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property - which he holds himself, he pays them, not ou t the three per cent., but out of the profits °f the farm. The fact is, that he pays no Wages at all out of his three per cent., except to dotneqic servants, grooms, gamekeepers, and other Personal attendants—none of whom are 125.-a-week labourers. Neither is it true that Mr. COBDEN makes 1 ,600/. per cent. His capital cannot be less than six times, and is most probably ten times, the amount at which Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has assumed it, and While in some years he may make a profit of 6,0001.. In others he may incur a loss of a similar amount and therefore it is necessary to make some allow ance for risks. But let that pass, and let those to whom Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has ad dressed his letter ponder well upon the admission made in this question as to the rate of wages of la bourers employed in agriculture. That rate is twelve shillings per week. We believe that there is not an unskilled labourer employed in manufac tures who is paid less than eighteen shillings a week, We have heard Mr. COBDEN say, in the House of Commons, that no unskilled labourer in his employ ment received less than that sum. It is admitted by every one that, with a repeal of the corn-laws would . come an extension of manufactures, and an ex tension of manufactures, to the unskilled l abourer, means 18s. a week, and yet the monopolists have "the modest assurance" to assume that this law, which keeps down the wages of t he agricultural labourer to 12s. a week, and prevents t he extension of manufactures and manufacturing wages (18s. a week) into the agricultural districts, i s enacted for his especial behoof and protection Out upon such barefaced hypocrisy ! The Madrid papers of the 22d had not reached Nils at the departure of the mail on Sunday. The intelligence from Paris of Sunday gives a fa- P ourable account of the stock and share-market on the previous day, both of which continued gradually t ° ripe from the commencement of business to the Cl ose. The effect produced by the KING'S Speech t vas favourable, and the want of confidence which had long prevailed on the Bourse, may be said to have e ntirely' disappeared. The papers of Sunday are ehtefi occupied in discussing the KING'S Speech, and 111 remarks on the election of President of the Cham ber of Deputies. To those of the Opposition it of course appears very defective on many points, such as ,e affairs of the Lebanon, Greece , Spa in, M exico and Madagascar, and abounds too much With flattery to England. The Constitutionnel eB Pecially is offended with the multiplied professions Of "friendship, affection, mutual confidence, pacific "(I earnest assurances, good and intimate relations, an d cordial co .operation with which the entente cor diale b e t ween France and England is acknow le g ed." , writer admits the advantages of the good under- Itl nding between the two countries , a nd is anxious fo r its continuance on reasonable and e q ual terms, b ut still thinks that it is obtained at too high a price. an xious readers," says that journal, " know well how I , 4ll tous we are for the maintenance of pacific rela -I°lls between France and England. The English Press almost unanimously has done us the justice of Itßu t our spirit of loyalty and impartiality. atti tude ill truth, by the language which is held, and the driven which is impoked upon us, we might be ti riv en into feelings of a directly contrary descrip 6-4. 'We blush to see this humility and these b i a nspores of gratitude. Would a short and precise o ' grt ise not be sufficient ? Why, then, always down : 11 ° ienees? Do you think the subordinate positio n o la b ,you give yourselves gains you the esteem of p ; pr. ) ud neighbours, and will place France in the 16 ° 1 1 which belongs to her in the affairs of the Worl d?'' From all accounts, M. SAUZET will be - , eev 4 , eel President of the Chamber by a vast t orit 37. . On that subject the Siecle says :- 0 1:1 onday the Chamber of Deputies meets to -et its President. The candidate a do p ted b y the t il l p t -re Opposition is the Hon. M. DUFAURE. The t : fractions of the Left and Left Centre will sepa -4 assemble to-morrow, to agree upon the choice f)l 4l ke-Tresidents and Secretaries, who will be una- N ti at lV supported by the Opposition. The nomi siew°ll albout to take place would have a great political fiektion if all the Opposition Deputies were at their post. Unfortunately, the absence of many tieas I:Paced to-day. We trust that the absent will the ;responsibility which they incur by neglecting tr dusty. Last year some of the Ministerial can k`4tes only carried their election by majorities of three Tad four votes. The situation is now morally w (4.50 v and the negligence of the Deputies of the 0 13 1 1 °sition would restore to the Cabinet a confidence of . Which its faults had deprived it." th 'he Ministerial journal states that the whole of e ° nservative party will vote for M. SAUZET, and ,Coe o).is upon certain victory. M. DUFAURE, selected t / t t %e Opposition, it considers a bad choice, and tb t le 'k'ts that the national candidate of the Left should o ODIEGN BARROT. "Ifit be true," continues 44 ° Writer, as a morning paper states, " that a close th c l thissoluble alliance will hereafter exist between tb e two great fractions of the Opposition, the league have chosen, to try its strength, a more signi 'kt name than that of M. DUFAURE. But it mat ter hatle; we accept M. DUFAURE with the mean °k which the suffrages of the Left and Left Centre °id impart to his election. We shall see on what a ide the majority lies. Nevertheless, that indissoluble lVosition was so often dissolved by the first shock, af ter having been proclaimed with as much eclat as ' ll this occasion, that we are inclined to predict the ; 4 1 , 41 e fate to this alliance of the Left and Left Centre. e) however, invite the Conservatives to remain b aited, as if an alliance actually existed among their °l'Ponents." tae PoLK's Message also furnishes topics for e reuaarks of the journals, of which we give the °ll ° wing summary from Galigvani :- 1: The Ministerial organ, Le Journal des Debuts begins 4 1 . observing that the Message does not show that the ita of conciliation forms a leading trait in the character v • kr. Polk, and that he talks much about moderation .;!hout displaying any in his language, which, says the ;_ etc/es, is such that if it were used from Government to L!°Arerneaent, a war must be the consequence. Our Con irporary then enters upon an analysis of the entire eit e ssage, with a running commentary. The facts of the (i f! are stated with great clearnes", and with an evident ti ; 3l re to appear impartial in the estimation of their i i , el ' i tss but the writer appears nevertheless to have an Tres, .sign unfavourable to the claims of the American xj e .s',dent. At any rate it is quite certain that the '4Ots regards those claims as unseasonable. Our Con- It,lnporary considers a war between England and the sited States of America probable, if Mr. Polk's demands approved of by the Senate, but it has great doubts of t his result. The Debuts says:—' From what we have 844 1 ▪ it must nut be interred that we regard a rupture probable, even after this Message. The _House of • presentatives may voto offensive measures, and there 4 every reason to suppose that it will do so when excited 4 : 3 such a course by the first magistrate; but there is %son to hope that the interests of peace will find refuge a nd Support in the senate, of which the most illustrious i' 4 , 1 3 of the country are members, and in the interval "e misled people may return to reason. It is not, how tver, to be denied that the President seeks to excite war, "d in this respect his Message is a novelty, even after those of General Jackson.' " Towards the conclusion of its article the Debuts b ecomes more animated, and remarks with more seve ;,itY upon the conduct and language of Mr. Polk, whom s regards as a man pushed on by democratic ambition t ‘ : r) a course which may be fatal to him. The absence of ae usual courtesy towards foreign powers is particu '4rly noticed and censured, and Mr. Polk's mode of alluding to France on the Texas question is warmly "ndenined. Instead of attempting to imitate the dig nified language of his illustrious predecessors (says the " t aeots), Mr. Polk places himself on a level with the rude cultivators of the valley of the Ohio, in whose opinion Eu rope is a collection of degraded beings, groaning under ,a weight of monarchical principles, and over whom ' 4 e Union would obtain an easy and sure triumph. Our eu ntemporary vindicates the French Government with great energy against the :accusations of Mr. Polk, and declares that it is as anxious to promote true liberty as at can be, but that, unlike him, it is actuated by con *lerations for the sacred principle of justice. Our , I ; e aders may judge of the anger of the Debuts by the fact although it studiously seeks to hold the scales with