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Colonel Rocket Mr. S. rickland ' • Latleten Coke, Mr. Charles B athe- s Tom Coke Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; the Count-ss of t pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice hawthorn Madame Yevtris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia .;ennett. After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Morita, M-. Charles Mathews; Minnie, .thsirme Yestris. . _ 1 o followed by New and Original Farce, called YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James 1' )oloy, Mr. Buckatone; Mrs. Poolev, Mrs. Humby. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Malf each. rickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Sox-office, Irma Fon till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23, Will he repeated ((by special permission of Charles Dickens, Faq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CH .MES. A Goblin Story Of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Tobr Veck, 41r. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilk in. son ; S r Jeseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hud.on ; Richard, Mr. Selby M egg y V cc k, Miss Fortescue ; Mrs. hickenstalicar, Mrs. Frank Maithews. Aber which a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STI.ANGER. Count Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, tit'. me Celeste ; ,u,t, Mr. Wright; Checliore, Mr. 0. Smith. To conclude with 'THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, in vhich Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. Vnirnpter, Mr. ballot ; Principal Painter sir. Pitt ; Leader of the Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortice open from Eleven till Four. Private .I.,..ixas to be hag at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. :: - A.,:ATE.E ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. ON THURSDAI EVENING, DECEMBER 26, Hill be produced THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Ch .racters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, Matthews. Col ier, Emery, Turner. and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, and 'qrs. Keeley. At er which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO R Supported by 'Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker; Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. AN 'lo conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic, Patromimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AN*/ oRSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Mea ows, Wigan, Cull er, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley; Mr.. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. Pc^.lOES OF A OMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper waxes, as.; Pit, 2s. I Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, ; tol,per Beres, ls. td. ; Pit, Is. P r i va t e B oxes on the Pt,dcony Tier ~o ltnrig eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a..HaIL Private silxe, on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Ouirea. fie Box—Ace is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr. tien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. ()neat attraction every Evening—Squire Batty's Hounds meet This Evening, at ASTLFY'S ROYAL AM I'HITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. RATTY. THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 23, Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, Fhe Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and seed ; IntrAticing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and In the Circle by living Fot and real Pack of Heustis, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. ttwom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse. &unship. T. conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS; or, The Three Cen►cripts - . acting and stage.m tnager, Mr. W D. Iltoadfoet. Box-otlice open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art et Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. Mr. BATTY begs to a^quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the country, and by special desire, he has formed ar anvements to pra sent, during the Christmas Hmidays. a S ries of EQUESTRIAN SiOHNING FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM. A ACE, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past Three : consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in tie C•rcle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place on Monday, Dec.3l, NVednesday, Jan. 2,and Fr dev, Jan. 4. A Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime on Boxing Night. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER %VIII he produced Two New Dramas, supported by Messrs. Osbal diston, H. Howard, J. T. Johnson, T H. [Jiggle. Seaman, Herb rt, t9sai le, E. Jones, and Watkins; Mvs Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and MIL Bignold. . . _ To conclude with a New Grand Chrigtmaa Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODIANS ' • or, The Little Old Wonsan and the Denton of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin•; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle. Le Fite. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 28 ; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 30. BAROMETER, 30.3.-WIND, N.N.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 " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDOE THIS DAY. Morning b 4 minutes after 0 I Evening ... 15 minutes after L s •?t . ..7.,14tr, ,• . 4 ,• ~...." j. '-',"` I'- E 4 Aliali.:- / liii ''* lll :i.: -)..iP i ,, top :. 4 ,._ , - , , , fr -- .AIL2 - .7 , 7, 47 tai11... % -i% '... ~, 11C4111Pv7. .nriog ir ,, ' , ' ... * - --g• - - ' ' bz. v - 42 ' • mos , 1,, , ..,..y.. , '.......6 .. i,',‘,a, ..0 , ..4/ i ~, SECOND EDITION: tnt ~, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1844. The Charitable Bequests Act appears to have created nearly as great a ferment among the Catholic clergy of Ireland as the Tractarian schism has created among the English clergy. The former, for the first time for many a long year, are split into two distinct parties, each of which seems to entertain no very inordinate amount of goodwill towards the other. 11Ioreover, each party has the honour of being headed by as Archbishop, whose zeal in the views which he advocates js of a firm and ardent character. Arch bishop MURRAY is at the head of those who are in favour of the Charitable Bequests Act, while Arch bishop M'IIALx—" the lion of the fold of Judah," as he is styled by his admirers-y-leads the van of those who are oppos e d t o i t. Th e l atter i s warmly seconded in his oppositio n by Mr. O'CONNELL, aided by a majority of the priests of Munster and Connaught, and the great mass, apparentl y, of the Catholic Rep e al ers , a ll of whom denounce' the Act in question as a piece, not merely of ques tionable, but of mischievous policy on the p ar t o f the Government. As for Archbishop itt ~.....URRAT he, it would appear, is supported by the most temperat and rational, but less noisy portion of the Catholic middle classes—men who have not yet sworn undying I hostilily to the PEEL Administration, but are ready to accept of "good," even though it may "come out of Nazareth." In consequence of this dissension among the members of his persuasion, Archbishop MURRAY has deemed it fit to address a Pastoral Letter to the Roman Catholic Clergy and Laity of the diocese of Dublin, wherein he explains his reasons for consent ing to take a share in the execution of the Charitable Bequests Act, observing that he should consider it a gross dereliction of duty, were he to fling away any opportunity which this Act—im perfect as he admits it to be—places within his reach of guarding in safety the treasury of the poor, and of securing for the service of the Church whatever property benevolent individuals may choose to vest in the new Board, to be permanently dedi cated to that purpose. The Archbishop then enters into some details respecting the embarrassments by which Roman Catholic charities have hitherto been surrounded. It seems that, in the year 1763, an Act was passed requiring returns of all charitable be quests in the sister country to be made to the Pro testant Primate and the Bishops of each diocese at their annual visitation; and subsequently a Commit tee of Charity of the Irish House of Lords was ap pointed under an order of that House. By the Act of Union this Committee necessarily ceased ; and, by a law, which has never since been either altered or amended, the present Commissioners of charitable donations and bequests were incorpo rated, consisting of the Protestant Archbishops and Bishops of Irelamd, the Dean of St. Patrick's, the incumbents of all the parishes in Dublin, and the Judges. The latter, as might be expected, never at tended the Board, consequently it was managed ex elusively by dignitaries and clergymen of the Esta blished Church, who gave altogether a Protestant character to its proceedings. Such being the case, the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ire land addressed in 1840 a memorial to Lord MORPETII, wherein they intreated—and surely not without suffi cient reason !