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TIER SUN, LON - nr)l4, VVIfiiN'ESDAY EVEN I NG, JANUARY 1, BANKRUI .—( .) "FCYTHIS DAY . wi t s -;: y AN I) Ci. ) NIMERCIA 1, -, i:!:%il 8 (Before Mr. Commissioner Foeneseseue.) CITY, QUARTER TO THREE . IN Ii M. EDMONDS. The Cotton Market at Liverp oo l y ester d ay was qu i et; The insolvent, a b, er-shop keener in Somers-town,ap- sales 3,000 bales.—Shar e s we r e i n goo d request. Bir plied fur his interim order, but was opposed for Mr. mingham and Gloucest e r, 101 ex new ; Br i stol and Thomas Barris, brewer, Ham[stead-read, the only ere- Gloucester, 43-A- 4; East ern C ount i es, 15 4 ; Glasgow ditor. The matter was, however disposed of, by Mr. and Greenock, 114; Grand Junction, 228; Ditto, New, Harris being appointed ass ;;nee. 434; Liverp oo l and Manchester, Quarters, 52 ; IN RE HAM gnee London and Yo r k, 4i- ; Churnet Valley, 34 ; MO . ND UPTON. Manchester and Bi rm i ng h am, 52 1 ; Manchester and The insolvent, a farmer, near Margate, was opposed Leeds, Half, 531 ; Midl an d C ounties, 1151 1161 ; She& by fir. Woodruffe, on the part of a Dr. Chambers, on a 1 ; judgment debt. After judgment had been obtained, a field and M anc h ester, 98 97 Lyons and Avignon, deed of dissolution was entered into between the insol- 21. 13s. 60. ; Paris and Lyons, 31 ; O r l eans , T ours, an d ; vent and his mother-in-law, with whom he had been in Bordeaux partnership. The examination was rather amusing, as, The colonial Northern of France, 61 -i-.onial and general produ ce mar k e t s re - open amongst the list of creditors, no less than six or seven to;iough stocks are large, are ex p ec t e d to ru l e fi rm. peered. The schedule disclosed no assets. day s but the publi c sa l es are as yet li m i ted. Prices, tailors, Nur wine merchants, and sundry perfumers ap- although The attempt of the Americ a n s t o exten d t h e i r trade Mr. COOKE, for the insolvent, granted that the sche- with China cannot too m uc h exc it e our vigilance. It - dule did nut appear to disclose anything, and he craved is observed in a communication fr om N ew York, that " some short time to prepare a more satisfactory one. there is a very large tr a d e carr i e d on b etween Russia and China on th e N or th an d W est, besides traffic 1 lie interim order was consequently deferred. to an immense extent betweea the British East India THE TALACLUE cos IN THE MATTER Of possessions and China. Heretofore, the foreign trade JOHN DAVIS. The insolvent, a director, in 1839-40, of the far- by sea has been very i ns i gn ifi can t compare d w i t h the famed Talacre Coal Company, petitioned the Court. total foreign trade of suc h an i mmense emp i re. F i ve ports are now open to the commerce of the United States He was supported by Mr. Sturgeon, and opposed by and Great Britain. Commercial treaties of a very fa Mr. Cooke, for the Talacre Company, and by Mr. Wilde, vourable nature have been perfected between these on the part of William Littlejohn, Secretary to the said com any. Powers, and the industry of each h ave , in the perspec Mr - p tive, full employment for many ar ti c l es o f manufacture . STURGEON contended that his Learned Friend, Mr. C o oke, h a d no l ocus s tandi in th a t Court. for the demand that must i nev it a bl y spr i ng f rom the The HON. COMMISSIONER would wish to know for wants of more than three hund re d m illi ons o f people— whoma mass of M r . C oo k e a pp eare d ? If, as h e sa id, f or the of the worl beings gd in the a reater gg than all regate. The table of rest Talacre Co m p an y, h e (th e C omm i ss i oner ) wou ld w i s h to imports into Canton giv es us an idea, of the description see the deed o r charter constituting that company. Per- of goods they immedi ate ly require, Is bile the table of haps th e L earne d C ounse l wou ld ment i on names, as it exports shows us their p r i nc i pa l stap l es, and to what had bee n a l mos t j u di c i a lly d e t erm i ne d th a t corporations extent they are at pr esen t use d b y t h e people of the two bad no consc i ences . —(L aug ht er .) Mr. CO O K E —Th e n th e pr i n c ip a l mem b e r of di e c o r po- nations referred to. W o leant from Washington th a t ration could hav e no pos s ible con sc i e nce, for he (Mr. the treaty r e cently ma d e w i t h t h e C h i nese by Mr. Cooke), if a ll owe d, wou ld b e p re p are d t o p rove th a t a Cushing, was read t o th e S enate w hil e i n secret session, and we may hope so on t o h ave t h e p l easure of a perusal. sum of 30,0001., which ought to h ave a ppeared i n hi s schedule, w as om i t t e d. H e (Mr. C oo k e ) a pp eare d f or Mr. The ratifications o f thi s treaty , if as f avoura b le to our Chappelow and Messrs. Handyside and Taylor. Th e interests as anticipated, will b e one o f t h e most import deed of th e C om p an y w as, h ant movements made for th e ex t ens i on o f our com- all events he had it not in Court. e believed, in Ireland ; at coerce ever known during th e se t t l ement of the country. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—I s h a ll a l ways There is not a section of th e U n i on t h at w ill not he strictly require companies of this n a t ure to p rove their benefited by the openin g o f thi s tra d e. Th e manufac turers of the north, th e pl an t ers o f t h e south, and the existence by deed or charter. I know the mischief th at accrues to the public from them, ar e a s itti ng here, I will leadminers of the w es t, are d eep l y i nterested in this movement, and look for a s p ee d y sett l ement of the give them n o sor t o f encouragemen t. Mr. WILDE s a id th a t h e a pp eare d f or a cre di tor, M r. question." The Funds have b een aga i n very qu i et, b ut there is no Littlohn, and the objection did no t therefore him ppal to y weakness in the market. Consols have been 1004 4 Mr. STURGEON objected to bis Learned Friend re- for the opening; Exchequer Bills have been 625. to ceiving any instruction from fir. Ash:uses clerk, it hav- 645. prem,; Bank Stock has realised 2114 to 2101, being* New Th ree - an d- a -Q uarter per Cents ''' . ing been already decided that he h a d no s t an di ng i n t h at higher again Court. are 1031 to,. The Foreign Market h as not b een act i ve, but a fair Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQ UE wou ld l a y d own no business is doing in Spanish Bonds. The Five per rule upon the subject, but such oral instruction from a Cents. have beer 28 1 and upon a large sale made have fore'gn party would be certainly very inconvenient. , A , dropped again t o 271. Th e Th ree per Cents. have ob. Mr. WILDE would, with all defe rence to his Honour's dropped 364 to 1 ; M ex i can B on d s h ave b een quoted 351 is opinion, where a ,eensing fraud had been committed by and Colombian. 14i i, which is a slieht rally. F renc h some one, receive informative, from w ewe ‘-r quarter, with the intention of l a yi ng the circumstances Scrip has been 14 p rem i um; Dutch Two-and-a-Halfcircumstances()f that Cents are 634 •to 63-3- per 8 . fraud Lelore his Honour and the publi c , an d th ere f ore in The Railway Sh ares are genera ll y b uoyant. Great the exer c i se o f w h at h e conce i ve d a proper d i scretion, Western are higher, owi ng t o t'oe opinion of th e Bo ar d and until o bli ge d to d es i st b y an order from his Honour, of Trade in favour of its projected branches; and South he would go on as he had already done. Western have declined, from the report aga i nst t h e eon - The insolvent was th e n exam i ne d w i t h a v i ew o f proving that h e was a tra d er , an d , t h ere f ore, (as an in- templated auxiliary lines. solvent) out o f th e jurisdiction of the Court. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL OCK. (The case was still p rocee di ng w h en we went to press. I . (From the Official List. ) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO4l New 34 per Cent. Annuties ... 10314 Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Opening India Stock 286 Exchequer Bills. 14d. lid. 1,0001. 5001. ... Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... ....• — pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 351 Ditto for the Account .. 354 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840— 274 284 271 Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 64 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent 3611 Ditto for the Account. Dutch 21 per Cents Ditto for the Account 634 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 1031 103 to 104 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Churnet Valley Cornwall ... 3 ...... 314-- to Ditect Northern Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto Fifths Lancaster and Carlisle London and Blackwall London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 5244 to London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 94 London and South 'Western.. 411 ...... 74 Ditto, New B4 London and Croydon London and Y0rk....... 24 .... 5 Manchester and Leeds 7O 125 Midland 100 ll 6 Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 62 Newcastle and Berwick Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 14 ...... to Richmond and West End June 1 -4 to Rugby South Eastern and Dover ... 334 Ditto New West Cornwall l4 ... .. 34 ...,.. to 44 York and North . Midland Ditto Selby Scrip 2O 69 Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Strasburg and Bale MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 31 —Our market is buoyant, and we have had a good business done. Bristol and Gloucester, 44 ; Eastern Counties, 154 ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 111 4 14 1 * ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 34 f; Cambridge and Li nco l n , 465., 455., 465., 455. 