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NEW WORK ON INDIA. Now ramiy, fn 2 vols., small Bvo., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, ADVENTURESOF AN OFFICER, .LN Trrn SERVICE OF RtiNJEET SINGII. BY MAJOR H. M. L. LAWRENCE, Itecirtl Artflley, British Resident at tho Court of New', and Late Aasisfent to the Political Agent in charge of British Relations with Lahore. Henry Co!burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOW ready, %t all the Librarios, T HE COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON'S NEW XOVE L. " 011,111 it Int ; OR, LrFE, AT HO= AND ABRO-4-L1 ;" A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbrough-street. On Saturday, January 4, 1845, will be Published the First Number el a New Weekly ffewepaper, price 6a., under the title of yo UN G ENGLAND; OR, THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF TIIII EMPIRE. All Communications, Letters, and Books for the Editor, are re 'vested to be addressed to Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. Office of " Young England," No. 2, York-street, Covent •garden, where Advertisements shoulvt be forwarded immediately to secure ix eertion. Orden; received by all News agents and Booksellers throagli- On:. the United Kingdom. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBEK 20, Willi* repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusienano, Mr. Burdmi ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Rorrani a Moncemgo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. tiarriton c a t ar i n a cornaro, Mies Rainforth To csinclude with the celebrated Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, M. Desplaces; The Peri, Mdilc. Plunkett; Nourmahat, Mdite. O'Bryan ; Aysha, Mrs. Payne. the Box-e.rice is open daily, front Ten in the Morning until Six ri the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, a id Tickets may be hart on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARLET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EV E'4l'NG, DECEMBER 20, Will he performed a Neg and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, caked OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland ' • Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe. s t Toil Coke Vr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Ferrets ; The Countess of r Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn Madame Veetris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia .',ennett. Alter which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, M - . Charles Mathews; Minnie, Madame Vestris. To to followed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Holey, Mr. Buckstene •' Mrs. P , oler ' Mrs. Humby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. l'lckets and Planes to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, Qom Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 20, Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama. entitled' II ECII CM ES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck. Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright ; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin. son Sr Joseph Bowley, Bart Mr. Paul Bedford; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortcscue ; Mrs. Chlcicenstalk:lr, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which a New Drami, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Coutt Uenry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count 'Janine, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith. T. conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, In which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. (hllot; Principal Painter, sir. Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-orllce open frees Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be hall at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREE'T. LESSEE, Mr. J. H. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 20, Will be urcsented tie Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Wallack, Harry thunder, Mr. Fi•zjarnes ; Mm, Mr. Oxberry ; EThraim. Mr. Compton; Lady Amaranth, Mrs. Stiriing; Jane, s. Brougham ; Amelia, Mrs. Foebroke. After which, a Nen , Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mr Dapper, Mr. ()item; Lady Clifton, Mrs, Stirling. Te conclude with a New Grand Oriental Ballet, calhAil THE ENCHANTED SELL. Azolia (an Medea Peasant), M. Rousset: ; Palrnira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mdlle. Caroline Roussett; Naire (her Friend), Mdlle. Teresina; Ding Doug (the Genii of the Bell), Miss Marshall. Dress Circle, Se. ; Boxes, es. ; Pit, 25.; Galls Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. ti d. ; Boxes, 2.5. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Rd. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two guineas and a.HaIE Doors to be opened at Half oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-oftiee, under the direction of Mr. W. Massinghana. Private Sexes and Free Admissions far the Season to be had at the Theatre. 7 NEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. Re.engagement of Signor Camille Sivori—To-night and To-morrow. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 10, Will be repeated a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, Thrner, Stoker, and Kerley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. To be succeeded by Paganini's Adajio and Rondo, La Clochette, k Signor Camillo Sivori. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Mathews, Meadows ,and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woollidge. 'Po which will be added Paganini's Theme Burlesque and Carnaval de Venice, by bigner Camillo Sivori. in the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Jullien's Mazurka and Cellarius Valso will be danced by Wiles. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and bits Fairbrother. To be followed by THE SWISS COTTAGE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Yarnold, Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Comedietta. entitled WATCH AND WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A. Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper .Idxes, 35.; Pit, 35.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, is. ; Upper Boxes, Is. dd.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the ;ilc. ny Tier {folding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (bolding eight persons), One Guinea and ri-HalL Private B axes on the Pit Per (bolding six persons), One •uirea. the Box...)ffics is open from Ton to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Cheat attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds mes This Evening, at ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 20, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX RUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; Introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chus on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fel and real Pack of !founds, purchased b_y Mr. Batty et Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Lpseia Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. The First Week of the extraordinary Btittah Vaulter and Somersault Thrower, Mr. Price, and Master Charles Price, the Little })questrian Wonder, and other Novelties. Acting and stageantnager„ Mr. W. D. Broadfeet. Box-office open from Eleven till F ive. Lessons lithe Art el Riding M Mr. R. Smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his P sirens, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the o untry, and by special desire, he has formed &retirements to pre.. et It, during the Christmas Holidays, a Series of EQUESTRIAN MORNING FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A N CE, to commence at Half.past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consisting of Ratty's Splend id Scenes of Equitation in the Circle. Th. first Three Morning Performances will take place on Monday, Dec. 31, Wednesday, Jan. 2, and Fr dsy, Jan. 4. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 20. THERKOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 32, BAILROMBTEII, 30.33.-4 IND, 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 ea 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 DAT. No•ntag ... 34 minutes after II I Evening... 9 minutes after 11. • .4... , S' . .„, I z. dir , Sf' A -,z ~., .., . l ~-, ...,. . ~....:,•,,., v..... , - • • •.‘ ,- 7 ° I" . ''":':" 7.:,4":45111p1i . . , O ~., .7r. ' - ... • '"" • .t., A ~,,,:. A , 111, ' , ,f.i.s.. ' ....,..„,...,. , .' '.:.‘' „. . ~,..,.. I T ; r 7 3,,,, 1 7 , & . 1" •m 0 7 ,„„u, - ,dolt t --'.! 4 0 ,, • e. ' .*'• ' • ''',— t. , IV' • SECOND EDITION. elm win is' 4- I,IIV L LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1844. When the question of the occupation of Sinde by British troops under the command of Sir CHARLES Nartma was before the public, engrossing people's attention in no ordinary degree, and creating a sin gular diversity of opinion among men of all parties, The Sun was among the few journals that, from the very first mooting of the question, strenuously insisted on the occupation of that Indian province. The majority of our Contemporaries were decidedly opposed to us on this knotty point, arguing that the British Government had no moral or legal right to make war on Sinde, and that it was a most iniquitous eat of aggression, which would scarcely fail, in the keg run, to be attended with disastrous consequences. .'