aa l equal hand as regards the dispute between England 1 411 d the United States, it cannot refrain from telling Mr. - L: 01 k that, in speaking of the Texas and Mexican af fairs, he expressos hiirrso If in terms of detestible hy pocrisy, The Const:tutionnel indulges in a few corn !nents on the Message, but in the little that it does say It differs greatly from the Debuts. Far from finding in the language of Mr. Polk the tone of insult and defiance so ; apparent to the Debat;, it regards it as soft, consider :ll,g what h a d b een p u bli s h e d i n th e A mer i can jo u rnal wie Union, and which is regarded as Mr. Polk's or gan. The allusion of the American President to France a lso finds a certain grace in the eyes of the Const,tu ej_unnel, for it regar d s it as a h ap p y hit a t th e poli c y o f M. L..iuizot, rather than as an insult to the French nation. The Presse allows that the Message is rather menacing than conciliatory, and admits that the President has set HP pretensions greater than those of his predecessors. These, observes the Presse, must be abated, but England Q n her side rust also show moderation. According to TRE SUN, LONDON, Tulls DAY the Presse, the state of things stands thus:—Mr. Polk, by his firmness, will compel the English to come down a few pegs in their claims; the Senate will refuse to sanc tion the extreme views of the President ; and the two Governments thus restrained, the one by fear of the hostile attitude of the United States, the other by the prudence of the Senate, will again negotiate and at length come to a good understanding. The Presse evi dently calculates more, however, upon the fears of Eng land than upon the prudence of America. The National expresses its regret that want of time and space prevents it, for the present, from saying all it thinks of the Message. It must, it says, confine itself to remarking that the language of Mr. Polk is clear, firm, and decisive, and that there is no longer a door left open for compromise. This journal seems to think that when the President of the United States lays down his opinion thus decisively, it must, as a matter of course, be approved of by the Legislature, and that nothing is left for England but to withdraw her pre tensions, and accept peace with the United States on the terms offered by the President. The Courrier Fran cais observes that the Message is very warlike in the terms used, but really very pacific in spirit, and ex presses its belief that the dispute will be arranged. Our readers are aware of the view taken of this ques tion by the Courrier, it is that neither France nor England has any right to the Oregon territory. The Courrier coincides with Mr. Polk in what he says about the French Government and the question of the Texas, and attacks M. Guizot warmly for putting himself at the service of England." The Emperor NICHOLAS arrived at Florence on the 19th, after remaining five days at Rome. A letter front that capital of the same date says : "The Pope, in separating from the Emperor for the last time, said, lem an old man, who will soon appear before God to give an account of my actions in this world. You are young, but you will one day appear there also. Think of that ! I trust that God will en lighten your conscience. and will make you change your conduct with respect to your subjects of the Catholic communion.' " On Sunday the Three per Cents. were done at TORTONI'S at 82f. 85c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEG. 29. Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... 1 Barba does Boulogne and Amiens.. 11% Namur and Liege — Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ... Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 10 1 / 1)o. ( Mackenzie's ).. 1 j( i Over Yssel ••• Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Ly-ons (Laffitte) 2% citic Coast Central of Spain .. Ceylon . Demerara Denelre Valley ...... Dutch Rhenish ... Dieppe & Paris Janet — i (Ganneron's) Dijon and Mulhouse ... Do. (Compe de L'Est) East Indian ....»........ 15y8 IDo. Do. (Aymard's) — Fampoux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin — Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre-- Constituted 14% 'Royal North of Spain. Do. Pepin le Hallam — Sambre and Meuse .... 5% Great Paris and Lyons 2% Strasburg and Bale .... Great Western Bengal Tournay,Jurbise, Lan- Great Western Canada 3% den, and Hasselt ... Jamaica S. Mid. Jaiaction Tours and Nantes Do. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) — Do. Extension Jersey Trinidad Verona and Ancona 2 West Flanders — Louvain and Jemappe 2 1 4 Lyons and Avignon Luxembourg THE INIDIBTar.—We noticed a few days ago the statement that Lord Ellenborough would be appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Lord Haddington. It is now very generally rumoured that Lord Had dington will not leave Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, but will take another office in the ,t.dministration. Lord Stanley is said to be assuring his friends that he does not disapprove of any measure contemplated by the Government. What does this mean ?—that Lord Stanley is a free-trader, or that Sir Robert Peel is nat ? MPERIAL PARL lAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) This being the day to which Parliament was prorogued, on the 16th, the Commissioners attended for the purpose of its further prorogation io the 22d January, according to the Order in Council just issued, at two o'clock, the usual hour. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Haddiagton, and Lord Dalhousie. A few minutes past two o'clock the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack, and commanded Mr. Pulman to summon the Commons to the bar. Immediately after, Mr. Henry Lee and the other officerA of the House of Commons appeared at the bar. The Clerk then read the Royal Commission, when the Lord Chancellor, in conformity with the powers therein conferred, further prorogued Parliament to the 22d of January next, then to meet for the transaction of business. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The".sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 7,000 to 8,000 bags, 2,000 being on speculation, and all at very full prices. There was a good business done in shares, and a con siderable advance took place in prices. The commercial accounts rihich have been received from India and China are considered to be of a satisfactory tenor. The current of trade betweeja the British and the Chinese ports, which have been opened by the treaty with the Em peror of the Chinese, had become more steady, and the great desire previously existing for extensive speculations in goods appears to have given place to a snore wholesome and regular description of business. Still, however, there were many difficulties yet to be overcome before an entire and free intercourse will be had with the Chinese. Thiel mode in which the merchants having exclusi'-e privileges heretofore transacted operations, especially as regards the Chinese, appears to be incompatible with a free trade, and old pi rjudices will take a long time ere they be swept away. Still, however, the private accounts we have seen are full of hope that a few years will afford ample: proof that the Chinese merchants must give way to the necessary forms for conduct ing business, and that as mach confidence will be placed in icdividuals of British origin. trading with them, as was so eminently displayed towards the representatives of th e E as t In dia Company, down to the Ne try moment when that establish ment ceased to be a commereial community. It isunderstood that shipments recently ma, le to Chinese ports have turned out well, thus making up in some measure for the heavy losses which many of our meediants sustained by overloading' the markets of China with goods when the trade was first opened. There are no liter accounts of importance from the co lonies to-day. The advice given yesterday, under this head, that the Metropolitan bankers should take into due and liberal con sideration the - severe labour imposed upon their clerks during the railway mania, and by which the bankers themselves are such large gainers, may be extended we think with even greater force to the sharebrokers. Itt. the majority of cases these have been overwhelmed with business, which, night and day combined, scarcely sufficed to bring them comfort ably through, and a very am nple " Christmas-box" may not probably cover the injury .None to the health of those in their service. At present, it :is true, the hours of buStness are greatly circumscribed, and much more like those for merly observed by stockbrokers, but they must not on that account, forget that they have had the gingerbread, and now refuse to give those who zealously assisted them, a trifling portion of " the gilt." The Public Securities have been moderately active, and the quotations are pretty steady. Consols have been 95 to 94 3 / 4 for time. On Exchequer bills the premium has been '2.55. to 285., being higher again. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 97 97%, and the Three per Cents. 