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THE AUTHOR OF ROCKINGHAM'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. THE NEW NOVEL, LOVE and A MBITION. By THE AUTHOR OF " ROCKINGHAM." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ADVERTISEMENTS for THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, intended for insertion in No. XXVI., must be forwarded to the Printer by MONDAY, the 16th of December, and Bills not later than the 18th. William Clowes and Sons, Printers , Duke - street , Stamford-street, Blackfriars. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS. THIS ETENING. The First Part of the Concert will consist of Rossini's STABAT MATER (the entire work). The principal parts will be sustained by Madlie. Angri, Miss Birch (her first appearance at these Con certs), Mr. Frank Bodda, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with a full English Chorus. The Second Part will be varied, and include the Overture to " Se miramide." Solos by Miss Goddard, Signor Briccialdi, &c. Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe. Conductor of La Musique de Danse —Herr Labltzky. Promenade (admitting to the Half-Circles, Gallery} 1 6 and Pit Stalls) The Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concerts will com mence at Eight, and terminate about Eleven. Boxes and Stalls to be bad at the Box-office, where Programmes of the performance n ny be obtained. Mr. Thomas Masts. s of the Polytechnic Institution, the Coloseum, and Royal llotanie and Zoological Gardens, will supply the Refresh ments and Wines, &c., &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAJQ(ET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old BrOmpton. MR. MACREA DY. THIS EVENING, The Single Act of the Second Part of lIENRY TIIE FOURTH. Henry IV., Mr. Macready. To be followed by the JEALOUS WIFE, in which Mr. Macready will appear. 3 , After which A RADICAL CURE. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. 11. Bedford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hug,bes, Boyce, G. Smith, P. Bed ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. Aft.r which a new Parce tailed THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS ; or, The Shilling Hod. Captain Kitoflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright; Alexander Panels, 3liss Chaplin. To be followed by a new and original Farce, in the Vulgar Townie, to be called JACK IN TEIE GREEN; or, Hints on Eti quette. IIOYAL PRINCESS'S TH EA TRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kear4 and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, . _ _ Will be performed an entirely new Play called TETE TEMPLAR. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, Fisher, Belton, Addison, Vining, Cath ca,t,Evere t, C. Kean ; and Mrs. C. Kean. After which BETSY BAKER; or, "Too Attentive by TICf." Characters by Messrs. J. Fining, Kelley, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Murray. To condole with TO PARENT 3 and GUARDIANS. Private Uoses, to be had of all the Booksel.ers, and of Mr. Mr...Linghitrn ; of whom also places may re taken at the Box-office, Oxfo: - .1-6treet, from Eel - en till Four o'clo.:k. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the I.laliagelneat of Mattarne Vesta.% Les Pee, Mr. Charles Matlews. 1 HIS EVENING, Will be ;erformed A PRACTICAL. MAN. To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING. After wblcli THE RINGLOVES. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING. WHI he perenned THE FARMER'S ST. P.Y. After which THE CONNTRY SQUIRE. To coneh)de ith THE ETON BOY. a AILEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal HiOnesi • Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Last week of the gorgeoi e Spectacle. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Second week of the Revival of TUR ITN'S RIDE to YORE:. TU!4 EVEN LNG, The Crai t new .r.cctacie of THE ENCHANTED PALFRET; or, The ‘war the Crescent. Togetll,l -with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introduci the 313; nincext Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes. The whole concluding with the Equestriau Drama (for the firs time th,se fire years) of TURYIN'S RIDE to YORK. particular desire, shor ly will be produced, KENNILS ORTII or t. , .e (h.;:deu Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly cos• two el. rmensive I , reparfflons ar' now being male for the production a 110 w and origin-I1 Equestrian Comic rant manic, wri.ten expressl for th , s'fbervre by G. IL Eodwell, Esq. Box.-ortice op•:n from Ekren till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. umil WATER Al LONDON BRTDGE THIS ; 'l7 To S 3 t. trio - Morning 30 min. after 6 I Evening 52 min. after 6 —llozniug 19 rorn. after 7 I Evening 49 ann. after 7 TUE: WEATHER.—SIit/ OFFICE, DECEMBER THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 35 —.highest since noon yesterday. . 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 31—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.06, WIND S. S. W. - light breeze and dull weather. DAILY IVEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (DUnLIN) —Wind S.S.E., hard wind—partially Cloti(ty. _ . v. PEY MOET Ind E., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. PoarAmou'rit—Wind E., calm overcast. ButouloN—Wind E., calm—foggy. II ASTENGS Wind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. Sou . riiAmFroN—Wind N.W., strong breeze—foggy. Foi.xEsTe.,NE —Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast. TuNniuDor.—Wind N.E., calm—foggy. BASINCIsTOKE - Wind N.E., gentle breeze— foggy. - Wind E., calm—overca.A. READING - Wind S.E., calm—foggy. Glt E EN vs' —Calm—foggy. SWIN DI ind S.E., light airs—overcast. LitIGHTDN—Wind E., gentle breeze—foggy. CoLcH; sTEß—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. CAmr.moGi. —Calm - foggy. RUGBY ind S., gentle breeze—foggy. BIRMINGHAM - Wind S., gentle breeze—foggy. PETEILROROUGII Wind S.W., calm—send. CREWE - Wind S.S.E., fresh breeze—hard frost. CONWAY—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. HOLYHEAD—Wind S, gentle breeze—frost. LIVERPOOL--Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. 14.1.A.N0i ESTER—Wind E., gentle breeze— hard frost. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the barometer was unusually high. The mean daily reading was above 30 inches on every day except Wednesday, when it was 29 . 982 inches; on Friday the mean was 30.2t0; and the mean of the week was 30.146. The mean temperature was below the average of the same days in seven years on the first three days f the week, and above it during the remainder. On Sunday the mean temperature was 36.9°, or 6.4° below the average; on. Thursday it was 50.1°, or 96' above the average—changes which seem to operate unfavourably on the public health. The mean temperature of the week was 42.6°. The wind was generally in the south-east. rAV ..., N 7,4 t. • ,2- '0 40 . 0 tv , • , • " 4 "1 -1 : A r • o , • jr LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1850 We hay. heard from various persons expressions of dissatisfaction at what they are pleased to term the milk-and -water tone of the answers which her MA- J ESTY was yesterday advisel to return to the ad dresses of the various civic bodies connected with the city of London. We confess that we cannot see any just cause for such dissatisfaction. As we read the answers we consider that her MansTy has said as much as the SOVEREIGN of these realms could say on such an occasion, short of stating the exact nature of the measures which it is the intention of the Mi nisters to propose to Parliament, which (even supposing the measures should have been already determined on, a matter which we very much doubt), would have been a course alike unprecedented and unconstitu tional. Neither would it have been seemly had her MAJESTY on such an occasion adopted anything like a tone of partisanship, inasmuch as the SOVEREIGN should always act in a strictly judicial capacity. It is as complainants that the presenters of these ad dresses come before their SOVEREIGN, and their corn. plaint is as follows : " That the Bishop of Rome has recently issued a bull, whereby he not only presumes to partition this country into pretended dioceses of the Church of Rome, but at the same time assumes the right of appointing Arch bishops and Bishops of such sees, and conferring upon them territorial titles and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, all which we deem to be inconsistent with the principles of our Constitution in Church and State, an invasion of your Majesty's royal supremacy l an audacious usurpa tion of your Majesty's prerogative of alon e b estow i ng titles of honour, and a grievous insult to this Protestant nation. " For remedy whereof we earnestly entreat that your Majesty will direct such measures to be taken as in your royal wisdom shall seem expedient, assuring your . M ajesty that y ou may ever confidently rely on the affec tionate and cordial support of a loyal, united, and reli gious,people. 