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NEW NOVELS NOW READY. TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. THE CHAIN BEARER. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot," " The Deerslayer," &e. 3 vols. HONOUR and SHAME. 3 vols. 111. ELINOR VIYLLTS. A TALE of AMERICAN LIFE. EDITED by J. FENIMOBE COOPER, Esq. 3 vols. IV. MRS. HOWITT'S 0. T., AND ONLY A FIDDLER. By the Author of " THE IMPROVISATORE." 3 vols. V. The PRINCE of ORANGE. An HISTORICAL ROMANCE of the DUTCH PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. 3 vols. NEW' VOLUME of the STANDARD NOVELS. 'MN JACK O'LANTERN ; or, THE PRIVATEER. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq , forming the New Volume of " The ST.*IDARD NOVELS and ROMANCES." Complete lu one vo hirnemeatly bound and embellished, price 6s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. FAIR PLAY.—The 200,000 Readers of "Punch," who desire to know both sides of a question before they con demn, will find in Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S PAMPHLET (a second edition of which is just published) all the letters that have passed be tween himself and the writers in " Punch," Messrs. Gilbert a Beckett, race Mayhew, Mark Lemon, and Douglas Jerro ld, now for the I time made public. This pamphlet, price 3d., extends to thirty two gages, and may he ordered through any Bookseller or Newsman In town or country. No verdict can be worth anything till the evi dence on both sides has been examined. Published by J. Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly; Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange; and R. Whitty, 72, Fleet-street. tiENERAL TOM THUMB will arrive from , fi Paris, and COMMENCE his EXHIBITION at the EGYPT! iN HALL, PICCADILLY, on Moaner NEXT, the 15th instant, for Twelve Days, being his farewell appearance in London previous to his final departure for America. le will be in Newcastle, Dec. 29 and 30, and in Edinburgh, New Year's-day and Week. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Win be repeated a Grand Opera, In three acts, called MARITANA. Cbarles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Caesar De llazan, Mr. W. Benison; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. 1.1. Phillips; Maritana, Miss Berner ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. .... After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAT, in which Mons. Bretin, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. babas (of fltie Academia Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROTAL, COVENT-GARDEN. Y. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING. PART I. Overture, Anacreon, Cherubini. The Ml*uette Quadrille—Jullies. Selo, Bassoon, by M. Baumann—Baumann. The Bohemian. Polka—Kcenig. Stabet Mater " Cujua Animam," performed on the Cornet-a-piston, . _ by Herr Kcenig--Rossini. Julßen's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Julliesu ... PAkT H. Anaient Music—The Celebrated Music " Macbeth," with Bolos— Locke. Valee a Deux Tema, " The Bridal." sole, Violin, by Mr. Case—Case. The Polka Quadrill•—dullien. Bole, Concertina, by Mr. Case—Case. 'Me Original liapolitaine ; or, Tarentella des Salons—Jullien. Commence at Eight precisely; terminate before Eleven. Promenade and Boxes, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6a. 31. Jiallien's Grid Ball Masque is fixed to take place oa Monday, December 29. The Audlenee portion of the Theatre will, as before, be set apart for Spectators. Prices of Admission for Spectators :—Dress Circles, es. ; Boxes, 35. ; Galleries, 2s. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING YFISI be repeated as Original Comedy, called THZ MAIDEN A','NT. Sir liimoa Sage, Mr. W. Farren ; Percy Sage, Mr. Hud son ; Mrs. Sarah Wilmot, Mrs. Glover; Catherine Wilmot, Mrs. Seymour... After which, will be repeated an entirely New Farce, called THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Mr. Ally Croaker, Mr. Webster; garet, Mrs. Iltunby. be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY • BURBLEE. Gorufaus Hudson, Mr. Hudson, Ellen Seyton, Miss teytoa. To conalude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Perkin ryeduch, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie Donald, NW Julia Bennett. THILITICE itOYA.L, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Age. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will perform. To be Nllowed by TAMING ♦ TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma soorkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Weelgar, Madams Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. PRDICESS'S SIEATRE, OXFORD-STICEET. Tills EVENING wm be repeated a New Drama, entitled THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Waliack; Trenquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Marchioness 'Orville,d Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling; Blanche, Misit):la7- After vrhlclT, DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Ceasar de Bazon. Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with a New grand Ballet, entitled LB DIABLE A'QUATRZ. ROYAL OLYMPIC TIfEA.TRE. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. THIS EVENING _ _ Will be repeated a New Two Act Comedy, en titled WHO IS SHE Characters by Messrs. J. Brown, C. Boyce, Binge, Cockrill, Miss Hamilton, and Mrs. Walter Lacy. Attelr which, THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. The Boy Bacchus, Miss Rate Howard ; Momus, Mr. G. Wild. To be followed by THB RAILWAY ;KUM. Sant Stag, Mr. G. Nild ; Sally Slop, Mime Kate Howard. Ti eenclude witk BAMBOOZLING. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be perfbraled TIIF LAST OF THLr BARONS ; er, Warwick, The King Maker, and the Battle of Barnet. Introducing original and stupendons effects. The Arena of Equitation will display its countless attractions, aided by the principal Equestrians and magnificent Stud. To conclude with THE BRIGAND OF ANOONA. NHW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performel OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Gregory; lago, Mr, Waldron; Desdemona, Mrs. Percy. To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND. Boxes, 4s. ; Stalls, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock. Private Boxes, Stalls, &c., to be taken of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond. street ; and at the Box-office, from Ten till Four each day. THE WEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, DEC. 7. TKERMOMBTER, Lowest, 32; Highest, 41; Noon, 39, BA/LOUT/ill, 29.78.—W1ND W.N.W.; fine. DECEMBER 8. TMERNOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 39; Noon, 38, BAROMETER, 30.32.—W1ND W.; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Harping .. 3 ninnies after 9 I Evening .. 37 minutes after 9. strong for them or any Ministry to resist successfully. Like the religious bigots, who opposed the just claims of the Dissenters and Catholics, and the patrons of rot ten boroughs, who would hear of no reform, they have blindly remained obstinate to the voice of reason and justice till general indignation has been roused against their selfish policy, and a storm is ready to break, which will sweep away every vestige of a mea sure which disgraced the first year of peace. Had they yielded in time, the corn laws might have existed for many years in a modified shape; for numbers, and among the rest the entire Whig party, would have submitted patiently to a moderate fixed duty, while the proposition now would be disdainfully rejected by every corn-law reformer. " Out of evil cometh good," and never was the proverb better illustrated than by the certain prospect at the present :moment of a total repeal of this mischievous tax. The agriculturists may scold and frown, but Sir ROBERT PEEL is accustomed to such treatment from his friends, and hitherto he has borne it patiently, when expediency or necessity compelled him to resist their dictates. It is to be presumed that the letter of the brother of the late Major MACKIE to the editor of the United Service Magazine, which we this day publish, will set at rest the controversy as to the respective services of the late Major MACKIE and Colonel GURWOOD at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo ; and we hope that the gallant Colonel, content with " the distinguished conse quences," as he calls them, which have resulted to him from a mistake, will not further seek to deprive the brave dead of his well-won fame. The late Major MACKIE, " so well known for his bravery, worth, and modesty" (we quote General NAPIER, in his admir able " History of the Peninsular War") as a subaltern, led the forlorn hope at the great breach of Ciudad Rodrigo. He volunteered for this service under very peculiar circumstances ; he was not what Colonel (then Lieutenant) GURWOOD, who led the forlorn hope at the lesser breach, describes himself as having been, a soldier of fortune. He was the senior lieutenant of his regiment, and therefore his promotion was certain ; and his com rades expressed surprise at his thus volunteering. " Why, you must be a captain the day after to-morrow," said they, " yet do you still volunteer ?" He did still volunteer—he led the forlorn hope—he reached the citadel where the Governor and garrison had taken refuge : the rest shall be told in his own words : " The outer