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VtatTli OP SPAIN RAILWAY COMPANY. At the General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Com v.ny, held this day at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Con te: rnably with public advertisement, it was resolved— " That the Report of the Directors presented to the meeting be re, ceived and adopted, and that the Rod al North of Spain Railway C•empany be forthwith dissolved " .n pursuance, therefore, of the above resolution, all holders of scrip certificates of shares issued in England 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 pro portionable return from whatever fluids may remain for ultimate distribution. THOMAS S. CITTBILL, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, Dec. 19, 1845. Shareholders may receive the printed reports of the Directors and Engineers at the office. ELEGANT LITERARY PRESENT. Now ready, IVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. w and Revised Edition, in 8 yob., with Illustrations, elegantly 3und, price 10s. 6d. each, either of which may be had separately. " A valuable contribution to historical knovhedge—to young per *ons especially. It contains a mass of every kind of historlzal ratter of interest which industry and research could collect. We live derived much entertainment and instruction from the work."— Athenteum. _ . ----- Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, OLUME V. of the NELSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES. Edited by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, G.C.M.G. Henry Colburn ,Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING NEW WORK ON OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. Just ready, CAPTAIN FREMONT% NARRATIVE of the EXPLORING 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 resting as a graphic description of novel and exciting scenes and adventures. Wiley 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. Sharies the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Caesar De Bazan; Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. H. Phillips ; Maritana, Miss Romer; Lazarille, Miss Poole. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet, called THE DEVIL TO PAY, in which Mons. Breda, Mdlle. Flora Fabbri, Mdlle. Babas (of the Academie Royale, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mr. W. H. Payne, Mons. Delferier, Mr. Howell, and Mr. Wieland will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Original Comedy, called THE MAIDEN AUNT. Sir Simon 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; Margaret, Mrs. Humby. To be followed by a New and Original Farce, called RAILWAY BUBBLES. Gorman Hudson, Mr. Madsen , Ellea SeYton, Miss Seytoa Te cionalude with A. CABINET QUESTION. THEATRE IS ROYAL. AD D ELPHI. TH EVENI_ will be repeated TUB GREEN BUSHES; or, I. Hundred Tears Ago. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Tates, and Mrs. Fitawilliam will perform. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Maglo and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To eonclude with SEEING WRIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THR 3IANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK, BY MR. DICKENS. This day, Dec. 20, will be published, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH : A FAIRY TILE OF HOME. By CHARLES DICKENS, Esq. The Illustrations by Clarkson Standfleld, Esq., R.A. ; Daniel Macllse, Esq., 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 duced an entirely New and Original Drama, in Three Acts, founded on the above Fairy Tale, and which has been for several weeks in active preparation, entitled THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadows, Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Mary Keeley (her First Appearance 011 auy Stage), Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Dawson, Miss Howard, Miss Forster, anti Miss Turner. After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. To conclude with OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Ia which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform. tRINCIiSS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled TEE VIOLET. Andre, r. Wallack ; Trennnet, Mr. Granby, ; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray ; larchioness d'Orrille, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanchette, Mrs. Skirling; olanche, Miss May. After which, will be repeated a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, the RAILROAD FOOTMAN of BERKELEY-SQUARE. Jeames Plush, Mr. Compton. To be followed by a New Grand Ballet, enticed LB DIABLE A'QUATRE. NEW STRAND THEATRE. LAST NIGHT-FOR THE BFNEFIT OF MR. DAVIDSON. THIS EVENING Will be repeated TriiKinidliNT OF VENICE. Shylock, ir. Gregory; Bassan o, Mr. Waldron ; Portia, Mrs. Percy. After which, the Wonderful Feati of Professor Hemmigg and FTwo Sons. To be followed by the Fifth Act of RICHARD THE '1 HIRD. Richard, Mr. Gregory. To conclude with STATE SECRETS. Box-office open from Ten till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Popular Spectacle of MAZEPPA. Embracing 11, en hole Strength of the Company, aided by a Double Stud. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. To conclude with the effective Drama of THE NAMELESS ; or, The Brigand. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, DEC. 20. THERMOMETHER, Lowest, 34;, Highest, 46; Noon, 41. BAROMETER, 28.99.—W1ND, W.; showery. time WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• minutes after 5 I Evening .. 57 minutes after 5. , P- , 7 5-;tof- 44. eo - • • ••, 1. "<• „ ;kik • ;,_ . SECOND EDITION. int LONDON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1845. RECALL SIR ROBERT PEEL. Lord Joust 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- COlTlplish the task remained to be seen; but the gradually improving tone 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, caused by the timidity of some, and by the pride and obstinacy of others, which have ended in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S refusal of the prof fered Premiership. We believe that Lord JOHN has 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 is understood, left town this morning for Windsor Castle, to have an audience of her M AJESTY. Sir JOH N HonnousE, and other political leaders, called at Lord To RUSSELL'S residence, in Chesham place, this morning. The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night:— The death of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, which was an nounced in our early Edition, opens the door to Par liament for Lord MORPETH, and enabl es the new Ministry to boast among its members the represen tative