The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

THE A.TRE ROYAL. DRU RY -L ANE.— .a. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JAMES .!..NDERSON. The Lessee respectfully begs to su bmit the following scale of Prices o f Admissi , :n for public approval : - Private boxes, 31.125. Ed., 21. 25., 11. Ils. 6 d. , and 11 . Is. Stalls, ss. each. FIRST PRICE! . d. Boxes - - 0 -- 2 0 s. d. SECOND PRICE. 80365 - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Fit - - - - • L o wer Gallery - 1 0 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 'Upper Gallery - 6 I No Half-price to Upper Gallery. TIII3 EVENING, WIN be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Play el TIM LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Anderson ; Eeareant, Mr. Montagne ; Glaris, Mr. Parry ; General Daman, Mr. Baker; M. Desehapelles, Mr. Davidge ; Pauline Des hapelles, Miss Vandenhoff. To be • followed by a New Grand Historical, Metaphorical, Allegorise', and Diabolical Pantomime, by the author of " Bluff Xing Hal 'to be called HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUEEN BESS ; MARIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME, " Then the ladies with large ruffs, tied round about their necks so fast, Weald gobble up a pound of beefsteaks for their breakfast. ! the golden days of Good Queen Bess, Merry be the memory of Good Queen Dess."—Old Song. The Overture and Music entirely ne w ' , composed by Nobody knowswko, assisted by Mozart, Bishop, Rossini, Ware, Handel, Rod well, Haydn, and the Ethiopian Serenaders. Tho Rounds are the mpeeition of a select Circle. The Catches are ence of Madame by Lo. The Ballet Department under the superintend Louise. The Seenery painted by Messrs. l3runnin, Jones, Wilson, C. ' Adams, and Assistants. a n d Transform a tions invented and The Properties, Magic Tric ks, lamented by Mr. W.Blamire. The Costumes by Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. The extensive Machinery by Mr. Adams. The whelk produced under the Direction of Mr. T. Thompson. InatOltTALS. Christmas, Mr. S. Jones; The Spirit of John Rich, Mr. Darcie ; The Spirit of Bibb Trage, y, Mr. J. Parry; The Spirit of Punch, Miss Eunice ; Spirit of /L ot h ar Goo*, Gulliver, Baron Munchansen , hi., Joe., by lee., &C. MOP:TAU. Got Queen Bess, -Mr. R. Romer ; Amy Robsart, Mr. G. Watson ; ller vely Babby, Master Butter ; The Great Earl of Leicester, M. Deulin ; The Little Earl of Essex, Mr. Henry ; The Unspeak able Lord Barleigh, Mr. Johnson ; The Rasher Lord Bacon, Mr. Barry ; The Smoky Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. Manderson ; The Dancing Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, Mr. Chapino; Maids of Honour, Pages, Beefeaters, Guards, Morris Dancers, Jesters, Wildmen, Dr4eons, and other Bores, by the rest of the eemparsi• CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, althcmgh he comas in snow, he still hopes tee met with a warm uoeption—but where is he going ? Why, to pay hi yearly visit to fiat Spirit of John Rich, in the GHOSTLY CITY OF DEPARTED FUN. This city is composed of the Tomb. of the by-gone Pantomimes — Who's dat knocking at der door?"—Come and see —" J. Andersen's mu' Joe, John." and " I am Rich," that's mere than every one can epy ;we wish they could—Haw to make a Pantomi t.e me ?—" that is ques tion" —but the answe r, it is hoped, will satisfactory— Peer Tra-ge-dy meets with no clemency, so we fly by night" to A SPLENDID HALL I EEN N TBESS .HE PALACE OF GOOD QU . We now some to Historical Facts, therefore, as the Clown at Astley's would sat " Let us be serious." it is an historical fact, that the Earl pf lasex loved, or pretended so, Good Queen Bess, tArefore he hated the Earl of Leicester, and thence arose a conspi raey—Sir Walter Ralegh fears his pipe will be pat out—Bacon gets wilts in a frizzle, and Lord Burleigh shakes his head—but there's nothing in that, whatever they may say to the contrary. It is an hilgorical pact, that Good Queen Bess was assisted at her toilet 115 , many of her noblemen, therefore the GRAND PROCESSION OF THE TOILETTE is introduced, in which the Royal Wig ! the Royal Ruff !! the Rpyal Blushes ! ! ! and the Royal Petticoat ! ! ! will make their fffst appearance on any stage, and trust to the " usual iadulgenee of a British Public." These are followed by GOOD QUEEN BESS en deshabille, as she is represe,ted is a picture at Hampton Court. —What comes next will certainly follow—and then will be seen GOOD QUERN BESS la all her royal splendour.—it is an Historic er a sl so many Fact, that Good 4neei Bess, like " Young Susan"—" had lov that she scarcely knew upen wh eh to decide"—and it is an Historical Fact that the following 11370 a few of them. THE REJECTED ONES : Philip of !pale, Prince Rupert, i'rince of Sweden, Duke of Anion, Prince Aarbson, Marquis of Winchester, the King of Sweden, Henry of - Navarre, Archduke Charles, Earl of Arundel, Sir William Pietering, Charles Blount, and the ESrl of Arran. Good Queen Bess appoints a meeting of these " wonderous propershe go" —and having got on the " Hig h Horse," the story gallops sou to CUMN OR HALL BY MOONLIGUT—WiIson. " Coming events cist their shadows bee "out—" Rest the l igh thee, my darling' —Ketehy, ketchy, ketzliy—" Putfort, and than"—enter the Earl of Leicester on his way to Kenil worth—He stops at Lore's half-way 'bailie, the Robsar Arms—" Oh, Susanna," or rather " Oh, Amy !"—lt can't be said, " he makes no bones about it "—They part, " more let sorrow, than in anger," but, " being gone, Amy is hersttif again "—that is to say, a rather jealous young lady, who in her "deep despair," introduces her Lovely BOO', to whom she sings the following pathct* e stanza : " Come my babby, come along with me go to far-famed Kenilworth, /oar naughty clad to see." And so to vtir do KENILWORTH CASTLE As it appeared an the occasion of Good Queen Bess's Royal Visit. For farther particulars inquire of Sir Walter Scott. It is an histori sal fast that Good Queen Beta paid the Earl of Leicester a visit, and 1 ' paid the piper." This, his gorgeous fete, half ruined him ; there fore we pity his fate, but must admire his wondrous generosity, for all he ever hoped for in return was—half-a-crown. The Earl fore stalls Shakspere, lay discovering " that the course of true !eve never did run smooth," for here he meets with some twenty " eompeti teurs," and to him they do come " petit ours," for they prove per fect bears, or, more properly speaking, bores. A Lovers' Quarrel on a grand scale, a sort of " tiff for the million," takes place, which, although beginning in love, ends in war, and the total destruction of THE SPANISH ARMADA! By Warner's Fulminating Blow-up—Tragedy has sow done his worst, and Rich finding that even Rich must become poor if war continues, proposes a - Peace Congress," and brings all to a close by making them all change their clothes — Tim Earl of Leicester puts on the motley garb of Harlequin, M. r Lord Burleigh that of Pantaloon, if. J. Dettlin. The Earl of Essex that of Clown, Mr. C. Stilt, And Ailey Robsart dons the Robe d'Amour of Columbine, Madlle. Theodore. All we have further to say for Good Queen Bess is—Vivat Regina, sad off she goes." " Welcome, Old Friends, 'tis Ion; since we met !" " Here we are !" " How are you?" PI SERVE AND PICKLEOFF WAR E. EHOUSE, AND RAILWAY IC Cupid and Clewn—Butter and Butterflies —Hungarian Knock-'em- Dowell, and German Toys—War to the Knife, anti Terrific Explo- Mon—Railway Offices to Let—Pantaloon becomes Tenant—Shares at a Discomfit—Clown Cooks AccomChangpts, and Railway King in Tribu lation—e to INTERIOR OF CATACOMBS ! SIMPSON'S DIVAN AND TAVERN, Strand. most approved way of Cooking a Goose—Clown makes himself Welcome—the Waiters at Fanit—a Transformation—Clown Fuzzled Head fur One—A Kitten Wantetl—Sttre the Credit of the Establishment—Police ! Police !—and Change to EXETER HALL. Meeting of fhe Peace CoAgress—Hew to get up a Row—Prosylites e ar e —llunaug the Order of the Day—Embracing at a Premium, and Domestic Tableau of the Happy Family, POULTERER'S' AND SHOP TO LET. Stick no Bile, In cm: you should Kill Sweet William. A DOWNRIGHT "NOBBY DANCE." Heads Win the Prize. SMITHFIELte PotAtoes all Hot—Toss and Buy—Three real Epping Sausages, and Broad, for One Penny—A Mad Bull—Pork versus Tabbies —A Re port for Enlarging Smithfield Market —llO lossay's Purifying Pills— New Tariff—Gin t.reatly Iteduced—Warrantedeot to Pr do h uce nd Spon taneous Combustion—Puff, the Order of the Day—Punc a the City Nunes—Ge It, Bricks—and Sudden Transfoimation to A. SALUBRIOUS SPOT. STREET AND LO ,GING-HOUSES. What will be seen here is of little use to those who have no eyes. Lend me your ears"—" Oh, what a falling off, my countrymen, when you, and I, and all of us, fell down."