The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

IN on it the advantage it possesses over oth er s p o t s , i n anmanOing, at a low©r price , the luxuries and many of )e necessaries of life." We are well aware how very dangerous and impo- Nt is El thing it is to interfere with the laws and the nguage of a peop l e sr id happy under 'r should we ad.. P.. vicious and barbarous system ; vise such a course if the people of the hantel ulslands alone were concerned. I3ut now that Id'l , ...ads are within a few hours' run to London, ,y the aid of steam, within a few hundred ' .ats sail of Granville and St. Maio and the French ..gasll•—now that thousands and thousands of British inhabitants resort thither for the purpose of business, Measure, commerce, or with a view to become perma !rent residents—now that the acts of the Lieutenant -oovernor are questioned and traversed by the Bailli and Jurats, it becomes more than ever necessary to be accurately informed of the nature and constitution 'of those Courts, and the mode of election of those PidgesWith which the inhabitants are so enamoured-. Of the constitution and legislature of the isle. - eds, Inglie taus speaks : " me constitutions of these islands ought not to be left 'co the management of their own legisletuees. Amend silents are required both in con-titut;en and laws, which will never be matle by the teuthbrities in either island. It would be absurd, in '.nete days, to moot the question as to the powers of 'she British Government, or to discuss the question, yenether the right of legislation over these rslands is v.ested in the King as Duke of Normandy, or as fling of England. It is a favourite opinion in the islands, that in cases where the general interests of the *empire are in any way connected with the interests of /Fie island—where, in fact, there is a common interest— the British Parliament may interfere; but that in all local matters concerning the interest of the islands solely, le g islation lies with the island institutions a nd the Privy Council. Ido not see the force of this dis tinction: I look upon it to be the duty of the island legislature to legislate for the benefit of the whole em pire ; and if certain changes in the constitution of Jersey or Guernsey would insure greater security to property, more certain or cheaper justice, or would even have the kffect of diminishing feuds, and of advancing civilisation; and if there is no hope that the island legislatures will themselves originate these changes, then there i- suffi cient ground for the interference of the British Govern ineot, and for the adoption of whatever measure; may be sanctioned by the British Parliament. In these ob servations I have Jersey more than Guernsey in view, though I am very far from subscribing to a very general opinion in Guernsey, that there no reform is needed." These observations were -written ten years ago, and recent_ occurrences give them a ten-folil force. Sir :Robert Peel may smile, look specious and solemn— enunciate some puling plausibilities—or bring forth, :rich faithful gestation, some admitted truism, only a century and a half old, dressed up for the occasion in las 41 richest wardrobe" of euphonious and sounding expletives. He may talk, like his Solicitor-General, .cf the law of empek.eney, the only law by which he equates his conduct—he may send Sir James Graham to the Privy Council, as the descendant of" John of the briglit sword," to interpret the Coutumier de Nor vianth.e—or tell the " travelled Thane, Athenian Alcratdeen," to shroud himself in more than his usual North British reserve—he may tell his Chancellor to crack ribald jokes; but will he come to a Parliamen tary solution of the question at issue, satisfactory to 'the Lieutenant-Governor of the Channel Islands, or, most material of all, satisfactory to the British people ? We accorded to the British Premier the praise - which he deserved, for recently apps intkog- a judge in - Westminster, Mr. Justice Erle, totally irrespective of Tarty feeling. Will he sanction a different system in Jersey ? where judges, according to Inglis, are thus appein ted : " The judge is borne into the seat of justice on the eshoulders of a party. It is scarcely necessary, I think, for me to enlarge upon the bad effects of this system. The bench, with one or two exceptions, is composed of she most furious partisans ; the court of justice is too . often the arena for party feuds ; and it is net impossible, lay glancing the eye along the bench, and knowing who are site parties to a suit, to guess with tolerable accuracy what will be the issue. " But this 14 not the only evil of the system. No qua lification is necessary for being elected to the office of j'adge. A farmer, a shipowner, a merchant—anybody, ;may be seated on the bench by the electors. No pre '7ious acquaintance with law or usage is required ; no preptiratory education, no education of any kind requi site. The electors, generally utterly uneducated them selves, and influenced by the most violent party spirit, cenanoe be expected to fix upon the best qualified indi vfdna~®; and thus the bench is alike disqualified by - parky;feeling, and by ignoraece, from exercising that wound and unbiassed judgment which alone gives respect ,i,ahifiti to a court of justice." These are the men who have often to decide on :Britiph property, amounting to thousands of pounds, and on British liberty and life, infinitely more valu able than British property. The case of Mr. Wilson is an recent as to be fresh in the memory of our readers ; but that is by no means the only case. Inglis cites tligs following instance of oppression which occurred ten years ago : "It is but lately that a girl was imprisoned, charged 'with some Inconsiderable offence, by the authority of ;some poliee-officer. There she remained nine months, at the Cad of which time, upon the representation of 0110 et: his Majesty's receivers-general (for be it recol hytr.,(l, that the maintenance of prisoners forms a deduc iff.an from the King's revenues), the girl was brought up ler trial, or rather for accusation. There was no accuser —no charge—the cause even of her imprisonment was =known, and she was discharged." The English reader will naturally inquire into the constitution and composition of courts which not only Muse obedience to the Queen's writs, but set Ler military governor at defiance. We are told by one authority, Lecras on the laws of Jersey, that bseilli and jurats are so unacquainted with their duties, " That they suspend their judgments in order to con sult a party on the framing of them, and alter and re voke them after they have been delivered, and that they tometimes prepare these judgments before the trials are beard, as was the case in the prosecution of the Crown at the instance of the late Lieutenant-Governor, Major- General Thornton, v. Le Breton, colonel of 'lilitia, when one of the jurats, after the pleadings were closed, pro duced -4 judgment already written, which was adopted by the bailiff and jurats, and rendered against the said Lieutenant-Governor." We are also told by the same authority, that per eons are seized without oath and warrant, and that - .Dissenters, notwithstanding recent statutes in their savour in England, labour under great disabilities in the islands. Mr. Inglis thus shortly describes the constitution of the Court, and the restrictions placed Upon the bar : "Attached to the Royal Court are the King's two oiltioers, the Procureur du Roi and the King's Advocate, syho are appointed by the King ; several other officers, and six advocates, who are in the nomination of the silly—an absurd and unjust nomination, both as regards the public service and the manner of appointment. arhare ought to be no restriction upon the bar, ex cepting that which depends upon competency ; and yet, In this important particular, there is at present no regu lation. No coarse of education is necessary—no exami nation is required ; all is left to the judgment of the badly, who, possessed of such powers, and presiding over a mat comprised of men without legal education, ought *0 be a man possessed of many acquirements, and distin gswibed by a sound and discriminating judgment." -In another passage he thus speaks : " So long as the present mode of cons ituting the bench be Maintained, the spirit of faction will continue to exorcise its despotism; and ignorance and partiality 'rill impede the course of justice. From the island legis lature nothing is to be hoped; it is in vain to imagine that the twelve judges aad the twelve rectors will accede to any proposition for excluding themselves from the jegiletative body. Surely this is a system which cannot be allowed continue longer. We had intended to hare made tome observations to-day on the folly of governing heso islands, in the nineteenth century, according to the, provisions of laws made in the twelfth and iburteenth centuries ; but these observations, together with some others in reference to the same subject, must be reserved for another occasion. Ift isismsuss—ACOUSTlC INSTRUMENTS.-39, Albe =Bele-street, Piecadilly.