..espite these arguments, which were urged from fine to time with considerable force and ingenuity, we still adhered to our original opinion ; for, in the first place, we were well aware of the treacherous oanduct of the Sindian Ameers, who set at nought their most solemn and deliberate pledges; laughed at the idea of maintaining the faith of treaties, and made them with us and broke them just as it suited their convenience, so that there was absolutely no rt lying on their sense of honour and justice; secondly, it was a notorious fact that these degraded Ameers were tyrants of the most remorseless and incurable character, who oppressed the miserable people sub jected to their sway with the most cruel exactions, exceeding in this respect all that has been recorded of TIPPOO SAIB and his father, HYDER ALT, and had, sonsequently, no claim on the forbearance of the British Government, with which they had so often played fast and loose ; and, thirdly, they had the un controlled possession of the river Indus from its mouth for several hundred miles up the country, and blocked us out, whenever they pleased, from this great highway of nations, thereby crippling our neans of extending and multiplying the commercial resources of India, and preventing us from keeping that quick, vigilant watch on the Affghans, the Ilelochees, and the wild tribes of the contiguous pro vinces, which recent events have shown to be indis pensably necessary t o th e sa f e t y o f our I n di an em pire. For these and other reasons, not necessary here to enumerate, The Sun was a constant advocate for the occupation of Sinde ; and we are glad to find our view of the ca se a d opted by the celebrated author of the " History of the Peninsular WarfeoiNnlajor- General NAPI ER , w h o, i n his work on the of Sinde"—the first p ar t o f which has just maClieurtt appearance—insists that th e occupation of that country was a step necessarily growing out of Lord A UCK LAND'S mistaken policy, and which subsequent events had rendered every IN ay defensible. Speaking I of the Sindian Ameers, for whose downfal so much spurious sympathy was at one time expressed in Eng- land, the gallant author says—" Their stupid, selfish policy, was to injure agriculture, to check commerce, to oppress the working man, and to accu mulate riches for their own selfish pleasures. What are the people to us ? was the foul expression of NOOR MOHAMED to Lieutenant EASTRICR. Poor or rich what do we care ! If they pay us our revenue, give us our hunting-grounds and enjoyments, that is all we require. The most fertile districts was made a wilderness to form their hunting-grounds. Their Zenanas were filled with young girls torn from their friends, and treated when in the harem with revolting barbarity. In fine, the life of an Ameer was one of gross pleasures, for which the labour and blood of men were remorselessly exacted, the honour and hap piness of women savagely sacrificed." As regards their observance of treaties, we are told that " con stant evasions or direct violations of every article attended the conclusion of every treaty. Forged letters, false seals, secret forms of instruction, false assertions as to promises which had never been made by the opposite party—such were the means dili gently, systematically, and not unskilfully employed by the Ameers at all times in their intercourse with British political agents." Truly it was high time that such a fertile territory as Sinde, peopled, too, by inhabitants, simple, hardy, and industrious in their habits, should be freed from the grinding oppressions and cruelties of rulers like these ; and we can well believe that the vast mass of the Sindian population bless the hour when they were first liberated by British policy and valour from the heart-withering despotism of their Ameers. The present part of General NArsea's work is, as might be expected, merely introductory, and is principally devoted to a consideration of the many causes which rendered it absolutely indispensable in Lord ELLENBOROUGII to take the bold step of occupying Sinde with a British army. Of that Noble Lord's system of Indian policy the gallant author expresses himself in warm terms of approbation, and hints indirectly that he fell a victim to a tribe of jobbers and selfish civilians, by whom he was uniformly misrepresented to the Court of Directors, who have themselves a lurking taste for " nepotism," which the Governor- General (lid all in his power to suppress. The gallant author's work is written in a style of manly glowing eloquence, and as a record of military achievements, is worthy to vie with the ablest that has ever appeared in England. Perhaps the follow ing particulars respecting the Conqueror of Sinde may amuse our readers : " Sir Charles Napier embarked at Bombay in the Zenobia steamer on the 3d of September; thus com ruencing his new career upon Oliver Cromwell's fortu nate day, a coincidence which he did not fail to note with some satisfaction as a good omen. Yet the augury seemed at fault in the beginning; for scarcely had the vessel, which was full of troops, gained the open sea, When cholera broke out in the worst form, and the hideous misery of the voyage, which lasted until the 9th, shall be given in his own words:— " 'ln those six bitter days and nights we cast fifty four dead into the sea, just one-fourth of our com panions! One passenger, it happened, was a surgeon, and he was assisted by two native apprentices belonging to the hospitals: fortunately, only two of the sailors died, or we should have been lost for want of hands. The engineer perished the third day, but happily, there were amongst the passengers two others going to the steamers on the Indus. Since landing, ten more soldiers have died, and one captain, making sixty-four in all ! This pulls down the spirits of men. It was the worst description of blue cholera. The agonies, the convul sions, the dreadful groans, were heart-rending: and then the screams of the poor women who lost their husbands and children! And, amidst all this, in the darkness of the night, the necessity of throwing the dead overboard the instant life was extinct, to make room for the living! Then also, added to this scene of human wretchedness, the violent effects of the disease could not be cleaned, and extreme filth increased the misery. W e ll ! G o d b e praised! it has ceased, but more troops are on this voyage, and ,I dread to hear :of similar sufferings, for most of it has been caused by neglect. I have made a formal complaint to Sir George Arthur, who, I am sure, will stir about the matter. The Commander of the Zenobia, Mr. Newman, is a noble fellow. I believe all that were saved owe their lives to him; and we, the officers, have given him a gold snuff-box in token of our gratitude.'--' On making the land both mates got drunk, and such a night-scene of confusion I never saw. We were nearly as possible on a reef of rocks; we fired guns and rockets, but no help came. had we struck, all must have perished; at least, all the sick, eighty in num ber: at last we cast anchor, and luckily on good holding ground.' " His first care was to provide comforts for the sur vivors of this dreadful voyage, which he affected by the toth, but further mishap awaited himself. On the 13th, while observing the practice of a rocket train, ono of the fiery missiles burst, rocket and shell together, and tore the calf of his right leg open to the bone, but neither the bone itself nor the great artery was iijured; the wound was instantly stitched and dressed, and then a life of temperance, aided by a patient spirit of endurance, was repaid with a surprising cure. The hurt, jagged as it was, healed by the first intention, and in four days he was out of his tent: the fifth saw him free from fever, on horseback, travelling with an escort of wild troopers towards Hyderabad. " Some superstition the human mind, whether strong or weak, seems always to lean towards, and several of the greatest hare rested thereon; those who deal in war seldom reject predestination, and Sir Charles Napier's life, one justifying Lord Byron's remark that truth is more strange than fiction, encourages this sentiment though reason should recoil. In infancy he was snatched while at the last stage of starvation from a vile nurse; while a young boy, attempting a dangerous leap, he tore the flesh from his leg in a frightful manner; a few years later he fractured the other leg. At the battle of Corunna, struggling with several French soldi e rs, he received five terrible wounds, and but for the aid of a generous French drummer would there have been killed; he was made a prisoner, and his fate being long un known, ho was mourned for as dead by his family. In the , battle of Busaco, a bullet struck his face and lodged behind the ear, splintering the articulation of the jaw bone, and with this dreadful hurt he made his way under a fierce sue to Lisbon, more than one hundred miles! Re turning from France after the battle of Waterloo, the ship sunk off Flushing, and he only saved his life by swimming to a pile, on which he clung, until a boat carried him off, half drowned, for the pile was too large to climb up, and he having caught it during the reces sion of a wave, was overwhelmed by each recurring surge. Now, escaping cholera, and a second shipwreck off the Indus, and marvellously recovering from the stroke of that unlucky rocket at Kurrachee, he was again on horseback, and hastening to conduct with matchless energy a dangerous war—and he did conduct it