The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DECRY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, Th re wi 1 be NO PERFORMANCE TO.MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Will he repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignauo, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corriere, Mr. Borrani ; ISlonceriige, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, W. Rani sur ; atlrina Carnaro, Miss Rainforth To conelude witti the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, Desplaces; The Peri, Piunkett; Nourmahal, Didlle. O'Bryan ; Aqaba, Mrs. Payne. Toe Box-ort ce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six Ls the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, aid Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. ROYAL, THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, There will be NO PERFORMANCE, by Order of the Lord Chambe; I .in. TO-MORROW EVENING, DECEMBER 11, Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, celled OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. S nekland Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe s Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren; The Counteu of s pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lsdy Mice Haw thorn Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Lennett. After which, will be repeated a New Cond..; Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, IA Charles Mathews; MI. nie, rflladame Vestris. To ••e Coll 'wed by d New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James rooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Puolev ' Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On. Guinea and a-Half each. tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ac cher, at the Box-office, from fan till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, There will be NO PERFORMANCE. T , ) M.)IIROW EVENING DECEMBER 11, Will he performed VICTORINE; or, I'll Sleep on It. Alex andre, Mr. Hudson; Michael, Mr. lc Vic orine, Mrs. Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwillilrn. After which a New Drawl entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Court Henry le Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count tranille. Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with I'HE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, 31n which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, sir. Pitt ; Leadet of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odlce open from Eleven till Feur. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STItEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, There mill be NO PERFORMANCE, bring the Evening fixed for the funeral of her lato Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda TO-MORRO W — EVENING, DECEMBER . 11, Wi 1 he repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled I'HE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamancor, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Ilime ; Renaud, Mr. Matlacks• Iron, Mr. Latter; Hemline,Gertrude, Helen Condell ; Sirs. Fosbroke. To conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden. Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gall* Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, l'wo Guineas and One guinea and a-Half ; Preece. Luna Boxes, Two guineas and. a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The hex-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Masaingham. Private Boxes and I- roe Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. 'I HE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 9. T t IRKOMETER, Lowest, 24 ; Mehost, 32 ; Noon, 27. BAROMETER, 30 2.—WLID, N.N.E. NOM—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made.at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 (n Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. I )11 n mint tn after 11 Evening ... 0 minutes after 2. 4-. V C , •,,, ' `l, •-'"gtki' -----4 ' .-- ''''''''' ill 'A ''. -• , - , °4. 47 ,lc ,t4j1110 4 " ~ .r •i: , 4 • '.. 1 . , - :333P - 4, - 00 ,5=, hzF. I, N'....4 , i4 •:*". , ~-..."' Pr ‘• , : 4 r At 0S S . inftrltin "rult4 LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1:444. Con.idering that the Anti-Corn-law League—accord ing to the statements of the majority of the Ministerial jou nals—has been dead or dying tor the last three months and upwards—we never knew a confederacy in so uncommonly healthy a condition, or which gave such unequivocal indications of longevity. It is a great act of presumption in the League to persevere in the enjoyment of such excellent health, when it ought long since to have given up the ghost, if only to jus• tify the statements of the Herald, the Standard, &c. Had it possessed the slightest sense of feeling and delicacy, it would long since have put an end to its existence, and thereby saved the character of these estimable journals for sagacity and foresight. But the League has no sense of propriety—no sense of disinter estedness ; it is purely selfish, otherwise when the organs of Monopoly insisted on its dying, and even tried hard to kill it, it would have died with the utmost readiness, and with the best grace imaginable! Thu a who have read SUETONIUS, may, perhaps, re -- ' , er the curious anecdote w hich the biographer . -- AGRIPPINA. Anxious to disembarrass her of the troubles of life, this affectionate son administered a dose of poison to his parent, and immediately spread abroad a report that she was dead. But 10, to his exceeding discomfiture, the poison produced no affect, and the next day the old lady met NERO at the dinner table, looking as smiling and comfortable as if nothing had happened ! Annoyed at his ill-success, the tender-hearted son next invited his mother to an evening party at the island of Caprice, and gave orders to the skipper of the vessel in which she embarked, to drown her on the passage. The man of course was all compliance, but alas, NERO had never taken into consideration the fact that the old lady swam like a duck, and was not less asto nished than horrified at finding her swim safe ashore, and be among the foremost to enjoy the festivities of the evening ? Just as ISenao acted towards his refractory parent, have the Ministerial prints acted towards the League. They have tried to poison it by their deadly slanders, and to drown it in the fierce, headstron g torrent of their abuse ; but in spite of all they can do, it still persists, like the tough AGRIPPINA, in living, and whatis worse, in terning its (Aistence to the most active and efficient account. What won'tl@r;:tliat , ita ienethitafareAnab dened at their ill-success, and more inveterate than they have yet been aga'nst the League ! But, fortu nately, they have less power than ever to injure this great popular confederacy, which on 'Wednesday next will again take the field at Covent-garden with aug mented resources, renewed energies, and talents sharp ened a= d disciplined by exrerience. We anticipate mueh suhstaetial good from the exertions of the Anti-Corn law League in the approaching campaign. We beli - eve that it will give another serious shock to the crazy fabric of Monopoly ; set poor Mr. BANKES, of the •Dorsetshire Elysium, quite beside himself with rag , . anal despair; draw fc-rth new powers of abuse from the Duke of RICHMOND ; and elicit from the reluctant, but expediency- guided Premier, a more explicit declaration in favour of the principle of free trade than he has yet ventured to make. As we have observed on more than one occasion, Sir ROBERT PEEL only bi4s his time to come round to the views of the League. He is too observant a statesman not to see the strict justice of its demands, but feeling that the Monopolist party and those who side with them, are yet too strong for him, he quietly rests on his oars, confidently antici pating the approach of the hour when he will have both wind and tide in his favour. Under such cir cumstances, what is the course that the Anti-Corn law League should pursue ? It should keep itself before the public eye , more prominently than ever; persist in its-constitutional agitation with a boldness And pertinacity abundantly justified by the gradual progress of events ; and, above all and before all, not neglect the circulation of tracts, to the fullest extent possible, among the inhabitants of the agricul tural districts, who at the present moment are from a variety of causes—not the least of which is their state of physical destitution—well disposed to give a favourable consideration to such clear, forcible arguments as the League, through its tracts, may ad dress to them. It is by adopting such a strenuous, course of agitation only that Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, and the other members of their confederacy, car hope to bring the Premier round to their own views, for impervious as he is to conviction, he is, and has always been, and will always continue to be, exceedingly seesitive to the effects of the "pressure from without." Among the chronicles of worthless follies perpe trated by the aristocracy, whose fortunate destiny has decreed to them an unlimited command of the means and the modes of personal enjoyment, those which re to7d their exploits against birds and hares, with double barrelled (MANToN's, or MOORE'S, or PURDY'S) pigeon guns, are antong. the most egotistical and nauseating. It were well