—lnvisible Voice Conductors, *vi ten fixed in the cavity of the ears, are not more uncom fertable nor perceptible than having a small piece of wool in its place. They enable individuals at an ad 'canoed age, and of forty or fifty years' standing of ex treme deafness, instantly to join in general conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant, low speaker, at church, theatre, &c. They pour the conversation into the ears to such an extent, that in most severe oases deafness cannot be observed. Also original. Ear Cor nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears, and improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many of those instruments have received the approbation of the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Bri tain.. The Newly Invented Spectacles, immediately they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its youthful; natural, and original state. Also Achromatic Telescopes, Opera-glasses, Micro *copes, &c.—Caution : Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and Auria ts, are not in any way connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neigh txurhood, not in any part of the country. Te prevent esistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 189. Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. FETAL ACCIDBNT IN THREADNEEDLB-STNEET.- 144 evening, about half-past five o'clock, a van belong ing to a Mr. Maynard, carrier, of Barking, was proceed- Jog up Threadneedle-street, towards Bishopsgate-street, When the right hand wheel came in contact with a quan tity of paving stones. At the same moment a truck, drawn by a poor man, in the employ of Mr. Stevens, of Xlinerra-street, Hackney-road, was passing the vehicle an the other side, and, in consequence of the wheel pgasin g over the stones, the van was completely canted aver on to the unfortunate man, throwing out at the same time a lad, named Chalk, with much violence into the road, who was seated with the driver. On the cart Wing lifted up, the ill-fated man was found dreadfully sanWated about the head. He was promptly removed ou. a stretcher, as also the lad,h etowt,T.fßartdholoniew's hospital, but on arriving there breathed his last. As regards the boy, it io.sunsadltofehakvde Out he has sustained some serious internal hurt. *dyer of the van was immediately taken into custody 14 lie police, and will be examined this day before the Lma mayor. - I Now ready, at all the Libraries, T HE COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL. " STRATIIERN_; Olt, LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD;" A STORY OF THE PRESENT DAY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough.etreet. On Saturday, January 4, 1845, will be Published the First Number f a New Weekly Newspaper, - price 6d., under the title of youNG ENGLAND; OR, THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE EMPIRE. All Communications, Letters, and Books for the Editor, are re quested to be addressed to Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. Otlice of " Young England," No. 2, York-street, Covent-garden, where Advertisements should be forwarded immediately to secure in ser I ; Orders received by all News aptlti and Booksellers through out ;be United Kingdom. THEAT_RE ROY AL, DRURY-LANE. 1111 3 , 11ENING, DECEMBER 18, W'." be rePeated "a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARY.. Lusignano Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corriere, Mr. OF trani ; . s '"Oncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W "„a,"iicP; atarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth I 0 'conclude with the celebr?ted Ballet of THE PERI. Achmet, Desplaces ; The Peri, Mdlle. Plunkett; Nourmahal, Mdl'e. O'Bryan ; Aysba, Mrs. Payne. 1 Box-oMee is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in iht! Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, a id Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER be performcd a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, r.,2l:ed OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; f ht. Countess oft :.n pion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthori, Madame V.,,tris; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia : , ennett. A it.s,r which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SO M EBODY ELSE. Hans Moritz, M . Charles Mathews; Minnie, 41:Warne Vestras. To Lie tollowed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ii:N44LAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Feeley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. P.olev ' Mn.s Huniby. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and On Guinea and a-Half each. Pickets and Plates tc be had of Mr. 1. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, from len till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 18, Will be produced (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) aN- w Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bebs that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilk in. sou ; S , r Joseph Rowley, Bart Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hu.i.on ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. Chic , :enstalk2r, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Afar which a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STA A. NGER. Count Fleury de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson. Count ',Towne, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ; Cre:uet; Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. "l'o conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEM XN, In which Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, tr. Pitt ; Leader of the Bau ), Mr. Mellon.—B o x—orti ee o p e n from Eleven till Four. Private Boxos to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. NOTICE. THIS EVENINI4 will be produced, by the especial permission of Charles Dickens, Egg, THE CHIME S; A Goblin Ztory of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. _ _ The Scenery from the Orizinal Sketches of Darrel Mediae, R. A. Cla: kwon Stanfield, R.A., John Leech, and R. Doyle. 1 he Story Dramatised by Mark Lemon and Gilbert A'Beckett. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORMSTRELT. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER IS, Will he reputed a New Comic Opera, entitled TIE CASTLE OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de , Beamanoir, Mr. Walton; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C. Horn, Jun.; Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. Mattocks; Ivos, Mr. Leiner ; Hcrmine, Mdlle. Helen Condell ; Gertrude, Airs. Foshiroke. lo conclude with THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wwlack ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling. Wage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Ma7hinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL areas Circle, 58. ; Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 23.; Gallo h. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,%. ; Boxes, 28. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce aihru Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half oa Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. Tl,e Bex-ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the • atre. H ~ ATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA• HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY Thc Re-engagement of Signor Camille S.vori for Three Night - more —To-morrow, Friday, and Saturday. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER IS, Will be repeated a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSINGEN. Ct,racters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yarnold, funier, Stoker, and Kerley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley. Auer which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO Pt ARR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Mathews, Meadows ,and Stoker, Plis, Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. IA oolliolge. "1.. be followed by THE SWISS COTTAGE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Yarnold, Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which lull en's Mazurka and Cellanus Valse will be danced by Mdllea. Louise and Adele, Miss James, and Mi.s Fairbrother. To conclude with a New Consedietta, entitled WATCH AND l% A RD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinlech, and A. ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan. racEs OF ADMISSION.—BaIcouy Boxes. 4 • Upper B ,xes, 35.; Pit, 2.5. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony B oxes, 2F. ; Upr , r Boxes, is. ed.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the ltdcony Tier ict ling eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second ficr (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private B - mes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. I oe Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the three tiEll of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Great attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHIIHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 18, ‘ ill be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race.. Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage sod in the Circle by living Fee and real Pack of Hounds, purchased 17 Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. tZew Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse manship. The First Week of the extraordinary B.itlsh Vaulter and Somersault Thrower, Mr. Price, and Master Charlet Price, the Little Ektiestrian Wonder, and other Novelties. Acting ana stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. 