The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-20 00:00:00

ROYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY COMPANY. At the General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Com pany, held this day at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, col fermably with public advertisement, it was resolved— " That the Repert of the Directors presented to the meeting be re ceived and adopted, and that the Ropil North of Spain Railway Company be forthwith dissolved " In pursuance, therefore, of the above resolution, all holders of scrip certificates of shares issued in Ehgland and France, and num bered from 18,331 to 55,000, are hereby requested to bring the same to this office between the 20th and 31st inst., when, after such scrip has been left two clear days, they will receive in exchange a cheque for 11. per share, and a certificate which will entitle the holder to the further advantages stated in the Directors' report, and to a pr:- portionable return from whatever funds may remain for ultimate distribution. . THOMAS S. CUTBILL, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchanqe-buildings, Dec. 19, 1845. Shareholders may receive the printed reports of the Directors and En4;lueers at the office. ELEGANT LITERARY PRESENT. Now ready, T IVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. .v and Revised Edition, in 8 vols., with Illustrations, elegantly nd, price 10s. 6d. each, either of which may be bad separately. A valuable contribution to historical knowledge—to young per s., especially. It contains a mass of every kind of historizal ,_~•.cer of interest which industry and research could collect. We v I derived much entertainment and instruction from the work."- -k , '.••IIOeUM. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now , VOLUME V. of the rea N NE LSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES. Edited by Sir H.ARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. Henry Colburn ,l'ubltpther, 13, Great Marlborough-street. I t'ORTANT AND INTERESTING NEW WORK ON OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. ----- Just ready, fIAPTAIN FREMONT'S NARRATIVE of IL/ the EXPLORIKG EXPEDITION to the ROCKY MOUN TAINS in the year 1842, and to OREGON and NORTH CALIFOR NIA in the years 1843-4. By order of the United States Govern ment. _ . . _ _ . . ........ This work, besides containing the most accurate and authentic in formation, from actual official survey, will be found extremely inte rcittnx as a graphic description of novel and exciting scenes and udventures. Wily and Putnam, 6, Waterloo•place ; and at all the Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING - _ Will be repeated a Grand Opera, in three acts, called MARITANA. Cheeps the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Den Caesar De flaxen, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H. Phillips; Maritana, Miss Romer; i-azarille, Miss Poole. wbich, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called TIIE DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. babas (of ti - 43 Academic Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will he repeated an Original Comedy, called TRH MAIDEN .AUNT. Sir Simon Sage, Mr. W. Farrell; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud son ; Mrs. Sarah Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Seymour. After which, will be repeated an entirely Now Farce, called THE MISERIES OF II ntAN LIFE. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster; Margaret, Mrs. Humby. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY ittIERLES. German Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Beyton, Miss Sey ton To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. lIIE..kTRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will he repeated THIS GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Tears Ago. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, 0. Smitb, Selby, stoker ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. FltzwiWam will ?erfbrm. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic and Ma sourkaphobta. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Waal:gar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK, BY MR. DICKENS. This day, Dec. 20, will be published. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH : A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. By CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. The Illustrations by Clarkson Standfleld,Esq.,R.A.; Daniel Maclkse, R.A.: John Leech, Esq., and Richard Doyle, Esq. THIS EVENING, December 20, THIS THEATRE WILL OPEN for the WINTER SEASON, on which occasion will be pro dnood an entirety New and Original Drama, in Three Acts, founded en the above Fairy Tale, and which has been for several weeks in active preparation, entitled TILE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. - - The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadows, Mr. F. Vintng. M rs. Keeley, Miss Mary Keeley (her First A ppearauce ou may Stage), Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Dawson, Miss Howard, Miss rurster, anti Miss Turner. After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. To conclude with OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Ii which Mr. and rJrs. Keeley will perform. OXFORD-STIIEZT. THIS EVENING win be repeated a New Drama, entitled TZE VIOLET. Andre, WellacX; Tr en Mr. Granby : Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; n , rehioness d'Orville, Mrs. Fosbroke ; _Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling; ii'•inelie, Miss May. titer which, will be repeated a New Extravaganza, entitled ~. laSES. the RAILROAD FOOTMAN of BERKELEY-IQUIRE. -Ines Plush, Mr. Compton. To be followed by a New Grand Ballet, entitled LE DIABLE NEW STRAND THEATRE. "AST NIGHT-FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. DAVIDSON. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock, 1. Gregory; Itassan•o, Mr. Waldron; Portia, Mrs. Percy. After which, the Wonderful Feats of Professor Nemmiug and ) IFTwo Sons. To be followed by the Fifth Act of RICHARD THE "i BIRD. Richard, Mr. Gregory. To conclude with STATE SECRETS. Box-ofilco open from Ten till Four. ,ISTLEY'S ROYAL AIAPILITIIr.ATRR OF ARTS. t'ROPRIETOR AND MANAGER. MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrmed the Popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA. Embracing • e whole Strength of the Company, aided by a Double Stud. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Ar►iates. To ctin-ludelvlth the effective Drama of THE NAMELESS ; or, The Brigand, ' THE WEATHER.—SIM OFFICE, Dm. 20. THERMOMETITER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 46; Noon, 41. BAROMETER, 28.99.—W1ND, W.; showery. ellGri WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 3) minutes after 5 Evening .. 57 minutes after 5. ~~ rnr. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1345. - ..- , ; ,-. , I'4 tA , 1-774*-.7., .. r '.• • .. 0 ,--. 1.7,..- .4, - ,,,v...,..• ~..i,-4„-:-.17,=:. 1N,.. ..7„,z,, ' ~.-0.- . z" - , ,' , AaarAtgg,:ll!".4? ~- . • b N., -,,,.... , RECALL SIR ROBERT PEEL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has resigned the task of forming an Administration, and Sir ROBERT PEEL has been again summoned. The Right Honourable Baronet left town for Windsor at two o'clock. When Sir ROBERT PEEL declared his inability to carry on the Government, we never doubted that the formation of a new Administration would devolve Upon Lord JOHN RussELL. Whether he could ac complish the task remained to be seen; but the gnadunlly improving tune of all sections of the Liberal party gave the strongest omens of success. Up to yesterday evening matters went on pros perously, so far as could be judged, but difficulties arose—difficulties, cause d by the 'timidity of some, and by the pride and obstinacy of others, which have ended in Lord Jowl RUSSELL'S refusal of the prof. ferefi Premiership. We believe that Lord JonN his acted boldly, honestly, and fearlessly ; he has not swerved one particle from the straight line of public principle avowed by him, and, although he has for the day ex cluded himself from office, the real gain to the Liberal cause will far outweigh the temporary disappointment. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL has, it ii understood, left town this morning for Windsor Castle, to have an audience of her .i"IAJES.TY. Sir Jolts HOIMOUSE, and other political leaders, called at Lord JOHN RussELL's residence, in Cheshann• place, this morning. The foliowing appeared in our Third Edition of last night : The death of Lord WIIAANCLIFFB, which was an nounced in our early Edition, opens the door to Par liament for Lord Moirrrn, and enables the new Miniiitry to boast among its members the represen tative for the West Riding of Yorkshire Th e Cabinet arrangements remain secret. jr, is reported, but we hardly believe it, that Mr. the new Solicitor-G eneral. Mr. Aus-rix will be AusTix is a man of transcendant power, an d of great wealth, but what has he ever done for the Liberal party ? Atsurd rumours have been afloat in the Courts o f Law as to Lord CorrENuAm refusing the seals, a n d the appointment of Lord DENMAN as Chancellor, with Sir Tuomas WILDE for Chief Justice. We notice them only to contradict them. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) A Privy Council will shortly be held at Windsor Castle, at which the new Ministers will be sworn into office and receive their several seals from the Quinn. At present, however, nothing positive is known as to the day of the Council. The members of Sir ROBERT Psim's Administra tion will also sttj at Windsor Castle on the same occasion, for the purpose of delivering their seals of office. This morning the usual daily meeting of Lord LANSDOWNE and the other leading political supporters of Lord JOHN RUSSELL took place at his Lordship's private residence in Chesham-place, Belgrave-square. The meeting broke up at three o'clock. We are not at all sorry to find Lord JOHN Rus- SELL hesitating long before he undertakes the dif ficult task of governing the country. Unless he can see his way clearly, and calculate with tolerable certainty that he can conquer resistance in the Lords as well as the Commons, it would only be a waste of precious time to assume office. The result of a division in the Lower House on the question of " total repeal" would be at best doubtful. A gene ral election cannot be much longer delayed, whatever may be the result of the present crisis. The Tory county Members will, therefore, be anxious to repre• sent on a division the sentiments of the constituents that returned them in 1841, and will vote against a measure so sweeping and unexpected, in order to secure their next election. The influence of Peers in county elections is still enormous, and we are convinced that they will use that influence to maintain the corn-laws with the utmost pertinacity, till they find, as in the case of the Reform Bill, the machine of Government stopped, and the country threatened with some dire convulsion. Would it, therefore, not be the more prudent course to allow the obstructive party to form a Government and try their hands at the settlement of this long-agitated question ? Possibly that was Sir R. PEEL'S real ob ject in resigning, for, though he recommended the QUEEN to send for Lord J. RUSSELL, he could not fail to see that a Whig Ministry would have still greater difficulties to contend with than those which he dared not encounter, and that ultimately they would be compelled to come to the same conclusion. Present appearances justify the supposition that Lord JOHN RussELL can make no progress even in forming a Cabinet. Possibly the Marquis of Leas- Dowsta, and others of the old Whig school, are not prepared to go the whole length ; it is not impro bable, also, that they cannot forget their predilec tions in favour of the landed interest, and dread the infusion into the Cabinet of those principles which distinguish the free-traders of the day, and which, for aught we know, may be as unwelcome to them as to the RICHMONDS and TYRRELLS. One thing, we believe, is certain, that the management of the House of Commons is not the least of the difficulties that sur round the new leader of the Whigs. Unless, there fore, he can get rid of the obstructions of his colleagues, and form an administration, not only unanimous, but enthusiastic in the cause, he would only expose himself and his party to defeat and ridicule. Sir R. PEEL has evidently made up his mind on the subject. Let Lord J. RUSSELL do the same, and at once. The people of this country have already been sufficiently long in a state of anxiety and suspense—they know the real cause, the reluctance of the Peers to give up their ill acquired gains, and they would be pleased to see the task of forming an administration cast upon those men who will neither work themselves nor allow others to work. This would bring affairs to a crisis. They could not hold together for six weeks, even with all the abilities of STANLEY, and all the courage of RICHMOND and BUCKINGHAM. They have not one man in the Commons fit to oppose .even a third-rate speaker of the fifty that would be opposed to them. They would be resisted to the last by sixty or seventy Irish Members, by the whole of the Liberal party, headed by Lord Joins RUSSELL, and by from eighty to ninety of the moderate Conservatives, under the banners of Sir R. PEEL. In a few days the question would be settled by a simple process, called the "reductio ad absurdum," and the deeds of MILES and TYRRELL would form even a more amusing epi sode in English history than those which broke up, amidst universal ridicule, " Barebone's Parliament." Whatever may be the result of the present crisis however, all tho real friends of Lord JOHN RUSSELL are anxious that he should not persevere in his attempts to govern the country without a fair chance of success, and that it would be better to give up the struggle at once than form a Ministry which could not secure itself against defeat. Since the above was in type, we have learned with satisfaction that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has acted the more prudent part, and under all circumstances has declined to undertake the Government. Sir R. PEEL is now with the QUEEN, and as he has no prospect of being able to form an efficient Administration, will, probably, advise her MAJESTY to send for the Duke of WELLINGTON. The country, in this case, is left at the mercy of a leader who never carried any measure without Sir R. PEEL, and who is now within three years of fourscore. We brought before our readers on Wednesday the points in Mr. PARKER'S letter to Sir JAMES GRAHAM which belong to his own case of grievance. There are other points in the letter, relating to the conduct of the Poor-law Commissioners in the Andover in quiry, which also deserve notice. The Poor-law Commissioners must expect to have it meted out to them with the same measure with which they have meted out to Mr. PARKER ; and they who considered Mr. PARKER'S recommendation of PRICE, in igno rance of his having resigned the mastership of the Oxford" House of Industry, under a cloud, "a great indiscretion, which they must notice in a marked manner," cannot expect gentle treatment for indis cretions of their own. If no fallibility is to be al lowed to Assistant-Commissioners, the least that we can expect is infallible chiefs. That the result of the Andover inquiry F e s hitherto been most unsatisfactory, there can be, no doubt; and that the Commissioners are to l':tune for this unsatis factory result, we think w ; :s . l not be doubted by any one who reads Mr. I. ) :.kiiixErt's pamphlet. The in quiry was commenced by Mr. PARKER on the 25th of August ; on the 17th of September the Commis sioners ordered the proceedings to be suspended, just as the evidence in support of the charges was cork, eluded, and the master was to enter upon his .