gate of the inclosure being open, I entered at the bead of the party, composed of men of different regiments, who by this time bad joined the advance. Immediately on entering I was hailed by a French officer asking for an English general to whom they might sur render. Pointing to my epaulets in token of their secu rity, the door of the keep, a stronghold, was opened, and a sword presented to me in token of surrender, which sword I accordingly received. This I had scarcely done when two of their officers laid hold of me for protection, one on each arm, and it was while 1 was thus situated that Lieutenant Gurwood came up and obtained the sword of the Governor.' " We think Major MACKIE is wrong in this last sentence. It was not the sword of the Go ♦ernor which Lieutenant GURWOOD obtained under these circumstances ; it was the sword of a French gentleman, ci-devant Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, but at that moment prisoner of war to Lieutenant MACKIE. This narrative was drawn from Major MACKIE by a claim made, after a lapse of more than twenty years, by Colonel GURWOOD to the honour of having taken the French Go vernor-General BARRIE in the citadel, and put forward by the Colonel in his capacity of editor of the " Welling ton Dispatches." Major MACKIE'S narrative, which is dated October, 1838, is inserted among the justificatory pieces in the sixth volume of Napier's "History of the Peninsular War ;" and somewhere about the year 1842 or 1843, after the death of Major MACKIE, the accuracy of that narrative was impugned by Colonel GURWOOD in the pages of the United Service Magazine, whereupon Major MACKIE'S brother came forward in defence of the fair fame of the departed hero. Among the corrobora ti►e evidence brought forward in support of Major Kamm's claim, is a letter from Sergeant BRAZIL, who was of the storming party on the occasion, and "who saw the door opened and the sword received in token of surrender, and who expressed his willingness to verify on oath the evidence he gives." Now, here is positive and direct testimony in support of Major MACKIE'S claim, which cannot be shaken by any indirect evidence. How does Colonel GURWOOD reply to this evidence thus publicly given ? He prints, not pub lishes, a pamphlet, impugning the claims of MACKIE, and circulates it privately amongst his own friends. The futility of the arguments he has employed in that pamphlet have been excellently shown in the letter of Major MACKIE'S brother to which we have referred, although we really think that he has paid more atten tion to many of them than they deserve. For instance, Mr. MACKIE is at great pains to show that his brother. the Major, understood French, because Colonel GUR WOOD makes sundry observations on Major MACKIE'S presumed ignorance of that language, and would infer rom that alleged ignorance that the fortress could not have surrendered to him. We commend this argument of the Gallant Colonel to the careful attention of M. TRIERS, as it will enable that most impartial and accu rate historian, in his next edition, to dispose satisfactorily of another of our naval victories, and to prove, by the GURWOOD syllogism, that DE WINTER could not have surrendered to DUNCAN at the battle of Camperdown because DUNCAN did not understand Dutch. It is not by attempts at argument such as these that the positive testimony of Sergeant BRAZIL can be impugned. He is corroborated by Mr. GRATTAN, who was present at the storming, and who states— " I pressed forward with the crowd towards the citadel, and I met Mackie returning from it, with the captured sword in one hand, and his own sword in the other. I asked him if all was right, for there was still an odd shot here and there. He replied, All is not only right, but over.' Look at this,' said he, as he held up the sword, 4 I was the first man at the citadel ; and the Governor has been sent off to Lord Wellington ;' " and supported by Colonel OATES, whose evidence, most important as showing what was the general opinion of those who were present at the time, is as follows: " Not being present myself at the assault of Ciudad Rodrigo, but joining very soon after, the general conversation among the officers of the regiment was the very intrepid and gallant conduct of Lieut. Mackie, in volunteering the for lorn hope of the great breach, and being the first officer at the citadel, receiving, as he thought, the Governor's sword in token of surrender, but which sword proved afterwards to belong to an officer of the Governor's staff." Nothing that Colonel GURWOOD has brought forward tends in the least to shake the credibility of either of these witnesses, and unless their credibility is shaken their testimony proves satisfactorily that to Major MACKIE, not to Colonel GURWOOD, was the fortress surrendered, and that the latter, in receiving a sword from General BARRIE, received not the sword of the Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, but the sword of Major Maxim's prisoner. We do not impute to Colonel G un wool) that at the time he received the sword he was aware of the circumstances of the case. Major MACKIE'S own statement shows that the our render had taken place to him before the arrival of Colonel GURWOOD ; therefore, probably, the latter would not at the time have been aware of the occurrence. It was on the part of Colonel Guawoon a mistake. Let him be content with the good fortune which that mistake has brought him, and leave to poor MACKIE that glory which was the only reward he desired or received for one of the most gallant exploits of the Pe ninsular War. We have received Madrid journals of the 29th and 30th ult. According to some of them, the new tariff Bill to be presented to the Cortes is prepared, and, ou the whole, is more liberal than was anticipated. The prohibitive system is to be entirely abandoned, and rea sonable import duties are to be imposed chiefly for the protection of native manufactures. The Finance Minis ter wished to include cotton in the measure, but the Council of Ministers considered it of such importance as to require a separate Bill. It was understood that CASTRO Oaosco, the Government candidate, would be appointed President of the Chamber of Deputies. On the 29th, the Three per Cents. fell to 35 at sixty days, 6,600,000 done ; the Five per Cents., 24 at sixty days, 2,000,000 done. The other funds were not quoted. The only intelligence of importance in the Paris journals relates to the measures in progress for the ad judication of the Paris and Lyons and the Creil and St. Quentin Railway lines. Two Companies have de pisited their plans for the Paris and Lyons, viz., I. MM. Charles Laffitte, Ganneron, and Gen. Baudran ; 2. Duc de Caumont Laforce, and General Lagrange. For the Creil and St. Quentin there are five competing Companies ; viz., 1. Cordier ; 2. De Rothschild, Hottinguer, and Charles Laffitte ; 3. General Colbert ; 4. Skuin ; and 5. Duc de Vicence. A very keen competition for the last is anticipated, and in the other it is generally believed that a fusion of seve ral companies has been formed, of which the following version appears in the Chemins de Fer, which that jour nal says is the only correct statement : p.lOO Messageries Receveurs- Oneraux .. Union 42,364 10 59 Laffitte, Blount Caton Ganneron Lapinsonniflre Griolet (Sud-Est) Ardoin Verdeau Hottinguer 43,334 10,000 R o th sc hild freres 400,000 Onthis amalgiemation that ournal makes the following remarks:—" We have indicated the amount per cent. which each Company will have to divide amongst the subscribers, leaving aside the houses of Hottinguer and Rothschild, which, not having officially opened any sub scriptions, will only have to divide with their regular clients, if they think fit. We know that the Company Griolet will follow the example of the Company Rosa mel for the northern line ; that is to say, reimburse im mediately after the adjudication, without making any deduction from the deposits. It will even give a little more than the quantity of shares indicated. Each sub scriber will obtain one for fourteen of the numbers under one hundred, and seven per cent. for one hundred and upwards. The competing Company for the Paris and Lyons road is composed as follows :—Compagnie des Maitres de Postes ; Compagnie Francaise, and Com pagnie des Ingoinieurs. The Compagnie Friant (Cas tellux), not having been admitted to the fusion, with drew. The Decan and Roulage companies had previously united with those of Griolet and the Messageries." On Saturday we mentioned that a misunderstanding had taken place between M. SALVANDY, the Minister of Public Instruction, and M. QUINET, one of the pro fessors of the University. The students of the Sor bonne, it appears, considered that the question could not be settled without them, and they resolved, there fore, to make a demonstration. On Saturday, about one o'clock, upwards of 2,000 of them assembled at the Sorbonne, and went in procession to the quarter of the Luxembourg, where M. QUINET resides. The proces sion was very orderly, though occasionally enlivened by cries of " Vive Quinet," " A bas les Jesuites," &c. On the arrival of the procession at M. QUINET'S residence that gentleman appeared, and received a deputation sent to compliment him. He thanked the students for their sympathy, but requested that they would quietly disperse. Notice having been received by