--that the Board of Irish Charities might be rendered more generally useful and popular by the introduction of Catholic Commissioners, and by some other measure which might have &tendency toplace their charities upon the same footing as those of their Pro testant fellow -countrymen. " The recent Act," says Dr. MURRAY, "appears to have been intended to grant all that we then sought. It admits to the Board of Charity Catholic Commissioners in sufficient number to check any adverse influence which might be attempted regarding the application of Catholic charities ; and it takes away the dangerous power enjoyed by the former Board of alienating, under certain circumstances, Catholic bequests from the known objects contemplated by the testator, and of applying them to purposes which, if living, he would abhor. So far our prayer has been granted. The state of insecurity in which our charities were placed has been removed ; and had the Act stopped there, we could not, without the greatest inconsistency, utter one word of complaint against it." The Archbishop then goes on to point out the leading defects of the Act in question, but takes care to add that, not withstanding the partial blemishes whiA tend to render it unpopular, no one can look into it with an unprejudiced eye, and not see that it confers advantages on the Catholics of the very highest value, giving them, among other things, the power of vesting property, without trouble or ex pense, in perpetual security, for procuring glebes for their clergy, and for building, enlarging, and up holding or furnishing their places of worship. Not withstanding the violent opposition raised among certain parties in Ireland to the Charitable Bequests Act, we incline to regard it, despite its admitted de fects, in the same favourable light as Dr. AfURIAY, and to consider it as a step in the right direction. When Mr. limn, deploring the wasteful impro vidence of the Tory. Administrations, of which the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL were successively at the head (we speak of that Govern ment which terminated in 1830, and of that which, being established in December, 1834, on Sir Ro- BERT'S return from Italy, closed its brief career in April, 1835)—when Mr. liumE used to avow his regret that there was a surplus of public income over public expenditure—his avowal was listened to in the House of Commons with surprise and incredulity. It was to little use that he explained his meaning to be, that a deficient revenue would, to a cer t.; n extent, compel a „„. :rtineas the part. vi the Ministers of the day. This last was a mere hypothesis. In the condition of circumstances assumed by it, the result he con templatel might or might not occur. It would be " time enough to think of that," whenever the facts fell out. But to regret that a Government should have a surplus of income—to deprecate so positive, palpable, power-giving, an advantage, as that of an annual balance of supplies over disbursements, to consider it possible that " money in both pockets" might be an evil ; this was a political heresy so novel and startling, that the merest tyro in vulgar arith metic—green as transplanted from the halls of Ox ford into St. Stephen's Chapel—turned up his eyes with astonishment at its enunciation ; looked grave, or affected to sigh over the waning powers of the veteran calculator. Nevertheless we have lived to see the hypothesis of the Hon. Member for Montrose verified by facts. The theory has found, if we do not greatly mistake, an exponent in no other than the Premier himself. Thanks to his wholesale drafts on national credulity or timidity, he has re established, in the six-and-twentieth year of profound peace, the most especially constituted war-tax ; and in the third year of its levy, his " metallic tractors" have conjured so vast an amount of money out of the pockets John Bull that he has a very large surplus on the aggregate of income over that of expen diture. Now so long as the former was only the equation of the latter—so long as the Charges of the State absorbed its Receipts, Sir ROBERT must have been comparatively happy. No " good natured friend, in the shape of some influential land owner, could look in upon him at that inopportune moment when he was just chuckling over the re dundant receipts of his Exchequer, and hint to him significantly that he might find it very expedient to remit a portion of the heavy malt duty. No hawk eyed Manchester Conservative could then ruffle hi; equanimity, and ruin his breakfast, by a morning call before office hours in Whitehall-gardens, with the view of drawing the Minister's attention to the eligible opportunity which had at length arrived, enabling him to remit the import duty on raw cotton. There were, then, no outcries from the poorer and the poorest classes for the remission of the tea duties The Excise was not assailed by a run of popular demands upon the extinction of this duty, nor the Customs invaded by the concentrated appeal of thousands for the removal of that. Coffee and sugar, less loaded with fiscal liabilities, continued to be accessible to the rich, but to decline the con sumption of the poor, whilst they netted a handsome yearly return into the coffers of the Treasury. But now all this state of things is changed. There Is a surplus. A great fact, this, and the cause of a great sensation. How shall it be appropriated ? A great difficulty, and the subject of the most conflicting re commendations. Friends supplicate; enemies threaten; the Minister is utterly perplexed. "Take off the Malt Duty," cry the farmers, "in the very first place, or we, who placed you where you are, will help to remove you to the position from whence you came." " Repeal the duty on raw cotton," say his county-kindred and political supporters, "or else-" " Hold!" exclaim the in dustrial classes, whose contributions represent as much as two-thirds, at least, of the whole indirect taxation raised in this country, " you have lowered prices by your legislation to a point which disables our employers from giving us remunerating wages. We get less money but have more taxation to pay; the charge of which is no longer covered in our scanty wages. We work longer hours to earn diminished pay. Make cheaper, therefore, to us, by the remission of the duties you take upon them, those articles of which we are the largest consumers." And then come trooping in a regiment of demands for repeal of duty on tobacco, and beer, and tea, on coffee, and sugar, soap, and raw cotton, and even on paper. What is Sir ROBERT (poor mail) to do ? The " suggestions" of one body of his friends are expressed so emphatically, that they are like the petitions to GIL Bias for charity—enforced by the accidental eloquence of a disbanded soldier's carbine. The " hints" of another, somehow or other, have, all of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1542, them, an alternative : "Do this for us, or something else must be done by us." The Prime Minister must, ere this, have discovered in his surplus a greater " bore" than the Thames Tunnel itself; but one much more likely to be broken in upon. How can he give up less than his surplus, if he give up any part of it? The claim of B is as good as A's, but that of C is no less so. To concede to A, and not to C and B, is to make two enemies where he confirms one friend. How can he give up more than his surplus ? To repeal 5,000,000/. per annum of malt duties would be a great boon to the poor consumer, a great en couragement to agricultural enterprise, a great de mand for unemployed labour. To remit some two millions of tea duties, a million and a half of sugar duties, two hundred and fifty thousand of duties on cotton and other raw material, six hundred thousand pounds on paper, and a million on