-ki en „ ; then, on the 15th, Mr. PARKER was ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. We will here quote Mr. PARKER " On Monday, the 15th of September, I had an interview with Sir Edmund Head, who desired me to return to An dover forthwith, and resume the inquiry on the following day. I strongly remonstrated against such an early re sumption of the inquiry, and stated that the legal gentlemen who had been employed in the case could not be assembled so speedily. Sir Edmund observed that he did not care about their presence at the inquiry, and I stated that if I went down to Andover that evening, I thought the witnesses could not be got together by •the next morning. I then urged that it would-be advisable to give a few days' notice, so that there might to be no excuse afforded for adjourning the proceedings. This suggestion Sir Edmund Head would not listen to, and I immediately wrote to all parties, apprising them of the intention to resume the investigation on the 17th September." If the object of the Commissioners was justice, Why this hurry ? Natural justice counsels the giving every reasonable advantage to an accused man. On the 17th, then, Mr. PARKER attended to resume the inquiries, and was immediately met by the master's counsel with an application for an ad journment, to allow him to get together witnesses who were dispersed, ',lid to prepare the defence , towards which not:fling had been done, as tk- e y h a d not expected the investigation to be r• . eumed ; and, with the .consent of the counsel on the other side, Me. PARKER granted a five clays' adjournment. " This adjournment for tire days was acceded to by all parties, and, considering the indefinite character and nature of some of the charges, it must be acknowledged that an ad journment for five days w 2.9 not of greater duratio❑ than the master might fairly demand. The reasonableness of the ad journment will be apparent, when it is understood that evi dence on the following charge alone—' That he has fre quently taken liberties with the younger women and girls in the house, and attempted at various times to prevail upon them to consent to gratify his wishes,' applied to the cases of no fewer than eleven women, and that none of the alleged assaults were of recent occurrence, and the greater number of them were said to hare been. committed several years since." But so bent were the Commissioners on haste, and so little mindful of justice, that they overruled this adjournment; and on Mr. PARIER proceeding to Somerset House, he was sent back to Andover, and ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. Mr. PARKER endeavoured to explain to the Commissioners the reasonableness of the adjournment —even en treated them not to overrule it ; but all in va i n . A letter was written by order of the Commissioners to the accused master, explaining their reasons for over ruling the adjournment; which letter, to say the least, is a very extraordinary document : " The Commissioners are of opinion, that an outer against whom charges of the kind involved in the investigation now pending in the Andover Union have been made on oath, is liable to be called on to give an explanation, and enter upon his defence with the least possible delay." And this altogether irrespective of the nature of the charges, and of the evidence which may be required to disprove them ! Why the falsest charges may be the most difficult to disprove. The letter proceeds— " Th e time that has elapsed since the investigation began has been amply sufficient, in the opinion of the Commis sioners, to enable you to get together the materials necessary for your defence, more especially as most of the charges relate to facts to be proved or disproved by witnesses on the spot." But the inquiry had been stopped, and it was not expected that it would be resumed. Witnesses that had been got together might have been dispersed again. Besides, Mr. PARKER says that the witnesses generally were not on the spot. There is another feature in the case which makes the conduct of the Commissioners even more harsh and unjust, that they were aware that the master's funds were exhausted. One more extract from the jesuitical letter of the Com missioners " Had the Board of Guardians acceded to the recommenda tion of the Commissioners,and suspended you—(a proceeding which would neither have assumed your guilt nor have pre judiced any of your rights)—the Commissioners might have taken a different view of the course they now think it fit to adopt." But how is the master responsible for what the Board of Guardians have done ? Why is he to be treated unjustly by the Commissioners, because the Board of Guardians have not followed their advice ? We trust that this letter will be viewed by the public as at least a great indiscretion, which must be noticed in a marked manner. The end of it was, as our readers probably remem ber, that on Mr. PARKER'S resuming the inquiry by direction of the Commissioners, the master's counsel protested against the decision of the Commissioners, declared he could not proceed in justice to his client, and therefore withdrew from the inquiry, and advised the master to send in his resignation. Mr. PARKER thus describes this conclusion, in which nothing is concluded :—" The conclusion of the Andover case is certainly unfortunate—for no parties are satisfied, whilst much odium is cast upon the administration of the law ;—the resignation of the master, under the plea of an act of injustice committed :by the Com missioners, has secured for him the sympathy of many parties, whilst the Board of Guardians feel them selves compromised by the vacillations displayed in the course of the inquiry, and, above all, the public mind is not set right." The Andover inquiry will inevitably be the subject of Parliamentary investigation next session; and this cannot be a very agreeable prospect to the Poor-law Commissioners. The following extract will show—what may have been inferred already—that to do justice was not the object of the Commissioners : they were to set themselves right with the public as speedily as possible, no matter though an innocent man were victimised : " I had an interview with Sir Edmund Head, touching the conduct of the investigation, when he expressed great anxiety about them, on account of the manner in which the Times had noticed the charges against the master, as well as the complaint respecting the crushing of bones. Sir Edmund appeared to me to be unusually excited by what he had read in the Times, and he expressed a desire that I should exert myself to bring the inquiry to a conclusion with as little delay as possible, in order that the public mind might be quieted. He then informed me he was of opinion that I ought not to allow the master to be present whilst the wit nesses were under examination. This suggestion surprised me as much as his state of excitement, and I replied, I would not incur the responsibility of excluding the master, unless the Commissioners gave me express instructions to do so. Sir Edmund said, What respeniibility would you incur ?' and I answered, The responsibility of acting illegally—the responsibility of acting contrary to the received opinion of the bar.' " The exclusion of the accused would have been, with out question, the most flagrant injustice. A man who could broach the doctrine here ascribed to Sir EDMUND HEAD is certainly unfit to be a Poor-law Commissioner. We have learnt with surprise, from Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet, that, before the exposure by Mr. WALLET of the bone-crushing in the Andover Workhouse, the Poor-law Commissioners had been remonstated with on workhouse labour both by MR. PARKER and by the invaluable Secretary of the Commission, Mr. CHADWICK. " I have been remonstrant against the indiscriminate em ployment of the inmates of workhouses in crushing bones ; I think where green bones' are used a mill is the proper machine to reduce them to dust,' and that bone-crushing should only be practised when bones of commerce, or bones which have been submitted to some proces by which the fat and animal juices are removed, can be procured. Green bones' were used in the Andover Workhouse.] This description of labour in union workhouses has been the subject of my remarks on more than one occasion, and the in formation communicated by me to Mr. Chadwick respecting it, induced him to make some alterations in a paper, wherein he broadly stated his conviction that grinding and pounding bones was not fit employment for the inmates of workhouses." Nothing was ever before heard of this paper of Mr. CMADWICK'S, though the practice has been often the subject of animadversion in Parliament. We quit Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet with another remark able disclosure, on the subject of which the public will require some explanation from the Poor-law ommissioners. " In the Rye Union it was the practice of the present Commissioners to sanction, as a matter of course, small gums in aid of wages to able-bodied men. In 1842, when the dis trict including that Union was placed under my superin tendence, I inquired into the subject, and I was told in the Commissioners' office that I was to overlook the existing compro mises of the law in that Union, for the population was too deeply pauperised for the poor-law system to work beneficiaty there." We have intelligence from Madrid to the 12th The municipal elections were going on favourably for the Government. The Funds were rising, nearly all the Members of the Cortes had arrived, and the capital altogether displayed great bustle and anima tion. The Gazette contains a programme of the ceremonies to be obse,:cved at the opening of the Cortes on the 15th. The 7;nree per Cents. closed at 36 11.16 for easl , Jan - 37 at 60 days; and the Five per CeP:e. ht. 24, at GO days. The Moniteur of the 18th publishes two royal decrees, confirming the adjudication of the Paris and Strasbourg, and the Tours and Nantes Railways. The Paris papers continue their comments on the Ministerial crisis in Eng land, and though there is little new in the articles, the writers seem to know as much on the subject as the best informed in this country. They know the cause of the late resignations, the difficulties of Lord Joni.; RUSSELL, and can only guess at the probable results. They generally be lieve, that without a commotion the Whig party cannot succeed. The following remarks appear in the National.