The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

Now ready, at all the Libraries:, 1111 E COUNTESS of .BLESSLNGTON'S NEW NOVEL, • S£RATHERS; OR, LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD." A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. is my Iburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Immense Holiday Attraction. i; 4 EVENING, THURSDAY, Dec. 26,w11l be performed Balfe's • • '"pera, TIIE DAUGIITER OF ST. MARK. After which will be produced the Grand Christmas Ilarlequinade, Called FUCK'S PANTOM.LNIE ; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe. The principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes, tlsssrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss Carson. SCENE 1. An " Attic " Story. Author (in distress for many things, but principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ; Pack (Envoy from the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro vide the usual Christmas (tin for " Children all, both great and small," Miss A. Payne. How Puck gives new life to the author by giving life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pre mises, and introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances; how Me:sars. Puck and Author form themselves into a Committee of Taste, and decide in favour of Robinson Crissoe. SCENE 2. Coast of the island on which Crusoe was wrecked, with the ship high and dry, the ocean slumbering in the back ground, the crabs, &c, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr. W. H. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck ; his private opinion of the useful and the useless ; how he is astonished by an:unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de termines in hls turn to astonish them. SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the Caribees, having a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a passion with everybody else), Mr. T. Matthews; Ilankipaiiki (his club-bearer, an office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince Parramatta, after wards " Friday" (King Pariboo's young brother, and old rival, con temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ; Princess Tooraloora (intended by Pariboo for himself, but intending tenet( for his brother), Mr. Johnson. Ilow, preparations being made for a Caribe.e Pie-nic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley— how Pariboo and Hankipanki jump out of the flying-pan into the ;ire, i.e., the water. SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy (the celebrated Pacific Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, in hopes of his turning cut " a great catch"), Mr. Lon swallow. liow Pariboo and Rankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how Billy bolts them—how Crusoe and Friday go out fishing—how they have a" glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands its two insides—and how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with Bird's-eye View of Robinson Crusoe's Farm. How Crusoe and Co. give the Caribees the go-by— how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over Mountain," set oft in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost In fog, which will account for their not arriving earlier at SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.B. The premises may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box wftice, from ten till six. How Crusoe does the honours of his hut to • he great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his .nit lesson In " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the joilifica ton within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians from without ; in hort, how the appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of Use tut. and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young ,faterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge. SCENE 7. Exterior of Music Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs `tanafsetory ; Duet, In two flats, tune, " Here we go up, up, up, here e go down, down, down ;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladift , a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to ty on itself grand discord. ES 8 and 9. Curriers and Fancy Leather-dressers,and Throne re • n !.1 the Palace at Morocco; how to leather Morocco and how to leather; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another— a skin is better than a skin in holes. rINE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison; Remember the I,ebtors ; Knockers and bells versus thieves ; Somebody's coulluz ; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors ; the tables slid- „_ten;, , turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to SZ 11. Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes ; ' , ll of the Round Tub :” Soap at a premium ; Mangling done .trrival of " the trades of London, with their respective young :" The bell invites us ; Wives go to dinner ; Husbands go to bath; -,. water versus cold water cure ; The washing-tub in a storm, ,- .!eral contusion. i:N - E 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging-house ; c"ei: him who can," or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle- quia r arywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for IL, , ' tin;' Eight heads better than one; Patent self-lighting " The happy family we all know so well, " The still happier family we all love so well." \le, 13. A Stone Quarry ; A monster meeting, with a tail and I one ; How to convert a blockhead into a groat man ; Art nmerce lend their assistance to produce I..NE 14. A most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more (..,1:-Atkrdinary one, viz., N E 15. Grand emblematical and national tableau of her christening the Royal Exchange. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 9.6, Will he repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornara, Mr. florrni ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Mattison; <. atirina Lornaro, Slise hamtorth. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas flarlequirucle, call#d PUCK'S. PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND tiOBINSQN CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss Carson. The Box-orrice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six xi the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARLLT. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER WI/1 he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, Called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket air. Serickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe" s ; Torn Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Counteu of 1 ...idols, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthon Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Aenn e tt After which, a Grand IIIOVING DIORAMA ; or, PICTORIAL TOUR IN S WITZERLAND. To conclude with a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxonou,s Mr. J Bland ; Princess Graziesa, Miss Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea anti a-Half each tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.office, Irma Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENINS, DECEMBER .‘i6, Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama. entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Sonic 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 Fortescue ; Mrs. Chickenstallua, Mrs. Frank Matthews. To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Paul Bedford. and Mrs Fitzwilliam. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin. Mr. T. Ireland; Columtiine, Miss Lons dale ; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. SanAers. Prompter Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, Kr . Pitt; Leader of the hand. Mr. Mellon.—Box—odice open from Eleven till Four. Private 'tomes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STBEET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 26, WRI be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE 11' AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beansanoir, Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun. ; :Ilchard, Mr. Hiroo ; Renaud, Mr. Matiacks• 'von, Mr. oftier ; 'lermine, aldlle, Helen Conde ; Gertrude, Mrs.i Fosbroke. After which will he produced a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravag.insa, called JOE Ni I LLER AND HIS MEN. Otindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, M• • •ranby; Riber, Mr. Corri , Goiotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Al;,,.Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. nt , Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. lid. ; Boxes, 9..5. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, NI Privat,• Boxes. Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ,• Prosce. ':oxen, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Hall c, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. Rox-otfice, under the direction of Mr. W. Alassingham Pri. , 7 ate Roxes and l• ree AdmissioFis for the Season to be had at the Incare. IHEA;RE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. • HOUSE. Under the Management et Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 26, •re produced THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal ers by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, Matthews, • , Emery, Turner. and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. ‘Voollidge, • cove, and , Irs. Keeley. r• • onelude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic, .I';.ntooilmical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND trItSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; 1M,14,-ws, Wigan, Collier, gurney, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley, Mrs. Vt. lan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs R Doll' doe, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. h eeley. rr IC Eg OF A i ),vl 1,310 N.