tobacco, would be admirable relief, no doubt, to existing distress. But what, meantime, is to become of the service of the State, and the payment of the interest on the debt, which absorb all the revenue short of the surplus pro duced by the income-tax ? We will tell the Premier how to emancipate himself from this dilemma, and satisfy all parties, by a single act. Let him restore the currency to the basis from which he so rashly moved it in 1819. These effects would immediately follow. By means of an expansible circulation, and the principle (if you will retain it) of the convertibility of symbolic Money or paper issues being restored to gold at its market value, instead of its Mint price, our manufacturers and producers would be enabled to include the taxation cost, in the general prices of their commodities ; the industrial classes throughout the country would re ceive wages also covering their contributions to any indirect taxation ; property of all kinds would mul tiply its power of representation, and be developed to an indefinite extent with that power; domestic trade and foreign commerce would revive to full vigour and activity ; pauperism would rapidly decrease, owing to the enlarged markets opened for labour. The process of reducing the National Debt, which was carried on on so vast and successful a scale between 1815, when peace was established, and 1819, when its natural results were first paralyzed by PEEL'S Currency Bill, would be resumed. Tiad that reduction of 20,000,0001. of debt per annum been continued till this time (as it well might hare been, but for the disorganization and mischief pro duced by that measure), the whole Debt would have been now nearly extinguished ; and of the 29,000,0001. of interest which is the charge upon it, to be annually met, there would have been but a comparatively trifling amount to be provided for, out of taxes and duties, the burden of which would have declined in a natural and corresponding ratio. Does Sir ROBERT PEEL calculate on paying off twenty millions of debt, under his gold currency system, in as many years ? It took but one year to wipe off that amount under our more ancient and legitimate system. To restore the latter would be better for the country than any amount of surplus revenue he can ever com mand whilst the Bill of 1819 is unrepealed ! Madrid Journals of the 15th have been received, from which we learn that more executions and arrests have taken place. The Gazette contains a dispatch from the Captain General of Arragon, dated the 11th inst., announcing that the Sergeant VICENTE LADA RUE, one of the chiefs of the late revolt, and the mur derer of the officers slaughtered on the night of the 18th ult., had been shot by a party sent in pursuit of him. Senor CABALLERO, late Minister of the Interior in the LOPEZ Cabinet, and six of his neighbours, have been arrested at Barraca, half way between Teruel and Valencia, and conducted to the strong castle of Alur viedron, on the Mediterranean coast. The following letter from Vittoria, of the 16th, shows in a melancholy light the atrocious system adopted by NARvAEz of shooting prisoners without a trial : "Amongst the grounds assigned by the partisans of the Spanish Ministry for the execution of the two sons of Zurbano, it was stated that they had addressed letters to various wealthy persons demanding money, and threatening death in the event of a refusal. Three inn keepers of the environs of Salvatierra have be( n ar rested on various charges of robbery in the province of Alava, and it appears, from what has already transpired, that they were the authors of the letters bearing the forged signatures of the two Zurbanos." The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and 32i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 22i at 60 days ; and the Coupons at 26k at 60 days. We are glad to learn, from the Paris papers, that sue Protestants or Switzerland are making prepara tions to resist the encroachments of the Jesuits, and following the example of the laity of England in thei .• determination to maintain the Reformed religionr On Sunday, the 15th, notwithstanding the severity. of the weather, a meeting, amounting to 3,000 per sons, chiefly citizens of Berne, Soleure, Argau, and refugees from Lucerne, was held at Fraubrunnen, when, after several speeches in favour of liberty, an association was formed to watch the movements of this cunning and deceitful sect. A petition was also adopted, in which the Government of Berne is re quested to place itself at the head of the cantons op posed to the re-establishment of the Jesuits in Switzerland, and at the same time avowing the de termination of the association to support the Govern ment with all their means, in averting such a dan gerous intrusion. It is a singular coincidence that these enemies of liberty should be making almost similar movements in England (for the Puseyites belong to the tribe), in France, and in Switzerland, and that they should exhibit their wicked inten tions in such an open manner as to roue against them the laity of the three coun tries. This is a favourable symptom of the times, and a proof that the days are gone by when the people were enslaved by the Church, and de barred from all useful instruction for the purpose of keeping them obedient to a selfish and tyrannical priesthood. The state of Spain, however, forms a melancholy exception, for while in other States eccle siastical power is held in check by the Government or the people, it is now daily increasing in that unfor tunate country. For two days the writers in the Paris papers have almost entirely refrained from politics and directed their attention to nobler subjects. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the contraband trade, suggested by a Parliamentary return moved for by Mr. Hume last session ; and the Journal des Debats has another, on post-office reform, recommending a great reduc tion on the postage of letters. It will be seen from the following extract that it recommends a graduated scale of charges : " The Committee on Postage had to examine the new modes of taxation which were proposed, and to point out that which it considered most advantageous and equitable. In a prudent spirit of reserve it does not think that in such a matter it is proper to make use of the Parliamentary right of initiative. It contents itself with calling on the Administration to speedily pay atten tion to the question, and bring a Bill concerning it be fore the Chambers. It however expressed its leaning to wards a system establishing a uniform charge of 20c. for all letters, except those put in the Paris Post-office for Paris, and in any town for the town itself, the first of which should pay 15c., and the second 10c., as at pre sent. The Committee is of opinion that if the tax were reduced to 20c. it would be well to abolish the present system of sending letters free for official purposes; and, finally, it observes that if England, in place of adopting a tax of 10c. had left it at 20c., postal reform, in place of injuring the B r iti s h t reasury , wou ld h ave g i ven it anin crease of revenue. To simplify communications of diffe rent kinds, to accelerate them, to render them accessible to all by their cheapness, ought to be one of the most constant cares of the Administration. It is for this mo tive that are opened on all sides canals and roads, that railroads are down in the budget for 75 millions, the companies adding at least an equal sum. It is for this also that the present stupid system of quarantine will, without doubt. be soon altered, and undergo the same fate that has visited that of England and Austria. For the same reason, we hope that M. Conte will be anxious to join his name to a complete modifi ca ti on o f the post age of letters, and will respond, as is fitting, to the en lightened wishes of the Committee." The following intelligence from Belgium appears in the Siecle " The treaty concluded between Belgium and the Zoll verein, of which the Belgian Cabinet was so proud, has in the end proved fatal to them. It could not support the trial of a discussion. M. Delhougue, then Member for Ghent, had already exposed its 'anti-French' ten dency in a very able and sensible speech, and the re mainder of the debates demonstrated that the advan- tages ceded by Prussia to Belgium were much inferior to those granted by Belgium to Prussia. The discussion continued amidst universal expressions of discontent, and in a manner calculated to weary the Ministry itself. After