1 1 ,x-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding kir. R. Smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed ar-anaements to pre. sent, during the Christmas Holidays, a S.ries of EQUESTRIAN hIi)RNING FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A NCE, 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 on hiunday, Dec. Sl, Wednesday, Jas. 2,ana Fr day, Jan. 4. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, DEC. 18. rIIS:II3IONETEA, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 42, BAROMETER, 29.7.—W1ND, E.S.E. NoTE.—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 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIB DAY. ing ... 19 minutes after 9 I Evening ... 51 minutes after 8 • • Eb y ..: i s 4 4 o flow 11: -74 ?< ? 4 ,111111i4. 01 . .• i nn 1 , ••• 1. • X 4 SECOND EDITION.. A ~~ ~=~ifll LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1844, We quote the following remarkable passsage from the Post of this morning :—" Will the landowners of England still refuse to learn wisdomfrom experience . ? Will they still support that insane policy which is undermining their social position, and sweeping away their natural supporters into the abyss of ruin ? Landowners are unwilling to break with the Minister of' their choice. The alternative, however, will not long be left to them. Tke Minister will, at no distant dote, break with them! Day by day the farmer chosen Minister draws nearer to the ranks of the free traders I Very soon will landowners be compelled, openly, to adopt the principles of the League, or to lock out for new leaders." There is a world of truth in this prediction of our Contemporary, which is wrung from him, as it were, in very bitterness of spirit. The day, indeed, is not distant when Sir ROBERT PEEL, true to that system of expediency which has always governed, and will always continue to govern, his every action, will break fully and completely with the Conservative landowners, and carry out into prac tice those principles of free trade which he has long since declared to be the principles of common sense. Ile sees the direction which the stream of public opinion is taking, and though he may for a time make head against it, he has quite sufficient sagacity to foresee that it will in the end overwhelm him, unless he allow himself to be borne quietly onward with the current. He is quite aware that the question of free trade is one only of time; that it is a great national necessity which, year by year, is be coming more and more apparent ; that the Anti-Corn-law League is nothing more than the ex pression of this necessity, and is only popular be cause it expresses it with emphasis and particularity; and our chief complaint against Sir ROBERT PEEL is, that knowing all this—knowing that no party nor combination of parties can protract much longer the full and perfect triumph of the free-trade system, he refuses to make the concession, while yet it is in his power to concede with grace. He is evidently de sirous to play over again the old game of the Test and Corporation Acts—that is to say, to make a show of resistance to the last moment, long after conviction has flashed upon his mind, and yield only to the irre sistible pressure of necessity. And wherefore this ? Simply in order that he may for a brief while longer secure the support of the Conservatives, whom he cannot find it in his heart to break with, just at present, notwithstanding that he has no sympathy with many of their principles and prejudices, and knows that the hour of his final separation from them is at hand. There is, to our thinking, something ex ceedingly petty in this indecision and temporising. It is very unworthy of the character of the first Mi nister of the first commercial kingdom in the world. Far better would it be for the I'reraier' reputation as a statesman, that he should do of once what must eventually be done, and do it in a graceful, instead of a churlish and reluctant, spirit. But Sir ROBERT Para, is not A Minister of an enlarged or generous turn of mind. He has nothing of the CHATHAM or CANNING in his nature. He adopts popular measures, not from conviction, but on compulsion. He is inac cessible to lofty and fervid impulses, and must be as sailed on the side of his apprehensions. Above all things, he is the slave of precedent, and shrinks aghast from the idea of originating anything for which he has not some sort of warrant from the past. It is this marked trait in his political character that induces many people to give him credit for being a safe Minister; but such people should bear in mind that there are times and seasons when the boldest and most decided course of policy is also the safest that can be pursued. Such a period is the present, for there is no question that the Premier's constant habit of shilly-shallying on the subject of free trade, at one moment giving it his direct counte nance, at another repudiating the system, as uncalled for by existing circumstances, merely in order to keep himself for a short time longer in fa your with the Conservatives ;—there is no question, we say, that this favourite habit, on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, of playing fast-and-loose with free trade, is daily tending more and more to unsettle men's minds ; to engender in them a dis trust of Government and its policy ; and by so doing, to affect in no inconsider able or remote degree, all the great commercial interests of the country. And are the Conservatives grateful to the Premier for this temporising course of policy ? Certainly not. They see clearly enough that it must ere long have an end, and already they dislike their leader quite as much as they would do, were he at once to cut all connexion with them, throw himself into the arms of the Liberals, and publicly proclaim his adhesion to the principles of free trade. From the acceunts we have recently published of the release of the gigantic " GREAT BRITAIN" from Cumberland Basin in the Bristol Docks, our readers will have learned, with pleasure, that the mightiest ship in the world is now a free denizen upon her des tined element. This stupendous production of mer cantile enterprise and mechanical science at length walks the waters " like a thing of life." Long may it be her lot to attract the admiration of the civilised world in general—the wonder and respect of the nautical profession in particular as the marvellous .' embodiment of the daring pro ject of her builders. They aspired to pro duce a specimen of steam-ship building that should be matchless in its dimensions, its capacity, and its velocity of motion. They have accomplished even more. With the working of her " Archimedear screw" she can run, it seems, from eleven to twelve knots an hour, not stretching a yard of her canvass. Her mighty fabric is said to be unaffected by the vibration of the steam-engines which work that colossal propelling power, and the passengers in het rspaeious cabins can scarcely detect the momentum of her speed. In less than seventeen traversing! of her deck from stem to stern, the astonished voyager will have paced one mile; and between two and three of our old 36-gun frigates would represent no more than her own single stowage of more that, 3,1300 tons ! What performances may not be antici pated from such powers and such means, working with all the ease, celerity, and precision, which the late trial-run demonstrated the Great Britain to pos sess ! To what increased facilities and rapidity of transit from and to the remotest regions, under gua rantees how much enhanced for the safety of those whose calling it is "to tempt the trackless deep," may we not be justified in looking forward, after this test of a vessel thus stupendous in her construction ! The whole human race, perhaps—but assuredly the great maritime and commercial Powers of the world —may be considered as deeply interested in the memorable and successful result of the experiment we refer to. We make no apology for recurring to it, and the rather as we have, of late, so frequently had occasion to direct public attention to the progress of naval architecture in another branch of that science— namely, the construction of our ships of war. We have no disposition to revive the controversy which has been so long and warmly maintained be tween the advocates of the Surveyor of the Navy's intuitive-principle" of ship-building, and the stick lers for the canons and practice of naval architecture • according to the matured state of our experience in the actual construction of ships. Yet we are grati fied to learn, on the authority of our vigilant Con temporary, the Plymouth Times (to whose strictures on this very important subject we hold that the coun try at large is very much indebted), that the Admi ralty have given orders to suspend for the present the building of any more ships on the principle s adopted in the construction of the Queen (110) and the Albion (90). The time has come, we trust, at which the judgment and ex perience of the acting Lords will induce them to return to the adoption of such noble models of the old school, but with all the improvements of modern science and observation, as the Neptune and other such three-deckers. But having already expressed oiir reprobation of everything like favouritism in ad niinistering such vital interests as those wherewith the Admiralty have to deal, we must enter a very brief plea for their adoption of tried improvements and certified inventions, having for their object to supply existing deficiencies in nautical mechanism, ra ther than in nautical science. We are anxious, in , respect of one of the most extraordinary of these improvements and inventions—the (as it appears to us) invaluable " Ship Manosuvrer" of Mr. Roamer FOULESTON—to learn the number of her MA.lnsre's ships to which it has yet been applied? By this " Manceuvrer," as it is shown by the abundant docu mentary papers and certificates just published by its ingenious inventor, " a ship's head may be directed at all times to any point required." The Earl of DUNDONNALD, Captains T. BENNETT, Sir W. Dri,Lost, W. H. SMITH, Sir TnossAs HASTINGS and F. BEECHET, R.N., Comxnrsuders MILES, CRAU FURD, W. BROWNE, R. RICILILDSON, J. PAXLET, R.N., Lieutenants BALLET, 31. COMBS, J. BIL LINGSLEY, HUGHES, T. CXREY, HENRY BUTT, JAMES CLARKS, R. J. JErFRETS, J. WILLIAMS, ALFRED MILES, R.N., arid Master SYMONDS, R.N.