6d. ; London and York, 44 -,1. ; Man chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 81 3s. 9d., 4' , 84 I ls. 3d.; West Yorkshire, 64 ; Manche s t e r F i r e an Life, 11+1 ; I ,itto and Leeds, Half Shares, si; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 11 11-16; South-Eas'.'rn, 41; Ditto, New, No. 1, 134 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 3i; Churnet Valley, 3 13-16 i; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, ),9s. 6d.; Great Northern of France, 2 5-16 4 4 4 prem. LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) THE PRISONERS' CELLS.—Mr. Cook, the gaoler, re ported to the Magistrate that the cells were extremely damp, and in consequence of the length of time in which the prisoners had been confined, from ten o'clock in the morning until seven in the evening, two of them com plained of being ill, which, on examination, he found to be the case ; one of them, a female, became so unwell, that she was taken with a shivering fit, and he was com pelled to take her out of the cell and place her before the fire until she partially recovered. Mr. C9ok added, it was a great many hours for a prisoner to be confined in the cells (from ten until seven) before the arrival of the vans to convey them to prison. Mr. HENRY said steps must be immediately taken to remedy this defect, and the clerk of the works must see that the cells were properly warmed, so that no unne cessary punishment or serious consequences might be inflicted on the prisoners who had the misfortune to be locked up. Mr. Cook said the Magistrate's desire should be im mediately communicated to the clerk of the works. CL iERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A young m an o f dissipated appearance was c h arged with creating a disturbance and annoying Mr. Bardon, a respectable coffee-house keeper, in St. Luke's. The priso ner went into the co ffee-shop ' between twelve and one o'clock this morning, sat down, and began to hoot and halloo, so as to disturb the sleeping inmates. Ile then used the most abominably obscene language ; he asked for coffee, but the landlord, who had previou s ly been repeatedly annoyed by him, refused to serve him, and he became more noisy and indecent than before. Mr. COMM said the landlord would have acted more prudently if he had served the prisoner, as he had ten dered the money. Police-constable, 145 G, said he knew the prisoner as a thief. The landlord said the prisoner was an utterer of base coin, and an associate of the worst characters. The prisoner was cautioned and discharged. SPORTING IN BETTING AT MAN] CHEST] 35 to 1 agst Winssour 40 to 1 agst Extempore 40 to 1 agst PortobQllo 40 to 1 apt Ratan TELLIGENCE. ;'HESTER.-TUESDAY. :R CUP. 140 to 1 agst Valerian (t) '4O to 1 agst The Bashaw (t: 1 50 to 1 agst Foig a-ballagh 1 1 to 1 DEP agst Alarm—offered 1 7 to 1 agst Idas 18 to I agst Pam 18 to 1 agst hedger 20 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 3 0 to 1 agst Rebecca colt 33 to 1 agst c out of Calypso's dam tBY. 35 to 1 agst Pantasa 140 to 1 agst Old England(t) 66 to 1 agst Clear-the-way 6 to 1 agit Scott's lot 8 to 1 agst John Day's lot 13 to 1 agst Dawson's lot HUNTING AP her liajest‘'s stag hounds at Stoke Common, at 11. 'POINTMENTS. s will meet on Friday next MARKET NE tvl , S.-(THIS DAY.) CO RN -EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY - . th We had very little English Wheat on sale to day. yet demand fur it was in a sluggish state, at previous Quotations. In Foreign Wheat very little was doing, et prices were supported. The sale for Barley and Pea, Was Very in ac tiv e , a t late rates. O ats , Beans, and 4.- eas, as on Monday. THE FRENCH LEGISLATURE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The Chamber met on Monday to elect its fourth Vice- President and the four Secretaries. The ballot for thu Vice• Presidency gave the following results : Number of voters wiIITECHAPEZ The suppl y o f M eat on sale to -d ay was only mo d erate, yet the d eman d was h eavy, at our quotations. Beef, fro the 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, as 4d to 48 4d ; Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d, per Bibs. Absolute majority M. de Belleyme, the Ministerial candi date, obtained 172 _ - - - L LOYD'S SHIPPESG-(THIS DAY.) nazy LONDON, J AN. I. —Wi n d nort h er l y, fresh b reeze and I)EAL, D EC. 31.— Wi nd E.S.E. to E.,—Arrd. King William, St. A n d rew ' s; P at hfi n d er , Quebec. Sld. John We ave -I, Sierra Leone ; Medford, and Louisa New Orle ans. , PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Arrd. Louisa and Emilie, Mildenstena, Cape Hayti. RISTOL, D EC . 31. A rr d. C a nni ng , B rown , I c h a b oe; Xnglishman, Dyer, Africa (left Cape Mozuerdo, Oct. 28} A • Sea Li on , G ros, N ew O r l eans . ma k ed LMOUTH, D EC . 31.—Wind E., f res h ales.—A boat " Erin, o f G uernsey , R. Sharpe," was washed ashore on the Low Sands, between the Black Head and the Manacles, 27th instant. WEXFORD DEC. 28.—The Royal Albert, from Liver Pool to Ichaboe, struck on Blackwater Bank this morn- In g, and was abandoned by the crew, but subsequently g o t off by some fishermen, and towed ashore two miles south of the Jaegar. LIVERPOOL DEC. 31.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. leas, China ; Susan, Flood, Bromy, Vixen, l ain Pico; Europe, Feuba, New York. Off, Theresa, Maranham. Sld. Manilla, China; Charles Hamer ton,t., St. D om i ngo; Grampian, New Orleans; Leander, Savan nah; Sir Charles N a pi er , N ew O r l eans. Th e ' rie nds, of St. Andrews, from Newport to Boston, was abandoned in a sinking state, 20th inst.; crew saved. S WANSEA, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Arab, How, Miramichi. SMUNVICK HARBOUR, DEC. 25.—The Cora, of Liver- Pool, fr om Africa, out nineteen weeks, short of provisions, and the crew disabled, was spoken, 21st i ns t., by th e Blanche, from Donegal to Ichaboe, p u t b ac k h ere , h av i ng experienced very severe weather. HULL, DEC. 30.—Oclebrook, Quebec. Sld. William and Ann, Ichaboe ; Cestus and Britannia, Monte Video. . - M. Billault, the candidate of the Opposition 168 M. do I3elleyme having had one vote more than the required majority, was proclaimed the fourth Vice-Pre dent. This announcement appeared to produce a lively impression on the assembly, and was evidently regarded as a check for the Cabinet. The Ministers retired im mediately after the scrutiny. The Secretaries subsequently appointed were the same as last year, namely Messrs. Lacross, the Opposi tion candidate, who obtained 192 votes ; De l'Esre,?, 189 ; Boissy d'Anglas, 188 ; and Lascases, 176. The last three were Ministerialists. The second Opposition candidate, M. Havin, had 162 votes. THE BISHOP OF NORWICH AND PUSEYISM.—On Sunday afternoon week the Lord Bishop of Norwich preached a sermon at the parish church of St. George's at Colegate, Norwich, to an overflow ing congregation, amongst whom were many of the Dissenters, in aid of a collection for the repairs of the fabric, the Dis senters having successfully resisted a compulsory rate. and the Church-people having at length consented to adopt the voluntary principle. His Lordship, after the afternoon service had been read by the officiating minis ter, ascended the pulpit, and preached a sermon upon Ephesians, chap. v., ver. 32 : " I speak concern ing Christ and the Church." In treating the subject his Lordship took a brief review of the Church from the Apostolic age, noticing the gradual falling away of the Church of Rome till its general corruption at the time of the Reformation, acknowledging that the re mains of error were still to be found in the services and rubric of the Church; and hoping that another genera tion would not pass away before it should be purged of these Papistical remains. The deterioration of the clergy of the English Church in the eighteenth century, and the present improved state of the priesthood, were passed under a review, his Lordship taking special no tice of the Tractarian principles and their prevalence in some of the other dioceses in the kingdom, and openly renounced them as being a step backwards to Po pery. They were the hay, straw, and stubble of religion, and their introduction had a great ten dency to cause discord in the parishes where they were introduced. He rejoiced that with a few exceptions they had not been introduced into his own diocese ; and he assured his hearers they would have no countenance whatever from Mm. Their object was to exalt the clergy, giving them all the power in the Church, and al most excluding the laity, and to destroy the principles of free inquiry so nobly asserted at the period of the Re formation. With regard to church -rates, which had so long and so unhappily been a subject of division in this parish, he advisedly refused to enter on that question ; he would not rake up old disputes and heartburnings. He hoped these had now passed away, and that a better spirit, a spirit of peace and union, would pervade all par ties in future. At the end of the service a collection was made, which amounted to 18/. 1.55. 10d.—IpswichExpress. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE RIGHT HON. FOX MAULE, M.P.—lt has been resolved, we understand, to pay the tribute of respect to Mr, Maule, by presenting him with a superb carpet of needlework. several ladies in Perth, and in other parts of the country, have been per mitted to contribute to this work, although the ladi es o f Aberdeen have the merit of originating the pr o p osa l. The ingenuity and good taste of the ladies will b e we ll directed in producing a work which will, doubtless, do credit to them, while it is intended to do honour to one of Scotland's truest patriots, and most talented statesmen. —Dundee Warder. PRESIDENT POLK.