—Shakspere. BED-ROOM IN LODGING-1101 SE, Comfortable Quarters—Lola, and the Gallant Son of Mars—Clown's otion of Warm and Convenient Arrangements—Good Night—Late Tisitors—A. Troublesome Customer—Mr. Walker, an intruder— Novel Mode of Expelling same—A Stormy Night—Clown and Pan taloon in Great Alarm—lncantation Extraordinary—and General Chamber Polka. CHARING-CROSS AND STRAND. What's to be done ?—Buy the Lady's Newspaper. FROST FAIR ON THE THAMES. Ice Soap—Temperance Hoto.l, J. Frost. —N.B. Iced Champagne— Oh, the Roast Beef of Old England I —Sports of the Glacearum— " Plaisirs d'Hiver"—Clown wants some Fish, but can only get skate, which he finds rather tough ; it won't go down, though he does. BLATHER THA q.ES' RETREAT, 1, Tiddyball's Alley, in the middle of the Thames, with Brass Door and Gingerbread Knocker. General " Meeting of the Waters"—The Alarm—Summoning of the City Abominations—Arrival of the Re-{dent Director of the" Silent Highways"—Fearful Resolve —Marshalling of the Forces—Grand Attack, and Tableau of Interest. SOUTHAMPTON WATERS, WITH VESSEL For California or anywhere else. GRAND MOVING DIORAMA, leslamed and painted entirely by Branning. Illustration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's Visit to Ireland, showing the following points of interest —Departure for Osborne —Passing Cowes and approaching the Needl,s—The Royal Yacht passing through the Fleet at Portsmouth—The Eddystone Lighthouse—Passing the Land's End at Sunset—The Royal Squadron by Moonlight—and Arrival at Queen's Town. Three cheers and a hundred more . _ _ Scene the Last. THE PALACE OF PANTOMIME. Stage Manager, Mr. James Anderson. Acting Manager, Mr. W. Bennett. Treasurer, Mr. W. Dams. Musical Director, Mr. G. H. Rodwell. Leader of the Band, 4r. J. W. Thirlwall. BAllet Mistress, Madamo Louise. Semis Artists—Messrs. Brunning, Jones, Wilson, C. Adams, and Assistants. Deeorative Artist, Mr. W. Blamirc. Machinist, Mr. W. Adams. Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. Prompter, Mr. C. Melville. Costumiers, Mr. Palmer and Miss Biggs. Box -book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at tlio St. Jaltes's Theatre will commence THIS EVENING, by the production of a new Opera, hi Three Acts, entitled LE VAL D'ANDOIIRE. Stephan, M. Lac; Le Joyeux, M. Cho'let; Saturnin, M. Tilly Leroy ; Jacques Sincere, M. Nathan ; Theresa, Madlle. Galehard ; Georgette, Madlle. Cotta; Rose do Mai, Madlle. Charter'. The box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Fly.. THEATRE ROYAL, DAYMARK_ET. Mr. B. Webster, n_.-eyie Lessee and Manager, Old Brorapton. THIS EVENING, Will bs performed a new Comedy, entilel THE SEItTOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ; Mrs W. Clifford, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which THE STJ.TUB or, The Jewels and The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Mnnyard, Miss P. llorton, Mrs. 1,. S. Pruckirgham, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. ip conclude with BOX AND COX. The Box-ofilse is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under f: ,, ze dire,tinn ci Madqme Celeste. THIS EVENING, WRI be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW Cq*SE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed forf . 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. A4er which FRANKENSTEIN ; or, The Model Man. rranken- Mign, Mr. Wright ; the What is It! Mr. I'. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0. "Rith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss woolgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E. elsaplin ; Agatha, Miss Covcny ; lindine, Miss B Harding. al: To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUNBURTS Wright ;Job Kr. . Mr. Illghbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks, Matthews; Mn. Ilighbu - rs Barnes , Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Danbury, Mrs. F. Miss Brooks.. nOTAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VestriA, Sole Lessee, Mr. Charlc, Mathews. THIS EVENING. Will be performed HE WOULD RE AN ACTOR.' After which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. Dress Boxes b..: Ulmer Boxer, 4s. ; rit, 2s. ; Gallery, le.. No half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 Nsw Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE; Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lesaeo and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON GIOVANNI. To conclude pith KING JAMIE ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle H ar l eq uin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Plu to ; Clown, fir, Fl ex more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLE CS itOTAL AMPHITHEATRE.. Pro:lector, Mr. W. Batty. A Crawl Juvenile Night, commencing with the Pantemime, will take place on Thursday next.. learance of Madlle. Codone. r HIS EVENING, . commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a TIII4 KNIGHT OF TIM EAGLE CREST; , in which Mr. N, T. Hicks will appear. illiant display of Batty's peerle,s scenes of the accomplished artistes of the establish- grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel .QUlli YANKEE DOODLE, 11110 came to ony. opera from Eleven till rottr. liallitgef, MT. W. WOit, • will tali , 0- - i f Xe-appe i,d( *); . ll, ar . . S. • nce will i pit ' Cl -4 ... •C' . + . • cle of 1 *, ..,V Sorif T ~. .... .7 of Love, ~S ' !). ' . I %:or l' t 3 eCl a b bnl t 7 It t i o) , ( Aii .f . , .. little Pon, ";:$• ; , o,e-4 - = • ... - since -,. • • ." 1 f Maio : A , - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1850, dIUH WATER AT LONDON BittOG. Tan .. DAY —.orning 35 min. after 2 I Evening, 2 min. after 2 To-Mongovr —lf •rtung, 9 min. alter 3 1 Evening, 27 ratn. after 3 fill!: WEATUEB.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 13. MEWL:NETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 29; Noon, BAROMETER, 30.06. WD.TE. E.S.E.--cold sharp wind, with dull hazy weather. JAN. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 20, Highest, 2S; Noon, 27. BAROMETER, 29,8. WIND E.—strong gales, and very cold weather. tutor( LONDON, MODDAY, JANUARY 14, 1850. After all, the Public Exhibition of 1851 is to be indeed a public undertaking. Popular opinion having almost unanimously dissented from the arrangements already made, the Commission have at once availed themselves of a clause in the contract with Messrs. /vluNner and cancelled the agreement. The public spirit manifested by Messrs. MONDAY in their magnifi cent proposal has been generally appreciated ; but while we consider them entitled to public gratitude for their spontaneous offer and for the unhesitating confidence which it evinced in the success of the Exhibition, nevertheless we cannot but rejoice in the altered ar rangements. The Messrs. Muriner are superseded by the only party rightly qualified to carry out such an undertaking—the Nation. The whole affair at once assumes a different character. It is no longer possible to cavil at any (apparent) unfairness. The Exhibition to be held in London, in the metropolis of manufacture, will be wholly prepared and carried out at the expense of the British public. This is as it should be. As a national undertaking the Exhibition has from the first elicited our interest ; as such it has already called forth the unanimous sympathies of the people. There is— to every one who rightly estimates the true nobility. of Industry and the glory of Commerce—there is something more than ordinarily attractive in the proposed competition. Among the truths which Time has taught us, one of the_most practically be neficial is the superiority of peaceful ever martial triumphs. No longer is the laurel-wreath the only or the dearest object of ambition. No longer is the artizan considered as an object but a little more dig- nified than the material at which he labours. It is true the principle is not yet carried out to a fit ex tent, but it is progressing. " The power of thought, the magic of the mind," is now recognized, in some degree, as Nature's patent of nobility. It has been said, " Man is born to create, from the poet to the potter," and the power of creation is assuredly one of the noblest endowments of humanity. The poet who has: en riched mankind with new treasures of thought and feeling, who, n the hearts of thousands beat with rapture, when n b►e impulses are stimulated and selfish hearts are humanized by the power of his words, can exultingly exclaim " This is my work !" is without doubt entitled to the gratitude of all. But the ex ercise of this noble faculty is by no means cir cumscribed to the poet, although possessed by him in its highest degree. Every artist and every ar tizan who discovers or developes the resources of art is in his several ways a public benefactor. As a recognition of this fact, as a homage to Industry and Invention (those " twin giants" of civilization), 'we look upon the proposed Exhibition as a most inter esting and important event. In another respect, also, it claims our cordial approbation—as a bond of union among many nations. When at first it was suggested that only British artists should