for a vast community of their fellow countrymen if the results of this intense devotion to sylvan slaughter, for we shall not designate the in dolent.and facile a musements of which we speak as , porting" —a d es i gnation to which it hasnolegiti! if the !Nate claim—i t wou ld b e well, we say, results t were simply distasteful—a "hronic n u i sance ; a bore ;--a t upid farce. would be w,ll if the only mischief provoked by impertinent announce ments, that on such a day his Royal Highness, or his Grace, or the Earl of This, or Sir Robert That, repairing at an early hour to a grand battu on the Marquis of —'s preserves, or Lord —'s woods, " which are known to be swarming with game, and, in the short space of three hours, with only three guns to the party "—brought down any imaginable . num ber of pheasants you please, or shot more hares than could be carried away in all the keepers' carts. A true sportsman, who feels no pleasure in killing unless his game have had a fair chance, who would rather fag a whole day over a broken country to bag half-a dozen brace of birds, which at the close of his work he can look upon with quiet complacency at his own skill and energy, than knock down in well preserved covers, with double shots right and left, poor devils who have not a chance of escape where men have two eyes to look, and two barrels to shoot with ; and whose fate is equally sealed, if, flying from the random misses of Lord HENRY, they are exposed to a volley from half-a-dozen Honourable Masters, whose guns, boA ever badly pointed, club one chance shot out of their combined charges which finds the brain or the heart of its bright-plumaged victim. Yet these six " Honourable" bunglers, and their titled companions of the cover, of correcter eye and steadier hand, equally plume themselves on the wonders of their prowess. The poor keepers and servants, the men who load, and carry, and hand their pieces—the boys who mark for them—the little, yaffling spaniels, whe run on and pick up the birds for them, and whose contributions to the products of the day are surely mare important than their own comparatively stand still and mechanical operations—are never mentioned in the grandiloquent paragraphs which announce to an astonished world that Lord GEORGE shot the un heard-of number of 212 head of game with his own gun. In a morning paper of yesterday we find the fol lowing announcement, touching an illustrious gen tleman, who has acquired a high degree of pseudo reputation as " the farmer's friend," par excellence : "The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, the Marquis of Cuasnos, and a select shooting party, had some ex cellent sport during the last week. On Saturday week. the Noble Duke and party, with nine guns, brought down three hundred head of game on the Noble Duke's preserves at Upper Winchindon ; and on Monday the noble sportsmen shot over the Westcott preserves (called Gipsey Bottom), and with sixteen guns killed four hundred head of game.' Here are two appeals to the obsequious admiration of the uninitiated. The nine guns of his Grace and f:iends in the Upper Winchindon preserves, dropped 3DO head of game; that is to say, 33 and one-third (for the importance of such matters demands that we should be particular to fractions) to each gun. On a subsequent day, the Ducal fowler and his party, being 16 guns in all, demolished 400 head of game in the Gipsey Bottom preserves, or 25 head to each gun. Pretty fair this account for the work per man on one property ; six teen brace and better one day, twelve brace and a half the next, is the average return for each gun. But if seven hundred head of game were slaughtered in two days only, on but two preserves of all the broad lands of Stowe, what may we infer the. aggregate quantity to be on all the Buckingham estates in Bucks, Hants, &c. ? And of that vast aggregate, what shall we reckon the daily consumption, occa sioned by the pillage of cottage gardens, the destruc tian of young corn, the barking of young trees ? Arid let us take the accumulated amount of all this damage in a season at as high a figure as we may, or as the fiercest opponent of the Game-laws assumes it in arguing against them, how molecular a point does the social or civil wrong it involves represent, con trasted with the fearful sum of human misery and suffering, of criminal excitement • and law less violence and murder, which is to be ascribed to the partial protection—the arbitrary privilege, which our code of Game-laws throws around this -pecies of property—or, rather, the childish manner of leafing with it. For it is the disgrace of an era of civilisation, the shame and mockery of a country of tree institutions, to tolerate enactments of so despotic, insolent, and fraud-encouraging a description as 'hese. We found statutes on the book, dictated by , he stern, unreasoning demands of a military no bility,. on behalf of the strongest pageinn, nrtxt tn that ~e re,p;ne, of vkiliotT - they were susceptible—conceded Elik intimidated .r heedless national councils—con iyy i - ac wants or weakness of the SOVEREIGN to his more formidable Barons, and the armed readatories of his Crown, and submitted to by the people implicitly, or with murmurs and reluctance in proportion as they were brought to understand, or were able to vindicate the rights derived from their .ncestors. In the process of time we thus got rid of the most odious of the forest laws, with their san guinary penalties of mutilation and death. Iron penalties they were, decreed, indeed, by iron-hearted men, but against bold outlaws and fearless foresters, who— " Through each deep dingle of the forest hoar, Chased the fleet hart, or spear'd the savage boar," A ith bold front and open hand. If "fere nature " were then, as they have since been declared, chattels in which property could be lawfully established, it must be confessed that our ancestoral lords of the soil_ had their plea for the vengeance they visited upon its violation ; namely, that it was invaded in a most waste ful and wanton manner. In those good times when "stout Earls" were subject to such impromptu excite ments as to vow upon the Cross "to take their plea .ure" in the "woods" of other stout Earls on the oppo site side of the Border, with a somewhat sign4capt escort of "full five hundred fighting men," it was na tural for the party so threatened with such un bidden guests to tremble for the safety of other possessions besides his venison. But we moderns have not the excuse to be pleaded for our forefathers. 'We legislated in the year of grace 1843 for the honour and glory and monopoly of a mere caprice, with as much of grim coolness and relentless severity as those forefathers would have done in 1348 for the mere reverential approaching of the Holy Rood. We have surrounded the game with penal and specific statutes that we deny to the protectors of human life, or limb, or property—against the great bulk of the people. Yet we have done so only to secure the de struction of that game, and their mutilation in mem bers to a privileged class. We visit with detestable penalties of fine, imprisonment, and transportation, offences of trespass against game by reason of no cer tificate qualification to sport ; by reason of snaring, shooting, or otherwise taking game off the lands on which it is found. Yet we legalise the sale of game, where the commodity is supplied by, or with the consent of, the landed owner to the retail dealer. Thus, we give a premium, be sides holding out a temptation, to the midnight spolia tions of the poacher. The poacher thinks, perhaps, that it is hard for titled fowlers to be at liberty to knock on the head 700 hares and pheasants in two days, which they may sell—if they please—for, say, one shilling a piece, anti though he has no chance of getting 35/. in two days, he thinks it would be plea sant to make 355. in two or three "cloudy nights,'' by helping himself from their assumed stock—there to-day, here to-morrow. The owner grants depu tations to gamekeepers. These come into bloody collision with thdpoachers. Outrages, assaults, mur ders follow in the train of the hatred thus engendered between the two classes of men. Our gaols swarm with poachers for trial; our hulks with poachers convicted ; our penal settlements with poachers, who have taken some further but inevit able degree in crime. Deserted families, ruined households, abandoned callings, desolate wives, u- fathered children, loss of liberty, loss of life, the reprobation of friends, the rejection of society, despe- ration, new excesses of crime, new criminal associa, tions to incite to them—desolation, vengeance, and despair—these are the daily gathered fruits of laws to which no man who upholds them attributes any pur pose of benefit beyond securing to the aristocracy the schoolboy, unsportsmanlike, paltry pleasure of exter minating game, on high days and holidays, with as little trouble or art as if the birds were barn•door fowls, or geese grazing on a village-green. But justice does not sleep ! Oh, no ! She has a " red right arm " for the poacher, it is true— though on a balance of the good effected by has accorded to him ; and with this hand justice exacts from the brutal delinquent—a 51. note! Verily this cannot be that old justice which was used to be " even handed." the offence of the one, or the injury perpetrated by A report appears to be gaining ground in many well-informed