the authori ties of the intended procession, a large body of the municipal guards were on the spot; and on the young men crying out " A bas les Jesuites," they charged along the streets, and several were run down. A few of the ringleaders were arrested. Some of the journals continue their remarks on the Oregon question, but the virulence towards England is much abated. Indeed, the Opposition writers cannot forget that Brother Jonathan treated M. TRIERS and his party in a very rude manner in reference to his im perious demands for the sum of one million sterling, in compensation for injury done by NAPOLBON to American merchants. The Constitutionnel says : " What will Mr. Polk do at last? The President has com prehended the imprudence he has committed, and thinks to get out of the scrape by renewing the offers made to England at anterior negotiations. It is quite certain, however, that England will never accede to what she has already refused three times ; that she will not relinquish that part of the Oregon on which are seated all the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the only cultivable part of the country. Mr. Polk may now say, with some appearance of "reason, that he has exhausted all means of conciliation. We believe, therefore, that in his Message he will be more re served in making declarations than he was last year, and will propose the denunciation of the Convention of 1828, and some of those measures which he recommended to Mr. Tyler. We must expect, therefore, to see re-appear in the Congress a Bill for the occupation of the Oregon, which will be passed with an eagerness in proportion to the conviction of its being rejected by the Senate. All will depend this year upon the Senate. The Democrats have 32 votes in it, and the Whigs only 24; but the two senators from South Carolina will on this question vote with the "Whigs. There may, therefore, when it comes to the point, be a majority of six votes in favour of an occupation—that is to say, for war. But should Mr. Calhoun decide upon taking his seat in the Senate, he will declaim loudly against the policy of Mr. Polk, and may cause many defections from the ranks of the Democratic party. If the treaty of 1828 be denounced, all must be brought to a conclusion within a year, or war must break out. We, however, can scarcely believe that war will spring from this question, because both countries must lose so muc h by it. Whatever may be the end of this dispute, France ought to remain perfectly neutral. We trust that our Go vernment will not repeat the fault committed on the oc casion of the Texas dispute, and compromise, without any motive, our pacific relations with both England and the United States." The following account of the commercial relations be tween China and France during the year 1844, and the first quarter of 1845, has just been published by the Mi nister of Finance. It has been drawn up from returns made by the French mission to Canton : " The commerce and navigation of France with China en gaged in 1844, according to information gathered at Canton, six ships, whose moveMents are thus given. One of them arrived at the end of 1843 and left in 1844; four arrived and departed in the course of 1844; the last arrived in 1844, but did not sail again till 1845. These six ships touched or stopped at Manilla before coming to China, and three pat in to Hong-Kong, and two at Whampoa. The first was freighted at Bourbon for Manilla and China with a cargo of cloves, and small quantities of liqueurs and preserves, estimated together at about 108,000 f. She took back to Bourbon a freight of teas and China and Japan ware, estimated at about 75,600 f. The venture was profitable. The second took into China a cargo of wine, brandy, oils, alimentary preserves, cloths, &c., the whole being the produce of France. It had also some pepper taken in at Batavia, and other goods. This vessel left China for Bordeaux, laden with 92,300 kilos of tea, besides cinnamon and curiosities. The third was freighted by the Government for the Marquesas, and brought to China only about 400 common shawls, origi nally destined for South America, and to which country they were ultimately obliged to be sent. She took back with her only seven or eight tons of goods, the nature of which is not known. The fourth carried to China only a small quan tity of liqueurs and preserves. She was almost completely loaded at Manilla, and took on board from China only a com plement of cinnamon. The fifth came to China on account of two foreign houses, one Dutch and the other American, with about 17,000 or 18,000 metres of Prussian cloths, which, as we are told, were sold at Macao at from 6f. Bc. to llf. .55c. the metre, but we are ignorant of their quality. The sixth, which was hired by the Government to carry out pro visions to the naval division in the China seas, had no other French produce on board than a small quantity of wine and coal, and 40,000 f. in sf. pieces. She sailed again from China on December 29th for Manilla, without having taken in any cargo, but will probably return for cinnamon, as she has left her wine, taking with her her money and coal, be sides a few tons of Chinese goods, worth about 20,000 f. Se veral of the vessels coming from Manilla were laden for Hong- Kong and Macao with rice and timber. During the first quarter of 1845, the port of Canton has been visited by two French ships, which have taken with them 587,0006 worth of camphor, tea, silk, cinnamon, and squina, a Chinese plant, from which sarsaparilla is extracted. Beth these vessels, after taking in their freights, proceeded to Manilla. All the foregoing particulars were collected at Canton. We now give a summary of those furnished by the returns of the Custom house relating to our direct commerce with China, the Philip pines, and the islands of Oceania, in 1844. The total amount of the imports and exports was 3,116,000 f. (not including the produce of the whale fisheries in the Pacific Ocean). The amount of the exchanges is as follows :—Tea, 835,000 f. ; cinnamon, 249,000 f. ; indigo, 267,000 f. ; tobacco, 150,000 f. ; coffee, 159,000 f. ; mother of pearl, 112,000 f., &e. Our direct imports amount to only 589,000 f. ; but it must be ob served that much of our merchandise is conveyed to China by foreign ships. In our direct exports to China and the Philip pines, cloths figured for 119,000 f., cottonades and various other useful articles for 125,000 f., and wines for the sum of 81,000 f. All the other articles (such as perfumery, silks, mei , cery, glass, and preserves), are of Paris manufacture. The movement of our merchant navigation in the seas of China and Oceania (not including the fisheries) was as follows : In 1844 them sailed from the ports of France for these desti nations six ships of an aggregate burthen of 1,683 tons, and crews amounting to 94 men. The returns during the same year comprised only three ships of tother 1,083 tons and 59 sailors. All these sailed under the French flag. In these seas the amount of tonnage engaged in trade in 1844 was nearly 27,000, and the total value of tho exchanges direct from our ports or for our ports rose to 53 millions of francs. These results warrant a hope that our relations will extend." We are glad to learn that Lord COWLEY is going on favourably, and is recovering from the effects of his severe accident. "The Moniteur publishes two royal ordonnances, dated the 2d inst., for opening the ports of Stora and La Calle, in Algeria, in addition to those already opened, and declaring that they shall be free for the import and export of merchan dise between France and Algeria. :"A conference on the subject of the Swiss Customs duties is about to be held shortly by delegates from the cantons of Berne, Soleure, Argau, and Bale country. It will take into consideration a plan for a Customs Union, so that the dues at all the frontiers shall be uniform, and the commercial traffic thus relieved from the embarrassments with which it has hitherto been attended. The negotiations are already far advanced." On Saturday the Three per Cents closed at 83f. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,155 f. ; Rouen, 950 f. ; Northerns, 705 f. ; Havre, 740 f. ; Avignon, 860 f. ; Vierzon, 6401. ; Bordeaux, 6021. 50c. ' • Boulogne, 500 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 425 f. • Basle, 237 f. 50c. ; Fain doux, 450 f. ; Spanish Three per eents, 37 1 / 2 ; ditto, Pas sives, 61/2. The following are the quotations for other lines:— Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 9f. premium; ditto (Calon), sf; ditto( Gann eron ), 4f. 25c. ; ditto (Lapinsoaniere), 4f. 25c. • Sud Est, 3f. 50c. ; Messageries, 31. 50c. ; Ardoin, If 50c. ; Receveura-Genereaux, 3f. ; Paris aid Strasbourg (Gan neron), 2f. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 50c. ; ditto (Bechet), par; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 2f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avig non (Talabot), 5f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), 3f. ; Lyons definitive skares sold for 65f. premium ; Strasburg ditto, 20f. ; Tours and Nantes, 35f. LYONS, DEC. 4.—Marseilles and Avignon, 835 f.; Paris and Orleans, I,llof. ; Paris and Rouen, 9101.75 e. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 623 f. 75c. ; Northern, 663 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEO. 6. Anglo-Belgian — IMauritias Boulogne and Amiens.. 