a Secret Committee upon the question, in which high words were exchanged between some of the mem bers, had sat, a division manifested itself in the Cabinet. The Ministry is now in a state of dissolution, and a courier had been dispatched to Paris to inform King Leopold of that crisis, which will necessitate his presence at Brussels. The character of the parties in the Chamber of Representarives has become more distinct. The tiers- parti;represented by M. Nothoab, and which had ren- • dered public service, is keeping aloof ; and the Liberal party, now triumphant, will find itself in presence of the compact and well-drilled phalanx of the Catholic party. If M. Guizot were bold and skilful, he would avail him self of the crisis to bring about a re-action in favour of France; but when has the Frei.ch Ministry taken advan tage of any of the chances which fortune has thrown in its way?" Tho Journal tie Cherbourg says that the Reine Blanche is expected at Cherbourg about the end of this month or the beginning of January, and that Admiral DUPETIT THOLTARS will come by her as a passenger. Th• same journal adds : . _ " A great number of the National Guards and other citizens of Cherbourg, are determined to go in procession to meet the Gallant Admiral ou his arrival, and at his entrance into the town they will present him with a crown of laurel, preparatory to his receiving the sword of honour voted to him by France. On the Seine Blanche being signalled, the National Guard will at once meet in the market place in grand tenue and under arms." but in English comparatively little is doing, yet the quotations are supported. TALLOW. There is no alteration in this market worthy of par ticular 11, - ,tice. Prices remain steady, and the demand is better. The supply of horns Tallow is short compar , d with several years past at this period. The price is 40s 6il to 41s bd nett cash. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Dxc. 23. —Wind N.E., strong breezes and cloudy. _ _ _ DEC. 21.—E. to E.S.E., blowing strong.-22. E., blowing very strong.—Arrd. Warsulla, New York fur I)antzic. COWES, DEC. 21.—Arrd. Puma. Kitley, St. Kitt's.- 22. Bcerhave, Vipan, Batavia for Rotterdam ; Nickeie, packet, Stofkin, Surinam for Amsterdam, leaky, with loss of sails, &c., and must discharge. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, DEC. 22.—The Emma, Stumble, from Swansea for London, got ashore about half a mile to the westwa.zd of this port, 20th inst., but came off yesterday morning, making very little water. SHEERNESS, DEC. 23.—The Hoop of Fortune, from London to Rotterdam, put in here, Bth in3t., aad still remains. There are now at least 300 sail of vessels in this port, wiudbound, aid it continues to blow strong from the eastward. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind E., blowing hard. 22.—Wind E.N.E. Arrd. Drie Vreinden, Wyn, Canton, for Amsterdam; Woden, Bataria, for Hamburgh; Volusia, Bartlett, Honduras ; York, Duncan, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Marianne, Rees, Sierra Leone, for Hamburgh ; Harriett, Ablinz, Rio, for Gothenburg, sailed Oct. 4 ; Wilhelmine and Sophie, Datzen, Porto Rico, for Bremen. Sid. Hebden, Ichaboe. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Thames (steamer), Hast, West Indies. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 22.—A rrd. Wallace, Miramichi. SHIELDS, DEC. 21.—S1d. Ann, Cape of Good Hope ; Iduna, Havannah ; Grafton, Carthagena and Bombay. Several vessels are reported to have struck the bar last night in going out. Arrd. Swift, Hull, Quebec. HARWICH, DEC. 22.—Arrd. Marjory, Shields, for Ips wich, with damage to bows, &c., having been in contact with the Eleanor, of Landon. HommEAD, Dxc. 21.—The Nicolai Savar, from St. Petersburgh to Liverpool, ashore in this bay, has fallen over on her beam ends, and is waterlogged. CLYDE, DEC. 21.—S1d. Onyx, Charleston. CORK, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Atkinson, Calcutta. ABERDEEN, DEC. 20.—Sld. Robert APWilliam, Sa vannah. WEXFORD, DEC. 20. —The Jager, Redington, of and from Liverpool, to Calcutta, struck on Blackwater Bank this morning, and subsequently parted her anchors, and went ashore eight miles to the northward of the bar of this harbour, where she remains, and is full of water. BELFAST, DEC. 20.—The Waterlily, from Smyrna (arrived today), is ashore on Ifolywood Bank, but ex pected of without discharging. HULL, DEC. 21.—The Sylphide, from Batavia to Am sterdam, has put in here leaky and must discharge. The Craigie, Bell, from Riga to Bridgewater, is ashore near North Somercoats, and is expected to become a wreck. OFF WEYMOUTIL—Tar, Langley, Mauritius. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Walde mar, Schmidt, Batavia, for Amsterdam, leaky ; Pandora, Bisson, ll.mdaras ; Mary Ann, Duncanson, Buenos Ayres, sails split ; William and Alfred, Culverwell, An tigua. Sid. Isabella, Watson, Port Philip. FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind E., strong gales and squally. 22.—E.N.E., strong breeze and squally.— Arrd.—China, Livesay, and New Zealand, Grey, Cal cutta ; Cecrops, Burrell, Quebec ; Clio, Quebec. BRISTOL, DEC. 22.—S1d. Princess Royal, New Or leans ; Druid, Mobile. PENZANCE, DEC. 21.—Arrd. Scotswood, Hall, Mau ritius. Off, Universe, Ritchie, Bombay. JERSEY, DEC. 19.—The Bolina, of this port, from St. Breux to London, in working out of the bay, twice went ashore on the rocks, having missed stays, and carried away keel, sternpost, &c., and has been condemned ; materials and part of cargo saved, the remainder damaged. Sid. Diadem, Rio. LIVERPOOL, DEc. 21 AND 22.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E., light.—Arrd. Queen, Day, Calcutta. 22. William God dard, Potter, Mobile. Sld. Mischief; Mauritius ; Fame, Beunos Ayre,; Clinch, La Guayra ; Snowdon, Africa ; Glamis Castle, Barbadoes ; Leligh, Lord Ashburton, and Tamerlane, New Orleans; British Ame rican, Mobilo ; Pilgrim, for Ichaboe ; Lucille, Hayti; Cyrus, Havannah; Atlas and Malabar, New Orleans; Burrell, Charleston. The Rhoda, from Messina, aground off the King's Pier, came off on the flood without fur. Cher damage. The Independence, for New York, was found to be leaking yesterday, and has discharged. THE FIRE in GUILDFORD-STREET LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY). 'Workmen have been employed almost unceasingly from the time they could safely venture on the ruins, in removing the burnt embers, but up to the time our reporter left they had not discovered the bodies of the two unfortunate men who were killed by the falling of the roof and the various floors on the morning of the fire. The ruins present a melancholy appearance. The walls are black, and ruptured in several places, and the fragments of a handsome pier-glass over the tire-place of the first floor may be plainly distin guished. The whole of the floors have been carried down to the ground or kitchen floor, and the mass in which the two unfortunate men are buried presents an extraordinary appearance : long joists of wood, many of which are standing nearly upright, chairs, tables, books and book-cases, and other valuable property. In the course of the morning a numbpr Of firt;,.lQa furaztu.,, partialiy,iestroyed by the fire ; books, some of which are stated to be of extreme value, and irreplaceable ; and deeds and papers, were removed into the street by the firemen The walls of the house are in a dangerous state, being cracked in several places, especially the upper win dows. Hundreds of persons remained about the ruins until about one o'clock, when the polic e , acting on the instructions of their inspector, caused the street to be cleared, fearing that any sudden falling of the walls might cause a serious disaster. The time for the holding of the inquest has not yet been fixed, and it is probable that it will not be held for a day or two. DUTCII MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAT.) NIMEGUEN, DEC. 17. — Though, as we hear, the ice is still standing firm below the city, it is, how ever, broken up here. The water in the river has fallen considerably, and is now clear of floating ice. We fear that that part of the bridge which was car ried away is dashed to pieces. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 20.—The accounts that we have received from Dordrecht, and other places, state that the thaw, which we have had for some days, has in general had a considerable effect, and that the ice is for the most part broken up. We have not received to-day either the French or the English mails. Our London news has arrived through Belgium. KONIGSBURG, DEC. 10.