—all attest their u nqualified satisfaction with its properties. There are succinctly de scribed by Mr. Fouusserost himself :—" The power of immediately turn ing a ship, so as to direct her head to any givem pc Ant, independently of the rudder and sails, has long be en felt to be a desidera tum by practical seamen. !This want is supplied by the present invention, the principal advantages of which are its simplicity; its general applicability; the prompt means, both of atti ick and defence, it affords to engagements ; its security from cannon shot ; and the facility with which i t may be made to subserve any other means that : ire now used for steering. The invention consists in a powerful screw, secured within a tube, and fixed (a ut of reach of cannon shot) in the dead wood of a vessel's stern, at right angles to the keel. It is worked by a capstan, operating on a ver tical spindle, which communicates by means of a bevel wheel and pinion, with a horizontal shaft, into which the pinion is keyed to the screw. They, acted upon by the capstan and their. accessories." We shall endeavour in a day or two 'to find room for some ex tracts from the pamphlet whence we extract this description. Accounts from Madrid of the 10th state that Colonel Itaujiro, GARCL a , and ARILLA. had been placed en capilla (in th a chapel). Their friends were making great effort, i to procure a commutation of the sentence, with apparently little hope of suc ceeding; for NARVABZ, 'de spite the representations of Mr. BULWER and the Ciou.nt DE BRRSSOI, seems de termined upon more slaughter, or examples, as he terms his butcheries. We are inclined, however, to believe the statement 'in the French Government papers, that they had been pardoned. We find no news of importance in the papers. The cold at Madrid on the Bth was excessively severe. At Bayonne the thermometer had stood as low as 24, and vast quantities qf snow had fallen along the frontier. MADRID BOURSB, :Rac. 10.—The Three per Cents. are 1 per cent. higher to-day, and transac- tions to the amount lof 127,000,000 of reals took place; they closed at 32i at 60 days. Five per Cents. 21f at 60 days; Floating Debt 74 for 18th instant; Coupons 25• at 60 days The sudden departure of Sir STRATFORD CANNING front Constantinople give 3 rise to several conjectures in the Paris papers- Some infer that it is a mere jaunt of pleasure, and divers that a serious misunder standing has taken place between the Torte and the , British Ambassador, and that he has demanded his passports. It appears, however, from the statements n these papers that there is little foundation for such rumours. The Smyrna Journal states that the short absence of Sir STRATFORD CANNING is no more than in excursion of pleasure, which he has been in the habit of making every year, and the Journal des De bats, which contains news from Constantinople to the 27th ult., says :—" It appears that the object of Sir S. CANNING'S excursion was to visit the British Con sulates in the Troad, and a desire to ensure the sup ply of provisions which the English station of the Levant required. Sir S. CANNING had passed over to Tenedos on the 23d, and when the last intelligence ,eft was daily expected at Constantinople." M. TRIERS' journal, however, takes a different view of the affiiir, and infers that owing to the little support which the Am bassador received from Lord ABERDEEN, the report ;nerits attention, " not that it is true, but as it proves the truth of an observation we have often made during ;he affairs of Servia, and which, indeed, has become a ;eneral opinion, that the British Ambassador is not sufficiently supported by his own Government, and, therefore, not in a position to obtain any important concession from the Porte." The National has an article on jobbing in railway shares and on the nature if the contracts entered into by the Government with he different companies, which it considers too favour- Able to the latter. It states that the conditional pro mises of shares in the Northern line are sold at a pre mium of 401. each, that the shares of the intended line from Amiens to Boulogne are at 180 f. premium, those of Orleans to Bordeaux 130 f Vierzon 230 f., Rouen to Havre 293 f., and Avignon to Marseilles 1271. The National observes that, upon the shares of the Paris and Rouen line, which is in action, the shares are at a premium of 530 f., and those of the Paris and Orleans line, also in action, 6000 The Journal des Debats announces on the authority of a letter from Madrid of the 10th, that the Queen of SPAIN has granted a pardon to Colonel REIIGIFO, Captain GARCIA, and Don Menusi. ARILLA, who had been condemned to death by a court-martial, and then adds :—" This act of clemency and royal generosity does honour to the Spanish Government, and is, in the present state of disturbance, both a proof of courage and of strength. Such acts do more to insure the duration of a government and the peace of a kingdom than those which we have been lately obliged to condemn, and we hope that they are only the augury of a really humane and liberal policy." We can see no proof either of courage or strength in such a course. These inen were unjustly condemned and NARVAEZ would lave carried the sentence into effect but for the fear universal execration. The following extract of a Madrid letter in the National forms a strong contrast to this proof of courage and strength : " Each day brings us the news of some massacre. The Government was not quite satisfied with having shot Zurbano's brother-in-law and son ; it has also shot mother, and with them all the victims taken with arms n their hands, or without them. All this is done with out trial, and on the simple proof of their identity. They ,ave just shot twelve men in Arragon ; it is the begin ,ing of a butchery which-will not stop there. General Don Pedro Ramirez, 75 years of age, and who reckons 65 years' services, had the imprudence to make some representations to the Government on all these acts of barbarity, and at once he was arrested, and taken by a file of soldiers to the castello of Cadia, where he is to be embarked in the first vessel for the Canaries. Prison first, exile next—such is the fate reserved for the oldest and most faithful servants of the State." The Constitutionnel makes these remarks on the announcement of the Slack, that the King of PRUSSIA is about to gire a Representative Constitu tion to his people : - " The Siecle announces that the King of Prussia is about to give a Constitution to his States, and has al ready officially communicated his intentions to the other European Cabinets. According to all the information we have received from time to time from Berlin, this news is at least premature. The King of Prussia, it is true, long ago thought of giving a Constitution to his people, and he has bestowed great labour on the project; but nothing has yet appeared to show that the work is completed, and that the population of Prussia is on the point of seeing its present government transformed into a representative government. It is certain that between the elaboration of a Constitution, in the leisure hours of a Cabinet, and its public promulgation, there must be a long interval. There is no doubt, however, that at a period more or less remote, and under divers forms, the representative system will be extended to nearly all civilised States. Prussia, that enlightened, wise, and inquiring nation, the lover of controversy, will certainly be one of the first to adopt a mode of government founded upon free discussion. But whether her King will take the initiative, is very problematical." THE BOURSE—MONDAY, DEc. IG. Highest Lowest Last Price. Pike. Price 7 Price. French Five per Cents...". 120 95 .. 121 .. 120 80 .• 120 88 Fours ..•• •••• •..• •• 108 .. 103 .. 108 .. 108 Three per Cents..... 85 .. 85 10 .. 85 .. 85 10 New Loan •••••• 86 50 .. 86 60 .. 86 50 86 60 Bank of France • 3275 ••3275 ..3275 "3275 Lailitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharealllo —lllO • • 1110 —lllO 5,000 f. Bhareasoo2 59 ••5092 60 ..5092 50 ..5092 60 Belgian Bank. ..... 585 • • 595 .. 585 6 9 6 1841 llOO —llOO ..1100 ..1100 Belgian Flves,lB4o lO3l • • 104 .. 1031 • • 104 1842 1 0 61 •• 1 061 •• 106 i .. 106 f Two-and-a-Half— •• 62 70 •• 62 70 .. 62 60 62 60 Hutch Two and-a-Half.•••• 631 .. 631 .. 631 . 631 Portuguese Five per Cente• • 57 •• 57 .. 57 .. 57 ipanisn Threes •••••• • • • • • • 37 1 • • 37/ .. 3yi 37( Passive 6 •• 6 .. 6 .. 6 Neapolitan•• •• •••• •••• • •• 80 ••• 98 60 .. 98 60 .. 98 60 Roman •• • •••••• RAILWAY BILA-RER. St. Germain •• • •• 1015 ••1020 ..1015 ••1021 Versailles, R.B. •••••• • • • • • • 500 • • 510 .. 