commercial quarters that the Govern ment are not indisposed to revise the laws regulating the importation of foreign corn. We have heard that a majority in the Administration think favourably of a measure having for its object to extinguish the whole complex and clumsy machinery of the " sliding scale," with its relative ranges of prices and duties, and to establish, in its stead, a low _fixed duty per quarter. In reference to any fixed duty on foreign corn our own opinion would be pretty much de termined by the sole question of its amount. If it be high, it is clearly objectionable in the worst feature of the existing protective system ;—its avowed direct tendency to make bread dear. If it be low—it has this, among the benefits which would result from the repeal of that system—that, at least, under certain conditions, and at certain seasons, its direct tendency would be to make bread cheap. This consideration will doubtless be deemed of high importance by that great national body to whose indomitable efforts and persevering energy, in moving the people as one man to insist on the repeal of a species of class-legislation which artificially enhames the price of the first neces sary for human subsistence in this country—we have ever given our humble, but consistent and hearty support. The very able exponents of their views have always contended, and with truth, that any import duty on foreign grown corn would operate as, pro tanto, a protection to the home grower; and being, on principle, absolutely opposed to the doctrine of protection, they repudiate the sort of compromise or middle term involved in a fixed duty. But we may be forgiven for suggesting a doubt how: far the soundness of this conclusion may be modified by the reflection that the premises may not be neces-. sarily or universally true. If the foreign grower will not meet the English consumer on equal terms, for ' instance ; if it be not certain that to open our ports to the unrestricted admission of his produce would be to secure an unrestricted market in his for our menu factures; then a low import duty on his corn may prove not merely a salutary means of compensating our own trade for the burdens so imposed on it by the foreign customer, but it will meanwhile raise a revenue more or less considerable in proportion to the extent of our corn imports, by the agency of an indi rect tax, light in amount on our own home consumer, and inexpensive in its levy. The great objection, of course, remains to this plan which ever arises where it is attempted fo compromise a principle, the abstract truth of which is admitted on all hands. A compro mise amounts to as virtual an abandonment of such a principle as its distinct repudiation. The principle is, that bread should not be taxed. A fixed duty does not cure the negative fact that it does tax bread, by the important qualification it' carries with it—indi rectly and lightly. But can we afford to act upon the simple, unmodified principle, if the party (the foreign grower) in whose favour, as well as our own, we raise it, will not concur with us in those com mon bases of reciprocity on which, alone, we can act upon it virithont one-sided injury and prejudice to ourselves? But experience and time, we may be answered, will surely bring our foreign customer to see his own true interest in dealing with us on this basis of honest reciprocity. From what authority shall we collect the period at which such a consum mation will take place ? It is not in the nature of things to devise any infallible method of arriving at this information ; but we are making progress to such a conclusion.. We believe it. And because we can- I not get at the when this state of things will arrive, shall we hesitate any longer to endeavour to accele-. rate it ? If we cannot now get at the all, which its advent would "give us, shall we reject the part which a fixed duty would immediately realise ? The repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the removal of Roman Catholic Disabilities, were won by instal ments. Had nothing been taken on account, in the one case, before Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S sweeping measure of repeal, and nothing previously gained,' on the other, in the great work of expunging penal and disabling statutes, when Sir ROBERT PEEL pro= pounded the- Emancipation measure cf 1829 to the !louse of Commons, the two Houses of the Legisla tnra might now have been quarrelling whether or not Quakers could ne under certain circumstances ; or whether Dr. NI`HALB had not incurred the penalties of a prcemunire by the ceremonial assumption of archiepiscopal rank with-, out the walls of his own church. Had the spirited introducer and champions of the Reform Bill gone,' at once, and without having acquired previous con cessions, in many Parliaments, to the demand for a better system of representation and greater purity of election, they might have been in this cold weather unprofitably citing abuses of the most flagrant en ormity to a discontented and unenfranchised auditory,- under the one oak tree beneath which, in good old times, the one burgess of the Old Sarum used to elect the other one burgess of the New, Member for his borough, on the equitable reciprocation of that complement by' New Sarum to himself, as her dele gate. It may be good policy, after all, to take a part where we cannot get the whole ;—and we can always wait for the balance. • Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re ceived, from which we regret to find that the rnur derous system of shooting men without trial is stil persevered in by the NARVAEZ Government. FELI: CIANO ZURBANO, the eldest son of General ZURBANO, I* - AltlOt at Logrono on the 28th, alpng with Captain 13ALiANAS, ZURBANO'S secretary, and a third person, whose name .is not mentioned. These unfortunate victims had surrendered voluntarily. The Govern ment, it was belieired, had decided on bringing to court. martial General BATONAS, Captain General of Burgos.; and General ORIBE, Commandant of the province of Logrono, for not more promptly executing the orders they had received for the execution of such of ZURBANO'i band as might fall into their bands. MADRID BOURSE ON THE 30T11.—Three per Cents.; for cash, 30; for ACcount, 30 1-16; Five per Cents: for Account, 21/. We are glad to find the Paris Opp os iti on j ournals daily displaying less animosity against Engl an d, an d directing the attention of the French nation, more especially the trading community, to the decayed state of their mercantile navy, the commercial treaties formed by their • neighbours in a spirit of peace and equality,, and the necessity of a more liberal system, both foreign and domestic, to place the commerce of France on a footing with that of Germany and Eng land. This is noble rivalry, and infinitely more ad- vantageous to the glory and greatness of France than hundreds of victories, which only waste human life, and in a few years generally leave affairs as they were at first. The Constitutionnel of Saturday has an article on the commerce of Prussia, Holland, and Belgium, as compared with that of France; and after showing the vast increase which has taken place in the exports and imports of the latter country, adds : " Thus we. are menaced and outrivalled on all sides. Treaties are concluded without our concurrence, and we daily see our neighbours coming into redoubtable competition, without; its being possible for us to be-' come particiPators in any just proportion in this movement, which interests in so high a degree the produce of our country, that is to say, the prosperity of our manufactures and commerce," The National too has an excellent article on the obstruction to trade in France, among which it reckons quarantine, and the octroi duty (town dues) ; and, it might add, the obnoxious and useless system of passports. That journal thus vividly describes the• injury done to French commerce, and recommends the Government to imitate the example of Eng land : the tleasures of the other, it may be a grave question whether the poacher is not much more the farmer's friend than the Duke. But justice has also a hand for the ruffian whose brutal violence breaks a woman's pidity 4' circulation. These reflections are certainly just, but they ought, we think, to be applied to matt. rs constantly passing before our eyes. Every day, nay, every hour, at the entrances to Paris, there may be seen vehicles loaded with goods, travellers, and merchants, obliged to undergo veritable quarantines, and that with out any fear of contagion serving as a pretext. A vehicle, for instance, proceeding from Meux to Paris, takes about four - hours to effect: this distance. When it has so far advanced as to arrive at the Barriire de Is Villette, it is detained an hour, mid thus its journey is prolonged a fifth. It is the same, and even worse, for all the articles brought to Paris each morning. The unfortunate drivers are obliged to leave home three or four hours sooner than would be necessary without the octroi, and are forced to piss a part of the night fully exposed to the inclemency of the season, until the unfortunate moment arrives when it shall please the octroi-officer-to poke his examining lance into the load. Everymorning several thousand individuals lose in thisway a considerable 'portion - of their time, and that without any profit to any one. There is in this a clear loss for them