—In contradiction to some accounts from St. Petersburgh, it is stated to be posi tively known, from persons who come from the North, that the Emperor attends to public business with his usual energy, and that no change is observed in his health. He very much wishes to see his favourite daughter contract a brilliant marriage, and only the po sitive will of the Grand Duchess Olga to remain, for the present, with her parents has hitherto prevented her marriage. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, DEC. 20.—The Chamber resumed to day, in its public sitting, the debate on the project of law relative to the treaty with the Zoliverein. After se veral Members had spoken, the Minister of the Interior addressed the Chamber; his discourse turned chiefly on the state of parties in France. This sitting may be considered as the most interesting of those which the Chamber has devoted to the examination of the treaty of the Ist of September. The debate was ad journed till to-morrow (the '2lst, at ten o'clock). (N.B.—The Moniteur Belge, and other papers, published on the morning of Saturday, the 21st, of course contain no accounts whatever of tLe continu ance of the debate on that day.) Since yesterday a report has been in circulation in the political circles, of the possibility of some Minis terial modification. We refrained from noticing it at first, being unwilling to aggravate a state of things which has excited the regret of all those who were witnesses of the fact. To-day we cannot avoid men tioning it, on account of the results which may be foreseen. A difference appeared in the Secret Com mittee, the day before yesterday, between two Mem bers of the Cabinet, on the explanations relative to article 19 of the treaty. The opinion which seems to us the most generally entertained at this moment, is that the change, if it takes place, will only affect the Minister whose opinion, on that occasion, was found to be in a minority in the Cabinet, and, at the same time, the farthest from that of the majority of the Chamber.—Courrier Beige, Dec. 21. The reigning Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg, and the Prince of Wurtemburg, left the King's Palace at Brussels, to-day, and continued their journey to Germany. A special train will take them to Cologne. The Moniteur Belge publishes the law which fixes the budget of the public debt at 32,057,128 f. for 1845, and the budget of dotation at 3,301,258 f. The cold returned last night, and the mercury fell below friezing point. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 26.—His Highness the Viceroy accompanied by some of his officers, arrived here this afternoon at five o'clock, in excellent health. He per formed the journey from Cairo In twenty hours, 'The steam-frigate The Nile, is to be brought into the new dock the day after to- morrow ; every thing is ready. Some persona doubt the complete success of this great work, while the two engineers are quite confident about it. In my next I shall be able to give you something positive on the subject. TORQUAY.--.A very fine Dolphin, rather a novelty in these seas, was caught at Torquay on Tuesday ; and, on Wednesday was exibited about the streets of Exeter, to the great gratificationof the curious.—SomersetCounty Herald, MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday, at very steady prices ; but th , ro was no ad wice. Sales, 12,000 hales, including 5,000 ,- rn specula a9tl 4' 'n prising 1,000 Pernams, to 54,1. ; 200 Surat, at 24d to 3d.; and the rest American, at 3d. to sd. per lb.—Shares were firm. Birmingham and Gloucester, 944; Dublin and Belfast,44; Eastern Counties, 144; Do., Perpetual, No. 2,20 s. 6d.; Grand Junction, 224 ' • Ditto, Halves, 112 ;_ London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, Bahia, at 5-id. to 4d.; 300 Egyptian, at 511 to bid ; 500 27-1 ' • Ditto and South-Western, 834 ; Ditto and Y or k, 41 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 524 ; Midland Coun ties, 1121 ; North Wales, 64; South-Eastern, 46; Ditto, Halves, 124 ; Trent Valley, 94- ; Paris and Lyons, 3 6-20; Paris and Rouen, 414 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2L 18s. 9d.; Strasburg and Bale, 124 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 8. The private accounts received this morning from the West Indies, brought by the Thames steamer, most fully bear out the inform atian in the papers with respect to the prospects of the yield of the crops. One difficulty only appears to be in the way, and that is the contingency of a lack of labourers when the canes arrive at maturity. It may, unfortunately, happen that, from an undue atten tion having been paid to the great purposes of immigra tion, at harvest time hands will be more in demand than the supply, and hence very considerable losses may be incurred, as crops of this description brook of no delay in the cutting. There is a healthy tone in the accounts received this morning, and we are glad to perceive that, between the employer and employed, confidence is repre sented to be on the increase. There is not any other facts of importance beyond what appears in another part of The Sun of this evening. The Mexican mail is not brought by the Thames, and we have, therefore, nothing to com municate from South America, except that complaints are made on this and the other side of the Atlantic of a want of regularity in the forwarding of the mail bags to the Sea Board. We are assured that the letters and papers from Chili, Peru, &c., now received by the Thames, might have been brouht by the Avon. From the Mauritius there are advices this morning to September 26th. The state of the crops was very fa vourable, but the colony was not in a very flourishing condition, as money was extremely scarce, the banks having curtailed their issues of notes very materially. As the Colonial markets are now closed for the Christmas holidays, the attendance of merchants and others in the City is very thin at the usual places of public resort—a very short attendance to-day, nor is it expected that, for a week at least, there will be any large amount of business done, except by retaiL There was exhibited at Mr. Banister s, the Queen's butcher, the son of the Alderman of Windsor, (the Queen's butcher) portions of the splendid animal, the baron of beef cut from which will be placed on her Majesty's table on New Year's day. The meat has re ceived unqualified approbation. The Funds are a shade lower this morning. Consols for the Account are at 100-i (the only price of the day), and the Reduced Three per Cents, have receded to 1001. The premium:upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 645., and that upon India Bonds to 795. Bank Stock for Money is very firm at 209. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. are 31 f per cent. above par. Business has been very b r i s k i n t h e Foreign Funds to-day, and the prices are on the advance. Spanish Five per Cents. have risen to 271 for Account, and to 26i for Money, being 2 per cent. above what they were a week ago; the Three per Cents. have touched 38k. It is reported that another financial scheme is in operation by the Finance Minister at Madrid, but the question is, will it be for the benefit of the foreign creditors of that country. We think not. Portuguese Stock has advanced to 60 for the Three per Cents.; Buenos Ayres have been at 38f ; the French Scrip at 14 premium ; and all the other Foreign Funds are firm. A good business is doing in the Railway Shares this morning, and prices are looking up in most instances. The latest quotations are annexed : BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO O lll New 3* per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 • India Bonds, 1,001 Ditto under 1,001. Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. lid. lid. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... ....• • pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 3744 384 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted .... 59 60 Ditto for the Account 594 60 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 2644 Ditto for the Account Ditto 3 per Cent... 3844 Ditto for the Account Minh Dutch 24 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto 5 per Cent.... '994 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O ' 37... to Cambridge and Lincoln Cheater and Holyhead Churnet Valley... Direct Northern Dublin and Galway Dublin and Mullingar.. . Eastern Counties Eastern Union Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Great Western Ditto 4 Shares Ditto Fifths London and Birmingham 100 .22749 t0228 Ditto, New Thirds Ditto, New Quarter& ... London and 8right0n.......... 50 .... . . 