—Balcon y eoxes, 4i.; Upper Boxec , , :ls.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; foxes, is. ed.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Itileimy Tier ~tt;kli~;1 eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second 1",,r eight persons), One Guinea and a-HalL Private e 3 rtes (.1) the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea, rcej,ea-ottlce is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc r, o of Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Atraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet this Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTY. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hor,e and Life's Course of Man and Steed; mtroducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage .tnd In the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. .h.peom Rcces and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in tie Feats of Horse nranstitp. To conclude with a Grand Conic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, sr lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. C,olyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury. Acting and staga.manager, Mr. W. U. lsraadifaet. Box-ofticetopen from Eeves till Five. Lessons lithe Art ea Riding by Mr. R. Siaith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to alquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed arrangements to pre sent, during the Christmas Holidays, a S ries of EQUESTRIAN ORNING FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. ANCE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in the Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place en Monday, Dec. 31, Wednesday, Jam. 2, and Friday, Jan. 4. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENIN4, DECEMBER 26, Will be produced THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corn (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R. Honner, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. %V. Daly, and Miss Martin. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, ,HILIANGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN t.. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti; Columbine, Misa Slaiter. Places a.id Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box °B ice, hors Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 2E, will be performed an Interesting Drama, entitled POVERTY; or, A Tale of Sorrow. Squire Graham, Mr. Watkins; Frederick, Mr. T. H. Higgie; Leonard, Mr. Henry Howard ; Mary Graham, I:Mrs. N. Rignold Patty Parrot, Mis• E. Terrey. After which, THE ROAD-SIDE INN. Captain Rambleton, Mr. I'. IL Higgie; Tom, Mr. Herbert; Ellen, Mist E. Terrey. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ' • or, The Little Old Woraan and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Vite. THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, DEC. 26. trIIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 36 ; Noon, 34. BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, N.E. _NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and t‘lfi!.ehest" denote the lowest and highest state of On Thm,tometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All th e „Aber observations are made at noon. Water freezes at "3'2 ; s:‘ on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on I.4l:ometeTs "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and Rail)" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather to the meTeury falls below 30. MUM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. r:ornitig ... 31 minutes after 2 I Evening 7 minutes after f '' 4 ./ AN , .0 1 * rye' 4 . -4 : :. .`iii.;',. , .11M IL UViL VI. 2:: . . f.) ~ ~, 744 . :1011. N .7 .:• : :,.t.,:::- .. . A 77...-0 1 9-15 1 i?1 , i„, . . SECOND EDITION: ,~ ~` o •~ ~~~~ ~ l .~~ ~~ ,`~,. ~~ ~~~ ~~ LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1844. Few of our readers but must have heard of the name MARy GALLOP, who now lies under sentence of death in Cheater gaol for the murder of her own THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1844. father, by means of arsenic. The evidence adduced on the trial ()This wretched woman puts the question of her guilt beyond a doubt, and she has since made a confession, wherein she explains her motives for committing so dreadful a crime, and enters at some length into the particulars of the revolting transac tion. The following is a portion of her narrative, which we subjoin for reasons which the reader will presently understand :—" I heard my half-sister one day talking of a woman who had poisoned her husband with arsenic, which she had bought under the pretence of killing rats. The idea then first entered ray mind of poisoning my fa ther, and I thought I should be at liberty to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased. If I could have opened my mind to anybody, and had received a little good advice, I am sure I should not have committed the crime. I did not think I should be detected." The tone of cool deliberation—we might almost say of nonchalance—that pervades this statement—is truly extraordinary. The daughter, it seems, was instigated to the murder of her father from the mere simple cir cumstance of having one day heard an account of a woman who had poisoned her husband by arsenic ! She needed no further stimulus. The train was already laid, the match lighted, and it only required that it should be applied. But then she adds, if she could only have received a little good ad vice she would not have committed homicide ! What maudlin, self-deceiving cant is this ! How was it possible that she could have applied to any one for advice, as to whether or not it was expedient to murder the author of her being ? The very remark shows the cool indifference with which she regarded the crime of parricide. It was evidently in her esti mation an act to be consulted about, instead of an atrocity to be shrunk from at the very first whisper of the impelling fiend within her. We urge these points from no desire to excite public indigna tion still more strongly against the wretched criminal, but simply because we are anxious to expose the false morality—the hypocritical cant—the whining mock humanity of certain individuals who have decided on petitioning the QUEEN in favour of MARY GALLOP. Among these are to be found the Bishop of CHESTER, the Chancellor RAIKES, and a great body of the clergy and gentry. The reasons which these sentimentalists allege in justification of a commutation of punishment are some of them of the most unaccountable character it is possible to conceive. First, we are told that pre viously to the commission of parricide, the prisoner " had conducted herself as a teacher in a Wesleyan Methodist school with strict propriety." Now, to our thinking, the circumstance of MARY GALLOP having been a teacher of children aggravates rather than extenuates her guilt, for it proves that if she sinned it was not at any rate from brute ignorance, or from any unacquaintance with the rules of virtue and morality. Secondly, the petition states " that the dreadful crime which she confesses of causing the death of her father does n( S appear to have been long premeditated, but to have been accidentally suggested to her mind by a person in her company." Why, this circumstance, too, which the petitioners allege in her favour, tells most de cidedly against her. What sort of a mind must that have been which could have been urged to the com mission of the most awful of all crimes, from the mere casual small talk of a neighbour ? But the fourth reason stated by the petitioners is the most extraordinary—" That should the QUEEN'S mercy be extended to this miserable woman, she might prove of great use in being employed in teach ing young persons in one of the schools in any place to which she may be transported." Truly, the woman of mature age and decent education who could com mit parricide from no stronger motive than that— to quote her own words----" I should be at liberty to go where I pleased, and do as I pleased "—is admirably qualified for the sacred and responsible office of an instructress of childood ! With what earnestness and sincerity of heart must she impress on her young pupils the commandment which says, " Thou shalt do no murder." Children brought up at the feet of such a mistress cannot but turn out exem plary members of society ! But the whole affair is of so repulsive a character, that we have no wish to pursue it further. Enough, therefore, to state that the Bishop of CUESTBR, and all who have had a share in recommending MART GALLOP to mercy for the reasons we have just specified, have not evinced a healthy spirit of humanity, but, on the contrary, a maudlin, dangerous sensibility, that cannot be too severely reprobated. The division among the Catholic priesthood in Ire land on the subject of the Charitable Bequests Act appears to be a more serious one than we had at first anticipated. At a meeting of clergymen of that per suasion, which was held on Tuesday last at the Cathedral of Tuam, and at