for the West Riding of Yorkshire The Cabinet arrangements remain secret. It is reported, but we hardly believe it, th a t m r. AUSTIN will be the new Solicitor-General. it, AUSTIN rS a man of transcendant power, and of great wealth, but what has he ever done for the Liberal party ? Absurd rumours have been afloat in the Courts of Law as to Lord COTTENHAM refusing the seals, and the appointment of Lord DENMAN as Chancellor, with Sir THOMAS WILDS 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 Q uEEN . At present, however, nothing positive is known as to the day of the Council. The members of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administra tion will also attend at Windsor Castle on the same occasion, for the purpose of delivering their seals of office. This morning the usual daily meeting of Lcrd LANspowNi and the other leading political supporters of Lord JouN 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 j ect 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 LANs- DOWNE, 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 RICHMOND" and TYREELLS. 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 tht m. They would be resisted to the last by sixty or seventy Irish Members, by the whole of the Liberal party, headed by Lord JOHN 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 TYREELL 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 the real friends of Lord JOHN RUSSELL are anxious that he should not persevere in his attempts to govern the country without a fair chance of success, and that it would be better to give up the struggle at once than form a Ministry which could not secure itself against defeat. Since the above was in type, we have learned with satisfaction that Lord Jowl . 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 IVRLLnwToN. 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 vi e can expect is infallible chiefs. That the result of the Andover inquiry has hitherto been most unsatisfactory, there can be no doubt; and that the Commissioners are to blame for this unsatis factory result, we think will not be doubted by any one who reads Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet. The in quiry was commenced by Mr. PArmata. on the 25th of August : on the 17th of September the Commis sioners ordered the proceedings to be suspended, just as the evidence in support of the charges was con cluded, and the master was to enter upon his defence ; then, on the 15th, Mr. PARKER was ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. We will here quote Mr. PARKER : "On Monday, the 15th of September, I bad 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, and to prepare the defence, towards which nothing had been done, as they had not expected the investigation to be resumed ; and, with the consent of the counsel on the other side, Mr. PARKER granted a five days' adjournment. " This adjournment for firo 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 was not of greater duration 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 have been committed several years since." But so bent were the Commissioners on haste, and so little mindful of justice, that they overruled this Mr. PARKER proceeding to Somersetadjournm eHnto;usea,nhdon 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 au officer against whom charges of the kind involved in the investigation now pending in the Andover Union have been made on oath, is liable to be called on to give an explanation, and enter upon his defence with the least possible delay." A) 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— " The time that has elapsed since the investigation began has been amply sufficient, in the opinion of the Commis sioners, to enable you to get together the materials necessary for your defence,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- The following are the quotations for other lines:— Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), G premium ; ditto (Caton), sf. 50c.; 131 ; ditto (Ganneron), 51.; ditto (Lapinsonniere), 4f. ; Sud Est, 31. ; Ardoin, 31; Re cevenrs-Gen6ranx, 41; Paris and Strasbour , (Ganneron), If. 30c. ; ditto ( Beetle; ), if. 5Cc. •, Tours and ' Nantes (Mac kenzie), 51.; ditto (Drouillard), sf. ; ditto O'Ne3J, 51.; ditto (Carette), sf. 50c.; ditto (Lefevre), sf. • Lyons and Avignon (Talahot), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe), lf. 30c.; ditto (Com pagnie Meridionale), 500 f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken zie), 500 f.; ditto (Espeleta), 61. 53c.; Creil and St. Quen tin, par; Charleroi (Kysaens), 4951. The Lyons Definitive Shares sold at 75f. premium ; Strasbourg ditto, 20f. ; Tours and Nantes, 411. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEGI. 19. Anglo-Belgian — ;Madrid and Valencia... Barba does Boulogne and Amiens.. 8 Bordeaux &Mediterran Bordeaux and Toulouse Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Callao, Lima, and Pa citie Coast Central of Spain ..... Ceylon . Demerara Dendre Valley ...... Dutch Rhenish 715 Dieppe & Paris Juliet — Dijon and Mulhouse It East Indian Fampeux & Hazelirouk Grt Northern of France Constituted lB Do. Pepin le Ilalleur — Great Paris and Lyons — Great Western Bengal Great Western 'Canada 33A Jamaica S. Mid:Junction Do. North Midland — Do. Extension Jersey Louvain and Jomappe — Lyons and Avignon — Luxembourg Nimbi'. and Liege North Jamaica ... ,Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux 9% OverYssel Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 2% Ditto (Ganneron's). 8% Ditto (Calon's).... Ditto (Sad Est) 2% Paris and Orleans—, Paris and Rouen . Paris and Strasburg (Ganii(ron's) Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 Do. (Aymard's) Paris and St. Quentin — Rouen and Havre...— — Royal North of Spain — Sambre and Manse Strasburg and Bale Tournay,Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie's) . 4% Do. (Lefebvre's) 2I,E Do. (O'Neill's) Trinidad....., Verona and Ancona — West Flanders 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 SCHOOL OP EDINEURGH.—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 knowledge 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 ? VIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY; QUARTER TO TIMEX. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was without any change. Sales, 3,000 bales.—ln Shares everything re mained very dull. At Messrs. Lomond and 'Co's sale of Railway Shares yesterday the following prices were realiseds : London, Bristol, and South Wales ... 42s 016 0 East and West of England Junction... 1% 0 13 6 Oxford, Gosport, Portsm., and Southtn. 