to a glorious termination; for neither age, nor acci dont, nor wounds, had quenched his fiery spirit; but how the spare body, shattered in battle and worn by nearly fifty years' service in every variety of climate, could still suffice to pace him amongst the famous cap tains of the world, is a mystery. His star was in the East ! The meeting of paper manufacturers and others concerned in the important trade in that commodity, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, yes terday, were unanimous in the expression of their support to the resolutions submitted to them, calling on the Government to repeal the whole of the existing duty on paper. It must be evident to every observant mind that the necessary tendency of a tax upon paper must be injurious to the interests of even elementary education—and oppressive and pernicious in respect of its bearing on the general literature of the country. It is, therefore, originally vicious in its nature. But when we find it demon strated in the exceedingly able speech of Mr. DICKEN sox, the eminent paper maker (who was voted into the chair of the meeting), and corroborated by the personal experience of Sir WILLIAM MAGNAT, the late Lord Mayor, that the duty " at present presses on some branches of the paper manufacture so heavily as to amount from 60 to 150 per cent.," and that for the collection of this revenue, on the one hand, " the Excise regulations adopted greatly im pede trading operations ;" and on the other, " the damages done to packages (of exported English paper) at the Custom-house," by vexatious opening and care less repacking, are such as to cause large parcels to be put aside and sold as waste and refuse on coming to hand at their destination :--we can scarcely imagine a branch of trade which could establish a juster claim upon the consideration of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. But the case of the paper makers is strong in every point of view ; and we agree with Sir W. MAGNA; that the entire repeal of the duty offers the "only adequate remedy." The depression of price ac cording to the Chairman, "had been occasioned partly by the reduction of duty," (a reduction of lid. per lb., or one-half in the year 1836), " but partly by the evasion of payment of any duty by the fraudulent traders." How easily these frauds are practised, and to what extent, can only he judged by a careful notice of the facts detailed in the speeches we have referred to, which also show the enormous extent of the contra band importations of glazed and other papers from France, under the present defective system. Mr. GAIISSEN said that the revenue derived from the pre sent duty was 620,0001., there having been an IN CREASE of 60 per cent. .since the reduct;on of duty in 188 G." Can any fact more strongly establish the wisdom and policy of repealing the whole duty ; from which repeal, by parity of reasoning, an increase of just 120 per cent. on the whole consumption of paper, and therewith th e i mmensely extended employment' of labour (especially of female hands) in the manu facture, may be confidently anticipated ? A public meeting—the first annual one that has yet taken place—of the Association for promoting the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, was held yesterday, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The report which was read at this meeting, gave, on the whole, an encouraging account of the prospects of the Society, for it appears, that within the ten months which have elapsed since its organisation, upwards of fifty new societies have been formed, for the visitation and relief of the poor at their own dwellings; and upwards of a hundred societies, in different parts of London, have been brought into connexion with the metropolitan Association. Moreover, nearly a thou sand visitors of the poor have been called into exist ence since January last; and, with scarcely an exception, the whole of the most destitute parts of the diocese of London is now under a course of visiting, more or less perfect, by societies supplied with the means wherewith to meet the temporal wants of the poor. The Bishop of LONDON—who, by the bye, is far more usefully employed in advocat ing the objects which this Association has at heart, than in advocating the erection of new churches in the metropolis, when the old ones are only half-filled —observed, at the meeting, that the fundamental and most excellent feature of the Society in question was the system of district-visiting which it had established —a system every way calculated to induce the middle awl upper classes to overstep the chasm which di vided them from the lower, to descend from their elevation into the vale of poverty, and hold out the right hand of charity to their distressed fellow-crea tures. "It was undeniable," said his Lordship, "that the present age was sadly deficient in that intercourse between these classes which once prevailed through out the country, and which was so conducive to good feeling towards one another." No one can doubt the strict truth of this remark, or fail to perceive—if he be endowed with only ordinary faculties of observa tion—the lamentable results that have ensued from the gradual haughty estrangement of the higher and middle classes from the lower. Of late years the mischief has been :one of rapid progress, and its fruits are now before us in the increasing demoralisa tion of the poor, and their conviction—a conviction which tends to increase their recklessness and sense of degradation—that those who, from posi tion and circumstances, should be their guardians and benefactors, are utterly indifferent to their interests, and careless whether they be in a thriving condition, or rot and die in cellars, garrets, or workhouses. But within the last year or two a more generous and Christian spirit has begun slowly to develop itself in the upper and middle ranks of society. The sig nificant warnings thrown out by " Swing," by "Re becca," and by Chartism, have not been without their effect ; and it is now at length discovered that the vast masses of the overworked and underfed poor are no longer to be neglected with impunity, for the iron has entered deep into their souls, and if they can feel a kindness, and be grateful for it, they can with still greater acuteness feel a slight, and sternly bide their time to retaliate. But it is not enough, in the anxiety to benefit their condition, simply to relieve their temporal wants, and toss alms to them with an air of supercilious commiseration ; the kindly in tercourse, the encouraging smile, the word of friend liness and sympathy spoken in,,season ; the frequent visit paid in an unassuming spirit to their cottages or, it may be, their hovels—these are quite as effective instruments in their way for doing good, and are even more likely to raise the poor and destitute in their own esteem, and win them back to the classes from whom they have been too long estranged, than the mere act of coldly and ungraciously subscribing to public associations for their relief. " The rich," said the Reverend T. DAL] at the meeting to which we have been alluding, " had no idea of the mine of moral wealth to be found often in the dwellings of the destitute, nor of the noble traits of character which were constantly displayed by them in their conduct to wards each other." Numerous instances of this inherent nobility of nature, flashing out in the gloomy depths of squalor and destitution, have from time to time been recorded in the columns of the public Press, and surely a class, large bodies of whom can be capable of such conduct as Mr. DALE hints at, are well worth conciliating, even at the cost of some personal trouble and inconvenience to their superiors in station Madrid journals of the 12th inst. have been received, but they add nothing to the intelligence which we have given from the Paris papers. MADRID BOURSE, DECEMBER 12.—Three per Cents. 32i cash, and 32i at sixty days. Fire per Cents. 22 1-3 at sixty days. Floating Debt, 78 at sixty days. Coupons, 26 at fifty-seven days. Ex change on London, 37 5-16. The two leading Ministerial journals of Paris have taken different sides in regard to the affairs of Spain and the conduct of the present Government ; the one, we suppose, with a view to conciliate the CHRISTINA party at Madrid, and the other to screen the Court and Cabinet against the attacks of the Opposition in the Chambers. The Globe expresses great admira tion of the conduct of NARVAEZ in pardoning the persons lately condemned to death, and asserts that he was only waiting for an opportunity to show clemency, without at the same time compromising his duty to the throne and public order. This is carrying flattery too far. While NARVAEA could do nothing less than spare the life of REUGIFO, without exciting universal execration, he has obtained his banishment for life, and his agents in the north are carrying out his murderous system to his heart's content. The journals announce that three more of the unfortunate men taken at Hecho and Anso had been shot at Huesca—a striking proof of the cle mency of the Spanish Government ! The Journal des Debate, on the other hand, denounces the atrocious system, and calls upon Spain to take warning from the melancholy example of France during the Revo lution. "We have declared a hundred times," it says, " that we are not the enemies of the present Spanish Government. On the contrary, we desire to see it gaining strength, realising its promises, and producing order and