be among the competitors, the proposition met through out the kingdom with unanimous dissent; it was con sequently decreed that the competition should be uni versal. The distinctions of class and country are justly felt to be out of place in a matter which concerns the fraternizing principles of art. Regarded under these aspects, as a public encouragement to the peaceful arts, and as a gathering together of men of all nations, it is obvious to all that the Exhibition must he a national work. Such it is now to be : with the public rests its progress and its consummation. On public support itssucceis henceforth depends. Will that support be niggardly, so that success may be compromised ? Will the nation who have insisted in taking the matter in their own hands give a public manifestation of their illiberality by suffering it to be carried out in an unworthy manner? Shall the public spirit of Messrs. MUNDAT put our national liberality to shame ? Impossible. It is a matter which admits of no hesitation ; it is a question to which there can be only one reply. The nation has undertaken the work, and it will be carried out in a spirit worthily national. The Messrs. MONDAY have no cause to repent the offer of the contract; their conduct has been justly appre ciated and approved. Hence the decision of the Commission cannot but be regarded with universal feelings of satisfaction. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. The proposition for increasing the pay of the at present underpaid sub-officers of the army is exciting the ire of the parti-pretre and the Legitimatists, who imagine that there will be nothing left for the Jesuits to plunder under the hoped for restoration, if the pay of the army be increased. The Ordre, the organ of this party and of M. THIERS, has the following on this subject : " It is no', however, the idea of offering a just remu neration which has inspired the authors i f the project of law, as well as of the rival proposition put forward by Montagnards. Hence it is that we can see no other in tention than that t f gaining over the army. The army entertain!, we will say, too high an idea of its dignity to set its fidelity up to auction. Its fidelity belongs to the country, and to the cause of social order, already so valiantly defended, and it will not attach itself specially to any particular personal am bition, or to any anarchical fiction, f)r the sake of un worthy bribes. Hitherto the army has remained intact amidst the general confusion caused by the revo lution of February. It became not merely al act of prudence but of imperative duty to abstain from laying hands on the only surviving institution, seeing that it is the very one which serves as a bulwark to the country and to society ; that it is, in fact, our sheet anchor in the midst of general disturbance which will bapper, however, in the National Assembly, as the dis cussions which took pla-e yesterday in the bureaux and the choice of members e f the committee clearly indicate. What if the Assembly reject these insidioui propositions, and postpone to more favourable times the consideration t f what may be useful and practicable in the aay of ameliorating the condition of the army ? Is it not to be feared that anarchists will take advantage of the re fusal to put forward unreasonable desigw, and to calumniate the intentions of the Assembly ? The Assembly nevertheless, resolved to look to the general interest only, sure that the army will equally comprehend it." The army, we imagine, will not suffer itselt; obe cajoled by these quasi promises of the parti pretre, which mean nothing. The army, in common with the people of France, have too vivid a recollection of the doings of the parti pretre between 1815 and 1830 to believe in their promises ; the reply to all over tures from that party should be, on the part of the Army, NET ! The Assemble Nationale, another organ of the parti pretre, has had recourse to the old tactics of the party, and is engaged in concocting and propagating rumours of an intended coup d'etat. It has been as serted that a Minister stated publicly that "the Assem bly was lost in the esteem of the country, and that it would shortly be necessary to come to an end with it." Tnat Minister is said to be M. ACHILLE FOULD, and M PISCATORY (ex-man of all work to M. GUIZOT) is the person who states that M. FOULD made use of the expression ; a statement, however, the truth of which M. FOULD absolutely denies. The National gives the following version of the affair : However briefly we may be compelled to allude in a single political criticism to an article of such re markable scope, although one so ingeniously com pacted together, we would at the earliest moment direct attention to an historical paper contained in the current number of the Edinburgh Review, re ferring to a subject most momentous both to Asia and to Europe, namely, the past and present relations of Turkey and Christendom. Within the compass of a few pages will be there found condensed an extra ordinary amount of facts at all times interesting, but at this particular epoch invested with a peculiar fascination. That the perpetuation of a Mahometan Government on the very threshold of the European Continent should have become matter for earnest solicitude to the majority of the states of Christendom, whereas formerly the rise and developement of the Ottoman Empire had been only viewed by those identical States with jealousy, is a circumstance cf itself sufficient to de monstrate that some wonderful change has taken place in the relative situation of the faithful and of the unbelievers. A supposition, moreover, strangely and strikingly corroborated by the exchange of gifts, of compliments, and of representatives, between the SULTAN'CALIPII on the one hand, as the chief of Islamism, and the Supreme PONTIFF on the other, as the visible head of Roman Catholicism. Notwith standing the animosities which for centuries have raged between the followers of the PaornET and of the B,EDEBMER, it is marvellous to know that at length the Cross has yielded to an amicable alliance with the Crescent. But one sentiment is enter tained towards the Ottoman dynasty by all the races bordering upon the Mediterranean, from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Straits of the Hellespont—the sentiment of friendship. But one feeling is cherished amongst the various nations populating the shores of the Baltic, from the western limits of Denmark to the eastern extremities of Pomerania—the feeling of amity. Nor is the growth of this confidence in the councils of the Sublime Porte attributable to any lesser motives than those of a cordial reliance on Turkey, and a profound distrust of Russia, a regard for the SULTAN and a detestation of the AUTOCRAT, an antagonism to the retrogressive policy of St. Petersburgh and an affinity of affection for the progressive policy of Constantinople. These are the considerations which have withdrawn the regard of the Europeans from the capital of the CzAR, and concentrated it upon the denizens of the Golden Horn and the frequenters of the Bosphorus. While the favour of Christendom has been thus se cured to the authority established by the Musii'men at Constantinople, the permanence of that authority has continued a subject of unbelief during many suc cessive generations. Between two and three hundred years ago the approximation of the Turlei,h power to its downfal was predicted by the voice of KNOLLES subsequently, the same lugubrious prophecy was ar ticulated by the lips of CANTEMIR ; and within our own time the annalist HALLAM did not shrink thirty years back frcm pronouncing that period to be the one immediately antecedent to the destruction of the Divan, and the general dismemberment of Turkey. Long, however, as the tones of the historic CASSANDRA have rung thus ominously through the mosques and palaces of Con stantinople,_.the .dominion of the descendants of " It is surely time for the men who direct the affairs of the country to permit it t) breathe in peaco. A few months a;o disquieting rumours disturbed the public mind. Since then the majority of the nation, devoted to the con:f tutior, has been expecting to see issue from the regular working of the institutions the prc gress which is evidently necessary. But here, in the midst of the universal calm, new alarms are dissemi nated, and the meagre stream of public prosperity is disturbed at its source. For the hitt two days roc. naeing rumours are afloat ; fdly appcars incurable in certain regions; and because the Presider t of the Re public is name Napoleon, there are people who want, right or wrong, to have him Emperor. Acquainted, like every one else, with these rumours, we kept silent, for wo feel no pleasure in producing disquietude; but other journal=, who do not deem themselv( s bound to a like reserve, have spoken. The Assemblee Na tionale has the following lines, which merit explanation: --‘Soauthing