500 Ro a° n u n n t o .• a lt " y r . O . ** ....•: ••• 104 8 4 70 •: 10 81 05 5 . 103 100 74: .. 10453807 50 Orleans .•.. Strasburg to Bale • • •••• •• •• 310 •• 318 75 . 310 .. 310 Avignon to Marseilles• • •... 917 60 • • 933 73 • • 917 50 .. 930 RAILWAY SHARES FOR S ETTLING, Dac. 16. St. Germaiii. ..... ..........1010 ••1020 —lOlO —lO2O Versailles, L.B• Ro „, ..., „ .. •••••• 1 037 5 0 ••1045 ..1037 50 ..1040 Rouen to Ilavre• • orleans .........--•• ••••1100 ••1122 50 ..1100 ..1115 Strasburg to Bale.••• •• •••• 318 •• 317 50 .. 310 .. 310 Avignon to Marseilles-- 926 25 .. 935 .. 926 25 .. 939 RAILWAYS FOR TIIZ ACCOUNT, JAN. 3. St. Germain .••••••• •. •••••• • • • •. 498 ••• • • 498 75 • • 498 75 .. 495 .. 495 L.B 395 •• 403 75 .. 370 .• 370 Rouon •• •• •• •• •• Rouen to;Havro•• BO2 50 .. 805 .. 80) .. 800 Orleans ..............•••••1110 ..1127 50 ..1110 ..1127 50 Strasburg to Bale•••• Avignon to Marseilles— •••• 927 50 .. 937 50 . 927 50 .. 930 HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.—We are requested to state that her Majesty's buckhounds will meet on Fri day next, at Salt-hill, at eleven o'clock. A deputation from the North Devon Railway di rect from the Tiverton-road station to Ilfracombe, in the Bristol Channel, had an interview with the Earl of Dal housie and the Railway Committee yesterday, at the Board of Trade. This line goys through Tiverton, South Molton, and Barnstaple. Tiverton was repre sented by Lord Palmerston, Mr. Heathcote, M.P. and Mr. Tripp ; Barnstaple by Mr. Tamlyn, barrister, and Mr. Lionel Bencraft, town-clerk ; South Molton by Mr. Bawden and Mr. Rickard. The deputation were very fa vourably received. This line comprehends the four towns we have mentioned, having a population of nearly 40,000 inhabitants, and several populous villages, and will be in length from the Tiverton -road station to Barnstaple only 34 miles, and to Ilfracombe about 45 miles. — We have had occasion more than once of late to refer to the indisposition of the Hon. C. A. Murray, Master of the Household, who has been for the last three months suffering from the consequences of a severe acci dent, but is now nearly convalescent. Nevertheless, it being doubtful whether the Hon. Gentleman could ven ture, without risk of retarding his complete recovery, to resume his present official functions, which require con stant activity, attendance, and exertion, we understand that the Queen has, with her usual considerate kindness, desired the Earl of Aberdeen to ascertain whether Mr. Murray would prefer the less arduous duties of diplo matic employment, and, in the event of that Minister's receivi❑g an affirmative reply, to offer him an appoint ment OR the occurrence of the first eligible vacancy. The Gazette may probably bear witness ere long to the cor rectness of our intelligence.—Times. SHOCKING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—The Animals' Friend Society, of No. 18, Strand, last week charged James King,'a costermonger, at Union-hall, with having tied an ass to the shafts of a cart, which he drove too fast for the poor animal to keep up with, and the wheel, in consequence, run over its legs, and lamed it, so that it went on three legs, while the fellow was beating it cruelly. Mr. Traill fined him 10s., but not paying it be was committed for fourteen days: as was also W. Dark, a dust collector, for having gallopped on an ass for a long distance, and violently beaten the ass all the time. 1 It also caused William Baker to be fined ss. at Bow street, by Mr. Twyford, for having worked and cruelly whipped a horse which had a very bad wound under the saddle, four inches by three. The Society has been requested, by its foreign Hon. Secretary, to caution per. sons who may travel in Germany,Dot to trust their dogs to the hotel keepers, who, it appars, often poison them, and report that they have died in fits. DOVER, DEC. 1 7.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, with their suite, arrived here this afternoon, about four I o'clock, by special train, and immediately embael , ' the Black Eagle steamer, under a ro'•'' -- -"' 11 in th , e after noon tohfeanremenagiinnse the Western heights. The Black -P" ~.. * salute f rom shortly after for Calais. ...agle left the harbour THE LATE Acc -- On Sunday I men lll ed - by ~,DENT ON THE DOVER RAILWAY.— B u ri n z fO k r i t a ll y ll e a r le s, f , xtobert Buckley and Aaron Wilkinson, who were Arms branch of the above railway , on Tuesday night of f n t t h h e e last, were interred in the burial-ground , attached to the New Church, Deptford. A vast number of people assem bled lt New-cres7, ivliere they lately resided, to witness the funeral, the expenses of which d efrayed by the Railway Railway Company. Both men were s ingle , and Buckley was on the point of marriage when the melancholy acct• dent occurred. THIS DAY'S NEWS PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee of the Privy Council for the affairs of GuernFey and Jersey sat to-day, at the Council-office Whitehall, for the purpose of hearing the further argu ments in the part-heard case with respect to the course pursued by the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. Mr. WADDINOTON resumed his arguments on behalf of the Crown, and in support of the Lieutenant-Go vernor; and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.=(THIS DAY.) (Before Sir J. WionAm.) His Hortoun was engaged hearing motions, the argu ments on one of them alone occupying the whole morn ing. It was a motion for an injunction of the Court to restrain a glove-maker named Thompson from infring ing a patent possessed by the plaintiff for cutting-out pieces of leather used in glove-making, of a triangular shape, called fourchettes, which are inserted between the finger-pieces. This patent, it was alleged, Mr. Thomp son had invaded ; the affidavits were numerous, and se veral cuttings of leather were produced as exhibits. On the part of the defendant, it was contended that there was no novelty in the invention, and that it was not such a patent as could be infringed. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and Lond«n Special Juries.) HAYNE V. RHODES AND OTHERS. This was an action against Messrs. Rhodes, Beauvoir, and Lane, of Chancery-lane, to recover compensation in damages for an alleged negligence of their duties as at torneys, by which the plaintiff had been induced to ad vance 6001. upon insufficient security. Mr. BALL opened the pleadings: - Mr. WATSON, in opening the case for the plaintiff, said, that in the year 1839 the plaintiff had seen an ad vertisement for a secretary to some new formed com pany, and had, in consequeuce, applied to a Mr. George Ross, who informed him that he was projector of a new company for the improvement of Holborn ' and that the secretary to the new company would have a salary of 4001., which office the plaintiff should have on condition of his advancing to Ross 600/, for the pur pose of forming the company, Ross undertaking to give security fur the return of the 6001. in the event of the company not being formed. The security proposed was a reversionary interest, which Ross alleged he possessed in a certain freehold estate at Tittenhall, in Somerset shire. The plaintiff employed the defendants as his attorneys in the transaction, and advanced the 6001. to Ross upon the proposed security. The company was not formed, and when the plaintiff attempted to have re course to his security, it was discovered that it was valueless, inasmuch as the estate in question had been disposed of to the person now in possession before the date of the conveyance to Ross. Evidence having been called to prove the plaintiff's case, Mr. PLATT (with whom was Mr. Peacock), on the part of the defendants, took various technical objections to the pleadings, which proved fatal, and Lord DENMAN directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY). (Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF i3AItON and a special jury.) HOLFORD V. DENNISON. This was an action to recover 1,372 L, the balance of an account alleged to be due from the plaintiff to the de. fendant. The defendant had put several pleas on the record, the principal of which, however, was the statute of limitations. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., and Mr. Montague Smith ap peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Gray for the defendant. The case for the plaintiff rested on an agreement, stated to have been entered into between the parties as long ago as 1831, when the defendant having previously acted as clerk to the plaintiff, commenced business as a broker on his own account. Ilia LORDSHIP was of opinion that there was nothing to take the case out of the statute of limitations,--Verdict for the defendant. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in London.) MANONALL V. WALPINE. The plaintiff's case having closed yesterday, Mr. JARVIS (with whom were Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Web ster), for the defence, proceeded this morning to call witnesses from Glasgow, Paisley, and Ilarhead, to prove that moveable stenters were in use in Scotland, for the dressing and finishing of various woven fabrics, years before Bridson's patent. The trial will occupy to a late hour, if it be concluded to-day. The case of " Gibbs v. Flight " is peremptorily fixed for to-morrow. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.' (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and Mr. Baron ROLFE: THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERY. William Burgess, the young man who stands charged with forging the name of Oxenford to a bank transfer, to defraud the Bank of England of 8,0001., was this morning placed within the deck, in conjunction with several other prisoners, to plead to an indictment preferred against him. The indictment contained as many as six counts, and averred that the prisoner did, on a day past, aid and assist Joseph Elder, or some person unknown, to personate the owner of certain shares of public stock, of the value of 8,200 L, with intent to defraud one William Oxenford thereof. In the remaining counts the parties alleged to have been defrauded were the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The Hon. Stewart Wortley, Q.C., Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Charnock for the defence. The prisoner, on being called upon for the purpose, pleaded Not Guilty. - Mr. BoDir..ix then made an application to have the trial postponed till to-morrow morning, on the ground that the prisoner's counsel had not had sufficient time since the delivery of their instructions to examine into the facts and circumstances of the case. The briefs were only delivered late on the preceding Thursday, and the Learned Counsel were therefore quite unpre pared to defend the prisoner at this early period. Mr. STUART WORTIMY urged that sufficient time had been allowed the prisoner to prepare for the defence, and said he was rather surprised that the delivery of the in structions to his Learned Friend had been deferred to so late a period. It would be an inconvenience to the numerous witnesses who were in attendance for the pro secution ; but if their Lordships assented to the post ponement, of course he could not object to it. Mr. Baron ROLFE, after consulting with Mr. Justice Wightman, acceded to the application of the pris oner ' s counsel, and directed the trial to be brought on at ten o'clock to-morrow morning. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE) The Court resumed its sittings this morning at the usual hour, for the disposal of the remaieing cases of felony. This day was also appointed for hearing the charges of misdemeanour and indictments for nuisances. A very respectable-looking young man, named Francis Boggs, was indicted for stealing a coat, trousers, and other articles of wearing apparel, and a gold ring, the property of Thomas Chaplin. It appeared that a person named Doughty was the proprietor of one of those establishments styled " Tem perance Coffee-rooms," where balls used to be given, and the admission to which was 3d. In his cross-examina tion the prosecutor stated, that although his house was a Temperance-house, yet there were persons who attended at the ball, if they desired a "small drop" of anything stronger than coffee, might, upon handing the money to the waiter, have whatever they wanted brought in to them. The prisoner was one of those who patron • ised the Temperance balls, and happened, on the night when the articles named in the indictment were stolen, to be at one of them, when he was perceived to come out of the room where the articles were. Some time after he was accused of the theft, and his lodgings searched, when a portion of the property was dis covered there. Mr. PAINT, who appeared for the defence, commented strongly upon the evils which arose from those gather ings, which were improperly called temperance balls, where a number of young persons were assembled, and where, although temperance was professed, there was an unlimited supply of spirituous liquors allowed, by which the unwary were intrapped. The Learned Counsel called several witnesses to show that the articles had been left with the prisoner's mother as a doposit for rent. The jury retired, and, after about half an hour's con sultation, returned a verdict of guilty. The Learned JUDGE said it was evident the prisoner had, like hundreds of other young persons, been r u i ne d by those " threepenny hops.' The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept t o h ar d l a b our, i n the House of Correction, for three months. Thomas Henry, a middle-aged man of respectable ap pearance, was indicted for stealing a quantity of mouse line-de-laine, the property of Mr. Alworthy. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Wall was indicted for stealing a quantity of car penters' tools, the property of Jacob Western. The prosecutor and prisoner were fellow-workmen, and during the temporary absence of the former to his dinner the latter took away the tools, which he pledged for a small sum at a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood. The prisoner, in his defence, said he merely took the thing by way of " a lark," and intended to return them again. The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. An inquest was held before C. 11. Caoper, Esq., at the New Inn, Parker's Piece, on view of the body of Mr. Stephe n C amp, l ate of gdoq-01V)ti *Moil 66. The deceased had b een i n health up to the day of his decea§Vi rl PrJAC. T- • 1 On Sun fty ne ate ft hearty dinner...of roast tne evening . of that day he eottiplithied of a pain in iris chest: He tusk smile gin and water ; and vv then said he f e lt b etter: After ,niitine t lip anti titiW li the room, he sat dowti in a chair, and in a few minutes after wards expired. A post-mortem examination was made by Mr. Lestourgeon, who was of opinion that death had been caused by the quantity of pork deceased had eaten (of which there were pieces nearly an inch square), which had prevented the action of the heart, and so occa sioned death. The jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God.' . —Cambridge Advertiser. CITY NON-FREEMEN.—As this subject has given rise to much anxiety ainongst the mercantile houses, it may be useful to know, that in 1828, similar applications to the wholesale and mercantile firms to take out their freedoms were made, and an association then formed for resisting the pretensions of the City, which mined aid vised to be unfounded. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a quiet, though steady, market for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, and previous rates were paid for about 3,000 bales, sold to the trade. 4here was a good demand for Railway Shares, and prices remained firm. — Chester and Birkenhead, 34i ; Chester and Holyhead, 6; Churnet Valley, 31 • Eastern Counties, 13i- ; Grand Junction, 223 ; Grand Junction, New, Quarters, 42 2 ; Great North of England, 1231 ; Great Western, 148 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 209 ; Ditto, Half, 1024 ; London and Birmingham, 2244 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 37 ; London and Brighton, 501 ; London and South Western, 82i ; London and York, 4k ; Midland Counties, 113 ; South Eastern, New, 124 ; Trent Valley, 7 ; Lyons and Avignon, 535. ; Paris and Lyons, 685.; Paris and Rouen, 40 ; Strasburg and Bale, 124 ; Sambre and Meuse, 6ls. 6d. There are no arrivals to-day. It is stated that the Customs' authorities have wholly denied redress to the importers of oranges, for the excess in the charge for duty, and, unless something is done, the trade must be stopped, as the merchants will never submit to an extra payment of 50 or 100 per cent. for the sake of half-a-dozen oranges. The whole case is as overstrained as any we ever heard of, and the loss upon the fruit coming over will be a serious matter, unless the Treasury does something. Much satisfaction has been expressed in the City this morning among the merchants and others connected with the East Indies, at the announcement made this morning by the Chairman of the Company, that dis patches have been sent out to sever the connexion be tween the Government of India and the keeping up of the Idolatrous Temples there. At the General Court of Proprietors now being held, the announcement was received with a burst of applause. We believe we may state with confidence, that the financial affairs of the Government of the East Indies is rapidly improving. There is an increased demand for money la the City this morning, and that, too, for commercial purposes. Still the markets for Stock rate high. For the Account, the prices have been at 100 k 4, and the Reduced Three per Cents. have reached 4 per cent. above par. The Commissioners bought about 15,0001. of the Three-and a-Quarter per Cents., at 103 k. Exchequer Bills were done at 595. and 575. premium, and Indian Bonds at 754 premium. Bank Stock has improved to 1081. In the Foreign Funds a very fair amount of business has been transacted. Spanish Three per Cents. have been steady at 374 4, but Portuguese Converted, after touching 584, are now at 58. The Dutch Four per Cents. have fluctuated from 974 to 97k and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have fallen from 641 to 64. Buenos Ayres Bonds have been done at 37, Mexican at 361, and Peruvian at 29. The Share Market is firm this morning. Confidence in the new Irish projected lines is much increasing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock for Account ... ......-.«...« 90814% 8 per Cent . Reduced Annuities ............,....„ 10 03a% New 34 per Cent. Annuities....... .............• 103% Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16% India 80nd5,1,000.. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Ditto under 1,000.... •• Console for Opening Exchequer Bills. I%d. 13cl 40001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• ..... ............ 59 57 pm. 500‘........,........-......... •••••••••••• 59 57 pm. Ditto 5ma11........ ........ - ••........•• 59 57 pin. Ditto Advertised:- ...... —.......- FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent........., 37 Mexican 80nd5,151.17, 5 prr Cent. ...... ..... „ 3 6 1 t4 Ditto for the Account. 36 Ditto Deferred 5t0ck.....,................,, 164 16 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 2936 19 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... „...........” Ditto Converted 58% 53 Russian Bonds, 182'2, 5 per Cent. ll9 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 — Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Acc0unt...".....•..........• 373i Dutch 2% per Cents ...... -.......-... ....... Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Dutch 5 per Cent 5.......................... ....... PIRCII.II OF SHARES I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS PAID. PEA SHAUL Bristol and Exeter ..... ........ ..... 70 ..... .... 70 ..... .... to Cambridge and Lincoln Eistern Counties ..„...._..... Great Southei n and Western) (Ireland) / 5 8%% ... to Great Western ...................... 75 llB3y 150 to 140% Ditto 34 Shares 5O 83 %% ••• to Hull and Selby London and Birmingham. lOO .... 2.28 to Ditto New Thirds 2 .... ..... 39% ...... to -- Ditto 4 Shares London and 81ackwa11.............. 16% ...... 6% .. to London and Brighton .....„.«..... 50 ........ 50%% to Ditto Loan Notes London and South Western ..... 41% Manchester and Leeds. ....... ....... 70 .........119 Midland ......... -.„..... ..... ...... 100......... 113 Birmingham and Derby..„....... 100 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 24 ......... 61% Richmond and West End Junct. 1 South Eastern and Dover .....«.. 3334 ...... 3811% to York and North Midland •........ 50 ......... 103 to -- Ditto Extension — ...... 11% ..... to 124 Orleans and Vierzon ~ Orleans and Bourdeaslx ..- ..... 29 ......... 73 , .% Paris and 0r1ean5............. ...... .. 20 ......... 43% Parisand R0uen................ ...... .. 20 ........ 40%* ••• to Paris and Stra bourg St,rasburg and fßasle JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England... 35 ......... 37 loogg Erratum in yesterday's list.—Read Great Western 149► instead of Great North of England. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 17.—A con siderable business has been done to-day at firm prices.— Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 3 ; West York shire, 6/ i; Churnet Valley, 3 7-16 ; Chester and Bir kenhead, 331 ex new ; London and York, 4 ; Belfast Junction, 34 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 6k ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 2i ; Paris and Lyons, 3i; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter, 12 15-16; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 4/. 18s. 9d. EAST INDIA HOUSE—(THIS DAY.) A Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was held this day, at thegompany's House, in Leadenhall-street ; Captain Ihepherd in the chair. The minutes of the last Cotftt were read and con firmed. The CLERK read a letter from General Sir William Nutt, returning thanks for the recent vote of the Court. A list of superannuations and allowances since the last Court was read. TICE TEMPLE OF JUGGERNAUT. The CHAIRMAN, in reference to a motion of which Mr. Poynder had given notice, said he was happy to in form the Court that arrangements had been made, by which the British Government of India would in future have no connection whatever with the worship of the natives in the Temple of Juggernaut.—(Hear.) Mr. STRAUHAN expressed his very great pleasure at hearing so important an announcement from the Chairman. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON then rose to call the atten tion of the Court to the treatment of his Majesty the King of Delhi by the Government of India, and also to the state of the police in the presidencies of Bengal and Agra, and to the state of the gaols in all the presi dencies of India. kLIGFT ItiIEAKING.) MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. The supply of English Wheat offering was but limited. For the finest qualities the demand was rather active, while the value of all other kinds was steadily supported. Foreign Wheat was in fair request, and a good business was doing, at previous fignres. Barley was in steady request, at fully previous rates; but in Malt, next to nothing was doing. Oats, Beans, and Peas, supported Monday's quotations. Oat.. 10 3,160 qrs. Flour 2,390 ARRIVALS. Wheat. Earley. English 1,140 qrs. 1,310 qrs. Irish.. •••••••••••• Foreign • Malt. 00 vs. VITHITECHAPEL. The supply of Meat here was, on the whole, extensive, while the demand was somewhat inactive, at pre vious rates. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs. by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) L.NDoN, DEc. 18.—Wind E.S.E., light breeze and cloudy, weather mild but damp. SWANSEA, DEc. 14.—Sld. Golconda, Valparaiso. MILFORD, DEC. 16.—Arrd. Queen of the Isles, Lon don, for Barcelona, leaky, with loss c f sails, &c. DEC. 15.—S1d. Barossa and Columbus, Ichaboe. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 17.—Sid. Trent steamer, West Indies. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Isabella, Watson, London, for Port Philip ; Ann Mills, Kennedy, Quebec ; Flora, Baker, Newfoundland, FALMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind S.S.E., strong gales.- 16. A vessel, bottom up, was passed in lat. 47, lon. 8, by the Anne, arrived here. PENSANCE, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Ceres, Gijon, for Lon don, with loss of bowsprit, &c. GOOLE, DEC. 16—The John Barry, of Whitby, hence to London, put back yesterday, leaky, and must dig charge to repair. CLYDE, DEC. 16.—S1d. Rowley, Demerara ; Superb, Mobile. LEITH, DEC. 17.—The Oberon, Addie, from Hull to Gothenberg, put back to the Road, lath inst., with da mage to sails, rigging, &c., having experienced very severe weather on the coast of Norway. Thn Eleonore Pauline, of Copenhagen, from Callundberg to Hull, foundered about 100 miles from the coast of Iforway crew saved by the Oberon, Addie. IlwaspArin, DEC. 12.—The Scotia, of Bremen for Speymouth (with bones) is; ashore on the sands at the east side of the harbour ; crew saved ; vessel not much damaged. HotrnEAD.—Acrd. Invoice, Rawlings, Ichaboe ; Binley, Frazer, Rio de la Ilache. LivgAPQOL, DEC, 17,—Wiud N.E. moderate.—A.rrci. !lobe, Weight, St. John's, New Brunswick. Ski. Duke Leinster, Ceylon ; Jackson and Thomas Battenby, Ithaboel Archelaus, New Orleans; Corromando, Boston; the Demerara (packet), Consistance, to Demerara, took fire 15th hist, off the Kish Light, and was run ashore riettt Dublin and went to pieces ; crew saved. WEXFORD, DEC. 15.—The Victory, Davis, from Port Macioe it; Chepstow, was driven ashore lath inst., 27 miles to the northward, and expected to become a wreck; one mail drowned. - - On Monday morning a fine fat ox, belonging to a butcher, in Wells-street, Oxford- street, while being driven, with several others, through Brooks .market, Holborn, suddenly left the herd, and walked into the private entrance of a house, occupied by Mr. Wynne, tailor, &c., Dornington-street, and after walking up the passage, became firmly fixed at the end. The passage was so peculiarly constructed that it was not possi ble to get it out alive, and after the animal had remained in the sumo position from lionday morning until Tues day night, it was found necessary to kill it, which not done without considerable difficulty. So swollen had the beast become from its cramped position that it re quired the united exertions of two horses and upwards of twenty men to extricate it. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND )übttr eptitton. " Who runs may read." rostasmx. The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, dated St- Cloud, 7th instant, prescribing the publication of the convention entered into with the Emperor of Morocco on the 10th September, and ratified on the 26th Octo ber. The ordonnance is followed by the convention, which differs in no point from the copy which we hive already published. The Minister of the Interior has just signed an autho risation in favour of an important decision which was come to a few days ago, by the Council of ,the Mont de Pitize, at which the Prefect of the Seine presided. By this decision, with a view to the relief of the indigent during the winter season, a sum of 800,000 f. is to be employed during the first three months of 1845, in Wane without interest. The maximum of the loans is to be twenty francs, and the minimum three,, and no persons will be permitted to make pledges for loans free from interest, except the indigent, who have certificates frets the Bureaux de Bienfaisance. M. Alexandre' Gouin, member of the Chamber of De puties, banker at Tours, and formerly Minister of finance, has consented to become Managing Director of Laffitte and Co.'s Bank, which will henceforth be entitled the bank of " A. Gouin and Co." According to the journals of the south the cold 10 Languedoc, last week, was quite as severe as in Peri& Indeed, at Montpellier, on the night of the Bth, the ther mometer fell nearly half a degree centigrade lower than the lowest point in Paris. A young soldier was froze n to death on the road from Lochlve to Caylar; and on Monday morning last a boy was frozen to death in * boat in the port of Marseilles. It is stated by a Brussels paper that the cold in Bel gium, last week, was so intense, that several children were found frozen to death in the snow. " A new amnesty for political offenders has been talked of," says the Constitutionnel, " but we learn that /I Toussant Michel, condemned to six months' imprieell, ment for a pamphlet entitled CaducitZ des Religions , and whose term expired on Saturday, is still detained , and will have to remain in confinement twelve months longer for non-payment of 2,413 f., the amount of hi° fine, and the costs of the prosecution." Our accounts from Berlin of the 12th state that s; Lucerne on the 11th there was no change in the situatie° of the repective parties. The Government was adoptiul vigorous measures against the rebel chiefs who bed fallen into his hands, and the journals favourable to tb: insurrection had suspended publication under the dr .