prosperity in that unfortunate country. If, to arrive at that end, it is absolutely necessary to reform the Constitution, be it so. But we cannot have two weights and two measures ; we cannot laud in General NARVAEZ, orcover over with an indulgent silence cruelties which, with all well-think ing persons in Europe, we have stigmatised in General ESPARTERO. The blood of ZURBANO'd sons, shed without trial, and for their father's crime rather than their own, has not cried more loudly to our ears than the blood of the un fortunate DIEGO LEON. The first principle of our politics is humenity ; Without it, all the fine names which parties glee each other are only odious lies ; without humanity, there is neither liberty, nor progress, nor veritable order, What is it we de 'nand from the men who at present triumph and govern in Spain ? To justify their title of Moderadoes What sort of moderation is that which would effect its objects, like tyranny itself, by placing beyond the law, and by executions without trial. We are re inmded that France has passed through these acts. No doubt she has, and it is that vihich tenders us more severe towards those who, with our cruel ex perience before their eyes, have neither sufficient good sense nor heart to imitate us in good, in place of imitating us i n ev i l. Yes, we have had re volutionary prev o t a l courts, placing m en ou t o f the pale of the law, and executions en masse. We, alas! left nothing to be invented in these points; all our parties have reciprocally shot, banished, guillotined each other. Blood has flowed in torrents, at one time of the Royalists, at another of the Republicans. Yet, what party has saved itself by such execrable means ? The Convention killed enough, and did it not perish in its turn ? But we have also given another example to the world. Was not the first act of the Government of July to save the lives of the Ministers who had issued the ordi• !lances; and who can tell what blood that first act of courage and humanity has spared our revolution ? Blood is not arrested by blood, r,ut by clemency. Such is the example which we propose to Spain and her Government ! As long as the Government shall shoot in Spain, it will have to fear being shut. As long as it shall act revolutionally, revolution will threaten it. A pardon granted to ZURBANO'S sons would have caused their stern father to drop his arms, or would have rendered him the execration of the whole world ; at present he is an unfortunate man, whom it is difficult not to pity." One of the Opposition journals at last adverts to THE SUN, LOND"ON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2O, 1844. some of the grievances to be discussed in the ensuing session, but unfortunately they are already stale. Most of them have been brought forward repeatedly in the Chambers, and the journals have written about them till even French readers have become nauseated with the endless repetitions. Our readers, of course, will presume that these subjects are the affairs of Otaheite, Morocco, the right of search, and the royal visit to Windsor Castle. The Kixo, by a royal ordonnance, dated Dec. 16, has conferred the title of Duke on Baron PASQuIER, Chancellor of France, and President of the Chamber of Peers. The National thus ironically points out the services of the Noble Peer, which entitle him to this distinction : " This morning's Monileur contains great news. Baron Denys Etienne Pasquier has just received the title of Duke I Most people will laugh ; as for us, we think it woful. Devote your whole life to notoriety—court the muses and danseuses—become the favourite of Camba ceres—rise, under the protection of an imperial wing, into the prefecture de police—tumble down under the hand of Mallet—then be ready to salute an invasion, and to order the Emperor's statue to be torn from the top of his column—let the hands of the Austrians and Prussians raise you again to power—be a fluent orator, an elegant teller of trifles, an inevitable Minister, a De puty, a Peer, alternately President of the two Legisla tive bodies, and an unexpected member of the French Academy—weather every storm by seasonably lowering and raising your head—serve nine Governments in fifty years—keep a store of compliments ready for every dynasty, aad sugar-plums for every royal christening— exhaust yourself to attain glory and master fortune, and when years shall have frozen your blood and weakened your faculties, a man shall take you at random and make you a duke. Poor Denys Etienne Pasquier I" The same journal contains some unwelcome intelli gence for Spanish bondholders. The Madrid cor respondent of that paper says— • " It appears that the foreign creditors of the Spanish Government arc to share in the ruin that is being effected by the Government; whilst despotism is insured to the country, bankruptcy is imposed upon the State creditors. You have seen by the late decree relative to the Three per Cent. Stock, that no notice is taken of the old Fire per Cent. Debt, which principally affects foreigners. Now, on the one hand, there is no longer any payment of interest ; and, on the other, the securi ties which were to guarantee the debt are destroyed. It is clear, therefore, that the interest augmenting the capital, and no resource being created for this augmenta tion, the stock will fall to a low p r i ce , an d th e h o ld ers of bonds will have in their hands only so much waste paper. Is this what had been stipulated ? Certainly not ; the Cortes and the Crown had solemnly pledged themselves in the face of Europe to make national pro perty the guarantee for the creditors. By the fol lowing table you will see how they have been deprived of this guarantee. The securities taken away from them are :-Ist. 1,200,000,008 reels, the estimated value of the property of the secular clergy. 2d. 300,000,000 reals, the value of the nunneries which remain unsold. 3d. 200,000,000 reals, the value of the convents of the monks remaining unsold. 4th. 800,000,000 reals, the amount of the censos of the secular clergy, and of the religious orders of both sexes. Total 2,500,000,000 reels (25,000,0004) Here then is a total guarantee of 2,500,000,000 reels taken from the creditors of the State, and particularly the foreign creditors. With this sum, and by respecting the mortgages solemnly appro priated ;by the Cortes to the public debt, there existed the means of wiping off in a period of eight years the sum of seven thousand five hundred millions - of reels (1,875,000,000 f.) By the dispositions of the law regulating the sale of national property, a third of the passive debt, at the rate of fifty per cent., was admitted in payment of national property ; and two-thirds of the active debt, the first third not bearing interest, and the second a debt bearing interest at four or fire per cent. By this means, then, and by continuing the sale of na tional property, admitting foreigners as well as Spaniards as purchasers, and the law making no distinction between them, Spain might in eight years have com pletely paid off her old debt, and have had no other bur den than her three per cent. debt. The advantages of this sale of national property were so considerable, both for the State and the purchasers, that since 1836 there have been disposed of in Spain 210,000 properties. The sale is now suspended, to the prejudice of the treasury and of the public auditors, and to the exclusive profit of the counter revolution. Now look at the difference which is made between the various creditors. Spaniards who had contracts with the Government during the civil war are paid with three per cent. renter, at the rate of 32, 35, and 40 per cent. But foreigners, who lent to the State in 1834 and 1835 400 millions of reals (100,000,000 f.) at 60 per cent., and who have not had any interest since the end of 1836, are now offered three per cents. in payment of the interest due to them, but are required to receive the stock at par. And are their interests guaranteed for the future ? No. All that is proposed is to pay them in this way for what is due from 1836 to 1840. They are at the same time de prived of the mortgages which had been granted to them of the only means whioh they possessed of one day re covering their capital." THE BOURSE—WEDNEsDAT, DEC. 18. First Highest Lowest Last Prim. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2O IS .. 120 20 .• 120 .. 120 15 Three per Cents... • New Loa* •• • Bank of France 3275 ..3275 • • 2270 ..3270 Latlitte Bank, 5,000 f. ShAresso92 50 —5091 50 ..5985 ..5085 Belgian Bank. ..... 650 .. 660 .. 650 • • 660 Belgian Fives,lB4o lO4 • • 104 .. 104 • • 104 1842 .• 1061 .. 1067 .. 106/ .. 1067 Two-and-a-Half.. •. 62 GO 62 GO .. 62 60 .. 62 GO Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 37 7 • • 3 7 1 • • 377 • • 377 Active • 6 6 .. 6 .. 6 Neapolitan ••.•••.• • • • • • • • 98 68 •• 98 70 .. 98 65 .. 9 8 7 0 Roman •• • ••• .. RAILWAY fiIHA•RES. 515 .. 300 .. 600 5 4 C 0 Q 0 400 .. 392 50 .. 392 50 Rouen • • • . —loo • 1040 ..1033 7b —lO3B 75 Rouen to Havre......... 802 50 .. 805 .. $O2 60 802 50 Orleans ll2O ..1123 75 —ll2O ..1123 75 Strasburg to 312 .50 .. 316 25 . 312 00 .. 312 60 Avignon to Marseilles.• .• •• 920 .. 930 .. 920 .. 927 50 RAILWAYS FOR THR ACCOUNT, JAN. 3. St. Germain 1022 60 —1022 50 —lOl6 25 ..1016 25 Versailles, R. 8..... ••.... • • 510 .. 520 .. 507 50 • • 507 50 400 .. 400 .. 392 50 .. 395 Rouen 1037 50 —1045 ..1037 50 ..1040 Rouen toillevre• • Orleans •••... ••........•••1 112 50 ..1127 50 ..1112 50 ..1123 75 Strasburg to Bale.