—" In the abusive language directed against Sir R. PEEL, by the high Tories, there are great injustice and great passion; but it was, how ever, with those prejudiced men that Sir ROBERT had his majority of one hundred votes in the Commons, and it was these men who followed the Duke of WELLINGTON to the House of Lords; it was with them and through them that he rose to power; and to sum up all, in a word, they form a body of 200 in the elective Chamber, so that, these votes failing, Sir R. PEEL cannot do anything but by the aid of the whole Opposition. For a length ot tt.:111 the Baronet guided this hot-headed party by check ing them; but for that he required tht aici of Lord STANLEY, and, still more, of tie Duke of WELLING the latter r:uald at on ce renounce hi s resist ance,ToN. a n If d his authority, Sir ROBERT could, nod .„ibt, resume power, and g o on govern i ng as he . r has done, realising the measures of the Whigs. But without that he can do little. The only real master of the situation at present is the famine which menaces, —the bread, which is rising in price —the people, who cry—the middle classes, who, if further resistance is offered, will pass from the agitation of meetings to the agitation of the streets. The hand which can calm this tempest is the only one that can assume the reias of power. This is what common sense points out; but common sense does not always prevail over interest; common sense cannot prevent resisting in terests from having, in the present organisation of Parliament, a formidable power." "We learn from a certain source," says the Courrier Franguis, " that a confidential memorandum has been addressed to the principal cabinets of the Germanic Confederation by Prince de Metternich. It appears that the state of Germany, in his opinion, is anything but satisfactory. After having ex posed the gravity of the situation, he recommends the Ger man Governments to immediately inquire into the wishes of their people, to satisfy as speedily as possible their real wants, material and 'moral, in order to anticipate, by such means, the complaints which the Opposition would not fail to make. ' The storm which threatens us,' says M. de Metterntch in terminating, 'cannot be conjured away but by large conces sions !" The French funds were more firm on Thursday : The Three per Cents, closed at Ilf. 35e. ' - the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90e. ; the O r l eans Railroad shares, 1,172 f. fick. ; Rouen, 957 f. 50c.; Northern, 722 f. 50c.; Havre, 7651.; Avignon, UK ; Vierzon, 642 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 615 f. ; Boulogye, 502 f. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau, 435 f,; B a ds, VI , . Mc. ; Fampou,x, Att. Spitnish Attivets; 86. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1845 The following are the quotations for other lines:--- Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 6 premium ; ditto (Calon), sf. 50c. •, Union, 13f ' • ditto (Ganneron), sf. ; ditto (Lapinsonniere), 4f. ; Sud Est, 3f. ; Ardoin, 3f; Re ceveurs-Generaux, 4f; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 2f. 50e.; ditto (Bechet), lf. 50c. ; Tears and Nantes (Mac kenzie), if. ; ditto (Drouillard), sf. ; ditto O'Neill, sf. ; ditto (Carette), Of. 50c. ; ditto (Lefevre), sf. ' • Lyons and Avign o n (Talabot), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe), If. 50c.; ditto (Com pagnie Meridionale), 500 f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken zie), 500 f. ; ditto ( Espeleta), 6f. 53c. ; Creil and St. Quen tin, par; Charleroi (Kysaens), 495 f. The Lyons Definitive Shares sold at 75f. premium ; Strasbourg ditto, 20f. ; Tours and Nantes, 41f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dxe. 19. Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... Barba does Boalogne and Amiens.. 8 Namur and Liege Bordeaux &Metliterran North Jamaica Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 9% Do. (Mackenzie's) OverYssel Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (LaiLitte) cilia Coast Central of Spain - Ceylon . — Ditto (Sad Est) Demerara Dendre Valley ...... Paris aid Rouen Dutch Rhenish ...... 7 1 ,G Paris and Strasb u rg Dieppe & Paris Janet. I (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 East Indian ........ Do. (Ayrnard's) — Fampenx & Hazebreuk Paris aid St. Quentin — Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre..- — Constituted l3 Royal North of Spain. De. Pepia le Hallear — Sambre and Meuse .... 4% Great Paris and Lyons — Strasburg anal Bale .... Great Western Bengal Teurnay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada 3 3 / 4 den, and Hasselt ... Jamaica S. Mid. Jnnction Tours and Nantes Do. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) . 41/ Do. Extension Jersey — De. (O'Neill's) Louvain and Jemappe.. Trinidad Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Ancona — Luxembourg THE WEATHER. -- The barometer has fallen to 28 9, lower than it has been for a long period. The weather is hazy, with occasional sunshine, and bois terous ; but we fear, from the very low state of the mercury, that the accounts from the country will be less favourable. HIGH Scimon OF EDINBURGH.--The Town Coun cil of Edinburgh have just made the dangerous ex periment of appointing a foreigner to the office of rector in this celebrated school. Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, a native of Germany, is the fortunate can didate, and Lord Provost Black urged, as one recom mendation in his favour, the large number of books he had published, the titles of which filled "a list of a page and a half." This shows indefatigable labour, and most German scholars may boast of as much, but that is no criterion of a man's ability to teach a school requiring so many high qualifications, and will not even atone for an imper fect knowledve of the English language. Several of the town-councillors manifested the utmost opposi tion to such a scheme, but they were, from some cause or other, outnumbered, and Dr. Schmitz was elected by a majority of 20 to 11. Will the appoint ment tend to raise the character of the school, which is not in the best favour with many of the in habitants ? lIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITT, QUARTER TO TRITER. The Cotton Market at. Liverpool yesterday was without any change. Sales, 3,000 bales.—ln Shares everything re mained very dull. At Messrs. Lamond and 'Co's sale of Railway Shares yesterday the following prices were realised.: — London, Bristol, and South Wales ... 42. 016 0 East and West of England Junction... 1% 013 6 Oxford, Gosport, Portsm., and Southtn. 42s 1 0 0 Ditto ••• ..• ••• ••• 1 0 0 0 12 6 Madrid and Valentia ... ... ... ... 2 1 0 0 East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 6 Ditto ditto ... ... ... ... 0 6 0 Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 019 0 Northumberland and Lancashire ... 42s 1 3 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 015 0 Great Kent Atmospheric ... ... ... 24 112 6 Ditto ••• ••• ••• •• - 112 0 East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 225 019 0 Ditto ditto ... 019 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 224 1 0 6 Ditto •• ••• ••• ••• -- 1 0 6 East Dereham and :Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0 0 6 0 Northampton,Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 2 3 0 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock ... 42s 410 0 Great N. and S. Wale. and Worcester 1 0 9 0 Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries IN 0 15 6 Grand Trunk ... ... ... ... ... 42. 016 0 Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2 3 4 1 5 6 Great Welsh Central ... ... ••• ... 42s 1 2 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 226 018 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 228 1 1 0 Ditto ditto •• . ••• ••• 1 1 0 Sheffield and Macclesfield ... ... ... 425. 016 6 N. Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries 425 416 6 Lincoln & Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% 1 10 0 Ditto ditto ... 