which Archbishop:WHALE presided, the following energetic—perhaps we ought rather to call it intemperate—resolution was passed, among several others of a:nearly similar character : " Resolved, thst on considering the hideous front of Pro testant ascendancy which this law exhibits to a Ca tholic ration boasting of its growing wealth and in telligence, we know not which is most calculated to excite our wonder—the insolence of the Ministry that proffered, or the degradation of those Catholics who court its adoption. And that the infatuation of both can only be accounted for by the sinister ascendancy exercised by those cringing creatures of which the history of every country as well as Ireland, alas ! at present furnishes instructive examples, dis tilling their political poison into every ear with which they come in contact—fit disciples of the school of CROMWELL, the minion of lIENar, and, like him, am bitious to rise to a bad eminence on the ruins of their religion." This is harsh language, but how is it justly applied to those who have given that support to the Charitable Bequests Act, and professed their readiness to assist in earrying its provisions into exe cution ? These individuals, some of whom are of high station and superior intelligence, cannot possibly have acted but from the most disinterested and con scientious motives; and there is not an Irish Catholic endowed with the slightest power of reflection, and whose judgment is not wholly perverted by his poli tical prejudices, but must at once acknowledge the common sense that has dictated their course of pro ceeding. The truth is, the Act in question is a wise—a salutary—a liberal measure—though, as Arch bishop MURRAY truly observed the other day, it is defective in some of its provisions—and being, there fore, likely to win the favourable suffrages of the more moderate and enlightened portion of the Catholics, it has been vehemently denounced by the Repeal party, in whose eyes a Step in the right direc tion on the part of Government is a step decidedly adverse to the question of the Repeal of the Union— is, in fact, another heavy blow aimed at its popularity. • In another resolution, which was passed at this Tuam meeting, it is stated that the policy pursued by certain mercenary intriguers—who these are we are not in formed—in striving to induce ecclesiastics to become members of the Board of Charitable Bequests, and thus corrupt the religion and crush the hopes of the Catholic people of Ireland, must utterly fail. There is a wilful perversion of the truth in this statement that cannot be too warmly denounced. In what way do those who support the Act in question tend to corrupt the religion, and crush the hopes of the Irish Catholics ? The Bequests ' Act is simply one to put the Catholic cha rities of Ireland on a secure, and, therefore, on a better footing, than they have been. How, then, is it a religious question, or what are the means by which it tends to corrupt the prevailing truths in the sister country ? The Archbishop of Tu.km and those of his clergy who adopt his view of the case, must have been hard pressed for valid objections to the act in question, when they resorted to such unmeaning abuse as this. Another resolution of a still more ob noxious character than that on which we have been commenting, was passed at the Tuam meeting. We quote the opening sentence of this resolution : That we would view with the utmost alarm any plan of education which, without reference to the distinction of creed or the restraints of religious dis cipline, would mix Catholics and sectarians together —a plan which could only originate in a spirit kin dred to that from which the Bequests Bill has ema nated." The intolerant spirit of this passage need not be pointed out, for it must be obvious to the most obtuse capacity. While such is the spirit that per vades a large portion of the Irish Catholics—though e do hope that the majority are more liberal and en lightened in their ideas—we fear that the period is yet distant to b when e education on a rational basis can be expected generally popular throughout Ire land. The Repeal agitators have much to answer for in their systematic and continuous opposition to every Government proposition that does not exactly accord with their own extreme views. The last accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst. The Chamber of Deputies had commenced the debate upon M. MON'S project of law for the conversion of the outstanding debts of the Government into Three per Cent. Stock. Several members spoke in opposi tion to M. MoN's plan, and M. Mom replied, after which the debate was adjourned. The Paris journals of Tuesday, in the absence of any stirring aspects to break the monotony of their political horizon, are unusually grave and didactic. The Debats, alone, devotes its columns to miscel laneous features of foreign news, such as that news is. On the subject of Turkish affairs, we find this para graph :—" The Morning Chronicle, for some days past, recurs with affectation to a pretended collision of influences, a rivalry of direction which is said to have recently developed itself at Constantinople be tween Sir STRATFORD CANNING and our Ambassador, immediately prior to the departure of the Baron DB BOURQUENET. The fact itself is as unfounded as the consequences which the Morning Chronicle de duces from it. France, equally with England, England equally with France, desire the triumph at Constantinople of those principles of mo deration which alone can guarantee the existence of the Ottoman Empire ; and the Ambassadors of both Powers have always laboured together in that mutual good understanding which is based as much upon the reciprocal esteem inspired for one another by their mutual characters, as on their perfect cognisance of the intentions of their respective Governments." The Times having lately announced, on this side of the water, that considerable activity prevailed in the dockyard at Deptford, struck a chord to which the National, as might have been anticipated, is not slow to respond. "At the end of this month," pro ceeds the National, quoting his authority, "a steam war-frigate, of the first class, and of 800 horse power, will be launched. Her measurement will be upwards of 1,800 tons. Another frigate, to be called the Odin, is being built in the same yard. Two war-steamer brigs, of which the Times publishes the names, are at the same time to be constructed at Deptford, and will contribute a new reinforcement to the British navy. Every time that the press reveals to us the efforts made by our neighbours to increase their naval force, we are compelled to deplore the inaction in which our dockyards, and our building yards for all classes of shipping, are suffered to re main. This inaction might have accomplished but little in 1840, but, since then, it has accomplished nothing at all. Admiral JOINVILLB might have truly said six months since, that France could not engage in a maritime war because we had not a fleet to supply our losses, even in a case of a viztory: He declared in print that our forces and those of England were too much disproportioned to risk a contest.' Nevertheless, this disproportion is suffered to increase every day. A moment will, however, come when England, already so insolent with respect to us, will forbid us to fish on our own coast, without our being permitted to offer the least remonstrance. Our Ministry, which sends our seamen to the other end of the world to seize all manner of islands and islets, in order that our flag and its best officers may be insulted there, appears to see with pleasure the British navy in creased with new ships, whilst our own dues not continue even stationary. Yet, notwithstanding all the deceptions that are practised upon us, we still hope that the Chamber will refuse to succumb, in this particular, to the anti-national action of our Ministry, and that it will, as in duty bound, take into its careful consideration these continual extensions of our neighbours' forces." On the frightful condition of Spain the National speaks out with much energy and eloquence : " The impudent correspondence which the Spanish Government addresses to the Paris journals, after it has passed under the eyes of the French Ambassador, at tempts to justify the reactors in the atrocities which they have committed. The only answer we shall give is a summary of the list published by El Clamor Public() of the ♦ictims who have been struck within the last twelve months. This journal has taken only the public documents, and, quoting the Madrid Ga zette, enumerates the persons who have been put to death by this obdurate Government. The total amounts to 214. All have been shot without trial, except about a dozen. Their identity once estab lished, all have been mercilessly murdered; and that in virtue of no other authority than a royal order. Two hundred and fourteen Spaniards killed in one year for political acts! Such is the exaggerated energy assumed by this moderate Government with which M. Guizot avows his sympathy. Add to these all those who have fled is order to escape vengeance—add the persons proscribed, the men imprisoned or put under arrest, and an idea may be formed of the boasted moderation of these reactors, who have Narvaez for their chief, and De Meer, Breton, Roncali, Villalonga, and the rest for their instruments. They have not been satisfiad with killing men—they have sue ceeded in destroying the institutions. What they have done with the Constitution of 1837 