95 to %. Bank Stock is 203% to 204%, having given way slightly. The premium on East India Bonds is 38s. for those under 1,0001. Portuguese Stock has been rather lively, but it seems to be rather on account of tellers than purchasers. The Four per Cents. have realised 59Th to 60%. Mexican Active Bonds have been steady at 31%, and the Deferred at 17% % ; Chilian Stock is worth 99; Spanish Bonds are flat, and quite neglected; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 61 to %. The Share Market has been very buoyant again, and prices are nearly all better , bot h for English and Foreign Scrips. 131{1T1SII FUNDS 'Ellis DAY AT . ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95%% 95 95 1 4 New 34 per Cont. Annuities ...... 97% 97 97 1 4% Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... 10% 9-16 India Bonds 1,0001 Ditto under 1.0001 3B Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 / 2 d. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — .. .. 27 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 41 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent 99 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 31% Ditto Deferreu Peruvian Bovds, 6 per Cent 40% 42 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Ditto 4 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840... Ditto 3 per Cent 4O Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93 3 4 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PER SHARE. Cambridge and Lincoln ...,.. I', Ditto, New...,... Cam bridr, and Oxford l% to Canterbury and Dover 1%..... —, ...... to Central Kent 2 l, 2 Chelmsford and Bury .. Chester and Holyhead Chester and Manchester Cheltenham and Oxford Clydesdale Jupction Cnrk,Blackr -1. -AP-- ;on , —iackrock, and Pastimges 22s . ... ...... to Cork and Killarney i!IA Cork and Waterford.... ..... .. 1% — Cornwall ... Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir., and Leicester l l4 — Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 42q . . _. Derby, Gainsboroc and Great Grimsby . Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staff'd 2%...... Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2* l 2 l/ ...... to Ditto (Rastrick's) 5%...... 4 1 % to Pirect Northern Direct Norwich Dublin and Armagh . l% — to Dublin and Belfaat Junction 5 Dublin,Belfaq,andColeraine 2 1 4 - Dublin and ^ Galway 4 _ _ Dudley, Madely, & Broseley Dundalk and Enniskillen...... _2 1 ,4 — to Eastern Counties 141. 16s. — 2 2 1 4 1,1... to 22 3 / 4 Do. New 6/. I6s Bl p... to Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d .. to Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...4/. 13s. 4d p... to East Dereham and Norwich 1 Ely and Huntingdon 5 Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 , x ...... .. to Essex and Suffolk l% to Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth 42s. Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2 3 %. Eastern Union Ditto 4 Shares... ........ 2 1 A Ditto Extension Ditto Ipswich and Bury Ditto Extension to Norwich 214 Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2 1 A. East Lincolnshire 1%,., East and West of England 1%.. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O Ditto 1/ Shares 5 .., Ditto New 1 4 Shares 714 Edinburgh and Northern 1 14.. Edinburgh and Perth Gloucester, Aberystwith , and Central of Wales Goole andDoncaster 42s. Grand Junction 100 Ditto % Shares 5O .. Ditto Quarter Shares 25 .., GrndUnion(Notting.&Lynn) 1%.., Great Eastern and Western 2 l, .., GreatGrimsby andShelteld 5 .., Great South andW.(lrish) l5 Ditto Extension Great Munster Great North of Scotland Great North of England...,, lOO Ditto New ............. 5 Ditto New 2 Great Western BO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fareham, Portms, Harwich Gull and Selby Ditto Quarters . ...... Ditto Half Shares Inverness and Elgin Ipswich, Norwich, Yarmouth 2 ... Irish North Midland Isle of Axholme Killarney Junctions 1 j ... Kendal and Windermere Lancaster and Carlisle 3O ... Lame, Belfast, & Ballymena 2 1 / 2 Leeds and Carlisle Leeds and West Riding June 1%... Leicester and Birmingham 22s. ..., Leicester and Bedford 22s. Leicester and Tamworth 42S. ... Liverpool and Manchester lOO Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 25 .... Liverpool and Leeds Direct Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction 2% London and Birmingham 100 Do. Thirds lO .. Do. Quarters Do. Fifths ... 2 Do. Extension London & Blackwall...l6l. 13s. 4d..... Do. New Do. Extension London and Brighton Do. Consolidated Eighths 40 Do. Sixths London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. Pd.._ Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 8 London, Cheltenham, Oxford, Gloucester, and Hereford... 1% .... London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d.. Ditto Preference e.:lB/ 17s 2d.. London, Hounslow, &Western 2 . London and South Western.. Do. New consolidated Bths.. 20 Ditto New Do. New London and South Essex— 2 3 / 4 London and York London and Windsor ......... 1 .... Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2 1 A.... London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2 Londonderry and Coleraine... 5 .... Londonderry and Enniskillen 5 ...., Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Maziehecmi end Leeds 76 ..., Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths ..... 514 Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters 4 Ditto New Quarters 2 Do. Continuation & Welsh Junction Manch, Buxt)n, & Matlock 425....•. Manchester Birmingham, and •••••• ..... •••••• tO .... to - - ••• ..• to .... • •••• .......' to ••• to -_ ... — to to to 2 1 / 2 •••• ... to . • " to .•••• •••••.. tO ••• 18IA ...... to ••• .... ...... tO •••• ..... - to .... % p ..... to 1p •••• - to ,•••• ~..• ... to— to to to ..• to to ....213 to -- 163 to 162 93 ▪ 18 • to 38 ▪ to to to t OO O t ~... to ••• to to to •••• to •••• ••• to to 1 p to to to ....•• .••• 2%%.•• to o o ~.. 3 3 / 4 to 4 ..221 •• t 0...• ...• 24 - to " . 91 / 2 to tO " ~. 67 ,•• to -- 221/21A to 23 ,•• - ••• •• •• • • to ••••• ,•• to .•• ~. 77 1 ,1 to 77 ,•• ..19'/ 2 to ,•• ••• ,•• 4 1 / 1 .1 /•—• to --- - to ••• to ,•• to— to — ..185 ..63 to — ..13 to ,•• 78 - • • •• •• to ,•• ••• • • to - ~. -- .. 2% 3 ..3 p to 2 3 4 p Mould Junction — ... Manchester & Rugby Direct 425. Manchester and Southampton 2 8% 1 4 to ...157 156 1 ,4 to 157 1 4 ,•• ---- ~. 31 1 / 2 to 32 1 ,4 .. •••••• to • • ." .• • . • ••• 59 - .•• ,„, 15 ~. ~• ,•• Midland lOO .. Ditto Fifths Ditto, New l2 Midland, Birm., and Derby 100 Midland and Eastern Counties VA...., Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2% Do. Extension (No. 1) ... 2% Newcastle & Darlington Jnn e. '25 Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle lOO Newport and Abergavenny. New Ross and Carlow 22s. Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% , Newark, Sheffield, and Boston Norfolk Extension North British Ditto Half Shares.. 3 l /x Do. Extension to Carlisle... Do. Extens. to Dalkeith ... 25 Ditto ditto.. North Devon North of Norfolk Nertrtern and Eastern 45 Ditto Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) 35 .... Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New North Kent & Direct Dever 2%.... North Staffordshire.— ...... 425. .... North Wales 3% ... Borth and South Wales and ,• ~. 2% to ...... ••• - ,•. 25%.•• 0 O to 26 1 / .i. ~. 8 ~. 2%... to ~. ,•• - -. ...-- • • .• t0..18 ..18 — , ~. 3% to ~. 44 p to 4p to Worcester North. & South. Connecting 2%..., Norwich and Brandon l 6 ...., Ditto New Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1%...., Notting.,Erewsh.Val.,&Manc. 1%.... Nottingham and Mansfield — Oxford, Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton 425..... Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Oxfd., Witney, & Cheltnham Perth and Inverness Pilbrow Atmospheric Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre Ditto, Half Shares Reading, Guildford, & Reigate 425. Richmond Rugby, Derby, & Manchester 2%..., Rugby and Huntingdon Rugby, Leamington, ana Warwick Rugby, Warwick, and Wor cestcr Scottish Central Scottish Midland . Ditto, Extension Sheffield and Manchester ...100 Ditto Shares Shrewsburyand Birmingham 2 1 / 2 _ Shropshire Mineral ... 425. Shropshire Union Shrewsbury and Hereford Shrewsbury, rrolverhampton, and S. Staffordsh. Junction 2 1 4.. , Sligo and Shannon Somersetshire Midland South Devon South Midland 42s. South and Midlands Junction 425..•., South Staffordshire Junction 2 1 4—, South Eastern and Dover Ditto, New, No. 1 Ditto, New, No. 2 Ditto, New, No. 3 lO ..., Ditto New, No. 4. ...... Southampton, Macchester, and Oxford Junction. 4!5.... St. Alban s, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction Staines and Richmond— 1 ..., Staffordshire and Shropshire 2 8 4._ South Wales Taw Vale Extension Tean and Dove Valley 1%.... Trent Valley Trent Val. & Holyhead June 2% ..., Tring, Reading, & Basingstoke 54.... Ulverstone and Furness Vale of Neath Warwick and Cheltenham Warwick and Worcester 425.... Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wexford, Wi eklw, and Dublin Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia Wavenev Valley Welch Midland 2l /2 West Cornwall 2 ... West Yorkshire West London, Old Slia?es West End & South. Counties IIA ... Wexford and Carlow .. . 2 1 ,4... Wisbeach and St. Ives 2 .., Wilts, fisausrget, & stluMiptll, to to ..- •• ••• te ,• • .-.. •••••• tO ...-^ 2 3 A to 3 to 2 1 4 1 to •• .... ••• •• to -- 15% to— to ..• to to •.• ...• t 0..... ..... to to —1 '1 1 to to to 1 00.0 .'' - •••• ••••• . to ,••• 16 ... 6 to— to— t.— to— to— t._ .• •• 000000 to .. .•-• to-- ••• •••• •••••• to .••• •• •• to , --- ...... to 29 .... to 4V B 3 3 A p to 414 p ..• ••• -. ~.. 38 ti; 39 .... 15 to ~.. 104.. • to .... ~.. 8%% to ,• •••e• • to ..... •••• •• •• • to ••••• ,••• 2% , ••• t®_.. •• • • •••• I ', . 17 1 / 2 to— ...— to --. t -- •••• to 3 5 ' 1 4 3 / 4 to ••• to .••• to ...• to .•••• to •• .... ..... ••• • • to _ 1% to t -25/14 to ...• to— to to -.. tt••• • - I, MI Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 2 1 / 2 ...... 3% to 4 Worcester, Hereford, Ross; and Gloucestr .;;;i.;...... 4, l L' W - circester,Tinbury, & Ludlow 2 3 % — to W W' r r o ri r t c c e r sle B r h a re n w d s S . & ou C th re M wre a U les ll ... 412% — ... .. to s. to Worcester,Warwick,& Rugby 42 5 . — Yarmouth and Norwich .b.. 20 --•-•- Ditto ; NOV... ............ .. ..• 17 York and Carlisle .. 2 3 /4 2 14 to York and Lancaster York and North Midland. .. 50 - Ditto ; Half Shares ...... ._.- ..... to -- Ditto. Scarboro' Branch Ditto, Selby 2O Ditto. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian Barbadoea - Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Mediteranean 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie's) 2 Bordeaux. Toulouse, & Cette (Espelete's) Calais, Dunk, & W. Flanders Callao, Lima, & Pacific Coast 1 ...... - Central of Spain .. Ceylon .... s s, Demerara Dendre Valley Dijon and Mulhouse ............ 2 . ... to Dutch Rhenish... .......... ... 6 East Indian Eastern Belgian Junction 2% ...... Fampoux and Hazebrouk..... 2 Great Northern of France Constituted Great Paris and Lyons 2 - Great Western 8enga1...,..... ss. Great Western Canada ....... 3 1 / 4 ...... •••••• to Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1 Jamaica North Midland 1 Ditto Extension ............. 1 ... .. - Jersey 1 Louvain and Jemeppe ...... ... 4 Lyons and Avign0n............ 2 • Luxembourg .................. 4 Madrid and Valentia ........ . 2 Mauritius 1 - NamEr and Liege 4 ...... ...... North Jamaica 1 Orleans and Vierzon ....... .. 10 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 ..... . to Over Yssel . 413 s 4d...... Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 3 Paris and Lyonse(Calon's)... 2 Paris and Lyons (Sud Est)... 2 Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Rouen .. .. Paris & Strasburg( Gan nern's) 2 Do. (Compc de L'Est) 2 Ditto (Aymards) 2 14 Paris and St. Quentin 2 Rouen and Havre Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale l4 ..... to St. Laurence and Atlantic — Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 4 Ditto Ditto Lefebvre's)... 2 .. Do. (O'Neill's) 2 Trinidad.. ...... .. ......... ..... 21. E Verona and Ancona 3 West Flanders MINES. _EV EN] NG, DRCETSI BER 30, _1845. dead falls doe; except the share shall have been purchased before the first election takes place. Seci. 4, Five members of the directory, the president being ore of the number, must positively be pre seh t the discussions on any transactions: the president may liVanina.te any other director to supply his place, in cas4 of illncss or Any other impediment. Sect. Sixty shareholders or proprietors, possessing between them 1,000 ebares or upwards, only, can call a meeting of the proprietors or share holders, for taking into consideration any matter for the good of the establishment ; making public their reason for calling iueh meeting, at least three months previous thereto, in two üblic prints. Sect. 6. Every clerk or cashier of the Bank shall find two or more sureties for fifty contos of reis at least, subject to the approval of the directors, for his good behaviour and faithful discharge of his duties, before he can enter on the exercise thereof. Sect. 7. The Bank Corporation cannot, directly or indi rectly, possess any landed property, except those necessary for its accommodation and the carry ing on its business ; or such as may have been mortgaged to them, or in satisfaction of any debt previously contracted in the course of busi ness, or declared theirs by public auction, in consequence of any sentence obtained by them on account of such debts. Sect. S. The Company cannot directly nor indirectly trade in anything but bills of exchange, gold or silver in bars, deaf, or coin, diamonds, produce or lands by virtue of an execution, or takenl bona fide in payment of any debts, or merchandise the produce of its estates; it cannot make pur chases iu the public funds, nor charge more than 9 per cent. interest on its loans or discounts. Sect. 9. The Company cannot make any advances to the General or Pros icinal Governments fur a longer period than 180 days, and even so, not in such sums as may alter the relative proportions esta blished by this law, between its realised capital and its issues. Sect. 10. All bills or notes issued by order of the Com pany, signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier or chief clerk thereof, payable to any person or persons whatever, to their order or to the bearer, although they may not have the Company's seal or emblem, the Company shall be liable for the same as if issued by any one of its members in their private capacity ; those made payable to any person or persons or to their order, shall be endorsed in like manner as bills of exchange, and those payable to the bearer shall be transferrable. The bills and notes so issued shall be payable at sight. Sec. 11. Once every year the directors shall lay before the proprietors or shareholders at a general public meet ing, for their information, an exact report of the debts outstanding, after the time of payment had elapsed ; as likewise an account of all their transactions and of their profits, after deducting the losses, if any have arisen. Sec. 12. The directors shall establish branch banks of discount and deposit, in such provinces as the Imperial Legislative Assembly may direct, on the representation of the Provincial Assembly, setting forth that the pro vince already possesses, or is ready to take shares, to one-third the amount, at least, of the paper money cir culating therein. They may, moreover, establish like branches wherever they may think fit, assigning them regulations, and appointing to each from one to three directors, removable at pleasure. Sec. 13. The Inspector-General of the Treasury may demand, every week, information respecting the state of the Bank, and may inspect or order all the books, documents, and accounts, including those of the divi dends, to be inspected. A statement of its affairs shall be published monthly, in such manner as the Minister of Finance may order. The Bank shall be at all times open for the full and unrestricted inspection of a com mittee from either Legislative Chamber, of a committee of the proprietors, and to all and every one of the directors. The Minister of Finance, or a committee of either of the said Chambers, or any person authorised by the one or the other, may order a notice to be given for the examination on oath of the directors, officers, cashiers, agents, &c., of the Bank, touching any matter relating thereto or to its transactions : any one of whom refusing to comply shall be fined 100 milreis. Sec. 14. No palter shall be discounted, nor any loan granted, for a longer period than 180 days ; and no written obligation, bill of exchange, debt, nor proof of debt, of what nature soever, shall be renewed by any agreement with the Bank, after the term has expired for which it was negotiated. Sec. 15. The Bank shall make no payments in the notes of any other bank, nor in any other thing than lawful coins, bars, tweasury notes, paper money, or its own notes. Sec. 16. The notes which are to be put in circulation as money shall be prepared at the central banks, duly signed as above described, and payable at the Bank in the metropolis, or at any of its branches of discounts and deposits, as specified in the note. The Bank is not, however, prohibited from passing orders payable at other banks or commercial houses, of fifty milnis or upwards. Sec. 17. The notes and bills of the said corporation, although mode payable at a certain place, may, never theless, be received at any branch for discounts and de posits, whenever they may be tendered in liquidation or payment of the balance of any debt. Sec. 18. The Bank shall not lend any money to any of its officers or agents, nor discount any bill or note, of which any one or more of them may be the passers, drawers, endorsers, acceptors, or a party tu, on any ac count whatever ; this provision does not, however, in clude the directors, unless they may be serving as a salaried officer or agent. Art. 20. The Bank Corporation shall not be owing more than double the amount of the paper moneys, Treasury notes, deposits of gold and silver, coins of the precious metals, bonds of the public debt, or landed pro perty mortgaged fur half its real value ; nor discount any bills, or otherwise extend its loans, whenever its notes in circulation shall exceed five times the amount of the precious metals contained in its coffers, on pain of becoming responsible individually, as well as the direc tors of the Bank collectively, who, being present when such excess of liabilities over assets was ascertained, should not immediately acquaint the Government there with, and also the proprietors duly summoned to attend a general meeting. 