---We are informed from excel leat a uthority, th a t th e p rese nt President o f th e U n i te d States of America is th e hei r and descendant o f our l ate Worthy and respected Provost Pollock, Polk, or Poke, of Our ancient burgh. Provost Polk discharged the onerous duties of chief magistrate of this burgh during the Years of the Rebellion 1745 and 1746, with great reedit ; ar.d received for his l o yal and patriotic conduct thanks of the King's Government. The Provost was person of considerable property, and had the influence tib become chief magistrate in opposition to the powerful lnily of Flea, or Fall, who, for a period of nearly one h u ndred y ears, swayed the politics of the town. Mr. yo lk died in the year 1752, and his property and effects came into the possession of his brother Andrew, who settled in the State of Tennessee, or the southern part of Igerth Carolina. Although this star of the 'Western D unbar may never have heard of the Provost of unbar being classed among tho,e who added to his R u zily influence, sell, wh en h e sways t h e sceptre o f toe most powerful nation of the New 'World, we trust he will endeavour to render more durable the good linden: tending hetween the States and the mother co untry, arid ever mind Provost P o lk' s toast, " M ay Pn'er war be among us," one familiar to many old inha bitants to this day, as Provost Poke's toast, and the effect s of his experience of " the '4s."—Kelso Chronicle. The railroad from Hockerill to Cambridge is fast Progressing. The works are carried on with such dili gence as to afford reason for believing, that, with the ex ,e,,Ptinn of a tu nne l t h roug h Lord Braybrooke's estate, whole line may be opened for traffic in the coming spring, His Lordship is building a spacio inn and ho tel a t t h e Wenden Arnim station, a di stance us of rather more than a mile Iron Saffron Walden.—Essex Herald. BRlTisx MUSRUM.—Yesterday the British Museum Vilk 3 closed, and will remain so till the Bth inst. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TlDE.—Last evening, at high water, the banks of the river in many places were ovi-2flow::d, etpccially in the li.w neghbourhoods of Wapping and Tooley-street, where the tide rushed into the cellars and kitchens, throwing the inhabitants into considerable alarm. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The opening article in Blackwood for this month is an essay on the hackneyed theme of " Homer, Dante, and Michael Angelo." But hackneyed as is the sub ject, and hopeless as is the task of bringing anything like novelty to bear on it, it is yet rendered enter taining by the mode in which it is treated. The author commences his essay in a very spirited and pic turesque style, by showing the influences that Homer has exercised over Europe for the last three thousand years, observing, "Painting and statuary have been employed in striving to pourtray his yet breathing conceptions. Language and thought itself have been moulded by the influence of his poetry. Images of wrath are still taken from Achilles, of pride from Agamemnon, of astuteness from Ulysses, of pa triotism from Hector, of tenderness from Andromache, of age from Nestor." This is true, but though the Homeric Ulysses is a synonyme for " astuteness," a greater genius than even him of the " Iliad" and the "Odyssey," has boldly grappled with the character of the Istracan King, and endowed him with far more lofty sagacity and keen worldly knowledge than Homer had it in his power to bestow on him. In the brilliant but strangely irregular play of Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses displays in one single passage—we mean that inimitable one commencing with "Time hath, my lord, a wallet on his back," which is more truly Shaksperian than any other to be found in the whole range of Shakspeare's dramas—more profound wisdom and more searching worldly truth than he manifests throughout the entire " Iliad" and " Odyssey." In the course of this clever essay the author, alluding incidentally to the effects of criticism on genius, says, " The dread of ridicule extin guishes originality in its birth." The power of the critic is certainly great over mere talent, which it has often succeeded in crushing ; but first-rate genius, deeply conscious of its superiority, and earnest in ex hibiting it, bids defiance to the fiercest hostility of criticism. " A Ramble in Montenegro" gives some curious details respecting a sequestered European province little known to English travellers. In the present chapters of " Marston," the hero has just ac cepted the office of Irish Secretary, at the stormy pe riod of the rebellion of '9B, of which some stirring sketches will, we suspect, be given in the next portion of the narrative. In the " Red River Recollections" we find the following graphic account of a stag-gun on the water " It was a long Indian canoe, made out of the hollowed trunk of a cotton tree; a many-tined antler was stuck in the prow, and dried legs and haunches of venison lay in the fore part of the boat; towards the stern sat a young girl, partially enveloped in a striped blanket, but naked from the waist upwards, impelling the boat in the direction of the deer by long graceful sweeps of her oar; in front of her was a squaw of maturer age, performing a like labour. In the centre of the canoe were two children, queer guinea-pig -looking little devils, and near these lay a man in all the lazy apathy of a redskin on his return from the hunting -ground; but towards the stern stood a splendid Antinous-like young savage, leaning in an attitude of graceful negligence on his rifle, and evidently waiting an opportunity of getting a blow or a shot at the stag. As so on as these cildren of the forest caught sight of the steamer and of Doughby's boat, they ceased rowing. only recommencing when en couraged by some loud hurras, and even then visibly taking care to keep as far as possible from the fire-ship. It was an interesting and picturesque sight to observe the two boats describing a sort of circle on the broad ruddy stream, while the steamer rounding to, formed in a manner the base of the operation, and cut off the stag's retreat. Presently a shot fired without effect from Doughby's boat, drove the beast over towards the canoe. The long slender barque darted across the animal's track with the swiftness of an arrow, and as it did so, the Indian who was standing up d ea lt the stag a blow that caused it to reel and spin round in the water, and change its course for the second time. When I again glanced at the canoe, the young Indian had disappeared. " Here he comes!' shouted Doughby, pointing to the deer, which was now swimming towards his boat. Give way, boys! the Indians must learn of a Kentucky man how to strike a stag. Give way, I say!' " The noble beast had recovered from the severe blow it had received, and had now approached the steamer, towards which it cast such a supplicating tearful look, that the hearts of the ladies were touched with com passion. " Mr. Doughby,' cried half a score feminine voices, spare the poor beast! Pray, pray let it go!' " Spare a stag, ladies! Where did you ever hear of such a thing? Hurra, boys!' shouted he, as the boat came up with the deer, and clubbing his rifle, he deli vered a blow with the but-end that split the stock in two, and threw the stunned animal upon the gunwale of the boat. Quick as thought, Doughby clutched the ant lers with one hand, while with the other he reached for the knife which one of his companions held out to him. At that moment the deer threw itself on one side with a convulsive movement, the boat rocked, Doughby lost his balance, the stag, which was now recovering its strength, drew itself violently back, and in an instant the Ken tuckian was floundering in the water, struggling with the deer, to whose horns he held on with the gripe of a tiger. Hallo, Mister Doughby in the Red River!' " The whole ship was now in an uproar, the ladies screaming, the men shouting directions and advice to those in the boat. We began to be somewhat anxious as to the result; for although these water hunts are by no means uncommon occurrences, they are often dangerous and sometimes fatal to the hunter. The deer had been severely stunned and hurt, but not killed, by the blow it had received, and it now strove fiercely against its power ful opponent, throwing him from side to side by violent tosses of its head. Doughby still held on like grim death, but his eyes began to roll and stare wildly, his strength was evidently diminishing, and he had each moment more difficulty in partially controlling the stag's movements, and preventing the furious beast from run ning its antlers into his body. It was in vain that the four men in the boat endeavoured to render assistance. Man and beast were rolling and twisting about in the river like two water snakes. The scene that had at first been interesting had now become painful to behold. " Fire Parker !' Fire, Relby!' shouted several voices from the steamer to the men in the boat. " Knock the cussed redskin on the head!' was the unintelligible rejoinder of one of the latter. " The stag had now got Doughby close to a tree-trunk, against which it was making violent efforts to crush him. His life was in imminent peril, and a universal cry of horror and alarm burst from the spectators. Just then the head of the deer fell on its breast, the eyes glazing and the legs flinging out convulsively in the agony of death ; at the same time, however, Doughby began to sink, and a bright streak of blood that rose to the sur face of the water, and spread in a circle round the com batants, gave reason to fear that the mad Kentuckian had received some deadly hurt. At last the men in the boat succeeded in getting hold of Doughby and the stag, the former being seized by the hair of the head, while his hands still clung to the deer's antlers with the desperate grasp of a drowning man." BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mr. Albert Smith here commences a new work of fiction, with the ominous title of the " Marchioness of Brinvilliers." The subject will require a great deal of dextrous and delicate management to render it palatable to the reader, for the Marchioness, together with her paramour, St. Croix—the two most noto rious pois o n e r s o f the day—was a heroine in whose fortunes it is scarcely possible for any one to take the slightest interest. The story opens in a promising