• •••••• 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 313 78 Avignon to Mareeilles•• •• 922 50 .• 932 50 . 922 50 .• 927 50 MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. - The number of deaths during the week ending Saturday, Dec. 14, far exceeds that of the preceding week, and probably is the highest of the whole year. The average is N 6, and the return for the week ending Dec. 7, 988, while the last return is 1,201. Th e i ncrease h as ta k en place chiefly from diseases of the throat and lungs, the total number under that head being 444, while the average is only 28a. The deaths from bronchitis are 43, average 14 ; pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs), 145, average 79 ; asthma, 65, average 24. The deaths from small-pox are also very high-51. Of these fifteen died under 1 year, thirteen 1.3, ten 3-5, nine 5-10, two 10-15, and two 30-40 yearn. The suicides were five ; and seven persons, chiefly chil dren, were destroyed by burns or scalds. THEATRES,. DRURY-LANE Th Pak P.13.11'0P OP TIIE sluAr, Sin,—Will allow me to avail myself of a place in your columns, to express my astonishment at the Editor of the Times having admitted into that paper an attack upon the management of this theatre ) oh the mere report of an anonymous correspondent. There has noter been the remotest idea of repeating The Revolt qf the fiarriti, that ballet having been withdrawn from the play•bills by Mr. Bunn's express orders, immediately after the late mourn ful circumstance.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servaht, J. COOPER, Stage-lianttger. Theatre Royal D,raq-Lane, 12 o'clock A.m., Dec; 20. STEAM-BOAT WHISTLE. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Ti.mes Sii—Wiii you allow me through your columns to suggest a simple plan to prevent collision of steam-vessels in foggy weather, and which would have prevented that awful catastrophe at Greenwich on ,Tuesday with the Sylph and Orwell The railroad engine lids itti and why not the steam-boat? which might be kept up during the whole of the passage in a crowded river during such a fogv—i dial, Sir, yotirs respettftillyi G, Long-acre. PRESENT izit' 13Ebbii TibtiNb§ ritOk tilt RtNCE Colisoltir TIIE REIGNING DUKE OF SAXE COBURG b Ar te ( G I p o a t e tt lz A o .--- f B A l t i t t h h fi e e s id al b e (: )ti f d t h il e m i t to d n s . , ll ,l l . h r. i c ß h a x g 9 o o t i ls eclealcee at Derby, last week, five were purchesed for Fridce Al bert, by an agent of his Royal Ifighness, vix., Countess, for 11 guineas ; Forester, 15 guineas ; Necdwood, 6 guineas ; Rummager, 22 guineas and Vengeance, 9 guineas. Two of these hound s were presented by Prince Albert to his brother, the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who took them With him iti the illaCk eagle to Ostbild, oh flue day last. By the will of the late Colonel Olney, who died in 1836, the sum of 8,000/ is given to the Corporation of Gloucester on the death o f hi s w if e, upon the condition that the Council should, within ten years after the testa tor's demise, provide a suitable site for building some almshouses. Of the principal sum of 8,0001, 1,300/ is to be spent in the erection, and 1001. in furnishing, leaving the interest of 6,6001. to support the establish ment. The pr ov idi ng of a site has lately engaged the attention of the Council, and in order that the poor may not lose the benefit of the bequest, some of the members have offered to subscribe towards the purchase of land for the building. It is curious, however, that the weekly allowances to the number of inmates, clothing, &c., pre set lb d by the testator, exceed in amount the interest of the money, so that it will probably be necessary to apply to the Court of Chancery for a new appropriation. The case offers a serviceable hint to benevolent individuals, either to see their bounty laid out properly during their lifetime, or to leave their wealth unclogged by condi tions which may swallow up the principal portion in li tigation. FATAL CAB ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening, between four and five o'clock, a fine little boy, named Thdmas Appleby, the son of highly respectable parents, residing in Crescent-place, New-road, was run over by a cab at the end of Judd-street, and killed on the spot. 'The driver was called on to stop, but refused to lend the least assistance, and drove on towards the City at the same furious pace, and has since then escaped detection. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tlutittr eptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received on Monday evening Prince Paul of Wurtem berg, the Neapolitan Chargi d'Affaires, the Archbishop of Rheims, Count Hippolyte de la Rochefoucauld, Baron de Barante, Generals Durosnel, Schn e id er , D e C o lb ert , Lagrange, Aupick, De Mornay, and Marbot, Admiral Le Ray, and Baron Mechin. The inscription of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale was on Tuesday formally entered in the registers of the Etat-Civil of the Royal Family. By a royal ordonnauce, dated December 16, the King has conferred the title of Duke on Baron Pasquier. The French Academy has unanimously elected M. Patin, in the place of M. C. Nodier, to the office of Secre tary of the Standing Committee to draw up the new Dictionary of the French language. The annual masa in celebration of the anniversary of the arrival in Paris of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon, was performed on Monday, in the Church of the Invalides. The Governor and his staff, all the inva lides not confined by infirmity or illness, and a great number of officers and soldiers of the old, as well as of the present army, attended in uniform. The navigation of the Seine, which was stopped for some days by the floating ice -blocks, has become per fectly free again. It is reported that Zurbano is in Madrid, watching an opportunity to put Narvaez to death. The Moniteur Grec, of the 29th ult., affirms that the people of Greece are in the enjoyment of perfect trail• quillity, and the real position of the population form; a direct contrast with the language of certain journals of Athens. On the 13th ult.. the Emperor of Russia issued an ukase for the establishment of gratuitous elementary and superior schools for the children of Jews, and with all the same privileges and advantages as the gratuitous schools for Christians. In the Jewish schools, none but Jewish professors are to be employed for the religious part of the education. The profess , Ts for the other branches of education, may be either Jews or Christians. Many of the disabilities under which Jews serving in the army laboured, are also abolished. The supply of truffles this year is reported to be but scanty. They were sold last week at Brive for Bf. the lb., and as much as 10f. the lb. has lately been paid for them at Pirigueux. The journeymen bakers at Rochefort having com bined against their masters to obtain an advance of wages, about twenty of them have been arrested, and the Major-General of the Marine has placed a sufficient number of the Government bakers at the disposal of the Municipality, during the strike, to keep up the supply of bread to the inhabitants. An eruption of Mount Etna, remarkable for its bril liancy, took place on Nov. 30. It was visible at Malta, notwithstanding the distance between that island and Sicily. The Piedmontese Gazette fully confirms the accounts given in private letters of the severe cold lately expe rienced at Turin. It states, on the night of the 6th, the thermometer fell to 20 degrees Centigrade below the freezing point (4 below zero of Fahrenheit), and that three carts arrived at the gates of Turin with the carters lying in them, frozen to death. The cold was also very severe in Tuscany. The roads between Florence and Leghorn were covered with snow at the date of the last accounts. At seven in the morning of the 10th inst., the thermo meter at the Hague was at 20 degress below zero of the Centigrade scale, 4 below eero of Fahrenheit. M 097 AND PDXION. At the Exeter Assizes John Goodwin, a private of the 13th Dragoons, was indicted for stabbing a woman, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. This was the only case for the city of Exeter. After the prose cutrix and other witnesses had been briefly examined, Mr. Baron Alderson went over the facts of the case, pointing out the discrepancies between the evidence of the prosecutrix and the other witnesses, when the jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. His Lord ship then, addressing the jury, said he found the papers had denounced this case as a " horrible and bloody assassination." Such prejudging the case in the papers which were circulated among the jury was an outrage on public justice, and could not be too strongly censured. Peter Phillips, William Doddemead, and Thos. Batho, were convicted of setting fire to a rick of wheat, the property of George Kean, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. Eliza Daley, Elizabeth Daley, her daughter, and Jas. Daley, her son, were indicted, at Liverpool, for unlaw. fully exposing a child. The parties had been indicted at the last assizes for an attempt to murder, but were acquitted on the ground of a variance between the in dictment and the proof. James Daley, Not Guilty; Eliza Daley and Elizabeth Daley, Guilty. To be impri soned twelve calendar months. William Burgess, implicated in the Bank forgery, was covicted at the Central Criminal Court, and sen