21. The Bank dividends shall be paid half-yearly, de ducting therefrom, besides the three per cent. appro priated by Clause 3 of Article 15 to the cancelling and exchange of the paper money in circulation, two per cent. more for a reserve fund (rest), which shall likewise be employed in loans and discounts for the benefit of the proprietors. 22. The Bank shall deposit in its vaults, or transfer from one place to another, the Government securities, delivering them over to the public creditors on the pre sentation of " cheques" from the treasurer of the public or provincial treasuries, by order of the Government, without charging any commission or difference cf ex change on such transactions. 23. Should the Bank neglect or fail in making nay payment in due time, the party to whom it is due shall receive twelve per cent. premium for the delay : except in case of any extraordinary occurrence which may threaten the existence of the Bank ; in which case, a previous representation to, and a resolution of, his Im perial Majesty in Council, for a limited time, will be requisite. 24. The Bank shall continue in operation for thirty years, and two years more for the liquidation and settle ment of its affairs ; during the whole of which period it shall possess all the rights above enumerated, and enjoy the following privileges, namely : Sec. 1. The Bank shares shall have the same privi leges which the bonds of the National Debt now have or may hereafter be granted them. Sec. 2. The paper imported, as also the machinery for stamping it, required by the Bank, shall t:P free of duty. th r oughout Sec. 3. Those in the employ of the Bank , the empire, shall be exempt from all military seivii...?; whether of the National Guards, or of the army or navy. Sec. 4. The Government shall cause to be essayed, 1 smelted, and refined, all the gold and silver sent by the Bank for those purposes, free of expense. Sec. 5. The Government shall provide at all times and places within the empire, the necessary protection for the funds of the Bank Corporation, and convey them gratuitously, by vessels of war or steam-boats belonging to companies having Government contracts. Sec. 6. 'The Government shall give the Bank prefer ence, on equal terms, to any other party, as to the dis count of its bills, Custom-house notes, or in making re mittances to foreign countries, and in other operations which it may be lawful for them to undertake. Sec. 7. The Government shall cause to be kept in the offices of the Company, and of its branches in the pro vinces, a hook, in which shall be registered the ordered to be made by the law of the 21st of Oct. 1843. 15. All the conditions contemplated by this law may undergo such modifications as the Company may pro pose, and the Government consider proper to be adopted, so as that the cancelling the present and sub stitution of other paper, convertible in gold or silver, at the option of the holder, shall be accomplished in twenty years; those, however, which may be attended with any additional expense to be subject to the approval of the legislative body. ' 26. As it will not be possible to organise one national or public company which shall solely undertake the can celling the paper throughout she whole empire, the Go vernment way endeavour to effect similar establishments in some of the provinces, or union of provinces, consign ing them in proportion to the amount to be cancelled by them, not only the funds appropriated to the purchase of shares, but likewise of those destined for tho annual con tributions. 27., Those who may forge the notes of the Bank, the current coins of the empire, or other securities issued by the Government or Bank, of what description or nature soever, shall be condemned to the galleys (hulks) for life, at the Island of Fernando ; or in the naval or mili tary arsenals of the provinces in which they may have been tried ; independent of the fines prescribed in the criminal code. 28. Those concerned in producing or circulating counterfeit money or forged paper, shall be condemned to the galleys (hulks) for ten or twenty years, besides I i.lie above fines. e 9. Those who may let or allow their premises to be occupi,ed by forgers, or makers of counterfeit money, or paper, for the purpose of forging the same, as also those who shall harbour or afford any assistance what ever to the i-orgers,,or circulators of false coins or paper, or shall in 1112.,v wise facilitate the accomplishment of the crime, or sh all conceal it, or aid the escape of the guilty parties, aft. , !r they have been discovered and pro secnted, shall be punished as accompl s. 30. The chief of the police and the . Judges de Direito in all ;he coin or p parishes l o I the provice in which the false be found, are the magistrates who -':-Pe n sihsaalnce. of the above - me ntioned crimes, and shall take ce.... g ey before whom to. sh ill be brought to trial. Ire processes, or prosecutions, may be 31 . TW°.:9l. alt s , - a sh of the came province, for toformed. :al a iiie reu, r- I Real del Monte, Unregistered • 4 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. by S., squally. DEAL, DEC. 29.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Gipsy Turpin, Singapore ; Emily, Calcutta ; Posthumous, Honduras ; Toronto, Tinker, New York. Arrd. from the River for, Glenlyon, Meurhead, New Orleans. Sid. Belle Creole, Meurhead, Demerara; Wm. H. Angas, Honduras. OFF THE WIGHT, DEC. 25.—Edward Smith, New York, for Hamburgh. TORBAY, DEC. 29.—Wind westerly.—Arrd. Vulture, Pryem, Newfoundland. LtvEurooL, DEC. 29.—Wind S., fresh.—Amega, Dal rymple, China; Hesperus, Kelly, China; Nepau, Ewing, Mazaltan and Valparaiso ; Prince Ro3 al, Douglas, Bonny ; Ham pden, Cowan, New Orleans; Scotland, Mills, Havannalt ; May Flower, Crabtree, New York ; Ashburton, Howland, New York; Junius Wallace, Cambria, Miramichi. Off port, Jose phine, Canton. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 29.—The Providence, Vivian, of Sal combe, has been lost off Cape St. Vincent ; crew landed here by the Danish ship St. Thomas, from Palermo. BEAUMARIS, DEC. 28.—The Sarah and Mary, Edwards, from Poole, at this port, is upon the sands filling with the tide, having overlaid her anchor. LIMERICK, DEC. 27.-- The Mountaineer, Davies, was in contact with the Go vernor , d ur i ng a heavy gale, and lost jib boom, &c. YARMOUTH, DEC. 27.—The Cicero, Cara, of Sunderland, got on the Cockle Sand last night, but was assisted off and proceeded. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 29.—The Robert (late Williams) of Sandwich, abandoned and very leaky, was fallen in with forty miles from the land, Flamborough Head bearing west, by the Undaunted, Pearson, from London, which has towed her into the bay. CORK, DEC. 27.—A brig, apparently English, and with damage, lying-to on the banks of Newfoundland during a heavy gale, was passed 16th inst. by the Susan, Mansell, arrived here. SHOREHAM, DEC. 29.—51 d., Resuyen, Johnson, Valparaiso. TORQUAY, DEC. 27.—Arrd., Vulture, Newfoundland. OFF DARTMOUTH.—Iris, Bahia. ..._ RAJISGATE, Disc. 29.—The Baron Steiglitz, Hansen, from Riga to Belfast, in entering the harbour struck the Head, assisted in by a steamer apparently without damage. LyNic DEC. 28.—The schooner Ant, of Hull, with bow sprit gone, yards and topmasts struck, &c., was passed 24th inst. at anchor, apparently not in want of assistance, Flam borough Head bearing N. W. by W., distant about 90 miles. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) EAT MARILETS. SMITIMELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 41 8s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 153; Oat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s per load. Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 13s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3l 88 to 41 10s; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 12s; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 1112 s per load. Wheat Straw, 1/ 128 to 11 14s per load. Trado dull, at the above quotations. WurracuArin..