manner, but we must see more of it before we can venture to pronounce a decided opinion. The " Close of the Old Year" is a poem, whose greatest recom mendation is that it does not fall below absolute mediocrity. The " Fête of Peterhoff" is an ani mated description, by Mrs. Romer, of one of the Emperor Nicholas's birthday festivals. We could have spared, however, the fair writer's exagge rated account of the " unrivalled beauty" of the Czar. The " Boys of Kilkenny "is a lively, boisterous sketch of certain national oddities, by a writer who signs himself " An Irish Whiskey drinker." The " Gaol Chaplain" continues his per sonal recollections this month, and his stories—whose only fault is that they are of somewhat too gloomy a character—exhibit no falling off in point of interest. " Confessions of De Loude Chiselham" is a lively tale from the practised pen of the author of " Richard Savage." In the " Literary Retrospect of the De parted Great " occur the followi ng reminiscences of the late Charles Mills—one of the profoundest his torians of the day, and who--had he lived—would have realised the predictions of Scott and Southey, and taken a foremost rank among the authors of his age. We knew him long and intimately; and as we lift our eyes up from the desk at which we write this to his bust, which faces us, it seems but yesterday since we heard him, in his usual buoyant manner, relate the progress he had made in his last and most popular work on "Chivalry," which reached its third edition but a few days before his death, by consump tion, at Southampton. The writer is mistaken in some of his details respecting Charles Mills, who did not winter at Pisa, but at Nice, and who was not "thirty-six years old " when he died, but thirty-nine :" "Coeval with my acquaintance with him, and be tween the period of boyhood and of college, was my more matured friendship with Charles Mills. Charles Mills ! I think I hear those of my grandchildr e n w h o may, at some future time, pick up this retrospect, among old bills, or old letters, ask, Who was Charles Mills ? ' I answer, 'Many a worse man, many a writer with one third of his knowledge, has lived, and does live, whilst he is chiefly to be found in a dusty back-room (that is, his remains), at Messrs. Longmans', Paternoster-row.' " He was one of that race, my child, or children, who may scan what this hand now writes (having done, thank Heaven ! for the present with these papers from Lincoln's Inn)—of a race quite gone by—clean expunged from society—a laborious gentleman writer. A man of independent circumstances, not rich, who chose, from the love of letters, and the desir e o f f ame , to edicate himself to the fabrication of long historical works, the very subjects of which would drive our present authors to despair. History of Mo hammedanism—History of the Crusades, History of Chivalry—admirable' neglected works, written in a too ambitious styli., with the ghost of Gibbon always in the writer's view, presiding over his library table, but excellent, nevertheless—and, my daughters, or grand-daughters, or great grand-daugh • ters, they were pure ! The subjects were delicately handled ; for their writer had an infinite sense of what was seemly, and was a Christian writer. tions of ladies, of whom he knew little enough, though he loved their society. I well remember the deference of his manner to them—how seldom he ventured to raise his fine, dark, beaming eyes to gaze on any young beauty. Yet, he was, though when I knew him inclin ing to the old bachelor, by no means unsusceptible. But he lived in an ideal world. He lived with Grey, Pope, Addison. His intimate associates were Warton, and Thompson ; the companions of his lighter hours, Lady Mary Wortley, and Swift, or perhaps, Mrs. Centlivre, or Mrs. Oldfield—no scandal ! I mean to say, he spoke in their language—he almost thought their thoughts. He was remarkably conversant with dramatic literature, and I doubt not was one of those who understood every point of a good actor, from John Kerable down to Blanchard. His quotations, in society, were infinite— his manner gentle, but not devoid of pedantry. Pe dantry ! What an antiquated characteristic 1 Like the stage coaches, it will soon be a mark of age to remember that such a failing was ever known. With it, there has passed away the race of close readers—the habit of accuracy—the love and knowledge of the old writers. " I was on the top of a Cambridge coach what I passed, one day, the lodgings where my poor friend Mills dyed. 1 saw him at the window, his face looked pale, I thought—he was standing, too, unemployed. A faint smile passed across his face as he saw ms. I called to the guard, and jumped off, carrying my carpet-bag with me. Absolutely the dear fellow came down to the door to meet me. I never saw a frame more shattered. He had been ill, broken a blood-vessel, he told me, in his weak accents (he stuttered a little), but was doing re markably well now. Alas ! He had wintered in Pisa years before for that same melancholy symptom. I never saw him more. He took me into his room, up stairs, well lined with well-preserved books, neat as a don's room, with a good fire, a disused desk, an easy chair, and prints of one or two favourite authors over the chimney-piece. I recollect, lad as I was, envying all this comfort. Poor Mills ! it was an easy cheerful decline, I heard ; he was never well enough to admit, after that, such harum scarum fellows as myself. Ido not believe he was more than thirty-six years old when he died." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The public character of the Comte de St. Aulaire, at present French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, is cleverly pourtrayed in the first article of the Number before us, entitled, " Passages in the Lives of the Celebrated Statesmen of Europe." The Comte, it seems, is a member of one of the most ancient families in France, and adhered steadfastly to the cause of the Bourbons during the famous Hun dred Days, which terminated with the final downfal of Napoleon at Waterloo. His biographer repre sents him as a man nearly as ardently devoted to literature as to politics, and his history of the " Wars of the Fronde " proves that he is as competent to shine in the one capacity as in the other. " iEsop Illustrated " is a humorous tale from the pen of the author of "Peter Priggins," who is rather too close an imitator of the late Theodore Hook. " Zurbano " is a spirited memoir of this celebrated Christino chief, who, says his biographer, was more dreaded by the Spanish Carlists than any other leader of his party, not excepting even the feroci,ms Mina. The Carlists, we are told, never considered themselves safe unless he was within twenty or thirty leagues of them. " He would accomplish forced marches of a length that appeared almost fabulous ; and in an extraordinary short space of time fall upon and exterminate some detachment of the enemy, capture a valuable convoy, or kidnap an officer of rank." " The Robertses on their Travels " contains, as all Mrs. Trollope's fictions do, some caustic and truthful touches of character, but the story is sadly spun out, just as if the authoress was chiefly solicitous to furnish a certain amount of matter, and was not very particular as to the quality. " A Discourse of Puppies " is a sprightly, satirical essay, but, nevertheless, it would have been greatly improved by a little judicious condensation. The " Gentleman on Half-pay" is from the airy and graphic pen of the author of " Stories of Waterloo,' who relates the confessions of a murderer in a most earnest unexaggerated manner. The subjoined inte resting particulars respecting the famous bandit, Santa Lucia is quoted from Mr. George Burdett's " Traits of Corsican and Sardinian character :" " Santa Lucia, who is still alive, enjoys the reputa tion of being at present the Fra Diavolo of Corsica. He was sent to school, at an early age, in his native dis trict, Sartiae, and was known as a generous, open hearted boy, always ready to do a good turn for a com panion. These seeds were, unfortunately, foredoomed to bring forth bitter fruit, and were, in fact, the main spring of his future career of guilt and wretchedness. After leaving school, he lived a contented life for some time, tilling his little patch of ground, and surrendering up his spare hours to the chase, of which he was pas sionately fond. At last the hour of his fall arrived. His brother, a priest, was condemned at the assizes for some trifling offence, on evidence which everybody in the island believes to be false. Santa Lucia's warm attach ments and antipathies now burst out in volcanic flames. Reputation, property, even life itself, were flung to the winds. His brother had been unjustly punished, and it was his task to avenge him. Having laid wait for the perjured witness, he placed the unfortunate on his knees without a struggle, as his known strength and determi nation rendered resistance hopeless. " Did you not call Santa L uc i a ( a R oman Catholic saint) to witness that you were speaking the truth ?' 