524/ to London and Greenwich ...... 124 ...... 91 ... to London and South Western.. 414 ...... 7546 to Ditto, New 6 ...... 8 ...... ... to London and Croydon ...... Ditto, Guaranteed, 5 per Ct.. 2 London and York... Manchester and Leeds 7O l2O 1 to Midland lOO 112 Newcastle & Darlington June. 24 ...... 6144 .. to North British North Kent Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 13 ... ...... to Ditto New 1 Rugby South-E&stern and DOver•• • ." 33/ ~." 4044 to 413 Ditto, New . . .. .: 4 Trent Valley... ......... ....... 2 ...... 1033 to 114 Yarmouth and Norwich..... 20 York and North Midland... 50 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Extension — Boulogne and Amiens Orleans and Bordeaux... ... 2 Paris and Orleans 2O ...... 444........ to Paris and Rouen... MANCRESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Dgc. 21.—We have had an animated market to-day, and a large business has been done at improved prices :—Eastern Counties, 144 ; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2,19 s. 6d.; Manchester and Leeds, 120 ; Ditto, Sixteenths, 44 i ; Ditto and Bir mingham. 514 ; Ditto, Quarters, 4 15-16 ; Midland, 40/, Shares, 54 ; South-Eastern, New Creation, 104 ; Great Northern of France, 375. 6d. premium ; Paris and Stras burg, 3 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junc tion, 64; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 3; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 475. ; Churnet Valley, 34 11-16 ; Ely and Bradford, 1 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manches, ter, 54 ; London and York, 41 ; Shrewsbury, Wolver hampton, and Dudley, A ; Trent Valley, 94 4 ; West Yorkshire, 64. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—On Monday last Robert Hetherington, a carman in the employ of Mr. Richard Routledge, of Bishops Mills, by whom he was much es teemed for his industry and honesty, committed suicide by drowning himself in the river Caldew. From the particulars which have reached us it appears that the deceased rose on Monday morning, shortly after four o'clock, and told his wife, who was about to become a mother, th....t he would go among her relations, and try to get some one to nurse her. She never saw him again alive. As he did not return home on Monday, consi derable anxiety as to his fate prevailed, and, a search having been made on the Tuesday, his body was found in the Caldew, about a quar t er o f a mile from his own house, having taken off his coat and waistcoat before he committed the rash act. An inquest was subsequently held upon the body, before Mr. Carrick, Coroner, when the jury returned as their verdict "That the deceased had drowned himself while labouring under an attack of temporary insanity." After the deceased had left his house on the Monday, his unconscious wife, or then more probably his widow, was prematurely delivered of a child, which still lives, and to complete the melancholy story her delivery took place in the same bed in which her eldest child, about eleven years old, was lying ill of fever. The bereft widow, a poor and very delicate woman, is now left in a most deplorable condition. with four young children, and without the smallest means of support beyond what is conceded by the benevolence of the charitable.—Car lisle Patriot. A CHALLENGE TURNIP.—There has been for some days exhibiting, - in the shop-window of Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, seedsmen, here, among other fine speci mens of agricultural produce, a white globe turnip, weighing 25 lbs. imperial. This was raised by Mr. William Moncur, Blairgowrie, and we believe is unprece dented in this, and we may suppose in any other quarter. The field was manured with bones and dung in nearly equal proportions, and the whole crop is generally very large.—Perth Courier, THE BARON OF BEEF FOR THE ROYAL TABLE ON CHRISTMAS-DAT.—The splendid baron of beef, which will form the chief dish at the royal banquet table at Windsor Castle, on Christmas-day, is a portion of an extraordinary Scotch ox, fed by his Grace the Arch bishop of York, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. It is of the enormous weight of one hundred and seventy-nine pounds, and measures three feet six inches in length, and two feet eleven inches in width. TURN-OUTS.--A strike of colliers has been avoided at Ashton-under-Lyne, the matter being amicably arranged between masters and men.—The moulders and millwrights at Bury still remain out, —The factory hands at Heywood have given notice to leave their employment unless their wages are advanced.—One thousand miners are out at Oldham.—The colliers who turned out at Tonge-lane colliery, near Rochdale, have resumed their work, the masters having granted the advance asked for. —The principal hands at Pilling and Co.'s and T own _ meadow mills are still out.--Presegz Guardian. It is positively asserted and believed in the best infornibit circles in the French capital that her Majtsty Queen Victoria and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will visit Paris the ensuing spring. Preparations 41'43 even said to be making for the reception of th ese ill us . trious visitors at Foutuiublou and Versailles. —Court Journa4 TIIE BOURSE-SATURDAY, DEC. 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents •• •• 120 80 .. 120 80 .. 120 55 .. 120 65 Fuur•and-a-Half.. • • 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. 113 25 .. Three per Cents.. •.• 84 35 .. 85 50 .. 85 30 .. 85 40 Bank of France• •.•• • • 3275 ..3275 .•3275 ..3275 Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Shftreslll2 50 ..1115 —lll2 50 .. 1115 5,000 f. Sharesso9o ..8090 —5098 -.5090 Belgian Bank 1841 1100 ..1100 —llOO ..1100 1831.•••••••• 103 .. 153 .. 103 .. 103 Belgian Fives,lB4o •••• • • • • 104} •• •104} lo4} .. • 104 i Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • • • 38 .. 34 .. 3 4 .. 33 Active .• Passive .. • 6 .. 6 .. 6 .. Neapolitan ••••••.• •• • • • •• 98 • • 93 • • 93 • . 98 Roman •••••• RAILWAY SNARES. St. Germain •• lO3O ..1030 ..1030 ..1030 Versailles, Rat.. •••.•• • • • • • 520 • • 520 .. 615 .. 517 50 L. 11••• •• •• •••• •• 395 .. 398 74 .. 395 .. 390 25 Rouen ••.•••.••••••••••••• 1077 50 . 1087 50 ..1077 00 ..1087 50 Rouen to Havre.. • Orleans •• ..... •• •• "1152 50 —1192 50 ..1150 ..1150 Strasburg to 8a1e.... •• •• •• 317 50 —;318 75 . 317 50 .. 318 75 Avignon to Marseilles•. •• •• 940 .. 941 50 940 .. 942 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN 3. St. Germain . Versailles, R.B. ••• • • • L. 8.•• •• •• 1080 ..1087 50 —lOBO ..1085 Rouen to Havre•• Orleans .. ••1150 Strasburg to Bale.. •• .• •• •• 318 75 •. 320 .. 817 50 .. 313 75 Avignon to MarsoWes.• •• •• 935 .. 942 80 . 927 50 .. 940 THIS DAY'S NEWS QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Pries, at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a London Common Jury.) TBOMPSON V. BLURTON AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of exchange, given by the defendants as far back as the year 1840, for coals supplied to the Buckingham Club. The defence w$ s that the bill in question was held by Joseph Parker, to whom it had been paid by plaintiff, and that plaintiff had consequently no right to sue on it. The jury found for plaintiff—Damages, 241. ss. Counsel for plaintiff, Mr. V. Lee ; for defendant, Mr, Knowles. This is the last day of the present sittings. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY. (Sittings in London.) PRESCOTT AND ANOTHER V. BARBER AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the eminent bankers Prescott, Grote, and Co., against the defendants, as partners in the late joint-stock bank, the Birmingham Borough Bank, to recover the amount of the balance duo to them as London agents of the Birmingham Com pany. It appeared that the bank stopped payment in February, 1840, but that the affairs are nat, in fact, as yet wound up. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL conducted the case of the plaintiffs, and put in the usual evidence of the partner ship, and the debt, proving that the defendants were shareholders in 1839. Mr. 