and for society. Our octroi 'system, which forces citizens to stop . on the road at the moment of arriving at the and of their journey, and sabjects them to the visits of a crowd of agents, costing large sums to keep up, will Certainly one day pass for a mark of barbarism, doing but little honour to our times. There is not a single Observation justly addressed to lazarettos that cannot be applied with greater reason .to these fiscal citadels established round Paris. Our neighbours, who are cited as a proof of the neemity of suppressing quarantines, have perceived that it was absurd to maintain amongst them the entrance duties which weigh so heavily on our commerce. It is time to imitates them, and to put an end to a state of things; , the most manifest result of which is to harass the citizens, to cause a great loss of time, to cause a prejudice to merchandise, and to offer a premium to fraud." The Presse, which has an article on a similar subject, praises -the new tariff, and adds But it must not be forgotten that measures of this nature are incom plete as•long as the general legislation of the country favours the two, most powerful navies in the world. The day on which the evil is to be attacked in its root the. Government must determine to strike a more de cisive bfow. Whilst waiting-for this moment, which we trust will soon arrive, we must applaud every act of the Government which ' indicates a tendency to wards that complete reform, and we are certain that the ordinance published in the Moniteur will be hailed with satisfaction in all our seaports." The Constitu tionnel says, it is the intention of Ministers, if chances are not against them to dissolve the Chamber at the close of the approaching session, and, among ether ,reasons for this step, gives the following :—" The Km,- fortunately, has the strongest health and the most robust constitution, and his reign will - , without doubt, be prolonged for many years. It is, however, only a matter of prudence that the Chamber should alwayi have three sessions to run, in order that, if an event, which. is probably very distant, but which ought always to be provided for, should bring on a change in the reigning prince, a sufficiently consider able period should elapse before the time of a general election. It ought therefore, it is alleged, to be laid down as a principle of prudence, that, unless under grave circumstances, the - Chamber for the future should be dissolved, not after" the fourth session, but after the third ; and this rule is, it is said, to be ap plied to the present Legislature." The peaceful 'demonstrations of the war party in France, which are responded to by one of the organs of that class in England, has afforded the Journal des Debats an occasion for a humorous article. After noticing the reconciliation, it says " Delightful harmony ! Behold our politicians, our journalists, who, during the last four or five years, have been exhausting"themselves in looking out in the dic tionary for, anal using all the polemical terms they could find, and sometimes others much stronger, for their mutual accusations of lightness, stupidity, ambition, and thirst for war; who, were we to have listened to them, would have made us believe that not only Europe but the world was on the. point of. being put to fire and the sword. Behold them, suddenly taking the fancy to re fit ct and discovering—shall we not say to their own great surprise —that they are not so malignant as they were thought to be. What would you have ?' says one party: . We thought you were going to play the part of Napoleon—that you intended to take. Antwerp, the left hank of the Rhine, and even,- perhaps, Ireland ! On hearing yeu roar so loud, we were afraid you wanted to eat us up !' No, no,' replies the other, 'Don't be afraid, -we do. not wish to. hurt you. We certainly now and then sing the Marseillaise, but it is all in joke. In the ebullitions of our eloquence we retain our knowledge of the world and its affairs; in the bile of our pamphlets there is always - a sentiment of truth. We thought you wished to thweFt and humiliate us. It is no such thing. • Let us come to an understanding. Give us your hand, for we now know what you mean. We often find in certain fabulous romances,how two knights errant-meet in a fog, or in an enchanted forest, with their sis•a•s Ihwered, had without even taking time to demand their respective names, or'- to regard their device or i..u.atehten they vi4afll attack each in mortal 6arnnat, and then,`euntig. - moment of ht,sita tion, they raise their visors, look each other in the face, and find that the two fierce combatants are brothers in arms, the best friends in the world—Orestes and P:,..lades, Damon and Pythias, Nisus . and Euryalus—upon they embrace, execrating tbeir mistake. Such an ad- Venture or mischance has, it appears, occurred to M. Thiers and Lord Palmerston. ' During four years Europe was a spectator of the battle of thole two champions. The two 'Parliaments resounded 'with the heroic blows which they dealt each other. But a fine day arrives, the fog clears off; the two champions wipe - their eyes, and regard each other. .M. Thiers recognises Lord Palmerston, and Lord Palmerston recognises M. Thiers. There is a moment of surprise ! The encounter lasted so long, it was so rude in appearance at least, that th e un h app i ness of the two Champions may easily be imagined. But 1.4 us not feel any alarm ; neither of the knights alone were ightshayebee The k i n tn i lo h e t e s were public fighting seriously. de ceived,killed or who woubnedlieedv. believed The simple people believed it was a tragedy, w hil s t i t was only comedyin fire acts. ' It appears t h at we are nowthe fifth act, and th at the p i ece ought to witnessing conclude, like every well -arranged comedy, with a ge neral-explanation and reconciliation. An explanation is made, the mystery is cleared up, and all parties em brace. This is the spectacle which we are now witness ing. The two great statesmen of 1840 are lavishing all kinds of endearing epithets on each other through the medium of their respective organs." THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, DEC. 7. .41 rat -o.w. Highest:, k,vrest Lam • eric a: . ?rice. Pries. French FiireperiCents•• •• •• 120 20... 120 50 •• 120 25 .• 120 25 108 35 .. 1 : 8 3 55 .. 108 30 .. 108 40 lienk oflFraziee •• 820 0 .".3210 ..8200 ..3203 LaMtte BARti,l,ooof. ShareellCo —llOO . • 1100 .. 1100 5,0001 . • SharessoBo ..5080 ..5080 ..5080 Belgian BAAL •••••• • • • • • • 59 0 .. 590 .. 590 .. 590 1841.... llOO ..1100 ..1100 ..1100 Belgian Fives.4B4o .• ••• • • • 102 4 • • 1031 • . 1031 • . 1034 Two-and-a-Half— .• 61 85 .. 62 .. 61 85 .. 62 Spanish Threes •••• • • .. 3 64 364 .. 361 .. 364 Portuguese Five per cents • • 551 654 56 Seapolit4n...••••••••• • •• 98 90 .. 98 90 98 50 .. 98 50 butch , Two •• 641 .. 641 .. 641 . 641 Ronan 1049' .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SWARM yergailles.R.B.•• .. •• •• 453 50 •• 457 50 .. 456 25 .. 456 25 L.B.—•••• •••• •• 327 50 .. 328 75 .. 325 .. 325 Roues.... .. •• •• • •1030 . 1030 ..1030 ..1030 •Ronen to Havre.••• 793 75 .. 793 75 -. 793 76 .. 793 75 Orleans ••••• Strasburg Bale•••• 2••••• 292 51 .. 295 . 292 50 .. 292 SO Avignon to Marseilles•••••• 927 3(1 .. 927 50 .. 927 se .. 927 50 • " RAILWAYS FOR THE. ACCOUNT. Dac. 16. St. Germain ..... .....••••• 980 ....NM 75 .. 980 .. 980 Versailles; - MB•••• •• 7.B••••••••••• 327 50 . 336 .. 325 .. 327 50 Roues ••••..•• •• •••• •;••_••1030 ._..1030 ..1025 ..1037 50 Rouen to Havre.• •••• •• •• •• 793 75 .. 793 75 .. 791 25 .. 791 75 Orleans ••••••••••••••1067 50 ••1070 ..1067 50 ..1065 strasaure to,Bale•••• ••••••••291 25 .. 295 .. 291 25 .. 293 75 Avignon to Marsoille4•••• •• 927 60 . .. 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 50 arm, even at the humble feast which her hospitality " Three days back some just reflections were given in a Conservative journal on the quarantine system, which is so rigorously applied in our ports, and which causes a considerable prejudice to our maritime relations with the East. It is very right, without doubt, to fear the plague, and to take precautions against it ; but those which we take ai - e exaggerated, and the neighbouring nations, who hare profited better than we by the advance of science, are gradually obtaining exclusive possession of the Me diterranean, for the simple reason that a long preventive imprisonment is not required in their ports as in ours. Therefore travellers and goods coming from the Levant prefer the line of Trieste to that of Marseilles, and, strangely enough, the journey from Alexandria to France is sometimes effected more quickly by passing to England than by landing at Toulon. This places us in a state of real inferiority, and it is difficult to compre hend how such a state of things can be persisted in, w hen it adds at least ono or two weeks to a passage of a few days, and this when all nations are devis ing means of augmenting in every possible way ra- Tilt SUN, LONDON, TUES , DAY AIOrtAING, DECEMBER 10, 1844. FF A.N Df.RS :N I L Ili.. BaussELs, s.