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Now ready, at all the Libraries, THE COUNTESS of BLESSLNGTON'S NEW NOVEL, I STRATHBRN ; OR, LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD." A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. Also now ready, The PALAIS ROYAL, an Historical Romance. 13”. , the Author of " Henri Quatre." 3 vols. 111. lIILLI2PGDON HALL, A Tale of c: cti ,.A ry Life. By the Author Of " Handley Cross." 3 vols. Henry Colburn, 43 Great Marlborough-street. TREAT ~RR ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Will be rep , - THIS EVENING OF ST. -aced a Orand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER B on , Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr n- ; Monceingo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W -arisen ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainferth. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, .PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQ UIN AND ROBINSON iCRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. . Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; 'Columbine, Miss Carson. The Box.ottice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. "I HIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocks,: Strickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Cok,• t'. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Count...es of I'6-irpion, Mrs. %V. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthor, /Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia . -, ennett. After which a New Grand Music a l F a i ry E xtravaganza, 'entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious, Mr. J Bland ; Princess Griviosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a GranJ MOVING DIORAMA. or, PIC TORIAL TOUR 1N SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Gtainea anl a-Half eact , illekets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, lit the Box-office, tram Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADt'LPHI. Under the Direction of Mada',oe CELESTE. THIS E-VEN,:NG Will be repeated (by T ecial i permisr:Lo n of Charles Dickens, Es ) New Drama, entitled 'HE QEIPIES. A Goblin Story of Somv Bells that Rang an Old Year Ou'. and a New Year In. Teby Veck, Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cutr., Mr. Wright ; ford; y, Mr. Wilkim. son ; S:r Joseph Bowley, "iiart - Mr. Paul Bedford Will Fern, Mi Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mis Chickenstalker, Mrs. 'Frank Matthews. After which, NC,RMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bel ford, Mr. Wright, and '.diss Reynolds will perform. To conclude - with a New Grand Military and Comic l'lpistm, Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Hailequin and the Ki g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss LOUE dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Saiviers. Prompter Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, _ Mx. Pitt ; Leader of th. Baud, Air. Mel'An.—Box-ottice open from Eleven till Four. Privet. Boxes to be br d at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRIiICE.9B`t.., THEATRE, OXFORD-STBEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. Will THIS EVENING b".l tereated an English Version of the ceebrated Gin n+ it nA Tyro Acts, called I'HE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. b Music by Rossini. Muirapha, Mr. P. Corri ; Lindor, Mr. Allen, Tad- - ' Mr. Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattocks; Isabella, Mdlle. Hekt, Aden; Elvira, Miss Grant; Zulma, Miss Brentnall. b e suceceded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW ISEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mr: NA rimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng To be followed by a new Divertissem?nt, called The `;ALW VEBAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Mi Marshall, Mdlle. Teresine, M. J. Rou-set, Mr. Marshall, and Ali Gilbert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaginza, called JOE MILLER AND H MEN. Grindoff Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelma Dir. Granby; giber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton ; Claudi ne , Ales E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Cr, Mr. H. I. Waliack . Stage Director, M r . E m d er ,, Maclunis i l l irr! Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle ; Boxes, 4s. ; 2 a.; Gallo Is. Half-price t Nine o'clock — Dress Circle, 2s. 641. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6,= Private Boxes Two Guineas and One G u i nea an d a-Half ; Proscc M um Boxes, T wo Guineas and. a-Half. Doors t o be opened at Halt past Six, and the Performer...et to c o mmence at S even o ' clock. The Box-office, under she direction of Mr. W. Massingharr. Private Boxes and Free 1, d:nissioas for the Season to be had at th• Theatre. IHEATRE FOXAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. rintlf.r the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS Will be rep EVENING eated THE CHIMES ; A Goblin Story. Principe Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews. Collier, latnery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Miss Arde,. Miss Grave, and ?In. Keeley, Atte: which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT Ti , MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic Pantomirnical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VA LENTINI AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews . _Meadows, Wigan, Collier, furner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mr; Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcouy nozea, 41.; Uppa, Boxes, 3e.; Pit 2s. Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2P. Upper Boxes, A. Rd.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tit (holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Seem Vier (holding eiiiht persons), One Guinea and a-Halt Privet Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea, The Box-office' s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr tien of Mr. Orogen, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Ovr,reows to the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveltie', .ane Treble Rotation of Entertainments at .A.3:LEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime THIS EVENING Wril be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FON HU NT; or, The Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed fo.sroducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fnx-chase on the Stag, - And in the Circle by living For and real Pack of Hounds, purchase lb, Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production Lpaom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse Mash ip. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime Iled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, thi Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine Mrs. J. W. C,olyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury Acting anu stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Bro adfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Ridinr by Mr. R. Smith daily. DA VIDUE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, As usual, the 13esEPanromirneoftheSealoaf — A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved I I Laughter, Wonder, an, Delight !!! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, ant Everything New !!!! THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri (from thi Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Hoarier, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W Daly, and Miss Martin_ After which, Herr Joseph Gouldsmith and Marie Gouldsmith, from the Teatre Berlin, will perform meet wonderful Gymnastiqu( Feats on the horizontal corde and miraculous evolutions, suspender by a double rope. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called. POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN Z. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box race, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne- or, The Child of Crime," an, , the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING TM be produced MAIiCACTNY:; or, the Child of Charity. Su - ported be Mr. Osbaldiaton, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. E 1-liggie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss 1. Torrey, and Miss Treble. After which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled ii4ALEQUIN HOT CODLINS •' or, The Little Old Wonsan an(' the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chap*); Clown, 34. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbfne, Mdllc Le Fite. THE WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, JAN. 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 49 BAROMETER, 30.18.—WIND, W. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Ilighest" denote the lowest and highest state of thf Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. Al! the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes a 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and w Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, an( " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weathe when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning bi minutes after 11 j Evening 0 minutes after I .., ' -. 