'TILL, Q.C., for Mr. Warden, the only one of the defendants who contested the question of their liability this day, addressed the jury at very great length, and submitted that as Mr. Warden's shares were forfeited in the early part of 1839, when the affairs of the bank were flourishing, he ceased to be a partner before this balance accrued, and therefore was not liable. k ISITT srEmma.) BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY. A number of trifling country insolvencies were pu down for hearing, but none of them were of the slightes importance to the public. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY Since this day se'nnight, up to Saturday, the arrivals [ of all Grain, especially Irish Oats, were, owing to the contrary winds, extremely limited, yet a decided im provement was apparent in the general condition of the samples Fresh up, very little Wheat of home produce came to hand, coastwise or by land carriage, conse quently the stands were rather scantily supplied. Al. though we had not to say a large attendance of buyers, the demand for all kinds of English Wheat was some what active. In some few instances the rates of the finest parcels were more in favour of the sellers, yet we cannot ,quote any actual improvement in them. The middling and the inferior parcel were likewise held at very full prices, which were obtained by the factors with out difficulty, and a good clearance etre, tc-1, The show of fine foreign Wheat was small. All kinds commanded a ready inquiry, and some rather extensil e sales were concluded, at extreme currencies. Many 01 the holders have withdrawn their samples for the pre sent. Bonded Grain was heavy, but not cheaper. Malt ing and distilling Barley, both English and Foreign. was taken freely, at prices quite equal to those paid on Monday last, but grinding sorts were rather dull. In Malt more business was doing, and the quotations were fully supported. The show of Oat samples was un usually small, owing to the non-arrival of the vessels. The trade, therefore, was firm, and an advance of 6d per quarter was obtained in nearly every instance. Beans and Peas were in sluggish demand, at late rates. In Flour rather more was doing, but without alteration in value. Linseed Cakes sold briskly, at the late advances. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Nam—Essex & Kent, ;MALT—Chevalier......... 61s to 45a red 4os to 50s OATS—Yorkshire - and Ditto, white' 46s to 561 Lincolnsh., feed 22s to 23s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .... 24s to 251 coin, red o rk, Ditto white 42. to 50s! black Irish, red —s to —s' Cork, white Ditto, white H.YE—Old New 3ss to 36. Pigeons litaatsv—Grinding 26s to 315 Pam' Grey Malting Chevalier 3B. to 408 White ......... 36s to 38s MALT—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers folk 5B. to 6 21 . ns:tux—Town made ... 406 to 456 Brown s6s to 60, Suffo k........ . ..... . 32s to 3.5 s Kingston and Ware 63s to 64. Stockton & Nerfolic . 33s to 35 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. WHEAT—Dantzic 32. to Sfis BEANS 241 to IS. Haroburgh... ..... 30s to —s Puss.- ........... ..... 28s to 34• BARLEY OAT.—New ...... lls to 196 Baltic Feed lss to 17. SMITHFIELD. For the time of year, considering that the great market was held last week, we had a full average number of Beasts on sale, in the general quality of which there was nothing calling for particular observation. A:. might be expected, the attendance of both town and country buyers was very limited, owing to which, and most of them having previously purchased their Christ mas supplies, the Beef trade was very dull, at a decline on last week's quotations of 2d per 81bs, the very highest figure not exceeding 4s 4d, and at which a clearance was not effected. The fresh arrivals were extremely small from all quarters—the Bullock supply being chiefly composed of those portions turned out unsold on Monday and Friday last.: Theimports of live stock under the new tariff since our last have been very limited, only eight Beasts and twenty Sheep being on sale this morning from Rotterdam. Comparatively speaking, we had a good supply of Sheep offering, and which, being more than adequate to meet the wants of the butchers, met an unusally dull sale, at barely; in some instances a trifle beneath last week's quotations. Scarcely any Calves were at market, yet the Veal trade was dull, and prices were with difficulty supported. In Pigs exceedingly little business was doing, yet the rates were about stationary. Per 81be. to sink the offaL ..d. to s. d.l _ S. d. to c il. Interior Beasts ..... 3 I Second qualityditto.., 6 Second quality ditto 3 2 9 6 Coarse-woollod ditto.. 310 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Southdown Wethers 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 0 3 6 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small Porkers 3 3 4 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 (' Quarter old Plgs,eachl6 0 20 0 leferior Sheep ..... 210 9 4 Lambs 0 0 0 0 SUPPLY A MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. Pigs. 1 . 3 19 I 18,420 117 no zu EV/ (ULTRA AND &WU) N 34. Notwithstanding the immense supplies of both town and country-killed Meat offering in, these markets:since our last, and the general improvement in quality, we have to report a very active demand, and good clearances have been made, at in most instances higher rates. The show of Meat for Christmas consumption has been seldom equalled, certainly never excelled. • At per stone, by tee Carcase. s. d. toe. d. s. 4 . to s. o. Ace!, inferior ..... . ..... 3 0 3 2 Mutton, inferior 2lO 3 4 middling ..... .." 3 4 3 6 --- middling 3 4 3 4 ---- prime l arge ..... 3 d 3 g —. prime 3 11 310 prime 810 411...., 3 8 310 Pork, 1arge.........." 2 6 11 4 Veal ---4***4--4.—... 3 6 4 4 --small. 3 6 4 0 ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. Scotland ...... ......... .. IN 700 ROO ....... ...... .•• . Yorkshire Norfolk' Essex ................." ...... ... .... 60 210 —• 100 Suflblk 4O 10 120 Cambridgeshire ....... .......» 70 300 100 . llO 100 100 200 Surrey2oo 900 200 34 - 0 Devonshire Wiltshire .....».»............ 60 ICO 90 110 "....". ............. " Other parts ...... ..„ 200 24.0 300 300 .. ..... ..... -- -- - - _ Total ..... „ , 1 2,95'1 L5O 2,160 rrevious week% arrT - v 117,"....... ,060 411 2,6,30 219 2.692 ...... ..... -. Difference since oar last 6 19 290 931 it 8 2 102,011G11 AND SPITALPIELDS. The contrary winds having prevented the arrival of several cargoes of Potatoes, the supplies offering here are small for th e t i me of year, ow i ng t o w hi c h, an d th e increased consumption, the demand is active, at higher prices. The present rates may be considered as varying from 3/. to 4L per ton. BOXOTIG3I HOP MARIEZT. As might be expected, our market is in a very inactive state. however, holders are firm, and will not sell ex cept at very full prices. We are looking forward to higher rates. WOOL 2VCASLICET. The imports of Wool since this day se'nnight have been chiefly composed of 1,000 bales from Launceston and Hobart Town. The best qualities of foreign . and colonial Wools are in steady request, at very sll prices ; 'SUMMARY OF NEWS t ?: ^' !.41.'1 Viubttr Optnton. " Who runs may read." P 031.1. osie r s On Saturday e ven i ng the llX6 Duke de mon r pith accompanied by M. le C om t e d e l a Tour lid honoured the performance of Othello by the Png company with his presence. ) 1 0 M. Gamier Pages, lately residing at Maa rid o ito declared that he intends to make a vigorous oi l upon M. Guizot's policy in Spain in the hoPe dd debate on the address. M. Gamier Pages h a t s . r il ti to that he has so large a number of "monstrous " not allege before the Chamber of Deputies that the clear sighted cannot resist his evidence. . 