1 10 0 South and Midlands Junction .. ... 425 1 3 0 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0 Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 1 0 0 Ditto ditto ... 1 0 0 Direct London and Exeter ... ... ... 1%, 05 0 Rugby, Derby, and Manchester .. ... 2% 15 8 North Staffoidsh., Churnet & Potteries 42a 416 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 015 6 Ditto ditto ... ... ... _ 016 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 74 0 8 0 Ditto ditto ... ... ... 0 8 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 221 019 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s 1 1 0 Ditto ditto 1 0 0 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 1053 215 0 Manchester, Midlands, and G. Grimsby 1% 17 6 Shropshire Union and Canal ... ... 421 1 10 0 Ditto ditto 1 10 0 Sheffield and Manchester Direct • 42- ••• 9 1 5 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 6 Leicester and Birmingham ... .. ... 29 4 1 1 0 Ditto ditto ... ... ... 1 0 0 N. Staffordshire, Churnet,and Potteries 42e 416 0 Ditto ditto ... -- 415 0 London a nd M a nchester (Rem.) ... 23 / , 113 0 I .f.ssix and Suffolk ..• ... ... ... lAi 016 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 78 0 8 0 Ditto ditto ... 0 8 0 Great Western of Bengal ... ... ... 4 0 8 6 ' Ditto ditto 0 8 0 Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) , ... 3 2 1 0 Madrid and Valentia ... ... ... ... 2 1 1 0 Irish North Midland ••• ... ... ... 1% 016 0 Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 1 0 0 Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 9 6 Ditto ditto aii ,•• ••• ... 0 9 6 Line. and Wainfleet haven and Boston 2y 19 6 Ditto ditto ... ... ... ... ___s 19 6 Ceylon ... ... „. ... .. .. ... 4 013 0 North St e . cr ., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42 s 416 0 "...net Union ... ••• ——— .. 1N 16 0 i Nottingham, V. of Belvoir, & Granthm. IX 119 6 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0 Aancherster and Southampton ... .. 2 2 11 0 There are no later accounts from the British colonies to day. he return from the Bank of England relative to its opera tions this week show an increase in the circulation to 26,626,3501. or by 85,870. An increase in the Rest of 6,202/. or to 8,215,596/. An increase in the Public Deposits of 573,973/. or to 8,684,374/. An increase in the other deposits from 9,022,0191. to 9,089,705/. A decrease in the seven days bills of 69,880/. An increase in the not es in the banking department of 560,505/. or to 6,506,3451. sho T w h i e n gan amount t cr o ea f In the promissory notes of the various count ry b an k s there is to be noted a general but not an extens i ve increase since the previous statement was made p u bli c. 2 e bullion of 201 7 2 1 . held is given at 13,268,771/., Consols for the Account have been very firm to-day. Consols for the next settlement are now at 92%. The Reduced Three per Cents. are at 92 3 .4 % ; and Exchequer bills at 183. premium. Bank Stock opened at 201, it is now at 200. A fair share of business has been transacted in the Foreign Funds this morning. Brazil new Stock are quoted at 78; Chilian Deferred at 5214 i Grenada at 21; Peruvian at an advance to 41 ' • Spaniel' l'lvv per Cente l . at 28% ; and th e Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. at 60 A. The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn. ing ; and where business has been done rather advanced rate. have been paid, as our list of corrected Prices will show, ' tiiii CLOSING 11t6i149 Or TRAITIB/1 FUNDS. d'C L .. °C h o t. Pll.laS Sank Stock . .... ... 1::.;:::: . :...:;::: . ;.201-.. tOO S, phr.Ceiits : 1 4dtttd . 1. 1 /eiy 3 1 4 per Cents 94%4 6 1%2 g , 94% LongAnnuitiestoexpireJan.lB6o 10 5-16 74 Noy Consols for Account - ...... .., 9 2 34 X% 9il j 4 Exchequer Bills ) 1;0001 4 1 1 -Ad lB '''''' Pni• 18 Ditto 600/. ~ 2O 1 6 per. 18 Ditto Small ... ... 18 -- pm. 20 ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS O'CLOCI Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839...... 78 Chi Han Bonds 6 per Cent.... • . . ... Ditto Deferred . .•• 5 2% Gilatilda Bonds, 1 per Cent. 2l Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4O 41 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Ditto, Account Russian Bonds S?anish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account 2 B 3A Ditto, Deferred l6l Dividends on the above payable hi London. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93 CLOSINO PRICES ac,l 7giv, 52 3 4 21 591 / ,' 2 59 1612 60 1 4 93 , l'l4tcks or PAID. Nk ; O'CLOCK. 1 hICES. i; A ILWAY gIjARES AT 0.. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Banff, to Elgin 2% DONE CLOSING , Armagh, Coleraine, and , •••,?, Portrush m BUSI L. NES: „ , Aylesbury and Thome.. 1% — Belfast & County Down 2%...... Bideford andT av i s t oc k ... I % Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto New 17% -- Birmingham and Ox ford Junetihn Birmingham & Leicester Direct .................... . 425. Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bridgewater & Minehead 425...... Bristol and Exeter 7O - Bristol and Gloucester... 30 .. Bristol and Li ver. J uno . 2%.. .... .... Buckin g h amshire . — Caledonian .............. 10 , 12 Dittb Extension ...i ts 2%.4 4.. 274 • .«...... .- 12V Cimbrian & Grand Jane 428 Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 % . 2% .... ........ .. ao. New ... l% 2% Cambridge and Oxford.. IX — Canterbury and Dover.. 1 % - ••••... ..... •. Central Kent 2% Chelmsford and Bury... 1% — Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltexham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 5 Cork Blackrock, and Passages .... 225. Cork and Killarney ... 2% Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 ,( — . Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester... Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter I)erby and Crewe — Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby ... 1% — Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford . 2 %...... ........ ...... Direct Manchester ( Remington's) Ditto (Rastrick's) 5 14...... Direct Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh Dublin and Belfast Junc 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway... .. 4 Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 19 % 3 /4 Ditto New 6L 168.....» 6 5 3 / 4 p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.......6L 13s. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... EastDerelesn andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 25 ... . . . Ditto, Quarter Shares 3 3 / 4 — Ditto Extension - Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 212 — . Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%...... East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... — , Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... Ditto, New --7% — Edinburgh & Northern.. PA — Edinburgh and Perth..". 1 % - ..... ...... , Ely and Iluntingion ... 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% — Essex and Suflolk .. ... 1% — , , Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorset 2 3 / 4 Glouc.,Abetystwith,and Central of Wales Goole and Doncaster .. 425. Grand Junction —lOO — . Ditto Half Shares 5O Ditto Quarters 25 Grand Union l% ... Great Eastern &Western 2% — ... I GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Munster 214...... Great North of Scotland 21%•••••• Ureat North of England..loo Ditto New 5 Do. New ..... .. ........ 2 ...... Great Western Ditto 1, 4 Shares 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares 2% Ditto Fifths 2O tiuildford, Fare'm,l'orts. 5 ... .. llarwich Hull and Selby 5O Ditto IA Shares Do. llalf Shares 2 Inverness and E1gin...... 1 Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 Irish North Midland l% — Isle ofAxholme 2% Killarney Junctions l l4 Kendal and Windermere 1 1 h Lancaster and Carlisle... 30 Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena - ...... ...... Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction - Leicester & Birmingham 225. . Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 425. Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... .. Do. % Shares Do. Quarters 25 Liverpool& Leeds Direct 2% .. ... Lpool., 111nchstr, & New castle Junction I.o.ndon and 13irmingnm100 213 212 ...... ... Do. Thirds Do. 1 4 Shares __ . Ditto Fifths 2 -••• _ Ditto Extension ...... 13; 4 — London and Blackwall. 16/. 13e. 4d. 8 1 / 2 ... ....... ~ Do. New Ditto Extension ~.... a ..-.. 3 . L , ndoi and Brighton... 