is known; and it is also known that they have left no remains of those gua rantees for the liberty which the Spaniards hoped they had won and secured at the price of their blood. The ancient municipalities have become no more than a vain and empty name; the provincial deputations are made subordinate to the caprices of military authority; the Cortes represent no more than the sentiments of the Government which has nominated them; the freedom of the press is deprived of the trial by jury ; the execu tive power being invested with the right of putting its own construction upon all the organic laws, the monarchy is dispensed in future with annually convoking the Cortes ; the sale of the national property is suspended, and those who have already become purchaser 4, are threatened with being deprived of what they have bought ; all rights are thrown to the ground, and trampled upon—all interests are given up to the mercy of military despotism, without control, without the slightest check." The National thus continues : " Such have been the disorders which Spain has ex perienced in her political sytsem ! But the disorders she has sustained in her financial system have been, if possible, still greater. The public treasury has lite rally been given up to plunder. Since TORTINO'S Government, its dilapidation has never been more scan dalous. By two mere decrees, the Spanish Ministry of Finance has created national liabilities to the enor mous amount of 750,000,000 rials. All the resources of the State have been alienated. All offices sold by auction, as it were ; all public transactions and busi ness concluded to the detriment of Government, on payment of certain moneys to the Government func tionaries; and, by means such as these, immense for. tunes, shamefully realised, are paraded, from night till morn, without a blush before the public eye. NAR VAEZ, who entered Spain with no possessions beyond his sword and his cloak, has thus amassed a fortune of two millions in a few months. Every individual who is connected with this venal power trafficks in every kind, and acquires his share of the booty. Cor ruption ascends and descends through every stage. daring, unrestrained, insolent, unblushing. The Go vernment is its spoil. The ~S'iecle says : " The announcement of the ominous project of M. Lacave Laplagne with regard to the Savings' Banks is already bearing its fruits. Less money is deposited, and more is drawn out, showing the mistrust excited by the proposed measure of the Government. The Savings' Bank of Paris received on Sunday and yesterday, from 3,903 depositors, of whom 449 were new, the sum of 580,189 f., but the amount taken out was much higher, being 893,000 f. The results have been similar for se veral weeks past, and they aro evidently becoming more and more intense." The Bill confirming the commercial treaty con cluded by the Belgian Government with the Zoll v erein co n ti nues t o b e an engross i ng su bj ec t o f interest in Paris. It appears to have been passed by the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, and is thus noticed by La Presse : " Many persons have bee n as t on i s h e d to see t h at seven voices only declared them se l ves oppose d to a treaty on account of which the Ministry was kept in check during ten long days. M. Devaux, one of the most determined adversaries of that treaty, had previously ex pl a i ne d t hi s anomaly by declaring, that if the treaty was again to be made, the Opposition would prevent the Ministry f rom concluding it ; but that, having been signed and ratified by the King, it imperatively demanded the legislative sanction, and that the Chambers could not refuse that sanction without causing the most deplorable perturba tion in the relation of the country with foreign coun tries. A number of Deputies yielded to that considera tion, and thence the result of the division." Street robbery and murderous midnignt assaults seem to prevail in Paris with frightful impunity. The somewhat tardy vigilance of the police and the superior authorities, appears to be at length aroused to the serious increase of these crimes. Misery among the poorer classes, too, has attained an appal ling pitch. " The transactions at the savings' banks of Paris on Sunday and Monday last (writes a correspondent of the Times) indicated a considerable falling off. The sums withdrawn exceeded the deposits by upwards of 400,000 francs. Referring to this fact, the Siecle observes, that the announcement of the unfortunate resolve of M. Lacave Laplagne to deal with the deposits in the savings' banks is producing its fruit. There is less money de posited and more withdrawn.' The Moniteur states that the investments in the savings' banks of Paris, on the 22d and 23d inst., amounted to 550,189 francs, and the reimbursements to 893,000 f." " The terror inspired by the audacity of the hordes of robbers and murderers assembled in the metropolis has, it seems, awakened the attention of government to the defenceless condition of the inhabitants, and occa sioned a display of activity and a means of repression calculated to check those miscreants in their career. The Opposition journals • despair,' however, of any perma nent amelioration so long as the entire military and police forces of the capital and its vicinity are solely oc cupied with the preservation of the King.'" The Three per Cents. closed at 85f. 50c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 75c.; the Five per Cents., at 120 f. 65c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,129. f. 50e. ; Rouen, 1,045 f.; Havre, 812 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38i; Passives, 6f. The Revue de Paris states, that there was no truth in the report that A/1D -EL-KADER had re-appeared on the frontiers of Morocco. The approaching meetng of the Chambers was looked forward to, in Paris, with very considerable interest, but it does not seem necessary to transcribe the conjectures hazarded there about the probable contents of the Royal Speech. THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, DEC. 24. First Highest Leweet Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Frenth Flys per Cents.. •• •• 120 20 .. 120 40 .. 120 10 .. 120 40 Four-and-a-Half •• 113 .. 1 1 3 113 113 Three per Cents •• 85 40 .. 85 50 .. 85 35 .. 85 50 Bank of France ••3275 ••3275 —1275 ..3270 La.ffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1115 ..1110 ..1115 5,000 f. SharesboBs —BO9B —5085 ..5090 Belgian Bank.... ..... 620 .. 620 .. 615 .. 620 Belgian Fives,lB4o .• • • 1041 1 04 + 1041 .. 1041 1842 •••• • • • • 1061 • • 1061 .. 1061 106: Apanish Threes.. •• Passive .••••••• •• •• 61 .. .. 61 .. 61 rortngueso Five per Cents • • 581 • 681 581 581 Neapolitaut •••••••• • • • • • •• 5 5 95 .. .. 95 Malan • • ... 1041 .. 1041 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain' ..... —.lOlO ••1010 ..1010 Versa'lleg,lt.B. • L.B.•••••• ••.• •• 390 .. 390 370 Rouen •• •• •• •• •• •••• ••••8 ) 3 5 .. • 1045 ..Ic3i Rouen to HATTe • Orleans . • • .... • • • • • • • • .... 1125 1520 .. Sl5 ..1126 25 ..1120 ..1010 .. 495 .. 385 ..1045 .. Sl5 ..1125 Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •• .. 306 25 .. 308 75 .306 25 .. 308 75 kvignou to Marseilles•..... 920 .. 925 .. 920 .. 925 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. 3. it. Germain Versailles, MB.. L.B 4OO .. 420 .. 385 .. 400 Rouen •• • . • ........ 1047 50 ..1050 ..1030 ..1045 Rouen tolliavre•• ••••• 820 .. 825 .. 805 .. 805 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e..••...... 310 .. 310 .. 300 .. 307 50 Avignon to Marseilles•..... 923 925 . 917 53 .. 517 50 THIS DAY'S NEWS IIONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S my, QUARTER TO THREE. Yesterday having bees a close holiday at Liverpool as well as here, there was nothing done in the Cotton or Share markets. There are advices a few days later from the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and accounts also to Oct. 23, from Rio de Janeiro. At the Cape nearly all the in terest of local affairs is confined to the events on the frontier, and at Natal, where matters seemed to be tolerably quiet, the Governor, after his personal visits, having established regular posts, so as to ensure a com munication direct between himself and the authorities in Kafirland, and appearing at the same time resolved to exact compliance with existing treaties. The improvements going on in the colony afford very de cided evidence of the enterprise and intelligence of the settlers, and the improvement of the navigation of the Kowie river was a point taken up with much zeal. The Governor had offered a reward of 2001. for the appre hension of the natives, about three or four in number, who murdered Do Lange, the Dutch farmer. Throughout his progress the colonists gave Sir Peregrine a very excellent reception ; and this was the more gratifying, as the thinly scat tered population can support none of the usual establish ments of" the old country," for the accommodation even of the poorest travellers, and private hospitality is the necessary substitute. . _ The kauritius and Rio papers contain nothing of ge , neral interest. The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders are persevering in their endeavour to bring M. Mesquera to book, by obtaining from him a statement of the amount remitted for the New Granada Bondholders, and there h are hopes, as Lord Aberdeen has interfered, that the attempt will eventually be successful. The Public Securities have been ♦ery quiet to-day, but they are firm, Consols having reached 1004 f. Ex chequer Bills have given way a trifle, being 665. to 635. premium. Bank Stock has risen to 210 and 2101. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1031 to 104 and the Three per Cents. 1001 to 100 i. The Foreign market has been buoyant again, although there is not so much doing. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 27i to 28, and the Three per Cents. 38i to t. Portuguese Converted Stock has been marked 601 to for Money, being an advance again. Peruvian Stock is 291 to 30. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are ; and Belgian Four-and-a-half per Cents., 1024. Russian Bonds are 120. There is rather an active market again for railway shares, but prices are fluctuating, as the account day is approaching. The quotations below given will show that some lines have improved, while others have gone back a trifle. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looili New 4 per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2k Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. lid, lid. 1,0001. 53 p p m: Ditto FOREIGN m 64 63 pm. 500/. Ditto Small 66 THIS -- ...... _ __.. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bond s 6 per C ent. 40k Advertised FuNDs Danish, 3 per Cent ... B9 Prussian Bonds, 4 • _.... , fonds, 4 per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted ... .. ...... Ditto for the Account 604 Russian Wilds .......... 120 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 274 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds 64 Ditto 3 per Cent 384 Ditto for the Account 38144 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... PRICES. OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Gloucester....... 30 39 ...... to Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 15 Chester and Holyhoad ......... 5 Churnet Valley Dublin and Galway ..... .. ..... 24 ...... 24 Eastern Counties ............... 25 Eastern Union ............ ... 10 Great South andW. (Irish)... 5 Great Western .................. 75 1504 Ditto, Half 5hare5......... 50 London and I3irminghara _pop 2274 to London and Brighton.... ..... 50 London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 94 London and South Western.. 414 ...... 754 76 to 754 London and Croydon London and Y0rk....... Manchester and Leed5......... 70 l2l Ditto 4 Shares Midland lOO 1134 Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 624 North British North Kent - Norwich and Brandon Ditto, New... South-Eastern and Dover... 335 Ditto New Trent Valley. York and North Midland... 50 ...... Ditto, Extension — Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux...... 9 Paris and Lyons - Paris and Orleans 2O ...... 43114 .. to Paris and Rouen. Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14... l2i ,13... to 125 MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) MALT DIANNSTS. SMITHFIELD.—Course Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ 16s ; Useful ditto, 4/ 17s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 1116 s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 163 to 11 18s per load. An average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4118 s; Useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 8s to 61 128 ; Clover Hay, 41 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 143 to 11 16s; Wheat Straw, 1116 s to 11 18s per load. Trade throughout dull, at the above quotations. WILITECRAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3116 s to 41155; Useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4110. to 61 4s; Oat Straw, 1/ 13s to 1/ 15s; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18* per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN. For the Week ended Dee 21, 1844, made up from the Returns of tke In pcctor, in the different Cities and Tewm is England and Wales, rer Imperial Quarter. Vb , hest 450 3d I Oats ..... 2ls I Beans 5 5s Ild Sado) , ..... 34s 2d Rye ...... 32s Od I Fes" ..... "' 35s 44 AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending WiaIiAT..II.IILELI DATIL I RYE. 1 BEANS. I ?EAU. 35 9 V as 2 35 1 34 9 34 5 34 2 - Nov. 16 '46 4 21 9 34 13 38 4 . 35 7 tM 45 13 21 8 1..0 2 38 6 36 2 SO 45 4 21 8 32 9 38 0 35 11 Dec. 7.. » 45 2 21 10 31 1 ; !37 5 36 4 14 ..... 21 .3 i 21 10 32 0; 25 11 35 4 IMPERIAL •OGREGATE AVERAGES Or THE SIX WEIRS Whriat......... 451 64.1. f Oats ......... 21s. 9:1.1 8ean5.........314 61 Marley.... ..... 341 111.1 Rye ......... 925. Id. Peate.........35a. 114. DITTIES ON FOREIGN coital. Wheat •••••••••20a. 0,1. Oats ..... Barley .. 10. 6d.l i Pease ........ 7 4 6• MISS CLALa SETTON.—We have just seen an ad mirable portrait of this very talented artiste, which is published by M`Lean, of the Haymarket. It is one of the happiest efforts of Vbroolnoth, the great dramatic por trait itpainter. The likeness is admirable, and what is better still the characteristic expression is completely preserved. It is not a mere expressionless fac-simile of the features. It is in every sense of the term , a highly intellectual portrait. LLOYD'S SHIPPING -(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEc. 26.—Wind N.E., light. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Concord, Oporto for London. Off, Anna Robertson, Munro, Ma dras, left Sept. 3, Cape of Good Hope Oct. 25 ; Queen of the Ocean, London for ; Portley, Reed, 'Mauri tius, sailed Sept. 30 ; Bland, Callan, Calcutta and Cape, left Cape of Good Hope Oct. 23. FALMOUTH, DEC. 25.—W hid S.E.—Arrd. Lady Clarke, Lawrence, from Calcutta, left July 25, Cape of Good Hope Oct. 26 ; Constantia, from New Orleans in 40 days. Ski. Universe, London ; Great Britain, Economy, and Galina, ; Mermaid, Hope, Liverpool and Co romandel. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Off, Flora, Levegne, London, and sailed for Jamaica ; Vic toria, London, and sailed for New York ; Jamaica, Lon don, and sailed for Antigua. Sld. Avon steamer, Southampton, after repairing. PENZANCE.—Off, Repulse, Margins, Calcutta, left Oct. 19, Cape of Good Hope Nov. 2. BRIXIIAM.—Off port, Vigilant, Steel, Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 25. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.— Arrd. Reis Effendi, Sutherland, Nassau ; Speedy, St. Michael's ; Dido, Alexandria ; William Rathbone, Africa. 25. Wind S.S.E., light.—Sld. Harkaway, Nicholson, Philadelphia; The Duke, Manger, New Or leans ; Duncan, Henderson„Mobile ; Roger Sherman, Boston ; Victoria, White, Ichaboe. 25. Arrd. Burley, Frazer, Rio de la Hague ; Nathaniel Hooper, Churchill, Charleston ; Roscious, Eldridge, New York ; Vesper, Dalhousie ; Slater Rebaw, Furze, St. Michael's ; Prince Royal, Calcutta ; Swordfish, Green, Miramichi. Sld. the Whitney, Savannah. 24. Sailed Wallace, Main, Mobile ; Independence, Allen, New York ; Scio, Beyrout ; Essex, Rice, Azores. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty's steamer Cor morant, with Mr. Pitt Adams, the British Minister, on board, arrived at Arica on the 2d of September from Islay, and, not being allowed to water, fired shot and shell upon the town; after which, permission was con ceded. TORBAY, DEC. 24.—Off port, Vigilant, Holt, Cape of Good Hope; King William the Fourth, Tjilatzop. SALCOMBE, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Albatross, Dania. GUERNSEY, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Isabella, Rio Janeiro. JERSEY, DEC. 23.—Arrd. Ocean, Newfoundland. BRISTDL, DEC. 24,—Arrd. Pannelia, bavannah. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 25.—Arrd. Jupiter, Montreal. SWANSEA, DEC. 22.—Sid. Arrieta, Ellis, Cuba. SHIELDS, DEC. 23.—The Brancepeth Castle, has put back leaky, and must discharge. HoLTHEAD, DEc. 23.—The Nicholas, Bavin, was got off this evening, and brought into the harbour. BLYTH, DEC. 23.—Several ships spars, marked "Eric," two logs of wainscot, and a box, containing hams, &c., has come ashore near here. DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind E.S.E., steady breeze.— Arrd. Amelia, Mulholland, Mauritius ; Centurion, Africa ; Brokesby, Thompson, Manila ; Catherine and Elizabeth, St Vincent's; John Willis, Demerara. Sld. Flora, Jamaica; Ann, Calcutta; Penyard, Park, Hobart Town ; Lord Wellington, New Orleans ; Anna Maria, Hobart Tow❑ ; Passenger, Cluna, and Victoria, New York; Britigh Isles, Demerara; Arachne, Ichaboe. The French brig Modeste, Gauley, from Bordeaux, got entangled in the Goodwin Sands, but extricated her self without assistance and proceeded. MILFORD, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Millicent, Richards, Prince Edward's Island. WIVENHOE, DEC. 25.—The barque James Barley, of Scarborough, Doveday, from London to Hartlepool, has been assisted is here by four smacks from off the G fleet Sands. • TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS ABOLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TWO SICILIES. PALERMO, DEC. 5, 1844. Sir,—We 'have the pleasure to inform you that, in consequence of a royal decree lately published, all quarantines from England, Gibraltar, and Spain, are abolished in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, conse quently all vessels arriving from said countries are now admitted to free pratique on arrival.