42s 1 0 0 Ditto ••• ••• ••. ••• 1 0 0 Ceylon ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5s 012 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 lAi 0 15 0 Great Kent Atmospheric ... ... ... 2!‘ 112 6 Ditto ... ... ~. .. 1 12 0 East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0 Ditto ditto ... 0 19 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 22s 1 0 6 Ditto ••• ... ••• ••• -- 1 0 6 East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0 Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• .. 0 6 0 Northam pton,Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 2 3 0 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock ... 42s 410 0 Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 9 0 Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries 1 % 0 15 6 Grand Trunk ... ... ... ... ... 42s 018 0 Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2% 1 5 6 Great Welsh Central ... ... ... ... 42s 1 2 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 22s 1 1 0 Ditto ditto ... ... ... 1 1 0 Sheffield and Macclesfield ... ... ... 42e. 0 16 6 N. Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries 42s 416 6 Lincoln & Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% 1 10 0 Ditto ditto ... 1 10 0 South and Midlands Junction .. ... 42s 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% 0 5 0 Rugby, Derby, and Manchester . ... 2% 1 5 6 North Staffordsh., Churnet & Potteries 42s 416 0 Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 015 6 Ditto ditto ... ... ... 0 16 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7 3 0 8 0 Ditto ditto ... ... ... _ 0 8 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0 Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s - 1 1 0 Ditto ditto ... ... .. 1 0 0 Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke .. 105 s 215 0 Manchester, Midlands, and G. Grimsby 1% 1 7 6 Shropshire Union and Canal ... ... 42s 1 10 0 • Ditto ditto ••• ... 1 10 0 Sheffield and Manchester Direct ... 42s 1 5 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 6 Leicester and Birmingham ... .. ... 22s 1 1 0 Ditto ditto ... ... . ___ 1 0 0 N. Staffordshire, Churnet,and Potteries 42s - 416 0 Ditto ditto .. 4 15 0 London and Manchester (Rem.) ... 2 3 4 1 .13 0 Essex and Suffolk ••• ••• ••• ... 1% 016 0 Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s 0 8 0 Ditto ditto ... 0 8 0 Great Western of Bengal ..• ... ... 14 0 8 6 Ditto ditto ••• ••• ... 0 8 0 Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) ... ... 3 2 1 0 Madrid and Valenti* ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 1 1 0 Irish North Midland ••• ••• ••• ... 1% 015 0 Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 423 1 0 0 Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 9 6 Ditto ditto ..• ••• ••• 0 9 6 Line. and Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% 1 9 6 Ditto ditto ... ••• ••• ••• 1 9 6 Ceylon ... ... ... ••• ••• • • ••• 4 0 13 0 North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42s 416 0 Grand Union ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 1% 1 6 0 Nottingham, V. of Belvoir, & Granthm. 1% 119 6 Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0 Manchester and Southampton ..• •.. 2 2 11 0 There are no later accounts from the British colonies to day. Ile return from the Bank of England relative to its opera tions this week show an increase in the circulation to 26,626,350/. or by 85,870. An increase in the Rest of 6,2021. or to 3,215,596/. An increase in the Public Deposits of 573,9731. or to 8,684,374/. An increase in the other deposits from 9,022,019/. to 9,089,705/. A decrease in the seven dajPs bills of 0,880/. A s n o in l c orreasteo 6,0 in the notes l in the banking department of 560,5 The amount of bullion now held is given at 13,268,771/., showing an increase of 201,421/. . . In the promissory notes of the various country banks there is to be noted a ge nera l but not an extensive increase since the previous statement was made public. 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 18a. premium. Bank Stock opened at 201, it is now at 200. _ _ A fair share of business has been transacted in the Foreign Funds this morning. Brazil new Stock are quoted at 78 ; Chili= Deferred at 52 3 4 ; Grenada at 21; Peruvian at an advance to 41 • Spanish Five per Cents. at 2 , 8 4 ; and th e Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 60 1 . The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn ing ; and where business has been done rather advanced rates have been paid, as our list of corrected prices will show. BRITISH FUN DS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock ......... 201 200 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5............ 92%4'4% New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuities ......•••• 94 5 4 . 96 )1,,i Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... 10 0-16 % Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 4 d. I %d. 1,000/. 500/. .... ....... „ ..... ~, „„ „.. 20 18 pm. Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.......... Cent..........— Ditto Newßonds, 1829 and 1839 78 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent • —,, Ditto Deferred Stock ............. .. 52 i4 Granada, 1 per Cent. . . ,,..... 21 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 3O Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 4O 41 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 — Ditto for the Account 2 8 34 Ditto Deferreu Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21,4 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARIE. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to Aylesbury and Theme IA Belfast & County Down VA.—. ..... to Bideford and Tavistock .. U.' Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... Ditto New Shares Birmingham and Oxford Junction Birmingham and Leicester Direct — to Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. ..-- Bridgewater and Minehead... 425...... Bristol and Exeter Ditto New ..... ..: .......... .. 2 to • ••..•• Bristol and Gloucester 3O Bristol and Liverpool Janet. 2 1 / 2 Buckinghamshire 425....... Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambrian Grand Junction ... 42s — to Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 2%. ... to -- Ditto, New ...... l% 2% to •••• , THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1845. 