0 i( -r-7:1..,- i ~ raz• - - $4l Y - - e.7* ' ' I l v •- (go 4 re 46 , *0 -,1 . .k": :„.1" - sr" I r ' Z' ' ...;AF 4 , ••r , a % -. r. i *`•;:, : a,. ~....iw* ' - -, -.4 --., aw . , --idt4l.lb ~ - -.4*.,.-' , . = ' "" .4 441 INIME" ri ';'`''. 3°S , • ~. 1111 '02:111pr ,C. , A I" 1`,.. . ... Z 7..,.. ''°•'' '''''' SECOND EDITION. V"Ant LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1845. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. The official returns of the revenue for the year and quarter, made up to Saturday, the 4th instant, ex hibit a most remarkable and gratifying feature—an increase, and, in several instances, to a large amount, of all the ordinary sources of revenue. The Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Post-office, and the Crown, Lands, show tie activity of trade and the prosperit3 of the country. The only decrease is under the heads of "Property-tax " and " Miscellaneous," but the latter forms no criterion whatever of the state o' the revenue, as all chance sums and "god-sends," sucl as the Chinese ransom, fall into it. The decrease in the former is 57,664/. on the year, while there is an in crease on the quarter of 33,1261. The increase the Custom s duty is enormous, amounting to not less than 1,305,45 3 1 . For the conven i ence o f th e rea d er , we give the following brief outline of the abstract. The total ordinary income for the year ending Ja. nuary 5, 1845, is 50 , 0 81,8871., and for the previous year 49,078,1681. The total income, including imprest and other moneys, and' re -payments of advances, amounts to 51,235,5381., that for 1844 being 50,071,9431., thus leaving a clear surplus of 1 163 595/ The Customs produce 20,378,672/.' showing an ' increase of 1,305,45:3/. on th e year, and an 135,167/. on the quarter. Th e Excise am r o e u as n e ts to o' 12,160,1111., being an increa se o f 365,3041. on the year, and not less than 200,1691. on the quarter. The increase, under the head of Stamps, is, for the year and quarter respectively, 185,2351. and 78,005/. The Taxes for the year and quarter show an increase of 26,0021. and 11,633/. The Post-office an increase of 83,0001. on the year, and 3,0001. on the quarter. The total amount of the Property-tax for the year ending Jan. 5, 1845, is 5,191,5961. The Crown Lands and Miscellaneous are items of no im portance, and therefore hardly deserve notice. These returns cannot fail to afford satisfaction, and form a source of pride to every subject of the United Kingdom. They attest the power, the energy, and capabilities, of this great country, and while they remove all anxiety respecting the state of the revenue, they at the same time afford a proof that manufac ture,are in a healthful trade, and shipping, condi tion, and that, though wages are small, still there must be employment for the great body of the work ing classes. The increase in the Excise, the Customs, and the Post-office, is the best sign of the times. What forms a peculiar coincidence, too, in this prosperous state of the revenue, is that the very patt y whom Sir ROBERT PE L and his a". ft-free trade friends turned out of office, must rejoice at the result equally with their opponents, and even with still more genuine sa tisfaction. The opening of the trade with China, which has given renewed life to the manufacturing districts, the new tariff, which is beginning to pro , duce its effect on the Customs, and other principles cf free trade, assumed by Sir ROBERT PEEL as his own, all owe their origin to the Melbourne Ministry, who had the skill to plan them, but owing to the factious and unprincipled opposition of the Tories, were not allowed to reap their fruits. The country, in the meantime, however, prospers; the Whigs rejoice at it, and, to their honour throw no obstacles in the way of men who snatched the prize from their hands. Prosperity as well as adversity however, has its troubles, and Sir ROBERT PEEL must now be looking about fir remedies to abate the plethora. He will find plenty of advice from brother doctors. One will recommend the abolition of the malt tax, another of the window tax, a third of the ,luty on soap, a fourth of the income tax—in fact, there will be no end of specifics. All we hope for is, that the Physician-in-Chief will do his duty impar tially, and remove the pressure from that part of the 1)ody least able to bear it. After a struggle, continued with more or less in -ensity for upwards of thirty years, the people of the United Kingdom obtained Parliamentary Re form. The main objects of that Reform was to 4ive the people more power in the Commons' House of Parliament, to destroy the monopoly of boroughs' vested in a few Lords and Commoners, to obtain for the large unrepresented towns their rights and privilege-s, sanctioned by the genius of he Constitution, and above all, to establish laws t'or the benefit not of the noble and the rich only, but for the whole community. Much as that great neasure was crippled in its passage through both [louses, it has, after all, conferred many blessings on the community, and established the great principle hat the other two estates of the realm (for the con trol of the people over the Crown was fully esta hlished at the Revolution) may, from time to time, be changed and amended according to circumstances. rhe part which the Church, and especially the Bench if Bishops, took in that arduous contest, is well mown to all. They were regarded as the most Atter opponents of the people's rights ; and so strong .vas the general conviction, that in the streets, at public meetings, nay, in the very churches, the sacred character of the prelates did not screen them from popular indignation, and the cry became almost aniversal, " Down with the Bishops." The Bishops done have forgotten the crisis. Like the old worn out BOURBON dynasty, they believe that they hold .heir tenures by Divine right; in blind security they et people and Parliament at defiance, and like men loomed, urge on their fate. How else can any ational being account for the palpable, the mon trous attempt, in these days, and in Protestant England, to revive the mummeries of the Catholic religion, and reconcile the Church to the See of Rome ? But if these men are infatuated, he people are not to be the victims. The people nave the means of correcting the evil in their own hands. The Reformed Church was established by and by law it can be altered, amended, and re stored to its original state. Never was reform more necessary than at the present moment. The tenets of Popery have taken deep root in the Church, the leading bishops openly profess them, many of the leading men at Oxford, the nursery of the Church, of the nobility, and the higher classes are strongly imbued with a spirit in direct hostility to the re - flormation, and they only watch the opportunity to lestroy that noble fabric, which was cemented by the ulood of so many martyrs. It is high time, therefore for the Legislature to provide a remedy against these alarming evils, and the most obvious, the most effectual, and the most certain remedy too, is to reduce to something like ordinary dimensions the vast patronage and Authority of the Episcopal Bench. No twenty-six inen have the tenth, nay, the hundredth part of the political power now entrusted to that ecclesiastical body. In fact, it is so enormous, that any reform in the Church, any meddling, as they call it, with Church lands, or any interference whatever with any mcquisition, however unjustly acquired, would not lave the slightest chance of a fair hearing in the Le gislature. These, however, are not ordinary times; and t i ; for the people therefore to seize the opportunity, and urge on their representatives steps for abating he evil. Why should one man, because he happens o b Archbishop of CANTERBURY, have the patronage f 2 ' 0 livings ? Or the Puseyite Bishop of LONDON av 3 ninety, and his brother of EXETER fifty ? Or the -wenty-six Prelates,:with their appendage!, the Deans And Chapters, have in their gift 2,500 livings—one tburth of the whole patronage of the Church of Eng land ? This constitutes a power, in such a small com munity, injurious to every department of the State And dangerous to liberty ; for one of the main objects of established churches is not, as they profess, to teach the pure truths of Christianity, but to keep their flocks in darkness, in order that the learned may do mineer over the ignorant. We appeal to history. When did the Bench of Bishops ever bring forward measures that had any other object in view but their iwn aggrandisement, and can the spirit which animates them be misunderstood when it is remem hered that all the great Parliamentary enactments of -he last twenty years have found that body , ver in opposition to the just claims and privileges of he people ? The abolition of slavery and the slave rade, the abolition of the Test and Corporation Acts, Jatholic Emancipation, the education of the people, and the Reform Bill, afford fair specimens of that selfish and grasping disposition for which the Church in all ages has been conspicuous; yet, with such proofs, the Legislature and the community still allow these men to possess an amount of patronage suffi cient to damage every great and good measure. This patronage, however, is employed now, not to obstruct plans of reform, but to carry out one of the