—We are, Sir, your most obedient, humble servants, LLOYD'S AGENTS. To William Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Ann Davis, a respectable-looking married woman was brought up charged with stealing fifteen yards of Orleans cloth from a linendraper's shop in the Westminster-road. It appeared that on Tuesday morning information was given at the shop of Mr. ttoutledge, linendraper, of the Westminster-road, that a female was observed to take a piece of Orleans cloth and walk away with it. The shopman immediately went down Mason-street and came up with the prisoner walking hastily away, and having stopped her, and charged her with shop lifting, she denied it, and at the same time ex pressed her determination to give him into custody if ho persisted in making such an accusation against respectable married woman. The shoptnaa, however, not intimidated by such a threat, forthwith called a policeman, and gave her in charge. When she was taken back to the shop she dropped a piece of Orleans cloth, containing fifteen yards, and in her defence before the magistrate, she declared she had picked up the article iu the street as she was walking along. Her friends, she added, were not aware of her present situa tion.—She was ramauded until Saturday. John Burgess. a well-dressed young fellow, was charged with attempting to enter the house of a Mr. Boughton, in China -walk, Lambeth. On the preceding night the complainant's family being absent from home, while the servant was sitting in the parlour she heard a man at the street door. She opened it, and discerned the prisoner in the act of get ting into the house, the street door of which he opened with a skeleton key, which was found in the lock. There was another man with him, and they both ran away, but the servant called " Stop thief," and the pri sooer was secured. The prisoner, who made a frivolous excuse, was corn mitted for a month. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A sickly-looking Lean, named Day, was charged with tossing halfpence. Police-constable Pascal, N 141, proved the offence. The prisoner had 3s. 6d. on him. It was yes terday evening. The prisoner acknowledged at the sta tion-house that he had been tossing during the greater part of the day, and won 3s. 6d by it. The inhabitants complained of the tossing as a nuisance. The place in which he was tossing is a thoroughfare. _ The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said he worked fur a brickmaker, and named the employers with whom he worked last week. Mr. COMBE—Has he been in custody before ? Sergeant Allen was not aware that he had. The prisoner said he had never been locked up before. Mr. COMBE sentenced him to pay a fine of 10s., or ten days' impri3onment. He was locked up, not having the money. A/MAN.—WRECKS. -On Wednesday night the schooner Elizabeth Randal, William Thomson, master, went ashore at Lergytnenoch, near Pladda Lighthouse. She left Ayr that day, and was bound to Belfast. She belongs to Belfast, is full of eoals, but it is supposed will go to pieces, as she is upon a rocky part of the shore. The men were saved. We have a clear harbour to-day. The vessels sailed hence yesterday morning (Sunday) after a stay, some of them for a month. The wind has prevailed from south to south-east this month, and it was very difficult for vessels to get out to the offing. It is to the east to-day (Monday)—fine dry weather.—Ayr Observer. THE HERRING FlSHERY.—While'we congratulate our fishing friends on the success which many of them have experienced, we cannot look forward to the future without feeling considerable alarm. The home voyage has just terminated, and the catch has exceeded that of any previous year for a very considerable period. The boats have averaged twenty-one lasts each, and some reached forty lasts. Mr. Samuel George has two boats, which have made up 99 lasts ; one of them, the Saucy Polly, having brought in, in one voyage, the enormous quantity of 151 lasts, or 201,300 herrings. This success would have b, en truly encouragin g t o our l a b our i ng population, where it not that they have been recently deprived of what afforded them a valuable addition to the precarious earnings of the fishery. For many years, even centuries, the town has provided a suf ficient supply of hat (the term here used for netting previous to being made into nets), and norsels (pieces of twine of a peculiar make, for use on board the boats) for all the boats sailing from this port. These have been hitherto manufactured by the women and girls of this town, who have thereby been enabled to obtain an honest though humble subsistence. Of late large quantities of these articles have been brought hither from 13ridport, which has almost annihilated the trade here, though we cannot l earn t h at t h e fi s h owners are much benefited by the change; but that change has greatly aggravated thelconditioe of the working classes here, and hundreds who formerly obtained their livelihood by twine spinning, braiding, and making norsels, are without employment, and many totally destitute. The cost of manufacturing the raw material is about 601. or 701. a ton, so that the loss of this one branch of our trade withdraws about 1,000/. a year from the most necessitous families in the port. We are glad to learn that one large shipowner positively refuses to use any other than Yarmouth manufactured net—an example we commend to his brother shipowners. We cannot contemplate, without alarm, the prospect of the poor for the coming winter. The number of boats from Yarmouth, engaged in the fishery, is about 160. Norfolk Chronicle. fHE WEATHER AND CURLING.-011 Wednesday last, we had a considerable fall of rain ; and, the pros pects of the curler seemed fairly blighted for a period. The wind, however, to the surprise of every one, still kept a hold of the north-east, and by Thursday the frost was as keen as ever. The dams and ponds had never been entirely thawed ; and a few hours' congellation served to put them in admirable condition for the " channel-stane." The dam here has been crowded ever since with curlers, skater; and sliders. Satur day and yesterday the turn-out was especially large. A groat many ladies were among the promenaders, whose presence vastly enhanced the interest of the scene. As our columns testify, numerous matches have been played, both " here and far awa' ;" and many more are on the tapir, in expectation of the frost con tinuing. Amongst others, we hear that the Junior Club of Kilaiarnock, with the Earl of Eglinton at their head, are to enter the lists against our Ayr Club, who, it is to be expected, will be led on by Sir James Boswell, Bart. The prize is the gold medal presented by the Caledonian Club, and the contest takes place, we under stand, on Fail Loch i on Thursday first. May the best players win.—Ayr Observer, We und,2rstand that Miss Kelly opens her theatre early in January, for the purpose - of introducing to the public a young lady of whom report speaks in the highest term, SUMMARY OF NEWS A 1 - 1) ttbitr 12:-Yptritebiz Who runs may read." a ~ rruZdr~a . The French papers of Tuesday last continue to be barren of intelligence, either domestic or foreign, that is calculated to excite much solicitude or interest in London. They are not without some important notices, however, in the shape of references to passing events, which we have elsewhere transferred into our columns. The condition of Spain, and we fear we must add, the palpable intrigues of France in encou raging the lawless cabals that have led to it, draw down a most indignant and impressive reproof from the National, to which not all the madness of party spirit, and the intense hatred of England that disfigure the lucubrations of that impassioned but able journal, can withhold us from paying the tri bute of our respect. We concur with the writer in his fierce denunciation of that execrable soldier tyranny—unqualified in its harshness, implacable in its vengeance, reckless and unblushing in its means, and its instruments—which now tramples in the vilest dust of scandalous serfdom the once free and mighty Spanish nation. The domestic misery"; the official corruption ; the judicial venality ; the shameless avarice ; the unbridled ambition ; the lawless and sanguinary oppression which pa ralyse her energies, demolish her institutions, consume her resources, and hand her over bound hand and foot to the relentless intrigues of an infamous Court and a contemptible adventurer; are among the most hideous pictures that have yet been presented to the world by the most demoralised and the least responsible of Governments. When we recur to the brief but encouraging prospects which the temperate and constitutional conduct of Espartero held out to afflicted Spain, and to her peaceful relations with the other European powers, we are lost in astonishment at the duplicity which can have elevated, and the shameful cowardice which endures the domination of such a mere Prw torian guardsman as Narvaez. We do not trust our selves to express the feelings of humiliation with which we recur to the ill-considered. prompt, and overwhelming readiness with which our own Ministers, the servants of a Constitutional Sovereign, and a free and freedom-loving people—came forward to record their recognition of that defacto usurpation which had, by a scheme of unexampled treachery and bribery, overthrown the most legitimate of conven tional Governments which a great people could have installed into the temporary administration of mo narchical power. The downfal and abandonment of Espartero the rise of Narvaez—and, still more, the impromptu acknowledgment of his power and functions by England, are chapters that future history may expound ; but as to which, contempo rary authority is at present strangely uninformed. 