66 6 yes: " Santa Lucia is here to reward you as you deserve." " With that he dug out both his victim's eyes with a stiletto, and wrote a scroll with the bloody point, which he pinned to the man's back : This is the punishment of false witnesses.' A friend of mine, a captain of vol tigeurs, actually saw this scroll before it was taken off. "All restraint was now removed, and the evil im pulses of Santa Lucia raged like the whirlwind. Any, the slightest opposition to his wishes, was punished with death. No distance, no lapse of time or fancied security of place, could turn him from his fixed purpose, if in tent upon shedding blood. A medical man had given him some ground of offence, and, fearing his wrath, took refuge in Ajaccio, the capital. Thither Santa Lucia followed him, and, after loitering about the !,treets for some days, saw him approaching. Both drew pistols, but Santa Lucia, the quicker of the two, shot his enemy dead. A small knot of women and boys had gathered round him, from whom he asked his way out of the town, and by them he was directed to the quarters of the custom-house officers, which he soon reached at a good round pace. The sentry perceiving a man coming along followed by a crowd, shouting out, Stop the assassin !' levelled his piece and told him to stand. Santa Lucia said, `What have I done ? If you shoot me you will commit murder, as, whatever these people may say, I have done nothing wrong.' Having closed by degrees with the soldier during these few words, he threw the latter for an instant off his guard by the openness of his manner. This was enough for Santa Lucia, who felled him to the ground with four blows of his stiletto. He then seized the soldier's weapon, dashed through the main gateway of the barracks, and was soon out of the town. About three hundred yards from Ajaccio he met a Corsican voltigeur, who made a, useless attempt to stop him. His step was on the mountain,' and, being well armed, he set both resistance and pursuit at defiance. " Having gained his stronghold his steps were marked with blood wherever he went, and the list of his murders had already reached nine, two years ago. His wife, his sister, and one friend, were alone entrusted with the secret of his whereabouts. His sister was a most beau tiful girl, or rather amazon, who had refused many offers of marriage, on account of her devoted attachment to Santa Lucia, whose love of vengeance she shared. During the day she assisted her sister-in-law in her household duties, and at night, slinging a double-bar reled gun and a box of cartridges across her shoulders, she used to plunge into trackless thickets, to carry food to her brother. " Last year a hot pursuit obliged Santa Lucia and his cousin, Giacomini, to fly to Sardinia, where they made themselves universally popular amongst the inhabitants. Santa Lucia freely accorded his protection to any in jured person who sought it in the island. The Sards at last gave him the title of " II Guerriero," the warrior, from his approved courage and conduct. A cousin and namesake of his was to be tried at the winter assizes at Bastia, in 1843, for murder, on which occasion Lueia re turned from his exile. It was understood that he had the address to remain concealed in the town itself during the trial ; at all events he issued a mandate for his rela tive's acquittal, threatening, in the contrary event, the judges and jury with death. An acquittal followed as a matter of course. Since then be has declared that, hav ing destroyed all his enemies, he is about to quit his native country for ever, and that he has chosen Egypt for his future home. I have heard, however, that he has very lately entered the service of the King of Sar dinia, and was almost immediately promoted to the rank of corporal of gendarmes." AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. The best thing in the present chapters of the Editor's " Revelations of London," is his description of Regent-street in the high noon of fashion, which is as vigorous and lively as it is circumstantial. The diablerie of the story is, we must honestly confess, not much to our taste, for demons, gentlemen three hundred years old, dwarfs of the same respectable antiquity, and such like melo-dramatic monsters, ill assort with the business-like, matter-of-fact habits of the present day, in which they are represented as playing off their romantic vagaries. However, Mr. Ainsworth is not without his justification, "his nanz plebecula gaudet." " A g i ncour t" i s a kindly and generous notice of Mr. James's latest novel—his hundred-and-fiftieth, we believe—which comes with peculiar grace from the pen of a rival novelist. " Wild Oats " gives some whimsical anecdotes illus trative of Elliston's eccentricities, and the effrontery with which he played on the credulity and forbear ance of the " pensive public." The "Country Cu rate " is one of Charles 011ier's unassuming domestic stories, and is throughout pleasingly written. " Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ' contains several characteristic portraits of this unaccountable portion of the creation. We quote from Mr. Saville's " Per sian Journal" his account of an interview with the late King Fath Ali Shah : " JAN. 28.—This was the day fixed for our having an au!ience of Fath Ali Shah ; in consequence, about ten o'clock in the morning, we mounted our horses, and, ac companied by Mr. M‘Neill,* the secretary of the Eng lish embassy, directed our course towards the royal palace. Having proceeded, with great ceremony, to a gate leading to the residence of his Persian Majesty, we dismounted, and wore conducted to an apartment, where we found several Persian khans assembled, among whom was Meerza Abool Hassan Khan, who was to present us " Ile vas, indeed, a sort of .knight-errant in his no- *Now Sir John Di'Neill, G.C.B. 1845, . 8 - 7 U N ( 1 `l-A l :•.\ '<,./.."!•: ,Z,--.:•,, to the Shah. The windows of the room looked upon a L RD L 'ME RI spacious court, where was as s embl e d a vas t concourse 0 ClC,;Atigliji4l T 0 THE EDI T 0 4ICC AIV4 niii of people. We remained in this sp o t t wo h ours ; the SlR,—Although opposed to you on mate; o e party time passed away very heavily ; for, on accou n t o f its , questions of the hour, I cannot but admir e th e truly in being during the fast of Ramazan, no kali auns or re- dependent tone with which you approach those general freshments were brought in, which circumstance marred questions of polity that can be touched upon regardless the accustomed gaiety of our Persian friends. Meerza of the spirit of faction. - Abool Hassan was habited in a fine court dress, and 1 The extraordinary scene that took place lately at wore, as well as ourselves, red stockings and slippers, i Limerick may be classed among the latter, and is not to which is the usual costume for any one who has the I b e passed over by calling the performers in it rabble or honour of appearing before the ' Shadow of God,' as the savages. I have reason to know this is not the first Shah of Persia is termed by his subjects. circumstance of the sort that has happened in Ireland. " At length the welcome intelligence arrived that his 1 While travelling in that country during the autumn of Majesty was ready to receive us, u p on w hi c h Meerza ' 1843, I passed by the wooded and picturesque domain of Abool Hassan arose, and requested us to follow him, and I Ravendale, the residence of the late Sir Harry Good we all proceeded together to a spacious court, at the ricke. The untimely fate of this unfortunate gentleman, upper end of which was the front of the royal palace, and the locality naturally turned my inquiries to the lato seated at an open window on the ground-floor was the Baronet ; with tears in his eyes did my narrator describe Shah, of whom we then had a side view. When we his generosity, his high spirit, his noble conduct ; in had arrived at about twenty yards from the palace, the fact, to sum up all, he was emphatically a " good land- Meerza shook off his slippers, and directed us to do the i er d." The whole country, for miles round, offered to same. We then each made a low salaam, and began attend his funeral, and had this been encouraged, it slowly to advance. We repeated the ob e i sances severa l would have been the largest one ever known, even in times before we arrived before the entrance of the build- Ireland ; but the story did not finish with the death of ing, when the Shah turning round, called to us to enter ; the late proprietor ; the good deeds Of one landlord re the words he used being `Beauyeed balau'—literally, called the evil ones of his predecessor, at whose funeral ' Come up.' We accordingly proceeded to ascend a broad the mob rushed upon the pall-bearers, dashed down the flight of steps, and entered the apartment in which his coffin, and trampled upon the inanimate body. Majesty was seated. It was a spacious chamber, the T his story made a great impression upon me. It drew walls and ceilings o f w hich were covere d w ith mirrors, the line of distinction between " a good landlord" and in every part of it were ornaments of various descrip- " a bad landlord ;" for lam satisfied that all the feelings tions, chiefly of European manufacture ; I could not, of th e populati on o f I re l an d centre i n t h ese d i st i nct i ons. however, help remarking the strong resemblance the Free to follow th e i r re li g i on, w h en l eft alone b y the agi spot bore to a large London china-shop. On our en- tators, all political questions are forgotten by the people. trance, the Meerza conducted us to the corner most re- They have only one question, reel that is emphatieally mote to that occupied by the Shah, who was seated on t h e l an dl or d que s ti on — t h e division between " the good" his heels on a beautiful nummud, and very plainly habited and " the bad." in a dress made of Cashmere shawl. In his girdle was a And now for the late outrage. Lord Limerick for large dagger, ornamented with jewels, and on his head near l y t hi r ty y ears n ever v i s i te d t h e property or the he were a black Bokhara lamb-skin cap, on which was country from which he gathered as many thousands pet a string of pearls ,• but the most striking feature about annum. H i nto him residence was uninhabited, and falling him was his beard, which exceeded by its length even decay. That late lamented traveller Inglis, in his " Tour what I had expected. It conceals most of his face, and in Ireland in 1828," has, iu more than one of his 'truth reaches to his knees ; during the whole of the audience telling pages, described him as the very worst landlord! he continued to twist the ends of it round his fingers. in Ireland ; and I can safely affirm that in 1843, from IVhen we had occupied the corner, his Majesty ex- Orangeman or Repealer, I never heard the contrary. claimed, ' Khosh amedeed !' literally, ' You are welcome' Not only was he a perpetual absentee, but the charities (well come). He then proceeded to ask us various ques- of Limerick and its neighbourhood will be vainly sought tions concerning our travels, and showed by his obser- for any response of the noble proprietor to the wants or vations upon our answers, that he had, for a Persian, a desires of his tenantry or the iallabitants. Lord Lime very fair knowledge of geography. He then proceeded rick, in fact, was, among absentee Lantdlords, absentissi to question Mr. M'Neill upon the affairs of Khorasan. mus. I write this without any personal' I.! l-will ; I never (from which he, Mr. M'Neill, had just returned), and had the slightest knowledge of the late Earl—less even the late campaign ; he spoke at the same time much in • than his tenants, for I never saw his bailiff. approbation of the conduct in that quarter of the heir It is far more easy to commit an outrage on the feel apparent (Abbas Meerza). The audience lasted above ings of the living dean on the body of the dead. The an hour, and I had ample opportunity of observing the outrage of thirty years was answered by the execration illustrious personage before whom we were standing. o f an hour ; but even this re-echo of the pent-up feelings His Majesty is still a very handsome man, and appears of years would, I have no doubt, never been heard, had much younger than he is in reality, on account of the the ill-advised friends of the late Earl been content with blackness of his beard, which is kept to thatcolour by the a private funeral. application of the Persian dye ; his voice, however, and The present Earl is said to be in some distant land, want of teeth, plainly indicate his very advanced age. perhaps unaware of the wealth and honours that have He bears a great resemblance to portraits I have seen of rather unexpectedly fallen upon him. If the late pro him. Oa his arm, above the elbow, his Majesty wore a ceedings are recalled to his memory, let him and all large bracelet (in Persian, styled bazubend) as a mark of other proprietors remember that they are but the com royalty. The bracelet consisted of stones set in gold. meat on the text which should ever be their rule of This was the article of most value amongst the few orna- conduct—" Property has its duties as well as its rights." ments he wore. An Englishman, bound to Ireland by no feeling but " The manner in which the audience terminated, was that of sympathy, and grateful, too, for some pleasant by the Shah giving a nod with his head, and saying, h ours spent there during the last year—not so much ' You are dismissed. ' We then made several low sa- among the hospitable halls of its gentry, but as a wan learns, and retired, keeping our faces towards his Ma- derer in many parts of the island, in its wildest and least jesty, and bowing, at intervals, until we reached the visited districts, and at a time when the repeal agitation spot where we had left our slippers, which we put on, was most rampant—l am induced to send you these few and then backed out of the court. observations. I confidently protest against the late out " Thus ended the ceremony-:of our presentation to the rage being mixed up with any political faction. It was Kiblah-i Auleen, the Shahee Shahu ' and the Zil Illah, b ut an out b urs t o f f ee li ng f rom a warm an d exc i te d such being the titles by which Fath Ali Shah was ad- people. It could not be restrained. Some may call it dressed ; meaning, ' Attraction of the Universe,' 'King savage ; but who can deny that it was not natural. of Kings,' and ' Shadow of God.'" Your obedient servant, R. D. Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1844. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS, FROM THE MORNINO PAPERS OF THIS DAT. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per milli, wkich, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 25 45 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4341 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 105 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9*; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1101- per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 p er cen t. in favour of England . But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. SUN.—There was a better market for the English Securities this afternoon, and more business was done. Consols for the Opening were 100; to S. Bank Stock touched 211. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 1035 4. East India Stock, for Account, realised 2865. The Foreign Investments were also firmer, the settle ment having gone off better than was expected. Spanish Five per Cents. were 27* 4, the Three per Cents. 385 I, and the Deferred 164. Portuguese Converted were 61. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 645 The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 2 to 4 ; Churnet Valley, 1* ; Great Western, 764 to 75 ; Bir mingham, 129 ; Brighton, 2* ; South-Western, 334 to 34/ • Croydon, Guaranteed, ; Loudon and York, 24 ; Midland, 16; Newcastle and Berwick, 5* ; South Devon, •, South-Eastern, 7* to 81 ; Ditto, New, 105 ; York and North Midland, Ilalf Shares, 265 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 24 ; Lyons and Avignon, * ; Orleans and Bor deaux, 54 ; Paris and Orleans, 244 ; and Paris and Rouen, 215 premium. Caledonian have be e n 5 ; E as t ern Counties, 9* 4 ; Blackwall, 9 ; Greenwich, 3 ; West London, 134 ; and Strasburg and Bale, 125 discount. There was a rise in the Exchange on Hamburgb, Trieste, and Amsterdam, and the rates on other cities are generally firm. _ _ PRIVILEGES OF ROYAL PALACES. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—It will be recollected that a gentleman, re siding within the precincts of Windsor Casi!e, was taken in execution, by an officer of the Sheriff of Buda ; at the suit of Mr. Lawrence, for a debt of between 2,0001. And 3,0001., and consigned to the county gaol at Readinp where he now remains. If this were a breach of privi lege, it wss not as against the party whose body was= taken and consigned to the county gaol, but a breach of privilege againr.i " the rightful power and dignity of the. Sovereign." But, Lin order to guard against the commis sion of such an offence, and the penalties which would thereby be incurred, a coi'munication was made on be half of the Sheriff to the Lord Steward, asking for per mission to execute the writ and take the body within the royal precincts. A reply wag immediately trans mitted by Sir Thomas Marrable, the Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, giving the required sanction of the Lord Steward to take the defendant in execution. provided the capture was made with a due af.'d proper " regard to decorum." From this it will be sew, that, without the permission of the Lord Steward, on the part of the Sovereign, to execute a writ within the precincts. of a royal palace, such an act would still be a breach of privilege. It is not, however, to be supposed, in the cases of persons in difficulties, who i ke refuge in " pri vileged" places, for the only purpose Gf using them as " sanctuaries" to be " out of the way" of civil process, that a similar permission would ever be withheld on the part of the Crown. The Counsel, on the part of the de fendant, in arguing the question before the Learned Baron of the Exchequer, chiefly relied upon the point that the Lord Steward had no power to give his permis sion for the arrest to take place; this, however, was over ruled. PRIZE FIGHT ON KENNINGTON-COMMON.—YeSter . day afternoon, at three o'clock, a fight for 31. a aide took place on Kennington-common, between a Jew and a Frenchman, which lasted for an hour and a half without any interference from the police. REVERSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. A DRUNKARD'S FATE.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Red Lion, Hart-street, Covent-gar den, on the body of James Copling, aged forty-four. The deceased was formerly a cab proprietor at the west end, but from habits of inebriation he had lost every thing he was formerly possessed of, and for some months past had acted as a doorkeeper at the Red Lion public house, in the Strand. For some months be had been troubled with a severe asthma, and on Saturday night last he was crossing the yard of the house, No. 4, Leg alley, Long.acre, where he was lodging, when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which ruptured one of the blood-vessels of the heart. He was conveyed into the house, and a surgeon was sent for, but prior to , his arrival life had ceased to exist. Verdict—" Natural death." THE SIAMESE TWINS MARRIED.—An American paper asserts that the reported marriage of the Siamese twins to two sisters, which was supposed to be a hoax, is a literal fact, and that Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Eng have presented their lords with heirs to the name and pro perty of Chang and Eng. It is further asserted that, being now married men with families growing up, the twins intend to resume their exhibition by way of in creasing their store and providing for their interesting The folloWing is the official return of the exports of Bullion from the port of London, for the week ending Thursday last:— Silver Coin to Calais . . . 250,000 ounces. progeny. ANOTHER NEW OPERA BY BALFE.—This popular composer has returned to Paris, and is now busily en (raged in the composition of another new opera, the 13,- tretto of which has been written by M. St. Georges, the author of La Reine de Chypre, and forwarded to Mr. Bunn, for translation into English. The principal part is intended for Madame Thillon, whose engagement at Drury-lane comma nces in May next. It is also said that an Italian opera by Balfe, entitled Elfrida, will be brought out at her Majesty's Theatre next season. DROWNING TO GAIN A LIVELIHOOD.