wickedest schemes ever devised—the re-establishment of the Catholic religion in England. But it is hardly necessary to point out the influence which a Puseyite 3ishop must necessarily exercise over the young ?riesthood, and over the many thousands who look to `um for livings or promotion for their relatives and riends. The only way to clip the wings of Puseyism, is to remodel the Church, and, first of all, to make a nore equal distribution of its patronage. We quote the following curious passage from the Post of Saturday morning :—" What right have the !ay persons who meet together at Exeter or elsewhere, •o give their opinion about Church matters, and to .;all for alterations, unless they consider themselves , nembers of -the Church; and if they be members of :;he Church, why should they be so utterly oblivious •f the conditions of their membership ? It is mani est that they never think of this—that they do not ecollect that their undutiful conduct, in meeting and Alking as they do, disqualifies them altogether from interference in Church affairs. Their mode of inter ; erence destroys their right to interfere. The mind that is in these people is the mind of mere Dissenters— lay, it is much more licentious than the mind which belongs to regularly organised bodies of Dissenters, :or even they recognise some rules of church govern nent. But these stulti of Exeter, who meet to babble :nd talk and make a disturbance, seem to have no other 'llea than that clergy and Church are only to be held in respect while they are pleasing to them." We gave been induced to quote this somewhat lengthy )assage, because we consider it in its way as a cu iosity—as a specimen of dogmatism and haughty, upercilious intolerance singularly and amusingly at . ariance with the tone of thought and feeling preva ent in the present day and for many a long year past, tnd worthy of a journalist in the days of LAUD, or a ,ycophantie Court scribe during the brief tyrannical .way of JAMES the SECOND. Imagine indeed the ar rogance of a public writer denying the right of the city to express an honest and .decided opinion on a natter that deeply concerns themselves—denying heir right to make the slightest opposition to innova -ions that shock their feelings, disturb their sense of )ropriety, and degrade the established faith in their .yes by associating it with a variety of obsolete, worth -I,ss usages and superstitious mummeries, borrowed avowedly from an antagonist Church, which they mud their fathers before them have been taught to cold in conscientious aversion ! The laity not justi ied in taking a vital interest in Church affairs! Why, the laity are themselves the national Church„ rills SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE_NiNG, JANUARY 6 1345 quite as much so, as even the clergy ! Such at least was the opinion of the late Dr. ARNOLD, one of the best and wisest men that modern times have pro duced. But not only are the laity, according to the Post's authoritative dictum, bound to abstain from all interference with the Bishop of EXETER'S decrees; but they are bound, in addition, to receive them with thankfulness and humility, and pay to them the blindest and most unhesitating submission, no matter how rash, unsuitable, and absurd they may appear to them. All honest, rational freedom of opinion is to be scouted as issue what contumacy. It is for the Bishop to what ordinances he pleases, and for his flock to obey in mute, obsequious silence. Such is our Contem porary's High-Church, LAUD-like theory, but such is not the theory of ecclesiastical government enter tained by the community at large. The people have , )utgrown the leading-strings in which they were kept for so many ages by priestly domination. They have reached the years of discretion, and will think and act for themselves. They will pay all becoming respect to the decrees of their spiritual pastors and masters, when those decrees are founded in reason, 'lnd do not run directly counter to long-cherished feelings; but they will not sit tamely by while a set of idle ceremonial observances are forced upon them which have long since dropped into desuetude, simply because they were felt to be superfluous, not to say absurd. But we have not yet done with our arrogant, contumelious Contemporary, in whom the spirit of Fractarianism is exhibited in its true colours Mark the insolence of his allusions to the " mind of mere Dissenters"--just as if Dissent were an undeniable proof of want of intellect, of liberality, of all that graces, ennobles, and humanises a man ! The "mind of mere Dissenters !" Why, some of the loftiest, boldest, and most sagacious spirits that England has known for centuries, were Dissenters. WATTS— DODDRIDGE—BAXTER—the late ROBERT HALL—the mild, conscientious WESLEY—the earnest, intrepid WIIITEFIELD—aII these great men were Dissenters ; and the greatest of them all, Joust MILTON, he, too, was i Dissenter ! We owe to the " mind of mere Dis senters" two of the most popular works that were ever penned—" Robinson Crusoe" and the "Pilgrim's Progress"—works that have achieved a European reputation, and will survive to instruct, amuse, and elevate humanity ages after the present generation shall have passed away into nothingness. But the Posts contempt is not confined exclusively to the Dissenters. No, our Contemporary is singularly impartial in his abuse, and designates all that portion of the Devonshire laity who have remonstrated against the rash decrees of the Bishop of EXETER, by the polite appellation of "stuni," or fools ! Judging from his article of Saturday morning we should say that he ought to be a good judge of what constitutes " folly," though in the present instance his censure is singu larly inapplicable. According to accounts from Madrid of the 29th ult., the QUEEN had published an amnesty in favour of the persons implicated in the late rising at Lo grono and Huesca, excepting, however, the general officers, public functionaries, and the leaders of the rebellion. On the 28th the Chamber of Deputies met, when the President announced that a number of Members had seceded, and given in their resigna tions. These resignations, which amounted to seven teen, were referred to the Minister of the Interior. In reference 4o this step, which shows that the Members regard their attendance as useless, Senor ONENSE said the Ministry intended to govern with the co-operation of Parliament, for which it enter tained the greatest consideration ; and it would labour, as far as in its power lay, to organise the country in a becoming and definitive manner. The Chamber afterwards adjourned to the 2d instant. On the 28th ult. the Three per Cents. were done at 32 for cash„'and 324 at sixty days *he Five per Cents. at 23 3-8 at sixty days ; and the Debt without interest at ale at sixty days. to give satisfaction to that portion of the majority of the Chamber which wishes for the maintenance of peace—which wishes for it earnestly, and who are ready to make every sacrifice for it, on condition that those sacrifices should be reciprocal, according to the expression of the Hon. M. SASSEY, in the speech he delivered when quitting the President's chair. M. GIIIZOT could wish nothing better. The discussion in Committee on the Address commenced on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies, and it was expected to be presented on Thursday next. The Moniteur publishes the following returns from the Bank of France on Dec. 26, with the result of the operations for the last quarter of the year : " The specie in hand amounted to 245.096,8021.—the commercial bills to 142,612,674E—0f which 19,264,092 f. were upon Paris; the advances upon ingots to 6,885,900 f. and upon public securities to 7,930,166 f. The branch banks were indebted to the Bank 22,000,000 f. for their capitals, and 54,728,426 f. for advances. On the other sick, the notes in circulation amounted to 249,133,500 f., and bills payable to order 741,120 E; the funds deposited by the Treasury in account current to 137,249.244 f.; other accounts current to 47,311,629 f., and certificates, payable at sight, to 1,656,0001. The averages (luring the last quarter present some remarkable differences with the State at the end of the year. The average of discounts amounted to no more than 101,052,300 E ; those of the account current of the Treasury to 105,496,600 E The difference in this last item arises, no doubt, from the payments made on ac count of the loan. The average of the accounts current was 50,473,400 f. During the quarter the sum total of the bills discounted in Paris was 234,101,604 E, and of those in the branch banks 10 2,038,634 f. The move ment of the caisses present some interesting results. The specie paid in was only 89,303,020 E, and the species paid out 106,925,550 f. The movement of the notes was 571,495,000 f. paid in, and 557,781,500 E issued. The general movement of the accounts current was 1,887,880,000 f. . The same journal contradicts officially the statements which have appeared in several of the Opposition jour nals relative to Admiral Dupetit-Thouars being at Ver sailles, &e., and adds, that immediately on his arrival in Paris he waited on the Minister o f Marine THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, JAN. 4. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Pi : ice. Price. Price. French Five per Cents • • 120 95 .. 