire, 71; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 101. 18s. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 209 1 per Cent. Red lOO% 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... per Cont. Red New 3U per Cent. 103% New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire lan. 1800 l2 1.16 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 Indian Stock. FOREIGI Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... 1044 Brazilian Bonds ..... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Cuba Bonds, A per Cent Chllian, r. per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent , Mexican, S per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bones, 6 per Ct .— Portuguese ponds, 5 per Ct Ditto Bonds £l,OOO pm. Ditto under £l,OOO 75 pin. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%d Ditto 5001 ....... Ditto 5ma11....... Bank Stock for Acct too% Console for Opg. . . ... India Stock for Acct — 4 FUNDS. Russian 5 per Cent Ditto,Metallic, ....„ ...... !vanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 246 ditto, 1841 ........ ....... Ditto, 1842 Ditto. 1843.... . ... ... Ditto, 1844 ..... ....... ...... Ditto, 3 per Cent Nenesuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — Fresich, 5 per Cent....... —t c. French, S per Cent...—. —1 —r. Exchange ..-.. ........ .... —.l —c. Dutch, 2% per Cent .... JDitto, 5 per Cent......,, — SHARES. Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid ... lON Great Western (75 paid) Ditto a H n a d l I B Share s , a 1501 (161. pa i3s. 4d.) id 6 London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) 9 London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 75 London London and Brighton (50 paid) .. ......... London and York, 2% paid 4% Lynn and Ely, 1% paid Midland (100 paid) Newc.tstlet and Berwick 1% pa'd.......... Northern and Easter!. (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (25 paid) ....................,„....»....« 35%, North Kent, 2% paid Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid Richmond and West End Junction, l,paid Rugby, 1 paid. T;t Soutt. Eastern and Dover (3.3 2s 4d paid) ..... York And North Midland (50 paid) lO2 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 211 paid ........ ......... ..........._ 41% Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar — Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 64 Genoa ... 25 95 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 134 Venice ....,.. ........... 47 Altona l3 13i Naples 34 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 70 Palermo, per oz llB Ditto, 3 months 25 96 Lisbon 54 Marseilles ... Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36} Cadiz 36 Barcelona 36 Seville Rio Janeiro 24 Bahia 24 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia PIiICES OF num.tox, PER 02. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 94 Silver in Bars 0 4 Ilt PRESENT OF BLOOD HOUNDS FROM THE PRINCE CONSORT TO THE REIGNING DUKE ON SAXE COBURG AND GOTILA..-At the sale of the Hon. Mr. Bagot's cele brated pack of Blithfield blood hounds, which took place at Derby, last week, five were purchesed for Prince Al bert, by an agent of his Royal Highness, viz., Countess, for 11 guineas ; Forester, 15 guineas ; Needwood, 6 guineas ; Rummager, 22 guineas , and Vengeance, 9 guineas. Two of these hounds were presented by Prince Albert to his brother, the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who took them with him in the Black Eagle to Ostend, on Tue day last. `We are authorised to state that the statement which appeared in our paper, that two cows had been run over near the Andover-road station, on the South- Western Railway, is without the slightest foundation. A post-office is about to be established at the Stocksfield station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND lOubitt Optutort. Who runs may read." PORZIGti. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received on Monday evening Prince Paul of Wurtem berg, the Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires, the Archbishop of Rheims, Count Hippolyte de la Rochefoucauld, Baron de Barante, Generals Durosnel, Schneider, De Colbert, Lagrange, Aupick, De Mornay, and Marbot, Admiral Le Ray, and Baron Mechin. The inscription of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale was on Tuesday formally entered in the registers of the Etat•Civil of the Royal Family. By a royal ordonnance, dated December 16, the King has conferred the title of Duke on Baron Pasquier. The French Academy has unanimously elected M. Patin, in the place of M. C. Nodier, to the office of Secre tary of the Standing Committee to draw up the new Dictionary of the French language. The annual mass in celebration of the anniversary of the arrival in Paris of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon, was performed on Monday, in the Church of the Invalides. The Governor and his staff, all the inva lides not confined by infirmity or illness, and a great. number of officers and soldiers of the old, as well as of the present army, attended in uniform. The navigation of the Seine, which was stopped for some days by the floating ice -blocks, has become per fectly free again. It is reported