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 At 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 hid noticed the charges against the master, as well as the complaint respecting the crushing of bones. Sir Edmund appeared to me to be unusually excited by what he had read in the Times, and he expressed a desire that I should exert myself to bring the inquiry to a conclusion with as little delay as possible, in order that the public mind might be quieted. He then informed me he was of opinion that I ought not to allow the master to be present whilst the wit nesses were under examination. This suggestion surprised me as much as his state of excitement, and I replied, I would not incur the responsibility of excluding the master, unless the Commissioners gave me express instructions to do so. Sir Edmund said, What responsibility would you incur?' and I answered, ' The responsibility of acting illegally—the responsibility of acting contrary to the received opinion of the bar.' " The exclusion of the accused would have been, with out question, the most flagrant injustice. A man who could broach the doctrine here ascribed to Sir EDMUND HEAD is certainly unfit to he a Poor-law Commissioner. We have learnt with surprise, from Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet, that, before the exposure by Mr. WAKLEY of the bone-crushing in the Andover Workhouse, the Poor-law Commissioners had been remonstated with on workhouse labour both by Ma. PARKER and ly 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 snore 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 ommissiuners. In the Rye Union it was the practice of the present Commissioners to sanction, as a matter of course, small sums in aid of wages to able-bodied men. In 1842, when the dis trict including that Union was placed under my superin tendence, I inquired into the subject, and I was told in the Commissioners' office that I was to overlook the existing compro mises of the law in that Union, for the population was too deeply pauperised for the poor-law system to worn beneficially 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 observed at the opening of the Cortes on the 15th. The Three per Cents. closed at 36 11-16 for cash, and 37 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 24k, at 60 days. The Moniteur of the 18th publishes two royal decrees, confirming the adjudication of the Paris and Strasbourg, and the Tours and Nantes Railways. The Paris papers continue their comments on the Ministerial crisis in Eng land, and though there is little new in the articles, the writers seem to know as much on the subject as the best informed in this country. They know the cause of the late resignations, the difficulties of Lord JouN 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 11' ational.—" In the abusive language directed against Sir IL 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 of time the Baronet guided this hot-headed party by check ing them ; but for that he required the aid of Lord STANLEY, and, still more, of the Duke of WELLING TON. If the latter would at once renounce his resist ance, and employ his authority, Sir ROBERT could, no doubt, resume power, and go on governing as he has 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 reins 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 Francais, " the 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 want', 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 Metternich in terminating, 'cannot be conjured away but by large conces sions I" The French funds were more firm on Thursday : The Three per Cents. closed at 811. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 90e. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,1721. 50c.; Rouen, 957 f. 50c.; Northern, 7221. 50c.; Havre, 765 f.; Avignon, 880 f. ; Vierzon, 6421. 50c.; Bordeaux, 615 f.; Boulogne, 502 f. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau, 435 f.; Basle, 237 f. ; Fampoux, 49Df. ; Spanish Actives, 36. Cambridge and Oxford l% to Canterbury and Dover Central Kent 2 1-, Chelmsford and Bury .. ,oto C'J!ster and I lolyheail . 15 Chester and Manchester lieltenhain and Oxford •..... 2 Clydesdale Junction Cork,Blackrock, and Passages 22s . ... to Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford I A ...... Cornwall Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., and Leicester l l4 — Dartmouth, Torbay,& Exeter 425. Derby, Gainsboro', and Great Grimsby . Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staff'd 2%...... Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2 3 / 4 — ...... to Ditto (llackstrick's) PA — .....• to rirect Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh ...... 1% — to Dublin aad Belfast Junction 5 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine 2 h — - Dublin and Galway 4 _ . Dudley, Madely, & Broseley Dundalk and Enniskillen ..... . Eastern Counties Do. New 6l. 16s 6 p to 5 3 4 p Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d Ditto, ditto, No. 2. —4/. 13s. 4d.... to East Derehan, and Norwich 1 Hy and Huntingdon 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 4 Essex and Suffolk l% — to Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth 42s. ...... ...... to Exeter, Yeovil, Sr Dorchester 2% Eastern Union 25 Ditto IA Shares... ........ Ditto Extension .... t o - Ditto Ipswich and Bury ... — . to Ditto Extension to Norwich 2%..... ..... to Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2% — to East Lincolnshire East and West of England ...... to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O to Ditto IA Shares — __. • • --- Ditto New _ Edinburgh and Northern.-- 1 ' , A — Edinburgh and Perth Gloucester, Abervstwith, and Central of Wales .•. ... l% Goole and Doncaster 42s. — Grand Junction 100 Ditto I/, Shares Ditto Quarter Shares...... 25 GrndUnion(NottingikLynn) 1% — to Great Eastern and Western.. 21i GrtatGrirnsby an dSli effield... 5 Great South tindW.(lrish) ... 15 Ditto Extension Great Munster 2 l/ — Great North of Scotland ...... 2% — to Great North of England 100 — to Ditto New ... Ditto New Great Western BO Ditto, Half Shares ......,.. 50 - Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 2 1 / 2 ...... Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 2% — to Harwich Elulland Selby . ... 50 Ditto Quarters . Ditto, Ralf Shares Inverness and Elgin Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar mouth Irish North Midland ........ 2 — to Isle of Axholme 2.)/8 — Killarney Junctions l l4 — to Kendal and Windermere 1 1,4 to Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 30 ...... 42 1 /. to Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 2 1 / 2 ...... Leeds and Carlisle .... 2% l7l, to Leeds and West Riding June. IN — ...... to Leicester and Birmingham... 225. Leicester and Bedford 22s. Leicester and Tamworth 425. — Liverpool and Manchester... 100 213 Ditto Half Shares 5O ...... 41 1 / 2 to Ditto Quarters 25 _ _ Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2% — ...... to Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction - Landon and Birmingham -.100 Ditto Thirds Ditto M shares ........