120 95 .. 120 90 • • 120 85 Fours ..... ....• • . 108 . - 108 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents..... 85 10 .. 83 10 .. 85 .. New Loan • • •• • • • • 86 60 .. 86 60 .. 86 60 .. 86 60 [lank of France .. 3225 50 ..3225 60 .•3225 50 ..3225 60 Latlltte Bank, I,ooof Shareslloo ..1100 ..1100 • • 1100 Belgian Bank .. • • • • • • • • • • • • 635 • . 635 .• 635 • • 638 Belgian Fives, 1840 •••••• • • 104 .. 104 .. 104 •• 104 4 panish Threes • • • • • • • • • • • • 37 .. 37 .. 37 • • 37 Active • 37 • • 371 • • 37 • • 37/ Passive . 61 .. .. 61 • • 61 Portuguese Five per Centa.. 51 .. 591 • • 591 • • 5 91 Neapolitan.- ...... • • 96 25 .. 96 30 • • 96 25 .. 96 25 URI= LOUGH FOYLE.—Arrd. Fanny, St. John's, New Brunswick, with the crew of the Elizabeth Bentley, abandoned at sea as reported. MARYPORT, JAN. 3.—Arrd. St. George, Dublin, and is aground on the North Bank. DUBLIN, JAN. 3. Arrd. Lightfoot, Wilson, Quebec. CORK, JAN. 3.—Wind N.W.,:light.—Arrd. Will Watch, May, and Sarah Fleming, Guy, Ichaboe ; Baronet, Kin cardine, for Buenos Ayres, bore up with loss of topmasts; Oceana, Savannah. LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Wind W., light.—Arrd, the Kingston, Ichaboe, and is aground in the river ; Magis trate, Africa ; Norman and Onico, New Orleans ; R. G. Shaw, Matthews, Savannah •, Alexander and Swanton, Charleston ; Samuel Hicks, New York; Lord Lambton, Montreal ; New York, New York ; Thomas Harrison, Ichaboe; Cumberland, Power, Pernambuco. Sld. Cora, Bahia ; Maria Louisa, Africa ; Llama, Trinidad ; Cecilia, Jamaica, &o. ; William Goddard, Mobile ; American, New York ; Cambria steamer, Halifax. Off, Lama, Flora, Lahina, and Standard. . CHUSAN.—Arrd. Mary Ann Webb, Hong Kong, towed in dismasted. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. As will be observed from our returns a very large number of vessels, which were long detained by the con trary winds, has arrived in the river during the past week laden with grain from our own coasts, as well as from Ireland and Scotland, but more particularly from the two former quarters. Still, however, we have not been so overwhelmed with supplies as might be expected, arising from the fact that no inconsidt rable portion of them had been previously disposed of by land carriage samples, previous to the vessels being imported. Fresh up, only a moderate quantity of Wheat of home produce came to hand, coastwise or by land sample, yet that on offer was quite adequate to meet the wants of the millers. For selected qualities, which were com paratively scarce, we had a steady, though not to say active, demand, and last Monday's quotations were sup ported in every transaction. As to the middling and inferior kinds, there was a slow sale, yet holders were tolerably firm, and late rates were again realised. We had only a moderate show of free foreign Wheat, never theless, the inquiry for it was in a sluggish state, though at prices quite equal to those paid on this day se'nnight. Bonded Grain of all descriptions was heavy, and almost nominal in value, speculation in Wheats appearing wholly at a standstill. We had a very large supply of Barley in the market, which caused dealers to operate with great caution. Malting qualities commanded a fair inquiry, and the prices were readily supported. Grinding and distilling sorts were dull, at rates barely equal to those quoted in our last report. Notwithstand ing 'the large arrival of Malts, selected season-made descriptions moved off steadily, at last week's quotations. All other kinds were dull. and their value was h ar dly maintained. The supply of Oats being exceedingly large, that article was in slow request, although many parties are short of stock, and, where sales were pressed, the rates were in favour of the buyers. Both Beans and Peas were in moderate request, and their prices re mained unaltered. The Flour trade was in a sluggish state, yet the quotations were supported. Linseed, as well as cakes, were in large request, at fully the late advance in the currencies. All other kinds of seeds were in sluggish demand. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 0/NEAT—Essex & Kent, IMALT—Chevalier......... 616 to Me red '4oa to WI Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin coln, red .... ....... Ditto white 42s to 5081 Irish, red —s to —s Ditto, white ttYlC—Old 3OB to 34.5 New 358 to 363 BARLKY—Grinding 26s to 31s Malting Chevalier 3BB to 40s, 51.sta , 7 Suffolk and Nor- OATe—Yorkshire Lincolneb., feed 22s to 23a 1 Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white .... Scotch, feed BEANS—Tick. 3ss to 37s Pigeons Paces— Grey .......... Maple 26s to 40s White ..... Boilers ....... 383 to 43a FLOUR—Town made:. 41s to 45e Suffo'k 33e to 35.1 Stockton & Norfolk Ms to 35( ID FLOUR IN BOND. BRANS ••••••• 00000 •••••••••••• 24s to 298 P 131113. .• 000000000 ••••••• 2BB to 32s noun—American Baltic ••••••••••••••“•• 206 to --e folk sBs to 62s Brown 56s to 605 Kingston and Ware 63s to 64s FOREIGN GRAIN A/ , WasaT—Dantric .." 32s to 36s' Haraburgh ..... Ms to —5 BARLEY ..... 27s to 29i OATS—New l e to 18s Feed Ms to 17a STVLITIIFIZZD. The export season ' having been pretty generally brought to a close in Holland, in consequence of the various ports being blocked up with ice, it is now placed beyond a doubt that the imports of live stock from the Continent, for some time - hence, will be on a very limited scale. On looking over those for the past year—which will be found below—we find they have considerably exceeded those of 1842 and 1843, both as respects numbers and quality. and it appears to us quite evident, from the exertions now making by the foreign graziers to improve the con dition of their Beasts and Sheep, that the importations for 1845 will be much larger than we have ever before noticed. In the week just concluded 16 Sheep and 18 Oxen and Cows have been received for this market, and which were disposed of on Friday last. With this ex ception, no arrivals have taken place into any of the ports of the United Kingdom. The official returns of the importations of Beasts and Sheep give the following results : FROM JANUARY 1, TO DECEMBER 31, 1844. Beasts. Sheep. 2,531 1,690 London Hull Liverpool Southampton Totals There were only four Beasts and eight Sheep on sale from abroad, but as they were somewhat out of condi tion, they attracted very little attention. Although there was only a moderate number of Beasts offering in to-day's market—the principal portion of which was of very middling quality—the demand for that description of stock, notwithstanding we had a fair attendance of buyers, was extremely inactive. The few prime Scots offering were mostly disposed of at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last ; but the value of most other breeds was lower by 2d per Sibs, and even at that amount of depression, a clearance was not effected. There were very few seri ous cases of disease apparent among the beasts ; yet they came to hand somewhat out of condition. The Sheep were in, generally speaking, good order, and their weight was equal to that of most former seasons. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire, there were received fresh up to-day about 800 Short-horns ; while the receipts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire were composed of 400 Scots and Homebreds ; for the Western and Midland Counties, 500 Herefords, Devons, Irish beasts, &c. ; from other parts of England, 600 of various breeds ; and from Scot. land, 230 horned and polled Scots—the remainder of the supply being chiefly derived from the neigh bourhood of the metropolis. For the time of year the supply of Sheep was rather limited. Prime old Downs were in fair request, and last week's quotations were steadily supported. All other kinds were a dull sale, though not cheaper: The supply of Calves was quite equal to the demand, which ruled somewhat in active, at previous quotations. There were upwards of 200 Pigs on sale from Ireland. Prime small English were in fair request, but other qualities hung heavily on hand, at late rates. Per Sibs. to sink the 01151. s. & to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Interior Beasts ..... 6 210 Second qualityditto.., 3 0 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woollod ditto.. 3 3 310 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 5 Southdown Wether s 4 0 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. SIO 4 2 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves... 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 20 Inferior Sheep ...... 2 8 211 Lambs 0 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I Pies. 2,964 24,580 t 02 290 NEVTGATE AND IMADENIZALL. Only a moderate arrival of slaughtered Meat has taken place for our markets during the past week, while the supply of that killed in the metropolis has been by no means extensive; still, however, the general demand has been in a sluggish state. Prime Beef and Mutton have sold at fully previous rates; but the value of other kind 3 of Meat has not been supported, and large quantities have remained unsold at the close of each market day. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, ..... 2 6 2 8 Mutters, inferior 2 6 s 0 middling ..... 2 5 218 middling 3 2 3 4 prime large ...... 