tenced to be transported for life. In the New Court James James, who has been many years an active officer in the metropolitan and rural police, and four years turnkey at the Brixton house of Correction, was convicted of stealing a truck or barrow, value 305., the property of Richard Burt, at Clapham, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. William Edbury, a clerk in the Post-office, was con victed of stealing a half-sovereign and two shillings, the property of the Right Hon. the Postmaster-General of her Majesty's Post-office, and sentenced to be kept to hard labour for two years. At Union-hall Charles Richert was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, the property of Miss Williams, of Stamford street, and Fanny Dronsart as an accessory in the robbery. Mr. Cottingham said that, having heard all the evidence, he should commit Richert for trial to the Cen tral Criminal Court, and adjudge the young woman Dronsart to put in bail to appear at this court on the day after the Old Bailey Sessions commenced, to give the complainant an opportunity of preferring a bill of indict ment against her as an accessory after the fact. COMILT-•- . PASIZZONALII;I•2I. The Duke of Devonshire, who left Devonshire House on Wednesday, for Brighton, to visit the Earl and Countess of Granville, will not be absent from town beyond Monday next. The Noble Duke shortly re turns to Chatsworth, and will there receive a succession of visitors during the approaching festive season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have ar rived at Burghley House from visiting the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House. The Earl and Countess of Ripon, and Lord Goderich, are staying at his Lordship's villa, at Putney. His Lordship is improved in health. Lord Goderich will not attain his majority until 1848. The Earl of Falmouth and his mother, the Countess, are passing the winter at Woolhampton Hall, B er k s hi re. The Eat% of Denbigh, accompanied by Lady Mary Fielding and family, is among the English aristocracy at Rome. The Marquis of Bristol is still at St. James's-square, but his Lordship will shortly leave town for his marine villa at Kemp-town. Tile Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and the Ladies de Burgh, at the date of the last letters from Rome, were still in that city. Mr. George Byng, M.P., and Mrs. Byng, returned, on Saturday last, to their mansion in St. James's-square, frdtn l'orqilay, Devon, and have since left for Wrotham Park, near Ifarnet, where the Hon. Member will display his customary hospitality at Christmas, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston purpose enter taining a large party at Broadlands, Hants, during the Christmas. The visitors are expected to assemble on Monday and rrnesclay next. Lord and Lady Whartielifre entertained the Duke of Devonshire and a select party at dinner on Tuesday evening, at their mansion in Curzon-street. raines?a.A.Nnous. At a meeting of Middlesex Magistrates, held at the fleSsitinS House on Thursday, Mr, Pownall was elected Chairman in the room of Mr, Sergeant Adams, resigned. A ballot took place, as Mr. Rotch was also put in nomi nation, when the numbers were—For Mr. Nyman., 70 ; And ~for Mr. Rotch, 25. 'the scent dettarle of ,the lion. Robert Otway Cave, without issue, will cause the right to the Barony of Braye to devolve, after the present Baroness, upon her four daughters, amongst whom it will be in abeyance, her Majesty' bftving, by letters patent, limited tili3 same to the present Baronbat ittid the heirs male of her body. On Wednesday night some tr„entkineti who were pre sent at Drury-lune Theatre, and made acquainted with the praiseworthy conduct of M'Carthy on Saturday night last ] at the late dreadful catastrophe, raised a pri- Vate subscription among themselves for the poor fellow's relief, which amounted to Upwards of 101. On Sunday, the Bth, and last Sunday, the 16th inst., sermons were preached in the churches of Tottenham pdriohLin aid of the funds of one of the parochial schools, when the amount &Ce:ted a 9 Alt In 1843 it was 701., and in 1842 711. 9s. Such are the blessings of Pusey ism. The Lord Bishop of St.Asaph has distributed clothing to upwards of 400 poor families in St. Asaph and the neighbourhood, and is giving food daily to those who aft) in ilea The Regalia were removed a short time since to Messrs. Garrard's, the Crown jewellers, in the Hay market, for safe custody, while the necessary works were going on in the new fire-proofapartment, which has been constructed expressly fir them in the Tower. On Tuesday last they were removed from the premises of Messrs. Garrard to the Tower. The public are now ad mitted to view them as usual. To• morrow being St. Thomas's-day, the usual ward. motes will be held in the various City wards for the election of Common Councilmen for the ensuing year. Most of the wards will be represented by the same Com mon Councilmen. The wards that will be contested are Portsoken, Cripplegate Within, and Farringdou Without, MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—A spe cial meeting of justices of the county of Middlesex took place yesterday, for the election of a chairman, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell- green. There was a very numerous attendance of magistrates. Mr. Tulk took the chair. The two candidates put in nomination were Mr. Pownall and Mr. Botch. The first was proposed by Mr. Wilks, seconded by Mr. Walesby ; and the last named gentleman was proposed by Captain Bague and seconded by Mr. Whiskin. The ballot commenced shortly after twelve o'clock ; and terminated at three o'clock, when the scrutineers, Mr. Witham and Mr. Orm, announced the result, namely:—For Mr. Pownall, 70; and for Mr. Botch, 25. Mr. Pownall was accord ingly declared duly elected, THIS DAY'S NEWS VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY (Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.) PALLIN V. GATHERCOLE. The plaintiff in this case is the rector of Stafford, in Essex, and the defendant, the Hey. Mr. Gathercole, is the editor of the Churchf,:ian newspaper, both beingclergymen of the Established Church. The plaintiff had obtained FIR injunction of the Court, restraining the defendant from publishing certain letters relative to the plaintiff which were alleged by the latter to be of a libellous nature. Mr. WICRA3I now applied to the Court to have that injunction dissolved, and on the part of the plaintiff there was a cross-motion for the committal of the defendant for contempt. (The arguments were proceeding when we went to press.) QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) Lord Denman sat at Nisi Prius this morning, at the Guildhall, with a London special jury. The Court was engaged the whole morning in trying the case of the Queen v. Ellis, an indictment for perjury, which will not in all probability be finished this evening. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY OLD COURiI • (Before Chief Justice TINDAL.) Win. Hill, aged 30, plasterer, was indicted for felo niously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Charles John Chitty, and stealing therefrom certai❑ silver spoons, a waistcoat, and other articles, value 5L It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner was occasionally employed about the house of the prosecutor to do some jobs for him, and when there was no business for him to do he frequently obtained food and other as sistance from the prosecutor. He thereby obtained a perfect knowledge of the premises, which he turned to the evil purpose of robbing his benefactor. The house was found to have been broken open and the articles mentioned were taken away. On making inquiries they wore discovered at a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood, and the pawnbroker identified the prisoner as the per son who stole them. Verdict, Guilty.--Sentence, 14 years' transportation. Wet. Cox, a young boy, who could scarcely see over the bar, was indicted for stealing 13/. 10s. from John Cross Humby. There could be no doubt from the evi dence that the prisoner was guilty, and the jury found accordingly. The CHIEF JUSTICE, in passing sentence on the pri soner, which was twelve month' imprisonment, dwelt on the youth of the offender, and advised him to be cau tious how he committed such a crime again. NEW COURT (Before the RECORDER and Alderman HuGnEs Sarah Diprose was charged with having stolen a table cloth and other articles, the property of Mr. J. Clay worth, her master. Mr. Doane conducted the case for the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared, had been employed on va rious occasions by the prosecutor in the capacity of char woman, and that whilst so engaged she had access to va rious parts of his dwelling, in which property of consi derable value was kept. After she had been in his ser vice for some time, several articles were missed, and sus picion fell upon the prisoner, and on a search being made duplicates were found which led to the discovery of the stolen property. A pawnbroker produced the stolen articles, which were identified by Mrs. Clay worth as her husband's property. She missed them while the prisoner was in her house. The RECORDER summed up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty. There was another charge against her of stealing linen from another employer, but she was not tried upon that indictment. It appeared that theprisoner had been previously con victed of felony, and had been tried and convicted in this Court. 