—Aleadow Ilay, 3/ 8s to 41 83; Clover ditto, 4/ 10s to 51 15 s; O at straw, 1183 to 11 106 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 108 to 1113 s per load. Su pply ' good, and trade dull. BAN KRUPTCY. --(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SPLEPHERD.) IN RE JOHN LOVEGROVE. This bankrupt w h o had carried on business as a barge-build e r a t R otherhithe, came up for his last exa mination, and was opposed by the official assignee and Mr. Bagley, on b e h alf of the trade assignees, on the ground that his accounts were very unsatisfactory. Mr. BAGLEY said that the accounts were so unsatis factory that justice could not be done if the examination was public. He therefore trusted that it would be ad journtd in order t o h o l d a private meet i ng. T he bank rupt had fi'aed a petition in insolvency, and his schedule on that occasion w as so materially different, that both could not be t rue. Mr. Co OKE, for the bankrupt, contended that the present schedule was correct, and the bankrupt was entitl.ed to present examination. Ate Learned CommissioNEß agreed, but observed t:nat the bankrupt came with a very bad grace to swear that the present one was correct, after having sworn to the truth of the other. There were such discrepancies that there were strong grounds of suspicion. The bank rupt would be examined, but if he did not answer the questions in a satisfactory manner he would be com mitted. pting ~ The bankr u p t t h en sa id he had began barge b u ildi ng with a Mr. Y oun in 1843, and on his own account in Aug g, ce 51 .ust, 1844. The partnership debts were paid, :ex- Mr. G ra h am (the o ffi c i a l ass i gnee ) sa id , there was only on e book, and he bad strong suspicion that that was and his accounts were correct. fabricated. The I.earned COMMISSIONER said he could not ad journ the examination to make it private, but he would adjourn it fora few days in order to hear evichnice in support of the opposition. The case was accottlingly adjourned. CLERKEN WELL.—(T HIS DAY.) A man named Reed was charged before Mr. Burren with a violent assault upon Miss Pretty, the daughter of a tradesman living in Camden-town. The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Pretty on the previous day, and tendered a bad half-crown in paynasmt for some goods. It was refused, but unfortunately - not detained, and the prisoner handed it over to his wife, who just then came in, and who would he said gives her geed money. The prisonsr then left the shop and j( iined a gang of four others outside. Miss Pretty then re fusea to let the woman have the goods. She h a d h ar dl y said so when the prisoner ran in, and without further I nrovo cation struck her a violent blow on the left ear the girl fell insensible fr om the effects of it. H er ( Jarring was broken, and there was a painful wound on I ;he ear itself. The prisoner was fined 11., or one month'ht imprison.. ment. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.— SOUTH.• nairrox, DEC. 29.—The Oriental Company's steam-ship, • Great Liverpool, arrived in the docks this morning, from the Motherbank, and lan de d h er passengers, fifty-seven in num- • ber, her mails having been f orwarded to London by the mail train this morning. The Liverpool left Alexandria on the . 9th instant, Malta 15th, and Gibraltar 22d. Sh e h as a f u ll cargo. The same C om p an y's steam-ship, the Royal Tar, Captain Evans, came into the docks last evening from Gib- • raltar, and landed her mails , which were forwarded to Lon- • don by the mail train ; h e r dates are Gibraltar 17th inst. , 20th, Oporto 22d, an d C orunna 24th and eight passen gers. T he next Wes t taken out in th e Th ames, on the 2 East India in the Achill es on the 3d. Robert Crawford P o ll oc k , B aronet, of Pollock, Renfrewshire , and of Frederick -street, Edinburgh, in England, withi n t h e province of proximo,lsCnha Theedi i has ms lB iaaa t a h itfnleu , dl wlsLt cargoiihi will r s l e b o bE n e as , lately died in North Britain , a bachelor. D is ert e y stimated at 30,0007., w hi c h is beyond his in funded an d S co tland. Amongst the p a p ers of the late Ba pecffearsenctotensrabliunrpyr, o Ba ronet there were found two memoranda of a testamentary nature, made in conformity with the law of Scotland, and as such were duly recorded in Edinburgh in the books of Council and Session as probative writs, and registered there on the Bth inst., and were expressed nearly in these words-- the first dated Oct. 25, 1844 :—" 4,500/. to my friend, Mr. Gordon Forlong, for the particular attention and kindness he has shown to me and my affairs whilst living with me and studying for the law." The other paper, dated Jan. 25, 1845— ,, To my man servant, 112 1 ., because he has been tole rably fair considering." Of the rest of his property the to tator has made no disposition, or appointed any execut , Ile has left a sister surviving, who is his only next of 1 ;„• and the sole person entitled to the residue, to whom the J rogative Court of London has granted letters of admini tion with the will annexed, as contained in the sal, two papers. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen Aberdeen, Multi, and Elgin Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush PAID. 5 — to 2v 2 .... ...... to 13 , ' A — to Aylesbury and Thame Belfast & County Down 2 % 2- Bideford and Tavistock 1%..... Bil•mingham and Gloucester 100_ ...... Ditti; • New Shares Birmingham and Oxford Junct ion Birmingham arid :Leicester Direct Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. ... Bridgewater and Minehead... 421...... Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2 1 / 2 — Buckinghamshire 425....... %IA pto C a l e d on i a n Ditto Extension 4132brianerand Junction ... 421. — . t9 ,—. BRAZILIAN FINANCES. The frilowing plan for improving the " CIVITPCy" and establishing " a Bank" dt (1.5 on a solo basis, was laid before the Chamber of Deputies on toe 10th of July last, by bis Excellency Senhor Manuel Alves Branco, the Brazilian Minister of Finance, and submitted to a Committee of that Chamber, who re ported on it the 29th of the same month, recommending its adoption. It will, accordingly, be discussed by the Brazilian Legislative Body in their next session, which will commence in May next, and very little doubt can be entertained of its adoption, and, finally, of its ac complishment. TIM GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL. Article 1. The circulation of notes from five to 500 milreis, shall be limited to a district of one or more pro vinces, the Government being authorised to unite or that purpose those that have one common port for the whole or a part of their commerce. 2. The notes now current in the metropolis, and in the provinces which may be united to it, shall be exa mined and marked only, and put again in circulation ; those of each of the other provinces, or union, shall be substituted by other notes, distinguished from each other by a different stamp, which shall indicate the union in which they are to pass, signed by two respectable per sons resident in such union. 3. The mites shall be distributed amongst the provinces or unions, in proportion to the revenue, public and pro vincial, collected therein ; the counterparts, or coupons, of the new notes, remaining in the respective provincial treasuries where they were issued. 4. The regulations contained in the law of the 6th of October, 1835, are applicable to the present operation, the Government undertaking the remittance of the re quisite funds, by means of bills of exchange, drawn by the respective provincial treasuries on each other, or on the national treasury, and vice ye, sa, cancelling imme diately the notes received by the province which draws, and issuing others in the one drawn upon ; one per cent. on the amount thereof to be paid by the parties for can celling and replacing the same. 5. On this operation being completed, no further sub stitution of notes shall take place, except that which is established by this law, namely, the gradual one of notes payable at sight, in gold or silver coin, at the option of the holders, the Government being authorised for this purpose : Sec. 1. To establish a new system of gold and silver moneys, whose denomination and fineness shall be the same as those now extant, but the weight of which shall be the following :—viz., those of gold, of 5 and 21 " oitavas ;" and those of silver, of 4 and 2 " oitavas," respectively ; but without any fixed value. Sec. 2. To establish, in the metropolis of the empire, a bank of circulation and deposits, the capital of which may be raised to 15,000 contos of reis, in shares of 500 rnilreis each. 6. So soon as this law shall be duly passed, the Go vernment shall announce the sale of the shares, which shall be effected, in the first instance, through the me dium of the public treasury, or by a commission consist ing of at least three merchants, appointed by the Go vernment; and the choosing of directors shall take place whene►er 1,500 contos shall have been raised, in paper money, from the sale of such shares. 7. The directors shall consist of three chosen by the Government, and six elected by the shareholders, who shall be called together for that purpose by public ad vertisement and individual summons. 