50 Do. consolidated Bths..: 40 Ditto, Sixths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 20% 20 1 / 5 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. Lon., Chel., px.,G10., and Hereford London and Greenwich 1211;4d Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d — .. London Hounslow, and Western Lond. & S.Western 41/ 6$ 10d — ........., Do. New Consol. Bths 20 — Do. .N ew Do. New London & South Essex 2 3 / 4 — o.t.ita and York 2% B% London and Windsor ... 1 London, Warwick, and Kidderminster 2% ••••»1 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .......... •. 2 % ... . Londonderry& Coleraine 5 ...... ..... ....- Londonderry and Ennis killen Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham 5 — Manchester and Leeds .. 76 Ditto % Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 1 Do. Sixteenths ..... ... 4 1 :4 Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do Quarters Do. New Quarters ... 2 Do. Continuaticn and Welsh Junction Menchester•Buxton,and Matlock 42a.......— Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction ..... — Manchester and Rugby Direct Manchest. &Southainpt. 2 Midland... lOO ..... Do. fifths 2 Do. New Midland, }'firm., Derby ...100 ll2 Midld. & East. Counties 2%...... — , Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo... 23 4 ..... Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 52 53 .....»1111., Do. Now Brandling 2O N,•wcastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle.0.100 Newport& Abergavenny 2%...... — , New Ross and Carlow.. 22s Newry and Enniskillen 2% — •••4 ••., Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ..... .. ......... 2%..... ... ..... Norfolk Extension North British Do. Half Shares ..... 3% — Do. Exten. to Carlisle 1 1 A — Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25 Ditto ditto North Devon North of Norfolk ... 2 3 / 4 ••• ... ....... Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip Do. Quarter Shares... 12% •-••, Do. New N. Kent & Direct. Dover 2% — .. .. . ...., North Staffordshire 425. . •.... 2%% 3 / 4 p North Wales ~.. 3% B% North and South Wales and Worcester 1 ....... Northern and Southera COPitecting Norwitth duct 13randon... 16 Ditto ~- 7a w. •,,,.. a •44•4,4 .... Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% Shttingtn., Erewsh Val. , 1e1 , ,, and Manthester, ,1% Nottiughlift aid Nano. field Oxford, Gosport ; Ports mouth,& Southamptn 425. — OxFord j Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...,,. 12% 1 3 14 12 3 / 4 Oxford, Watley, and Cheltenbani. ; „ •- - 1 % Perth and InVet - nest ... IPA """ .............' Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% — ..... '''''''' Preston and Wyre Do.' Shares ..... ..• 2 % — Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Richmond Rugby, Derby, and Man chester ... Rugby and Huntingdon 2 Rugby, Leamington,nal Warwick Rugby, Warwick. and Worcester.... ... 425. Scottish Central Scottish Midland 6 Sheffield & Manchester 100 Do. Quarter Shares... 8 S4ew t bury and Birm... 2t,i . . . 4 44 4... Shropshire .. 4 ".! ; ." 1.21- ' ~423" '" "" "` Shropshire Union Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% -- Shrews., Wolverhamp , &S. Staffordsh. June. 21/ 2 Sligo and Shannon l% Somersetshire Midland 2% South Devon 25 South Midland . 42r --.. 2% P•••••• A. South S; Midlands June. 42s — ... South Staffordshire June. 2 1 - South Eastern & Dover 33! 2s 4d 3 4 3% 35% ..... 'Do., No. 1 l 2 Do., Nu. 2. Do., No. 3 Do. Ns. 4 Sbut3;anntart, lianalurs 0411VAldhlital 011...*..'“ .-. aiii::it.ir.l. ti ~ ,F ... - ... 111/8 .. 71 ••• 2 p 141 ... 25% ... 112 r•• 53 ~. 10 ~. -~- 1•• 01... •ii ..... ,kf 1 '"'' ... 334 2% St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... Staines and Richmond... I Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 4 — Sout` , Wales.... ....... ... 2 1 ,1 y 3 3% ... Taw Vale Extension ... Tean and Dove Valley 1% Trent Valley 2 ...... 161 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Ulverstone and Furness 2 1 / 2 ...... Vale of Neath Warwick & Cheltenham 1% - Warwick and Worcester 425: Waterfbrd and Kilkenny 3 — Waterford and Limerick 7% Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin • l% .... . W aterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley 2 - Welt+ Midland West Cornwall West Yorkshire West London,Old Shares 20 West End and Southern Counties Wexford and Carlow ... 2 1 ,4 Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth Worcester,llereford,HosQ, and Gloucester 425....... Worcester, Tinbury, and Ludlow 2:54 — Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ... 1%... Worcester and S. Wales 425. Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2 3/, York and Lancaster 2 % York and North Midland 50 Ditt*l6 Shares .. 25 Ditto Scarbero' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension 5 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo- Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and A tens.— 8 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cettt (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. Do. (Espelete's) 2 .... Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast — Central of Spain ... . Ceylon .. . .. .... ss. Demerara 2% .. . . Dendre Valley — Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish 5 East Indian ... ..... .... 58. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2 Great N orth. of France Constituted .. Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... 55....... Great Western Canada... 34 ...... Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Do. Extension 1 Jersey Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... Lyons and Avignon 2 I.; xembourg... ...... ... .. 4 Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege North Jamaica............ 1 Orl, tins and Vierzon ... 10 .. . Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 104 Over Tsscl 4135 4d — Faris & Lyon:(I.01 tte's) 2 Parts aid Lyons (Gan neron's) Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris &Lyons (Sud Est) 2 Paris and - Orleans 2O Parts and Rouen .. 20 Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Do (Avmard's) Paris and St. Quentin Rouen and Havre ...... 18 I, oy al North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 St. Laurence & Atlantic'— Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 4 Teurs and Nantes (Mac kenzie's) ... ..... ...... 4 Do. do. (Lefebvre's' 2 Ditto (O'Neill's) 2 Trinidad Verona and Ancona... 3 West Flanders 4 MINES Real del Monte Unregd. LLOYD'S SHIPPINti—(THIS DAY.) Lobmox, DEc 20.—Wind this day at noon South, and fine, but cloudy at times. OFF DOVER, DEC. 18. 7 Neriad, Cape of Good Hope. TORDAT.—SId. Royal, Jerquim ' Hobart Town ; Sylph, Treadwell, Barbaders ; Cachburn, Briar, Demarara; Cairo, Hogg, Jamaica. BEAL'MARIS. DEC. 18.—Arrd. Paragon, M`Gower, Carner von River; Highland Mary, Cristo, Montreal. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Antilla, Barrett, Calcutta; Helena, Black, Calcutta; Hereford, Racburn, Honduras; Albetross, Simpson, New Orleans; Sarah, Barclay, Montreal ; Souter Johnny, Little, Quebec. Oft' port, Eliza Jame, Cal cutta; Shepherdess, Possession Island. Mr.m.—The Hope, Royal Bride, Golden Eagle, Salem, and Columbia did not sail yesterday as reported. Dunuts, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Cingaltze, Hutchinson, Demerara. YOUGHAL, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Tottenham, Evans, Quebec. WEsTronT.—Arrd. Hope, Sheridan,Port Wallace. GALWAY, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Sarah Mi!lege, Quebec. LEITH, DEC. 17.—Sid. Pink, Campbell, Savannah. Hui.L.--Sld. William Gibson, Alexander, Calcutta. YAnmourn.—Arrd. George Ramsay, Davis, Miramichi. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 19.—Margaret, Paynter, Singapore. DEM, DEC. 19.—Arrd. P,yche, Irving, Hobart Town Emanuel Bautche, Thompson, Bahia; Claret, Quebec Charlotte, P ' olluck Quebt c. Arril. from the River and sailed, Bolivar, 011er, St. Vincent; William and Alfred, Antigua. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 20.—Arrd. Forth (a.), West Indies. SWANSEA, DEc. 16.—S1d. Countess of l3ective, Cuba. WIIITEHAVEN.—SkI. Paragon, Jantherd, Jamaica. CLYDE.—Arrd. Arrun, Robertson, New Orleans; Eagle, Pictou ; Choice, Robertson, Quebec. Sld. 16, Earl of Dal housie, Primrose, Monte Video and Jamaica ; Agamemnon, M•Kandy, Mobile; John Kerr, Tait, Savannah; Indus, M‘Millan, Savannah; Adam Carr, M`Ewer, New Yolk; James White, Rennie, St. John's, New Brunswick. Put back IS, ;2esostris, M`Kenzie, for Savannah, having been in contact. RAMSGATE, DEC. 19.—The Titus, from Riga to Algiers, which put in here 15th instant, has commenced discharging her cargo. LivEttrooL, DEC. 19.