'Phis was proved by a certificate, which stater that in May, 1841, she was convicted in this Court, and sentenced to seven years' transporiation by his Lordship. The RECORDER inquired how it was that that sen tence had not been carried out ? The gaoler said that, after haying been confined for the period of three years, in the Alillbank Penitentiary, she was liberated by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in May last. The RECORDER, in passing sentence upon the prisoner, told her that she had abused the lenity which had been shown t 3 her by that high quarter, and that there was no hope of reforming her in this country ; the sentence of the Court, therefore, was, that she be transported beyond the seas for ten years. The sessions will terminate to-day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Edward Murray, a veteran soldier-looking man, be tween 50 and 60 years of age, was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. Police-constable, No. 87 of the C division, stated that between twelve and one o'clock this morning he found the defendant in Wardour-street excessively drunk, and supporting himself against the shutters of a shop win dow. Witness asked him if he lived there ; he replied " No ;" but afterwards said he resided up the street. Witness said, " Which is the house ?" The defendant said, "The glorious 42d! Waterloo! Charge charge !" Witness seeing him so disorderly, charged him accord ingly at the station-house. Mr. HAarilvlca.--What have you to say, sir, in answer to the charge against you of being drunk and incapable of taking care of yourself ? Defendant—My good Sir, the fact is this ; I served in the 42d—that is, I had the honour to do so—with many brave fellows, at the me morable battle of Waterloo. It is, I believe, allowed that the 42d did their duty there. Mr. llARDwrcx—But what has that to do with your being found in the state you were ? Defendant (good humouredly)—Why, I'll let you into the secret. I met last evening with several brother officers, and while talk• ing over past and stirring events, we had a pretty con siderable skirmish with sundry bottles of wine, and I have the satisfaction of saying that I firmly believe that the 42d did their duty as usual. Mr. HARDWICK—I shall discharge you ; but don't come here again in the same character. Defendant—l thank you, Sir ; but I hope you'll hare the candour to admit that the 42d always do their duty. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 20., NOON.—Wind easterly, fresh breeze and fine clear weather. DEAL, DEC. 19.—Wind E. to E.N.E., fresh breeze.— Arrd. Nestor, M'Meikam, Calcutta ; Ann Falcon, Bouness, Mauritius ; Golden Fleece, Hubback, Bahia ; Minerva, Ogden, Nassau. Sid. Hebe, Valparaiso, Hor wood, Algoa Bay; Cecilia, Ichaboe; Sam Slick, Gambia; Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's ; Cremona, Charleston, and the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Wind S.E. to E.—Arrd. Hercules, Lightfoot, Quebec. Off, Amwell, Kilton, Hobart Town ; Robert Heddle Cape Coast Castle. OFF TORBAY, DEC. 18.—City of Poonah, Hight, Madras, left the Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 26, St. He lena, sth ult. OFF THE NEEDLES, DEC. 18.—Eliza Bell, Bell, Bahia to Bremen. Hum,, DEC. 13.—The Maria Amelia, from London to Haraburgh, has put into the Roads through stress of weather. BRIXHAM, DEC. 18.—A butt of brandy marked A.—P.F.----No. 727, has been picked up off the Bolt. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, OCT. 25.—Arrd. the Pre- , cursor steamer, Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 19.—Sid. Royal Tar steamer, Gibraltar.. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Princess Royal, Ichaboe. ASCENSION, PREVIOUS TO OCT. 26.—Arrd. John, of London, Ichaboe, leaky. LEITH, DEC. 18.—A fortign vessel •is supposed to have been wrecked upon the Carne Rock, some wainscot logs, and the stern of a boat, marked " Davis, Barth,' have come on shore. CROOKHAVEN, DEC. 16.—A barque dismasted, and with bows stove, and abandoned, was boarded 10th ult., let. 49 lon. 36, by the Hiram, arrived here. A schooner, from Waterford to England, is off this in a disabled state. YARMOUTH, DEC. 19.—A black head-board, marked " Mary," was picked up on the beach, sth inst., when a great many burnt deals were washed ashore at the same time. HOLYHEAD, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Daniel Webster, Charleston. Conic DEc. 17.—Arrd. Sir J. L. Goldsmid, Jobson, Cuba. Sid. Ergent, Buenos Ayres. LIVERPOOL, Dm. 19.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.— Arrd. Joshua Waddington, Bottomby, Valparaiso ; Meg of Meldon, Bleasden, Calcutta ; Inovoice, Rawlin, Icha- Sld. Jargar, Calcutta ; Matthew Pearce, La Guayrti ; Argyle, New Orleans ; Carlton and Speed, Savannah. Conic, DEC. 17.—The Borneo, of Beverley, water logged and abandoned, was posed on the 7th ult., let. 30 lon. 69, by the Sir I. L. Goldsmid. THE FUNDS-(C OSING PRICES. FUNDS. Ditto Bones £l,OOO —. Pn Ditto under £l,OOO 75 pm 'South Nea Stock Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... 60 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small 5B pm. Bank Stock for Acct 8 (9% Consols for 0pg.... India Stock for Acct 4 FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic ........ Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840— 2.534 Ditto, 1841 ...... Ditto, 1842 , Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1844 Ditto, 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent., —t. - C. French, 3 per Cent —c. Exchange Dutch, 234 per Cent Dltto.;s per Cent ... BRITts: Bank Stock 299 3 per Cent. Red lOO% 3 per Cent. Cons. per Cent. Red New 3% per Cent 103%1 New 5 per Cont. Long Annuities to expire lan. 1861) l2 1-1 Q Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860. ........ ..... -- Indiaß Stock FOREIG Austrian, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent 102% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Cuha Bonds, 6 per Cent — Milan, 6 per Cent — Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent — Mexican, S per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct SHARES. Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid IOU Oreat Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) s' ! ); London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 994 London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid) London and York, 2% paid 4% Lynn an d Ely, 1U paid Midland (100 paid) •Newcastle and Berwick 1% paid.. Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35% North. Kent, `,2i paid % Norwich and Brandon, S pa id ... , ..... .•... Richmond and West End Junction, ',paid n! Rugby, 1 paid South Eastern and Doter (33 2s 4d paid) York And North Midland ( 50 p aid) lO2 Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Parisand Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen, 20 paid ... ...... HOW. 41 ti rails and Strasbourg, 2% paid 0 MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A very largo business was done in Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, and the market had a lively aspect, but prices were not higher. Speculators took 3,500 bales and the entire sales amounted to 100,000 bales—vis.. 1,100 Pernam, at 4id. to reld.; 100 Bahia, at 5 1d . 300 Maranham, at 41d. to 5/d.; 200 Egyptian, at 61 ,1 . to 6d. ; 400 Surat, at 28d. to 2d.; and the rest Alec rican, at 31d. to sd. per lb.—Shares were steildP Bristol and Gloucester, 371 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 21 ; Eastern Counties, 144 ; Grand Junction, 2 23 ,j Ditto, Eighth, 17 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Ilan , 102 ; Ditto, Quarter, 571 ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 27 ; Ditto and South-Western, 831 ; Dit to and York, •tk*; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 52 ; Mid land Counti es 1121 ; S ou th-E astern , 381 ; Dit to , Newt 12 ; Lyons and Avign o n, 21. 14s. ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3 5. ; Ditto and Rouen, 401 ; Strasburg a nd Bale, 12 1 Tours and Nant e s, 2 ; Boul ogne an d A m i en s, 51; tral of France, 111.• There are various additional account s in town to day from the Cape of Good Hope, but we do not learn that they contain any information of interest. It may ha" • been observed that th e C omm i ss i oners o f Emigration have taken steps to ascertain the names of those partie s who are entitled to the bounty, and to lots of land on their arrival out in the colony, which if not attended t° soon, the privilege so afforded will cease. The preset fl• dates from the Cape are to the 25th of October. Some additional vessels had left the Cape for Guano, at Ichatoe• A very strong feeling is expressed among the mer chants of the City in favour of the repeal of the duty upon raw cotton. Those connected with the eXport trade with the United States believe most confidently that the result would be to increase the demand for our manufactures, even in the Republic, to an enormoug amount. A meeting of the merchants interested is, it i ° said, in contemplation, in order to memoralise the Government upon this most interesting subject. T l 2. reduction of the duty on p a p er , i t i- a l so h o p e d, may u e accomplished if strenuous exer ti ons are made by th e manufacturers. We are informed, on the authority of a letter receive d at the Hall of Commerce this morning, that the Precur sor steamer had arrived out, after a passage of 45 (WI. In the Consol market not much business has been, transacted to-day. The price for the Account is firm at h- to 1 per cent. above par ; Reduced Three per Cen l , ° ,' have been quoted at 1001 f. A r i se i n E xc h eq uer 1 34 A ` i has taken place t o 60 5 ., an d upon I n di a 11 ° 11 ' 1 to 755. premium. Th e new Th ree - an d- a -Q uar ter pe r Cents. hare advanced to 31 p er cen t. a b ove par . n 3" Stock is at 209. In the Foreign Stock market the principal oPer, e. lions have been in the D u t c h S ecur iti es , t h e Two-1 03 " . d. a-llalf per Cents. having fluctuated from 63i to 64i , se c the Four per Cents. from 97 to 97i. Thera has been any transactions in the Belgian Bonds to-"e). - Spanish Consols are steady at 25i ; and the Thre e . per Cents at 374 The New French Scrip has beep °° demand at premium. For Mexican Stock 36 and 36 A have been the quotations, and for Portuguese CouYer te 58 to 58f. •i• A very firm market has r u l e d t o -d ay f or a ll the n c d pal Railway Shares, and in some instances advan ce , prices have been realised. The Real del Monte M' S Shares, unregistered, have been quo t e d a t 4i per shar e ' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List): Bank Stock for Account ..