—CunilL Mt,uriee Dietri:Atslein, who is appointed Ambassador of Austria to the Court cf St. James's, has already left Vienna, to repair to his new post, passing through Brussels, to deliver to our King his letters of recal. • The price of corn again fell in Wednesday's market at Brussels. This tendency to decline, which has lately taken place in the markets of the country, is attributed to the large importation of corn, from abroad. The ste•Am-b:.7at between Antwerp and Bull will cease to run after the sth of December. The French post•office received last year 114,200,000 !otters, of which 3,200,000 remained as dead letters. The 111 millions delivered produced a gross receipt of 41,569,200 francs. The Post-office distributed also above sixty millions of printed papers, &c., which yielded a receipt of 2,400,000 francs. BRUSSELS, Dk•.c. 6.—We learn from Waterloo that the house of the keeper of the Monument has been de stroyed by fire; ,it was the property of. the Government, and was worth 6,000 francs. The furniture, &c., de stroyed was worth 1,200 francs. The debates on` the budgets almost always produce, from the chiefs of the several departments, promises of amelioration, which it is as well to notice, in order to call to mind when opportunity offers. In the discussion of the budget of the finance department, a great deal was said of the necessity of organising, in a definitive manner, the services of the several ministerial departments. The central section had already expressed its wishes on this point. The Minister of Finance said, that he should shortly present to the King a plan for the general organisation of his department. To a question of M. Osy, M. Mercier replied that he . was persuaded that his colleagues' intended likewise to submit similar plans for their respective departments to the King. RBLGIAN FUNDS.—Bavegni, Dic. I. Actua Debt, 234 per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent . .. ...... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. Three per Cent........... Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... (1840)..... .... . . 1 1 1 1844.. ••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••.••••••••••• 102 Loan of City, 1513 , Four per 102 Society of Ccimmerce. Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent iSSUe of —Brussels Paper*, Dee. 7. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.VIHNNA, Nor 30 Flee per Cents. ....... I IS% Four per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 000000000000000000 ISO Three per Cerits. t 75 sank Share/ • • •‘...••••••••••••••• •••• ••s o i.• •••••• • •••• • ••• •••••• 16•46 Lnan, 00000 . oo •••••••••• Dittes, 1830 `Esterhaty's Loan ... RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand... ....... 168% Gloggititz ...........«...».«.r 111••••••••••14,0 •••• 1194 Milan .......... •••••••••••• 0000000 selleill.i•••••••;;;111••• 111 —Ai lgemeine Zeitisni, Dec. S. - • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEC. 9.—Wind . N.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. There was a slight fall of snow at 10 P.M. on Sunday night. DEAL, DEC. 7.—Wind E.S.E ' strong breeze. 8. E., strong.—Arrd. Caroline,. Lovett, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Sld. Jane, Cape of Good Hope ; William Bryan, Sierra-Leone ; Lady Sarah, Bayley. Jamaica. PORTSMOUTX, DEC. 7.—Wind E., fresh breeze. 8. E.N.E, fresh breeze.—Arrd. Bangalore, London, and sailed for China ; Bombay, London, and sailed for Mauritius and Bombay. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Iberia steamer, Malta: PLYMOUTH, DEC. B.—Wind E.N.E., strong.--Arrd. Brooksby, Thomson, Manilla, Louth, , and Caroline, Orwell, New Orleans ; Diadem, and Barstow, Charle ston, both for Havre. NEWHAVEN, DEC. !S.—The Theodore Beline, from Dantzic, which was ashore to the eastward of the pier, 4th inst., has been got off; and into the harbour without apparent damage. Arrd. Hymen, Callao. Sld. Prins Carl, Cape and China ; Lochlibo, New Orleans. FALMOUTH, DEC. 7 AND B.—Wind E., fresh gales and squally.—Arrd. Rambler, Hutchison, Ichaboe and Per nambuco ; Queen, Watson, St. John's, New Brunswick, for Hull. Sld. Linnet packet, Madeira, &c. Off, Stokesby, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Asia, of London, Quebec ; Britannia, of LOndon, Green Island. OFP THE'IIIZARD, DEC. s.—Glenlyon, New Orleans. GUERNSEY, DEC. 7.—Sld. St. George, Demerara. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—A direlect timber-laden barque, dismasted , and -.with bows stove,, with the letters " —een,” on , the stern, supposed to belong to Aber deen, was passcd- on the 22d ult., in lat. 50, lon. 22, by the George, arrived here. Bth. The. Saucy Jack, from Montreal, was-in contact last night off the Crosby light ship, with an outward bound steamer, lost bulwarks, head, cutwater, and the steamer lost her mainmast. Montezuma, Lowber, New York• ; George, Finch, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. 7. Tyrer. Bombay ; Helen and La Belle, Barberie, Ichaboe ; Water v ille, Moate Video ; Eliza Kincard, Rio Janeiro ; Reliance, Clara, Chieftain, Laucal, Victory, and Warren Hastings, New Orleans ; Helen and Henry Gardner, Mobile ; Jupiter, Charleston ; Margaret, Newfoundland. 8. Sir Henry Hardinie, Calcutta ; Stirling; Ichaboe ; Xanifa, Barbadoes ; Pallas, New Orleans; Satellite, Mobile ; Howard, Savannah. Off, Leila. GREENOCK, DEC. 7.—A violent shock, as if from an oarthquake, on striking on a rock was experienced on the 21st ult., in lat. 42, lon. 29, by. the Thalestris, ar rived in the Clyde. UOWESTOFf, DEC. B.—The Triune, in ballast, ladan with barley, went ashore on Ness Point this afternoon, and is expected to become a wreck. The Albion, %Voolner, ashore on Gunton Beach, bas fallen out to seaward, and it the present weather continues (a violent -11.1T.u. ) „In prtrosuly go SWANSEA„DEc. 7.—Sid. Mary Burck, Cuba. LEITH, DEC. 7.—Sld. Kestril, Bahia. SJIEILDS, . DEC. 6.—Sld. Johanna, Buenos Ayres. 7. Adeline, Sierra Leone. The Terra de Fea, Balone, of Dunkirk, bound to Marseilles, broke adrift last night, and went on the Inner Sand, - but came off the follow ing tide. Coax, DEC. s.—Arrd. Zephyr, Carpenter, Benin, 16 Aug. 24, Fernando Po, Sept. 5 ; Emma, Kemp, Coast of Africa; Sir H. Huntley, Prince Edward's Island ; Syrian, Miramichi; Vesper, Dalhousie, Oceana, Quebec; Victory, Newfoundland. Off, 5. Roseanna, Crighton, lehaboe. 6. Arrd. Sirion, Cann, Miramichi. BENIN, SEPT. s.—Arrd. Peru, Eskeldson, Orozambo, late Watts, Benin; Snow, Oscar, Henderson, Highfield; Marquis of Abercorn, sld. Aug. 24; Bahias, Ichaboe. FEIINAPDO Po, SEPT. 4.—Sld. Warrior, Ichaboe. SIR HENRY POTTINGER —Nearly the whole of the tickets for the Liverpool banquet to Sir Henry Pot tinger have been sold off, and the subscriptions for the Liverpool testimonial to the distinguished Baronet are on the increase. Accommodation can only be afforded at the banquet for 392 gentlemen. The subscriptions for the testimonial exceed 1,0001. In Manchester the subscription exceeds 2.350 L, and the banquet in that town is fixed for the 20th instant. The Mayor of Man chester will preside on the occasion. A suggestion has been thrown out that the whole of the funds collected in London, Liverpool, and Manchester should be united, with the view of presenting Sir Henry with a testi monial of surpassing magnificence ; but we believe it is a suggestion not very likely to be adopted.--Liverpool Albion. Lady Henniker, whose accoucheatent took place at Thornham-hall, Suffolk, on the - 4th inst., is, with her infant daughter, going on very favourably. THE VERT REV. THE DEAN OF GLAscow.—We are happy to lern that this much respected clergyman has recently received an additional testimony of the es timation in which he is held by the members of his con gre,.:ation in, the shape of a very beautiful baptismal font, which has been placed in his church in Paisley, by Mrs. Lee HarieY, of Castle Semple, and which com pletes the interior requisites of their beautiful place of worship. The •font is of grey freestone, from the neigh bourhood of Troon, and is of an octagonal form, resting on a triple base, and ornamented at the top by a range of quatrefoils. This mark of regard is the more grati fying, as the whole of the interior ornaments of the church are'the gifts of private individuals.—Edinburgh Observer. ?9 - REPEAL 'OF THE MALT-TAX.—On Saturday, a meeting of 'the agriculturists'of Surrey, was held at the Town-hall, Croydon, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the malt-tax, and of adopting measures to ob tain its repeal. Among the gentlemen present were C. Bleanden, Esq., of Coulsden (chairman) ; IL Rowland, --- Esq., of Coulsden ; Mr. Will e s ; M r . G utter id ge; T. L. GREAT LEAGUE MEETING' A T LEEDS.—One of Robinson, Esq.; Mr. Week, of W oo d cote; M essrs. Cox, the most enthuilastic meetin gs o f f ree -t ra d e e l ec t ors ever Washbourn, Turner, Streeter, St enn i ng , Beynam, T, Ellman ; Messrs. W. and J. R usse ll, M r . J. D rummond, held in Leeds, took place at the Music-hall on Wednes- The day evening. Alderman Stansfield in th e chair. and a number of the other p r i nc ip a l f armers o f t h e dig object of the meetin g w as to hear addresses from Richard trict. Resolutions to p e titi on f or th e repea l o f the malt- Cobden, Esq., M tax were adopted..P., and John Bright, Esq., M.P., on THE WEATiteit.