extraordinary is passing in certain re gions of the political world. It appears that an impor tant page of history is being sketched. Difficulties are being explored, the means of action reckoned, and the pace of each personage at the decisive moment settled. We shall have to come back on the strange rumours which are in circulation. The Estafette f last night confirms them, and tie Opinion Publique seemed yes terday to desire to let them be aaticipited by the fol lowing language :—` If the Patrie thinks that, in order to allow another place, which we shall freely call the Empire, to be occupied, the Right would agree to vote always with the shades of the majority willing to make that concession, it is mistaken. In that case we should reply, like M. de Montalembert, non possumus, and we should be with those who would defend the inde pendence of the national will against enterprises sad adventures.' Let us add tha the demi-official organs of the Government, the Patrie and the Moniteur du Soir do not contain any of these notes marked com municated, which are so freely scot out from the Elys6e, to deny the rumour given by the As' embMe Nationale. It must also be stated that M. Abraham Dubois, one of the most ultra of the majority, yesterday confirmed in the most marked manner, in the 13th hurt au, these alarming rumours, for he affirmed, in speAcieg against the Bill ref sting to the increased pay e f the fiul.-offic , nr, that he had heard the f illowing v:ords , m the mouth of one of the Ministers:—' The National Assembly is lost in the esteem of the country; it will be necessary to shortly come tc an end with it.' This statement produced the utmost indignatior. Cett tin folks, consequently, dream of an 18th Brumaire—be it so; try that coupd'ctat ; throw your last stake; the nation will hold against you and will gain. It has gained more difficult matches. At the noise of an at tempt to be made against the national representation, it would reply by the noise of the tocsin, sounded in Paris, in every town, in every village in France. It would take up arms for the defence of the constitution, and if it fvuud au enemy paL'a, l wokati Ira crunlied like OTUMAN has continued, up to the present epoch, 1 Charles X. and Louis Philippe. You reckon on the a b rni t y h l e so ß ld u i t e w rs e c e f re t c h e o rt i a te in o tta li ' o , w th c e i f d irs b t ca fo r r tri i dge fired o fixed upon its original and gigantic foundat ions. The should attempt to renew !) the crime cf the 18 " t m h Bwiuu walls of what was once Byzantium hav e not y ielded to the resonance of the horn cf Crao, as the battle- maire." ments of Jericho crumbled down at the braying of The Siecle cf Saturday has the following : the trumpets of the Israelites. It is tru e t hat alon g sid " e l ri f sb7 a d r e e F w e e e " i o P f fj r a t n t t e e d n ii family , the' aflairs r o iY cc? Ec p y a co s the northern frontiers of Europea n Turke y the moment. The M inis t er cf Justice. issaid to h aavet tll9 -been daring encroachments of the AUTOCRAT have already charged to examine a question which he had himself become perceptible, yet, still in defiance of the seizure submitted to the consideration cf a commission com of Bucharest by the Cossacks, and in direct contra- used roo c taT inent l law) .B 'e a r r s t i le such isr as l' T l. r Diupflin, sez. . , diction of what must inevitably be regarded as th e It is this :—The treaty of Fontainebleau, P°g' corroborated portent of a partition or an absorption of Moldavia by the will cf the Emperor, secured to the Bonaparte and Wallachia, the sceptre of ABDUL - MESCHID is family sum w c h l a i o i m il s woinththinetepreusbt would ctreasury fir considerable now amount c o o considering d emr ing more still grasped with a serene and haughty con fidence than' twenty millions. The restoration, in its power, the crescent still glitters upon the domes the treaty of Fontainebleau as abolished both by and minarets of Constantinople. right and by the events cf war, paid no attention to the claim. At the time of the rcse lution cf Turkey, according to the felicitous e x p res- July, claims were sent in to the new Government j by sion of the Edinburgh Re viewer, "has now the members of the Bona p arte famil y , who were then been, for five generations, in its nominal agony,' in exile; the Council of State were called on to examine and still, with an effete Government, a pre- ' i h h e e s G e o v er ol demands,o ment and f i.presentedooi s Philippea f i v e u rab I e report. But carious exchequer, and a popular d i s belief in its duty to acted to those claims, which pp did re not n thi ,wa n a k ai i n t t i . t ( -s _ own more propitious destinies, it survives the un - newed. The commission to which M. Rouber has sub utterable displeasure of Austria and the insatiable mitted the question, it is said, inclined to regard the ambition of the Russian AUTOCRAT . How question in the same light as the Council of State of 1831 , and it is on the opinion ( f this special commission th,t this political miracle comes to pass is a problem the Government will present a Bill tending to effect the as apparently inexplicable at the first blush as any re-imbursement cf the sums which may be due by France other of the many miraculous events in the annals of to t th ,le e heir to s i i n f .t t i h o e n E of m t p h e e ro G r, , after it had been , subjected o Turkey, and yet on examination proves to be alto- The C a ons tilutionnel of y e u st n e c r i d l a o f St lit e. ' y, gives an authori gether as comprehensible. It is, as we have intimated, tative denial to this statement that a Bill was ;to be the natural recompense of the enlightened policy es- presented to the Assembly for a reimbursement of tablished at Constantinople and the natural retribu- 20 0 ‘__,oo ,000 francs to the BONAPARTE family. contradicts the rumour of an ~ s tion of the tyrannous and retrogressive policy erected The same journal in tended expedition to La Plata. It says— upon the iron basis of despotism at St. P etersbur g h. sal journals announce that the Government Strangely enough, on taking a retrospective g lance with resp ect to the affair cf La Plata, has taken MC9.: at the history of Turkey, we discover that the rise of su res seemin g l y contrary both to the p olicy which it sup the Ottoman dynasty, dating from 1299, was very i t i t o e rte A d s d se u m ri h nf the T cl h i:c y us s si o on it aql to the . vote come to by nearly contemporaneous with the disastrous close of state the number y of men to beoemlauirki c l e w r a y , d expedition,name the last and seventh crusade. That crusade, leading, as admiral t s be intrusted with the command. There is can never be forgotten, to the complete loss of the nothing true in the report." The Committee Holy Lands, was anterior to the coronation of the of on the Bill for increasing the pay re non-commissioned officers has chosen 111. ODI LON rot first OTHMAN by only eight years , taki n g p l ace as ....A sta oi a sporter. The Committee will, itis it did in 1291. Within twenty years from that date thought, report against the measure. the Knights Templars, the champions of Christianity, M. Bixto has addressed the following letter to the had perished from the face of the eart h which they S i ècle : " A placard posted up yesterdaypoints out in vie had adorned by their virtues and ha llo w ed b y their le, t terms the conduct f . ten of the most respectable heroism ; and not long afterwards t h e r enowned army publisters in Paris, who have re - ently sold their book', of the Janissaries, the champions of Infid elit y , had giving by way of bonus tickt-ts in the Artist's Let sprung into existence. It was, consequently, at this t l e n r t 3 e a . which . is authorised .by into the Minist ‘r i f a e memorable and momentous epoch, an epoch generally decla ri r o e r. tha lV m a y ho n ut am el e te h r a i s nf 3ae in n t t s wrongfullydi'e usami?xre, mixed up u must regarded as the commencement of modern history, the affair. Complete'y unconnected for many years that that Europe beheld herself assailed at once by the with the manage :neat of the bookselling-house which I bands of the infidels on the shores of the Bosphorus e,tsblisbed, I have not, nor could I, have taken any past in an and on the banks of the Guadalquiver, by the Moors personsop operation which wmhlichh,avmeotrheeosgerr, being eatesteit e ee n m ter :l into annotb b u y t and :by the Mussulmen. A period of advance- be perfectly honourable. I think it my duty at the ment for the arms of the crescent, beginning same tine to ceclare that I shall take proceedings for with the battle of Nicopoli, and ending ( efsmation against the autp , o A r o o o f e the t placard.with the battle of Angora, the former advantageous ' Brno, R, present p ative cf the People." to the cause of the Islamites, and the latter disastrous The Saint Public, of Lyons, says— for