210 3 0 prime 3 6 3$ prime small 3 2 3 6 Pork, large 2 6 3 4 Veal ..............«.».....3 2 4 4 3 6 4 The Paris papers are entirely occupied with dis. cussions on the result of the elections in the Chamber of Deputies, but as nothing certain is yet known respecting the fate of the Ministry, each party reckons on success—the Opposition from the small majority obtained by M. DEBBLLETAIE as Vice- President, and the Ministry from the vast majority obtained in the Committee for drawing up the Ad dress. It would be of no interest to the English reader to give lengthened extracts from the articles in these papers on the question. It is stated in some of the journals hat M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN is to move an amendment on the Address, objecting to the terms of peace granted to Morocco, and that a dead heat between the parties is extremely probable. If the Journal des Debats, however, continues to take its tone from the Hon. Member as formerly, the report must he without foundation. According to that paper the Conservatives are as much united as ever, and the appointment of the last Committee is given as a proof. " A moment of indecision," says the writer of an article on the subject, " in the majority which sup ports the policy of the Cabinet had been near giving the advantage to the Opposition in the last ballot that took place for the formation of the bureaux. The Opposition was in too great a hurry to triumph, and if some persons had speculated on the division of the Con servative party, they will be obliged to:postpone their hopes. For our parts, we have never ceased to count on the good sense and good feeling of the majority. We had appealed from the secret ballot on proper names to the frank and open discussion on things them- selves, and our expectation has not been deceived! Yesterday the question of things had replaced those of persons, and the majority which intrigue had a moment shaken has been found as firm and com pact as ever. The Ministry did not refuse to answer any of the questions addressed to them, whereas it may be remarked that the most influen tial members of the Opposition, who in similar cases usually draw forth precise declarations from the Cabinet, have shown an intentional reserve, and refrained from speaking. After this first trial, the Cabinet can await with confidence the public discus sion. The Conservative majority has rallied, the former situation is re-established." The Globe takes rather a more serious view of the late divi sions, and in the following extract evidently alludes to Count MOLE and his friends, who had entered on a line of policy of which they seem now to repent : " The situation of things, over which the coalition had triumphed for a moment in spreading a mist, has just appeared to well-thinking persons in all its truth and clearness. They saw, in fact, that the question was not merely to change the Ministers, but to alter the present line of policy, which is a grave matter, particularly when this policy is that of order, industry, and peace. They perceived that the question was to break the English alliance which is at present the most solid support of good harmony in Europe, and the most efficient instrument of civilisation. These results alarmed the men who are seriously the friends of their country, and they withdrew from the midst of the intrigue, of which they constituted all the strength. We think that these well-thinking men ought to be thanked for what they have done, whilst, at the same time, they are warned of the grave shock they might give the interests of the country, in permitting themselves such fallings off. The most able and most efficient of go vernments could not do any good, if they who give it their support do not exhibit great firmness and con sistency. Months are required for a Cabinet to repair the evil done in a single day by an inattentive majority. The Conservatives ought besides to bear in mind that the general work of the Cabinet is their work, and that all the blows which they allow to be given to this work recoil on themselves." A leading organ of the Opposition, the Courrier Francais, is sadly annoyed at the vacillation of the Chamber, which one day votes against Ministers and next day neutralises the vote, and says, if the old system is to be continued, it would be a hundred times better for the Chamber to adopt the Ministerial report as it shall be drawn up by 14. HEBERT or M. ne PEYRAMONT, the only reporters possible in this pleiades of nullities. A discussion would only show our bebasement the more, and render us the fable of free nations. The National has as little confidence in the consistency of the Chamber, and as a proof, states the fact, that of 28 Conservatives who three days previously had voted against Ministers, 28 wheeled round like Jim Crow, and two only had the courage to maintain their previous opi nions. The Presse, so far from regarding M. GIRARDIN'S amendment as hostile, says he will simply propose an additional paragraph to the Address, if the draught be not so composed as RAILWAY SNARES. . • • 472 10 •• 472 10 .. 410 .. 470 L•B••• •• •• •• .• •• 365 65 .. 365 65 .. 365 65 .. 365 65 Rouen •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• •.1047 50 . 1047 50 ..1047 50 ..1047 50 Rouen to Havre•• •• .• .... 820 .. 820 .. 820 .. 820 Orleans • . Strasburg to Bale •• ........ 306 25 .. 306 25 .. 303 75 . 305 A.viß lloll to Marseilles....•. 917 50 • • 920 . 917 50 .. 920 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. 3. Striennain • • • • —.1020 ..1020 —lO2O ..1020 Versailles, R.B. L.B. • • • • • • •• •—• 375 .. 375 .. 360 •• 370 Rotten ...... lO5O ..1050 ..1025 —1035 Rouen to Havre 825 .. 825 .. 815 .. 815 Orleans . 1132 50 ..1135 ..1125 ..1133 75 Strasburg to Bale 306 25 .. 306 25 .. 302 50 .• 305 Avignon to Marseilles ...... 925 .. 925 .. 915 • • 920 THIS DAY'S NEWS CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY) OLD COURT. The third session of the present Mayoralty commenced this morning before the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall and John Johnson, &c. The grand jury having been sworn, The RICORDIAIt addressed them, and said that he was glad to find the calendar was lighter than usual, and that it contained a comparatively small number of charges. There were two cases of false coining, three of forgery, one of feloniously wounding an ass, two of cutting and wounding, and two of concealing the birth of children. With regard to the latter charge, he thought the grand jury would do well to leave it in a course for further in quiry. There was a charge against two foreigners for wounding with a razor ; there was but one razor, and he thought it would be proved satisfactorily that but one made use of it in the commission of the act. There was also a charge against a postmaster for embezzling a let ter which had been entrusted to him. He thought it unnecessary to draw their attention to any of the other charges, and would therefore dismiss them to their duties. There were altogether 91 prisoners. NEW COURT. Up to the hour of going to press the business of this Court had not commenced, owing to the grand jury sending in no bills of indictment. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A foreigner, whose name was not ascertained in con sequence of his pertinaciously refusing to understand the questions which were put to him, and who had the ap pearance of a servant of the higher class, was charged before Mr. Hall with obtaining money under false pre tences from several hotel-keepers. George Hill, hotel-keeper at Spring-gardens, stated that, on Saturday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, the prisoner went to his (witness's) house to take lodgings, as ho said, for a foreign gentleman, his master, whom, he said, he was about to bring t o t h at h otel i n a cab. Having taken the rooms, he asked witness if he would lend him half-a-crown, for the purpose of paying the fare of the cab, as his master had no English coin. Witness gave him the money, but having some suspicions of his character, he desired th e wa i ter to watch him. The waiter followed him to severa l ot h er hotels, where, it appears, he -m a d e s i m il ar applications with the same success. But one of the hotel-keepers, to whom it was suspected he intended to apply, having been warned in time by the waiter who was watching the prisoner, gave him in charge. Several cases of a similar nature were gone into ; but Mr. Hall, considering the evidence too scanty for con viction, cautioned, and discharged the prisoner, and the prosecutors left the Court with manifest discontent. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) Elizabeth Griffiths, servant at the Suffolk Arms, Tooley-street, was charged with robbing her employer. It appeared that money had been frequently missed from a shelf in the bar, and, for the purpose of detecting the thief, some penny pieces were marked and placed there. On Saturday lest the prisoner being noticed to leave the spot was subsequently searched, and several of them were found in her possession.—She was remanded. LAMBETH.