6, We further humbly acquaint your Majesty that we v i ew with feelings of deep anxiety and alarm the intro duction, of late years, of m any Remish principles and practices, and the unauthorised revival of many obsolete forms of the worship and ministration of our own Re formed National Church , by some cler g y menn th;s and other dioceses, and humbly express our firm conviction that great encouragement has been thereby g i ven to that act of usurpation and aggression against which we now protest, while it is our belief that greater danger to the Protestant Church is to be apprehen ded from un faithful teaching than from open hostility. ' This is the complaint common to all the addresses ; and what is her MAJESTY'S reply ? " You may be assured of my earnest desire, and firm determination, under God's blet:sing, to maintain unim paired the religious liberty which is justly prfz d by the people of this country, and to up/xld, as its surest safe guard, the pure and spiri!ual worship of the Protestant Faith, which has long been happily established in this land. " It nil! continue to b:, 25 it has ev,.r Ix en, my earnest endeavour, in the exerci, , e of the power and tiuthorit) entrusted to me, as the Supreme Governor (de this TC.IIIII, to. maintain the independence and uphold the constitutional THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDNY EVENING, liberties of my people against all aggression and encroach ment." It appears to us that these answers are perfectly satis factory ; the first quoted paragraph is evidently an ex- I pression ofa determination to purge the Church as by law established of those spies and traitors who, while they deny her MAJESTY'S supremacy, seek to destroy the " pure and spiritual worship of the Protestant faith," because it is " the surest safeguard" of religious liberty ; and the second expresses her MAJESTY'S de termination to defend the independence of her people against all the attempted aggressions of Ultra montanism. The answer to the London addresses must, however, be read by the answers to the ad dresses from the Universities, which were presented to her MAJESTY immediately afterwards, and here we are rejoiced to find that in her answer to the Oxford address her MAJESTY in distinct and unmis takable terms vindicated her undoubted right to spiritual supremacy over the Church of England as by law established, and took up the gauntlet so in solently, so arrogantly, we are almost inclined to say, so traitorously thrown down by Bishop PIIILLPOTTS, Mr. BENNETT, Archdeacon WILBERFORCE, and divers other Tractarians, who having taken the oath of supremacy now find it convenient to fence with it. The following are the words of her MAJESTY : Is has ever been, and will continue to be, my en deavour to promote the efficiency and maintain the purity of our Reformed Church, the supreme government of w!lich, under God, is by law confided to me, and it is highly gratifying to me to be assured of your faithful adherence to its principles, doctrine, and discipline." We have here, therefore, a distinct claim of spiritual supremacy, and a distinct assertion that this spiritual supremacy is conferred by law, both of which posi tions are distinctly denied by the Tractarian traitors, who claim for themselves, as priests, a superiority not only above the SOVEREIGN, not only above the law, but above the Scriptures themselves. Now, to our minds, nothing can be more satisfactory than this temperate yet firm expression on the part of her MAJESTY of her fixed determination to maintain her own rights and those of her people, as established by law, against all who blasphemously arrogate to themselves a pretended right divine above all laws. And in this oppwhion to the wicked at tempts of those who abjure their weer functions es ministers tf the Gospel, in order to usurp authority as priests, and thus bring us agein under the yoke ofa sacerdotal chopotism, Nr.i shall have the assistance of almost all the educated portion of the Roman Ca tholic laity, and the gold wishes, we believe, of no inconsiderable portion of the Roman Catholic secular clergy. It; is as unfair to confound the educated (al ways excepting the Jesuit led) portion of the Ro man Catholic laity with the arrogant and in sidious Ultramontanists, from whom the recent Papal bull is,ued, as it would be to confound the great body of Protestants with the Tractarian traitors, who, like Cie Ultrainontanists, are engaged in a foul con spiracy to restore, at the point of the sword, if need be, the dark and dreary days of sacer dotal dtespoiinn. It is the interest of the Ro man Catholic laity, even more than it is the interest of the Protestants, that the Ultrarnontanist Proganda should be effntually cheek , A, and this it can be without depriving any one of our lk)man Catholic fellow-subjects of one single privilege which he at present enjoy;, and as a proof that the edilcated Roman Catholics would themselves wish such check to be applied, in order to be emancipated from the pri_stly tyranny with which they are threatened, vcs appeal to the admirable letters of Lord BEAUMONT and of the Duke of NORFOLK. Although we would by no means divert public at tention from the more immediately practicable and profitable scheme of railroad extension from Portland to Halifax, we nevertheless preserve in the general remembrance the more vast and more important pro fret of a grand trunk line of communication to be ultimately opened between the capital of Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Georgia. Our sympathies in the latter undertaking are so much the greater in proportion to mere apparent usefulness. While the branch railway connecting Halifax with the United States would tend to facilitate the traffic between the old and the new world across the Atlantic, the trunk railway connecting Halifax with the western shores of North America, immediately opposite Vancouver's bland, woull opm up the way to more desirable ad vantages than th, se derivable from merely improved ef , mmunications—it would secure the reclamation of enermous tracts of waste land, and would tend to the development of a new and glorious scheme of colo nization. Through its instrumentality, moreover, a wide and available field would be opened for the em ployment of convict labour, at first in the construc tion of the proposed railroad, and at length in the cultivation of the contiguous territory. From these few sentences may be conjectured the gigantic character of the enterprise upon which we have now very frequently expatiated, and the variety of inte rests it is calculated to subserve, while benefiting the new world, to the obvious advantage of the eastern and western extremities of the old. Hitherto in our running commentaries on the proposed achievement we have enlarged more particularly on the good con sequences certain to accrue from the moment of its completion in reference to the increased facilities it will afford in the way of frequent and rapid inter communication. Once finished, and the two great oceans will be bound together with a continuous belt of iron, :the trunk line extending eastwards by Halifax to the Atlantic, and westwards by Quadra to the Pacific. A new and uninterrupted route will be opened towards the mother country (England) from the vast proportion of her enormous and scattered possessions —from her American territories them selves, from her islands in the eastern and southern archipelagoes, from her stations in the Chinese Em pire, from her own empire in Ilindostan, from Cey lon, from New Zealand and Australia. The excel lent results of all which would inevitably be in no way restricted to commerce, bat extended within the limits of the political horizon, at once binding more closely and permanently together the whole of her Britannic MAJESTY'S dominions, and tending more directly and manifestly to the advancement ecf the cause of civilization. Added to all which foregoing considerations, there are the benefits certain to be derived from the employ ment of all the hidden resources of our North Ame rican territories. Those territories have hitherto remained in a manner unexplored and uncultivated. The countless products of a valuable and nutritious character which, with proper care, might be garnered up for the satisfaction of the wants of millions, are there allowed to grow, to ripen, and to seed, according to the laws of creation, decaying again into the earth from which they have sprung, and transforming thou sands of square miles of the richest soil into a wil derness of fruitage and efflorescence. While there are amongst ourselves so much penury, and such a very grievous want of employment, it is truly deplorable indeed to reflect upon the abounding stores of provi sions here running to waste, and upon the unre stricted field for occupation awaiting the introduc tion of labourers armed with the spade and the hammer, the adse and the plough, the saw and the pickaxe. Tracing the line mapped out for the pro jected railway, the eye wanders with a look of elated speculation upon the virgin treasures inviting the ap proach of such an enterprise. After crossing Nova Scotia, and skirting the province of New Brunswick in its departure from Halifax, the railway would branch from the St. Lawrence in one direction to Toronto, and in another along the main route be tween Temiscoming and