- ..... 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto Extension London & Blackmail_ 161. 13s. 4d B l,x ...... to Do. New l l4. 3% ... .. to Do. Extension 3 - London and Brighton Ditto Consolidated Bths 40 Ditto, Sixths O l/2 London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. 2 0 1 14 to 20 2 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8 London, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, and Hereford... 1 London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d — Ditto Preference London, Hounslow,&Western 2 . London and South Western.. 41% — to Do. Now consolidated Sths.. 20 Ditto New Do. New 6 — to London and South Essex 2 34 to London and York... ..... ...... 2% 3%..... to London and Windsor ......... 1 Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2% — London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — to Londonderry.and Coleraine... 5 Londonderry and Enniskillen 5 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereharn Maneheitri end Leeds Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 4 1 4 — Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters 4 - __. .... Ditto New Quarters 2 ...... 8%..... to Do. Continuation & Welsh Junction l% to Manch. Buxtm, & Matlock 425..... ManchEtter Birmingham, and Mould Junction Manchester & Rugby Direct 425. Manchester and Soitliampton 2• Midland 100 .. ... .... . to Ditto Fifths Ditto, New Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo .....112 Midland and Eastern Counties 2% to `l/ Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2 1 A — to Do. Extension (No. 1) ... 2 3 / 4 Newcastle &Darlington tittne. 25 ...... 52 .... . to 53 Ditto New Brandling - Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...... Newport and Abergavenny. . 2 1 / 2 — to New Ross and Carlow 225. - Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2 1 / 2 ...... to Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 2% ...go to Norfolk Extension .....„ ..... North British Ditto Half Shares. - ... .. to -- Do. Extension to Carlisle... 14 — ... .. to Do. Extens. to Dalkeith ... 25 Ditto ditto North Devon North of Norfolk - Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)... 35 . ~.. Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New North Kent & Direct Dever 2 1 / 2 — North Staffordshire— ...... 425. .2 % 1 ,4 pto North Wales 3 l/g 3% to North and South Wales and Worcester Nerth. & South. Connecting 2% to Norwich and Brandon Ditto New Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham ... Nottingham and Boston 1 Notting.,Erewsh.Val.,&Mano. 1% — to Nottingham and Mansfield... to Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton 42s. Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton . Oxfd., Witney, & Cbeltnham "girth and Inverness - Pilbrow Atmospheric - — to Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. — Richmond Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2% — .... t. Rugby and Huntingdon. Rugby, Leamington, auu Warwick Rugby, Warwick, and Wor cester 425. Scotti: h Central Scottish Midland ... ......... ... 5 Sheffield and Manchester -.100 Ditto 1 4 Shares ............... 8 Shrewsburyand Birmingham 2 1 / 2 ...... Shropshire Mineral ......... ... 425. .... Shropahire Union . ............ 425. ... .. . to Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2%..... . to Shrewsbury, "rolverhampton, and S. Staffordsh. Junction 21/ - ... 2 Sligo and Sha nnon Som ersetshire Midland South Devon South Midland 42s. 2 % 14 p to South and Midlands Junction 425....... South Staffbrdshire Junction 2 1 / ...... iouthlEastern and Dover ... 33% ...... 3434 to 35% Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 Ditto, New, No. 3 Ditto New, No. 4 Southampton, Macchester, and Oxford Junction. 42s. ... St. Alban s, llatfield, and Hartford Junction Staines and Richmond....... 1 Staffordshire and Shropshire 2i4 — to South Wales Taw Vale Extension 'rean and Dove Valley l% to Trent Va11ey..... ............ .. 2 Trent Val. & Holyhead June. 2 3 4 — to Tring,Reading,& Basingstoke 5 1 / 4 — ...... to Ulverstone and Furness ...... 2% Vale of Neath Warwick and Cheltenham ... 1% — Warwick and W orces t er 425....... Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick 7%••• .. Waterford,Wexford,Wieklw, and Dublin - • to Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia Waveney Valley Welch Midland 2% ...... 1 3 % to West Cornwall 2 - West Yorkshire - to West London, Old Shares ... 20 West End & South. Counties 1 1 ,‘ — Wexford and Carlow Wisbeach and St. Ives ... 2 - Wilts, Somerset, & Sthamptn 1%.- - to Wilts,S'ouksete&Weymouttz 2A.......-• - Worcester, lisreford, Ross, and Gloucester 42s. ....• Worcester,TinburV&Ludlow 2 3 4 — --- to Wrster, Shrews. & Crewe Un. 1% .... ... .. to Worce,ter and South Wales.. 425. — Worcestor,Warwick,& Rugby 425.. — Yarmouth and Norwich ...... 21 Ditto, New... . ... 17 . — York and Carlisle York and Lancaster 2% — ...... to York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto. Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Selby 2l Ditto. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoes Boulogne and Amiens 8 ...... Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie's) • 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette ( Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders - Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 - Central of Spain . Ceylon .... ss. Demerara. Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse Dutch Rhenish East Indian Eastern Belgian Junction.... 2% Fampoux and Hazebrouk 2 Great Northern of Frarve Constituted . Great Paris and Lyons 2 Great Western Bengal 53. - - Great Western Canada Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 to Jamaica North Midland 1 Ditto Extension Jersey Louvain and Jeineppe ..... .... 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Luxembourg , 4 ...... ...... to Madrid and Valentia Mauritius 1 Namur and Liege . 4 ...... North Jamaica.. Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... . 10%....- to Over Yssel 413 s 4d... Paris and Lyons( Laffitte) ... 2 P4risand Lyons(Ganneron's) 3 ... .. 3 1 4 to Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... Paris and Lyons (Sud Est)... 2 Paris and Orleans.... ........ ... 20 Paris and Rouen .. Paris& Strasburg(Gannern's) 2 ...... ... ~ Do. (Compe de L'Est) Ditto (Aymards) 2 1% Paris and St. Quentin 2 Rouen and Havre Royal North of Spain 2 Sambre and Meuse 6 Strasburg and Bale St. Laurence and Atlantic.... Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassel t Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 4 Ditto Ditto Lefebvre'a)... 2 .. ... Do. (O'Neill's) ..- ....... ... 