° of prosecution. The Messager publishes the following return of th ° vessels entering the port of Papeiti (Otaheite) during' the first three months of 1844 :—Whalers (French) 3' measuring together 715 tons, with cargoes valued at 222,000 fr. ; English, 1, of 350 tons, cargo 95,000fr-1 American, 15, 4,853 tons, cargoes 877,000 fr.; Breinelet 1, of 340 tons, cargo 95,000fr.—Trading vessels (French) , 8, measuring together 243 tons, cargoes 16,250 f r, be sides 5 vessels freighted by the State ; English, 9, t c) ,:f gether 1,094 tons, cargoes 221,500 fr. ; Chilian, IF `",, 115 tons, cargo 15,000 fr. ; Danish, 2, 635 tons, carry' 65,000 fr. The Chamber of Nobles of Sweden decided, on the 23d ult., by a large majority, that, on the intended troduction of a'new monetary system. the decimal • dtn sion shall be adopted, notwithstanding the opposition of the bank committee to this mode of division Another gang of malefactors, ten in number, ee--' ll ,„ ed La Bands du Marais, was tried last week by the ri Court of Assize. An immense number of robber were proved against them, chiefly on the evidence 0; portion of the gang, and on Saturday a verdict of guilt' was recorded against the whole of them. The toy S criminal were sentenced to various terms of imprison' nd di ment, of from five to ten years, at the Bagne, $ least criminal were condemned to solitary confines nee or simple imprisonment for periods of three to six ye*: We ,learn from Strasburg that the steeple o f cathedral, which, from some unknown cause, has bee for some time gradually diverting from the pfor ° ; dicular, now leans so much that the summit is V/ metres out of a line with the base. Great fears are entertained of its falling. 31.AVIT AND POLICIN. At the Liverpool assize, Thomas Stew was conviel la k , of the wilful murder of Alice Nolan, at Mancheste r, of cutting her throat, and sentenced to death. Paul Downing, 19, and Charles Powys, 17, wer iII e dieted, at Stafford, for the wilful murder of Wil-li!,7A Cooper, at Audley, on the 4th August last, the he:7l gamekeeper to Sir Thomas Boughey. The trial h ow ' all Monday, and was adjourned. At the Guildhall Walter Bennet, a lad about ten fel of age, who was brought up at this court on the 2 15 1 0 ,, November last for stabbing an apprentice in the emP hio of Mr. Graham, of Bride-lane, with a gouge, en d o r has been remanded from time to time in consequence., at the dangerous nature of the wound, was again pl ant ",„, the bar with a view to the obtainment of his liberetlr e A surgeon's certificate was handed in, stating that ;up boy Ingrain was now out of danger, but still too wesi g attend and give his evidence. Alderman Johnson et:e he should not allow the affair to end in that manner. ; must see the boy in court, and for that purr ° should remand the prisoner for another week. w ho Yesterday, Sarah Smith, a middle-aged woman , se • had been for the last four or five years engagtt i os charwoman at the houses of several respectable ri g ht at Chelsea and Brompton , and availed herself 0- „, opportunity so afforded to plunder her employer e L e t considerable extent, was committed, on three -- charges, from Queeu-square. Four men, named Pear, Elliott, Carr, and Don1„ 111 ' re were yesterday placed at the bar at Union-hall, WV.. Mr. Traill, charged with being concerned in Men a ? te i turing glass in an unlicensed house. Mr. Traill irum,„ c 4s the penalty of 301. on each of the prisoners. If del b e;. of payment they were committed to pr i so n for months,. The following notice was posted outside Union -1 V —" By an Order in Council the Police-court, lis,i.uh„ hall, will close after the 28th inst., when the es tib tr ment will be removed to the Police-court lilac"' street. By order of the magistrates, " N. EDWIN, Chief Clerk. _ fi James Webb, aged 18, was committed at Clerk en ! ' ; for stealing a gown, the property of his mother, a P'" widow living in John-street, Tottenham-court-road- COVELT—PAISICIFAILZIWIL , Dio l ' The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn l ift — a s, * ley House, Park-lane, on Monday, for Baron s C° county Tyrone, where his Lordship will enterteioo, family circle, including Lord and Lady Claude He" ton, during the approaching Christmas recess. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas have 147, 4* . on a visit to Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta FitTo( rence, at Etal house, near Coldstream, from the Ea Dunmore's, Dunmore Castle, Falkirk, N.B. The Earl of Ellenborough, who has been visitille: Marquis of Salisbury . at Hatfield House, has returneothe Southam, where he intends to remain until Afte r Christmas recess. , Viscount Mandeville, eldest son of the Duke of DI chester, who is on the staff of Lieutenant-Gener e j Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape of Goocl has recently attained his majority. The Count and Countess de Jarnac, late the Hon. till Foley, are expected to return to town on FridaLo r 4i. • turday next, from the Earl and Countess o f Tan '',,,J ville's villa, at Walton-upon - Thames. The Colins7o his Noble bride arc expected on a sojourn at lei Hotel, previous to their decarture for Paris. • 00" Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, who are staylq.th a visit to the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield will leave on Saturday next for the Marquis of [luster's seat, seat, Eaton Hall, Cheshire. -e air His Excellency Caza Irujo, Spanish Minister P res k IL tentiary, will arrive shortly in London. The '.° 0 deuce of Mr. More O'Ferrall, M.P., in Harley-01v' being prepared for his Excellency's reception. • - SALISCIaNZANII OI7III . ~„, One of the largest meeting." which ever took r7; o os Brighton was held on Monday e vening, by a djoUrn from that day week, the adjournmelit being for th°_l,,t * pose of giving the inhabitants time to ITO and rice , report presented by a Committee appointee at ri o pe" meeting, and which recommended the inhabiO nte .„,vore' tition the Queen in Council for a charter of 10...1 nc - lit 0° tion. The meeting did not break up till one n'°' — te th e Tuesday morning, when the proposal to incorpers' town was negatived by a large majority. 179 t The repeal rent for the last week amounted - de t, An action was tried in the Irish Court of Excil ec tiot on Friday and Saturday last, in which the defer t o , was a Mr. Benedict Arthur Yates, a gentleman ofdPoil perty, and a magistrate of the county Kildare, n 00 plaintiff a very poor woman, named Smith. It action for the seduction of the plaintiff's d a ughter,' % i ds of about eighteen. The jury found for the pla n' 300/. damages. The Gazette of Tuesday contains an Order in Coil the defining the boundaries of the divisions assigned 02id different metropolitan police • o ffi ces, which will be In another part of the paper. t lest The Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy and his clergy olewid week at ?death, and have fulminated the follo oho will take a part anathema against any bishop, priest, or layma n : E P into effect :—"Reso;:ed—That any Roman Cath° a _frf carrying the Charitable Beques,tc,of or clerical, taking a plat: on the commission toe7tod int,; effect this odious Act, of the alirch, and the indignant st:Pm of the P e°P Ireland." c ,..serves the heavy c 180 f —,.. ...... The Marquis of Lansdowne has sustained 5 -- " l , e , ;17 6 ,jury in ,his foot, which is so severe as to preca. Noble !Marquis from quitting Bowood fo r the preetw SALE OF TEE WEST LONDON RAILIFAY.---- b o c i g It BOP been announced that this railway, which has proved . 5 08 an unfortunate speculation to the shareholders in itt„ t . t to o b k e p s i o ae ld e, by auction yesterday, piecemeal, salvo' `IA of talists and contractors attended at the liensington sti7e, the railway at Knightsbridge. No sale, hli ve r as it was announced that, since the o if rlaement had appeared, announcing the sale , P r° loo d been received from the London and Birtutriosio, Company for the purchase of the line, which pc o l/ t he it was hoped, would meet with the approbation 0 et , shareholders. The sale was, therefore, indefinitelYP° ed. r ha" pon Di:Ai—fox RtaucttAllP.—The Qu-een Docogeectur caused a donation of 201. to be transmitted to the , r l' ol• of Drayton Beauchamp, towards the expenses of ~,, 11 01 ing a national school and a teacher's resideneef " L hare just been erected here. r i~ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1844 k ..,