the time being to their dominion—led to the con- "In spite cf the severity _ t (f a the weather, and of quest and captivity of BAJAZ ET, by TIMOUR the political nangditattvieonss,ilthhemsstnatueran,f d wriest) a i r n e ourin full city n is n ,SiavittiS TARTAR, and the marvellously rapid salvation of Our w or k i n g p o p ulation, will thus be enabled to pa)s's. Turkey from the " Slough of Despond," by the through a long and severe '.inter without h much suffer marvel-working authority of ManomeT. Under i n local g' provide f a 7r their to w t Ln d d ost may to able, th k a e nr p a r ., o , sperity of our MAHOMZT 11., namely, in 1453, the sway of the The Fir:a y ; to re done, in the Passage de l'Opere, yes- Byzantine CAESARS was brought to a close, and the terday, at 94f. 10c., being a tall of 15c. compared with the closing price on Saturday. Roman Empire finally extinguished, by the capture of the city of Constantinople. Since then, the empire BUSINESS u,N I:: ( 0 ), Ug e rtnTi zirE, RAILWAYS ,I 12 A T THE of the Ottoman Porte, though repeatedly threatening Anglo-Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 76—Boulogne Vi disruption, bas preserved its integrity uninterruptedly e a r n z d on l.m l ie i ns, 7 14—East —ljaentra4l,4 of France Great ( l O nd rl i e a a n es pe a n n i d nstta' until the Russian EMPEROR has ventured upon d ivers s%—Ditto, 31 —Luxembourg, 2 1 A / 2 —Namur and Liege, B i-- insidious encroachments, and those encroachments Orleans and Bourdeaux, 33/ —Paris and Romp, 23. have been repelled by the tacit alliance — established between Turkey and the rest or Christen dom. Yet a little while longer, and we shall have an opportunity of discerning whether the greed of terri torial aggrandisement on the part of the AUTOCRAT will be sufficient to acquire a superior influence to the amicable support granted to the SULTAN by the rest of the great powers of Europe. SPAIN. Madrid journals of tlie 6th have arrived. The report of the Committee on the Budget was read on the sth in the Chamber of Deputies, and the Finance Minister promised to bring in a Bill for the settlement of the debt. The proposition of MENDI zAnAr. for the sale of church property, the proceeds of which should be devoted to the liquidation of the debt, was opposed by the Finance Minister, first, be cause its adoption would destroy the then Clergy Dotation Bill passed last session; and, secondly, because it was in contradiction to the vote of the House, which had authorised the Government to come to an understanding with the Holy See as to the definitive arrangement of the clergy, &c., which the Government was determined to carry out. The proposition was rejected by 126 votes against 41. The Bolsa was closed on the 6th. • _,,,,,.. . , . • ~ 4- 11 „ 6 ..,.... .) . ft ,AVis p -- • ' •.,•'' ° ._l " : " -...... _.' i• -• • , ..tf,...." .+1 .IV igi * ' • ••• 1' A 4 - - - I'fh w- 4+ .—' + - S • - +,— ',.,.. , 4 1_,•Z- -41 , Amic;:; • b -4)- _ 11; o fir` „.. ' ? Itotir - yiti.t .„ - k•Zt . - • • I% -,-,s. GERMANY. The Carnival has begun at Vienna, and WELDEN has relaxed the state cf siege so far as to allow the places of public entertainment to be kept open until . . one o'clock in the morning. The annexation of the Banat, Theis-, and Bars countries to Servia, has created great discontent in Hungary. DENMARK. COPENTIAGEN, JAN. s.—The elections to the Diet are now finished. Those for the Landesthing (Upper Chamber) are now undergoing a revision. Those for the Volksthing (Second Chamber) are confirmed. The result of the elections to the Volksthing is as follows :-50 persons in office, not one of whom is a landed proprietor, 24 peasants, and 1 merchant. Those to the Lsndesthing have returned 14 public functionaries, 12 landed proprietors, 40 peasants, and 5 merchants. The KING has just published_a fiscal law, by which the excise duty on ships and merchandise at Copen hagen is raised. By this law the increase of the excised duty resulting from the ordonnances of May 10, 1815, March 25, 1818, and June 9, 1833, will coutinue in force in 1850, and produce of the port exchequers is to flow into that of the city.—Ham burgh Borsenhalle. HAMBURGH. Far as the eye can reach the lim re A i N so u n ß e G s ff hee j t A o N. f thick ice on the Elbe. All com munication by steam with liarburgh is now over. The Primus and Courier steamers, which attempted to make for our harbour this morning, were unable to proceed further than the extremity or the Koulbrand, and were obliged to land the mail-bags and the pas sengers at Aleshof; consequently we did not receive our papers and letters till this afternoon. Tempera ture, If deg. HOLLAND. TUE HAGUE, JAN. 11 —The Staats Courant an nounces that the Court will go into mourning for three weeks for ADELAIDE, the Queen Dowager of England, and for the Duchess of ANHALT DESSAU. The Limburg newspapers are debating the reports, which gain more and more groun d i n t h e d uc h y , re lative to negotiations between the Netherlands Go vernment and that of Belgium, for the city of Mars trecht, for the sum of 27,000,000'., and of the whole territory situated on the right bank of the Meuse for 50,000,000 f. The merchants of Rotterdam have egreed upon an address of adhesion to the First and Second Chamber of the States General to the proposed project of law on the navigation - laws ; making, however, some re servations in respect to Java. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. Letters from Constantinople of the 31stI1t. an nounce that diplomatic relations have been o ffi c i a ll y renewed between Russia and Turkey, th e diff erence relative to the refugees of Widdin having been com pletely adjusted. The exchange of the protocol took place on that day between M. T ITOFF an d the Minister of Foreign Affairs . LATIFF BEY Secretary to FEJAD EF FENDI, left on the 27th, in the Odessa steamer, to carry t o S t. Petersburgh the protocol signed on the 26th, the exchange of which had been retarded t o a ff or d Count STEMMER, the Austrian Ambassad or , ti me to receive instructions from his Government to concur in it. Those instructions, however, had not arrived on the 31st. ACIIMET EFFENDI, first drago man of the Divan, had been appointed Commissioner of the Porte in the Danubian provinces, in place of FUAD EFFENDI. Other letters of a priv a t e ki n d confirm fully this pleasing intelligence. The last-mentioned accounts add that the P o les implicated in the late Hungarianinsurrection are t o be confined in the town of Koniab, in Asia Minor. Neither the Porte nor any foreign Power can for th e future protect political deli n q uents flying from Russia or Austria into Turkey. No person, however, fur nished with an English or French passport can b e seized by the Russian or Austrian authorities whilst in the Ottoman territory, unless the crime he is charged with be fully proved before the Ambassador, Consul, or agent cf the Government whose passport he holds. ITALY. It is: rumoured that the POPE Will take u p his residance at Terracina, vvh:ch will be garrisoned by the Nettpoli , atis. It is generally believed in Rome that Pro NoNo is himself most anxious to return, but that he is kept under absolute personal restraint by the King of N ArL Es, who, in this instance, acts as goaler to the Austrian and Russian Governments, whose jealousy of French influence is such, that they will not permit his return until Rome shall be evacu ated by the French. Thepqrti-pretre of France are also intriguing with the Camarillo of Portici to prevent the return of the POPE, with a view of embarrassing the PRESIDENT of the French Republic. In the mew - Awhile the three Ct4tdiriiiis have thought it piu- dent to offer s fresh insult to an American citizen, who read the Protestant service to twelve of his countrymen, at his residence in Via Bastianello, and who received an express prohibition to repeat the offence on pain of expulsion, notice having been given to Mr. Cass, the American Minister, that his coun tryman would be sent away if he repeated the offence of worshipping God according to the dic tates of his conscience. The Americans have long wanted a port in the Mediterranean, and the present Government must possess but little of the proverbial American " cuteness" if it does not take advantage of this lapses on the part of the Cardinals, to take possession of, some port in the Mediterranean. No European power could or would risk a war to prevent them. Letters from Rome of the sth inst. state that the French army of occupation is to be reduced to 18,000 men. The cold was intense, and the roads were covered with snow. Other letters of a private kind state that the Very Rev. Dr. CULLEN, many years President of.the Irish C'dlege at Rome, has been appointed by the POPE Primate of all Ireland. Dr. CULLEN'S name was not on the list of prelates whose names were sent from Ireland, and the unusual fact of choosing out of the list will, it is believed, excite discontent amongst the Irish bishops. Dr. CULLEN is shortly expected at Paris on his way to Ireland. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SATURDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Royal Family, and attended by the Mar chioness of Douro, the Earl of Listowel, Colonel Hon. R. Buie, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour, drove to Frogmore this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the gentlemen in attendance, enjoyed the diversion of skating in the ornamental water in Frogmore grounds. The Queen and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent were present. The Marquis of Breadalbane and the Earl of Liverpool left the Castle to-day. There was no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. SUNDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. There was no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Friday at Gloucester House. Sir George Grey returned to town on Saturday, from a visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. BALLOONS FOR CONVEYING INTELLIGENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sort,—As in common with others, I feel greatly interested in the success of the expedition now about to proceed to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions, I was much pleased with the result of the experiment, on Wednesday last, of balloon agency for the conveying of intelligence to great distances. Though the project of sending off dispatches by balloons dates back some years, there may be fresh conditions affecting its application. Since paper balloons were first used for such a purpose we have improved in the manufacturing of calico ; we can now obtain thin calico at about 2d. per square yard, admi rably suited for balloons ; the varnishing per square yard would be about 2d. more, together 4d.. Taking into account the making, a balloon of such material, of about fifty cubic feet contents, requiring nearly eight yards material, would certainly cost less than five shillings, and if a large number were made the cost would probably not much exceed half-a-crown per balloon, with an available buoyancy of about eleven ounces, supposing the inflating gas to be about one-sixth the weight of atmospheric air. A calico balloon admits of rough handling, which a paper one does not; and though the calico balloon must, to hare a certain available buoyancy, be larger than a paper one and would require more gas for its inflation,:still, considering the nature and object of its employment and the facility of supplying gas, the calico balloon, I have not a doubt, would be found preferable; for when it descends it might be held to the place of its descent by a small grapnel with a line of some twenty yards length, and it would en dure in its captive state hard thumping upon an ice berg, the gas not immediately escaping, its size would not for some time diminish, and there would be a better chance of its being seen at a distance. The plan of dropping papers by means of a slow match does not, I think, admit of a long suspension ; if so, the ranges must necessarily be short. Surely it would be better to secure the papers, so as to de scend with the balloon, which would probably take a flight of some twenty-four hours before it alighted, and it might he seen for some hours upon the wing, hich might lend to its discovery. With respect to the inflation, would it not be better to obtain hydrogen gas by the decomposition of steam than by the chemical action of sulphuric acid upon zinc filings ? In conclusion, I would observe that balloons may not only to a means of salvation to voyagers, but a means also of furnishing interesting information as to the currents of air at high elevations in . the Arctic regions. NAUTICUS. Jan. 12, 1850. THE REV. It. MILMAN'S "LIFE OF TASSO.", We are requested to state that the above work, in 2 vets. post Bve., is published this day by Mr. Co'burrs, and may be had of all booksellers. Alan, 2. Lives sf the Princesses of England. By Mrs. Everett Green. 2 vols. with Plates, 215.-3. The Ninth Volume of M. Thiers' Consulate and Empire under Napoleon.-4 Sir James Alexander's Acadie or Seven Years' Explorations in Canada. 2 vols., with Plates, 21e.-5. (Immediately) Burke's History of the Landed Gentry for 1850. Cheaper Edition, corrected to the present time, com plete in 2 vole., price only 2/. 2s. FATAL SLIP.—On Thursday morning last an un fortunate policeman was found lying on the pavement in Harrison-street, Gray's Inn-road, surrounded by a pool e f blood; he was conveyed to the Royal Free Hos pital, where it was discovered that his skull was frac tured. He died in the course of the afternoon. It is upposed that he had been to try the door of one of the houses, and that, in returning his foot slipped, and his head coming in contact with one of the steps, he thus met with the injury. ANOTHER LETTER FROM SIR R. PEEL.—We ex tract from the _Norwich News the following letter, ad dressed by Sir R. Peel to Mr. George Gower, of Small burgh, in reply t) a quest;on put by that gentler' an on public ground., in reterence to the application of the 20 per cent. set apart t r his teuaetry by the Right Hun. Baronet:—" I will with pleasure answer the question which you put to me. My tenants quite understaed that the 20 per cent. of the current year's rent is to be applied in each ease ' most beneficial to the farm.' Draining, the removal of useless fences, and the pre serva'ion of manure, were named as entitled to prefer ence, from a conviction on my part that such improve ment., where required, are more for the real benefit of a tenant than any other. They have also the advantage of employing labour. There are cases on this estete on which, so far as concerns draining and fences, such im provements have been already made. In those cases the tenant is equally to have the full benefiNof the 20 per cent, allowance. I hope he will rgrce with me, that the first object for his interest should be to provide effectu ally against waste of that manure which is made upon the farm; that being done, there will not be the slight est objection on my part to apply the balance to the purchase if other manures.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. Drayton-manor, Jan. 7." FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a most fearful character happened on Saturday morning, near the Bow etetien of the Ea-tern Counties Raile ay, which terminat el fatally to John Rudder, a smith, in the em ploy of the company. It appears that shortly after 8 o'cloCk, on the morning in question, the unfortunate man, who resided at Old Ford, got upon the line a short distance on the Essex side of the station at Bow, for the purpose of walking down to the company's works at Stratford, where he was employed. Ho was pursuing his way, apparently on the down side of the line, when the driver of the engine attached to the 8.10 down train from Bishopsgate station, noticed him. The steam whistle was immediately sounded, and the usual precau tions ado[ ted in alarming the unfortunate fellow as to his dangerous position. To bring the train to a halt was impossible, and in a few moments the whole train passed over him; the body was found to be shockingly muti la'el; the head was frightfully crushed, and his arms and legs severed, and otherwise injured. A shell being procured, the body was removed to the Five Bells pub lic-house. FIRE AT CRUM CASTLF.—A. report is in town to-day (Friday) that Crum Castle, the magnificent seat of the Earl of Erne, had been destroyed by fire. The report originated in a traveller who was passing through Lionaskea, at about one o'clock yesterday, w h en th e in habitants were rushing to the castle to aid in suppressing the flame. Another gentleman, who travelled by the Enniskillen mail last night, stated in Monaghan that when parsing by the demesne, the passengers distinctly saw the flames of the still burning 'edifice. If the fire continued unabated from one o'clock in the day until that late hour in the night, it must be very much in jured. This, we believe, is the third time this splendid pile e f building has been bur it.—Monaghan Standard. WILD FOWL.—It is remarkable that a greater number of strange wild fowl, some aquatic and some land birds, have visited this neighbourhood than has ' been known for a great number of years past. The os prey, or fishing eagle, is one of these rarities. We like wee sew the other el Ay a specimen e f the goose genus of an unusual description; a pair of these birds were no ticed in the waters about Beeston and Clifton, and were much sought after for several days by the sportsmen in the vicinity; the one we saw, the last of the unfortunate pair, was shot at the back of C ifton-hall. Almost all the birds to which we have made allusion are under stood to be natives of high northern latitudes. Their presence here, therefore, would imply that the winter Ihas set in these regions with unusual severity,--L rotts Mere to y. anal COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales v fCi tten st Liverpool on Saturday were es tlmst -d et 8,000 hales, of which 4.000 were taken on spv culat'on. Toe s ales comprised 450 Per nam and NI artanham, at 6id to 7d, 350 Bahia at 64c1 to 7d, and 2 000 Surat at 4id to 54el per lb. The mark t closed very firmly.