00tritT -FASIECZOIir.&ZiAt*. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, remove to Cambridge house, from the cottage at Kew, at the close of the ensuing week. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Mar quis of Worcester, who were called to town by the unexpected demise of Lady Anne Culling Smith, left Beaufort House on Tuesday, on their return to Bad minton. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertain ing a large party at Sulby Hall, the Noble Duke's hunting seat in Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have a select circle visiting at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are en tertaining a family circle at Barons Court, Tyrone, including Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, Lady Henry Russell, Hon. and Rev. C. Douglas, &c. Earl and Countess De Grey are entertaining Earl and Countess Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, and a small party, at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle are entertain ing a family circle at Quiddenham Hall, and are not expected in Berkeley-square until the end of the en suing month. _ _ The Earl of Harrowby, and Viscount and Lady ,Francis Sandon, &c., are at Sandon Hall, Stafford shire. Earl Fitzwilliam has a large family party at Mil ton Park, near Peterborough ; Viscount and Vis countess Milton, the lion. George Wentworth Fitz william, Mr. and Lady Mary Thompson, &c., are staying at the mansion. 3:11 S G MIL I. A Zif iiii 0 UV. On Tuesday night information was received at the various metropolitan police stations of an extensive robbery of plate and jewellery having taken place at the house of Mr. Muddell, No. 6, Little St. Thomas Apostle,Queen-street, Cheapside, the house having been broken into during the absence of the family on the night of the 13th inst. A reward of 301. is offered for the apprehension of the thieves. On Tuesday afternoon a young woman of respec table appearance, attempted suicide by throwing her self ofiliankside into the Thames, and as the tide was high at the time, and no boats in sight, she would in evitably have succeeded in her rash design, but for the prompt and praiseworthy intrepidity of a coalheaver, named Stephens, who plunged in and succeeded in grasping her by the hair as she was about to sink. A boat having by this time come to their assistance, they were taken up and brought ashore. The dispute between the colliers and their em ployers is the Ashton-under-Lyne districts has been amicably arranged, the men having received an ad vance upon their wage s o f t wo p ence i n the shilling. Coals have been raised in price one halfpenny per cwt., which is thought by the manufacturers to be most exorbitant. Mr. Templeton is giving a series of musical enter tainments in Dublin, from the songs of Burns, and other Scotch poets, and has been cordially and en thusiastically received. For several days past a considerable number of vessels, which have been windbound in the Thames for upwards of a fortnight, have returned to the harfs and tiers, in order to get a fresh supply of provisions, the stores which they had at sailing having been wholly exhausted. The long continuance of easterly winds has entailed considerable additional expense on shipping. A pension of 6001. a year falis into the Civil List by the death of Lady Ann Culling Smith, sister of the Duke of Wellington. NEW YEAR'S-DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE TUILERIES.—A singular, and, perhaps, unprecedented event, will take place on New Year's-day. The, royal table at the Tuileries, and the royal table at Windsor Castle will both be supplied with portions of the same prize ox, the first of the class at the late cattle show. Mr. Minton, purveyor to her Majesty, having become the purchaser, politely offered, through the French em bassy, to present his Majesty Louis Philippe with a sirloin, a rump, and an aitch-bone, for his festival on New Year's-day. The offer was graciously accepted, and the immense joint, or rather combination of joints, for it is in one piece, weighing 44 stone, or upwards of 3501b5., will leave London on Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet for Boulogne, where it will be received by Mr. Minton's agent, who will transmit it by express to Paris, so as to reach the Tuileries early on Monday morning. REMARKABLE OPERATION FOR THE CURE OP CONSUMPTION.—The Medical Gazette contains a long article from the pens of Dr. Hastings and Mr. Robert Storks, surgeon, descriptive of a remarkable operation for the cure of consumption, by the perforation of the cavity of the lung through the walls of the chest. It consists in making an opening between the ribs iato the cavity which forms in the lung during the latter stages of consumption. The immediate effects of the operation (which requires only a few seconds for its performance, and which causes but slight pain) in the case in question was the diminution of the frequency of the patient's pulse, which fell in 24 hours from 120 to 68 ; freedom of respiration which had been a very distressing symp tom ; loss of cough and expectoration, both of which had been very severe. 'This operation, which has established the possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, ap pears to have been completely successful ; the report of the condition of the patient a month after its perform ance being, that he was rapidly regaining his flesh and strength, whilst his respiration had become natural, his pulse had fallen to 80, and his cough and expectoration had. wholly ceased. In the article in the Medical Gazette the symptoms of the patient before and after the.opera tion are all narrated at length by Dr. Hastings. The opera tion is described by Mr. Storks, by whom it was performed. We have heard that this operation was tried many years ago but with littlesuccess; the invaluable assistance to be derived from the stethoscope in affections of the lungs being at that time wholly unknown to its originator. It is not surprising, therefore, that it should have fallen into disuse when the surgeon had nothing to guide him to the seat of the disease but pain and increase of temperature. TilE HON. G. H. HUTCHINSON.—At the meeting of the electors of Tipperary, held at Cashel, on Thurs day, the Hon. George Holy Hutchinson was unani mously named as a candidate by the Repealers of that county to represent them in the Imperial Parliament. Mr. Hutchinson, our readers Are aware, is at present on the Continent, and this selection, therefore, must be especially grateful to his feelings as being made in his absence—Cork Examiner. \VAKEFIELD.—A meeting of the friends of free trade was held in the Music Saloon, on Tuesday evening last, to concert measures for putting on the country re gister as many free trade voters as possible. J. blicki- e. thwaite, Esq., occupied the chair, and the v.,:ceting, was addressed by R. Cobden, scl.• Bright, E sq M.P., and ether gentlemen ; lifter wbien resolution.; were passed in furtherance of the Above object —Halifax Guardian. INQXNWltiv i ii AT WESTOE.—On Thursday morn ing hot, abaut half-past two o'clock, a fire was discoveied burning in an onstead of Mr. Tony Waller's at Westor. ii , fore it could by got under, about twenty tons of hay and a quantity of potatoes were destroyed. From ap pearance the fire must have b een caused by an incen diary,—Tyne .ffercury. FLANDERS MAIL• (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ie s BRUSSELS, DEc. 23.—We learn from Videncie n : t o that the masters of iron works in that arrondisqu',,t have just had a meeting, and have determined thd they cannot sustain the competition with the inaster s ibe iron works in th e cen t re an d sou th o f France in ev present state of the ma nu f ac t ure . I n consequence ,` have resolved to apply to the Government, an , Lie , solicit, if not the entir e su pp ress i on , at least a r e ' tion of the import duti es on B e l g i an c oals and iN a : e , The Senate is still sittin g . Y es t er day, after the p,','B sentation of several reports, th e ge neral debate on ttbi project of law relative to the duties on corn was to order of the day, when the President stated that the Minister of the Interior had signified a wish t hat 03 , debate might be with closed doors (in secret he mittee). Some: objections w e r e ; made, but in t he o l the secret committee was unanimously agreed t °, the galleries were cleared. which SMYRNA, Nov. 29.