Abbitibbe, north of lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, be tween Red River and Swan River, between the Black Foots and Saskatchewan, on by O'Kanagon and Fort Langley to its terminus on the borders of the Gulf of Georgia. Throughout the whole of this vast road way the animal, vegetable, and mineral productions of the country—productions of almost countless di versity—would be placed within the reach of the explorers ; and their acquisition would be rendered attainable according to the system contrived by the Canadian Lend and Railway Association. The asso ciation here referred to—formed very recently in con sequence of the growing appreciation of the scheme upon which we ourselves had previously so very often expatiated —propo ses to accompany the line of rail ! way across cur North American possessions, with a plan by which land allotments would be made at an avenge ranging betwee n 25, 50, and 100 saes—,illotra t nts th e cultivation of which may speedily transform what is now a mere waste into a garden, extending from the Pacifi c to the atlantic. The " Report and Outline" o f the plan adopted by the Canadian Land and Railway Asso ciation, published during the course of the present year, is embellished, not only with an sdnairable map of the line intended to be drawn across the British provinces in North America, but with a sketch of a portion of the proposed railroad, representing a model town and the adjacent group of allotments. Than this nothing, we are bold to say, could be more really practicable, or calculated altogether to be more enormously profitable to the colonists, however much the undertaking may appear like a daydream to the judgment of those who are timorous and desponding. Without possessing the slightest particle of interest in the scheme as a mere commercial speculation, without knowing personally or otherwise ono single individual in any manner solicitous as to its pros perity, we are induced to speak thus emphatically of an association such as the one here particularized— an association according admirably with ideas long cherished by ourselves, and directed simultaneously , to the advancement of British commerce and of ge neral civilization. Perseverance and time are, of course, the first requisites in the way of forwarding a scheme so large and comprehensive ; but with these we doubt not but that capital may be ultimately accemu. lated, and with capital will arise a confidence in the merits of the undertaking. Whenever these happy results are achieved a great step will have been taken towards the completion of a design whereby the earth will be rendered more directly subservient tD the wants of humanity. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The parti-pretre journals are highly indignant at the presumption of their contemporaries in daring to publish the details of the trial of the Priest G0T11... LAND, and one of them has ventured to apostrophize the Bourgeois readers and conductors of the Journal des Debuts in the following terms :—" Bourgeois, will you be pleased to go back again to your shops and to 3our desks ? Will you content your selves with singing, not too loudly, your old songs of BERANGER, unless you find more amusement in chattering about the Monarchy or the Republic ? Will you leave the priests in qeiet, even the priest GOTIILAND, who is a worthier man than any Y . you (qui vaut rr.ieux quo votes). Now, considering ghat this worthy priest stands convicted of murder aed adultery, we hope the Bourgeoisie will appreciate the estimation in which they are held by the priesthood, end when next called on to organize an expedition to Rome will act accordingly. The Univers utters what the National calls a loud cry of hatred on the occasion, and the Pouvoir, as a to gunny argument, publishes a list of laymen who have committed murders. The Prefect of the Beuches-de-Rhone informed the Municipal Council of Marseilles, by letter, i,i its sitting of the sth, that the new Intendance Sanitaire is to be composed of nine members, taken from and designated by the different elective bodies of the town ; thl:t a coin misnioner risimtd by the Government is to h. joined to them, and ie to exercise the Executive Gote,roment ; and that the Prefect is to preside. "'This retelution," says the Semaphore of Marseilles, "is tef a oeture to satisfy all interests, and to put an end to the just alarms which the dangerous projects ate:Jibed to the Government had caused." The corvette the Bayonnaise, which for some time was in the Chinese seas, arrived et Cherbourg on the 6th. At Tahiti it took on board M. JAS QUES ARAGO, the blind traveller and author, who last year went out to California at the head of a band of gold diggers. The Minister of Public Works yesterdey attended the Committee on the Budget, and gave eeplanations relative to the Paris and Lyons and Avigeen Rail reads, which, it is said, were of a nature to promote the progress of this important question. The text of the new postal arrangement between France and Sardinia was yesterday distributed to the Members of the National Assembly. The convention enacts that the postage of a single letter between the two countries shall be fixed at 50 centimes, and to and from Algeria to the postal establishments of the Me diterranean at 20c. additional. Pre-payment i 3 to be optional. The Bill presented a few days hack by M. BINEAU, the Minister of Public Works, for the concession of the Western Railway (from Versailles to Rennes), was distributed to-day to the represen tatives. it declares that the Minister is antlio rizA to concede direct to Messrs. PETO, BI:TTS, BRASSEY, Fox, GEA CII , H ENDERSON , and STORES, the said line, the Versailles (left bank) Railway being at the same time placed under the direc tion of the Company in question, in virtue of a treaty agreed to between the latter and the said Ver sailles Railway Company. The other railway to Versailles is to he allowed to place itself in connexion with the Western line, the Government granting it a concession of 550,000 f. to defray the expense of such junction. A sum of 19,000,000 f. is to be ac corded to the Government for the purchase of land and f)r the execution of the works of art, &c, for the branch line between Chartres and Alen con. The company to which the Western Rail way is conceded is to finish it within three years from the date of the concession. The works already executed by the state on the Western lino as far as Chartres are to be given up to the company. The company is to lay down the iron way on the remainder of the distance to Rennes, to build the etations, and to furnish the rolling and stationary stock of every description. A double line of rails is required as far as La Loupe ; but a single one is per mitted from that place to Rennes, to be made double, however, when the gross receipts on that section amount to 18,000 f. the kilmometre. The company is to finish the works 'between Chartres and La Loupe in one year. The lease to the company is to be for 99 years. The ilfiniteur announces that the PRESIDENT of the Republic has presented the sum of I,ooof, to each of the Mayors of the arrondissements of Paris, to be ap plied for the benefit of the poor, on the occasion or the anniversary of the 10th December. The same official journal publishes .12 columns of appointments and promotions in the order of the Legion of Honour. The deposits received in the Paris Swing; Banks on Sunday and Monday last amount to .530,162 f. The deposits withdrawn on the same days to 212,9161. There was not much business transacted at the Bourse but Public Securities were firm at an ad vance on previous prices. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 60c., fell to 94f. 50c., rote subse quently to 94f. 80c., and closed at 941. 60a ; the Three per Cents. closed at 561. 85c. ; Orieans Railroad Shares, 815 f. ; Rouen, 6201. ; Havre, 2451. ; Great Northern, 463 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 187 f. 50c.; Vier zon 390 f. ; Basle, 135 f .; B or d eaux, 3831. 