—A d ec id e d c h ange h as ta k en place the best means of adding to the strength of the free-trade party in the'West Riding. .'The meeting wasconvened in the weather sin ce T ues d ay l ast . P rev i ous to that we by circular, signed by H a mer Stansfield, Esq.,Ch had a succession of fin e m ild d ays, b ut on 'Wednesday a of the Free-trade Committee ; and notwithstanding that airman keen frost set in, whi c h s till cont i nues with unabated Only Stich persons as wer e most likely to qualify for the severity. The therm ome t er h as b een ranging from 25 to 30 degrees. The hills and fields are covered with West Riding were invited, the extensivec ompletely saloon ,filled thde hoar frost as with a mantle of snow, and all the shallow Was 'le d . ; and brooks and ponds are, of course, completely frozen over. jud largest ging fr public oin tbs room i n enthusiasm LeeL ee Leeds, , which reva . i dur_ing the t It is almost needless to say that in such weather the eunciation of the plans of the League, in the e n lo o qu b e u n t condition of the ill-fed and poorly clad portion of our speeches of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, we . can t population cannot be otherwise than miSerable.—Scots man of Saturday. ' f free trade in this district. ---Leeds Mercury. cause o THE WEATHER.--The moderns, ' in imitation of Sir William Middleton has let 20 acres of land infer thtit a most important stimulus was given to the the wise men of ancient days, have a propensity for drawing auguries from the movements of birds, and rents varying from 1/. to 2/. an acre. many prophesies, founded on ornithological observations, THE BAPTISTS.—Last evening the Right Hon. have, recently, been put forth touching the quality of among the cottagers of Great and Little Livermore, the Lord Teynham preached at the Baptist's Chapel, Myr- the present winter. Some difference of opinion amongst tle-street, to a preached and respectable congregation. the feathered tribes, however, caused the prophets no His Lordship has been some months in Ireland, and is now on his way fro m D u bli n to London.—Liverpool little perpl ex ity, f or w hil e t h e geese, who have no Al- great reputation for sagacity, appeared, by their south blue of Monday. ward flight, to insist that old winter was hastening THE PALAIS ROYAL. in the world to which there attaches speedily hither, certain crows were reported to be con • t r t l a ms s e s t h s e o r there is roan}' and loe a s l u i e t y il strutting nests, as if in anticipation of mild airs and varied association s o f i nterest an d curiosity, both social cloudless skies. The crows, though deemed clever birds and historical, as . th e p a i a ii R o y a l, and in no era of in their way, have been proved to be less weatherwise French history a re the germs o f t h ose associations more than the geese, for we hear from all quarters of low thickly sown than in that of the Fronde—when Bourbon thermometers and biting frosts. In this vicinity the frost was arrayed in civil warfare against Bourbon—father set in, last week, with great severity, and the increasing - against son, brother against brother, and even lover ice o n th e ponds was re garded by s k a t ers o f a ll c l asses against mistr ess , an d f r i end aga i nst f r i en d . Th at the and ages with ex t reme sat i s f act i on. N or were they dis announcement, ther e f ore , o f an hi s t or i ca l romance b,,-, appointed in thei r an ti c ip a ti ons , f or t h oug h t h e frost longing . to th at per i od, and bear i ng the t i tle of "THE : oni s set in fairly on Wednesday, yet such was its PALMS ROYAL," should have excited unusual curiosity, 1 Severity, that even as early as .Friday, the ice was not to be wondered at ; and the publicae,on of the i tad attained considerable thickness, and on Sa work has not disappointed the expectations it raised. J i ttirdav it was so solid that the skaters were The principal char ac t ers th a t figure in it are among the enabled to pursue. their invigorating recreation without most remarkable of their age . and countrK. Some of the slightest apprehension. The w a t ers o f S e ft on them, such as Condtli—le grand Condi— lazarin, De meadows, which offer a beautiful extent of skating sur- Retz, and TurEune— arnongs f the most remarkable of face, are completely frozen over, and .numbers who de modern times ; and th e secon d ar y ones, sucli as Anne of light to enjoy the exercise in perfection have resorted Austria, the Duchess de Chesteuse, the Duke of Beau. thither. The cold, during the last few days, has been . fort, the Duke of Orleans, a ce , &c., are perhaps still more intense. The extreme depression of the thermometer, fitted than their greater contemporaries for the purposes on Tuesday night, was 29, on Wednesday night 27, on of the novelist. The novel is replete with spirited and Thursday 23, on Friday 21, and yesterday morning the stirring pictures of th e t i mes an d the events which have mercury sunk as low as 20. At nice o'clock yesterday given it birth, and it will be read with ea ger i nterest : morning it was 26, and, at three in the afternoon, 30. wherever works of this nature find their way. I Liverpocl Albion of Monday. Y CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The English Stocks have gone up again this afternoon, Consols having attained the high price of 1001 f for the Opening, without the dividend. Exchequer Bills were 58s. premium ; and New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. remained firm at 103. Spanish were heavy at 241- for the Five per Cents., and 36i for the Three per Cents.; Portuguese Con verted were quoted 56 to ; Russian were 1194 to 4; and Dutch Five per Cents. brought 99k. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 11 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ; Churnet Valley, 14 to 1 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 12; Great Southern and Western (Ire land), 34; Great North of England, 21 ; Ditto, New, 12 to *; Birmingham, 120 ; Ditto, Thirds, 361; Ditto, Quarters, 241 to 23/ ; South-Western, 444; Croydon, 2i ; Lynn and Ely, 14; North British, 4; Northen and Eastern, 124; ; Richmond and West-End Junction, 14; Rugby, 4; Trent Valley, 7 to 6/; York and North Mid land, 524; Orleans and Vierznn. 94 ; and Orleans and Bordeaux, 44 premium. South Devon were at par; London and Westminster, 64 • Union of Australia, 2 ; Ditto, New, ; and Union of London, 24 premium. We have not yet heard of the West India mail, but some information is expected to-morrow. It is proper to observe that it is only just due. - (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was an extensive demand for Cotton at Liver pool on Saturday, and prices had a firmer appearance. Sales, 9,000 bales, one half of which were taken on spe culation.—The principal Railway Shares continued in request, but the more speculative were little inquired for. Eastern Counties, 134; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1,91 s. 10d.; Grand Junction, 220; Ditto, Half Shares, 1104; Great Western, Fifths, 28; Liverpool and Manchester, 211 12; Ditto, New, 37 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 264; Midland Counties, 108; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1054 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 964 ; South-Eastern, 384 4; Ditto, New, 114 ; Trent Valley, 74 ; Lyons and Avignon, V. 14s. 6d.; Paris and Lyons, 3/ 5e.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 64; Boulogne and Amiens, 5. The advices• received from the United States this morning by the mercantile interests are of importance in this respect; they state that a good market existed for British manufactures. Money in consequence was more in demand. The state of the public treasury is represented as being of a more flourishing character. In Pennsylvania too the receipts of the States had improved .Most sanguinely it is to be hoped that the people of the State will come forward and ,pay their debs. If so, the other repudiating States of America would be compelled to follow the good example ; and thus several of the " stets" of the Republic would recover that " which honesty is so well deserving of. In the Canadisn papers, which have come to band by the Montezuma, there is not any news of interest, except that the elections had ended in favour o; the Government. With respect to the Canadian Guarantet d Loan, the biddings for which were received on Friday last, nothing is at present known. It is stated this morning that the tenders were all below the minimum value fixed fur the 200,0001., at which it would be granted by, the Treasury. A very strong interest is expressed in the City in favour of lines of railways for extending intercommuni cation in Ireland. Confidence in such undertakings is rapidly on the increase among our capitalists, as affording an additional means of beneficially employing their surplus capital. A shade of depression has existed in the Consol market 'this morning. For the Account the prices have recently been given at par, and flit. the Bedheed Three Three per Cents. at one half per cent. higher. Toe New Three per Cents. have been at 10 . 