—(THISDAY.) George Mason, alias Fowler, a young man, was charged with stealing a basket of wearing apparel, of the value of 6/., on the 9th of November. Susan Lowe, a laundress, stated that on the evening in question she employed the prisoner to go with her to carry a basket of clothes to St. M art i n ' s -l ane. The pri soner walked exceedingly fast, and M rs . L owe d esired him to go slower ; but when opposite the Marsh-g a t e h e contrived to give witness the slip, there being a great crowd, and she never saw the prisoner or the clothes again. James Brooks, an active constable of the L division, apprehended the prisoner in Chelsea workhouse. Mrs. Lowe said she was very poor, and had to support her aged mother. She had been compelled to make good the loss. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery. The prisoner was then remanded, to give the constable time to find where the clothes had been pledged. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) George Salisbury, a powerfully-built man, was charged with the following savage conduct:— On the previous night ho was creating a disturbance in bpencer-street, Clerkenwell. Police-constable 29 G repeatedly directed him to go away. The prisoner com menced an indiscriminate attack on several persons who were quietly standing by—two he struck on the face, and seizing the finger of a third in his mouth, crushed it between his teeth. The officer then took him into cus tody. 153 G swore he was knocked down twelve times by the prisoner ; 170 G that ho was knocked down three times. The prisoner was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 6.—Wind S. to S.W., fresh breeze, and fine weather, mild. DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind W.N.W., very light. 5. W. to W.S.W., moderate. 5. Arrd. Helvellyn, Tullidge,' Sin gapore; Alexander, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Arab, Hobart Town; George Home, Deshent, South Seas ; Orleana, Cameron, and China, Livesay, Calcutta ; Orynthia, Moulmein; Eliza Scott, Beal, Ichabo©; Wool sington, Johnson, and William Alfred, Culverwell, An tigua ; Prince Albert, Saber, New York ; American Lass, and Alexander, St. John's, New Brunswick; Aria, Quebec. Sld. Aurelia, Sydney ; Eliza, Sierra Leone ; Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick; Arrow, Madagascar. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4 AND s.—Wind W.-s.—Arrd. William, Rowe, Quebec. OFF MARGATE, JAN. s.—Carrara, Mailler, Mauritius; Pearl, Bowles, St. John's, New Brunswick. COWES, JAN. 4 and s.—Wind W.—Arrd. Daphne, Gjohne, Bahia. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.s.—Arrd. Forth steamer,,Nevett, West Indies, left Bermuda 21st ult.; William Lushing t on, Gill, Queb ec , w i t h l oss o f o ne of her masts. POOLE, J AN . 3.—A rr d . C o pia, Jarvis, Ichaboe. 5. Hearts o f O a k, C ook, New f oun dl an d ; Velocity, Ham burgh, for Newfoundland. OFF SWANAGE, JAN. 3.—Wellington, Wilson, OFF TORBAY, JAN. 3.—Wind S.W.—Robert and Louisa, Voss, Havannah. DARTMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Sid. about thirty sail of coasters eastward. PLYMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind S.W.—Put back, Sophia, for Newcastle, with loss of sails and mainboom, and other damage, having been in contact with the Pandora, Cunningham ; True Blue, having been in contact with a brig, name unknown. Sid. The IVindbound. OFF THE WlGHT.—Danae, Forster, Porto Rico, for Hamburgh. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5.—A schooner is ashore on the Horse Bank, near Southport. MAURITIUS.—Arrd. Phlox steamer, Liverpool and Cape of Good H ope . OFF ICIIABOE, NOVEMBER.—DonegaI, London. ARRIVALS DURINd THE PAST WEEK. iasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. Scotland 2O 200 150 Yorkshire - 200 Norfolk Suflblk 5 40 60 Cambridgeshire Essex 2O 30 40 100 Surrey 25 200 60 120 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts Total ........ .—..... 131 1,13 , 1 220 920 Previous week's arrival 160 1,770 170 1,400 Difitrence since our last BOROUGH AND SPITALLFIELDS. Several vessels having made their passage laden with Potatoes, the supplies on offer are now rapidly on the in crease, yet as many of the large dealers are short of stock, the demand is somewhat active, at prices varying from 75s to 95s per ton. The total supply for the week has amounted to about 2,600 tons-100 tons being from abroad, 30 tons from Ireland, 400 from Jersey, 200 from Guernsey, 300 from Scotland, the remainder coastwise. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. There is a large business doing in bags, at very high prices, while, for choice bags, th e d eman d i s active, and the quotations are steadily supported. WOOL - The imports of Wool during the past week have been only to a moderate extent, viz., 28 bales from the Cape, 211 ditto from Hobart Town, 31 ditto from Malta, 121 ditto from Ibrail, 9 ditto from Madras, and 30 ditto from Sydney. Both Foreig - a and Colonial qualities are in sluggish request, but no alteration can be noticed in the quotations. English Wools are held firmly, at full prices. rne total imports of Wool last year consisted of 84,717 bales of Colonial, and 142,324 bales of Foreign. TALLOW. There is in reality no material change in this market, although a slight variation in the quotations. There is no speculative business doing; the prices are wholly go . verned by the demand f or consum ption, which, for the last few weeks has exceeded that of the corresponding period last year. All the St. Petersburgh Tallow has arrived, and is included in the stock of this day. T own Tallow is 40s 6d to 42s nett cash ; rough fat 2s 4d per Blbs. ST. PAUL'S CATUEDRAL.-011 Sunday afternoon, at the close of the service, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, RD., read himself in as a Prebendary, to which office hr has been appointed by the Lord Bishop of London. Mr. Hawkins is a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and has been for some years the secretary of .the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. MONEY AND CONIMEItiII.kI- EWS CITY, QUARTER TO TIIRICE• There was only a moderate demand for Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, but prices continued firm. Sales 3,000 bales.—Shares were in good demand, and fully supported :—Bristol and Gloucester, 41 ; Chester And Birkenhead, 381 98 ; Dublin and Belfast, 5 ; Eastern Counties, 151 ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1 ; Glasgow and Greenock, 114 ; Grand Junction, Quarter, 171 ; Great North of England, New, 211; ; Great Western, Half, 92-1 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 381 ; Churnet Valley, 4k 4 ; Direct Northern, 31. ls. 6d. ; Lynn and Ely, 21 ; Manchester and Leeds, 1264 ; Manchester and Leeds, One-Sixteenth, 41 ; Midland Counties, 115} 1141 ; Ditto, 401., 51 4 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 7 ; North Union, 1471 ; St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap, 24 ; South-Eastern, 41i ; Ditto, New, 141 ; Trent Valley, 91. 18s. 9d. ; Ulster, 38 14 ; Lyons and ' Avignon, 2/- • Paris and Lyons, 31. 13s. 6d. ; Paris and Orleans, 401 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 74; Northern of France, 61.15. 68d.; Bou logne and Amiens, 51. 41. 18s. 9d. '1 he official statement of the produce of the revenue in the quarter just concluded, as well as the comparison with the year ending the sth inst., are held to be of a most satisfactory character. The very large increase in the receipts of the Customs fully bears out the oft-re peated remarks under this head as to the revival of trade. As the official returns of the revenue are given in another part of The Sun, any further reference to the re turns are unnecessary. At the commencement of the new year we are usu ally favoured with circulars of the trading brokers in all the principal departments of trade, and the first that has reached us is that of Messrs. Wright and Young, of the port of Hull, the commercial prosperity of which, we are glad to state, is rapidly on the increase.: We extract two paragraphs from the document before us : " IVe commence the year before us under favourable auspices, and in the confident anticipation that it will prove a year of prosperity, equalling, if it does not sur pass, that just terminated. Much will depend, however, on the state of the money market, as affected by the host of railway schemes at present before the public. If the Government wisely recommend Parliament to sanction so many of the best lines (and no more) as will be sufficient to absorb the legitimate surplus in the money market, the prosperity of the country for the en suing year would seem to be placed on a reasonably solid and stable basis. The advantages already accruing from increased means on the part of all classes of the commu nity, are of themselves important. Our produce mar kets are in general well supplied, and, looking at the prospects abroad, likely to continue so. Provisions are plentiful and cheap, and, seeing how favourable a seed time we have had, there is already some promise of an other good wheat harvest. We may also look forward to our labouring population being fully employed, and to a continuance of the present improved rate of wages, as also to a well supplied and easy money market (in the event of a not unfavourable harvest), all very influential considerations. " We have, in addition, a revenue so far exceeding the national expenditure, as to place at the command of Ministers a surplus sufficient to enable them, in the ensuing