7.5 c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 345 f.; r rours and Nantes, 236 f. 25c. ; the New Piedmontese Loan, 85f. 50c, BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, DEC. 10. Boulogne and Amiens, B—Namur and Liege, 7 1 4-- Northern of France, 14 3 / 4 —Orleans and Bourdeatzs, Rouen and Havre, 9%. GERMANY. THE TREATY OF OLMUTZ. The Universal Gazette of Augsburgh, of the sth in , stant, contains the .treaty of Olmutz. It is V.E. fel, lows : " At confidential conferences held yesterday and to day between the undersigned, the following proposi tions appear as possible points cf arrangement of the pending differences, and to avoid disputes, which will be communicated to the Governments concerned for their approval:— " Art. 1. The Governments of Austria and Pross declare that it is their intention finally to bring about the regulation of the affairs of Hesse Cassel and Hol stein by the common consent of all the German Govern. ments. " Art. 2. To obtain the co-operation of the German Governments represented at Frankfort, as well as those not so represented, in as abort a time as possible, a commissioner shall be named on the p irt of the members of the Confederation represented at Frankfort, es also ore on the part of Prussia and her allies, and these commis sioners shall meet to consider of and agree to suitable measures to be taken in common. " Art. 3. But as it is for the general interest that in Hesse as well as Holstein law and order shall be re established, conformably with the principles of this Con federation, and to render the fulfilment of federal duties possible, Austria, in her own name, and in that of the states in alliance with her, has given to Prussia, for the securing of her interests to the full extent, the gua rantees required by her as to the occupation of the Elec torate ; the two Governments of Austria and Prussia agree, in respect to the first measure in question, with out prejudice.as to future decisions, as follows: " a. In Electoral Hesse Prussia will oppose no obstacle to the action of the troops called into Hesse by the Elector, and for this end will give the requisite orders to the commanding generals there to allow the passage along the Etappen roads occupied by Prussia. The Go vernments of Austria and Prussia will, in agreement with their allies, require his Royal Highness the Elector to concede that a battalion of the troops required by the Electoral Government and a Prussian battalion shall re main in Cassel to preserve peace and order. "6. Austria and Prussia, in agreement with their allies, and as speedily as possible, shall send commis sioners in common to Holstein, who shall desire, in the name of the Confederation of the Stadtbolders, the suspension of hcstilities, the withdraws! of the troops behind the Eider, and the redaction of the army to one-third of the present force, ulaiee threat, in case of refusal, of an execution in cowls:tn. On the other hand both Governments will endeasrase that the Danish Government shall keep no more troops in the Duchy of Schleswig than shall be requirtd tor the maintenance of tranquillity and order. "Art. 4. The Ministerial conferences will IlLe place CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. "To obviate this great danger, which past experience justifies them in believing to bo real and imminent, the inhabitants have sanctioned a plain, simple, intelligible, and uedeeiably practicable working plan of representa tive governmsnt. The proposed constitution has been approved and adopted by the inhabitants throughout the colony almost unattimously. " The deputation then proceeds to London with this constitution es edupted by the colonists, in their hands, without power er authority to alter, or to express the assent of the people to any alteration in any one of the sixteen fundamental articles of which it consists. In this attitude, with respectfal firmness, the people of the Cape of Good Hope present their just and reasonable, and final demand for representative government, to their beloved Sovereign, in substantial accordance with her gracious commands convoyed by letters patent. " The deputatii.n consists of two members, both of whom were elected, a :ear months ago, by the collective votes of the inhabitants of the whole colony, to seats in the Legislative Coencil, to the proceedings of which, and indeed to its existence, their resignation along with that of their two similarly-elected celleagues, put an everlast ing end. Sir Aedries Steckeestrom and Mr. Fairbairn have, at the request of their fellow colonists, accepted the deep responsibility involved in this mission. The health of Sir And:ifs. which suffered most severely from the exposure and hatdbhips to which he was subjected in the field during the. late Katir war, is unhappily such th a t, in the opinion of five medical men whom it was nece6sary to consult professionally in this cafe, without incurring the most unjustifiable risks, he cannot proceed imme :qately from such a C'imate as this, to the cold and foggy north, where be would thus arrive in the depth of winter; but they are also of opinion that at a wore advanced period of the year the voyage would be rather beneficial than otherwise. He therefore holds himself ready at the call of his country to proceed on this mission—as soon as the not ungrateful inhabitants would permit him to expose to further strain a consti tution shaken, but it is n , p+rd not overthrown, while rendering those inestimable services which neither they nor their remotest descendants will ever forget. " The other member of the deputation will embark to-day, and may possibly be in London a month or six weeks before the opening of Parliament. He will from the hour of his arrival in London communicate to his cellea,gue and to a constitutional committee in Cape Tr;VID, and through them to committees in the country divisions, and through a ll to the public of this colony, the tidiest information which be can obtain respecting the progress and probable issue of the great cause so dear to every heart." With regard to the disturbances by the Kafirs on the frontier, nothing of a very serious kind had occurred since our last advices. Cattle stealing and other depre dationa heel, here and there, been going on, and ua easinegs still continued with respect to the threatened invasion of the colony ; but no great alarm was felt upon the subject, as it was pretty well known that the Kafir tribes bad no wiilt for war, it being their Chiefs that were restless, and anxious to regain their lost power, who had given occasion for the apprehended danger, RE-APPEARANCE OF MR. BARTLEY ON THE STAGE AT THE PRINCESS'S. We are rejoiced to find, from an announcement in the bills of the P 1 i cess's Theatre, that Mr. Bartley is about to resume, albeit but for a few nights, his place on the stage, a place which none filled so well as he, and which may, indeed, be said to have remained vacant since he retired from the stage. Where, for example, is now the Falstaff (rho Falstaff we mean of Henry IV.)? Why fat Jack has left the stage with Bartley, and rejoiced crc we to add he returns with him. The p'ay of Healy IV. is to be v‘C'hnairglhtst Dean,at Castle, und er ean, and lir. B ar tley sus tains the character of Sir John Falstaff. The play, with the same cast, will be performed at the Princess's on Saturday night, when Bartley will make his rentree. The old play-goer will rejoice at this re appearance of one :of the good, actors of the good old time, ono of the few who know what good acting really is, and practice what they know; whilst to the young play-goer will be afforded art opportunity of haviag a glimpse of what the drama really was in its bygone palmy days, and to the young artiste an example and a study. The play will be very strongly cast, even the comparatively minor part of Lady Percy will be . sustained by Mrs. Charles Kean. In acaaptirg, this part to strengthen the cast, Mrs. Charles Kean is setting a worthy example, which we hope to see every where followed, and is inflicting a heavy blow and a great discouragement on the bane of the d rama - - the star system, th e d es t ruc ti on of which would be bene• ficiel alike to manager, actor, author, and audience. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that the Servants' Provident and Benevolent Society, whose establishments, recently removed from Cork-street to Great Marlborough-street, have been personally inspected by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, be in future styled the " Servants' Royal Provident and Benevolent Society." THE DIRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD, AND READ., ING RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. Hutton, the oflicial manager, proposed a call of 21. 12s. Cd. per share, payable by the mem bers of the provi,ienal committee or committee of manage-I ment. who had b een I l ace d on th e li s t as having accepted 100 shares each. The call cn 2,000 shares is calculated to produce 4,0001. to pay off creditors. This call is proposed to be made on the 20th instant, and be made payable on the 12th January. Mr. Roxburghe, on behalf of the official manager, proposed, upon fresh evidence, to replace the name ct Mi. B. Best on the list of contributories, that gentleman having been struck off by Vice-Chancellor knight Bruce on areal from Master Brougham's decision. Counsel for Mr. Best objected to his Honour's jurisdiction to review in the case. After hearing the fresh evidence, and weighing the arguments, his Honour decided on again placing the name of Mr. Best on the list as liable, with liberty of appeaf to the court. The most disagreeable two-legged animal is a little great man, and the next, a little great man's factotum and friend.—Eliza Cook's Journal. THE SCREW STEAMSHIP CITY OF GLASGOW.--- The splendid screw steam-Ehip City of Glasgow, B. R. Mathews, commander, so well known for the regularity of her voyages between Glasgow and New York, arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday evening, having been purchased by Messrs. Richardson Brothers to run between this port and Philadelphia, and will depart on her first voyage on Wed- j nesday next. Since her arrival at this pot - Cabe has had nume rous visitors, who speak highly of tho beauty of her appear ance and the very complete arrangements made for the ac commodation and comfort of passengers. She is receiving I her cargo in_the Nelson Dock.