--A young man, named J. Devroe, agee 18, was taken out of the canal on Monday last. It is supposed that he threw him self in on speculation, for, shortly after he was taken out, four individuals presented themselves to receive the usual recompense in such cases. Similar cases occur an nually. Some time back a man was known, why used to attempt to drown himself every week, but there 'ems always four men by to save him.—Brussels Ga2ette. THE ROYAL STAG HOUNDS.—Notwithstanding the strong indications of a fog, which prevailed during the whole of Monday morning, her Majesty's stag hounds met at Thorpe Green, agreeably to the announced ap pointment ; but from the circumstance of the fixture not having been notified in the London papers, the field con sisted of not more than between eighty and ninety, in cluding several military Nimrods from Windsor. The deer Wild Boy, upon being turned out, took away for Colonel Scholefield's, where, after circling about for some time in the plantations, made for Thorpe mill, doubling back to Botley's, and thence to Egbam waste, on towards' Chobham, where it was lost ; the hounds being called off in consequence of the fog, which by this time had got sa exceedingly dense that it was impossible to see for a dis tance of fifty yards, rendering the following of the pack a matter of great danger to both man and horse. The hounds were taken back to the kennel at Ascot, and Wild Boy left to roam at large for the night. THE INCOME-TAX.—Three hundred pounds per annum, arising from capital invested in the Three per Cents. is at the pr esent moment worth 10,0004 The income of a clerk is unsaleable ; it depends upon per sonal services, for which he may be incapacitated at any moment ; and if he die, his family are beggars. Yet the clerk is called upon to contribute the same amount to the revenue as a rich man with 10,0001. in the funds ! A system of fiscal policy more cruelly unjust it would be difficult to conceive, one in which the mins. , tice is more clear and self-apparent ; but the majority of the House of Commons, when the tax was thus un equally imposed, shut their eyes to its iniquity ; and they will do so again if the public let them. The ?sin ciple is the same if we compare the case of a tradesmen' with an income of 1,0001. derived from the profits of his business and a nobleman of 1,0001. per annum derived from landed estates. The value of the latter at only 25 years' purchase is 25,000/. ; the goodwill of a business, dependent upon the innumerable accidents of trade, will rarely sell for more than five years' purchase. The re lative position, therefore, of the tradesman and the nobleman, in the case supposed, is as one to five, arrl the operation of the present income-tax is as five to one in favour of the nobleman. At the end of three years, each will have paid 90/. to the revenue—the one out of a property worth 5,0004 at the time the tax was imposed, the other out of a property worth 25,0001. at the same lVestminster Review. , INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH . — On Satur day, St eleven o'clock, a deputation, consisting of more than forty gentlemen of high respectability, waited upon the Mayor at the Guildhall with a requisition to him, signed by nearly 2,000 citizens, all members of the Church of England, to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of Exeter, to address and petition the Queen on the present state and danger of the Protestant Church. Mr. J. Bacon addressed the Mayor in most eloquent terms, and his worship immediately conceded to the wishes of his fellow-citizens, and appointed Thursday next for that purpose. An earlier day would have been fixed, but it was feared it might interfere with the business of the sessions.— Woolmer's Exeter Gazette. SUMMARY OF NEWS AN 0 liAtbltr Q)ptnton. " Who runs may read." PORZION. On Saturday evening their Majesties the King and Citueen of the French received the President of the Chamber of Peers, the Chargé d'Affaires of Spain, the Swedish, Danish, and Dutch Ministers, and Generals Berthois and de Dampierre. The King and Queen ;of the Belgians left Paris on Monday for Brussels. The France says it is informed that Prince Louis Bonaparte has received at Ham letters announcing that his father, the Count de Saint. Leu, who is at Florence, is in a state of health which excites some uneasiness. A Frankfort letter states that Mr. Fox Strangeways, the English Minister to the German Diet, was to leave Frankfort for six months, but that he was not to be re placed, his absence being partly for the purpose of his receiving new instructions concerning the negotiations to be opened with the German Customs Union. Letters from Constantinople of the 17th ult. state that full satisfaction will be given to the British Consul at Trebizond for the insult offered him by the Pacha. Other measures were about being taken by Sir Stratford Canning, in conjunction with the Ambassadors of France and Russia, to obtain redress and compensation for the cruelty inflicted on a Greek at Trebizond. Dr. Wolff was on his way from Teheran to Erzeroum, according to the latest accounts. Mr. John Kerr, her Majesty's Consul at Adrianople, died on the 7th of December. Letters from Athens, of the 20th ult., state that the Chambers were still engaged in verifying the elections. By a manceuvre the Deputies, partisans of Coletti, were favoured and admitted in such numbers as to constitute for him a vast majority. The Post office convention be tween France and Greece had been agreed to. Very severe weather has prevailed on the coast of Syria since the latter end of November, and a great number of country vessels have been lost on the coast. Fresh supplies of troops were constantly pouring into Syria from Turkey, and Ali Pasha had arrived at Jerusalem t• re-implace the former Pasha, on account of his inactive conduct during the late di.turbances, caused by Sheikh Aboo Ghosh, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The new system of petty Christian governors, under the Druse Emeer in the Lebanon, is being carried into operation, but it is not expected that much good will be derived from it. The old Turkish coinage lately called in by the Govern ment is again perfectly current in every town in Syria. The ships of war lying at Beyrout on the 11th ult., were two Turkish steamers and a frigate, an Austrian and a French corvette, without any English vessel. Lady Hardinge and family arrived at Alexandria on the 17th ult., in her Majesty's steamer Hec4s, Com mander Duffil. M. Bourne's Postal Convention with the Nsha of Eg) 0, ties been terminated as tar as that gentleman is concerned, and it is to be sent to England by the steamer Oriental to be ratified. The conditions are not so satisfactory as expected. Although the par • ticulars of the agreement have not been made public it is believed that it is based on the same principles as the one made with the French Government for the India Mails proceeding through France, and that Mehemet Ali will receive an amount of postage on the mails passing through Egypt to and from India at the rate of 6s. per lb. on letters, and ls. per lb. on newspapers. The term is for five years. The mails will be conveyed through the country by the Viceroy at his own expense, and will be accompanied by an English messenger. The Egyptian Transit Company is still in a state of discomfiture, the real Directors not being yet known. In the meantime, the Government continues to take measures to make a monopoly of the transit through Egypt. The British and several European Consuls at Cairo have received instructions from the Egyptian Government to prohibit travellers from cross ing the Desert between Cairo and Suez by their own conveyances, as the weans of proceeding between those two places are to be strictly confined to the Egyptian Transit Company. One of the Pacha's Nilo steamers, of fifty-horse power, was lost a few days ago near Aboukir Bay, on her way from Rosetta to Alexandria. The fault is entirely ascribable to the captain, for not taking pre cautionary measures. A considerable leak has formed itself in the dock of Alexandria, which was opened with so much ceremony last month, and the engineer will have much difficulty in efficiently stopping it. His present intention is to remove entirely the paving of the dock in the vici nity of the leak, and reconstruct it. Alexandria has now been free from plague since the 10th of October; one or two cases have occurred at Cairo during the past aenth, and at Damietta an occasional case is reported. A fire broke out at Ibrahim Pacha's sugar manufac tory at Cairo on the 13th ult., and property to a consi derable amount was destroyed. CO VAT - FAINZIONAZIZZI. The Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Jane Grimston, who have been on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, at Longford Castle, near Salis bury, have returned to Gorhambury, where the Noble Earl and Countess are entertaining a circle of friends. Viscount and Viscountess Grimston have gone on a visit to Major Johnstone at s Torquay. The Earl and Countess of Roden have been enter taining a large family circle at Tollymore Park during the last two months. Amongst the guests assembled are the Dowager Lady Le Despencer, the Viscountess Powerscourt and her children, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Lady Emily Straton, Mr. Straton, &c. The EadandCountess of Eldon and their youthful family are passing the Christmas recess at Shirley House near Croydon. , The C:)untess of Seafield has been seriously ill at Cullen House, county Limerick, but is now considerably better. Viscount and Viscountess Canning arrived in town on Monday evening, from a visit to Lord and Lady de Tabley, at Tabley Hall, Cheshire, who have been enter taining a large party during the recess. Her Ladyship's turn as Lady in Waiting on the Queen commences on the 4th of February next. Lady Caroline Sandford has left the Clarendon Hotel for Nynehead Court, Devon. Lord Crewe has left the Clarendon Hotel for Brighton. S.: Henry and Lady Dymoke have arrived in town, from their seat, Scrivelsley Court, Lincolnshire. The Hon. Mrs. Henry Keppel is staying on a visit to Sir Gray Skipwith, in Warwickshire. 