—The Flat Chester from Chester to Carnarvon, foundered off the Orm's Head ; crew saved. The cargo and materials of the Frankland, wrecked on the coast of Algiers, are drifting on shore in Camaes Bay. The Howard, still at anchor off [Bike Island, received the damages re ported yesterday by collision with a vessel off Tuskar. A heavy gale was experienced on 7th and Bth October, which did much damage to the shipping, and retarded the vessels loading. A.Ylt, DEC. 17.—The vessel reported yesterday on shore about 16 miles to the southward of this place, appears to be the Charlie; cargo discharging, and the greater part of it expected to besaved in good condition; vessel much injured, but expected to be got off if the weather keeps moderate. MARKET NEWS.-,-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARD EN. Our market exhibited a very gay assortment of Christmas decorations, and the attendance of buyers being large, a full average amount of busintss was transacted in most articles, at full prices. Potatoes from 2s 8d to 6s 64 per cwt ; Turnips, 10,1 to 2s ' • Carrots, 4s to 6s 6d ; Greens, Is 6d to 2s 3d ; and Leeks, 8d to Is 6d per dozen bunches; Onions, Is 6d to N Od i Apples, is Ed to 4s; Pears, 4s to 6s; and Spinach, 13 3d to 14 Bot per half-sieve; Hot-house Grapes, 5s to 6s; Pine-apples, 6s to 9s; and Filberts, 6d to 104 per lb; Red Cabbages, 4s to Gs; and Savoys, 104 to la 3d per dozen; Celery, 8d to is Ed; Brocoli, Is 3d to 2s 6d; and Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle; New Oranges, 7s to 123; Lemons, Es to 12s; and Walnuts, 8d to is per 100. NEVITGATE AND =ADEN,:TALL. We had a very large supply of each kind of Meat for Christmas consumption here. Generally speaking, the trade ruled active, at very full prices. Beef, from 3s to 3s. 10(1.; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 6,1 to bs 4(1 per Blbs by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s to 20s; Geese, 4s to 8s ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to IsBd ; Wind ditto, 4d to 8d; Pigeons, 6d to 104; and Roasting Pigs, 8s to lOs each ; Fowls, 3s 64 to 9s per couple; Pheasants, 3s 64 to 4s 64 ; Partridges, 2s to 2s 6d ; Hares, 2s to 3s ; Le verets, 20 6d; Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s; Grouse, is 6d to Is 'd; Snipes, 84 to Is; Teal, is 3d to is 6d; Ducks is 64 to 2s 6ti ; Wild Ducks, 2s 6d to 35; Widgeons, 2s to 2s 3d ; and Plovers, 8d each. NUNGERFORD. Although the supplies of most articles on sale to-day were considerably on the increase, the general demand was firm, and prices were well supported. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 104 to 3s 10d ; Mutton, Ss 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s to 5s , and I'ork,4s to 5s 4d per Sibs. A moderate supply and a steady demand. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7s to 18s ; Cod-fish, 2s to 8s; Crabs, 6d to 25 ; Wititings 4,1 to 8d; and Lobsters, 84 to 3s each; Soles, .' l 3 id per pair; S.lmon, Is to is 44; and Eels, 4d to is per lb. ; Sp?'AtS, 4s 6d per bushel. VITEXTECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 8d to Ss 10c1 ; Mutton, 3s 64 to 41 64 ; Teal, 4s to ss ; and Pork, 0,1 to 5s 24 per Elbs. Trade steady, at the above quotations. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis aro from td to PO ; of Household ditto, 741 to Sid per 4114 s loaf. HYlDffialer-A- I 'MET' Market Hides, 3611) t0.641b, id to 3d per lb; do. 64111 to 2%d to 8d; do. 721 b to 8t;2 1 3, 3d ; do. SOlb too sBlb, 31d ; d o . alb to 961 b, 3cd to 4d ; 961 b to 104ib, 4d to 44d; Market CaLf.Skine, each, 31 to 6s 64.:; Horu Hides, 135; Polled sheep, 4s to 6d; Half-bredi. ,3 8 4d to 4s 2d; Downs, 21 6d to 3a 4d ; Lambs, 38 to 4s 6d. .11.0:7 aIkiLZTIA. Clover mrmirzELD.—lleadow [lay, it 10s to 41 15, ' load. ditto, 4/ . 7i II C 1 10s; Oat Straw, 1/ $ 3 to 11 lOs pe k. Wheat Straw, 11 103 to PO load. Trade ra.:ber dull, at the late dcline in prices. 4) UNIBILKLAND.-Al eadow Hay, 3/ 109 to 4/ 16s ; Clover, ditto, 4/ lOs to a/ 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 103 to I/12s per ioao. Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s per load. A fair average eupply,and a sluggish demand. WHITE(IitAPEL.—MeItd. ire xi ay,3/ 8s to 4/15s; Clover ditto, 4/ 108 to 61 ; Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to 1/ 108 ; Wheat Straw. 1/ 108 to 11128 per load. Both Hay and Straw meVed of f slowly, at late rates. • Canning's Ministry was twenty days in conpkiyg twetty-four dam--Gray, ara (TM's: 1 3 / 4 •• --- .• 1% .• ...... . 20 ~. 5 3 / 4 p 1011 ••••••• .. ~. - ;.. 0% .• • d.... ~. 205 47 .. 15 ... 84 .••• ••••••• ,••• 42 •• 1,7i3 ... % P •••• ...-. 11/2 It.. • 212 1111. 41% ••• 22 81 / 2 34 3 ... 3 -. 6134 •••• - liA .... 20% • • 73 ••• ••••• ••• 31 AiNW , . • ~ 65 1 i ".". 17 . 2 :14 p 3% re .IN 12N _ 30% I 4 25 2p - 35 1 ,4 14 ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Lordship sat at ten o'clock, and proceeded with the hearing.of son e very important motions. EARL NELSON V. LORD BRIDPORT. Mr. TniNmy, on the part of the plaintiff, replied at great length to the arguments on the other side, which occupied the remainder of the day. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY-) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, before the LORD OHM/ BARON and a Special Jury). HEATII AND AND ANOTHER V. DURANT. This was an action of assunipsit, brought to recover 10,4001. upon a policy of insurance effected upon certain good° by the plaintiff with the defendant, who was an underwriter at Lloyd's. The defendant had placed upon the record s number of pleas, amounting in all to twenty- n ine, denying his liability, on the ground th a t th e vesse l in which the goods were embarked, and the goods themselves, were seized by the Portuguese Government, and condemned as being in tended by the owners to be used for the purposes of carrying on the slave trade. The Attorney General, Mr. Crowder, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Bovill appeared for the plaintiffs, and the Solider -Ge neral, Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Greenwood for the defendant. The plaintiff's are African merchants, and the defendant an underwriter at Lloyd's. The action was brought to re' cover 10,4004, the aggregate amount of a policy of insuranc! effected upon three distinct parcels of goods which constituted the cargo of a Brazilian vessel called theVirtuosa Maria Aldina' and the policy specified that the goods were to be insured for a period of twelve months, extending from September . 1840, to September, 1841, durin g w hi c h ti me the vessel was to sail from Genoa to Pernambuc o , an d o th er p or ts on the coast o f South America, and thence t o A ngo l a an d other lilaces. on the coast of Africa. The ve sse l sa il e d i n due course frog; Rio de Janeiro for Angola, her fin a l d es ti na tion,and inten d e d port of discharge; but, in orde r t o avo id s ome exceeding l y . heavy export duties which were imposed on vessels sailing from the Brazils direct to the African coast, the captain, Italian, named De Moro, cleared her at the Rio custom-1 for Pernambuco; but, without touching at that port, he direct for Angola. In the course of the voyage he put in a! Benguela, a Portuguese settlement on the African coast, an there slicivits - boarded - by the crew of a Portuguese sloop-of war, called The Eighth of July, when the fraud committed Ts' the captain upon the Brazilian custom-house w osi discovered, and it was found that the Vir ts ... ‘ Maria Aldina bad an unusual number of P 1 1;, - of water, as well as EGO bags of Mandah ss to steere foin on board, which induced the Benguela authoritie s fancy she was intended for, or about to embark in the sn: trade, and the crew were arrested, and the vessel and cal% seized and condemned. The plaintiffs, hewever, denied Ulf this was so, and contended that it was the valuable nit_ ° l. the cargo, which consisted of silks. velvets, and cotton go n .— to that instigated the crew of the Portuguese sloop of "at ,-fest capture ti.e Virtuosi Maria Aldina, because it was ma n 's from all the papers in possession of apt. De Moro, that de . was engaged in a legitimate trade. Nevertheless , the i n • fendant refused to indemnify the plaintiffs against the lon•_;. asmuch as the policy did not provide that the Virtuosi Tit; Aldina was to be insured against such a capture, e n , u . et her present action was brought to determine the question VV. it did or not. The case occupied the whole of the day and had not ter minated when the Court rose. A Y. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS n ) COURT. ~, &A ) (Before Mr. Justice PATrEsox OLD and Mr. Baron , IC ' Mr STABBING.— Wm. M'Carthy, a corporal in the Darg el m a r rines, was indicted for stabbing a young man name" geridge. Ba de de. Mr. Payne conducted the prosecution, and Mr. fended the prisoner. _ A ;„g Wm. Henwright, an omnibus conductor , _ res'"„,,74 is Grafton -court, Marylebone, stated that on the day oa l ;te. the indictment be was standing at the end of Grotto- • There were two girls standing there a l t . ind prisoner, who was very tipsy, came spoke to one of the girls, whose n,, 1 art, pest Elizabeth Debly. Her compani o n said to her,." from the soldier, or I will tell your mother, an d she . Üb e " you a good thrashing." The prisoner said to her, ~cb she do you wean ?" and struck her a blow on tke face and told instantly returned. The prosecutor then came til) mo lest Dibley to go home and if the soldier attempted °, odds her he would b—y well drub him. The Pri e faibe s ea" " What do you mean ?" and Muggeridge rePea` d stabbe d pressien. The prisoner then drew his bayonet 51 :,, a nd 1 112 ,. him under the eye. The prosecutor scream . _° - " w bere across the road, but the prisoner remained stanclnbustedy. was until a policeman came up and took him / 10 A % a lto the The prosecutor confirmed this statement, as girl Elizabeth Dibley. e nd On . Mr. BODKIN made an able address to the jury. violence; tended that the act was one, not of prenaeditatedd Coens e " but of sudden provocation and anger. The Leave an excel alio called eeveral witnesses, who gave the priso ner lent character. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in laying the evide nce jury, remarked that the counsel for the Presecer. Th at opened the case as if he intended to screen the prisonkop- D d he was not the way to conduct a prosecution, and he should not see it practised again. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty of A C°l3Ull°ll assault. mo o n ed an d Mr. Baron ALDERSON sentenced him to inip kept to hard labour for three calendar months. beforeution itthade , is DAY.) CLERKENWELL.—Cr'..,' . e d Franks, w" A little fellow, about ten years of O , F , ..--- t r et e charged with begging. Mr. George John Garnet, us night he If Somer's-town, deposed that on the previo h e accost e los 6 going home along the St. Pancras-road, when God ' s s nic , 0 0 by the prisoner, who asked for something for . destitute. . saying that he had no food, and was utterly mas or wt.s about giving him sonic money, when a gentle a nd te.,. residing in .Newington -s 0 formed him that he had just given him a shilling , he lino; further inquiry Mr. Garnet learned that as soon as tu d ails; rascal got the money he went into a public-house 0 40 0 ' for some beer and a pipe. At the time he told color he was starving he had lOid. on his person. • 10 The prisoner acknowledged he had been rigged eo t , in o ui A present wretched habiliments by his father, wh o ; ( 1,01 4 farrier, living in Windmill-street;Tottenham-co urt-r° that he had been sent out by him to beg. The case was remanded for further . inqu i ry. --- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOIS Her Majesty's stag M Ids., on., Littleton-11. d C* Pytchley hds., Mon., Ashby St. Leger; We ~ tesbrooke; Fri Th Sat. B htou House, near ~ ornby; Bong mon; Tues., Ayston; Wed., ' 1 Kettering-104. Sir R. Sutton's lids., Mon., the Bull, Witham CO on. the Mil; Sat., C,"'ottestrore lz — re l e L aw Durham county lids., 'Wed., Bainton; Fri., P layas worth oar. lan ds ' Earl Fitzwilliauf a lids, Mon., Castor Nang Wed., IVeybr itige wood ; Fri., Long Orton-10. 04, Cumbridg , shire hds., Mon., lox ; Sbe hatch-wood ; Fri., Abborsley-gtet - n -10 i . Thant harrs., Mon., Sarre-mill ; Wed.,Vi nent. 'slor* Mr. Lushington's lids., Mon., Key-street ; Fri., ton-court. Mr. Drake's hds., Tues., Skimniingdish-gate ; Wed.' Ludgershad-village ; Sat.,Astrop-gate— 10t- Herefordshire lids., Fri. Rotherwa.-10- vir cl-, Baron Rothschild's stag lids., ' Mon., Aston Clinton; a Blackgrove. lli• Ts N ti o lnr r cr f ie ti y l l l: s s tii t a ri dg g s.h, li d d As s io , rnr T .,: t e, te: :;Aa c tpf til iir t fi o e n pid ; i Fri., Horstead 116 11 " n i. Fri. , Wed., ains Baby lads.. Mon., Whitworth; II terleY; Hollingside Wood-101 i vilield Lord Southampton's hds., Mon., Badby Wood ; W„eu:' h - II- Toll- gate ; Fri., Foster's Booth; Sat., Syreshatn rillic"--urr try N et Unionw ) iil ; al tn l e d r r i 3 . hp, Corner se a ). rk, t i, t , e : I ; vo; B ne sd r . Bridge-10. t g . e —1 ° . Ridgway Sinoington lids., Tues., Cowsby Wood (Hanibleton ce e;rsSat.„‘Nveedls.n4ni,Ctibooloo Tu *k rnpi e. do . Fri'' Hart's Bear Green-101• Wood; Sat. Alto Haydon 11(1E., Wed., Spring Plantation; Ba i r l ik ey s I 13 11 :::::,el3; oFI eryi..., ar Fri., i :t e, i (o t 9 l o ri • n r t p tig t l o i h d hi:d s tisi . jlso , . I; : i.l l ,l3, t rc; w i n to(t . s)en , tasi. B e.t:y. o ,i t iLWD l loetiloeytuocree'dhsns—itelplairnlre.indlnNeelvdaat°itsf:xAsici: If rlibl H i fl a Village. Devon ,a n dford" bridge. 10 1 ,i. t 3 ho i nt o o_ n n . l , ll Ki d%B l l l , ig A rf o w n. l , l t ill n ; vi tr e i. ; , Pleirleeda.n, Cross -- - • sat., D u -lk cl ' i n i bßr a .i s g, A: d 31:1;5 0 :0001b Berkshire lids., Mon., Fernham Village ; Hi ß ll e ; da F i r e i. h , ( 11 1, u , ck 3 l i a o n n d .: ford Park; a t rk ra ; n li' , r s i., h il d3 i . p , si‘wieolul Mon., Slei lnitir Streatham Village; We d " v i ak . " . Luton ' 10%. At'll- -9 ',A. ‘ .; f l r e . v s e I . a L n d o .n li i d , d s . e , s ll , n f o h n d . s , . , R s o i s o e n be . ge rr g Ye -:". I a ; li c O° : a r 4 i ; n3 .. , F p K.: o l ult o o n 1 : - - 0 vi e; V' .- - Wins t o w ; Sat., Little Brickhill-10% Mr. Morrell's hds, Mon., Kennel; * Wad., seotlend A4l Gate ; Fri., Kennilworth Castle. at" Mk , Oakley hds., Mon., Cranfield; Wed., Bletsoe; e 1 - 011011 ley Hall-101. Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Chequer's Court; Fri" -1 Stone-pits. We''' '' Wl' Puckeridge ...lids., Mon., Furneaux Pelham; swe ll stead, Essex ; Sat., Clumbelowe 1 r A ' Prudhoe and Durwent lids., 3—lon.c.Dipton ,• Fr''' - Park Lodge-10. r. Watson's hds., Dion., on A Wed., Figdorl; Fri* M Kennels. Red York and Ainety hds., Mon., Melbourne ; Tues. , House; Sat., Shire'sar-10i. Brusliford haus., Bon., Iforthmoor ; Wed., ri.b 4.,,rab; fir rA i er,.. , Fri, Gulland-10. Bur - Boroughbridge harrs„ Tues., Great Ouseburn ; Fri. , bon Grange-101. Fri., Fa Eastbourne harrs., Mon., Williogdon Old Mill; } 11 " radise Hill-101. Wed, or Forest harrs , Mon , Black Down; ign rof L tine's Owllwrs., Mon. ; Fri., FowlescemQuarterm• b Ken•n an's-ground; •el-IG. 1 oti f 4 ..., M., Ipsdon-tield; Sat., ;retsworth. Glynb 'lane harrs., Wed., Kin's-head, Chailey-- 1 I *„ . „..11- Norfolk. harrs., Tues. cpulshamg; F r i. Langor-bridg" d); Caliir stag lids., Sion.,' The Suir Mills (Cashil-roa Wed., Kilmoyley-1 2. Au!sie,itCwaOnaUsraßwnSouln-.pNbGy AMIEr.ETsIviNanG,.O sparks_ofs: l e " s 'ayl w or e 's re Ti d n i 3 v . Prince ri :r T rilei,lhi h ci; ee e e 3s C a.,..,:i r rlfi o ., tti x oci3a A n t , ei e r. 7;1 ...;:z spit,' I C I .a ke, Cup was won by , r. Swan's na N. Blundell's Brewer ran up. its•leadiateb.etween Mr. Par; Tiny S pdragon; innif-eaoluSi,icftuahleatestt -fl a took meetoetkhealtst. a u :ta a i k r n t i T ROYAL RR STAG HOUNDS.—A very larg e --e l rfl , , g 00-? back to Wexham, over Wexham Heath, by the windullP_,o Fulmer Con kid - - 1111014 on to- erman's Bottom and thence, oeft, theya stag e b towards iyesterday,Phini ß t a l a St c i c k Li 1 - ga p E a t r g. : j a i: o h- - 4, , 6I ti r o g . Red Hill, to Denham Mount. where it ' doubled to the I 0 running along by the side of the brook to Mr. Ilibboll'..,tl Park, at Chalfont St. Peter's, where it was taken, after a .`:, of nearly two hours over an extremely heavy and rough ige of country. The Earl of Rosslvn has not hunted with ,l' es ", r ,. ral pack since Friday last. ft was stated in the &I d le tjtty rat Lord Kinnaird would he the probable succe.: of his Loidsillp /13 the master of the Queen's buck hound s , SIR WM. SoMC,EvILLE—We have pleasure in - cording another of the many . instances of benevolence Po; formed to the poor by our excellent representative, ,„f Saturday last, Sir William having ascertained the arnoutlut the debt due by the poor debtors i n our gaol, paid it ihs, fu lls and thus conferred a vvelcnute btnefit on creditor and d e " . ' ..i-DOOOlata A/tit .~ i ~~ ,k ~ .;• ~"~. 16 1 4 1% 5?3/4 13% 21/8 10 1 % 214 4 3 4 9172 !'ill 1 S t,ties lm kil , R at li , , Rio; 11, 41 , , .at