--Liverpool Albion. immediately in Dresden. Tho invitation thereto will proceed from Austria and Prussia in common, and in such manner that the conferences may begin in the middle of December. " Olmutz, Nov. 29, 1850. (Signed) MANTEUFFEL. ►SCU`VARTZENBUfQ." On the 6th the Prussian Government received a dispatch from Vienna, in which the Austrian Cabinet announced that the Governments of Wurtemburg and Bavaria demand that the resolutions agreed to at Bregentz shall be adopted as the bases of the free conferences which are to be held at Dresden. The New Gazette of Prussia contains the follow ing : 1 ‘ The British Minister at Hamburgh has delivered to the Senate .1 that city a note in which his Government states that it vial abstain from any interference in Ger man offsira eG long as British interests are not in ques tion; and that with respect to the Duchies of Schleswig- Holstein, the duty of Great Britain will be to maintain and enforce the treaty of peace." A large Russian array is concentrating on the Prussian frontiers. From Vienna we have advices to the 6th, the ar. maments still continued. From Hesse we learn that a corps of 10,000 Aus trians was on the Pith turning the flank of the Prus• sian army, to join the line by rail to Cassel. DENMARK. AND THE DUCHIES. The Free Press of Hamburgh states that, on the sth, a sharp engagement of advanced posts took place near Gottorp between the Danes and the Hol steiners, in the course of which the former had one officer killed and several men wounded, but the latter had no loss. A letter from Copenhagen of the 3d, in the German Reform of Berlin (the semi-official journal), says that the war party in Denmark was in a state of great agitation, and would not hear talk of an arrangement between Prussia and Austria, from the fear that they would adopt as the basis of peace the execution of the resolutions of tb9 Germanic Diet, of the 17th of September, 1846. General IVILLBEN hai resigned the command of the army of the Duchip.s, and is succeeded by Ge neral VAN DER HERBY. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope have been t , ceived to the 26th f October, inclusive. The es • te.b!ishment of a representative legislature was en g,gins much attention, and a deputation was to si England with the view of carrying this desired olj , ct into effect. To render this qustion more intelligible, we cannot do better than copy the fol lowing paragraph from the South African Commercial Advertiser of the date before mentioned, which ex plains with great clearness the wants of the colony, and the means proposed for their attainment:— " The people of tlik colony have resolved to send a deputation to the teat of the supreme Government, at this moment, chiefly for the purpose of itnpre.ssing on her Maji?rty's Ministers, and all who take an interest in the welfare of this portion of the empire, the necessity and import.lnce of dispa'ch in establishing here, on a proper basis, a reT. , restntative legislature. In favour of such an institution, assent has already been universally expressed by the Qu9cn in Council, and by aq the departments of the imil;erial and local governmetts, from which a voice on the subject could pr,:eecd. But the details of the constitution, which required adaptation to real or ima ginary provincial peculiarities, have hitherto b.ffid.d offi cial ingenuity, and may still be pleaded as a ground fn. indefinite delay, or for the adoption of tome unsuitable system which would disgust the great body of the inha hitantz, and prove a source of animosity and strive be tween the different classes cf the community for genera tions to come. TIIE SHARE MARKETS. DECEMBER 11, 1850. BRITISH RAILWAYS Id. 1 Normal Prices. iO 10 to 104 6 8 1% —l% dia. X 6% . 6 —6% (Ifs. .. 6 I 34 -1 p. 0 28% - 29 O 27 -28 58- 9 p ,5 6 - 7 P 401 10 -11 0 72 —74 7% 17► q 17% 19% b% —17 i 0 5 6 0 1.. 15 - 16% 12% - 13 5 1 ,4 15 125 —23 dls. 3% -3% 2k -2% 1% - rx I -I% -1 6 .- -6% 3 4 %— %p 3 4 1 ,4 ells. p ,0 I 107 i .0 55 -57 .0 55 -67 a 4 - 6 p 104 10 % 5% 15% 13 12% 3 % % 4 6 % 5% P par yi par 11 10% x.d, 7 % 54 15 I 7 -7% 6 15 4% -5 tO 183 i - 19% 15 11% - 12 6% 2% -2% Ci I •• -.. 15 30M -aO% .0 25 -28 6 -6% 5 2% 1 0 1l( - 2 U - )4 I 15 16 - 16% L 2% 5 -5 ki 125{ 10N -11 23< ) 124 - 125 )0 39 -41 2 % % P. 10 242 - 245 71% 75% .5 4% —4% dls. 10 93 —lOO 15 49 —5O 2% 21% 22% 66 —6B 3 4 5 6 p. 17% 25 —26 p 10 55 —56 23% 11% —1 I dls. 11% 7 die. 6 1% 0 I 12% -13 511 dis • ;0 95 i 0 14 - 96 - 15 6 3% 2 dts. 17 3% 3 dig. % dis. 0 par % p '0 63 7 - 10 185% - 86% 9 I 10% -11 M i 0 157 -60 57 -60 )0 136 —l3B [5 4 11% 11% :0 23% 24% 10 121 —122 7 I 3%- 3is P• 2 4 p. 1 ”i 2i - P. )0 73% —74% 12% 14 —l3 clis 34 i 2 —ll dis , 5 2 —2% p. 5 .. -.. ?1:1 12 -14 5 1 4% —3% dis. ►0 26 —27 t 5 10% 12 ,o 1N 10% 2 01 d !r :., 145 46 is X 1 . 20% —2O dls, 22 —24 - 129 Rail ways. ••1 4 8 per cent. guar. •• 10 , Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) 4 Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. 5 Newcastle and Carlisle • • 10 , Do. quarter shares .. 2 Newmarket .. • • 2 Do. extension scrip • • 2 I; Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford .• Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor .. • • 2 Norfolk .. .. • • • • 10 Do. New 201. shares.. 1 10. Extension • . • • Do. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. I Northern Counties Unlonl N orth British.. Do. Preference North Staffordshire .. North-Western Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Preston and Wyre Do. Halves (A) .. Reading, Guildford, and Royston and Ilitchin I So. Shepreth Eaten... Scottish Central Scottish Midland Do. new .. . 9 Slrewsbury & Binning. Cla&3 A.. .. 13 Do. Class 8.. .. .. 9 1 Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford hrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) • • .. Do. Halves • • 11 Do. Oswestry .. .. 21 Do. New.. .. .. • • Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union .. • • t South Devon • • • . • • M Do. Preference .. South Staffordshire .. South-Eastern Do. do. 4% per cent... South }Vales.. .. .. South Yorksh. and River Dun Shell., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar.s p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea & Loughor, &c. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock anti Railway .. Vale of Neath . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wes., Wick and Dublin Wear Valley, 6 per cent guaranteed .. Do. do. Do. do. West Cornwall .. . Whitehaven and Furness, Windsor, Staines, and S. Western Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth • . York, Newcastle, & Ber wick Ditto and Newcastle do. . do. . Ditto Extension rw.c.hai; or preference Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. 10 York and North Midland 5 , Do. Preference Waterford and Kilkenny, 5i Anglo-Italian (late Ita. Ilan and Austrian) .. 6 1 Boulogne and Amiens .. 2 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) .. 2 Demerara 1 Dutch Rhenish .. .. East Indian 1 Do. do. do. • • 2 1 Great Indian Peninsula. • Ditto ditto • • .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg .. Ditto • • Madrid and Valentia Namur and Liege .. Noi them of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen • • .. Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre .. . Sambre and Meuse .. Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lou den, and Batmen .. West Flanders .. Australasia ........ British North America. Colonial .... _ _ ... Commercial of London. London Joint Stock ... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New ............ National of Ireland Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New .. Union of Australia ....: Do. New ............ Union of London ...... Union of Madrid ..... • Aberdeen.. .. • • • • 51 Do. Preference •• Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway.. Belfast and County Down 3; Berks and Hants Exten. (Great Western Per petual 5 per cent) Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar... 21 Do. w ithout a guar... 21 Birming., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, calls duly paid, or with a guarantee •• • • • • 11 Do. without a guar... 11 Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley •• 13 1 , Birkenhead, Lances., and Cheshire Junction •• 21 Bristol and Exeter • • 101 Buckinghamshire • • • • l' Caledonian • • • • • • 51 DJ. 101. Preference • • 11 Do. Clydesdale Juno. • • 51 Chester and Holyhead 51 Do. Preference .. • • 11 Clarence .. • • 78 I Do. let Class, 6 per et. ll Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. li Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct. 11 Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct. 4. Dundalk and Ennltkillon 31 East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) .. •• 21 Do (181. E. & H.) .. 11 Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference • ; Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. I Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c•Pref. Eastern Counties .. • • 21 Do. Exten., 5 per cent. No. 1 .. • • 6 1; Do. No. 2 .. . • • • 6 li Do. New Preference, 6 per cent... .. • • 11 Da. North. and East. 6 per cent. •• • • 51 Do. do. 5 per cent .