10 The Patrie stat es th a t th e Mi n i s t er o f Mer l l ol received an o ffi cial notice of th e ar rival of ki r , to Dupetit Tho uars a t Ri o J ane i ro, on his France, where, adds the Patrie, he is daily orloof An earthquak e o f some violence was felt uhf during th e n i g ht o f it h e 1 0t h instant. M f 0 and Chautagne the furniture in the apartinee' ft 0 0 so shaken th a t th e g l asses an d ot h er articles le do tables were thro wn d own . A t Chambery, h " l ed it was so slight, that it was perceived by only A few persons. A letter from Nismes of the 17th instant rePc - „ bf that town as b e i ng k ep t i n constant corong'" conflicts between th e r i va l compagnons of tbe ton . r ferent trades. On the 12th upwards of eighty 110 cutters caught three or four bakers' men 13 '01 1 Place du Grand Temple, and, assailing ti l litbe stones, would have probably killed them but timely interference of the police. usl / gel' M. Thais editor of the Le g iti ma ti s t jour or ti• mine, has been condemned for libel on the toe ment, by the Court of Assizes at Nantes,l o o months' imprisonme n t an d I,ooof. fi ne , n otwww ing an able defence presented by M. Berryer . j res od° Prince Gaston de Montmorency has 0 " b lisbeit letter to the Ga ze tt e d e F rance, w hi c h it PILO' declaring that as h e i s conv i nce d t h a t the ui birso ment is determined to h ave a j u d gmen t aggith he had resolved not to appeal against that vi i iose o f been pronounced upon him, but will conteel with leaving his conduct to public opinion. ~,,i f erre' The title of Duk e , w hi c h has just been tp b e by the King on the Ch ance ll or of France, 13 ai ffret. transmissible to his neph ew , M. G as t on crAllatb eDt _o° According to a re c e n tly-p u bli s h e d statem en t Bureau de Bienfaisance of the first arondi e aTiesti: Paris, which is considered as one of thew eet.bits o ,.; appears that the number of its indigent iir t ' oto has increased, and is still increasing. 0 0 ,1 official returns in 1835, this Bureau bea_. l ,.`" 1,645 families, comprising 3,599 individuir, 1 8411 1841, the numbers were 1,742 families; there were 2,127 families; and in 1843, 2,245 families, comprising 5,242 i n divid ll l s 4 1,097 men, 2,065 women , 1,025 b oys , a nd 1 17 7 ,041 . „, A letter from Vienn a , o f D ec . 8, in the ifl German Gazette, says—" We understand 00 1 0 course of next year, Prince Frederick wi ll lose voyage to China. It is reported that the l e dild Government is not aver se a t p resen t t o acke° ll Queen Isabella. cor ws, General Prim had arri ve d a t CA?" 1111 " A di ll fined in the fort of St. Catalina, where be to main till a ship of war happens to be going Philippine Islands. The Progress du P as d e C a l a i s states :70; ports of Calais and 13ou1ogne are on the ix' L l i ! ec t of ing to a friendly understanding on the sq., r° fl 1 0 ; northern railroad. Calais, it says, is ree" . .,.'diog i ttg cede to Boulogne what it has been deo`;, / bicfP o five years, in exchange for the advantage, . 0 it, d competitor, now become its associate, seli c e l .i n ea accept. Calais assents to the system su° l , o orts Boulogne in 1842—the uniting of all the I 'l C.° in consideration of the Amiens and Bouloe nts itai liany's continuing that line to Calais, and ot, to the same fares to and from Paris and Calais a' from Boulogne and Paris. coinwr—remszowassil. r Her Majesty, it is u n d ers t o od, will a>; Duke Duke of Buckingham with a ,visit at SieW e goit the 7th of January, a n d a ft e rwards pa,' a stmt/ compliment to the Duke of Wellington at fieldsaye. The Marquis and Marchioness of Norroal l iiiit° have returned to the Clarendon Hotel, from Earl and Countess C ow p e r, at Pansanger, ,141' pected to pass the holidays with Lord and LP.' orb merston, at Broadlands, near Romsey. ' The Marquis and Marchioness of Doug olte l cess Mary of Baden) ha v e returned to il a rr ien o Palace, after paying a round of visits to thei r m o oes i in the north. Th e N o bl e M arqu i s and 3 1 $ 1.c ao ssia are expected to co me t o L on d on ear l y in the • year. 1 . ) cheof The Duke of Cleveland has rejoin ed „ - ', 11 1 0 °'; at Raby Castle. His Grace has rece ntly a a ' to the fund for erecting a mechanics' institutio Barnard Castle. Brig b ‘ The Duke of Devonshire has lett town % nu , ilia, ton, on a visit to the E ar l a nd Countess of v the al after His Grace does n o t re t urn to London un Christmas recess. to Nit a ' The Duke of M anc h es t er has retunle w hets bolton Castl e , H un ti ng d ons hi re , from Usbon,d Ca the Noble D u k e accompan i e d the Duchess and e i Olivia Mont agu , w h o are proce eding to the view of benefiting the Duchess's health. sts of Lord Stanley, who is staying with L ad y Der bp and family o n a v i s it t o th e vene rable Earl of t ol Pe c t at Knowsley Park, during the holidays, is lives to return to St. James's-square at the close tie week. The Nobl e L or d w ill, we believe, l'i;f seat in the House o f L or d s on the first cifil ogge rll session, the Parliamentary ° business of his deP „ a ir bein g , it i s un d ers t oo d , intrusted to Mr. Geo r ge I Hope, the Joint U n d er -S ecre t ar y w ith Mr. •,`,, The Marquis o f N or th am pt o n has left t° se lect Castle Ashby, Northampt on shire, wher e (1 011 1 04 4 party will assem bl e t hi s wee k f o r the holidays. The Countess of Portmore has gone to " 112 tn ib i lirj ' s the intention of residing in that city dur vr ived et winter. The Earl and Countess Brownlow have ! ha )(- Belton Hall, near Grantham, from visiting `— quis of Salisbury, at Hatfield House. The Earl and Count ess o f Li s b u rne an d ' - berr passing the winter at C rosswoo d Park, los t ea st with. arrived __ The Earl and C oun t ess o f A m h ers t have Knowle Park, the Countess's seat, from toorn* MIS CI LAIIIIOIIII. rotic, The contest for th e re p resen t a tion of th e 13 : 0 W 4 of Dartmouth is proceeding with vig °llr in sKif sides. The pr ece pt was rece i ve d by the " - t the 20th inst.; a n d as th ree days' notic e A .00 required previous to th e e l ec ti on , the nomi l t i cor) r 1 1 1 ; not take place until Thursday, the 2 6 th , quence of Christmas-d a y b e i ng on Wein esA. t he polling will be on Friday, the 27th. fto l l te The wind has n ow con ti nue d s o long g be eastward, that many homeward-bound vessel collected at the entrance of the Chane l „ ; A tc °ll , ll9 ( l Admiralty last week gave d• • to ch s r: - rel ief small vessels unemployed to proceed to th ej t edlY:pe Mr. O'Connell left Dublin very unelr f uret9 Friday ev en i ng , t o spen d hi s Ch r i stma s at '-'"Geo t al , 6 Abbey. The Monitor states that the 01' ot man made his exit i n a d ownr i g ht " h ell el° Ye signal failure of his pari s h agitation against4t quests Bill. o . t . The most pressing of the Irish " diffieu lti m .lo l e ° , ll o present moment would seem to be the agl . " - n aol,w o . break, which is rapidly extending from on e t hoc, o ' t , country to the other. The outbreak asag mes a crk racter more of an insurrection than of i s olat e /0 03. and is rapidly increasing in intensity, ine tesici ° ing to have met with any che k. „t tie l° , lo t The llague was lieit - ed by c gas for the w- t 0 .1 3 J o e , few days ago. The journals of that Ph ice • r e g;c 11 the gas works, although on a very exte osl ,; to and combining all the most useful provem e ' o f e - o f have been introduced into the manufae ture .ns ce were executed in the almost incredibly s hort, ' t i ll eat: five months, including the laying down a pe five miles of pipes. t o rn l 3 The splendid b aron o f b ee f , w hi c h Iv i • l chief dish at the royal banquet-table gel o f oQ Castle on Christmas-day, is a portion u• A bbi!'6o of frdinary Scotch ox, fed by his Grace the i r p t York, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. I t i n - o' 4 o enormous weight of one hundred and se l i e r ; lee pounds, and measures three feet six inches r teen and two feet eleven inches in width. monialThe s to ub t s h c e rif t t ig io h n t s u towar i‘ ds the M ee l e s ) l ll b cl3 ; on. Nor -Genera t Pottinger, K.C.8., now amounts to about ti" sand pounds. Ail Iley' r e e.. I • YO L .' t Sr.J AIMS'S DLTICE'S-PLACO-7 06e d A O morning this church, which has long been 2 I A jder7o) pairs, was re-opened, the Lord Mayor, . 5 -tr• Musgrove, and Mr. Alderman Sidney (tb ba e r eel` t i attending. The sermon was preached bY a cor o t the Rev. Dr. M'Caul, whose installation to fi i c of,: t el in Saint Paul's was recorded in The 5 u %13 0 ,,,t . Tuesday. The church is situate in a loettliti h i s Tve, - „r almost exc l us i vely by Jews, several of whoo2,e a til 6 t 1 converted to the Christian faith since Dr. r yiet 6 point ment to the incumbency. During the s e ott° A sacred edifice, was crowded in every part, it la r f n ul'oi of persons being attracted by the civic pgl s co he lle r c if t r i s on lib w er a a s lly tu c a o d n e t , r bu ted t whicho . the Lord °l'. s d pde., o nf The Duke o f N ox f a ik, the Earl of ar ts Surrey, Lord Wharueli&, Lord Morpeth , th". tiou, Stuart Wortley, M.P.,11. G. Wa rd ' rad it 4 and Colonel Fullerton, are the p a trons of ti V 4 enso r to take pl ace in She ffi eld on the 9th of th e to be , month, the whol e o f th e proceeds of which °e d. propriated to the bleoholca'-hall Building rig)