—ln Railway Shares a good business was done, and prices had an upward ten dency. There are very large arrivals of Foreign Grain re ported in Mark-lane to-day, and the market is lower for most articles. Of English Wheat, also, the supply is fuller. The following report of the iron trade is from Aris's Birmingham Gazette:— "The quirt-Hy meetings in the early part of the week were very thinly attended, and no disposition was manifested to push bush 03S either in manufactured or pig-iron. On Thursday at Birmingham, although the meeting was scarcely of its usual duration, about an average number were present at different periods. Busi reis here assumed a rather more decisive character; but was still cautiously negotiated, under the apprehensions theta couree may be pursued similar to that at the same period c f last year, and an advance in prices he declared lot f ire the te-mination of the quarter. Orders were there fore only accepted conditionally if requiring time f execution. On Friday and Saturday also a satis factory amount cf business was done, at previous or slightly improved figures. Orders fir rods and also for best qualities charcoal and wire iron were more freely ten dered. " There are now inquiries for large' quantities of rails, principally for shipment, which encourages the hope that this branch of the iron trade must shortly enjoy a more prominent position. The erection and extension of the worlie here has, however, continued to progress with such rapidity during the last Sow years that it be comes questionable how tar the market may be affected in securing an outlet for the produce. " In Scotland the total number of blast furnaces is now 144, of which 113 are productive, 27 unemployed, and 4in the course of erectior. The quantity of pig iron made at these during the year 1849 is estimated at upwards of 690,000 tons. The stocks now in hand, computed from the most accurate sources, are about 195,000 tons, being more than the stocks et the beginning of the year by 95,000 tons. It also appears that the whole amount of foreign exports during the year has reached 153,000 tons, of which the United States alone have taken 94,000 tons, and other parts of North and South America nearly 12,000 tons more. India, Australia, Turkey, and Egypt, about 3,000 tons; and the European states, about 44,000 tons. The shipments coastwise have also been 222,000 tons. The consumption for mal leable iron, local foundries, and other inland purposes, has hems, in addition to this, about 120,000 tons. Tak ing into consiCeration the extensive stocks remaining, and the actively increasing make of Scotch pig iron, there may be some reason to apprehend a marked accu mulation by the time spring shipments open; and should the American Government succeed in further taxing this article in their tariff, these circumstances combined would have a very unfavourable effect on the iron interest of the country, since so great a proportion of its make finds a consumption thee." A very useful statement has been issued by the Post master-General of the periods of arrival and departure determined upon for the steamers which carry the mails between Ergland and North Americo. The vessels will run every fortnight until April, and then once a week until the autumn. Fresh arrangements must evi dently be made in connexion with the West India inter colonial service, otherwise we shall be constantly re ceiving, as has frequently occurred recently, late Jamaica advices via New York, or even New Orleans, telegraphed thence. The very boisterous state of the weather has kept out several continental mails. From Amsterdam we learn that there continued to bo extensive purchases of stock, both home and foreign, and generally at fuller prices. The general aspect of foreign affairs is now accounted tolerably good, but there is still not entire confidence felt. The fact that the President of the French Re public gets on so well, and that trade at Paris and in the departments has so materially improved, is not without its weight here, and the employment of faded to the working classes is looked upon as some gust• ant se for the preservation e f tranquillity. The meeting of the cow German Parliament is regarde 1 with interest, arid with some doubt also, owing to the want a unanimity among all the states, but the commercial advice; from Saxony, Prussia, &e., are so cheering as to strengthen the hole that the struggle will be chiefly Parliamentary. Notwithstanding the very abundant supply of money among the bankers and discount houses, a notion has arisen in some quarters that because the Bank of Eng land d, es not make advances on stock below 21 lor cent, the minimum rate which it is charging on best bills, the directors view the current speculation and the rise with dissatisfaction, and further pursuing this train of relsoning, the parties who are operating for a decline infer that Government has no intention to attempt a reduction cf the interest on the Debt, and that in fact the great incentive to purchases ef stick is destroyed. We believe, however, that this is a totally erroneous view, and that the Bank is merely pursuing an ordinary course, far, alhough it has made advances at 2 per cent hit .Iy, and while the t!an,fer books were closed, it is pes f.:ctly justified when it finds a demand fur money in the Stick Exchange in benefiting its own proprietary by requiring at least the minimum charged on bills. Another explanation tf the reaction in Con sols is tat they have had an impoita t rise, and that there is usually a strong effort made just ba fore t`ie settlement t i bring the quotations to a point vet ee the fewest " options" will come off. Consols: have ba en 961 to 961 fir Tunsfer, and 961 to 97 for We Inesday, the present value being about 96g to 97. Bank St ick is firm at an improvement to 209. India Stock realises 265. The Nev.!? Three-and-a-Quarter per Contr. have he ‘n to 99k, and the Thre per Cents. 964 to 9711. Excl equer-bills have ranged from 583. to 61-., and East India Bonds have been 975. premium-. In tl:e Foreign market a 1 irge business has teen done preparatory to the settlement of the a_:count, which takes place to-morrow. Spanish Three per Cer t . have hien 371 to 372 ; and the live per CeLt , . 191 t i 191. Por tuguese Four per Cent'. have teen 35i to 36 ; Mexican Stick is worth 29 ti 29a; Peruvia , , 641 t) 65i ; and Buenos Ayres, 48} ti 4tr4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ce• ts. are 55 to 56. Russ al Bonds late e touched 109 and 1101; and Punish 1004. Railway Shares are nearly all improving, and are marked higher. ONE elr-)ING PR .;Es OF , itilli3El fII:(1):, O'CLOCK. 'Rif ES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Arns. 97 96 3 4 97 1 4 97% 3 per Cent. Consols Annul tie , 3 New 3!‘ per Cent. Anne.... 9 8 34 99 1 ,4 99 Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 . India Stock India Bracts, 1,0001. Ditto under I,uuut.. ...— 97 p South Sea Stock Coosols for Account...—. 96% 97 ,-.,.. t, , ,,uer V.:111,,.. I 'l9 ••6 1 2d 1,0091. June 5001. June .......... .. Small. June 6O 58 61 p 61 p eItICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ON.FL ILO:SI.N 0, O'CL ?RILES razilian Bonds Ditto, Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 oer Cent.— 49% 48 1 ,1 48 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. - Ditto 5 Der Cent ... lOO4 Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Mexican. i per cent le-so, with Coupons-- Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account 29% 2 1 / 2 Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account ... .. Ditto Deferred Po-tuguese S per Cents. Ditto, Converted, 1841 3 4 3 /4 34 3 / 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds ..... 110 110 1 ,! 109 109 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Do., Coupons.. ...... 9 1 / 2 9 1 ,4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent Ditto, Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent 93f. 25c,. Exchange French 3 per Cent Exchange Beligan, 4 1 A per Cent.... .. Damn 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 56 55 1 55 1 4 Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates 8 6 3 /4 6634 PRICES OF ?AID. :BUSINESS DONE CLOSING 'AMWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen ... 50 Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 7% Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7 l Ai ...... Belfast & County Do mn 28 ... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly 14 paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... 