121190 N1ZA.41%.141 =0 VS. A Correspondent from the neighbourhood of Inver ness writes that blackbirds were flying about his villa last week—a proof of the mildness of the season. During .r the last week large quantities of game, con sisting of snipes, teals, woodcocks, partridges, together with 500 geese, were imported direct, by way of Hull, from the Netherlands. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 30.—The King being indisposed, will not be able to receive the compliments of the season on New Year's Day.—Moniteur' Beige. BRUSSELS, DEC. 29.—The Duchess of Nassau, who has resided for some time in Belgium, is going to undertake a journey to Italy.—Brussels papers, Dec. 30. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 11.—On the 9th instant, in the morning, numerous salutes of artillery announced the birth of a Princess, who received the name of Muntre (The Enlightning). She is the Sultan's ninth child, but only seven are living. An extremely fine warm autumn was succeeded at the latter end of last month by stormy weather, which has not abated till to-day. Numerous disasters have been the consequence to vessels in these seas, especially to the coasting vessels in the Black Sea. The service of the steam-boats, generally so regular, has been interrupted. The French steamer, which h as been expected ever since the 4th, has not yet arrived. The Stamboul, one of the vessels of the Danish Steam Navigation Company, was overtaken on its return from Trebisond by a storm which damaged its rudder. The danger to which this vessel was exposed was averted by the courage and the skill of Captain Elician. The Ferdinand, which left Smyrna on the 30th of November, arrived in this harbour three days beyond its time. The Seri Pervas, which left Braila on the 22d of November, and was ex pected back on the 29th or 30th, arrived a week after wards, and then without having performed its voyage, the storm having made it impossible for it to enter the Danube. The Maria Dorothea was to leave Galacz a fortnight ago for this city, but has not yet made its ap pearance, which gives reason to believe that the Danube is frozen. The Crescent, from Salonichi, which has been expected ever since the 7th, has not yet arrived. TRIESTE, DEC. 22.—The Bora is again raging with the utmost fury. The navigation is once more inter rupted, and even the mails by land arrive very ir regularly. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viewrie, Dec 22. Five per Cents. Metalhques ••............................t. 1113( Four per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000000000 ill Three per Cent 5.......... ... 7T Sank Shares ••.............................................. .....• 18 I 5 Loan, 1534. Ditto, 1839 Esterhazy's Lean RA IL WAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand.....„........... 1783( Gloggnitz .............. .......... Milan 117% .Allgetneitze Zeitung, DEC. 27. EXECUTION OF KENDREW AT YORK.—The mur derer, William Kendrew, underwent the extreme sen tence of the law on Saturday forenoon at York, in front of the county gaol, for the murder of Mr. Inchbald. The wretched man mounted the scaffold with a very firm step. He was preternaturally pale, but beyond that be trayed no em.tion or fear. It was observed, however, as the executioner was adjusting the rope a shivering spasm crossed his frame, while his chest heaved convul sively. After being suspended the usual time the body was cut down, and taken within the gaol, where it will be buried in accordance with his sentence. A young man SNI,s detected, almost at the foot of the scaffold, in the act of picking pockets. SMUGGLING OF LETTERS.—An extensive seizure of letters for the West Indies was made by the Custom house authorities on board the Trent, the last outward bound steamer for the West Indies. The letters were found concealed with newspapers and samples directed to the French Antilles. The practice of smuggling letters on board the mail steamers appears to exist to a great extent, notwithstanding the vigilance exercised by the Custom-house officers. There appear to be well organised schemes in France for collecting and smug gling letters into this country, and attempts are then made to get them to foreign parts, by means of a mail packet, without the payment of postage.—Hampshire Independent_ 80th Eegi- attalion o on their ,vies of the readiness Int the ill nandant of ort time• WO joined )re, whe re )amicably raging st Horse Ar' neral, has, 3 the force are not yet ent alters' ra instroa taken (' 1, the 121 0 . far mac y ensue' e he W varing bib Ler up the in which him wil t) ne of Ili° Ln be el` will keel' qachrne o poorie Pk murderer o f 5,000 en offered Singh 0 at Cob" ) for ill . .ars. 4th ißst 4 Id, of th e , and Mr , xounts o of bir. C' 'forms 10 petted t° nd we sr° I is to 13$ , s Nap ier Niajess/0 he escse he forol f ter. FROG rable ito; 5 deman d )n of the yard to F 8 having Teat poi' Cted ope: hich had oths aad d, exceP° Est mid' Ihirtiagof ,nnas per ets haia excel° fired for , e scarce' are did' has bees improve' ;pots he Ibtaines% )f wbieb style. ye ball xi to the now be .18 saw' key r° '4 to 25 ions are in, the red, but ray, we *ices, al 'ourable nt have any ar• robablf k in fair t about in this out the ) a Po" I much solders, t which exten - Ito the 2 ; about )mniola stocks, as yet having Ivy in of the ranced t 15-4- ,s. 6-5 d at 9 iorted. issue, .sirou& COn" IIMOSt v en- with owing arket, t pro- er 11. HAMBURGH MAIL. FROM THE DANUBE, DEC. 18.—Merchants' letters received by way of Bessarabia have brought intelli gence that the Russian fleet on the coast of Circassia has lately captured a Turkish slave-ship, on board of which, besides a quantity of ammunition, there were several chests of English arms for the mountaineers. The Russian army had gone into its cantonments, and the precaution had been taken of placing an unusually strong force in the places most exposed. There was already much snow on the mountains, which, how ever, did not hinder the mountaineers from paying an occasional visit to the Russians. DANTZIC, DEC. 16.—1 t has been resolved very strongly to fortify the Vistula at Neufahr, and the erection of a fort will shortly commence. The making out of the plan for thi s fort is already com menced, the plan having been approved by the King. These works will be the key of the fortifications of Danz c, Pillau, and Konigsburg, and protect the whole of the fertile country about Danzic against an army. An attack on Danzic by gun-boats cannot stand, if to the works a flotilla of flat-bottomed iron gun-boats on the staff is added. GIESSEN, DEC. 18.—The whole town is in a state of fermentation, on account of an event which is quite unparalleled among us. At the beginning of this month the wife of William Nagel, a locksmith, was delivered of a son. At the incessant representation of the Rev. M. Hartnagel, the locksmith, before he married, in February this year, was induced to say (his wife is a Roman Catholic) that his children should be brought up in the Roman Catholic religion. As a means of compelling him to this declaration, Nagel, who hoped to contract an advantageous mar riage, says that M. Hartnagel assured him that he would not give his absolution if the promise to bring up the children in the Roman Catholic religion were not fulfilled. The wife, who was delivered in the beginning of this month, agreed with her husband that the child should be brought up in the Protestant religion, but no ar rangement had yet been made. On the 4th inst. M. Hartnagel came to the smith's house, and vehemently u rged the wife that she would have to pay a penalty five dollars if the child were baptised by a Pro testant clergyman. He sent for the husband from his shop, and urged him to the same effect. He re plied that the child should be baptised, but that it did not suit him to-day—that nothing was ready, any that he had to go out on business. He accordingld withdrew. Returning in an hour, he learned that M. Hartnagel, in his absence, without his consent, and in spite of the tears of his wife, who objected, had actually baptised his child, making a student in the Gymnasium stand godfather. Universal indignation prevails here, and it is much regretted that the civil authorities have not interfered. We are very tolerant in Giessen. However, everything has an end, and if matters go on in this manner, some mischief will occur.—Hantburgh Papers, Dec. 27. CHILD LOST ON WIMBLEDON-COMMON.---SAGA CITY OF A Doc.—On Friday morning, about six o'clock, Mr. Goddard, a farmer at Wimbledon, ;:was out on the common, with his dog, searching for some sheep that had wandered from his land, when his attention was at. tracted to the singular actions of the animal, which re peatedly ran to and from a clump of bushes. The dog barked, took hold of his master's coat, and showed other manifestations :of a desire to lead his master to the bushes. Mr. Goddard, thi n ki ng that one of his missing sheep might be .there, went to the spot, and was sur prised to find a boy not more than six years of age lying asleep under the lee of the shrubs. Mr. Goddard awoke the poor child, who was benumbed with cold, and with some difficulty 'ascertained that his name was Sleptoe, the son of a labouring man at Wimbledon, and that in crossing the common on his way from Roehampton to his house, on the previous afternoon, about four o'clock, the fog came on so dense that he !.ost himself. He wan dered about for hours, but did not call out much, being frightened of the gipsies. At last, worn out with fatigue, the poor fellow laid down and cried himself to sleep. Mr. Goddard conveyed him to his parents, who were in a dreadful state of alarm at his absence, and had been up all the night, searching for their lost child. GOOD NEWS FOR THE LOVERS OF SPRING.—It is a certain fact, that when we have very early and severe winters, like the present, the succeeding spring is M- I ariably early and genial.—Leicester Guardian. "have have 345, , to of :is og be ii-