8 1 4 Namur and Liege Bordeaux &Alediterran 'North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Do. (Mackenzie's) l% Callao, Lima, and Pa cific Cast — Central of Spain .. Ceylon . — Demi Orleans and Vierzon .. Orleans and Bordeaux 10 Over Yseel ••• Paris &Lyons (Laffitte) 2% Ditto (Ganneroa's). 3 Ditto 2 Ditto (Sad Est) Paris Orle9- ,erara Deadre Valley ...... Dutch Rhenish ... Dieppe & Paris Janet — Dijon and Mulhoue East Indian ...... Faaspenx. & Haaebrouk Grt Northern of France Constituted l3 Do. Pepin le Halleur — Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal Great Western Canada Jamaica& Mid. Junction . an. Orleans Paris and bonen . B 7B Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron's) Do. (Compe is L'Eet) 2 De. (Ayniard's) 2% Paris and St. Quentin — Rouen and Haws.— 28% Royal North of Spain. Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Basle Teumay,Jurbise, Lon de", and Hasselt ... Tours and Nantes Do. North Midland Do. Extension Jersey . Louvain and Jemappe — Lyons and Avignon — Luxembourg Madrid and Valencia ll4 (Mackenzie's) 4% Do. ( Lefebvre's) ...- De. (O'Neill's) Trinidad Verona and Ancona.... West Flanders 31,4 Sir Robert Peel is expected to arrive in town this after noon from a visit to her Majesty, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. „ ),..,7%,, , r 54 ,; • vt :,:,. ' , - 4 .0 6 -- 00 4' • ~„,E 7l);.'• '44 , ;' , .,,e,.....-- ir:Agdit,,,,:`,l-j,',15 z- , 1 v f .,..•-• :. s 7.Alfi l - i lows,..,r,,,,,,,_______lii '7frAtte, --w-a.a3uw\l'u'arC - ` • ' ''',„4.'77 - 4& ''''. o !- -;. - - wine' 1 LONDON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1845. Notwithstanding the very numerous, respectable, and crowded meetings held throughout the country within the last ten days, in favour of free trade and a repeal of the corn-laws, the parties most interested, or rather, who consider themselves most interested, have made no stir whatever. We have heard of no county meeting% no great assemblages of the " tenants' friends," and, with perhaps two exceptions, no symptoms what ever of a conviction on the part of the landlords that their monopoly is in danger. The Duke of BUCKING HAM and the Duke of RICHMOND are alike silent, and confidently reckon, perhaps, that the party which made Sir ROBSRT PEEL Prime Minister, can, with the same facility, unmake him and set up another idol of their own. They know that the agricultural in terest in the Commons, as well as the Lords, predomi• nates to a very great extent, and reckoning on the firm ness of the " protection" Members, and the destruction of any .Minister who should dare to oppose their will, the y probably wait quietly the assembling of Parliament, That they are determined to resist hardly a doubt exists. The organs of the monopo lises are more furioas than ever against the League ; they hold out for the present Corn-law Bill with the most imperturbable obstinacy, and consider the sliding scale as the only security for any corn-law whatever. At two agricultural meetings held at the end of last week, one on Friday, and the other on Saturday, we find similar sentiments expressed, and loudly cheered by the company. On the former day the Leicestershire Agricultural Society held its annual cattle show, and in the evening several of the nobility, Members of the House of Commons, and the leading agriculturists of the county, dined together, when speeches were made showing that the landlords are pre pared to resist to the last. Sir IL lIALFORD, one of the Members for the county, said, "If protection were so far withdrawn as to throw the poor land of this country out cf cultivation, it would be the most disastrous event that had ever occurred to us as a na tion." This was received with loud cheers, and the sentiment was speedily responded to by the other Member for the Southern Division—Mr. PACKS. He alluded to what had appeared in a London journal within a few days, and described it as a "complete and wicked falsehood, and a malicious invention of the enemy to paralyse the country." " But," he added, " whatever may occur, I certainly shall be one of the foremost to oppose what had been very properly desig nated as one of the most disastrous innovations which could recur to this country." He sat down amidst lc tel applause. At a meeting of the East Surrey Agricultural Association, held at Croydon en Saturday, Mr. ANTROBUS adverted to the same report, but he did not believe it, and it was his opinion that Ministers bad no such intention; but he could say that " the county Members would be deter mined to oppose the Government if any extreme mea sure were proposed ; and he had no doubt that thos e Members of the House of Commons who were more especially interested in, and pledged to, the support of agriculture, would be found strong enough to prevent the carrying of such a measure s : • d be proposed." We believe these ' , t o t ,. brgf Ainia , Y. express the sentiments of nearly all ...,A.2 5... • - ftr•ll%', .. hers, and if they are not terrified by '4if ,,,L i '.' , ,','' t.ityiatitation or a disruption of the Cabinet, and ; .§{-,' Y . ' ..., _, ' latotal repealers, headed by RtresELL and '''..' ' 1 ' . aiiltoß.DElf, they will adhere obstinately to 1 :# : ....._ 74 311 11;14/ hreate of this kind, however, are of s. '" c l44 , * ~..., nut the voice of the community. i s : Th e y ityr" allowed th e i mpu l se to b ecome too ' ..., THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER s, 1845. ambition MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY; QUARTER TO THREE. Thera was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool on Sa turday. Sales about 4,000 bales, at previous rates. Holders, however, appeared to be rather firmer. There are no late arrivals to-day from any quarter, and the markets for all articles, save those usually in request about Christmas time, have been very quiet, and are likely so to continue till the new year. Viii Holland, there are accounts of Aug. 30 from Batavia. The only news contained in thorn refers to a great conflagra tion near Kedirie, by which 228 dwellings were destroyed. These, however, were no doubt very unsubstantial structures. Without much inclination to do business, prices in the English Stock• market are to-day rather firmer, Consols being 94% % for present transfer, and 94% to 95 for time. There is no speculation going, and even the transfers making are chiefly in anticipation •f the closing of the books at the Bank of England preparatory to the payment of the dividends. The premium on Exchequer-bills is rising, whether in anti cipation of an increased rate of interest being allowed we are unable to say, though the belief is that the Bank broker has been buying. The values paid this morning have been 20s. to 28s. Bank Stock has been quiet at 200 to 201 1 ,6. In India Stock there have been no bargains. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 95% to ; the Three per Cents., 98% to 3. The Foreign Stock-market is decidedly flat this morning. Spanish Five per Cents. are down to 27%, and the Three per Cents. to 37 1 / 4 . Russian Stock has been firm at 113. Belgian Four-and a-Half per Cents. were 95%; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 591:2. For railway shares, although the inquiry has not yet be come animated, we may certainly notice a firmer market, and there can be no doubt •of the fact that moneyed men are quietly picking up the low-priced scrips, and by which they will make money. The expected Presi dent's Message alone checks a permanent advance. 01413 CLOSING RI CRS OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock ......... .... ..... 20 1% 200 200 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94%% 94% New 3 1 4 per Cents. 95 % 14 95% Long Annuities to exuireJan.lB6o 10% Ditto 30 y-ears„Oct. 10,1859 Consols for Account .. ...... India Stock for Account... ..... 261 261 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 ,4 d 2l 22 20 23 pm. 23 Ditto 5001. ... 21 22 20 pm. 23 Ditto Small OYE CLOSING O'CLOCK TRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Equador Bonds Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred ........... Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... Ditto, Account — SO Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 59 3 / 4 Russian Bonds ll3 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. ' 27M 27 3 / 4 Do., Coupons Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... .... Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent. 9 5 1% 95M Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates —98 M PRICES OF , BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES FAL ' . AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Aberdeen,Banff, &Elgin. - Armagh, Co'e - aine, and Portrush l% - - Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% Belfast & Count 7 Down 2% • Bideford andTavistock... 1% — Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 122 123 123 Ditto New l 7 l /2 — _. . . ... Birmingham and Ox- ford Junction Birmingham & Leicester Direct Boston, Stared, & Birm. 22s Bridgewater &Minehead 425. ... .. Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... ••• ......••• — Bristol and Liver. June . 2%...... ... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambrian & Grand Junc 42s Cambrid, and Lincoln 1" .... .... 