8. The above nomination and election may take place at any time, but afterwards it must be renewed on the first Monday in the month of January in the next and every succeeding year ; for the purpose only of chang ing three of the directors every year, one of those ap pointed by the Government, and two of those elected by the proprietary, to be determined by lot, until such time as it can be established by rotation, according to seniority. 9. The directors must be Brazilian citizens, or fo reigners having a fixed residence in the empire, share holders not being employed in any other bank, nor Members of the Imperial Legislature, whether general or provincial. 10. In case any impediment should occur to the elec tion taking place on the day appointed by the present law, it shall be done so soon after as such obstruction shall have been removed ; the former directors con tinuing in the mean time to act ; any vacancies that may occur between the elections, shall be filled up, ad interim, by the remaining directors. 11. The directors shall elect a president from among themselves, and select the officers, clerks, and servants from able and respectable citizens ; as also agents re- quisite for the outdoor department, granting them reasonable salaries. 12. On the president and principal officers being ap pointed, the Company of " the Bank of Brazil" shall be considered completed, and as such fully authorised to receive and to manage the capital, income, and any pro perty the Bank may at any time have in its possessicn, and to enjoy all the powers which can, by law, be con ceded to such companies, even to the making rules and regulations for its internal management, being not con trary to the laws of the state. 13. The Bank being constituted in the manner above prescribed, the Government shall enter into treaty with it, for the cancelling of the paper money now in circula tion to the amount of 45,000 contos, in a period not ex __ ceeding twenty years, on the following terms, viz,:— Sec. 1. The Government shall not issue any more paper of a forced circulation. Sec. 2. The Government shall take on the national ac count, shares in the Bank, to the amount of 5,000 contos at any time within the first ten years, the dividends on which shall be ex clusively appropriated to the cancelling its paper now in circulation, or to payment of the interest thereon during the existence of the Bank. Sec. 3. The Government shall pay into the Bank, in the first ten years of its establishment, 1,500 contos in paper money, including the amount of divi dends due to the Government. The Bank shall add to this an equal amount of notes, which it shall purchase from the produce of the sale of shares ; and reserving therefrom 500 contos, shall publicly burn the remainder, issuing directly 2,500 contos, by loans or discounts, in (its own) notes, payable in gold or silver on demand. Sec. 4. In the following ten years the Government shall raise its contribution to 2,000 contos, annually, together with the dividends to which the Go vernment may be entitled, and the Bank shall, in like manner, retain 600 contos from each of these payments, burning the remainder, and issuing an equal amount in (its) notes, as above stated, by loans and discounts. Sec. 5, The Bank shall, employ the 600 contos annu ally reserved in the purchase of gold and silver, which they shall convert into coined money, of a hew die, at the Mint, and deposit them in its coffers, in order to form a fund for the discharge of its notes, payable to bearer on demand. Sec. 6. Prom and after the twentieth year the annual contributions of the Government shall cease and determine, and the tank shall apply the divi dends accruing due on the shares of the Govern ment to the payment of any debt. which may be due from the latter to the former, on the expi ration of the last period of ten years. The accounts shall be adjusted fbr the mutual and definite Indemnity of both parties. 14. The Government shall likewise give the Bank credit for one per cent. commission on the amount em ployed in exchange for the precious metals, and what further may be required beyond the 500 contos in paper money, to realise 500 contos in gold and silver during the first years of the operation. 15. The following items of income shall be applied, exclusively, over and above the dividends arising from the Bank-shares held by the Government, to the cancel ling of its paper money, viz. : Sec. 1. The produce of all lotteries which may take place in the empire, exclusive of those already granted, being comprehended therein, not only the existing impost, but moreover the part which appertains to those to whom the grant is con ceded. Sec. 2. The produce from the sales of all national pro perty not required for the public service, as like wise that arising from gold raised, and any other minerals, including the revenne derived from the diamond district. Sec. 3. The produce of 3 per cent. deducted from the Bank dividends, from the exclusive privilege of playing-cards, and from any new impost which may for the future be derived from the manu facture and consumption of snuff. _ _ - 16. In case the receipts above indicated shall no amount to the sum of 1,500 centos in the first ten, and of 2,0004 in the last ten years, that sum shall be made good by a grand annually in the Budget Law. 17. No authority whatsover, from any motive, nor on any pretext whatever, can or shall alienate the funds destined for cancelling the Bank paper, nor shall the Bank be a party in any transaction which may binder or delay the cancelling the same, under pain of the greatest responsibilty. is. So soon as the Bank shall commence issuing its notes, no payment shall be made in the several public departments connected with the receipt or expenditure of the empire, which does not consist in the first year of one-twentieth part in notes of the Bank, or in gold or silver, in the second year, of two-twentieth parts, in the third year of the three -twentieth parts, and so on till it amounts to twenty-twentieths. The Government ordering that the "oitiva" of gold of twenty-two carats, shall be received or paid at such public offices, at th.e rate of four thousand reis and that of silver at 250 r els, The Government during the first years, and particularly in the remote provinces, may authorise the entry or omi,sion of these quantities in paper money with the 'agio of the day, or which they .may fix on the core:meneement of every financial year. 19. The followi: og shall be fundamental rules and re g ulations of thr, B an k, viz.:— 5 cct. I. No proprietor yr shareholder shall vote who dons not hold five or more shares, and no one sle A ll have more than ten votes, let him hold whatever numb er o f s h ares h e may. 51 et 2. No power of attorney of more than six moi:ths' date, nor granted by any shareholder residing out of the, country, or by any one employed in t h e 11 :iuk, shall be considered valid. No one Pe i :son can hold powers of attorney for more than 300 shares ; nor refuse to exhibit his powers; and shall, on its being required by mi., - other shareholder on tendering his vote, swear that he believes his principal to be bona fide possessed of such shares. Sect. 3. All agreements relative to the transfer of Bank shares shall be null and void, which may not be paid is full, as likewise those entered into by persons whose wames are not inscribed in the Bank-books ; and no share shall entitle its holder to vN thereon, or to receive any dividend due for 150 . ho has not been in possession thereof jvs nrevious to that OR which the divi- the same offence ; but the Judges de Direito, who msy have commenced the said processes, after the sam shall have been concluded, whether sentence may bat passed or not, in case the delinquents may not have: been apprehended, shall transmit them to the chief of the police of the same province, who shall unite them all into one, and adding thereto what further investigis `'nns or discoveries may have been made, and thereupon d ee ij e what manner, a ccor ding to law, the prosecu tion shg,ll be eontlZeted• 32. In the pt'ocesees the said judges may form, they may examine, w i t h out h u ;:tation as to the numb er , all the witnesses that they may harp any knowledge of, or that the public accuser may indicate, pr any other person or persons, and may delay the proceeawgs for thirty days. 33. In case the Government should consider it neces sary, they may appoint a " Desemburgador " (a judgp of the highest class) or any other magistrate for the pro• secution of this crime, in any province, appointing spe cially to assist him a notary public, with authority to proceed with the case, as well in the capital of the pro vince as in any parish or district thereof, as shall appear to them most convenient. 