session, to make a further and considerable re duction in our import duties, a measure more generally expected and desired by the mercantile world than any remission of the income-tax. Some of our staple articles aot comprehended in the former modifications of our tariffs, are still subjected to a very oppressive impost. A further and liberal diminution of the tax on sugar, for instance, if made with a due regard to our colonial inte rests, could not fail to be attended with the best results to the commerce, and ultimately to the revenue itself ; recent experience having fully demonstrated that low duties with the increased consumption they create, are in the main more conducive to this end than high duties. In the political world, also, appearances are satisfactory." Among the merchßnts and others connected with the Russian trade, much satisfaction was expressed this morning at the contents of a communi ca ti on i nser t e d in the Times, relative' to the safe position upon which the paper currency of the empire of Russia is apparently placed. But we are bold enough to think some facts in this statement is the puff preliminary to a new loan. The reserve of gold and silver bullion in the possession of the Government treasury is we question 11,000,000/. or thereabout!. A Committee ap pointed for the purpose ascertained the fact, but no constat to be depended upon is supplied as to the whole of the State paper out for the supplies of the various and vast dominions of the Emperor of Russia. We are of opinion that the all but ex parte statement of the bullion in the treasury at St. Petersburgh should be received with caution, if the project of a fresh loan be broached. This morning Messrs. R. Raphael and Sons received from the Hague a royal decree of 2d January, which contains the following information : " To afford the holders of the remaining Five per Cents., being now 37,385,400 guilders, another oppor tunity of voluntary conversion to Four per Cents., books are opened from Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1845, till further notice, or till twenty million guilders are subscribed, but at all events not later than Tuesday, Jan. 28. " The price of the Four per Cenis. (with interest from the Ist of October last) to be given in exchange for Five per Cents. so converted, is fixed at 98, per cent. The holder receives out fur each 100 guilders, 14 guilders in money, and k per cent. for difference of interest from the Ist of October to the Ist of January last." The private accounts received from the West Indies this morning are generally of a most satisfactory nature. The importation of kill coolies, at an expense of about 50,0001., was all but settled, and not a doubt was enter tained that it would prove most advantageous to the colo nies. At Jamaica trade was dull. The prospects of the planters were cheering. The only quotations of Consols for Account this morning, has been 1001. There have been prices to pre sent transfers in the Three per Cents. Consols, for the first time since the books were shut, at 1001 and ex the dividend. India Stock is also quoted without the divi dend, viz., at 288. Reduced Three per Cents. are at 1001 and 101 ; and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 104 to 1041; Exchequerßills are at 635. to 655.; and India Bonds at 775. premium ; Bank Stock is at 212; and India Stock at 289. In the Foreign Stock market, the value of Mexican Bonds has receded about 1 to 1 3 1 per cent., the news by the West India mail from the Republic being anything, but satisfactory. Only about 6,000 dollars have come over for the dividends. The price now is 34i ;1. Spa nish Stock is flat ; 277,- for the Actives, and at 23k for the Three per Cents. Russian Bonds are a shade lower, and Dutch rather better. The Railway Share market is rather heavy, but still a good deal of business has been transp.cted this morning. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock.. 211 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO 'Ai 101 New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1 2 1,E 1-16 India Stock 2BB India Bonds 1,0001 77 pm. Ditto under 1,0001 — pm. Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Opening India Stock 239 Exchequer Bills. 13.01. 1 1 / 4d. 1,0001 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK _ _ Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 34 3 / 4 Ditto for the Account .. 34 3 / 4 I X B I , z s Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted 5 9 3 / 4 1, Ditto for the Account 6 0 1,4 IA Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1640. Ditto for the Account. Ditto, 1844 23 Ditto Passive Bonds 6 3,6 French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange. Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 lOO 98 1 / 2 to 99 Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Churnet Valley Cornwall Direct Northern 2 l /2 2 8'j4... to Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 5 /8 to Eastern Counties Great Western BO 163 Ditto, Half Shares 5O 94 Ditto, Fifths Lancaster and Carlisle London and Greenwich ...... 12 3 4 London and South Western.. 41%...... 77 Ditto,New London and Croydon London and York... ..... ...... 2 1 / 2 ... Manchester and Leeds 7O 125 _Midland , 100 ... 116 1 / 2 15 1 / 2 to 116 Newcastle & Darlington June 24 ...... 62 1 / 2 q ... to Newcastle and Berwick Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 13 3 ...... to 14 Ditto New 1 Portsmouth Direct Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby ~... South Eastern and Dover ... 33 I % s - Ditto New Shares South Wales West Cornwall 1 14... .. 4 1 4 1 / 2 ... to York and Norti Midland Ditto i Shares . Ditto Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Extension Boulogne and Amiens.. Paris and Lyons Paris and Rouen. to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 4.—Our mar ket continues firm. Eastern Counties, 1.5,i ; Manches - ter and Leeds, Sixteenths, 5; Midland, 401., 5; Sheffield and Manchester, ;00 ex interest ; Great Northern of France, 6; Sambre and Meuse, 2; Blackburn, Barnsley, and Accrington, 3i ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 24 ; Churnet Valley, 4 ; London and Worcester Rugby and Oxford, 31s. 3d.. TILE YARMOUTH MURDER.—COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS.—Mapes, Hall, and Royal are committed to take their trial for the murder, and Yarham as accessary. —Second Editien of the Norfolk News. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums paid lately by different parties for conscience-,ake, which moneys have been placed to the public credit :-10/., 10s., 11. DOVER, JAN. s.—His Excellency the Duke of Soto Mayor, the new Ambassador from Spain, arrived here last evening in the City of London steamer from Bou logne, accompanied by the Duchess and his suite. They proceeded this afternoon by railway to London, arid will take up their temporary residence at Mivart's Hotel. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have contri buted 101, towards the enlargement of St. Paul's Church. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BneyssEi,s, JAN. 3.—The Moniteur of this date pub lishes the ratification, by the King of the Belgians on the one part, and of the King of Prussia and the other Princes, members of the Zollverein, on the other, of the commercial treaty concluded on the Ist of Septembers 1844, between Belgium nod the Zollverein. JAN. 2.—The public in this city, as well as in other parts of the country, have felt a very natural anxiety about the itnli:position of the King. The information which we have obtained enables us to say that almost during the whole of his Majesty's stay at Paris he suffered from the effects of a cold and catarrh. His Majesty, howefer, presided this morning in a Council of Ministers. His Majesty, immediately on his arrival at Lacken, ©n Tuesday evening, had a conference with M. Goblet , Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the royal sanbtion of the treaty with the Zollverein. • 'II Yesterday (New Year's-day) his Majesty received 14 the Palace of Lacken, the persons belonging to the royal household. To-day, at noon, Count Woyna presented to his ?I jesty his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary, or Minis' ter Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of AO" tria at this Court. His Majesty also gave audiences to tl Ministers of Great Britain and Hanover. Baron Alexander Von Homboldt, who has been here for two or three days, sets out to-day for Paris, vibe/ he has been expected for some months, to be present a scientific experiments of the highest importance, 0 15 new mode of locomotiion by means of compressed ail-- BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bitussnts, JAN. 3. Actual Debt, 21 per Cent . _ . Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent — Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98 Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — Ditto, ditto 1840 Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 lO2 ji —Brussels Papers, Jan. 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC. 28. 5 per Cent. Metalliques 4 per Ceat. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto 7B Bank Shares 1648 Esterhazy's Loan 57 SUSPECTED MURDER OF A FEMALE.