3s ige _,,ncot % Do. New Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% - ••• Canterbury and Dover.. 1% — Central Kent 2% -- Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% O% O9 Chester and Holyhead... 15 Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction 5 Cork Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney ... 2V 2 Cork and Waterford ... 1% —• Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester... Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Derby and Crewe — — Derby, Gain.sbro', and Great Grimsby 136 - - Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford Direct Manchester (Remington's) Ditto (Rackstnck's) l5 4...... Direct N orthem Direct Norwich - - Dublin and Armagh 1%..... Dublin and BelfastJuns. 15 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dudley, kladely, and Broseley Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% Eastern Counties 141. 16s 2 0 14% 20% .. 20% Ditto New 61. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....6/. 13s. 4(1. 1,4 p Ditto ditto, No. 2...41. 13s. 4d... — VA P EastDereh'in andNoech 1 Eastern Union 25 .. ... _ Ditto, Quarter Shares 21‘ Ditto Extension 000000000 •..•• -- Do. Ipswich and Bury 17 Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 21/2 _ Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 1 East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%,..... _ Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... _ . Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... _ • Ditto, New .... 15 ...... Edinburgh & Northern.. 1 1 4 _ .. _ Edinburgh and Perth... 1 1 ,y 2 ,,,,,, .__ Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ••• 2 1 ,6....,. Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% OA O% Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% _ Glouc.,Abetystwith, and Central of Wales 1%»«...,• — Goole and Doncaster - ..... ::: % p Grand Junction 1 00 Ditto Half Shares 5O Ditto Quarters......... 25 Grand Union... ............ 1% ii...... ......... 1% Great Eastern &Western 2 1 ,i .... l 8 ... .. 1 A GreatGrimsby and Shef field - Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension 7 l /2 H A Great Munster ••• 2 1 Great North of Scotland 2 1 ,4 3reat North of England..loo Ditto New 5 — Do. New .... «........ 2 ...... 27 ........... Treat Western BO 147 148 l4B Ditto % Shares 5O Ditto 1 4 Shares 2 14 l5 ......... 15 Ditto Fifths 3414 3uildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2 t,4 ... Harwich , , 1 ..».. .............. dull and Selby Ditto 4 Shares - 2 .•»» ............... 16% Do. Half Shares Inverness and Elgin 1 - ............... Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 ...... _ ...... ...... .. .... Irish North Midland l% Isle ofAxholme 2% Killar- ' J 14 `l4 ..inanity Junctions Kendal and Windermere 1 1 2 Laacaster and Carlisle... 30 Larne, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding Junction Leicester & Birmingham 22s ••• •• •••••••• Leicester and Bedford... 225......• 94 P ,il P Leicester and Tamworth 425. Liver?. and Manchester.loo ••• •• Do. % Shares Do. Quarters Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction London and Birminghmloo ..... 214 zl2 212 Do. Thirds 42 Do. 1 4 Shares Ditto Fifths - ...... ...—.. 23 _ Ditto Extension ...... 1% —. London and Blackwall.l6L 135.41. 84 8 34 Do. New 3 1 4 Ditto Extension ...... 3 •••••• 31 • Do. consolidated Bths... 35 .. LonduCand Brighton... 50 ...... 61 1 •• ...—••• 61% -- Ditto, Sixths - London and Croydon, 131. 155. 9d. 19 1 4 18% Do. Guaranteed 5 per 10 2 ............ Cent. - —— — 8% Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and Hereford London and Greenwich 12/ 1614 d— 91 /s 9% Do. Preference ...18117s 2d London, Hounslow, and Western Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d Do. New Consol. Bths 20 Do. New London & New South Essex 2 6 14. --, - iyB Londoa and York 2l . ... 4% London and Windsor London, Warwick, and Kidderminster 2% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry&Coleraine 5 Londonderry and Ennis killen 5 — Lynn and Ely 5 Lynn and Dereham 5 Manchester and Leeds... 76 128 Ditto 1 A• Shares D,. Quarters Do. Fifths ... . ........... 1 Do. Sixteenths ......... 4 1 % Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters ll Do. New Quarters ... 2 Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction ..... 1% Manchester,Buaten,and Matlock ... 425. 24 p 24 P Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction .. ... — — Manchester and Rugby Direct . — Manchest. & Southampt. 2 M , ellen d 100 .....148 142 143 Do. Fifths 2 Do. New Midland,Birm., Derby...100 Midld. & East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western (Irish) Do. Extens. to Sligo... 2% Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ..... 54 66 Do. New Brandling... 15 Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction... 1% — Newport& Abergavenny 2 % ...... New Ross and Carlow... 22s --- •••• ••• • ..... Newry and Enniskillen 2% — Newark, Sheffield, and Boston Norfolk Extension — North British Do. Half Shares Do. Exton. to Carlisle 14 Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 5 North Devon North of Norfolk ••• •" ........ Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — Do. New N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 / 4 ..... 2% 2% North Staffordshire 425....... 3 1 / 5 3 p 2% p North Wales North and South Wales and Worcester •••••• Northern and Southern Connecting — — Norwich and Brandon... 16 Ditto New Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% 1%% Nottingm., Erewsh. Val ley, and Manchester 1% Nottingham and Mans field Oxford, Gosport, Ports.. mouth,& Southamptn 425. % dis % die Oxford and Worcester... 12% 14% 14% Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Perth and Inverness ... 2% Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 Portsmouth Direct ...... 3% — Preston and Wyre 5O Do. 1 ,4 Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - — ........ ... .. Richmond S Rugby, Derby, and Man chester.- ..... ... ...... 2% ...... 114% Rugby and Huntingdon 2 — Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Scottish Central Scottish Midland 1 1,4 2 1¢... Sheffield & Manchesterloo Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 3 3 / 4 %74-- ... ' Shropshire Mineral 42s Shropshire Union Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp., & S. Staffordsh. Junc. Sligo and Shannon l% - - Somersetshire Midland 2% South Devon 25 ...... 28 South Midland 42s. South & Midlands Junc. ..... 1 dis South Staffordshire June, 2% _ South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 35 1 4 35 ...... Do., No. 1.. Do., No. 2. Do., Ne. 4 Southampton, Manches ter, & Oxford Junction 2 St. Alban's, Hatfield, and 22 1 4 61/2 par 11/2 21% 13 , Hertford Junction ... Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% — South Wales .... ... 2 1 ,E Taw Vale Extension ... Tean and Dove Valley 1% Trent Valley 2 ...... 16% Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Ulverstone and Furness Vale of Neath Warwick & Cheltenham 1% ... Warwick and Worcester 425. — Waterford and Kilkenny 3 ...... 3 Waterford and Limerick 7% — ••• Waterfd,Wnfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin W aterford, Wexford, and Valentia - Waveney Valley ..... .... 2 Welch Midland rest Cernwall West Yorkshire WestLondon,Old Shares 20 ..... West End and Southern Counties .. l l,/... .. Wexford and Carlow ... 2 11 / 2 ...... Wisbeach and St. Ives— 2 — Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross ' and Gloucester 425....... Worcester, Tinbury, and Ludlow ...... -- ...... Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Worcester and S. Wales 425. Worcester,Warwick, and Rugby Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 Ditto, New York and Carlisle 2% York and Lancaster 2% York and North Midland 50 Ditto % Shares .. 25 ..... •••..• 51 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do Selby 2O Do. Extension . S 1 3 / 4 164 3% FOREIGN RAILWATS. Anglo-Belgian 4 Barbadoes 1 Boulogne and Amiens... 8 Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... 1% Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West Flanders Callao, Linn, and Pacific Coast 1 .. ... ... .. ......... Central of Spain ... Ceylon 5 e Demerara 2% ... . Dendre Valley .. .. 2 ..-.. . Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 ...... Dutch Rhenish ... 5 East Indian ... ..... .... 5 8. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2% Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2 Great North. of France Constituted . Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal... ss. — Great Western Canada... 3% ...... Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 - - Do. Extension 1 Jersey .... .. Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . . — Lyons and Avignon 2 . Luxembourg 4 Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... .. — Mauritius .. Namur and Liege North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... Orleans and Bordedax... 6 ...... 10% Over Yssel 4/ 31 4d — — Paris &Lyons(Laflitte's) 2 Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's) Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris &Lyons (Sud Eat) 2 • Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen 2O Paris and. Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Comps de L'Est) 2 Do. (Avmard's) Paris and St-Quentin Rouen and Havre Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ...... St. Laurence & Atlantic Tearnay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 4 Tours and Nantes (Mac kenzie's) ... ..... Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2 Ditto (O'Neill's) 2 Trini dad Verona and Ancona.... 8 West Flanders .. 4 - 14 - 7% Real del Dr en t e Unregd. MINES 3 3 / t 314 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDO/ic DEC. B.—Wind S. W., light breeze, and hazy, with sharp frost. DEAL, Dux 7—Wind N.W. to W.N.W. Arrd. Alcida, Taylor, Calcutta ; Eleanor, Hulip, Mauritius ; Ann, Gales, Hon duras ; George Skolfield, Skolfield, New York ; Fortuna, New York, for Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Wind N.N.W. fresh—Arrd. Susanna, Rio Grande ; Peter Hattrick, Port, Charleston. Sailed, 15th ult., Huguenot, Goodham, New York; Amity, Allen, Quebec ; Elizabeth, Gaves, Quebec ; Glenswillv, Quebec; Adelaide, Prince Edward' Island ; Jessie, Sal danha Bay; Duke of Gordon, Ichaboe ; Linden, M'Lean, Pictou. sailed, Dec. 6, Ganges, Smith, Calcutta; Oxford, Rathbone, New York ; Virginian, Hearn, New York. Dec. 7., Heart of Oak, Massey, Bahia; Cameron, Wedgwood, Honduras. Off Port, Dec. 7., Princess Royal (ship) ; Anne and Jane (barque) ; Cartaretta (brig) ; Renard (cutter). Duriux, DEC. 4.—Arrd. Bridget, Knox, Quebec. Dec. 5. Sea Nymph, St. John's, N.B. KINGSTON, DEC. s.—Arrd. Hillsborough, St. John's, N.B. DEAL, Disc. 7.—The Messenger, Mason, from Seaham to Portsmouth, was in contact, off Folkstone, with the Nava rino, from Guernsey, and lest bowsprit, Ste-, but proceeded. Powritcs.wL, DEC. 5.—A boat marked, " Maria of London" came on shore near the Sker Point, on the 3d inst. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7:—The Green Isle (steamer), hence:to Waterford, giat'on shore on Burbo Bank this morning, but was assisted 'off in the afternoon, much strained, and brought bark into the river. Rocriewrzoi., Dec. 4.—Arrd. Favourite, Scadden, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.-(T HIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-(MONDAY.) In the past week the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market coastwise were on a limited scale, and of very middling quality—the bulk of the samples proving greatly out of condition. By land carriage very few samples came to hand. Of Irish Oats the receipts were by no means large, though they have proved fully adequate to meet the wants of the dealers. The imports of foreign grain were, compara tively speaking, small. Fresh up, very little English Wheat came to hand; hence the stands were scantily filled with samples. Owing, however, to the rumours afloat on the subject of a contemplated alteration in the corn-lama, the Wheat trade was almost pa ralysed ; indeed, such was the heaviness in the trade that some time elapsed before a single sale was con cluded We have, therefore, to quote a decline in the value of the finest parcels of both red and white of 2s; in that of the middling and inferior qualities of quite 3s per quarter, at which a clearance was not effected, many of the buyers re fusing to purchase except at further reduced currencies. As might, therefore, be expected, the market closed with even a further downward movement in the quotations than we have above reported. Of free foreign Wheat the show was by no means large; but the before-mentioned causes operated against sales, and the currencies suffered an abatement of from is 10d in some inTtancesper quarter, and at which amount of depression scarcely any sales were con cluded. For Wheat under lock, there was scarcely any in quiry; indeed, such was the heaviness in the trade that prices must be considered almost nominal. The show of English and Foreign Barley was moderately good, but of very inferior quality. In some cases, selected parcels fit for malting were taken at about late rates; but all other descrip tions declined in value is to 2s per quarter, and a large por tico of such was left over fcr Wednesday's market. We had on ly a limited quantity of Malt on offer, yet the sale for that article was very dull, at a decline of Is per quarter. Although the show of Oats was by no means large, the Oat trade ruled ex tremely dill, and the currencies declined from is to 2s per quarter. The almost only quality in demand was feed. The supply of Beans was moderate, while the inquiry was very dull, and the quotations fell from is to 2s per quarter. Peas of all kinds, the show of which was large, moved off heavily, at a reduction in value of from is to 2s per quarter. Flour very dull, and the turn lower. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier .... 35s to 375 Red, New.... 56s to 65s Oats—Yorkshire and Di tto,White, Old.. 58s 69s Lincohish., Feed. 24s 27s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoa 3os 321 coin, Red..... 545 58s Youghar and Cork, Ditto, White.... • • 565 60s Black . Irish, Red.... •. —52 s Cork, White .... 29s 313 Ditto, White —.. • . 56s 60s Scotch, Feed .... 285 325 Rye—Old ............ 35s 376 Beans—Tick. ...... 36s 405 New.— ... .••• • • • 34s 365 Pigeons ... ....... 445 49 3 Barley—Grinding..... 26s 29s Pease—Grey . ........ 38s 41 8 Malting . ........ 32 8 35s Maple. Chevalier .... •• .. 35s 37s White s3s 56 8 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers folk ...... •. • ... 56s 58s Flour—Town-made Brown .•,. •• .. bls 54s Suffolk Kingston and Ware 62s 64s Stocktn & Norfolk 48s i 23 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dantzic . Harpburgh Barley • • • 22s 28s 1 Flour—American ..... 28s Ds Oats—New l eed ...... • ....• 22s 24s EMIT: :FIELD The past week's imports of live stock into London have been again extensive, notwithstanding the present advanced period of the year. We have received 34 Oxen, per the John Bull and Caledonia steamers, from Hamburgh ; 77 Oxen, 101 Cows, 623 Sheep, and 2 Calves, per the Giraffe, Attwood, and the Commercial packet, from Rotterdam ; and 113 Cows, together with 142 Sheep, by the Rapid, from Harlingen. At the outports, 60 Sheep and 67 Beasts have been imported from Hull. To-day we had on offer 150 Foreign Beasts and 350 Sheep, in, generally speaking, fair condition. Nearly the whole found buyers, at full prices. Fresh up to our market, the arrivals of Beasts from our own grazing districts were seasonably large, but, for the most part, of middlihg quality, if we except the droves from the western counties. The attendance of both town and country buyers being large, the Beef-trade ruled firm, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, and, at which, a good clearance was effected. From the northern counties we received about 2,000 Short horns ; from the eastern 300 Short-horns and Scots ; from the western and midland counties, 700 Herefords, Devons, Runts, &c. ; from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds ; from Ireland, 120 Beasts ; and from Scotland, 100 Scots. Although the numbers of Sheep were on the increase, the Mutton trade was firm, at full prices—the best old Downs readily producing 5s per 81bs. Very few Calves were on offer, while the Veal trade was firma, at Friday's advances. In Pigs a steady businesi was transacted, at full prices. The great Christmas Market will be held on Monday next. Per slbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d Inferior Beasts .... 210 s 0 Second quality ditto. f 2 s 6 Prime large Oxen.. 3 i 4 Prime Scots ...... 4 2 4 4 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 ?rime small ditto .. 4le 8 2 Suckling Calves ..1g I 31 0 Inferior Sheep • • . 3 4 311 s. d. t• s. d. Second quality ditto 4 • 4 4 Coarse-wo•lledditt• 4 6 4 !I S•uthd•wn Wetlars 4 10 i 0 Ditto out of the wool Large logs ...... 3IS 4 6 small Porkers •• .. 4 $ i 2 Quarter old Pigs ..16 • 21 0 Lambs .......... 0 0 0 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Boasts. 2,441 I sheep. 15,400 Calves. 59 I Pigs. 3S 1 NEWOATE AND _LBADENITALL. For thetime of year the arrivals of slaughtered meat up to these markets from distant parts hare been very moderate ; yet as the supplies killed in the metropolis have been some• what on the increase, and of excellent quality, the show of each kind has been good. The attendance of buyers having proved somewhat larger, the general demand has ruled firm, and prices have been well supported. Abeut 40 carcases of foreign Beasts and 200 ditto of Sheep have been disposed of at fair quotations. At per stone, lby the Carcase. _ . s. a. to s. d. a. 1. to s. d. Beef. inferior.....• 2 8 310 Mutton, inferior 3 6 310 - latiddllng .... 3 0 3 2 middling.. 4 0 4 2 - prim. largo .• 3 4 3 6 prints 4 4 4 $ - prime small •. 3 6 3 8 Perk, 1arge........ 310 4 8 Veal • •• • 4• 5 0 -- saiu •.. ..... 4 10 5 4 Lamb. Os Od to Os Id. ARRITALS DURING TIIE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. Scotland • • • . ••.• •• .• 40 250 340 Yorkshire ... •.• . •• .......... 50 300 400 Lincolnshire .........• • ......... GO 100 50 Norfolk • • •• •• • • •• •• • 30 60 80 Suffolk ••• • • .. 30 80 100 Cambridgeshire ................ 10 50 Essex...... • ................... 30 100 -- 90 90 150 Surrey....... .. 50 200 100 140 Devonshire ........ •••• •• ...... Wiltshire •• .................... 40 80 C 5 Other parts .• •• .• ••• • • •••• • • • • GO 100 70 100 Total ......... ..... 450 1,320 325 1,550 Previous week's arrival...... 