21 to 103. Exchequer Bills have rallied from 555. to 58s. premium. About six months back they were at 765. to 775. premium. The Commissioners bought about 10,0001. of the Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. to-day, at three per cent. above par. A rise in India Bonds, from 735. to 78s. premiarnas taken place. Bank Stuck has risen from 208 to 2084. This is the day for the biddings to be made for the French loan, at Paris, and much curiosity is expressed to learn the result. There is a report current that the Messrs. Rothschild and the Messrs. Baring and Co. are now the only competitors. As the payments are to be extended over a lung period, the scrip will in all probability .be dealt in considerably. The Belgian Scrip has advanced to 1 premium. But one or two bar gains have been made. in the Spanish Funds to-day. The Five per Cents. are at 24k, and the Three per Cents. at 364. Dutch Stock is in demand. Brazilian have ad vanced to 88i ; Colombian Stock is firm at 14k ; and the Mexican at 363. The inquiries for shares have been very numerous all the morning, and in most cases prices have advanced. The '.Great Western Railway has reached 72 prem.;. the Hull and Selby; 17 prem.; London and Brighton, par (the highest point realised for a very long time); and the French lines are looking firm. British North American Bank Shares have been sold at 5 dis. ; Lon don and Westminster at 6k prem. ; and Provincial of Ireland at 194 prem. PRICES. OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent...—. ....... Ditto Scrip Bank Stock ter Account .........•.... 208 g 3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities .. ...... 100%34 New 3 1 1 i per Cent. Annuities.• ....... 103.1tr27 India 80nd5,1,000.. Ditto under 1,000., Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. 1 0001. 78 100% 100 I%d. 146 d. I .... •••••••••••• 56 58 pm. J .... •••••••••••• 57 57 pm. Ditto 5ma11.... ...... •••••••••••• 57 55 pm. Ditto Advertis ed..„..... •......•.... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .................. ..... 88% Columbian 80nd5.................................. 14% 23' 5 ,ar Cent Neu. 7d ßitg r ee.. n4 2:l et4k. r ...._ ... ~,-..:::: ..... :::-. IRS( Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent i 540..................... 24% Ditto Three per Cent. „.........................„ Ditto for the Account . .... «••••••••••••••••.."••• 36% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per CenL .... .......... ....... . 43% Dutch 2% per Cent 5........... 631i% 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS, Pals. PER SHARE. Birmingham and (Goucester..„.. 100 ......... 95%...... to 96 Bristol, and G10uce5ter............... 30 .... ..... 37 .... to 38 Eastern Counties ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ••••••••• IA X .•• to Great Western ....................... 75 Ditto s Shares .....«.„... Ditto rifth5.............................. Id 0041000410111 2. Hull and Selby 5O 66 ..... to 67 Lancaster and,.Car1ia1e.......... ..... 10 1334 Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham. lOO .........221 ....... to Londonand 81ackwa11.........• 16% ...... 6% ••• .to London and Brighton .............. 50 ........ 4 5 ./4 50 to 49% London and South Western •..... 41% •.... 85 67 to 84 Ditto Eighths...." .......... ..• % ••••••••• 336 London and Y0rk................ .... 2%.......... 3% Manchester and L0ed5.............. '7O .....«.. . to Ditto 36 Shares 3O - Midland Birmingham and Derby . 100 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 24 Northern and Eastern 45 57% to Norwich and Brandon ............ 12 Ditto New 1 ..... „.. 314 Portsmouth t)irect ... .... ... I ..... .. 0 % to Richmondand West End Junct. 1 South Eastern and Dover .„„„,. 3334 38 % to 38 Ditto New Trent Valley York and North Midland •••„„,„ SIB .....„„, lot% to Ditto Scarbore' Branch Ditto Selby Scrip ...... ...... Ditto Extension - •••... 123 .•.., to'— Boulogne and Arnie.. ......... Orleans and Vierson Orleans and Bourdeaux Parisapd R0uen...................... '2O ..... .... Rs% JOINT sTai"is.Nixs. London and Westminster Provincial of Ireland. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DEC. 7, 3 per Cent. Consols • ........ .....•....• .......... ..... 1(0 3 . per Cent. Reduced Three and a QUafter Stock....- 000000 .•....•......• 102% Ditto New, MO 3 34 per Cent. Debentures 94% Long Annuities Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock Grand Canal Debentures,6 per Cent. Ditto 4 per Cent.. — 4 per Cent. City Debentures ” . 4 per Cent. City Debentures, New 4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures — 4per Cent. Pipe Water — Kingstown Railway Debentures — LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES RAILWAYS. Pain. PRI SRAM Dublin and K. Railway Progheda Ditt0... Great Southern and Western - 5 Ditto Extension 234 ..... 3% Dublin and Belfut Junction ....... . Dublin and Cashel ditto ........« 2% ..... ... Athlone Railway :. 234 ...... 2% Belfast and Ballymena 234 Waterford and Limerick ...... —.... 2% .... 3% Hibernian Bank 2534 Royal Bank National Insurance . Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Deland... Wick low Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company 100 Ditto Ditto, 1836 Steam Ship Building Company Ditto Ditto" • SO — British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 Limerick Extension Railway MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.—The market continues good, with little variation in prices:— Accrington, 3 ; West' Yorkshire, 6 ; South Eastern, New Creation, 7i; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail way and Canal, 4*; Leeds and Dewsbury, 6; Man chester and Birmingham, 53 524; Ditto and Liverpool District Bank, 10 11-16; Churnet, 34. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH k LINDS. [Ditto Bonds Ditto under £l,OOO 7B pm, South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Lx. Bills, 1,004 8 pm. Ditto 5001 ........ 58 pol Ditto Small 5B pat Bank Stock for Acct — Consols for Opg India gook fof Acct 267 FUNDS. Russian, 5 per 119% Ditto, Metallic ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840.., 24% Ditto, 1811 ..... Ditto, 1842 Ditto, ....... Ditto, 1844 Ditto, !J per Cent ....... Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct.— ereach, J French, 3 per Cent....... Exchange .......... Dutch, 42.% per Cent .. Ditto, S per Cent 66% Bask Stock 2ce56 3 per Cent. Red lOO% 3 per Cent. Cont. per Cent. Red New 3% per Cent lO3 New 5 per Cent — Long Annuities to expire Jan. ......... 12 Oct. Jan. .... ....... -- Indian Stock FORBID!. Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Belgian, b per Cent ..... Brazilian Bonds 36% Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...— per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent: Danish, 3 per Cent flreek, 1.4: 5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... 36% ) Neapolitan Bonds,s per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct . - 14% SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Caledonian (5 paid) Cambridge and Lincoln, I% paid lh Chuniet Valley, 2 paid Edinburgh and Glasgois..,o paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 i9aid Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto New Shares (5 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western (HI. 6s. 10d. paid) 85% Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon ......• l6 Lynn and Ely, 1 paid • 2 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto. Half Shares, 30 paid North British, 5 paid Northern and Eastern {45 paid) Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid - Rugby, I paid. 1 South Devon, 10 paid............................•........•• 10 Trent Vag', 2 paid. ....... . ... ... .................»« 8% York and North Mid land 00 paid)................... 10214 Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid • Orleans sod Vigils's. 2 p5id...................•.m ll a g leam and BoUrdeaux, 1 r aw ; .... ~. .1 1 110.4111411..0 e SUMMARY OF NEij S AND littbitt 14: ptuton. " Who runs may reitc4" :t ---- - The Boyal family of France, were to UST. St. Clot► 4; on Monday, and take up their residence at the Too for the season. The Presse says : " The King and the Queethl PORZXON. were to have gone to Fontainebleau to meet the -_,,, and Duchess d'Aumale on their arrival from 1 46 17 P have abandoned the intention, on account of the PA,' ful reminiscences which such a Etep would create." A l s - r marriage fetes of the lite Duke d'Orleans were celebr l .,.;" at Fontainebleau. A letter from Naples, of the 25th ult.; states thlit ' c il o l l the breakfast which took place at the King's palace' c, the occasion of the marri ag e o f th e Duke d'AUwl, there were several British naval officers in full unif_ o• ,°" 7,,-, Admiral Sir R9bert Owen having sent the Fermi ship of the line, and the Hecht steamer, to assist in d O 7 honour to the royal bride and bridegroom. M. Jeanne, the stationer in the Passage Choisel2ls° tried on Friday before the 7th Chamber of the ~77 - , 'Correctional Police for exposing for sale without stt bf rization of the Minister of the Interior, as requireu:li law, the busts of the five Legitimist Deputies wholotio deprived of their seats last ses s i o n by a vote o f dt • - J Chamber. The Court condemned him to a months 7. prisonment and a fine of 100 f. 0 The frost at Paris and in the northern departs. been is very intense. At Havre the thermometer had lo!", low as 16, and at Paris 18. r till The Messager announces that the contractd is supply of English coals at Toulon, for the Got etillir steamers, will soon take place, and that, in or ti ll . encourage the French shipping interest, there 1 / 1 - an express clause for the coals being brought in Fr . vessels. eels / The Journal des Chemins de F a r says:—." S e " o f. journals have spoken of the formation of a new contt n : with a capital of four hundred millions of francs, 7 0 posed of the pi incipal bankers of Paris, to apply i bl ; ge concession of the whole of the line of radroad 1 1 ' 0 , 6 Calais to Marseilles. There is some truth in this n e , but not to the full extent stated. In the first plseera part of this line, viz. from Avignon to Marseillesio; already contracted for. The house of Baring, of 14°13 l us and those of Hottingeur and d'Ei c h s t a l, of Parl s ' il e, occupied in forming a company of th e Northern 0- t0 the line from Paris to Lyons, and from Lyo ns as Avignon; and overtures have been made to . o,l ' •! Rothschild, who has declined them. , e the A letter from Algiers of the 25th ult. states, - - t bst authority of some Kabyles of the circle of Churchell,_,or Abd-el-hader had been arrested by order of the Emr,;l of Morocco, and imprisoned for three days, at th" ( 10. of which he was set at liberty, after having been prived of all he possessed. 