—This ing, about nine o'clock, the body of a respectably-dress. female, about 23 years of age, was discovered lying 1 , the mud near the steps of the lower Surrey side of Wate r ' 100-bridge. On inquiry, it was ascertained th a t the d er ceased left her lodgings, in Buckle's-buildings, WW l ' 100-road, last night, in the best of health and spirits, tel c t ing her landlady that she was going to meet a filen, The body having been examined, on looking the left hip, a dreadful wound was found inflicted, ther e is every reason to believe, by a sharp knife, and of a el siderable depth. Notice of the circumstance has be an forwarded to William Carter, Esq., the Surrey coroin and also the necessary instructions given' to the poll°: for an investigation into the suspicious ,affair. The ceased, named Emma Ashburnham was of very prelli ses , ing appearance, and always bore the character being of a very quiet and lively disposition. EXPULSION FROM THE BAR. —lt will no doubt h dr recollected that a few months back complaints rte!, , made against certain unprofessional practices of on members of the bar, and that eventually the subject ° O f complaint was taken up by two or three of the inns • court. It now appears that the complaint against • barrister of the lion. Society of Gray's Inn has bet, established according to the judgment of the benclq of that society, and they have not, we are infortar; shrunk from performing the painful duty of expulsl, o —from which decision the party has appealed to S P A / Judges. A charge was also made against a memberbio the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn fer circulating a The of fees, and offering a commission for business. '!, benchers having instituted an inquiry into the circ a stances, do no not find the complaint established. , THE ROYAL VISIT TO STOWE.—The Duke of Po ford, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Carrington, the ,1 of Buckinghamshire, Lord Nugent, Sir John Dashiwo King, Sir T. Aubrey, Sir W. Clayton, Sir Henry Verit:, Sir George Nugent, the Duke of Buckingham, and_;/ Marquis of Chandos , are among the nobility and gePot who have affixed their names to a requisition to t o High-Sheriff of the county of Bucks, requesting him 16 convene a county meeting, for the purpose of agreeinf ie a loy4l and dutiful address, to be presented to her jesty the Queen, on the occasion of her MajesW tended visit to Stowe next week. The meeting has appointed to take place in the County-hall, Aylesblw on Saturday next. THE ACCIDENT ON THE NEWCASTLE AND l i Alth.- RAILWAY.—Through the active exertions of t he C mittee of Directors appointed to superintend the 10 0 e in progress on the Newcastle and Carlisle RailwsPJ conded by the unremitting labour of the contractors men employed, the tunnel at Corbridge, which fell few days ago, has been re-opened, so that ws drawn by horses are now enabled to pass thron g The enlarging of the tunnel is a work of consideß 7o o skill, a drift above it being to be driven, by which jo wider arch is made before the old one is removed. 4 shifting some of the machinery by the contractor's 'm no f a hole was unluckily made through the present ':of before the new one was finished, which let down sole.e the superincumbent earth, and stopped the passage', ill THE GAME MANlA.—Sel fi sh landholders have Itilo7c discovered that their obstinate resistance to a fixed 'l e ; on corn will, and at no distant time, produce Is t j oi repeal they have (as Lord Palmerston at the general election prognosticated) " Retfordised it." e game mania gentry begin to perceive that if they leo the popular will for alteration in the game-laws, 5 11 4 not limit their preserving propensity (by giving ' 4 7./thi a change), they will cause a thorough uproot 0 i s , odious enactments and preserves, and, therefore , 00 matter of " expediency," they now begin to confess change is nece;sary. rilit Since the retirement of the Hon. C. A. 3,1 1 . 0. V Master of the Household, Captain Aleynell, R.S" e r undertaken, by the Queen's desire, the temporary r formanee of bis duties. id i SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. s.—The Royal West l l er mail-packet the Forth, Captain Chappell, arrived e t ,i 0 moorings here this day, at 10 A.M., and landed the l in t, from the following places and dates :—Tampico _,, 42, Vera Cruz Dec. 1, Havannah Dec. 10, How l " Nov. 21, Jamaica Dee. 9, Carthagena Nov. 21, Dell Dec. 4, Trinidad 6, Barbadoes 9, Grenada i" Thomas 14, La Guayra Nov. 21, and Bermuda DIV, The Forth has 24 passengers, 107,147 dollars, ',;41 4 , British coin, 2,437 oz. gold dust and doubloons, 10, oz. of silver bullion, 431bs. of platina. 600/ pearls, 22 serons of julep, and 19 of cochineal , 410 0 mail will be forwarded to London by the two A.g. to-morrow. The Royal Tar, with the Peninsular 0 is hourly expected from Gibraltar. 100 DANCING OVER TIIB DEAD.—We have been 9‘ familiar with the " Dance of Death," but never that dancing over the dead had been practised vOO civilised land, until our attention was pointed 0 0 ,0', fact by a printed paper of Mr. Walker, the 03 4 1e 1 tied assailant of the grave-yard nuisance in e ror ce' towns. It appears that on the western side °foo t ' ment's-lane, Strand, is situate a building called4it) Chapel, surrounded on all sides by houses, crowde u „ce, inhabitants, principally of the poorer class. The part of this edifice was opened fur the purposes of I' . . p or worship ab rut 1823. It is separated from the lovieV by a boarded floor ; this was used as a burying and crammed at one end even to the top o f the c 13° with dead. It is estimated that within this spric e t 'booi exceeding 1,700 square feet, from ten to twelve jo cla i sand corpses have been deposited during the P°:,,,r4`; sixteen years. The chapel has been latterly plO into what is called a Temperance Hall, in whic h Oi and fancy dress balls are held ; an efficient ban doo,' gaged, and quadrilles, waltzes, reels, &c., Are " 6 , bd over the masses of mortality in the charnelehe ° neath.—Medical Gazette. t eill ell / We are informed that Mr. Barry, the pa architect, has been directed to examine the buildi° l °, o occupied by the Board of Trade, with a view to P o efl o additional accommodation for the different depot", lit e i now under the control of that board, which lis v ;ill greatly increased by the establishment of the r 1),(3 o p commission. Mr. Barry has determined upon 1 , which will afford the required accommodati e l'A greatly improve the present appearance of the ba l i f e ct: l ,o by the elevation, and thus afford all f ic li screen to the ugly roofs and chimney-pots wo o co p now visible above the present parapet. It is ale° , r ef e o t temptation to pull down the old building, at ;Wi l e occupied by the department the Home Sec r io,,i State, which has long disfigured that portion of ~0 0 0 d hall, and to erect a m ore s i g htly structure in 00500" with the new front of the Board of Trade.' Paper. os r e We understa n d th a t the Board of Stio n :, Taxes have obtained the sanction of the Itbr a t ;ble' v r tart' of State to try the efficiency of police-coo ie be watching omnibuses and stage coaches for t here`for collection of the revenue arising from the du t y 0 1 0 some measure of the sort being rendered n r F e liell !j oie the prevention of frauds, the commission or w o rttel become more easy from the abolition of those ble b rib gates on the southern side of the metropolis , fteg, F or hitherto acted as a check. Six police-const au i e w o an inspector to superintend them, have been se' lli ploi a ri this duty, on which they will be exclusivelf f he Poo and for which they will of course be paid by. ~3 P o e of Stamps and Taxes. The men will be statioouthe g principal thoroughfares for such vehicles , but o rangement is yet merely an experiment. — S u ' id s $) FATAL COAL PIT ACCIDENT.--TWO —An explosion took place in a coal pit Jo t be o fe Messrs. Grundy, at Pilkington, on ThursdaY, titer ult., and two men received injuries, of which ire since died. The names of the deceased we loo se roe Valentine, who died on Saturday, and John xi% 0 0 00 expired on Tuesday last. Inquests were hi': ce se , bodies before Mr. W. S. Rutter, in the firs t 1 1 1 0 10 Monday, at Little Lever ; and in the second, cT e , eo ttl e day, at Radcliffe Bridge. The only evidence e bind the nature of the accident, was a statement 017.0 deceased themselves, to the effect that they w e onje of be t in the mine ; and the fact spoken to bY , s it , 0. 0 0 5 . witnesses, that a severe gust of wind was feir f . . en ce o t part of the pit at the time, from which the hi e par,!,o drawn, that an explosion had taken place ill Ater& the mine where the deceased were employed. were given accordingly.—Manchester Guardian. - , rO S. ft' A MAN WHO WAS TRANSPORTED SI"—Y c' se, r sco.—On the cros s - exam ination, in an aPP eal p r i SD driY witness of the n ame o f G eo rge Robinson, o f r o ton, by the oppo s i ng counc il at our sessions, o e l ir e/ 5 1100 last it came out that ho had been transporr s a on k is i ,i t e of sixty years ago for sheep stealin,2 Robb! are eighty-three jr, a , 's of age, and although his loercj e de er, 4 o as driven snow, he b.. tra) s no other w arki e h. O;of tude. He stands erect, and his voice is extr e me o t and powerful, smacking more of the v ter igo u j oa re youth, than of extreme old age.—lanca s if