422 1,470 2so 1,490 Difference since oar last •• • • '2B 150 45 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. 60 Several cargoes of diseased Potatoes have again reached us during the week, and which have been 'sold at a fearful maciitice. The York Regents, Lincolnshire Whites, and Scotch Reds, nre, however, in good condition. The supplies of them are fully adequate to the demand. York Reds are selling at from 90s to 1265; York Regents, 80s to 1225; Scotch Reds, 75s to 89s; Lincolnshire Whites and Kidneys, 80s to 90s ; and Montrose and Aberdeen Buffs, 80s per ton. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Although the demand here may be called steady, the amount of business passing is trifling. In prices we have no alteration to notice. New Hops :—Sussex Pockets, 61 lOs to 71Ss ; Weald of Kent ditto, 6/ 12s to 7/ 125; Mid Kent 7172 to 9/ 12s. Yearlings :—Sussex Pockets, 6/ 6s to 6/ 15s ; Wealth, 61 102 to 71; Mid Kents, 61 15s to 7110 s. WOOL. The imports of Wool into London in the present week hare been very unimportant, they having amounted to only 460 bales, chiefly from Germany. The demand by private contract or all descriptions is extremely heavy, and prices have a downward tendency, yet the stocks held by the manufacturers are small. Most parties are looking forward to the next public sales. TALLOW. The market is somewhat depressed as regards prices, both on the spot and for the spring. The Money-market and the high rate of interest charged by parties who generally make advances upon Tallow at this season of the year, are said to be the cause. The stock on the Ist of January will be about 26 or 27,000 casks, including those yet to arrive; therefore, not much further decline in price, if any. For the spring months it is 42s 6d to 42s 9d. Town Tallow is 42s 6d net cash. WINDSOR, SUNDAY E ---- VRNING.—The return of the Court to the Castle, from the Isle of Wight, which had been fixed to take place on Tuesday, has been postponed till Friday or Saturday next, a letter to this effect having been received from Osborne House by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. It is not improbable that her Majesty may prolong her sojourn in the island even beyond that period ; but this will depend en tirely upon the continuanee of the present favourable weather. Should the Court not return to the Castle during the week, her Majesty is expected to hold a Privy Council, at Osborne House, on Friday next. . . _ The Duchess of Inverness has left Kensington Pa lace to visit Col. and Mrs. Wildman at Newstead Abbey, Notts. The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House, on Saturday last, for Strathfieldsaye, Hants. The Noble and Gallant Duke, after the Privy Council understood to be fixed for Thursday next, at Windsor Castle, will receive a distin guished circle at the above seat. A. requisition has been addressed to the Mayor of Plymouth, signed by one thousand and ten persons, request ing him to convene a meeting to consider the present state of the country. His worship has appointed the meeting to be held on Friday next.—Deronport Telegraph. ANOTHER MATCH BETWEEN CLASPER AND Po COCK.—Many of Pocock's admirers being needlessly doubtful as to whether the late race on the Tyne afforded a fair trial of the parties, Harry Clasper has cheerfully issued a challenge to Pocock, for another trial of his strength. The challenge is, to row a sculler's match for 100 to 200 sovs. a side, 20 sovs. each to be deposited immediately, to come off on the Tyne within eight months. This spirited offer of the uncon querable son of the " canny coaly Tyne" will at once test the s►ncerity of those who at present are so clamorous about Po cock's abilities. The General Steam Navigation Company have placed a powerful steam-ship the Wilberforce, 300 horse power, upon the Newcastle station. It is expected to make the passage to London in 27 hours in moderate weather. William Barges, Esq., Q.C., the new Commissioner appointed to succeed Mr. Boteler, in the Leeds district Bank ruptcy Court, is expected to enter upon the discharge of his judicial functions in a few days.—Leeds Intelligencer. CHARGE AGAINST A MOTHER FOR ATTEMPTING TO MURDER HER CHILD.—A mother stands charged with no less a crime than that of endeavouring to murder her ille gitimate male child, not three weeks old, by leaving it quite naked and uncovered, in a field, exposed to the cold wind and pittiless storm of Saturday evening last. Between five . and six o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the 29th ult., as John Stallard and his wife, of the parish of Bosbury, in this county, were returning from Castle Froome, when crossing a field near the " Races," (the residence c f the Rev. Edward Higgins), they thought they heard the cry of a child, and, proceeding to the spot, found a male child under the hedge. The rain was then descending heavily, and the poor deserted infant was very cold and wet. On Tuesday Harriett Bowkett, the mother of the child, was fully committed to take her trial at the next assizes at Hereford, fur the intent to commit murder.—Hereford Times. GOOD EXAMPLE TO WORK PEOPLE IN MILLS, &c. —A memorial to Sir R. Peel has been got up and signed by the work people of different departments in the employ of Edward Hollins, Esq., of Stockport, praying for the opening of the ports for a free admission of all the necessaries of life, and that Parliament may be immediately convened in order to have submitted to it by Government a proposition for the total repeal of the corn and provision laws, with all other enactments which tendito fetter industry, and interfere with the just rights and interests of the people. The memorialists express in the course of their call on the Right Hon. Baronet, " their greatest alarm lest there should be a recurrence of those grievous privations which in 1641 and 1842, arising from a high price of food and diminished employment, afflicted themselves and the manufacturing districts gene rally."—Leeds Mercury. (11ANCERY.--(runs DAY.) The Lord Chancellor ir:tended to resume his sittings to day in the old hall, Lincoln's Inn, but in consequence, AS understood, of having to attend a Cabi ne t C o uncil, the fel" lowing notice was put up : " The Lord Chancellor will resume his sittings on TuescleTt instead of Monday. " The paper will be the same as that fixed for Mond*" 4 , His Lordship will to-morrow give judgme n t in the cases(); Combe v. the Corporation of London, Mann v. Ricketts , O!dfield v. Cobbett, after which he will hear lunatic petit i ' and appeals. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LORD NELSON V. LORD RRIDPORT. The hearing of this case was resumed, Mr. TLNNEY proceeded with his arguments, and cited tbel authority of several writers on Sicilian jurisprudence is sac port of his position that the estate of Lord HoratioNelsost o Bronti, could be sold, and the money realised by the sale& vested in the purchase of land in this country by his lid,un heirs, as well as the other points, sub judici, which apps''" fully in our Evening Edition of Saturday last. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY-) A , His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND t-°° " . cause petitions - to-day. The case of DAVIS COMBERMERE occupied his Honour the whole morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) TOPIIA3I V. PRICK. by tine This was an action upon a policy of insurance taken re . plaintiff against the Dissenters' Fire and Life Insurance". t' pally, for tlae h recovery of 1,3001., the amount for which c i e 3 o min premises in St. Martin's-lane had been insured in t .. office. The claim was resisted by the defendant upol" -- ground that the premises had been fraudulently tired. boas There was a great number of witnesses summoned on "" w o sides, and it is likely that the case will occupy at least t days. The Attorney-General and the SolicitorAGeneral are gaged for the defendant. • „ T O' The cross-examination of the first witness, by the A— o f NEY -GENERAL, occupied several hours, in die coign e , which it appeared that the first witness, Robert Gad es had as great a variety of employments or callings,,, t , Caleb Quotem. He said he had been an agent, an accoan," er o a discounter of bills, manager and secretary of the Snutjit. Counties Junction and the Bath and Bristol and Dover n o way Companies, arranger of bankrupts' accounts, get ter ' of bankrupts' accounts, dealer in mineral waters, and A number of other occupations. Henry Fole was the next witness called, but befo re h e was examined the Court adjourned to take refreshment. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS (Sittings in London, before the LORD CHIEF Jusnas '— Common Jury.) KEOUGH th ADAMS. This was an action brought to recover compensat i etbl damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, throug h culpable negligence of the defendant or his servants. ,„ c ted Mr. Sergeant Byles, with whom was Mr. Corner, conoLnt. the case for the plaintiff. No one appeared for the defesiSje The circumstances out of which the action arose?! these :—the plaintiff is all potato factor, and it is part o d business to superintend the discharge of a ship's cargol op id to see that the superior potatoes (called the " warelr i the be separated from the interior or damaged ones (cawhbe " chat"). The defendant is master and part owner 01 d is schooner Isabella, engaged in that trade. On the daYt i el the declaration, the plaintiff was standing near the hatc vo ci on board the defendant's vessel, employed in his usual s d eel tion, when the ship's boat, which, as was alleged, 115 ;0 been slung with sufficient care, slipped down to the," and struck the plaintiff with so much violence as to 0' his collar bone, and otherwise severely injure him. e d.! These facts were proved, and the surgeon who al': be' the plaintiff stated that the latter was confined to elt ri iie more than a month, and the medical expenses amour'rf,o 10/. Other witnesses proved that the plaintiff's I amounted to 9/. a week. There being, as we have said, no defence, the jury r e a verdict for the plaintiff, with Damages, 401. RODDY V. COLEMAN. This an action of debt to recover a balance of renii . o. the defendant refusing to pay, on the ground that the tiffs were not the persons properly entitled to reee P " rent. Mr. Sergeant BYLES, (with whom was Mr. Ban - its - 4'o ,ra' in a mass of documentary evidence, to prove the P l 7 O O l title to collect the rents in their capacity of trustees will of the deceased owner of the property. Ills LORDSI.IIP having expressed his opinion that t. - dence was conclusive, t 0 II". Mr. PEARSON, who was for the defendant said, th5...011: client bad acted only from an anxiety to guard agaill7 e 'bir ing improper parties, he hoped the Court would g" time for the payment. . 1 01 ' A verdict was then taken for the plaintiffs, and ',— ship ordered execution in a fortnight. RING AND OTHERS V. NEWILI.N. 0. 1 4 The Court was occupied the rest of the day in @Us' case, which arose out of a contract for the leasing 0, a it the county of Middlesex, between Kentish Town la o r loway. The particulars were interesting cull parties concerned. MA.RLBRO'-STREET.—(THISD. , 7 4 0 Henry Fowler, John Freeman, Peter JPGuire, O d d Carden, young men dressed as mechanics, were cb under the following circumstances : Police sergeant, Wm. Adams. No. 52 of the C %-tooem stated that between seven and eight o'clock on l o g; evening, he saw the prisoners in company t o V e if ID% Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. He watched and s s follow a gentleman, and Carden and Freeman atteliPor, pick his pocket. They did not succeed; and cross I A the way together, they followed up another gOl efi c . P; Carden and reeman again felt his pockets, and CO- err something out, but witness could not see what it wa,, ' 9 ' then went in front of an oil shop and looked at try, had got, after which they went into Tottenham-co , ' - r, where witness, having procured assistance, the prisolllo, taken into custody. Fowler however escaped, but. Ar r s captured. No property of any value was found in tb te# session. The prisoners asserted that the constable must " mistaken," as they were " all decent working men' e g Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoners were known ? ' l ett; Several of the police instantly identified them aA ,1 been known as London thieves for many years pmt'.4o had all been charged with different robberies, an d o il them had been convicted mere than once. The pnsoners were convicted under the Police 0 4 sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard L, P e i the House of Correction. On hearing the sentence threatened, on his coming out of gaol he would be l on Sergeant Adams. a 149 THB LATB LIEUT. MOLESWORTII:Mr. RO • statuary of St. Sidwell's, Exeter, has just completet i io iet handsome mural tablet, in the form of an ornamat tli Ord in the English style of architecture, and inclosing a si oe d , slab, to the memory of Lieut. Molesworth and five s e her Majesty's ship Cleopatra,who were killed in Mar c 9 1:1 by savages, off the coast of Madagascar. It will be erected in the church of St. Breock, in this county, ' 1 10" Lieut. Molesworth's father is the rector.—DeeollP e3 pendent. Of I' , LUNAR RAINBOW.—A beautiful. specimen AO • lit rare phenomenon was observed on Wednesday nig wici t sr little to the north-east of this town (Carmarthen) , 4 e vel l tracted hundreds of anxious spectators, w h o were 04, 0 1 , at the strange appearance. Some wag spread A reP ° l . o( was an Arial Railway, to the infinite amuselnelly laughter-loving crowd.— Welshman. tti r AIEETING OF PARLIAMENT.-.-WE learn fr o ! ci doubted authority that Parliament will meet for the of business on Tuesday, the 20th day of January ' Evening Mail. ve so o HA WORTH.—The working classes in thi s , bourhood are beginning to complain for want of "lett :et, of the masters have commenced running short time., many persons are already thrown out of work. A, 4 0 1. r, there is a very gloomy appearance at this season of —Bradford Observer. Wl ° CAUTION.—We are requested to put the 0 , 4 on their guard against a woma n w h o i s su pposed t e r - 0010 about Clifton, endeavouring to rare money, by rep herself to be the widow of a Lieutenant Robert s " -, s e e lately forwarded a memorial t o L a dy Saumarez , ..s bi er sey, which purported to be drawn up an d attesl ic i i d gentleman of the name of Somerville, and l'i l l o et l e scribed her as above ; to that memerial the m - oe various parties were appended with sums d Trol Lady Saurnarez wrote to one of the parties, 111 1 1 0 60!d that that name, at all events, was a forgery; th e c a te ill and other papers forwarded by the party to Lady r t.od/ likewise bore on the face of them evident traces of , d y,o° one paper she was described as the widow of a lie the navy, in the other of a major in the army. The ` . .' e6 0 0 0 are in the possession of the superintendent of p0 ..a 1l ero st e p any party who has been imposed upon can give likely to lead to the conviction and punishment fender, it is their duty to do so.—Bristol dilirror. pi o l, CONPASSIONS OF A DocTaEss.—Late on 0 101, / evening Mr. Bedford held an adjourned inquest at thei` Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on the body 09, 1 /1 of Hoskins, a married woman. The first part of L' i , o et/ 1 " - el has already been published. The jury returned a, jjee, d , natural death. Elizabeth Burnett exarnined-boten Russell-court ; Drury lane, and am a doctress and Leer. I attended deceased for the last twelvemonth% for 0 1 °01; administered to her sweet herbs, knotted marjorall?! t ot 4. thyme, sweet marjoram, herbagr a rs, and things o tlty sort. The Coroner—What do you receive for you r ante my good woman? The Doctress—lt depel lu ' „ L.> time 6d., sometimes ls., according to circumsta t b oo trlo Coroner—Then you have no fixed charge? The o p Sartinly, 10d. is my reglars • my reglar fee, 11° 042", Coroner—l think you should ' be cautious about P, o fP and demanding a regular fee; you may run foul bon o bae. gate and the Apothecaries' Hall.—The Docteessl, o tbetlV not like to do that, for the one place is as bad as we et4i Juror—Then you mean to say Tour medicine is 5 .. „ 1 ...„3 6 pleasant, like wine ? Doctress- - -1 do, sir. The . 3 V n .of for my dear, you shall always prescribe for ine• `-'- er t'l t s fi l ad medical gentlemen present asked what sort of cane D e v .- 40 The Doctress—lt was a stone cancer, sir. Th e fool !' O % Gentleman—You mean to tell us you use nothingerlytel../ chemists? The Doctress—Forbid! I should use r aelli v .74 from them pison shops ; I never uses no kind of foot:;• medicines. My remedies be sweet and simple ull e i s i o llogi l lie —Does your medicine contain any portion o ' r t eieg e Or ointment? The Doctress—No, sir, I gets all lut„. Clare-market, without the trouble of going to rie_ bs tfo'" Hornsey for them. I repeats I uses no medicines " A 1 . 0f 4 : ever, only my own sweets and simples, and har l ,:t e poen, —Madam, will you oblige us with your card? 1 ",„, 00;0 —Sir, I tell you again I'm a doctress, and g ive rAttef,..e• no cards, nothing but sweets and simples. "re they were quite satisfied, and recorded the lerT lin t 0 r - o , given above. We understood that the doctress la the o?,_ tary specimen of the species; that they abound 11 0 07 tropolis, and make a good living by these sweets 11 1. 0 001, DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP DT d i j oinl o the following letter was received concerning tu n e vaint of the wreck of a burnt ship, ashore on tne at abs_A coast, near Bideford :—" On Saturday morning,_,..ti while on the look out, noticed a ship on s hore he day-break, a corporal of the mounted uf'c'iovel service, attached to the preventive station l a O ff W pr: t combe. Having given the necessary alar rn .' 1 , 40 She rr i ceeded to inspect it, when he found she WI'D r f l c r e geold o n masts and burned down to the water's edge._,. t o, peared to be about 400 tons burthen, laden wal l , Star. from which it is presumed she is from Ameriese O le :I the chief officer of the coast guard station, lost I' d Oat adopting measures to save her cargo, which the wreck as the tide rose. Nothing was fuul!, sn o eccer o re lead to her identity, every portion of her, with Lu'„ is 11 1 of the lower part of the hull, being destroyed." _T in flaln than probable she is the same vessel that wasp ari w i e ter, If Quebeea.. , on the 10th of last month by the Diamond , 0 1 supposed to be the Abeona, of New Ross, frn_gi, ea 15 0 7 . - she proves to be the same, the crew have e*" Devonport Tektraph HA] 4 :13t 1 t tr'4.4l 4 4. I v , eh t l 4 t e , PeA