• 51 Do. do., New • • • 4: Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares • • 21 Do. do. do. .. Do. do., lid & C shares 21 Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. • • 21 East Lancashire • • • • 21 Do. New quarters • • i Do. 6 per cent. pref. quarter shares.. .• East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 pi cent .. .• • • 2. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5 Ed in ~ Perth, and Dundee 2. Do. Newport .. • • 1, Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. Exeter and Exmouth • • 1 Glasgow and South- West, 51 Do. pref. cons didated Do. do. G. D. &C. stock g Gloucester & DCatl Forest 11 Great Northern • • • • 21 Do. halves, A, deferred l' Do. halves, B, 6 per et. 1' Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • 1' Great Southern and Western, Ireland . • 51 Do. eighths .. .. • • Great North of England . 101 Do. new 40/. .. • • 41 Do. new 301. .. .. al Do. new 15/. . 11 Great Western .. • • 101 Do. New, 17/. .. - •11 Hull arid Selby .. • . 5, Do. half shares • • • • 21 Do. quarter shares _ Lancaster and Carlisle .. 5 Do. thirds • • • • •• 11 I: Lancaster and Preston .. 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire 101 Do. quarter shares .. 2: Do. firths .. • • • Do. F. 20/. .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 g.er cent. Do. Iludders. & Do. West Riding Union 1 Leeds and Bradford • • 51 Leeds and Thirsk .. • • 51 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1 I Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 1' Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 3 1 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. 11 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. .. • -1, London and Blackwell • • 11 I London, Brighton, and South Coast • • • • 101 Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croydon thirds.. Do. preference, 5 p ct. 51 Do. preference, cony. per cent., 1852 ..51 Do. new guaranteed, 6 per cent. . • .. 101 London and Greenwich . 12 11 Do. preference .. • • 21 London and N.-Western 101 Do. do. new quarters . 1' Do. fifths .. • • I Do. 101. sh., 3f. & B (c) London and 5.-Western . Do. new 501. 4 Do. new 40/. .. • • 3 Do. new preference • • 1 Londonderry & Coleraine 21 Do. half shares .. .• Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. 21 Do. do. 6 per cent. • • 21 Londonderry and Ennis killen. .. .. • • • • 2: Do. half shares • • • • 1 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock . • • • 1 151 anchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire • . • • 101 Do. quarters, No. 1 Do. new, 101 preference 1, Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union Midland .. Do. consolidated pref. Do. 50/. shares Do. I3irming & Derby 1, Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent. 101 Do. Bristol & Glouces. 41 Do. do. do. •• 29 Do. Erewash Val. pref. 51 Do. Leic. & Swanning.' Business done to-day. lOU % 1% Ms. )O 1127 :6 0 j - 173 i 1 .. -.. 3 2 0 i .. *i% : 'ix 10 22 —24 5 15 —l4 die. 10 I lb% 16% 5 1 4% —4% 15 5 7 b % • dis. • •• PO 161 - 16% 5 42 -43 0% - 8 p. I 8 18% - 18% 64 7q -7% 2% 34 - 1 p. t 5 12% - 13 15 •• -•• 5 3 64 6 dl5. 12 3 5% 54 dig. 8 9% 10 11 —l3 5% —6% 8% —9% 1 4 1 dia. 133 i 14% 3% 3% dia. 12 —l4 10 —l2 3 % 3 dis. 214 21% 233 -ii lb (a)4 3 dia. 8,.% _ 9%1 i —7 db.' 17% .. 18 3 20 4 50 15 i 0 4l - 40% IS 19 -20 134 .. —.. 134 s 814 42 - 43% 73( - 17% 71i —7% dig.' 9 37 17 15 —3% eta. 16 —4 io 23u 1% —l% dis. i id. Preference, have bec FOREIGN. :3 41 1% - * 7% - 15% L'l% g '6-4% d1. 1 % 1 pm. 11% 12 5 3 Pm. 1N par pm. 15% - 7g 8 [0 1% - 2 7 —7% 14% 14% 4% —4% dis. 31 —33 24'W 24% 6 dis. 9% 10 2% —2% 19 lOyt % 17st 18 17h 12% % 23%% 24 3% done at 1 1% i 636 --- RN cuts., .ili ---ii STOCK BANKS. 10 27% - 28% ,0 42% - 42% 10 25 -25 k 10 18% - 18% 0 27% - 27% 22% 17% —IN 25 42 —43 10 15% -- 25 34% —3 5 i, 2% .. .. 0 Is 3- la 10 = •._ N X 3,1 16% % 15% (1614 18%7% % % 12% A 6% die. 6% die. 9% 14 3 q % 6 f[ 2l % 21% woof, 14% 15 2% 8% 9 95 10 Anglo.Mexican(is. 5/. p.) Asturian ..... Australian . . Barossa Range ....... Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip .......... British Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 3 - 3q 3 % - 3,4 Do. Cocaes and Ctabil De. St. John del Rey.. Cobra Copper ...... Copiapo • • .... • • . General.. • ..... ........ Real Del Monte, Unreg. - % 14% - 1 6 32% - 33 5% - 5 13% - 13% % -"At Do. Black Debentures Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... Tin Croft .. •••• •• •• •• United Mexican •... .... 9 —9% 10% 11 6% —6% , ANEOUS. 41% 4234 2634 27 79% 88 66% 62 'able for the emu's of the Official Lists '2B 2 83(1 [ISCELL. 323 14 Canada .............. Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Royal Mail Steam ...... 90 89% 70 We] cannot be answe] MONEY and CuIVEVIEit — C:I A L NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es timated at 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The market was firm at previous rates.—ln Railway Shares a good business was done at full prices. The Corn trade is dull to-day. There are ad vices of Oct. 23 from the Cape of Good Hope. Frontier affairs were assuming a more favour able aspect, and immediate danger of a Kafir war appeared to have passed. Still the fana ticism of the new prophet, Umlangee, had given him a powerful influence with many of the tribes, and the High Commissioner who had gone into the interior would no doubt have some difficulty in counter acting the delusions engendered. The military autho rities on the frontier ate stated not to be alarmed. In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 9th instant, Dutch Stock was well supported, and business was tolerably animated. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 55i. Foreign Securities were steady. From Antwerp we learn that dense fogs have pre vailed there as here, preventing vessels from arriving or departing, The Mexican and United States mail are still due. The English Stock Market has been quieter, but the tone is still very firm, and there is a disposition to re gard matters abroad in a favourable light. Still it is probable that now the account is arranged, this being settling day, there may be some reaction after such a rise. The settlement is going off satisfactorily, and the payments to morrow will no doubt be eff,ctt d without difficulty. Consols have realised 98 to 98* for Transfer, and 984 to for Account. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98i to 99k; and the Three per Cents. 971 f. Bank Stock has been marked 2121 ; and India stock, for special transfer, 268. Exclit quer-bills have been 645. to 675.; and India Bonds,.Bss._premium. In the Foreign Market the transactions have been quite unimportant. Mexican Bonds have Lean done at Buenos Ayres Stook is worth 53. Spanish Five per Gents. have been 18 to -I. Portuguese Four per Cents, have realised 34k. Russian Five per Cents. have been quoted 109, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 96i to 971. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 57i to 58. The Railway Share Market has been very buoyant, and an extensive buFiness has been transacted. Aber deen are higher, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North-Westtrn, have advanced to an important extent. North Staff , rd are up 1 1 to , and Sc , uth-Eastern, Great Northern, Midland, Great Western, &c., have risen. Consols ••• Ditto Account QUARTER TO THREE. CLOSING NIMES OF BRITISH rumns O'CLOCK ONE PR . ICES. Bank Stock ... 212% 212% 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne...._ • ... 9 7.31;1 57 1 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuit i e s ........ 98% '.l 98 981 4 giNs- 3!.i per Cent. Anns - ... -...... 99 99% 98% 99% o-,.; Anne. to expire Jan 1860 7t i 7 13-16 7 13-16 In lie Stock India Bonds, 1,000/.... Ditto under 1,000/.... ... .. 85 p 85 p South Sea Stock Fr _ Ditto Old Annuities 'cno,is for Account 98 A 4% II Exchequer Bills. “id. & 2d 1,000/. dune 64 p 500/. June Smell. June 64 67 p _____ 67 p 67 p 67 p CLOSING PRICES. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bra: Ilan Lionds Ditto, New, 1813 ... Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 tier Cent.... 53 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .....•..... Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. .. Do., 5 per cent Equador Bonds M ixican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... ..... 32% Ditto, Small Pe - uvis.n Bowls,l l ,i per Cent« — Po - tugueee 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account ..... R !s-ian Bonds Ditto, 4!.4 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lonaon. Dutch 21! per Cent., 12 Guild. COURSE 01 msterdsm •• 11 15% three months.. 11 17 Rotterdam ...• •••••• 11 17 Antwerp •............. 25 25 Brussels-- •••• ••.... 25 25 Elamburgh .....•3f.8. 13 7% r EXCHANGE. Gibraltar.. ............ Leghorn .. . • • • • • .. • . 30 90 Gesoa .. • • • . • • .. 25 95 Venice.. • • • • • ... Naples •• •• 41% Palermo, peroz ........ (24 )iessina • • .... 124 Lisbon .. • . 53 36 Oporto.. • • .. 53% Rio Janeiro .... ._Buenos Ayres ....... New York, 60 days'slght Philadelphia .......... -- PRICES OF BULLION, PER os. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .• ...• 0 4 11% Silver in bars ........ 0 5 1% Paris, 3 days'sight .... 25 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 25 Marseilles •••• •• •• •• 25 2756 Bourdeaux.... • .... . Frankforton Blaine..,. 11S% Berlin.... • • ...... • • • • Vienna, effec. d 0...—. 13 0 Trieste, ditto—. • • .... 13 0 Peteraburgh,Sil. Ebbe.. Madrid •• .• •• •• •• •• •• 49% Cadiz •• •• •• •••••• •• 49% Barcelona • • • • • • •• • • • • Sevlile •• •• •• •• •• •• LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 11.—Wind at noon S., light breeze and thick weather. WATERFORD, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Maria Louisa, Nantes; Rose, Humphreys, Hamburg!). QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 9.—Arrd. Vesta, Moulmein. KINSALE, Di.c. 9.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Sylph, Tul lock, Miramichi, for Caermarthen, with water-casks, stove, and part of bulwarks carried away. CLYDE, DEC. 9.—Sld. Chevalier, Trinidad. SUNDERLAND, DEC. 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Acrd. Earl of Arrol, Pattison, Boulogue. HULL, DEC. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Eclipse, Gel], Seville; Orion steamer, Antwerp; Lion steamer, Ham burgh. YARMOUTH, DEC. 10.—The Twyford schooner, of Southampton, has put into the harbour, with loss of bow sprit, sprit sail yard, having been in collision with the Downcastle, of Whitby. The Clara Jane, of and from Sunderland, for Shore ham, has put into the harbour, with loss of bowsprit, and cut water, having been in contact with. the brig Ve racity, of South Shields, on the Bth inst. ALGOA. BAY, OCT. 19.—The wind set in strong from the southward, on the 15th October, but soon increased to a heavy gale, which continued till the evening of the 17th.—The John Witt, Donovan, parted early in the morning of the 17th, came in contact with the brig Doris, Reid, and both vessels went on shore, and have become total wrecks; all the cargo of the latter, but none of that of the former, is expected to be saved ; no lives lost. The Mary Ann brig parted her anchors 17th Oc• tober, when blowing a complete hurricane, went on shore, and fell over on ber side; her cargo (wool and copper ore) is washing out of her; crew saved. CAPE TOWN, TABLE BAY, OCT. 26.—The Hope, from Simon's Bay to Point de Galle, put back 23d Oct., making water, and must discharge part of cargo to stop the leak; she reports having passed the wreck of a vessel, Oct. 14, in lat. 37 S., long. 21 E. SHIELDS, DEC. 9.—Sid. Eleanor, Marseilles ; Wil liam Wilson (of London), California. PILL, DEC. 10.—Wind E.S.E.—Sid. Urgent, Cuba; Eling, Nevis; Tally-ho, St. Michael's. NEWPORT, DEC. 10.—Sid. Robert Peel, Rio Janeiro. DEAL, DEC. 10.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrd. from the River, Blackfriars, for Hobart Town. Sid. Lady Sale, Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales; Ceres, Broom, Port Natal; Agnes, Bermuda; British Tar, Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10. —Wind S.—Arrd. Comet, Gill, Seville; John Moore, Sleigh, Bombay; Volante, Hon duras; European, Whitney, New Orleans; Eli Whitney, Blaxland, Savannah; Yorkshire, Shearman, New York. Off port, Hindoo. Sld. Phenix, Maranham. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 10.— Wind E.S.E.—John Cobbold, Gaffs; Mischief, Gallipoli. Sld. William Friedrick, Panama. FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Sandus, Constanti no pl e . Sld . Ri c h ard Brown, Trinidad. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind E., dense fog.—Arrd. Johann Julius, Hoansen, Batavia. OFF THE WIGHT.—And. Indus, Putt, Sydney, New South Wales. ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 10.—Wind E.S.E., strong.—Arr. Primrose, Morton, Rouen, for Bristol, with sails damaged. The Petite Marguerite, from Nantes to Bridgewater, got, foul of the Swift schooner yesterday, in Morte Bay, but was extricated with assistance; neither vessel received damaged. • OFF PORTLAND, DEC. 9.—Jane Erskine, Stevens, Rio Janeiro for Hamburgh. OFF DARTMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Eliza Robertson, Buenos Ayres. CHANNEL. Arrd. Madagascar, Flight, Cape of Good Hope. OFF DOVER,—Dunkerquois, Allimer, Havannab, for Antwerp. PORTDIADOC, DEC 7.—Arrd. Susanne, Evans, Madras. MIDDLESBOROUGH, DEC. 9.—Sid. Sir J. Ogilvy, Con- _ ... stantinople. NEWPORT, DEC. 9.—Sld. Edward, St. Thomas. MILFORD, DEC. B.—Sld. Redbreast, Charente and New York. ()BAN, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Journeyman, Fiddes, for Islay, with cargo (barley) heated, and will discharge. SCARIMOUGIT, DEC. 7.—Arid. Eliza, Sapy, Hartle pool, leaky. THE ARMY.—THE HONG KONG COMMAND.--A general officer has at length been found to accept the com mand at Hong-Kong. Major-General William Jervois, K.H. late of the B th Foot , is to be appointed c omman d er at that station. The following general officers have received an augmentation of M. per annum each to the allowance hitherto made to them as rewards for distinguished ser vices:—Majors-General Mone y, C. 8., Ewart, C. 8., Proe tor,c.B., Sir Francis Cockburn, C. 8., Parkinson, C. 8., and uuellyn, 16 '4 % % % 5 % % 4ii li 1u 10% 11 124 % N 75? 76% 16 77 76% % 10% [56% 56}4% 4 3 % X % 5: 94% 14% % li 36 7 % 7 133 137 [123 123 N 122% 16% 20% % 7t 76% [26% 26% 26 27: 46% % 46 14% MINES. 1 la o 13 5 24% 30 Nominal Prices. ------- - N MARKET NEWS.—(THIS D A 3.„, .) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY : Notwithstanding that the supply of E ng lish W ic he is li ; on sale in to-day's market was very limited, coast 0 as well as by land carriage, the demand for that g rat e ruled excessively heavy, and Monday's almost nominal. The imports of Foreign Wheat'hisre amounted to 4.760 quarters. Good dry qualities we mostly held at fully previous rates, but the middling ande inferior kinds were somewhat lower to W eb° . Although the supply of Barley continues to fall off, 0 ,1 little business was doing in it. The Malt trade rol e tolerably steady, but we have no change to notice lot", the prices et quotations. We had a firm sale for Oats, which had an upward tendency. Beans, Peas) I fillii Prices eye Corn, and Flour were very dull! . ARRIVALS THIS WEE Wheat. Barley. Alan. Oats. Qrs 20 1,1 . Qrs 3o 3 . Qrs 10 . Q 110 rs. 1,60 2 English .... 5c0tch........ Irish .... I 1,070 I -- 1.350 I 1,810 Foreign .... • . 4,760 2,56 0 sonouGH HOP DTARICEZ . Our ma:ket still continues heavy, and inferior Pa rel° are somewhat lower. Generally WHITECHALPEL. tiO• Gene u!edull' „Ad to tations--B f . ee , from 23 2d to 3s 6d; Hata, A* - speaking, the trade r d at our q 3s 81; Veal, 2i 6d to 3s 4d; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 8 11 * by the carcase. SECONDARIES.'—(THIS DAY') (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) pant V. DENNIS ON .— FALSE DIPAISON DI EN. O se , This was a writ of i nqu i r y to ass ess damag es 070 lion to recov e r d amages f ir f a l se i m p r isonmenr• pea d amages were laid at 5001., and the defenda nt su judgment to go by default. d A " said that Mr. PARRY a pp eare d f or the laintiff, and the parties had agree d on a verdict for la sn''Al o and a verdict for that amount was given. r vibs t The f-,cts were not sta t e d i n court , but, a ll tiros transpired at the S out h war k P o li ce C ou rt s s hort tor , since, it appeared th at plaintiff is clerk to 3°ll o l o named Moss, residing i n Clif ton -t erra ce, ABY'L I .T A . . r t , in Kennington, and d e fe n d ant i s an extensive but ors Clifton -crescent ; and plaintiff wa s assisting to re ci3 n d some goods of a lod ger i n th e h ouse o f defendan"l „ i defendant returni ng h ome at t h e t i me , ga ve P la k i g dis• charge. Plaintiff was l oc k e d up f or som e tiro, u -harged by tho magistrates at the policeeoffic e • o ar Tho other cases were on Bills of Excbsog e ' fended. n A. MARLBRO'-STREET.__/THIS' ) 01 Y s°: EXTENSIVE BURGLAR Y AT THE EARL 0- A s At TON'S.—John Gray, a we ll•d iesse d young tit% Sad brougt t before Mr. flerdwick. in custody 0 t Skma d la° Shaw of the det e cti ve f orce , c h arge d w i t h brea r a 0 Tynningham•ho use , H a ddi ngtonsh i re, a nd Bfel/3- MO quantity of plate, two massive gold snuff-boltee,ton, ether articles, the property of the Earl of fladd i te It appeared that the prisoner was formerly c h '`,",eel the post-office at Derby, which situation be ° "i i -i tier through the interest of his Lordship. The g r ir ° c leci had not been long in his situation when be was ";:thie in opening a letter and abstracting the contents. — " r ear offence he was tried and sentenced to ten Yor s' n - d the portation. Ills Lordsh interceded for him, li n ; eat sentence was oommuted to two years' in: 1 1 0 ' 81 ;th° After the latter sentence expired his Lordsh l P '7, ° tettar, pritoner a situation on board of one her Majeeti! i- e eoM ships, the duties of which he was to enter upon l a eise a fortnight's time, and for that purpose the prisea n e' 1110 brought from Il a ddi ng t on in November ty lesf*;°,LlP 29th of that month hi s Lordthip'sresidenee „, gloriously sntered, an d proper valued at a'°- mw e stolen therefrom. Th e pr i soner was not 611s Lifie° at the time, b u t i n t h e course of 'r i a 's - e beea his Lordship asc e rt a i ne d th a t t h e pr i so ner h sw seen on the morning aft er th e ro bb ery , in t.!jts° bourhood .f Tynninghatn-house, and this circa° the led his Lord s hip t o b e li eve t h at t h e pr i s oner w as for burglar. A tel graphic message was immediatelif warded to Scotland-yard, and Shaw and Siniti l e ° . detective force w e r e em pl oye d to appre hend t",:eioa , soner. Last night, h av i ng rece i ve d slif t the officers went to Brick-street, where the prisoner, and at once took him into c" - 0 0011 On searching his lodgings they found : s h bs other valuable articles a go ld snu ff-box, evb e l e 11. acknowledged was the p ro p er ty o f hi s Lords"' ea deal of other property, wor th a b ou t 2501., A Oi sea t found. The officers now wished to have the prisoner to Scotland. the pd' Mr. HARDW ICK dire c t e d th e o ffi cers to take soner to Scotland directly. DEATH OF SIR. FRANCIS FORD, BAlrr' at '.