34. On the proceedings being brought to a close, thew' shall be immediately submitted to the jury cf the capital, if then assembled, who shall proceed with it, giving it a, preference, and if not sitting, they shall be summoned to an extraodinary and special meeting for this parti cular case. 35. All laws and resolutions to the contrary are hereby revoked. (Signed) MANOEL ALVES BRANCA. Rio de Janeiro, lOri, : Tidy, 1845. MR. iWACACLAY. (From the Scotsnum.) Th,n following short note from Mr. Macaulay will be read with interest. It was written in reply to one front the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, transmitting . the memorial from that body to the Queen, in favour tit Opening the ports : " London, Dec. 22, 1845. "You will have heard the termination of our attempt to form a Government. All our plans were frustrate,' by Lord Grey. I hope that the public interests will not suffer. Sir Robert Peel must now undertake the settlement of the question. It is certain that he cars settle it. It is by no means certain that we could have done so. For we shall to a man support him ; and a large proportion of those who are not in office would have tefused to support us. On my owni share is these transactions I reflect with unmixed satisfaction. From the first, I told Lord John that I stipulated for one thing only—total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws ; that my objections to gradual abolition were insurmountable • and that if he declared for total and immediate repeal, I would be, as to all other matters, absolutely in his hands ; that I would take any office or no office, just as suited him best ; and that he never should be disturbed by any personal pretensions or jel;- lousies on my part. If everybody else had acted thus, there would now have been a Liberal Ministry. How ever, as I said, perhaps it is best as it is. " I do not think that, if we had formed a Government, we should have entertained the question of paying the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland. 1 cannot answer for others ; but I should have thought it positive insanity to stir the matter. " I will send your petition to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, as soon as it is clear that the Goverment is settled. " Ever yours truly, " I'. B. MACAULAY. " J. F. Macfarlan, Esq., Edinburgh." HAYMARKET THEATRE. Romeo and Juliet was produced at this theatre lag; evening for the purpose of introducing Miss Susan Cushman (sister of the Miss Cushman, who acted the part of Romeo), to an English audience. Had we not, many a time and oft, been delighted—delighted is not the word—carried away—by the acting of Miss Cushman in Shaksperian characters, we should have hailed Miss Susan Cushman as the greatest actress of the day. True, she is as yet unformed— true she has some of the technicalities of the stages yet to learn—yet, her Juliet, taken as a whole, is more true to Shakspere than any Juliet within our remembrance. There is no conventionality about— she takes the text of her author, and gives us her own interpretation of it; and genius interpreting genius can never be far wrong. Her genius is essen tially tragic. In the earlier scenes there was, per haps, a want of that abandon which tutored actresses throw into the part, and which is, after all, conventional ; but when the girl becomes the woman, an impassioned, loving, self. sacrificing woman, Miss Susan Cushman was very great. The balcony scene was given with an intensity which we should look for in vain in other actresses. It was evident that she loved—loved earnestly ; her whole soul was in love with Romeo and this intensity was kept up throughout. Her acting in the scene in which the nurse tells her of the result of her interview with Romeo was very fine. There was no trickery about it. It was evident that her love for Romeo absorbed every other passion ; and instead of showing herself off as a comic actress (which is too often the case with debutante Juliets), she made no effort to disguise her impatience. Love was the all-absorbing passion of her soul. The scene in which Friar Laurence gives her poison was magni ficently given. She hung upon him, and seemed greedily to devour his words as though they were the words of life and death. Horror, at the part she was called upon to act, was depicted in her every look, her every action, and when at last her love absorbing and overcoming every other passion "screws her courage to the sticking place," she was magnificent. The soliloquy before taking the draught was very fine, and her look and action, as her imagination conjures up before her the frightful visions of the charnel-house, was thrilling. There was a dead stillness throughout the house, which was crowded, and there was not one of that vast assem blage who did not feel with her and fer her. Taken as a whole, Miss Susan Cushman's debut is the most deservedly successful which we have witnessed for years. There is an impassioned intensity about her acting which carries the spectator along with her, and almost paralyses criticism. But what shall we say of Miss Cushman's Romeo ? Many a time and oft has Romeo been murdered, but never, since the youthful days of Charles Kemble, has Romeo been acted on the English stage until last night. It was a bold attempt for a lady, even for Miss Cushman, to attempt the part of Romeo, but faint heart never yet won favour, and the bold attempt succeeded. Would that this gifted lady could in fuse some of her spirit into our actors, who eschew Romeo as an uphill part. It is theic own cold blood that makes it an uphill part. They lack " that quick spirit ;" that intensity, that passion, that pathos which is required to bring out all the beauties of the character. These did Miss Cushman infuse into the part. Ay 1 and there was no lack of manly bearing and daring courage ; she was the very Romeo that Shakspere drew. So true is it that genius is of no sex, that none would have discovered she was a woman. Het wooing was overpowering. Her passion, when, condemned to banishment, she learns the doom in Friar Laurence's cell, was irresistible ay, as irresistible as the terrible earnestness of attacks of the fiery Tybalt and the courtly Paris. The Misses Cushman were called for at the conclu sion of the tragedy, and greeted with rapturous and. well-deserved plaudits. The nurse of Mrs. Glover, and the Friar Laurence of Mr. Stuart, were both admirable. We cannot say as much for the Mer cutio of Mr. Moll; the Mercutio of Shaksptnra I „ag a finished gentleman. TILE B.ISIXTS.—We have had a great number of equilibristes of late years, who have attempted a class of feats which in some cases have become popular; but we are in debted to Professor Risley for introducing an entirely novel style, which is . extremely pleasing in its effect, and which shows the true poetry of motion. Professor Risley and his two sons made their first appearance at Drurplane Theatre last evening to one of the most crowded houses of the season. They were warmly greeted, and received enthusiastic ap plause throughout their performance, which was remarkabi? clever. The feats were all accomplished with much ease and grace, and reminded us of the same school of artistes to which the xrial Taglioni belongs. Bouquets were thrown upon tl.e stage ifrom the private boxes, and the Risleys retired arablit deafening applause from all parts of the house. The annual present of fruit to the Lord Mayor from the Fruiterers' Company, was sent last T hursday. ou It consisted of twelve bushels of the finest apples that c 4 be selected ; one bushel was also presented to the sworle bearer. ActerATtcs.—During the last season there were 112 boat races, 67 sailing matches, and 54 regattas. On Saturday last, J. D. Llewelyn, E sq ., an d a party of three or four friends, in a sporting excursion on the Penllergare estate, bagged seventy-four head of game in the course of a few hours.—Cambrian. BANKS AT BANEURY. — The old-established bank ing firms of Messrs. Cobb and Messrs. Gillett and Tawney have announced their intention of retiring in April next, the business being merged into one chartered banking company- The London and County Joint-Stock Banking Company have announced their intention to open a branch at Banbury.... o.2:ti)rd Journal. Messrs. Ditchburn and Maire, the celebrated iron steam-boat builders of Blackwell, have just completed their extensive improvements in their press -shops and other de partments of the building, the whole of which work has beets executed by Mr. Chapman, of Lambeth, on whom it reflect* great credit. 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The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Plymouth has received a letter from Lord John Russell, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial from the inhabitants to her Majesty, praying for the abolition of restrictive duties on the impor tation of food, informing them that he h , - tansmittel to the Secretary of State for presentation ','si -rAlaleatr,,,,, > 4S.C; --1 -.V. - - . < Deronport Telegraph. ''', 3 ' - 7 1 --- ---,'Z, Vs TUE QUARTER OF A MILLION L , . !!• • 41 4. Since cur Last—that is, during Wednesday.... .. p. for Christmas -day was a general heliday bire:7.-.in-001 '7.- ...., then, the subscriptions to this fund have been increase'. _ -- upwards of three thousand pounds, the total amount, -w '7' on Tuesday evening reached 61,8951., having been Rug. mented yesterday to upwards of 65,09q 1 t r-7. 1114,1 0 4 e*1P -4- t Guardian. .;... ' 4 :i t 4 jt+ V '‘.' i \ 4:./ t.... hit ~ ion ; mce e ast ytee re of A,