„.. ... ..... gp9 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3 1 4 per Cent ..... 1034 N India Bonds,l,ooo. Ditto under 1,006 4 „ .... ..... 75 Consol, for Opening 100 S% INd. P4d-_ 5860 pm• 60 58 pin e° 58 pm. Exchequer Bills. 1,0001. Ditto Ditto FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCI C • Chilian Bonds, tl per Cent ............. S 9 10 0 Mexican Bonds, 1i137, 5 per Cent. ..... Ditto for the Account. Seq _ • 10%4 Ditto Defeat ... ..... ..... 'ortuguese BORSIB, 5 per Cant . .................... Ditto Converted ........... ...... ••••••••••••••••••••• Ditto for the Account .....».».».».».»....»» panish Bonds, Five per Cent Ditto for the Acc0ent,....—.... Ditto Passivi 37 t —................. 04%4 63 ' at e _ -.it ............. ... ........... 644 )i% Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates. ...... ...... 9714% Dutch 5 per Centa...............„....... ..... ......... 99'4 PIRCEI OF SHARES 11113 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL RAILWAYS. PAID. Pas SWASII. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ..... 02%..... 1. r Bristol and Gloucester.... 3O ... ..... 36&..... t ° -":. Cambridge and Lincoln .... ....... 1%.,. 2 14 14 ... to Chester and H01yhead........ m b ~....... 5% ...... to .."' Churnet Valley: to Dublin and Belfast Junction Dublin and Galway Eastern Counties .......... . ... 25 - Great Southein and We - st - erri . 1 to •••• (Ireland)... ........ ....... ........ ...5 5 .... 15 1 .. Great Western .............. 75 151,. 152 t o Ditto Fifths ..... ................ 12 London and Birmingham.......... 100 London and Brighton .. » .„,„.....50 London and South Western ..-.. 41% .. London and Y0rk............... 2%.... 4471 "' r; 115 Midland ........... ..... ............. 100........ 112 ...... II - IS Birmingham and Derby Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 24 .. Northern and Eastern ..„.».„..„. 45 .... .... to .. :- 57% ..-•• ` o ..... .. -: South Eastern and Dover ........ 33% Trent Valley' 2 ... ..... 9%•........• .... York and North Midland Boulogne and Amiens ..... - • Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bourdeaux .....« -22 ......... 7% Ti ** .- .... Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans.... ................... 20 41 Ditto Thi7ee. the Accouei hitch 2% per Cents., ihitte for the Aecol Strasburg and Bale ...... .. 14 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 19. e , b , ° o ;l had a fair business doing at steady prices, with 0 ,1 - 16 demand for Shares generally :—Eastern Counties, don i; Lancaster and Preston, New Quarters, 4i; It t to, and Brighton, 51i; Ditto, Loan Notes, 12i; "jig. Eighth Shares, 2 5-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, ' Ditto and Birmingha m , 51,1 ; Ditto, Quarter Sh a . r Ditto, 4 15-16; South Eastern, 384; Ditto, New, 12 !, ) ,„ rn et New Creation, 10; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i; L.'"" -i; Valley, 3i 7-16; Trent Valley, 9; West Yorkshire, , 9 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 101. 185' MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY') CORN-EXCHANGE—FRIDAY'.,The supply of English Whe a t h ere was very 11113 7 e owing to which, and th e f a i r atten d ance o f dealer s „,%!,,'§ demand for that a rti c l e was stea d y at f u lly Af° ll 7, l o d quotations. Foreign Wheat, free of duty, was I, lll# request, and previous rates were steadil supporteu• B a r e quantity of English Barley was not yet th e . was dull, without any variation in price. large,Foreign ley was plentiful, and the distillers supplied thons e ' c i e r with th e b est sor t s at prev i ous rates. 'The best teak, Malt was in request, but other qualities wer e j os Owing to the contrary winds, the arrivals of Osts, small ; yet b u y ers h e ld b ac k , i n ant i c i pat i on o f good rivals. Other Grain as on Monday. ARRIVALS. pita Wheat. 1,690 qrs. 11 3 ,13 ar 5 I g Y tirs- I 0at,.5il I 9 ' 54 2.. l E r ulish - 3,160 qrs. Foreign. Malt. 1,270 (16. SMITECIMELD. iv of For the ti me o f y ear we h a d A f a i r average suP,P, "s he Beasts, both as re s p ec t s num b er an d quality, vill"ewiere Beef trade was firm, and Monday's quotations „. 0 steadily supported. Scarcely a single head of forelea stock was offering, while the receipts from h et were were small. Sheep, the supply of which was go od 'iv a sluggish demand, yet we can no ti ce no a lterati° ll te o prices. In Calves very little was doing, yet the r t l a n ot remained stationary. Pigs ,were a d u ll s ale, ht l " - 91 cheaper. 'Mit c h C ows so ld h eav il y at f rom 161 to each. Per 81bs. to sink the effaL tOS•t . s. d_ to s. d. g. Inferior Beasts* ..... .... 210 3 I Second eivalltyditto $ t• 4 0 4 Second quality ditto... 3 '2 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 '7, 4 Prime large Oxen...... 3 8 4 2 S out hd own W e th er s 4 ' •.... 6 Prime Scots, &c...„.. 4 4 4 6 Ditto out of the wool "... 9 0 4 Large coarse Calves... 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs 3 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 S ma ll P 0r k er5 . ......... 3 5O $ Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 o Quarter old Pigs,eacbl6 0 0 0 Inferior Sheep - n SUPPLY AT MARKET. rig" Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I 5 8i 1,3 , ,9 5,130 : HS 2711WG.A.T11 AND LEADZNELAZI",„,,siId Tlwre was a l arge su pply o f Meat, yet the au"' Was steady, at full prices. At per stone, ey the Carcase. a. d. to s. d. s r . , ' l l 6 tc' 31. d i 800 - , inferior 2lO 3 0 Mutton, inferior .....• - 6 3 -- mid,lling ..... - middling.... 3 . 3 10 „ - prime large - prime small ...... 3 8 310 Pork, lar ge ... ...... ...... 2 8 4 3 Veal ........ ...........".. 3 4 4 4 -man ...„•• IIOILOUGN HOP ItIAREZT. but . The supply of Hops on off e r i n thi s market jo t limited, yet the demand is in a sluggish state ! 6 ' for week's quotations. Holders generally are looking ward to higher rates. COLONIAL kJ i° SUGAR,—This has been a quiet week in Sugar an" h i. produce generally, and the Colonial markets close tio evening for the holidays, not re-opening until th e re , January. British Plantation has been in moderate I ' d quest at full prices, and the sales to last evening' n f" - e - s s s o isi ( e i a ls re to l,: ; so per hl c id en s. t. l A iig t he a r uc fi t i i r on mi l d o a o n h d lid g s oo n d if s b in t' d76 o , o d , to Is for low ; good yellow went at 62s 6d to 64s 6u , at 558 to 568 6d per cwt. BEFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been at 73a P er °Wt. withdrawn, INDIA.—Most of the Bengal put up bec 6 l but some Khaur at auction realised 42!ee0 to 43s for low heavy &Imp brown. Mauritius hal"„ 0 , b n r e o: l o e ni c , t a, e t d s , o b:t to 24 .s 9 os b 6 ag d s p :f r t e h wt ene . w crop sold at full PP — o d fine yellow at 665, good mid at 578 to 57s 6d, and g ° C } EE.—British Plantation has been dull, and casks, 119 brls, 21 b ags o ff ele d by auction were taken :j at 51s to 52s fo r fi ne or d grey Berbice. g w ° t., ord has be en so ld privately at 51s to 51s 6d Pere at but the demand at present is limited ; 1,4;6 b 3 g: t• auction nearly all sold, but is to 2s Per „-Icto lower, good ord pale 50s to 51s 6d, fine or s ° 9 i d 5:3s 6d, and a few lots Plantation sort 69s for d low" 111 ?, and 63s to 71s for pea berry. In Mocha 630 bales at cases were tak en i n at 75s for mid pale greenish ana 68s for mid y e ll ow i s h. Th ere have been only 173 bag Bahia sold by auct i on at 20 s 6d to 265 6d for sea as maged. at Cocoa.—British Plantation has been sold privately full quotations ; and at auction 81 bags Brazil wen t 35s for sound. Ilust.—Th l,ere has not b peen mucpper h do only Partlying. ld i s l SPICES.--680 bags Penang sa lid to 2d p er lb . S ome bl ac k has been take n in a X per lb. Pimento is quiet. at lis to 12s per cwt' , I f Zuticl fuller Ta l: e r s i v ; a ;low ttoheiraeidiswhaitgeood demand for BenP l TEA.—There is a steady market. Common sou ‘.! p C e ( r mi b ro . o 100 to Ild, and ord 'Twankay Is 3d toerlsevi4: TALLOW.—r. Y. C. firm at 40s 6d to 408 9d p on the spot. We are authorised to st ate that the statementwhich run over near the Andover-road staticn , on the South appeared in our paper , t hat two cows had been Western Railway, is without the slightest four o2'