-:;4lth A d member of the baroneta ge di e d on th e 26 t h ult.,iaP' whileen route from India, a g ed 32 H e wa s eaptai ll 0 10 20th Bombay Regiment o f N a ti ve I n f antry . Sir Fr al3 g c ded son of the second holder of th e titl e , whom he ellcce -1830. ° W e CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.—OwiDg to tbB - of the major part of th e mem b ers o f t h e C o urt 01 i be pr' t Council from the City yest er d a y, i n consequence c',„-rdsl tentation of the Civic addre ss t o h er M a j es ty Yes`; e rep si Windsor, a sufficient number of Commissioners " present to constitute a c o u r t. - itOtt MEN AND 'WOMEN.—Men love things, w hile i ; possessions, and estates; and women, persons; and jgsll/11. l e° held' at regards only abstract scientific facts, a woman . 0 c . „a at the person in whom they are embodied. Even : 10 11, hood the girl loves an imitation of humanity, he r ,„,15, gi ; ar works for it: the boy gets a hobby-horse or ."i t h works with them. But the noblest quality whe re ;lo°` - sh ture has endowed woman for the good of the world r I'P d that love which seeks no sympathy and no re r , tir , o ll g . • 55 1 e child is the object of love, and kisses, and wate',' l , - fee i b t o answers them only by complaints and anger • an" pit I t o creature, that requires the most, repays the leasr• he gret c t mother goes on ; her lov e on ly grows stronger, t, ' 0 Ar o , the need, and the g rea t er th e unthankfulness I,.bildre, —and while fathers pref er th e strongest o f their ' , tot e. the mother feels most love for the feeble and ge rr 10 Eliza Cook's J ourna l. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.-0 wing, it 13 sUPP strong contrary wi n d s an d thick weather, the -nq be 21 steamer Cambria, which would leave Boston on ult., has not yet made her appearance. „ a I JC I EXTRAORDINARY FOG AT LEEDS.—SE- °C or dial. OF LIFE.--During the past ten days the most extra ct oigho fog ever witnessed has prevailed in Leeds and t de ese too bourhood, and during Monday night it was 1 30 itLt. even in the streets lighted with the usual gas la t dist7l, impossible to distinguish objects three or four Ye' In order to avoid confusion and collision it Was b - at h et necessary, even in the lighted streets, to go a I, r ia lighted candles or lanterns, and the cabs usuallYP poi! hire were of necessity withdrawn from the stands,;oo Alt quite impossible for them to move even at a Blow P., sod safety. In numerous instances persons lost their vre . !rueils are sorry to add several lost their lives also. O', o morning three bodies of persons drowned during r o were taken from the river Aire,' and information It' les it fl sion of the police whi c h l eaves li tt l e d ou b t t h a t a' others have met the same melancholy fate. LIFTING HEAVY PERSONS .—One of t-- h , 132 ., 0 traordinary pages in Sir David B rews t er ' s letters Or' ol an it h e tural Magic," is an experiment in which a h es° l tIP raised with the greatest facility, when he is lifted Ah instant that his own lungs, and those of the Pe r° , eetl u " raise him, are inflated with air. Thus, the heavien o k OP; in the party lies down upon two chairs, his leg s Islet ° l l e ported by one and his back by the other. Four pef, d, at each leg and each shoulder, then try to raise l'h"; has person to be raised gives two signals by clapping begi ° • At the first signal he himself and the four lifters con' draw a long, full breath, and when the inhalation T o rils o i pleted, or the lungs filled, the second signal is 0 0 , 4 ing the person f rom t h e cha i rs. To his surpr i se ar o 11' 6- his bearers, he rises w i t h t h e greatest fac ili ty , as 1 ' no heavier than a feather ! oie Isf r FATAL ACCIDENT.—HULL, DEC. A Aretrop choly and fatal accid en t f rom the incautious use occurred here, last night at the March of Intellect teofa tb , d Waterworks-street. Two o r th ree f r i en d s had taker: bo p ffe:;; Mrs. Allen (wife of the landlord of the house), an d g•te ° t,4, all seated afterwards round the fire in the drawriounen.o when Mrs. Allen, who had left the room for a fl ow Act ~e returned with a pistol in her hand, and said, ',.. o oter; 00 have a bit of fun ?" At the same instant she Pr'' rai d 'Ow weapon at the head of a young woman f it uller l , t bs Freeman, of very respectable connexions, and f l: 0%0, trigger, when the pistol immediately went e ,„, l ate t es d contents took effect in the forehead of the unfor i ' c ieSr e f who sank down in a state of insensibility, A n c ause e t in the course of a few hours. The unwittng t hat Ai* the catastrophe, as soon as she perceived . 00 00 friend was wounded, fainted and had a stten es di si t - beli o ce which prevented her attendance at the ecle d ice afternoon before Mr. Thorny, coroner. From Lola w'bol there given it appeared that Mr. Allen had purn, - to d n e ,ber. of pistols a day or two previously, and his Wile, each '9'oo amused themselves snapping percussion caps gr. trot On the day before the fatal occurrence, howe ver9 g to in sea had loaded both the pistols with ball, neglect erhiclincee his wife, and had locked them up in a drawer , ? rco oste itt i, on Sunday happened to have the key. All the c ; t he fe tS The of the case pointed to accident as the cause 0 ' 0 11 d... t he and the jury took thi s v i ew o f i t i n t h e ir ' le teo eduisr. melancholy character o f th e w h o l e a ff a i r i s heig h ` l ot her °,' de at• fact that the po or g i r l was b etrot h ed to the acci Allen, who was in the room at t h e momen t a t oot together with a married sister of th e d ec eased. b °° CURIOSITIES FOR THE BRITISH MEEE raf* e foa l , On the " last of the Mohi cans ." A s hi r t-slee , 'l " arms of Morpheus." A b arre l ma d e of In ti " d contrtees Indian war hoop, and fount a i n h ea d s. A nosegay so d 1.- ri , the pink of perfection, the flower of the fant o cotle_ o t taken at parting. A towel for wiping the face 0 ''„,he es A ° fight between two s t r iki ng lik eness es. • amount that Marmion wanted Chester to charge. e t tiro &or A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—A s hor -ter while Mr. J. Bruce, agent to the Sunderland vi,, i ` r johAvo pang, was collecting the water rents from the Pc';' s il in w h o ants at the east end of the town, ho accidentally vi lio P . „g a poor old widow, between 60 and 70 years of ag oor er Pfy followed the profession of a midwife amongst the P ... .. 0 ge to b of the population for several years. The old lady y ioo wi t strong Scottish dialect, and, entering into conv?Trit'h her, he found her to belong to a part of Scotland : tu ber ° oft , be was well acquainted, and that she was T o f Glas r g oe d highly respectable family in the neighbourbootoitien ido th e which she had left about 40 years ago. her to her great surprise that a rich relations had sum of 600/. about 20 years ago, and that her e.rA to opt,"ii long time, believing her to be dead, had oftent ' The old WY 7 0 , hadr!einfti I/ 11° 10 , 1; i : her share of the cash but without success. obs. perfectly astonished on hearing the frond news, "i• could g e o b j b er mediately offered to give Mr. Bruce 100/. rably reft ls _ bo the rest of the cash, but the offer was honou .n „ m eet _„, that gentleman, who said he would do all I 4 e r' s. rife $ ll 4 assist the old lady, and only charge his ”R et ai a go'o - t o d. Y eeded to oho, r e eC r e d i i c?e g d iY a n wro Mr. s haven accompanied by the old ladY, Prg answerte t o thathe the Procurator ooi. ira F s pro Per all the gow, and, g proved her claim before t Iwo A l so As reties, she received a portion of the money.fotunste o l d ,„ e the w ill rece" d to Sunderland) l (w eg h a n l f h o a r s m a a g li a ti i e n s are sons through the fa h od t unaers—n o f whole of the 500/. nd o Itciall of nll o°, o. it is intended I y the operative THE OPERATIVE TAl . LOR te S il — e : , y7 Scot ta pose for the P., sie° 3 _l forming a national union to repress the e . o f e conference in Edinburgh or Glasgow, awes One of the objects will also be :to i r g ed_ac platt• to ten hours daily.—Glasgo w - Business di to-day. 96% 8 942 01 33 80% 97% 57 3 4 12” 9 28 1:42% BX' Pald.