01 1) A Swiss journal status, that a few nights ago s i a l li of eight armed men made an attempt to enter the-' ik; by the Vaudais frontier, near the bridge 'at Colloni 03 but the officers of the police on Fluty .at the bridgel s o the alarm, and a detachment of the volunteers ale, lombcy immediately turned out and occupied the b l lO The Herald° of Madrid of the 29th ult. says .--, ,1 famous bandit Navarro, surnamed the Abd-el-lad e!' Andalusia, has just been arrested by the police, T o b public square of Lucena, as well as some of his .wsi He defended himself, and a sharp firing took P when_ he fell seriously wounded." {be -- : It it stated in a paper call d the Afrique, that thei wrench Government will be obliged to make ilty !Oarlike demonstration against Morocco, to colons:1 fulfilment of the late treaty in respect of . Abd-el- 0 " - r; whose continued vicinity to Algeria begnn to clilO C "' easiness, real or affected, to the French authorities. COMM- PASSIONALMI.7II. The Duke of Cleveland is expected in tow- P -4-, 0 0 Baby Castle to attend the Chapter of the Most Order of the Garter at Windsor Castle on Thursdsl"oo The Duke of Buccleuch also comes to town f°l' same purpose. The Marquis and Marchioness of LondonderrY? count Seaham, Viscount Castlereagh, and th,t l .`;eo Alexandrina and Adelaide Vane, are expecteatl o o at Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, from Stewart, Downshire. The Earl of llchester has returned to Melburlr ili es Dorsetshire, from a visit to the Marquis and big lr r ness of Lansdowne, at Bowood, Wilts. 0 The Dowager Countess of Sefton, who has n b ee, some time indisposed, is considerably better. Lord Thurlow and the lion. Captain Thurle' arrived in town from Ashfield Lodge, Suffolk. 0 0 Lord and Lady James Stuart, who have bee ii iOir° visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Itt Abbey, have left for Luton Ho° the seat of the J r of Bute, the Noble Lord's brot her. it( The Earl and Countess of Mulgrave are Poe winter at Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby. 300 1/ Baron Brunnow entertained his Excellenef aj oh and Baroness Nieumann, and a select party, , on Saturday last, at Ashburnham House. ~t er, Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian. Milo' 10 9 ' daily expected at his mansion in Grosvenor-0 0 .' 7 Hanover. 11111:21101111SLANZIO17111. s The Queen Dowager has contributed 20/. torc,,,,dogr . repairs of the church at Mumby, near Alford, 1 0 — bee. shire. We regret to learn that her Majesty suffering during the last week from a severe csug" - pr On Sunday a notice was affixed : to the gav e , Temple Church, announcing that in future dila/ • will be performed at nine o'clock in that chureb-_ 0 ; Sir Robert Sale, pt eviously to hi s r e tu r n to 11 1 0 ° dered some valuable articles of plate to be prePaiv-; 0 • 0 1 present to the Mess of the 13th Regimept, so lot' o e mended by that distinguished officer. The centrLeir A merit is a splendid candelab rum , w i t h a su itable tion, and engravings of the fortresses of Ghlit'Lral ° Jellalabad—the scenes of some o f th e G a ll a nt G' heroic exploits. fee 0, idea Saturday night Mr. Walsh, who resid• o ft/ miles from Oxford, was returning home in a g : i,f o bot t his professional duties were over , and when wall"; a mile and a half of his own house at ApPie t° s:ogt' supposed that his hor se t urne d tese - ise and ups ,t for', and we regret.to add pitched M r . W a l s h wit out that he was killed on the spot. Mr. Wsaiu highly respectable solicitor. The next mail for Greece and the lonian Is' 11 „ -- billA be dispatched from hence on the morning of the l';i o ori The Evening Freeman states that Mr. I; e 0 O'Carroll, barrister-at-law, has received the apf 4 ". f or of Secretary to the Board of Bequea; s. Mr. ttm Consulting Counsel to th e N at i Ait tl B oar d of Etor The Marquis of Londond e rry an d V i sconti! ,„ ib e reach ac c epted an i nv it a ti on f rom t h e te n an try ov tb eto Noble Marquis's estat es i n Downshire, to dine 0. ; 113 .0 0 , on Wednesday last, at N ewtownar d s . These and contented tenantry, a few days ago, P re A se a der t :4 complimentary address to th e M arqu i s ofLon",7l,lov and Viscount Ca s tl e r eag h, an d were rece i ve d 0" Stewart, with great kindness and urbanity. There is no candidate as yet in the field for the, Y e 1 in the representation c a u s e d by t h e d eat h o f 30' o Cave. glOl 1 THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.—We Were left, an opportunity of seeing Mr. Marble in a ebil, rlW , or„ the night of his benefit, in which he Could disp l ay advantage the peculiar excellencies of his stli e u ' a er m the same time to congratulate the author on tP - o fly• i , decided success which attended the production in P i piece. It is but justice to every person engsg e kti d dl, ° : new farce, The Stage-struck Yankee, to sal gora acquitted themselves t o a d m i rat i on . M r . Marble - v . ll ; i Atlantic fame has been hid by the trashy piec el a sAia hitherto been compelled to appear in ;on his ;ailE t , convinced the public that he h as th e r i g ht sort of jo it him, only wanting the proper medium of disPle s sf6 His imitations of Forrest, and other Ameciel 074 were most effective ; and, although he gave tm., e e tli features of farce, it was completely divested of o _,'" ea te s e d approaching to vulgarity. Mr. Marble's successfludia in London and Liverpool had caused him to be i 111 3,, with applications from most provincial manag e iaa — cV a t proceeds from hence to Dublin, thence to Sot - 1 000, ja after some other engagements resumes his I:" i i r ,lv s the London boards, where he is coming out injcd t°' Markwell's new and successful farce above allay' Tb ed. new piece by Backstone, and also one byßern a- afee s a , writers, we have no doubt, will produce such rosy cannot fail to please Mr. Marble's countrymen on 0 11 turn.—Liverpool European Ti mes . 4 „, PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY FOR THE RElspObe OF JUVENILE OFFEND ERS , & c ., S T . GEORGE'9 et tret On Sunday morning a sermon on the occasion obo e thirty-eighth anniversary of the opening of .110 .0 of this institution, was prea c h e d by th e Rev. Jal lle ne el sell, M.A. In the course of a v er y e l o quent OF es ° Rev. Gentleman made some ver y t ouc hing ren iti i r t the nature of the institution and the b e nefits at ferred on the community at l a r ge . The collect ion conclusion of the service amounted to nearly ( 604 , 4 0 ° j ibe FAMILY MEETINGS AT CHRISTMAS:" ... 0 little stress on the bringing t og eth er a t Christ: l oc h t l e members of the family, it it can be effected. lit 0 anniversary annually observed tends to heal ° Teo° division s , and to c h er i s h mu t ua l attac hment.... Letter of Wilberforce to kis Son. - t r e ITS pt LEATH OF THE EARL OF LIMERICK.' ', oo (iikr e , to announce that intelligence was received on ' - ' l ., s tin° o f the Hoe. Mr. Pery's, in ['Linde-street, M „ aa heste k, 00 e 0 of the demise of the venerable Earl of Limeri,_ c je ev o the Irish Representative Peers. The nielanco°,l a t P i , took place on Saturday ermine . , at seven e c p Lordship's seat, South Hill Park, near Braan c th eo o e , shire. By his death several noble families are , reP /. 1 1 into mo urn i ng , an d a vacancy is occasioned inth pee° a d senfation of Ireland in the Upper House of t ne t ittes Parliament. His Lordship is succeeded in hisisio pert estates by his grandson, the lion. Win. Tenn M s " 0 now Earl of Limerick, who is at present in e . the ..ng HEALTH OF GENERAL NOTT.— Durin g JOII,O week the General has net been so well as he thatv, the preceding we, la It is supposed, however, t broa a , state of his health will be e xt r emely fluctuat i l t ee sr r , out the wintiT, and that it will not be 1 1 1 gaill P l e be proach of spring that the ga ll a nt Genera w,,, at in _ le manent strength. It is gratifying to lealll that midst of his illness, w hi c h is vecessarill ook , b the painful, and has rendered him ex tremel/.,,' s a fter 0 P cheerful and in good spirits. The inqulrlLool3l,s" General's health are very numerous. Th e p a ers l tjtao, of St. David's has v i s it e d th e ga llant officer s- tb° —Welshman. in The new Episcopal Chapel at Ing let i °ll o 'odetaae t hi parish of Staindrop, which has been erec tea, use o r - - t patronage of his Grace the Duka of Cievelana erou si attended since its consecration by very nom &replica. ( 131 r P!ts Pul 1 cht 447 iitot ►et', 0 , 1 411 1 %Luc 411/1 Vie] ing qUi C l 41