that Zurbano is in Madrid, watching an opportunity to put Narvaez to death. The illoniteur Grec, of the 29th ult., affirms that the people of Greece are in the enjoyment of perfect tran quillity, and the real position of the population form; a direct contrast with the language of certain journals of Athens. On the 13th ult.. the Emperor of Russia issued an ukase for the establishment of gratuitous elementary and superior schools for the children of Sews, and with all the same privileges and advantages as the gratuitous schools for Christians. In the Jewish schools, none bat Jewish professors are to be employed for the religious part of the education. The professors for the other branches of education, may be either Jews or Christians. Many of the disabilities ender which Jews serving in the army laboured, are also abolished. The supply of truffles this year i■ reported to be but scanty. They were sold last week at Brive for Bf. the lb., and as much as 10f, the lb. has lately been paid for them at Pihrigueux. The journeymen bakers at Rochefort having com bined against their masters to obtain an advance of wages, about twenty of them have been arrested, and the Major-General of the Marine has placed a sufficient number of the Government bakers at the disposal of the Municipality, during the strike, to keep up the supply of bread to the inhabitants. An eruption of Mount Etna, remarkable for its bril liancy, took place on Nov. 30. It was visible at Malta, notwithstanding the distance between that island and Sicily. The Piethrontese Gazetle fully confirms the accounts given in private letters of the severe cold lately expe rienced at Turin. It states, on the night of the 6th, the thermometer fell to 20 degrees Centigrade below the freezing point (4 below zero of Fahrenheit), and that three carts arrived at the gates of Turin with the carters lying in them, frozen to death. The cold was also very severe in Tuscany. The roads between Florence and Leghorn were covered with snow at the date of the last accounts. At seven in the morning of the 10th inst., the thermo meter at the Hague was at 20 degress below zero of the Centigrade scale, 4 below stro of Fahrenheit. MART AND POLICN. At the Exeter Assizes John Goodwin, a private of the 13th Dragoons, was indicted for stabbing a woman, with intent to do her zone grievous bodily harm. This was the only case for the city of Exeter. After the prose cutrix and other witnesses had been briefly examined, Mr. Baron Alderson went over the facts of the case, pointing out the discrepancies between the evidence of the prosecutrix and the other witnesses, when the jury immediately returned a ♦erdict of Not Guilty. His Lord ship then, addressing the jury, said he found the papers had denounced this case as a "horrible and bloody assassination." Such prejudging the case in the papers which were circulated among the jury was an outrage on public justice, and could not be too strongly censured. Peter Phillips, William Doddemead, and Thos. Batho, were convicted of setting fire to a rick of wheat, the property of George Kean, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. Eliza Daley, Elizabeth Daley, her daughter, and Jas. Daley, her son, were indicted, at Liverpool, for unlaw fully exposing a child. The parties had been indicted at the last assizes for an attempt to murder, but were acquitted on the ground of a variance between the in dictment and the proof. James Daley, Not Guilty; Eliza Daley and Elizabeth Daley, Guilty. To be impri soned twelve calendar months. William Burgess, implicated in the Bank forgery, was covicted at the Central Criminal Court, and sen tenced to be transported for life. In the New Court James James, who has been many years an active officer in the metropolitan and rural police, and four years turnkey at the Brixton House of Correction, was convicted of stealing a truck or barrow, value 305., the property of Richard Burt, at Clapham, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. William Edbury, a clerk in the Post-office, was con victed of stealing a half-sovereign and two shillings, the property of the Right lion. the Postmaster-General of her Majesty's Post-office, and sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years. At Union-hall Charles Richart was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, the property of Miss Williams, of Stamford street, and Fanny I)ronsart as an accessory in the robbery. Mr. Cottingham said that, having heard all the evidence, ho should commit Richart for trial to the Cen tral Criminal Court, and adjudge the young woman I)ronsart to put in bail to appear at this court on the day after the Oid Bailey Sessions commenced, to give the complainant an opportunity of preferring a bill of indict ment against her as an accessory after the fact. COURT- PALSZIONAZI3.2I. The Duke of Devonshire, who left Devonshire House on Wednesday, for Brighton, to visit the Earl and Countess of Granville, will not be absent from town beyond Monday next. The Noble Duke shortly re turns to Chatsworth, and will there receive a succession of visitors during the approaching festive season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have ar rived at Burghley House from visiting the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House. The Earl and Countess of Ripon, and Lord Goderich, are staying at his Lord-ship's villa, at Putney. His Lordship is improved in health. Lord Goderich will not attain his majority until 1848. The Earl of Falmouth and his mother, the Countess, are passing the winter at Woolhampton Hall, Berkshire. The Earl of Denbigh, accompanied by Lady Mary Fielding and family, is among the English aristocracy at Rome. The Marquis of Bristol is still at St. James's-square, but his Lordship will shortly leave town for his marine villa at Kemp-town. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and the Ladies de Burgh, at the date of the last letters from Rome, were still in that city. Mr. George Byng, M.P., and Mrs. Byng, returned, on Saturday last, to their mansion in St. James's-square, from Torquay, Devon, and have since left for Wrothatn Park, near Barnet, where the lion. Member will display his customary hospitality at Christmas. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston purpose enter taining a large party at Broadlands, Hants, during the Christmas. The visitors are expected to assemble on Monday and Tuesday next. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe entertained the Duke of Devonshire and a select party at dinner on Tuesday evening, at their mansion in Curson•street. MISOII.I6.LANVIOI7II. At a meeting of Middlesex Magistrates, held at the Sessions House on Thursday, Mr. Pownall was elected Chairman in the room of Mr. Sergeant Adams, resigned. A ballot took place, as Mr. Rotch was also put in nomi nation, when the numbers were—For Mr. Pownall, 70 ; and for Mr. Rotch, 25. The recent decease of the lion. Robert Otway Cave, without issue, will cause the right to the Barony of Braye to devolve, after the present Baroness, upon her four daughters, amongst whom it will be in abeyance, her Majesty having, by letters patent, limited the same to the present Baroness and the heirs male of her body. On Wednesday night some gentlemen who Were pre sent at Drury-lane Theatre, and made acquainted with the praiseworthy conduct of M'Carthy on Saturday night last, at the late dreadful catastrophe, raised a pri vate subscription among themselves for the poor fellow's relief,' • which amounted to upwards of 101. On Sunday, the Bth, and last Sunday, the 15th inst., sermons were preached in the churches of Tottenham parish, in aid of the funds of one of the parochial schools, when the amount received was 51/. In 1843 it was 70L, and in 1842 71/. 9s. Such are the blessings of Puseyism. The Lord Bishop of St-Asaph has distributed clothing to upwards of 400 poor families in St. Asaph and the neighbourhood, and is giving food daily to those who are in need. The Regalia were removed a short time since to Messrs. Garrard's, the Crown jewellers, in the Hay market, for safe custody, while the necessary works were going on in the new fire-proofapartment,which has been constructed expressly for them in the Tower. On Tuesday last they were removed from the premises of Messrs. Garrard to the Tower. The public are now ad mitted to view them as usual. This day, being St. Thomas's-day, the usual ward motes will be held in the various City wards for the election of Common Councilmen for the ensuing year. Most of the wards will be represented by the same Com mon Councilmen. The wards that will be contested are Portsoken, Cripplegate Within, and Farringdon Without. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTILATES.—A spe cial meeting of justices of the county of Middlesex took place on Thursday, for the election of a chairman, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell•green. There was a very numerous attendance of magistrates. Mr. Tulk took the chair. The two candidates put in nomination were Mr. Pownall and Mr. Rotch. The first was proposed by Mr. Wilks, seconded by Mr. Walesby ; and the last named gentleman was proposed by Captain Bague and seconded by Mr. Whiskin. The ballot commenced shortly after twelve o'clock, and terminated at three ,'clock, when the scrutineers, Mr. Witham and Mr. Orm, announced the result, namely :—For Mr. Pownall, 70; and for Mr. Rotch, 25. Mr. Pownall was accord ingly declared duly elected. • — la - _ CUURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —The Queen and Prin ce Albert took their accustomed early walk in the Piet' • sure-grounds of the Home -Park. His Royal Highness Prince All:ert rode o ut nn, horseback, attended by M a j o r-G ener al Sir Edvisr u Bowater. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred were taken airings this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visite d her Majesty at the Castle this morning. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the ONO' hold, left the Castle to-day for town. The Countess of Gainsborough was prevented coming to the Castle yesterday. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ken t ' Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess of Wratislaotir, Sir George Cowper, Major-General Wemyss, an Lieut.-Colonel Colvile, Scots Fusilier Guards. , Her Majesty's private band attended after din ne r in the Castle, and performed in the evening. h The Queen has honoured Mr. Thorburn sittings during the week for her portrait. Lord de Manley had an interview with the 9 1 1 of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Bard Trade. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo oll ' office from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land , the Mauritius, and the Gold Coast. The Earl and Countess of Kenmare left Farranc e'e Hotel, Belgrave-street, on Thursday, for Dover. The Lords Committee of the PrivCouncil for the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat y es terday the Council-chamber. There were p resen t the V, Chancellor, the Secretary of State for the 1 1 ° 11 2: Department, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of t'w Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, resumed and O P : eluded his reply on the subject of the two petition' from the Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the C° ll. duct of the Lieutenant-Governor of the island. The case being concluded, their Lordships rose. HAMBURGH AND DUTCH IVIAIL S ' ROTTERDAM, DEC. 13.—This scorning two boats {Co ,, Ysselimonde, laden with flax, crossed the Meuse to tit' city, without the ice at all giving way. It has been ; served that the river, from this city to Fyenoord i the opposite banks, has been passed by horses, so tb s. to the frost continue some days longer, we may expect,e, see a fair on the river. The ice is from 14i to 16 to thick. (Similar accounts of the severity of the frost" received from Dordrecht, Gorinchem, Deventer, kr. a , The thermometer at Amsterdam on the 16th, At % ti t was at 34 degrees Fahrenheit, and a thaw had set jo , 1 4 without having yet affected the ice, which was fro°' to 16 inches in thickness. , ilf ST. PETERSBURGIT, Nov. 30.—The Imperial ...- Iv eis y have resolved to return to the winter palace on Tuoirhe ice new which is some days sooner than was intended. The new palace of the Duke of Leuchtenburg is ritiro ready. It is thought that the Grand Duchess 3'‘b. will remove to it next week, and the Duke of V II ' tenburg is expected from Munich before the holidol e d, 'I he campaign in the Caucasus for this year ie 61 e , and the troops are gone into winter quarters , If" - t oi however, they will not enjoy much repose, as they be constantly on their guard against the m ountnio e o 4 who choose the winter for their boldest enterpris e, " 0 , make the most difficult marches with extraordina r y io pidity, surprise the forts in the garrison, and plood e l f l i ii the most daring manner the peaceable tribes. . 0 0 campaign has by no means answered the expectotitbe entertained from the great force assembled spring. General Nedhardt, the commander-i°"T,ich and governor, has repeatedly solicited his recale n w „"de will be probably granted] him. Hateburgh far Dec. 13. •., BELOIAN FUNDS.--Eatissue, Ds& it Actua Debt, g% per Cent., ..... Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.... ........».» „„. Loan of Thirty Milions, Feur per Cent.""*" ... " Three per Thirty-seven Milli, us, ditto (1840)....... ........ • INA .. ;A/ Loan of City, 1543. 'Four per Cent. •- 111-2 lO _ _ _ Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent "; Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent Issue of 1841........•„...”................••........• r —Brussels Papers. Dct. 18. MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. e a On Wednesday evening, Mr. Clarkson disc us t be the project of connecting the Mediterranean wi th s he Red Sea, by means of a canal or railroad across the Isthmus of Suez. The time chosen for the leetu was most opportune, as the above subject occuPl ° ll • j . prominent place not only in the English, but the e(tie tinental papers, and has called forth many .1 4 , pamphlets. Not that there is any novelty in the lu `p but it seems at the present moment to be taken 0,13, wit . h more earnestness than on any previoni, es canon. The canal that was used in bygone tneto (and of which considerable traces remain) d , connect the Red Sea with the River Nile, °S ae gested to Bonaparte nearly half a century ago the practicability of a navigable canal being constru c t from north to south, a distance of about 70 Tni' e ",' and he accordingly . ordered the engineers Who 13 1, - ; companied his expedition to Egypt, to s urvey t- e ground, and to furnish plans, &c. Copies of t o plans and a vertical section were exhibited bY w of lecturer, together with a large and distinc t In i P the the localities under discussion, which ren d i ere gr. different bearings of the subject intelligibl e ' r t hese Clarkson gave a history of the navigation °: parts, from classical authors, and pointed 011 " i l l i c sl distinctly, the principal geographical and toporP t bst details connected with them. The advantages land would accrue to Europe in general, and to E n g'; e n in particular, by effecting a communication betW the two seas, are obvious enough ; and, theref ore, was the lecturer's object to put his auditory in Plo session of the information absolutely neceesl t he enable them properly to appreciate the merits n g contending plans now under discussion. For lis le done this in a most lucid and efficient manner, be serves th 9 thanks of every friend of the Institute' Cambridge