—The fatal measures w hi suddenly abolished the quarantine for articles cogl:a from Syria begins to bear its fruit. It is affir hiP that the plague has broken out on board theiti which arrived yesterd a y f rom B e yr o ut. do. Mehemet Ali abolished the quarantine in his minions ; on the r emons t rances of the Consuls' sn i thorities at Alexandria, he hastened to restore it , well knowing how little the Turks could be to pended on, he gave the supreme direction of it t: b3 4 repreientativ e s o f th e f ore i gn p owers . Wou ld ',Of Medschid act l e s s w i se ly if h e f o ll owe d this ex a— ' t hs and does not Smyrna deserve as much care,,,, j King of the empi re w ith a popu l a ti on o f 15,vv",,f. habitants, and which is the resort of so manY irien war ? t he The Roman Catholic Bishop of Chios, wlw it ti l bss Turks and Greeks had expelled from the Man found a protect o r i n Viscount Segure, the Consul-General here. Thanks to the firs o l , si ts iot 3 influence which this distingui s h e d officer has ° " t hirii in a country where hi s co ll eagues h ave lost he has succeeded in obtaining a firman for the i u :Cert and leave to return to the i s l an d on b o ard 1 0 e 0 brig. The sight of the g u n s o f thi s ma n-n" silenced the refractory inhabitants. ottss t The real state of Syria ma k es a f r i g htful e ty - h with what the Governm en t p u bli s h es thrn%c og organs. According t o th e unan i mous tesO a tto , ° 4oa s travellers, that province is a p rey t o th e mo st $",., tsl' e robberies. Scarcely an y commun i cat i on C a- o ther' place even between places near each wor t ', except with the aid o f a s t r ong a tP e , which is not furni s h e d b y the police A l a iita' Government (these w o u ld immediately take noir the slightest app earance o f d anger ) , but h,Y, t `;;,, drives (?) of th e coun t r y. Th e Bedouins, le" Gosh, infest the high roads, and no attelbere hitherto been made against these banditti.e iron are the times when, under th e p ro t ec ti o n of , c ola yoke of Mehemet Ali, pilgrims and travellersllo 0 traverse this province alone a n d unm olested , wit )) now only weakness is striving for the inaat er • T the most horrible disorder ? From a letter from Alexandria, received 'c o pica we see that an En g li s h man , w h o atternpteL his way into a bath of the Turkish females, n' A libss,, refuge in the hou se o f hi s consu l. Mehernet, do well intimated to the Briti s h agen t, th a t he wil l • be carefully to conceal his countryman, f o r that I d ire ct taken he will lose his head. (Our own letter s, ,, from Egypt, m a k e no men ti on o f suc h a circullls,an'tifil Admiral Turpin has s a il e d f or Ath e ns. 3 - 1 ' L a o O f the French C onsu l a t J erusa l em , l ea ves W' France. M. Loeve-Weimars, French Consul $ dad, is said to be recalled. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausltts, Mc. 25 ', Aetna Debt, 2% per Cent., ••••• Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. .... .. .. ........ 98i Loan of Thirty Milions, Four Cent.,,....... ••• Three per Cent......." 7114 --- Thirty-seven ns, ditto .....•••••••'" Id (184.)•••••••••• ..... 04 ..... 06 • Loan of City, 1843, ' Four per Cent.. ............ 1830 . ......... ...... ... . .............. Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per .... ys Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ........ .....••••••"*" Issue of 1841 . . ...... . , ... . •••••••••••""" —Brussels Papers. .. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visxsts, Dgc. lB 'llll4 Five per Cents. Metalliques • ........................ 044 Four par Cents. ..... .............. ...................... Three per Cents. .................... .............. 101 Rank Shares Loan, 1834, .. ..... ..... Ditto, 1839 ........................................ Reterhazy's Loan ................................................. RAILWAYS. -174 1 e, The Northern, or Ferdinand..... ..... ... ."" it . Gloggnitz "' NO Milan . ....... "•.. ...................... ... ........... .... Allgemeine Zeitung. Die. 21. HINTS FOR CHRIS biervan °Bl I. Keep up all th ose o ld seas onable ° ,3 , 1 f ee ling which time has h a ll owe d, which creat e g ° i n noce° and fellowship, and which consist of thosetors, a nd recreations in which the young join as ac the old enjoy as spectators. h wit ove r 11. Be sure and decorate your house Evergreens are Nature's promise of returning 511 re :t! and a fruitful season. The scarlet berries are Pp, and cheerful, and the prickly leaves are eSc e ;io Weapons to drive away the blue devils, which, proper management, will becom e ex ti nc t at Cliv rnas time. 00 3 111. Make up your mind to do some little4e, every day. Farthings make pe n c e , pence 51 ' soil shillings pounds, and pounds a rich ula l an d w ith charities, in like manner, soon mount uPs'ilizecl care a good capital of happiness ma be t i an;g that are 11 are IV. Pay off every debt of kind y ne 3s able, and call in, by gen tl e remembrances' 3t owing Be you. n kets an d V. e not content with g i v i ng your l a- knd an' coals to the poor. Warm their hearts wit" gunge, as their bodies with good clothing. ur hear t ' VI. Establish a cour t o f equ ity r se wherein to pronoun ce sen t ence on an y of tii ° ta ke 11 7, tic errors and crimes of which the law ca-nddet and cognisance. Make your good sense the Ju the wholesome commandments of Scripture Yef.V ev to Examine and cross-examine the witnessea--sind tha the counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. Feeling ) ' s ireat i ff you erdic s counsel for the defendant (Mr. passion). know the evidence, and if the jury return a l an d bin_ i guilty, lay a heavy fine on the delinquent , , e jug' him in heavy s ur e ti es t o k eep i n future th e peace which he has violated.—Atlas. is the f( TUB IRISH LINE N T RADE .—The fo..ov z lE g eo SC latest r e p ort f rom B e l fast:—The weaver s he is v b s teP , i 4 : full wor k, t h e d emand for yarns has been Yer " Li pial 3 f,i r r Prices h ave a downward tendency, as severs h oe 6 . ,",t finding th e y cou ld not rea li se the late advance , mitted to a r e ducti on o f 11d. per b un dle, an d „fotar e h o reduction i s genera ll y ant i c i pate d b y the sne rl i o slei heavy linens for the ho me tra d e ar e easy u f s csn, export goods do not reali se fi rs t cos t to the M de , S ° and hare never been at a lower point, as r e g sl. le than at the present moment, ei rC „f Lord and Lady Camp 0 den have a fan a p , ll lteslt staying with th em , including the Earl and Co, Erroll, and the Ladies Hay. Lord Kiltne rl ], e at, Lady s hi p ' s b rot h er, i s on duty w i th hi s reg"' Ag, Rifle Brigade, in Nova Scotia. -o r oV tee ° WALKING MATCH FOR TWENTY"EIy" h be''.afe SIDE.—On Tuesday the six mile walking snat i c rotr i ;le Pierce and Hall came off near the Dog 50 " to public-house Bedfont. There was a tolerable he g t es of spectators, and much betting took pine - he co st t: J being backed "at even." They entered into t nte ssi t , with spirit, and performed one mile in three sci f to forty-six seconds. They contended without t o ',,,et - It", ; „ tage on either side for five miles, when Hall th e pace was too severe, and made strenuou s RAJ btu keep up with his opponent. Pierce took th, e ,,ting e rs , gained advantage, and came in th e w i n ner, n o d e v ac , opponent by e i g h t y y ar d s . Th e s i x Endo °L.; walked over (f a i r toe an d h ee l) , b y the w inner , three minutes. RUNNING MATCH FOR ONE HUNDRED be.,, ° fa° On Tu es d ay th e l ong pen di ng running 12 1 P c Ale, ' a rse : Stewart, of Lo n d on , an d R o bi nson, of New c :con .ni cti e of off at Putney-h ea th, i n th e presence o f a large fa of spectators. superiorsmn have acquired a esi being the most runners of the ds) t f i i eg i r e- IS the amount of stakes and the heavy betting , chards' era interest prevailed. The distance was 16 0 ' l ,O he betting, 5 to 4 were laid on Stewart, and A ci orhi r e readily taken. Robinson took a slight le s '"pent maintained for twenty yards, when his ol e r both i t he up, and an i nterest i ng contest then enstl ' lar ds endro ' exerting every e ff or t. Wh en w i t hi n t hi r tY I en d winning mark Stewart passed his adversary' sub ; a gall ant w i nner of four yards. Very' 'e r g money were transferred on this occasion. 00 , 0 4 14 ', 0 ' 1 TnE WATERMEN'S STEAM-PACKET c ola t lti 'lle annual meeting of the shareholders of th' s ho assi was held on Tuesday, at the London Coffe e- rn ittee Si o ( Ludga.te-hill, to receive the report of a e cif i f ie lTsir i pointed at a former meeting, to investigate 1- ot her " 4 0 0 the concern, to declare a dividend, and ois te o ef ness. This company, originally called int°, by the Woolwich watermen, has pu rsue y e el prosp erous career, and during the first tent. of its exi s t ence di v id en d s of 10 an d per na doo ms declared, a large reserv e d f un d wa s put by, . 11 to t ile . tion o f fif ty gu i neas was given each e )Aged, spd admir a bl e i nst i tut i on, the Almshouses for oleo the rayed, and M a i me d W aterman an d Lighter ear 0, their Wid ows, at Penge. During the TPast„oon hs o fares b etween Woolwich, Greenwich, and been been considerably reduced, the competition hsj e wb the Gravesend steamers carried high-pressure point, and the very low prices . e bride whole of the season had affected the interests.ol ,e P;,, ge companies, and some of them ari s e te ro cis bankruptcy. By good manageme"' Per sef c ov e ; the Watermen's Steam-packet r" we re, h ° th" , ol npany on, v e enabled to declare a di- - net profits of thr. • aAll.kin!,es%o. serv e past year, am. to su t c 12 -nd. It was then agreed that new sh , t el: .e ir atend of rt 5 P k e e r ep ee :; o l . 0 1 should be raised by the issue of number tshoor enable the company to increase the passengers. dyirs.).,no,4,. numter-of-an"oo4 steamers, and carry on ,a regular qu d ar onstton : t o trade during the summer watermen a a p s ro a ni l s promise voted further e assistance. c e.w returned thanks, and said he had the Pi ne !' d bi s vP, jAte l i i gence to communicate, that an Hon. B:r te o r _ W en. ha d p re. at the tyranny exercised towards the r. m t t i m ation • as sent them a cheque for 2001. This in st , oted, ceived with loud che,rs, and the on e'- 7 _, thanks to Mr. Robt. Charles (the chairman)el37_A'slid to which he expressed his acknowledgments meeting separated. Pre s hi m Deo' that bets Bril Berl in 1 will Will vjoi I'4 B to t li on to( t the Uri . 1 44 Pea *hi tlay kit( 44 t ki tp, Pt) W t N for kli, 4q Cr I,y