25 % 25 Do, without guarantee 20 Birming, Wolverh'ton, and Lindley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 ...... Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Va11ey...... 131. 145 . ... Oh kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juno.... 20 ...... Bristol and Exeter 92 ... .. Ditto, Thirds Suckinghamvhire Caledonian Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 Ditto,ClvdesdaleJunc 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Clarence Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. Direct London & Ports mouth - _ Dtliinand Belfast June. 40 5 3 / 4 ------ Dundalk & Enniskillen SO „ -- East Anglian, 25/. L. & E. and L. and DI-- 25 Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 105., Pref... 3% Ditto, 7/.175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 . Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 7 1 ,4 • • Do. New,Gue.6 per ct. 10 ...... 11,04 Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... AM P Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent 5O astern Union, Class A (lato E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 - .... •••• O. •• .....I i Do., Class B Si C 25 — Do. Scrip (fps: cent.) 20 .... 17 .. .... East Laßcatlhire .. 25 Ditto, New ..- 25 --- Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 ...... .. ... Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 614...... ......... — East Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 26 1 ,4 . 2B Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. .. ....... Edinburgh and Northern 25 — -. Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... Exeter:Yeovil. & Dorch. 2% — Exeter and Exmouth... 211. Glasgow Dumfries, and Carlisle 41asgow,Kilmar ,& Ayr 50 ..... . Do.Preterence Consol. Gloucester & Dean Forest 121- Great Northern Do., % A Deferred ... 124...... 3 3 4 Do., 12 B 6 per Cent... 74. 4%. Do., 5 per,,Cent. Pref. 12%. ll 10% reat South. and West. •••• . (Ireland) -3reat North of England 100 .... 232 Ditto, New, 401 Ditto, ditto Ditto, New, 301 3O Ditto. New .15/ l 5 . Great Wt stern 10C... 64 65% 61 67 WA 604 Ditto, % .shares 5O 3O 34 .. ' 3: * Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ..,... 20 Ditto, New 171. ..... 15 . 6 ....•.......... 8% Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 Ditto, Ralf :hares ..• 25 •••••• .........« 4 1% Do. Quarter Shares... 125 f — ..... .... --- Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lsncaahire & Yorkshire 100 - Ditto, ditto • Ditto, 1.4 Shares Do. Quarters ...... Do. Fifths... Do. Thirds ...... . 1614 — .........„... Do. New GuarantTed 6 per Cent.. ,__ Ditto (Huddersfield and Shutt'.) Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 .. ••• •••• ••• es toe eeeeee Do.(Preston es w yre) 25 Do. 1 / 2 Shares (A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradtord 5O -• Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 31,4 ee .••• Do., do. lgo. 2 7% 2 34 2ix Do., do ...... No. 3 5 ~.... ... ........ Do., Pref. Quar., 184 S 9 ...... ".... ... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. London &Black wa11...11/. 65. 3d... ..._ ..• Lorolon, Brighton, ar d South Coast.— 100 ...... 81% 82% .... 834 Do., New 51., guaran teed 6 per Cent..... 100 ......133 ... Do.Guarant. o per ct.... a ...... ...... Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 ...... .... .... ••",/ Ditto ditt0...... 1852 50 .. ... 5)% 5971 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... 10 1 4... ..... Ditto, Prefere.r. , . .. . 20 Loudon and N. Western 100 ll4 113 1 4 116% 11671 th , n Ditto, New Quarters 12 ...... 13 Ditto, Fifth....... l2 . .. 13% 14 ... Do. 40/. Shares( L. )35 Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 .. London 5c S Western .....100 ..... 67 66 67 Do, New 50/. . ....... 42% ... New 401. 34 Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. Londonderri-SiColeraine 25 Do. 1 h Shares Londonderry and Ennla killen ...... Do. 1 ,4 Shares. ..... 6 Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20 Ditto (6 per ct.) 51anchester,Buxten,and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo _ _ Do. Quarters_(No. 1) 25 Ditto ditto (No. 2).:. 25 D 0.% Shares ( No. 3) 121.4 ••• Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 Ditto, Gt.(3rrimsby Ditto ditto . .„...••• 20 ...•••• ••••••••• ••• Ditto Aitto Ditto Sheffield rud Lincolnshire 25 . ••• Do., Grimsby Dock 25 ..... Do., Manchester and incoln Union..... 41.25. — Midl And ....... 45 Do. Consolidated Pref.loo Do., do., 501. Shares 30 8 H ...... Do. Birm. and Derby 100 Do.Consol. ristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 126 Ditto, Bruit. & Glocstr. 42 Ditto ditto ........... 22/. 78..• ••• Do.,ErewashVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Lei€est.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western Irish - , ,01 Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and earliale.103 ..... Do. Quarters - ..... Newmarket ...„. . 23 Do. Extension Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereterd Newry and Enniskillen 7 - Newry, Warrenponat, an,l Bostrevor 2O - .. ........ .... Norfolk .......... ....... ....100 1)0. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 Apc. 5 Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... Northern Counties Union 4 ...... -- MIN. North 13;1104 , ........... 26 .... , ...... Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds ... .• •• 8i — Ditto Prelerenev ..... 5 orth &affords' ire ... 173 v 7 , orth Wales . 3 -••• 000000000000 North-Western . 13% — .... ,sierd, Vi orcester, and Wolverhampton - ............... tte.ding, Win Word, and Reigate 11. ... l5 ..... 163 .4 Wi i • ...... ~ hoyeton and Hitchin ••• 4 %.. .•• 5 .•••• ...... ..• :•]cotti:th Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New Sbrewsbuty and Bina l2 ...... ...... .. ..... Ditto ditto. Class B S ...... . .......... Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and tiered. 5 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Helves ... ditto 9 .....• ............... Ditto Uswestly ...... 1854 2 — ............. • Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref Eihropshire Union .30utia Devon Do. Prot trance 8 1 4 —South tatiOrd ihire 'Louth Eastern Do., No. 2. Do., IN t.,. .. ... .. , . ... ZiO •, Do Regietered No. 4 10 . • . .... .... *" ~_ Do., Scrip No 4 South VV sues nuuth Yorkshire, vun caster, and Goole ...... 12 Shaffield, Rotherham, Ot Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 16 % ...,.......••• Do. do (bon. Div.) ... ...... S NMI& & Loughor & Ca meron's SUn. C0a1.... 7 ••• ...... ... law Vale Extension ... 8 laames Haven Dock and Railway ..... 17 1 / ..... . ...... ....... /ale of Neath .. t aterford and Kilkenny 20 .. — ............ Waterford and Limenck 47% ........ W aterfd,W xlid,Wich kw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed Do. do. d 0.... 25 Do. do. do. ... 15 VVest Cornwall .. 6 •• ...........•••• W bitehaven & Furness 18 Windsor, Staines, and South Western..... ... 14 W ilt3,Somerset,& Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. ........ 25 Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preiorence 8 ... .............. Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 York and North Midland 5o Ditto, Preferencl ..... I() 6 ......... FOREIGN RAILWA Yo. Anglo, Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... _5% ......••••••... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- / leans and Vierzon)... 20 -• .... ........ '. / Demerara ....... ........ ... 171/,1 ,„„, .., ........ .••• . 0 Uutell 10.1,Ani811 ......... 8 East Indian Ditto ... Great Indian Peninsular ö Do. Do. ... ..».10s.. Louvain i. la Sambre ... 7% — ............. / Luxembourg ............ 7 1 ,x.»» — ............... / Ditto Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... Northern of Franco l4/. 85... —dis ..... ..... / i t Orleans and Bordeaux Ptirlo and Orleans ...... 20 /f, Paris and Eouen 2O .- -23 ....• •• ...... 9 7 Parts and Strasbourg . ••• Rouen and.llavre ...... 20 Sam ire and lieus© 2O —..— ••• "*"...... • / Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nautes Tournay, Jurbise, Lan- / ... ............. den, and Hassett ...... 20 West Flanders B% .. ... ............. / , / i t JOINT STOCK BANKS. ...-- op Australasia , 4O - „ ii British worth Amiaican r,O .„„.„ ........ ~ / .-Colonial ... /, Commercial of Lunoon zu ... London Joint Stunk Union of Australia ..., / Ditto, New .••........ 2 1 / 9 -• • •••••••••,.• / Union of London... ..... 10 - ••• ....... 0 0 .... Union of Madrid 40 , 0 0,1 tat" 7 THE TEMPL E , JAN. 12.—The following de st e o e s of the Middle Temple have bfen called to theel:l,ol4 barristers-a•-law, and they were this even il l t o, bef ,re several of the b e nchers:—llen r ,, aa pb' v • Mitchel!, Esq., John Stephen', Emil -• gsq., gad kienry g 9 vgb, Bock 97 p 10614 3 % 16% 9 3 / 4 12% 17 1 % 7% 11% I.A' P S% 1 / 4 4 Ai 10,111 13% 3% 7i lii i 'l R 5 i , 1 6, i ..• , 3~~ 8/~'