Independent Press. hiv e POSTAL RECULATIONS. Receiving-houses dr been opened at Lenton and Beeston, and the free or e livery has been extended to Chilwell : these houses to s supplied by messenger. A receiving-house hss s ea opened at Ratcliffe, which receives letters by the s e . or o'clock Stamford mail. On Friday last, reeei v h i os houses were opened at Carrington and Arnold ; t o . a • houses will also be supplied by messenger. Pr e P se o f tions are being made for opening a receiving-hn e o' Epperstone, and to extend the free delivery to Cilioist ton, Another receiving-house will be opened sr a a: Bridgford, to b e se nt fr o m th e post-office at Bing" ,t s , the free delivery will extend to Newton. These rel . " tions will be a great advantage to our country &jell''' . Nottingham Revie'e. s pa CommoN COUNCIL.—At a meeting of the CO ite a Council, on Thursday, the report of th e Finance Cod re' concerning baths and washhouses for the poor w°/ / 10 sented. It recommended that .500/. be granted ou n t c ' s tbs, City funds to aid the establishment of baths. ` - '„" te e, motion " That the Court agree with the Corarr" g hlis Mr. Lawrence moved that the repo r t li e on the `",0 1 On a division, after discussion, the or i g i na l motio n os d carried by 49 to 41. A motion to reduce the Pr ,1 0 hi grant to 200 L was, however, subseq uen tly ag ree it a large majority. On the m o tion of M r . R. Tay' 0 was referred to the City Lands Com m ittee to Tod communication with the Commissioners of Wn° s ciees, Forests, in order to ascertain on what terms the ~0 4 Prison could be purchased. The Court then adieu ' , STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TSA P- t uref The condition of the cotton stocking mantlfs c 'iss' whether wrought or wide cut-ups, is by no nies pi the rs proved; consequently, the workmen in the st r sf, part of the county, and in the eastern part of is shire are suffer ing severely from the united esn s- i scre low wages. and scarcity of employment. The d r $ l , O O pantaloon, and shirt branch continues in a i s 0 lamentable condition. The cotton glove branch inOre more tolerable condition ; most of th e pl a in glov es made with India rubber welts, which have be e io le pretty generally used. Some of the warp gloves that India rubb er th rea d s th rown i n th e exact msn, rie n " sa e inlay threads w e r e thr ow n int o w arp l ace , when to bullet-hole stripe patterns were in fashion, from dr 1318. The silk hose trade is in a lingering, thoug to clining st a t e; th is equa lly a ppli es t o th e knotted ° me at the plain hose branch. There is no visible impr°,"haVO in th e s ilk g l ove b ranc h, an d many good W u : t rad e been weeks out of employmt nt. The bobbin ne t s ore' is most gloomy, espe c i a lly in the f anc y line. Ins reek meats, nevertheless, progress, and, amongst th e s pO' some attention is paid to the ground of the ne" for cimens have been partially traversed—that is', ye ( short di s t ance an d b ac k aga i n . Th e speculation is', machines has been so extensive, that, we are 495 10. not less th an 150 w id e f rames are now u pon the s' cle ...• There is no visible alteration in the warp lace trs Nottingham Review. TIAA 10 11. NUMEROU S DEATHS IN THE L —On Thursday Mr. Baker held no fewer than f OO 00 e quests at the London Hospital, on the bodies of Psfere who had died i n th a t establishment. The first tss° 7 0 0 those of Jane Harvey, aged six years, and Mall e p tli Smith, a ge d s i x years en d a h a lf , w h o , as too &W o o' in cases of this nature, had been left during the te : ga s rary absence of their parent, in a room where theretheit a fire, and commenced playing with it, and igniting th at clothes, w e r e so severe l y b urnt a ll over their bodi es i oi se on the foll ow i ng day they both expired. '1 he third 00, was on the b o dy of Emma Hanson, aged thre e Y ts lll who w as so d rea df u ll y sca ld e d b y h er f a ther accide,l,oo overturning a saucepan of boiling broth which had a fter' prepared for his supper, that she also died shortly. S . V o f her admission to the hospital. The last case WES t h at a man named Henry Smith, aged thirty years, a _' tio a whipper, who, whilst exercising his laborious occur: in s of " whi pping" coals from the s hi p' s hold, receives' ternal injuries which terminated fatally. The jur,7' each case, returned a verdict of " Accidental death, A DEATH FROM THE INCAUTIOUS HANDLIE O eit h o" ' GUN. —On Tuesday a young man named Josep a gardener in the service of Mr. Borgin, market-gar Tottenham, lost his life by the accidental dischargoe gun. It appears that the deceased was about t his charge the piece at some birds on a h, dge, but upoo companion calling out that his mistress was app t he ing, endeavouring to conceal it, drew the 1)870 01 ct in coats gun towards him, and the lock having come d his left .slissf with the hedge, the discharge lodge dsy treat the effects of which he died on Virednes -gardenfi: 11 1141. t tit Plr eti ' n deair e , 4PPrec Port' grab at a tom M, reply Aekn ( b;d *hitE au tie; s ergE the "I Welli the lie t heir that c Of the 541tiec 4: 4 i di ers i 8 at 44 der, . lw mNc advise d 4 P l4l Pos e ti I _Ar --,in d 41111 Az lehai