2 .. ... Trinidad- ..... ... 2 1 A Verona - and Ancona West Flanders 4 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered - to - to .. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 20.—Wind this day at noon South, and fine, but cloudy at times. OFF DOVER, DEC. 18.—Neriad, Cape of Good Hope. TORBAY.—SId. Royal, Jerquim, Hobart Town ; Sylph, Treadwell, Barbadees ; Ca c hb urn , Briar, Demarara ; Cairo, Hogg, Jamaica. BEAUMARIS. DEC. 18.—Arrd. Paragon, M'Gower, Carner von River; Highland Mary, Cristy, Montreal. LIVEIWOOL, DOICC. 19.—Arrd. Antilla, Barretta Calcutta; Helena, Black, Calcutta; Hereford, Racburn, Honduras; Albetross, Simpson, New Orleans ; Sarah, Barclay, Montreal ; Souter Johnny, Little, Quebec. Off port, Eliza Jape, Cal cutta; Shepherdess, Possession Island. MEM.—The Hope, Royal Bride, Golden Eagle, Salem, and Columbia did not sail yesterday as reported. DUBLIN, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Cingalize,Hutchinson, Demerara. YOUGHAL, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Tottenham, Evans, Quebec. WESTPORT.—Arrd. Hope, Sheridan, Port Wallace. GALWAY, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Sarah Millege, Quebec. LEITH, DEC. 17.—Sld. Pink, Campbell, Savannah. Hum..--Sid. William Gibson, Alexander, Calcutta. YARMOUTH.—Arrd. George Ramsay, Davis, Miramichi. OFF MARGATE, DEC. 19.—Margaret, Paynter, Singapore. DEAL, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Psyche, Irving, Hobart Town ; Emanuel Bautche, Thompson, Bahia; Claret, Quebec; Charlotte, Pollock, Quebec. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Bolivar, 011er, St. Vincent; William and Alfred, Antigua. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 20.—Arrd. Forth (at.), West Indies. SwANsPA, DEC. 16.—S1d. Countess of Bective, Cuba. WHITEHAYEN.—SId. Paragon, Jantherd, Jamaica. CLYDE.—Arrd. Arrun, Robertson, New Orleans; Eagle, P ictou ; Choice, Robertson, Quebec. Sld. 16, Earl of Dal housie, Primrose, Monte Video and Jamaica ; Agamemnon, M.Kandy, Mobilo ; John Kerr, Tait, Savannah ; Indus, M'Millan, Savannah; Adam Carr, M'Ewer, New York; James White, Rennie, St. John's, New Brunswick. Put back 18, Sesostris, 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. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—The Flat Chester from Chester to Carnal von, foundered off the Orm's Head; crew saved. 'I he 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 Hilke 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. AYR; 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 be saved in good condition; vessel much injured, but expected to be got off if the weather keeps moderate. WEXFORD, DEC. 17.—The Eclipse steamer, from Water ford to this port, got on shore upon the south bank of the bar at high water, in a dangerous place. WATERFORD, DEC. 16.—The Albion, from Quebec, which grounded off Ballyhack, as reported yesterday morning, has come off without any apparent damage. PORT TALBOT, DEC. 18.—The Pilot, Beynon, from Neath, which got on shore yesterday, came off and into harbour last night without damage. NoRDEN, DEC. 14. An English brig, supposed to be the Bellona, of Jersey, was stranded on the Island of Nordeney, on the night of the 11th instant; has gone to piecks, no part of the crew or cargo saved. A few casks of pumice stone have washed on shore, and an anchor and part of the bottom of the vessel have been saved, some pa pers have come on shore, amongst them two bills of ex change, drawn in Palermo, on the 4th of October, 1845, by Dickenson, on Lewis, Reis, Power, and Co., London, value received of Captain E. Varden, of the Bellona ; the other is dated Messina, 21st of October, 1845, drawn by Hopkins, Sons, and Co., on Lewis, Reis, Power, and Co., London, value received of Captain E. Varde n , f the Bellona; the first is for 75/. 2s. 8d„ and the other for 30/. 31E31.—The Bellona, Virden, from Licata to Hamburgh, was at Guernsey on the 6th instant. ELSINORE, DEc. 10.—The Astrea, Webster, from Riga to Sheerness, which was on shore near Carlscrona, 26th ult,, has been got afloat, and brought in to a place of safety, with her bottom out, and part of cargo out. FEEDEnicKsitALL, DEC. 2.—A Prussian ship, with coals, is reported from Stromstad, to have sunk on the Schereenoff flask°, and that only the tops of her masts are visible. 4. A Russian brig, or galeasse, laden with coals, is reported to have been lost three mil es sou th o f Stromstad. A large 'vessel, laden with timber, is wrecked near the Torbfoon Scheeze, and has drifted, bottom upwards, towards Egeroe, near Frederickstad. GOTHENBURG, DEC. 10.—The Five Sostre, Sarsen, from Newcastle to Copenhagen, was stranded near Denholm, 30th ult., and is not expected off; crew and running rigging saved. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Our market exhibited a very gay assortment of Christmas decorations, and the attendance of buyers being large, a full average amount of business was transacted in most articles, at full prices. Potatoes from 2s 8d to 6a 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 10d to 2s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s 6d ; Greens, is 6d to 2s 3cl; and Leeks, 8d to Is 6d per dozen bunches; Onions, Is 6d to 2s 9d; Apples, is Ed to 4s; Pears, 4a to Gs; and Spinach, Is 3d to is Sd per half-sieve; Hot-house Grapes, 5s to 6s; Pine-apples, 6s to 9s; and Filberts, 6d to 10d per lb; Red Cabbages, 4s to Gs; and Savoys, 10d to is 3d per dozen; Celery, 8d to is id; Brocoli, Is 3d to 23 6d; and Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle; New Oranges, 7s to 12s; Lemons, 8s to 12s; and Walnuts, 8d to la per 100. NEVI - GATE AND X.EADENSAI.M. 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. 10d. ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and P or k, 3s 6d to 5s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s'to 20s ; Geese, 4s to 8s ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to IsBd ; Wird ditto, 4d to 8d; Pigeons, 6d to 10d; and Roasting Pigs, 8s to 10s each ; Fowls, 3s 6d to 9s per couple; Pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Partridges, 2s to 2s 6d; Hares, 2s to 3s ; Le verets, 2s 6d; Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s; Grouse, is 6d to is 8d; Snipes, 8d to Is; Teal, is 3d to is 6d; Ducks is 6d to 2s 6d; Wild Ducks, 2s 6d to 3s; Widgeons, 2s to 28 3d; and Plovers, 8d each. 3IUNGERFORD. 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. Veer, from 2s 10d to 8s 10d ; M u tt on, 3 s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s 10 ss; and Pork,4s to 5s 4d per 81bs. A moderate supply and a steady demand. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7s to 183; Cod-fish, 2s to Ss; Crabs, 6d to 2s; Whitings, 4d to 8d; and L o b s t ers , 8d to 3 s each; Soles. Gd to 3s d per pair; Salmon, is to is 4d; and Eels, 4d to is per lb. ; Sprats, 4s 6d per bushel. to Bee , Beef, from 2s 8d to is 10d; Mutton 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s to is; and Pork, 3s 6d t o 5 s 2d per Sibs. Trade steady, at the above quotations. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are Prins 9d to Sid; of Household ditto, 7S to Sid per 41bs loaf. HIDE M 2i A. Market Hid es , 561 b to 641 b, d RKET to 3d per li; do. 641 i to 721 b, 2 1 / 2 d to 3d; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d; do. SOlb to 881 b, aid ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 3cd to 4d ; do. 061 b to 1041 b, 4d to ; Market Calf Skins, each, 3s to 63 6d; Horn Hides, 138; Polled Sheep, 4s to 5s 6d ; Half-breds, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Downs, 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Lambs, 3s to 4s 6d. MELT ii.R.IZETI3. SatrranELD.—Meadow Hay, 11/ lOs to 4/ 15s; Clover ditto, 4/ lOs to 5/ 15s; Oat Straw, 11 Ss to 1/ lOs per load. Wheat Straw, 1/ 105 to 1/ 12s per load. Trade rather dull, at the late dcline in prices. Cuittamtr.A.m).—Meadow Hay, El lOs to 4/ 16s ; Clover, ditto, 4/ 10s to 51 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 10s to 1112 s per load. Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. W lIITECIIAPEL.—Meadow kiay,3/ 8s to 4/15s; Clever iitto, 4/ 10s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, Il 10s to 1/ 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at late rates. Canning's Ministry was twenty days in completing -Wellingtbu's twenty-four days--Grey's six days. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS His Lordship sat at ten o'clock, and proceeded with• the hearing of son e very important motions. EARL NELSON V. LORD BRIDPORT. Mr. TINNEY, on the part of the - plair,Tilf,;eplied at great length to the arguments on the other side, which occupied the remainder of the day. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) Sittings at Nisi Prins, in London, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury). HEATH AND AND ANOTHER P. DURANT. This was an action of aasumpsit, brought to recover 10,4001. upon a policy of insurance effected upon certain good's by the plaintiff with the defendant, who was an underwriter at Lloyd's. The defendant had placed upon the record I number of pleas, amounting in all to twenty-nine, denying his liability, on the ground that the vessel 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 Solicitor-Ge neral, Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Greenwood for the defendant. The plaintiffs are African merchants, and the defendant an underwriter at Lloyd's. The action was brought to re cover 10,4001., the aggregate amount of a policy of insurance effected upon three distinct parcels of goods which constituted the cargo of a Brazilian vessel c a ll e d theVirtuosa Maria Aldine , and the policy specified that the goods were' to be insured for a period of twelve months, extending from September. 1840, to September, 1841, during which time the vessel was to sail from Genoa to Pernambuco, and o th er p or t s o n the coast m. South America, and thence to Angola and other planes' en the coast of Africa. The vessel sailed in due course from Rico do Janeiro for Angola, her final destination,and intended port of discharge; but, in order to avoid some exceedipF l 9 heavy export duties which were imposed on vessels sailing from the Brazils direct to the African coast, the captain, an Italian, named De Moro, cleared her at the Rio custom-house for Pernam buco ; but, without tou c hi ng a t th a t p or t, he steered direct for Angola. In the course of th e vo y age he put in fq Benguela, a Portuguese settlement o n th e Af r i ca n coast, an there she was boarded by the cre w o f a P or t ugues e slooP-m" war, called The Eighth of July, when the fraud committed 1 1 the captain upon the brazili a n custom-house was discovered, and it was found that the Virtir l t Maria Aldine had an u nusua l num b er of pipes of water, as well as 160 bags of Mandahosea foin on board, which induced the Benguela authorities to fancy she was intended for, or about to embark in the Oa" trade, and the crew were arrested, and the vessel and earg ° seized and condemned. The plaintiffs, however, denied that this was so, and contended that it was the valuable nature of the cargo, which consisted of silks, velvets, and cotton goods, that instigated the crew of the Portuguese sloop of wq, capture the Virtuosi' Maria Aldine, because it was mann es " from all the papers in possession of Capt. De Moro, that sa° was engaged in a legitimate trade. Nevertheless, the 40- fendant refused to indemnifythe plaintiffs against the loss, in asmuch as the policy did not provide that th e Vi r tuosa Ma . ; Aldina was to be insured against su c h a ca pt u re, and i' present action was brought to determine the question whette d it did or not. . The ca s e occupied the whole of the day and had not ter minated when the Court rose. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATrEsoN and Mr. Baron ALDERSON , Er ) STABBING.— f/Pm. ill‘Carthy, a corp ora l i n the Roys.,iit rives, was indicted for stabbing a y oung man n amed M° geridge. Mr. Payne conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Bodkin de fended the prisoner. Wm. Henwright, an omnibus conductor, residing 12 . 0 Grafton -court, Marylebone, stated that o n th e day named, / the indictment he was standi n g a t th e en d o f Grotto-pg-;; There were two girls st an di ng th ere also. ' a d prisoner, who was very tipsy, came uP , W ys spoke to one of the girls, whose name ; a y Elizabeth Debly. Her companion said to her, " Con e , ll.. .ve from the soldier, or I will tell your mother, and she will you a good thrashing." The prisoner said to her, " do you mean ?" and struck her a blow on the face instantly returned. The prosecutor then came up sted told Dibley to go home and if the soldier attempted tom e her he would b—y well drub him. The prisoner st: " What do you mean ?" and Muggeridge repeated the !":1 pression. The prisoner then drew his bayonet and stabs", him under the eye. The prosecutor screamed out seci across the road, but the prisoner remained standing wb e i re was until a policeman came up and took him into custrogibe which s The prosecutor confirmed this statement, as did lb° girl Elizabeth Dibley. A OW Mr. BODKIN made an able address to the jury, en tended that the act was one, not of premeditated violen but a sudden provocation and anger. The Learned Coac'st also called several witnesses, wh o gave the prisoner an e% lent character. Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in laying the evidence before A tbe jury, remarked that the counsel for the p ro secution_r t opened the case as if he intend e d t o scree n the prisoner. he was not the way to cond u ct a p rosecu ti o n, and he hope d should not see it practised agai n . l oon The jury returned a verdict o f Guilty of a cern assault. ed and Mr. Baron ALDERSON sentenced him to impr ison kept to hard labour for th r ee ca l en d ar months. CLERKEN WELL.—(T HIS n k Y. ) A little fellow, about ten years o f age, named Fran ks, wis charged with begging. Mr. George John Garnet, residing in Newington-street' Somer's-town, deposed th a t on th e previous night he if,edis going home along the St. P ancras - roa d, when he was a ccos t_ by the prisoner, who asked f or some thi n g for God's 5 1 1`; saying that he had no food, and was utterly destitute. was about giving him some m one y, when a aentleno n o n formed him that he had just given him a shilling, and ° Jo t e further inquiry Mr. Garnet learned that as soon as t he "4 a rascal got the money he went into a public-h ouse an d cal e t for some beer and a pipe. At the time he told cow/blis s he was starving he had lOid. on his person. The prisoner acknowledged he had been rigged out in present wretched habiliments by his father, whin vas. d farrier, living in Windmill-street, Tottenham -court - roa d, that he had been sent out by him to beg. The case was remanded for further inquiry. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENT S. New Fri., Lodge; Her Majesty's stag hds., Mon., Littivton-11. Wed, Cot' Py tchley hds., Mon., Ashby St. Leger; tesbrooke; Fri., Thornby; Sat. Boughton House, ne ar Ketttaing-104. Coln' Sir R. Sutton's hds., Mon., the Bull, Witham mon; Tues., Ayston ; Wed., Greetham Inn; Fri., 1 30 " on- the- Hill; Sat., Cottesmore-11. Durham county lids., Wed., Manton; Fri., Flaws. worth Bar. Earl Fitzwilliam's lids, Mon., C as t o r Hanglan df ; Wed., Weybi iige- wood ; Fri., Long Orton-10. sr , Cambridgeshire hds., Mon., Stow F ox ; Wed., She hatch-wood ; Fri., Abbotsley-gretn-10i. Thanet harrs., Mon., Sarre-mill ; Wed., Vincent.,, r Mr. Lushington's lids., Mon., Key-street ; Fri., - 040 ton-court. Mr. Drake's lids., Tues., Skimmingdish-gate ; Ludgershall- village ; Sat., Astrop-gate-10t. Herefordshire lids., Fri., Rotherwa •s— 10 . w e d, Baron Rothschild's stag hds., M on ., A s t on Clinton; " Blackgrove. li. „ Norfolk stag lids , Tues., Colton •, Fri., HorsteadHal-',, 1 01 0. Surrey stag lids , Tues., Ap er fi e ld ; S at ., N e l son Inn, ',"(itolt Tindale lids., Mon., Matfen Piers ; Wed., Whitn n e Raby hds., Mon., Whitworth; Wed., Hamsterlq; Hollingside Wood-Iq. . Ad Lord Southampton' s hd s ., M on ., B a db y W oo d ; Wed.,TitliD . Toll-gate; Fri., Foster's Booth ; S a t., S vres h a m Hatch -jr, Sinnington hds., Tues., C ows by W oo d (H am bleton try ; Fri., Catter Bridge-10. Luited Pack, Wed., Ridgway Turnpike. Union hds., Men. Hart's Wood; Wed., Gosden; Newland's Corner ; Sat., Bear Green-10i. ci l e Haydon lids., Wed., Spring Pl an t a ti on; S a t., Alton Banks-9. We° a; Hevthorp lids., Mon., Boulter' s B arn; W e d., Tar Fri.,Bledington Mill ; Sat., Ditchlev. Hern bY Hurworth hds., Tues., Leven - Bridge ; Sat., Village. Devon lids., Mon., Cotley Wood-11. r dot+ Mr. Drax's hds., Mon., Holnest Kenn e l ; Sat., 3t l bridge. F. 8., Mon., Killigrew Hill; Fri., Pelean Cross-104-cst., Albrighton lids., Mon., Enville; Wed., Aqualate ; P Dudmaston-11 1 4. Berkshire hds., Mon., Fernham Village; Wed., FoXc ° tn Hill ; Fri., Buckland. Bedale lids., Mon., Streatham Village; Wed., ford Park; Fri., Hipawell Mr. Brand's hds., Mon., OtHey Hoo ; Fri., Luton Yak 101/„. Cleveland hds., Mon., Roseberry ; Fri., Kuton Mr. S. Lownde , i's lids., Mon., Beachampton Grove; " Winslow; Sat., Little Brickhill-10 1 . Mr. Morrell's lids , Mon., Kennel ; Wed., Scotland Mb Gate; Fri., Kennilworth Castle. Oakley lids., Mon., Cranfield; Wed.. Bletsoe ; Sat., °lic e. ley Hall-104. Lord Parker's lids., Tues., Chequer's Couit ; Fri., ID lt°ll. Stone-pits, Puckeridge Hids., Mon., Furneaux Pelham; Wed., S tar stead, Essex ; Sat., Clurnbelowe-10i. 11 Prudhoe and Durwent lids., Mon., Dipton ; Fri., Asvre Park Lodge-10. Mr. Watson's lids., Mon., Angerton; Wed., Pigdon; F ri " Kennels. ed York and Ainsty hd s ., M on ., M e lb ourne ; Tues., House • Sat., Shire's Bar-10i. Brushford harrs., Mon., Northmoor; Wed., Higherconl b Fri., Gulland-10. oroughbridge harts„ Tues., Great Ouseburn; Fri., 131/r bon Grange-10i. Eastbourne harrs., Mon., Willingdon Old Mill; Fri., Pa radise Hill-10 . Wed-, Fowlescomb, or Forest harrs., Mon., Black Down sign of the Owl ; Fri., Fowlescomb Kennel-10. Wed., Mr. Lane's harr s ., M on ., Q uarterman ' s - groun d ; Ipsden-ield; Sat., Tetsworth. Glynbourne harrs., Wed., King's-head, Chailey-- 11 - 1. Norfolk harrs., Tues., Fou'sham; Fri. Langor-bridge- -. , Cahir stag Am., The Suir Mills (Cashil-road) ; Wed., Kilinoyley-1 2. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING. The Croateth Purse was won by Mr. Swan's Sparks - ° f- Fire ; Mr. Temple's Titan ran up. The Altcar Stakes were divided between Mr. rare Prince and Mr. P. Taylor's Tiny Salute. The Sefton Cup was won by Mr. Swan's Snapdragon; -M r N. Blundell's Brewer ran up. THE ROYAL STAG HOUNDS.—A very large field vvi iii at the uncarting of the stag yesterday, at Larglev Broom" the meet taking pLce at the Dolphin, at Slough. The PM% ; ook away in beautiful style towards Black-park, doublil back to Wexham, over Wexham Heath, b y th e w i n dmill o t Fulmer Common, on to Alderm an ' s Bottom, and thence, c' v, i Red Hill, to Denham Mount, wh ere i t d ou b led. to t h e let,' running along by the side of the brr,ok to Mr. Hibburd 6 Park, at Chalfont St. Peter's, where' l l was taken, after a N o of nearly two hours over an extre'lAielv heavy and rough lin e of country. The Earl of R oss i- , has not h un ted with th e royal pack since Friday last. It was stated in the field yes' woeld be the probable successor of that Lord Kinnaird of his Lordship as the W . aster o f t h e Q ueen ' s b uc k hounds. SIR War. So,, ,s have pleasure in r e.. •. cording another a the many tfi excellent re p resentative. instances of benevolence re_' r: orneed to the - poor b y our Saturday F ast, Sir William having ascertained the amount of , the debt tine by the • • and thus debtor. couhrre4 a . welc)me binefit on creditor and -- DrViar4 Argiiit. e poor debtors in our gaol, paid it in full ■ . 41 111 , R .411)%s: tai %«% Pc,r t li‘, 1( 4)1 td 4 , 11 ho„ a a sj PrT e „kri t C® ' 4.lll a 111 1 g, ':h4( ip p • 1 it .111 it Ott), 3 It .4e tk. lriti 14t 14,11, t. e 'l l ,' to hat ttu ,{t u 1